§ THE EARL OF DERBYsaid, he was not much in the habit of occupying the time of their Lordships with matters personal to himself, or with making observations in reference to the reported speeches of himself, or other noble Lords in that House. He very seldom read reports of his own 88 speeches, or of other speeches which he had the privilege of hearing. But he happened to look at the report in The Times newspaper of what he said yesterday, and there was one point, to which he could not help adverting. The report altogether was not so accurate as the reports in that paper generally were; but he did not allude to the point on account of inaccuracy, but, because the paper had attributed to him just: the opposite of what he uttered. With regard to the recognition, of the Southern Confederacy, he was reported to have said that the time; had nearly arrived when, the British Government should be called on to recognise the successful revolt of the Confederate States. Now, what he did say, was, that in his judgment the time; had not yet arrived when Her Majesty's Government was called on to recognise, the independence of the Southern States; and he added that although the practice of the British Government was to recognise any de facto Government that had succeeded in establishing itself; yet he did not think the resistance of the Southern States had been so complete and-so successful as to justify the Government, in recognising as independent a State which had not yet shown the power of vindicating and maintaining its own; independence.