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no less an act of justice to the Government of India, than of proper
deference to the general opinion of England, that his Majesty's Mi-
nisters should lay all the details of the affair of Barrackpore before

the country.
Mr. WYNN explained.
Mr. HART DAVIES defended the conduct of
the Authorities• in India generally ; but apprehended the greatest
injury to the Indian army, from this attempt to rip up the sub-
ject. It was easy for the Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Hume) to go
critically and narrowly into all the details of this war. Now,
would the Hon. Gentleman like to have the same rigour exercised
upon all the transactions in which he had been engaged. How
would he like an inquiry like the present to be set on foot as to
the Greek war?—(Loud cheering.)---How would the Hon. Gen-
tleman's financial policy bear this sort of test ?—(Hear, hear, and
laughter.)—He believed it would not he very pleasant to the Hon.
Gentleman to have that subject brought fully before the House?—
(Repeated laughter and cheering. )----Those who had glass houses
should beware how they threw stones. For himself, he was de-
cidedly of opinion that the whole army of India was indebted to the
administration of Lord Edward Paget.

Colonel DAVIES said, that it had been well re-
marked by the Hon. Member at the close of his speech, that those
who lived in glass houses ought not to throw stones. As he was
not disposed to use towards that Hon. Gentleman the same course
which he had adopted towards the Hon. Member for Aberdeen,
he would not bring before the House, as he might do, the mis-
fortunes which had befallen that Hon. Gentleman in the course of
his career.—(Hear, bear.)—Perhaps, if he had been so disposed,
he could have placed before the House some transactions in which
that Hon. Member had been concerned, which might bring a
blush into his cheek.--(Hear, and laughter.)

The SPEAKER never interfered in the proceed-
ings of the House without great pain, and often not without some
doubt as to whether in what he was doing he might be doing
good. The Hon. Member for Bristol (Mr. Hart Davis) could
hardly fail to be aware, that he had begun, in the present case,
by deviating from the immediate subject before the' House, awl
alluding to topics connected entirely with other matter.

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Colonel DAVIES should certainly bow to the
suggestion of the Chair. The Hon. Member then proceeded to
state that he gave full credit to the talents and character of Sir
E. Paget; but, after the facts which had been laid before the
House, he thought an inquiry absolutely necessary to that Gen-

tleman's own justification.
Sir H. VIVIAN, from what he knew of the Gal-
lant Officer (Sir E. Paget) whose measures had been complained
of, was quite sure that he would have wished his conduct to be
inquired into; but after the matter had now lain dormant for two
years and a half, he thought that, in a political point of view, it
was not expedient to revive it.
Mr. MONEY made a few observations, which did
not reach the gallery. We understood the Hon. Member to de-
fend the conduct of the Indian Government. _

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General DUFF rose, but from the immense laugh-
ter which prevailed throughout the House, we could collect very
little of his speech. He wished that the Hon. Member for Aber-
deen would confine himself to subjects which he really understood,
and not meddle with military matters, of which he was sure that
he (Mr. Hume) knew very little, for the case which he had now
attempted to make out was extremely frivolous. As to the con-
duct of Sir E. Paget, all he could say was, that he (General
Duff) would act in precisely the same manner a hundred times
over, if it were necessary.
Mr. MABERLY. thought, that his Hon. Friend
(Mr. Hume) had made out at least a part of his case, and there-
fore he should have his vote.

