The Express.
London, England, 1858-03-24 00:00:00

LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, ILARCH 24, 1868.

firemeres acmes this orentry; bet be could hardly ormosive
moreserions practical mil thee my system which ventricle&
the istereourse Weems two imeh use-es as Imhof end
hew& (Bear, hear.) It was mot to get • me
rimmedation from a magistrate to the veface, this
be go 6o the °Moe, run the chance of the de y there, and the
get the prport visa at the foreign moors, with another
masidenble delay. He would state to the home what had
scarred to a relative of his own, • young officer just re-
turned from India. He had few acquaintances in this cous•
try. On a certain Thursday be received • telegram that his
father wee at Boulogne on the point of death ; he went at
once to the Foreign-01de* and stated his position, end was
told he should have • recommendation ; he replied he knew
no magistrate, end was then told there was no re-
source; he pawed the whole of Friday =so
Bud • Inegberete. Al length • friend
having awe dined la company with • police magierate ;
l• letter was written, sod the reconumendidion obtained.
Nest da he get his passport, but arrived at Follunkre toe
late for'the beat, so that he was kept there until the mat
day, and was detained from his father's deathbed until the
middle of the day on Suedey. He bad received a WM
from mother metimaa, who stated that those perms
who had children at school on the continent should always
have • passport of • recent date ready, but that could mot be
dome. Boma time Mos dace the writer received a telegram
stating that hisdangerously ill at St. Omer.
He went at me routtarbanwkre'sdaZ7ot the recommendalon.
He herded to the Foreign-office. He arrived the. jug
before foe; and mos told to call the amt day at
twelve. He did so, and got away that _ night, bet
arrived at M. Omer two boars too late—his daughter me
dead. These two care had marred within the lest few
weeks. The Lord Mayer cif Loudon had Mind It was lea-
=rent all the esemarnhations, and that he was
%MA Me le hem pimenelly dews se him sad
14 mithet Is Ida Midst • the polies magistrates
.41= t=e.„ jams to goo:
fli.Thit
Isiseseekess to the oraeaasdal classes was very
great siblarrem might sit emy met bear that • ship of
his wee slrinded Ihs WM of Feeney and the ship would
he desks* bdame be meld bsvo se opportunity of reaching
the spot. Awiher dendweelege we that practically every
pompon mast be graelse is fade, The Foreign men ma-
sassed they into ready Is mod llisoa by return of post,
but every cre whet /saw serbiles et the trensectiam of
• public alike met be SWIM eat It -wee Impossible. A lady
had oomphiastil to him that she bad sent her aOication on
the 24th, and did not receive the peeeport until the 29th. It
mast of setesafty be so. Hs understood that all this duty
woo perfersed by two clerks, sad it was Impossible they
ersei oemply wish all the amends on them. He had to
Mee! the be their attendoe—Omer, hear)—ead would
tenth& with a lbw remark. en what he ooaddered • ma-
emits remedy he the difficulty. The French cerement
bine retired to mid my further passports, sad
new is what kied_of pamper' shall be given troire
men which the government shall •
gmeetee Englishman.
of hie guilty of Whet was
• peimport ? la peed it not easy to give
• geed dafinition ; but it wee simple much in
this ease--a passport is and ought to be making
bet um ideatification of the individual. The English Revere-
meet 'odd not pretend to make a purport • milker of
respectability. They lad ao right to refuse a Import to •
convict discharged hem gust yesterday if he whist far it.
In three owes °lily could they reties- if they doubted
wheeler the man wee an ingtishaira ;•V he vs ender the
immediate action of the law; or If he was endeavouring to
evade the law of Make-splay. These wen the only ores in
which the government lied • right to my yen shall not
travel. Every Englishman, so long as he obeyed the law of
the country in which he hemmed to be, wee entitled to be
protected with all the power of his ooresery,eo resew
what his antecedents might have been. TM* was
one question which would suggest itself to the hoe" why
this matter should be connected with the Feedgia-offic• at
all. It appeared to him that this shoe bed lades • great
deal of incouveniem. The consular committee which had
just been appointed would direct its attention to this matter,
and they would find that English consular agents were
enabled to levy large fees on English subject. which were
total unneomary. It was for the government to consider
wt the whole pamper system should sot he taanshrred
from the Foreign-office and attached to the Honve-offies
He treated her Majesty's government would grant the p.m
for which he moved. He applied for those menthes& ire the
latter part of his motion in order that on such • matter they
might have all the documents before them. He begged to
move for copies of correspondence between her Majes go-
vernment sad that of the Emperor of the French on late
attentions in the passport system ; and of the several rega-
Idiom respecting passports trued by the Foreign-office since
1816, with the fees charged on their delivery.
Mr. WALTER seemedel the motion. He said that the
argument that the pompom system was a domestics Marta-
den of Freese, and that they had therefore as centers
with ft, might be carried too far. They were not altogether
free to choose for themselves in this matter, nature having
brought the two countries in close contact ; and although it
might be competent to one nation to adopt customs and to
enforce laws which were exceedingly offensive and disagree-
able to its neighbours, yet It became • question of mpedieacy
end good feeling for that nation to consider to what extant
it should imam Its rights. Now what did the French
government sully wish or expect to obtain by the Fair-
port eyelets? Was It their object to preclude them
from travelling is France? He could hardly suppose that
that was the cam, because it would be a much simpler mode
of proceeding to tell them so at once. Again, was it their
object to maks travelling disagreeable ? He thought that
could not be the case, became ft would be far bettor to say,
" We would rather have your room than your company:"
It appeared to him that the only object consistent with meson
and common NOW was the affording recurity to their own
sad their own mien. That the mayor system,
however rigorously enforced, really afforded such security he
was very much diapered to doubt. He did not believe that
any conspiracy or any attempt at areassination would ever be
prevented by any system of passports that could be
enforced ; and he thought, therefore, that all the
French government were justified In exacting from our own
government was that it should give to British subjects tra-
velling in other countries such • certificate of identity and
nationality as would seedy the people of those countries that
they were the people whom they represented themselves to
be. Now he wished to know who was Impede:de for the
concoction of the present form of passport which he held in
his heeds. Here was a document which was familiar to
them all—the form of passport issued by the Earl of Claren-
don. It seemed a rather rigmarole prodoctiou. Half of it
consisted of an enumeration of the titles and dist:inclose ef
the noble earl—(laughter)—and he supposed that had the
late Duke of Wolfinger been now alive and occupied the
noble earl's porticos, it would bare been • yard long. All
that was no security to the French government, it was •
mere piece of clap-trap calculated to delude the French
polio. If he might be allowed to make • pree-
ned suggestion on this subject, be would propose
a firm of passport which, if they must have pew
ports, seemed to hint to be adapted to meet all the necessities
of the use, and to be all that • foreign government were
justified in making, or the British government in conosdhig.
The form of passport which ks would mugger WWI a simple
card, somewhat resembling the sums tickets of the Crystal
Palace Company, having on one side the date and the year,
the signature of the bearer, and • declaration that be was •
British subject, and on the other side the government stamp.
All that the French "averment had • right to emirs was
a certificate that the traveller was • British abject;
and he defied any man to point out my alms to
which that form of purport would be liable that was
not equally practicable under the present system. It
was • disgrace to England and te the English
goverment, that when there was • certificate of identity
sad nationality it should have to be vidd by the French
polies as the traveller passed from Moe to plea ; and he
thought the English minister who succeeded either in doing
away with or ie enrollee this offensive system would be
more entitled to the thanki of this country than any mina-
ter who had occupied the same position during the last forty
years. (Cheers.)

