The Sun. — London, England, 1842-06-24 00:00:00

DEATH OF MR. YATES. The f o ll owing are a few particulars relative to the life of this actor,'who' has been twenty-four years before the London Public, seventeen of which he discharged the duties of manager of the Adelphi. The deceased performer was born on the 4th of February, 179 7 ; his father was a tobacconist, eastward of Temple-lair. At the first school to which he was assigned, he (subsequently) Taet John Reeve. From " Winchmore House" he was sent to the Charter House, and from thence he emerged, under the pa trnnage of Rowland Stephenson, the banker, to enter the Corn- Inissariat Department. But he soon after turned his thoughts aTto the stage, and obtai ne d an engagement at t h e Edi n b urg h heatre, where he performed b o th i n t rage d y an d come d y w ith aPplau se . His first appearance, how e ve r " on any s t age " was at Bd oulof ogne, where he played Fustian to the Sylvester Dagger woo Mathews. In 181, he made his debut at Covent-garto mediocrity. His zpresentatio n of Falstaff, in April, 1819, on the same stage, more successful. His next character of importance was alerthold, in Maturin' s tragedy of Fredolpho ; but the imme diate condemnation of the piece prevented Mr. Yates from re- Pealing the part. He remained at Covent•garden for five seasons, playing a ! I .iversity of parts , employed his vacations in visiting Bath, &c., and was at last engaged at Vauxhall Gardens, here he was announced to give an entertainment a la Mat b e ,ws ; unfortunately at rehearsal he fell through a trap and p r °Ke his leg, which at once put an end to his engagement. 'lnn this accident he speedily recovered and went into the Pra l i ne . • i „ es with a " Budget." He re-appeared at Covent-garden epternber, 18 0 2, and continued at that theatre until 1825, -p9, in conjunction with Daniel Terry, he took the Adelphi eatre. Wrench, John Reeve, T. P. Cooke, Wilkinson, Ai'rrs• Fitzwilliam, Mrs. Hughes, besides the two managers and Yates-(Miss F. Brunton, niece of the Countess Craven tl'a daughter of John Brunton, for many years a member of a?e_ Covent-garden company, and afterwards manager of the ;!ie4lter, Plymouth, and Weymouth theatres), whom he had mar at Bath Bath in November, 18r)3. Yates subsequently took the b at • l eolak in the Regent's Park, in conjunction with Braliam, A ft proved a bad speculation. d tl ` r imid the myriads of performers engaged at the Adelphi c o( 1 ) 1 1 fl Mr. Yates's management may be named Power, T. P. Santh, Buckstone Halter, Sinclair, Rice, Wrench, vi te d'etfi Downe, Wilde, Reev ' e, Wilkinson, Keeley, Mrs. Fitz % 'arn• Mrs. ,H6ney, Miss Graddon, Mrs. Keeley, Mrs. Grat natllrs. Waylett, and Madame Celeste. N I; e last sea.ron of the Adelphi was ushered in by the no on °f " real water," and a successful season was concluded oe Saturday preceding last Passion week, when Mr. Yates pered as usual a valedictory address. Immediately after the close of the Adelphi, Mr. and Mrs. ietes, with B e d ford, Wright, and others, started for Dublin. te ' t iiffered considerably during the voyag e , b u t r a lli e d on whit t ng, shore. - On the Saturday preceding Easter Eve, st rehearsing Lord Skindrep, in Douglss Jerrold s Bub -411:;)ft the -Dag, he felt suddenly ill, and putting his . handker- Pr e , c , ms mouth fOund he was spitting blood. With great b ut 9ee of Mind he avoided giving any alarm to Mrs. Yates, bl ot a id, " Bess, I sh a ll go awa y now ." H e i nstant ly repa i re d t o eisa l a nd ' s Hotel, which he only left to return and die in his He has l e f t a widow and a son to deplore his loss. /IR y r , 1-1 ASSOCIATION FOR THE `I'IIVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE. - 14.,--cIIESTER, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JUNE 2L—The eisVations for h o ldi ng t hi s , th e 12th m eeting of the Asso- N ro w are 116 W nearly completed, but according to the pre• N I . toe lately i ssue d b y t h e l ocal counc il , a l t h oug h there is s t , s . Yu prospect of this proving one of the most interesting of fl e f etp f . the meetings that have been held, there is some de liirse'Y„in the minor details which have heretofore proved °, the most attractive objects of these annual assein tlist ',1.• Pews,Thi 'is particularly remarked in the circumstance 1 4 , eat of the manufacturing establishments of this 7hand wealthy town will be thrown open for the inspection ttie nti r Members, although, on the other hand, the list of tietalarle r a pers to be read at the different sections, par - Vr ea , Y in the mechanical and geological departments,. and ,lareceived by the secretaries, is very considerable. tth'sident, there is the Right Honourable Lord Francis issl4,, M.P., and as Vice-Presidents, the Venerable t l y. al ton, D.C.L., F. R. S., and the Honourable and Very ) 7. e. • Herbert, LL.D., F.LS , Dean of hlanchester ; Dr. rll Henry, FAL S. ; Sir Benjamin Heywood, Bar., 4 % 1 4 1 '1 and the Rev. Professor Sedgwick. The presidents illi s h m a ted for the sectional meetings, who are no less distin- SV:' are. for Section A, Mathematical and Physical Science, 1 4 ) Hey, G. Peacock, Dean of Ely ; Section B, Chemis- Dy Mineralogy Dr. Dalton, F. R.S. ; Section C, Geo 'residn" Physical Geography, R. J. Murchison, Esq., F.R. S., h b eta 4b en t, of the Geological Society ; Section D, Zoology and ' t ,t. tne Dean of Manchester ; Section E, Medical Science, Zoo ( Clard Holme, F. L. S. Section F, Statistics, G. W. Zges M.P., F. L. S. ; and Section G, Mechanical ne ra c i e, Rev, P ro f essor Willi s . Th e o th er o ffi cers o f t h e ti tti l i,coromittees will be elected,to-morrow at the meeting S4,', e neral Committee, which consists of the representati ves et'.4o„l every sc i ent ifi c soc i e t y i n th e U n it e d Ki ng d om . Th e 'e l ar sd ! commence their meetings for scientific business on p rep ' l 3' morning, at eleven o'clock, and the first general qskti meeting will be held at eight o'clock, at the Quakers' 4, 4 ,5 - house, hlount-street, where the chair will be taken ,for e Lw Prancis Egerton, M.P., to whom it will be resigned by •IltNiC e Whewell, the President of the last meeting at Ply liessitt There will be a promenade and a soiree on Friday and td A/ evenings, at eight o'clock, in the Royal Institution s 71 1 ), eoteurn which will be united by temporary erections Lia b ," ; liesrpose' ; and the concluding general meeting of the N a T t tee will take place in the Quakers' Meeting-house, :ersi r ,v'stre e t, on Wednesday, when the proceedings of the Ge wstu'otritnittee and the grounds of the several grants of money 141 % .°1) ed by it ;ill be explained. The only exhibitions as yet Ath e ßed are in the united rooms of the Royal Institution and k to k : 41 eum, a collection of philosophical instruments, speci e of natural history, and manufactured products; whilst /4 04 1 , h !ill also be in eof the rooms the series of Raphael 4 s t ;"es for which the were designed. There will L,, of mechanical inventions, on a large scale, at sm. l4,Garratt Dye Works, Lower Brook-street ; and a grand . 040 r ° exhibition on Friday, in the Botanical and Hortt- V Gardens at Old Trafford. The excursions arranged tVregent are, to the fossil trees at Dixonford, on the line akealtois railway ; to the principal sections of strata of interest in the neighbourhood of the town ; and to te r ,,,y Tunnel and collieries. k i °4l, o '4o facilities' of approach, particularly by means of in ecl. ; 4 1 ,11 Untcation, a very large influx of visitors is antici -o`,lnongst foreign visitors who have already arrived, is 'th,,:r !teasels The celebrated astronomer, from Konigsburg, it et several: professors from the different Russian t. 1, who will, for the first time, visit this annual assem -4111;4 L .2 . though there is a lack of any general enthusiasm,. e 41 - ''''ff shown on some previous occasions, .the reception mayLetlebers will, this year, be liberal arid satisfactory ; and ta,e2k, e ,notized that, al hough a very large influx of visitors i t '''4l i e'r in the present and ensuing week, the prices of 'tai„, 4l. '" A tion, at hotels and private houses, have in no instance HULLAH'S CLASSES. By tee l i d great choral meeting took place on Wedneshy at ti„ . 11 -- , ( of a body of singers under the tuiti on of Mr. 44 e, h ose numbers and power must have sufficed to . con :, pilii„ l laPectator that the phrase " Singing for the million ti a „g but an exaggeration. . rtibrogramme, if not identical with those of preceding t tla;P u nas of the same character. Among the_pieces , were li s 4, l Yrrin for the Prince of Wales, and Wtlhem s pet . Qiori of Spinning Wheel," both of which received the die ks,"ekts b „ ark unanimous encore. Vtot ~:,ere reserved for the following distinguished persons, titto, "u o m, including Sir R. Peel, Lord 'Wharncliffe, Mrs. I,4ht",„' a nd their respective parties, we noticed in their places Y 1143 , I neneement of the performance :—Sir Robert and ``'" rube and Duchess of Sutherland and party, Mrs. tip a n,d party, Earl and Countess of Haddington, the ( id L uent of the Council and party, Marquis of Exeter and A os a r ,n- and Rev. Gerald Wellesley, Lord and Lady Lang. 4;ltot r ," l „ r eene, Esq., M.P., Marquis and Marchioness of t. k e aiii'in•arl and Countess of Chichester and Ladies Pelham, dY Robeit Grosvenor, Lord and Lady Palmerston, 4 11 40 _ 'live and party, Lord and Lady Lilford, Lady , Mary kitwa, Lord Kenyon and party, Lady Wrottesley and party, ' i tia 4 ,, i ! i n,,ghani and party, Sir G. Staunton, Marquis de 4, i l e i tiowager Lady Hamilton, Lady Grey of Groby, dnor and party, Lady Brooke and party, Lady Qins ka d party, Lord and Lady Ingestre, Lord and Lady dl s Orri s i: l ld party, Si r William and Lady Herries, Lord l e ,Z 3 ta d a nd party, Countess Manvers and party, L a d y Mid ktki eat s Party, Hon. General Trevor and party, Lady E. Np," Yuud party, Lady Catherine Douglas, Lady W oo l mer ' M. Mendelssohn, Lords A. and W. Hervey, Lord Yttelton, Bishop of Norwich, &c. c' t4 c.i 14",,ta IN THE GRAND SURREY CANAL.-IVednes .4 Z - Pg, t three o'clock, ' as two gentlemen, named ,"orney ° , u residing sa No 7, Grosvenor -street, Cam- It tl ,‘, o 's,aifu , . were proceeding homewards, along the bank of thurrey Canal, when they arrived near the tar manu kestenielr attention was directed to a hat and coat lying by ~i g oal r d , e • They informed the police, and constables, 148 los t ; tet tC ru mediately proceeded to the spot, and in a few k 1 ,1 1! body of a respectable gentleman was got out of the tr'Pted e s ) immediately conveyed it to Mr. Coulton's, at 11 4 '.xeli t . t array Canal House, who sent for Dr. Taylor, of Th ar { and every effort was used for upwards of two P~i t %di: t ore ani mat i on, b ut un f ortunate l y w i thout effect. q't,ell. 413 aubsequeOtly identified to be that of M r . J ames 4 14:u-r oad. gentleman of i n d e p en d en t property, res i d i ng i n I ttiettle k b C oburg-road. It appears the gentleman had left 4 41 i u Out eleven o'clock on the preceding morning, appa ' Aelli'usual health and spirits, and nothing was heard ot oiatlAtil h. t 5 'e was taken out of the water, not far from his own A„ tit the sl i ghtest cause can be assigned for, the co. °t iof th e Nra f AU, JUNE 21.