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IMPERIAL PARLIAINIENT. HOUSE OF LORDS—(YESTERDAY). .The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack lit 5 o'clock. ITALIAN AFFAIRS, The Earl of MALME SBURY eve notice that on Thurs day next he should move for copies of the two circulars from Count Cavour which appeared in the public journals, dated the 14th and 15th June, assuming that they have been addressed to her Majesty's Government among others ; also for a copy of Count Cavour's reply to his despatch to Sir J. Hudson, dated the 7th of June. He thought there would be no objection to the production of the papers. MARRIAGE LAW. .Earl VOWIS presented a petition, praying for an al teration in the law relating to the marriage with a deceased wife's sister. RIFLE CORPS. Lord VIVIAN asked whether it was the intention of Government to pay the non-commissioned officers employed to drill the volunteer rifle corps ; and also whether it was intended to grant a small payment to volunteer artillery men as an incentive to improve themselves in their duties. He thought such an arrangement would be followed by the best results. A NOBLE LORD wished to know whether it was intended to supersede the militia by the volunteers ? The Earl of RIPON said it was not intended to ' supersede the militia by the volunteers, and the great est precaution would be t a ken to prevent any clashing or rivalry between the bodies. In answer to the question of the other noble lord he begged to say it was not the intention of the Government to pay men to instruct the volunteer corps, but simply to supply certain proportions of arms ; for which, however, each corps was to provide a sufficient had safe custody. A preference would be given by the Government to the formation of vo lunteer artillery corps, which would be supplied with in struction as well as with arms, but no further advantage would be g i ve n to them over the various rifle corps. He had stated the other evening that it was the intention of Government to sanction more than the formation of a company, but so many representations had been made to the Secretary at War that he had decided upon sanctioning the formation of companies where favour able circumstances presented themselves. The Earl of MALMESBURY . said he had the honour to command a militia artillery regiment, and although it had been embodied nine months it only numbered 250 instead of the regular number. He could account for this only by the circumstance that the place appointed for assembling was too far distant from the homes of the men. Lord RIPON, in answer to further questions, said the Government intended to instruct more commissioned officeis of disembodied militia at Hythe, and then supply them to volunteer rifle corps wishing for instruc tion. He did not wish to prevent volunteers from getting instruction elsewhere, but his object was to give every faci lity of obtaining ins truction from Government if it was required. The conversation then dropped. THE SLAVE TRADE. Lord BROUGHAM presented a petition complaining of the laws regulating Coolie immigration, and moved for a committee to inquire into the whole subject, The Duke of NEWCASTLE said he did not think it would be advisable at this period of the session to appoint such a committee. He hoped the subject would be inquired into next session, and he should have great pleasure in commun icating with the noble and learned lord, and show him that the subject had not escaped.the attention of the Government. SALE OF GAS BILL. This bill was read a second time. SESSIONAL DIVISIONS BILL. This bill passed through committee. ENDOWED SCHOOLS IN IRELAND. The Earl of CORK asked whether Government intended to introduce a bill this session for the better management of the funds of endowed schools in Ireland? Earl GRANVILLE said it was not the intention of the Government in the present session to introduce a bill. The house then adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS.-(YESTERDAY.) The SrEASER took the chair at four o'clock. NEW MEMBERS. Dr. Lyons took the oaths and his seat for the City of Cork, and the Lord Advocate, on his re-election, for the city of Edinburgh. RED SEA AND INDIA TELEGRAPH COMPANY (No. 2) BILL. On the motion for the consideration of the Lords' Amend ments to this measure, which stood on the paper as a pri vate bill, and the consideration of which, it will be remem bered, was adjourned from Thursday last till this day, on an exception taken by Sir H. Willoughby. Sir J. GRAHAM said he thought the hon. baronet the member for Evesham (Sir H. Willoughby) had done great public service in pointing attention to the nature of this measure when it was last before the house. He (Sir J. Graham) had since endeavoured to ascertain the facts con nected with the introduction of the bill and the efforts made to pass it. He held in his hand the original prospec tus of the company, issued in August .last, in which the substance of the agreement subsequently made by them with the Government was embodied. The bill containing that agreement was introduced at the commencement of last ses sion, and, being a private bill, the forms of the house would necessarily be gone through, but no attention on the part of the house was bestowed on the subject, and no respon sible Minister of the Crown explained the nature of the transaction. The bill, so passed, was carried to the House of Lords without comment, so far as he was able to under stand. There it arrived at its last stage immediately before the dissolution, and so dropped, though an attempt had been there made on the part of the late Government to pass it without delay. The bill was re-introduced in the present Parliament, the same forms were gone through in this house without observation, as it appeared, on the part of hon. members, and it went up to the House of Lords, where it was on the point of passing, when Lord Stanley of Al derley, in its last stage, insisted as an amendment, that the whole of the contract between the company and the Go vernment should be inserted in the bill. That amendment the Lords made, and that amendment the House of Com mons were now called on to consider. He (Sir J. Graham) had a strong opinion that this bill contained some objection able clauses. In the first place, it gave a guarantee of 4,1 per cent.—(hear)—upon all the capital of this company paid up, and for what period, would the house believe, that guarantee was given ? Why, for a period of 50 years from this time, and that guarantee was to extend over the whole of that long interval without reference to the success of the company. (Hear.) There was another circumstance in which he saw the most serious objection—namely, that the Govern ment was nominated ex officio directors, and one of those ex officio directors, an intimate friend of his own, was a first class clerk of the Treasury, a gentleman of the highest hon our, and for whom he had the greatest respect ; but what was the temptation to which . that gentleman was exposed ? There was no restraining clause whatever in the bill against those ex officio directors becoming shareholders in the con cern. (Hear.) He thought under the circumstances the house would do well to suspend the further consideration of the Lords' amendments of the bill for a fortnight or three weeks to enable the committee on contracts,which:was to be appointed that night, to inquire into the transaction and re port their opinion upon it to the house. (Hear.) That being the view he ventured to take of the matter he moved as an amendment that the further consideration of the Lords' amendments be deferred for one fortnight. (Hear, hear.) Mr. ELLICE seconded the amendment, and expressed his obligations to his right hon. friend for bringing this subject under the consideration of the house. He (Mr. Ellice) came down to the house for the purpose of asking the Chancellor of the Exchequer when he intended to no minate his committee on contracts, and to raise a discussion with respect to the constitution of that committee. He com plained that the Treasury gave their sanction to bills of this description without the house having before them any of the grounds on whick they did so—(hear, hear)—and he intended to call the attention of the house to that subject, which was altogether contrary to what used to be the prac tice of the Treasury. (Hear, hear.) Sir J. GRAHAM said, in explanation, he was in error in stating the bill had been reintroduced in the present Par liament. appeared to have been suspend e d, which, of course, bade his case the stronger. Mr. GREGSON 'said that the only amendment of . the slightest importance, except the schedule, was the omission of the clause giving borrowing powers to the company. The project was before the 'public for 18 months before the guarantee was obtained,• a prospectus issued in 185", pro mising. s 5 par cent• conditional guarantee from the East India Company, having failed to induce the public to sub scribe. He had received a letter from Mr. Corthorn, the broker to the company, a gentleman of high respectability, who said : " You will recollect the anxious deliberation bestowed upon the extent of guarantee to be given by the Govern ment to the Red Sea Telegraph Company, and the desire felt not to require more than sufficient to float the shares. I can conscientiously declare that I believed at the time, and still believe, that lower terms than those granted to the company wouh) not have been sufficient to raise the capital required for the undertaking. The result of the issue of the .shares fully corroborates this opinion, for from the date of the issue of the shares— v iz., the 2d of August last, to the 7th of January, the price ranged from 12s. 6d. pre mium per share to ss. premi um , the average being Bs. 9d. premium per share, a profit not too remunerating. Subse quently the shares were done at a premium of 15s. ; but when an obstacle to the passing of the Act of Parliament during the last Parliament arose the shares fell to 325. 