The Sun.
London, England, 1846-08-04 00:00:00

ILITARY 17.CIGONG.

Dr. BOWRING—Mr. Speakii, Sir, I hope that after
the inquiries that have been made the Noble Lord may
pot be unwilling to state to the House what are the in-
timtiens of her Majesty's Government with regard to
.pc-ni*ltruenti.especially with a view to the abo-
ition of military Kgging; and I beg to give notice that
I shall bring c,rward my motion on Friday on the
n:',Ccn for going into a Committee of Supply. At
same time" I wish to state, that to-morrow
I .411,41 ask the Government whether they are acquainted
with the fact that flogging has been intrOuced on a very
large.kcide in the island of Hong Kong, and on the 25th
April laat no le6S than fifty poor individuals were flogged
for a violation of the polio:, regulations, tmcl.after having
been so flogged, I understand, they were delivered over
for a second punishment by the Chinese authorities.

regulation of Episcopal dioCeseN. By referring to clause
3 he ibund ninetet n new bishops were proposed,
Anti among others enumerated there was the Bishop of
Melton Mowbray.—(Loud laughter.) He wished to
know from the Noble Lord (Lord J. Russell) whether
he took this Bill under his protection? Attached to
this Bill there were the names of Mr. Frewn and Mr.
Coiquhoun.
Sir G. GREY said that the Hon. Member who ob-
tained leave to bring in the Bill referred to did not state
what its provisions were.
Sir R. H. INGLIS knew nothing of the details of the
Bill, and, therefore, .could not speak as to the nature of
its provisions.
Mr. P. BORTHWICK had read every line of the Bill,
but he did not think the House would give their sanc-
tion to a Bill of so monstrous a nature. He hoped the
House would therefore get rid of the Bill at once.
Sir G. GREY said that when the Bill was brought in
no Hon. Member had objected. He hoped the Hon.
Member for Evesham would not think that he had made
up his mind to support the Bill as it then stood.
Sir R. PEEL hoped the House would not act preci-
pitate towards this Bill, by adopting the advice of the
lion. Member for Evesham to "get rid of it at once."
It appeared to have bad considerable attention
bestowed upon it, for upon looking over it he saw
there was to be a bishop for Melton Mowbray, to look
especially after the spot ting interests.—(Laughter.)
MILITARY FLOGGING.

Mr. B. 14:SCOTT wished to know whether the Right
lion. Gentleman the Secretaiy-at-War would oppose the
motion of which he had given notice this evening, and
whether he was prepared to answer the queries of which
he: had given notice ? - -
Mr. FOX MAULE said lie was not at present pre-
pared to answer the queries of which the Ron. Gentle-
man had given notice, but be would probably do so on
Friday week, or Friday fortnight.
SUGAR DUTIES.

, On bringing up the report on the Sugar Duties,
Mr. lIUTT said that on such an occasion ho took
the opportunity to say that he would certainly renew
next session the resolution as to the slave trade, which he
had brought on last session.
Mr. HUME wished to ask whether the Government
intended to remove and relieve the Canadas of the duties
imposed by our Imperial Act, so that they might enjoy
the advantages of free trade ?.
-The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER. said it

,yas the intention of Government to introduce a general
measure affecting the colonies, and the Canadas would be
included.—(Hear, hear.)
Sir ROBERT PEEL said that already a considerable
reduction had been made on some of the immediate ne-
ssaries of this trade, on staves and other articles, ard
he hitirl heard that the Government proposed to make a
still further reduction. He did not understand why the
Noble Lord should not now take the same course with
respect to the West Indian policy by imperial legislation
in 1846, as was done by imperial legislation in 1802, and
t;bsolutely reduce the duties.
Lord J. RUSSELL said that it was not their object

to reduce the import duties in. the colonies. There were
several articles which, if they were admitted free
~c duty into the colonies, they would no doubt accept
aa a boon. But they were bound to go further than that
It appeared to him that, when they said they would re-
duce the duties on flour and corn from foreign coun-
tries to -the same terms as the flour and corn of Canada,
amd admitted the sugar of Cuba, .at a certain period, on
Inc ss.me terms as that of Jamaica, they were bound
also to say, that of. the colonies. He thought that there
were certain other articles which they ought to obtain
n the sartit4 terms from the continent of Europe as from
Ezgland. They shonld have power to have those arti-
cles on the same terms as those froin LOndon. At the

same time, with respect to many of those articles, if they
wished to retain the differential duties for the purposes of
revenue, as the duties on silk and timber, they could do
se ; and he, therefore, thought it would be better to give
I hem the power of proposing an alteration,and give these
on Act to confirm their request, or to allow the alters.-
, tien by the permission of her Majesty in Council. Ile
thought that they should have all the benefit they could
ebtain from free trade. '
Mr. HUME said that he was anxious to save the
colonies from the imperial duties. -He would leave the
colonies to be the judges of their own affairs, and leave
them entirely free from all imperial legislation.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that
what the Government proposed to do was to empower
the colonies, if they should think fit, to submit Acts re-
pealing a portion of the duties now enforced on them to
the Government. The burden of the Act would he to enable
the Crown to assent to any local Act for the purpose of
r.lieving the trade-of the colonies from the oppression of
l!Jties imposed by imperial legislation. They did not
Force upon the colonies any reduction of their revenue,
tut left them at liberty to relieve themselves if they
wished... .
1)r. BOWN RIG . said that it Would be more satisfac-
t:.ry to the eolouies that the commercial legislation
should ----emanate from theinselves. They should be
judges of the duties in their own cases. The collection of
i:oldnial revenues under:imperial Acts was exceedingly
heavy ; indeed more ditties were collected in cense-
',Fence of the expensive nature of machinery than was
absolutely necessary ; and there was another reason
why imperial legislation should be abandoned with re-
gard to the colonies'. W.

The resolution was then agreed to.
On the next resolution being proposed,
Mr. COLLETT wished to know what colonies the.
ticond scale. ofduties.spplied to. -
C The HANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER replied
British po.st-ssio;)s in America, British p)sses:,iOns in
the Alauritm.., oral the limits of the. East 10dia Corn.
's chum r.
• The report ryas then received, sal a Bill ordered to be
i a trod uced.

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