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110 c to it) rtgg. LONDON, SATURDAY, JUNE 4, 1553. POSTSCRIPT. HOUSE OF LORDS—Famot. Lord BEAUMONT moved for the production of a treaty with respect to the succession to the Crown of Denmark, and for the production of papers relating thereto. The Earl of CLARENDON consented to the produc tion of the treaty, but not of the papers• The Burial Grounds Bill passed through com mittee, and their lordships adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS—FnmAy. Mr. DtsitkEt.t gave notice that on Monday he should move for a series of returns of the conversions of stock under the recent resolutions of the house ; and that he should also take an early opportunity of calling attention to the present state of our finances. ( Hear, hear.) In reply to Mr. HlNnt.Kr, Lord .D u ty RUSSEIJ. said that in the present state of public business he could not now state what course the Government would pursue with regard to the Education Bill, but he intended first to proceed with the Charitable Trusts Bill, now under consideration by the House of Lords. In reply to Mr. PELLATT, Lord PALutatsros said that the Government had received many suggestions on the subject of the abolition of betting-offices, but none of them were considered sufficiently complete for adoption. A suggestion, however, with this Niew, recently received, was now under consideration. The reports of the Income-tax Bill and the Cus toms Bill were brought up and agreed to. The third reading of the Income-tax Bill was appointed for Monday. TUE GOVERNMENT OF Sir CHARLES WOOD then rose to state the views of the Govemment with regard to the future govern ment of India. Having alluded to the magnitude of the subject with which he proposed to deal—a sub ject affecting, for weal or fur woe, 150,000,000 of British subjects in India—he expressed his convic tion that, whatever difference of opinion there might be with regard to the plan of the t;overnment, party spirit would not be imported into the discussion. It might be contended that there should be delay, or that we should continue the present, act for another year. He deprecated delay, considering the maimi tube of the subjects at stake, mid that the present peaceful state of the world was favourable for legis lation. The plan of the Government would he small in compass, and embrace only the question of the government of India at home and abroad. To those who contended for further inquiry he replied, that inquiry upon many of the topics embraced had been completed, and that what remained to be in quired into would consume a ranch longer time than some anticipated. All testimony con curred in advising immediate legislation, and in pointing out the danger of delay. Expa tiating at considerable length upon the various featnres of Indian government as heretofore con ducted by the mixed authority of the Board of Directors and Board of Control, Sir C. Wood contended that a large portion of the evils which had been alleged against it were merely supposititious, and others were inevitable. That India must not, be judged by an English standard, whether as regards the administration of justice, the rapidity of action, patronage, or public works, was a point on which he insisted with much iteration. And on all those topics he drew, from copious citations 4,f facts and com parisons of result, the conclusion, that, under British rule, the natives of India had attained a pitch of prosperity, and enjoyed a degree of happiness and security, such as they had never known under their native princes. Advancing then to the question of the night, he proceeded to develop the Minis terial scheme for the future government of India. The double government was to be retained. The Court of Directors were to be reduced from thirty to eighteen, six to be nominated by the Crown from persons who had served ten years in India. One third of the board were to vacate every second year ; lint the outgoing parties were to be i;ligible fir re