The Express.
London, England, 1858-02-06 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 6, 1858.

be unable to understand him, requested her to write dove
what they were required to du, and this paper wee thrust
into Watts's hand, and with pistols at their heads the
engineers were obliged to wink the engines, end that wee all
that they had to do with it. He had seen the indictment
within the last Sew days, and it was satisfactory to know
that it contained no charge whatever scainet the engineers,
and that there could be no doubt of their acquittal, if the
trial Ina conducted with ordinary fairness and impartiality.
The first count was founded on this Inter of Mies White,
and the stecond was that they were without passports; though
it had not been usual to give purports to foreign enginesre
on board vessels ; sad the third was, that the
engineers must have had sympathy with the luso:gents
otherwise they wodd have carried the ship to Tunis landed of to
the Neapolitan dominions, the Neapolitan government being,
therefore, Apparently pawned with the belief that the vowel
was emend by t.e man at the engine and not by the man at
the wheel. (Laughter) He had made this statement to
show Ida noble friend and the public what steps the govern-
ment had taken with respect to this exec, which had been the
count of so mach anxiety to the government as well as great
and genteel interest to the whole country. He hoped and
believed that no slept had been omitted which could tend to
alleviate the sufferings or accelerate the trial of those
men. The government had acted under the advice of the law
officers of the crown, and they could not doubt the right of the
N.spolitan government to a ruler amenable to Neapolitan laws
enthuse who were conceeneddinitly or indirecey in thetexpe-
eition. It bed been maid that they ought to have taken more
verorous meson:es, bat they had no right to claim that the
Neapolitan government should depart from the ordinary
proceed ot law. Thsy had indeed admitted the friends c 4 these
era to me them sooner than the law allowed. He wee Auld
that the pie :era had undergone considerable headship,
bat he did not believe that, according to Neapolitan notions,
they had been ill-heated. He did not know that he had any
mere facts to state, except that, looking to what most be the
only endow* that could be adduced against them, he
tended that we might expect that our unfortunate country-
men would & speedily acquitted.

THE MARRIAGE OF THE PRINCESS ROYAL.
Earl GRANVILLE said he roes to perform the agreeable
duty it royalists • motion, to which he anticipated the coe-
dial unanimous assent of their lordship. He roes to
move that an humble address be pummeled to her Malestj on
the happy nuptials of the Princess Royal with his Royal
Highneas Prince Frederick William of Prussia, sad to =sure
her Majesty of the satidactioa which their I alliipe hones
fat at this marriage of her Royal Highness. The Balks at
Lop had estubisid its loyalty and its sympathy with her
Majesty on this ocorsion; they had done so by every mesas
in their power, by popular deusonsendioes, by the langsage
of public writers, and of public bodies ; and It now se el
for perilmneut to perform the same pleasing duty. He hilt it leas
necessary for him to dilate oa the facts, as eo many of their
lordship had had opportunities more than the petrel public
of remarking those qualities which have made her present
Majesty so popular in this country, and which made her the
subject of affectionate regard in every domestic circle in the
country. (Cheers.) Some of their lordships had had the
opportunity of remarking those qualities and character of
mind sad heart in the Princess which led to the belief that
she would, by the discharge of her public and private duties,
wake happy the union which lied been sanctioned by her
choice. There was no doubt that in other countries the
power of this country was much increased or diminished by
royal alliances, ill ad&don to making the happiness or misery
of individuals. Oa the pewee occasion it was not necessary
to anticipate anything of this kind. He did not know any-
thing more striking than the feeling shown, and the interest
taken, in this event. He happened to know, from his Royal
Highs= Ptiace Frederick William, that he had felt move
touched than pen by the land huzzahs of the multitude, by
observing in *very Owe where he had been, that all dunes
of the commuaity who crowded round the carriage had used
the little phrase 'God bless you," which they addressed to
the Princess Royal, as if they were addressing one of their
own relations in passing. He thought that they might an-
ticipate that on this very day the illustrious young couple
were being received with similar enthusiasm fa the country
which was now her Royal Highness's adopted hoe= ; she
could not but think that when the same chord had been touched
in the two countries, it showed • friendly feeling between the
two nations which it was moat desirous should exist. He
wasrs att. ite sum that their lordship. would all agree lathe ex-
Lajasof their most affectionate sympathy with her
nthis occasion. (Cheer.)
The Earl DERBY aaid that, in concurring with the
mod= of his table friend, their lordships were only giving
edict to that which was, without • single exception, the feel-
leg of the whole people. He did not blow that it had hap-
pened in the history of the world that any royal princess at
so early an age had secured to herself so large a portion of
the public sympathy as the illustrious princess so recently
married, and he believed that the public sympathy shown
was fully justified by the private character and public
virtue of that princess. It was not only her amiable dispo-
sition and sweetness of temper, but the punctual and faithful
discharge of every duty, which challenged their admiration.
(Cheers.) He did not believe that any princess had ever
excited a more unanimous feeling in her favour, and he was
quite sure that the whole country
_would join in the feeling
that would influence all their lordship in expressing an ear-
nest and anxious hope that a long term or happiness awaited
her in the country to which she had gone—happiness =-
bounded, except that it might never be so great as to induce
her to forget the country of her birth. (Cheers.)
Lord BROUGHAM was understood to say that he could
not allow this motion to pass without expressing his protest
against the Royal Marriage Act.
The motion wee carried nem. con.

