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PRINCIPAL SIRRININISTI Or Tilt witEx.

Horse es, Elms. Minsk% Ns. liesighaMos eirAlintsters announced fisy Earl Granvillo—Law of Aliens se, pinious at the Lawhoets—Ilavelocke Annuity

Sill read a third time and passed—House adjourned till Friday. .

Friday, Feb. 26. No business of importance.

Hocsis OP COMMONS. Monday, Feb. 22. Breach of Privilege ' • .Chsrge of Cot.. against Mr. Isaac Butt—Resignation of Ministers ,• Lord Palmerston's Statement—East India Loan Bill committed—House adjourned till Friday. Friday, Feb. 26. The new Government ; Writs ordered—Lau of Aliens; sir Richard Bethell's Complaint and Explanation.

The Lords. TA4Conneoss. Hour of Hour of Hour of Hour of

Meeting. Adjournment. Meeting. Adjournment, Monday flh en; Monday • gh

Friday 5h 65 30nt Friday Sh Sittings this Week., s; Tens, th 13m Sittings this Week, 2; Time, Oh 44m

tot, Session. 21 ; — 37h 23m this Session 23; — 1365 46m LOMI PALM:EUSTON'S RESIGNATION.

An unusually large number of Member's of the House of Commons

assembled at four o'clock on Monday, in expectation, apparently, of a full account of the reasons that induced the Ministry to resign. They were disappointed. After the transaction of some private business, and a scene arising out of Mr. Roebuck's presentation of a petition against Mr. Butt, the explanation was made in very few words. Lord Rumex- slow said- " I wish, Sir, to make a short statement to the House with respect to thecourse which her Majesty's Government have thought it their duty to pursue in consequence of the vote to which this House came on Friday night. I think it can scarcely be necessary for me to say, that that vote led her Majesty's Government to feel that there was only one course which they could pursue with a due regard to their own honour and with a due respect to this Rouse. We therefore on Saturday 'humbly tendered to her Majesty the resignation of our offices, which her Majesty was graciously pleased to accept; and consequently, we now hold oar offices only for the purpose of carrying on the business of the country until our successors are appointed. Under than circumstances, I am sure the House would feel that it would be inconvenient that we should continue to meet ; and there- fore, as is usual on such occasions, I venture to propose that this House should adjourn for a few days. I have ascertained by private eanimunica- tion from a noble lord, who„ I believe I may venture to say, is at present en- gaged in constructing a Government, that it will be convenient that the ad- journment should be until Friday next. I therefore propose that the House at its rising should adjourn till that day." The motion WM agreed to ; and it was further " ordered that Commit- tees might sit during the adjournment.

In the House of Lords, Earl GRANVILLE made a statement on behalf of the Ministry- " My Lords, I rise for the purpose of making an annonneentent to the House, for which probably your Lordships are already prepared. It is, that in consequence of what took place in another place on Friday, her Majesty's Ministers have thought that there woo no other alternative left open to them than most respectfully-to tender their resignations to her Majesty. Her Majesty has been most graciously pleased to accept those resignations; and I understand that the noble earl who is not now in his place, Lord Derby, has undertaken the commission of brining a- Government. I under- stand also, that the noble lord will think it convenient that there should be an adjournment of the House until the time when those arrangements are made. I understand that the noble lord will be glad that the adjournment shall take place from now itntil Friday. I am informed by my noble and learned friend on the woolsack, that it will be convenient to suitors that the House should meet tomorrow for judicial business. I think your Lordships will all agree that we should abstain from other public business until the noble earl has an opportunity of taking his place. We' in' the aean time are only holding our places nail his arrangements am made." Lord Derby being absent, the Earl of Malawian-ay answered for his Putt- " 1 have been too long and too well acquainted with the noble Lords op- posite to be surprised at the step which they have taken. I have always known them to he men to whom the sense of public duty and the claims of private honour are to all things else paramount, and lam not surprised at the step which her Majesty's Government have taken in resigning. I shall not, perhaps, be blamed if I say that I feel a natural and legitimate plea- sure in knowing that men are called to the councils of the Crown whoa, political opinions are the same as my own; but that satisfaction is exceeded by the feeling that at no time within my memory have any political.debates in this House led to any acrimony, and that on this side of the House we have carried on these debates and the divisions following them without any feeling of faction or of personal hostility to her Majesty's Government. I look book with satisfaction to two periods of greatimpornume and excite- ment, when we have had the pleasure to support her Majestea Govern- ment: I allude to the Russian war and the rebellion in'Inclib. hear!"): I have only to add, that Lord Derby is at this moment em- ployed in fulfilling the task which has been intrasted to hint by her gra- cious Majesty; and that it is his wish, as the -noble earl has expressed it, that your Lordships should assent to an adjournment."

