The Express. — London, England, 1855-04-28 00:00:00

. . e Mr. LAYARD—I ielll sem MO al mower : ..a " 9, Links 491104119^ April 27, 1865. aXy Lend,—l esaaot per ps Witer to remain un lIIWIPBIO4- lad vet dew _ lave thought pro mo se to meet, that • t h e MO by yes in Lim- Useat•Ceisall !Minutia% see been violated la owe • Whet I did state wag e , such ruler, that ils MillmOrt ati ohs eta skier character, had IMMI y violated.' I mimed mthe gestimlarly he ea MRS II Capesia Reareers El(Week Laid R. Ceslt, it the NOM eillilththe. eillesash m emeirel that impure eau moo set amorous Aihte time of post ham sad say thaeletime, I patent, agree gigues, tint It Is • waste of thee he bold any farther tow smeogooolo. • y with one, who, at such a time ea Idli. ow the cases to whisk I have alluded, sad while have essMed se deep a feeling of indignatios la the Cies .Yd, Yew lerdship Is ileitis at liberty to publish sad I reserve to myself the riOt st groisin7.=T h eresider it necomary.—l have the beam le be. my lads Twat *lama sonnet, "A. LaTARD." Sir, it has beta said by the boa. patlessa opposite that *are Is a Mature of themes and fortunes in military pee mottos. If we saw a party of gamblers, and one man inva riably threw double situ we should naturally suppose that the dies had bees tampered with. It is tree that there are shuns ; but we geserally find that the chances fall apse thou who have the least need of them, and upon penult who base either high connexions or party interest in this douse. (heer, hear.) That question I shall shortly bring before the house, in its most extended form. I believe the wont:" is prepared for the discussion of it. (IL ar, hear.) I believe it is no longer • time for tampering with the feel ing of the people of this country on this subject. That feel lag Intends to every branch of the public service. I will show—in a few days—what I believe to be the public isollag—that the public interests ere sacrificed in every department of the public service to private and party influence. Let me take the ease of two gentlemen who have been referred to. lam told that the rules of the military service are inviolable. A gentleman named lie. Seale has two relatives in this house. He entered the army Is December, 1833; he joined his regiment in 1884; he went to the Crimea late in the autumn ; he was not present either at the battle of the Alma or at the battle of lake/mann ; sad yet begets • captaincy without purchase on the 23rd December, 1854. Yet lam told that it is an inviolable rule of the service that no man should be promoted to a esp. tabu; under two pests' service. If Captain Hentage bad distinguished himself, I should not be the man to say in opposition to him that the role should in no ease be violated ; but when I see the rule violated is his case, though he has not seen &evoke, Ido say that this rule is evidently not as inviolable as the laws of the Modes and Penises. (Laughter) What is the neat case ? Lord Restate Cecil entered the army in 1831 ; and is December, 18.54. he was selected for • captaincy la the Guards. (Cries of " Qustios.") The ministerial bench cries " question." Question ! why, I am told that thi• aan Inviolable rule, and you will sot allow me to show that when interest is at stake you Oar* amen for inviolable rules. (Interruption from the oppeeklea aide) I will not be put down by boa. r atiemea as the ether side. Lieet Blacken, of the Gauls, joins the INII Regiment, and he is prosiest at all. the widows la the Crimea. Fur 611/Vine he is recommended to the government. d What is the result ? HO is transfoned to the Guards, and although he has sera eleven years service,to Is placed beneath Capt. 'lentos. and Lord Rutin Cecil, one of whom has seen only eleven months' service, and the other only two or three years' service. There you have rules peaty violated . I tell the hones that I hold myself re sponsible for these accusations, and I tell Lord HarAnge that I em not prepared to retract them. I wish we bad the power of examining some Officers who could give as information on the subject. I wish Col. Crombie could he called here to state how he was compelled to resign is order to m.ks room for two officers who were beneath him —those two being Lord Surshenh and Lord Hs/dines son. lam told he was never apprised of his being on half pay till he saw the notice in the Gazette. That state. meat may be true or It may not. A person in my pee" tion is obliged to depend, in • great degree upon others for his information, and he may of nurse be mis taken. Ifl have done wrong to an individual, I shall be happy to get up in this house and acknowledge it. But son is the states of things that there is scarcely any appointment, whether in the army or elsewhere, which the public does not believe to be connected with thou who make the appointment. What happened only three days ma ? I see in the Gazette a gentleman who is named on the staff of the Turkish Contingent, with the local rank Of brigadier-general. I tura to the "Army List," and I find that Colonel Cunaiagbam, the gentleman to whom I refer, has married • daughter of Lord Hardinge. (Derisive laughter.) Yea, hon. gentlemen may laugh, but I say that, when such thing. are of constant occur rence, they justify great suspicion on the part of the public; and I say, moreover, that at a moment like this, when our army is in such a critical position, and when disgrace has fallen upon the country, the country is no Imager is • temper to tolerate even an approximation t what I most call jobbery. With regari to the inviolable rule to which I have referred, I may state that Colonel Wilson was not aware of its existence. Such, then, is my statement to the house. I will not retract what I have said, because I do from the bottom of my soul believe it to be true, and I do behave that if others dare get up aed say what 1 base said they c mild mike • similar declaration. I believe there is no one scarcely in this country who does not Iroise. that party and family connexions are the main spring of pronotious. In unction - m.l would say with regard to Colonel Wilson, that he is in no way to blame for what I have stated. My statement was based on the" Amy List," and Colonel Wilson im, I repeat, in no way to blame for • what has been done in this matter. (Hear, hear.) Mr. C. HARDING R said he was not ring to eater into the question which had been so ably treated by the hen. sad gallant member for Huatingdon (Gen. Peel). He would not add one word to that statement; neither would he add anything to what fallen from his hon. hind the Under- Surveil at War. He rose for the purpose of =akin • ono remark with menace to • very sear relative of his, to whom the hon. number for Aylesbury had just alluded. (Hear, hear) The bon. member seemed to insinuate that Um appointment or Col. Cunningham on the Turkish Con tiagent, with the local rank of brigadier-general, was more or lees a job. Now, he begged to say that Col. Cunningham hcd sun service in China under Lord Gough, end, besides that, had been in every titian in the Crimea.