Earl GRANVILLE said it would be gratifying to her
Majesty that the address should be presented by the whole
house, and:therefore he proposed that the house should meet
at 2 o'clock to-morrow, sod proceed with the address to her
Majesty at three.

Bd.NKRUPTCY LAW.

Lord BROUGHAM said be wished to lay on the table a
bill to abolish imprisonment for debt, to extend the laws re-
lating to bankrupts to the cases of non-traders, to gice further
remediaa to creditors, and to *scum the punishment of
fraudulent debtors.

LW CAMPBELL wu delighted to learn that his noble
era homed friend proposed to abolish the absurd distinctions
whfti bsil so long existed between traders and non-traders.
If se invelmat gars up all his property to his creditors, whe-
ther he were • trader or not, he ought to be released. He was
glad, too, that his noble and learned friend proposed to deal
with the ow of fraudulent debtors. The facilities now
sanded by law for fraudulent trading were moat demoralis-
ing to the commercial community.
Lord BROUGHAM entirely agreed with his noble and
leaned friend that one of the greatest scandals of the law at
Mual was the doorwhich it opened (or fraudulent trading.
amenduent white he proposed would greatly lessen the
facilities which were elbrded for such trading.
The bill was then hid on the table and reed • fret time.
SPECIAL SERVICESIN THE CHURCH or

the board of guar. lions of the Broraegroye poor law oaks,
for an alteration oi the parochial amesemento.
SCEDAT SPECIAL dravtcra. —By Mr. Nivrozorrist
from the inhabitants of Morpheme, for the continasnos of
special .amiss.
Bnciss Orstczas.—By Mr. By ttrn, from the grefaing
ditty excise traders residMg in the district of Crediton,
Devon, and Tiverton; Mr. Local, from Honiton; all in
favour of increamod pay to miss officers.