electi He did not propose to make any change in the constituency of the elective members of the hoard. The change in the constitution of the board, h ,wever, was to be gradual, and the board were to serve for six years. It was not proposed to make the new arrangement terminable, but any alteration was to be left to the discretion of Parliament. In consi deration of the additional labour it was proposed that each director should receive rpont. per annum, with 101110/. each to the chairman lit el deputy-chairman. The present system of parOURRe %% as to be THE PRESS. done away with, as also the system of nomina tions. Merit alone was hereafter to be the test of all appointments. With respect to the administration of justice, the right hon. gentle man stated that the course of education would be this :—That the examination for the civil service should take place before the parties left England, and should be conducted by independent judges. The two law courts which now existed in India, the Queen's and the Sudder Courts, were to be amalga mated, and presided over by judges not only con versant with the law of England, but with that of India. The address of Sir C. Wood was followed by a speech from Mr. BRIGHT, in which he expressed many objections to the Government plan. The house then adjourned. MINISTERIAL DISAGREEMENTS. —We are assured, by parties likely to be well informed, that Messrs. Keogh, Monsell, and Sadleir, have retired from the places they held under Lord Aberdeen's Administra tion. What may have led to this Ministerial rupture will, no doubt, be known before long ; but, for the present, we shall content ourselves with saying that we believe the statement mentioned above to be cor rect.—Morning Ilerakl. TIIE CONFIRMATION OF THE COUNT DE PARIS took place on Thursday morning, in the presence of the ex- Royal Family of France and a number of the English nobility, at the chapel of the French embassy, in King-street, Portman-square. The Duke de Chartres at the same time made his first communion. Car dinal Wiseman, Roman Catholic Archbishop of the district, officiated. THE SLIGO ELECTION COMMITTEE have unseated Mr. Townley, on the ground that he was guilty of bribery and treating by means of his agents, and have passed some stringent and appropriate resolu tions on the conduct of the Roman Catholic priests at the election. JUDGMENT Was given in the celebrated WAGNER CASE yesterday in the Court of Queen's Bench. Mr. Justice Crompton said that the law of the case was clear and simple. It was an admitted principle that where one person contracted with another to perform a certain service, the contract was, in fact, between master and servant ; and where malicious interference had taken place to prevent a servant, whether menial or otherwise, from performing the contract, the per son inducing the breach of contract was subject to an action, to the extent of the special damages. His opinion was, therefore, that judgment should go for the plaintiff. Mr. Justice Erie and Lord Campbell also pronounced in favour of the plaintiff, and, Mr. Justice Coleridge being the only dissentient, judg ment was given for Mr. Lumley. HENRY GEORGE FRANCIS REYNOLDS MORETON, Earl of Ducie, expired on Thursday at Tortworth Park, Gloucestershire. His lordship MRS in the fifty-second year of his age, and is succeeded in the title and estates by his son, Lord Moreton, whose elevation to the peerage creates la vacancy in the representation or Stroud. HER MAJesry has been pleased to give a donation of OtMll. to the fund for the erection of the colossal statue of Richard Cteur de Lion by Baron Marochetti in a conspicuous part of the metropolis, and his Royal Highness Prince Albert has contributed 1001. to the same object. The Journal dot DZbabt says that Prince Menschi kotf, who arrived at Odessa on the 23r4.1 ult., left on the following morning for St. Petersburg, which city he was expected to reach about the 31st. Russia demands from the Shah of Persia either the immediate repayment of the loan of 50,000,000 f., or the cession of the territory of Asterabad, on the shores of the Caspian. The Shah has refused com pliance with either demand. (From Last Night's Gazette.) WHITEHALL, Jttsr. 