The Express. — London, England, 1855-02-22 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF COMMONS—IVEDNEsDAT, Fn. 21. The BPNAIRI took the chair at 2 o'clock. PRIVATE BUSINESS. The following bills were read a second time and embed to be committed :—Cougleton Inch:cute ; mei Mezhans Roads ; Hello Bridge ; Limerick and Castleammail Railway; Valley and Bridgend Railways; and Carlisle lway ; Newcastle-under-Lyme Gassßiu hedged Limerick Railway, Bills. NEW WRIT. On the motion of Mr. HAITIR, a new write 11l Mama to be kissed for the borough of Swansea, in the mens SIM& Vivian, deceased. PUBLIC BUSINESS. PETITIONS PRESENTED. Ten WAR.—By Mr. Cnooa , from the Mayor and 370 manufacturers and tradesmen, electors of the borough of Bolton, disapproving of the war, and in favour of an im mediate restoration of peace, and the insertion of arbiter tics *lames in future treaties with the view to avert war. Btu.' or Exceszios BILL —By Mr. Fesousow, from the Mayor, beakers, and traden of the city of Carlisle, thee the Bills of Exchange Bill now before the house may set Par. • DRIPPING Dum.—By Mr. MILLIGAN, from the Kam sidennes, sad burgesses of Bradford, against the does of Liverpool being applied for the improvement tows, Le. PUILIC HIALTR BILL.—By Mr. LIDDILL, free lie directors of the Liverpool A battoir Company, *NM* rWits may be protected in the Public Health Bill. BriliCoPAL AND CAPITILLR &MAT= BILL —t a t& Bosume-Csarzn, from Imam ßosuar - CAaTsa , of church property gad near Winchester, again t. Mit.nao■ Doti.—By Lord Blotto., from Henry Braille. wake, of Kirkby LoaMale ; Mr. BARSIZS, from stage NMI proprietor of Bolter, against mileage charges en =tamale and stage coaches. INTORIcATING LIDIIOII.—By Mr. SCROLRPIILD, hest Dinniogbano, for prohibiting the ale of intoxicating liquors. RETURN. Oa the motile of Mr. Wri.Luea the following return was ordered :—A return of the exports and imports of cop. • per, tie, lead, gad 'Filter, Ihr teens months, siding with the 6th day of Julian', 1866. BARNSTAPLE ELECTION. Tbe select committee upon this election came to the table and were sworn. The members to serve epos it are Mr. G. Butt, Marquis of Blandford, Mr. D. Seymour, Lord Le mine, and Sir J. Reamer. NoIsANcEs REMOVAL AND DISEASES PRE VENTION ACTS CONSOLIDATION AND AMEND MENT BILL. Sir B HALL, in rialtos_ to mere the mem* s et this hill, said that he wield mete de aiteeelime ebb* he proposed to make ia it. He bad bed e egetergeoe milk the Lord Advocate, sad elm with the Secretary for Ireland spin the subject, get N had bees egelidered that for Boot land and Ireland mowed* nemeses Arabi be Rep!meisid been the present beg wield bees nelbeeellio to mows sell Wales only. In gesiebtiegaaa t ßeimeeeles Mw be had is view, it wed* be seermay tbe been *et the bill consisted of toe pate. One et these eon- Weed general provisions, whale would be equally applicable at all times; the ether was made sp of these chases which were only esglieside to pertfisebr circumstances, such as those which seemed lest yege whim this emery wee visited by that Wag lime—tbe &dem He proposed that these two portages et tbe I ibedi be separated, and therefore, if the keno wertioamest M the emend reading of the measure, be messeed min idle sew miters pro Jingo, and striking me rah tie dean idea were adapted to:special occasions only. The elliMit drool at those) clause would be carried net =ere ilia. These were the only material attritive. e r e to make in the bill. He should not et dot doe gsdetthm into the question, but leave the matter, msu the second reading of the bill, before the brass, la do that hoe. members would give him such Ilespitlisi SI they thought would add to the efficiency of the mom& Some oricomeate gad suggestions open different pekoe of detail presented in the measure were offered by Lewd key mour, Mr. Henley, Mr. Williams, sad other osembsee. The bill was tom reed a second time, and ordered to be Mesa to a select committee. _ _ PUBLIC HEALTH BILL. Oa the motion that this bill be read a second time, bir B. HALL said he would take that opportunity of replying to some of the observations which had bees made ; and first with regard to those of the hoe. member for Not tinghamshire. Re could assure hiss that he had no desire to curtail discussion on these two bills; on the contrary, he bad taken a course which would produce greater discussion, end after the bills cams down from the select commute, he would follow the suggtio• of Mr. Newdegate, and have them printed, and afford some time for their consideration before they were brought es in committee of the whole house. When he introduced the bills on the 23rd January, be stated that they ware connected with a subject of vast interest and some difficulty in legislation. He was more that ever convinced by the statements which had been made that day that it was a subject of great difficulty in regard to legislatko. It wee his duty not to shrink from those dill mddes, and be hoped to bring before the select committee ail the suggestions which had been made to him by moires lewd asthorities all over the kingdom. His only *et wee to produce useful measure., and he had no wish to hp tame with existing interests any further them wee necessary for the benefit of the publie at kap. With reference to a suggestion of Lord heymeree, that the provision in the Public Health hot whisk provided that the act should come into operation when the mortality was 23 in 1,000 should be transferred to the Memos Removal Bill, the difficulty wee that the re visions in the Nuisances Removal Bill were only tempeetwy l , and only came into operation by order in council im Pe ere of epidemics. He would endeavour to get over the dif ficulty and adopt the suggestion, if possible. Witt st mr ta d to the question of boundaries and the alteration of that difficulty must be met by the select committee, where mob details would be better considered. He knew that grist objections exieted to an imported provision in the Public Health Bill, namely, the compulsory powers