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ridiculed the idea of such a body compromising themselves
in the mode in question.

MEXICO.
Mr KINGLA.KE called attention to the state of our
present relations with Mexico, and moved an humble address
to her most gracious Majesty for the production of certain
papers in reference to the subject. He said it was rathei
anomalous that the French invasion of Mexico, which re-
sulted in the occupation of only a small portion of the terri-
tory. should have led to 39,000 French soldiers being
stationed there.
Lord PALMERSTON said that the policy which was
pursued by this country was to enter into amicable relations
with every Power, whether a monarchy or a republic, when
either of their forms of government had been established.
Before the Archduke Maximilian went to Mexico the Go-
vernment of the country had declined to enter into any re-
lation or treaty wilh him, as being opposed to the practice
of government. However, when the people of that
country recognised him, they then entered into
friendly relations with him. The principal ground
of complaint on the part of this country in regard to Mexico
was that it had hitherto been governed by some chiefs who
used their authority for the purpose of plundering and iil-
treating British subjects. With record to a change in the
Government of that country, it must be remembered that a
large portion of the population werein favour of the same,
not- being sati:ficd with Spanish rule, to which they had
been so long subj, e!ed.
PROROGATICN OF THE HOUSE.
At a quarter past three o'clock,
Sir AUGUSTUS CLIFFORD, Usher of the Black Rod
summoned the Speaker and members to the Upper House
to hoar the Royal Speech proroguing Parliament by corn-
mission. The right hon gentleman, accompanied by seve-
ral members, then proceeded to the house of Lords, and,
after a short absence, returned.
al each, the mem-
The t"PEAKER having read the Roy Sp
hers shook hands with the right hon. gentleman, which
terminated the session of 1864.

