The Sun. — London, England, 1851-05-27 00:00:00

etit4 -4,b4flt tort EMPEROR'S PLATE. 6 to 4 agst Nu' - shell—taken 7 to 4 agst Russborough 5 to 1 agst Woolwich Voltigeur i• scratched. The settlirg is veine on remarkably well. INSOLVENT DEBTORS. Charles Samuel Heath, assistant to a map-seller, Nor thampton-Etreet, St. John-street -road. Henry Hull, dyer, Seymour -place. Bryansten-square. John Philpot. cheesemonger, Victoria-road, Pimlico. Allen Philip Hare, sworn broker, Richmond, Surrey. James Black Thomson, baker, Leadenhall-street. James Franklin, in no business, Farringdon-strest. Thomas Casll.., horse-dealer, Ed ward-square-rn ews, Ken sington. Thorrias Cuqf, baker, Quaker-street, Spitalfield. S , :urhir, baker, Clevelaud-street, Marylehone. Wiiiism Beekioy Beker, formerly stock brukerb' clerk, Criiv-n-sireer, Strand. Reubi-n Brock,,, picture dealer, eranbourn-street, Lei. ces , t r-5 - quare. Wiliam Spdfrr, plumber, Upper 13.-rkelq..;treet, Henry EL)wd - ci g e, as,,ibtant to a livtry-stable keeper, South Lre%ve, MALchester-sqq3re. John Mik,r, iron mouide.r, i'wood Top, Burnley, Lan cssh.re. T. Baer. journeymen ehainmaker, Church, Lancashire. T. Emery, grocer, Charlton-upon-Medlock, Lancashire. JAn Forshaw, be-ermi 11 r, BAton-le Moors, Lancashire. E tward Lie. liwnsed victu.lier, Hiirthain, Suist.x. Abraham Law, p , rcher atiff,ner, Chorlion-upon-lled lock, L .ncaolire. T. Bd.s, furniture dealer, Strangewaye, Lancashire. Thomas Sunth, cotton urer. Mauchesn r. W. Sacraton, farmer, Terrieg'ou 5;. Clements, Noi folk J. Bcnnett. farmer, Stvit , ,n Samc Michael, Here.orrishire. Thomas jun., farm, r. Niirib ockenclon, E4.ex. Folk, &Eer in watch,,, Newcastle-upon l'n Abs , loin Humphreys, bcotmaker, Sr. A,spb, Flin shire, Henry Suit, grockr, Gluucr,t er . James Brockle6by, grocer, Kingston -upon-Hull. E G. Johnson, out of odAness, Worthing, EiSPX Jatn,s li,rst, cloth muntractufrer,liolmfirth, Huderafield R. Af,, rw _ ir ., schoolmaster, Talley. Carmartheushire. John Sykes, Samuel Walley, farmer, Wioson-gr een , Bi rmingham. William Dui..combe, farmer, Duriton, Bucks. W. H. 1-147ckins, coal egect, Ossvestry, Shropshire, Henry Harris, farming bailiff, Tursveston, Bucks, William Henry Leigh, Blackburn, Lan. ccshire. Joseph !:qidge Arrny, attorney's clerk, Springfield, ESS9X. Ruben Burton, liceliattl victualler, Shopton SomersetAire. Edward Bussell currier, Stint Siclw2ll, Exeter. William johrson, stone mason, Brridford, Yorkshire. Neh emiah Jillitt, saddler, Leeds, Yoskshire. He nry Leigh, cotton waste dealer, Staleybridge, Lan. cashi r p . Thtbs, z r , rod _ Edw ard j Kai l farmer, Cougresbury, S omerse t a bi re . ght, farmer, Dunmow, _ __ _____________. -4 -KKET I (From the NTELLIGENCE. LoII:Loa Neu) Price current, May 27.) , andLel SucAn.....T o . da West India Sugar market presented a dull aspec t, and refining sorts was airlifted business transacted in Grocery per cwt. A public satetoi.4 reduction on Friday's rates of 6d tracted little attent ion, and 160 Mitts 13 tree Barbadoes at -6d to is per cwt; flo e yenori a Inrt only sold at a decline of to good 38a to 40s, ord 37s to w 3 e i. ait at 408 6d to 4 1 3. 6d, mid 32a 6tl to 33s per cwt. The tot : l , 6 d , vary low soft brown at labds ege. of West India. i purchases were only 400 REFENT.D.—To-d ,y, Refined g ugar was relucjance for home consuropt;o n , and purchased with cline, brown lumps selling at 479 to 48srates are on the de concluded in Crushed Sugar were trifling, " vt • The sales are barely supported. and former rates BIAITRITIVS.—This afternoon the private o Mauritius Sugar were trifling for all putposei-,Ptrationa in geasratly were reluctant to sell at any further s.deztiaholders auction 699 bags were taken in at 373 6d to 3S s eel for :At or raid. dling yellow. EAST INDIA.—This afternoon a greater desire wa s evinced by importersof Bengal sugar to sell, and prices declined 6d to Is per cwt. Of 7,319 bags at auction, - rather more than half sold. Fine white Beriares went at 41s to 42s 6,1, law to good 395 to 4's, fine grainy yellow 42s 6d to 445, white ditto 478 to 48a Rd, date yellow 33s to 36s 6d, low ditto 31s 6d to 226 6 '. Of Ceylon 8 ' casks sold at 35s 6cl to 37s f..r ordi arary and middling y, Pow. ~. Fo rtztax.—Th is a t teinoon t h ere were se llers of Forei gn angar rather under Frida y 's s till the private opera -117 ratos, ton s wer 117 hhdse upon a man scale f.r all purposes. At auction 14 boxes P in part suld at rather lewe rto Rico were only . r rat es — fineyellow 41a 6d, ordi nary to go,d 34s to W ent at 41s ro , . o i bags were withdrawn, „ d ; 3 , Os 6d. Or Maeilla ..) only in part din) , ) chests white Elavannah in bond were at 2fis 6d to t9e a se n d . o f at Is so 2s delihe - low to good went MotassEs. ib e ci :l ni an" . aged 22s 6d to 25s 6d per cwt. TiOtls rates have been wei r is better for West India, and pre been sold, Antigua fine atiPported. About 300 puns Lave West India at 14s 6it to 16.„- 6i;36d to 17s. and other sorts of supply and wanted at Its r‘, ~.aengal and Maurbius in small id • o ' . Pcrto • at auction wars taken in at 11 - s 6,1 ; • Rico 140 casks under thy rate. Honey from 30s there w ere b uyers rather fine Jamaica. • ' to 66s per cwt for low to Cocoa Co6OA —To-clas at public sale 5 b. sold at 35s per cwt . b arrels St , COFFE.Y.—This afternoon Coffee W as , , operated i n witl, much caution , for. all purposes, anu iower rat, * for several sorts. Of Native ceylon thewtre taken SOU bags was taken in at 39s 6d for good ord!;)und of few lots of &imaged selling at 3.11 6d. t o i? ;a cwt. Plantation Ceykin is Ir chtupef, and A o is .../'... vagS J(.08 ca per only in part sold, good at 55s to 58s, low middling to rnid g 4Bs to 535, fine fine ordinary 46s to 47s 6.t, g od ordina r y 42s to 43e. Of Costa Rica 435 bags were in part sold a t rather lower terms—fine fine ordinary at 50s, good ordinary 435 to 445, l ow 36s damaged 42s to 43 ; 20 casks Afri can went cheaper, and sold at 35s to 35s 6d for good ordinary rather dusty and wormy. 33 bags ordinary Batavia at 36s 6d to 375; 50 bags La Gnayra taken in at 51s to 53a for line ordinary; IS pkgs Mocha sold at 66s for peaberry, and at 40s to 45s for triage. TEA.—Elolders of Congou a re reluctant to se ll a t a f ur th er decline ; • the trade, however, operate with caution, and there is a plentif u l supply ; low to good ord can be obtained at lld to llid, medium to rather strong blackis' ~leaf 1 Id to is ld, good to fine is lid to is 7d per lb. Oolong can be bad 41 alworm4 ;at% 14i; 97 iiiiiitcg livickao liaTo nii SUN OFFICE, Seven o' Clock. TATTERSALL'S—:THIS EVENING, Su o'cLocx, THE LONDON GAZETTE (THIS EVENING.) LORD CHAMBERLAIN'S OFFICE, MAY 27, 1851. No:ice i 3 hereby given that thl S;a•e apartments at Windsor Castle will be closed from Riday next, the 30th instant, until Monday, the 9th of June. ST. JAMES'S P.ALICE, MAY 24. Her Majesty has been pleased to appoint Captain Thomas Parker Meteor], late of the Royal Welsh FUsiliers, Exoa of her Majesty's Royal Body Guard of tile Yeomen of the Guard, vico Sir Seymour Sadler, resigned. WHITEHALL. MAY 26. Tie QuPen has been pleased to appoint James Duff, Esq., to be Lieutenant and Sheaf Principal of the shire of E'gin, in the room of General the Hon. Sir Alexander Duff, deemed. ADMIRALTY, MAY 23. Corps of Royal Marines —Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Mercer to be Colonel Second Commandant, vice Hugh Mitchell, dead; Captain and Brevet Major Richard Ly de Hornbrook to be Lieutenant -Colonel, vice Mercer, pro moted; First Lieutenant and Quartermaster Charles Louis to be Captain, vice Hornbrook, promoted; Second Lieutenant John Vaughn Carden Reed to be First Lieu tenant, vice Louis, promoted; First Lieutenant James Pickard to be Quartermaster, vice Louis. Commission by the Lord• Lieutenant of Gloucestershire and BriAol. Royal Gloucestershire Regiment of Hussar Yeomanry —Cecil Charles Pole, Gent., to be Lieutenant, vice Hobson, promote May 24. WHITEHALL MAT 19. The Right lion. Sir _J„ha Jerv_is,Knt., Lord l Chief Justice of her Msjesty's Court of Co p mmon eas, at Yestminster, bat sppointed Wildam Sale, of Mendips ~ er, in t h e e „ un cy of Lancaster, Gent., to b e one e t the Per p etnal Commi.aioners for taking the acknowledgments of deeds to et,- executed by married women, under the Act passed fur the aboltion of fiats aid recoveries, and fer the substitution of , re simple modes of assUrtiLlCe in and fur the county of Lancaster. , WHITEUALL, APRIL 30. The Lor the of d C h ancellor bas app o i nted John Rogers Br i wne, town of Nottingham, Gent., to be a Master Extraordinary in the Mich Court of Chancery. WHIFEHALL, MAY 16. The Lord Charc-11 r has appointee James Blenkiasop, of Liverpool, in the county of Lancaster, Gent., to be a Waiter Extraordinsee in the High Curt of Chancery. BANKRUPTCIES SUi'EUSEDED. It chard Ellis, c..rp-nter, Richinood-eireer, Soho. Richard Jackson, tanner. S.-Ihy. Yorkshire. BANKTS. David Burberry, brae burner , Newdigate, Surrey, to eur;endkr JunP 10, at halt-past eb.ven, and July 10, a eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Bell. official assig. nee, Coleman-street-buildings; Snarpe, Field, Jackson and Newbold, Bedford-row. Frederick Rodbard, achoolniaster, Manor House, Croydon, June 5, at twelve, and July 11. at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Canaan, official assignee, BirChin-lane, ; Lowless and Nelson, Batton court, Threadneedle street. Charles Chtplin, printer, Sudbury, June 4, at eleven, and July 1, at bah-past twelve, at the Court of Bank ruptcy. Stacafeld, official assignee; Thornffike and Smith, Staple Inn. William Watson, Salisbury -court, Fleet-street, li censed victualler. June 5, at half-past eleven, and July 1, at - one, at th e C ourt of Bankruptcy. 