The Sun.
London, England, 1850-06-26 00:00:00

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made in conjunction with France for moral and material as-
sistance, and it is satisfactory to think that in acceding to
that application we took a step which all parties in this coun-
try concur in applauding.—(Loud cheers.) It is a proud
and honourable recollection for Englishmen to treasure up
that upon the occasion referred to all party differences, all
political discrepancies were merged in a high and generous
national feeling, and that all parties were unanimous in opi-
nion that the Government would not have been justified if
they had rejected such an appeal so made, and on such a
subject.—( Hear, hear.) To have sent out dispatches and not
a fleet would have been a most imprudent and unwise course
of proceeding—for the interval that might elapse between the
sending off our dispatches to Vienna and St. Petersburgh,
and the arrival of the day which would inform us of the
decision of the Imperial Governments, might have been so
great as to have rendered our interference totally ino-
perative for good. Besides, see what was the state of
things in Constantinople. The Ministers of Austria and
i Russia were using most menacing language, and demanding
the immediate surrender of the Hungarian and Polish
refugees. In short, they plainly intimated that a refusal
on the part of the Porte to acquiesce in their demands would
probably eventuate in war being declared against Turkey by
Russia and Austria.—(('heers.) We had no possible means
of ascertaining at the time to what extent the Ministers of
Russia and Austria were authorised by their respective Go-
vernments to hold this language. We could not divine
what might happen, and we accordidgly sent a fleet to the
Dardanelles. It is said that we did so for the purpose of
holding out a threat against Russia and Austria. I utterly
deny it.—(Loud cheers.) A fleet at the mouth of the Dar-
danelles could not be a threat against Austria. A fleet in
the Mediterranean could not be a threat against Russia. It
must have been evident to the world that it could only
have been brought there to be a signal of comfort and a
source of defence for the Sultan if he should be attacked.—
(Loud cheers.) It was a measure purely of defence,
and not of offence against any party whatsoever. It had
been said that it was a violation of the treaty of London, of
July, 1811, with regard to the passage of the Dardanelles,
that our fleet should be stationed inasmuch as vessels of war,
or merchant-men, were prohibited to enter those Straits.
Now it so happened that the treaty in question did not spe-
cify what these Straits were. It did not say whether they
comprised the whole distance between the Mediterranean and
the Sea of Marmora on one side, and the Black Sea and the
Sea of Marmora on the other ; 'or whether they consisted
only of such portions of the Channel as were technically
described as the Straits of Bosphorus and Dardanelles. The
Turkish Government expressed their gratitude for the arri-
val of the fleet, but representing that the immediate place
where the fleet was stationed, near the Dardanelles, was not
secure against the weather, they' offered to send an
authority .to • the Pa.cha of the Dardanelles to
admit the fleet' into 'Bes-Chika Bay, where there was
secure anchorage. ' Admiral Parker .accepted this
offer, which was also made to the French fleet, and re-
mained there for a week or ten days; but I lost no
time in writing to Sir Stratford Canning to direct that the
fleet should not, upon any account, enter the Straits of the
Dardanelles.—(Hear, hear.) Sir Stratford Canning forth-
with communicated my letter to Admiral Parker, and ex-
plained to him that, although he was there in conformity
with the arrangements, and by the express permission of the
Porte, it was nevertheless possible that hereafter some ques-
tion might be raised upon the subject, and that therefore it
was much better for him to leave without further delay, and
seek some other anchorage; when application was subse-
quently made upon the subject by Russia, we at once acceded
to the arrangement, that for the future the Straits of Bos-
phorus and Dardanelles should be held to mean the whole of
the distance between the Black Sea and the Sea of Marmora,
on the one hand, and the Mediterranean and the Sea of Mar-
mora on the other.—(Hear, hear.) This we consented to,
although we might have argued that the presence of the
fleet in the outer bay was no violation of the treaty, it
having been there by the express permission of the Porte.
