The Express. — London, England, 1855-05-08 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. DS.-MONDAT, MAT 7. took bis seat oa the Woolsack HOUSE OF TA' LOAD CRANC at Ave o'alock. CONDUCT OF THE WAR. The Earl of ELLENBOROUGH gays the following satins for Monday nest:— - - . 1 That a humble address be presented to her Majesty, to ensue her Majesty of our cootioued support in the Frasca ti= of the just and necessary war in which her Majesty is engaged; to declare the sincere gratification with which we have regarded the perfect community of weasels between her Majesty and the Emperor of the French, and have see* friondliaese established and inereuing between the French people and cur own—events fell of hope for the future to other nations Sc well as to ourselves; to ooPfloo oar admits tion of the many deeds of valour by which the allied forces in the Etat have illustrated their brotherhood ia arms, and our satisfaction that the brave army of Piedmont is now called to participate in their actions and in their fame; to declare our persuasion that, amid all their disappointmente, the people of this ciountry still retain the generous feelings which led them at the commencement of the war willingly to place all the means required from them at her Majesty's disposal; that they will still protein the weak against the aggression of the strong, and that they are not prepared to consent that Recoil shall, by her increasing preponderance, se control the Turkish government as practically to hold Constantinople within her grasp ; to acquaint her Majesty that, while we admit and lament the privations to which war necessarily subjects alleluias of the people, we yet ven ture to assure her Majesty that they would, is so just a eaus• bur thus pi ivatioss without complaint, if they could feel that the war had been well conducted ; that the tro, pe had not been exposed to any hardships which could have been avoided by forethought, and that everything bad been done to enable them to achieve decisive success. Humbly to represent to her Majesty that her people auffaiog privations on account of this war, have had no such consolation ; that, on the contrary, we cannot withhold frees her Majesty the avowal of our eonviction that the conduct of the war has occasioned general die satisfaction, and given rise to just complaints ; and that we most humbly lay befcre her Majesty our deliberate ophifin that it is only through the selection of men for public ems ployment, without regard to anything bat the public serviee, that the eJuntry can hope to prosecute the war successfully, sad to attain its only legitimate object, a secure and honour able pesos." (Chests.) Lord PANMURE said that he intended to hove mad.* statement with regard to the consolidation of the civil sir- vies of the army on that day ; but as the discussion on the' motion which the noble earl had just given would pr3bably occupy the whole of that day, he would postpone his state. meat till the Friday following. THE CRIMEAN MEDAL. Lord VIVIAN wished to inquire of his noble friend what had been the paw of the delay in kiting the medals for the battles of the Alms, Bslaklava, and him/mann. This shiners of war had carried oil many to their last amount to wham this honour would have boss a oriSSOiatirra. Lord PANMURE said that it took some tires to prepare the medals, but he was happy to say that they would be ready in a very short time for distribution to the troops. That. was also a higher class of honours for the Misses wise were Imaged in these actions, end no one regret t ed sous than he the lapse of time b etween the period when these honours had bun 114 gallantl gained, and the pre est period when they had not yet been assigned. He referred tolls* honour of the Order of the Bath. The delay, how ever, arose from the neoessity of having the names of those who were to receive the honour isserwei rt ha Usreite. la order to meet that difficulty, he had soweti sae ago written to Lord Kerlin to scud him the names of the officers whoa he considered to be worthy of the honour,. The Berl of MALMRSBURY said that there were several medals now is Loodea which had been hound on the Russian 'soldiers ntarksd ['kerosene." It was evident therefore that in the enemy's coustry these medals could be made owner than in this country. Lord PANM ORE said the Russian medals were prepared at the time, and all that they had to do was to inacribis the word " Inherent's " on them. Lord VIVIAN asked if the noble lord had had time to moire the I at from Lord Raglan ? Lord PANMURE said he might by this time hays n oshed it. AFFIRMATION (SCOTLAND) BILL. . . Lord CAIIPBSLL movecithe second rsidlog of this bill, the object of which was to assimilate the law of fleotland with regard to the taking of oaths is courts of justice, to the law in the rest of the United Kingdom. By the hilt of last semi in, persons who felt a sincere and conscientious scup!. ti the taking of an oath were permitted to make an affirmation instead, if the roiling judge were satisfied that the 'ergots was a sincere and religious one. The direct provision of the bill extended only to civil courts, bat her Meje•ty was empowered to extend the privilege to criminal sewn. also, by order in council. After a few words fro:n the Berl of Wimitow, Lord Sr. LION/ ADO, end the LORD Coßmoßßßoi, the bill was read a saccad time. LANDS IMPROVEMENT COMPANY. The Maiquie of SALISBURY moved that it be an in struction to the select committee oath* Leads Improvement Company Bill to inquire and report to the house whether it would not be desirable that the power now vested in the Lends Improvement Company should in future be regulated by public set. The noble lord was understood to ground his motion on the fact that in the bill before the committee the company WO seeking for very largely exteaded powers. They sought to extend their right at charging land from 25 to 35 years. This, be conceived, would be placing the owners at a illeadvintage. Visceent CANNINO was prepared to consent to the ap pointment of a separwe select committee for the purpose, • mernumeaded. The Marquis of SALISBURY withdrew his motion, and gave notice of another is the form suggested. CHARITABLE TRUSTS BILL. In answer to Lend ST. LIBOWAILDII, The LORD CHANCELLOR stated that this tal was delayed in consequence of the illness of the Lord President of tl a Council, who was at t►e bead of the sommissioa. He proposed to put it in the paper for committee; and as there were a great many clauses which required amendment, he would pass it through committee pro formes, sad they refer it to a select committee. Lord ST. LEONARDS said in that ease be should man to himself the right of approving of the bill, or bringing forward such amendments as he thought necessary. INCOME TAX BILL. _ Lord STANLEY of itroffiliEVitioved the second reading of thie bill, which was agroed to without remark. The house than adjourned, at a quarter after six o'clock. HOUSE OF COI LT, MAT 7. The Seaaaaa took the chair at 4 o'clock. POOR RELIEF TO SOLDIERS' WIVES. - -------- Colonel KNOX. begged he ask the President of the Poor law Board whether, among the empties, to the entrance into the workbense, the follow*/ is one, via., " Where any such person shall be the wife or child of any able-bodied man who shall be in the service of her Majesty as a soldier, sailor, or marine;" and whether, therefor*, the wife or child of a soldier may not demand