The Sun.
London, England, 1857-03-05 00:00:00

MINISTERIAL STATEMENT.

Lord PALMERSTON rose about 20 minutes to
six o'clock, and addressed the house as follows :
Sir, in order to regularise what I am about to say,
and to put it in the power of hon. members who
have anything to say to do so, I intend to con-
clude my statement with the formal motion that
this house do now adjourn. The house must na-
turally expect, after what happened on Tuesday
night, that I should s tate to the house the course which
upon due reflection her Majesty's Government in-
tend to pursue. Under ordinary circumstances there
curd hardly be any alterneive left to a Govern-
ment ut on whom such a vo!e had bedn pxised; and
the natural cow 09 would be that they should ten-

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Mr. DISRAELI sail he had no doubt a dissolu-
tion w.-11141‘l_e a Ivantagui t.) the public, and he
xrould give ev:ry taciftty to the Government for
effecting that. object.
Mr. COBDEN asked the Government what
they iW ended to d.,) iu consequence ,f th,l vote of
Toe ;day night. The Covert-Inv-mit had no -right to
hold office unless they: were p)ei.ared to miry out
that vote ; and he called upon f7e noble lord to
send a pe,son to Chill.' fully embowered to treat
I.at;sra'.:torily wi,h the Chinese, ( cording as lie
kand circtuns:aucs.
ll' S.;O. WOOD said that tha Governmor.t had
taken every precaution to sect.re British life and
property in India ; and long before the discussi,n
on China several frigates and gun-boats hid been
ordered to China, ani were no do,.bt there by this
time. • 1

Mr. S. HERBERT addressed the house, and
d intardrd ftoar Government an answer to Mr.
Co!)den's gnus tion. •
Sir G. GREY pail the Government bad taken
every precaution for the preservation of life and
property in India, and he called on the house to
give the Government credit for such a desire.
Lord J. RUSSELL condemned the conduct of
the Government in not stating the course they in-
t-nded t pursue in regArd to China, and said that
the vote the hAtse had come to on this qu-scion was
highly honouralde to it. 'The hou,e ought to know
what Government intenclkd to do before thty
granted the three months' supplies asked fur.
Mr. ROEBUCK said that the noble lord had
alluded to the vote of Ti.usday as a comb'nation
or a conspiracy of parties, which he (Mr.RoebUck)
denied. He gave his vote against Government,
feeling the honour of his country bba in
danger. He voted for the motion, because he
agreed w:th it. He designated the explanation of
the noble lord as a trumpery statement, and said
that the Government had no policy. A set of men
had disgraced England. The noble lord's Govern-
ment Lad supported them, and the house had de-
cided against them. The noble lord had deserted
the Liberals, and not the Liberals him. They
declined to follow him, believing that by so doing
they w•mbl be disgraced. (Hear, hear.)
After some remarks from Mr. J. M'GREGOR,
Mr. GLADSTONE said, that the motion of the
member for the West Riding had now become the
solemn resole ion of the house, and consequently
it should be, carried out by the Government. He
called upon the Governinent to know for what they
were making war, became Consul Parkes hid stated
that the cane of the Arrow had been settled. What,
be asked, were they at war with China for if it were
not for Sir J. Bowriug's entry into China. The
question now was, as tin house was to dissolve,
and several we•sks must elapse before a new Par-
liament cou'd aisemble, upon whose policy were
measures iu China to be carried on during the in-
terval 13, fore them. Thrihouse was bound to have
an „answer to the quest;on. He entreated the
house not to be beguiled from its essPntial func-
tions, viz., the gt auting of supplies fur carrying on
war with China just as it would have been if the
motion for the first reading had not been adopted
by the house. Whilst willing to give facilities for

conducting public busines4, lie would not abrogate
his functions as a legislator, and he therefore called

on the noble lord to state his Chinese policy before

the motley was granted.

(LEFT SPEAKING.)

LOCAL SHARE MARKET.s.

LIVERPOOL, MARCH 4.

STOCK EXCHANGE. —The market has had a steady ap-
pearance to-day, at abort yesterday's rates. Blackburn,
—Eastern Counties, 101. 18s. 81.--Midland, 841 ,3
London anti North Western, 103—Ditto (A shares, new),
d.—Sheffield., 38—Ditto, 6 per cent. Pref., 12A—East
Lancashire, 11,0—Caledonian, 34allorth Eastern, Berwick,
214-- South Eastern, 22.1 i—Dutch Rhenish, prem.
Lancashire and Yorkshire, 102 k —North British,
Ili —Great Western of Cana,la, 25i.
MANCHESTER, MARCH 4.
STOCK EXCHANGE.--The market was less active, and the
prices rather easier. Preston and Wyre, Pref., No. 2, 711
Dover, 23 a—LN--Leeds,
Midlßuda, 85 41—East Lancashire, Qra , 6 per cent, 81—
London and South Western, 105 i— Great. Western, 69
Caledonian, oudon, I 341. 102 4—Sheffield, 33j

TiTe---;olleotu colours of the 3d battalion of the
the Lt hattalaiotntahofn of the aildatream
THE GurAribs.—
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Grenadier Guards, the
Guards, and
y depos;tedgitnhethlate war. in
Barracks
in the military
anicri, cage
tGhunacrirsi,mbe9,rtrilLbryo tloinoseFrgin
chapel ad.joining the Wellington
11°ke'0Y, K.C.B
of the officers of the three regiments of Givirdsm:hyo
walk; .111pjur-General Lord
served during the
late warwere pr•iseilt at the ceremony.
After placing the colours in the building, the three bands
of the Guards pl iyed the National Anthem