6d. discount. On the passing of the bill by the Lords, they rose to a premium of f to I ; but without such guarantee by Act of Parliament the price would again fall to a dis count, and the shares become unmarketable, and great diffi culty felt in getting the remaining calls paid." The total length of line from Alexandria to Kurrachee was 3,268 miles, with eight stations. The line was now completed from Alexandria to Aden, a distance of 1,590 miles, and the remaining section to India would be completed by the end of this year. Duo securities were taken by the Govern. ment. All advances of interest by the Treasury were to be a charge against future profits, and all profits beyond 10 per cent. were to be at the disposal of Government for the benefit of the public. The Govertunent had the power to fix the tariff, and all tht proceedings of the com pany were subject to the approval of the Lords of the Trea • sury, who appointed two ex officio directors. The capital was subscribed entirely on the faith of the contract with the Treasury, one of the condition s being that the company should proceed at once with the work, and enter into con tracts for the completion of the line within a given time. Great inconvenience had been caused by the delay which bad already o ccurred in passing the bill, whi c h went through both houses in the usual manner, the money clauses having b een passed in committee of the whole house, on t h e motion of the right hon. gentleman the late Chancell or o f the Ex chequer. The following particulars connected with the laying of the cable would, ho trusted, be interesting to the house : " The cable was laid without any difficulty between Suez and. Aden, the greatest dept h being 500 fat homs , and the oin soft throug hout. It wcrks admirably (according to tho,en,ineer's report, better than any line hitherto laid), V ad'Olse been continually at work , though, not handed over te ‘ the company till 30 days after laying. !here has been an -option at Kosseir, caused by. a n Egyptian s teaer drtegh ing her anchor in a gale of wind. It is probe fleuret l by this time, being in the harbour, and in shallow w 4ter . Mr. L. Gisborne,the engineer, telegraphed by this tile loss of the Alma from Aden to Kosseir in a long nit tssi age of 70 or 80 words, and received a reply within an hot. T. The company's officers have received the most cor dial L assistance from all the Turkish and Egyptian authori ties j , vied a slight disturbance among the Hadjis (pilgrims) at ICosseir, who pulled down the telegraph landmark, was urn mediately suppressed by the Governor. At Suakin the P; tcha, entertained all the telegraph staff at a grand dinner, as Le rendered them every assistance in his power. This Zr liming's mail brings intelligence of the completion of the Ir nisei line between Alexandria and Suez." C * A d or i ng th e importance of a line of telegraph to India, and that the bill feceived the assent of the house in March last, he trusted that the right hon. baronet would not per severe in his opposition to this bill. (Hear, hear.) Sir H. WILLOUGHBY thought it inconsistent with the honour and dignity of the house that they should learn the enancial obligations which were about to be imposed upon the Exchequer by means of the Lords' amendments. (Hear, hear.) A resolution was certainly po acted on the 11th of I March and reported on the 14th, authorising' the Treasury to make an agreement with the company, nut the house was never informed that an actual agreement was in exist ence, rendering the Exchequer liable for a guarantee of £36,000 for 50 years being 4f per cent. on a capital of £BOO,OOO. If the capital should be increased to £1,000,000 there would be an annual charge of £45,000 upon the Trea sury, which would involve a total charge of £2,225,000. He should certainly support the amendment. M r . H. BAILLIE thought it very desirable to have a line of electric telegraph to India, but he believed the Go vernment would have acted more wisely if, instead of agree ing to such terms, the Government had decided to make the line. He should support the amendment. Mr. FITZROY said that the usual course had been taken upon this bill, and a resolution had been agreed to in com mittee of the whole house, which certainly had not been carried sub silintio. _ _ _ Mr. LABOUCHERE observed that it might be true that there had been the usual opportunities afforded for a dis cussion of the bill, but the present was the first occasion upon which the attention of the house had been called to the subject. He thought the suggestion of the right hon. baronet the member for Carlisle was a good one, and there fore he should support the amendment. Sir S. NORTHCOTE said there appeared to be two points under discussion. The first was as to the mode in which the bill had passed through that house ; but he un derstood that the usual course had been pursued, and hon. members had had all the opportunities for discussing it which they had upon every other private bill. The other point that had been raised was as to the expenditure proposed, and the right hon. baronet the member for Carlisle had stated that he regarded the contract entered into by the late Government as very objectionable. The matter had been arranged before he (Sir S. Northcote) had entered upon his duties at the Treasury, but he believed it was based upon the example of similar contracts made by preceding Governments, and especially upon the contract with the Mediterranean Extension Telegraph Company, from Cagliari to Malta and thence to Corfu, in which casethe preceding Government gave a guarantee of 6 per cent. for 25 years, instead of 41- per cent. for 60 years, as in the present instance. The subject was one of great importance, and if the only mode of successfully floating the line was by a gua rantee, he thought the Government was wise in giving it. The contract had been called a one-sided bargain, but the company had bound themselves to certain provisions which would compel them to perform their part of the contract. Another condition was that when the line was once laid the company were bound to work it, or the Government might take possession of the line. There were other conditions in the contract giving the Government certain advantages, such as the right of priority in sending messages. That was an important matter. Let that be contrasted with the stipu lations made with some of the lines in this country. The Submarine Telegraph Company had entered into a stipula tion with France, by which the French Government got the priority. What an immense importance it waste this country to maintain communication with. its East Indian possessions. Let the house consider the case of the late Indian mutiny, and a thousand other circumstances, in which rapid commu nication with India was absolutely necessary, and it would agree that any arrangement,eowever extravagant it might s eem, that put this country in communication with our East Indian possessions, without making the country de pendent on any foreign Government, was of the utmost importance. (Hear, hear.) The contract was very care fully drawn, and the late Government had improved on the terms entered into by their predecessors in regard to the Mediterranean extension line. Provision was made for a reserve fund, and for a reduction of the charges to the public, and all possible care was taken to provide for the good working of the line. He thought the clause em • powering the appointment of official directors, having au thority to control the whole proceedings of the company, and to take care that nothing was done to imperil the secu rity, a good clause, though the right hon. member for Car lisle had objected to it. With respect to the adjournment of the consideraiion of the Lords' amendments he expressed no opinion. That was a question for the Government and the promoters of the bill. He thought the agreement made by the late Government a good, proper, and economical agreement, and there was nothing on which he was more ready to encounter scrutiny. Therefore, he did not oppose the motion for an adjournment of the discussion for a fort night. Sir J. GRAHAM observed that there were not above 15 copies of the bill printed. With regard to the ex officio di rectors. the case was stronger than he had thought. (Cries of "Order.") Did the house not desire to know the facts Mr. ROEBUCK called the right hon. baronet to order. He was always glad to hear the right hon. baronet, but he did not think that the right hon. baronet had a right to speak twice. (Hear, hear.) The SPEAKER observed that the right hon. baronet had only a right to explain. Sir T. GRAHAM said that he was endeavouring to ex plain that these ex officio directors were not prohibited from holding shares, and, indeed, there was a provision de claring that they might hold shares. Mr. KINNAIRD observed that there was nothing pecu liar or irregular in the way in which the bill had passed through its stages. The shareholders of the line were now in this position, after a Government guarantee had been dis tinctly given, and after they had on its faith expended three fourths of the capital, that they were not able to complete the line because they could not make a call or borrow money until the present bill passed. Any delay would be mostpre judicial to them, and he must say that the present proceed ing savoured very much like repudiation. It should be borne in mind that this undertaking was projected during a great crisis in the affairs of this country, viz., during the Indian mutiny, when rapid communication between India and this country was of vital importance. Mr. CRAWFORD said that hi: hon. frien d who had just spoken had anticipated what he had to say. More than half the capital of the company had been raised and expended on the faith of the guarantee, and he wished to know whe ther it competent for the house now to consider the bill otherwise than exclusively in reference to the Lords' amendments. Lord DUNCAN thought the question before the house was whether they were to sanction a system which gave away the public money by a private bill, of which only about 12 or 13 copies were printed. Until attention was drawn to the measure he was not aware of its provisions, and now he found that byone of the Lords' amendments it was proposed to give a guarantee of 41- per cent. for 50 years on a sum of £BOO,OOO, which might be raised to £1,000,000. It was a great public question whether that house should bind the country for 50 years to pay the sum of £45,000.f0r the Red Sea Telegraph. Without adverting to the merits of the matter, he raised his voice against binding this country in such a way to give a guarantee on an undertaking not even now in existence. It would be far better to give the Chan cellor of the Exchequer the entire power of making these guarantees without referring them to the house at all. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that this was a question of very considerable nicety and delicacy —(hear)—and he thought it his duty, holding the office he did, to state to the house what considerations occurred to him. He must say that he was a little disappointed when the hon. baronet opposite (Sir S. Northopte) declined to enter into the question of the motion of the right hon. mem ber for Carlisle, stating that that was an affair for the Government and the parties to consider; for the right hon. baronet was the official erg,an of the Government that Made this contract. Sir S. NORTHCOTE explained that it was made some months before he joined the Treasury. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER did not mean to state that the right hon. baronet made the contract, but onlythat he was the official organ of the Government that made the contract. He wished simply to state to the house the view he took of the position of the Government in regard to the contract, because the matter was one of the ex tremest delicacy, and public credit was that which not only ought not to be broken, but ought not to be even sus pected of being broken. (Hear, hear.) What he found to be the case, when the present Government assumed office, was that the present bill was in the House of Lords, and noble men connected with the Government in that house, as a de bate upon it was about to take place, made application to him to ,know whether it was the intention of the Govern ment to support the bill as it stood. In his opinion they were pledged to the bill in the position in which it stood, and it was too late for the Government to raise a question on its merits on that account. The merits were not entered into by the Government in the House of Lords, and it was his intention, when the plan was brought to issue, to fulfil the contract, which he found written in the agreement be tween the executive Government and the parties to the fol lowing effect :—That an Act of Parliament (according to the last clause of the bill) should be applied for in the next session, for the purpose of confirming and giving effect to the agreement; and that the clauses necessary for the pur pose should be submitted to, and approved by, the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury, who were to sanction and further the application by the company for such A it of Parliament. That was the agreement, and on coming into office and finding these terms in existence laid down, and entirely independent of the discretion of the present Government, no choice was presented to them except to give their support as far as possible to the bill. On that agreement he felt bound to act, but with respect to the rights of the house, that undoubtedly was a different mat ter, and it was not for him to determine, but for the house to decide where its jurisdiction commenced, and what were its duties and obligations, and he had no doubt that it would consider the former and adhere to the latter. He did not understand that the right hon. member for Carlisle raised any issue as to the merits of the contract ; but he merely recommended that as this was a new Parliament, and as the arrangement under which the bill was brought be fore them in its present form, and which had prevented the present Parliament from entering into a minute examina tion of the measure, had been made, not for the conveni ence of Parliament, but of the parties interested in the bill, its further consideration should be postponed for a term of 14 days. in order that the house might know what they were going to vote. The right hon. baronet said; "Arrangements of great importance have been made between the Govern ment and the company ; p r i nc ipl es o f great moment to the public interests are involved in those arrangements ; and as a committee is about to be appointed to inquire into the general question, let us have an oppor tunity of ascertaining accurately what we are asked to do." In that suggestion he (the Chancellor of the Exchequer) did not see anything • tending to impugn or to weaken the force of the contract between the Government and the parties, or to impair the nature of the obligation, whatever it might be, which Parliament had contracted with regard to these parties. He hoped, therefore, that the hon. mem ber for Lancaster and other hon. members would not persist in their objections to the postponement. If they did so it might be supposed out of doors that an issue was raised upon a question of public faith, whereas there was merely a demand for time, with a view to consideration. The con cession of such time might be attended with some temporary and limited inconvenience to the parties, but if his right hon. friend the member for Carlisle thought the Douse ought not to proceed blindfold in it matter of such public importance, as tb.at view was entertained by so many hon. gentlemen, he (the Chancellor of the Exchequer) would feel e h t ia g o l e ':ifortnvtg arrangements.chsehor Yiedmtseration, and numerous bound to support his proposition. He would only add that s in the last Parliament, on the 14th of March, a resolution was reported by the then Chairman of Wave and Means from the Committee on the Red Sea and Indian Telegraph Company, the effect of which was, undoubtedly, to give the sanction of the House of Coninio'ns, so far as preliminary proceedings were concerned, to the agreement which le.il versally, regardelsnuig.ppwoi been entered into between the Goverment and the lied Sea and Indian Telegraph first resolution of th as e a ho s u uff se io N Company, and in such cases the tepoagsn uayyacommonly , guarantees ue if w a not s a u t n a i foundation to warrant the i ngi‘ parties ro. Dg u it.ivpseritto their r d r t t h tt thoughtoh that l i a n te deterniin Govern ment were influenced by motives of public policy. (Hear, hear.) The pwuhto underle th e n ir of a similar character were preferred ; but, a ea ri r p l u y ca p t e i r;: n o s d although the late Government came to the conclusion that it was not advisable that they should enter into anruncon fitional guarantees, they felt it their duty to make two ex eeptions to that principle, the first being in the case of the scheme for securing a telegraphic cammnication with India, and the other for providing a similar communication with the iTnited States of America. The condition of India at the period when this arrangement was made would be within the recollection of every member of the house, and he thought it would be admitted on all sides that it was not only a serious injury but a disgrace to this country that, in such an age of science and progress as the present, we should not have possessed the means of telegraphic communication with that important dependency. (Hear.) The late Govern ment did not of course enter into this guarantee until they had exhaasted every means ofascertaining whetherthere was any prospect that the object would be attained without their interference. After considerable delay and prolonged in vestigation—after consulting the ablest men and endeavour ing by every means in their power to obtain authentic in formation—it was their deliberate opinion that the scheme now under consideration was the only mode by which tele graphic communication between this country and India could be accomplished, and they shrank from the responsi bility which they must.necessazily have incurred had they met Parliament without attaining so desirable an object. With regard to the feeling of the present House of Com mons on this subject, it was natural they should enter tain some jealousy of an arrangement which they were called upon to sanction providing for' the 'expenditure of public money for a considerable time to come. This might be a natural, but it was not alegal or constitutional feeling; for, according to the laws and regulations of Parliament, if they resolved to continue the labours of their predecessors—the , Parliamentlately dissolved—with regard to this class of legis lation they must adopt at the same time the resolutions which their predecessors had agreed to, and the conclusions at which they had arrived. It was not open to this house to say that they now, for the first time, became acquainted with important engagements which the House of Commons were Called upon to fulfil. That was not a fair, true, or ac curate representation. They must consider this bill as if it had gone through all its stages in the new House of Commons, and he thought it had been shown indisputably that every Parliamentary form to guard against any mis application of the public money had been strictly observed. He had not heard the observations of the right hon. mem ber for Carlisle, but if his proposition was merely what it had been represented to be by the Chancellor of the Ex chequer, he was far from wishing to oppose it. He thought it was of the utmost importance that tne country and the house should be perfectly satisfied with regard to these transactions ; and as he hoped that no risk of injury or in convenience could accrue from the short delay proposed, it might be advantageous that the bill should be referred to the committee. Mr. BOUVERIE was at a loss to understand what object could be attained by the postponement of the bill with a view to its consideration by the select committee to be ap pointed to-night. Even if the contract should prove to have been improvident so far as the public were concerned, the matter had gone so far that the faith of the House of Commons was pledged to the arrangement, and it would now be too late to back out of it. He thought this case showed that the forms of the house were defective, and that this discussion might have been avoided if a full statement of the circumstances connected with the contract had been submitted to the late Parliament. The company had made a call, spent their money, and executed a great part of their project, and the case was one in which the public credit required that there should now be no repudiation on the part of Parliament. The bargain might or might not have been an improvident one, but advantage could not honourably be taken of a pure technicality to get rid of it. The SPEAKER wished to say a few words on a point of form. In the case of this bill and two other bills of a simi lar nature —viz., the Indian and Australian and the Atlantic Telegraph Bills, and in which there were guarantees of public money, the clauses containing the guarantees not having been printed in italics in the first copies of the bills, by his direction the original measures had been withdrawn, and fresh bills presented, with the clauses in question printed in italics, and therefore specially inviting the atten tion of the house to them. The substantial merits of this question did not in any way come within his province. If there had been anything informal or irregular anything that contravened the rules and privileges of that house in the amendments made by the Lords, it would have been his duty to bring them under notice. But there was nothing of that nature in those amendments. With respect to the inquiry addressed to him by the hon. member for London —namely, what was the exact question now before the house ? the answer was " Whether the house would agree to the amendments of the Lords." The question certainly was not whether the house would revise or reconsider parts of the Bill to which it had given its assent, and which the other house had also accepted. (Hear, hear.) Viscount DUNCAN hoped the Speaker would inform the house how many copies of private bills were circulated among hon. members. Mr. WILSON had understood the right hon. gentleman (Mr. Disraeli) to say that there had been two exceptions in the time of the late Government to the principle of a con tingent guarantee—viz., the Red Sea Telegraph and the Atlantic Telegraph. This was the first time he had heard that an absolute guarantee had been given to the Atlantic Telegraph Company, which, he always understood, had re ceived only a conting ent guarantee. He must, however, bear his testimony to the accuracy of the right hon. gentle man's statement that the late Government had exhausted, but in vain, every means in their power to fizd parties ready to take up the project of a Red