The Express. — London, England, 1857-07-01 00:00:00

TILE EXPRESS, PORE DAILY NEWBi LONDON MORNING tka umajasrari. li rmeleiVr..ffoo .d “ alinglama snws sod yaw st Ns moral sww—Ss 00 OlMftla d lb re=iooll IS Ms wrlel stmewsis sod dilliMlONild wisrmaliss WA WA mil , "). MN ....WS' !.."." 4 P.P9 ' ".. linnSearr mop to 'mama ',Ft IMPARTIAL. as nott mor sit sidstlas Ss Os wwsw Wes Is A.llBl MD Xtl TIM ZING RIPON% ALL OITZNIIVM ADVISTIAMMINTL fs 0rd5e5..... 0 4 ... i .. .....slwatsswws Sums == "Vrsswesiss. adds.** tw Malt a stawswas al pia= ass d op lowlssaw at 1110.11•111 IN Ws barb= : w sk Mt Lawton. Ls awsis=alatalwit= bt Make Ibibill prim Ws wilidwr MK WM* We :,...........,.......... It se s. pm wattst. par W Parolbss wrest. THE DAILY NEWS delivered to ell pieta of re Wader b Harr Orr. add, and 1M se Mr& et ordr MUM. Warr as yr 'Err rid Yr =T o tril a irdr m balriti o nur t r z e rdrrrßl CO' Oxpreslo. 41 , 41 , •••••!.• Y.' • IlOurtimmommtm lambed tar "TM Ispum." Locld PEPIN mot bm ail Os MOON Ig Top Midi ea iiip aid d gebllmatics. Tye Immo_ , TUN Il li TtiL ai rllaT al. AIDIROOND nom ATALia TA .—Commereat T. IWe inarmilL °AIM OP ROMPS. Mr. listles: rra faikeeq. FN. TIMPIVL o.llest&-Sens Ws el m. - 31014 EMMY. Soo On'awl.' SO AAAAA ULA. Sloo• H. ZOO ari DonolLlOne sad DyerT.—•ed LOTT: • ITILL•O3. g. . o ne. NSIMIN sodCaelms.—Cormosi at T. ZION WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. DAY—Measles. ft. .... Attentatm. 91. isa. Tormormr—lienists.lo6 FA. . LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JULY I. A PIIITATN Win from a military man of high rank in India ends with the meaning words— " Send se a good General in haste.* This phrase tenches the only point in reference to the present position of affairs in India on which there is room for misgiving. General ANSON may prove equal to the mosaics; bat amusedly it was not regard either to military talent or military experience that dictated his appointment. If be fail, our conscience is clear, for most strenuously did we protest against that appointment at the time it was made. Besides, the formalism of the Anglo-Indian Government is sualcient to paralyse even the most able and reso lute of commanders, unless pod fortune associate with him a Civil Governor capable, when he knows that he has got a good Consmandsr-in-Chief, of effacing him own personality, and leaving the soldier free play. With soldiers like those in the QUEEN'S and Company's European regiments, in the Ooorka regiments, and in those Sepoy regiments which have stood the test, we should feel no misgivings were we certain of those who bold the chief command. But even men like COLVIN and the I. WRENCES may be paralysed takes their superiors are worthy of them. One thing ought to be impressed on the minds of the nation and the Legislature—burned into them as with a searing iron. The state of the Bengal army ought to have been sufficiently known to our rulers to have rendered it easily possible to adopt measures long ere now that would have effectively prevented the present mutiny. When Bit CHARLIS NAZI'S ummed the command in India, in 1849, we were en the eve of a mutiny in the Bengal army quite as !buildable as the present. The extensible grievance then was the cessation of the extra pay originally allowed to the Bengal regiment. marched into the Punjoub ; but in every other respect the circumstances of the then timecesly suppressed mutiny were the exact counterpart of the present. A busy correspondence among the soldiery had led to a confederation of no less than twenty-four regiments. Then, u now, the evil had attained these monstrous dimensions undis covered, because the regimental officers were too proud or too lazy to mingle with their men and study their characters and dispositions. Then, as now, the alienation of the minds of the men from their officers by this habitual contemptuocs disregard wee accompanied by a secret sense of purer, which the practice of enrolling high caste soldiers exclusively had engendered. The native soldiers were galled by the little consideration which the European officers showed for them, and by the impossibility of their ever rising above a very subordinate rank. Thcy watched, and criticised, the self indulgent habit. of many of their officers, and Issued to despise them ; and they relied upon the ialissacei et their east, to prevent the insubordinates ham being dismissed, on account of the difficulty that would have been experienced in replacing *se. Ice 1849, as in 1847, the Bengal Army, though brave, was dangerously predisposed to mutiny. To Complete the parallel some overt sets of mutiny which sutured just before Sir CIIARLE4 NtrIES tamed the chief command had been met by exactly the same measures as were adopted in the case of the regiments which rseently mutinied at Bar. mayors. The men were disheaded. Against this suicidal peaky Sir CHARLES protested energeti cally. He reminded the Government bow many disbanded &pop had been found in the ranks of the fah 'my. He asked them whether, in the event of the mutiny pining head, they could go on disbanding regiment after regiment. He pointed to (iciest Simon ea the one hand, and to Nepaul on the other, as ready to avail themselves of the services of resolute and desperate men, thus thrown loose on the world to seek for new masters. Ile urged the impolicy of turning adrift our high cute Sepoys, unless we were prepared to en. regiment other elutes and races in their stead. His remonstrances were unavailing. Everything was left as it was, and now we are reaping the fruits of this scornful