The Express.
London, England, 1861-05-29 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MAY 29, 1861.

After .‘ few words from Lord Out in reply, the bill wu
noel a .ccood tirr.o.

The other orders of the day hariop bete dlieofted of,
their lonlibiri adjourned at 10 minutes past S o'clock.

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Pb gnaws took tie Asir st tour o'clock.
PRIVATE BUSINESS.

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DUBLIN CORPORATION WATER BILL

An the order for the ormsideratioa of this bill,
Sir E. OltflOAti moved that the hill be recommitted for
the purpose of bearing llu• petition of niteperers and others
of Duldia, deposited in the Private Bill office, and corn-
Own uoS of matter wh i. h IWO arisen during the program of the
Lill before the committee uo the hill.
Mr. MA01,111112. ioipporteid the
Mr. MASSEY thought it would be uoreasonable to refer
the ►ill Ma to the committee.

Mr. VANCE roateuded there were isseend points which
required rerxesidere tion.
After a few words from Mr. Talbot, Mr. Whiteside, Mr.
11;eorge, Mr. Lefroy, Mr. Waters, and Mr. P. Dawson,
Sir E. GROG AN withdrew his motion ; and the bill wets
considered and ordered for a third rending.

British subjects or property of other nations in the ports !
blockaded. An application was made of that kind, but the
Secretary of State replied, that if such permission were
granted it would be used by American citizens who wished
to bring away property from the porta. If the blockade is
carried into effect according to the regular law of nations,
we of course are bound by it, and we have only to see that
the blockade is Attest.

Mr. T. DUNCOMBE said he thought the noble lord
ought to inform the house what mesas he Lad taken to give
British property and British subjects protection in the slave
states of Amens. Very great outrages were committed on
British subject, in those states ; and he wished to know
whether the noble lord had received any information on the
subject. He (Mr. I)uncombe) had received letters from a
gentlemen he could depend on, who bad requested him to
ask government what they intended to do. There was no
complaint of the govemmeut of the free states of America,
but in the slave states neither life nor property was safe ;
and British subjects there at this moment were compelled to
take up arms and fight against the free states, and were
prevented from pasaiog to the free stator. A proclamation
had been issued by our government stating Hilt the Foreign
Enlistment Act was pot in force. That being the cue, all
British subjects engaged in this war were to be treated as
pirates. Now the mercantile marine of America wsa chiefly
manned by Englishmen and Irishmen, and these men were
not allowed to depart, and they were obliged to fight agaioet
the free states. If they were Wien, were they to be treated
as pirates? We talked of our neutrality, but was it no-
thing that in the confederate states the captain of a mar.
chant vessel bad been tamed and feathered? (Laughter.)
It was all very well to laugh, but this wax • serious matter.
What was to be done? Thee. men could not get away.
What means bad been taken by the noble lord to prevent
them being treated Si pirate*, At this moment there was
an advertisement in the slave state newspapers offering a
reward of 20 dollars for every person lammed and brought
on board one of their vessels. Did they suppose that the
Canadians would submit to have their fellow-subjects
dragged into the slave states, and there imprisoned or made
to fight against the free states T The question be wished to
ask was what steps the noble lord hail taken in order that
the Irishmen and Englishmen who were now detained in
the slave states, and who wished to come away, might have
the opportunity of doing so.
I Mr. B. OnORNE said he was not aware whether he VMS
strictly in order, but be must protest against the tone and
I the sentiments contained iu the spe ifth of the boo. gentle-
man, who altogether prejudged this question, and when he
talked of having reliable information from certain friends of
his, be (Mr. Osborne) wee also in possession of reliable M-
I formation which gave the direct he to the Neaten-meta of the
hoe. gentleman. He was in a position to deny that any
of these outrages had been committed io the Confederated
States, but he could point, if this were the proper time, to
outrages committed by the militia of New York in one of
the Southern States which they had occupied, in which
General Butler had actually issued an order of the day, on
the pretext that one of his men was poisoned by strych-
nine, threatening to put • slave Into every man's
house to poison their masters. Bet do not let
the house be led away by these sad events,
which were calculated to excite a very painful feeling. He
I hoped that they would not be led at this time into • de-
bate, and that the noble lord (Lord J. Russell) would main-
tain that judicious silence which ho had always maintained
on this subject. If they were to have • deliberate debate,
let it be regularly brought ou, and out brought on in this
irregular manner.
Mr. BRIGHT said notifing could be more injudicious or
more unfortunate than that they should have in that house,
from private letters, accounts of particular outrages, said
to have bees committed in Annuli*. They knew that
there valid be entrusts enough before war there
or anywhere ekes was brought to • close. But
in the North, as well as in the South, there
would be the greatest possible indisposition to
bring about a quarrel with this country. Whatever quarrel
there was between the two sections, there could be none
between either and this country. The policy which the
noble lord had announced, and in which he cordially con-
curred, was one of strict neutrality on the part of our go.
verurnest He thought it would be well teethe house to
adopt the same line of neutrality as mush as possible. It
was an unhappy thing that this alsension and this war bad
arisen, but let them hope that among that nation, which
was more educated perhaps than any nation in the world,
there might be found persons who could surmount the vast
difficulty in which the country was placed without these
calernitsce which always at-computed civil war.
With that feeling he asked the house to avoid as
much as ensible, discussion on matters which he believed
they could not inbuilt*, for good, but by which they might
create • state of feeling either in the North or in the South,
which might add to the difficulty dour government io that
wise line of neutrality which they had laid down. (Hear.)
Mr. GRIIGIORY said he hoped the house would not be
led away by stories from letters from the Southern States.
He had no doubt that the gentleman from whom the bon.
member received this letter knew jest as much as the
hon. gentleman himself. They knew very well that neither
letters nor newspapers bad been received from the South.
They should read the official documents, the address of
President Davis, in order to form a judgment. He should
certainly on the 7th of June bring forward his motion,
and he trusted that the whole matter would be then
coosidered.

