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MOBS.
Shortly after the commence orient of the Session
the Parisian Coi'aferences were held, and, greatly
against the wis-nes of the people., a temporary
armistice was signed. From that moment it was
seen that England was betrayed, and that the in-
terests of her people were sFicril iced to the exi-

gencies of despotism.
The intelligence of the sign ature of the Treaty,
the lame and impotent conclusion of a war at
one time conducted under more favourable
auspices, was received on the Ist of April, the
only suitable day for such an announcement.
I But even that did not break the, silence of Par-
liament. The ratifications had not yet been ex-
chaaaged, and the chosen Repr3sentatives of the
People did not hazard a single inquiry as to the
nature of the terms and stipula Lions while there
WAS yet time to obtain any modification thereof.
:But this was not all ; after the Treaty had
been duly signed, sealed, and delivered L-after
the honour of Russia had been so vigilantly
gularded and effectually preserved, the privileges
wlxich insured the maritime supremacy of Great
Britain, which our greatest admiral had declared
we would sacrifice " our last ship, our last sea-
seaman, and our last pound" to maintain
unimpaired, were wickedly and wantonly re-
linquished by a stroke of the diplomatic
pen, and that without the assent of the co-ordi.
nate EstaAes of the realm, or even the mere form
of consultation being observed. Both Houses
swallowed their respective leeks with edifying
humility. They did not even venture to remon-
strate at the gross indignity to which they were
thus subjected !
Another disgrace wss inflicted on the nation.
The PIEneE-11Ls.nev Cabinet sent back Mr.
CRAMPTON and three English Consuls, with gross
contumely. The Government, however, accepted
the castigation, turned the other cheek to the
smiter, and retained Mr. DALLAS in England.
It was perfectly notorious that these ill-treated
gentlemen had acted entirely under instructions
which they were bound to obey, but
inisters permitted them to be made scapegoats,
while they sneaked out of the difficulty in which
they were involved, from the desire to gratify a
person of extraordinary influence by the enlist-
ment of German troops, and the establishment of
German garrisons throughout the chief towns of
the country. And yet there were no questions en
which they obtained more decisive majorities than
those relating to the deplorable negligence that
led to the sacrifice of Kars and the foreign enlist-
ment in America ! Indeed on every direct trial of
strength that could lead to a change of Ministry,
and to the much-dreaded appeal to the country,
they were well supported, while their most im-
portant measures were mutilated and rejected
from what Mr. DISRAELI tells us was the want of
confidence in the House.
In the Conservative ranks there was great con-
fusion and insubordination. There was, in fact,
no bond of union to cement the heterogeneous
materials. They were well aware that, even if they
could succeed in overthrowing the PALMICRSTON
Government, they could not hope to form a dur-
able Ministry from amongst themselves ; and
thus the Noble Lord was permitted to retain his
position, not from his own strength, but from the
weakness and disorganisation of his opponents.
On fiscal and financial subjects the session was
a complete blank. The Chancellor of the Exche-
quer, although the War was over, continued all
the War taxes, oppressive and intolerable as
they were. He adopted no means to bring the
monopoly of the Bank of England to a conclusion,
or to give the notice required to get rid of the
incubus that has so long paralysed the industrial
energies of the people, and prevented the develop-
ment of the wonderful natural capabilities of the
country. Sir G. CORNEWALL LEWIS did literally
nothing during the session, and most of his col-
leagues were laboriously helping him in the task.
The whole was, as we have already stated, a spe-
cimen of busy idleness, unparalleled since the
days of PENELOPE, who at night unravelled the
web constructed during the day.
Measures of Legal Reform were also introduced,
but withdrawn or rejected ; and the chief measure
carried at the close of the session was one for
legalising the simoniacal contract entered into
with two Prelates, who could not save sufficient
for their declining years, although in receipt of
enormous incomes for twenty-eight years and
twenty years respectively, and who were there-
fore obliged to be bought out when no longer
capable of performing their duties.
For one point we return our grateful thanks
to the House of Commons. Notwithstanding the
union of leaders, and the potent influences brought
into operation, they unhesitatingly rejected the
project for burying the national collection of pic-
tures amongst the cabbage gardens of Kensington-
gore, and depriving the people of the use of their
own Gallery-, in order to please the Prince Consort
and the aristocratic inhabitants of the favoured
locality. We dwell on this with the greater
pleasure, inasmuch as we have seen but little
else—save the rejection of tke Appellate Juris-
diction Bill—of which we can speak with appro-
bation and satisfaction. It is time that the
apathy should at length be shaken off, and that
the successful labours of next Session should make
amends for the scanty performances of that which
this day is brought to a disgraceful conclusion.

