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THE EXPR" SS, TUESDAY _EVENING, JUNE 12. 1849

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order and pram, end rtigoed more tranquilly and
more justly than ever Pontiff did. The menaces of
id' Naples, and other plwers, however, io-
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governors a man of energy and liberalism, Mama.
The on'y crime that the French can lay to the charge
of the Romans is their having elected this min. As
well might the Romans denounce the French for
having placed at the head of Their government the
ph,nner of the Strasbourg and B tulogne expedition,.
It was against this republic, this free and self-con-
stituted government, which demanded no better than

to come to terms with its sovereign. to almost any
terms, provided the It imitate were liberated from the
tyranny of the mocks and high priesthood—it was
against such a state, freed by its people, and riven in
so ynat a cause, that the President of the Fs each re-
public sent his armies; and at their head, it must be
confessed, one of the greatest brutes that ever dis-
graced the name of Frenchman and of officer.
This man, OUDINOT—O, fit instrument for a tuk of
barbarous imbecility—received written orders, which
have be it published, and which, thouth issuing from
the rninioterial office of an enlightened nation, are
devoid c.f grammar, reason, right, and sense. They
enjoined him to take military po-s,s4on of the city
o' Rome. So many cliff. not political motives were
aorg-ed to lain for accomplishing this unwarrant-
able and sanguinary act, teat a man must have been
devoid of all principle to have undertaken it. In fact
M. OUDINOT could have but ot e motive—the mise-
rable one of earning some little military fame by the
conquest of a naturally peaceable and nu-
military people. A French envoy, charged
with fall powers for treating, was in this
general's camp; and be—even he—the agent of that
very government which despatched this selfleh and
alterable expedition—he, blushing at the coercion of
the Romans and the forcible assault of their city, con-
cludes a treaty with thew. But this would not ihti fy
the Vandal OUDINOT, who bad his marshal's listen to
gain in the sack and slaughter of the helpless Romans
Since the days of 011A14.E23 V., Rome hes not s.en
war. The priests that governed it emasculated as
well as spolia'ed its people. None of them were
tau,tht the pnlession of arms, nor indeed was any
profession allowed them, save that of the pimp or
ot the mendicant. But the first call of liborty,
the old trump t note that had echoed centuries
ago, had still power enough to awaken a @plat
in the Romens. They armed, and at least
had the satisfaction of beating ignominiously the
cowardly tyrant of Naples, and his blood-thirsty, yet
fight eschewing. soldier& But the French army.
equipped as a French army is, with its guns and
engineers, and tradition el experience e f distinction
what could the Romans do against such a force ?
Some thousands have been slain, same pa
laces destroyed and sacked. French shots have
gone though the Vatican and crippled St. Ewer's
dome. At this our aristocracy are delighted. Fur
the last five months these lovers of marble and canvas
have be en mourning ever the Roman title d'eeuvre of art
falling amongst republicans, but had not one word ot
sympathy for the Rename. Now even their little sym-
pathy for rirtu is gone, and we shall have an ode
from t'e joint laureateship of the Times and Lord
BROUGHAM, addressed to the modern BRENNUS,
General OUDINOT.
But who would look for one generous f. cling in
arietvcrecy-ridden England ? The French, however,
cannot but be aroutird by the mingled treason and
tyranny of their government. Fur, in crushing
the Humane, LOUIS NApoLEON has b frayed
and bolo d the National Assricbly, as well es the na-
tional voice which elected him to the presidential
chair, nut to sanction such has act. as these. Never did
rulers or country crouch so meanly More great and
powerful foes, as France and Louie NAPOLEON have
done. Never did ruler and country compeosate for their
pusillanimity before the powerful, by bullying, and
cruelty, and oppression to the weak. T. compliment
Russia, and insult MAZZINI, to abandon Italy to
Austria, and show valour by supporting Denmark in
concert with Rue-ia against little Schleswig—to
sneak teal' that is big awl di spate, and bully all that
is small and free—such is the policy of the French
government, such the conduct by which a BONAPANTZ
a'1314 at recovering an imperial crown.
It is come satisfaction to see our government re-
pudiate all cognisance or eancton of such nefarious
proceedings. Lord PALMERSTON flung over the
French government to their true opine in this busi-
ness, Austria, Naples, and the Nuncio. It will open
the eyes of the French pe.ple, to see the villainy of
their government and President thus treated with
the silent contumely they deserve in the British par-
lament.

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LONDON, TUESDAY, JUNE 12.

