The Express. — London, England, 1855-03-06 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS.-110111DAY, Maws & Tbs LOILD CosmosLioa took ►is seat oa tbs wools's& at Ass o'clock. NOTICE OF NOTION. The Bishop of EXETER gme sodas for this day to sere for espies of the sphokes Ihe Irish law When of the Crows, resportis, the Iworarliparw Lot, es also *Mr /*aloe rospeeskse the *pity of au=s6 at Nile wawa by th• lespiss Mew CIVIL BERM" CIF DWI& Lord XONTNAOLII soond sem formillefilesos Isissisias is of arsibiliss fur Ibis olio of enbluot.asoisun fa Ms lot Ills Oinsposy's levier. Ms solarised assessponisol Yt ninths b away nosmonts upon the dlisoltioewbbb h Wes limn In *be wry of Ow satins of India whoa seadle fee mils- - V under tbe asselses of the Bast Indio bletssiesa. Lord ASHBURTON nstalloillbasanniniss tbat bad bon adopted to remove the disubllldss maw which the Indiaa natives had haretokire laboured is die num. Aber some farther remarks free Htelarl of Atauretezz and Earl OnaxviLcs, tea V* terse Wen &PHA M. ARHY IN T/111 ORDINAL Lord VIVIAN, who had a reds* upon the paper for a return with reference to this sublimes. said that he shodld not sore for the return which steed against his a the paper, as he had been intones& that the g eeeee meat intended to send out to the cavalry nolunessa la the East a proportioaste number of ezpsrisamed so:diera to every squadron of recruits. The house adjourned at 10 minutes to 7. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—MONDAY, Mesa' 5. The SPIRAUR took the chair at the usual hoar. PRIVATE BUSINESS. SECOND READINGS. The following bale were read a second time: Dagenham Docks; Fibre Company ; Fife and Kinross Railway; Pur nell@ Railway ; Medan' Benevolent College ; Mid Kent and North Kent Railway ; Severn Valley Railway ; Stockport, Dailey, and Whaley-bridge Railway ; Wem and Bronygarth tads; Woolwich Egotists', Gas; Bombay, Berods, Cen tral India Ra-Iway , Caledonian Railway, and Edinburgh amit GlsogtoW Railway Bills. PUBLIC BUSINESS. NEW WRIT. On the motion of Mr. Harris, a new writ was ordered to Issue for the borough of Barnstaple, in the room of John Laurie, Esq., whose election had been declared to be void. NOTICES OF MOTION. • LOCAL MEMBERS ON COMMITTEES. Mr. EWART gave notice that this day week he should propose a reeolutioo, that in all cases of committees on pri vate bills no member or members for the borough from whence the bill originated should be allowed to sit on the said committees. THE TRANSPORT SERVICE. Mr. HUTT—That the petition presented to this boon oat the Sib day of February, from the Vice-President of the Chamber*, Commerce of Newcastle and Gateshead, praying the boon to reform the system under which the Transport Service is conducted, be referred to the Select Committee on Army before Sebastopol. THE CRIMEAN MEDAL. Mr W. 0. STANLEY gave Indies that he should to morrow (this day) oak the noble lord at the head of the government, or the Under Secretary for War, whether in cane in which the medal for services in the Crimes shall be conferred, two years' additional movies would be granted to the wearers, or any other advantage bestowed sack as was conferred in the cases of soldiers to whom the Waterloo medals were given ? THE WAR-OFFICE AND THE HORS&GUARDS. Mr. 111/ IT said that having seen it stated that the Duke of Newcastle, whoa about to recall the Earl of Lena from his command in the Crimea, was compelled to seek the in tervention of Lord Harding. for the paint% hehaje gh t ask the noble lord at the head of the isosematrg is any menu, a for the reform of the anahneradoa la the army, which it was proposed to take, he bad contemplated any step for relieving the Secretary for War from each a position of subordisation to the Hone Gaud.? Lord PALMERSTON.—The Secretary at Was um stood in any relation of subordination to the Hone Owde, es I know, having had tte honour of holding SWAN for many yam. Mr. RU FT-I did not say the Secretary at War, but the Mioi.ter for War. Lord PALMERSTON—If the Secretary at Wee lo sot so subordinate a fortiori, the &menu of State Ilit wile cumin be. (Hear, bear.) THE MEDICAL DEPARTMENT IN THE CRIMEA. Mr. LAYARD begged to ash the Under-Secretary of State for War whether say brigade and divisional orders had been Wind in the army before Sebastopol, to the effect, " That se gentiles mast be answered by medical men attached to the forces, without permission from headopserters•" whereby medical men attached to the army are preslaiLl from giving complete evidence to the commission Nat an is the East to inquire into the stets of the utedleal meat. Also, whether it be tine that Dr. Lawson appointed to the superintendence of, or to any other WO employment in, the hospitals of Scutari, &pyres, or Rhoineo and, if so, by whose authority such appointment was sad% and whether it has been sanctioned by the authorities; Id home. Lori PALMERSTON said he would answer On find question, and his hon. friend the Under-Srcretary for War would reply to the second. The government had received no official information of any such divisionsl or brigade orders haying been issued as those alluded to by his hon. friend ; but toey had received information from a privets oorrespoudent that some such orders had been issued. He assumed that the meaning of the orders must be that the medical officers were not to plan themselves is commu nication with the commissioners without having received authority to do so, as be could not possibly conceive that the olden could go to the tenni of Interfering with the ft/actions of the commissioners, or prevent them from ob taining information. His noble friend the Secretary for War bad written out to obtain accurate information on the subj.et, but all that the government at present knew was obtained from a private letter which might not be accurate. Mr. PEEL said that with regard to the second question, he bad to say that Lord Rsglan had ordered Dr. Lawson in the beginning of January last to Scutari, where he held a subordinate office under Dr. Cumming, the head of the hospital there. There was no intention on the part of the government to place Dr. Lawson at the head of any hospital. Mr. LAYARD—Was ha n..t in charge of the hospital at Senteri Mr. PEEL—He received a rural order to proceed to Sentori and report himself there ; but he was 4ot given the charge of the hospitals in any way. Mr. LAYARD—Was he not sent from the Crimea to &uteri. after he had bees charged with misconduct ? Mr. PEEL—He was erne from the Crimea after he had been censured in general orders by Lord Raglan. RECONSTITUTION OF POLAND. Lord PALMERSTON said, that seeing the bon. sad Is need member for Bath (Mr. Phinn) in hie place, he gged to ask whether be proposed to bring on the motion of which be bad given nodes for to-morrow evening (this 4 y), on the subject of Poland) He ,would submit to his Bun. and I d 'moil, that in the present state of affairs —(bear, hear)—and considering the negotiations which were going on—(hear, [34l.o—whether be ought not, in the exercise of his discretion, to postpone that motion ? Mr. PIIINN had so objection, believing it to be the wish of the house, to accede to the request of the noble lord; but at the