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1 7 .AiPERIAL PARLIAMENT. for Foreign Affairs whether it was the intention of the Go vernment to comply with the recommendation of the diplo matic committee of last session ? HOUSE OF LORDS —YESTERDAY. The LORD CHANCELLOR. took his seat on the woolsack at 5 o'clock. THEATRES IN P ONASSION d 'WEEK. from Vi scoun t DUNGANN presente a petition Holloway against the opening of the theatres in Passion Weak. Mr. L AYARD said that the report of the committee had been taken into consideration, but there had b.:( n no report advising the adoption of the recommendations alluded to. MAILS BETWEEN GALWAY AND AMERICA. Mr. H. BERKELEY asked the Chancellor of the Ex chequer whether his attention had been directed to the last annual report of the Postmaster-General, whereby it would appear the loss to the country in the conveyance of mails between Galway and America under the late contract amounted to Ge. per letter ; and whether, under such cir cumstances, he was prepared to recommend a resumption of the said contract ? The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said ho had seen a report of the Postmaster-General rela tive to this matter. It was not intended by the Government at present to take any steps for such communications the hon. member mentioned. How ever they were fully aware of the necessity of a rapidity of postal communication ith America, and if they adopted any plan on the subject it would be stated to the house on the first opportunity. WITHDRAWAL OF THE AMERICAN SQUA DRON FROM THE COAST OF AFRICA. Mr. WYLD asked the First Lord of the Treasury, if any communication had been made to the Government of the United States upon the withdrawal of the American squadron from the coast of Africa ; if any attempt had been made by the British Government to induce the President of America to prevent the use of the United States flag by foreign slavers on the West Coast of Africa; and, if any request had been made to the President of the United States to permit the British ships of war engaged in the sup pression of the slave trade to ascertain (during the absence of the United States squadron) the nationality of ships which may hoist the flag of the United - States ? Lord PALMERSTON said that there had been a cor respondence on the subject, and it had been stated on the part of the United States Government that, in consequence of the blockade, it had been found necessary to withdraw the squadron from the coast of Africa. However, the President of the United States was anxious to co-operate . with the Government of this country in putting down the African slave trade. He could not see how that co-opera tion could act at present ; but, as a proof of the wish of the President, he adverted to the fast that an American citizen was under sentence of death at New York for having been engaged in the slave trade. (Hear, hear.) With regard to the third question, no promise could be given on the subject. THE EDUCATION CODE. Lord COLVILLE presented a petition against the re- wised code. THE SOUTHERN BLOCKADE. The Earl of CARNARVON said that papers on this subject had circulated amongst their lordships which con tained much valuable information, but they did not men tion whether any communication had taken place between her Majesty's Government and the Government of foreign States. He wished to ask whether any such communication had taken place, and if so, whether there would be any objection to lay these documents, if they existed, on the table, Earl RUSSELL said there had been no formal commu mications with foreign Governments, so he had no official d3cuments to produce. He begged to lay on the table a despatch he had received from Lord Lyons respecting the southern harbours. Earl STANHOPE asked whether the despatch con firmed what he had said the other night respecting the sending a second stone fleet to Charleston harbour. Earl RUSSELL said it did contain mention of the fitting out of a second expedition, but all that was intended to be done had been accomplished, so there would be no further ships despatched for the purpose. THE ITALIAN PROCLAMATION. Earl RUSSELL said he had received an answer to the telegram he had despatched to Sir J. Hudson with respect to the proclamation referred to by the noble earl opposite last evening. The answer he had received was that the proclamation had been issued by the Lieutenant •Greneral in command at Leschera without the authority of his superior officers, and, in the event of its not meeting with their approval, it wculd be immediately suppressed. He was also informed that it had become necessary to take some severe steps to put down brigandage, but no unnecessary measures would be adopted. - Earl DERBY said the answer of the noble earl was very satisfactory. It proved that the document he had referred to had had an existence (hear, hear), and such being the fact he was fully justified in bringing it under the notice of the house. The subject then dropped. GARDENS IN TOWNS PROTECTION BILL. THE EMIGRATION DEPARTMENT. In reply to Mr. CHILDERS, Mr. C. FORTESCUE said that this subject was under consideration, but it had not been deemed advisable to make any alteration at present. THE REVISED CODE, Mr. DISRAELI complained that there was ambiguity in explanation given by Government on this subject last evening, and he called on the noble lord the First Lord of the Treasury to give an explicit statement as to the course that would be pursued by Government in reference to the resolutions cf his right hon. friend (Mr. Walpole). Lord PALMERSTON denied that there was any ambiguity in the answer given by his right hon. friend last night. He had no difficulty in stating that her Majesty's Government thought the subject of the revised code was of so much interest as to entitle it to the consi deration of a committee of the Howie of Commons. (Hear, hear.) He supposed the resolution of the right hon.mem ber would refer to the minute of the Privy Council, and if he would give sufficient notice of his reso lutions, every facility would be afforded him of obtaining a committee of the house. He might adopt another and a more natural course, and lay his resolutions on the table, and give notice that he would on a subsequent day move that the house resolve itself into a committee. Mr. WALPOLE intimated his willingness to adopt the latter course suggested, Lord PALMERSTON said there could be no objection on the part of Government. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION WITH AMERICA. In reply to Sir IV. GALLWEY, Mr. M. GIBSON said such communication would be desirable, but he was not prepared to enter into the subject at present. SECTARIAN APPOINTMENTS, CIVIL SERVICE, Mr. HENNESSY complained that in the competition to be conducted by the Civil Service Commissioners for sub-inspections connected with the National Board in Ire land were at present restricted to persons of the Roman Catholic religion. Si: R. PEEL explained that it had been found desirable to give all religious denominations an opportunity of com • peting for these offices in their turn. This principle had been found to work well, After some discussion, Mr. HENNESSY withdrew an amendment which he had moved on the subject. THE OFFICERS OF THE INDIAN ARMY. Col. SYKES asked the Secretary of State for India whe ther the right of officers of the native regiments of the Ma dras and Bombay armies to succeed by seniority in their re spective regiments to the command of troops or companies, and to the ultimate command of their respective regiments, was abolished; and whether officers who had elected for local service with their regiments could be sent to general duty, notwithstanding their wish to serve with their own regiments. The hon. and gallant member complained that the effect of the recent practice had been felt to be a great hardship by the officers of those native regiments which had in reality crushed the head of the mutiny before a single regiment arrived from England. He held in his hand a list of cases which filled two entire pages, and from which he would cite one or two examples. Major Sylvan, of the 4th Regiment, had been posted to the 31st, to the prejudice of two captains, one of 25 years' service and the other of 24. Major Fowler, of the Bth Regiment, had been placed in the Ist Cavalry, and had thus superseded all the regimental captains. Major Allen, of the 3d, had been removed to the 12th, and had superseded the regimental major (Halliday) who had served 24 years. In the Bombay army Major Jocelyn, of the staff corps, who had nominally belonged to the Ist Native Regiment, and who was only a captain of 1853, had been removed to the Ist Grenadiers, and had thus displaced two captains of 1842 and 1844. Sir G. BOWYER had received letters from India stating that the greatest possible dissatisfaction prevailed amongst the officers of the late Company's army. Officers who had been allowed to avail themselve , of the retiring allowances had had