Mr. 130UVERIE said this was a very important matter
for the commercial interests of this country. He believed
the rule was that a imam' did not incur the forfeiture of
his goods by attempting to violate a blockade, unless he had
mewed due notice of the blockade. The rule was that
notification to the state of which the person was a subject
was notification to all the subjects of that state, but if noti-
fication had not been given in that wan then it must be ac.
teal notice to the subject himself. Therefore, the house
would see how important it was whether notitleation had
been given of a blockade, or merely an intimation that on ar-
rival at the port there would be audios given of the blockade.
He wished to ask whether the mercaatile interests of this
country were to understand that a public notification of the
blockade had been given to her Majesty's government, or
merely whether the blockade would be notified to neutral
ships on their snivel at the porta in question?
Lord J. RUSSELL (who was heard very itaiiitinctly) was
understood to say that he had already stated the course
which the government had pursued. With regard to the
blockade his right hoeouraLle friend would see from the
papers, when they were distributed amongst the members,
the exact state of the case. When Mr. Seward was asked
whether he would give us a notification of the blockade, he
refused to do so, saying that be found no precedent for such
a proceeding. He (the noble lord) referred Lim to a pre-
cedent ; but Mr. Seward said he would not give a ge-
neral notification—lie would leave it to the travel
commanding officer of each station to declare that
the blockade had been instituted ; and when the
fact had thus been generally communicated. it was to
be considered that the blockade had been regularly eels-
. blished. Of course he (the noble lord) was not going to
enter into questions that 'ingot have to be argued and de-
cided in a prize court with regard to the regularity of the
blockade. He had no doubt that the United States govern.
meet, which had always been very cautious on the subject
of blockades, had consulted the preosidenta and taken the
best legal advice before they adopted the course they had
pursued. With regard to the question of hie boa. friend
(Mr. Duncocabe), he most say that though there was a
great deal of vague statement in his speech, be had
not brought forward say _ particular facts upon
which the Foreign-office could proceed to take soy
steps. Miele's. friend had referred to the case of the master
el a marabout vessel who had bees tarred and feathered •
but that ease had occurred many weeks before the outhrealC
of civil war, and when the country was at peace. There
might have hem seine intention of secession, but it had not
at that messed takes place. There were rumours of a very
disparaging character with regard to thepsnon in quashes ;
he was attacked and ill-treated by the mob ; but
the authorities had endeavoured to arrest the
titers, and our consul Mated that they (the
authorities) bad done everything that could pos-
sibly have been done. The affair had rosily, therefore,
nothing whatever to do with secession or civil war. (Hear,
hear.) With regard to them cases generally, the steps her
Majesty' government bad taken were these :—They desired,
is the first place, that Admiral Mills should be present with
a milkiest squadron, and orders bad been given by the Ad-
shalty that other ships should be sent out to strengthen
the pliant racer's equadron. Lord Lyons had taken care
to inform hisses!! with rem, rd to the laws of the United
States and of the seceded Mites with respect to
venom serving is the militia. Those laws varied
in the different states of Europe, and they even
varied in mom of the elates of America. Lord
Lyons had, however, taken the opinion of counsel,
and if airy question arose lie would no doubt entertain the
matter with due discretion, haying reference both to the
law of nations and to the law of the particular state with
respect to which the question might have arisen. lu the
next place, without entering upon the treatment of neutrals,
which he should he ready to discus, on the 7th of June, lie
(the noble lord) might state that her Majesty's government
had been in communication with the government of France
on that subject, and also with the goverment of the
United States. If. entirely agreed with the hon. member
for Birmingham that with respect to the unhappy quarrel,
which he believed had given pain generally throughout this
country— (hear, !earl—no words should be used that
would tend to bring this country into the conflict.
or that might create exasperation or lettermen on the one
side or on the other. (Hear hear.) That a great and free
nation. like the United States, should be exposed to the
evils of civil war, was en event that every lover of liberty
ought to deplore; and lie hoped that the coated, if it could
not be averted, might at all events he very short. and
might sot interfere with the ultimate prosperity of the
country. (('hasm.)
The papers were then ordered to lie on the table,
THE DERBY DAY.
Viscount PALMERSTON moved that the house at its
rising adjoin till Thursday next (Cheers.) The motion
would be far the general ooeirenience of the hone—(a
leugh)—and it would he unnecessary for him to enter into
any details, for the mamas in femur of the proposition
would be patent to every hoe. gentleman. (Laughter.)
Mr. BENTINCIC did sot rise fur the purpose of offering
any opposition to so popular a proposal ; hut he felt it
right to call atteatioa to the piiiition in which private
members had been plated b the recent alterations in the
mode of cooduslang the hssinees of the house. To those
alterations be had ventured to object, on the ground that
they would deprive private niembere of a portion of the
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But what had been the fact? On Tuesday, the 14th inst.,
the house was counted out at a quarter to 7; on Fridsy, the
lith, it was counted out at half-past 8 ; and ou Friday last
there were not sufficient members present at 4 o'clock to
make • house at aIL It was hardly possible to
conceive • more complete refutation of the pro-
spect which the noble lord had held out to them,
or • more complete justificatioo of the view which he (Mr.
Bentinck) had expressed. But that was not all. Private
members were often appealed to by distinguished members
of the government on the gmuud of public convenience not
to offer any obstruction to their measures. The other day
they Lad thus had a meat pathetic appeal made to them
by the Chancellor of the Exchequer; but what had hap-
pened Lit night? Notwithstanding the great urgency of
the financial measure. of the government on which the right
hon. gentleman had more than ono insistd, the govern-
ment themselves interposed just as the booms was on the
point of dividing and
_proposed an adjournment. (Hear,
hear.) He did cot blame gentlemen on the two front
benches for an arrangement which those who enjoyed or
were hoping to enjoy office would naturally wish to carry
into effect, but he did blame independent members of the
house for allowing themselves to be deprived of their pri-
vileges. (Hear, hear.)