same time he must say that it was • subject which tutted great interest, sod one which the house, at the proper time, he hoped, would think fitting for dis cussion. VOLUNTEER RIFLE CORPS. Mr. W. W/LLIAMS begged to ask Sir Georg* Grey whether he or his predecereor in the Home Deportment had received applications from any part of the country to sanc tion volunteer tine corps, and if so, what answer Wad been returned ? Sir G. GREY said his noble friend who preceded him had, be believed, received one or two applications, and he had received one ; but none of them had been accepted. The applications were not for volunteer rifle corps to serve abroad. (" Hear," and a laugh.) THE APPOINTMENT OF DR. MEYER. Mr. PERCY begged to pot a question to the government, with eieresee to the appointment of the gentleman whir had been sent out to take charge of the hospitallat Smyrna. He bond the following matement in one of the public papers:— . We announced 10 MO Mir days beck the appointment of Sir J. Forbes, an salable and learned, but no longer youthful, person, as head of the proposed civil hospital at Smyrna. This, however, he soon resigned, wisely taking the hints offered by ourselves and some medical contemporaries. His principal assistants, Milers. Welts sad Coot*, are new oa the road to Smyrna; but • new chief being reqnirisd—al 'Snitch the ink et Lord Femurs's appeal ad asieerieorikosis to the Londun hospitals was not yet dry —we fled that, as • compliment to the prof. esion, an inducement to volunteers, and a rebuke to our:elves end other bitsylsodits, • Gamin gentleman has received the appointment, with Vie salary of 2,4001. per annum, and that he is not connuted with or educated at any of our hospitals, Of a member of any of the bodies whose diplomas are the only legal title to practise the heath', art in this country. We inquire, then, what are the known or sup posed qualifications of this admirable pawn, who is to tak• the command of a body of sea to bees frem thearesas of the medical profession, established as chime hem, and all making greater or less sacrifices, without a &eta, la i iitiag this proposed espeditios t The answer is vague. He is believed to have managed a lunatic asylum abroad, end to have attended with some regularity the levees of HA 11. the Priam Albert. We will &email' peso over this last sad instance of entelonnie in high places, with the simple nillecticia that the neighbourhood of the government allots here might have found Dr. Mayer ample field for his exertions in his peculiar **kW, sad the hope that them who invented him will find it an woolly easy matter to obtain for him a competent staff of British assistaats : jaditiog, however, Irma the resignation, sad vehmals ahead', we apprehend they may aut." He begged to it quire If that statsmeat wee Use. Mr. 8. EiliKßltia said Iss wined WWI/ the lineetiee, aa he was partly ampemsills he the appolatment of Dr. Mayer. hulas emimeamodei Wm Mimed Pusan after be bed left the Warmillaa. There ems eartandy • valeappm levies with regard es Dr. Wayer's Whig • German, for he se he as Sagishasan, having lima hen at Nor (. Leafless, was odusied at Hammeramith sad hisee sad keilder)-1•1 stedisi hid» WS* lage *I Suipures. Ober ' had r the bead of meditel k Vas Dismeasslamd t emi Irk . t Osiotial.elkes mad as hod ban) that be sever the- 4. • pleasure of eaglet hi " a( ; Wage Al life. (Chess% sthl EDUCATION BILL. _ la noraria Mr. Anniaothit; Sir 3. PAILDIOTON mid that he should mine for leave to bring in Ohs bill of whisk he had given notios for the bean peakedea ef edasalka ea Friday week, the letir imam% kakis *al the wields lord at the head of die oadireleg the ausber 6f times; his =elks lad Eve e 'potputiol, would give him preeedowe as that day. Lord PALMERSTON said he would give premise» to the right boa. padres». EDUCATION IN THE ARMY. On the male kr piss into esamitte• of supply, Mr. RIOS nee, prowasat M melee, to move, that it is es pedieat Oat meow» be takes for promoting the effi Hersey of ON Wan staked» and other established prervialime ka IC dims hr regimental and staff bea. pathos. urged that it wee de- VA lli ttb il ir " thina be a reform Is the administration of the army, and be that a part of that reform should include the eiwllua of the officers. It was im possible without that education that officers could be fitted fer their duties, and enabled so to do them au le saabk the array to keep pain with the scientific be pewsweste which ought to be applicable to it, and with regard to which it had fallen far behind the age in con pubs. with the advises in civil life. He urged t h at, with the sseepdaa of the Duke of Wellington's oampaigos, and age es We britsasss, the history of our army from the time of amigemsli, in all our wan, was one of blunder and disaster, whines as regarded the navy, its history was one of great aeltinsments and brilliant nooses. Why was that differences? Was it not that in the navy every Wheel imbued it as a prolsoke, and was duly sad professionally viand begin he was advaaced to the rank of an officer? The »seem at the aaq wee because it had been treated as a profession, and Its educated for it, and encouraged to undergo it. seven Mears by the hope of gaining its re wards. Than why bad sat the same course been followed with the army ? The airy were always ready whenever they were »gaited, at the beginning or during the progress as Mar ; bat at* as the army. We wars told that there was no prudent wheal for the army to learn its busineu in ; there was some truth in that, but only half a truth. We neglected, two years ego, an opportunity of extend ing that school. India was the only place in which the military profession might be learned prac tically within the British dominions ; and there we sent 30,000 troops, having, two years ago, agreed with the East Ind i a Company to increase el:snug:her of European troops by 10,000. And what did we do then ? Did we add Ithat number to the Queen's trootri, which would not have cost the government one farthing, as they would have been all paid and supported by the Hist India Company ? bat course war not adopted. He earnestly hoped that this error would be rectified, and if not, that the whole of the army is ladle, at lust that the European portion of it, would be brought under the Crown. We might extend, by an expe rience like that, the practical skill of our officers, sal make them more capable of performing their duties, what we should inspire them with more enterprise ea energy, by a more just system of promotions end distinction. As it now stood, promotion and distill., borer in the British army came either by purchase or by favour, by which officers were placed on the staff. He (Mr Rich) defied any one to say that a sff appointments were net I determined by favour and affection. It was true that the previous services and character of the officers were required to be taken into consideration, but that was entirely and flagrantly disregarded. After mentioning several anecdotes in illustration of this, Mr. Rich declared that it war generally the fact, that officers were not appointed on the staff for any real military qualifications ; that once upon the staff they were