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      r \ s therefore , clear that the prisoner was their servant- The directors have the ultimate charge r all the documents of the company , and , in the " rdi nsrT course of business between . the company Zii their hankers , the paid cheques are returned to " t j , e directors ; become their vouchers , and , consefloentlv , their property , being documents , belonging in the " directors , as such . It was one of the prisoner s appointed duties to receive and keep for his employers such returned cheques ; and every soch t gperi therefore , in his custod y , would be in the lesai possession of the directors . The paper in Joestion , as soon as it had arrived from the hand of ie messenger at its ultimate destination , namely , the custody of the prisoner , for the directors , was ^ irtuallv in their possession , so when he afterwards abstracted it for an unlawful purpose , he was clearly OTifltv of stealing it from his employers . If a butler

      % \ iO had the custody of His master ' s plate should receive plate from the silversmiths for his master ' s u 5 e , he -would be guilty of larceny if he fraudulentl y con verted it to his own use , although it had not , other wise than by his receiving it , come to the actual po ssession of his master . The judgment then proceeded to distinguish this case from those cited ( ,, a rgument , and especially from that of " the En " -jypu ' nst Masters . " In that case , the judgment pn £ needed to state , " the prisoner ' s duty was merely to receive the money from another servant aud pass it onto a third , who accounted for it to his master . Here tbe paper , we consider , reached its ultimate destin atien when placed in the prisoner ' s hands , and his possession was that of the directors , his masters . go difficulty arises from his being a shareholder , for as such he had no property in the paper . "—The conviction was affirmed ; sentence will be passed in the next session of the Central Criminal Court

      COURT OF EXCHEQUER . GILES V . PMTCUBTT . In this action the plaintiff sou « ht " to recover damages against the defendant for criminal conversation wiih the plaintiff's wife —Ths was certainly one of the most extraordinary cases which ever came into court , and the defence on the record was almost 33 singular as the case ; f » r we cannot call to mind having seen a plea like , the present . The defendant first denied the allegation of the plaintiff , by the plea of not guilty , and , gectmdly , alleged that the lad y in question was not the plaintiff ' s wife . —Mr . Humphrey , Q- C . ( with wh-m was Mr . Lush J in opening the cases , said that in an action like the present , he had not to appeal to the sympathies of the

      jury to consider the outraged feelings of a husband He could not profess that they had been outraged , for this acti on was , in fact , brought in consequence of there being issued by the defendant and the p laintiff ' s wife , who mL-ht at some future period be made chargeable to him . The circumstances of the case were these : —The plaintiff , at the time of his marriage with his present wife * then Mary Eliza Berry , was employed in the silk and ribbon shop of Messrs . Leaf .. Be established himself in the same line of business soon a ' terhis marriage , but had , unhappily , been very unsuccessful . The plaintiff » nd his wife had , for . some reason , disputes , or , to use a milder term , differences , which although she had home him two children , rendered it expedient that

      they should part . The lady went to live with her parents , who fomented the quarrel by all the means in their power , obstructed the plaintiff in seeing his wife , and probably induced her to take the step which had actually been taken—of pr < Deeding against him in ihe Consistory Court to pn-core a divorce , which suit ended in the court giving judgment for a separation a mensa etihoro . . It was clear that this was a judgment merely of separation , and did not in English law amount to a divorce , so as to enable either party to marry again during the life of the other ; a » -d further , it did not free the plaintiff from the liability of maintaining any issue she might have , even by another , while both , he and Ms wife were in the same country , for it was the rule- of law in such

      a case "hat he was to be held as the father , who was in fact or in law the husband . The plaintiffs wife having , subsequently to the sentence , contrae-ed " .-in intimacy with the defendant and had two children by him , the plaintiff felt bound and entitled to come before a jury to seek compensation for the injury inflicted upon him . Yet he { Mr . Humphrey ) must admit tha" the action was , in f * ct , brought not so much for damages , as to enable the p l aintiff to free himself from the liability which now was or might at a future period be imposed on him , of supporting acd educating children that were not his . —The marriage was proved , and also that all connexion had ceased between the plaintiff and his wife for ten years , and that he had really never' interfered with her course of life or tried to induce hrr to return to him . —The Lord Chief Baron asked whether , under

      the circumstances , it was worth while to take up any further time ?—Sir . Martin . € l . C . ( with whom was Mr . Temple , ) for the defendant , s * id that the lady and the defendant had been most cruelly persecuted by the plaintiff ; bnt the learned gentleman was interrupted by the Lord Chief Bar « n , who said : I do not wish to know more of the ca < etban is sufficient to enable the court aud the jury to do justice between the two ) ariies to the action before ns . —Mr . Martin ; The Ecclesiastical . Court pronoanced the separation on the ground of cruelty and adultery of the husband —The Lord Chief Baron ' ¦ If a man permit bis wife to live with another man far so many years without endeavouring to prevent toe intercourse , or to induce her to abandon it , be cani : otjnaintain an action for criminal conversation ; tbe verdict must necessarily be for tbe defendant . — The jury returned a verdict accordingly .

      COMPENSATION . —KSIGHT V . POX . This was an action brought by the plaintiff , a lady , against the defendants , iron-founders and contractors at Birmingham , to recover damages for injuries she received in consequence of the improper construction of scaffolding , a portion of which protruded into the highway , and caused the plaintiff to fall and hurt herself very much . —Mr . Snowies , C \ C , and another learned gentleman ar > peared for the plaintiff ; and Mr . Whateley , Q C , for the defendants . —The defendants , it appeared , hid contracted to furnish tbe necessary work for the purpose of making a railway bridge ; and the general superintendent of the railway works , Mr . Cochrane had , under them , contracted with the company to build it . The scaffolding was erected by Mr . Cochrane without the personal instruc

      tions of the defendants , but entirely on his own responsibility . On the night of Aug . 25 th last , the plaintiff and her daughter were returning home , about Ten , when the former struck and fell over 3 piece of -wood , where the new bridge was being made , . which jotted out from the rest of the scaffolding , and projected on the pavement . The plaintiff , who was quite disabled by the violence of the shock from rising , was conveyed to the nearestchemist's ,, and-thence in a cab to her own residence , in' BeJgrave-plaee , a distance of four or five miles . On reaching her home a surgeon , Mr . Hooper , who bad attended her and her family for years , was sent for , and he described the injuries she had sustained a-s being most serious . Both the bones of her right leg were broken , and tbe motion of the cab had converted that fracture into a

      compound fracture ; her ' right arm was severely conr tused , and nothing but the strength of her muscles sived it from being fractured . The surgeon ' s bill was £ -31 17 s . 6 d . and the other expenses amounted to about £ 22 . —Mr . Whateley , in his address to the jury for the defendants disclaimed all idea of attempting to deny that a serious injury had been done to the plaintiff—one which the gentlemen , Messrs . Pox and Henderson , whom he represented , deplore as much as it- was possible . But this was not the case of a person who haid to maintain herself by her own labour , for she has a small income on which , to depend . The defendants employed a pjrson to make this scaffold , which they never saw , ; and truly , if owing to the improper construction of it injury was done , very little beyond the amount 6 f the ' expense the plaintiff was actually put to would , as damages , satisfy the justice of the case . —The Lord Chief Baron , in summing- up , told the '

      r ° ry that , when himself at the bar , he had never Oilled , in a ease like the present , for damages in respect of any pain or suffering which might have wen inflicted by the accident complained of , on the plaintiff ; for it might bo looked on as the act of Providence , to a certain extent , where there was io positive malice on the part of the defendants : In thia spirit he himself had asked the jury to assess the damages in the case of Mr . Carpue , the snrgeon , who had been seriously injured by an accident on the Brighton Railway , and the plaintiff then assented to the view he had taken . Undoubtedly tie case was in the hands Of the jury , ""ho would award the expenses the plaintiff had incurred , and such further sum as they deemed reasonable . His lordship then proceeded to detail the evidence .- The jury , after a short deliberation , found for the plaintiff , £ 200 damages , and the Lord Chief Baron gave leave to move , as above stated , to enter a nonsuit .

