Sept. 1. The Cheltenham Election Committee On the Motion that the mittee ... ... 761 4. The Cheltenham Election Committee-Motion of Sir Wm. Clay, Cheltenham Election Petition, together with the Proceedings, Official Returns-Motion of Lord G. Bentinck for the Produc- tion of certain Returns relative to the Entries of British West 5. Attendance of Judges at Chambers-Statement of the Attorney The Ayes and the Noes on the Question that Lincoln should stand The Ayes and the Noes on the Question that Bodmin should stand The Ayes and the Noes on the Question that Bolton should stand The Ayes and the Noes in Committee of Supply, on the Ques- tion that the Sum of 4,050l. be granted for certain Works and The Ayes and the Noes in Committee of Supply on Mr. Goul- burn's Amendment to the Vote of 23,1671. for repairing Public The Ayes and the Noes on Mr. Spooner's Amendment to the Vote of 23,1677. for repairing Public Buildings, &c., in Ire- The Ayes and the Noes on Lord J. Russell's Amendment to the Motion of Mr. Newdegate for the Issuing of a New Writ for the Electing of Two Burgesses to serve in Parliament for Derby The Ayes and the Noes on Mr. Anstey's Amendment to the Mo- The Noes on Mr. Osborne's Amendment in Committee of Supply to the Question "That 2,0067. be granted for the Salaries of The Ayes and the Noes on Mr. Hume's Amendment to the Vote of 9,8271. for the Maintenance of the Government of Labuan ... The Noes on Mr. Hamilton's Amendment to the House going into The Noes on Lord G. Bentinck's Motion for Alterations in the The Ayes and the Noes on Mr. Lushington's Amendment in Com- mittee of Supply to the proposed Vote of 6,6697. for the Pay- The Ayes and the Noes on Mr. S. Crawford's Amendment in Committee of Supply to the proposed Vote of 27,8371., for Pro- The Ayes and the Noes on Mr. Osborne's Amendment in Com- mittee of Supply, to the Vote of 20,000l. as proposed for Civil The Ayes and the Noes on Captain Vyse's Amendment to House The Ayes on Mr. C. Pearson's Amendment to add certain words to the First Clause of the Diplomatic Relations with the Court The Ayes on Mr. J. O'Connell's Amendment to add the and Sovereign Pontiff" at the close of the First The Ayes and the Noes on the Question that the Clause 2, as originally proposed, stand part of the Diplomatic Relations with The Ayes and the Noes on Mr. Pearson's Amendment to add certain words to Clause 3 of the Diplomatic Relations with the Court of The Noes on the Question that Clause 3 as originally proposed, stand part of the Diplomatic Relations with the Court of Rome The Ayes and the Noes on Mr. Hume's Amendment to Clause 25 ... The Ayes and the Noes on Lord G. Bentinck's Amendment The Ayes and the Noes on Mr. M. J. O'Connell's Amendment to ... The Ayes and the Noes on Lord G. Bentinck's Amendment to The Ayes and the Noes on Mr. Napier's Amendment to the Second The Ayes and the Noes on Lord G. Bentinck's Amendment to The Ayes and the Noes on Mr. Henley's Amendment to the Sche- ... HANSARD'S FIRST SESSION OF THE FIFTEENTH PARLIAMENT HER MAJESTY QUEEN VICTORIA. SEVENTH AND LAST VOLUME OF THE SESSION. PUBLIC BILLS.-1 London (City) Small Debts; Proclamations on Fines (Court of Common Pleas); Churches; Poor Law Union Charges (No. 2). papers, and from those which have been already presented; and will also justify me in making a very few remarks upon them. Without attempting to discuss the ques- tion whether there really is in this country that excess of population which is sup- posed by some persons to exist, or whe- ther there are still means in its unde- veloped resources of affording employment to our increasing population, I think, at all events, that even those who hold the strongest opinions as to the excess of population in this country, must agree with me that, when we compare the cost ARL GREY: My Lords, pursuant to of emigration to Australia with the number 5a and passed:- Rum Duties; Land Tax Commissioners Names; Windsor Castle and Town Approaches Improve- lay on the table certain papers connected with emigration to the Australian colonies, in continuation of those which, at an early period of the Session, I had the honour of presenting to Parliament by command of Her Majesty. In laying these papers on the table, I trust that the interest which is now so generally felt on the subject of emigration, will be a sufficient excuse for my briefly stating some of the principal shores, it is hardly possible to expect that carried to such an extent as to produce emigration to that quarter can ever be any very perceptible effect upon our popula- emigrants were to be materially increased, this cost would be augmented, as the rate B of freight which is now paid would un-tralia do undoubtedly contribute largely