Sir, I believe I have now gone through all the heads of the
charges which have been brought against me.—(Loud
cheers.) 'I have shown that the foreign policy of the Go!
vernment, in all these transactions, in regard to which it has
been impugned, has throughout been guided by those prin-
ciples which, according to the resolution of the Hon. and
Learned Gentleman, onght to regulate the conduct of the
Government of England in the management of our foreign
relations.—(Cheers.) I believe and think that the princi-
ples upon which we have acted are.those which are approved
by the great macs of the people of this country.—(Loud and
prolonged cheers.) lam confident that those principles are
calculated to tend, as far as the-influences of England may
be permitted properly to be exercised with regard to the
destinies of other countries, to the welfare and happiness of
mankind, the advancement of civilization, the maintenance
of peace, the development of the resources and prosperity
of all' other countries, and are eminently calculated to do
honour to the country in which we live. —(Continued cheers.)
Sir, I do not complain of the conduct of those who have
made this question a means of attack upon her Majesty's
Government. The Government of a great country like this
is undoubtedly an object of fair and legitimate ambition for
men of all shades of opinion.—(Loud cheers.) Sir, it is a
noble thing to be allowed to guide the policy and to influence
the destiny of such a country as this; and if it is a fair ob-
ject of honourable ambition at all times, more than ever it
must be so at the moment I am speaking.—(Cheers.) For
while the whole surface of the earth has been disturbed—
while we have been, as it has been said in the course of this
debate, " whirled aboat from side to side"—while thrones
ha'e been shaken, shattered, and levelled, and institu-
tions overthrown and destroyed—when almost every
country in Europe has witnessed scenes of conflict
which have deluged the land in blood, from the Atlantic to
the Black Sea, from the Baltic to the Mediterranean—this
conntry has remained a spectacle honourable to the people
of England and worthy of the admiration of mankind.—
(Enthusiastic cheers.) We have shown that liberty is
compatible with order. We have shown that individual
freedom is reconcilable with perfect obedience to the law.
We have shown the example of a nation in which every class
of society cheerfully accepts the lot which Providence has
assigned it, and where every individual is trying 'to raise
himself in the social scale, not by injustice and wrong—not
by violence and illegality, but by persevering good conduct,
and by the steady and energetic application of those moral
and intellectual faculties with which his Creator has endowed
him.—(Cheers.) I say that to govern such a people is, indeed,
an object worthy of the ambitions of the noblest men who live
in th e land. Therefore I find no fault with those who think
any opportunity is a fair one to place themselves in so distin-
guished a position; but I contend that we have not, in the
course of our foreign policy, done anything to forfeit the con-
fidence of the country.—(Tremendous cheering.) I contend
that, whether in this matter or in that we may have acted up
to the opinion of one person or of another—and hard, indeed,
it is, as we all know by private experience, to find any num-
ber of men agreeing upon any matter in which all may
not equally be acquainted with the details of facts, circum-
stances, reasons, and conditions which have led to action—
I say, making allowance for these differences of opinion,
I maintain that the principles which can be traced
throughout all our foreign transactions, and which have
been the guiding rule by which we have been directed, are,
in my opinion, deserving the approbation of the country—
(Enthusiastic cheering)—and I challenge the verdict which
this House may give upon the question now before it,
as a political; as a commercial, as a constitutional coun-
try, whether the principles which have governed the foreign
policy of the British Government—whether the duty of .-
fording protection to our subjects abroad, which we have
considered as the guide of our conduct, are proper and fitting
for those charged with the government of England, or whe-
ther, as in days of old, the Roman held himself to be free
from indignity who had' said civis Romanus sum, or whether
British subjects should find themselves protected by the vigi-
lant eye and strong arm of their Government against injus-
tice and wrong. •
The Noble Lord, who had been speaking from a quarter to
ten o'clock until twenty minutes past two, then concluded
amid a burst of enthusiastic applause, which was caught up
again and again for several minutes, and continued with un-
abated Vigour.
