The Express.
London, England, 1849-02-21 00:00:00

met ais=das ISOM IssaMphoes dedere that he
as meet . he ita heard of the elearer
fa me peeptir2 witeritlehmieg the annem el
yams ad awn, the cif.l eras bemematy ma le age-
nal essaltsilsam awl yet hue h was assaissry to
Alma es eta gat fie Lassa el a lasseumesineiZ
Mk sr drat fa •he tea was la the belemo. alesenes ma up
and sea pat ash. het whether te aline them er dieldiewei
seems al oh law—thene Wig aka
_se anik eases ler theme
astaes meths seher. The scar igen the edisti.whoses
shet la Ids Meese terallyusia we 1=11•1111Cialtil•
am Si tau ins win asseren am a
smog repedisr Ilrassissises plate et rasissilssasa. mew
ate tee whams sofa him-• fetter andarr es=il the litv
dialers Obsegh the mamba et the weie his
aura et the al). emerald
vailat very supliseselanalinerieseta
slam teki way awaiLlate far • mere shahs. 01
isiffik owl es m the oath, bat sees cell the eyes
soh es tbe were able be seas =am who aka
sal as Iselled the pestleperaleal
mama inlen ef the ha =crate' jrt melonjesuawasredi=lliw gee.
tidedada et thy prima srenen
the Heessibigi "Atte, ma se naiad las is teas N..
=et ask Sea tat he mita las lbeharser, who sF
le tam be iamb. The latergiser erali, lenewer, tags tem
se mere mrsealle Mae it wee mitesselik he the Has% Adressa
==rready artalled tbe gemplen he keit at
the gentlsmes who ha armed
lee—
tamale. ha
.rat hem* tits provost diarmleed the pdest
abseil bead be was shot asesediehly sat wnleg. The
=i that paid the governor's - mad oar a /s-
-team the mica' yawl Si this par &re dying
tea=m,meats dist Is Ids seserdetel hatilleta. tad a
pact Aga Ode la his he phased. ea net mily wee Mile
chit Tishah as in heat eared to the khan et the lesidbit
has ea to era tie art pantly des. It is au
however, wernamsy lareed that this past wee esetrely Ineuent—
thee be bed had we Isessenstemina mbstmer with the king. He was
• low wary ma who lint lately ended the leerier; as
barn to her el the pupa sal a lea to arena wlek he
aide* secrets; and Oen as treesear, it le wow degas he
knew oohing whether d lak and wee est mminaled m y time
be the sae pet tithe ~ln awe the gait mini
Now I pat the quid= of anemia estinsight I sane
that these Men were guilty, but I
manner of their execution was as outrage on he=
(Hear, hem) Had each an act been committed at
under General Nervier, we never should have need the
het of it ; indeed, it is call in Spain we can find &cygnet-
lel for the atrocities which have been committ. d in Ceylon.
(Hear. hear.) Bet in order to appreciate the feelings of
Lord Torrington, we mu.t r. f. r to his correspondence with
the chief justice of the supreme court respecting these execu-
ting. It seems that as soon as the coats martial had bees
inminded the 'Mary tribunals mate into operation, and
the ransielag paeans were tried in the espresso court at
Ma* holke the &Ist jetties). Feerteen men were ma-
te death, and the chiefjuidos esmniunlestea the We
is the hilawlng later,
_Afar Magog the names et the pr-
oem envoi, the Mkt putties gate en to may—
taaralliesnt dismaseext Asa bow resammended year es.
allembe lea meals' ea three or Ilenr et them lest ennatimed
age maim amain inertia Oak regostke sew tip the
he et as mew; have appeared le as meet /Why,
Ts beeemeded at the het peaky d the law opal them wail
law him sesemery he the Waimea et logien ceder, sad peed
parse', awl hr eh asomple to earn. - But Iha Oa tat r-
est* tee tam daft made. I ors ad same le melee hem
lOW shoed, riot he err shore in Ms release by OM ear% arm.
del; I heidiee Wok when it to samitsrel that se eariarepron
les tem pie be alb-4W pee ealy tea loss wanaled la the
Mau Met me pease have avowed la weak rem molest the
de the saimuin at Marne aid Karam" that as Seed
am dank spit yamhim' hr all purpose, nether et
et he kw hr ele.
Now, here is the answer of Lord Torrington to the Chief
Jamicialetter
I lave the bane to acknowledge your Yaw et the hied hark
trimmillas as maser admen and alma et Meth pasta en
the peirmere eamistal et bleb trams et the lab make et the
lope= Omit hid et Km* ths seedel et Wein ewe
mos the km nabs. las te ermarlei.
sallsa. art eery the
It animas. yaw
hat that psiersi aw endow norihmatba Irealers me
edema question et hh and drib supeal ty pier gine.
▪ resammeaato et ah the pgresno kr a eammetedria
of their pieihmeetr. Bet skis sairlikg the aide ma
opinions of the issentive Oaseill, it is eta geese
anse that 1 dad mash aids to awe eta me
the
that auk teem& seed these ass is be
ererPriVelet kw, red wham edit has bra se dark essiklial that
as arist lee et year duty, estetiosered try mbar eregiesethes,
week kmad yea, is yea state, to remanal to ato lath es
that th masa the law la Wareham at jetties, mar, and
/sad
with
the isgmbreeq=eitakenwang Mews% as seem
tin r: with year sAlks
ate joylmit,
ter aura:poen el
handaen
ed en elm wadi Ms groom y tout
ou be saute hem Pm to
reetamsulleg there petite to any, hos perimad the mere mkt
Is y Wad ; while at the saw time sods putty W uhetnestely
teen eras to yew "am tklualgest as weddiumisantesoasecthe
veruseet sulamorniat were Ito sit aleyear
te may and hue theme latividaile ter assimita Oa the her
heed, I lanies mesh parcel lemensame Yob be ream
frees Ws iffemeery review of an ma peeeediete or the
lama all weed be the Wind. del=ved hr a saseleg
andikaties et IS. pagan upon ohs mated of to grant °r-
hinos tangs is ear lea t'paa a Jellimile seledSgo.wever,
et the semperative ails a either e tre, and halo the Ms.