to take land foe the purposes of the act. That was a valuable power; but every care would be taken to guard private interests while at the same time the public benefit was dulyoonsidered. But looking to the expense of private bills for local purposes, he thought that the time was come when some other ma chinery should be devised for effecting those purposes. As a specimen be would state that the expense of persist the Halifax Water Works Bill amounted to noises thee 7,,401. That chewed that it was time to alter this eyeless ; and it would be a subject for the select committee to consider whether some other tribunal could not be substituted for the present. After alluding to some other details of the bill, the right hon. baronet concluded, by expressing his hope that by bringing all the suggestions be bad received before the select committee, and passing the bill through that committee as soon as possible, •orne good and eacient measures would be passed at no distant period of the ses sion. (Hear, bear.) The bill was then read a second time. COMMON LAW PROCEDURE (IRELAND) BILL. This bill passed through committee. SUPPLY. The house then went into committee of supply. Mr. WILSON moved that a sum not exceeding 17,183,0001. be granted to her Majesty, to pay off and dis charge Exchequer Bills charged on the aids of 1866 ceps vided for. geed to. WILSON then moved that towara making good the supply pasted to her Majesty the sum of 20,0110,0001. De greeted oat of the Consolidated Fund, which was also agreed to, without remark ; as was likewise a vote of 1,300,000 i. for the deficiency in the greats for the OOTTISO the year ending the 31st March, 1855. ARMY SERVICE AMENDMENT BILL. Mr. F. PEEL moved the second reading of this bill, the object of which he stated was to allow the enlielmient of for • less period than ten yearc Th a t bringing in the measure rested partly on of a technical nature, and partly on considerable, et policy. The act of 1847 provided that geldings tad be enlisted for a period, not smelling ten yews; bet there were certain schedules attached to the sat which required the enlistment to De for ten yens. sod the object of this measure was simple to alter then Nil.• doles, so as to remove that effect. The bill was leavened In order that they might De able to obtain mem at an las which they had more physical capacity to send. ships than the young men who at present fridktoi. ?boy thought it would be well to obtain men of 33 ea di yeas of age. Of course it was competent for them now*, astavt men of any age ; bat it was necessary to held mat greater inducements than now ezisted, and the Judgement held oat was the option of enlisting for three or Ave years. It might be interesting to the house to know bow the re cruiting we , going on. In the year 1853, the somber of recruits was 11,545 ; in 1854, they were noises than 34,844; of whom 1,942 were volunteers from the militia. In the month of Jusuary of the present year the enlistments were so lees than,41,092, of whom 1,190 were from the militia and that large number had been continued daring the three weeks of the present month. (Hear, hear.) Colonel FORESTER said the noble member for Tet uan had on a former occasion made arms disparaging ob servations respecting the household cavalry. Now, in 1853, be (Colonel Forester) was in the camp at Chub. ham, with the Scotch Greys, the 4th Light Deer goons, and the Bth Hussars. They were in MEW for ea weeks ; and he would appeal to any may man who had the opportunity of °laming whether OM SF giment he (Colonel Forester) had the honour of eennamit. Mg did not go through that period with fewer andionle and with fewer fells over the ground than any Klee es* meat. They went through their evclations at tate SNOB pose as the others did, and with fewer accidents. The Maureen et weight between the Scotch Greys and the Boyd Bone Guards was a storm sad a half—be meant ghee they were in marchisg order. The difference between tbe Light Ca. valry and the household Brigade was two Mom The noble lord mid the Scotch Orem both man end bane, were too heavy for the service. Now, on that point be would vied a paarago from Alisou's " history of Europe." (The gallant c•isisi I then read • pusses from the des of the battle of Waterloo, to the effect tbs., the prima attacked the 7th Hamm 1,14 5 , liP • ot horses and tbeimbees of whose men were so match tor. 4,, F renc h Levavg. I aid that Lord Uxbridge no so,„ ree ppe~rce eft am b e 4haried l a Ponce at lilt's' s& of the life (ionis e a& lA. these neoplasms troops attacked the French horsemen with es meek Own sheathe charge was irresistible.) He thought this staleinest seemary after the attack made es the ' Household Cavalry by the noble lord, who said they looked no better than beefeaters. Lertl BITHOUR said he had to contrarian , the gallant idsaelesltissesiment having gone through their mole time IS troll. He wished, however, to all the attesam of she home to what be did my es the amain refined to.l They lad now three regiments of the Household Brigade,' and there were about 400 horses to cosh regiment. 'What he did say was, that one effective regiment was better than threeisieetivs regiments, and not only this, but that then weeillast be a greater cost to the public. What they had get SIM me the maximum of expense and the minimum of eilleseng. They had all the oaken far three memento, sad mos only for one. Thatiapplied not only to the Home bold Brigade, but to all the other cavalry regiments. When they asked in the committee bow this was theywere informed that each of these regiment. must be considered as • nucleus, and that as soon as war came they would fill them up. War did nine, bet they did not fill them up ; they sent them abroad as they were. He was convinced that this was an admirable system for giving patronage to the Horse Gonda, but it was not a goods ys tem for the efficiency of the service. He spoke of As Household Brigade mere especially, because when they could only raise 9,000 cavalry he thought they should