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vernrnent bad resigned office. It also appeared that the clerk with a salary of £6OO a year, and a treasurer with a
appointment of Mr. David Pollock vitiated all the pro- salary not defined, but left to the discretion of the Louis
ceedings before the present Chief Justice, and it became of the Treasury. The Solicitor-General had informed him,
necessary to bring in an act of Parliament to legalise them. since he came into the house, that the number of these
The noble lord concluded by moving for copies of the cor- courts would not exceed 65. Taking that to be the case,
respondence upon the subject.
... _ the salaries of the judges and the clerks would amount to
. . .. .

Sir J. C. HUBHCUSE said that the late Chief Justice of
)rnbay wished to retire owing to illness; but as in No.

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£117,000 a year, an immense addition to the patronage
now at the disposal of the Ministers of the Crown, and
,iston would be £lOOO per annum, quite distinct from the other patronage which they would
would only be entitled to £7OO per an- obtain in the appointment of treasurers, and other officers
red his resignation until the former period. to be paid by fees. He then called upon ministers to ex-
s were consequently sent to the Colonial Office plain the amount of compensation which it would be ne-
patent made out, appointing Mr. D. Pollock the cessary to give to all the officers of all the courts which
rof Sir Henry Roper. At the Colonial Office, were to he superseded by the new courts to be instituted
,it was discovered that, according to law, the ap- under this bill. There were 450 courts to be superseded ;
nt of Mr. D. Pollock at once put an end to the and the explanation which Ile had last called for was neces-

r his retiring p

the elate of that sary to enable members to have. some notion or tile ex.
ntment all proceedings before Sir H. Roper were il- pense which must be incurred in carrying this bill into
It became necessary therefore to introduce a bill to effect. There were several points in the bill which re-
evil. He had to observe, however, that what quired amendment; but as they were points in detail, he
would reserve them for consideration in the committee.
After stating that he did not consider this measure to be

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Mr. JAMES WCRTLEY doubted whether it would not I one which would bring cheap justice to every man's door,
have been legal to have appointed Mr. D. Pollock in per• he declared that it was of too great importance to be pro-
spective. At all events better appointments could not be posed and carried in the last week of the session, both on
made than those of Mr. C. Phillips and Mr. D. Pollock, account of the large amount of patronage which it coo-
and it was scarcely fair for Lord G. Bentiock to assume (erred on the Government, and of the great revolution
that all public men must be necessarily actuated by base which it would make in the jurisprudence of the country.
Sir G. GREY observed, tbat although this bill had ori-
.

motives

Mr. HUME contended that the whole appearance of the I gloated with the late government. several alterations bad
matter was that of a gross job. been since made in it. some in its progress through the
. .

GouLnuaN censured Lord George Bentinck for House of Lords, and others by the present government.
taking the house by surprise in bringing forward this mo- No suggestions had been made to government for the
tion, with a view to cast an imputation on the Earl of Ri- postponement of this measure, but many representations
pon, when the real fault lay at the door of Parliament, had been made to it of the importance of passing it into
which had originated the whole system. law in the course of the present session. He reminded
After a few remarks from Mr. Henley, the Earl of Lord G. Bentinck that several local bills had been stop-
Lincoln, and Mr. D'lsraeli, the matter was allowed to ped at the commencement of the session upon the distinct
terminate. assurance that the session should not close without a ge-

On the bringing up of the report of the committee of neral bill being passed on this subject. Lord G. Bentinck
supply, a discussion took place on the subject of the man- had also assumed that each judge was to have a salary of
ning of the navy, and £1,200 a year. but that was At misapprehension on his
Captain BERACELBY adverted to the admirable condition part. The maximum salary was fixed at £1,200 a year ;
of our commercial marine, and hoped that by next session but it did not follow that all the judges were to receive
of Parliament he would be enabled to lay before the house that amount. He assured the house that the question of
a plan by which our navy might at all times command as patronage had been very fully considered. Ministers
efficient a body of men as any in the world. were of opinion that for the purpose of obtaining efficient
judges under this bill the patronage should be placed in
the hands of the Lord Chancellor, acting under his re-
sponsibility ds a Minister of the Crown, and subject to
the control of public opinion. The question of compen-
sation would be referred to the Treasury, which would
apply the definite rules which had been established for its
guidance in such cases.
The house resolved itself into committee on the bill.
Several clauses were agreed to without discussion ; on
others certain verbal amendments were made. On the
ninth clause considerable discussion took place.
Mr. WAKLEY moved as an amendment, that attorneys
as well as barristers should be eligible as judges in these

HOUSE OF COMMONS.-WEDNESDAY.

