The Express. — London, England, 1850-02-07 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF COMMONS.-WIDIIIIIDAT, FLA. 6. The &Lassa took the their • fur Wastes after 12 Vali& PETITIONS PRESENTED. Canos.—lly Er HUMS, ties Cory los, rived by 37,000 lithabasa a tkereet, settle, teeth • Twisty of prievaseer, sad ellegia‘ to la imp:46ll4e te lave Justin dome sada that; SStfercraniss. ut Mimeos to tea rarrorrica—lly wend La. Maxims, plait giallo labour lath. Poosolloo. NOTICE OF MOTION. Coax LAWA —lll Mr. ANDERSON, co all early day. to move toe the ars owns. at or a With ethealath to inquire last the owe MI ot tbr statutes for raarictiai the creosacoa tke. of tomes e:rn is this eeu•try, whisk wore in force free 1815 to 1819, end the effect that they had produced ea ebutteadiant of thy people. THE ADDRESS. The Hoe. Mr. LASCELLES. the Comptroller of the litssehold, appeal. 1 a: the bar, deemed in the Wisdom mamas, end eud. I nave presented to ker Majesty the addre.a c 4 this ban. hogr to ehieli her Majesty Ism Mee gracimaaly planed to return ti a followin newer ; " I thank you fur ram loyal and dstifv a address. Ths ezpression Myra, ayes. pathy th I•no wit eh I Imes onsisimod by the lantent•4l death of the lase Deese Ade:aide Is vary ratifying to say feeling , . You may rely is my modial eoeporation to pro mote the hap; lams of my people anti roserne, trltter the providence of (304, the east* stilt of the Metatry ." Tim answer was order d to be Warted ea thejournalu Knauss IYNION. Mr. MONSELL visaed to luso" it the government in tended ha make a matement with rospost to tits state of the itiTaa — nilciil Sir W. SONERTILLE was not pignut at Out moment to say an what day los wadi sake a statement to the hones on the caSeist, alAwask ho regretted doeply tea nal minute condition of the salty. ECCLESIASTICAL COWIIISSION. Mr. 110USAAN *imbed Is know virkrher it was true that the lat• asamary of dm tectledastisal cetautimion had it:muted a clod of usloment bedsit be absconded, an t whetter, if he did, tb g torniment bad any objection to its being laid o 4 the utile of tko house ? Sir O. GEST sell that when the defslcations of tin soustery bad bus s isousrod. the solicitor of the Treasury took the steps whit,: wens deemed most advisable to sour the lose !%. far as What farther step wens take. be could not at Present say. SUPPLY. The house went tate aossalttee of supply, and the usual 'applies to her Majery Mimi voted, the house resumed. COURTS OP LAW IN IRELAND. The SOLICITOR OKNILAL, in moving foe leava to bring eta a hilt " Fur the Erbpdatkot of Prima and Practice is dr Ilapq‘se Courts of C .mson Law in Ireland," said dot dm pitmen'' °Mint of It wee to extend to Ireland, as kr as the cimmeastaaas og . that etmutry would permit, pro visions similar te these essataised in the Uniformity of Pro con Act of tb-s country. In England, according to that ma, the 2nd William IT when en action was commenced, a writ of summons was isLassl, and the defendant was bound to appear within four, sad plead within eight days, the con sequence cf whi.n we, that judgment was speedily ob tained If the ease wsnt to trial; or, if the detendant did not appear to pl:ad, it went by default. In Ireland the prat:o.d*, was much more tedious. The first step was a capias ad re:pleid , nd requiritg the High Sheriff him. mil to take the b sty of the defendant, and produce him on the first ratan. day of thz treeing ter* But when served upon him, he would be told by his solidtor that, although called upon to appear on the first return dry, he was not bound to appear for eight drys after; and, if in the mean time tie term ex pired, then be need not appear for eight days attar the return day of the next term. The effect of this was to mime great delay, and many consequent Mr. E MAI:LE sceot.ded the motion. - - - ' Mr. SADLIIR bore his testimony in common with a large portion of thou wb were interested in law nears to the gnat advantages wiieh the right bon. gentleman had »adored to that cease, by devoting so much of his time to the ft . The eotntry wee also indebted to the hoa. and laarttad member for Dublin. He quite agreed in the prin. *les which had b stated by the has. and learned gentle law bat complained that the reform was not more exten sive, and did not go directly to the removal of those evils, of which he wee quite searibtr. HEADLAM thought that Ragland also had some dais to improvement in the administration of her laws. Lefts was then gives to bring in the bill. COURT OF CHANCERY (IRELAND.) The SOLICITOR GENERAL, la moving for leave to bring in a bill to simplify and improve the prousethoge in the High Court of Chancery in Ireland, said that the bill had been perused by the Lord Chancellor and the Muter of the Rolls in Ireland, and both those learned persons bad exposed their general approval of the objects of the bill. The first object of the bill was to Mora the ex:sting pleadings of the Court of Cho.- eery. By the pr..ctiee of that court in Ireland, every bill contained a great onantity of aupetfieous language , a gnu camber of interrogatories respecting mitten which were set in difference between the parties. It was a long time Were the answer win pat is ; when it was pat in it was along time before the bill was amended; when the bill was aseitaal it wag along time before the answer to the amended bill was pat in, and if lame pony happened to die, there was a bill of reviver ar.4 supplement, and after all this there was nothing whatever la difference between the parties, except some matter which was to be by the ordinary e 6 one of the court. He pr to srabsti. pate a short statement of facts, by way of petition. Mr. F. FRENCH said that if these alterations were as essential they should also be *shaded to Emilia& Mr. SADLEIR said his experience led him to believe that the projected amendments wauld be found most sae earful, sod that they wen a measure which every man would not tall to regard as one of the greatest boons that could be endured on the indwtry of the country. He had the utmost confidence in the hon. and learned member's experiment, and he trusted that it would lead to the most beneficial resalt. Mr. P. WOOD had heard the plan of the learned Solicitor- General with great satisfaction, but regretted that so great a reform wee to be contacted to Ireland. (Hear, hear.) H• was sot aware that there was any important diffuse°, be tween the 'detentes of the equity courts in the two coun tries. ' Mr. HENLEY thought that government would hivo gnat diftealty is refuting to England the boon which was now Meet le he tweed d to Inland. (Sear.) Unless he hoard mow eiwyetrou we , .n to induce a contrary course of action, be limit artsmiy t .ke an opportunity of moving during the c=iss bdim eth i e :All. that the word " England ""b3 inserted Kr. IIICULLAGH thought that the exposition given by the &dicker General of the pox*, gamut to be effeemd by Um bill, would tend very much to allay feee of distrust and dissatisfaction with which the public mind had recently bass filled upon this subject in Ireland. After a few words from Mr. MULLING'S and Mr. WAir ' rots, Leese was riven to bring in the bill. 1 REGISTRATION OF ESTATES (IRELAND). I The SOLICITOR GENERAL TON to Mate to the hue the improvements he proposed to iatrodnai in the epees of Ireland. la Reglead, with the aradea 74etrarkila in and Middlesex, these was a•E as •Mtme regiaraties. In Inland there wee vory e a pees ; bet it seatatned several imparter dee% it wee the eldest of the assist bill to remedy. erriderkg what , reghleatios should be, the Importer pekt wee that yea : dart have a righter decry dessaist ad every feet eon ' sear with every pear ere led Mak with the rad, sad this thaw rule resit be alb asserteked. The der bats of the Irish regime wen that the mede of wee easserigly tasearate, est that the feeswa r a ll ea lsi g desk to be get at. Whet wee regrind la the tut kerns* was a aueerial of the deed. He had aot bawd that awe wee way dears to appeal beta is theme assessamk bed dr rspieSeriag esly beeribed what they drabs sr korai yes to aseiriais the fns yea sight roes as weld. The great eldest Is a regrew we rabi plei d' ea wain dissimeare of the treaseeties ; bat to the poser register yes hid it rely antiwar eat orris pew had Melt with the Lad. It weepsoposei by the arra le wee alter to law deat to make in. la the let pier,d the Wane. aerial way whir lad her sire la Waal by the Orders* &partner ter the purpose of Makes a Lai le sig t e l a j eZ. 2 23 le sassed the leap= lad ben purred warryoad yde that the arm Si whoever sherd lave the aregensat at that regiewaties, amid have Were based ea these =Vwee to ay, taking say perlieshir rusty, sad la ett b a g ty say manlier berry, sad Iseeesdiag to the tewsleade awl the sebilessalastiees Mae warty to be =L sad se ears a regales lades of all le s the asap. la that sae they word have &gone sr rases whir would earreeper wish these ea the sap to reedies tee peetiessier port at dm led, ma the &irks k whir it wee Warr Mr be smear te bar a reheres km this kad tsar to rather brew, widish read be alma ea taloa el titles, la lark the knew sad &gene tumid eineepead with the Ink wed whir word slew the must hi whir the lead hal beat dealt wak—ret wee, it would there appear that A B, fir taster% ha baler r sold to C I) • anal' 1 1 •MMY. M • errs twaled, barmy, or meaty. By this sere a tell bra at all per. Heelers Mara to the pregarty rd a ready sehresee the deed is the *See, weal mod. he bin title theKezedal very_assit pia: gpm ti p as i lb. Dale his bid. When tae baser the in being is NW =la Maw k amber, • sew Wading Wilt be spewed, el es Is mp g that . Ile wield set go farther late these aria of bat Wirt state gessrelly that the bill peasseiel la this raped ea the priaelpie of a ledger s aeert dhow what —there raidthe be tint ea Index of kid, wee, whir would be tested w Lades a a i r% would are be _esesey is her a freer lade: whin the ability le dal the lead wee serperrup or perwasestly suresded, se, far Wears, la the wile et re rouser dyke, aid seems penes ornarg forward te deist re roper, or any part ef It, either in the errata of heir sr dorm. Is that sae it weak be err eery to have ea Wks at wile with reireses to the triton's sane and the deg ea whir re will wee registered. It repro. peer are rat re dearstale whir wife ender Vie NO dierkli tar ppeetig resell SOW does swab ; 4verr aurae of aid. aitwee.sledby the Orris d al =Were &Mewed le Maras it would put It ad to gamma ifsblfalhamblevar. lt was proposed*, put an end to tae **trine of notices, dames of wart, civil bill preemess, and the like; and it would be epee tor any parses tom:outage at ones the tae *bey of the bag he was about to muchaes without difiltshr cc explore. He hoped the house would allow him to t:educe the measure, and they would berealter hue on oppertadly of exasaining the details es to how far they bees** the **meat he had made and the objects the rum* , had in view. The motion was agreed to. JUDGMENTS—(IRELAND The SOLICITOR GENERAL again rose sod moved far leave to bring in a bill to emend the laws eatursingjudg mots in Ireland. It woad be remembered that in the last session of pediment he brought is • measure on the gull* of kids *ate, founded oaths rep* of the receivers committee, oh gontained much valuable information. The evils of slte law respecting judgments in Ireland were of two dereriptioas— the one as it affected the dm management of land, and the ether as it affected the pewee of disposing of it. By the *Sift system, • receiver might be appointed by say mimes who bad obldned a judgment against the owner of the la*. @ablest gab to the limit of 1601., under the bill of last year. termed by the present measure that the j ase he a lien on the land is the hands of la= meat imam Jadgeseste wen originally intended as sie thins more than • *ens el eusbling • man a oho* pep. neat of a debt which hod been adjudged to be dee to ;s. If the Judgment was not discharged execution might bear. the lead might be add, the creditor would get paid, and the remedy was sow lets. But unless the encumbered eats* commission IMO made permanent, them was sow no ma *eery in Inland by which this coal Ibe accomplished. Ae that amalgam, seder the act which establhhal 1R wen Ifietited to three years' duration, it wool I not do is asisseme of this lved to adopt that mode of enforcing the payment se rite d Such were the general provisions of the measures he had to propose, and of which he Pbould be happy to give any fustihtr esp:ailation that nigh: be MP gained. The question having been put. Mr. NAPI ER admitted the desirableness of saimilatiag the law of the two countries in regard to the registrations elf judgments. The remedy proposed as to Lame judgments wee somewhat startling. At present the judgment steed against all parties as the security to the melitor, and is In ked it was the commonest kind of security ; but it was sew geopo.ed to alter the law in this motet altogether.. Ao thought se* provision should b' introduced with rested to sesta, for he had buys cues where large Mates h.d bees bresteht into court at the instance of one judtmeat ItedittS to a small amount, a receiver appointed, and the Mate mile dial with the costs. Mr. BADLEIR conctived Chet the laws of the two montries should be assimilated as far as possible, ape• dolly thou Meting to real property. The maim was then agreed to, and the bills were ordered Se he been tht in. CEYLON. Mr. HAWES moved the upoiatment of a select coin ed**, to ir gates into the grievanoss complained of in Ceylon beememezion with the administration and government of that esiony, and to report their opini ea whether any measures c a be adopted for the redress of any grievances of which there may be shows just reason to complain ; and also, whe ther any 1110111111111 can be adopted for the better administra tion and government of that dependency. Mr. HUE Liked whether it was intended to revive the committee of last maim on Ceylon and British Guiana ? Mr. HAWES replied that the inquiry was complete and that the report was adopted. Teems wu, therefore, no reason to save that committee, for it hod heard all the evidence and repotted to the house. Mr. H. BAILLIE complained of a breach of privilege. A speech he had made in that house regarding the official salaries in British Guiana had been contraefisted by the governor of that colony, who tamed him of falsehood. The amenities in that speech were based upon documents fur nished by the calorie' office, and were hallenged in that house. Regarding the Ceylon inquiry, the house would remember that a report was made at the close of the last session of pezliament, when it would be no exaggeration to say ttat all the independent members had left town, and when those only remained whose duty it was, being the official supporters of the government, to brine to a close the routine helium of the session. It was under these peculiar circumstances tbst the noble lord at the head of the g tvernment thought it becoming to offer a most unusual insult to the committee by fink* kis official supporters to give a direct negative to the report of that committee, after be (Mr. Bailie), as the chairman of the committee, seeing how matters stood, had voluntarily offered to withdraw it. (Hear, Lear.) But, even under those peculiar circumstances, the noble lord thought it necessary at all events to make a show of fair dealing, and he stated that if the committee would again re-assemble, and that if they would name the witnesses that taiga be necessary to be sent for from C ylon, her Majesty's government would take ears that those witnesses should be in attendance wizen parliament met, sod that the committee should re enter upon the inquiry. In consequence of that statement of the noble lord, the committee was induced again to re-assemble, very mush, he (Mr. Bailie) was Lound to say. against the opinion of his hoe. friend the member tor Montrose (Mr. Hume), who said that he consi dered the committee insulted as no ether c mmittee had been balms ; and therefore he objected to 'heir proceeding any farther in the bosioets. lie (Mr. &unite) confessed be thought that the vote on that occasion was a vote of the official espporten of the government, and not the sense of the house. Under these circumstances he induced hie bon. friend to proceed. TII.II committee rveseembled, but they mold not comply with the request of the noble lord. It wee impossible to name the witnesses from Ceylon. What were the facts of the case ? Certain charges of a grave end errious nature had been msde against the Governor of Ceylon by parties residing in the island. It wee, therefore, impossible for the committee to ascertain the truth or the falsehood of those charges without calling upon the parties who bed made them to bring forward their evidence to support them. Under these circumstances, the committee, it was true, named two wit :vines, but they named them at random, as gentlemen whose names were mentioned in the course of the inquiry; but they were unable to name the rest of the witnesses, and therefore they came to the following resolution: " Resolved —That the chairman be authrrised and requested to com municate with her Majesty's Secretary of State as to the necessary whimsies to be ordered home to give evidence before the committee to be appointed in the ensuing session." Now, this resolution was proposed by the hon. member for Montrose, and, when he proposed it, he explained its ob ject. He told the committee that the object was to enable the chairman to write out to the parties in Cep *, and ascertain tram them the names of the pieties they proposed to send, and then to ommmonleate their names* the Secretary of State. That ressistiom was carried