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'7 :" of the arti ** as not. /e Mr. K. • ' • ' for the It y.; c•F • • . ' , by Gover, I. • I " b ;T • - N ' j of the Si 1, u" r." — • 4 6." ),A,<- , 4 Tilvti • • „ 1,4,,,,n • pa.-.%,._ r , T A O Niidg' and 6RtH-VESTERIV RAILWAY. TO CONTRACTORS AND BUILDERS. The Directors'are desirous of receiving Tender; for the Erection f One liundred Cottages at the Wolverton Station. Parties desirous of Tendering may see the Drawings and Specifica 140ns at the Engineer's Office, Euston Station, on Wednesday, March 2, 1853, between the hours of 10 and 4. Tenders, addressed to the undersigned, should be sent in not later than 10 o'clock on Tuesday, March 8, 1853. (Signed) uston Station, 23d February, 1853 C . HAS. E. STEWART, Sec. which the mi (Oh, oh 0 rare of coffee with °Moor, LAW REFORM. EATING wished to ask the Secretary of State Eome Department, whether the plan announced .nment, for the arrangement and consolidation latute Law, is intended to comprehend any measures for ensuring greater uniformity, clearness, and conciseness in the framing of future acts of Parlia ment. Lord J. RUSSELL was understood to reply in the affirmative. 1 - N Alt LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 25, 1853. No . 18,854.] [PRICE 514 • CONTRACT FOR CANDLES.. Department of the Comptroller for Victualling and Transport Services, Somerset-place, 21st February, 1853. r f HE Commissioners for executing the Office of Lreja Lord sigh Admiral of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and na, DO HEREBY GIVE NOTICE, that on THURSDAY, the &1 March next, at I )NE o'Clock, they will be ready to treat with ;Itch Persons as may be willing to Contract for supplying and de vexing into the Royal Marine Barracks at CHATHAM all such q u antities of ALLWCANDLES 4, t t hall from ti me to T t ime he dern CAN D mdeil for 12 months certain , and further until the expiration of three months' warning. t , Th e Conditions of th e rev i se d C ontract, to wh i c h par ti cu lar atten :mia called, may he s een a t th e said Office, and (together w i t h , 4 fliples of the C an dl es ) at the Off i ce of t i le Barrac k M as ter. NO "e nder will be r ece i ve d after One o ' Clock, on the D ay o f Treaty, no: - t 1: 4Y noticed, unless the Party attends, or an Agent for him duly authorised in writing. , Ey ery Tender must b e a dd resce d t o th e S ec retary of the Admi ralty, and be ar i n the left-hand corner the words " T en d e r for Can dles,"r and must also b e d e li vere d a t S omerse t•place, accompanied by tter sinned by a respo n sibl e P e rson, engaging to become bound _vrl the Person tendering , in the Sum of £ lOO for the duo perfor'mince of the Contract. . LAURENT'S CASINO, ARGYLL ROOMS.- , Lessee, CHARLES E. LAURENT, Onslow-house, Fulham - OPPri Every Evening. The Orchestra will perform, during week, " The Thistle ""Shamrock " " Carillonneur." and" wind ser-castle" Waltzes, the , " Champagne "" Carillonneur: and "Marco Spada," 13,,LersCirque ,,, Faridondaine" Quadrilles. Admission, Is. O , IT open at Half-past Eight ; dancing to commence at Nine clock, and to terminate at Half-past Eleven. S. WOODIN'S SOIREES • COMIQUES.—THIS EVENING, at Eight o'clock , , , A IDE-STREET, WEST STRAND.— W. S. WOODIN S C ARPET b • - BAG and SKETCH-BOOK, open for public inspection, eleg an eccentric Entertalnment of as entirely novel nature, 4 , Kr ative of the m en an d manners o f th e age. All parents 17,1a_uardia funny ns n:nst av take their young folks to see Mr. Woodin nis trestissements."—Spnday Times, December 19. oh 7e . have had nothing at all comparable since the days of old rStalls,l M atthevrs.—Sun, Oct. 26.—Admission, Is.; Reserved Seats r to . R e 3B 4 Private Boxes, 1/. is. 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PHILIP HENRY BYRNE, secretary. 42 . ltoorgate-greet, Jan. 28, 1853. ••••-•._ Commission allowed to Solicitors and others. ---------- GR AVESEND ST A Gm PACKETS, Th: , ,s e cal r Packets lat the Grays, Greenhithe, and Purileet " r ackets call at the Piers a s underlined (weather permitti PROM TERRACE PIER, GRAVESEND, Te rrace tier. Time. 1 -6 `l4 8% 1 - evOknibTsreas-1-4ofmrl th en lillt„Yjuarter o WRAP lowing Trains le Boats marked t tehurch-street Station to all parts of Lol or. F, BLACKWALL, on the arrival of thi from the Fenehurch•street Station. \..._..._.......2.______VEE, DAYS. SUNDAYS. 6'' L i 4• . . 2 0 I ltlie. 0t) Il i .; , 4 4"; • qt ) i•E' 'l 78 . e , 4 , .1 i Time. i:. 7 ,., " 0 1 . . ,s 1 it ), 0 8 f 4 t.: - 0 8 ...,... 0 A 0 X 91 4 ..... 11 --- 914 12114 -- 11 21 --- ... s, \ .3 1 Passages marked a are run direct. or f rom Fore Cabin. Saloon. gra va llr ovesend and I ondon.. •••• • • • • 10d. .. Is. 2d. - "Wec n ,;-,' - golid and Illackw j all or Woolwich Bd. .. 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AGREAT CHANGE or a REVERSIBLE WENTER.—Not "once upon a thne," but at the present time, Christmas day and St. Valentine's day have changed places, the former being moister than many people wished, and the latter too chilly to keep Cupid's embers glowing ; but happily for every one, Ladies or Gentlemen, Merchants or Mechanics, the Dress manufac tured by E. MOSES & SON is in all senses suitable for the change —its strength and neatness, its style and workmanship, its quality and price, still leading onward, under the attention and patronage of the Public. ♦ GUIDE TO PURCHASERS. OVERCOATS, in several hundreds of styles, comprehending speci mens of the Tailoring art which have no eminterpart in the Trade these are novel and gentlemanly costume—they are made to Fit with correctness and comfort—they are cat from superior materials, and finished in the best aid firmest way—they are sold at much lower prices than are charged elsewhere, and have had more pa tronage than any previously manufactured. SPORTING DRESS, proof against cold, damp, and wet—is easy in all exercises—its quality is proved superior to any as yet produced, and it is charged according to E. MOSES & SON'S uniform low scale of prices. MECHANICS' WORKING DRESS, serviceable, warm, and comfortable, and free from every imperfection which appears in working clothing manufactured by others. The LADIES, whose judgment is HOSIERY, FURS, and cloth ing for themselves and children cannot be doubted, are politely re quested to it spect the novel Stock of Goods offered at the Establish ment of E. MOSES & SON. The prices in all articles are lower than at any house in the world. EMIGRATION TO AISTRALIA. All emigrants find London the best port for embarkation to the lind of gol ten realities. All Emigrants have likewise found E. MOTES & SON'S OUTFITS the most advantageous, and thosewho p ocured them previous to their voyage, have had more comfort and success than any of their compeers ; indeed, the' benefits they have reaped in the quality and price of the goods are said to have equalled the most fortunate "diggings." To sspply all Emigrants with OUTFITS and CLOTHING, with every other requisite, E. MOSES & S9N keep a separate depart ment in these great Business Establi.hments, where the best and cheapest goods can be selected by All classes now intending to emigrate. Ship sailing information, and full lists of Outfits for ladles and gentlemen, may be had on application, or post free, to any part of the kingdom. CAUTION.—E. MOSES and SON regret haying to guard the public against imposition, haying learned that the untradesman-like falsehood of " Being connected with their Establishment," or " It's the same concern," has been resorted to in many instances, and for obvious reasons, they beg to state that they hays No CONNEXION WITH ANY OTHER HOUSE IN OR OUT OF LONDON, except their own Establishments, as follows :—' London City Establishment, 154, 155, 156, and 157, Minories, 83, 84,85, and 86, Aldgate, opposite the Church, all communicating. London West-end Branch, 506, 507, 508, New Oxford-street, 1,2, 3, Hart-street, all communicating. Bradford (Yorkshire) Branch, 19 and 20, Bridge-street. Sheffield Branch, 36, Yargate. Merchant Tailors, Clothiers, Hatters, Hosiers, Furriers, B oot and Shoe Makers, and General Outfitters for Ladies and Gentlemen. I M PORTANT.