relief without bens can 'polled to enter the workhouse? Mr. BAINES was glad to have as opportunity of answer• Mg the question. The elms of portions referred to could not, in point of law, Main on being relieved out of the workhouse; but in every union in England and Wales the guardians might, if t►ey wished, give them ott-door relief, even in those anions in which the prohibition wee in fore*. The order which prohibited the giving of out-door relief to the able-bodied contained an ez eeption in favour of the wives of soldiers or sailors in her Ma jesty's service. The result was that the discretion of the gear diens as to giving out-door relief to ponces of that class was wholly unfettered either by law or by the regulations of the Poor-law Board. A. far as ha wee informed, he believed that the guardians had exercised their discretion in a human spirit. (Rear, hear.) THE VIENNA CONFERENCE. Mr. DISRAELI—About a fortnight ago, sir, the Rowse 0 Commons was informed that the mgotiatioss at Views had bees nanocessful, and it is exactly a week wines sumiesessful negotiator reappeared in this bee. I end wish to know from her Majesty's sanisten whet ISM gibe toads which have been promised will be laid as this hies t Sir G. GREY—I am not ebbs to give a &Saito awnr to the question. I know my noble (deed the Secretary he rani's Affairs is engaged in prepuing the papers. Mr. DISRAELI—I beg to give notice, air, that W morrow I will esk her Majesty's goverment if they me inform the hosts when those papers will be reedy; emit untie they can promise that they will be laid on *Min very speedily, I will call on ths boom to awn is opinion on the subject. . e ARMY DRESS AND ACCOUTREMENT& ' Sir G. HEATECOTE arkel the Under Seentary hi War whet' er the improvements and amelioration as. enured lest year in the dress and accoutrements of the arelpc with a view to render them less cumbrous and embarrass. ag, and mon adapted to the requirements of aetealesr vies, particularly as to stocks, knapsacks, de , have bees serried out, sad to e ' it extent, both at home and !abroad t Mr. P. PEEL boil. veil that the moyeeed improvements la the dress bad been carried oat as far as cirmenstauces Wait 'lbw t bet of e.nrse sometime Amid elapse. As to 410esseelmmails. sit nominated were according to the aew Jlelderw 'elseeMert of 010 cheap in the pattern of the/keep- Ando bad beset redoes by one third the weight serried e e r att n ad eadra bet even whir* the new hare he- a bead Use weight carried by the oldiSillbliallir As to the sleek, the old Meek had bon sgmeg m i ...a . . .. 4 . zr & E Ouch ma irpa - t i i ir ts t e - n - i - to esther - 11 troops la' thr sti ll DM ell i bill 111 'veiniest' is tbe Crimes had the new panting Mitgeshwudej wen being made in certain regimenteall to the *Why bd the sloth. Wesel DUNNE wished to Miele it egy retied had by nisei dating that the new stock wee isfialtel7 worm them the old t Ur. P. PEEL was told it was infinitely:better. (Laughter.) THE SARDINIAN CONTINGENT. Lord W. GRAHAM had asked • question • few night ago of the First Lord of the Tressary as to the oommiseariat el the Sardinian contingent. The noble lord, in reply, stated that the Sardinian government were to proviiion their men fie Uwe months, but after that time the troops were to be 'applied by the British Comniimariat. The Minister of War bad since stated in another plue, that the arrangement with the Sardinian government was that they should famish supplies for one month only. He wished to know which statement was correct ? Lad PALMERSTON—I think, sir, the noble lord will Sod the two statements to be snbetantislly the same. For whatever time the Sardinian government may have pro- vided provisions, after that time has slashed they will draw their supplies from the British Commissariat, paying for what they receive. I may as well now, air, give an answer to the question asked by the .fight hon. member for Buck inghamshire before I came into the house. I hive been in formed by my noble friend the Secretary for Foreign Affairs that the protocols will be ready for delivery to-morrow. The only nose of the delay has been the temporary illness of the person in the Foreigo.cffice whose duty it is to prepare the translation. I may also, sir, take this opportunity of stat ists Hut my noble friend at the head of the War Department "AIM this day week, state in the home of parliament the awwweemest which the government intend to propose with a view to the consolidation of certain departments of Military administration. SICK AND WOUNDED OFFICERS. Wesel NORTH begged to ask if her Majesty's govern• sun will take into consideration the position of thou lames who have returned to this country from the Crimea MesiMani, and who are now in London for the purpose of at- Mile the Medical 831114, or for military medical alien ' dames ; sad, in the absence of a hospital for officers ' hire farnidlskbemenefler their accommodation, and grant them - --•awhich their cues require ? tier erusiliiiiiontiorts% _ _ /Eu P. PEEL said that the officers referred to cams to Labs to be essmined by • Medical Board, for ffim gem= of obtaining leave of shoelace or pensions. The MOM M plaim met twice a week, and it would be difficult IM MO, einwegernewu for their meeting oftener. 'Under the MOW regulations wounded °Moen misdeed gratuities I. SIM the expense of their recovery ; there was, therefore, se usweity for hiring houses for them. Odessa NORTE was not satisfied with the answer, and weiuM take an early opportunity of bringing the matter sada the Mesideration of the house. THE INDIAN ARMY . Sir B. PERRY wished to know from the right hon. the President of the Board of Control whetter in her Majest7's commissions granting military rank to offiun in the service of the East India Company, the words " in the East Indies only" are in future to ba omitted ; sr whether it is merely intended, under the order which appeared in the Gloats of Tuesday, the Ist of May, to grant social rank and prece dence, and not general military rank ? Mr. VERNON SMITH said that the words "in the Eat Indies only" had been omitted in 1842, and in the commis• Ikea granted under the brevet of 1854. Lord Hardinge had since written to Sir W. Gomm to direct that henceforward the words "honorary rank in all parts of the world " should be inserted. The intention of the memorandum wu that when officers of the But India Company end of her Majesty's service came in contact, their rank should be settled by the date and grade of their commission, without reference to the question which service tbey belonged to. The object was to give increased facilities for the employment of the East India (Moen of every rank; but it was not intendel to fetter the discretion of the C int:sunder-in Chief in ►electing, with her Majesty's sanction, the fittest persons for any post in all parts of the world. THE HOSPITALS IN THE EAST. Kr. STAFFORD wished to know what progress had begs made in the oonstruotion of the hospital huts for the East, how many had been sent out, eaclusive of those in the Crimea, and what was their destination. Mr. F. PEEL said that in addition to those rent to the Crimes, orders had been given to construct huts to accom modate throe thousand men, which were intended to be erected near Constantinople. A sufficient number to aceom emaciate one thousand had already left this country, and the head of the medical executive was already on the spot superintending