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LONDON, TUESDAY

IMPERIAL PAR

:ENT.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.—(This Day.)
Tho SPEAKER took the chair at twelve o'clock.
PRIVATE BUSINESS.
_ _

The Lards' amendments to the following bills were
considered and agreed to :—Luton Gae, Salisbury and
Yeovil Railway, Blyth Harbour and Dock, Chiswick
Improvement.

The following bills were read a third time and passed :
—Stockton and Darlington Railway (Durham Lines),
Stockton and Darlington, Wear Valley, &c. Railway
Companies Amalgamation.
The following bills were read a second time :—Sun•
derland Dock, Westminster Palace Hotel Company
(Limit, d.)

1;OUR COURTS (DUBLIN) BILL.
Lord N.A.A.S moved that, in the else of the Four
Courts (Dublin) Exter sion Bill, the examiner of peti-
tions for private bills have lave to sit and proceed on
Thursday next,—Agreed to.

NEW WRIT.
Oo the motion of Sir W. HATTER, a new writ was
issued for Cornwall iu the room of Michael Williams,
Esq., decease I.

- MEDICAL PRACHONERS' BILL.
Oa the motion of Mr. WALPOLE, this bill as com-
mitted pro forma, for the purpose of introducing certain
amendments, and the bill was ordered to be recommitted
on Thursday week at twelve o'clock.
LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL.

The house then went into committee on this bill.
Clauses 1 to 3 inclusive were agreed to.
On clause 9, which gives the power to determine
whether the act should be adopted or not in town conc..
oils and improvement commissioners,
Sir M. FARQUA.HAR said he thought that this
power ought to be in the hands of the ratepayers, and
not in town councils. If such a provision as the one
laid down in the clause was agreed to, the bill, in his
opinion, would be a dead letter. He moved an amend-
ment to effect his suggestion.
Mr. BAINES supported the clause. He thought
the town councillors, who were the ratepayers selection,
were the proper parties to determine whether or not
they would adopt the provisions of the bill.
Mr. ADDERLEY said the clause provided that
two-thirds of the town council must consent to•the adop-
tion i f the act before it could be put in operation, and
then there was an ample power of appaal given to the
ratepayers against the decision pf the town council.
After a short discussion, the amendment was nega-
tfved without a division, and the clause was agreed to..
On clause 10, which proposed that the petitions of
the ratepayers and others against the decision of the
Town Council in favour of the act be addressed to one
of her Majesty's Secretaries of State,
_ _

Mr. CO WPER proposed that the petition of those
opposed to the adoptmn of this act should be sent to the
committee of Privy C3uncil, or in other words, to the
President of the Board of Health. In f ffect such pe-
titions would go to the Home Office, which was already
overburdened with bu-iness.

Mr. ADDERLEY said be felt disposed to adopt the
arnenduient of the right hon. gentleman merely for the
purpose of expediting the passing of the bill.
[LEFT BITTING

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

TATTE RSA LLS'-YESTERDAY.

Many of the members having left for Newcastle, the
Room wa3 not very numerously attended. 4to 1 was
offered on the field for the Northumberland Plate ; half
a point more was taken about Underhand, whilst 6 to 1
was offered " bar one." Harry Bluff maintained his po-
sition as fist favourite for the Goodwood Stakes at 13
to 1, and 1,000 to 60 wag laid twice against Windward.
Tne St. Leger and Derby " doings" require no especial
comment.

CLOSING PRICES.
• CHELMSFORD HANDICAP.
3to 1 agst Barbariy (taken)
NORTHUMBERLAND PLATE.
9 tci. 2 a:at Underhand ( a,ket )
100 to 15 agst Pensioner (taken)
7to 1 agst Satinstone (taken)
7to 1 agst Gunboat (taken and offered)
Bto 1 agst Herne (taken)
8 to 1 agst Minnie (taken)
12 to 1 apt Sally (taken)
100 to 8 agst Honeytree (taken)
100 to 4 agst Meta (taken)

QOODWOOD STAKES.
13 to 1 agat Harry Bluff (taken)
100 to 6 aget Windward (taken)
20 to 1 aget Lifeboat (taken)
ET. LEGER.
6to 1 aget Fitzroland (taken and offered)
40 to 1 agat Blanche of Middlebie (taken)
2 to 1 agst Toxonholite and Governess coupled
(taken)
DEBBY.
17 to 1 agst Musjid (taken)
25 to 1 agst Viking (taken)
25 to 1 agst Mutineer (taken)
30 to 1 apt Ticket of Leave (taken)
40 to 1 agat Cavendish taken)
40 to 1 agst Serenader (taken)
50 to 1 aget St. Clarence (taken)
Racing Fixtures for 1858.