sestimotoly. The boa. gentleman who rupeesated the Ceionial.offies seemed to have no objec tion to it sa the seamy, he stated that it was right and ropier wit h the Swains; of State—eo that the hoe. mem ber for'llontras and himself (Mr. ltaillie) were left under the imierersios and conviction that the course adopted by the essindeles had reseivoi the emetics of hr linjeaty's gewirethrot. It was tbra with that that to the meth of Neosho he addressed the Yard be the hewohay of Slate for the Colman: ion erese to a resolution of the 'omega/es** let heap the OS soles el pediment. to Isidro into the grimness*, Ceylon BM IMO& dahl wee torairst to imply to oar lordship o poser@ the sheadoes el shower fres Cerium ho the farther norlithe lagabehethe met sod" I leg sem le state that ' : 1R .,. la MONO to the Widow of the threobthd.. verse end Opole thaws. samed4.ll. Meals the idiom ef thabowahtheasi sad rnat timbre ma. 11 ma lia r ; l on. 11. Worthy, piles magistrate. he Mr. Jets edoeste; sad I haws therehre to repot that yew ludthOwlll the pedal= to cider three osthose te n. ydr thebal without eh.. es thet whey nay be oblate stunt es sees as pewilb oho the mss istyof yeelloart. Is amen to this Otter, he resolved the knowing tee firm 'the Colomialelloe, hem tbe hoe, radium the Hader esatiemy he _the Weeks : les Mosta Ihd Oro to askaewisdo the night a s t i = letter el the 1111 Mt. repi Ith loth* to pram, be ▪ elf the imilowase sh r izz Bane es whams, from Oohs, le widths Os by • moieties et the smailles et eareameo.thish. ab rire left oleo wee appealed to bolo falo the use of Oeyba sod he Geier. mad lea le yea that IN peoesees of dig essaletioa the two gesthoss al = wool wen dtiested to noir le Seglead to eve older% he Mm his laralt biilm with the oasemsme ef the loth thoolodeare Otto TI MM the Clowaserlea SO the oleos Ohl wras oweinsil sots be dtheyed fon the hob sweetel tsy tom et the imps sasimassion lothies. !Wen Lt a r " i. thetas lard they le est MOM that a prliehesheyeas mitte the paw of aimodagialia paws St wird whams ere to hs Ihr. iodide ame reirl et Ithertz 6z theo the moo esitheas ef the 1111114 Oleo to bow the gams warm wild he esswkmed by direello th e ittewilmos the Wawa whams, thaw mar T a boo glow Ups the reel* alibis latter, be esueladed that Lewd Grey odd alit have bees roily or sompledely Wormed of what had takes piste la that bones at the Mese of last smoke, Dose • tall sismuses wee the. Moen that the witnesses mould be she he, sad thendae be thought it his duty to 'Mims • litter Is the bible lid is the subject. He thin kers wrote bin a letter, which, ails, detailing the previous eserespeadasse, *minded thus: It is met Mr e te pressome se ispinism aeon Us sow shish the hoettry of ONO Mr the Moho way Sdoit row to iß s bet 14 se I sat teMemee. Mr Mum= Timm end Ode* has boa mired bens to glee @widows hire the etoottlie. do he essimeisol epee whet pearl a Mateo seam sloth' to , sssp e 4 with repot telhawliames wham, at the dein of their h I levemod, sot shoes atisolmo moo be dissored=iir. I have tee _whys le thee Ofeeedo peer brehip, bet as sodas deelee 1110th4 dbierps the liopertest dry thet wee ionthd le os. =II dews lo Ile a oriel OM doh levembil pear heal* the eohnleedlee dot own YES/ *odd be Mired yos peoloosel to proverbs the Wirer of the summery wltmerm Now, is mower is this tees,, be resolved the hieutag we from the settle lord at the bead of the govemmesoa mem I mega to the peeped that the ensmitlee druid ass thestres ft as te soma he Solo. end that regsorslry at Stele ONO She esseewry Se memo ethos fir lids morn. *es is esmesp, It *set belooted Oaths dodoes amid istswood with i t' ode eadwiltu m f =m e the wiermes ea behalf Otis euseditee. od they hes dodged to on. sly Ohl SO lisbotedasthisity e shirk afrehwhilei win oft some Who eamailles le emend lama sewer el amemelsaileg w ith' Om = I : et hole, and dal wit Imply a yew Ovaig tomb do m. hats ; shish might mein rest memo Inersusim He (Hz. Aida) drought he had the pewee of osuelreL atlas trillithe lisers:ar:tato wttheed reeelviss as ithedffy hem any eimmltlee. Hear, ) Hew, had ail wily tedlity etehleinleg Ines peenised theeemmillsmia the misilia whoa to, he, la minmen with the himmember hr Meatiest, wield have retard to premed tether ht the matter. The bare might sow pogo that the result of thee ea the part of the goveremeat wee le MONA C ess go b b e ; is all Mob** los mum media ed pedlimmt, bees* it as • matter of emus. this V dm shoeless were not Nat for the **mit* wo u ld am wend an farther with the Jewelry. And sow with roped to the fatale prooodiap o r the eigin i ttn. He thought It right the house should undsntaad that, had fike Idioms beam granted, he should set have addressed a p THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 7, 1850. single word to then at planet, bat as the witnesses had beets reared It was neeenary fee the house to undensand .tint astute of the lags,r sad ha had hipltatka insole to Me house, sad be felt sot Ilk goo' MM M hen. member ger Mattress would boar not the 'Atelemeat hi, was about to autko -he had no basilisks to desisrlag eat if this lagairy Illett rait irr eire il and properly saris/eat. If the witness. who wale were Weimlit le th is eloothy, ens d atrocity would brought to light, witk which the deeds of Field Marshal Rayons, i en g a r e e h a they had heard so tomb, in Margery, would ep pear mild aid insvelful. (Hear, hoar.) Is Hungary, no pellet had bees put to death without o p fi rst gnie b. feria album'. well seastbsted, and id over by ea officer of rank, and so Hutton death had bona serried late estiestitta Is that casstry without having the apprehades of the eoatssaadevin•shief. Now, lib it was die saw In Ceylon ? In Ceylon very few of the moon. put to death were tided before tribusals legally sad properly eoustitated, Of .11.15.01111 ef the number et gains asgsired by law. Its earn OM ttr warts mania for lapin' efiaose tongued of Owe slime, a captain sad two subeheras. No church edema was pre sent. Tits Miens were igasisat of the nature of the lam. and the esstatese el the owls were esnibusi sad approved of—by whom ?By enplaiss escresanneg eletneb menu. (Hear.) In some MIN she prisoaers were led from the courts to the please of execution, when they suffered instant death. Mr. HUMS—Without any o3nfirmation of their m imeo. (liar, bin.) Mr. BAILLIK celled upon the house to compare the two eases of Ceylon and Hungary. In Hungary, the most for midable rebellion In the history of Europe had been brought to • close after great sacrifice of life, and after tens of thou sands of Austrians had perished in the struggle. In Ceylon, a quarrel had been put down without the loss of life, or • show of resistance on the part of any one. Let than contrast the two ants, and then tell him if he had been guilty of any exaggeration when be said, that, as compared with the acts of Ceylon, the proceedings in Hungary were mild and merciful. It was for than who had been so load Is their denunciations of the Austrian government to say, whether they were not liable to the charge of having in their capacity, as members of the legislature, lug tolerated in silence, acts of greater atrocity then any perpetrated in Hungary, in the domiaions of her Majesty. (Mar, hear.) The house had heard a good deal from the hon. member for the West Radler of Yorkshire (Mr. C .Mien) of the savage atrocities of lieldellambal !Jaynes. Bat let them listen to a deal ings° be °tyke, and bear in mind that that document MOO the on of an officer, to whom WS entrusted the awfo and responsible power of deciding on the life or death of her Majesty's subjects in Ceylon. The pr.:enacts. non was as follows : That union althorn who have held concealed, or knowing to have held, the effects of Golebella Ratta Whitton*, deliver over to me each property, or gin Information about the same without delay, sorb persons shall be killed, and their property confiscated.