The Express. — London, England, 1849-06-16 00:00:00

him so far as to beim= a party to a swum which he be lieved would be destructive of the principle of repree government—(bear, hear)—.r to consent to an interference Laths affsirs of the colony, and with' thos- local concerns with wnich we must be imperfectly amputated, which misht Cowl the prospect of a long, a permanent, sad a cor dial connexion with a c Bony, in the welfare and prosperity of which England ought to feel the deepest interest. (Cheers.) m om, might to be mac:wive, without reference' to the Cheers.) character and constation of that majority. b e ers.) Bet, In this nee, if troy analysed the ;Articular imaatitatat porticos of the majority, they would tied that it wee sot swarmed exelosively of the reprenntatioa of ant mN particeler elms or wens:eon that was not the same with be e own. They Were told of the majority, that 31 mambeta ~.v eag isg_Upptr Conde voted on the question, and that of t g 31,17 vottd fu the bill and 14 against it. (Cheer.) That of Loner Casette the snubs r of lenglith t 4 Min were t ea , and of thine voted for and 4 against the bill. (Cheers ) netted to the tenet of the Command's whether they 11 . 9 0:ity, or the er'neituteon of it, there was nothing in th e m elements observing of wand. ration. But be cocci. dared it a perfectly diff rest questioe whether the am rid ,,ea v enue.) in the Assembly of Lower Canada ought to be to to, es, if not, whether the Imperial Pareament ought to try to giv.: effect t therm (Hear) Tney should m esh. r that tee some men wh approved of 'he amend s:et f Mr. Wi Whs. when prep cad in the assembly, might ejesp...ove of a trop- sal to give effect to it by an extraneous t he L,ei t tion, and that the proem:el of advising the crows to litho" this bill, which had been passed by the mejricity of the eauni.l legielatuse, weuld tot h tee the support of de wlto:c of the minority w' o voted is oppasitton to it. (lieu, lea- ) Lord Elg:n e.letl attestiea to the remarkable feet. that two of them embers of the minere y, who to. k • decided pert attaimt tho tie can, who were most active in proposiug the an., oteents, were at the same time anneget the fore sees: is contendiug Vat the pret.e.p.• of rapine:Ade grovel e inem should he mei Weed, mil declared hat .hey would be 03 I. mite s io proposing to the erbillt to ',jet' on die .11 ow • ten .tier it hod passed their legislature. (Hear, t cur ) Thus it appeared that the minority subs opeserd the bit, and were fetidly to the amendments. we, e net munisene in the opinion that tto bill, when p seed, might to be nke ed or modified by the crown. On the e astray, they maltase:et* distinctly that, heaieg paced, the will of the Iniquity ought to prevail, and thst the measure ought not to bet isaildwed by the crown. (Hear, beat) The set es puma had seemed the exeunt nee of the authority who bay bees el• petted by the crown ea p mate tee interests of the colony—but with that buena of the gekey, to maintain oleo net only Its tonne:tin with the nether country, but to maintain it GS the only terms on which it tea +oath minteirder —the honour of b o th 1 . 4 .6,. sad mile:veal tool oil (i 1 dr. hear.) It would time been sena raft pd t . hi i; (Sir it. Pt 1) had he b vs galled On by rabies duty to take soy courde whisk wou:d imp., a eaffeetion on Lord Elie.(Flu) He recollunod the saw solitary expirations termed VG all aid s of his ratan career, keen bat brat pasliaenestary poach Tome eapectations, is kis mislead, had ail been fell; noticed. (Hew, hear.) Thum irk* beard that flat speeds—men ut all plena—concurred in the oplaloa that it was the o • is of a cuter henmentsie le the enact %honied* it end lineal to his mantry. (He .r.) Lord E t t was *sleeted kW • high toffee, by the gen romeut With w be was pulfehally contacted, to dist* Ise is Jamaica, antler ciresinewaem of great diffeuey, a biota sad ewe isstritant trent. Is the pentrmanee of the dote. which. iu c domzion with that trust, d v.lved elan him, he obtains d the e mailmen of these ever %born he hid to pre. side, and of Pe govanineut he represented ; r. the =tie lord (J. Hassell) had et did the sole name for Isis being select a to the mere Import .nt goveraneht over which he now preside I, was the ceper.enee whi tre h. r Ma jesty's goo rennet t et had of hie sue.. so in the etninistra tion of the again of Juanita; and hi. (Sir U. Pe' firm belief was t a; • et limes bete r waddled for sigh Vest small nut have be a sel net (lieu, hear.) Loce.iss te the whole of the correspondeuce, and tonabiterwe the ',en ne diffien.lty of Ids pillion, Lis belief wits that Lwd Elgin had sated hens no other motive then a stamen *ire se d • 1.. s deity to the c teen and the colony over the &Mint of which be bail been sent to pre side. (Ileac) lie be listed lie •hed acted throughoet with great encamps, great rcsolutimi, and great impartiality ; that he gave Me entire °batte n '. e to the government, which vies seep •r':.l by the an 1. ;Ay of the des atili.y ; that he dia. solved t e Acenahly on tceir advice ; and that, wham a majority of toe now At...nobly teeederred their coefilence to other pettier, then, In terrace to the pineiple of repre sent itive and reop g 'measliest, he 'elected for his miaisters these we° h id the c e Minn of the majority, and gave thane uu the sem. princid en which he Led acted with retard to the former administration, his cordial recurrence snit see set, and his entire eadidelbal. (Cheer .) lie (.M!. 11. reel) should then deeply r grit coesile tattoos of a puolic Statute eanspelloo rim to do that which would be no more cortait ly that to cast a re flection en hie jelegm et, for his high !loaner and iutegilty wee• It.yond queitiou. (Hone, hear.) But, conaitleries that after the oppo Won be had met with mil the oterap a whick teed been offertte to him, ;:tat a miseonmption might be pet on sash an a t of deity, wed that it would eo forth he the colony that L9ll Elgie's *sundae: heed been so aerated by the psrlineent as loam:, he should regret if th. re were any wee-sky fur it—(hear, hear)—and yet uo deee enes for lord Elgin nr fear of erroneous construction theull sheer them front palpates their duty, ant rejecting the bill, if the honour of the ernes or the 'Merest of the coantry demanded It, (Hear.) lie emsceived that a peat put of the dificultitee nits whit Lord Elgin bad had to contend were iiiffeeldes of a meek earlier date than hie own aillinia tiatian. lite hew. fri-ed, the esemher for Stafford (Mr. dellerley) had matted eie obeervetieus entirely to this tact —that in every preetli cor bill for comp. elation the claims of the levl inhodteute o. ly Led be, n atlaitted, and that in this ball fur the best time the curd " I " was °Atte& lie meld sane. t grhil toren that he was entrains en that peed. This nes not the Met °envies on which the word " kept " had been omitted as a quintal Mon fee in. habitaat. map tashede. But if they looked through the, p~appeers on the table. Coq watt(' thel • r markeble deflection lest tr. n the OM U c pe, maul LoorerCariatia. Lower(ldnada in Her) a d 1810 was e smearl by ordonsaitees. In the of the onto settee Vessel by Lord Colborne, the cometa c tim for lumen sestained chum,/ the rebelle n was confined to the "loyal" labateltauta of Lower Cattlill; and center. ready mat the Cam of this erdonnaran an act was pee Am glebe eamputentiee in Upper Conida, bat there the words "loyal inkshitantr" wire not ne:4. In the MI of Loner Canada the words " toyed inhabitants" were need, but in the ease of Upper Canada the word " loyal" was °mitts 1. The question Wal Ind the forwent govtramest is providing ' cum o .eastitin lar Loser Casale, materially departed the prise*" of tle art which gave compessation to Upper Camels ? If they had not, would n the duty they had to pule. he be putieelarly int idiom ? 