The Express.
London, England, 1867-03-09 00:00:00

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IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

ROUSE OF LORDB.—FR DAY, Mures 8.

The Loon Cmaircatzea took Li. eat oe the woolsack
di In o'clock.
THE RECIWITING CoN1:41:,sION.

The Earl of DALHOI'SIE g-ve n. lice that oa
Thaisday next he would draw thri iord.h Atention to
SO report of the Recruiting ('ormrise.ior:

THE FENIA:••;.

The Maniuis of CLANIZICAKI,ii I to know
whether the government had rec, w, J y additional in-
formation as to affairs in Ireland.

The Earl of DERBY—I h.ay.• hvt any intelli.
Ccßethis morning, but I requested try r:ght hon. friend
ecretary of State for the Hem- i%el.artment to send
Isere the la.t information he ;re...a.: which was of
swasoquenee. We have received .. veld;.... which states -
"No important event recorded except that at Kilteely,
eight miles from the Limerick .I.in: t.ou, a number of men
/ind assembled. Some tench. toes and iu.rns had been
vebbed. The neighbourhood ..f :r.cluding Drag-
laeda, tranquil." That is the only r ..ation we have
received. (Hear, hear.)

THOMSON'S fIVOI:('!i LILL.
This bill passed through commitfre.
INSURRECTION IN CI:ETE.

The Duke of ARGYLL, in moving fer .. copy of a note
addres.e.l to the Porte by Great , France, and
Russia. on the stir of April, Is3o, i :he attention of
the house to the insunection ir. Crne, which he attri-
bu.ed to three causes—the demicate • f the Christian
subjects of Turkey to a Mussiet...a. a ,!i.ority, real and
practical grievances endured by. the Chi istian subjects of
Turkey, :in.! the proximity of nalependsut Greece. He
thought that a mistake had been .r. the Foreign-
office in Minim; the order that the COIL .r..lere of British
ships should not assist in convey:ng Christian women
and children from the Wand ef Crete, as being
against the principle of mutiality. Tle obligation of
humanity which we did :ad recogr,se was admitted
by the American government, which ordered its
officers and consuls to affonl protection to Christian
women and children from the brut..l treatment of
Bashi-bazouks. Circassian*. and Albania. savages. With
regard to the position of Turkey in Eampz, he never be•
Mewed in the
.regeneration of that ermare, for if ever a
state had the sign of death and dissolution milked upon
it, it we., Turkey. The Western nations were justifie.l in
preventing Itmisia coming into the 5i.1,14-..1 possession of
the Turkish empire, but in virtue of what we did then we
eantracted certain obligations towards the Christian sub-
Teets of Turkey which we were bound to fulfil. He be-
lieved that when the people of this country were brought
into closer connexion with the House of ('ominous, their
warm sympathies would not ...metier' the principle of a
sold and selfish isolation in regard to f..r..gn attain.
The Earl of DERBY said the speech of the noble duke
was eminently calculated to precipitate that Eastern ques-
tion the solution of which he professed his desire to post-
pone. With regard to the Cretan insurrection, it was not
produced by oppression on the ;art of the Turkish govern-
ment but by the fixed resolution of the people of Crete to
attach themselves to Greece. Were it not for the support
given by the Greek government the insurrection would
have been quelled without the commission of those crimes
which all deplored. If Crete was separated front Turkey.
be believed that one of the roust lowiniinary struggles
the world had ever seen would take place be-
tween the Christians and Musvulnian population of
the island. Her Majesty's government could not re-
commend Turkey to mutilate Ler empire by giving
up the Island of Crete. With regard to the order issued
by the Secretary for Foreign Affairs, he admitted that it
was a painful alternative to decide upm. between that
order and the etlect likely to be proilwasi by allowing
British °theme to interfere between the Turkish govern•
silent and its subjects ; and he thought that the course
adopted was the right one. The atrocities attributed to
the Turks had been much exaggerated, and he doubted
whether any other government would have behaved with
as much generosity as the Turkish government had done.
The Earl of KIMBERLEY considered the course adopted
by the Foreign-office a judicious one. What would be our
feeling if the American government sent vessels to the
coast of Ireland, to take off the insurgents there?
Earl GREY deprecated any intervention. Former in-
terventions hail only done mischief, and led to an increase
of the poser of Russia in the East. It was in vain to
endeavour to prop up as empire like that of the Moham-
medans.

The motion was withdrawn.
The Earl of LONGFORD, in reply to Earl Cowper, stated
that it was not intended to increaae the period during
which the militia would be assembled this year.
The Public Schools Bill and the Marriages (Odessa) Bill
were read third time and paasesL
The home adjourned at a quarter to 8 o'clock.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.—FRIDAY, MARCH 8.
The Ser.Aces took the choir at four °Week.
NEW WRITS.

On the motion of Colonel TAYLOR, SOW writs were
ordered to Moue for the borough of Droitwich, in the
room of Sir J. Pakington, who had accepted the office of
Secretary of State for War; for the northern division of
the county of Devon, in the room of Sir S. North-
cote, who had accepted the office of Secretary of State for
India; and for the county of Tyrone, in the room of Mr.
H. T. Corry, who had accepted the office of First Lord
of the Admiralty.
ECCLESIASTICAL ESTABLISHMENTS IN THE