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to the case as it now stands, on the grounds relative to the branches,
which are disallowed.
The Committee then adjourned till twelve o'clock on Monday.

spect to the convent on with France, signed at London,
May 29, 1845.
By the Comm ssioners for executing the office of Lord
High Admiral of the United Kingdo.n of Great Britain
and Ireland, &c.
We transmit to you herewith a copy of a convention
between her 'Majesty and the King of the French, dated
May 29, 1845, by which it is stipulated that the con-
tracting parties shall each maintain on the west coast of
Africa a naval force of not less than twenty-six vessels,
to be employed for the prevention of the slave-trade, by
closely watching all the parts of the west coast where the
slave-trade is carried on from Cape VErd to 16 deg. 30
min. south latitude, and by exercising all the powers
vested in the Crowns of France and Great Britain for
such purpose ; and we desire that you will take every
opportunity, and use your utmost efforts to effect the
objects of this convention.
You are to take the earliest opportunity of putting
yourself in communication with the senior officer of the
French squadron, for the purpose of co-operating with
him in the execution of this convention, and of concert-
ing with him as to the best means of closely watching
the parts of the African coast before described, by select-
ing and defining the stations to be established, and by
taking the charge thereof, either conjointly with the
French cruisers, or separately with the force under your
command, or by leaving the same to the French naval
force, as may be deemed most expedient.
You will understand, however, that in the case of a sta-
tion being especially committed to the charge of cruisers
of either nation, the cruisers of the other nation may at
any time enter the same for the purpose of exercising
the rights respectively belonging to them for the sup-
pression of the slave trade.
You will, in concert with the commander of the French

GROUP X.

CAIVERRIDGE AND LINCOLN RAILWAY.
The Committee having assembled this day at the usual hour,
Mr. Peacock was called, and deposed as to the general advan.
tages to be derived to the line of country through which the Cam-
bridge and Lincoln line would pass, in conjunction with the
Witham and Forsdyke Navigation ; and therefore he conceived it
would be injurious that those two water communications should
become incorporated with the London and York Railway scheme.
Mr. Reid Calthorp—ls a landowner at Swanshead Abbey, in Lin.
coinshire, and also one of the Witham Navigation Commissioners
for the second district, which occupies 22,000 acres, and also one
of the Block Sluice Commissioners, a navigation which occupies
64,000 acres; does not hold shares in either. There was a meeting
of the Commissioners of the former, at which the Cambridge and
Lincoln line was approved of ; the Witham empties
itself into Boston through what was called the Grand Sluice. Was
decidedly of opinion that it would not be advantageous to have the
Navigation Commissioners to be connected with any railway com-
pany. Has had some trouble already by reason of such a junction
with other railway companies, in deciding which it was had a right
to make certain repairs. The population of the parish of Swans-
head was about 2,300, and that of the three other adjacent parishes
about 7,000 altogether. Always understood that it was a favourite
object with the Boston people to have a communication with Not- ,
tingkam.

Mr. Edward Clementson, waggoner, of St. Ives, deposed that he
carried on a very large traffic to St. Ives, and through the imme-
diate surrounding districts, from London, of general merchandise;
the projected Cambridge and Lincoln line by St. Ives would very
much increase the traffic.

Mr. Harris deposed that be had a very extensive trade in bricks
at St. Ives, and consumed a great quantity of coals. Could effect
a great saving in his manufacture, and increase his traffic very
much if the line were made. A material called " turf" was now
conveyed from St. Ives to London. The carriage now cost 61. to
81. per 1,060. if the railway were made it would be sold at 7s. or
Ss. per 1,000

squadron, determine with what native princes and chiefs
it may be necessary to negotiate treaties for the suppres-
sion of the slave trade. And you are authorised to ne-
gotiate such treaties, either personally, or by an officer
specially instructed for such purpose ; such treaties to
be framed in accordance with the draught of engage-
ment forming appendix to Section VII. of the instruc-
tions issued on the 12th of June, 1844, to her Majesty's
naval dficers employed in the suppression of the slave
trade.

Mr. Ds•aat would be glad to know how the witness could account
for such a difference.

The witness said that at present the persons who conveyed
turf to London occupied about six or seven days in the journey,
and then had but a very precarious mode of disposing of it.
Here some specimens of the turf were produced, which created
some laughter.

