The Sun. — London, England, 1862-02-19 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT HOUSE OF LORDS—YESTERDAY. The LORD CHANCELLOR. took his seat on the woolsack at five o'clock. TILE EDUCATIONAL CODE. Lord BELPEIt presented petitions against the new educational code. ARRESTS OF BRITISH SUBJECTS IN AMERICA. The Earl of CARNARVON took the opportunity to correct a slight mistake he had made respecting the num ber of English subjects he had stated the other night had been arrested and confined in Fort Warren. Ho had stated that there were three persons, but he had since learned that one had taken the oath of allegiance to America, and therefore he had removed himself from the protection of the British Government. While he was addressing their lordships he would take the oppor tunity of asking a question of the noble earl the Secretary for Foreign Affairs, of which he had given him private notice. He then proceeded to allude to the arrest of Mr. Shaver, and asked whether any claim for compensation for indignity offered that gentleman in America had been de manded by the British Government ; and, also, whether there was any further correspondence, in addition to that already presented, in the hands of the Government. Earl RUSSELL said with reference to the case of Mr. Shaver, that gentleman had not claimed com pensation, and that being so, he (Earl Russell) had not claimed compensation for him from the American Government. The noble earl seemed to have overlooked that Mr. Shaver, it was said, was the medium of commu nication between the Northern and Southern Parties, and that he had also conveyed revolvers to , the Con federates. Mr. Shaver had not said tie charge was unfounded, and before he asked for compensa tion for that gentleman, he thought he ought tohave satis factory evidence that the charge was at variance with the fact. If Mr. Shaver had acted in the manure described, and had given the Confederates aid, he had acted in direct contradiction of her Majesty's royal preclamation, and he had no right to ask fur any compensation for the inconvenience he had suffered. As he had said before, Mr. Shaver had not made any demand for compensation, and the assertion of the American Government, remained uncontradicted. With respect to the other topis touched upon by the noble earl, no one could regret more than he did the lamentable position of affairs in America, and owing to that unhappy state of affairs the acts of the Government ought to be looked upon with great forbearance—acts which, under other circumstances, would call for remon strance and indignation from this country. Mr. Shaver had not yet demanded compensation, and therefore he did not think that he should be justified in directing Lord Lyons to take any steps in the matter, but in the event of a claim being made, satisfactory evidence would be required that he had not acted in the manner described. THE TAXING MASTERS IN DUBLIN. The Marquis of CLANRICARDE wished to ask whe ther it was intended to fill lap the office of a third Taxing- Master in the Court of Chancery in Dublin; and also what progress had been made in collecting judicial statistics in Ireland ? Earl GRANVILLE was understood to say that commu nications were now passing between her Majesty's Govern ment and the Government of Ireland, in reference to the appointment of a third taxing master, and that when they had come to some decision on the subject he would state the fact to the noble marquis. With regard to the other question, a gentleman had been appointed to collect the statistics, but it was expected that they would net be com pleted until next year. Ihe noble earl was nearly inaudi ble in the gallery. THE OFFICERS OF THE INSOLVENT DEBTORS COURT. Lord CHELMSFORD, who had a question on the paper with reference to the non-payment of the salaries, &c., of • he officers of the Insolvent Debtors Court who had been transferred to the Court of Bankruptcy, tinder the provi sions of the Bankruptcy Act of last session, sail he had given this formal notice of his question in order to call the attention of his noble and learned friend on the woolsack to it, and that he might give such an explanation as the case deserved, it being one of very great hardship on the officers referred to, Under the act of last session the Insolvent Debtors Court was abolished, and by two clauses the clerks and officers of the court were transferred to the• London Court of Bankruptcy, and by two other clauses, viz., the 33d and 36th, provision was made that the salaries and allowances of the officers should be paid as under the old law—they were to receive the full amount of their salaries from the fund referred to in the Act of last session. No one could read the section to which he referred without seeing that it was the intention of the Legislature to trans fer to these transferred officers the amount of the salaries and allowances which they had previously received ; but although several weeks had elapsed since the previous quarter's payments became due, they still remained un paid. This circumstance had caused Serious inconvenience, not to say suffering, to the parties and their families. He would mention two instances of the hardship which had re sulted from it One of the officers in question incurred a debt which he agreed to pay by instalments, and thought the means he had of doing so was by receipt of his salary. Not receiving it he was unable to meet his engagement, and his creditor, not believing that it was his inability to pay, but considering that it arcse from dishonesty on the part of his debtor, put an execution upon his goods. The other was the case of a man who had insured his life for the benefit of his family, and was unable to pay the pre miums in consequence of his salary not being paid, and the consequence was that his insurance dropped. Those parties were entitled to the sympathy of their lordships. (Hear, hear.) He hardly expected to hear that, if the fund had,in consequence of the change from insolvency to bankruptcy, run dry, the officers were to be deprived of their salaries and allowances. He was satisfied that their lordships would feel that the case of these parties was entitled to their consideration. .(Hear.) The LORD CHANCELLOR said he was much obliged to his noble and learned friend for affording him an oppor tunity of making a statement upon the subject. He could say with sincerity that nothing had occurred since the passing of that Act of Parliament which had given him so much vexation and caused him so much pain as to find the position in which the cfficers of the Insolvent Debtors Court had been placed. It had arisen from the fact that words had been used in the act with one view and to express one object, upon which the clerks of the Insolvent Court had naturally put a different construction, and one which had given rise to expectations which unfortunately he had not the means of meeting. The difficulty arose in this way. The officers of the Insolvent Debtors Court were paid partly by salaries and partly by fees. The salaries were paid by an annual grant voted by Parliament, but they were very inconsiderable as compared with the emoluments which the clerks represented they had received from fees. The annual vote made by Parliament was expressed to be for the purpose of discharging salaries, certain allow ances, and certain compensations, and with a view to entitle the clerks to have the benefit of a continuance of that vote the 30th section was framed. The language •of that section was very large and extensive in the commencement. It gave to the clerks the:full amount of the salaries, remunerations, allowances, and compensa • tions which they then respectively received. These wezt large words no doubt, but unfortunately they were limited in a manner inconsistent with their ordinary meaning by the following words. They were to have this benefit, but " out of the same fund, and payable in the same manner in all respects as if the act had not been passed; and for such purpose the annual sums now payable out of the monies voted by Parliament for tho use and purpose of the Insol vent Court, shall be paid in future to the credit of the ac countant in bankruptcy." The unfortunate effect therefore was that these salaries, allowances, and remunerations were to be derived out of a fund which was limited to a fund which was itself limited to salaries properly so called, and allow ances and compensations. The difference between salaries and fees was so great, that while the sum voted by Parl a ment was about £6,000, the sums claimed by the officers amounted to £20,000. If the ch rks relied on that particular section as giving them a perpetual annuity to the amount of the fees they hsppened at the time to be in receipt of, it was impossible to suppose that such could be intended. It 'was at variance with all former principles of legislation, tvhich was to ascertain the value of an office about to be abo lishedt and to give appropriate compensation. All ho (the r a _d, Chancellor) could do was to apply the money voted by could to the payment of salaties, and he regretted he perfectly tdo more. If the operation of the clause had been wunderstood on the part of the officers they unques • tionabl on the other re made some claim for compensation; and