The Express.
London, England, 1859-07-16 00:00:00

(Stamped id. Additional.) LTWOPENCE.

The ATTORNSY-OENERAL sett ohs repeat of the '
commie...a was now coder the consideration of government,
together with the valuable bid that was bungle is by the
Solicitor-Genoul of the lost pursuant. Mower would
be it]ortly prepared, and he trusted would be brought lute
parliament in the ensuing samilos for Nevin the recom-
mendations of that report taco afoot,. It wee impossible to
mate what the details and provinces of theft resumes world
be farther than that the object of them would be to give effect
to the proposition fOr Illgiltratioll 01 ILI* and to carry the
recomorendatMns of the commissioners tato effect.
BANKRUPTCY BILL.
Sir F. KELLY asked the Secretary of State for Foreign
Affair* whoa*, it war his intention to mopes to mahatma;
daring the peasant ussioo, the Bankruptcy Bill which was
read a second time and intruded to be refund to a Belem
committee be the loot session of tho late parliament.
Lord J. RUSSELL replied that the matter was in the
hands of the Attereity- General.
COLONY OF QUEENSLAND.
Mr. MARS( asked the Uoder-Secretary of State for the
Colonies what were the intention. of her Majusty's govern-
ment with regard to the sew colony of Qthenaland, in the
northern pert of Australia.
Mr. C. TORTESCUE said the lettere patent would be
carried out in the course of a few weeks. The only diffi-
culty had been the settlement of the debt between the old and
new colonies. The Secretory of State inteoded to loave the
question to be tattled on the spat by commissioners agreed
spa between the two governments, end only to nave re-
course to legislation in this hems in cam they could not
Wu&
THE NEW FOZZION-OPFICE
. . •

Mt. YITE asked the Firm Commissioner of Works
whether he had any objection Mplace the drawings
f Me
new Foreign-office, together with the &algae to which the
two tiro* premiums were formerly awarded, In the library of
the hoar, with es little delay as peorible mad without wait-
ing for the tenders from the builds& for the semi colistruo-
lion of the Gothic design.
Mr. FITZROY said, believing it was the wish ed the
house that they should have another opportunity of inspect-
ing the design', he hod endesvouted to place them la a am-
venient position. He thought the librery would not be
convenient, became of the reference that was continually
being made to the b00k.% end he thought that the most con-
venient place wee the reading- room. They would be put in
that room in the roans of to-morrow, and the working
drawings and estimates would oleo be placed there as soon
as be received them.
MEDICAL ARMY OFTICERS.—TSB ARMY OP

INDIA.

Captain L. VERNON seked the Secretary of State for
War whether he would recommend that the daises No 12 of
the commissariat warrant be extended to the medical officers'
army warrant, whereby a medical tfficrw, atter twenty years
meritorious service, if pronounced by a medical board as per-
=meetly soffit for ea vice, either mentally or physically,
may be allowed to be placed on the permanent retired list.
Also when the medals would be issued which tombs underatood
would be granted for the achievements of the army in India.
Mr. S. HERBERT said with regard to the medal for the
army in India, atter bee Majesty had decided for what opera-
tkall the medals should be greeted, instructions were sent to
Load Clyde to send over the mem of the men who were
entitled to them. When they were received they would be
sent to the Secretary of State for Ladle. With regard to the
' question as to the medical dilates, all he had to say was, that
the commissariat had got the new warrant. The medical
officer* bad been treated *kb great liberality. He believed
the whole of the serve:tee had beets treated fairly. but be was
not prepared to say that the rewards of one ought to be ex-
tended to the other service.
EDUCATION IN SCOTLAND.
Mr. ROBERTSON asked the Lord Advocate whether it was
his intent on to introdnia, during the present or the next
swarm of parliament, a measure for the improvement of the
general system of education in Scotland, and at the same
time providing for an increase in the salaries of the parish
mbookeasters, or for either purpose.
The LORD ADVOCATE was understood to my that he
did intend to brine in a bill during the next session, and that
such measure would provide for the Increase of the salaries of
the schoolmasters.

TICE TREATY OF PEACE.
Mr. HORSHAN asked the Secretary for Foreign Affairs
whether any couicousication had been made to the British
government by the government of France or Austria, with
reforest, to the treaty of peace between those two countries,
and whether he was aware of any communication having
been made on the subject to the other governments of
Europe, and particularly to those who were patties to the
treaty of Vienna.
