The Sun.
London, England, 1845-07-15 00:00:00

FORTH AIND CLYDE NAVIGATION.

The Lords' amendments to the Forth and Clyde Navigation
and Union Canal Junction Bill were agreed to.
Sir J. Y. BULLER presented petitions from Devon against
certain clauses in the Justices' C erks
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL presented petitions from
the attorneys and solicitors practising in England and Wales,
and also in Ireland, praying that they might not be required to
take out an annual certificate.
Air. ELLICE presented a petition from Glasgow against the
Scotch Poor-law Bill.

Mr. REDHEAD YORKE said that he had to ask the
Secretary of State for the Home Department when the order
of liberation was sent to Norfolk Island in behalf of Joseph
Aason, who was transported upon a conviction for burglary at
the York Spring Assizes, 1843, which conviction turned out
to have been altogether and entirely unjust ; and he had also
to ask when the said Juseph Mason might be expected in
England ?
Sir JAMES GRAHAM said that notice having been given
of the question by the Hon. Member, he (Sir James Graham)
had made the necessary inquiries, and was enabled to say that
the order for his liberation had been sent out on the Ist of
January last. To the second question he could not give a de-
cided answer, but no doubt existed that he would be sent home
on the first opportunity.
NEW ZEALAND.

Mr. HAWES put a question, the substance of which was,
as far as we can collect, whether any official information had
been received concerning recent outrages, which had taken
place in New Zealand.

Mr. G. 0. HOPE said, that since the Hon. Member put
the question before, he had received information which would
enable him to reply to the question of the Honourable
Gentleman. A dispatch was received at the Colonial-
office yes-erday from Captain Fitzroy. The dispatch was
dated the 26th of March. The accounts therein given agreed
with those published in the Times and other newspapers five or
six days ago.—( Hear, hear.) The dispatch set forth that the
attack had been made by the same chief,:for the same purpose,
but that it was of an insurrectionary character. It had been
suspected for some days that an outbreak would take place, but
it was not expected that it would occur for some days
subsequent to the period at which it actually did occur.
They met in collision. The advance of the natives was re-
pelled, and in the conflict Capt. Robertson fell. The settlers,
however, held their ground, and repulsed the natives. From
the effect of the shots the powder magazine blew up. The
loss altogether, taking troops, settlers, and seamen into ac-
count, was 13 killed and 23 wounded. The loss of the natives
had not been ascertained, but it was very considerable. In
justice to the naives he must say that after the
settlers retired, they forwarded a woman and child which they
found in a block-house under a flag of truce to the settlement.
Troops were requested after this melancholy event, but they
did not arrive till the 23rd. The effects of this conflict were
looked upon with great alarm. He did not think that it had
arisen from accidental circumstances. It proceeded
from a disposition on the part of the native chiefs to deny
the sovereignty of the Qupen. Such was the true state of
the case as tar as he had been able to ascertain it. •
Mr. J. A. SMITH wished to know whether these papers
could be laid on the table of the House.
Mr. HOPE had no objection to present them, and would
take the earliest opportunity of laying them on the table of the
House.
Mr. HUME presented several petitions from Scotland
against the 135th and 16th clauses of the Scottish poor law,
praying that they may be expunged from the Bill, and
stating that unless a compulsory assessment were made it
would be utterly impossible to obtain that amount of assistance
which the poor needed.

GAME-LAWS.
Mr. HUNIE also presented a petition from Mr. Charles
Henry Russell, against the 12th clause of the game-law. He
stated that, since the statute of 1799, there had been the
utmost uncertainty respecting the laws for the protection of
game. In c )nsequence of an informality he had been subject to
taxed costs of a heavy amount,
and he prayed to be relieved
from the heavy expense to which he had been subject.
THE EARL OF ELLENBOROUGH.
Mr. HUME begged to withdraw the notice respecting the
Earl of Ellenborough and Indian affairs.
GAME LAWS.
Jr. G. BERKELEY had heard that a person convicted of
poaching had had his Punishment remitted, and he wished to
know if hat was true, and what were the grounds for the re-
mission?
Sir JAMES GRAHAM said, that in answer to the Hon.
Member's question, in reference to the case he had mentioned.
he (Sir J. Graham) begged to say that the conviction before
the Court in that in•tance was sent to the Home-office, and owing
to the representation there made, the order for the liberation
of the party had been issued, but not until a subsequent inves-
tigation by him (Sir James Graham) ; and it was upon a mis-
taken view of the law by him, owing to a clerical error, that
he had been liberated.

