The Express.
London, England, 1856-05-23 00:00:00

LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, MAY 23> 1856.

their this wee en extreme measure, sad whether, idasmuch •
wit accelerated the renewal of pease, it was not really the
mist humane rep, as it was entehtly the most effectual,
they could the ? (Cheers.) Bat, when the noble earl put
tbequestion we the sore of humanity, he was tempted to
sok, whether the ni tile earl WO rot lunching set the ere-
&silty of his hearers ? Wes it the reseed which Kanarese
Of Ruses telt for the principle of humanity, Vat bad io-
dine her to raise the questien ? Was it humanity which
bad induced the other embnental gran to follow her
*ample ? If it was humanity it all. it was humanity
Le thiamine (Hear bear.) But let them hays no
more of the talk about humanity. Let Ikea look
at the question as it leap was, as a question of policy—a
question of which of their undoubted right. it was Le their
interest to maintain. and which they might s sfely abandon
(Cheers.) The point is aboute was first need in 1768,and
it wee resisted on the pert of Bighted by argument and by
form. It was resisted notwithstanding the eonfederation
which wee formed against this esountry, and notwithstand-
ing the armed neutralil, hacked by all the treat po errs of
Europe and Meted by Freese. Vatted, writing in 1258,
said, It we find the enemy's goods on board a neutral ship
they are misted by the rights of war, though we are
bound to Fey the muter of the vessel his freight,
for he is not to suffer by sue's ens*, e." But her Ma-
Roy' foment sow said that things were changed,
and that we must conform to the altered aspect of affairs. I
He was persuaded that Mr. Pitt, Lord ()meat', and Mr-
Canolog were not statesmen so far removed from the pee. I
sent day ; and if we had only ministers of their mould we
should not now bear of this coasge of eireunistaeoes.
(Cheers) It was nothing to say that we were alone. We ,
had been alone before ; bet we Led maintained our rights.
(Cheers) Avian the eenfedernion of fees, end against
the solicitations of friends we had held to this right as to the
Egil of our power • end yet this great right, this bellied- '
rent power, bad been abandoned, he knew aot upon what ,
pounds, bat it certainly had been abandoned without the
knowledge and without the sanction of the nation. (Loud
eltrors.) The noble earl said that the sup- ,
reties of the motion were mowing the
plagiaries of other states. He (Lori. D. rhy ) did sot blame ,
those plenipotentiaries. No doubt they were very acute
aid adroit is then generation ; bat what the house had to
do
with were the English plemipoteatiarim. (Cheer.) The ,
gable earl had said it was proper that England should take
the lead in this great step in the cease of humanity, bat In
point o' fact, England bad not taken the lead. Sbe had
'sly followed in the wake of France, and that, too, in a
matter which was eminently to the Interest of Frame. ,
(Cheers) The noble duke &aid that this was no sudden pro
seeding. But it had, at any rate, not only taken the people
of this country by surprise, but it bad takes the plesipoten-
Melee equally so. Prussia could hardly believe her ears, but
of course she jumped at the offer. Russia and Austria were
more cautious, and telegraphed to their courts for instruc-
tions; and what was the answer obey received? Why,
" Good b , if England is so weak, make use of that
weakness We have been trying for the last eighty pees to
find a British minister who would surrender the point, and
here is one attest." (Cheers) In 1801, when this point '
OM raised, Mr. Pitt, noterithetaading the difilcalties of our '
Imaition at that time, declared that we should be deserving
of scorn, derision, and contempt, if we adopted such a
naenstrons and unheard-of neutrality. He said Beglishmen
woad resist to the last ghillie", and to the lest drop of
blood, bumf-re they would meanly submit to the proposal.
(Chem.) Oh, my lords, ejondated Lord Derby, there were
so men in those days to tell the house that linglend stood
elm. (Cheers) In those days England was not afraid to
stead alone; and let England be England, se but
fie English minioters should be, and she will not be afraid
to stand alone spells. (Great cheerio') In surreaderiag
this right, the noble earl had surrendered the maritime
power and greatness of this many—the% useritime power
whisk former statesmen, notwithstanding the world in
arm and Ibis Woos spinet es, would never submit to give
op. (Cheers) But els(34 then, foreotb, time* had changed,
other nations have grown up, and we must be careful bow
we provoke them to dispute our claim. But how did Mr.
Osanhiga deal with Brasil jest before his death in 1827?
Mr. Calming cot only refund to surrender this principle,
bat he ev n refuted to ratify a treaty concluded on behalf of
idle goverasset by Sir Charles Stant with Brasil, beaus
it (Waded an article involnieg the abandonment
of the right in question. (Hear, hear.) Wars Mr. Pitt
sad Mc Canning barbariona ? Did Vey know nothing
about the ptiacioles of maritime law ? Fur his owe part,
be (Lord Derby) was coldest to be classed with such barb:-
Mans; and he w• add Have ell civilisation and all wiedom to
the noble duke, the noble earl, and the rest of her Mejnity's
ministers. (Laughter.) The noble earl said that toe old
Janus merely laid down the law without defending it. Bat
that was a complete mistake. They did defend it; and
they showed that the legality of capturiag enemy's goods
