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t 11% () . .1 , T t 1 , 1%11 salt , R E ec N re J a o t V lo M n, E an N d T ß O a F tion L a l rte of Tjr_ne _ ; _ • , l , llo—Ex. s . o r l) lts ~,_'--arly Rising—Spring and Summer II n 1 , ...5ts .„`?lit the Environs of London—The I arks, Lan . eS. Country I,'bs m',,',,,elds, High-roads and other pleasant places t HOMO ‘llste,,lcarnbles—The Sea: —London at Night —Evenings Air, Mils — '4t, xasne Drarna--On Eating Drinking, Sleeping, Bathing, .... ; (3n enPation, se e ., & c : 'NIT.II4, 11. ••lt EN TS FROM THE ' FOUNTAINS. TWO Vol& Vol. I. To TIL E RG LAKES ; SKET CH OF EDINBUH; Bge. Tut A.... Yol.II. -A.K.ES OF KILLARNEY ; REMINISCENCES OF DIJIILIN, 86q. 111. WHAT TO ,E AT, DRINK, AND AVOID, _ VoqThat th op t n_ e reit, score years and ten our course may run." iv a r.d„,...1' View of almost every form (cause and cure) of ner ti-ted•oiti;"Ttated health and enfeebled constitution that harasses u `rs ,ia a n_ . S_ . ts the man of pleasure, business or study, and on '4 of ei c , "-d with tables and rulesfor the diet and physical zegti er ay life. THE PASSION. veguoil,ecl :IrLtiirtell: " Wh at Passions hurt the body—what improve, asi rehned as Athens f f Ver heard. prove, Tha ad zclit,e4ttilete oassins.P e l g t r ies un t a it g y e, an fr its li n t f .! i n n c e y ee o dag tent. The . casualties ~ ai m , Ila _ ' l eas and dissipation, with illustratbuis, graphic, uarra •vrnediative. Advocacy of early marriages. V. P k ' THB MARRIAGE STATE. tin_ 0ex,,,,.._ . To be or not to be, thatis the uestion." ,h"4l,,reg,r3i7,E.,iLaws and obligations of nature, society, and relid -111:a, ell b o ' '' 4 aa r.riage, to be observed by either sex. Time an Pt, . tc, 8, ' ai des, as to ago temperament, complexion, and Yste,t ~_.eure h -ealthy offsrin with the art of rearing them. -aka, &nm.lectiveness and Its removal. Sterility and its conversion . ~ - (42,;'•,1, 00.1?„... kat,4 B. Twent,. RWELL, M.D. (1841), M.R.C.S. (1827), L.S.A. 4-i 've Years Medical and Forensic Referee in there 11 1. ,„ ° , be 6, Price Is. each •by post, Is. Gd. 10 '"Bir —nt a beam ' - Carvalh 14 , 2 A r aet ; A i ~, er Wood, 23, Paternoster-row -.11 ,44 0 ,1 1- pla ce an ,", 39, Cornkill; or of M. R. Calverwell, M.D., 'N s ....' ''" ge ntetreet, who may from and tin Nine. be consulted daily IMPORTANT MEDICAL AND SURGICAL WORKS, Just pnblilbed, by 11. Bailllere, 219, Regent-street, London. No I. svo., in cloth, price Is. by post free, hs. 6d., oN TRUE & FALSE SPERMATORRHCEA, with the View; o the Correction of wide-spread Errors in relation to the Treatment and Cure of Sufferers from Debility of the enerative System, or Sexual Hypochondriasis. Translated from the German of Dr. PICKFORD • - "Dr. Pickford 'a known to English readers by his frequent practi .Al contributions to German medical literature. This is the first line, he informs us, that he has addressed himself to the non-medi ?.al reader. We trust this may not be the last, If he shall tetect any other equally flagrant evil which it may be in his over to correct." —London Medical Gazette, May 30, 1831. "We tromised in a former number that we should recur to this in order to exhibit its aim more clearly. The author lashes with great severity the impostors who make a livelihood by preying on the credulity of the public. The tribe of ' Quiet symathisers,' and ' Medical Friends, are mercilegsly exposed ; and if this book could find its way into the hands of those who stiffer from th com rlaint of which it trots, we are satisfied that many h mdreds would ue raved much needless suffering of laxly and mind, and what is of less importance, though it is that which the quacks most prize— much n oney......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, June 16, 1 852 . No. 11. 13v0., in cloth, price 3s. 6d., by post free, 45., THE CURE OF STRICTURE OF TIIE 'URETHRA, on Princi ples at once Simple, Safe, and Efficienti in even Its most Inveterate a apparently Intractable Forma. BY F. B. COITRTENAY , Member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England has. given "In proof of his v iews he (Mr. Courtenay) he history of a great many cases successfully treated, as bad as any which Mr. Syme adduced, and onvih h ich he had operated. Such are cases ix., xi., ill dtation ~ and xviii. ix. ad res sted, for a period of twelve years, the trea tment by , and w as finally removed in as many weeks. But cases xviii. and xix. appear, both in duration, severity, and complication of symptoms, of a more ag gravated character than any detailed by Mr. Syme, and yet the treatment adopted by Mr. Courtenay proved eminently sacceasftil." 7•Professor Lima on the Treatment of Stricture. .~.