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fa artb-gbition SUN OFFICE, Seven o CRIMINAL COURT.-(THIS DAY ) OLD COURT. ( Before Mr. Justice Wtorrrimart.) THE TRIAL OF JAMES HUGGINS FOR F ARSON. (Continued from our Afternoon Edition.) behalf of Mr. BiDKIN then addressed the j ur y on the pri-one:. He recapitulated the main facts de tailed in evidence, and said it was impossible to con ceive that a man in his senses who intended to com mit such a crime would have said and done so many things which could not but ex cite suspicion against him and lead to his detection. In fact he had invited a tten t ion to all his acts, and a ft er the fire took place, instead of ab sconding like a crimina l con_ s cions of his gu il t , at his house, though , if of sane mind, he must have been perf ec tly aware that he could not escape f rom suspicion. There could be no doubt that his mind was affected in such a way as to pr eclude him from being master of his own actions. The prisoner, who was an attorney and solicitor, west formerly in the employ of an eminent firm ,of great business, and while there he was tailed upon to make very great exertions in railway matters , and he so evrrtaxed his brain. that the most dangerous consequences wer e apprehended. He was always a nervous and exciteable person, and bad two brothers who died early in life from diseases of the brain. Ten years ago he married a lady of irreproachable character and status, by whom he had five children, and a more fond, affectionate, and attentive husband and father was nowhere to be found. In 1848, however, a great change came over his mind and his conduct; the kind and devoted husband became a perfect tyrant-his wife, whom at different times he abused, attacked, and promised to destroy, became the object of his most virulent hatred. At other times he rushed about like a mad person, and made howling noises like those coming from a dog, or w ild beast. Upon proving these and other facts to the jury, lae was confident they would he of opinion that the prisoner 'had for some time been of unsound mind, and not responsible for his actions. The following evidence was then adduced : Ann Huggins, the eldest sister of the accused, said previous to his marriage they lived together, and after that event she was frequently in the habit of visiting his house and staying there sometimes for months. She had two brothers who died from disease of the brain. The prisoner was exceedingly excitable from his childhood, often starting up .i n his sleep. The least noise greatly affected him. He was always extremely kind, and lived on terms of af fection with his father and family,. He wa s a very dut if ul son, and the death of his father had a great effect on his mind. He would not- attend the funerals an d refused to go hate mourning. His fath er di e d in 184 9 . He was de votedly attentive to hi s w if e an d c hildren. During the last tel nt. three or four years hi s manner had been strange an d . Witness attributed thi s to the press ure of business daring the railway mania. She had only dined once at his house in the last three years; on that occasion she no t iced nothing particular in his manner. T he p risoner was a bo ut 38 years of age. Harriet Weymouth examined, said—l am a married 'woman. w hen s i n gle I lived as general servant with the I left in July, prisoner at Syde.am._ and . Brixton. m his service three years. He was 1848, after being very affectionate and devoted to his wife. On a Saturday in e home after tea and ordered tea to be May, 1848, r he_ m cam , hat, rus hed when it was brought into the room he prepared f l o s hat, rushed out of the house, and did not return took up i s .until h the following Thursday. Mis wife went after aga no t succeed in bringing him back; she was him, b u t did then in the family-way, and was very much distressed. He came home as usual on Thursday, but made no inquiry about his wife or children. crOas-examined by Mr. BALLANTINZ—Letters passed be tween him and his wife while he was absent. She did not kndw whether he went to Brighton on that occasion. Mary Crozier, also a servant in the prisoner's em ploy, deposed as to the general irritability of his temper, and as 'to his sudden absence in May, 1848. She had often heard him walking , about the room at nights, stamping, raving, and groaning. The family afterwards went to Grays, in Essex, and from that time a 'change took place iu his conduct to his wile; he frequently beat her violently, and used threats to her. When at home he would sometimes go out and sleep in an empty house next door, and return and knock up the servants in the middle of the night. There was one furnished room in the house. Cross-examined by Mr. CLAIR sow—ilewaskindtobiswife in the presence of strangers, and at other times he treated - her very cruelly. One morning at breakfast, when a cutlet was laid before him, he twisted himself rotiptd, in the chair, and groaned, and then jumped up and struhreds wife several times on the back with his fist. Jane Robinson, a nurse, now in the service of the prisoner, gave similar testimony as to repeated acts of cruelty. He usually became violent once a month, and witness was in ' the habit of jocularly saying to his wife that he was affected With 'the change of the moon. She had frequently seen him pump cold 'W'ater on his head in the morning. Mr. J. Sawyer, physician, examined by Mr. BODKIN, said , be was consulted in 1848 about the health of the prisoner. He *as then in a highly nervous, excited state, and corn • plained much of his head. He said he passed bad nights, • and could not bear the noise of the children. He also said he was troubled with the * 4 horrors," and felt a wish to com mit suicide. Witness recommended cold applications to the head, and change of scene, and sea air. He subsequently received a note from Mrs. Huggins, and again visited the ' prisoner, when the symptoms were aggravated; he was on that occasion suffering from congestion of the liver and brain. Witness advised him to leave home, to dispense with business, and to submit himself to the - care of a medical man. Assuming the circumstances to be • true which had been deposed to, he should decidedly &Uri , bute them to the conduct of au insane person. Cross-examined by Mr. CLARKSON— lie should say, at tunes the prisoner did not know right from wrong. A con gested liver would irritate and excite the brain. When he visited him on the second occasion, he considered he was r suffering fiom temporary madness. Dr. Connolly, physician to Hanwell Lunatic Asylum, said he had visited the prisoner during his imprisonment, and from the conversation he had had with him, he was of opi nion that his mind was not perfectly sound, and that his ju igment was impaired. The facts :dated in evidence showed . that the prisoner was of a very nervous and irritable tem perament, and was bordering on the verge of insanity. Strong affection followed by great hatred and dislike, and acts of yin lence, was a frequent sign of insanity. insane persona often exhibited great cunning and artifice. It was difficult to say whether the pyisonq could diquiguish right from wrong when he beat hie wile. He had many insane patients under his care at Ilene ell wilo knew when they did wrong, yet committed acts with that consciousness, and then said, " you cannot punish me because I am insane." He w of opinion that the prisoner could not distinguish be tween right and wrong iil the same way as a person of sound mind. Sir AlexanJet Morrison, physician, said he had heard the ' evidence to-day, and did not feel himself entitled to say that the prisoner was of sound mind. He knew many cases of persona of impaired and diseased minds who could attend to their ordinary busipcss, and who sometimes knew what they were About, and at other periods had no control over their aetions. After some further evidence had been given, Mr. CusnKsox briefly replied, and contended that the de fence set up on the ground of insanity had altogether failed. (The trial had no; concluded when we went to press.) THE - LONDON GAZETTE. (THIS EVENING.) WAR-OFFICE, Juer 11, 1851. 3d Regiment of Dragoon Guards—Lieut. Jobn Miller, from the 39th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Pedder, who exchanges, . July 11. 701 Dragoon Guards—Hugh O'Reilly, Gent„ to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Dowbiggin, promoted, July 11. . 4th Light Dragoons—William Affleck King, Gent., to be ; Cornet, by purchase, vice Jollifle, promoted, July 11; George Warwick Hunt, Gent., to be Corner, by purchase, vice Fair lie, promoted, July 12. Bth Light Dragoons—Edwar,l Phillips, Gent., to be Cor-' net, by purchase, vice FitzGibbor ' promoted, July 11. 12th Light Dragoons—Ralph Sbelton Bond, Gent., to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Jary promoted, July 11. Coldstream Regiment of Foot Guards—Second Lieutenant Frederick Henry Rarnaden, from the Rifle Brigade, to be En sign and Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Deribg, who retires, July 11. • 2d Foot—John Croome, Gent. to be Ensign. by purchase, vice Gibbs promoted, July 11; William Webber Martin, Gent., 1 to be. Ensign, by purchase, vice Grimston, promoted, July 12; Herbert Beltield, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Thompson, promoted, July 13. Bth Foot—Surgeon Francis Charles Annesley, from the 21st Foot, to be burgeon, vice Tice, who exchanges, July 11, 18th Foot - Gentleman Cadet Hugh Grogan Davidson, • from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, vice Lynch, appointed to the 87th Foot, July 11. 21st Foot—Edward Lennox Jervis, Gent., to be 'Second Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Goodlake, appointed to the coidst ream Regiment of Foot Guards; Surgeon John Charles . Graham Tice, M.D., from the tith Foot, to be Surgeon, vice exchanges, July IL A1'3 71 e6 1 1 7 0 ' o t—Lientenant Charles Denison Pedder, from the 3a „ von Guards, to be Lieutenant, vice mill er , w h o ex _ changes, July I I • 43,1-Foot—Jam" Atty, Gent., to be E ns i gn, by purchase, 1 - F vice the Hon. L. Males, promoted, July 11. 