their names printed in italics; and upon their death no promotion took place; vhereas it had been distinctly provided by act of Parliament that officers of the late Indian army should be placed in exactly the same position not only as regarded pay and allowances, but as regarded Eastsp stipulation lati India on had Com b p e a e n n y. . promotion, as if th e y h a d con ti nue d i n th e serv i ce o f t h e asclepomio archootwen followedver the,thatthat Itwas , if no death of the officers whose names were printed in italics. Sir C. WOOD said the h on . b aronet was entirelymis m. as to the facts of the case. Those officers who retired under ordinary circumstances, and whose names were printed in italics, were removed altogether from the list, and promotions followed in duo course. It was no doubt quite true that that was not the case with regard to the extraor dinary retirements; but the Government considered that they had granted considerable boon to the army, for they had allowed promotions to follow a certain proportion even of the extraordinary retirements—two out of three, or three out of four, he did not recollect which. SYK ES—Every other. Sir C. WOOD —At all events the fact was that no inter ference had taken place with the ordinary retirement, and promotion had been allowed to take place after a certain proportion of the extraordinary. With regard to the ob servations of his hon. and gallant friend (Col. Sykes) he had first to remark that what had been done had no connection whatever with the amalgamation of the Indian with the royal army. It was simply due to the reductions which had taken place, in conformity with the wish of the hon. and gallant gentleman and of the whole house, in the.over grown native army. That reduction had necessarily thrown a number of officers out of employment, and the question which the Government had had to consider was, how they could best be disposed of ? It had been determined to trans fer them to other regiments, and it was obvious that they could only- be fairly treated by allowing them to take rank in the new regiments according to their standing in the ser vice. Lord REDESDALE moved the second reading of this bill, the object of which was to set at rest all questions as to the title of certain open spaces in the metropolis. As a necessity for the bill, the noble lord instanced the state of Leicester-square at the present time, which was a disgrace to the metropolis. If the bill received the assent of Parlia ment these open spaces would be properly attended to, and they would become that which they in fact ought to be, ornaments to the metropolis. Lord ST. LEONARDS objected to certain parts of the bill. The LORD CHANCELLOR also pointed out some difficulties which existed on the subject. Lord REDESDALE said if the bill was read a second time he should have no objection to refer it to a select com mittee. The bill was then read a second time. LAW OF PROPERTY AMENDMENT BILL. The house went into committee on this bill. On clause 1, which proposed that a purchaser or mortgagee should not be bound by implied or constructive notice of a change or any other act affecting the title to the property purchased or taken in mortgage, unless a court should be of opinion that the taking of such purchase or mortgage amounted to fraud, or to such wilful neglect as amounted to fraud. --- Lord CRANWORTH objected to the clause on the ground that it had already been rejected three times by the House of Commons, and also because he did not approve of constructive notice in certain cases. Lord CHELMSFORD also opposed the clause. The LORD CHANCELLOR took a similar view. Lord ST. LEONARDS expressed his surprise at the opposition of his noble friend on the woohack, seeing that his noble and learned friend had assisted him in the prepa ration of the clause. (A laugh.) He (Lord St. Leonards) had, to meet the views of his noble and learned friend, in serteil some words of which he did not altogether approve. The hardships which the present law of notice inflicted upon purchasers and mortgagees were numerous, but if this clause should be assented to a remedy would be provided for the future. It was a subject upon which no doubt opi. nions differed, but he was willing to frame the clause in any way which would obviate the objections of his noble and learned friends, while, at the same time, that which he had in view was carried into effect. The LORD CHANCELLOR concurred in the desirable. ness of correcting an evil the existence of which was on all hands admitted. He did not, however, think that the pro posed clause furnished the required remedy, and he hoped his noble and learned friend would reconsider it, with a view to meet the difficulties which had been suggested, Lord ST. LEONARDS observed that he would be very glad to have the clause so shaped as to meet what appeared to be the common view of their lordships. The clause was then withdrawn, and the other clauses passed through committee. Their lordships then adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS—YESTERDAY. The SPEAXEB. took the chair at four o'clock. PETITIONS. Some petitions were presented in favour of an amend ment of the Irish Poor Law, by Lord R. CECIL, from cer tain gentlemen in the West Riding of York, alleging that the Government were in the habit of adopting means to procure the absence of honourable members from the house during debates, and praying the house to take the steps necessary to prevent the continuance of such a practice, and thereby to assert their own dignity. EAST INDIA TRANSPORT SERVICE. On the motion of Mr. ADAM, an address for a copy of any correspondence which had taken place between the India-office and the Admiralty relative to the proposed re moval from the India-office of the transport of troeps and stores to India, was ordered. CONDITION OF THE RIVERS SHANNON AND SWABE. Col. FRENCH asked the Chief Secretary for Ireland, if any steps have been taken by the Irish Government to inquire into the facts cont a i ne d i n the memorialpresefraed to the Lord Lieutenant relative t o th e condition o rivers Shannon and Swabe, agreed on at a public meeting the of the landowners, landholders, &c., held at Athl one i n November last; and when a reply to such memorial ma) be expected. Mr. F. PEEL, in the absence of Sir Robert Peel, said there would be no objection on the part of Government to an inquiry into the subject; but at the same time it was considered that any expensive alterations which might be made should be defrayed by the landowners in the neigh bourhood of those rivers. Col FRENCH asked if it was intended to return the £300,000 that had been advanced for works which had not been executed ? Mr. F. PEEL said that there was no evidence to show that such works had not been executed. THE ALLEGED DISTRESS IN IRELAND. Mr. GREGORY drew the attention of the right hon. baronet the Secretary for Ireland, to a letter he had quoted. In that letter he (Mr. Gregory) said that there was great distress in Ireland arising from want of fuel. Sir R. PEEL said that the letter of the hon, member was dated on the 12th of November, and it stated that the hon. member believed there was:a sufficient supply of food. Ile stated, however, that there was a scarcity of fuel, and he generously threw open his property to the poor in the neighbourhood, to enable them to get a supply of such fuel. (Hear, hear.) Mr. BAILLIE did not think that the explanations of the right hon. baronet would be considered very satisfactory by those who felt that they had been hardly dealt with. In the first place the right hon. gentleman virtually admitted that the complaint of the gallant colonel was well founded. He only contended that the Government had no other re source, which might be the case, but that would not afford much consolation to those officers who felt that they had been deprived of a step. With regard to the subject which had been mentioned by the hon. baronet (Sir G. Bowyer), it was obvious that the inducements which the Government held out to officers to retire would naturally be accepted by those who were in advanced life, and whose death or retire• ment would probably have soon followed in the ordinary course of things. The result had therefore been to deprive the officers below them of promotions which they might otherwise have reasonably counted on. (Hear, hear.) Sir C. WOOD (in explanation) said that they had given a bonus to officers who were entitled to retire ; but that when they permitted additional retirement, they then gave only a proportionat e amoun t o f b o nus. am Mr.l3 i i klLLlE said that was precisely the grievance, that when officers ne fullbrsonwuesrethine3,dureeecedivbeydthweasGoaveprnrompoernttiotno only, the amount of bonus they received was a proportion onjy, in stead of b e i ng the The subject then dropped. amount. dropped. asl:th il TH E REVISED CODE. Lord H. CEClL—vah lo wing question—T placed on the paper the fol whether orders were not issued , Vice-President of the