not all be light cavalry. He did not for a momeat dispute their officiary at Waterloo. Fresh from this country, they would overcome almost anything that was against these ; but if the hoe. and gallant alone' had referred to the Peninsula he would have found they did not do so well. If he had known this question was to have come could have shown that the great weight of the levees end men me a prat drawback. Colonel ENO% suggested that the men should net be enlisted for a lees period than five years. Mr. F. PEEL mid the period would probably be for three years. The bill was then read a second time. MUTINY BILL. The Marine Mutiny Bill and the Mutiny Bill were sever ally read a second time. BREACH OF BLOCKADE, efts. Sir G. PECHBLL moved for a nture of all vessels seised under neutral dap for a breech of blockade, fee ear- Lliy esk einslated papers sr goods natraband of war, sine M 1 of March, IW, with the was of the several Inpine, mg el the chess, or of the authorities that Ming Me re Id* OS dates of the several mimes. NW when min lakes in the Court of Adminiponlillie = ill er P ossaimestion or the n retios nada, ths WOW di nep, ths atemege, and moan of the Sale aMa nese and the 'ergo with the smoust of all One. alstass, an d expanse incurred; distinguishing the en Mese of tie several proceedings in the Court of Mil. WV, mad the exeunt of fees in each cue paid to MS if. leen of the news and comae' employed, wilt the Maud of the Mime remaining for distribution to she NOMy gad when gotiee of the same was published in the Os ofes Alma to. COURT OF CHANCERY (IRELAND). Mr. WHITESIDE moved for and obtained leave to bring in the following bills : Bill to modify the structure of the Court of Chancery in Ireland, by abolishing the Manton' offices, and creating cer tain of the muters vice-chancellon, so u to &loutish impetus and delay in the prosecution of suits. Bill to amend the procedure of the Court of Chancery in Ireland, with a vie n to improve the same, and under pro tesdiap in that court cheap and ezpedidous. Bill to regulate the practice of the Court of Chancery in Ireland, is relation to the appointment of receivers sad management of nista by them, with a view to remove the Omen and diminish the ezpense attendant on rash unmeant. Bill to facilitate the sale of estates under the Court of Chaucer, in Inland, and to render the titles of purchasers SKIM Bill to remove the causes of delay, exposes, and other obstacles incident to appeals from the Court of Chancery in Ireland. Bill to render the public charges payable by euiton in:the High Court of Chaacery in Ireland conformable to the modification is the practice of that 001ift. Mr. 1. G. FITZGERALD said there we* a royal eat mission sitting on this subject which commenced its sittings is December tut. At this moment the e4mmissioners were buy making inquiries, and they hoped soon to be able to lay the malt of their ninon before the house. Lune was then given to bring in Use bill. SLIGO ELECTION, 1853. Mr. KEOGH moved "that the proper officers do attend at Sligo at the neat assizes ' and produce such documents as may be neosmary for the trial of hliabael Gethin, Henry Simpson, and James Simpson, ordered by the house to be prosecuted on the 27th day of March, 1854; and that Henry Yet Scymer, Esq., a member of this house, be at liberty to attend and give evidence on the trial." Agreed to. The hones adjourned at ten minutes past five. • THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 22, 1855. Cbe Court. -- The Queen and Prince Albert drove out in a sledge yesterday morning, attended by the Hon. Matilda Paget, Lord Alfred Paps, and Captain the Hon. Dudlei de ill& The Princess Royal, Prince Arthur, with the H. Nary Seymour, sad the Equerry in Waiting, drove oat yeataiday in a sledge. The royal dinner party in the evening included Vitalist and Viscountess Palmenton, Lord Panraurr, Lady Alfred Paget, Lady Elizabeth de Roe, and the Itight.Han. the A Cabinet Council was held at the Foreign office, Downing•street, yesterday afternoon. The minister' present were Viscount Palmerston, the Lord Chancellor, Earl Granville, the Duke of Argyll, the Marquis of Lansdowne, Sir George Grey, the Earl of Clarendon, the Right Hon. Sidney Herbert, Lord Pentium the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir James Graham, Sir Charles Wood, Sir William Molesworth, Viscount Canning, and the Earl of Carlisle. The Council sat three hours and a quarter. Mr. Alderman Lennie and Mr. Hereford, parliamentary meat, es a denotative from the city of York, had ea fatn ess, da Tecoday with Sir Benjamin Hall, Bart., P., President of the Board of Health, at the office, Whitehall. were received from the Governors of Ceylon and eat Australia yesterday at the Colonial-office. INDIAN OFFICERS FOR THE WAR. It is understood that officers of the East India Company's Army, now on furlough in this country, and also those who have retired from that army but are fit for duty, will, on tendering their services at the proper department at the East India House, be recommended to her Majesty's Government for employment abroad during the war with Russia. THE COMMITTEE ON THE ARMY. The following is amongst the notices given yester day in the House of Commons : Mr. Roebuck—Army before Sebastopol—to nominate the select committee : Mr. Roebuck, Mr. Drummond, Sir John Pakington, Colonel Lindsay, Mr. Layard, Mr. Elliott, Lord Sey mour, Sir George Lewis, General Peel, Mr. Bramston, and Mr. John Ball. [Deferredfrons Thursday, 22nd till Friday, 23rd Feb.] It is understood that the above list has been agreed to by the Ministry. RESIGNATIONS. The Times thinks that the present ministry may b. strengthened rather than weakened by the new with drawals from rem and apprehends that this "strange desertion" his in no degree affected the determination of Lord Palmerston and his remaining colleagues "to carry oa the government with all the vigour of which they are capable." Ie a second artiste, the readers of the Times ue told that " Rumour has filled** vacancies. Sir