—ShouId any article not give satisfaction, it will be exchanged if desired, or, if preferred, the money will be returned without hesitation. All goods are marked in plain figures, the lowest price, from which ne abatement can be made. The Establishments are closed from sunset Friday Jo sunset on Saturdays, when business is resumed till 12 o'clock. A new Book, entitled " The World's Pharos," containing the Emigrant's Assistant, full list of prices, and directions for self-mea surement, may be had on application, or post-free, to any part of the kingdom. A handsome Almanacs for no year ending 1853 can be had gratis, on application. Ici I'on parle Franca's. Hier siricht man Deutsch. Qui si parla Italiano. Aqua se habla Espanol MEDICAL ADVICE MATUR AND OUT ON THE SECRET IT INFIRMITIES OF YOUTH Y. DR. SAMUEL LA'MERT, $7, BEDFORD-SQUARE, LONDON, Loctor of Medicine, and Matriculated Member of the University of Edinburgh, Honorary Member of the London Hospital Medical Society, Licentiate of Apothecaries' Hall, London, &e., &c. AY be consulted, personally, or by letter, on V I_ the various disorders of the nervous and generative system, resulting from juvenile irregularities and excesses, which have pro duced more misery in youth, degradation in manhood, and prema ture decay at all stages of life, than perhaps any other class of dis eases known to modern pathologists. Long and practical experience in the treatment of these diseases has proved that there are in exist ence secret causes of self-acquired miseries and disappointed hopes in existence, traceable to certain pernicious habits, to which Nervous Debility, various forms of Insanity, Unhappy and which N Impotency, Local and Constitutional Weakness, and their endless modifications owe their almost entire origin. It is absolutely necessary that all men should know that there are principles of personal management which cannot be violated wittmut incurring grievous penalties, and when wisdom and regret succeed the heyday ,of inconsiderate self-indulgence, how these penalties may be mitigated, how the sting of their bitterness may be remove i, and how the evil and its con zequences may be avoided, and above all, that there is ocarcely any degree of physical infirmity or functional derangement to which the timely aid of science cannot apply a cure. DOCTOR LA'MERT has for a long series of years been engaged in an extensive practice in the treatm Physician e delicate com plaints, and is the only legally qualified who, regardless of the taunts and envy of the hypocritical and mock-modest, has had the confidence, through the medium of the public press, to direct attention to these enormous evils, from which no he has grade of een society mply is tree. In selecting thl 4 dep artment of practice, b a ram arded by the great success that has attended his efforts in the treatment of these cases, wh ich are too generally co onfiheir file r piratedto the care of unqualified and ignora nt empirics, who, with t puhlications, assumed foreign names and titles, and pretended virtues of their patent nostrums, have inflicted serious injury o from n those w have been induced to place faith in their ps. At home for consultation daily front E l ev en till Two, vice and and Six till Eight. All letters mast contain th e fee of It, and ad medicines can be forwarded to any initials or address. It is desirable that patients wishing to consult D. LA'MERT should first obtain a copy of his work on SELF-PRESERVATION.' A Medical Treatise on the Philosophy of Marriage, and Nervous and Generative Debility, illustrated by fifty coloured engravings, and des cribing in detail the various disorders resulting from secret habits and excesses. The perusal of this treatise will assist in the correct description of their cases, and may be had, price 2s Gd, in English, French, Spanish, Dutch, Italian, or German, of Messrs. Piper Paternoster-row; Hannay, 63, Oxford - s treet ; B r oilers and Co., 23, Mann, 39, Cornhill ; Titchborne-street, Haymarket; or free oy pow for forty-two stamPstto any address from the Author's resi dence, 37, BEDFORD-WARE, LONDON. IMPORTANT MEDICAL AND SURGICAL WORKS, Just published, by 11. Banner°, 219, Regent-street, Londos , No I. live., in cloth. price Is. by post free, ss. 6d., (AN TRUE & FALSE SPERMATORRH(EA, y with the Views o the Correction of wide-spread Errors in relation to the Treatmeat and Cure of Sufferers from Debility of the Generative System, or Sexual Hypochondriasis. Translated from the German of Dr. PICKFORD "Dr. Pickford ts known to English readers by his frequent practi cal contributions to German medical literature. This is the first time, he informs us, that he has addressed himself to the non-medi cal reader. We trust this may not be the last, if he shall detect any other equally flagrant evil which it may be in his rower to correct."--London Medical Gazette, May 30, 1851. "We uromised In a former number that we should recur to this *wr's, in order to exhibit its aim more clearly. The author lashes wi grat severity the impostors who make a livelihood by preying en there edulity of the public. The tribe of 'Quiet Symathisers,' and • Medical Friends; are metcilessly exposed ; and if this book could find its way into the hands of those who saffer from th com plaint of which it treats, we are satisfied that many h indreds would to saved much needless suffering of body and mind, and what is of less importance, though it is that which the quacks most prize— muco money ...... This volume is well qualified to put an end to the empirical system of treating Spermatorrhcea, and to place the treat ment upon a more rational and physiological basis. It is, therefore, likely to do much good."—Medical Circular, Juno 16, 18 52 . No. IL Bvo., in cloth, price 3s. 6d., by post free, 45., THE CURE OF STRICTURE OF THE URETHRA, on Pend. plea at once Simple, Safe, and Effis.cient, in even its most inveterate a apparently Intractable Form BY F. B. COURTENAY, Member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. "In proof of his views h ams( Mr. Courtenay) has given he history of a great many succe,ssfully treated, as bad as any which Dlr. Syme adduced, and on which he had operated. Such are cases ix., xi., , and %Till. No. ix. had res sted, for a removedperiod of twelve In a sm a m a ny years,yweeks.t h etreatmentß u t c a s e s by x diviiiiit.aantioan,xixan.dawasli finally in duration, severity, and complication of syn,ptoms, of s pear, e ag , gravated character than any detailed by Mr. Syme, and yet th 3 treatment adopted by Mr. Courtenay proved eminently saccessflil." —Professor Wars on the Treatment of Stricture' IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS-(YESTERDAY.) The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the Wool sack at five o'clock. Lord VERULAM presented petitions from St. Albans and Sudbury, against the tax imposed on coals entering those towns by the corporation of London. Lord CAMPBELL presented a petition from Edin burgh against the University Tests in Scotland. Lord BEAUMONT presented a petition from Rungo Bapojee, praying that the heir of the Rajah of Sattara should have his property restored to him, or that the petition should be referred to the committee on Indian territories. • The Earl of CARLISLE presented several petitions from the Isle of Wight, and other places, in favour of the distribution of Parliamentary papers to literary in stitutions. The Earl of DERBY presented several petitions against any interference with the clergy reserves in Canada. SUITORS IN CHANCERY RELIEF BILL. Lord ST. LEONARDS moved the second reading of this bill, and suggested that it be referred to a select committee. The LORD CHANCELLOR thought that referring the bill to a select committee was the only expedient course that could be adopted ; but in assenting to the second reading for that purpose, he wished to be under stood as not assenting to all its details. After a short discussion the bill was read a second time. LAW OF LUNACY. The Lunacy Regulation Bill, the Lunatic Asylums Bill, and the Lunatics Care and Treatment Bill were severally read a wend THE BANKRUPTCY BILL. This bill was also read a second time. CRIMINAL LAW AMENDMENT BILL. On the motion for the second reading of this bill, Lord CAMPBELL said he trusted that a change would be introduced into the bill to postpone its coming into operation until the whole of the new code of the criminal law was completed. Lord ST. LEONARDS did not agree in the propriety of delaying the operation of the bill until the entire criminal law was codified. He thought the better course would be to let it become law at once, for the experience which would be acquired as to its working would ma terially assist those who were engaged in digesting the remainder of the criminal law. After a few words from Lord LYNDHURST, the LORD CHANCELLOR, and Lord BROUGHAM, the bill was read a second time. It was agreed that all the aboYe bills should be re ferred to a select committee, which was thereupon ap pointed. THE WAR WITH AVA. The Earl of ELLENBOROUGH said he was afraid he would find it somewhat difficult to attract their lordships' attention to a question of Indian policy and war, after the had been occupied with matters connected with the do mestic policy of this country. He must, however, endea vour shortly to explain the position in which the British Government now stood with regard to the Court of Ava, and before he put the first question of which he had given notice —namely, whether her Majesty's Government had any objection to lay before the house a letter from the Secret Committee of the Court of Directors of the East India Company to the Governor-General of India in Coun cil, dated in September, 1829, giving instructions as to the line of operations in any future war with Ava, he thought it right to state under what circumstances that dispatch originated. At that time he was president of the Board of Control, and various matters came before him connected with the then recent war in Ava. He had occasion to be come acquainted with the great force employed, with the great losses sustained, and with the enormous expense incurred, which, according to the statement of the then chairman of the Court of Directors, amounted, he be lieved, to something like 12,000,0001. All these matters came before him, and he thought, considering that they had obtained a very extended knowledge of the country, of its resources, and of its geography, and that the war had been one of so important a character that it was extremely desirable, and