The Express.
London, England, 1861-06-08 00:00:00

MORNING Emma

Lord PALMERSTON said it was intended to have •
morning sitting on Tuesday next, when the bills for the
consoli&tion of different portions of the criminal law woald
be considered.

Mr. HENLEY said there were portions of those bills re-
lating to the punishment of death, and other important
subjects, which could hardly be duly considered at • morn-
lug sitting.
Lord PALMERSTON said he understood the Solicitor.
General lad arranged with those members of the house
who belonged to fke 1.9.1 profession, end were anxious to
take • part in the dismisses', that the bills shouldoome on
at • morning sitting on Tuesday.
COLONELOY OF THE 50m FOOT.
Mr. CONINOHAM fulled attention to the appointment
of Major-Oenend Morton Eden to the (*lonely, of the 50tb
Foot. He thought nothing could be more unfair than this
selection ; that it was not merely • good man, but the best,
that should be selected for such an appointment, sad asked
on what principle bienerel Eden had bees selected, and
whether there was any comprehensive principle which would
regulate future selections.
Mr. T. G. BARING explained the principle on which these
appointments were recommended by the Commander-in-
Chief, and made by the Secretary of Sksae for War, who
was responsible for them. TS* ipriweile bad beim carried
out in the case of General Mee, -views selection he
justified.
COUNT OAVOUR.

Sir R. PEEL—Sir, I rise at this early period to call the
attention of this house to a sub** which has already been
alluded to in the other house--I mean the recent death of
Count Cavour. It does appear to me that this is • fitting
occasion for the House of Centime' to take an opportunity
of expressing he deep feeling of regret sod sympathy at
the loss which Italy has =stabbed la the premature death
of that statesman, certainly the most conspicuous that ever
directed the destinies of any nation on the continua of
Europe in the path of constitutional liberty. (Cheers.)
It is not for us to scrutinise the decrees of Provideoce in the
dispensation of human affairs, but I do think that the cala-
mity which has befallen Italy, and which appears at this
moment to threaten the peace of Europe, is a subject which
, might properly engage the attention of this house, as repro-
' seating the public opinion of this country. I think it would
be r4ht for us not only to express our own feelings, but to
put the condoleesisof the public into somewhat of an officiel
brm. It may se he within the knowledge of the bowie that
Its IWO the !moth Assembly entered in the procis
verbal of their sittinp on the bth of July their
=at the loss which this country had sits-
I, sad was then sustaining. (Haar.) Now, I believe
that ea the present (*melon it would be befitting our dig-
nity to take some such course, and pekoes the .obis lord
at the heed of the government might suggest some mode of
itedsrlig en Der journals as expreiricio of sympathy at the
lees which Italy sod Europe have sustained in Count Cavour.
(Cheers.) Many of us have cosecientiously differed from
he policy, perhaps from an inadequate knowledge of the
difficulties and &fters which encircled his course. Hut he
is gone. He lies in the grasp of death i and whoa we me
the merits of his character rising so mospleloody to our
view, it is fitting that we should give some expression to the
regret and sympathy which are felt, not only by this house,
but by rerr._ yery mane pawns in this country. (Cheers.)
Lord J. HUSSELL—Haying been engaged in diplomatic
transactioos with Count Omer, I thick the hon. baronet
has take& a eery proper course in bringing this subject
More the house. I cannot but feel that it is doe to him
who has gam away from us to say that I believe there
sower 111111 a tea the devoted himself—heart, mind. and
soul—more entirely to his country and to Italy than Count
Carom. (Loud cheers.) He was endowed with great
abilities. He had also a capacity for great labour; and those
abilities and that labour were devoted from the earliest
time at which it was in his power to give an opinion, to the
achievement of the independence of Italy. (Hear, beer.)
There is no one that looks back to the time who Count Ca-
your commenced that enterprise but must see that it miss task
attended with great difficulties ; and the manner in which
he began to interest the powers of Europe by proposing to
amt in concert with England and with Frame in the Crimean
war, sad the way in which he afterwards, at the Cowan
of Paris, stated amongst the statesmen of Europe what he
conceived to be the griefs and wrongs of Italy, showed sot
only that he deeply felt those griefs and those wrongs, but
that be had a clear intuition of those means by which alone
the independence of Italy, now happily achieved, could be
accomplished. (Cheers.) With regard to hie historical
career, this is not the time to speak of the minus transac-
tions in which he was engaged. I have had the
good fortuuo both to treat with him diplomatically,
and to be personally and privately acquainted with him ;
and I cannot forbear offering this tribute to the memory of
a man who will stood ecompicuous in history as the great
liberator of Italy. (Loud cheers.)
The O'DONOOHEE—I rise fur the purpose of expressing
my satire dement both from the proposal of the hon. baronet
the member for Tiorforth, and from the praises which have
been lavished epos Count Cuter by the noble lord the Se-
cretary °fillet. for Foreign Affairs. (Oh, oh.) One of the
principal footmen of Count Cavonr's policy was its decided
Metihty to the temporal power of the 'Pope. (Cheers.)
The chief characteristic of that policy we, a persistent and
systematic misrepresentation— (- No, no")—of the state of
things is the territories of the Pope, in order to screen and
cover the aggrandisement of Sardine.. (" No, no.") Such
• policy might no doubt barmeeise with the prejudices of
many gentlemen os both sides of this house, who are reedy
to believe every story of Papal misgovernment, and with
that stupid bigotry which is displayed by too many persons
in this country—(cheers)—but I 11111'0 no hesitation in saying
that his policy was the grossest outrage upon the most sorted
feellop °fairest majority of Otrirliane throughout the world.
(Cheers and "Oh. oh.") I yield to no man—neither to the
hon. baronet the member for Tamwortb, nor to the noble
lord the Secretary fir Foreigo Affairs—in my desire to see
the people of Italy free. ((ronical cheers.) I yield to no
man in the dislike I have to see Italy under the domination
of Austria ; but I refuse to amyl the armed supremacy of
Sardinia over the heretofore from people of Italy— (" Oh,
oh," and lsugbter)—.e the trite definition of Hole& liberty.
I am sot afraid, even in this House of Commons, to say
that I think I see the finger of God's jute, in the death
of Omni Cayour. (Great dimappolodaa, sad load aria of