The Express. — London, England, 1847-06-09 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. MOOSE OF LOHDB.—TneeDAT, JUNE & I The LOAD CsAnnatwa wok his seat at 6 eelock. PUBLIC BM/4M SECOND READING. 4.— Lusatia arylums (Ireland) ; Turnpike 11101LET11.10.-81Wee=reurellsmd) BEL ToRD REABOIM—Faar PROM aid Scotland); Lards drylosmar i k u r t we ,....i,m. __ ift elmsn i lla NOTICE Of of Emma, on Friday mat e to wee ist Poems M bely grams be ineligible to the situation of sekeolawatera la wheels supparawl b pane greats. The Royal semen was given by oommissiew to the following kills: Famortes: leant Bayles of Boy.; County Ballgiegs; Poor Wirt (Ireland) ; tooled Prepay (Ireland) ; New nimlnt NY CheNerlord Railway tamed= to Bury St. Edmunds, with a fleoas= Newmarket and Omatisilarditellemy (report of srostikma the oraossay kers Ys lend the Imam amide, Biluisajowlew market Nei Clessenrfted IldisaL i eniewlea to Tbsigind); Mow Tiley. 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Patent napkins Mampeny Bills. fhe Cemandosioners were the Lord Chancellor, the Marquis of Lansdowne, and the Earl of Minto. ELECTIONS (IRELAND). The Earl of ST. GERMANS said that, as a dissolution of parliament was nigh at hand, he should be glad to know whether government contemplated any measure for abridging the duration of elections in Ireland, and thus limiting the scenes of confusion usual in overage times, but which were likely to be infinitely more confounded under present cir tonstanees. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE replied that the subject was under the serious consideration of the government, but it had been deemed desirable to connect it with a general measure having reference to the franchise. BIRMINGHAM AND OXFORD RAILWAY. The Earl of CHICHESTER reported from the committee on the Birmingham and Oxford Railway, that the com mittee, having examined the evidence brought before it, had decided that it could not take any further steps without specific instructions from the house. On the motion of Lord BROUGHAM, the report was ordered to be printed 'and to be taken into consideration on Friday. The house printed, -and at six o'clock. HOUSE OF COMMONS.-TUESDAY, JUNE 8. The Srnairai took the chair at 4 o'clock. PRIVATE BUSINESS. SECOND READINGS. Ringstomupon-ff all Doek Company; PoyntrSeld Palate; Surrey and Kest Commission of Sewers; VIM REPORTM—East of Fife Miles (larkinch deviation) ; London and North Western Railway ( k ant Rainfall Branch, Itc.); York and Newcastle, Newpwde and Berwick, and North BriUsh Rad. ways amalgamation; Bills. THIRD BEABReGg.—•yrshire Roads; Lancashire, Cheshire, and North Wales Drainage and ',measure Companies incorporation; Wex ford Free Bridge ; PUBLIC BUSINESS. PETITION.—By Sir W. Moteswoare. hem' 17 Of the eonmis- Miners of the Southwark Connor Restrusta, in Wear ot the claim of Mr. Drew to the oflke of ammo, of that court. ...„, COMMISSION.—ROYAL AsBp ; :,, 1. Ur. Placate, Deputy Usher of s',„,„ Black Rod, appeared at the table and summoned the 'douse to the House or Peen, to hear the royal meat v. ...en by communion to certain bills, for the titles of whin,' .4 Lords , report. COVENTRY, OANBURY, AND OXFORD JUNCTION • RAILWAY. On the order of the day fur the consideratioa of report on this bill, Sir G. CLERK wished to call the attention of the house to this bill, which, he said, was an attempt to carry tho broad gauge into a district in which it had never before been introduced. It was a direct contravention of the rule laid down lout year, that all future lines were to te laid down on the narrow gauge, except those in connexion with the Great Western. Mr. DIINNISTOUN and Mr. ELLIce severally supported the bill. Mr. G. HUDSON opposed the bill in unnecessary. The traffic of Coventry might be served by two donkeys a day. (Laughter.) The goods sent from that town were great 111 value, but so mall in bulk that any additional railway ac commodation was wholly uncalled for. Mr. WILLIAMS trusted that the house would not deny to the trade of Coventry the accommodation offered by this bill. That district, containing 60.000 inhabitants, bad been shamefully treated by the North Western directors, who, from the inconvenient hunts at which they fixed the lug gage-trains, forced the Coventry people to send their goods by the pmenger-trains eta greatly increased rata of charge. Col. ANSON opposed the bill. It was not a bond fie scheme, but one got up for the purpose of sale. It had been offered to the North Western at a premium of Si. a share and had been declined. Mr. COLLINS took a similar view of the question. Mr. E. ELLICE had not previously known that an offer of sale had been made. Had he known it the bill should not have had his support. Sir C. DOUGLAS confirmed the statement of the hon. and gallant member for South Staffordshire as to the offer of sale. Lie could produce a document quite conclusive oa the point if it were deemed necessary. Mr. DENNISTOUN said that the fact had not been proved before the committee. Mr. ROEBUCK supported the bill. Mr. STRUTT advised the house to adhere to the resolu tions of last year. Mr. HODGSON opposed the bill, on the ground that it would extend the broad gauge beyond the limits fixed by parliament lest year. De. NICHOL', contended that parliament, in the measure of last year, expressly exempted such existing or future acts es defined the gauge. Mr. STRUTT had referred to the resolutions, not to the set which bad been founded on those resolutions. Sir G. STRICKLAND supported the decision of the committee. Mr. GOULBURN enquired whether the clause es to the gauge was originally in the bill, or had been introduced in committee ? Mr. DENNISTOUN replied that the clause had been ia trodueed by the committee. After a shortconversation on the point of order, Mr. HODGSON moved the omission of the clause which authorised the seven-feet gauge. The house divided.—For the clause Against it The other amendment, were then agreed to. GLASGOW, PAISLEY, AND GREENOCK RAILWAY. Mr. 11. JOHNSTONE moved the third reading of this bill. Mr. HUME moved its postponement for a week, on the ground that, by private arrangement, and to the prejudice of the public, a canal was to be closed, contrary to the deci. @ion of that house. In the meantime the question could be referred to the railway board, to determine how far the measure might be carried out. After a short conversation, the bill, and two others con nected with it, were postponed until Tuesday next. THAMES CONSERVANCY BILL. Sir F. THESIGER moved that the petition of the Mas ters of the Bench of the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple be referred to the committee on the Thames Con. servancy Bill, and that they have levee to appear and be heard before the said committee. Mr. GREENE opposed the motion, which was, thereupon, withdrawn. SALT MONOPOLY IN INDIA. Mr. EwAii i onipo,i4lll;;oti.;it on the suhject of the salt monopoly in India, until certain papers relating to it were ready. THE FALLING OF THE RAILWAY BRIDGE OVER THE RIVER DEE. Mr. GISBORNE;;;hed to put a question to his right hon. friend, the chief commissioner of railway', on a sub ject of great public interest, connected with a new class of railway accidents which had lately occurred. It related to an opinion which was stated in the Times newspa p er to have been expressed by Mr. Locke, the engineer, in his evidence at the coroner's inquest on the persons killed by the falling of the bridge over the Dee. Mr. Locke was a very eminent man, who had constructed large works, and his name was