The Sun.
London, England, 1848-02-23 00:00:00

REPEAL ASSOCIATION.

Mr. lIAIIIiLTON presented a petition praying
the House to adopt measures for putting down the
Repeal Association, the petitioners being of opinion
that the existing evils of Ireland were owing to the
existence of a wide-spread conspiracy under the name
of the Repeal Association.
BANK ACT.

Mr. lIASTIE presented a petition from Glasgow,
praying the House to remove the restrictions imposed
upon commerce by the Bank Act of 1845.
SECRET SERVICE MONEY.

Colonel SIBTHORP said that he would upon an
early day call the attention of the House to the sub-
ject of the Secret Service Money—a vote of 39,0001.
being taken for that purpose, nobody knowing what
became of that large sum of money.

ROMAN CATHOLIC CHARITABLE TRUSTS
BILL.

The second reading of this Bill was postponed til:
this day week, on the motion of Mr. C. AN S'f.EY.

SUPPLY.

On the motion of Sir G. GREY, it was ordered
that the House should go into a Committee of Supply
on Friday next.
WAYS AND MEANS.

The Committee of Ways and Means was also
postponed until Friday next.
CONSOLIDATED FUND (8,000,0001) BILL.
This Bill was read a second time.
IMPEACHMENT OF LORD PALMERSTON.
Mr. C. ANSTEY then rose to move for a return
of papers and documents upon which it was his in-
tention to found his charges against the Noble Lord
at the head of the Foreign Department. The ex-
istence of the present defenceless and exposed condi-
tion of this country and its apprehended consequences
were entirely chargeable on the Noble Lord. In the
year 1835 he allowed the Czar of Russia to maintain
in the Baltic a fleet of twenty-eight ships of the line.
The silence of the Noble Lord with respect to Russia
was to him as significant as the plainness of his
speech upon other occasions with respect to France.
This motion had been called a " monster motion,"
but the great neglect which had made that motion
necessary was in his opinion far more monstrous still.
The Noble Lord had made it his business to deceive
the House of Commons, to mislead the Crown and its
advisers with false statements, by the suppression of
papers, the mutilation of dispatches, the entire per-
version of truth, and the entire substitution
of falsehood —(Hear, hear.) These were the ma-
terial charges which he brought against the Noble
Lord, and which he called upon the House to
cause an inquiry to be made into. The Honourable
Member then proceeded to review the history of the
Polish nation, and the guarantees which were given
to it by the treaty of Vienna, that it should be pre-
served from Russian influence, and that a regular
system of representative government should be esta-
blished, before which the " budget" should be annually
brought under consideration, and other measures
providing for the liberty of the Poles. All these
promises had, however, been disregarded, and the
Noble Lord (Lord Palmerston) was mainly charge-
able for the present disastrous state of the Polish
nation. The Noble Lord, during the period:of the
usurpation of Poland by Russia, refused to join in the
proposal made by France to remonstrate with Russia
on the subject, and in his communications to the
Court of the Tuileries, stated that if France took
any steps in the matter the good understanding be-
tween the two countries would be destroyed. Under
invectives from the Noble Lord, Sweden discontinued
the armament of her navy, which she intended to
employ as a diversion in favour of Poland. Persia
was also prepared to attack Russia, but was prevented
from doing so by the threat of war made by the
Noble Lord. Turkey was prepared to send 200,000
horse into Russia for the purpose of assisting Poland
in the struggle, but through the representations of
the Noble Lord, Turkey disbanded her troops. Such
was the interference of the Noble Lord against
Poland, and what did he do in answer to ap-
plications for assistance from the Poles ? He
refused to do anything in the matter. There
could be no doubt that deception had been
practiced at the Foreign-office, and he hail a right to
have the Committee he asked for. The fall of Poland
was assisted by the English Foreign-office, while the
freedom of Cracow was prominently violated without
the Noble Lord at the head of that department doing
anything more than protest against the proceeding.
That was the course the Noble Lord took with
regard to the aggressions of Russia, and he
should be prepared to show that the Noble
Lord entertained precisely the same views of
his duty in 1831, when Austria was pur •
suing an aggressive policy towards this country.
Austria was, however, ready at a subsequent period
to act with tho Noble Lord in re-establishing the
freedom and independence of Poland ; but the Noble
Lord again wilfully neglected his duty, heeding not
the representations of Austria; and in process of
time, Austria was compelled to abandon the cause of
Poland, and became a party to the unholy league
promoted by Prussia and Russia. Over and over again
was the fate and condition of Poland brought under
the consideration of the British Parliament by
private Members, but the Noble Lord invariably
succeeded in throwing such obstacles in the way of
their movements as entirely to defeat their object.
When the Noble Lord was in office before, Mr.
Patrick Stewart moved that a British Consul should
be sent to Cracow, but upon a promise that a Consul
should be sent out the motion was withdrawn. That
promise had never been fulfilled ; and he would ven-
ture to assert that the Noble Lord never in-
tended to fulfill it. On the 22d of March
1837, the Hon. Member for Marylebone reminded
the Noble Lord of his promise, when the Noble Lord
told the House that he had not sent a Consul, because
his views and opinions had been changed upon the
subject. Subsequently the Noble Lord, the present
Member for MaryleboDe, after informing the Noble
Lord at the head of the Foreign Department that he
intended to make a motion affecting the Noble Lon'.
character—