the preparation of the sate. The remainder of the huts were in progress, and probably would aloe be erected near Constuntinnple. TESTAMENTARY JURISDICTION BILL. In repg to • question from Mr. HADFIELD, The LICITOLGENERAL said that the only reason for the delay in bringing en the adjourned debate on the eeeond reading of the Testamentary Jurisdiction Bill was the difficulty of obtaining a day for the purpose ; he hoped to be able to bring it on ire an early order on Friday. THE MILITIA. Mr. D. O'CONNELL asked the Under Secretary for War if his mold state what was to blithe distribution of the 2=lli DOM and Irish militia at the two camps of aid tie Currsgh PIM said that the list of the regiments to be nummigal at Aldershott bad beet prepared, but not that for Ceasts. The camp at the Curragh was intended for Ms thumead men, and u there were several English regi. mats in Ireland, some of them would probably be sent there. MR. LAYARD'S MOTION. Mr. LAYARD said that it would be is the repented of the house that he had given notice of his intention to submit pertain resolutions ; it might convenience tte house and the government if the noble lord at the bud of the government would name a day for him to bring it forward, otherwise he should do so on going into supply. Lord PALMERSTON—ReaIIy, air, I cannot undertake to find a sky for the hon. gentleman ; he must find one for himself. (Laughter.) Mr. LAYARD would bring forward lie motion on an early day on going into committee of supply. THE LAW OF PARTNERSHIP. Mr. BOUVERIE gave notice that he would bring for- ward his two bills on Friday; the noble lord at the head of the government having given him that day. THE EDUCATION BILLS. Sir J. PAKINOTON bad to make an appeal similar to that of the hon. member for Aylesbury, and hoped to receive a more favourable answer. - There was a very general desire on the part of members that the adjourned debate on the education question should be resumed as soon as por eible ; he appealed to the noble lord opposite to give him a day before Whitsuntide. Lord PALMERSTON feared the press of the financial measures would not allow him to accede to the right hon. baronet's request, but if he would communicate with the Chancellor of the Exchequer, it would not be his fault, but the misfortune of the government, if an arrangement could not be made. COMMISSION IN THE ARMY. In repl to Colonel NORTH, Mr. 11 ADLAM stated that he would bring forward his motion (" Viet oMoen dying in active service should be allowed to bequeath the value of their commission ") on as earlra day as possible ; but at present he saw very little hope of being able to do so. NEWSPAPER STAMP DUTIES BILL. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER moved that this bill be read a third time. Mr. HADFIELD considered that if a stamp enabling a paper to pees through the poet was once impressed there could be no possible objection to eatending the privilege beyond Owes days after publication. All newspapers were obliged to publish a greater number of stamped copies than they had an immediate demand for. He considered that an allowance for spoiled stam_ps ought to be made on all such copies returned to lb. Sternp-oifice within a certain time. He would also suggest that a newspaper should be allowed to pass at an time after publication if • penny stamp was eased. He hoped the right hon. gentleman would take these suggestions into consideration. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that the limitation of fifteen days was intended to check the abase of sending papers through the post, not for the purpose of conveying intelligence, but in order that they might be sold se waste paper ; be had no objection, however, to ex tend the limit, say, to thirty days, if the house thought fi t. As soon as this bill paned a was the intention of the go vernment to issue a new and redwood scale of charges for the conveyance through the post of "other printed matter," not newspapers or periodical publications. Mr. BRIGHT said be was sorry to been that the Chea p calor of the Exchequer proposed to extend the time for the , transmission of newilapan. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER—No. Mr. BRIGHT had understood the right hoe. gentleman to say he was willing to extend it from fifteen to thirty 41. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said his remark on the subject was that if the hoses should evince &strong wish to extend the period from fifteen to thirty days, he would not o, pose it, but that his own opinion was that fifteen days was a reasonable period. Mr. BRIGHT centinusd—Trey all knew that when it was understood that the Chancellor of the Buchequer was willing to do something more than he thought nesonable there was_generally a probability of a change. (Laughter.) He (Mr. Bright) believed the system of transmiation to be bad from beguile's, to end, and that the house and the Chancellor of the Eschequer ought to centemplate its aboli tion at no distant ptrixi. It had been made a great matter of by newspaper proprietors who wished to attack the meatus itself ; but he did not believe they derived any ad vantage from free re-'ransmiasion. The whole system at stamp doting iodictsd great injustice. It wet especially unjust to paper-maker in Certain parts of the country, there being only four planes is ohs Visited Liagdon whose a oosapirlawy swap wild be alined es a areeesper. • paper manufacturer it &Mel bad told bite that Is wee is pomible for bin to supply tire Moot swerspeper to prietors with paper, lemma his p.m weal& have to acme up to London to b, stamped bdore ft sonid be used, and be would he re to pay se Mk WIN et earriege by railway. On **Ate other head • smewee the neighbourhood of 'London had his peps* romped there, end, *be bed only half that intent of carriage to Pay for, he w* chic ie. undersell the Bristol tosnefastarer env et We elite doe. (Eger, beer.) The pretest eydele .THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, MAY 8, 1855. , n dist reeplect a great Westin be the paper numethie oursln tome;o of Brian, Maschester and large and it wee on that amain very desirable elliat it should be abolished. He should be ready to support ra Chsonller of the Rzeltequer in a propoeal that the re tremendesion of newspapers should be abolished, end that' *nay men as putting a newspaper In the post-ofhos should p the postage in the same that every man paid it when be pot a letter into it. The sooner they came to tbeit eft*. prom the better, he believed, would it be toe eh* of the country. 911 1 1 17. 