usually continued upon the staff in despite of other claims; and that an undue share of promotions fell to their lot, so that they eventually became the future leerier. of the army. He contended that the talents of a military commander, being rare, should be searched for throughout as large a clue as could be made available, and that every care should be taken, wherever such talents were found, to mature and perfect thus. He referred to the education of the artillery and engineer officers, and their practical instruction in the arsenal., at Chatham, and elsewhere. But although oar engineer officers were highly educated, when we hied got them we neglected to use them. The general routine duty of an officer of engineers, however brilliant his talents, was such as might be performed by the most ordinary officer; he was employed to look after buildings and barracks, end other un important croncerna. Some of the engineer OEMs, too, were what was termed "seconded," and sought occu pation in matters quite irrel to the Queen's service. The boo. gentleman then cited the statistics of Sandhurst Military College, showing that the number of pupils was On the decrease,_ and that the institution was allowed to dwindle down, although not from any want of funds ; for it appeared that during the last three years nn less than 2.7001. had been paid into the Treasury as a earplug from it; and the college was not only self-supporting, but it was, to some client, a public charity, for ten of its pupils paid almost nothing, and forty of them were sou of office:B, sad paid a small amount. The institution thus, besides paying 9001. a year into the public treasury, provided a free adu lation for many of the orphans of officers, and ought to be well conducted. Now, as for the distribution of the commissions that were riven away, he found that the num ber of them given between the years 1830 and 1847 was 1,200; and of these, during thou seventeen years, 446 were givers to men who had shown distinguished merit in the ranks or as non-commissioned officers • of the remaiader, 478 were given to the cadets who bad paved through the audits and examinations of the Military College with honour, and had been recommended to the commander-in thief. But what became of the rest? There were 1,269 commissions which had been given, as it was stated, to patlemen"—that was, they had been given away by fa year, or they had been sold. Several of those who pro mired them might have been also at the Mili tary College, but merely as a place of resort, without following say department or study, or passing any examinations. But half of them, at least, were young gentlemen who had entered the army with no maim: of fol lowing it as a profession, but who, being the heirs to large estates, or the sons of peers, had been placed in the army after having completed their school education, to get rid of them, to keep them out of the gaieties of London and Paris, and to occupy their attention. They had either I purchased their commissions or obtained them by private interest; and these were precisely the persons who got upon the e - bff; while the 446 who got commissions after having served in the ranks were, from their age and from their previous habit', not qualified for the staff, and the 476 who got commissions by their Industry, and g rod behaviour at the college, being poor men, without interest, had but a very small chance of any staff appoint ment. So it happened that the staff appointmeats fell to the let of the sie or seven hundred gentlemen who get their OnMalifelOal during those seventeen years by the ad- Vantage affair fortune or social position ; and what secu rity was there for their knowing anything of that which it -was necessary that a soldier should know ? There was an security; and until 1847 theta were ao precautions takes that these men should be acquainted with the duties of their profession ; but at that time, or soon afterwards, an nee* nation was instituted by the noble lord who was then Su eretary at War, of which he (Mr. Rich) did cot say that it was a good one, but which he believed was a much more asocusful examination than that which had bees prescribed by the right bon. gentleman the member for Wiltshire. It required a knowledge of the first elemeate of arithmetic and geometry, history and geography—a little smattering of Latin—or, failing that, of French or Our man, and some little knowledge of fortification ; but little as it was, it tads.» numbers of young men, who before that were intending to obtain commissions, to shrink from un dergoing that examination, and abandon the idea of enter. log the army; and many others, who came up with all the assistance which "creamers" could render them, wale " plucked " two or three times before they could pass the examination. He thought he was justified, therefore, th saying that many officers who entered the army, one half at them had not received an education to qualify them for its duties, or for the cosmos duties of life ; and that the very boys in the military school at Chelsea, or in the Royal Hibernian School, the sons of private soldiery, would have passed that examination, he believed, much more readily. Could we be surprised, then, at the inefficient character of ,our staff ? and did not that explain the cause of our failure ? The education of our officers even for regi mental duty was neglected, and moth more for staff duty. It was said that the French army bad a practical school of war in Algiers, but he doubted whether it was so good as ours in India. The French did not rely upon Algiers for the training of their °Seen. The French bad six or eight different military academies to prepare them for every branch of the service. And what was their prepara tion for the highest branch? A young man was selected who bad passed through the inferior colleges with distinction, and wu then, for the next two years, put through a coarse of military administration, history, geegraphy, and topography ; statistics, mathematics, and the sciences; mechanies, gunnery, fortification, and modern languages. For 16 maths of the two years the teaching was theoretical, and for the next six months he was learning to apply his knowledge practically, and in the other two maths he was subjected to a very seven era urination. After that he was attached for two years to some regisseat or the line, then for another two yeah to a regiment of cavalry, and tuba quietly for two years more to the artillery ; and, at the end of thus eight years he was a perfect and aecomplished officer, and might serve on the staff with honour to himself and advantage to his country. (Cheers.) But what was ear ensue ? The lucky son or nephew of some Roods:stunt ma, or of a good natured man's lucky friend, was assoptsd, a youth initiated, no doubt, in the mysteries of dealing aad carving, who had learned bow to write a sets of levitates, sad Gould slag a peed Nag PAW; be Oasiaal a acamelmise, be we Weaved Celt promodon i be opoedOy booms soijor of brie rowitisad a pock, * deputuirets of the Oairtersisetete or Of Se Adjutact-Osarral, sad thee be bad *already rhea high is the stay, but acquired no Whim, lisewledire, whoa earidealy a war broke out, and thee the odor had to leers his duties—but how and at lame es. pease ? learned them in the field, at baybsasid, by error and mistake., and at the cost of soloed ilkeseer, at the expense of the English soldier's noble bleed, or ef the Works epd privation which, by the ipaseemes of these in seetaaaad, the soldier wee made to suffer. The Mao» ef Eagles& sad the lives of oar army were to pains 10 I THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY be se.. v Letlh eme s=,.... Let lima arp.