disregard of good advice. There ap pears to be indeed little ii':elihood of any native power that MO seriously harm us, rallying Mina its standard any desperadoes we may at this mossent whistle down the wiud to prey on Fortune. Bat these men may be almost u dangerous in another way. The police throughout India is nowhere stronger than is absolutely necessary. Two regi ments et =valuers are already disbanded; is the mime maws to be meted to all future mutineers? Thee men are of the class who will not dig IN They winter amen become robbers if they do aselb‘ as minas in the armies of native Princes. Tures he mails to reader life and property harms through the w►ole of India. The reform of the Bengal Army is the Mk of the how in India. At present the Madras and Bombay Armies are sound and loyal, bat low Mg my they resit the contagion of bad example! Boum thing more is required than to suppress the seem' mutiny—comparatively an Cry task. The spirit of the whole Bengal Army hen to he regenerated. The officers have to be taught to amend their habits of self-indalgenee, and to depart themselves to their soldiers as all men abbe es com mand /tree ever done. The preposterous claim of the high cute' to man exclusively the ranks of the Army has to be steadily and sternly put down. The Sepoy has to be taught that- all soldiers are of one ante; and a terrible example must be made of the actual mutineers. On the other hand, strict justice ought to be done to the &pay : his conscientions prejudices ought to be respected, and a more free career of professional advan4x.ment ought to be thrown open to him. We know that we are preaching Napieriam, and that Napicrism is not much in favour in high quarters. Offi cials shrug their shoulders, and insinuate that the genies of Sir MARLED NAPIER bordered on madness. We will not waste time in arguing the matter. Ideas and trains of thought, it certainly appears from his biography, frequently crossed his mind, which could by no chance find admission into the brains of those men of "solid parts," who, because genius sometimes errs, imagine stupidity must always be right. All that we have to say is, that if he was mad, it is pity he did not bite some of his brother Generals before he died. Avrnonun the Earl of CLARENDON has no official information of the fact, it is neverthelese quite true that the French Government have entered into a contract with a Memellies house for the supply of 10,000 (not 20,000) Africans to GaaH daloupe and Martinique. This contract was, it seems, signed by the French Ministers of Marine and Foreign Affain of the one part,and MM. ItEcts, of Marseilles, of the other part, on the 13th of March last It stipulates that the latter are, within three years, or, if possible, in less time, to transport 6,000 blacks to °nadaloupe and as many to Martinique, there to work under an engagement for ten years at the wages of 12 franc; id) centimes a month, out of which each negro so imported has to pay, at the rate of two franca a month, the cost of his transport from Africa to this paradise for blacks, which is esti mated at 200 francs. MM REGIS undertake to employ in this service large steam-vessels capable of containing 800 passengers, and for each adult immi grant, male or female, they are to receive 500 francs, or 201. sterling. One of these steamers has, we are assured, already sailed. If the contract contain any stipulations binding the Messieurs REois to ship only negroes who volun tarily tender themselves for emigration, or not to pay money to induce negroes to come on board their Teasels, the abstract which has been allowed to transpire makes not the smallest reference to such stipulations. So far as appears, no restrictions what ever arc placed on the contractors; they have the entire coast of Western Africa (except, of course, the ' British settlements, where, thank Gun, they cannot conic) to operate upon ; they may obtain the blacks whence and how they can ; all that the French Go vernment apparently care for is the arrh al of 10,000 in their colonies, where they are to be con demned to labour for 10 years, at wages leas for a month than the current value of work for a week in the adjoining British possessions. This is an entirely new phase in the history of the Slave Trade. For the first time we have an European and Christian Government entering into a contract for the transport, in thousands, of that class of human beings who are supposed to be nearly lowest in the scale of human intelligence, who have hitherto shown no disposition to leave their own country, who in Africa have no Government to look after, guard, and protect their interests, who live there in abundance and plenty, who are gradually applying their labour to production in their own country, and who have ksestofore been, and still are, the victims of the most kininuous traffics that ever afflicted and cursed msakind. This is a the whole affair is one of bargain and sale—which, if permissible at all, ought to have been surrounded by every safeguard that humanity and ingenuity could suggest. It ought to have been confined at first to the French settlements, where the French authorities could have super vised and reported on it; it ought, if ever ex tended beyond them, to have been limited to places where the Slave Trade had been long since extinct, where the French Government has Consuls of knowledge and experience of the localities; above all, wherever carried on, the amplest securities ought to have been taken that the emigration was really free and unbribed. When we find no such limitation, no