The Express. — London, England, 1856-02-19 00:00:00

r i IMPERIAL P. NEW MEMBER. HOUSE OF LORDS.-MONDAY. Fn. 18. COMMITTEE OF PRIVILEGES. There lordships ateemb'cd at two o'clock for the purpose of ea s u n iunis cosaideriog the copy of the lgtten parent payortiog to erects the Rigt t Don. Sir J. Pork., Knight. a Baron of 'h. Coked Kingdom for life (preeented to the house oo M ~ day, tle 4.b inet ), and to report thereon to the boat. Toe LORD CHANCELLOR informed their lordships that be had received • I from Lori Wensleydale, in which he declined t, appear by counsel before the committee of privJesee. Lird CAMPBELL @armed his gratification that the noble bar n dad nor, is his letter, deny theist:imitator' of *ha hoese to inquire into this matter. Earl GRANVILLE said a for with which could act be beard In the gallery. Earl GREY sunested that the letter should be rad is ezteNte. The LORD CHANCELLOR accordingly reed the letter, which rea a follows: " Aropthill, Feb. 16, 15.56. "My deer I,, , r.lChincellor,—l have the honour to a • knowledge the rec•ipt of as order of their lordship' hoses c f Vas 12'h i•••., g tiag me nasty to be beard by issue!, if I think ft, en Modday seat, before tic Committer of Pri vileges to tams it is referred to ezamice end Imelda • eqy of the letters patent purportiog to create me • bora for gift. I seal thank your lordship to state fur me that I do cline to appear by costal before the isosamittee." Lord CAMPBELL aid that nothing could be sure be coming and nepechl tl an tat saner of the noble and loaned ba•oa. He cosfaied that be expected it would be different, a his stable red learned friend on • former caw am said that Lord Wensleydale would probably not appear before their lordships, as the proceeding was coma now The how thee heard evidemos emaciating the pram- • dents shah had ben 1 and is the ancient ells of parlit meat t &OPE nfer.eee t s the viatica of life peerages. Atter toes diecasetos, the cemmitteo adjourned until ! Friday evenag, when Lord Lysdbont intimated hie is tains, of brig g ee g forward • motion dal:easier • direct IMO Tr pestle,/ the +reality of the Went cosferrlrg a I bans, gut life oa Lo•d Weseleydale. The h mega ti.on ...jousted f r an bar. On a somas at five o'c °A, the alloppoistisg • Minh- terof Public Instruction under the title of Vim-Preadost of tbe Commutes cf Connell ea Education, was Fogad through umlaute, altar • brief and miscellaneous nova- ^ T►e floss+ of Commons ()Men Bill, sad the Metropoli tan Polk* Bill, .lso mpeetivily west through committee. T►eir lordships nosily a j Aimed at tea minutes to eta o'clock. HOUSE OF COHMONS.—MoNDAT, Fax 18. Mt 3 t,ok tbo chair at Ass tomato to 4 o'e!ock. Y•. ADAM Brace Kok the estu sad hie meet fat the city of Edinburgh. _ PRIVATE BUSINESS._ SICOND RiA,7;l;oll l 3oitive ..... - 6;17 — Charley Water; Crystal Pal , cs Compasy ; Driffield Barisal on ; Flee'- wool. I. Frivol, sad West Ilidirs husistion Railway; Osanabotosph Ga. ; Haallandes and Rawtesatall Water ; Bonitos sod Sidmonth Rad ; Inverness sad Aberdsea inaction Railway ; Leads 'armament Leta itiamiclaseat ; Leeds Water; Liadoade try and Enniskillas Railway; Metseriolitas Railway; Midland Railway; Milford Jaar ilea Railway ; Norfolk Railway ; Peorith and Cooker moots Wads ; Wit'lerkasa and Barsky Moor Road ; Fe er lseronsii Water ; Strlies sad Deaf. saline Railway; Vale a Clwyd Railway ; Wakefield Gas ; Wins.; Vatey Rail way; Bill.. PUBLIC BUSINESS. NOTICES OF MOTION. Coat H•110V117.111A001111:;;;I; MI) day after liester, tontine that it would to of material service to the public Iztote t that measures striald be token t 2 develop ttor adiaatageo poeweeed by Cork Hersocrar, sad reader it available lot usual parpcites by the amain of a dockyard sad rein factory. OATE or ASJUSATTOW.-31P. M. OISSON, OS Friday nest, t t wove for a eosatittee of the whr la house, with TAW to briag is a bill to r.tveal the o.th of oldoratica. AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS. Hr. LtralliNaTol askedtite Vie -President of the Hoard rt Trade, wh the? ft was the intention of the govern meat to br.eg in a bi I for the purpose of remiss Is tieffeet the reeelstions of the eoeariuee of the House of Lords of lest metes ea &arks:tarsi statistics f_ Mr. LOWE said a bin had bees prepared is accord's*, with the ftt o nmendst n date comet tote, and the Prod dent of the Board of Trade wools very Acidly introduce it In another plot,. - THE ATTACK ON THE REDAN. Kr. LAYARD asked Use Umlet-Sower, for War wby the list • f °Stows recommended by °astral Btew son for proa o too tor di/tioguiehed services io the a t ck /so the Rohm on , h• 8:h et 8.-ttmber, alluded hits toe Onzeft• of Vie sth of 0. Ober loot, bad cot yet been published; and whether it wee the iateetioa eV the Secretary of Etats for War to pabliat that document ? Dlr. F. PEEL had mot beta site to answer the questiou os Friday become no notice bed bees give, of it. H. bad Mate mode inqu.r.or and steers tied that alma it Meuse knows in this toon;z1 ti at the siege bad terminated, sad that Sehestot o! was takes, Lai Huallaga wrote to Bonged &opals requesting hies to wed s list elegem when be wield recommend for Brevet reek, Welted* these who bid dinfonnietted timmetelves la the stack es the Bede., sad elm thane wit, boa the begMaing of the siege to its elms bed teen ma•picsoue for stet sad pallseiri. It was to espettatilli of receiving each • r. tern that the oat* was oppeaded to the despettb. No am, however, bed bees resalud. Omni &ammo Web • &defeat course from that espeeted, sad sect home le Lord Harding, all the re Imes be bad received fun the stad, from the heats of de the ger eral ° ,o Nene matudiag divisions, sad =MP 'clamshellsg regiments, of the dames of those fitery doseght deeerviag t r be bravest trader hi. *Wee. .10011111 Sim pas de ens. d t / ask. say *McCort, bet seat Ile Wt boom tow Lord Herdinge's 1116111011, that he might oast them he tbomiltt daserfing of Brevet rub. The m ask arse the Brevet el the 2ed of November. It wu wet' Maall to pettlieh UMW lists; they were preserved I. Lord ihrediege's c Ws, sad mild be refuted to whoa the od vaa . Ur id awy_elbreir wad ammaid. LATABLI regesowd Moquettes, whether the list et elms who had dlstisgoblval themselves is the attack ea the Nedue would tot be sialittlted ? Mr. F. PEEL sold Omerel Simian staled that he bad se ether list. TO THE STAFF. Yr. EWART as - 17tdtb; lierierßeW•74 