Tan LAW or ALIENS.

Lord LYNDHURST asked Lord Campbell, whether his attention had been called to certain representations supposed to have been made by her Ma- jesty's Attorney-General with respect to the law affecting aliens? Lord CAMPBELL said, the statement had astonished and distressed him. He imputed nothing te any individual, but he had read the following in the public journals- " The state of the English law I believe to be this—that foreigners are able to do in this country that which your own subjects are unable to do, and that which would be a crime in natural-born British subjects is smatter of impunity in foreigners."

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Now that s not the law of England. There is no distinction between na- tural-born subjects and aliens with regard to acts committed within the realms of England. If aliens are in England within the Queen's allegiance, they are her subjects as long as they remain here, and they are liable to the same procedure as natural-born subjects. If they were tried for high treason, or any offence between high treason and the lowest known to the law, done in Englaad, it would be wholly immaterial whether they were aliens by birth or foreign subjects, and it would be most disastrous if it ivere supposed that such is tho disgraceful state of English law, that they, owiog allegiance to England, are not subject to the lair which binds Eng- lish subjects. While they are under the protection of English law, they are bound to obey it, and are liable for any infraction of Eng- lish law, exactly in the game manner as any person, who. is b°111 within the sound of Bow-bells. For conspiracy and every, other offeuce they are amenable to the ;law a England. I,tx would, be monstrous that it should be proclaimed. ta the 'weiht that they who live here and en- joy an asylum could oommit with impunity crimes for which English sub- jects might be punished. Lf a, foreigner in: a fereigolinslevennuts a crime and comes to England, we cannot punish him .for: what . he has done in a foreign land ; it would beemitrary te thelaw of nations to attempt to do-so. But we can legislate for our own subjects all over the world, and make them amenable in an English court for anything, which they- have committed abroad. With regard to a foreigner who commits a crime abroad; we have no jurisdiction over the offence, , but for everything done within the realm of England he ia equally 'amenable as a native-bornBritish subject. Lord Campbell had heard with astonishment thatit was made a question whether it is any offence in England to conspire to murder the consort-of the Em- peror of the French at the time she was about to give birth to an heir to the throne. He was shocked that there could be thcsmallest doubt upon the subject. To conspire anything which is " malum in se " in England is an offence to the law for which the conspirator would be liable to be prose- cuted; arid' if it were to murder one of the lowest subjects in a foreign country, such an offence Would most undoubtedly be committed. With re- gard to the consort of a Sovereign there is -the instance of Lord George Gordon,. who warx found guilty of libelling. Marie Antoinette. The bill which has been brought in elsewhere does not create any new offence ; it only alters the punishment, and if it had been introduced as an amendment of the English code, he should most willingly have supported it, because he thought there ought to be uniformity of punishment in every part of the United Kingdom. He would advise any future' Government to go on with this bill'; and if it came up to that House, he Mt terrain their Lordships would support it.