little connected with any failure. He was stated in the Times to have said: kr. Oaronor sad Genthmen of the Jury, I believe that meets blame Ilea at ths doors af the Commbeionen of the Admiralty, the Board of Trade, and the Ccsamissioners of Railways, who require taidges to be built with too large a span, to answer their views as to shipping mad other matters, without at all moultings, the interest or safety of the public. I wish tide to go forth to the world. I wrote a letter to the government on the mbiect, and am sorry to say it was sot attended to. Having seen that statement in • public newspaper, he (Mr. Gisberne) had referred it to Mr. Locke, and inquired if he used the expressions attributed to him. Mr. Locke had written a letter to him (Mr. Gi•bome). stating exactly what ha said, which ha had unfortunately left at home Su vex wadoestood) ; bat ha had since seen Mr. Locke, and im easileisly aftammeda mote down what he said to him, mid& was as !sqtawa . _ tike — iiireity had cit Trade were 'ettipesed is many wee le mama owe lathe vereeiremeata of water Ira sal aavlastica Ilea le the =hay at the yeille. Ivry Is Ore apes angheeeesame aesemlly elaweelleg avahli Ghia emit ant he vein tele* oda That lam. lesplanewa, &ask sad lifterelf aktmeed allot hair be Lard embodying these *alma to which Mese Oar NOM received say reply. Mr. Leeks see prepared to support this opinion before any comedies er eommittee, and he had authorised him (Mr. Oidesis)_te make this statement to the house. Mr. sTsurr was muck obliged to his hon. friend for bringior this question forward, as it gave him an oppor tunity of correcting the statement which appeared in the newspaper. As it appeared, a serious charge was made against three public boards, that they required bridges to be built of unnecessary width of space. With regard to the commis sioners of railways, on no occasion had they required a bridge to be built of such a span as to be productive of danger; and so far from their having received remonstrances on the subject, no complaint had ever been made to them by Mr. Locke, or any other engineer, mai there was not the slightest foundation for such an assertion. In the next plate, d with respect to the railway department of the Booed of Trade, since his noble friend had given him notice of his intention to oak this question, he examined the former proceedings of that depattatent, to see if there was anything relating to the ailed. Ile bad found a letter on the 'ab ject of bridges host Mr. Locke aad other engineer., ad dried to Lord Didlunisie ; but that letter did not relate to the widget of the railway deportment of the Beard of ...~-; f. Trade, oe 'A the Admiralty, bet solely to a daunt is the Railway damp Consolidation Act, which did not apply to bridges across any river, but to Midges acmes roods, which coo:sa net be of any great width of *pea. With regard to the Admiralty, the house was aware that they exerdsed very useful functions in protecting the rights of river naviga tion. He had communicated to his hono rab le friend the Secretary to the Admiralty, that be had re ceived notice of this question from his honourable friend, and he wu in the house yesterday, and would have answered any question which had been put to him. He was not there now, and he hoped his hon. friend would pet his question to hilt. Sir O. CLERK said, that, to the best of his recollection, there was no ease in which the railway department of the Board of Trade had insisted on bridges being made of cer tain dimensions by any engineers. With regard to the letter which had been addressed to Lord Dalhousie, it did not refer to bridges over rivers, but to the powers given by parliament in the Railway Clauses Consolidation Act. With regard to the powers exercised by the Admiralty, it wu their duty to on to the free navigation of rivers and that they were not obdraoted by rail s aye or any other works. On the en thuses rested the responsibility of the safety of the bridges, sad Ito protests(' against any engineers expressing opinions of this kind. Mr. OISBORNE did not bring this subject foeward LS on any guaranteed statement, but only with reference to what he thought a very strong paragraph in a newspaper, and he wished to give the Times an opportunity of explanation. When he gave notice of his motion, be did not know that a letter bad been written to Lord Dalhousie, or he would have given notice to the right bon. gentleman. Mr. HUME inquired from the right hon. gentleman at the head of the railway department whether the house and the public might expert to be furnished with any report u to the real cause of the accident on the Dee-bridge, at Chester ? Mr. STRUTT replied that the railway commissioners had sent down two competent gentlemen to make an inquiry into the subject, and to obtain every information in their power ; and, in order to enable them to prepare a full report on the matter, the coroner's inquest had been adjourned to Wednes day next, when, no doubt, it would be submitted to the coroner and theury. IMPORT D UTIES ON CORN. —THE PRICE OF BREAD. Mr. G. BANKES Wished to put a question to the noble lord at the head of the government. The noble lord had • notice for tbia evening for the introduction of a bill further to suspend the duties on the import of corn ; but it stood so low on the paper, that it was hardly panicle that it could coma on to-ntght. Ile wished, therefore, that the noble lord would state for what period he intended to continue the suspension of the duties. Ile also wished to ask the noble lord another question, which had reference to a petition which be held in his band, but which he had act been able to present, for, owing to the press of private business, it wad almost impossible to present petitions. That petition called attention to tie sale of bread; and the question he wished to put was, whether the government had considered this subject. and whether they proposed to review the laws which referred to the sale and weight of bread ? He was informed by the petition that during the great fluctuation in the price of bread in the last ten months, the public bad suffered considerably from the want of some control ever the price and weight of bread, which had not followed the price of corn ; and the prayer of the petition was, that if we were to have cheap corn, we ought to have cheap bread also. Lord J. RUSSELL did net think he would be able to bring forward the bill for the suspension of the duties on the import of corn to-night, and as it would be necessary that, in point of form, it should be considered in a committee of the whole house, be would bring it on on Thursday or *rektor. The duties would be suspended till let March. He thought the hon. gentleman was about to ask his questa,,;,n with reference to an act which had once pulsed, b ; w hi c h i t was not permitted that bread should be sold until a certain time after it was baked, and which he (Lord J. Hosea) did not think it fittirg should be enforced ; for, although there was muck waste from the use of new bread, he did not think it advisable to put a bill in motion, which - ,:ould not be prac tically enforced. With regard to the e,oestion whether the government proposed to adopt an assize of Dread, he must reply that it was not their int ..ettion to do so. He would take thou opportunity of as.'aing his hon. friend, the member for Montrose, to postpone for one day his notice of motion with regerd to the affairs of Portugal. He as/reed to give Thursday for that purpose, but, at the same time, he thought it more desirable that