The Express.
London, England, 1850-07-26 00:00:00

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appointed he lapin iato the matter in
revert. mil* Mr eg stated was :11;
the memerla. Whig that the
their oriole, with all the deer
mail. It was likewise true that -, /atm* had
hoes Wormed of the report of this sommissioa, sad
laving sees that report still asserted that the omen
tioa teat he had simnel an snob prosimastion was
totally false, and that say each of his same was a
herr/. New, thee beigg the sass, the sommiesienees *p-
refaced to re to Celt bong stated *ll they iii been
mended that Captain Widen had signed these pradamatioas
by the orates.* of by whetted lighten them la the Cis.
so wfairldos Iftdi Ober 11"8.0"
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mes elgaed by Ida and CAptain Waffle tea the ewe hand.
math* lesyleg the truth of their sweet, and .tat mist
=that the paint* was a forgery, he (Lied J.
) Wu& it was incombeat oa the gone&
meat net at atm to proceed to ally vied
le)•rioaa to the laciarraz of • British °Mow hitherto of
reputation. He should sot, therefore, thick it lie dull
lay on the table this preliminary report. He thoight it wee
the duty of the 'overeaten to wait until the tau report
which the cessetiesionen tarnished bad arrived, and the* es
take tato consideration all the cirtuantearee, sad all the
events of this certainly strong and iaseplicable east, Wei
giving Captain Watson, a saes of hitherto nableneisked r.-
Wade, every means of defending himself gains* a sharp
whisk, as it sew stood, was not oaly ate of cruelty and fair&
maaity, bat ass which affected his voracity as as eager and
a gentleman. He thought that say man Lbcariag smile
such charges sheold have every opponsaity of viadieeebg
himself. (Cheers )
Mr. HUME said that the noble lord seemed to Walt that
his hon. friend the member for Inverness would have dose
better not to ask for the paper, but it was absolutely nesse-
eary that they should have this dooming to lay Wore the
committee. He believed that hundreds of thaw makeup
tins bad beets eireelated, sad that it would be proved that
property to a terse aseent had bees pluadered, sad abet
iaaomot pumas who had never hew tried, but who dad
from fear and alarm of martial law, had been robbed under
them. The noble lord blamed his hon. friend for having
brenght thus proolamstioes seder the conc. of the Intim,
bat if he had sot done so the earandesion
would never have been grained. He (Mr. Mame)
did Rot west to say one word mote ea the
rebieet, until the report should b. before them is szieseo,
Archer thaa that trots information he had revived boat
persons who had !invaded the inquiry, he was Nand to state
That th• tawdry had hems • public owe madaeto4 by tee of
the ablest pahie mea is the seat—one of them the MAW
kedge of Madras and the other Mr. Rowe, (as we uadentood.)
They oondoeted the inquiry with opus doors end with the
greatest courtesy towards all partite. He (Mr. Ramo) had
it from the witnesses who attended that the whole matter
was gene into with the most minute are, and that the proof
was so ample that if Captain Wanes himself had been pre-
sent he would have been satisfied that he lad made an at

rations statement. He (Mr. Haase) was awry that the noble
lord dtd not think that, which had already been laid before
the committee, might be laid on the table, as It might
grimly emit is say discumione on the subject. He hoped
that the noble lord would reconsider his determination, sad
lay the document upon the table according to the snail cus-
tom of the house, which ruled that who any partite' of
• document was read by any member of the bowie, such
document was to bs laid In its complete form on the table.
This report having been laid before the committee was a
public paper, and should, as be conceived, be placed without
delay I. the bands of esemben.
Mr. DISRAELI ail not mean to question the propriety
of the course taken by the noble lord, but at the same time
he thought it his duty to express his opinion, that hie hon.
friend the member for Inverness was fully justified in asking
for the drift report, because the house would reliant that
the second and complete report could not mini until after
the termination of the seseion—(bear,hear)—and that, then-
fore, his hon. friend would have no appal* lenity of vindicat-
ing his original stateliest. (Hear, bear.)
Lord J. RUSSELL said that Wit hos. members had

misunderstood his as imputine any Wm* to the boa. um-
ber for lerernese, for brisigitue on toe question at the mend
junoure. He bed referred to the ODWIII taken at the mom-
aseueement of the session, and said that it would have been
better to have reserved thi sharp for the eenunittee.
Motion wi,hdrawn.
STEAM COMMUNICATION WITH AUSTRALIA.
Lord NAAS moved ea address. preying h.? Majesty to
order such meesarte to be taken as will tame the immediate

establishment of regular steam communication with the Aus-
tralian colonies. He adverted to the great inconveniences
suffered through the present mode of communication %ill
aces c s, the voyage from this ecuatry to Sy laity oe•
copying, ova an average, between 120 and 130 days,
whereas by atesin the time erild be reduced at the outside te
20 days. Ha described the different roam and their coope-
rative advantages and disadvantages, giving the preference
to that which joined the existing lines of cammunicstim be-
tween Europe, India, and China, at Singapore or Point de
Halle be noleed th • steps taken by the colonisl legi.latares
end by individuals to establish steam Mumma* with Europe,
and enlarged upon the great advantages, military, and naval,
las well as aamesseial, which would malt from extending
steam communication to Australia.
Lard J. Mammas seconded the

