The Sun. — London, England, 1848-07-12 00:00:00

SPAIN. [The following appeared in our Third Edition of last night]:— Aecounts from Madrid of the sth instant state that the QUEEN was to leave at midnight on the 6th for La Granja. General NARVAEZ was to follow on the 9th or 10th, and the Minister of the Interior on the 15th, after which period all the members of the Council, will be united a4t La Granja. General Count Mut.a.sot took possession on the sth of. the Captaincy- General of Madrid. The deficit in the Bank of San Fernando was calculated at about 20,000,000 reals. The bank, however, was in a condition to meet all its engh.gements. The; Foment°, Barcelona journal, of the sth inst., anticuric:es that CABRERA had positively entered Ca talonia, at the head of twenty horsemen, and that he had , been seen a few days before at Borreda. The Journal des Debats publishes the following letter, dated Catalonia, 4th inst.:— It appears, from an official report, that the three columns, commanded by Brigadier Manzano, Colonel Zauch, and Lieut.-cionel Boilll fell in, on the 28th ult., a t three o'clock 1 . ;'• with 500 Montemolinists, com manded by Cabrera, Boquica, Castell, and others. The engagement took pace near Samales, a village situate be tween Barcelona and Matano, within 30 kilometres of the former and 20 of the latter. Cabrera and his followers occupied two steep hide, easily defended, from which the Queen's troops dislodged them at the point of the bayonet, after various movements, which lasted upwards of six hours. The Montemolinists lost twelve killed, whose bodies were found on the field of battle, thirty wounded, and twenty prisoners ; they had besides five horses killed. The Queen's troops, consisting of detachments of the regiments of the King and Union and of the battalion of chasseurs of Alba de Tormas had but one soldier killed and 11 wounded—two of them were officers. Cabrera and his partisans assem bled again on the 30th on the heights of Monseny, within . five myriametres of Barcelona. It is assured that • a high personage, supposed to be the younger brother of Count de Montemolin, accompanies incog. the celebrated chief. It is added that Cabrera, who wears a splendid uniform of a Spanish Gene ral and a :white beret, never speaks to that person age without uncovering himself, and that everybody, the chaplains included, treats him with the greatest respect. Fears are entertained that before a month the insurrec iton wall have assumed a formidable aspect. Several new bands have appeared on different points." RAILWAY COMMITTEES. (YESTERDAY.) HOUSE OF LORDS GROUP No. 4.— MANCHESTER, SHEFFIELD, AND LINCOLNSHIRE (Humber Ferries Improvement at Hull and New Holland).—Case and opposition further c onsidered. GROUP No. S.—CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD (Power to Puriethase Steam-boats). —The opposition of the City of Dublin and other steam-boat companies fur ther considered. It was proposed that the power con tained in the should be conferred upon the company, so far as they related to the carrying of passengers; but that they should be restricted from enjoying the lit ht goods traffic between this country and Ireland. Of co,arse this proposal was rejected by the promoters, and the case was further considered ou its merits. GItOUP No. S.—GLASGOW, PAISLEY, KILMARNOCK, AND AYR (Revision of Maximum Tolls). —The object of this Bill is to enable the Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock, and Ayr Company to revise their existing tariff of charges. Case opened. ELECTION COMMITTEE. DUBLIN. The scrutiny into the validity of Mr: Reynolds' ma jority t la resumed yesterday, and in the course of the day L e petitioners succeeded in striking off four additional vote:. COLONIAL BANKING COMPANY. The general half-yearly meeting of the shareholders in this company was held yesterday, at the London Tav'rn; A. Colville, Esq., chairman of the company, in the -chair. The report, which was read by Mr. CALVERT. the secretary. deprecated generally the course of legislation for the West India Islands which the Government has adopted, and ascribed the inability of the directors to declare a dividend to the commercial adversity endured by the colonies in consequence. The debit side of the account showed a circulation of 207,7261. 6s. Bd.; the deposit and liabilities are 773,968/. 95.; the auaount of paid-up capital being 500,0001. On the ether hand the assets are in specie, 198,0751. 10s.; bills discounted and purchased, 622,133/. 2s. 5d.; due to the bank in the colonies on cash credits and current ac counts, 174,9301. 18s. 9d.; due to the bank in London on bills remitted, cash at the bankers, &c., 483,542/. 95.9 d.; bahnce of bad and doubtful debts, 6,1751.55. 4d.; the hank premises, and other property at home and in the colonies, being valued at something more than 18,0001. The CHAIRMAN having spoken particularly of the stele of commercial depression in the colonies, and having goiat , through the other items of the report, stated that the profi.; on the bank's operations was 20,4581. 7s. 2d., which, thougth a sum amply sufficient to make a hand some dividend, the directors considered advisable, in the present stAte of the %Vest India interest, to carry to the general fund. They, therefore, declined proposing any dividend whatever. This course being approved of, thanks were voted to the chairman and directors, and the meeting was dis solve d. PERUVIAN BONDHOLDERS. A meeting of the holders of Peruvian Bonds was held yesterday at the London Tavern, to hear the state ment of a proposition which has been made to the cora naittoe of the South American Bondholders' Association by the Government of Peru. Mr. Robinson, chairman of the association, took. the chair. ,rho substance of the proposition was, that the pay ment of all principal and interest should be postponed till the year 1850—that the arrears of interest should be c c I talised— that the whole should bear interest at the rate of three per cent. per annum, commencing from Nov. 30, 1840, such rate to be increased half per cent. per annum yearly, till it reached six per cent.—that the old bonds should be cancelled, and new bonds issued, which, in lieu of the present lien upon the Customs' duties, should .be secured on one-third of the money received by the Peruvian Governments for the payment for guano. This proposition the chairman said had been maturely o ,oaaiderud by the committee, and they had unanimously resgived to advise a rejection of it in Coto, as it was neither more nor less than an attempt to 'evade a ll present responsibility with just as much uncertainty of payment in future to the bondholders as ta k ey now endured. Nevertheless, the committee were not there to dictate, but to state the case as it stood, and to 66:operate with the bondholders. .Mr. SNEEPER hoped that a counter proposition would be made to the Peruvian Government, agreeing to the c apitalisation of the arrears of interest and the rate of 'dividend to the shareholders, but requiring the security proposed now in addition to that already held; but Mr. Alderson explained from the original do cument which contained the proposition, that such was altogether incompatible with its terms, and Mr. Poules denounced the proposition as being in the highest degree unjust, inasmuch as the arrears were to be alto gether cancelled, for 1001. on each 1001. stock, when, in Met they amounted to 1501., and in the time to come the bondholiers, after the sacrifice, would be just as unsafe as at present. In reply to a proprietor, the CHAIRMAN stated that this proposition had been made before the arrival in Varna or Mr. Addams, who has been sent out as the agent of the British Government in PalmerstonnPeru,tliat htheathhade been told only last evening by Lord had (riven that gentleman instructions to press for the liqoi;:tation of the bondholders' claims as forcibly as possible on the Peru vian Gover n ment, and the com mittee, therefore, conceived that it would be unwise to take any step which might interfere with Mr. Addams' prwmedings. After some further conversation it was decided to take this course, and thanks having been voted to the chairman and committee, the meeting separated, MORTALITY in the METROPOLIS NUMBER OF DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES REGISTERED IN THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, JULY 8, 1848. Epidemic, Endemic, and Contagious Diseases ... 345 38 Diseases of Uncertain Seat ..• ••• ••• ••• Turbercular Diseases... ••• •,••• 216 Diseases or the Brain, Nerves, and benses..• ... 94 Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels ..• ... 28 Diseases of the Lungs, and other Organs of 76 Respiration ... ..•• ... Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs of Digestion Diseases of the Kidneys, &c. Childbirth, ••• Diseases of the Uterus, &c. Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles Diseases of the Skin, &c. —• ••• Malformations— ••• • • • ••• ••• Premature Birth •• ••• Atrophy Old Age ••• ••• ••• ••• ••• ••• ••• Sudden ... Violence, Privation, 6;la, o; . i ntem . p • erance • Causes not specified _ ••• 70 ... 22 ... 25 ... 13 DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES Palliation Average weekly Deaths Enumerated, Deaths, 1843-7. in the Five 1841. Springs. Week. West Dis. -,c13... 300,711 . . 143 ••• 160 North D—tric.ts.. 375,971 .• 182 ••• 191 c en uai Distr.zts 373,653 ••• 171 „, 161 E a st r'l..ricts ... 392,444 ... 199 ••• 220 Sout.- L ANAI - lets.. 50 1 , 190 ••• 248 ____. ... 238 ruta15.......• 1,948,369 sI) tlit.ef• 970 492 ... 478 BIRTHS IN THE WEEK. :f1 41 ) - i -) a iftill N;;.:•,* - - ---t—, , c•4 .';',9 ... 675 ... 607 ... 1,282 • g ig ;vols. ORTHOPEDIC HOSPITAL.—We are happy to announce that the benefits to be derived from this ex cellent institution have been recently extended to the public by the addition of three beds, making now a total of thirty•six beds. The Rev. George Kemp has also been lately appointed chaplain to the charity. SPORTING. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SlR,—The victory of Surplice on the Epsom Downs has not altogether decided the fate of the St. L e g er. Springy Jack is quite as elastic as ever, and, if anything, in better condition now than he was on the Derby day; this added to the shape, size (about sixteen hands), strength, and splendid condition of the new arrival from the " gem of the sea," which, by the way, if his late owner is to be believed, will do that" Justice to Ireland" and to the Duke of Bedford at Doncaster which so delighted the Irish division in '44 and '45. The above three, in addition to Loadstone, Flatcatcher, and one or two obscures, are all that are likely to con tend for the northern championship. The Flying Dutchman's running during the past week proves him to be a flyer indeed, and at all times "over the flat," will be found a most dangerous opponent; but on a close inspection I was inclined to think his staying qualities over a hilly course to be rather inferior than otherwise, and should consequently give the pas to his stable companion Elthiron for the Derby spin. Of the dark division engaged in the Derby of '49, I should select Uriel, Rebecca colt, Saucy Dick, Nunny kick, and John Bull, as the best to winter on. The Liverpool meeting this year is not by any means up to the mark, which may be attributed to various causes, among others the death of Mr. Etty, the late clerk of the course, whose indefatigable exertions of late years have so well seconded the plans of Lord G. Bentinck in rendering the Liverpool a first-rate meeting. The 200 Sovs. Produce Stakes, has out of twenty nomi nations from Derby cracks, Honey comb, The Flying Dutchman, the Rebecca colt, and Chantrey. Were they all to run, I should expect to see 'them pass the post in the order placed, but I believe Honeycomb, the colt, and Chantrey will be absentees, thus leaving the Flyer alone in his glory. The Sefton Stakes to Miss OrbelL The Mersey Stakes to Strongbow or Elthiron with a start, in their absence to Mr. Green. The Derby Handicap to Christopher, Sagacity, or Betty Swipes. The Foal Stakes to the Crazy Lad. The Match between Uriel and Fitzpatrick to the former, in a canter. The Liverpool St. Leger to Flatcatcher. The Aintree Stakes to Hard Shot, Strongbow, or Rowland, the last two for first and second places. The Liverpool Cup, with twenty-one acceptances, will have about fourteen starters, st lbi viz. : - st lb , Chanticleer, 5 yrs 9 2 Pillage, 4 yrs Cawroush, 5 yrs Grimston, 5 yrs Montpensier, 4 yrs Jovial, 4 yrs 7 2 Otterburn, 3 yrs Executor, 4 yrs 6 9 Sylvan, 3 yrs Ulysses, 4 yrs The four first at the finish, ought to be Glen Saddel, All's Well, Cawrouch, and Ulysses; Glen Saddel or All's Well for victor ; the other two being close up. I am, Sir, yours, &c., THE SPIRIT OF THE TURF. Tuesday morning. FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE OF TUESDAY. WHITEHALL, JOLT 8, 1848. The Queen has been pleased to grant unto John William Dupre, Esq., the office and place of Procurator- General in the island of Jersey, in the room of Sir Thomas Le Breton, appointed Bailiff of the said island. The Queen has also been pleased to grant to John Hammond, Esq., the office and place of Advocate- General of the island of Jersey, in the room of John William Dupr6, Esq., appointed Procurator-General of that island. CROWN-OFFICE, JULY 11. MEMBERS RETURNED TO SERVE IN THIS PRESENT PARLIAMENT. Borough of Great Yarmouth Joseph Sandars, jun., of Taplew House, in the county of Bucking ham, Esq. ; Charles Edmund Rumbold, of Preston Candover, in the county of Southampton, Esq.; the last election for the said borough having been declared void. Commission by the Lord• Lieutenant of Staffordshire. The Hon. Frederick Gough to be Deputy-Lieutenant, July 1, 1848. WHII ITHALL, JUNE 17. The Lord Chancellor has appointed Austen Treffry Mills, of Redruth, in the county of Cornwall, to be a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery. BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED. John Hancock, hosier, Earl Shilton, Leicestershire. BANKRUPTS. Robert Adkin, builder , Queen's-road, Notting-hill, Middlesex, to surrender July 18 and Aug. 25, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Whitmore, official assignee, Basinghall-street; Yenning and Co., Tokenhouse-yard, Lothbury. Isaac Freeman, grocer, Cambridge, July 21, and August 25, at two, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Cannan, official assignee, Birchin-lane; Meredith and Co., New square, Lincoln's-inn; Barley and Co., Ely, Cambridge shire. Edward Orme, innkeeper, Knutsford, Cheshire, July 24 and Aug. 14, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court. Pott, official assignee, Manchester ; Abbott, Lincoln's Inn-fields, London ; Atkinson, Saunders, and Atkinson, Manchester. Thomas Hanson, farmer, Letiney Barn, Lancashire, July 27, and August 11, at eleven, at the Manchester District Court. Hobson, official assignee, Manchester; Clarke, Gray, and Woodcock, Lincoln's Inn-fields, Lon don; Whitehead and Son, Rochdale. William Wylam and Joshua Greene, jun., merchants, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, July 20, and August 25, at one, at the Newcastle-upon-Tyne District Court. Baker, olicial assignee, Newcastle upon-Tyne ; T. and W . t;t a - ., r, Newcastle-upon-Tyne; Bell, Broderick, and Bell, Bow Church-yard, London. Chance Savage, sen., builder, Portsea, July 19, at one, and Aug. 23, at half-past two, at the Court of Bank ruptcy. Pennell, official assignee; Low, Chancery-lane; Price, Portsea. John Rhodes and James Rhodes, cotton spinners, Rochdale, July 26 and Aug. 15, at eleven, at the Man chester District Court. Hobson, official assignee. Man chester; Sharpe and Co , Bedford-row, Loudon; Holgate and Roberts, Rochdale. _ - William Sargent Denny, linen draper, Long Buckley, Northamptonshire, 'ltaly 18, at twelve, and Aug. 23, at half-past two, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Stansfeld, official assignee; Rickards and Walker, Lincoln's Inn fields, London. William Clotheir, mason, Quickset-row, New-road, Fitzroy-square, July 21 and Aug. 19, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Green, official assignee, Alder manbury ; King and Co., Temple. Thomas Kent, timber merchant, Great Brington, Northamptonshire, July 21, at twelve, and Aug. 19, at half-past eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Follett, official assignee, Sambrook-court, Basinghall-street ; Freeman, James•street, Bedford-row; Hicks, North ampton. Haynes Barrow Higginsons merchant, Liverpool, July 27 and Aug. 18, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court. Cazenove, official assignee, Liverpool; Sharpe and Co., Bedford-row, London; Lowndes and Co., Li verpool. Thomas Robson, agent, Manchester, July 24 and Aug. 14, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court. Fraser, official assignee, Manchester; Gregory and Co., Bedford row, Loudon; Cooper, Manchester. Jacob Forth, hatter, Nottingham, July 21 and Aug. 25, at eleven, at the Nottingham District Court. Bittles ton, official assignee, Nottingham; Bowley, Nottingham. Richard Hawkins, cheese dealer, Newuham, Glouces tershire, July 25 and Aug. 22, at eleven, at the Bristol District Court. Miller, official assignee, Bristol; smith, Newnham, and Bridges, Bristol. James Wynn, gas manufacturer, Falmouth, July 25 and Aug. 22, at eleven, at the Exeter District Court. Hirtzcll, official assignee, Exeter; Moorman, Falmouth; Bishop and Pitts, Exeter; Tippetts and Son, Pancras lane, Bucklersbury, London. John Bridgeford, printer, Sheffield, July 22 and Aug. 12, at ten, at Council-hall, Sheffield. Freeman, official assignee, Sheffield; Tattersall, Great James-street, Lon don; Bramley and Gainsford, Sheffield. William Drinkwater, draper, Liverpool, July 19 and Aug. 11, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court. B►rd, official assignee, Liverpool; Messrs. Norris and Co., Bedford-row, London; Tyre r, Liverpool. James Robson Duncan, woollen draper, Liverpool, July 19 and Aug. 11, at the Liverpool District Court. Tur ner, official assignee, Liverpool; Vincent and Co., Tem ple, London; Minshull, Liverpool. William Hignett, tobacconist, Liverpool, July 27 and Aug. 15, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court. Morgan, official assignee, Liverpool; Walker, Furnival's Inn, London; Bradley, Liverpool . (Dividends, &c., in our next.) THE SU'N, LONDON, dia, and sellers are disposed to make a further conces sion in the value; buyers on the other hand make sales with caution. Red Trinidad can be obtained at 38s to 425, and grey 35s to 38s. None at present has been offered at public sale. For Foreign there are few buyers, and holders are sellers at 32s to 344 per cwt. TEA.—To-day a good amount of business was trans acted privately, chiefly in Congou, and at dull rates. It is difficult to obtain sound clean under 8d per lb. Rim— To-day more inclination was shown to do business in East India Rice, and privately several par cels were sold. At public sale 750 bags 1,000 pockets Bengal were sold. 2,000 bags Madras went at 8s to 8s 6d for middling pinky white, and 5s 6d to 8s for damaged. These rates are all 6d per cwt higher. SALTPETRE—To-day there was little desire evinced to do business in rough, and on the part of holders a de sire was shown to sell; the market was also well sup• plied. Of 1,785 bags Calcutta offered at public sale, a small part only sold at a reduction on former rates of is per cwt. Of Madras 547 bags were all bought in. For British Refined the market is dull. Nitrate of Soda is little wanted. SPIRITS.—There are sellers of all kinds of Rum upon lower terms, as export orders are trifling, whilst home dealers operate with caution, and there is an extensive stock. We quote proof Leewards at is 7d to is Bd, East India proof is 4d to is 6d, Demerara 28 to 38 per cent over proof 2s 6d to 3s, Jamaica good and fine quality 33 to 37 per cent over proof 3s 9d to 4s sd, middling and good middling 3s 5d to 3s ad. INDIGO.