      COURT OF QUEEN' S BENCH . WAIXY V . BBlMWEIX . —QUAUFICAMOS POB TOWS

      COUSCIZWB . In this case an action had been brought against the defendant for penalties-under ' the Municipal Corporations Amendment Act , for acting as a councillor of the boroug h of Stockport , without being « al j qualified so to do . Under the Actio question , * t was necessary that a party thus acting should be ^ inhabi tant householder of the boroug h , and be !* ted in respect of premises in it for three years be'ore he is Qualified to act as councillor . It anneared

      ™* t the defendant had occupied for the fall time Quired , by the Act a house , known as the " Jolly Otters , " to which a warehouse was attached , in Aspect of which house and warehouse he had been ^ ted , and paid the rates , havingalso been an inha-*?*>* householder of the boroug h for the whole P ® 6 - It appeared , however , that in August , 1848 , * f « ad ceased to occupy the house , but sWlretained f * warehouse , on which ; he paid the rates , which rate » were sufficient in amount to qualify him , if he w s otherwise duly qualified . The question was ,

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      whether the defendant , having for some time previous to his assuming the functions of councillor , ceased to occupy the whole ' premises in respect ' to which he had been rated , and occupied only a part Of the premises , paying the rate on that part ; which Tate was sufficient in amount for the purpose , was entitled to be on the burgess list—his title to be so constituting his ri ght to act as councillor , 'if appointed to the office . The plaintiff obtained a verdict at the trial * but leave was reserved for the defendant to move the court to enter the verdict for the defendant . A rule nisi had been obtained for this purpose . —Mr . Evans and Mr . Crompton now showed cause against the rule , which was supported by Mr . Welsby . —Mr . Justice Coleridge delivered

      judgment . In doing so he observed that the action had been brought on the third section of the act , on the ground that the defendant had acted as a councillor of the borough after having ceased to be qualified to act as such—the alleged cessation ol his qualification being that he was not a burgess , which it was necessary for him to be , before he could legally act as councillor . But the question was , whether , at the time he acted , the defendant was entitled to be upon the burgess list ? In order to ascertain whether he was so or not , the court must look at the 15 th section of the act , which made it the duty of the overseer , on the 5 th September , to make out a list of the persons entitled to be enrolled on the burgess roll for the year . The court was then to inquire whether he was entitled to be on the burgess roll for the year , not whether he was or was not a burgess . In inquiring into this , they had to look at the 9 th section of the act , which enacted

      in substance that every male of full age , who had occupied a house or warehouse for three years previously , and had been an inhabitant householder of the borough for that period , and paid the rates on the premises , with the exception of such as were due for the six months anterior to the 1 st of August , should , if duly enrolled , be a burgess . The provision of the section went more to define who should be a burgess than who should be entitled to be enrolled . The question now was , whether the defendant was entitled to be on the burgess roll , in order to see whether he was entitled to be on the buagess list , for if so entitled he was qualified to vote . The Court was of opinion , on the facts of the case , that lie was entitled to be enrolled , and if so , he was entitled to be on the burgess list . The intention of the legislature obviously was that a person so entitled should be qualified to act , and on that ground the Court was of opinion that the rule should be made absolute .

      THE QUEEK V . COHEN ASD DAVIS . Mr . M . Chambers and Mr . Huddleston were counsel for the prosecution , and Mr . ' Sergeant Shee and Mr . Ballantine for the defendants . —This was an indictment charging the defendants with a conspiracy to defraud the creditors of Cohen . It appeared that Cohen was formerly a tailor , but all at once he ordered glass ard earthenware from certain persons named in the indictment , which goods he consigned to Davis , who was a dealer in earthenware in the Blackfriars-road . Very shortly after this Cohen went before the Insolvent Court , and after several examinations he was ordered to he imprisoned for . twenty months for defrauding his creditors . Inquiries were made , and then this indictment was

      preferred . —Many witnesses were examined , but the detail of the evidence was by no means interesting . —The defence was , that the evidence did not show that Davis had been a party in conspiring to defraud the creditors of Cohen , and that although Cohen might have acted improperly , still that Davis had nothing to do with the matter . —The Jury at once said they had made up their minds and need not trouble the'learned Lord Chief Jostice ' to sum up . — Lord Campbell , however , said it would be more satisfactory that he should sum op , and he accordingly did so very briefly . —The Jury then instantly returned a verdict of " ' Guilty" against both the de-, fendants . —Mr . Chambers then prayed the judgment of the Cfourfc—Lord Campbell said the defendant ' s

      upon the clearest evidence had been found guilty ' of a most enormous offence . Such things were often practised and much suspected , but it was very rare that evidence such as had been laid before the jury could be brought spas thoroughly to establish the guilt of those' who were concerned . Under these circumstances , by way of example , ho thought the smallest punishment he' could impose was that for this offence the defendants should be imprisoned for one year in the House of Correction , and during that time they should respectively be kept to hard labour . —Mr . Chambers handed up the statute to tbe Court to show that there was no power to award hard labour . —Lord Campbell said he deeply regretted it . The sentence would therefore be imprisonment for one year .

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      Love , Muhdeb , and Suicide . —The following tragical incidents ate related in the French papers : — About three years ago a tradesman , inhabiting the Quartier Breda , destroyed himself in a fit of desperation , after-having written a letter in which he declared that his reason for making away with himself was , that he could , not . survive the knowledge of his [ dishonour . A thousand reports were current at tbe time , as to tbe precise cause which led to the . catastrophe . When the husband was dead a liason sprang up , and . was almost publicly acknowledged between his widow and a young man in the neighbourhood , but satiety was soon followed by coldness and scenes of reproach , caused by the jealousy of the widow , whose lover seemed to neglect her more

      and more every day .. The intimacy between them still continued , however , notwithstanding the clouds which so frequently disturbed its , course , and the young man was accustomed to take his meals almost daily at the house of his mistress . On Thursday last he had dined there as usual , when , having scarcely risen from the table , he was seized with burning pains and vomitings , sufficiently alarming in their character to cause the assistance of a medical man to be called in . Immediately on his arrival , at tbe first examination of the patient ' s countenance and of the substances . vomited by him , the man . of science suspected the case to be one of poisoning . Bis treatment Was that usually resorted to in such cases , but in spite of the promptitude and energy of

      the measures adopted the patient expired , accusing his mistress of the deed . As , for the individual in question , as soon as the first symptoms of poison appeared , she became completely wild , and when her . lover was . dead she appeared struck with stupor , shut herself up in her apartment , and refused all assistance or consolation . ' She remained , thus secluded during ' tw © days , " when suddenly the neighbours heard proceeding from her lodging the sound of an exploded ffre ^ arm . The doors . were broken open , and the commissary of police summoned . On his arrival all that was found , was a lifeless : corpse . The unfortunate woman had shot herself through the heart , with the same pistol with , which three years ago her wretched husband had terminated his existence .

