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STATE of the PARLIAMENTARY
BUSINESS AT EASTER.
The number of Bills introduced into the Commons by
Ministers is thirty-four, and by private Members thirty-
two; in all sixty•six. Of these, seven have become law,
namely, the Irish Party Processions Bill, the Irish
Turnpike Road and Bridge Trusts Bill, the Irish County
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the House of Commons, business is in advance of what

it was at the corresponding period of last year. Mr.
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tolisten to his proposal of an unpaid Commission to make
ameliorative suggestions on the subject of the working
classes, was heard to an end some weeks ago. Mr.
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over—it did not occur last year till June; Mr. Henry
Berkeley's Ballot motion is disposed of too ; and so is
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stead of devoting Thursday to the discussion of " mo-
tions," that evening is to be devoted to the consideration
of Bills, Ministers and Members taking alternate Thurs-
days till the middle of May.
The number of divisions which have taken place is
fifty-nine; being twelve fewer than the divisions of last
session up to the same period. As to the attendance, no
improvement is exhibited. That there is ample room
for amendment will appear pretty clearly from the fol-
lowing abstract:—
At 3 divisions more than 600 were absent.
15 divisions from 500 to 600 were absent.
22 divisions from 400 to 503 were absent.
14 divisions from 300 to 400 were absent.
3 divisions from 200 to 300 were absent.
2 divisions from 100 to 200 were absent.

If the number of hours devoted to the consideration of
public business and questions is a test of efficiency, both
branches exhibit an improvement as compared with 1849.
In that year the session is opened on the Ist of February ;
and the adjournment for the Easter recess took place, in
the case of the Lords, on the 3d of April, and of the
Commons on the 4th. This makes a difference of a week
in favour of 1849. The following are the respective
totals as supplied by the Spectator's time-tables:—
To Easter 1849—The Lords, 35 sittings; 53 hours; ave-
rage, 1i hours.
To Easter 1850—The Lords, 31 sittings; 70 hours; ave-
rage, 21 hours.
To Easter 1849—The Commons, 45 sittings; 327 hours;
average, 71 hours.
To Easter 1850—The Commons, 39, sittings; 294 hours;
average, 7i hours.
The usual industry has been displayed by individual
Members in moving for returns. The number, the variety
subject, the complex and, in many instances, curious
character of the details asked for, lead to the conclusion

that the public establishments must be kept in a high
state of efficiency in order to answer such large demands.
47 Members moved for 1 return.
24 Members moved for 2 returns each.
9 Members moved for 3 returns each.
6 Members moved for 4 returns each.
3 Members moved for 5 returns each.
1 Member moved fur 24 returns.

90 Members. Total 185.
The gentleman who moves for the twenty•four returns
is Mr. Hume. his range of inquiry is as extensive as
it can be, and defies all attempts to guess at the ob-
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whose movements such calls for information are identi-
fied ; nothing seems to be too small or too large for Mr.
Hume's grasp. In most other cases, the same analytic
difficulty does not occur, the nature of the returns bear-
ing a similitude to the turn of mind of the mover. Thus
Sir H. Inglis moves for a return of ancient heresies, of
matters connected with the Arctic expedition, and the
Australian bishops. Mr. Gladstone, his colleague, asks
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An adjourned meeting of the Land-tax Commis-
sioners for the county of Middlesex was held on
Thursday, in the Sessions-house, Clerkenwell, for the
purpose of further considering whether the Commis-,
stoners have power, under the Act of Parliament, to
equalise the land-tax throughout the county. The
question, it will be recollected, which led to the as-
sembling of the commissioners arose from an appli-
cation of Mr. Mayes, of the parish of St. Andrew,
Holborn, to have an alteration made, first, in the as-
sessment upon the value of his property, and, secondly,
in the quota fixed upon the parish in which his pro-
perty is situated.