1t ra LE Y thought the hon. member for Manehenne Muto be the lest men in that house to object to the tee of newspapm. Mr. BRIGHT—The retransmission. Mr. CAYLEY preoeeded—ln London, through the Pe basso of club rooms and news rooms, one paper d on the was day for twenty or thirty readers. The case woe tery different, however, in the country districts. One or two people in a country village took a newspaper, which was then sent to another person living in soother village a few miles off, and perhaps a week a fortnight elapsed before the paper got back to the original subscriber. It wee only by means of retransmission that newspapers could at all reach persons so situated. He had voted &palest the second reading of the bill because he was not willing that the advantages which it might offer to the country should be obtained at the expense of justice. He did not bide,e this bill to be a just one. The Chancellor of the Exche quer proposed the other day a clause securing a copyright to newspapers. There wee not a single speaker on the oc casion who did not admit the justice of that proposal ; but they all said it was not practicable, and on that simple ground the right hon. gentleman withdrew his proposi- deo. However advantageous the might be to the country—and that was a subject on which he was somewhat doubtial—and though no one couli be more anxious than he was for the diffusion of intellipnea, he could not support • in hick would idliet illogice on existing interests. Mr. BWART had understood that the object of this bill was to bring newspapers into their normal state, and not to 1 nentinue the retransmis,ion of them. (Hear, hear.) He had always thought that newspapers should be allowed to =up wh they were wanted — (hear, hear) — and it s tew was sound, wby should they endeavour to prop up existing newspepen by mesas of retransmission ? In the committee on stamp duties some prop. ietors of American newspapen were examined, and they all stated that their newspapers were sustained not by a system of retransmis• sion bat by cheapness of price. In America country people bought a newspaper for a cent ; in England they would assuredly have newspapen at a penny, if not a halfpenny. It was cheapness that they should encourage, and not re- arapamuel Mr. DUFFY observed that at present there was only one monthly mail to Australia, and if newspapers intended for that part of the world could only be pmtsd within a fort night, thirteen numbers of the daily newspapers would get there. He would, therefore, a'k the right hon. gentleman to extend the period to a month, and he should preferlaving no limitation at all. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said, the clause to which the hon. gentleman referred was not in tended to apply to colonial postage ' • and in order to remove any doubt on the point, be would insert the words "in places in the United Kingdom." Mr. YANSITYART said it was his intention to move that the bill be read a third time that day six months. (Hear, hear.) When the bill was introduced the Chancellor of the Exchequer had not brought forward his budget, and the house was not aware what very (onerous taxes were about to be proposed. They were not aware of the large increase which was to take place in the income tax—a tax which pressed especially upon persons with small incomes. Of all the speakers in that house whom he had heard 'peso on the subject, he did not think any one except the boo. member for Manchester really liked the bill. There bad certainly been no expression of public opinion in its favour; and he believed the result of passing it would be a considerable lose of • ue. He now moved that the bill be read a third time that day six mouths. Mr. LABOUCHERE said he voted against the original intro. union of the bill simply on the ground that it was very uoadvi'able that, when the financial state of the coun try was not before the house, they should determine tr part with any portion of the revenue ; but upon the merits of the bill itsal he was not disposed to reject it, and therefore he should vote against the amendment. 114 mast say cue word in allusion to the remark of the hon. member for Manchester, that the Chancellor of the Exchequer should like the earliest opportunity of getting rid of the trans. I mission of newspapers altogether. He speed with that boo. gentleman, that they had • deep interest is the diffusion of political intelligence and useful informa tion by means of newspapers, but they bad an equal interest to rrittag care that newspapers should be of the highest possible class, and that they should be conducted by men of character and intelligence; and believing as he did that the power of re-trausmission was a premirm on the highest glass of newspapers, he should be sorry to see it abolished, and be hoped the Chancellor of the Exchequer would pause before he interfered with its operation. (Hear.) Mr. WHITESIDE said it was never too late to do an act of justice, and in his opinion he had been guilty of injustice in supporting that measure on a previous occasion. The different clauses in the bill had appeared and dis appeared, and re appeared, so frequently, that be scarcely knew in what position the measure now stood. Then, again, with regard to copyright, he wished to ask his right honourable friend why did he propose it at ail? Did he not propose it from • conscientious belief that the measure would be productive of a deep injury to existing interests unless • remedy of that kind were pro. vidsd ? (Hear, hear.) There bed been an admission on the part of his right hon. friend that he was about to do en lojustioe, which it was his duty to remedy. And yet this injury was still about to be inflicted, for the sake of effecting some good, which, so far as he could see, was quite problematical. What right had the house, whose duty it was to protect the rights of property, to do positive injury to existing interests? Well, then, having failed in this eopyright clause, the next obnoxious proposition was the limitation of the weight of papers passing through the post., On what did his right hon. friend ground that principle ? Why should he draw the line at four ounces instead of six ? Why, it was • positive contradiction to recent legislatiot. Not long ago they abolished the advertisement duty, but now that that had been productive of an increase of adver- tkeinents, the house interposed, and said, " You have too much printed matter, we will not allow you to Pod it by post without extra charge." (Hear, hi at. Ho would state to the house the views which Mr. M'Cul loch put forward in reference to this subject in his work upon the principles of taxation. In this work, speaking of the stamp upon newspapers,the following passage occurred : " We see no reason why these duties should be reduced or repealed. In fact, they can hardly be properly called duties, but ought rather to be considered as payments for the dis tribution of papers by the post. But it is said that the duties should be apportioned or paid only on those papers which actually go t hro ugh the post-office. We incline to think that an arrangement of this sort would have a ten dency to confine newspapers to the district in which they are published,and thus to encourage local party feelings and disputes. By this means the character of the press through out the country would be lowered." And in another place the same author, speaking of limiting the supplement, said, " Such a course has a tendency to lessen the number of ad vertisements, and it is impolitic." These were the opinions of an able political economist on this subject. Then came the question as to what the Chancellor of the Exchequer intended to do with regard to uustamped papers. Were they to be subjected to the new law as well as stamped newspapers? II they were not, then some reason at least ought to be given for it. It seemed most in explicable that the government should all upon re spectable newspapers, conducted by men of the highest talents and character, to give security, while they allowed small prints, living by pilfering from their more respeetable contemporaries, to be established without requiring from them any security whatever. All these matters bad been left totally unexplaised by the govern ment. The bill as it stood