      Trajbical . Occubrexceseab Santa Cbuz , — We have been put in possession of the facts relating to a tragical occurrence near Santa Cruz . On the 31 st ulc , the wife of Mr . J , . Graham , residing about six miles ' from Santa Crnz , at the saw mills called Sayant , lelt . his home '; , taking , as he says , between twenty and thirty , theusand dollars in coin and gold dust , j Oni j , he . 2 nd instant ,: Graham obtained : a search warrant ,.. under which the sheriff proceeded to search iie house of Mrs . Mary Bennett , the mother . of Mrs . Graham , also residing at Sayant . This was done upon the affidavit of Graham , that he believed ' his wife ' s sister , Mary Ann Bennett , aided in tbe-robbery , as she was at his house on the same day that the affair occurred . Nothing was found

      but a small box , which Mrs . Bennett said was sent her by Mary Ann , with a request to have , it decently buried , as it contained a small child . This box , which-was ; in a trunk where Graham and - his son Jesse kept their money , was broken open and the money taken while ' they both were absent at San Jose , attending a horse race . Mary Ann was then arrested on behalf of the people ,, for aiding and abetting in the robbery , but discharged for want of sufficient proof . At two different times subset quently , the son Jesse endeavoured . by " threats to compel Mrs . B and her son Jackson to disclose the place pf the wife ' s concealment , menacing their lives should they refuse . - Upon this , they proceeded to the Alcalde and entered their com ,

      p laint . Jesse was ordered to give bail in the sum of 2000 dollars . Not being able to obtain the sureties , the bond was doubled , and he allowed to depart on his own recognisance , ' promising , good behaviour . -He , however , followed Mrs . B , and on their road home evertook them about pne mUe from the Mission , fired with a double-barrel shot gun loaded with buckshot , upon Jackson but missed him , and then discharged the other barrel at Mrs . B ., before her son could afford any ' defence , having been thrown by his fri ghtened animal . Five shots took effect , upon her ^ two in her hip , the remainder in the legs , though hone of them are dangerous . The scoundrel then hurried on to Mrs . B ' s house , called out . her youngest son , and shot him down deliberately—the boy died on the Instant . Since , then nothing has been heard of him . . A reward of three thousand , dollars is ' offered for bis

      apprehension . The elop ing lad y his a lover in the case whose name is forgotten . —Pici / ie News .: A Scats Goat . —A person in Largo , who heard it affirmed that rats , would disinhabit . premises where a goat was kept , had the curiosity to . try the experiment though with but little faith . in the recommended antidote . Accordingl y , one bf these bearded mountaineers was procured , lodged in the premises , when , . unexpectedl y , the . long tailed iio-ly , " devouring ' vermin suddenly decamped . The goat has been kept for many months , and nothing in the shape of arat uinow seeninear the premises . Some may be apt to class this affair among the ridiculous ; but we have been told it is a reality ; and surely this mode , of making rats . flit is . as simple as itissw guJar .- ^ or ^ m ITonfer The ABCiirj Expedition . —Accounts . from the west coast of South America ' rnention that her Majesty ' s shi ps Enterprise and Investigator bad passed through the Straits of Magellan .

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      Monday, Jvxb 24. House Of Lords. —The Qu...

      MONDAY , Jvxb 24 . HOUSE OF LORDS . —The question of the legality of the recent Sunday regulation in the Postoffice was again brought before the bouse , by Lord Brougham , who insisted forcibly on the hardship of the new plan . The Marquis of Lansdowne was understood to say that he had no doubt as to the right of the Crown to make what regulations it pleased with regard to the transmission of letters , though he feared that the new scheme would be productive of great desecration of the Sabbath . After an explanation from Lord Canning , as to some observations which fell from him respecting Sir Edmund L yons , in his speech on the Greek quarrel , the Draikage asd Improvement of Lands Advances Bill was read a second time , on the motion of Lord Lansdowne . Their lordships then adjourned .

      HOUSE OF COMMONS . —At the time of private busisess , on The Prussian Minister ' s Residence Bill , Sir R . Inolis noticed , in terms of pointed severity , the " wanton if not premeditated insult , " to which , he said , his disinguisht d friend the Chevalier Bunsen had been subjected in another place . Mr . Roebuck , in vindication of Lord Brougham , gave ai < explanation of the occurrence ; and Lord J . Russell , without expressing any opinion upon the subject , paid a tribute of respect to the personal as well as the public character of the Chevalier . Confidence in the Ministry . —On the order of the day for going into Committee of Supply being read ,

      Lord J . Russell said , that , as the hon . member for Sheffield had given notice of an amendment on this motion , he { Lord J . Russell ) was quite ready to postpone the orders of the day . Perhaps the house would permit him to say , that , as two hon members had given notices of amendments on the motion of the hon . and learned member for Sheffield , respecting which they would of course act as they should deem proper , the government were only anxious that the house should come to a full and fair decision upon the question proposed by the hon . and learned member for Sheffield , which the government thought was the question properly to be put in issue . ( Hear ; hear . ) .

      Mr . Anstev . said , that after the explanation of the noble lord upon a matter-which more nearly concerned the government than any other party , he certainly- would not-persevere with his amendment . ( Cries of "Hume ! Hume ! " ) ¦ . - Mr . Humr had no hesitation in saving that when the time came he should submit his amendment to the house , to be dealt with as the house should think fit . ( Hear , hear ; and laughter . ) He certainly should exercise his discretion in making his motion or not , as he liked . ( Hear , hear . )