such securities, the deplorable inference must be drawn, that so long as the French Colonies obtain 10,000 Africans to work for ten long weary years on their sugar-fields, at wages miserably ina dequate for a good day's work, the French Govern ment does not care very much whence or how these labourers are obtained. If that be so, we are in danger of a new Slave Trade under the guise and pretence of Free African Emigration, promoted and carried on, not by pri vate individuals, but by a great and power All Government, in the name and behalf of a nation amongst the first in Europe to renounce the old Slave Trade. This will indeed be a retrograde policy. ' But retrogression is just now so universal a charac teristic of the Continent of Europe, and the Govern ment of France is in all its policy so Thoroughly material, that we must not be surprised at a project involving even such guilt as this. The French Government will no doubt point to oar example. We have sought, or at least our eolonists have sought—that Government will say— emigrants for oar sugar colonies in India, in ('bins, and in Africa. No doubt they have. But there the parallel ends. They have been sought, and found too, in India, where there is a British Government eapable of protecting its emigrating subjects, where slavery is unknown and every man is no free as in England, where there is, in reference to employment, a redundant emigration, and where, above all, the people are intelligent, cultivated, religious, and disposed to emigrate. Over this emigration the most elaborate protection has been thrown, the emi grants have been subject to no oocapnleary labour, and have been free to obtain what wages they were able, and at the expiration of flee years they arc entitled to free return passages to fedi,. From China the emigration to British sugar colo nies has been very small, not exceeding a few thou• sands, and it has for some time past been given up. But it also was subjected to the most vigilant British supervision in (line, it was regulated on the voyage by stringent legislation, and the laws protecting im migrants in our colonies are so favourable that, to use the expression of a gentleman who compared the state of the Chinese in Cuba and in Denserars, he found the Chinese, slaves in the former and gen tlemen in the latter. Some years ago Sierra Leone was opened to oar West Indian colonies. But Sierra Leone is as thoroughly organised a British possession as Jamaica. At the time it was opened Sierra l.cone was the depot for Africans liberated from slavers. The Government yards there were crowded with human beings whom we had rescued from the horrors of the Middle l'amage, from death or slavery. As there was no employment for them in the settlement, their maintenance was a heavy burden on the British Go- vernment. To relieve itself from that burden, it promoted their free emigration to the West Indies. Bat the numbers which could be induced to emigrate ' wan comparatively small, and the experiment of introducing beirloareous liberated Africans ansonget the more cultivated lMek peasantry of the trepieel colonies in every respect failed. But now the Govern 's/sit pile et Sierra Leone are empty. Many of the WEDNESDAY EVENING, JULY 1, 1857. negroes who pained through them have aided in founding the interesting African commonwealth er Abecokuta, where, under the influenced the Church Missionary Society, a far greater experiment is in There is, wo repeat, no parallel between these examples and this monstrous French project. But from that project we may learn what it is that our own West Indian body proposes. The French echeme is, indeed, superior, in honesty at least, to their proposition. The French pretend only to seek labour for Guada loupe and Martinique. Our West Indians pretend to have found a certain means of suppressing the Slave Trade in their proposition. " Make us prosperous, make us wealthy, crowd our estates and fields with barbarous African labour, bring down in our islands the price of labour until wages reach the lowest point, and then the Slave Trade will be at an end." Such is their case, still praying to the gods to do for them what the test of their countrymen do, and are compelled to do, for themselves. Heartily desiring to see the British West Indies en joying even greater prosperity than they now do, when sugar is 301. a ton, we deny that it is the business of Government, even if it could, to shovel ship-losds of Africans on their sugar-fields. The duty of Government is to protect, not to disturb society, as such recklessness would assuredly do in the West Indies. If the Sugar Colonies want labour, India, where they can freely obtain it, is open to them. But Indian labour, like all other good labour, is dear in money; and the West India non-resident pro prietary want barbarous labour, because it would be cheap in money. Hence our planters hanker after the Slave ports of West Africa. A great and blessed change is rapidly coming over West Africa, which would be jeopardised by the revival or introduction of this new, this modified Since Trade. But a few years ago and Western Africa produced nothing for ex portation. The blacks picked up elephants' teeth, beeswax, gum copal, which they ex changed against hafts. Now, however, they produce ground nets ; they tend palm trees, and rudely manufacture palm oil ; they cut down and export timber. They are passing out of an old, and are entering into a new stage of econo mical existence, leading, through legitimate com merce, to continuous and systematic industry, accu