The Express.
London, England, 1864-03-09 00:00:00

THEI VADNISDAY

spirit of the partition of Poland. (Cheers.) It is snakes
of great powers to dismember and destroy a small one.
That which is done to-day with respect • to Denmark may
be done to-morrow with respect to Holland. Will you per-
mit that also' (Chan.) Next day it may be done with
respeCt ito Belgium. (Chews.) Then other power" will
interfere. Is that to be permitted! (Hear, hear.) Is there
no point at which it is considered emential to the honour and
interests of England to protect the week against the power.
fel! (Cheers.) My lords, I regret to say, I am informed
that in eight or ten days more we are no longer to sit ; fee
we are to adjourn for three weeks ; and during that period
the government will be deprived of the support of parlia-
ment. It may require it. support at any instant. In war time
ia of all things easential. Danger may arise, and you might
not have the means of meeting it because you would not
have the support of parliament. I coffees Ido not think it
right that parliament should separate without having
assured the crown that having considered the correspood-
ewe which has bees laid before no by command of the
Queen, we will support her Majesty in any measures which
may become necessary for the maintenance of the independ-
ence of Denmark. (Cheers.) Without that declaration the
government is powerless, audio the coarse of the four week'
that may elapse before we ingot again with further de-
spatches before us to proDounce an opinion ape's the °Deduct of
the government, that may have been dose which peter can
be undone ; and we shill have witnessed the (trepidation
and ruin of a noble people, when we might have held out
oar band to save them, but from little and pusillanimous
motives did not dare to do it. Loud cheers.)
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Earl GREY—There is hardi • word which hat fallen
from the noble earl in which 1 not concur. Ido think that
it is most objectionable that parliament should separate foe
a considerable time without our knowing anything of what
is to take place in the interval. I cannot help laying that
since I have been in public life I have never read as aloud
correspondence which has been laid before parliament with
such • deep sod painful sense of humiliation to this country
u when I read the papers which an now before
us. (Hear, hear.) I do feel with the noble earl
who has just sat down, that we are advancing step
by step without parliament having soy opportunity of
expensing its opinion or doing anything to check the danger.
e are advancing stop by step upon a course which involves
the surrender of the weaker to unprincipled violence of
greater powers. (Cheers.) Thetis a emirs* which is full of
danger and disgrace ; and I for one can but express she
deep feeling which I entertain that some opportunity will
be given the British parliament for the full consideration of
this subject before it separates for the Easter recess.
The Earl of HARROWIW—I think it must be conve-
nient to her Majesty's government that there Mould be
some expression of opinion on this subject as has been
suggested. It seems to me, slier the unsuccessful inter-
ference of last year, and after the passive attitude we have
aims assumed, that unless tome expression of the kind
suggested opine from the people of England. her Majesty's
government cannot safely go into any negotiations at the
present moment. It seems to me that it would be of the
utmost importance to them to feel the pulse of the people
of England, and to be then enabled to say to these invading
powers. that there is a point beyond which the patience of
the English nation cannot be tried. (Hear, hear.) Ido not
wish to 'sprees altogether a want of confidence is Austria ;
but I think it would be a considerable support to her fail-
ing virtue to know that there would be as English Beet
hovering about the Baltic. (Hear, hear.)

Earl RUSSELL—Mv lords, I will say but one word on
this subject. Surely there is not a noble lord who would
imams, that, having received this information in the
course of to-day, I could come down to this house, and on
my responsibility make any declaration which would hied
this country, or would be likely to lead it into war. When
anything is to be done it most be maturely coesidered.
What her Majesty's government have done bas bees to
negotiate, but also to maintain themselves at liberty to
act with other powers, or if they thought fit to act aloe.,
if the honour and the paramount interests of
Iteglatid should require it. My noble friend (Earl
Cray) said that be has read these papers with humilia-
tion.
.[Earl tlait—•• Hear, hear./ I believe these perms
spinets spirit with the amend opinion of the country. U
my noble friend thinks that the government ought to have
sand diffmeotly he can at now move • vote of censure. If
he thinks that government ought now to set differently
—if he thinks that without negotiation, without hearing
what these powers propose, and without allies,
we ought at once to rush into • war, he
has only to propose • resolution to that effect.
All I can say is that the government will consult according
to their own °pinker the honour and the interests of this
conatry. They will not make war when the safety and the
interest, the integrity, and the independence of Denmark
can ire otherwise secured; but they will not neglect any means
by which that safety and that independence sad integrity
can be secured. With regard to the fleet, tea days or a fort-
night ago, that we might be able to have it at command, it
was ordered into one of the home ports, so that any orders
given to it might be at ouce obeyed. If it were thought
necemary to give any omen to that fleet it would be at once
within our reach ; and certainly I should not expect that any
fleet of Austria or of Prawn would venture to encounter •
squadron of ours.
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The matter then drropyped, end
The house sd;oorned aliortly after hall-put six o'clock.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.—TUESDAY, basal 8.
Th. SMACKS took the c►oir et 4 o'clock.
PRIVATE BUSINESS.