      . Mr . Roebuck then moved the important resolution of which' he had given notice , " That the principles upon which the foreign policy of the government has been regulated , have been calculated to maintain the honour and dignity of this country , aid in times of unexampled difficulty to preserve peace between England ^ and foreign nations . " He commenced by explaining the reasons which had induced him to make , this motion . A government constituted likeours , he observed , when condemned by one branch of the legislature , is unable-to discharge its dunes either at home or abroad with honour .. In such a case , therefore , it became the duty of this house to ascertain for itself what had been the

      conduct of the government , and to express its own opinion . He agreed with Lord . J . Russell , that no administration was bound to resign upon . a mere resolution of the House of Lords ; but if it was necessary to have a House of Lords , and if that house had expressed an opinion upon a question regarding our foreign policy , this house should step in and declare the sentiments bf the people of England upon the same point ; the clear proposition contained in the resolution of the House of Lords being a condemnation of that foreign policy . He confessed he came to the consideration of the policy of Lord Palmersion with a mind disposed in its favour ; for , though he had seen much in its . details to condemn , with its principles he entirely agreed . There were two classes

      of cases which that ' policy embraced—one regarding individual rights and wrongs ; the other , the general interests the dignity , and honour of this country . The object of Lord Palmerston , with relation to the first , was to extend the protection of the government of England to her wandering sons , so far as the rubs of civilised nations would permit ; and with respect to : the interests'of this country , as a . people , he believed Lord Palmerston ' s policy had been to maintain the peace of the world , not by truckling to . despotism , but ; as far as permitted by the rules of international law , by the exertion of the moral force of the English name . Might there not be a minister of this country whose policy was to make tyranny safe in Europe ? . -These antagonist principles were

      now upon their trial , and the House of Commons was called unon to decide whether England was openly to countenance , hot struggles for anarchy , but the efforts of mankind'for self-government , or lend its aid to crush these efforts ; Mr . Roebuck then rapidly reviewed the systemof foreign policy pursued by this country from 1790 to 1615 , and from 1830 to the present time , contrasting its principles in the two periods . He then noticed cursorily the circumstances under which the kingdom of Greece was established by the three Powers ; the petty intrigues of which the little court of Athens soon became the focus :, the obstinate ignorance of the English people as to foreign affairs ; -the insolent demands made by Russia and Austria upon Turkey for tbe extradition

      of the Hungarian refugees ,- and the appearance of the English fleet in the Dardenelles , which had vindicated the rights ot independent nations . He then applied himself to the specific case of the claim ' s upon Greece , to which it was objected , that the demands were unlawful—that their amount was insignificant and exaggerated—that the manner in which - they were urged was imperious and uncalled for ; and that the time for exacting redress was inopportune . J lie denied that there was anything in the- claims ' contrary to the law of nations , : which was a system . of general morality , the rules of which were somewhat vague ,- But how had they been interpreted in practice ? France in '¦ 1831 bad sent a fleet into the Taeus to exact reparation for injuries suflvred

      by French subjects , our offer of mediation being refused . ] In 1842 the -French government had in a similar manner obtained redress for . its subjects at St , Salvador . There were many similar instances on the part of France , America , and England herself ; and with weaknations it was a merciful mode of proceedings in such cases , not to declare war , but to blockade their ports'and take possession of certain property ; For many years there bad been continual complaints bf the conduct of the Creek government towards British subjects , letters from our ministers remaining unopened ! aud , of course , unanswered . In Mr . Finlay ' s case his land had been taken possession of , not for great national interests , biit for a garden -: in '; which the Ring might disport

      himself at the expense ' of a British subject , who was refused all payment ' whatever . 'He-applied to Lord Aberdeen to intercede with the Greek government ; Lord- Aberdeen acknowledged : the justice of his cfaiitns , and directed'Sir E . Lyons ¦ to urge' them •¦; but Mr . Finlay obtained-no redress . M .- Pacifico , on a Sunday , when the Christians of-Athens were at church , had his house attacked by a mob , headed by certain young noblemen , his family beaten , and his whole property destroyed . Be cured ; not : what M . Pacifico was ; he was born a British subject , and hrd a right to demand , the . protection of England . He appealed to the Greek , government , and obtaining no reparation he sought that protection . Dad it been Baron Rothschild who had been thus

      attacked , all Europe would have rung with the outrage ; ' but M . Pacifico being a poor Jew ho was treated with insult and his demands ? set aside . It had been said that , international-Jaw forbade .-coni : pliance with such an appeal ; this .-he denied , and he showed what would be the effect of such an interpretation of the * law in despotic countries . Then it , ' was said . , that ' these , were , isolated cases ; but there were other cases , and . if we once relaxed , ; in the case of h . ; ilf-civilised nations , the rules by which the subjects of this country , are guarded abroad , there would be no safety for English commerce ; Mr . Kbebuck then went into a minute examination

      of the details of the transactions . betwixt M . Gros and Mr . Wyse at Athens , and . Lord Palmerston and M . , I ) rouyn de Lhuys . in England , and concluded by expressing a hope that Mr . Hume would : not ,, by persevering in his . amendment ,. enable members . to ride off from deciding . upon tho general policy of the government ; . .. V .-. ... . ; ¦ , i ¦ ¦' ¦ Mr ; Humb could not join in the fit' guooue argument of Mr . Roebuck , because . he thought the conduct of other states furnished no rule of conduct for England . : Finding , ; however , that ho ( Mr . Hume ) had " taken a wrong step , and that his ; amendment would place some hon . members in a difficulty , he should ' not pressit . ' - ' ' • ' ' ¦

      . Sir F . Thesioer observed that Mr . Roebuck , m placing himself in the gap and moving such a resolution , ' had purchased a claim to tbe substantial gratitude of ; the governinent . ¦> ' He recollected , however ^ a debate , ;< in- I 843 y upon the war m Affghanistan , in which he had declared that Lord Palmerston was : typified by a- ' lucifer match , and he was astonished that ; with such an impression , Mr . Roebuck had proposed this resolution , the lucifer ! match being still in the Foreign-office . Mr . Roebuck had not called for a reversal of the

      resolution of the House of Lords , but bad ' prui neatly given an ampleTange to every one who desired an excuse for voting with the government . After , some 'general reflections upon the policy of Lord Palmerston ,: than which nothing , he thoug ht , was more likely to embroil us with other nations , and which had resulted in the deepest humiliation to England , Sir Frederick examined at some length thecaseaofMr . Finlay ant' M . Pacifico , neither . of which , he contended , afforded a ground for hostile aggression ; the former having been referred to arbitration , and the latter , which involved absurd ,

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      unfounded , ^ hd exaggerated cl ; iim . «; being a case for the tribunals of the country . He ' then went into the particulars of the negotiations carried on by the ' intervention of rratice , and observed thiit Lord Palmerston , having been charged with a breach of the arrangements , was compelled at last to adopcthe very convention he had repudiated , and was now in the same position as that iri which he might have stood without humiliation on the Utli of May . He asked the ' ' house whether these transactions were calculated , in the words of the motion , to "maintain the honour and dignity of this country ?" Mr . Wood supported the motion , and in reply to Sir F . Thesiger discussed minutely the several cases of complaint against the Gr-eksroveroment .