Mr. Stevens, gardener, of St. Ives, deposed that there were
from 1,500 to '2,000 acres of the country in the neighbourhood of
that town under cultivation as gardens, for the produce of vegetables
and fruit of all sorts, which he sent to London for sale. His trade
would be materially increased, and the expense of carriage lessened, if
the proposed line were made. He produced a description of summer
pear, which was of a very perishable nature, and had often lost
great quantities of them by the delay on the road. If they could
be sent in one night this loss could not take place. The same ob-
servations applied to other fruits and vegetables of an equally
perishable nature.

• 'Whenever it may be necessary to employ force to
compel the due execution of any treaty contracted with
any native chief; in virtue of this convention, and to
which both her Majesty and the King of the French
are parties, you will concert with the commander of the
French squadron us to the employment of force for such
purpose, and arrange, in concert with him, to act con-
jointly with the French force, or separately, as may
be deemed most advisable ; but, with respect to these
conjoint treaties, you will not employ force without the
consent of the commander of the French squadron.
It will be the duty of yourself and of the commanding
officers of her Majesty's ships under your orders, upon
all occasions, to communicate to the officers of the French
squadron any information which may be of service in
detecting the frauds of the slave traders, and especially
to give notice of any vessel supposed to belong to France,
and suspected of being engaged in the slave trade,
which may be met with or heard of in the course of a
cruise; and you will give directions to the officers un-
der your orders to pay strict attention to this duty.
With respect to the visit, search, and detention
of vessels belonging to nations between whom and
Great Britain there are existing treaties relating
thereto, and for the suppression of the slave
trade, and also with respect to vessels not entitled to
claim the flag of any nation, you will be guided by the
instructions founded upon the Statute passed in the se-
cond and third year of her Majesty Queen Victoria,
chapter 73, and upon the treaties in force with foreign
States, and the Acts of Parliament made in furtherance
thereof; which have been delivered to you for your go-
vernment ; the present instructions in no respect inter-
fering therewith.
You are not to capture, visit, or in any way interfere
with vessels of France ; and you will give strict instruc-
tions to the commanding officers of cruisers under your
orders to abstain therefrom. At the same time, you
will remember that the King of the French is far from
claiming that the flag of France should give immunity
to those who have no right to bear it ; and that Great
Britain will not allow vessels of other nations to escape
visit and examination by merely hoisting a French flag,
or the flag of any other nation with which Great Britain
has not, by existing treaty, the right of search. Accord-
ingly, when from intelligence which the officer com-
manding her Majesty's cruiser may have received, or
from the manoeuvres of the vessel, or other sufficient
cause, he may have reason to believe that the vessel does
not belong to the nation indicated by her colours, he is,
if the state of the weather will admit of it, to go ahead
of the suspected vessel, after communicating his inten-
tion by hailing, and to drop a boat on board of her
to ascertain her nationality, without causing her deten-
tion, in the event of her really proving to be a vessel of
' the nation the colours of which she had displayed, and
therefore one which he is not authorised to search; but
should the strength of the wind, or other circumstance,
render such mode of visiting the stranger impracticable,
he is to require the suspected vessel to be brought to, in
order that her nationality may be ascertained; and he
will be justified in enforcing it, if necessary—under-
standing always, that he is not to resort to any coercive
measure until every other shall have failed; and the
officer who boards the stranger is to be instructed
merely in the first instance to satisfy himself by the
vessel's papers, or other proof, of her nationality; and
if she prove really to be a vessel of the nation desig-
nated by her colours, and one which he is not authorised
to search, he is to lose no time in quitting her, offering
to note on the papers of the vessel the cause of his hav-
ing suspected her nationality, as well as the number of
minutes the vessel was detained (if detained at all) for
the object in question ; such notation to be signed by
the boarding• officer, specifying his rank and the name
of her Majesty's cruiser; and whether the commander
of the visited vessel consents to such notation on the
vessel's papers or not (and it is not to be done without
his consent) ; all the said particulars are to be immedi-
ately inserted in the log-book of her Majesty's cruiser ;
and a full and complete statement of the circumstances
is to be sent, addressed to the Secretary of the Ad-
miralty, by the first opportunity, direct to England; and
also, a similar statement to you, as senior officer on the
station, to be forwarded by you to our Secretary, ac

Mr. B. Lyons, dealcr in wool at St. Ives—Buys about 80 tons of
wool yearly, which he sends to Yorkshire; would send it by the
railway if it were made, and would save about 11. 145. per ton in
the carriage by that mode of conveyance.