asassas• wash Ila placed in tagw en app ewe I
ben drama tt Ira ft has to tios Ude wee& ind le se snit
el year neemmenalies as regards the ammailes et a alpha
=lbrafallikadag trsnefsartstion for Ws Is ite Inane et
ll‘anists irk here sot been reeemardsd be may by tit
juries, and tneepniedes he Walesa yam la all the ether rata
Weald it net appear by this litter that Lord Toniugton
win highly dhpleased at being compelled to temper justice
Mit merollosiulikauar One would suppose that he would
Bowe hit deep oblgatious to the person who
had relieved him hem the awful responsibility of deciding
wet the life Car death of a number of his fellow-creatures.
(ffeso, bar.) Well, than, it appear that not only aun-
ties. bat cosfisestioss were the order of the day. A pro-
ismatisa was issued to the effect that the land. of all persons
the, able a certain day in 1848, should be found to have
lea shiest hem their residences for twenty days previously,
without befog able te give a satisfactory explanation,
should be eselasated. Now, from the admission of
Lora Torrington himself: we have the feet that, with so
mach haste was this procsamation carried into effect, that
00Ssidenble perifty was not only confiscated but ac-
tnaLy sold hem genres who bad sines been able fully
to aloha k Noir kneestin (Hear.) And these are the
smarm whith have remised the full sanctioa of Lord Grey.
(Lend missed " Has, hear.") Them are the measures by
moanel whisk ha leper to make good and faithful subjects
fie her Noisily._ (Cheers.) I new come to the last act of
this red the bill of indemnity. It appears that Lord
Torrington at last discovered that he had been acting ille-
gally, and that it was necessary to pees a bill of indemnity,
In order to sore all those who had been acting under
his credos from the consequences of their illegal
acid was at last summoned, and the
of iinrsanirtyhelardubefore them. I should here observe
that this council was composed of men wholly and entirely
soneated by the Bonner or the Colonial-Milos. Out of
harken men composing .the council, eight were official, and
six nea.official, bat nominated by the governor. This eoun-
al so composed was actually divided in opinion as to whether
sr no this indemnity should pan seven voting for, and
seven against it, and the bill of indignity was actually car
lied at Last by the casting vote of Lord Torrington himself.
(Loud cries of " Her, hear.") Sir J. E. *Dement declined
to vote on the Tuition. Now I think there client be a
greater proof of what must have been the feelings of the
colonists, if a council so composed could have been divided
in opinion on a question of such vital importance to
the character of the government. (Hew, hear.) I
think I have shown that the colony of Ceylon, to my
the least of it, is in a very unsatisfactory oosdltioe,
and that a searching parliamentary inquiry is doe to the
iskabitants of this e Any, into the evils of which they so
- justly complain. (Hear, him.) I have now shown you
that well grataded discontent prevails, not oily manse
the native population, but also amongst the European resi-
dents. I have shown you that the finances of the country
see in a state of disorder, and that with ••revues* moun
t-
ingt-
to 400,000( , the goverr.niect Si the colony is
Meet the public expenditure, and that the attempt to meet
the defieiesey by the &rainy and uneontitational
Im-
genial of tans has resulted in rebellion. I have shows you
that the European residents of Ceylon complain of a bad and
inc mpetinit system of acimicsater.eg the alert of the colony
and of a wasteful expenditure of the public money. I have
shown you the case of a euvernor suspending the ordinary
legal tribunals and estab',l.bing martial law, and that with-
in the swollen of the Council. (Hear, tear) Ido not
know how it is possible to add to this catalogue of grievances,
bat this I will say, that the noble lord. the Secretary for the
Colonies, has not dose a greaterinjustice to the colony, which I
has been so iniagoverned under his sanction, than to the I
nobleman whom he has entrusted with its government.
(Hear, hear.) Asd, irel trust the melancholy result of this
experiment will, if it have no other effect, at lead operate
sea waraing to those who in future may be entrusted with
the Welland raponsible duty of distributing patronage in
the aolonial department. (Hear.) Now, sir,
Iran this, I must beg to all the attention
the hoses to another scene of colonial misgovern-
sent, when the evils of our resent colonel system are no
km mends% and apparent than in the 'okay of Copies—l
lens the eolcay of British Guiana. The Delany of Brink
Guiana win formerly to be referred to as the aunt promis-
ing and hu=shing ot all our West India colones—parer
leg a sell et unbounded fertility sad extent, it was %ally
imaginal that this colony was destined to survive the rash
esperimatte of tit mother country. But, sir, it appmrs
=
ma keg withstand the withering influence of the
.effles ; and British Guiana, with all its natural ad-
venters, is at this moment in a more deplambie etadigin
than any of our ether West India ecierake, owl khaki
to broad light the evil effects of mligemeasseelt en the'
net of this mother emintry. It will be rentambisid
that when the ammeipatkin of the negroes was asked the
Colonial-aloe nagieeted to take steps to meet the Amid ton
latices which were about to be established between No
planters and their shwa. It sever marred to them OM it
might be advisable to pass laws for regulathq_and elehhilleg
entreat labour, and to provide for the cultinilen of the eim
seder the altered state of ercurnstances t es tbe
act of emsncipation. La feet the Colonial-ad= the sr
snit wholly to thanes—so steps were tekeskllo maralla
were adopted, to meet those difficulties, whieklhey Were ON
by all parties must arise in carrying out the gnat ezpseimegi
sit emancipating the slaves. Well, sir, the sena vessel et
this neglect have been, as waste be expected, most depiaella
to the colon and to the planters. The negroes sees
&and out that they wore in effect the masters
of the land—they either Wined to work at all,
sr mated the most enormous wages for the milieu amount
of work. In fact, they give just as much or as little work
as they pleased, and the planters were left entirely at their
alnico for to cultivation of their estates. Under these eir-
minuteness the colonists repeatedly applie I to the Cologial-
elks fee prriakaik to import labour from some sham
country, and were as often red, the rearms continuing
all the while to write Ir me the mom fionrishing accounts a
the prosperity of the colony. (Hem) Well, sir, the re-
sat can surprise no our, and the Colonial-Mike may cm-
gratulate itself that it has ace unlined the ruin of the
planter. The value of estates in Guiana, has fallen to
netting. In one instance, an estate whisk east the late
greprorter 24,0004. a few years ago, was s Ad lest year for only
2,0001. sad I have le en assured by a gentleman well ale
quiatiel with the facts of the case, that the coppers,
bailers and macbisery were worth fully that amount.

