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timber in hand, and his bon. friend would find that the in—
terests of the country were ncd neglected.
Mr. B. OSBORNE here intimated that he was per •

['cony satisfi d with the explanations of the noble lord.

Lord C. I'AGET continued—The hon. and gallant mem—
ber for Brighton (Sir G. Pechell) had asked him whether it
was the intention of the Admiralty to give the same extra
pay and allowances to the naval force.'' now in China as to
those in India. He was afraid of sayivg anything which.
might hold out hopes which might be clhappointed ; but he-
could assure his hon. friend that the Admiralty would act

strictly according to the precedent of the Oily, and would do
all the justice they could to the naval forces employed ; but
he could not distinctly answer the question as to what the

allowances would be. (Hear, hear )
THE POST-OFFICE EMPLOYES,
Mr. BOINYER said the house was no doubt awalre that
very great and extensive discontent existed at present in the.

P04.-office. He was informed that a committee had been

appointed by that department itself for the purpose of in-
quiring into the grievances of the servants of the establish-
ment ; but owing to some difficulties as to the power of the
committee, two of the members had resigned, and the com—
mittee became fore time paralysed. He was told that since
that time two gentlemen from the Treasury had been added

to the committee, which then resumed its labours ; but

some of the officials at the Post-office had no confidence in
the committee, and they declined going before it. Since
then a public meeting of the persons whe complained of
grievances had been held, at which some strong language
was used, and he was informed that 44 persons who took
part in that meeting had been since suspended. He wished
therefore to ask the Secretary to the Treasury whether it
was true that those men had heelii suspended for exercising
the constitutional privilege of meeting to petition that house
and whether the Government would take their case into
consideration.
Mr. LAING was afraid he could loudly give the hon.
gentleman a specific answer, not having had notice of his
intention to put the question. It was true, however, that a
committee of superior officers of the Poe-office was stp4
pointed some time ago, and some difficulty arose with red ',era
to the instructions given to the committee, and some
resigned. In that state of things, before Lord Eigin left for
China, the committee was reconstituted with full power to
make an accurate inquiry. One of the members of the cor a -
raittee was Mr. Stephens, of the Treasury, a gentleman wl u
was well known to hon. members of that house who had sat
upon committees. That committee had been very actively'
engaged in their inquiry, and had taken the pains to go to,
the Post-office at 4 o'cldck in the morning, in order to see,
with their own eyes, and every opportunity had been given
to the men to state their grievances. He believed it would
be found not to be true that they had no confidence in the
committee of superior officers. He could answer for it that
this commission would be a thoroughly searching and im-
partial one. B e thought the house must see that, under
these circumstances, where there was a large number of men
working together, it was necessary that discipline should b
enforced, and if any of the men should hold public meetings',
for the purpose of preventing- their fellow workmen from
coming forward to state their grievances before the com-
mittee it might be necessary for the department to mark
their sense of that conduct by suspension. He was not
aware that that was done, but he thought it probable, if
the facts were as represented, such a course might be
necessary. He hoped, however, that the report of the
commission would be very shortly ready to be submit-
ted to the house, and it would then be seen whether the
remedies which the Government might think fit to adopt
would be sufficient to meet the grievances complained of ;
if not it would be open for any hon. member to move in the
matter. (Hear.)
LAWS OF JERSEY.
Mr. HADFIELD asked the Secretary of State for the
Home Department when the report of the coltimission.which
had been appointed some time ago for inquiring into the
laws of Jersey would be presented to the house'.
Sir G. C. LEWIS replied that there had been some delay
in printing the evidence, but he believed the report would
be presented in about a fortnight.
THE IRISH LAND BILLS.

Lord FERMOY complained of a proposition having been
made that there should be a morning sitting for the discus-
sion of the Irish Land Bills, and also for the further progreas
of some Scotch bills.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL for IRELAND said if
these Irish Land Bills were to be passed into law this ses-
sion, it would be absolutely necessary that the house should
agree to proceed with them at a morning sitting.
The motion for adjournment to Monday was then agreed
to.
EAST INDIA—DISARMING NATIVE S•
Mr. H. BAILLIE moved an address for copies of all cor-
respondence with the civil governments of India regarding
the disarming of the natives, together with any m sautes
and opinions recorded by members of the late board of di-
rectors previously to the transfer of the Indian govern ments
to her Majesty, and subsequently of the Council of l'adia,
having reference to the subject.
The motion was agreed to.
STIPENDIARY MAGISTRATES.
On the motion of Mr. H. B. SHERIDAN leave was given
to bring in a bill to enable cities, towns, and boroughs (.1
30,000 inhabitants and upwards to appoint stipendiary rano-
gistrates.