• • la i1iC4 0:12 4 .2 1 11 , ar athap t lehothrie for Altai e. 4 should he well add +1 ead rde, theth who beet lthe duty jaabW.4artTrasi rsg l_ i tl i s • its t 7 ii eltu. 9-7-iller h sal id ' Pr ,: repel soot he was unable to move for tth appointment of a emthitheem thissubjest. He (Mr. Peel) admitted that seek Sewthellithrithfild hailed VS - thf M ileßection of a 'uhl, WO efeefiesee, bee be the sit Own that it had not hem fel he believed that, so far from causing this to alike say . it would have bad an emit, tendemy, essmash as the government were maw (ivied their attention to this "lia suldeet, bat if a committee were appol=thi : gernemthat Meld have been boxed to suspend their aides watil the eemaittee had made their report open it. He nensidered it inconvenient both to himself (Mr. Pi.eo awl te the department, that, seeing the little time obi& the eat had yet had to mature their views apes Ws portant . qaestion, he should now be called ape. te =prey an opinion upon matters of great magnitude, es vitally affecting the organisation of the army. Only two or three nights ago the house was treated to a discussion which involved the question of admitting privates and non thearaissioned others of the army—men advanced in age, sad, however well acquainted with the duties of a soldier, Mt pmessing an education siperior to that Riven in common elementary schools—into the class of commissioned °Meer.; and now there was a question brought forward founded men an opposite avaumption, for it•was recommended that a higher education should be given to the Akers, and that superior qualifications should be exacted of them. New, with regard to the general value of education for our officer., there could be no difference of opinion. As the late t3.2cretary for the Colonies said the other evening, every officer ought to understand his duty, bat ne oases was the less capable of doing his duty bemuse ha indenting the theory and science of the military prehnsim. He (Mr. Peel) believed that the better our ofileers bad their minds disciplined and their intelligence cultivated, the more would their practical resources be multiplied, enabling 'them to adapt themselves with the mere facility to the varying exigencies of the military service. He did not speak merely a a professional education, but of general literature. • bill which passed that house the other day, for a foreign legion, might illustrate the importuner shah studies to an officer. Under that act, we dealt have an assemblage of diverse nationalities, to plan whisk under the command of en English officer would require that he should be acquainted with the different languages of Barope, German, French, and others; and so en officer familiar with foreign languages would enjoy multiplied op portunities of getting employment and of advancing bins ' well. But although be (Mr. Peel) was favourable to edam des, be maid not have it of too high a character. He be lieved that if too high an educational standard were meellibli for the army, we should lose the services of luny sempetent and valuable persons. It was a commas remark that men who at the school and the college were beatenby their competitors, would afterwards, in the real' business of life, Leave those competitors behind, not because in all cases they possessed greater social advantages of wealth or station, but from their having an instinctive knowledge of the way in which to turn what they did know to amount for the public benefit. This I should be kept in view in the education of our army. The hon. gentleman referred to the present means which this country had of furnishing education to our officers. It did not require more than a cursory glance at those means Ito feel satisfied that they were extremely scanty, and that the institutions which were established in this country did not, and did not intend to supply the want which was re ferred to by the hon. gentlemen. Excepting the institution to which the ban. gentleman bad referred, there was nothing but the military college at Sandhurst which the boa. gentle tan said bad been diminished because the Commander-in- Chief was unwi;ling to lose his patronage. But there he thought the hon. gentleman was mistaken, because it was not the government that reduced the college at Sandhurst, but that house. It was a self-supporting institution at the present time, but not exactly in the way stated by the hon. member. The host. member said there were 10 who paid nothing at all, and 40 who paid a moderate sum. There wen 25 orphan children and other sons of officers who paid a sum of VOL a year, and the college was able to take them at that low rate in consequence of the high charge which was levied on • third class containing some 110 pupils, and the advantages of the education of the officers were so great that there was no difficulty on the part of the college to procure boys who paid a sum which was not only sufficient for their education, but also to sup port those who were received at • lower rate. He thought the result of an education which was confined merely to military matters would be that the minds of the pupils would become contracted. He believed that the beat records of our officers were found among those moo who had pawed through our public schools and our univer sities, who possessed a competent knowledge of the general literature of the day. lie thought the first thing for an officer to do was to become acquainted with the practical part of his profession. The hon. gentleman referred to a remark made by the late Secretary for the Colonies, that the examination before the board was • ridiculous one. He (Mr. Peel) was not aware of what was required by the ex aminer', but at least the examination secured that the officers acre notilliterate. He thought that the plan recom mended by his right hon. friend (Mr. 8. Herbert) secured that which the hon. gentleman proposed, that when an officer required a commission he should be prepared to pus a preliminary examination, and that he should receive not merely a military education but a g lone. The plan of his right hon. friend went on to provide and be thought properly, that when an officer bad received & first commWern he should be required to pass subsequeet examinations ber fore he obtained • further grade, or before he obtained his company, and the only reason why the scheme had not been brought to maturity was the difficulty of appointing instruc tors in consequence of the persons who would have been selected bring required for the more pressing service of the army in the east. He thought, however, the circumstance of there being a war was no reason why they should not sue ' ceed in carrying out the plan. Whether the