The Express. — London, England, 1853-07-02 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORI)S.—FRIDAT, itt,T 1. The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat at 5 o'clock. INDIA. Ear! of ALDENIAItLE, pursuant to notice, pre sent d a petition from birmingham. ' , geed by the mayor, tont, councillors, au rchscte, and otLen, praying that the b 00..., is say measures for the future gover-ment of India, would andish tie existing system of a double government, sad establish a borne. adminktration appointed by the crown, sad dlret-tly stymsible to the imperial parliament. Etrl (MAN VILLE (who spoke in a low terse scram the table) was understood to say that the govvenusent did not wish to discourage diecussian on this important subject, but it was rather :ate to be called anon to reply to such de tails as thwe referred to by the sable eerl, after the state ment whirl had been mole in another place. INCUMBERED ESTATES (IRELAND) ACT CONTINUANCE BILL The LORD CHANCELLOR brought up the report on th s bill with ameadmints. Lord ST. LEONARD'S moved an amendment limiting the .4 ft to one year instead of two. • the first or original cthstitution of feu and ground annual r:ghts in Sc; theLd (not beieg a lease or tack for years), in rinelderati.n only of any annual sum, payable in per petuity, or for any indefinite period, whether fee farm or other rent: feu duty, ground annual, or otherwise, where the annual sum thereby reserved, mewed, or made paya , ,:e sba,l not exceed lbs., 2s. bd. ; and where the sum .hall exceed , and •hall not exceed 121., then kr evt ry 20s. or any fractional part of 201. of such annual sum, 2s. Gd. ; and where the same shell exceed 12/. and shall not exceed 21/., then for every 40s. and for any fractional part of 40'. of such annual sum, ; and where the sum shall ex ceed 21/.. taco fu. every 41. sod for any fractional part of 41. A iaeli Athos', sum, 165." Mr, Dus 1.01 . and Mr. Kt:4I4AM heving expressed their thanks fur the alteration, which would greatly contribute to the improvement of the habitations of the poorer classes in Se tl nd, the resolution was agreed to. Tho CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said he proposed to impose a tax of a penny upon scrip certificate , °rebuts, in order that they might be used as iiro.ruments in transferring the property. The duty was very mode rate, but a considerable sum might result from its im- position. Agreed to. NEWSPAPER SUPPLEMENT STAMPS. Tin CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said he had already made a general statement on the next resolu tion, he would therefore only state the two alterations that had been made. In the first place, he had, through inad vertence, made the:proposal that the privilege of freedom from stamp duty upon suppl.ments should be coolie ed to such sup plemeuts es were filled with advertisements only. But a very slight cohsideration of the quest:en made it quite obvious that the effict of that proposition would have been to neu tralise 11010 ft all the le neficial consequences of the boos and to give to the measure a very invidious direction, making it appear as a favour towards one or • small number of papers. The proposal as it now stood was entirely irrespective of NEW MEMBER. the question waether the contents of supplements might be The Earl of Dalkeith took the oaths and his seat for the news, advertisements, or • mixture of both. The other gouty of Ediaburate in the room of Sir John Hope, deceased. The noble Erie; was introduced by Sir R. point was one in which there was a material change; in login and Mr. Lockhart. stead of the general removal of the stamp duty ou news- PRIVATE BUSINESS. paper supplements, freedom from the stamp was given to The British Electric Telegraph Company's, the Halifax what was now commonly known as a single supplement. Waterworks, and the Ribble Navigation, Bills, were read It was not so much the removal of stamp duties from sup a third time and passed. p:ements as the simple enlargement of newspaper space CHORLEY IMPROVEMENT BILL. Oa the third reading of this bill, By the present law the penny stamp only covered a uews- Mr. W. PATTEN hoped the hon. member (Mr. 800- Paper having •• printed superficies on ono side, not exceed eerie) would not press his amendment to strike out the ing 1,531 square inches. He proposed to enlarge that =sun compelling tin owners of factories and other similar apace by 50 percent., and raise it to 2,295 inches, leaving it buildings to construct their chimneys of a certain height, so to the nartieseither to enlarge their eheet, and alter the as to diminish the nuisance of smoke. After some discussion the further consideration of the folding as they pleased, or if they chose to retain what was clause was adjourned accordingly. now the maximum sire, to permit them to rriut The Banbridge, Dublin, Newry, and Belfast Junction a supplement, —in fact, imposing upon them no Railway Bill, which had been or d ere d to lie on the table, limitatiou whatever as to the employment of that apace of was considered and ordered to be re-committed. 2 '495 inches, except the single limitation that they must The Llanelly Railway and Dock (No. 2) was con- ' sidereal and ordered to be read a third time. not distribute it into more than two separate pieces of DEVON AND DORSET RAILWAY BILL. paper, which of course bad reference to the evasion of the Mr. BECKETT brought up the special report of the cons. law by parties who might wish to make use of the stamp mitten upon this bill. They found that the preamble had for purposes not:intended. Thus an enlargement of 50 per not been proved, and thei o thought that there should be one cent. wee given to newspaper space, in lieu of the proposal uniform gauge between odon and Exeter. to rem i t t h e d uty on supp l ements . Th e e ff ec t wou ld b e t o The report and the evidence were then ordered to be laid allow the publieatieTl of single supplements without stamp on the table. PUBLIC BUSINESS. duty; but when they passed the limit of 2,295 inches, • PLYMOUTH ELECTION COMMITTEE.