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Advertisements sent from the country must be accompanied by a remittance or a reference for payment in town. 1--tx LONDON, SATURDAY, MAY 19, 1855. POSTSCRIPT. HOUSE OF LORDS.-FRIDAY. Earl GREY postponed his motion respecting the Russian propositions from Monday to Friday. _ _ Lord 1 3 ANDIMRE brought forward his plan for the consolidation of the civil department of the army. After disposing of the objections as to the time when these changes are made, he explained that his first proposition abolished the Master-General of the Ordnance. The command of the artillery and engineers would be vested in the Commander-in- Chief. He then proposed that the supreme direc tion of the Ordnance should be given to the Secretary for War, who would be responsible for its conduct. He would be assisted by a chief civil officer, to whom the duty of moving the consolidated army, ordnance, and commissariat estimates would be intrusted in the other house. He detailed several fresh arrange ments in the control of the several departments in place of the purely military organisation which had prevailed hitherto, amongst which he placed the clothing department under a special superintendent. The Earl of ELLENBOROUGH doubted whether the Secretary for War could be really responsible for the working of his department, the whole duties of which he °wild never discharge. If the r esponsibility were to be nominal, things would be no better than at present. He objected to placing so inueh patronage at the disposal of one man. Earl GREY thought that the propositions should first have been brought before the house as reso lutions. Lord MONTEAGLE adverted to the incompatibility of the proposed financial and practical duties. After a few words from the Earl of HARDWICKE, Lord PANMtJEE said that it might be necessary to make other alterations, and he would willingly listen to useful suggestions. Adjourned at a quarter-past seven. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—FarDey. In answer to Mr. EWART, Mr. F. Pact, said that between 3,000 and 4,000 men had been engaged for the Foreign Legion, the recruiting for which was proceeding so satisfactorily that 5,000 men would be added to the 10,000 originally proposed. In answer to Lord ELCHO, Lord PALMERSTON said that the constitution of the order of merit had been delayed till reports on the continental practices with respect to similar insti tutions had been received. ... On the motion that the house adjourn till Monday , - _ Mr. F: FRENCH again called attention to Lord Dundonald's plans, to which Lord PALMERSTON replied, that the more they were considered, the more doubtful they appeared. Mr. FEROUS called attention to tho misstatements respecting the age and services of Captain Christie, at a time when he was in vigorous health, and who had been charged with mismanagement of the harbour of Balaklava, with the exterior arrangement of which he had nothing to do. He begged to ask Mr. Layard if he had received the letters from Captain Christie's relations contradicting his asser tions, and if he had replied to them. Mr. LATARD hoped that the- Hoene of a previous night was not to be renewed. He had teen Captain THE PRESS. Christie daily at Balaklava, and from his observations, and what he heard from others, concluded him to be an old man, and unfit for his duties. He had not felt called upon to reply to contradictions couched in unseemly language, and besides published in the newspapers. [lle asserted that he had said nothing which could not morally be justified.] Sir J. PALLNOTON complained of this loose mode of making attacks upon public servants. Mr. BRIGHT defended Mr. Layard, who was justi fied in saying that Captain Christie was unfit for his duties, and might easily have been mistaken as to his age. Sir J. GRAHAM feared that he had himself yielded too much to clamour on this occasion. In appoint ing a court-martial his object was to remove Captain Christie from the judgment of the Sebastopol com mittee to that of his brother officers. Mr. ROEBUCK could not call Mr. Layard's state ments charges. The dealt' of Captain Christie bad been caused b) his being superseded, and sttbjected to a court-martial, which was done on grounds not mentioned by Mr. Layard, and wag the work of Sir J. Graham. He defended Mr. Layard's conduct throughout. Admiral BERKELEY said that