minded the house, this aims has net been
brought about so much hum political motives as
from the impulses of nature and affection. Practi-
cally, the domestic feeling has been exhibited most
strongly on this occasion, became the nation wished to seise
the opportunity of expressing their affection for the royal
Fltm trTumand becaundu"er wtrichy begehlnfvefde,ltt ere that,h;Lapd.r thaas
much respect for the happiness of the hearth as for the
splendour of the throne. (Hear, hear.) In the new Greer
which opens to the Primate Royal all the accidents that can
combine for the happiness of en individual are present. She
certainly bears with her the good wishes of the parliament
end people of England, and when the day comes for her to
fill that brilliant position to which the noble lord has
referred, i have no doubt but that Englishmen will them
be as proud of the Queen of Prussia ea they now are of
the Queen of England. (Cheers.) The right hon. member
concluded by seconding the motion, which was unanimously
named to.
Lord PALMERSTON said that be should move the
meeting of the house at 2 o'clock to-morrow (this day), when
he should be authorised to state when it would be her
Majesty's pleasure to receive the address.
THE REFUGEE QUESTION.
Mr. ROEBUCK rose to move the adjournment of the
boom in order that he might be able to ask
the question of which be bad given notice. He said.—
That question Is to know whether there has been any com-
munication between the two governments of England and of
France with respect to the alien laws of this country, or with
respect to any portion of our criminal code. The house, I
believe, will understand the reason why I put this question.
They must have heard that since the event which I am sure
inspired every Englishman with feelings of regret and dam-
, edition—the recent attack upon the life of the Emperor of
the French—there have appeared in the pages of the Monitaur
certain addresses to the Emperor of France from the French
army. Those addresses, naturally enough, were expressed
in terms of strong condemnation at the attempted violence
against the Emperor's person, and also great indignation at
the authors of the attempt so made. Now, sir, if these ex-
premieus had rested there, I should be the first to sympathise
with and give my cordial concurrence to every sentiment
they contained. But from the French army there
came also accusations against England—(hear, hear)—
as though England were a participant in that
attack upon the person of the Emperor of France. (Hear,
hear.) I will, with the permission of the house, state the im-
mediate object of my question. lion. gentlemen sre aware
that the Moniker is not an ordinary paper ; it is in fact the
Otratt• of the French government. (Hear, hear.) Every-
thing it utters is under the immediate inspection of the
French government, and that government is the Emperor.
(Hear, hear.) Therefore what appears in the pages of the
Moutteur is the reflex of the opinions of the Emperor of
France. (Hear.) Well, sir, in the pages of the Moniteur
there appear these attacks upon the English people ; and one
colonel of a French regiment of the line—tull, I suppose, of
military ardour, and that loyalty which he ham no doubt ex-
hibited to every ruling monarch that has appeared in France—
asks the French Emperor to be led against that haunt, that
den, the repaire, of homicide, meaning England. Well, that
language is published in the pages of the official Moniker.
It is published in fact by the French Emperor.
That is his opinion ; and I wish now to state
my opinion. (A laugh from the front ministerial benches,
answered by loud cheers from other parts of the house—more
particularly from the benches immediately behind ministers.)
The French Emperor is the person to direct against England
accusations of being the den of conspirators ; and who could
speak with greater knowledge of the fact than himself?
(Cheers.) Has he not enjoyed the protection and hospitality
of England ? (Hear, hear.) Has he not, too, while so enjoy-
ing that protection and hospitality, acted the part of a con-
spirator himself ? (Load cheers.) Did he not leave these
shores armed with the great name of his great predeoemor—
the name of the great Napoleon—did he not, armed with that
name, and with a tame eagle—(a laugh)—go to Francs and
there attack the throne of King Louis Philipps—
and did he not murder the man who in the
performance of his duty opposed him ? (Renewed cheering.)
And this is the man who chooses to publish in the pages of
the Moniteur accusations against England for being the
haunt and the den of homicides, where conspiracies are
hatched, and which ought, therefore, to suffer invasion.
(Hear.) But it is not confined to that—the brother of the
Emperor of France (the Count de Horny) has chosen in the
Legislative Chamber of the French nation, to accuse England
of being participant in this attempted crime. And not only
he, but the Count de Persigny, the ambassador of Franco—
is' England, in the presence of Englishmen—ham dared to
maks the same accusation ; aye, sir, and in the presence of
Englishmen he has not beet answered—(hear, hear)—the
only reason that I can conceive being, that the persons who
heard him did not understand him. (Cheers, and a laugh.)
But I cannot believe that any Englishman could hear his
country so libelled, no matter by whom, without in-
dignantly repelling the accusation. (Cheers.) Those persons
who heard the Count de Persigny accuse England of
being participant in the criminal proceedings to which I have
alluded ought thereon immediately, and on the instant, if
they understood him, to have answered him. (Hen.) They
did not ; but I will. (Hear, hear.) I will say to hint that
no man more than I estimates highly the alliance between
England and France ; but there is something I estimate still
more highly, and that is the honour and position of England.
(Cheers.) And so believing and so feeling, I would have
told him that there was nothing in the character of English.
men that in any way soarer condoms to or lends • sanction
to asesisination , there is nothing in the history
of the country from the beginning to the end that can justify
such an accusation. (Hear.) No English King has
fallen by the hand of the assassin, though Kings of France
ham. (Hear, bear.) We have condemned a King to the
block, it is true, but it was in open day. (Cheers.)
Neither have we ever sent or hired anybody to kill
any other sovereign for our own national ealisfactUm—pri-
rattily I mean, and by assassination. (Hear, hear.) My
answer to Count Persigny would have been that the people
of England are above assassination. When they feel indig-
nant they express it, and go to war, ifneceesaiy, to vindicate
their honour ; but they do not seek to avenge themselves
privately, or by secret expeditions in steamboat', or, by mem-
sins, make private attacks upon any foreign government, or
any foreign sovereign. (Cheers.) They do not make con-
spiracies in London to pull down a government in Paris,
Their course is open and honourable in dealing with their
enemies as with their friends. (Cheers.) When I came
into the house yesterday, I heard in my ear aranagelag like
an inspiration about a contemplated change in
the Alien Act. It was said that at the soli-
citation of the Emperor of the French we were
about to alter the Alien Act. I will say nothing of the in-
gratitude of the man who now saki us to alter a law by
which be has profited so largely. But England owes her
position amongst the nations of the world in consequence in
a great measure of the manner in which she has treated the
people of all nations who have sought the asylum of our
shores. Napoleon, Metternich, the Bourbons, and Louis
Philippe, have all sought and obtained a safe refuge here ;
but no man said, no man had a right to say, that we should
alter our laws because we gave them that refuge ; and I say,
if we change the law on this occiudon we violate the first
principles of our constitution, we degrade ourselves before the
world, and are so longer the English people that oar fore-
fathers were. (Cheers.) Well, I come to the house with
my ear full of this inspiration. What was my surprise to
hear from the noble lord an announcement that be would on
Monday move for leave to introduce a bill for altering the
Alien Act in regard to conspiracies. What suggested to
the noble lord the necessity of such a change Was it that
any person of authority—for the noble lord, with all his ao-
emplialunents, is not a lawyer—(" hear," and a laugh)—
had told the noble lord that the law of England could not
reach conspiracies, or that the punishment which the aim-
Horsed law of England awards to such crimes was Man&
eked ? For at least a quarter of a century we have been
doing all we could to render the criminal law of England
leas bloody than it had previously been. A quarter of a
century ago our criminal code was the most cruel is Europe;
but from that time to this we have by experience learned that
a mild punishment certainly administered is the most effectual
'inventive of crime. (Hear, bear.) Our own domestic ex-
perience has taught us that. (Hear.) What is now
suggss*sd by the noble lord ? That we should
retrace our steps ; that whereas conspiracies have
hitherto been visited by fine and imprisonment, we
should alter and bring beck the law to the old standard of
cruelty which we had abandoned. (Hear, bear.) My question
to the noble lord is one of very significant importance. If
England wishes to hold her place among the nations
if she wishes still to maintain her own indepostiest position:
no solicitation of an ally, no threatening of anybody, ought
to leed us to alter our laws. I have been told that, u a justi-
fication for the insolence with which England has hem
treated in this matter, the noble lord's speech at the Mansion-
boom last November has hem brought forward. (Haar,
her.) God forbid that the people of England should be
ads answerable for all the indiscretions of the noble lord
("Hear," and a laugh.) I do not say, I do net believe'
Sat the noble lord 1,1111 imprudent as that oeseeice ; but a&
ealgistg that he was, no nun knows better thew the Rae-
peter of France how very little the red imposer**