The Loan Cinuremr.on said that the Attorney-General must have been misrepresented : it was impossible for him ' so to have expressed himself:

There could be no doubt, that if a native or another country commits a crime abroad and then comes to this country, it is 'impossible to punish him or give him up, except so far as it can be done bY a treaty of ex- tradition. The Attorney-General probably spoke with reference to a case of this sort ; or perhaps he referred to the question that had of late been much mooted—namely, what would be the offence of a British subject who should murder a foreigner abroad. Their Lordships' might remember the case of a. man wetted Aziepardi, who was triad for that offehde` ten or twelve years ago. The case or this man was carefnTly considered, and the Judges ruled that for a British subject to murder a foreigner abroad was punishable as much as if the crime bad been committed in this country. Although he was reported to have been a party to that decision, he had no trace of recollec- tion of the fact; and on considering the matter now, he must say he should feel great difficulty in arriving at that conclualin. Lord LYNDFLURS.T concurred in the views expressed by Lord Campbell. With regard to the decision alluded to 1the Lord Chancellor in the case "Regina v. Azzopardi," three Chief Iusticei agreed in it. The Government executed the sentence, and the man wee. hanged. Lord BROUGHAM concurred with Lord Lyndhurst and Lord Campbell. He did not, however, believe that anything like the doctrine imputed to the Attorney-General had been ventilated by him. Lord WENSLEY- DALE and Lord Sr. LEowsitneulso concurred with Lord Campbell.

EAST INDIA LOAN , BILL. .

This bill stood on the paper for consideration in dommittee on Mon- day; and although the Ministry had resigned, the House agreed to pro- ceed with it, became the East. India C 'require the money, not only for general parpooes, but to repay to the imperial Government cer- tain advances made from the Army and Navy Estimates. The House therefore went into Committee. Then ensued an exposition of the state of East Indian finance by the Cnameziton of the EXCHEQUER ; who showed that there is a defieie,ne•y which must be met, and contended that

the best mode of meeting it was by _enabling, the East India Company to borrow in the English. market. Mr. THOMAS gARLNG objected to the mode of meeting the deficiency, and said that it would be more economi- cal if the Imperial. Government borrowed the money and lent it to the Company. A. financial discussion followed in a thin House. Eventually ' the bill passed through the Committee without amendinent.

PRIVILEGE : CHARGE OF CORRUPTION AGAINST Mn- ISAAC BU7T.

Early on. Monday evening, Mr. RoKnuex 'preeented a petition charging Mr. Isaac Butt, Member for Youghal, with a breach of privi- lege • and praying for inquiry.. The petitioner, Mr. Edward Lees Coffey, of Sheffield, states that- in July 1856 Mr. Butt entered into a corrupt engagement with the Rajah All. Moored Khan or , his agents, whereby Mr. Butt undertook, for a stipulated. sum.,. to advocate and prosecute in the House of Commons the claims of Ali Moored against the East India, Company. The petition was presented, and ordered to be printed and circulated, with the -Votes. Mr. Reennee then gave lattice,- that on Friday he should move for a Select Committee to inquire into the allegations of the

petition. - Mr. Burr took exception to the course suggested.by Mr. Roebuck.

"A charge has been publicly made against me, which I now denounce as false ; and„ more than this, I say that I amprepared to prove that it is the result of as vile and unprincipled a conspiracy as Was ever made against a Member of this House. I demand, Sir, from the justice of this House an immediate investigation. (CkEers.) Let that. investigation be conducted in the way that I would prefer—namely, by a' public- inquiry at the bar of this House. Until I vindicate myself, I am content to stand as a criminal; if the House will permit me to meet my accuser face to face." If that were objected to, let- a Select Committee be appointed at once. Mr. Butt ei- plained, that he had been taken by surprise. He had asked Mr. Roebuck to defer presenting the petition until Mr.. Batt had gene to Dublin and ob- tained certain documents. Such a charge, if refuted, must be painful to any man ; and' the discussion of it might compeimise the ease of the' [mince referred to. Mr. Bixtt had pledged himself to lay before Mr. Roebuck a statement of every transaction in which he had taken part in relation to that prince, and asked that the presentation of the petition might be de- ferred until such.statement had been read. Mr. Roebuck declined to adopt that course. 'Under these circumstances Mr. Butt asked only for justice. lie should retire from the House until, 'after a full investigation' he mold "slum tolls seat without any stain upon his honour. [Mr. Buttretired..] Mr. ROEBUCK explained that he had followed the course suggested by the Speaker. He expressed his belief in the truth of the allegations of the petition.. and he had arrived. at that ocmclasion after a careful inves- tigation of the evidence.