war was or was not to be continued, it was for the government to see that measures were taken to provide officers with the means of acquiring a full knowledge both of the theory and of the practice of their profession, and the plan of his right hon. friend that there should be appointed at every head-qua:ten; in this country and the colonies certain instructors before whom the officers of the regiments serving in that command should be required to attend a entree of lectures, and to peas an examination with success before they received • further promotion, would, he thought, be attended with advantageous results. With regard to the staff appointments, considering that those who were on the staff had certainly vary great advantages over the regi mental officers, be thought dose staff appointments should be considered as the prises of the profession. (Hear, hear.) Under the pretest system it not unfrequently happened that unknown officers were appointed by g 1 officers, and these officers. not from any fault of their own, but from the fault of the system, were familiar only with one branch of their duty. It would be possible to select officers who had most distinguished themselves, and to giro them the oppor tunity of further advancement in the service, and the officers being thus brought together would give the mean' of acquiring a knowledge of the different branches of the service. With regard to the Etat-major of the French army, as he understood, there was a staff corps distinct from the other divisions of the army. Whether it was desirable or not for us to adopt that system was of count) • matter for serious consideration. He trusted that the hon. gentlemen would be satisfied with this cursory review of his °bum. Lions, and that he would not press his motion. Colanel DUNNE said there was an easy way of improv ing the information of the army, without costing the country anything, and that was by ensuring employment to those officers who understood their duty. the reason why they had not good staff officers was that, whatever an offfeer might know, his knowledge was no passport to employment. It was a singular thin, but in the English laogusge they had not a book that described the duty of a staff.offieer. Except the smell book of instructions by Sir George Murray they might search in vain for any book of instructions for • staff.offiar. If an officer wished to know those duties, he must refer to the King of Prussia's book*, and there were numerous books published on the continent. There were many officers who bad attained high rank in our service without knowing those duties. It was obvious at Chebham to all the French officers, who said, "Your regimental system is perfect, but your staff officers are the worst we ever saw. He did not think it necessary to multiply military academies. Any man who entered the profession might teach himself. He could go abroad and see what was done on the continent. He believed then were young men who were put beck at Sandhurst for not answering dales in history, and other questions of that kind, which some stupid professors there thought necessary should be answered rather than that the youths should be acquainted with the general outline of history. He believed it would he perfectly impossible for us to copy the 'tat-major of the Preach. Mr. W. O. STANLEY thought it was a valuable thing 'hat they should promote men from the ranks, but they should not do that indiscriminately. He was glad to find that the government were taking the whole system of the army into consideration. Mr. Or WAY said when they considered the enormous cost that had been oocasioaed by the anal-administration and ignorance of the staff officers in the Crimean expedition, he could not conceive how the hon. gentleman could any longer treat this as a question of money. The hon. member said it was not the government, but that house that had dimi oiled Sandhurst. But why ? It wee because Hitter* were lest a attain number of the higher classes of pupils, the lower ease amid net go. In France there were two or three col lege., where pupils were educated to the amount of some hundreds, their expenses Lasing entirely defrayed by the state. In England only ten were educated without charge to themselves, and that was a degrading position for this country tri be in. He thought there should be • separate education for the staff, and that an aide-de-camp should be able to comprehend the; meaning of 'the general when he had tai convey orders. It was evideni that the unfortunate charge at Baleklava was owing to a misunderstanding. Mr. BELLEW was of opinion an aide-de-camp ought to restrict himself merely to earryiog the order, and if he had done so In the Instance referred to parhape th at chew would not have been made. Mr. J. G. PHILLIMORE thought they ought not to go from one extreme to another. There had been many great generals who were not well educated men It was notovious that Marlborough was an illiterate man, and that I Marshal Base weld hardly write his name ; and that not et the imeehels of Nepalese, with the exaasics of was an educated sae. • Lard EILLIIIIIIITON said ao doubt what the letes go? 'G, MARCH 6, I*. - Herm= add *teas a outdo degree tree, that when they ll= test et n ggetieular qualifintion Se a pertisulor t they lake sere sox. So apply a test tint TrileV '— pEcable So aer/blr metployesent, add that If they • man wbit was required only to be a good moldier pass renomination tit would fit him i ; for thepro fessional' thkaod, h lhonain all l wall be tak:ersz ro on r. furt s her p o rn:o r dinal they . ebeall be saddled that the Meer hod kept himself up in 11.1111./I"fie of hielnktilia. Re believed that the coot of qoalitrei irons made a good general was one of Most linage diet estinned.la the moral end Intellectual =“giits. It weenantel more likely one that they s pot many mere sass who were fit to be good dallenten then a muss rein ensil essamand great armies and tehobal all the foresight amosesery for the proper perform ing, ei the duties attached to that situation. At the ease time, it wee rosy' important that their of icon should keep up and make 'program in their profession, end if those slamiaatioas that had been alluded to were ex aminations that were intended to be tests of military know ledge, he thanykt it very desirable that that test should not *oily to amend nee first entrains into the service, but ollare should know that, unless they kept their minds going, and perfected themselves in those matters which were essential to the proper performance of their duties, they would not again get that promotion which they were desirous to obtain. After a few words from Col. Knox, Mr. RICH said, after the declarations made by govern ment, which were satisfactory in many respects, he would not press the motion. The motion was then withdrawn, and the house went into committee. ORDNANCE ESTIMATES. The Ordnance estimates were brought forward by Mr. Morrenti. A prolonged discussion took place respecting the new government manufactory for small arms at Enfield. Mr. MUNTZ opposed the grant of money for that pur pose, and carried the question to a division, when the vote (of 1,402,0001) for ordnance