The Express. — London, England, 1849-03-01 00:00:00

=2 ma •=5. std it did O Mb" wi: s s e grkf diame be way taw mesh while r mese wpm the mess. At present it hit the mei Is espMe, botthbill sow plopmet k wadi be lam and sti!wat adWm by a rentt of mead :Crew se the hi shamed urea the musty. It was without neap dm the veriest Marries that had ever been attempted epos the beam to say that the elesestles new Missile* lo be made would hese& the mesaty Mew Xis *aka was that it al wauld sis Seggrav id ate the meat Mau (Nee, ham.) Ha bad • ame et the Arabia Wareldtaire a for dare elm. Wpm, they might ban aillseed cm other wabloota. thej INN VIDISIMIIidff et gime es this, that the pmesit WI sem s ai r susl ieb—is Abe MoS i t h o lay yea ths emisny mem em twin. wide Is were Inside bear, thy aught net to hear, sad the Laded Worse would mist to the utmost et their power. (Hear, bear, es* chews.) Thee what wee the mem* to which it ee . :=sel to dial with the bondholders? W Wk. bee. the tader-nor._ dState was abed M es• mime mad, where the ballsoWer received 6 per matt., and fogey* him that he should la future receive map 4 per mat., end that, it this were objeated tee should be compered to sell his property at *Mies ties of certain minadmieeers. Was that com Men *the Of COMM loweety ? ( Hear, bear.) It was set esly a neer principle to Lattoduer, but it was • plan Melly sawmill from everything Ilk. honesty. He was sure that the leas would never eased= it. If say boa. madman Wadi SF coed him, he would move that the bill be read • @semi time that day six mouths. (Hear.) Mr. MANGLES objected to the bill, upon the mesa that it omitted to peaa ti the clerks of the existing trusts. (A lau g h).Hon. mestere might laugh, but he was of opinion that no man should be deprived of • vested interest without giving him some compensation. The question was, whether the clerkship of these trusts was a tenure. If it was not, of course the parties would not be Retitled to onapensatioe ; if it was, they would be entitled to it, sad it ought t, be willingly granted. Sir J. TYRELL said, the observations of the hon. gen tleman who had jut sat down would have been very pertl. nest if the house were in committee ; hut that, as the Speaker was in the chair, they were umewhat out of place. The measure was certainly one of great importance in prin. ciple ; but the situations intended to be made is it were so numerous, that it was impossible at present to send a cured copy of it into the coustry, and therefore it was highly de eirab".e that the tom. gentleman the Under Secretary of State should bring in another bill, and et able the house to look through it. amt tided provisions in a badness-like man ner. ( Hear, hear.) Mr. V. SMITH hoped the second reading world be as sented to, particularly as the principle seemed to be wholly unobjectionable. Mr. BANK ES said that he was sot prepared to vote for the various important principles bivalved in the bill, unless some length of time were afforded him for due considention. He suggested the propriety of adjourning the debate for six weeks, to afford the government an opportunity of maturing their project, and takieg the deliberate sense of the house and the country epee it. Mr. HUME believed that a bill for consolidating the county trusts would be one of the most important which could be adopted by the house. ( Hear.) Twelve yearn enrolls had submitted a measure of that kind, with • view to tanning the tinuiciat attain of each county under use department, and consolidating the surveyors of roads. Re would not say that the present bill was perfect, bat he ad mired its principle, and as one week now was more Impor tant than six at the end of the session, he hoped that no attempt would be made to defeat it on the second mediae. Mr. MACKINNON bald that twelve years ago be we chairman of a committee on this subject, who reported that some modifications of the law were absolutely memory, sad he was happy to say that the bill of the hon. gentleman to whom they were indebted for bringing it forward (bear, hear,) was in exact conformi7 with the report of that cow suttee. He raw so reason why the bill shoal not be read a second time, and an interval allowed belie the seat stage to give gentlemen who objected to it am "par tur.ity of coming to an understanding with their emnibmmte on the subject of the measure. Mr. DEEDES said there was a great desire on the mat of the house to legislate on this subject, but In equal desire not to commit itself to legislation which it did not understand. He was most favourable to an alteration of the system; but he was not prepared to legislate in the dark, and therefore was for the amendment. Sir J. DUCKWORTH objected not merely to the &guile, but to some of the principles, of the lilliltlltt—that, for in- SWUM, which went to unite the niansgement of the highways with that of the turapike roads. He, therefore, thought it should be withdrawn. _ _ Mr. C. LEWIS said that if the objections to the bill had been to its principle, he might have resisted the appeal to withdraw it; lest it might be supposed that the government yielded to these objections; but, after the statements of several hon. gentlemen that they did not precisely understand the arrangement respecting the extinction of the debt, but were yet up= the whole favourable to the bill, he at ones con sented to adopt the sturgestioa of withdrawing the bill upon the undereteneling that he would be permitted to relnUoduce it immediately. That could be easily done, as the altera tions to be made were much less considerable than hon. gen tlemen might mince*. They would in fact only extend to four or five clause. He should prepeee, es the bill would be substantially the same as the present, to fix ea early day for the second reading. (Hear.) Mr. HUME regretted this novel ani bed precedent of withdrawing a bill confessedly requiring alterrions only in four or five clauses. Why could not the hon. gentleman snake those alterations in committee ? Sir G. GREY repeated the memo given by his hon. friend, and said that, as a proof of his sincerity, he had told the house he would ask for leave to introduce a new bill im mediately. After some question on the subject of returns, which, Mr. Law's said, were for the most part before the house, the hoe. gentleman mired f,r and obtained leave.to bring in a new bill on the subject. OFFENCES (IRELAND)BILL. Sir H. W. BARRON mined the Mead reading of this bill, which had for its object to provost the contiouanco of the prudes of ending prisoners accused of petty reams to the minty gaol for a emiderable time, sad at groat expense to the sonny, as much as 161.. a head in his county. These peistmen ware sometimes ant 30 or 40 miles, wit nom wen obliged to attend the county arises to promote, coma were employed, and all this expense incurred for amen for which the judge would not perhaps order an =smut of as many days as the prisoner had already weeks. The bill was founded on the Dublin POlio Bill and extended to meaty ategirtrstes the powers given by that bill to the megieratee of the metropolis. It had been drawn with the advice ad instruction of three of the mast noseband assistant barristers in Inland. He wee ready bison the matter is the beads of the government if they would take it up ; and he would gin them every aid is has power to man the mann affective. Mr. DRUMMOND said that the preamble of miry bill had something funny in it, but that this bill seemed lobster that dancteristic all through its provisiosk T e hos. gentleman then read the title or a peados et soma deism, and eaund Peat laughter by the wanart is which he eon ranted on them ;_but his moist lamb wen set sadible in the gallery. By one chreee l li o n eM then if a geor man pluckda leaf of