—THE further duty of Id. would be payable for each 2,295 inches FURTHER INQUIRY. achioional, or id. for each moiety of that space. (Hear.) Mr. AGLIONBY said he had been instructed by the Committee which had re-assembled for further inquiry into Mr. BRIGHT said he thought the question before the the alleged corrupt practices at the election for Plymouth, committee was the advertisement duty, and not the sup = make the following report of the resolutions which had plement duty. been unanimously adopted by the committee:— The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said this " That a general belief appears to have prevailed at was so • but as the connexion between the two subjects was Plymouth—both previously and after the election of ' waited to place clearly before the committee members to serve in parliament for the borough, in 1852 so close, he w that it was not illegal for a candidate or his agents to obtain, the alterations he proposed. or promise to obtain situations or employment for electors, ADVERTISEMENT DU I'Y. who had previously pledged their votes. On the resolution for reducing the duty on all advertise " That acting on that assumption, Mr. Charles Mare, meats to Cel., one of the candidates, or his agents had, in many instances., promised, and, in several, obtained situations and employ. Mr. M. GIBSON moved to substitute the following meat for various voters or their relations, both during the words And that all duties now chargeable on adver canvas', and after the election, as well in the dockyards tisements be repealed, in accordance with the resolution of at Devonport, as in Mr. Mare's own establishment. this house on the 14th day of April last." After the de " That the prevalence of the stove impression, and the practice in accordance with it, exercised much influence in tided expressly - . of the opinion of the house, by a deliberate procuring the promises of voters who had not previously resolution—not a surprise, not an accident—(hear, hear) — pledged their votes, and in securing the performance of but an express:on of opinion f _irly obtained from various such promises. parties in that house, that the advertisement duty ought to " That numerous applications were made to the candi be repealed,—he had fancied that the government would dates and their agents, and that Joseph George Church yard appears to have been the person principally concerned have bowed to that decision, and would have settled the in receiving such applications, and in promising to obtain question by simply repealing the duty. Intents. That it was admitted by Mr. Churchward, The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER opposed appointments. That that in addition to above 20 places which he the amendment, contending that the new supplement resound in Mr. Mare's own establishment, he migh t have duties would be a greater advantage than the total repeal made daring the election, 30 or 40 applications for deck- of the advertisement duty. The advertisement duty was ! yard appointments, and that he obtained 25. (Great sea- • tax on trade and not on knowledge. The paper duty station.) also was, in his opinion, impolitic, and ought to be re " That the circumstances of the ease are not such as to muted as soon as the revenue could bear the Ins, which =dace the ormissittee to recommend a further inquiry by i't could not do in the case of the advertisement duty. eommiellea ; but they desire to call the especial attention Mr. COBDEN said the right hon. gentleman should rot of the home to the medicine of the act of the sth "ad oth have :nixed eel the supplement duty with that of the duty Viet, cap. 102, and to state their opinion that the powers on advertisements. NO one had asked for a repeal of the therein contained see totally inadequate. (Cheers.) That duty on supplements. The hon. gentleman strongly ani. much trouble and large costs are necessarily incurred in the =adverted on the conduct of certain newspapers which had investigation of cams similar to that in which the committee been foremost in advocating the repeal of the corn laws, have been engaged, with little chance of discovering the and which, nevertheless, were now doing in their power bath (Hear, bear.) And that no such inquiry into to retain the last shred of protection which the advertise bribery and corrupt practices can be efficient unless COO- meat duty afforded them. dueled on the spot and with large power of compelling After some conversation witnesses to answer questions, giving them an indemnity, The house divided— as provided by the into( the 16 & 16 Vie., e. 67." For Mr. Gibson's amendment 99 NAVIGATION OF THE DANUBE. Against it 199 Mr. LAYARD said that having sew a statement in the publis i zEthas asessais had arrived from the East in pri- Majority for the government lO vase Se Obi ant that the navigable mouth of the On our return to the gallery. Nook Meshed up by the authority of Russia, Mr. CRAUFURD was on his legs, urging that advertise aad that 370 nets, principally British, laden with corn, manta in or upon vehicles ought to be taxed equally with were not able le parses their voyage is consequence, he advertisements in newspapers. wished to know ff the goverment had tee:teed any official Mr. HUME regretted that the government had not felt Monodies of the fact. justified in proposiag the entire remission of the tax, which Lord J. RUSSELL said that no information to the effect he believed was one of the greatest impediments to trade mentioned by his hon. friend had embed the government that now existed. He held in his hand an American which they could lay on the table of the house. An so- paper containing some thousands of advertisemeuts. In east, however, had arrived from one of the British eon- each column were advertisements having reference to a eels is (net place, that the ordinary course of the Danube different trade. There was half a column devoted to piano wee impeded, but it was not said that the Rosen= had forte-makers, and another half column to coffin-makers. end any means of ,topping the navigation of that river. (Laughter.) He thought that on this question the governs (Hear, hew.) sent were acting contrary to all their ppreoofessel principles ; IMPRISONMENT OF COLOURED SEAMEN. and be hoped that, considering the eloawer of the divi• Os the motion of the adjournment of the house till lion, they would still be induced to remit the tax. Meaday, Mr. M. GIBSON said the right host. !madman had not Mr. FRENCH said he wished briefly to all attention answered his question as to how the duty on advertisemerts of her Majoste's government to a statement reported to in books and pamphlets was to be collected. The question have been made by the noble lord the Secretary for the was a very simple one. He wished to know when the duty Colonies, "That successive law officers of the crown had was to be paid, to whom it was to be paid, and where it was given their opinion, that the state of South Carolina was to be paid ? justified in imprisoning, as they now do, coloured seamen, The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER thought subjects of her Majesty ;" and to inquire whether, in thole t that to the right hon. gentleman's simple question he had future relations with that state, her Majesty's government on a former occasion given in equally simple answer. He are prepared to admit the legality of them proceedings. stated that there was no intention to levy any duty on ad- He %indented that the Secretary for Foreign Affairs had vertisements which were not chargeable with duty already. declared also that the opinion of the law officers of the He said that the liability continued the same, and grown was, that the proceedings of the state of South that the person to whom, and the