Abingdon 24
Cat lisle 29
JU.

Shrewsbury 29

Hereford
Ipswich 1
Pontefract
.. 1
Odihani 2
Newmarket July 6
Worcester Summer 8

Liverpool l4
Nottingham 20
Stamford
Marlborough 23
Goodwood 27

Ripon.
Belford
North Staffordshire 3
Brighton
Brighton Club
Lewes
Wolverhampton ..... , 9
Reading ll.
SEPTI
-

'UST.
York 18
I Radcliffe 23
1 Egham 24
Hereford 26
Stockton 26
I Lichfield 3O
I Great Yarmouth 3l

----....A
Derby 1
CArdiff ._ 2
Warwick
Doncaster 14
Leicester 22
OCT(

FIBER.
Monmouth • 03
ManehesterAuturon 24
Newmarket F 0 28
Walsall 29
Northallerton 3O
IBER.

Chester Autumn 5
Richmond 7
Wrexham
Newmarket S 0 ll

Royal Caledonian Hunt
and Kele() 19
Newmarket H 25

Worcester Autumn ...... 2
Liverpool Autumn ...... 9

[BER.
Shrewsbury Autumn ...11

Irish Racing Fixtures for 1858.
JUNIC.
Curragh 22 I Tramore 2B
JULY.
Belle eratown ............... 7I Wicklow 27
Down Royal Corp ...„20

AU
Heath of Maryitoro'...... s G
Roscommon ............ . .. 10 I

AMT.
Galway

8 IL
.„. 4
Currsigh
7
Jeukinstews Park 2l

OCT'
Came' 12
Down Royal Corp ~,,,,1t

EVENING, JUNE 22, itos.

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LAW INTELLIGENCE.—(This Day.)

COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH.
(Sittings at Nisi Prins, at Westminster, Lefore Lord
Campbell and a Special Jury).
THE STATE PROSEOUTIONS.--THE LIBEL ON THE

PEEIAL _ LIME T:

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.1:10USE OF
Thfi LORD CHANCELLOR took P.i.B :,eat,cn tho wooleack
at five o'clock.
CARLISLE AND LANGTIOLM RAILWAY.

Lord -PORTMAN presented the report of the com-
mittee on the Carlisle and Langholm Railway 8,11,
The committee were of opinion that, in consequence of
'the facts developed in the agreement of the contractors,
they ought not to be countenanced by Parliament, and
that the bill ought not to be allowed to proceed. The
committee thought it their duty' also to 'express their
opinion, tbat all agreements with :contractors ought to
be lona fide. _
VICTORIA STATION AND PIMLICO RAILWAY
BILL.
On the motion that this bill be read a second time,

The Earl of CARNARVON said as this bill was of a
very important nature, be begged t ) move that. it he re-
ferred to a select committee, and that the. First Commis-
sioner of Public Works have leave to appear by counsel
against the same.

After short—diFensaion, in which Lord Stan'ey of
Alderley, Lord Redesdale, and the Earl of POWi3 took
part,

The Earl of MALMESBURY said, as there ap-
peared to be a great divkrsity of opinion with respect
to this bill, he thought the discussion had better be post-'
poned until his noble friend (Earl of Derby) was present.
The subject then dropped.
THE GOVERNMENT OF INDIA BILL.
The Earl of MALMESBURY said with respect to
the question put to Lim on Friday night by the
noble marquis (Lansdowne), touching the new
Government of India Bill, that, at the time, in
consequence of the absence of the Earl of Derby,
he was unable to answer the question. He
had since communicated with his noble friend, and be
begged to state that it was not the intentiln
of the Government to lay the resolutions upon the table.
They were not resolutions that proceeded from the Go-
vernment alone, but resolutions which had.bcen framed
in two or three quarters. If they_ had been laid upon
the table at the same time that they were produced in
the other house there might not have been any
objec ion to proceed with them, ?sari passu, in
both houses, but the circumstances ere different,
as they had only been agreed to by the -other
house as a preliminary step to the framir g of a bill, He
was not aware that there was any precedent fur the pro-
duction of the resolutions come to in the Commons under
such circumstances, hut he was of opinion th.kt it won'
be very inconvenieatto 13y them upon the table
was simply no afford their krdsbips onp6rt