48th Foot—major Joseph' Robert Rain es , f rom the 95th to be Major, vice Smith, ho exchang g, July 11. • 5 1. St Foot— Capta i n Donald Geo rge Angus Darroeh, f rom halt-pay Unattached,.to be Captain, vice Richard D. B a k er , J who e xchanges, rece i v ing the difference, u l y 11. pu ki reb,,, pot--James Arthur Ma ude, Gent , to be Ensign, by Dike Taylor pronioted, July 11. W th Foot -,S e nd Lieutenant. William Mure to be First Lieutenant, by e°3 vice Warburton, who retires; Ch ar l,,, NlTpurchase, purchase, vioelNiVon' Gent , to be Second Lieutenant, by I. 64th Foot—^hure' July 1 be Ensign, vice:v-4 pn, who men Will ia m Knox, from the 78th Foot, to %ra t b' 1 ' retires, Ja pu 6 rc s h th ase l . no v t i — ee F S r t e r d aenrelek, %emoted, Jul y . Weouyss Gent., to be Ensign, by - -67th. Foot—Capt a i n India Regiment, to be exchanges, July LI.. aptain, vice Taylor, who enrY Crofton, I rom the 3d West 18th 78th Foot FoOt to be —En eignsig u h , En ug Gro gan D av id so n, from the Foor, July 11. • n , vic e Knox, appointed to the 64th • Blet - Foot—Sir Peter Arthur Halkett Bart to be Ensign; by purchase. vice Betts, prom o t e d, July 11 " 87th Foot—second Lieutenant itebeet C arter Li eu t e nant, without. purcha se , ekeo to be First mae deceased, A pr a ;es; Ensign - Calmer Lynch, from the Second Lieutenant,.vice Carter, July U. root, to be 88th Is'oot—Gyorge Thomas Ramsden, Gent., ec, be v s i gn ,, by purchase, vice Harrisen , who re ti res, July 1. " u ystbeFoot-eMajor James Webber Smith, from the 48 h Foot, to be Major, vice Raines, who exchang es , J u l y 11. t Re e Brigade—Second Lieutenant Charles Cholmeley Hide, from the 60th Foot, to be Second Lieutenant, vice Rarneden, appointed to the Coldstream Regiment of Foot Guards, July 11. 2d West -India Regiment—Oaptain Richard .Elliott to be without purchase, vice Soden, deceased; Lieutenant r y Itiurray to be Captain, without pureha.ee i vic :, ll / , 4 :l Ti o lti tt : C Aly th- Ensign Rukeby Steele Wilkinson Junes to lie _Lieutenant, I w ; ihout , purchase, vice Murray, July 11. West India Regiment —Captain Francis Richard Taylor, froth the 67th Foot, to be Captain, vice Crofton, who ex changes, July 11. Royal Canadian Rifl e Regiment—Lieutenant Spence Hamilto r Peel to b e captain, by purchase, vuie George Valiancy ne who retires; Eneigu Alfred John Lane to be Lieutenant, by purenaie, vice Pee', July 11. OFFICE Of '''NANCE juLY 8. , Reyal Regiment of Artillery-Major- Gene ra l Richard John Jarnce, L 3 aey to be Colopel-Commandant, vice lajor-General Airi4;kce.siO, June 30. ADMIRALTY; JULY 8. I ire IMew in g prom o ti ons halo this day taken place, con arcu t 1 eecease, on the 7th inst., of. Admiral of the the nom &u 4aua Talbot, G.C.B. Admiral of the White the Hon. Sir Thomas Pladen Capel, K.C.8., to be Admiral of the Red. Admiral of the Blue Sir Edward Durnford King, K.C.H., to be Admiral of the White. Vice-Admiral 'Richard Curry, C. 8., on the reserved half-pay list, to be Admiral on the reserved half-pay list. Vice-Admiral of the Red Sir John Wentworth Loring, K'C.B., 8.C.H., to be Admiral of the Blue. Vice-Admiral of the White Edward Hawker to be Vice- Admiral of the Red. Vice-Admiral of the Blue John Ayscough to be Vice-Ad miral of the White. Rear-Admiral of the Red Sir Edward Tucker, K.C.8., to be Vice-Admiral of the Blue. Rear-Admiral of the White Charles John Austen, C.D., to be Rear-Admiral of the Red. Captain Sir John Rims, C. 8., to be Rear-Admiral on the re served half-pay list. Captain Sir James Stirling to be Rear-Admiral of the Blue. The following Captains on the retired list have also been promoted to be retired Rear-Admirals, on the terms pro posed in the London Gazette of let September, 1846, without increase of pay : Captain Edward Barnard. Captain William Bateman Dashwood. Captain Martin White. Captain John Cookesley. Captain Charles George Rodney Phillott. Captain William Wolrige. • Commission by the Lord-Lieutenant of Lincolnshire. Royal South Lincoln Militia—Joseph Livesey, Esq., to be Captain, June 21. Commission by the Lord-Lieutenant of Suffolk. Ist Troop of S u ff o lk Y eo manry Cavalry—Sir Robert Jacob Buxton, Bart. , to be Corne t, vice Frederick Aston Oakes, Gent., resigned. July 8. The Lord Chancellor has appointe d Henry Wilcocks Hooper, of the city of Exeter , Gent., to be a Master Extraor dinary in the High Co urt of Chancery. BANKRUPTS. Thomas Edwin la tone, So uthee,and August advertising 2 agent, at e F l e l eel n Fleet-street, e a e t t , theto surrender July 21 , Court of Banlikurculipatncya-n., B W as h i i n t g m h o a r i eo tr ffi ee c t i . al assignee, Basing hall-street . Taylor and James Wylde, Flock manufacturers, Wood- s treet, London, July 21, at twelve, and Aug. 22, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Whitmore, official assignee, Basinghall-street ; Lepard, Bannatyne, and Gammon, Cloak lane. William Edward Johnson, coal merchant, New-wharf, Little Abingdon-street, Westminster, July 18, at twelve, and August 22, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Cannan, official assignee, Birchin-lane, Cornhill ; Jerwood, Ely-place, Holborn. James Murray, woollen warehouseman, Gresham-street, London, July 18, at one, and August 15, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Stansfeld, official assignee ; Link later, Charlotte-row, Mansion..house. William Williams, builder, Ashford, Kent, July 19 and August 15, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Stuns feld, official assignee ; Laurance, Flews, and Boyer, Old Jewry-chambers. Thomas Barber, bookseller, Cambridge, July 18, at one, and August 15, at half-past eleven, at the Court of Bank ruptcy. Graham, official assignee; Pickering, Smith, and Thompson, :Stone-buildings, Lincoln's-inn; T. and G. Archer, Ely, Cambridgeshire. Elizabeth Thompson, brushmaker, Reading, July 22, and Aug. 23, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Groom, official assignee, Abchurch-lane ; Finney, Furnival's-inn, Holborn. Philip Rufford, Francis Rufford, and Charles John Wragge, hankers, Stourbridge, July 28, and Aug. 18, at half-past ten, at the Birmingham District Court. Whitmore, official assig nee, Birmingham ; Harward, Stourbridge ; Motteram, Knight, and Emmet, Birmingham. Philip Rufford and Francis Rufford, bankers, Bromsgrove, July 26, and Aug. 16, at half-past ten, at the Birmingham District Court. Whitmore, official assignee, Birmingham; Harward, Stourbridge; Motteram, Knight, and Emmet, Birmingham. Samuel Street, shoemaker, Devizes, July 24, and Aug. 21, at the Bristol District Court. Acraman, official assignee, Bristol; Abbot and Lucas, Bristol. William Ayres, grocer, Cardiff, July 24, and Aug. 21, at eleven, at the Bristol District Court. Hutton, official as signee, Bristol; Stanley and Wasbrough, Bristol. Fletcher Clarke, wine merchant, Hawes, Yorkshire, July 28 and Aug. 21, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court. Hope, official assignee, Leeds; Robinson, Leyburn ; Bond and Barwick, Leeds. - Richard Bramwell, draper, llalifax, July 28, at twelve, and Aug. 20, at eleven, at the Manchester District Court. Pott, offiaial assignee, Manchester; Sale, Worthington, and Shipman, Manchester. James Pownall and James Youil, brewers, Manchester, July 21, and Aug. 12, at twelve, at the Manchester Dis trict Court. Fraser, official assignee, Manchester; Lycett, Manchester. James Hoyle and Thomas Hoyle, cotton manufacturers, Salford. to 2s led ; Mexican taken in, Silvers 3s, and black 3s 2d to 3s 3d per lb. Oros —Transactions in pale Seal Oil have been larger than last week, and rates are firm at 301 15s to 311 per tun : other kinds are wated at 291 to 301 10s, and supply small. In Cod little has been done, and 361 10s to 371 is the present value. For Southern, prices have become firm at 291 to 321 for low to fine. In sperm there is still little doing; prices rule at 83! to 84/ 103 for good and fine. Headmatter in small parcels realise 901 to 921. Linseed Oil has been in brisk request, chiefly for home consumption, and an ad vance is apparent, 32s 6d per cwt havinz been currently paid; for delivery several contracts have been entered into at 32s to 32s 3d, and the market hal a firm aspect. At public sale 30 pkgs Cocoa Nut Oil sold at 29a to 29s 3d for Sydney and Ceylon. TALLow.—To-day at public sale 220 casks Sydney Tallow sold at 36s to 378 9d for sheeps, and ox 35s to 36s 6d, 140 pkgs American 36s to 37s 6d. cordance with the desire of the Committee on Episcopal incomes (Parliamentary Paper, No. 400, page 224). A 1.4), whether the Bi,hops who have received larger in comes than were assigned to their sees have paid the surplus over to the common fund, or have retained it. Also, whether the Ecclesiastical Commissioners intend taking legal proceedings f o r th e recover y o f th e su ms which, according to the last report of the Ecclesias tical Commissioners, appear to be due from certain bishops, and if not, what course they propose to adopt that the common fund may not be deprived of that amount so long due, and, as appears by Parliamentary Paper, No. 153, so repeatedly demanded. Also, whether it is true that the Bishop of Salisbury bas intimated to the Commissioners that he will receive from them, as a fixed income, the sum assigned to his see, and whe ther any other bishop has acted in like manner. Such being the case, of course all the bishops who had received their sees since that time came under that Act of Parliament. Lately a Bill had been passed, which provided that the Ecclesiastical Commissioners should arrangements, by which the incomes of the bishops should neither exceed nor fall short of the sum assigned to them.—(Hear, hear.) That was to take place from January, 1842, and with regard to the bishops greaser since then. Tho Ecclesiastical Commissioners were considering a scheme for carrying into effect the provisions of that Act, so that they would receive an exact sum. With regard to the other bishops he was not called upon to speak, but it was evident they were entitled to the incomes which were settled on them, and that Parliament was no more justified in in• terfering with them than they were in interfering with any other private property whatever. Those who had received more than the sums assigned to them by law, bad retained it according to their right by law. The Bishop of Durham had paid over a much larger sum to the Cummissioners than they were entitled to receive from him; 11,0001. was the sum settled for him to pay, besides giving up an estate of 2,0001. per annum, which it was calculated would reduce his in come so 8,0001. It should be stated likowise that the present Bishop succeeded two prelates whose in comes were 23,0004 per annum, and whose charittes and contributions were of course commensurate to their incomes. This created a very considerable demand on the present Bishop, to which he had responded as far as he was able, to the amount of no less than 45,000/.