The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-06-12 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT•

HOUSE OF COMMONS.—WEDNESDAY.
The SPEAKER took the chair at twelve o'clock.

PRIVATE BUSINESS.

The following bills were read a third time and passed :
Maybole and Girvan Riilsvay, Metropolitan Railway, and
the Morayshire Railway.
The following bills were ordered to be read a third
time :—B igenalstown and Wexford Railway, Dorset
Central Railway, Glastonbury and Bruton Railway, Severn
Valley Railway, and the Wimbledon and Croydon Railway.

NAWAB OF SURAT TREATY BILL

Mr. V. SMITH moved the postponement of the consider-
ation of the report on this bill for a week, on the ground
that there era; not at present sufficient evidence before the
house on which to proceed further with the bill.
Sir F. KELLY said that the honour and good faith of
this country were involved in this question. The measure
referred to an annuity which the East India Company
solemnly engaged to pay the Indian prince and his descend-
ants, in consideration of his having surrendered to them his
territory and revenues of Surat. The annuity amounted to
£15,000 sterling per annum, and was regularly paid to the
Nawab and his son during their lives, but the East India
Company refused to pay it to the present next of kin, on the
ground that the office of Nawab was extinct, but who was
nude so by virtue of this agreement. The learned gentleman
iidiculed the absurdity of such an objection to the fulfilment
cf the treaty, and said it was necessary to introduce this
measure to compel the East India Company to fulfil their
part of the agreement. The president of the board of
control having refused to affirm the principle of the bill,
he (Sir F. Kelly) pressed the House to take the report
into consideration this day. The committee appointed to
investigate this measure had reported unanimously in its
favour.

Sir J. W. Hoag said the greatest delusion prevailed
with regard to this case, and he denied that the Nawab of
Surat had transferred his territories and revenues to the
East India Company. The company had commercial rela-
tions with Surat by a firman of the Emperor so early as
1667, and political relations in 1759, after which a treaty
was entered into personally with the Nawabs, and it was
under that that the East India Company exercised their
authority in that province, and the question was, whether
by that treaty the Nawabship was a hereditary office, and
whether the agreement had reference to his heirs, descen-
dants, or his successors to the office. He contended that it
was the latter, and reminded the house that the office was
not hereditary till 1800, and that the Nawab, with whom
the treaty way made, died in 1769, and he rested his oppo-
sition to the question now put forth mainly on the fact
that in 1800 the Nawabship was not hereditary but nomi-
national, and that it was under the treaty of 1659 at the
disposal of the East India Company.
Mr. CARDWELL suggested that the discussion on the

merits of the case should be postponed till the Bill Iv as in
the hands of members. Ile expressed a hope that
Government did not intend by delay to defeat the measure•
Mr. V. SMITH repudiated any such intention.
Sir E. PERRY defended the claimant of the annuity.
Mr. WAouiot thought delay was necessary for the consi-
deration of the measure.

Alter some further conversation, with regard to the expe—
diency of postponing the further discussion of the measure,
in which Sir J. GRAHAM, Mr. V. SMITH, Sir F. KELLY,
Mr. J. G. PHILLIMORE, Sir JOHN FITZGERALD, Mr.
SPOONER, Mr. OTWAY, Mr. JAMES MACGREGOR, and Sir
CHARLES WOOD took part, the debate was postponed till
Wednesday next.

THE EARL or PERTH'S CLAIMS

Sir F. KELLY, on the bringing up of the report upon the
subject of the Earl of Perth and Melport compensation,
explained, in reply to Sir H. WILLOUGHBY, Mr. W. WIL-
LIAMS, and Colonel PATTEN, that the object of the above
measure was to give compensation to the Earl of Perth and
Melfort, whose estates had been seized, and, as it since
appeared, illegally seized, in the reign of James H.
The SPEAKER, in reply to Sir H. VANE, said that the
Bill, after having been referred to a select committee,
would be committed to a committee of the whole House, and
would thou proceed as a public bill.
After some further discussion, Monday was fixed for the
consideration of the question in a committee of the whole
House.

Sir F. KELLY stated that if he then found it too late
in the session for the measure to pass, he should N%ithdraw

SALE OF SPIRITS (IRELAND) BILL.

Mr. BRADY then moved the second reading of the Spirits
(Ireland) Bill, which le said had for its object the relief of
the vintters of Dublin.

The ATTORNEY GENERAL (for Ireland) said the object of
the bill would be gained by the introduction of a clause into
the Dubli❑ Police Bill.

In the course of a discussion that arose,

The SPEAKER stated that as the bill applied to a par-
ticular locality it could only be introduced as a private

measure.
The bill was accordingly withdrawn.
The Aldershott Camp Bill went through committee.
The Insurance on Lives Abatement of Income-tax Bill
was read a third time and passed.
The Oxford University Bill went through committee.
The LORD ADVOCATE brought in a bill to abolish certain
unnecessary forms in the framing of deeds in Scotland.
Mr. HORSEMAN brought in a bill for the better regula-
tion of the Houses of Industry Hospitals, and other hospi-
tals in Dublin supported wholly or in part by parliamentary
grants.

The House adjourned at six o'clock.

RIFF OR MOORISH PIRATES AGAIN.

We regret extremely having to record another case of
piracy within so short a distance of England, and where it
might reasonably have been supposed, from the frequency
of such atrocities, some of her Majesty's cruisers would be
found. But is there, it may be asked, such a thing as one
of her Majesty's cruisers in existence, and has the govern-
ment no idea of what is duo to so great a country as this,
that piracy and murder is so frequently committed, and yet
nothing done either to repress such fearful crimes, or
punish the guilty.
It appears that the Hymet Smith, of and from Liverpool
for Ancon), was attacked and boarded in the waters of
Botoya, on the Riff coast by Moorish pirates, who plan•
dered and partially destroyed the barque, leaving
total wreck on the beach, about three leagues east of Cape
Quilate, carrying into captivity all the crew except four,
wile were rescued. A guard had been furnished for the
protection of the strandard prop-rty, and under the superia-
tendance of the Governor of Melilla,