(Chters.) If Lord Raglan and his Koval Highness the Duke of Cambridge were appealed to, he ventured to say they would declare that there wu not • b officer in the Crimes then bin gallant relative. (Hear, hear.) Yet the hon. member flu Aylesbury bad taken that opportunity of censuring as appointment which was so well deserved. The hon. mem ber's inaccuracies were certainly of no common order. Molar E +art was • meat ezeellent officer, who owed hh promotion to no interest what ; bat he certainly did not take a first-class certificate ; he got • special undue@ for proficiency in military drawing. With regard is aid hon. member's statement that there was no officer en the staff who had taken • first-class certificate, he begged to my there were no less than five— Colonel Cameron, Colonel Stirling, Colonel Morris, Major Hackett and Major Sankey. (Hear, hear.) Yet the hon. member went to Liverpool and said then was not • sloes officer who had done so. lie would leave the case in the hands of the bones. Let them decide who was right sad who was wrong, who was smadalou sad who was not male slaloms. (Cheers.) lir. SYR° said, many hon. members might not be swore that the appointments and promotions in the Foot Guard@ did not rest with the Commander-in-Chief, but with the solace's. He was desirous of stating, on behalf of Lord Strafford, the colonel of the Coldstream Gaud', that what* ever reopens bility attached to the appointments and pro. 'maims of which they bad heard so math that night, it rested with him alone, and he wu perfectly Eared at all times to justify them according to the exist military regulations, and the well knows order of pre *. applicable to each particular case. Glued LINDSAY mid the hoc. member for Aylesbury had aot addressed himself at all to the case in point, but bad simply dealt in generalities. Ho accused Lord Harding* of meladmmiatratioa, and when asked either to retract his statement, or else to explain in what manner, in this par dealer case—in no other—Loa Hudinge had bees guilty of maladministration, the boo. patina's avoided the point ; and, though he said he would sot retract, be had net • shown that Lord Harding. bad ozonised the slightest haw use over his son's promotion. (Hear.) The bon. member said Captain Heneage was not at the battle of tokenism*. Why was he not there ? Because hiewas serving his onus try in the trenches—(hear hear).—and ever since that tints he had been almost const antly under the fire of the enemy. la Cept. Heasage's Nee the role bad, as the hon. member (Kr. Lulled) observed, been broken through. At the cow meaciensat of the war he was jerkier ensign, but all the ensigns above him having been swept off, and he having bees constantly under the fire of the enemy, Lard Strafford promoted him at the expiration of two years' envies. As regarded Lord Eastace Cecil, his case was this. A gentle men celled on Lord Strafford and informed him that Lord Cecil was moat anxious for service. He told him that when the 43rd was engaged at the Cape of Good Hope, Lord Cecil exchanged into it for the impose of seeing service, and that, being too late for bertha theta, he went to India for the same purpose. Lord Strafford, considering this undue' very meritoriou, sad wasting Olken, gave Lord Cecil • commission. This was the history of the matter. Lord Ruston Cecil happened to to be a son of Laid Salisbury. Lord Suairod had told him that he was usioubtedly acquainted with Lord Salis bury from haying mel him in the House of Lords, but that be was politically eggseed to him, that their acquaintance hod nothing to do with the vgehteseet, bat lie gave Lord Eastace Cecil the lusanali en besiege he found that be was maims he semis*. • Re ought also to state that is setheigamme et the extreme rapidity with which vaimasies bad arisen of late, eleven other oaken hod been peemehd he their services Is the Coldstream. daring the pad year, the greater put of them having came fns ether Waists. He must say it was very unfair, to use the eldest Istm, Ita the hon. geatismaa is go down to the .sunup and Mite the pebble by annosallms every as. of thigh was Mama the iiiskteet feaahtlea. Ostemil NORTH mid be MO merely to supply an Salleldes with regard to the NM ii Lard Burghersh. Before the battle of Clullianwallab, that ashis lord was serving as ' idle de camp to the Governor-Omenl of India. Owing to the root whisk there had been amen the 1111111 M fa iliellnit be gave up his staff appoint- P-411111111 2 11.81111re11 , liglefelef f he joined in time to sone , ell e MIMI (Rear. hear) He was afterwards present as al Go mat. Al sigarded the qualms they hat boos he sea say we It opposed to Mu bailey libt rzolas to sivaloye of Ilio ogystostty afforded by i s ill arostostolossot to out unjust soarer on a dblit- plaited soldier. He would strongly neommead the ►.m. mambas, U be wished to ratan the good opinion of his mon teems', to mender a little the sheenier of Englishmen end their love of fair play ; be would resommeati him to inquire a little before he made such statemeots at pot homer. (Laughter.) The only thing to which he (Colonel North) enact tionspare the breakfast at Liverpool was the dincer at the Reforms Climb. (Laughter.) Colonel KNOX mid that was not the first tire that the boa. member for Aylesbury bad appeared before the house is his Femme character. On a former occasion be bad thought proper to traduce the character of a pliant admiral. (Hear, hear.) He had systematically pursued that course for some purpose of his own; and he (Colonel Kap!) could connive nothing sours detrimental to the character of that boom than a member being guilty of amen proondings. The hon. member had just made a state meat with reward to Colonel Casainghans. He would tell him that Colonel Cunningham was a triend of his, and that the statement which he bad made was without the slightest shadow of foundation. He had applied, since the state ment was mad*, to an officer of his regiment, and he ern. Armed his opinion; and yet the hon. member for Apt... buy had the temerity and the impudence to rise in his plata Mr. HADFIELD rove to order, and appealed to the Speaker whether such language was suitable to that house. The SPEAKER said it ought not to have ben used. Col. KNOX was sorry if I k • had said anything unparliei mentary—(Maghter),—but he really felt that be could not use any terms too strong in describing the conduct of the bon. member for Aylesbury. Of course be withdrew any observations which the 8; ether might consider improper; bat be really thought the conduct of the bun. geotlentan in attacking *facers, both of the army and navy, without acquaintance with the circurnstan es of the case—to put it in the mildest way—was very objectionable, and he would advise him to take tome time Is, meditation. THE EARL OF DIINDONALD. Mr. F. FRENCH