seemed fitted to meet none of the contingencies to which he bad referred, and he should there fore oppose the third reading. (Hear, beer.) The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that the hon. end learned member bad, to say the least of it, adopted a very unusual coarse with respect to the bill then before the house. When in committee upon this bill he (the Chancellor of the Exchequer) proposed • clause for enforcing the copyright of newspapers by a more speedy remedy than then existed, the bon. and learned gentleman opposed the clause upsn grounds which be then stared. He (Mr. Whiteside) now opposed the third reading of the bill on the ground, apparently, that it did not contain the very clause to which on • former occa sion he objected. He (the Chancellor of the Exchequer) Mated, in moving that clause, that it was alleged on behalf of existing newspapers that the government had proposed a measure which would be most (Attenuate' to the interests of those newspapers, by galling into existence • large clue of prints which would pilfer their intelligence, end live upon the spoil thus iniquitously obbined. He did not state, nor did he believe, that such prac tices would exist to any great extent. At the same time, he admitted that these opinions were enter tained by many poisons. He had stated, in moving the clause that the present law of copyright was effectual, bat that the remedy was delatory. The clause, however, was not received with much favour by either aide of the •house, and be did not therefore feel justified in pressing it to a division. Under the circumstances attending the with drawal of this clause, be did not think that its absence was say reason for en objection to the third reading. If those gentleman who think that this bill will Interfere with existing interests find their anticipations justified, it would be very easy for them to apply the remedy. A simple abort enactment, similar to the cleans which had been proposed by the government, was all that would be requisite. He would ese bat • few words with regard to then'sse which had been pet apron the paper by the hon. and learned member. The ant of that clause was to give to all periodical publics:- Um. publish d at intervals not exceeding seven days, and not weighing more than 6 oz., the privilege of transmission by post, on being .stamped with the peony stamp. If thie buss became law, the question of postage would have to he iiiihsemined by weight, provided the paper weighed Isis Mum 41 no" while over that weight it would be Biagi the number of superficial inches. This was the oosasso- Mous opine which the hon. and learned podium pro posed. (Rear, hear.) To show that be (the Ohanceltor of the Exchequer) was making no imaginary teseaveeieneo, he would put give the house the weights of en actual newspaper daring the last month. He found that the Blustrabil Ludas News for the 7tt of Ave! weighed 4 ounces; the number of the same jeered which was issued on the 14tk Anil weighed II es.; the camber for the 21st April weighed ti oa. ; and that for the ' Nth weighed 7* os. Thus, in an pablicolioo, In two ,wooks out of four, if this clause wets agreed to, the amnesia' of the postsie would hays to be guided by the superfitial eOn• I toots. The hon. and learned member likewise objected to the limit being lied at 4 os., for he said, mold not the Poet oMoto wry 6 on. as well as four. This question might be answered by asking another —Why should Id. be charged for • letter weighing } en es , while 2d. was emerged for a letter weighing I us. ? A limit must be drawn, and how much more f ble the limit was as regarded newspapers when compared with letters would be evid'nt when he mentioned the fact that the average weight of newspapers *sot through the post was 3 1.10 oz., while letters aversged noder a quarter of an ounce. The hoe. and learned member also proposed to extend the law of registration to periodic'sl publications appearing within certain stated times. There appeared to be no advantage in such a course, and the go vernment, therefore, did not propose to follow it. Lord PALMERSTON was sure that the house must have already seen that the Speaker was labouring nadir great indispoeition. He would suggest that, under the eircum stenos*, ihs house should allow hem to take the third read ing of the bill then, and allow any further discussion to stead for a future day. The house could then go into comnittee, and by that means the rightgentleman would be enabled to leave the house. (Hear, Lear ) At a later period of the evening the house would be coals ed to proceed in Mr. Speaker's absence under the provisions of the act which was passed a short while since, for the purpose of meetirg an occasion like the present. (Cheers.) lie felt sure that everyone would feel how important it was that the right hon. gentleman should be immediately released from his duties. (Cheers.) Mr. DISRAELI said there could only be one opinion upon the propriety of immediately releasing Mr. Speaker. The best method of doing so would be to move the adjourn. went of that debate. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER moved the adjournment cf the debate to Friday next. Agreed to. SUPPLY. The house then went into committee of supply, and several votes occasioned much conversation, but without dividing the committee. On vote of 127,6691. for consular establishments abroad, Mr. IMAM: said it was his intention to have brought forward a motion in reference to the examination of candi dates for diplomatic service. lie hoped there would be no objection to his bringing it on, on going into committee of supply upon some other occasion. WO RD:IOR said be did not complain of the vote, for he must admit that the persons appointed as consuls by the present government had efficiently performed their duty, much more e ffi ciently than consuls generally had done. What he complained of was the unequal salaries given to various consuls. Some had heavy duties to perform with small salaries, while others who had light duties bad high salaries. If any class ought to be remunerated it was those consul, who represented this country in great commercial cities. Sir S. NORTHCOTE said that the consul at St. Peters burg, who was in the receipt of 7501. a year, had been reduced to 1901 ; while the consul at Archangel, who received 3001., had been reduced to 80L He wished to know why those reductions had been made. Mr. WILSON said the payments were regulated on the principle that the consuls were on leave of absence. Mr. WISE thought the whole consular system required the consideration of the house, and that a committee should be appointed to inquire, not only lido the expenditure, bat into the system generally. He thought the vote proposed a very large one; but he should not have thought it large, if the services performed had bees in any respect ado quite. A few years ago the whole expenditure for the diplomatic and consular departments amounted to 113,9271., while in 1854 it reached 342,2111. Unfortu nately it was very difficult to analyse close votes. He thought it would be much better if the whole of the consu lar votes appeared together, and the whole of the diplomatic Yates together. For churches and chaplains there had been voted in five years 80,0001., mad this year the house was asked for 8,2,584. There was another point of same import. awe which ne wished to bring before the house. He had a gnat objection