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London, England, 1855-06-08 00:00:00

INFANTS MARRIAGE BILL.

The LORD CHANCELLOR moved the second read-
ing of this bill. Its object was to legalise the disposal
of property by persons married under the legal age.
The bill was read a second time.
ECCLESIASTICAL PROPERTY (IRELAND)
BILL.

This bill was read a third time and passed.
The house adjourned at a quarter to nine o'clock.

HOUSE OF COMMONS—YESTERDAY.
Mr. FITZROY took the chair at four o'clock.
PRIVATE BUSINESS.

The Lords' amendments to the Dundee and Perth and
Aberdeen Railway Bill, and the Swansea Vale Railway
Bill were considered.

The following bills were read a third time and passed:
—Basingstoke, Stockbridge, and Lobcomb Corner Road;
Bridport and Broad Winsor Roads, Bridport Roads,
Gomersal and Dewsbury Road, .11miton Road, Light-
pill and Birdlip Road, North Yorkshire and Cleveland
Railway, Oxford, Worcester, anti Wolverivirupton Rail-
way (Improvements and Branches) ; Oxford, Worce..,
ter, and Wolverhanapton Railway (Narrow Gauge) ;
Portsmouth Railway, Rhymney Railway, Stroud and
Chalford Roads, Stroud, Cainscross, and Minchinhamp-
ton Road.

The Leek Improvement Bill was considered and
ordered to be read a third time.

The Southampton Paving Trust St. Pancras Bill wa3
read a second time.

FOURPENNY POSTAGE-STAMPS.

In reply to Mr. HUMS,
Mr. WILSON said the fourpenny postage-stamps to
cover the French postage would be issued early in the
ensuing month.
MESSAGE FROM THE LORDS.

A message from the Upper House reported that their
lordships had agreed to the following bills :—The News-
paper Stamp Duties ; Birmingham Gas ; Hartlepool Gas
and Water ; Kelso Bridge ; St. George's Harbour Act
Amendment ; Over Darwen Gas ; Ulster Railway; Lon-
donderry Improvement ' • Kilmarnock Gas, without
Amendment ; Liverpool Corporation Water ; Hyde
Gas (No. 3), with Amendments.
TESTAMENTARY JURISDICTION BILL.

In reply to Mr. MILINS,
The SOLICITOR-GENEIIA.L said the state of busi-
ness bef're the house was such, that ur.less this bill was
taken at a morning sitting, it might as well be aban-
doned altogether. He thought, therefore, it would be
impossible to take it in a morning sitting, and he thour.,Yht;
it best to say that it should be taken on next Friday
evening, with the understanding that if it could not be
taken then it should be taken on the following Tuesday
evenr. in
Mg.
MALINS said he should rather the bill was
abandoned altogether than forced through the house
without discussion.

Mr. HORSFIELD hoped the house would' not lightly
abandon so important a measure.

ENCUMBERED ESTATES COURT (IRELAND).
On the motion of Colonel DUNNE retirns were or-
dered of the names of all officers or clerks appointed
within the last six months to any office in the Encum-
bered Estates Court (Ireland), and of the salaries of
such officers or clerks, and of the respective duties of
their appointments, and of the authority by virtue of
which such appointments were made.

PROSECUTION OF THE WAR. -ADJOURNED
DEBATE.