stated that in consequence of a com munication which he had reeeived trim the Bail of Dan. donald since cootie{ down to the house, he should postpone the Introduction of the question raised by the noble e►tl nn ill the motiou for going into committee of supply. THE INDIAN ARMY. Sir E. PERRY wished to know whether the noble lord at tho head of the government would consent to fix Thurs day next for the discussion of this subject. Lord PALMER3TON, having stated that he would communicate with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on the subject, and that he would endeavour to actommodate his hon. friend, proceeded as follows: Sir, being on my legs, I cannot refrain from expressing the deep regret which I feel, sad whieh I am sure is participated in by the great majority of this house, at the position in which the hon. member for Aylesbury has placed himself. (Hear, hear.) Sir, every man hat full ilberty, and he does his duty when he exercises that liberty, to bring forward against public men any charge with respect to which he feels that he stands upon good grounds, and with respect to which he has proofs that might convince him or any other reasonable sea that it is well founded. The hon. member for Agiesbury was no doubt perfectly justified, if hie impressirn wee that he had good grimed for them, in making the charges which be did against the noble lord at the head of the army. Bat I thick, sir, that after the charges were disproved—(sheen)—after the demonstration that there is act the shadow of a t,uudation for any of those charges— atter every reasonable man must have been convinced that Ohre charges are false and calumnious—(chsire)—it would bags been more consistent Mr. OTWAY—I rise to order. Although a young mem ber of this house, I must say it appears to me that the noble 'Lomat has made use of language which is quite unpardonable in this house. I have seen an hon. member compelled to retract the terms " false and cialumniou ;" and I trust, sir, that so long as ru pr side in that chair the nob., viscooet will not be allowed to use such language. The SPEAKER—The noble viscount said the charges ware false and calumnious. (" Hear, hear," and cheers from both sides of the house.) Lord PALHERS CON—Sir, I repeat what I was saying, that I should have expected, that when it had helm proved that the charges which had bees male through the boa. member for Aylesbury, if lie wishes it to be put in the way. vete tales and calumnious (renewed cheers)—l should have expected that a due resoect for him self would have led him to acknowledge that be had been misled, end to bear an honourable testimony in favour of a gallant officer. (Cheers) Sir, the hoe. member has brought charges against a man and a class. lie has brought charges against my noble friend at the head of the army which 1 say ate urfsanded end celsmeioas. He has been made, no doubt, the mouthpiece of others who wish to undermine aced overthrow the character of that distinguished man. Sir, Lord Harding+ is not a man who has risen by favour or interest to the situation which he holds. (Hear, hear.) Lord Herding is essentially a ssliLer. (Hear, hear.) He his won his way to tho honourable position which he holds through many a lone campaign, through many a hard fought battle; be Vas eked his blood upon the field of minis. (Chests) There is ns man who, by his long experience and distinguished services, was more pre-eminently pointed out for the position in which he was placed. I say, " wee placed," because he was placed is it by others, not by the present government ; but I also say, that the government which placed him in that situation, did themselves honour by the selection which they made. (Hear, hear.) I say, then, is it likely that a man who owes his position, as Lord Harding° does, to merit mad lung e, who has palmed his life among soldiers, who has been with them in every climate of the glob*, in camp, is cantonment, on hedge., and on much, in every danger, whether from foe er from disease—is it likely, I say, that such a man should have his feelings to perverted by the power which he pos. *ewes as to be influenced by some trumpery motives of per sonal aff,c'ion or pohtical influence to undermine the effi ciency of that army upon whose glory rests his own fame, and by the efficiency of which his honour baa to be main taised ? (Loud cheers.) Sir, I say, thee, that the charges spinet Lord Ha.choge are as unfounded in fact as they are devoid of any reasonable p eaump , ron in their favour. Well, then, sir, the bon. gentleman brings a charge against a glass. He says that the army is filled with eons and Ma. dyes of the aristocracy, and tuat it is a shame it should be es. Sir, I as, the contrary. I think it is an honour to the aeletocreey of the semidry that they flock to the ranks of the may—(hear, bear)—tbat they enrol themselves in the nits of the navy; that when danger is to be courted, and when the honor, of the country is to be de fended, they are foremost to encounter that danger and to maintain that honour. And depend upon it, sir, that if ever the day shall arise whoa the aristocracy of the country shriek from participating in the honour and danger of its defence, when they shell seek the pleasures of pleat' life, and wish to pees their time in luxury and idleness, instead of encountering the dangers of battle, and submitting to the fatigues of a campaign, when , I say, you see the country in that state you may predict its fall. Then, indeed, yen may well raise your voice ag lust classes who will be uadeaerving of the respect of the country; then, indeed, you may say that abuses exist, and endeavour to excite popular odium against the aristocratic classes of this country. lam proud to say that that reproach cannot yet be cast upon the upper classes of England, and what has been made to imply censure aims thew cluste I accept as so many testimonies to the honour, and y %Olin spirit, and manly feeling which characterise the gentlemen of England. (Loud cheers.) THE COUNT OUT ON TUESDAY.—PROMOTION IN THE NAVY. Captain ECOBEIX, ;6;7;ll;idinle to the count out on Tuesday last, and expressing a hap° that on future occasions eta similar nature the government would endeavour to keep • house, said he was glad to state that the noble lord (Viscount Palmerston) had agreed to give him • night for introducing the subject relating to the nary, which he had been prevented from bringing thread that week by the eases to which he had referred. THE BEAT OF WAR. Yr. WARNER wished to know whether any news had been received from the seat of war by the telegraph, which he understood to have been completed thence to this *pantry. if there wi re none,.he did not sae why the house should not t 4.1-1313T10W to receive the intelligence which might by that time have arrived. Si: C. WOOD sail there was n 3 news from the seat of War. The motion for the adjournmejst of the house wu then WW I to. THE BUDGET. The various clauses of the Liu Bill and the Customs tttiee Bid were agreed to in committee. THE EX PRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, APRIL 28, 1855. away with and am was no substitute for It. trades these eireasatawles he naturally asked himself whet Oa pro ms system had failed. What, the., were tho hots ? He bead that at the tints of the laat seam than were ao !r tin 1,0 yaroe►iol soii•Tieliipp7l7l giii•a;rah or Iseal Issatios. There wan at the suss period 637 other saltedleatissatad with the established shank sad the total _ . (T - bt exaneoo. AvartimoictitiaaireTnlraajo - s Zomba MN. coma la cube Ma is, floaasioairca. by Two *dock ca tic goy of patirdsa. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tata DAT —Mariam, Oh. Oa APeroocos. OIL 3a. Tamoosow—Norning, Ob. Mo. Aftanlooo. COL 4410. LONDON, SATURDAY, APRIL 28. LATEST FROM ABROAD. ItIE PARIS EXHIBITION. CRT OVIDIARIXI TILIMAZAPH.) TRX COXIIISPONDIXT OP PRI DAILY IMMO PARIS, SATURDAY MORNING. By an Imperial decree, the opening of the Univer sal Exhibition is postponed from May 1 to May 15. swabs, of embolus in the Nicole of Slio, 1 with the tees Mwd he twsi oat 712 Whelk hoeing PAO toddies; sal di sessesisa with the third thmemiwaties, the willed priebytiekme. he feud only 61 wheel% with 1.607 aeheian: With these Armes before Ida. bey *aid he vas for the deetruedea ef the national system t The toluenes al the pmethial school. wan evident hem the admigion d Imes eatbeds children penny with protesteats, and from the het that the teachers were directed not to pews upon them my Isotrestioa to which their priests or their parents might eldest This was the very arrangement which he wanted te Mee introduced in England, for the purpose of rameanadagag religious dIG bream.. The affect of passing this bill would be to Greats long struggles between its national skated and the free church, and he could not se* how asses were likely to Con duce to tho good education of the seastry. Thera were certain parte of this bill which he thought adapted to im prove Scottish education. From all he bed heard, he be Hived it to be imperatively Deemer, to extend education in the populous towns sod districts of Scotland, and as the bill aimed atthe promotion of that object, he regretted that he could not give it his support, on account of his objection to other parts. Fur Englund, he bad provided that sup plementary schools 0130 , 1 be established, including 's carily for a religious charatter its accordance with the reli gious belief of the locality ; and he would ascent to s similar proposal for Scotland. Believing that the bill, as a whole, would be injurious to the cause of education in Scotland, he should, though most reluctantly, vote against the second - - _ reading. The LORD ADVOCATE said, notwithstanding the re marks of the right hon. gentleman who had jut sat down, he saw no reason to alter the measure, and he was satisfied that a little more knowledge of the re al divisions of Seettel society, and a little more acquaintance with the habits sad temper of the people, would have led the right hon. gentle.: man to different conclusion. The bill comp ri sed ANC objects—to reform the pari.h schools, to ascertain the Ulna cational wants of the people, and to supply those Walden they arose. Of th. se objects the two last were by far the most important. Important and necessary as it was to Ite• farm the pari.h schools, by far the most important part of the bill was that which provided fur the ascertaining of the educational wants of the country from year to year. (Hear.) He (the Lord Advocate) contended that the government had paid the greatest respect to the perish schools, and instead of trying to ueset them, as they hod been acc used of doing, had appth d the very smallest measure of reform to them. Something had aen said of • compromise ; but if such impediments were always to be raised in the way of tin education of the people, if the keeled proprietors and the church were deaf to the voice of public opinion, and would make no concession, hut use their infiaenes only to obstruct, the time might come when it would be the duty of those who were charged with the task of educational reform entirely to remodel the omitting system. No partial cure wou:d remedy the evils of popular ignorance. The voluntary and denominational agencies had failed ; there must be one systematic and uniform ma chinery to ascertain where new schools were wanted, and to bring them Into esisteace. The objections mode by the right hon. baronet (Sir J. Pskington) would have a good deal in them if this bill were legislatioa for England. But it was designed for a country where the influence of the religious bodies was so strong, that nothing but a religious' education would be tolerated there ; and if he (the Lord Advocate) did not know the to mtit of this bill would be this : that in every seltoel the Catechism of the Church of Scotland and the Bible would be taught, just as they now were—he should not think of proposing this bill; nor would any man acquainted with Scotland propose it. Rematking the for wardens of many gentlemen opposite,who did not belong to the church of Scotland, to advocate its asceadancy, the Lord Advocate said he wondered at the presbyteries garrison being so strangely garrisoned by foreign troops, and that they were, in fact, endeavouring to exclude the men, who were the real and primitive presbyterial's. That the parish schools bad done a very great deal for Scotland he allowed, but it was in spite of their inahadministretion, of their it adequate provision and la: discipline, and it was an example. after all, of the great advantages of a national system of education. What, thee, old the government pro- pose to do with those schools ? Firstly, to in:reue the salaries of the schoolmasters; then to give • reedy mode of getting rid of an improper school master ; thirdly, to place the schools under inspectioa which the General Aerembly had recommended, and the benefits of which were shown by toe excellent condition of the school• founded under the Dick bequest ; then, se for the management and juii diction, it was not proposed to bike them out of the hands of thou who mansged them now ; the miois'er and heritors would still have to elect the schoolmaster ; but they would henceforth be enabled to elect the be,t whom they could find, whether he wore • member of the established church or not; the teat was to be abolished, because any sub tents might be dishonestly taken, end were no proof what ever of the qualification of the person taking them. The only other thing in which the parish sea ols were to be altered was in the a unineatiott of the schoolmaster. He proposed to abolish the present system, and in its place to introduce an examination by an inspector in the presence of the beerier sod the minister. No doubt this would enable the heri:or and minister to select a free church or a