for War whether soy stereorrs were is the eosteeplatros of ihe so serenest for the 'Sties* Mores of the staff of the British army, so is to make it • useless of tie best sod mot iotal. Epee ellltors than( sebo 'ball retain (bolt appointamats as tie erseawd of Emit oaly. Mr. F. PEEL said it was la watesplatioa to establish sane test of too wit of *Mews before phone them ea the star. CIVIL SERVICE EXAMINATIONS. _ Lotd 166111 the it shwas! if any report bat been reserved Iron the Civil &Irvin Eximisatios Cemesiesio• giving • as tailed mess= et their pro/tether sines their a .poiatareat; aid if scs, whetber there woad be say objettsos to lip it Won the Uwe? The CHANCELLOR et the EXCHEQUER replied tart the Chi Sures Co vadrineees were peetaetei mitt e tepees, s ei lobes ,t was reedy, It world be pneestett to the Muse ie dee aerie. COURT OF CHANCERY (IRELAND) BILL Oa the a ri.r for the second reading el this bill, Ifr. 8 FITZGERALD role, sad havieg pretested a petition against the smuts fr in the Law Society of Dal ha, proceeded, pursmat I. setts►, te non that it be reed anemia time that day ems maths. The nsuare pro posed to abolish the leastabend Esta•raCCIIIIL At igen the wimple of die bill seem soubd sr fall apes the essimptiea that the hewn uould It r niter I. pr. pared ta mantes such a step ; sad te his saint this was a sanantat num why they 'be g in rget've the ssesed rearbag. At the sane tine ►- W so wale to see the Imenthered Estates Court remain nanforneed, en wee he in the least averse to a Wars of the I.sh Court of Clantery ; hut Mee this bia went the length of eche' lag the Ismer, he aunt withheld his support Inn dune previsions which were inteeded t Peoria the letter. Mr. P. URQUHART soossioni the .albs. Hobolisval Mot , ha letnuntered Saws Coon ►ed boon (Atka treetoot orris@ to t►. ecoostry at du time of the lAN hialso; and tom Om lea,Mehl tequila w►rch ►ad at that time asd Glare tbos sennrd frms i., h. fe.t In oloorting tbs• bed that wort bits riotously is esisteac . that trials woodd Writ kayo ►.ppeotd. Mr. DEASY thought tits 111,&411111 ►else the hose/ etts►t ar. e•ise it support. •. cots w►ieh would Frame the fuss trsesfer et laid is Inked. _ _ Mr.. - Mr. CAIRNS entreated the haw sot lo be led away, by &Voris, d.sertpuo )4 el the reformed Court et Mutant, !a Isebail. to abolueb thy Ineenbered Ewa es Quirt with had W eaeb bemette al repel ale the smoky. He .hould W eise that the juror/antes of Mee met Stoma ha 'steadied to satenswberee es ate. Mr ILLICB . YON who lied takes a part with the Metter of tee Botts is fressiew Vie losembeted Emus Act, twat that opporterity of wino% the Mete we fa WI atol h a ierioditthe whisk bed bees to beaelkud to Indeed. (Hta., aid no.) He ebeeld hesitate each be ton he rirwiead bori,-rat from a eau.l shish had elves each satire estiefartiin No sempiskts had ben mode of the wan, while it had Marveled el as lestesse mesas of ovep-rty I. a oetefuto-y maaster. (" Me. tie," Iris Mr. W hitteide.) ltd tooter dine sight Ise. bees assatiallict try to • mall el r ty, but se•deseral rail It met the moire sett of public opisios is Zaplaad sad bellied. Mahout IWO lei ti'e roenad readies .1 the pv....t bill, he (Mr. Ellie ) would watch with it at jealosey arty at es pt l. espereed• as .et • bids he had himself dromply supported, end •h.et had 'lia the p•rio I at whisk it booms law: worked v20,4;807 well la Zr. laid. Mr. WHITRSIbE laid ►e wsel• pasdkaseat with N . p et to th e NH, th 4 he believed it to be impaseible of eatiesties thrash the =odium of the Comet Of Ctaaory an formed, nr ',form d as w, • erseesed by this bid. Bite. ON lan time hr Lai uterwed the h..= he had been is Ire. ad, sad tonna it to be the *plaids ei th e 't w o h e m pecf Was I. that c noir, that t►e wlikta of t►e ►iii would be impessible There were still 1,600 estates, vaned at intent or smitten millions of money, remaining for adjudication is the Iscambered Estates Court, and three WI , lions of money to be distributed, showing that there was a great dell of difference between the npid Gel, of rroperty and the pr Jper distribution of the proceeds afterwards. He believed that although the court hat effected sales with rut rapidity, the distribution of the fends would sot give entire satistection. It was the opinion of the whole bar that the Court of Chancery could not dispel* of them ar ; the attorneys %hawk* the tame; and be bad a letter from the Master of the Rolle, esprereing a similar opinion. The /da‘ter jointed out that the bill proposed to do with four jadgee the amount of work now done by nine, with the immense amount of arrears in .additioa. _ The Mu'er also said that the business might be dose with the staff proposed, but certainly not if the arrears were to be throws on the new c luta. He ( Hr. Whiteside) ejected to this bill as • job, the object of a ich were to out ad the °Moors of the Court of Chancery end fill their places with the °facers of the locumbered Estate. Court, sad that with that view it was proposed to deprave the judges of the right of nomination, and to lodge it with her Majesty's administrator. Another objection to the bill was tn. want of a iatisfscory court of appeal, cithout whieb, it was toe opision of the whole [nth bar, the bill could never give eatisfretion. He bagged also to point out that one object of the bill was to make the Court of Chimney a great oonveyeaciog machine for the whole of Ireland. Any man poisoned of property might, although owing so money, go oil the Court of Ch.anc iry and get a new title to his property without anyespense, the court traria', at the supine of the c inatry, to do all the ' work of the tionveyancer. If the proposal were perristad in, of referring the bill toe committee cf the whole house, he must give his vote against the second reading. The bill was supported by Mr. Serjeant O'Brien Mr. Bland, Mr. French, and Mr. H. Berbers; and opposid by Mr. George, Colonel DIOS., 411'. H. hi'MShoo, end Mr. After some further remarks from Mr. I. Batt, Sir B. Perry, Mr. Kennedy, end Mr. P. O'Brien. The SOLICITOR•OENEItAL for IRELAND replied to eating. criticisms that had been offered during the de bate, and eonsented to refer his bill to a *elect committee, though ebjectiog to present it in conjunction with Mr. Whtteeide'r nvessarts. Mr. NAPIER said it wee impossible for him to ronseat to the mond reading of this bill, if the "overruns: t refused to allow t►e bile of the hon. and loomed risentb.