plan where, the Carolina were not illegal. If sash • statement were made duty was to be paid would also be the same. With respect and founded on fact, it would have the result of doing away to what fell from the hon. member below him (Mr. Cato with the effect produced by the dissensions on this subject turd), he was happy to say that the government was about in both houses of parliament, and with the remonstrances to put an end to what were termed advertising vans, and which were made by her Majesty's government in te e med he believed that they would expire amid a universal jubilee. to it. He could not but believe that there must be either (Cheen and laughter.) It was also intended to do away a mistake in what the noble lord said, or that he "had *him. with what the French termed 1 h 0011144 afieAs—that is, the self fallen into some error. He knew he could not ask to man who walked about surrounded by placards. (Laughter.) have the opinions of the law officers of the crown laid on Mr. M. GIBSON wished to have more explicit informs the table, but be was desirous of knowing what course her Lion on this subject. He had that day presented a petition Majesty's government were disposed to pursue in respect to from the booksellers, who were in a state of great alarm as this matter to the wording of the resolution, end therefore he hoped Lord J. RUSSELL said he should decline to enter into that the resolution would state explicitly what were the in the question of law in respect to this matter. But the sub- tentions of its framers. To make t wording of the jut was one on which great difficulty existed. (Hear.) resolution clear as to an omission which already took place He could not say what might have been the opinion given in practice, and to avoid all cause of future litigation, he by the Secretary for Foreign Affairs, but he had no doubt should move the omission of the words " pamphlet or lite that there was no justification on the part of the state of nary work." South Carolina for imprisoning any persons—whether Mr. NEWDEGATE said he bad voted with the governs coloured or otherwise—subjects of her Majesty. (Hess, mint in the recent division with the intention of noosing at bear.) When he said that they were not justified, he meant the proper time, that the whole of the advertisement duty that there was no moral justification on their part. should In retained, but retained his objection to the neap (Hear.) With regard to the remedy to be obtained, re- val of the tax upon supplements, which he looked upon as pelted remonstrences had been made on the subject, a premium to those papers which had established their po but great difficulties arose from the peculiar constitution of 'Rion to the injury of those which had not. (Hear, hear.) the United States. (Hear, hear.) The government could He only wished that the right hon. gentleman's anxiety to only deal with the government of the United States, not preserve the balance between dirt ct and indirect taxation having any diplomatic relations with the separate states had been exhibited a little earlier in the session. which composed the Union, and the general power of Mr. HUME approved of the alteration proposed by the legislating in the United States was limited in respect is right hon. member for Manchester. the individual state'. The consequence of this state of The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that things was, that the government of the United States de- the letter from Dublin muat have been written under a elated it wee impossible for them to °serrate the law in misapprehension, or the revenue officer mast have exceeded the state of South Carolina without giving rise to serious his duty, es it would have been premature to act on a rico differences. It was suggested that the only wsy of obtain- laden which was still in the hands of the committee. He lag redress was to put in force the treaty regulations with apprehended that about the operation of the law there foreign states; but that was • very serious question. (Hear, could be no manner of doubt. The intention was to bear.) He could only say that her Majesty's government, charge all periodical works, but he admitted that the feeling fully sensible of the injustice and oppressiveness of wording of the law was open to criticism The practice, this law of the state of South Corolios, would use every however, was clear ; and if the right hon. gentieman effort, bounded by discretion and the law of nations, to ob- wished, he was willing to alter the resolution for the pnr tain its abolition. (Cheers.) pose of making the law equally so. Mr. HUME said that the question was a very important Mr. BRIGHT said that the resolution as it stood was one and also a very clinical. one to deal with in consequence manifestly absurd, because it proposed a tax for which of the peculiar constitution of the United States. He con- there was no legal mode of collection. He would suggest oared in the opinion that the proceeding was an illegal the postponement of the clause. The whole proposition was one, because the question should be considered on the untenable, seeing that the house had already by a much general principle of the liberty of British subjects, and not larger majority than the present, decided for the abolition the circumstance that a man was black or white. (Ileac, of the tax. The right hon. gentleman knew that three hear.) Good feelings now existed between the two go- tomtits of those who had voted with him, entirely dis %remnants, and he thought that the government acted pro- agreed with him in opinion, and that but for the 40 perly in endeavouring to arrange the matter by friendly members connected with the government, who would and amicable communication. (lieu, hear.) vote for Is. 6d. or Gd., or, in short, anything CUSTOMS AND STAMPS ACTS BILL. the y were asked, he would on the present occasion The house having gone into committee on this bill, have been left in a minority. (Heat hear.) The rigid The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that hon. gentleman was too acute a men to believe that the re to the first resolution he was about to propose he did not would suffer from the total abolition. He (Mr. anticipate any objection. In deference to the wishes of the Bright) trusted that on the bringing up of the report his people of Scotland he proposed that the feu duties in Scot- night hon. friend would agree with the house to abolish the land should be placed on the same footing as other convey- duty, and forliimeelf he would promise that he would do ances—that was to say, that they should commence at ever ything permitted by the forms of the house to procure 2s. 6d. and =mad on t same scale as other conveyances. the abolition of the tee. The right hon. gentleman then propelled the following no Sir J. V. SHELLEY thought the argument put forward solution :—" That from and after a time to be specified, in against the removal of so paltry • sum as this advertise lieu of the stamp duties now - payable on the following deeds meat duty involved preposterous, while so much money or instrumento, there shall be charged and payable thereon was being torn.fooled away at Chobhana. (Oh, oh) . the stamp duties hereinafter set forth, that is to say —Con- Mr. NEWDEGATE regretted that the Chancelnr of mance of any kind or description whatsoever, in Eneland the Ear4irquer dcnse to sun-ince so much ol the et Inland, sad charter disposition or neglect, containing duty, for winch he got so little thanks. Lord CAMPBELL opposed the amendment. Their lordships divided. Foe the amendment 3d Against . 