      one of which—that of an individual who had been brutally tortured in ' the Turkish fashion—had been scarcely noticed . In all these cases redress was refused , and it was reinakahlehow many of the'Ionian islanders were insulted , flogged and tortured , because they were British subjects . In such instances it was the plain and boiindeh duty of our ' government to interfere . But the , most flagrant outrage was in the case of the Fantom ' s boat , and yet it waa said that British honbui * was compromised by a demand for redress It had been admitted by the ablest advocate of the resolution of the House of Lords , that for years past the representatives of the three great Powers at Athens had been caballing amongst themselves—one to irmintain English ,

      another French , and another Russian interests . Then was it for the English Minister at such a Court to say , " We cannot obtain redress ' ourselves and must seek the intervention of . Russia and France ? " The step taken by our' government would be of immense , value throughout the East , and would dissipate the illusion of the , Greek Court , that England' dared not enforce her ri ghts without the sanction of France ami Russia . If Greece was to be maintained , it was hot by hatiding over our claims to Russia or France . : Sir James Graham hoped that at last they were let out of ni * « prius , as for the last six hours they had been listening to three lawyers , who ' . hnd hot travelled out of the affairs of Greece . ( Cheer ' s . )

      He . proceeded to say that he was reluctantly dragged into the debate , but ho felt that to alistiiin from it would be cowardice in hiini ' Touching upon HU lonjr political and personal . - friendship for Lord Palmerston , he said that ' since he had left the government of which his lordship had formed a part , he had frequently supported it ' and had a lwaj ' s maintained his regard for Lord Palmerston himself . Therefore , personal feeling could in no way influence his present conduct . ' The question of that night was afar larger one than any speaker had yet rendered it . He would endeavour to address himstlf to the general question . '; He then went through the history of the foreign affairs of England for some years past ; He had himself been ' . an assenting

      party to the siege of Antwerp , andthe separation of Beloium from Holland ) and alsii ' to the operations for Don Pedro , - but be reminded tho ' house that all these things had been done . with the ' knowledge and approbation' of all our allies . ' But in illustration of Lord Palmerston ' s foreign system , he cited a speech of the present Earl Grey ( when Lord llowick ) delivered in that house in 1844 , which inculcated tiohinterference- ^ a princ i ple Sir James declared to be sacred , and ho said that he would contrast the ad r vice contained iri that speech with tlie conduct of Lord Palmerston immediately , on cominglntoofGce with ; the' present ' government . Beginning with a . despatch to Spain in 1846 , in which censure ah ' d counsel were administered in the most peremptory

      manner , Sir James proceeded to a despatch of 1848 , in which Narvaez was schooled by Lord Palmerston as to enlargine his ministry and introducing Liberals into it . ' ' The very speedy result was the expulsion of our representative from Spain ' . And when Spain , the proudest nation in the world , actually stooped to make an amende , the first thing Lord Palmerstbii met her with was an announcement ^ that if Sir H' Bulwer whs hot otherwise employed , he would he the minister who should be sent back to Madrid . Then in the case of Portugal , there also Lord Palmerston had sought ' to dictate , in the case of Costa C & bral . In ' reference to Switzerland , Sir : James , with great apparent precision , was detailing a case of diplomatic

      misconduct , which affected the honour of England ; when he was suddenly stopped with " 'Quite untrue , " from Lord Palmerston . Then the noble lord meant to convey that the ministers' of France arid Spain , in so stating-were guilty of saying , what was not home out by ' fact . [ Lord Palmerston was understood to assent . ] . As regarded France , Sir James then charged his lordship with ' unremitting hostility to M . Guizofc , and with inces ' sant ' eommunications with his bitterest adversaries , who were now Republicans—a course which , he ' said ' , would be a reproach to Lord Palmerston ' s ' conscience to his last hour . He next quoted a despatch to Lord Ponsonby , in . which Austria was accused of privately harbouring designs against Piedmont — a despatch

      which ! was allowed to circulate ail over Europe , but a most'solemri denial of such'designs by'Prince Metternich , received in three weeks after that ; de spatch was read , was ' suppressed , ; iihd hover ^ produced at ' all until Lord 'Brougham long afterwards forced it out ; ¦ Austria hud loudly complained ot this conduct . The despatch ' ' circulated ,-and Piedmont , violently excited , became the assailant of Austria , and all that Lord Palmerston ' did to prevent hostilities was to hint that Piedmont was hardly strong enough for the contest . Arid when Austria asked the meditation of , ' England in ' the matter , Lord Palmerston refused ; in the . results that ensued' nothing but ' the wisdom bf / Radetzky had saved Austria ; and the end'had'b ' een ^ that ' . revolution was everywhere put down ; jNaplesjrand our operations there , "Sir Janies hexlTcbrisidere'd , andexposed the support we first gave to the insurgents , whom we abandoned to their fate ' on matters

      faking a different turn . Then " came the case of Russia ' s demand of the Hungarian refugees from Turkey . He condemned the order to our fleet to proceed to the mouth of the Dardanelles Defore the result of our communication with the Emperor was known . Arid he further condemned the next orders , ' wh'ichsent the . fleet actually -within the Dardanelles . Arid then , ' whenthe appeal to ther Russian Emperor proved successful , and he became indigimntat . the ' hostile stepj an excuse of stress ' of weather was made on the part , of England , ' whidH ,: was actuall y false ; the removal of the fleet haying actually taken place , as witnessed byword Hafdwick , on a bea uti . ful day . and in clear water . He . then addressed himself to the afiairis of Greece , " niid , . reading a despatch to M : 'Glfli'flkia ' , in . Oct . ; 1847 ,. declared that its most " offensive" tone went n long way to ' explain subsequent difficulties with ( Greek administrations . He believed that Greece was not irinocentof

      fermenting insurrection in the Ionian Isles . Sir . H . Ward make ' s thatchargei which is solemnl y denied by the King of Greece , and thereupon Sir Henry , retracts . And after this Lord Palmerston' himself reiterates the charge' with additional items—a line of conduct devoid of truth and horiesty , arid therefore detrimental to the'bonour of Erigland . Much might , ho doubt , he said in vindication of the claims which , had formed the . subject bf ' that night ' s debate . -, But the case of the islands , to Which little or ' no reference had been , matfe , was at present in- ; volved iii obscurity . ' , The title to ' thoseislands Was moat uncertain , ' arid yet , ' arhid all , that uncertainty , positive orders had been ' given by the .. Foreign-office to seize them , and accident only hadpreveritedtliat seizure ' arid , in all probability , a consequent war . As regarded our conduct to France in , the Greek , affair , our course should have ' been , ' assbbh as . it

      was admitted that accident only bad prevented the fulfilment of the convention of London ; to have at once recurred to that treaty : instead of allowing delay , and ¦ amusing the house and ; the country with ' attempts to fix the blame on . M . ' Gros , 'whereby the good understanding of the countries were ' -jeopardised . Slightly alluding to the " difficult ' question " of Denmark , he summed up by saving that the Ambassador of France h . i'd beenfocalledj ' and-the representative of Austria had been" withdrawn j'that the amity of Prussia was entangled in the'Dariish question ; that'Russia was writing nrigryj notes ; that Narvaez .. was all powerful- in ¦ Spain , ' and ; Costa Cabraliti ; Portugal ; that a French arriiy-was-established in Rome , rind the Pope was as much as ever estranged , from this country . - iTJnder these circum ^ - atancesj he-was asked io vote for & fesoluiion affirming the ' . wisdom of the foreign ' policy- of'the nobleman under whose ' administration air this'had