that they were to d i ;:f he understood—which he did not— should undoubted) paid by fees and not by salariesonly,he have provided for them some means of pay thieitwas these gentlemen are left with s c u omp ei e e n n s t ati t e e n. vr salaries, properly so called, but not with sufficient t e th e ei vid e for a salary at all equal to that which, from reral sources referred to, they were in receipt of time the act came into operation. The other the nation, because by the 26th „ e i t : required RAMA pypla corturtcertain funds which were in the Insolvent Debtor s were directed to be transferred to the Court of Bankrupt, be applied to 1 from detray salaries three several purposes, one of which W L , t t o the one court of clerks and other persons transferred fro to the other. That particular fund had aceu rn unpaid dividends, which might be claimed ate Y ulkt ? d f rom the interest on the unclaimed fund had always bee t n ini tr e ' but. by Parli men tas applicable in part payment; of salaries, and accordingly the annual vote had always been worded in thi s way :—"Xi,I7G is voted for payment of salaries, and for payment of certain allowances and certain compensation s , but it is reduced to that sum by deducting from a larger sum that would be the amount of the salaries, the probable amount of the interest on Exchequer Eills, purchased with unclaimed moneys, and applicable under a particular statute in part payment of salaries." Such was the wording of the last vote. The intention of the 26th section was to trans fer the principal sum to the Court of Bankruptcy, because the creditors whose dividends were unclaimed should apply in future to that court for payment. These officers had appealed to him to pay them the residue of their claim out of that but it was impos s ibl e he could do so. The utmost he could do was to apply in payment of their sala ries the annual BUM voted by Parliament. The subject had been one of great anxiet to him and he had directed the opinion of the law advisers to be taken on it. They had given it as their opinion that it was utterly impossible to come to the conclusion from the words of ihe act that the clerks were entitled to receive out of the ft nds in court such sums of money as in the aggregate would be equal to the fees and salaries of which they were in receipt at the time the act came into operation. They dded that these gentlemen had a strong moral claim upon the consider ration of Parliament, but that the Lord Chancellor had no power to apply any part of the fund mentioned in the 26th section in payment of the claim. In this state of things the only course open to these genttlemen was to accept the salaries he had offered them or to apply to Par liament for relief. He had done all in his power for them, and regretted he could not altogether relieve them from the position in which they were placed. Lord CRANWORTII gave his noble and learned friend full credit for having done all in his power to obtain for these gentlemen that to which they had not only a moral right, but which it would be a disgrace to Parliament to withhold from them. In the select committee the subject had come under discussion, and the Lord Chancellor (Lord Campbell) had assured them that the clerks transferred were fully provided for, and that the words of the act were amply sufficient for their protection. The words were that they were to receive their full salaries as nearly as might be out of the same funds. He merely rose to express his re gret at the present position of the officers, and to say that, as a member of the committee, he should feel the result a sort of humiliation if Parliament did not step in and give these gentlemen full relief. The Earl of DERBY said that having sat as a member of the committee, he could bear testimony to the matter of fact just stated by the noble and learned lord. He perfectly recollected that it had been pointed out that a very small portion of the remuneration of these gentlemen arose from salaries, the meter portion arising from fees—that, in con sequence, they might be placed in a very great difficulty; and I remember hearing the noble and learned lord who then occupied the woolsack state that full and ample provi sion had been made for them. Lord CHELMSFORD said that compensation could only be given to officers whose offices were abolished, and whose services were dispensed with, but these were efficient and acting officers, entitled to their full salaries, the words of the act being, "the salaries, remuneration, allowances, and compensation, which they now respectively receive." These were to be paid, "as nearly as might be out of the same funds" as before. But suppose there were no funds, surely the salaries of the officers should still be paid. He thought that great injustice had been done those persons, and as there had been clearly no intention to deprive them of the amount which they had theretofore been in receipt of, he trusted that no time would be lost by the Government in introducing a bill in the House of Commons to afford those gentlemen that to which they were entitled. The LORD CHANCELLOR said his noble and learned friend seemed to think that he argued against the claim of these unfortunate men. :He never intended to do any such thing. He merely stated the grounds on which the law officers of the Crown arrived at their conclusion. He should be sincerely happy if the construction of the act by the two noble and learned lords were the legal construction. For himself he had no desire to press the language of the act. He believed that the language used showed the intention to give these gentlemen the fullest possible remuneration. The only difficulty had been that words had been used without adequately understanding them. He must say that he never from the commencement had any doubt about the propriety of giving these gentlemen full remuneration, but he had no means of doing it. This question had been discussed again and again, and he must leave these gen tlemen to bring forward their claims in the proper mode. He hoped their lordships would agree with him, that with the limited power he had, he could not have made them a more liberal offer than giving them these appointments in the Bankruptcy Court, where the salaries were larger. But the officers of the bankruptcy oourts were paid by salaries and not by fees, and upon that there had been misapprehension, but that misapprehension ought not to be used to do an injustice to those gentlemen. He should be happy to find that the House of Commons adopted the same view. As far as he was concerned, he should be happy to recommend and promote any measure which would give them that redress which, if he had been aware of the whole circumstances when the act was passed, he should himself have taken care to give. Lord CHELMSFORD explained that what he said was, that his noble and learned friend urged the w or d s i n th e act as the ground of his inability to give these gentlemen the remuneration to which they were entitled, THE REVISED CODE, The Earl of DERBY presented a petition from All Saints Schools, Dalston, against the revised code. Lord REDESDALE presented a petition from a place in Kent to the same effect. INTERNATIONAL LAW. The Earl of DERBY presented a petition from the Fo reign Affairs Committee of Manchester, in which they ex pressed their opinion that the seizure of the Southern Com raissioners on board the Trent was justified by the principle of national law ; that our remonstrance was an abandon•. ment by us of the right of search; and that there was no validity in the engagement entered into by Lord Clarendon on the part of this country ; and they prayed that their lordships would appoint a committee to inquire into the whole subject of international law as regarded belligerent rights. He had informed these gentlemen that he consi dered all their arguments were founded in error, but as they nevertheless wished him to present their petition he of course did so. He had received a petition with a similar prayer from Leeds, which he begged leave to present. THE HABEAS CORPUS WRIT. The Duke of NEWCASTLE introduced a bill respecting the issuing of writs of habeas corpus in her Majesty's pos sessions abroad. Their lordships then adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS—YESTERDAY. The SPEAKER took the chair at four o'clock. NEW MEMBER. Ur. P. A. TAYLOR took the oaths and his seat as mem. bor for Leicester. PRIVATE BUSINESS. The following bills were read a second time :—Aberdeen Police, Water, &c., Barnsley Coal Railway Extension, Hull and Hornsea Railway, Lostwithiel and Fowey Rail way, Merionethshire Railway, Mersey Docks and Harbour Board, Moretonbampstead and South Devon Railway, North Devon Railway and Dock, South Yorkshire Rail way (Hull Extension), Trent, Ancholme, and Grimsby Railway, and West Riding, Hull, and Grimsby Railway. GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY (No. 2.) BILL. On the motion for the second reading of this bill, Mr. J. BROWN moved that the bill be read a second time that day six months. He referred to the fact that whenever this bill came before the houso it was defeated either in committee or in the second reading, and contended that it was monstrous that a company like the Great Northern should