The adjourned debate was resumed by
Mr. ROEBUCK, uho said—Al any time I should be
• ..i exceedngly anxious to address the house briefly, but I am
more than ordinarily anxious to do so on the present occa
sion on account of my weakness, with which I hope the
house will bear. I shall at once proceed to state my opi-
nion—for I am unable to argue the matter—why I think
this war should be proceeded with vigorously, so that we
may obtain—and I hope we shall—the means of an honour-
able peace. The opinion of the right hon. gentlemaL the
member for Carlisle at all times meets with the grefttost
consideration freer me, and I must say I bad looked fat-
ward to the speech which he made the other evening with
great curiosity, because, as I bad a shrewd suspicion of tue
course which he would adopt, I was anxious to know upon
what grounds he would rest his justification of that course.
The right hon. gentleman had been a prominent member of
Lord Aberdeen's Government when it determined upon a
war with Russia, and the last time that he had addressed
this house he had declared that in his opinion the war was
a just and necessary war—the last word is important, be-
cause it shows that it was for our interest to go to war. I
was curious, therefore, to see how the right hon. gentleman
would now shape his course, and in what manner he would
explain how it was that he was now all for peace, when a
few months ago he had been all for war. I was curious to
know what had occurred between his leaving office and the
end of the conferences at Vienna which could have iu-
.duced him to change his opinion, and I felt confident that
he would state the causes for which we went to war, the
objects which we sought to gain by it, and that lie would
then maintain that those objects ' were accomplished. I was
curious to know what in his opinion those objects were,
and I was still more curious how he could suppose that
they had been obtained. (Hear.) Two years ago this
country was in a state of profound peace ; we had been
accustomed to, and were pursuing the avocations of, peace,
with an energy and activity that were unparalleled in the
history of man. The arts and sciences were introduced
into every clime, there was no sea which was not visited
by our ships, not a market which was not filled with our
goods. While thus pursuing with unsurpassed energy the
avocations of peace, England, the world, were suddenly
go to war with Russia ? By whom was tha.t appeal maade
started by an appeal from the Ministry of this country to
more lustily than by the right hon. gentle 7thelliendre.)
The grounds stated for that appeal were, that .
.
• its resource S in
great Power which had long been nursing ,
pendence of Europe was threatened ; that there was a
the north, which had pursued with untiring ambition the
projects of dominion ; and that now the time was come
when its designs were ripened, and when it purposed to
bwegie all recollect, when the war-
to absorb the dominions
aexf etehuateotthtoomseandeasmigpnis nray
trumpet was sounded, how the right hon. gentleman blew
into it. (Hear.) We all recollect the speeches at the Re.
Turkey,
form Club and at the Mansion-house. (Cheers.) It was
said then that the war which we were about to wage was
to be a war of freedom against slavery, of civilisation
against barbarism, of constitutional Govern:nen:on:taints:
srwigahllt:Voifiwthe Turkish
despotism. It was said that the attempt of Russia to en-
slave Turkey was the first step towards enslaving
o over
beenE
Constanti-
nople, othatp,
es, she was notaasss
assuming
mintent
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uponlf
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et
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s oal e nt dominion
embassy u Europe, p
sente.
but that her design was, by placing herself 5' up
iirkb?'
Constan-
tinople, that Russia had crossed the boundairtie
to memepreilrye,tthoatobataaii
Turkish empire, that we w
ing threat against Europe, and
were told that there stand
was a -
the safety of Europe, that Russiathat it was necessary, for
her power of offence taken should be crippled and
that we were called on t away.
It was not Turkey simply,
and the liberties of o protect, but Europe, civilisa-
tion,went to war, and disastersmyself followed. A motion node in
of which was the
led to important consequences, ene
Aberdeen's Go utter defeat and destruction of Lent
, y . . Government. This house passed a resolution
D a majority almost
—for that unprecedented, condemning the mode
was its meaning
in reality —in
—in which the war
had been carried on. resolution to a
point a committee
inquiry; The house passed a
thepassing 1.::f."
that resolution of but between .
and the appointment of the committee the
Ministry of the noble lord the member for Tiverton was
formed, and. that Ministry the right hon. gentleman the
member for Carlisle joined. Over that Ministry hung the
appointment of this committee ; for it must have been clear
to everybody that the committee would have to be ap.
pointed, and that the house would proceed with the resolu-
tion which it had affirmed by so large a majority. But,
notwithstanding that, and in spite of the difficulty thus
staring him in the face, the right hon. gentleman chose to
join the Government of the noble lord. The first question
which came beiore the house after the formation of that
Ministry was the appointment of the Sebastopol Committee,
and upon that question the right hon.
which
gentleman seceded
from tue Government. These circumstances I point out
because they are the most significant circumstances
*scuffed between the time when the •
right hon. gentleman
advocated the war and the time when he advocates