MIL COBDEN'S motion in favour of inserting an
arbitration clause in all future treaties wi h foreign
states stands for ti-eight. As the sdertion of a
great principle in the policy of the country it.
importance cannot be over-is-lasted. It is the prin-
ciple of moral force as opposed to physical violence—
of reason as opposed to passion—of humanity as op-
posed to reckless waste of life—of civilieation u op-
posed to a continuance in the ways of barbarism. As
a national acknowledgment and adoption of an h a
principle its value is obvious. It is saint as a public
abjuration ce. the ancient ways of lawless dealing be-
tween nations, and is intended to be a silvan repu-
diation in foreign policy of
The old familiar plan,
That they should take who have the plod,
And they should keep who att.
It is tendered as it would be received ss a final renun-
ciation of the tight of the strong to bully the weak,
and of the powerful to browbeat the feeble or the un-
prepared. There is not a minor state in Europe
whose honour and independence would not be ren-
dered immeasurably more secure by the general adop-
tion of a system of idernational arbitration ; and
upon the security of the minor states, the permanent
peace of the continent must at all times mainly
depend.
If Fence, then, be the standing policy of all wise
comm mweelths, it is maniteetly desirable that an
example shoulibe set to those around us, of the man-
ner in which the seeds of quarrel may be p'ucked up
by the roots, ere they have time to grow and ripen. So
long as one great power refines to acknowledge any
other law than that of its own wayward or capricious
will, so long will every other of its equals claim the
IMMO immoral irresponsibility to public opinion in its
widest and noblest sense. For Just pu.plees no''
country can desire any en h immunity. For rapa-
cious or vain-glorious rods, no country ought
to be su?posed to possess it. Lswboreness has too
Jong been the insolent privile;e of a few preeminew
states; but how have even the people of these states.
to say nothing of those, the weaker ones, whom they
made alternately the vic'ims of their protection or
their eirnity—been ber.efi'ed thereby? To put a
curb in the mouth of dom'neering might—a bridle on
tits neck of military power —is one of the me et uni-
venial and abiding interests of the people of all lands ;
and if the arbitration system had no other merit than
that it gives note of warning end time to prepare
again.', if not to avert, the threatened danger—it
wool be entitled to the supp)rt of every man whose
heart is in the people's cause.
Nor is this toe least of its excellencies t) these who,
like ourselves, have the honour to be subjects of a
" first-rate power." What benefit is it to us that br
suddenly taking advantage of a defenceless
neigh-
hour, we could clutch one of hie fortreeses, or impress
his best ships of the line ? What satisfaction can it I
afford us to know that durirg the parliamentary
recess our government may irretrievably commit us in
a deadly struggle with Rasta, or with France,
and to reflect that when our national honourl
has been stun.r, or the properties and lives of I
many of our fellow-citixens haeCt. poseibly been
sacrificed, pirliam. nt may be asked whether it is not 1
too late to offer to negotiate? It is all very well for
secretaries of state and prime ministers to like to
have such tremendous r.owers entru-ted to them. It
flatter., no doubt, the vanity of official men to think
that every time they take up the pen they may, i.
they think fit, strike awe into the hearts of men ; or
if they be, as doubtless many of them are, humane
and circumspect, or temporising and timid men, it may
perhaps administer in no slight degree to their indivi-
dual self-complacency to come forward year after year
with unlighted torch in hand, and to be able to b iss•
that they have not set tee world in a bra-. But
what is all this to 'is? We live clos3 to the powder
magazine—we want to deep soundly in our belle, in-
stead of being continually startled, during the hours
of darkness, by sounds so very much resembling the
striking of flint and steel in a tinder-box. Why not
have the comfortable assumes that, at least, nobody
-an get into the petilons quarters adjacent until the
world bas bad time to awake? This is Mr. C.1...-BDEN%

question.
Will it be said by way of answer that things ge•
on very well as they are; that in this country at least,
ar.d among our haughty rivals also, peace has now
been kept fur a long period, and that we ought to be
satisfied with adhering to the system of mediations,
protocols, and spec•al missions, whereby the inesti-
mable blessings of international amity have heretofore
been secured? It is, indeed, quite true that no acing
collision has for many years occuried between the
Five Powers; but it is ludicrously untrue to say tbs.'
their abstinence from their termer btversge—the
blood of each others' people—is in any sense attri-
butable to the magic arts of diplomacy. Exhaus-
tion after the fearful struggles of 1812 to 1815
rendered them absolutely unable to resume "the'
glorious pursuits of warfare" for a considerable
tame ; and ever since 1830 the consciousness of domes.
tic instability and discontent has kept the ambition
of Austria and Prussia quiet; while the governments
of Russis, France, and England, have re.pectively
sought compensation in Onassis', Algiers, and His.
doetan, for the forbearance thee have shown to-
wards
one another within the limits of Europe. B.'
as for any real disposition to lay aside the thoughts
a d habits, and practice sof war, on the pare of the go-
vernm•nts in question • so long as we behold them
maintaining undiminished gigantic armaments by
ma and land, armaments confessedly useless for say
slirr purpose than that of mutual des•ruction—how
as we believe them to be sincere?
Ministers will no doubt scout arbitration in par-
liament, as they set their merry andrew to jeer at it
in the press. They will not attend seriously to any such
surgestion. It is a knowledge of this which impels
lovers of peace and economy to enter upon that only
way to muiiterial conviction, agitation, at least that
agitation which is the wholesome stirring and
awakening of public opinion. To that, mit grows and
is formed, ministers will incline, and the merry
andrews themselves will come to make their bow in

