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IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS--(YESTERDAY). The LOUD CHANCELLOU took his seat on the woolsack Stave o'cicock. Lord BROUGHAM presented 115 petitions on the sub- 'sect of education. THE ITALIAN QUESTION. The Marquis of NORMANBY asked the noble earl the President of the Council whether any information in refer ence to a statement in a recent speech of the Emperor Napoleon, to the effect that he had advised the various 'sovereigns of Italy to grant their subjects salutary reforms bad been received. Earl GRANVILLE said he could give the noble mar quis no detailed information on the subject. ADMIRALTY COURTS' BILL. The LORD CHANCELLOR moved the second reading Of this bill. Lord WYNFORD thought some compensation ought to be awarded to those who would suffer loss by the passing of this bill. Lord CHELMSFORD was of opinion that there was no pressing necessity for passing the bill this session. After a few words from Lord Cranworth, Lord Brougham, and the Earl of Ripon the bill was read a second time. TRIAL BY JURY (SCOTLAND) ACT AMEND MENT BILL. The LORD CHANCELLOR moved the second reading of this bill. By the law as it stood, a verdict of a majority of a jury was taken as unanimous. This had been found to work well, by the regulation by. which a jury were required to be in deliberation for six hours before the verdict could be taken. This arrangement was now found to be needless, and the present bill proposed to reduce the time the jury should remain in deliberation to three :hours. The bill was read a second time. SPEAKER OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL (CANADA) ;BILL. On the motion of the Duke of NEWCASTLE this bill was read a second time, and ordered to be committed on Monday next. NORTH-WEST TERRITORY BILL. The Duke of NEWCASTLE moved the second reading of this bill, which had become necessary in consequence of the cession of the Hudson's Bay Company's tenures. The object of the bill was to enable her Majesty to appoint justices of the peace to preserve order in conse quence' of the cession o f the license, and to issue orders for the'regulation of trade with the Indians. The bill was read a second time. COURT OF PROBATE BILL ACQUISITION OF SITE) . • This bill was read a second time. ATTORNEY AND SOLICITORS' BILL. This bill was read a third time, and passed. POSTAL COMMUNICATION WITH AUSTRALIA . The Marquis of CLANRICARDE asked what decision had been announced or communication made to the various parties who sent tenders to the Admiralty on the Ist of July, in accordance with the advertised invitation to that effect, for the mails to Australia via Panama in steam ships ; if none ,aad been given, whether her Majesty's Government had abandoned the intention of establishing the line of mail steamers contemplated in the advertisement. He said that at present there was but one mode of postal communication with Australia, and that was the overland route to India as far as Ceylon, and then to Melbourne, but that was a very inconvenient route for Sydney and New South Wales. The Legislature of New South Wales had voted 00,000 to wards the establishment of this route, and it was calculated that the amount received for postage would be £15,000 a year, so that the home Government would not have a great deal to make up. He was informed that no notice had been taken of the tenders, at which he thought the public here, the colonists, and the parties who tendered, had great right to complain. He was informed that though there was another service, there was no contract, the Peninsular and Oriental doing the work without any contract at all, but he would move for the copy of any contract legally perfected and in force at this moment for the conveyance of mails in steam ships by any route. The Duke of SOMERSET said the plan which had been hitherto adopted with regard to these contracts was this : they were sent to the Admiralty to arrange as to the rate of !Teed the places for stopping, and other details. They then Issued the advertisement for tenders, and when they came in they were sent to the Treasury for its decision. The tenders in question had been received by the Admiraly, and sent to the Treasury, under whose consideration they still were, but the whole question of steam-packet contracts had been referred to a select committee of the House of Commons. There was a monthly line by way of Suez which came into operation in February. That was also to be by contract, but although the communication was begun, and the packets had been running for some time, he believed the fact was that the contract had not been signed. Some difficulty arose as to the places where the packets were to call at, as to whether they were to call at the Mauritius and other points, and as there was no contract he could not lay one on the table of the house. As the whole subject had been referred to a select committee, it was but reasonable that Government should wait to see what the committee recommended. Circulars had been sent by the Treasury to all the Australian colonies, calling upon them to express