Couneil gation of the revised code, that shortly after the promul gation the conditions under Wl:litchi:le portion of it which con engaged should be acted upon pupil teachers were to be for the sanction of Parliament ; and whether Without waiting mination, giving notice to that effect, were er forms of exa- Faid that the question had two aspects, one of not wh. printed— to educational reform; the other might be rega r d e dh relted a ffecting the privileges of the House of Common. When committee hal erred it must have been not from a want of desire to do justice but from want of ability, or from the in herent difficulty surrounding the subject. The first prin ciple they had to consider was that no payment should be made except to the manager, and secondly, that money should only be paid upon the individual examination of scholars. The committee came to the conclusion that the pupil teachers under the present system had rights which they were bound to respect, and from the infraction of which they ought not to suffer. The question, then, was not as to existing pupil teachers, but as to those who might be appren ticed after the promulgation of the minute. As to the latter, it was deemed that they came under a totally different head for consideration. Before the minute the pupil teachers had no reason to suppose that their vested interests would be changed, and they ought to be respected, but the subsequent teachers did not appear to have any claim to vested inte rests. The noble lord said truly that there had been con siderable ferment throughout the country on this subject. At that time Bari Granville was in Ireland, and he (the right hon. gentleman) was on the continent ; but on the 17th of September he was in communication with the noble earl, and the result was that it was thought desirable, con sidering the ferment in the country, not to distract attention from the real subject by raising collateral issues, but by adopting the conciliatory course of suspending the minute ; and the committee had acted consistently—as if the minute had not been issued at all. This was his answer to the noble lord, and he could only regret that his (Mr. Lowe's) con duct, and that of the Government, were viewed in so tan favourable a light by him. The whole matter in connexion with this code was one of enormous difficulty. He would bow with the greatest submission to any censure which any hon. gentleman might pass on the intellectual part of the subject, but he disclaimed for the noble earl and himself the slightest intention of withdrawing this question from the jurisdiction of the House of Commons. 'With respect to the salary of the Inspectors, with regard to which the hon. member (Mr. S. Booth) had questioned him, it began at £2OO a year, and at the end of the third year it rose £3O, and so on until it reached £6OO a year; but that salary would not be attainable within less than twenty-four years. Certain expenses for travelling, &c., were allowed beyo nd that salary. He did not think it would be denied that a distinguished set of men had been enlisted in the service of the public. The rule had been to take the young gentle men of the greatest distinction they could find in the University ; and if they compared the calendars of Ox ford and Cambridge Universitters with the tioverumont list the real amount of distinction Would be seen. For his part, he sometimes felt sorry that their allowance were so small, and certainly he would be no party to diminishing them. With regard to the minute itself, no examination under it would take place until the 31st March, 1863, except in the case of some new schools coming into operation. The schools now receiving aid would at that period be et amined under the new system, and therefore there would be no increased expenditure during the present financial year. 'When it became necessary to ask for thp estimates under the new code, which would not be until the session of next year, he or his successor would then be prepared to ay before the house fai r ly an d fully any amount of addi :Waal assistance that might be required, (Hear , hear.) the revised code was first brought forward by the President of the Council he was reproached fo r havin g issued it as a code of his own, and without allowing Parliament any op portunity of expressing its opinion on the subject, The right hon. gentleman thereupon said that the code could not come into operation until a yea r for examination had passed away. The right hon. gentleman said — The SPEAKER (interrupting the noble lord) said it was not competent to any hon, member to refer to a preceding debate during the same session. Lord R. CECIL would bow to the decision, but said that inasmuch as the house Was now going into committee of supply, he spoke of a grievance, the remedy for whichcould be given in a committee of supply. (Oh, oh.) This much he would say, that if words which had fallen from a minister of the Crown wore not to be referred to, his responsibility was quite illusory. how it was possible to call ministers to ac count without quoting their words, he was unable to disco ver. In obedience to the decision of the Speaker, he should not quote the words, he would only state that on a certain occasion which he would not particularise, in a certain place which be would not name, the right hon. gentleman being interrogated by a right hon. gentleman to whom he would not particularly refer, said— The SPEAKER (interrupting the noble lord)—No. The noble lord certainly cannot be permitted indirectly to evade a rule which he cannot break through by a direct process. The rules of the house are very positive on the point of quoting or reading words from a newspaper which have been used in t 5 former debate, unless that debate be conse cutive, or on the subject of a bill or a measure then before the house. That being the distinct rule of the house with respect to past debates, a reference to a debate in another place than this house is even less permitted. Lcrd R. CECIL said he had only to bow to the decision, and would only remark that it was very favourable to minis ters of the Crown. Perhaps he might be permitted to say thus much, that it was generally supposed that the right hon. gentleman had grounded his defence against the charge upon this :—That the nature of the revised code was such that it was absolutely impossible for it to come into effect till Parliament had had an opportunity of giving their opinion upon ite (Hear, hear.) It might, perhaps, be ir regular for him (Lord It Cecil) to add that he had brought a matter connected with this subject already before the house the other night ) and had been told that he had introduced a very small subject to their notice. The ground upon which he now arraigned the right hon. gentle man was not a small one; it involved the most important article in the Privy Council code. What he charged the right hon. gentleman with was this—that at the time when he issued the revised code, it was his intention at the time, and he had taken measures at the time to carry it into effect without submitting to Parliament the enormous change he was about to effect in the pupil teacher system. He would first point out what were the pledges of the right hon. gen tleman. He believed he was in order in referring to the de bates of last session. The right hon. gentleman said at the close of last session, " I may as well state the outline of the measure, and the committee must not imagine that I con template a coup d'etat, because t he nature of it is such that it cannot make any innovations till the end of the next finan cial year." In referring to the pupil teachers, also, the right hon. gentleman said :—" We intend to preserve intact the interests of future pupil teachers, and we shall take care that all future pupil teachers shall serve, as now, for a period of five years." But when the session was about to end and Parliamentary control to cease, the revised code appeared containing this pro ision : that pupil teachers for the future should be appointed according t o the following condition— that the pupil teachers were to enter into an indenture by which, according to the revised code, the pupil teacher was liable to be dismissed for idleness, disobedience, or immoral conduct; and this agreement was to be terminable on either side by a written notice of six months. Therefore it was in the power of the pupil teacher to terminate the engage ment by giving a six months' notice. How was -that con sistent with the pledge that pupil teachers were for the future to be retained for five years ? (Hear, hear,) Con , sistently with the language of the right hon. gentleman this change could not have been contemplated at the time. (Hear.) But the right hon. gentleman went further ; he told the house in one of his speeches what he conceived to be the essence of a pupil teacher. He said that a monitor was one with whom an agreement was entered into for the job, by the week, month, or year, but that the pupil teacher