—(Hear, hear.) The next question of the Hon. Baronet referred to certain bishops who were obliged to pay over certain sums which were in excess of the sums fixed for their incomes. Some of these had received much less than had been fixed for them, and could not have paid over the sums required from them without great inconvenience. The Bishop of Ely was indebted in a considerably amount to the Commisioners, and at no time had his income exceeded the income assigned to him. The Commis sioners had not proceeded by law for the re covery of these sums, but had merely written at intervals to acquaint the Rev. Prelates of the amounts due and request payment. The Archbishop of York had paid all that was due, and the Bishop of St. Asaph was now making arrangements for that purpose. In tho case of the Bishop of Ely there was every reason to believe that if he lived the whole sum due from him would be paid, though the Commissioners, from the consideration that his income had never reached the sum estimated, were naturally desirous not to press. With regard to the last question, the Bishop of Salis bury bad put into his hands a letter writtea by him to the Commissioners so late back as February last, by which he voluntarily came under the hands of the Com missioners. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. (THIS EVENING.) HOUSE OF LORDS. The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the Wool sack at Five o'clock. BURGESSES AND FREEMEN'S ENFRANCUISE- MEN r BILL. Lord BEAUMONT postponed the committal of this Bill until Monday. PRIVATE BILLS. On the motion of Lord REDESDALE, several private Bilk were forwarded a stage. The Earl of CARLISLE presented a petition in favour of the preservation of the Crystal Palace, and praying that it might be made a shut-up winter garden; also; petitions from various places against the Papal ag gression. E SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, JULY il, 1851. which had been embodied in the Government Bill. He proposed to draw attention to one or two parts of this Bill, because the question wall of much import ance, inasmuch as it affected the feelings and interests of all the seamen in the merchant navy—seamen's widows and seamen's orphans. The persons to be af fected by the Bill were of all others the most deserving of kind consideration. Ono provision of the Bill was, that no contribution was to be received from any person after a specified period, Government only undertaking to bear the weight of the pensions already incurred. Now there were a number of persons who were entitled to pensions, but to whom pensions had not yet been granted, who had paid their contributions regularly, who had thererefore an inchoate right to a pension, and yet who would be deprived of their right by the careless way, he would not say the insidious way, in which certain pro visions had been introduced into the Bill. The provision he particularly wished to draw attention to was the one which provided that seamen who had contributed for an aggregate period of sixty months were required to con tribute continuously for two years more, otherwise they would forfeit all claim to relief from the fund, their widows and children. Now, it must be recollected that a great dumber of seamen acquired right to these pen sions every year. These persons had contributed for five years, and yet they were required by the Bill to con tribute for two years longer. He would show their Lordships how unjustly this provision would work. From a calculation made in 1847, it appeared about 800 seamen acquired yearly a right to relief from this, they being worn out in the service. Of necessity this number for two years would be deprived of pensions because they could not comply with the conditions of the Bill by contributing continuously for the next two years to the fund. There would be at least 1,600 persons thus unjustly deprived of their pensions. But this num ber would be greatly augmented, because such a thing as continuous payment was not known in the administra tion of the Merchant Seamen's Fund. The seaman only paid during the time he was employed, and as he was only employed about nine months in each year, a young sea man would thus be seven years before he could work out his five years' payments, and nearly four years before ho could work out his 24 months' continuous payment. The operation of this provision would extend the number of 1,600 to which he had referred, to 3,200 and more, and thus this large number of deserving persona would be deprived of pensions to which they had a just claim. The provision for continuous payment was absurd, and would practically deprive a vast numder of persons entitled by right to pensions. The result would be that the con tinuous payment would not be continued beyond the five years, and the Government would thus be deprived of all resources for the payment of those pensions to sea men. There was another provision of the Bill which was equally objectionable—namely, that all pensions to be granted hereafter should be granted on a uniform scale, according to the average rate of the pre sent pensions. At the present moment the pensions in some ports were extremely liberal; Liverpool, for in• stance, where it amounted to nearly 12/. a year; but in some of the smaller ports to which worn-out seamen went, and where the wages being less the contributions were smaller, they did not amount to more than 12s. Could anything be more preposterous than that they should be all reduced to one level? Those who had been in the receipt of the 12/. per annum had, moreover, es tablished their rights by usage, and yet the Bill pro posed to deprive them of those rights by establishing one uniform rate, which would average no more than 52a. the year. No doubt many seamen would obtain an ad vantage by this; but it would be entirely at the expense of others. But that was not all. The average number of pensions, it was provided, was not to exceed the aver age number granted at each port each year for the last five years. This would be a manifest injustice and wrong. A.t Liverpool, for instance, there were a greater number granted last year than in the year before, and a greater number that year than in the year preceding it; and the same held good at many other ports of the kingdom. But taking the average of the last five years would be to take a smaller number than that of last year of the pen sions given in each class, and consequently the injustice and the wrong was mad e manifest. There was then a provision that the aggregate amount of pensions should not exceed the amount of the preceding year, until the new rules came into operation—no doubt to place a check upon the trustees; but how would this act? In the first eleven months of the present year as many pen sions had been granted as in the whole of the past year; and consequently, whatever might happen—however much destitution might prevail—the trustees would be wholly powerless to deal with it. These points he re commended to the attention of the Noble Earl and her Majesty's Government. Ho did not for a moment sup pose that her Majesty's Government would intentionally or knowingly do wrong to the seamen, but he certainly did think that they had been guilty of a most culpable error in the preparation of these propositions. It was with a feeling of the deepest regret, humiliation, and shame, that he saw the determination of her Majesty's Government to wind up accounts in this affair. All the other Governments of Europe—France, Austria, as re garded Venice, Rome even—made a fitting provision for their worn-out seamen; while England, who depended on that class for the dominion of the seas, and who in the next war might have, as she bad done before, to de pend upon them for her safety—for her very existence —for all, threw the obligation of providing for them in their old age and infirmity to the winds, and commended them to the mercy of boards of guar dians to get relief as they best could from an unwilling or indifferent community. Ile could not bear to look at the possible event in this case. He had been always taught to look on them as the fa voured children of the state, and he always considered them in the same light as he did seamen of ships of war. According to old practice, and under the authority of Acts of Parliament, the Crown had a right to call on their services. He looked upon it, therefore, as an act of great impolicy to disgust these men. Instead, how ever, of serving them, the other measures of the Govern ment, especially those on the navigation laws, had still further injured them by depriving them of employment. These seamen, who formed the nursery of our fleets, should, in his opinion, have been attached to the country, instead of being loft to give their services to foreign states. He regretted many things that passed daily be fore his eyes. He regretted that though this country had increased in material wealth—though not in the same proportion as other countries—her people were not in mind, in spirit, and in statesmanlike wisdom, the great people that they formerly had been. Looking, however, at what passed daily, he was led more and more to the conclusion that one of the greatest calami ties that could affect a constitutional state was the pro tracted existence of a weak, timid, and irresolute Go vernment.