-r f,, Boole . kill's to go to a Meet eomnsittee. The object of all the bills we. the ruse; it was to secure facility of suitor and security et title in the sale of estates, sad the beet worse for the Iva.. Is adopt would be to refer all these b•be to cue and the /Me Welt committee. At all evens, if the bowie passed this bill to its present shape, the whole question of Owe, ry and latruntbered Estates Reform is Ireland would be brought to a complete deedlook. (lieu, hear.) After a few words fr,m Mr. Banrlncic, Mr. DISRAELI said he thought the hon. and learned &I c.tor-Oecetal woe pursuing an ungracious and anuses eery 10%11 . ** in refusing to allow the bills of the boa. mad leased amber for Bnaiskillen to be referred to a select committee. It was proposed that the hon. and teasel member for Basiskillen should be a member of the Nihon committee to which this till we. to be referred, and, of soarer, if he es thought St, the he.. and learned member toeld c stoat every clans, of the bill I. committee. Now, would It not are time, sad promos the obji et in view, if all the We were referred to the ease committee ? How ever, the quatioa now was, should they read the bill a most t se, with view to referring it to a select commit tee ? He saw to ohj ctioo to that aurae ; and be hoped, therefore, the boas would not be pot to the trouble of a &vision. Mr. 8 FITZGERALD would hot divide if he Gould be ecoovineed that the select committee, to w►om the 614 was to be referred, would have power to extend the period for the existence of the Ineambered Estetn Coot. The SPEAKER mid the bill contained a clause cooties fag the lemmatiered Estates Court for a limited time, sod it would of coarse he oompetant for the emtnit se to eatead the date. — The mandmat was then withdrawn, when the hill wee wad • second time, end ordered to be referred to a idlest emirates. SUPPLY. The report of the armuti - tte - ;c7fiapply was brought up. Upon tea notion that It b• airtel to, in nply to Kr. WILLIAMS . . fir. WILSON etheitted that the customs and island reviews estimates did sot include the whole of the sniper summation ot muses Ha trusted shit the sort rosiest would, with the aid of the house, be enabled is a short time toast the mutter re a leers sat 'factory Irwin,. CHARITABLE USES BILL. The house west 1110 conalttee on this bill. isnif / 70 I ff7ii 115 7 E1: ATRIRTON said the bill fa no wise digressed with the rattly peas areia.t tread, applicable ander the es- M 15% puts which were not for toll value. lel this lured through annesittee ECCLEfitAIiTICAL COMMISSION (ENGLAND). Bir G. GREY moved for a select ens:ohne to inquire into the present omatitution of the Etchnisaticel Commie. Dion for Espland ; into the operation of the Act 13 and 14 1 Via. ' e. 94, Intl slut, An Act to amend the Acts misting to thstCommissim, and of tl o Act 14 nod 16 V:c , e. 104, meti haled An Act to facilitate the Management sad Improve. meat of Episcopal sad Capitals/ Estates in Reread ; sad iota the ezpeheccy of further 'maiming the last set, and of coosolidstl.gs the Church Building Commission with the Bet leeissticel It sae provided by the ant of those seat that the Beeledastieel Commissioners should not set naives tire members of the Church Estates Commis. Dion were presest. The effect of this was to shift the ismer to the smeller body. hams se the Church Rotates Commiseiosers, having only a enema mosevisioa to the I Ecalesiamieel Conmalsolencrs. The mooed sot modernist larger p were es the Church Estate Cosnatistiesen but it cw4ald espies this year; sad he desiredl ttat a oommittets should report to tie house up. on the deeirablity of Its oontirmaner. Its male object was to fseilita e tte entranehiemes.t of emyhold sad other property of a similar asters Wimple* to the eltarch. He thought it would be desirable to resew the set, but some alterations would le his (mini, • be requisite. Another question for the committee to consider would be whether the Cour h Building Commissiea ought cot .o be ineorpe rated with the Church Estate Commission. The hisrquis of BLANDFOBD said that them sets de served moat serious atteatitta, as they had introduced as naively new prime pa into our choral" polity, at bast so La se tie temporalites of the establetmout. He considered that it was the duty of goversamet to pat so haportaat • matter en a clear sad definite for tiog. Mr. WALPOLE gave his satire iseseerreacie to the pro. pool made by Sr 0. Grey. It was meet desiraMe to comm ate sad meths the law as this impir t sat a attar. Mr. HADFIELD thoogtt that there were se many of those sots sad aommiaabats that they stood in melt Mhos way. It was tso that the country should andent.nd what this. s o t. -ore, ma how the law really stand. Mr. IIIOWBEAY upraised his aallotootia• at the ems' worth tb• govoramost Jamul to pans. He awaked the right hat gentleman (Sir G. limp for thee radius. lag Ilse premise which he made in the list MftiOa of par liament. Tea ii•ehitine aro. thin sert•d t.. FORMATION OF PARISHES BILL. Tho folioming members were setsissted as tb. Wait sommiirm is Uns :—Tbs Mania sof Blindford, Vis tas,* Ebriagtoe, Mr. Byre, Mr. Edward Egon m, Mr. Omni Bat. Mr. Olidst me, Mr. Maier, Mr. Mo-bray, Mr. Realism, Mr. Massy Hirt.-t, Sir Sraffrrd Nr rttooto, Mr. Raab*, Lord Jobs Masson, sad Mr. BALM Five to be the quorum; piss to mad for pormar, mom sad remods. PUBLIC PROSECUTORS BILL. The follunrisi nieutten sere somistt-4 a the eeket 'osmium' es this hill :—Mr. Jobs Oe PhtSignore, Mr. Napier, tie Lord Adverts. Mr. Mika, liir• Phalli ft , torsep-Osseral, Mr. Stiletto? Goners' fur Ireland, Me. Walpole, Mi. WiULa Ewart, Lord Sterility, and Mr. Wit OM. J+ ERTURNS ORDERED. Bo maieuxianns (lanamm) —On Om modem a Mr. Omoo•m—itatsra of the amass sad data of appeistmest of all penes temporarily astragal sa super• amennes, dresibtemen, sad dabs, la the TIMM goverameat amass is Inland laving t setabliehmenta,who have basal is methadon ems gms..l fee lin years and upwards; nal rats of pay Framed mesa peens es appeal's= eat, sad the , 1 sambas of yams denies of seek perms' to the let day of Fehnsfi. 