haling ef the people of England. (Cheers and °minter cheers.)
If there wee on that omit= a little memos--a little
'spearing on the pat of the noble lord, it can scarcely be
said that the people of England, as a nation, is to suffer for
the bed taste of the Minister. (Hear, hear.) We had
publicly expressed our detestation of the attack on the
Emperor of France, and I want to know, there-
fore, what could have induced hint to turn round upon the
people of England as he has done, and manifest that hosti-
lity which he has, through his own press, his own minister,
and his own ambamador shown towards this oottatry ? (Hear,
hear.) The question I hare to put to the noble lord is—has
there been any correrpoadence with the court of France or
the minister of France on the subject of an Alien Bill, or upon
the subject of any alteration of our criminal code
(Cheers.)

Lord PALMERSTON—I can have no difficulty in an-
swering the question of the hon. and learned gentleman.
There has been a despatch addremed by the Preach Minister
of Foreign Affairs to M. de Perim, the French ambas-
sador here, bearing upon the late tranaactions at Paris, and
urging upon him the necessity of applying to her )Lejesty's
government to take such measures es they in their wisdom
might think fit in reference to the cinmmatanoe ; not to
dictate any measures, bat simply to put the csee to her Ms-
Jassy's government to deal with as they might think proper.
That is the nature of the despatch, and I can have no
difficulty whatever la laying it before parliament.
(Cheers.) But, sir' in replying to the hon. and
leered gentleman, I feel bound, in the first place,
to repel the charge which the hon. end learned gentleman
has made against the Count de Pereigny. Count de Per-
' slimy never mewled the British nation of conspiring with
arensins—(hear, hear)—or with intending to give protection
to armadas. He stated distinctly to her Majesty's govern-
ment—Count Persigny stated to me—in reference to the
strong expression of feeling which had been made in his owe
country, that we must feel with him that allowance must be
made for it in the circumstance that had celled It forth—that
the people of the continent, not knowing the ware of our
laws, and applying to WI the principles by which they are
bound, naturally form expectation. which those who know the
pereiples and working of our system of government are
aware cannot be carried out. The hon. end learned gentle-
men wishes to anticipate a discussion which would more pro-
perly arise on Monday next, when I shall move to bring in
the bill of which I have given notice. I shall not
allow myself to be led by his example into a premature &a-
mnion of that measure, but when I propose it I shall be
prepared to Mate its nature, and the rear= upon which it is
founded. But I moat protest against the ground the hon.
and learned gentleman has taken. The hon. and learned
gentleman rinds to my violent and intemperate speeches
and though they might have been read in France, he Irma
urge that on their account the parliament of this country
ought to be prevented from taking any steps which other-
wise, upon the merits of the ere, parliament might think
proper to adopt. Why, speaking of intemperate speeches, I
might well say to the hon. and learned gentleman,
" Qua tulerit Graochoe de sedition querentis

(Cheers.) If any man alive more than another is in the habit
of using violent language against foreign oountriee it is the
hon. and learned gentleman, who indulges occasionally in the
most unbridled license against almost every government and
almost every man alive. (Cheers, and " Oh, oh.") If there
is anything upon which we pride ourselves in this ciountry to
is our freedom of speech, and that leads us so frequently to
pea over the violent effusions of the hon. and learned gen-
tleman—thus respecting the principle, though we may disap-
prove of the manner in which he exercises it. (Hear, hear.)
I say, it would be most undignified in the people of this
ocantry--nay, it would be most childish conduct in the
people of this country—if, because of certain violent expres-
sions, certain intemperate addressee made against the
people of England, they were to allow themselves to be
swayed from the course they might otherwise think right to
pursue in reference to their internal legislation. (Hear,
' hear.) We ought to make due allowance for the
irritation which has been naturally excited in
France. I will suppose that there issued from
Paris on more than one mastodon murderers attempting
similar atrocities here to those which have been attempted in
Paris : would not the people of this country feel the greatest
indignation, and would they not be likely, in speaking of
such attempts, to go beyond that precise aocuracyjof expree-
'ion which nations ought to be guided by in their transac-
tions with other nations. (Hear, bear.) I trust, therefore,
however we may disapprove of these violent expressions
of feeling in France, that we shall make allowance for the
circumstances under which they were made—that we shalt
comider what would have been our own feelings in a similar
case, and under similar circumstances—and that we shall not
be led away by considerations of what may have been said by
individuals in France or elsewhere from that course which,
upon the merits of the question, we may think fit to fol-
low. (Cheers.)