'Whitmore, official assignee, Basinghall-street; Holt, Chatham-place, Blackfriars. Walter Long Bozzi Granville, Red Lion-square, agri cultural implenieut maker, June 10, ct can, and July 8. c.t twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy.. Groom, official as.ignee, Abchurch-lane; Tripp, Adelaicla• place, Lon don-bridge. Richard Moore, beer retailer, Sun Tavern-fields, St. George's-in -the-East, Jane 10, at twelve, and July 8, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Groom, official assignee, Abthurch-line, Lombard-street ; Lawrence, Plews, and Boyer, Old J ewry - c h ambers. Robert Craig, tea dealer, Brynmawr, Breconsbire, June" 11 and July 9, at eleven, at the Bristol District Court. Hutton, official assignee, Bristol; Bevan, Bristol. James Cobb, innkeeper, Preston, Lancashire, June 6 and 26, at eleven, at the Manchester District Court. Alscltenaie_, official assign ee , M anc h ester; Blackburat and Son, Preston. T ELE SUN, male. them is not offered at any further decline; there is however no tlecr,ase in supply, and the business concluded ha, been small ; the better s arts meeting with least attention. Sceetsd and Pekoe Teas are dull of sale, and rates tend downwards. t•PICES. - This afternoon prices declined for Ginga ; 212 casks Jamaica at auction selling at 314 s to 31 14s for common to mid; and 53i bags export Bengal at 15s to 15a 6d. Of Mace four casks Dutch were taken in at 2s Id. Nutmege are not much in demand, and at auction 13 casks were only in part sold at 2s 4d to 2s 7d for ord and mid brown ; and at 2s 4d for fair Dutch limed. Pimento is rather cheaper, and 150 bags at auction sold at 9:id to 48d for mid to good, and at 3d for inferior. RICE. —To-day the private operations in East India Rice were small, and there was no public sales. Of St. Vin cent's Arrowroot 164 packages at auction sold at 3%,d to sd; and 19 casks Australian at 21 per lb. SPIRITS —Only limited transactions have taken place in Leeward Island Rum, although there are sellers at Is 5d to Is bid per gallon proof. East India is cheaper, but a good business has been done, and the sales are 0 hogsbeads at Is 3d proof. Demerarais to 6d f2d per gal. lon, and ab o ut 400 hhd s h av e been sold at 2s 2a or 36 to 41 par cent over proot. Jamaica is yet purchased with caution for all purposes, and rates incline downwards, low to mid quality can be obtained at 2s 31 to 2s 6d for 30 to 34 per cent over proof; good mid to good 2s 7d to for 3:: to 23 over, and fine 35 to 38 over 3s 44 to 4s 2d. On the part of holders a desire is shown to sell Congou best brands of the vintage of 1850 at 4s 4d to 4s 6d. 1849 ditto 4s 6d to 4s Bd, 1848 ditto 43 84 to 4s 10d, 1847 ditto 5s 3d to 5s sd, inferior 3s 6d to 4s, and Bout deaux 2s 24 to 2a 3d. For British made Spirit tho market is dull at 9s 8d to 9* 9.1 nett cash, and Gin at 8s 2d to 8s 3d for 22 per cent under proof. Only small orders have been executed for Geneva at is 7d to is ld, and dine at Is 9d per gallon. SALTPETRE.—To-day the market for Saltpetre presented a dull aspect., and of 850 bgs Calcutta at auction a small part only sold at 27s for strong grey 5 per cent. of—Sinha have ece thath t e h eph e e r it cf di fi n i c a l m g u s io f r o e n r h a : h of t alls t purposes;b a j e e q u d a r e e i z r 01 andyu s s a at toe ope the rations . 4sma4rdketto hasss 6hcleafnor froeredliynarsyuptpoliegdood.sti‘li itthheSppaanhilsihe sell. At auction y es t er d ay 90 chests were taken in at t e sales of Guatinaala upon th e whole went off quite as well as might have been expected, and consisted of 1,369 serous, viz, very low Caries from is 4d to 2s 8d; s rong hard coppery Cortes. 2s 9d to 3s . 1c1; strong good hard :sobres, 38 5d to 31 8d; soft and fine Sobres, 3s 10d to 43 10d ; a large portion consisted of low inferior and mid Cortes, which went at a decline of 2d per lb, the mid and good at par, and in some cases rather above; the proptrtion of fine being comparatively small, previous rates were fully main tained. TALLOW._Prices for fine M ellow Russian on the spot de clined on Thursday to 36s 6d at 36s 93, but have since ral lied to :' , 75 3d to 373 6d. For delivery few trans actions arc reported, and there are sellers at 38s to 38s 64 for last three months of the year. Home melted is moderate in price, there has in consequence been a, good de mand at 36s to 36s 3d, net cash, but the market is well supplied. Cf Australian 3io casks at auction were mostly sold. OILS.—The supply of Sperm Oil ha' become plentiful. At public sale 240 runs went at 841 to 8615 s for good to fine Co lonial ; at 8 1 to E 3/ for ord, an d b agged 100/ per tan. Southern, at auction 60 tuns were in part sold at 181 10s to 2'l 5s for ord to fine. Seal pale is to be obtained at n 2/ to 32/ 104, and other sorts at 23/ to 31/ 1 a. Rape Seed Oil is to be obtained at 32s 6d to 335, brown 31s to 324; and Refined Foreign 33s 6d to 33s 9d per cwt. Cocoa Nut 27a to 3s. A lair home trade demand prevails for Linseed Oil: exporter-, how ever still operate with caution, and the rates taken are 303 6,1 to 31s. For delivery there are few buyers, with sellers at 31s to 31s 6d. In Palm sales have becu small, and the rates taken are 38s for flue; there is however, no material in supply. Olive is operated in with caution—Gallipoli 14 to be obtained at 39/. to 401., and other sorts at 371 lOs to 38/ lOs per tun. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. (THIS EVENING.) HOUSE OF LORDS. The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat upon the Wool sack at Five o'clock. PETITIONS. The Earl of CARLISLE presented a petition from Hull, praying for the enactment of a measure to pre vent the abscording of debtors. Lord SAYE and SELE presented a petition from a place in Wiltbhiro against Papal aggression. The Earl of EGLINTON presented several petitions from p'aees in Scotland with a similar prayer. The E;rl of ENNISKILLEN presented several peti- tions from places in Arnsagh, Wicklow, Cork, Water ford, Tipperary, sZleen's County, and other counties in Ireland, to a similar effect. PUBLIC-HOUSES (SCOTLAND) BILL. ' Lord KINNAIRD presented several petitions in favour of the Public fiouses (e:cotland) Bill. The NOBLE LORD then moved the second reading of ' this Bid which was substantially the same as the Bill which had passed their Lordships' House:last session, and had been sent down to the House of Commons, but had not passed in consequence of the lateness of the session. Scotland enjoyed the unenviable notoriety of consuming a greater proportion of ardent spirits in pro portion to its population than any other country in Europe, except Sweden. This consumption had decreased among the upper and middle classes, but had increased among the lower classes. Every grocer in Scotland could sell spirits, and in consequence the servants of the upper orders and the wives of the working men were in duced to drink, and the money for spirits; was put down to the account of tea and sugar. The respectable grocers and the respectable inhabitants and artisans were in favour of this Bill. These persons were licensed, and if the licence was refused by the local justices, there was an appeal to the sessions, and the writers to the signet canvassed all the justices to overrule the deci sion of the local justice, and thus to gain the licence. This Bill proposed that the court of appeal should be composed, not of the whole of the justices, but of one justice from each district. It was also proposed that the district justices should state the number of public houses they thought necessary for their district, and thin such number should not be exceeded for five years. With regeri to grocers selling spirits they had three years given to them to get out of the trade ; within that time they must cecide hesher they would be grocers or spirit sellers. Tb Bill also gave the power to the polioe to enter any houses authorised to sell refreshments of any sort to be consumed on the premises. The Bill bad been before the public more than a year, and he hop'd their Lordships sould give it a second reading. The Earl of MIN I:0 thought the Bill should be re• ferred te a Select. Committee. Lord KINNAIItD did nut see the necessity of a &lee' Coremtree. ' The Earl of NIDITO considered that any measure of ' this nature, which t. laded to cast a s;ur upon the msgia trate. in quarter sessions assembhd, huuld be re.erred ;o a Select Committee, in order that all parties mie,ht hsve an opportunity of being heard. He feared tnat if the powers of the quarter sessions were delegated to a committee of magistrates, it would open the coor to po leicel jobbing. Tne Duke of ARGYLL entirely assented to the principle ef the Bill, end tnought that the country was greatly ind:•bted to his Noble Friend for its indroduc non; he only regretted that did not extend to large towns and boroughs. He would in those cases give no appeal at all. but would make the decision of the local justices in towns and boroughs final. He hoped the Bill would le come law during the present session of Parliament. He would recommend that the time given to grocers to get out of the spirit trade should not ex cted Lao years. The Earl of EGLINTON supported the Bill. He ceull hardly conceive a measure which less required the supervieioa of a Select Committee than this, which ap plied a remedy to an acknowledged evil. The Earl of ?ONTO explained. The Duke of ItICi3MOND supported the Bill, and agreed vvi , h his Noble Friend that three years was too long a time to give to the grocers to get out of the spirit trade; these shops destroyed some of the best labourers in the country. The Duke of BUCCLEUCH was favourable to the principle of the Bill. Lord KINNAIRD replied. The Bill wag then read a second time, and ordered to be committed on Friday. The Bills on the table were forwarded a stage, and their Lordships adjourned to Friday. HOUSE OF COMMONS. The SPEAraLft took