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The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER declined to
consent to the motion, and stated the Gauss which bad
hitherto prevented the attainment of an object the advan-
tages of which were great and obvious, and whitish he was as
noxious u anybody could be to accomplish. Toe preferable
routs was undtubtedly that by way of the Esst Indies,
which would connect the Australian colonies with the East
Indies and China ; and an offer bad been made by the Penin-
sular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company, so advan-
tageous that he regretted it bad not been closed with. The
present ummunication between this country and India we.
xarri.4 on, in the first place, by what was timed the
Calcutta line, under a contract which would expire
at the end of two veers. Two or thee* years
ego there bad been • Nighty line from Southamp.
ton, bat that portion of it between Sontlituptoo
and Alexandria had been discontinued, and the
I present Bombay mail was curled through France
to Malta, thence by government vessels to Alex-
andria, and by yeasts of the But India Company
from Sues to Bombay, where it stopped. The pay-
ment for this service was strut 100,0001.—half by the Best
India C mussy, and 60,0001. by this coan'ry. The Penin-
sular and Origin al Steam Navigation Company bad offered,
it the whole communication were confined to them, botany
the honey mail from Souttuumpton to Malta, thence to Alex-
andria, and hen Sues to Bombay, and on to Singapore,
thence to branch out into lines that would effect a direct

common cation between Bombay, Calcutta, China, and the
Atraban Monies. The compact' offered to do this for
105,0001. As the East India Cowpony sum parties to the
present arrangement, be could not disturb it wi..heut their
concurrence; hat they had declined to be parties to any new
arrangement, from a desire to keep in complete efficiency the
Indian navy. and because the arrangement would plus a
monopoly i■ the bands of a single company. The ;elapse'
►e had made was, that two-V.irds of the sum should be paid
by this country, and one-third by the Beet Indite Company,
and he could not st.ffieWntly express hie r gret that such an
arrangement could not be effected until the expiration of the
'hiring contract.

Sir J. HOBO, with some degree of warmth, complained of
the uncanoid and unfair tonne taken by Sir C. Wood, who
had given an expires experition of the correspondence be-
tween him and the Boat India Company. la reaming to
the eommuniestion between Sae: sad Bombay, in (behinds
of that company, Sir Charles had said nothing of the
conaiderauons out of which had arisen a condition pre-
cedent., distinctly understood in the cerreepondence, that
that pert of the communication should be coaducted by the
Indies navy, and which coneitticn the government proposed
to pt rid o'. Sir J. Hogg gave explanations upon
other points respecting which he alleged that the
Chancellor's representations were unfair, and charged
him with want et trackage* in his communications

with the E tat India Company, who ;eenWeir to
enter into a fur arrangement, aad who bad incurred consi-
derable expense in maintaining the committal:sties between
Sues and Bambsy. The mamatinicition proposed by the
Chancellor or the lizehequer was a postal erommunicatioe,
whereas what was wanted was • communicatioa for mer-
chandise sad passengers, and the route for such a COMUILIMI-
es. ion was rant] the Cape of Good Hope ; that by the Red
Sea to Australia would be mosinausly expensive. The latter
mate was mos for the advantage of the But India Com
parry, but they wished for that most beneficial to the eons-
sounity. He again complained that the East India Compaqy
should have beer held up by Sir C. Wool to obloquy, and
' gave nodes that he should more that the whole siMrespoad-
tato be laid helms the house.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, In ozgeAn•
dos, said he had not deathbed the other routes *Wee had
beet suggested and the offers which bad been made, the
noble lord who brought forward the motion having done so
most accurately. The hoe. mentions& was not correct ia
tying that ha had not commuisiasted the terms of the con-
tract to the Beet India Company, for the very first step be
took whoa he had decided upon the best firm of comannica-
don— _ _ _

Sir J. HOOG—Hear, her! When yen had made up
your dad.
The CHANCELLOR of tho EXCHEQUER—Yes,
when I had Melded, sad Iwrohead:it woe for the
goteramsat awl sot the Best f adfi Company to deddieupot
the liar of enemusisatioa. Having decided I immediately
seat to Chairs= of the Best India Company, [anemias
his of the doilies of the government, and oolinting hi.
co-operation. With mord to the statement which the how.
gentkmaa has sow tisane, it is sot for me to say • word
oa the satins at the runt time—keeposee that all the
correeponetesee shall be predated, and Im
am perfectly willing
to be judged by that.
Kr. ANDERSON bogged to cenebonte the statement of
the Chancellor of the Barbeganr, that the proposal now
made for tommunicaties with Australia had no connexion
with the the to Calcutta. They were eatintly sorrels, and
the arenag to etas by so meant b nand the governmant to
the other. The hon. gantleesaa had asked what bad steam
emanianiestion between Sues and Bombay to do with 'teen
counnunitabon to Australia ? That was a natural
question, asd he would endeavour to answer It. The diffi-
culty to be met on this subject was a financial ono—how the
eosetouniesion could be established with the least expense.
The eumperstive chespana of postal traffic, by contract
steam vessels, areas from their being able to combine the
passage, sad goods train with the conveyance of ensile,
sad In slandering the question it became his duty, and that
of his eollearns in the direction of the Peninsular and
Oriental Company, to consid.r in what way they could
combine the greatest smount of passenger and goods
traffic. Several stations were fixed between Austra-
lia, China, sand the mother country; but when
they got to Bombay, there they were stopp,n.
He wee in favour tit the route proposed by the Peninettler
end Oriental Steam Navigation egmpiny, as by it they
would have a line of c.mmunication much more extensive
end without additional cost.

E P.IPREOB,