The Sun.
London, England, 1856-07-01 00:00:00

THE AUSTRALIAN MAIL CONTRACT.

Mr. HAMILTON asked theSecreta.y of the Trea-
sury whether he had any objection to lay on the table of
the house a copy of all tender 4, and of all correspond-
ence relating thereto, for the Australian postal servi,ie I
Mr: WILSON said it was not usual to lay on the
table tender that had been made to the Government,
and not. accepted. If the house gave a good reason for
their production, and the parties making them had no
objection to such a pr weeding, he would grant the papers
asked for, but not otherwise.
NATIONAL GALLERY SITE BILL.
In reply to Mr. SPOONER,

Lord PALMERSTON skid for the present session it
was not intended to ask the house to proceed farther with
this bill. (Loud cries of "Hear, hear".) It wa', therefore,
his intention to move that tue order be now read and
discharged.
The order was accordingly read and discharged.
AFFAIRS OF GREECE.

Mr. JAS. MACGRE:3OR Asked whether the Govern-
ment were prepared to communicate to the house the
correspondence respecting the relations between this
country and Greece, which had taken place subsequently
to t'lat already laid before Parliament extending to May,
1854 ?

Lord PALVERSTON said he did not precisely um
derstand the question. There had Una no particular
question between this country and Greece. There had
been various acts of brigandage, but he had no corres-
pondence to lay before the house.
THE FORTREiSES OF ISMAIL AND KILIA.

C.ol. DUNN E begge 1 to a k whether any information
hal been received on this point I
Lori PALMERSTON said no positive information
had been received, hut the Russians, he supposed, thought
themselves at liberty to destroy the fortresses. He should
have thought that it would scarcely have been
wort h wbily for the Russians to destroy that
which the Turkish Gsvernnient would of course
reconstruct when they got possession of those places.

RETIRING BISHOPS.
Mr GREGSON asked the First Lord of the Trea-
sury whether it was in the contemplation of Government
to pr-pose a,.y plan for the retirement of bishops on
peDsiorA *ituliar to the arrangements for colonial
bishops, Lord Chancellors, and Ministers of State?
Lord PALMERSTON said it was not his intention
to propose such a measure, hut the Bishops of London
and Thrha,n had, through ill health, placed their
resign4tii.n in his hands. With regard t, those two
particular bishoprics he did intend to bring in a bill for
that purpose
PURCHASE IN THE ARMY.
Major REED asked the Under-Secretary for War it

he could give the house and the country any informa-
tion respecting the cornmi:siol appointed to inquire
i-to the operation of the system of purchase in the
army ?
Mr. PEEL said he could only inform the house that
the commission had not yet fini-hed it. labours.
BUSINESS OF VIE HOUSE.
In reply to a goe,ti.m from Sir J. GRAHAM,
L.,rl PALMERSTON stid he proposed to take the
second reading of the Appellate Jurisdicttin Bill on
Monday near, and the Testairientiry Jurisdiction Bill
on Thur•day.
CORRUPT PRACTICES PREVENTION BILL.
Sir F. KELLY a•ked when the Corrupt PracLices
Prevention Bill would he read a second time ?
Lard PALMERSTON said he was unab!e then to
answer theNuestion. He would give tho house due
notice when the a-cond reading- would take place.
ROYAL COMMISSION.

Mr. Putman, the Deputy IJ,her of the Back Rod,
suramont,d the Speaker and the inembet's of the house to
the HousP of Lorde, to hear the Royal Assent giveu by
commis-i ,n to e.-rain L rds' report.
OUR RELATIONS WITH AMERICA..

On the motion for going into committee of supply,
Mr. MooRE, who had a motion on the paper relative to
our American relations, and Mr. BROWN, rase together.
Mr. BROWN called upon the hon. member for Mayo
to withdraw his motion. There was a strong feeling
throughout the country that our American differences
should be left in the hands of the Government and the
American Minister in this country to settle, and if the
house abstained from discussion on the matter it would
be amicably accompli-hed. (Hear.)
Mr. CHEETHAM and Mr. J. EWART concurred in the
appeal of the hon. member.
Mr. SPOONER also coincided in the appeal. (Hear )
He implored the house to give up all party considera-
tions on this question, and complete the silence they
had hitherto maintained till they learned from the Minis-
ter of the Crown the result of the negotiations now going
on. He deprecated any discussion now on the state of
our American relations, for no possible good could re-
sult from it.

