The Sun.
London, England, 1864-07-08 00:00:00

regret that he felt himself bound to support the address
prepared by his right hon. friend. He believed that address
expressed accurately the opinion of England ; and of this
he was quite certain, that the pitiful and helpless pages
which he had waded did not reflect the spirit and
throllo7 "^c,lish people. They should remove
aspiratione of the Am....„ 4. conditions which they
those froM authority who had ' in order to
had not fulfilled. They should be removeu, •
prevent humiliation, and England would rise to ber
name and fame and power, become once morel' the moral
bulwark of the oppressed against the oppressor, and resume
her wonted influence in the councils of Europe. (Conser-
vative cheers )
Mr OSBORNE moved the adjournment of the debate.

Mr ONSLO W, in seconding the motion, said he thought
the Government had steered the barque of the State with
consummate skill. (Oh, oh, and laughter, by the Conser-
vatives.) Hon. gentlemen miflot hugn, but there was a
strong party in the House and a still stronger party in the
country who were of that opinion, and had confidence in the
Government, It was his firm conviction that so long as
they were blessed with a Liberal Government--(hear, hear,
and laughter)—and so long as affairs were administered by
the Government now in office, England was secure. (Cheers
and laughter.) It was all bosh to say the prestige of Eng-
land was lessened on the Continent. (Laughter.) It
England was hated on the Continent, his long experience
told him it was because we were rich and powertul, and
because we were happy. (Cheers and counter-cheers.)
The Government, instead of a vote of censure, were worthy
of thanks for having slipped the neck of England out of
that noose which was prepared for her. (Hear, hear.) As
this was a struggle for party and power, he should support
the Government, with the full anticipation that his vote
would meet with the approbation of his constituents.

Mr HENN ESSY said that, before the debate was ad-
journed, he wished to call the attention of the douse to a
circumstance which might have the wffect of inducing two
members of the Government for the future to pay that
deference which was due to the chair. He found that the
noble lord at the head of the Government, on the 27th
April, 1855, addressing that House, used these words
with reference to a statement made by the Under-
Secretary of State for the Home Department : " Every
reasonable man must have been convinced that the
charges made by the honourable member (Mr Layard)
were false and caluminous." (Opposition cheers.) The
noble lord had risen that night not only to call to order an
hon, member who had used precisely identical words, but
had actually concluded by calling into question the decision
of the speaker.
Lord PALMERSTON apprehended that on the occa-
sion to which the hon. member referred, he had applied
those terms not to the hon. member for Southwark, but to
charges made by so oe other person. (Oh, and hear.) In
any case he entirely submitted to any decision which Mr.
Speaker might make on that or any other point. He rose
chiefly to ask the hon member for Buckinghamshire
whether it was h s wish, and the wish of those acting wit h
him, that the debate should terminate to• morrow night. It
so, he would appeal to hon. members who bad motions on
the paper, on the motion for go ng Into committee of supply
to allow that motion to be made only as a matter of tot m,
so that the debate might be proceeded with as soon as the
forms of the House permitted. (Hear, hear.)
Mr DISRAELI said—So far as he could collect the
wishes of the House, it was that the debate should be con-
cluded to-morrow (Friday) night.
The adjournment of the debat was then agreed to.
The Cranbourn-street Bill passed through committee.
The Indemnity Bill was read a third time and passed.

COURTS OF JUSTICE SITE BILL.
This bill• was read a second time

The Indio Srocks Transfer Act Amendment Bill was
read a t ird time and pas-ed.

PILOTAGE ORDER CONFIRMATION (No 2) BILL
The order 'or the commi,tal of this bill was discharged.
The Turnpike Act 4 Continuance Bill was read a second
time.

PUBLIC Sc HOOLS BILL.
This bill passed through committee.
The Ecclesiastical Courts and Registries (Ireland) Bill
passed through committee.
The Judgments, &c., Law Amendment Bill was read a
third time and passed.
STREET MUSIC (METROPOLIS) BILL.
On the motion for the third reading of this bill
Sir W. JOLLIFFE moved that it be read a third time
that day three months.
The motion was r( jected by 49 to 18,
The bill was read a third time and passed,
The other business was disposed of and the house ad-
journed a few minutes before two o'clock,

Scene in the House of Commons last Night.

