home, that sir Edward merited the thanks, not only of India, but of the whole British empire; and he particularly extolled the good feeling manifested by this distinguished commander, in going before the troops, in front of their line, under arms, and asking them with the utmost earnestness and anxiety, to return to their obedience. When, he at length found that his remonstrances were vain, he performed the sad duty which remained to him, like a man, whose determination was equal to his humanity.

ceived as the most degrading terms of reproach. For instance, he "God damned their eyes," and every thing else. He pulled off his coat, tore open his waistcoat, and, baring his bosom, bad them shoot him, and otherwise deported himself in such a manner, as to make the sepoys think him of unsound mind. The hon. gentleman concluded by disclaiming the notion of intending any personal disrespect to sir Edward Paget by this motion; and animadverted on the utter irrelevancy of all the eulogies which had been passed on that eminent officer, to the objects of the present motion.

The House divided: For the motion 44; Against it 176: Majority against the

List of the Minority.

Althorp, lord
Baring, W. B.
Bernard, Ralph
Brougham, Jas.
Buxton, T. Fowell
Cradock, col.
Dawson, Alex.
Dundas, hon. T.
Dundas, hon. sir R.
Dundas, hon. G. L.
Forbes, sir C.
Easthope, J.
Forbes, J.
Gordon, R.
Grattan, H.
Grattan, J.
Harvey, D. W.
Heathcote, R. E.
Hobhouse, J. C.
Honywood, W. P.
Hutchinson, H. (Cork)
Jephson, C. D.
King, hon. R.

Lamb, hon. G.
Lombe, E.
Lumley, J. S.
Lushington, Dr.

Maberly, J.

Maberly, W. L.
Monck, J. B.
Nugent, lord

Ponsonby, hon. G.

Rowley, sir W.
Smith, John
Stewart, John

Sykes, D.
Taylor, M. A.
Tennyson, C.

Warburton, H.

Webbe, col.
Wells, John
Western, C. C.
Wood, ald.

Mr. Hume, in reply, contended, that the right hon. gentleman himself, with a degree of candour for which he was bound to thank him, had, in fact, admitted the whole of the case, with one or two excep-motion 132. tions that were of little moment; for he admitted, that the evils complained of by the native troops, as to the deficiency of beasts, and other means of transport and accommodation, had existed, and that they had since been remedied. He was very glad to hear this assurance; but the admission with which it was coupled sanctioned the principle of the motion now before the House. In stating the loss of human life, however, on this melancholy occasion, at only one hundred and sixty, the right hon. gentleman greatly underrated the extent of the calamity, for he did not include the one hundred and fifty natives who perished in their attempt to escape over the river, and were shot at like so many wild fowl. As to those who had been described as the great fomenters of the discontents, and the necessity of whose removal had been, in some sort, made the excuse for the attack upon the sepoys, it was notorious that they lived in line with the rest of the native troops; and might, at any moment, have been all of them seized and executed, if their destruction was thought essential to the preservation of our influence and power in Mr. Hume said, he could not allow this India. But our own troops and officers bill to pass without again raising his voice had, by their acts, increased the discon-against it, and declaring the grant to be a tent and resentment of the sepoys; who did, however, manifest, in return for what they felt as insults and injuries, the most extraordinary forbearance. Among other instances of this forbearance on their part, was the case of colonel Dalzel. That officer, who did not understand a word of Hindostanee, in the irritation of the moment, reviled and abused them, and addressed to them epithets, which among our own soldiers and sailors would be re

GRANT TO THE

TELLERS.

Davies, col.
Hume, Joseph

HIESS

DUKE AND Duc the or CLARENCE.] On the order of day, for the third reading of the Duke and Duchess of Clarence's Annuity Bill,

profligate waste of the public money, and that it placed his royal highness in a most degrading situation. However, he would not press the question to a division, as he had on a former occasion experienced its inutility.

Mr. D. W. Harvey said, that he had divided against this grant on every occasion, but not on either of the grounds which had been advanced by his honourable friends. Those who might be termed the

the bill, it did not take from the grace of the measure thus to persist in opposition to a measure which, however objectionable, was not so important as to require an hostility so persevering. If his noble friend determined to divide the House, he should decline voting with him.

Lord Rancliffe expressed his disinclination to trouble the House unnecessarily, or to do any thing that might be considered ungracious. He would therefore not press his opposition to the measure to a division.

The bill was then read a third time and passed.