1., in twilit of fad, the set which they were ceded upon to rep t", contained in it no provision met Jay at truism,' with that which preceded, wou.d is not b 3 as exceeditigly ievielliuss thing to rejia It? Why was it sot raided out ta Lord li gM, th :t i a the cam of Upper Canada no proper distineti .n was made between lord and disloyal—th et the honour of the British crown was et monied, and that c *lmpulse Con to the loyal inhabitance only sherd I be granted? What teak pine ia Lower Came:a ? Lod Metcalfe appointed a commodes to provide e impensation :or the loyal inhabitants ; bat whits Lord Cathcart seemed the gonmessert, hie secretary, Mt Hely, issued instructions Nith regard to the cleesifleation of pe.sees who were to receive eicapensation, which tared materially from these of the sosamission ; and upon 31r. Daly baieg qua:lased es the sub jest, his came was that it was not the iuttntien of the gOveraOf .hat any other principle shoull be ail. pled reel coin!? the clarsifienton of 'UN who wen to receive compenettion, Van the evidence given is the tribunals of jertee. It was io consequence of these beautician that the commission appointed by Lord Metcalfe proceeded to settte the Mayne Under these circumstances, sled the honour of tee C anoint this extrairdniery hate WWWWW ice? Ought they to withh ell the discretion of the Crown hi this step of the preendeig ? Onaht they to awasse for the popular breach of the coostitstios tbst which pro perly helmetd to the Crown, sad take upon them the responsibility of advising the crews to respond ear email this set ? He thought it timid be tench wistr to lliate the discretion and re.ponaihility with the crown, and not to eon rait there. Ives to a contest with the popular assembly of Canada,• eh.ch, if they so interfered, heforeasw would be itasei.ahl Mtn o r dear.) He conlisly speed with the hen. geed.= en that it would be much better to timely. our meows weh it, colony, however important or poweifido then to ea tireata it at the expense of the honour of the er awn lie must oleo say that he felt a deep 5ym231.4 for those (salient men who stood by the croon in the hour of d Acuity. (Hest, hate) It wined be emit un vie) id tee a not to drew a distinction Lot seen the loyal and the disloyd ; beteeen those men wee Ito el by the crown in I: 17 and 183 d, who re*i.ted American ma 41 and it, t tl nt. f the rob Is to dissever the coa st eke. betwe en this c otetry and Canada, and than who participated Is the outrageous acts whi ch had met with iota putie reproleas. en, and who had openly insult:d the governor. He believed that the party whore loyalty he a ln.iretf, wh ote pot exeLts in fewer of British connexioo he would never Sweet, were in no degree responsible for than acts, and that they were prepared tortliel:y and entirly to pat opou ntetel their itelignstim et and ebb ornate of those ems. But, at tau same time, wniie ha admired the 61,14 with which they adhered to British cone .xioe, he could not con tent to mt..* them the &Sects of a eartitanship. He be hued that the only way by which Cul' could render the connexion advanteeous to the anther country, was by acting upoo tie principle of Lord Hen—the priscipla of impel. navy and ejeal.t. ended jailer. (Hear.) It wee said on the subject of compensation, toot there were but two tee p- Tura many _felt thittliose exceptions constituted the ditie. tenet between Upper and Lawn Canada, and compelled them to itchisie OMIT rebtl, swims he fell wi.hin these tent tee rule*. Lard Elgin said that it was stated in the A•sembly that the principle no which the bill was framed had already been aeted on for Upper Canada. If then the principle now &Rind to the lower province ba identical with that appl:ed to rlPPer—i4 secortling to Lord Elgin, the commission tier Lower Canada were to emceed to apportion the laden all tinned -Ds to the latent mud tnesni-g of the act, a- d ',pea the essas principle as the commission fir Upper Cana le proceeded—if that were so, he &eked if it won' , l hi Mee fir .m the information now Neer., them, to draw an invidious distinction between Upper and Lower eamoca, and to imode upon the croon the obligation of Wang a diLrent entree in Lacer Canada from that which rece:ved en unanimous assegais Upper Canada, and to which sue ceonhast of the fast made no objection. (Hear, hear.) Tee A...inept:Nord wee asked whether the exceptions in troduced into the act world neesetarily limit the elacretion ot the commissioner. and etespelthem to Michel* any other claim, a:— no ne.teaste•ot has to my, mew sou' the q uestion as a lawyer. th it l o oki ng to the preamble of th e act, ne did not c th ire was any imperative obligation upon the cont mtictoters to exclude arey other Maimed= thew of convicted or confessed rebel. He therelon deprecated deeply any mans est the part of that Masa which would concede a me tered &Stine ita between the cases of the two Csn d As be mid lane, be was willies to draw a distMetim: between 144 alel dish d. Indeed, he should deplore the y the Ileum wh at r omp s shuuld be unvellitig u to e give i l e a ; cr w hen to tmn o, es of danger and trouble, rallied under the British standard, fur the protection of British conuttion. But he bald not allow that feeling to udi' emus Ale DISRAELI said that b twee addressing himself tithe question before them, he wished to correct t n error into which the right hoe baronet hid no doubt ihadeer. unt'y fallen when ridding the opinions of Lord Elgin. It wee of greet important, to the ean,:uct of the &Lite, that there should be no misconception on Cott heed. Ile there. fore lusged to impinge on the house that V is was not the opinion of Loot Ilia lordship stated with great pen by the view of the ease on both *ldes, and then went on to observe, To this it was answered that the principle of the hill was" so and so. The right hen. baronet had crowed the words "ti this it was answered;" end it might 'hence litre been supposed that he W4l quoting Lord E!gite'o or n sentiments. The real qutbtim at 'hike was, whether her Majesty should ex• relit her constitutional vete or not. (Hear, boo) if the opinion t f the ma jority was always to be conclusive, how could there be the exercise if a veM at all ? and if, cadet tbe con stitution of Canada, the t :errs* of tan veto was contcra plat. d, how could the diecuse.on of the expetlieney or non esp.dituey of zereisiog it he p: rverted into a ervAtion win thee rtsponsihl• government shmild ho ar, hear.) Tie a nttitstba of Crow's havinz be. n esttblisbed, uothi-g could b.' 'nor. imp litic or unriocipled than fur the boor to interfere dine* ly or i,d:reetly to pre vent the full an. fair play of then constitution? °o strosply was he of this tooinion, tact he had listened with mach inte r r and same alarm to the suggestion of the rght eon. gen tleman, the member ter the Unit , nity (Mr. (ltadstone) that the two Canadian povinres might be severe , t,an4 a evarede ration Lane:) of other North Ammicon tholonica, which he wired would he the counterpart of the AIIIUSHWS 4111f0d 4 11- 1..051. 011.11UWIll forth to the house the other night. ar, h. r.) From a roue public nuetlag recently held of the inh*hituts of New Brunswick, it is evident there was no great iucliaation en their pent for a &dorsi salve with the Cana has. Therefore, the united provine. of Cowls might t o be permitted fully and free!" to 'ahoy the constitution tort not many years ago. Ti. gum den wee not the . sienna.* or non-exist nee of responsible gor.rnosent in Canada The cue herve the Iv tist was• very simple one. They were not ring to attack the oustitutisw.l lib,rties of the Canadian*. Ti' y were hound by poliay, by h snour, and by the Meting. of all paths to maintain t. es in the fuel enjoyment and thesis@ of their cos-titutional rights. (Hear.) The qoestion was a simple one : was there nut a scheme produced and pro meg .ted uader this ouditutios which afft eel the 1 moue end gr *sly taro:lased the er.dit of the crows of England ? r, hear.) Wes there or not say %Menu, in the emduet of use ministry of Camila hostile to those inttreds which the mown was bound to protret? Clone' Chisholm, • gallant vontkm n who err nal during the rebellion a well know, traitor, Ettlav Malcolm, awl thereby earned • reaard of 2501., had not claimed it at the tim-; but his eircum,tasees Wterwwds becoming et pe.,.perout, off-cted perhaps by that° economical ezperi twills which, according to Lied Elgin himself, had motor' Meted not a little to the disefffoz.ion of Climbs—(heir, bier), and he .ring that the whole rutettion of rehelli n. to ae, sod rewards was opened, he had 4ddresied the gnvernctott. emir tecus reminding them that t'm govern nt of Upper Canada was indebted to him in the sum to 2501. The answer foe. the arerteary • office et Montreal, Met. d 23th March Irk, was that the claim had been allowed to remain el. rna int for so long a period that it would not ntw M iintert tined (Hear, Mar.) That was the answer of the Gov. rear 0-ntiral or his • ecretary, while they were preperi. g lets of eliding of as old a let., the only difference being that the le room who wore /ewe-tied