Charles Wood is, its said, to succeed Sir James Graham at the Admiralty, when he was cam secretary ; Mr. Card well is to emend Mr. Gladstone, and Mr. Baines to take Sir G. Grey's pleas at the Hosse-olacc, while Sir G. Grey repliers his mann at the India Board. Minor thanes will of mane follow." The Morning Chronicle is alone antonpt the daily jour nals in abstaining from allusion to the meseslons. The Herald has heard " some persons say that the Pre mier will endeavour to reeonstruct a Cabinet. This will, indeed, be a task which many younger and as able men as Viscount P.ilmenton, under such circumstances, would shrink frost—but no incident in the political world can new surprise us." The Post believes " no difficulty Is likely to be superi ntend in filling tip the Cabinet immediately." Rumour has been busy in other directions than those mentioned by the Times. Thai Mr. Baines has been spoken of es Chantsll‘r of the /3:chequer ; Lord Seymour, as Se cretary of tse Colonies, and Sir F. Baring as First Lord of the Admiralty. Mire is a report, too, that a pleee will be found lathe Cabinet for Sir Benjamin Hall. The Wanderer of Vieona state* that the body of the Thae de B.elehstadt (Naple's IL) will be ooseryed to tin Preset frostier is the amuse of the must month, se leas se the railwejeue deer of owe. reference to them. Great dissatisfaeti noticed at the time, was manifested n, as we amongst Lord DERBY'S followers on learning that their shifty chief bad proposed to form a junction with the adherents of Lord ABERDEEN. The failure of the attempt did not wholly ap pease the resentments of the Carlton; and it was felt that, before again venturing to lead their Par liamentary troops to battle, it was indispensable that they should be " talked over . by their plausible, but somewhat unpopular chief. Summonses were consequently issued for a meeting of the Tory Oppo sition at the residence of Lord DERBY, by whom the assemblage was harangued on general topics and general tactics for the space of three quarters of an hear. When the noble Earl concluded, the storm of angry remonstrance and reproach broke forth. The heart of bigotry wu fall, and it sought relief in vehement denunciations of Peelism, Puseyism, and we know not what beside. Lord DERBY aw that it was no time for trilling with his party, so he determined to make clean work of it, and to make his humble con fession of error upon beaded knees. He had no idea,. he declared, of the depth of the aversion entertained by his friends for Mr. LDSTONIS and Sir JAMES ORMAN. If he had known it, he certainly should not have outraged propriety so much as he had unfortunately done, by seeking to re-unite by the golden link of office those between whom there existed such invete rate antagonism. But he solemnly promised that, if they would once more trust him, he would never make so serious a mistake again. The frowns of the country gentlemen relaxed as they beheld their haughty leader humbled and penitent at their fest. The sardonic countenance of the lieutenant whom he had just three weeks since offered to throw over in order to make room for "Oxford's Own"—slowly reco vered its wonted air of supercilious self-complacency. He had been sorely wounded by the unworthy offer to sacrifice him to a hated rival in debate and oppo nent in policy : but DISRAELI could now afford to forgive, for he had been amply avenged. Towards the close of this notable con ference, all parties seemed to have resumed their good humour, and mutual reliance on one another's faith and wisdom. The latter sentiment, indeed, was for a moment disturbed by an expression which fall from Lord DERBY, to the effect that in dims lilas these nobody could foresee with whom they might be driven to coalesce; and that, for his part, having begun u a Whig, aid been compelled to turn Tory, be should not like to swear that he might not finish by giving office some day or other to Mr. Joint BRIGHT : so incorrigible is the love of badinage in the man, and so wilfully does he try the un-elastic temper of his long-suffering followers.—Doily Nam CONTEMPT OF THE COURTS. One of those troublesome tribunals, the Ecclesias tical Courts, has been imprisoning a poor woman for not paying the costa of " contempt." We inserted some letters relating to this case last autumn, and again invite attention to it, as it was brought before the House of Commons, on Tuesday, by Mr. Bazaar, in the shape of a petition from the sufferer. The petition was from CusaLorn Imes, who formerly resided in Merthyr Tydvil, and was the wife of a collier in that district, and the mother of 14 children. She stated that in 1850 she was falsely charged with using language which was calumnious; that in consequence thereof she was served with • citation from the Consistory Court of Llandaff ; that she offered to make a recantation of words which she had never used, but the expenses amounted to between 71. and 81., a sum beyond the ability of hermit or her husband to pay; that in the month of April last she was taken to Cardiff gaol; that she has thus been, from the 15th April, 1854, to the 20th February, 1855, incarcerated for an offence which she never committed. She also stated that she had applied to the Bishop of the diocese and to the Secre tary of State for the Home Department, from neither of which authorities had she obtained any relief. She therefore came to the House of Commons with the humble prayer that by the authority of Parliament the law might be repealed which gives jurisdiction to the Ecclesiastical Court in cases of slander, and that steps might be taken to deliver her from her present position. We understand that a petition has also been presented to the House of Lords, and that the LORD CHANCELLOR has intimated that a bill is in prepara tion to remove the evil. The imprisonment was for contempt, as she was too poor to employ a proctor is the snit. A gentleman of the neighbourhood charitably employed a proctor on her behalf, and an appearance was entered in November last; bat the