—(Hear.) Earl GRANVILLE did not think it advisable to en ter as the Noble Earl bad done on the discussion of a Bill not yet before their Lordships-, be should, there fore refrain frcm following the Noble Earl in his analy sis, and content himself with staying that when the Bill should come before the House be hoped he would be able to show that it deserved in no sense the character given of it by the Noble Lord. He (Earl Granville) was not there to defend the Act of 1834; but he was bound to remind the Noble Earl that no want of cour tesy had been shown to the Commission of which be was chairman, by the Governm•nt, in the matter. A Bill had been framed in accordance with the recommen dation of the Commission, but there was not a single Member of a single port in the country who did not come forward and obj(-ct to it. The Government were therefore induced to bring in another Bill; but this Bill was looked upon by the sailors, for whom it was in tended, as an evil, and therefore no course was open to them except the one they had taken in this in stance. The House of Commons, with unexampled liberality, had enabled the Government to carry out their views in the matter, and therefore he (Earl Granville) regretted all the more the speech had been made by the Noble Earl. Notwithstanding the Noble Earl's pre dictions however—predictions which he (Earl Gran ville) had been in the habit of hearing for Jeers when ever any large measure was carried—he believed that the country was never in a more prosperous condition than at present, and that all the efforts that had been made had been successful in achieving the moral and physical welfare of the people. Lord COLCHESTER complained of the late period at which important Bills were sent up to their Lord ships, and maintained that if they did not discuss them beforehand they would not have the opportunity of dis cussing them at all. He regretted that the fund had been allowed to pass into a state of insolvency, and he regretted also that the Government had not brought forward a satisfactory provision for the aged and de cayed sailors. England was the ()Ely country in Europe which left this class of her population unprovided for. Sweden, France, Belgium, Spain, Austria (as rega r d e d Venice) and the United States, providing for their aged and distressed seamen. The motion was then agreed to. LODGING-HOUSES. _ _ O❑ the motion of the Earl of SHAFTESBURY, the Lodging-houses Bill went through Committee. THE GUNPOWDER STORES (LIVERPOOL). On the motion of Earl GRANVILLE, the Gunpowder Stores (Liverpool) Exemption Repeal Bill was read a second time. great deal of consideration. lie was sorry that, on the last occasion when this subject was introduced, some Hon. Members diverted the attention of the House teem what was a qu, stion of puelie interest to a question of certain squabble= between private individuals, and he now wished the subject to be consider, d es of great national importance, and as affecting the honour and the cha racter of this country. He had been asked that very day, " Why do you introduce a qusstion of this kind after so lung a period has elapsed, end when, the matter being passed, it cannot be remedied ?" He could not for a moment acquiesce in any such (pinion, and he was anxious to remind the Meese that he had endeavoured from a v, ry early period to bring the question before their consideration, but he must say he never knew a question which was kept in so much doubt and secrecy, or in which he had encountered so much difficulty in obtaining from the Government those official chcuments and papers which ought to have been laid on the table long ago. His attention had been first drawn to the subject by an extract from a Singapore newspaper which appeared in the Daily News of the sth of June, 1849, and which stated that in March and April the naval force of the Nemesis, belonging to the East India Company, and in the pay of the British Govern ment, hsd joined a collection of prahus with Sir James Brooke, and had proceeded to attack certain portions of the Dyaks of Serebas and Sakarran rivers, in the island of Borneo; but the para graph which most attracted his attention was the one in which it was asked whether it was creditable to our naval forces to aid or take part in cruel butche ries, and brutal murders of the helpless and the de fenceless. After reading this account ho (Mr. Hume) came down to the House and asked the Firt Lord of the Admiralty if any dispatch had been received from the Nemesis? The answer of Sir F. Baring was, that there was no account whatever. Now it was well known that every naval officer in command was bound, by the regu lations of the service, to dispatch to the Admiralty, on the first opportunity, an account of any transactions of this nature in which he had been engaged. On the 4th of February, 1850, when the House met, he again re peated his question whether the Government bad re ceived any official information respecting the massacre of the Bornean Dyaks; but on that occasion also he failed in obtaining the papers. On the 20th of March he moved for copies of Sir Francis Collyer's orders to Captain Farquhar. Sir F. Baring replied that some of the papers he had not got, and one he apprehended he should have to write out for; but he had no objection to their production—that was to say, when he could get them. Again, on the 23d of May, 1850, when the vote for pirate head money was proposed, he repeated his desire for the official papers, and for a copy of Cap tain Farquhar'a instructions ; but these instructions had never yet been produced. He mentioned these circumstances to show that he, at all events, was not chargeable, with the delay which had occurred; be cause he had done everything in his power to bring the question before the House at an earlier opportunity. He then referred to the transactions that occurred in July, 1849, when from 1.500 to 2,000 persons were slain by discharges of musketry and grape-shot, when they were incapable of making any resistance, and when, in point of fact, they bad offered no resistance. He maintained that the extermination of these persons under the pretence that they were pirates was not justifiable. He denied that the persons so slain were pirates; that they did not use the boats which pirates used; that they were not armed as pirates, and that they did not belong to the same race as those described to be pirates in the paper circulated that day and delivered to members by her Majesty's Ministers. But then, he said, that even if they were pirates, they should have been captured and tried, and not destroyed when they were making no re sistance. It was a violation of the lsw so to slay them; and it was, also, a violation of the treaty entered into by this country on the 27th of May, 1847, with the Sultan of Borneo. There was nothing done on the part of these alleged pirates to justify the extreme measure adopted by Sir James Brooke. The orders of Sir Thomas Cochrane, the commander in chief of the squadron on the coast, were, that the vessels of these pirates were to be seiz , d and detained. His orders. however, were grossly violated by the blowing-up of their boats, and the massacre 01 their unfortunate crews, Sir Thomas Cochrane, on the sth of March, subsequently, stated by the adoption of this course there was a non-acquiescence with the Act of Parliament, with the treaty entered into, and with the orders of the Admiralty. As he (Mr. Hume) found it impossible to obtain from the Govern ment or the East India Company a tittle of evidence to prove that the Sarebas or Sakarran were at all mixed up with any warlike operations against the British forces, he would now quote, in support of his argument, the opinion of Sir Jsmes Brooke in reference to the Sakar ran—he said they were a tribe that only armed them selves with spear and sword; they knew nothing of the musket or fire-arm; that from their great dread of fire arms they were sure to fly away in the utmost terror upon a shot being fired. That was sufficient to show that these, at all events, were sot very formidable ene mies. A honk had been published by a Mr. George Windsor Erle, which stated that Sarawak was a place of much importance, and had made great progress in the way of commercial enterprise. Captain Daniel, who had commanded a ship upon the coast, had written to him (Mr. Hume) in the latter part of last year, in reply to a communication from him, stating that during the entire time of his stay there he had never fallen in with any of the pirates referred to, nor had he heard of them attack ing any British vessel. Ho (Mr. Hume) had also a letter from an officer at Plymouth, dated Dec. 5, 1850, who stated that during his 16 months' stay upon the coast of Borneo he had never seen one pirate, which greatly dis appointed him, as he had heard that the coast abound, d with them. In the inquiry for which he (Mr. Hume) Fought he was solely ieflueeced by a desire to ace the character of this c, entry kept up, and the cause of hu manity respected. What had the Government done since be first asked for this inquiry ? They had abandoned the system of head-money, after having expended a great many thousands of pounds in the destruction of innocent and unrortunate men. That, at all events, went far to show that such a system was un j us t an d improper . He had written to 1)r. Miller, who was a surgeon em ployed upon that memorable and unfortunate occasien, who gave similar testimony to that he had already quoted. The Hon. Member, having quoted the opinions of Lieutenant Ridout, Captain Balker, and Captain Has , tings, said he made this appeal to the House and the Government, upon the positive evidence he adduced, to grant this inquiry. At the end of the last session a let ter was addressed to him by a gentleman who was for several years stationed at Singapore. The writer raid that he fully concurred iu the remarks he had made in the House of Commons on the subj , ct—that the case was one which demanded the fullest inquiry, and that he had no hesitation in say ing that he would as soon go on a trading voyage to Borneo as to any part of the British empire. He then proceeded to denounce the destruction of these pirates as a massacre and a murder of the worst description. An address, signed by a great number of the inhabitants of Singapore, bad been forwarded to him (Mr. Hume). which stated their approval of his in tention to move for this inquiry, and denying that the parties so cruelly treated deserved the cha racter that was given them. He thought that the Noble Lord could not refuse his assent to this in quiry. In addition to his other argnmenis in favour of his motion, he would point to a letter addressed by Sir James Brooke himself to Lord Palmerston, in which be stated that his had no objection whatever to such an in quiry. Was it possible to suppose that Sir James Brooke's character could he cleared up without an in • quirt'? This gentleman was the only man who de nounced these pirates. It was utterly itnpos•-itile that they could be such as they were represented with the class of boats which it was admitted they used. He thought he had made out a very strong case for the in quiry. He might be told that there was the certificate of the recorder at Singapore standing in the way of his motion. He, however, contended that a certificate given by Sir C. Rawlinson at Malacca should not prevent the inquiry for which b e sou g ht. Sir C. Rawlinson said that the depositions of certain witnesses had been taken be fore hire); but where were they? Why were they not produced? Not a single man of the 9,000, in respect to whom the certificate was given, was brought before him. But be said, also, that the depositionai of certain other witnesses who were absent from the jurisdiction of th e court were taken under certain commissions issued by him. But Sir James Brooke, who had made this attack, was the first commissioner. The depositions were also taken before the Rev. F. M`Dova ell and Arthur C. l i Cruikshank. The only other evidence was