—The sum raised by the kie,tited ti r :r the relief of Hamburgh, and remitted to that city, i liet t 4l- 144 } . 36 7 florins. Considerable sums have also been to _ urgh. remitted by wealthy Hamburghers, and re tltilile 0 T r oercial houses at Amsterdam. i t ., f eet i tt ,, ll °Acedic Institution, for the restoration of 4,..0 its third *;'! deformed limbs to their natural symmetry, cele anniversaxy on Wednesday at the London C0f .415'14 1 1;isi, - ;"' Report stated there were last year 158 patients L O ; folthletel. while this year the number was increased to 0" the ev Y. 1 04 new applicants at present. The subscrip wt the ening amounted to upwards of 4601. et ting of the Accident Relief Society, POlO4 of al the Hanover-squaie Rooms, it was stated that $ $ ac • o ti t accidents occurred annually in the .n.tetro tilt %e t, th e Committee gave away to the families of 1. I'+{t ye. w a n t .Ivere confined in hospitals from accidents during NZ 0 ; ' 3 . 3 20 pounds of meat, 3,320 loaves of bread eaep e d„Pals, and 17,500 pounds of potatoes. 'I he re j • I 294/ t 4 • 04in, DPI L Nt ia 5 tw o a PECTS OF LIGHTNING.—OH Sunday tij 4 ria. raed Z,n! bop, aged about ten and eleven, sons of a y i Th ey wtoeel, parish of Kihnichael, were killed by light kll6l* Nehen . tt r si tting by the fire with the remainder of the ;lames were struck with the flash and instantly was also killed about three miles distant. andr,_t 11 rough his head and burned the hat both .1.11, "vni,,ct.-- Clare Journal e 4G , 14 ,.? uN E 21 • • • the sitting of the second tt R e e h • '5. Ntates General, the project of law, relative to 4 4table s, eiet or Y (de Ilfaatschappy van Weldadigheid), the orde r ‘ , v e „ !,,M1 =idly xce llle day, and after a few Members had atiornoy, the Minister of the interior, had Girrs AN 31 u nanimously agreed to. b t ! and Measur e; EASURES. The Inspector of 74'tdgecompleted his tour of inspection for the 4,Bes agai nst iTersst:tdaY (Tuesday). There are upwards Alited &c., in the saidns.for.using unjust weights, measures, 4 s t i o _ 0 hvarthe in on m division. The Magistrates have ar lut's- Woreestershir°4—daj and Thursday, after the Quarter "11 'e Jo / 7 e unroni drna, a r m c.e. th":(1, fought in th e, nut far et states that a Polish o ffi cer, efrovimh:Oirnleikanigeria' tM Ltou ~,_orne person s was bathing this week . Orleans, when he suddenly . &sap , gut bi m to land. He s aw inns go down gave assistance, ss , p l a n the mistaken still breathed, but the bystanders, Ni o : . to make hi m rnootion that the first thing to be : t tlimi„":4 held hi m a With off the water which he had T ay.if t caused his de a th Ina head downwards, and thus Ole ,! .bee so frequeljti It 1 ! astonishing that, although this vtd to "pointed out, it is still persisted in. or i zna u t : i r cases of drowning is, to place the Fnutions wall the head slightly raised. COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL. Yesterday, a Court was held for the election of a Town Clerk by the Corporation of London, and for the despatch of a great deal of public Lusiness. There was a full attendance of members, and the space below the bar was crowded, the interest excited by th e expected election being very great. THE DISTRESSED MANUFACTURERS. Mr. R. L. JONES moved that the Court subscribe the SLIM of 500/. in aid of the funds arising from her Majes ty's letter for the relief of the distressed manufacturers of England and Scotland. lie thought it was unnecessary to make any comment upon the subject, well knowing that the Court would most willingly accede to the appeal which had been made to their compassion.—(Hear.) Mr. P. TAYLOR proposed, as an addition to the propo sition of Mr. R. L, Jones, " That the Court recommend that the money to be granted in aid of the manufactu rers be laid out in the purchase of corn, to be admitted free of duty, and that the Government be petitioned by the Court for that object."—(Hear, hear, and No, no.) After a short conversation, in which the Recorder Mr. Wire, Mr. Pewtress, Mr. W. Jones, and Alderman Farebrother joined, the original motion was agreed to, and Mr. P. Taylor's addition was negatived by a small majority. The Court then proceeded to the election of Town Clerk, in the room of Mr. Woodthorpe, deceased ; and on the votes being taken, the Lord Mayor declared Ser geant Merewether the successful candidate, the numbers being-t ry - - 106 80 For Sergeant Merewether For Mr. Pritchard Majority BELGIUM. --26 BRUSSELS, JUNE 17.—The absence of the King and Queen will be for about a month. It is said that there will be a general promotion in the army to the ranks of General, Colonel, and Lieutenant-Colonel. Several superior officers will retire upon pensions. It seems that the debate• on the project relative to sug r is deferred till the month of August. The petitions of the four persons condemned for the conspi racy have been transmitted to his Majesty by the Minister of Justice. They were to be submitted to the Council of Minis ters before the King set out for London. Lord de Saumarez, with his family and suite, arrived at Brussels on Friday. BRUSSELS, JUNE 20.—8 v a Royal decree of the 19th of June, M. Adolphus Dechamps is appointed Governor of the province of Luxemburg, in the room of Prince Joseph de Cl.anay. Major Pirson has arrived at Bru , sels, having term:naled a journey to explore the interior of Texas, undertaken by order of the Government. His journey took him seven months. He has brought home documents concerning the political, financial, and commercial relations of that Republic, which are said to be extremely interesting. The sultry atmosphere which we have had for some time past was cooled last week, but the drought continued. Ye,terday afternoon the earth was refreshed by a fail of rain very favi,ur able to the crops, which are extremely promising all over the country. BRUSSELS, Jo NE 21.—8 y a Royal resolution of the 19th of June, the punishment of hard labour for life, passed on the persons condemned for political offences is commuted as fol lows, viz :—For Messrs. Vandermeere and Vandersmissen to twenty years' confinement, and for Messrs. Verpraet and Van Laethen to ten years' confinement. And all four to remain under the surveillance of the police for twenty years after the expiration of their sentence. This resolution was communi cated to them yesterday afternoon in the prison of the Petits Carmes. It is said that they will undergo their sentence at Vilvorde. MONE Y MARKET and CITY NEWS. FROM TUE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY. CHRONICLE.—The complaints against the Bank of Eng land for refusing to pay out silver do not subside. The private bankers, we hear, will not pas t with what they have in store, and urge, as a sufficient reason, that the Bank of England will not supply them with more. It is quite true, at the same time, that there was lately a "surplusage" of silver. The Govern ment received several waggon loads of it from China, and large remittances have come to hand from time to time from Mexico, and other parts of South America. We are thus at a loss to account for the scarcit y now experienced, and cannot beli e ve th a t there is any real want of silver in the Bank of England. We are induced rather to believe that there may be something in the charges made against the Old Lady, that she en courages the Government in issuing their recent proclama tion, under the expectation that it would throw a large addi tional quantity of her paper into circulation ; that the Direc tors are, therefore, not a little disconcerted in finding that the deliverers of light gold call for silver more generally than Bank paper; and that they are, therefore, making silver scarce, in order to compel the public to draw out their notes. This charge is very generally made against the Bank, and the large influx of silver lately received into their coffers tends to strengthen the probability, more particularly when viewed in connexion with the statement made by the Master of the Mint last night in the House of Commons. But, whatever may be the cause of the scarcity, there c an b e no d ou bt o f t h e f act th at it is experienced, and that it is creating additional incon venience and embarrassment. A gentleman in the City asked for three sovereigns and forty shillings in silver from the Bank, in exchange for a five-pound note. He did so under the im pression, that as silver was a legal tender up to 405., he had a right to demand payment of the Bank paper partly in gold and partly in silver up to the amount for which silver is a legal tender. Hi s d eman d, h owever, was refused, the Bank autho rities maintaining that it was optional on their part to pay partly in silver, or otherwise, as they chose, and that they could not be compelled to do so. The Bank of England says —we have the option of paying our notes altogether in gold, or partly in gold and silver. The holder has no option. Ac cording to equity the law should be exactly the reverse of this. The holders should be entitled to say to the debtor, " pay me in gold for these notes, or so much in gold, and on each note so much, up to the legal tender, in silver." If the holders do not possess this option, there ought, at all events, to be some Go vernment office where the legitimate wants of the public should be supplied ; but, instead of that, silver is a strict monopoly in the hands of the Government and the Bank of England, and the public have no place of resort to obtain silver except the Bank, whose doors are now shut against them. POST.—The quotations for Spanish Bonds yesterday were 21i 22h for the Five, and 234 23a, for the Three per Cents. ; to-day they have been 214 211 an d 23L 23# respec ti ve l y — t h e advertisement for the payment of the dividend due on the 30th instant having appeared in the interval. 