The Sun.
London, England, 1857-03-12 00:00:00

SMUGGLING IN CHINA.

The Earl of ELLENBOROUGB. called the attention
of th,ir lordships to the supplemental treaty of 1847
with China, while moving for certain returns. It ap-
peared to him that when the Government ex-
acted such a very strict observance of the
treaty from the Chinese, it behoved us to see
whether we had been as strictly correct in the per-
forntence of our obligations which that treaty imposed
upon us. The obligations were imposed upon us with
a view of preventing smuggling being carried on with
China. The noble earl then quoted several articles
with a view of showing that we had, in a great measure,
violated the obligations therein contained by allowing a
contraband trade in opium and several other articles,
which had been carried on fir a great length of
time. In respect to reinforcements that were ordered
out to China, he hoped they had gone long ago. If it
was true, as was reported, the expedition had not left
until the 10th of this month, tie was of opinion
that it would prove an utter failure, for by the time
it weuld arrive in India there would be no vessels
at Madras, and very few at Calcutta, consequently
there would be no means of conveying the troops to any
considerahle amount. The demand would be little less
than 20,000 tons of shipping,. Even if sufficient shipping
were tound at the time, they would very likely be suet
by as monsoon and scattered about. The arrangements
for the preservation of the health of the troops on board
ship would require great care, and it was absolutely ne-
cessary that proper awning for the troop-ships
should be provided. The not is eat]. nex:-. proceeded to
condemn the sending out of such large ships
as the Shannon and the Resolution. Such ves-
sels, when they arrived at their destination, would
be found entirely nseless ; and another thing
that should also be considered in this country before
these great ships left was the precautions that had been
taken to guard against the action of fire-ships which
might be sent against them.
[LEFT SFEAXING.]

HOUSE OF COMMONS—(iIia Evening.)

The Smuum took the Chair at 4 o'clock.
PRIVATE BUSINESS.
The following private bills were read a third time
and passed —Exeter and Exmouth Railway ; Price's
Patent Candle Company ; and the Whitehaven, Cleator,
and Egremont Railway.
The Portland Harbour Bill was read a second time,
.and ordered to be committed.
• Mr. LANGWORTHY moved that, in the case of the
Salford Borough (No. 1) Bill, and the Salford Borough
(No. 2) Bill, the examiners of petitions for private bills
have leave to sit and proceed to-morrow.—Agreed to.
Mr. FITZROY moved the standing orders, providing
•for the suspension of private bills in the present session,
and for resuming proceedings thereupon in the next
session. The object of the motion was to put private
bills in the same position in the new Parliament as they
were in the present Parliament, a 3 to their progkess
through the house.—Agreed to.
TICKETS OF LEAVE.
Mr. SPOONER called the attention of the Home
Seca tary to the case of a man named Woolton.' charged
with burglary at Ashovcr, and asked if he had received
any information from the R.-c-irder of Birmingham that
the burglar was well known to the police of that town,
and that the learned Recorder had suggested to the,
Horne Secretary the necessity of withdrawing the licence
Sir G.- GREY said that in February, 1856, his
.attention was called by the Recorder uf Birming-
ham to eighteen persons residing there with tickets
of leave. Eight of them had conducted them-
selves well, and two doubtful. Of the remaining
eight directions had been given to make inquiries re-
specting them. Three of them had since been com-
mitted and their tickets withdrawn, two had been con-
victed and sentenced to longer periods than their first
convictions ; two had been cautioned, and one who had
kept a disreputable house had been cautioned, and be
ahandonea it. The remaining three bad been warned
by the police that if they continued their course of life
their tickets would be withdrawn. He bad heard no-
thing further of these men, and be supposed the desire
of the Recorder of Birmingham bad been complied with
and they had lett the place, for the crime of which
Woolton was charged was committed at Ashover, in
Derbyshire, and not at Birmingham.
THE CRI3IEAN CONIMISSIONERS.
Mr. J. EWART asked the First Lord of tlie Treasury
if it were the intention of Government to make any
ther recognition of the services of Sir J. lA'Nel aunrd-
Telloch in the Crimea /
Lord PALMERS ['ON said that the Government had
made what be conceived to be an ample recognition of
the merits of the services of these gentlemen. They bad
been acknowledged in that house, and by letters to those
gentlemen ; and,moreover, it had been intimated to them
that it was the intention of Government to recommend
them to the Crown to be presented each with
a sum of 1,0001. as a more material acknowledgment of
their services for three months in the Crimea. These
gentlemen bad thought fit to decline that offer, and it
was not for him to question their motives. It appeared
to hi:a that the Crown had done all it could be advised
to do.

