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1856. A i s-- 1 - 16 — ries; and be feared the arguments for so doing bright be turned against themselves. Reverting to the proposed increased of the military force in Canada, he contended that the reduction of the number of troops there was not caused by the Russian war ; it was the result of a policy deliberately adopted to re lieve the Home Government of expense, and, to a certain degree, to excite a military spirit in the colonists themselves. This policy had been most successful. He would not oppose an increase in the military force in Canada, provided there was a dis tinct understanding that it wee for Imperial purposes only, and not a colonial measure, or not intended to supersede the colonial militia. The Eati of CLARENDON assured the house that the Government was anxious to maintain the most friendly relations with the United States. As soon as it was found the enlistment was likely to give offence it was stopped, and there was nothing one Government could do to another, or one gentleman to another in the way of apology that he *as not ready to offer. As to the Central American question, be thought the meaning of the Clayton.Bulwer treaty was quite clear; it was perspective in all its provisions, but it did not imply that England was to give up anything she possessed at the time of the treaty. The Government had no wish whatever to extend its possessions in Central America; and it at once offered to refer the question for impartial arbi tration to a third power; bit; it could not do what was not contemplated by the treaty merely because it was told a new interpretation had been put upon it. To this offer of arbitration no reply had yet been received from the American Government. Lord PANNURI explained that the troops were to be sent to Canada with no intention of reversing the policy the Earl of Elgin had alluded to, but solely for Imperial reason*. Only five regiments, averaging 800 men each, were to be sent out, which were not enough either to damp the energy of the colonists or excite alarm in the United States. Earl GREY thought, unless the common sense of the people cn both sides decidedly checked the ten dency of the Governments to make displays of force, much of the expense and ill feeling of war would be created, even if war itself were averted. He was glad the present explanations had been given by the Government The motion was then agreed to. THE DANUBIAN paiscosurres. Lord LYNDHURST, on Tuesday, according to notice, put a question to the Earl of Clarendon on the affairs of the Danubian principalities. It had been agreed by the Congress of Paris that the Hospodars, who were known to be subservient to Austria, should be removed from the principalities, and that the Aus trian army should be withdrawn before the commis sioners of the several powers commenced their task of settling a form of government for those provinces. He wished to know if there was any foundation for the report that the Turkish Government had ex tended the Hospodars' term of office, and that Austria had agreed to the arrangement. The Earl of CLARENDON had no knowledge of the circumstances to which Lord Lyndhurst referred. He had received a letter from Lord Stratford de Red cliffe, dated the 13th instant, a day later than the reported decision of the Turkish Council, and be made no refeience to it; he understood from the highest Turkish authority in this country that no such arrangement had been made. The attention of Lord Stratford should be called to the subject. Lord LYNDHURST pressed the point whether the Hospodars would remain in office after the expiry of their present term, and whether, if removed as Hos podars, they would be placed in the situation of Caimacans, Lord CLA►RENDON could not exactly say what ar rangement would be adopted. The appointment of Caimacans was open to the Porte. ABSENCE OF LORD BROUGHAM. The Loan CHANCELLOR, on Tuesday, having pre sented various petitions for Lord Brougham, read the following letter : Grafton-street, May 26th. My dear Chancellor,—l am sorry to give you the trouble of these petitions and of my bills, but my attendance is of course out of the question. Indeed, I am very unwell ; and besides, seventeen years (both by the time and work) have left me unable to struggle as I did under the afflictions of 1839, and I may, perhaps, venture to hope that I have earned a title to some rest under the present. Two of the bills are in their last stage—hut not the most important., that on judicial statistics, which I earnestly recommend to your care. The prints I anderstand will be delivered to day or to-morrow, and you will see that, with its fifty ela borate and carefully-p re p are d sc h e d u l e s, it gives the frame t)! a complete system of judicial statistics, criminal and civil, general and local.