—The market for East India is in an unfavour • able position, especially as regards the better qualities. There is a great want of export orders, and the home trade are very cautious in their proceedings. The quarterly sale commenced this day, and the quantity declared amounted to 9,208 chests. of which 1,120 chests have passed the sale this day. The attendance of ex port and home buyers was very small, and the biddings were far from being animated. Importers have, gene rally, given strong support to their Marks by buying in a large proportion. COCHINEAL. This afternoon there was not much desire evinced to do business, and 200 bags of Mexican at public sale were only in part sold at 3s 5d to 3s 9d for silvers, which are about former rates, but blacks sold at 38 6d to 4s Id, which is ld lower. TALLow.—There are sellers of Russian on the spot upon reduced terms, yet on the part of the trade little desire has been manifested to do business, and 44s to 44s Gd is the value of fine P. Y. Candle ; a further reduction is expected to take place. For delivery in the last three months of the year, sellers are willing to accept 435, but few buyers are to be met with. Of home made there is a good supply with only a limited demand, prices have fallen to 43s 6d to 446 6d nett cash. There is no decrease in the supply of other kinds of Tallow, and lower rates are accepted, but the parcels offered at auction were nearly sold. Rough Fat is freely offered at 2s 6d per stone. OILS.—The imports of Fish Oils are upon an enlarged scale, whilst former rates are Rot supported, ex porters and home consumers not having shown much desire to do business since this day week. Southern is less required, and must be called rather cheaper, whilst few sales have been made in the private market. At auction 103 tuns were sold. Cod has been dealt in with caution. For Sperm the market has a dull aspect, and as there is a plentiful supply , prices continue to recede. The best British Oil cannot be quoted above 781. per tun. In the value of Linseed Oil we have little variation to make known, but the home demand has become limited, and few export orders have been completed. Rapeseed Oil has been dealt in with caution, and prices keep upon the decline. For Palm prices do not improve on ac count of heavy arrivals. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS, July 11. Their Lordships met at Five o'clock. PAYMENT OF DEBTS BILL. The Payment of Debts out of Real Estate Bill passed through Committee. SEDUCTION BILL. The Bishop of OXFORD moved the third reading of the Seduction of Females Bill. Lord BROUGHAM objected to the Bill as going much further than was intended—much further than the Bill which bad been sent up from the House of Commons two sessions since. The Earl of MOUNTCASHEL supported the mea sure. _ _ Lord DENMAN thought that the measure was not calculated to carry out the object intended, but would become morely a means of enabling persons to extort money. The law at present was sufficient to punish persons guilty of those crimes which this Bill sought to Punish. Lord CAMPBELL despaired of their Lordships be ing able to frame any Bill which would remedy the evil. To legislate against simple fornication, without any ag gravating circumstances, would not be attended with a good effect. There were cases which it was moat de sirable to punish, which their Lordships could not in clude in any Bill. His Noble and Learned Friend had referred to Berlin as a place where they would not suffer bawdy-houses to exist; but of all capitals for licentious ness, it was the worst. It was worse than Paris, worse than Vienna. He feared the law could not do more than it had done. Lord NELSON thought the Bill was at least worth a trial. The LORD CHANCELLOR said that it was with very sincere regret that he was compelled to express his assent to the opinion of his Noble and Learned Friends. He thought that the object of the Bill was impracticable. If there were any means of meeting the real grievance without touching that which it was impracticable to prevent, he would cordially support the measure. The Earl of lIARRO WBY thought that juries, being fathers and husbands, might safely be trusted with the trial of these cases. If the Bill failed it could only be 1 1 for the want of a definition of the word seduction, which could easily be remedied. I Lord CAMPBELL and other Noble Lords speaking two and three times over in explanation, Earl GREY complained of the irregularity of the de bate, as their Lordships were not in Committee. The Bishop of OXFORD said he was anxious to have a decision of this House upon it, and he would press for that division. A Bill passed for Birmingham, in 1845, bad proved eminently successful, as well as in many places on the Continent, particularly in Coblentz, where it tended to lessen the number of illegitimate children— of patients in the hospitals—and, in point of fact, im proved the general condition of morality. He thought, therefore, that the objections thrown out against the measure—that it was utterly impossible to carry it into effect, and would promote the evil it was intended to suppress—were utterly without foundation. Their Lordships then divided, when there appeared— For the third reading Against it Majority .. Their Lordships then adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS, July 11. ENCUMBERED ESTATES (IRELAND) BILL. (Continued from our Afternoon Edition of yesterday.) Sir JOHN WALSII opposed the Bill, believing that the House or a Committee of it was not the proper tribunal for settling the question. He admitted it was desirable to facilitate the sale of encumbered estates — (Hear, hear)—but as this Bill would constitute a very serious invasion of the rights of individuals, and open a door for the admission of fraud, he felt it his duty to oppose it. After the stringent measures they had passed of late, with respect to land in Ireland, it was most unjust now to bring forward a measure which would have the effect of wresting property from the hands of many of the land lords of Ireland. It would have the effect of destroying the stability of investments in Ireland, and prevent the increase of that trade which they were so desirous to awaken. Mr. B.' OSBORNE said, the speech of the Ho nourable 'Gentleman was an able and excellent one if the interests of the mortgaged proprietors o f Ireland were merely to be considered ; but if the vast interests of the commonwealth were to be weighed, his speech was one-sided in the highest degree. The Government had, he thought, acted most fairly and with the best motives in bringing in this measure. To show the necessity of such a measure, he might state that the Honourable Gentleman (Yr. Sadlier) was the real owner of several estates in his (Mr. Osborne's) neighbourhood, though he had not the credit of being so. He complained that so much of the time of the House was occupied in the discussion of Irish measures, which ended, after all in nothing. — (Hear, hear.) For instance, this very Bill had been mentioned in three Queen's speeches, and yet it had been put off from time to time, and its principles had been materially altered from hose in which it was in troduced: it was like a new Bill tacked upon the end of the old one, and he feared if it were passed in this House it would not receive the sanction of the House of Lords ; yet he was glad to accept it as far as it went. He ob jected to the references named-by the Bill to the Court of Chancery in Ireland. All who knew the chicanery and delay of that office, the vast amount of business that it had to discharge, must be dissatisfied with this principle.—(Hear, hear.) Therefore, however much they might object to the appointment of Commis sioners, he considered that the institution of such a body would tend much to facilitate the sale of en cumbered estates.—(Cries of " Hear.") Their great object should be to make land cheap. Now he had ob tained the opinion of two eminent lawyers on the Bill, and they agreed in stating that this Bill would not tend in that direction.—(llear.) Unless they lessened the stamp duties necessary on the transfer of es tates, great reluctance would continue to exist on the part of many to try property. Great good would accrue if landlords were allowed to sell their estates in small portions. The landlords of Ireland were not worse than those of England, but their position prevented them from doing all they wished. The number of persons interested in property in that country ca b mwep e aorpi a c reeaim c nrt o eoo m idsrdt p etoni l h i anw s an h th e e l . 1 were so numerou s th a t no va l ua bl e i m p r ovements could ;y(l3, and the th h e ea o r o . n ) dit T io h n e o st f a t te ho o l f an l d rel h an a d d t i d t t h fhoor t h imm e op e or v oo i yv l ep t ma h ei a dn n tos n a wt n a y os t fo h tn i h n i yog ss.Co else. u4rd t. po efWhyrcchean Chan cery fromrfrom their their knowledge the residue was d evete d to t h e support o f m in o rs, lunatics, and others, who d evote d no attention t o th e l a nd from werel manage ne h lae i g c ce h t e dtahne not y e derived sstoatme uca shit. t.m A n d hen ability t h e to ofdhowr receiversdrain to the pockets of the tenants. He cited the case of " O'Sul livan es t a te and been buried in a hill, in cons equence of not being afforded the necessary releif o u t o f t h e Court of Chancery. T he estate in conse q uen ce fell into on v. O ' S u llivan," to show that 600 t enants h a d di e d an an unlucrative state. The proximate cause of the murder of Major Mahon'and others arose out of estates then lying in the hands of the Court of Chancery. There should be a registration office in Ireland as in Belgium. Unless they placed the ► possession of the land in Ireland upon a better footing than at present, anarchy would be the result, and the property they possessed would be destroyed. He quoted the cases of Spain, Norway, and France to show that great advantage would accrue from the subdivision of the land into small farms, and the creation in consequence of a small class of farmers, no matter of what religion. The value of land in Ireland would be thus increased — (Hear)—and the crop also. Irish landlords owed a great debt of gratitude to the Solicitor• General for bringing in this Bill, which would receive his warm support.