the question should be brought on on Friday, for thnugh every possible expedition had been used, the papers relating to the subject would not be ready for the use of members till to-morrow. Under these circumstances, he would ask his hon. friend to bring on his motion on Friday instead of Thursday. Mr. HUME said when the noble lord asked him yester day to postpone his motion, be thought that 48 hours was time enough for members to go through the papers, and he consented; but cow that he found they required three weeks to prepare, he thought that was not time enough. He would not, therefore, hesitate to agree to bring on his motion on Friday. Lord J. RUSSELL—In that case the adjourned debate on the Prisons Bill will be taken on Thursday. Lord G. BENTINCK said as there was no probability that the debate would be over in one night—if the papers took three weeks to prepare— Lord J. RUSSELL—Three days. Lord G. BENTINCK—It would be better to postpone the motion till Monday ; Friday would be an inconvenient day, for it was on that day that ker Majesty's ball took place. (Laughter.) Mr. HU ME would keep Friday for his motion. Capt. PEC HELL begged to ask, es Thursday was disposed of, what would become of the bill to amend the administra tion of the poor-law ? Lord J. RUSSELL wished to bring that bill on as soon as possible, but he could not now answer the question of the hon. and gallant member. THE CASE OF SIR E. WILMOT. Mr. HOitgslTAiil;;g4 to ask a question of tke bon. gentleman the Under Secretary for the Colonies. Last night a remarkable statement was made, that two gentlemen hold ing high official situations had gone to the Colonial-office, and made statements with regard to the governor of Van Diemen's Land, on which he had been suspended from his office. It was since discovered and admitted that those state ments were unfounded and calumnious. It was stated, on the high authority of the right hon. baronet (Sir J. Graham), repreienting his late colleague, Mr. Gladstone, that one of them held a high official appointment in Van Diemen's Land ; and that the other, if not in office, was in a position of high tenet. The question he wished to put was, whether, as the statements were made net merely asrurnours but in an authentic and semi official manner, the govern ment had ascertained the names of those gentlemen who had been guilty of such gross conduct; and, secondly, if they had, if it was intended to continue them in the public service ? Mr. HAWES could only state what he said last night, that there was in the Colonial-office no official record of any statements against Sir E. Wilmot, and it was not in his power to give the names. He had no means of obtaining any information on the subject, for, as there were no official records, he was in ignorance of the persons who made those statements. Mr. ESCOTT wished to ask the hon. gentleman whether the Colonial-office was, in feet, in possession of the names of the persons whe gave information to Mr. Gladstone, on which he founded his secret despatch of the 20th of April, 1846. If the hon. gentleman gave the answer he expected ' he should then put a question to the right hon. baronet, the member for Dorchester. Mr. HAWES could only state what he had aid before— that, the Colonial-office had no official record of the act in question, or of the names of the parties ; and it was utterly unable to give the hon. gentleman an answer, as, officially, he was in entire ignorance of the names. Mr. ESCOTT said the hen. gentleman had given him the answer which it was, perhaps, his duty to give, but it was no answer. He begged to ask the right hon. baronet (Sir J. Graham) if, atter the statement he had made last night, he thought it consistent with his duty to inform the house who were the persons holding high official situations who had given the information to Mr. Gladstone on which he had acted in his despatch ? If the right hon. baronet declined to give this information, would he state his reasons fur with. holding it Sir J. GRAHAM should have been happy to comply with the laudable desire of the hon. member for information, but be was unable to give him semi-official information. He was only therein his capacity of a private member of parlia ment. He said last night that his light hon. friend Mr. Gladstone had received the information upon which he wrote hisdespateh to Sir E. Wilmot, from three gentlemen. One of them, who was then, but was not now in the service of the crown, on being a_pplied to, refu sed to allow his name to be given. He then went on to state that Mr. Gladstone acted on the information of two gentlemen, one of whom held a high office in the colony, and another was in the public service in Van Die men's Land, but he was not prepared to give the names of either. Their names had been communicated to the present Sir E. Wilmot, and he (Sir J. Graham) did not think it consistent with his duty to mention the names of either of them. He had been asked to assign his reasons for this. He did not think he was called on to do so, but he would say that he thought it unjust to those gentlemen from whom, probably, the present Sir Eardley Wilmot would require an explanation, that they should be exposed for twelve months to the obloquy of having given false information without any IritTllli'll e t2Von ' irY (l lOUPT ar .CASE OF MR. ~ F ~: therefore, feeling that he was not giving up his life office for an uncertainty, sumesdered his clerkship and accepted the appointment to the office of meteor, which appointment had bees seemffesroittki: present Home Seereuury. The hill in tits the home underwent emend altars tioss,i2 asp. ati - Sell by the present Home Secretary and the peanut Attempt . 43eseral that a preference would be gives wasting fillelge provided they were considered min palest .0f the oemp yof Mr. Drew, the Home &cm tory had Oen hy *motioning his appointment muses- ecte lint whet the eel pawed, instead of Mr. Drew being continued. Mr. Clive, who had been an efficient police ma gistrate, had been appointed the judge el the court, and Mr. Drew was offiard the office of clerk or regis- I tear. This be considered to compromise his character sad he hod declined to accept the subordinate office. Such then was Mr. Drew's case. He had abandoned a lucrative practice, be had surrendered an office for life worth 6001. per anima, and when relying upon the provisions of the act as it was presented to parliament, his hopes were disap pointed, and he felt himself stigmatised as being unlit for the office by the appointment of another gentleman. He desired, therefore, that the matter should be publicly considered, and with this view he (Sir F. Thesiger) had brought it before the house, in the form in which he had given notice, in the hope it would elicit a satisfactory explanation from her Majesty's government. In point of form, therefore, he now moved that there be laid before the house a copy of a letter from the Secretary of State for the Home Department ap proving of the appointment of Mr. Drew to be the assessor of the Southwark and Brixton Court of Requests, under the act 8 end 9 Vie., c. 127. Sir W. MOLESWORTH seconded the motion. Sir 0. GREY had not the slightest objection to the pro duction of the document moved for, but he could show that Mr. Drew had not a shadow of a right to lay claim to the office of judge of the new court; on the contrary, he was precluded from the possibility of holding the cities by the provisions of the original bill, as introduced by the Duke of Bucclench,u president of the council in the late administra