The Sun.
London, England, 1840-03-31 00:00:00

EVEN :NG 11,D1T1ON.

I 04 mai a&I Governor of Lower Canada the unfortunate out- '
'rwe.k which took place there would never have been heard
.4. He could not concur in the eulogies which had been
missed on Sir John Colborne, becau.o he thought it was
tie injustice, the want of judgment, and the want of policy,
I on the part of vir John Colborne, on the retirement of
1 Lard Gosford, which led to that insurrection. What
I*meld have been the consequences in Ireland if the Lord
Lietilenarit had ordered Mr. O'Connell and his adherents
to be trcerght to Dublin with halters round their necks ?
There vebnidliave been a littlts bit of outbreak in Ireland,
he bad no doubt, if such a circumstance occurred. Such
` was the course which Sir John ,Colborne had pursued—he
( had sanctioned the issuing of warrants to arrest between
ftfty and sixty men in Lower-:Canada. They were ar-
rested without affidavit, and to this hour no one knew the
grounds on which those arrests took place. He had been
removed from his office as unworthy to continue in so re-
eponsible a situation. Hoviever, he had the support of
her Nlajesty's Government ;they had gone on, and a pretty
IC CW3 they bud made of it up to this time.—( Laughter. )
; Vet they had the assurance to come down and propose a
sate of the public money, which would, perhaps,
{ remount to 150,0001. There was on the table
r,f that house an account of public money voted
tr a Speaker and his two next heirs, and it appeared they
rueseived 153,0001. of public money. Was the
ElJnea prepared to say it would give 150,000/. to Sir J.
Csetbepoe, under circumstances so extremely doubtful as to
In; belts he had conferrzd on the country ? He thought
Ae saner in which the rebellion was put down—villages
gatieed end individuals butchered, was without example in
324; ALOT a warfare. He could not believe that any individual
stho f-orked to the proceedings that took place a.ter the
issrslireak in Canada. could say that Sir J. Colborne was
sielei to the culogiums which had been passed
; 4,/eiso him as being a man of humanity, wisdom, and
laasldestation. He thought the present vote was the most
io(zn.siElerate and uncalled for that had ever taken place,
; and, if any one in the House would second him, he would
svpseie: the motion. He knew nothing of Sir John Col.
4 iSiste; except as a public man.
tfr H. HARDING E had heard with great regret the
21iaeacteristic speech of the Hon. Member for Kilkenny—
Langliter)—but he had even expressed some doubt
Outlaw he woutd. get an individual in that House to
4 troll his proposal, and thereby disturb the unanimity
if, bit slight to prevail in that House. But he could very
"'All understand how that Hon. Member should oppose the
te, because he had some recollection of a. correspon.
&lola of the Hon. Member with the traitor Mackenzie.
fta which he boasted that he hoped that Canada would
itteow off the baneful influence of the Mother Country,
&Int of course the Hon. Member for Kilkenny would have
ne very great partiality for the person who had put down
; sire rebellion.—( Hear, hear.) From his (Sir H.
Har-
d-Ingo's) personal and professional knowledge of Lord
Staten for the last quarter of a century, he would say the
army did not possess an officer who had gone through his
striiitary career with more undeviating success and uncle-
! *ling honour. He had distinguished himself for huma-
oil, in the Peninsula; and not only eai be an officer be-
-It wl by the soldiers of his own army, but also by the Por-
-1 banes?, for his humane and generous conduct.—(Hear.)
(Sir H. Hardinge) might wish to express his sense of
ttre services of Lord Seaton, but after the judicious manner
which the Noble Lord opposite had recapitulated those
feawices, it would be needless for him to dwell upon there;
wad therefore he would only state, that be particularly ad-
titibed the conduct of Lord Seaton in resuming his military
duties at a time of peril, when be was superseded as Go-
oernor-General—divesting himself of all personal conside-
Notions ; which conduct, in his opinion, was a bright ex-
ezplc for all British officers to follow.—( Hear.)
Mr. WIILLIAMS, of Coventry, rose to second the
Medea of the Hon. Member for Kilkenny. He did not
; desabt the valour or bravery of Lord Seaton, as a British
Adler, but he did not approve of his conduct in Canada.
It -vas very easy for the House to put away large sums of
!money, but it was not so easy to provide a fund to meet
those votes. The expenditure of the country now exceeded
the revenue, and they had not yet learned from the Chan-
pallor of the Exchequer how he intended to meet the de-
ecietsey. They ought not to vote away money except
under very pressing circumstances. He did not think the
present case was one of that nature, and therefore he should
oppose the vote.
Sir H. VIVIAN bore testimony, in common with his
Gallant Friend opposite ( Sir H. Hardinge), to the ad-
Irable qualities of Lord Seaton. No man was more be-
towed is his own Regiment, or in the Army, than that
Nobleman.
Mr. HUME said that the Hon. and Gallant Member
opposite had alluded to his correspondence with Mr. Mac-
Itenzie. He begged to say that Mr. Mackenzie, at one
' time, atood as high in rank as the Hon. and Gallant Gen-
, thou himself. He was seven times elected for the
Cow/ of York, in Canada, and he was acknowledged by
%a pock of Upper Canada as the first individual desery
INO 4015 support. He was not ashamed of that correspon.
4sest, sod he would say that it bad been the baneful influ•
ewe it Downing-street—