Mr. MOORE said the opinions of the hon. gentleman
who had just sat down must necessarily have great
weight with him, but particularly on the subject of ex-
citing ill-will between classes sects, and people. (De-
risive cheers.) With r: gard t ► the hon. gentlemen op-
posite, he certainly listened to their opinions with great
respect, but at the same time they could not think that
they had answered the observations he hail made on Fri•
day evening. The hon. member for North Warwickshire
talked of this as a party question. He (Ur. Moore)
thought it ought to be jielged by the house apart &Jai
all party considerations, and in * purely jtelictal
It was a question of right or wrong that had arisen be-
tween,the governments of two great countries, which
bad been settle 1, in his opinion, on the basis of present
dissatisfaction and fu' ore dangar as regards the feeline's
and the opinions of the people of this ceuhtry, because
it had been left ti be settled by the wrong-doers
themselves, and en the principle of saving their own
character., or at least their own positions, at the ex-
petiee of the national honour, which it was their
duty to guard. In so ter as such a question, if entertained
by the house, inu:t nec4ssarily affect tier Majo-ty's Go-
v,rninent, so far it migtit be termed--if hon. gentlemen
liked the term -a party question. In his opinion there
were rio circiunstatices the house ought to watch with
wore vigilant and anxious atteutikm than our selatious
with that c ,untry whose people hn,d sprung from the
tame soil, spoke the same language, amid were pverni-el
by the game institutions as ourselves. There was no
thing England ought to cherish more than to be loved
and horeftured by those e.oninunities which ware rapidly
multiply g them-elves, peopirog the earth, tiding the
earth with cities and the sea with fl seta, and carrying with
theni thee: erey. enterorise, ai,d unenuquerebie will and
self reliance of the great people torn hich they spiting.
Although we hail ;net the piittical govereinent et America,
and would probably lose the poitical eoverionent of other
colonies, ,ve oueht n-v,r to relax our right to their reve•
recce as the need of their race, as the ton 'tam of their ei

lisation, as the standard ~f what a tree nation ought to
be. Whatev,r might be the faults of the American peo-
ple, he did not think we were entitled to throw the first
stone. He believed them to be a sagacious people, and
that in the heart of every American there was a feeling,
of love and admirati ,n for the old country. Depend
upon it that in ail our dealings with the people of Ame-
rica we should have no chance except by compelling
their respect, and as regarded our political and diploma-
tic r-dations their respect rested on no b,isis but truth,
plain dealing, and open speaking. He believed that a
well-founde I distrust of our charaeter for truth and ho-
nour woul be, and eTecially so far as regarded our re-
lations with the United States, the greatest misfortune
that c mid befall the people of this country. It was be
cause in his opinion the G •vernment of this country had
justly forfeited the respect and confidence of the United
States, that he thought it was the duty of this house t )
declare that in the conduct which bad led to that result
the people of England had bad no act er part whatever.
The issues that arose on this subject were nut to be
unquestioned. They had been fairlyand properly stated
by Lord Clarendon himself in one of his despatches.
Tee real questi els at issue," said Lord Clarendon,
"between her M,je:ty's Governininit and that et the
United States are, whether the British G ivernment
ordered or contemplated any violation of the neutrality
laws of the United States ; and six whether, if
ic British Government did not order or contemplate aey
such vieiation, those laws w.. re nevertheless violated by
p reone acting on the authority or approbation of the
British Gevernment." Oa those two points he j )indd
issue with her M) jesty'e Government. He und• rteok
is make it clear that the newt. ,!ity laws of the United
States were grossly and delib:,rateiy violated by persons
acting with the approbation and cen,ent of her Majesty's
Government ; and, secondly, that her Majesty's Gover,-
/Bent did contemplate the violation of those laws. He
was aware that the American Geverninent had in their
last despatch offered widi contemptuees courtesy to
,eparate these two prep.?siiione. The distinc ion
drawn by the Ainer;cae Goys,' nrnent was based
on the as-umed disav .wal of Mr. Crampton's aets be our
government, and, secondly aed no less, on the distinct
specific assuraece of L ,rd Clarendon that Mr. Crampton
was above all other tliiege enjoined to have uo conceal-
!Dent with the Geverime nt of :he United States. Now,
with regard to the first of these a-sumptione, he cared
net to consider whether her Maj-sty's Government had
or lied not in their last despatch thought proper to as-
sett it. It cou'd he clearly shown that from first to last
Mr. Ciaeipton only performed the duty that was iuti-
meted to him by 1,..rd Clarendon, that he only acted upon
the interpretation of the law which was given to Min by
Lord Clarendon, and that from fir 4 to last his conduct
.vas approved and defended by Lord Clarendon. From
first to la-t Lord Clarendon d•precated all violation: of
the Ameri.an law, and so did Mr. Crampton ; but it was
true also that Lord Clarendon insisted on an interpreta-
tion of the law which was net the true interpretation.
It it should turn out that Lord Clarendon's construction
of the law was an incorrect one, then for that misin-
terpretation Lord Garendon was responeible. He
would refer the house to pave 21 of the blue-book, in
which Lord Clarendon expressly stated that Mr. Cramp-
ton was etiened above ail things to have no oonceal-
went from the government of the United States. Now,
that was a clear and specific allegatien' nhich Mr. 1
Marcy on the part of the United States Government,
had used with effecl