—A. Ws?. row, Captain Oommanding. Now, wee this • proclamation for the destruction of mad dogs or lemma beings? (Hear, hear.) When it was first brought under his notice, he confused that he had been perfectly astonished end incredulous. He did not believe it possible that such • proclamation could possibly have been keened . He then thought there must have been some min take; but there wee no mistake whatever. He held in his possession two of the original proclamations, signed by Capt. Watson's own band. They were !declamations which bad received the full sanction and approbation of her Majesty's government; and yet those hon. gentlemen who so loudly denounced the government of Austria supported the British government. Lieutenant-Colonel Drought, a young officer of rank, was at Kandy, when a case occurred which would show the reckless manner in which human life had been sacrificed in Ceylon during these proceedings. Colonel Drought, having nceiv, d in. formation of the arrest of a prisoner, despatched an officer, Captain Bird, to Hone/elle. with instructions to hold a courrinartial. Captain Bird went there, and the court-martial was held. Captain Bird eat sa the junior °Aar, the superior officer being pres 'nt. The prisoner was convicted, and the animus was (in order to mark the sense the court-martial hold of his having set himself up as a pretender) that he should be shot to death, and that his body should be hanged on • tree for four days, The sentence was confirmed, and the prisoner was shot In half an hour after he was seauneed. Now, mark the consequence of that. la page ISt of the blue book, Colonel Drought wrote to Lord Torrington that the prisoner had been convicted and sentenced to be shot, and hanged on a tree. Nine days afterwards, the governor wrote to Lord Grey that the man was not • pretender, and that his elder brother had been captured, and on the (*Lowing day tried by court-martial and shot. On the 16th of August, two days afterwards, the governor wrote that it was • nth. take to supra not only that the uafortuoate man was a pretender, but that it was also • mistake that he was the brother of • pretender, for he said that the pretended king had not yet been apprehended; that his brother, who was at fleet believed to have been executed at Kornegelle, was also still at large, and that the prisoner who was shot on that occasion was only one of the principal ad herents of the impostor ; so that after finding the man wee not a pretender, or the brother of a pretender, he seemed to say that that was not the charge on which he was tried, con victed, and shut. Here the house had an instants of an un fortunate man having been executed by mistake. (Hear, hear.) But this was not the only mistake which had arisen. It would be found in the blue-book that foe men had been executed upon schuss called high treason. One eddies* four was named Nickel, Itincheralle, and there was evidence to show that that man was perfectly well at this neconent at Ceylon; therefore it was perfectly c lear that some other person had been executed for Nickels Rincheralle, and, in deed, it had been secertained who the man was that was executed in his stead. (Hear, hear.) He (Mr. Refills) did not wish to detain the house by entering at large into details, but he had thouhht it his duty to state the nature of the inquiry, for the house would then _perceive that it wee impartible that the hon. member for Montrose or hisserf could uniertake the further prosecution of this ease if they had not the witnesses before them who were to prove the facts. (Hear, hear.) It would be kr ion. member now to decide whether they would conduct the inquiry fairly and properly, or have it at ones abandoned. For his own part, it was to hint a matter of indifference. He had, to the best of his ability, performed his duty. (Hear, hear, and cheers.) He should be satisfied with whatever coons the house might think proper to pursue. All be asked was this—if they were to have an inquiry, at least let it be a fair one. (Hear, hear.) Let them not compromise the character of the Muse by a sham inquiry, or by the taking of es parte evidence. It was for them now to decide whether they would give their support to the hon. member for Montrose and him (Mr. Baillte) in their efforts fairly and properly to carry out this iavestiption, or whether they would give their support to the ministers of the crown in their bold and unblushing attempts to DAM* and defeat it. (Cheers.) Mr. HAWES briefly justified, against the complaiets of Mr. Bailie, the writings of the governor, and the conduct of the administration of British Guiana. Be tween 70,0001. and 80,0001. per annum kad been re cently wombed in the expenditure of that colony, and many melioration devised in its constitution. And now he proceeded to the case of Ceylon, and here he most protest against the course taken by the hoc. member, which was marked by hie usual want of imadosr. In the com mittee of inquiry the hon. =sabot Weight forward whole- sale charges agaiM the local geesesaisst. He talked et the same time about aboaderang Oa bigotry. He bad no doubt the hon. gentlemen wkbei be abandon the seas. A mon malicious ore sold aft be hand. The inquiry, as far as go verment was eamerwed, &sold go on. It should Ina fair in quiry. And wits* would tie louse say whoa he stated that kers had bon no retool of the witnesses ? And now be would state to the hotTiiiiestlywhatiiertake place. On Saturday, the 28th of July, 1649, a moths was made In that house that the Waal:, by a 'sled ememittes should not continue, but that a essatision shield be appointed to inquire on the spot, that having bess ended in the committee by the casting vets of the eitairmaa, sad the muting vote of the chairman alone. The hoses divided upon that sad rejected the recom mendation of the eammitus, sad that was the Insult that the hors paths= semplained of. Now, was it rejected by go 'samaras retie ea Sat serails Was there a majority of seeable@ at the negativing that notion ? ea far from that, es at the divides lb' he found there were members osomnested with the mernatent, for the media, th; agaime di. So that the ledspeadent mem be of the beams, es east, setsolly "Ned ewe to the against the ;families of the bus leaden= moil the remoistion of the emenadelea Dm what passed la the bras es that mat. mks was vs" iseperlost It was sesentl—esi he wee now @peados la the mane of the deli bes as Siamma the wombs kr Rlpoa , who Mk port fa that mai of the Delis ised, ef the lesamey, wise beim*, Semi= Ma he sated—it woe prepaid to the bosomy the tint Ma, mammas the mew l s - kr Rims thse She sow *odd "nese es the *nim Haseisemi *said name the alias= wbem whhed bi to ad. Nis amble friend behind his la the emotes et the debate said he tally agreed with what Mao from the right ken. gen tians& the lambs for Rip's, that the eammielse should most sad amiss the mimeses, mad that ii the themes" were among thsliathasy of State would Odra um is ham them sammatal. The samaritan did meat Ind did amities them, sad these Stamm were at this mement is this es retry wahing for amealastioa. (Hem bear.) Now all Shim had bees soppremed by the hae gentles.* in his state ment. The. was a MIOUOII ethosqueatly made—sad be woo messiUsgly sorry that he Slowed it to pus annissielp-4thre was a meths linsinly carried thimewarde ilia he would reed he the those, sad this be with* reed to the home the repast of the orwwiMea The othiethea we, "That thedisinema ambedwel sod temsai te ammonia* with the fisersesey of See as to the oesasery whams to be ordered hem to glee Mime before the entatithe in the sassing sessisa." And now what was the ropes ? " That mesas Mold be adethed by the Secretary of State to ensure the atterimes Was the esesmittee of the Queen's Advomes at Omits of Hags& Wausau, and of snob others wham mileage Ulf be seamory to explain sad establish the dommatimmen coder which saftial law wee ma* posthisted Ceyloa." Wes there anything is thal mak et wee there anything is the resolution that he hod reed, width gave t . dent of the amunittee Ste absolute power, indepsodent of the Secastery el State, cc of the asimistes, to nosabsase the witaasess ? That wee the Ant maim be pot, was there lurking that gave him that pewit ? He thought there was not. Well, but what took Mee ? And new he same to the point that there was no Word of witness'. He bed told them that the visions Mars& by the ecomaittes were here and reedy to be essmissi. He ad set woad": that that marainatioa was Ors* fires. On the 28th of November, three months alias the committee bad broken up, without any smainsistion with the Sesoftry of State, and upon the simple itemisation of the hos insaman, he called upon the Secretary of Slate to order the witnesses home. Now he maid the beet. gestleman bad no power to do that, nor : ad the 0001110ineliby say renthation, or by its report, delegsted say mob pow to him. What course did the Secretory of State take be emus Bari Grey took wee thief- H. said, "the witseisire cemented by the committee shall be in attendance. The ether witnesses, inasmuch as 'I rennet admit that you Lan the tole power to nomisats them. I shall leave yo u committee to de ci de upon when they meet." la the meentime there were witnesses ordered by the com mittee, whose examinetion could be wooded with, and there were other important winnows in tide country sufficient to fully occupy the attention of the committee for some time. It ere a St ripes question, and • the louse could hardly be awake to it, that the witneuse would sot cost the emit, awake than from 4001. to 7001. each. Was the Secretary of State to take the responsibility upon himself, without any direction, except that of the chairman of the committee ? lie thought it was • Lirquestion for the Secretary of State to hesitate about, whether or not these