be permitted session after session to re introduce it. Mr. G. H. PACK defended the bill, and said that there were only two or three landowners under the law who dis approved of it. He asserted also that the lino would not interfere materially with the country through which it would pass, and that it would be a great advantage to the public. Lord GALWAY thought it was a very bad return to make to the hon. member for Malton (Mr. J. Brown), after the manner in which he had previously acted in reference to the Great Northern, to intersect his land with this line, without any corresponding advantage to the public. He concluded by expressing a hope that the bill would be rejected. Mr ROEBUCK said that this house was not the proper tribunal to decide this question, apd he thought it right that it should be referred to a committee up stairs. Mr. M. MILNES opposed the bill, and called on the house, by its rejection of it, to show that they could not allow the interests of landowners to be overridden by a powerful company like the Great Northern. Mr. M ASSEY considered that the house should read the bill a second time, and its details could be discussed fully before a select committee. (Hear, hear.) The Great Northern Company merely desired to make a loup line of five or six miles, in order to relieve the main line from the pressure of its goods traffic. He thought ; under all cir cumstances, that the bill should receive the sanction of the house, and that it would be of much use to the public. The amendment was agreed to without a division, and the bill was accordingly rejected. TOLL GATES 1N THE METROPOLIS. Mr. 'WHITE gave notice that on Friday next he would ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he had received any information from the commissioner ap pointed to consider the subject, and whether any measure would be adopted for the removal of the toll-gate obstruc tion in the metropolis. PATENT LAWS. Mr. RICARDO gave notice that he would draw the at tention of the house to the propriety of an alteration in the patent laws. r r money, which had been supplemented in different ways by colonial votes and subscriptions, but until the present occa sion that continent had never been successfully crossed. On this occasion the act was performed entirely at the ex pense of a colony which would appear to have no interest in the matter whatever, but to have been actuated purely by public spirit; and it was a curious fact that this expedition should have been the first that had been entirely success ful. He thought an act of such public spirit on the part of one of our youngest colonies justified him in bringing this matter under the notice of the house. (Hear, hear.) He hoped he might say one word as a tribute to the very re markable man who was the leader of.the expedition, and to whose energy and ability it mainly owed its success. (Hear, hear.) Mr. Burke, with whose name the successful discovery of large tracts of country in the Australian colo nies was connected, was a brother of the gallant colonel whose gallant deeds in the early part of the Crimean war were so famous. After the death of his brother Mr. Burke threw up a lucrative position in the colony to take pail in the Crimean war, and he again threw up a good position to lead this expedition, in the course of which he and two of his partners, Wills and Becker, had lost their lives. The circumstances attending the death of Wills and Burke, and as to the statement that they should have been met by those whose business it was to supply them with necessaries, were undergoing most careful investigation by the colony, and it would be unjust and unfair to prejudge the result of that inquiry. The crossing of the Australian continent had been very nearly effected in other directions before, fram the east to the west along the northern coast, and from the south to the north along the south, and great results had attended those expeditions, and those results had greatly facilitated the work of Mr. Burke. But it had been now for the first time established that in addition to the colonies on the eastern and southern coasts of Australia there was ample territory favourable to the establishment of noble colonies on the northern coast. There was good water, the country was well suited for agricultural purposes, and the river at the mouth of which the expedition terminated, as it was now well known, ran for miles through the country, and the water was of a similar character to that of the rivers of the south. At the present time, when they were everywhere seeking for new territory suitable for the growth of cotton, it was of the greatest importance that it should be estab lished that such had been discovered ready at once for the occupation of the white man, and that the Government should come forward in the matter and add one if not more to the many rich dependencies of which the country boasted. The dreams of 15 or 20 years ago, those dreams which were shared in by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and in which the house and the country for a long time joined, but which were thrown back by previous failures, were now estab- Wished facts, and nothing was more easy with the co operation of enterprising settlers and the Crown than to establish a colony on the northern coast of Australia, which would add as much credit, he hoped, to the English name as the great settlements in the south. Upon the subject of this expedition the noble duke at the head of the Colonial-office had said that when the results were known it would be time to see whether further steps ought to be taken by the English Government. He (Mr. Chil ders) thought that time had now come, and they would have to consider very soon the propriety of giving a proper establishment to the settlements which would grow in the newly discovered districts. (Hear.) When that matter was dealt with theymight expect the greatest advantages to ac crue to this country,and therefore, while placing the greatest confidence in the action of the Colonial-office, so far he hoped they would continue in the same course, and that the time would come when the new colony to be established would become one of the most flourishing of the British depen dencies. (Hear.) Mr. KINNAIRD hoped, after the statement of his hon. friend, that Government would take into their consideration whether some measure might not be taken to perpetuate the memory of the leader of this expedition. We who had de rived great advantage from the extension of our empire in that part of the world, must appreciate the services of Mr. Burke and others who had devoted themselves to this great work, and he hoped that some steps would be taken by the Government to do honour to the memory of these men. Mr. C. FO RTESCUE would be glad to lay upon the table of the house without delay the papers for which his hon. friend had called, and he thought it was only right that the Parliament of England should have in its possession an authentic account of the heroism and devotion which had added to the vast territories of the British Crown, and provided space for new and flourishing colonies. He was glad that the attention of the house had been called to the gallant enterprise which would be found detailed in the papers moved for, and he was glad also to have the oppor tunity on the part of the Colonial-office and the Government of expressing their sense of the public spirit and liberality of Victoria, and of the gallant devotion, and he was sorry to say self-sacrifice, of those who took part in the expedi tion. The papers he should have to lay on the table would not be complete, because the circumstances connected wtih the sad fatalities which constituted the most tragic part of this tale, and which led to the death of Mr. Burke, were now under investigation at Melbourne. The Government would have at a future time to give farther papers in con tinuation of those now in their possession to the house, containing the results of those expeditions, which his hon. friend knew had been fitted out in a spirit quite equal to that which fitted out the original expedition of Burke and Wills, and which had for their object to discover the fate of those brave men who had taken part in it. The interest felt in the colonies upon this matter had been so great, that not only had a fresh expedition been sent from Victoria, but it had been accompanied by separate expeditions from Southern Australia, from Queensland, and from the Gulf of Carpentaria itself, where a steam sloop had been provided to aid the search. These papers, which he should have to lay upon the table, would bo found extremely interesting, and hon. members would find in them a touching account, from the pen of Sir H. Barkly, of the labours, sufferings, and deaths of the brave leaders of the late expedition. He thought the time was not far off when populations would rise upon the newly discovered territory, and the names of Burke and Wills will be held in grateful remembrance by the colony of Australia. The motion was then agreed to. Upon the motion of Mr. BRADY, a select committee was ordered to be appointed to inquire into the best means of utilising the sewage of the cities and towns of England, with a view to the reduction of local taxation and the benefit of