The following bills were read a second time :—The East
London Railway Bill; Greet Northern and Victoria Static.
Railway Bill: London and North-Western Railway (addi-
tional powers) Bill ; Midland Railway (St. Nacres Branch)
Bill ; North London Railway (additsmal powers) Bill ;
North London Railway (Kiagslated and Tottenham Line)
Bill ; and the Swansea and Oystermoutb Railway sw.
On the order for the second reading of the Lend" ,
Brighton. and South Coast (additiousl powers) Bill,
Mr. TITE :coved as an amendment that the bill be read'
a second time that day six mouths.
Captain JERVIS sasonded the amendment
Mr. Dooteie sad Mr. S. FITZGIKALD supported the mu.
Alter some discussion the amendment was negatived
without a division, and the bill was read a second time.
THE RAILWAY SCHEMES OP THE METROPOLIS.
Mr. 31. GIBSON rose to call the attention of the hones
to the report of the select committee on railway echemee
within the limits of the metropolis, and to move that the
following bills be not proceeded with io the present us-
lion, y:•_.:—Victoria Station and Thames Embankment
Railway. Oxford-street and City Railway, London Main
Trunk Undengronod Railway, Charing-cross (Northern)
Railway, Charing-cross (Western) Railway, Tottenham and
Hampstead Junction Railway (Extension to Charing-crom).
London Union Railways, Tottenbam and Parriagdoootnet
Railway ; that the fees which bad been incurred io Inspect
of the mid bill. be remitted ; that the said report be re-
ferred to all select committees to which any railway bills
within the limits of the metropolis might be referred.
The two tint schemes of the eight baring been rejected,
On the question that the Loudon Maui Trunk Under-
ground Railway he re)jected,
Mr. AYR?ON said he should move that this whams be
not rejected. It had long been a question of grave coo-
indention how they should remove the people from the
crowded state in which they were compelled to live to the
plates, when they were compelled to labour sad
also to a lees crowded part of the metrOpolia
This scheme proposed to connect London with Bow Com-
mon, where large bodies of pinions might be comfortably
located, and after looking at the reports of the House
of Lords. the Metropolitan Board' of Works, and other
bodies who had fully investigated this subject, he found that
this scheme, so far from conflicting with these reports, was
entirely in accordance with all their requirements. He
would also observe that this scheme was rejected by the
joint committee because it competed with another line ; but
Mee* the date of the report that other scheme had been
withdrawn, and consequently if this scheme should be re-
jected many very important interest. would be disregarded.
With regard to many of the tight hooonrable gen-
tleman's oiteetratioas he (Mr. Ayrton) might at once
state that the tight bon. gentleman was in error.
The most remarkable circumstance was that the most im-
portant recommendatioos of the joint committee would have
been accomplished by the line they had rejected. This
showed how imperfectly they had considered the project.
before them. The line he advocated was the only line which
would hare given the working dames access to the bout
of the metropolis from the suburbs, in which they preferred
to reside. The bon. and learned member concluded by
repeating the words of his motion, which was put and
sweetie/IL
Sir J. PAXTON proposed that the Charing-cross
(Western) Railway be omitted from the list, and • abort ,
discussion followed. The amendment was, however, uega.
cived without a division.
Mr. CRAWFORD beet moved to add, after " Tottenham
and Farringdonatrest Railway," the words, " and so much
of the Metropolitan District Railways Bill No. 33 as refers
to the proposed works situated to the eastward of Black-
friamheidasi, together with the Metropotiten District Rail.
ways Bill No. 34."

The b as
'rafts &Ale& tie awiesdatest was negatived
by 277 to 76. The *OW motion waa thaw agreed to.

XOTICES OF MOTIONS.
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Mr. H. BAILLIE save notice of his intention on Thurs-
day next to prompt a petition from the oweers of the Bri-
tish vessel captured at Matamone M November LA.

H.kRBOURS OF REFITGE.

Mr. LINDSAY gave notice that on Tuesday, this sth
April, he should rains • resolution on the subject of har-
bours of refuge.

MALT DUTY.

Mr. MORRITT gars notice that on Tuesday, the sth
April. he should 1320,11 the resolution of which he had
siroady given notice, "That in the opinion of this house
there ought to be a reduction is the malt duty.

Paymaster Busks iesseasred, and whether her Majesty was
advised ta etefirre that sehie stence by the Judge Advocate
General after consideration of the proosedinp of the Court
Martial ; what was the date at which her Majesty wee ad-
vised to pardon Mr. Renales ; was the sentence of the court-
martial confirmed, or bad it been overruled at the date at
which the proee.. ridings were laid upon the table of the house ;
what are the groundson which the Quasi wag advised he
pardon Mr. Smola, after her Majesty had been advised to
confirm the sentence by which be had been cashiered, and
were those grounds apparent on the face of the proceedings.
Mr. HEADLAM said, in reply to the first part of the
boo. baronet's question, that he bad to inform him that her
Majesty never did confirm the finding of the court-martial,
as her Majesty was never recommended so to do. It was
confirmed by Sir Hugh Rose, in Jodi... under the authority
he had for that purpose. (Hear, hear.) With respect to
the second question, he had to state that the date was the
13th of July last In reply to the third question. he found
by the blue book that the proceedings were laid upon the
table of the house on the 3rd of July, long after the court-
martial had been confirmed in India, but before her Majesty
was advised to pardon Mr. Smiles. In answer to the last
question, be had already stated that her Majesty bad not
untamed the court-martial ; but the grounds upon whir,b
Mr. Smelts was pardoned were these—lint, that the trial
was nos a fair one—Cheer, hurl—partly from the manner is
which the witnesses were arrested and kept in close custody
during the trial. it was also considered that the charges were
irregular, it being uncertain what was the precise crime
with which he was charged, so that bad the trial taken
place in this country the finding would not haus been cos.
firmed. (Hear.)