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Hen, thew, is an estate actually given away
though In some is stances, speeelators Inv he fogad
such circumstances to purchase sal cultivate these
waiting fa the chapter of events for • pate, it is hut
the :obey sot go on ender a system nadir
sub
platten have been ruined. The coins have fan .
Ganda of the auruhants of this country and speeulstors,
cultivation. teen may to earned on at • less . (Hear, '
The okay of a*hlt Guiana h admiaireeed by a r
emit what hailed • coon of, pelkl, whisk esertit
INlONlolliilloOld by the 11OVINIIII and her by*.
TO b Wed a *wadi el lleseelveesomidlls,
log if sis nembsse &mint by el
the roans, awl Mess
bin inn le salsa turn nobbled non ef Gabes.
used was eases yes to v itee the supplies, and rep'
ontraditure of tbs Wm. when this b:dy east r
mensament ef the year 1848, they thought it am
lake tam cessidereska the Wale eine of the whey,
the snails of sins, i erne Us gaga eat owl:
la the gable esessillinel--aud set n beat new, la
ae colony pother ban there been ran name% this
(Rear, heir.) I have a list of FOB° otiose is the ooldny,
with the Wades allaned le them—first of nese in the gift
of tits goversor, seneadly of those in the gift of the Colonial-
effige. The rem Gann of solarise—ezelesive of thaw
*Mar 2501. a-veer—atteebieg to plane at the disposal of the
governor, is 37,5001. a-year. Firefighters is a neenee-genenl,
with a shin of 2,1321., with eansistant at 6941. There is
the sexton of George Town, with a salary of 1,6671. a-year.
(A laugh.) Then there is • high sheriff. with 1,4001.
ayes: ; a clerk with 1.3001. • next there is the brother
of the high sheriff, the eustare-houte waiter, 8381.;
a tauter pilot, 9521.; a director of river duties, 1,0081. ;
six superintendent* of riven, 2,0631 ; an administrator-
general, 2,8001., and his assistant, 12901. ; eight mini,-
ten of the Scotch church, with 3,6111. a year ; an in-
nector of police, 9301. ; his clerk, 2601., and a sub inspects,
3891.—these ere all in the gift of the governor, irrespeotire
of the civil list. Is the other and moss important Nilsen
which are in the gift of the Colon at office, I find a ganner,
at 5.0001. a year, a ehiefjostice, at 2,5001., two rime jalm
at 1,6n01. a year each; a government secretary, at 1,6001
a year ; an saistsat, at 6001. ; en attorney-general, at 1,1001.,
and • high sheriff, at 1,2001.
Ate Hos. biausaa.—That is the same high sheriff you
referred to before.
Mr. BAILLIII.—No, this is nether. (A laugh.) A sheriff
of the pane at 9001.; another at 7001., and six stipendiasy
magistrates 7,2001., or 1,2001. • year each, making • total of
30,0001. (Hear hear.) Well, sir, when the Court ef
Gana ma, the; proposed that there sisal& be a sedan=
ef 25 per Nat fa all official salaries from the peewee Isms
es the lowest public officer. To this the gevegoMmt elismok
sad an altercation ensued, when the wart thenesed to stop
the supplies. It was, however, finny anneged that the
supplies should be voted for three months, to give the go-
vernor an opportunity of monasoleating with the Colonial
office ; and I will now state, from the nand' of Lord
Grey to the governor, his mower to his communi-
cation. Wallies these neon That despatch is dated
the 13th Jen, 1848, sad fa it Zeal Grey says:
If the asseme—the lOWAN Ss morke—las deign Is success
eas:whh a demean kr the seleelis et the Weer granied to
ve the tiid le
=bib " be to
tot = ameals kr the amietemse el the Manse What
he dm peels& Om width it Is la isms ; suer would waft
Met et on shush Imility Y mama the pisdrAilidly the robs-
Um. tat as nib ammeeilp snista. Covinor MO alma thin
the menaltswe senni dons
mod t.)swomis emeematts
title whets espeaditme (erhileta) et the she sendamer mart
emplete mad mar tie Mow itaslu. S, awl thet the re-
vim le lather imeseehe them Miles efl, sad is Weed ism tans
Inn rem ills ma the pimma lhbe Imes MA there wee no
emelea hr stem* corollio as Sat Ma was_ men area ese—a
beech Mei" embus as lam Sat Se Mew cessow Meld
sweei thesapenillime et es MIMI resonate. ha ft my
hay, Ise ths Nemo 1 bine MIA le eldseL At the Name thm if
rap ef the re pill bele the deli Id druid Mem vemmt
am be, I
shield seereass er wrap! peesthells Mesa= width
iamb is the minim samba r thms
It will be observed diet Legal:boy here justifies his refusal
on two grown—one Wag dot the revenue is Madan to
meet the demean upon it; the Ober that the faith of the
colony is pledged. He says that the revenue is derived from
taxes which press little en the planters. Now, what are
than names ? Chiefly Was ea supplies—one of the most
ret of whisk is the bread tax. (Oppedlisa sheers )
parrwe have a aniline who tells us that-the am
tax upon bread—is a most oppressive tax as aria the peo-
ple of thiejmntry:going to the colonies, sod eslttlet
people there a tax on bread le of mesh small
to the inlayer', and Is raised with se small
culty, that it jutting tingsatee on the pen el the
colonial government. (Hear, bear.) Thom noble lord
says the faith of the colony fe 'pledged to the mmielememse
the present civil list, by wed the noble lard wane that an
agreement was awed into Whines the waned east of
Guiana and the ColienialaMen gby which it was stipulated
that the civil list should he Wed regularly for a ends
period, and that it would be a manifest breach of faith MIN
do so. (Hear, hear.) Thanatos!' says it must sad ,bell be
Pal&
ni hew ray lerl; VIPS s tl a tiles speak!