13-9 . The renjrt was naiad, and agreed to. The Snap Duties Bill %as rend a second time. 'the 3l,tlttious Injuries (Ireland) Ell wan read a nand time. The Public Works Loma Bill was read a second time, after some cbsenations from Lord Stanley of Alderley. The other business haciug been disposed of, the house adjourned at ten minans tu seven. HOUSE OF COMNIONS.—FRITAT, iris 1. The 8 took the chair at a quaver before four o'clock. THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVtNING, JULY 2, 1853 The amendment agreed to substituted periodical literary work for pamphlets t ad literary work. On the motion that the blank be filled up (as to the duty to be charged on every advertisement inserted in any periodical or literary work) with the words "sixpence," Mr. CRACFURD expressed hi.; regret that the com mittee should, by its recent vote, have stultified the vote , 1 come to by the house on a previous occasion'. lie mild not understand, while advertisements in railway carriages and omnibuses were allowed to go free, that advertise. menu in newspapers and periodicals should be taxed. Not that he desired that the tax should be extended in its application, but that it should be altogether abolished, and he be7jed to move an amendment to substitute " 0 " for the words "six pence." Lord J. RUSSELL would call attention to the state of the question. They had decided in a comparatively full house in favour of his right hon. friend's proposal to abolish two-thirds of the tat. Since then the attend ltlC3 had be come thin, members laving gone away upon the under standing that the decision would be accepted instead of the alternative proposed by the right hon. member for Man chester, and to attempt to reverse that decision under these circumstances would, he thought, be most unfair. The committee divided on the proposition that the duty be Gd. Ayes Noes The committee then again divided on the question that no duty be inserted in the resolution—(that the tax be abolished) Ay es Noes The house then resumed. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said it was his duty to report to the house all the resolutions except the last. Mr. HUME said that he was desirous of asking the Speaker whether the proceeding which had taken place was correct. They had divided on a proposition which was negatived, and afterwards they divided on an amendment that an "0" be inserted in the resolution, one party vot ing for the " 0" and the other against it, and those who were in fivour of the "0" carried it. That was an un usual occurrence, and be should be glad to be infdrmed if it was competent to them so to tote. Mr. HOU VEItIE wished to state to the house what the 1 questions put really were. It would be seen that on the notices the third resolution we., that from and after the Sth of July t)-ere should be levied in respect of advertisements a duty of Gil. The hon. member moved that the 6d. be omitted from the resolution, and " nothing" inserted. He (Mr. Bouverie) put the question, and a division took place on the question that Gd. stand part of the resolution, which wits negatived, and the 6d. was struck out. Ile then put the main resolution with " nothing" at the end of it, and that was carried in the affirmative ; and that was the reso lution he was ordered to report to the house. The SPEAKER said the proceeding was perfectly formal. It was a proper question for the committee, whether Gd. should stand part of the resolution or not, and the neat division war, on the question whether the committee would agree to the resolution without Gd. being inserted. It seemed to him to be perfectly regular. The report was then ordered to be brought upon Monday. SUCCESSION DUTIES BILL. The house went into committee on this bill, and resumed at _ Clause 21, which was agreed to, as well u the clauses up to 28, inclusive. Some attempt was made to go on with clause 29, but the cries to report progress were incessant from the country gentlemen, and accordingly The CHAIRMAN reported progress, it bring understood that the bill would be gone on with in committee on Mon day, the stamp duties to be placed second fur Monday. The house then resumed. RESIDENT MAGISTRATES (IRELAND) BILL. This bill was read a third time and pas.ed. COMMON LODGING-HOUSES BILL (LORDS). This bill was read a third time sad passed. SHERIFFS' COURT (SCOTLAND) BILL. This bill was read a third time and pas.cd. SPITALFIELDS, &c., IMPROVEMENT BILL. The house we'd lots committee on this bill, which wiui passed through committee and ordered to be reported. BATTERSEA PARK BILL. This bill wu read a third time and passed. SAVINGS BANKS ANNUITIES. The report on this bill was further considered. WESTMINSTER BRIDGE BILL. Sir W. MOLESWORTII moved the third rending of this bill. _ _ After a conversation, in the course of which Mr. ALCOCK complained that to give effect to the new Houses of Parliament, the height of the arches of the new bridge (20 feet) were to be so low as to interfere materially with the river traffic, Sir W. MOLESWORTH reminded the hon. member that the whole of the river traffic passed under one arch of the present bridge, which was scarcely higher, and not near so wide as the arches of the proposed bridge would be, and the keeping the roadway low would greatly facilitate the traffic over the bridge. Mr. HENLEY considered that the new bridge would per maneatly impede the water traffic. Sir C. BURRELL moved the debate be postponed for a week. The house divided— ------- ----- For the adjournment 29 Against it 34-5 After some further discuuion, The house again divided on the question that the bill be read a third time— . — For the motion 34 Against it 26-8 The bill was read a third time and passed. PUBLIC ROUSES (SCOTLAND) BILL. Oa the order of the day for considering this bill, Mr. SMOLLETT moved that the deWe be adjourned, and the further proceeding with the bill was then postponed till klonday neat. The LORD ADVOCATE obtained leave to bring in a bill to diminish the number of sheriffs in Scotland, and to unite certain counties in Scotland, in so far as regards the juridietion of the sheriff. The house adjourned at half-past one o'clock. PAIRS.