witnesses should he ailed .n the simple request of the chairman. But now the bola. gentleman talked &host abandoning the Inquiry, bemuse thus witnesses were not here. Let him suppose for • wand that his honourable friend Lord Grey beef actually cooeeded to his request. Was not the h , tise led to suppose that, if his request had lien acceded to, the wit nesses would have hien here ? Was not that the fair im pression ct the house from the statement of the hon Gentle men ? (Hear, hear.) Why, the hon. gentlemen's letter was written at the end of November ; it could not have gone out to Ceylon till the succeeding Dec saber mail ; it could sot have arrived till the end of linear, * end the witnesses could not have been hers till the mid .le of February. When the committee met, if the committee should decide, after hearing what could be said upon these special whines es, to call this incisor evidence ' the witnesses could be ; and therefore, really and fairly, the hoeourable gentleman ha.' utterly mistaken the coupe taken by Lord Grey. Witnesses had not been re fwd. Witnesses were brought se the enthruilin d•sired. () her witnesses were here; there was al.undant evide,ce to go on with for some time to come, and, as he believ.d, &id after the witnesses could arrive should they be summoned at the earliest opportunity. Thenfoie them was no retinal of wit nano, end the witaemes of the committee were on the time, with whom the inquiry could b., continued. Now, he thought it right, as he bed begun with it, to etate that h , protected against the count taken by the hon. gentle man in the sleet of this inquiry. With etitt.c•a s ready to be es . mined the hccourable gentleman chose to bring forward three fresh chuges in the house, in order if he could to prejudice the course of that inquiry, and he singled out one individual, Captain WOS'AI, who had issued what the hon. gentleman was pl. ivied to call a savage proclamation, he being one of the wilnetus was over here at this moment waiting for examination, and he thought it ineonsiefent with the ends of jostle,, while he was here, actually in obedience to hie own IMEDIUOTIS, tooak this gratuitous attack upon that officer. He pr. nna.d the house would not refuse to go on with the inquiry ; he pre sume(' hat the housP would not, after the impute ion that bad been made, refuse the governor of the colony the opportunity of vindicating himself and his goy; raiment trout the gray. charges that had beenbrought against them. If the con tr t when it met, should assign any ground tar the cal:it g of trash witnesses be knew of no objection. Worn the rame• of the tour gentlemen summoned by the bon. steel. nous were proposed it would be his duty to give tome re ;use. whether they should be coiled. lie should swerve that entirely for the committee. its should not make a personal attack upon individual. in this house without due consideration and due notice. But, with resavi to one of them, there were reasons which he thought the committee would see the force of. trader then circum stances, inasmuch ;aft there was nothing to prevent this, inquiry going on, and being carried on to its moat legitimate extent—as four or fire vicuna were here, se a large man of documentary evidence wail ready—he trusted the house would agree with him that the committee should be re , appointed; and it it was reap pointed it would not be the finely of the government if the inquiry was not cassie el oat: to the fullest extent. Mr. HUME would assure the honourable no .mher who had just at down, that as long as he had the honour of a seat in this house, he would do his utmost to cause thre atrocious proceedings in Ceylon to he eif , ed to the bottom. He need not be under any claim that there would at be inquiry. The hon. member had thought fit to inter,ret the speech of his hon. friend to mean teat he wished to give up the case. He (Mr. Hume) had no such intention ' • there fore the hon. gentleman should have his full sitisfasteen. He would show the fairness of that which his hon. friend meant to do. His hon. friend had likeaed the promenings in Ceylon to the proceedings in Hungary. The proceedings in Hungary were mild is comperison. ("Hear," and • laugh.) He would provo it. If be ever utlered a speech in that home he was ready to prove it, and he bad done so. He mierit have made some he could not prove. (Laughter.) He was nut infallible. (Hear.) He did not wish to mix up Ceylon with Guiana, because he had • c implete a-saver to that. Bi• with regard to Ceylon, the hon. gentleman took upon him self, with a regime of effrontery that he never saw eq-r-+lled— (a laugh)—to show that this was a mere conspiracy on the part of some individuals. Did he believe that a me•• con spiracy could bring to the table of that house • p.tition signed by nearly five thousand persons, and another signed by thirty-nine thousand pence ? Tne truth of the allegation of those petitions he believed, and he asked hen. gentlem. r, who might not be altogether so well informed on the re j' to wait and see the proof, and then if there wee one man in that house who would deliberately rise and sty teat teat was not • tic and proper subject of inquiry, be should In utterly confounded. He should not therefore enter i .to details, but he should state the course which government had taken, and which had pieced them in the situation they . were bow in. He must confess in the committee upstairs, after the house had rejected the recommendation of the cam mitten to appoint • commission to proceed to the spot, he obected to prove. ding with the inquiry here ; and w h y ? The petitions that he presented from the inhabitants of Cellen contained allegations of griev ances lo great and so multiform that he conceived the truth could not be ascertained by the committee here, and could be ascertained only by • commission on the spot. Here were grave and serious charges, forcing the production of private letters, but still detailing acts of atrocity which the commit tee were alarmed at and considered of the most aggravated nature. They were unable to follow out the evidence to the conclusion by the separation of the house, and they pro posed this commission not to allow it to hang os. r till an other session, but in order to have the matter property in quired into and to have justice done. He had no feeling whatever with respect to any man in Ceylon, but he had a great desire to see justice done to the oppressed. He saw thousands, end tens of thousands, under the rod of the op pressor, and with no means by which justice could be obtained. He therefore recommended a commission, and the coin mittee agreed to it. His honourable friend in the must unwarrantable meaner sad Capt. Watson and Mr. Selby were their enamel. He (Mr. Hume) ob jected to any witnen being brought at all. How could the hon. gentleman father upon him the nomination of any wit. limes when be objeved, and persevered to the last moment in objecting to them. He admitted that' difference of opinion existed in the committee, but the majority of the committee on the assurance of the noble lord, that every facility would be given to bring home all such witnesses as could elicit the truth to be examined by the committee. He would state what took place in the committee. He could have named, and did name a dozen witnesses. lie had been entrusted solely with the petition, and net knowing the witnesses that would prove the allegations in the petition, how could he take upon himself to recommend so many witnesses being brought over without communicating with the petitioner and asking them who they had to make good their evidence? The matter was discussed, and the members of the committee would bear in mind this fact, that Captain Watson and Mr. Sells wen named, not by his honourable friend or him, but because Captain Watson, in a letter fere tike committee, was accused of having burned villages and directed the confiscation of property ; that: he had takes possession of that confiscated property, and in some instances had rendered no account of it ; end the cont. mittee said, " We must have this gentleman, at any rate, to explain this conduct." Mr. Selby, again, was supposed to have gone to the chief justice to try to save the life of a priest who was now proved to have been perfectly innocent. Mr. Selby also went to Lord Tomngton, and told him that, from ell the information be could obtain, the priest was altogether innocent; that the evidence had been given by a father and son, both of whom were candidates for office under government, and that their statements were not to be credited. When Mr. Selby went to Lard Torrington, his lordship was reported to have said, "I do not care if all the proctors are of opinion that this man is innocent, I should not believe it, but he shall be hanged." Mr. Selby was to be brought to prove that. Mr. Selby was not Implicated, but