all seriousness.
That the people are stirring, that there exists
something more then indifference or mockery on the
subleet, the great meeting last night at Exeter Hall is
sufficient proof. And a noble sight it was to see
thousands (herring the sentiments of humanity
and peace, without abating their syropathies for
freedom, and for the liberal cause in peril throughout
the woid. For, as Mr. BIIOUT said, though arbitra-
tion is recommend. d between great states like Eng-
land, France, and America, rill no one thinks of pro-
posing it between the lion and the lamb, the master
and the slave, the tyrant and the oppressed. Now as
the retrograde and absolutist party, in our press rind
parliament, continue to offer up daily vows foe the
spoons of tyranny, for the humbling and the routirg
of the enslaved :—when all their sympathies are for
the Austrian in Italy, for the Russian in Hungary.
foe the Prussian treading out German freedom, and
the French disembowelling the Roman—it is but too
natural that writers and politicians like these should
scout arbitration, when they turn their backs on the
English principles of justice, freedom, and even
Christian feeling.

Marna Louis NAP°Leon has made a prettymese
of it. The lint feat of his government in arms is to
assault and cannonade, to give up to elsughter end
destruction, the old capital of the world, time-honoured
Rome, and in the very moment when the Romans
themeelvee, for the first time during centuries, had
assumed an attitude worthy of their ancient name.
Deserted by their Pontiff, who was spirited away by
interested and intriguing diplomatists, the Romans
praeleim, d a republic, and elected to be
its chiefs their moat honourable and respected
citizens, who faithfully executed their task, preserved

H rlaity sod Ws Royal Higbaue were aboospasiod by
the Pride• of Wales, the Princess &lei, the Prison, Aloe,
and the Primers. Bekaa. Is attendance es the royal party
were Lieut.-Col. the Hos. C. B. Phipps, Col. Bouverie, and
Mr. Birch. _ _ _ _

—Hi. HTyal Highness the Prime Albert went yesterday
main to dine at the Merchant Tailors'. The Prince waa
attended by the Marquis of Aberooro, Lord George Lennox,
Col. Welds. and Col. Hoeverie.
. .

The Quota honoured the Fronds Play with ber presence
last evening. Her Maks, wu attended by the Countess
or Haut, Hon. Lucy Herr, the Earl of Listowel, and Lieut.-
Colonel the Hon. C. B. Pulpy'.

A Cabinet Council was held yesterday at the
Foreign Office. It was attended by Lord John Russell, the
Marquis of Lansdowne, the Earl al ?limo, Sir George Grey,
Viscount Palmerston. Earl Grey, the Chancellor of the Ba-
chequer, Sir Francis Baring, the Right Hon. H. Lt-
hot:where, Lord Campbell, and the Earl of Carlisle. The
council •at two hours.
The Earl and Countess Grey had a dinner party on
Saturday at their residence in Belarave-equare.

DEPARTURE OF HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS PRINCE
HIONST Or TEM NITILIKLANDS.—Twtorday Engrains bin
Royal Hiehners, attended by Vim-Admiral Luau, Lieut.-
Colonel Rigol de Be,yuin, and Lieut. Van &ward. left
Mivart's Hotel for Shama.' (en hie return to the Magus),
sad imunedutely embarked on board the Netherlands steam
•hip of war the Cycieps. Hu Royal Higanoss was received
by his Ezaelleney Coast Szhimmelpennittek, Baron Btra•
tennis, and Mr. May, Conenl-Gateral. w►o also accompanied
his Royal Highness aa far ae Gravesend.

THE PEACE MOVEMENT.