HOUSE OF COMMONS—Last Evening.
EMIGRATION (AM E RICA).
Lord E. HO WARD called attention to the subject of
emigration to the United States of America, in reference to
the prolongation of the war now raging in that country.
The gravity of the subject would be his justification for
bringing forward the subject at that late period of the ses-
sion. In consequence of his position as a member of the
distress relief committee at Glossop, one of the towns most
affected by the cotton distress, he found it became necessary
to have a census made of the population in that district,
and one of the elements of that census was the question of
emigration. He found that a large emigration had prevailed
from that district, and in the course of the inquiry he disco-
vered that it was also large from the cotton districts in gene-
ral. In 22 towns taken promiscuously from the cotton dis-
tricts—he did not know that they were the largest towns—
and in the course of a few months, setting aside single men,
of married men not less than 1,460 had left this country for
the United States, of whom not less than 780 had deserted
their wives, leaving 2,160 persons chargeable upon the rater.
Besides that, he had the names of fourteen persons who had
emigrated from one locality in Manchester within three
months, and of these not less than twelve had deserted
their wives and families, and probably most of these were
young and newly-married men. These circumstances
showed that there must be tome deep cause at work. It
would not meet the argument to say that these men had
emigrated intending afterwards to send for their wives and
families, because they knew that there had been instances
in which the manufacturers of America had sent for manu-
facturing hands from England, paying the expenses of the
voyage for themselves and their families, tho agreement
being that this amount was to be deducted afterwards from
their wages. He had further to say that great caution was
exercised by those agents who took these people out of
the country, for they did not give written documents or
money until the emigrants were safe on board the vessels
which were to convey them to America. He would instance
another case, which showed how these emigrants were dis-
posed of when they reached the other side of the Atlantic.
He had a letter in his hand relating to the ease of a man
who was a private in the Manchester volunteer, This
letter was written by an efficer of that corps, who stated
that a young man in his company had been decoyed to
New York. A companion of his had Been an advertisement
in a newspaper stating that young men were wanted in
Canada, and that they would have permanent employment
at the rate of 35a per week. An interview took place
between this young man and his agent, and the young
man agreed to go. The statement made was, that on ar-
riving in Canada employment would be obtained imme-
diately. On this understanding six men were induced to
go. On arriving at Liverpool conveyances were waiting to
take them to the ship. On getting on board the Virginia they
found that this vessel was bound for New York, but they
were told that on their arrival there they would be reshipped
for Canada, When they arrived at New York they were
provided Rith refreshments, and they were told that they
would be conveyed to Long Island. On their arrival there
two of the men enlisted at once; this young made his
escape, and succeeded in getting into the hold of one of the
Cunard steamers ; and on his arrival at home declared
himself " a miserable victim of Yankee rascality." Nor was
that a solitary instance. There was a case now before the
Foreign-office in which a man named Macartney was landed
at New York with a letter for £lO. He was drugged, robbed,
and, while in a state of stupefaction, enlisted into the Federal
navy. Ho was not enlisted voluntarily. He believed that on
all the large passenger ships sailing from Liverpool agents
of the Federal Government wore on board with the view of
recruiting young men. He was told of such a case two
days ago in which an emigrant was treated by a person on
board an American passenger ship and invited to a house at
New York. He accepted the invitation, he was drugged
with whisky, and the next thing of which he became con-
scious was that he was a Federal soldier, He deserted, but
was captured, and placed in gaol. If they opened any news-
paper, and referred to the police-sheet, similar cases would
be found. He had seen the case of a man from Hull, who
had been taken to an island near New York, no doubt Long
Island, where he met with several other Englishmen, who
had been impressed into the Federal service, and it was
complained that those outrages were constantly committed.
There was the case of another man who was paid a
cheque for £4O, which sum he received from the Ame-
rican Government, and he was now in General Grant's
Federal army. He looked with great concern upon the
great emigration at present going on, and he advised the
large manufacturers to do their utmost to stop the flow of
skilled labour from their several districts. The noble
lord then referred to the circumstances that occurred
a short time ago in Irelend, and afterwards
read extracts from letters written by those who had
unfortunately been deluded into quitting England for
America, all of whom advised their fellow workmen to look
with the greatest suspic on upon all inducements to visit
the United States at the present moment. It might ba that
the wages given there would be larger than those in Eng-
land, yet the price of the necessaries of life were so enor-
mous that the lesser sum earned in England went further
than that to be obtained in America. Mr Justice Fitegerald
in a charge he gave the other day, referred to the terrible
frequency with which such acts were committed. Within
the last few days the noble lord said some papers with re-
gard to this question had been presented to the other house,
and copies had also been distributed amongst honourable
members, and ho advised every hon. member who took an
interest in the question to read them, feeling assured that
ho would get up from their perusal with a heart full of sor-
row. The scene opened very much like a melodrama, only
he was sorry to say that the jocose part was very little in-
deed. The correspondence opened with an account
of two rascale. One of them pretended that he
was connected with some railway works in America,
and the other (who would not be misrepresented by
describing his actions as such as would well become the
character of an imp of the devil) —(hear, hear) —plotted
and made the necessary bargains with the people. He ac
cordingly deluded 120 men to leave Ireland on a false
representation of the work and the amount of wages to be
paid, but on board the steamer was a man who was almost
a match for him. One of the men wore his hat on the
side of his head, and by that means contrived to disguise
the fact that he had but one eye until they were in the
middle of the ocean, Now, having but one eye did not
make the man a worse labourer, but it did a worse soldier,
and on the man Feeney discovering it he abused him
very much, showing that his real object was to obtain men
for the American arniy and not for railway works. (Hear,
hear.) When the ship arrived in the docks the men were
surrounded and dosed with whisky. Many of them were
placed in the police cells, and collisions were stated to have
occurred between the policemen and the recruiting agents,
and in the end several of the men who emigrated found
themselves, much against their inclination, in the Federal
army. They applied naturally to our consuls for advice and
assistance, and a correspondence took place bet ween our
consuls and Lord Lyons and the American Government,
and also between Lord Lyons and the Foreign-office upon
the subject. From that correspondence, which, as he had
already said, had been printed, it appeared that emigrants
were made drunk, inveigled into the army, and robbed by
the recruiting agents of the bounty, so that the sharks
who preyed upon them made large profits; and many
of she scenes which Mr Consul Lousada witnessed at
Boston involuntarily recalled to his mind his experiences
in Caba. It was, however, to be hoped that the publica-
tion of these facts would check the treculatffioars oftenc. (Hear.)
are It
was stated that many of these sp cled
500 dole and more by these transactions. The man Feeney,
who took this cargo of slaves out to America, was arrested
in Ireland on the charge of endeavouring to enlist men for
the Federal army, but he was released because it was
s
thought he produced proper and sufficient proofs
.that his
enterprise was a legitimate one—that of Prcicur:sgArsr
for a railway undertaking. (Hear.) On the
withth Pi 11,
1861, Consul Murray wrote to Lerd Lyons rbiajr( to
getTthh: men drunk
the men taken out by Feeney, tharthere. could 0 no
doubt there was a systematic attempt to
for the purpose of enlisting thera.. 0 'Mr men
whom they first sent out to Canada to sec if labour could be
who left Blackburn under the direction of Ainsworth,
found there, it was to bo hoped had not shared the same
fate, but Ainsworth had turned up in a wretched state at
Portland, and his sallow had failed. (Hear.) His object
in bringing the subject under the consideration of the house
was to ware his fellow. countrymen for the future against
these designing agents, and not for the
paepose of making
any barge against the American Government. On the
3d of May, 1864, Lord Lyons, in a despatch to the Foreign
Secretary, stated that the number of British subjecLs serv-
ing in the United States army and navy was very conside-
rable. iThe most laborious, painful, and unsatisfactory

