The Express.
London, England, 1864-02-12 00:00:00

NCrTICFS.

Frersittg PoucT.-14. FIZIAND, to more ea going into
committee of supply the following resolutions :—" That the
Pastern policy of her Yenety's goveremeat began by the
parson Primo If inisiw ia Chum thirty years ago, and hom
that time enforced by every whig government, leas led to
°portant little ware, which have culminated la the deeply
deplored burning otHagosime and the memacreed Booobow.
(Chows.) That the goveramest bare admitted that them
little wan were the result of the premiere as them by mer-
chants to extend their trade. (Haar, bear.) That oar
military and neva! armaments required to cony out this
Eastern policy have greatly increased the heavy huskies of
the country. ( Hear, hear.) That it is a flagrant injostice
and a violation of the priaciploi of free trade to tax the
agricultural and other trident Great Britain, and especially
of Ireland, for commercial wars waged to open fresh mar•
kets for manufactures in which they are sot wappd mid
have no pecuniary interact." !Cheers.)
THE DOCILTAHDL —Lord C. PAGET, to more, as Thursday,
the 25th Wilms, far oiled commit's°, to oonader and
report opus the India and dock accommodation in the royal
dockyards of the United Kingdom, and upon their suffloisney
for the require:wake of the public envies, having especial
rafereece to the proposed extension of her Yansey's dock-
yard at Portaraouth. (Hear, bear.)
THE CASE OF BEWICKE.

Mr. H. BERKELEY asked the Siontary et State for the
Home Departmeat whether it wee hie intention to continue
to refuse oompeneatios to Witham Bowlike, et Thrrepwood-
ball, in the oounty of Northumberland, for s iterrirag impri.
moment as a felon for twelve months, under an nndaeereed
sentence, and for the melioration of hie goods, chattels,
Pmily pictures, and library, to hie great pecuniary loss and
irreparable injury.
Bir 0. GREY bad never received any applications for
compensation from Mr. &wicks. He had power neither
to grant nor to refuse such compensation. Last year • pet
-
lion had been presented to the Home of Commons, asking
for redress ; and his boo. Mead bad made a motion upon
the subject. Oa that °croaks he (3ir 0. Orgy) had felt
it his duty to resin the application ; but he was free to
admit that .the law relating to forfeiters of property on a
conviction for felony was well worthy of oissidoratioa and
revisios. (Hear, hear.)
Mr. BERKELEY pee seam that he should at the
earliest opportunity bring Mr. Bowicke's sae soda before
parliament. (Hear, hear.)
THE CRAWLEY COURT-MARTIAL.

Colonel GILPIN asked the Under Secretary of Sate for
War whether, coosiderieg the peculiar cirowastaaces attend-
ing the trial of Colonel Crawley, and the failure of the
evidence apinst him, it was the intention of the War
1)1
tto recommend that his enemies Amid be paid. ffetmeM:rquie of HARTINGTON said that at the ma-
einem of all courts-martial it became the duty of the
War.office to consider whether the exposure incurred by
the prisoner should be paid. Sometimes they were and
sometimes they were not. In this instance the government,
accepting and adopting the verdict of the court, decided that
all expenses incurred by Colonel Crawley of a kind that ever
were paid by the government should be defrayed by them.
(Hear, hear.) Colonel Crawley's merge from India sod
beak bad been paid ; be had received- Lath pay and
allowances, and he bad been provided with public garters
at Aldershot ; and the expenses of all the incomes whom
be bad desired to call had bees paid. (Hear, bear.) The
may expenditure which bad not been allowed him was that
for profeetiocial assistance, legal gentlemen having no status
before a oourt-martial. There would be !no possibility of
checking charges under the heed of professional advice.