sweetbrier as mood aing the road, he wee liable to be brought ban a usagislosta. Aaotker clans prohibited the driver of shone sad out from letting go the rein unless another penoa wets walking by the horses head ; while another allowed every Irishman to ar rest every other Irishman. (Much hughter.) He hoped the house would unhesitatingly reject the bill. Mr. ROCHE congratulated the hoe. member for Water. ford in having hit upon something were than the Habeas Corpus Suspension Act. (Laughter) As °hand by the hose. gentleman opposite , • men ridicu lous fonoutervierd calmly in the eyes of Eaglishmen, because they not be affected by it, or one mire preposterous in principle, was se broug ht into that house. Col. DUNNE said he had only had time to read the first =ph of the bill, which was quite enough for him. He he measure would not be persevered tn. Mr. STAFFORD disclaimed having anything to do with the bill on the net of members oa lus side the house. Hs hat supposed it was part of the promised remedial neasum Sir G. GREY said the government could not ninthly sup port this bill, alter hearing the opision of the Irbh ambers. He conceived tt was scarcely sameary to move that it be read a mood time this day six months; he supposed it would be withdrawn. There were many glaring defects in the bill: it created a number of new petty offsnem, and made them punishable by fine, without giving the usual means of enforcing the malty by imprisonment. Under this bill even a beggar aught be liable to a fine of 40r., but &ottani more. (Laughter.) He would recommend the hon. baronet to communicate with ether Irish members, with the morn proper* an mended bill. Mr. NAPIER quoted and commented en • clause of the bill which was directed mina setting dogs " on any person, horse, or other animal." (Great laughter.) Some of the clauses wire remarkably compreheadve, especially the 30th, which rendered " any person committing lai e rmn under this or any other act " liable to be appreh II b y a constable or any other person." It only needed the addr tion of the words ' treasonable pastime " to cons titute this a complete criminal cods fir Ireland. (Laughter.) Mr. H. HERBERT said the house had been a good deal amused by this bill ; he hoped they and tho people of Ire land would derive rome little instruction from it. The Irish people had in it • specimen of the remedial sasasures pre pomd for tima by the hn. leader of the moral fora party in Ireland. (Laughter, a n d' No, no.") Mr. J. O'CONNELL said that party had no claim on the bon. baronet (Sir W. Banos); they regadiated him as a moral force repealer. He might more pimp* be styled a toustabulary fora meals:. (Laughter.) The immers wao objectionable is may grounds ; amongst aim it wing le revive the digesting punishment of whipping. IS NOM not think that these extraordinary provisions ha d cured from Mr. Berwick. Sir W. BARRON pledged himself that it had from that gentleman. He himself had not dates a line of it. It assisted of the suggestions of three gentlemen who presided Ls instant banisters In the soils of es s ais.. (Laughter.) Mr. Berwick bad mosshoi tie bin ee its present form, and requened him to big; offence mentioned in the ha= irt u rilds stet, and many el theca In I reland, tun (laughter)—by isdistment at the aim - TM t of the provision were awes bus as Bill. It wee easy, by reading we se See , clause, without the 011110t1i011, M ink* • He had no wish to press this bi ll , but wlisi the government the importance of rolieriag pose in Inland from the punishment of two or three impriammut for prig offences. He rsipsolei Ibis Gisela loss thought it saws* to aids 011. INEMIL WNW bin M him if its pr it ie. Every Mime able in Englantl, s indirect routs (lam Coipal pert Cl lam Pollee BA. lines from a cisme, • tar, Maga. Ho 111 to urge on the tom persons in IntsM months' Marineau any hah. numakr I i li t r i 1111111111116, a paaessal attack ea Ws se • moral twee repealer ; be was bated by that party. sad bad had away wattated eleetioae to ausaU &ma thaw; bat he tow held this at deflanee. (Laughter.) Mr. HIRBRET be to withdraw the remark ha bad mode, ea to Ike hon. baronet belonging to the moral brew Piny. Sir W. BARRON mid he would wahine Ski hill. Mr. REYNOLDS, before the MB was wilbdraw r l t Tid there woo au advantage wbisit might monk from its all the 'lbw se amissms hr Libra sight be repealed. tlb Ogair,bearl Omer So _pellse bill woe, he balieved ME wield it lobo b ile abode. The essatmente of the Will Memo manneelhattleybed, to a great sectent, beam, a aid Wart aid ho that the hon. bon net lei ohms se bad an oomheW kg him legislation. He so one at Os mend hem party, to assure the hon. that be did net We bha. A ter loan might laugh at saathen whitest Wag bin. (Laugh.) Mr. P. SOBOPE said ho had never seen such despotic providers is a bill. If tale was a sample of the legislative whits el three amisteat.harristers, it did not speak mesh he the way in which junkie was administered is Ire land. (Hear.) Sir O. OBEY said 11 wield be extremely unfair to those three gentlemen to andoma them as having damn up the whole of this bill, and to met men them any obloquy that might arbi without tay 'video°, whatever of the tact. Glandenton preheat's' oda. cation, when in conversation with Immo. might *row out ruggestions, which not being perfectly nadinsto4 might be assented to ; but he could not believe NM any godson& of talent or experience, still less a man aormokomed to the administration of the criminal law, 'soli have approved of the bill before the house in its present form, or hays sanctioned Its being pained into a law. After a joke front Mr. F. O'Costaoa, about the &habil"- Station of the law in Ireland, Sir W. BARRON said ha °Deceived that what he bad stated with reference to Mr. Berwick most have been mis understood by the right hoe. baronet (Sir G. Grey). He had stated distinctly that the provision of the bill were not only suggested, bat that it bad been actually drawn up by Mr. Berwick. He, therefore, thought it right to ask the right hon. baronet whether he meant to impute that the statement be (Sir W. Banco) had made was contrary to the fact ? Sir O. OREY.—Most certainl not. What I said wee, that I did not understand the bill to have been actually drawn up, and every clams of It revised, by Mr . Berwick, aid by him Owed ia its present lona fa the boa. baronet's heads. But if the boo. buena states that seek Is the fact, I am of course very far from disputing it. Mr. NAPIER mid he felt bound to mention that a more respectable and competent preslltioner of the law than Mr. Berwick did not exist. (Hear, hear.) Sir W. BARRON added that he was a Queea's counsel of may years' standing in Ireland. The bill was then withdrawn. VICE GUARDIANS OF UNIONS (IRELAND) BILL. Oaths motion for the consideration of the report on this Col. DUNNE moved the substitution of " 29th Septem ber, 1819," ter " 25th Much, 1850," as the at which the eat Waylaid come into operation, as ed the &icon . seance ofesid gnartani. Si, D. N RitEYB defended the proposition as it stood. After s few words from M. Mossuz, Mr. P. ECROPI, and Mr. Surrosa, Sir G. GREY said the only . object of the government was to ascertain t h e most convolutes time for tbe transfer of powers which this bill contemplated. If it were thought that March was too remote a period, he would consent to the insertioe of the let November. Col. DII,INE expressed his readiness to withdraw the amendment, in favour of this 'Question. Mr. H. HERBERT oomplained that the hon. numbs, foe Stroud (Mr. Serogell ki tt i thrown out unfounded accontices against the Irish Sir W. SOBLERVILLE thought the house had exercised a very wise discretion is not entering into the conduct of the Mr ~ surr . erin aC aev itl