Lord J. RUSSELL—In answer to the question of my right
hon. friend I beg to Rats that no commnnication of the exact
termite which the convention has been concluded has been re-
ceived by her Majesty's government. Count Walowrki in-
formed Lord Cowley at Paris, end Count de Persigny told me
be hid been Wormed that a convention bad been signed, end
stated the purport of that document es It Is already
known to the house, bat no communication of the exact
terms of that document was made either to me or lobar Ma-
jesty's ambserador at Park. I directed Lord Cowley Weak
for en explanation—to ask for the exact terms of the treaty,
and also the mode in which it ie proposed that the treaty Is
to be carried out. The answer was Chet no farther statement
could be given till the Emperor returns to Paris, and that
be is expected to arrive on Monday next. After that I shall
expect the particulars from bar Mejesty's mittieter at Perim. •
I believe that a commuoicatien similar to that which ham
been made to as has been made to the government of Prude
at Berlin, bat Ido tot know that any communication has
been made to Buena, or to other states.
Mr. LAING moved that the Ileum at its rising adjourn to
Monday neat.
THE LONDON CORPORATION REFORM BILL.
Sir J. SHELLEY appealad to the Home Seerstary not to
proceed with this bill. It contained 73 Manses, and would
meet with • great deal of opposition. The Muncie' pert of
the question was to be dealt with in • separate bill. Would
it not be better to deal with tee whole subject in one bill, tad
to postpone it till text Raton ?
Sig G. C. LEWIS said that if the hones decided in favour
of the bill, he should attempt to past it this session. If not,
it would be postponed alt.gether.
THE SCOTCH AND AMERICAN CLERGY.
Mr. HUNT asked whether it smith* intention of hoe Ma-
jesty'e government to recommend to the bones any measure
tor relieving persona ordienad by Whop. of the protestant
episcopal churches in Scotlend and the United Suttee of
Awence from their prceent disabilities in England and Ire-
land, or whether it was their intention to recommend a com•
mittee of the house for the purpose of examining into the
subject?
iecount PALMERSTON said it seemed to be the opinion
of the house that before any change was made in the law' it
would be desirable to have an inquiry. It was not the in-
tention of the government to primrose such an inquiry this
*mei= ; bat it might be • fit proceeding next session.
Mr. HUNT gave notice that he would take measly oppor-
tunity of mining for each In Inquiry neat session.
TENANT RIGHT.
The O'DONOO HU E whaled to impress upon her Majesty's
government the oecessity of dealing fairly sad promptly with
that question. At all events he trusted they would not take
refuge in a rimy of disingenuous, evasion. (Hear, hear.)
Such a comae If persevered in could deceive no one. Let
them not take 16 months to prepare a bill one subject which
had already been considered from every conceivable point of
new ; and when it was ready let their bring it in at oitoe.
Let them atuoy the conduct of their predeceersors, and let their
own be the react contrary. What the country required was
a plain end Ramie bill, which would give the occupier • legal
claim to compensation, not a measure to enable landowners
to grant lama. or to make contracts with their tenants. In
99 oases out of 100 the landlords had ample powers; and, to
do any good, • lesaiag p?were hill should be a bill 41 compel
them to grant Imam He would not, however, go so ter as
that, but be would refer the government to the Irish Master
of the Rolla, who in a recent OM publicly expresesd his sor-
row that the law compelled hire to do iejusuce in a place
which ought to be the throne of equity.
Mr. CARDWELL observed that the iatereatiog oubject
to which the bon. gentleman referred hod Men looter tho con-
eideration of every government and every peritautent
wines
he (Mr. Cardwell) had first had • lett in that hoc"). What
he now undertook wee that it should engage the beet 'nen •
non of himself and colleague. with en earnest desire en
their part to overoollls the difficulties which matt be en-
countmed in dealing with this question. (Hoar, hear.)
The motion for the adjournment till Monday was then
ITALY.
Oa the motion for going into committee of Ripply,
Lord ELCHO offered seine explanenune with regent to the
following negation of which a ha given notion, en.
" That, in the opinion ot this home, the correspondence
reepecuag the Own of lteiy, which Ins recently been laid
before parliament. shows that the late government hove per-
seveneely directed their efforts to the maintenance of peace,
and to the amicable eettlenient of the differences between the
contending powers ; and that, whilst they have preserved
the strictest neutrality, and conducted thass coaipliestad
negotiations with wawa. acid with impariality, they have
at the same time upheld the honour and the dignity of this
country. That it is farther the opinion of this bones that
the policy of neutrality and mediation between the contend-
tog powers which has thus been pursued by the late gonna-
[Met should be adhered to by her Majesty's premet ad-
visers." The noble lord said that when on Tateeday last.