SALMON FISHERIES BILL.] Mr. Kennedy moved for leave to bring in a bill to regulate the Salmon Fisheries of the United Kingdom. He proposed to allow ample time for filling up the blanks; so that all parties likely to be interested in, or affected by, the bill, might be in possession of its details.

party tacticians on his side, opposed the grant, not because it was too large, but because the duke of Clarence was not the heir apparent to the throne. Now, when he looked at the proximity of that illustrious individual to the throne, and that it was scarcely possible that any child of the present king would interpose, he thought the objection on that ground untenable and ungracious. If the duke of Clarence would really be intitled to it, were he actually the heir apparent, for one he should say, let him have it, although in law he was only heir presumptive. Nor could he oppose it on account of the peculiar distress of the country, for he did not believe that the people of England would derive any comfort for their own wretchedness, by stripping the Crown of its due splendor. But he opposed it on the broad principle, that the general financial affairs of this country required a speedy, sincere, and effectual supervision, with a view to a real and unsparing system of retrenchment and economy. And where, he would ask, could the House begin this good work so effectually, not only as being an expensive part of our establishment, but still more from the value of the example, as with the Civil List? For one, he liked to begin in high places, and he despised the contemptible policy of lopping off a few pence from unpatronised clerks, leaving the over-grown, over-fed, and over-paid consumers of the public money to remain unmolested. The same motives which had influenced him in opposing any addi-isting law, was a prohibited article. tional grant to the duke of Clarence, would cheerfully induce him to cut down very considerably the incomes now allotted to the other branches of the royal family.

Mr. Pallmer supported the bill. He thought it must be satisfactory to those who supported the grant to know that the illustrious personages who were the objects of it, exhibited a pattern of domestic virtue and hospitality.

Lord Rancliffe said, he was so averse to the grant, that he would take the sense of the House upon this the last stage of

the measure.

Lord Althorp said, he had opposed the vote in the first instance, but had abstained from taking a part in the discussion since that period. He put it to his noble friend whether, as it was evident, the majority of the House was favourable to

Mr. Warburton said, that a former report on this subject had assigned, as one of the causes of the diminution in the breed of fish, that the rivers of England were fished too hard; and it was suggested, that water-bailiffs should be appointed for their better superintendence and protection. Now, to him it appeared, that a much more eligible mode might be hit upon for increasing the supply of this fish, than the adoption of any new system of Game-laws, as he was tempted to call this proposal. Fresh salmon, under the ex

Perhaps the gentlemen of Scotland who possessed salmon wears and fisheries could explain how this had happened. Turbot and lobsters might be freely imported; but not so salmon. Now, when his hon. friend's bill should be brought in, he meant to contend for a free trade in salmon.

Sir R. Fergusson was convinced that his hon. friend could not have read the bill; the object of which was, to open the salmon fishery of this country, which, by the present law, was closed. The aim of his hon. friend's bill was to increase the breed by diminishing the period within which salmon might be taken.

Mr. G. Lamb hoped that sufficient time would be allowed to transmit copies of the bill to all the proprietors of these fisheries throughout the United Kingdom. The original report he had read; and he ap

time themselves in the society of that
fish.

prehended that some knowledge of natural
history would be indispensable to the due
discussion of the present bill. How far Mr. Home Drummond had no objection
the hon. gentlemen who might form the to the bill being introduced, but he begged
committee upon it would be prepared with to forewarn the hon. member for Ayr, that,
this species of information, he could not if his information as to the nature of some
anticipate; but he well remembered, that of its clauses was correct, the measure
his impression was, upon perusing the re- would be considered, by the owners of
port in question, which entered very salmon wears in Scotland, as a mere at-
largely into all the details of the breeding, tempt to take money out of the pockets
habits, and peculiarities of the salmon, of one set of proprietors, in order to de-
that the gentlemen by whom it was pre-posit it in the pockets of another set.
pared must have passed a considerable Leave was given to bring in the bill.

INDEX

TO VOL. XVI.

NEW SERIES.

INDEX TO DEBATES IN THE HOUSE OF LORDS.

Address on the King's Speech at the Opening of King's Speech on Opening the Session, 9
the Session, 11

Catholic Emancipation, 146, 405, 456, 600, 646,
820, 1013, 1082, 1218, 1281

Corn Laws, 145, 164, 220, 404, 599, 624, 1020,
1154, 1293

INDEX TO DEBATES IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS.

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King's Message respecting Portugal, 334, 350, | Private Bills; Resolutions respecting Commit→

INDEX OF NAMES-HOUSE OF LORDS.

King, Lord, 15, 145, 164, 170, 220, 600, 626, Teynham, Lord, 600, 689
627, 628, 649, 820, 1013, 1291, 1298

Lansdown, Marquis of, 167, 170, 317, 348, 628, Wharncliffe, Lord, 680, 1286, 1293
691, 1017, 1020, 1082, 1224, 1283

INDEX OF NAMES-HOUSE OF COMMONS.