The Sun.
London, England, 1857-07-11 00:00:00

CHINA.

Sir J. PAKTNGTON asked the First Lord of the
Treasury the foao wing questions, let, Whether any recent
intelligene? had been received as to the position and
proceedings of her Majesty's forces ? 2dly, Whether her
Majesty's Government had sent out any instructions,
empowering the Indian Government to divert from their
destination the troops which had been sent from this
country to China, and employ them in India?
3 ny, If no ouch instructions had been sent,
whether it were true that the Governor-Gene-
ral of India had, of his own authority, acting under
the pressure of events in that country, sent orders to
Ceylon that the forces sent from this country to China,
were, on their arrival at Ceylon, to proceed to India ?
And, fourthly, whether her Majesty's Government were
prepared to state, in the event of its being intended that
the troops sent to China should be immediately em-
ployed in India, what course they proposed to take for
strengthening the British Forces in China ?
Sir C. WOOD, in the absence of the First Lord of
the Treasury, said that when the last advices left China
on 10th May, things remained very much in the same
state, no further hostilities having taken place. The right
lion:baronet, who was exceedingly indistinct, was un-
derstood to answer the other questions in the negative.
SUPPLY.
Sir IT. WILLOUGHBY asked what branch of the
estimates it was intended to take in committee of supply
I on Monday night, and when No. 7, miscellaneous esti-
mates would be placed on' the table of the house
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQTJER said he
would answer the question before the rising of the
house.

DIVORCE,
Bcc., BILL.
Mr. HENLEY asked if it was the intention of the
Government to proceed with the divorce, &c., bill on
Monday ?
Certainly
Sir C. WOOD OF
not on Monday night.
TRANSMISSION OF TROOPS TO INDIA.
On the motion for the adjournment of the house till
Monday,
Captain VIVIAN asked the President of the Board
of Contra whether it was the intention of her Majesty's
Government to send the troops which were about to
embark for India in sailing ships?
Mr. V. SMITH said that arrangements were made
behoe the diewtron3 news was received from
India for sending out 10,000 troops to India for
the purposes of relief in sailing vessels. They
would proceed this month to their destination. When
the news arrived from India, the East India Company
applied to the Government 4,000 additional troops,
awl it had been arranged to send 2,000 of them out in
screw vessels, and 2,000 in sailing vessels.
Sir C. NAPIER regretted the Government bad sent
any of the troops by sailing vessels to India.
The subject then dropped.
DISTRIBUTION OF MEDALS.
Colonel NORTH asked the Under Secretary of War
when the Turkish Order of the Medjidi, the Sardinian
Military Medal, and the Turkish Medal for officers and
men are to be distributed to those entitled to them
Sir J. RAMSDEN said that the Government of this
country had dune all that was required of them in rela-
tion to the Turkish Order, The Sardinian medals were
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knowledge of the details of the revised tariff of Russia,
and, if so, whether they would lay them upon the table
of the house
Air. LOWE said, t6,t he had received some account
of the change alluded toi,bot. it was in too imperfect a
state tai lay on the table of the house. As pion as he
received fill information oti the question ho would lay it
onithe table of the house.
NEWSPAPER SECURITIES.
Mr. AYRTON asked whether it was the intention of
Government to continue the prosecution of the publisher
of the Bury Times. and to abstain from prosecuting the
publisher of the Free Press, and all other newspapers
and pamphlets published without compliance with the
statutes relating to security and registration
The CHANCELLOR. of tbo EXCHEQUER, said
that the Government intended to proceed with the pro-
secution of the Bury Times, and that they would pro-
ceed in a similar manner against all newspapers that did
not comply with the statutory enactments rospecting
security and registration of newspapers. The Free
Press alluded to was not considered to be a ne vspaper,
and na prcceedincs would be taken against it.
COLONIAL LABOUR.
Mr- TURNER asked the First Lord of the Treasury,
whether any communication had taken place between
the English and French Governments respecting the ex-
ports of negroes from the West Coast of Africt, to the
French Colonies in the West Indies ; and whether he
was aware in what manner the negroes were to be ob-
tained •

---Sur E. BUXTON called the attention of the Govern-
ment to the emigration of negroes to the Die of Bourbon.
Lord PALMERSTO.N said that the Government
were aware of the French Government being engaged
in transporting negroes from the West Coast of Africa
to the French c denies, and confidential communication
had been made to the French Government relative to the
matter. The French Government bad assured her Ma-
jesty's Government that it was their anxious desire that
the arrangements they had made for procuring negro
labour should not lead to the revival of tl. e slave
trade—indeed that every precaution bad been taken to
prevent it. It would be the duty of her Majesty's Govern
meat to obtain all the information they could, and if neces-
sary, call the attention of the French Government to any
I:ifeach of the regulations laid down by them in reference
to the emigration of free negroes. The free niTroes of
Africa wereaverse to emigrating, and he thought theFreneh
Government would have some difficulty in obtaining
really free. emigrants. He could not believe that the
French Government, having abolished the slave-trade,
would do anything that would lead to its revival. In re-
ply to Sir E. Buxton, the nobls lord said that her Ma-.
jesty's Government had received information, though not
authentic, of the emigration of negroes from the east
coast of Africa to the Isle of Bourbon, but he was not
in a poeitien to state the extent to which it had gone
or in what manner the negroes bad been obtained.
The motion for adjournment was then agreed to.
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