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SUPPLY.

On the motion that the Speaker do leaie the Chair, and the
House go into Committee of Supply on the Colonial Estimates,
Mr. TUFNELL said he would wish to call the attention of
the House to the regulations lately issued with regard to the
compulsory disposal of lands held in the Island of Ceylon, and
purchased from the Governor of that colony by the members
of the civil service, and the reflections that had been cast upon
their character as public servants in the Governor's minute,
dated the 14th February, 1844. He held before him a state-
ment of the quantity of land so circumstaneed, in the different
years from 1833 to 1842, and he found it to be as follows :
In 1838, the quantity of land in that position was 10,000
acres; in 1839, 39,000 acres ; in 1840, 42,000 acres;
in 1841, 78,000 acres; and, in 1842, which was
the latest period to which his information came
down, it was 48,500 acres. Now, he did contend for it,
that it would be a great hardship upon the officers of the
civil service who had purchased this land, and had brought it
to a high state of cultivation, should they be ordered either
to sell the property they had so acquired, or resign their situa-
tions as public servants. He thought it right .to read a re-
monstrance which the colonial servants had addressed to the
Mible Lord at the Head of the Colonies, in which they state,
that the Government had encouraged them to engage in agricul-
tural pursuits, and not unfrequently participated in their profits
They then expressed a strong hope •that the Noble Lord would
not Interfere with them, ant that n regulations such as those
sent out from the Colonial-office would be persevered in, as they
would have the effect of involving them in great loss and sa-
crifices. The miuntrs of the Government had been printed
and published in the papers of India, and articles of the most
insulting nature, in consequenee, written, reflecting on the
civil service. If there had been carelessness in the manage-
ment of the colony, it was the Governor's own fault ; and what
business had the Government now to come forward and reflect
on those who had been engaged in the civil service? The No-
ble Lord ( Lord Stanley), if he sent out the dispatch which he
did, censuring the civil service, on the allegations contained
in the Governor's minute, he acted very unfairly towards the
parties who were reflected on. The Hon. Member concluded
by proposing his motion.
Mr. HOPE said it was not his intention to justify that
minute, as it was not published under Lord Stanley's direction.
The dispatch was not the same as the minute; it was not
founded on 'the minute, being different in some essential par-
ticulars. The dispatch of the Noble Lord reflected on the
junior members of the civil service. The Noble Lord, as well
as his predecessor in office, had received repeated communica-
tions setting forth the carelessness and inattention of that
branch of the service. The charges were not new ones, but of
anoldyedaartse date;
for all parties connected with that island for
many had complained of the manner in which meme
hers of the civil service had neglected their public
duties for their private interests. All parties there
holding civil offices took an oath not to engage in any
trade unless licensed by the Government so to do. That
rule still existed. In 1b33, a reduction was made in the sala-
ries of the officers, the cowequence of which was that those
officers engaged extensively in trade, and the regulation be-
came indispensable. Those parties were allowed to export,
but not to grow cinnamon, and the reason of it was, that they
said they could not make remittances to this country without
so far engaging in the cinnamon trade.- Hewould oppose the
moti•sn.

Lord EBBING TON supported the motion, and believed
the facts stated by his Honourable Friend (Mr. Tuffnell) were
perfectly correct.
Dr. BOWRING thought a more satisfactory explanation
should be made by the Government respecting the reculations
issued as to the forcibly sending land into the market, and
their compulsory disposal of it at a great depreciation.
Mr. AGLIONBY considered the speech of the Right Hon.
Gentleman the Under-Secretary for the Colonies as calculated
to irritate rather than allay the wounded feelings of those
parties, injured by the tyrannical order of the Government
of Ceylon. And as to his casting censure on the
Governor of that island, it appeared that the only fault in that
officer was his publication of an unjust and cruel order, whose
publicity had been forbidden by the Colonial-office at home.
Mr. HOPE explained that he meant to cast no blame
whatever on the Governor of Ceylon.
Mr. C. BULLER considered 'that a case of great hardship
had been made out, and that if the course pursued by Lord
Cornwallis in his Government of India had been pursued in
the island of Ceylon, all these unjust occurrences would have
been prevented. At the same time he admitted that the
Governor of the islatd was above all suspicion of being actuated
by any insidious motives ; he had known him personally for a
considerable period, and regarded him as a most humane and
exemplary man.
Mr. TUFNELL briefly explained, and the subject dropped.
After a desultory conversation on the subject of the House
going into Supply, which Mr. BROTHEILTOX opposed in conse-
quence of the lateness of the hour (a quarter past twelve)—
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER consented to
postpone it till Monday at five o'clock.
The House then went into Committee pro forma, and im-
mediately after resumed.
BRAZILIAN SLAVE TRADE BILL.
Sir ROBERT PEEL fixed Thursday next for the second
reading of this Bill; and, in answer to Mr. A glionby, said
that he would take the vete on the New Zealand question on
Wednesday next.
DEATH BY ACCIDENT COMPENSATION BILL.
Mr. BOUVERIE moved that the report on this Bill be
received.