A long discussion, now ensued as to the form of proceeding. Mr. FAGAN moved the immediate appointment of a Committee, and read a list of names. Mr. Disealni and Sir GEORGE GREY were for leaving the nomination the Committee M the hands of the Committee of Se- lection. Mr. BRIGHT was for nominating the Committee at once, and proceeding at once to inquire ; because there would be delay if any other eourso were followed. This seemed to-meet with general eancurrenoo. MI. ROEBUCK withdrew his motion, and Mr. FAGAN'S RIOCOU: was put in its stead. When the namea he proposed went road, it was found that the find three were those of Mr. Henley, Lord John Manners, and Mr. Walpole; and as each of these names was put, the Osttinet

Min- isters expectant one after another declined to serve on the Committee,, amidst the laughter of the House.

At length the following gentlemen were appointed a Soled-Committee: Sir James Graham, Mr. Sidney Herbert, Mr. Bright, Sergeamt Kinglake, MT. Bouverie, Genend Codrington and Mr. Wilson Patten. Mr. Roe- buck was appointed a member to -Like charge of the petition', and tder- geant Deasy to attend on Mr. Butt's behalf; neither to have- the power' of voting. T. the Committee thus constituted the. petition was referred.'

BREACH OF Pervri.nen.—The Committee appointed to inquire into the allegations against Mr. Butt met on Tuesday ; Sir James Graham in the

chair. Mr. Butt was present. Mr. Roebuck opened the case by a general statement of the charges. The petitioner, Mr. Edward Coffey, bad formerly been in the army. His friends procured his discharge while he was in India, and he became an uneovenanted servant of the East India Company and Postmaster-General of Seinde. He relinquished this post to ac- company All Moored to England to promote the claims of that Prime. Mr. Coffey was to have 80001. ; and if he succeeded MOO/. a year for life. Arrived in England he entered into communication with several Members of Parliament, Mr. Butt among others. Mr. Butt, according to the repre- sentation of the petitioner, told him that be was not a rich man, and there- fore could not undertake to promote the interest of All Moored unless he re- ceived money or money's worth for so doing. This statement of Mr. Butt was communicated to the Ammer, and an arrangement was made between Mr. Coffey and Mr. Butt to this effect--that if the litter succeeded in ob- taining for All Moored the restitution of his property he siteeld have the sum of 5000/. If, moreover, Mr. Butt was required to go to India in the interest of the Ameer, he was to have a further snm of 500(bi, making al- together Iff,000/. In consequence of this arrangement, Mr. Butt undertook

to advocate the claims of Ah Moored ; and the charge against hint wee that ho entered into this corrupt agreement. The next charge against Mr. Butt was that he received 20007. from All Moored ; having obtained. it by telling the Ameer that a despatch had been sent to India directing the Goverinnent to reinstate the Ameer in his lands.

Mr. Coffey, the petitioner, appeared as a witness in support of' this state- ment. He deposed, that in June 1856, Mr. Butt presented a petition to the House of Commons in favour of the Ameer. "At that time there had been. no arrangement about money. Mr. Butt said he was not a rich man ; that, in order to take up the case he would require to remain in Londiru, used that he would be put to great expense. I mentioned to the Arneer what Mr. Butt had said to me, and the Amer told me that if Mr. Butt obtained the

restoration of his hinds for him he would give him 50007. l informed Mr. Mitt of this offer, and he said it was very handsome oib the part of the Aiiieer. Subsequently, Mr. Butt stated to us that the C3B0 was about to be referred to the authorities in India, and that it would be neces- sary for him to go out to that country. He said he would require 6000/. for

going oat to wind up the transaction, as he could not give un profed- • sional pursuits without being otherwise remunerated. I thought this very reasonable, and mentioned it to the Ameer, who acceded to -it In

the month of August (last) as I believe, Mr. Butt told me that he had a

good deal of money to pay for his son, who was going to Woolwich ; and he also said that he had obtained a brief in an important trial, for which he was to receive a large fee, and that he must go to Dublin unless-he got 5001.