th© Chair a few minutes to Four o'clock. PRIVATE BUSINESS. The following Bills were read a third time and paesad:— Dee Standard Restoration. Great Central Gas Consumers' Company. REPORTS. The - reports upon the following Bills were considered and agreed to:— Great Southern and Western Railway (Ireland). Manehea.ter Waterworks. -•- ' Mar) port and Carlislo Railway. Suttoeukrter South Staffordshire Railway (Branches to join the Liimingham Wolverhampton, and Stour Valley Itaiheay, &o.) Midesbrough, Yarm, &c. Waterworks. ° 6 gold Lancaster Railway. yvg 0 PETITIONS. Larica.ire, OD presnt. d a petition from Burnley, avour of secular education supported by local rm.'s. Mr. LITT LE;fo2;:a2tosented a petition from Walsall against the tin.. Sir J. YOUNG s pre; nt against the Eeele„i„ues;rettil A petiticn from Ireland petition from Glasgow in favour r o b t L a A n alteration 4P t r i Q u a n e n o 4 l dtikaeeap it petition laws; also a the metropolis • .4) the same petiiion from artizaus in effect. Mr. sumE glaß L L E u tic Al e ° tn N a? P h ° eLwro.uld, on an earl d ay , i nc, 7o reboiaTion t 3 the tftloct that i t was incum- Y the Ho ot an prd to the Bible monopoly. ENGLISH PAUPERS. - - Mr. MILES tnovEd for a rt:turn of the numb er of paupm ri:ceivii , g in and outdoor relief in 607 un i on ; and singlb piriblv.:3 in England and Wales during the half'-yers ended at Ludy-day 1850 and 1851 resp eu .. tivel ) ; togother with the average prices of proli s i on , contracted fur during the aforesaid respective periods by of guardians for the different counties. Agreed to. CHANCERY. Mr. AGLIONBY moved for a return of the total sum Act or paid f or salaries and office expenses under the Act 5 and 6 Vic., C. 103, since the passing of the Act; Ad alio of Cho total sum paid for compensation for loss since the of of fices and. profits t o o ffi cers, un d er t h e same A ct, ber 185 Pastan,. thereof up t o th e 25 t h d ay o f Novem the, late 0; a lee return of the t o t a l sum pa id to eac h o f salary and sworn cl tk e liCtrks a p po i nted taxing masters, for cotopensattou, colleetive gi4c4)ljthe **OW 3 thereof; and also a return of the annual amount of cocupensaiion awarded to each of thi. mad taxing masters under the bid Act, in the mar of their ceasing to 11,.1d the said uflice, and of the annual runs to be paid to the personal representatives of each of them as compensation after their death s , an d f or what num ber of years after their deaths such payments to their personal representatives are to continue, and out of what funds, and by who m , suc h payments for salary and compensations are now made and to be made. PETITION OF ERNEST JONES. Lord DUDLEY STUART moved that the petition of Mr. Ernest Jonee be printed with the votes. Agreed to. SIR JAMES BROOKE. Mr. HEADLAM wished to ask Mr. flume whether the withdrawal by him, on Tuesday last, the 20th day of May, of his motion concerning certain proceedings on the coast of Borneo, is to be considered as an abandon ment of the charges contained in that notice upon the character and conduct of Sir James Brooke? Mr. HUME denied that he had any intention to with draw the motion, but, on the contrary, since February he had been anxious to bring it forward, and be balloted for it until he succeeded in getting it placed No. 1 on the paper. At the request, however, of several Hon. Gentlemen who wished to make themselves masters of the subject, and who were not terriers or bulldogs, like the Hon. Member—(Cries of " Order")—he consented to postpone it. The SPEAKER said the Hon. Member must with draw the words " terrier and bulldogs." Mr. HUME said the Hon. Gentleman ought to have known from what had passed in the House that he bad not withdrawn his motion ; and he, therefore, could not help feeling that ho had been set on by somebody else, but, nevertheless, he had no objcction to withdraw the words. A second time he postponed his motion, at the request of the Noble Lord ut the head of the Foreign Department; and he therefore had a right now to call upon the Government to give him a day to bring it forward, In justice to Sir James Brook, and in jus tice to the public, Government were bound to assist him so far, and the Hon. Gentleman might take this for his answer, that so soon as he could get a day the motion should be brought on. After a few words of explanation from Mr. HEADLAM, the matter then dropped. WOODS AND FORESTS. In answer to a vesicle', from rd DUNCAN, Lord SEYMOUR, atdd that he should not brit g on the Bill far the mausgiment of the department of Woods and Forests until an opportunity offered when it could be aiscuesed at length. Lord DUNC AN gave notice that be should then move a clatpie embodying the resolution which he had moved oo the 11th March last, and which had been adopte the House. AFFAIRS OF CEYLON. Mr. HENRY BAILLIE then rose to move the reso aid ei of whien he bad given notice on this subject : " That this House, having taken into its conaid. ration the evidence adduced before the Set et Committee ap pointed to inquire into the aff ors of Ceylon, is of opi nion, that the punishments inflicted during the late dis turbances in that island were excessive and uncalled tor: that; this House is of opinion, that the execution of eighteen persons, and the imprisonment, transportation, and corperal punishment of one hundred and forty ether persons on this occasion, is at vsriance with the merciail administration of the British penal laws, and is not calculsied to secure the future affections and fidelity of her Majesty's colonial suej• cts: that this House is of opinion that these severities are the more sincerely to be deprecated as they were exercised after the suppres sion of the distui helices, during which none of her Ma jesty's troop. or public servants were killed, and only one soldier slightly wounded. That this House is of opinion that the conduct of the late Governor of Ceylon, in keeping in force martial law for two months, after his chief legal adviser bad recommended its discontinuance, and during which period the civil courts were sitting without danger or interruption, and also his refusal to allow a short delay in the execution of a priest, at the re quest of the Queen's Advocate, who wished further inves tigationlnto the case, was in the highest degree arbitrary and oppressive. That this House is therefore of opinion, that the conduct of Earl Grey, in signifying her Ma jesty's approbation of the conduct of Lord Torrington during and subsequent to the disturbances, was precipi tate and injudicious, tending to establish precedents of rigour and sseerity in the government of her Majesty's foreign possessions, and injurious to the cha racter of this country for justice and humanity." He said he had to draw very largely upon the indul gence of the House in bringing forward this motion, and he could assure them that it gave him no pleasure or satisfaction in bringing it forward. He was impelled only by his sense of public duty, as Chairman of the Ceylon Committee, and by his belief that a very general feeling prevailed on both sides of the House that the question should not be allowed to rentaio where it was left at the end of last session. It was no longer a question in which the interests of one colony merely were concerned, but all our colonies alike were involved in it, as well as the honour and character of this country. It was a question, too, to decide whether or not a Committee appointed by that House had duly and pro perly discharged the duty intrusted to them by the House. It was on these grounds that ho had felt it his duty to bring this question before them, and in doing so he should feel it his duty to divide it into two parts: The first was to call the attention of the House to the proceedings of the Ceylon Committee, and afterwards to advert to the evidenee upon which he grounded his present motion. Before he proceeded fur , ther would remind the House of the resolution with which the Ceylon Committee bad been appointed— a resolution which had been unaeimousty agreed to, than which nothing whatever could be more explicit or more , distinct, owing to the express interfer ence of her Majests 'a Government. In its report it had Lot thought fit to report whether any grievances existed in the islund or nor; nor, further, to recernmend whether any measures should be adopted for the better government of Cet lon. The question midst be asked, what had induced the Committee thus to confine itself, and vir tually to defeat the intentions of the House in appoint ing it. It certainly had not thought fit to melte any report upon the mental of the case, but a private under standing had been come to at the time with the Secretary of State that Lord Torrington should be re called without any wound being inflicted on the amour propre of the Celoniale ttioe; but in orderto prevent their striking too forcibly on the a terition of the House it was arrang-d that, the motive of this recall sh. uld be given out to be a private misunderstanding, and the Under Secretary of State pledged himself afterwards to defend all the public acts of the Noble Lord. The Committee came to the resolution not to present heir report, to the House, hut to the Secretary of State for the Colonies, whose conduct was under ievesigation. thus commioing a direct breach of the privileges of the House.