agriculture. BLOCKADE OF THE SOUTHERN PORTS. The O'DONOG.H.UE said that at the request of the Pre sident of the Board of Trade he would postpone his motion on this subject until Thursday next. SUPPLY. The report was brought up and agreed to. EAST INDIA STOCK TRANSFER (REMUNERA TION) BILL. The report was brought up and agreed to. The house adjourned at 25 minutes to 8 o'clock. COURT OF ALDERMEN. Yesterday, at 1 o'clock, a Court of Aldermen was held at Guildhall, the Lord Mayor presid ing. Mr. Sheriff Cockerell reported that the number of prisoners now in the gaol of Newgate is 100 ; in the Debtors' P r i son i n Whit ecross - stree t, 89 ; an d in the City Prison at Holloway, 380; in all 569. of whom 14 are in the infirmaries. The return in each case was accompanied by the certificate of the sur geon as to the fit condition of the prison. Mr. Alderman Humphery, on being re-elected to the governorship of the Irish Society, took the oath in cident to the office. Messrs. Arnold Jacomb, Thos. Jacomb, and Henry Jenner Holder Hogg were sworn in as brokers. Mr. Woodthorpe, the Town Clerk, read a fetter from Sir George Grey, the Home Secretary, addressed to the Lord Mayor, suggesting certain new arrangements with respect to the Queen's Bench and Wbitecross-street Prisons. The right hon. gentleman stated that it is probable, owing to the operation of the Bankruptcy Act of last Session, that the number of prisoners confined in the Queen's Prison will be so permanently reduced as to render that establishment unnecessary, except upon a very reduced scale, and that, as the same result has been, no doubt, produced in the prison of Whitecross-street by the same change in the law, be would be glad to be informed whether in the opinion of the city authorities ono debtors' prison would not be amply sufficient for London and Middlesex, and whether, if so, Whitecross street Prison would not of itself be large and commodious enough for the purpose. It appeared to him (Sir George Grey) in that ease that the Queen's Prison might be altogether abolished, and he would be obliged by an early intimation of the views of the city magistrates on the subject. Alder man Challis moved that the letter be referred to the Gaol Committee, with power to communicate with the Government, reporting the result to the Court. He took occasion to say that, whereas Whitecross street Prison was built to accommodate about 380 debtors, the whole number of debtors now incar cerated in it and the rest of the prisons of the metro polis was, owing to the recent change in the law, not more than 140. Considering that the Queen's Prison and that of Whitecross-street were main tained at an annual cost to the Government and the Corporation of London of more than £lO,OOO, he highly approved the Home Secretary's suggestion. Colonel Wilson submitted that the magistrates of the city of London had acted regardless of a sense of duty in allowing for some nine months past the prison of Whiteaross-street to remain without either a governor or deputy-governor; and lie urged on the Court the appointment of a governor, pro tempore, during the present transition state of the law, with whom the responsibility of its care and conduct might rest. Alderman Sidney, M.P., was rr‘ ,T SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, PMFIRUATIY 19, 1862, TiP,PWRgENTA.TION or THE YEOPLC. Mr. COX asked the First Lord of the Treasury whether it was the intention of the Government to introduce this session a bill to amend the representation of the people in Parliament ? (Laughter.) Lord PALMERSTON—It is not the intention of Go vernment to introduce this session any bill to amend the representation of the people in Parliament. (Laughter.) TREATY WITH JAPAN. Mr. WHITE asked the Under Secretary of Stale for Foreign Affairs, why Nee e• Bata, or some other convenient Port on the west coast of Nipon, was not opened to the whethereit,yßritish sub British trade on the Ist day of January, 1860, as was sti pulated by the third article of the treaty with Japan ; and Mr. LAYABD Refs will be allowed to reside in the 0 , as was likewise stipulated in the same article of the above -named treaty ? M tiiLDER op t hadnot was understood to say that the Govern men Come to any ~ otv deterinination on the suljec,. Mr. RICHARDSoN ICERS BY SOLDIERS. precaution s ha as d k b ed the Secretary of State for etition of the numerous run:deer% War, what a nd_whather it was in, contem taken to prevent the re ') of their officers by sol ;practice of permitting soldiers to d l i a er ti s on in t t o h d e is E co ri n t t is in h u a e rm th y e P retain ball cartridge in their barrack rooms. Sir Ci, C, LEWIS said that the military authorities had been consulted on the subject of depriving soldiers of ball cartridge in their barrack-room, and it appeared that it would be impossible for any amount of vigilance to prevent soldiers getting possession of ball cartridge. However, he proposed to introduce a bill to render the punishment of soldiers firing at their officers more speedy than it was at present. THE AMERICAN BLOCKADE. Lord R. CECIL asked the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs how soon the papers which had been pro mised upon the subject of the American blockade were likely to be laid upon the table? Mr. LAYARD said that papers wire being prepared on the subject with great dispatch, and he hoped to be able to lay them on the table at the end of the week. (Hear,) MARRIAGES OF AFFINITY BILL. Mr. BLACKBURN asked the hon. member for Ponte fract, whether, as his Marriages of Affinity Bill extends to Ireland and Scotland, it was his intention to proceed with the second reading on so early a day as to-morrow ? Mr. M. MILNES said ho would be happy to oblige the hon. member by postponing his bill, but from the arrange ments he had already made he could not do so. OFFICERS IN INDIA. Colonel GILPIN asked the Secretary of State for India, whether, in consequence of the effects of amalgamation upon the prospects of a considerable number of officers in India, many of whom have rendered good service to the state, and who have already lost the money paid for their promotion on the faith of a General Order of the Court of Directors, dated May, 1858, and who are now receiving Indian pay and allowances for doing, comparatively, nothing, these officers, or any of them, will be allowed the option (in accordance with the recommendation of the commissioners) of retiring upon a moderate bonus. Sir C. WOOD was understood to say that offers of com pensation had been made, but in some cases they were not accepted. LORD HENLEY. On the motion of Mr. BRAND a month's leave of absence was given to Lord Henley, on the ground of domestic affliction. LAND DEBENTURES BILL. Mr. SCULLY, in moving for leave to introduce a bill for authorising transferable debentures to be charged on land in Ireland, explained that the present measure resembled that which he brought before the house on a previous occa sion, only that it did not extend so far. He contended that the bill would be of great advantage to Ireland, and that it was popular amongst the landowners in that country. Mr. URQUAHART seconded the motion for leave to bring in the bill. He contended that the objections which had been made to these debentures as interfering with the currency applied with equal propriety to bills of Exchequer and bankers' cheques. _ Mr. H. HERBERT would not oppose the introduction of the bill, but he hoped it would receive the most careful consideration of the house. After a few words from Mr. GEORGE, to the effect that he would reserve his judgment on the measure at present, Sir R. PEEL said the subject was one that did not excite much discussion in Ireland, and he thought the dis- cussion should be postponed. Mr. HADFIELD considered that the effect of the bill would be to multiply difficulties and increase expense. Mr. SCULLY replied. Leave was then given to bring in the bill. TRADE MARKS. Mr. ROEBUCK, in committee of the whole house, moved for leave to bring in a bill to amend the law relating to trade marks. The manufacturers of this country, by dint of labour, skill, and industry, had acquired a great reputation, and were naturally anxious to preserve t 3 themselves all the advantages that resulted therefrom. Hi s only object was to prevent forgery, and he asked the house to aid him in his efforts for that purpose. lie would illus trate the existing evil by a foreign example. This month one of his constituents had received a letter from a manu facturer in Prussia offering to make for him articles of hard ware with the mark of any Sheffield manufacturer he pleased, and to put them into the wrappers used by that manufac turer, or in others so like them that no one could tell the difference. The reasons given for these forgeries were some times very strange. A Prussian who wished to come i n t o the market to compete with the English manufacturer would make a bad article, put an English mark upon it, and charge an English price, which was a high one. Then ho would make a good article, put his own mark upon it, and charge a low price —so that he might be able to say that his goods were cheap and good, while the English man's were bad and dear. His constituents at Sheffield had for many years had a corporation called