On the order of the day being read for the second read-
ing of the Insolvent Debtors' Act Amendment Bill,
Lord G. BENTINCK admitted, with feeling of deep hu-
miliation, that in the course of the observations which he
had made the preceding evening, he had been guilty of in-
sinuating, most erroneously, that there had been a barter
of patronage between Lord Lyndhurst and Lord Ripon.
He had made the insinuation on the authority of a gentle-
man who occupied a high position in his profession; but
he had since discovered that there was not the slightest
foundation for it in fact. He, therefore, now came for-
ward to offer an apology in the most full and ample man-
ner to both those noble individuals for having been made
the innocent means of advancing so discreditable a charge
against them.

courts

Sir G. GREY objected to the alteration.
The committee divided, when the amendment was ne-
gatived by a majority of 53 over 15 voices.
Colonel T. Woo]) then moved as an amendment,
" That the judges shall cease to practise as barristers,
when they accepted office under this bill."
This amendment was negatived by a majority of 57 over
12 voices. The clause was then agreed to, as were the
other clauses up to 15.
The Chairman then reported progress, and asked leave
to sit again.

The order of the dly was then read, and tte itself
was read a second time.

On the motion that the Constabulary (Ireland) Bill be
read a second time, _ _ _

Mr. T. Doscomng called upon Mr. Labouchere to ex-
plain the objects of this bill, which appeared to him un-
constitutional and severe. _ _

fir. LABOUCHERE stated that the main object of this
bill was to redeem the pledge given by the late govern-
ment during the discussions on the Corn Bill, to place on
the consolidation fund a moiety of the payment of the
constabulary force in Ireland, which at present was paid
by the Irish counties. It bad also another object, namely,
to enlarge the powers of the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland,
by enabling him to employ the constabulary force at his
discretion, and to add, if he so thought fit, 200 men to
the present reserve force. It also provided, that when a
district was proclaimed, and an additional constabulary
was sent into it, one moiety of the additional expense
should be charged on that distract. Ile trusted that so
salutary a measure would meet with general support.
The bill was read a second time.

HOUSE OF OF COMMONS.-FRIDAY

After some routine business was disposed of,
Lord G. BENTINCK, on the order of the day for the
second reading of the Patent Commissions Bill, said he
had no wish to throw any obstacle in the way of a mea-
sure to correct the irregular appointment of a chief justice
of Bombay, but he hoped the house would allow him to
vindicate his character from the 'attacks which had been
made upon him elsewhere. He thought it unnecessary
to excuse himself for the explanation and retractation he
had felt it his duty to make a few days ago. If he had
not made that explanation, he would have laid himself
open to the charges which had been so lavishly heaped
upon him. His retractation was founded on the Clergy
List, and he thought he was entitled to place confidence
in that publication, which had been prepared by the
Ecclesiastical Commissioners, and had obtained the sanc-
tion of their names. It appeared to him, that notwith-
standing the explanation which had been given elsewhere,
great suspicion attached to such distribution of patronage,
and at the least it must be considered as. a friendly
exchange of office between two cabinet ministers. It
was said that Mr. D. Pollock was one of the candidates
for. the chief justiceship of Bombay, but he had good
reason for believing that the appointment was forced
upon him by Lord Lyndhurst. The noble lord, after re-
ferring to the circumstances attending the appointments,
observed that although Mr. Perry might be as clever as
he was reported to be by Lord Lyndhurst, he had a right
to impugn the appointment, to a very high and respon-
sible office of a man who did not possess the confidence
of the public. He complained of the manner in which Sir
H. Roper had been superseded, on a merely conditional
announcement of an intended resignation. The noble lord
then referred to the manner in which the patent of Sir D.
Pollock had been prepared, the necessity for cancelling it,
and maiatained that Mr. Secretary Gladstone had drawn
up a new patent, deliberately reciting that which he knew
not to be true. He had before termed the whole affair in
ennertrried a nefarious job_ and.
he repeated it. Lord Lyndhurst had made allusions to
his (Lord G. Bentinck's) former habits, but he was not
ashamed of them, and it was still an object of just pride to
him that he was a steward of the Jockey Club. He would
say that amongst the gentlemen of the turf there were men of
as high honour as any in the land. He would not bandy
' coarse expressions with Lord Lyndhurst—he bad too much
respect for his great age, his high station, and his superior
abilities ; and he felt the more restrained as from thee cir-
cumstances that noble and learned lord could not call him
to account elsewhere. He must say that the charge of
low, of sordid, of selfish motives came with a peculiar bad
grace from Lord Lyndhurst, who on, the 10th of July had
sent to him a respectable gentleman, a merchant of the
city of London, inviting him to join a minority of the
then government who differed with the rest of the cabinet
on the subject of the sugar duties; and who, while they
supported their colleagues, condemned their measures.
Lord Lyndhurst even proposed that he (Lord L.) should
personally wait upon one so selfish. base, and sordid as
himself. He (Lord G, Bentinck) bad in strong language
revolted from such an association, and that might have
formed a ground for the unwarrantable attack that had
been made upon him.
In answer to Coloned WOOD,

