The Express.
London, England, 1856-07-23 00:00:00

MEMBERS' BPEECBEa

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Mk WILKINSON in moving "That, except spat the
latrodoetioa of a meager. to the house, no member do
speak for more than half an boar at one time upon the same
gaieties; nor epos thy occasion for more than one hoar,"
said that it might appear somewhat presumptuous that se
yeas. a amasher of she hones as himself should lutes due-
s meeting width had for its eject to limit the privi-
etmsmhenof much oker Pundits( than hienelL
tilsencth a rang amber of the house, be was not a
yyoossmmgg member of the world, sad he must say he had never
hrwi so math time wasted from huntress as was wasted by
the proovessithis of that home. (Hear) It was too much
the pasties to debate some cue order till midnight; the
seaseepsenes was that all the other orders were put off till a
late hoer, and so it coetioued to the end of the se”ion,
whoa the " Slaughter of the lnaocenta " to k place. (Hear,
hear.) He believed that something might be done to
remedy this evil. The length of speeches was not the on
canes of delaying the boatmen. The motions whisk
were mad, on the adjournment of the haute on
Friday contributed to that delay, but the main
calms was the length et the speeches made by
name memben of the house. He tad great pleasure, of
course, in listeaing to those epereches, but he was ready to
menace that pleasure kr himself—(l,l4h- er)—and he
hoped that other members would be as ready to relinquish
it as hs was. (Laughter) It bon. gentlemen would only
thick of what they bad to my beforehand, it would lead to
a system of thedensation whine he thought would not at all
takeaway from the effect of these long 'concha. (. Hear,
hear," and laughter.) He endeavoured to practise eon-
dessation Wart'', but he received, is consequence, en
anonymous note to this effect: "Tales the advice of an old
friend ; make long speeches on 'ejects which you do dot
under.taad, so that they may be read and more fully re-
ported." (Laughter.) Many were not likeiy to fall into
that error. The gentlemen of the loop robe, of wham
there wen a great number in the house, were habituated
to long speeches, which indeed their clients expected from
them, and that practice was not likely to lead to coodenes-
ties in the Ross* of Commons. (Hear, hear.) When
chokers* of a railway company he had to pay heavy foes to
lawyers, and he confessed he liked to have long speeches for
that:wag. (Laughter.) There were 273 members of the
boas, who never spoke at all. (" Heir, hear," mud
laughter) Vote were 209 members whip poke for
more than pelt an hour. There remained 170 members who
spoke more Ulu half an hour, and some of these spoke lint
seldom. The monopoly of long speeches we s therefore confined
to • few. He hoped, therefore, that his motion would meet
with general support, although it was not in his favour that
may members—who were not long takers—bad left for the
country. His proposition had teen tried in America, and
wan most successful. He believed that it would considerably
facilitate publics business if some node of curtailing debates
were adopted ; and, in pretty that hs might not offend against
Woolen rule, he bevel leave to clove the resolution.
Lord PALM/CROTON said be was sure that in the ab-
stract the object which his hoe. friend had in view would
meet with the assent sod concurrence of every member;
but the particular amendment by which his hon. friend
sought to cony out his object wee not the one which he
would recommend the house to adrpt. In the first place,
anything that had a tendency to restrain the (neck= of
speech in the house or out of the h'uts was rot in harmony
with the spirit of the constitution. (Hear, heir.) The
principle of that freedom was, that you should leave every
men to sketches his right of speaking, at the same time that
be exercised that right under the reapc nsioility of the
judgment of his laser. re, who could exercise' the duty of •
police and determine whets, I-they would tear him. Ii the
motion of his hon. friend were agreed to, it might be at-
lauded with groat practical inconvenience. If, for instance,
such • sale had been in force o a late oecasiva when the
house was ceiling for a division on • certain section ( be
Ileynooth question) his hoc. timed the member for He rry
would not base beau able to spin out hie speech to a nonl-
ethal hoar, by which means be practically defeated that
motion. (" Hear, hear," from Mr. Spsoser ) He did not
agree with h-s bon. friend in thinking that wage's injudicious
exercise of this power. Con paring the present session with
former sessions, he did not believe they were eh
in the present NM= with aloes no the liberty
of making long speeches. He rementh Ted the time
when the ape eking ease c onfined to a few, and when
it was a very oruinary thing fir members to make sp -Testes of
an hour sod • halt sad two hours' leagob, and there was •
story told of an bon. member, whose name be ought not
perhaps to mention, but who wee a baronet and a member
for Surrey, and of whom it was related that he began Eis
speech at five eaters, and that a friend of his west to Clap-
ham, dined, played abut, returned to the house, and
found his friend Still on his legs. (Laughter) Teeth
things did not happen now.seclays. Hut there were
occasion when a treater latitude was neceseary
for explaining the measures of government, or for atta:king
them; or when members beg a defence to make when at-
tacked. (Hue.) He believed that a great deal more time
was wasted by the multitude t f speakers then by long
spathes, sad that necessarily followed from the chases
which wile made in the constitution by the Reform Biel.
When members sat for small •id doge boroughs tilt y did
not think it so necessary to speak as sow, when they repre-
sented large constituencies, who wished to have their
(*intim known through the 7120•11/0 if the members who
represented them. He con( eassiAlffill he would radii r sub-
mit to the thcconvezience of MEE op to a late hour than
see the freedom of debate curtailed.
After some remarks from M. M. Milne% Mr. Biggs, lb.
W. J. Fox, sad other members, the house divided :
Forthe issoistios 3O
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LONDON, TVEDNBBD4Y, JULY 23.

