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called ' peace--any-pnce party . I ' whether he intends to include me in that number , but I thought 1 had cleared myself from that imputation , because , although I have declared that I thought 10 , 000 , 000 / . were enough to pay for our defences , yet , if 100 , 000 , 000 ^ - were necessary to defend these shores from an . enemy , I would vote it as cheerfully as anybody . But thi 3 is not a question of peace at any price ; it is a question-whether we shall go 12 , 000 or 14 , 000 miles off , and rush heedlessly and needlessly into war with a people who are ^ very little able to defend themselves , and who never came to attack you ! It is not a war "by - which , under any circumstances , you can gain honour-. Why , during the last Chinese war—the opium war—the most disgraceful war in our history—*
it has been estimated by Mr . Montgomery Martin that we Io 3 t about 69 men , and that we killed between 20 , 000 and 25 , 000 Chinese . There is to honour to be gained in a war like that . . . . . We are not now engaged in . a wax with Russia . That was a fair stand-up nght , where you had enemies that proved your courage ; but now we are at war with a feeble nation , a most remarkable people , a people who , though they have carried civilization to a great height , have not attained the art of war . You all know that this nation is at your feet . Will the people of this country , then , with America , France , Germany , and Austria looking at us , show a less sense of justice , a less sense of responsibility and fear of bloodshed , than a majority of the House of Commons ? " Mr . Cobden denied that there is
so universal a feeling m favour of Lord Palmerston as had been asserted by the Times . The turmoil was being got up "by cliques , coteries , and clubs . " If you hear people making remarks iu support of this Palmerston fever , just ask them what they want . Are they satisfied with things ^ as they are ? do they want no change for the better ? If so , Lord Palmerston is precisely their man . ( jCheers and laughter . ') But , if a man wants Ies 3 taxation , extension of the suffrage , abolition of church-rates , vote by ballot , or any reform in Church or State , then I think Lord Palmerston is not the man for him . " ( Cheers . )
Mr . Biggs then moved the following resolution ;—" That , in the opinion of this meeting , the invasion of Persia and the hostilities at Canton were wholly unwarranted , on grounds either of justice or policy ; and this meeting further protests against the practice of involving this country in war without the knowledge or consent of Parliament , and earnestly rejoices that by the recent vote of the House of Commons the nation has been saved from the respoiisibilitj r of those acts of violence and bloodshed committed by British officers on the inhabitants of Canton . " Dr Epps seconded the resolution . Aitev a few words from the chairman ( Mr . Roebuck } , defending his recent vote , the resolution was put , and agreed to .
Mr . Hart then moved , and Mr . Murray seconded , the following resolution ;—" That the ministers , by sanctioning and adopting the acts of the subordinate officers at Canton , had made themselves responsible for an outrage committed in criminal violation of English law , and . that violation of law whether committed by a premier or a peasant should be dealt with judicially , and the offender punished . " To which resolution the following amendment was proposed by Mr . Bronterre O'Brien , and seconded by Mr . Lockhart : — " That , if the upper and middle classes are sincerely desirous ( if Parliamentary
reform , and to put an end to such barbarous acts of violation and eonquestas have'boen practised in the present war against China , they have a sure and easy remedy in their own hands , and that is , to give the non-electors at the approaching general election , the benefit of their second vote in every city , county , and borough tliat returns more than one member , by electing the candidate whom the non-electors and working classes generally shall elect by show of hands according to the ancient constitutional usage which prevailed before the landlord and moneyed classes usurped the prerogative of the Crown and the rights of tho people . "
The amendment , on a show of hands , was declared to bo carded by a largo majority . This terminated tho proceedings .
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The deputation appointed by the meeting hold in tho City on Triday week waited upon Lord Palmeraton at Cambridge House on Monday morning for the purpose of formally presenting to him tho resolution adopted on that occasion . Tho gentlemen forming tlio deputation were headed by tho Lord Mayor .
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THE ORIENT . INDIA . We have but little additional news this week from the far East . On the 28 tli of January , Dost Mahomed broke up his camp at Jamrood , and , bidding farewell to the English Commissioner , left for Cabul . A lamentable circumstance happened a few days before his departure . Four officers ^ belonging to the 51 st Native Infantry , after visiting the Ameer ' s camp , rode into the mouth of the Khyber , contrary to orders . They were about to
return , seeing some suspicious-looking persons ahead , when shots were fired , one of which passed through . Lieutenant Hand . All four , however , rode on , and shortly afterwards the wounded man fell , in crossing a deep nullah , and received two severe sword-cuts from unseen assailants . Brigadier Chamberlain , hearing the firing , rode out with some troopers and Mahomed Azeem , the Dost ' s son . Lieutenant Hand was brought in alive , but died that night . The others were placed under arrest . Several of the assailants have been captured , and the passes were closed .
