The Sun.
London, England, 1832-03-13 00:00:00

MESSAGE DORM THE LORDS.

A Mes,ige from the House of Lords informed the
House that their Lordships had agreed to several Private
B Ds.

On the motion that the dropped Orders of the Day be
proceuded in, some discussion ensued between Sir R.
VYVYAN, Mr. HOME, and the SPEAKER.
After which the Coroner's election regulation Bill was
read s second time and ordered to be conanitted next Tuesday
SCOTCH REFORM BILL.

The Reform in Parliament (Scotland) Bill was post-
poned until Friday se'nnight.
On the Clerk reading the motion for a Committee on
Tithes in Ireland,

Mr. STANLEY moved that the Si,eaker do now leave
the Chair.
An Hos. MemnEa wished that other motions which
stood for this evening, might he fixed fur .some day
otherwise great confusion would arise in bringing on the
the question, and postponing the others until some inde-
finite period.
Lord ALTHORP hoped the House would allow the
tithe question to come on immediately, as it Was one of
great importance.

(LEFT SITTING.)

HOUSE OF LORDS.

The Loo CHANCELLOR took his heat on the Wool-
sack at Five o'clock.

The Earl of ELDON presented a petition against the
new system of education in Ireland.

The Bishop of LONDON presented a petition from
Bishopsgate-street, in favour of the Factories Bill. The
Right Reverend Prelate said he had heard of a
case which would show the absolute necessity of
legislating upon this subject. He was informed there
was a ;.erson who had made a large fortune by a factory,
and employed in it upwards of 1200 children, who not
only worked fourteen hours a day for six days in the
week, but two days, out of the .ix, had to work both day
and night.
Lord SUFFIELD presented a petition from Paisley to
the same effect.

Lird ELLENBOROUGH presented a petition from
the Directors of the East India Gonpany, praying to be
heard by Counsel at the Bar against the Zmindar of No-
zeal Bill. _ .

After a discussion on the subject between the Noble Lord
and Earl Grey, it was settled that the prayer of the peti-
tion be taken into eon%ideration on Friday next.
THE FRENCH EXPEDITION TO ANCONA.

The Earl of ABERDEEN, in putting his promised ques-
tions to Ministets, relative to the expediion to Ancona,
protested against the irregularity of proceedings introduced
by the Noble Earl (Grey) into that House, as he had yet to
learn that Noble Lord had net a right to call upon Mi-
nisters to give explanations to any important transactions.
It was but tecewly that be had endeavoured to obtain
from Government some explanations relative to an
expedition which had sailed from the port of Franbe.—
(Heae, hear.) At that time the Noble Lord was
not very explicit, but he accompanied the state-
ment he then made by his customary eulogy of the
French Government, by which the House was led
to suppose, that the communications which had
had been received from that State was of a satisfactory na-
ture. He would not, however, do the Noble Earl the in-
jestice of supposing it possible that he felt satisfied
with what had taken place in Italy, and the capture of
Ancona. It had ever been the established policy of this coun-
try to watch the external proceedings of the French Court,
with a view to prevent any extention of its dominions;
but he saw nothing in the present condition of France
that would induce this country to deviate from that
established principle. In hie opinion what had lately
taken pl ice there was a strong at gument for the House more
perseveringly to adhere to it, as it was his firm conviction
the course which had been pursued by the Noble Lord would
endanger the peace of Europe, and the measures he had adope
ted were likely to lead to those crlamities which he was
sure it was his object to avert. He believed
that he was himself about the first public functionary
in Europe who had received the commands of his Save-
reign to acknowledge the Duke of Orleans as the King of
the French. The motives that had induced Government to
adopt that plan had been fully communicated to the allies of
this country, and to the whole of Europe. No man
was more desirous to preserve the peace of Europe
and the friendly relations of this country with
anther, than himself. But be never could forget
chat it was the duty of a British Minister
to use every endeavour to prevent the Commission of
acts, which would be injurious to the honour of his
country, and it was equally the duty of every Alenwer of
that House, not being a minister, to stigmatise and
repudiate such acts. (Hear, hear.) As far as he could
form any opinion of the expedition to Ancona, it was
worthy of the time of the rebellion ; and looking at
what had taken place, he could not but think it
it founded on trickery, perfidy, and deceit. (Hear, hear)
He held in his hand a translation of the letter
from the Italian Minister of State to the French
Ambassador, from which it plainly appeared,
that on the 22d. February a French squadron was in the
port of Ancona. The captain of the fort went on
board to the French Ambassador, and offered, in
the name of his Holiness the Pope, all the
assistance he stood in need of. The ceremony
of etiquette was dispensed with, and it was
settled that the French squadron should be
allowed to entsr the port the next morning, In the
middle of the night, however the French troops forcibly
entered the town, proceeded to the residence of the corn-

mandant, disarmed the garrison, made them prisoners of war
ind insisted on the surrender of the city. To pre-.
vent the shedding of blood the place was surrendereds
(The Earl of Aberdeen, when first he read thi
statement could hardly give it credence, but subse-
quent facts bad freely established the truth of itu
However fir the Austrians might be ju.titiei -
the course they had pursued, he could see nothing what i
ever to warrant the conduct that bad been pursued by the
French, According to M. Perier, the expedition
had been undertaken for the interest of the Catholic religion
awl that of the Holy See, and for the purpose of preserving
peace. M. Perier made that statement having in his
possession of the letter he h adverted to, and also hav-
ing the protest of his Holiness, in which he demanded the
departure of the French troops from territories. The
sesult therefore would be a scene of unparalled warfare
and an effusion of blood. The present transaction had been
unparalleled in the history of civilized nations—it was an
outrage of all good faith, and hr hoped when all the
transactions were brought to light, the French Govern-
ment would be found not responsible for such conduc..
He trusted therefore the Noble Earl would give him some
explanation with reference to the transaction.
Earl GREY had heard with surprise the state-
ments of the Noble Eerl. Ile had expected that
what he had to state would not have
occupied the House many minutes. He denied objecting
to answer questions put to him by Noble Lords, or
that he bad introduced a new discipline into that Honse, he
had only enforced its orders when he had deprecated in the
form of a question the pretexts of asking explanations
on affairs still in progress. He could not consistently
countenance such proceedings. He would not be pro-
voked by the Noble Earl into discusssions inconsistent
with his public duty.