presbyterian schoolmaster at their option, and he thought that it was only just that this should be so. It was not right that in a free church district there should he a presbyterian schoolmaster (hear)—any mom that it would be just for the schoolmaster of a presbyteries district to be • free churchmen. It had been said that the established church of Seetland was still influential. It might be still more a.., but in soy case nothing could be more don germ's to in the present circumstances of its coalition, than to assume the attributes of a power tt e reality of which it did not possess. (Hear, hear.) To hie mind nothing could he more advantageous to the established church of Scotiand than the peening of this bill. With regard to other denominations, more esoecielly the Roman catholic, which in some districts embraced a vast proportion of the population, he considered that their case ought specially to be dealt with by the Privy Council. Such were the object.' of the bill before the house. if it were rejected, he trusted the day would yet come when snore furtuteate bands than his might carry it through. But it the measure should re gene the approbation of the House of Commors, then a victory would be gained over ignorance, the common enemy of all—a victory without regrets for the past, without danger as without fear for the future. (Chum) For the second reading 2lO Against it l7l-39 Mr. C. BRUCE gave notice that be would move an instruction to the committee to divide the bill into two bills, according to Mr. Welpole's suggestion. The committee was then flied for the 10. h May. FRIENDLY SOCIETIES BILL. This bia as amended was considered in committee, and ~ me verbal alterations having been agreed to, Mr. SC HOLEFIELD moved to leave out the proviso. Mr. J.WILSON opposed the amendment, as calculated to injure the revenue. After a short discussion the committee divided — For the clause For the amendment 26-11 The clause was then ordered to stand part of the bill, es were the remaining clauses. Lord EBRINGTON moved to add a clause providies ' that no man by reason of his enrolment or *mice in the militia abroad shall on that ground forfeit any right or in. tweet he may pawls in any friendly society, but that such seeleties shall be protected from loss arising from the in creased risk of deaths in tropical and other foreign climates by increasing the monthly payments. Mr. COWPER considered the clause museeammy, and observed that the risk et death was V ._., ligg. ben la these climates in which the militia wo uld be NUM spa serve than in Beglend. Mr. ATHERTON objected that the clause would later fere with the right of self•eontrol enjoyed by these societies. Mr. SPOONER suggested that that right was interfered , with by parliament having insisted that members of friendly societies should not forfeit their tight noteithstandiog ash vice in the militia abroad, arid the clause would merely restore to them the right of making rules to meet that be. le:forme. After a few words from Mr. Sotherae, Sir G. Grey, Lei Pslmereton, Mr. Henley, and Mr. Mowbray, the chines WM withdrawn, Lord Ebrington stating that he would bike it forward on the report. The house then resumed. INCOME TAX BILL. The committee nn this bill was postponed until Monday. STAMP DUTIES (DRAFTS ON BANKERS) BILL. The second reading of this bill was postponed until Friday. Sir A. CAMPBELL obtained leave to bring in a bill re lating to the erection of piers and harbours in Seotland. SPIRIT OF WINE. On the motion of the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHE QUER a return was ordered of the reports on the supply of spirits of wins, free from duty, for use in the arts sod manufactures, addressed to the Board of Inland Revenue in 1854 and 1855. The house adjourned at a few minutes before 2 o'clock. EDUCATION (SCOTLAND) BILL. The LORD ADVOCATE presented a number of petio tins in favour of Rio bill from all parts of Scotland, and some gala* the bill of the hon. member for Perthshire. Lora DUNCAN also presestsd a batch of Widow in favour of the inn. Mr. C. BRUCE presented seven' against it. Mr. Crauftud, Mr. H. Sallie, Mr. Laing, Mr. Cowan, Mr. Lockhart, Mr. A. Hattie, Mr. Wortley, and other mem bers, also peessatol petitions for and against the bill. The LOAD ADVOCATE having moved the ariond read ing of the bill, Mr. BLACKBURN moved that it should be read a w ooed time that day 8 months. Mr. DUNLOP, Mr. BLITZR, and Lord DUNCAN, defended the bill; Mr. H BAILLII, Mr. JOWNSTONI, and Mr. Watrowe, opposed it. Sir J. PARINI/TON said this proposition had bten dis cussed wi ll& so mach ability, that he ilia not wish to detain the house opal it; but in consequence of the measure w hich he had brought forward fur Eugland, he had been so ap- ALLEGED RESIGNATION OF LORD PARMORL—Wei pealed to, that he felt it to be impossible to give a vote on (Herald, second edition,) have just been informed, this question without at the same time giving eons explanation of the grounds on which he should vote against upon excellent authority, that Lord Panmure has it. He was bound to say, after giving the best attention he positively given in his resignation as Minister of could to the measure, he could not find in it anytning which gave to hoe. members who supported it any jeitilication in War. appealing to him to support it. On the contrary, he could THE WAR.—The Herald asp, in a second edition, net help thinking, if hoe. gentlemen wou l d de him the „ learn from rieb . I the 2 5 th that the justice to examine dipanionstely the arguments he bad astopo on advan.ed, and the propositions be had made for England, bombardment continued, but the amault was poet sad compared them with this bill, they would find that this potted until reinforcements arrived." bill was, in many of its most important principle., is direct opposition to the propositions which he made for England. Om PARIS Boonsz.—At the Paris Bourse yester - Om of his own proposals with regard to England was, that %edgy the Rents fell 30e. from the previous day's 41041 every school in the country should have a distinct religiose giatat i ow , closing at mfr. 40e. character, eanbised with the most complete toleradon. MADLLE. DOUDET. The Imperial Court gave Scotland a system whisk answered to this description was to be esperseded and destroyed. aid be found la the bill se *lenient at Paris yesterday musing, on Ilene. Doudet's Raavestse that the new schools would have a religious appeal. She is sentenced to Ave years' Inspriseement instead character. Ia order to secure that object. he Pro Poled I ref the two years awarded by the Tribunal sf Correetiosal the ease of Ragland that the teacher of every school shosl4 Pollee. belong to the same denomination of Christiana as the school to which he was attached. Is the bill he Nand no security Mr. ChM. Mathews has accepted a "starring" , for the religion of the teethe& The existing test was done eugspatent at the City of