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was proposed, he trusted in God the people would rise as one
man to resist it.
Sir W. JOLLIFFE said the Hon. Member for Wolver-
hampton and his friends had throughout treated the ques-
tion as one of protection ; but it was not so. So far from it,
that it was a suggestion which ought to receive the support
of all the financial reformers in the House. They saw an
empty Exchequer, and they suggested a means of replenish-
ing it in a manner which be was certain the Noble Lord at
the head of the Government would willingly adopt, but that
he was prevented by the friends sitting behind him. He be-
seeched the Chancellor of the Exchequer not to hearken so
wholly to the merchant and manufacturing class, who were
described by Adam Smith as eminently qualified to take
care of their own interests, but who were at the same time
very liable to beguile the simple country gentlemen. He
ought to take advice from that class of which he was so
great an ornament. He confessed that he had been much
astonished last night to hear the Premier say boldly that
nothing could ever be done with the national debt but pay
the interest of it. It was a declaration likely to make a
serious impression upon the monetary world. The revolu-
tions on the Continent had all been preceded by deficiencies
in the Exchequer. and large additions to the debt of the
country. The Right Hon. Gentleman ougt to take warning
in time.
Mr. ROEBUCK—They had now arrived at the 20th
July, and he trusted they would be allowed to transact some
of the vast accumulation of business which appeared on the
paper. They had passed the greater part of the night in
a discussion more worthy of a debating club than of that
House. They had no proposition with which a Govern-
ment could deal—no question before the House upon which
a private Member could give an opinion. A Right Hon.
Gentleman who had grown grey in the service, had half
,angrily given a notice, which he had not the courage to
follow up, and forsooth he made a suggestion to the Chancel-
lor of the Exchequer. Nothing so idle bad ever before occurred
—nothing so disrespectful to a House of Parliament was ever
before proposed. To put an end to it he moved that the
House do now adjourn.
The SPEAKER trusted the House would support him in
keeping speakers to the question before the House which was
the question of adjournment.—(Hear, hear.)
Mr. BANKES did not think the on. Member for Sheffield
would promote the transaction of public business by adopt-
ing such a course. He trusted he would withdraw his
motion, and, although anxious to answer his speech, if the
motion was withdrawn, he would not trespass on the time of
the House.
The motion for adjournment was 'withdrawn, and the
House went into a Committee of Ways and Means, when the
usual votes for making good the supplies out of the Consoli-
dated Fund were agreed to and reported.
Mr. B. OSBORNE gave notice that on the bringing up
of the report on Supply, to-morrow (this day), he would
call the attention of the House to the advance of the Russian
troops into Hungary.
RAILWAYS ABANDONMENT BILL.
The amendments to this Bill were considered, and the Bill
was ordered to be read a third time on Tuesday, at Twelve
o'clock.
NEW FOREST AND WALTHAM BILL.
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NUISANCES REMOVAL BILL.
This Bill was re-committed.
_ _ ENCLOSURE ACT BILL.

The Enclosure Act (Extension of Powers) Bill went
through the Committee, some verbal alterations having been
made in the clauses.
DRAINAGE OF LANDS BILL.

The Drainage of Lands Bill was read a second time, to be
committed on Monday.

PAVILION (BRIGHTON) BILL.
The House then went into Committee on the Royal Pa-
vilion (Brighton) Bill.
The clauses up to 8 were agreed to without observation.
On clause 9 being read, which provided that no stamp
duty be paid on the purchase,
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER moved that it
be omitted. He could not recognise such a principle, which
was against the general law of the land.
Captain PECHELL said such conduct was very far from
fair. An agreement for the purchase of the property had
been entered into by the people of Brighton, of which this
clause formed a part. They thought that, in dealing with
the Woods and Forests, they were dealing with honest and
sincere people; and his opinion of the Noble Lord at the head
of that office was such, that if the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer succeeded in striking out the clause, the Noble Lord
would pay the money out of his own pocket.
Lord A. HERVEY thought such a course as that taken
by the Right Hon. Gentleman was not to be justified, and
he trusted his Hon. Colleague would divide the House upon
the question.
After a short conversation, _ _ _

The CHAIRMAN reported progress, and obtained leave to
sit again to-morrow (this day).
, The New Zealand Land Conveyances Bill was read a third
time and passed.
THE COLLECTION OF RATES (DUBLIN) BILL.
This Bill went through Committee.
DUBLIN IMPROVEMENT BILL.
Mr. REYNOLDS moved a proviso upon clause 132.
Sir W. SOMERVILLE opposed it.
The proviso was then withdrawn.
Amendments were agreed to, and the Bill was reported.
ATTACHMENTS, COURT OF RECORD (IRELAND)

BILL.
This Bill passed through Committee.
The House then adjourned at Half-past Two o'clock.

HOUSE OF LORDS, July 20.

Their Lordship 3 assembled at Five o'clock.
ADMIRALTY JURISDICTION (COLONIES)

BILL.

On the motion of Lord CAMPBELL this Bill was
read a third time and passed.

LUNATIC ASYLUMS BILL.
This Bill was read a second time.
SUMMARY CONVICTIONS BILL.
This Bill passed through Committee.
INDICTABLE OFFENCES BILL.
This Bill passed through Committee.
ROME.