Mr. T. Barlow, Director of the Bank of England at Ramsey—
His sons were in business also in that town ; the roads new leading
to it were not very good; the population was about 4,000.
The proposed railway would very much facilitate the transit of the
goods in which his sons traded, as well as lessen the expense and
distance of conveyance.

Mr. James Thompson, farmer and cattle-salesman at Ramsey—
About 400 sheep and 40 beasts went weekly from Ramsey to St.
Ives and London, half of which number witness himself sent. The
present cost of sending a beast to London from Ramsey was from
10s. to 1 Is., and the journey occupied from six to seven days.
There was an additional expense of 3s. 6d. per head for selling.
Sheep occupied ten days, and the cost was Is. 6d. per head.
Mr. Wittorme, corn merchant and farmer at Ramsey—The
district about that town was remarkable for its agricultural produce.
The roads from that town, north and south, were very bad at
present. A railway between these two points would be of great
advantage for the transit of corn, particularly to the towns of Lynn,
Wisbeach, and Cambridge. The journey from Ramsey to
Cambridge now occupied from three to four days. Often sustained
great injury on the road, during winter, by reason of bad roads.

. _ . _
To the CHAIRMAN—The roads from the east to Ramsey were
also very bad. From Ramsey to March the journey was by a
narrow high way across the Fens.
Mr. Stafford, landowner at Ramsey—There is a great deal more
corn grown in the neighbourhood than is consumed there. There
are about 2,000 acres of wheat grown there in the year. The
present modes of conveyance were very bad and inconvenient both
by land and water. The nearest way was by St. Ives.

Mr. James Jones, land agent to Lord Hardwick, Sir Henry
Paton, and several others, represents between 30,000 and
40,000 acres in the neighbourhood of Ramsey. Had
been engaged as valuator under the Tithe Commutation
Act. The proposed railroad would pass through a very
fertile district, by which a great quantity of land would be
brought into an improved state of cultivation by drainage, &c.
The roads to the west of Ramsey were very bad. Those to the
east were much better.

At the conclusion of the witness's examination, the Committee
adjourned, at three o'clock, to twelve on Monday.

THE FUNDS-(CLOSING PRICES

ONE
PRICES OF BRITISH FUNDS. O'CLOCK.
Bank Stock
3 per Cent. Reduced
New 31/4 per Cents ...10214%
Long Annuities to expire J an. 1860
Ditto 30 years, Oct. 10, 1859... 11%
Consols for Account.... . ....... 9914 1/g
Exchequer Bills, 1,000/., IY2d. ... 59 61
Ditto 5001. .
Ditto Small

CLOSIKt,
PRICES.
211
99%
102%
99i4
pm. 61
pm. 62
pm. 64

ONE CLOSING
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Brazilian Bonds
Columbian Bonds, ex Venezuela I7IA 16% 16%
Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1837 37% 37%
Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent ..
Ditto, Converted 6714 661/2 67 67
Russian Bonds ... 117% 117%
Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840.
Ditto, Passive
Ditto 3 per Cent.
Ditto, Account 4IA
Belgian 4% per Cent.
Dutch, 2% per Cent
Ditto, 4 per Cent., Certific 98%-% 98%
PRICES OF CLOSING
BAILWAY .s:IIARES PAID. A ONE O'CLOCK.
ruieEs,
Aberdeen
Armagh, Coleraine, and
Portrush l% 2141/8
Birming. and Gloucesterloo
Birmingham and Ox-
ford Junction
Bri'ton, Lewes, & Hast. 20
Bristol and Exeter 7O
Caledonian
Ditto Extension ...... 21/2. 3 2%
Cambridge and Lincoln 1%...... 5 4% 5
Chester and Holyhead... 10-
Coventry and Leicester 11.4 l%
Direct North ern
IMblin and Belfast Juuc 2%
Dublin and Galway 2IA ...... 4% 5
Dublin and Mullingar... 9% 5%
Eastern Counties 141. 165....... 201 a%
Ditto New 4/. 16s.
Ditto Perpetual, 5 per
Cent, No. 1—.5/. 13s. 4d l%
Ely and Bedford
Great Western BO
Ditto, Fifths
...
G'