was engaged for five years. He therefore made a very seri ous change which he could have had no previous intention of doing. What he (Lord R. Cecil) wished to show was that this change was a change in the mode of admitting pupil teachers, and that in that and several other ways the revised code seriously affected the £250,000 which was an nually granted for the support of pupil teachers. The right hon. gentleman said that the revised code would not come into effect till the financial year had passed away, and yet he took measures by which the most important part of that code should come into immediate effect. He (Lord R. Cecil) understood that to all schools was sent, along with the ordinary forms which preceded the arrival of pupil teachers, a note to this effect :—" Candidates for pupil teachers must be subject to the minute of Council of the 29th July, 1861, and the provisions of the revised code:' This note was not printed, but written upon the printed form. The result was that the managers of all schools were informed that pupil teachers were to be accepted only under the revised code. With reference to the education of these pupil teachers, the revised code was to come into immediate effect. Perhaps it might be said, that the managers need not have offered any pupil teachers, and thus have evaded the operation of the revised code. But the right hon. gen tleman took very good care of this. One of the articles of the minute provided that, after the receipt of money, the 28th of July, 1861, no manager should receive any money ex cept in conformity with the revised code. For every local manager the financial year began in August, 1861; and in August, 1862, according to the revised code, unless he had a sufficient number of pupil teachers, he forfeited pro rata the amount of the grant. Therefore the managers were obliged to have their pupil teachers at once, subject to the conditions of the revised code, and subject to the revised regulations and mode of making pupil teachers. This last change was made by the right hon. gentleman by his own proper fiat. But that was not all ; the revised code was suspended, but this form was not cancelled, at least not in all cases, and the direction that pupil teachers must be admitted under the new code was sent round to the coun try; and the managers thought it better not to have pupil teachers at all rather than subject themselves to the impos sible and impracticable conditions of the indenture com prised in the new code. He understood that at Trinity Church, Stoke Newington, candidates were rejected because the committee refused to rece:ve them under the new code. This happened just before the suspension in March last. If the right hon. gentleman had no intention of carrying out his scheme immediately, there seemed to have been a most extraordinary misapprehension on his part of what was pass ing in his office. (Hear, hear.) He (Lord R. Cecil) was sorry to have troubled the house at such length, but he thought the house should be jealous of the passing of im portant measures during the recess. There was a gravita tion of all important measures towards the recess; treaties were made; wars were declared, or treaties containing the germs of future wars were concluded, when Parliament was not sitting. Hitherto this practice, however, had been con fined to the Foreign. office ; he busted the House of Com mons would declare its veto against permitting the habit to extend itself to other departments of the_State. (Hear.) Every measure ought to be strictly subject to Parliamentary control, especially with regari to the destination of such a sum as £250,000. He begged to ask the right hon. gentle. man the questions of which he had given him notice. Mr, SCLATER-BOOTH asked the Vice-President of the Council whether the introduction of the new principle of individual examination would necessitate any increase in the number or salaries of the present staff of school in- ASSIZ. SUPPLY. The house then went into committee of supply proforma APPROPRIATION OF VOTES. Upon the bringing up of the report of the committee o supply, Sir S. NORTIICOTE rose to call the attention of the house to the correspondence between the Admiralty and ;he Treasury, appended to the estimates. He found from the correspondence that the control of the Treasury was never very stiong, because in one instance in giving their assent they said they felt they had no alternative but to authorise the change proposed by the Admiralty. On the 11th June the Lords of the Admiralty wrote to the Tree seurggyr,egsteatteingthat amount of they v h ot a e d Idfir;:tt:edtpethuaintga thesu empopfliLese,toioOno for an iron caisson, for Sheerness s h ou ld be charged to the of other N otes, so that there should not be an excess, and this was done only five days after the votes had passed the house. This led to the suspicion that vote 11 could be easily cut down without detriment to the ser vice. Every year there was au excess upon that vote, and sometimes a considerable one. In 1858.59 the excess amounted to £116,000, in the next year £105,000, and in the year after £52,000, being an average of £90,000 a year. In the next case, under letter E, it was admitted that an oversight had been committed. Well, that was un satisfactory, but it was added M the correspondence that measures had been taken to prevent such errors in future. Inthen case, whicheztcase, that of the Achilles, th e s p irit of the Act of w p oo a l r w lia ic m h, en h t e with regard to transfers was carried out. The following thoughtrelated deservingto the h Marinee consideration Infirmaryoft the house. The first estimate for that work was £42,000, and that sum was inserted in the estimates in 1856, and they went on taking sums until it was discovered that the esti mate was not sufficient, and in the estimate for the year before last the cost was given at £65,300. The total cost, however, had been £73,294. But by the system of transfers the house had not the opportunity of knowing what had been done. He did not accuse the Admiralty of conceal ment, but the effect was to conceal from the house the real state of the case. It was true that they would see it in the detailed accounts of naval expenditure, but those accounts were presented some 12 or 14 months afterwards, at the end of the session, and probably not half-a-dozen members of the house ever saw them. He suggested whether it was not possible to put an end to this system of transfers alto• gether. He believed it might be done in this way. He should like to see something like a Treasury chest fund or general contingency fund brought into play. The house should vote exactly what the Government proposed, with such alterations as the committee might think fit, and what was voted should be all that the Government should be entitled to expend, and if it were necessary to expend more it should be taken from this general contingency fund, and then, or after the close of the financial year, there should be a vote taken to supply the deficiency thus created in the contingency fund. The effect of this would be that the house would have before it in detail every sum that had been expended. Mr. WHITBREAD said he did not presume to offer any opinion on the suggestion that the honourable baronet had made. It was a question that involved grave consideration, and certainly could not be an swered by anybody on the spur of the moment. With re gard to the first item, for dredging atPortsmouth, it should be read with the correspondence of the previous year, where the outlay was shown to bo absclutely necessary. The items for the Portsmouth Dock and the Woolwich Marine Infirmary illustrated a particular case. The practice of the Admiralty was to apply sums from one item to other items under the same vote, so that they did not exceed the total amount of the vote. But they were bound to take the sanc tion of the Treasury when a work would involve an excess of the vote, or when they proposed to engage in a new work for which no vote had been taken. All the cases now before the house came under the first category, the exception being the iron caisson at Sheerness, which was a new work. With regard to the excess of the expenditure for the Wool wick infirmary, it arose from the desire of the Admiralty to make such improvements in ventilation, and so forth, as experience had shown to be requisite in order to make a perfect hospital. He thought that acting under the appro priation Act, and with this statement of the case clearly put before Parliament, as it was in the correspondence, the check appeared to,be all that the house could desire. With regard to the caisson he might add that when the estimates for 1861-2 were laid on the table it was not believed that an opportunity would arise for placing the caisson in the arch ; but it should not be forgotten that the money for that very caisson was actually voted in 1856-7; but it was found im possible to construct it at the time. In June an earnest re presentation