The Sun. — 1857-03-06 (London, England)

NING, MARCH 6, -,67.  PUBLICATIONS.  fNiPERIAL PARLIAMENT  licy of lie Government. In those cases there Wit'; gco'l reason for bearing with the Government till a new Parliament had declared what was to be the policy of the country. But let me remind your lordships that this case is widely different. The House of Commons has condemned the Government not on a legislative question, but on a question of• high policy, that of peace or war. The House of Commons has come to this resolution :—" That this house has heard with concern of the conflicts which have occurred between the Brit'sh and Chinese authorities in the Canton river ; and, without expressing an opinion as to the extent to which the Government of China may have afforded this country cause of complaint respecting the non-fulfilment of the treaty of 1842, this house considers that the papers which have been laid upon the table fail to establish satisfactory grounds for the violent measures resorted to at Canton in the late affair of the Arrow." Now let it be considered what was the serious effect of such a resolution. It was this: The country was virtually engaged in a war which the House of Commons had branded as unjust; and the conduct of affairs in the country with which we were at war was entrusted to a man whom the vote of the House of Commons bad branded with the fault of having a ithout justification entered into those proceedings. He wished to know whether, in the interval between this time and the meeting of a new Parliament— before the end of May, which I have just heard is the period when it would meet—whether, in that interval, during which tremendous events might take place, the policy which had been branded by the house of Commons would still be pursued, and the dealing with the important questions which must arise in China was to be committed to the hands of a man whose moral authority in that country had been destroyed by the vote of the House of Commons. It was impossible, after the vote' of the House of Commons, that that policy could be pursued, and that the affairs of England at Canton could be entrusted to the hands in which they were at present placed. Ho would submit that if the two Houses of Parliament were called on to give facilities to her Majesty's Government in order that they might be enabled to make that appeal to the country which they desire—facilities which it was in the power of either ho use to refuse--they were entitled to have some satisfactory assurance on this point from her Majesty's Government. He would venture to say that what her Majesty's Government ought to do, and which they might do, was forthwith to recal Sir John Bowring, and send out some person of high character and station in whom confidence could be placed, with full if peace was ineiTt should aho ppwoessieirlset;o caonniclude a that itylaeceGwoivtehrCnitn)  usual instructions given to admirals on foreign stations with regard to our plenip, tentlary. WEEKLY COMMUNICATION WITH_INDIA. En reply to a question fron. Mr. CATLEY, Mr. V. SMITH said it was not intended at present to open up a weekly communication with India. At present there was a fortnightly communication. Mr. KINNAIRD asked the secretary of State for the Colonies if he had any objecton to lay on the table of the house any despatches from till Governor of Malta on the subject of the working of the Jury Law in general, and especially with reference to the trial of the murderer of Capt. Graves I Mr. LABOUCHERE said he had not, and would produce them if th, y were moved for.