—(Hear.) Mr. HERBERT should support the Bill, as he be. lieved the fair and reasonable rights of the landlords of Ireland would be protected by it. If they did not take advantage of this Bill, he believed the time would come when they would have no rights to protect. Mr. F. O'CONNOR tendered his thanks to the Solici tor-General for the alterations he had introduced into the Bill since it had been brought down from the House of Lords. It would be a happy thing for Ireland if there were not a solicitor in any part of that country.— ' (A. laugh.) He condemned the Irish landowners for coming to that Douse for stringent measures, when those measures might have been rendered quite unnecessary by the proper discharge of their duties.—(Hear, hear.) He was glad, however, that during the present session one measure, at least, had been introduced which was calculated to ameliorate the condition of that country. Mr. S. CRAWFORD supported the motion for going into Committee. He approved of the principles of the Bill,'lout he objected to some of the details. Sir GEORGE GREY said if the discussion came to a conclusion at the present sitting, he should propose that the House should go into Committee on the Bill on Thursday next at twelve o'clock. Mr. CALL A.GIIAN opposed the Bill, which he said had created a great deal of surprise and dissatisfaction I in Ireland. Colonel DUNNE opposed the Bill. It was per fectly void in principle, and had not the approval of the highest legal authorities either in this country or in Ireland. It was a curious and singular circum stance that the Attorney-General had been absent during the whole of the discussion upon this Bill. That discussion had been of the Utmost importance, for in the first place it had shown the imperfect state of the exist ing law, and in the next it had shown that the Bill, in stead of amending the law, was calculated to increase the difficulties which at present attended its operation. There was no country in Europe to which the Bill was less ap plicable than Ireland. If it were passed it would have to be administered and carried out by lawyers, and would therefore neither facilitate the transfer of property nor cheapen the process by which that transfer could be effected. The amendment proposed by Sir Lucius O'Brien was then withdrawn, aid the House went into Committee pro forma upon the'Bill, Mr. BERNAL in the chair. The preamble as postponed, the Chairman reported progress, and tlen obtained leave to sit again on Thursday. CORN MIRKETS (IRELAND) BILL. The Corn Marlets (Ireland) Bill then went through Committee. The House then adjourned till Half-past Five o'clock. The SPEAKER rmumed the Chair at Half-past Five. Lord D. STUART presented a petition in favour of Parliamentary Worm. Mr.; DUNCAN presented a petition from Aberdeen to the same effect, sod also praying for a reduction in the national expenditure. Mr. O'BRIEN )resented a petition from Middlesex in favour of vote by isnot. • THE RAJA OF SATTARA. _ _ Mr. GEORGE THOMPSON then rose to bring forward the moton of which he had given notice with respect to the case of the late Raja of Sat tara, and to movE for a Select Committee to inquire into the conduct of Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Ovens (Of the Bonbay. Army), while British Political Resident at the Court of Sattara; and into the pro ceedings of the Bimbay Government, and the Court of Directors of the East India Company, in re lation to certain charges preferred against that officer. The Honourable Member observed, that he was tnxious to merit the indulgence which he ventured earnestly and respectfully to solicit at the hands of the House, by proceeding at once, as briefly as possible, to stat e the reasons which i nduced him to bring forward the motion of which he had given notice. He (Mr. Thompson) w ished, at the outset, to disclaim any personal ill-feeling towards the Gallant Officer whose conduct was the subject of the proposed inquiry. His private character was, as far as he (Mr. Thompson) knew, unreproac'aed and free from suspicion. He had received no injury at his hands, nor did he (Mr. Thompson) believe that that gentleman had ever meditated any towards him. He had no one cause for individual resentment against that officer, nor was he conscious of cherishing any sentiment ap proaching to personal animosity. It was as -a public man, and a servant of the State, that he had then to do with Colonel Ovans. It was on public grounds, and on public grounds solely, that he referred to him in the Parliament of Great Britain, and deemed it his duty to impeach certain of the acts done by that officer in his official and responsible cha racter. But it was not simply the conduct of Colonel Ovans that he (Mr. Thompson) was there to arraign; still less was it upon Colonel Ovens exclusively, or even as the principal offender, that he thought the censure of that House and of the country ought to fall, and would fall if the inquiry sought was granted. Through Colonel Ovans a higher and more important duty was then endeavoured to be discharged, namely, that of arraigning the conduct of those to whom that officer was, and still is, immediately amenable—whose commission he had long held, by whose orders he was placed at Sattara, and by whom his conduct had been repeatedly sanctioned, approved, and rewarded. Nor was it merely to obtain an inquiry into the acts of those under whom Colonel Ovens had served, that the present motion was brought forward, although the conduct of the East India Company, and her Majesty's Government, in the administration of the affAirs of a vast empire like that of India, was, of necessity, a subject of the highest importance ; but it was because that conduct was inse parably linked in the present case w i th the melancholy fate of a disting ui shed India n sovere i gn, w i th the observ ance or breach o f a solemn treaty, and with the disposal at the present time of a thron e w i t h out an occupant, a principality without a ruler, and a numerous people with out a prince; and, further, because that conduct was con nected with wh atever Is val ua bl e to t h e B r i t i s h name a nd character in India, with the principles of national honour and good faith, and with the mainte na nce of tha t opinion in the minds of the people and princes o f t h e state, w hi c h cou ld alone constitute a lasting fo un d a ti on f or British dominion in that distant part of the world. It was due, however, to his (Mr. Thompson's) own feelings that he should state that he had long cherished the hope of being relieved from the necessity of undertaking so painful a duty as that which he was then en d e av o uring to dis charge. That necessity he fondly trusted would have been removed, by a reconsiderati on , on t h e p art o f t h e I n di an Government in this country, of the decision now fully admitted to have been prematurely arrived at, in the case of the late deposed Raja of Sattara. In common with many gentlemen, whose judgments were far more entitled to respect than his own, he had always I felt convinced that a reconsideration of the case of ' the Raja of Sattara—due weight being given to all the facts which had been disclosed subsequently to that Prince's deposal—would not fail to issue in the reversal of the heavy sentence carried into execution azainst the accused. The hand of d ea th having recently re moved both the Prince deposed in 1839 and the one subsequently exalted in his place, the hope to which he (Mr. Thompson) had referred, obtained fresh vigour, from the belief that as the Raja had left an adopted son who, besides the c i rcum st a nce of his adop i tion, stood next n succession to the vacant throne, as the nearest in lineal descent, and as no politi cal or other impediment existed to render it diffi cult or inexpedient to declare that person the Raja of Sattara, that therefore justice would be done, as far as the present state of the case admitted, by the acknowledgment of the rightful heir, the re storation of the deposed Raja's family to their native country, and the preservation of the territory of Sattara to the family of Sevajee, in accordance with the express terms of the treaty of 1819. That hope had, however, been considerably weakened by the in ability of the friends of the Raja's cause to obtain, either from the Court of Directors, during two meetings at the India House, or from her Majesty's Minister at the head of the Board of Control, any assurance of an intention to recognise the claim of the individual who, according to Hindoo law, stood towards the deposed Raja in a relationship as near and as sacred as that of a child born of his own body ; and they had even failed to obtain so much as an intimation of the intention of those authorities to consider favourably the claims to which reference had been made. The treatment, too, which that Prince had received from the agent of the Governor-General at Benares, had, so far from furnishing any grou9ds of en couragement, been of a nature to induce his friends to believe that the supreme authority in India was not favourable to the recognition of the rights of the adopted son. And there it would be necessary that he (Mr. Thompson) should distinctly connect the inquiry which was sought by the present motion with the future fate of the surviving members of the de ceased's Raja's family, and the disposal of the titles and territory which that Prince for so many years pos sessed. Within the last few days . it had been asserted, that the Raja being still held to be guilty of the acts charged against him, was, there tore, incompetent to bequeath any political right to his heir, and that consequently the adoption he had made was null and void, so far as constituting any ground for recognizing his heir. It became, therefore, necessary