were not the loyal men but the (Beer, hear.) li, was t-1 , 1 that the ward lOTA was nit irserted in the law for Upper Csoada, and the eon. sainted the main argument of the right hon. baronet; and the hon. member for Southwark said ti at the Lew Ur she upper province was Less restricted them the la • for the lower province. the reason was simply this, that there were no rebels in Up;or Canada, end the inhanitaate th. re were sit loyal. (Ironical mita of " Hear, hear.' ) In that province there were only Mar payments slick resolved V....waive. i.teeommi•sermtpayments,andwiththeax:ep•i ..a 01 epee American strangers la, .m 4.. Mo. al that there were no in alginate rebels, and this explaMed the differone r of lue Rule in the preamble of the act. Some pe•sons ha l celled c.ie a dins' qu-stnet, eau r called it au riol nu. s i9l . lint in realty it was both, and mere than either for it was a aat'onel questiou. (II ) Hen. gentl men eip,o. ai e h .d itateodseed a great messy dandle into this di-casein ftr the purport) of induenefeg pubis opinion. Ttat being ao, it ...As his duty Wiley that thi y ware utterly worth!ees. The right hon. gentleman ( ilr. Lebouchere) he I that slight reed an sneerer of Lord Elgin's to the feldrees from Victoria district. Lord Wen in that answer, said,. It was his firm iedief that in the passing of that bill they did not intend t. eouutenone• rebels or to eunapeasote Xis leek•• of pt r-ores who wt re guilty of the heinous mime of treason, bat t r m ate provision f) • the =rd claims arising from the wanton awl unnecessary Mimi of property. What he called on the house to do now was to 3ftlf.Athat opinion of Lord Elgin (Hear, hear ) Hut that was no: the point to which he desired to cell toe at tention of the house. He wanted to show hew these ad dreea os had been procured. He was not going to dt cry, as Lad been too often done, the expression of popular unation end the right to petiti n., which he eonoidered obe of li.es tiatehle vale. (MAO Nay, more, he thought they eught to do every iii. p in their rower to latent the people that their petitions were not disregards I in that home ; but that, on the corthrery, they he.l greet influence. Let the Rover, at—let the Wows if they chose—seer ties our eoloni .I empire, let th• m destroy the sources of our wealth, the sources of our politie .1 p ewer, but at all events, in making such common. saerifie s, let them not at the NSW time *mediae the natioual tumour and the royal word. (He u, bear.) • • • Mr. SIDNEY HERBERT thought that the debate of that icy, niter clear:, exhibited the necessity which hod in fluenced gentlemen in suppurtiog on the relines claiming the question of adjournsont. Lord J. RUSSELL said that, as ha had not aadrresed the house sine. the amendment was mooed, end only an. sleeted • question the night bef re oi:h resiient to toe ad journment, he must aele permiecion tot to e'er,' into toy hen-ti arzoment, but to coil at ention, hefere a dives:on was Cl5llll to, to two or three prints which aught to be borne in mind by those who weft going to divide upon this question. Defoe, he sail anything upon the moo quegion, he tnought it right to take souse n ::iee of alleiratioos which had bent mule by the hoe. mesiVier for Bridocirt (Mr. B. Coebraur), draping the cheratter of pers3ns holding oldie •in Canada. lie did not think it right that assertion% shoutd be made raep..cting these persoes whey, proof and ground of the allegation. were not &Settled. (II e.r, bear.) The hon. number for Bri Iport hal said that Mr. Lafontaine and Mr. liddein were notoriously guilty of totems., and avowedly mad coofereedly relils. Now, with novenas to Mr. Lafontaine, that gentleman at the time of the bourne dos in Canada was in this country. A warren - was ironed against him, and be returned home, and n a proof whatever had been given that he took part in the insurrection. lie (Lard J. Russell) bad never before heard the any charge was wade against Mr. 13 eldwin. Mr. B. COCHRANE—Was not 5001. offered for him? Lord J. RUSSIILI, had never heard at any such reward being offered far him. The hon. gentleman hail ado said that late ly, for the flat time, blesses. Lahintsine and Bald win had bees honoured wi h the confidence of the Q lien's repro/set:dive in Canada, and that they now hell office. Now, it was necessary to state, that in Novemb fr, 1812, Mr. Lafontaine hal been eppointed by the Queen Attiemev-Cle neral, sad that Mr. Hided' had bees appointed SAibitors (densest at the same time. But Lord Stanley was :heu Se cretary of Suite for the Colonies. (" Hear, heat," and cheer.) Whatever, therefore, were the ae.usatio..• which the hon. gentleman had thcuobt It necessary to produce for the purposes of the present debate, there could be no doubt that Lord Stanley had been satistid of the iocorrzet• sem and falsehood of these imputatio-o, and that these rah, whom he recommended to hold the highest oifices in Canada, were loyal men, to whom the °Sets could be safely en treated. (Loud cheers.) Now, t stain qaestioa non which the house had to deed', and upon whist the right hon. gentleman who spoke last seemed not t have sufficiently retitled, was this—that there bevies; been posed bills and acts for the indemnity of who bad suffered rebellion losses in Upper t e a l ril, there had now lyin pasted an act for the indemnity of persona in Law. r Canada, acd the que-tion was, whether the representatives of the crown, having consented to those form-r acts—whether the minis ters of the crown never having advised a disallowance under the former acts—there was such • difference between thorn acts and the present one as to make it tight, and not only right but necessary on the part of the adviser. of the crown, and on the part of the house, having allowed a confirmation of those acts to stamp the pre. mat act with disaquwanc3 ? (Rear, hear.) Now, open this point, the right hon. baronet the member fur Tamwot th had founded Us argument, and he had satisfactorily shown that there was not any essential faifferefaca between the auls, but that there were mote restrictions is the present ete.t than in the former ones ; and to that important argument the hon. member ter Buckinghamshire had not attempted to reply, but he merely went en to give an illustratiou to the house, wi h respect to an iudelanity to the heirs and dexcendatrs of Emmett, and Meagher, and others in Ireland. " Hear, hoar," and laughter.) The hon. member had spoken as if the proposal of the present act was to cooler an in demnity on persons guilty of rebellion in Canada. But it win no such thing. (Cheers.) It was pos sible that MN persons guilty of rebellion might receive indemnity nadir it, hut to say that it wan an act to reward those go lty of rebellion waste confound two things as wide as the poke wander. (Load cheers) Ile admitted that it might be r cc. nary for the advisers of the crown to ' ream their sanction to acts passed by Canaan, and if this proposed to give compensation to persons who had been sent to Bermuda, the crown could not assent to it. He would not push the question of re sponsible government to the extreme; but he would not be juatified in advising the crown not to sanction the present ac ion merely upon the vague suspicii.ne cf thou: whom allegations were unsupported by proof. Ile believed that two or three persons who had boin outlawed, and after wards pardoned, received compensation under the former sets; but under the present act no compensation could be given except for injuries tannecesearily and wantonly in dicted during the iosurrection. (Hear, hear.) And what did the amendment propose t Did it propose to the house to wait? Nothing of the kiod. It proposed that the Royal assent should not be given to the act, and that compensation having been given to the sufferers in Upper Calends there should be no compensation given to the Buff ion in Lower Canada. This was the question. And what Would the people of Canada ash if the &foe idmen; THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, JUNE 16, 1849. were carried? Way, they would naturally nye that there was to be compensation for the sufferers In Upper Canada, because they were of English de went, bat that there was to be no compensation for the suf ferers in Lower Canada because they were of French descent ; aed he need hardly explain to the hours what unpleasant feelings each an impres sion woldl °Helmut emeng-t the Canadians. (Hear, hear ) The house may find Nome definition by which