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Standing the sultry state of the weather. The canes are 
said to present a luxurious appearance, while the agricul- 
tural population were working with the greatest activity 
in carrying out the operations of the fields. The repre- 
sentatives of the Legislative Council of Barbadoes, sym- 
pathising with their fellow colonists of the neighbouring, A 
islands, who have suffered by the earthquake, prayed the 
Governor to make a grant from the public treasury for 
their relief; and, in compliance, a sum of 15,000 dollars 
was voted by them, to be applied in such proportion and 
in such manner amongst the sufferers in the neighbouring 
islands as his Excellency and the Council may see fit.— 
From Trinidad we have accounts of the continuance of 
emigration from the shores of Africa, to supply the wants 
of the colonists with labour. The Kroomen were the 
class of people mostly engaged. A fire had occurred on 
the Matilda estate, supposed to be the work of an incen- 
diary: It is remarked that the crime of arson is much on 
the increase, and that the local authorities do not exercise 
proper vigilance for its suppression. The Tay does not 
appear to be the bearer of more recent accounts from 
Guadaloupe than have already reached us from France, 
nor of anything new from Cuba since the conflagration at 
Port-au-Prince, on the 9th January. A Court-martial has 
been held upon the Hon. Captain Elliot, of the Spartan 
frigate, for inflicting corporal punishment on Mr. Delacy 
M. Gleig, a midshipman of that vessel. The court found 
Capt. Elliot guilty of the charges alleging the infliction 
of corporal punishment; but in consideration of the 
very high testimonials as to character and conduct ad- 
duced by the prisoner—the extraordinary and parental 
anxiety manifested on all occasions for the well-doing and 
general instruction of all the young men on board his 
ship, and particularly of Mr. Gleig himself—and also 
looking at the nature of the punishment complained of, 
the circumstances under which it was inflicted, the feeling 
which dictated it and which animated the prisoner towards 
all under his command, as proved in evidence, the court 
decided that the authority and the rules and regulations 
of her Majesty’s service, and the dignity of the law, as 
applicable to an infringement of them, will be fully vin- 
dicated and upheld by merely adjudging that the prisoner 
be severely reprimanded. Upon Captain Blliot’s return 
to ,his own ship, the crew received him with loud and 
continued cheering, which was heard on board every ship 
in harbour and in Port Royal.—An extraordinary phe- 
nomenon was observed from the Tay to the W. and SSW. 
during the homeward passage on the 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 
10th, 14th, 15th, and 17th inst. In appearance it was 
like a bright sunbeam, resembling in shape a comet’s 
tail, but more parallel, the altitude of the upper limb 
being about 32 degrees, and terminating downward about 
8 degrees above the horizon in an oblique direction ; it 
was generally visible from half-past six until nine in the 
evening. This is, no doubt, the comet we have noticed 
under our Miscellaneous article. Among the 
the King’s sworn Judges, administering justice and the law 
according to their oaths, it was precisely that testimony, that 
authority, that opinion of such a person as Lord Campbell on the 
present occasion—namely, the advocate in 
origin of the fabrication was this: he (Lord Brovcnam) having 
expressed in their Lordships’ House on a late occasion his sup- 
position that Lord Lynedoch was a member of the Anti-Corn- 
Law Leagu 
hostile message had been sent/by Lord Lynedoch, and’that the 
retractation which he (Lord Brovcnam) was to make was the 
consequence of that message. This paragraph, than which no- 
thing would be more ridiculous as well as false, had been copied 
by all the London and other newspapers. He concluded by an- 
nouncing that he was engaged tracing out the author of this 
slander, and that it was his fixed determination to bring him to 
the bar of that House. 
The Duke of WetuineTon, in reply to Lord Beaumont, said 
that it was the intention of Government to bring in a bill to give 
effect to the Act of the Canadian Legislature, with respect to the 
introduction of American grain, through Canada, at a fixed duty 
of 3s., and into this country as Colonial produce. 
, Thursday.—The Sudbury Disfranchisement Bill was read a first 
ime; a committee was appointed to arrange and control the 
future proceedings, and it was ordered that one set of counsel 
only should be heard on each side, for and against the dis- 
franchisement of the borough. 
‘riday.—' UGHAM gave notice that he would lay on 
the table his Bill for the suppression of the slave tradeon Mon- 
lay or Tuesday week, move the second reading after 
Easter.—Lord Campsxty brought in a Bill to effect, by means of 
a short and simple form, the conveyance of freehold property, in 
lieu of the present lengthy and verbose form of lease and release. 
It wasread a first time.—On the motion of Lord WHARNCLIFFE 
the Coroners Bill was read a third time and passed. 