the court-martial was demanded by Captain Christie himself. Mr. OTwAY asked why Sir J. Graham had shrunk from defending Captain Christie when he was first attacked. He had, on the contrary, taken credit to himself for the appointment of the court-martial. The adjourned debate on the Scotch Education Bill was resumed by the Earl of Dalkeith, who opposed it, as interfering with a system which had worked so well. Mr. COWAN urged the introduction of some test of the moral and religious character of the teachers in the place of the present sectkrian testa. The pro posed plan had worked well in Canada. Sir GRAHAM MONTGOMERY and Mr. MACKIE op posed the details of the bill as applied to the rural districts. Lord DUNCAN protested against adopting a different system for town and country. Sir ARCHIBALD CAMPBELL would maintain the parochial schools in their present hands. Mr. POLLARD URQUHART supported the Mr. SMOLLETT opposed it, on the ground that no provision was made to secure the religious opinions of the schoolmasters. Mr. BowyEa apprehended that the measure would operate injuriously to the interests of the Roman Catholic inhabitants of Scotland. In other respects he considered the bill highly satisfactory. Mr. SCOTT advocated the maintenance of the pre- sent parochial system. Lord Ems° advocated the bill, as a system of united rather than denominational education, which would, he believed, lead to a better religious union in the nation at large. Mr. BLACKBURN having spoken in support of the amendment, and Mr. LAISG in support of the bill, The LORD ADVOCATE replied, vindicating his mea sure from the censures that had been pronounced on different sides. Mr. H.U)FIELD tried to speak against the measure, but failing to obtain a hearing moved the adjourn ment of the house. Mr. SERGEANT Slat, as a Roman Catholic mem ber, declared that he could not vote for the bill unless he received a distinct answer from the Go vernment that the interests of his coreligionists would not be prejudiced by its operation. Lord JOHN MANNERS having spoken, Lord PALmEits - roN stated that the bill would in no way change the position of the Roman Catholic population. On a division, the motion for going into committee on the bill was carried by a majority of 149 to 142-7. The Speaker left the chair, but progress was vs ported immediately, the further consideration of the measure being postponed until after the Whitsun holidays. The Militia (No. 2) Bill went through committee. Some other bills were advanced a stage, and the house adjourned at one o'clock. THE ANNUAL BALL in aid of the British Charitable Fund took place on Tuesday night at the Jardin &Myer, and was of a most brilliant description, nearly all the English rank and fashion now in Paris being present. THE GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY OF PARIS have voted to Captain M'Clure, R.N., the gold medal, for his discovery of the North-West Passage; to Captain Inglefield, R.N., a silver medal, for his discoveries in the Arctic regions ; and to Mr. Francis Galton, a silver medal, for his explorations in the Namaqua, Damara, and Orampo countries, northward of the Orange River, in South Western Africa. THE screw transport Simla, Captain Brooks, arrived at Spithead on Sunday from the Crimea with 250 Russian prisoners on board. She left Constantinople on the 27th of April, and Malta on the 2nd of May. SATUAbAY RESIGNATION OF GENERAL CANROBERT. Yesterday's Moniteur announces that his Majesty the Emperor has received the following despatch from General Canrobert Caiwxi, May 16, H My shattered health no longer allowing me to continue in the chief command, my duty towards my Sovereign and my country compels me to ask you to transfer th e com mand to General Pelissier, a skilful and experienced leader. The army which I leave him is intact, hardened to war, full of ardOur and confidence. I beseech the Emperor to leave me a soldier's place (place de combatant) as coin. mender of a simple division. The Minister of War has addressed the following reply to General Ctunobert:— PARIS, May 16, 11 1.111. The Emperor accepts your resignation. He regrets that your health has suffered; he congratulates you upon the sentiment which makes you ask to remain with the army, where you shall have the command, not of a divi sion, but of the corps of General Pelissier. Hand over the chief command to that general. The positive