Captain Watson had committed a great portion of the atrocity. Was he the man to tell them of that ? And who else had they They had Sir Emerson Tenor t he was told. He should prove before the committee that most ex traordinary efforts had been made to collect evidence to enable Sir Emerson Tenant to contradict the evi dence which had bean given. They had had copies of the evi dence, they bad gees through the whole of it, and had now deputed, as be understood, under the hand of an in dividual fa wheat lesplaeed the highest eonfidenee, they had now deputed Sir Emerson T. anent to come home, to bolster up the emeat of Lord Torrington. Who was Sir Berms Tersest ? He was the secretary of the wie lded goreasmat. He was the last man to be examined. Be therefor* said they had no evidence whatever in sup port el these petitions. He therefore considered it was idle to tell the committee it was a furtherance of justice to go as, end that there was a fair chance of fair play when they had refused to send for these four individual' that were mated, for it was said that the evidence of these four men would las sufficient to establish all the facts. He was utterly ate less to understand how his hon. friend could justify what he had now stated, that the committee had not the power to delegate to the chairman the selection of wit nesses. He appealed to those who were present that this was what took place. They were not able to state exactly the number they wanted; there waren number of Individual whom he might desire to bring forward, but he would waive his desire to Isola& a number if the committee would give 1 authority to the chairman to summon theme witnesses after doe inquiry of the parties. And in the resolution which he hen, Mend had reed, he would find that Captain Watson, Mr. Selby, gad such other witnesses, were included ea might be indented by the chairman of the committee, and which Its did intimate try the end of November or the be • ginning of December. He could not reeendie the (endued of government with that sense of justice which ought to be entertained by a rasa in the situation of the noble lord at the bead of her Majesty's government, a man whom he had always believed was desirous to me justice done to every man--a man whose word they ought to have taken, and en whose ateurance he for one Gould in some degree depend. But he had no dependence whatever on the Secretary of State for the Colonial Department. (" Oh.") lie had not ; he never had. He liked to be candid. Since the acts of that noble lord in regard to the colony of Br fish Guiana and other places—sets which had come to his know kdge—had been committed, he would not believe his word or his writing. And now he came to an independent wit ness. He appealed to the right hon. baronet the member for Ripon, bemuse be believed that but for his interference the house might bars heallated to reject the recommenda tion of the committee. He would ask him whe ther his naderatandleg of the assurance of the noble lord, whether the second speech he made on that occasion was not entirely owing to the as serene. given by the noble lord that every tscility should be elven to the calling of witnesses ? The committee met, but as rarliernent was about to be prorogued the next day, they could not determine on the witneset s, and the next best thing they could do was to &lewdte to the chairman the power of summoning witnesses. He asked the right hon. baronet if th was not carrying out legitimately the assursece of the noble lord, If when they met they had no witnesses to examine but the parties to the crime, that would I be foreign to his ideas of justice, and what the hon. (oedemata said was perfectly correct; they must poet pone it till they pot other witnesses. And let him say that these witnesses the hon. member referred to were public servants He did not know them, hut it was stated that they were honourable men, He said it was an attempt to stop the course of puf , :icjusticet It was an attempt to pre vent en inquiry into an affair in which the lives of her Majetty's subjects had heal sacrificed. 22 men had been shot, 21 banished, and 86 imprisoned, all owing to the reek. lemmas of the Governor of Ceylon. Whatever course her jesty'e goverament took, he (Mr. Hume) felt satisfied that something must very speedily be done. (Hear, hear.) Mr. DISRAELI said that the question which they had to consider was one of a very simple character, and should be confined eniboly to the consideration by the house of the understanding which had been arrived at between the coon miree and the government on the subject. He should there fore tiseko no reference to the proceedings at Ceylon, of which (nay might or not have had testimony, but he should endeavour to place before the house the qu.s ion upon which he thought they were called upon co express an opinion and give a decision. The house would recollect that on nearly the last day of lot s.ssion the cox :mass to ported an tzprendon of their opinion that a com mission should he sent out to Ceylon to inquire into and re port upon certain circumstances. He would mention as a fact that he bad in that committee proposed a compromise to the hon. gentleman the Under Secretary of Sate for the Colonies, which vr , a 'mond of by the right hon. gentle. man the member fox Ripon (Sir James Graham), who re gretted that the l,on. under-secretary had not accepted it. N..veithelese the right hon. gentleman had not only thought It hest that the resolution of the com mittee should not be sanctioned by the house, but in opposing it he (Sir James Graham) had expressed a very qualified disapprobation of the course which had been recommended. After the circumstances which had occurred in the house and what had happened in the com mittee, it ie. med to him to be vim decisive as to the inten tions both of the government and of the committee, and he did not think tor a moment that any doubt could have been entertained of the meaning of the committee and of the gov. rnment, bad not the hon. gentleman (Mr. Howes), in plating the ciecumstances before the house, PO trans Fuses the impends; documents upon which the whole merits of the question depended, that he con veyed to toe hoots an impression exactly contrary to that which eczema. (Hear, hear.) The hon. gentle man bad rend first the document which really seemed last. (hoar, bear.) The hon. pent! man read this resolution as naviiip.e beat can- d by the committee on its being constitu ted. (The hon. member re:•d the resolution referred to re ported in Mr. Haw s's speech. He then continued): it was a motion made, he honeyed. by Mr. Hume, and then the hon. gentleman, the Unoer.Secretary of State for the Coloni made that resolution the basis of the report which he afterwards read s e having horn drawn up in consequence of the resole' ^n to -hick he (Mr. Disraeli) had just referred. The hon member read the passage in the report wt leh had been read by Mr. If awes, and which will be found in the r. p art of Mr. Haw s's speech.) The hon.gentic man continued : Hr begged the house to observe that that !floor was drawn up, and that paragraph rted upon an amendment pro posed by himself, aad the whole paesed the committee before the resolution to which the hon. gentleman referred as the bads of the re ort was carried. He would now lay before the house the Most conclusive evidence as to the meaning wnich the committee attached to the understanding that had been arrived at with the government. When he (Mr. Disraeli) drew up that paragraph of the report he put in the names of the Queen', Advocate in Ceylon, and of Captain Watson, leavimi space for the insertion of other names, fur it was utterly impossible at the moment from the hurried m airy rin which the committee sat to arrive at a proper undemanding with regard to other names. Amember oath* committee proposed t add the name of Col. Fester, but it was immediately observed that as it had been agreed cot to in s-r the names of the witnesses, but to have some under standing with the author Lies of the Colonial-office, in order that the subject might be more matured, it would be inex pedient to agree to pet in the name of C •lonel Frazer. Upon the motion of Lord lietham it was then settled that the name of Colonel Darer should not be inserted in the list of witnesses, and that the chairman of the committee should be authorised to communicate with tho Colonial- Gam for the larvae of naming tee witnesses that would be re quired. (Hear, hear.) In his opinion the case was a complete one. lie did not think it would be just it the house, under then' circumstances, deserted its com mittee ; and he felt great co nfi dence that if the right hon. member for Ripon (Sir James Graham) would act in a stiuightfur yard manner he would ex; rem an opinion similar to that which he (Mr. Disraeli) entertained, that toe conduct of government had