1866. menestively ; the Kamm of employment obesada a) mass appelmmeat ; sad all report. as to Me peeral endow mg eilleiney melt person, made by the °Seer de slims miler wham they wen placed ; the fate of pay os he let day ef Februan. ISM; the era eof eels:las of permanent elmks 'upland is tee same Maas t whisk sack plus u ss. re tampwarlly attached. The beam njoarsed at 26 adman past 12. RAILWAY BILLS IN PARLIAMENT. TIN following bills bays been decided upon by the ememiners on Bleeding Orders since tease last reported : INOTON RAILWAY. For CIDALDBC•imII of Ifort. Bleeding orders complied with. Is the COCA of the Aberdeen, Perth, end Fraembargb Jimmies Beltway, end Dewid* sad Alford Valley Railway Emission, the mesas, orders • ere declared sot to hare bees complied with. Is the Belfast Improvinaret Bill there was so asper se.,; sad tee Ceylon Railway sad Leodoe Printing sad rehlielleion Co spas, were pawpawd until the 3rd Marsh. CANNOCK RAILWAY RITUISIONS —Toe eri mated ton of toe c mrraet on of •lesie pr, p teed eateasims, iollodion all emisseer cies, .e 136 0001. LITTON, DONSTABLIN AND WILWYW JONCTION Ems- WAT.—Tbe psrliemeatary deelerstim of this monipasy with referee's to their lassoes and pressed bill kr an alien- Mao of jure os with Leatoa sad North Welters, and for stir r pore o es, sets forth that the expose* of OW pre posalldeviaties will be defrayed Oct of 160,000 L, which they were aetbarised be WSW, and that 161634 f. of that mesa mill remains asexpeoded, sad that alter dedeeting from it all that will be reqe4ed to complete the line, then w 11 remota 46,6341. foe the communist of the detiatios. The New York paper, al the 4th state that the eteasar Black Watrior, whisk left the Haysaa oe the With alt., had bought to t►at putt Mlle. Bache, whose !web% van delicate. BE* would leave at ease (re Llvercool, es het way le Fusee. Clic expreoo. TO CORRESPONDENTS. iihir Wowed kr •The espraus..Lastlis !webs paper, ay met a be peb at die OS" 10. Beeveriealrest, by Tye Vela* es ;be ilsidar EWE WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. TO Dillitibp lb. 1e5..........11/tersoos. lb. K. To-boasow—blarelas, lb. lOa-........Mter5000, 2b. Ma. THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 19, 1856. nominal incomes as farad contributions to the fund. There is Indeed a third class of civil servants, com prising some of the Ministers of the Crown and all the ledges of the Superior and County Courts, who, though entitled to retiring pensions, are in no case called upon to submit to any deduction from their fixed salaries with a view of providing the fund from which such retiring pensions are to be paid. The complaints of that numerous body of Civil Ser vants (two-thirds of the whole) who have been appointed since 1829 are principally these. They say, first, that the rule which subjects them alone to a forced deduction from their nominal rate of official salaries is in principle indefensible; either no public officers who are entitled to superannuation allowances or retiring pensions should be thus called on to con tribute, or all should be called upon alike. They next say that the scale of superannuation allowances, fixed by the Act of 1834, and applicable to all officers appointed since 1829, is far too low: so low as to induce inefficient men to cling to office long after they ought to have retired, greatly to the detriment of the public service. Their third and principal ground of complaint is, that the product of these forced deductions from salary constitutes a fund from which only a very small per centage of those who are compelled to subscribe to it, derive any sort of benefit at all. Dr. FARRE'S cal culation is, that more than 90 per cent. of these who pay deductions never receive any portion of the fund; nor did the CHANCELLOR of the Excnr.. drat, on Friday night, materially shake the soca. racy of this computation. Finally, as may readily be understood, and as the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER indeed acknowledged, the combined Incidence of this forced deduction and of the income tax frequently works great hardship in the very class of cases where all unnecessary pressure should as much as possible be avoided. Genteel " poverty has ills enough of its own to bear, without having those ills increased by any arbitrary act of government interference. As things are at pre sent managed, a government clerk, who rises in the official scale from 1051. to 1101. a-year, actually becomes a loser by his promotion; 6 per cent. is first deducted from his salary for the super annuation fund, thus reducing it to 1041. 10s.; upon this sum the income tax operates, and that with such effect as in the end to leave the victim of promotion a loser of 51.101. a year by the increase of his salary. The cue just stated rests on no less authority than that of her MAJESTY'. CHANCELLOR of the Exenz dude, and was brought forward by him last Friday as an illustration of the justice of this branch of the Civil Service complaints. Such then, in substance, is the case of the "Lower Eleven Thousand." With regard to this case, the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, in his remark. of last Friday, indirectly admitted that the two principal grounds of complaint involved in it were completely unanswerable. He could not deny that a very large percentage indeed of those who have for years been compelled to contribute to this superannuation fund have not the remotest prospect, in the periwig either of themselves or their families, of ever sharing to the extent of a single farthing's worth in its benefits: he not only did not deny, but actually illustrated and enforced, the hardship to which those Civil Servants are subjected whose incomes are just high enough to expose them to the joint operation of the five per cent. super annuation deduction and of the income tax. Well, and what follows P Does the CHANCELLOR of the Excalcitm, in the Bill introduced on Friday night, propose to pat an end to the system of superannuation deductions P No. Does he propose to make soy provision for those eases of admitted hardship connected with the in come tax ? No. Does he propose to put the judges, or those Civil Servants who have entered the service before 1829, on the same footing aa to superannua tion fund deductions with thou who have entered it since P Nothing of the kind. What, then, does he propose P Simply a trifling alteration in the scale of superannuation allowances, as to the nature of which he dose not condescend to enlighten us. It is, however, satisfactory to learn that Sir 0. C. Lams has consented to submit his Bill to the ordeal of a Select Committee, which shall have the power to examine witnesses. In