Mr. HORSMAN had listened to the speech of the noble
lord with great attention, and must say that be regretted the
manner in which he had referred to his hon. and learned
friend, and the manner in which be had =swan& his hon.
and learned friend's question. He (Mr. Honmen) had in-
tended to take no part in the discussion, but he felt that they
ought not in justice to allow such imputations to be cast
upon any member of the house u, upon a question in which
they were all interested, he thought had been most unfairly
cast upon his hon. and learned friend. His hon. and learned
friend did not complain that there were individuals in France
who had insulted the national character of England, but that
r- neer to the Emperor of France , and who must have
oosfidemoe, were those who had concocted this
cheep spinet the people of this country. (Cheers.)
Them &debtor' of the French colonels had been
published in the Nonileur, the government paper,
and eirculated under the government influence throughout
Priam, to show to an excitable people what ems the
leagoage the Emperor appeered to approve as =deemed to
him in regard to the attack which had been made upon him,
sad to show to the people of Europe what were the terms la
which they might =woes the demand had been made upon
the government of England for future security against the
repetition of the mime of which the French government
very properly complained. (Hear, hear.) The whole
grievance of him hon. and learned friend was, that it was the
government of France—the authoritiesof France—which had
made these charges ; and on that ground it was that he
attached an importance to them which he would not had
they emanated from mere private individuals. (Hear, hear.)
And then, as to the manner in which his hon. and learned
friend was in the habit of deporting Mundt in that hones.
He had, like his noble friend, sat many years in that house
with his hon. and learned friend, and so far from being
surprised at his expressing himself in strong language,
he should be much more surprised if, with his
under the circumstances to which he had called attention,n he
iohn,
had not done so. (Loud cheers.) No doubt his hon. and
learned friend had frequently expressed himself strongly, but
it had always been the expression of honest feeling and con-
scientious conviction, i=spendent of party ties and party
obligations. (Cheers.) His hon. and learned friend was in
the tubbed resting his censures broadcast through the house,
but they had all become convinced from long experience of
hie integrity of purpose, and that while he was careless of
what enemies he made, no man in the House of Commons
was more free from personal atomism than his hon. and
learned friend. (Loud and general chars.) lie felt, then,
that his hon. and learned friend had been somewhat severely
dealt with by his noble Mod. (Hear.) lila hoe, and
learned friend had expressed sentiments that evening whiall
ware his own, for which he was responsible, and he wee not
the man to shrink from the roponeibility. (Hair, hear.)
But to say that his !magnate was habitually an stung
that he Was an example of what ought to be
avoided end was deserving of blame, he (lir. Horsiness)
could only repeat that, after a very long experience of his
hon. and learned friend, he believed that his worst enemy
could not pick a hole in the whole of his political career, or
cast a stain upon that parliamentary life which he had sus-
tained with so much honourand integrity. (Cheers.) Heunder-
stood his noble Mend to say that there had been one despatch
from the government of France upon the subject of his hon.
and learned friend's gpsindon, and that it would be produced.
(ere seat
Be ffid not loam whether an answer had
been sat .)tiger dorm* but he before they
oar= to diseerica cm Mosby, thst they would have all
the pp= cm the enkret rid am the table. (Hear.) It
wadi else he &akar that dry deed" have the opinion of
the lan effigies of the orows—bseemee, tl it should
be baud est thee tamelemeries agreed in the opi-
nion uproar& by very high higal amthorides eimathsre,
it would be clearly mnifest thee the allsretbra d the law
they wore to be aired to random was sad that
the eMeft law wee cruderkr ell parposes. wee a
point to wink be Washed gnat impartomes. Do he would
not Wicker Ur dissmarm, let keeled they Wadi lave ail
the isheredem Wee& before thus hadedsliwere said
vs dial midi the rertion, se that they be
to be& as le the progerty al the reds
sal el dm -ooncessiam whim h morel
gale goveransrt lofidde worry wry primed Is rim
Yr. ROEBUCK (who was met with. ay ef NCOsetion")
hoped the noble lord would cceelfer the mart be wan
now &heat to make, dot the dope& of the French govern-
ing= amid he rid upon the table, and also the
mow etbsells4edy's government to %am soon se poesible,
so that lam. meriere might have it hi their hands before
they were add upon to eater on the discussion next Mon-
day, (max; boo With regard to what the noble lord
had said of Idea (Kr. Roebuck), lc pawed by him " like the idle
wind, which he regarded not." He asked the noble lord to
esperiem le bed amid that weld bar out the
re aside ird hid pleas xi the league. he was
thiso aura, Meer, bass.) B. *elm have uttered
lisnegierine he defied the mobile lontle show that ha
bed *dad bremep—(drere)—mar led he used
nook irsamege en dr remat , M) He wail
ask the labia lord sad re Imemesiom re to rendeemr what ha Ind
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linsulted, and that the insult alms from the Emperor of
France. (Hear, bear.) Wee there any violent language in
that ? (Cheers.) That was • strong statement no
doubt—but was not the evidence in support of it strong also?
(Hear, hear.) Why, the people of England bad been
threatened before—even in his time—not that he could recol-
lect it, for he was • child when It occurred. The great man