to revive the ques tion of the guilt or info "rice of Fertile) Sheen, so that by placing that Prince in th e position, as respects his ctiaracter, which he occupied prior to the c harges brought against him they might give validity to the act by which he nominated as his successor on the throne the youth whom they were anxious to see taken into alliance with the British Government. The inquiry which he (Mr. Thompson) asked for would, he believed, fully answer that end, and by resulting in the entire vin dication of the late Raja's character, remove every doubt respecting the right and tit le of his living son to succeed to the state and dominion o f which his father was, as he (Mr. Thompson) firmly believed, unjustly deprived. Even at that, the eleventh hour, he (Mr. Thomp son) was willing to fo re g o the right which he possessed of making certain statements to the House, and of reading various extracts from the blue bo o k s then upon the table, if her Majesty's Government, whose own conduct and motives were necessarily in volved in the case, would consent that the whole matter should be referred, either to a Committee of that House, or if such a tribunal should be unable to pursue its inves tigation at sufficient length during the residue of the MARKET INTELLIGENCE. (From the London New Price Current of July 11.) the hsoto saughty, the Sugar Duties Bill has passed Housthate etiCt i "'mons ' o f per 1 3 s, cwt,c 1 a y stilled Foreignthere w and the usual propositions ad hered to, colonial d t o improvementbe brown subject ditto t o inias duty utht 6d y e home demand to-day for any kind of raw Sugar, whilst the export orders completed were trifling. Prices are depressed for all sorts, and with colonial the market was well supplied. Of West India Muscovado the quantity sold was small, and amounted to only 280 hhds, &c., including a public sale of 125 bhds Barbadors at the 13s duty , whi ch went off quietly, middli ng ye ll ow at 38s 6d to 39s 6d, good 40s to 41s 6d, and fine 425 to 435. Prices of West India Sugar of all kinds. are 6d per cwt lower than on Friday. RELINED. —Today the dealings in Refined goods by the home trade were of a limited nature, still brown grocery lumps could not be obtained under 54s 6d, and to pass the standard 55s 6d percwt.ln Bonded pricesdedCr areushed Sugar a fair business was concluded , and firm at 25s 6d to 27s per cwt. MAIJNITIUS.—This afternoon there was little disposi tion shown to do business in Mauritius Sugar, and 11,157 bags 323 trcs were offered at public sale. The biddings were languid, and prices declined 6d t t h o e l c s h f i o e r f yellow, land 611 for brown and grey sorts, still portion of the Sugar was sold. EAST INDIA.—This afternoon Madras Sugar met with less demand, and 3,052 bags at public sale were only in part sold at 6cl to is per cwt decline. Of Bengal 1,006 begs were sold, but upon rather lower terms. Fortzum—This afternoon little desire was shown to do business in Foreign Sugar by private treaty. At auction 80 bags of Pernambuco went at 35s for low dark brown. COIFEL—This afternoon Plantation Ceylon met with attention, and 36 casks 892 bags at auction were all sold at firm rates. For Native there was less demand, and 1,151 bags were only partly sold, but full rates were ob tained. Of Madras, 146 bags were taken in at 26s to 27s for fine ordinary, and 250 bags St. Domingo at 28s. 57 casks 294 bags West India went at full terms. COCOA.—There are again heavy arrivals of West In- WEDNESDAY EVENING, JULY 12, 1848 present session, then to a Commission, whose duty it should be to inquire, not only into the conduct of the particular individual named in the motion, but into the acts generally of all parties concerned in the deposal of the late Raja of Sattara, and into the claims of his sur- viving relations up( .n the property, territory, and Go vernment, which had lapsed by the death of the late Prince Appa Sahib. From the beginning it had been his (Mr. Thompson's) constant desire, that instead of that question having to be determined by the vote of a General Court of Proprietors in one place, or a large assembly, by a debate in the House of Commons in an other, it should be submitted to the calm, patient, and im partial examination of persons wholly disinterested, free from improper influence, and capable of judging between conflicting evidence, and of duly estimating the opinions of parties more or less biassed in their feelings and judgments. Still cherishing that desire, he would say no more on that occasion than should appear to him to be necessary to establish the necessity ft,r such a tribu- nal, and to prove that there was a bona fide ease for such an investigation. Finally, ere he went into the details of the evidence, he would state, that punishment was not the end he had in view. Free from all vindictive feeling, he sought the redress of the wrongs of those whom he believed to have been injured, the restitution of rights, as he conceived unjustly forfeited, and the correction of errors and abuses in the administration of the Government in India which not only inflicted grie- vous injury upon the natives of that country, but im paired the influence, by lowering the character of Bri tish authority amongst the countless millions there sub jected to its sway. Colonel Ovans as an officer in the Indian army, after holding various posts, was appointed, in June, 1837, to the situation of political resident at the Court of his late Highness the Raja, of Sattara. For the sake of brevity, he (Mr. Thompson) should pass over the circumstances attending the removal of Colonel Lodwick, the predecessor of Colonel Ovans, and merely state, in passing, that it was obvious, upon the face of the printed papers, that the former officer was removed from his residency in consequence of his known disin clination to take an active part in those secret and dis honourable proceedings which had been already com menced with a view of criminating the Raja of Sattara. The duties of a political resident at the Court of Sat tara were those of a friendly adviser of the ruling Princes, and he (Mr. Thompson - ) was bound to say, that few better selections could have been made than those which had placed near the person of the late Raja such gentlemen as Captain Grant Duff, Major-General Briggs, the late lamented General Robertson, and his immediate successor General Lodwick. During the whole period of their administration of political affairs at Sattara—an administration commencing in 1818, and extending to the middle of 1836—50 straightforward and confiding had been the conduct of the Raja, that not a single se cret communication had ever been recorded amongst the proceedings of the residency; a fact which he (Mr. Thompson) believed was without a parallel in the his tory of British rule in India. It was of importance that he should state to the House, that General Lodwiek was removed from his post at Sattara, on the plea that he had lost, to some extent, the confidence of the Prince, and that it was necessary that some gentleman should succeed him, who had the power to win back that confidence, and cause the communications between the resident and the ruler to be as free and unreserved as they had always been before the misunderstanding which had occurred on a question relating to the Raja's power over certain feudal chiefs. This fact it was of importance should be borne in mind by the House, while he (Mr. Thompson) proceeded to notice the manner in which Colonel Ovens commenced his official duties at Sattara, which he did on the 16th of June, 1837. The first act which he (Mr. Thompson) had to allege against that officer—an act contrary alike to the letter and the spirit of the existing treaty—was committed on the day be fore specified. The charge which he (Mr. Thomp son) had preferred against Colonel Ovens was, that being hound by treaty to give his advice to the Raja for the good of Sattara his state, and for the maintenance of the general tranquillity, did, on the very day of his arrival at Sattara, on the 16th of June, 1837, and of his assuming office as resident and commanding officer of the British troops, authorise his staff officer, Captain F. Durack, to pay to one Bhow Leley, a man Col. Ovens bad never seen, and of the " worst character," the sum of two haadred rupees for the production of certain do cuments purporting to criminate the Raja, and also to give to the said Bhow Leley a written assurance that he should be further rewarded, in proportion to the services he might render; and that when Bhow Leley failed to produce such documents at the time appointed, Colonel )vans authorised Captain Durack to give him another trial; which acts of Colonel Ovens were a subornation of evidence against the Raja, a gross violation of his duty as resident, and such as proved him to have come to Sattara as the unscrupulous enemy of the Raja; fur ther, that these acts were concealed by Colonel Ovens from the knowledge of his Government. Sir J. HOBHOUSE—Whose statement is that? Mr. G. THOMPSON—It is my charge against Col. Ovans. In the first place, he would prove the commission of the act itself; and here ho would refer to 9, letter from that officer, addressed to his Government, on the 24th of June, detailing most minutely his proceedings since his arrival at Sattara, but containing no allusion whatever to the important event which had taken place on the 16th of the same month. Charged by his instructions to give the_Gdvernment the fullest information relating to the alleged intrigues of the Raja, he nevertheless omitted to inform his Government of the important fact that he had authorised the employment of an individual, who had stated his ability to obtain certain treasonable docu ments, which would establish the guilt of his Highness. He (Mr. Thompson) would request the attention of the House to a most important document, addressed by the Raja of Sattara to the Government of Bombay, on the 17th of July following. Cognizant as he (Mr. Thomp son) believed the Raja was at that time