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London, England, 1856-05-07 00:00:00

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LONDON. WNDNESDAT, MAY 7.

Thou was but little in the second night's directo-
ries of the Treaty of Pence is the House of Commons
to vindiate the judgment of that amenably is voting
an adjournment on Monday evening. If the tenor
of the Bret night's debate was foe the most part vapid
and lifeless, the tone of the second was equally below
the mark of public anticipation, while its character
was still more unconnected and desultory. Just es
the speech of Mr. BIDNRY HERBERT seemed to have
recalled attention to the historic aspect of the recent
war and the political future opened by the peace, and
when a fair opportunity had been afforded by
hie Ultra-Conservative avowals on the latter heed
for mute Liberal statesman to express boldly what
ought to be the standing maxims of this country is
our intercourse with foreign powers, Mr. Huai
DRUMMOND interposed with one of hie theological
digressioes on the papacy and priesthoods in general,
all of which, throughout the civilised world, he re•
commended should be forthwith put down. Where-
npon up rose the Attorney-Oeueral for the Vatican in
England, Mr. BOWYER, who for the space of a whole
hour, or more, descanted on all sacerdotal sufferings
and virtues; undertook to prove that a French gar-
rison was indispensable at Rome, bemuse the govern-
ment was so cheap and so popular; declared that the
crowned gaoler of Naples was a man of known piety,
sod possessed of every vines; approved of the
Peace because it sealed the dissolution of the Turkish
Empire; and at the same time exulted in the war,
whereby England had been used, he said, by OOD
to punish Russia for having persecuted and slighted
the Roman Catholic Church!
This transcendental episode concluded, the en-
lighteeed Member for West Norfolk went off in
another direction—namely, that of protesting like a
seine against our renunciation of the right of search.
With curious candour (if, indeed, anything can justly
be called curious in the political sect to which Mr.
BINTINCI beleoge), he proposed to alter the phrase
in common use se a agleam'', and to substitute for
"right of search" the terms "right of seizure."
We are for ones half-inclined to agree with
the hon. member; only we would suggest in
favour of frankness whether he might not go a step
farther and openly advocate the revival of the practise
lately renounced as "the right of robbery" on the
high seas. Argument, of enure% Mr. BENTINCE had
aese to offer; unless, by eourteey, serape which he
aid from German newspapers, and letters indited
Bea the quarter-desk of cruisers sadly in want of
patable occupation during the war, are to be digni-
fied with that eggellatioo. But what was wanting
la leeks wee felly node up In prophecy. The sun of
211101111 WAS Sale to set for ever jest as it need
eirdeslp Mae ea all angry occasions in our grand-
tediase Ilsm ?be power of " crumpling up Russia "
whoever we liked in future was about to depart
ken ne. No difficulty could ever arise with America
It we revived the good old policy of PAUL Joan;
and even if those meek and manageable kinsfolk of
ONO on the other side of the ocean should take
seism our resumption of the wholesale boo-
seaseriog system, and it the cotton manufare
toe and its adjuncts should come for a while
lea stand-mill, Mr. Bantrince could not believe that
le partial and exceptional a consideration would
weigh with any true lover of his country. In brief,
it is impossible to imagine a style of reasoning more
admirably suited to support the crazy amendment of
which notice had been previously given on the sub-
ject. No wonder Lord DERBY should have recently
betrayed hie anxiety to get clear of followers eo dare
gerous and damaging as some of those who still hang
on his rear rather than obey his command. Could
he only provoke them into regular and ostensible
nonconformity, they might, we think, start a nume-
rically respectable party for themselves, having Mr,
NRWDEOATI for their prophet and Mr. Browne for
their archangel. If Lord DERBY were wire he would
t ffer a handsome contribution to their separate oon-
nada' ; for assuredly the Carlton will never be
comfortable while its aisles resound with division.
On a retrospect of the whole debate, we own that
the speech which seemed to us most worthy of the
sea mid of the occasion, was that delivered by Lord
Jon& Roannix. Wise and generous throughout,
there did not appear to lurk in any phrase a selfish
or splesetic recollection that in a transaction so
impeetant and so creditable to the Whig admiais
wades of the day, he bad borne no part. Lord JOHN
may be snared, that in the minds of all just and
discerning men this tone of self-regardiseenees
will do him more credit then any other he could
have used. Amid the horde of petty cavillers and
gasping critics of the great re-settlement of European
iaterests just accomplished, the ex.minister seems
without effort to take high and dignilletl ground, and
to ask and answer the gnat question—upon the whole,
what will history say P It was by the ability to do
this that the noble lord first earned for himself that
happy compliment, ascribed, we believe correctly, to
the late witty Canon of By. Petrt.'s—" He is the man
whe first made me understand what fa meant by the
sertraral phrase respecting one who by taking
thearcht can add a cubit to his stators." Of Lord
Joules summary of the aims of the war, and the
ends attained by de peace, we seed say nothing
more ; but as his observations on Italy have already
Sawa forth more than one protest, and us they are
pretty certain to elicit many more, it is but the dis-
charge of what we believe to be our duty to say
that the heart of the country is on this subject what
it always was, and that no diplomatic mystification,
or Consoreaties terrorism in high place', will ever
eseteed in its -