mulation, civilisation, and Christianity. This, we submit to the intelligence and humanity of England, is not a state of things to be risked, endangered, or even interfered with, by indiscriminate and reckless demands for African labour to flit the pockets of the West Indian proprietary. From Lord Susrres liter, who introduced this new project to Lord PALMERSTON the other day, we appeal to Lord Ram:onus, the steady, consistent, and almost the victorious enemy of the Slave Trade. Let us trust that his old age is not destined to be afflicted by • legalised return to the traffic which his youth placed under the ban of English law. TnB Revenue Returns for the year and quarter which ended yesterday afford but slender subject for comment. They show a demise of 273,2411. on the quarter, as compared a ith the corresponding quarter of last year; and an increase on the year of 1,827,0421. The only heads under which there is a decrease fur the year are Miscellaneous and Taxes ; the decrease in the former (always variable) is 118,6591.; that on the latter 6/.! The deficiency on the quarter arises principally from a decrease of 1101,00 W. under the head of Exeimt, for about 240,0001. of which the postponement of the hop-duty is accountable. The Excise nevertheless shows an increase of 111,2221. on the year. In the Customs there is an increase of 280,6251. on the quarter, and of 472,0241. on the year. Th. gross amount of Revenue for tho year ended 30th June, 18.57, is 72,060,8211., against 70,233,7791. for 18SG. Next year the reduction of the Property Tax will begin to toll ; and next year provision will have to be made for the foreign war in China, and the intestine broils in Hindostan. ~s«` 6 s THE REVENUE.. No. I.—An ABSTRACT of the GROSS PRO DUCE o tha REVENUE of the UNITED KING DOM, in the untlentantiontil periods, ended June 30, 1847, tampered with the curntepouding periods of the pre ceding year. I I| 1 g i I f• A A A Eft p EE § E § l X X - X X 1 1 -% rC! § 4 t 17; I P ▪ r P .g g 8 • 8 It ze .5 ti • y. r c PlitiljAßP 4 EIE ziffi ;I e p ;-' t 772 . a. FEW a a s No. 11.—INCIR1 Quartpr •od Ye the rurroPpundills - f :s r I ; kty . i I g ?ARE at ended le portorlA of ;F: in the ,inpartil with H Ft. 5 i 1 i s s $ ii Ei r a. •X w y Agll.lllti g 1 11 'l;' II 11 , = No. lIT.—An ACCOUNT SHOWING the RE VENUE and OTHER RECEIPTS of the Quarter ended June 30, 10.7, the Application of the mole, and the Chance of the ['one...lidded Fund for the ooid Quarter, together with tho Surplus or Detkiency upon Charge. ~ •~ S. lobar brood **Mom of to. CoroMori yo,d, Onal gm Quasar sided rands H nn. i% via.: Orkin [lll.ll/11 51001,319 Polka of Then of Car Mideled Tani In lrernd tot ler Quaver, noterrently remeird ..... . It? lour Inoornd in Inn Or stet ended Joan 10, 16.51. r room in Areal 1. A awing .eneiri in Or Order ended lone 10, 1131, lepn)lnent of Admires lot Public Warns, be 3131,1111 E 11.1110,43 &teem, helm the DA/Im/ an the Slib Jose 1137. epee IM Charge of the Cemelidaded Fund In Oreat Ornate. le meet the IN•Wends and nil., Charges pay. shi" In the Qusr er to Pepe ober 3A. 1157. esd for which Eschew./ hills (Denconcy) vW bo boned L that Quarter 017.1.14 LATEST INTELLIGENCE. ALGERIA. The 11Inniteur Algerien publishes the following despatch TII 6 lENERAL TO GENERAL IE CISSET ♦T ALOIERS _ Fort Napoleon, June 23. The telegraphic line from Tic!-Otutou to Souk-el-Arb• is opened. Yesterday evening, et five o'clock, amidst the plaudits of the whole army, and to the profound astonish meat of the natives, a section of field artillery followed by two waggene--one with troop§ of the engineers, and another with the directors, arrived in the camp, having left Sik-ou- Medhour at noun, and invented the entire new road, twenty five kilometres in length. It is an immense work, and has been accomplished in seventeen days, amidst difficulties of every kind. ASIATIC TURKEY. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—Tun Der. The BriAzas Oak the daft: at twelve o'clock. PRIVATE USI N ESS. The following bills were reed a !bird time and punt; viz. :—Otley and Skipton Road; itaalingden and Tedious den Roads; Kierosioshire Railway; Leslie Railway; ee Selby and Market Weighton Road. The following bills were considered, and ordered to be rear! a third time :—Ehe Harbour; I.lctropelitan lreland Railway (No. p i Midland Or at Western Railway a (Sligo Eaten. Rion); Newport, Abenuvenny, and Hereford Railway.. Newry and Enniskillen hallway ; West London and crystal l'ance Railway. Platotag's Estate Bill was read a second time, and cocked to ho committed. On the motion of Mr. C. FOSTI:R, it wan agreed that, in the ease of the Than, Atheneum, and Beacon Amman Companies Amalgamation Bill, the Standing Orders NW. 70 and 199 be suspended, and that the Examiner of Pennon for Private Bills have leave to sit and proceed forthwith ups the petition for additional provision. PETITIONS. Petitions were presented by Mr. Blasco; praying for the repeal of the Compulsory Vaccination Act; by Mr. M. Oasionz., from Wenloek, in favour 4f the Medical Profess sloe Bill; by Mr. Diu.sevx, preying for the Abolition of Church Rata.; Sir James DUK o, from the guardians of the City of London Union, on the subject of appeals under the pow law • by Mr. AIIIROYD, from the Roman catholic* of Huddersfield, against the Divorce Bill. A large number of petitions were presented in favour of the Medical Professions (No. 1) Bill. Letters from Erzeroum of the sth ult. state that the commission appointed to settle the Turco-Russian boundary in Asia had arrived at Gumri on the 11th, and had commenced operations the next day. The commission, as is already known, is composed of M. I'elissier, the French commissary (accompanied by M. Saillard, secretary of the mission), Hussein Pacha for Turkey, Colonel Simmons for England, and General Tcherikoff for Russia. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (MON Q(1 OWN PARIS, TVZSDAT EVLXIMO. The Paris journals arc occupied with the Indian' news, the undoubted gravity of which they have a tendency to exaggerate. Scarcely anything is said about the second elections for Paris, to come off next Sunday, but preparations for them arc doubtless going on actively in secret. The journals which reluctantly concurred in the with drawal of MM. Gamier Pages and /testicle, publish the names of the opposition candidates, MM. 011 i. vier and Ilarimon, but without saying anything to recommend them. The Journal du Haut Rhin announces that an "instruction" is commenced against the election of M. Migeon, one of the few members of the last chamber who were not recommended by the govern ment this time. Ile was retained by 17,025 votes, against 10,506 given to M. Nizole, the official candidate. I can only suppose, that by the word "instruction," it is meant to say that the govern ment is preparing materials for attacking the return whenever the new chamber may be convoked. There is not, so far as I am aware, any machinery for contesting the validity of electoral proceedings except before the house itself. Many of the opposi tion candidates will be extremely glad to sec a pre eedent of a strict scrutiny. If reports are to be treated they have plenty of illegalities to bring for ward if they can only find a tribunal to investigate them. Tlwre is some talk of a summer session of the Corps Legislatif, expressly for the "verification of powers." The Count de Morny's arrival in Faris was an, nounced by several journals on Sunday and Mon day, but the Courrisr as Paris now says that he had not yet arrived this morning. The fall continues at the Bounse. The Itente for account closed heavily at 67fr. 46c., with a decline of 25e. Fur cash there was a rise of Sc., the last price being 67fr. tide. Mobilier fell 251 r. In the rail way market some transactions were effected in the new shares of the Lyons and Mediterranean fusion, but otherwise business was very restricted. The lines were quoted front Mr. to Mfr. lower. The Moniteur Vitieok reports that from 1,000 to 1,200 casks of drugged wine have been seized in the warehouses of one of the leading firms of Bordeaux. The affair has produced a great sensation in the town. A Paris letter, in the //dependance of Brussels, says: Tbo following is • fact the correctness of which I can guarent, c. Lord Palmerston, two days ago, had a long con ference with Count de Per•iguy, when the English minister pointed out to the French ambassador that the situation of affairs in India was such that • considerable display of farce had betonie necessary. His lordship added that it would Le impossible for England to wad fresh reinforcements to China, and demanded for this latter war, in use it should continue, the arilve co-operation of France. Count de Pi rsigny premised to transmit Lord Palsnerston's request without delay to the Emperor. Will the British cabinet succeed in obtaining the aid it asks fort that I cannot say. What leads to the belief that everything that the Imperial government can possibly do will be dens is the coastsatly increasing good tuaderstanding between the two govern ments. I think I may now di part from the reserve I have hitherto niaintained on the subject of the visit of the Ent pwor and Entprese to EngLmd; their Majesties will arrive at the Ida of Wight on the 28th July, to pew a week at Osborne Houma SPAIN. The Madrid journals of the 26th ult, contain ac counts of the reception by the Queen of the deputa tions of the Senate and of the Chamber of Deputies, charged to present her Majesty with the congratula tions of those bodies on her " interesting situation." A considerable number of senators and deputies ac companied the deputations, and they manifested great enthusiasm for her Nlajesty. The Queen re plied as follows to the Senate : I bless Providence a thousand times, gentlemen, for hav ing granted me the sweet hope of giving a new gummier to the crown: it procures MO also the immense witishietiou of envog the joy with whet' you have received this happy news, and the unanimous sentiment of devotedness to my dreg, which this day beings you around me. The peace and happinees of the country, tie union, welfare, and felicity of my well-beovod subjects, are assuredly the subject of my constant aspherimis, and the realisation of them would be ley greatest happiness on earth. If to this result the happy event for which we all Dope can contribute in any way, as you tell me it can, you will easily undeistand that my happiness will be great indeed. I re•eive, gentlemen and senators, this solemn testimony of your sentiments with the ineffable gratitude of a mother, and with the liveliest satisfaction that a queen can Seel. AMERICA. YIRITI6II ♦ND TZLIGRATIO (FROM OCR OWN COILIMPONDENT.) LIVIIII3'OOL, WripxyaDay. The Collins Mail Steamship Atlantio, Captain Eldridge, with advice, from New York to the 20th ult.,arrived in the river this afternoon at three o'clock- She has brought one hundred and fifty passengers and 1,128,681 dole, in specie, in addition to a full cargo of merchandise. lier news is anticipated by the Vanderbilt, at Southampton. GRATH OF LORD FRANCIS GORDON.