'this decline goes far to show the estimation in which these things are really held at a time when any doubt as to the receipt of the dividend ought to have been dissipated ; when from every appearance a Ministry had been formed, and outbreaks hail been quietly put down, quotations of the bonds decline, instead of rise. The real solution is to be found in the fact, that no reliance can be placed in the certainty of future or regular payments, and the gross injustice which is being committed upon the original cre ditors by the overthrow of the old claims. Neither nation nor individual can maintain credit by a continuous system of bor rowing to pay interest, which as soon as obtained becomes pritcipal, and the nucleus of an indefinite amount of debt, oh,ch, when too large to be borne by an insolvent, must necessarily be thrust aside. Experience has e.ompleiely proved that not the slightest reliance can be placed upon any promise or dtcree which may be made or issued on the subject of Spanish finances, each having been successively repudiated as soon as it had fu filled the purpose intended, or found to be insufficient for the effect which it was meant to produce, without refe rence to the parties who might be affected by such proceedings. And in the present condition . of the Spanish revenue, the holders of the Three per Cent. Stock can expect no other fate than that their claims also will be thrown into the common heap immediately capitalists refuse to lend any more towards the dividends. The more the nature of the bonds be known the less valuable they become, and, therefore, the less inducement to make advances ; hence every day brings the crisis nearer, which sooner or later must arrive. The Chronicle has for the last day or two been again endea vouring by second editions to raise the quotation of these do cuments, its peculiar pets. Yesterday, by th e ear ly e diti on , under "Spain," in the most conspicuous type, the public were informed by extraordinary express that an outbreak had taken place at Figueras, which would be easily quelled. This had scarcely been read when a second edition, brought by another extraordinary express, stated that an outbreak, &c., had been easily quelled—the only difference between the two being a change in the tense. To-day a third extraordinary express brought the official accounts of the formation of a Ministry, which fact had been known to the public twenty-four hours previously. The clumsiness with which these have been ma naged would of itself have excited suspicion, had it not been long since notorious that these second editions were publishe d merely for stock-jobbing purposes. As the expense cannot exceed printing a few additional papers, the game may be played with but little loss, though the object sought to be gained by them may not be attained. The General Steam Navigation Company's vessel, the Giraffe, fromßotterdam, arrived offthe Custom-house at 11 o'clock this day, with the Dutch mails. The steam ships of the Antwerp Company, which arrived at the St. Katharine's Wharf, Tower, on Wednesday and yesterday, were the Bruges, Captain Main, from Ostend and the Antwerpen, Captain Jackson, from A n t werp . Th e , passage from Ostend was made in 121,4 hours, and from Antwerp in 19 hours. HOBITOTJSE AND CO.'S BANKRUPTCY.—The ar rangement made for the paying of dividends has worked so ex ceedingly well as to have enabled the assignees too pay upwards of 50',000/. to 2,000 creditors.—llath Chronicle. ASTRONOIMICAL PHENOMENA. —Last night, a grand phenomenon was displayed ia the south-eastern part of the heavens, when the moon, which is only the fiftieth part of the size of our earth, will rise about seven minutes past nine, being at that time preceded by the planet Saturn, a mag nificent globe, 1,000 times larger than our own, and accum • partied by seven moons, in addition to its splendid rings. Jupiter, whose magnitude far exceeds all the other planets in the solar system, being 1,400 times larger than the earth, fol lowed quickly after the moon, rising in the same . part of the horizon about a quarter of an hour after that luminary. The moon attained her greatest altitude at midnight; con sequently about eleven o'clock they formed a group of the most splendid objects for the contemplation of the young astro nomer that a summer's aspect can possibly afford him. Saturn appeared near the north-western limb of the moon, and Jupiter at a greater distance to the east. In a day er two the satellites of Jupiter and the rings of Saturn may be seen with a good telest:ope ; but the best time will be during the first week in July, when they will make theienearest approach to us, being then in opposition to the sun. At that time the distance of Jupiter will be 4(0,000,000, and that of Saturn 812,000,000 miles from the earth. We have been favoured with copies of a lithograph drawing by Mr. OTriscoll, of the criminal Francis, who has been convicted of one of the deepest crimes that it is possible to contemplate ; and of the hardened villain Cooper, who has been sentenced to die for shooting. the policeman. We cannot speak too highly of the like nesses. Mr. OTriscoll has been very happy in hitting them off ; he has just caught the expression, and appa rently at the most advantageous period. They are struck upon good paper ; and those who are anxious to obtain a good likeness of the man who could so far forget himself as to fire a pistol at our beloved Queen, may depend upon having a correct one before them, if they have one of Mr. O'Driscoll's drawings. Yesterday the Brunswick Wharf, Blaukwall, was a scene of great gaiety, owing to the arrival and departure of a number of large foreign steam-ships. The Bristish steam ship, Wilberforce, arrived at eight o'clock, from Ant werp, and landed her passengers, among whom was Lord Rockbv. The mail-packet Giraffe, arrived shortly after, from -. Rotterdam ; and the General Steam Navigation Company's favourite steamer, Rainbow, left as usual tn- Antwerp, at one, with a most elegant assemblage of passengers, and nine carriages. Among upw ar d s o f one hun dred passengers, we noticed Sir E. Ryan, Sir Edward Party, the Rev. Mr. Rodker, Colonel Thomas, Major-General Boa towline, Dr. Cumming, and Captain Biscoe. Several packets were also leaving fur Gravesend and Woolwich, filled with company. The Radcliffe Trustees have given a donation of one hundred pounds, to that useful institution, the Royal Dis pensary for Diseases of the gar, Deau-street, Soho-square. PARLIAMENTARY DIVISIONS HOUSE OF LORDS.. TUESDAY, JUNE 21. INCOME TAX BILL. MAJORITY IN FAVOUR OF THE THIRD READING OF THE INCOME TAX BILL. H R. H. the Duke EARLS. Rochester, Bishop of Camld►dge Beverley Llandall; Bishop ARCHBISHOPS. Mansfield' Chester, Bishop Canterbury Liverpool Gloucester, Bishop Armagh Malmesbury Chichester, Bishoo Clanwilliam Wicklow I.ucan Bandon Rosslyn Powis Charleville Manveis Verulam 13rownlow St. Germain's Bradford Beauchamp Glengall. Eldon Somers Stradbruke Dunraven Cawdor Ripon VISCOUNTS, Canning Canterbury Gage Hawarden Hood owther Middleton Sydney Lord Chancellor Buccleuchi Buckingham Cleveland ItichinomA ellingtdn ARQUIdfiS. Abereorn Aylesbury Dow n sh ire Exeter ' Londonderry Salisbury EA RLS, Devon Sandwich' Shaltesbuty Jersey Eglin court Moray fi and i ngton Home Galloway: Dalhousie Aberdeen Dunmore Aylesford arwic Delawarr Bathurst Lincoln, Bishop Bangor, Bishop PAIRED OFF. Marquis of Huntley. Marquis of Bute. Marquis of Ely. Earl of Kinnoull. Earl of Cornwallis. Earl of Mounteashel Earl of Chre. Earl of Wilton. Earl of Clanearty Bishop of London, Lord Sondes. Lord Bray brooke. Lord Wynford. Lord De L'ltle. BARONS. De Roos Clinton Beaumont Colville Boston Walsingham Kenyon Bayning Bolton Northwick &ayney Carbery Crotton Itede6dale Samlys Rivers Prudhoe Colchester Itavensworth Dclamcre Forrester Bex►ey De Table) , Whai nclitfe Fitzgerald Stuart de Bothsay Heytesbury Templemore Seaton , Lord Stanley of Alderley Lord De Freyne.. Duke of Hamilton. Lord Lovat. Lord Sherborne. Lord Bateman. Duke of Devonsh:re. Lord Foley. Marquis of HeadforL Lord Dinorben. Lord Hastings. Earl Fitzharilinge. — Lord Talbot of Ma!abide. Earl of Belfast. (From the rotes and Proceedings of the House al Commons.) WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22. SUDBURY DISFRA.ArCHISEAIIE,VT BILL. Motion made, and Question put, " That the Report be now read :—Amendment proposed, to leave out nom the words " That the" to the end of the Question, in order to add the words " Bill be re-committed," instead thereof :—Qustion put, " That the words proposed to be left out stand part of the Bill :"--The House divided:— MAJORITY AYES, Escott, Bichkam Evans, William. Ferguson, Sir H. A. Gill, Thomas tV reet.e, G. Hodgson, It. Howard, P. H. Lambton, H. Lelroy, Anthony Lincoln, Earl ot. Mach an, D,,n‘ld Mainwarmg, T. Rlarsland, H. Miles, P. W. S. Miles, W. Norreys, Sir D. O'Brien, W. Smith 13arnard, E. G. Baskervi l le, 13. M. Bernard, Viscount Blake, M. J. llowring; Gr. lrodie. W. B. BrothertOn, J. Burroughes. N. N. Bu tei d,. Cnristie, W. D. Colebrooke, Sir T. E. Courtenay, Viscount Cripps, J. Dynnistdun, J. Dickinson. F. H. Eastnor, Viscount Eliot, Lord O'Connell, M. J. O'kerrall, More Plurnridge, Captain Plumptre, J. P. Protheroe, Seale Sir -J Stock - , Dr, Towneley, John Villiers, Charles P. Wawn, John T. Whitmore, 'F. C. Wood, Benjamin Wyse, Thomas Yorke, H. riedhead Allix, John Peter Arbuthnot, Hon. 11 Bailey, J. Baird, WilLam Bradshaw, James Smedley, Henry Darby George NORITY-NOES, Fuller, A. E. Grimsditch, T. Henley, J. W. Hervey, Lord A. Jackson, J. D. Lawson, Andrew Mackenzie, Thomas TELLEIIB. Reddington, T. N. Ward, 11. U., Master, T. W. C. Mundy, E. M. Pringle, Alexander Vere, Sir C. B. TELLERS. Blackstone, W. SA ltusnlarooke, Colonel Forbes, William RIVERS (IRELAND) BILL— Tenth Clause (Meeting of Landholders point a valuation in c'rtain cases) : —Que Clause, as amended, stand part of the Bill divided : .In the Committee. to be convened to ap stion put, " That the :"—The Committee ; Acland, Sir T.l) Allix, John Peter Baskerville, T. B. M. Bernard, Viscount B:oadley, H. Brotherton, J. Charteris, Hon F. Colville, C. K. Courtenay, Viscount Cripps, W. oarby, George JORI T Eliot, Lord Fuller, A. E. Henley, J. Warner Howard, P. H. Hughes, W. B. Hutt, W. Jackson, Serjeant Left oy, Anthony Lincoln, Earl of Mainwaring, T. m sterman, John Miles, P. S. 'Y -NOES, Miles, W. Mundy, E. Miller Norreys, Sir 1). J. Plumptre, J. P. flash sigh, Wm. Itushbrook, Colonel Stuart, H. Sutton, Hon. h. M Vere, Sir C B. TELLERS. Young, John Pringle, A. Dicarison, c: H. MINORIT' Ferguson, Sir Robert O'Connell, M. J. O'Ferrall, It. M. Wyse, Thomas TELLERS. igton, T. N. ... Reding Blake, ILrtin GREAT NORTH OF ENGLAND RAILWAY. Traffic returns for the week ending June 18, 1842 : Passengers £o39 7 6 Merchandise 3OO 6 5 £1,239 13 11 W. O'BRIEN, Secretary. Darlington, June 22. THE COLNAGE.-PJ . X JURY. A Privy Council was held on Wednesday, at the office of the Comptroller-General of her Majesty's Exchequer, for the pur pose of empanelling a Jury of twenty-four members of the Goldsmith's Company, to assay the gold and silver coins of the realm. The Lords of the Council present were—the Lord Chancel lor, Lord Motiteagle, the Duke of Buccleuch, Lord Wharn clitle, Lord Yesci and Fitzgerald, Lord Bexley, the Right Hon. Wm. Gladstone, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Sir H. Hardinge. The origin of an inquiry of this nature bears date so far back as the 18th year of the reign of Edward 111. Several ladies were present to witness the proceedings. The names of the Jury having been called over, and a fore man appointed, The Loan CHANCELLOR. addressed them to the following effect :—Gentlemen of the Jury, you have assembled here this day, agreeably to, and in accordance with, a very ancient custom, which is termed a trial of pix, or, in other words, to try the quality and weight of geld and silver lately coined at her Majesty's Mint. It will be your duty to ascertain whether the coinage corresponds with the standard required by law. 