Three officers—Major Lumsden , Lieutenant Lumsden , and Dr . Cox—have left Pesaawur for Gandahar , to ascertain the position of affairs there with reference to Persia and her designs on Herat . Sir Henry Lawrence is appointed Chief Commissioner in Oude , his place in Rajpootana being supplied by Colonel St . George Lawrence , his brother . Colonel Holland , for many years Quartermaster-General of the Bombay Army , has quitted India .
PKKSIA . The intelligence from Persia docs not confirm the rumoured march of English troops in the interior . In the Camp at Bushire , the soldiers suffered severely from sickness . The news in the Journal de Constanliiiople , of the invasion of Bokhara by the Russians , is unfounded ; but the statement of a mission having been despatched from Bokhara to Constantinople is corroborated .
CHINA . The English continue on the defensive . Tho European inhabitants of Hong-Kong have been very much irritated against Sir John Bow ring , and they threatened to put the poisoners to death if the Governor did not authorize their punishment . The Spaniards at Canton were expecting a regiment from the Philippine Islands to avenge the assassination of their Consul . The baker at Hong-Kong who took the lead in a conspiracy to poison the Europeans has been arrested , tried before a Council of "Wai * , and convicted of an attempt to poison the English Charge" d'Affaires and his family . The man was condemned to death , and was shot , together with three of his accomplices .
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CONTINENTAL NOTES . FltANCK . Baron Chaklks Duiun has just published his report of the commission of tho Academy of Sciences attached to tho Imporial Institute of France , which commission had been appointed to investigate the plan of M . Ferdinand de Lesseps , for uniting the Mediterranean with tho lied Sea by means of a ship canal across the Isthmus of Suez . Entire approval is given by Baron Charles Dupin to the project , which he thinks contains a great superiority , for tho transport of merchandise , over tho proposed Euphrates Railway .
It appears tho Russian Government has sent orders to Bordeaux for tho construction of a screw steam frigate of 500-horsc power , to carry GO guns , a screw steam corvette of 400-horso power for 30 guns , and a paddlewheel steam yncht of 400-horso power , for tho special service of tho Czar . These vessuls , winch were ordered three months ago , aro far advanced towards completion . Tho corvette will bo launched in May , tho frigate in September , and tho yacht iti December . Other orders of a similar kind aro s-tatcd to have been also received . — 2 'imes Paris Correspondent . Tho French Government is said to huvo determined on remitting the debt duo to it by tho Greek Government . Tho Emperor at tho same time ; expresses a hope that tho money thus unexpectedly coming into the hands of tho Greek monarch and his advisers will be expanded on useful publio works .
^ Some particulars with respect to a change iu the law respecting the tax on personal property are contained in the Moniteur of last Saturday , which says - — . Thi Council of State held its third sitting at the Tuiler £ « yesterday . The Emperor presided . It was determined that the law imposing : a tax on the shaies and bonds of joint-stock companies shall be as follows : — < The tax imposed by the law of the 5 th of June , 1850 , for the stamp and transfer of those securities shall be raised from five to fifteen centime * for each one hundred francs of capital , regulated every ; three years by the average price This tax shall be annual and obligatory , and nothine shall be changed in the present mode of collecting it at it is regulated by the law of 1850 . A public administrative regulation shall determine the manner according to which this law shall be applied to foreign securities negotiated in . France . " ,
General Vaudrey , the Governor of the Palace of the Tuileries , died on Thursday week . Several French officers have tendered then * services to the Shah , through Ferukh Khan , as military instructors of his army . But the offer has been declined for the present , with many thanks . Prince Damlo , of Montenegro , had an audience of the Emperor last Saturday . M . de Bourboulon , French Charge d'Affaires to the Court of China , left by the last Indian mail , which sailed from Marseilles on the 12 th inst . He carries with him instructions to * Admirals Gue ' rin and Rigault de Genouilly , who command the French fleets in the Chinese seas , to combine in future their operations with those of the British forces , conformably to the arrangement concluded in Paris between Lord Cowley and the French Government . —Times Paris Correspondent .