--(Hear, hear.) The ground alleged for doing this was, that several lettere of a private and Confidential nature were brought in evidence before the Committee. Oa these letters Mr. Webristie, the barrister, founded his charges; he had received them from his constituents in Ceylon, and at first objected to produce them, though ItS offered to give the /James of the writers; but con sidering afterwards that his veracity was in qeestien, he agreed to present them to the Committee. The Under Secretary ef State for the Colonies did not offer ant objection to their production, but was subsequently very indignant when it was proposed to publish them. The Committee came to a resolution that the letters should be adduced in evidence. Ho had considers dit necessary to give this explanation to the House in consequedce of the strong language used by the Uuder-Secretary of State for the Colonies; and it would be for the House to decide whether a public officer was to have his honour and character blighted in this manner without a hand being raised in his defence. With respect to the course adopted by the Committee he believed was a right and proper course. The Committee in adopting that course was supported by the late Sir Robert Peel, who consulted Sir John Jervis on the subject, and that learned authority gave it as his opinion that it was impossible for the Committee to have adopted any other course than to compel production of the do cuments.—(Hear, hear.) No the w be came next to th e quest i on of the evidence laid be ore the Cenunittee. Tha House was probably aware, from the papers which had been laid on the table, that the Secre tary of State for the Colonies gave his superior approba tion to the measures adopted by the Governor of Ceylon in the year 1848. Hence a question arose of serious importance for the consideration of the House, because if the acts and proceedings of the Governor of Ceylon, and if the manner in which mar tial law was carried into effect in the colony had received the sanction and appproval of the Government, and if by the vote they wore about to give this evening it was, furthermore, to receive the sanction and approbation of the House, it followed as a matter of course that those acts and proceedings would become precedents to be adopted on all future occasions by those governors and British officers who might under similar distressing circumstances fanny themselves (tailed upon to proclaim martial law in the colonies which they governed.—(Cries of " Hear, bear.") Now, coming to the consideration of the question, it was nut his intention to enter into any discussion with respect to the advantages or disadvantages which the colony might have derived by a reductio n o f t h e duty upon cin namon and coffee.--(Hear) That question the Coin amittee was expr e s s ly p rec l u d e d f rom i nqu i ring into. Nor would he call u p on the House to decide q ues ti ons that were merely matters of opinion. For example, be would not call upon the House to decide upon the nature of the disturbances that took pl a c e in 1848, or wheth er t h ey had their origin iu the injudicious acts of the Government.—(Hear, hear.) Those were matters of opinion, and, referring to the evidence, it will be found that upon those points moss important and most competebt witnesses did not agree. For exempt°, Sir Eater son Tennent, the Governor of the colony, informed the Committed that in his opinion the rebellion wits formidable in its nature, while Mr. Anetrnther, who for fifteen years was also the Colotoul Secretary, told the Howe that it was ridiculous to call it a rebellion at a!l.—(Hear.) It was only an ordinary riot, nlagnifi,d into importauce by incompetent persons, Again, they had the evidence of Mr. Woodhouse, who to do so, hut' me for twenty years served in the civil service of the cstolony. Ile did not express himself in the Mr. Ansiruther because it would not have become him would not ask thceallllou for proclaiming aalelY' came to the same conclusion as that gentleman, that sto there eci Je was h these eo questions, i s o s n i necessity martial law.—(Hear , hear.) Now be opinion on the otheurp but he would on them to express an matter, u and to dec i de whether the m anner in martial l Jaw was carried into effect in this colony circumstances have been juttifieni k c,ot r t i l ender a ny hear")—more especially e n d er th C e e 5 circumstances of "Hear, trcums ances of the case, those circumstancesis • elnk digturbagesse 11101,?etkar w,ased, tiagt ao bgdy th at the is LON DON, TUESDAY EVENING, MAY 27, 1851. arms at the time against the authority of her Majesty, and that the whole country way in a perfect state of trtriquility when the twasures he was about to refer t) were carried into effect. Upon that point there was no dispute. Before, however, he related what these measures were, ho would deferibe to the House what the nature of of martial-law was.—(Hear, hear.) (LEFT SPEAKING.) 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DUCLERC, the defeated candidate for the Landes, has addressed a letter to several of the journals in which he expresses his astonishment at the remark made by the Minister of the Interior in the Chamber, that if be (M. DUCLERC) had been elected, he would have supported the policy of the Government. The Minister, he says, had opposed bim in the Landes because he knew him to be an ad vocate fa. universal buffiage, and had supported General Duman as the partizin of the contrary principle, and WAS sure of his plitical sympathies, while he could not rely on the support of one who had never been subservient to any party, but had al ways followed the dictires of his own conscience. GERM A N Y. A letter of the 21st, from Vienna, says....- " Immediately alt,-r his .return from Dresden, Prince de Sehwartze n h erg h a d. a pr i vate audience of the Em peror, which lasted for two hours. The Prince, it is said, feels convinced that Austria will obtain the en. trance into the Germanic Diet Rich all her possessions, and the Customs' union with all the other states. As to a new Central Federal Government, he confines him self to the formation of a military commission of Pras• sia, Austria, and Bavaria. It is said that M. de Man teuffel showed himst If less hostile to the vote by a sim ple mujorit ) than the Prussian Gazette would lead one to believe, and that the terms on which the Ministers at Dresden separated were so cordial that no doubt re , mains of the Holy Alliance being renewed and esta blished either at Warsaw or at Olmutz From the pre parations now making at the Palace, it would appear that the coronation of the Emperor was intended to take place very shortly." A letter from Berlin, 24'h, says :—" In an article in the Prussian Gazette this morning, the re-esta blishment of the traditional alliance between Prussia and Russia is mentioned as being the principal ob ject of the Congress of Warsaw in a conservative interest." In the Chamber of Deputies of Bavaria on the 19th, a Bill for the Palatinate was presented, having for object to protect the KING and all the members of the royal family from insult, there being no such pro vision in the existing laws. The Prince DE %VAL LERSTEIN and M. SCHMIDT spoke against the Bill. M. SCHMIDT declared that the KING was not more entitled to protection than any citizen. Ile was in terrupted by the President of the Cnumber, who de clared that, as the KING was the possessor of ma jesty, such theories as that of M. SCHMIDT could not be tolerated. The Bill was carried by a majority of 95 to 85. RUSSIA AND POLAND. The Russian Government has resolved to form railway between the important manufacturing towns of Sgierz and Lody, and to put them in communica tion with Warsaw by ernbranchmen,s on the Warsaw and Cracow line. It is also intended to unite War saw by railway with St. Petertburgh and Moscow. Warsaw will shortly be put in communication with Berlin by the railway from Lowiez to the Prussian !mintier. The Russian Government is at present ne gotiating with the Prussian Cabinet on the prolonga tioa of that line. ITALY. In its sitting of the 20th the Senate of Turin paused a Bill for the establishment of an electric tele -1 graph between Turin and Genoa. It also passed the Bill on a tax to be laid on mortmain property and corporate bodies, by a majority of 53 to 39. The Croce di Savoia of Turin quotes a corropon &nes from Nice of the lith, which, besides confirm• log the particulars we gave two days ago, adds that the excitement in that town continuili unabated, and that the Municipal Council, in its sitting of the 16 h, unanimously adopted the tollowing protest : " The Council, in C ,nformil with the deliberation of the delegated Council, declines that it protests against the abolition of the tree port; it charges the deputation named in yesterdafs sitting to assert our rights before the Government Lied the Chambers, and sends as a docu ment the protest presented in the name of the popu lation." THE FATAL COLLISION ON THE MID. LAND RAIL WAY. CHESTERFIELD, MONDAY.— We are happy to state that kit the mon.' ash whit) wera injured by the colli sion on tha Midland listiway at Claycross, last Monday night, are in a slate approaching to convalescence, ex cept Mr. John Todhunt, r, ol Dublin, the gentleman who had the misfortune to sustain a fracture of both legs. lie does not improve, and his case is critical. It will be remembered that the conclusions, esta blished by the evidence taken last we..k, were these:— l'he evidence of the conductors connected with the two clashing trains clearly established that the express train was 15 minutes behind tinio at starting from Derby, and that between Derby and Clay-cross there was a further toss of 10 minutes,hy stoppages at small stations, at which, according to the official time•tab!e, it ought not to have called. The goods train, on the contrary, starting from Derby five naiautt a after the express, and 15 minutes behind its proper time, had traveled 60 rapidly as to reach Clay-cross 10 minutes before the time it was due, having in a distance of 24 miles gained 25 minutes over its proper spec-d. At the resumed inquest on Monday, evidence of a Si milar character to that already adduced was given. After some discussion, Mr. Preston said he wanted to call the passongers to give evidence as to the time which elapsed between the stoppage of the train and the collision, respecting which the evidence was at present conflicting. The inquest was then adjourned to Friday, at eleven o'clock. On Friday last Dr. E. D. Allison concluded his lectures on the " Causes and Cure of Drunkenness," in the Temperance-hall, Royal Mint-street, Whitechapel. The large hall was, as formerly, filled to overflowing, and many per sons could not obtain access. The lecturer forcibly and elo que❑ ly pointed out the evils of drunkenness, and urged in creased attention to education of an improved character, to cold and warm bathing, to better ven►ilated residences, in creased supply of water, &c., as powerful means of improving loose habits. Dr. Allison was loudly cheered several times, and his excellent suggestions appeared to make an impres sion on his numerous audience. A vote of thanks was pro posed, seconded, and unanimously carried to the Doctor for his discourses, and the Chairman, in conveying them, con gratulated him on the manner in which he had conducted the business of the evening, and added that he would soon favour his friends by giving lectures on other important subjects. FATHER I3NATIII3.