London Theatre. coasts would begin to addict themselves to every species of lawleas traffic ; and that ere long there would be tolerably sure to grow up a wide-spread system of ping. But another and a plainer consequence, fraught with far more serious re suits remains to be noticed. The Greeks would instantly resume those practices which of late years they have been forced to forego in the Again and the Adriatic, but the guilty gains and glories of which they have not forgotten. The sons of the Cor- *airs of thirty years ago would soon make the Black Sea their own. Under the terms of the contemplated treaty, trading vessels of every nation would be free to pass the Dardanelles, and to navigate the waters of the Euxine. As traders these matchless masque raders of the deep would come and go ; • but every Milos would be an armed man, and every hold would Barry the munitions of predatory war. It was only by the continued presence of British and French cruisers in the Levant, for years after the recognition of Hellenic Independence, that the system of piracy was put down. Many of our own naval officers now living were engaged in that ser vice ; and many are the stirring t-les of chase and conflict, varied with incidents of capture or escape, that have been narrated by them. It .took a long time, and no little cost, labour, and risk, to accomplish. Let anybody picture to himself what the Levant would have been in these days of fast-Bailing steam clippers and corvettes, had buccaueming been eradicated less completely; and when he has realised in all its fell iniquity and infamy the condition we' have indicated, he will be able to estimate correctly the state of things to which the Black Sea would infallibly be reduced by the proposal of what is termed in diplomatic dialect—" neutralisation." But this is not all. If there be one fa • ct which has throughout the present struggle been unanimously admitted by friends and lees, it is the fanatical sym pathy of the Greeks as a race fur the came of the CZAR. What Russian politicians disclaim, or endea vour to explain away in the action and language ot their court, the Greeks even in England enthusiasti cally avow. The ruin of the Moslem is with them a faith ; their restoration in the land which he took from them by force, and still occupies in spite ot their daily curses and plote, is with them a traditional policy which statesmen can neither teaaon with nor venture lightly to ignore. By establish ing the condition preposterously styled that of neutrality in the Euxine, we should enable the Russian Government, under the flimsy veil ot some commercial enterprise or company, to collect within the numberless creeks of those ill-known coasts any description of cleft suitable for use on a sudden call, manned by crews accustomed to the winds and eddies that render the navigation difficult to strangers, and ready at a moment's notice to drop the . . mask of merchandise, and to draw their cutlasses as the champions ota new crusade. Another Sinope there might not be within the gates of the Dardanelles; but the spirit that planned and executed that still unpunished deed of carnage would collect, dis cipline, and, at the secretly-appointed hour, send forth a flotilla freighted with an army of surprise against the devoted City of the SULTAN, infinitely more formidable than any which could possibly have been carried in a siugle voyage in the frigates and ships of the hie which Admiral NATCIIIIIIOIT had at his command. It was not in three.deekers that NAPOLEON planned his descent on England. His whole scheme consisted is the countless multiplication of small craft, in which he hoped to be able bimultancously to effect the transport of his army. The fleet was only necessary in his mind to distract the attention of NELbON'd squadron ; and had he been sate that his enterprise would not, at the critical juncture, have been intercepted by the British fleet, ho would undoubtedly have made his long meditated attempt. What would NAPOLEON not have given for a clause in the Treaty of Amiens which would have secured for six months the total absence of vessels of war from the Channel ? This is the way to bring home to ourselves the value of those vague and high-auundii.g phrases of diplomacy of which we have recently heard so much. We can underetaid the policy of opening the Black Sea to the armed squadrons of all nations ; but the proposal to shut them all out of it would be simply to set its waters apart for piracy in time of peace, and to render it the cradle of irresistible coups de main at the outbreak of another News. CHRIST'S HOSPITAL. Tub Governors of Christ', Hospital who are friendly to the reforms in that institution, recom mended by the Select Committee appointed on the 19th of last December, ought to be on the alert. A Court is to be held on the Ist of May to consider the Committee's report, and to inquire "Whether any, and, if any, what changes are desirable in the Con stitution, Power., and Duties of the Committee of Almoners P" The decision come:to by the Court on this question will go far to decide whether or not any reform of Christ's Hospital is to be effected. In making this remark we beg to dis claim any intention to throw out offensive imputations against the body of Almoners. Of the abilities and accomplishments of some of these gentlemen we entertain a high opinion. We believe that all of them are as sincerely desirous to promote the interests of the Hospital, as the Governors with whom we concur in opinion. But we believe THE BLACK SEA. them to be radically wrong in their views of the p0_.....__ _.....__ licy which is calculated to have that tendency ; and Tax more the proposition is considered for what is experience has taught us that habit and old &meas. Awned " the neutralisation of the Black See," the tions have so confirmed them in their peculiar less regret will be felt at its categorical rejection by views that there is no hope of having the manage- and Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge m a o ry i ii . f . C e ar .u b T r v id e r ibi st a l o te r o h te m d els Purees, Litd ' the Court of Bt. Petersburg. The diplomatic re- went of the institution rendered more efficient ex- Caarlo h t e te P aeld, Ipreeentatives of the CZAR at Vienna might well die- apt by an infusion of new blood into the managing and Colonel Stephens, honoured the Society of Painters in o W pe a n te e r d C to ol t o h u e n pu th e. a visit, yesterday, previous to its being trust the reality or permanence of any settlement by body. We repeat , therefore , t h at u p on the ado p tion treaty of the affairs of the East based on salt a foun- of the Select Committee's recommendation of a re- The new building connected with the Asylum for dation. Habitually insincere themselves, they pro- construction of the administrative body depends the Idiots, which Prince Albert has kindly consented to open bably were unable to