2%
136

414
26

Juildford, Fare'm,Ports. 21/2... .. 53/4
53/4
London and Birminghm (5t0ck)...242 240 240
Do. New Thirds
Do. 14 Shares
London and Blackwall. 161.135. 4d —
London and Brighton... 50 7314 741/81;4 743/4
London and Croydon, 131. 15s. 9d. 19%3/4 19%
Lond. & S.Western 411 6s 10d B2l/2 B2
Do. New
London and York 2l/2 33/4 4 ... 4
Londonderry &Coleraine 2%. 43/4 4,..,‘
Lynn and Ely
Manchester and Leeds... 73
Do. Quarters
Manchester and Birmin. 40
Do. Quarters
Do. New Quarters ... 2
Manchester, Buxton, and
Matlock 225....... 4414% 4l/8
Midland 100 ]B9 1861,12 188... 18947

Do. New
2 ...... 29 30 2914...... 291/1
Midland, Birm., Derby 100 l4B 145 l4B
Newcastle and Darling-
ton Junction ... 25 ...... 54 .• ••

Do. New Brandling... 10
Newcastle and Berwick 11/2 173/414
Newry and Enniskillen. 21/2 5%
North British
Do. New
Northern and Eastern... 45
North Kent
Norwich and Brandon... 10
Do., New ... ..... ..... 1
Oxford and Worcester... 21/0 5141/2
Richmond and W est End

Junction
Rugby, AVorstr, & Tring 1
Scottish Central
Scottish Midland l%. .... 31/8
Shrews., Wolverhamp.,
_. .

54
34
17IA

6U
72

51A
21

Dudley, and Birm
Shrewsbury and Trent
Valley Union
South Eastern & Dover 3312 s 4d... 47
Do., No. 1 8
Do~ No. 2.
D0., No. 3
South Wales 21,4 6% 6%
Trent Valley 2 ...... ...... ...... .. 19
Trent Valley and Holy-
head Junction
Waterford and Kilkenny 1 ..
Welch Midland
Wilts, Somerset, & Wey-
mouth
York and North Midland 50
Do. Extension l% 2Ol/,
FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
Boulogne and Amiens... 4
Bordeaux and Toulouse 2
Great North. of France
(Laflitte's)
Do. do. (Rosamel's) 2
Louvain and Jemeppe... 2 ... . 44% .
Namur and Liege
Orleans and Bordeaux... 2
Over Yssel 4/ 3s 4d 1
Paris & Lyons, Laflitte's 2 ...... 2N.
Paris and Lyons, Gan- I I
neron's,
Paris and Rouen
Paris and Strasbourg
(Ganneron's) ••• 2
Do. (Compt ede L'Est) 2
Sambre and Meuse ..... 4
Tours and Nantes, Mac-
kenzie's 2
JOINT STOCK BANKS.
London Joint Stock lO

NEW SLAVE-TRADE CON-
VENTION.

21/2
516
41/8
614

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The following are the annexes to the new slave-trade
convention between England and France, which was laid
on the table of the Home of Commons on Monday even-
ing. The treaty has already appeared in The Sun—
ANNEX REFERRED TO IN ARTICLE VIII. OF THE CONVEN-
TION BETWEEN GREAT BRITAIN AND FRANCE FOR THE
SUPPRESSION OF THE AFRICAN SLAVE TRADE, SIGNED
AT LONDON, MAY 29, 1845.

Instructions for the senior officer of her Majesty's
ships and vessels on the west coast of Africa, with re-

companied by any remarks you may have reason to make
thereon.

The commanding officers of her Majesty's vessels must
bear in mind that the duty of executing the instruction
immediately preceding must be discharged with great
care and circumspection. For, if any injury be occa-
sioned by examination without sufficient cause, or by the
examination being improperly conducted, compensation
must be made to the party aggrieved ; and the officer
who may cause an examination to be made without suf-
ficient cause, or who may conduct it improperly, will
incur the displeasure of her Majesty's Government.
Of course, in cases when the suspicion of the com-
mander turns out to be well founded, and the vessel
boarded proves, notwithstanding her colours, not to be-
long to the nation designated by those colours, the com-
mander of her Majesty's cruiser will deal with•her as he
would have been authorised and required to do had she
not hoisted a false flag.
Given under our hands, &c.