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discussing-the question.' Be entertaiwzd the etr•
hope 4 that the bill would be in their ;E
during the. second week in Joly, and he tinught it-
would Le Inc the interest i India t no
preliminary discussion should take place. (Sear.)
The Marquis of L ANSDOWNE said he had cffore.:
the suggestion merely for the purpose of most vtleetually
and most speedily discossing.the question.
Tne Earl of GRANVILLE said the Governoteut had
no doubt taken the course they Iliought beet, but be
thought the house had been placed in a falai) pozition.
Earl GREY said, if the bill did not come up At the
time stated, he trusted that. the standing order of their
lordship, with respect to the second readings of Linn set.
from the House of Commons, would not be suspended
in order to proceed with the bill. At the end of July a
number of their lordships would not be in attendance,
and to proceed with the bill under such circumstances
would be to deprive this house, in a great measure, from
expressing its opinion on so important a measure.
The Marquis of CLANRICARDE hoped that nothing
would induce their lordships to separate before they
had come to some final conclusion on this important
bill.

The subject then dropped.
COOLIE EMIGRATION.

The Bishop of OXFORD moved for copies of extracts
of correspondence between the Colonial department and
the Governor of Hong Kong, and between the Colonial
department and the Foreign-office, on the subject of
emigration from Hong Kong and from the Chinese em-
pire to the British West Indies and to foreign countries
and their possessions, since the let of January, 1856,
The right rev. prelate said that no guilt would be
greater than that which would be incurred by Englind
it, after standing up before the world as the abolielier of
slavery and the slave trade, she shosald t,y any careless-
ness suffer ber own people in her distant dependencies
to be once more drawn into that abominable traffic.
He was afraid that in the neighbourhood of Natal we
were in some danger of being involved in this snare.
He was afraid that the Boers iu that locality were gra-
dually re-establishing the institution of slavery, and that
we were in a great degree guilty is this matter. We
refused to allow the African people to be supplied with
gunpowder and the means of defence, whereas we al-
lowed the Boers to supply themselves at will with the`-
means of aggression. We had thus handed over the
liberties of the people to the Boers in a manner that
would be familiar to the leaders( of the intere*tiug work
of Dr. Livingstone. A eractice was growing up of tak-
ing the children of Africans, and he was afraid that un-
less the greatest vigilance was used this would be made
a means of introducing slavery. He bad on a previous
evening alluded to the conduct of Spain, and be bad
been misrepreseuted as if he had recommended the go--
vernment to go to am with that country. He had said
nothing of the kind. All that he bad said was that her
Maj,,sty's government should use their legitimate influ-
ence with Spain, and he did not believe tbat war would
be necessary. When Slavery was aboli,hed it was
thought necessary to adopt various measures fir the
purpose of supplying the coioeies with free labour; but
it was felt that that c,old only safely be done by ac-

comparyiug every one of those/ measures witir an
elaborate sy-ttu► chickw, to prevent the reintro-
duction of slavery Limier the pretence of free lv:ourerv.

It was enacted r that there should he a protector of
the immigrants ; and prot-i;-,i•,u was made ti-pitt curry
free labourer should have the wet h return when he
wished. Ail there measures were proofs of the ntcessity
that was felt to exist tor precautions against aLusc. He
was glad to say that, so far as the Mauritius was con.