of the existence of secret machinations to effect his ruin, he, nevertheless, offered, in a document which then lay before him (Mr. Thompson), to resign his power and kingdom into the hands of the Government, in order that the friendship sub sisting between himself and that Government might not be interrupted, and expressing, moreover, his willingness to retire into obscurity, if he might be thereby spared the disgrace which secret accusations were calculated bring upon him. That conduct was in perfect keep ing with a similar request, preferred in 1836, when first Accused, and again in 1339, when offered the restoration of the friendship of the Government, on condition of admitting his guilt. That most important letter was sent to Bombay; and there was a minute, recorded by Sir. Robert Grant, the Governor, dated July 21st, in the same year, in which he stated that " he did not think any notice should for the present be taken of that com munication, which he thought betrayed the Raja's un easiness, arising from a consciousness of guilt. The Acting resident should be requested to follow up the in quiry he had so ably commenced. The Raja never received so much as an acknowledgment of the receipt of that letter, still less any expression of the opinions of Government respecting it. But to return to the means taken by Colonel Ovens to- obtain evidence against the Raja. In a voluminous defence, which Colonel Ovens had deemed it necessary to furnish to the Right Honourable the Presi dent of the Board of Control, in anticipation of the motion then under consideration, there was found an admission of the fact that that officer did employ the person referred to, and in the manner described, but Colonel Ovens denied altogether the accuracy of his (Mr. Thompson's) charge of having concealed such act from the knowledge of his Government. It had been proved that his letter of the 24th of June contained no reference to that act. He (Mr. Thompson) would show the House that the first information furnished by Colonel Ovens to his Government of having taken so extraordi nary a step as that of employing a servant and subject of the Raja to obtain evidence to criminate his own Sove reign, was extorted by the fortuitous 'discovery of his having done so, through the confesThion of the guilty man himself of the compact into which h bad entered with the resident. He (Mr. Thomp) had before him a letter, addressed by a highly r es p ectable European, Dr. G M o i I v n e e r , n late o rG Medical f S l u n p d e i r a i nesanldhetingt hisof B a t o t e m n b t y on , to to c t e h r- e tain transactions connected with the secret proceedings to the affair against oftheßhoßw Leley and, and amongstaja'ans That letter was dated th e 18th of September, bein g Colonel them,:ov more than three months subsequent to the 16th of June. Having to pass through the hands of the Bombay Government, on its way to Calcutta, it was copied in the Secret Department, together with its enclosure, and forwarded to Colonel Ovens for his remarks thereupon. Down to that date, the Bombay Government had re ceived no single syllable of intelligence respecting the affair. From that letter, and its enclosures, it appeared that the man Bhow Leley made certain confessions to his Highness the Raja of Setters, of the manner in which he had been tampered with by Colonel Ovens and his staff officers; and that his depositions, with other documents, were forwarded to Dr. Milne, to be used by him as he might think fit in his communication to the Supreme Government. In his letter of the 18th of September, Dr. Milne called the especial attention of the Governor- General to the circumstances referred to. On the receipt by Colonel Ovens of a letter from his own Govern ment, dated the 21st of September, he thought it necessary to furnish the information he had previously withheld, and accordingly they found a letter from him, dated the 27th of De cember, confirming the truth of Bhow Leley's state ments, and enclosing a letter from his own staff-officer, Captain Durack, giving, a detailed account of his nego tiations with Bhow Leley, and of his finally having paid him, by the order of Colonel Ovans, 150 rupees, as an instalment, and given him a certain promise of future reward, according to the services he might render, con nected with the secret prosecution of the Raja. He (Mr. Thompson) would leave the House to determine the character of the act thus proved to have been done ' by Colonel Ovens; to say whether the charge of con cealment was not made out, by the fact that it was not till after the lapse of more than three months, and then only in consequence of the accidental discovery of the secret steps he had taken, that he acknowledged his connexion with a man whom he had never seen, for the purpose of obtaining evidence wherewith to accuse the Raja of treason to the British Government. He (Mr. Thompson) left the House, too, to say whether or not such conduct did not prove that Colonel Ovens was the enemy of the Prince towards whom he was bound by treaty to act the part of a friendly adviser, and whether the means which, in that instance, he adopted did not deserve to be designated by the term " unscru with which he ." (Mr It was for the House, too, to sa y whether, in their judg ment,p Thompson) had designate d them, British officers were legitimately employed, when they were thus entering in to secret combination and fel lowship with persons like the traitor Bhow Leley, and whether the publication of su ch facts as those which had been detailed throughout India, was likely to beget in the minds of the princes of that country the confidence and respect with which they would be inspired towards those who represent the British power it their respective courts. The second charge was, " That Colonel Ovans did, from the time of his assuming' office as resident, down to the period of the Raja's dethronement in the moth of September, 1839, systematically intercept, sod ' cause to be intercepted, the whole of the correspondence of the Raja, his servants and his friends ; and that Col. ()vans did convert such systematic intercepting, opening, and perusing of the said correspondence, into a means of counteracting ai•d defeating every endeavour which the Raja made to obtain a hearing, and to make known his case to the British Government ; and into a means of se cretly calumniating the friends of the Raja to the Bri tish authorities." The admission of Colonel Ovens, in his own defence, which had been referred to, of the practice alluded to in the second charge against that officer, rendered it unnecessary to adduce any evidence in its support. He (Mr. Thompson) was anxious, however, that a Committee of that House, or some equally competent tribunal, should pronounce its judgment upon the morality, as well as governmental policy, of such acts as those resorted to by the Bombay Government and their servants, in the prosecution of an inquiry into the conduct of a person standing in the re lation of the Raja of Sattara ; and to say whether such proceedings were fair and just towards those who were thoroughly ignorant of the means adopted by a Govern ment, whose governmental machinery was co-extensive with India itself, and who, by resorting to such means, offered a premium to disaffected and malicious indivi duals to bring about the ruin of innocent, unsophisti cated, and confiding persons. Colonel Ovaus did not deny that, in the course of his own secret correspond ence, ha had expressed freely his opinions upon the character and conduct of those who, from _ the purest motives, attempted, although unsuccessfully, to render service to the Raja during the long period of his relentless persecution by the Bombay Government. He (Mr. Thompson) was happy to say, that not one line could be quoted from amongst the ac cumulated papers which had been laid upon the table of that house, showing that any British officer, or other European, was ever connected with the case of the Raja of Sattara, except in the most virtuous, loyal, and ho nourable manner, or that they ever tendered to him any counsel, but such as was in strict ai.cordance:with the ob servance of the treaty he had entered into with the Bri tish Government; or, in fact, did anything on his behalf that was inconsistent with their duty to their own Sove reign, or the safety and honour of the British Govern ment. He would also as confidently affirm, that during _ . the years that the practice of intercepting letters pre vailed, no line ever came into the possession of the Bri tish Government, furnishing the least evidence of the Raja himself, or any of his friends, entertaining feelings of hostility to British rule in India. On the contrary, every such intercepted document demonstrated the earnest anxiety of the Raja himself, and of his agents and friends, for a strict, but open and fair, inquiry into the whole conduct of his Highness, during the period of his connexion with the British Goveanment, and of the de sire, above all things, of the accused Prince himself', to maintain undisturbed and untarnished the friendship he had for eighteen years avowed and exhibited towards his European allies and protectors. Should the inquiry asked for be granted, it would be made abundantly ap parent that the system of intercepting letters alluded to did lead, in a multitude of instances, to the prevention, on the part of the Raja and his friends, of the success of his efforts, which would, had not such illicit inter ception not taken place, have issued in the revelation of a conspiracy existing to bring about the ruin of the Raja. The House would be at no loss to judge of the helplessness of the unfortunate Raja of Sattara, who by such a practice was unable to effect any of the just ends which himself and his friends bud in view in their correspondence with each other. At every step it would be found that secret artifices had been resorted to for the purpose of frustrating such ends, and of mis representing the objects and designs of such communi cations. The next