—Ever yours sincerely, BROUGHAM. THE BANDS IN THE PARES. On Tuesday, on the motion of Sir J. SHELLEY, an address was agreed to for a copy of the correspon deuce between the Archbishop of Canterbury and the /Vat Lord of the Treasury, on the suppression of mania in Kensington-gardens on Sundays. PR THE BALLOT. Major Ittm, on Tuesday, gaVe notice that on the 2.lth of June he should move for a select com mittee to receive evidence from constituencies upon the present system of open voting and the limitation of the franchise. THE NATIONAL DEBT. Mr. POLLARD-URQUHART, on Tuesday, gave notice that on the 24th June he should move for a select committee to consider the question of paying off the National Debt by means of terminable annuities. THE POET-OFFICES. The Duke of ARGYLL, on Monday, in answer to a question from the Marquis of Clanricarde, stated that in 103 of the largest country post daces there bad been a revision of the scale of payment, and the salaries of the clerks had been increased. There were ninety-nine other offices now under revision. APPELLATE JURISDICTION OF THE HOUSE. The LORD CHANCELLOR, on Monday, laid on the table a 13.11 to make better provision for the discharge of the appellate jurisdiction of the House of Lords, which had been framed in pursuance of the recom mendations of the select committee. The bill, was read a first time. DISEMBODIED MILIT/l. Mr. PEEL, on Monday, in reply to Mr. Grogan, said that when a militia regiment was disembodied no officers continued to receive permanent pay ex cept adjutants and quartermasters, who retained their appointments. If sergeants who had been promoted to the position of adjutants and quarter. masters retained their appointments, of course they would be permitted to remain on the permanent staff; but others who had been promoted, but who did not retain their appointments on the disembodi ment of the regiment, would only receive the pay they were previonsly entitled to receive. INDIAN ACCOUNTS. The Earl of ALBEMARLE, on Monday, rose to move for various returns connected with the salaries, pen sions, and annuities paid to the servants of the East India Company, with the view of ascertaining whether the number of civil servants were sufficient for a good government in India, and whether, in a poor country like India, the number could be increased at the present rate of remuneration. Earl GRANVILLE objected to the motion ; the re turns would entail gr, at expense an.l immense labour, without effecting the purpose the Earl of Albemarle had in view. The Earl of ELLENBOROUGH believed that the India-house would not be able to furnish four-fifths of the returns. After a sugLmstion from Earl GRANVILLE, that the Earl of Albemarle should withdraw his motion and apply to the Board of Control for the information which might be given as to some of the returns, the Earl of Albemarle assented to this course, and the motion Was withdrawn. BUSINESS OF THE ROUSE. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, on Tuesday, in reply to Mr. Hadfield as to what the Government intended to do with the various bills now pending, begged to state in answer, that it was the intention of the Government on Monday next to propose, as the first order of the day, that the house should go into a committee of supply, and proceed with the civil service estimates until they were completed. Afterwards would be taken the remaining votes of the army and navy estimates. Notice had been given by the hon. member for Inverness-shire of his intention to bring forward the question of recruiting in America, a question upon which negotiations were now pending with the United States, on going into committee of supply on the army estimates, and not oe the civil service estimates. With regard to the question of the hon. gentleman (Mr. Hadfield) re specting the several bills he had mentioned—viz., the two Scotch Education Bills, the Wills and Adminis trations Bill, and the bills introduced by the Vice. President of the Board of Trade—he was riot able to state what course would be taken regarding those measures, not knowing how long the remaining votes in committee of supply woul4l occupy. THE EXPOSITION BUILDINO in the Champs Elysees is to be turned into an agricnitnral-show upou a grand scale. Agricultural productions of every class, and agricultural instruments and machines, with cattle and sheep of every breed, have arrived. Prizes will be given, and the exhibition will be open from the Ist to the 10th of June, at an admission of lfr. It is creating quite a sensation in Paris, and promises to be highly successful. AN EXTRAORDINARY CASE OF HOMICIDE, if not murder, occurred at Washington, on the Bth. A member of Congress a Mr. Herbert, stopping at Willard's Hotel, Washington, ordered breakfast at an hour when it was not allowed to be served without a special order from the office. When told of this Mr. Herbert abused the waiter, struck him, struggled with him, and, finally drawing a revolver from his pocket, shot the man dead. Mr. Herbert sable quently delivered himself up to justice, and his examination took place the following day, when he Itah remands& ALL the allied troops, except our own, continue to leave the Crimea rapidly. 