The Sun.
London, England, 1864-07-07 00:00:00

POLICE PAY

Sir W. MILES asked the Secretary to the Treasury
whether he had as yet r.ubm.tted a case to the law officers of
the crown as to the legality of the deductions made
from the one-fourth paid by the Treasury to-
wards ti.e p and clothing of the county sod
borough police, as regards the two items, viz.,
the paymPnts made by the said county and borough police
rowarcis the Superannua;ion Fund, and tines imposed upon
,'tie sail county and borough polio- f:)r misconduct; and it
so, what decision the law officers of the Crown had
arrived.
mr F. F ~ L said a case was submitted to the law
cfficers.

THE HO RTICULTUR A L SOCIETY.
Sir \V, GALL\VEY ais:Nd the First Commissioner of
Works whether certAin arc,deiz and galleries, until lately in
the possession of the lieusingt,-R Royal Horticultural
Society, were about to become properly of the State ?
Mr W. COWPER, said a deed of conveyance was being
executed, but was not yet finished. The property never
belonged to ,he Royal Horticuttural Society They were
the property of the Commissioners of the Exh.bition of
1862.
N eINV ZEALAND.

In reply to an ZION. MEMBER,
Mr. CARDWELL said cue), had no further intelligence
from New Zealand. All !hey had was the telegram. The
mail had nut yet arrived.

THE TOTE OF CENSURE--THE ADJOURNED

DEBATE.

On the order of the day for the resumption of the ad-
journed debate being read,
Mr LAYARD said he never rose under a more painful
sense of the responsinility that devolved upon him than he
did that evening, because it would become his duty
to justify the acts of one of the departments of the
Government, with which ho, perhaps unworthily,
was connected. He should have, in the course
of his remarks to vindicate the character of a statesman
who had taken his place in history, and one the olject of
whose deeds has been to add a lustre to the annals of his'
country. Against that noble lord in the course of this
debate garbled extracts—he would not say falsified ex-
tracts—had been brought. (Cries of •i Oh, oh.")
He hoped hon. geritlemen would wait until
he had failed to prove his assertion, because there
would be plenty of time then to cry "oh, oh." The
right honourable gentleman the member for Buck-
inghamshire, in the course of his observations in bring-
ing forward the motion, had referred to early portions of
the negotiations, but in acquitting himself of his task, it
would be his duty to fill up the intervals the right hon.
gentleman had passed over. The hon. gentleman then
proceeded to narrate the whole of the negotiations on the
Danish question, beginning as early as those of 1818, which
eventually led to the treaty of 1852, which he stated WAS
not one of guatentee, but was one in the interests of peace.
He could not assent to the principle hid down the other
evening by the hon, member for Rochdale, because he
flit that his principles, if carried out, would lead
conclusion, to
th it
dis-
memberment of Switzerland. In considering the clues-
tion with a view of arriving at a right
would be necessary to disbceovewr
would
de
ask,
,ictors transactions in which the Duke of Angustenburg
was concerned. Mao,
Dube cl Augustenburg acceptv _Le Colnpro.
mile at that time efiared him ho, he would
1a,.3 right, and whose name rip-
ask, advised him to resign
the Dano-German papers ? Why,
peered so frequently in
M. von Bisinark. (Cheers from the Opposition side.) Who,
in addition to this did all he could to forward the same
object—why M. de Beust ; and yet these two persons were
advised principal
now doing their utmost to set male the established
succession in Eekleswig-hiolstein. Wnen Lord
Russell came into otace he iour.ci the Schleswig-Holsiein
waiter already ha a very complica,ed state, and on seal ch-
log the records et the Fereiza-of.le seven folio
7clAoxi,:-v. of dasf•etchef were tun!, gad

Earl Russell, which was now so much found fault with t•/'
the other side of the house, was almost identically the eerie
as already existed in these despatches. In those despatches
—(cries of order, order)
Loid R. CECIL rose to order. He did not think it was
competent ior the hon. member to read from despatches
whiP,h were not before Parliament.

The SPEAKER ruled that the despatches could not be
read.

Mr LAYARD then continued, and said that although
he could not read an extract from those despatches, yet he
felt he could refer to them, and he therefore said that in those
seven volumes nearly all the terms used by Earl Russell were
to be found. The hon. gent emcee then went on to defend
the course adopted by Earl Russell, and contended that in
all the steps he had taken in order to brag the
1 hosetle powers to amity and peace they had been taken
! in concurrence with France, and he utterly denied that the
despatch, which had been so much ecrancnted en as having
been written at Gotha by Earl Ruese.l under Ger-
man milueace was consistent with the facts. Such
he assured the house was not the case, as the deepatenee
were written in L ndon before he went to Gotha. The
proposals in that. despatch were accepted by France and
Ptussia, but rtfased by Denmark, and had they been ec-
cepted, they would have tended to a proper settlement of the
Schleswig-Holstein difficulty. The hon. gentleman then
read quotations from the speech of Lord Palmerston
in order to show that France and Russia wet e as much re-
!erred to in the event of aggression in Denmark as
ever England was. The honourable gentleman then pro •
ceeded to read extrActs from the correeponcience, to snow
that Earl Russell had not used the threats that had been
attributed to him, and he denied that that noble lord had
ever lost one favourable opportueityof offering mediation,
even when the Diet was threatening execution. The
noble earl had ken accused of seducing Denmark
in negotiations, but honourable members, if they
r,a-I the blue-book aright, must come Ito a
different conclusion. Then, again, it had been said that
Earl Russell had launched his noble friend Lord Wodehouso
to Copenhagen, but at whose suggestion was he seat
from England, not certainly at the instance of this coun-
try, but at the instance of Russia, and he utterly denied
that Earl Russell had ever asked the King of
Denmark to do au illegal act, such as had been imputed to
him by hon. gentlemen opposite. There was a de-
spatch written by the noble earl of the most important
nature, which bad been generally misunderstood,
it was not a war despatch, but one which was hoped would
preserve peace. It was not addressed to France alone, but
also to Russia, Sweden, Austria, and Prussia, and he con-
tended that as all the other powers to the treaty had refused
to fulfil it, England was released from the necessity of
going to war.

[LErT SPEAING.]

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