      taken place . Such a resolution ho' could- not support . : : sir James sat down amid loud cheering , and the debatewasinstantlyadjourned ; " '' ¦ ' . The j houseroseatorieo ' clbck . ? ' ; - ¦• ¦ •• ¦ . -. - -v ' i -i-- - ' - ' ^^ TUBs ; i ) Ati ' ' ' juKB 2 ff !* ; ' ' - ' --- ' l ' " ¦ HOUSE OFLORDS . ^ Marq ' uispfLbppNn . ERRY postponed until -Thursday n ' ext . nis reiiplu ' tions respecting theLprd-LieUterianoyof Ireland , , 1 . " ' ? '' . ! Several bills Were advanced ; a' ' stage ; and their lordshipstheriaojourned . ; ' ^ ' / HOUSE OF COMMONS . —The adjourned debate on Mr . Roebuck ' motion was ' resumed by Mr . Bbrnal OsnoRNE , ' who said that he considered that this ' was not a question of details . 'The ; ' house was not called upon to - say whether it approved ' every act of our Foreign Minister , but whether oiir forei gn pol'b ^ was : to' be regulated by the . representatives of foreign nations / He taunted the ^

      not having brought forward a motion upon , the subject- ^ a . course he ' should , have , ' expected ; from' the . ingenuity of ^^ cunwirig , sharpened "by , ! the pprtinaeity of revenge ; ' After-a personal attack' ujibn Sir James Graham ( upon whom ,, he said' . the mantle of . Mr . ' Urquhart had fallen ) , ho quoted parliamentary recbrUR to show that a short time ago , upon a discussion on Portuguese affairs , 'Sir . James Had declared his entire approval of the conduct ' pf Lord'Palmerston iri reference to " Port uial . '' He / would , he said , fotO with Sir James'if Lord . Palmerston were ' not able to dispose of the aioushtiohs against him ; as easily as he ( Mr . Bernnl . Osborne ) could ' dispose of the politiodl charaothr and consistency of Sir James Graham . As regarded Greece , he believed that the sticking up a Russian puppet in tbe Levant was a foolish mistake , that the Greeks were a most profligate and worthless people , and that we . had found

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      Un necessary to chastise the child whom we had so unv ise ! y c''osen' t ° ' . a ' l Thinking the interests of England and the world at . stiike , lie aupporced Mr . Roehuek ' s motion with pride and ploa ^ re ; Lord JouS' Mannsbs contrasted the . liiirh-flbwn declamation which hhd been uttered about England ' s throwing her protection around her rheancst son , with the'facts , no refutation , of which had ever ' been attemp'ed ; iii reference to the recent seizure and imprisonment of an unoffending British . subject by the Americans at' Charleston , arid in reference to the expulsion ^ by Lord 'Palmorstori ' s protege ' , the French Republic , of tho harriiless and iiidnstridus English labourers in France . Alluding to Loril Palmerston ' s alleged lovo of peace , he dwelt upon

      his lordship ' s conduct in tho case of the islands of . Cervi and Sapienza , and in Switzerland , in proof of the bellicose way in which such lovo was manifested . Ho next inquired what was the success of those efforts at establishing constitutional governments abroad , which were considered so important a duty of otir own government ; and ho instanced a series of tyrannies and barbarities committed by various newly arisen Liberal governments ilB an evidence of what Lord Palmerston had doub for the good of mankind . After showing how many of his lordship ' s efforts and prophecies had . alike foiled ' , ( instancing particularly the case of Austria , whose sway in Ital Lord Palmerston . had confidently asserted could never be re-established , ) he concluded by declaring that he could not see thiit the honour

      or dignity of England either had been , or could be , maintained by a policy which exposed this country to the . indignation of civilised Europe . MivCinsiioui Axstet , in ' a speech ef nearly two hoursarid a half , delivered to a very thin audience , explained the difficul ty he felt in coining to any decision upon the question , for . while he had been upon many occasions , compelled to oppose the foreign policy of ministers , it had , of late years , met his entire approbation . Under . 'the . circutnstances . he could not give his vote in favour of so general a verdict of approval-as that implied in Mr . Roebuck ' s resolution , while he certainly could not join in a vote which involved a general censure , lie , thereforej hoped he should be favourably judged when he antiouncedthat he should not vote at all .

      Mr ,- Uaillib Cochrane addrousod himself Vo , an examination Of the conduct of Loi-d Palmerston in reference to the affairs of Switzerland , ' and of the behaviour of bis agent , Lord Minto , in Rome , during the revolutionary period there . He next , cctisured the mode in which the Sicilian and Neapolitan negotiations had been conducted , and stating that he would ( abstain from going over other topics which had already been handled , he concluded by denouncing Lord Palmerston ' s policy as bem << , despite of the character which had been claimed for it ; decidedly un-English .

      Viscount Palmkksion said that it . was due to himself ,, to the house , ' and to tho country , that the second night of this important debate should not close without a statement from him . This was no mere question of- the endurance of a ministry , but was . a question . of national policy . But ho . ihougbt the way in which this . subject had been brought : on was unworthy of the party which had ; obtained a hostile majority in the Lords , and which-should have brought forward A ' : 'substantial ; motion in accordance with that affirmed by the Peers . Addressing himself to . tlielatter , resolution , he declared that it advocated a policy , hostile to the interests ; rights , and dignity of the . country , which was . told : that its subject ' s

      abroad must not look to tho mother country for protection , but ; must . trust to the chances ofthecorruption and tyranny of the government uirler which they might happen to be placed . He denied that doctrine . : No minister had ever acted under it , and no minister would ho allowed by the nation toactuiderit . . Doubtless an appeal to the courts of justice , of the foreign country was the first duty of an injured Englishman , but there were cases in which nothing like justice could be hoped for from , those courts , and al i o cases in which laws were , passed to which no Englishman ought to be suivji'Ct , and these Jbecame exceptional cases in which Interference was rendered a duty . It becamo the , question how far this riile was

      applicable to recent events . He proceeded to sketch tho history of our relations with Greece , and alluded to the declaration to .: the Greeks byj the . Three Powers , that the King . would give them a constitution , which , it was arranged , should be deferred till Otho attained his majority That time . came ,-. but ; no constitution was granted , and it was found that Russia , Prussia , ' and Austria ( all then despotic ) were advising the withholding such constitution .: France , too , where : England had looked ; for support , thought the time had not come for constitutional governinent in Greece ; and , Bavaria , leaning the same way , England stood aloneat Athens .,.. But tho-Engiish government declined to depart from tho declaration she had originally made

      in favour of a constitution . There was . no mean , low contest of intrigues , carriedjon ; between Sir E . Lyons and his antagonists , but their difference was simply upon that of the great principle in question . Every sort of abuse quickly , sprang up . in Greecethe . Greek character , always dishonest , developed into brigandage— : while , the police practised ; every species : of corruption and revolting barbarity ( torturing individuals of both sexes , ) and were nevertheless favoured and screened in .. high quarters . It , became necessary to put a stop . to suchjracticos , so far as they affected ~ th 6 ' eui >] eets of her Majesty .. Deprecating tlio . tone iii which the grievances which had formed part pf the debate had been discussed , he proceeded to consider the details of each ciise .

