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

TINUANCE BILL.

On the motion of the Marquis of LANSDO VINE, the
above Bill Uommittee; and the report
wasorder went through
edtobereceived on Thursay next.
Several Bills on the table were advanced a stage.
The Earl of RODEN presented a petition from a
place in Gloucestershire against Sunday labour in the
Post-office; one from Tullamore to the same effect; and
one from the county of Louth against the admission of
Jews into Parliament.
Their Lordships then adjourned.

HOUSE OF COMMONS, June 25.
Mr. CUBITT presented a petition from Andover
against certain causes in the Savings Bank Bill.
Colonel SIB mom) presented a similar petition
from Lincolnshire.
FOREIGN POLICY.—ADJOURNED DEBATE.
Mr. B. OSBORNE resumed' the debate. He appre-
hended that no Hon. Gentleman who addressed himself
to a subject of this sort could undervalue the importance
of the discussion, or underrate the momentous nature of

the whole debate., In his opinfon this was not a
discussion to be conducted on petty details—it was
not a question to be proved from blue books
by a discontented lawyer. It was not a question which
they were to look at with regard to the exorbitant de-
mands of Don Pacifico, or the unrequited injuries of Mr.
Finlay; these might he subjects for a special pleader in
another place, but as he took it the House of Commons
had a ditfaeut task to perform. The point for their
consideration was how far the international , prin-
ciples of the foreign policy of the Govern-
ment of this country were to be regulated by justice,
and how far British subjects and British commerce were
to be protected by the Government of this country.
The real question at issue was not whether they were
called upon to approve the foreign policy of her
Majesty's Government, or to maintain her Majesty's.
Ministers in their present position. It was,
whether our foreign policy was or was not
to be regulated by the ideas of a foreign state.
They had to consider whether the Foreign Secretary was to
merge into a placid tool, a mere automaton, whose hands
were directed and moves made by the unseen and wily
influence of 4 foreign Minister.--(Bear, hear.) It
was not tiit they had 'to give -vote' of confidence
in her Majesty's Ministers, but they were called
upon to maintain the honour, and indepen-
dence, and glory of Great Britain.—(Great cheering.)
He expressed his surprise that the question in its pre-
sent shape should have been allowed to be brought for-
ward by an independent Member of the House, for it
amounted, in fact, to a vote of want of confidence in the
Ministry. He had anticipated, when a decisive vote
was passed in the other House, that some Hon. Gentleman
connected with the party which had for years been
assiduously reviling and calumniating the Noble Lord
the Secretary for Foreign Affairs with all the ingenuity
of cunning, sharpened by the pertinacity of revenge,
would have brought the subject before that House.—
(Cheers.) He did not think that that party would have
been content backbiting a Minister and the members
of a Government by a simple vote of censure
in another place.—(Cheers.) He did not expect that
that party would have paused on the threshold of this
Lionse, and like well-bred spaniels,
civilly delight
In barking at the game they dare not bite."
—(Laughter and cheers.) He did expect that some
one among that party would have come boldly for-
ward with a vote of censure, and arraigned the Noble