Sir DE LACY EVANS then brought under the notice of
the house the claims of the old officers of the army to
some measure analogous to that which was now on the
point of being granted to the old officers of the navy, and
also the claims of the surviving veterans of Trafalgar and
the Peninsula to a medal commemorative of their presence
in those conflicts. In advocating the first class of these
claims, he showed that officers in the army, like officers
in the navy, served to an age far beyond that at which
good and efficient service could be expected from them ;
but that the retired allowances granted to the former were
much less than those granted to the latter service. This
was the more unjust, because military officers were
oblized to purchase their different commissions, and
naval officers were not. Having condemned the system
of purchase as one equally oppressive to the army and
dishonourable to the government, he next adverted to the
claims of the veterans of 'Trafalgar and the Peninsula to
medals commemorative of their services. The officers
of the Peninsular army felt much aggrieved that the one
battle of Sobraon had produced a medal, while six years'
arduous fighting in the Peninsula had produced nothing
but the evacuation of it by the enemy. He concluded by
moving that the house would, on Wednesday next, re•
solve itself into a committee of the whole house to con-
sider of a humble address to her Majesty, waving that_
in cporns-or umuers in tue army so rewards may De
I taken into consideration.

Lord J. RUSSELL thought that the house had hitherto
acted wisely in leaving it to the Crown arid to the advi-
sers of the Crown to distribute rewards to the naval and
mil tiry services. He charged Sir De Lacy Evans with
having very much underrated the advantages enjoyed by
officers in the army, and especially by those in command
of regiments, and insisted that those advantages were not
at all shared by officers in the navy. Referring to the
present system of purchase, which the Duke of Welling-
ton recommended as productive of very great advantages
both to the army and the state, be observed that it ought
not to be abandoned lightly, as it would entail very great
expense upon the country. The Commander-in• Chief
was of opinion that a plan of retirement, like that of the
navy, ought not to be adopted in the army, and main-
tained that it was better to follow, for the present, the
system which had existed so many years. With regard
to the question of giving medals to those who fought at
Trafalgar and in the Peninsula, he reminded the house
that, as it was now 40 years since the battle of Trafalgar,
and 32 years since the close of the Peninsular war, it was
too late to consider what ought to have been done in fa-
vour of the officers who had been employed in those ser-
vices. He concluded by declaring that he could not
accede to the present motion.
Sir De LACY EVANS, having obtained all that he
wanted by eliciting the opinion of the Government, then
consented to withdraw his motion.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER then moved for
leave to bring in a bill for the construction of a new Rail-
way Board. He proposed that that board should consist
of not less than five commissioners. The president would
be paid, would be a member of one or other house of
Parliament, and would be connected with the Government,
and removable at each change of it. Two of the com-

Lord G. BENTINCK said that Lord Lyndhurst's mes-
senger had stated that other members of the cabinet
would join; but that might be just as true as the noble
and learned lord's attack upon him.

The bill was then read a second time.
The remainder of the evening was occupied in the dis-
cussion of the Small Debts Bill in committee.

HOUSE OF LORDS.-SATURDAY

The house sat fora short time for the dispatch of busi-
ness, when Lord LYNDHURST seized the opportunity to
declare, that the only ground for the insinuation made
against him by a noble lord in the lower house, arose out
of a simple message sent by him to that noble lord, with
a view to heal the differences of the late Conservative
part; ; and that, so far from any factious opposition to
the Sugar Duties Bill having been proposed in that mes-
sage, no allusion to the sugar question was even made on
the occasion.

missioners would be paid, arid permanent and irremov-
able ; the other two would be unpaid, and members of
the Government. lie proposed to transfer to this board
the whole of the powers now held by the railway depart-
ment of the Board of Trade. To render this board more
useful, he proposed to alter the standing orders so far as
that the notices of bills now required to be given in No-
vember should be given in February. That alteration,
however, would not form part of the present bill, and
would be left open for future consideration.
Mr. GREENE suggested the expediency of referring
matters connected with the highways to this board.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER approved the
suggestion.

FOREIGN AND COLONIAL.

