Among a variety of subjects of a less immediate interest
at home, was a motion, whose object is guessed rather than known, by Mr. VERNON SMITH, for a non-existent paper about the migra- tion of Hill Coolies from India to Mauritius. Some time ago, Lord Jomq Miasasa. would have permitted that migration, but he was pre- vented, and one of his most formidable opponents was Sir JAMES GRAHAM. Now, Sir JAMES'S colleague and alter idem, Lord STANLEY, gives the permission. The migration is shown to be in every re- spect advisable,-benefiting the Coolies, the planters of Mauritius, that colony generally, and the sugar-consumers of England ; and Lord Anermann thinks that the benefit will be reflected to India in an improvement of the working-class. But all those reasons failed when Lord Jolla RUSSELL was not allowed to do what Lord STANLEY has done. Had Mr. SMITH confined his speech to say- ing as much, it would have been a proper exercise of the Parlia- mentary privilege ; but much of it wears an air of special-pleading, for the purpose of throwing discredit on a measure which he ad- mits to be necessary and does not prove to be faulty in construc- tion. The measure promises as well as most untried experiments : the trickery and shuffling of the statesmen who wrangle over it are disgusting ; but most so is the officious cavilling of Mr. VERNON SMITH, who decries the wares of the rival "concern," though they are the same that were in his own master's window, with all the effrontery of an envious shop-boy.
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