HOUSE OF COMMONS. 
Monday.—On the motion for going into a committee of supply, 
Mr. T. Duncompx adverted to the treatment of the Chartist pri- 
soners in Knutsford Gaol i 
tention to lay the report of the prison inspector on the table of 
control over the ap- 
pointment or removal of the chaplains of gaols, which was vested 
it Mr. Witirams asked why the rate of in- 
by the Tay were a black prince and princess, the Prince 
Louis Napoleon Christophe, of St. Domingo, brother of 
Christophe, King of Hayti, and his wife. ‘They had been 
visiting the West India Islands for pleasure, and have 
come to England in the same pursuit. 
JParliament. 
HOUSE OF LORDS. 
Monday.—Lord Denman called the attention of the House to a 
Paragraph he had read in the Morning Chronicle of Thursday last, 
in what professed to be the report of a speech delivered the pre. 
ceding evening by Sir T. Wilde in the House of Commons. In 
that speech he, the learned Chief Justice of England, found him- 
Self accused of having declared from the Bench “that licentious 
dication of his own character, and of the administration of justice, 
in giving such an accusation the most unqualifi 
He had ne 
tockdale vy. Hansard, was 
‘im, as reported by Adolphus 
and Ellis, were, “that whether the book found in the possession 
Of a prisoner in Newgate were obscene or decent could have no in- 
fluence in determining how prisons could best be regulated.” He 
Made no motion on the subject, but contented himself with this 
Yefutation of the calumnious report.—Lord Brouer 
8n additional contradiction of the Chronicle’s report in the shape 
Scruples which would have restrained him at the time when that 
Ju 
that house.—Lord Camr: at the | f 1841, 
greed to by their Lordships, and which recited in its preamble 
that the powe) i iri 
ford Anivarr doubted Lord Campbell’s fact, for he knew the 
iNdgment.—Lord De 
Heal ery of the supporters of the. House 0! at t 
te the bill was passing, was that, by the mere act of bringing 
Such a bill the House of Commons was surrendering the pri- 
rs ge it had been contending for.—The Duke of WELLINGTON 
“ferred to the statement of Lord Campbell, that the act of Parlia- 
i it was ictory to, or i with, the judgment of 
i Court of Queen’s Bench.  Hejwished to state that it was the 
i rd Chief Justice who supported and pressed that bill when laid 
Cfo; ips, and who prevailed upon the House to 
th; measure. He knew he could answer for one whom 
~8t noble and learned Lord persuaded to vote for that measure 
thatmely, him: He yoted for that measure in consequence of 
thay Peech of the Lord Chief Justice, who would not have urged 
t bill if it had been so entirely inconsistent with the judgment 
€ Court of Queen’s Bench.—Lord Brovenam said that if 
ordne Were any authority lighter than a feather in the balance, in 
to counteryail the great, grave, and venerable judgment of 
Commons at th 
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terest on Exchequer bills was not reduced, seeing the current 
rate for money in the market was not more than one per cent.— 
The CHANCELLOR of the ExcuEquer replied, that the rate on 
public securities could not be arranged with reference to the 
fluctuating and temporary rate in the market. 
¥ ouse having formed itself into a committee of supply, 
a vote was taken of 18,182,000/. to defray Exchequer bills.— 
The votes for the commissariat raised some debate, Mr. HumE 
WILLIAMS objecting to the extravagant scale of our 
military establishments.—Sir REL, Mr, BERNAL, and other 
mbers argued that these establishments were reduced to as 
arate as was compatible with due relief to regiments serv- 
ing abroad, and to the effective protection of our colonial em- 
pire.—Mr. Hume and Mr. WiLt1AMs having urged the postpone- 
ment of the civil contingencies, on account of not having had 
time to consider the amount and nature of the votes, Sir. R, 
PEEL assented, remarking, in reply to 
complained of the rapid manner in which the entire estimates 
were hurried forward, that it was no wonder, seeing that the 
Government had taken the House by surprise at the extent of 
the reductions which they had been enabled to effect, and 
thereby commanded universal acquiescence. House then 
he Government. 