court refuses to issue a discharge until she pays the cost of the contempt. BLACKSTONE tells us that these " eccentriced" tri banaL are admitted in England, not by any right of their own, but upon bare sufferance and toleration from the municipal laws. "We permit some kinds of suits to be of ecclesiastical cognisance which other nations have referred entirely to the temporal oostrbr—se concern ing wills and successions to intestates' chattels; and perhaps v. e may, in our turn, prohibit them from interfering in some controversies which on the continent may be looked upon as merely spiritual." Perhaps we may; and the sooner the better. As to suits of defamation, they are now, according to the report of the Commissioners of the Ecclesiastical Courts, of infrequent occurrence in London ; but they prevail to a considerable extent in many of the jurisdictions in the country. Now this poor creature, if she said anything slanderous at all, which she denies having done, probably in dulged in some idle or even ill-natured gossip, which was unworthy of notice, and any oomplaint of which, if brought before the common law tribunals, would have been laughed out of court. Had the verdict gone against her, her solicitor might have sued her for Ma sods, and she might have been imprisoned. In such ease, we could only have said that, as a jury had found her guilty, she must take the coma- queues. But, tried by a single judge, acting as the arch-inquisitor of a tmonkish, mysterious tribunal, which no one respects, and judging by rules of evi dence and examination which nobody knows any thing about, the case is too bad. Perhaps, as 131.scxsrons says, we may prohibit these ab surd courts from proceeding in such mat ters—perhaps we may adopt the characteristic . . - advice given by the digger up of Nineveh in another matter, and send a man with a hatchet to put them up root and branch. They are an absurd anachro nism. Our robust but peaceful friend, Mr. BRIGHT, in presenting the petition, said—" I shall not be in order if I express au opinion, I will therefore confine myself to stating a fact. It is this; that a state of things like that shown in the petition is most scan dalous." The house "hear, hear'd," and laughed. We say "boar, hear," without laughing; and we say that the ease disclosed is most scandalous.—Daily News. INQuizT ncro Wei Mayor of Carlisle, Robert Irespesa. Beg., has convened • pubis meths to be held ea Friday, the 23rd instant, in accordance with a rogideltisa numeconely sigaed by the citizens, to take into esseklecatiaa the propriety of peti tioning parliameat in fa o , of • thorough and complete isquiry into the oases of theileasters of the British army in the Cameos r. The Ehe erpreoo. TO CORRESPONDENTS. dvertleameate late Wed for "The Express; Lowden Evesthi yaw, nod be et the Übe, 10, Boaverio4Weet, by Two o'ficak on the day of paillestke. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tits Dor —literati& 66. 36nt Afternoon, lb. lin. To•+tauow—MornllL, IX 32m Afternoon, 6h, Uns. LONDON, TB URSDA Y, FEBRUARY 22. LATEST NEWS FROM ABROAD TzLzowax.) PARIS, THUISDAY. The Monitor of this day contains the following: " The latest news from the Crimea states that the weather was very tine, and the snow had disap peared everywhere. News from Balaklava had ar rival up to Feb. 12, conveying the intelligence that the siege works were carried on at all points with the greatest activity. The railway between Baa klava and the English camp had already advanced very much. N Karma', FEB. 10.—A great many vessels have arrived with troops. _ _ _ " VARNA, Fas.lo.—More than 30,000 Turks have arrival, and are entrenched near the town. A fur ther contingent of troops is to leave Baltschik imme diately for the Crimea." AT length we believe that we may announce that the Coalition is Really at an end. Rumours prevailed after to Cabinet held on Tuesday that a disagreement had arisen between the Whigs and Aberdeenitee regarding the Committee of Inquiry. To-day, it will be remembered, had been fixed by Mr. ROEBUCK for the nomination of its members. It was necessary, therefore, that some definitive resolution should be come to ; and it wu clew to the most superficial ap prehension, after the manifestation of feeling in the Hones on Friday night, that further resistance to its appointment must be unsuccessful. Under these circumstances, there were obviously but two alter natives—to acquiesce in the nomination of the com mittee, or to resign. A majority of the Cabinet decided in favour of the former course, while a minority preferred the latter. Mr. GLADSTONE, Mr. SIDNEY HERBERT, Sir JAMES GRAHAM, and Lord CANNING persisted in considering theme elves bound in honour to their late colleagues, the Duke of NEWCASTLE and Lord ABERDEEN, not to assent to what they declared to be a direct vote of censure on them. They had consented, although involved themselves to no small extent in that censure, to suffer them to drop .stern; but when it was proposed to cut the rope of a com mon responsibility by which they were still con nected, and to let them fall off irretrievably, they deemed it more consistent with private friendship and public honour that they should quit the ship also. Accordingly, in the course of yesterday, the CHANCELLOR of the ExcesQuzit, the SECRETARY for the COLONIES, the FIRST Loan of the ADMIRALTY, and the POSTMASTER—GENERAL placed their reels . nations in the hands of Lord &Lummox ; and there appearing no prospect of changing their in tention by further discussion, and no time to waste in defer, his lordship forthwith proceeded to let disessedgmations before the QUEEN. Our readers will hardly be surprised to learn that Lord PALMERSTON neither professed to share the scruples of his out-going friends, nor to have any disposition to follow their example. He is Prime Minister of England ; he has grasped, after forty years of political competition, the great prize for which British statesmen contend. He has won it in spite of great obstacles, and he is not the man to