GREAT PUBLIC MEETING.
A public meeting was held last evening in Exeter-
hall, in support of the motion to be brought forward to-day
in the Houses of Commons. by Mr. Cobden, for the adoption
of international arbitration as a substitute for war. There
was a very crowded attendance, including • number of
ladiee, the great ball being completely filled.
The chai• was taken,
_ according to previous arrangement,
by Mr. Hadley, M.P., who sei I, You are aware that at
Brussels, last autumn, a meeting was Wild wherein an attempt
was made to unite all thou individuals of different countries
who thought a war an evil which, on all grounds, ought to
be averted. A similar congress is to be bold at Paris in
August. (Hear, bear.) And I trust that every one who can
wand it will do so; for, in the pre:eat circumstances of
Europe, I can ponceive nothing so important as for persons of
different cow/tries to meet in the great metropolis of
France, and show that whether Frenchmen, Englishmen,
Belgians, Russians, or Germans, they are determined to em-
brace in one arm of fellowship the whole human nu. (Ap-
olause.) I rejoice that we have to-day been honoured with a
notice in a piper which carries great power with it in this
winery, as to what our intentions are tomorrow night, in
order to promote the destruction of war, by appealing to ar-
bitration and to common s we. (Hear, hear.) A column
in the Times (loud blues) is worth a great deal to any cause,
and for this reason, because people read the rinses more
t• an their bibles ; and I leer many persons will have had
their attention less directed to this subject by the principles
of the bible, than by the column and a quarter which we
in
have erjoyed to-day the Times. The arguments in fumy
of pesos may be founded upon religion; for my part, I think
that the strongut foundation en which they can rest. (Hear.) '
It is impossible to witness such • meeting as this with- I
end feeling that the question is no longer in the clouds,'
but that it has become a practical question. The preaene. of
hpsnast . n
„ids
tp
la. reached ede 1 St. Stephen's
se:su.)i,n bm ; and,the
whole
I hym
so many of my hon. friends around me, members of parlia-
meworse:iptiinsw,hpoi:Fidiethimapeatbil
Mr. RICHARDS, the secretary, then read the following
report:
The Peace Congress Committee have much pleasure in
laying before this meeting the following brief summary of
its proceedings. Acting upon the spirit of the resolutions
adopted at the Brussels Congress, the committee have insti-
tuted a series of operations to bring under the notice of the
people and government of this country some practical substi-
tute tor the war system. The cordial supper. and sympathy
of Mr. Cobden having been secured to this movement he was
requested to submit to parliament a motion recommending
the f amaion of international treaties of arbitration, by
which disputed questions between governments should be
settled without any appeal to arms. This motion he will
bring forward in the House of Commons to-morrow night.
More than 150 public meetings have been held in anions
parts of the country, comprising nearly all the principal
towns in England and Scotland, for the purpose
of sustain•ng Me. Cobden, by a strong expression
of public sentiment in favour of the contemplated
measure, and upwards of one thousand petitions have
been sent up in its support. At the following meetings the
chair was taken by the respective mayors of the togas
Liverpool, Leeds, Halifax, Hudderdiild, Newcastle-on-
Tyne, Worcester, Leicester, Nottingham, Wakefield, Brad-
ford, Doncaster, Southampton, Bridport, and Falmouth.
Petitions from the town council of Eiinbugh have also
been presented. A resolution was adopted at the conference
of the friends of peace (held in the Hell of Commerce last
October), to raise a special fund of 5,0001. to carry on the
operations of the peace congress committee during the year.
leis resolution has bean liberally met by contributions
amounting up to the present time to about 3,5001. Arrange-
ments are now in progress for holding a congress of the
friends of peewits Paris in the month of August. A com-
mittee of e rgameationeompriaing several of the most eminent
and influential monis France, will superintend the arrange-
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THE COURT. meats for this assembly, at which it is expected that limner-
ow delegations will represent various European countries,
and the United States of America.
INVESTITURE OF THE BATH.
Mr. BRIGHT, M.P.The Queen held an investiture of the moat honour- spoke, se follows:—it li was received with loud cheers. He
d occurred to me, whilst our chair-
able Order of the Bath, yesterday afternoon, at 3 o'clock. man has bees sleuthing, that if a ranger from some distant
The Knights Grand Crosses having been robed in their land were placed for a moment upon this platform, to look
mantles, and wearing their collars, passed through the Pie• upon tnis great assembly, he would come to the conclusion
tare Gallery into the green drawing-room, where they that some great question of national importance was stirring
were coned over by the Bath King of Arms, when the fol. the minds of the people, and had drawn together so large a