indeed necessary, that he should place all the information he possessed before the late Duke of Wellington, who was then at the head of the Govern ment, and obtain that noble duke's authoritative instruc tions as to the line of operations which should be adopted in the event of their being at any time forced to make war upon Ava again. Accordingly he placed before the Duke of Wellington all the information and papers bearing most materially upon the subject. The noble duke considered the matter, and was kind enough to communicate to him (the Earl of Ellenborough) his opinion in detail, and that opinion was conveyed to the Government of India in the dispatch to which his question referred. He (the Earl of Ellenborough) was not aware whether his noble friend would consent to lay that dispatch before their lordships, and therefore ho would not further refer to it ; but this he thought he was at liberty to say, that the course of opera tions which had been lately adopted by the Government of India was not the course described in the Duke of Wel lington's instructions. Another thing he thought he might venture to assume, recollecting all that he had read of the opinions of the late Duke of Wellington, and the many conversations he had had with that noble duke, especially in connexions with the war in China—namely, that it was impossible the Duke of Wellington could have sanctioned and approved of the course of operations which had been adopted. He (the Earl of Ellenborough) said so on this ground, that he thought it quite impossible that the Duke of Wellington could have approved of a plan of operations which involved the necessity of employing troops along the internal waters of a great empire, at a considerable dis tance from their ships, without the assistance of animals, and therefore without the means of movement upon the land. He held it to be impossible that the Duke of Wel lington could have approved of such a system of opera tions, because he knew that if the noble duke had done so, he would have given an opinion directly inconsistent with every opinion he had ever heard from that noble duke. Now, he would refer for an instant to the details they had received the other day with regard to the operations for the relief of Pegu, and it would at once be seen that those ope rations proved the impolicy of attempting to carry on a war with troops destitute of animals, and, therefore, with out means of movement. A large number of troops, by the orders of the general, were conveyed on board several steamers to Pegu ; and in the course of two or three days he collected twenty-five carts. The general applied the animals at his disposal to drawing these carts with six days' provisions, and had then no animals whatever loft to draw his guns. The army proceeded, without guns, without animals, and drove the enemy before them. In the course of three days they marched twenty-four miles. The general had then done , the enemy little injury, for they constantly ran away and avoided contact with his troops ; he had no means of fol lowing up the successes he had obtained, and the breaking down of a cart laden with beef and biscuit crippled his re sources, and rendered it impossible for him to proceed. Whatever might be the coolness under fire of that officer —whatever might be the courage and discipline of his troops, he (Lord Ellenborough) held it to be im p ossible, with troops' so ill-provided, to subdue an Empire ; and yet that was apparently the object of the Government of India. What had happened at Pegu might happen else where • but let their lordship s c onsid e r wit h how much greater' loss, if the distance from our resources was greater than on this occasion. He knew it would be recollected by their lordships that we at last succeeded in obtaining success in China, and c ompelling the Emperor of China to su bmit to the terms whic h we dictated to him, and that we effected that object by troops with very limited means of carriage. No doubt we did, but observe the difference. In the early stages of that war islands were taken, towns were taken, armies wore defeated with great loss, and the enemy suffered greatly, but no impression whatever was produced on the Government of China until the whole character of the war was completely changed—until our resource s were concentrated on one point and brought to bear on the mouth of the Great Canal, so as to interrupt all the great commercial operations of the emp i re . When that was done we undoubtedly suc ceeded ; but had we the same means of success in the war with Ava ? Was there any point on which it was possi -ble we could concentrate our forces so as to produce the same effect ? Or, even if we could do so, could we expect to produce the same result when dealing with a barbarous usurper, acting at the head of a barbarous people, as when we were dealing with the hereditary Sovereign of a civil ised and wealthy people? One of the great difficulties of a war like this was, that a barbarous people did not act on the ordinary- considerations which swayed the councils of a civilised people. The former usually acted more from. p i _ a c 4 o i r s o n n than a tottdtlhy e differentla t t e r. system u b fr t e o dl m y, thatif we whichh a b h e a e d n baecein prese resent war—if we had been resting, we had been keeping open our communication with our own ghave one,d on our provinces in Arracan,—if had placed an army of 7,000 or 8,000 men a n s followedprovinces , woeought d u r i a ton n d the on the Irrawaddy , nearly at equal distances from Ava and • our Rangoon, with pe rfect means of moving 11troops, so as to be able to e ffect any purpose required from them in the war ; no doubt, if we had done that, we should have had a better chance of success than we could possi bly have in contending with the enemy under such diffi culties as we had been doing. But that was not the cour se which had been adopted. (Hoar.) Before he pro ceeded further , he be gg ed to place before their lord ships, as far as he could, a statement of the present posi -Ith oftion the armthe y e a h t ad wh ta a k t e h n e was pains to going to state was not far from the truth ; he calculated ascertain facts, and an pr t he of b l e n li d e i v a et . 11 that about the 4th of January . General Godwin would have arrived at Promo. He would have there about 4,800 men (of whom 200 would be cavalry), with 16 guns, of which he believed not more than 10 were horsed and capable of being moved. He could not find a trace of his having any ani mals whatever for the purpose of moving provisions or am munition. He regretted to say, too, that out of the 4,800 men, one-fifth were in the hospital. The men were dying six, eight, and ten a day of cholera ; and no wonder. It appeared that fora long time after they arrived they sub sisted entirely on salt provisions, and it was only when they came to occupy the right bank of the river that they got fresh meat supplied to them. On the left bank of the river they were actually invested by the enemy. There was a continued line of six miles of stockade, by which the ene my shut them in, with a jungle of two miles and a half be tween them 44 the stockade. Behind that immense line of stockade there were three other stockades, all to be attacked by the troops before they could meet the main body of the enemy. If they deducted the 800 or 1,000 men in the hospital, and at least 500 more who must re main to protect the hospital and such stores as they had, General Godwin would not be able to move out with more than 3,500 men ; and he believed, that with the exception of having animals to move his guns, he had no means what ever of moving his forces. In the event of these forces succeeding and taking the stockades,--which, if the enemy fought at all, must be a work attended with severe loss, — how was it to be expected that forces so limited in amount, mid already so seriously affected by sic:mess, would be able at last to march upon Ave, as was the dream of those who looked at the subject from a distance ? In Arracan-there were 500 men employed in making a road to. the top of the pass which leads from Arracan to the Irrawaddy. The officer commanding these men reported that he could not make the road in less than three months, that there was a steep mountain with a stockade which it was impossible to take, and that there was not a single commissariat officer to provide supplies for his troops. The consequence was, that that officer was actually raising supplies on his own credit. Such was the state of the force employed to make the road by which animals were to get to the valley of the Irrawaddy. That road was perfectly well known to us. A regiment of Madras troops came back to India by it. We were in possession of the most mi nute details respecting it ; and the fact was that there was not the slightest difficulty in throwing troops over army moveable and occupying that pass on th e very first day of the war ; but, now that we had a ll owe d t h e pass t o b e so strongly fortified, it would b e a ma t ter o f grea t diffi cu lt y d s out s, animalsto take i to t ; m an ak d e , eventhe rm if wye wereoveahpieretpd there were no troops to escort th em. At R angoon th ere might be about 2,000 men, be s id es 1 , 100 t o swee p th e that sen pass, country ; that was to say, there were less than 3,500 men left below ; and, in consequence of the unfortunate mea sure of the occupation of Pegu, he did not think it pos sible, while that measure was adhered to, that one man could be sent from the lower part of the river' as a rein forcement. And this was the moment—when our army was in, this condition } before dyed at an ao. as t o, serious 'This on the enemy—Vhis was the moment which had been selected to declare the annexation of the province of Pegu, which we did not occupy, and of inti mating our intention, if our proposals were not acceded to, of moving upon Ava ! That was a very grandiloquent proclamation ; but, unfortunately, there did not exist a force sufficient to enable us to carry it into execu tion. If General Godwin and the Government had confined their attention in the Present campaign to the possession of the province of Pegu, and had attacked from the rear the Burmese who occupied the pass at Arracan, so as to complete our communication with our provinces on the Irrawaddy, he would not say that in the following campaign it would not have been a perfectly feasible measure, and that we could have performed the operation of subjugating that power if it were thought to be necessary. It not for him (Lord Ellenborough), who knew the strength of the Indian army and the resources of the country, to say that any measure which was was ordered by the Government here was in capable of being executed there but, with a vi ew t o suc cess, in all military operations, time, previous preparation, and much consideration were required, and no army what ever could effect great purposes in war which was not per fectly provided with the means of moving, and of these the army to which he was now referring had literally none. (Hear, hear.) And here he begged to ask whether it was advisable that we should annex the province of Pegu at all ? If the annexation of Pegu were possible, could we stand there? The fact was, there was no frontier, no range of mountains, not the slightest line of demarkation. Even if it were possible for us to obtain possession of the coun try by treaty with the King of Ava, could we look forward being able to maintain it without further conflict ? He believed it was impossible for us in that case to avoid further conflict. And to what would that lead us? To the occupation of the whole of the kingdom, and thus place us upon the internal frontier of China, as well as to a considerable extent upon that of the King of Siam. We had made, of late years, many annexa tions to the empire of India, but he had no hesitation in saying that, while some of these had produced the greatest possible advantage to us in a military point of view, they had been of no material benefit to us in other respects, but even the military advantageslwould be denied, as in the case of Ava. In the case of the interior of India all the troops at the various provinces could be easily available for the protection of any one province that might require their ser vices, but from Ava it would be impossible to withdraw the troops, which would be found necessary to keep possession of it. Ava was out of India, and was altogether uncon nected with it. This was the first time the Government had desired to extend the empire in that direction. We could not occupy Ava without alarge military force, even if we confined ourselves to the occupation of Pegu without a considerable addition of force. Without this it would be impossible to diminish the number of officers in the regular regiments by appointing them, as we did now, to political and civil offices. It would be necessary, therefore, to add several regiments for the purpose of procuring more officers. Already during the present war no fewer than 22 officers had been taken from their regiments, and placed in political situations. At least four European and eight native regiments would be absolutely necessary, even if we confined ourselves to the occupation of Pegu ; but we must go further—we must occupy the whole kingdom of Ava ; and, he had told their lordships with what countries they would, in that case, come into contact, and how great was the danger that some apparent or pretended necessity would be found of going yet further. There was another consideration which their lordships ought not to dismiss from their minds,—that was, the manner in which they would carry on the Government of Ave. In the case of the previous annexations which had taken place in India they could bring from any part of the country persons conversant with the habits and lan guage of the people ; but the language of Ava was different from any known in India, and how could they conduct the Government of a conquered country with anything like satisfaction to themselves, when they could not find a single individual to assist them able to speak its language ? (Hear, hear.) When he looked at the magnitude of the operations in which we were now engaged, at the annexa tion of a province which we did not really occupy, at the threat to occupy an empire and dethrone a Sovereign, if our demands were not acceded to; when he looked at the expen diture which had been already incurred in the war—not less at the present time, he apprehended, and from the com mencement of the war, than 130,0001. a month—remember ing the expense of the war in China, he might even say 150,0001. a month; when he considered that we had already detached from India 15 regiments, besides artillery —that we occupied the whole steam force of India, besides a portion of that belonging to her Majesty ; when he looked forward to the prospect of more extended operations being necessary to carry into effect the great object to which we had now pledged our honour by that unfortunate procla mation ; when he remembered that the original causes or pretexts that had been put forward in its justification were two little injuries inflicted on British subjects, the details of which were adopted, according to the statement of the parties complaining, without any inquiry whatever by im partial persons—two little insults, as they were called, in flicted upon those persons, who went to the Governor of Rangoon with a letter from the Governor-General of India, —the first provoked by the recklessness witli which they acceded to the proposition to go two and a half miles in the middle of the day to the Governor of Rangoon—a circum stance which would at all times be certain to call forth dis respect—and the second provoked and rendered necessary by persisting in going to the Governor when he had dis tinctly told them that .he would n o t rece i ve the m i ss i on a t all ; when he considered that the whole amount of the ori ginal damage was said to be 900/. ; when he remem bered that we had seized a ship of 900 tons burden, which was surely equal in value to the amount of the damage ; when he considered how the presence of five of our ships in their river might have been considered by the Burmese as an injury and an insult, at least equal to that which we said we received —when he remem bered all these things, he confessed it was most painful to see the great and lamentable consequences which had arisen from a cause so small. (Hear.) This was not the first oc casion on which differences had arisen with the Burmese Government from supposed injuries to British subjects, and supposed disrespect to.the British flag; but on former occa sions the good sense of the Government had so acted as to prevent the collision which had taken pla in the present instance. It was well known that on this occasion the King of Ava did not desire war, and that he had made no prepa ration for it—that, whatever injury or insult had been in flicted on us, the notion of acting hostilely towards us never entered his head. When he remembered this—and remembered also that on former occasions our disputes with that Government had been settled in an amicable manner, so as to avoid hostilities, he confessed it was with deep re gret that he had seen on this occasion a course pursued so entirely contrary. The Government, he was aware, were Rot answerable for the proclamation to which he referred. They must, and we all must, adhere to it and abide by its consequences; but at least he desired, if possible, to hear from the noble lord what were his views of our position with regard to the Government of Ava, and in what man ner we could best extricate ourselves. (H ear. ) The Earl of ABERDEEN—My noble friend asks us whether we have any objection to lay before the house a letter from the secret committee of the Court of Directors of the East India Company to the Go vernor-General of g war with instruc= India a i sn to Council, thedatedne of o in po S r e a p ti te oo m s ber, in a l o B y 2o f , u g :.ure v i n Ava. Now, although I believe it has . scarcely ever been customary to produce any dispatch from the Secret Com mittee, I am not disposed to withhold the dispatch which is now asked for ; for, although it may be a document pos sessing some historical interest, I think it is one of little practical utility. That dispatch was written 25 years ago, on a supposed event which might take place, - viz., the re newal of a war with Ava. Now, your lordships will see that in this lapse of time many events may have hap pened to render completely inappropriate' any line of conduct prescribed in a dispatch of so old a date— (hear, hear)—and therefore, although, as I have