~'"' LONDON and NORTH-WESTERN RAILWAY. TO CONTRACTORS AND BUILDERS. The Directors are desirous of receiving Tenders for the Erection f One Hundred Cottages at the Wolverton Station. Parties desirous of Tendering may see the Drawings and Specifica tions at the Englneer's Office, Euston Station, on Wednesday, March 2 , 18 53, 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. Easton Station, 23d (Signed) CHAS. E. STEWART, Sec. February, 1853. ' CONTRACT FOR CANDLES. Department of the Comptroller for Victualling and Transport Services, Somerset-place, 21st February, 1853. rHE Commissi oners f or execu ti ng th e Offi c e of , r Lord High Admir a l o f th e U n it e d Ki ng d om of G reat B r it a in an it eland, DO HEREBY GIVE NOTICE, that on THURSDAY, t , ad March next, at ONE o'Clock, they will be ready to treat with such Persons as may be willing to Contract for supplying and de livering into the Royal Marine Barracks at CHATHAM all such quantities of :11,i 9 TALLOW CANDLES from time shall to time be demanded for 12 months certain , f urther until the ex pi ra ti on o f t h ree mou th s ' wanibig. The ti., Conditions o r th e rev i sed Contract, to which particular atten - Called, may be seen at the said Office, and (together with Sa mples of the Candles) at the Office of the Barrack Master. No Tender will be receiv,d alter One o'Clock, on the Day of Treaty, nor 1113' noticed, unless the Party attends, or au Agent for him duly audtorised in writing. Every Tender Insist be addressed to the Secretary of the Arlmi- Zit , S, and bea r i n t h e left-hand corner t h e wor d s " Tender for Can ". and must also b e d e li vere d a t Somerset.idace, accompanied by ! , tier by a responsible Person, engaging to bec o me hou nd manes of the Contract. LAURENT'S CASINO , ARG YLL ROOMS.- Lessee, CII A RLE 6 E. LAU R ENT, On slow- house, Falb am thn 0 1 1, 11 Every Evening. The Orchestra will perfo rm, durin g week, " The Thistle,"" shamrock," " Carillonneur." and" Wind sor castle " Waltzes, the "Chem 'ague Gales'," and "Marco Spada," i)o te Cirqu e ," and Fa r idondaine" Quadrilles. Admission, ls. urs open at Half- utst Eight ; dancing to commence a t Ni de ° 'lock and to terminate at Half-past Eleven. S. 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LADIES of delicate complexion, who suffer from c i i4t e xposure to cold winds and damp atmosphere, will find imme beget and soothing relief in the application of ROWLANDS' KALY it It allays all irritation and tenderness of the skin, andrenders fr ec i` , smooth, and pleasant ; removes cutaneous . disfigurements, q ett ies, and tan, and imparts a healthy and blooming appearance. in g , after shaving, will Ind it allay the irritability and smart n,,velet and render the skin smooth and pleasant . Its purifying the refreshing refreshing properties have obtained its selection by Royalty and arbt o ev erld Courts throughout Europe, together with the elite of the It tst rey. Price 4s. 6d. and Bs. 6d. per bottle. trans" LAND'S MACASSAR OIL is a delightfully fragrant and NritisPeareist preparation for the Hair, and as an invigorator and ten , r beyond all precedent. Weakness. premature greyness, and i o e ncY to fall off, are entirely prevented by its regular application. b ea ir LAND'S ODONTO, or PEARL DENTIFRIFICE, preserves and sw "'land nes the Teeth, strengthens the Gums, and renders the Breath ur kid b 3' A. Rowland and Son, 20, Hatton-gardens, London ; and by Chemists and Perfumers, OlTchlr ready, the Fifth Edition, with New Plates, price 58. N THROAT AILMENTS, more especially \vitt, the Enlarged fonsil and Elongated Uvula, in connection Throw tr befects of Voice, Speech Hearing, Susceptibility to Sore lop ul t • Nasal Obsuction, Throat-coh, and the Imperfect Deve rtt of idealth and Strength in Young Persons. By JAS. YEARSLEY, Esq., Aural Surgeon to the Metropolitan Ear Infirmary, Surgeon to her late Majesty the Queen Dowager, &c. John " Churchill, Princes-street, Soho, and all booksellers. NATIONAL LOAN AIME COMPAN Capital COURT Of Campbell Barclay, Each 'loCharles Bennett, Esq. u gh Croft, Esq. „.1111 Elliotson, M.D., D. 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Efery liptinn Of Assurance and Annuities granted -',INE-TENTHS of the PItOFII'S are divided every dye years to A ssurers of three years' standing. 5 n important feature o' this Association is, that Policies may be th payable to the WIDOW, WIDOWER, and CHILDREN of ASSURED FREE of PROBATE and LEGACY DUTY. ta id :`f lll Report of the Annual Meeting of the Association, held on or - " h January, 1353, may be had on application at the Office, or ly e of the Agents of the Association. t he Directors beg to call the attention of the Public to the Report g oel ue Select Committee of the House of Commons on Friendly atlj4ties. which states "their proceedings—viz., of this and four ,gocieties similarly enrolled —had been very beneficial in e2le Truing a knowledge of the advantages of Life Assurance." va Benevolent Fund of this Association offers m ost important ntages to Clerks Assuring b y Loans an d Gratuities. An nuitiesth m _ also are granted to Members, as well as provision to "lli:idows Orphan Children. _ ay next and , Annuities will be granted, amounting to 1251., which bgo i. wake the total amount of Annuities given by tile Association , By order of the Board. PHILIP HENRY BYRNE, Secretary. .42, Itoorgate-street, Jan. 28, 1e53. Commission allowed to Solicitors and others. N - ` PACKETS, A VESEND ST A PACKETS, o ether packets call at the Grays, Greenhithe, and Purfleet The packets call at the Piers as underlined (weather permitti PROM TERRACE PIER, GRAVESEND. Terraceiler Time. 11% \ - 1%, - 3% - 12"r eet '— 1 ----7 H---- t tv o e ? 3 , hibus r e a s ir f is r from the h ßo c at ttlaxyquarter of F h e o n u e ur h s -street marked Station to all parts of London — WICK WHARF, BLACKWALL, on the arrival of tIN fol low -.."----..._ Ing Trains from the Fenchurch-street Station. ' :%DA EE D YS. SUNDAYS. 