A sanguinary coup d'etat in Spain—an insur-
rectionary movement in Italy—a ripening revolt
in the Caucasus—a spreading discontent among
the vast and down-trodden nationalities grouped
together under the generic title of Panslavism.
Behold the first fruits of this grand and boasted
Pacification ! As to the " conditions" of the
Peace of Paris, they are not one jot less notorious
or less discreditable to its negotiators. Con-
spicuous among those conditions being The
craven reverting for the most part to the actual
condition of things generally quo antebellum. The
Crimea again the appanage of the Russian Auto•
cracy. Sebastopol again the great maritime
stronghold of the CzAR. Constantinople again
placed in imminent peril of falling at any moment
before a well-timed descent upon its coveted splen-
dours by the barbaric legions of the Head of the
House of ROMANOFF. The Danubian Prin-
cipalities again settling down into the rut
of the old and anomalous Suzerainto, the
dubious character of which has allowed the Hos-
podars of Moldavia and Wallachia to oscillate,
according to the whim of the moment, be-
tween allegiance to the SULTAN of the Osmanli,
and allegiance to the EIIIPEROR of the Muscovites.
The freedom of navigation upon the waters of the
Danube still in great measure dubious, in spite of
all sorts of ingenious precautions on the part of
our most astute, but at the same time most gul-
lible, Plenipotentiaries. The prestige of Russia
among the Asiatic tribes, still very considerable,
notwithstanding the heroic rush of the alliell
troops up the almost impregnable acclivities of the
Alma—notwithstanding the riving in two of the
grand armies of the CzAR in the valley of Balaklava
by the thunderbolt of the Light Cavalry Charge, di-
rected against the embattled ranks of the foe by the

accident of a blundering order in the hands of a
petulant aide-de-cal alp— notwithstanding the re-
newal of Thermopy at Hong the ruins of Inker-
man—notwithstand ing die brilliant feat of arms
achieved by Francs, aided by Sardinia, upon the
Bridge of Traktir, :tnd the still more brilliant and

decisive victory won by France alone upon the

great crowning day of the Crimean Campaign.,

when the Imperial tricolor fluttered at last in
triumph upon the ball-riddled summit of, the

Malakhoff I Notwithstanding all these glorious
deeds of the recont War between Russia, and the
Allies, the former, we repeat, emerges at length
from the struggle with her presti'ye among the

Asiatic tribes in a manlier firmly and resplen-
dently re-established. Aad now ? By the per-
mitted success of Generra MOURAVIEFF at Kars,

by the infamously connived at ruse of the Russian

Government—the rime by which the Allies were
(through the sacrifice of Sir FENWICK WILLIAMS
and his dauntless comy)anions) to afford the Go-
vernment of the CEA./ C, at the eleventh hour and

a half, the opport.unity of wriggling out of
their most perilous position, not merely with
virtual impunity, but with the tenderest
solicitude evinced by France and England
that the "honour" of Russia should be in
no way whatever outraged by the matter,
or even, be it said, by the mere manner, of the
Pacification. Such, in brief, were the infamous
conditions of the very despicable Peace concocted
at Paris in the spring of 1856—a Peace nego-
tiated avowedly with an eye to the " honour" of
Mussia rather than with regard to the honour of
either France or England !
And now—the consequences of the Truce
called a Pacification—have already become ap-
:parent. Already, before the Summer of the Year
a the Peace is well over,—there is the bloody
overthrow of the Spanish Constitution by a per-
: jured Sovereign and a Buccaneering Adventurer
There are the auguries of a renewal of the old
and sanguinary struggle raging so long and so
implacably among the mountains of the Caucasus,
between the soldiers of the warrior-prophet
SCHAMYL and the mercenary legions of the
Northern Autocrat ! There is the kindling again
of the torch of Civil War in Italy, without any
visible hope whatever that that great classic land
of Genius and Freedom may emerge, yet awhile,
from the eclipse of its long misrule into the daylight
of Constitutional Liberty and Intellectual Emanci-
pation. Nor can all this be wondered at—when it
is borne in mind how enormous has been the cri-
minality of the wilful short-comings of the Allies
in the negotiation of a truce with Russia, as dan-
gerous to Europe, as disgraceful to themselves. A
criminality, remember, involving amongst other
things the total abandonment of Poland to the
three robber-despots who have now for a cen-
tury and a half battoned upon the territorial
plunder won through that most odious and
accursed deed of spoliation. Italy too abandoned
no less than Poland. And with the Poles and
Italians, moreover, the chivalrous and enlightened
men of Hungary. These are the crimes of omis-
sion destined inevitably to hang like a palsy
upon the arms of France and England when next
the tocsin of a Continental War shall sound.
While as to their crimes of commission,
the actual, and visible, and substantial evil-deeds
of the War, perpetrated by the Allies in the face
of Christendom--as to those, let the primary
originators of that War respond—Russia and
Turkey 1 Is not liassia still left the bugbear of
Europe? Is not the SUBLIME PORTZ still for-
saken in jeopardy ? Russia coming out of the
conflict without any perceptible diminution
of her dominions ! Turkey coming out
of it weakened by the ruinous expenditure
inevitable in a contest of such gigantic dimen-
sions ! The Western Allies all the while in no
way compensated for their yet more enormous
disbursements—without the shadow of an indem-
nity as an assuagement for losses so immense both
in men and treasures ! A Peace like this—
carved out by the co-operative swords of France
and England ! Those two leaders of modern
civilisation, who (it was expected) were destined,
when once united in real earnest, to dictate terms
of Peace or War, at their own good pleasure, to
the nations of Christendom !