said, it may be matter which may interest your lordships to pos sess the opinions of the illustrious man refeired to by my noble friend, expressed as they are in the laigu age of my noble friend who has just spoken, I still must consider it a matter of mere historical curiosity, and no; one of prac tical utility. I have therefore no object* to produce the dispatch. My noble friend has also asked whether her Majesty's Government are prepared to lay before the house any papers explanatory of the preient objects of the war with Ave, and of the measures whieby it i s pro posed to attain such objects. These paper, her Majesty's Government are prepared to lay before the house, and from them I believe my noble friend will obtain all the in formation lie requires. I believe that the pa ers now upon the table bring down the operations to the'end of March; and those which are about to be produced will include the latest papers which refer to the annexation of the province of Pegu, and the proclamation to which my noble friend has referred. My noble friend has another motion upon the paper to which he has not adverted—viz., to move for an account of the expense already incurred lit the war with Ava, and an estimate of the probable expense to be i ncurre d in the current year. That of course, will be complied with, so far as it is in the power of the Government to do so. e My noble friend has entered into a very , 1 , 4ii - and minute criticism of the objects of the war, and the detailed con duct of the operations which have taken place. Your lord ships are aware that her Majesty's present Government are strangers to the whole of the policy and execution of that war up to the present time. Her Majesty's late Government, I apprehend, gave their general appro bation to that policy, and to the conduct of the war. I am not disposed to dissent from that policy, or to withhold the approbation which the late Government expressed. My noble friend has animadverted upon the annexation of the province of Pegu. My lords, have great reliance upon the discretion, judgment, and expe rience of my noble friend the present Governor-General of India, and I believe that he would not have adopted a step of that description without very mature consideration and a perfect conviction that he was acting in accordance with his duty. That annexation, like many other of our proceedings in India, has been reluctantly adopted. Ever since I had a seat in this house I remember that every Governor-General who has left this country has gone out with professions of a most pacific policy, and a desire to abstain from anything like war or aggrandisment of terri tory • yet I believe that there has not been a single Gover nor-General who has not found himself engaged more or less in war. (Hear, hear.) In the present instance I have no doubt that my noble friend has been led by the neces sities of the case to extend the sphere of his warlike opera tions, for, as your lordships know very well, an enterprise, whatever may be its primary objects and intentions, ne cessarily undergoes great changes and modifications in the course of its progress. My noble friend, opposite has also referred to the various military operations of General Godwin, and to the different movements of his army. I am unable to form a judgment of the propriety, wisdom, or military skill displayed by the officers and men en gaged in the war. I make no such pretensions. I know perfectly well the ability and power of military criticism , possessed by noble friend opposite, and very likely - there may be some reason for the criticism. in which he has indulged. Upon that I confess I have no opinion, but I believe that the Governor-General is fully as well able to form a just opinion of those proceed ings as my noble friend opposite, and, therefore, having complete reliance upon his judgment and knowledge, I do not feel inclined to come to any different opinion from that which he expressed. As I said before her Majesty's present Government do not feel called upon to engage in any manner in discussing the propriety of the mea sures which have taken place. In general terms, I ac quiesce in the opinion which has been expressed by the late Government upon the subject, and in the eulogies which were passed by them upon the Governor-General. (Cheers.) The Earl of DERBY said his noble friend near him, and the noble earl opposite, had both reminded him that her Majesty's present Government were not rosposible for tho course of policy which had been pursued with reference to the proceedings in Ava. He readily admitted to the noble earl opposite, while he rejoiced that he did not differ in opinion from the late Government, that for that policy and course of proceeding the 'noble earl and his colleagues were in no respect responsible, but that he (the Earl of Derby) and his colleagues were alone distinctly and directly responsible for that policy. They were not responsible, indeed, for the commencement of those operations, or for the original cause, since it had taken place previously to their accession to office ; but he had no hesitation in entering into an exami. nation of the justification which his noble friend the Gover nor-General had sent of his first proceedings, in sanctioning the course which he had felt it necessary to adopt, and in coming to the conclusion that, reluctantly as he had been compelled to undertake hostile operations against Ava, the amount of insult, if not the extent of individual injury dhne to British subjects was such, that if it were felt ne cessary to maintain the prestige of the British character in India, and to guard ourselves from future insult and in jury, they must not be allowed to pass unnoticed. His noble friend had stated very truly that this was not the first offence which had been offered by the Burmese. It was not because a loss had been sustained by a British merchant to the extent of 9001. that we had been com pelled to demand of the governor of Rangoon, first, and of the King of Ave afterwards, reparation for the in- suit and injury which had been inflicted upon a British sub- ject ; but it was because, from the year 1826, a succession of encroachments and insults had gradually deprived us of all the benefits which had resulted from the last war with Burmah, had driven our Minister from that post which he had been directed to hold, and had gradually deprived us of all the advantages which we had won. Each successiv e . . insult had been tamely acquiesced in, perhaps from neces sity, by the Government of the day. But it was the con tinued succession of those injuries and insults which had at length made it incumbent upon the Governor-General not to pass them over. Without discussing the merits of this particular case, he did not hesitate to say, that when the papers should be produced, they would completely bear out the assertion that, unwilling as the Governor-General had had recourse to hostilities, it was impossible for him to have avoided them, and that, having entered upon them, it was necessary to carry them vigorously forward. At the commencement of these hostilities, the troops, with very little difficulty and delay, occupied successively the the forts of Rangoon and Martaban, and a further advance made upon Pegu. Our troops were regarded by the po pulace, not as enemies, but as deliverers, come to rescue them from an oppressive yoke. They were received as guests and friends, and every necessary was suppli e d t o them. The period then arrived at which it was ne cessary for the Governor-General to come to a deter mination as to how far he should consider that suffi cient reparation had been taken from the King of Ave, and what should be the further operations to be undertaken. The Governor-General, in a dispatch, which he presumed the noble earl would immediately lay on the table of the house, entered very largely into the various measures which it might be practicable for him to pursue in order to obtain sufficient reparation for the past and security for the future. There were three courses which appeired to be open to the Governor-General, the nature of which he transmitted for the opinion and advice of her Majesty's home Government. The first was, with drawing from the advanced position which he then occu pied, and doing nothing more than taking possession of Martaban and Rangoon, thereby occupying the forts at the entrance of the two great rivers - , the Irrawaddy and the Thaleain, and thus exercising a great and important in fluence over the commerce of the country. To that course of proceeding several objections manifestly presented them selves. In the first place, according to the feeling of all Indian nations, a retreat from a position once occupied was never regarded as a proof of moderation, but as an evidence of fear and inability to hold our own. A second objection was, that the inhabitants of the town and neighbourhood of Pegu, who had welcomed us as deliverers, would be, when deserted by us, immediately exposed to the san guinary vengeance of the Burmese. The third objection was, that the occupation of those forts of Martaban and Rangoon would require as large an amount :of military force as the occupation of the whole province, presuming upon the friendly disposition of the inhabitants. That, then, was the first course which was open. The second course was the annexation of