lv hew ay bad; smi Meshes emit m sera
111 set be mere a Wheal Maw& MI
To Mho dieted, ralwa, sod elan an yin,
To Christian intercessors. endow mot.
I'll have as speaking ; I will We my teed.
(Cheers.) Such appears to be the:spirit in which this des-
patch was penned. (Hear, ,hear.) New, sir, I have a few
words to offer with respect to this agreement. It was clearly
and distinely proved before a committee of this house—the
Sugar and Coffee-growing Colonies Committee of last year—
by • no less competent witness than Mr. Darkly, whore Lord
Grey hiss since appointed as governor of this colony, that this
agreement was obtained by false pretences. (Hear, hear.)
Mr. Darkly says in his evidence, when the Colonial office
was anxious to raise the salary of the governor, they applied
to the combined court of Gams for their consent, bat the
court refused. The Colesialselee then premised that
if they would give the inereeked salary—they, the Co-
lonialoffice, would pass an immigration ordinance. To this
arrangement the court consented, and Mr. Darkly not
only says this in words, but he proves it by refereaes to
several documents ; and he adds that as soon as the civil
list was obtained, the poetised immigration ordinance
was refused. (Hese, hear.) Can any minister after
this venture to accuse the colony of any breach of
faith? (Hear, hear.) The colony would have been
Finely justified in refining the performance of their
part of the agreement, on the ground that the Colonial.offin
had not kept faith with them. But they do not: they
appeal to Lord Grey its forond piniperis, sad say we are re-
due, d to such a state of poverty that we find it absolutely
necessary to adopt economy in the public expenditure of the
celsoy,and we a~ppeeaal to you to assist usby remise the salaries
of the public eines • and the refusal of the Colonial-office
Mks week iirOVIIIItaLOIS is the most unnatural and cruel,
•MM ea tramehal est ever perpetrated. (Cheers.) But
te Man is the preesedings of the combined court. After
the sessipt of Lord Grey's despatch the court was assembled,
end the despatch laid before them. Lord Grey, in the para-
graph Wish I have read from his despatch to LicreL-Ge-
velem Welber, remind that U any of the otiose paid from
the Oki llat Meld become vacant, all proper sad posseled
inanition Midi could be =de is the nubs Mosibiag to
them shoal have his sepsevaL Bat Ist us see hew he re-
deems Ns 'gnaw. Alio this Mph& was written, the
Abe ef gewgaw berme were, smi the sembined court of
the he etierider how hr the salary of that
ollseet4trtsedleasedased ; but they were told by
the • wing gnaw INS their Wines was to vote
the civil list, net to discuss it—(hear, hear)—and the
result was, that the court was adjourned sins die.
The Iloorogricsol ef this has been that great distress prevails ;
si Wien in the colony is at • stand-still ; then is no
mean to pay the public officers, no mercy to pay the
police, and no money raised for the public service, the civil
list only excepted, Lord Grey having natrived to secure for
that a sem of money which was Wad is the public treasury,
and which had been raised to pay the interest on a loan coo-
tncted to promote immigration. (Hear, hear.) I have, sir,
but one set more to sake Ia esaniteden with the govern-
ment of this colony—the late sppelalmen of Mr. biddy.
I=l Now, sir, I wain Ide segret that Mr. Darkly
lave so far sacritesd be as to amtpt that
ales. (Hear.) It will be that Mr. Batty
="llin parliament the govenneut Mantes, denouneiog
11 respect to these inn oul I have shown that
Warmed Won the emenne ter the express purpose
it bodkin the manage of tha senbincd court of Guiana,
eallig tort the Wends bed been the dans of fraud
iota And yea we IN Vas afterwards
the dies dreamer, sod an to the colony
ea e Wiry set dews in the list, vie., 8,0001. with-
out any eedastioa. (Heta. Isom) Sir, I think I have
made oat a case at least justifying wilantantary inquiry.
(Rear, hear.) I am well aware that I have drawn largely
ea the indalaestes of the lamas, end corteinly, it bad been
my intention to have entered also into** ewe dike Maori-
dui, but I am disposed ca redaction to think that It weld
be better to wane myself at present to saying that there
will be found in the ease of that eskay the same lingerers-
, mut and the game wasteful eztramganee as in thos of the
I two to With I have mere at large refe I
rred. think-
It better to confine the Wintry to these two
sad
Monies; m bobs be nest urgent,
ter the acre tameable kasemease of the how :ala
secondly, become the mess yea NO the inquiry, the
likely are you toanive at a salidasesey malt. (Hear, ben.)