THE dawn of commercial enterprise in Turkey
renders hopeful an enterprise in which this country
has an especial interest. Many years have elapsed
dna Mr. MACDONALD STEPHENSON invited the at-
tendon of statesmen to the possibility of girdling
the globe with an iron road. One halt of the
work is in a fair way of being carried out
by the Americana. An important link in Mr.
Bissamteon's great chain was a railway through
Turkey and Persia to bring Europe into immediate
proximity with India. The great hindrance 'Mai-
pated at that time was the apathy of the Turkish
and Persian Governments, and the difficulty of con-
vincing the capitalists of Europe that they could
enjoy the protection of law in those mantras. In so
far as Turkey is concerned the dreaded apathy is
now dispersed; and the ounetration of a railway
from Constantinople to Boasorah may be made the
meet ethetive agent for establishing and confirming
the authority of the Central Government at Con-
stantieople in the districts through which it pares.
Detachments of military stationed at intervals along
the line, would not only protect labourers and
travellers, but be available foe preserving the peace
of the surrounding country. The inflame of the
European capital which is already making a settle-
ment along the coasts of Asiatic Turkey, would thus
find its mom to the interior facilitated and mailerated,
and that influence would prove as powerful for good
there as on the outskirts of the empire. This is the
direst mad immediate advantage which Turkey would
derive from nth an enterprise. All Europe would
share in the advantage, for Turkey would tins be
strengthened for self-delenoe and the mortice of its
independeace; whilst a new impetus would be
given to the whole commerce of the Medi-
terranean by the development of Turkey's
resources. The especial gain for England would
be the acceleration and increased security given
to the communkatios with its Indian do-
Wanes. The railway through Asiatic Turkey, com-
bined with the European railways, and the line
already in progress from Belgrade to Constantinople,
would give us direct and rapid railway mosennica-
tioe from the opposite shores of the English Channel
to the head of the Persian Gulf; and Dr. O'Bitsuoa-
mum the parent of electric telegraph communioa-
tics in India, has pledged himself that in the
coarse of three years he can complete a line of
telegraphic communication from Constantinople,
acroo Asia Minor, down the valley of the
Euphrates to /hoorah, and theses by a
submarine cable to Earaches, where it would
join our Indian lines. Already there are parties in
the market with proposals for the coast:notion of
isolated parte of this gnat scheme. Ws confess we
should regret to see the power of our English capital,
skill, and enterprise frittered away on any such per
tial attempts. If we had the ear of those interested we
would urge upon them the expediency of combining
their power, and inviting the accession of others to
realise the great schemes of Mr. MACDONALD
STEPHENSON, and Dr. 011asuouNasse. This would
be to bring our Indian provinces into immediate
jaxtapesitioo with the central meat of empire in
Londe., and by promoting the development
of Turkish resources, and the progress of Turkish
edvilisatioe, to interpose an effectual barrier between
Europe and Russian ambition, In the event of the old
Muscovite party retaining or regaining ascendancy
in the *moils of the Cue.

In the Presidential contest in the United States,
the elides now rests, and will rest till the day of
eleodon (T.seday, November 4), between Mr.
BI7CIUNIAN and Colonel FIIMONT. A few weeks
ago it appeared that Mr. BUCHAXII34 election was
maretly doubtful, and in that confidence the Noir-
oratio Convection at Cincinnati pet forth its pro-
gramme (in Americas language, its platform) with
en salacity which already appears surprising. The
&stelae of the Convention is comprehended in three
peopfinh:-1. Congress shall not stipulate with new
territories foe the exclusion of slavery. 2. Kansas
shall be a slave State. 3. War shall be incurred, if
necomary, in the progress of territorial expansion.
Bet this programme is has acceptable to the South
than was aatictipated. Evidence ►as lately arisen
that the leading Southern States do not desire the
annexation of even Cuba; and they are now busy
quoting Mr. BocnArten's Ostend circular, and warn-
ing the Conservatives apical him as a follower of
Pima in provoking war. Even from Georgia issues'
this protest against the Ostend circular :

TM manias peepaitiee is bus Masted t►at, if Br•I•
will set pert with Cabs for a pries, we should wrest it hen
bre I This albs wannest et Use bagged, who meads
to tabs t►e parse a the traveller w►o bas the tereerity ee
refuse to yield It sp. Whatever aft asy he add of Mr.
Bsebesas, we de set Oak that aim aspen is hie history
will advance ►is class to traders** sad tweservatiera.