the affidavit of Sir James Brooke himself, which was at variance with all his previous proceedings, and was e v id ently got up for the purpose; besides, who ever heard of attach ing any weight to the testimony of one so deeply lute rested in the event? The judge eugbt never to have admitted it, end on that account alone inquiry was ne cessary. As to the address which had teen referred to, he attached no weight to it, for he had in his posses sion an analysis which showed that it was signed by only 13 out of 27 houses. An address from Batavia had also been published in the papers; but when was that got up? In January, 1851. Th ere wa s rid question, 'said Sir J. Brooke, as to the existence of piracy, and the necessity for its suppression. No one would deny this, and the Dutch and Spaniards bad been engaged in a praiseworthy manner in attacking the Illanoons Soo loos, the real pirates; but he denied t hat the poor Dy a k s belonged to th a t c l ass. Hi s on ly object was to ha ve an inquiry into a matter in which the cause of humanity was involved, and as the Government had adopted t h e proceedin gs of Sir J. Brooke , it was a q uestio n how far they might b e i mp li cate d ' and It was therefore nec esaary, both for the character of the country, the Government, and of Sir J. Brooke himself , that an inquiry should b e instituted. Th e re was another point on which he wislied to say a few words. lie had asked the Nobl e L ord the Secretary for Foreig n Affairs in what capacity Sir J. Brooke had acted. He asked whether ho held the ap pointment of Consul-General. Th e answer was, yes. He then asked the Under•S . ecretary for t h e C o l on i e s w h et h e r be held the appointment of Governor of La buan ; and he said he still remained Governor. Ile then asdcd the Noble Lord at the he a d o f F ore i gn Aff a i r s whether he bad any official information that the Presi dent of the United States had recognised the Raja Brooke as the ruler of an independent state, and in that point of view he was to he regarded by British and other subjects. The Noble Lord stated that a commu nication bad been received from the President of the United States desirin g to es t a bli s h a treaty of com merce with Sarawak, but none was concluded; that Sarawak was n ot a B r i t i s h terr i tory: an d as t o th e rela tion . in which Sir J. Brooke stood towards it he knew nothing, and could only say that the British Govern• meat had given him no power to exercise sovereign au thority there. Ile had, therefore, not obtained the sanc tion of the British Government, and, therefore, could not legally hold power there. This was plain from the opinion given by Dr. Lushington respecting the right of the New Zealand Association to hold land in 1841. On this ground alone, if there were no other, an inquiry might be justified. It was fitting that they should know by what authority this murder of 2,000 men had been committed, for which we had paid 69 dearly, Ile PRICE OF SUGAR. The - average price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, com puted from returns made in the week ending July 8, 1851, exclusive of Customs Duties paid or payable thereon on the importation thereof into Great Britain : From the British possessions in America 265. 4id. per cwt From the Mauritius ... 275. bid. From the East Indies ... 275. li d. „ Average price of the three foregoing de scriptions of sugar, jointly, computed as above, and exclusive of duty ... 275. Id. „ By authority of Parliament, LIENny BICKI ELL, Clerk of the Grocers' Company. Grocers'-hall, July 11. MARKET INTELLIGENCE. (From the London Neu , Price Current, July 11.) StGa.a.-To day West India Sugar was purchased with caution for home consumption, and rather lower rates were taken, making the reduction as compared with lest Friday Is per cwt. Operations to-day were '269, and for the week 1,427 hhds and trcs, the market closing with a dull tone. ;;;lIEFINED -To-day operations in Refined goods were upon a limited scale by home dealers, and brown Lumps are to be obtained at 46s to 46s 6d per cwt. In Crushed Sugar there is still little doing, but lower rates are not taken. Mauttmus.-This afternoon there was not much desire to operate in Mauritius Sugar, and rather lower rates were taken making a reduction for the week of is per cwt. At auction 4,091 bags were sold, good to fine yellow went at 37s to 39s 6d, low to middling 34s 6d to 36s 6d ; and brown from 318 to 34,36 d per cwt. EAST INDIA.-This afternoon white Bengal met with a good demand, and 2,420 bags at auction were sold at full rates,:realizing 38s 6d to 40s tor mid and good mid, and good 40s 6d to 41s tid. Of Penang 974 bags were taken in at 32s for low soft yellow, but 1 : 867 bags Madras sold at full rates, grainy white 43 to 48s, yellow 36s to 42s 6d, and brown 33a 6d to 35s per cwt. FOREIGN. -There was no public sale of Foreign Sugar to dsy, and little business was done privately for any qurpose ; there are free sellers at the rates of yesterday. MOLASSES. -There is still little business doing in any sort, and the quantity exceeds that of last week. For small parcels of low to fine West India the rates taken are 13s to 15s,,Bengaband Mauritius 12s to 12s 6d, Porto Rico 14s to 15s, but if sales were to be pressed a decline would be the result, although stock is yet less than last season : at auction 233 hhds Cossipore were withdrawn. Prices for Jamaica Honey remain at from 30s to 55s per cwt. COFFEE. -This afternoon there was rather more demand for Native Ceylon Coffee, and the rates paid privately were 38s to 33. 6d per cwt. The public sales of 383 casks and 98 bags of Plantation went at tall rates, middling to fine at 52s to 598 6d, fine fine ord and low middling 46s to 51s, other sorts 42s to 455, and pea berry 59s to 61s. Of Mocha 200 half bales sold at firm rates, middling clean 65s 6d to C6s 6d, damaged 56s to 61s 6d, and triage 238 to 47s 6d per c w t. COCOA.-To-day, at public sale, 80 bags Grenada have been taken at 38s per cwt. TEA.-The market has a firm appearance for common and good ord Congou; many purchases have been again made by home dealers, and a fair export demand ex i s t s . P r i ces ru l e at from kid to lld per lb, and supply is moderate. There is no advance to notice for other kinds; transactions are, however, to a fair extent, and a less quantity is pressed for sale ; the rates paid for medium to rather strong blackish leaf sorts are 1156 to ls, and good to fine Is to Is 7d per lb. Oblong has been sold to a fair extent at Is to Is Bd, supply is not equal to last week. Green Tea has supported previous rates, and a fair business-was transacted ; but Young Ilyson still sells the most freely, and there is a decrease in supply. Scented or Pekoe sorts have not improved in price; but orders are upon a more extended scale at previous terms. Sricxs.-There is only a limited demand for Nutmegs, and the rates taken are rather under thost prevailing pre viously, although supply is moderate. At auction 17 chests were sold; good brown at 2s 9d to 2s 10d, mid 2s 5d to 2s Bd, low Is 105 to 2s 4d, and wormy 8d to is 5d per lb. The value of fine brown is 3s 3d to 3s 7d, and limed Is thi to 2s 4d per lb, as to quality. Mace is rather cheaper ; at public sale. however, 10 chests were all sold at 2s to 2s Id for mid, and one lot at le 7d for chips. Cassia Lignea is held for stiffer rates, and which checks bu siness privately ; of 10') chts at auction a part only sold, good mid and good, first and second pile at 98s to 100 s, mid, third pile 97s to 97s 6d, mouldy 93s and broken, 90s per cwt. Pimento continues in good demand, and stiffer rates are obtained ; there is also ne in crease of supply. At auction 235 bags were sold at 4%d to 5d for mid and good, but chiefly at the better price. Privately several transactions have taken place. Ginger, the rates taken for Jamaica are rather under those of last Week. At auction 200 pkgs sold at 55s to 66s for ord and good,ord; mid and good mid 70s to 75s per cwt. The bet ter sorts are held for 80a to 1603; Barbadoes and African 26s to 245. Of Export Bengal 250 pockets at public sale realised 16s for mid, and damaged 13s; 150 cases China preserved partly sold at 8i,4 2 p to 9d per lb. With Pepper the market continues to be sparingly supplied, and there being a good demand rates rule firm; Malabar at 350 to 3%; clean Sumatra 3 kid to 3 1 4 d, and Penang 3d. A public sale of 233 bags of Malabar went at 3ti b el to 3 , 4 for good light ; and at 2 1 sd to 2sid for tdamaged. Several parcels have been sold privately at 5 1 ,0 - to 8d for low to fine. Pod Pepper is wanted at 40s to 60s per cwt, and is in small supply. Cayenne has beon selling cat Is to 13 10d per lb. Cloves are not cheaper ; sales are upon a small scale; Penang at 10d to is 2d, and Amboyna 7d to 81 At auction 90 bgs Bourbon sold at 6d to 6id per lb. The market for Cinnamon has a quiet aspect. At the ensuing Bal l t s n early 2 ,000 bls Ceylon will be offered. icx.-holders of Bengal are not disposed to accept lower rates; and the private transactions have been trifling by shippers and home dealers. Of 3,159 bags, and 1,000 pockets at auction a small part ; good white at lOs to 10s 6d, mid 9s to Os 6d, low 8s to 83 6d, and damaged 5s tO 93' 6d. Other sorts met with little attention, and a decline has taken place of 3d per ewt for Madras; at auction '2,489 bags were nearly all sold; - good mid pinkey at 71 65 to 8s ; Pearl B ar l e y went. at the same rates, and damaged 6s to 7s 6d; whilst Coringa Grain- was taken in at 8s 6d per cwt. African is obtained at 88 ;. Cargo 7s 6d, and tine white to 15s, broken 9s 6d. to lOs ; town dressed Cleaned Rice is yet in large demand ; PB Carolina: trigaallall o s° s l3Ber t 6 o de 2 w s t a l and American at 16s 65 to 17s per cwt. At auction 44 chests, 20 bgs sold at 19s to 19s 6d for good small Pearl, and at 17s to lTs 6d for mid. Spasm.- There are sellers of Leeward Island Rum at rather lolw3 4d er ‘ a t t os esis s til d l operationsproEast India can be o b ta i ned have been up on a small at, is 3d to is 3id. Demerara 18 10 d to 2s 3 d , fur BO to 40 per cent over proof. Jamaica met with little attentiou Sot hsmomalel erensda7tion", and INgq ... oftered at a good, 32 there is nol"a9 3psanipping • in •thp value of best sorts Prices for g fi o n o e d , 1:034ic10t039 prelartic'cen.tbl'ovofi p l i o tS f : 4l , : r w l , 44 : l9lln a t 794 . 