—TOTAL REPEAL OP THE ADVERTISZUENT DUTY. —Sir J. Duke paired for, with Mr. S. Worthy against ; Col. North paired for, with Mr. Mostyn against; Mr. H. Berkeley for, with Sir T. D. Arland against ; Mr. Ewart for, with Mr. Aglionby against; Mr. Pilkington for, with Mr. Alderman Thompson against. Mr. Whitmore paired all night with the Bon. F. L. Gower. °4l',`lte erpreols. TO CORhESPONDIIN'IT. • :cothl VAllke et Tierces," coatehdar tbe same evening's " Casette,' s üblimed every Tuesday usl Yriday eight. ti me toe post. • Unseats intended for Fhprese,"Lomtea ltyselsi paper, slue. be et the °Dile, 10. Beuvuie-rtreet, by Two o'clock o• the Lay of publieetlom 111011 MATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tan DAT—llandag. 15a.. ....Abrams. 11 b. 4M. Toaunacw—Maoist, Ob. 1116 .--Aftersoos. 01. Us. LONDON, SATURDAY, JULY 2. Tin Duke of NEWCASTLE'S statement of minis- terial intentions about Jamaica affords another very satisfactory indication of the progress which sound views of Colonial policy have made in Downing. street. It is now about twelve years since Jamai c a on Thursday, which might be commented upon in under Sir LIONEL SMITH was in much the same future ages as a sign of the times. Mr. W. BROWN " fix" that Jamaica is at present under Sir CHARLES begged to ask Lord JOHN RUSSELL whether any GREY. On both occasions the House of Assembly arrangement had been made, and if so, what that had quarrelled with the Governor, legislation was at arrangement was, for the admission of goods from a standstill, and society, to all appearance, in jeo- this country into France, for the Industrial Exhibi pardy. In 1)CI9, Lord GLEN ELO, then Colonial Seers- tion of all Nations in 1855 ; and whether the French tart', had, however, no other or better remedy than Government had been informed that the ortielco sent the suspension of a constitution which had endured for would be solely from the result of private enterprise, more than two hundred years ; and free government without pecuniary aid from this Government ? In in Jamaica was then only saved by a ministerial other words, Mr. Bnows wanted to know whether the crisis in England. Times have since changed, and French Custom-houses would consent to a relaxation men and ministers with them. Now the Duke of of any of the regulations which tend to keep NEm CAsTLE rejects the suggestion, which would France in precisely the same state as if manufactur save him personally a world of trouble,—that Par- ing England had never existed, or as if England had liament should interfere with the ancient rights of never emerged from the state in which Mutat the colony—refuses to attempt its government by THE CONQUEROR found it. This question, we said, the plenary authority of the Crown, and proposes to is a sign of the times. No such question could have increase rather than diminish the legitimate power been asked in the days of SOLOMON or AUGUSTUS. The of the House of Assembly : that house, on its part, Jewish king would never have come down to posterity renouncing attributes inconsistent with modern par- es the incarnation of worldly wisdom, had he liamcntary practice. shut out the gold of Ophir by a cordon of Custom- The first question in this Jamaica dispute issimply houses. AUGUsTeS would never have kept his place how to carry out a retrenchment that all men (but in history had ho condemned the Senators of Rome Earl GREY) deem necessary and proper. First of to live upon the products of the adjacent countries. all, the Duke of NEWCASTLE withdraws a Governor We doubt whether a single Emperor of Rome would who, the longer he remained, got deeper and deeper I have dared to lay a prohibitory duty on Kentish into hot water, and who at last saw only one way of oysters. The oyster-eating public would have been escape, and that was "to put down " his opponents. too much for him. Ancient Judea and ancient Rome The Duke of NEWCASTLE has, however, preferred were only too glad to avail themselves of the cepa- the simpler alternative of putting down one man bilities of other lands to enrich their own. The rather than many; and recalls an official instead of moderns, like MoLIERE'S Physician in spite overthrowing a constitution. Having withdrawn an of himself," have changed all that. They unsuccessful Governor, he next gives Jamaica have in times past laid down the maxim, that the a skilful, temperate, judicious, conciliatory, and only way to be rich, is to spend no money with your successful Governor, Mr. DARKLY. And this new neighbours, and they act upon the maxim, by throw official at once recommends himself to the colony ing every possible difficulty in the way of your know by voluntarily and spontaneously proposing a reducing what your neighbour has to sell. Let no pa tion of his own salary to the extent that the House of triode Frenchman think that we are alluding to him Assembly wishes to lower salaries generally. In Sir as the type of the modern world. We have just as CHARLES GREY'S successor Jamaica has, then, at all many sins to answer for as our competitors. We eventa, got a ruler who sympathises wit's its position, 'its wants, and its wishes, and who begins by setting l an example which at once brings the local. Govern ment and himself in accord with the local Legis lature as to the principle and extent of retrench ment. So far the Colonial-office, the new Governor, and the House of Assembly are all agreed in favour of a reduction of 20 per cent. in island salaries. Under the old colonial system the office in Downing-street would have stood on its dignity, upheld Sir CHARLES GREY, and pushed the obligation of good faith to functionaries to the point of rebellion and resistance. Under the new system, the Office seeks to get out of shoal into clear water, and looks at a practical question in a practical way. It as sents on the one hand to the principle and ;extent of reduction; but, on the other, it admits a claim to compensation; with, however, this all important qualification, that the amount of compen sation must be "small." Having got clear views on these two points, the Duke of NEWCASTLE then sets about finding funds to pay this small compensa tion; and, realising the old proverb, " Where there is a will there is a way," his Grace has no difficulty in his search. He rejects as unworthy of a moment's consideration the clumsy expedient suggested to him by the Times, of making this country pay for compensation. Ho takes a larger and more com prehensive view of the colony, and, in putting a temporary quarrel right, he adjusts the general linnets of the island. This is real statesman ship, and contrasts agreeably and pleasantly with administrative cobbling and tinkering. Like every thing great and goad, it is far simpler than what is bad and shuttling. The financial position of Jamaica is this. The colony has a debt of 700,0001., paying six per cent. because its credit in the money market is low. Of `that sum nearly 200,0001. is duo to the mother country, which (if we are to