I will not now, therefore, eater Ws the Ono of the Mae&
das, bat peepese le defer that till a Wan eseastes (Reef.)
I wealadieweeen ash yea winner yea Mak lbw Wis=e ,
can less emillage te foe gemend en the erten mew par-
ran—whether ra sea bag anion to dans their inks-
Moans Nall von in fhe smannesat thdr own slabs ?
The ken member coadadel. =MS mirk ebeedec,
by web, Ise the appalalmant ef a "Se=at Oellankles to
garbs Into the grimness seessdpi: ba the Moira
selesim ef Ceylon, sal British endnon if the
bun irlastker any messimes can be ; he the better
aambiaration and geverniant d them depfeedeades."
Mr. HUME, who seaweed the melba, wished the house
to understand that it was the splint under whit* our colo-
nies WOW/ placed, and tharellm tiro bait of parliament Joel',
which had praduced the Memnon resins so well described
by Mr. Balla He NSW upon the hank treatment
which Ceylon bad szperiamod, ern the Walt whisk DOW-
Taro had received at the karts of the Wads' seereaa Is the
matter of the civil
list, an deleted for the mason UM self-
government which was noted ashy en wont of the
rowan it would nest hem the ColandoMes.
Mr. RICARDO =d, by way d onsonient, to add
those weeds the
Moray they le
war la essisad women ell mans the Sel-
ina of se wine bas urns et wenn le
mas is the Wen whit win Sepselesselhesign tins lw sulfa
pattbasetamannima that fray dwell le mpeee. la mar&
me gbh the peon wasidel "say NW It has rallbmeary
odoilod.
He said It would be presumption on his part to talEpea
Wesel( to reply to the heavy charges nadsofbift go-
verament, and that he mum earn his his) heed
grave en atenatim se fie has. . Bailie) had
mode he should have with se small a mottos.
It wet his bald that the ease ef Oellis led bees sainted

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was,
&utast slam-gem. _ sugar am. ibee
not that protection, the; would make the 25 per
sent. melostice. They afterwards proposed that the esti-
mates should be postponed altogether, until the result of
the committee, which was sitting in that house on the sugar
and coffee question, bad been ascertained. Now, this looked
very like having a motive, that motive being to obtain pro-
tection ; and, indeed, extracts from the papers of the colony
showed that the suppiies were refused, merely because they
bad been unable to obtain protection. (Hear, hear.) The
hon. member here referred tea meeting at which Rose pre-
sided, and at which the terms were read for granting the
supplies, and he then proceeded to observe that there was
no dispute about the long list of Wailes to which the
member for Inverness (Mr. Beillie) had called the attention
of the house. The dispute was about the civil list. The
salaries were under the control of the combined court, and if
they chose to reduce them 50 per cent. they might have done
so without objection. (Hear, hear.) There was no doubt
that the movement in British Guises was made fur protec-
tioo, and that it was not aimed against Lord Grey, but
against a free-trade parliament (Applause.) The boa.
member for Inverness was no friend to the colonies it
he endeavoured to persuade them that there was a possibility
of retrain to the old state of things.
The amendment having been seconded,
Mr. HAWES rose and mid that but for the motion of
which the hon. gentleman the member for Stoke had given
notice, it would have been his (Mr. Hawes's) duty, ask would
be hie inclination, immediately to have followed the speech
of the hon. member for Inverness. The latter boa. member
had made heavy and grave charges against hie noble friend
the head of the colonial department—against the colonial-
office in times gone by—and, he (Mr. Hawes) might almost i
my, against parliament and the country itself. (Hear.) The
bon. gentlemen had attempted to cupric these aura
2 I;f:enc. to the papers oa the table, in a manner most
sous and unfair. (Applause.) And be bad amid that
he wished a committee to inquire into the conduct of the
Colonial-office in reference to Ceylon and British Guiana ;
bat why bad he struck out the Mauritius? (Hear.) He
(Mr. Hawes) entreated of the hon. mover to where to his
motion as it originally stood. (Hear, hear.) He feared no
inquiry. (Applause.) He Melted inquiry—nay, more,
he was anxious to grant it, (renewed applause,) end
he was perfectly willing that the Mauritius, or say other
isotopy should be inserted. Let it not be understood for
a moment that either his noble friend ate the
bead of the Colonial Department or himself ared
he the slightest degree any inquiry that might be
institute I. He feared it as little as the right hon. gentle-
men had reason to fear it, who conducted the colonial
affairs under the last administration. He was ready to meet
it, and then the hon. mover of the resolution would have an
opportunity of making good his charges. (Hear.) The
Colonielmffice had been accused of tyranny and opprei-
dm, and wasteful expenditure; and it was con-
I ended that the colonies should have control over
their own affairs, and ever the expenditure of their own
tonalien. But no distinction had been drawn, and no die-
gebillitie• used in treating of the subject. First of all, atten-
tion hod Men drawn to the colony of Ceylon; and it was ne-
cnto follow that part of the case step by step. When
orriagton hid been appointed, and when he arrived
la that colony, he found its treasury almost bankrupt, its
trade declining, and, of course, the Herm:eon population
chiefly engaged in trade, at that time by no means in a
Mierand thriving condition. Now, the hon. mover
reads the slightest reference to any of the measures
whisk Lord Torrington had introduced or carried with
reference to taxation. He had not said a word abut the
redactions his lordship had made; not a word about how he
had revived trade sad expanded the springs of in-
dustry ; and not a word about the amount he had
converted from direct to indirect taxation. (Cheers.) No
allusion had been made to any pert of the ease which would
have done Lord Torrington justice, but most disingenuously
and unfairly had those points only been touched which would
be likely to produce en unfavourable impression on the house.