—We are assured that Mr. Spencer has altogether discarded shoes and stockings, and attired in this manner, called a few days since upon the Rev Dr. Cumming, and challenged the Rev. Gentleman to a dis cus,ion of the truth of the Romish faith. Dr. Cumming, with that zeal for the Reformed Church for which he is so remarkable, at once accepted the invitation of the Romish father, and we believe that but for tho interference of Car dinal Wiseman, who has expressly forbidden it, the discussion would have taken place next week. Sunday Times. IMPERIAL PARLIAM ENT. HOUSE OF LORDS. May 26. PIJNJAUB PRIZE MONEY. The Earl of ELLENBOROUG El then rose to move, aceording to notice, that ,here be laid before the House a copy of a letter from the directors of the East India Company to the Governor-General of India in Council, directing the payment of a donation, equal to six months' full baits, to the Commander-in-Chief, the generals, and the other officers, non-commissioned officers, and privatee, who served during the last campaign in the Put jaub; also, account showing the total sum paid as so &reeled to the army, and the por tion thereof paid to efficers end corps stationed on the left bank of the Sutlej, cn the 17th of September, 1843; also, showing the sum so paid to the Commander ia- Chief, and to each general and other officer, note com missioned c fficer, and private. according to their respective ranks; also accounts showing the total sum realised by the sale of the state jewels and other property taken pos session of by Brigadier Campbell, C. 8., and her Ma jesty's 53d Regiment, under the direction of the resi dent at Lahore on the 17th September, 1848, and by the sale of other state property and booty which came into the possession of her Majesty's forces, and of the troops of the East India Company, during the last cempsign in the Punjaub ; also account e showin the estimated v a l ue o f suc h of the state jewels and other' property and booty as may remain unsold, and the present disposition thereof; and also account showing the manner in which the sums realized by the sale of such state jewels and other property and booty have been ap plied, and the authority under which such application has been made; also to move, that an humble address be pre sented to her Majesty, praying that her Majesty will be tcraciouslypleased to give directions that there be laid be &IV 1 1 0 104 fiDY 444444 gl'a which her Majesty may have been advised to take for the pur pose of ascertaining the rights of the Crown over the state jewels and other property taken possession of at Lahore on the 17th of September, 1848, and over all other state property, and the booty which came into the pos session of her Majesty's forces and the troops of the East India Company during the late campaign in the Punjaub. The Noble Earl contended that the East India Company had been in this instance dealing with property with which they had no right to deal, inasmuch as the whole of the property with which the company proposed to deal belonged to the Crown. He contended that the batta was a grant of the East India Company, and that the booty money belonged to the Crown ; and that, therefore, the East India Company had no right to deal with it. The opinions of the law officers of the Crown was, like the oracles of old, most dubious, but he contended that injustice had been done to the Indian armies, and he trusted that the representatives of that army would have an opportu nity of being heard before the Judicial Committee of Privy Council; and to their decision he would bow. Lord MMHG HTON observed, that the first part of the Noble Earl's speech related to that part of this transaction of which the Noble Earl and himself bad particular cognizance. In reply to the speech which the Noble Earl had made on the 3d of July, 1849, he had thought it his duty to lose no time in inquiring into the ehjectiona which had been made to the course taken by the East India Company, and in performing that shish seemed to him to be dictated by duty. The Noble Earl then appeared to him to say, that if the tie ops engaged in the campaign in the ruejaub were given six months' batta they would have no grounds of complaint. He now appeared to regret having said so, and to think that though they had received that amount of batta full justice had not been done them. He (T , ord Broughton) regretted very much that the Noble Earl had brought this discussion forward a second time; for, with his high talents and great knowledge of India, he must know the perilous consequences of what he was doing—he must know that throwing out these doubts as to the justice done to the army was placing the Go vernor-General as well as the Commander-in• Chief in India in a position of great peril.—(" Hear, hear," from a Noble Lord on the back Ministerial bench.) He denied in tote that any injustice had resulted to the army of India from, the course which had been pursued towards it. The sum of money granted to the army in batta was at least as great as that which it would have received sup posing the booty of war had been granted to it; and since the year 18411, when the papers relative to the war in the Punjaub were laid upon the table, no complaint had reached the ears of the authorities in India, either at home or abroad, from soldier or from civilian, save the Noble Lord opposite. Knowing, as he did, how dear the interests of India and those of the soldiers of India were to the Noble Earl, he could not understand what earthly reason had induced him to bring this motion forward. The Noble Earl had told them that he wanted the rights of the Crown to be preserved, both as to the past and the future operations of war. Now, it seemed to him (Lord Broughton) that if her Majesty had not considered the rights of the Crown to have been duly protected in the treaty with the Maharaja she would not have granted a higher honour in the peerage to the high functionary who sanctioned it. The Noble Earl had not only accused, in his speech of that night, the authors of that arrangement and those who approved it, but had also declared that they had not done justice to the officers and sol diers who achieved those great victories. After re butting those observations with great force, the Noble Baron proceeded to comment on the remark of the Noble Earl, that the army, if it had got its share of the booty, eould have got a larger sum of money than it received in baits. Now, he did not kno w on w h at authority the Nobl e E ar l put forth that assertion ; hut this he did know, that the Commander-in-Chi e f, Lord Gough, h a d made no complaint of that kind, nor any other officer. He must correct a mistake into which the Noble Earl had fallen, when ho said that the siege of Moultan had no reference to the campaign of Lahora. He must rcarnd the Noble Barl that Moultan and its citadel belonged to the State of La hore.— [Lord ELLENBOROUGEI " I know that."] Why, then, had the Noble Earl endeavoured to draw a distinction between the army in Lahore and that before Moultan ? The Earl of ELLENBOROUGH observed, that all he meant to say was that the property in Moultan did not belong to the Maharaja as Sultan of Lahore. Lord BROUGHTON observed that, instead of troub ling their Lordships with any quotation of authorities, he would now proceed to inform them what was the question which he had submitted to the law officers of the Crown, and to three other legal gentlemen of high standing in the profession. That question referred en tirely to the arrangement made at Lahore. He might as well inform them, in the first instance, that the case drawn out for the Queen's Advocate, the Attorney- General and the Solieitor-General, was drawn out in such a manner as to contain the whole of the Noble Earl's speech two years op, as also a private letter which the Noble Earl bad aduressed to him on the subject. It was perfectly true that the other three gentlemen did not see the case with the private letter in it. But he happened to know that that letter was read to them by one of the law officers of the Crown. The question asked at the concltvion of the case was— " Whether the arrangement of the 29th of March, 1349, concluded by Lord Dalhousie with Maharaja Duleep Singh, and ratified by the home authorities, could be impugned o n an y l ega l groun d s ? " and the reply' was, We aro of opinion that tne arrangement of March 29, 1849, concluded and ratified as stated in this case, cannot be impugned, JOIIN DODSON. " A. E. Coceenum W. I'. WOOD. " FREDBRICS THESIGER. " FIYZRoY KELLY. "April 30, 18.51." " LOFTUS WIGRAM." The Earl of ELLENBOROUGH, interrupting, ob served that be did not like to rk f-r to