interpret a proposal so utterly possibility of making Christ's Hospital, as a seminary i itt ie tlt u e m n m erg e ao s u a r t hoo ll c e l ri s e n w° 4 d rieult d u h r i al ' seroo re l ey of dTs h eip r Za il a unsusoeptible of logical defence otherwise than as an of instruction, what it might and ought tp be made, for boys, which was opened by Prince Albert in 1819. indication of insincerity on the part of the Allies. The proposal of the Select Committee is, that the The Exhibition of Art Contributions to the And yet we are convinced that the alternative was present Committee of Almoners be dissolved, and mPaaltlrr Patr ioti c Fund, which will close this evening, at 121, Pall to be re-opened on Thursday neat, at Burhogton proffered in perfect honesty of intent, but we are that two distinct committees be substituted, the one house, Piccadilly. bound to add, with singular fatuity and blindness, by charged with the management of the estates and ex- The Gazelle of last night Imitates the City address the Cabinets of Paris and London. What impossible traneous charities, the other with the general busi- to !IT le F; i •o a eh or Em f a li r i or n , together with n CI h is e ll i ge st ers 'e r o e f pi t y ge state of facts or incredible results were contemplated ness of the HospiteL The former, it is proposed, shall commercial bodies have a c rereiv e e r d replies at by its authors, it is hardly worth while investigating. consist of sixteen Rectors, the latter of twenty-four with which they last week greeted the Emperor of the It forms no part of our duty to conjecture specific Almoners. It ist also propoeed, that twelve of the French ' On Monday last, before leaving Vienna, Lord John to the a addresese absurdities as the probable aim of our baffled rulers twenty-four Almoners shall consist of * members or ex - Russell paid a final visit to Prince hietternieb. is any one of the numerous points on which they members of the present Committee. We confess that A correspondent of the Independence Belga menr have drifted upon failure. But it does constitute a to us the advantage of the sub-division of Is- .110,101nA ric a to " r i is s 's ( Z e i t Stoqtarrs.aPTcheisone„aasogthe'maeanT,fiirmdacfloe, Medea, and no unimportant one, of our obligation boar that would result from the adoption of this must ee however obviously depend upon the duration of the SO violin set to watch and to give warning of danger proposal greatly recommends it. Each Committee whomsoever it may come, to note distinctly the will find ample occupation in the teaks devolved upon foreseen. pri nce Mentchikoff, whose name has figured Aerator and true tendency of schemes, no matter it, and will be better able to discha r g e t hem satisfac- Emperor's campaign in the Cr imea, which cannot easil y be so often of late in certain obituaries, has just received at where they originate, which, though they have failed torily by being liberated from incompatible duties. Perek pe rson ir wit t h st h ate, once, may nevertheless be again attempted, and The reduced number of Almoners on the General ierd f i r: on stix i i i i . dsr m ll iifi tso ce n at doliog l on a t hl e s zPreselg the wishes of the Clear that be may seen be, upon which therefore it is as well to put our mark of Committee will also be a benefit; for in all numerous able a g ain to aid the state with Ois gnu ablltills.aes. detection before they can by any accident reappear. committees experience shows that the labouring oar is esPeviesee• —_-- " • • • As an alternative to the numerical limitation of the taken by a few, and that the greater number are held who, a it em d, were list weak obeiged at the I w s i ß li l b y e t a h a,raJemClareoirLodge, aed tAirteuee Mane s . Russian fleet in the Eaxine, it was proposed at the in reserve to swamp disagreeable motions brought for- mansion-louse with to 'bating billi " ealanlated to excite recent Conference, that the waters of that extensive ward by a troublesome minority. In a committee of to tsi a tecr e th a V i City, th rre e re pe T e a rtecd a lF4' d e i r :lff i rge upon"gtaPe P eit c inland sea should be declared neutral—i.e., that no a manageable number every member attends to 7_ into their own lecognisameet to Y k o some of so ti : e on sp with s f to ortg e democratic uunaa I L . ltet- ptireag kis, vessel of war carrying the Ottoman, the Muscovite, or the business ;in overgrown committees men find the published reports connect the * 'age. of the pi any other flag, should henceforth be suffered to appear themselves superfluous and eases to attend, therein. We have already observed that the pro- except when there is, what is wand in Letters from Warsaw inform us that great ireps.. , bable result of adopting such a condition would be the House of Commons, " a whip," and then rations are making there f o r the coronation of the see ae that the semi-barbarous tribes who dwell upon the ' they vote upon impetfect information, It le Ring of Poland, The ceremony is to he pe r formed In jam. The following has been received by the Daily News from another source: A deputation from Kilburn, to protest against the new Paddington Burial Ground in the neighbourhood, bad an interview with Sir George Grey yesterday at the Home office. The deputation consisted of Messrs. H. Valiance, W. Verey, R. Meted, C. Watson, Thai Paul, C. Ssunder son, John Geri', J. C. Whaley, Wm. G. Carter, R. Sweet log, Anderson, H. Hall, Wm. Graham, A. B. Freud, J. C. Cutlow, R. W. Lucas, Thos. Peters, Robt. Tubbs, and Lonndes. The deputation was introduced by Lord Robert Grosvenor. A deputation from Kentish-town bad an interview yes terday with the Presicent of the General Board of Health at his office, Whitehall, with reference to the Metropolis Local Management Bill. The deputation consisted of Messrs. Samuel, Sandy., Clarke, Taylor, and Halton. The Cathedral Commission met at No. 1, New-street, Spring-gardens, yesterday. The commitsionirs present were the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Marquis of Bland ford, M.P., the Bishop of Dottier', the Bishop of Word, the Hon. sod Rev. H. M. Villiers, Sir John Pattrios, Rev. Dr. Wordsworth, Rev. Canon Selwyn, and Mr. Henry Kingscote (secretary). Despatches were sent from the Colonial-office yesterday to I thegovernors of the North American provinces. SATURDAY. News has arrived here of the total loss of the Isle of Thauet, Capt. Allen, upon a rock south of Dorengo Island. The crew were saved. AUSTRALIAN ARRIVALS. FALMOUTH, FRIDAY, The ships Vimiers, Captain Neatby, and Lady Aim, Captain Maxton, both from Sydney, were off this morning, and have landed passengers.