4l .3 .ee 4 rP sd to 4s 4d ; raid, 30 to 33 over, 2 '65; 1849 ditto, 4s 6d of 3Ci to 2s 6d . par. gallon. Brandy cognac best Brands4d to to 4s to 3a over, 2s e,41 to 3, S'2d; and low to the vintage 0f,,t850 at.4s to 4,3 83; 143 ditto, 4s lid to 53 Id; Bordeaux, 2a 2d, to 2s 3 v d t ; raja alder, 5s 5d to 7s; lo‘ 2s to This afternoon er g4ll°n. sorts, 6d 4 d; Guatimala Indigo at auctioansmall pail. only of ~ 1 ,20 MOM Sold 28 61 to 452 d for Sobres COCHINEAL.-This afternoon the public sales and mid Cortes, these are barely forme r or e n l d y u f r o a r s m s e i r lv r e a r t s e , s o . 3i3 ,0n and d an ls d so n obf i i a d Cgocs at ohff 3 ien s ree t ad a l low red Lima 256 d no we t n a t b o ov ir e h h ef a i l v f i S ly old a l b li a 383 d; Wick, ord to Mae 32 fid to 4a 4d; CRYSTAL PALACE. Lord BROUGHAM presented a petition from a most excellent and worthy and clever man, Mr. Joseph Pax ton, of Chatsworth, against the taking down of the Crystal Palace.—(Hear.) He had, when Mr. Paxton asked him to present the petition said he was the last person who should be asked to present the petition, be cause he had always been against placing the Exhibition in Hyde-park—not against the Exhibition itself, because he had always expressed his approval of the Exhibition itself as a work of not only British but European utility—but ho had opposed the Exhibition taking place in Hyde-park, because the erection of that building and the taking it down would be a nuisance. And he had also been of opinion that the erection of it world encroach upon tho Park, and would be illegal; and he still felt that his Hon. and Learned Friend, the now Master of the Rolls, ought not to have interfered to pre vent the question, as to the legality or illegality of that erection, from being discussed in a court of law; and if the same thing were to go over again, he should probably argue as he had done, and be of pre cisely the same opinion that he had been; he therefore would Rot go into the question but let Mr. I'axton state his own case in his own words. There was a great difference between being opposed to the placing the Palace in Hyde-park and the consenting to its removal. (The Noble Lord then proceeded to read portions of the petition of Mr. Paxton, in which he stated that had the duty on glass continued no such building as the Crystal Palace could have been constructed. The existence, therefore, of the Crystal Palace was duo to the measures of Sir Robert Peel.) Mr. Paxton said that nothing could be more useful to this metropolis than to retain that vast space as a winter garden for the creation of the people during the six mouths of win Such a building so maintained would not only tend to amusement but to the useful instruction of the people by transfer to that building from the over-crowded roc _ of the British Museum of the Natural History collection. The opinion of Mr. Paxton was entitled to be respept. fully heard and to a certain degree deferred to, and ,he had no doubt but that for a less amount than the fund s at the disposal of the Commissioners it might be trarts terred into a winter garden and museum, and that frera the annual income derived from admission, the whole; of the expenses of its maintenance might be pro vided for, and he prayed their Lordships to pte. vent the Crystal Palace from being removed or destroyed, He hoped that before the great building should be re moved the fullest investigation would take place into the allegations of the petition, and that duo consideration should be given to the reasonsa on the one side and on the other. He ventured to say that the people of this country were decidedly of opinion against its removal. For after this Exhibition had succeeded in a manner which exceeded the expectations of its most sanguine supporteis, if they were to destroy the building, they would be giv ing to the world, after an Exhibition of the Industry 'of all Nations, an unparalleled exhibition of the folly and vacillation of this nation; and therefore he believed that the people of this country were opposed to the destruction of the Crystal Palace.—(Hear.) The great benefit of the Exhibition had not, however, been with Out alloy.—(Hear.) That success had inflicted great suffer ing on the shopkeepers, but that suffering would not be occasioned by the change of it into a winter garden. He was convinced that without Mr. Paxton that Exhi bition would never have taken place. If the building had not been erected according to his plan of glass and iron, that Exhibition would not have taken place. Mr. Pax ton had consulted him on the subject, and he had ad vised him to submit his plan, and it was infinitely to the credit of the committee, whose conduct throughout had been admirable, and nothing was more entitled to ap proval than their immediate adoption of the plan of Mr. Paxton. (LEFT SPEAKING.) HOUSE OF COMMONS. The SPEAKER took the Chair at Four o'clock. PRIVATE BUSINESS. ,er. ;he 'he Ins The Lords' amendments to the Birmingham Improve ment Bill were considered and agreed to. The following Bills were read a third time and passed : General Reversionary and Investment Con,pany Bill. King's College Hospital (tio. 2) Bill. Lineolnshiie Estuary Bill. Llnvi Valley, and Dairy n Llynvi, and Porthcawl Rail ways Bill. PETITIONS. Mr. WILLCOX presented a petition from Southamp ton, praying the House to direct the Government to use its good offices in obtaining the release of the Hungarian refugees in Turkey. Colonel MATHESON and other Hon. Members pre sented petitions from various parts of the metropolis, praying for the continuance of the Crystal Palace. Mr. M. GIBSON presented a petition from Birken head in favour of the ocean penny postage. Mr. T. DUNCOMBE presented a petition from an undertaker in the City-road, complaining of the unin telligible character of the Hackney Post Duty Act. The petitioner stated that he had been twice prosecuted under this Act, at the instance of the C . :town; but, although he had succeeded in both cases, he had yet been forced to pay his own costs, which were heavy. PHARMACY BILL. Mr. WAKLEY gave notice that after the order of the day he should move that the Speaker do leave the chair, with the view of going into Committee on tb,e Pharaiscy Bill, in order that it may be proceeded with in the course of the present session. Mr. lIUME presented 26 petitions from different parts of the kingdom in favour of the Pharmacy Bill. Mr. BOOKER presented a petition from the ship owners of various places Oti the Welsh coast complaining of great distrees, which they attributed to the repeal of thenavigat Camel LLOYD WATKINS presented a petition from Brecknock, signed by the inhabitants of the town and neighbourhood, praying that measures may be adopted for preserving the Crystal Palace in its in tegrity, for such national us es , an d i n suc h ways , as may hereafter be expedient. Sir JAMMES GRAHAM presented a petition from the Incorporated Society of Solicitors and Proctors of the United Kingdom against the Registration of Assurances Bill. WATER SUPPLY OF THE METROPOLIS. Mr. T. DUNCOMBE wished to ask the Right Hon. Baronet the Chairman of the Committee on Metropolis Water Supply Bills, whether, in the event of the present session of PArliament terminating about the usual period, there is any probability of the Committee completing its inquiry within sufficient time to enable this House to give any measure for an improved supply of water to the metropolis that consideration which so important a question demands. Sir JAMES GRAHAM said the Committee were pro secuting the inquiry confided to them with much dili gence and attention. The House was no doubt aware that not one, but many, Bills had been referred to the Committee, namely, the Bill introduced by the Govern ment and four or five other Bills presented by different water companies. Hitherto the Committee had confined their attention to the first of these, and they had just got through the case for the preamble, and were about entering on that of the opposition. The Bill was opposed by three distinct classes of opponents, namely, those who thought the supply of water ought to be placed under the control of an elective body; those who were interested in the existing water companies, and who objected to the amalgamation proposed by the Government ; and, lastly, those who promoted the new schemes. The Committee were now consider ing the case fur the first of these three class of opponents ; and as their case not only re. lated to the supply of water, but to the manisgement of the sewers iu the metropolis, ho thought there was little hope of the inquiry terminating this session. PUBLIC BUSINESS. Sir JAMES GRA.HAM wishec to know if Govern ment intended to move the second reading of the Re gistration of Assurances Bill tonight. Lord J. RUSSELL replied in the negative ; it would be moved some day next week by his Right Hon. Friend the Master of the Rolls, and as it was a measure of great importance he hoped the House would see no diffi culty- in passing it this session. He might, perhaps, he allowed to take this opportunity of stating the course cf public business which Governmen intended to pursue. To-night they proposed to take the supply, and to re sume it again on Monday. On Thursday supply would bo tttken again, and if the whole of it was got through his Right Hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer would nano the third reading of the Customs Bill on Friday next, but not otherwise. The Customs Bill would . n ,t b e p rocee d e d w i t h until after the whole of the Supply had been gone through. COMMISSIONERS OF SEWERS. In reply to Captain FITZROY, Lord JOHN RUSSELL intimated that on Monday ho would state the course which Government intended to take with reference to a Bill for amending the Com mis:4=ra of Sewers Act. EPISCOPAL INCOMES. Sir B. HALL wished to ask Lord John Russell, whether it was the intention of her Majesty's Govern nunt to propose any Legislative measures for obviating t h e theourcuience and occasional hardship resulting from the present uncettalutty of Epiacopttl incomes, a,o• INDIAN MARRIAGES. Mr. -lIARDCASTLE asked the Secretary of the Board of Control, with reference to a clause in the Bill for regulating the marriages of Christians in India, whether the age of twenty-one years, which is therein sxed as the age up to which it is expedient to continue parental control, has been determined upon with a due regard to native customs, or simply in accordance with the rules of law in England. Mr. ELLIOT said that as the Bill was intended to apply to Christians, of course its provisions were founded on Christian laws, though, in India, native girls were married at the early age of eleven or twelve years, SANITARY CONFERENCE. In reply to questions from Mr. URQUHART, Lord PALMERSTON said that