Sea Telegraph on the prin ciple of a contingent guarantee. The SPEAKER said that copies of private bills were printed by their promoters, and circulated in considerable numbers among hon. members on both sides of the house. Mr. DISRAELI explained that he had been in error in saying that the guarantee to the Atlantic Telegraph Com pany was an absolute one. The house then divided, when there appeared— • For the further consideration of the amendments 177 Against l3O Majority The amendments were then considered, and the bill was ordered to be read a third time. THE PACKET SERVICE. Mr. RICH gave notice that at the proper time he should move the postponement of the vote for the conveyance of the mails from Dover to Calais and Ostend. THE QUEEN'S PRINTER. Mr. BAINES asked the Home Secretary whether it was the intention of her Majesty's Government, on the expira tion of the patent of the Queen's printer for England and Wales, on the 21st of January, 1860, to propose the renewal of that patent, so far as it related to the printing of Bibles and Testaments, or any restriction on the free printing of the Holy Scriptures. Sir G. C. LEWIS said the restraints on the printing of the Holy Scriptures in the United Kingdom did not, as the hon. gentleman seemed to think, rest merely on the patent granted to the Queen's printer. They rested on the prero gative of the Crown, which had the power of restricting the printing of the authorised versions of the Holy Scriptures and the Book of Common Prayer. That prerogative would subsist unless it were abandoned by the Crown or termi • nated by an Act of Parliament. The subject of the policy of renewing the monopoly was under the consideration of her Majesty's Government, but it was a point involving a number of difficult questions —(hear, hear)—and they had not come to any decision upon it. The house, however, would permit him to state that, so far as the matter had been represented to him, it could not be said there was any practical grievance with respect to the printing either of the Bible or the Prayer-book, as to inaccuracy or as to want of cheapness. (Hear, hear.) He was assured that the cheap prices at which the Bible and Prayer-book were printed could not be exceeded, and that copies printed by the Queen's printer and at the two English Universities were circulated in the United States and in our colonies, and competed there with Bibles and Prayer-books printed without any restraint or monopoly. In 'regard, therefore, to cheapness, he was not aware that a change of system wouold produce any advantage ; and, as to accuracy of text, he found it generally admitted, but that some authentication by a public authority was necessary. (Hear, hear.) He would add that, although in Scotland there was no mono poly with respect to one printer, there was a restraint on all printers, inasmuch as it was not competent for any printer in Scotland to publish a copy of the Bible without the con sent of the Bible Board. Therefore, that was just as much a restraint on the liberty of printing as if the privilege of printing were granted to a limited number of persons. (Hear, hear.) If the Scottish system in that respect were introduced into England, it would entail certain expenses not now incurred. He found that in the year 1858 the salary of the Secretary to the Bible Board was £6OO ; those of the law agents, £240 ; and the law charges amounted to £2so—making an annual charge in respect of the Bible Board of £l,OOO. He added, in reply to Mr. Hadfield, that no legis• lation was required for the purpose of renewing the patent of the Queen's printer. It was a grant derived from the prerogative, and there was no occasion for that house to legislate on the subject. The Government had not come to any decision on the question. What he had said, there fore, was merely interlocutory, and other opportunities would occur for bringing the matter under the considera tion of the house. ROADS IN SCOTLAND. Sir A. AGNEW asked the Secretary of Stab: for the Home Department whether he could give any information as to the proceedings of the Royal Commission appointed to inquire into the management of roads in Scotland, and when they ware likely to publish their report. Sir G. C. LEWIS said, according to a letter under the hand of the Secretary to the Commission addressed to the Home Department, the Commissimers had made very con siderable progress in their inquiries, and there was every reason to believe that they would report before the end of the present year. THE WESTMINSTER PALACE CLOCK. Mr. HANKEY asked the First Commissioner of Works what was the reason why only two faces of the clock in the clock tower are now made use of ; also, whether there had been any late correspondence between the maker of the clock and the architect of the Houses of Parliament or the ,Board of Works ; and if so, whether there was any objec tion to lay such correspondence before the house ? Mr, FITZROY said the reason was that the minute hands and the counterpoises for the clock were found to be so heavy that it was impossible to work the clock. (A laugh.) The truth was there was a divided jurisdiction between the architect of the palace and the maker of the clock. It was originally proposed that the minute hands should weigh 2 cwt., but, having been cast in gu n metal, the wei g ht of them had been increased to 3 cwt„ with something more than 4 cwt. of counterpoise within the clock room, so that the total weight amounted to no less than 7 cwt., in stead of 2 cwt. as originally proposed. Directions had been given to Air, Dent, the maker of the clock, to construct new hands of the proper weight. A correspondence had passed between the Department of Works and the architect of the palace, but it would not throw much more light on the subject. THE SUBMARINE TELEGRAPH BETWEEN ENGLAND AND FRANCE. Sir S. N oRTHeOTE asked the Secretary to the Treasury whether the Submarine Telegraph Company had been per mitted by her Majesty's Government to lay down any addi tional wires between England and France; • and whether the permission had been given to them without requiring a surrender or modification of the monopoly which had recently been granted to that comp an y by th e I rench Government, and which gave them an exclusive right to lay down lines of telegraph between the two countries ; and whether there would be any objection to lay on the table of the house the correspondence relating to the subject. Mr. LAING said the Submarine Telegraph Company had recently obtained from the French Government a con cession to lay down additional wires between England and France. The late Government entertained an objection to the monopoly, and used all their influence to prevent the company laying down the cable. On the present Govern ment coming into office they found a letter from the com pany, stating, among other things, that by their charter they were protected until July, 1862, in the right of laying down the cable between the two countries. The opinion of the law officers of the Crown, to whom the matter had been referred, was decidedly in favour of the view taken by the present Government, and the prohibition of the late Government had been withdrawn. An intimation, how ever, had been given to the company to the effect that, having regard to the objectionable nature of the monopoly, *as soon as the, period during which they were pro tected by their charter expired the Government would feel it their ,duty. to exercise the rights of the. Crown in the matter in such a manner as the public interests might seem to require. THE INCOME-TAX. Mr. BUTLER asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether it was the intention of her Majesty's Government to introduce any measure during the present session by which the mode of assessment and collection of the income tax by local unpaid commissioners would be altered ; and, if so, in what manner it would be proposed to make such assessment and collection. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER—There neither is nor has been such an intention. NAVAL PENSIONERS. Sir G. B. PECHELL asked the Secretary to the Admi ralty if it was intended to enforce the re-entry into the ser vice of all naval pensioners, or whether special cases would be considered of persons in receipt of very small pensions, or whom under certain circumstances it might be expedient to relieve from such compulsory service. Lord C. PAGET said that about 600 pensioners were called out, and that there were about a dozen who asked for an exemption. As a general rule, the Admiralty, when a special case for exemptiqn was made out, were always disposed to take a favourable view of the application. At the present moment there were four or five who had been exempted. THE ARMISTICE IN ITALY. Mr. DISRAELI—The country heard last Friday with gratification that an armistice had been entered into be tween the Allies and the Emperor of Austria. I wish now to inquire of her Majesty's Government whether they have received official information of the event from the Government of France, and whether the armistice is a mere military convention, or whether, on the other hand, the Government can hold out to the house any prospect that negotiations for peace will be prosecuted in consequence. Lord J. RUSSELL—What I stated was that an official intimation of an armistice had been received by - me from the French Ambassador, but that this official information did not go beyond that contained in the lifoniteur. I have nothing farther to say at present, for on the face of the armistice it appears to be only for military purposes. At the same time the house well knows that the armistice which was signed on the Sth inst. will extend to five weeks. I cannot but hope that this duration of five weeks implies that the belligerent Powers will be ready to receive sugges tions, or will of themselves propose some terms, by which hostilities may be put an end to. (Hear, hear.) This is at present, however, mere conjecture, since there is nothing on the face of the armistice which declares that, either on the part of the Emperor of the French or the Emperor of Austria, there is any agreement to enter into any negotia tions for peace. There is a meeting to-day of the two Em perors at Villafranca, and I trust that we shall soon have some intelligence on the subject of their interview. Mr. DISRAELI—I am afraid I have very imperfectly expressed my meaning. What I wanted to know from her Majesty's Government was whether any further informa tion except the formal communication of the armistice which the noble lord announced on Friday has been offici ally communicated by the Government of France. Lord J. RUSSELL—I have no further official informa tion, except a telegram from her Majesty's ambassador al Paris. CONTRACTS COMMITTEE. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER gave no tice that he should Postpone until to-morrow (this day) the nomination of this committee, when he should propose that it consist of 19 members. SUPPLY.