The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-06-14 00:00:00

HOUSE OF COMMONS.-FRIDAY

The SPEAKER took the chair at four o'clock.
The Londonderry and Enniskillen Railway Bill was
read a third time and passed.
In reply to Mr. DANIEL O'CONNELL,
The CHANCELLOR of the ExcituunEß, while acknow-
ledging the necessity for further legislation on the
subject of Savings' Banks, would not promise to bring
in a measure on the subject this session, as there would
be little chance of its passing.

In reply to Mr. BUCKLEY,
Sir CHARLES Wool) denied that the services of the
Royal Marines had been overlooked, and stated that
eighteen had received brevet rank—ten for service in the
Black Sea, and eight for service in the Baltic. The
number of brevet rank was not, of course, as large in
the navy as in the army, as in the late war the latter
service had offered more opportunity for men to distin-
guish themselves than the former.
Mr. DISRAELI wished to ask the noble lord at the head
of the Government, whether information had yet reached
him that diplomatic relations between her Majesty's
Minister at Washington and the Government, to which
he was accredited, had ceased ; and, if the statements
were true, whether he would then be prepared to state
to the House what course the Government intended to
pursue under the circumstances.
Lord PALMERSTON said, the noble lord at the head
of the foreign department, late in the evening of
Wednesday, had received from Mr. Dallas two
despatches, addressed to Mr. Dallas by Mr. Marcy, the
S'eeret:ry of State for Foreign Affairs in the United
States, one on the subject of the recruiting question,
and the other on the subject of Central American affairs.
The question of the right hon. gentleman referred to the
first, and to that, therefore, he should confine his obser-
vations. It appeared from that despatch, that the United
States Government were perfectly satisfied with the
explanations offered by Lord Clarendon in regard to the
course pu'sued by her Majesty's Governmenton the sub-
ject ; but, whilst they deemed those explanations as
perfectly settling the question as far as the govenment
was concerned, they nevertheless, for reasons which they
alleged, and from documents (of which they sent copies),
did not express themselves satisfied with the conduct of
her Majesty's ministers at Washington, Cincinnatti,
Philadelphia, and New York, and expressed to Mr.
Dallas their intention of delivering to Mr. Crampton his
passports, and of removing the exequator from the three
Consuls, the House would feel that until the Govern-
ment bad considered the matter he could not give an
answer as to what course it was their intention to
pursue.
Mr. GIBSON asked a questio❑ as to the nature of the
despatch respecting the Central American affairs.
Lord PALMERSTON said it would require to enter into
long details to give explanations on the subject, but the
main point of the s' ateuaent was, that the question might
be amicably settled by negociation between the two
governments.

Mr. H. BAILLIE accepted an offer made by Lord
Palmerston, that his motion relating to foreign enlist-
ment should come on on Thursday next.

Lord J. RUSSELL referred to the anxiety felt in the country,
with regard to the American question, which he believed
was increased by the tone taken by the public press on the
subject, and gave notice that on Monday he should enquire
of the Government as to the nature of the reply which it was
their intention to make to the despatches from the United
States.

After some further conversation, the House went into
Committee of Supply.
Two votes of £4,500, and £3,500, for a road across St.
James's Park, Westminster, were agreed to, after some dis-
cussion.

The navy estimate 3 were then introduced by Sir CHAS.
WOOD, who took the opportunity of reiterating the assur-
ance that an efficient navy should be maintained. A vote of
56,000 men, for nine months, was agreed to. Some other
votes were agreed to, includinc, £601,000 to complete the
sum for wages of seamen and marines; £167,000 to com-
plete the sum for victualling for the navy ; £5OO to com-
plete the sum for stores; £40,000 for the finishing of the
dockyards ; and £4,977,000 for transport service.
On the motion of the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, a
vote of credit of £2,000,000 was agreed to.
The House then resumed.

The motion for going into committee on the Parochial
Schools (Scotland) Bill, was opposed by Mr. CUMMING
BRUCE, but was carried on a division by 126 to 90—
Majority 36. The house then went into committee, but the
Chairman was immediately ordered to report progress.
The Oxford University Bill was read a third time and
passed.
The other business was disposed of, and the House ad-
joured at two o'clock.

A BISHOP IN DISTRESS.—Mr. George John Cayley tells
a story of a bishop in distress. A Mesopotamian Koord
named Mar Athanasius Stephauos was sent by the
Patriarch of Antioch to be Archbishop over the Syrian
churches of Malabar. On his arrival at Bombay the
Governor, in council, examined his documents, recognised
his position, and granted him a passport to Cochin. Here
his difficulties began. The Rajah of Travancore was opposed
to his entering that territory, and General Cullen, the British
Resident, declined to furnish him with a passport to proceed
to the interior of his diocese. He appealed to the govern-
ment of Madras, and was referred by them back again to
the Resident of Travancore. His various appeals to the
British government have been drifting him about from
misadventure to misadventure for the space of six years.
Tie is now in England, and has indited in Arabic an epistle
general to the Christians of Great Britain. He complains
that he was " denied" by the Resident of Travancore, who
said to him—" Thy preaching of the Gospel, and thy
sitting down to dwell in this land, the same are in the
hand of the Rajah of Travancore. And for this cause I
journeyed to Madras, and made known my situation
to the chief of the government; and he answered me,
Because I have received orders from the Court of Directors
it may not intermeddle in the like of this thy business, since
I relates to the Resident of Travancore.' And thereafter
there is no count of times I wrote to the Resident, and
he answered me as before. And when the Syrian con-
gregations had establis=hed me in one of the churches
the servants of the Rajah came persecuting me, and say-
ing, Inasmuch as thou bast not a passport from the
Resident, - thee out hence ;' and I remaineded in this
ness and affliction more than five years for
of the Gospel sake." He came to England
~ea to the Court of Directors, but (says the
chlritably) "The Court did not incline nor
.aten to that, because of the t, ilitee money of the
Indian Rjah. They despised the Word of God, and
his prophets and apostles, who testify of justice and con-
science. And also, whence hereafter shall we hear of the
truth and righteousness of the government of England ?
For I presented the rescript of the patriarch of Antioch in
the name of the greatness of the Queen, end I represented the
whole of my circumstances to the Minister of Foreign
Affairs, and he answered me that they referred my petition
to the India Board of Control. And there also I have no
word of satisfaction from them these many months, imped-
ing mu here.",

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