part of his duty since the war had broken out was con-
nected with the complaints of British subjects, and no
pains had been spared by himself or the consuls in inves-
tigating thew, and every effort was made to obtain redress
in those cases that were well founded, but in few cases only
had their efforts produced any satisfactory results. (Hear,
hear.) Major General Dix, the military commandant at
New York, had informed the American Secretary to the
Navy that almost every imaginable form of fraud, outrage,
and dissipation had been developed by the American re-
cruiting agents to obtain the recruiting bounty. Boys
had been deluded from their homes ; men had been
drugged ; and, in short, every artifice and fraud had
been resorted to, and men labouring under incurable
diseases bad been pressed into the service, in order to
plunder the American Government of the bounty money.
The unfortunate men from this country were deceived
and kidnapped in the most scandalcus and inhuman man-
ner in New York. Whilst they were unconscious from
drink they were clothed in the unit mu of the Federal
army, and on coming to their senses they suddenly found
themselves absorbed in an army, and called upon to take
part in a war the objects of which they were not only igno-
rant of, but indifferent to its results. The noble lord then
further quoted from Lord Lyons's despatches which de-
picted the horrors of the system in America, and which was
corroborated by Major-General Dix; and in one of Lord
Lyons's despatches he stated that British subjects who
claimed exemption had, contrary to the general rule, been
sent to the army, and many of them had been shot and
others wounded pending the inquiry into the justice of
their claims. In a war of defence it was the duty of
every man to take up arms in support of his country ; but
a war of aggression he looked upon as wicked, and those
who foisted themselves into it and took part in it did no
other than commit murder. It was true there were some
men—filibusters or buccaneers—who drew down on them-
selves a certain amount of approbation from a large
portion of mankind ; but he doubted if any right-minded
man applauded the conduct of those who joined in it, and
thereby prolonged that which every one would wish to see
stopped. (Hear, hear.) He had no wish to say anything
about the United States Government or army. He cared
not what government a country had so long as it protected
industry, was just, and gave the necessary amount of pro-
tection and happiness to its people; and with regard to the
American army, and also the Southern army, they had
shown themselves to be composed of men whose
fighting had not been equalled ; but he could not help
thinking that it would be more just towards them) bravo
men that their numbers should not be added to by men who
had nothing to do with the struggle that was now raging
in America. (Hear, hear.) It was time that this struggle
should cease, and he thought we ought to do everything
in our power to prevent those evils being increased by the
emigration of our people to America. (Hear.) There were
now on both sides widows, sisters, and brothers wishing and
crying out, though not so audibly as they could desire, for
peace—(hear)—and it was our duty to prevent, as far as we
could, any fuel being added to the devouring flame. (Hear )
What was the opinion of the man who was best com-
petent to pronounce an opinion upon this subject? Earl
Russell, in his despatch to Lord Lyons, dated May 27, 1861,
referred to the case of Irishmen enlisted at Portland and
Boston for the American army, and said it appeared to her
Majesty's Government to be clear, from the reports received
from her Majesty's consuls at those ports, that those en-
listments were effected by the most fraudulent schemes,
and contrived and executed in disregard of the neutral
rights of Great Britain. It appeared that when they
landed at Portland the unfortunate emigrants were plied
with drink. They were then dealt with in a manner
which made it natural that they should yield to the temp-
tations and persuasions of the recruiting officers, who
obtained access to them by the aid of the police autho-
rities. Those facts having come to his (Lord E. Howard's)
knowledge, he felt it to be only his duty to bring the ques-
tion before the house with the view of warning those who
might still be seduced into those ruinous engagements.
He thought that the Secretary for the Colonies might be
better able to warn the public generally through the many
emigration agents against this abominable eystem. The.
right hon. gentleman, he believed, had applied to the
agents at Liverpool on the subject, but they said that
they could not aid him in his object. He held in his
hand a card distributed by those agents, headed " Notice
to Emigrants," which, as far as it went, was very good and
unobjectionable. But at the bottom of it he observed a
very significant notice—" Remember that in America
a dollar is equal to 4s. 2d. English money, and that
a cent is equal to one farthing." (Laughter.) Now, he
thought there ought to be some special warning to the
public in respect to that particular point, inasmuch as we
all knew that an American dollar was worth nothing like 4s
in English money at the present time. It was a mere ques-
tion of humanity to do all they could to prevent some of
those poor wretches from enlisting in the United Stales
army, and by doing so to assist in preventing that unneces-
sary effusion of blood which was a disgrace to humanity.
He did not wish to utter any threats, At the same time the
United States Government ought to know that our resources
were ample, and that we were in a position to become, if ne-
cessary, the arbiters of the world. If it were possible he
should like the Government to give some expression of
1 opinion upon the subject; but, at all events, he felt certain
the Foreign-office would do all that was possible to
' I protect those who had been kidnapped from their native
I land to take part in a war which was a disgrace to both of
the contending parties.
Me LAYA RD said the noble lord had done good service
in calling attention to the subject of emigration to America.
He could not see how many of the difficulties mentioned
by the noble lord were to be avoided, but he advised the
greatest caution to be observed by all quitting their native
land. The Government had directed the proper authori-
ties to do all that was possible to protect English emigrants,
but at the sane time he hoped that those parties who wont
to America, because it was idle to suppose that emigration
could be stopped, to exercise the greatest discretion. The
emigration officers, the noble lord might rest assured, would
do all in their power to prevent unfair practices, but he
felt certain that blame was not to be attributed to the Ame-
rican Government. He would willingly give the papers
the noble lord desired.
Mr F. HENNESSY, seeing the Secretary for Ireland
in his place, wished to know whether the emigration from
Cork, to enlist in the American army, was going on at the
present time to the same extent as it was at the beginning
of the year ?