era 3 r ll u "Pe a rfpre th t l :e t t e ee P t c ed guardians removed. -- - The amendment was then withdrawn, and the Ist of No vember was inserted is the bai. The bill !ram then reported. OUT-DOOR.P4syIPERS.B4.L. On the motion that this bill be committed, Sir H. WILLOUGHBY said he wished to know from the hon. Regime& opposite (Mr. Basso), whether the provi sions of this bill were adequate to west such cases as that which bad recently taken place in the neighbourhood of this metropolis under thesartanom so afftictic g —he alluded to the ems of the asylum kept by Mr. Drouet, when about 200 children were swept away. It seemed to him that there was ao adequate mufti= in the bill to prevent the occur rence of such a celamity in future. In the first place, be taw no reams why the poor should be farmed out at all. He doubted the policy nadir any eiratatstanoss of handing over the peer, whaling of ate or osier age, to be made a some et pads by may ern lie might be told that theme establishments might be pared under eagle masa and mgdatises, bus empseisthe Ida them that it is not the existence of rule that is weeted, bat Be of of inspection to en gem thee *me ids end would be enforced. He therm*** the pest was defective, in not pro. yid's( some ant mama is order that the attention of the pear law omen might be at once directed to any abate OM might arise. It was hapoeible for say board, Itawswis medal, to take immediate cognisant* of ensk alum se might suddenly arise fn soy put dike king dom. The sue of Andover was a notorious Insane. There was no end et roles and regulations there, and yet scenes seeneeed which it would be too digutiag to repeat He =tthinfore. that a power d inspection should hal i n am local body—probably the migistrag et the He °Doddered this as the only means of Albs l et i lg m yethenting the recurrence of such sir edfal arms se had recently maned. Mr. DAMES said he was glad the hoe patient* had given him en opportunity of raddeg a short mime* to the house in referents to a stablest midi a need dent bed in vested with suck a palatal asameter. It was a mis take to suppose that the age* of coetrastimg for the maiateneaes etie is hems not workhouses bad ooriginatedmime asp or the poseslaw amendment mt. That system talented yam ego, in an act peal in 1722—the 9 Om. I.—by width it was mac lawful to contrast far the maintenance of paupers in homes ether than workbenem. From 1723 is the prime time the legality of that peados bad bee reseeded by skids die. althate, so that the was no death whatever of fa aging. With re gard to the partionlar ease of pauper &lichee, the legislation which had hitherto taken pees was rather re medial& In the act known es Gilbert's Act, and sellkh pm* is 1708 there were provisions emit wady to most the aloe et pamper children, ma it we Abel* that within the dielebb to which that s ime g=el the.. should *power to mod eat children, to be maw the tare of those whit assented for their That eras dims* by the leghlatan to be a wtadibaMe reviles. as r o le the es *Ube* whisk ßutthere deog was iedi peee set lbr= It wee the set solid N.l~e Ast, se sailed ober Jam Heoway, We benevelest . ftal who eau* it to be pomod ha 1767. That act absolutely made it impentive es the eveseeers of the sestrepditen polishes to and Sad Widow from this polishes We hews of this kind in the eseatry It the *rpm of Whig melsbised there. That eel was Is line till 1844, whoa it was so far repeated that It was se imperative * the whits to mod est the Mess ; berths Waft el their bang so sesseisol impeeliesebie. He bed le drat thet ;zsembeis est hems bed heed of sod scene bad eideod, the establiamot of Mr. eilhA d a me t Norwood. Owe goad be so pestles that the wen pissed there bpliy. He WI se doubt that when Heaware Act woe Impeded, it was sap posed that attain provisions which wen iatroduosd in the act pm* at that time, sung, the 7 & 8 Vic., e. 101, and intedneed by the rig* les. gentlemen the asembor for roper Ripas(dir J.Grahass A*ppmti*a simep aper thaisat security ice the p mistime*. amll et fa fats*.. He wadi egg whole the set idled is furnishing provhita for that pose. and the mesas it was no:r ai = pool le adopt. The hes* he wee sure, would be to knew le what extestleaset alibis hied ezbted at patent The oddest was one Opal i impolesee ad he takes wine psis at be esemelly Wins* es t. From all thesis- - lse Manias Minima th ey anywhere t Is the Mateepoillas Midge h any existence a: all. And it ems eimmicabis, eesideehig that the practise was zrdem die time el Clamp 1., sad that hems be sod NI substitutes for, or as mil= to wodthemme, that so fro =Wed. In the of the genatry he did set lei onleting. Cl a rt si gied the nieleepolitas beide* he baud that there were ens institutions of this Mod is Middlesex, Hest, and Storey. There were two atemposy, and Peckham, where the paw pen of the City of LiadmaUnion were kept under stoetrost, but the ueematy It these two would be dew away with before the sad of the present year, as se workhouse would be built by that time within eied ZlS and in that ease these two houses would die • death. There was • third Inditution—that of Mr. Albin, at Norwood—in which somewhat leas than 1,200 childria were kept. It was an institution which was thought well of by than who bad visited it. No 111 had der been made respecting it : the thus den wee healthy, and be had a* death that in an instigate of that Idol the Were& of the children were MAN NIS • emd bettor end It goo thaw would be in es wed crowded workhouse, or If allowed Si run about the glee* (Hear, hear.) These were the entire at the istslilliments of this Wed editing in the amiglthemehold et Loathe. nen were two at Maw* ems meepieles 131, sad the Wm 134, poles., these being mei sp of adults and MAIM Than *se atablidimentehr the AM* of dilleestweelte Wm* whose health replied Woo Se he seer the em, sod so lode they wan Me m* valuable isolinelimm a r e s hi jar. With rep* to the* the.. wag tergesso whatever. There on meeker at Welling is Heat, when 44 dolt pagers wen reselesel hem the union In London. The only remaining Meantime et the kind was that at Brixton, when these were 196 duke, in respect to which them was preedeally no of Int. He had now stated what was the idea of this !dad sow exist ing, sad with aped M wlii* he *ballad that it liras names, there dead be memo farther lighlatiese. RI& peeling what had taken Mate at Tads& es Me facts were abed to be isvestigated beam a mishit' court of ludo% the hones wend me the propriety of ab- Magog boa any Amiss to them. (Heat) Whether the pleat vie modusted that establishment was individually she lame or not, what had taken place there, at ell events, thraithed • thong proof that further powers should be glees by the legislature with regard to such institutions, be- Ogee if wee manifest they wore open to abate. Jie hosted THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH 1, 1849. that *ha whisk he had sow the kostour le submit would enable thin *take effectual promeations !plait abases of this Mad in future. He believed that Shies inatitatioas wen oat to exit musk lemel=s, hot m long so 11my did exist (and it would not jeer be that the law should at one Walpole to destroy whisk had bon eroded by the law as it existed for 1 1 17 1 ;: ° ssr r ) they =gin to legislate with • view to ha them, till the iteerethestica of that batter system by wktah h e hoped they would be e .L. utelegmthed. What he pee. Need ia the way of wee this :—By she Poor law Areenchneat let alitle power given for the re gulating of workhouse, bat =dabs like the same effective control we given by the legislature with regard to houses of this partioubs duniptiem. The pore= who we at the head of such establishments could not he oonsidued the paid ser vant of