—REPORT. The report of the votes agreed to on Friday night was brought in and received. ENTRANCE TO ST. JAMES'S PARK On the motion for going into committee of supply, Mr. KINNAI RD called the attention of the house to the advisability of tt.king advantage of the present opportunity of Berkeley-house having been pulled down to secure a road for the passage of carriages and horses from Charing cross through Spring-gardens into St. James's-park. The house would recollect that a great effort was made to open a communication between Belgrave-square and St. James's, and the utmost difficulties were encountered. A committee of that house had suggested that an ornamental gate should be made near the German chapel ; instead of that the Government, or these who had the authority, had built up two huge ugly walls, as though to disgust the public as much as possible. There had been an undrstand ing that Carlton-house terrace shout 1 be completed ; the only obstacle was the lease of Berkeley-house ; but the owner having great Parliamentary influence, some five or six votes, got his lease renewed, and that opportunity was lost. Now the house was pulled dswn by the Metropolitan Board, and he had hoped that the late Government would have taken care to secure a public carriage road into St. James's-park. That corner of the park, now a perfect disgrace, might be made one of the most ornamental parts of the ground. A. committee of that house had long ago recommended an open ing to the park from Trafalgar-square ; and Mr. Pennithorne had made a plan for it so long as 15 years ago. The pro posed opening would be a great advantage to her Majesty herself on her way to the National Gallery, and places east ward of Charing-cross. He hoped to hear from the Clief Commissioner of Works that they were prepared to carry out this improvement. Lord DUNCAN said there was now a great diference be tween the Board of Works and the Board of Woods. (A laugh.) The - former expended money for public improve ments ; the latter was an office of receipt ; last year its receipts were £420,000, and the civil list, as was well known, was only £350,000. He denied that the property referred to was the property of the country ; it had belonged to the Crown from before the Norman Conquest. (Hear, hear.) If any Crown property was taken for improvements it must be paid for, and the Crown ought also to receive compen sation, the same as a private proprietor. The metropolis was the wealthiest community in the world, and could well afford to pay for improvements. Let the Metropolitan Board apply their money to constructing this passage,' instead of spending £50,000 over Berkeley-house. He believed that for £4,000 they might render the building in Greek-street perfectly fit for their purpose. Lord J. MANNERS said ho a g reed in almost everything that had fallen from the noble lord. Mr. TITE said he did not mean to be the apologist of the Metropolitan Board of Works, but he thought they made a wise and prudent bargain on the part of the public in making this purchase. Berkeley-house was now being pulled down, and when it was rebuilt it would give a light airy foot pass age into the park of 21ft. wide and 100 ft. long. What his hon. friend wanted was that there should be a carriage way as well as a foot passage into the park. He thought that would be a great convenience , particularly as a large terminus was about to come into the neighbourhood. No great expense would be necessary, particularly as the land belonged to the Crown, and they would have to pay for one house only, the lease of which would soon expire. The Board of Works were at present making enormous improvements in the metro polis. They were making a street from *he borough through Stamford-street, which would cost £190,000 ; another to Covent-garden, which would cost £70,000 ; and others in the east end of the metropolis, which would cost £120,000. All this expenditure would fall on the ratepayers, and if the house was of opinion that the expense of this improve ment should also be borne by them, it ought to be tho roughly understood that the roadway was to be 45 feet wide. Mr. Frrz ROY said that the question raised by the hon. gentleman resolved itself into one of finance. The hon. gen tleman said that this would be a great public improvement, and that it could be effected at a small cost. He was at issue with him on both points. There was now a new opening at Marlborough-house, and this road, together with the Bird cage-walk road, would make the proposed carriage way a mere infinitesimal gain to an infinitesimal number of the population, whilst it would interfere with that solitary nook where so many children were in the habit of enjoying themselves in peace and quiet. (Hear.) If the road • way was to be made, as it should be they must take half the garden on. which Sir J. S. Lefevre's house stood and three houses. He understood that the cost would be £53,000, and the question was whether the house was prepared to throw so great a burden on the country. He was of opinion they ought not to lay out any of the public money on metropolitan improvements, except where the health and comfort of the people were concerned. He was not inclined to take any stops in the matter now, but should make further inquiry as to the expense, which, however, he did not think would be much reduced below the amount he had mentioned. THE SAILORS' BOUNTY. Sir J. PAIZINGTON said that before the house went into committee, he wishM to put a question to his noble friend with regard to the announcement he made respect ing the retrospective extension of the bounty to seamen in her Majesty's navy. He heard the announcement with surprise on Friday night, and subsequent reflection had not at all diminished the doubt and, he would add, the disap pointment with which he heard that announcment. His noble friend had not given the reasons which induced the Government to make this change. He was the more sur prised at this, as on the very Friday the noble had given this advice, the Queen issued au order in council to carry out the change, so that they must have known the reasons which induced them to make it. The SPEAKER said that the house always allowed con siderable indulgence to speakers on the question of the Speaker leaving the chair ; but he thought the right hon. gentleman was passing beyond the line in replying in the house to a debate which took place in committee. Sir J. PAKINGTON said he should bow to any rule which the Speaker laid down ; and he should sit down by asking his noble friend what he thought would be the finan cial result of the change. • Lord C. PAGET said the best proof he could give to the house that he did explain to some extent the reasons which induced the Government to extend the bounty was that the right honourable gentleman, in a speech of some length, bad been answering the reasons he had given. (Laughter.) The right hon. gentleman asked why he had not entered into more details. The fact was, he was not in a positionto enter into all the details he could have wished on that occa sion. He was in possession of the decision of the cabinet, but the order in council was not in his hands at the time, and he was anxious not to state anything to the house which could lead to a mistake. (Hear.) He regretted that the right hon. gentleman had not adopted the advice he gave him to postpone his question till he brought in the estimates, which he should do inafew days. At the present time it was impossible far him to state the exact amount, as it would depend on the men accepting this county on certain conditions. Some might accept and some might re fuse it. It was therefore impossible to say at present what the exact amount was. He trusted that he would be ex cused, under these circumstances, from entering further into the matter on that occasion, as the house would have an opportunity of • discussing it when the estimate was before them. (Cheers.) THE ARMY. World DICKSON wished to ask the late Secretary for War, whether he had noticed a letter in the Times of the Bth inst., signed an " Officer Commanding a Regiment," and dated Portsmouth; and whether in the statement which he made of our forces at home on the evening of the sth inst., he included marines ashore, recruits in readiness for India. enrolled pension. rs, and Irish police ? General PEEL thought it was a great misfortune that the time of the house should be occupied in answering questions arisiug out of anonymous publications. For his part, he always treated letters of that sort with the greatest possible coutoupt. (Hear, hear.) He was ghd, however, that the question had been asked, as it was desirable that the country should know the exact state of the army. In answer to the hog. member for Surrey, a few evenings ago, he had stated the disposable force as 110,000 men ; in that he had not included the marines, or the enrolled pensioners although he believed they were fit for much better service than the writer stated, nor had he included the Irish con stabulary, or the recruits for India. He held in his hand the last return 'showing the state of the British army on the Ist of June. It appears the numbers on that day were— Cavalry, 11,698; Foot Guards, 6,184; infantry, 50,032; Horie Artillery, 1,749 ; Foot Artillery, 12,669 ; Royal En gineers, 1,854; Military Train, 1,861; Medical Staff Corps, 375 ;- and embodied militia, 23,218 ; total, 109,640 ; or, ex cluding tb e embodied militia, 86,422. The officer, who stated he commanded a regiment (a fact which he very much doubted) described the artillery as being in a disgraceful state. What was the fact ? The number in this country was 14,500, and besides that, there were 5,000 militia artillery, and he had the authority of the Commander-in-Chief and Adjutant-General for stating that the force was in a state of superior efficiency. In addition to the 184 guns attached to the batteries there wore 110 guns in store fully equipped with their ammunition waggons, so that he was justified in saying that the artillery was in a far more efficient state than it had been for many years past. (Hear.) . THE NAVAL ESTIMATES. Mr. WILLIAMS said that having devoted some time to the consideration of the estimates he was anxious to offer a few observations on them. They were above those of any year of peace for the last 40 years. He would not compare them with those for 1835 or any year about that time. He would take as a comparison those of 1852, the year before we commenced preparations for the Russian war. In 1852 the navy estimates amounted to £5,668,000 ; this year they were £12,862,000, being an increase of £7,200,000. They were told that the increase in the navy estimate was owing to the introduction of a new element into naval warfare by the invention of the screw. (Hear.) That was introduced in 1851; in 1852 we had five screw line-of-battle ships. France had two for that year. The Government of this country and that of France had run a race in building ships. What was the result ? It appeared that this country and France were as regarded line-of-battle ships