sines , dn., was proposed. There appeared— For the vote Against it Several other votes were agreed to, and et a quarter to one o'clock the house resumed. The report of the Committee of Supply was brought up and agreed to. NEWSPAPER POSTAGE AND STAMP DUTIES BILL. The second reading of tills 1;11;as postponed until Friday. TEA DUTIES DECLINE SUSPENSION BILL. This bill was read a mooed War. MUTINY BILL. This bill pulsed through committee. PURCHASERS' PROTECTION AGAINST JUDG MENTS. This bill was read a second rims. SECRETARIES AND UNDER-SECRETARIES OF STATE BILL. This bill was read a second time. ECCLESIASTICAL COURTS BILL. This bill pawed through committee. Some unoppos,d returns were ordered, and the house adjourned at tire minutes after one o'clock. PARLIAXENTARY ROSINESS OF THE WEEK. TUESDAY. Mama 6. NOTICES OF MOTIONS. Colonel Nose—ToUirthe UniTerie;;lary for War, Übe is aware thst pets mike was served out in the hospital at ntari on the 17th dojo: February. Mr. Cleaorme—Aelreau for return of the names of the candidates for the ramarderehipen Brighton, and copies of the testimonials seat In reaputively b lllllll. MI. Maraternow—Te sail the attention of the house to the (weave- Ware Dew hit fa the eematry from the want of equitable tribunate, by Wheel DIMS any dilleraweie Warm masters and operatives Wen lie Miami la* adjemeiL Mr, Prent—Address ter emits of the inatredions relative to the *WI IR 041•11% gime be the Oommatader•ln•Ohlef fa the Mediter remain awl Me 11.6. . . Mr. luau—lldsat scaandttoo to toquhe Into the of the acts regulable Islienests in parochial burial awl po optic tary and other semsassim. Mr. N anny Illasnahas—That an Wahl, Mitres, be gaarantad to bar Majesty, praglig that an Inquiry atm ha laolitalial Ws die sea duct es Llost wbt Lard Lama kg cravings Giorgi cd ths light cavalry at the battle of Balaktava. Mr. Ptuan—Poland—That an humble eddran be presented to her lletray. praying est she egll be palitaisty *rid to sommead Uak la the event at ariodatkas hiss 11111111■111sind with • view to pm" her Ilsketre savoys geoid en tie& hest 'tattoos for the rusastttatisaof tiolimplen al Mal irkkia Its stoical limits, u a mews Nit sad wooaserty Y Init. Y assardssee with the gooiest peidep of lids asaaley. sad as obaristali arsidil to the due =bite asses of the Wises al rover la Map& Sir D. NCIIITO —llll be raps Nalotrm dead duties. Copula boom& —lltempert report made by satherW ksatismr et the desansameet Mims* of the Prince tran sient Mlle Ilaildmis Par. Ciasass sad Ile. 1111.12111.-Ml6llllll pr law (Ireland) returns. Mr. Lone Zara—all tee the Mem settling of We Pertvest estates dltlatletr_ _ _ —.....--- Onus' or TUB DAY. —Public Proassiagers 13111—aseamd reading. WEDNESDAY, )(mica 7. Osman or Tat D.T.—P4bllet_Litaa . risa and alusenina Bin —4 miiree,7udenten 11Eiseuiii;s7 la. lii—ameotldreading; Eaclafe ticai Prepeaty (Ireland) Bill--assand rodlog. NOTICES Or MOTIONS. Mr. Ewatte—la Committee ea Pubis Libraries and Museum Bill—To more various amendments. THURSDAY, MARCH 8. NOTICKS Or MOTIONS. Colonel Wyow—i•7lll the Under secretary of state tar War TAW= ttis the Moths alder Majesty's government to relieve We Mai ifiMb "AIM IMIWW•ta, which have now been stattuaed in tb• Watt BMW tor bar yore. Coked Nears—TO law*, it **government will recomdder their deslisa sotto allow thane of regiments of militia who are pemisure Wm the army, and who have voluateerad to accompany their regimsalsapsa Isretips 'aryls*, to count that foreign semi°, teaser& lasnmes etymmiss. Mr. Marwome semasittse to inquire Into the beat means el allbrding to the patios • full and 'qua. partlefgatlon in al the admategey, which an net asseassrily of an maissimmisal or spiritual eltanster, In the puldle alhools and universities et lteglaad sad Ire land, and °Mapco,* the educational spasm la theme gnat mats of kandag. with • view te adage their comes et begrudge to eon ttfr Banal tamity with the topknots' of the publk mewls". ILtLVOLD-4111.1 to roan& 'Mom. from wages in Mbong emabetars. _ r. Ca nrem- °a nodes Mat Mews Is even to ling law WI just seradeasb tamonee en smainsek ti. Me sunset amaittee on nymmam eif women seeks 12:4 be reaminated. la nandenee with the rommeninlen made by that emanates la One report. Mr. Mause,-Te ash the attention of the house to the mime of the war.. iw ds the Naval operations la the sat* ander the Sommand of Vbe-admirelels Charles Napa r. Mr. Mannezn-Illeing emmittee to Moder into the present prim of revue *N 111CMil Me shell envies of the crown on Men Minmeat Men Wee semmlllee bonze into the prreeat mode simallwrleg appeinnents by parebore and otherwise io the army ; to Men sane mom eN rommomai a men 'Menet system for smearing gremetka tomtit mad leas ankh Viment 11004:1,—Cke men is of Mass (Inland) Bill. to move that it be read a mead thee mem Min On en _lamas. Mr. liACAlfrai;—ln commutes ea Militia (loOM) MI, to mere that the stb dam be expunged from the MIL ORDETti OF THE DAY.-Mines (Ireland) Bill--easead reading ; Jaren and Juries (Ireland) Bill- secotd reading; Jones and Junta (Ireland)Bill-mondKWh& (Ireland) Eill-eon mittee ; Intramural Burials (Bolan) bill-seeend reading. FRITiAY, MARCH ?. ORDER OF THE DAY.—Cathedral Appointments Act Coasts. nos Bill—stand reedin g. NOTICE OF MOTION. Sir B. lieu,—Bill for the better lend management of the metro .. THE HEALTH OF TOWNS AND REMOVAL OF NUISANCES BILLS. Yesterday a meeting of deputations from the metropolis and the provinces, convened by the Private Enterprise Society, was held at the Freemasons' Tavern, to consider the best means of opposing clauses contained in the Public Health Bill (1856) and Removal of Nuisances Bill, SW before parliament; Mr. JAN= COWTIIOI,II P,LCHI in the chair. Mr. T. BAWKISLII, C. 8., elaborately reviewed the prin cipal provisions of the original bill, the majority of which he severely condemned, as tending to the confiscation cf pri vate property, and especially of the property of water and gas companies, by the estnordinary powers which they placed in the hands of local boards of health. Some of the more glaringly unjust provisions had been modified upon remonstrance, but enough of injustice yet remained in the bill to render it incumbent upon aU gas and water companies, as well as upon landowner and manufacturers, to give their mast strenuous opposition if they wished to protect their own interests. Mr. Buaarniz, secretary to the Private Enterprise Society, directed the attention of the meeting to the fact that on Friday last a meeting of about 2,000 working men had been held in the Leather Market, Bermondsey, to pro test against the repeated and mischievous interference of government with private enterprise, upon the ground that the legislature, upon pretence of caring for their health, were in reality preventing many of them from obtaining a livelihood. (Hear, hear.) And, with regard to the Nuisances Removal Bill, a remarkable instance of its preju dicial action had just come to his knowledge. A gentleman, desirous of estab,iihing a naphtha manufactory, and, re cently, on treating for the purchase of laud for that pur pose, at Dartford, but, having some doubts upon the sub hct, asked his solicitor if the Board of Health could follow im down there. His reply was, Yes, anywhere within the Admiralty bounds, of England ;" and the gentleman masequently declined to complete the purchase, and removed his manufactory to Jersey. (Hear, hear.) Mr. AsynTAL said the Society of British Architects had petitioned against the bill, which, if carried, would render it impossible for any architect obnoxious to a local board of health to pursue his protrusion. The meeting adopted a series of resolutions, which will be found in another column. ACCOVCDEMENT OF THR EMPRESS OF AUSTRIA.