The Express.
London, England, 1859-03-12 00:00:00

QOM OF MX CALDWILL.

Mr. RIDLEY seed the thartery of &ate for the Colo-
air error her Majesty's government had received the
ripen of a eemillselea apprised to inquire ins a charge
berskt emir Mr. Dort Richard Caldwell, for pa/da-
rer( la the poets of piracy eerier the time was holding
ea under the govern/Lint of Hong Kong; also • repot
dthe trial of " The Quer mart William Tarreat," vkieh
took place in the month of November let, in the Breese
Court of Victoria, in Hong Kong. sad in which trial it wee
sworn that certain papers brileating Mr. Caldwell in the
above charge were destroyed by order of Dr. Bridget, Acting
Cartel Secretary, at that tires ezerrldsg. as wu alleged, ea
ealawtel atrocity conterred by the governor of the color.
It tree report,' bad been received, what course hrDiejesaf
government had taken with retreats to the Sr'earttor to
which they relate; and whether they would lay upon the table
any paper which might contain inioneara on the subject?
air N. B. LYTTON wu understood to say that the go-
vetnment had remind the repot of the commiesios and in
artier to give thewho erne Mee of the whet of th;
relating to the abject he had brought them down with W.
(The Hgr baronet then exhibited a large pile of pares,
sad considerable masernmet was mused by their dispersion
over the table, in coneerresee of the string by which they
were tied together hai g gives way.) On the arrival of the
document,', they were four to crude many points of legal
wirer end the writ 'NAM smear of abuse— 1
(leagliteread it had been ourihred nemesery to satutit
the, to the strictest lareigetles. He discovered in them
-bateedortiee, sad all stachattahhnessrevrryperibleveziety
at agree, end oonerpretly what might be ceasidend a de-
scription el deer We to the colony. (Laughter.) With
reelect be the moor restion, whether he had noshed a
toper el the trial el the '• Queen v. Wm.. Tamar," he
begged to say that he had received from the garret rely the
nosh of that trial, bat a fall report of the trial, takes in
sheet bead, had been rooked, mad err slum the amour
meat of that fact ea universal shudder every day pervaded
the Colonist Department. (Laughter.) What would be the
extra of that report Heaven only knew. (Continued
laughter.) With regret to the min queries, the oseado-
non had aoquird Mr. Caldwell of the charge of partici-
pating la the profits of piracy. They had also acquitted him
of raver] other grave charges, which ought sever to bar
been brought spout hi., partioulerty by a tram oilier.
Neverthelees, certain fate bad come oat is the sour or the
trial which showed that, so far RI regarded the interests of
the rimy, Mr. Caldwell Goghs to be dleadred from hie
otdoe, Dress he could give sore ea septsaahloa,
whir he had been called upontisfirelo. On the
other head, be mutt say that the mode la whir
Mr. Arta had originated end conducted that bigotry,
and the breach of official confidence which reared in
W orems of the trial, had lad the gaovernor to serer lha;
and altar a dispassionate of the perm he
weld some to so sake cosclnaion than that the govence's
decision ought to be catirmed. The right hos. patters
having entered into a detailed statement of the fade se they
appeared in the pipers, said he now came to the quirks
se to the cowls which her Majesty's governmint treaded
to parrs with reference to three trio-actions. It was his
intention, ta soon as porible, to direct a most cadet sumo-
nation into the whole of the facts. The hoc. partneri
wished to know whether the government had any objerios
le the production of papers. He (Sir B. B. Lytton) areal
from the mobility of laying each a mass of papers ea
the table. He would rather lay the table on them.
(Laughter.) He hat not the alighteet perm:teal or °Erdal
object.on to their production, and it the hon. member week
move for the be should have them ; but be should look
with ropier nate admiration on any devoted member who
would undertake to reed them. (Laughter.)
THE TRALKE AND EILLARNEY SAVINGS