what had passed between the Noble Baron end himself in private. But be understood the Noble Baron to say that his letter and his speech were originally in the case; but that, in curs sequence of the interference of the solicitor to tho Court of Directors, his letter and his speech had been subse quently withdrawn from it. Lord BROUGHTON ((ts far as we could hear him is the gallery) replied that the Noble Earl must have mis understood him, and repeated his former severnent. Though these documents were not in the case submitted to the three other Learned Counsel, those gentlemen had had before them all the information sucmitted to the law officers of the Crewe. The Earl of ELLENBOROUGLI hoped that, as the Noble Baron had produced the whole ot the first case, he would have no objection to produce the whole of the se cond case alse. Lord BROT.IGHTON then proceeded to comment on the main point of the speech made by the Noble Earl that evening. The Noble Lord had said that the Go vernor-General in Council had no right to appropriate this booty to the Treaeury of India, as it was the pro pery of the Crown. Now, ho should like to know what difference t xisted between this case and two others, to which ho would briefly refer. The first was the Noble Earl's own trantacdon with respect to Sindia and Gwalior, in which his practice did not seem to have been esetaltially different from that of Lord Dalhousie. The Earl of ELLEN BOROUGH—There was no pro perty in that C 4,0 r xc , -pt the guns taken in the field. Lord BROUGHToN—But it was property won at the point ot the bayonet as much as that won at Lahore. By the sth article of the treaty with Sindia, of the 13th of Jewelry, 1844, it was stipulated thus:— " Whereas there is nory due to the British Govern ment the sum of 10 lees of rupees on the score of charges of the contingent force, and a further sum of one lac on account t,f advances, and the charges of the pre,ent ar mernent of the British Government may be estimeted at 10 Lacs, and a further expenditure of 5 lacs will be in curred by the British Government in affording compen sation, it is further agreed that his Highness shall pay to the British Government the sum of 26 lacs of rupees within 14 days from the date of the treaty." Here was a specific sum of money extorted from a minor prince at the point of the bayonet, and almost on the field of battle, yet there was no hesitation in applying that sum in discharge of cl, fete due to the British Go vernment and of the expenses of the war. The destina tion of the sums extorted from Gwalior and from Lahore was precisely the same, and the Gwahor money was as much, or more, the produce of the battle of Mabarajpoor as the Lahore jewels were the produce of the battles in the Puejeub. Lord Hardinge also, in his treaty with Lahore, of March 9, 1846, demanded, " as indemnifica tion for the expenses of the war," payment of one and a half crores of rupees. It is true that he commuted two thirds of this sum for a cession of territory; but such commutation would seem to make no difference if there were an inherent right in some other body than the Government of India to have all money ac quired by the force of arms. It would be unfair to defeat such a right by such a commutation, But, at any rate, Lord Harding() demanded in cash one-third of th e abovementioned sum, or 50 lees of rupees, towards the expenses of the war, and why should a distinction be drawn between that case and that then before the House? Lord Dalhousie then followed these examples; and ho should like to know who had a better right to this money than the people of India, for it was they who received it, when it was paid into the Indian Treaeury, and the East India Company had no interest in it what soever. With respect to the returns for which the Noble Earl had moved, he did not know whether the Noble Earl really wanted them, or had only moved for them to raise a discussion; but, if the Noble Earl really wanted them, he must tell him that there was some por tion of them he must withhold, as they could not be given without previous communication with India. He was precluded from producing communications which were confidential, and which could not indeed be legally granted, for the 34 , h section of the East India Company's Act contained a special reservation, which rendered in violate all communications between the East India Com pany and their officers at home. He was ready to pro ducehe all that he cou ld w i t h propr i ety p ro d uc e ; but hoped that the N o bl e L or d veiu id not press the motion. h e The Eat' of ELLENBOROUGH replied that should feel much more sat i s fi e d if t h e N o ble Lord, in ad dition to stating the subst a nce of the first casee goodnessprepared for the law officers of th e Crown, had had the to inform him whether the question with which it con cluthd was the same as that with which the second case concluded. The Gwalior case was entirely different from the Lahore case; the arrangement e states , and not tly made in be tween the Gwalior case was made between a state and a conquering enemy. He had said nothing which could be thought to cast reflection on the Governor- General of India. He adhered to the expres sion he used in 1849, that the Governor-General had acted inadvertently, that he had acted under the error of supposing that he was the representative of the Crown, whereas, in fact, he was the representative of the East India Company only• The Duke of WELLINGTON --Having had the bon- of terYin in t.lia EAlt Ir4est briin 1419 knowledge of transactions of this deser;ption, I must say, my Lords, that from experience of the station of Governor-General in Council, I had conceived a very different opinion from that which has now been given by my Noble Friend behind me, who, I think, has a more practical knowledge of the subject than I can possibly have. But I talk only of nay own expe rience. The Governor-General in Council is the re presentative of all British authority in the East Indies, and exercises all British authority in the East Indies. I have served in an army to which the Governor- General has granted booty on the part of the Crowe; he has taken upon himself- to assume, or, if the Noble Lord pleases, to usurp the authority of the Crown in granting booty, Bat I say I have myself partaken of booty thus granted by a Governor-General.—(Eleer, hear.) It is true, my Lords, that he is appointed by the Court of Directors of the E %tit India Company, but by the law of England he exercises every British authority in the East Indies, and he assumes to himself the power of the Crown to grant hotly in the possession of the Crown. That assumption of authority must be con firmed, and I have no doubt it was confirmed, at least I have never heard otherwise than that it was confirmed, aed would be I conclude in every instance; but this is what I insist upon, that the Governor-G•meral in C nee cil in India does exercise every power of every descrip tion on the part of this country, and that by law he may usurp authority with which he is not strictly invested at the moment; but that is a matter to be settled between the Crown and the authorities that appoint him, namely, the East India Company. The Crown sublcquently con firms that authority, and the matter there remains as between the Crown and the East India Company. lam speaking of that which I know (rein experience is the case. The LORD CHANCELLOR remarked, that what ever observations tell from this Noble Earl who had brought forward the motion would be received with the most profound respect, and if tbe Noble Lord propounded the opinion that injustice had been done to the military in the case to whiclehe had adverted, the opinion was one which could not fail to excite' the deepest attention. The Neble Lord at the bead of 'the Board of Control had handed the notice to him (the Lord Chancellor), and, believing the facts of the case and the state of the law were not properly understood. he should tender some ex planations on the subject. The Noble Earl had con sidered the question as being whether the property be. longed to the Crowu; yet the object was not to consider the question as lying between the East India Company and the Crown simply; but, if the property belonged to the Crown, it was a question whether the army might expect to derive benefit from it, to which they could not properly be entitled if the property belonged to the East India Company. Reverting to the historical events with which the subject of the motion was cot:- nected, the Noble and Learned Lord reminded their Lordships that in 1848 no war arose between the Maharaja of Lahore and the Briti s h G overnment in India, b u t certain subjects of the Maharaja rebelled against their Sovereign; and the British Government interfered to protect him; it interfered as au ally and friend, not as an enemy of the Maharaja. The jewels and other property in question were placed in the cita del, under the guard of a force of the East India Com pany's troops. Did that property thereby become the property of the Crown? Certainly not. If property were seized in anticipation of hostilities and by way of precaution, and the hostilities which had been anticipated followed, the principle stated by the Noble Lord was applicable; but property not seized hostilely, not seized in anticipation of hostilities, a subsequent declaration of hostilities did not affect. The general principles had been discussed in a case which had occurred at the Cape of Good Hope. The property seized on the 17th September, 1848, was seized for the purpose of protec tion, when the person of the Maharaja was also taken under protection by the Indian Government. He believed that at that time the Qacen's troops had not entered Lahore at all; and it was not till the 20th of October following that there was say statement made