JAMES HARGRAVE MANN, Esq., Chief Commis-
sioner of the Holborn division, resumed the chair, and
opened the business of the meeting. The question
was to raise a sum for 1850, for that part of the
county of Middlesex, and whether the sum to be
raised was to be charged on the hundred or division.
Mr. SIMPRIN rose and moved a resolution, that a
sum applicable for the year ISSO, be raised under the
Acts of Parliament relating to land-tax, for that part
of the county of Middlesex described in the said Acts
of Parliament as raised in the county of Middlesex,
and that the sum be charged upon the divisions and
hundreds in the same proportion as they were as-
sessed on the same hundreds and divisions respec-
tively, by an Act of Parliament made in the reign
of King William and _ Mary. That was the
proper way, in his opinion, in which the assess-
ment ought to take place. If he looked at
the manner in which this property came to be
assessed, found it various—one way was by in-
heritance, another by purchase, and another by will
or gift. The only parties, in his opinion, who had a
right to complain of the- assessment were those who
had purchased the property under thirty-five years'
purchase. He objected, then, to any course of pro-
ceeding which would take from the property of one
person, and add to that of another ; and he did not
think it possible that any gentlemen present could
advise such a course.—(Hear.) He thought that
they should take care not to incur the risk of litigation,
to which he very much objected, and of which he
apprehended the proposed alteration savoured very
much. lie should, therefore, advise two different
modes by which the evil complained of might be re-
medied—the one fur the Government to pass a decla-
ratory Act to effect the redemption of the land-tax at
twenty-five years' purchase, instead of thirty-five;
and the other a scheme by which the land-tax might
be re deemed on the application of a small additional
sum yearly, and of this mode he thought that small
capitalists would be apt to avail themselves. The
commissioners now assembled would at once confirm
the former assessment ; and believing that arrange-
ment to be just, he should conclude with moving the
resolution which he bad read to the meeting.
Mr. PAYNE (coroner) said, the only course open to
them was to go to Parliament, or Make the rate the
same as last year.
Mr. WiirrE, in seconding the motion of Mr. Simp-
kin, said he had been half a century a commissioner,
and this question had been agitated in that time on
several occasions, and very ably argued at West-
minster Hall, and the opinion was that the question,
as it stood, could not be meddled with, and that the
commissioners must do their duty. The proposed ar-
rangement was of a revolutionary character, and
should meet with his decided opposition. He con-
sidered the property-tax a land-tax in every sense,
and that it was desirable to refer the land tax to Par-

liament, so as to abolish it altogether, and merge it
in the general property tax of the country, a propo-
sition which he believed the Government would not
be indisposed to look at broadly and fairly. He,
therefore, should object decidedly to any alteration,
except such as might be made through Parliament.
He was one of those who denied the inequality of the
land-tax, and if persons looked at that tax at all they
should look et it in its proper light.
Mr. OFFER hoped to see that the commissioners
would do their duty, and do that which was right and
honest. They were asked to make an unequal tax on
the county.—(No, no.) He said yes ; and the ques-
tion was, whether Marylebone was to pay its fair
share ? He was a " Tower Hamlets boy," and he
.felt that they should not be more heavily taxed than
the " Marylebonians." If they were to come to a
" farthing in the pound" to the land-tax for St. Mary-
lebone, while St. Andrew's, Holborn, was forced to
pay " thirteenpence in the pound," he should be for
not having St. Marylebone " a farthing parish." He
could not, looking at all the circumstances, agree to
hold up his hand for a resolution which said, " agree
to a tax that is so ill proportioned." Under all cir-
cumstances, then, he must hold up his hand against
the resolution, and he thought that they ought to
adjourn the meeting with a view of seeing whether
they ought to go to Parliament, and whether they
had anything to go to Parliament upon.
Mr. METCALFE would support the resolution, not-
withstanding he was a " Marylebonian."
An HON. Commrssiorma of the St. Pancras district
would submit that they should apply to Government
to bring in a Bill to equalise the land-tax, and that
in that Bill there should be a clause to enable persons
to redeem the land-tax at twenty-five years pur-
chase.—(Hear.)
Mr. COPPOCK wished to recall to the recollection
of the commissioners that at their last meeting his
argument and his proposition were that they should
equalise the land-tax throughout the whole of the
county of Middlesex, and he then ended with the
proposal that the parishes should be re-assessed, and
that they should have an equal town-rate throughout
the whole of the county. The resolution of the com-
missioners on the former day to petition Parliament
for an Act to give them new powers should be more
defined. He then raised his voice, and he did so now,
emphatically, against the land-tax as it at present
stands—and he did not hesitate to say that it was a
gross fraud as it was now raised. They had now a
resolution before them, calling upon them to lay on
the land-tax in the same proportion as it was levied
in the time of William and Mary, and to that resolu-