ANNEX REFERRED TO IN ARTICLE VIII. OF THE CON-
VENTION BETWEEN GREAT BRITAIN AND FRANCE FOR
THE SUPPRESSION OF THE AFRICAN SLAVE TRADE,
SIGNED AT LONDON THE 29TH DAY OF NAY, 1845.
(Translation.)
Monsieur le Commandant,—A convention concluded
on the 29th of May, 1845, between his Majesty the King
of the French and her Majesty the Queen of Great
Britain, a copy of which is hereto annexed, regulates
upon a new basis the vigilance and repression which the
two countries have engaged to exercise in concert with
regard to the slave- trade. The two Governments being
perfectly unanimous as to the object to be pursued, and
firmly resolved to obtain by the promptest means the ex-
tinction of this criminal traffic, have recognised the ne-
cessity of adopting measures entirely distinct from those
laid down in the treaties of 1831 and 1833.
In the execution of this new treaty, the African sta-
tion will. have to take the most active and important
pert. It will, therefore, be your duty to make yourself
fully master of the spirit of this document, and of the
meaning of each of its stipulations. You will never forget
that your chief obligation, as commander of this station,
is to secure to this convention every result which the two
contracting Powers have a right to expect from it.
The basis of those arrangements—the principle of the
work to be carried out in common on the part of France
and England--consists in a complete and continued ac-
cord between that of the French squadron and that of Great
Britain. Immediately on your arrival upon the coast of
Africa you will place yourself in communication with the
officer commanding the English forces, in. order to esta-
blish from the very beginning that concert which ought
to govern the whole and every part of your operation.
You will examine in common, with a view to the ar-
rangement of the service, those points of the coast which
are already known to be the seats of the traffic, and
which are to be closely watched by the two squadrons ;
you will make arrangements for being subsequently in-
formed of, and for watching, as may be necessary, those
places also to which the traffic might be removed ; and
you will then make a distribution of the cruisers placed
under your command on all those parts of the coast to
which the system of co-operation should be applied,
either simultaneously or separately.
You will devote particular attention to the means to
be employed in order to obtain the relinquishment of the
slave-trade on the parts of the kings or chiefs of the
tribes which inhabit the coast. Some of them have
already been induced to abandon it; others appear dis-
posed to take the same course; the larger number have
still to be persuaded to it by means of negotiations and
promises of indemnification. To keep the former to
the observance of their engagements—to reduce as much
as possible, by means of treaties freely negotiated, the
number of those who still serve as auxiliaries or asso-
ciates of the slave trade,— such are the results which, in
this respect, it is proposed to attain by,the system of
cu-operation. Unity of intention and action for this
purpose is an essential point to be arranged between the
commanders of the two squadrons. I therefore recom-
mend you to consult with the commander of the British
squadron, in order to determine the measures which each
of you should undertake, with a view to secure the
success of this important part of the convention.
The concert which will be established between you
ought also to prevail between the officers of the two
squadrons, of every runk and order. The commander
of the English station will receive the same injunction
in this respect ; and it will on either side apply not only
to those cases of co-operation which are explicitly sti-
pulated by the treaty, but al,o to every circumstance
which may admit of the interchange of mutual civilities,
and the reciprocation of moral and physical co-operation
between the ships, the officers, and the crews of the two
squadrons. The duty of all persons on board the cruisers
of the two nations, while upholding their mutual inde-
pendence, will therefore be constantly to aid each other
in the execution of their respective orders, and to cona.

X, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, JUNE 14, 1845.

municate to each other every information which may
tend to further the measures adopted, in all that relate s
to the st-I....7_wession of the slave trade.
With regara to merchant vessels and cruisers bearing,
the flag of other nations whose Governments have suc-
cessively concluded with France conventions founded
upon the principle of the right of search, and conform-
able to the treaties of 1831 and 1833, no change has
taken place in the state of things regulated by those
Acts ; and you will have to carry into execution, with
regard to them, the general instructions already issued
by my department. I need only here remind you that,
those countries are Sardinia, Tuscany, the Two Sicilies,
Sweden, Denmark, and the Hans Towns. It now be-
comes my duty to call your attention to article 6 of the
new convention.
That article calls attention to a fact well known to all
the officers who have been employed during the last 30
years in the suppression of the slave trade.
All the vessels which engage in that traffic are fur-
nished with arms, such as swords, guns, pistols, and some
even have on board small cannons or swivels. This pre-
caution is indispensable to them, if it were merely for
'maintaining in obedience with a small crew several hun-
dreds of negroes violently carried off from their families
and native land.
But it frequently happens that the commanders and
crews of slave vessels make use of their arms for another
and no less criminal purpose, by committing acts of de-
predation and robbery, either upon one another, or upon
the inhabitants of the coast, or the Europeans who resort
to it. This is proved by the instructions given to your
predecessors, and especially by those given by the Go-
vernor of Senegal, on the 15th of July, 1841, to the
officers employed on the African station.
- It is also a well-known fact, that almost all slave ves-
sels have on board double sets of papers, papers appa-
rently issued by several Government',—false muster-
rolls, which enable them to assume the appearance of
belonging to one nation or to another, as they may find
occasion.