Count Walewski had a conference last Saturday -with M . de Hatzfeldt , the Prussian Minister , to whom he communicated verbally a note in very firm , language , which M . de Hatzfeldt transmitted by telegraph , to his court . The same day , a French courier was sent to Berlin with despatches for the Marquis de Moustier , the French Minister . —Zdem . " The Emperor , " says the Daily News Paris correspondent , " wishing to follow up by example the precepts contained in his last speech , with regard to the cultivation of waste lands , has given orders to the Prefect of the Hautes Pyrenees to purchase for his account a large quantity of virgin soil in the Landes with the view of clearing it and making a model farm . A number of women belonging to the department of the Gironde have arrived at IBayonne to be employed in bringing into cultivation the Dunes of d'Anglet . "
We are requested to state that the M . Goudchaus , who is associated with M . Millaud in La Presse , is not the M . Goudchaux , sometime Minister of Finance of the Republic , "but a director of the Theatre du "Vaudeville . The sentence upon M . Arthur Berryer has made a great sensation in Paris . Everybody feels that he might have revealed much more about higher personages .
SPAIN . The Government has given a severe reprimand to the Governor of Corunna for having restored to the clergy some of their property which had been sold , and had sent a circular to all the governors of provinces , directing them to throw no obstacles in the way of the desamortisacion . GREECE . Mr . Wyse has been named president , and M . Grelin ( who serves as attache of the French embassy ) secretary , of the commission relative to tho finances of Greece . The French and English troops which occupied the Pirasus took their departure on the 28 th of February .
TURKEY . We learn from a Belgrade letter , published in the Augsburg Gazette , that " the only daughter of Omar Pacha , who was married in 1853-to Tefik Pacha , a nephew of the Serdar , and , after his death in the Crimea , to Omar Bey , another nephew , poisoned herself a few days ago . Sho had been educated according to European habits , and , it is said , was driven to the act by the bad treatment she experienced from her husband . "
CIROASSIA . Of tho Polish expedition to Circassia , tho starting of which was notified in our paper of tho 7 th inst ., we read in the Daily News that " tho Kangaroo has suc ^ cecded in eluding the Russian cruisers , which may probably havo been on the alert to intercept her in the Black Sea , and has disembarked the men , arms , and stores of tho expedition upon tho coast of Circassia . '' A great expedition is now in preparation in R ussia to effect , if possible , tho complete subjugation of Circassia .
AUSTRIA . Austria is again making endeavours to renew the Customs' League , or to conclude some other trcaly of commerce , with Parma j but tho Government of that . state will not comply , knowing that the people would regard such nn agreement as tantamount to converting the duchy into an Austrian province . The attempt , therefore , ia not considered safe . Some slight reaction against tho ultra-Papal fooling which prevailed among tho Austrian governing circles at tho time tho Concordat was pasaed is visible in recent news from tho empire . Tho Lomuardo-Venetian bishops ' ,
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* ^ w wng y on the reparation required . The Consular Agents and subjects of Great Britain are to be treated in Persia on the same footing as those of the most favoured nation . A separate Note defines the mode to be adopted in the reception of the British Mission at Teheran . The Persian Government engages to appoint a Commissioner at Teheran to examine the claims made upon that Government by English Subjects , or by Subjects of the Shah , or by those of other Powers who shall not have renounced the protection of Great Britain . By Article 12 , the latter engages not to take under its protection any Persian Subjects , exceptsuchas should be in the employment of the English Mission . The two Contracting Parties renew their treaty of 1851 , for the suppression of the Slave Trade in the Persian Gulf .
THE PERSIAN TREATY . This following ( saya the Morning Post ) is a risurnd at tho Persian Treaty : — By Articles (> and 7 , Persia renounces all right over Herat un < l Attglwnifltnn , and any interference whatever in tho nfluirs of cither . But while Article 6 provides that , in tho event of diffljronco with tlieso countries Persia shall appeal to tho good ollicca of England tho latter recognises , by Article 7 , tho right of tho Persian Govorement to have recourse to arms in the cns « of a violation of tho Persian territory by the inhabitants either of Herat or Afghanistan-, ou condition always of
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Leader (1850-1860), March 21, 1857, page 272, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2185/page/8/
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