Sir J. WALSH movecithe adjournment of the debate.
The debate was then adjourned until Thursday next at five
o'clock. • •
The other orders of the day were then disposed of, and the
House adjourned at half-past Two o'clock.

COURT CIRCULAR.
The Queen and Prince Albert, accompanied by his,
Royal flighnes's the Prince of Prussia, honoured the
performance at the Royal Italian Opera House with
their presence yesterday evening. The Royal suite con-
sisted of the Viscountess Jocelyn, Hon. Misses Stanley
and Lennox, Lord Dufferin, Colonel the Ilon. Charles
Grey, Colonel Bouverie, and two of the gentlemen of
the suite of the Prince of Prussia.

Their Royal Highnesses Prince Albert and the Prince
of Prussia rode out on horseback yesterday, attended
by Colonel Bouverie and Count Charles de Golby.
Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, the
Princess Royal, and the younger members of the Royal
Family, took walking and pony exercise yesterday in
the gardens of Buckingham Palace.
His Royal Highness the Prince of Prussia visit id and
inspected the exhibition of the Royal Academy y c.;tvr-
day morning.
His Royal Highness, Prince Albert (attended by
Colonel Bouverie) visited her Royal Highness the
Duchess of Cambridge and his Royal Highness Prince
George yesterday at Cambridge-house. Her Royal
Highness the Duchess of Gloucester also paid a visit
yesterday to the Duchess of Cambridge.
8-2vcral hundreds of the nobility called yesterday at
Cambridge-House to !Lake inquiry after the health of
his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge.
Le Comte de Reventlow, Dani.,h Minister, had an in-
terview wish Sir George Grey yesterday. Colonel Love
had an interview also with the Right Hon. Baronet yes-
terday,'at the Home-,ffice.
Messrs. Brockelbank, Hays, and Ilighinglin, had an
interview with the Right Hon. H. Labouchere yesterday
at the office of the Board of Trade, relative to a memo-
rial sent by the lightermen of the Thames.
Mr. John Wood, Chairman of the Board of Inland
Ilevenue, had an interview with the Chancellor of the
Exchequer yesterday. Mr. James Higham, Mr. Tidd
P_Pratt,.,, and Sir '.Thomas Fremantle (Chairman of the
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The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat 'es-
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STATE OF TRADE. AbiNCUESTE: TcraisDaY.--
The advices from the United States per Asia,
the 12th instant, fully confirm the previous dwhich are to
late and damaged condition of the new cotton ices of the
crop.
present prospects, it is morally certain the crop roust
short of oven the short one now at market. This lattert fall
im-
pression seems to be gaining credence with both buyers and
sellers in this market. Hence there is more cmlidence, and
buyers have operated to-day more extensively, in both cloth
and yarn, at rates which last market day were only very
partially conceded. Heavy cloths anti low counts of yarn
continue to mend, and are low in stock. Printing cloth is
n9t easy to sell, but there is no change in price; 36 and 40-
inch shirtings are both heavy in the market, and the prices of
last week can barely oe maintained; in these, as well as in
45-inch, stocks are accumulating. Jacconets are still much
depressed, and there is very little inquiry for them. T
cloths continue to improve, and stocks are slowly decreasing.
Long cloths are more generally inquired for, whilst domestics
are increasing in demand, the home trade being large buyers.
It is said that the stocks of almost every kind in the market
are being considerably reduced.

Jenny Lind ha% just given six concerts at Stock-
holm, in aid of the pension fund for the wives and orphans of
the performers at the Theatre Royal of that city. The clear
profit hai"mounted to upwards of 60,t 00f.
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:The Duke of Leuchtenberg, son-in-law of the
Emplitrar, oE. Russia, hal just arrived, at Amsterdam from
Delft, where he disembarked fro& Madeira with his suite.