credit Toryism) has so I ill-used Jamaica. Its general debt, less this sum, is half a million sterling. Now, what the Duke of NEWCASTLE proposes is, that England, as the metro- Ipolitan country, and the largest creditor of Jamaica, should guarantee 3 per cent. on a loan for the purpose of discharging the half million now paying I six per cent. By this means 15,000/. in the shape of I interest a year will be saved. Two thirds of that his Grace intends to apply to a sinking fund, which at the end of 30 years will be rich enough to pay off not I only the half million, but the 200,000/. due to England also; and, on the security of the balance of i 3,0001. a year, the Puke :of NEWCASTLE suggests,' other 60,000/. may be raised to meet the compensa- tion claims arising out of the reduction of salaries. First, the Duke of NEWCASTLE will save 13,0001. a year by thus dealing with the debt, next he will provide a fund to pay it all off 30 years hence, then I he will reduce by 20 per cent. the expenditure of Jamaica on salaries, and at the same time will pro -1 vide the means of redressing any injury done to individuals by such reduction. Further, he offers -to unite with the local Government not only in lowering salaries, but in consolidating and reducing the number of offices. If, then, the House of As sembly were, as has been said, factious in their re trenchment, the Duke of NEWCASTLE has converted their faction into a great opportunity for their bene fit, and has shown administrative abilities of high order. The Duke of NEwcAsTLE has kept the practical question as separate as he can from the constitutional question ; but it is impossible to keep them quite apart. For, if England guarantee a Jamaica loan she must have better counter security from Jamaica than taxes annually renewed. Jamaica must, there fore, consent to some taxes of a permanent chszacter, and assign their proceeds to meet the charges of the loan, as also provide for the ultimate discharge of the debt, before England can pledge its credit on behalf of the colony. Now, this condition precedent at once opens up the anomalous and inconsistent parts of the island constitution, and renders a great alteration in its fiscal system indispensable. AU that the Imperial Treasury will insist on having is counter security from the island ; but to provide that security, the House of Assembly must abandon the practice of annually renewing the taxes, and lay some of them on permanently. That of course is the first step which every other colony having a consti tution grants to the Crown, viz., a Civil List. And, in spite of Lord DERBY'S captiousness and Lord GREY'S criticism, a judicious conclusion this is for Jamaica. We cannot, if we would, make Jamaica a Crown colony, and govern it arbitrarily; nor, as experience has proved (twice within the last twelve years), can we go on comfortably and pleasantly with Jamaica, under its present Constitution. What, then, is to be done? We must either ask the House of Assembly to denude itself of some clumsy and inconsistent powers that are continually producing squabbles, and to take other powers instead which will give it Par liamentary Government, or we must ask it to aban don its privileges without any such advantages. The latter proposition, if made, would be rejected ; whereas it is quite possible the former may be accepted. Party Government will, of course, have its disadvantages in Jamaica; but, great as they may be, it will have one inestimable advantage—that of disassociating the Royal Authority and Metropolitan supremacy from such disputes and quarrels as Sir CHARLES GREY I has got them into, and the Duke of NEWCASTLE is now getting them out of. A QUESTION was asked in the House of Commons have, perhaps, repented a little earlier than other nations, but we have sinned more deeply than they. British senators long &creed that their wives and daughters should cover their hands and feet with gloves and shoes which made them the laueh ing-stock of the Continent. Tncy took care that their countrymen should have no opportunity, without I ! leaving the island, of drinking the finest wines in ! I Europe. They fed the 13ritish Lion upon native meat and breadstuffs for which an enormous price was paid, and kept him out of the copious stores of provender that might have been provided for him by a voyage across the Channel. In short, the glorious constitution, which our fathers used to toast in bad wine and worse spirits, was a conspiracy against I what the French call the ,dithee•W of nations. The great principle involved in it was that of getting rich by selling to everybody and buying of nobody. Of course such a state of things could not exist with out exciting opposition. In the same manner as our ancestral parents, male and female, after seeing the graceful falls of the toga and robe of their Roman con querors, flung aside their sheepskin coverings in dis gust, so did our modern predecessors determine that nothing should prevent them from feeding themselves and clothing themselves as luxuriously as their Con tinental brethren. But the Custom-house and the Coast Blockade were in their way. These were facts as stern and as disagreeable as the dragons and giants of the Middle Ages; and perhaps a little more true. And as the miseries of the medieval times aroused wandering knights to devote themselves to their removal, so did the wretchedness of the modern werld excite the feelings of a strong class of deliverers. In the place of the an cient chivalry came the modern smugglers. The smuggler, said Col. PEYRONET TllotursoN, years ago, is " GOD ALNRIGIIII'S knight errant." He labours to redress the evils which the iniquitous laws of society have engendered, by restoring in some measure the natural intercourse between na tions. He it was who exchanged the surplus cat lery of Sheffield with the surplus lace of France, when the exchange could have been effected by no one else. But the smuggler, like the knight-errant, will be soon a myth. Society has long dispensed with the aid of the one ; it will soon be able to do without the services of the other. The utter absurdity of the restrictions upon Free Trade, which still keep up the Custom-house system, will be shown in the most satisfactory manner by the Great Exhibitions which are in progress. Nothing has done more for Free Trade than the Great Exhibition in Hyde-park. The nations, before the time of this great event, were in utter ignorance of what they could do, and what they had done, for each other. The Exhibition in the Crystal Palace showed them how dependent each was upon the products and exertions of the other, and led them to infer how absurd and iniquitous were the restrictive regulations which put a check upon an intercourse which could not but be advan tageous for both. The answer of Lord Joux RUSSELL to Mr. BROWN'S question was perfectly satisfactory. It showed how cordially the French Government