The Sun.
London, England, 1860-03-10 00:00:00

MPERIAL. PARLIAMEN

HOUSE OF L( Rng (Y
_ ESTERDAY.)
The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on tho woolsack
-t five o'clock.

CHURCH RATES.
A. number of petitions were presented by the Earl of
LARD \MIKE and several other peers against the aboh-
,on of church rates.

COOLIE LABOURERS.
The Earl of ELLENBOUGH said, as the House of
• ommons had agreed to grant extracts of the correspon-
.lenee between her Majesty's Government and the Govern-
lent of France, in respect to legalising the exportation of
tatives of British India as indentured labourers to French
olotties, he presumed there would be no objection to lay the
:,.me papers on their lordships' table.
Lord WODEHOUSE said there would be no objection
-o such a course.
CENTRAL ITALY.
The Marquis of NORMANBY moved for a copy of any
`.-istructions addressed by the Secretary of State to her Ma-
• eety'a Charge d'Affairs at Florence, directing him to im-
press upon the Provisional Government the duty of ab •
staining from any arbitrary acts calculated to destroy
all freedom of action in connection with those fresh
elections which her Majesty's Government had thought
proper to recommend. He had no idea that
so very shortly after peace had been arranged that
the English Government had dropped the mask of neu-
trality and assumed the attitude of strong partizans.
He complained very much of the conduct of her Majesty's
Government, in shortly after the conclusion of peace be-
tween Austria and France giving instructions to Mr. Corbett
calculated to pre-rent the accomplishment of that object.
He was strongly of opinion that the letter written by
Lord John Russell to the Charge d'Affaires at Flo-
rence, dated the 19th of July, was directly at variance
with the terms of peace. In that letter he had spoken
of an attempt to suppress popular feeling in favour of the
Archducal Government as unjust. He should like to
know whether a statesman, who had so much horror of cor-
ruption at English elections,could not find a harder expression
to apply to such proceedings. The noble lord then
proceeded to notice the present state of Tuscany, and
said that for the last three months, until that day,
no single letter had ever been allowed to leave the
Tuscan Post-office. It had been customary for him
to receive three or four a week, many of which bore the
appearance of having been opened, but the letter he had
received that day was the first that had for same time, as
he had stated came to hand. The letter in ques-
tion came from an English lady at Florence, who had
married an Italian gentleman, who had been torn
from her by the Provisional Government of Tuscany,
and confined in prison without the slightest appearance of
trial, or without knowing the nature of the charge against
him.
Lord WODEHOUSE said the principle on which her
Majesty's Government acted was non-interference, and he
thought it improper to ask either the house or the Govern-
ment to go into minute details with respect to the character
and conduct of the Government of another country. The
noble lord entered into a detailed statement, to show the
unfounded charges which had been made by the noble
warquis against the Tuscan Government and against the
authorities in Milan and Leghorn, and read a number of
documents to bear him out in that statement.
The Marquis of CLANRICARDE defended the charac-
ar of the existing Government of Tuscany, declaring that
is result of the elections would in a few days more prove
to Europe that it possessed the confidence of the people.
After a few words from Lord DENMIIN and the Earl of
MALMESBURY,
The Duke of ARGYLL said it was the desire of the
Government that the affairs of Italy should be settled with
a full regard to the wishes of the Italian people, without
which no settlement of them could be satisfactory er per-
manent.
The motion was finally withdrawn.
The Consolidated Fund Bill (£407,649) was read a third
time and passed.
Their lordships then adjourned.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.-(YESTERDAY.)
The SPEAKER took the chair at four o'clock.
DOVER ELECTION.

Mr. GASKELL, the chairman of the committee ap-
pointed to try the merits of the petition against the return
of Admiral Leeke and Mr. Nicol, brought up the report,
whieh was to the effect that the sitting members were duly
returned, that bribery was committed, but without their
knowledge or that of their agents, and the charge of undue
influence at the election on the part of Ministers or other
servants of the Crown was not proved to the satisfaction of
the committee.