tion he should move an amendment. Now, if that
resolution meant anything, it meant identically the
same in every respect. They ought to go accord-
ing to the ancient order by which Marylebone
and the Liberty of the Rolls formed part of the
division of St. Andrew, Holborn, and to assess those
districts in proportion. He held in his hand a docu-
ment of the City Remembrancer, which showed that
in 1697, the division of Saint Andrew, Holborn com-
prised those districts. They had held no legalised
meeting on this question for the last 25 years. The
53d George the Third, c. 142, recited that they should
hold similar meetings to the present every year ; and
not having done so for a number of years, he held it
that the whole of their proceedings with respect to
the assessment were illegal, and he should like to see
the question tried whether they could, in the face of
such an omission, legally distrain for the land-tax.
They were in a very great difficulty. With regard
to the redemption of the land-tax, some gentlemen
were mistaken as to what he meant should be done
respecting it. It had always been the boast of this
country that everything should be done justly.—
(Hear, hear.) He would show by a document which
he held in his hand how the land-tax now stood, and

that justice was not done. He would take different
divisions, showing the value of the property in each,
the present quota, and the quota as it would be if the
tax were equalised :

The amendment having been seconded,
Mr. NEAT said the question was, whether the divi
sion of St. Andrew, Holborn, should include St.
Marylebone and:the Liberty of the Rolls, as formerly.
He would show by Act of Parliament that they could
not by any possibility effect what Mr. Coppock's
amendment proposed, without infringing the Act of
Parliament. The 4th and sth of William the Fourth
gave power to separate the division, and the question
now was, whether the Commissioners had power to
direct that the separated districts be restored.- He
apprehended not ; and while he could not deny that
Mr. Coppock was acting very well for his clients, he
must, nevertheless, say, that that gentleman's amend-
ment could not be agreed to.
Mr. Corrocx felt called upon to express his sur-
prise, that the Hon. Commissioner could have taken
upon him to say, that he (Mr. Coppock) was acting
in this question for clients. He assured the meeting
that the statement was incorrect, and that he was not
there as the representative of any clients, but that he
was there as an independent commissioner, in dis-
charge of an important public duty.
Some discussion followed as to the relative objects
of the motion and amendment, in the course of
which the Chairman took occasion to say that he
thought they could go to Parliament in a better p9si-
tion by first fairly discussing the question here, so
that the Chancellor of the Exchequer could not again
say to them that they had not exhausted every means
which the law and the circumstances allowed them.
Mr. SIMPEIN replied.
The CHAIRMAN then put the amendment, which
was lost by a large show of hands, five only having
been displayed in favour of it.
The original motion was then put, when there ap-
peared—
For the motion
Against it
Majority for ... —24
The Commissioners then adjourned, with an under-
standing that the committee appointed under Mr.
Pownall'a motion on the last day of meeting would
act, and call the Court together again.
On the motion of Mr. Corrocx, seconded by Mr.
\lrian, the cordial thanks of the meeting were given
to the Chairman ; after which, and that gentleman's
acknowledgment, the meeting separated.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
TIMES.—We would call attention to an address
—a copy of which will be found in another part of
our columns—recently presented by certain residents
at Singapore to Sir James Brooke, upon the subject
of his exertions for the suppression of piracy on the
waters of the Eastern Archipelago. It will be there
seen what view of the case is taken by persons present
on the spot, who are really in a condition to appre-
ciate the merit of his services, and the difficulties of
his position. We are not much surprised at finding
Sir James Brooke held in very different estimation
by the Singapore merchants, who have a real interest
in the cessation of piracy, and.by the professional talkers
in London, who have little interest in anything but
the attainment of notoriety by hook or by crook.
The publication of this address, simultaneously
with the Parliamentary papers, should be sufficient to
end a controversy so disgraceful to those who have