Pegue up to the town of Promo, without seeking to have that annexation confirmed or assented to by any treaty on the part of the King of Ava. The third course was that of annexing that which we had already occupied, insisting on the confirmation of that annexation by a treaty with the King of Ave., and, failing such treaty, then to proceed to ulterior measures, even amounting to an advance upon the town of Ava itself, or to Amerapoora. His noble friend stated that for the operationt of that campaign no fitting provisions had been made; that no proper force had ben brought together; and, above all, that there were no me ans o f transport provided. All he (the Earl of -Derby) could say was, that in the dispatch to which he had re ferred the Governor-General distinctly stated the amount of force which he would require for the different opera tions, and added, that he had already given directions for levying a sufficient force to be applied to either of the three contingencies which her Majesty's Government should de termine upon having recourse to ; that it would not be ne cessary in the first instance to levy the whole of that force, but that he should, in the first instance, levy sufficient to secure the annexation and occupation of the province of Pegu, and that he taken steps for the further levy of forces, and for the supply of elephants and the proper means of transport of the larger expedition, should the home Government think it necessary t o direct an advance upon Amerapoora. Her Majesty's Government received that dispatch, containing the views entertained by the Governor-General and his Council, and the arguments pro and con, about the 17th or 18th of August, and, inasmuch as it was stated that no military operations could be taken before the latter end of November, there was ample time to receive instructions from home. He the more dwelt upon this, because he had seen it industriously circulated, in the Indian newspapers especially, that for any apparent inaction or delay, which some persons were disposed to charge upon the military authorities, her Majesty's late Government and the Court of Directors and the Secret Committee were mainly and exclusively responsible ; that active measures had been pressed upon them by the Indian Government, but that, they had been positively prohibited. That was not only not i true, but was directly the reverse of true. The dispatch in question he had already stated had been received about the 18th of August, and, as the Government then had fortunately for them the means of referring to the advice and counsel of that great authority to whom his noble friend had referred in terms of eulogy, which he could only share with every man in this kingdom, they took the opportunity of consulting with that illustrious man as to the course of proceed ing which he would advise, and of submitting to his consideration and judgment the whole of the papers, with the suggested plan of operations which had been trans mitted by the Indian Government. That period was within three weeks of the lamented death of that illustrious man, and he believed that this memorandum upon this very sub ject was almost the last document which had been prepared by him upon any public matter. It was addressed to him (the Earl of Derby) upon the 24th of August, and contained an explanation of the policy which he recommended to be pursued He was sure, after the statement which his noble friend had made, and his reference to the high au thority of the Duke of Wellington in 1829, that their lord ships would not think he was improperly trespassing on their time and attention if he read to them that which had been given to him in the form of a memorandum by the noble and gallant duke,—now, alas ! no more. (Hear, hoar.) In the first place his noble friend had commented very strongly upon the insufficient cause and origin of the war, and had contended that it had been unjustly and im properly engaged in. The first paragraph of the illustrious duke's letter said,—" It appears to me that the war could not be averted." It then went on,— " That the operations fixed upon were judicious, have been ably carried into execution, with great gallantry, by the officers and troops ; and that a commencement has been made to require from and enable the Government to consider of the means to be adopted for the restoration of peace, and tho terms on which peace should be restored. I concur with the Governor-General in thinking that it will be absolutely necessary to retain possession of all that has fallen into the hands of the British troops 'that is, Rangoon, Martaban, and even Bassein, Pegu an 4. the whole province so called. My opinion that it vall be necessary to continue the prepara- carriers. tions for carrying on the operations of the war till the Sove reign of Ave shall be convinced of the necessity of signing a treaty by the provisions of which all these dominions will be ceded to the British Government, or till the state of Ava shall be destroyed. A mere military possession of these dis tricts would be but an inglorious and little sebum result of these successful operations. I confess that lam inclined to expect that the means adopted to cut off from Ava the sup plies of corn usually received by import by sea will have the effect of producing efforts to obtain peace by negotiation ; but, if not, the British Government ought to be in a state of military preparation to advance upon Ava, to enforce the abandonment of the canital, and even of Amarapoom. It may be relied upon that the natives of the East are not better prepared than we are to abandon their dwellings in the winter, and to live in the jungles and mountains. The Government suspected of intending to take such a course would be aban doned by all its followers. At all events, the military pos session and tenure of provinces and possessions upon the sea coast would be considered in a very different light, the Go vernment of Ava being there seated in strength, as under existing circumstances ; or being driven out and weakened towards Ameerapoora, or further on in the mountains, as is supposed iu the printed papers. I conceive, therefore, that it will be necessary to assemble the large force proposed, even though it should be determined to insist upon the cession of all the maritime possessions 'of the state of Ava. These must be ceded by the stipulations of a treaty of peace, or the State must be destroyed. If, after all, the Sovereign should treat for peace in order to save his State, he must be made to pay the expenses of the war. The necessity for providing spe cially for the security of the people of Pegu, discussed in the minutes of the members of Council, appears to me to be dis posed of; but it may be relied upon that that point will have much effect in both houses of Parliament. It appears to me that the people of Pegu have already, by their conduct, ac quired the right to claim protection by stipulations of treaty, if the province should be restored to the Government of Ave, however objectionable all such provisions of treaties, as lead ing to, and rendering necessary, interference in the internal affairs of a foreign nation. The demand of the session would certainly be preferable to restoration with a stipulation of amnesty to the people of Pegu, of which it would be neces sary for the British Government to enforce the execution." He had read this memorandum for the purpose of showing that with a full knowledge of all the facts of the case— with all the papers of every description before him—with all his previous knowledge of Indian habits and manners the Duke of Wellington came to these conclusions :—First, that war could not have been averted ; next, that the ope rations proposed were judicious; next, that the measures adopted were performed with great gallantry and success ; and, lastly, that in honour to the inhabitants of Pegu, as well as in policy, we were bound not to stop short, but, unless the King of Ava ceded to us by treaty the territory we had already adopted, to advance for those larger ope rations which had been indicated by the Governor-General. He ought not, perhaps, to speak of the views entertained by himself and the other members of his Government, but he might venture to say that the advice so given by the noble and illustrious duke,—by him who had been, he un derstood, so ludicrously spoken of as having in his latter days been overcome with childish timidity and imbecility of mind and purpose—that the advice thus given by the noble and illustrious duke, so clear, so vigorous, entirely confirmed the Government as to the course which it was desirable and expedient for them to take; and they accord ingly transmitted those instructions to the Governor-Ge neral of India in consequence of which the annexation of Pegu took place, and in further consequence of which, unless an arrangement was made with the Sovereign of Pegu, or unless contrary instructions were transmitted by those who were now responsible for the management of Indian affairs, a further advance into the Burmese terri tories would take place, with means and appliances he was quite satisfied, from his knowledge and reliance upon the Governor-General, amply adequate to all the emergencies of the case. He was not prepared to discuss with his noble friend the questions of military tactics he had raised, or possible defects