the rebel. may be excluded from laws, but how could they expect that .hey could force it on the Assembly of Canada as a defi nition on which they could act ? (Hear.) The right boo. gentleman who had just spoken said that he had the high. st retp. et for Lord Elgin, and that be would not do ony:hilet to imply a doubt ou his unsullikel character. Now he would remind the house that Lcrd Elgin stated that it was 'wet the intention of this act to compeueete rebels, and that if this motion were earrii d, it would be tantamount to a declaration that they did cot believe the declaration made by lend Elvin ; in fact, that it was a fals:hood. ar.) For his (Lard J. Russell'e) own part, believieg as he did in the uneullied heaovr of L:rel Egin, that the legislative as semhly and council of Canada f.rate.d a sufficient legislature for Canada; and that in the present instar.ce its Interests were ant impaired, he thought that the best way in which he could aupArt the character of Lard Elgin, and respect the government and the view* of the as semhly, was to give his vote against the amendment of the right bon. i.entlemen (Mr. Henries), as one which would injure the cennection between this country and that noble province., and as one which would seriously enda-gsr their tuture relations with every colony in which this country was interested. (Cheese.) For the etc elution of Supply 291 For the amendment Kill revolt from Great Britain, and seek to be incor porated with the United States. Would the forms of a democratic republic enable the minority to govern ? It is cot, however, of the Canadian minority we are now speaking: we have diecussed the question in so far as it re!ates to them often enough. Oar present purpose is to hold up to view the miserable mixture of reckless factiousnees and cowardice dia. play( dhy the cooservative a liberal and illiheral. St/long as, by encouraging the agitation of the Canadian minority, they had hopes of weakening ministers without committing themsnlves to adopt any o her course than ministers have adrpted, they were de ' tarred from playing their game by no regard for security of person or property in the colony. But when the time comes for them to declare whether they are prepared to act upon other principles than ministers have acted, they back out of the scrap• leavirg their colonial profivis 'll the lurch. Without encouragement from this aide of the wat:r, the ascen dancy party in Canada would not have ventured to carry on their opposition with so high a band. But for the counten ince afforded them by the conserva tives in the trother country 80. ttion would rot have been carried to ea h a heigli: as to end in arson ar.d treasonable deedaratione. Toe Manus and GLAD STONE satt:ons may decide between them which has had the greater share in this goodly wo•k : it lies between them. The resolttli-n was then agreed to. The Assaults (Inland) Bin, and the Ecclesiastical Judi- Bill, went though cJunnittce. Third row& gs ou Moadar. Jr is difficult to decide whe'her the French CM serv3tlro or the French dectrucives have displayed greater guilt or greater fitly. Tee bombardment of Rome by the one, Bud th- insurrection got op apropos of it by the otter, do both of t.l.em seem such signal acts of suicide and stupidity, that two su b pehtic el events, the result of the wisdom of the two gnat political parties, induce ono almsst to deeper of France and the French alt . s.- ther. M. BARROVS corduet towards the Romans, at d the shameful sophisms with which he excused it, were quite enough to damn and ovenbrow a minister in any country. Yet this meat culp..ble and absurd ant, instead of destroying the minister, eaves him. For It provokes to overt treason and to a still more stupid act of insurrection, the very men who were in a position t t profit by the ministerial blunder. What a complete theatricml stage is French public life ? Ilow sadden st artling t ech itiges ? Before the elections they were to be ultra-mad. rite, sod to make a clean sweep of repuli icannim. Inste.d of tnis, upwards of 200 fietee republicans are retained tofunn an ardent Mountain. Several of these, moieover, arc returned by the votes of the soldiery. Never were red-republicanism in a batt r position. They formed the largest and most compact party iu the Assemble, whilst those opposed to thine were divided. Knis'ers hal just made an outrax.ous blimd.r, and a disrupion of the moderate party was inevitoblr. In the very moment of victory the red-npublie ens lose their wits. Passion overcomes the judgment not merely of, •heir new recrui:s but of their vetersn men— of LEDRU ROLLIN himself. And what must have seemed hopeless to the mo..t Far:guile moderate as the result of a thre3 or a six years' parliamentary strogalo is achieved in a trice, aisl ttar. Msuntain of oppnition swept c'ean away to perdition, without strife, without bloodshed, and in a few home. No pantomime ever tquailed this for magical effect. Great eveics in other e3untries proceed from great motives and great mind-. In France this seems re versed. There events are gnat indeed and startling, but man amidst them seems a dwarf and an idiot, powerless, senseless, without dig..ity or foresight 'the vanquished, instead of being a hero, piled in his fad, or a villein, who claims at least the reepsit of fear, is on the contrary a fool, to whom you would award a cap and bels. Wt•i'st the vietnr ' instead of beieg worthy of the laurel, is a blunderin4 blockhead, who wins merely because he has encountered a greater blockhead than himself. SUNDAY TRADING (METROPOLIS) BILL. S:x. W. CLAY prorated petitious frog, St. Leonard, Shore ditch, in fs .uar of tbie bill. It was, however, after a short posspont unt , l Monday. France, we are sorry to say, does not scent to be much advanced, except in the habits and ee.cesi•ieu of a military reyinse. No: is June, 1819, an imp:. VC meht upon Jane, 1818, except in a much greater want of energy stet sagacity in all parties. The pro visional gnvrramcnt itself could never have committed the Reiman blunder. During tl.e late troublous days the melons' guards were not ooneoked as they were in 1848, one of the worst of signs. The govern meat, just like that of M. GUIZOT, depended exclu sively on the army. Aid yet the emeute was evidently too insignticant to reed any other repression than that lof the national guard. Martial law, too, has been de clared at a time when every conspirator was in flight, and when there wee no pressing reas mi for it, except in the fear of ministers and the frenzy of the moderates. 'lbis is arch p dicy and conduct—a distrust of the law aid of all law, and a timid habit of creeping at every difficult moment under the protection of bayonets, that speaks ill for the aptitude of French etstesmen for c institutional government. It is impeesible not to remark the dignified attitude assumed by General CAVAIGNAC in the midst of these troubles. CAvATONAC kilted has the one attribute of g,eatnets, that, however of humble talents in ordinary dines, he rises with the oceesion, and is even sno quent in times of poLtical crisis. His reproaches to the Mountain fur destroying the republic by their filly, accompanied by the declaration, that he would never verve any other regime save the republic, won the enthwrisetic applause even of the numarchiens. One sheul I sty this was the time for a middle party. But the strength of the middle party lay in the numbers of the Mountain, who, tluugh nut direct, were iudireet supporters of all that went to oppose relation. Bat now, if the memeers of tte red repub licen opposition (reeppear, the conservatives will have no need of C:ther CAVAIGNAC or Due erne. Nay, they may discard M..l3Amtor himself, and plunge into as complete reaction in France as they have striv.c to perpetrate in Rome. EXCLUSION OF STRANGERS. Oa the mod of L rrd J. ROuSRLL, the following members were nominated a select committee to inquire into Werth Lee of the Louse rosprcini the exclusi o` rsnip rs : Sir James Graham, Mr. Dirt's'', Mr. O.nalburn, Sir George Grey, Mr. Healey, Sir J. Hobbouse, Mr. H me, Mr. Jahn O'Conn• 11, end Mr. Bernal. DEBTS FROM FOREIGN GOVERNMENTS. On tte motion of Mr. ROEBUCK, a select comtni:tee was appeleted to inquires into and ascert.sin the amount 01 debts due from fur-bri Rover:mews ar.d states to t h e go vernsaint and inditi suds of this country. ALLINASLOR UNION'. - • Om the metrk nof Mr. RZYNOLDIN copies were orierel of all C3erespondened between the Poor-law