sym pathise with the wishes of those who are endeavour ing to throw down the obstacles at present opposing themselves to the cordial union of nations. Goode, which are at present prohibited from entering France, are to be allowed to be imported for the purpose of exhibition, and at the end of the Exhibition will be allowed to be re-exported without any claim for duty, or be admitted for consumption in France on the payment of a duty of 30 per cent. ad valorem. This shows that, although public opinion in Europe is not yet sufficiently strong to sweep away all the metric tive imposts which check the free interchange of com modities, there is a growing feeling of their impolicy. The more the nations know of each other, the more they will feel their mutual depend ence, and long for closer union. International Exhi bitions bring the men and the products of various nations into a contact that can be produced by no other means. The result will be for the good of the whole. It will show that the development of each is necessary for the good of all, and to nations as well as to men the great law is applicable, "it is not good for them to be alone." TURKEY. VIENNA, TILURSDAY. From Constantinople, of the 20th, we hear that the Porte sends an ambassador to St. Petersburg. SATVIID 1Y MORNINO. The following telegraphic despatch has been re ceived from Vienna " On the 25th.12,000 Russians entered Jassy." There is a positive lack of news from Turkey and the Danube. Letters from St. Petersburg, of the 19th ult., state that the Czar had learnt the character of the irate by which the Sultan had confirmed the right of his non-Mahommedan subjects, but was not less resolved upon humiliating Turkey. The old cant of not intending war is again applied to the impending invasion of Moldo.Wallachia—as if any Russian were ever suspected of intending more than to take and keep possession of the territory. FRANCE. PARIS, FRIDAY EVENIXO. Among the many rumours this day afloat is one to the effect that General Castelbajac is about to be recalled from his post of Minister Plenipotentiary at St. Petersburg. This, however, is not regarded as a rupture of diplomatic relations between France and Russia, but is attributed to some displeasure felt in high quarters at the want of early information from that capital. The name of the person that would succeed him—supposing the rumour correct — is not very clearly ascertained, though that of M. de Morny is for the third or fourth time mentioned. New rumours are again current of some changes in the French cabinet. The definitive retirement of M. Fould is for the hundredth time spoken of, with M. do Porsigny for his successor. M. Curlier, former Prefect of Police, is spoken of for the Home Department, and M. Daum for Finance, while M. Bineau would go to the Bank. These are the on (Ids of the day. Another version is that M. de Morny will go to the Home-office, and M. Fould to the Finance department. On the Bourse to-day the market for public secu rities suffered from the receipt of unfavourable intelli gence respecting the progress of events in the East, and a decline of more than 1 per cent. took place in the Three per Cents., the precise amounts being lf. 20c. in the quotation for money, and lf. sc. in that for the end of the month. The Four-and-a-Half per Cents. met with better support, and only declined 25c. for cash, and 30e. for the account. flank of France shares fell 201. The following were the prices at the termination of business. For cash : Three per Cents., 75.10; Four-and-a-Half per Cents., 100.80. For the account : Three per Cents. 75.20 ; Four-and-a-Half per Cents., 100.75. Bank stock, 2,855 f. Northern, 870.50; Orleans, 1,030.30; Paris and Strasbourg, 870 ; Paris and Lyons, 875.50. THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. (By ELECTRIC TELEGRAM.) PLYMOUTH, SATURDAY, 11 A.M. The General Screw Steam Shipping Company s vessel Hydaspes arrived this morning from the Cape! She has a cargo of sugar and some passengers. Her mail was sent home by the Magdalena. DENTIeTRY IN SPAIN.—The authorities of Madrid have deemed it necessary to prohibit the drawing of teeth in the public streets ; lint, because it is derogatory to the dignity of the dentists' profession ; and, secondly, because " it stains the streets with blood." THE OVERLAND MAIL INDIA, CIIINA, AND AUSTRALIA. Our despatches in anticipation of the Overland Mail have arrived. The dates are, Madras, May 21; Calcutta, M ty, 16 : Singapore, May 15; Hung-Kong, May 0 ; Australia —Melbourne, April 7 ; Sydney, April 2 ; Adelaide, April 12. There is no intelligence from Bombay, the last steamer from Alexandria having conveyed the mail, received here on the 20,h ult., that was to love gone on by this steamer. here was no definite news from Rangoon, but it was expected that either the treaty with the King of Ava would be signed at once, or that our troops would ino%e on to Ava. The Governor-General is anxious to bring the war to a close. Trade at Calcutta languid. Exchange on London, 2s. I The Ocerlwa Athenecunt, of May 21, in its gene ral summary gives the following: N. additional information has been received since we last went to press regarding the progress of the neg liations at l'rome. nor do we ezpset to learn anythieg decisive before the neat mail. An account of the recapture of Beling by the Burmese—the f tc: was notified is a former is.ue but the particu'ars were unknown—ha. just come to hand, to which, as supplying an interesting sketch of the gallant behaviour of a budy of Madras infantry under se verely harassing duty, we gladly give prominence ; too glad indeed to come by any piece of piquant narrative in our precut emergency. A correspondent writes : " When General Steel's force marched teem Mart tban it met with no opposition after the first five or six marches, and it really appeared as if the people were favourably inclined towards us. A march before the brigade arrived at Sitting, the chief of that place came into camp and gave himself up. He was recognised as a deceit who had once been in confinement in Moulmein gad. Ile made himself laded to the general, who teok him with him to Tonghoo and there dismiaded him. This man, by name Meting Gosling, no sooner got hack to his own part of the country than he raised a large body of troop, no doubt his former comrade; in dacoity, and an attack on Sitang, where the head quarters of our Ist N.l. are sta tioned, was apprehend. Oa this some Europeans were dt spatehed from She y Olteen,thut whether the Burmese did or did not attack Sitang is not quite clear. Not so with the unfortunate detachment at Beling, where Capt. Wright with Ensign Newdick and a company of the Ist was sta tioned. Beling is 40 miles 'tom Sitang, and quite untenable by so small a garrison. Capt. Wright and his party stood the attack for a night and a day, but the Burmese then pre pared to turn them out of their position—nothing