adopting this course he has acted wisely and fairly, and has somewhat revived our hopes. We await the award of the Committee, persuaded that the Eleven Thousand have still a chance of obtaining legislative recognition of the im portance And the justice of their use. We cannot believe that any body of intelligent and impartial inquirers can fail to see the impolicy of inducing the members of the Civil Berens to linger on in office after their fitness for it has ceased, in consequence of the notoriously inadequate scale of those allow ances which the State offers to their debility and their age. We do not think it likely that any satisfactory arguments will be found for establishing the equity of taxing men for the support of a fund, in the benefits of which not above one-third of them can, on any reasonable calculation, ever expect to participate; nor for maintaining the inoppreseiveness of a system under which a Government Clerk, by a nominal increase of salary to the extent of fit., mat actually be a loser to the extent of W. 10a. If the present nominal scale of salaries be too high (es we firmly believe It is not), let it at once be diminished in terms to the amount to which it is in fact reduced by the superannuation deductions : a saving effected in that way for the public, though, in our opinion, Inexpedient, would at least be intelligible. The present system, by a peculiar felicity of mismanagement, combines the somewhat incoogruou disadvantages of effecting • very tetennwm of saving to the public treasury, and creating a no:imams of well-grounded dissatisfaction in more than two-thirds of the whole body of the public servants. de We learn," mays the Mao Beacon, " that them Is ao chime whatever of any cootarratioe of the ponish meat sow andergoimg by Unit resets Hallo t and Most insury, and, Rimiest, that to all probability the commis- MOM of bath vatlones will be sacrificed." The Rued= Grand Duke Nicholas is twenty-ilva rm. of ass, sad the Gaud Duke Michael twsetf•toar. The Russian Garotte do r Academie announces the desists's of Colossi Lake sad Csptsiu Thomplos from Tiflis to ID. Farnham sad the likability of Os octal Wil liams to Maas the former eity by masa of Massa Awarding to the Paris earreepoodeat of Le Nord, Bates 11-ioew met Ceeat Monty et tt e bust of the Prim ula Lions, es the day ears as arrival is Pert " Tee ceavenetiee toted tom time, mad wu very COD fldential." The Russian journals are earnestly discussing the sesissity for the con•toetion eI more railways in the ern " It {scent is," sap wt. wr;tar, "that with railway stommentratien between the Crimea sad the net of the empire, the Analo-Freneh army would nem hem disem barked." --- The cantos of Zurich has just elected a member of the Ezasative Otveracaest. There were three mad'. detee—a Conserves ye, a Socialist, sad a Radical. The lee•-aaesed .61 /2600411. The Second Chamber of the Eitatewaeneral of the NetherUeda hes resolved to epeeist a emulates of five of Its sielabers to squire tato the best mesas of preveatiag the obese of spirits. If, es is maid, the 'igniters* at the Coeferenees weer is alphebetiell order. the erresiteweat wilt be as for con :—Aasteie, Frazee, Great &ha e, Run* Taekey. LONDON, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 19. AT a moment when such evidence is peculiarly valuable, the Commons of England are affording to the world a convincing proof that a popular assembly is not necessarily the mere battle-field of party strife or the arena of self-seeking ambitious. With a moderation equally wise and dignified the represen tative. of the people have agreed by common consent to leave the Crown in the undisturbed exercise of the highest, but most undoubted, of its prerogatives. With vigilant attention, but without useless and irritating interference, the House of Commons awaits the approach of those momentous negotiation. which are to decide for Europe the great issue of peace or war. The House, like the Nation, awaits that issue not indeed without anxiety,bot without distrust. Iu the hands of Lord PALMERSTON the honour of the country, at all events, is felt to be sate; a permanent and honourable peace all wise nations are always ready to welcome ; no nation was ever better pre pared than England new is foe the other alternative of a vigorous and, we believe, en inevitably victorious war. Hitherto the war and the preparations for war, so far from having exhausted, have not diminished by a single throb the vigorous pulsations of the national life. Never, even in seasons of profoundest peace, has England been more sedulously alert to those questions of social reform and internal improve ment, the interest of which proverbially declines when the energies of a people are absorbed in war. Silent loges inter arms is an expression u old as Cicano, for a troth as old as society. But what is the case in England now ? What is the case in the House of Commons, which at this soonest reflects accurately the paramount mood of the national mind? Have "the laws been silent" or the lawyers?—has there bees any inattention or indifference to those admitted evils which Dave for generations tried the patience, and vexed the souls, and burdened the life of a people who have been at ones the wonder of the world for their political free dom and the enigma of the world for their social soomeliesP We are in the 68th year of the nine teenth century, and still suffer the Ecclesiastical Courts to retain that jurisdiction over willa anddivoroe. which they exercised in the days of the mediaeval darkness; we still prefer having our Statute law spread over forty volumes to condensing it into one; we still delight in groping for the oracles of our un written law through the dust and darkness of libra ries which few can purchase and none peruse, in place of having them concentrated into a code the cost of which all pocket could aftird and the meaning of which all intellects could grasp. We, whose chief boast it is that we have freed trade from the fetters of the past, find that we are still subject to that worst form of commercial restriction, which, by placing an insurmountable barrier between the intelligence that wants capital and the capital that wants intelligence, keeps talent poor and wealth unproductive, and has done more to check the social Improvement and free development of the operative classes in this country than any other barbarism which