The Sun.
London, England, 1849-07-27 00:00:00

EMIGRATION.

Mr. SCOTT rose to ask a question of the Under-
Secretary fur the Colonies relative to the conduct of the
surgeon on board of the emigrant ship the Inchinnan.
Mr. HAWES said he was aware that the conduct of
the surgeon had already been the subject of judicial in-
quiry abroad, but if his Hon. Friend would ask the
question to-morrow, he should be able to state more ac-
curately what had been done.
In answer to another luestion from Mr. SCOTT re-
lative to a dispatch of Sir G. Gipps,
Mr. HA %V ES said that he had never heard of any
such dispatch.
In answer to a question from Mr. STAFFORD,
Sir GEORGE GREY said that no Treasury minute
had been issued in reference to the salaries of the clerks
of the county courts.

Captain•PhCHELL asked if anything had been done
with respect to the salaries of high bailiffs?
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said that a Bill was
in progress which would dispose of them.
THE FALKLAND ISLANDS.

In answer to a question from Mr. BAILLIE,
Lord PALMERSTON said that the British Govern-
ment had now for twelve years taken possession of the
Falkland Isles.

In answer to another question from Mr. BALLIE,
Lord PALMERSTON said that, some years ago,
some unjust and illegal acts had been committed by the
British cruisers on the interests of certain traders at
Senegal, and the King of Prussia bad been appointed
arbitrator, and the sum awarded by him had been con-
sidered us final; nor had any further sum for compensa-
tion been paid.
BOMBARDMENT OF ROME.

Mr. ANSTEY wished to ask the Noble Lord the
Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he had
any objection to produce a dispatch, or part of a dis-
patch, relative to the bombardment of Rome?
Lord PALMERSTON said he would read the dis-
patch, and should probably have no objection to lay any
such parts of it as related to facts before the House.
ROMAN CATHOLIC JURORS.

Mr. SAD LEIR rose to ask the Secretary for Ireland
whether he had received any information of the names
of eight Roman Catholic gentlemen having been struck
off the list of a special jury in Ireland at a recent trial
in Ireland, by Mr. Kemes, the Crown Solicitor, and
whether the Government had made any inquiry into
the circumstance? _ _ _

Sir W. SOMERVILLE said that he knew nothing of
the facts of the case, and could therefore give the lion.
Gentleman no information ou the subject.
Mr. HORSMAN wished to know if the fact of eight
Romaa Catholic gentlemen being struck off a jury-list
on account of their religion was one which met with the
approbation of the Noble Lord at the head of the Go-
vernment?

Lord JOHN RUSSELL said that the iron. Gentle-
man had put forward a supposition that these gentlemen
had been struck off on account of their religion, which
he could certainly not admit.
Mr. SADLEIR wished to know if the Noble Lord
would object to laying before the House the names of
the forty-eight gentlemen originally on the list, distin-
guishing which were Protestant and which were Roman
Cathblic; giving also the reasons why these eight gen-
tlemen had been struck off the list.
Lord JOHN RUSSELL said he should certainly ob.
ject to do any such thing.
The matter then dropped.
The Workhouse Loans (Ireland) Bill and Drainage of
Lands Bill were read a third time and passed.
SLAVE TRADE (PERSIAN GULF) BILL

On the motion that this Bill be read a third time,
Mr. ANSTEY opposed the second reading of this
Bill. The Bill would certainly militate against our
existing treaty with the powers in that quarter,
as in the opinion of the Noble Lord this treaty was only
valuable inasmuch as it was calculated to secure the
obedience of the Arabian chiefs against whom it was
directed to the Shah of Persia. It would appear by this
that these chiefs were not independent, but that they
were in some way or other under the surveillance of the
Government of Persia. If such was really the case, he
feared that the effect of this Bill would be to increase
the difficulties in our intercourse with those chiefs, which
at present was unsettled, and had not many years ago
proved both disagreeable and expensive. He was
not anxious to excite a vexata questio, but he
could act help remembering that the officers of
the navy, able as they had always proved
themselves, were still only men, and he was the
more induced to remember the fact, because he could
not forget another, which was that there were innu-
merable complaints of the merchant service that these
slave-trade treaties continually interfered with their
commercial proceedings. After citing several instances,
which, from their technicality would be unintelligible in
a report, the Hon. and Learned Gentleman said, that
seeing the perfect inutility of the system which had been
adopted on the coast of Africa for the suppression of the
slave trade, he deprecated above all things the carrying
of that system to the eastern seas. They had
a trade there which it was their indispensable
duty not only to protect but to encourage,
and feeling this he conceived it to be his duty to move
that this Bill be read a third time this day six months.
Sir ED WARD COLEBROOKE also deprecated this
attempt to carry into the eastern seas a system which
had so lamentably failed on the coast of Africa. It was
likely to involve us in most unpleasant altercations in
that quarter of the world. Then, if it was to be adopted,
who was to pay the expense. He surely would not
throw it upon the East India Company, who were quite
incompetent to bear it; but expense there must be, and
somebody must pay, and this, if not the other, was a
matter which well deserved consideration.

Colonel THOMPSON said that he, if any one, could
throw light upon the subject, for he it was who had ne-
gotiated the treaty with the Arab chiefs, in which the
slave trade was declared to be piracy. This was no new
matter, for it had been known and considered as long
since as the year 1820. Then, with regard to the cases
of conscience, which the Hon. Gentleman opposite (Ur.
Anstey) had made out, he assured him that be might
make himself perfectly easy, for these Arab chiefs, of
whom he was so much afraid, were not slave dealers at all.

In negotiating with these chiefs he bad hinted to them
with the greatest delicacy that it was the wish of the
English Government that the slave. trade in the Gulf
should be declared piracy. A ghastly laugh ran round
the circle of diplomatists, and they all exclaimed, " Ca-
pital! capital!' and he soon discovered that they who
never had been slave-traders considered it a capital joke
that the favourite pursuit of an old ally of ours, of whom
they were extremely jealous, should thus be declared
piracy. He had the treaty in his pocket, and could
produce it to the House if it were necessary. He should
support the Bill.