let it go, after a fortnight's possession, without a struggle. If he cannot govern as the head of one sort of Cabinet, he is resolved to try whether another sort may not answer his purpose better. The vacant offices have, we under stand, been already offered to certain noblemen and gentlemen of the Whig party. Lord Paimmurrox having found a piebald impracticable, is determined to try bow one all of the same colour may work under his guidance. He has, indeed, been admo nished, if report speak truly, within the last few days that his Whig supporters are little disposed to acquiesce in any new admixture of party elements. While the Duchy of Lancaster was still vacant, the post was offered to Lord BRAFTESBURT, the Paratiza's Son-in-law; but no sooner was the noble Earl's acceptance known, than murmurs of a menacing kind arose, and to Lord BRANTEsstrairs surprise he received an intimation that reasons of State required the appointment of a noble Whig. Unless we are much misinformed, invitations have been now addressed to Lord BRirMoUR and Sir FRANCIS BARING to help to fill the vacancies occasioned by the withdrawal of the Aberdeenites ; and we have little doubt that similar offers have been or will be made to other members of the most exclusive of aris tocratic parties. Meanwhile, other resignations are impending in the household, and in various subordi nate departments. Another week of precious time, and how much more it were difficult to say, will be absorbed in another attempt to refit the drifting barque of Administration. We shall not hastily pre judge the result; but we tell Lord PALMER/MN plainly that if his second attempt be not made in a wholly different spirit from his first, he will fail a second time, as he has failed now. If he refuses to , listen to the angry voice of a nation, that warns him against exclusiveness and privileged pretension to monopolise the whole executive of the State, he never will succeed in retaining the dignity and power of Prime Miaister. A Coalition Cabinet has twice been wrecked upon these shallows within the last month : no Whig crew that ever put to sea will, in our present weather, be able to escape them. By a curious coincidence it so happened that, at the very time when Mr. GLADSTONE and hie friends were severing their connexion with their Whig colleagues, a remarkable scene was actually taking plans in the Tory amp having direct and significant DEATH OF JOSEPH HUME. Joseph Hume breathed his last on Tuesday, at 6 p.m., at his seat of Burnley Hall, in the county of Norfolk: There was an unvarying kindness about Mr. Hume, that renders it impossible for one who was privileged to have personal intercourse with him, to think or speak of him now as a mere states man. Hereafter we may attempt to estimate the politician ; at present we can only think of him as a friend. But the voice of the universal country will bear us out when we say that a more practical patriot, a more upright man, a politician more thoroughly imbued with true unostentatious benevo lence, never existed. And the tenacity with which Mr. Hume persevered, for nearly forty years, in his advocacy of economy in the national l expenditure, and progress in our social and civil in- stitutions, rendered him one of the most prominent and influential agents in the great changes which the nation has witnessed during that time. Joseph Hume was born in Montrose in the January of 1777. His father—the master of a vessel trading from Montrose—died while he was yet an infant. His mother—a woman of superior education and in- telligenoe—placed him in a good Scotch school, where he obtained an elementary training that prepared him for entering upon his professional studies with advantage. He went through the regular medical curriculum at the University of Edinburgh, and was admitted a member of the College of Surgeons in 1796. Soon after he had graduated, Mr. Hume en tered the service of the Bast India Company as a naval surgeon. Before three years had elapsed he was placed on the medical establishment of the Bengal Presidency. His sound sense and keen observation enabled him to detect the defects of the service; in particular those which bad their origin in the ignorance of the native languages which pre vailed among the Company's servants. He soon made himself master of the most essential; and in 1803—during the Mahratta war—his knowledge of the dialects of India enabled him to join the office of interpreter to that of surgeon. His surpassing energy and indefatigable perseverance enabled him at the same time to discharge with efficiency the duties of paymaster, postmaster,aod commissariat officer. At - . . one time he had the medical charge of no less than six regiments, and he was never known to neglect any duty he undertook. His power of communicating with the natives gave him a command of assistance which few other Englishmen could obtain. His career in India terminated in 1808. The next two years were spent by Mr. Hume in visiting Spain and Portugal—then the theatre of war— and the coasts and islands of the Mediterranean. On his return to England in 1811 he obtained a seat in Parliament—being returned for Weymouth—but retained it less than a year. From 1812 to 1818 he remained out of Parliament. He was not, however, idle during these six years, but laboured diligently (as a proprietor of East India Stock) to correct the errors, and reform the abuses, of our Indian system. His public labour' recommended him to the confidence of his country men, the late Lord Kinnaird, and his brother, the Hon. Douglas Kinnaird. Through them Mr. Hume was brought into connexion with the class of poli- ticians who have since been designated as the ', philosophical" or " educated radicals." In 1818 he was invited to stand for the Montrose district of burghs, and the impression which he made upon a part of the influential politicians of the district as- gambled to meet him at the seat of Mr. Maple (after wards Lord Panmure) was a foreshadowing of his parliamentary career. During dinner