without any knowledge of the matter in hand,
and without one shadow of proof, attacked
an absent man for rendering as great a ser-
vice to the cause of humanity and civilization
as any since the extirpation of the Algerine pirates,
who so long infested the Mediterannean. If the flo-
tilla attacked off the Bornea coast in July last by the
little squadron under the orders of Commander Far-
guitar, of the Albatross, did not consist of piratical
',rebus, the naval and civil servants of the British
Government in the Indian Seas must have entered
into the strangest combination to exculpate Sir
James Brooke from the charges concocted against
him in this country. Nay, further, it appears by a
number of the Singapore Free Press, which has just
come to hand, that the pirates themselves must have
been in the conspiracy; for we find it there stated
that the prisoners taken "frankly avowed their acts,
gave a list cf the places they had attacked, the persons
they had killed and taken captive, and the trading
prahus they had cut off." Nay, more, we have also
lying hefore us the affidavits of the captured pirates
upon which Sir Christopher Rawlinson founded
his decree, in which the deponents swear directly
to the fact that the Malay-Dyak flotilla was
actually engaged in a piratical excurson at the time
it was destroyed. It is almost an insult to the under-
standing of our readers to continue the discussion that
has arisen upon this subject any further. If we re-
vert to it at all it is simply to mention that the re-
turns required by the address of the House of Com-
mons upon the motion of Mr. Hume have now been
publislaed, and, although their contents add but little
to our previous information, yet that little comes be-
fore us in an official and authoritative form. At any
rate there need no longer be any dispute as to the chief
facts on which the condemnation of Sir James Brooke
or the hearty approval of his policy must finally rest.
The first extract of a dispatch with which these sup-
plemental Bornean papers commence contains an ex-
press intimation from Lord Palmerston to Sir James
Brooke of the meaning of his appointment. " The
object of her Majesty's Government," writes the Fo-
reign Secretary, "is to afford to British commerce
that support and protection which, though needed in
all foreign countries, is peculiarly required in the In-
dian seas, in consegsence of the prevalence of piracy
in those quarters., Sir James Brooke, in plain
English, was clothed with the official character in
order to give him every possible facility for putting
down that abominable system of piracy which necessi-
precautions on all ships nevi-
tates the most painful
gating the waters of the Indian Archipelago for the
purposes of trade. Sir J. Brooke himself might have
loftier views on the subject of his " mission," but
that was the matter-of-fact business view of his
" appointment" taken by the man who was ultimately
responsible for the expenditure of the public money
and the employment of the Queen's ships. In the
next dispatch we find instructions of a similar cha-
racter to the foregoing forwarded from the Admiralty
to Rear-Admiral Sir Francis Collier. In a word,
it appears to have been felt by the Home Go-
vernment, which certainly must have procured
accurate information before taking so decisive a
step, that the moment had arrived for extirpating
piracy from the Malayan waters, by fair means if
possible; but if not, by the direct application
of such coercive measures as might be deemed
necessary by its officers present on the spot. When
discussing this subject a tew weeks back, we referred
to those passages from Sir James I3rooke's journals
which showed the patience and long suffering with
which he had endured the continuance of the piracies,
in hopes of the ultimate amendment of the pirates.
Partial punishments, treaties, solicitations, and the
example of his own district, were tried, and with
what result may be gathered from the two following
sentences in two successive dispatches from Sarawak
to the Foreign-office :--
" During my absence," writes Sir James Brooke, " and
owing to the length of time which has elapsed since their
last punishment, there has been an increasing boldness
on the part of these pirates, who now venture, as for-
merly, to cruise in large fleets of their war prahus, and
to commit fearful depredations on the more industrious
and peaceful classes, both by sea and on the coasts."
"In his next dispatch to the Foreign-office, bear-
ing date March 6, 1849, Sir James Brooke writes as
follows :