_ .
His reasons for withholding from me the details of the
enlistment system—the most important part of it for this
government—are not satisfactory. If Mr. Crampton be-
lieved that what he was doing, or intended to do, in the
way of recruiting was right, he could have had no reluc-
tance to communicate it to me, for his instructions required
bite to make that disclosure. Acting in due frankness,
ann with a proper regard for the dictates of international
comity, Mr. Campton should, it would seem, have dis-
closed to me all the measures intended to be pursued
within the United States by the agents of his government,
including himself, in execution of the act of Parliament
for raising the , Foreign Legion. Nay, he was expressly
commanded by his Government to practise no concealment
with the American Goverment on the subject. If he had
obeye f these orders, all misunderstanding between the two
Governments would have been prevented.
Was this allegation true ? de believed there was no foun-
dation for it, lied that there was no such instruction
given to Mr Crampton. This despatch of Lord Ciarens
don's was illustrative of an imaginative memory of what
he did, and a conscientious sense of what he ought to
have enjoined and what Mr. Crampton ought to have
done. He called on the Government to show that
there was not the ; lightest ground for this Statement of
Lord Clarendon's. He would show, on the other hand,
that so far from there being no concealintrit on the part
of the British authorities in America, that there conduct
was al concealment, dis ivow.n; every one that was
build out, aiding and abetting every one who was
working in secret ; that Mr. Crampton was not in-
structed at all not to conceal, but that, he was aided
and abetted in a line of conduct of which coneealinent
was the keystone and afforded the only hopes of success.
It was necessary to show that this question of the neu-
trality of the United States and the strict enforcement
of their law l.r this purpose was in the view of her Ma-
jests's Government. Early in April, 1854, in the begin-
Tiler; of the war, Mr. Crampton wrote to Mr. Marcy to
this effect : "The allied Governments c infidently trust
th 't the Gevernments of countries which may remain
neutral during the war will exert their autbcrity and en-
force on their subjects the necessity of observing the
strictest neutrality, and also that the citizens of the
United States shalt rigorously abstain from taking part
in armaments of this nature, or in any other manner op-
posite to the dtv des of strictneutralit). To this reasonable
demand the American Government returned this pithy-
answer : "The law of this country imposes severe restric
tions not only upon its own citiz•ms, but Ural aq per-
sons who may be resident in the United States, against
equipping privateers, receiving eoinini:c4i.ms, or enlisting
men therein for the purpose of taking part in any foreign
war. It is not apprenended that there will be any at-
tempt to violate the law, hut should the just expecta-
tions of the Presideet be d sregarded he will not fail in
hie duty to use ail the power with which he is invested
to prevent any such participation in the contest in
which the principal powers of Europe are now engaged."
Tne interpretation he pat upon this was that the Ame-
rican Government was to prevent any armament what-
ever within their territory against the interests of Eng-
land_ but, on the other hand, under a quibble of the
law, to carry oil' all our desires to enlist men. This
was a propo -ition so unjust and so rnonstruus, that he
•
~elieved the common liense of every man in this country
,would pronounce against it. Well, so the matter stood
ill the end of the year, when we took it into our head to
take new views. The Foreign Enlistment Bill passed