      The first was the insult to the British jiavy . Explaining the original Spitfire affair ( upon which the Greek authorities sought to excuse their conduct to . the English officer , ) ho stated that all that had been demanded by lis was an apology , to which we were clearly entitled . Next'came the Customhouse case , iff which he declared th ? t the cbiidiict of the Greek authorities ' / had been exceedingly bad , . while our demand had been remarkably moderate . -He then adverted to the case of tho innocent men who had been manacled , thumbscrewed , and dragged to prison , and in which be nlso said that we had a perfect rig ht- 'to -demand compensation . I A similar rule appplied to the case of those persons who , having beenTound ^ sleeping outside

      their own : doorsj had' been dragged to prison , and flogged , for no offence ; and ' under- the sentence of no tribunal . Mr . Finlay ' s affair followed . This case was one which miist be " viewed with regret by all . who were interested in the honour of royalty , which had here sought ; for the sake not even of a national object , butfor thatof private - ' - enjoyment , ' to deprive a- stranger of' his land without ' making him , ' , a just - -compensation . In . 1843 , ; the Greeks having lost patience , and extorted ' a . - ' constitution ,-courts of law ; were established , but-they had ' no jurisdiction over'Mr . 'Finlay ' s case , while an arbitration , whichwas negotiated , was rendered impos sible by the demand of the Greek Government to appoirit ; two out of the three arbiters Ariother

      arbitration . was , defeated by a stratagem of ; the Greek officials , and at last a demand , not Of ; a speoiflo sum , -but of"the ; value "' of Mr .- Firiiay ' s liiml--no Ainroa 8 on ' ablo' . olniiii ~ w ' as made by her Majesty ' s ; government . ¦ He Iprdceeded to "M . Paoifico ' s-icase ; Partially- defending that person against-the imputations- which had been " cast against ' him ; : his lordship declared that his , not Pacifico s , character ,-but his treatment , was the matter forconsideration . Ho denied the justice , of the . taunts which 'had been ; launched against M . Pacifico for alleged poverty ;'' stated the . outrages inflicted-upon his ; house , which the niob for two hoursjwas plundering and destroying , arid' which they ultimately reduced to utter ruin , arid ' showed

      that M . > Pacifico had no moans whatever . of obtaining ; . " redress , which , and not revenge , was his pbjecU- ' Thisof all others was a case m which we were ' entitled to ca | lupon the Greek government for -compensation '; and had- that' government entered fairly upon 'the negotiation , the result would ; rib doubt have been satisfactory . * But as tho . Gfeek government denied the principle of tho claim' Mr . Wyse had no other course but to insist upon it ; -AH these claims and demands , continued Lord Palmerston , were from year to year evaded or treated' with Contemptuous silence , and it became the question -whether we wore to enforce or to , ' abandon-them .

      with impunity , nor could-we tell ~> our- injured subjects that , , they , should not . have redress , simply because . we hadis ' uch ; ' ample means of obtaining it for th ' em . '; Andhe conceived , we , took a generous coiirge , flh ^ one , . wJii ' ch spared all injury to Greek pride , ' iri sending a ' , force which at once showed to . ' alli Europe ' , . " , that resistance . was out ; . of-. the question .. . ' "Defe | i . ding the , , mode . in which our reprisals ' . 'ha ' d 'been , m ' adei . he , adverted to . our che erfula ' cceptanpe of , fjie proffered good . offices of France , . uppn the terms ' of which acceptance there could be no doubt at all . . There never had been any misunderstanding betwee . ri M . Drouyn ueLhuysand Himself . The mediatiori was limited to the q ^ uestion , whatsluni Mv . Finlay and M . Pacifico were to receive | ' and was to embrace * the question whether tMy . we re to , receive , Anything or not . And Mr . Wyse was . not to decideMn the ; event of anv

      differencewhethe , r , Raron Gro 8 ' , mission was to end o ? nj > t ' . ' , !! S ^ ries ' si . ha ^ ^ een . laiuupon ' liis , Lord Palmerston ' s jnpt ' sending ouj ^ the 9 th of April ; to Mr . Wyse . linforimatmn . as { tp thip ' . latter arrangement , but his lordship ^ aidihis had , already been rendered unij ; eeessary , for ( 6 n ,, the ' 25 th of March he had sent Mr .- W yse instructions , which , if acted upon in the spirit in which they . ^ were sent , would have answered precisely the Bairie purpose . And no . dispute , did arise . whioli could Kave been met byanyinstructioha which j could at any time have been sent to Mr . Wyse ., Following the history of the negotiation , he accused Baron ( Gros of . having , on the 22 nd of A pril , retracted terms to which he had previously come , andot having insisted ( on the' faith of information from Portugal hostile to Pacifico ) on opening the question of Pacifico ' s title to any compensation at all . This he had no right to discuss . The negotiation was therefore broken off , But it was

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      not true that , Mr , Wyse had received any . information th « . 24 th of April , from Baron Gros , apprising him ef the convention of London . , It was admitted by the French government that Baron Gros himself had not thetireceivcd in / iimation of that conventinn , and the fact was , that until the 2 n < J of May , Mr . Wyse bad not known of it , so that he was fully exculpated from tlie charge of having used force after he know that in London specific terms had been agreed to . It was , therefore , Hctron Gros who withdrew , generally and officially , from his mission . He proposed afterwards to retract this withdrawal . Mr . Wyse . made a proposal to test his sincerity of intention in such latter proposition , and met with a refusal . A private negotiation between & tron Gros and tho Greek government proaured still farther indulgences ; but all proving in vainMr . Wvse at

      , , last , took the only step that remained . Lord Palmerston then said that negotiations had since gone on between France arm England , which , he was happy to say , had . terminated satisfactoril y , on the basis of ad her ; jig to such part of tho London convention as was still available . There was one point for which Mr . Wyse had provided , but for which oar government bad sot thought necessary to provide , namel y , a disclaimer of any ri ght , on the part of Greece , toask compensation for damage done to vessels during the reprisals . This provision Lord Palmerston deemed Heedless , as no such uhvim could have' a shadow of foundation . In lieu of that provision , we had agreed to accept the good offices of France with tho Greek government . There the whole matter ended . He then went into the case of the islands of Cervi and