—We regret to kern that Lord Francis Arthur Gordon, while on his re turn home front the wan b of France, diodes Friday last, on the co ntinent. life lordship had been in declining health for nearly two years, and had found himself, in r onsequence, compelled to relinquish his command cm lieutenant-colonel of the Ist Life Guards. Last autumn he was ordered by his medical attenclanta to resort to Pau for the winter, the milder climate being likely to improve his health. Latterl y he continued to grow weaker and it was feared be could not survive the journey home. The members of his family were cows quently prepared for the mournful event. Ilia lordship lifth sou of George, ninth Idurquie of (Lundy, by Catherine, second daughter of the late Sir Checks Cope, Kart. Ile was horn 20th lannary, 1508, and married laabella, only child of Lieut.-General Sir William. Keir Grant, K.C.11., by whom he leaves issue two sons and a daughter. EXEIBITION OP DESIGNS IN H'EST.VINSTED HALL. AWARD OP THE JUDGE& The following is a list of the artists entitled to premiums under the award of the judge. of the design, lately exhibited in Westmiasitwhall. The names are arranged in the order of merit se decided by the judge., with the motto and amount of premium which was inscribed on the dreigne : ItEdloll No. L—BLOCII !LAS. No. Notes. Powahno. irOrsini. Ckand awl e. Vang Mud, win j r eam. Noma Gan Ph*nal DIWIUM Sa. 2.—VORS f Ilmom Con and llodand.l j $l.. Lawn.. ela nd I I Wad. Rank* and Barry ] Itiown• tillbart kelt. Nan I Mom. n.. and Weed.' wand, Ilmlon:Unet. Deb. Iln . jfbnon ct a m talasaar,. ii ut: {New& Santis sad listen , we& 3n. INeassibwr {Gone IL. Alra.d.y., D. Weiner alma. "Cone• ..... . lv, NO 1 Ili r Xs Mahe,: YO at. 94 " COW' . - DIMON lII*. 13 104 L ore-ertrtnnrs.V"... I ! . j K D'l law** W do 1 T. K Mot* ea& iiii3Olasorr I' r.... Prltdred Sol Seiko. Cuilhamt I itsmrs. i lrit. rul 111:16:' W.a.". liewarhen. N "11•4116001/.6100t" 100 no "a te I no Jahn Dwier.4ft.:il. muoitica. in. --! IS "Da alqueJWl NI IP " ANN , NIN". • MO } I* 1" Crone ...... .. WO 1 NW Mhos NNW.. IN IN " w(matharre' .. IN The Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch have issued cards bee a grand dinner, on Monday neat, at Montagu Houma to thole Royal Illghnersre the Duchea, of Caustaidp and the Priaccess Mary. The Countess of Caledon, accompanied by the youthful owl and glumly, kayos town to-day foe Caimans Pa* County Tyrone. Lady Peel has left Whitehall-gardens, accompanied by the Right Hon. Fredarkk Pod, for Vichy. Her larlyabip ham gone direct to Park, Intending to sojourn about a week before going to Vichy. Its Right Hon. Frederick Peel re turns to torn In afair days. Visconntese (Selina) Milton and Mr. Foljarahe sad family left Fife Home, Whitehall, yesterday, for their seat la Nottingluunshire. The Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas en tertained a Wort party to dinner en Monday evening, at his randson in Hertind-.Vest. Mayfair. Lady Caroline Towneley gave a ball last night in Cherles-street, Berkeley-Bqm. Their gem Highnesses Priam earl Prime Edward of Base.Weiwar were meg the early visitors. _ _ The following are among the latent fashionable arrivals at Briton Weed, Sir Lionel and Lady Pilkmgton, Lady Basks, Sir Harry Via*, &MOON do ChMwd, Hos. Mary linandi, Mr. IL Cori:ally, M.P., and the Hoe. W. M. Tracy. Prince Lucien Bonaparte hoe pared • week at Madrid in wed arid incognito that be au sot enaogniaed mail the very day ha left. . BANITSIIIIir EtEcronN.—Major Gordon (liberal) Iris retuned for Beartektre yesterday trident opposition. Tilt LATE LORD ALTAELET.—On Kmodny morn. tat et on early boor dm motel remotes et the late Lord Aboiley TM were moored to the boady milk In Brampton Cernetay. bowel ens redellys, nobody nets dm mired Mader rinmenly. the brothbaers-be low, the Dube of Clendend, Lord Poorktt, Loot Harty Yank Kr. blibeadon Kr. Treads Ferecier, Colonel Noma, and OD Jobs Kerroador, end atm the sephms, LioutenashColuerl Mork*, Mr. Henry Forester, Mr. Frederick Milbank.. lb. Henry KW:eake, Kr. Berm KU brake, and Kr. Bedlle. C.0. 4 0ut nit Me net spelled eat et In Immo to finny Pane" the Quarter nned hag he, 1117, Wehrle' Baehr gen Been pdel Clime et the cemesitgsseet had Ye the Quitter mad 11.416,613 Jae 36 1 . Mold et gee Parrosst Debt ......£ Y 4,111 Toriebable Den.. 6 1,164 hlLsebenee SHY (Winn) NU L in Other Clans en Onnthinef rtre 346.666 Menem kr Penn Ws. In--- I •kele 7.616.7111 Ihrgle. Balser Mind dr May el As Cereihisied Fut, ke Q 2 4 ,111 ..4.4 Jess SO, lin. en. : Chen lethal 097.59 7.7.172 Z19.93..011 A letter from an offiecr in the German Legion at the Cape, dated " Stutterheisn, British Lather* April 16, 1667," says "At Met I find myself at the pine of our future destination, which, although at prevent void of al habitations, will, in about sit months, be • large town. We are all getting on fanentaly,and themeciperfectly comprehend their Mittman. They en busily at work hoot manning till night building hula and bowie. You may depend upon it that the govern ment will, in a short thee, have all the exponees they had to incur la bringing out the Gorman to this country more than repaid, la the new colonists , will make available the treat re sources of this sassy, Una inerrant' to an harnesse degree the teethe. Bolids that, the Kann are very much fright- ened at seeing so many white people quietly settling amongst them; so that they will give up every idea of era, behaving is a bauble manner to the English." The ballot for the committee of management of the North British AuAnlian Company has malted in the election of the following gentlemen:—Hebert lraignne, 143,422 votes; Demo, tiny Dernalthea, 81,11117 ; David l'rice, 111,411; &Inset Anderson, 46,344; Pettit* Dania' liadovr, 43,709; and Samuel Ellis, 40,763. DINNER TO Mn. FolDlTEll.