matter to which he was desirous of calling the attention of a Committee of that House was the manner in which Colonel Ovens obtained certain evidence against the Raja, to which evidence great im portance had been attached. He (Mr. Thompson) re ferred to a confession, so called, said to have been made by a person of the name of Govind Row, occupying the situation of Dewan, or Minister, to the Raja of Sattara. This individual was implicated in the first charge brought against the Raja, of attempting to seduce two native officers in the British service from their allegiance. When accused of that charge by the Resident, the Dewan was instantly delivered up by the Raja. When the in quiry into the charge ceased that person was continued a prisoner, in a state of mild restraint, at Poonah, a British station. Whilst there, Colonel Ovens commenced his duties at Sattara, and prosecuted his in quiries into the authenticity of a certain document to which reference would presently be made. He (Mr. Thompson) would show that the information Colonel Ovens sent to his Government relative to that document was wholly false. He appeared to have thought, how ever, that a confirmation from Govind Row of the truth of the charge which that document contained, was im portant; and he took the following means of getting it. He made cuch a representation to Government as led to permission being granted by Government to send the prisoner from Poonah to Ahmednugger, seventy-four miles distant, there to be kept in solitary confine ment. He next obtained permission to dispatch a secret emissary—a man who had already given a false account of the origin of the document, the truth of which Govina Row was to confirm. That agent remained a considerable time with the prisoner, until at last he made him willing to sign a previously prepared paper crimi nating his prince; and the judge at Poonah, Mr. Hutt, was then called in to attest and forward it to Govern ment. I will prove that this paper was extorted by in timidation. I will demonstrate that it was wholly false. I will show that Govind Row was detained in prison for two years after he gave it, notwithstanding the opinion of the Supreme Government that he was entitled to his liberty. The depositions, declarations, and petitions of this prisoner, made since his liberation, shall be pro duced and my charge fully sustained. There were many other charges into which he might enter, if not fearful if multiplying his accusations beyond the ability of the friends of Colonel Ovens to reply. There was one other charge, however, to which he must allude— the, fabrica tion of the document ascribed to the mother of Govind Riw, and the concealment for eleven months of the evidence showing the true history of that paper. In a few sentences he (Mr. Thompson) could put the House in possession of all the material points of the case. A forged petition was received by the Government of Bombay, in March, 1837, and confided to Col. Ovens in the following June, with strict orders to discover the writer. Colonel Ovens, from time to time, sent letters and documents to his Government, professing to give a minute history of the origin of the petition, and all the circumstances con nected with it, save the discovery of the person of the actual writer, whose name, however, he supplied. When he had succeeded in bringing his Government to believe in the genuineness of the petition, there elapsed not more than a fortnight before the real fabricator of the papers appeared, who not only • fur nished from his own lips an account of every fact connected with it, but laid before Colonel Ovens documents which proved, beyond the shadow of a doubt, that everything previously said of it to the Bombay Government was entirely false. Mr. REPTON here rose and moved that the House be counted. strangers were ordered to withdraw. Upon counting the Members, it was ascertained that there were suffi cient to form a House; and, upon our return, we found Mr. GEORGE THOMPSON proceeding to state that, to avoid a motion similar to that which had just been made, he would draw his remarks to a conclusion. lie (Mr. Thompson) had made some of his charges so long ago as 1843, anxious that Colonel Ovens, if he could purge himself from them, might afford him (Mr. Thompson) the opportunity of admitting his error, and if not, that the late Raja might have the benefit of the discoveries which had been made into the means taken to effect his ruin. The inquiry now sought for was de manded, in justice to Colonel Ovens, who could only be effectually cleared by an investigation before a patient and impartial tribunal— in justice to himself (Mr. Thompson), who desired the opportunity of proving all he had said—in justice to the profession to which the accused belonged by the Government under whose orders the acts alleged had been done, and for the sake of the reputation of the British name in India and throughout the world. Should the inquiry be refused by her Majesty's Government, the House would, he (Mr. Thompson) trusted, acquiesce in the mo tion. Eulogiums on Colonel Ovens would be no answer to allegations such as those which had been laid upon the table, with a tender of ample proof in support of every one of them. Justice required that these allegations should be sifted, and the evidence to sustain them be fully heard. That evidence would be exclusively official and Parliamentary, and open to the most rigorous scrutiny. He (Mr. Thompson) sincerely thanked the House for their protracted attention to his address while discharging a painful duty, and he ventured to antici pate a vote in favour of a full and fair inquiry. Mr. HUME seconded the motion. The question having been put, Mr. ELLIOT said that having spent the greater part of his life in the East Indies, he might be allowed to offer a few observations on the motion of the Hon. Gentleman. He begged to direct the attent ion of the House to the course which the Hon. Member for the Tower Hamlets (Mr. Thompson) had pursued with reference to this question. That Hon. Gentlemen had brought forward a motion relating to this subject on the Bth of April ; the debate was adjourned ; and the Hon. Gentleman, after having deferred the resumption of the debate from one night to another, had now dropped his original motion, and had proposed a new resolution, in order that he might have an opportunity of making another speech, before the accusations contained in his former speech had been replied to. The Hon. Gentleman asked the House to enter upon an investigation which, according to his own showing, was utterly impossible; for the Hon. Gentleman had proved by his own statement that it was impossible to obtain evidence of the circumstances to which he had referred. The lion. Gentleman accused Colonel ()vans, an officer of the highest possible charac ter, who had received the marked approbation of two Governors of Bombay, of two Governors-General of India, of the Court of East India Directors, and of three Presidents of the Board of Control, with having been guilty of subornation of perjury and forgery. He (Mr. Elliot) considered that an Hon. Gentleman who pre ferred charges of this nature was bound to show that he was free from any personal feeling in the matter, that he had no pecuniary interest in bringing it forward— (Hear, hear)—and that he was not actuated by any per sonal animosity. The Honourable Gentleman had told them he could prove the charges he had made against Colonel Ovens, but he had not referred to the defence of that Gallant Officer which was contained in the papers laid upon the table. It was impossible for him (Mr. Elliot), in consequenceof the length of that defence, to attempt to go into it ; but he would endeavour to test the accuracy of the statements made by the Hon. Member for the Tower Hamlets, and upon which he had charged the most base and disgrace ful crimes against a gentleman of high position and repute. He (Mr. Elliot) would, in the first place, ask the House to consider what was the character and position of Colonel °vans. The Hon. Member for the Tower th.tulets had himsdf admitted that that gallant officer's character stood very high ; and, in the papers laid upon the table, there were documents from every department of the Government of Bombay with which Oolone], ()vans had been connected, bearing the strongest testimony to his high and honourable character. But the Hon. Mem- her fo — r. the Tower Hamlets was not content with attack- in; Col. Ovans. Ile had also charged Sir R. Grant, the late Governor of Bombay, a man of tried honour and integrity, and the Council and Government of that Pre sidency, with being suborners of perjury and forgery. Now he (Mr. Elliot) would ask the House if they could for a moment bulieve that persons of such high character arid position in julia could be guilty of these crimes ? This was a most monstrous accusation, and the person who made it was boom' to show that, in preferring such a charge, he was not actuated by motives of pecuniary interest or of personal animosity. Now he (Mr. Elliot) had been anxious to ascertain what had been the avoca tions of the lion. Member for the Tower Hamlets in India. The Hon. Member bad been, he believed, the paid agent of the Raja of Sattara, and he thought that circumstance was sufficient to excite some suspicion with regard to the charges he had made. He (Mr. Elliot) held in his hand a statement which he had received from a gentleman who had met the Hon. Member for tho Tower Hamlets in India, and who seemed to have been well acquainted with his movements. That statement referrea to another agency in which the Hon. Member had been engaged; and he (Mr. Elliot) thought, it he could show that the Hon. Gentleman, in conducting that agency, had not been quite so accurate in his statements as ho ought to have been, he might infer that the Hon. Gentleman might have been somewhat inaccurate in the statement he had made on this occasion. His informant stated, that on the return of the late Baboo Dwarka nauth Tagore to India from his first