(Renewed cheers.) Why, the first thing his lordship aid
on witnessing the depressed condition of attain in the colony
was instantly to communicate with all the leading depart-
ments and to reduce expense of all kinds. Next, he investi-
gated the tariff, and repealed taxes pressing on the land to
the amount of 30,0001. a year. (Cheers.) Then he insti-
tuted an inquiry into the state of the expenditure, and in
the first six months of 1849, in consequence of that inquiry,
he reduced the expenditure, chiefly on the fixed es-
tablishments, nearly 20,0001. • year. (Loud cheers.)
Not one word of that had been statedby the hon. gentleman.
Lord Torrington, still pumuing the investigation, established
a committee, determining to inquire closely into the extrava-
gant expenditure of the island in recent years, and had given
an earnest of that intention by reducing the expenditure
about 30,00 W , and hoped to bring about at least an squabs&
lion of the income and expenditure. He had stated mat the
noble lord bad greatly relieved trade. He had repealed the
coffee duties to the extent of 15,0001. a year. He hal reduced
the duties upon various staple commodities of the colony, on
tobacco, cinnamon, &c., to the extent of 12.0001. or
15,0001., effecting a reduction altogether of 30,0001. It be-
came necessary to see whether some means could not be
found to raise the requisite amount of revenue, which under
the depression of trade was not likely to reach its ordinary
amount, and he accordinely proposed, not four but six ordi-
nances with that view. There was • road ordinance, which
had been drawn up by a man of the greatest mill and judg-
ment, and a near relation of • member of that house—Mr.
Wodehouse, and by that ordiatesoe it was designed that the
roads of the island should be placed under some sort
of native and local control, and the taxation
hitherto thrown upon the public revenue be paid
by local rates ; but as it was impossible ti levy rates
in an island like Ceylon, the tax was commuted from 3s. a
year to three days' labour, and that wee what the hon. gen-
tleman tailed a poll tax : another instance of the remark-
ably ingenuous manner in which the hon. gentleman had
dealt with the subject. He Deemed to think that these ordi-
nances were repealed.
Mr. BaLuz —The dog and gun tax.
Mr. HAWES—Was the Iran tax repealed? The hen.
gentlemen was wrong again—it was not repealed. (Hear.) The
great object of that tax was registration. Perhaps the rate of
taxation might have been too high and the annual registration
objectionable—but the governor at ell events deeming it too
high, altered it into one uniform raristration,end that in per-
petuity. So that the object aim at by the tax had been
obtained. Then there was the dog tax. The hen. gentle-
man's remarks on that subject mid* him (Mr. Hawes) con-
clude that he knew very little of Ceylon, for otherwise he
would have admitted that one of the great nuisseces there
as iodeod was generally the case in large towns, was thi
enormous quantity of dogs. In Ceylon there was a general
dein to abate that nuisance, and if the ordinance had been
mallosil to towns he believed it would have been a popular
umeare—the objection to it being that it operated on
mu residing in the cou who wished to keep watch
But the was absolutely repealed, and all objec-
tion en that more was at an end. The taxes on stamps and
Sl=Sr., allremained. Only about two were repealed
fied. The hon. gentleman was not content
Mating that Lord Torrington was incapable as a
but went so far as to say that in hie opinion
rialir taarrection was caused by these taxes. On
Mat point the hon. gentleman's authority wee op-
the highest authorities in the island, and to all
.r. ts
.. he (Mr. Hawes) had received on the subject.
The ibut authority be should quote was that of the major-
ismseal esameiMMg the of the island, who said the late
oodinemese lamed by the late tire annals» given as a
plea he the pressat Mime* bat that is only a pretext. It
sat brag lies4ceowing. sal the Hardie= are aszions to have
Oak ours him end is mimes themselves of their pre t~
TM a= opinion he would teem to wee, that ef the okfif
J who in panda, cadence on some el the
mimosa triad before him the mu im ne
Ow 00 part they had taken iln n
the imrarrea. Nati*
thaw onaclude it bee been hatched by headmen or by
or by book. That the priests have cause to be dia.
amenet al lam aware—it is known to the amatrygenevally,
eased Owe is no named to mew to it here. But *rah
flea nW ewn observation when I say that the headmen
Imo been always discontented. The ressembranoe of the
heart power theywartkaid over the people has not yet been
SPUN" from their minds, and the consequent feeling cif
trilleeness is not pat gone nor anything CI;
The chief justice did not attri nte the
ration to the ordinances—neither did the ear
moiler of the forele, and neither did Sir B, Tensest,
whose fiefdoms as contained in this book (papers relatiu te
the Whim of Ceylon) was quite of the contrary nature. The
boa, gentleman was about to read some extracts from the
blue-hook referred to, but closed it, saying he would content
himself by stating_galeszally that not only the evidence of
Sir B. Tennant, but of others, as contained in these papers,
went to show that these ordinances ware not the im-
mediate cause of the outbreak. He was perfectly
ready to admit that they were used by parties who were
endeavouring to foster discontent, and who stated that by
them 30 or 40 taxes were about to be imposed on the natives.
