The Press.
London, England, 1858-07-10 00:00:00

AMERICA.

A private telegram from New York, per Arago, to
the agent of the New York Associated Press, gives
important advices trom Mexico. Goods belonging
to American citizens had been seized on account of
their owners refusing to subscribe to the new forced
loan. In consequence of this action Mr. Forsyth,
the American Minister, bad demanded and received
his passports.

Tho Select Committee of the House of Commons,
comprising the following members—Lord Hotham
(chairman), Mr. Brady, Mr. Bright, Lord Goderich,
Mr. Hardy, Sir John Trollope, Mr. Arthur Mills, the
Right Hon. T. M. Gibson. Mr. Frank Crossley, Mr.
Collier, the Hon. E. Yorke, Mr. Cobbett, Mr.
Massey, Mr. Wilson, and Mr. Adams, appointed to
inquire into the case of Mr. Barber, made their
report on Thursday, of which the following is a
copy

That your committee have inquired crefully into the
allegations contained in the petition of Mr. W. H. Barber,
and find the same to be substantially proved.
Your committee have not entered upon the consideration
of the question whether, in the present or like cases,
pecuniary compensation should be granted, the ruts and
practice of the house preventing theta from making any
grant of public money.
Your committee cannot, however, forbear to state that
the facts presented to their notice in respect to the con-
viction of Mr. Barber, to the sufferings he endured during
the time his sentence was being carried out in Norfolk
Island, and to his subsequent ezeulpation from the charge
on which he was convicted, are so peculiar as to render his
ease exceptional, and your committee desire to express
their opinion that Mr. Barber has strong claims on the
favourable consideration of the Crown.

The following is the reply of Sir Bulwer Lytton to
a despatch lately received from Vancouver's Island
concerning the gold mines recently discovered on the
mainland opposite :

Downing•alreet, Jaly 1, ISM.
Sir,—l have to acknowledge tour despatch of the Flth
ult. in continuation of former despatches, informing the
Secretary of State from tiros to time of !he progress of the
gold discoveries on Frazer's River, ihd the measures
which you had taken in consequence. I em anxious not
to let the opportunity of the present mail pass without in•
forming you that her Majesty's Government have under
their consideration the pressing necessity for taking some
steps to establish public order and government in that
locality, and that I hope very boon to be able to communi-
cate to you the result.

In the meantime her Majesty's Government approve the
course which you have adopted in asserting both the
dominion of the Crown over this region and the tight of
the Crown ot•er the precious metals. They think, how-
ever, that you acted judiciously in waiting for further in-
structions before you endeavoured to compel the tsking
out of licences by causing any force to be despatched for
that purpose from Vancouver's Island.

They wish you to continue your Niellance, end to apply
for instructions on any pain! on which you may require
them. They are, however, in addition, pnrticnlarly
ansious to impress un yon that, while her Majesty's Go-
•ernment are determined on preserving the rights, both of
government and of commerce, which belongs to this
country, and while they have it in contemplation to fur-
nish you with such a force as they may be able to detach
for your assistance and support in the preservation of 6w
and older, it is no part of their policy to exclude Americans

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nd other foreigners from the gold-fills. On the contrary,
you are distinctly instructed to oppose no obsta.lle whatever
to their resort thither for the purpose of digging in those
fields, so long as they submit themselves, iu common with
the subjects of her Majesty, to the recognition of her
authority, and conform to such rules of police as you may
have thought proper to establish. The national right to
navigate Frazer's River is of course a separate question,
and one which her Majesty's Government must reserve.
Under the circumstance of so large an immigration of
Americans into English territory, I need hardly impress
upon you the importance of caution and delicacy in deal
ing with those manifold cases of international relationship
and feeling which are certain to arise, and which, but for
the exercise of temper and discretion, might easily lead to
serious complications between two neighbouring and
powerful States.
It is impossible by this mail to furnish you with any
instructions of a more definite character. Her Majesty's
Government must leave much to your discretion on this
most important subject, and they rely upon your exercising
whatever influence and powers you may possess in the
manner which from local knowlege and experience you
conceive to be best calculated to give development to the
new country, and to advance imperial interests.
have, E. 13uLwan Lrrrox.
Governor Douglas, &c.

LAST NIGHT'S DEBATE.

HOUSE OF LORDS.
GLEBE HOUSES.

Viscount I)UNO►NNON called attention to the incon-
venient and frequently harsh and unjust nature of
the present law with regard to the dilapidation of
glebe houses; and asked whether any measure was
contemplated to remedy the existing evil.
The Bishop of LONDON stated that he hoped to see
some remedial bill on the subject introduced in the
course of another session.