The Sun.
London, England, 1857-02-05 00:00:00

PERSIA.

Mr. LAYARD gave notice that he should to-morrow
ask if the Persian Ambassador at Paris was negotiating
with Lord Cow hy with the same power he possessed when
at Constantinople, and when the papers relative to Per-
sia would be laid on the table of the home.
MAYNOOTH.

Mr. SPOONER gate notice that this day fortnight
he should move a committee of the whole house to eon-
eider the acts relating to the grants to Maynooth.
(Hear, and laughter.)
Mr. MACARTNEY asked the Attorney-General for
Ireland at what period of time it was communicated to
the Chief Commissioner of the Encumbered Estates
Court in Ireland that his duties were to cease previous to
the Ist day of November last ; and to the other Commis-
missioners, that they were to undertake and dispose of all
matters hitherto in said Chief Commissioner's Court
from the time of his retirement ; and also,
whether he was prepared to bring in a bill in accordance
with the report of the select committee of the House of
Commons, for insproving and altering the business of
the Court of Chancery in Ireland
The ATTORNEY.GENERAL for IRELAND said
that he would give an answer to the first question to-
morrow ; and with regard to the second, that a great
change had been made in that court, and would continue
till July, 1858, when it was anticipated the Government
would be prepared to deal with the court, consequently
at present no change would be made till then.
Mr. HUME asked the Secretary for Ireland whether
the Government had it in contemplation this session to
introduce a bill to assimilate themeasures
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throughout the various counties
Ireland ?
was in preparation for
Mr. HO RSMAN said oneweightsan ie market towns
weightsandmthee First Lord of the Trea-
twheeurldegeumlabtriaoene of fairs and markets in Ireland, and that
Major SIBTJJORP askedsurd whether her Majesty's ; 's Government intended to
shipwrecked on the
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GREY said instructions had been sent to Sir
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were in captivity, to their release.
Sirhn BGo. w ring to make inquiries into the matter,
Mr. RICE asked the President of the Poor-law Board
if it was his intention to propose during the present ses-
sion any measure on the subject of medical relief ?
Mr. BOUVERIE replied that it was not.
Mr. BRADY asked the Secretary of State for the
Home Department, " it was the intention of her Ma-
jesty's Government to introduce any measure this ses-
sion for the better regulation of the sale of poisonous
drugs.
Sir G. GREY said that it was the intention of the
Government to introduce such a bill at an early day.
THE VACANT JUDGESHIP.
Mr. GLADSTONE rose to ask a question of the
Home Secretary, which, if he were unable to answer it
then, he would repeat to-morrow. It was whether
the Government intended to fill up the vacancy in,the
Court of Exchequer, occasioned by the lamented death
of Mr. Baron Alderson ; or whether they intended to let
it remain vacant until such time as the judicial committee
appointed for that purpose had reported relative to the
judicial establishments in Westminster Hall ?
Sir G. GREY said it was the intention of the Govern-
ment to fill up the vacancy, and not wait for the report

because great inconvenience would otherwise result from
it.

HUDSON'S BAY COMPANY.
Mr. LABOUCHERE moved for a select committee
to consider the state of those British possessions in North
A.mei ica which are under the administration of the Hud-
son's Bay Company, or over which they possess a licence
to trade. In doing so he gave an account of the hold-
ing of this company in British North America, which
dated from a charter granted by Charles the Second
in 1670, end by it they chimed rights of an important
description over all the ports of British North Ame-
rica within Rupees Land, dercribed as lying on
the rivers flowing into Hudson's Bay. Indeed,
they claimed an absolute right to the soil. In
addition to that territory the company chimed a
right over that part of British North America, lying be-
tween the Rocky Mountains and the Pacific Ocean,
known as British Oregon, for a term of 21 years, 19 of
which were expired, and they also held a lease of Van-
couver's Islands on a 11 years' leave, which would also
expire in 1859. His reason for bringing this subject
before the house was in consequence of his having re-
ceived, some weeks ago,'from the Director of the Hud-
son's Bay Company, a letter asking to be informed if her
hiajesty's Government intended to renew to them the
licenses they held under the Crown. He thought it was
a question, involving as it did the question of commercial
monopoly—(hear)--which he held to be the peculiar
duty of this house to consider and decide on, and not
one on which he ought to pledge the Government, with-
out giving the house a full and fair opportunity of con-
sidering it, (Hear.) lie replied to the directors' appli.
cation, that he felt it to be his duly to bring the whole
question before a committee of the House of Commons
this session, and, in justice to the company, he had to
state that on their receiving his answer, they expressed
not only a perfect willingness to have their affairs tho-
roughly and completely investigated, the only wish cx-
pressed by them being that the committee would well consi-
der any equitable claims they might have, and the right
hon. gentleman called on the house to view this question
in a large and statesmanlike manner, as it ought to be.
He next referred to the management of the company in
British North America, and said that they employed
1,200 persons, selected chiefly from Scotland, who
brought to bear in the discharge of their duties that
skill and shrewdness which might be expected from
persons carefully selected from that part of the
kingdom ; and he believed generally they had given
atkfaction to the natives, numbering about 300,000,
and that their rule had been beneficial to the Indian
population. The right hon. gentleman then referred to
the advantages of this trust for the purpose of emigra-
tion, the., and concluded by moving the appointment of
a select committee.