visit to England he was accompanied by Mr. G. ThOmpson, as a sort of itinerant philanthropist; that Mr. Thompson happening to see an advertisement circulated by the King of Delhi, Calling for tenders of services frotia parties desirous to proceed to England to advocate his claims before the Home authorities, offered his services; that Mr. Thomp son undertook to proceed to England as his Majesty's vakeel, his Majesty undertaking to advance 5,000 rupees, or 5001., tor the expenses of his journey to Delhi. Mr. THOMPSON begged to ask who was the author of the document ? Mr. ELLIOT would give the Honoarable Gentleman the name of the writer afterwards. His informant proceeded to state that the King of Delhi agreed to give Mr. Thompson a salary of 12,000 rupees a year, and that a written agreement to that effect was drawn up ; but on Mr. Thompson's arrival at Allahabad he intimated his wish that a house might be prepared for his arrival at Delhi. The palace of the late Begum Sumroo was witk some difficulty pro vided for Mr. Thompson, who also required the King to provide both table and servants, besides making a sub sequent demand of 200 rupees a month for table ex penses during his journey from Calcutta. Mr. Thomp son subsequently demanded and obtained a further ad vance of 1,000 rupees a month for the period of his sejourn at Delhi, which was most reluctantly paid by the King. On Mr. Thompson's arrival in England he submitted his Majesty's claims before a duly assembled meeting of the proprietors, at which it appeared, from the outlines of the debate received by the mails, that Mr. Thompson made use of such intemperate and in discreet language as to call down upon him the severest rebuke of the chairman; but by the seme mail Mr. Thompson forwarded the King of Delhi a newspaper called the Indian Advocate, supposed to be edited by himself, containing a full report of a totally different version of the debate. The statement added, that he accompanied it with a letter from himself, claiming great credit for complete success, and reminding the King of the promised remuneration; that the King sent to Delhi directing a royal salute to be fired in commemoration of Mr. Thompson's victory, but that the commandant of the :palace guards pointed out that all the reports of the debate that he had seen gave quite a different view of the case from this very peculiar report; that fur ther explanation followed, and the salute was never fired, nor did Mr. Thompson pocket another stiver of his Majesty's money—(A laugh)—that the King's reply was, that he waited the official confirmation of Mr. Thompson's success—(A laugh)—that other copies of the report of Mr. Thompson's version of the debate were sent to several natives of rank, probably with an eye to their becoming profitable customers.. That the King having conferred the title of ambassador upon Mr. Thompson, and thereby enlisted him, as he imagined, in his sole employ, was much annoyed on find ing that he also became the paid agent of the late Raja of Sattara, as well as by Mr. Thompson forwarding from England repeated demands for large sums of money, said to be required for copyists, though the 1001. per mensent was, under Mr. Thompson's own handwriting, to corer all demands except the reward for ultimate success. The gentleman who had put this statement into his (Mr. Elliot's) hand was Major Angelo, who was commandant of the palace guard at the time ; and he would be ready to confirm the statement if the Honourable Member should get the Committee.—(Hear, hear.) The Honourable Member on a former occasion gave the House to understand that the Raja of Sattara was placed on the throne as his right, and that the Govern ment in India was not authorised to remove him for a breach of treaty. The fact, however, was that the country had been conquered by the British, and it was entirely at their option to place over it anybody o r no one, and, if anybody, whom. They chose Pertaub Sheen, who, on having the territory ceded to him, en gaged, "to hold it in subordinate co-operation with the British Government, and to be guided in all matters by the advice of the British agent at his court;" also "to forbear from all intercourse with foreign Powers, and with all persons not rendered by these articles subject to his authority; to have with them no connexion or corre spondence; any affairs that might arise with there relating to his Highness to be exclusively con ducted by the British Government;" and it was added, that " this article was a fundamental condi tion of the agreement, and any departure from it, on the Raja's part, was to subject him to the loss of all the advantages he might gain by the agreement." Now, he was charged with having opened communication with the Portuguese settlement of Goa and with the ex-Raja of Nagpore, with having endeavoured to corrupt native officers in one of the Bombay regiments, and with refus ing to bo guided by the advice of the British agent. The Hon. Member, unable to deny that there was ample evi dence to prove these charges, had resorted to the old Indian expedient of charging perjury against every wit ness, and forgery against every document—(Hear)—and charging honourable men in high office with being su borners of perjury. It was monstrous that any one should stand up in that House and make such charges against such men.—(Hear.) The Hon. Member had appealed to two persons as being of opinion that the Raja was not guilty. One of them was Mr. Shakspeare, formerly a member of the Bengal Government, and a judge of the highest court of appeal; but the Hon. Member ought to have stated that Mr. Shakespeare died three years before the inquiry was completed.—(Hear.) The other was General Lodwick, the resident at Sattara, and who was a member of the commission to inquire into the charges. But General Lodwick, being examined before that commission, proved that the Raja bad appointed all agent to proceed to England to represent his claims 10 the borne authorities, and that his Highness would not consult him (the resident) according to the treaty; that the Raja considered himself an injured man—(Bear) - ' and was misled by a few interested and bad advisers . He was evidently a man of weak mind, not likely to bear up against intrigue; a witness, in whose veracity General Lodwick said he had as full confidence as in any native of India he ever knew, gav e an account of the Raja being promised an intro duction to the ghost of his deceased relation—( laugh)—and being led to believe that he did see and eon' verse with the ghost. The charge of intrigue with °ther powers was thoroughly sifted by competent men—suc h as Mr. Robertson, a member of the Supreme Geri/ 0 : ment, Mr. Bird, and General Morison, who was now ", Member of that House, and who assured him (Mr. Elliot) that he carefully went through the whole case, and nev er was more convinced of the guilt of any one. As to th e Raja having no trial, it would have been a gross indir nity to place him at the bar of a criminal court. Ws offence was a political offence, and the inquiry was mad e as it always was in such cases ; it was the descripti° of inquiry to which the Company's servants wet: subject.--(Mr. Thompson dissented.) There was positive regulation to that effect. A commission ver, appointed to institute an inquiry oa the spot, the 0011 difference m ode in this case being that the Raja Was allowed to reeeon there while the investigation Wee on.—(Hear, hear.) The Hon. Member spoke of tli e destitution of the tje'a family; why the Ranee wo possession this moment of 1,0001. a year, and b e ts daughter of 500/. a year, and it was said that he le , 43,000/. in cash and jewels.—(hear.) He chose to hav e European agents at Bombay, an d th a t agenc y es t a bllsf; ment caused his ruin. —(Hear.) The tact was, as had before stated, that the Raja became involved toe difficulties in consequence of placing himself under t h il e guidance of desi gn i ng men —E uro p ean agen t s . I P g evils resulting fr om th e p ract i ce o f nat i ve p r i nces havii!°o recourse to European agents was forcibly depicted dispatches writt en by Si r J o h n M a l co l m , Mr. ElPb iti , stone, Sir J. Carnac, and Colonel Ovaus. The la st named gentleman s tated that up to 1839 the Raja of S ilt, o tare had paid 36,0001. to his European agents , 0 Bombay alone. It was unnecessary for b' 0 to occupy the attention of the House for 0 longer p e riod. Hi s o bject had been to show the 1: 1 °, 11 0 , that if they wish e d to inflict the greatest curse pneal e . on the people of India, it was only necessary to give d o. couragetnent to complaints of this description. Ant fo r contented person in India might find an agent to set ee r him in this country. If the Hon. Member for the T 074 Hamlets had a pecuniary object in view he might r:j apply for this Committee. The Hon. Member .qe shown in a letter which ho wrote what he expected 11 succeeded in the case of the King of Delhi. Mr. G. THOMPSON denied that he had written letter of the description alluded to. Mr. ELLIOT said that the fact had been conseoul: cated to him on authority in which he placed o°" th e dente. The lion. Member might not remember, to circumstance, he had no doubt, that he wrote a lettel ic e the King of Delhi, asking for the remuneration " D O the Hon. Member deemed himself entitled to for services. _ _ _ Mr. G. THOMPSON—I deny it. for Mr. ELLIOT.—Tne Hen. Member had perhar it gotten the circumstances; it was some time si!luvob. occurred. If the Hon. Member should succeed ! .1 to' taining the Committee he might go back to 1 13 ° 1° bio morrow, and return in a year with 100,000 1 . I n t the pocket.—(A laugh.) Only let it be known tb * c o ol' Hon. Member had succeeded in appointing a f Pl l mittee to inquire into and se t as ide the decisions of the constituttil authorities in India, and the Hon ° , u , bu t Member might not only enrich himself if be ell. o 'l o dia do more towards ruining the British power It, for than could be effected by any other means. Qt" l~~:~:~ ~~Y ‘, 4 :