Lord PALMERSTON—No such thing.
Mr. AN STEY would wave that part of his state-
ment relating to the Noble Lord's character, and
come at once to what the Noble Lord, the Member
for Marylebone, did do on the occasion to which he
was referring. The Noble Lord brought forward
his motion, but the Noble Lord the Foreign Secre-
tary took care not to be present; and ulti-
mately, by aid of his friends, the Noble Lord
at the head of the Foreign-office defeated the motion,
by securing a "count out" of the House. In the
same year the Noble Lord the Member for Mary-
lebone lost his seat in that House, and since then the
Noble Lord had not found an opportunity of bringing
the matter again before the House. He (Mr.
Anstey), however, had taken up the subject at this
point, and he now deliberately told the House that
the Foreign-office was in possession of documents
relating to Poland, which ought long ago to
have been laid before Parliament.—(Hear, hear.)
Again, in 1830, upon the accession of the Noble

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Lord to office by the recognition of a treaty which
gave Circassia to Russia, the Noble Lord undid even,
thing which his predecessors, Lord Aberdeen and the
Duke of Wellington, had accomplished. Subse-
quently the Noble Lord raised Mehemet Ali to the
position of an independent Sovereign ; and by after-
wards assisting that ambitious Pacha in his attack
upon Constantinople, the Noble Lord committed a
direct act of treachery towards Turkey. He came
now to one of the Noble Lord's Illst acts of treachery
which he wished to brkg under the judgment of the
House. The act in question was the handing over of
Turkey to Russia. And with resct to all the
charges he had brought against the Noble Lord, he
called upon him to defend himself from them ; and
if he (Mr. Anstey) failed to prove them,
he was ready to submit himself to his vengeance.

(LEFT SPEAKING.)

[lt is right to mention that the motion on which the
lion. Member based his charges against the Secre-
tary of State for Foreign Affairs, which extended
over several pages of the Votes a week or two ago,
was nofpublished in the Votes of to-day. The motion
on w Lich he framed his address appeared in the fol-
lowing terms :—" Address for papers, except such
documents as have been already laid before th•
House.'"--Vide notices of motions, p. 71.]

ELECTION COMMITTEES.
(TIIIS J)AY.)
PEEBLESIIIRE.

The Select Committee appointed to inquire into the
allegations contained in the petition presented against
the return of Mr. Forbes Mackenzie, met for the first
time this morning; Lord Robert Grosvenor in the chair.
Mr. Andrews, QC., with whom was Mr. Forsyth, ap-
peared for the petitioners, and Mr. Sergeant WrAnghata
fur the sitting Member.

Mr. ANDREWS opened the case for the petitioner, Mr.
Carmichael. This ease was principally one of scrutiny,
and the evidence which the petitioners was prepared to
put in would prove that Mr. Mackenzie's majority of 77
was made up of faggot and fictitious votes.