The Express.
London, England, 1850-07-31 00:00:00

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reditary fates*. be has got a larie Allowance. Be-
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lefeiNetine IV la be *Bowed to close with-
11111.11emeafasent t mode to extra* from minis-
Ism an espisislins the may extraordinary course
minis-
Ism have e 514114, *Woe to the Ceylon inquiry,
end an =Pik declaration of what steps they intend
to adept he the better gewernment of that island in
'future.
Tbeevasiveand ansatistlesess7 eharesterefthe Report
et 'looollm committee, we have already ornamented
=The history of that repo* is understood to be as
:--Early is the seamen the committee's doors
watershed in the fees of the public. The pretext was
the noceneity of preventing partial end party-coloured
sepses of the evidence taken from bear pet in sir.
mistime. The committee having coseloded Its labours,
a mejseity was prevailed upon to decide
that embus portions of the evident*, bom-
be on the character of men is high ate-
dm should be suppressed, but that the rest of
the evidence obseld be reported to the house. A
salseepent reminder. adopted, it is rumoured, under
Image peculiar sisemestmess,
thheld t decided that the whole
el ea miaow should be wiles the haus,
sec say sesssesessdal to the private permed of go-
essemeat.
• similar mane seems to be contemplated with re-'
spot to the report of the ememiesion appointed to M-
I mitigate Captain WATSON'S OSSIP in Corm. OA the
plea &deemed for postponing the submission of the
' emainissiousee report to the Home of Commons
we have already expressed our opinion. The
hew has base pommeled to wait till the evi-
dence, and the mere elaborate report promised
by the commissimers, shall have been received. Tee
overland mail from Ceylon will not arrive before the
19th of August, sad on that day, at latest, parliament
it is understood w.ll be prorogued. There to a meet
' suspicious likeness between this delay and the delay
in the publication of the evidence taken by the oom-
mittee. The postponement of publication may he fol-
lowed by suppesoon.
Ministers ought to be told explicitly that by such
conduct they may damage their own characters, bat
cannot save the parties who are to blame for the mis-
management and the cruelties in Ceylon.
The appointment of a committee to inquire into the
affairs of that colony last session was extorted from
ministers ; but its re-appointment this session was
their own doing. The nomination of a commission to
inquire into Captain WATSON'S case was also their
doing, and arose oat of the proceedings in the corn-
mittee. Nay, the cry that Captain WATVON was a
misrepresented and Mused man "resin no small mea-
sure of ministerial getting up. If a myeterions secresv
is to be east over the result of two years' labour the
public will not be slow to infer that the facts elicited
have been of a nature too bed to bear the light of day,
and that ministers have lent themselves to conceal
them, and have multiplied the subjects of inquiry,
and lengthened the investigation in order to find
opportunities to evade publicity..
As for the high functionaries in Ceylon, if the frets
substantiated before the committee and the commis-
sion be indeed of such austere as the anxiety evinced
to consign the knowledge of them to oblivion
naturally and necessarily suggests, the attempt to
conceal them will be fraitiess. The exculpation of
the parties seemed necessarily involves the con-
demnation of their accusers; and the parties who
steed in this relation to them are too high bath
in position and personal character to submit to such
injutice without an appeal to the public. Wnether
the evidence taken before the committee and the
commission he published in the ordinary way by
being submitted to parliament, or not, its substance
is sere to be made generally known.
The character of the House of Commons is at stake
in this matter. Tee house appointed a committee to
examine and report to it. A majority of that com-
mittee resolve to report not to the house bat to go-
vernment. Can the house, with any sense of melt'
respect, submit to be thus treated by a few of its
members?