to consul merchants, because it was supposed by every one in the same city that such persons bad access to documents and other means of communication which ordinary merchants had not, and he thought it very desir able, if possible, to do away with the system. The act of 1846 forbade trading by the cam*, but it was repealed in 1842, which he thought a very bad piece of policy. A subject on which he wished to speak had been brought to his notice by a merchant just returned from the Levant. In the Levant we hart three consuls-general, one with 1,5001. a year, one with 9001. a year, and one with 8001. a year. We had 41 consuls and vice-consuls, with 21,1601. a year, ladependent of fees. In France, our consuls received 5,6001. a year; in the United States, 6,0001. a year. Our exports to Turkey amounted to two millions a year; our exports to France to 2/ willies' a year ; and to the United States to 231 millions a year. So that we paid 21,0001. a year on two millions, and 6,0001. a year on 23j minions a year. He found from a &cement in the Foreign-office in 1863, that the consul at Constantinople received 1,5001. • year in salary, and 1,9001 . • year in fees ; that the consul at Hanover received 1,500/. a year in salary, and 5121. in fees ; that the consul at Genoa received 4001, a year and 3971. in fees; that the consul at Alexandria received 6001. a year as salary, and 6001. a year as fees ; that the corset at Boston received 2001. a year as salary, and 1,6001. • year as fen; and that the count at California received 3001. a year as salary, and 1,2001. a year as fees. What he wished to impress upon the govern ment was this, that it would be much wiser to compel the consuls to return the fees to head quarters, and to allow them a liberal salary. The hon. gentleman concluded by reading • letter from a Museulman, who, while he praised the efforts of the diplomatic corps, accused the lower order of consuls with gross peculation and other proceedings of the meanest and most disgraceful character. Lord PALMERSTON said that when a question was raised regarding the character of a class of public servants, it would be more becoming, before an accusation was made, to ascertain whether or not it rested upon any foundation. The hon. gentleman had read • letter, containing tertian grave charges against the consuls in the Levant, but there were no facts in it, and it might as well come from a person having no charge to make, as from one who had a real com plaint. If any one, whether he were Christian, Turk, or foreigner, bad to make a complaint against any consular officer in the Levant, he had only to address himself to the Secretary of State, or to the representative of the sovereign in the country where the grievance bad arisen, and he might be quite certain that it would be redressed. He knew well, having beea in the Foreign-office, that such complaints would reach that department very easily, and he attached very little importance, therefore, to that part of the Lauer which attributed blame to the consuls. He we. vesdy to give credit to that part of the meramaakation which acknowledged the advantages which had been conferred by the diplomatic corps la the protection of British subjects, and in promoting the benefit of the Turkish administration. (Hear hear.) With regard to the consular establishments in the the hon. gentleman doubtless knew that the dutiesa consuls there were different from thou of consular often in other parts of the world. Their duties were not aggesurcial, but judicial ; for all trials Ist whi M i tt ombleets were concerned were brought under their notice, Mid Musequently their duties were of a higher and more kitiphrtant character than was ordinarily the cue. As to the **bon, he would remind the hon. gentleman that they could not meuare the want of consuls by the amount of exports and imports. They must have consuls wherever they had trade, and it was perfectly facia to take the amount of exports end im ports as a =Guam of the number of consuls required. In the east this was particularl7 the ease, be emu, as he had said, the consul there was not merely a commercial ageat, bat was engaged in a judicial capacity, and must protect the subject, and be the channel of com plaint to the centre of government. In proportion as our trade extended, ro moat our number of (Angulo be multi plied, and places that were year by year extending required a corresponding increase of consular establishments. The question was not a new one to the house. Not (mix had the subject been discussed every year, end sometimes in detail, but a committee had beat appoi nted to inquire into the question of consular establishments, and he (the noble lord) was a witness. Now the hon. gentleman (Mr. Wise) differed from the hon. gentleman opposite (Mr. John bi'Gregor) u to the salaries of those consuls, anumach as he believed tkat in many cases they were too large. He (the noble lord) was more disposed to agree with the hon. member for Glugow, that, upon the whole, the salaries were too low for the duties, and in many came the consuls were prevented from showing that hospitality to strangers, captains of mauls, and others, which might be ear cted from them. But at the same time the minim which had been put upon the government from time to time in these estimates by the house had compelled the goverameat to reduce the salaries to the lowest possible amount He went over the hat, and took into account the salaries as well as the fees. The hon. member suggested that the fees might be paid into the Exchequer, but the fees of these counts did not correspond with the fess received by officers hare, and which were paid into the Exchequer. They were for notarial acts. The amount of each fee was settled by act of parliament, and if the fees of some consuls were larger to amount than those of others, that arose solely from the circumstance of the &eta done being more numerous. In proportion as the acts were numerous must the consuls keep a larger lumber of clerks, sad a larger office. There were tins American consuls, with 2001. or 3001. a year, in ports where there was a great deal of badness to be done. The reason he fixed the amount of their salaries so low was that their fees were very large, and it appeared to him that the great amount of the fees justified a considerable redaction in their salaries. The same principle was observed in settling the fees and salaries in other pluses. He took into account the salaries and the fees together. The bon. member suggested what had often been suggested before, namely, that the consular duties should be performed by persons attached to missions. He did not think that would be a good plan. The duties were of • totally different kind, the condition of consuls by international law was different, and he did net think any advantage would arise from giving • diploma* character to consuls, or having the duties performed by an attache. There would no difference la point of salary, and it would be of no ad vantage to the public. There was a great deal of truth sa what the hen. gentleman said with regard to merchant cone le. At one Mine it we. all.