being easier, as the houses were composed of nothing hut bamboos and leaves. Wright was coast quently forced to evacuate the place. He got clear otf by a niglit march, but the next day, when about half-way to Sitang, he was obliged to halt for two hours, as the Sepoys were completely knocked up fur want of water. Here a chief appeared in the plain, mounted on a pony, with about 1.0 fol lowers, and made aims net to tire on bun; but Wright see ing the man's object was to surround him, took a musket and knocked him over; upon this the party of Burmese made off. E:ght miles further on Wright was opposed by a body of about 500 Burmese. and being out in the plain and much pressed for water, his small band fought its way to a clump of bamboos near a tank, anti there held its ground fur the rest of the day. Late in the afternoon, al though wounded, Wright managed to get off with the small remains of his men, and leaving the road, tried to make his way to the river, dodging about amongst the tall elephant grass. He succeeded in this, hut was out the whole of the next day, and arrived at Sitang in boats the morning of the third day after leaving Beling. The fight took place on the Bth ; of the party nine men were killed at Boling, 25 came in wounded to Sitang, some very badly, and there were 15 or 16 sound men, leaving 27 missing. On intelligence being re ceived of the fight, Captain Hamilton went in search of Wright and his party, taking with him 150 men, but did not succeed in finding them. At the clump of bamboes he found two sepoys lying dead, and two Burmese close to them, also dead ; another Burmese in a hut close by, mor tally wounded. A mile beyond he found the oubadar dead, with a Burmese close by, and Ensign Newdick's butler also dead. Ensign Newdick was himself wounded in three places. The Burmese did not get off quite so well as they no doubt imagined they would. Captain Wright is re ported to have shot no less than ten of them himself. A party composed as follows, under the command of Major flail, of the 49th, left Moulmein on the 13th, for the recap ture of Boling-50 Europeans, 120 of the 2Gth liege. N. 1., 120 of the 49, and 4 guns. CHINA. HONG KONG, MAY 6.—The mail steamer has been detained until two p.ln. this day in expecta tion of the receipt of advices from Shanghae, but she will take her departure without any further news from the seat of war. The fact is, since the depar ture of the last mail steamer there has not been a single arrival from Shanghae, which circumstance has perplexed politicians and commercial men. All sorts of rumours are current at Canton to the effect that the city of Nanking has been re-captured by the rebels, and that they hare moved in the direction of Peking. This, however, has not received any authen tication ; and for actual facts the English reader most await the arrival of another mail. The " battle of the frogs "is not yet over at Canton. The erec tion of a French flag-staff is still an eye-sore to the foreign community, and a source of trouble to the " grand nation." Under the supposition that two gentlemen, Messrs. Still and Taylor, who were examining the flag staff, meant some mischief, their curiosity was reported to a French officer, who forthwith had them carried off by force to Whampoa. Their liberty was demanded by the acting British Consul, but refused, so they were carried on board the French frigate, Capri cieuse, interrogated and—set at liberty. The insult to Messrs. Still and Taylor has been warmly taken up by the Canton gents., and to settle the affair, amicably if possible, Captain Sir Wm. Hoste, of her Majesty's ship Spartan, has opened a correspondence with the French naval authority. Dr. Bowring, consul at Canton, on leave at Java, proceels to England with the view of securing, if he can, from his friends in power, the post of plenipo tentiary, which will be vacated by Sir George Bon ham at the end of the current year or the beginning of 1864. SINGAPORE. PIRACY AND MURDER OF AN ENGLISH CAPTAIN AND CREW. Letters received from Singapore to the 15th May, afford shocking details of another of thosa serial murders on board ship, arising out of the odious coolie trade. In the present instance the ves sel cut off was a foreign vessel, sailing under the Peruvian flag, but officered by Englishmen who have fallen victims to the foul trade in human flesh which has for some few years past been carried on from China to South America and the Hay annas. It would appear from the facts disclosed during an official investigation into the matter here, that the Peruvian barque Rosa Elias, of 300 tons, received on board at Cum-sin 1-moon (between Hong-Kong and Canton), 201 Chi nese coolies, of which number one was a doc tor bound for Callao. The reason no doubt for shipping coolies at Cum-sing-moon is because, there being no consular authority there, the vilest practices may with impunity be resorted to in order to secure a shipment of coolies. At Amoy, where there is a British consul, and the emigrants were shipped in British vessels, the most outrageous practices were resorted to in order to induce men to embark, but in the case of the Rosa Elias there was not the least surveillance. According to the general testimony of the men examined (who are not alleged to have had any share in the murders committed on board), the major part of them were kidnapped and oreiNy c arried on board, or enticed by the Chinese coolie brokers on various pretexts to see the vessel, from which they were not again suffered to depart. Many of the parties thus shamefully decoyed consisted of boys under 12 years of age, the Ron Elias having 45 of this latter class on board. It would also ap pear, from the coolies' statements that they were informed by their merciless shippers that the vessel was destined for a country abounding in gold, and that they would be employed in disembowelling the precious metal, whilst, in fact, the shippers contem plated employing them as guano diggers. Under such circumstances we need not be surprised that after a few days at sea men so shipped became dis satisfied with their lot, and anxious to return to their own country. Well, with this living cargo, without an interpreter, the barque Rosa Elias quitted the Canton river early in March, under the command of an Englishman named George Wcstby, and P. W. Dempster as mate. The vessel was fitted up with a slave deck—that is, the space between decks, originally about 61 feet, was divided into two tiers, each about three feet in height, into which the coolies were packed. For some time after quitting Cum-sing-moon all went on well, but ere a month had elapsed the supply of water to the coolies was curtailed nearly one-half, upon which they ex pressed much dissatisfaction, and eommenced a row on board, which was suppressed on the crew being furnished with firearms. The latter were not used on this occasion, but the strong and resisting feeling