their opinions as to what new line of postal communication should be established. The whole of these answers had not yet come in, and although the province of New South Wales had readily offered the munificent contribution of £50,000 towards the Panama line, the other colonies had not acted with the samepromp titude. It was important that the interests of all these colo nies should be consulted, and that Government should not establish a line now which might afterwards be objected to by the other colonies, and might perhaps lead to the bringing forward of a third line of steam-packet communication some day, to compete with the claims of the other two for their support. Lord STANLEY of ALDERLEY observed that the ob jections which had been raised to recent contracts of this kind seemed to be disposed of almost entirely by the Trea sury, without special communication with any other depart ment. Now, he thought the Board of Trade, the Colonial office, and the Admiralty ought to have been consulted upon such matters. The Post-office was, of course, the proper de partment to enter into the details of the matter, and the pe cuniary arrangements belonged to the Treasury, but the other departments should have a share in the decision. Earl GRANVILLE said he concurred with the noble lord that the arrangement Was a vicious one, but did not think it had been usual to conclude these arrangements without reference to the convenience of the departments concerned. Lord REDESDALE expressed his regret that the Post office had been deprived of the control of this mail packet system. The expenditure upon it belonged entirely to the postal service, and it was unfair to put it on the naval de partment. The effect was that the naval estimates were apparently increased by a heavy charge which had really nothing to do with the naval ser vice ; and, on the other hand, the Post-office was made to appear to have a surplus of net revenue, when such was not the fact. The Admi ralty might be called upon to give advice in any naval mat ter, but the mail contracts should go to the Post-office account. The Marquis of CLANRICARDE agreed that the charge ought to be on the postal service, but there were other interests involved besides those of postal communica tion. The relations between England and the colonies, and that commercial intercourse on which our prosperity chiefly depended, were concerned in this matter. He regretted that in this, as in some other departments of the state, there was no responsible head. The subject then dropped, and their lordships adjourned at 20 minutes to seven. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—(YESTERDAY.) The atnemEx took the chair at four o'clock. PRIVATE BUSINESS. The Lords' amendments to the Birkenhead, Lancashire and Yorkshire Junction Railway, and East Kent Railway Bills were considered and agreed to. The following bills were read a third time and passed :—Berks and Hants Ex tension Railway, Dublin and Wicklow Railway, Great Northern and Western (of Ireland) Railway, Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway (Rochdale and Royton Branches), Ludlow Roads, National Fire and Life Insurance Company of Scotland, Silverdale and Newcastle-under-Lyme, Rail way, Sittingbonrne and Sheerness Railway (Additional Capita], &c.),West London Rail wa y, W est E n d of London and Crystal Palace Railway (No. 3), London and North Western Railway (Denton to Staly bridge), Midland Great Western of Ireland (Liff e y b ranc h, &c.), North Staffordshire Railway Bill. THE APPROACHING CONFERENCE. Lord ELCHO, gave notice that on Monday week on the motion for going into eommitte,e of supply, he would move that it would be consistent neither with the honour nor the dignity of this country, which has preserved strict neutrality with reference to the hostilities on the Continent, and used endeavours to preserve peace,to take any part in the conference for the purpose of settling the details of a peace, the pieliminaries of which had been arranged between the Emperor of _the French and the Emperor of Austria. (Hear,. hear.) THE BALLOT. The O'DONOGHITE presented a petition, signed by 10,000 inhabitants of Kerry, in favour of the adoption of the vote by ballot. CANDIDATES FOR DIPLOMATIC SERVICE. Mr. WISE asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, whether he proposed to sanction the altered regula tions ordered by the Earl of Malmesbury for the Examina tion of candidates for diplomatic service ; or whether he contemplated the re-establishment of the regulations which were settled by the Earl of Clarendon in 1855, and were approved of by the Civil Service Commissioners as calcu lated to secure the aid of well-qualified persons for the public service. Lord J. RUSSELL said that the altered regulations made but at Iti!•:rd Malmesbury did not require his sanction, same time he would remark that he did not think there was good reason for the alterations in question. Mr. 