of judgment, in any of the officers employed. He was not compement and not called upon to do so ; but he must take the liberty of saying, that he had heard with some astonishment the statement of his noble friend that a large portion of our army in the district was suffering from sickness. His noble friend might have some later information on the subject than he himself possessed ; but certainly up to the moment when he quitted office it had been a source of most un feigned satisfaction to himself and his colleagues to receive, by each successive mail, reports of the increasing good health of the troops engaged in the service, and of the singularly small proportion of invalids in the hospitals. (Hear, hear.) Upon th e i n f orma ti on h e hi mse lf possesse d , he had no hesitation in expressinc , the conviction that the forces at the present disposal of the Governor-General were quite adequate for the purpose of occupying that pro vince, which, with the good will o f th e grea t b u lk o f th e population, had already been annexed. Whatever the dis advantages of any extension of our Indian empire, it must be admitted that this particular annexation would have the good effect of facilitating the communication between our provinces of Tenasserim and Arracan, and of strengthening their frontiers, especially those of the latter district. With reference to larger operations, should these be found neces sary, he had the fullest confidence that the Governor- General would be quite prepared with all the means and appliances for their vigorous and effective execution. (Hear, hear.) Lord 'NH ARNCLIFFE said the noble earl at the head of the Government spoke of a treaty with the King of Ava as a feature in the instructions sent out to the Governor- General, but in the proclamation of the Governor-General there was no mention made of any such treaty. Would the papers to be produced by the Government comprehend the despatches with reference to this treaty ? The Earl of ABERDEEN replied in the affirmative. The papers were then ordered to be laid on the table, and their lordships adjourned at a quarter past seven o'clock. HOUSE OF COMMONS—(YESTERDAY.) The SPEAKER took the chair at four o'clock. SOUTHAMPTON ELECTION. Mr. H. HERBERT wished to state to the house that the committee appointed to try the petition against the return of the Attorney-General and Mr. Wilcox, the members for Southampton, recommended that the in quiry should be postponed to the sth of March, in con sequence of the absence of a material witness. The postponement was agreed to. Several petitions were presented against the grant to Maynooth, and against the opening - of the Crystal Palace on Sunday. _ _ Mr. PHINN presented a petition from the University of London, praying that that university should be re presented in Parliament. Several petitions were presented from various places in favour of an augmentation of the salaries of the letter- Mr. L. KING presented a petition from certain elec tors of Norwich, who had presented a petition against the return of the sitting members for Norwich, complain ing that their petition had been withdrawn without their consent, and praying that the order discharging the peti tion might be again put on the orders of the house. The petition was read at the table. Mr. H. DRUMMOND said that if Mr. Locke King did not bring the subject matter of the petition before the house, he would do so. Sir J. PAKINGTON presented a petition from a place in Worcestershire, against the admission of the Jews into Parliament. BLACKBURN ELECTION. Mr. DEEDES brought up the report of the commit tee on the Blackburn election, and the report stated that the committee were of opinion that bribery and treating had been committed by the agents of Win. Eccles, Esq., the sitting member, and that the election was void. Lord STANLEY gave notice that he would this day fortnight make a motion with respect to colonial postage reform. Mr. OTWAY moved for copies of all dispatches, mi nutes, or other documents (not already laid before Par liament) relating to the attempts of Dhackjee Dadajee to bribe the Bombay Government and its servants, &c. Agreed to. A. PELLATT gave notice that he should at an early day move for a select committee to inquire into the advisability of substituting declarations for oaths in courts of law. Lord STANLEY gave notice that he should on Tues day fortnight bring forward a motion with respect to colonial postage. Sir H. MADDOCK presented a petition from the Hindoo inhabitants of Bengal, Behar, and Orissa, for themselves and the other Hindoo inhabitants of the said provinces, complaining of the operation of an act passed last year. AUSTRALIAN MAILS. Mr. K. SEYMER asked the First Lord of the Ad miralty whether it is the intention of her Majesty's Go vernment:to take any steps,with a view to enforce the due and more punctual performance of the existing contract for the conveyance of mails to Australia, via Cape of Good Hope. Sir J. GRAHAM said that the contract for the car riage of the Australian mails had not been carried out with sufficient strictness, but it was the intention of the Government to enforce punctuality for the future. CHICORY. Mr. HUME wished to ask the right hon. gentleman the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what were the inten tions of the Government with regard to the subject of the Treasury minute on chicory. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said, when he came into office the three months' had just ex pired which the trade had been allowed to get rid of their stock on hand before the minute came into opera tion. The trade was at the time in communication with the Treasury on the subject, and when he became possessed of the seals of (ace, he took up the investiga tion where it had been left off. He found that nothing had been done to put the Minute in force, and upon a reconsideration of the whole circumstances of the case, he consented so far to modify the Minute as to allow the trade to sell the article of chicory m i xe d with coffee, the article itself being distinctly labelled with a statement that it was a mixture, while in all other instances of the sale of coffee the termsof the minute were to be strictly observed. Mr. HASTIE asked if the labels were to state the pro portion of chicory and coffee. The CHANCELLOR of .the EXCHEQUER replied in the negative. Mr. BARING asked if the amended minute was to come into immediate operati on . The CHANCELLOR o f the EXCHEQUER was not aware that there was any iftiie reason for delay. Mr. HASTIE asked extended to th e d ea l ers in coffeesre privilege was to be The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER was not aware that it was possible to mix chicory with pepper ; but if the h on. gentleman mean to refer by his question t o the mi x t ure of rice with pepper, he begged to say that he could not allow any thing of that sort. Such a mixture Would be an adulteration, and a deterioration THE FOREIGN SECRETARY. Mr. CAYLEY wished to ask the noble lord the member for the City of London two questions. He wished to know in the first place, if it was true that the noble lord no longer held the seals of the Foreign-office, and secondly, if that were so, was the noble lord con nected with any office to which a salary was attached Lord J. RUSSELL said it was true that he no longer held the seals of the Foreign-office, nor did he hold any office in the Government to which a salary was attached. Mr. CAYLEY gave notice that ou an early day he should move a resolution to the effect, that a salary should be attached to the office of leader of the house. STEAM-PACKET SERVICE. In reply to Mr. H. BERKELEY, Sir J. GRAHAM said it was true that the Peninsular and Oriental Steam-packet Company had memorialised the Admiralty to be relieved from a part of their contract for carrying the mails, and the memorial was now under the consideration of a committee, of which the Postmaster- General was the chairman. PUBLIC BUSINESS. In reply to Lord J. MANNERS, Lord J. RUSSELL stated that it was proposed to take the army estimates to-morrow, the ordnance esti mates on Monday, and the Clergy Reserves of Canada Bill to-morrow week • but this latt er arrangement was not to be considered final. Mr. SPOONER—But the Clergy Reserves Bill will not be brought on before to-morrow week. Lord J. RUSSELL replied certainly not. BREACH OF PRIVILEGE. Mr. T. DUNCOMBE presented a petition from Col. Dickson, complaining of the withdrawal of the petition against the return of the sitting members for the borough of Norwich. The hon. member then proceeded to call the attention of the house to a question of privilege. His attention was draern..to this subject by an advertisement in the Times newspaper, in which Colonel Dickson stated that he was ready to proire at the bar of the house that a breach of privilege had been committed by Mr. Brown, a parliamentary agent, in withdrawing this petition. Brown was no agent at all of the petitioners, and had no right to withdraw thepetition, andg that wore the case, a decided breach of privilege had been committed. Me would therefore move that Colonel Dickson and Mr. Brown be summoned to the bar and questioned on the subject of the petition. (Hear, hear.) Mr. HUME deprecated the course his hon. friend had taken in bringing forward this motion without notice. Mr. W. PATTEN