any union or parish, and still lees could his servants be ormaidered the paid office= of any sal= or parish, eco as to give the poor-law board the power of isteriering with them, se they could with any of the paid carets of the parish or union. They could visit them now and then and sive advice, but that was all they could do. He was anxious, therefore, that effectual means of protection should be afforded henceforth to the inmates of such house. For this purpose he proposed, in the fiat place, to take power to prescribe rules for the management of them. The would make general tulle which would be applicable to all such houses, and, if necessary, they could afterwards make particular rules for such, and this would be the more easy as they were only seven in number : they took power also to mould the contracts which might be made between the guardians of any union on one hand, and the contractor on the other. In the sot of 1844, an analo gous power was wisely given to the psor law commissioners to mould the contracts made between masters and parish appreatiess. What he proposed, therefore, was this, that they should lay down certain terms which should kern part and parcel of even; contract made between the guardians of any union and the contractor. They also tank power to en force the observanoe of the regulations so laid down by penal ties, by the power of summarily , dismissing the contractors which they weld not do now. They also took power to dismiss any of the assistants or servants of the establishment which could not be done now, because they worked by contract, so that if any of the urban did not do jostle* to the children they *gold, when this bill pared, insist on his being dis missed. He thought they also took an effective power of inspection, and with regard to this wt of the Dill he bad to thank the hon. member for Ods (Mr. Henley) for a Ingestion which would make the bill more simple and if& dent. By the 7th and Bth sections of the bill as it now stood they applied to how.. of this kind the provisions of the Poor Law Amendment Act, which gave the right of visiting work-houses, but on cond. daring the matter he thought that the 7th section, striking out the first three lines and leaving the power of ? visiting, would meet all the exigencies of the case, and put iastitu. Lions of this kind, as to the power of visitation, on the same footing as workhouses under the Poor Law Amend ment Act. By the 7th section, therefore, with the ended= of the three first lines, the magistrate would have the power of going into houses of this description usuddenly as he thought fit, sad without any previous notice ; and he might author= any physician, surgeon, or the officiating clergyman of the parish to inspect and report on the establishmeat and the Poor-law Board, on report made to them, thad have the power of sending down an inspector of their own, who had now the right of visiting any hoofs where any description of the poor are kept. He hoped they had thus provided effectual security for the poor generally, and parti cularly for that class of the poor who were met unprotected, and who deserved the greatest are, namely, the class of pauper children. (Hear, hear.) But he looked Coward to the time when houses of this kind would be unnecessary by the introduction of these establishments, like the district schools, which were marked out in the act of 1844. Pro vi•iOn was made for the establishment of schools of that kind. There were great difficulties in the way of any school establishments; but he was happy to say that one good consequence which resulted from the melancholy occurrence that took place near Lend** was this, that the metropolitan parishes strongly desired to carry out those provisions, so that these schools would be on a perfectly unexceptionable footing. If that was done, great good would have resulted from that melancholy occurrence, and consolation might be derived from that circumstance, if from no other- (Hear, hear.) He thanked the house for listening to so long a statement; but he thought he owed it to the house and public to make some such statement, which he had endea voured to compress as much as poodole. (Cheers.) Mr. HENLEY thought that the statement just made would be satisfactory to the house and country. (Hear, hear.) He thought that these establishments should be made as much as possible public establishments. Some of the provisions of the bill were very stringent, but no person would come under them bat by his own free act. He coin. dared the bill a very good one. Mr. P. SCROPIi said that the able and lucid statement of the hon. gentleman was very satisfactory. But he wished to cell the attention of the house to the re sponsibility of the Poor Law Commission in reference to establis hments of this kind, because it seemed to him they had the power of preventing occurrences of this description, and it was a lamentable circumstance that this power had not been exercised. Oa none could the power of controlling h ouses of this description be more beneficially conferred than on the Poor-law Commissioners. The act of 1834 gave them that power, and it wee the want of exercising that power that was so much to be lamented. The 79th section of the act of 1834 says that, "if say contract shall be entered into on behalf of any parish or union, for the relief, maintenance, clothing, lodging, or employment of the poor; or if any other propelled shall be made, connected with the geseral management of the poor, which shall not be made or entered into in conformity with the rules, orders, and regulations, of the said commissioners in that behalf, at the time of entering into the same, or otherwise sanctioned by them, the same shall be voidable." He would not pretend to say what was the legal interpretation of the clause, but the common sense interpretation of it was, that the commis sioners had ample power, and that they ought to exercise it. They could not be ignorant of the existence of these large establishments, and they should not allow themtill such oontracts were made as would satiety them. There was no imputation on the hon. gentleman or his predecetser, who were too short a time in ofiloe to interfere with mitten which had been going on for a long period. (Hear, hear.) He understood that there was no contract et all, but a mere yer bal agreement with respect to the Toting establishment. He could not help saying that he considered the poor.law comminionen deeply culpable and responsible for neglecting to look after these contracts which would have prevented the lamentable circumstance which had recently taken place. The house then west into committee. In the seventh dawn the first three lines were struck out. Sir H. WILLOUGHBY thought that there should be some positive Inspection. Suppose the magistrates neglected their linty ? Mr. BAINES thought that the poor law inspectors had the right of inspection, and this, combined with the visitorial power of the magistrates, would be amply sufficient. It was not ir to be armed that the magistrates would not perform the duty. Sir H. WILLOUGHBY still thought there should be in. speetion independent of the pea law Sir G. ORBY mid that we. provided by the authority given to the magharatee *rough The bill then permed to ugh committee. The lunge adjourned at a quarter to 6 o'clock. tare or a large increase of direct taxation; and the country party is not prepared to follow even the adventurous number for Buckinghamshire upon either of theme scents. Short of these, what can be the scheme but some manipulation, or new mode of levy the local taxes — some trick for setting farmers et towns people, and vice vend, in the hope o getting up a squabble and a rivalry, and weaning the fanners from financial reform ? But