Mr. DISRAELI said that the house had certainly agreed
to the alteration on the clear understanding that the govern-
ment would always feel it their duty to secure a hones for
private members on Friday nights. (Cheers.) The occur-
rence last Friday must have arisen from circumstimees
which could not have been foreseen, and which were not
under the control of the government, for there were only the
members of the administration present at 4 o'clock. He
really doubted whether the house ought not to have met
on Saturday ; because if he recollected the words of the
standing order rightly, they were to the effect that the
house at its rising on Friday should stand adjourned till the
following Monday. If construed strictly that could not
apply to a case when the house had never met on Friday at
all. (Hear, hear.) It appeared to him therefore that the
Speaker ought, if possible, to have taken the chair on
Saturday. (A laugh.) He (the right bon. gentleman)
trotted that the noble lord would gave them an assurance
that a house should always be made on Freda).
Lord PALMERSTON could usure the right hon. gentle-
man that he very much regretted that a house was not made
on Friday last, for the government had themselves business
which they should have been glad to have brought forward
on that day. It was, in truth, entirely owing to accidental
circumstances that there was no house. The government
would feel it their duty to make a house on Fridays, but ea
to keeping it he did not understand that that was their func-
tion. If private members brought forward questions of late-
rest no doubt other private members would come down to
receive them ; hot if they did sot the government bad an
power to compel them to do so.
Sir J. PAK INOTON reminded the noble lord of the old
parliamentary tradition that there were certain members of
the government whose duty it was both to make and to keep
• house. (Hear, hear.)
The motion was then agreed to.