59,000 French, 10,000 Turks, and 7,000 Sardinians have managed to get away, while only 9,000 English troops have been embarked in the same time ; but then the English ships are transporting these soldiers of all nations, and our men of-war are not to be turned into trans ports. An entrance has been forced into the harbour, and vessels are now laid alongside the Admiralty and Nicholas Quay for artillery and stores. Sir William Codrington held constant reviews and inspections of the army. The late fracas between the French and English soldiers, in which an English sergeant of marines bad been killed and a naval officer wounded, has resulted, after a tedious inquiry, in the acquittal of the French soldiers. The case is sai.l to have been one of positive " murder," and, as the awe were captured in filgreat delicto, with smoking arms, there was no &alit about their identity. General Codrington, it is said, is determined upon not letting the matter rest without obtaining the punishment of the offenders, and fresh representations have been sent in to Mix-dial Pelissier. A trial of field-pieces has been made between the French six and twelve pounders, and our nines. The trial does not seen to have been very creditable to either armies, but we were disgracefully beaten, a fact which the Times correspondent accounts for by our artillery officers in command insisting upon pointing and laying the guns themselves, to the exclusion of the more practical gunners of the corps. Marshal Pelissier it was expected would shortly return to France, resigning the command to General McMahon. General d'Allonville's cavalry corps had come round by land to Kamiescii from Eupator.a. The Courrier de Marseilles publishes the following de scription of the march : On leaving Eapatoria we marehed along the onset of the Gulf of Kslnuits, leaving on our left the salt lakes of Sassik, Tuala, and Karuisely. With regard to these lakes, the Tartan, in order to supply themselves, with 'salt, have only to drive their carts into the water sufficieatly deep fur the water to flow into the carts ; and the mud at the bottom being stirred up with the wheels, in a few minutes they have an abundant supply of salt left behind as sediment. The waters, or rather the mud, at the boti one of these lakes is said to be a sovereign remedy for rheumatism and other chronic complaints of the kind. We untortunitely h..d no time to test this remedy, for although we have net easy men affected with chronic complaints, many of us Lass at times severe twinges of rheumatism in our joints flora the damp and cold nights which we have been exposed to. After passing the lake of Kamisely our road quitted the seacoast, and turned a little to the east towards Old Fit. t, near which the troops of the etpeditiou landed on the 14th September, 1&,4. On leering Old Fort, we traversed three chains of heights and then crossed Sulgansek, whirb is rather a rivulet then a river. The Alma is only seitseat..d from this stream by a small rising ground which rims seat and west. 1 cannot express to you our feelings on leach ing the foot of the heights washed by the Alma, and where the allied troops so gloriously opened the cAmpaign of the Crimea. One could scarcely believe that our troops could have been able to scale the rapid ascent which separated them from the army of Prince. Menschikoff. After leaving on our right the village of Mamaskeni, onr road again pro ceeded towards the sea, and crossed the Belbeek at a short distance from its mouth. We then entered on t►e road from Baktchi•Serai and Simferopol, which is a betttr and . . wider one than that on which we had been before march ing, and we soon after arrived before the northern forts. Oar embarkation will take place at Sebastopol, and not at Kamiesch. The Courrier de Marseilles also publishes the following letter, dated Sebastopol, the 10th inst The embarkation of troops is proceeding with the great est rapidity. About 40,000 men have already left, and as many mole will have sailed before the end of Jane. The French forces remaining here number 80,000 men. In order to facilitate the embarkation, the engineers have con structed five platforms, three at Kainiesch and two at Sebastopol, near the Quarantine. Those platforms advance sufficiently far into the sea to enable both men and horses to walk into the steamers which are to convey them to France. The depirtere of the marshal has been re- peatedly talked of, bat I have reason to believe that he will be one of the last to quit the Crimea. This delay will en- able the troops already arrived in the South of France to recruit their strength previously to their entering Paris with the marshal. The Russians continue to pay us fre quent visits. Another letter, in a description of a dinner with Russian officers, gives an excellent idea of their habitudes de table:— A few minutes after our arrival we were invited to seat ourselves at table. The dining-room was in the garden under a tent, which, as the weather was tine, was tar pre terabie to being indoors. According to the Russian custom, a whet is given to the appetite by first going to a mile table and drinking a glass of brandy or gin, and eating sardines, cheese, and a lot of other things steeped in vinegar, but which to those unaccustomed to them would rattler take away all desire to eat, and the more so dist all drink out of the same glass. and use the same fork to take ap ens sardine, whieb they swallow virboleat one mosebini, without bread, or removing the bones. These preliminary was-