44 , L , R 4 0 R. 4 , Tl Dae. gTi :8 E 45 •!-'). 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Amongst oilers. bes'des the King and the various members of the Royal Family, are Rockingham, Shelburne, North, Thurlow, Loughborough, Fox, Pitt, Sheridan, f•urke, Portland, Sydney, Fitzwilllam, Tierney, Buckingham, Gren ville, Grey, Malmesbury, Wilberforce, Burdett, F.tzgibison, Grattan, Flood, Cornwallis, the Beresfords, the Ponsonbys, the Wellesley s, Hurst valid Illackett, Pul)ishers, Successors to Henry Colburn, 13, Great M arl borough-street. 1118. DISRAELI'S WORKS—POPULAR EDITION. On March Ist will be published, in fcap. Bvo., fancy boards, price Is. 6d., NTENETIA. A Romance. By B. DISRAELI. V Being the First Volume of a Uniform Popular Re-issue of Mr. Disraeli'S Works. I * . Each Volume will contain a complete work.. London: David Bryce, 48, Paternoster-row. This day is published; price 29., THE COUNTY COURT of WOLVERHAMP TON. Its Abuses and their Rent&lies considered, in a Letter to the Right Honourable Lord Brougham. By B. BLUNDELL, F.S.A. 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All goods are marked in plain figures, the lowest price, from which ne abatement can he made. The Establishments are closed from sunset Friday to 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 ior self.mea sureinent, may be had on application, or post-free, to any part of the kingdom. A handsome Almanac for the year ending 1853 can be had gratis, on applicat!on. Ici Von parle Franc&s. liter stria - it man Deutsch. Qui si parla Italian°. Aqua se habla Espanol MEDICAL ADVICEUTH ON THE MATUR ITY. SECRET INFIRMITIES OF YO AND • DR. SAMUEL LA'MERT, 37, BEDFORD-SQU &RE, LONDON, Doctor of Medicine, and lfatriellated Member of the University of Edinburgh, Honorary Member of the London Hospital Medical society, Licentiate of Apothecaries' Hall, London, & c., &c. 14 AY be consulted, personally, or by letter, on the various disorders of the nervous and generative system, resulting from juvenile irregularities and excesses, which have pro duced more misery in youth, degradatioir in manhood, and prema ture decay at all stages of life, than perhaps any other c of dis eases known to modern pathologists. Long and practical experience in the treatment of these diseases has proved that there are in exist erre secret causes of self-acquired miseries and disappointed hopes in existence, traceable to certain pernicious habits, to which NMa ervous Debility, various form s of Insanity, Unhappy and Unfruitful ages, Impotency, Local and Constitutional Weakness, and their endless modifications owe t heir almost entire origin. It is absolutely necessary that all men should know that there are princiles of personal management which cannot be violated without incurr p ing grievous penalties, and when wisdom and regret succeed the heyday of inconsiderate self-indugence, how these penalties may be mitigated, how the sting of their bitterness may be remove, and bow the evil and its con=equences may be avoided, and above all, that there is scarcely any degree of physical infirmity or functional derangement to which the timely aid of science cannot apply a cure. DOCTOR LAWERT has for a long series of years been engaged in an extensive practice in the treatment of these delicreate comess - plaint., and is the only legally qualified rhysician who, gardl of the taunts and envy of the hypocritical and mock-modessst, has had the confidence, through the medium of the public pre, to direct attention to these enormous evils, from which o grade of society is tree. In selecting tht+ department of practice n , he has been amply rem arded by the great success that bas attended his efforts in the treatment of these cases, which are too generally confided to the care of unqualified and ignorant empirics, who, with their pirated publications, assumed foreign names and titles, and pretended virtues who of titer patent nostrums, have inflicted serious injury on those have been induced to place faith in their pretensions. At home for consultation daily from Eleven ti ll Two, and from Six till Eight. All letters mast contain the fee of 11., and advice and medicines can be forwarded to any initials or address. It is desirable that patients wishing to consult Dr. LA'MERT should first obtain a copy of his work on SELF-PRESERVATION.: ft 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 resultinK from secret habits and excesses. 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' 4 —.- . - ~,., fo , 4 •-- - ~ 4 1 , . . 4. deratood, so ludicrously spoken of as having in his latter days been overcome with childish tintidity 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 Pogs took place, and in further consequence of which, unless an arrangement ess contrary as instructions made with ere transmittedthe sovereign by P egu,o those who were now responsib l e for the mana g ement of Indian affairs, a further advance into the Burmese terri tories would take place, with me ans and appliances he r unl ess w H vra. 3 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 env 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 astonishmant the statement of his noble friend that a large portion of our army in the district was suffering from sickness. His noble healthfriendw hen might he eef the quit te dht somearveeenpffie