after the ,solemnity of the promise, the mere handling of local taxation would be delivering the mountain of a mouse, indeed, and exposing the new protectionist leader to the laugh ter of par. anent. For our part, we cannot but suspect the scheme to be of the mime well-known category with DicseNe's Iffre.ltarris, a respectable friend is store for great oc casions, but whose actuality no one u yet has been able to ascertain. Nor should we be surprised to find that Mr. Disaant flatly refused to produce his scheme, and, to escape the dilemma, dropped down into a motion for a committee — th at common resource of all those who seek to appear to be doing something, when they know in their hearts that they can and will do nothing. Should such be the issue of protectionist promises, they will cat as contemptible a figure as the young Peelites themselves, who are thundering every morn ing in their journal, and sneaking away in silence every night fi.m. the house. Abuse of the whip, even petty and personal abuse, forms the staple of the Morning Chronicle ; whilst the party which feeds and supports this organ votes for every whig measure, and dust not look in the face across the table of the House of Commons the objects of its matutinal ecurrility. By the bye the Times made itself Feelits yester day morning, and reproached Mr. COBDEN with sup porting the whip in preference to Peelites, although the non-intervention minister and tenets are to be found in the ranks of the latter. Where on earth did the Times discover that the friends of Mr. COBDEN support Lord Faiminurrost in intermeddling or inter vention? _ _ _ _ There is this difference between Lord PALMERSTON and the Times, that the one would keep up . fleets, armies, and diplomatists, to make use of them in awe in g and influencing the smaller powers, so as to aid what he considers the English or the liberal cause; the Times and its school would keep up fleets, armies, and diplomatists, to stand aloof and look on whilst the absolutist powers gens-d'armed Europe, and put on the fetters that revolution had knocked Off. For our part we would deprive the Foreign Secre tary altogether of his instruments. We would deny him Mediterranean fleets, or armies of marines, and would cashier his diplomatists, leaving Italy and Spain to fight their own battles, and make their own revolutions, wishing the liberals all success, and the tyrants the doom which is their desert, assuming towards all, as far as treaties would allow us, the forbearant policy of the United States, except when the actual wrongs or honour of the country call for redress, and striving anxiously and hourly to extricate the country from those diplomatic ties and guarantees, which are ever pleaded as binding us to all that is worthless, and retrograde, and perishable on the continent of Europe. 'Ens report of the Mint Commission, as will be seen from extracts in another . page, recommends a thorough reform and revision of that ill managed establishment, an abolition of all contracts, and existing agreements, a total cessation of all work carried on for private and pecuniary advantage, while at the same time it remarks with considerable severity on past negligence and inefficiency. It proposes like wise a permanent and resident Master of the Mint, In place of the usual political and changeable nonentity, and insists upon a system of official discipline so strict as to strike terror in the minds of those who have so long enjoyed the luxury of receiving enormous incomes without personal labour or attendance. So far it appears the commission have ful filled their duty, and courageously combated the abuses and corruptions of the Mint against every dexterous and plausible representation of interested parties; but we fear in the condemnation of the Erthey have not fully discriminated between the r; of the constitution and its practical working in the present hands of inefficient officers, nor given credit to the few who in spite of all obstacles and disadvantages have acted up to their duty, and so far sustained the credit of the Mint in the efficiency of their respective departments. They have in a measure condemned the innocent with the guilty. They censure all alike, as if all were equally slothful, corrupt, and negligent. Merit to whom merit is due, should have cha racterised the proceedings of the Commiasion. And we know there are at least some who, if placed in the general category of offenders, are moat unjustly . treated; who, if they have not received any praise in high qua rters, where negligence seems to have the preference, have at all events the con sciousness of having one their duty in singleness of pupae and with fidelity. But, so far from this hir sute having been displayed in the proceedings of the semmission, or any attempts made to separate the vutal and active from the useless and inefficient, we have seen the Muter of the Mint, in the House of Commons, go out of his way to praise those who, in the experience of all in the Mint, have been the greatest offenders in point of regu larity, attendance, and discipline. And we are equally astonished to learn that the Secretary of the with all his intelligence ! penetration, and r gt; sa t i . u o r icial experience , has been influenced by the delusive representations made by those parties, seeing if the working of the Mint depended upon their prac tical ability, habits of business, and knowledge of de tails, nothing would ever be done satisfactorily. And we maybe we if the new system be placed under their guidance (judging by the past) we may safely predict utter failure. In the management of the Mint, adminis trative and executive, as in any other manu factory, the only ab ility needed is ordinary at tention to business on the one hand, and knowledge of detail on the other, derived from practical experience; but we cannot have much confidence in those who have allowed the Mint to fall into its t state of dis organisation, and who either cl not or would not employ the authority vested in their offices to pro mote mplar attendance and efficient discharge of duties. Yet welearn these are the very men who have been put forward to defend and protect the corruptions of the Mint, the excellence of contracts, the zeal of the con tractors, the goodness and regularity of the coinage, which, if true, certainly did not molt from their zeal and labour in the cause. They take great credit to themselves for qualifications which the history of the Tut shows they are not entitled to : in times of pressure they have not been the first to place their shoulders to the wheel though their emoluments were thereby vastly enhanced. Daring the pressure of recoining the light gold, spread over several years, they deemed absence quite campanile with &dr duties and responsibilities, while the board, with perfect knowledge of the cir cumstance, thought it no part of their business to interfere, though the interests of the crown were deeply concerned. It is in these times of pressure that the new system will be tried ; and it would, there fore, better serve the public interests if the commission, or the secretary of the treasury, or whosoever the de tails of the new system be confided to, would inquire into such points, and prevent their recurrence, than engage their attention on other trifles of immaterial conse quence. We had been given to understand that the charge we brought in a former article, on such authority as we could not dispute—namely, that the refiner of the Mint had for years used the public silver by way of capital to carry on his :private work—not as money, but as bullion— had been flatly contradicted, and explained away to the satisfaction of the Treasury, who deemed it neces sary to demand an explanation. On consulting