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l neutrality should continue to be maintained by her Majesty's Government during the present unhappy conless in the States of North America. He yielded to no man in sympathy and admiration for the South, but they were now on the point of working out their independence, and they ought not to be interfered with. He also objected to any intervention. The offer of it was not likely to be acceptable to either side, and, while it could lead to no good, might involve serious difficulties. Mr. Clifford seconded the amendment. The Chancellor of the Exchequers said it was the duty of every responsible adviser of the Crown to divest himself of partiality in considering such a question as this, and to regard facts alone in forming calm and deliberate judgment. Few who had observed the heroic devils of the South could withhold that sympathy; but on the other hand, the noble ford conceived visions of extended dominion, to which they clung with pardonable tenacity. Such a question as th