The Express.
London, England, 1856-05-06 00:00:00

LONDON, TUESDAY, MAY 6.

HAD an impartial stranger listened to'the debate
last night, in the House of Lords, on the terms of the
Treaty lately concluded at Paris, the imeression
left thereby •pole his mind would most probably
have been that the hereditary nobles of Eng.
land are, as a clam, exceedingly glad of the Peace,
and that nine-tenths of them agree in thinking the
lass said about it the better. Excitement or enthn-
einem of any kind, there was manifestly none to be
got up,either for or against the conditions of the
settlement of the Russian quarrel just concluded. As
to a show, the like of which had not been witnessed
for more than forty years, numbers flocked at
an early hour in the afternoon of yesterday ; but
the first hour and a half of mild and measured ge-
neralities from the mover and seconder of the Address
to the Crown sufficed to exhaust the languid curiosity
of many ; the remembrance of the domestic dinner.
bell obviously awakened sens►tions wholly foreign to
any ezigeant care for the dignity or future prospects
of Ottomans or Circassian@ ; and the opening passages
of Lord MALIMISBURY'S tedious harangue manifestly
did the rest. The House of Lords decently but
deliberately emptied ; and when Lord DERBY rose to
snake the only real attack worth mentioning on the
terms of peace, there were not upon the benches
behind him the physical requisites for a good rattling
party cheer.
Of Lord ELLESMERE'S speech and that of Lord GLE-
NELO it is needless to say more than that the former
was in the canal style of parliamentary poetry, and
the latter as emphatically a sample of legislative
prose. Of the two we think we like the prose
the better; but the totally unpractical character of
both provoked fairly the small sarcasm of Lord
MALNESBURY, who began by saying that he thought
it was time to say something about the question they
hid sasembled to discuss. We cannot follow the ex-
Secretary through his various criticisms and
objections, all of which seemed but prefatory to the
deferred outpouring of the promised vial on the loss
of Lars. The ex-Premier, to do him justice, cheered
his dejected lieutenant like a man who has made up
his mind not to desert an old friend in a quagmire
into which he has thrust himself. It is no secret now
that the notable resolution on this subject—which
Lord Mstnesenite was desired to give notice of in
the Upper House, and which Mr. WHITESIDE
actually did bring forward with such deplorable ill
success in the Lower—was the special handiwork of
their common commander; and that when at
the eleventh hour the hopelessness of the move
had become apparent to friends alike and foes, to
the petulance and obstinacy of Lord DERBY is to
be attributed the perseverance in what may be
called the Balaklava charge of the Tories in the
Parliamentary campaign. By way of showing,
we presume, however, that they were not to be
laughed or voted out of their luckless project, the
whole story of General WILIAM'S and Lord STRAT.
FORD was reproduced last night in the House of
Lords, which gave the noble SECRETARY for FOREIGN
AFFAIRS an opportunity of bearing cordial testimony
to the long-tried worth and energy of the veteran
Ambassador, and of declaring that it would have
been a grave and grievous error had he been recalled
from his important post on any pretext or for any
cause like that which had been assigoed.
Lord CLARENDON'S statement of the genera/ course
pursued by him throughout the negotiations was
manly and unaffected—equally free from ostentation
as to the services he had performed, and from
diplomatic mystery-mongering. He avowed that it
was not his aim to insist on details of concession, of a
character calculated to humiliate Russia, with whose
people and government, the quarrel once ended, he
wished that we should contract habits of amity and
confidence. He insisted that nothing of our original
demands bad been waived which our safety or
honour was concerned in insisting upon; and with
reference to the hostile use which, at some future
day, might, it was said, be made of the undismantled
works of Nicolaieff and Cherson, he laboured to show
that the peaceful assurances given by Count ORLOFF,
and recorded in the protocols appended to the Treaty,
ought to be sufficient to quiet the fears and mite.
giviogs of the most tenacious friend of Turkish inde-
pendence. The rejoinder of the eloquent chief of
the Opposition will be found to have been lees
marked by bitterness than usual. We had been led
to imagine that so great a master of invective would
have given his antagonists something new or salient
at least to deal with. But in his secret heart, perhaps,
Lord DERBY was exulting that pacific relations with
the great Conservative Power of the continent had
been re-established ; and with all his irritable and
impatient avidity to damage hie party foes, "the
fourteenth inheritor of the title which he bears"
thanks them heartily for putting a termination to the
war with Russia.

WE learn that the Governments of England and
France have resolved to lay such representations
before the King of NAPLES as will, it is confidently
expected, lead to an amnesty for all political
offences, and liberate from their loathsome dun.
geons the long tortured victims of his vindictive
wrath, and restore to their homes and families hurl-
deeds of exiles whose only fault has been loving and
daring to serve their country. This determination on
the part of France and England has roused Austrian
intervention ; not, however, this time to prolong or
exasperate the state of cruelty and repression
against which the Allied Cabinets are prepared
to raise their voices, but, if passible, to render their
interference in the affairs of Naples unnecessary. The
Cabinet of Vienna has, in short, determined, if we are
correctly informed, to urge King FERDINAND at once
to grant an amnesty, and thus avoid the appearance
of yielding to the pressure of England and France.

ASSOCIATION IN AID OP THE DEAF AND DC1113.-
The annual meeting of this association takes place to-
morrow. The speeches will be signalised to the deaf end
dumb who may attend ; and addresses, eigoehsed by mom
deaf and dumb gentlemen present, wi.l be read to the
meting.
POERIO.—In a letter dated TAria, April 28, WO
reed—... We have been very anxious on behalf of Heron
Charles Poetic', who is still at the chateau of hlonteserchio.
The nfferlags of the illustrious prisoner had greatly to-
messed. Soppily, the lost amounts retort that be is better
He has ►een in boas sines February, 1851."