eoffic e nigta l ga h a det later ihbeen etihiea information s:eurrr on oe e the fandm s o u os : f i t it e hL l e t than he himself possessed ; but certainly up to the moment feigned satisfaction to himself and his colleagues to receive, by each successive mail, reports of the increasing good singularly small proportion of invalids in the hospitals. (Hear, hear.) Upon the information he himself possessed, he had no hesitation iu expressing 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 of the great bulk of the 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 frontiez s, 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 WHARNCLIFFE 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 affirmatite. - - The papers were then ordered to be laid onthe table, and their lordships adjourned at a quarter past seven o'clock, [ PRICE 6D . the , iProceedings in Ava. He readily admitted t o th e no bl e 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 ho (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 thojustifieation 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 Ava afterwards, reparation for the in sult 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 successive insult had beeja 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 supplied to 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 Ava, 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 appeared 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 Pogu, 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 :a 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 Prome, without seeking to have that annexation confirmed or assented to by any treaty on the part of the King of Ave.. 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 Ara, 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 HOUSE OF COMMONS-(YESTERDAY.) 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 drawn to this subject by an advertisement in the Times newspaper, in which Colonel Dickson stated that he was ready to prove 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 the petition, and if that wore the case, a decided breach of privilege had been committed. He 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. Mr. DITNCOMBE consented to withdraw his origi 'al motion, and moved that the petition be printed, with he votes, with the view of founding a motion upon it tereafter. The original motion was accordingly withdrawn, and Le motion for printing the petition was agreed to. 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 for the operations of that campaign no fitting provisions had been made ; that no proper force had ben brought together ; and, above all, that there were no means of 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 to 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 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 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 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 ho 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 causcid 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 these • ships, the emigrants had landed in a state of very great sickness and very great privation, and found they wore unable to contend with the fatigues and hardships which the gold mines involved. Groat 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. Ho 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 year 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 dqties 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 o f th ese 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 theirintention for the future to pursue the policy which theirdee predecessors had commenced, or, if they intended to t policy, to state what would b e the extent and f na m t m ur t e ls of their deviation. In taking this course he should not de t Austra ain thlie house by entering into th e early history of these an colonies. The house was well aware that the colony of New South Wales was originally entirely a con vict colony. He begged leave to the rapid show the house *ogress of New South Wales from the period when it might be said to have ceased to be altogether a convict. colony. In th e year 1830 the imports into the colony of New South Wales amounted to 420,480/. and the exports to 141,461/. the being 55 ,000. He passed Population o ulation of the colony' in that year In that year the importsver 20 of New years, to the year 1850. South Wales had in creased to 1 ,333,4131., and the exports to 1,357,7841. (Hear.) He thought the house would admit that this showed a very great and very rapid increase of material prosperity. 