The Sun.
London, England, 1848-06-19 00:00:00

IRELAND.

Sir B. HALL moved for a return similar to that
which had been !presented to the House of Lords, by
which a Member of the other House of Parliament Lord
de Fre3 ne, and three other gentlemen resident in Ireland,
were charged with misappropriating the advances en-
trusted to them under the Laud improvement Act. He
should call the attention of the House and the Govern-
ment to the matter on Friday next, as the persons in
question had ♦iolated the 29th section of the Act, which
I provided that the wages of persons employed on the
public works should be paid in the coin of the realm.
The return will, therefore, be procured from the House
of Lords.

DISMISSAL OF JUDGES IN VAN DIEMAN'S

LAND.

In reply to Mr. ANSTEY,
Mr. HAWES stated that the Colonial-office had re-
ceived no further information on this subject.
Mr. ANSTEY gave notice that on the first supply
night he should bring the whole subject under the con-
sideration of the House.

Mr. HUME wished to know whether any provision
had been made for the administration of justice in the
colony ?
Mr. HAWES said he was not able to answer the
question.

WEST INDIA QUESTION.
Mr. HAWES then proceeded to address the House on
the West India question. He understood that the Noble
Lord the Member for King's Lynn on Friday accused
his Noble Friend the Secretary for the Colonies of bay-
ing withheld from the West India Committee a certain
dispatch, and he had taken the trouble to bring down the
original dispatch to show the Noble Lord the Member for
King's Lynn that he was mistaken. Now on this dis-
patch there was a memorandum in his Noble Friend's
handwriting, representing it to be his opinion that the
dispatch ought to be laid before the Committee, and he
was not aware until Saturday that the directions
of Noble Friend to forward the dispatch to the Com-
mittee had been neglected. The omission, however, he
had ascertained occurred in the hurry of business, and
when the House considered the immense amount of
business carried on at the Colonial-office, he was sure
that the House would admit that the omission was not
`so highly reprehensible as the Noble Lord the Member
for Kings Lynn represented it to be. It was not
the intention of his Noble Friend or himself
to withold any information of any importance from the
House or the Committee.
MR. HUME'S MOTION.

Mr. FREWEN said, as it had been reported that the
debate on the West Indian colonies would not close that
evening, he wished to know whether the Hon. Member
(Mr. Hume) intended to press his motion which stood
on the paper for to-morrow.
Mr. HUME replied that it was certainly his intention
to proceed with the motion of which he had given notice,
and that nothing on his part would lead to any post-
ponement.
WEST INDIAN DISTRESS.

O❑ the motion of Lord JOHN RUSSELL, that the
Speaker do now leave the Chair and the House resolve
itself into a Committee upon the resolutions which he
proposed on Friday last, with respect to distress in the
Wet Indies.

Mr. E. ELLICE rose and said, the deeply melancholy
interest with which the affairs of the West Indian
colonies was viewed throughout the country would be
some apology for his opposing the motion of his Noble
Friend, in order that they might endeavour to obtain
from her Majesty's Government some further explana-
tion of the views they entertained with respect to the
present state of those colonies.

Mr. FREWEN interrupted tke Hon. Member for the
purpose of asking him whether or not he could give him
permission, before he proceeded any further, to move
the amendment of which he had given notice?
Mr. ELLICE said his particular object was to pre-
vent Hon. Gentleman moving his amendment. In his
(Mr. Ellie's) opinion the question now before the
House had been too muck narrowed he considered, and
that there were graver and more serious considera-
tions which must yet be brought under the pub-
lic view before the question could be disposed of.
There could be no doubt of the ruinous condi-
tion and distressed state of the West India Colo-
nies at the present moment. An extent of dis-
tress and rain existed in them unparalleled in the
history of any country. Now, what was the remedy
proposed by the Noble Lord at the head of the Govern-
ment. The Noble Lord's remedy was an experiment.
He proposed to lend 500,0001. to the colonies. Now, he
would venture to say that 500,0001. was never proposed
to be lent for a more useless purpose, or on a more un•
sable security. The question was not one of protec-
tion, but a choice of two evils, one guarding against
dangers by endeavouring to obtain the assistance of
proprietors in the West Indies, or by forcing them by
despair to find subsidies for the support of the Establish-
ment.

(LEFT SPEAKING.)

PRUSSIA.

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THE RIOTS AT BERLIN-TAKING OF

THE ARSENAL.

We continue our narrative of the occurrences at
Berlin, on the 14th and 15, from our second edition.
It appears the 13urgher-guard, attempting to disperse
the crouds in the streets, wounded five men.
There was an immediate cry of "to arms ! "
and at ten o'clock the people attacked
the arsenal, from which two muskets shots were fired,
and two persons wounded, and one killed. The cry
of Barricades was raised, and the people retreated for
reinforcements. Alarmed at what had occurred, the
Brugher Guard deposed Major BBNDA, who had
given the order to fire, from his command, and deserted
the arsenal, which was also evacuated by the troops,
and at eleven o'clock the people collected round it
again, and it was resolved to storm it. The windows
of the ground floor are closed inside with heavy
shutters. A large beam of timber was procured, and