'The oa h that has been administered points out your duties and obligations to the Crown, the public, and the Master of the Mint. The Noble and Learned Lord then said, that the Mint indenture of February 6, 1817 (which was still in force), made it imperative that 46 29-40 sovereigns should be coined to the pound weight troy, of the standard of twenty-two carats of fine gold and two carats of alloy. With respect to the silver coinage, it was ordered by the indenture to which he had re ferred, (dated in 1817), that all silver moneys coined should be after the rate of sixty-six shillings the pound troy, of the standard of eleven ounces two dwts. of fine silver, and eighteen dwts. of alloy. The same standard was required for gold and silver coined for the West Indies—that coinage must correspond with the coin of the British realm. His Lordship proceeded to say that trifling accidents, trifling deviations must at times occur. It .was impossible that, in all instances, the coin could exactly correspond with the standard, and therefore, when an inquiry of that nature was first instituted, a provision had been made to meet any case of trifling deficiency. With respect to gold, twelve grains were allowed in every pound troy. In silver, one dwt. in every pound troy. If no greater deficiency than what he had stated took place in a new coinage, it was allowed, but if there was a greater deficiency, the Master of the Mint must render an account to the Crown, for he was responsible. If, on the other hand, there should be an excess in the weight, the Master of the Mint was entitled to receive it ; and further, if the coin was wrong, it was imperative on the Master of the Mint to recoin it at his own expense, in a proper form and manner, agreeably to the pleasure of the Crown. This was not he first time he (the Lord Chan cellor) had had an opportunity of addressing a jury assembled for a similar inquiry. The question they had to determine was, whether the late gold and silver coinages were correct at the time they were issued, and they would be found so he had no doubt. He believed in no instance within the memory of man, in no instance since that inquiry was first instituted in the reign of Edward the Third, had there ever been a deviation which ex ceeded the limits. On the last occasion of a Pix Jury assem bling, their verdict was that the coin was correct, but it fol lowed as a matter of course that the current coin must be in some degree altered by wear and time. On the present occa sion they were met to ascertain if the Master of the Mint had done his duty to the Crown and the public. With respect to both the Crown and the public, it was most important te ascertain if the different ,coins, when they were issued, cor responded with the standard required by law. At an early period—in the reign of Edward the Third—two plates, one of silver the other of gold, were made, and they were called " trial plates," and would be produced before the jury. Those plates were kept and secured in an iron chest in Westminster Abbey; that chest had three locks, the keys of which were in the custody of three different public officers, and they were only removed on occasions like the present, when it was in tended to have a new coinage. The box in which these plates and coins were deposited was only opened when it was her Majesty's pleasure to direct an inquiry like the present. It would then be their duty to take a piece of the trial plates and an exactly equal quantity of the coin of the realm, and after assaying, and making them into ingots, to see if they corresponded. The assay would take place in their presence, in a room attached to that office, in which a furnace and the necessary apparatus had been prepared. It was their bounden, their important duty, to see, and rightly ascertain, whether. the coinage, at the time it was issued front the Mint, exactly corresponded - with the required standard ; and if they should find that it did not, if they were of opinion that it deviated to an extent not sanctioned by law, it was their dety to say so, by the verdict which they would have to return to the Lords of the Council. The process would be carried on in their presence ; and on this particular occasion, said his Lordship, place no confidence in the honour or integrity of the Master of the Mint : you hake an important, a solemn duty to perform—important to the Crown, and especially im portant to the public. He had no doubt the gentlemen he was addressing would do their duty satisfactorily. When the trial was over he would receive their verdict, and direct that it should be recorded in the usual form. The Foreman of the Jury suggested that the verdict should be received that afternoon in the private room of the House of Lords, or at his Lordship's residence in Great George-street, Hanover-square. The LORD CUANCELLOR—If you are prepared, I will receive your verdict in my private room at the House of Lords, at a quarter before four o'clock ; after that time at my residence in George-street. Their Lordships were invited to dine at Goldsmiths' Hall in the evening, It being the usual custom of that wealthy Com pany to give a splendid banquet upon occasions like the present, which only occur once in the course of several years. During the short time Mr. Abercrombie was Master of the Mint, the silver coinage in threepenny, twopenny, and three halfpenny pieces for the service of the West India colonies, amounted to the total value of 10,0151. 10s. The amount of gold coined during the time Mr. Labouchere was Master of the Mint, amounted to 6,400,5461. Silver coin during the same period, 1,399,503/. 12s. For circulation in the West India colonies, 71,016/. Since Mr. Gladstone has been appointed " Master and Worker" of her Majesty's Mint, the total value of gold coined is 3134,0691. ; silver coin, value 40,590/. After the address of the Lord Chancellor, the Jury retired to make the necessary assay of the coins which had been given to them, and the Council adjourned. THE WEATHER. — (From a Correspondent.)—The farmers and gardeners in the Isle of Wight will be serious losers by the continued dry Weather. With the exception of two or three slight showers, there his been no rain since March. The hay crop is a failure; the oats, barley, peas, &e., are in a miserable state; some farms have hardly anything green upon them. Yesterday (21st) the mercury fell to 29.32, and great hopes were entertained of rain, but to-day it has risen to 29.42. A Railroad Company has been formed chiefly by the King of Naples and Grand Duke of Tuscany, for a railroad between Naples and Florence Cevita Vecchia. The Comte party will require a million's sterling-worth of gugliali rails. THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY MORNING. IM PE Ri AL PARLIAMENT. • HOUSE OF LORDS, June 23. Their Lordships met to-day at Ten o'clock, to hear appeals. At Two o'clock the Lord Chancellor retired, and the Earl of Shaftesbury took his seat on the Wool sack, when the Bills on the table were forwarded a stage, after which the House adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS, June 23. The SPEAKER took the Chair at the usual hour. Mr. LOWTHER presented a petition from a place in Norfolk; against the repeal of the Gilbert Act. Mr. PROTHEROE presented several petitions from places in Lancashire and Yorkshire, against Lord Ash ley's Bill fur the Regulation of Labour in Mines and Col lieries. Mr. YOUNG presented a petition from a place in Downshire, agabst the system of National Education in Irc:and.; STANDING ORDERS--RAILWAY BILLS. Mr. W. PATTEN begged leave to call the attention of the House to the Standing Order of the House, which imposes on the promoters of Railway Bills the neces sity of giving public notice in the months of February and Match instead of in Octob er an d N ovem b er , t h e period fixed for other Bills. The object of the Standing Order was to protect landlords from unnecessary inter- Iwith their property ; but the Order had entirely failed of effecting that obect, so that there was no longer 'any reason for its existing on that ground. In one Year, before this Standing Order was made, no less than 77 Bills were carried into effect, while in one year since, out of 116 Bills introduced into the House, only two were carried into effect. He thought that a deposit - of 101. per cent. was a sufficient guarantee that the parties who brought the Bills into the House would carry them into effect, and it was a strong proof that it would be beneficial to the public. Under the present system, the parties were obliged to make their surveys, &c. in the winter, when it was almost impossible to do so with effect. Looking to the immense advantage of railway communication, it was now the duty of that House to frame its Standing Orders so as not to throw an impediment is the way of these plans, but rather to be an encouragement to plans which were of such im mense importance to the country ; and with that view he should move that the Standing Orders of the House, which imposes on the promoters of Railway Bills the ne cessity of giving public notice in the month of February and March, instead of in October and November, the period fixed fin- other Bills, be repealed. • Mr. 110DGSON seconded the motion. - Mr. GLADSTONE expressed his hearty assent to the motion, arid he hoped the House would agree to it. Mr. GREENE thought the removal of this Standing Order would remedy a very serious evil. Mr. ESCOTT, as Chairman of the Standing Orders Committee, said he entirely agreed with the motion. The motion was then agreed to. Mr. STUART WORTLEY presented a petition from Yorkshire against the Mines and Collieries Bill. Mr. T. DUNCOMBE presented a petition from Bir mingham against the bastardy clause in the Poor-law Amendment Bill.. The HON. MENDER gave notice that, on the House going into Committee on the Poor-law Amendment Bill, he would move, tfit considering the distressed state of the commerce of the country, there was not time during the present session to enable the House sufficiently to consider the laws relating to the poor, and therefore ..hat measures of a temporary character should be adopted. BELFAST ELECTION COMMITTEE. Mr. O'CONNELL moved that the Select Committee on the Belfast election, be at liberty to appoint an agent on each side to assist them in the inquiry into matters referred to them. He said that the Committee could not proceed with any justice, unless they were authorised to nominate two agents, one fur each party. By that means, they should have the case brought before the House, without having the unfairness, he might almost say the indecency, of being at once prosecutors, offenders, and judges. He had thought it better to bring the subject before the House, as being the reverse of a party motion; he had done so in accordance with the unanimous feel- ing of the Committee. Sir H. PEEL said that it would be better for the Com mittee to act upon former precedents, and undertake to ducide fur themselves as to what would be the most advisable way of conducting the inquiry, and not leave it to the House. With respect to the payment of the ex penses also, his own opinion was, that the tribun a l ap pointed by the house was the best judge ; the expense of agents might be very considerable, and he must re serve himself entirely on that point. He would not pledge himself to the payment of the expenses.