      Sapienza , and contended , for the history of the Ionian Islands , that Sapienza bad by solemn decree been aggregated to Zante , and Cervi to Cerigo . There could bo no doubt about the title to tho islands , or about its notoriety . They had always been considered as bflonging to England , and any taking possession of them by the Greek government was an intrusion . But that question was not included in our demand , and was still open to difcus * sion . Having disposed of Greece ho came to the wider range taken tho preceding night by Sir Janies Graham , who , he admitted , had takenaproper view of the real question before the house . Adverting to the first statement made by Sir James Graham , he denied that our allies had agreed in

      the measures in Belgium which Sir James had concurred in , for Russia , Prussia , ami Austria actually protested against them , and withdrew from the conference . He pointed , nevertheless , to the issue of the Belgian experiment as a most successful justification of the course then taken by England in unison with France . He then dealt , in succession , with the following points in Sir James Graham ' s speech : —First , the Portuguese treaty , which he described as a victory of constitutionalism over despotism , and he also defended our own subsequent interference in the affairs of that country , in order to disarm the Liberal party there , and put attend to civil war . . In the course of this part of the discussion ho complained that those who

      attackedhim there and elsewhere referred everything to perr sonal feeling , which , he declan-d , was absurd , when brought to bear against himself , who , ns Foreign-Minister , was only tho representative of Englishfeeling , and which , when attributed to him as a motive , was utterly unfounded . , Second , the affaire of Spain , in regard to . which he . had always considered that the interests of England would bo promoted by fosteting constitutional ism , and independence in that country , on which principle he defended the course he had adopted in reference to Spanish affairs . Narvaez w » s Minister in S pain * but tlie constitution was in force . Defending himself from the charge of discourtesy or peremntoriness in his despatches , he informed the houu (

      humourously entreating them to preserve so profound a diplomatic secret , ) that the recent note to Spain , in which mention was made of Sir H . Bulwer , had l . een confidently read and approved by the Spanish Cabinot before it was officially promulgated . Thirdly , France . He utterly denied having intrigued to overthrow the late monarchial government of France , or the Gnizot administration ; and he declared ( amid great party cheering , ) that if France thought that a knot of foreign conspirators , aided by a fraction of co-adjutors at home , whea banded to destroy one of her ministers , ' the French people would rally the more strongly around a mau who was , by that conspiracy , proved to be doing his duty to-his own nation . Fifthly , Switzerland . His

      lordship made a very long and detnehed statement of the whole history of the quarrel between Sonderbund and the antagonist cantons , and of the negotiations connected therewith , in order to acquit himself of the charge of double-dealing brought forward by Sir J . Graham , and which his lordship denied for himself and for his representative , in the most emphatic manner . Sixthly , Austria . He denied that Austria had really felt aggrieved at the non-production of the despatch alluded to by Sir James , for the Austrian Cabinet had allowed a whole half year to elapse between the production of the first and last despatches , without ever making a representation on the subject . Seventhly , Ital y . After defending himself against the charge of unduly

      mixing in the Sardinian affair , he adverted to the case of Lord Minto , whose mission had been privately but expressly asked for by the Pope , and who had advised nothing but administrative reforms , which , so far as they , were carried out , bore good fruit . In reference to the case of the Sicilians , he argued that we had , through Lord Minto , acted a most friendly part towards the real interests of both parties in the strife , and that we had done everything to preventt or to stop , revolution . And , eighthly , Turkey . Adverting to the unanimity with which all parties supported the appeal of Turkey , in regard to the protecting from Russia the Hungarian refugees , he defended the accompanying our despatch to Russia by the sending in our fleet . The

      menacing attitude of Russia , in reference to these refugees , rendered necessary such a step , which was no threat , but a signal ol support to the Sultan should he be attacked . He explained the treaty prohibiting the entrance of ships of war into tho Dardanelles—a treaty we were alleged to have broken ; he went into a description of the localities , and showed that the removal of " the'fleet to the Inner Bay-was caused by the apprehended necessities of weather , and was actually- urged by tho Porto itself , out of regard for the safety of tho British fleet . But he ( Lord Palmerston ) had previously written to instruct the admiral to keep out of the Dardanelles . Russia made a representation on the subject ; and instead of pleading a plausible necessity , or ( ns the fact was ) the want of precision in the treaty ' s description of the limits of the Straits , we accepted the Russian interpretation of

      the treaty , mid agreed that henceforth all ships ' should be excluded from the Straits . His lordshi p ( who spoke for four hours and three-quarters ) , said that he had , he thought , disposed- of thC ' charges hitherto brought against him . The principles on which he had acted , were he believed , those of the mass of the English people , and were the principles i of humanity , of advancement , and of civilisation , lie did not complain of the assaults upon him , for a , position in the government of this country was ( always . an object of laudable ambition , and never ¦ so much so as now . ; when almost every country ina : Europe had been agitated into bloodshed , England )!! stood alone , a proud example of liberty ; combined ; t with order . But , in contending that nr the foreign , ! policy of the government nothing had been done to > forfeit the confidence of the country , he fearlessly ychallenged the verdict of the bouse . . " : "

      Tremendous and reiterated cheering followed the e close of the speech , and the house was almost in- ' .- ' stantly cleared , at half-past two . WEDNESDAY ,. Ju . nk 20 .. HOUSE OF COMMONS . —County Rates BlLt . t , . —Sir 11 . Haltorb , in moving tho second reading g ef this bill , justified its ohjects upon tho ground id that these rates , although they were nominallyly paid by the occupier , fell upon the owner , and id , that * tho relief it afforded to the former , b y trans-sferring the rates altoghther to the owners ,. would , d „ in the condition of the tenant fanners , be op « pportune . Mr . C Lewis , opposed the bill , as contrary to to the general principle of the law of Eng land , thataaf the incidence of these rates shall be upon thohe owner except under special and peculiar ciroum-m stances , and he moved to defer tho second readingng for six months ; ¦

      Sir J . Parsington recommended Sin H . Halfordird not to persevere with the bill , which contained al a general principle it would be inexpedient-to ' adopt . pt . , Mr . IkL" Gibson opposed tho bill , because it it "ould . ' in some cases inflict gross injustice uporoom landlords . - > !/ - -Mr . 11 . Palmer agreed that those rates whichicli were for the permanent improvement of the landinc should be paid by the owner ; but-there wereothemeii rates for purpose in which the occupier had a con-on . current interest . . , \ . , \ , , . „ , " . . Mr . ISoxnEROM suggested that the bill , tho-prin-rini oi p le of which he supported , should bo referrad toatos seieot committpo . After fnmo-further discussion the amendment watwai carried and the bill was lost .

      LaRCKNT SUMMAnt JUBISWCTION Bill . —On thtthi order of the day for the third reading o £ this bill , ill , Sir G .. Strickland renewed his opposition to thi tni whole policy of the measure , reiterating the objeeijea tions he had urged at ' the second reading of thi thi bill ,, and moved to defer the third reading for si : si months , " u " -: Mr ; M . Milnes seconded this amendment , whic'hic was likewise supported by Mr . S . CuAwvosn an air Mr . M'euuAGif . ' and'opposed by ' Sir i . Pasinoiosioi ! Mr . Rick . Mr . Bankks , and Mr , Aolhoty . Upon a division the third reading was carried bd H 110 against 25 , and the bill passed . ., Mr . Aolionby . moved the second reading of ihf til Copyholds Enfranchisement Bill , tho principle ole < which , ho observed , was to relieve copyhold landann from the incidents of the tenure , part of the old feudieudl system , which were oppressive and created genennerr dissatisfaction ; due regard being had to the rightighi and interests of lords of manors , The present but b >

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), June 29, 1850, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_29061850/page/7/