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Advertisements also must have &reference or remittance. Money Orders to be made payable to Mr.ALYRID JIVE, 110, Strand. London. liis I! rvgg+ LONDON, SATURDAY, MARCHIS, 1856. POSTSCRIPT. A telegraphic despatch from " Views, Thursday," slaws : A despatch from Constantinople, via Semlin, states that Halil Pacha, brother in law of the Sultan, is dead. Omer Pacha is daily expected at Constantinople. The armistice, throughout the Crimea, was proclaimed on the Ist of March. A despatch from Berlin, of Thursday, an nounces:— Baron Manteuffel will leave Berlin to•morrow to join in the conferences. The King and Royal Princes.and most of the Ministers, together with some Generals, attended the funeral of the late President of Police this morning. All the civil authorities of the town and great multi tudes followed him to the grave. Herr von Hamner shot himself yesterday. Count Canitz shot himself today. The Journal de Teheran, received by way of St. Petsrsburg, announces the death of the Minister of War of the Shah of Persia, and the arrest of the Khan of Baradschan. This journal further announces that Persian troops, arrived from Benderaboukir, with eight guns, bad occupied the Isle of Kharek, in the Persian Gulf. A bulletin issued on the 13th, of the health of Prince Jerome, states that the situation of the Prince was much the same. Cabinet Councils were held on Saturday and Wed neslay afternoons. All the Ministers in town were present. The Councils sat for three hours and two hours respectively. Au Order in Council places the Department of Science and Art under the Lord President of the Council, subordinate to the education department. The Legislative Assembly of Nova Scotia has ploced 150 guineas at the disposal of the Govern ment to present a sword to General Williams. Sir George Goodman, the member for Leeds, died suddenly on Thnrsday. He has long been in a de plorable state of health. _ _ 4 Deputation from a Sunday Association waited on Sir Benjamin Hall on Thursday to urge the dis continuance of the performance of the band on Sun days in Kensington•gardens. Sir Benjamin Hall declined to accede to the request unless it could be proved the performance led to revelry. Lord Stanley has been presented by his constitu ents at Lynn, with an address, expressive of their confidence in his lordship, and of their approval in his public conduct. Lord Stanley in his reply, Bays : In Parliament certainly, and I suppose, also, wherever puhlic matters are publicly discussed, the combative ele ment is too strung—the industrial element not strong enough. If men would labour to remove recognised abuses with half the zeal they show in advocating the claims of class %anat class, or party against party, our people might by this time be educated, our law simplified and made available to all, our civil administration reformed in every branch, and the spread of disease and early death among the mils , es be greatly diminished by judi- C Ott4 sanitary arran&,ements. It is to objk cts like these. lather than to organic changes in the constitution under which we live, that I would re• speetfully direct the attention of reformers. Each may do something, and there is work enough for all.: THE PRESS. HOUSE OF LORDS.-FRIDAY. ROYAL ASSENT. The royal assent %as given, by commission, to the Mutiny, the Consolidated Fund, and some other bills. PRISONS. Lord SHAFTESBITRY, in moving for returns, called attention to certain facts disclosed in recent reports from the inspectors of prisons, showing that many of those establishments were in a very unsatisfactory condition both in a moral and sanitary point of view. :ON .. 11 6 0 .. 0 19 0 .. 0 6 6 LADY TRURO. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE read a letter from Lady Truro, intimating her intention to present the law library collected by her late husband, to the House of Lords. Acknowledgments of the gift, as well as of the high qualities of the late Lord Truro, were expressed by the nobly marquis, Lord Lynd hurst, the Lord Chancellor, and the Earl of Derby. JOINT-STOCK COMPANIES. Lord MONTEAGLE commented at some length upon the law of partnership and joint, stock companies. The house adjourned at half past eight o'clock, until March 31. HOUSE OF COMMONS-FRIDAY. In reply to Mr. H. l3aillie, Lord PALMERSTON stated that the papers relative to the dispute with the United States would be laid on the table shortly after Easter. Mr. V. SMITH, in reply to Sir J. Pakington, pro mised, at a similar period, the papers concerning the collection of the salt tax in India. PRUEBIA. On the motion that the house on rising should ad journ to Monday, the 31st instant, Mr. DISRAELI called attention to the question he bad urged on the previous evening, relative to the invitation which was said to have been given to Prussia to join the Conferences at Paris, to which he receiNed from the Prime Minister an answer not only remarkable, but amazing. The circumstances had rendered it impossible for him to give notice of his question, but on matters of high policy motions ought not to be required. Mr. Disraeli contended that the rule of secrecy laid down at the Conferences did not ap ply to his question. Secrecy was, in fact, impracticable in such a matter. He trusted the noble lord on recon sideration would acknowledge that it was his duty to impart the information sought for. Whatever might be the opinion of the noble viscount, in his (Mr. Disraeli's) belief the country was to be congratu late d on the accession of Prussia to the Conferences. That country was, he observed, the natural ally of England. Lord PALMERSTON upheld the importance of secrecy with respect to the conferences. If questions were to be asked in Parliament founded upon telegraphic messages, or newspaper reports of rumoured occur rences, no satisfactory adjustment of the great ques tions under discussion could be looked for. It was true that Prussia had been invited to attend the Conferences upon some points connected with the treaties of 1840 and 1841, relative to the Bosphorus and the Dardanelles, to which she was a party. It was felt from the beginning that Prussia would have to be asked to join the Conferences, though