meddlesome lawyers have devised or paternal goverment' enacted. It is greatly to the credit of the Huss of Com. moss that ere the menden is three weeks old all the social abuses jut enumerated have been made the subjects of vehement and, in ocean at least, of roc• onsfal attack. As we cannot suppose that the House of Lords will again allow themselves to be made the organ of the great capitalists, and sacrifice the interests of the millions to the jealous fears of the millionaires, we shall venture to regard the reform of the Law of Partnership and Joint Stock Companies as an accomplished fact. We wish we could feel the same security as to the proposed transfer of Testamentary Junction= from the Ecclesiastical Courts, and the expurgation and classification of the Statute-book. Quits apart, however, from all considerations of the success or nonusecess of any perticnlar measure, the iacressing teadesoy of the House of Commas. to re cognise the high importance of these and other cognate questions, is a source of real and legitimate gratification. Another promising sign of the times is the reforming seal of the lawyers. As long as this powerful body of men were seder the impression that they had an interest separate from that of the public in measures of Law Rehm program in this direction was necessarily hesitating and slow. Alwsys name roes in the Home of Commons, and naturally re garded by non-legal members as the depositaries of a certain systmions knewledge, giving them a pre ternatural foresight of the evils involved in change, the lawyers, until the days of their enlightenment arrived, were inseparable obstacles in the path of improvement. Now all is changed. The result of the law reforms already introduced has convinced the wet sceptical of the professional obstructive. that their interests and those of the public are sub istentielly identical. "With this fear gone, goes all their fear," and we mow use the legal members of the Haan hotly pressing forward, quite irrespective of party distinctions KiLLY and NATI= panting side by side with Ham= and CoLuza—in the now F opolu race of law reform. This is se it should be; mai be eloquest father of all living law reformers told the Huss of Commons just 30 years ago- 0 The course is open before you, the MOO Is glorious to TOO.' That of which HINIT Haotimum in 1828 had bat a sort of Pisgah vision is now in a fairer way of being realised than in any Parliament which has sate in oar time. Let the Home of Commons only coatinue the erasion as they have command it, and we may find the 19c111 and 20th of VICTORIA one of the mat satisfactory volumes in the Statate•book. THE CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER is to move, this evening, that his Civil Service Superannuation Bill be referred to a Select Committer, which is to be empowered to examine witnesses, and to go iato the whole cam of the Civil Servants of the Crown. This case is in substance a very short one. We bare stated its principal points before, but now that there is a prospect of its being thoroughly investigated, we may as well, perhaps, state them again, in order to impress the Committee with a due sense of its Importance. As far as regards the super tioo question, the functionaries in our various public Aloes may be divided iato two classes: those ap pointed before 1829, who receive a higher scale of sap tion a:loneness, and have no dedostions made from their salaries for the superannuation fund ; those appointed since 1829, who receive a lower scale of allowanees, and have deductions made from their ebt Court. The Quell' and Prince Albert, accompanied by the Prison Royal, Prince Arthur, and the Princeu Alias, and attended by the Hon. Beatrice Byrg, the Hos. Mary Bulteel, Major-Deseret Boaverie, and Captain Da Plat, honoared Mr. Burford by a visit yesterday mora'ng to his Panorama, is Leicester-Kvare, of the F.ll and Interior of the City of Sebastopol. The Prince afterwards rode on lioneback with the Prises of Wales and Prince Alfred. _ _ The Dachau cf Kent visited her Majesty at Buckingham Pa'aer. Viscount Pelmetiton tad an audience of the Queen in the alumna. Prince Le , old visited the Duchess of Cambridge, at her residence in St. James's Palace. Her Majesty and Prince Albert, accompanied by the I Prince.. Royal and Prince Alfred, honoured the Olympia Theatre with their presume in the evening. The royal suite coninced of the Cenntess of De or, Earl Somt rs, Illshr-Genirral Boaverie, aid Captain Da Plat. The Duchess of Rent, attended by Lady Fenny Howard and Bir George Cooper, arrived in town yesterdey morning from Frogmore. Her Lloyd Rif/Intim visited the Dachas of Gloucester, at Gloucester House, in Vail a'ternoon, and afterwards returned to bete rtsiaence, noginore. Major-Gent ral Sir W. Colebrooke, late Governor rf Bar kdoes and the Windward lalusds, bad an interview with Mr. Secretary L►boeehere ynterday, at the Coltnial.oldee. Mr. Fagan, M.P., an i a deputation, bad an interview with the Right Hoe. Robert Lowe, yestereay, at the Bsard of Trade. Despstebee wire mot yrsterday from the Colonial-office to the Governor of the Care of Good Hope. De'pitches we,c receivi d flora the Lord High Commissioner of the lon an Islands. DEATH OF THE DUKE OF NORFOLK. We have to record the sudden death of the Duke of Norfolk. His grace bad been residing at his seat in Sussex, and wu ut riding on Saturday ; on Ms return to Arundel Castle he was seised with illness, at the same time Melon the faculty of speech, which he never recovered. He died at 3 iielack yesterday turning. The deceased Duke of Norfolk, Henry Charles Howard, was eon of the 12th duke, and bore in 1791. In 1814 be married the eldest daughter of the Duke of Sutherland. He sat in the House of C0M1113115 fir a time as mernter for Horsham, and subsequently fir the western divi•iun of the county of [WWI until June, 1841, when be was sum moned to the House of Lerida as Heron Maltravers, one of the 'Ales of his father. His public life, to , belongs less to polities than to the history of the court, with which he was officially connected for nearly the whole of the last twenty parr. The dignities of the house of Norfolk are very ancient. The earldom of A rutted dates from the twelfth and the earldom of Norfolk from the fifteenth ter.