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 1,796,012/., the population, which in 1830 was only 55,000 had a t i . min creased to 197,163—in round numbers, 200,00 0 . n ports in 1851 amounted to 8/., and the exports 91., per head of the population. This to about .vas a rate of pros perity which, he believed, had hardly b increase had, Anaincrease ©quelled by any other community. A still moreext so had, however, taken place in the colony of Victoria. Only 18 years ago that colony was an u ntouched wilderness— ttler had then fixed not a single civilised European se him self in that groat colony. But house the would allow him perhaps to state another which he mentioned with no degree of censure upon fact, thes atesmen to whom it referred,t of showing how little human foresight and wisdom h ad but rather with the o b j ec to do in reality with these great changes. About the year 183 4 , some persons who were anxious to establish a se ttlement at Port Philip, applied to the Government of the day on the subject, and Lord Aber deen who was then at the head of the Colonial-office, wrote a dispatch, which was followed up by another writ ten by Lord Glenelg, who succeeded the noble earl, in both of which dispatches it was stated that no settlement could be allowed at Port Philip—that such a settlement would be opposed to the policy of England, which was rather to concentrate than to extend the population of those colo nies—that it would involve expense, and not be worth the while of this country. Happily for the colony, the British enterprise and spirit had anticipated the decision of those statesmen. Before their answers were received, some l'ao tive and energetic men had established themselves at Port Philip. That was in 1835. In 1845--ord.y 10 years hav' 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 ope ra ti ons winch had be en 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 t o th e hi g h 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, hear.) 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 the 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 Britishyoops; that is, Rangoon, Martaban, and , even Bassein, Pegu; and the whole province so called. My opinion is, that it will be necessary to continue the prepara tions for carrying on the operations of the war till the Sove reign of Ava 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 secure 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 capital, and even of Amerapoora. It may be relied upon that the natives of the East aro 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 in 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 posseagons 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 ap e _ 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 Ava, however objectionable all such provisions of tieaties, 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 o f P egu, 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 he case — with all s all pr t e h v e lo p u a s pers of every the Duke of Welling-todescription before him—with that war could not know ledge have been of Indian habits and manners rations came t theseaverted ;conclusions next, that p w ro e p r o e s p ed erf w e e rm re ed judi wi c t i h ou gre s ; at e g x al t, la t n h t a ry t the measures adopted well as in and, lastly, that in honour to the inhabitants of Pegu, as — t h success F e r s o p e t ;- 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 l ar g er ope rations which had been indicated by the Governor-General. • He ought not, perhaps, to speak of the view s 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- LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 25, 1853. FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE GREAT WESTERN IMILWAY. A terrible accident took place yesterday on the Great Western Railway, by which one of the directors was killed upon the spot, another sustained very serious in jury, and several first-class passengers were much hurt, while others, including two directors, narrowly escaped with their lives. The accident happened to the up ex press train leaving Bristol at 8.10 a.m., and due in Lon don at 11.30 a.m. The train loft Bristol punctually, and kept correct time up to its arrival at Ealing, about five miles west of Paddington. It consisted of an engine and tender, a luggage van, two second-class and three first-class car riages—the latter being in the rear. A travelling por ter invariably accompanies the express trains on the Great Western Railway, occupying a small iron box on one end of the tender, from which he commands a view of the train, and, in case of necessity, can communicate with the engine-driver without difficulty. The train had just passed under the bridge a short distance on the London side of the Ealing station, and was tra versing that portion of the line known as the Eal ing cutting, when the travelling porter observed that the first of the three first-class carriages was off the rails, and swaying to and fro in a very alarming manner. He instantly got up and turned round to the driver, who was in the act of looking round at the moment, and who, observing that something was wrong, shut off his steam and reversed the engine. At that in stant the coupling chains between the second and first class carriages gave way, and the two first of the latter ran up the embankment with fearful velocity. The first, on reaching the top, a height of about 15 feet, toppled over and fell backwards upon that which followed, crushing three out of four ef „ifALcomp.artments, forcing it back on the main line, where it fell over on-its side. The third carriage did not leave the rails. The driver brought up his train as quickly as possible, and returned to the spot, where a fearful scene presented itself. The first of the three first-class carriages was turned completely over and lying upon its roof—the several compartments being more or less crushed and the passengers imprisoned within. The second carriage had suffered most. In the centre