He could also assert that means were taken by indivi Male to
excite to insurrection, and amongst others the editor of a
newspaper, who preached in direct opposition to the laws
of the country. He stated that unless these ordinances
were repealed, the people would not obey the laws. He
regretted that he could trace in some of oar colonise the
onseepiences of such bad advise. He regretted to
find the hon. member for Montrose wlitieg
a letter, with all the weight due to his colonial reputation,
end telling the colonists that they wore to renew the agita-
tion, and never to cease until they got a responsible govern-
ment. With • large native population profoundly ignorant,
and ruled bya priesthood such es ezistel in Ceylon, he must
my that writing smelt a letter wason the put of hishon. friend
an us of Mat liMiereBen. (Laughter.) The hen. gentle-
mar bad himself seed some hard words, and mutt expect a
few lambs in Mara. (Hoar.) Another and meet painful
part of the subject was the loss of life, upon which it wee less
boa %lowish to look with indifference. Before the house
imam to say conelusion on that most painful cart of the sub-
=Tut leek at all the oircuestances attendiag the
. He maintained that that insurrection was not
Igograyagg by the ordinances. Oa the contrary, from
1817 down to 1848, there had beset successive attempts at
insurreetioa which were fostered by the same parties in the
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General Smelt, stating that martial law bad been Ms -
ately proclaimed, that no time was to be lost, that pt
&Ed vigorous measures were absolutely necessary to be taken,
&e. ; mid after describing the revolt of the troops, he went
on to say that to the vigorous measures of the governor
must be attribut d their present success in having checked
the rebellion ; but that he was not at all sanguine as to its
having hi en pot down, for the people were beginning to feel
that it was widely spread since 1837. The house must not
therefore suppose that this was altoge•her a contemptible
rebellion or that it did not require active measures for its
suppression. Serious injury had been done to all the opera-
dons of the oolooy,and had it gone on,would have caused such
aloes as would have certsinly brought upon the governor the
SOOSSIS of that house for cot adopting those mammies, which
lie betunately and actively resorted to. Martial law was pro-
claimed. He apprehended that when that was the case, all
civil law was suspended, and that the civil government was
not to be held responsible for the trials sad executions which
took place. When they took place in this instance, the
governor was one hundred miles from the spot. They had
not received neonate of those at present, but there was a dis-
tinguished officer in chief of command, and a general whose
conduct was some guarantee for the correctneesof the proceed-
ings in than courts martial, which were held by the hoe.
gent:ems to be so sanguinary. The measure, taken to sup-
press the rebellion and to punish the guilty agent., Mr.
Hawes went on to show, were jutillable or unavoidable,
and he cited the testimony of Sir Herbert Mad-
dock to the judicious manner in which the rebellion
had been dealt with by the authorities of Ceylon, at
the same time vindicating the conduct of the soldiery.
He now proceeded to New Guiana, respecting which the
hon. gentleman's statement was a complete burlesque ; and
if he had taken the smallest pains to ascertain the truth, he
would have seen so. But he really seemed as if he had
made up that statement from the merest dribblets of news-
papers. lie said that Lord Grey bad refuted to consider all
reductions of the civil list. Now the civil list was commonly
acted at 39,0001. a year. So it stood in the ordinance, but
the sum actually paid by the colonists was much less. There
was a chugs of 7,0001. for stipendiary magistrates, 4,0001. of
which was paid by this country. The civil list was settled in
1841, and voluntarily renewed ia 1844. In 1841 Mr. Peter
Rose proposed to add 9,0001. odd for church expenses, and
to that the colony assented.-That was • pure addition to it ;
so that as far as the civil list was really concerned, it
amounted in Guiana to only about 24,0001., the ne
being about 227,0001. In 1848 the Court of Policy pat
forward as grounds for refusing the civil list, that they were
so impoverished, that they wen utterly unable to pay it.
Now, when this was said, the n had not fallen off. Oa
the whole, for the year 1848, it had increased. The produce
had not fallen off in that year, for they had exported 9,000
hogsheads of sugar more than in 1847. That was no reason
why reduction or economy should be refused, but there were
serious objections to the mode by which it was attempted to
enforce it. Suppose an hon. member in that house to say
he would not vote the estimates unless they first reduced the
civil list of the mown, the obvious answer would be, that
whether the country could or could not bear those estimates,
that was not the time to introduce the question ;
it was connected with an act of parliament and should be
dealt with by an addreu to the crown. Lord Grey did not
assent to the course proposed by the Court of Policy, and
refused to authorise the governor to accept the vote of the
estimates if the civil list wire omitted. The colony did not
take that advice. It answered perhaps, by refusing the sup-
plies, to embarrass the government and plunge the whole co-
lony into confusion. The hon. gentleman said that when
Mr. Darkly was appointed was the time to reduce the civil
list. But Lord Grey never opposed a fair settlement of the
question of the civil list. But the noble lord was of opinion,
and he (Mr. Hewes) was also of opinion, that it would be
the wont policy in the world to cut down the salaries of gover.
non in colonies such as Guiana, where the climate was danger-
ous and the cwt of living:enormous, for if they did so, few men
of adequate ability would be found to accept the office. He
had shown that the civil list was not what it was represented,
but some thousends lees—he had stated that his noble friend
was prepared to consider the question of reduction, and he
contended that the colonists had nothing on which to rest
their cue. They endeavoured to force the question of re-
duction, and it was because his noble friend was not to be
driven from his government, nor led to desert his principles
by a combination of men here or elsewhere, that he was now
the object of that bitter assault of which they bad had a s-
eimen that evening. The hon. gentleman left out of his
motion the Mauritius. He entreated of him to include it.
He said that the present ministers had deserted the princi-
ples they held when out of ofilee,and deserved to be censured
for their Inconsistency. He denied there had been any
change of principle. He supposed that the boa. gentleman
would not say that in colonies like Ceylon or the Mauritius,
where there was a great disproportion of races, and
great inequality of condition, where the white popu-
lation was small, and the coloured population large,
that the same representative government should
prevail as in other colonies. Far from it.