had no wish to strangle the mo tion of the hon. member, but considered that the matter would be better disposed of by a select committee. Lord J. RUSSELL considered that the petition should be printed, and then it could be considered by the house. The SPEAKER said that it appeared to him at pre sent that no breach of privilege had been shown, and that the motion was out of order unless th• house decided to the contrary ; but after some conversa tion, Mr. DUNCOMBE consented to withdraw his origi nal motion, and moved that the petition be printed, with the votes, with the view of founding a motion upon it hereafter. The original motion was accordingly withdrawn, and the motion for printing the petition was agreed to. NEWRY ELECTION COMMITTEE. Mr. LASCELLES brought up the report of the Newry committee, which was that Mr. Kirk, the sitting member, had been dilly elected a burgess to serve in the present Parliament for the borough of Newry. THE AUSTRALIAN COLONIES. Sir J. PAKINGTON hoped the house would not consider that he trespassed upon their time, or that any apology was necessary from him, when he now begged permission to call their attention to the condition of our Australian colonies, and to the policy which appeared to him right to be adopted by the Imperial Government towards those colonies under the extraordinary and unexpected circum stances in which they had been placed. Since he had had the honour of a seat in that house, he had never observed that there had been any unwillingness on the part of the house to give attention to colonial affairs when brought be fore them. On the contrary, he thought that all persons interested in colonial affairs must admit that for some years past there had been a growing inclination on the part of the house to give attention to that subject, and there was no part of the colonial dominions of her Majesty which had excited greater interest, either among hon. members or in the country generally, than the colonies situated in Australia. These colonies had been always free from the difficulties which had occurred in the case of de pendencies of the Crown acquired by conquest ; they had been peopled entirely by emigrants going from these islands; their career had been one of very great prosperity; they had had the advantage of a remarkably favourable climate, upon several occasions they had attracted the at tention of that house. No longer ago than last session the b. house had devoted very considerable attention to the affairs_ of the colony of New Zealand when brought before them, and in 1850 the Government and both houses of Parliament devoted verygreat time to arranging the constitution for the colonies of Australia, unconscious at that time of the im portant discoveries which were then impending in those colonies. Towards the close of the year 1850 those extra , ordinary discoveries of gold took place which had brought about a new state of things in that country, which had stimulated the prosperity of the country to a most remark able extent, which had led to a very extensive increase in its population—emigrants from these islands and from other parts of the world—and whatever interest might have been felt by Parliament and this nation generally in the Australian colonies previously must have been, and had been, very greatly increased by those discoveries. There were no statistics which enabled him to state what had been the exact amount of gold which these colonies had produced, but he believed he should not overrate the extent of the discovery of the precious metal in the short period of one year that had elapsed, if he said that not less than 10,000,0001. sterling had been produced from these colonies in that time. Of course, this immense discovery had caused a great rush of the population of this country to those colonies, and had greatly tended to conduce to their mate rial prosperity. But he wished to guard himself against any intention, either of exaggerating the state of pros perity which these discoveries had led to, or of stimulat ing emigration from this country. On the contrary, it seemed to him very desirable that the truth should be known in this respect—(hear, hear) —it was very desirable that it should be generally known that, so far from emi grants having met with universal success, they had in many cases had to encounter very great suffering and very great misfortunes. He did not now refer to the very great sick ness and mortality which had prevailed, he was sorry to say, on board some of the emigrant ships in the course of last year. This was a subject to which the attention of Parliament had been called, and, which was well worthy the attention of the Government. (Hear.) But, irres pective of the sufferings which prevailed on board those ships, the emigrants had landed in a s t a t e o f ver y groa t Sickness and very great privation, and found they were unable to contend with the fatigues and hardships which the gold mines involved. Great sickness had followed the pursuit of the precious metal, and in many cases the emi grants found they were destined to return without the re alisation of those expectations in which they had indulged. He had no intention of saying anything either to stimulate unduly, or unduly to discourage the emigration which flowed from this country towards these attractive colonies. It was the misfortune of the late Government to hold office during the yeir when the first effect of these extraordinary discoveries upon the colonies in which they took place began to be felt. It was during last year that the full effect of the discovery of gold, with its increased prosperity and its rapidly increasing population, was felt throughout those colonies and this country. He must simply say that in his endeavour to discharge the duties of the arduous post in the late Government which it was his fortune to hold, nothing gave him more anxiety than that the remarkable crisis which had arisen should be met in a generous, liberal, wise spirit, calculated to pro mote the interest both of the colonies and of the mother country. His object therefore was on this occasion to state —and he meant to state it in no boastful spirit—the policy which the late Ministry thought it their duty to adopt with regard to the future government of these colonies, and to call, in no spirit of distrust or suspicion, upon the Go , vernment of which the noble lord was the leader in that house to state whether or not it was their intention for the future to pursue the policy . which their predecessors had commenced, or, if they intended to deviate from that policy, to state what would be the extent and nature of their deviation. In taking this course heiashstooulrydonfotthdesee tain the house by entering into the early Australian colonies. The house was well aware that the colony of New South Wales was originally entirely a con vict colony. He begged leave to show the house the rapid progress of New South Wales from the period when it might be said to have ce ase d t o be altogether a convict colony. In the year 1830 the imports into the colony of New South Wales amounted to 420 480/ , and the ex ports to 141,461/. the e po pa p sse tua d tion co l ony in tha t year b ln ein t g ha s t s,o ; : ±r . the imports in creased to 1,333,413/., and the e ove o r f 2 o s.e y w e x ar p s o , rt t0 t .w hea11Ye:3357,7841. Sout th s h showed( He (Hear.) r .) a veryH e thought the house would admi o t_tha t t e t ri bi a l prosperity. great an d very rapid increase r The gold discoveries took place towards the close of the year 1851, and the imports in that year had risen to 1,563,9311., and the exports to 1,796,9121., while the population, which in 1830 was only 55,000 had in creased to 1 97,163--in round numbers, 200,000. The im ports in 1851 amounted to Si., and the exports to about 91 ., per head of the population. This was a rate of p ros perity which, he believed, had hardly been equalled bY: any other community. A still more extraordinary incre ase ,i had, however, taken place in the colony of Victoria. et,sß2: 18 years ago that colony was an untouched wildern e ss-- not not a single civilised European settler had the n o _ d allow him him self in that great colony. But the house al perhaps oftocsetanstreanuoptobnerthfaects,tawtehisinche9he inmeviphtoimonietdrwofietrreh ndo, but rather with the object of showing .th these great foresight and wisdom had to do in so re m al e anxious to A es to b u l t is t h he s it the Government of the day on the subject, y s e e t a fl e l !! 4 n , ta t o tipersons Philip, L , Ti o applied r h d o A w b e e to n r • d w e i c o n te who ispwasstoht,then who w t ass h eer h eed e o ad weded o t f hue t p h nh e oyb Co leau l e o oar n th i l al ,einr - o w f . a th. , ten by Lord Glenelg, b e owe of which ll ddiestparthtesPihitwllwp_aso s u t t a te t d su t e h h at a no se se tt t l tl e e m m e r t t could would atiwhichn of was thoserather e o I t: . the popul atio n n g th t it would involve expense, and not be worth the tlathnetopoelixctey extend concentrateb opposed s Z e of this country. Happily for the colony, the British en terprise and spirit had anticipated the deci s i on o f th ose s t a t es men. Before their answers were received, some ` v ac tive and energetic men had established themselves at Port Philip. That was in 1835. In 1845—only 10 years half*