in sneerer to the appeal of his noble friend, the Secretary of 1
State far Neaten AMR... he agreed to withdraw this motion, •
he reesend to binned the right to say • few words in expla-
nation of the meow which had Weald him la the first
place to put it on the paper, sad afteurwerds not to Moist on
bringing it before the boom. It bad been said that he had
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tious hostility tostude the present administrant:a; but he
disclaimed say etch motive. He eatertained foe the present
Enurement no kiting of Motility whatever. He was per
to do to them what he had done to their predecemors,
namely, to give them his humble support when he thot
em
they were right, end to oppose th whoa he thought y
were wrong. It was, then, no spirit of hostility tower&
prosent government, bat • desire to do what lee conceived wee
an act of simple justice to the late government, which had
induced him to place his resolution on the paper. (Hear,
hear.) He said that it was to do an act of ju
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It could not be dettiel that an impression had gone abroad
that the policy of the late government wee not 008 of strict
neutrality, bat one favennette to Austria, ad unfavourable
to France and fierdiaht. That was stated is the public jour-
nals; it wee stated by the opposition In that house • sad
vithanidHed°beamt7ediedißitan::baddco:wilbltst :::thwe'yhi.entowhieemadrvadermaiwislie,m.heeed.
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bins-book had been published petitions to the close of the
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thing like twenty votes. (Loud iv* ehissro.)
the point, but it was unqueetionable
premien had gone abroad, and that when q,......
at last published, it produced a faking that Go
mot had been seabgne4. (Cherie) Under Rlemera
stances it appeared to him to be only right that
should express en opinion to that effect; end he wee itt •
logs to see how it could be retarded as an act of Motility to
the present government to a-le it to take that mime. If in
private life they dld a man wrong—if they unwittingly maid
something of Mil *Melt was 90 11110, the first feeling of •
gentleman wadi be fadostly to confess to him, though he
were an enemy, it the allegation was without foundation.
Now, be wanted the hoar to do as a body what he emotive
every one of them would do as an individual ; be wanted
that house,as the swept° of English gentlemen, redo an
justice
act of fes to the lets governmeht which say oat of
them would gladly do 14 WA private capacity. (Cheers.) So
mach for ibotroor purest Ws posolodoo; On bow port
of It referred to the argotiations of the present govetnerent.
1 He would not deny that in framing thet part of it he was
cedar an impression that the present government were not
prepared to follow the policy of stria neutrality. His belief
was, that the feeling of thhi country was in favour of nett- '
traltty so long as their honour and iatereeta were not
affected; but he doubted from the antecedents of his two
noble Meads, the noble viscount and the Foreign Secretary,
whether their neutrality would bee strictly impartial one.
He hared that it would be what that of Prussia was said to
be, a " roartrattli inquistwate" towards Austria—that they
I would conduct theuwelves towards Austria in the seine
manner that the late government was said to have conducted
I itself towards France. (Cheers.) He believed that if
he had bad to press the motion,he should have
I been able to prove by the speeches end te antecedents of his
noble friends, that In that impression be was not wring;
I and therefore it was that be telt anxious that the home
should affirm the policy of neutrality. Five minutes after
he (Lord BUM) gave his notice, his noble friend at the head
of the government stated that he intended to ti walk In the
path which bad been chalked out for them by his prede-
urnora." For himself, ha (Lord Elcho) was perfectly reedy
to take that statement. He believed that it had be made
with no orrii•re penile, end that the noble lord did in fact in-
tend to follow that policy of strict neutrality. Nevertbsier
he should have asked to hones to agree to the latter part of
the resolution, because it seemed to hint that in the position
of the house, nicely balanced as it was, and doubtful
vs it was whether the gentlemen behind hiss were
very cordial supporters of the government (hear,
hear) —lt would be desirable to strengthen oh.
hands of the government by • unanimous declaration of
the house in favour of the principle of neutrality. (Cheers.)
Such were the motive. which had actuated hint in proposing
to move the resolution. He had hoped that the member for
Sheffield or the member for Surrey would have taken up the
matter; but those hoe. geettemen both declined the teak,
although they said it ought to be done; and the hon. member
for Surrey strongly urged him (Lord Etch.) to do It himself.
(Hest, hear.) Now for the ground upon which he had
withdrawn the motion. It wen not because of the existing
complications, for be was not prepared to adroit that the
house ought at all times, when the effeirs of the conti-
nent were in • momentous putties, to be debarred from ex-
pressing Its opinions. Oa the contrary, he humbly ventured
to think that in time. of crisis, the opinion of what might be
the only free seeesobly of free mat la Europe (for they did
not yet know what hid become of the Sardinian oorstitution)
wee likely not only not to prove prejudicial, but to exercise
• meat sad ben. fidal intimate on toe continent. (Cheers.)
If the house wee tot to discuas foreign politics at such a
moment, then the expression of Eoglieh waits would be
left to the public pee. Now he wished to speak with the
greatest poesible respect of the press of this country. He
Mid it to be, on the whole, the most honest and the most
able press in the world; but they mast not forget that the
daily press, written for daily circulation,was apt to take its
colour from putting events ; and they ba occasionally seen
what was wrong in January become right in Jane under the
magic influence of success. (lieu.) He thought it most deer-
able, therefore, that the house should dismer foreign policy;
but even before the appeal was made to him by his noble
friend on Monday night he had determined not to press his
motion, because he well knewthat nanny members would tubs
edvantage of the existing state of things, and of the with-
drawal of a somewhat similar motion by • noble lord in
soother piece. to vote against it, and would thuadefeathis (Lord
Bisbee) object, which waste obtain, If possible, a unanimous
and certainly a distinct a:premien of the opinionot the home.
