The Sun.
London, England, 1845-07-31 00:00:00

RAILWAY.

The Earl of BESBOROUGH called the attention of
their Lordships to the report of the Select Committee
appointed to inquire into the petitions which had been
preseLted to that House, alleging that fraud
and iforgery had been committed in the contract.
deed of the Dublin and Galway Railway Company.
Many persons had been called before the Committee
and had been examined as witnesses, and amongst the
rest, one John Smith. (The Noble Lord here read his
evidence, in which he admitted that he also assumed the
name of Mr. Baldron. He also lead a portion of the
examination of Miss Golding and Mr. Miles Stanley, in
proof of the aliases which this John Stinton personated
at cliff, rent times.
Robert Parish was next called in, and in answer to
questions which were put to him, he said he had known
Stinton for four or five years, atod that he was a boot
maker. He had never known.him by the name of Pen-
ton. He took letters in for him :at Crosby Hall in that
name, and understood that he was a friend. No person
of the name of Penti.n lived at Crosby Hail Chambers.
That was all the evidence he had to refer to with respect
to the charge of perjury against the witness Stinton.
The LORD CHANCELLOR said lie had not read
the evidence, and as it would be difficult to prosecute
the Witness on the whole of the evidence he had given,
perhaps the Noble Earl would po'nt out those passages
with respct to which he considered he ought to be
prosecuted.—(The Noble Earl conferrA with the Lord
Chancellor, and pointed out the particular parts of the
evidence.)

(T.EFT SITTING.)

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

The SPEAKER took the chair a. Four o'clock.
Mr. EW ART moved for a ne:v writ for the borough
of Kircudbright, in the room of Mr. B. Murray, de-

ceased.—Ordered.
Mr. TuFNELL gate notice, for Lord John Russel, for
a return of the Bills that have ptssed the House during

the present session, distinguishing the public from the
private Bills ; and also for a return of the quantity of
foreign wheat in bond on the Ist of Jnly.
WAYS AND ILANS.
The report of the Select Committ,e of Ways and
Means was hrought up by Mr. GREENE and received.
TURNPIKE ROADS (IRELAND) BILL.

This Bill was read a third time and passed.
VALUATION (IRELAND) BILL.
This Bill was read a third time and passed.
SUPPLY.
The Report of the Committee of Supply was brought
up by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and agreed to.
ROYAL ASSENT.

Mr. Pulman summoned the House of Commons to
attend at the bar of the _House of Lords to hear the Royal
assent given to various public and private Bills, for the
names of which see Lords' report.
The SPEAKER, having been absent about half an
hour, resumed the chair, and announced that he had
been to hear the royal assent given to several Bills.
CEYLON.
Mr. TUFNELL said he wished to ask a question or
two of the Hon. Gentleman the Under-Secretary for the
Colonies (Mr. Hope) relative to Ceylon. He wished to
know why it wit: that certain information and communi-
cations, relative to the civil servants of that colony, had
been withheld by the Governor; and whether in the event
of the civil servants wishing to retire from the colony,
they wera to be allowed to take the property which
they acquired in the service of the Government wi:h
them?
Mr. HOPE said that, with regard to the first point,
more was done than what was asked for, for now the
the Hon. Member might be placed in possession of all
the information connected with this proceeding when-
ever he thought fit. With regard to the other matter,
he did not think that his Noble Friend he.d any inten-
tion of divesting any of the civil servants of their pro-
perty. The course to be taken, however, wcnld depend
materially upon local circumstances, and he could give
no pledge at present.
BRAZIL SLAVE-TRADE TREATY BILL.

on the Order of the Day for bringing up the report on
this Bill, being read,
Mr. MILNER GIBSON said he wished to make
a few remarks on this Bill. He said he had
particularly examined the provisions of the Bill,
and was unable to view it in any favourable light.
The treaty amounted to this, that it was a declaration
of the intention of the Executive Government, and they
could not hold that the subjects of that country
were to be eealt with by a mere declaration of
the Executive Government. They' could not hold that
any Power could bring the subjects into a
criminal tribunals, and inflict punishments short of the
laws under which they lived. The Gevernment of Brazil
had passed no such law as that tley should be punished
for carrying on the slave trade, and the Government of
this country had official knowledge that such law
did not exist. The English Government could not
possess the power of punishing them when the laws of
their own country could not punish them. If there
were such a law in their own aountry it then remained
a question whether they could punish them in this
country for a breach of their own law. He held that to
be most unquestionable, and was at a loss to understand
the eaptanation which her Majesty's Attorney-General
gave to Ultra when the subject was before the House on
a former evening. This measure appeared to him
calculated to bring about the evils which they were
trying to suppress. It appeared calculated to excite
resentment and hostility towards this country. He could
not see one single good purpose that it would effect. It
appeared to be unnecessary for the purpose of bringing
about a co-operation of the Brazilian gavernment, because
they had measures already in progress with regard to
the slave trade, and they should see what effect they
may have. That afforded another mison why, even if
they had public law on their side, they should ab-
stain from this measure as a measure of bad policy.
and be could not but once more enter his protest against
it, and absolve himself from any share whatever in the
responsibility of this measure. He begged now to make -
the inquiries of which he gave notice. He wished to
know whether the Braziliansin this country had addressed
to her Majesty's Government any remonstrance or com-
munication relative to this Bill. If such a communica-
tion had been received by the Government, he thought
that the House was untitled to see the communica-
tion, and that they should be laid before Parliament.
He thought that as they were called upon to share in
the responsibility of the Executive, the Executive Go-
vernment should place the House in the same position
in which they stood th,. mselves—in the position that
they should have a full opportunity of judging both
of the law and the policy of this measure. He
would ask him then if a remonstrance had been re-
ceived and if it had whether he could lay it on the table
of the House. If it was received why should they not
delay this measure till they had printed this remon-
strance ? The report was brought up on Monday last
and the matter was postponed till this day, and he was
not chargeable with that delay. He did think that they
should not be judging properly, and that they should
not be doing what was required, if they acted without
the fullest information. He would conclude by request-
ing her Majesty's Government to inform them whether
'hey had received that information.
Sir H. PEEL rose, and was
(LEFT SPEAKING.)

MEXICAN AND CENTRAL
AMERICAN ANTIQUITIES.

Some travellers accidentally discovered, in the pro-
vince of Chiapas, the ruins of a large city, whose
monuments attested the existence of a people far ad-
vanced in civilisation, at a period too remote to fix its
epoch in history.
Several attempts have been made to explore this
interesting country, and already, through individual
exertions almost unaided, the most striking facts have
been collected, which prove, beyond doubt, that civilisa-
tion and the arts were known and practised in a country
once crowded with human beings and now but a fruitless
wilderness in appearance t• 4 the common eye.
In 1803, Colonel Dupaix headed an expedition dis-
patched by the Mexican Viceroy, and the designs made
by Castsn'da were at a lattr period transported to Paris.
These drawings, including the designs of bridges,
pyramids, tumuli of vari:us forms, subterranean sculp-
tures, majestic and extraordinary edifices, idols in
porphyry and granite, statues in marble, stone, and
stucco, fragments of the zodiac in hieroglyphics, though
different from those of Egyp;, yet announcing their
common origin with them.
Curiosity thus excited, resulted in the devotion to the
cause of science of the Comte Ange de Saint Priest,
who 'etas spent several years in the deserts of Central
America, exploring its antiquities ; and who has added
largely to the collections of his co-labourers and pre-
dec.,essors, : mongst whom may b 3 named the illustrious
C.s4 ttcaubriand, de Humbo:dt, add Warden.
We widerstand that a Committee is about to b farmed