—(Hear, hear.) It was right that the witnesses should be remunerated for their attendance ; but the Committee ought steadily to guard itself against delay, which might be caused by holding out hopes of large professional reward. Mr. STUART WORTLEY said the object of the Committee was to get the authority of the House to ap point agents ; he was sorry to say that from precedents they derived very little support, though there were in stances of Committees appointing agents who were paid by the Treasury. Sir R. PEEL repeated that he thought the Committee had better conduct the inquiry in the mode they thought would be most conducive to the ends of justice, but they ought to take care that they held out no inducement, from the hope of emolument, to protract the inquiry. 51r. WILSON PATTEN thought it would not be possible to prosecute the inquiry without appointing agents. Mr. SHAW also spoke in favour of the appointment of agents. Mr. O'CONNELL was addressing some observations to the House, when Mr. FERRAND rose to order. There was no question before the House. Mr. PROTHEROE thought 'that common courtesy ought to have restrained the lion. Member from rising to order. He had no reason to suppose but that the Hon. and Learned Gentleman would act with perfect fairness towards the Committee. At the same time he could not accept the responsibility which the Right lion. Baronet threw on them. It was necessary that the House should determine the course which that Committee was to take. Mr. DARBY said he understood that the proposition was withdrawn. Mr. O'CONNELL said that the Committee really was placed in a position of difficulty, but they were quite ready to take the matter upon their own responsibility. Mr. ROEBUCK said he hoped that every person con nected with the Committee would entirely refrain from answering any attack or insinuation which was made against them.—(Hear, hear.) He trusted that when the Report was made to the House, it would be found that they had done their duty. Mr. DARBY said he meant to cast no imputation whatever on any member of the Committee. NATIONAL UALLERY AND NELSON'S MONU- MENT. In reply to questions from Mr. PROTHEROE, Lord LINCOLN said that the steps and terrace in front of the National Gallery were now ready to be opened ; but he thought it would not be for the conve nience of the public that they should be opened till the Nelson Monument was in a state of forwardness. He was not able to state whether there was any deficiency in the funds in the hands of the Committee. For the intentions of the Government, in case a deficiency should be found to exist, he must refer the Hon. Gentleman to the Chan cellor of the Exchequer. Mr. PROTIIEHOE wished to ask the Right Hon. Gentleman (the Chancellor of the Exchequer) if he was aware of the deficiency between the estimated cost of the N,lson monument and the amount which had been raised ? The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that he had never known what the estimate of the ex pense of the monument was. That was a matter exclu sively under the cognizance of the Committee. Sir ROBERT PEEL hoped that those having charge of the monument would seriously consider that part of the subject which had been alluded to by the lion. Gentleman. They should seriously consider what was the amount of the funds subscribed, together with What would probably be the ultimate cost of the monu ment ? It was an important part of their duty to take this into their serious consideration. CUSTOMS BILL. Mr. T. DUNCOMBE wished to ask the Right Hon. Baronet when it was his intention to proceed with the Customs Bill ? The Bill was on the Orders for this evening, but as there was but little chance of its coming• on, he (Mr. T. Duncombe) would feel obliged to the Right Hon. Baronet to state when it was probable that the Bill would really come on. Sir ROBERT PEEL hoped there was a good chance of the Bill coming on that evening. g E h t down LoRlle certain an Empire ;in that tain Bills. Mr. T. DUNCOMBE had two amendments to pro pose, and therefore hoped that he might b e i n f orme d when it was probable the Bill would be brought on . Sir ROBERT PEEL said, that in the course o f the evening he would decide what course he should pu rsue . MESSAGE from the FROM Lords b r T o THE AFIGHANISTAN. Messengers Mr. H. C. BAILLIE was awar e that, under ordinary c iwl i e r o c rue u s i e n n. s o t a t s n oc c a e l s ic: tui g lea u t% e ev s de t r i oetnos theyrelating rme to our at interestlndian interests o ft one hundred millions of their fellow-subjects depended upon them, that year after year, and session after ses sion passed] away, without the affairs of that part of the empire being brought under their notice. It was a remarkable coincidence that the three greatest Powers in the world were all at this moment engaged in similar contests. In each case they might trace a si milar amount of aggression and injustice, and in each case the results had been the same. It would be difficult to decide whether the Russians in Circassia, the French in Algeria, or the English in Affghanistan, had committed the greatest amount of folly and injustice, or had reaped the bitterest fruits of a severe and just retribution. The valour and the discipline of the Russians had been de feated in Circassia year after year; the skill and courage of the armies of France had been successfully resisted by the fierce and frantic tribes of Arabs; and the vast resources of our Indian empire were now wasted in a vain attempt to subdue a race of men no less brave, no less fierce, no less fanatic, living at such a distance as to render a war upon a large scale al most a fruitless undertaking. It was under these circumstances that he asked for such information as would enable them to decide whether th e war was originally undertaken upon fair and just grounds ; whether the great military authorities in India or England were consulted upon the subject ; and whether duo weight was attached to the opinions of the only nam who could give correct informa tion with regard to the country they were about to in vade, as well as to the sentiments, feeling s , and opinions of the country ? The Comma nder-in- Chief of the rrmy in India was Sir Henry Fane, who, by his long and brilliant services in the Peninsula, won the esteem and confidence of the Duke of Welling ton ; . an officer, therefore, who was well qualified to give the .Governor-General, the best. advice .4pp tie 61akiee404.(lieii, ' hear•) :Ai IV EG114 4 7 "Mt' kV JUNE 24, 1842. was called on to give his opinion, and he (Mr. Bailie) had reason to know he gave the best and soundest ad vice. He told the Governor-General that the course, he was about t o undertake was unjust and impolitic —un just in a political point of view, as regarded the deposal of Dost Mahomed ; and impolitic in a military point of view, as the country was so dis tant and so remote from all resources that could be afforded ; he pointed out the possibility of defeat and the impossibility of retreat—the character of the frontier beyond the Sutledge, and the propriety of making the Indus the boundary of the country. That advice walgiven ayear before the marching of the army; so that, as tar as the Commander-in-Chief was concerned, he performed his duty to his country. But before un dertaking a great military. expedition, contrary to the advice and opinion of the great military authorities of . the country, it might have been deemed advisable to have consulted some of the great military authorities of this country—either the Commander-in-Chief of the army, or the higher authority of the Duke of Wellington. If mat had been adopted there was every reason to be lieve that it would be consonant in all respects with the opinion delivered by the Commander-in- Chief of the army in India. That the expedition to .Affghanistan was a great military fault, and a 'great political mis take, no one, he thought, at the present moment was prepared to deny. He believed that politicians were now anxious to devise means, if anything could be devised, by which our troops could be withdrawn without exhibiting proofs of our want of power in India. What were the reasons of the Governor-General, in order to justify the invasion of Affghanistan ? They were stated in the manifesto, dated October 1, 1838, which was published in every newspaper throughout the country; it was, therefore, familiar to all those Hon. Gen tlemen who had paid any attention to the subject. It was a rather remarkable document, and a most important one. The Governor-General in that manifesto stated, that from information he had received from various officers in Aff ghanistan, the Beloochee Chiefs, from their unpopularity, were unsuited to be useful allies to the British Government. Such wore the opinions of the only English officers who had visited Caubul previous to the march of the army of this country,with the exception of those who were with Capt. Burnes. He denied that Shah Soojah-00l- Moolk was so popular a Monarch as had been represented. They would be prepared to join with the Russians or the Persians, or any force in Central Asi a , di rec t e d against the English. They could not be justified in placing the British army in a position altogether inde fensible ; such as the occupation of a country by our troops between 500 and 1,000 miles dis tant from the place of operation, which could only be approached by the permission of a power ful and independent, people, and that through the most dangerous passes only. Such a scheme was worthy of a boy, but he did not hesitate to say that no military man would ever venture to recommend such a step. In making this motion be wished it to be distinctly under stood that it was not his object to make charges against the late Governor-General of India or the late President of the Board of Control ; they might be able to justify by the_production of papers all their proceedings in that country. ; but he complained that sufficient information had not been laid before the House to enable them to arrive at any,fair or just conclusion. The Indian papers that had already been - laid' on the table of ,the House were mostly garbled extracts of letters, from which they would be quite unable to arrive at any fair conclusion. He did not say that a bulky volume had not been laid on the table of the House, nor did he say that it contained no information. He thought the House would admit this war could only have been justified on the supposition that it was impossible for