the British Govern ment had accepted the invitation of the Hunch Govern ment to take part in a sanitary conference which was to open in Paris on the 18th of the present month, for the purpose of deliberating on measures to relax the present severity of the quarantine regula tions of Europe. A medical man and a consular agent had been deputed by the British Government. With regard to the Greek claims, the commissioners appointed by England, Franco, and Greece had decided that 1501. should be paid to Mr. Pacifico in compensation for the expence to which he had been put to in supplying the place of certain documents relating to his claims on the Portuguese, documents which had been destroyed by them at Athens. COURT OF CHANCERY AND JUDICIAL COM MITTEE BILL. On the motion for the third reading of this Bill, Mr. M. MILNES rose for the purpose of giving a denial to the statements which had been made with re gard to the Biehop of St. David's ; but he was inter rupted by The SPEAKER, who informed the Hon. Gentleman that the remarks he was making had no reference to the subject before the House. At Lord J. RUSSELL suggested that the Hon. Member should defer the subject until the motion for going into Committee of Supply. The subject th, u dropped. Sir H. WILLOUGHBY, after the interruption, rose to object to the bal3ries proposed by the Bill to be given to the new Vice-Chancellor. (LEFT BITTING•) BANK OF ENGLAND. (From this night's Gazelle.) An Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth of Victorla,cap. 82 for the Week ending on Saturday, the bth day of July, I‘sl, Mel DEPARTMENT. Notes Issned.• .....• 27,581,520 Government debt .• 11,015,100 Other securities .... 2,984,900 Gold coin and Million 13,548,145 Silver bullion • • • • • • 33,375 427,581,520 1 £27,581,520 M. MARSHALL, Chief Cashier. Dated the 10th day of July, 1851. BANKING DEPARTMEN T. Proprietorecripltal•. 14,553,000 Kest • - •• •• •• •• • • 3,128,517 Public deposits (in cluding Exchequer, Commissioners of National Debt, Sav ings -banks, and Di vidend accoams) 8,231,362 Other deposits • • • • • • 8,695,802 Savrn day and other Bills.. • • • • .. .... 1,155,206 Government scowl- ties (including Dead Weight Annuity) 13,545,235 Other securities •• •• 14,251,192 Notes ••••••• • • • • • •• 11,0 '6,265 Gold and silver coin .. 631,195 5ai,463,887 £35,463,887 '. MARSHALL. Chief Cashier. Dated the leth day of July, COURSE OF EXCH) Imsteroam .• .• ••• • •• 11 16• N Ditto, three months.. 11 18k, ~ ottcrdam •••••• •• • • 11 IS% Antwerp.... •••••• • • • • 25 22 35 t Ilrue,sel4.• •• • • •• .• 25 22 yt, bargll •• • • M•B• 13 s% Paris, 3 d eyesight .. • • 25 5 Ditto. 3 months •• .. 25 20 Marseilles •••••• • • • • • • 26 20 Bourdesnx ...• ..... • frankforton 119% Vienna, effec. 110.• •• • • 12 14 Trieste, ditto.. ••••• • • • 12 IS Potersbargh,Sil. Rble.. 37% Madrid •• • • .• .• •••• • 50 Cadiz • • •••• •• •• • • • • •• 504 Bane:011a .• • • .....• •• ,N GE.-(LUJS DAY.) Gibraltar.. •• •• •• •• •• •• Leghorn ........ ••.. • • 30 35 Genoa •••• •• •• •• •• •• •• 25 32 Milan.. •• •• • • • • •• •• Venice........ • • •• • • •• Naples •• •• •• •• •• •• •• 41% Palenno,peroz........ 124 Messina ••.••••• •• •• •• 124% Lisbon.— •• .......... 63% Oporto•• •. •• .... •• .. •• 63% Edo Janeiro —...... • . Buenos Ayres — New York,6odaya'sight Philadelphia .......... _ MOBS OP BULLION, PEI OS, Foreign Geld inbars..Xll 17 9 Portugal Gold Coin .. 0 0 0 Spanish Doubloons .. 0 0 0 New Dollars •• 0 4 11% Silver in bars ...... •• 0 6 0% COURT OF CHANCERY AND JUDICIAL COMMITTEE.— The Government Bill "to improve the administration of justice in the Court of Chancery and i❑ the Judicial Com mittee of the Privy Council," has gone through Committee, and has been printed as amended. Two clauses have been added—the Brat permitting the appointment of a secretary, usher, and train-bearer for each judge; and the second pro viding that the salary of the additional registrar, whom the Lord Chancellor may appoint, should be paid out of the suitors fund. REPRESENTATION OF WORCESTER.— We hear nothing of the probability of Mr. Rufford vacating his seat. It is understood that he has left the country, and that he is not likely to surrender under the fiat in bankruptcy.— Wor cester Chronicle. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. ROUSE OF LORDS, July 10. Lord WIIARNCLIFFE presented a petition from the inhabitants of St. Leonard's, against being included wish Hastings in the General Board of Health Bill. On the motion of the Marquis of CLANRICARDE, the Attorneys' and Solicitors Regulation Act Amend ment Bill went through Committee. SYNOD OF THURLES. Lord MONTAGUE took an opportunity to correct a misstatement of what fell from him the other evening on the subject of certain resolutions having relation to the proceedings at the recent Synod of Thurles. He had bean made to say that when certain resolutions condemnatory of the Queen's Colleges wero passed at the Synod of Thurles, each was the strong feeling evinced by some of the Roman Catholic clergy and laity that these resolu tions had not been forwarded to Rome. The observa tions he made had reference, not to the resolutions in question, which had been forwarded to Rome, but to counter resolutions which wero passed after the original resolutions had been agreed to. MERCHANT SEAMEN'S FUND. The Earl of ELLENBOROUGH rose to move for a copy of a report from Mr. Alexander Glen Finlaison to the Right Hon. H. Labouchere on the Merchant Sea men's Fund, dated March 18, 1850, and laid before the House of Commons, and by them ordered to be printed on the 26th of March, 1850; also any reports received by the Beard of Trade since the report of the Commis sion of 1848, relating to the present condition and pro spects of the Merchant Seamen's Fund. The Noble Lord said ho viewed with the greatest regret the mea sur,l introduced by her Majesty's Government for wind ing up the Merchant Seamen's Fund. He could not hope to prevail on Government to desist from pressing forward their measure, but he hoped he should be able to state reasons that would satisfy the Noble Lord con nected with the Board of Trade that it would bo un wise to carry the measure into effect according to its provisions. The Noble Lord here went into a history of the Merchant Seamen's Fund, which was established to provide pensions to worn-out seamen, the widows of seamen, and their children. After reciting the various legislative changes which had Ltkan place since the first Act was passed, the Noble Lord brought down his statement to 1844, when the fund had so dwindled down that Government deter mined to wiz(' it up, and to wake sew SANITARY STATE OF THE METROPOLIS. The Earl of SHAFTESarkf iavenoticelori!iion day to call the attention of the House to Mr. Grainger's report on the sanitary state of some portion of the me tropolis. The House then adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS, July 10. SIR JAMES BROOKE AND BORNEO. Mr. HUME moved for an address to her Majesty, that she will be graciously pleased to appoint her Royal Commission to inquire into the proceedings of Sir James Brooke on the north-western coast of Borneo, since his appointment as her Majesty's " Commissioner and Consul-General to the Sultan and Independent Chiefs:of Borneo;" and, especially, into the attack made by her Majesty's and the Honourable East India Company's naval forces, under his advice and di rection, on certain wild tribes of that island, called the Sakarran and Sarebas Dyaks, o❑ the night of the 31st July, 1849 ; and further that her Majesty will graciously command, that the opinion of her Majesty's judges be taken and laid by her Majesty's Ministers before this House, touching the legality or otherwise of the holding by Sir James Brooke, at one and the Same time, of the following ap parently incompatible offices, viz., of sovereign ruler of Sarawak, he being a British subject; of her Majest3'6 Commissioner and Consul-General to the Sultan and independent chiefs of Borneo, he, Sir James Brooke., residing at Sarawak, where there is no independent Chief; and also of the appointment of Governor of the British settlement cf Labuan, distant 300 miles from Sarawak, at which British settlement Sir James Brooke has not been actually present more than a few months during the last three years. The Hon. Gentleman tr.id he had at last obtained an opportunity of calling the at tention of the House to transactions which had long been before the public, and to which be had given a much larneetai that the hate Right Hon. Baronet the Member for Tarnworth was no longer among thew, be: cause he held a letter in his hand from the late Bieb! Hon. Baronet, in which he expressed an opinion that delay would be dingeroue, that an inquiry ought to tak e place. He said he had read wib great pain the fact! which had been :dived, but would suspend his judgeie,, until a full explanation had been given. It was that le" explanation which he (Mr. Hume.) sought. It was P° 9. siblo that he mi g ht be wrong, but still respect for th e feelings of large bodies of men, for the character of O il country, and ef Sir J. Brooke. himself, ought to indted the Government to support his motion, and he sho e , have great eatielactien if the result or the inquiry sh° tiiwu prove that he was mistaken. He would, therefore, COw elude by moving the address. Mr. HE ADLAM said he had listened with great pt • tendon to the speech of the Hon. Member for e'Sfeletr` le • on this subject 11154 year, and he never in his life gal% vote with a more decided conviction of itsproprie ty when on that occasion he voted in a majority of lu ee ' which negatived the motion, in opposition Co 1.,„ 1 : 4- (Hear, hear.) The Hon. Met, ber complained of S°,,; Members not confining themselves to the charges be' cr e a the House, but when a high-minded gentleman ischerg h• with something very like murder, those who made charge must not be surprised if the friends of Sir Brooke sought to trace these calumnies to their sourc e % —(Cheers) Lawyers had a maxim that no K neen wt e had been once acquitted ought to be again tried for IP, same offence.—(Bear, bear.) This doctrine, shell'', true is general, he did not wish to carry to any absorl extent, and be therefore admitted that in mattere 01 4 great public interest an exception might be made; ( 111/ , ‘ had the lion. Member for Montrose LOW brought . . t i . ° '„ ward any very important evidence which was not befog the House on the former occasion, or shown any retd l for reversing the decision of the House, he ntig'. o have been justified in main dragging Sir J. Bre; lorward before the country; but after listening to' i d Hon. Member with the greatest attention, be was le 9 t l , to say that he had adduced no material evide p "" o l whatever on this occasion which he might` t e have brought forward last year—(Hear, he'l l.) is and with respect to the new documentary evidence , 0 rondo the case of Sir J. Brooke infinitely stronger tit before.