tion. That bill provided that any judge or meow who held that Office on the Ist of June, 1846, should be the first judge of the new court to be established. Now on the lot of June, 1846, Mr. Drew had not been appointed assessor, and therefore his claim, on that suggestion, fell to the ground. In fact, it was not until the 28th of July that the memorial re• questing his (Sir George Grey's) sanction of Mr. Drew's appointment was dated, and he (Sir G. Grey) only dis charged all he was required to do—namely, on proof that Mr. Drew was an attorney of ten years' standing, and of unexceptionable cheritter (as he truly believed Mr, Drew to be), he had confirmed the appointment. When the new law pared, the eppoiutments of these judges were vested in the discretion of the Lord Chancellor, and that discretion his lordship had exercised ; but out of 60 judges, he had retained 32 previous holders of similar offices. There was no objection to Mr. Drew on the ground that he was an attorney and not a barrister, but still he (Sir G. Grey) was prepared to defend the appointment of Mr. Clive, in preference to Mr. Drew. The Court of Requests, over which Mr. Drew had presided, had only jurisdiction to the extent of Se, whereas the new court's jurisdiction was extended to 201. The duties of the court were,consequently, now much more onerous and responsible. Mr. Drew had clearly failed in proving that any injustice had been dime to him, for he had not been a judge, but only a clerk, and the junior of two clerks. At the same tiwe, he had no objection to the motion of the hon. and learned gentleman. Mr. GOCLBURN said it was very extraordinary, if Mr. Drew's claim was so utterly unfounded, according to the terns of the act, that that answer had not at once been returned to his first memorial. Whatever were the result of this motion, the discussion would have the effect of showing that the character of Mr. Drew was wholly ones cept;onable. Sir F. THESIGER said tte right hon. gentleman opposite had leR the strong part of the case entirely un answered. It could not be said that Mr. Drew was not a judge on the 26th August last. If he had no claim what- ever, why should the Lord Chancellor have remarked to the deputation who waited on him on the subject, that it was a very hard cue ? The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said, he had Feinted out at the time that the whole of the eighty judges could not have claims—only about sixty appointments being to be made. He was, therefore, at a less to know how any obser vations could have been construed into a pledge by Mr. Drew or his friends. His appointment as assessor had only been made in July, 1846 ; while the bill, as originally framed, reserved the right to those persons only who had been judges or assessors on the let of June, 1846. This provision had been purposely introduced, to prevent appointments being made with a view to the operation of the bill. How, then, could Mr. Drew, himself an attorney, and a person professing to be competent to act as judge of a court, contend that his claim was founded on this provision ? The answer to the case was simply this, that Mr. Drew had no claim on the ground preferred by him self; consequently, be had no tight to complain of injustice; and the case ought not to leave been brought forward. Although he had been type inted judge in July, 1846, the inferior office of clerk had not yet been tilled up, and was probably rill open to him. This more lucrative office had been offered to him, and declined, perhaps, on account of its inferior dignity ; therefore he had certainly no sight to complain. Mr. NEWDEGATE said that Mr. Clive, the judge ap pointed to this court, was not one of the eighty former judges. The ease had been the same at Birmingham : Mr. Guest, the old officer, had not a claim, and the judge ap pointed in hie stead was not one of the eighty of I judges. The motion was then,agreed to. BONDING AND RECTIFICATION OF BRITISH DREW. Sir F. THESIGER rose to call the attention of the house to the case of Mr. Drew, in connexion with the newly created Southwark County Court, and said it was necessary for him to do little more than simply and shortly to state the circumstances, in order to induce the house to come to the conclusion that Mr. Drew had just grounds of complaint in respect of the conduct which had been pursued towards him. For upwards of thirty years prior to 1846, Mr. Drew had been a solicitor of high standing and reputation, carrying on as extensive practice in the borough of Southwark, and for shove 20 years had held the office of clerk or legal adviser to the commissioners of the Southwark Court of Requests. In 1844, the act for the amendment of the law relating to bankruptcy and insolvency passed, and it contained a clause empowering the commissioners of local courts, over which no barrister or attorney presided, to appoint, with the sanctien of the Secretary of State, an assessor, and, accordingly the commissioners of the court in question memorialised the Rome Secretary to recognise their appointment of Mr. Drew to that office. Mr. Drew was, however, in this situation : He held the office of clerk for life, with a slliry of 5001., and the act which empowered the appointment to the assessor ship provided that such assessor should sot be entitled to compensation for the lose of his office, consequent upon the passing of any general act for the recovery of small debts. It happened, that at that time a bill was pending before porno meat for that object, and that bill contained a clause which provided that the judges or assessors of existing courts should be entitled to be appointed the judges of the courts to be created by the new bill. Mr. Drew ght Orono. MAILS. The West India mode, excluding those for Mexico, Honduras, and the !Jeremiah, will be made up on the morning of the 17di June. The mall. for Vigo, Oporto, Li.bon, Madeira, Cadiz, and Wheelies win be made uo en the morning of the 17th June. The mails for British North America, Berunda, and the United Mates, will be made up on the evening of the lath June. The overland malts for Gibraltar, Matto, Greene, the lonian !stands, pt,Adeii, Ceylon, India, Hong-Kong, and China, eta Southampton, will he made up on the evening of the lOth June. The overland domed mails, rio Marseilles, to the Mediterranean, egypt, Aden, Ceylon, India, Hong Kong, Re., will be made up on the cresting of the 24th Jane. The mails for New South Wales, Van Diemen'. Land, and New Zealand will be made up an the evening of the 50th June. The mails for the Basile, the River Plate, Monte Video, Peruse buco, Bahia, Madeira, and Buenos Ayres, will be made ep on the evening of the 4th July. A mail will be made op for Sierra Leone, by H.M. steamer Growler, which is expected to sail, from Plymouth, about the 12th. Letters, Sze., must be marked, "By Growler." SO CORRESPONDENTS • e • Adorelemmas Weeded See The IS•pron. Leeds melee paper. seat be et tbe OSee by Two eeeleek eR tbe del et rebbeatioe. HIGH WATER AT LONDON.BRIDOL T.t. Hay— Honing. W zelet. prt 9. Aft•num, Mi. put H. T 0.31 —Morabaglo W. pest Is; Artsr3o.3. 3 aW. pm 9. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 9. WE cannot bat view both with alarm and shame the doctrines set forth by a co-temporary respecting intervention. Such doctrines are spoken with authority, and no doubt emanate from the Foreign office ; and they betoken a very signal, and, we think, a very fatal change in the confidence and in the prin ciples, which were wont to govern, not only the present minister of that office, but all other ministers. The ehronick asks, if the Queen of PORTUGAL I thinks fit to claim armed assistance from another power, how is England to prevent that other power from ffording it ? We answer, by England's simply stating to those other powers that she will not . permit them to intervene, for the furtherance of their own ends and views (Spanish intervention is avowedly for Spanish and moderado purposes, a complete conserva tive and party move), with an armed force in Portugal. If England cannot do this, and cannot make such word of hers be respected, then the sooner she abdicates all influence in the peninsula the better. The present conduct of England has for ever esta blished the rule and the precedent, that Spain! and France may dictate to Portugal any terms or form of government; and that England, no longer able to gainsay them, can merely preserve the appearance of a little influence, by humbling herself to do the bid ding of those hostile powers. The most humiliating part of the affair is, that although England humbles herself, and offers to be executioner of the decrees of French and Spanish ultra royalists against Portuguese liberals, the Spanish will not trust England with the teak, but in sist on doing it themselves. Had the British autho rities had a spark of pride, they would have said, we will do this work, unpleasant as it is, but we will do it alone. We will not allow the fanatic officers of the Spanish court, who persecuted ESPARTERO and butchered his followers; we will not allow this CoNenA to march into Portugal to do the same by DAS ANTAS and S t DA BANDETRA, that he did with ESPARTERO and ZUREANO. If the junta does not submit, if the liberals ref use to trust the promises of the Queen, on the " collateral security" of England, what then ? The Spanish troops reduce Oporto, aided by a British fleet. Blood is not spared, nor proscription. The liberals are exempted from pardon. The constitution is a nullity. And Spain will have done this under French orders, Eng land not oely looking on, but playing third fiddle under the flaming walls of Oporto. These new doctrines, preached by the organ of Lord PALMERSTON, are neither more nor less than the old ones of the Holy Alliance. According to them, any .. sovereign who meets with difficulties, in se ottnmpt to destroy the rights and liberties of )1111 sabjeote,ntay apply to his neighbour sovereign, and the absolutist troops of one court shall lend aid to the absolutist pur poses of the other, cresting throughout Europe a league of tyrants against constitutions, and of courts against names, which shall for ever stifle and prevent the development of a liberal principle. Such a league did the despots of Europe form thirty years ago, and against such league did England protest, and more than protest. Now, it seems, in 1847, the courts of France, of Spain, and of Portugal, have entered into a similar league. And England &wet not protest. Lord PALMERSTON declares that his only means of pre venting Spanish intervention in Portugal, is, by affect ing to approve and join in it, to modify its worst effects. He snea k s into the league, in order to cheat it. Though yesterday making common cause with the Portuguese liberals, he now pats on moderado uniform, and enlists in Spanish and French service, with the hope of beguiling them, but with the cer tainty of being, however little his lordship may de serve it, contemned as a deserter by the Portuguese, and mistrusted as a spy by the Spaniards. If any one would wish to estimate what the foreign policy of England is, and compare it with what it wan, let him imagine what would have been the words, and what the acts, of GEORGE CANNING, towards such a Spanish minister as PACHECO, threat ening to march troops into Portugal ! DIE rale at the Colonial-office is, that no complaints or charges from any colony . against a governor can be received, unless communicated to and forwarded by him. The intention of the rule is excellent; it is to guard public servants from clandestine and ma licious denunciations. Experience suggests a wish that it were more explicitly declared to be recumbent upon governors to forward all charges or com plaints thus communicated to them, and also that governors were held bound to communicate all complaints or charges they may make against colonists to the parties accused, before transmitting them to the Colonial-office. The principle of re ceiving no secret denunciations is excellent, and ought to be more extensively acted upon than it is. It is strange that throughout the late discussion, both in and out of parliament, on Mr. GteDsrost's conduct towards the late Sir EARDLEY WILMOT, no allusion whatever has been made to this rule. Apart altogether from the other repulsive and discreditable features of Mr. GLADSTONE'S conduct towards that unfortunate gentleman, it was irregular In the extreme, in flagrant violation of a self-imposed law to which the Colonial-office, for the security of colonial governors, has for a long tract of years conformed in its transactions with that class of officials. Mr. GLADSTONE, contrary to a recognised role of action of the Colonial-office, received not anonymous perhaps, but clandestine denunciations of Sir HARD LLY IViwtor, and recalled him on the strength of these imputations, without communicating to him their nature, and the names of the witnesses who vouched for them, or affording him time to refute them. Mr. GLADSTONE makes indeed a wretched attempt to clear himself of this charge by equivocation. He at tempts to distinguish between the resolution to recall Sir EtnnLEY from the government of Van Diemen's Lozil, and the resolution not to appoint him to any other government. Whether these resolutions were simul taneously formed it is impossible to say, but they were simultaneously communicated to their victim : the public despatch intimating to Sir EARDLET that he was superseded, and the private letter intimating that he was not to be employed again, are both dated the 30th of April. The only difference between the two intimations Is, that the former is a blow struck openly, for which the party injured would feel himself called upon to claim redress; the latter, a secret stab, which was sure to wound his feelings, but to which he might, perhaps, submit without open complaint. The public recall, as well as the whispered slanderous imputation, is motived by reference to private unauthenticated de letions. . . Mr. GLADSTONE, in his public despatch, told Sir EARDLEY that he was recalled because he had not "applied his mind with due diligence and with ear nest concern to the government and improvement" of the convicts under his charge. Mr. GLADSTONE ex pressly states as his reason for forming this opinion, that—" It is only with extreme rarity that you advert in your despatches to the mural condition of these men." And he hastens to prevent the reply that this silence was attributable to lack of matter, by intimating that he knew from other sources there was much to communicate. " This is not, it is true, systematically stated to me in official reports, because those by whom it ought either to be stated or denied are altogether silent on the subject. . . But from the evidence before me, fragmentary and indirect, though, I regret to add, too concordant as it is, I can entertain no doubt of so much as this," Ste. Mr. GLADSTONE here states that he had other informants besides his recognised and official eorre.pondcnts, and that he acted upon the information of the former. In the private letter to Sir EARDLEY. Mr. GLADSTONE