Cambridge, Field. Mat shal the Dike of this moment looking upon this meeting as pleasant
towns' kninbta answered :—Field- Marshal his Royal High. meeting as Ole. There is, however, a
sparty at
nese the Duke of
Wellinwton, Viscount Strangford, Lord Heytesbury, Admi- hallucination of a considerable number of people ; and there
„collective wisdom" of this nation—(laughter)—men who
ra 8,,,E4..rd co,frinitm. Omen.' the Hon. Sir William are of those who go to make up what is facetiously called the
Lumley, General Sir J. Willoughby Gordo., Bart 'VW
count Palmerston, General Lord Aylmer, Lieut.-denersi believe that we are people amusing ourselves with visionary
ir J. Law Lushington, Lieut.-General Sir Andrew F. Bar and impracticable theories. Bat let it be bores in mind that
have said and thought precisely the same of al other
mud, Limit. General Sir Howard D ,uglas, Bait., Major- these great organs of the press, and these men in pietism at,
General Sir George Pollock, Sir Arthur Avon, Captain Sir
Ithwand Lyons, Bad., R.N. the Earl of El to- great questions, on several other occasions. (Hear, bear.)
beregb, Lieutenant-General Lord Fitzroy
deny that. Bat if the evil his existed for so long a time,
I. H They say that there has always been war. Well. we don't
nomerset, Lieutenant General B.r John Macdonald, and
certainly we cannot be accused of an undue precipitancy, if,
Lieut.-General Sir James Caldwell. The officers of the
after centuries' duration of this plague, we now hope to do
Order wore their mantles, amine, and Nedra. There wire
present the Dean of Westminster ; Geneelogicti Walter something to put a step to it. It reminds me of people who
soy, ...rile poor ye have always with you ;' and allege
Ashton Blum, Esq.- Bath King of Arms, Algernon °remits,
that se a reason why it ie hopeless to endeavour to remedy
Esq.; Register anAteetetary. Capt. Michael Seymour R N ;
Gentleman Usher, Albert Wiliam Wood. E•q. (Lanatieer the evils of poverty. But crime is at least as old as war,
and dims. ill as old as war ; but no one supposes it to be
Herald.) The Queen, accompanied by Field-Marshal His
Royal Highness the Prime Albert, was conducted to a chair fanciful that all should meet together, and co-operate to
of state in the thremereen, where the chapter was
caste
and
crime, if possible, and to diminish the pressure
Her Majesty, se sovereign, and Prince Albert, as Great Master and the suffering which arise from disease. (Hear, hear.)
of the Order of the Beth, war the mantle and c
heerell of the
Bath. The Queen, having been conducted to dby The try remedies for thou misfortunes and evils which
afflict humanity ; and shy should we be held up to ridicule
the Lord Steward and the Lord Chamberlain the Kanglus who here, in the face of day, before this wet me.
Grated Crosses, attended by the *dicers of the Order, were tropolis, and with our opinions going forth to the
ushered to the royal presentee. world, come fore and and propound a scheme, not
The ceremony of the investiture then commenced hy the by which war shall be rendered for ever impoeslble,
inerruction of the Right Hoe. Sir G. Grey, Bert. her but shall be rendered much less prible, and much less
Majesty's principal Secretary of State for the Home Depart- .'estructiye of human happineutlum it is now and has been ?
meat, who was received at the door of the chapter roan by Let any one look over Europe—not at this moment, when
Lieut.-General Sir John Macdonald and Lieut-General Sir strife is everywhere prevailing or imminent—but as it was
James Caldwell, the two Junior Knights Grand Crosses two years ago, before this disturbance bad broken out—and you
present, and advanced between them. preceded by the King may make a calculation that the Christian nations of Europe
of Arms and the Gentleman Usher of the Order (the former hare been spending not much, if anything, ll= than 200
bearing the ensigns oy the bath Sri a crimson velvet cushion). millions of pounds Mandy; per annum, not in war, but in
When near the Queen Sir CfleTVO knelt, and the sword of warlike preparadons, during a period of profound mire.
state, borne by. Sir William Marlins, Gentleman Usher, Meer. bier.) We have bad lately • very important dome
having been delivered to bar Majesty by the Lord Chamber- mat frees the President of the French Republic. We
lain, the Queen was gracioudy pleased to confer the honour learn that that country has now on foot, if I mistake not,
of knighthood upon the right hon. baronet therewith. Her 450,0C10 armed men, with 93,000 horses, and I know not how
Majesty. • by his Royal Highs 's, Prince Albert, many hundred pieces of artillery. (Hear.) Prussia has
Great Master of the Order, then inves.ed Sir George Grey 380,000 men now under arse. Adding to those two the
with the riband and badge of • Civil Knight Grand Cross entree of soldiers maintained by Great Britain, you will
dote Bath. Sir George, rising, had she honour of kissing find that them three kingdom alone have SOW armies
the sovereign's hand, and, having magma from her Majesty amounting to considerably err then one million of men.
W stir of the order, retired. Austria and Rune have armies whke, united, are, I believe,