Lord Grey had always felt it his duty to watch the
colonies, in order to see when they were fitted to receive
representative governments. He might be accused of prone-
ness to make promises, but those promises would speedily be
fulfilled. Notwithstanding all the studied obloquy that had
been cast on the Colonial-office he would appeal to the
house, after hearing the case fully stated, to give their sup-
port to the colonial policy of Ear Grey and himself, which
was consonant with the general opinion and wishes of the
liberal party. Mr. Hawes took a comprehensive view of the
results of the policy pursued by Earl Grey, and the appoint-
ments made by him, in our various colonies, and conclude I
by saying that although an inquiry conducted in the spirit
which had manifested itself in this diictruion was not likely
to be beneficial to the colonies, yet, on the part of Lord Grey,
who courted inquiry, be assented to the motion for a com-
mittee, with the amendment of Mr. Ricardo.
Sir W. MOLES WORTH said the grievances of the colo-
nies could not be redressed by removing this or that colonial
governor; the evils were of deeper root —it was the system
of which the colonists complained. Had ministers anointed
to an inquiry into the affairs of Ceylon he should have ac-
cepted the inquiry; but he did not feel himself in any way
bound, by the qualified natant which they had given to the
appointment of a committee, to abstain from the remarks
which he proposed to offer en the state of CsylondHe should
show that is that colony an excessive and increasing expen-
diture had led to injudicious taxation; and this had pro-
duced the events which hod occurred there last year. He
found that in 1843 the expenditure of the colony was
326,0001. • in 1847 it was 496,0001, being an increase of 60
per cent.; while the revenue had only increased in
the same period 18 per cent., from 380,0001. to 440,0001.
The surplus of 44,0001. in 1843 beam, • deficit in 1847 of
6,0001. In 1845 the expenditure, fixed and extraor-
dinary, had been 448,0001. The extraordinary expendi-
,
tare was that annually voted by the legislative council,
which was composed of the governor, a majority of
aerial members, and a minority of unofficial members, ap-
pointed by the colonial office. Of that expenditure he had
ISO detailed account ; but it consisted of accidental aid con-
tingent charges on account of the various departments, and
it had gone on strikingly increasing, from 159,0001. in 1814
to 252,0001. in 1846, an increase of 70 per cent. in two years.
The other portion, the fixed expenditure, which could notbe
reduced without the unction of the colonial office,—a sanc-
tion which was rarely, if ever, given—had also gone on in-
creasing. In 1846 it was 31,0001. mon than in 1844. In
1845 it was 220,000, consisting of salaries, pensions, and mili-
tary charges. He would first take the military
charges. Them, in 1845, amounted to 57,0001. ; 24,0001.
of which was a contribution from the colony to our military
chest. But this amount Sir Emerson Teannt proposed to
throw on the imperial exchequer ,• so that, while our expen-
diture on account of Ceylon would amount to 134,0001.. our
exports to that colony had not much exceeded, in 1836,
300,0001. The despatches showed that a bill would be sent
in to us for 24,0001., on amount of the expenditure
of Ceylon enemata; the revenue last year owing to the dis-
turb moss; and wheninrer there wee disturbance and rebel-
lioa in any of our colonies, the pecuniary cooaquenee was
always felt in a demand on the imperial exchequer. The
remainder of the fixed military expenditure consisted of par
and allowances to the colonial troops, and was, in 180,
32,0001. The next head was salaries to the officers of the
civil, nelesiastical, judicial, and revenue departments,
amounting, in 1845, to 132,0001. The item for the civil
of was 47,0001, including 7,0001. to the governor, who,
when an officer in command of the troops, received an addi-
tion of 1,6001. The colonial secretary formerly received
2,0001; that had been raised by Lord Stanley to 2,5001.
The two assistants of the colonial secretary had 1,0001. and
1,8001. . • the treasurer, 1,5001. • the auditor, 1,7501. In all,
1 the 13 superior officers received 18,7751 a year, being an
average of 1,4001. each. The next establishment was the
eallWriatical department—an expensive item in all our colo-
nies ! In Ceylon, the European population did not much ex-
ceed 6,000, and them were divided into numerous sects —catho-
lies, presbyterians, Wesleyan', independents, and so on. The
' natives were either Mahommedans, or followers of Budhu,
or Brahma • very few of them were Christians. Lord Tor
finites stated that multitudes of them called themselves
Chehalis who were in secret still more closely attached to
Me dinedms. of Budhuism or Brahminism ; and the vast
I=devemse of these pretended Christians professed to be
(Ueer.) To each a population we had given an
egniihhel church, and had made them pay to an arch-
hi, Bishop of Colombo, 2,0001. a year ; to one
9001. ; totem. others, 7001. each ; and
N epees later sums, in all 9,0001., exclusive of grants
hem the colonial treasury for the building of chunks..
(Hear, hear.) Nextecame the salaries of officers of the
Mvenue department,—amounting in 1845 to 39,0001. The
rits of the provisoes, five in number, had each salaries of
11M01. or 1,5001. a year ; and their Inferior officers bad from
2001. to 8501. One of the duties of them officers was to
make the government acquainted from time to time with
the state of the native population, their wants, wishes,
and grievances ; but owing to their ignorance of
the native language, this duty was completely neg.
looted; end the government had the utmost difficulty en
obtaining authentic information as to the state of the people,
or in making known to them their intentions. In the last
insurrection, a rio'ous mob bad assembled in some of the
towns; they had broken open houses, destroyed furniture
and papers, broken open a gaol, and proclaimed two of their

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lat the Mtn- per coat., and the ground on which they made that prequel the insurrection was put down. Now, let him central
necessary' to was, that, when the civil liet,was mud, they had protection that the cheroot*? of Lord Torrington. The hon. gen
colony, and against slave-grown sugar, and that then, as they had here read a letter from the commander of the 4
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