compartment of this had been seated four of the directors of the railway on their way to the usual weekly board meeting. The names of these four gentlemen were—Mr. Richard Potter, of Gloucester ; Mr. Henry Simonds, of Reading ; Dr. Richard Prichard Smith, of Reading • and Mr. James Gibbs, of Clifton, near Bristol. The latter gentle man was killed on the spot. Dr. Prichard Smith, who was seated by his side, sustained a dislocation of the shoulder and had a rib fractured. Mr. Potter and Mr Simonds, who were seated in the same com partment, and opposite Mr. Gibbs and Dr. Prichard Smith, had a most miraculous escape and were not all seriously hurt. There were several other officers of the company and general passengers in this carriage, but none of them sustained any severe injury. The passen gers in the third carriage escaped with nothing more s erious than the shock. The best aid that could b given to the sufferers was afforded on the instant by the se- cond-class passengers, none of whom had suffered the smallest inconvenience. One of the guards hastened back to the Ealing station, and the other, as soon as the passengers who were not hurt could be transferred to the second-class carriages, came on to London with the train. Intelligence of the catastrophe was instantly communicated to Mr. Saunders, the secretary, and Mr. Gooch, the locomotive superintendent. The former, without a moment's loss of time, summoned Mr. Caesar Hawkins, Mr. Alfred Keyser, Teevan, and Mr. Harper, medical gentlemen resident in the neigh bourhood, and dispatched them to Ealing to render every assistance in their power. The latter soon got together a party of men to clear away the debris. On their arrival it was found necessary to break up the two carriages most injured in order to ex tricate some of the passengers who were still completely wedged in. One gentleman, Mr. Adam Duff, of Read ing, who was seated in the first carriage when it fell over on to its roof, got his head fixed firmly into the hole through which the lamp is ordinarily suspended, and it was with the utmost difficulty he could be extri cated. Mr. Duff had some of his fingers broken, but was not otherwise injured seriously. The body of Mr. Gibbs was got out as soon as possible and conveyed to the Ealing station. Among the other passengers in jured were Mr. Miller, of Warminster, whose forehead was seamed with a terrible gash ; Mr. Ormerod, of Brazenose College ; and Mr. Kelly, the company's sta tionmaster at / Birmingham. Dr. Prichard Smith was brought on to London and conveyed to the Prince of Wales Hotel, close to the station, where his dislocated shoulder was reduced by Mr. Csar Hawkins. He was stated last evening to be going on favourably. Mr. Miller was also stated to be doing well. The accident is supposed to have originated in the breaking of one of the "scroll-irons," or "spring hangers," attached to the near leading wheel of the front first-class carriage. The consequence of this breakage would be to set the axlebox free, thereby giving the wheela play which would necessarily in a very short time throw it off the line. The ballast is torn up for some 400 yards, indicating that the wheel or wheels had been off the rails before the coupling chains broke. There must, of course, always be a degree of uncertainty as to the precise cause of any accident of this character. But it is suggested that the extraordinary variations in temperature may have led to the fracture described, no imperfection being visible in the iron. The accident, it is needless to say, occasioned a great shock to the board of directors, who were expecting the arrival of their colleagues when , the news reached Lon don. The deceased gentleman has been a director for many years, and was universally respected. He was one of those members of the board who, at the recent half-yearly meeting, went out by rotation, and were re elected. It is stated that he effected an insurance of his life against railway accidents only a week or two ago. When the carriage in which he was seated quitted the line, his head appears to have been dashed against the window-frame, probably while in the act of looking out, or perhaps by the simple force of the shock. The temple has been driven in, and the spinal cord is broken, so that death must have been instantaneous. The right arm is also fractured, but otherwise the body is not in jured. He has left a widow and family to deplore his loss. One of the most remarkable features of this accident is that in the foremost of the three carriages, that which mounted the embankment and then tumbled back upon its own roof, there were 21 passengers, none of whom were killed. Being crusbed down to the solid part of the doors by the enormous superincumbent weight of the wheels, iron work, and heavy framing, the escape of so many human beings from instant death seems almost miraculous. In this carriage were Lieut.-Col. Bell, of the Royals and his lady, both of whom w ere j amm e d so tightly amid the debris that they could move neither hand nor foot, and it was with some difficulty that they were extricated. Mr. Wakley will at once proceed to hold an inquest on the body of the deceased, and a searching investigation will be made as to the cause of this melancholy accident. The following official account of the circumstances has been sent to us for publication : IiIiPERIA PARLIAMKNT HOUSE OF LORDS-(YESTERDAY.) 