The Earl of CARLISLE presented a petition from
Manchester (as we understood) against any interference
with the liberties of the Rowan people.
COMMONS INCLOSURE BILL.

On the motion of the Earl of CARLISLE, this Bill
was read a-second time.

FOREIGN POLICY OF THE COUNTRY.

Lord BROUGHAM rose to move the following reso-
lutions (of which his Lordship had given notice) on the
subject of the foreign policy of this country.
" 1. That it is right and was the duty of the Govern-
ment to require and obtain from foreign powers satisfac-
tory explanations of those recent movements in the
Italian States which tend to unsettle the existing distri-
bution of territory and to endanger the general peace.
"2. That it is inconsistent with the general interests
and duty of this country to interfere in the concerns of
foreign nations, as between their Governments and their
subjects.

"3. That this House regretsto observe in the con-
duct of the Government,particularly as shown by
.
the papers laid before Parliament, • a want of friendly
feeling towards allies to whom we are bound by treaty
and by mutual acts of goodwill''
The Noble and Learned Lord then said that whosoever would
wish to undertake the discussion of any difficult and deli-
cate question touching the foreign policy of the country
ought, above all things, to free himself from every feeling of
national prejudice. which might disturb his judgment, for
when the mind laboured under such, expressions were apt to
be used which might, whether they were well or ill under-
stood, give umbrage elsewhere, and might endanger the
peace as well as the policy of the highest interests of this
country. It gave him great satisfaction—seeing that he
s'iould unavoidably have to express some difference of
opinion with his Noble Friends opposite—to be able to
commence what he had to state by expressing his entire
approval of such sentiments as those he was about to
cite in their better language than his own, when they say,
and instruct their Envoy at the Court of the Two Si-
cilies to say, "that they give the strongest assurance
to that Court of the earnest desire of the British Govern-
ment to draw, if that were possible, still closer the bonds
of friendship which had so long united the Courts of Great
Britain and the King of the Two Sicilies," and:it was the
more grateful to him to join in those sentiments—better ex-
pressed than he could have expressed them—because he
should have occasion, in the course of the remarks be was
about to make, and which were wrung from him by
accusations made against the Neapolitan authorities, the
Neapolitan ministers, and the Neapolitan troops, and, in
the true spirit of the passage which he had just read,
to defend those parties from the attacks that had been
made upon them, he thought most injuriously, most in-
considerately, and most unjustly.—(Hear, hear.) That dis-
patch was dated on the 16th December, 1847, but, somehow
or other, events had happened soon after which made it
hardly possible to suppose that the same hands which wrote
that passage wrote the subsequent instructions, or that the
same agents who were called on to obey the orders in that
passage, and to represent those feelings of old attachment, to
draw which closer was said to be impossible—that the same
hands who gave the instructions, and the same agents to
whom they were conveyed, could on the 18th Jan. have taken
a course entirely and so diametrically opposite to such instrue.
tion.s. It would give him great satisfaction if, having begun
to touch on the southern parts of Italy, he could proceed at
once thither in the progress in which he was about to ask
them to accompany him ; but he found, by what had taken
place elsewhere within the last few weeks, that it was neces-
sary, however reluctant he might be, to go back to the
north of the Peninsula, and recur to a question often agi-
tated in that House—he alluded to the Sardinian Monarchy,
and the still unconcluded negotiation between that power
and Austria, to the still unremoved fleets of the Sardinian
Monarchy from the Adriatic, to the still beleaguering
of our ancient .. ally and friend Austria in that
part of Europe, and to the prevention by such beleaguering
—of which, whether accidentally or not, Sardinia was the
occasion, and the cause of its continuance—of her employ •
ing her undivided resources in crushing rebellion in other
of her provinces; but, taken altogether, it was impossible
he could address himself to our foreign policy without re-
ferring to the northern parts of the Peninsula. It was in
the beginning of the session that he had occasion to foretel
the speedy discomfiture of the then Sardinian Monarch by
the victorious troops of Marshal Radetzky, and, after a
temporary success, he was repulsed and driven back, com-
pelled to pass the Ticino, and forced to resort for pro-
tection to the walls of his own capital, and only not
followed to that capital by his victorious pursuers because
they mercifully abstained from using their victory against
him, and preferred to redeem their pledge and maintain
their arrangements of the Treaty of Vienna, to doing
that which the rights of war gave them—to enlarging
their territory and taking security against a repeti-
tion of the offence. The best friends of the arrangement of
the treaty of Vienna, the stoutest champion of that distri-
bution of territory, even my Noble Friend near me, who,
by his able negotiations, completed the work of our more
illustrious victories, he himself could not have objected, nor
dreamt of objecting, to Marshal Radetzky following Charles
Albert across the Ticino, and exacting from him, according
to thereiesofundeniable rights' of war, and according t.o the strictest
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Out the law of nations, ample security against a similar
acted aggression and aggression for the future.—( Hear, hear.) He
tarnore humane and a more merciful part. He (Lord
that he should only lamented, and he thought it was an error,
right to doould have so far stopped short of what he had a
of laud to i He would not have had him take a single acre
that of the increase the territory of the conqueror or diminish
at least that it ; but he would have had him show
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nanimity he , was not from fear of resistance but from mag-
was said, icl3llresolved to stop.—(Hear, hear.) Then it
talked of and twe shall have peace," and mediation was
• offered, and the mediation of this country

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