LONDON GAZETTE--This Evening,

WHITEHALL, JULY 27.
The Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent to be
passed under the Greet Seal, appointing the Rev. William
Conway, M.A., to the place and dignity of a Canon of the
Collegiate Church of st. Peter, Westminster, with the
Rectory of the parish churcb. of St. Margaret's
t, Westmin-
ster, thereunto annexed and united, void by he death of
Dr, William Cureton.
WHITEHALL, JULY 27.
The Queen has been pleas-d to present the Reverend
James Stewart to the church and parish of Peterhead, in
the Presbytery of Deer and county of Aberdeen, vacant by
the transportation of the Reverend James Mitchell to the
church and parish of South Leith.
The Queen has also been pleased to present the Reverend
Ewen Campbell to the church and parisi of Knock, in
the presbytery and island of Lewis, vacant by the resigna-
tion of the Rev. Jemes McDonald.
DOWNING STREET, JULY 28.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint Henry, Shaw,
E,q., to be Treasurer for the Island of St, Vincent.
JULY 29.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint Anthony Mus-
grave, Esq. (now Lieut-Governor of the Island of St
Vincent), to be Governor and Commander in Chief in and
over the Island of Newfoundland and its dependencies.
Her Majesty has also been pleased to appoint George
Berkeley, Esq. (now Colcnial secretary for toe colony of
British Honduras), to be Lieut-Governor of the Island of
St Vincent.

ADMIRALTY, StLv 27.
The following promotions of Engineer officers of the
Royal Navy have been made :—Mr 'Thomas Frith Pyatt
Shelley, Mr John Taylor B, Mr George Parkis, Mr John
Erriugton Warner, to be First Class Assistant Engineers—
and Mr A ltred James Tout, Mr James Nelson, Mr John
Ferguson (B), Mr George Quick, Mr James Imrie, to be
Acting First Class Assistant Engineers.
ADMIRALTY, JULY 28.
To be a Paymaster-in-Chiet—J ohn Nott. Esq.
FOREIGN-OFFICE, JULY 20.
Notification of the Raining of the Danish Blockade of the
Prussian Ports in the Baltic, and of all Por 0 and Har •
boars on the Coasts of Sleswig and Holstein.
a%.U_ pennhugen
N.G., her Ma-
It is hereby notified that Earl Russell,
Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs,
has received from her Majesty's Ministt3;
an official notification (published by the anill Mi istry of
orts
in the Baltic, and also of stl ports on t e use s of Sleswig
Marine), of the raising of the blockadehof i p
and Holstein, from the 224. Jab' iPst.. ,
the said official nal. •
The following is a copy of 1 cation
Colberg,_, Cammin,ar :::winerannde, Wol-
above referred to : according
to the concluded erasionsusp )
of Holstein and Slekvig,
s 1 Ines, the blockade of
The Ministry of Mtfheo hcerre.with that
will be raised from
tghaestP,
Grursosiifasnw
aplodret,s
Stralsipd
sB tb, Dan_...,
zl, and Pillau,
the ZOth inst., at /loon.
as also all ports
Ministrye 19th July of Marine,
1861Chagen,
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0. LUKEN.

BANKRUPTS.
That portion of the Gazette containing the bankrupts had
not arrived when we went to pretss.

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