the Cutler's Com pany, which assigned trade marks and 'registered the sym• bola which different manufacturers employed ; so that any one by consulting the books of the company might ascertain in an instant what was the mark of A.B. He wanted, in a similar manner, to protect all English manufacturers inthe honest prosecution of their calling, and to enable them to keep their symbols free from forgery. He believed that other towns besides Sheffield experienced the want of an improved law. There were persons, for instance, who sold reels of thread with the name of a well-known Manchester house upon them, and a statement that they contained 3CO yards, whereas in reality they only contained 200. The re sult was that the public, when they discovered the fraud, exclaimed, " What rogues Messrs. So and So are I" the real truth being, all the time, that their goods were perfectly honest, and that it was only the forger of them who sold the deficient lengths. He ithe hon. and learned gentleman) proposed to send his bill before a select com mittee, to which he supposed the right hon. gentleman opposite (Mr. M. Gibson) would also refer his mea sure, and he hoped that the result would be a prac tical law by which the evils of which his constituents complained might be remedied. His own proposal was to visit the forgers of trade marks with summary conviction; and to make the enactment reciprocal with other nations, so that the goods of every foreign manufacturer should be protected, if his country protected the goods of Englishmen, but not otherwise. The bill would do no harm to any one but rogues. (Cheers.) Mr. GIBSON was quite willing to adopt the suggestion of his hon. and learned friend, and to refer his intended measure to the same select committee. A bill on this sub ject had last year passed the House of Lords, but it could not be proceeded with any further owing to a want infor mation in this house on the subject; and there was not time last year to appoint a committee of investigation. Tho object was one upon which they were all agreed, but it was extremely difficult to effect what they had in view without exposing innocent persons to prosecutions of a vexatious character, It would also be very difficult to say what a trade mark was, so that a justice of the peace, to whom it was proposed to give jurisdiction, might be able to say whe ther A B was entitled to the exclusive use of the symbol he claimed. It was not sufficient for a person to show that he had us3d a particular mark, but he must show that he had so used it that it became known to the world as his. With regard to the foreign question, he could not say that the retaliation clause which the hon. and learned gentleman proposed seemed to him judicious. It appeared to him that it would bo better to give the foreigner the benefit of our laws without reference to how they treated us in return. It was said that foreigners had already the benefit of our laws, but that those laws were so bad as to be useless to them. At the same time, unless the experiment of attempting a prosecution, say, in Prussia, had actually been tried, it could not be said that Prussia refused our manufacturers redress. It did not appear to him that the registration of trade marks would bo of any benefit. It was altogether a different case from the registration of designs. 'I hat was intended to create a new species of property; whereas the bill would neither create a new property nor introduce a new law; for it was already illegal to appro priate another man's mark. A registration, therefore, would rather be a new obstacle thrown in the way of manufac turers, because it would require them to pay some fee or to go through some additional form before they could take steps to defend their rights. These were, however, all mat ters of detail, which it would he wrong to discuss at pre sent. The Government were entirely of opinion that some thing should be done to remedy the evils complained of, provided only that it could be done without exposing inno cent persons to frivolous and vexatious prosecutions. Mr. CRAWFORD said his constituents in the City wore chiefly interested in the bill, so far as it would render them liable to prosecution for innocently selling articles which had fraudulent trade marks upon them ; and he was glad, therefore, to hear that they would have an opportunity allowed theta of stating their views to a select committee. Mr. LOCKE agreed with the hon. and learned gentle• man the member for Sheffield; but there was another fraud to which attention should be drawn, namely, the practice of manufacturers themselves putting false trademarks upon their goods. For example, a case had occurred in the Court of Queen's Bench, where a manufacturer had labelled his cotton as of greater length than was really the fact. He (Mr. Locke) had been in Paris while Mr. Cobden was ne gotiating the commercial treey, and ho learned from the secretary of that hon. gentleman that the greatest difficulty had been experienced in attempting to st ttle the question of frnan marina, in newsonerricvn"o est the prisoiloo nhtslinna amongst English manufacturers of using fictitious labels for their own goods ; and the very case which he had cited had been referred to. (Hear, hear.) Mr. HADFIELD agreed with the hon. and learned gen tleman, and was of opinion that the registration of trade marks would be both feasible and useful. He had known of cases in which a manufacturer had advertised a caution against the forgery of his mark, and in which the forger had straightway retorted by advertisements, stating lhat his goods were the genuine ones, and that the real makers of th; articles were fraudulent imitators. (Hear.) Mr. CRUM-EWING supported the bill. Mr. M. GIBSON said he had been in communication with the Attorney-General upon this question, and he was authorised to say that the right hen. gentleman bad given great attention to the subject, and would be ready to give every assistance in the passing of a measure upon it. The motion was then agreed to, and the house havingre slimed, have was given for the introduction of the bill. AUSTRALIAN EXPLORING EXPEDITION. Mr. CHILDERS, in moving an address for copy of all despatches from Sir Henry Barkly and the other colonial governors upon this subject, drew the attention of the house to the successful crossing of the Australian continent by the expedition under the charge of Mr. Burke. Ile reminded the house that for expeditions to endeavour to cross the _Australian colonies they had voted oonsideraDlo sums of / glad that the Government had taken the initiative 1 in this matter, and gave it as his opinion that the time had arrived when there should be a consolida tion of the City prisons, the expense of which was altogether incommensurate with their importance. "The Alderman was continuing to comment on this topic, when he was reminded that it was irrelevant to the motion before the Court. The motion was then put and carried. The Town Clerk read a return presented by the Chamberlain, to an order of the Court, showing that Mr. J. R. Whithair, late keeper of Giltspur-street Compter, had been in the receipt of a retiring allowance of £3OO since September, 1854; Mr. W. W. Cope, late governor of Newgate, of £5OO since December, 1855 ; and Mr. Thomas Burden, late keeper of the Debtor's Prison, of £4OO, since December, 1857. Alder man Halt presented a petition from Mr. B. Pever ley, an attorney in the city, praying that the Court would order payment to him of £3O, his charges for proceedings for the release of prisoners confined in the Debtors Prison of Whitecross-street. This led to a discussion as to the manner in which certain charities given by some of the city companies for the relief of persons confined for debt, and their families had of late been administered. The conver sation arose in an incidental way; statements were made on the one side with respect to Lieut.