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 they had been occupied with matters connected with the do 'mostic 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 Ave. 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 , 0 00,000/. 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 bee)/ one of so important a character that it was extremely desirable, and indeed necessary, that he should -place allthe-isierenation hir possesstxr befor&the late 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 'I, would consent to lay that dispatch before their lordships, and therefore he 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 tho 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 over 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 left 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 impossible, 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 lordships consider with how much greater loss, if the distance from our resources was greater than on this occasion. He knew it would bo recollected by their lordships that we at last succeeded in obtaining success in China, and compelling the Emperor of China to submit to the terms which we dictated to him, and that wo 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 were 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 resources 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 empire. 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 passion than the latter. Undoubtedly, if we had been act ing on a totally different system from that which had been followed during the present war—if we had been resting, as we ought to have done, on our provinces in Arracan,—if we had been keeping open our communication with our own provinces, and had placed an army of 7,000 or 8,000 men on the Irrawaddy, nearly at equal distances from Ava and Rangoon, with perfect means of moving all our troops, so as to be able to effect 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 course which had been adopted. (Hear.) Before he pro ceeded further, he begged to place before their lord ships, as far as he could, a statement of the present posi tion of the army in that part of India. He had taken pains to ascertain the facts, and he believed that what he was going to state was not far from the truth ; he calculated 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. Ho could not find a trace of his having any ani malspurpose of mo v i ng prov i s i ons or am thsay Th e men w ere dying too, that out of the 4,800 mniue am munition. ne h ee a : t fi e fytHehrewf regretted o e r re the in the hospital. six, eight, and ten a day of cholera ; and no wonder. It appeared that for a 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 t wo m i les and a half be tween them and stockade. Behind that immense line of stockade there were three other stockades, all to be b attacked by the troops before they could meet the main of the enemy. If they ded uc t e d t h e 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, and already so seriously affected by sickness, would be able at last to march upon Ava, as was the dream of those who looked at the subject from a distance ? In Ar racan there were 500 men employed in making a road to th e t op of the pass-which leads from Arracan to the Irr awaddy. The officer commanding these men reported that h e could not make the road in less than three months, that th ere was a take,steep m an ou d n t t kat ain there with awstaoecnkeat a. stockade which commissariat ictem was impossible to 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 th© 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 and occupying that pass on the very first day of the war ; but, now that we had allowed the pass to be so strongly fortified, it would be a matter of great difficulty to take it ; and, even if we were prepared to send out animals to make the army moveable through that pass, there were no troops to escort them. At R angoon there might be about 2,000 men, besides 1,100 to sweep the 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 it had moved at all so as to inflict serious loss on the enemy—this 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 n o t acce d ed to, of moving upon Ava ! That was a very grandil oquent pr oe o l r a c l e n a sufficientt i ; bu unableunfortunately, us to carrythereintoit execu tion. If General Godwin and the Go vernment had not exist a f confined their attention in the present e anma i„ to the possession of the province of Pegu, and had attacked from the rear the Burmese who occupied the pass a t Arracan, so as to complete our communication with our provinces on the Irrawaddy, h e 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 was 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 yiew to 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 ho 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 ? Hb 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 tho 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 advantages would be denied, as in the case of Ave. 