Nisch is Mr. BUCHANAN'S unpopularity in the
Booth, it is still greater in the North. judging by the
eulogists weld on him by the well-known
mood Nartior. We au molosive nothing more
destructive to hie hopes at the North titan the follow-
ing atatemillat of Mr. BUCHANAN's coarse :
Oa mess pasaisalar bums Ia dispute between slavery sad
abolitionism, Mr. ateheals took the side of the flonth.
He voted le samosa the eiresistioa of incendiary dews-
mods through the meas. He opposed the esalrasaes of
Show/ Hewett as Miaisem to Chest Brits* bosses' of
hie °maim that Negress had power to abolish shivery is
tte Distriet of Usable. He wes an suly, weedhet, sad
ellideat blind et Tens masasttos. B. vas ma tarty,
steadfast, sad eating Ms of the Wilmot Printer. He sd-
muted the Maiden et Lames, tete the Unica. He
dialed the tight of C,eagrees te ,oseit slavery la the Distrust
et Colaratida. Is the great straggle I. 1849, when the
North ear salvias te drive slavery from the territorial poe-
-11101114111 of the goverment. Mr. Becheasa, this Ia private
life, sad mac as obligates to mingle la the battle, volun-
teered I. the service of the Beath, sad propcsad se eztead
the Mimed Cesproanse Has to the Pacific Ooetn—by
whisk memare abolitionism would have been szeledad
from the satire region of tar aleziesa casquests.
After this e osmosis* Ilan was practically obliterated
and the loath assented to the sew enungemeat of 1860,
he pleated himself epos the eselity of the endemism sad
the morn of the Fugitive Slave Law. When, at last, the
Soak discovered the Inapt/Bey of &Hi:motto, to Mater Its
rights by temporary tardiest., sad resolved to fall bask
epos faadamntel princdplee, Mr. Bachman ptomptly sad
Marta, approved the repeal of the Mtweart reiteimies.

It would appear no very difficult matter for a new
candidate to carry the day over any of these, if he
weld presume himself free from party estanglemeata,
untrammelled by former mistakes or calculatices of
self-interest, and obviously capable of forming sad
working out an independent judgment on the critical
mats of the day. The sppearance of neat a candi-
date would have bees supposed beforehand the most

improbable of events ; but, in spite of habitual elis.
trust of Heaven-sent candidates, and saviours borne
on the shoulders of the multitude, we cannot bat
admit that Colonel Fusion doss appear singularly
qualified for the position which it now seems probable
that he will attain. He belongs to the South by his
birth and education t and he might be of the most
educated class of any country by his scholarship, and
his scientific attainments in more directions than one
As to his polities, he commands support from the
North as a freesoiler, while he agrees with the South
in his advocacy of • peaceful foreign policy. The
best of it is that he proved his convictions by deeds
long before he, or anybody else, thought of his being
President. It was he who brought a free State into
the Union ; and one lying far within the boundary
line of the Missouri Compromise. It was his doing
that California is a non-alavebolding State ; and hie
aim and effort for years past have been to develop the
resources of the western region, rather than to go to
war for foreign territory to the South. It follows,
of course, that his earnest desire is for the free
settlement of Kansas. The programme of the Re-
pablican Convention naturally took the form of
precise opposition to that of Cincinnati; and their
choice of Colonel FREMONT is, perhaps, the only one
which could hays thrown out Mr. BUCHANAN. The
Republican Convention requires,—lst, The preclusion
of slavery from territories desiring admission to the
Union. 2nd, That Racism shall be free soil, as the
vast majority of its resident. desire. 3rd. That the
foreign policy of the Union shall be peaceful. Colonel
FREMONT declares that he regards the explicit
statement of the Republican doctrines agreed to at
the Convention, n ma a Second Declaration of Inde-
pendence:
If so, he may have to fulfil the function of a
WASHINGTON. Already, in answer to objections that
he is too young for the office, is • military man, and
was a poor surveyor, it is pleaded that WASHINGTON
also was 44 when made President, was a military
man, and had been a surveyor. No one will look
for • second WASHINOTON already ; and no one
familiar with American politics will be over confident
of any man's election—even though the leading news-
papers range themselves, as those of the great cities
are now ranging themselves, on the side of FREMONT.
Least of all will any wise man suppose that any can-
didate will certainly retain his virtue through the
trial of Presidential office. At our distant point of
view we ought to be secure from delusion and kw
tioaal expectation. All we say is that an beds-
pendent man—neither obscure nor untested—presents

himself in a crisis of great need; and that if his
qualifications shall be found such as to place him in
office, it is highly agreeable to know that his youth
was eminently, even hen:dolly virtuous, and that his
character is most honoured by those who know him
best; that his opinions are, like his repulatiout
purely his own; that, while uncorrupted by the
&boast; influences of public life at Washington, he
is yet practised in public affairs, and even in political
administration; and that U he becomes Chief Magir
trail of the Republic, all who have intercourse with
his Government will enjoy the satisfaction of dealing
with a frank soldier, a scholar, and a gentleman.
We need but look at the early and later day, of the
Republic to see that the highest political morals
have hitherto acoompanied the most refined intellec-
tual accomplishment, and soldierly courage and
courtesy. May it be so again.

THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JULY 13, 1830.

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