The ATTORNEY-GENERAL opposed the motion,
whereupon the Haase divided, when there appeared
For the Bill . . ..... 7
Against it ..........................
—32 39
Majority against the Bill
LIBEL BILL.
The House then went into Committee on the Action for Libel
Bill, which was read a third time, and the House then resumed.
The other orders of the day were then disposed of, and the
House adjourned at a Quarter to Two o'clock.

[ADVERTISEMENT]. —AN EXTRAORDINARY CURE
OF AN ABSCESS IN THE KNEE EV HOLLOWAY'S OINTMENT
AND PILLS.—Henry Croft, residing at 18, Castle-street,
Southwark, was an in-patient at St. George's Hospital for an
abscessed knee, and came out as incurable on the Ist of June
last year, after being there three months. In July last he left
St. Thomas's Hospital, where he had been four weeks, and
pronounced incurable—indeed they recommended his leg to be
taken off---yet, however wonderful it may appear, he has just
been cured by the use of Holloway's Pills and Ointment.—
Sold at Professor Holloway's establishment, 244, Strand (where
advice may be had gratis), and by almost all respectable ven-
ders of medicine throughout the civilised world.
ABOLITION OF THE SEAL-OFFICE.—Yesterday the
Act of Parliament, which received the Royal assent on Monday,
was printed, to abolish the separate Seat-office of the Court of
Queen's Bench and Common Pleas. From the 31st of December
next the Seal-office in the Inner Temple-lane will be closed, and
the writs issued by the Courts of Queen's Bench and Common Pleas
will be sealed at the respective offices in the same manner as
they are sealed in the Exchequer. The offices of Receiver-Gene.
ral and Comptroller of the Seal will wholly cease and determine on
the day named. The Duke of Grafton will be paid an annuity of
8431., which will be continued under the letters patent, and his
deputy 30u a year for life.

PARLIAMEN TARP DIVISIONS.

(From the Votes and Proceedings of the House of Commons.)
FRIDAY, JULY 25.
SUPPLY.

Order for Committee read; Motion made, and Question proposed,
" That Mr. Speaker do now leave the Chair :"—Amendment pro-
posed, to leave out from the word " That" to the end of the Question,
in order to add the words " an humble Address be presented to her
Majesty, to represent that, on the last occasion when the light gold
coin of the Realm was called in, a considerable loss, attended with
much inconvenience to her Majesty's poorer subjects, occurred,
having been in a great degree caused by the neglect of her Majesty's
Ministers, in not making timely preparations for receiving the light
gold coin at its intrinsic value at convenient places in the several
towas and districts of the United Kingdom, and humbly to request
that her Majesty will be pleased to give directions to guard against
similar scenes of loss and trouble for the future," instead thereof:—
Question put,' " That the words proposed to be left out stand part
Of the Question." The House divided :

MAJORITY—AYES, 64.
Austen, Colonel Estcourt, T. G. B. Jones, Captain
Baird, W. Flower, Sir James Lygon, General
Barkly, Henry Fuller, A. E. Mackenzie. W. F
Baring, W. B. Gardner,J. D. M`Neill, Duncan
Benbow, John Gaskell, J. M. Manners, Lord J .
Borthwick, Peter Gladstone, Captain Masterman, John
Botfield, Beriah Gordon, Captain Meynell, Captain
Bowles, Admiral Gore, M. Nicholl, John
Broadwood, Henry Goulburn, Henry Pakington, J. S.
Bruce, Lord E. Graham, Sir J. Patten, J. W.
Cardwell, Edward Greene, Thomas Peel, Sir R.
Clive, Viscount Hamilton, George A. Peel, Jonathan
Clerk, Sir G. Hamilton, W. J. Smith, T. B. C.
Clive, Robert H. Harris, Captain Somerset, Lord G.
Cockburn, Sir G. Hawes, Benjamin Tennent, J. E.
Collett, John Henley, J. W. Thesiger, Sir F.
Corry, Henry Herbert, Sidney Trench, Sir F. W.
Cripps, William Hope, G. W. Wellesley, Lord C.
Darner, Colonel Hotham, Lord
Darby, George Howard, P. 11. TELLERS.
Denison, E. B. Hussey,' Ambroso Young, John
Douglas, Sir H. Jermyn, Earl Lennox, Lord A.
Ent wisle,,William Jocelyn, Viscount