• N. HA RDINGE—No ; you said the baneful in-
-toms of the mother country.
Ur. HUMS—" Downing-street" were the words he
dad sad in that correspondence; but misgovernment had
tad be the whole of the unfortunate results that had taken
Owe ire Canada, and now they were actually about to give
83 Cows& those very measures which Mr. Mackenzie had
mien:toured to force upon the Colonial Office when be
,as fa this country. In his (Mr. Hume's) opinion there
was woe a single ground upon which the public money
Allonid be granted in the manner proposed by the Noble
bar&
* CHARLES GREY bore testimony to the great
_.Frees of Lord Seaton, and cordially supported the
tripohlit of the Noble Lord.
L HAWaEthSathhaaddno been
at.! intentionpassed
w upon
v rLoofr
Lord
disputingsaato
calke°gc.lbuomught they were too ready iloo confer honours
41S- military services while they neglected to
Are them to objects equally deserving. Ile
iiished to know whether it was the intention of the
s, Lord to make this grant of 2,004)1. a-year for three
Lord Seaton, his successor, and the heir of his
soocessor ; if he did, he (Mr. Hawes) believed that there
was tio precedent for it. It was not done in the case of
Lord Nelson, and certainly the services of Lord Seaton
were not to he compared to those of Lord Nelson.
Lord JOHN RUSSELL said the precedents that he
had referred to, were those that took place in 1814, when
ponsions were granted to Lord Hill and Lord Lynedoch.
it was the intention of the Government that the pensions
Atould continue for two lives beyond that of Lord Seaton

Mr. HUME wished to know whether the Government
ilaonded to adopt a similar course with respect to Lord
:skeane, the conqueror of Kelat. He thought to act justly,
hey ought to do so. but he looked upon all these grants
lito little better than madness.

Strangers were then ordered to withdraw, and the Corr.-
ttl•ttee divided, when there appeared—
For the original motion B2
Against it
Majority for the motior

The House the-n
resumed, and on our admission to the
crllery we found Mr. MORE O'FE ItR AL on his legs,
!no ving twat the House should resolve its.tlf into a Coin-
-,&ttee on the Admiralty Court Judges' Salary Bill.
Oa the question that the sum of 4,0001. should be granted
as the yearly salary of the Judge of the Admiralty Court,
Mr. HUME wished to know why the salary proposed
seas to be 4,0001. He did not see that there was any
necessity for granting so large a sum, and he should there-
Lre move that the words " 4,0001." he struck out for the
I.trpose of introducing the words " 3,0001."
Lord J. RUSSELL said, that the present salary of the
on gtr of the Admiralty Court was very irregular, and it
was intended by this Bill to place it on a regular footing,
although at the present time the salary of the Judge of the
Admiralty Court might 'ate only between .2 and 3,0001., yet
in the time of war it was often as great as 7 or 8,000/
The office was one of very great importance, and could
only he filled by a man of professional character.
Ilut if the emoluments which the Judge derived in time of
it were discontinued, the least remuneration for which
th-0 s rvices of a competent Judge coud be obtained was
443001.
Ai F. WILLIAMS asked, was this a time, when tha
gnomes of the country were in such a state of difficulty,
to propose an increase of salary, without the shadow of a
Season ? The office had been held for several years
daring the Administration of the present Government,
anii sixty never proposed an increase of his salary. But
kid tho proposition was brought forward to reward a
political partisan, and not for the benefit of the public.—
f: Maar, hear.) In the course of lest year, the LearnQd
foe* sat only twenty-tour times, and was it reasonable,
ti,o close of that year, to propose an increaso of his
alatry, ?—( Hear, from the Opposition.) The House of
Loci would, he hoped, throw out the Bill.

Cf,iouel SißTHOßP,supported the amendment.
3ir. M. O'FE RRAL said that it was preposterous
to say that the services of a man of the highest legal
atiliciea, having given up large professional emolument,
• ItftJ 11.roapacts, should be paid by the day and hour, like
a hoisc.itlayer's labourer, according to the argument of the
Bern. Member for Coventry.—( Hear.)
MUNTZ had opposed the grant to Lord Seaton,
brawe it was a grant to sons and grandsons. But as he
stied to pay every man for his labour he would support
tlittgrant of an adequate sum to remunerate an able mzr.
kis services in an important office. —( Hear.)
Dv. NICHOL said that 4,0001. a year was not too much
.1'443e services of a Judge who must possess the highest
tzalifications, and give up a large professional practice.
nir. WALLACE supported the amendment. He
triaught the Judges were all too well paid.
The Committee then divided, when the numbers were—

For the Resolution
For the Amendment
Majority - 69

Tile remaining Resolutions were then agreed to. The
[louse resumed, and the Report was ordered to be received
to-morrow.

PRINTED PAPERS.-SERGEANT-AT-ARMS'

STATEMENT.
Lord JOHN RUSSELL gave notice, that to-morrow
Ito should move that the statement of the Sergeant-at-
Arms relative to the action of trespass commenced against
certain Officers of the House be taken into consideraticin
thotirst thing after private business.
EXCHEQUERIBILLS (PUBLIC WORKS)
BILL.
On the motion of the CHANCELLOR of she EX-
CHEQUER, the House went into Committee on the
Exchequer Bills (Public Works) Bill.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said
it was his intention to move that a further sum in Ex-
chequer bills be advanced to the Commissioners of Public
Works in Ireland, for the purpose of enabling
\ loans for building poor-houses and other
them to grant
It wae of great importance that no d public works.
clay should take
if place in the building of these workhouses, nd, therefore,
lie had taken the earliest opportunity of ploaaceinnfl a further
cum at their disposal. The Right Hon. eman then
proposed a resolution that a sum, not exceeding 1200 (AN
in Exchequer bills, be advanced to the Corrunissionp'eurbsiojoi
Public Works in Ireland for the promotion of
works, the encouragement of fisheries, and the employ-
ment of the poor. Security to be given for the due ro..
rayment thereof.
Mr. HUME hoped t

,be Right lion. Gentleman would
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