log that Mr. Bull did not return, the plaintiff got out of the
cab and spoke to a policeman, when the (adman came out of the
public-house, and said that Mr. Bull had got into a scrape,
and asked the plaintiff to try and get Mr. Bull out of the
house. He accordingly went in and saw three or four per-
sons quarrelling in the front of the bar, and amongst them
was Mr. Bull, who maid that he had trod on some one's toe
accidentally, and had called another " a tailor," and upon
that they began to "pitch into" him. The plaintiff then
induced Bull to come out of the house ; and when they got
to the door, the defendant and Orossmith (who is the
waiter) came round horn behind the bar, and threw the
plaintiff out of the house with such violence that the plain-
tiff's leg was fractured in three places. He was taken to
the Charing-cross Hospital, where he remained from the
10th February to the Nth ApriL At the expiration
of that time be was removed to his own house,
and be was obliged to keep his bed for five
months, and his medical man bad made a charge
for his attendances of, 521. lls. 611. The plaintiff
alleged that, in consequence of his leg having been broken,
he had been unable to carry on his business of commercial
traveller, and bad lost an income of 2001. per year.
The defence was, that the plaintiff and his friend, Mr.
Bull, had gone into the defendant's public-house in a very
drunken state, and at once commenced inst4ting some gen-
tlemen who were standing at the coffee-room bar, and who
'eked the defendant Grusamith to put them out of the
house. He accordingly advised them to leave, but not
without a great deal of difficulty. When he got them out-
side he closed the door, and shortly afterwards he heard
that the plaintiff had broken his leg, which he supposed was
done by the plaintiff being so drunk that he could not walk
properly, and that he had slipped down. The defendant
Grussinith was called, and also the gentlemen who were
standing in front of the coffee-room her, and stated that the
barman never used any force to eject the plaintiff from the
house.. _ _ _

At the conclusion of the case, Mr. Montague Chambers
agreed to withdraw the case against the defendant Roberta.
The jury returned a verdict against the defendant Om.
smith for the plaintiff—damages 2001.

COURT OF PROBATE AND DIVORCE.
MAT 28.
(Before the Judge Ordinary.)
StIINEVI r. Brtlolo4B.

The petitioner, the wife of a solicitor ia practice in Lower
Thames-street, sought a divorce on the ground of adultery
coupled with desertion. The parties were married in 1851,
and the cohabitation lasted about seven years, during which
time they bad six children, though none survived. On the
sth of March, DOS, the respondent quitted hie wife, and
was proved to have since been living with another woman
in Old Kent-rued, and afterwards in Peckham.
Dr. Spinks appeared for the petitioner.
The Court made a decree nisi.