—Ort Monday a dinner Fes, given at the White Hone lintel, Lto Forster, who at the lost ism elections fa r thee borough woe • candidate on the liberal interest, but who, to preserve union among tl-e liberal party, retired before the day of election. Mr. J. 11. Shaw preeltisd, and then were about 200 gentlemen present, Wending some of this loading liberals of the borough. After the seenstomed Sorb Is the Queen, the Prince Consort, sad the royal family, the health of Mr. Punter wss Imposed and co/tinny maned. Mr. Forster, in returning thanks, touched upon meet of the topics of the day, and advocated the principles if raging and civil liberty. MIDDLE CLASS EXAMINATIONS.—The Vice-Chair cellar and Proctors of Oxford have appointed the following diMinguisbed members of the university delegates under the Middle Caws Emamination Statute. :—The Rev. Dr. Houk, Christ Church l ic . er of Leath; the Rev. Dr. Sewell, Fellow of Exeter Cul and Warden of Radley College ; the Raw. Robert W , MA., Wadham College, I'm (savor of Experimental Philimophy, F. 14.6. ; the Rev. Others* Gordon, 8.D., Cann and Tutor of Christ Church; the Rev. John W. Burson, M.A., Fellow and Tutor of Oriel College ; and tbo Rev. James Edwin T. llogers, Magdalen Hall, Public Examiner. The delegacy le now -- - . mom late. TUE NIGHTINGALE FUND.—The committee tp pawed .1 the great meeting of the 29th of November, 1856, to Mao by public subscription a sum of mmoy, to be re sented to MIPI Nightingale, as " a Record of biational Gra titude," and " to amble her to establish en ineditution fur the Welshes, sustenance. and protection of nurses sm4 Davits' attendenta," have joss made their final report. They give as account of 44,0391., which they have received, and an nounce that they have discharged their latest duty by tram- Semis' the sums collected to Lord Monteagle, the kight H og . Sidney Herbert, ; B. Mosektoi Mime. Fay., M.P.; C. M. Mucebridia. ; and Edw. Miujuribenlui, tom, Esq., to be by them appropriated to the purpose set hrth is the original resolutions Of the subscribers. Mom then mmilfth of the whole emu collected lea been contria Wel by the d.d .r . i. It is nquested that all hither sub. mentions • to augment this fund may be paid into the hank of seem Coutts and Co., to the account of Miss PietMarekt's Omuta& RETURNS ORDERED. The following returns sere New GOVERNMENT OEIIE/M.—Copy of a letter, dated the 30th day of June, 183 T, addressed by the First Commis sioner of Works, &c., to the Lerde of bee Majesty's Treasury, containing the award of the judges appointed to report upon the design. for the proposed new eocvernment °Hires. Hong Kong--Copies of, or extracts from, any papas connected with the confinement of Chinon wiseacre at Hong KO2c, and with the trial of a taker and others on the charge of poisoning MEDICAL PROFESSION (No. 1) BILL. Mr. READLAM after presenting several petitions frees medical societies. in favour of the Lill, moved that the bill be now read a woad time. Mr. CRAW FORD moved as an amendment that it be reed a eccond time this day me menthe. Ile remarked that the bill introduced lest 'mem on this subject by the honourable member for Newcastle-upon-T)no was the remit of a ears. =; it Lad the approval of the majority of the pro. bat a mooed bill being introduced on the same cab ject by Lord Eleho the two were read a emend time and referred to a select committee. Considerable difference of opinion arose in the committee, but ultimately the committee unanimously agreed to the provuumis of the bill brought in by Lord Elcho, and now standing on the peper for second reading as the Medial Profession (Nu. 3) Bill. The present bill of Mr. Ilesdbun ecoailiated the intereds of the various medical core porations to a far greater extent than the house would be prepared to accede. It compelled ell pm. titterers to go end register themaelres under noon one or other of the corp,ratione. The bill of Lord Eichae while it respected the vested interests of the corporation, did not require that the etudent should be compelled to pay them feu. It would establish a parliamentary tide to practice after en examination before a etELDfil, to be elected partly by the different bodies and pertly by the go vernment. end would in no way detract from the dignity or interest of the Indira. . . . Mr. BLACK seconded the amendment. Lord BURY supported Mr. Headlam's bill. Col. SYKES felt bound to oppose both bill.. At this point the debate was interrupted by the Speaker calling upon Mr. Dewy, who wax standing at the bar and had a report to make from the Cambridge (Borough) Election Committee. DEATH OF THE DUKE OF MARLBOROUGH. Mr. DEASY reported, as chairman of the committee, that the committee bad met this day, but, after waiting an hour, one of the members of the committee (the Marquis of Blandford) was not in attendances A ronitnunisation, however, was received from a surgeon stating that the noble marquis hot been suddenly summoned to Woodstock. in consequence of the alarming ills SOY of his father the Duke of Marlborough, and that his attendance at the bedside of his parent was indict. pensable. A second comniunication was subsequently received, announcing the death of the Duke of Marlborough. and the communication had induced the immediate adjournment of the c a:weak* and the tusking of this special report. The report having been brought np, Mr. DEASY moved thus the Marquis of Blandford be excused from further attendance on the committee. Mr. VANCE wished to know whether it was competent fur the committee to proceed with the: inquiry under the ch. curnatancea Mat reported. The SPEAKER said it was distinctly provided by the act of parlinment that such should be the case. The motion was then agreed to, and the Marquis of Blandford wits discharged from the committee. The debate was then rescunel, and was proceeding when our report left. ELECTION COMMITTEES.