the Governor-General of India at that period to make any treaty wiith the former chiefs of Affghanistan. Those were the express grounds on which the Governor-General, in the manifesto to which he (Mr. Baillie) had before alluded, justified the war. Let tlfem see then whe ther such assumption could be borne out. In the autumn of 1837 Sir Alexander Burnes arrived at Caubul, where he was most hospitably treated by the natives in the encampment. He found the Chief not only well disposed to the English, but so anxious to form a friendly alliance with us that he at once pet off all the negotiations he had previously made with the Court of Persia, The Persian Ambassador had arrived at Candahar, on his way to Caubul, with costly presents for the chief. At the same time a Russian agent had arrived at Caubul, but they refused to negotiate with him, whilst there was , a probability..of making an alliance with the English. Now, it was necessary that the House should know what were, in fact, the proposals which Dost Mahomed at that time offered to the British Government. They found those proposals laid down by Capt. Burn e s i n one o f hi s despatches to the Governor-General. (The Hon. Member then read a dispatch of Captain Burnes to the Governor- General, stating that Dost Mahomed had stated that he was desirous of placing himself under the pro tection of the British Government, and did not wish the restoration of Candahar, provided he received that pro tection.) What, he asked, was the protection of the British Government against Persia, in the event of his alliance with us calling down upon him the hostility of that power ? And what was the answer of the British Government to these proposals ? A positive and direct refusal to afford any protection from Persia what ever, except that which the presence of Captain Burnes might afford. Dost Mahomed did not under stand the meaning of this moral influence. In • a few days after this refusal Captain Burnes took his departure from Caubul, and upon his arrival at Hyderabad, he wrote to the Governor-General stating that the moral influence of British power and the arguments derived from it had no weight at Caubul. Now, in order to show the House the good feeling and the good spirit by which Dost Mahomed was actuated at the commencement of the negotiations, he would read t ► the House an extract from ene of Capt. Burnes' suppressed despatches now in the course of publication. The Hon. Member then read a letter of Dost Mahomed, brought to him by the son of the Ameer, stating that he wished to have nothing to do with any other power but the British ; and that, if agree able to the Governor-General, he would turn out the Russian agent into the road, or act in any other way in which he was required. Sir A. Burnes told the Ameer that he could not take upon him self to refuse an accredited agent, according to the usages of civilised nations, but that he could make full disclo sures to the British Government of any designs which might be opened to him.—(Hear, hear.) He would ask the House if it was possible to show greater good-will to the British Government ? Some doubts, it appeared, had been expressed as to what were Captain Burnes' opinions as to the policy of making war on Dost Mahomed.ln order to make that point clear,he would quote from a suppressed despatch of Capt. Burnes, addressed to Sir Wm. Macuaghten, dated Caubul, January 26, 1838. Captain Burnes therein stated, that since arriving at Caubul he had seen an agent from Persia, who bad come with most alluring promises, compelled to quit the country, when he had reached as far as Candahar ; and that the agent of Russia, who was also the bfarer of most alluring promises, had met with no more civility. Th e Ameer had declared that he always sought the alliance of the British Government, and that he would never de sert it as long as there was a - chance of retaining it. He begged to remind the House that the expediti on t o Aff ghanistan had not been undertaken till all the causes for it had ceased. The siege of Herat had been raised; the explanations which had been demanded of the Persian Government had been given, and had been deemed by the Noble Lord the Hon. Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs perfectly satisfactory. He believed they would have heard little of the intrigues of the Russian agents in Affghanistan if it had not been for the intrigues of the English, agents in Circassia, with which the Noble Lord had been mixed up—(Hear, from Lord Palmerston) —at least such had been the opinion of the Russian Go vernment. They believed that the Noble Lord had been endeavouring to find them employment in Circassia, and therefore they were willing to give the Noble Lord a little employment in Affghanistan.—(Hear, hear.) A letter which Dost Mahomed had written to the Governor-General of India after the departure of Captain Burnes from Caubul, was important, as showing the regret which the Dost felt at not having formed a treaty with the Bri tish Government. The letter was dated on the 28th of April, 1838. Ile expressed his sorrow at the de parture of Captain Burnes, and his willingness to accede to what was required of him with regard to the Sirdars of Candahar ; and he further added, that it was well known that in the time of Mr. Elp . hinstone, the Affghans and the British had entered into a treaty, and that the Affghans had refused to allow the Persians and the French to pass through their territory to the British territory, and that the Affghans were de sirous that the second article in the treaty should be carried into effect. Now, from a perusal of those papers, it was manifest th a t the Governor-General of India, might at this j eriod have made a satisfactory treaty with the former chiefs of Affghanistan, which would altogether have superseded the necessity of war, would have secured the alliance of the native chiefs, would have given security to the northern provinces, and, by giving them a nominal protection,would have laid the foundations of a lasting friendship. This was the course urged on him by Sir A. Burnes ; nay, it was said that he had made a treaty on his own re sponsibility, which the Governor-General refused to ratify. That he was induced to do so, could only . be ascribed to the predominance among his aavisers of that spirit of conquest and ag gression which had too often marked the course, and influenced the conduct of onr Governors in India. All that he asked was that inforination should be afforded for the purpose of seeing whether the late Governor- General of India had properly exercised the great powers given to him with respect to the war in Affglia nistan. The House were to decide whether, taking all the circumstances into consideration, the House of Corn more was to call for that information which would enable it to come to a right conclusion. He reg retted that some Member of th e Government had not brought the subject forward. He should observe, however, that he entertained no doubt whatever as to the course which it was now the duty of the Government to pur sue. Whatever might have te.n the original =- policy of the war, they were now placed in such a position that they had no other course to take but to endeavour, at whatever cost or sacrifice, to vindi cate the honour of the British name ; and he waa per suaded that was the opinion of every gentleman of that House, who felt that it was for the interest of their country to p - eserve our glorious empire in the East. —(Hear, hear,) The Honourable Gentleman con cluded by moving for " Copies of the Correspondence of Sir Alexander Burnes with the Governor-Ge neral of India during his mission to Caubul ; also copies of the Correspondence of the Governor-General of India with the President of the Board of Control, and e ith the Secret Committee of' the East India Company, from the Ist day of September, 1837. to the Ist day of October, 1839, relative to the expedition to AffglianisW , gr. D'ISRA.ELI rose to second the mogen. He thought the question was one of vast i -3Portance ; an d k it w i sed they would be Jude acquttiuted ~-: ~` with the object of the war, with i ts or i g i n, and f i nally, I nho w ere the parties that were to pay its expenses. He found from the papers of that day that no less a person than the Chairman of the East India Company had plainly intimated to the Court of Proprietors that he looked to the Government to pay the expenses of the invasion of Affghanistan. It was to be expected that when the administration of Indian affairs was removed from Leadenhalt-street to Downing -street Indian wars would be carried on for European purposes ; but it might be said that wars were carried on for European objects during the administration of Lord Wellesley, when that s. ries of brilliant achievements took place which consoli dated the Indian empire. But at that time England was at war with France, and France made war in India ; but in the present instance England vas at war, and had no European adversary. _With regard to the origin of the war, it was strange that the late Government, who were so chary of imparting information to the country, should have expressed them selves so openly upon this subject. With regard to what all parties were agreed, it was not necessary to make any explanation. But he supposed that in announcing the success of Ghuznee, Right Hon. Gentlemen opposite could not refrain from explaining the causes of taking this step. And those Members who made this explanation were entitled, from their position in the late Government in relation to India, to guide the opinions of the House of Commons. The Right Hon. Gentleman the Member for Nottingham, then President of the Board of Control, on the occasion when the thanks of the House were voted to Sir John Keane, an occasion when there was a prelimi nary understanding that no allusion whatever was to be made relative to the policy of the war—the Right Hon. Gentleman, at the conclusion of his speech, lost in the excitement of the moment, and intoxicated with the triumph—the Right Hon. Gentleman asked permission of the House to deviate from the general understanding, and to be permitted to congratulate the House on the great result obtained. The great result was, of course, the great cause which originally impelled it, What was that congratulation of the Right Hon. Gentleman? He told them that the consequences of that great success were, that we were no longer in danger of having war declared by Burmah—that we were in no danger of an invasion of Nepaul—that danger which had threatened the tranquillity of Hindoostan. The House would, in the first place, be somewhat sur prised when they recollected that the invasion of the South Eastern border of the empire was an invasion of the country that lies to the North Western district.