la amen] vowels was Wed on the Lateral rights of society,
and of belligerent powers. Among the arguments a MOOT/
which their lordships 1 ad had addressee to them was a N-
iemen to the war of 1812. But the quarrel at that time
was not about the right of neutral ship. to protect enemy's
pools, but the right of marsh. What the Americans cont.
p,ained of was having their vessels overhauled, their sailors
taken out of them on the pretest of being deserters, their
ships sent into neutral poets, and their commerce inter.
ruptpd. But the right of search was to be maintained in
its integrity. Nay the declaration of the plenipotentiaries
was specially din clod spinet America; for it was not to
emote thou who did not accept it as a whole. The noble'
Rake bowed the Americans would do eo, and would give
lep priveteerine; but the President of the United States,
Nei probably knew as much about the Americana as the
gable duke, stated last year that they never would or
Odd give it up. Tbey would therefore make the hostility
of Leak* more bitter than ever; while the maritime code
was Waxed, with respect to every other country, a marked
eseeption wee made with Teem to the United Steles.
(Hear, hear.) And that was always the result of
paltry, petty coneeseiote. You lost your self-respect
and position is the world, and you did not gain
the adhesion of those whom you sought to conciliate.
(Chem) With regard to the dittinetioas which the noble
earl had drawn between werfere by sea and by land, if
they admitted the noble lord's theory they might abandon
maritime WIT altogether. But, the truth was, in all the
envoy treatiesto which reference had been made, there was
cooly one—that made by Franklin between the United
States and Prussia—which permitted merchant ships to
pass free. If the noble earl's deafest were reeeived—lf
they permiteed neutrals to carry to in enemy that whisk I
would increase his wealth and better citable him to
continue hatilities—they not only put it is his power to
prolong the struggle, bat they would make it to the
interest of the no astral to perritat the war.
The Earl of CLARENDON explained that he bad not
taken part avian the Belgian press. On the 000trsry, he
defended the liberty of the press In Belgium. and the only
newspapers that were condemned by Count Walewski were
not, properly speaking, Belgian nevrepapers, bet were
thole papers printed without a printer's name, which were
smuggled Into France, which advocated the aseissisetion of
the Emperor and upsetting the protein order of things la
F . Those were the news tapers which he condemned,
and which he thought their lordships would condemn.
Earl GREY said amidst all the eloquent declamation they
had beard, and the appeals which the 'obis earl (the E.rl
of Derby) hod made to their feelings he had listened in vain
for any argument He should therefore oppose the resole-
dens, and if an amendment expressing approval of the m-
aim of the government had ben moved, he would have
eheerfully voted for ie. (Chem.)
E.r: GRANVILLE tc.eld not wastes the effect of the
neassererable epee eh just made, by diactushig the questing'
soy mere ; bet he had a w, rd to say in reply to the noble
earl opposite, who bad insinuated that, bemuse be (Lard
°maitre) had sleet some of his earlier days in Prance, be
had become incapable of feeling for English honour and
Enolith int-rests. Thep imperfect knowledge of French which
he had, by that residence abroad, obtained, enabled him
to comet an error iato which the noble earl opposite had
fallen, when he sc-ased the F reign Secretary of having
surrendered the past claim, as well as the future; namely,
be meld inform the noble earl opposite, that it was invari-
ably the custom, in all formal documents in French, to se-
men in the prosiest tense that which was intended to be in
the (entre. (Hear, he r.) He bad only now to reed a
letter from the Lord Chief Jus'ice. dated at the Central
Criminal Court that day, saying that he should be /Pre-
vented, by the important trial then pending, from taking
port in this debate, bat adding, I shall be glad if yea
have an opportunity to state, that, on deliberation,
I fully adhere to the opinion I hare expensed,
that the commotion for the moditleat'on of the 14w
of maritime warfare is beneficial to England,
and wee enustitutionslly entered is to by the English go-
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....meat." He had mad this at the request of fne Lord
Chief Justice, at the risk of baying hie noble and learned
Mead abused by the noble earl oppoeite, whip t °teemed each
remarkable discrimination and knowledge of human Oa-
',o'er, ammo' the unprincipled men, evh u the Lord
Privy Seal beside him (sad he wished there were many
MON of the HMO sort of pflOCipl. ), or COO 1010010 t those
amiable, ;wide, soft perms' who, like his noble Mood
' (11 erl Grey) that jut now sat down—like Oliver Cromwell,
ea Lord Protector—like Me. Pitt, not the debater, bat the
preerisal stateroom, in 1788—like her Koji sty's late peers-
r, sad her Illaj 'sty 's pressor golf. Tamest, at the time of
Mertisere great.st sinagth—had thought that this was a
,ogonggioa which could be fairly sad judiciously nude to
eimerede, without destroying tor ever the naval saptemuy
Of (Cheers.)
The ileglef COLCHESTER briefly replied.
Jul the base Lima divided.
For the melee :
Caelost—Pre teat 6B
Prolix a 48-102
Against it—Preeeat BB
Ponies 6B-166
Majority
Thebes'. edjoenied el 12 e'alosk,

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