** notion in that house to urge that all the eansals should be merchants. It was said that they r zttheir eitimpAr if they employed i respectable me ei estsiiYtei 1i dmi plies. His late hon. friend the samba As Ifientress was very fond of that dosixins. To • catain i mire advantage in it. They get the duties by a am, who had a biome and an office, and flterefou put to no additional .:pence in that respect, and he was generally a man who was able to exercise hospitality. But this plan was open to the objection that other merchants might suppose, and exaggerate the notion, that by his consular position he might have an advantage over them in his commercial transactions ; and in places where the consul bad political functions to perform, it might be imputed to him that if he,abstained from pressing the chime of individuals who had compl►ints against the government, that he sacrificed their interest for the sake of making him self agreeable to the government, and receiving advantage therefrom. Therefore, he said, It WAS better to have con suls not connected with trade. Trading was allowed in cams when no pubic inconvenience would arise, but in the majority of cases the consul was forbidden from trading. But then, on the other hand, if they forbid a consul from trading, they were bound to give him a higher salary than if they allowed him to trade. He was pleased to hear his hon. friend the mtmber for Glasgow bear testi mony to the efficiency of the consuls as a body. He believed, as a body, they peformed their daties to their credit and the public advantage. In coun tries with which they had as yet but little trade these men went forth as pioneers of commerce, and he thought that so far from looking on these establishments with jealousy, thou who were engaged in the commercial transactions of the country would acknowledge that in countries where their commerce was but just beginning, they would often, but for the service of these consuls, be exposed to loss and inconvenience. Mr. TILORNELY observed that great loss and inconve nience were now occasioned to merchants by their being compelled to give bonds that articles contraband of war were landed at particwar ports, and suggested that it would be a great saving if ohe certificate was made to serve for the ' ' whole cargo. Mr. WILSON said these bonds were absolutely neees easy to prevent tient:flog articles contraband of war either to Russia or to ports whence they might bs sent to Russia, The difficulty in making one bond do for the whole cargo wax, that one defoulter out of twenty shippers might make the other nineteen answerable. Mr. OT WAY complained that English consuls abroad took fees of Roglisbmen for passports. He said be bad every reason to be satisfied with the consuls he had himself encouatered ; but asked whether any one had been appoint ed from his having shown an aptitude for the office while in this country? He believed the appointments were all made io consequence of the individual having some connexion with the minister. With regard to the consular and diplo matic functions, the practice of England was an exception to the general rule. In the French service a Consul- General was made Secretary of Legatiot and those officers were transferred from one office to another. That was also the case in Russia, and to a great extent in Prussia, and if it answered in those countries, why not here 2 He asked how long the Russian consuls were to continue to be paid? Mr. WILSON said, at the end of the second year an arrangement would be made. In the mean time every means had been taken to absorb these offices in other ap pointments, and three or four other salaried officers had been absorbed in other appointments. Lord PALMERSTON said, with regard to the question what were the recAnmendations, and what toe qualifica tions requisite for consular offices, he could only say as far as he was concerned that he endesvoured to appoint those whom he thought fit to fulfil the duties. With regard to those who had to till the office in the Levant more care was requisite because in addition to general capacity a cer tain knowledge of the habits and language of the country were requisite, and it was necessary to appoint persons who bad lived in the Levant. He forgot to advert to one thing mentisned by the hon. gentleman, that the lonians ' and others bribed the consuls to give tuem the protection extended to British subjects. That could not apply to lonises av they were already what were technically called " British protected subjects." Lord SEYMOUR asked how it was that the salaries of some of the consuls-general were no longer included in the votes, but were paiu out of the consolidated fund 2 Lord PALMERSTON explained that when the diplt matic relations with the Solna Americvn Spanish republics were suspended it was thought advisable to pay the salaries of some of the consuls out of the sum put aside by the act of parliament for diplomaic salaries, and this was an ad vantage to the public, as it prevented government front granting so much in pension,. Mr. JOHN bI'GREGOR said he believed that the bonds which had been alluded to were useless obstructions to The Tote was then agreed to. After some other votes had been pasted, with more or less discussion, the house resumed, sir. FITZROY taking the chair in the Speeket's absence. THE spitur DUTIES. The CHANCELLOR, of the EXCHEQUER, in moving the ibetponement of the Committee of Ways and Means to Wednesday, wished to make a short statement with respect to the Spirit Duties Dill, which was on the paper for Friday. The house was aware that the bill, as it now stood, proposed to extend the drawback on malt spirits to Eng land and Ireland as well as to Scotland ; the present state of the law in this respect had given rise to considerable dis satisfaction, and the subject had been several times examined into by committees of that house, and often debated. He was very anxious to bring about a final and satisfactory settlement of the question, and he had under his considera tion a plan for permitting distillation of spirits from melt in bond; the effect of this change would be that, instead of a duty being paid in the first instance, and then a drawback being allowed for what had been paid on the malt, the dis tillation would take place in bond, and only one payment be made; in order to take a perfectly just view of the subject, it would be necessary to make a small addi tion to the existing duties to compensate for the duty of 2d. on malt uses, in distillation. It would not be convenient to introduce the change into the:present bill, but if the house gave its assent tie was disposed, in the course o the session, to intrc duos another bill to carry out the arrangement Ho hoped this explanation would he satis factory to the gentlemen connected with the trade now in London, and that the objection being removed they would withdraw their opposition to the further progress of the bill. Mr. MACARTNEY, on the part of the Irish distillers, pegged to express their complete satisfaction with the arrangement proposed by the right hon. baronet. . . . _ Mr. HASTIE, oa the part of the Scotch diatillen, ex pressed similar utisfaction. REGISTRATION OF BIRTHS (SCOTLAND) BILL. This bill passed through committee. The Parliamentary Representation (Scotland) Bill and the Intestacy (Scotland) Bill were read a third time and BURIAL GROUNDS ( SCOTLAND ) BILL. Thisl;ll passed through ansinsittes. METROPOLITAN BUILDINGS BILL. _ _ On the motion of ~Sir W. MoLzawouvu, the following members were appointed a select committee on this bill:— Lord J. Manners, Lord R. Grosvenor, Mr. Brand, Sir J. Shelley, Sir W. Clay, Sir J. Patten, Mr W. Williams, Mr. Alderman Cabitt, Mr. Jackson, Mr. Locke, and