Mr. 11. FITZGERALD meld the practioalquestion they hid
to delmmine wan bow they could bast devise such passports
se the Feint* government would be willing to wept. Now
her Majesty's govefeimet remembered that in limning p..-
ditherthey were SKR andtled to isquize In any way whet were
the *Neel Dr the morel entecedents of than who
demendsd them. (Hear, hear.) In their eyes a
was • metilloate of eltinieehlp—a certificate of the crt:al
the bearer was a &Ma subjeet—emd the government did
not consider themselves entitled to Inquire as to the entice-
dente of the applicants. But still, in order to dads an
assurance that a perm wee a Bridge setbject, then must
be some formality sad at the mesa rocenent the
department with whit& be had the boom of being conmeted
was engaged in comidertag bow they could afford the
greatest facilities far the linos of oosaistently with
the Mentidretion of the term se a E,Mkb subject. It ap-
peened to them a peat Ineenmedmie that London should be
the only pima where peesperls mere bad. His boo. friend
vim win last said It was a sow Won that passports could
only be loud In Lortrioa. P 1,64111.4 that was not the come,
humeri as SO or whops 90 pie teat. of ell the purports
mated by the Trona outisto wan tinted is Loudon.
Whk • viser to the roooolylog oft s ova. it was is ocs-
by bet Mailooly's iswernment to estahllett in MOO
ofinelkspeincdpel ports of this ere try odor mbar" pew
=
could be many by WO* sob-
%oh *Moss would probably be eitablebed
M Dover, Feibeetene, Newhaven, Southampton, and Liver- I
pod. (lbw. bor.) Is sot, seek arrangements would be
ma k r topolooto dowel to be most calculated to prevent
boomoolosao. Assam illlioolty lad been pointed.=
bin boo. *lna potooloi bist—santolv. that
with tike vino, of propels Is Fresco. Now in Merinos
to list hews blued to_seilhet, baying seen • statement in
latie=imfi, be betted It bed been officially comma-
Edda sualoisb bed been sent beck hem Bow
hem a tomoonato o 1 *dr poopotts Lot bayying time vied of
somobgemool ia Losits. bar Majest's omoot
aid her eltaimlfis, mei limy were dilWartly Worgovorsmed Uwe
X ow wok as ism* ybitit amend doubtful, it pot