— (Laughter.) The tyrant of Burmah menaced India, and the Indian Government ordered an army immediately to invade Affghanistari. If the Emperor Napoleon had given as a reason for his invasion of Moscow the insur rection of Madrid, he would have given a reason much more germain to the matter than the reason of the Right Hon. Gentleman. The sa me o bj ect i on app li e d to the se cond reason of the Right Hon. Gentleman. The second reason was the - menacing attitude which occasioned his anxiety; that was the phrase used by the Indian Govern ment. The menacing attitude of Nepaul which caused the anxiety of the Indian Government, had caused them to send 50.000 men in another direction. If George the Second had given as a reason for the battle of Minden that he wished to keep the Highlanders in check, it would have been as good a reason as the Right Hon. Gentleman's. Could anything be more inconsistent than for the Minister of England to come forward and say that India was in a most dangerous position; that the in trigues of the native Princes were dangerous and must be baffled? The Right Honourable. Gentleman, followed by another Member of the Cabinet, whose splendid abilities entitled him to attention on all occasions, and more particularly on the present occasion, seeing that he had been a Member of the Council of India— the Right Hon. Gentleman apologised for breaking through that general understanding of the policy of the House; but stimulated, no doubt, by the circumstance of what he called the glorious triumph at Ghuznee, he could not help congratulating his Lordship. What did the Right Hon Gentleman say ? He came forward, he said to reiterate ; he assured the H ouse th a t t h e repre sentations which had been made with respect to the native States were perfectly correct. He thought that, in order to prevent Nepaul presenting a menacing atti tude it would be necessary to cross the Indus and invade Afghanistan. But that was not all. He said he had to make a special communication to the House, fbunded upon his own observation—it might be called private and confidential, but he felt bound to impart it to the House. There was something particular, he said, in India. There was a looking forward to something. A restlessness—a something founded on the fact that the authority of Eng land was on the decline ; and a looking forward to some authority to usurp its place. The star of England was about setting there. That was the declaration of a Minister of the Crown—that was the reason for crossing the Indus, for invading Aflghanistan, and for the seizure of Ghuznee. Perhaps the Right Hon. Gentleman would say whether our star had paled since Ghuznee had been re-captured. They had been told by Burke that their empire in India was an empire of opinion. But the India of that time was not the India of the present day. Per haps he wished to convey to the people of this country an impression that the natives of India obeyed us from a superstitious belief of our superiority in arts and arms. But we have, since that time, become more powerful, and the people of India more enlightened. He believed that in no country were the elements of our power more nicely scanned, or subjected to a more rigid scrutiny as to how that power was exercised. If their power was founded only on a confidence in the natives in our star, if we held India on that tenure alone, he. should despair of holding the country for any duration of time. But it should be recollected that India was not one nation, but an assembly of different countries, divided from each other by religion, customs, manners, and, wider still, by language. He inst ance d some o f t h e f ormer reverses of the British arms in India, at Mysore and Bhurtpore, which he contended had not affected British influence in other parts of the Empire. If ever they lost India, they would lose it by a financial convulsion, a condition which such wars as the present were calculated to bring about. Now, they held India first by civil service, the most in telligent and the best organised which had ever existed in modern time ; they held India, secondly by her army, one of the most numerous and best disciplined probably which had ever existed. The third element of their tenure was that of law, which they themselves introduced in India, by which forty millions of inhabitants were interested in the maintenance of our rule ; the power that possessed the valley of the Ganges would always command Hindostan. The fifth element in our power was the system, by which not a single native Prince could possibly communicate with any other. There was. in fact, a complete isolation of Indian States ; and not merely were the States isolated, but there , was a segregation of the races, which fa voured an important element in our tenure of India. He could not believe that our Indian empire was in danger ; he could not believe that one, two, or even three defeats would endanger our power. A defeat in India would have no more influence upon our power than the defeat of Walcheren or Buenos Ayres. He did not look to the intrigues of the native Princes with any fear. Look at the case of the Raja of Sattara, who had intrigued with the Portuguese at Goa, and stipu lated for the invasion of India with 30,000 troops. He believed the Right Hon. Gentleman was the only man in England who believed that statement. This was a specimen of their intrigues. The Right Hon. Gentleman had dethroned him ; the Right Hon. Gen tleman had insulted his ambassadors ; the Right Honourable Gentleman had treated him in a manner which Mr. Hastings never equalled.— (Hear.) Could anything be more preposterous than the idea, that Portugal should intrigue with with the Raja of Sattara, for the purpose of putting him on the throne of India? Yet that preposterous idea had cost one of the most enlightened of the native Princes his throne. His Ambassadors had been treated with insult. It was not the intrig ues of Aga and Nepaul, which was now redu ced to afw mountain tribes, and of the native Princes, that-Our India difficulties were owing, it was to the com plicated state of society in the military and civil services, which we had created in those countries, and which finally we should be unable to raise revenue sufficient to maintain. He knew that formerly there was the great est difficulty in getting the House to pay attention to these subjects. But the Housewould now pay attention to this. The Income-tax would make them do that.— (Opposition cheers.) The Income-tax, to quote the words of Lord Bacon, came home to every man's bosom. It would make gentlemen look to the causes which had occasioned so many markets to be disturbed during the last ten years. Up to 1837, the demand for British food in the Indian market, had increased one-third. Since the Atthan war, however, the demand had lessened, and the price of British goods in the Indian market had fallen. The drain that these wars had caused in India had been productive of a fall in prices, which had produced the most ruinous effects. His firm belief was that the curse of India consisted in the fact that the currency did not represent property ; that trade with Affghanistan, which it had been the object of the mission of Sir A. Burnes to encourage, had been completely sacrificed by the expedition. The House had a right to inquire .into that mysterious war, for no cause had as yet been assigned for it. It was absurd to say that the Affghan Chiefs were in treaty against them; and if they wanted a fron tier against other States what better could they desire than the one they possessed already, when they had 2,000 miles of unoccupied territory between them and any other great State? But the Noble Lord bad said the explanations of Russia were satisfactory on the subject. Lord PALMERSTON—Assertions. Mr. D'ISRAELI—He was glad to hear the Noble Lord say so. It was known the Noble Lord was hostile to Russia. One circumstance had occasioned this war —that was the siege of Herat. He wished, before he sat down, to impress upon the House one point. For ten years this country had not been able to contend with what was called its foreign policy ; that policy upon which our foreign commerce depended. It was strange that those who said so much about our foreign commerce should forget our foreign policy. The Noble Lord's system was one which might be for a moment successful, which might take Ghuznee, but must eventually be ren dered futile. He commenced war by a neglect of our duties as regarded foreign Powers, and he terminated war by a violation. o f th e i r rights. He hoped the Right Hon. Gentleman, at present at the head of her Majesty's Government, would not follow such a course. Great as might be our progress in civilization—reform as we might our commercial tariff; and multiply our political rights—he was quite certain that the days of our authority were numbered, and that the date of the decline of our cm• pire might already be ascertained. He had great plea sure in seconding the motion of his Hon. Friend. Sir J. C. HOBHOITSE must deny that the affairs of India were ever neglected in that House from indiffer ence to them, but from a very proper diffidence in the Members respecting their knowledge of them. And if t'i ey w ere not di scusEe I more t em p erate l y , an d w i t h eater knowledge than by the Hon. Gentleman who had just sat down, he thought the time of the House would be more than wasted, by entering into such discussions at all. He had entered into matters not conneetedwith Affghanistan; he had referred to some parts of his conduct when he aas President o f th e B oar d o f C on trol ; to had accused him of aethrouili s - a t , Aja of SOUP, an 4 repeated • some trumpery statemen.ts taken from newspapen, ads ing also that he believed diem. He was ready to defend the conduct of the Indigo Government ; and if th e charges he had brought agahast Lord Auckland could be substantiated, as he was su re LheY could not, that N o bl e Lord was deserving of the seii.erest punishm en t w h . ; c h Parliament or the country c oul t i inflict. He charged ‘he people of I n di a t him with aggression and mjustie '.• He charged hint', : moreover, with issuing a manifesto and to the people of Europ e , w hi c h w ...\s put forward i n order to mislead.—(Hear, hear, from Lord John Russell.) He begged leave to tell the HO4l. Gentlenvm that that was mot the case. The Governor-General was as inca pable of setting his hand to a document, which was put forward for the sake of misleading on any point:, espe • cially on a point of such importance as that to yvhic h the Hon. Gentleman alluded, as any public man in ,Ea rope. —(Hear, hear.) Those were charges which no+ Hon. Member of Parliament should make lightly; they 'were charges which no Member had a right to make, UM: ass he could bring such proof as would carry conviction wit h it to any and every impartial mind. He contended um: , that document, which had been so characterise& far fronts being intended to mislead, stated nothing but what was; true; and that had the Governor-General of India wished, by anything like exaggeration, or by anything like xen plification, to justify his proceedings, he would lurve issued a doCument of a very different character from thaw which he had issued in 1838. He felt bound to say thus much in defence of the late Governor-General—a man, he would take the liberty of saying, let his successor he whom lie might, who would not be surpassed in the excel lence of his administration.