Sir W. Molesworth; five to be We quorum. HOUSE DRAINAGE IN THE METROPOLIS. Viscount ESIIII.IOTON moved for leave to bring in a bill to empower the Commissioners of Sewers to tripod on house drainage a certain sum out of the moneys borrowed by them on the security of the rates, and also to give to the said cominiuionets certain other powers for the same pur pose. Leave was given to bring in the bill. The holm adjourned at half-past 11. " ALL RIGHT" IN WHITEHALL! (Yids Mr. LJndsay's anecdote, in his speech at the London Tavern, on Saturday.) When, to a pompous muff in France, Our zealous Lindsay told his plans, And Sirollll to give him light, Monsieur, to whom each English word Wu Greek, of all the speech be heard, Just bowed his head, And gravely said, "AU right " Lindsay, who knows the shipping trade, Oar transport muddles once displayed Before the public sight ; Blind bargains, and the nation sold, Delays of months, and waste of gold ; But Wood and Graeme Replied the same " All right ! " The Frenchman, travelling by our mail, Had learnt, how guards oar coachmen hail; We hear, each Commons' night, Old stagers in our Government, Like Pam, responding by consent With sods, like Peal, Who drag the wheel, " AU right !" From each department of the State We hear one note of parrot's prate, Complacent, easy, trite ; And all, who question or complain, Receive one answer, cold and vain, " What is't to you, We choose to do ? AU right I" JACK IN THE BOX. THE LATE WRECK IN TSB CHANNEL. (BY ELIOT= TILIGHAPN.) FALMOUTH, MONDAY. Seventy-four bodies of passengers in the wrecked barque John have been washed on shore. The number of the drowned is about two hundred in aU : seventy-five ere saved. The coroner's inquest was rammed to-day. asst's-ium, MAY 7.—At a Pension of the Honour able Society of Onj'e•ian, holden this day, Chula Hp - wood, Beg , was called to the degree of barrister-at•law. tit expregg. TO CORRESPONDENTS. kdvartlsements intended for .The Eames," Loathe Evening pap er , must be at the Office, If, Ilouverlas.atreet, b 7 Two &t ot e oh the day of publication. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tais?—Morning, 6h. srn Afternoon, en. um, To-kozzow—Morning, 7n. 7m Afternoon, 7i,„ LONDON, TUESDAY, MAY 8. LATEST FROM ABROAD. THE CRIMEA. (BY BUBBABINE TBLIORAPH.) (FROM THE CORRESPONDENT OF THE DAILY NEWL) CONSTANTINOPLE, Aram 30. Omer Pacha has arrived at Eupatoria, and made reconnaissance. The Russians refused an engag e . ment : their attack is nevertheless expected. Our Paris Correspondent sends us other despatch% of the 30th ult. from Constantinople. It is rumoured that a camp of 200,000 men will be formed at Van% Accounts received at Constantinople from th e Crimea spoke of an intended attack by the Turks and the French at Eupatoria upon the Russians who occupy the country northwards; this attack wouldbe sided by the army of reserve, which should trir eme the valley of Tcbernaya. The fire of artillery and small arms was resumed on the 28th with vigour, From Athens wo hear of the intrigues of Gilitzio, and his bribes distributed amongst those people who favourable to Russia. Lord Stratford de Itedcliffe and M. Benedetti WI received from the King of Greece the Order of the Saviour. AUSTRIA. (BY SUBYLILINE TELLORATH.) VIENNA, MONDAT. The news of M. Dronyn de Lhuys'o resigtudi t e caused a slight fall at the Bourse. The departure of Baron Hess forl.he army is again poetponed.—Daily Ketas. The Cotastitutionnel of yesterday says: "The list hopes of peace which attached themselves to them. ferences of Vienna are rapidly disappearing. The Eastern question is no longer in Vienna; it is altoge. ther at Sebastopol."—Dally -vetcs. THE FRENCH MINISTRY. CBE SUBMARINE AND 13RITISE MIZORAM.) PM THE CORIMPONDEXT OP THE ' , AMY NEWS.) PARIS, TUINDAY MOISNING. Count Coleans Waleweki is appointed the Minister of Foreign Affairs in the place of Drouyn de Lbuyt whose resignation has been accepted. Persigny is to be the Ambassador to Landon, is the place of Waleweki. SPAIN. (BY SUBMARINE TZLEOB.APH.) MADRID, MAT 7. To cover the deficit, an extraordinary impost a the goods of the church has been resolved on. The resignation of M. Cuesto is accepted.—Daily Nei n. GENOA. Ma 3. Eight thousand Sardinian troops haae to tlm date left onr port for Constantinople.—Daily Newt The Moniteur announces that the reigning Duke of Saxe Coburg Gotha arrived at Paris on Saturday, and on the same day dined at the Tuileries. The Emperor paid a visit to his royal highness on Sun. day. at the hotel of the Prince de Chimsy.—Day News. THE UNITED STATES. ARRIVAL OF THE AMERICA. (BY IKAONITIC TELEGRAPH.) (FROM TUB COIIIMPONDENT OP TEE DAILY NM) LIVERPOOL, Tomo. . This morning, the Royal Mail steamship Ameriti, Capt. J. W. C. Lang, arrived in the Mersey with the usual mails from the United States and British North America. She sailed from Boston on the 25th ult., and Halifax on the 27th, and has brought, besides the mails, 150 passengers, and 873,236 dollars in specie on freight. The Nashville, United States mail, from hence the 7th ult., had arrived at New York. Her pm was unimportant. The steamer Oregon exploded at Detroit on the 20th, killing ten persons. Our Havannah advice., dated the lath, state that sixteen companies of mulattoes arc organising fe the defence of Cuba. At the steamer's departure, the New York nog market was easy, and rates had a tendency down wards on loans; stocks were feverish, owing to brfs shipments of specie, and generally lower. The cotton market closed firm, with a gad mend. Breadstuff. sustained their previous rates in market, with a tendency to rise. Articles in the provision market were without el• teration. Freights remain dull. Exchange on London, 1094 to 1101. RUSSIAN PRISONERS TURNED POLISII 711811.—A patriotic Pule, zealous for the hon our et Ica nation, requests us to correct or explain a states?" yesterday's Ezpress, about some " Polish prisoser s wM have enlisted in our Foreign Legion, to serve Russia, and have been embarked in the Dunbar. D understood that they were " RUNUP& prisoners, all,hoollll Poles, who had been forced into the &Iseult) service." DISTRESSING OCCURRENCE.—On Saturday , IP° woman aimed ()roach, the wife of a Odor, residestat No. 4, Perry-street, in the neighbourlred of Old St: Pancras-road, killed her female child, live months then pat an end to her own existence, by drowsing. I .°, * Ifwoman was ever under the impression , that her Om, if she reared it, would have no respect for her. On Peen, morning the.hasband left home to follow his employe:Om, at that time his wife was well. Shortly before he lell,!! die hone*, his wife exclaimed, " Jack, this obi`: "", see how bad it looks." Her husband expostulatto with her, but she said, "No, it is no use ; it must come ; the oat's of my mother has Yellowed me." Oa his return from ege in the evening he was surprised to find his lit - ls boy Ore in the parlour. His wife nut returning he west in Ku; of her, aid on entering the w sh-houee at the reu. ,of house,. he was horri fi ed at discovering bis wife Diu' us. maned in the water-butt; he at once called for maiitall",, and removed the body. Mr. Aldridge end Mr. Sathenn ender of e , "." surgeons, promptly attended, but too lste to r assistance. Tla child was found at the bitem of . IN water-butt. The poor women had long been et W ll. with her own mother and family. I A I be! an fon mei tho per the tho mei int mi. lig