1. The Queen has been pleased to appoint the Right Hon. Thomas Berry Cusack Smith, Master of the Rolls of the High Court of Chancery in Ireland ; Sir Creswell Cresswell, Knight, one of the Justices of the Court of Common Hess iu England; John Mar shall, Esquire. one of the Senators of the College of Justice In scothmti; George Valliant Wilshere Bramwell, Esquitv, one of her Majesty's Counsel ; Jetties Anderson. Esquire, one of her Majesty's Counsel; Kirkman Daniel Hodgson, .:squire; Thomas Ilitzley, Esquire; and Hobert Slater, Esquire, to he her Majesty's commissioners for inquiring into the expediency of assimilating the Mereautile Laws of the United Kingdom. WAR-OFFICE, JUNE 3. .241 Regiment of Dragoon Guards—Mtdor-tionertd the Nola Henry F. Compton Cavendish to be Colonel, vice General Sir Ilionitts liege Montretior, K.C., deceased. WAR-OFFICE, JUNE 3. 1 , 1 Regiment of Dragoon Guards--4:aptain George Briggs to he Major ; Li eu t e nant George John Bridge tube Captain; Cornet Erebil I larpttr Crewe to be Lieutenant. sth Dragoon Onards--Assistant Surgeon O'Connor DA reey, M.D., front the 3d light Dragoons, to be Assistant Surgeon. 11th Light D..agoons--Surgeon Jahn Burton St. Croix Crosse, from the 31st Foot, to be Surgeon. 15th Light Dragoons—Surgeon John Moore. ?A.D., from the !lilt light Dragoons, to be Surgeon. Ist Regiment of Fuot—Ensign Rupert George Brady to be Lieutenant. 6th Foot—First Lieutenant John Swaine Hogge to be Cap tain (without purchase) ; Second lieutenant Legh Richmond Parry to be First Lieuteneut ; Gentleman Cadet Frederick SATURDAY, James Mylins, from the Royal Military College, to be Second Lieutenant. 15th Foot—Ensign Charles Jeffereys Watson Allen to be Lieutenant; Lieutenant John Walinsley to be Adjutant. 31st Foot—Surgeon John Marshall, from 15th Light Dragoons, to be Surgeon. 33rd Foot—Ensign John Thornton Rogers, from 81st Foot, to be Ensign. Foot—Gentleman Cadet Herbert Henry Moseley, from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign (without purchase). 52ud Foot—Lieutenunt , Colonel Robert George Hughes, from 80th Foot, to be Lieutenant• Colonel; Lieutenant Francis William Fellows, from 26th Foot, to be Paymaster. 53rd Foot—Captain William Bageuall, from Ceylon Ride Regiment, to be captain. both Foot—EttaignJohn Martley to be Lieutenant, by purchase. 63111 Foot—Major the Honourable Robert Alexander George DisizeU, from etlbt Foot, to be Major, vice Allen, who exchaage,•,l 87th Loot—Ensign Charles William Pearson to be Lieu. tenant. Cifitli Foot—Lieutenant George Ernest Bulger, from half pay, Royal Catiudian Ride Regiment to be Lieutenant. 73d Foot—Assistant-Surgeon Charles Walter Poulton, front the stale, to be Aasiataut•Durgeon. 81st Foot—Major A. T. Allan, from odd Foot, to be Major ; Ensign John Trent to be Lieutenant. 110th Foot—Lua;gu Henry Flower Every to be Lieutenout. 3rd West ludia Regiment—John David Blythe, Esq., formerly Captain in 89th Foot, to be Paymaster. Ceylon Ride Regiment—Captain Robert Huut, from 53rd Foot, to be Captain. lIREVET.—Major Walter Douglas Phillipps Patton, of 74th Foot, to be Lieutenant-Colonel iu the Army. s r(r r.—Jelin Mackenzie Kennedy, Eaq., Paymaster of the 18th Foot, to be Paymaster of a Recruiting District, vice Hood, deceased. HOSPITAL STAFF.--Jobit Matthew Biddle, Gent, to be As aistitnt•surgeou to the Forces, vice Poulton, appointed to the 73rd Foot. Mwwassiunm.