corned, the experiment had been most successful; end
there had grown up in that colony a body of men who
were really free, as well as honest end contented la-
houeers. With respect to the more ieurneeiiate subject
of his motion, statements had been received which had
given him great uneasiness. A proclamation bad bete,
issued in 1854, from which it appeared that slavery was
then being introduced, and there were now reports
coming over fo this country from which it would seem
that the system which that proclamation was intended to
put down was re-appearing. Language of rebuke had
been used towards those who had shown themselves
jealous of the system which some were seeking to intro
duce. But this country went to China as a Christian
people and as professed advocated of the freedom c f mar.
Their lordehips had recently heard an el, quent denun-
ciation of practices which were carried on under the flag
of a neighbouring nation. But surely we ought net to
enable France to turn round upon us and soy, " See
what your own people are doing at Hung Kong ! " We
ought to be above suspicion. We ought to be clouely
cautious that under no possible coejuncture of circum-
stances so great a sin as the save trade should scam be
brought upon us. We ought to be able to show the
world that no gain, no advantage, no colonial con-
venience should ever prevent us from proclaiming with
plain, clear, and unmistakeable voice, that we would
neither directly nor indirectly suffer this crime of kid-
napping and making slaves to be palmed off upon the
British nation.
The Earl of CARNARVON had no objection to pro-
duce the papers for which his right rev. friend had
moved, iu a speech which had embraced a wide selection
of topics. The papers would lay open what was in many
respects a painful story; but, at the same time, he had no
wish to keep back anything. He was glad his right rev.
friend had dated his return from the Ist of Jan,, 1856 ;
because on that day the Chinese Paseenger Act came
into operation. The right rev. prelate had alluded to the
proclamation of 1854, but he must remember that was
before the act was in force. By that measure an emigrant
agent was' established at Hong Kong, and at each of the
other four open ports, whose duty it was to see that
sufficient accommodation and a proper dietary were pro-
vided, He (the noble ear') was afraid, however, that
the act bad not proved so satisfactory as might have
been desired: But it should be remembered that there
were two classed cf emigrant ships—those who to, k
coolies to English colonies, and those who conveyed them
to foreign possessions. The papers for which the right
rev, prelate had moved would show that the act had
woiked well with regard to the one class, but that with
regard to the other class there were still many serious
and crying abuses. It was obvious that even if the law
was not evaded, as was generally the case with respect
to vessels clearing out for ft reign ports, the government
had no authority over them when they reached their
destination. WAti regard to British po-,+.e,.l:,nti the cabe
was very different. Between the years 1834 and 1856 uo
fewer than 170,000 coolies bad been conveyed to the
Mauritius ; and in 1856, an fewer than 134,000 re-
mained. Their wages were from 13,. to 17e. per month ;
and during their five Tears' service they could actomu
late 251., which wee of course quite a competence fee
them. In British Galena 236 coolies were employed,
at wages averaging about a dollar a day ; in 1856,
there was in the savings bark about 40,000 dollars be-
longing to them ; and 4,000/. had been transmitted
home. In Trinidad there was about 350 coolies, who
had deposited 6,2901. with the authorities for the same
purpose. The Chinese, it should be said, proved to be
the best emigrants and the best labourers. But what
had been the case a ith the coolies who emigrated to
foreign possessions ! The returns were not very com-
plete, and he was not disposed to lay much stress on the
relative mortality on board the two classes of ships. In
the years 1852.54 the number of Chinese conveyed on
board British ships to British possessions was 2,340, of
a horn there had died on the passage 230, or 10 per cent.
—certainly a very large percentage. But in the ten
years, 1847-57, 9,600 persons were conveyed on board 26
British ships to Cubs, and of these 1,391 died, or nearly
14 one-th rd per cent. He was sorry to say the British
ships were almost at the bottom of the list in point of
mortality ; the American per tentage being 91, the
Dutch 11 1-3, the French 121, and the Spanieh 111,
The evidence as to the cause of this excessive mortality
did not appear to be very satisfactory. It appeared, how-
ever, to have been to some extent owing to want of ven-
tilation, bad water, and the like, but it also appeared
that the emigrants were not always selected from the
classes best able to stand the voyage. He would now
mention a few of the more remarkable cases. The John
Calvin made the voyage to Havannah in 150 days, and
out of 332 emigrants ilse lost 121 ; and the Duke of
Portland lost 128 out or 332. (The noble lord instanced
some other ships, the names of which were not clearly
heard) It must ba remembered that these were al, s
which bad not only been sent from Hong Kong, but
which appeared to have complied with the requisite re-
gulations. He was afraid that what hie right rev. friend