-Colonel Hicks, lately governor of Whitecross-street Prison, and contradicted on the other, and the matter which was regarded by a majority of the Court as irrele vant, was left in an unsatisfactory state. Colonel Wilson having taken occasion to reiterate his com plaint that there had been no governor of White cross-street Prison for nine months, the Lord Mayor, interposing, said, having been chair man of the Gaol Committee, and being chief magistrate, he might be permitted to state that in consequence of the alteration in the laws relating to bankrupts and insolvent debtors, which had pro duced a state of transition, it had been thought de sirable not to make any permanent appointment of a governor of the Debtors' Prison, but to confide it for the present to the care of the person who had been chief officer under the late governor. That arrangement had been referred to Mr. Parry, an inspector of prisons, who had written a letter to the effect that the prison was never in better order than at present, and that it would be wise and pru dent to continue the arrangement until the full effect of the change in the law should be ascer tained. Alderman Copeland, MX., said Col. ' Hicks had never been appointed governor by the present sheriffs, and that his term of office ended with that of the late sheriffs. Eventually, on the motion of Alderman Challis, the petition :of Mr. Poverley was ordered to lie on the table, which was tantamount to its dismissal, and. the court ad ' jonrned. LA W 1N TELLIGENCE,—(Feb. 18.) COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. (Sittings at Nisi Prius, at Guildhall, before the Lord Chief Justice and a Special Jury.) FORD V. TIIE LONDON AND SOUTII-WESTERN RAIL- WAY COMPANY. Mr. Macaulay, Q.C., Mr. Manisty, Q.C., Mr. Hindmarch, Q C., and Mr. Macroy appeared for the plaintiff; and Mr. Hawkins, Q.C., and Mr. Johnston for the defendants. The trial of this cause, which has occupied the time of the Court since Thursday, was concluded to-day. The plaintiff, as we have in our previous reports stated, claimed compensation for injuries sustained on the line of the defendants, near Wim bledon, on the 28th of January, 1861. The real question was whether or not the defendants had been guilty of negligence. Probably no case which ever came before a jury was fought with more energy. Almost every point raised was argued. Facts and theories were disputed on either side. Witnesses of every genus and species were called ; practical and scientific men of the greatest emi nence crowded the court. Such gentlemen as Colonel Yolland, Sir Charles Fox, Mr. Nasmyth, Mr. M'Connell, Mr. Bidder, Captain Huish, Mr. Strapp, Mr. Bovill, and Mr. Woodhouse were examined and cross-examined in the most minute and ex haustive manner, and the view contended for by the company, that there were some accidents which could not be prevented, was elaborated and com• mented upon at great length. The plaintiff pointed out several cases which contributed to the accident. The defendants said that it was attributable to none of these, and asserted their inability to assign any reason for the train leaving the line. Mr. Bovill, it is true, said that an axle might have become bent during the journey. This theory, however, was not very strongly urged by the company. In reference to the question of damages, it was stated that the plaintiff, feeling a sudden jerk, ex claimed, "Good gracious, the carriage is off," and that he was immediately hurled over, and lost his senses. When examined by a medical man it was found that two ribs were broken on his right side, his left shoulder blade was injured, his chest was very much bruised, and his left shoulder was broken. He was under the doctor's special care for ten weeks, and for a considerably longer period he required attendance, and was unable to superintend his business. Before the accident he was a strong and healthy man, but since then he had been ex ceedingly nervous and irritable, his eyesight had become defective, and he had not since been able perfectly to use his arm, nor was his shoulder quite in the position in which it should be. On behalf of the defendants it was stated that the question as to how this accident occurred was con sidered of great importance to the scientific world, and no expense would be spared by railway com panies to investigate the matter, in order to avoid such an accident for the future. Deeply as the directors deplored the accident, their answer to the action was that it had not been caused by any negligence upon the part. Nearly eighty trains had passed over the spot where the accident occurred on the same day, and for six weeks afterwards the line was left in precisely the same state, except that a broken rail was replaced, so that anybody might fully examine it, and 100 trains a day passed along without accident and without danger of accident. The plaintiff contended that the speed was too great, but it must be borne in mind that the train was an express one, and it had taken nineteen minutes to travel the 8.1 miles from London. Now, as to the state of the railway. It was not possible to have a line that was at all times perfect in its gauge, and at that moment there was not a railway in the kingdom in which there were not variations in gauge to the same extent as those spoken to by the plaintiff's witnesses, especially in curves. The same observation applied to the superelevation of one rail round the curve. The weather, of course, materially affected railways, and preced ing the accident there had been a long continu ance of wet weather, followed by a frost, which had subsequently broken up. On the 16th of Jan. a notice was issued ordering engine men and all concerned " to direct the most particular atten tion to engines and tenders during the continuance of the present frosty weather," and saying that " they must make the most minute and rigid scru tiny of every part so as to detect flaw or breakage, and they will be rewarded for any defect they may discover in proportion to the skill exercised in find ing it out." It concluded by saying " when the frost breaks up great injury to all parts of the line may be anticipated, and engineers are therefore to be more than usually vigilant and careful, reducing speed as necessary, and reporting any bad part of the line at the next station at which the train stops." On the 24th January a driver reported the road to be in a bad state between Wimbledon and Wey bridge, and on the 25th another driver made a similar report of the line between Wimbledon and Malden junction. These defects it was impossible to avoid ; but it was found that there was no bad bit for half a mile before getting to the Epsom junction, nor for 400 yards past it. On the 26th an order was issued that as it was reported that the line was in a bad state between Wimbledon and Malden, enginemen were to reduce speed there and to report the time lost at the end of the journey; and the platelayers were at once sent to put the line in order. As to the tender-wheel, it was perfectly true that the rim had turned round upon the other part of the wheel ; but there was this additional circumstance, that the defect having been discovered, the wheel was on the 20th December sent into the workshop, where it was put properly in order, and it remained running, and the rim was perfectly tight until the accident. It would also be shown from marks made, by the evideece of the enginemen, and from other circumstances, that it was not a tender wheel but a carriage wheel that first got off the line, and the tender-wheel in no way caused the acci• dent. As to breaks, the power of retarding the train was the same whether the break was at the middle, beginning, or end of the train, and there were some advantages in having the break in the middle of the train. As to the quantity of break power in this case, it would be shown that it was perfectly sufficient. There was one other head of negligence suggested by the plaintiff's counsel, which was this. Thn company's regulations say that "in all cases no engine shaii pahs through any junction points at a speed of more than 12 miles an hour," and the plaintiff's counsel submited that this applied to a train going along the main line and passing a junction, but on the other side it was said only to apply to trains passing from one line on to the other, and thus prising " through" the points. This morning Mr. Hawkins summed up for the defendants, and Mr. Macaulay, who was labouring under a severe cold, which, he good-humouredly said, rendered the position of his auditors as dis agreeable as that of the tenants of a break carriage, replied on the whole case with great minuteness. After hearing the observations of the learned judge, The jury found a verdict for the plaintiff— damages, £1,500. FROM THE GAZETTE OF LAST NIGHT. WHITEHALL, FEB. 17. The Queen has been pleased to appoint the Right Hon ourable Lord Kinnaird, K.T. ; the Honourable Fulke Egerton; Nicholas Kendall, Esq.; Henry Austin Bruce, Esq. ; John St. Aubyn, Esq. ; John Davie Ferguson Davie, Esq. ; Edward Headlam Greenhow, Esq., M.D. ; and Philip Henry Holland, Esq., to be her Majesty's Com missioners to inquire into the condition of all Mines in Great Britain to which the provisions of the Act 23 and 24 Vict., c. 151, do not apply, with reference to the health and safety of persons employed in such mines. CROWN OFFICE, FEB. 15. MEMBERS RETURNED TO SERVE IN THE PRESENT PARLIAMENT. Borough of Great Grimsby.—John Chapman, of Hill End, Mottram, in the county of Chester, Esq., in the room of Charlel Maude Woraley Anderson Pelham (commonly called Lord Woreley), now Earl of Yarborough, called to the House of Peers. FEBRUARY 18. Borough of Leicester.—Peter Alfred Taylor, of Aubrey House, Notting-hill, in the county of Middlesex, Esq., in the room of John Biggs, Esq., who has accepted the office of Steward of her Majesty's Manor of Hempholme. WAR OFFICE, FEB. 19. 3d Regiment of Dragoon Guards—Gentleman Cadet Rich mond Griffin Nicholas from the Royal Military College, to be Comet, without purchase, vice Robert George Smith, deceasel. 6th Dragoon Guards—Lieutenant Augustus Alfred de Bourbel to be Captain, by purchase, vice Robert Scott Hunter, whoretires ; Cornet John Fryer to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice de Bourbel. Ist Dragoons—Lieutenant Carteret Houstoun Kempson, from the 7th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Harvey, who exchanges; Charles Falkiner Morton, Gent., to be Cornet, by purchase, vice William Wemyss Frewen Hay, who retires. ith Hussars•—Gentleman Cadet William Langan Forsyth, from the Royal Military College, to be Cornet, by pur chase, vice Metcalfe, promoted. 