INDIA AND CHINA

Leave was given to bring in the bill

We have received by extraordinary express from Mar-
seilles the despatches in anticipation of the overland mail
from India. The inAlLigence is from Bombay, via Ma-
dras. up to the 2d o ly, only one day later than that
received by the last mail.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.-THURSDAY

Lord COURTENAY brought up the report of the com-
mittee appointed to inquire into the state of the Andover

Quiet prevai's at Lahore, and.there are now no symp-
toms of interruption.

Union wOrkhouse,

The Wuzeer, Rajlh Lall Singh, has not yet demanded
the withdrawal of the British troops. The Ranee has

,tain PECEIELL,

Mr. WAKLEY,

Mr. ETWALL, Mr
bore testimony tc

had a dispute with the: British ageni,

nil imam

readiness to help the troo

as chairman of the committee. Mr. J. WORTLEY, how-
ever, cautioned the house against taking the necessarily
imperfect reports of the proceedings before the committee,
which appeared from day to day in the newspapers, as
verbatim reports of what really occurred. _ _ . _

Lord COURTENAY acknowledged in return the kind
manner in which he had been supported by every member
of the committee, in the duties which he had to discharge
as their chairman.
The report was ordered to be printed. _ .

Mr. liortaliwicic hoped thrit the report would be
printed as Fpe ed 1 y as possible, in order that it might be
in the hands of members before Mr. Hume's motion on
the conduct of the Poor Law Commissioners came on for
discussion on Tuesday next. If the published reports of
the proceedings before the Andover Committee were any
thing like correct, it was impossible for the house to allow
the Poor Law to be managed any longer by the hands to
which its management was entrusted at present. _ _

On the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER moving the
third reading of the Customs' Duties Bin,
Mr. BORTHWICK presumed that this was another of the
blunders of the late government which the house was
called upon to remedy.
Mr. HUME, after a few remarks on the unfair spirit of
Mr. Burthwick's insinuation, proceed, d to recommend to
the Government to reduce the articles in the tariff to 150.

He hoped that during the recess the Chancellor of the
Exchequer would inquire into the expenses of the Cus-
toms' establishment, with a view to their 'eduction. He
thought that a number both of the commissioners and of
the subordinate officers of Customs mieht, in consequence
of the reduction in the amount of business which they
had to transact, be safely reduced. He likewise recom-
mended the Government to keep every Custom-house in
the county open from 9 o'clock in the morning until sun-
set.
The bill wa. then rend a third time and passed, as was
also the New Zealand Government Bill.
On the motion t hat the Small Debts Bill be committed,

Ifrom Kurrachee, dated the 17th ult., describe the efforts
made there by Sir Charles Napier and the other authori-

ties to afford relict to the sufferers from the cholera.
The number of deaths of Europeans alone on the 15th,
16th, and 17th of June is stated to be '255. Hopes are

entertained that the ravages of the fatal malady would
diminish as the troops were marched out to other health-
ful places. The natives were dying by hundreds.
Reports are current of the approaching retirement from
the Government of Madras of the Marquis of Tweddale,
who is now at the Neilgherries. Tile Governor of Bom-
bay, Sir George Arthur, is seriously ill, end :las been con-
sidered unable during the last two months to perform the
duties of his office. It is not known what line of conouct
he intends to adopt. but complaints are heard of various
matters which remain in abeyance.
The fall ^r has bee,"

of rain a very great during the last four
weeks, and there is now no appearance of dry weather.
This is looked upon as favourable, not only to the health
of the inhabitants, but as affording the best security for
an abundant harvest.

CALCUTTA, JUL

2, 1846

There is at the present time little passing in this vast
empire worthy of detailing to you. Peace seems to pre-
vail everywhere ; but in the Punjaub it is an armed peace.
Hatred and revenge rankle in the hearts of 100,C00 men,
whose supremacy we have hurled to the earth and com-
pelled to hide their shame by a temporary recourse to se-
clusion and compulsory inactivity, whilst they are no doubt
fomenting each other's discontent, and dreaming of, if
not more actively engaged in, schemes to retrieve their
fallen state, and resume the sway they so lately held over
their unfortunate country. That such is the feeling pre-
vailing among the great body of the discontented Khalsas
there can be no doubt, for the thraldom under which our
presence keeps the whole nation is felt to be intolerable,
even by the abandoned Ranee and her imbecile minion
Rajah Lall Singh, who have expressed openly their desire
to be freed from the incubus which we have proved to be.
Of mercantile prospects I can give no cheering news.
The pressure on the money market is appalling. 25 per
cent. is willingly paid for money, which even at.that ruin-
ous rate is not to be had to any amount. Government has
refused to open the export warehouse, or to advance upon
goods, and it is impossible to eay what may be the result.
Ibrahim :Pasha reached Alexandria, on board the Aven-
ger, on the Bth inst. He was in excellent health, and ex-
pressed himself delighted with his expedition.