— Her Majesty the Empress of Austria was safely delivered of a dasgbisr et 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon. THE EMPEROR OP Tfli FRENCH AND MR. ROE 'woes Courtrrnm.—Tita Herald says :—" We bars ez• °sliest authority for Mating that the From& Emperor has ramoustrsted against the committee for *lariat into the cowl — wag the war, nod that he las said, that, if; the neat ons outlook/ to sit, the amiss of the two satins au no t se t together, although they may sat for the sane object. In order. therefore, to eathfy Louis ldepoleus, without aliroatiag tbel limbs* people, a dienohates of puinsweat will, it is slated ea the authority we hive aided to, take plan alilicat limayitstr." - • ate expreoo• TO CORRESPONDENTS. 6 deartieementa intended for "The Exprew," London Evening paper, moot be at the Moe, 10, Bouvarlentreet, by Two o'elock on the day of publioatkos. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tim DAT—Morning, M. 45m Afternoon, eh. O. To.xoaaow—)Morning, 15m Afternoon, 4k. 30m. LONDON, TUESDAY, MARCH 6. LATEST NEWS FROM ABROAD REPORTED DEATH OF THE GRAND DUKE MICHAEL (BS SIIBUABIN3 TILZORAPH.) VIENNA, Mowomr. News is transmitted from Varna that the Grand Dake Michael, brother of the new Czar, has been killed before Sebastopol.—Doily News. SERIOUS ILLNESS OF THE KING OF DENMARK. (BY lIIIIINARINB AND BRITISH TELEGRAM) COPENHAGEN, MONDAY. The King is seriously ill ; the symptoms are alarm ing. The bulletins say that the cough is violent and fever severe, with great restlevsnefs. The Committee of the Volkething has resolved not to admit the excess illegally charged on the national budget by the late cabinet fur military, naval, and other purposes. The ex-ministers are to be im• peached.—Daily News. The following appears in the Moniteur of yester day : . i , On Sunday, the Emperor, after visiting the camps of Wimereux and Honvault, left Boulogne for Paris, where his Majesty arrived at seven o'clock." TURIN, MARCH 4. The ratifications of the treaties of alliance between France, England, and Sardinia, were ex hanged this day at one o'clock.—Daily News. STUTTGART, MARCH 1 In its sitting of to-day, the Chamber of Deputies voted by a large majority the three millions of florins demanded by the Minister of War, inserting formally into the law their request that the country should adhere closely to the policy of Austria.—Daily News. A MONUMENT TO JOSEPH HUME. Tn ruling passion of the Emperor NICHOLAS an insatiable love of power. Yet, what power did he really possess ? Even had his most ambitious projects been carried into execution, he would have been no more than a successful instrument of the system of which he formed a part. But he was not able to carry them into execution. He has left his country engaged in a war that threatens to exhaust its resources, and exposed to imminent danger from intestine broils. There can be no doubt that his death was accelerated by the fever and fret of anti cipated defeat. Contrast with his comparatively brief and resultless career the protracted and use ful life of our own JOSEPH HUME. The late member for the Forfar boroughs never held even the most subordinate office under Government. Yet he wu a prominent and influential actor in those straggles which have diffused education so widely among the people, which have to a great extent changed the constitution of our House of Com mons, which have rendered administrative reform inevitable, which have forced the adoption of a new financial and commercial policy upon a reluctant dominant class; and which have reduced poli tical proscription on account of religious belief to a lower ebb than in any former period of English his tory. The private English citizen has contri buted to effect changes which are beneficial and will endure. The AUTOCRAT has done nothing to ameliorate the condition of his kind, and his labours will leave scarcely any trace in the annals of his country. Which of the two has exercised most of real power—the despot or the private citizen of a free land? Yet the obsequies of the useless and noxious tyrant will be performed with lavish pomp and ceremonial by heartless slaves, while the remains of the useful and meritorious citizen were followed to the grave by loving hearts, but as unostentatiously as those of the dead wife of the Patriarch who only sought to "bury his dead out of his sight." This was in ac cordance with the express wishes of our regretted friend, and was in beautiful harmony with the whole of his life. But though it became him to despise posthumous parade, does not England owe it to its own reputation to express by some mo numental testimony its appreciation of his merits? JOSEPH Holtz belonged to a class of public men of whom we have too few among us. Sprung from the people, all his efforts were for the people. The great aim of his labours was to promote "the greatest possible good of the greatest possible num ber." But his was no vague, ill-regulated sympathy ; he never allowed his reason to be biassed by mere sentiment or imagination. He looked the stern reali ties of life steadily in the face. Though a demo crat in the most literal acceptation of the phrase, he never stooped to Satter the people. When a portion of the working classes offered him a testi monial of their gratitude for his services in obtain ing the repeal of the combination laws, instead of accepting the gift he sternly rebuked them for their abuse of the liberty he had gained for them. Though a democrat, he was no demagogue. Parliament was the principal scene of his labours. He was no agi tator, but a statesman working by legalised and legitimate means. He did not win upon the minds of the populace by eloquence, and urge them on to efforts tending more to show his power over them than to benefit themselves. He was plain, practical, indefatigable, inaccessible to the charms of place or popular applause, and therefore powerful for England has bad more than ore great Willa.: England has had more than one great orator ; Eng. land has had more than one great commander by sea and land; but England has as yet had only on e JOSEPH Hoax. His steady pursuit of real predi ct l good, and his superiority alike to the blandishments of courts and mobs, mark him out ea a sample of the kind of public men who will most be needed in the era of extended popular power upon which we are entering. And the English people, who have been so lavish of their monumental trophies to CHATHAM!, Pins, and PEELS, to WELLINGTONS, HEWN; and to Commas, ought to mark their sense of the value of public servants like JOSEPH HOME, by cmsecrating a monument to him in return. The most appropriate would be a statue of the man, preserving his linea ments, as he li,yed and breathed among no, to th e latest generations. The cost of the statue ought to be defrayed by the voluntary contributions of the people; and the appropriate site for it is in imme diate contiguity to the scene of his peaceful triumphs —in the vestibule of the House of C OO 3lllOllB. It is for the people to have the statue sculptured, and to insist upon its admission to that place, let courtiers say what they will to the contrary.