was made from the yard that the existing caisson was in a bad state, and it was thought necessary that the new caisson should be constructed, especially as by so doing they were able to admit a new class of ships. was one of those emergencies which appeared to him to o clearly contemplated by the act of Parliament. The sug gestion of the hon. baronet must be left for future consi deration. . Sir F. T. BARING said this subject was one of great importance ; it was extremely difficult. He had tried to find a stronger check than they had now on the Admiralty, but he found it difficult to do so. The report of the committee of supply was then agreed to. INDIA STOCKS TRANSFER BILL. BIV CE. spectors. Sir H. WILLOUGHBY wished to call attention to a communication which had been received from the Privy Council by tho Rev. G. W. Waugh, of St. Saviour's Na tional School, Liverpool, dated tb e Ist August, 1861, in which the writer said he was directed to inform him, that after the Ist November next the minute of the 29th July, 1861, would take effect in his school, and that rll new ap • pointments would be subject to the revised code. (Hear.) Mr. MOWBRAY also read a letter which had been re ceived by the managers ofl the school at New Seaham, in the county of Durham, in December last, announcing that thenceforward no new appointments would be made under the old code. He asked how the right hon. gentleman could reconcile this announcement with his declaration in July last. This bill was considered as amended, and ordered for third reading. Mr. LOWE, in reply to the last two speakers, admitted that it was impossible to reconcile the statement which he had made in July, with the letters which had been read by the hon. member for Durham, and by the hon. baronet. But the correspondence in the Privy Council office amounted to some 6,000 or 7,000 letters yearly, and it was quite im possible that any one person could see the whole of it. Ho could only say that the letters referred to were entirely contrary to the practice of the office, and if hon. gentlemen had given him notice of the questions they intended to ask, he should no doubt have been able to furnish the informa tion. He could only say that all his papers were at the service of any hon gentleman who wished to make an in quiry of that nature. (Hear, hear.) As to the charge which the noble lord had brought against him, he could only say, as to his speech, that was a statement of a simple fact. The noble lord caught at the expression "any innovation," no doubt ; but the meaning and sense of what he (Mr. Lowe) said were, that they could not have, and they had not, the slightest intention to make any change without the sanction of Parliament. The noble lord (Lord It. Cecil) had said that he stated the pupil teachers under the new code should be engaged for five years as they were now. The noble lord had read a paragraph from the new code in which it was said that en gagements should be terminated by six months' notice by either party, and contended it was part of his (Mr. Lowe's) undertaking. Did the noble lord understand what was the present engagement of a pupil teacher ? It was to serve fi v e years ; but the agreement was not stamped and had no validity whatever. (Oh, oh.) The Government thought it better in introducing the new code that they should give a real and effective guarantee, terminable on notice on either side, in place of that which was now wholly invalid. The noble lord himself gave an answer to his next interro gatory. The framing of the altered code was a matter of no small difficulty, but the transition from one state to another had caused most anxious consideration, and if th 9 EXCHEQUER BILLS BILL. This bill was committed pro forma, for insertion of amendments. CONSOLIDAI ED FUND (L 9.73,747) BILL. This bill passed through committee. The house adjourned at 20 minutes to nine o'clock. OUTBREAK AT THE DArTMOOR PEISON,—The convicts at Prince Town have for some time past been mu tinous and dissatisfied. On Sunday last they broke into open revolt, and it required the most strenuous exertions of the warders and civil guardsmen to quell them. A week or so previously the governor and deputy-governor were attacked by a couple of ruffians, but were saved from any injurious consequences by the opportune interference of some warders. The two convicts who committed the assault were brought before the Government Inspector, Captain Gambier, and orders were given that three dozen lashes should be inflicted forthwith upon each of them. It is ru moured that the Governor has applied to the authorities for a larger supply of troops at Dartmoor. There are now only about 150 guardsmen and warders there, the number of convicts held within the establishment being nearly 1,200. Plbmouth Journal. LADvEmasEmENT.]-llolloway' s Ointment and Pills. — No Eruptions.—Cold winds, heated rooms, and disordered stomachs display their deleterious effects upon the human s kin. Roughness, irritati on , eru ptions about the mouth and nose, cracked lips, and chapped hand,. a re readily cured b y the application of Holloway's Ointment Ointment is the best w hi c h r enders the skin soft and healthy. This correc tive of the red spots, dry patches, and irritable p im p les i nc ident to tender skins ; it s aves ail the torments of such a ff ec tions, and spares th e i r uns i g htly bl e mishes, whic h are not slight or questionable advantages. Holloway's Oint ment never disagrees with the most sensitive skin. Ladies may use it with implicit confidence; they will find it lexercises a demulcent influence whilst operating as a thoroughly detergent agent, inn SUN, - LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, mA.Roa 1, 1862. OXFORD CIRCUIT. —READING, Feb. 28. (Before Mr. Baron Channell.) MURDER OF A GIRL AT WINDSOR BY HER FATHER. John Gould, aged 39, who appeared in the garb of a labouring man, was indicted for the wilful murder of his daughter, Hannah Gould, at Wind sor, on the 30th of December last. The prisoner, Who has been a bricklayer's labourer, lived with his wife and only child in a cottage, situate at Clarence Clump, Clewer-lane, Windsor. He has been long known as a man of unsteady and dissolute habit, and much addicted to intemperance. Although having but one child (with whose murder he was charged), be has been so idle that his wife has been obliged to accept a situation as under or day nurse at the Windsor Dispensary and Infirmary, in order to obtain a livelihood. On Monday, the 30th December last, the day of the murder, the pri soner's wife went out as Usual to the infirmary, leaving her daughter, Hannah Gould, a fine girl, about eight years of age, in charge of her neighbour, Mrs. Clark, the wife of police sergeant Clark, be longing to the Windsor force. About 3 o'clock on the afternoon in question the prisoner returned to his house, evidently the worse for liquor. The de ceased was in the house at the time, with a daugh ter of police-sergeant Clark, of about the same age, both of whom had been engaged in lighting the fire. The prisoner said to his daughter, " You're a naughty little girl not to clean up the place." The poor little thing innocently repli e d " I could not do it." The girl Clark then made for leaving the house, and asked the deceased to go with her, but the prisoner Said, "No, I want to do something with her," The girl Clark left the house, and just as she got to the door she saw the prisoner take a razor from off the shelf, She then walked away, and two little boys; who had also been in the house, accompanied her. In about half an hour, after wards the prisoner went into Mrs. Clark's house, and said, " Mrs. Clark, I want you." She left with Gould, to go to the house, and he did nor utter a word to her on the way. *hen Mrs. Clark got into the house she saw a large quantity of blood on the floor. Gould entered the house first, and Mrs. Clark, seeing what bad happened, said to him, " Oh, you vagabond, you've cut the child's throat." He made an .wer, "I done it—l done it." The child was lying at the bottom of the stairs, on her knees, with her head lying on the bottom step, and her throat cut. She was dead. Mrs. Clark was so frightened that she ran out of the house, and when she looked round she saw the child on the bricks in the passage, having evidently been thrown out by the inhuman father. A cry of " mut der," was raised, and Charles Coker, a labourer, living in one of the adjoining cottages, ran out to see what - Was the matter. He saw the prisoner's child lying outside the door, with her throat cut, and the prisoner having said that he did it, he (Coker) went in search of a police man, and prisoner wag taken into custody. Other evidence was adduced that went to show that the prisoner was at the Prince of Wales beer house, Clewer-lane, about half-past one o'clock. He asked a man, named Reuben Turner, to fetch him a pint of beet. Turner said he had no money, but the prisoner told him to fetch it, and he Would pay for it. They drank