doubtedly rise if many more ships were to furnish additional employment for our wanted for this service. people at home. The emigration to these distant colonies is also of very great service in affording additional employment to our shipping. It is, therefore, an object of the greatest interest to the empire that emigration to Australia should be promoted and encouraged to the utmost possible extent. But the average number of emigrants who left this country during the last seven years has been no less than 122,000; and in the last year the number of emigrants was not less than 258,000. If, then, this great stream of emigration were to be inereased by sending to Australia a number of persons equal even to the average emi- Viewed in this light, and as the means gration of the last seven years, or 122,000 of obtaining the advantages I have now persons a year, the annual expense of this described, rather than of effecting a great addition to the existing emigration would diminution of a population supposed to be not amount to less than 2,500,000l. Now, excessive, emigration to Australia is a when your Lordships remember that even subject which, during the last twenty the large emigration of last year, together years, has certainly not been neglected with the great mortality from famine and by any of the successive Administrations disease that took place in Ireland, have which have in that time existed. It seems failed to produce any marked effect on to me that, in the eagerness to extend those symptoms of excessive population emigration-a feeling which I sharewhich are alleged to exist, it is obviously many persons overlook how much has impossible, looking to our Australian colo- been accomplished; and I am, therefore, nies, that any such great number of emi-anxious to call your Lordships' attention grants can be sent thither as would exer- to a comparison of what our Australian cise any perceptible influence upon the colonies were in the year 1828, with what population at home. But although this is they are at the present time. In looking the case, it is not the less true that Aus- back to this comparatively short period of tralian emigration is of the greatest pos- only twenty years, it is really not a little sible advantage to the empire in general, surprising to see how great a change has as affording a field of enterprise to the been effected by the enterprise, the acmore ardent spirits of the mother country, tivity, and the energy of the people of this who, in the present peaceful times, cannot country, settling in those distant regions. find a suitable career at home; and, also, In the year 1828, the only colonies we ocas creating and increasing thriving com- cupied in that quarter of the globe, were munities in that part of the world, with New South Wales, and Van Diemen's which our manufacturers carry on a large Land. New South Wales was then conand lucrative trade. Our trade with the fined to what were called the Nineteen Australian colonies is one of the most im- Counties. These counties occupied an exportant we possess. The labouring popu- tent of about 300 miles in length, along lation, whom we send out to Australia, are the coast, with an average breadth of chiefly employed in producing raw mate- about 200 miles. In Van Diemen's rials, which we use in our manufactures, Land, the extent of our settlements was and especially in that very important de- very small. The whole population of partment of them, the woollen trade. In both these colonies, in 1828, was estireturn for their produce they take British mated at 53,000, of whom 23,000 were manufactures, and in the same manner convicts, still in a state of servitude; a they pay indirectly for various commo- very large proportion of the free inhabitdities, and more particularly for the tea ants having originally proceeded to the and sugar which they consume, thus creat-colonies as convicts. New South Wales, ing an additional trade between this country and China, since it is well known that the consumption of British manufactures in China is limited only by the means of payment which the Chinese possess, and that the very large quantity of tea consumed in Australia, is paid for by British manufactures, for which the return is received by us principally in wool. The consequence is, that those who go to Aus including Moreton Bay and Port Philip, now extends 1,000 miles in length, by 300 miles in breadth. Much of this territory is occupied only pastorally; but still it is occupied, and advantageously, the whole area it includes being about three and a half times as large as the area of Great Britain. The coast line from Moreton Bay to South Australia, is 1,500 miles long, being about the length of the |