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objection to give the maps, but they could only employ
these persons who were regularly engaged on the Irish
or Scotch surveys to make the tracing. The Ordnance
were now obliged to pay all the money they received for
those maps into the Treasury, but, if they re--
ceired a sum of money for the purpol.e, they would be
very happy to supply these maps to the country,
THE CAPE,

Mr. ADDEALI7.I7 rose to ask the Secretary of State
for the Colonies whether, the dispatches just arrived
from the Cape announced tat) pissing of the constitution
orclinanccs, including the alterations of the franchise
g
Attorney-General protested; what
eTienastnce whichs,
the
information had been received relating, to the rumoured
advance of Prastorius against the Zoolas; and whether
treaties were actually entered into with the Kafir chiefs
for the termination of the war? The papers and letters
just received were full of the importance of the expres-
sions of Lord Derby last year, when ho said in the 'de-
bate on the Cape in the Liouse of Lords,—

" He might have hesitated to grant so large a measure
of representative government as that nova proposed to be
granted to the colony, but he would say that, as such a
proposal had been, made of such high authority, and as
it had obtained ttin sanction of the colony, and the im-
plied sanction of the Crown, any danger or risk was.o
be encountered rather than not to fulfil those expecta-

tious; and he would not bate one j,)t--of the popular in-
stitutions proposed to be confided to the colony, however
anxious he might be as to the working of those institu-
tions in the first instance."
He wished also to know if the Government intended to
carry out their kgislation on the subject this session?
Sir J. PL\KINGTON said that the question of which
the Honourable Member had given notice embraced
three points, to which he had added a fourth, and, in re-
plying, he (Sir J. Pakington) would take them seriatim.
As the Hunourable Member had given notice of the
question on Saturday, he presumed the Honourable
Member referred to the accounts which came over
week ago with Sir Harry Smith, and he might not be
aware that a mail had arrived this morning. By the mail
of a week ago he (Sir J. Pakington) nad received a
dispatch from General Cathcart, stating that he had
thought it to be his duty to pass the constitution ordi-
nances with the alterations made by the council; and by
the mail of this morning he had received the ordinances
themselves. As to the second question, he was very
happy to be able to state that the rumoured advance of
Prwtorius against the Zeiss not only remained without
foundation, but that by the mail this morning he had re-
ceived the agreeable information that a convention had
been agreed to bstween Prmtorius and her Majesty's
Commissioners, and that peaceful relations had been
established.—(Hear, hear.) As to the third question,
whether treaties were entered into with the Kafir chiefs,
he regrettetV to sayle had no information that they were,
and he was afraid, from the dispatches received from
General Cathcart, there was no reason to believe there
would be. With respect to the fourth question, he did
not know till a week ago that the ordinances had been
sanctioned by the new Governor, and as the ordinances
had only arrived this morning at the Colonial-office, he
thought the Hon. Member would admit it would be ex-
tremely premature for him to attempt to state now what
were the intentions of her Majesty's Government on this
subject.—(bear.)
NAVAL RESERVE.

Sir G. PECHELL wished to ask what steps had been
taken to carry out the reserve of 5,000 men which had
been provided for by a vote of the House?
Mr. STAFFORD had to state, in reply, that no steps
had bee❑ taken to carry out that system, and that, after
much consideration and consultation among those best
acquainted with the subject, it was considered the scheme
was on the whole impracticable.
PRUSSIA AND NEUFCHATEL.

Lord J. RUSSELL was understood to ask whether
any communications had been received by her Majesty's
Government respecting a recent conference between the
representatives of the great
,Powers of Europe, with re-
ference to the claims of Prussia upo❑ Neufchatel; and,
secondly, if the Noble Lord knew if there would be any
objection to lay the papers on the table of the House.
Lord STANLEY (who spoke in a still lower tone
than Lord John Russell, so that he was very indistinctly
heard) was understood to reply that a conference had
been held, and a protest signed by the representatives of
the four great powers, on the subject of the Prussian
claims on Neufchatel. There was no doubt in the mind
of Government, or, he believed, on the mind of any per-
son who had turned his attention to the subject, that
Prussia had certain rights over Neufchatel, which rights
had been recogoised by the treaty of 1815. It might
not be altogether irrelevant to observe, as it was a fact
of some importance, that this was the first public act by
which France, under her present ruler, bad recognised
the settlement of Europe made in 1815. At the pre-
sent time, at all events, it would be impossible to lay the
papers connected with this conference on the table of the
House.