together, and shortly after wards the prisoner said, " I shall be locked up to morrow." Turner remarked, "Lord, Jack, don't talk like that ; what are you going to be locked up for P" Gould replied, "For murder." Turner then rejoined, " Nonsense, don't talk like that." Gould did not say what murder he referred to. Turner left the public-house, Gould remaining in the tap room. Before Turner went away Gou ld said, " shan't be living on the Ist of April," but he gave no reason for saying so. Gould, though suffering from the effects of drink, was not, in Turner's opinion, so dinnk as to be incapable of knowing what be was about. The defence was, that the prisone r had, some years ago, received an injury on his head which at times rendered him incapable of knowing what he was doing. The jury returned a verdict of guilty. The learned judge passed the awful sentence of death upon the prisoner, who, throughout the whole trial, exhibited an air of indifference, He left the dock after saying a few words to the de puty-governor of the gaol. HOLYHEAD. Mr. CORRY asked for copies of any correspondence, aine° August last between the Treasury, the Admiralty, and the Poet-office, relating to the piers and other accom modation due regard to at li t o h yhead necessary to the performance, with e interests of the public, of the contract now in fore® between London th° postal and passenger communication Mr. Ha and Dublin ; and, of any reports made by August last, to the Admiralty on the same subject since not pre Lord pared C, pA.G z T said th a t th e papers referred to were INCOME 'FAA A Nr . THE METROPOLIS. Mr. LOCKE asked ye,— — return of the names ofall sons employel as assess or '' , collectors of income tax and per land and assessed taxes in tholezetropolitan district, for the salaries year ending March 31, th e which employed, the rate of poundage, amount or itY in or allowances re ceived, and whether employed i n , outer amount and what duties under the Government ; and the total period come tax, land tax, and assessed taxes in as assessed of in for each of the said districts (in continuantio-? same tary paper, No. 510, of session 1861).—ord:Parilamen ue Tree.- THE MODELS OF GASHOLDERS, Mr.H. B. SHERIDAN asked the Secretary t o S. I, f oxy when the copies of the models of gashoofldueltresdepo. sited in the office of the Comptroller General ,in compliance with the 3d section of the Sale of Gas Act, 22 and 23 Vic., C. 66, would be sent to the L ord Mayor of London and the chief magistrates of Edinburgh and Dublin, as required by the same section of that act, Mr. F. PEEL said that one of these models, which re lated to London, was ready for verification at the office of the Treasury, but those for Dublin and Edinburgh would have previously to be sent to these cities. THE BLOCKADE OF THE SOUTHERN PORTS IN AMERICA. Mr. GREGORY gave notice that on the motion for going into committee of supply, on Friday next, he would call attention to the American blockade, end ask for the production of papers on the subject. MONEY FOR INDIA. Sir U. 'WILLOUGHBY gave notice that on Monda y next he would move that all money voted for the se rvice of India shoTunlan formaDuisLerrate estimate. IAA.TIO COMMITTEE. Mr. M. MlLNESasked the Under Secretary of State POLICE IN7'ELLIgENCP.—Feb. 28 THAMES.—FAMILY JARS.—Mr. Samuel Dela fosse, a foreman in the service of the East London Waterworks Company at Old Ford, Bow, appeared before Mr. Selfe, to answer a summons taken out by Mr. Fulcher, assistant rolievipg officer of the Poplar Union, which charged him with deserting his wife, and leaving her chargeable to the parish of Bow, Middlesex. Mr. Hubert Wood, solicitor, defended Mr. Dela. fosse, and said he would at once state that his answer to tie summons was that Mrs. Delafosse had committed adultery, and that he was not bound to support his wife. Mr. Delafosse held a very high position, and wished for a full investigation ; and he had no objection to maintain his children in comfort and respectability. It appeared from the evidence of Mrs. Delafosse, a very garrulous woman, that she had been sub jected to great tyranny on the part of her husband for some time past, and that he was in the practice of swearing at her, and using the most blasphemous and vituperative epithets and threats. On several occasions he said he would have her life, and scatter her brains against the wall. He took the bed off one night, removed it to another room, and slept with one of the boys. His threats and tyranny became so intolerable that she was compelled to take out a summons against him at the Worship street Police Court, and he was held to bail to keep the peace towards her. After that his threats and tyranny were renewed, and became intolerable and insupportable. She was compelled to leave her husband and children, and he had ever since re fused to maintain her. She had received parish relief. Mrs. Delafosse was cross examined at great length by Mr. Hubert Wood, and she denied in the most emphatic manner that she was a person of ir regular habits, in the practice of receiving visits from a grocer named Clarke, or that she had com mitted adultery with him. She had dealt at the shop of Messrs. Clarke for grocery, but had no further communication with them. There were three brothers named Clarke. She never walked out with tither of them. She never told her daughter Alice that she would knock her brains in if she told her father that Mr. Clarke, the grocer, called at the house in her father's absence. She took a small roomful of goods away out of a six-roomed house when she left her husband. She had been living with a needlewoman for several weeks. Her husband had taught her son to swear at her, and offered him a basin of dripping to throw at her. Mrs. Ann Davis ' of Library-place, Old Ford, said Mr. and Mrs. Delafosse and family were lodging in her house for some time. She never observed the least impropriety in the conduct of Mrs. Delafosse. She never saw either of the Clarkes in the house. Mrs. Delafosse never said " Have you any objection to one or two chaps coming to see me." If such a proposition had been made she would have rejected it with scorn and contempt. Mr. Hubert Wood was instructed to deny most strongly the accusation that the defendant had been-- acting with cruelty to his wife. He was also in structed that Mrs. Delafosse's infirmity of temper and volubility, of which she had just now given a sample, rendered it impossible for the defendant to live with his wife with any degree of comfort ; but he had not left her on that account, but owing to her having committed adultery with Mr. Clarke, with whom she had been seen walking out, and who had visited her at her dwelling in her husband's absence. The woman had repeatedly told her daughter that she would kill her and dash her brains out against a wall if she ever revealed it to her father that Mr. Clarke had visited her mother. Alice Delafosse, a very intelligent girl, aged 13 years, who imitated her mother in volubility, said she recollected the elder Mr. Clarke, the grocer, in the Mile-end-road, paying a visit to her mother. He was a dark man, with large black whiskers. He shook hands with her mother, and kissed her. Her mother had previously said that Mr. Clarke intended to call, and she was not to tell her father, and that if she did so her father would turn her out of doors, and she would have no claim for support. Her mother and Mr. Clarke retired into the back parlour, and the door was locked. They remained in the back parlour a long time. When they came out her mother said to Mr. Clarke, " Now, dub up." He said, I have brought the grocery." Her mother said, " I won't have the grocery unless you give me 2s. or half a crown," and he then gave her some money. She never told Mrs. Davis she would make as much mis chief as possible about Mr. Clarke's visit. Her mother said, " If you ever tell your father about Mr. Clarke, I will murder you with a large stone which I will carry under my shawl." Her mother had threatened her father, and beat his nose in with a knife. By Mr. Selfe—l told my aunt all about Air. Clarke two days after my mother left home. My father has spoken to me about Mr. Clarke. I heard my mother say to Mrs. Davis, our landlady," Have you any objection to a few chaps coming to see me, if my husband don't maintain me 9" Mrs. Davis was recalled, and sail the girl had told falsehoods. No such proposition as that re lated had ever been made by Mrs. Delafosse. Wit ness was the mother of 12 children, tan of whom were living, and would not encourage any impro priety in her dwelling. The girl was recalled, and said that she Was locked up from six in the morning until tea at night, while her mother was from home taking a walk with Mr. Clarke. Mrs. Davis—That is a falsehood. The girl could not have been locked up in my house all day wit h out my knowing it. I believe the girl is a great liar. Cecilia Canning, the defendant's sister, said that her niece had told her that Mr. Clarke