at the present time on an equality; whilst France, as regarded frigates, had eight more. They were informed by the late First Lord and by the present Se cretary to the Admiralty that next year this country would have 50 line-of-battle ships, and France only 40 ; but as she would have more cased vessels, there would in reality be scarcely any difference. The naval expenditure of France for this year was only £4,920,000; that of this country was £13,297,000. Last year the expenditure exceeded the amount voted by £BOO,OOO. The bounty of £lO for able seamen had beer now offered for three or four months, but only 1,400 men had joined, although the hon. member for Sunderland had informed them that owing to the depression in the mercantile marine, crowds of these men were wandering about the streets ; why did they not enter the navy ? The cause was to be found in the existence of the degrading system of flogging. By the returns which he had moved for, he found that on board one ship, the Princess Royal, no less than 53 men were flogged last year, receiving 2,141 lashes. In some ships only one man was flogged, and in a few none at all. This difference could not be produced by any difference in the character of the men, it must be owing to the difference in the character of the captains ; some were humane beings, others were heartless tyrants. Such a man as the captain of the Princess Royal would not get his ship manned in a lifetime, if hit character was known; such were not men of first-rate pluck; humanity and courage always went together. From the army returns it appeared that last year 112 men were flogged, receiving 5,200 lashes, but in the navy in 1854 the number was 1,214, receiving 35,800 lashez, ; of these only 196 were in acted by sentence of a court-martial; in 1855 the number of lashes in flicted was 42.000, of which only 406 were by order of court-martial ; in 1856 the number was 44,000, of which only 619 were by sentence of a court ; in 1857, the last year for which there was a return, the number was 3,5,000, of which 334 were ordered by courts-martial. He was convinced this was the great impediment to the entry of men ; if it were necessary to maintain the system of flogging, let the army rule be introduced that the punish ment can only bo inflicted by the sentence of a court-mar tial. (Hear.) It was stated that the crew of the American frigate Constitution, which took the Java, the first capture made in the war of 1814, was entirely composed of men who had been in the British navy, and every one of whom had been flogged. He had seen Commodore Stewart, the com mander .of the Constitution, at Philadelphia, and he told him that to get men for the navy of this country it would be absolutely necessary to alter the system of punishment. He was anxious to see the navy in such a state as would remove the apprehension of even the most nervous person in this country—(hear)—and therefore would not oppose any of the proposed votes. (Hear, hear.) THE BOUNTY TO SEAMEN Sir C. NAPIER said he had read with great satisfac tion the speeches of Lords Lyndhurst, Hardwicke, and Elienborough in another place, and he could wish that more speeches of the same kind were delivered in the House of Commons. They all knew what extraordinary victories had been gained Iby the Emperor of France ; and they also knew that his army arrived in Italy chiefly by sea, with such celerity that the Emperor of Aus tria could not collect troops as fast in his own territory. An armistice had been signed, but he didnot think it would be advantageous to this country for peace to be esta blished between Austria and France. It would release the troops of France from their present employment, and, con sidering the feelings of the French people towards this country, it was impossible to say what might take place hereafter amidst all the joy of victory. He did not want to say a single word which might tend to foster bad feelings between France and this country ; but he had a duty to perform which was paramount. He knew very well that British sailors would fight to the last for their liberties. (Hear.) He had no doubt whatever that if British ships were well manned—if the men were well disciplined and properly drilled, the ships would be like those of former days ; but that required time, and he had seen with grief that sailors had not come forward in sufficient numbers to enable the British navy to defy the whole world. The Sec retary of the Admiralty had told them what was the force of their own fleet, but he wanted hint to tell them distinctly what was the force of the French and of the Russian fleet ready for service. It was no use concealing the truth ; if there was danger the country ought to be made aware of it. He did hope that the nation would never again insist on a reduction of the fleet, but always have it kept up to a suffi cient point for defence, whether the country was at peace or at war. (Hear.) As regarded flogging in the army, he had deeply regretted to find from the.returns read by the hon. member for Lambeth, that so much flogging had lately taken place. There was nothing like it when he com manded in the Baltic, and he had no idea that flogging had been carried on to so great an extent. He did no believe cor poreal punishment could be entirely done away with in the navy ; but he thought a great change should tal=e place in the form of proceeding. He was in favour of introducing courts-martial in the navy, and he believed that such an alteration, instead of weakening discipline would strengthen it. (Hear, hear.) Mr. LINDSAY was sorry that the hon. and gallant ad miral should have made a speech whieh was so calculated to alarm the country. He could not see what advantage the Emperor Napoleon could gain by invading this country. As regarded the bounty, while he considered the giving of a bounty of £lO in time of peace a grave error, he thought it was no less grave an error to give half the amount to the men already in the navy, who would not, he feared, be satisfied without the full amount. In reply to a question from Mr. LYGON, Lord PAL3IEttsToN said the Government would pro pose to go iota Committee of Supply on Thursday. The house then went into committee of supply. On the vote of £3,000 for additional expenses for clerks in the Admiralty, Lord C. PAGET was proceeding to make some remarks in reply on the subject of the bounty, when Sir J. PAKINGTON rose to order, observing that he had himself been called to order by the Speaker for being irregular, and that the noble lord was still more so in speak ing in reference to the bounty when the vote before the committee had reference to the clerks. Sir C. NAPIER said a far less number of clerks would suffice if so many unneccessary letters were not written. His appointment to the command of the Baltic fleet was announced to him in eight or ten letters. Sir J. PAKINGNON defended the vote. Mr. LINDSAY thought that instead of an increase there ought to be a reduction of the number of clerks. There were no less than 440 clerks and messengers. It would be well to get rid of inefficient clerks and pay the heads of de partments better. The vote was then agreed to. On the vote of XlOO,OOO for volunteer seamen, • Mr. LINDSAY wished to know when the promised bill for providing for manning the navy would be brought in. When it was introduced he should wish to discuss the whole question. Lord C. PAGET could not at that moment answer the question. The matter was of such great importance that, although it was now under discussion, at the Admiralty, sonic time must elapse before the measure could be brought before the house. Sir J. PAKINGTON said that the bounty to new sea men had been already voted by the house on Friday last. It was a portion of the vote of £38,000 then taken. Mr. HENLEY thought that bounty might have a mate rial operation on the navy, either for good or evil, and he therefore considered that when the bill to which reference had been made was brought in the whole question should be considered. The vote was agreed to. THE WAR MONEY. £-11,3.58, salaries of officers & c., navy.—Agreed to. £103,089, salaries and contingencies at home.—Agreed to. £ 9 0,083, naval establishments abroad.—Agreed to. £1,077,782, artificers, labourers, &c., in the various dock • yards at home. In answer to a question from M r. LINDSAY, Lord C. PAGET was understood to say that the report of the dockyard commission would shortly be presented to the house. Sir J. PAKINGTON said that this was a vote which the present Government had increased. The late Government had engaged 1,300 extra shipwrights, taking them on for six months, which they thoughtwould be quite sufficient to set up all the repairs, and to convert the sailing ships. The Government had acted on the advice of the Surveyor of the Navy, and he trusted that the present Government had also consulted that officer as a preliminary to asking an addition of £lOO,OOO to the vote. Lord C. PAGET thought that there must have been a misunderstanding between the right hon. baronet and the Survey - or of the Navy on the subject. He (Lord C. Paget) had consulted that gentleman, and his explanation was that in the beginning of May he was asked what number of men should be taken on to accomplish certain works. The sur veyor never contemplated that they would be taken off at the end of six months, and he recommended that they should be kept on for the whole of the financial year. The vote was agreed to. • £39,330, wages to artificers, &c., in establishments abroad, was also agreed to. £2,117,13 1 for naval stores, building and repair of ships, and steam machinery. Mr. LINDSAY had heard that the supply of anchors to the navy was, and had been since 1841, confined to one per son, and that while the market price as charged by the most eminent makers was £5O 10s. a ton for 50 cwt. anchors and £3O a ton for 5 ton anchors the Admiralty were paying £73 and £l4 10s. a ton respectively. He also wished to know why the report of the committee which sat seven years ago to inquire into the best, description of anchors for the use of the navy, and which declared that the anchor now in use, and' for which the Admiralty were paying so much, was the worst that could be adopted, had not been acted upon. Ile had a communication from the patentees of Trot man's patent anchor, offering to test one of his 50 cwt. an chors, the cost of which was £9O, against any 5 ton anchors in any of the dockyards, the cost of which was £365. Again, he believed that the manufacture of steam engines for the navy Wag confined to two or three firms, who were charg ing to the Admiralty considerably more for horse power than other eminent firms were willing to supply them for. Mr. ItIDLEY inquired whetaer the investigation com menced some time ago as to the relative value of north country and Welsh coals for the use of the navy had been mutilated ? The question of smoke-consuming furnaces j was now no longer a difficulty, consequently smoke emitting coals might be used if in other respects found to be equally