—Daily Netts. LA ADMIRAL DUNDAS AT COPENHAGEN. (lIT INTEZNATIONAL (TROY TEI CORSESP4 arurs VIA TEI RA0171) IT OP THE DAILY NEWS) HAMBURG, SATURDAY. The Dragon has arrived at Copenhagen, with Ad miral Dundee, from Kiel. Lieutenant Stewart and Envoy Buchanan have visited the War Minister, and a reception by the King was about to take place. KIEL, THIIINDAY. The flag-ship Duke of Wellington, Captain Cald well, arrived to-day in eight daysfrom England. The Bulldog hu returned from visiting the Baltic ports. RESIGNATION OF THE MINISTRY. (IT SQBHARnII AND BRITISH TELEGRAPH) Count CAvour and all his colleagues in the ministry have resigned. The King has accepted their resignations. General Durand() his been charged with the for mation of a new cabinet.—Daily New,. (BY S(BBARIX1 AND BRITISH TILRORAPH.) VIENNA, FRIDAY. M. Drooyn de Lhuys has left for Paris. The Moniteur of yesterday announces from Vienna that General Hem leaves for his head-quarters in Galßola on the 2nd of May, accompanied by General Crawfurd and Generid de Listing, the military com missioners of France and England.—Daily News. 111 E CRIMEA. The Independance of Brussels has received from Vienna a report alleged to be founded on a despatch from the Crimes, that the Allies have suspended the bombardment of Sebastopol. It is not stated on what day the fire ceased, but the Independance believes that the date of the despatch is posterior to that of the last official intel ligence—namely, to April 19.—Daily News. AUSTRIA AND THE COI Some of the French government journals continuo to predict large results from the Austrian alliance. The Pays says, that the stay of M. Drouyn de Lhuys at Vienna was protracted, to enable Lim to "regulate the new situation" which results from the Russian resolution. A meeting of representatives of the Four Powers was held on Thunday, at the re quest of Prince Gortchaboff, when some further in admissible proposition was made by the Russian plenipotentiaries, and rejected on the part of France, England, and Turkey.—Daily News. THE OVERLAND MAIL. SIIHMAZINZ ►ND BRITISH TZLIGRAPR.) (7ROX TEE OORRISPONDINT 07 THE DAILY NEWS.) MARSEILLES, SATURDAY MORNING. The Valetta arrived here this morning with the above mails, at 6 o'clock. but due to the Select Committee to point ont the moderation they evince in recommending that twelve of the twenty-tour Almoners shall be selected from the members of the exibting body. This shows that their aim is really reform and increasing the efficiency of the management of the Hospital, not the lubstitution of one set of men for another. We observe that a kind of protest against the Report of the Select Committee, signcd by two of its members—the Treasurer and Mr. Archdeacon Hsi x-- hes been circulated amongst the Governors. The main ground taken up in this document is, that " the Select Committee had no authority from the Court to inquire into the general condition of the Hospital." Little weight is due to an objection so purely formal. The Court of Governors have not been taken by surprise by the Report. Ample time has been allowed them to consider its arguments and recommendations. If the measures it proposes are right, it would be the veriest trifling to lose time by appointing another Committee with extended powers to bring forward on a future day a report substan tially the same. Besides, it ought to be kept in re membrance that a Committee wan appointed on the 30th of May, 18M, to inquire into the general management of the Hospital, and that it has done nothing from that day to this. By extending the range of its inquiries the Committee of December has made amends for the lifelessness of its predecessors. The necessity for extensive reforms is urgent, and the thanks of the Governors are due to the Committee of December, for doing what its predecessor had failed to do. The Almoners, we are given to understand, intend, on Tuesday, to meet the resolutions that are to be proposed for carrying out the recommendations of the Select Committee, by what the French call a condreTrojel. The Almoners propose that the present Committee shall be reduced, from forty-eight to forty-two ; that six members of the new committee shall be honorary, chosen by the present body ; that twenty-seven ordinary members shell also be no minated by the present Committee ; and that only nine shall be elected by the Governors. This infusion of nine elected members into a Committee, thirty three of whose members are to be virtually self-elected, irresistibly reminds one of Falstaffa poor half-penny worth of bread to his moustrous quantity of sack. The counter-proposal of the Almoners may fitly be designated "A concession by which nothing is con ceded." They are meant to give these gentlemen the appearance of yielding to the just demands of the re forming Governors, without in any way endangering the exclusive power to which they cling. As to what object can be propostd to be attained by diminishing the number of Almoners from forty-eight to forty two, it would requse an Clinotrus to nnriddle that puzzle. Still the proposal of the Almoners is not altogether without a meaning. It is a tacit confession on their part that the time has gone by for boldly and barefacedly resisting the general call for a reconstitution of their body. It ought to en courage the Reformers to persevere, inn-much as it shows that they are already strong enough—or EOM will be—to obtain all they desire. We have devottd so much space to the elucidation of the importance of the motion for a reconstruction of the managing tody in Christ's Hospital, that we have left ourselves no room to enlarge on the reforms which are proposed to be obtained by means of it. We wiil take up this branch of the question on Mon day, for it is the importance of the rctorms advocated that lends weight to the constitutional innovations recommended. And it is most desirable that Gover nors at a distance should be impressed with a con viction of the meessity of their making an effort to be present on Monday, as wt 11 as of the likelihood that a strenuous exertion now may save them much trouble in future.—Daily Aews. ZDe Court. The Duchess of Kent visited the Queen yesterday at Buckingham Palace. Prince Albert reds on homback with the niece of W.11,P, attended by Colonel Seymour. The Princess Royal, the Princess Alice, end the rein rewire Adele de and Poseidon) of finhenlohe 1,-.ngenburg, visited the Z iologieal Gardens in the ltegent's-park. Her Majesty and Prince Albert took a drive in the after now) in an Nun landeu sod four, accompanied by the Princess of Hohenloho and the l'rince of L•iniusren, and attended by Lord Charles File Ruy and Colonel Seymour • on horseback. The Queen bad a dinner party in the evening . The cens patsy included the Dualists of Kent, the Princesses of Ho , heolohe Laugenburg, and the Princ, 14 Adelaide and Peirce Victor of Hohenlohe, the Prince of Leiningen, the Duchess of Grafton, Lady Anna Maria Dawson, Earoatss de Speth, the Marquis and Marchioness of Breadalbane. the Earl of Huston, the Marquis of Granby, Lord and Lady Colville, Sir George Coupes.. Major-General B•ritinek, and Major- Gerreral Wylde. The band ct the Royal Horse (lauds attended is the palace, and performed during dinner. ;