had been visiting her mother, and that her mother had warned her if she said anything about it to her father she would kill her with a stone. Mr. Selfe said Mr. Clarke's evidence was indis pensable, and sent a messenger to request his at tendance. On the messenger's return, he said that Mr. Clarke would not attend, and knew nothing about the affair. Mr. Selfe then ordered a summons to issue for Clarke's attendance, and upon his arrival he was sworn, and said his name was Edward Burton Clarke, and he was in partnership with his two brothers in the Mile-end-road. He apologised for not attending when the messenger first called. He was then attending a customer upon very urgent business. He never saw Mr. Delafosse until that day. He knew Mrs. Delafosse as an occasional customer at his shop. He was never in her dwell ing in his life. He had never taken grocery to her house, or taken liberties with her. He never kissed her, either in her own house or elsevc here. He never walked out with her. He was not in the practice of taking home grocery to customers' houses. There were two men employed by the firm especially for that purpose. There were three partners in the firm, himself and two brothers. Mr, Selfe—Are you a married man ? Mr. Clarke—l am not, sir. Alice Delafosse was recalled, and said Mr. Clarke, who had just left the witness-box, did call upon her mother, kiss her, and give her money. Her mother and Mr. Clarke went into the back parlour and shut the door after them, and locked it. They were there at least half an hour. Mr. Clarke said the girl's statement was false. He knew nothing more of Mrs. Delafosse than her being a customer, and he was quite surprised when he received the summons to attend. The statement of the girl was wickedly and atrociously false. Mr. Hubert Wood—You say you never visit cus tomers or carry home grocery to their houses ? You set out by saying you went to a customer's house this morning,. Mr. Clarke—l did for payment of an account. Nothing else. Mr. Selfe said he did not believe the girl, but he did believe Mrs. Davis and Mr. Clarke. The defence set up was a grievous aggravation of the offence. The unfortunate child Alice Delafosse had been uttering lies, and against her own mother, as well as attempting to injure the reputation of a respect able tradesman. Believing, as he did, that the charge of adultery was not sustained, and that the charge against the defendant was made out, he committed him to the House of Correction for one month, there to be kept to hard labour. Mr. Hubert Wood gave notice of appeal. WANDSWORTIL—COMMITTAL OF THE WIM BLEDON FORTUNE TELLER.—Yesterday wes ap pointed for the re-examination of Selina Smith, the young gipsy woman, on the charge of telling for- tunes. While the Court was waiting for the arrival of Dr. King, the prosecutor, Inspector Lovelace han ded to the magistrate another communication he had received from the Lincolnshire constabulary, stating that the prisoner's description did not agree with the 'roman they wanted on a charge of telling fortunes, but they believed that she belonged to the same family. Dr. King and his two female servants attended and he entered the witness-box. Mr. Day man inquired of him if he had received a satisfactory analysis of the contents of the bottle from his friend at Whitby. Dr. King said as yet he had received nothing satisfactory. Mr. Dayman observed that there not been suffi cient time. Dr. King said he had carefully examined it, and found what the prisoner stated was in it. It may be here mentioned that the prisoner has never stated publicly what was the nature of the powder she mixed in the bottle. Mr. Dayman hearing that the servants were pre sent, ordered them to stand up. He told them that r they, had both beh aved ver y ill in the matter. It was the duty of servants to protect their masters and mistresses from imposition. They had not done so, and had encouraged the prisoner to work u pon the credulity of their mistress, partly for their own enjoyment, and partly for a questionable purpose. One of the servants essayed to speak, but his worship told her that it was what she had stated, and she could not now free herself from her state ment. Mr. Dayman then addressed the prisoner, god told her she had been exceedingly wicked. If she supposed that the bottle of mixture would have a poisonous effect, then she was guilty of secretly at tempting to murder a husband, of all crimes that of secret poisoning being the most detestable. If it was true, as she had stated, that the mixture was not poisonous, then she had been guilty of gross impiety, as she had evoked the Almighty to the making of a lie. Any way her conduct had been very bad, and he should inflict the full punishment for fortune telling. He then com mitted her for three months, with hard labour, and said that if anything should be found in the mixture of a suspicious or deleterious character, she would be put on her trial for a much more serious offence. He recommended Dr. King to try experiments with the mixture on some small animal. Dr. King said he intended to try experiments on a small puppy he had. Mr. Dayman was anxious that he should, and that the superintendent of police should also make experiments. In this matter it was best to be satis: fled there is nothing in the mixture. In a case of so odious a nature they could not be too safe. He told the prisoner again, if they found anything un satisfactory she would be tried for a serious offence. The prisoner said if they gave her the bottle of stuff, she would drink it, as there was no harm in it. Mr. Dayman said she was punished now for tell ing fortunes. The prisoner said the servants asked her if she could tell fortunes, and she replied " Yes." She had no thought of telling fortunes until they asked her the question. The officers of the court then removed the prisoner. - A gentleman then rose and said that Mrs. King had not been represented. Mr. Dayman thought Mrs. King's name should not be mentioned. Dr. King concurred in that opinion. The gentleman said that Mrs. King had a coin• plete answer. Mr. Dayman observed it was clear that Mrs. King's servants had practised on her credulity of mind, and prompted the prisoner as to what she should say. He nad no doubt it was all an impo sition from beginning to last. The gentleman said it was very unpleasant, for Mrs. King was a very respectable lady. Mr. Dayman said it was clear Mrs. King had no serious intention, for she refused to pay for the bottle of mixture, and had the prisoner bundled out of the house. Dr. King said that all he had to complain of was of the mischief brought into a family by fortune telling. The parties then withdrew, and Inspector Love lace promised to acquaint the superintendent with his worship's request that he should make experi ments with the mixture ill conjunction with Dr. King. FOREIGN HAIL PACKET LIST. MAILS DUE. Australia and Mauritius, via Southampton. Mar, 21, via Marseilles .. Mar. 15, Brazil and Cape Verds, by British packe Helena..March 3, t. March 6, Cape of Good Hope, AfiCellSioll, and St. China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton. Mar. 4. via Marseilles ...Feb. 27. . . . Falkland 151and5...... March 6, Gibra lt ar , via Southampton .. Mar. 4. India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton Mar. 4. via Marseilles Feb. 27. India (Bombay), via Southampton Mar. 13, via Marseilles Mar. 7. Lisbon Mar. 1. Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton Mar. 4. via Marseilles Feb. 27 Newfoundland ..Mar. 5 Oporto and Vigo A e ' t . A F il e aa b r . 2 . 51 : . U. S. and British N. America,bbyyc.Barnita.dpiaacnkpeate.k. by U.S. pack e t r. ' ' • • W.C. of Africa, Madeira, and Teneriffe ........ Mar. 10, Bahamas, via New York M Mexico . ................................. Feb. 28. 1 All parts of West Indies, including Chili, Peru ') Feb. 28. Cal if orn ia, and British Columbia.. .......... LONGFORD FLECTION.