applicable. He believed there was one steam-vessel now being built without any funnel at all. Lord LOVAINE urged that attention should be paid to ' this subject, being as he thought of most vital importance. He thought some change should be made in the manner of coaling her Majesty's steam-vessels. Mr. B.SNTINCK said that the question raised with re gard to anchors was one of great importance. It was not a question of one person's anchor over another's ; but as re garded the best description being obtained for the navy. A' committee had reported in 1852 in favour of six different kinds of anchors, all superior to those used by the Admiralty 4—why had no notice been taken of the report of that commit tee ? why had it not been acted on ? There was a person who offered to produpe anchors of half the weight and half the price of those used by the Admiralty; why had he not been allowed a trial in order to prove whether his assertions were correct or not ° Still he thought it was not right to press the noble lord on a point which concerned all the Boards of Admiralty for the last seven years. He would invite the right hon. gentlemen the members for Droitwich, Carlisle, Halifax, and Portsmouth, who had held office in that time, to give a distinct answer to the question why the report of the committee had been disregarded, and why Mr. Trotman's anchors had not been at least tried in the navy. Sir J. PAKINGTON admitted that it was not fair to require an answer from the present Secretary of the Admi ralty on matters which had been going on for seven years. He (Sir J. Pakington) could only answer as far as his own term of office. He was informed that the opinion of experienced naval officers was opposed to the report of the committee on anchors. It was said that Trotman's anchor, when it held, was admirable, but you could not rely on its biting, and so the valuable and critical quality of an anchor was wanting. As to giving Mr. Trotman a further trial, one of his first act at the Admiralty was to offer Mr. Trotman a further trial. As to the gunboats, complaint had been made of the supplemental estimate of £1,800,000. It had two parts ; one related to the increase in the number of men, and the other related to the building of 18 gun-vessels, of a large and powerful description, and which differed from other gun-boats, inasmuch as they were of sufficient size to enable them to carry their guns all over the world, as well as on the coast. Lord C. PAGET said the question of anchors was a very difficult one. He professed to be a naval reformer, and was all for reform where there was a question about efficiency. But if there was anything on which they should not be par ticular it was the cost of anchors. It was a curious thing that among professional men, if there was one thing which they differed about it was an anchor ; and if they saw five or six line-of-battleships together they would almost all be sure to have different anchors. He admittedthat many approved of Trotman's anchor. He could not say that he did, but still he thought Mr. Trotman should have fair play. With re gard to the question as to coals, an important inquiry and experiments were going on at Woolwich. The cost was not the only point to be considered, but the effect of different kinds of coal on the funnel, and the experiments were di rected to that point, as •to 'burning the smoke, and as to super-heating the steam. With regard to the cost of machi nery, he might mention that a committee had sat upon en gines and boilers—(a laugh)—and the committee reported that they had no reason to believe that Government paid a higher price for engines and boilers than private parties. The vote was agreed to. £467,420, new works, improvements, &c., at various na val stations was agreed to. The following votes were also agreed to : £45,000 for medicines, medical stores, &c. • £52,221 for divers miscellaneous services. £368,311 for half-pay and retirements to officers of the navy and Royal Marines. Upon this vote, • Mr. LINDSAY moved that the chairman should report progress. Sir J. PAKINGTON said that this vote involved seve ral most important questions. After a conversation between Sir C. NAPIER and Sir J. PAKINGTON as to a supposed plan of retirement, in which the latter accused the former of divulging confidential com munications, The motion for reporting progress was agreed to, and the house resumed. POOR - LAW BOARDS (PAYMENT OF DEBTS) BILL. Mr. GILPIN moved the second reading of this bill. Mr. WALTER moved that the bill be read a second time that day three months. Mr. ESTCOURT said that equity and justice required that the house should pass this bill. Mr. HENLEY moved the adjournment of the debate, remarking that this was a question which required full discussion. Mr. AYRTON supported the amendment. Sir G. C. LEWIS did not oppose the adjournment, though having made such progress with the debate on the second reading it might have been more convenient to con clude it now, and discuss the clauses in committee. , The house then divided : For the adjournment Against it /t 64-20 Mr. HENLEY wouldt.not again move the adjournment if the right hon. gentleman would undertake to bring on the discussion on going into committee at a reasonable hour. Sir G. C. LEWIS would do his best, but he must re 'mind the house that as every Government 'light would be devoted to supply, he would have some difficulty unless a morning sitting were appointed. The house then divided on the bill— For the second reading .. 6O Against it. 43 Majority —l7 COURT OF PROBATE, &c., (ACQUISITION OF This bill was read a third'iime and passed. CLERK OF THE COUCIL BILL. The bill was read a third time and passed. CONSTABULARY FORCE (IRELAND) BILL. This bill was read a second time: LAW OF PROPERTY AND TRUSTEES' RELIEF AMENDMENT BILL. The house went into committee on this bill ; clauses and 2 were agreed to, and the house resumed;._ WESTMINSTER NEW BRIDGE. Mr. FITZROY obtained leave to bring in a bill to em power the Commissioners of her Majesty's Worksand Pub lic Buildings to acquire additional space for the western approach to Westminster New Bridge. PAWNBROKERS' ACT. On the motion of Mr. H. B. SHERIDAN, the house went into committee on the act passed in the 39th and 40th years of the reign of King George 111., intituled " An Act for better regulating the business of awnbrokers." A resolution on which to frame a bill to amend the act was agreed to. The house then adjourned. PARLIAME.NT'ARY DIVISIOA. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—JULY 11. RED SEA AND INDIA TELEGRAPH (No. 2) BILL. Order for further consideration of Lords amendments read; Motion made, and Question put, " That the further con sideration of the said Amendments be further adjourned till Monday 25th July."—The House divided; Ayes 130, Noes 177. AYES-130. Acton, Sir J. Fortescue, Hon. D. Ogilvy, Sir J. Agnew, Sir A. Fortescue, C. S. Paget, C. Andover, Lord Freeland, H. W. Paget, Lord C. E. Bagwell, J. Gavin, Major " Palmerston, Visa. Baillie, H. J. Gilpin, C. Peacock, G. M. Baines, E. Gladstone, W. E. Pechell, Sir G. Baring, Sir F. Greenwood, J. Peel, Sir R. Baxter, W. E. Grey . , Rt. Hn. Sir G. Peel, F. Bazley, Thomas Gurdon, B. Perry, Sir Thos. E. Beamish, F. B. Gurney, Samuel Peto, Sir M. Beaumont, W. B. Hadfield, Geo. Pilkington, James Bonham-Carter, J. Hanmer, SirJ. Pinney, Wm. _ . Bouverie, P. P. Hodg,kinson, G. Pryse , C a p t. E. L Brand, H. B. Howard, Hon. C. Ramsden, Sir J. W, Bright, J. Hutt, W. Rich, H. Briscoe, J. I. Ingham, R. Ridle y , G. Bristow, A. Kershaw, J. Russell, Hastings Buckley, Maj.-Gen. Kingscote, Lt.-Col. Russell, F. W. Butler, C. S. Labouchere, H. St. Aubyn, J. Cardwell, Rt. Hn. E. Laing , S. Schenley, II Clinton, Lord R. Langston, J. H. Scott, Sir W. Coningham, Wm. Langton , 11. G. Seymour, H. D. Crossley, Frank Lanigan , .T. Smith, J. B. Dalg,lish, Robert Lawson, W. Smith, A. Davey; IL. Lee, W. Smith, Abel • Davie, Sir H. It. F. Lindsay, W. S. Staniland, M. Stansfeld. J. Dillwyn, Lewis L. Douglas, Sir C. I L " ow k e e ,'lt j i. Hon. R. Sykes, Col. W. H. Duff, M. E. Lyon s, Dr . Tite , Wm. Duff, Major. Lysley, W. Turner, J. A. Dunbar, Sir Wm. Mackie, J. Walter, John Duncan, Viscount. Mackinnon, W. A. Western, T. S. • D un combe, T. S. Maguire, .J. F. Whitbread, S. Dundas,, F re derick Martin, P. W. Whit e , C o l. H. Dunlop, A. M. Massey, W. N. White, Luke Ellice, Rt. Hon. E. Merry, James Willcox, B. M. Ellice, E., jun. Mildmay, H. Williams, W. Ennis, John Mills, T. Winnington, Sir T. Esmonde, John Moncreiff, J. Woods, henry . Fenwick, Henry Monsell, Rt. Hn. W. Wrightson, W. B. Ferguson, Sir R. A. MOrris, D. Fermoyi Lord Mostyn, Hon. T. E. TELLERS. Finlay, A. S. Murray, William Fitzgerald, J. D. North, F. Graham, Sir J. R.G. Foley, J. H. O'Connell, D. Willoughby, Sir H. NOES-177. Adderley, C. B. Galway, Visco u nt Naas, Rt. Hn. Lord Bailey, C. Gard, R. S. Napier, Sir C. Baring, H. B. Garnett, W. J. Newark, Lord Barrow, W. H. Gaskell, J. M. Nicol, William Bathurst, A. A. Gladstone, Capt. Noel, G. J. Beecroft, G. S. Gore, J. R. O. Northcote, Sir S. H. Bernard, Thos. T. Graham, Lord Wm. O'Ferrall, M. Black, Adam Greenall, G. Packe, C. W. Blackburn, P. Gregory, W. IL Pakington, Sir J. S. Bond, J. W. Gray, William Paull, H. Booth, Sir R. G. Grey, .Ralph W. Peel, Gen. Bouverie, E. P. Griffith, C. D. Pennant, Col. Brady, John Haliburton, Justice Potts, George Bramston, T. W. Hankey, Thomson Price, W. P' Bridges, Sir 8., Bt. Hardy, Gathorne Quinn, Peter Browne, Lord J. T. Hassard, M. D. Repton, G. W. J. Bruce, C. L. C. Headlam, Thos. E. Ridley, Sir M. W. Bruce, H. A. Henley, J. Roebuck, J. A. Buchanan, W. Henley, Lord Rogers, John J. Burrell, Sir C., Bt. Hennessy, J. P. Salomons,Alderman Caird, James Herbert, H. A. Schneiderr, H. W. Calthorpe, F. H. Herbert, Col. P. E. Selwyn, C. J. Cartwright, Col. H. He gate, Sir F. Seymer, IL K. Cave S. Hill, Hon. R. Sheridan, H. B. Cavendish, Hon. G. Hoare, Josehp Smith. Sir F. Cayley, E. S. Hood, Sir A. Smollett, A. Cecil, Lord R. Hopwood, J. T. Somerset„Col. E. Clay, James Horsfall, T. B. So merville, Si r W. Clive, George Spooner, It. Coke, W. C. .Humberstone, P. S. Hume, W. Stanhope, J. B. Colebrooke, Sir T.E. Hunt, G. W. Stanley, Lord Collins, T., jun. Jervis, Captain Stirling, Win Win. Conolly, Thomas .Kekewich , S. Steuart, A. Corry, H. T. *King, J. X. Stuart. Major Crawford, It. W. liinglake , A . W. Shirt, 11. G. Cross, R. A. Kuatchbull, W. Stracey, Sir H. Curzon, Viscount Leatham, W. Talbot, Hon. W. C. Dalkeith, Earl of Lefroy, A. Taylor, Colonel Dawson, R. P. Legh, G. C. Taylor, Hugh Denison, W. H. F. Legh, W. Thynne, Lord H. Leslie, C. P. Tollemache, J. H. Denman, G. Dickson, Col. Liddell, Hon. H. G, Trollope, Sir John Disraeli. Benjamin Lindsay, Colonel Upton, General Dodson, John G. Longfield, Robert Valetort, Lord Du Cane, Chas. Lyall, G. Vance, John Dunkcllin Lord Lygon, Hon. F. Vandeleur, Col. Dunne, Col. Manners, Ld J. J.R. Vansittart, Wm. Du Pre, C. G. March, Earl of Vernon, L. V. Edwards, Major H. Marsh, M. H. Walcott, Adm. J. E. Egerton, A. F. Matheson, A. Walmle, S. IL Egerton, E. C. Matheson, Sir J. Watlington, J. W. Elphinstone, Sir J. Mitchell, T. A. Way, Arthur E. Estcourt, S. Miles, Sir W. Whiteside, Rt Hn J. Evans, Sir De L. Miller, T. Wickham , H. W. Evans, T. W. Monk, C. J. Woodd, B. T. Ewart, William Montague, Lord Wynne, C. G. Ewart, J. C. Montgomery, Sir G. Wyvill, M. Ewing, H. E. C. Morgan, Major TELLERS. Farquhar, Sir M. Mowbray, Itt. Hn. J. Gregson, S. Forester, Col. G. C. Mure, David Kinnaird, Hon. A. „ Port p PORT OF LLANELLY.