(Hear, bear.) He regretted to withdraw the motion, became
as he had said he was cations to d.. what he considered to be
only an act of justice to her Majesty's late government.
(Hear.) Although the annoucement of the peace had been
received by the house with acclamation, he mould not but
think that there wen many by whom it would not be viand
with entire satidatitiou. Thome gentlemen who, regard
of of treatise, regardless of right, axed forgetful of Ireland
end Canada, were favourable to the armed interventiou
of one power is the coatory of its neighbour, and who sup-
ported to propaganda of nationalities., would be profoundly
diesubffied with it. (Hear, hear.) He doubted whether.,
,ft
would be received with much delight by those who dwelt 'tit
the neighbourhood of Leicester-square. (A laugh.) He
doubted whether any sort of ,hankagiving would tune from
the platform of Exeter Hell on account of • peace the mend
feature of which was the exaltation of the people. (Hest,
hear.) It might bee eptical on his part, but be was Inclined
even to doubt whether tbe circumstances and the terms of
this peace would most with any very medial approval from
the authorities in Downing.stztet, whom saection and
whose counsels, so fir as the public knew, had not
been sought. (Laughter.) With regard to his hob%
ft lend the Secretary for Foreign Affilire, on. must
really feel quite disposed to condole with him in
the position winch be now occupied, suddenly and Amex'.
prole all? deprived, a. be had been, of the opportunity to re-
deem his &erecter as a negotiator—(latighter)—end to esta-
blish in Italy that model °Destitution welch he no doubt had
In the Ted box before him. (Laughter and cheers.) But if
they condoled with tbe noble lord, there was no member id
that bou.e—there was no man who poeseued the smallest
feeling of compassion—that would not condole still more welt
his noble friend at the head of the government. (Laughter.)
phe whole dream of the noble lord's lite hod been the ex-
ulsion of the Austrians from Italy , and now he saw the
Aurtrianstoore firmly established in the equilateral—(4 laugh)
—the quadrileteral—than ever, with • reo wooed right as a
member of the Confederation to interfere in the of
off
every state in Italy. (Cheers ) He (Lord E rho) did not
envy the feelings of his noble friend when he found that this
yearn had been concluded with the Emperor of the French
without waiting for his advice. His noble friend had more-
over the further mortiftution of feeling that eleven years
ego a nod of hie head or • reek. of hie
pen would have given a great deal more liberty
to Italy than she now enjoyed, after years of
masque and eufferiag, and altor thediers hotnolation
of whole hecatombs of slaughtered sol (Load
cheers) He amid not but think that his two noble Meads
were deserving of the deepest commiseration; for, to use a
most expressive though somewhat slang phrase, they bed
been most horribly "add." (Cheers and laughter.) But
peace had been merle; end a wogs which had boo, wantonly
commenced had been capriciously concluded. (Hear, hear.)
of the Roman States and the Two Siollees ; although they
knowih There
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B like to know what would happen in the 'vented the
Bolognese, the Taunus, and the people oi ps,in.
end Modena declining to receive back their 'sove-
reigns ; although they might like to know ',bo-
ther in each a case the Austrian and French
armies would be employed in ftweing them back to a reluct-
ant people; although they might like to know what had be-
come of the Seroician constitution, and whether the Use
Dress would be restored through &AMU and be extended to
Lombardy; although they might like to obtain information
on this and matey wher pants, let them rejoice that pelmet:ad
been made, and that thole was now a pro.pect of opening
their amperes without having to lead of that Marrow
slaughter of human beings with which the public journals bad
of late been filled. Let them rejoins in that ; and let them
earnestly pray that this peace would onntribtre to the per-
manent maoquillitv, htppinese, and security t,f Ems." al-
though be was inclined to doubt it much. (Load cheers.)
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LORD ELCHO'S RESOLUTlON.—THE AFFAIRS
OF ITALY.
Mr. S. FITZGERALD renewed the "b...bieetwiathatt.'"'"frpm-
tion. and sail be regretted that it had.
pot
ha. tidader.a
the coosideration of the house. it oio.d
with any negotutions on the jf,
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there were none going 00. 1.7:`",,,,, beryd,,iamy.. "rm.,
and the peat, been ogrmi., tolear ) ofsegetholome the
went being once `I'D" 'Olt have been inronvealeat to
disoussioa of the toed The
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The noble lied at the hod of the