announcement that Count Nesselrode had resigned has been published by the Morning Herald, on the authority of a despatch from Vienna, but the intelligence requires confirmation. Other despatches from Vienna state that "Austria has agreed with the Western Powers on an ultima. tissimum to be presented to Russia. If this decidedly final attempt for peace should fail, Austria promises that she really will assume a decided attitude." Count de Buol, Baron de Bourqueney, and Lord Westmorland have met several times to hold final conferences upon the answers received from Paris and London. Letters from Berlin state that, although the Bing is free from fever, he has not regained his former health, and has been counselled by his physicians to repair to Ermannsdorff for the benefit of the moun tain air. A letter in the Frankfort Journal estimates the allied forces in the Crimea at 150,000 efficient men. The writer allots 20,000 to defend the works before Sebastopol and the positions at nalaklava and the Kamiesh, 20,000 at Eupatoria, and 15,000 sent on an expedition to Kertch. This would leave nearly 100,000 men to carry on a campaign in the field. A private letter from St. Petersburg, dated the 10th, received from a high mercantile house, gives a deplorable Recount of the pressure on all classes in that capital, business being comparatively at an end, and the continuance of the present state of things regarded with the greatest dread in all qtiarters. FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE. Tuesday, May 15. BANKRUPTS.—PATRICX FENN, Brecknock-plaee, Camden. town, linendraper—WAL SHELDRAKE FRANCIS SPARKS, New Bond-street, waterproofer—HENßY ADAMS, Uxbridge, mealman —WM. JARMAN, Gloucester-terrace, Hyde-park, boarding house keeper—Rosser Ns.u., Wandsworth-common, carman—WM. HARRIS PAUL, late of Laurence-lane, Clieapeide, sack and clothing manufacturer, now of Cornhill, share dealer—THomAs JOHN LATIMER., Brighton, clothier—GLOßOE ANDERSON, Upper street, Islington, stationer—Thomas BOOKER, Reading, tailor and outfitter—JOHN VATAS SIMPSON, St. Swithill'a-lane, City, bill broker—Entvaan ParrEasom, Birmingham, draper—JAMES Sims, Blakeney, Gloucestershire, taiIor—SAMUEL MAYER, and ELIJAH and SPENCER BOULTON, Bristol, Nailsea, and City Basin. potters—JoHN Krremiso (and not Bitching, as in last Friday's Gazette), Clayton, Yorkshire, manufacturer end grocer —.loam and Wm. CARVER, Halifax, machine makers—HENßY WATSON, Sheffield, brewer and victualler—JoHN GEORGE CLAUS (and not Clans, as in former Gazette), Liverpool, merchant mid shipowner—Jumus WEICHBRODT, Liverpool, merchant—Fmta• cis NORBURY, Ardwick, Manchester, builder. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.—HENRT MOONEY, Glasgow, apirit dealer—JAmss WALTER LYON, Edinburgh, stockbroker—, WM. ROBERT, and JAMES M'INTYRE,JOHN and ROBERT HARROW, and Wm. BACHOP, Paisley, calico printers—CHAßLES STEWART, Dundee, boot and shoe merchant—AL-Ex. Law, Govan, near Glasgow, grocer. Friday, May Is. BANKRUPTCY ANNULLE D.—SPENCER PERCEVAL PLUME R New City Chambers, City, merchant. BANKRUPTS.— ELIZABETH WarrAsEa, Romford, Essex, plumber—JsmEs TOMLINSON, Nottingham, timber merchant — HARRIET TOWNSEND, Chandos-street, St. James's, poulterer — WILLIAM TOSIKVS, Wolverhampton, plumber—WlLLlAM PETER GRANT, Cambridge, bookseller—JOHN WALKER CASH, Man chester, fancy stationer—Jomm BIDDLE, Leicester, glove menu facturer—JoHN Lows, Northampton-place, Holloway-road, fishmonger—TiromAs Firm Exeter, currier and leather cutter —THOMAS JOHN, Aberdare, Glamorgan, butcher, grocer, and draper—GEOßGE CAMPION POSTANS, Newmarket, grocer-- SARAH FRAMPTON, Wimborne Minster, Dorsetshire, butcher-- THOMAS EVANS PARTRIDGE and SAMUEL PARTRIDGE, Darlaston, Stafford, screw bolt manufacturers—JOHN ETHERIDGE and GEORGE MONCK BERKLEY MicitieLL, Liverpool, insurance brokers Joint NOBLE, Liverpool, shipwright GEORGE HEALEY, Preston, timber merchant. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.—JAMES H. JOHNSON, Ler wick, merchant—Davin MACDONALD, lAssintulloch, Rannoch, Perthshire, farmer, cattle dealer, and grazier—ANDßEW GALLOWAY, Glasgow, cabinetmaker and upholsterer. A SERIES OF ITALIAN OPERAS, with Madame Alboni, Signor Lorenzo, and Herr Reichert, the principal performers, commenced on Monday night at the Dublin theatre. The Lord Lieutenant occn• pied his private box, and the audience was crowded and brilliant.