with reference to general hostilities in the docu ments he had seen—doom:re nts which went to show that the steps which were taken were taken for the protection of the Maharaja. If possession had been taken of the property, not in anticipation of hostilities but in the way now described, and if hostilities had subsequently arisen, would that property belong to the Crown, and could any army be entitled to have it awarded as boot) ? Certainly not. Therefore the material question was to ascertain whether the property was taken possession of hostilely or not with reference to the Maharaja. if not, there was an end to the question altogether, because no subsequent declaration of hostility or subsequent hos tility would affect that property. Thu Maharaja with his council then entered into a treaty of thig nature. He found he had not strength enough to maintain his sove reignty against his rebellious subjects; he therefore pro• posed to resign his sovereignty and all the rights belong ing to him (not that the surrender was a matter of choice, but that was the form); the treaty into which het entered was one in which he assumed to be what in every view of the case he (the Lord Chancellor) conceived the Maharaja to be, the owner of 'het property taken for protection on September 17, 1848; and the Maharaja resigned the sovereignty, together with the property, in consideration of the East India Company engaging to allow him so many hies of rupees a year and making certain arrange ments with respect to his future condition. It seemed to him (the Lord Chancellor) that there was no ground whatever for supposing that injustice had been due to the army, for that property never belonged to the Crown, nor had the Crown any right which could give the army any right to booty. Unless it could be shown that the Maharaja had lost his right to the property, there could be no ground for the view allocated by the Noble Earl. In a former speech the Noble Earl had suggested that the Maharaja was incapable of entering into a treaty in as far he was not a free agent. It would be a new doctrine if persons were not to be bound by treaties who were not at the time of making them free agents; such an idi a was founded on the total mistake of applying the municipal law to political transactions. Lord ELLENBOROUGH explained, that as far as possible he had put the army in the background, and had stood by tee rights of the Crown. Ile objected now, us in 1849, that the property in question bad been taken from the Crown unlawfully. He desired only that it should go lawfully into the hands of those for whom it was destined. There was none for whose opinion he had a greater respect in a case where ample opportu nity had been afforded for investigation ; but the Noble and Learned Lord had been instructed as to halt' the case only. Lord BROUGHTON asked the Noble Earl whether the East India Company were not trustees for the Crown, rod if they were not so declared by Act of Par liament P If they were trustees for the Crown, whose servant was the (I mernor-General. He was the servant of trustees of the Crown, and therefore represented the Crown. The Earl of ELLENBOROUGH replied, that the Noble Lord represstited the Crown in Indian affeirs. He would advise the Noble Lord not to touch the dangerous ground that the East India Company represented the Crown After a few words from the Marquis of LONDON DERRY, There was a short conversation across the table, the result of which we understood to be that a part of the motion should be agreed to, so far as the papers osked for could be given; the rest of the motion to be nega tived. And.it was ordered arc. tdiu~ly. On the motio❑ of the Earl of CAI{LISLE. the Select Committee on the Episcopal and Capitutar Estates Ma nr.gement Bill vv , ss num ,d. SALMON' FISHERIES (SCOTLAND) BILL. The Duke of ARGYLL moved the second reading of a Bill for the further regulation of the salmon fisheries iu Scotland. The object of the Bill was to close the fishing on the Ist instead of the 14th of September, so that no fish of the salmon kind should be taken alter the 3&st of August, excoot that the proptieturs of the fish jugs and persons euthorized by them in writing might angle with the rod tor 21 days more. The Bill also contained a clause relative to the " Saturday's slap," providing tbat the mitres and engines should be opened or removed from six o'clock on Saturday night to six o'clock o❑ Monday morning,. The Duke of RICH HOND was not going to divide the House, but hoped the Noble Duke would allow suffi cient time befoie going into Conatnittee for the parties interested to become aware of there being such a Bill in progress. The Bill, it appeared, would allow gentle. men to fish with rods for their amusement when those who supplied the market were stopped. The Duke of ARGYLE, observed, that the upper pro prietors had valuable fisheries befoie traps were set be law, and that the number of salmon that could be caught by the fly was a mere drop in the bucket compared with the take by net or trap. He had thought it advisable its this Bill to introduce a " Siturda)'s slap" clause; but. did not wish to press the clause if it was seriously ub jeoted to. The Earl of MINTO believed the Bill, as far as it went, was calculated to do some good; but it would not meet the most esrious evil. After a few words from the Earl of YARBOROUGH, The Bill was read a second time. The House adjourned at a Quarter before Eigh o'clock, 110(7SE OF CoMMONS. May 26. ECCLE:SIA6FICAL TITLES ASSUMPTION BILL Tho Home then again wont into Committee on thi; i Bill. amendment : Mr. M'CULLAGsHomteroved the following the words " by law," to insert —ln page 2. lin e 1 ' ho shall have been recognised as theme words; " or „ i; warchbishop of any province Roman Human Catholic diocese, or Rua C ' • Catholic bishop of any of any dean*ry, by an y of her Majesty's superior courts of law or equity. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL opposed the amend ment. Mr. GRATTAN dencunved their whole system of hagi,,lation in this nutter as a species of tread and hypocrisy far below the dignity of the House to hare entered upon. Did the supporters of the Bill mean to put down the Roman Catholic reli gion in Irel,nd, and to allow no church to be in exi,t coca these in whit the P i p e could intilfere in the slightest decree , directly or iodkeetly ? He would remind them that Irelaud bad a charter to preserve as well " 8 England, and on the principle of that charter Irishmen would oppose, and he hoped defeat, the present Bill. Th ey ought to have learned long ago from tho wisdom of their ancestors that it was impossible to govern on a system of penal laws. The greatest men who h a d adorne d that H ouuo had legislation re nounced the idea. The system of ~ad which h a d b een pur , ue d towar d s Irelan deprived th e peop l e o f t h e no bili ty gentry,andadd leftthem and n beggar e d th e mi ddl e c l asses , an d b nothing but th e ir p r i es t s; an d if this continued, country. i twou ld make as the present Bill proposcrl, the country altogethe r into a rborri , llCatholic For his part, he thought there was no length that House to which permate • dby the law or the rules of _i_. and . a to oppose the .ti. if,. h Meuabets ought not to go I. lerar to 913414 4 QC "4 : - 491114 be the lot, either 011,40 e them or to shriek from doing his parr. The Bill ws an atrocity, and fell) justified any 'earth of opposition. Mr. CONOLLY begged the indulgence of the thane while ho stated nis reasons for supporting the Bill of the Government. The Bill did not prevent Roman Ca tholic subjects enjoying the rights of their religion, nor did it interfere with the spiritual functions of the Roman Catholic bishops. He considered that the Noble Lord had done wisely in prohibiting the assumption of territorial titles by the Roman Catholic clergy, for though they were of th• mselves mere bugbetir titles, and of no importance, they showed an attempt on the part of the Pope to acquire temporal and political power. Papal influence, was not confierd to religion, but, on the contrary, was exercised, over worldly affairs in a way irreconcileble with the law of the land.—(Hear.) All history testified as to the grasping nature of the Roman Catholic Church, and showed beyond a doubt that the power she aimsd at was not alone spit itusl, but also temp-rel. That, therefore, being the nature of the power sought to be eesumed by the Pope of laome,• he was decidedly opposed to any extension of it. Not that he was in the least friehtened that such is power could ever undermine th it own glorious constitution, but, at the same time. were it allowed unbounded sway he was • afraid that it might do much, as it had already- done in Ireland, to impede tied embarrass the freedom of that constitution. tie thought, therefore, that in resisting - Vats act of aggression ou the part of the Pope, the Noble Lord at tile head of the Gosernment had taken the course that he ought to have dune. It was no doubt ' said by those who opposed that course, that in adopting it the Noble Lord was infringing upon the religious berty of the subj,ct, but how teat argument could be used by those who professed to belong to a church which permitted of no religious liberty whatever, was mystery which he could nt t, and had never yet heard any one attempt to solve.—(g e ar.) Mr. F. PEEL confessed that bid mind was in such a state of uncettainty with respect to the probable range of the. clause, that he fit disposed to support any amendment which would have the e fleet of weakening it. The Comittee, be felt, w o uld b e guilty of some•incon eistency. 