The Express.
London, England, 1857-02-20 00:00:00

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LONDON, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20.

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MORROW, Feb. 21.

EVERT fresh contribution to the history of the
Canton business makes the case of the °averment
weaker and weaker. Two questions were pat last
night, one by Lord CLAUD ll.octcroN in the
House of Commons, and the other by Lord Care in
the Home of Leads, both of which have an im-
portant bearing on the forthcoming disemica. Lord
CLAUD HAMILTON elicited the fact that, sines the
date of the despatch of 1847--by which offensive
operations against the Mouse were peremptorily
forbidden to the British Meals in China without
previous 'auction from this country—no orders
or instructions had been sent out in any way rm•
pending or superseding those directions. It stands,
therefore, as an admitted feet that Sir JOHN Bow-
RLNO, in authorising offewslen opeeMiont spinet the
Chinese withent waiting for previous anodise from
this coolers, W violated met only the sphit, but the
very Maw of inetroetiem, wide& have MOM bias
either impended or emartseded. Lord asst's
question referring to the ingelity of the registration
of the Arrow went at ones to the Wm et ll=
fulness or wrongfulness of the Canton
ab ionic. Fee if the registration of the Arrow as a
British vessel were biped the legal competence of
the Colonial Legislature, nothing can be more plain
than that the whole gonad on which our hostile pro-
' oeedings can alone bo *Med sinks at once from
under us. The Amin was not a British ship; the
flag alleged to bays been hauled down by the Chinese
was one mho bad ne right to carry ; there has been no
lama to our natimality ; no infringement of treaty
advalidea I the sawn belli of Mr. Consul Fetter.*
M mons mismitine, and our proceedings from first to
last ham bisa as flagrantly lawless as they have been
roaniastly impudent and inhuman.

So, then, things are beginning to develop them-
selves a little. Already we have arrived at a few
somewhat remarkable results. Leed.P.u.mrsarox,
moved, as he alleges, by the existing condition of
parties and the actual state of public business, will
have nothing whatever to say to Parliamentary
Reform in any Asps, at all events for this session.
He even spas lm end divides the Home, against the
very intreiedbe sf a Bill for effecting the not re-
markaWymmistlearry *set of making the franchise
fie *Maker 180.04004411”14 4Pn the 'Pearl
et a Issellont 4 the lame who et 101. Rarely a
reletel eimoky oppmedele esemeeerimmad
Ibes • skis by the lair et dr Me party
le the set any hisluselNd bps d Ilhilltafr
ampstary lialimenn The sat lashol d the diamse•
ilea was the psalms liken up by Lied Js Rea-
ms. Lod lam warmly edam ltd die proposed
reform. He even went so trr as In indulge in a
whet wiser sr two at the isennommhisdble meson
siimniby hie noble friend el Ihs led of the Go-
yeeismit toe wising the Isisiusdas if this Bill.
.*awe net men deity see rabic of public
beim so to maks the inlesthmellaw at this measure
vesesiesebls, or its dismiss bmpracticable. It
mem misused to his, en all contrary, that
Govaimmemat bed Whoa sevided with some degree
of eats the animal/dig of any public business
of impotent* ; nor did he use any symptoms
et tisk kW about to diderh " the placid course
they eppored to have laid down for themselves.'
Sis Newsreel Lord of Netherby followed to the
sem allot, and solemnly renounced his adhe-
sion to the principle of " Inality ". It was,
4 ermies, evident, from the extent to which
the.. James GRAHAM talked about his coti-
'nlineieb that party feeling had nose—no, not the
slichlek hether's weight of inflame in guiding
hiss is this wets which he ultimately gave. The
14011.111 islitition of all was that made by
Mr. BM= Itemizer, who openly grounded
his eppildea to the news, sot us mush
on any oideetiou be entertained to it in itself, as on
the state et peados and the position of the Govern-
mi. it add be visible to all, he said, that (lo-