18th Hussars—Charles John Fletcher, Gent., to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Whiteside, promoted. Royal Artillery—Surgeon Thomas Guy, M.D., having completed a period of 20 years' full pay service, to be Sur geon-Major under the Royal Warrant of the Ist October, 1858. Military Train—Staff-Surgeon O'Connor D'Arcey, M.D., to be Surgeon, vice Surgeon William Braybrooke, re moved to the Staff. 7th Regiment of Foot—Lieutenant George Lake Harvey, from the Ist Dragoons, to be Lieutenant, vice Kempson, who exchanges. 15th Foot—Lieut. Henry Jardine Hallowes to be Captain, by purchase, vice Silvester Calvert, who retires; Ensign Reginald Cartwright to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Hallowes; Ensign Edward Joseph Jekyll, from 73d Foot, to be Ensign, vic e C ar twright ; Lieut. Joseph M‘Murray to be Adjutant, vice Lieut. Hallowes, pro moted. 19th Foot—Gentleman Cadet Edward Spencer Mott, from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, without pur chase, vice George Albert Macdonnell, removed to 18th Foot. 20th Foot—Ensign John Lacey Morley, from 78th Foot, to be Ensign, vice Stourton, who exchanges. 21st Foot—Ensign Edward Walker, to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice John Popham Mainwaring, who retires ; Claude Durham Patterson, Gent,, to be Ensign, by pur- chase, vice Walker. 23d Foot—Ensign Charles Morgan, to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Wriothesley Augustus Fits Roy, who re tires; George Bentinck Luxford, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Morgan. 29th Foot—Lieutenant Joseph Bourke, from the Ist West India Regiment, to be Lieutenant, vice Alfred Fawcett, who exchanges. 34th Foot—Ensign Gerald Brenan, to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Charles Hamilton Webb, who retires ; William Francis Trotter, Gent., to bo Ensign, by pur chase, vice Brcnan. 41st Foot—Ensign Thomas P. A. Bracken, to be Lieute nant, by purchase, vice Isaac King, who retires • Cor net Thomas H. Duneembe, from Gth Dragoon Guards, to be Ensign, vice John T. Johnson, appointed to the Commissariat Department; Gentleman-Cadet Edward Richardson, from the Royal Military College, to be En sign, by purchase, vice Bracken. 52d Foot—Captain Hugh P. Pearson, from the 84th Foot, to bo Captain, vice Fraser, who exchanges. 68th Foot—Lieut. Benjamin 0. Johnson, from half-pay late 11th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Edmund Peel Ethelston, placed on half-pay. 73d Foot—Gentleman-Cadet Richard J. Airey, from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, by pu r ch a se, v i ce Jekyll, removed to the 15th Foot. 77th Foot—Gentleman Cadet William Forbes Gatacre, from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Henry Reginald Bate, promoted, without purchase, in the 13th Foot. 78th Foot—Ensign Arthur Joseph Stourton, from the 20th Foot, to be Ensign, vice Morley, who exchanges. 84th Foot—Captain George Cruden Fraser, from the 52d Foot, to be Captain, vice Pearson, who exchanges. 93d Foot—Lieutenant William Gordon Alexander to be Captain, by purchase, vice Charles Hugh Levinge, who retires ; Ensign Henry Thomas Butter to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Alexander; William Copland, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Butter. 9lth Foot—Lieutenant-Colonel James Dodington Car michael, C. 8., from half-pay 19th Foot, to be Lieutenant- Colonel, vice Brevet-Colonel Charles James Conway Mills, who retires on half-pay. 98th Foot—Ensign Richard Townley to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice David J. Copeland Jones, who retiree; Allan G !Tome Raper, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Townley. Ist West India Regiment—Lieutenant Alfred Fawcett, from the 29th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Joseph Bourke, who exchanges. DEPOT BATTALION.--Captain George Joy, 5911 Foot, to be Instructor of Musketry, vice Captain Madden, 4th Foot, who has rejoined his depot at Chatham. MEDICAL DEPARTMENT.—Surgeon William Braybrooke, from the Military Train, to be Staff-Surgeon, vice Henry Higgins Jones, M.D., placed upon half-pay ; Staff-As. sistant-Surgeon Joshua Henry Porter to be Staff-Surgeon, vice D'Arcey, appointed to the Military Train; Staff Assistant-Surgeon Patrick Charles Baxter, M. 8., from half-pay, to be Staff Assistant-Surgeon, vice Porter, pro moted. PURVEYOR'S DEPARTMENT.—To be Deputy Purveyors to the Forces—Purveyor's Clerk Joseph Muskett ; Pur veyor's Clerk William Richard Taylor. ROYAL MII.ITARy C LLE G E.—Captain and Brevet- Major Alfred Picton Bowlby, 64th Foot, to be Captain of a company of Gentlemen Cadets, vice William Thomas Exham Fosbery, who retires upon half-pay. BREVET. Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet-Colonel Charles William Dunbar Staveley, C. 8., 44th Foot, to have the temporary rank of Brigadier-General in China, while in command of the troops in that country. The undermentioned promotions to take place, consequent on the death of Lieutenant-General JeremiahTaylor,Colonel of the 59th Foot, on the Ist Feb., 1862 : Major-General Arthur Richard, Duke of Wellington, K.G , Lieutenant-Colonel upon half-pay Unattached, to have the rank of Lieutenant-General. . . _ Major-General John Julius William Angerstein to be Lieutenant- General. Brevet •Colonel Edward Rowley Hill, from Lieutenant- Colonel half-pay 63d Foot, Deputy Adjutant-General to the Forces in the Windward and Leeward Islands, to be Major-General. Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Bingham, 60th Foot, to be Colonel. Major John Thomas Dalyell, 21st Foot, to be Lieute nant-Colonel. Captain Wm. John Dorehill, half-pay, late 43d Foot, Staff Officer of Pensioners, to be Major. The undermentioned promotions to take place consequent on the death of Major-General Sir Thomas Harte Franks K.C.8., on the sth Feb., 1862: , Brevet-Colonel George Wm. Key, from Lieut.-Colonel half-pay, 44th Foot, serving as a Brigadier-General on the Staff of the Army in Ireland, to be Major •General. Brevet-Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Hamilton, C.B.,Major 78th Foot, to be Colonel. Major George Neeld Boldero, 21st Foot, to bo Lieuten ant-Cololiel. Captain William Francis Stehelin, 67th Foot, to be Major. BANKRUPTS. James Weston, miller, Flimwell, Sussex John Graham, clerk, Westmoreland-place, Camberwell Joseph S. Hemp, tailor, North-road, Highgate Charles Highfield, greengrocer, Caledonian-road Edmund Newman, salesman, Walworth Thomas J. Cleaver, Colbath square, Clerkenwell James Meaton, merchant, Fenchurch• street William Syer, builder, Chetsworth John T. Canning, miller, Grove-villas, Hounslow William Ealden, accountant, Gloucester-terrace, Vaux hall bridge-road George Mesher, licensed victualler, Weybourne, Surrey James Berger, commission agent, King's-road, Chelsea Mark W. Kingsland, miller, Barh am , Kent William Anderson, colourman, Marylobone Judah Barnett, furrier, Goswell-street, Middlesex Charles Upton baker, Stepney Chas. Musto Fisher, carpenter, Hight-street, Peckham John Stubbs and Thos, Stubbs, manure dealers, Com mercial-road Chas. J. Agg, assistant bookbinder, Paternoster-row George H. Larking, grocer, Wapping Francis J. 'Preacher, chair maker, Chepping Wycombe, Buckinghamshire George T. Whitington, statist, New Broad •street, city Thomas Woodham, painter, Rathbone-place, Oxford- st Peter Dempsey, calico printer, Mitcham Ernest Dawson, clerk in the Admiralty, Upper Norwood George Newton, carpenter, Upper Thames-street, City George Piper, glover, Uckfield, Surrey George Barnes, baker, Harringworth,lNorthampton s hi ro John Roffey, butcher, Caledonian-road Richard Chapman King, attorney, Great Coram-ktreet Thomas William Sawyer, baker, Bethnal-green William Francis, leather merchant, Bermondsey Adam Hunter Craig, india rubber manufacturer, London Thos. Moorwood, furniture dealer, Marylebono Robert Greedus, china dealer, Compton -street James Hooper, clerk, Bermondsey Wms T. Knightsbridge, journeyman butcher, Mans field-street, Kingsland-road Robert de Neufvillo Lucas, attorney, Greenwich Hockley F. Wood, solicitor, London Thomas Dickinson, colonial agent, Mincing. lane Louis Steer, commission agent, Rotherhitho Peter C. G roig, greengrocer, Munster-street,Regent' s-park Ausehar Chauncy, artist, Whitecross-street Prison Benjamin Spittle, horse dealer, Chelsea THE GRECIAN THEATRE.—THE EXCISE AUTHO RITIES DEFEATED.