some one spoke eulogistically of Sir Francis Bur dett. " Sir Francis, " observed Mr. Hume, "speaks big, but what has he done ?" This speech rather startled his auditors, but Mr. Hume was not long in showing them what he meant by doing. No sooner had he got into the Howie of Commons than he commenced his crusade against financial abuses. He commenced it almost single-handed; and for a long time he could number only six supporters in the House of Commons :—Ricardo, Moore, Cree vey, and three others. But he was neither to be dismayed nor put down. Nature had not made him an orator, and the glib speakers of the House, and turners of sparkling paragraphs in the papers, attempted to laugh him into silence. Authority attempted to scowl him down. All in vain ; he stuck to his point ; his minorities increased, and at last they became majorities. Mr. Hume has taught the House of Commons to exercise in reality its functions as auditor of the national accounts. This is the great triumph of his long and well•spent life. In his advocacy of religious toleration, of parliamentary reform, of universal and nusectarian education, he had many colleagues— some of more dazzling and soaring genius; but as a Financial Reformer, he stands alone and un rivalled. Mr. Hume continued to sit for the Montrose burghs from 1818 to 1830. In the last-mentioned year he was elected for the county of Middlesex, which he represented—with the exception of one session, during which he eat for jLilkenny—till 1842. From 1842 till his death he represented his native district of Montrose. Joseph Hume has passed away from among us at an anxious crisis of the national destinies. In the course of nature we could not hope long to retain him, and his health had for some time been giving way. Still it would have been an encouragement, in the struggle which is impending, could we have turned our eyes to the generous and gallant veteran and caught emulation from the glance. He has left no liberal of equal stamina in the surviving genera tion. His lotig, independent, and disinterested career; his untiring advocacy of the extension and improvement of the education of the people ; his unflinching exposure of, and opposition to, official ' abuses and extravagance of every kind ; his pains taking exertions for the preservation of the rights of the people, as well as his unceasing efforts for their moral and intellectual improvement and amusement, are too well known and too generally appreciated to render either precise description or comment necessary. Mr. flume's private worth, his unswerving in tegrity, unselfishness, gentleness, and consideration for others, endeared him to a large circle of friends. —Daily News. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF DR. CHUCKER. BUTTY. --~• - Dr. Chuckerbutty was born near Dacca, in Ben, gal, in January, 1827. His parents were poor, but Brahmins of the highest caste (Cottbus). Before he was six years old he became an orphan, and wsileft in a very destitute condition ; nevertheless, and in the face of many difficulties, he found time to learn Persian and Sanecrit, besides the Bongalee vernse cyder, which, with the other village children, he was taught at the native school. lie was thirteen years of age before he was ewers of the existence even of the English language, oe had ever seen a European face, when the casual visit of an official gentleman in the neighbourhood excited his attention. He watched the business pro ceedings of the latter with great interest, and was so impressed with what he saw, and with the im portance and value of this new tongue, that he instantly resolved to acquire it at all hazard. He took up the few clothes he possessed in a bundle, and with a little parched rice for his provision he walked three days' journey (80 miles), to Comillah,'a government station, where he had heard that an English school existed. He had no introductions and no friends there, and no money; but he concluded a bargain with the schoolmuter that he should be taught English in return for his services as a cook, in which capacity his Brahmin caste rendered him peculiarly valuable, according to Hindoo custom in such matters. In a fortnight, however, he fell sick, and was obliged to return home for some months but as , 00n 88 he was well enough he came back to his school and hie cooking, and ma month obtained the first prise in his class. About this time his eldest brother and uncle died, and he was urged to go home once more to hie family, and take charge of their affairs. But hie progress at school had been so satisfactory that tbe magistrate of the district and the council wh o superintended the seminary for the government, sad had also taken great interest in him from the fink offered him a stipend to remain there. He acceptsd this offer very gladly, and continued to pursue bis education for three years with unremitting labour and proportionate success. At the expiration of that time, the late Mr. Alexander, of the Bengal civil service, proposed to pay the expenses of an boy in the school who would go to Calcutta and study at the Medical College, established there a few years previously. Chuckerbutty was the only pupil willing to accept this advantage, and he immediately set off for the Presidency—a distance of thirteen days journey for native travellers. This was in March, 1843; but on . . examination by the college authorities he wu not considered sufficiently qualified to be admitted into the list of students, frcm whom a very high standard of English education was required. At the 'recommendation of some friends Chuckerbutty, nothing daunted by this disappointment, was pieced under Dr. Duff at the general assembly's school, and there made so much progress in the ensuing nine months as to be perfectly successful on his second attempt to enter the Medical College, where he was admitted in January, 1844, and where he at once became distinguished for his zeal and industry. A few months after this event he became so die. gusted with the thraldom of Brahminism