The Sun.
London, England, 1860-02-14 00:00:00

CHINA.

The Earl of MALMES BURY then said a statement had
been made in another place by the noble lord the Minister
for Foreign Affairs, to the effect that Mr. Bruce was act-
ing according to his instructions when he forced the passage
of the Peiho. I. must say he had the greatest
respect for Mr. Bruce, bit he (the Earl of Malmesburv) could
not consent to the assertion that had been made that Mr.
Bruce was acting exactly according to his instructions. lie,
therefore, proposed on Tuesday, the 21st, to make a state-
ment of the instructions he had given to Mr. Bruce, her
Majesty's Envoy in China.

NICE AND SAVOY.
The Marquis of NORMANBY moved for copies of any
instructions that may have been sent from the Secretary of
State forForeignAffairs to the Charge d'Affaires at Florence,
who was not accredited to the Provisional Government
there, directing him to attend an official reception on
the Ist of January, of Signor Buoncompagni,
now acting as Governor-General of Tuscany, having
been nominated as such by Prince Carignan, of
Savoy, without any subsequent popular sanction on the part
of the Tusean people, and also for returns of all communi-
cations between the Secretary of State and her Majesty's
Ambassador at Paris on the subject of the annexation of
the duchies of Savoy and Nice to France up to the Ist of
January last. The noble lord took the opportunity of re-
marking upon what he considered the extraordinary act in
question, which he looked upon as an exemplification of the
line of conduct which had been pursued towards Italy,
and he would be careful not to say anything
that would embarrass the noble earl opposite in the re-
marks he should feel it his duty to make on the present occa-
sion. The noble marquis then referred to the answer given
to him on a former occasion when the noble earl, the Presi-
dent of the Council, said there might have been conversation;
on the subject between Count NValewski and Lnrd Cowley
on the subject of the annexation of the two duchies, but
that nothing had taken place which could properly be oalled
official. He confessed he could not understand how any,
such conversation could take place on so import-
ant a subject between two such eminent personages,
and nothing transpire that could be considered official. He
they proceeded to comment in severe terms on the part
the Government had taken in Italian affairs, and
said that the idea that the Baron Ricasola had been selected
by the popular voice was quite absurd. According to his
view it was quite a mistake to suppose that the people of the
Central States had tranquilly submitted to the Provisional
Government.

(LEFT SPENKING.)

HOUSE OF COMMONS—(YESTERDAY.)
The SPBAYER took the chair at four o'clock.
NEW MEMBERS.

Mr. Hurr took the oaths and his seat for Gateshead, on
his re-election, and Mr. COWPER also took the oaths and
his seat for Hertford.
PRIVATE BUSINESS.
The following bills were road a second time :
Birkenhead Railway (No. 2) ; Bolton and St. Helens
Road ; Burnham Tidal Harbour and Railways; Doncas-
ter and Tadcastor Road; Faringdon Railway; Greenock
Harbour; Lincoln's Inn ; Mid-Sussex and Midhurst Junc-
tion Railway Dovia tion ; Milford Haven Railway and Docks;
Norwich Corporation Markets, &c. ; Oswestry and New-
town Railway (Branch Railway, &c.) ; Oxford, 'Worcester,
and 'Wolverhampton, and Severn Valley Railways ; Peters-
field Railway; Tenbury and Bewdley Railway; Ulster
Railway and Corporation of Belfast ; Upper Mersey Dues,
Purchase, and Conservancy; "Wexford Free Bridge; and
Widnes Gas and Water.