Ljoisk.Henend the Right Moo. Sir Edward Mekong, considerably_more numerous than the armies of thus threei
gonwaandor of bee Majesty's Ewen in based, was intro_ kingdoms. Then we have smaller andesof theanzaller states,
denied, supported by Sir John Macdonsld and Sir James and. in ell arohohilit7 the Christian nations of Enrol* have,
()Bidwell. We Edward kneeling near the sovereign, her at this moment, more than two and shelf millions of soldiers,
Majesty, assisted by his Royal Highness Prince Albert, put men drawn entirely from the pursuits of industry—(beta)--
the Abend and badge of a Mflitary Behest Grand Cross of the whole of what they might produce lost entirely to the
the Bath over the Lieut.-General's right shoulder. Sir cradle to which they belong, tad to the world—and cow
/Award, rising, had the honor to kiss the Queen's hand, sumiag an masons expenditure drawn from the industry of
and. having :raved from her Majesty the star of the order, the people of these various countries—(btar, hear)—aad
withdrew. wherever they are, whether in peace or in war, earring an
Captain Sir Charles Hoeing R.N.. was intruluced be. influence adverse to those benign principles and to that
teems Bath King of Arms and the Gentleman Usher of the state of things amongst mankind which Christianity was
Order, and, keeeling, received the honour of knighthood intended to produce. We do not suppose that the resolution
from hie sovereige; was afterwards invested by the Queen to be submitted to the Hoene of Commons to-morrow night,
with the rim' of • Military Knight Commusder el the if carried, will put an end to war for ever. We de not sup-
Bath. Sir Clarks, having Mead bands, retired. pose that the introduction of an arbitration clause into
The investiture being esembaded, the Knight" Grand treaties as maks quarrels between nations casual a nature
Creme retired from the presser el the sovereign. that they never can lead to war. We do not supple, for
Tee Queen save andieene at the court to the Marquis of example, that there ate not clam in which an arbitration
Anglesey. The Ileswerable Corps of Gsatlemendit-Anna would be no more possible than it is between two man raw
lined the Tbroneress daring the investiture. The
sou
au
beyond the bards of reason, and unable to listen to
OM Stranded by the Miareel of the Robes; the Countess of anything that may he addressed to them. We do not say
Desert, Lady In Wafting ; the Lord Seward ; the Lord that a nation trampled on, either by its government et by •
Chamberlain; the blaster of the Hone ; the Groom of the foreign nation, may not, by force of the heel which is epee
Stole to PrineeAlhert; the Captain of the Honourable Corte them, rise and assert, even by this dreadful method, its right
of Gentlemeneat-Arms; the Captain of the Yeoman Guard; to be free. (Cheers.) We know perfectly well that 'ra-
tite Marquise( Anglesey, Gold Stick in Waiting; the Tree- tuition is but goad as arbitration, and that where arbitration
SUM of the Household ; the ViceeChamberlain ; the Corer is imposible, that which we. propose may not be practicable.
troller Of the Honseheld ' the Earl of Listowel, Lord n You cannot well arbitratee between master and lave—( hear,
Waiting ; Sir Matthew *mitt, Lieutenant of the Honour. hear but as all mina.' are not in that position towards
able Corps of Gentlemen-at-Amu • Sir George Lee, Lisa- ear other, but many ot them in the position of equals before
taunt of the Yeoman Gaud ; Lord George Lennox. Lord the world, no faX as ,bey are conceyned, at least, we are able
in Waiting to Prince Albert; Mr. R. Ormsby Gore, Groom to prove that the proposition which is about to be submitted
in Waiting; Colonel Wylde, Groom in Waning to Prince to parliament, which we support at this meeting, which
Albert; Mr. D. Harman, Standatd,heams of the Honourable people of Bouiland have shown themselves so much in favour
Corps of Gentlemen-at-aims; the Groom of the Robes ; of, will be of immense advantage in preserving the peace of
Lieut.-Col. the Hon. C. B. Pbippe, Equerry in Weitieg ; the world. (Hear, hear.) What we want to do in this
Col. Bourne, Equerry in Waiting to Prince Albert; Capt. country is to change public opinion, so that on all occasions
Carling, Adjutant of the Honowohie Corti, of Gentlemen- it will look for peace, and love peace, and regard war as the
at-arms; Col. Beatinek, Field Officer in Brigade Waiting ; greeted possible of human calamities. And not only should
Sir Benjamin Smith. C 8., Messrs. Forbes and Cameron, wei endeavour to teach the people this, but to teach it to the
Pages of 110•011 I in Waiting. government. (Cheers.) Last year a parliamentary mm-
pages
usual guard of Yeomen of the Guard lined the Gram: mittees sat on the navy estimates; and a whole bevy of
Hall. under the command of Sir Seymour Sadler, the &Am misdeals were examined, and very curious testimony urea
in Waiting. them gave. lam quite sure they expected a Waterloo next
-- week and • Trafalgar the week after, (Laughter.) They
u
The Queen and Prince Albert went early yesterday hat ecnially marked down where the next great battle at Ha
'''e to the Z ologiefil Ounce!! in the Regent's-putc. would be fought. firle said it would benearto the Linn's.