NEAND.
Lord HOWICK sh-uldW like A
toL know from the Secretary to
the Colonies whether he had altered his intentions in reference
to New Zealard, in consequence of the information that had
arrived from that colony within a few days.
Sir J. GRAHAM begged that the Nor Lord would post-
pone his question, seeing that his Hon. Friend the Secretary
to the Colonies was absent.
CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.
Mr. HOPE, in answer to a question from Mr. Hindley, said
that no report of an official character had been received from
the Governor; but from what he had seen in the publie
papers, he should say that a wrong impression had gone
abroad as to the actual state of the facts. He believed
the fact was, that the collision that had taken place occurred
beyond the limits of the jurisdiction of the British Government,
and in an independent colony, established by missionaries.
The collision, moreover, seemed' to be connected with occur-
rences which took place at a distance of two hundred miles
from the British territory,, The Boors who had emigrated
were those who were opposed to the abolition of slavery, and
they were not at all connected with those at Port
Natal. There was at present a considerable force at the
Cape. and five hundred cavalry had been added, who would be
sufficient for the protection of the Boors. The Gricquas were
pnrotect ot subjects
of her Majesty, but the troops would nevertheless
m.
In answer to a question from Mr. HINDLEY,
Mr. HOPE said that the Boors who had emigrated had
always been
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wnrded by her Majesty's Government as subjects of
the Br itish .
Mr. BUTLER, seeing the Right Hon. Gentleman the
Secretary of State for Ireland in his place, wished to know
whether it was or not the intention of her Majesty's Govern-
ment to restore to office the noblemen and gentlemen lately
dismissed from the magistracy in that country ?
Sir THOMAS FREMANTLE said he was not able to give
any assurance that those gentlemen would be restored to office.
Mr. BUTLER then said that on Friday next he should
move that a humble address be presented to her Majesty, re-
questing her to restore to office those gentlemen, whom he
believed had been most unjustly and unconstitutionally deprived
of their office.
Sir ROBERT FERGUSON asked the Secretary for Ireland
whether the Government proposed to take advantage of the
present vacancy in the office of Chairman of the Board of
Commissioners of Public Works in Ireland to unite that Board
with the Shannon Commission ?
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that the
appointment of Sir John Burgoyne to the Board had only very
recently taken place, and the Treasury had not had time to
make any arrangement.
Mr. MILNER GIBSON wished to ask whether General
Rom, of Buenos Ayres, had the right to shut np the navigation
of the River Plate and Paraguay, and whether he had the
right to close those waters to foreign ships?
Sir ROBERT PEEL said he was aware that General
Rosas exercised that right, and the Government were
at ono time inclined to recognise his right to blockade,
but the French Government had refused to re-
cognise it unless their vessels were admitted. In
that case they could not admit the
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close the navigation of the river
the Hon. Member for Manchester asked if General Rosas
had a right to shut up the other branch of the river,
better known as the Paraguay. His ( Sir Robert Peel's)
answer would be similar in both cases. The Buenos Ayrean
Government claim the right which they (the British Govern-
ment) equally disputed. He should, however, ascertain from
the Secretary for Foreign Affairs the exact position in which
they stood, and communicate the same to the House if desired.
RIOTS IN IRELAND.
Mr E. R. ROCHE said that although he had not
given notice of his question, yet, with the sanction of the Go-
vernment, he would put it, as it related to an unfortunate
transaction which had occurred in his own country, he meant
the loss of life which had occurred at Ballinhassy, and he wished
to know if a gene-al order had been issued by the Irish Govern-
ment that the police should not interfere in eases of fairs, or
larger parties collected, without express instructions ; and that
when these instructions were fulfilled, they should again remove
from the place where such fairly/as held. He (Mr. Rocite)'had no
hesitation in saying, that if a single magistrate had been there,