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London, England, 1847-06-26 00:00:00

seek to be placed in the position in which Captain
Warner had been placed.
Lord INGESTRE said that, seeing the tone and
temper of the House, he should not trouble the House
to divide, but would at once withdraw his motion.
The motion was accordingly withdrawn.
TRANSMISSION OF MAILS.

Mr. FRE WEN, in proceeding to call the attention of
the House to the very inconvenient arrangements that
exist for the transmission of the mails in various parts
of the kingdom, said that great inconveniences arose
from the ignorance of post-office officials in different
parts of the country, and great irregularities in the
transmission of the mails had arisen in consequence.
He trusted that the attention of the Government would
be given to the subject.
Mr. PARKER replied in a few words, which were al-
together inaudible in the gallery.
CASE OF MARY DAWSON.

Mr. FEHR AND said that not receiving any commu-
nication from the Right Hon. Baronet the Secretary for
the Home Department, on the subject of the case of
Mary Dawson, he was necessitated to bring the subject
before the House. Mary Dawson had been employed in
a manufactory in the town of Keightly, as a weaver, arid
was set to a loom where a web was half woven. She
finished that web. She was employed upon another
equally good. She finished that. She was employed
upon another, a very bad web. She could not finish it,
and she left. Another, and another, and another girl
was employed, and none of them could do so. The
girl, Mary Dawson, left, and was employed by another
employer, Mr. Mitchell, but the former employer
took her from that employment, and got her imprisoned
in the gaol of Wakefield, where, for three weeks, she
was associated upon the treadmill with thieves, vaga-
bonds, and prostitutes. He (Mr. Ferrand) had been
communicated with by the father, and he had at once
represented the case at the Home-office. The Right.
Hon. Bart. (Sir G. Grey) had, at once, instituted an
inquiry into the subject, and ordered the girl to be set
at liberty. He must say, in justice to the Right Hon.
Bart., that he had offered him the whole of the corre•
spondence between the magistrate and the Home-office
on this subject. lie (Mr. Ferrand) knowing that this
was out of the usual routine of the department, did not
take advantage of the Right Hon. Baronet's courteous
offer, but as the case was one well worth the considera-
tion of the House, he should move that the correspon
dente between the Secretary for the Home Department
and the local magistrates on the subject be laid
on the table of the House.—(Hear, hear.)
Sir GEORGE GREY, who was scarcely audible
in the gallery, was understood to say that he could not
accede to the motion of the Hon. Gentleman, although
he admitted that the girl had been illegally committed.
Immediately afte-r the case was brought under his no-
tice he ordered the discharge of the girl. The magis-
trates, however, seemed to think that they acted in strict
conformity with the law, and so they were advised by
an eminent gentleman at the bar, but whether they had
acted legally or not, they committed the girl from a
sense of duty, and without the remotest intention of
doing her injustice.
Lord MORPETH agreed with his Right Hon. Friend
that the magistrates had acted from a misconception of
the law, and not with any vindictive feeling.
Mr. WAKL EY said, under former Governments it
had been the practice of the Home-office to produce cor-
respondence like this, and as the Right lion. Baronet
admitted that the magistrates had, unintentionally no
doubt, acted illegally; the correspondence ought not to
be withheld.—(Hear, hear.) There were plenty of
lawyers who would hold the greatest commiseration for
these parties.
Mr. HUME wished to know whether this was to be
denial of justice. The Hon. Gentleman had said that
the law was open. So was the London Tavern, for those
who could afford to pay for going there. He thought
the House ought not to be satisfied without those papers
were produced.