the report of the ocanminnon, however, we find that if it does not condemn, neither dote it exculpate the officer in question. The report says : " His (the melter and refiner's) responsibility, and his emolument, are wholly determined by formal arrangements with the Master, and by the amount of work executed in con formity with these written obligations, which leave him at liberty to carry on, also in the Mint, the opera tics= of refining and melting on his personal account. The privilege thus allowed appears to us particularly objectionable in regard to the refining process, which cannot, like that of melting, be carried on under the constant supervision of a' check' officer, but must be left to the refiner's own discretionary management, and unavoidably leads to a mixture of the precious metal belonging to the Mint with that under the operation of refining on his own a*. Vie 414;pres0. Ms Merl WM Mak " MmuSs. Own a Misr Odom. sea Mein. mai ailmIMM elm Mr Mr llll ll so Som•Ssamssos. Yaw Ormsls. ChM sal Pen. will mills sip ds mania WI Sr bid of Mardi (Mosersiv). ThbusMs kr Om Mmt Chot at Aida mil SieMttalMO es sts.l. op as dris MMb id Um& Ts bs mdismol. "By H.M.S. BMW' The 1011111*, Ass, Opselo. Like. Msdsiss, Cadiz, sad Gibraltar ern bs Igo ea the mandag of the 7th March. The mak Ms& eie Mosailliam to the Mediterranean, Rapt, Ada % llMPalht, ha, will to made ap as the maim gt i tltb Ms mils be Ml* Mr* baisrits, ref tie Milted Mates, walls mob sp as lbs amok* Mtbe 94h Wm*. fiamiMtMrwlYe,Mtalia.onus. laMma Wm% Feat, Ada, Mmiss. >diA Issm-Most. sad Mbs.ste SoaMssistoa. wW be sods spas Mr main el the Nth Mame. the alb kr Misw Sorb Mem, Yes Glemarra lead, sad New ZeMead will be sods ip am tie syseing d the Slat March. Ig i RTIIR AT LONDON =LOOK yina . PP pap $; Allarapa, II pia. pat ra.2lapp2 , 2 Pa. pat 7: 6.112ap05. f Eta. post 7. LONDON, THURSDAY, MAR. 1. WNW are we to have the grand secret ? When is Mr. Datum.' to indulge the impatience of parlia ment by disclosing his panacea, which is to relieve the agriculturists, content the aristocracy, and meet the crying exigencies of the public for economy and reform! Mr. HUME pressed the honourable gentle man on Friday last, and elicited a promise that he wolld be reedy on Monday to state his scheme. Bat Monday came, and although it brought an ample opportunity for the disclosure, the member for Buck inghamshire was mute. On Tuesday he wee more than mute, he was absent—oat of the way of even a &ere —perhaps closeted with the First Consul of Protection, Lord STANLEY, to tr 7 and lick the scheme into consistency and shape. We own the difficulty of the task. Each year the farmers have been gulled with some new, or strange, or impracticable device. Butthey have grown suspicious,restless: they doubt and question, and will certainly turn their backs alto- gether on the country party, unless it bait its hook with more art at least than usual, if not with more sincerity. We do not see how this party, after all its profes sions, can propose less than to repeal the malt tax. IL is even rumoured that they mill do so, that they will possibly carry it, and that they are prepared for the necessary consequence of taking the finances of the country into their management. Be it so. If they will come in as sincere economists, they are as welcome to us as any other, knowing that one of the indispen sable conditions of their holding power is their con forming to the principle of free trade. But we doubt altogether either their economy, or their desire to repeal the malt tax. Repeal it they = n o t, either without a large reduction of expend'. want. His sole obligation is to return such a quantity of fine gold and silver, respec tively, as the metal delivered to him may be computed to contain, according to the assay previously made of it; and it hence becomes impossible to ascertain that the property confided to him on the public account is not mu in some measure available as capital for carrying on his print* business." This is less a ver dict of acquittal than a challenge to the party accused to prove himself innocent. Aid after all, the commis sion were not under any necessity of leaving the ques tion in this unsatisfactory state ; by calhng for an official return they could have disoovered whether public silver delivered for refinement had been de tained some months while private twines. was going on. The commission have decided against the exist ence of the refinery, and other private works, as inimical to the public service, and inoon eistent with other and more important duties; and they do not hesitate to state—what has been noto rious for many years—that private and pecuniary motives have been obstacles in the way of good go vernment, and have clogged the w he els of the machine. _ _ So far, all the opinions we bare expressed with re ference to-the Mint have been confirmed, all the charge. substantiated, and the abuses proved; here after, when we have had leisure to study the report and the various documents appended to it more tho roughly, we may resume the subject. BERLIN. FEB, 25. Deputise of the First and Second Chambers throng daily in by all the rails, converging for the great bum• nese which begins to-morrow. Chance committees form in Snit and second!class carriages,and some of the extreme leftflnd their way into the waggons, either to enjoy there complete liberty to smoke their pipes at ease or to demonstrate the fraternal simplicity of re publican manners. These are heard to protest much against the invaded majesty of representatives of the people, who are summoned to the Weitsets Saat, or White Hall, of the palace, to hear the King's speech, and think the King ought to come, as indeed British, French, Spanish, and other Kings do, and say what he has to say at their house; and such say flatly that they will not go. This, however, was left an open question at the meeting of the Left, which took place the night before last, at Melente's Tavern, and where old acquaintances returned for new districts shook hands, and welcomed the adherents they have gained among the new deputies. Waldeck, Unruh, d'Ester, Temme, Rodbertus, and Von Berg were there, and soon came in fresh from the train Schneider, Pax, Kirchmann, Otto, and others. They will pro. Unruh for Presidett of the Second posei Chamber. The last meeting of the Right, held at the London Hof, counted about 150 members. Sharp disputes prevailed among them : but it was understood that Orabow united the greatest number of votes as candidate for the presidentship of the people's chamber. The inaugural sitting of both assemblies will be held in the " White hail" of the palace : the succeed ing ones in the separate buildings prepared in the Leipsiger-Strasse. The King arrived yesterday from Charlottenberg. They . say that Brandenburg has ventured to hint to his Majesty the advantage of brevity in a speech from the throne, but the prudent counsels of the mi nister will hardly prevail any more than the King's own painful personal experience to curb his passion for oratorical display, and to suppress the indulgence of his fatal gift for speechifying. As a seasoning for the reception of the royal lecture, the minister of public worship has ordered divine service to be per formed in the cathedral for the edification of the evan gelical members who are said in the official notice to have begged for this solemnity. A corresponding mass wit lbe celebrated for the catholic members in the church of St. Hedwig. The greenness of some of the new members and their ignorance of the capital and its ways are a sub ject of mirthful anecdote. A bevy of Rhine-crnser vatives coming from Cologne got out at Potsdam, and bid one another "Schlafin ale wohl" with all possible solemnity, thinking they were at