THE YEOMANRY.
Mr. B. SEYMER asked the Chancellor of the 4.
eheq ler, whether, in the event of the yeomanry cavalry
not being called out for eight days' permanent duty
during the ensuing year, he was willing, in accordance
with Precedent, to remit the horse duty to the enrolled
members of the yeomanry corps ?
The CR&NCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said,
that in the event of sufficient cause not being shown for
the yeomanry cavalry being called out for eight days'
perm anent duty, the Government was prepared to ex-
tend the earne relief as on a former occasion, and remit
the duty for the ensuing year. -
In reply to a que,.tion from Mr. LIDDELL,
The CEIAIN CELLO R of the EXCHEQ
that he would to morrow UER said,
give an explanation of what be
"sufficient cause."
merit by a
SMITHFIELD,
Lord IL GROSVENOR for mr.
Rer Seyrner asked
the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether the Govern-
mem
Was
prepared to givo effect to the recall-IT-no-L(l,mo,
of tb Smithfied Committee, viz., " That the heat appro.
priatiou for the general benefit of so much et the situ of
S Inn Wield as reverts to the Crown, would be to adapt it
for tha enj )yment and recreation of the pale ie."
R said
Tee CHANCELLOR of the EXCHFQUE
that in Jify la 5t the report of the cumn!itteo was sent
to th City Ifotneinhrancer, ieformiug him that it was
intei ded to intro:luce into Etr:ialueLt a bill for appro-
priating the site of Smithfield. To that an answer was
returned that the city authorities could not recognise
the claim of the Crown to the land without its being
substantiated in a curt of law. To prevent that pro-
ceeding, a suggestion was made by the City authorities
to make it a dead meat market, but the Government
declined it, and requested the authorities to consider a
plan fee appropriating it to public services. At, present
no answer bad been received by the Government, the
question being under the consideration of the City autho-
itiee.

THE COUNCIL AT MALTA.
Mr. KINNAIRD asked the Secretary of State for
the Colonies sNbether he had taken any stops to prevent
judy,es holding the office of member of council at Malta?
Mr. LABOUCHERE said it had been thought expe-
diezt to recommend that an order in Council be passed,

by which in future the kites of the superior courts in
Malta should not be eligible to seats in the Council.

THE CAMP AT CURRAGH.

Mr. COGAN asked the Under Secretary for War
whether there was any intention to establish a mili-
tAry prison in connection with the camp at the Cur-
ragh ; and, if so, whether any steps had been taken as
yet with respect to it I

Mr. F. PEEL said that two propositions had been
made for the establishment of prisons at Curragh—one
for the erection of a civil prison, and the other for the
erection of a military prison within the limits of the
Camp at Curragh. No decision had been come to with
regard to either of the propositions.

SUPPLY.
Mr. FITZROY brought up the report of supply
granted yesterday.—Agreed to.

THE CRIMEAN COMMISSIONERS.
On the motion for the house going into committee
Supply,

Mr. PALK moved the following amendment :
" That Sir John M'Neill and Colonel Tulloch ably ful-
filled the duty entrusted to them of inquiring into the
arrangement and management of the Commissariat De-
partment ; that the evidence in their report proves that, in
the months of December, 1854, and January, 1855, the
sufferings of the army must have been intense, and
that great mortality was occasioned by overwork and ex-
posure, and want of food and clothing ; that the examina-
tions into this statement by the Board of General Officers
materially support the conclusions arrived at by the Com-
missioners am to the want of organisation in the Quarter-
master General's, Commissariat, and Transport Services;
that it appears to this house that, from the report of the
board, this inefficiency must be attributed to the imper-
fect arrangement or conduct of those departments."
Tne hon. gentleman at considerable length dwelt on the
sufferings of the army in the Crimea, repeating the argu-
ments so often used in discussing the commissioners' re-
port.
Mr. A. BLACK seconded the amendment. He
hoped the noble lord would break through any invisible
fences that prevented the Government from giving ho-
nour to whom honour was due.
Lord PALMERSTON recapitulated the statements
he had formerly made relative to the services
of these gentlemen, and said that the pre-
sent motion was not the most useful applica-
tion of the time of the house. Had it been made,
accompanied by the hon. member's speech, two years
agr, it might have been appropriate, bat the troops had
left the Crimea more than 12 months, and were then the
admiration of the world, the evils he complained of having
been remedied. Our loss there was less than that of our
allies, and less in proportion to that of the Russians.
They were mending for the better in the Crimea before
the Commissioners went out. The medical commissioners
effected more benefit to the army and the public than
it was possible for the Crimean Commissioners to ac-
complish. The Chelsea inquiry was not a com-
mission of inquiry into the Crimean report, but
a court for the officers who had left the Crimea
before the Crimean Commissioners had arrived
there, to exonerate themselves from those portions of the
Crimean report they considered impugned their charac-
ter. The motion ought not to be acceded to at the pre-
sent time.