says that his secret sources of knowledge were neither " slight rumours without presumptions of credibility ;" nor " charges or information supported by the names of parties tendering it," but something that " occupies an intermediate position." By referring to Mr. GLADSTONE'S litter to Earl GREY we find that this strange expression implies " persons who made known the existence of rumours, and did not profess to sup port their credit by statements of particulars, but to found them on general notoriety." In plain English, Mr. GLADSTONE recalled the Governor of Van Diemen's Land, and in the same breath whispered a deadly in sult in his ear on the strength of second-hand gossip. And to lend a finishing touch to the disgusting fea trues of this case, Sr JAMES GRAHAM stated in the House of Commons, on Monday, that "as to letters or documents, not a vestige of anything of the kind remained in the Colonial-office." It also deserves remark, that while Mr. GLAD STONE, in his eagerness to get and keep Sir EARDLEY WILMOT out of employment, was acting in defiance alike of the conventional decorums of polite society and the rules of the Colonial-office, he extended an amnesty to that gentleman for a grave political fault. In the legislative council of Van Diemen's Land Sir EARDLEY'S financial measures encountered an uncom promising opposition. A majority of the council dis approved of them, and could not be convinced by the governor's logic that, as nominees of the crown, they ought to act upon different views of policy and jus tice from those upon which he conceded it would have been their duty to act had they been elected by the colonists. And Sir EARDLEY, failing to convince them, " pressed forward," to use Mr. GLADSTONE'S words, " by the exercise of the entire privilege which the constitution conferred upon him, the bill by which alone regular provision could be made for the primary exigencies of the colony dar ing the year." In other words, Sir EARDLEY forced a finance bill upon the council is a spirit de cidedly unconstitutional, by forms of very question able legality. Not contented with this, he appears, from Mr. GLADSTONE'S statement, to have in dulged in his despatches to the Secretary for the Colonies in unfounded imputations on the to alt? of those members of council who opposed him. There is retribution in Sir EARDLEY'S having his own cha racter whispered away as he attempted to whisper away that of others. But for the fatal dinouement of the drama, one might have been gratified to see him " caught like a woodcock in his own springe ;" but death to himself and dilapid ated means to his family are beyond the due bounds of retribution. Doubtless, it was the arbitrary and unfair conduct of Sir EARDLEY which induced Earl GREY to reject that gentleman's application for some other appointment ; and had Mr. GLADSTONE summarily and finally dismissed the Go vernor of Van Diemen's Land, for his unconstitutional and vindictive proceedings, he would have done no more than what was right. But Mr. GLADSTONE passes over the coup d'etat and scandal-mongering, so conge nial to his own nature, with a gentle reprimand—de clares that it "has no part in the motives which have led her Majesty's government to advise that your (Sir EARDLEY'S) administration of affairs should be brought to a close," and reserves his indignation for the governor's want of metaphysical profundity and spiritual unction in writing about crime and cri minals. The mystical cant in Mr. GLADSTONE'S despatch, if not its meet culpable, is undoubtedly its most dis gusting feature. " You have discussed," writes the ex-Secretary of State for the Colonies, " the economical questions connected with their [the convicts'] maintenance, and you have even en tered into argument, though in a manner too little penetrating, upon their offences against the laws. But into the inner world of their mental, moral, and spiritual state, either you have not made it a part of your duty to examine, or else, which for the present issue is, I apprehend, conclusive, you have not placed her Majarty's government in possession of the results." And this Pharisee of transcendentalism thus rates a colonial governor for not inditing treatises of mystical metaphysics, while he himself was blasting the reputation of the person he addressed on the strength of rumours received at second-hand. Such conduct is but too common with those for whom the plain working-day world pre cepts of morality are not good enough. There was but one act required to complete the degradation of ' Mr. GLADSTONE all exhibited in his own letters, and that is, the abject tone of his apology to Sir EARDLEY, when driven to confess that he had greedily caught up and acted upon worthless rumours to his disad vantage; though even in this apology there does ap• pear something like a malicious attempt to hint that the rumours were worth attending to. Enough of Mr. GLADSTONE. It is not likely, even though he may succeed in fielding a constituency to send him to parliament, that any minister will ven ture, by restoring him to the Colonial-otfiee, to awaken the distrust and indignation of every gentleman aho holds an appointment under that office. But it ap pears, from the statement made by Sir JAMES GRA HAM on Monday, that there is a person holding " high official station in this country" who was a prime agent in persuading Mr. GLADSTONE of the truth of the rumours to Sir EARDLEY IVltstor's discredit, and who shrank from the responsibility of the ac don to which he prompted. Who is this Sir BENJAMIN BACKBITE or CRABTREE, of the late Secretary of State for the colonies—this secret carrier, and vencher-for, of mis chievous slanders ? Is he still in office ? Does he possess opportunities of " pouring his lep'rous die fitment" into the ears of other ministers, or are his bad services specially devoted to the secretary for the colonies? These are questions of practical import ance; for while such a creature is tolerated in office— while he remains in a position to whisper away the fair fame of honourable men, secure from detection — the most constitutional, the most just and benevolent, the most efficient of our colonial governors are not safe. For the safety of colonial office-bearers, it is necessary that this ame donnas of Mr. GLADSTONE be exposed and dismissed. ONE of the results of the late debate on the State of the Navy, and of the long discussions that have fol lowed, and are still following, has been at least clearly to point out the existence of grave defects ; we wish we could add, that the remedies had been indicated as clearly : that, however, is still, it seems, if we may judge from the opposite directions in which it is sought, among the truths of an undiscovered region of know ledge. It is, however, of some importance to render as definite as possible and clear to all eyes what it is that we have failed to do, and how we have failed. This is the first step to improvement, It appears, then, clearly, that the English nation, justly celebrated although it be over all the world as the great emporium of steam ships, as the great promoter of steam navigation, as the birthplace of the Invention, as the workshop in which nearly all the I best steam-ships that Boat on the seas of all nations have been moue ; that this nation, whose merchants build steam engines and ships for half the world, has totally failed in obtaining an ef ficient steam-fleet for the protection of her own coasts and colonies, for which also she has pro vided hitherto no other adequate defence. It appears