Sir J. YORKE said, that whenever he addressed
that House, lie used as much brevity as possible. He had heard
a great many speeches, but he had in none of them heard any
attack upon Sir E. Paget. Sir E. Paget had only acted as every
gallant officer wonld have acted under similar circumstances.
Mr, FORBES should vote for the production of
the documents in question.
Sir J. BERESFORD said, that some Hon.
Members appeared to doubt whether any mutiny at all existed.—
He had received a letter from an officer in India, which stated,
that Sir E. Paget had behaved throughout the business like a
soldier and a man.
Mr. HUME, in reply, contended, that certain
grievances, of which the battalion that was ordered to march had
complained, had been admitted to have existed ; and the Right
Hon. Gentleman had said, that these had been removed. Thus
far, then, his statement was substantiated. The Hon. Member
then complained of the conduct of General Dalzell, who not un-
derstanding a word of Hindoostanee, made use of language of the
lowest kind to the Seapoys, " damning their eyes," and abusing
them in all sorts of ways. The conduct of this officer in other
ways, was of such an extraordinary description, as to leave them
to suppose him a little bewildered.
A division then took place. The numbers were—Ayes, 44 ;
Neias 1'76 ; Major against the motion, 192.
Mr. *
KENNEDY moved for leave to bring in a
Bill to regulate the Salmon-fisheries of the United Kingdom.
Mr. WARBURTON observed, that the object of
this measure seemed to be, to establish water-bailiffs for all the
rivers of Scotland and England ; in short a new set of game laws.
When the Bill came before the House, he should propose, that a
trade in fresh salmon, now a prohibited article, should be al-
lowed.
Sir R. FERGUSON remarked, that the Hon.
Member for Bridport (Mr. Warburton) seemed to labour under
mistaken notions on this subject.
Mr. GEORGE LAMB hoped that time would
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tehaeiincotnhseidkti•enatgidoanmo.
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f the Bill, extending as it did to
DRUMMOND conceived that it
was intended to introduce clauses respecting the Scotch fisheries,
which would take money out of the pockets of one set of persons
to put it into those of another. If there were such new clauses
added to the Bill, he should oppose the measure, though he
once supported it. _
After a few words from Mr. Davies Gilbert, Mr. Jones, and
Mr. Kennedy, leave was given.
DUKE AND DUCHESS OF CLARENCE ANNUITY BILL.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER
moved the third reading of this Bill.
Mr. HUME should persist in opposing this Bill.
Mr. D. W. HARVEY opposed the Bill on the
ground of the financial difficulties of the country.
Mr. PALLMER supported the Bill.
Lord RANCLIFFE opposed the Bill.
Lord ALTHORP had once opposed the Bill, but
should not vote in the question again.
Lord RANCLIFFE declined pressing for a di-
vision, and the Bill was read a third time and passed.
The other Orders of the Day were then gone through, and the
House adjourned at a Quarter past Twelve o'clock.

Mr. Lemlee's notice on Wednesday, was for an inquiry into the
mal-administration of the colony of the Cape of Good Hope, and
not for Sierra Leoue.

1,112,874
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in to states
g
barrels beer, by brewers in Scotland, for three Y
ea
64,942,632 bushels of
from October
barrel of beer. For the same three years,
1823 to October 1826, about 1 3-10th bushels of Malt for every
malt were used, by brewers in England, in the making of
25,442,921 barrels of beer, about 2 55-100 bushels malt for every
barrel of beer, and, taking in Scotland, 1,452,782 bushels malt,
as making 1,112,874 barrels beer. England using 64,942,632
bushels malt, and producing beer, as iu Scotland, the quantity
would have been 49,717,977 barrels, instead of 25,442,991 bar-
rels—being a difference of 24,305,056 barrels.
SPIRITS.--A Return to the House of Commons,
dated Custom House, London, 19th February, 1827, states, in
Imperial Gallons, the following quantities of Foreign Spirits, as
having paid duties in the last three years, viz.:—
Brandy &
Rum. Geneva. Total.
Imp. galls. Imp. galls. Imp. galls.
Year ending Jan. 5, 1825 2,552,289 1,317,641 3,869,930
Year ending Jan. 5, 1826 2,095,591 1,409,686 3,505,277
lc
Year ending Jan. 5, 1827 4,305,419 1,549,842 5,855,261
This shows an increase of above 2,000,000 of imperial gallons
for the latt of these over the former, and this principally on rum,
and is to be accounted for by the duty on it being reduced to fully
under what the duties on spirits made entirely from malt in Eng-
land would amount to. Now, had this increased consumption
of 2,000,000 imperial gallons spirits been in malt spirits or beer,
it would have caused an increased consumption of about 130,000
quarters or upwards of barley in the British distilleries ; and as
an increased consumption of grain would serve the landed interest,
it might at present, when the Corn Laws are under consideration,
be well for them to attend to such things; for this is just equal to
allowing that quantity of corn to be imported, and that without
any duty.