ta en of a tencency at least to evade a lair inquiry. (Cheers ) Ile was for pro ceeding with the investigation and for assenting to the motion of the hon. per Osman, but he should beg to move the addition of the following words: " That in assent ing to the re.apponitment of the select committoe fur an inquiry into the grievances complained of by the inhabi tants of Ceylon against the administration of that island, the house deems it raped' eat to express its disapprobation of the manner in which her Majesty's government have evaded the unit. rstatdiog arrived at last session for the production eif witnesses from Callon." (Cheers.) The amendment having been read, Lord JOHN RUSSELL said that as he was the prin cipal person with whom the understanding referred to had been arrived at, the house would naturally think it was necessary for him to address them upon the subject of the censure which had been pronounced on his conduct by the hon. gentleman who had just spoken. In doing so be must bee to recall to the recollection of the house that it happened at the end of the last session of parlirment. The committee' came to a reselui on, alter several of its mem bers had left London, that it was expedient to appoint a commission to go out to Ceylon and examine witnesses. Whet. that motion was brought before the house he had op posed it as one that woul I destroy all authority in the island of Ceylon, and he stated at the time that either Lori Torrington should be immediately recalled or that the house should refuse to appoint that commission. The house, upon his representation, he believed, agreed with him in the opinion that the commission ought.not to be appointed. But in the course of that discussion it appeared that the honourable member for Buckinghamshire (Mr. Disraeli) had moved in the committee as a different and perhaps preferable course that certain witnesses should be summoned before that committee; and in speaking of the subject he (Lord John Russell) said he believed, in answer to something which fell from the right hon. baronet the member for Ripon (Sir James Graham), that the wit - nesses could be sent for, and could he in attendance for the next cession of psrliament. (Hear, hear.) The words which he had said upon that subject, as he found them mooned, were " That if the committee were to meet again, and propose to examine certain witnesses from Ceylon, there could be no difficult, in summoning those witnesses, unless some unusual impediment, should occur, in time to be present when the committee should meet." He (Lord J. Russell) had some apprehensions, and apprehen sions which were not unnatural seeing what had happened that the plain sense of those words might he distorted, that the hon. gentleman who then expressed his readiness to with draw his motion might perhaps afterwards pervert the plain sense of those words and, instead of sayiag that the witnesses named by the committee should be summoned, might put some other interpretation upon the proposal that he (Lord John Russell) then made. He, therefore, determined, according to the advice of the right hon. memoer for Ripon (Sir J. Graham), that he would not allow the motion to pass if he could prevent it, and the house agreeing with him, had rejected it. The hon. gentlemen, therefore, could not ray that he withdrew his motion or was ready to give up any advantage that he could have from the opinion of the house in consequence of that statement of his (Lord John Russell's.) (Hear, hear.) When the com mittee met the next day it appeared that they came to the resolution which the hon. gentleman opposite had read. They came to the resolution that certain witnesses, that the Queen's Advocate and Capt. Watson, and such other wit nesse! whose evidence might be necessary, should be sum moned, and that a communication should be bad with the Secretary of State for the Colonies for the purpose. In coming to that resoluti , m they went beyond anything he had stated in the house ; they went, as he conceived, be yond the recognised powers of a parliamentary committee. (Hear, hear.) They stated that certain witnesses should be summoned from Ceylon. So far everything was ugular ; but in proposing further, that each of the witnesses as might be necessary should be summoned from Ceyloa, this meant one of two things. They meant either that the chairman should communicate with the Secretary of State for the Colonies, end state to him the reasons why these certain other witnesses were required to be summoned and ask his concurrence to that step being taken, or else they meant that the chairman of the committee should have the absolute right of commanding and controlling the Secretary of State for the Colonies, and of giving orders t him with respect to the summoning of any witnesses that might be required. He submitted to the house, with regard to this latter interrelation, that it never could have been meant that the chairman of the committee should have this absolute power tonsil for six months ; that he should have the dimes tionary power of calling any witnesses he might choose, and that his noble friend the Secretary of State for the colonise had nothing to do but to obey his orders. (Hear, hear.) But if that was not the interpretation of what had the hon. gentleman who made the motion to complain ? In the end of November last the hos. ;gentleman, the chairman of the committee, wrote • letter, which he held in his hand, which required that the Secretary of State for the Colonies should summon four wit nein' from Ceylon, giving no reason whatever for the demand. He stated that the evidence of those four persons was neces sary, but he gave no other reason whatever why they should be summoned. He did not state what it was they would be celled upon to prove. Lord Grey answered that letter by stating that he did not conceive that he posed the power to summon the witnesses mentioned; that t could not but lead to very considerable expense; and as Lord Grey was notaware that a parliamentary committee pesseseed the power of dell. gating to its chairman the power of determining what witneues were necessary to the inanity, be did not feel him. self at liberty to incur the expense that would be ocasiened. But without alluding any further to what had passed with regard to himself, he could not but say that he deeply regretted that the hon. gentleman the chairman of the committee should have taken this occasion to raise what might be considered a very painful and excit ing discussion relating to the o*in of Ceylon. The hon. gentleman perhaps was net aware,touther with the !to n mem ber for Montrose (Mr. Hume) of the cunt q fence of this fresh inquiry. The governor of Ceylon had just put down what they considered to have been a very formidable conspiracy sad incipient insurrection, which might have led to muc h bloodshed and much destruction of life and property—(6%4 abeers)—in that Wand. Whether in putting it down, and in pusithing the participators, tke noble lord had acted with greater rigour than was necessary, was a question upon which a committee had been appointed. It was a mom im portant inquiry, affecting not only the character of that governor, but affectieg our auth xity in all pars of the world. (Cheers.) Statements had gone fork to Ceylon— made by persons en the authority of that committee— most dangerous to the maintenance of order in that coleny, where it was well known that the white population bore but a very email proportion to the two millions sad a halt of natives. Reports had been spread soonest that population that the legal authority of the governor was at an end; that they had no necessity to obey his authority ; and the parties spreading these reports had said that they new from their communication+ with the hon. member for Montrose and the committee that Lord Torricgtoe was to be recalled. (dear) He did think it would have been better to has: e snidest such exciting topics, and to have permitted the rexypoin'tnetit of the committee, and to have the question calmly inquired into. Sir J. GRAHAM lied been so pointedly alluded to fey more than one honourable member in the counts tf the debate, that he cols( not refrain from speaking, though he was very unwilling to protract the debate, which had been conducted with mote heat than be themcht the subject required. He knew nothing of the matter excepting what had occurred at the ex.d of last se "'inn, and what he had e 'fleeted from the report of the committee, and from other organs of public opinion. The matter whim had been pressed upon the consideration of the house was a epiestion as to the understanding which Lad been arrived at between the house and the government at the eril of the last session. It had been his misfortune to c nue into mill. pion with the noble lord opposite on many political questions, and he must say, having known the noble lord for