The Express.
London, England, 1865-05-16 00:00:00

'ERIAL PAIILIADIENT.

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HOUSE OF LORD& —MoN se; MAT 15.
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PETITIONS.
Mho of Itiramottri, Lord HARRIS, Lord HOUGHTON,
the Bart of Eralsiummt, Earl ROWILY, sad Lord Lryzaati
FMS petitions from °Soars la the Wilms army oom-
*Wag of the violation of the Heals muted to them by
ash d Parlismat, sod pray* for redress. The Earl of
DWT presorted • similar priatioa from as oPdwr n the
him navy.

THE FRAUDS IN THE PATENT-OFFICE.
The Earl of WICKLOW, referring to a goostios which
weeca►leoyeato noble earl the President of the Council to
of the Exchequer is the Edmunds committee
cm the frauds in the Patent-office, aid as to which the
amiDoellor of the Exchequer stated that in such a case there
mem so miens of call* a defaulting dark to account for
the hued' which be bad committed, mid be wished to
knew whether. this case having bees thin brought proud-
nemtly before the public and the government. it woo the in-
timation of the government to allow such a state of things to
soneinne cue moment longer than was abecolntely neccesarr.
The noble seri mud it wee • bard ease upon tbe
taxmen of the country to have to maks good the dell-
again of civil officers who led acted fraudulently ;
and he also wished to know whether a bill would be intro-
duced to correct the evils which existed. and whether it
would provide for • proper audit of the amounts.
Eted GRANVILLE romieded the noble earl that be bad
net given notice of his question. The whole matter was
mocker the oonsidsratios of the government, and there would
ia future be geartarly returns. so that the aceoluits might
be checked. The &Mesas, however, would not come out
of the pockets of the taxpayers.
THE REGULATION OF NINES.
Lord KINNAIRD gave notdos that be would to-morrow
move that certain reseintioes, which were already upon the
table of the house and which related to this subject, should
be printed in a separate form. He should do this in oon-
sogesnoe of its having bees stated in the dime house of
parliament that a bill which he lad introduced in reference
to mime did not embody the recommendations of the royal
sommissionere, and such a statement he thought would lead
te a false impreetios of what the bin contained. He him-
self. with the aid of a parliamentary spat of great expo-
roma'. bed Prefaced the bill, and be °Dahl say that they
Ind eirehdly embodied all the reamorneedations which had
hem made in the report, and with a few smeodments the
=mean would be a valuable pion of legislation.

PRIVATE MINUS.
Moira print* bMs were rood . third time aDd passed.

THE INDIAN ARMY.
The Earl of DONOUGHIKIRE roe to present a patriots
from Breve• Major Piers, of the Bombay army, and to cull
ettentios to the 'fireman of the *Hors of the bite East
Mara Oompaay's wry. The nosed°. ought to be settled
in ajar and Moral spirit, sad as they would have to do it at
lsMth.sooneritwe*icethebetter. When they considered
the great services which these men rendered dodo( the
lodine moray, be thought their lordships would ogre* with
Dili in saying that there was no clue of seen more worthy
of the coorideration of the government and of parliament
Om the °facers of the Indian army. (Hear, hear.)
Lard DUFFERIN mid the advantages accruing to theme
drone ander the regulations of the Secretary of State might
be briefly stated in the follow* terms—first, there had been
gaoled te them 1,500,0001. of wary ; nemt, in coosequeoce
et • grant of 64.6,501. • Ter, 49 Ohara, whose promotion
would have otherwise depended upon gradual casualties,
veselved immediate promotion to the rack of liestenent-
osionel, ad 400 other oven, majors, captains, sad Hen-
teasels, nerved correspoodimg Moots.* ; sad thirdly,
a lientenantcoloseicy was now reached, or probably would
be reached, in 30 inured of 34 years a colooslay ta 39 r-
aised of 45 years ; whilst the gm& of major would probably
De pored through in half its former time. He might have
gene deb greeter deteil, but as it was the istention of her
Majesty's government to reciotolorid the issue of soother
royal commission to inure bow far the recommendations
of the .foriner °armorer* bed bra serried into effect, he
felt it would be a waste of th lordships' time to trespass
farther on their samara.
Lord LT VIDEN sernestly entreated his noble friends
net to go on Oozing comormiom after commiteioe, but at
weft to giant to them °Seen all at least that had been re-
saaraded by the serious conmesios. (Hear, bear.)
Idiot HOUGHTON 'rosily supported the claims of the
pertimeers, which wise disputed by the Duke of Argyll.
Obesratioas were also made by Lord CLIMOITH in
ezplaustion of this proceedings of the last commission ; and
the Earl of Dotrouenross, in briefly replying, ridiculed the
appointmeat of rather commission.
THE HARRIED WOMEN'S PROPERTY (IRELAND)
BILL.

nil bill, they short discussion, passed through roar
wales with an antesdnint.