that notwithstanding the expenditure of very great sums of money, we are not only without such a thing as an effective steam.frigate : that having expended millions, our steam-ships of the Royal Navy are neither able to crawl off a lee-shore, nor stand up right in a gale, nor carry their guns out of the water, nor stow adequate stores and fuel under hatches, nor undertake a long voyage without lumbering their decks with coal-bags and being buried so deep in the water as to impede effective steaming. It is not to apathy or wantof industry in attempting a steam navy that our failure is to be attributed. We appear to have tried everything excepting perhars the right thing. Every form, size, and shape of ship; all varieties of engine; every possible proportion of engine power to ships' capacity. We have done this to every possible extreme ; cc have now no two ships alike. If, therefore, we have failed, it is from no poverty of invention or want of expedients. On the ships tlemselves we have tried every shape of bottom, from a sharp wedge-floor to a flat warming pan; we have tried every proportion of breadth to length, every variety of depth of hold to breadth of body, every degree of sharpness and fulness, with this difference only, that if they are not all failures in equal degree, they are all at least equally failures. They have none of them accomplished the object in tended, of furnishing a standard for the construction of good steam-ships. We have not now in the British navy a single steam-ship to which we can point and say " There, keep continually repeating this till further orders." But it may be at least said, that if it has not been proved what kind of ships we ought to build, the foundation has been laid by showing what we ought not. To close up one after the other, in the search for truth, every erroneous path, is at every step to enhance the probability of finding out the way to success. This is, indeed, the acknowledged principle of invention by " trial and error;" but to reason thus is to forget that the process of exhaustion only applies where the number of errors is defined. Here, we fear, it is infinite; and the purse and power of trial undergoes exhaustion faster than the courses of error. That so many experiments should have been made, and the cost incurred of so many failures, " without the elucidation of any one definite practical result," as was admitted in the late debate, is most lamentable. The total absence of systematic plan, of unity of in tention, of intelligence in the general design, must be self-evident. The absence of that something neces eery to bring order out of all this confusion is self evident. What is that thing? If we can discover the exact seat of the disease, we may, perhaps, indi cate the way to the specific. A thorough diagnosis should precede the prescription. Our readers may have noticed in the naval intelli gence daily recorded in our own columns and those of our contemporaries, such paragraphs as the following : —" Portsmouth, Monday.—The Odin, steam frigate, built on the design of Mr. Fincham, master-ship wright of thin dockyard, of 1,326 tons, and 360 horse power, was taken into the basin this afternoon in readiness for docking, to have her machinery repaired. It is now said that a miscalculation of the weight for the engines and machinery will cause this finely-built steamer to swim much deeper than intended." This is the latest specimen we have noticed of the long succession of "mis calculations'' by which it has happened that our steam-ships have drawn so much more water than they were designed for; have carried so much less fuel ; so much fewer stores ; so much smaller ar mament; and realised so much less speed. The fact is, that the ship and engines, one the work of a ship builder, the other of an engineer, designed apart from each other, by parties knowing little of each other's business, with independent ac tion and total want of concert, come to gether for the first time, after being sepa rately completed, and happening each to possess ele ments unknown to the designers of the other, they produce effects that were not anticipated; and the union of heterogeneous elements results in an inoen gruous whole. The ship and engine disagree, and failure is the result- It seems to have been forgotten that there is no single element in the construction of a ship that does not, to a certain extent, affect the per formance of the engine ; and that there is no element in the construction of a marine engine that does not in a very great degree affect all the qualities of the ship. It is not, we think, too much to assert that these elements never are adequately taken into consideration by both designing parties. We believe that a steam-frigate is constructed and planned by a surveyor or a ship-builder without adequate reference to the distribution of parts and performance of func tions in the engine, and tire rerea; that the engine -builder neither knows the draft of water, the stability and other properties of ships, the disposition of weights, nor the velocity through the waterof which the form and displacement of the ship will admit. When it is considered that it entirely depends on the ship whether the engines shall be able to develop 400 horse power or 600—whether her fuel will carry her 1,300 milesor 2,000 —whether she shall make 10 strokes a minute or 15—it will be seen that the engine builder who works in ignorance of the qualities of his ship and their effect oa his engine works in the dark. When, further, it is remembered, as in the instance quoted above, that the 81%ipThrui er h ss planned the lines of his ship without having been able to take accurately into account the weights and els. menta, and effect's of the various parts, and distribu. Lion of fuel, water, and machinery upon the ship ; we shall find no great difficulty in understanding vh, one half of our steam-ships cannot carry their gv,j , nor the other half their fuel ; why one half of the n are slow, and the others draw so much water a n to make them unserviceable ; why the Gorgon could act prevent herself from being dnven on a lee-shore, no s the Retribution stand upnght under her guns, we may now understand from the intimate e on . nexion between the performance of the en s i le and the ship, and the independent origin of ti ne integral parts of a steam-frigate, how p rom the want of unity of design, in this compou n d structure we may find, as we have found, that a vei 7 well-built ship may receive a very we ll- constructed engine, and the ill-matched union of two very g oo d things may give rise to those very bad compound s which disgrace the name of the Queen of the Sif t This want of perfect adaptation of all parts sad fus e , Lions of the engine to all points and qualities Odle ship, is one of the most prolific sources of evil: and i t I I remains for a future occasion to inquire whether saes adequate remedy be not within reach, The question raised in the chamber respecti ng m . Emile de Girardin occupies almost excluaively en circles in Path. Combined with those previously raised in the affair of General Cubii,res, it has ru le d the public to a high pitch of excitement respecti ng the apparently unbounded system of corruption in. puted to every branch of the political and civil achni• niatration of the country. It was the subject of ea. elusive conversation in the calk des confirenees of the chamber on Monday, where it was the prevailing impression that the assumption of an offence again* the Chamber of Peers is a mere subterfuge to with. draw