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On the motion of Earl CLARENDON, the Sugar Duties
Bill was read a third time and parsed. The Court of
Common ?leas Bill, the Milit a Pay Bill, the Forms As-
sessed Taxes Bill, and the Poor Removal Bill, were also
read a third time and passed.
Their lordships then adjourned.

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vernment had resigned office. It also appeared that the
appointment of Mr. David Pollock vitiated all the pro-
ceedings before the present Chief Justice, and it became
necessary to bring in an act of Parliament to legalise them.
The noble lord concluded by moving for copies of the cor-
respondence upon the subject.
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Bombay wished to retire owing to illness; het as in No-
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Mr. JAMES WOrICLEY doubted whether it would not
have been legal to have appointed Mr. D. Pollock in per-
spective. At all events better appointments could not be
made than those of Mr. C. Phillips and Mr. D. Pollock,
and it was scarcely fair for Lord G. Bentiock to assume
that all public men must be necessarily actuated by base
motives.

Mr. HUME contended that the whole appearance of the
matter was that of a gross job.
Mr. GOULBURN censured Lord George Bentinck for
taking the house by surprise in bringing forward this mo-
tion, with a view to cast an imputation on the Earl of Ri-
pon, when the real fault lay at the door of Parliament,
which had originated the whole system.
After a few remarks from Mr. Henley, the Earl of
Lincoln, and Mr. D'lsraeli, the matter was allowed to
terminate.

On the bringing up of the report of the committee of
supply, a discussion took place on the subject of the man-
ning of the navy, and
Captain BERKELEW adverted to the admirable condition
of our commercial marine, and hoped that by nestsession
of Parliament he would be enabled to lay before the house
a plan by which our navy might at all times command as
efficient a body of men as any in the world.

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. BENTENCK admitted, with feeling of deep hu-
miliation, that in the course of the observations which be
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 bad 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 ..nd ample man-
ner to both those noble individuals for having been made
the innocent means of advancing so discreditable a charge
against them.

The order of the thy was then read, and tie itself
was read a second time.

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

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

Mr. 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 had also another object, namely,
to enlarge the powers of the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland,
by enabling him to employ the constabulary force at hix
discretion, and to add, if he so thought fir, 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. He trusted that so
salutary a measure would meet with general support.
The bill was read a second time.

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 presenze
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
obliged 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, praying that
the claims of old officers in the army to rewards_may be.
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Lord J. RUSSELL thought that the house had hitherto
acted wisely in leaving it to the Crown and to the advi-
sers of the Crown to distribute rewards to the naval and
mil t try services. He charged Sir De Lacy Evans with
having very much underrated the advantages enjoyed by
office/ s 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, he 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-
missioners would be paid, and permanent and irremov•
able ; the other two would be unpaid, and members of
the Government. He 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 he 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 CIIANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER approved the

Leave was given to bring in the bill.

clerk with a salary of £6OO a year, and a treasurer with a
salary not defined. but left to the discretion of the Lords
of the Treasury. The Solicitor-General had informed him,
since he came into the house, that the number of these
courts would not exceed 65. Taking that to be the case,
the salaries of the judges and the clerks would amount to
£117,000 a year, an immense addition to the patronage
now at the disposal of the Ministers of the Crown, and
quite distinct from the other patronage which they would
obtain in the appointment of treasurers, and other officers
to he paid by fens. He then called upon ministers to ex-
plain the amount of compensation which.it would be ne-

cessary to give to a

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aoerspded by the new courts to be instituted
under this bill. There were 450 courts to be superseded ;
and the explanation which he had last called for was neces-

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bill into

a carrying this
were several points in the bill which re-
hey were points in detail, he
sideration in the committee.
ng that ha did not consider this measure to be
one which would bring cheap justice to every man's door,
he declared that it was of too great importance to be pro-
posed and carried in the last week of the session, both on
account of the large amount of patronage which it con-
ferred on the Government, and of the great revolution
which it would make in the jurisprudence of the country.
Sir G. GREY observed, that although this bill had ori-
ginated with the late government, several alterations had
been since made in it, some in its progress through the
House of Lords, and others by the present government.
No suggestions had been made to government for the
postponement of this measure, but many representations
had been made to it of the importance of passing it into
law in the course of the present session. He reminded
Lord G. Bentinck that several local bills had been stop-
ped at the commencement of the session upon the distinct
assurance that the session should not close without a ge-
neral bill being passed on this subject. Lord G. Bentinck
had also assumed that each, judge was to have a salary of
£1,200 a year. but that was a misapprehension on his
part. The maximum salary was fixed at £1,200 a year ;
but it did not follow that all the judges were to receive
that amount. He assured the house that the question of
patronage had been very fully considered. Ministers
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 as 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
courts.