—The mane of the Captain on retired full-pay of the Lath Foot, is Adam von Beverhoudt. The following gentlemen, who were dismissed from the service by the sentence of a general court martial in August, 1851, have been reinstated in their former rank in the army, and placed upon half-pay, without the admission of any claim to back pay, vii.:—.lohn Henry Edward de Robeck, Esq., late Captain 4th Foot; Henry Batson Riunsbottom, Gent., late Lieutenant 4th Foot; George Frederick Corytou, Gent., late Lieuteuiwt 4th Foot, June 3. ADMIRALTY, MAY "_A. The following promotions have this day taken place, conse quence on the death, on the 27th instant, of Vice-Admiral of the Red Sir Francis Mason, K.C.B. —Vice-Admiral of the White John Ayecough to be Vice-Admind of the Red ; Vice-Admiral of the litue Sir Edward Tucker, K.C.8., to be Vice-Admiral of the White; Roar-Admiral of the Red Sir Charles Napier, K.C.8., to he Vice-Admiral of the Blue ; Rear-Admiral of the White Sir Joeltue Ricketts Rowley, Bart., to be Rear-Admiral of the Red; Rear-Admiral of the Blue Sir John Hill, Kau., to be Rear- Admiral of the White; Captain James Ryder Burton, KH., to be Rear Admiral on the Reserved Half Pay List; Captain William Fanahawe Martin to be Rear-Admiral of the Blue; Re tired Captains William Henry Smith and Richard Satuuarez to be retired Rear-Admirals, without increase of pay. FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE. Tueßday, May N. - - _ BANKRUPTS.—JAMES SHARP, Queeu'a-road, St. John's-wood, builder—RICHARD WALErs Duty., Queen-street, Cheapside, City, shoe factor—CHARLES PARKINSON BENJAMIN LAING, London, and bland of Dominica, toaster mariner—WlLLlAM PULFORD, Long Sutton, Lincolnshire. etirdwidner—JONATHAN WADDINII 't'ON, jUU., Wigan, l.atllcashire, iliMper—Juilbi MALLEY, LAD. easter, silverantith. DIVIDENDS.—Jime 21, 11. Prior and IL Atkinson, Wood; street, t3heapside, Manchester warehousemen—June 24, W. firlieorgo, St. John-street-road, draper--June 21, H. N. Ginder, Fountain-gardens, Lambed ss alk, licensed victualler--dune 23, C. Stanley, Hastings, SUM4ex, tailor—June 23, J. K. Vote, Al biou-square, Dulaton, builder—June 23, J. Spratt, Sloane-street and E‘eter-street, Chelsea. coselibuilder—June 24, E. Moron and 11. Marlyn, Aldgate Higimstreet, City, woollen drapers — June 17, Scott, Nottingham, grocer—June 22,-hones, Kingswinford, Staffordshire, draper—June 23, C. Keys, Liver pool, looking-glass manufacturer. SCOTCH SEQUES'f RATIONS. Trim/As KAY, Dundee, baker—MA:RAEDER HAtinART, BSlTtleed, bOOMMAIer—JAMES LtaToN, Glasgow, oil manufacturer. Friday, June 3. BANK Re PTS.—CHARLEs PARKI!!SON JAMES LAING, London, merchant—WrirrAn LONG, l'hilip-street, Back Church-lane, St. George's-in-the-East , Beensed victualler-JOHN JOHNSON, Grea Winchester-street, East India merchant-GEottoE HANDSO N. JuTIAN, EXeter, coal dealer—EnwArin RIDLEY, Liverpool, tailor —HENRY WARLAND, Counnercial-place, City-road, b uilder — A LL AN STEWART HAY, Old Broad-street, shipowner Jolts 'Form, Newcastle-opera Tyne, distiller. THE SCHOOL STATISTICS OF ENGLAND AND WALEri arc thus set forth in a motion obtained by Mr. Bright Day Sunday Schools. Scholars. Schools. Scholars. Population. 1818.-19,230 674,803 5,463 477,225 11,642,083 1838—.38,971 1,270,947 16,828 1,543,890 14,336,415 1851—.46,114 2,144,377 23,498 2,437,409 17,927,609 THE SLATE TRADE in Carnarvonshire, the great staple of the county, is in a highly prosperous state ; no stock is on hand, and the demand greater than can be met. Some English capitalists have lately opened extensive slate mines near Snowdon, and the prospect of success is most encouraging. The la bouring population is fully employed. THE GRANTS FOR HARBOURS OF REFUGE voted in the present year are—Dover, 34,000/.; Harwich, nil; Alderney, 02,0001.; Jersey, 40,0001.; Portland, 90,000/. A SERIES OF CONCERTS FOR THE PEOPLE has been set on foot in Birmingham. They are held in the mag nificent Town-hall ; the prices of admission being threepence to the body of the hall, and sixpence to the galleries. In the programmes are to be found selections from the choral works of Mozart, Spolir, and Mendelssohn, some of the finest English glees and madrigals, and movements from the symphonies and other orchestral pieces of the greatest masters. The hall is stated to be invariably filled to the doors with an attentive and delighted audience, chiefly of the working classes.