—The nomination took place yesterday. Colonel Luke White was proposed by the lion. King Harman, seconded by Alajor Blackall. Major O'Reilly was proposed by Mr. M'Cann, and seconded by Mr. Cody, J.C. The show of hands was in favour of Major O'Reilly. A poll was demanded by Colonel White, and the sheriff fixed Tuesday and Wednesday next its the polling days. The prosecution of the Rev. Mr. Quinn, Roman catholic curate, for an alleged libel on Mr. Armstrong as a landlord, is to come on at the approaching Armagh assizes. It is stated that the priest has secured the advocacy of Mr. Vflaitoide, by a rotgAiag fee of 100 guilioN F.ROIII THE ,AST' NIGHT. AVIIIT_EHALI., FEB. 28. The Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent to b passed under tho Great Seal, granting the dignity of a Knight of the Unitod King dom of Great Britain and Ire land unto Edmund ariman,i liornby, Esq., the Judge of the Supreme Consular Court at Constantinople. DOWNING-,,STREET, FEB. 26. The Queen has been ptcased to appoint Hinton East, Louis Fullerton Mackinnon, • WilL jam Gardner Freeman, George Lyon Phillips, and Cheloi,, Eoyes,_ Esq. to bc members of the Privy Council of the - I.:gland of Jamaica. Her Majesty has also be en p leased to appsint Alexander Heslop and George Lyon Phillip-, Esq., to be members of the Legislative Council of the Island ofJm.tr,kica, Her Majesty has further been p leased to appoint Richard Southey, Esq., to be Treasurer and Accouutk tut-Gcn.exul for the colony of the Cape of Good Hope. CROWN OFFICE, FEB. 27. MEMBERS RETURNED TO SERVE IN TIIE PRE,SENT PARLIAMENT. City of Gloucester—The Hon. Charles Paget Fithar din me Berkeley, of Hill-street, Berkeley-square, London and John Joseph Powell, Esq., of St. George's-terrace Regent's-park, Middlesex, in the room of Willia m Phili p Price and Charles James onk, Esqs., whose elec ion has been declared void. BANKRUPTCY ANNU~~LED. F. and L. Cohen, clothiers, Newca.stle• - upon - Tyne BANKRUPTS. Thomas Pickford, commission agent, Southwark Samuel Cleak, watch maker, Tyler.s treat, Regent-street John Brust, baker, Bermondsey Henry D. Maer, merchant, Mark-lane Edwin Withers, bookbinder, Hackney-road Henry De Briou, professor of languages, Oxford Hannah Wright, publican, Oldjiam George Robinson, blacksmith, Buckton. William Gabb, farmer, Eskley Frank Joseph Mather, draper, Dartmouth Evan Winstone, parish clerk, Brecknock William Naylor, tailor, Cleckheaton Isaac Clayton, fruiterer, Bradford Wm, Joy, plumber, Tonbridge George W. Smith, prisoner in Norwich James Fairclough, sen., Gateshead John Walmsley, engineer, Bury James Debbage, cooper, Beecles Wm. H. Henbury, shoemaker, Winchester Wm. W. Wilmott, farmer, Llantrissent Joseph Taylor, agent, Warwick James Palmer, coal dealer, Birmingham Bower Tristram, leather factor, Liverpool John Tate, tailor, Liverpool Thomas Cronshaw, trailor, Liverpool James Markham, blacksmith, Dunstable James Giddings, journeyman mason, Miltom Wilts Michael Blutley, block cutter, Eaves-green, Lancashire James Hopwood, printer, Accrington, Lancashire William Swann and Benjamin Swann, woollen manu facturers, Manchester Joseph Shotton, publican, Newcastle-upon-Tyne Thomas Aylan, ship broker, Stockton.-upon - Tees James Stokoe, sea, and William Stokoe, millwrights, Newton, Northumberland James Gardner, jun, clerk, Birmingham William Davis, wood turner, Birmingham John Lee, wood turner, Birmingha m John Sanderson, gentleman, Kingston-upon-Hull George Pinkney, implement ma ker, Bridlington. Josep Sanderson, factor, Kingston-upon - Hull Robert M‘Gachen, commission mer hant, Liverpool John Prichard, licensed victualler, Llandudno Radford and Son, umbrella makers, Manchester John R. Burne, general agent, Manchester Peter M`Liver, draper, East Stonehouse James B. Shuttleworth, bookseller, New Accrington Josiah Puntis, house decorator, Southampton Charles T. Tarver, draper , Norway-place, Hackney-road Frank Pieta Whitecross•street Pr son John Meads, farmer, Wellesbourne. Mountford, War wickshire William Kerkhoff, clothier, Birmingham John Overton, tailor, Kenilworth, Warwickshire. Joseph Jenkins, publican, Birmingham William Hall, draper, Brecon, Brecknock Robert Moore, shoemaker,` Gravesend Thomas Nicolls Vosper, commission agent, Stonehouse, Devonshire John M'Creery, butcher, Chester George Potter, farmer, Huckerby, Lincolnshire Henry Bentley, carpenter, Sussex Robert Elliott, licensed victualler, late of Devonport Betsey Amery, licensed victualler, late of Plymouth William Whitehead, gilder, Birmingham Wm. Hall, grocer, Percy Main, North Shields Christopher Whiley, fisherman, Gorleston, Suffolk William Flowerdew, jun., contractor, Little Yarmouth David Wills, clerk. Manchester Maria Pemberton, innkeeper, Preston Sarah Monningten, milliner, Wellington, Salop George Coton, perfumer, Coventry John Cokayne, wheelwright, Derby Samuel Jackson, journeyman joiner, Derby James Johnson, carpenter, Hockwold-cum-Wilton , Norfolk James Pritchard, wood turner, Birmingham :SCOTCH BANKRUPTS. Wm. Jackson, potato dealer, Glasgow Robert Laird, grocer, Glasgow John M'Culloch and Son, cotton spinners, Glasgow David Smeaton, shipbuilder, Perth Andrew Blaikie, Register-street, Edinburgh James Bruce, mason, Glasgow AVERAGE PRICE OF SUGAR. The average price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, computed from the returns made in the week ending Feb. 25,1861, 2 exclusive of the duties of Cu stoms p aid or paye thereon on the importation thereo f into Great Britain :-- Per. c wt. From the British possessions in America 23s. 100. Mauritius East Indies Average price of the three foregoin 245, 34 g COUN7BY .111ABKL:i ~,____. LIVERPOOL—FEB. 28. With a moderate attendance of dealers to-day wheat has met a fair consumptive d ehl and, holders remaining firm at last Friday's prices. Flour & lower, and more inquired for. Indian corn scarce, and Ameijcan is lower. Barley, beans and peas declined is per qr. WAKEFIELD—FEB. 28 The show of wheat to-day was moderate, and business limited—prices rather in favour of buyers. Barley dull; but unaltered in price. Beans, oats, and shelling rather slow, at late prices. Averages for the week.: Wheat 1,695 qrs., at s9s 9p Oats 8ar1ey......... 850 -- Peas .... 10 Rye-- -- Beans EXETER—FEB. 28. Wheat, whito 7s Gd to 7s 9 d I 2s 8ar1ey...... 3s 109 d dto 3 s 31 4s Gcl Ditto new .0s Od to Os Gd Oats .. Flour, fine, 45s to 47s ; seconds, 43s to —5 per sack. CATTLE. The market to , day was moderately supplied with stock. Ti ade still dull. 1 Fat beef,p score ,986 d to 10sGd Ewes, per lb .... Gd to 6 i d Pork carcases, 9s Gd to lOs Gd Wethers, d 0...... 7d to --d Lambs, per lb —d to —d Fat calves, d0...61d to 7J . Rough fat, 31d per lb. BRISTOL SUGAR—FEB. 28. We have done a fair business in our sugar market this week, and prices have been well supported. Demerarasi 38s to 425. Refined goods sell freely at stiffer prices. In rum nothing doing. Treacle still slow in coming forwaxdi and quite as dear. COVENT GARDEN MARKET.—The two great national theatres on one side, a churchyard full of mouldy but undying celebrities on the ether, a fringe of houses studded in every part with anecdote and history, a colon nade often more gloomy and deserted than a cathedral aisle, a rich cluster of brown old taverns—one of them filled with the counterfeit presentment of many actors long since silent, who scowl or smile once more from the canvas upon the, grandsons of their dead admirers; a somethings" the air which breathes of old books, old pictures, old painters, and old authors ; a place beyond all other places one would choose in which t o hear the chimes at midnight a crystal palace—the representative of the present— which peeps in timidly from a cor ner u p on man y things of the past ; a withered bank that has been sucked dry by a felo nious clerk ; a squat building, with a hundred columns and chapel-looking fronts, which always stands knee-deep in, baskets, flowers, and scattered vegetables a common centre into which Nature showers her choicest gifts, and wheree the kindly fruits of the earth often nearly choke the nar row thoroughfares ; a population that never seems to sleep, and that does all in its power to prevent others sleeping; place where the very latest suppers and the earliest break fgasartdsejnosmtlaerekaecth, w ot i h th er s o o n me th o e f i f t o s o t s w u a r y r o s— u ndi n such g Cornhill Magazine for March. • f it : a t C u o r v e es BIRTHS. BOYLE.—On the 26th ult., at Welham, neer Malton, th e wife of Lieut.. Col. Boyle, of a son, stillborn. `'PEST.—On of ,-oAnletxhaenar G. 25th ult., West, a Esq., tßisho Commander teignton,D n.N.2 o Devon, th e wf a son, WYATT.—On the 23d ult., at Woolwich, the wife of Mai er J. H. Wyatt, C.B , Military Train, of a daughter. YOUNG.—On the 27th ult., at Hastings, the wife of W. 13 ' Young, Esq., of a daughter, MARRIAGES. ra JAMES—CURTIS.—On the 27th ult., at Putney, Richar d James, Esq., of Islington, to Mary Etheredge, daughter of John Curtis, Esq., of Putney. Moss—Cum—On the 27th ult., at Upton Church, Che shire, the Rev. J. J. Moss, to Louisa Mary Anne , th e eldest daughter of Lieutenant-General the Hon. S ir Cust. DEATHS. BENTHAM.—On the 24th ult., at Barton Fields, Canter bury, Vice-Admiral Bentham, aged 74. COBB.—On the 27th ult , at Margate, John Mitchener Cobb, Esq., aged 59. DOBSON.—On the 25th ult,, at Mere Hall, Edwd. Dobsoul Esq., aged 29. Hmscn.—On the 27th ult., Frederick Heiscb, Esq., of 16, America- square, London, and Henfield, Sussex, aged 50. HlLTox.—On the 27t ult., at his residence, 30, Oxford square A , dam Hilt h on, Esq., of the Stock E x change , aged 73. TIIOMPSON.—On the 26th ult., at Wimbledon, An thoDY Thompson, Esq., aged 70. WAINWRIGHT. —On the 26th ult., at the Rectory, o° l l Burnell, shropshire, the Rev. E. H. Wainwright, aged LOND N : Printed and Published by MUII,DOYOr of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at THE SUN Office, N0.112i St r and,. in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the Coull t Y ° Xiddlesezi—aturday, m arc u 1, 1864, . flO