The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-03-04 00:00:00

FAIRS AND MARKETS IN IRELAND.

Replying to Sir W. Verner,
Horsman said, that it was intended to introdnce a
measure on the subject of fairs and markets in Ireland,
and the assimilation of weigks and measures would,
form part of the bill. Ihe hill would be introinced
very slior:ly. IRISH C,URTi OF LAW.

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fn answer to Mr. P. 013,ien,
The Attorney General for Ir+ land said, that his atten-
tion had been dit.xted to•tha ennsti!ution of the Cou'rt of
"Excheqdzir Chanabers in Ireland, and it appeared that
of business, and, consequently, great expense to
ariiug from constitution. In the Easter recess
he proposod to put himself into commurfcation
with the leading an•horities on the subject, and if their
views agreed with his, to present a measure to Parlia-
ment. THE CRIMEAN COMMISSIONERS.

Mr. Llyarcl wished to ask the under secretary for War
whether he had any objections to lay on the table the
correspondence between the Government and Sir John
M'Ncill and Colonel Tillloch, respecting t h ofTer to them
of £lOOO.

Mr. Peel said that there would be nl objection to the
production of the emespoticlenee.

T4E ArJoURNED DTBATF..

The notices of motion and orders of the day hating
been postpined on the motion of Lord Palmerston,
Mr. Bounden Palmer resumed the adjourned de-
bate upon Mr. Cobden's resolution on the China
question, He contended that the supporters of the
motion were not called upon to show that no
ground of complaint had been given by, the Chinese, but
it was necessary for the government, in justification of
their officials, to stacA' that there had been a deliberate
violation of treaty. The Home Secretary had passed
over the real matter at issue, stating that he would not
enter upon the technicalities of the legal que,tion, but it
was necessary for the government to show teat they were
legally in the right, and if they failed to establish that
the lorcha was an English merchant ship, their defence
failed altogether. He contended that no proof had been
given of that fact, but all the proofs was on the other side,
nds,
preparedtherefore,what had taken place, he
wa
vcotedfeir;t'iil the motion before the House.
Mr. Kendall orposed the resolution for similar reasons
a
to those stated by Mr. Eintinck.
Mr. Gibson urged members to consider the resoll-
to o m
resolu-
tion tialta its meri s, and contended that the pap-rs before
the house had failed to establish a justification for the
hostilities that had taken place, held that the resolution
was worthy of general support. The resolutions did not
affect the Government, and he deureated votes being
recorded on that ground. Ano. her argument was that
the iteraanis were in favour of what bad taken
place at Calton, but he a•gued that so small a class
of the community as the merchants trading with China
should not influence the decision of statesmen. The
government bad rightly accepted . the resnonsibilili for
the acts of Sir J. Bowring, and he gave them credit for
it, but he held that the conduct of .Sir J. Bowring was
culpable, and lie was, therefore, prepared to support the
motion.

Mr. B Osborne vindicated Sir J. Bovvring, Mr. Parkes,
and Admiral Seymour, and quoted the opinion of Dr,
Lushington, against the principles of the peace party.
He declared the object of the motion to be hut a com
bination to overthrow the government of the noble lord,
and, in considering it upon that grounds, he urged the
House to consider that the noble lord had been successful
in bringing about a return of peace, and that be had
never deserted a friend, and that his only enemies were
those who were the enemies of his country. He was
convinced that the country would never • consent to a
conspiracy to overthrow the noble lord's government.
Mr. Henley, Mr. J. G. Phillimore, and Mr. B. Cochrane
supported the resolution, and Mr. Egerton and Mr. Thos.
Chambers supported the government.
Mr. Roebuck supported the resolution, and observed
that the question had been argued by the Attorney
General as if he held a brief. The question, apart from
all questions of legality, stood upon very simple grounds.
and they had to consider that a heavy retribution had
fallen upon the Chinese, for conduct upon the right
of which, the greatest lawyers differed. The con
duct of the Chinese authorities from the circum-
stances of the case, as shown in the documents
before the house was justifiable, and for th
civiliza-
tion of the West had been brought to play upon a city
with a million awl a half of people cooped up in its
narrow space, The Chinese civilization was different to
ours, they had not turned it to the purposes of war, and
if knowledge of war was civilization, Russia was the
most civilized of nations. The British flag had been
insulted, not by the Chinese,-but by the British authorities
at Canton, and he was ready to record his reprobation
by voting for the motion of the member for the West
Riding of Yorkshire.
Mr. Gladstone stated his opinion that Sir John
Bowring had acted upon the inerructions of the
Government, and therefore the Glvernment was to

bo considered responsible to the house for what
had occurred. He deprecated the grounds upon which the
members for Cornwall and Norfolk were going to give