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Sir G. GREY objected to the alteration.
The committee divided, when the amendment was ne-
gatived by a majority of 53 over 16 voices.
Colon?t T. Noon 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.

4to.
HOUSE 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 threw 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
Eeclesiastical 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 maintained 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
which four Ministers were concerned a nefarious job, and
- sual. a.m.! 'sad mo.ftaa, lugbiamad. ee
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 be was a steward of the Jockey Club. He would
say that amongst the gentlemenof the turf there were men of
as high honour as any in the land. He would not bandy
coarse expressions with Lord Lyndhurst—he had too much
respect for his great age, his high station, and his superior
abilities ; and he felt the more restrained as from these 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) had 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,

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 insinuatiog made
against him by a noble lord in the lower house, time out
of a simple message sent by him to that noble lord, wit h
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.

FOREIGN AND COLONIAL.

INDIA. AND CHINA

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

Quiet prevails at Lahore, and there are now no symp-
toms of interruption.
The Wuzeer, Rajah Lall Singh, has not yet demanded
the withdrawal of the British troops. The Ranee has
had a dispute with the British agent, and has intimated
her readiness to help the troops away.
At Kurrachee the cholera was raging with great fierce-
ness. The number of deaths of Europeans alone on the
15th, 16 h, and 17th of June, is stated to be 255, and
upwards of 100 of these cases belong to her Majesty's
86th Regiment. No officer is mentioned as having fallen
a victim. The natives were dying by hundreds. Reports
were current of the approaching retirement from the go-
vernment_of Madras of the Marquis of Tweeddale.

From China we learn that the British authorities had
not given up Chusan according to the terms of the trea•y,
and a Chinese mob had expelled foreign residents from
the city of Foo-chow-foo. Hitherto the violence of the
populace had been confined to the city of Carlton if it
extends to the eastern ports, we may again see our com-
merce thrust out of China, and once more have to recover
it by force of arms.

PIRA CIF S AT HONG KONG, 24th June, 1846.—Piracies
are increasing here to a fearful extent; it would seem as
if a second Coxingo had arisen. No fewer than three
cases have taken place during the month, two of which
have been attended with loss of life. A week ago a schoo-
ner, which left this for the Cumsingmoon, with property
to the extent of between £30,000 and £40,000, was cap-
tured by two junks, and the captain and seven or eight of
the men were missing; supposed to have been murdered.
The junks were seen alongside by a small pleasure boat,
which gave the alarm at Curnsingmoon, when three schoo-
ners went in chase, and retook the other, which had only
been partially plundered, and then abandoned by the pi-
rates, who appear to have been a'raid of discovery, and
bad not time to remove more than a portion of the pro-
perty. It is getting actually dangerous to go about in
smal crafts.
SILVER MINE AT MAULMEIN.—We are informed that
the discovery of a silver mine has been reported to the
Government by the surveyor of the teak forests at Maul.
mein, and that some specimens of the ores have reached
Calcutta. It is well known that large quantities of silver
are imported from the Burmese territories, but the exact
localities in which this precious metal is worked have
never, we believe. been ascertained. It is therefore by no
means imprubahle that a workable mine may have been
discovered within the British provinces. It could not
have happened at abetter time. Our supply from China
is apparently exhausted, and unless South America can
replace it, we bid fair to come to an end of our coinage.
A productive silver mine would be a very pretty increase
to the comrnty's revenue. It might make up for a fall in

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

from Kurrachee, dated the 17th ult., describe-the efforts
made there by Sir Charles Napier and the other authori-
ties to afford relief to the sufferers from the cholera.
The number of deaths of Europeans alone as 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
theGorernment of Madras of the Marquis of Tweddale,
who is now at the Neilgherries. The Governor of Bom-
bay, Sir George Arthur, is seriously ill, and !las been con-

sidered unable during the last two months to perform the
duties of his office. It isnot known what line of conduct
he intends to adupt, but complaints are heard of various
matters which remain in abeyance
The fall of rain has be

en 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, JULY 2,184 G

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 100,000 men,
whose supremacy we have hurled to the earth and com-
pelled to hide their shame by a temporary recourse to
se-
elusion 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 Lail 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
gooda, 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.