very many years, he knew no men lest capable of endeavouritg to avoid any engagement or obligation into which l e h o d entered. (Hear, hear.) He %new no momher of that house who, from his constitutional principle', unhesitatinely adhered to through • long political life, would be so little disposed to attempt to evade any enquiry Insisted upon by a committee appointed by the great inquest the nation : he could not ht lien that the noble lora would nick • such an attempt without the most sati‘Letory and conclusive evidence. That was his g: neral opinion, rend it '4 :.s entirely home out by what took place at the and of last session. He did think that the linden:and- Mg then come to between the noble lord and the committee was confined to this—that the committee should meet on the earliest day atter the debate was closed ; that they shoal consider the cocumentary evidenee which it would be necessary to have supplied from Ceyioo, and that it should consider what witness, a it wouli be I . ..seamy to have summoned. (hear, hear.) That was the under standing, he believed, that had been arrived it; and, looking to what had occurre 4 he must say that that understar ding had been crmplied with. It appeared, however, that el el. collies arose in fixing on the names of the persons to beiume mooed, and that power was given, by a vote of he committee, to the chairman of nominatleg these witnesses to the Secretary of State. He must say his impression was that that vote went far beyond the understanding sr, ich had been ente red into He thought the noble lord had fulfilled to as :eau the engagement which he had entered into. But, re .:Iy, that was not so much the question for the house to con sider—these were points of secondary ineportancn. The great question for them to consider was, not whether a vote of censure should be pawed without any previ'.us notice having been given—what they had to consider was, what the ends of justice required. He extremely reetretted that hon. members should nave carried on the discueson with too mull excitement; and, anxious that the committee sbnuld be re-appointed. he should vote for the motion of the hoc. gentleman, the Under Secretary for the Colon:es. Mr. FOX MAULE defended the character of Maier. General Smelt and Colonel Drought from the aspersions which had been thrown out. The latter gentlemen was not a youne of cer. he had been 35 ye .r. in her Majesty's ser vine, 33 of which he bad been on full pay. That gall est officer had bthaved with remarkable zeal and intelligence, under the most difficult circumstances. Mr. BRIGHT said he rose to offer one or two obscrea done, which he should not have made but fee the amend ment of the hoe member for Backs, who had not P .. . 01111 great tact as a leader in the reso:ution he ha' submeted. (Hear, hear.) There was a pretty . general opinion cc both aides the house, that the course tanen by Lerd Grey, if not intended to evade inquiry, at least laid him open to sarong suspicion of it ; and he was ewe no one en the bench on which hn sat would be disposed to sanction such conduct. But the hon. member's proposition bad been made without any notice, without any one supposing that so grave a questicn as a Tots of censure on the government woe to be brought forward. (Hear. hear.) The meters was one of direct eisapproval of the conduct of the government, though it was quite possibes that the entree taken hid been taken by misappre hension on the part of wee member of 'he g vernment, and who was not then "'meat to state pr. cisely the motives from which he had acted. With regard to the question itself, he thought Lord Grey entirely wrong in the course he had taken ; and there was a fallacy in the explaration that had been given by the right hon. baronet the member for Ripon. He did net think the committee were to be bound, in the course they took, by any expression which had fallen from the noble lord at the head of the government; they ought to be left at liberty to take the course usually taken by committees, which was to lease a considerable power in the halide of their chairman with regard to the summoning of witnesses; and this course was of great advantage to the business of its committees. In this cafe, the course taken had been precisely the right one, and the only one which it was in the committee's power to take ; for they had not then the nom • before them, and could not poesibly obtain them without cimmunicating with Ceylon. They requested their chair man to make such communication ; and, when he received his answer, it was his duty to proceed to the Colonialeefiee an i hand in the names o' such parties as he believed to be substantial witnesses, for the purposes of the inquiry. The hen. member for Inverness-shire did so; and the witnesses he proposed to call were precisely thole whom the house would believe ought to be called, in order to give informa tion on the point. They were LieuteCalonel Braybrooke, Lieut. Henderson (of the Ceylon Rifles), E. J. Waring, Esq. (police magistrate), and Mr. Jahn Selby, advocate, brother (be believed) of the Queen's advocate. Had the hon. gentleman acting for the committee called three or tour men of no character, or of unknown character—men who might be supposed to be strong partisans against Lord Tor rington, and from whom only • very coloured and garbiel account of them) transactions might be supposed likely to be obtained—then Lord Grey might have heritated. As it was he protested against the noble lord refusing to summon these persons, and refusing almost entirely on the ground of ex pense. ("No," from the opposition benches.) In s letter addressed to the chairman of the committee by the hon. gentleman the Under Secretary for the Colonies, he vaid : Lord Grey Is not aware that a parliamentary committee povaeer the power of delegating to its chairman the power of deridinr witnesses are to be called for; and his lordship does not fee. in. at liberty, without the express authority of the committee, to a the heavy expense which would be occasioned ;by directing the tendency of the additional witnesses where names you b.i , o zirt r.. it had been expressly understood that two or more wr. news should be called ; and it certainly was not unreason' able that the chairman should select four, respect.sble MO, and parties whom the committee might fairly examine. The number certainly did not exceed what it might be sup posed the committee required to be called, when they left at tts their chairman to choose such others as it might be necessary to examine. He agreed in what had been said as to the impropriety of the course taken by Lord Grey; it was a very bad thing for his own case, for Lord Torrirgton, and for the government, that he should have hesitated in a swatter like this. The noble lord at the head of the govern ment said this was a very exciting subject in the cutesy. No doubt of it ! But the proper way to put down excitement in that colony, and to prevent it stetting up in others, was for that hoes. to show the most determined resolution, to have the fullest and 'speediest inquiry which the circumstances would permit. If the hen, member for Bucks would substitute for his motion—e Thee the witnesses whose names were handed in to the Colonel:- office be forthwith summoned to attend this committee' —he (Mr. Bright) should be extremely happy to vote with hint ; and that would sufficiently show the opinion of the house with regard to their not having been called sty Lord Grey; but he would not, under the circum steams, consent to vote for the motion the hon. gentlemen bed made ; and he did not like to go into the same lobby with the government on this motion without this brief ex planation of his reasons for doing so. (Hese, hear.) After a few remarks from Major BLACKALL, Mr. DISRAELI justified himself in having proposed what wee equivalent to a vote of censure on the government without proper notice, and consented to withdraw his amendment in favour of that proposed by Mr. Bright. Mr. VERNON BAITS thought the proposition of the member for Manchester premature. The Committee *era to be reappointed in a few days, and might themselves determine upon the evidence they should requite. Lord J. RUSSELL, accepting the amendment of Mr. Disraeli es a vote of censure, would not consent to its withdrawal. The home divided, when there appeared— For the amendment 6B Against A second division took place on the amendment of the member for Manchester, which was negatived by a niajority of 109 to 100, and 6 o'clock having arrived the house adjourned. :~~.~:~ PARLIAMENTARY BUSINESS FOR THIS _ _____ EVENING. HOUSE OF LORDS. ORDER OP THR DDS. Regisuses Mike Bankrurt4 Bill, to be committed. HOUSE OF COMMONS. NOTICES OF MOTION. Commit -ran or th.nonox.—Mr. W. I'ATTEN, to man this committee; Mr. °SEMI, Sir K. FaaoteoN, Mr. h. Dunmore, and the Chairman of Committee on Standing Orden.