Mr. ROEBUCK said he should not oppose the motion.
He reminded the house that Charles IL gave this Com-
pany what he had no right to give, and said that the Hud-
son's Bay Company ought not to stand in the way of
the interests of humanity that were bound up in this
question. It was the interest of the company not to en-
courage colonisation, because as population increased it
would drive away the wild animals from which the
company derived its wealth. A shorter course
should have bean adopted by the Foreign Secre-
tary than moving for a committee, by bringing in
a bill to abolish the powers of the company in British
North America. His (Mr. Roebuck's) motion was, that
the Government should civilise and 'colonise this great
part of the world, and, he hesitated not to state, to
make it a powerful and great preponderating power to
the United States.
Mr. ADDERLEY considered enquiry unnecessary,
and urged that it was the duty of the Government
to secure this territory for colonisation, which, from its
eatural production, would he of incalculable benefit to
the commerce of this country. They had no right to
lock up this large territory as a preserve for wild
animals for the production of furs. Ile believed
chat when the notice was gives nine-tenths of the mem-
bers considered it was given to consider it 33 regarded a
penal settlement ; but he was happy to find it was not,
because ho considered it a part of the world not desirable
for such a settlement.
Mr. ELLICE, jun., said the two last speakers la-
boured under an error relative to the management
aid objects of the Hudson's Bay Company,
and that it was preposterous to believe that any per-
sons would settle in the Hudson's Bay territory until
the more suitable parts of Canada were peopled. He
adeed if the Hudson's Bay COmpany were to be deprived
of their powers in that part ,of the world, what Govern-
ment was to be established-, its place to protect
the 300,000 Indians inhabiting`4Vat region ? Before
the Hudson's Bay Company had the monopoly there
was nothing but bloodshed and murder between the
white men and Indians. Since they had had possession
of it the Indians had been protected and a different state
of things bad arisen. Their rule had been a
beneficent and good rule, and beneficial to the
Indians. In the neighbourhood of the Red River
population had slightly decreased, but ir‘. the north pars
they had increased and were increasing, which depended
greatly on the materials for comfort provided for the
Indians, because they were not easily civilised.
rho difficulty would be to provide such a Government
in British North America, as would prevent the
inhabitants from attaching themselves to the United
States, and to whom the trade would be transferred.
The charter had been several times recognised Ly Gc-
vt-rnment, because the company had saved the country
the expense of keeping the territory, and therefore they
had now a right to demand the favourable considera-
tion of Parliament.
After some further discussion, the committee wal
granted.

[LEFT STETTNG .]

MR. MAYHEW AAD RUE TICKET-Of!-
LEA VE MEN.

At the Marlborough-street Pi.lice-court yesterday Mr.
tlenry Davies, of No. 22, Buckingham-street, Strand,
solicitor, made an application to the magistrate for a
summons against the writer of a letter signing himself
"Ned Salmon," a ticket-of-leave man. Tae Jotter
upon which this application was based had been sent
to the private residence of his client, Mr. Henry May-
hew, and was of so filthy and coarse a description
that he would not attempt to read the whole of it to
the court, but he would confine himself to those pas-
sages which he thought would justify the magistrate
in granting the summons he applied for. The writer
began by avowing himself to be the same person who
attacked Mr. Mayhew at the last ticket-of-leave meeting,
held at Farringdou Hall, the Earl of Carnarvon in the
chair, and concluded with the following threat: "Some of
us will meet you when you least expect it—you and the
likes of you; and the -- parsons may preach about
our black deeds and garottang. They know nothing
about such. They may save themselves any trouble
about me. Blast you, and the whole set. You would
all give us over to that respectable gentleman, Mr. Cal-
craft, the hangman. Now, old fellow, old -- gentle-
man Mayhew, look out for squalls, for we will have a
watch upon you and your designs. If you should
happen to be garotted, you would not come off so well
as a good many. Why don't you give us some tin."
Mr. Davies said that he held in his hand a letter from
Earl Carnarvon, dated Jan. 10, requesting Mr. Mayhew,
as a favour, to call this meeting for him, as his lordship
wished to inquire into the subject previous to the meet-
ing of Parliament, and Mr. Mayhew had complied with
the request in the hope that the men might be benefited
by the proceeding. Mr. Davies further stated, that to
show the animus of the speaker at the last meeting and
the writer of the present letter, he had come provided
with a second letter threatening proceedings in the County
Court against Mr. Mayhew unless he paid a further sum
of 31. 2s. 6d. for the board and lodging of a returned convict
wbom his olient had been keeping for a considerable
time at his own expense. Mr. Mayhew had already
paid 101., and finding it had been applied to no good
purpose had declined to submit to further extortion;
and that, he (Mr. Davies) believed, was the sole cause
of the malice of the speaker at the meeting and the
threat of the writer of the letter.
' The magistrate, after reading the letter handed in,
observed that it was so gross and brutal a threat, that
if Mr. Davies was in a position to prove the handwriting,
he should feel it his duty to grant a warrant rather than
a summons against the man.
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present, as a spite against the man who had made the
charges against Mr. Mayhew. Under these circum•
stances he was obliged to refuse the application.