Commiadoni re and the Ouardiai.a of the Poor of the BallinaWoe Union, and with the in•peetnr of the district, on the suhj-ct of outdoor relief and the eata"li,hment of auxiliary workhouses in the town of Ballinaslee; a!ao anemia of the timber of deaths that have occernd an the workhouses of Bailinnsloe in tee', wilt during the or. ilas of Ai ril, Mai, anal June in Um pre‘emt year, eta lap the cause of death in each case. TRANSPORTATION FpI . TREASON (IRELAND) siiti M.. REYNOLDS said he understood that during his abases, I:are had be+a riven to briug in a bill called the Transportation anion I) Bill. lie thought that such bills should not be 'nought in without due notice. Sir O GREY explained that no leave had bees either 'skid or giv. a. The bill hid come down from the lords, and been mai a Aim fist, a proceeding wuich required no previous notice. Mr. REYNOLDS expressed his intention of giving the bill every cppecition in his power. The rernaininv oven sir. thin dieporel of, and the house adjourned a: a quarter to two o'clock. MR. Pero pair , d off sa favour of the Coantynks and &pen infra Dill with Mr. D. Waddington againi Tin L' rortISS. OUTGOING MAILS. It/ Wet India Mails eselieling Permute. Havanna. Neiman, latter" !few Orte.n.i, end Mexico, ani incite:int thoe9 to wwl, Ira, at. hew ttranada, Chili, and Peru, .to •ie !We RD on tie monies of the I:th Juan The mail.; fur Vito, Oporto, Llstrtn, Madeira Cadle, and Gib-altar, will be made up ow the morning of the UM of int watt:, .err 0.11011.1ta1, tuo tout -11 Ulan* rat . Idea, t>ylon. Hone-Kong, and China, rim nouthamoon, wit W. wadi an on the 30th dinar. Male kw onuea none enaerlea and the United State. will b. nut le up on the ormolu* of June The huals, Cun Illteeeilles to the Mediterranean, Parpt, Ceylon, ludic, Moot-Kong, tau., will ben, vie up on the 25th Jute. The ch.tii.l , or the Heade, ant Buenos .tyree, will be made upon the evening of the Ith of July. WOK WATTS AT LOMOOS Tan D 97 —11191W4 41 Ws. ...ot 9. Al9w9oa. It W. 9.999 919aw-11199Wr.49 Mo. past 10. 17 W. past 11. LOYDON, SATURDAY, JUNE 16. Sin ROUSES Peen allows hie young friends and disciples a g sod deal of latitude. But when they be come to) frisky he administers the la-h with good will. The caseotion which he administered last night, directly to Mr. GLansToxe. who had committed himself by his speech on Canadian affairs, and indi rectly to the posse eontitoless of Lincoln, who lied the .ense to hold their tongw s en the occasion, will not soon be forgotten by those g ntlemen. In the adjourned debate on Canaoian affairs both sections of the c asservative party have, however, aft:tried too cutious illu.trations of their respective characters, to entitle them to escape without more explicit ex?osure than Sir lirmear's rebuke of their foctious conduct. As soon as the news reached this country of the angry diecuisioni in Condit about the It-to-Flom Losses Bill, tie GnaneroNe and HERMES section+ of the conservatives endeavoured each to outstrip the other in making them • handle for attacking Lord Fame, and thres•gh him the ministers who apoointi d him. This naturally enconroged 'the opponents of the measure in the colony. Tney persuaded them Ives that they were sere of the patronage and protection of the pcot c lon lots and Lincolnites, an I that these two part les could in parliament outvote the minitterialists and independent liberals. The Canards tories believed that tl.c times were about to return when the British government used to govern the colony by a minority of its inhabit ants. On the strength of this seminarian they ventured epee thee. reckless career of agitation which led to the Montreal riots. And on the strenoth of that assumption they despatched delegates to plead heir cause in London. The announcement that three delegates were on titer way over, fell like a wet blanket on the zeal and fervour 'of Mr. GLADsTONE and his colleague,. So long as the Canadian ascendancy men could be kept on the other side of the Atlantic somethirg like a case could be made out for them; but if once they came to London no min with whom they might come in contact could for a moment misunderstand the thwarter and pre tensions cf the party. The portion of the London press, in the interest of Mr. GLADSTONE, bluntly warned the del. gates off the premise., by giving them notice that if they came over they would take nothing by their motion. And when they did persist iu coming over Mr. GLADSTONE made a speech for them its the House of Commons, bat declined to follow it up by a motion. " Willing to wound bat yet afraid to strike," Mr. GLADSTONE'S constitutiocal timidity prevented him using against government the weapon he had too hastily matched ; he dropp:d it as if it had burned Li. finger.. Mr. Heaaias and his party thought hers was an opportunity for them to take the wind out of Mr. GLADSTONE'S mile. Accordingly, when Mr. GL ID STONE had said his say, and declined to do an, thirg, up starts Mr. HERMES to declare that the mstt.r is too important to be allowed to drop in so unsatis'ac tory a msnn.r, and to move a resolution in accord ance with Mr. GLADSTONE'S speech. But with all his show of valour, the metiers maker was not one whit more resolute than the speech maker. Mr. Humus moved an address to her Majesty, request ing her not to assent to the Rebellion Bill •ithout satisfactory toeurance that all persons actually guilty of accession to the rebellion shall be denied cemeensa tion under it. Mr. HERMES proposes to request her, MAJESTY to take security that the course of poi cy shall be pursued which her Majesty's ministers have announced it is their intention to pursue, and which, indeed, is rerdeted imperative by . the terms of the bill. The motion, like th 3 speech, is a mere empty sound—" words, wo-ds, words." If last night's vote of the House of Commons shnuld fail to convince the delegates that there is no pa. ty in this ceuntry prep wed to govern Canada by the in-ten mentality of a Cm,d'al minority, the cold end eva sive manner in which tliey have been received `..y the conservatives of all shades, in whom the y looked to find alike, must have disab used theta of their prepm t.rons hopes. What story they may s'e fit to tell their party in Canadt when they return we know not, but they know themselves that ie this country it is vain for them to e' -k abettors. The parliament and people of Engl have declared that all the local affairs of Ca isda shall be left to the mmigement of the people of Canada, and this dad mation will be adhered to. What the Canadian opposition complain of is, that the minority is not allowed to govern. They protest that unless the minority is allowed to govern, they THE COURT. Their Royal Highnesses the Hereditary Grand Duke and Grind Duchess of Mecklenburg Strelitz visited the Q seen end Prince Alber . yesterday, at Bucking:em Felice. and parto.k of lunclocun with her M of, cy as, his Royal Highness. His Rope Highness Prince Albert presided yesterday afternoon at a meeting of the Commission f promoting and encouraging the Fine Ave. in the rebudding tile Palace o Westminster. His Royal Highness arrived at the Palace about three o'c'eck, attended by Colonel B neverie. Tne commissioners present were, the Marquis cf Lansdowne, the Flsrl of Carlisle, the Burl of Aberdeen, Viszonnt Canning, Lord Lyndhurst, Lord C.ollonsoc, Lord Mahon, the Right Hon Sir James Graham, Sir Robert Harry Inglis, and Mr. H alas. The seercuiry, Mr. E estlake, was in attendance. Tne meotiag broke on soon after five o'clock. The Queen and Prince Albert honoured the performance of the 0 roan O,i,ra with their presence yesterday evening. The royal suite consisted of the Countess of Desert, Hon. Lucy Kerr i Lord Cemoya, Lieut.-Col. the Hon. C. B. Phipps, and C -1. Bouverie. M ss. Gamey and Foster, u a depneation from the Sacieey of Friends, waited upon Priest Albert at Bucking him Palace on Thursday, with a petition to the Queen, to be presented by his Royal Highness to her Majesty, praying fee the suppression of the slave trade. I The Lieutenant of Her 31 jesty's Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-se-Arms (Sr Matthew Wyatt) had the honour • of beioz, invited to the Queen's State Bill on Wednesday csnine at Buckingham Palace. Her Royal Highness the duchess of Kent, attend el by Lady Assists Bruce, went yesterday morning to Frcgmore honse. Her Royal Highness returned to Clarence-house, I St. Jesse's, in the afternoon. Tonic R opal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge and ' the Hereditary Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Sun:lea Selo/a her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent oa Thum ; day at Clarence-house, St. James's. The PRINCE DE JOINVILLE, accompanied by the since:• nni ruite, arrived at Rotterdam on Sunday by the thnerd Stevu Navization Company's mil a' am-ship Ocean, from Lendln, and have proceeded to EMI, OD a visit to the Dachas of Odes= (From last nicita's Gazette.) FOREIGN-OFFICE, JUNE 11.