Berlin, and calling for droehkies; but presently, to their great astonish ment, the whistle shiill'd for departure, and all rushed to regain their meats as well as they could. The King reviewed before his departure from Charlottenberg the two battalions of musketeers of the 24th regiment of infantry, which have been in garrison at Berlin during the last year, and suffered much in the street fighting. They are now gone to Stettin. The compliments of the King on their smart appearanoe and loyal conduct have been clenched by a panegyric from Wrangel, in his order sf the dey. The murmurs grow more and more audible among the constitutional royalists against the prolongation of the state of siege. The - appointments of Von Arnim to the ministry of Foreign Affairs, and that of Von Rabe to Finance, appear in the Gazette of yesterday. The King's uncle came last night by the train from Munster, with Bodelschwingh, where they have been assisting at the funeral of Prince Waldemar. The Spanish minister, Donoeo Cortes, has arrived. The envoy of the United States, Major Donaldson, is on the eve of setting out for Frankfort. An English cabinet courier arrived yesterday from St. Petersburg, and returns with despatches at the end of this week. BRAZILEL—PALMOIITH, FEL 28, 10 A.m.—Her Majesty's Packet Petrel, Lieut. Career, has arrived from Rio Janeiro in 44 days. She has a small freight of about 12,0001. Although no particular news appeal, to have been extant, the rate of exchange had fallen to 22;d. HOLLAND.—Tae HAGUE, FEE. 27. Second Chamber of the States General.—ln reply to a qoestion put by Von Ryckevorsel, the Minister for Foreign Affairs in formed the chambers that the government had received from the government of Great Britain, communication of a treaty of pesos and commerce concluded on the 29th May, 1848, between the Sultan of Borneo Proper and the Queen of England, wherein it is stipulated that the Sultan of Borneo Proper engages to make no concession of territory to any other nation whatever, without the free will and consent of her Britannic Majesty. The minister stated that the government domed it expedient to confine it self, in the present instance, to making this com munication, but added that he, the minister, should give the treaty in question the most serious considera tion, as he conceived it to be a question of the very highest importance to commerce, to the colonies, and to the mother country. His Excellency added that the communication of the conclusion of the treaty had been made by the British government without any reference to what had taken place anteriorly on this subjec*, for the Netherlands note of the 27th of April, 1847, communicated to England, had remained unanswered to this day. A treaty has just been concluded between the Netherland' and Austria, by which the Ne therlands government is to place a considerable portion of the Netherlands fleet under the command of a Dutch admiral at the service of the Austrian government for a given period. Zbe Court. THE LEVEE. - The Queen held a levee (the second this season) yesterday afternoon in St. James's Mace. Her Majesty and Prince Albert arrived from Buckingham Palace shortly before two o'clock, attended by the Duchess of Norfolk and Lady Portman, Ladies in Waiting, Lord Camoys, Lord in Watling, Lord George Lennox, Lord in Waiting to Prince Albert, Mr. R. Ormsby Gore, Groom in Wilds's, Colonel Wylde, Groom in Waiting to the Prince, Colonel the Hen. Charles Grey, Equerry in Waiting , Colonel Seymour, Equerry in Waiting to His Royal Highness, Messrs. Crofton and Gordon, _Pages of Honour in Waiting. At St. James's Palace Her Majesty and His Royal Highness were received by the Lord Steward, the Lord Chamberlain, and the Groom of the SW* to the Prince. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge was present at the levee, attended by Major Baron Knesebeck, Equerry in Waiting. His Royal Highness the Hereditary Prince of Parma also attended the levee. - The Queen and Prince Albert entered the Throne-room, accompanied by the Duke of Cambridge and the Prince of Parma ' and attended by the ladies and gentlemen 'awaiting. The levee commenced by the introduction of the foreign diplomatic circle, when the following presentations to her Majesty the Queen, and his Royal Highness the Prince Al bert, took place:—By the Neapolitan minister, Prince Pe 'bulls, a Sicilian nobleman, from Palermo; by the Danish minister, M. de Tresohow, Coneeiller de Conference, Plenipo tentiary of his Danish Majesty, and M. Hopfner, Cooseiller et Attache ; by the Peruvian minister, Le Colonel Beltran, Secretary of the Peruvian Legation, and M. Henry Cars veto, Attaché to the Legation. The foreign diplomatic circle was attended by Mehmed Pacha, Turkish ambassador ; Mons. Zobrab, Consul. Gene ral fo r Turks and first Attaché to the Ottoman Embassy, and Yam E ffendi, Private Secretary of the Turkish Am bassador• Le Vioe - Amiral Cecilia, Ambassador of France ; Mons. Bailie (aide-de-camp de Famiral), Attachi i FAmbassade, and M. Sten% secmd Secretary, of the Embassy ; M. Van de Weyer, Belgian minis ter,!, and 2d. Eugene de Gerlache, Attaché to the Le gation; Baron de Cetto, Bavarian Minister; Viscount de Moscone, Portuguese minister, and Baron de Monoorvo, second Attache of the Legation ; Baron de Brannow, Bo- can minister; Id. C. de Kondrialfsky and Le Boron deifies' s ,. See harass os L ega ti on; General Prince Casale:kale, N " than minbder, and M. G. Cano'ari t Secretary of LecTiesesitl the Chevalier Bunsen, Frumben minister • Count de low, Danish minister ; Mr. George Banc roft, American nista ; Count Selaimmelpenninek, Netherlands minister, pa Baron Stratums, Councillor to the Legation ; Sam a s Bebausen, Swedish minister ; Senor J. J. de Osma, Peruvian minister; Senor Molina Costa Rica minister ; le Co ma Collorede, Austrian mini ster; and Col. the lion. Sir Edward Cust, K.C.H., her Majesty's Mester of the Ceremonies. The Brasilia& mi nis ter was prevented by indispositi on from attending her Midesty's levee. Aster the noeption of the diplointle corps, the ge lle d circle had the honour of being introduced. The following noblemen and gentlemen had the honour at being presented to her Mejetty. Sir W. Corti*, Baronet, by Sr J. Lubbock, Baronet. Dr F. Stonestreet, LLD., by the Queen's Advocate. Mr. B. B. Estcourt, by his father Mr. B. Estcourt. Mr. W. A. Tickler, on his appointment as one of her Majesty's Honorable Corps of Gentlemen at Arms, by Lora Foley. M. A. De Pentheny O'Kelly, on his appointment as one of her Majesty's Honorable Corps of Gentlemen at Arms, by Lord Foley. Mr. Fulmar, on his appointment as Cisrencieux jog of Arms, by the Earl Marshal. Mr. F. Bulimic, on his appointment to the Court of Lieutenancy of London, by Mr. D. W. Wire. Mr. Banbury, by Lieutenant General Sir C. Napier, G.C.B. _ _ _ Viscount Templetown, by the Honorable Colonel G. Upton. Sir H. Light, 8.C.8., on leaving the government of B. Guiana, and being mode a K.C.8., by Earl Grey. Sir B. B. McMahon, Baronet, by Lieutenant General Sit T. McMahon, Baronet, K.C.B. The Honorable A. Annesiey, 16th Lancer, by Lieutenant Colonel Smyth, C 8., 16th Lancers. Mr. P. Wells, by Major General Wemysa.