from the Ameer. On. the 11th of August the Ameer direalid mete write a cheek for 3001. for Mr. Butt. I said—' Mr. Butt asks for 6001.! The

Ameer replied= No; 300/. is quite enough for what he hats dem.' He

then bade me write the cheek ; and I did so, and showed it to him. He said—' You have not put Mr. Butt's name upon it.' I answered—' No; I do net think that would be right.' He said—' Put it in,' and them directed

me to cross-it. I then took the check into =other room where- Mr: Butt was and gave it to him. Mr. Butt remarked—' It is oe far 3607. I wanted 5001.' I advised him to take it. He said—' It ise.r:A Wished bet- ter get me another, for I would not pass it through my bankerefse a thousand pounds.' I recommended him to take it, as the Ameer would most probably put it in his pocket, and he would never see it again. Mr. Butt asked me

to go with him to the bank to get it cashed without passing through an- other banker, and I consented; but Mr. Irwin, a friend of Ms. Batt, came,'

and prevented the necessity of myluterference." Mr. Butt afterwards said

that a despatch had been sent nuOkir reinstating the Amcor. Mr. Butt asked. 30001. at. once ; the Ameeil Would only give 2000/. This sum, minus 11. for stamp-duty, was paid to Mi. Butt in the room of the manager of the Commercial Bank. The Ameer went to Vienna, and while there he received from Mr. Butt three blank bill-stamps for 8000/. signed with Mr. Butt's name.

Cross-examined by Sergeant Deasy, Mr. Coffey admitted that he had been dismissed from the Ameer's service at the instance of Mr. Butt, who alleged that Coffey had been unfaithful to the Ameer, and had impugned his loyalty at the British Embassy in Vienna. "The only person I saw at the Em- bassy was a gentleman in his shirt-sleeves, whom I met in, the lobby. I don't know his name. Mr. Elliott came to ment my hotel after my com-

munication with the gentleman in his shirt-sleeves. I made no communica- tion to Mr. Elliott, who is Secretary to the Embassy, respecting the loyalty

of the Ameer. I merely said that in the disturbed state of India I would not go out to Bombay with the Ameer ; that I thought from my experience in the country there was a danger of his name being made e watchword and

a rallying-cry in India, at the approaching Mahometan festival; and that, in the interne of the Government, as well as of the Ameer himself, I would not go out with him. Mr. Buttsaidit was in consequence of this:statement amine that Sir Hamilton Seymour sent the telegram to England, and that on this ground I wait dismissed."

The examination of Mr. Coffey was continued on Wednesday.. The name of a Mrs. Parr, with whom Coffey travelled 0 Germany, _was mixed up iii the matter. It was, shown that lira. Bur wee:peesent at Mr. COffefs iuter-

view with Mr. Elliot. Mr. Elliot styles hel'74133,,geffey." Mr. Coffey is a mauled man, and he repudiated the implied imputation. Mrs: Parr is a

lady of respectability, and an old friend of his family. When her name had

been mixed up with the affair she insisted that Mr. Coffey should go on with it for her vindication. A discrepancy Was established between- Me. Coffey

and Mr. Elliot with regard to their conversation. Mr. Coffejsre minute Of that conversation describes him as nothaving impugned the loyalty of the Ameer: Mr Fillies minute states in terms, that Mr. Coffey said, "I be- lieve that on arriving in Scinde the Ameer will join the stronger e Mr. Butt appears to have been sent to Trieste by the Board of Control to take charge of the Amcor and send him. to India. Mr. Coffey denied that he

had sought to sell the Ameer to the Government. Various letters wereput in. One was from the Ameer, stating that lie was glad to hear that Ifi:Butt

lied arrived at Vienna, as Mr. Coffey kept him uselessly in Germany. Under Mr. Roebuck's hands, Mr. Coffey distinctly repeated his statement that Mr. Butt was to be paid for usinglis Influence with Parliement, the East India Company, and the Government.