-I'be Qaeen has been graciously plea:nit) appoint Joho Patrick Carruthers, Esq., now British Vice-Consul, to be her Majesty's Consul at T.lrtiTOg also, to appo nt John Rebut Carus, E:q., to be het htsjcsty's Consul at Cqlowne, BLOCKADE OP ANCONA.—A notification appears in last night's Gantlet* the I ffect that Viscount Palmerston his rec lye , ' a despatch, dated the Bth of the month of June nstant, inclosing a communication from the Austrian government notifying the blocitade of the port of Ancona by the naval taws of the Emperor of Austria. The fol. lowieg is a translari .n of the notification TOG , iced from the Austrian Government :—" Vienna, June 7,1849. The under signed, presid .rat et the council, iftc., has the honour to intorm lir. M &genie, sit. that the port of Anconahas been p'aced un der effective b'fsekstle by the vessels of wir of his Imperial and R •psi Ap •stolic Majesty, and that, considering the hee -1 dle operations directed against that town from the land, this ►lockade must be looked upon as a regular siege. As this bleckad• has only for its object to contribute towards the re-establishment of the legitimate authority within the Ur titories of the church, it follows that it will be raised as soon as that object shall have been attained. In requesting Mr. Mage• i. to have the goodoeu to bring this measure to the knowledge of hie government, the undersigned avails him self of the opportunity of renewing to him the assurance of his dist,ngutaked eor.sideration.—(Signed) F. SCILWAILZ NNIIeao.' FINANCIAL AND PARLIAMENTARY REFORM. MEETING AT LIMEHOUSE. - - Yesterday evening a mires rJusly alended meeting of the inhabitants of the parish or St. Ann's, Limehou , e, was held in the Town-hall, Church lane, tor the purpose of adopting resolutions of co-opersti.in w'rh the Metropolitan Parliamentary and Financial Reform Ats ci,tio a. It was announced that Mr. G. 'I hJuipson, M.P., would preside on the occasion, but as he was unable to be pre sent at the hour named for U e commencement of tisu pro ceedinge, TINDAL ATKINSON, EKI., was called io eke chair, and bii fly whitened as meetitg in explanation of the objects of tne &wad aroeiation. Mr. MULLETT m and : _ _ '• That the expenditure of the state is most reckless and extrAvairant ; tile, to sustain this waste, au enormous amount of mission is required, which is roi:s d sag rah as of tne re duced sircutosteuces of the middle, an-1 the mime suffering of the weekivg elsasss, the gnat products's. Thers.ore, in order to place the politic-Istate of society in a wore healthy condition, it is abs.slutt ly meanty th-t there should be au smicittliate a, d thorough revssim tf taxation, with the view to a .urge teduc ion of she public burdens." He believed there was no one press nt who wonll dispute tits assertissns eontainrd in that resolution. Mr. G. THOMPSON, M.P., her . entered the meeting, aro was rece.ved with loud applatue. Havins takm the chair, Mr. lIA WARD (the secretary of the S Asthwatk Associa tion) pruceeded to second the r:solutotn, and stated that he e-,trelycoinchied in the propriety of •Ise views embw Ltd In it lie severely emenred the lavish hand oi:h which government had mastinued to dapense pees! ; and showed that frees the reign of George tee First the nick:mid expenditure had muss on µrads:ally but continually ieereming until it had readied its maziatuin in the present reign. Mr. JACKSON proposed " That no hop , can be enter caned of any effectual finan cial nlwrin (rain the House of C. mm.,ne as at present man. toted ; that it repressing is , ither the p • pulati.m nor the in dustry of the countey—sh at the ite ~ reu Act has t• tally tailed to realise the expectations of Cie people or to hat mnnise with the s e .irit of the age ; ..nd that, therefore, a urge extension el the franchise, a c sai:elete in,.epratler re in its exercise by meson of the ballot, a more t Taal appertien aunt of representatives to mei aloft, and the limimtion ut parliament to three years, becomo not only measures of com mon justice , but also of prudence and safety." Mr. KKT fLE seconded the tesolutior, and ably r. fated the argunn nts of thus.: who contended that such an ext.r sion of the sullen.) as was proposed would be attewded deign to the national institutions in consequence of the re volutionery undmties of the pemle. Mr. BROOKES having address...l the meeting in favour of nu:venal and, age, and Mr. ATKINSON is support of •h• resolution. it was adopted. Mr. lIOWK ECT moved the following resolution, which was also caul.. unanimously: "That we resolve, by Joining the aaseciation of this parish, for the purpose of cooperating with the Manspolitan hatnantary and Financial Lionel Association, to strengthen their hands, and secure by every constittniJaal means the at obj, eta they have in view." Thu usual vote of thanks having been given to the chair man, the meeting stparatel. EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY. ADJOURNED MEETING. Yesterday no adjourned meting of the aharsha len, was hid at the London Tavern, for the purpose of ilecting cLiht n-w directors for the future ruonegemont et the railway. Every part of the large r mm, i c'u'ing the galletio, was crowded at tho hour appointed fir comoanc og the proceed ings, but the arrange meets were 'itch as to pier, Lt much of the comusion for which the previous ustelors have be come to notorious. About one o'clock the m^mbeas of the coalmine? of laveatig►tion made thoir appearance on the plat►,rm. Mr. lorncetsox, one of the of 1 dirocion, to , k the their. This set was the eignal for load ales of " Meek," " faro him me," &I. Mr. HELL'S mid he wi,hed to know by what authority Mr. Anderson had assumed the office of chairman. (Hear, fuer.) Mr. MEEK replied that Mr. Anderson had ceementid to take the chair at the request of the committee of invatigt tion. A SHAREHOLDER obeerved that Mr. Andenon mast taka din chair if only for the purpose of town ng into the hands of the proprietors the trust which had been coma led to him. U• tees that gentleman or some other dinetor :wed as chairmen the meeting could nut be le b a.ly coma tided. (Hear, hear. The SECRETARY (Mr. Honey) read the advcrtisemeat convening the meeting. Mr. ATKINSON then moved, "That this meeting do approve of th• following eight propriec-n being eketcd by the board as new directors, and do requist the board to el ct them accordingly, and to take all Ironer steps for that purpose : Edward L. Betts, Eq . Tavttt ktq tan, ; Joseph Glynn, Esq., Weetbourn-park Villas, Ba)ews , tr; J3.1(11 Parke, Eel.. Mildenhall, Staab ; S mud Ellie, Eq., Euoton.rquare ; J. A. T. Smyth, E.g. : Cumberland-terrace, H. :rent's-park; Th-mes Brua.ibent, Esq., Maneh star; T. J. !darner., E q , City Saw Mills; Gorge Aced, Esq.. IT aokticatb-pork." Mr. kIANKEY seconded the motion. Mr. MEEK then rose to address the meeting amidst he terruptinn, which would not admit of hie proceeding. The C tile( It MAN entreated sileecr. Ho desired that every gentler:me should have a fair hearing. He had Dal come there es a partisan, but with a wish tube impartial. Mr. MEEK said he should 'veil himself of that oppor tunity of replying to the charges which Mr. liaison and Mr. Waddington had brought against the committee of in vestigation. (Expressions of imp et ies, ee.) The at Mt r which he was about to give was nut foreign t ) the object of that meeting. It had been said pueltely teat there true.' quo'. tioa of veracity and character between Mr. II adeon ant the committee 111 would set that Ties ion at rest. The committee bad been emus. d of delayiug their vindica'i nt too lotig. That was the first fitting opp rtunity which had beau aff rded to them of making it. T..ey tad b.en eonatetsoioned to is:weirs awl report ; thty hat inquired and repthey nad nothiea to retract. (Cheers.) Mr. Hudson had complained that he had al knowledge ef least was peeing in the committee—that he had no informaLon beychal what was car eand ii, three or t ur writter. ques'ions. (Hear, hear.) Mr. Rudman had mistaken the nature of the committi es duty ; they .. ere not appoiate I to try hiss, hut to icquire Eta the state of the company'. affairs. (Hear, hear.) He woad no a refer to Mr. Hulsou's unhappy con tradiction of the charge of altering the hall yearly 'noun's., given in the Howe of Commons on ,he lath or May. Ile was reported to Lave said, " When I c Bled up n the CHU znitteo of investigation yesterday morning—l only wish to show the unfortunate position in which I have been plaetd —what I called, along with a friend, to tee a document purpnrt'ng to b: in my hand•writiaas with my figures, stated by them, I hid great difficuli at , first in ootaining a sight of that document; and when I did get to pee it they refused to let it be teen in the pre senee of any other person, and Aterwa Is they said that two of their holy eheuld come into the room and show it to me, on clad ition that I should sek them no question', and get no information. I do not know what the house thinks of the fairness of such cor.duct. (Loud cri-a , of " Hear, hear.") Now he would state what really tcok place. 