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. Ave 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 Ave 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 page 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 with 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 ho had dis tinctly told them that he would not receive the mission at all ; when he considered that the whole amount of the ori ginal damage was said to bo 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 hew 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 place in the present instance. It was well known that on this occasion the King of Ave 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, tho 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, ho 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 not 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. (Hear.) 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 Governor-General of India in Council, dated in September, 1820, giving instruo tions as to the line of operations in any future war with Ave.. Now, although I believe it has scarcely over 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- Bossing 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 ;el newal of a war with Ava. Now, your lordships will see that in this lapse of time many events may have hap- paned 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 referred to by my noble friend, expressed as they are in the language of my noble friend who has just spoken, I still must consider it a matter of mere historical curiosity, and not one of prac tical utility. I have therefore no objection 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 present objects of the war with Ava, and of the measures whereby it is pro posed to attain such objects. These papers 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 he requires. I believe that the papers 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 in the war with Ava, and an estimate of the probable expense to be incurred 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. My noble friend has entered into a very full 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, I 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 b 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 24a t jetity's present Government were not resposible for the course of policy which had been pursued with reference to "OFFICIAL ACCOUNT. "The morning express train from Bristol reached the Ealing cutting at the usual time, 11.15, and had passed the Ealing station on its way to Paddington, when the travelling porter, who sits on the tender looking back on the carriages, observed one of the first-class carriages to sink at one corner and to run off the rail. He instantly called to the engine-driver, who, on looking back upon the train, saw the gravel flying about, and shut off the steam, reversing the engine. When this was done, but before the train could be stopped, the three first-class carriages broke away from his coupling, and were dis covered running up the left slope of the cutting. " The foremost of them, after reaching the summit of the slope, fell over, and the second carriage, coming into violent collision with it, also fell over on its side. "The last carriage was but slightly injured, and the passengers in it escaped without injury. " In the second body of the middle carriage four of the Great Western directors were seated, coming to at tend the weekly meeting of the board. One of them I (Mr. James G ibbs, of Bristol),,we lament to sa y , was killed on the spot: Dr. Prichard Smith was severely injured by a dislocation of the shoulder. The other di rectors (Mr. Potter, of Gloucester, and Mr. Simmonds, of Reading), escaped unhurt. Three or four of the passengers met with some injury by cuts or contusions, but not in any case to a serious extent, and all were en abled to proceed on their journey. t fracturedo d before s e t f i o n r g e uih the s "The only cau se which can be assigned for the acci dent is the brea kin g of and the scroll iroiffiren cultand axle guard of xtvhheefithrsetr-celiathssercaorrr ibaogteh, carriage left the rail or when it was upset. of dth i e t se is w d e " The wheels and axles prove to be entire, one axle only being bent, which was thrown over from the slope occasioned by the blow when the carriag e was thrown of the cutting." RAILWAY' SHARE MARKETS. LIVERPOOL, FEB. 24. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The market for shares has been firm to-day, but not much doing, and quotations remain about the same as yesterday, as follows :—Caledonian, 32i ; Dublin and Drogheda, 61i ; Eastern Counties, 13i ; Lan cashire and Yorkshire, 78$ ; London and North Western, 121; Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 30A ' • Mid land, 784 ; Newry an d Enniskillen, 4 3-16 d. ; North British, 9 3-16 ; South Eastern and Dover, 24 ; Maryport and Carlisle, Quarter shares, 9-16 p.. MANCHESTER, FEB. 24. STOCK EXCIIANGE. — Prices have been firmer in conse quence of purchases for the settlement, but the business has been small. Eastern Counties, 13 ; London stock, 1211 ; Kendal and Windermere Pref., 141 ; Leeds stock, 781 ; East Lancashire, 191; Caledonians, 32i ; Cheshire Junctions, G d. ; Bristol and Exeter, 109. LEEDS, FEB. 24. STOCK EXCHANGE.—There has been a further improver ment in shares this morning, and the market closed firm at the following rates :—Midland stock, 79 ; South Eastern and Dovers, 24; North Westerns, 8 ; Great North erns, 20. ..i" •