Continuation (Ireland), Bankruptcy (Scotland),
Unlawful Oaths (Ireland), Comm istion'eks of Supply
(Scotland), Intestate Personal Estates, Oxford
College Estates, Commons Inclosure (No
2), Marriage Law (Scotland) Amendment,
Income and Laud Taxes, Stamp Duties, Race
Horse Duty, Coast Guard Service, Cor-

rupt Practices Prevention, General Board of
Health Continuance, Militia Pay, Carsitor Baron
of the Exchequer, Lunatic Asylum Act Amend
ment, Deeds (Scotland), Judicial procedure (Ire
land), Court of Appeal in Chancery (Ireland),
Mercantile Law Amendment, Sheep Contageous
Diseases Prevention, Courts of Common Law (Ire-
land), Nuisances Removal, Lt-c. (Scotland), Forma-
tion, &c., of parishes, Smoke Nuisance Abatement

(Metropolis) Act, 1853, Amendment, Burial
Grounds (Ireland), Lunatic Asylums (Ireland),
Joint Stock Banks, County Court Act Amend-
ment, Stoke Poges, Evidences on Foreign Suits,
Bishops of London and Durham Retirement, Hay
and Straw Trade, Metropolis Local Management,
Vice-President of Committee ofCouncilofEducation ,

Reformatory and. Industrial Schools, Hospitals
(Dublin), Criminal Justice, Poor-law (Scotland),
Marriage, &c., Acts Amendment, Leases and
Sales, &c., Waveney Valley Railway, West
End of London Railway, Severn Navigation
Improvement Commission, Shrewsbury and
Welshpool Railway,lmprisoned Debtors Discharge
. _

Society, Aberdeen and Scottish Midland Junction

Railway Companies Amalgamation, Dorset Central
Railway, Perth Almond Valley,and Methven Rail-
way,Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Rail-
way(Extension of),Scottish Central Railway,Perth
Burgh and Harbour (No. 2), Thorston's
and Croft's Estate, Dallington Estate, Brydges'
Estate, Talbot's Divorce, and Davidson's Divorce
Bills.

The LORD CHANCELLOR then read Her
Most Gracious Majesty's speech as follows :
" MY LORDS AND GENTLEMEN,
" We are commanded by her Majesty to release
you from further attendance in Parliament, and at
the same time to express to you her warm acknow-
ledgments for the zeal and assiduity with which
you have applied yourselves to the discharge of
your public duties during the session.
" When her Majesty met you in Parliament at
the opening of the session, her Majesty was en-
g74ged, in co-operation with her Allies the Emperor
of the French, the King of Sardinia, and the
Sultan, in an arduous war, having for its object
matters of high European importance ; and her
Majesty appealed to your loyalty and patriotism
for the necessary means to carry on that 'war with
the energy and vigour essential to success.
" You answered nobly the appeal then made to
you; and her Majesty was enabled to prepare for
the operations of the expected campaign naval and
military forces worthy of the power and reputation
of this country.
" Happily it became unnecessary to apply those
forces to the purposes for which they have been
destined. A treaty was concluded by which the
objects for which the war had been undertaken
were fully attained ; and an honourable peace has
saved Europe from the calamities of continued