0.1 the 15th of May Mr. Hudson wrote from York, to soy that he would be at the 'nation the next morning, to leo the accounts. The letter was received en the 16. h of May, and tee committee immediately seta to the office of Mr. Quitter, the aemuttant, for all the papers, that they might be r. ady against Mr. Hudson'. arrival. (" Hear,' and loud cheers) The moment Mr. Iludeon arrived he was informed by the secretary that the committee were ready to receive him and to show him the arc tents. He refused to see the committee, and proposed that a deputation should wait upon him in the reaetary's room. (Laughter.) Under ordinary circumstances su:h a request would have been refused; but, as It was, the chair man and himself were deputed to see Mr. Hud son in the secretary's room, and they produced the accounts before him. It was true that this condition wan imp° , ed that no question should be coked ; but Mr. Hudson had suppressed what accounted for that, namely, that his friend was an attorney, whereas the depu tation were net attecded by any legal adviser. (Hear, hear.) Mr. Hudson said that the gentleman who accom• panied Lim went with Dim in the character of a friend, and not in that of an attorney. That was a distinction without ' a difference ; or at the utmost the only difference wee that perhaps no tee was paid. (Laughter.) Mr. Hudson said the cnnmittee had reported under on animus which diseatitled them to credit. It was not the committee, but Mr. , Waddington, who first actuard Mr. Hudson of al tering the account , . (Hear, bear.) Mr. Hudson had denied in the House of Commons that the alterations in the accowra were in his h-nd sriting. There were two altered statements of account to which attention had been directed by Mr. Waddington. On' was for the half year ending it July, 1816. Mr. Waddington in his veld, nee dis tinctly eat: d that the figures intr ',dated there were in Mr. Hudson's handwriting ; and Mr. D svis. the Accountant, gave evidence to the same effect. Since the denial of /11r. Hu"scn was published the committer had eg tin Examined M. Davis, and, placing the denial beere him they asked him if it had shaktn hit belief. His answer was " not in she taut. I firmly believe them to be in Mr. Hudson's handwriting.' (Hear, hear.) During the time that Mr. Hudson was chiirman the accounts w, r.: ie variably alttred 84 as to arpea to jus'i'y the payment of a larger dividend than had been re•nally earned. On or about the 12th of All2llO, 1849, Mr. Hu lson requested Mr. Wad. dington to send Mr. Mwteley to bin. wi th the half yearly accounts. Oa the 161 Mr. Hudson tank the accounts from Mr. Moseley, and placid in pen il u der the total automat of the expenditure, which was 159 0901. 13s. 101 , the figures 149 0001. Ile then directed Mr. Mes:l-y to alter the figwes in certain items, to which he pointed, so as t • reduce the apparent expenditure of the heltyear by about 10,0001. Mr. Moseley did so. In the pre . en-e of Mr. Hudson he cut off 9,.5441. At the same time, by Mr. Hudson's direction, and in his presence, he increased the apparent amount of the re eeipm by the sum of 10,9341. 165.; making the total ' falsification in that half-year's see rants upwards of 20,0001. (Hear, hear.) He cared not whether the fi Tures were or were not is Mr. Hudson's handwriting. Was a man, after calling in his subordinate, and ordering him to write ' certain figures, and seeing them written, to ti -:'.. -ed to stand up is the House ofCommons a n d say that be never wrote them? (" Hear, hear,' and cheers.) Ha would tall Mr. Hudson that in law, in reason, and in morals the figures were his—the band that wrote them RAI gui , !ed by his word of mouth as ab.olutely as it could have been by his own hand. (Cheers.) He then quoted at sem^ length, to support of his view, the evidence of Mr. Moseley with regard to the alter►- tion of the accounts. Mr. Iluds.in had declared that he neve• aign•d a cheque fur the company in his ilk How, then, was it that he joined with Mr. Waddington in signing the ter orders for payment in the Wisbeach and St. Ives affairs? (near, hear ) Neither Mr. Iludsz.n nit Mr. Waddington bad at tempted to ju•tily that fi.grant act of 92QT:time He would now, with the p :rmislion of the chdirnian, call upon the secretary to read a letter which Mr. Waddington had ad dressed to the earamittee of eels etion. The SECRETARY then read the f 11leriqg letter: TO TIM COMMITTER OP SELECCIOX Or 1111 ZAIITEIIX CJUNTIES PROP RI F.Ttllti. " Loadoo, Nay 30, 1849. " Cientlemer,—l avail myself of the l:pp .rtuelty tkat your assembling together upon ft qu etion lurching , he future management of the E 'stern Cou s Aiwa), affords me to bring under your netiwt the p within which I occupied at the lia , tern Counties blud, and to offer a few explanations u;:on pints which 1 Ir.tl not an oi.portunity of doing at the excited meetine of share h olders, on the 10th Instant. In the tint place, .1 am desirous of static, that upon my roeigning the env of deputy-eheirman of the Manchester and Birmingham Ittilimey, I dun announced that it was not my intention spin to tike an active p . rt in railway management; but a depetati n from the Bittern Counties eirry waiting open me, I was induced to alter my opinion upon the nadentandhag that I wee to be elected Chairman of the E tstern Countice board. Subsequently I had an interview with the Chairmen of tho Compeer (Mr. Bosanqoet) and other active reenshers of the board, when this arrangement was colifirmod ; Air. B-san quet aerating to retire :or that purpote. A short time after wer,ls I was informed that the shartholdere and the board of directors had invited Mr. Hudson to bo chairman. A' this course I was much surprised, and went immediately to York to acquaint tosselt with the foetus. Mr. Hudson informed me th A he wailers:clod 1 was to ha his deputy-ehairman. I told: him that 1 had tutu invited end auereel the office of chairman ; he ing pruned, however, to take office, it'ru ulti mately arranged that 1 abnuld do en with tie management of the traffic, as chairman of the traffic ceinmittes. "The result has Men, haring b conic member of the board in 1545, that the trtffic he's Mere:red from 114,0001. for the haloyeerendine July, 1816, to 490,0001. for the half veer ending Jaivary, 1819. It is true tette has been • large additional mileage opened, but looking to the character of the country I hesitate not to say that a more successful development of traffic hes not been accumpiished la this country, bat this has been done by great sicofices on my part, inesmach es it bivalved my ram •sl Irma Manch tater to the vicinity of the Eastern Comities Railway toe nettle met, give me personal end undivi led attention to its in terests. From October, 1815, to March, 1846, I lid my family is blanched-r, whilst I teas inecsaalit iv my attend ance at the Rut ea Counties Railway, t the Lute spent in ttavel'ing to and trim Manchester to %bat my family, and wrings the appointment of as inuat to c iuduct any private affairs in Menet .titer consequett upon my real us' to Lou don, end who.. salary I have contiatued top., from thattime to the present. " Tee teethe arrangements were so incomplete that I had to oreaniu and reurraega the whole id that department, and during the lane extent of bunters • hich ft Uttered, and the anxiety of