The Sun.
London, England, 1836-03-24 00:00:00

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SALMON FISHERIES (SCOTLAND) BILL.
Mr. P. STEWART moved to discharge the order fr
the second reading of the Salmon Fisheries (Scotland) B?ill
and to appoint a Select Committee on the subject.

Motioni agreed to.
ROYAL DUBLIN SOCIETY.
Mr. W. S. O'BRIEN moved for a Committee to in"
quire into the administration of the Royal Dublin Society.
Mr. SHAW objected to the motion.
Lord MORPETH would support the motion on the
simple principle that a Committee would be a proper tri-
bunal to decide between the Government and the Society.
He thought the Society was not so conducted as to secure
the most efficient literary men as members. The power of
excluding individuals who might be obnoxious to the mai°.
rity on religious or political grounds, was objectionable.
He would further say, in answer to the observations 0f the
Right Hon. Member for the University of Dublin (Mr. F'
for
Shaw), that the exclusion of Dr. Murray was one reason
his wishing the affairs of the institution to be brought before
Parliament.
Mr. LEFROY thought the motion was most offensive
to the Society, which had existed now for a long period of
time, without being stigmatised with any political or reli-
gious acrimony. Men of every hue of religion and politics
were admitted, and it was an attempt of the most unjust
and despotic kind on the part of the Lord Lieutenant tod
overbear the authority of a society of 800 gentlemen' an
men of high erudition, for acting on the established rules
of their institution, and overbear them for no other offence
than that they wished to exclude from their communion an
individual who was an abettor of his system of policy.
This was the first attempt on record to interfere with the
privileges of this Society. The grant was proposed to be
stopped because this literary and most national and useful
Society would not stoop to the capricious dictation of the
Lord Lieutenant.—(Hear, hear.)
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL (for Ireland) should
certainly, when the question was brought on, vote against!
granting a sum of 5,0001. a year to an institution of whiel
the minority (and he knew that Dr. Murray was reject°
by the minority) could direct the proceedings for party
purposes.
Sir E. KNATCHBULL said that the arguments of the
last speaker (the Irish Attorney-General) were such as to
decide him in opposing the motion. He never knew all
one to have so completely refuted himself. The n°°'
Gentleman's objection was, that by the rules of the Society
a veto was given to the minority, a veto exercised in hc
case of Dr. Murray unpleasantly to him. Surely, thten,
the rules of the Society could be altered by the majority's°
as to prevent the minority from such exercise of power.
He said the majority were blameless. Why then did theY
not alter their by-laws, so as to restrain the minority ?
Col. PERCEVAL contended that before the Society
was thus despotically condemned inquiry should have
been made, and proof given of misconduct. For the las'
of all
thirty years 800 members were admitted—men
creeds in religion and politics—and only five were re-
jected in all that time ; two of whom were, the o°ll.
Member for Dublin (Mr. O'Connell) and the Catholic
Archbishop of Dublin, Doctor Murray ; and was the
Society now to be crushed for the rejection of these two
individuals (for that was the real offence charged upon it')
If the Society were to be controulled by the factious
pleashre of a Lord Lieutenant it would be henceforth
no credit to belong to it.
The House then divided—
For the motion
Against it
Majority --36
The other Orders of the Day were then disposed of; an
the House adjourned at Half-past Ten o'Clock.

MR. BUCKINGHAM'S PUBLIC

SERVICES.