who bore the name now held by the Emperor of the French
—the first Napoleon—he, from the opposite shore of the
Channel. threatened England with invasion ; and though he
disagreed in the policy adopted by our ancestors on the
occasion, be could not but admire their towering thought, and
the thoroughly courageous demonstration with which the
menace of the great Napoleon, surrounded as he was by his
legions, and fresh from the victories of Jena, Austerlitz,
and Vienna was met. (Hear, hear.) We hurled defiance at
him—we fought him and conquered him ; and should we, who
then had treated with contempt and defiance the menaces of
Napolloos le Orated, quail before the threats of Napoleon
ii IWO. (Crete of question, and immense cheering.)
Lard PALMER/310N would lay the despatch from the
French government on the table to-morrow (this day). No
answer to It had been sent. (Hear.)
Mr. ROEBUCK then withdrew hie motion for the ad-
journment of the house, and the subject dropped.
THE HAVELOCK ANNUITY.
The house having resolved itself into • committee of the
whole house,
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, after re-
capitulating the proceedings that had talon place in the
short aced= before Christmas, in reference to the bill for
granting an annuity to the late Sir H. Havelock and the
proposal to extend that annuity to two lives instead of one,
observed that unhappily it had not been in the power of the
government to give effect to the promise they then made, for
at the very time when her Majesty conferred the honour of
the baronetcy upon the gallant general and the annuity was
voted to him by that house be had already teem a victim
to his exertions in the service of his country. liar Majesty'.
government being, however, anxious to carry into effect the
recommendation of the crown and the understanding come to
by the house, had decided upon proposing an annuity
o 1,0001. a year to the widow of the gallant
Lena Her Majesty had already conferred upon
t general's wife the same' honour which the
would enjoyed if her husband had been actually
created a baronet when he died, although the creation had
not taken place—and they also proposed to grant a similar
annuity to her son, the present Sir H. Havelock, who had
been created a baronet. (Cheers.) He thought under
the circumstances that the house would not object to grant
this ennui to Sir H. Havelock, even it he had
been an tindiatingulshed man, oonaldering the eminent en-
vies of hie gallant father ; but it was not so, for he bad
proved himself by his own gallant dosds well worthy to sue-
coed to his father's name and fame. He had distinguished
himself in the military profession in India, and looking
simply at his own merits, therefore, he thought the home
would feel itself fully justified in conferring upon him this
token of their approbation. The right honourable gentle-
man then proceeded to read from the official documents
the records of the present Sir H. Havelock's services,
"Brevet-Major Havelock entered thearmy (Queen's service)
as ensign in 1846, became lieutenant the 23rd of June, 1848,
and captain on the 9th of October, 1857. The Commander-
in-Chief had great pleasure in recommending hint for his
promotion to a company shortly after the action at Cawn-
pore, and recently for brevet rank of major, no lees as a
reward for his own gallant and meritorious services than as
tribute to the memory of his gallant father, by whose side
he fought in those numerous engagements which rapidly
followed each other in brilliant succession,and terminated
in the relief of Lucknow. Major Havelock was decorated
with the Victoria Crete for his cool bravery at Caw.nme.t.t:
It was on that amnion that Major Stirling, a
and distinguished officer, fell at the head of the 64trree7
gimnt. Major Havelock's horse was shot under him at
Bunerut (lunge on the 29th of July ; he was severely
wounded in the right arm by a musket shot at Lucknow,
and has beenrepeatedly mentioned in despatches. In the com-
bat at Campers Lieutenant Havelock was my aide-de-
camp. The 64th Regiment had been much under artillery fire,
from which it had severely suffered. The whole of the in-
fantry were lying down in line, when, perceiving that the
enemy had brought out the last reserved gun, • 24-pounder,
and were rallying round it, I called up the regiment to rise
and advance. Without any other word from me, Lieutenant
Havelock placed himself on his horse, in front of the centre
of the 64th, opposite the muzzle of the gun. Major Stirling,
oemmanding the regiment, was in front, demounted, but the
lieutenant continued to move steadily on in front of the regi-
ment at a foot pace on his hens. The gun discharged shot
until the troops were within a short Mama, when they
fired grape. In went the corps, led by the lieutenant,
who -still steered steadily on the gun's muzzle
until it was mastered by • rush of the 64th."
The resolutions he had to move, and to which he hoped a
unanimous assent would be given, were—. That the annual
sum of 1,0001. be granted to her Majesty out of the Cowell-
dated Fund of Great Britain and Ireland, the said annuity to
commence from the 6th day of February, 1868, and to be
settled in the most beneficial manner upon Lady Havelock,the widow of the late Major-Oettersl Henry Havelock, of
Lucknow, Knight Commander of the Most Honourable Order
of the Bath, for the term of her natural life."—" That the
annual sum of 1,0001. be granted to her Msjeety out of the
Consolidated Fund of Great Britain and Ireland, the said
annuity to commence from the 6th day of February, 1868,
and to be settled is the most beneficial manner upon Sir
Henry Marsh= Havelock, Baronet, eldest eon of the late
Major-General Henry Havelock, of Lucknow, K night Com-
mander of the Mort Honourable Order of the Bath, for the
term of his natural life."