and its religions hypocrisy that one evening, in a large assemblage of his fellow countrymen, he publicly tore off and cast away the sacred thread worn as the peculiar insignia of the Brahmin caste, and renounced Hindooism for ever, without, however, at that time, assuming any other religious creed. This bold act was then unparalleled in the annals of native history —though it has subsequently been imitated by one or two others—and greatly exasperated the native bigots, i sad his own family especially. In the autumn of 1844 it was announced to the native students of the college that an opportunity would shortly be afforded to some of them to proceed to England, to:pursue their professional educations at the medical institutions of that country, with a view to test fairly the comparative merits of English and native youths as students; and volunteers were requested to come forward on the occasion, though it was much doubted whether any would be found willing at that time to encounter the difficulties and dangers with which such an expedition was fraught to the Hindoo native imagination, involving, amongst other penalties, loss of caste and of patri mony, and social advantages. For some days Chuckerbutty was the only pupil who appeared willing to accept this dangerous office (though others afterwards followed his example), bat he did so at once, and, without a moment's hesitation, declared that he, at any rate, would go to Europe, whether any one else chose to do so or not. Many obstacles were thrown in his way by his friends and family to deter him. It was even attempted to retain him by force in India, and indeed to drag him away from Calcutta alto gether. He baffled these schemes, and resisted all entreaties, courageously embarking for England, with three other enterprising fellow-students, on the Bth March, 1845, under the charge of Dr. Goodeve, and reaching this country a few weeks afterward' in triumph, to begin a new career of distinction. His subsequent progress has been more publicly known. He was entered as a student of University College in April, 1845, and in the first year carried off the gold medal for comparative anatomy and zoology, besides many certificates of honour in various classes; and throughout the whole time of his re maining at the institution he was pre-eminently dis tinguished as well for his ability and acquirements as for the high tone of his moral conduct and general character. He passed the first examination for M.B. at the London University in 1847, and the second in 1849; immediately afterwards taking the degree of doctor of medicine. In 1848 he became a member of the Royal College of Surgeons. During his residence in Europe he acquired a very sufficient knowledge of the Latin and Greek, and of the French and German languages; and, with much advantage to his education, he paid several visits to the continent, residing for a time in the more im portant capital cities there, wherein he made se quaintance with some of their leading scientific men. In the autumn of 1847, Dr. Chuckerbutty formally embraced Christianity, and was baptised. In March, 1850, he returned to India. Soon after his arrival in Calcutta he was appointed ono of the assistant physicians of the College Hospital, and in that capacity he began a course of lectures on phy sical diagnosis, together with daily clinical instruc tion to the students, who highly appreciated his teaching, as did also the Bengal Council of Educa tion. In 1852 he was placed in charge of the out door dispensary of the college, and in April, 1854, he was appointed to officiate as professor of mated' medica and clinical medicine. During his residence in Calcutta he had also been gradually acquiring a certain amount of private practice, and he published several very interesting papers on professional sub jects. He had long sought in vain to obtain an appointment in the covenanted service of the East India Company as an assistant surgeon, but had always been refused on the ground of being a native of India, none of whom had been permitted to enjoy this much-desired privilege in any department. I . la soon, however, as he learnt that the new India Bill had thrown open to unrestricted competition these appointments as regarded the political and civil ser vices—with his wonted enterprise and courage—he gave up all the advantages he enjoyed in Calcutta, making great pecuniary sacrifice; and, contrary to the advice and warning of nearly all his friends in India, both European and native, he once more em barked for Europe, there again to meet the reward of his courage and determinations, and the eminent success which has attended his undertskiogs.—Datly News. INDUSTRIAL HOME FOR OUTCAST BOTS.—Last evening a public meeting on behalf of this itagitution was held at Exeter-ball, under the presidency of the Earl of Shaftesbury. The meeting hayloft been opened with prayer, his I. rdship said he would not detain them with many pre liminary observations, for he wu sure they needed no stimulant from him on behalf of the institution; bat ht must say that he thought this country had been very rem's with respect to institutions of a similar charaver, which, if more numerous, would, he believed, go vi ry far to limit the operations both of gaoler and hangman. The report stated that 49 boys were at present in the institutioili while several others were obtaining honest livelihoods in Canada and other places, and that the institution was involved in a debt of 3001. The meeting wee addressed by the Rev. Mr. Auriol, Mr. Hill, Q.C. (recorder of Binning. ham), J. Payne, Esq., and others, after which the proceed iggs Unabated. ] THE NEW RETURN OF NEWSPAPER' STAMPS. me intuit of newspaper stamps just issued gives the fel/swing smelts : Fleet Quarter. Sound Quarter. Deily News . 319,191 846,044 Morales Herald . 303.000 299,000 Moraiag Poet . . 206,000 226,000 Mends; Chrsedele . 162,600 186,900 Express . . 177,133 196,389 Globs • . . 176,000 196,0300 Sun . • . . 108,000 192,000 Standard . . . 103,000 104,000 f