It is generally at St. Thomas and in the Island of Cuba
that these false papers are fabricated, and they contain
•counterfeits of the printed forms and autograph signa-
tures of the different authorities of each maritime nation,
more or less skilfully executed.
You are acquainted with the provisions of the law of
the 12th of April, 1825, against piracy. You know that
this law considers as pirates, not only the crew of armed
vessels who commit acts of depredation, but also those
who sail without ships' papers, or either with papers
which are not sufficient to prove the regularity of their
voyage, or with commissions issued by several different
powers or states—the word commission being here un-
derstood not only of letters of marque in time of war,
but of papers delivered to merchant vessels in time
of peace.* _ _ _

In so doing, the law of 1825 has only restated and
confirmed the principles already received, the doctrine
which forms the foundation of our maritime legis-
lation, of the ordinance of 1554, the ordinance of
1681, recognized as an authority all over Europe,f that
of 1718, and of the decree of the Second Prairial, year
11. ; and these principles have always been applied by
our tribunals as well to French vessels as to foreign
vessels, without having given rise to any complaint.
You know, likewise, that in case of suspicion of piracy
the law of nations, recognised by all civilized nations,
authorizes any ship of war, to whatever Power she may
belong, to detain the suspected vessel, whatever may be
the flag that she bears ; under condition of delivering
her over to the jurisdiction which has the right of de-
ciding upon the validity of the capture and the prosecu,
tion of the crime.

Whenever, therefore, a vessel shall be pointed out to
you as suspected of acts which our Legislation considers
as piracy, according to the law of nations (in contradis-
tinction to those which our law merely assimilates to
piracy, and which are such only according to our
national law), you are authorized to detain the vessel, in
order to ascertain whether the suspicion is well-founded.
As the exercise of this right may nevertheless give
occasion to abuses, if not restrained within proper limits,
by the good feeling and discretion of the officers who are
invested with it, you will not forget that in such case the
causes of suspicion ought to be real and grave ; that the
verification of the national character of vessels and of
the regularity of their papers, if necessary to be resorte
to, should be limited to the measures strictly requisite
for accomplishing that object ; and with a display of
force and proceedings not justified by the circumstances,
would be on your part a reprehensible act, and would
give rise to well-founded complaint.
The law of the 12th April, 1825, does not view as an
act of piracy the mere fact of a vessel's hoisting a flag
which she is not entitled to. bear ; it is nevertheless an
act contrary to the law of nations--a fraudulent act,
which, if tolerated, would render it impossible to exer-
cise any police on the sea, or any observation of mer-
chant vessels by ships of war, even such as it is the duty
of a cruiser to exercise over vessels of her own nation.
If, in order to enable a French vessel laden with slaves
to escape your vigilance, it were only necessary that she
should hoist the flag of another nation; if this fact alone
were to render her inviolable, even when you were cer-
tain of her being French—that she was carrying on the
slave-trade, and that the flag which she bore was
usurped—every cruising 'station would become useless ;
you could neither repress prohibited, nor protect lawful,
commerce.

Whenever, therefore, you may have reason to suspect
any fraud of this nature, you are at liberty to verify
the national character of the suspected vessel. If your
suspicions should turn out to be well founded, it the
suspected vessel prove to be either French, or one sub-
ject to your observation in virtue of treaties actually in
force, and if such vessel be actually engaged in the slave
trade, you will not hesitate to detain her. No nation
can be entitled to claim for its flag the right of protect-
ing crime, and of withdrawing criminals of other na-
tions from the punishment which is their due. It; on
the contrary, your suspicions should be groundless, if
the suspected vessel belongs bona fide to the nation whose
flag she bears, you will not hesitate to release her im-
mediately ; giving, however, notice of the fact to those
cruisers who have the right to detain her.
In these operations you will never lose sight of the
fact, that you are acting at your own risk and peril ;
and that it, through any act of yours, the suspected
vessel should sustain any damages, she will be intitled to
indemnification. In dealing with her, therefore, you
cannot act with too much circumspection.
Signed by the Minister of Marine.