ham ales Los sore nisoomstreoliom of the instrumicas cm
the TIM of the antherithe at Boalogee, it being an taatroe-
tlte Paris that the Fres& oome( at any British port
might vlsi • pessiset. (Hear, hear.) He had, he end, the
authority of
Mesa gomeamest for saying that it any
molt me marred b meet have has. • solitary one, and the
result of adocamgdes, Se act being that French casselm
bug Fersoltaria, is my pott of dm country miOt vitt
British pseepertn la sir to give a further exemphdosnon
of the orbit in which bar Majesty's goverment had beim
ant by the Free& goverment, be might state that, it
levied bete ommemisand to the French government that
it was das Woad= al her Ilejesty's government to Matti&
mewl came at some et the principal ports of this
cessery, thay at mos mad that, in order to toast
them half , they would themselves establish
it Mess ports Frteob omelet agents, who Mould have
vtir=er el vied-log paseparts bensd thou that no Isom
might arise therm& The Ms object of bar
goverment se the for the =pasoportsa
ms to 'weakregaded
ae far IS pessible, isomer
maims to the public. Ome homeminteis Mich had ban
easegiPsimelof
leap was that Mahe. anninat mortherpd for • Forties'.
ease set was too Mat whim..
acmes
a paw
poet mid be premed Am • Fowl eassel for a my
emaD so, at possont it amid ady he bad from the Forskm
Mk* on of fee Mash sods it • matter of MB-
salty foe sad a ethers to desk what they regebred.
On Ole pill Ihe fedi mg q Mei seam his plea lam
t the Chaasoilsr of the lashogsa Wight hi ails dlaty
M fists, bat this he did haw, art it wen his daht bow
Mints mass dears that each a rodostlia dada is wide
to Ms Merge fee Fersige-oar pastpata as would glass
thus within the reach of alosiet slay ama et bar Majinty's
valdisk. (Bear, hear.) He Vhe MI mow Mill all
Mei bras meressary tor hisads wiagask. Hs haf
dr bed Is del with be • yeasisai stassast,
sal be Inaled the It i.osr art, es fir Inc lbw
Wag at in psomat maim sag/ enema wousigials of the
I sawn gamma t Irma Bo amasia ea Ms asman,
that byhe
Id assalistod-a hobs to g
Twarly os far as
say hassawalstaus whisk the prayed ragalatims
aa4assalsall.lTH _(
Hr. B. SM C&Vmstli satisfsodoe to the mph-
that jost even by in boa gogismas. Hs would masa
tits Mayors of Woad/oft sad Liverpool, mad °this
=owns, &mid ham Ms pare of Issalogystspats. Hs
it bad beta molar* Ow the Panama of Mk-
burgh sad Glasgow to do so, awl be did mot see why the
same power should not bt easeeled by Wee oust wee-

Mr. 888 thought that Y the new pawn vie to be /s-
-perm as • guarantee for as geed armor of or ey ins to
wren it was grated, It would ghee the estory Is • den-
perm pardon. The has. rmsbee then and armor Ikea
as pies more of appliestrms arms a the nistroptdien
polies a egirmase tar reesrmadedoer ihe prepare, end ar-
gued SlMrmellellistw ihia Mat die while span was is a rest ague
erm rae.
Lad Pl.l 'TOM odd, ss far es the hie Oars-
mist ma easing, be hid no objection to the armada
of the papers bet le sospred an addition of copse al say
oorrespondsece einsiesd at the Foreign-dike relating to the
inomivenierma end =perm attending the pears boat tie
British workmen who ea wird in From with
pro from the Fresh consular erste in
Lie ccocurred with Mr. Fitzgerald that the pasport
was an istinial and domestic arrangement of
Zleam Irteseli gersement with which the British
prmarmit had no right to harmer. lie agreed
with what lad bra said as to the inconveniences

of /he aa~e{ system, which ernbarreamol7;l3
hurt fnp
ielfia. end he mentioned that be had
himself incurred the rink of imprisonment owing to some
accidental irragnlerity in his ywport, while, on the other
hand, Orsini had actually traveliad with a passport granted
by Mm, showing, he observed, that the system was of ao real
nu. It wu true that inconveniences had resulted from the
reszeitmightcar be mitigated. lationa, which had been established wholly
theivy
y fitlyae and he had no doubt that
Mr. BRIGHT observed that this government could make
friendly representations to foreign powers, and, in regard to
our own country, it could do almost everything. The
foreign government did not sak us to charge 7.. for a par
port, nor to burden applicants with impedimenta. He ob-
jected to the establishment of passport-odloes in the country.
Mr. Duff made a few observations, end the Chancellor of
the Exchequer offered no objection to Lord Pelmerston's
amendman, sad the motion was agreed hi.