BELLIGERENT RIGHTS OF THE SO-CALLED
CONFEDERATE STATES.
Lad HOUGHTON rase to ask the Secretary for Foreign
Affairs whether it was the ironies of her Majesty's govern.
rest. at sox the events which had lately marred in the
Dated States of North. America, to withdrew the ad-
mission of belligerent rights conceded to the so-called Coa-
federate States.
Earl RUSSELL—My lords, I very mock regret two air-
aremstmer le this querns. The first, the form in which
mark fried pat the questioe; and the other, the time at
whe proposed it. (Hear, hear.) With reprd to the
last, my noble !rod has asked whether we are prepared
to _withdraw our recognition of the belligerent
rights oseeded to the meal led Confederate Stabs.
New it is not a queries of °enemies to the
Confederate States at all, bet a question of fact. If
pros Mrs, the United States of America allow or met-
rant ships by treaty, and by the natural effort of the law
of nation, to go into their ports, aid there to trade. lf, on
the contrary, there is a state of war, fa that are the block-
ading force exercises; belligerent rights. Now, what was
the we is regard to this matter? If • war exists bet wean
two *sparer natioee, as • war did exist a few jean ago be-
tween Amnia, on the one ode, and Frame end Italy, oa
the other—there can be no doubt, than, when two powers
go to war, belligerent rights are exercised by both, sad in
every such ease her Majesty desires • proclamation of neu-
trality to be issued. It is always • matter of more doubt
with respect to an insorrection. It may be a mall and
Ansurreettoo. It may be carried on within the im-
print moony, or it may be of larger—of vast extent, and
nerefet to a war. That queatiou might have been • diffi-
cult roe to decide ; but the United Statesgovernment de-
eded. it when the President, on the 19th of April, 1861,
Mood • proclamation, by which he declared that all the
porte of the States of the Union should be blockaded. and
thereby put the United States is pereseion of belligerent
right. (Hear, hear.) When the President of the
U thed Stets mos did that be left her Majesty's
gerrement but two courses to panne, either to
acknowledge the blockade, and thereby acknowledge a state
of war, or to decide that the blockade ought not to be
acknowledged, and that her Majesty's government would
net cOIIOIKIS belligerent rights to the United States, which,
of
coins. word pat her Majesty at war with the United
Brno The first was the come pursued. Bot it was im-
passible to say that there was a war, and yet that there was
no
power sprat which it was carried on. There cannot
be a war carried co by one power only. There was • war
haters the eo-ealled Confederate Stem on the one
had sad the President of the United Metes ea the other,
thirsts.. the moment we acknowledged the blockade of the
Presider of the United Staten, it was not we who conceded
belligerent rights, it ores the President of the United States
who declared himself is possession of power to carry on the
war—la other words, of belligerent rights. It was, there-
fore. the President of the United States who obliged us to
err to • decision one way or the other. Had it been
etherrins, the President of the United States would not
!re ordered the navy of the United States to stop her
lbjwAy's ships on the high sea. Threcrould bays been no right
of sera in time of peace of oar vessels as the high ma ;
bat that wee the power which the United States exercised,
and that was the power which her Majesty acknowledged.
Whether Hejeety did we. not to concede belligerent rights
to the Coefedarate States, but to movies the state of facts
whish the Presidast of the United States had himself
proclaimed, sad to declare her Majesty's neutrality in that
war. Well, that war has been carried on, as my noble
friend has Mar, for four years ; and now I come to the
seeped objeatien which I have to the questing of my noble
him! The mastics: is asked at • meet unfortunate time,
lemur it is very difficult to say exactly what the state of
feels ie at 'the present moment. My noble friend
hiself evidently does not know the rata of
facts, homes he says, instead of • blockade the
Presider of the United States has erred his
ports. The opinion of her Majesty's law (Boers is that
the government of the United States may lawfully close
the ports which are in posseenon of the authorities of the
Veiled States. This would prevent the approach of the
arrohaat nssele of neutral powers within tree miles of
the *ere. But this does not apply to the port of Galva,-
fon. The whole of Tessa has been for some time in pow
sera of the Confederates. There has been no contest
wag s there ; therefore, so far as we know from the
JAM somata we have received with regard to Galveston,
the power exercised by the United States must be
the power of blocked., and not the power of
arm the porta. Thee comes soother motion, namely.
whether the Milted Stars aoationed to minter the right
ed asereiring the merchant vessels of neutral power on the
sea. They have during the last four years exercised
lslgerst rats in that respect, and they have exercised
that right with very great severity. Ido mot know any
ems in whisk the right of eemateg and eaptoriog vessels
and eflosprisonag sews bas bees exercised with greater
o.mbara se4 with as great severity—as by the
ITafiitriab elates to this war. It is therefore a question with
le that belligerent right of the trailed States is to
reshape to he exercised or sot, braes* it would be bops
Ala for her Majesty I. emend that the Marla of British
▪ biers booing the Britbh leg 'MB be meshed as the
high sees, and at the rune time that we should admit there
bee war grog ea. (Hear, beer.) It is isposidbis to allow
the UMW Brine he ermine belligerent rights, and at the
ems time slow that they are in • stele at peace. One of
the artier maw of hilemeffienn law is that there exist

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