Two witnesses were examined on Thursday; Afra. Parr, and Meer All Akbar. 'Mrs. Parr corrected the statement of Mr. Elliot respecting what took place at Vienna. The phrase that All Moored would be likely to join the strongest party on his return to India, imputed by Mr. Elliot to Me. Coffey., had been used by herself. Documentary evidence was put in to show that Mr. Elliot admitted he was mistaken an calling Mrs. Pair "Mrs. Coffey "—the mistake arose from seeing her in the same room with Mr. Coffey. Sergeant Deasy made an unsuccessful attempt to shake her credit as a witness, by examining into her conduct in matters irrelevant to the inquiry. Meer All _Allier put in letters from the Ameer to prove that he was dissatisfied with Mr. Coffey. The Ameer calla Coffey " aeon of Satan," a "devil," an "accursed." Mr. Roebuck questioned the authenticity of the letters. Mrs. Parr said that what the Ameer wrote depended upon " whom the agent written to was." She doubted his sincerity.

[The following testimonial, from the British Ambassador at Paris to his chief the Minister for Foreign Affairs in London, was presented to Par- liament on Monday.] "Earl Cawley to the Earl of Clarendon. .

"Paris. Feb. 20,1858.

"My Lord—Having learnt by telegraph that certain resolutions MI- putingblame to her Majesty's Government for not having made any reply to Count Walewski's despatch to Count Persigny dated the 20th of January had been affirmed by a majority of the House of Commons, I think it a duty to your Lordship to place on record, that although I have not been charged to make any official communicetion to the French Government in answer to that despatch, I have been enabled by your Lordship's private instructions to place before the French Government the sentiments, views, and inten- tions of her Majesty's Government, far more fully, and I cannot but believe more satisfactorily, than would have been the case had my language been clothed in a more official garb. "When Count Walevnild's despatch was written, the irritation against the supposed apathy of England in a matter so important to France as the preservation of the Emperor's life was excessive. Rightly or wrongly, the idea prevailed that every conspiracy against his Majesty had been organised in England, and that the British 'laws gave security to the conspirators. No counter-assertions on the part of her Majesty's Government would have had any effect at that moment, and any official notice on the part of your Lordship of Count Walewski's despatch would probably have involved the two Governments in a controversial discussion more likely to have increased than to have calmed the excitement which prevailed. lithe object was to soothe, it was important to let time exert its usual influence, and to reserve the official answer to Count Walewski's despatch until it was known whether Parliament would answer the appeal which was to be made to it by her Ma- jesty's Government.

"But it ought not to be ignored, that while taking this prudent course, your Lordship lost no opportunity of informing the French Government, gonfidentially, of the true bearings of the question which had been raised. Your Lordship's language has been, from the beginning of this unfortunate

'r, clear and straightforward. I have now your Lordship's letters before

, in which, while vindicating, in language worthy of your Lordship's e, the right of asylum which Great Britain has ever afforded to strangers of all ranks and nations, and while declaring, in terms as explicit as they are determined, the impossibility of infringing on that great principle of our constitution, you show how utterly insufficient must any enactment be to prevent men of desperate minds from entering upon desperate under- takings. As your Lordship's true but very inadequate organ, I have faith- fully represented your feelings and your principles ; and could I call upon the Emperor or upon Count Walewski as witnesses, neither, I feel certain, could belie my words.

"I know not what may be the result of last night's vote, but, at all events, I tom no time in stating my conviction that to your Lordship's ju- dicious and prudent conduct at a very critical moment it is owing that, without the shadow of the sacrifice of a single principle, our relations with this Government have not received a shock which might have been fatal to the friendiffilp which yet happily prevails between the two nations. "I have, 8.7e. COWLEY."