warfare.
" Her Majesty trusts that the benefits resulting
from that peace will be extensive and permanent ;
and that, while the friendships and alliances which
were cemented by common exertions during the
contest, will gain strength by mutual interests in
peace, those asperities which inherently belong to
conflict will give place to the confidence and good-
will with which a faithful execution of engagements
will inspire those who have learnt to respect each
other as antagonists.
" Her Majesty commands us to thank you for
your support in the hour of trial, and to express
to you'her fervent hope that the prosperity of her
faithful people, which was not materially checked
by the pressure of war, may continue, and be in-
creased by the genial influence of peace.
"Her Majesty is engaged in negotiations on the
subject of questions in connection with the affairs
of Central America, and her Majesty hopes that
the differences which have arisen on those matters
between her Majesty's Government and that of the
United States may be satisfactorily adjusted.
"We are commanded by her Majesty to inform
you that her Majesty desires to avail herself of
this occasion to express the pleasure which it
afforded her to receive during the war in which
she has been engaged numerous and honourable
proofs of loyalty and public spirit from her Majesty's
Indian territories, and from those colonial posses-
sions which constitute so valuable and important
a part of the dominions of her Majesty's crown.
" Her Majesty has given her cordial assent to
the act for rendering more effectual the police in
counties and boroughs in England and Wales.
This act will materially add to the security of per-
son and property, and will thus afford increased
encouragement to the exertions of honest in-
dustry.
" Her Majesty rejoices to think that the act for
the improvement of the internal arrangements of
the University of Cambridge will give fresh powers
of usefulness to that ancient and renowned seat of
learning.
" The Act for regulating Joint Stock Companies
will afford additional facilities for the advantageous
employment of capital, and will thus tend to pro-
mote the development of the resources of the
country ; while the Acts passed relative to the
Mercantile Laws of England and Scotland will
diminish the inconvenience which the differences
of those laws occasion to her Majesty's subjects
engaged in trade.
" Her Majesty has seen with satisfaction that you
have given your attention to the arrangements
connected with County Courts. It is her Majesty's
anxious wish that justice should be attainable by
all classes of her subjects, with as much speed, and
and with as little expense, as may be consistent
with the due investigation of the merits of causes
to be tried.
" Her Majesty trusts that the Act for placing
the Coast Guard under the direction of the Board
of Admiralty will afford the groundwork for ar-
rangements for providing, in time of peace, means
applicable to national defence, on the occurrence
of any future emergency."
" GENTLEMEN OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS,
" We are commanded by her Majesty, to thank
you for the readiness with which you have granted
the Supplies for the present year.
"MY LORDS AND GENTLEMEN,
" Her Majesty commands us to congratulate you
on the favourable state of the revenue, and upon
the thriving condition of all branches of the national
industry ; and she acknowledges with gratitude
the loyalty of her faithful subjects, and that spirit
of order and that respect for the law which prevail
in every part of her dominions.
"Her Majesty commands us to express her con-
fidence that on your return to your homes you
will promote, by your influence and example, in
your several districts, that continued and progres-
sive improvement which is the vital principle of
the well-being of nations; and her Majesty fer-
vently prays that the blessing of Almighty God
may attend your steps, and prosper your doings,
for the welfare and happiness of her people."

THE ALLEGED FLOGGING IN THE MIRTLEBONE WORK-
nousE.--Yesterday an inquiry, which had lasted three
days, was concluded by the directors and guardians of
the poor of Marylebone, in the board-room of the work-
house. Mr. Ryan, the master of the workhouse, and
Green and Brown, the porters, were the persons whose
conduct was under investigation, it having been stated
in the course of some proceedings before Mr. Broughton,
the magistrate, that they had violently beaten some of
the female inmates of the workhouse with canes, and
with a horsewhip. The surgeon of the workhouse proved
that the girls, who were all under 20 years of age, had
been severely maltreated. On the part of the master and
the porters, it was contended that the girls, who were
of the went class, were very violent, and that it was
necessary to use the canes, &c., in self-defence. At the
close of the inquiry Mr. Vanheems, seconded by Mr.
Tindall, moved that the master and porters be at once
dismissed. The Rev. Mr. Marks also supported the
motion. Mr. Batting considered a severe reprimand
would be sufficient, with an intimation that a repetition
of such conduct would be followed by instant dismissal.
Mr. Braes seconded the amendment. The Hon. Mr.
Pelham Mr. Nicholay, and others, having strongly cen-
sured the conduct of the master and porters, the amend-
ment, after two divisions, was adopted by a small