" I am particularly anxious to
call your Lordship's at-
tention to the present state of piracy in the immediate
vicinity of Sarawak. The Sarebas and Sakarran pirates,
emboldened by the length of time which has elapsed since
the attack made upon them by Captain the lion. Henry
iieppel, have Duce more lett their rivers in formidable
force, and have for two months past devastated the coast
for upwards of 100 miles; numerous prahus have been
captured at sea, the boats plundered, and the crews raw-

from Sir James Brooke's dispatches we have done.
The letter from which it is taken was written on the
27th of August, 1849, exactly one month after the
destruction of the pirates by Commander Farquhar
off the entrance of the Sarebas river. From the two
sentences we are about to quote it results that the
native flotilla was actually engaged in carrying out
piratical operations at the time it was met by Com-
mander-Farquhar; and very properly destroyed :
" From information obtained from some prisoners, and
since confirmed from other sources, it appears that a
force of from 100 to 120 pirate prahus attacked the
towns of Palo and Mato. At the latter place, being re-
pulsed, the pirates, after capturing two trading vessels,
were on their return home, when destroyed by the
flotilla under the command of Commander Farquhar."
We may well wonder when we read over the dis-
patchei and papers in this collection, short as it is,
why all the indignation of gentlemen who sympathise
with the cause of these bloodthirsty pirates should
be directed against Sir James Brooke alone. Why
not against Lord Palmerston, who advised the whole
proceeding ? Why not against Admiral Collier' the
officer
chief naval on the station, 'who supplied the
force ? Why not against Commander Farquhar,
who took his measures so well that the pirate fleet
was signally destroyed? Why not against Sir Chris-
topher Rawlinson, the Recorder of the Court of Ju-
dicature at Singapore, who certified to the fact that
the flotilla was manned by pirates ? Why, if it
be not to private malice and disappointed expecta-
tions that we are to refer the organization of the
" Friends of the Black • Flag" at home, should all
the vials of wrath be emptied on the devoted head of
a single man ? We would hope that the system of
wanton accusations too long persevered in by the ca-
lumniators of a man who appears to be very zealously
and conscientiously working out a very painful duty
is now at an end. Truth and ridicule, too very power-
ful weapons, have been successfully brought to bear
against his accusers. The shallowness of their views
and the false information on which they have pro-
ceeded have been publicly exposed by eye-witnesses
of the detestable piracies in the Indian Archipelago.
It should not be forgotten that at first the position oc-
cupied by them was, that the eastern pirates were a
set of harmless, much injured men, unwarlike
as the Indians of Peru who fled before the
forces of Pizarro, or the timid inhabitants of
the plains of Bengal. They were soon driven to
renounce that position as untenable. The next
shift was, that although it ;might be true that the
Bornean tribes carried on war against each other by
sea and land, and although possibly the pirates of the
Eastern Archipelago did attack native traders, yet
there was no evidence to show that they ever inter-
rupted the passage of a British ship, or impeded the
course of a British captain. There was soon an end
of that device. But Mr. Cobden wades a few steps
further in the slough of special pleading, and asks for
positive evidence that the piratical flotilla destroyed
by Commander Farquhar bad been actually engaged
in an attack upon an English ship ; and, if so, he de-
mands particulars. If such an argument should weigh
with any one, we have nothing more to say to such a
person. Let 'him retain his convictions. We must
be excused for persisting in our own belief that the
absolute extirpation of piracy from the Indian Archi-
pelago is necessary to the spread of civilization in that
quarter of the globe, and for the security of our
commerce. If so, Sir James Brooke is entitled to
the commendation, not the censure, of the English
public.