Sir J. FITZGERALD rose to address the house and
was

(LEFT SPEAKING.)

TBE egNTRAL AMERICAN TREATY.

( From the Washington Union, Feb. 21.)
The necessity of firmly resisting all attempts to inveigle
the United States into any partnership or co-operation with
Great Britain in their policy with regard to this continent,
and most especially so the States of Central America, is
daily more emphatically demonstrated. The United States
want no such partnership, no such co-operation. The right
asserted by Great Britain to an interference with the affairs
of Central America is either based on sheer usurpation or
on pretences having no foundation whatever, or at least
none that can sustain claims of such magnitude, and so
vitally injurious to the United States. The acknowledg-
ment on the part of the United States that Groat Britain
had a right to become a party in regulating their policy in
relation to Central America, which was virtually done by
the Clayton-Bnlwer Treaty, has been one great source of
all the accumulating difficulties in that quarter. By her
own interpretation of that treaty Groat Britain is abs.o.
' lately guaranteed in her right to the protectorate of
the Mosquitos, while the United States are restrained in
all future time, and under all circumstances, from making
any acquisitions by purchase, cession, or conquest in Cen-
tral America, however necessary they may be to counter-
act the encroachments of Great Britain in that quarter.
The United States have tied themselves hand and foot,
while Great Britain is left free to pursue a system of
intrigue, bullying, and encroachment, the inevitable
consequence of which must be either the possession, or
at least absolute control, of a region of more vital con-
sequence to the United States than half the world besides.
And why was such a treaty made ? The ostensible object
was to associate Great Britain as a guarantee of the free-
dom of the contemplated ship-canal to connect the Pacific
, and Atlantic Oceans. And why was such a guarantee re-
quired ? The only parties to this great undertaking were
the United States and the State of Nicaragua, both equally
independent, and equally entitled to make such an ar-
rangement without the assent or co-operation of any other
Power whatever. Yet Great Britain was invited to
co-operate. She condescended to accept the invitation, and
her co-operation has hitherto consisted in throwing every
obstacle in the way of the possibility of the completion of
this great undertaking, both now and for ever. The United
States have recognised her as a partner in the business, and
given a right, or at least a pretext, to interfere. The Clayton-
Bul wer Treaty has created an indissoluble entanglement,
and so long as Great Britain continues toad on its owninter-
pretation of that instrument, and the United States content
themselves with " argufying" the question, the one is free
to pursue its insidious policy in Central America, and the
other is in duty bound, according to the London Times, to
pass neutrality laws which effectually arrest all efforts to
correct the blunders of former Administrations. By making
a catspaw of Costa Rica, which she has taken under her
" protection," and incited to lay claim to one bank of the
river San Juan, which she had formally relinquished by
treaty, and by extending her Mosquito protectorate to the
other bank, she is in a fair way of attaining the entire com-
mand of the great, the only connecting link of navigation
between the Atlantic and Pacific, and with it the entire
control of Central America. That she will do so, and that
Gen. Walker is now almost the only obstacle to the success
of the plot is, we think, becoming every day more evident.
While the United States sleeps Great Britain is wide
awake ; while one is triumphant in argument, the other is
at work in constant action; and it may be taken for granted
that Great Britain will be always willing to negotiate,
while the United States continue in the meantime to ac-
quiesce in her doing just as she pleases, and content them-
selves with proving that she is in the wrong. The policy of
Great Britain, though it may not amount to actual war, is
directly hostile to the interests and honour of the United
States, and is the more insidious and insulting from being
perpetuallyi coupled with professions of cordial amity and
friendship. If resistance or counteraction should produce
war, open war is better than secret hostility, and the nation
which shrinks from that alternative from apprehension of
its consequences must make up its mind to submit to every-
thing. Surely, some decisive stand should be taken to
counteract, or, if necessary, resist this dangerous }ruder-
hand policy L. Central America.

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Police Station. The Investigator, formerly used as a
police-station, was towed to Woolwich, and is ordered
to be broken up.
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