` Lord Ashburton, on succeeding to the title, by Sir Francis Baring. Mr. Jervis Ams, by Sir Thomu Pelham Hayes, Bart. Mr. George King Thornhill, by Sir Thomas Pelham Hayes, Bart. Mr. Thornton, on appointment u Deputy Chairmanof the Irelamd Revenue Board, by the Chancellor of the Exch.. quer. Rev. J. H. Gurney, on his presentation to the Rectory of St. Mary's Marylebone, by Lord John Russell. The Rev. Archer Clive, by Mr. Clive. Mr. W. H. Holmes, Civil Service, British Guiana, by Bad Grey. Mr. Alexander Clark Forbes, buriater-atlaw, by Dr. Forbes. _ Mr. Peter Maze, jun., Higb-Sheriff of the city and colony of Bristol, by Mr. P. W. S. hfiles M.P. Mr. John H. Haire, Surgeon, R.N., on service since prO. motion from the Royal Yacht, by Sir William B tu . nett, K.C.11. Mr. Quintus Vivian, Major, Northamptonshire Militis,by Colonel Sir J. M. Wilson, C.B. Mr. John Wood, on appointment as Chairman of thelkad of Inland Revenue, by the Chancellor of the Ezeheousr. Mr. Philip Crawley, ColJatream Guards, by Colonel a m lin, Coldstream Guards. Dr. G. H. Jones, Deputy-Lieutenant, Hants, by ilithates Clark, Bart. , The Rev. George Augustus Frederic Hart, on lois: op. pointed Chaplain in Ordinary to her Majesty, by deep lad Norfolk. _ _ — The Rev. J. G. Angley, M.A., by the Right Hon. tbt Earl of Beuborough. Rev. H. Mackenzie, Vicar of St. Martin-in-the-Fitkla, by the Bishop of London. Lieut. Buckley, Scots Fusilier Guards, on his appointment, by his father, Col. Buckley. Lieut.-Col. Sir C. Rowan, on being nominated iCinl Knight Commander of the Most Hon. Order of the Bath, by the Right Hon. Sir G. Grey. Lieut.- Gen. Sir J. Caldwell, on his investiture of Grand Crou of the Bath; Major.-Gen. Sir A. Galloway, K.C.8., on receiving the honour of Military Knight Com mander of the Both; Lieut. Colonels Bloomfield and Sind. ham, on promotion ; Capt. Burrows, on return from (maga service ; Capt. Elgee, on return from foreign service and pro. motion; Licata. Milmen and Miller, on promotion; Lieut. H. Hinny, on promotion; Lieuu. P. L'Estrange ' Grylb, Boyle, F. L'Estranue situ Irvine, on receiving their com. 1111114i0ILII, Royal Artillery, by the Master-General of the Ordnance. _ _ Lfeel.:Col. J. M. Cameron, on his return from India; Capte. (I. Clarkson and J. Da W. C. J. Moir, by Sir J. C. Robhouse. Lieuts. R. Inglis and W. Morris, by Msj-or•Gen. Lien!. lyn, C.B. Vice-Admiral Dares, on his return from the command at the Cape ; Rear-Admiral Falcon, on his promotion ; sad Capt. Charles Eden, R.N., on appointment as private secre tary, by the First Lord of the Admiralty. Lieutenants G. H. L. Boynton, Lester, Gar?and, W. 8. Brinkley, and Cornet Eyre Costa (11t h Hussars), by the Earl of Cardigan. Captain John Kingcome, R.N., on retina from foreign service; Lieutenants Henry B. King, Juhn Cartwright, and Christopher, R.N, on return from foreign service, by Rear Admiral Dundee. Major Walpole, on promotion ; Captains Jerrois and Robert Laffan by Sir John Burgoyne. Lieutenant- C o lonel Wilke, on return from service in Ireland, and Second-Lieutenant Price, on appointment to Royal Marines, by Col. Owen. Colonel James Campbell, K.H., on his return from Cry. lon and China, and Lieutenant Orde, on promotion, by the Adjutant,General. Commander 0. Napier, by Vice-Admiral Dines. Captain Thomas Henderson, R.N., on return from foreign service, by Capt. Pechell, R.N. Captain Lard Burghersh, Scots Pusileer Guards, by Col. Berkeley Drummond. Lieut. Palley, on receiving his commiuion to the Royal Artillery by his father, Major General Sir Charles Paddy. Ensign W. Henry Cecil Nebel'. on appointment to 77th Regiment, by Captain Pechell, R.N. Ens'ign D. A. M'Neill, 15th Regiment Madras Infantry, by Mr. Lockhart, M.P. Cornet T. Puget, 15th Hussars, by Lord Radatock. Lieutenant Lowndea, 47th Regiment, on promotion, by Major Gen. Delmer, C.B. Ensign Gawler, 73rd Regiment, on appointment, by bit lather, Colonel Gawler. Lieutenant Pitt Bontein, on bin appointment to the Hon. —.iery Company, by the Postraititer General. Captain Augustus Hotham, by Lord Hotham. Captain Ellis, on his appointment to the Hon. Aram, Company, by the Postmaster General. Lieutenant Heavkide, 16th Lancers, by Lient.-Colowl Smyth, C.B. Cornet Puget, 16th Hussars, by Lord Radstock. Colonel Sir Duncan bi'Gregorr, on being appointed s Knight Commander of tie Bath, by the Right Hon. Sir George Grey, Bart. Lieut. J. IL. Taylor, 9th Regiment Madras Native Infra try, by Major-General H. G. A. Taylor, C.B. Lieut. Bamufylde, 49th Regiment, by Lieut-Genenl Sir E. Bowater, K.C.H. Lieut. Bawden, 22nd Regiment, by Sir Charles J. Na. pier, G.C.B. Lieut. F. o.Whitehead, 7th Royal Fulani", on Ids ream from foreign service, by Lient.-General T. A. Paul Her gregor. Lieut. Robert W. B. Hunt, Royal Marines, on appoint ment, by Rear-Admiral Sir Thomas Fellowes, C.B. Lieut. James d'E. Taylor, Royal Marines, on return fns foreign service, by Lieut.-General Sir John Buchan, K.C.B. Lieut. J. W. Percy, 9th Regiment, by Lieut.-Georg Paul Macgregor. Lieut. General J. A. Paul Macgregor, on his return from Gby Lieut:eneral Sir Thomas MstMahon, Barn, l itth ..Captain C. Strong, Collstream Guards, by Col. Chaplin. Captain R. C. Moody, Royal Engineers, on his mans front the government of the Falkland Islands, by Earl Grey. Cornet R Goff, 16th Lancers, by Lieut.-Col. Smyth, C.B. Captain Gowan, 97th Regiment, by Major-General Sir It. Galloway, K.C.B. After the levee, Capt. Phibbs had an indicate of the Queen in the royal closet, kissed hands, on Wm appoinnoni , and received front her Majesty hie silver stick of alma Eson of the Body Guard of the Yeoman Guard. CIO. Phibbs was presented to the Queen by the Idarqsit of Donegal, G.C.H., Captain of the Yeoman Guard. Lieut. Bellaire was presented to her Majesty at an anthems in the royal closet by the Marquis of Donegal, G.C. 11 , and had the honour of kissing bands, on his arpointment and receiving from the Queen his silver stick of office as 111011 Of the Body Guard of the Yeoman Guard. Capt. Augustus Hotham had an audience of the QUM if the royal closet, and delivered to her Majesty the ensign rat Knight Grand Cross of the most honourable Order of tki Bath, worn by the late Admiral Sir William Hotham. The Queen and Prince Albert afterwards left St. Jamtir Palace on their return to Buckingham Palace. Her Idqvitl and his royal highness were conducted to the garden entrance by the Lord Steward, the Lord Chamberlain, and the ofiems of the royal household on duty, SUPPOSED MURDER AT ISLINGTON. Yesterday morning, shortly after six o'clock, do body of a gentlemanly attired man, between filty and del years of age, was discovered lying with his throat cat andil a giol of blood, at the entrance to a field called Donis Brick Field, in the Caledonian road, Islington, within short distance of the East India Dock Junction of the V* don and North Western Railway. The discovery was first made by a man named Eli Dean who dates that he went to work in Kr. Dellniel Brick FieF (in whose employ he is), and on entering the field his atten tion wu attracted by the whining of a dog ; and he saw s little black and white curly dog aiding at the feet of the bed/ of a man lying immediately behind the palisades. 01 going to the spot, he observed at the southern end of tii l palisades a large pool of blood, at a distance of about twenty feet from where the body lay, and on going 1 1::a the body he found the face and neck covered with blood, another large pool in which it lay. The dog growled 11d snapped at him as he approached, and seeing the blood 0 1 the body, he knocked up some workmen who lived near. About four or five feet from the 1 1 11 where the first pool of blood wu discovered Its a purse, empty, with the sxoeption of a small key, and int_hl mud of the pond, about 30 feet from the body, they "n the blade of an old ruor, which, with the exception of abo% two inches of the broa d put of the blade, was hued rasa` with strong cord, in order to give a hold and answer the psF; pose of a handle. Between the place where the first pool i• blood was discovered and the place where the body la 1 wooden bar, fi xed into the ground at one end, sail in a slanting direction upward to the top of the palisades'sll: order to rapport them. The top of this bar is cover ed ir tenter hooks, and on one of the hooks the right-baud 8100