Sir J. PAKINGTON thought the Chancellor of the
Exchequer had correctly anticipated the feeling of the house
when he anticipated its unanimous concurrence in this pro-
position. Amongst the events of the mutiny none had
umpired more sincere or more universal regret than the death
of the late General Havelock. (Hear.) He believed that
throughout the country a feeling of gratitude was entertained
towards her Majesty for the honour she had conferred on
Lady Havelock and her son, and it was the general im-
pression both in and out of parliament that her Majesty's
government were doing no more than their duty in recom-
mending the Howe of Commons to bestow these annuities
on the widow and son of the late gallant general. (Hear.)
He an** agreed with the right hon. gentleman, and he be-
lieved the home would have concurred in this motion, even
if Major Havelock had been an ordinary individuel ; but CS
the contrary, It was known that he was treading gallantly
in the steps of his father, and every one must hope that he
would continue his career of glory, and long enjoy the re-
ward given to him by his country.
Mr. KINNAIRD bore his testimony to the feeling with
which the country would view this reward to Major Have-
look. He held in his hand en extract of a letter 0= Oen.
Havelock, in which he expressed his anxiety that he bad not
been able to make an adequate provision for his family—for
after 42 years' service be had only been able to immolate
4,0001, which, together with a small Immo on his life,
was all that he had to leave. He wu sure that when this
was known by the country, there would he • warm and
universal recognition of the propriety of the course which
had been pursued towards the family of General Havelock.
Mr. BYNG expressed his cordial approval el the rue-
intim, and, at the same time, was anxious to express his
sorrow for the lose, and his admiration of the 'swims of
General Havelock, whose character se a soldier, whether for
liarax, energy, end strategeoloal skill, had never been our-
. With the private life of General Havelock it would
gelLuptuous in the house to dial but it might be per-
rir. to say that he was the period type of • Christian
hero, sad though the
he had not lived to be aware of
the recognition of his services by an admiring Bove-
!sign and • grateful people, he had at Lest en-
joyed the COUJICIOIIIIIOYI of his having done his
duty, and that his bat act was that of rescuing
• heroic and enduring garrison from a fate at the contem-
on of which every one mast shudder, Bo long as the
hest
Chran virtue, brilliant courage, and the highest
Lary capacity were esteemed, as they always were, in
England the memory of General Havelock would be loved and
admired.