not by a negotiation, but only to ratify such treaty of peace as might be come to by the powers who had actually taken part in the war. PERSIA. Mr. LAYARD again adverted to the threatening aspect of our relations with Persia. Mr. V. SMITH, in replying, stated that the ships sent to the Persian Gulf were despatched thither for the purpose of protecting British subjects and pro perty. It was rumoured, he added, that Persia was preparing an expedition against Herat, but no authentic intelligence had as yet been received on the subject. Sir DE LACY EVANS sincerely hoped that the Go vernmont would take care, and not let the country " drift " into a Persian war. Mr. GLXDSTONE believed that some danger of war with that country has been incurred on account of objects altogether insignificant. The house felt much uneasiness on the subject, and he trusted that before hostilities actually broke out some opportunity would be afforded for hon. members to express their opinion on the policy of embarking in another Eastern war. • THE ATTACK ON THE REDAN. COL FRENCH having inquired whether any investi gation would be made touching the causes which had led to the failure of the British attack on the Redan, Lord PALMERSTON replied in the negative, and stated his opinion that the affair in question could not be looked upon as a failure, but that the accident reflected high lustre on the British arms. Some further topics were mooted, after which the desultory debate came to an end, and the motion for adjourning over the recess was agreed to. CITY OF LONDON CORPORATION. Sir G. GREY gave notice that the 10th of April he should ask leave to bring in • bill to reform the corporation of the city of 1400doo, MAYNOOTH. SATURDAY, Mr. SPOONER gave notice that on the 15th of April he intended to move that the house should resolve itself into committee to consider the acts relating to Maynooth. On the motion for going into Committee of Supply' another desultory discussion arose, chiefly relating to certain details in the public account-keeping. Ultimately, the Speaker left the chair, and a series of votes on account of the army and ordnance ser• vices were discussed in committee, and passed in succession, amidst a miscellaneous conversation. On resuming, the Police (Counties ant Boroughs) Bill was passed through committee pro forma, iu order to its being reprinted with the amendmen:s. LOCAL DUES ON SHIPPING BILL. Mr. Lowe moved that the subject of this bill should be referred to a select committee. In making this mo►ion the right hon. member had abandoned the form he originally prepared, and adored the terms of the amend►vent proposed by Sir F. Thesiger. Some remarks in defence of the proposal to abolish the local dues, especiallj those levied by the Liverpool Corporation, were offered by Mr. AIu,NEE GIBSON. Mr. Wm.roLE renewed his protest against such an act of confiscation. After some further discussion, and &defence of the course pursued by the Government from Mr. LABOU MERE, the motion was agreed to. CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY. Mr. BOUVERIE obtained leave to bring in a bill for the improvement of the University and Colleges of Cambridge. TESTAMENTARY Leave was given to the Solicitor• General to bring in a bill to abolish the testamentary jurisdiction of the ecclesiastical courts, establishing in lieu thereof a new court of probate, and otherwise amending the law relating to the administration of the estates of deceased persons. Sir F. KELLY also obtained leave to introduce a bill for the further amendment of the law of procedure and evidence. The bills were brought in and read a first time respectively. The house adjourned at a quarter past one o'clock until Monday the 31st inst. THE CONFERENCES. The sixth, seventh, and eighth sittings of the Conference have taken place in the current week, and a ninth sitting, it is anticipated, will be held this day. The fifth and sixth sittings are reported to have been so unsatisfactory in point of real progress, as to have caused serious displeasure to the Emkieror of the French, who was of opinion that too mach was said and too little done. The questions of the rec tification of the Bessarabian frontier, the topography of which none of the Plenipotentiaries—save the Russian—were acquainted with, and of the future form of government for the Principalities, are said to have been then under discussion. At the seventh and eio,h sittings on Monday and Wednesday, the important question appears to have been decided tor the ADMISSION OF PRUSSIA. Telegraphic despatches from Berlin and Vienna on Wednesday evening stated:— Prussia has been invited, in the name of the Congress, and for reasons of European interest, to send representa tives to the Paris Conferences, and she will accept the invitation. The Moniteur of Friday officially annoucced that Prussia, who signed the treaty of the 13th of July, 1841, had been invited to send Plenipotentiaries to Paris. MM. Manteuffel and Hatzfeldt are ap pointed Plenipotentiaries for Prussia. The former was to leave Berlin immediately for Paris. A despatch from Berlin of the 12th says : Count Orloff has made known at St. Petersburg that a definitive understanding has been come to on the fifth point, and that, thanks to the instructions brought by M. de Schcewaloff, peace is assured. Some special delibera• tions, which are to take place between Russia and Turkey, have been reserved. Preparations are being made at Moscow for the coronation of the Emperor, which will take place after the conclusion of peace. It was generally anticipated at Paris, that the Plenipotentiaries after coming to a definite agree ment upon the leading points would leave the detail; to be worked out by an inferior commission. Sir Richard Bethel! writes on the subject of Church rates to one of his Aylesbury constituents ;—" I shall certainly support every measure that is directed to the abolition of Church rates. I shall be obliged to make that known in Aylesbury. It was one of the first pledges I have always kept, even to the extent of voting against the Government, of which I am a member." M. Panizzi has been appointed chief librar ian and secretary to the British Museum, Sir Henry in th 9 room of