Our readers are aware that immediately
after th
adverse vote of the House of Commons on the e
ill
for securing Compensation to Mr. Buckingham forthe destruction of his property by the East lnditt
Company, a public Meeting was held at Sheffleld,,i
ti
which certain resolutions were passed, and a Cora
mittee was formed, to carry these resolutions into effect'
This body, composed of some of the most wealthy
and influential merchants and manufacturers of that
large and populous town, which Mr. Buckin,2(Yhall/
represents, has just put forth, in the name of the
Committee, the following summary of Mr. Bucking."
ham's public services, which well deserves an attentive
perusal :
The rejection of Mr. Buckingham's just claims to con
pensation from the India Company—the refusal of the
House of Commons to carry into effect the unanimous re;
' solutions of its own Committee, to enforce the payment 0'
that compensation which the Committee had awarded----
and the consequent appeal made by the inhabitants of Shef-
field, as Mr. Buckingham's constituents, to the whole
country, to come forward and raise by a general' National
Subscription the means of paying the debt so justly due
from the British public to their Representative—for the
services he has performed—and the sacrifices he has made
from time to time in the public causeder it desirable.
that a brief but connected summary of these services and.
sacrifices, should be brought into the smallest space, and-
presented in the clearest light, to all those whose aid ig'
thus solicited to rescue a public benefactor from the pai°-
cause—render
ful position in which his own virtues, and the cruelty of bis
oppressors have contributed to place him. Such a sae-
rnary is here then succinctly and faithfully presented :---
1. Mr. Buckingham having been engaged in
maritime,
and mercantile pursuits, was in the Mediterranean in the
year 1813, and then visited Egypt. In his intercourse
with the Pasha of that country—Mohammed Ali—he jel
the first to direct his attention to three great objects;
of which have since been realised, to the great advantage
both of England and of India. The first was, the imPrevei
ment of the culture of Egyptian cotton for the supPlY
the British market, and the importation of British man"'
factures in return, which has been effected_ to an unprece;
dented extent. The second was, the sending as maul a
possible of the Egyptian youths to England for educatioe.,c„
in order that they might become the instruments of civil',
zation to their own country, which has also been realizue;
beyond all expectation. The third was, the Survey of of
Red Sea, and the opening a canal across the Isthmus ,
Suez,Tor the purpose of making that the shortest route
communication between Great Britain and her possessie;
in India. In furtherance of this view, Mr. Buckingte a
himself surveyed the Isthmus, navigated down the P'ef
Sea, and visited India, where the Pasha's propositionb
opening the commerce between that country and Egypt
the Red Sea, was, by all the British merchants there, rnes
favourably received.
2. Mr. Buckingham being then at Bombay, Was :P:
pointed, in the year 1815, to the command of a aesf
gate belonging to the Imaum of Muscat, (the indeperide;
Arab Prince who has recently made a present of a ne4.14
line of battle ship to his present Majesty) and was fiti'l
her out for a voyage to China, when he was removed fri&e,
that command by the Governor of Bombay, Sir Even, the
pean, for no other alleged reason than that he had ne" the
license of the India Company to navigate their seag;,eo
real reason, however, being, that the Company bad g
express orders not to permit any one to visit or rernainer
India, whose objects were, like Mr. Buckingham's, the use
tension of British commerce through new channels, beee
° Pc'
it interfered with their chartered and exclusive molt
By this removal from his command, without any fault eves
being alleged, and by this his first banishment from last
country, without trial, or conviction of any offence, he ak.
three years of valuable time, and the opportunity of Tad,
ing, what his more favoured successor in that comma about
tually realized in his three voyages to China, a sum of
4
30,0001.
3. Mr. Buckingham, in returning to Egypt, age." nevi'
gated the Red Sea, and made still more accurate surveys
the
of its coasts, harbours, and anchorages ; again traverse al:
Isthmus of Suez, and traced the track of the ancient
and in communicating the readiness of the British
rtnsin
chants in India to enter into the Egyptian trade, on ce to'
terms, he succeeded in prevailing on the Egyptian Pachathei
grant a treaty of commerce, by which was secured tea hi
British merchants many privileges never before en.ileh 006
them in that country ; and the rates of duty on Brit's or it.
Indian merchandize were reduced from 10 to 4 perd r
with an ample protection guaranteed to persons an
' perty embarked in the trade. op
4 ieg
' 4. Mr. Buckingham, being himself one of the 7,a the
' parties to this treaty of commerce, the others he r't on
Pasha of Egypt and the British Consul at Cairo, •se-')of
a second overland journey to India, to be the beater and
traversing Palestine, Syria, Mesopotamia, and P' and
suffered almost every description of fatigue, of Per'thon;
privation, during this long and weary journey of T flail lete°
sand miles. He arrived safe, however, in India,, conW_liaa-
the object of his mission, and set the newly-opened G toe
nel of trade in motion, giving to the world at the same'i ad'
the first published account of the safety, economy, en;:,.fest
""
vantage of this short route of communication between lch
' Britain and her Indian possessions by the Red Sea'fth 'st
materially accelerated the subsequent adoption
route, as now practised by the steam vessels frequent' 6
to the great advantage both of England and of indie'ri.o
5. Mr. Buckingham having in this interval obtained ' or
40,,
the India House, the licence of the India ComPenY' tct
vigate their seas, was reinstated in 1816, in hie ;ill
mand of the Arab frigate, from which he Was form,
pea
removed, and performed in her a voyage to the
-cr dry k
Gulf, during which he greatly extended the 14 .yrenv
phical knowledge both of that Gulf, and of the b: the
River Euphrates, for more than an hundred miles hairs:
sea. His efforts to extend the knowledge and c(.00 noise
tion of British manufactures through this channel wer %lost
eminently successful ; and he perilled his life