—Mr. Benjamin Oliver Conquest, the proprietor of the Grecian Theatre, City-road, appeared yesterday at Bow-street, to answer a SUM 410 MS charging him with selling spirits in the theatre without a licence, but it was contended on the part of the Crown that the licence did not extend to the theatre, as that was a distinct trade or business from that of a publican. The Magistrate WM of a contrary opinion, and dismissed the swum, .w~ ATTEMPTED MUItD_ER BY A DISAPs POINTED LOVER, -~-- At the Special Petty Sessions, held at Guildford yesterday morning, Alfred Edward Stevens, a young man aged about eighteen, the son of a trades mar. at Chobham, was charged with shooting Eliza Dewberry, with intent to murder her. The cir cumstances of the case are of an extraordinary character, and great excitement prevails in the neighbourhood where the crime was committed. The following is the substance of the evidence ad duced yesterday, when Mr. Humphreys, jun., of Newgate-street, instructed by the authorities at Scotland•yard, through the instrumentality of Sir Denis Le Merchant, Bart., whose mansion is et Chobham place, conducted the prosecution. The prisoner was undefended. The girl, Erin Dew berry, who is 22 years of age, was living last December in the service of Mr. Lake, of Chobhanh and the prisoner wished to keep company with her, but his overtures were rejected. This disappoint ment seems to have worked upon the young man's mind so much that he is supposed to have made two attempts to take Eliza Dewberry's life. One even ing, about a week before Christmas, when Mr. and Mrs. Lake were sitting in their drawing-room, the girl had occasion to pass between the lamp and the window, and, almost immediately afterwards a gun was fired through the window, and a bullet, which passed within four inches of Mr. Lake's head, broke the lamp and the looking-glass, and rebounded without injuring any one. The authorities at Scot land-yard were communicated with by Sir Denle Le Merchant, and Detective Whicher went down to Chobham to make inquiries, and had an inter' view with Stevens, who was suspected at that time , but nothing resulted from these proceedings, fa' though a reward of £5O was offered by Mr, Lake, for the discovery of the offender. At the end ca, January Eliza Dewberry left her situation and went to reside with her parents at Sutton, near Guildford, where, on the 13th inst., the offence with which the prisoner stands charged was col; mitted. On the 9th of this month Stevens called at Dewberry's cottage and asked to see the Oh but the mother, knowing her daughter's wisheei said she was from home. About half-past seven o'clock on Thursday night Mrs. Dewberry and her daughter were sitting in the kitchen, which faces the high road, when they heard the report of fire' arms, and two pallets passed immediately over theit, heads and struck the opposite wall. The escape ?' both women is most remarkable, for they were sit" ting in a line, and the daughter, who was between the candle and window, within five feet of the latter , was in the act of stooping the moment the gun was fired, The shadow of the daughter would fall upon the blind, and the cottage is low built, so that 5 gun might easily be fired from the garden into the kitchen. Several persons saw the prisoner walking in the direction of Sutton, between 6 and 7on Thursday night, and returning towards Chobhao! between 8 and 9. Nearly all of them noticed that he carried something under his coat, and one woman swore positively that he had a gun. A girl name d Emma Fricker was walking past Dewberry's hous e at the hour in question, and saw prisoner standing before it. When he noticed her he walked awoll but before she had gone many yards she heard e gun fired, and, turning round, saw some one runnlog away in the direction of Chobham. This witnee' saw no other person in the neighbourhood of DOW' berry's cottage that evening. The young man Woe arrested next morning at his father's house, whet ° the police found a gun which bore marks of having been recently discharged. The prisoner, who merely said he was innocent of the charge, was committed to take his trial at the next Surrey Assizes. CO UN 2RI Mil RKE. 2S. BRISTOL—FEB, 18. FOC At this market to-day there was a fair attendance, - the demand was limited for wheat, at last week's prices• SHEFFIELD—FEB. 18. At our market this morning there was an average ! I tendance, and we were moderately supplied with grill% good samples of wheat were at the rates of 'last week, b" inferior sorts almost unsaleable at reduced prices. Oats"; good demand, and select qualities at fully late rates. Be unaltered. Red wheat, per lead of 3 imperial bushels...2os Od to 2251 White ...22s exl to 23v L , New red ...22s Od to 2311 )1 ,. New white ~ Beans /7 79 lBs Od to 198 n Peas, per qr. 548 Od to Os v"„ A Grinding barley, per qr 3 Malting ditto, „ .. 38 2 dto 38s Od Od to 3 41 7 i o v 9, Oats 7? 2ss 6d to 3 0 4 Milli '' --' --- for Lb- 7d 13" A.iHers' prices 141 b. tour-2s 3d, 2s sd, and 2s LEEDS—FEB. 18. We have a moderate show of grain. There is a sluggl sg dennandto-day for wheat, the condition of grain being affected by the soft weather, and the sales made were is) qr lower than last Tuesday's rate s . B eans , b ar l e y; oi l oats at previous prices. MARKET HARBOROUGH—FEB. 18. At this market to-day there was a fair trade, but OnT, a limited show of wheat. For inferior sorts prices We . e cheaper—old, Ms to 59s ; new, 60s to 64s per 36 st°:; i i Barley at about the rates of the week previous, nial„ ti- g t. selling at 34s to 37s per qr., grinding 32s to 33s per 31' to Oats, 23s to 32s per 24 st. ; beans, 418 to 465; new, 3a° 46s per qr. NORWICH CATTLE. The supply of store cattle to-day showed a great fa, off, not more th an h a lf th e usua l quan tit y b e i ng ex hibit consisting of Scots, s h or th orns , an d I r i s h. Th e a ttelw ante of buyers was small, with a slow sale. Scots, 4s to 4s 6d ; s h or th orns , 3 8 6d to 4s Od-; Irish 9, 0 Od to 3s 6d ; Devon's, 4s to 4s 6d (esti ma t e d we i g ht N" fat). '64 Fat beasts a large show, but sales slow, at 7s Od to 10. per 141 b. Sheep—There was a good supply of sheep in the pm t and a fair sale, Fat sheep, 8s Od to 8s Gd per stone • prime, Os Od. Pigs—A fair supply. St ore pi gs , 18 s to 20s; fat pa gy 7s 3d to 7s Gd per stone. FOREIGN MAIL PACKET LIST. MAILS DUE. Feb.. Australia and Mauritius, via Southampt on . via Marseilles .. mar. 6, Brazil and Cape Verds, by British packet. Marell Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena.. Marcil s , China, Penang, and Singapore, via S o uth am pt on. F eb. ~,/, via Marseilles .. , Feb. ." 1 6, Falkland Islands.r Nil 3 a s , Gibraltar, via Southampton Feb. ;5, India (Calcutta), and Ceyl on , v i a S out h ampton. , Feb. „',f, via Marseilles Feb. 14, India (Bombay), vi a S ou th ampton Feb. 0-5 Lisbon , via Marseilles Feb. ' O l, Feb. 6, Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton Feb. ' via /vlarseilles Feb. 20. g, Newfoundland ..Feb. !0 Oporto and Vigo U. S. and British N. America, by Brit. packet Feb. by U.S. packet g, by Canadian packet Feb. 10, W.C. of Africa, Madeira, and Teneriffe mar. 1 3. Bahamas, via New York Mar. og , Mexico ....F e b. ' All parts of West Indies, including Chili, Peru, 1 Feb. °' California, and British Columbia.. Those who take no account of th e i r own Bill J life may expect to be brought one d a y t o a " de reckoning." ha A rash young man has threatened to apply t 0 t Maine liquor law to his sweetheart, she intoxicates hill' s , [ADVERTISEMENT.]—HoIIoway's Ointment and rill s i e r Excessive Infant Mortality.—The unusually large nu"' o, of deaths occurring daily from scarlatina, mess , ' diptheria, bronchitis, inflammation of the lungs , and ot he r diseases of childhood may be dimi n i s h e d by the prop application -of Holloway's medicaments, which maScri l e safely and effectively used by every mother or nurse. 'i r is Ointment should be rubbed at least twice a day upon the s'is as near as possible to the seat of disease, while the pins 1 0 proper doses are administered internally either in 0 3 1.Ll g j ii honey, or dissolved in water. Under this treatment a C 11 ;1"1,0 for the better will soon be observed; the symptoms vil . '"f less severe, the sufferings less distressing, and 3a anxious hours spared to doting parents. BIRTHS. f tla ° GURNEY.—On the 15th i ns t., a t P ar i s, the wife ()- Rev. Archer Gurney, of a son. INNES.— On the 17th inst., the wife of George Rose lo li t, Esq , 17, N or f o lk- s t ree t, St ran d , an d 20, Billiter-stre" city, of a daughter. LOAD.—On the 18th inst., at P ec kh am , M rs . 00 Load, - son. ST. GEORGE . — On tho 16th inst " at 17, Rutland -, 5 0p Hyde-park, the wife of Colonel St. George, C. 8., 114 Artillery, of a son. MARRIAGES. JONES—BECKETT.-OD. the 15th inst., at Holy Tr. l ol Church, Brompton, George Jon es , Esq., of the W ire d, Temple, to Maryanne, widow of Gilbert Abbot a Bee' Esq , Metropolitan Police Magistrate. TRIBE—FnAsEn.—On the 15th inst., Arthur Blak e, Q , 9 ie . 9 youngest son of the late Tho mas T r ib e, R N. , to 1 3 e" c p youngest daughter of Alexander Clinton Fraser, l i ef Deputy-Inspector-General of Imports and E. - spert° , Majesty's Customs. DEATHS. i p ter BRADSHAW —On the 17th inst., a t 11, Q ueen ' s -ga p race, Anna Maria, widow of the late James Brads. Esq M,P. for Canterbury. ' GRAHAM.—On the 16th inst., a t L ong H edge F ar m / PO tersea, Bernard J. Graham, Esq., age 65. KEEN.—On the 17th inst., a t C roy d on, Thos. Keen) - -go(1 aged 62. to MACLAREN.—On the 16th inst., at 5, Rectory Villas, SOl°P Newington, N.E., M r . John Maclaren, of 55, Cor n aged 60. NEWNHAM.—On the 15th inst., at 15, C orn wnll-ter - Regent's- park, Nathaniel N own h am, E sq., ag,e d 89. of RIDLEY.—On the 17th i ns t ., W illiam Ridley, Fsq,r Cowper's.court, Cornhill , an d 1, Tower Vill as, Gra-P road, Canonbury, aged 62. ir LONDON : Printed and Published by AIURDO YO sTe s ot No. 112, Strand, Printer, at THE SUN Omce, No. 1129 ,, S a t i r def in the Precinct o f the Savoy he the County a bl iw " — FediMdaYs February 19, 1802.