-(THIS DAY.) The Cambridge (borough), Mayo (countv), Roch dale, and Wareham Commute., met again thia day—the Rochdale and Mayo at 11, and Wareham and Cambridge et 12 o'clock, The Rochdalo inquiry is likely to terminate to. day. The General Committer, of Elections also eat this morning. THE BALLOT. MEETING THIS DAY. This morning an adjourned meeting of friends of the ballot was held at the King's Arms Hotel, Damnified. to consider the steps allisable to be taken in cost quince of the defeat of Mr. llerkeley's motion on Tondo night. Mr. WIIITTIMRPT, vim-president of the Ballot Society, corcupied the chair. The meeting was not very onerously attended. The CMAIIIVIAN in opening the business of the meeting, add be thought the agitation had not been without effect at.:. the formation of the witty • in 18.53. The greatest number that ever voted for the motion was 21f., and last night 189 members voted for the mutton while 21 paired la its favour, making with the two tellers 215, on within one of the greatest number ever attained. The majority less composed of 257 members, et whom, on the largest computation, not more than 50 were liberals, so that the ministers went sop ported by the tory party, and consented to keep power by their support. Rutted of that of the liberals, which appeared to him to be • tad abandonment of all those tire which keep parties toga thee. But who were these fifty Merida? They were not the repasentatives of popular annitituenciee, but principally alouged to the old whig ftemiliee. Under Lord Aber. deem two members of the government who maintained neutrality had now been compelled to vote, one being_ ?dr. Lowe, and the other Mr. Grey, under meeetary to the Poor. law Board and member fur Liskeard, who acted sea teller. So far as the government was concerned, theaters, they had retrgraded, and those who ..had to obtain the Malta must depend upon their own extortion, and not upon a ee-called liberal toieistry, (lime, bear.) Lord J. Russell, too, Lai said that he would not be content to judge of the ballot by Ito action in Victoria. The Mowing drertiver of that day had made an attack upon him (Mr. Whitehund) for having at the rte rent elation voted for Lard J. lineal, ; but he would toll the meeting why he had done so. Lord J. Russell sent to hint to request sea peacoat favour that her would not seta himself against him, end considering the eireuntstateee of the ease, and especially the naafi manner in which Lord J. Russell hail been treated, be mated to vote for Lord J. Russell, if the noble lord would premise to give the bellot a fair conekleistion. He saw Leal J. Rural in the presence of a friend, and the noble had promised to give that full consideration. If. ha. rt appeared, now considered it, and the calk was • declaration that he would never give a vote in its favour. (Hear. hair.) He (Mr. Whitchurst) therefore, now told Lied J. Ituseell—and he hoped the reporters would do him the favourof making this public—that Po long as lie held • vete he would never sa,ntin vote for him. (Hear, hear.) After the division last night Ito walked home with the AttornerGeneral, who told him he believed the feeling in te am of the ballet to be dying out ; but to this be (Mr. White bust) gave• complete denial, and effeted to no down to Apia bury with the Attorney-Oenerd, to teat the question there. (Hem.) lie did not, however, wish the meeting to pledge itself to any particular conrne with regard to the holdinfid public meeting' A the present moment. but no doubt t would adopt a resolution derlaratery of their intention to uphold the hullo.. (Neer. hear.) Mr. Mottoes (Gloucester) moved the following resolution: —"That this meeting, in the name of the friend. of the ballot throughout the annoy, return. its thanks to the Hee. H. F. Berkeley, M.P., Sir 3. V. Shelley. Bart.. MX., end the other advocates of the ballot in the House of Commons. for their support of the motion is parliament. That able melting is greatly encouraged by the late division that they derive new determination as thee find new mo tives tor exertion in all that has occurred—that they fed they are unanawered—their ranee streephened—their con fidence in ultimata triumph unstated—and they pledge those selves to one &nuttier, and to the nation, to continue =gala and energetic action, until, by the establishment of free and unprotected voting, the people are relieved from the antes of oppression caused by the open voting system. Mr. MAILPUEN *Kendal the restitution. Mr. JASPER CAPIrIirLI. implanted the resolution, and t from his own perroloal experience so an unsuecessful candidate ' for Leominster and Salisbury, enteral' the morality of vote by allot as a means of securing purity of election. Mr. Rees (Haverfordweet) also supported the molutinn, which, after some further diNeureion, was nankeen'', adopted, and the meeting broke op. TnuNnEnsronm.—This morning a thunderstorm, which lasted but a short time, burst user the metropolis. On the cessation of the thunder and lightning, smart showers of rain fell, and have continued throughout the day. :-.lr I r.