—(Hear, hear.) The Hon. Gentleman said, that in the expedition to Affghanistatt a fault was committed which any boy at Sandhurst would have been able to avoid. That was a very new disco very. What was said by the Duke of Wellington in the House of Lords, when speaking of the mode in which the operations had been carried on ? The Duke of Wellington passed the highest eulogium upon the mode in which those operations had been conducted, and not only upon the mode in which .the operations were conducted, but upon the preparations which were made for the whole of the campaign; and the Duke of Wellington took the opportunity of declaring that he formed that opinion not only from public documents, but from private sources with which he was conversant.— (Hear, hear.) Now he must call the attention of the House to the time at which these charges were made.— (Ikar, hear, from Lord John Russell:) He spoke ott that occasion under the greatest possible disadvantage— the disadvantage which arose from the statement of the two HOll. Gentlemen opposite, that - 'there was no diffe rence of opinion as to the policy which had dictated the expedition and the disasters by which it had been at-- tended. He deplored those disasters as much as any man.—(Hear, hear.) He had the good fortune to watch their great services, and he bad hoped to see them arrive at the highest point of their profession—an honour and an ornament to the country.—(Hear, hear.) It was ne cessary that the House should judge why this accusation was made now, when there were other opportunities of making it. There was a despatch of Lord Auckland's so far back as 1838, and the subject of an army being sent to the west of the Indus was alluded to ' • and. so far from being made an object of attack, that the Duke of Wellington only said he looked upon it with the greatest anxiety: Why,ao be sure ; but if the ob ject was one of such a heinous nature as was represented. it was the duty of individuals to bring it under the con sideration of either House of Parliament. Again, on Marcia 8, when some papers were asked for, he said that an aug mentation was required in the Indian army, in order that no person might be taken by surprise. , Again, in the Queen's speech in 1840, the subject was distinctly alluded to, and it was scarcely made the object of remark in the other House of Parliament. In the House of Commons the Right Hon. Gentleman had said he should like to see the papers—a very wise and proper observation, but cer tainly not a condemnation ; and oathat occasion, in nei- ther House of Parliament, had there-been one word ut tered in condemnation of the war. There had been af terwards another opportunity. He (Sir J. Hobhouse) had moved a vote of thanks to the Governor-General and to the General commanding in chief; and the officers of ie army of the Indus. Un that occasion not one single word had been said condemnatory of the policy of the war. The Hon. Gentleman had, as regarded his (Sir J. Hobhouse's) speech on that occasion, misrepresented him. He (Sir John Hobhouse) had said, and in so saying he merely repeated the opinion of Lord Auckland, that our success in Affghanistan was calculated to produce a great moral effect in Asia and in India. He had never said, as the Hon. Gentleman had represented, that it would produce a great moral effect in Europe. He had said it would produce a great moral effect in Asia. On that occasion the Right Hon. Gentleman seconded the mo tion, and not one word condemnatory of the policy of the war was uttered in either House of Parliament. Shortly afterwards came the discussion on Sir John Yarde Bul ler's motion of want of confidence, and during the whole of that discussion only one allusion had been made to the Affghan war, and that had been drawn from the Noble Lord opposite by a taunt of his (Sir J. Hob house's) Right Hon. Friend (Sir George Grey), that no one had dared to allade to the Affghan war. Now, if that war had been all that the Right Hon. Gentleman had described it to be, it ought to have held a conspi cuous place in the charge brought against the late Mi nistry to justify the vote of want of confidence. The Noble Lord had said that no credit was due to the then Government for that war, that the credit was due alone to the Indian Government, and now it,,was attempted to throw all the responsibility on the Indian Government. But if the Governor-General was to blame he was not to blame alone. It was not the policy of the Gover nor-General only, it was the policy of_the late Govern ment. A despatch had been written by' himself, with the assent of his colleagues, which had crossed at sea Lord Auckland's despatch, announcing the advance upon Affghanistan, in which the late Government announced — and it was remarkable that, without any personal com munication with each other, having only access to the same documents, the Government in London and Lord Auckland at Simla should have come to the same con clusion—in which it was announced that in the opinion of the Government the moment had arrived when a movement across the Indus had. become necessary to the safety of the country. On the: opening of Parlia ment in 1841 not one word was said.ki either House of Parliament relative to the Affghan war. Shortly af terwards Lord Keane's pension had come under discussion, and on that occasion a most remarkable debate had taken place. The Right Hon. Gentleman now at the head of the Government, had paid some compliments: to the Noble Lord, and had eulogized the very importtust ser vices he had rendered, but at the same time he bad given it as his opinion that, as those services had hew for the benefit of the East India Company, that Com pany ought at least to pay half the pension—on which the Hon. Member for Beverley (Mr. Hogg) had replied, that the Affghan war had been entered into for European objeets, and that, therefore, the country ought to pay Lord Keane's pension for his services. Such had been the statements of the Hon. Director. That was the opinion of the Hon. Member for Beverley. No man on that occasion said that the war was either unwise, impolitic, or unjust; and, further, he did not think that any one had believed it so. No one had then foreseen the reverses which had since taken place. That strong opinion to which he had re ferred, was the more valuable, because the Hon. Gentle man (Mr. Hogg) was the very party who had seconded the vote of censure of the late Government in China. No such disapprobation, however, was manifested by him of the course taken by the Government in India. Again, the Court of Directors, at a meeting of their body, passed a vote of thanks to Lord Auckland, for the sagacity and vigour with which he had planned the expedition in Affghanistan, and the manner in which he had provided for its successful issue. That vote was passed nemine contradicente. Let him ask what had occasioned the change of opinion relative to the ex pedition ? Ile trusted that change was confined to a few individuals, and that the sentiments of the country at large were not altered by the unforeseen disasters which had followed. Further, he would tell those gentlemen who now condemned the policy in which the expedition had its origin, that the expression of their disapproba tion came too late; that they should have seen the impro priety of the course taken by the Government before they could judge of it by its results. He confessed the late disaster, he deplored it, but he contended that it was strictly a military disaster, and had nothing to do with the policy. lie denied what the Hon. Member had stated as to its being irrecoverable. He hoped that by the ex ertions of the present Governor• General, even now, as he was addressing the House, that disaster had been repaired. The Hon. Gentleman had referred to the defeat of Colo nel Monson, which was as great in the amount of the loss of life as the present. Sir A. Wellesley, communi cating it, stated that it was not greater than he had ex pected, that he would defend the gallant officer's charac ter from obloquy, and concluded by stating it to be but of a temporary nature. The Hon. Gentleman had also referred to another defeat, the defeats before Bhurtpore. Lord Lake failed three times before Bhurtpore ; with a loss of 2,223 men, exclusive of officers ; and when he at last succeeded, and the Peerage was given him, he said that the honour was mingled with regret, occasioned by the recollection of the disasters which had occurred. Still those disasters were considered, by Sir Thomas Munro, as proving the good qualities of the Bengal army. He did not think it necessary to enter into other difficulties, such as those which occurred in the Burmese war, in which 20,000 men were employed ; the results did not satisfy the people. Again, in the war in Nepaul, it was not till after two, years' hard fighting, that a peace was concluded, and that an incomplete one. With respect to the policy of this measure, which the lion.' Gentleman had arraigned without a proper atten tion to facts, he considered that that policy was to be looked upon in a totally different point of view from that in which it had been regarded by the Hon. Gentleman. The full exposition of that policy was to be found in the papers_ presented by himself and his Noble Frie n d to Parliament. The real question was whether the inter fmr o e i a e t r s e ,va s country to b b e e i t i vr ti e ie n i t ss c e o ss n i fi o i n te o s f o a f f i r ' i e e r n slt y a p n o d li o_ e u r r , or of one that was manifestly hostile to us; it mGuesnttleesm'enan tually have been in the hands eith e r of a power which was friendly to Great Brita in, or of a p ow er from which had ed one was t o ob r two questions, eapprehetd to whi ch he would fur nish an answer. The Hon. Gentleman had asked whether the war was undertaken after full consideration and on just grounds. He answeerd, on the fullest consideration; as to the justice of the grounds, of course that was a matter for the Hon. Gentleman's consideration, and that of the House. The Hon. Gentleman had asked whether t h e proper authorities were consulted; and he begged leave to state that the proper authorities wete consulted. The Hon. Gentleman did not appear to'be aware that the reason why Sir Henry Fane had left the 'army was, that being employed in a sieg.e, he did not con sider the command was one oraefficient importance. for himself. Now, with respect to the queStion of policy. The Hon. Gentleman was aware that in 1836 a compli mentary mission was sent by his Noble Friend on the part of his Majesty congratulating the Shah of Persia on his accession to the throne. Mr;„Ellice, a gentleman unconnected politically with the .Gommment, was *Med with that minion. Very oliiktly after the