There were fewer cards left by members with the
chaplain at a quarter to four last afternoon than on
the previous evenings of the debate; but there was
no lack of those distinguishing marks of a lull at
iendance. When Mr. Layard rose the house was
almost thin, the Opposition being in the majority ;
but by halt'-cast five the house had resumed the
appearance which has become" normal in the pr.,-
ben t Parliamentary conjuncture. The reason for this
was obvious, for it was soc.n discovered that Mr.
Layard was melting a capital speech. His prepa-
rations showed very formidably. There was a de-
spatch box, full of neatly-arranged papers; on one
side of his chosen position at the table there was
another packet of tethered documents conspicuously
.placed before him on the box, which is so useful in
giving effect to emphatic periods by the hollow
sound which it returns to the energetic slaps that
,re bestowed upon it; while a jorum of water for
purposes of deglutition was exhibited with ominous
ostentation, and flatskud a pile of volumes of what
were blue-books before they were endued witti the
uniform binding of the library of the house. At
once Mr. Layard gave notice that he was going to
make a long speech, and immediately he went in for
uttermost and loyal defence of Lord Russell, by be-
cemieg intensely aggressive in a series of parey-
• heses, interspersed between statements of facts, col-
lation of documents, and explaining away of the
well-culled quotations which had been used by
gentlemen opposed. Notably, he dissipated what
was supposed to be a great Faint made by some-
body—Mr. Horsnaan, we believe—on the date and
the locality of what is called the " Gotha de-
spetch," which he showed was not written in '
a Cabinet in Germany under the supervision of
the King of Prussia, but in Downing-street,
before Lord Russell went on his continental
tour in attendance on the Queen. This speech
was the moos welcome even to the opponents
of the Government, because it was the first lormai
defence of their policy whit:a had been attempted
since Mr. Gladstone had spoken. Speakieg directly
Mr. Layard may have been
expected from
to
b Foreigne earnest,
Office,
even energetic ; but he un-
questionably outdid all expectations. He stirred
and excited the House; the cheers broke out at
almost every other sentence; every point was taken
up watmty by the members behind him; while the
pleasant bitter of ironical cheers was administered
to him with a palpable tonic effect. Tne least tacti-
cal part of his speech, its cooderonation, distributing
defiance and retort with a slight indiscretion, bed
the effect of putting the House into a turmoil and
a state of antagonism which 'ended to give a pro
minency to Mr. Gathorne Hardy, who followed,
which that gentleman would hardly have achieved
for himself, however well he had got up his lesson.
Cut iously enough, Lord John Manners rose at the
same time with Mr. Hardy, indicating an absence
of arrangement in the debate; for, both being oc-
cupants of the front Opposition bench, they might
be supposed to have been in communication on the
matter of mar. marring. Mr. Hardy is what may be
called a tempestuous speaker. and seems to be in a
state of chronic excitement, and, flushed beyond
himself by the spirit of the scene, he used words
towards Mr. Layard which caused that gentleman
to jump up and demand that they should "be taken
down." The Speaker, actuated by the reluctance
to put in force the penal rules of the House, owing
to an ignorance he shares with all his predecessors
as to what is to be done in order to carry them out
in action, intimated that, looking to the habits of
the present Parliament, he saw nothing particular in
the language in question. This brought up Lord
Palmerston in a well-assumed rage, who impeached
the decision of the chair; to whom came, in a mill
better feigned passion, Mr. Disraeli, who brought
up Mr. Gladstone in . a real one ; and in he
melee, which grew hot and furious, Mr. Osborne
intervened in the new character of the " vir pietate
grevis," whose calm and reverend presence has been
described as effectual in tamieg down the passionate
impulses of a crowd, and demanded deference to the
decision of the chair. On this the Speaker, who-
had been rather snubbed, insinuated that both pare
ties were in th© wrong, and that the best thing
they could do was to let the matter drop, with a
promise not to "do so any more," which half-sate
cestic advice was duly followed. Soon after the
House was lett in the hands of Sir Francis Gold.
staid, until Mr. G. Bentinck rose to gratify a natural
curiosity as to how he would vote, and who, while
stating that he should go against Ministers, de-
clared that he could not go into the same lobby
with certain Iritih Roman Catholic members, if he