—The trace or the of Llanelly is exceedingly brisk, and its prospects are far better than of late. Large sipments of coal, chiefly for France, for Government purposes, are daily made; while extensive orders aro still on hand. A great impetus ap pears to have been given to the coal trade of the port by the war. [AnvEßirrsumENT.] —Holloway's Ointment and Pills.— Sleep—ln health or disease, nothing contributes so much to our well-being as sound refreshing sleep ; no person long remains well who is sleepless, or whose nights are passed in feverish dreams, which generally arise from a disordered state of the digestion. II olloway's Ointment and Pills speedily improve the action of the liver and stomach, in crease the gastric juice, and regulate the flow of bile. This happy state secures the soundest sleep, from which all awaken nourished and refreshed, and fitted for the perfo ance of their duties. The harmless, yet powerful assn of. injuryoway's remedies strongly recommends them, j can result ; and their efficiency in correcting and pur ifying every organ is admitted in every country. COUNTRY MARKRT3. NORWICH-JULY 9. The eastern counties' markets have continued quiet during the past week. The show of wheat to-day was short, and prices receded 2s per qr. In other grain there was scarcely anything doing. White wheat 46s to 48s I Red wheat 41s to 43s Flog; 30s Od to —s per sack from the miller. STAMFORD-JULY 9. There was a fair supply of wheat yesterday, with an in active trade, at is to 2s per qr. lower. The trade in oats was dull. No barley offering. Beans in small supply, and prices fully as high. Wheat 46 to 48s I Oats.. 2Bs to 32, White d 0.... .....50s to 52s Beans 4Bs to 52s Barley .. ..—s to —s I Ditto, old ........—s to DERBY-JULY 9. \Vheat realised is to 26 per qr. less money than last week tut the demand was inactive. Barley quiet. Oats and beans are inquired after at late rates. From nearly all dis tricts reports are favourable respecting the appearance of the wheat crop. Barley is looking well. White wheat, new, 48s tb 52s Red do. 46s to 50s Old white 4BB to 52s Red do. 460 to 50s Barley, malting.— 38s to 43s Barley, grinding 28s to 304 Oats, old, 2Bs to 32 . s New do 9 7s to 334 Beans. 50s to 54 Beans, new —s to —s COLCHE ST' 8,-JULY 9. Wheat, white . 46s to 50s Beans, Mazagan..3Bs to 40 z I red 44s to 48s Middle & small 42s to 44 , Barley 2Bs to 36s I White peas 42s to 44s Oats 24s to 32s Grey:. 42s to 44e ,D-Jv L r E. idly bringing on the harvest. r qr. Barley maintained its Peas Partridge —44 s to 463 White 43s to 45s Boiling 44s to 463 Dun 41s to 438 Beans, Tick 403 to 42s Harrow Ticks 41s to 45s Mazagan 403 to 443 CIIELMSFO The fine hot weather is rapi Wheat to-day fell is to 2s pe price. A dull market. Wheat, Ni re l d ite. 39sttoo Barley 32s to 40s Chevalier 34s to 41s Grinding 26s to 34s Malt 63s to 68a Chevalier 63s to 69s Oats 25s to 34s KIRKALDY-JULT 9. We had fair supplies to-day of wheat and oats, but ra ther small of barley. Sales dull. Wheat 2s per qr. lower than the prices of last week; oats and barley were about late rates. Wheat (N). Barley (N). Oats (N). First.... 42s Od 30s 6d 22s Od Second.. 60s Od 32s Od 26s Od Third .. 51s Od —s Od 28s Od Wheat (0). Barley (0). I Oats (0). First.... —s Od Od —s Od Second.. —s Od —8 Od Third .. —s Od —8 Od --a Od —a dO COAL MARE (Prices of Coal per Ton at :ET--JULY 11. the close of the market.) Walls End. s. d. Hastings Hartley l6 9 Holywell 16 6 Lambert's West Hart- d. Whitworth 16 0 Hetton.... l7 6 Shincliffe ,.15 3 Heugh Hall 16 0 South Hartlepool. 16 0 South Hetton 17 3 South Kelloe l6 6 Nixon's Duffryn 21 6 Powell' sDuffryn Steam 21 0 Eden Main 15 6 76—Sold, 54. ley ...15 6 Buddle's West Hartleyls 6 Tanfield Moor 13 6 Tanfield Moor Butes 13 6 Wylam Walls End. Kelloe l6 9 Ships at mark) LOCAL SHARE MARKETS. LIVERPOOL-JULY 11. There was little business doing in this market to-day, but the prices closed very firm. Leeds Northern, 461 — North British, 56 I—Great Western of Canada, 151 1— Sheffields, 37/4 -Caledonians, 821 —Lancashire and York shire, 96I—ndon and North-Westerns, 941 B I—Dutch Rhenish, dis.—East Lancashire, 95 951—erwicks, 921—Midlands, .1031—Chester and Holyheads, 49 50— Eastern Counties, 11 I—Grand Trunk of Canada, 81 9 Great Western, 58 I—Blackburns, 111 s—Dovers, 214 Birkenheads, 734 I, MANCHESTER -JULY 11. The prices were good this morning, but with little doing, closing rather flat. Blaekburns, 114—Dovers, 21 11-16 Great Western of Canada, 15 Midlands, 1034 —Eastern Counties, 11 13-16—Sheffields, 37i—Caledonians, 82— Leeds, 961—Preston and Wire, 3. BIRMINGHAM-JULY 11. There was a quiet business doing, and prices closed ra ther firm. Great Western Birmingham Guaranteed stock, 72 74—Midland Stock, 103 I—Birmingham1—Birmingham Canals, 92 93 —General Steam, 241 —Birmingham Bank, 27 }—Stour Valley, 58—Birmingham Gas, 143. PRESERVATION OF LIFE FROM SHIPWRECK.-A meeting of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution was held on Thursday last at its house, John-street, Adelphi ; Mr. Thomas Chapman, F.R.S., in the chair. Among other gentlemen present we observed, Admiral Sir Thomas. Herbert, K.C.8., Admiral M'Hardy, Sir Edward Perrott, Mr. Montague Gore, &c. Mr. Lewis, the secretary, having read the minutes of the previous meeting, a reward of money was voted to a boat's crew for their laubable conduct in putting off and rescuing three men and one woman,. whose boat had been capsized during a heavy squall of wind off Castletownsend, on the coast of Cork. Several other re wards were afterwards voted for meritorious services in sav ing life from various wrecks on the coast. It was reported that during the past month the institution had sent anew lifeboat and transporting carriage to Ayr, Scotland. Life boats are still much wanted at the following, places on the coast of that country :—Elie Donmouth, Newburgh, Banff, Sylester, Dunbrath, Ronaldsha, Caithness, Scrabsfer, Thurso, Oban, Eskdale, -Campbeltown, Dromore-Troon, Tumberry, and Ullapool. The institution voted its thanks to Commodore Eden, R.N., C. 8., Lord Commisioner of the Admiralty, and lite Controller-General of her Majesty's Coastguard, in acknowledgment of the valuable services he had rendered in his official capacity to the lifeboat cause. Principally under his vigilant supervision the Coastguard had been thoroughly reorganised, and was now one of the most effective naval reserved forces of the country. The officers and men of this useful corps have always dis tinguished themselves for their intrepidity in saving life from shipwreck, and for their hearty co-operation in carry ing out the useful and important objects of the Lifeboat Society on the coast. 'The institution decided to forward a new lifeboat and transporting carriage to Whitburn, on the coast of Durham, and to order the boat to be called the "Thomas Wilson," in memory of one of the benevolent founders of the society. Mr. Wilson was a native of the county of Durham, and was formerly the representative in Parliament of the.eity of London. Lifeboats were likewise ordered to be built ,for Fowey and the Lizard, on She Cornish coast. The cost of the latter boat the Hon. Mrs. Agar and Mr. Agar Robartes, M.P., had munificently offered to defray. . The quarterly reports of the numerous lifeboats of the institution were said to speak very favour ably of their efficiency. The society has now 82 life boat establishments under its management, each of which requires about £3O a year to keep it in a state of thorough effieiency. Payments amounting to £946 were ordered to be made for various lifeboats, transporting car riages, boat-houses, &c, To meet the large and increasing demands on the'lirnited funds of the society, the committee earnestly appealed to. the benevolent fox support to enable them to prosecute with undiminished vigour their impor tant labours. A legacy amounting to £lOO hail been left to the institution by the late Mr. Biggs, of the Strand, and Mr. F. Magenis had presented to it an additional sum of £lOO. The proceedings terminated with a vote of condo lence to the family of the late General Blanshard, who Tree a member of the committee. 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The 101 b. and 121 b. tin s carr i age f ree, on receipt of post office order. Du Barry and Co., 77, Regent-street, Loniion. Fortnum, Mason, and Co., 182, Piccadilly; Abbis, 60, Gracechurch-street ; 4, Cheapside ; 63, and 150, Oxford street ; 330 and 451, Strand • 49 and 60, Bishopsgate street ; 85, Tottenham-court-road. Also at Dublin, Bewley and Draper ; at Edinburgh, Raimes and Co. ; at Liverpool, Nixon and Thew ; at Manchester, Sharp and Scott ; at York, Raimes, Blanchard, and Co. ;tat South ampton, Randall and Son. BIRTHS. BAKER.—On the 9th inst., at 45, Lansdown-place, Hove, Brighton, the wife of the Rev. Thomas Baker, of a daughter. HEBBERN.—On the Bth inst., at Southbridge, Tunbridge' wells, the wife of Lieut.-Colonel Hebbert, of a son. L EGI L—On the 9th inst., at Tunbridge-wells, the wife of j. Pennington Legh, Esq., of Norbnry Booths Halt Cheshire, of a son and heir. LOWTHER.—On the 11th inst., at 21, Wilton. crescent, the wife of Henry Lowther, Esq., M.P., of a son. MARRIAGES. SATCHELL—WALSII.—On the 9th inst., at St. Pancras Church, Edward Satchell, E sq ., of Sydenham, Kent, to Eliza, youngest daughter of Captain John Walsh, of St. Omer, France. WINSTANLEY — WOODWARD._ On the 9th inst. at St. Mary's, Walthamstow, Decimus, son of the l a t e 'J o hn S. IVinstanley, Esq. ' to Emma aria, eldest d aug ht e r of Wm. Woodward, Esq., of Eariscolne, Essex. DgATHS. BARRY.—On the Bth hist, at Brockley Rectory, Somerset, Bartholomew Barry, Esq., aged 92. BRINE.—On the 9th inst., at Sidmouth, Devon, J. Brinot. Esq., aged 75. FRERE.—On the 7th inst., at Roydon Rectory, Norfolk, the Rev. Temple Frere, canon of Westminster and rector of Roydon, aged 78. FRESRIVA.TER.—On the 6th inst., at Welwyn, Harts, gr. W. Freshwater, aged 53. HENDRRSON.—On the 7th inst., at Merchiston Park, Edin burgh, Commander James Henderson Royal Navy , aged 65. , PARRY.—On the 4th inst., at Campden-hill, the-infant sou of Mr. Sergeant Parry. WINTERROTTA.M.—On the Bth inst., at Westoe, county of. Durham, T. M. Winterbottam, Esq., M.D., aged 94. LONDON : hinted and Published by MURDO youNO 9 of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Suc Office, No. 112, Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the county e i Middlesex, Tuesday, July 12, 1859. L THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, JULY 12, 1859,