Lord at the head of Foreign Affairs before his col-
leagues, and heard what he had to say in answer to
the charge.—(Cheers.) He certainly did not think
that, like the knights in the play, they would have
thought discretion the better part of valour—that they
would have been willing to wound, but afraid to strike.—
(Cheers and laughter.) He had listened with amuse-
ment to the sentiments uttered by one whose he sup-
posed one day would be a judge of this land.—(Hear.)
The Hon. and Learned Gentleman opposite (Sir F.
Thesiger) told the House last night that for years he
had no confidence in the foreign policy of the Govern-
ment; that he thought it was not only calculated to em-
broil us with foreign nations, but to peril the peace of
the world; but what was his conduct? For four years
be had been content to sit in the House without ever
once raising his voice against the policy—(Loud
cheers and laughter)—but now, at the eleventh
hour, he came forward and kicked up his heels
before the Noble Lord for Foreign Affairs.—
(Cheers and laughter.) But another Right Hon. Gen-
tleman (Sir James Graham), who spoke last night, said
he rose to address the House with great reluctance, but
neither in the manner nor the matter of his speech could
he discover that he possessed any such reluctance.
He was justified in characterising his speech as
tinged by the mellow sneer of political scandal,
and he could not help being reminded, when that
Right Honourable Gentleman professed friendship
for the Noble Lord, of those mighty animals of
the desert—those large serpents which covered their
victims with slaver before they made a meal of them.—
(Cheers.) He had always been in the habit of supposing
the Right Hon. Gentleman opposite as a sort of guardian
angel of the Ministry—as
"A sweet little cherub that sits up aloft,
To keep watch o'er the life of poor Jack."
—(Laughter, in which Lord J. Russell heartily joined.)
The Right Hon. Baronet was present when the Hon.
Gentleman the Member for Stafford moved the impeach-
ment of the Minister ; indeed the Right Hon. Baronet
had taken a great part of his speech from the address of
that Hon. Member. The mantle of Mr. Urquhart
it would seem had fallen on the shoulders of the Right
Hon. Bart. the Member for Ripon.—(A laugh.) Well,
upon that occasion the Right Hon. Baronet was sneer-
ingly silent.—(tlear, hear,) But the Right Hon. Ba-
ronet dissents from the Spanish policy of the Noble Lord,
and his conduct on that question was equally extraordinary,
for in June, 1848, the Hon. Gentleman the Member for
Dorsetshire—who was an open and candid foe of the
Noble Lord, and did not support Ministers four years
and kick them in the fifth—(A laugh)—brought for-
ward a motion in that House deprecating' the whole
course of our policy with regard to Spain, and
especially the interference which was alluded to last
night by the Right Hon. Baronet himself. Now, what
was the course the Right Hon. Baronet pursued on that
occasion? Why, the Right Hon. Baronet on that oc-
casion made a speech in which be damned
the Minister with faint praise, and allowed the
resolution to pass by almost unnoticed.—(Hear, hear.)
Last night, however, the Right Hon. Baronet, passing
in review the policy cf the whole world, said " What have
you done by your policy? Costa Cabral is embarrassed
in authority in Lisbon." Well, why did not the Right
Honourable Boronet say that in 1648?—(Cheers.)
But again, in June, 1848, his Hon. Friend the Member
for Montrose brought the affairs of Portugal in a distinct
motion, depreciating our interference with the Govern-
ment of that country. He supported that motion, but
because he supported such a motion two years ago, was he
to come down now and rip up the past?—(Hear, hear.)
Ho had generally supported, though he was no slavish
admirer of the Noble Lord—indeed there were several
points in his policy which he disapproved of—but on
the whole he thought the Noble Lord a great, a
noble, a fine minister, and under all circumstances, an
honour to England.—(Cheers.) But what course' did,
the Right Honourable Baronet pursue on this last
occasion ? He well remembered that there were
three nights' debate, but on the third night, by some
misfortune, when Dr. Bowring got up to speak, the
night was very hot, and the papers the Learned
Doctor brought with him were voluminous, and as he
spoke in the style adopted last night by the Hon.
and Learned Gentleman the Member for Abingdon,
the House was counted out.—(Roars of laughter.)
But a most remarkable debate ensued on tie
fourth night, when the Right Hon. Baronet the Member
for Ripon was accused of having connived at the
counting out of the- House. He defended himself, and,
l, thoroughly, and entirely approve of the
in a most remarkable speech, he said " So far from my
wishing .to shirk the discussion on this question. I
conscientiousy,
policy of the Government—(Cheers)—and had I be en
present in my place I should have given my honest vote
in support of Ministere.",—(Cheers.) And yet they found
the Right Hon. Bart. two years afterwards, coming down
to the House and say "I always had a suspicion
of your policy. I think you are an excellent
good friend and a kind Christian, but you are a dam.
gerous Foreign Minister, and you must be got rid cf."—
(" Hear, hear," and laughter.) He said nothing of the
candour of the Right Hon. Baronet in pursuing such a
course,---he left that to a discriminating public.—(Hear,
hear.) It might be probably thought fair Parliamentary
tactics, it might be thought a good Parliamentary move.
but he said this, that the public out of doors, who loved
fair play rather than faction, and who were in-
different to the intrigue of political parties, would
consider this treatment of the Noble Lord on this
occasion to be savouring rather of the Jesuitical evasion
of Muscovite chicanery—(oh, oh)— rather than an honest,
, open, candid conflict between two English parties.—
, (Hear.) But what he was really surprised at, was the fact
, of the Right Hon. Baronet having quoted a pamphlet