Mr. GRIFFITH was far from desiring to disturb the
unaahahy of the bowie with respect to this vote, and there
could he no doubt that the proposition of the government
would be ratified by the feeling of the country. But he
wished to point out how the proper functions of the house
had been ovaiaid by the forms of proceeding in such matters.
The bill was introduced yesterday, and they were in commit-
tee, and bang a money bill no amendment could be made.
Lit year the proposition of the government was not approved
by the hones, and yet there was no opportunity of making
any alkestion in it. There was a dilkulty in the way of the
house representing its own wishes ; and it was only from the
accidental dream/Amos of the lamented death of Gateral
Havelock that the house had had time to a gemlike
for his widow and his sm. If the bill bed rand last
year this could not have occurred. It was a question whether
there should not be the pieties to maks for the
widows el ienmals and officers who had disl u them-
selves is eenters. It was the first wish end thought otGenersl
Havelock, and must be the drat thought of every general on
dangerous amise, that some provision should be seemed to
his tunny.

Mr. W. WILLIAMS amid that there was not a person
in the house more ready than be to grant public money for
eminent manias dins to the country, and no Nervioes
could hays been greater than those performed by the
bee General Havelock. He roes, not to oppose the motion,
he be thought that Lady Havelock wee eminently entitled to
a peados, but to cell attention to the greatly increased re-
ward ea compared with that dime year. Then it was pro-
posed to give en annuity to General Havelock for his Ills ;
and it was the wish of the house that it should be extended to
Yea eon for life% and there wee no opposition to that If the
proposition had been to grant General Havelock 2,0001.
• year, ha (Mr. Williams) would have made no otgeetion, for
ha Awed it was the highest policy to reward sink pub-
Beservices such as those of Gomel Havelock. But
the ground laid by the Chancellor of the Exche-
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