'of conduct, if, after having deliberately con sented to reject the two clauses which stood originally in the Bill as it was first introduced by her Majesty's Government, and that, too, upon the recommendation of the Right Hon. Gentleman the Secretary for the Home Department, it now consented to the adoption, unmo dified in any respect, of the present clause, which had been culled from amongst the amendments of the Hon. and Learned Member for Midhurst. Let the House re member the circumstances under which it consented to waive those two important clauses. The Right Hen. Gentleman the Home S , cretary had informed she House that subsequently to the introduction of the Bill he had discovered that under certain circumstances in the operation of the Bequests Act, for example, if a Roman Catholic priest was required to produce as evidence in court of law in Ireland, with a view to establishing his title to the donation bequeathed to him, under that Act, his lettere of ordivation, or the instrument of his institu tion, or collation to his benefice, which letters or instru• meats were invariably mid of necessity signed by the dtgnitarirs of the Raman Catholic Church under the style and title of the sees to which they had been nomi nated or appointed by the Pope, the courts of law in Ire land had not considered those documents inadmissible as evidence, expressly upon the ground that, although the open assumption of those titles might be prohibited under a penalty, yet that there was no express declara tion in the Roman Catholic Relief Act to theeffect that those titles themselves were illegal and void. If that - were so, how would it be consistent in them to adopt the present clause without any modification whatever - when it declared that a brief, and any title conferred under it, was illegal and void? Was it not clear that where they made an express declaration that any title conterrea by the Pope should be illegal and void—that was, should be of no effect, and treated as non-existent —there was no court of law in the world that would re- cognize us a valid designation of the party such a title subscribing any document, whether it were a letter of otdination or au institution to a benefice. That was the inconsistency which they should remove if they could, or if not, at least introduce some modification into the clause to remedy it. It might •be said that the clause referred only to a particular brief, and that that -. brief cunc. rued England only, and that Ireland, in which country alone the Bequests Act bad force, could nut be prejuinceei by it. B ut t h e o b tuse was a declara tory one, and re-enacted the existing law. In terms it might only strike at one particular brief, but in effect it declared teat every brief and every title derived from the Pope should, by reason of its.source and origin, be treated as illegal and void. It might be said that-the clause was iut.oxious, as it only re-enacted the existing law; but the fact of its being necessary to re enact a law already in force show. d that already the law bad been allowed to fall into desueiude. It was be cause he tot k these views of the matter that he was anxious that some modification should be introduced in the clause as it now stood. The Committee then divided, when there appeared— For the amendment Against it ..„ 179 Majority The amendment was accordingly lost. On the question that the clause stand part of the Bill, Mr. REYNOLDS, belore they proceeded further with the clause, begged to ask the Noble Lord a question. Bearingan mind. the differences of opinion between the !Liners with respect to its effect, m -, re particularly the, ditfi renoe of, opinion between the Solicitor -General and the Attorney-Geueral, and between these two Hon.; and Learned Gentlemen and the Hon. and Learned Mecober for Midhurst, and coupling both instances with the able arguments which bad appeared on the subject that day in tee orgau of the Government—the Times uewspaper--, be wished to ask the Noble Lord whether, remembering those facts, he was still determined to persevere in urging the adoption of the clause on the Committee? Lord J. RUSSELL 'had not himself perceived Any differences of opinion between the Solicitor and Attor ney• General and between these Lion. and Learned Gen men and the Hon. and Learned Gentleman referred to by the Hon. Member, and it certainly was his deterroi-' nation to co on with the clause. Mr. KEOGH observed that the Solicitor-General had raid it was impossible that this clause should be aban doned; and one would imagine, therefore, that it was the Government's own clause. But if there was such an impossibility the Government would have originally in troduced the clause. He, now asked the Noble Lord where was the impossibility of striking the clause out of the Bill? The Government had not first introduced it, and there was no declaration or vote of the House in its tavour. The Noble Lord had taken the clause at the '• auggeation of the Hon. and Learned Member for Mid burst. When the Hen. and Learned Gentleman gave notice of his amendments, the Dublin Evening Poet, wbich was the organ of the Government in Dublin, and every organ and retainer of the Government in Ireland, , drew what they cubed the marked contrast between the Noble Lord's Bill and the amendments of the Hon. and Learned G- ntleman; and Roman Catholics were asked how they could oppose the Government when they did ' not go the length in their Bill which the Hon. and Learned Member did in his amendments. But the Noble Lord did not perceive any difference. The Hon. and Learned Member for Midhurst had stated from the beginning that he did not consider the clause applied to Ireland.—(Hear, hear.) The Honourable and Learned Member for Midburst, he perceived, as sewed to that proposition. The Hon. and Learned Gentleman went further. and stated that it was quite mint cussary for lion. Members for Ireland to be struggling against the clause, for that the clause did not touch their country. That was a clear propositio n; o ? e x ; and would but the Solicit or -G enera l had distinctly stated, in rep l y to the Right Hon. Member for the clause, e creati on of fo rd (M u i r da .Gladstone),cesurily d tnhcal include i e t s the as a declaratorycase of the the bishopric of Ross in Ireland. Did he (Mr. lliao-h) a a e the case accurately ?—(A nod of assentfrom the 8 1 (ti t leitt , P.G , nettil ) The Ilea. and Learned Gentleman assented. that, then, were the case, the Han. and Learned Member for Midhurst assented to the propo sition that te e . c lause did not e xten d to Ireland. Did the Noble Lord perceive the inconsistency and contra diction b et ween b etw een those two expre ss i ons of opinion? But the Noble Lord also was unable to perceive the con tradiction b e tween the Solicit or -G eneral and the At torney- General on the cl a u se . T he Solicitor-General acid that it was a declaraiun of the law that a brief, re script, or document of the kind mentioned should be deemed unlawful and void. Was there One there, then, who would deny that any act done under the brief, and. therefore, in contravention of that. c l ause, would be as l a wful as the brief, rescript, or do m cuent itself under w hi c h the act wi ts done, and aw would be criminal in that respect and a breach of the l? He ap pealed to the Hon. an d Learned Member for Midhurst e, a distingushed Chancery barrister, on the point, to the Hon. and Learned Member for the University of Dublin (Mr. Napier), a distinguished common law lawyer, or to the Hon. an d Learned Member for Cork (Mr. Ser geant Murphy), whether the exercise 'of authority under a brief in contravention of ibis section would not be a misdemeanour, and punishable as such. But what said the Learned Attorney-General? Why, the Learned AttorneyaGenerel said that the clause would not affect Ireland us regarded its criminal consequences. What was the moral which he drew from. those diverse and various statements? The moral was this -a-that the Hon. and Learned Member for Midhurst wattleVaOt touch the case of Ireland, while the Noble Lerchfeltthat the clause was of so sweeping a naturein its operation that. he was afraid to make the clause - applicable - to that country. The Noble Lord, therefore, in order to gai n the support of the opposite side of the House, sroposed to take the clause as it stood, with the version put u p on it to a third p arty by the Solicitor-General. But there was . be dealt with, namely, the supporters of the - Government in Ireland; and it, therefore, became a questio n h ow best to bamboozle them. The Noble Lord said that the Bill was declaratory—that it left the law as it stood—that it did not alter it in a sins'. particular. Then came the question was it unlawful? Was it not, aft er t h e legis lation of the past fifty years , incumbent on the law ad visers of her Maje srg to prove that the Act to which the clause applied was f tygtal before they asked the House for its assent to its provisions?—(Hear,) The Attorney- General said the House would not expect him to go into a law argument, even though the question of the religious belief of 8,000,000 of her Majesty's subjects; unit yet he called upon the House to pass the law. On what was the clause founded? On the 13th Elizabeth or the 16th Richard IL, or on both? The solicitor. General said on 13th Elizebeth as regarded England. But the words of that statute were, that any person acting under any bull, brief, or rescript of the Pope, wa s guilty of high treason, and should suffer the pe nalty of that mime. If this was the case, what then became of Lord Lyndhurst's Act (1846), which re pealed that penalty ?—(Hear.) If not, then the offence tieing at common law, removing the penalty was tan tamount to abolishing the offence. The Solicitor-Ge neral quoted Lalor's case. lie (Mr. Keogh), however, denied that the Statute of Provisors applied to that ease was applicable to this. That statute applOrA only to 411 g s t 4 tblithed Church' with inheloes 4n4 Itorerof ~i 30 45 25 45 said Witl pai Bit 141 E4l