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London, England, 1857-05-23 00:00:00

of the utmost consequence that they should be treated
not only with justice but with liberality. We had
necessarily entered into very onerous engagements on
raising the German 14,,gi0n. He N5;3 not quite certain
what the sum of money which would be saved by sending
the German Legion to the Cape and disbanding the regi-
ment there would be. He believed that the sum necessa-
rily expended on the disbanding of the legion would be
64,000/., which must, therefore, be taken from the expense
of sending them to the Cape. The expense incurred for
the three-years contemplated was 205,000/., from which
must be deducted, in addition to the 64,0001., the sum
voted by the colonists-40,000/, immediate payment, and
40,000/. prospectively, so that the hon. gentleman would
see that, with all these deductions, the real expense would
be little more than 60,000/., and it was fair to calculate
that in return for that there would be some increased value
of the land.

Sir DE LACY EVANS said that this seemed to him
rather a military question than one to be discussed on
going into committee upon the navy estimates ; and, in-
deed, it might be a very fit subject for discussion when the
♦ote for the German Legion came before them. The whole
question, indeed, was wider and more extensive than its
treatment implied. They ought to consider whether it was
right to have employed Germans at all in our army; and,
secondly, whether those Germans, who had never seen the
face of an enemy, had not been far more liberally treated
than that part of the British army which had been die.
banded, he feared with little bounty and little courtesy,
after fighting for months in the trenches. The German
Legion had been treated with a generosity beyond the
limits of prudence. Not only had the division been en-
listed for three years after the war, but they had been
placed in a position which would give them a further claim
Upon this country. There was no doubt that the frontiers
of the Cape colony at the present moment were very much
like the condition of the border counties in this country
some hundred years ago. There would always be cattle-
stealing there ; but if they thought to dofend the line
of frontier by the settlement of a German Legion of
2,800 men, they would be very much mistaken. (Hear.)
If the colonists were not able to defend themselves
without their assistance, he was sure that they would
not be able to do so with their help, and some additional
measures would have to be resorted to. He thought the
whole system fallacious, and utterly inconsistent with our
true colonial policy.

Major WOIITLEY said that be was sorry to hear the
hon. and gallant member describe the Kafirs as a set of
worthless barbarians. From the experience which he bad
for several years of the Kafirs, be was convinced that they
were a most formidable set of people. There were at pre-
sent 12,000 of those tribes in the colony, every one of them
armed with a rifle, and the whole forming a body of the
best light infantry in the world, and he himself had had
the mortification of seeing two of the fittest regiments in
her Majesty's service retire before those whom the hon.
and gallant member had styled " worthless barbarians."
He entreated the house not to be niggardly in the sums
which it voted for keeping up a strong military force at the
Cape as if this were not done, he felt confident that in a
short lime the country would be involved in another long
and expensive war with the Kafir tribes. (Hear.)
Col. :.,YKES suggested that a similar course might be
adopted with respect to the Kafirs as had been so success-
fully pursued in India, viz., that of enlisting among the
British troops some portion of the native population, and
thus Greeting among them a feeling of loyalty and attach-
ment towards this country.
Mr. P. O'BRIEN regarded the course proposed as but
the honourable fulfilment of the terms of the contract made
with the men of the German Legion at the time of their
enlistment.
The house then went into committee.

A vote 0f40,0001. was agreed to without any remark for
the dowry of the Princess Royal.
A vote of 46,7-2/. was next proposed as head money for
the destruction of pirates by her Majesty's navy and mis-
cellaneous services.

Sir J. TRELAWNY thought that the system of giving
this blood money was the relic of a barbarous time, and
should divide the committee against the vote.
General THOMPSON said he disbeiieve.i altogether in
pirates. Was it quite clear that the so-called pirates whom
we had destroyed were not in reality Custom-house officers
of China, who were looking after those engaged in the great
piracy we had been carrying on in the Chinese waters ?
Mr. VANSITTART said there could be no doubt that
the individuals killed by her Majesty's navy were in reality
pirates, and this was shown by the gratitude evinced by
the native merchants of Shanghai towards the officers and
crews who had destroyed or captured the pirates.
Mr. AYRTON thought that the principle of paying the
navy for the performance cf this kind of work was not a
correct one, and seeing that a sum of 7 millions was to be
voted for the navy during a time of peace, he thought that
the least the navy could do in return would be to afford
this amount of protection to the mercantile interest of this
country.

In reply to a question put by Admiral DUNCOMBE,
Sir C. WOOD stated that during the last three years
there had been launched from her Majesty's dockyards and
other private yards for the navy, nine ships of the line,
nine frigates, eighteen sloops and corvettes, 182 gun
vessels and gun boats, nine floating batteries, and 104
mortar vessels and gun boats.

After some further discussion, the vote was agreed to.
The next vote proposed was 441,0031. for half-pay allow•
ances.

Sir a PECHELL and other members offered some ob-
servations upon the vote, which was agreed to.
Some other votes, which were spoken to by Mr. Ben-
tinck, Mr. Lindsay, Sir C. Napier, General Codrington,
and other members, wore agreed to.
The sum of .565,434/. for the packet service was agreed to.
The CHAIRMAN then reported progress and obtained
leave to st Sin.
GENERAL BOARD OF HEALTH.
The secoud reading of this bill was postponed until
Monday next.
TRANSPORTATION AND PENAL SERVITUDE
BILL.
Mr. WARREN and several other members protested
against the third reading of so important a bill being taken
at so late an hour—it was then midnight—but the Go-
vernment persisted, and the Opposition gave way.
The bill was accordingly read a third time and passed.
The orders of the day wore disposed of, and the house
adjourned.

Country Diarket3.

LIVERPOOL-MAT 22.

There were few buyers of wheat and flour at our cora
exchange this morning than for several market days. The
prices were dearer than on Tues.lay-1d to 2d per bushel
on wheat, tid to le per barrel and sack on flour, Cd to Is
per qr. on ledian corn, but no other change of importance
can be made. The weather is all that can be desired.

WAKEFIELD—MAT 22.
Tho business in wheat was done at a steady sale of Is to
2s per qr. advance to-day, and in other articles there was
no material change.
Average prices of grain—Wheat, ,r,38 ; barley, 46s
ld ; oats, 28s —d ; beans, 43s 3d ; peas, 44s Bid ;
rye, —s. Od.