—D a il y News. THE PROSPECTS OF PEACE. THE evidence that the Emperor of Runt died "natural death" is irresistible. Yet we are not sur. prised to hear that a rumour has been current of Li e having been poisoned by an overdose of morphi ne. The annals of the Russian Court are of a natan to prompt suspicion. Indeed, under all g e , potisms men are apt to disbelieve that th e despot can die the ordinary death of m et AU despotisms are tempered by assassination, s o d have been since the time of the fabulous Kings of the East and the stern old Roman Emperors down to that of the everyday world in which we live. Absolutism is a monstrosity too much at variance with the first instincts of our aatare to be e l . dured for ever, and therefore in all nation where it has prevailed regicides have bee t so frequent as rather to have been honoured with the rewards of patriotism than stigmatised with the shame of crime. The very nobles and primates wbo have bowed lowest around the throne have been found the first to strike the fatal blow, and when it last the man has perished miserably, who but yes. terday fancied himself little leas than a demigod, h a has fallen without a friend or a mourner —unwept even by his own children ; and his ashes even have been—too often for the credit of our nature—iosalted by that fickle populace who, while he was in life, , had buzzard themselves hoarse for him, and given up their lives or liberties unresistingly at his nod. Fot the very people in despotic countries loses its large heart, its ready sympathy with the afflicting of public men, its generosity and forgetfulness of in. arias. There are speculations too tempting for imagist. tion to resist their deductions entirely. But the urgency of the practical questions raised by the death of the CZAR quickly recals us to the world of prose Ind commonplace. That event cannot fail in any case to be viewed as a matter of pars. mount importance at the present crisis. We know that our motives, as a nation, were pore from the Ina of conquest and self-seeking when we raised the red hand in this most unhappy war. We believed, as a people, that we were standing forth as the champions of progress and civil liberty against as gloomy phantom of tyranny as ever menaced the freedom of the world. We may leave the event of such a war safely, therefore, in the hands of the Omnipotent Master of the Universe, believing with unquestioning faith that He defends the right, and that He in His infinite mercy will guide and prosper our councils yet. While we have faith, however, in the aid of a Power greater than that of generals and armies, let us not buoy ourselves up with false hopes, which at this moment present a smaller chance than ever of being immediately realised. The general opinion of all the most eminent statesmen of the Western Powers is, that, however difficult may be the prosecution of the war, negotiations for peace must be still more so. We can hardly lay down our arms till Russia has in some manner indemnified our Allies and ourselves for the expenses of the war. To waive this point might bring a national bankruptcy on France—it would certainly be financial ruin to Turkey; and we should be entailing the male dictions of posterity upon ourselves for au increase of the millions which will too probably be added to the national debt. It is, however, extremely doubtful how far Russia will be able to comply with our most modest demands in this respect. The recent ac counts of most travellers whose means of information have been such as to give them satisfactory opportunities of learning anything positive upon so delicate a question agree in assuring us that the Comicial re sources at the disposal of the Russian Government have not only been always grossly exaggerated, but that they are at this time in a state of utter exhaustion. The enormous expenditure of the Court, the number and magnitude of the public works, the overwhelm ing extravagance of the vast military establishments, and, finally, the organised system of peculation in all the public departments, are generally believed to have almost emptied the Treasury ; and it is added that when, before the war, the EMPEROR withdrew the sums of money which he had invested in the French and English fund'', this measure, so humbling to his pride, was merely dictated by necessity, instead of by these questionable political motives which have been so often assigned for it. We do not, however, build any peace theory upon these facts. A forced paper currency will long supply all the necessities of the war while it is carried on in Russia, just as the same expedient served the Austrians in Hungary. Par ments in paper, however, will hardly coincide with our ideas of indemnity, in an account which already comprises so many millions. Before peace can be concluded, the Russian Government will have to re• concile the national pride of one of the vainest and proudest aristocracies in the world to the abso lute renunciation of an influence in foreign countries which was once equal, if not superior, to our own. The Protectorate of the Danubian Principalities must be resigned absolutely and for ever. The greatest fortress in the empire must fall, or be ignominiously demolished. The power of Russia in the Black Sea must be destroyed utterly. She must see her long cherished designs on the banks of the Oxus and on the frontiers of Persia and Cabool frustrated after so many years of unrivalled diplomacy. She most con sent also to restrictions on the power of her navy, or we may find that we have purchased but a hollow truce indeed, and within a few years an irresistible fleet might sweep the seas, and carry terror and misery to every shore in Europe ; or we should be obliged, in sell-defence, to maintain our own military and naval establishments on a footing which would be absolutely ruinous. Such is the real state of things ; and it behoves 111 to consider it fairly, and not to be deluded by any vain dreams on a subject which not only concerns the loss of our influence in Europe, and even now impedes the progress of our commercial prosper* but which may yet threaten even our existence as . a nation. We are not of those who look ifiroull at the state of affair. we are not alarmist ' Ws . look forward cheerfully towards a triumphant pace THE NEW RETURN OF NEWSPAPER STAMPS. The return of newspaper stamps just issued gives the following results: Pint Quarter. Second Quarter. Daily News . 319,191 346,044 Morning Herald . 303 , 000 299,000 Morning Poet . . 205,000 226,000 Morning Chronicle . 162,500 186,000 Express . . 177,133 198,369 Globe . . . 176,000 196,000 Sun . . . . 168,000 192,000 Standard . . . 103,000 104,000