The Sun.
London, England, 1852-06-12 00:00:00

LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING,

IMPERIAL PARLIAMEN T.

HOUSE OF LORDS, June 11.
TRANSATLANTIC PACKET S'T'ATION.
Earl CAWDOR, in patting a question to her Ma-
jesty's Ministers relative to this subject, called the at-
tention of the House to the following paragraph, which
ho read from the Times :
" THE NEW PACKET STATION COMMISSION.—Captain
Charles Tyndal, of the Royal 'Navy, arrived in Galway
on Tuesday night, accompanied by his secretary, for the
purpose of viewing and reporting on the capabilities of
the port of Gaiwey for a Transatlantic packet station.
The gallant officer was out early the following morning
making the necessary observations. Each of the three
Commissioners appointed by Lord Derby's Government
will separately visit the harbours of Limerick and
Galway, and send in their respective reports."
He (Earl Cawdor) did not know whether there was any
truth in this paragraph?
The
out no Commissioner.
Not a word of it. We have
sent
Earl CAWDOR—His Noble Friend assured him that
there was not a word of truth in the paragraph, and he
E a
Earl
a pmEirioYne—r.
was very willing to believe that Captain Charles
anpot:incalcle.d
But
this subject. '' comi evente," it was said,
" threw their shadows before' and he was not quite
upon to make any report on
ell'eyanrd
thata l
Cs
Tyndal might not yet appear
bodily in that city
for the object assigned to him,
or some other gallant Captain in his
stead. Ho had
hopes that the late discussion in that House had settled
this question; but owing to this paragraph, and the per-
severance with which certain Noble Lords connected
with Ireland always pursued the objects which they had
once had in view, and owing to other circumstances
which had come to his knowledge, he had now more
fears than thopes; and,
therefore, he felt compelled to
put a question or two to his Noble Friends near him.
The object of the late i
-cquiry ought not to have been
what port in Ireland is the best fitted for Transatlantic
navigation, but what 'Port on the western side of the
United Kingdom, Now, there had been no allusion
made to anything of that sort by any other of the Noble
Lords opposite. The evidence and the report which had
been founded upon it both showed clearly enough that no
advantage would be gained by choosing an Irish pert as
a Transatlantic packet station, but that great evil and
inconvenience would accrue to the commercial and tra-
velling community front the adoption of such a propo-
sal. Now they were threatened with a fresh inquiry, to
decide whether Limerick or Galway would be the least
inconvenient as a Place of departure for America. He
had already informed their Lordships tikat the Commis-
sioners who conducted the last iequiry were precluded
from inquiring into the practicability of selecting other
harbours in other
oozed parts
, of the country. but it had some-
how or other (m out that Milford Haven was better
suited for a Transatlantic packet station than either
Limerick, Cork, or Galway. It had been shown that
there was no harbour on the western coast of Ireland
into which a V 03841 of any great tonnage could enter with
safety in hazy weather.
Now, the soundings in Milford
Haven were so good that any vessel of any size might
run into it either
night or day. If we were to have
another inquiry into this subject, he thought that the ca-
pabilities of Milford haven ought to be included in that
ioquiry. He concluded a speech, which was indistinctly
heard throughout, ' by asking the Noble Duke near him
(Northumberland)
• whether he intended to proceed with
this inquiry,. and, if 80 whether ho would include Mil-
ford Haven in it? ,

The Earl of DERBY was not surprised that his Nobl©
should not he lost sight of;
Friend was anxious that the merits of Milford Haven
Friend to balance them against the merits of Limerick
and Galway, tv advocated on a
regarded the hich were as eloquently
former night h.,
y certain Irish friends of his as those of
Milford Haven had been advocated that evening. His
Noble Friend hadmisapprehended the intention of the
but he mast leave his Noble
Commission of
Inquiry now about to issue. First, as
cited from the Times.- It might be very true that Cap-
tain
had
Tyndal Was surveying and examining Galway Bay;
but, if so, it was on his own behalf, and not on that of
paragraph which his Noble Friend had
the Government. When he said just now that Govern-
menthad said that which was perfectly true to the letter, for
the appointment of the Commissioners had not been
signed till
not dispatched a Commissioner to Galway, he
, that morning by the Noble Duke near
hi" Still, it was intended that those Commissioners
should :proceed to make forthwith a personal survey
and examination of the western coast of Ireland.
Their
narrow an
--rvey, however, was to be limited within very
hounds. He thought that his Noble Friend had
been present
at the last debate on this subject, when it
was stated that one point ought to be cleared up by per
sonal examination ou the spot. The last Commission
had reported that if a packet station or a harbour of
refuge were to be created on the west coast of Ireland,
preierence must be given to either Galway or Limerick;
and thou it had described the advantages and the disad-
vantages
of both. The Noble Marquis opposite (Clan-
ricarde) had then suggested that a new Commission
should. be issued to fill up the void in our knowledge by
striking the balance between those two harbours. To
that object, and to that object alone, were the inquiries
pre-
ference was
outhe Commissioners to be directed. The Government
d not decided to which of the two harbours the
Commis-
sioners to decide with his Noble Friend. He could as-
sureun-
dertake the work of establishing a great Tra
given, but would leave it to the
his Noble Friend that Government would not
tLord LYNDIIIIRSL in rising
packet station without communicating further with him
as to the merits of Milford Haven.
The Marquis of CI, A.NRICARDE was understood to
say that there would undoubted
Committee be appointed to
be an importance,saving of time,
which was
-- a matter of the very greatest by
CASE OP THE BARON
the adoption of an Irish port.
Lord-
ships would not be alarmed by
the Baron de Boele's petition,ns a.tlarc
to move that a Select
inqsjuimrpeleinpftooErmtheaOft:Dal:iFit.tiwoonuslo
"aidrelli tee r honeda
reiteration i' theirth e claimsl4ord-
of the Baron do Bode, for, from recent ei-icarastaneas,
ntlolet cbae3nechcc;:dstaarsysilf7rchaill'o''royccupy any considerable por-
tion
of their Lordship's time. The outline of the ease
might indeed be stated in a very few words- The Baron