The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1864-08-12
TME UNITED STATES ABROAO-THE
/ CI.OSsnG DISCUSSIONS IN THE BRIT
IBH PARLIAMENT.

ISH PARLIAMENT.
Rrs~s ne TIn,sI.
. If the legislation of the British Parliament con
. ceIned us as much rs do Its debates, we might
have the satisfaction of finding that our affairs
could be managed for US by a foreign legislative
{b05y quite as we'll as by Congress ut home.
We do not, it will be seen, come in for any un-
i necessary mention in the propagation speech
from the throne; but il is satisfactory to find that
the Queen having first announced her friendly re-
latiOns with the Emperor of China, declares her
firm purpose TO mainta strict neutrality be-
tween the beligerents in this country.
This, taken by it;elt, must be held 70 be pleas
Ting intelligence. and We do net know that IL is
rendered less SO by the discussions relating to
4this country, and to the American continent gene
orally, which immediately preceded 1t. We give
~ TWO of these discussions In our
vneWs columns to- day one brought up by AN
Iteasy tempered Catholic member OF the House,
kLOTd Edwatd Howard, bearing upon subsidized
&emigrati1n 10 the United States aud tbs other by
Imr. kiuglakt oa lhe subject of the recognition Of
*Ste ATchdukC MHXlmiIian as Emperor of Mexico.
Tie significance ut the speeches evoked by
Lord r.. Howards InoIion (Which was simply tor
She production Of papers,, is, that neither the
+moYer nor the speakers who folio we'd him Tin
~clnd.ng even the notable Lindsay, were able 10
specify single cIsc IN which emigrauts had
been tampcred with ON British territory by re-
"a uIting agents from the Uni ed States--althOuzh zh
- 2 ultimate Object OF the motion itself was 10
III tic Ihc action Of Ihe Government in the pre-
ieS.
II Lord Il. Howard presented n variety of facts
T such We are bound % regard them-teudiug
. show that therc IL Vast emigration of AN un-
41susl kind gong ON from the n )rth- ol. az
and factoTy diStricis-unu Sual in this, that the
bmigrants arc mystcTiOnsly supplied with IN. me v
unusual sui more, frum the fart that married
Mneh in large numhcrs-seVrn hundred having
gone iT' n one sec:iOn within few wstks-are
our s,rtirg their wives and families, with no
uIrose ol sending them relief OF helping them
NO follow.
III Such an unprccs dented couditlnn of things can
bnly DC TefentOie, il conje tur,d d. 10 tue liberal
se 81 thC United otates currcncy In the hands of
EecfuhiEg agents. Bar tLo TUuDie is " nnl out
Row tho money ia tistrihaI,d. In one or more
Nnstances II has been found, il seems, th.t the
Nmigrant received the wages Of bis covenant on
board the ship which was % convey him TO this
OunIry, SO that there was really ne actual YIold-
ion Of the municipal law OF England that could
be proven.
This business, moreover, of making advances,
board ship, 10 recruits or TO emigrants intended
pr recruits, Is, IL seems, one of q regularly es-
4iblished character. The Atlantic steamships, il
vppears, are thronged with agents, who have no
u id OF money at their command, and who employ,
addition TO money, every sort Of blandish-
hent TO gain the confidence OF their victims and
having got them thoroughly in their power BY the
NINE they reach New York, drug Them, hand
faem over 10 some recruiting patrol, have them
worn into the service OF the United States at
knee, and made, as Lord Howard says, food for
powder His Lordshp, however, refralns from
kherging the American Government with know
fuge OF, and connivance 1T, this business. And
70 takes occasion 10 compliment General Dix for
taying interfered 90 check the system in cases
hat came under his Official knowledge.
A similar absence Of direct crimination marks
BE reply made on the part OF the Government
" Mr. Layard; and from the admissions con-
hined in the Under Secretary's speech VIC are led
! D infer that In the specific cases where Lord
ttyo ons has deemed it necessary 10 offer remou-
France, it was found that the emigrants theu-
/, telyes were TO blame for any troubles they got
hto by the inycglement Of recruiting agents. In
tther words, we presume, Il has been found that
bey clutched the money prodered them without
pc slightest regard 70 the engagement its ae-
kptanee bound them 20, and trusted, no doubt,
,feident, 70 the facilities for desertion, or 10
n Interference oftheir Government, 10 save them
IN ihe service they had agreed to enter.
: a tis surely not uncharitabe 70 look for these
pa similar motives underneath the behavior Of
peh men, az least, as the seven hundred, whose