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BILL.

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

HOUSE OF LORDS, July 20.

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

BILL.

On the motion of Lord CAMPBELL this Bill was
read a third time and pa-sed.

LUNATIC ASYLUMS BILL.
This Bill wa% read a second time.
SUMMARY CONVICTIONS BILL.
This Bill passed through Committee.
INDICTABLE OFFENCES BILL.
This 8.11 passed through Committee.
R 0 ME.

The Earl of CARLISLE presented a petition from
Manchester (as we understooki) against any interference
with the liberties of the Korean p..ople.__
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CONINION6 LNCLOSUIiE BILL.

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

FOREIGN POLICY OF THE COUNTRY.
Lord BROUGHAM rose to move the following reso-
lutions (ot which his Lordship had given notice) on the
subject of the foreign pulley of this country.
" 1. That it is right and was the duty ot the Govern-
ment to ri quire 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 inconsi.tent 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 regrets to observe in the con-
duct of the Goeernni,nt, particularly as shown by
laid
allies
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feeling
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-
cats 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
ielould 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 assura-ce
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," audit 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 he 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 calledipn 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 lath Jan. have taken
a course entirelyand so diametrically opposite to such instruc-
tions. It would giva 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
*h... toa~~ulllPLou • but h. 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, corn_
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 eur 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 the undeniable rights of war, and according to the strictest
rules of the law of nations, ample security against a similar
Outrage and aggression for the future.—( Hear, hear.) He
acted a more humane and a more merciful part. He (Lord
Brougham) only lamented, and he thought it was an error,
that he should have so far stopped short of what he had a
right to do. He would not have had him take a single acre
of land to increase the territory of the conqueror or diminish
that of the vanquished ; but he would have had him show
at least that it was not from fear of resistance but from mag-
nanimity he had resolved to stop.—(Hear, hear.) Then it
talkas said, " Oh, but
we shall have peace," and mediation was
e(1 01 and offered, dan the mediation of this country