attention from the objects really m e n e t Deputies collect around M. de Girardin, eager to gather information on the question. On Saturday, the leader of the young conservatives, surrounded by a crowd of his inquisitive colleagues, was Leant t o say : " I cannot allow the question to be viewed in the manner in which it is pre. tended to be pat. It is not a question between me and the Chamber of Peers. I have written nothing to offend the peerage. I have, on the contrary, served it. Far from do. siring to offend the peerage, I have never *eased to defend it. The question is not, therefore, hetwe n the peerage and the rp7rant of La Press, but between the ministry and the deputy of La Crease." The journals and correspondence are generally barren of news. A great and rapid fall h as t a k en place in all the provincial grain markets, varying from Bf. to 13f. the hectolitre. Letters from Frank fort say, that wi , hin eight days wheat has fallen in that market from 26 florins to 13 florins per matt. A cabinet council was held at Neuilly on Sunday, to deliberate upon the course to be adopted in the chamber on the questions to be put to M. Guirot Monday, by M. Cremieux, respecting intervention in Portugal. Le Courrier Francais says that the ministry hes decided to evade the difficulty of naming a RUMOR to Marshal Bugenuil, by leaving the marshal WI nominally governor of Algiers, with a cm/9j for year. Adciees have been received from Madrid to the 2nd inst. The court was still in the capital. The retire ment of the Queen to St. Ildefonso was spoken of, but no decision on that subject was made known. The Legate was presented to her Majesty on the 2nd. Great pain was acid to be expressed by him at the domestic estrangement existing between the Queen and her consort. The Madrid Ga:ette, of the 2nd, contains an ordonnance, restoring the Prince of Peace to his rank, property, and honours, and authorising his return to Spain. Another decree gives the rank of grandees, with the title of Duke of Baylen, to the children of Castanos. The announcement of the general amnesty and the restoration of Esportero, was premature. It seems probable, however, that this measure is only postponed, but not abandoned. M. Angel de la Rica, accused of having fired at the Queen, is now allowed to see his friends. A general belief is entertained that he will be acquitted. The law on the currency is published in the gazettes. It was supposed by some that this in only the prelude to a general adjustment of the finances. The details of the intervention of Spain in Portugal under the conditions of the protocol of May 21 were settled by M. Pacheco and the Count de Theme. Spain places 14,000 men at the disposition of the Portuguese government. Spain will pay the troops as if they were in her regular service, and the extra ordinary pay will be made up by Portugal. A letter from Rome of the 18th ult., received it Madrid, says that his Holiness is deeply concerned at the dissensions between the Queen and her consort, and that the nuncio has been instructed to use every means to put an end to that state of things. On the 17th, an agent of Don Cubes arrived in Home, and immediately obtained an audience of the Pope. He brought good letters of recommendation. It was said that he was the bearer of grave communications re specting the court of Madrid and the attitude of par ties there. His Holiness is represented to have said that the evils which press on Spain were only addi tional reasons for patting an end to the isolation of the catholic church in that country. Letters from Berne, of the 3rd inst., my, that the elections made by the grand council of the directing canton have excited the greatest agitation among the ultra-montane pexty, the journals expressing whose opinions have raised the most intemperate outcry. Some of these go so far as to affirm that the cantons of the league will not send deputies to the Diet, if they are to be presided over by M. Ochsenbein. Such a course would, if adopted, be similar to that pur sued by the canton of Neufchatel in 1833. Thtt canton was nevertheless compelled to send deputies to the Diet. But it is not probable that the catholic cantons will force the Diet, in the present case, to tech an extreme course. - ------ ----- The French ambassador, M. Bois-le-Comte, had in interview lately with the newly-elected president, Ochsenbein, who is now the head of the confedera tion. It is reported that some very animated obser vations were on this occasion interchanged, and that the ambassador declared that the support and counte nance of France would be withdrawn unless the Diet should pursue a course marked by the utmost modera tion. It was not expected that the ministers of any of the powers except England, France, and lkigm w ' would appear at Berne. FRANCE.—PARTS, JUNE 7.—FRENCII MOMS& —ln the Chamber of Deputies the general discussion ca dr bill demanding credit for the military and civil serer , Algeria was opened. An important amendment in, hit before the chamber by M.M. Abraham Dubois, de 3oblsri the Marquis de Chasseloup Laubat, Colonel Oraisoc,lo General Oudiaot, demanding that a sum of three rillises al francs be allowed in the budgets of 1847, 1848, sad 1849, 6 0 the colonisation in Algeria of married soldiers or sod" of men who bad served their full time, the prefeream to given to men who have served in Africa. To this Asti! sum of one million of francs to be allowed in the bed Fe , 1847 in the department of the Minister of War. Any of the credit granted which should not have been emplort be carried over to the budget of the following yea — a Cremieux called upon the Minister of Foreign Affsurs to ft day for giving exploration regarding the line of ps!gt followed in Portugal.—M. Ginza replied that he . ~ 11 0 no objection, and Monday next was accordingly VW upon. The commission for examining the bill relative* the prorogation of the law of Jas. 28 and Feb. 21, 1847, 01 the corn-trade, have terminated their labour.. They prollge the prorogation to Jan. 31, 18a8, and to suppress the fang accorded to the government by Art. 2, of proroguit l lo )11 ordonnance. The commission on the Paris and Arse Railway meet daily. On Sunday they heard the Miaow of Public Works, and on Monday M. Talabat, the direr) , of the amalgamated companies. THE ENGLIBH TN CTITNA.—From an official real% it appears that the number of registered British subjs.: ll ls each of the five Chinese ports open to oar commerce is INN was as follows: Canton ... .......* SS Amoy Fooelmew-fee .. rinse— . - Rumba Total The following table, from the Name document, weeds, comparative view of British trade at these_2. 3, _'______....-•••uin I 846: Imports. E91:221 18 ,Toons.To; %*slibes. T 000394 __L,..,....ri Canton . . 1 91,896 ,C 2,219,116 16 6 68, 930 £ 5 , 334W I; 3 Amoy 9,078 167,933 3 0 9,978 k 43 6. 1, Fooohow-roo Nimypo I 3,382 1 8 3. 70 ., I l y Slumghai I 1117,343 x 3,196,634 3 2 112,411 /4,001 Sento sp ts• h her & Yens I e▪ in gunk' THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JUNE 9, 1847. SPIRITS. Mr. MOFFATT roe. to more fir a select committee to in quire into the operation of the existing regulations in refer ence to the bonding of British spirits in the United Kingdom, and to the rectification of British spirits for exportation. He was proceeding to show that the power of bonding was necessary to place the di•tillen of this kingdom en the same fuo•iog as continental di.tilers, when An Hon. MEMBER moved that the house should be counted. 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