- tory. Their tenant is Hereditary Earl Marshal, Premier Doke and Esrl of England. The Howard' of Oreystoke, the Earls of Suffolk and Coheir, the Howsrds of Ca rhy, the Earl of Effingham, and Lord Howerd de Walden, ere ri 'receive branches of this family. The late psi r le suer netted by but son, Hoary Granville Fitz-Aran HowarJ, Earl of Arundel and Surrey. His lady, now Duehess of Norfolk, Is the yoencest daughter of Admiral Sir Edmund Lyons. The death of the duke places a ribbon of the Garter at the disposal of her hirjesty. The Court, it is expected, will return to Windsor Castle, for the Euter vacation, a week earlier than usual —about the 19th the Princess Royal will receive the hell rite t f confirmation. The erections in St. George's Hall for the recent theatrical performances at Windsor Castle have been n moved this last week; and the moat active exertions are going on to reader the State ?part:lents in a fit state to be opened, under the usual regulatioae, in the course of this week. A marriage is arranged to take place early in the spring between 84 Frederick Leopold Arthur, Bert , and Lady Elisabeth Hay, third daughter of tte Earl Led Coac t. se of Kinnoul. The m►rriage of Lady Augusta Hay, fourth daughter of the Earl and Comeau' of Kumla, with the Hon. John Twisleton Fianna, eldest son of Lord Say and Sala will take 0140 at the same time. On Saturday the wild of the Bishop of Liocoln gave birth to a daughter (.411-Sore) at &embalm, Lincoln. _ . _ The Counters de Persigny has issued cards for a grand ball at the French &Only on Tuesday next. The Countess will he prevented " receiving " this evening, al real. his Excellency and herself having been invited to dine with the Queen at Bucking ham Pala:e. _ _ The Earl and Countess of Cawdor entertained at dint e.t, at their resident, in South Audl , retreet, lut evening, the Illeripsis of Lacsdoune, the Viseount sod Vttc ranter Emlytt, Lord and Lady John Russell, Sir Parid Dander, Captain Egerton, Mils Balfrur, Lord Gleaelg, Kr. and Ma.. Ellice, &r. ThsCountess Craven has issued cards for an evening party on Thunday next. _ _ _ _ The Earl and Countess Cowper arrived at Stan hopt,trest, last evening, frog 'rearm-water, He: t'. The Earl and Countess of Meath, Lord and Lady Charles Welltsley, hlr. and Lady Millicent Barber, mad Mr. and Mt.. Neville have arrived at Claridge's Hotel. The Earl and Countess of Stamford and Warring ton, have returned t Envilto Hall, Staliorchhire, from Park. Major and Lady Ades Ibbetacon have arrived at Middleton Park oa a visit to the Berl and Count's, of Jersey. The Speaker's levees are appointed to be bald on the let end Bth pollen°. Mr. Bright, M.P., has been unable to resume his seat is parliament this minion, in coosequence of indispoei flea arising from an affection of tie liver and bilious attack. The hon. gentleman was very unwell when he attended the Manchester mirk& to himself and colleague, a few days Wore the assembling of psrl'azeir, end up to the day pre esdieg that meeting it was doubtful if he would be able to take port is the proceedingr. An address from the Irish bar to the Lord Chief Julies, as the heed of the common law bench io Ireland, is is preparation, cn the subject of the late anction it the Hoare of Commons reflecting on the espabilitiaa of t le lush judges. _ _ _ - fictitious ban been adspted in various parts of Franey, preying that the Infant to which the Empress will sturdy give birth, be mated, If a Prier', King of Algeria. A letter from Vienna of the 19th saye—u Oar /ogee EMpfllllll yesterday oast with ea widest, bet fins lightly it was tot attended with any serious snugness*. _ . . . . The spring of her Majt sty's carriage broke while ahe was taking en airing, and she was eompellei to alight and re turn to the palace in a private carriage which happened to pass at the moment. This is the second accident of t►e kind that hat hapread to the Empreis, and the Emperor has ordered the person to whose negligence it is attributed to be stv.rsly punished." . _ . The Univers =Ades the following The Jesuits are obtaining a remarkable hacosee in their missions In Silesia and whir proviocee. Everywhere, when tole rated, their sermons are attended by a numerous audience, and produce gr. at fruits. They ere founding a college in Austria, at lialksburg, to which the Eennetor I. at coatri bated 75,000 ft. The Art hduke Marimilien is the generous protector of the Jesuits at Vienna ; he lodges them sod sup plies them with food." A letter in the Universal German Gazette, says:— tt The Emperor Ft oasis Joseph tas etat ged Count Bail with an autograph latter addressed to the Emperor Napt - lees. The intimacy wh eh sew elite between the Courts of Paris end Vienna is the 'abject of gimeral elaversatioi is our allele' eitcl•e. It is rumoured that an Austrian re giment will be glean to the Empc•or Napoleon ; and the Ceirassiers are spoken of a• likely to boos ill s nano o f the Emperor of the French." On the occasion of the grand ball given at the Taileriet on Shrove Monday, the Grand Chaplain r f the Palace was desitoui claming, not the ball, hot the decora tions of the apartments. Acardingly, he was in the rooms at a very early hoer, some time, indeed, before that at which the gluts were expected U eerier. One simper only happened to be there, and, singularly enavgb, this gentleman was la the disguise which tradition unites in ascribieg to the tempter of men. It it not stated that the Lewd Bishop of Matey thought rf exorcism, but the marque I. question, who was, apprizing', a very wall-nseanirg devil, anticip +rod the prelate's alarm, and, approaching him with a rwpectfal misrule's, observed, " Monsignear, per mit an to seize this of portwilly to effect a ri coaciliatioa !" LATEST INTELLIGENCE. PIEDMONT. SPEECH OF GENERAL LA MARMORA. At the banquet given a few days since to General La Marmon by the senators and deputies of the Sardinian chambers, the General replied as follows to the toast in honour of the Sardinian army : " Gentlemen,—l thank you in the name of the brave army which I have the honour to command, and which may call itself brave, although it has not been given it to register numerous victories. The bravery of the Piedmontese army contributed power. fully to the success of the battle of t he Tchern aya—that last desperate effort of the em my to save the great fortress upon which Russia expended so much labour, and for which it has made such prodigious sacrifices. " Many a time, gentlemen, when our soldier' ran to arms with the almost perfect certainty of meeting