end-some said a little higher up the Channel-(laughter)-•
and of con. e@ Great Brit oia was to sweep the seas as in past
times. One admiral of very great auth .rity gave it as his
strong opinion that the people of France (this was before the
late 'lmola ion) were only waiting for an opportunity to,
make Owe Bri•ain into a French pr niece. (Laughter.)
N, goti etion at some peeled of the war brings f eace • and we
propene that the negotiation should lei tri-d first. (Cheers.)
For bete in mind, that • negotiation alter several battles
have been won and lost is not a fair negotiation ; there
are the conquered and the imequeror who are parks
to it, and justice is not done to the ultimate settle-
ment. But upon our system, when you have the ne-
gotiation and the arbitration Rot, the penile. have not yet
tried their strength ; they are equal with each wine • they
are cool and mere dispassionate than they can be :rue a
conflict; and the ends of jus ice are much ot ore likely to be
observed. (Cheers.) Ido net see why we should not make
lome progress in this diree•ion. Pe ode do no• fieht duels
now so Muni as they used to do. but men are very much
men still. In °erten classes of society a word i. followed
eipruslobtnl
isekoopfri
not the
other,cwh u whichmo e
immediately by a blow ; but amongst the great
moreh
er
putr
bulk of the people you find • calmer tons,
dregardfoowr duelling-iliafor
humanthe persons
put it
delai:oniwag:inlnis.:7(dH"Wpenuaerl,c, beer.) So lone as the law was against duel-
lrei:canopinioncreate e
opinionon oitp,
opinion
efw. auh dth,
:beni
dme ftihnki
this
in
he world.
all nut ins pretending to civilisation and to Christianity bow
Ito the decision Man arbitretien which .ball he freely chosen
by the oontendi••g and disputing nations. (Aept.u...) We
have had some casts lately in which there was a rink of war.
You recollect that miaeroble quenel in the Pacific Ocean,
which was called the Pritchard quarrel, the Tahiti dispute,
which was within a day or two's discus.ina of plunging us
into • war with Fr once. (Hear, herr.) Does env men on
earth believe that that question cou'd not have been arbi-
tested upon without the smallest doffieu:ts ? Neither nation
had any real interest in the question. (Hear,
hear.) Suppose that we had a government fully
imbued with then eentiments, end • toreien secretary,
anxious not only to prevent war but to prevent anything
that should hazard war• and that ell our treaties with
tanks nations contained this particular clause, which is
about to be submitted to parliament-the whole course of our
government with d to these questions would he different
from what it is at present. Instead of preparing for war,
beceuse they believe war to he the natural state of men and
notions, they would always be looking in the die ction of
peace. Our great armies and fleets would not 'oily net be
necessary, but there would not even be a pretence for them.
It would be the same with them as with the partners in •
husinene who have an arbitration clause ; they do not each
keep an attorney to take care that t• ey shall go to law and
ruin each other with costs-(laughter)-but they know per-
fectly well that if any dispute aria s It will b referred to
fair and upright men, who will decide between them ; and
with that decision, as upright and honour.ble men them-
selves, they feel that they may be content. (Hear,
hear.) Suppose that we bad bad a treaty with
the United Butts ten years ego. The question
of the Maine boundary was then in dinuoe ;it d to great
danger of • war ; but at lerog•h Lord A.hbutton was sent
over, he was met by Mr. Webster on the part of the
United States, they got together, and they nettled it.
(Hear, hear.) I was, the other cloy at the British
Museum, where everybody ought to so as often as he can.
Down some steps, in • room underneath, there are some
owlebested monuments from • city hitherto almost unknown,
of which we have but an account so vague as to be almost
fabulous-the ancient city of Nineveh There are large
atone slab., with carving sod sculpture• which toll us what
the people of Nineveh did some 3,000 or 4,000 years ago.
There is the high wall of the city ; there are ai end men on
the tip of it; there are military engines dragged or
pushed up against it ; there is the euornsnus hat erieg-ram
breaking out the stones of this wall and battering
it down; there is monarch, minensanoler, soldier,
slave, prisoner, executioner, men beheaded, men trampled
on, men impoled-such is their history. And oven now,
1800 years after Christianity bas comet lilts' the world, we
are much in the same state-shame to us and to all Christie*
people! (Hear, hear.) And in this country, which bouts
more than any other of its intelligence and its Christianity,
we are paying about 48 or 47 millions sterlieg per annum
either as a penalty for ware that are past
or in preparation
for wars that are to come. I have been ',quested to move-
and I do it with great pleasure-the first resolution. It
is as follows :
That In the judgment of this meeting the custom of baring re-
course team. for the wttleicent of international di,llllll. s-assuming,
as It does, the absurd prinetole that right can be decide,) by mignt-
is a relic of barite iam, which in a di...grace to the eiriansitm • f the
age, *bit a reprooch ti the pi armed Christianity of Europe. That It
I. therefore the solemn date of all nations, and ever ally of such as
occupy the most prominent place in intelligence and influence, to
seek DOM mean more just, rational, humane, a• Ch istian, to
adju.t their cliff renter, t an by appealing to the sanguinary arbitra-
ment of the sword. That a timely Werenee of disputed questions to
Use umpleage of competent and disinterested adjudicatnrs, has already
been found, in many instances, a successful method of bliMiing their
satisfactory and pacific settlement That the deliberate legislative
mown* ion of this principle by the nations, as the last resort in cause
of dispute, would latest it with great additional authority; and that
this meeting therefore would, in the strongest terms, Colima Es ell-
proval of the melon to be submitted to the llowe of (Sammons to.
morrow evening by Mr. Cobden.
I believe honestly, and I speak with some knowledge of
the opihione of the great mass of my countrymen, that,
whatever may be the opinions of papers who write for fac-