—(Hear.) The motion asked, in the first 10:: for an inquiry into the proceedings of Sir J. Broo/Is o i secondly, for en inquiry into the att ac k o f th e 30 July, 1849; and, thirdly, asked her Majesty to camel, that certain questions of state policy might be 0% 'aided to the judges. Now, it was not customary e t confound questions of state policy with indictments ' c/ i i murder.—(Hear, hear.) But he would pass to the r e , charge against Sir J. Brooke, which seemed to be 01 , 1 : The Hon. Member for Montrose said that these the Sarebas and Sakarrans, were not pirates, but bet 0 , less unoffending people, and perfectly incapable, W e , want of civilization and development, from doing 8 1 harm to any one, least of all to Europeans; that t ll 4 l O had done was to carry on intertribal wars, and they had never committed piracy; that at all eile l/ if they had not committed any at that time, and 0 401 , 0 they had that an unnecessary degree of cruelty had be ll exercised. What evidence had they on the subject 1 a le addition to the abundant testimony already before House, documents had been laid on the table that al which most completely confirmed that testimony In, respect to the cruel massacres perpetrated by W e i ,/ pirates. Borneo, as the Honourable Member 0 Montrose observed, was a large place; but b e ip were references to the very tribes and plaeeit,o question by their names.—(Hear.) It appeared P o t though the Dyaks from Sarebas and Sakarran were l3 ,, themselves very str ong i n arms , th e y were joined aft Malays and Arabs thereefs. In the rapers laid be t °„„ them that morning, be found a report quoted, dated 7 0 tuber, 1830, which recommended that these O l e should be attacked when they had returned to their g e t treats. Great stress had been laid upon the fact t°4 there were several vessels from this country which b e d, never seen any pirates; but it should be remetaberr.. that piracies in these seas took place only during a °d ee , Lain period of the year, and it was absurd to say that tale vessels having seen no pirates, therefore Dove e ro i isted there Why, se far hack a s th e y e ar 1834, we I le s , in treaty with the Ku g of the Netherlands for the f ro press purpose of putting' down piracy in the Malg, Archipelago, and the King of the Neth e rlands adePn measures for suppressing it. In addition to this, v.° P(1 0 a treaty with Borneo to put an end to it. Sir Jam Brooke had received in s t ruc ti ons f rom the 14°Ile ie Lord at the Foreign-office to use his power and ' O l fluence with the same object in view, and nureer ° representations had com e from th e me rcantile c ° o , „, munity complaining of piracy. Under these cirel, stances it was that Sir James Brooke, when . v g had adopted the very best mode of suppres ol l3 , piracy, was denounced in this House and before country as the murderer of an unoffending race of mani a ! (Hear, bear.) The H on . M em b er t h en rea d a le, t 'e w which had b e en writt en by a naval officer at preseo the coast guard, and form e rly serv i ng on board ,`De Ariadne ship of war in the Indian Seas, in which I ,f writer bore his personal testimony to the existenee6 pirates on the coast of Borneo, and stated that 00 c o occasion he himself narrowly escaped with his life (gibe them, and that at another time an attack upon (gibe Ariadne by three prahus filled with men was preeen v e only by firing a 24-pound shot across their bows. e e writer added that he thought an ins t a n c e like te',; where a vessel of war had d een attac k e d by °mei, " daring robbers," was sufficient to convince even eh, Cobden himself of the piratical character of the tribes' (Laughter, and Hear, hear.) In the year 1844, Car e Keppell was engaged in similar operations against t O , De bits of Serebas, and hi s con d uct was t h en e cke° b , ledge() and approved by th e c o m p an y at Si ngs pore. l ,l commander-in-chief on the station, and the Lord s the Admiralty. Captain Keppell s a id that on that oe c r o seen the pirates were the first to fire, and that in e le e e than a quarter of an hour they were driven from i"" guns. Mr. COBDEN (we understood)—You said just 0 04 they had no fire-arms. eb e Mr. HEADLAM—No. What he had said we' the Dyaks, taken by themselves, had not many fireder" - , 1 0 but that they were in communication with and se eder e, influence of the Arab shereefs, and that when the el, bleed fleet went forth—composed of Dyaks and sham e s and Malays—they were armed with fire-arms.—(llesoo hear.) Captain Kepp e ll th en p rocee d e d t o sa y Os! " 0 less than 56 guns of various si zes were t a k en , as well a vast quantity of ammunition ; th a t a t on an d a half gunpowder tell into the hands of our peopl e , a nd Ir er besides this 200 piratical boats wer e destroyed. Aittpo, having punished the two principal t r ib es o f t h e pirt",:e Captain Keppell next determi ne d on a t tac ki ng t h e trie r , who furnished the fire-arms, who mustered 10,000 e i ‘ e e riors, and could put t o sea w i t h a h un d re d pra h u s; . 4 % he stated in his report that the interests of British cfr o f entree would be greatly advanced by the continuane e ll l e e be for tee suppression of piracy in those seas• si e e be meant by that wa s, that after making these email iitme slight supervision might be exercised, so es , prevent the renewed growth of these piratical cornl ij d cities, and their return to their former practices; 9 r Captain Keppell and Sir J. Brooke seemed both to eo le d lain the opinion that very little force would be necetO, for that purpose. But this plan was not adopted, and, ', D 0 result was, that the tribes, forgetting what bad 011 0 place, again resorted to their old practices, sna re d consequence a similar example of them was requ' eo to be made in 1849 Willi regard to this quesig l i, of " piracy," he confessed that he was a little ° ti e . prised at bearing the do c t rine w hi c h h a d b e en P e , r e - 0 pounded by the Hon. M em b er f or M ontrose . -';'9 Hon. Member seemed to think that in respect to pir i t e e , ho roamed about the seas murdering men and w 0 it and destroying all t h e vesse l s t h at came w i t hi n !b e d reach, no step w as to b e to k en except t o ca pt ure t h et a 1 3 n bring them to t r i a l un d er t h e 3d a nd 4 t h Vi cto ria , , (Hear, fuser, and a laugh)—that when the pirates returning from a marauding expedition to the river fr o ~0 which th e y h a d sa il ed f ort h, a steamer and one o r tr, boats w ere t h en to catc h them; that i nstea d o f Pr venting their issue from the river in the first place, forces were to wait until they had seen the act of pirre committed, and afterwards proceed to capture and t% them according to law. Ho (Mr. Headlam) could P ° ,, agree that that was the best mode of suppressing pireto,; He did not thick that such a course bad ever b e a d adopted by any nation in the hi s t or y o f th e wor ld, e'," eo he did not believe that that was the intention of treaties between this country and the Netherlands, fr e e Sir James Brooke and the Sultan of Borneo. A ga t e ti „ might arise as to what constituted piracy, and J a mes very properly stated that it appeared clear to w ho that the plunder or seizure of a peaceful trader on the high seas constituted an act of piracy without refereo n ' to colour or nation. The good effects of Captain it pell'a opt rations against the pirates were stated by ee r James Brooke to consist in the fact that they no lovg„` te ventured to take the sea in force, and that the loss of ' 1 ; 0 and injury to commerce had greatly diminished. Th e e - 6 good Nets, he said, continued for two years ; but in 15' 10 he was convinced that the former habits of the peop le were too strongly planted in them to be eradicated II peaceeul mea ns , a nd that the impres s i on p ro d uce d te them had gra d ua lly wo rn off. I n th at year t h e i r dePt- e d dations at sea became more frequent, though not r e t a formidable character, and a f ter his departure O a England, in 1847, the pirates threw off all reserve 0 11 1 harassed the trade as much as before. In consequence P i f James made representations to the Commander-in-Ca to in the Indian seas, who, after satisfying himself of IR e facts, ordered Commander Parker to make a similar IE : tack to that which had been made with so much encas es in 1844. These instructions of Rear-Admiral Colli e ' ,, bad been produced, and they completely justified C 013 3; mender Parker in the course he had pureued—(HWA —and not a word was contained in them which shoete that the admiral entert a i ne d th e s li g ht es t d ou bt of tai propriety of making such an attack. It was said iba European vessels bad not been assailed in the ModaY i r Archipelago. But l e t t h e H o use observe th e mo de 1 1 , which the trade w a s carried on in those seas. Vesse ls were sent from thi s co untry to Sing a p ore , and fr°7, thence their merch an di s e was convey e d i n sma ll EV' boats, to the coast of Borneo, and it was against thee ( small boats that the acts of piracy were committed. And t the pirates put a stop to this transit of European gee ) " from Singapore to the coast of Borneo, surely it vol practically the same, as far as injury to comm e rce ev to particular tribes was concerned, as if European ve r f sels themselves had been attacked. But, in point e, fact, European vessels had been attacked, though he It; mitted the number was not very great.—(Hear, beard With regard to the allegation of cruelty which h a d Vei l brought against Sir James Brooke, the Hon. Memb er quoted a passage from a letter of Commander P a rker' to the effect that when a consultation took place t' n board of one of her Majesty's ships on th e Born " coact, with the view of making arrangements for "Cu ting off' about 3,000 of the pirates who h a d es caee' in the action of the previous day, Sir James Brooke ci o ' cidedly rejected the proposal, as one which was calro:: lased to occasion "an unnecessary effusion of biocide,' The Hon. Gentleman then read a letter from the Blab% of Calcutta to show that the rule of Olf James Broker' la thf that 1 for B lie t do wn factor done Szrn dari crate tan Irate in,l e Rep. try, aver) !hei the ~ on th the 1 View(