mind I cuff red in °ono quince of the locomotive department pr an q tio the work to be performed, end the inodeqoate a:-teen end siding nceosttunilation, it is int.taiihle for me so e-nv/ any idea of as to its intensity ; and I emi with feelings of honest pride refer to eumberhos letters I have rtadved trona proprietors, thanking in. for those :orders and :heir bolas th it I she uld be ample n w eded. I sok. then, wet it fair towards me that the commfites of bawl ligation, who were cognisant of the greet time, labour, and attention 1 ha.l devoted in furth• ring the irate, mg f tho company, and tient s iceessiolly so far as the treflie department was concereed, not to notice this in their report, when th. y alluded to the suet of 2,0001. which hed hen voted to me by the directors. I did not rule for praise at their hand., but I cons Entitled to justice; end in miming the rues they ought to hose stared that which they well knew, that my labour had him hutment in behalf of the Basteen Counties proprieton. t. Now, as t the ua de in which this rum wen voted to tne, two directon who see examined prove the: it will proposed by the chairman, a d sanctioned by the die caters, two or t • ihrectirs signing a chi quo. It ;yours to have been mad* out to extensions, because it was to he eharesil to extension capital ; by an accident, no mix ate f the b t.rd fur this pay ment iippe ars, but two giatlenten of , he high. at honour de clare to the La of the direcuu glee ioning the payment, and thereupon the rep tr., ineeed or coefirming the com plaint *gaitd me to receiving teem the bleed what it was prnperly th' province of the proor:etou to bestow, if they thought fit, level at me he inuatio .s by the man ner of desmibing the gift, an - 1 classing it with unexplained expenditure, which 1 cannot r. train from saying exhibits a desire to pr juice and iniu•e me with the proprietar". Had the report frankly staied thot the be a: d should have recom mended to the proprietor, this payment imite-d of making it, I should have del reed to such an °pita ith the remark that I believed my h ivy and anxious extra services to the company, fir beyond Shoes of soy other nember of the board, enttlel me to ex re recompei rut my colleagues having so conii :creel it, who, requesting me to withdraw whilst they deliberated upon the auldut.e.el living the sum at 2,0601., I ac: epted the 11141ont si h nee and un hesitatingly, r a I felt it my du , . It 'twilit urge stionably have been inure regular to have submit!. .1 tee propriety of the payment to the shareholder, rr taught their unction to It after it was made. I regret this was not dent. Hr. Hudson contemplated ex rs remuniditien lo Inc given to ta . at the meeting of propricters in V bruary, 1817, when he pointed out the great exortione I was waltieg to promote the compauy'a interests, and there wan no rrison why this gift should not hive been hroueht b fore the meeting in August, 1817. If this her been done It rank' hero been more Bahia:tory to my holier, as 1 foe 1 convineed that at that time the proprietors were satisfied tl the almost emire devotion of my time In developing the resources of the line. " A+ to the 1,000!. prequel receied by me in October, 1816, in respect of 508 Wiabeach and St. Ives eheres, beg to state that I received no premium nor sum in this nut any other ease but such as I considered I had a right to receive; and art an illustririon !hat I would not reoeive any premium knowingly, feeli• gft to be wrong, I may mentien, that noon the completion of the per chase of the Maldon, Witham, and Braintz. e Railway by this compeey at 103. per share premium, that campany having a reserve of shares, offered me 351 abates, which I +Weaned, although 1 could have poekrted the p. curt= with out anything farther b• ing krv,wn shunt I have a docu ment in my poswasion which e i prove this. I have further to state upon this subject that there was no dinettes, or beeresy about the payment. Mr. Hudson's name and to own were ieeeited in the cheques end bantri's by k, and the cheques were open to the here' etien of the elfin re of the company, same as other cheer.es paid by the err • - 'y c..r Whbeael and St. Ives shafts. Mr. Danean, the solicitor of tee company, carried throogh the arriuteemert up to the signing of the chequrs; aid as lee whitest...l a letter to the board of directors giving particulars of the transectien, I beg to enclose a c lay for sour information, meetly (Nerving that a letter was addressed by Mr. James, the managing clerk of Mr. Duncan, from the efflee of the let!, at Westminster to the secretary of the Winbeesth and St. Ives Company which is not ailed(/' to in the letter of Mr. Duncan, and to which I he, to tell your att. t tion. Mr. Day, of St. Ives, the sell iter of the Wisbe+ch and St. Jess C mpany, can furniett yeti wi h a copy. As it is a leer which may be quoted against M 9 on account of my name being made use et, I have only to sae that it was not by my authority' my name was used by Mr. James. Up to that teens Mr. James and my+ If were uusequaiated with each other • xoept by ,idhr. Mr. J ,mas paper)+ , th it he wrote it by order of Mr. Duncan, and he net confirm whia• cannot be disputed, that I did not give him any authority, nor in fact exchange words with him upon the subject. Irr vat that I con sidered myself entitled to the 1,0001., yr t I am at the Fame time prepared to Erman this or coy other question that may he in dispute with me to the fair d cider: of arbitrators, and to abide by their award. " There is another subject whirr'. I will only bristly refer to, as an inquiry is now taking place by • e motive° of the House of Commons as to an expenditure by the Size-lane Committee. " Tnis expenditure was incurred in the elm of putting a s'op to the pretreat, of the Lon' on end York line, IC lob, If successful, would have baen of great importune* to this com pany. The B card of Trade han report. d 'n favour of the I xtension of the Eastern Ceuntiee lice from Cambridge to York, and I then felt it my duty to support by the stroneest measures the scheme that was suleni•ted. to me for defeating the rival project (rem Lon Nan to Y rk. Durtio the vehe ment parliamentary struggle+ of tied time I felt that we were figh'ing almost for the vitality of the comeeny, and although we were unlace, sera in this ease, oet we ultimetly pre vented th- London and York party from obtaining a second line late Cambridge. "If I had bran allowed by the la'e meeting calmly to have addreswd them it was nit driOn'ien en have mentioned that In my opinion an exaggerate& Atstentf nt beta sub mitted of the sums charged to cepteliand chit if I hod bean caneulted by the eemmittee of invecifon and their ac countant, I have no doubt I enisld c s.tisf-etordy ex ' plained to them that many itemikelterged to capita, and which in the report it is rated °nett tabc charged to reve nue, were rightly charge:l to capital. I re girt ghat this oppor tunity was not afforded me. " With ref, recce to the imprennion r x's'ieg generally I should ed tha lo t rtwceanldj'ah'tiel!tiothniel board nes we hod orieinate I the Increase ' M erl; ad " .l 9 len ' irlin t es that had a f en f e :e haga r b‘d ha ra pe t ys n o crvek d thh it es s e u t re a ' it te P'spar :f l f ria tha , m ett3 T2 atig , i 9: oo o I been promoted and eourr .cted f s nee t trs,d, " all the other miring linos of th cempany hevine previously sonetioned by perlism-u•. or !susi i. cl for," were the Mal den, Withsm, end B :rep, and the E. 411 and Edmon ten lin-o, tozether fl•teee miles of rail wey, at a coat of about ! 300.0001. There has been a large expenditure for carriages ; end waggons, aidirgn, g 't wareheusee, Eel increased sta tion accemmedatire, I .c.z:otire sad waggn.. r, ;air!tig shape, but I meek with eolithsee, thee: the hex.. Ed bu'ineu upon this line could rot bare been earoi-d on unless the seder port of sir h r xpenditure had been leen red. •• I have made the foregoing stateme• t, net in a spirit of complaint, nor with a vie er of obtaining fri I.ils to put me again forward as director; for having sold my sheers, which will he transferred on the 31st indent, t• e dear on which I understood the new boari would be elected, I ;hall become disqualified on that day, but I 10.1k9 it with a view of laying a fair statement before so impar.ant a portion eel the merle tore, feeling maidens that 'hey will, upon pas seal, arrive at the continua' that I am no: the merastary c h a racter which 4