The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER admitted
that this was an illegal procedure. It was by no means
clear that the committal of the female was illegal.
Colonel SIBTHORP said that he thought it was but
fair that the House should have the correspondence. It
was not fair to suppress that correspondence.
Lord J. MANNERS said that it was asserted by the
female that she was placed on the treadmill. That was
denied ; and it was for the House to judge to which
statement they were to give belief. He thought the best
way would be to lay the papers before the House.
Mr. HENLEY said this'caSe- clearly showed the
evil effects of bringing the case before'the.House. No
judge could refuse a habeas corpus' to ;take the girl out
of prison.
After a:few words from Mr. FERRAND in ex-
planation, strangers were ordered to withdraw, but no
division took place, as the motion was negatived without
a division.
THE RAJAH OF SATTARA.
Mr. HUME said that he was now about to bring
forward the case of a very ill-used individual—he
meant the Rajah of Sattara who had been
hurled from his throne, and hurried Into cap-
tivity in a foreign land, without having that advantage
common to the meanest of men, namely, a public
trial ; and now that do !laments had been produced.
which clearly proved his innocence. The Government
of Bengal and the East India House at home
refused an investigation into them. Mr. Baring
returned the documents to him with an official
note, saying that all such communications must
be sent to the Governor General. He (Mr. Hume) ac-
quainted the Rajah of Sattara, of the circumstance, and
requested him to comply with the rules laid down. The
Rajah of Sattara did adhere to them and sent a letter to
Sir Henry Hardinge on his arrival in India, detailing the
case, but up to the present time no answer whatever had
been returned. He said it was of the utmost importance
that the facts should be laid before the House, and the
Right Hon. Baronet (Sir J. C. Hobhouse) was bound to
give up the papers, which he refused. The Right Hon.
Baronet said he could not give up a secret dispatch, on
the ground that a copy of it had been surreptitiously
obtained. All he wanted was justice. The Rajah had
never been tried, although he had appealed to the British
Parliament to enter into an investigation of his claims,
and of the charges which had been made against
(Hear.) Many of the witnesses to the claims of the
Rajah were in India ; but there were also many in this
country who were able to furnish satisfactory
evidence of his claims, and if the House granted
a Committee, he should produce them before it.
Why, what would the House think if a Peer were tried
for an offence, and that documents were withheld which
would prove his innocence ? The case of the Raja was
not unlike a case of this kind, as the Hon. Baronet (Sir
J. C. Hobhouse) notwithstanding the recent vote
of the East India House, that the papers which the
Rajah claimed should be produced, refused to produce
them. Why was all this secrecy observed, when they
had deposed the Prince and exiled him, and when he
sought nothing more from the British Government than
a fair trial ? Notwithstanding them, the Honourable
Baronet was treating the East India Directors
like so many Hottentots (Laughter)— and the
conduct of the Board of Control in this matter, had in-
duced the people of this country to look upon it with
suspicion. Whenever the claims of the Raja had been
made known, petitions had been got up in favour of his
claims, and already forty-one had been presented to that
House. The case of Earl Dundonald, and the Rajah of
Tangore, were memorable instances of persons who had
been unjustly used, being restored to their rights,
after a number of years, and he trusted that the
Government would wipe away that disgrace on
the British nation, because the Rajah had

been unjustly deposed, and had, moreover
been the victim of the grossest forgery and perjury ;
and if anything was proved against him, he would as
strongly demand his punishment, as he now strongly
demanded for him his rights. All he wanted was, that
he might be confronted with his accusers.—(Hear, hear.)
Ho was not in a condition to go to a division, as he had
been disappointed from time to time as to the period
when he should be enabled to bring en his motion. He,
however, appealed to Englishmen to see justice done to
the injured ; and so impressed was he with the belief
that the Rajah had been cruelly and deceitfully used,
that he should continue to support his claims as long as
he (Mr. Hume) was allowed to live.—(Loud cheers.)
Sir JOHN CAM HOBLIOUSE said that when he
told the Hon. Member for Montrose that it was inexpe-
dient to produce the secret papers of the East India
Company, he did not anticipate that the private con-
versations he had held with the Right llon. Gentleman
would be made the subject of discussion before the
House. The lion. Member founded his allegations on
a tioeutuenl, swlen from one of the public offices, and
found—wonderfully found—on the table of Mr. George
Thompson. When the documents came from India he
would be prepared to justify the course of the Govern-
ment.

Lord JOHN MANNERS said, that not one charge
brought by the Hon. Member for Montrose against the
Board of Control, had been answered by the Right Hon.
Gentleman, who appeared to think that his violent de-
clamation would answer all the purposes of argument.
When the Hon. Member for Montrose chose to press
his motion to a division, he (Lord J. Manners) should
cordially support him.
Mr. WAKLEY said, that if the Right Hon. Gentle-
man felt it necessary to exhibit such boiling in-
dignation because a few hard words were ap-
plied to him, what must he conceive that
the Rajah of Sattara should have felt?—(Hear, hear.)
He was despoiled of his possessions, tarnished in his
fair name, committed a prisoner to a fortress in a dis-
tant country, and deprived of every opportunity of
proving his innocence. He remembered many acts of
injustice of this sort. There was that, for instance, of
the Baron de Bode ; but he hoped the House would
have sufficient firmness now to support the effort of his
llon. Friend to do justice to an injured Prince.
Mr. P. BORTHWICK said the Rajah of Satara was
a deeply injured prince. He was deposed by a foul
conspiracy, and in order that justice might be done to
the injured party he should support the motion of his
Hon. Friend the Member for Montrose.
Lord PALMERSTON said the motion did not involve
the merits of the Rajah of Sattara's case. It was
merely for the production of papers relating to that
case, and at that late hour of the night, he would not
detain the House by going into it.
The motion was withdrawn.
The House then went into Committee pro forma, and
immediately afterwards resumed.
The other orders of the day were then disposed of, and
the House adjourned at a quarter to two o'clock.

A Lyons journal informs us, that the police have
caused three persons of that city to be arrested, for es-
tabliihing signals at night to indicate the state of the
Paris Bourse, so as to enable them to operate on the
Bourse of Lyons with information previous to that
brought by the mails. The means by which they ac-
complish this was to place at certain distances and in
elevated situations, glasses lighted in the interior, and
indicating the letter B or B, for hausse or baisse.=