the enemy hand to band, I have gone through the ranks looking in the faces of those brave men, and I can assure you that in their eyes and in the expres sion of their features, I read an ardent desire and im patience to be measured against the foe. Chagrin and regret were only seen on their countenances when they returned to pile their arms. 11 I cannot, gentlemen, resist citing to you here the dying words of the brave General Montevecchio. ' Tell the King,' said he, 'that I was not unworthy to command a brigade. Tell my regiment that I carried its uniform when mortally wounded in fighting. Bring me to the affectionate remembrance of my friends, by telling them that since Almighty God has called me to himself, I thank him for granting me a death which crowns my life, and fulfils all tho military aspirations of my long career.' "1 am, certain, gentlemen, that if peace is made, in spite of the pleasure whizh oar io:diers will hare to see their country once more, and to embrace their parents and their friends, they will regret abindoning the scene of so many glorious contests without hating reaped more laurels." EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (FROM OCR OWN CORKEbPONDENT.) PARIS, dMo'n•r ETENINO. Count Buol was presented to the Emperor at the Tuileries at one o'clock to-day, with the same cere monies that were used yesterday at the presentation of Lord Carendon. The Count was ushered into the Emperor's presence by the Duke de Carobaceri:s, Grand Master of the Ceremonies, and was presented to his Majesty by M. de Hubner, thu Auutrian Minis ter. Immediately afterwards Count de Cavour was presented by the Marquis de Per Villomarina, the Sardinian Ambassador. It is to be remarked that Baron Brunow has not yet been presented. The InWpiridance of yesterday said that he was to have teen presented to-day. But I can assure you that the presentation has not yet taken place. Count Orloff, we learn by a telegraphic despatch, arrived at Brussels at ten o'clock last even ing. He was to be received by King Leopold to day, and it was thought that he would leave for Paris this evening. The 23rd is still the day on which the Conferences are expected to open. In the evening of the opening day there will be a grand concert at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs. All the plenipotentiaries now in Paris are invited to a soiree at Count Waleski'a this evening. The Pays suggests that it may perhaps not be thought essential to require from ltussia such an ex• treme measure as the destruction of Nicolaieff, aad that it would suffice to interdict Russia from building in the arsenal of Nicolaitff, any ship, frigate, or vessel of war of any kind. The Pays also hints that the payment to Turkey of the expenses of the war may be compounded for by a "rectification" of the Asiatic frontier. There are certain Russian ladies now in Paris, with regard to whose movements the telegraph has been silent, bat who, it is right you should know, are as actively preparing for the coming diplomatic campaign as any of the recognised plenipotentiaries whose arrival on the scene of action the press has been so careful to chronicle. In deed, I believe I may say that at the present moment the intrigues of these ladies occupy no inconsiderable share of the attention of the French government. First on the list comes the notorious Princess Lieven. Next in importanoe is the Baroness de Seebecb, a daughter of Count Nesaelrode. This lady has for a political correspondent at St. Peters- burg Madame Zografos (whose maiden designation was Princess Sou , z3), the wife of the Greek ambas sador. The Princess and Baroness have under their immediate orders the following highly efficient and very experienced staff of feminine intriguers, viz. Madame Kalergi, a niece of Neaselrode ; Madame Maraeli, a Russian lady, of Greek origin, rei ssuing large property at Odessa; Madame Meyendorf, the wife of the Russian envoy at Berlin ; the Princess Ypsilante, a Greek fanariot, under Russian protection, and two ladles of the Obreskof family—one of whom is married to a French Count, and the other of whom is the wife of Prince Jean Soutzo, a Greek attechi: at St. Peters burg. However high-sounding the above names may appear, I can assure you that some of them have long been on the police list of Russian spies in Paris. The present business of these ladies is to compare notes of all the information they can pick in the many politi cal salons to which they have aoce,s, and to cadets , vonr to ascertain how far the Emperor Napoleon really means to stand fast by the conditions which it is presumed England will insist upon, and what ob jections Brunow and Orloff may veuture to make in the Conferences, without the risk of breaking off the negotiations, sa far at least as France is concerned. The Champs ElyELe were very crowded yester day, it being expected that the plenipotentiaries would be seen. Lord Clarendon, Count Buol, sad, I have no doubt, Boma others made their appearance on the promenade. I hear that the aecouchement of the Empress is now looked for very early in March. The speculators for the rise in the ltente were somewhat shaken in their confidence to•day by an article in a London daily journal of Friday, which although talked of on Saturday, was not generally known to the public till it appeared translated in the French papers of yesterday (Sunday) morning. Misgiving. as to the result of the Conferences were to-day expressed by many persons who have hitherto been among the most sanguine. The Rate fell 10e. I for cash, and 23:. for account, cicsiog at 73fr. 20c. and 73ft. 70e. Almost ell other secu rities were, however, very buoyant. Credit Mobilier rose 10fr., and Credit Foecier 12tr. 3')e. A large busi ness was done in French railways. The "carry ings over" for Saturday having been rendered so un expectedly easy by the aid of the Credit Mobilier, people were encouraged to buy. Northern rose 221 r. 50e.; Orleaus,lslr. ; Eastern, 20fr. ; Southern, 20fr. ; Weyer°, 25fr.; Gnat d Central, It/fr.; St. Kimbell and Grenoble, 12tr. 50e. Many of the lines in favour to-day have long been neglected. The event of the Bourse was the great improvement in the Sardinian railways, which rose 40tr. Almost all the returns trom the tutu markets re ceived yesterday report au adosuce in prices. The rise is generally ehe•ut Hr. the hectolitre, and there are very few instances of any fall.