The 
sioners, 5 Featherstonhaugh, had 
laboriously discharged their duty, and ascertained that 
the line claimed by this country conformed with the 
conditions of the treaty, while the American line did not. 
had not, indeed, the additional evidence in their possession of 
the map marked by the ‘strong red line;”” but the American 
Government were aware of this corroboration of the justice of 
our claims. Instead, then, of resting on our case, and conduct- 
ing it through the ordinary intervention of our ambassador at 
ashington, a special mission was resorted to, which in itself 
was disadvantageous, because a functionary so going out with 
pomp and parade would have the natural reluctance to return 
empty-handed. The individual selected was an additional im- 
portant consideration. He spoke with all respect of Lord Ash- 
burton, whose public character and private virtues commanded 
the esteem of all; but he laboured under special disadvantages, 
arising from his connexion with 
**squeezable material.” 
ton should have frankly taken his ground; the negotiation had 
been based on the concession of mutual equivalents ; and if Mr. 
Webster had insisted on drawing the boundary line to the St. 
Francis, So as to secure this territory north of the St. John, there 
were various important considerations which Lord Ashburton 
might have bargained for it. ‘ime the negotiation 
had been brought to this point, all these advantages had 
given up; they were gone; Lor 
d coolly picked it up, with a profusion of thanks, bat as 
i concession in exchange for advantages 
The military road from Quebec to St. 
secured ; but the concession of the navigation 
of the St. John brought the Americans, in time of war, close to 
it. After referring to other points in the boundary, the noble 
lord proceeded to that portion of the treaty which relates to the 
slave-trade, expressed his conviction that since the accession of 
the present Government to office we had made a retrograde step 
with respect to this great question, and gave a sketch of the pro- 
ceedings connected with the refusal of the French Government 
to sign the Right of Search Treaty—a circumstance of which the 
i at Paris, in 
order to raise more difficulties in the way. 
Aberdeen to the Admiralty, with respect to the burning of the 
d been ii 
slave barracoons on the coast of Africa, another dis- 
untry. He concluded with commenting on the 
imprudent conduct of Lord Ashburton, at the dinner given to 
him in Boston, when he termed it the “cradle of American 
liberty ;’? and though he could not suppose that a treaty so deli- 
berately settled should not be ratified, hoped that this sur- 
render of our rights to the Americans would not have the effect 
of indisposing them to equitable arrangements hereafter. 
Sir R. Peer said that Lord Palmerston had occupied upwards 
of three hours in attacking a treaty and its negotiator, though 
he had been ten years in office without being able to effect any 
settlement of the dispute. The noble lord shrunk from the more 
manly course of impeaching the treaty or its authors by a specific 
resolution, and contented himself with moving 
h 
Lord Palmerston 
e conclusion of the 
e noble lord himself whose policy 
had prevented the conclusion of that treaty. With respect to the 
a 
Jaw in 
Tu —Sir T. Wiipx rose to disavow the ions attri- 
buted to him in reference to the Lord Chief Justice, during the 
late debate on the privilege question. The extent of what he had 
said on that occasion was that that noble and learned person had 
held that whether licentious books were o: 
Sir I. 
Wipe pleaded the practice of the other House in his justification, 
Lord PALMERSTON then brought on his motion with reference 
to the Ashburton Boundary Treaty. Various opinions were en- 
tertained respecting this treaty, but nobody thought it an advan- 
tageous bargain; while others, amongst whom he was one, 
thought it deserving of blame; and in entering on its discussion, 
he would disregard the stale 
of wishing to disturb the friendly relations between the 
two countries. War deprecated; he admitted the great 
e of maintaining intimate connexion between na- 
y were independent poli- 
tical communities, having distinct interests, The first dispute 
which arose out of the treaty of 1783, was, which was the St. 
i: ere being several rivers to which that name had been 
given; the next, where were the ‘highlands ?””—the British 
Commissioners finding them south of the St. John, the Ameri- 
cans near it. Lawrence ; and the laying down of the forty- 
fifth parallel of latitude, which excited long-continued dispute, 
the Americans, in order to gain a given territory, contending 
ingeniously for its inati by “ geocentric” latitude, in- 
stead of by astronomical observation. The King of the Nether. 
lands, in making his award, had decided that neither the British 
nor the American lines met the conditions of the treaty of 1783, 
and hechose an intermediate line; and though it was felt that 
this award was very disadvantageous to England, it was never- 
theless submitted to by the British Government. But the Guvern- 
ment of the United States had rejected it, and it was thereupon 
intimated to them that the Government of this country had with - 
had not undertaken to adjust every cause of dispute, because he 
was anxious to confine himself to the one great question, the 
festering sore of half a century, and which had, on the accession 
which promised that in a few months that question would be 
been attempted by the treaty of Ghent: the King of the 
Netherlands, after several years’ consideration, had declared it to 
no obligation to abide by 
to press its acceptance on the United States—a boundary which 
he now thinks would have endangered the security of Canada. 
iy id each appoint a scientific man to arrange an 
arbitration, while Mr. Fox, the British Minister at Washington, 