tions or for reaction ; whatever opinien may be expressed by
parliament tomorrow night-the vast mass of the educated,
of the moral, of the religious feeling of this country goes
heartily with this resolution, and desires p allotment to adopt
it. (Cheers )
Mr. BROTIIERTON, M.P.' seconded the resolution, and
congratulated the meeting on the growing aversion which
was apparent in the people of this country to the practice of
war. He trusted that that aversion would continue to in-
crease, and that it would be manifested ere long by all the
nations of the world. (Hear, hear.) He was old enough to
remember the commencement of the French war in 1793,
and he could sea since that period a great change in publics
opinion on the subject of war. They lied seen the awful con-
sequences, the calamities, and the ruin brought on nations
to consequence of the practice, and they had 1 anted the
lesson that it was desirable to put an mod to it. It
was admitted that the American and French war cost
upwards of one thousand million, of money, and in-
volved the tier flee of a million of human beings;
and yet Lord John Russell, is the House of Commons,
• few nights since, said that in his opinion these two wars
were unnecessary. (Hear, hear.) Now, he could tell them
that the prayers offered up during throe wars described
them as "just and necessary " wars. Y. t now, in 1849,
they were told, on the high authority of the Prime Minister,
that they were in reality unnecessary. (Hear, bear.) Wu
it not obvious thee, as regarded there wars at least, arbitra-
tions might have been of vast importance before extremities
had been resorted to? (Hear, hear.) They all admitted
that war was unchristian and calamitous, and the best thing
they could do to check the appetite for war which still pre-
vailed too much, was to aid in disseminating the true stint
of Christianity. Quarrels frequently originated in trifles,
and it was the characteristic of enlightened and disciplined
minds to practise forbearance and avoid collision, where the
uncultivated mind would have perhaps courted it. An
anecdote, which was very much in point, was related of
Lord Chesterfield, who on a certain occasion was jostled into
the kennel by a person who struck against him, at the same
time saying, "I n give way to puppies " Lore Chess
terfield immediately replied, " But I always do," and passed
on. f Laughter.) He was assured that if nations acted on
the principle of passive TelliStenee, and to some extent gave
way to the feelings and prejudices of other countries, they
would exercise a greater influence in the preservation of
peace and order than b the adoption of any other course.
Rev. J. BURNETT supported the resolution and ex-
pressed much satisfaction at seeing so m my volunteers for the
army of peace makers on the present occasion. W beside was
told that arbitration was impracticable, it followed, of course,
that war was the only engine which could be used with
eflisiency in maintaining the honour of a nation and weed-
ing the justice of its cause. Now, let them just pause a,
moment and follow him while he endeavoured to dimes*
how war 'fleeted these objects, by examining some of Its do.
tails aid inquiring why it was entitled to a place so mush
higher than arbitration. (Hear.) He would take the cavalry
of an army, and he would suppon a thing which had sot
seldom occurred, namely, that the soldiers on one side were
mounted on inferior horses, on posies perhaps, and that their
antagonists bestrode powerful, fullenized horses, was R not
apparent that the decision of the justice or the merit•of then
sonnet would then be left between horses and rpoies-
(cheers and laughter)-or, in other words, that nation
vindicated its honour by taking the precaution of rowing
better hones than the country it was at war wit's. (Reef,
hear.) But again, one man of cavalry InigTA be better
swordsmen than their opponents, and the nati.onal hewn,
then became a matter depending on emperiority in
fencing. (Laughter.) Suppose he took the utiliser.
One corps ought be got up hastily and without
salleisot practice, and the other having plenty of practical
skill, it was quite clear that it would have the power of pro-
jecting bullets by mums of gunpowder. snore aecavately
than their enemies; bet he could by tea means perceive
what that superiority had to do with the jostiew of the
quarrel. They might go still higher, sad fled a genersl
in command, whose great military knowl•edge and skill to
the movement et troops enabled hint IM'oring the greatest
amount of force on the points most likely to sLow of •
favourable result to his operations. eel, he might be orponed
to a commander of much interior ability, but surely suc-
cess in such a cue was not the aeraequeues of an appeal to
conscience, or to right frelillfish*!, was due merely to superior
adroitness in the wielding of the messes entrusted to the
charge of the more abler general. (Hear, hear.) People
might laugh at the Orel of arbitration, tut Ia his opinion the
warlike plan was infloitell more ludicrous.
The resolution was them adopted.
The CHAIRMAN at this stage of the procudinp was
obliged to leave the. meeting for the purpose of attending
to his Parlistnearary duties, and his place was supplied by
G. W. Alesaatle,e Heel.
Mr: B. MIP.LL proposed the second resolution, which was

as foll .wa :
That tbisraeeting approves and adopts the Mowing petilloa to the
Home at er,attoon4, in support et the motion to be forward
by Kr.Co'Jden tomorrow evening for international arbtrration.
To t:ne honourable the Common& of Greet Brktain and Ire-
land in Parliament assembled. The petKion of the un-
dersigned
Sheweth—That in the judgment of 'your petitioners the
ordinary method adopted by nation% of settling their die.
puma by en appeal to the sword, is so obviously at variance
with the first principles of Platice and humanity, and so
utterly repugnant to the tinkit and precepts of the gospel, as
to furnish a enfficisnt toOdemootioo of the practice apart
from all coostdProtton of the conarquenr es to Whicb it leads.
That the whole btatory of the world proves that war, se
far from estialsevarily adjusting interne ionsl differences,
serve, only to embitter and perpetuate them, by exciting on
i the one hand emotions of triumph, sane, afford nourish
• aunt and Kept to the impala* of an unprincipled ambition]

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