* Report to the Chamber of Peers upon the Law of the
12th of April, 1825, by the Baron Portal. (" Moniteur" of
1825, vol. 1, p. 199.)
+ Speech of the Keeper of the Seals. Speech of M. Par-
dessus. (Session of the Chamber of Deputies, April 25, 1825.)

PARLIAMENTARY BUSINESS.
FRIDAY, JUNE 13.
The following Bills were read a third time, and passed :
Dublin and Drogheda Railway.
Lancaster and Carlisle Railway.
Aberdeen Railway.
Leeds and Thirsk Railway.
York and North Midland Railway (Harrogate Branch).

The London and Brighton Railway (Wandsworth Branch)
Bill was read a second time, and committed, and referred to
the C.mmittee of Selection.

Standing Orders Committee,—Resolutions reported;
1. " That, in the case of the Middlesbro' and Redcar Har-
bour petition for additional provision, the Standing Orders
ought to be dispensed with :—That the Committee on the
Bill may entertain the additional provision, if they shall
think fit."

2. " That, in the case of the Taff Vale Railway petition,
the Standing Orders ought not to be dispensed with."
3. " That, in the case of the Cork and Bandon Railway
Bill clause on consideration of report, the said clause is of
such a nature as not to be adopted by the House without the
re-commitment of the Bill."
First resolution agreed to.—Report to lie on the table.

PRIVATE BUSINESS FOR MONDAY, JUNE 16.
SECOND READINGS.
Eastern Counties (Cambridge and Bury St. Edmund's)
Railway.

REPORTS.
Newry and Enniskillen Railway.
Richmond (Surrey) Railway.
Great Western Railway ( Ireland) (Dublin to Mullingar and
Athlone).
Northumberland Railway-.
West London Railway Extension and Lease.
Edinburgh and Northern Railway.
Eastern Union and Bury St. Edmund's Railway (No. 2) (to
be considered) (by order).
North Woolwich Railway to be considered) (by order).
Runcorn and Preston Brook Railway.
Liverpool and Bury (Bolton, Wigan, and Liverpool and
.Bury Extension) Railway.
Liverpool and Manchester Railway.

Junction) Railway.
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Blackburn and Prestoning
Railway.
Whitehaven and Furness Junction Railway.
Monkland and Kirkintilloch Railway.
Taw Vale Railway and Dock.
Londonderry and Coleraine Railway.
Londonderry and Enniskillen Railway.
Waterford and Kilkenny Railway.

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Monday, June 16.
Edinburgh and Northern Railway,Report, Monday,
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Dublin
and Belfast Junction Railway,—Report to be con-
sidered, Tuesday,. June 17.
Ulster Extension Railway,--Report to be considered,
Tuesday, June 17.
Oxford, Worcester. and Wolverhampton Railway,—Re-
port to be considered, Tuesday, June 17.
Oxford and Rugby Railway,—Report to be considered,
Tuesday, June 17.
Cornwall Railway,—Report to be considered, Tuesday,
June 17.
Cornwall Railway, —A clause to be proposed on considera-
tion of report, Tuesday, June 17.
Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock, and Ayr (Cumnock Branch )
Railway,—Report to be considered, Tuesday, June 17.
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Tuesday, June 17.
to beßirmingham (lreland) Railway,—Report
(Ashton Branch) Railway,
North Wales Railway,—Report to be considered, Tuesday,
June 17.
Taw Vale Railway and Dock,—Third reading, Monday,
June 16.
Northumberland Railway,—Report, Monday, June 16.
Waterford and Kilkenny Railway,--Third reading,
Monday, june 16.
Londonderry and Enniskillen Railway,—Third reading,
Monday, June 16.
Londonderry and Coleraine Railway,—Third reading,
Monday, June 16.
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and Liverpool and
Extension)BuLryiveroi
Runcorn and Preston Brook Railway,—Report, Monday,
June 16. and BRuar
Railway,—Report,
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Liverpool and Manchester Railway,—Report, Monday,
June 16.
Chester and Birkenhead RailvraY—Report to be consi-
dered, Tuesday, June 17.