'WISE al e ß. CHURCHWARD. it Was true that the Secretary to the Admiralty whether in Deptford Dock ( Tnirchward, jun., a second-class clerk receiver of Chat shamr, had t been recently apcsinted store which led to ogreat ockyard ; what were the services salaries of the two offices a_promotion ; and what were the said t t a iV . ed to ? Lord C. PAGET he aar. Churchward had formerly received £255 a year and year. The reason of the recent now in receipt of £450 a man he must leave to the late appointment of the gentle answer, as it was made while he was iohf. office. Admiralty to THE TERMS OF PLACE. Mr. HORSMAN asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, whether the French or Austrian. Govern ments had communicated to the British Cabinet the con ditions of the peace conclu ded at Villafra nca, and the mode in which it was proposed to give effect to them; an d whether the co-operation of England and the other Neutral Powers had bee* invited for that purpose ? Lord J. RUSSELL said that the preliminaries of p eace had been communicated to her Majesty's Government, but they were not in a state to be laid before the house, but on Thursday next he would be in a position to make a state ment on this subject. PHYSICIANS OF THE ROYAL COLLEGES. Lord FERMOY asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he intended to remit or reduce the stamp dut on the diplomas for license or fellowship of the Royal Collyeges of Physicians of London, Edinburgh, and Dublin, and the degrees granted by the universities of Scotland. Mr. LAING was understood to say that it was not in tended to reduce the duty on the - certificates of physicians, and added some other statement which was not audible in the gallery. THE DANUBIAN PRINCIPALITIES. Lord HARRY VANE asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, when the papers relating to the settlement of the government and constitution of the Danubian. Prin cipalities would be laid upon the table of the house ? Lord ot. RUSSELL said that the settlement in question was not )vt completed. He trusted, however, that before another week elapsed the settlement would be made, and then he would lay the papers relating to it on the table. NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY. Lord HOTHAM asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer for an explanation of the following paragraph in the report of the trustees of the National Portrait Gal. lery to the Lords of the Treasury, dated 15th April, 1859 : " Her Majesty's Government ha ve offered to the collection, and the trastees have, with thanks, accepted the great pic tore of the House of Commons at theopenmg. of thefirst Re formed Parliament in Tannery, 1833, as painted by Sir 1 George Hayter, and as recently secured to the nation by a vote of the House of Com mons." Mr. LAING entered i nto an explanation, from which it appeared that the pur chase of the picture had been agreed on by their predecessors in office, and therefore he could not strike it out of the estimates. When the item came before the hou se it could be discussed with more propriety. Mr. DISRAELI said that the picture had been recom mended by two-thirds of the members of the House of Commons, and the memorial presented stated that it was considered a work of great historical interest, and that the house was anxious to possess it. MAGISTRATES AT GREAT YARMOUTH. Mr. MELLOR called the attention of the house to the recent appointment of justices of the peace for the borough of Great Yarmouth; and inquired of her Majesty's Mi nisters whether it was their intention to introduce anymea sure for regulating the appointment of justices of the peace for the boroughs inEngland and Wales. He complained that the appointments of the late Government to the magistracy of Great Yarmouth were influenced by political feeling, and most unjust to the community at large. Sir H. STACEY denied that on examination it would be found there was any ground for complaint in the appoint ments alluded to. Sir G. GREY said that it was not the intention of Government to propose any measure ch as that referred to. He agreed that nothing would be more prejudicial to the just and impartial administration of justice if appointments to the magistracy were made solely on the ground of political sentiments. He beli4ed that in some cases appointments had been made with reference to the wants of a locality, or the number of its inhabitants. He believed also that an unnecessary number of magistrates had been appointed in Lancashire, and the selections in that county were vested in the Chancellor of the Duchy, who was a political officer, and not in the lord-lieutenant of the county. ASSISTANT SECRETARY TO THE POOR-LAW BOARD. Mr. E. P. BOUVERIE asked whether it was proposed to fill up the office of assistant secretary to the Poor-law Board. He considered it was quite unnecessary to fill up the office, and an opportunity was now afforded of making a step in the right direction, that of retrenchment, though i n a comparatively small matter. Sir J. - TROLLOPE agreed with the hon. gentleman. Mr. VILLIERS said that when he acceded to office he found the situation in question vacant, and applied to the Earl of Devon and the hon. member for Wiltshire, as well as other parties best informed and without any interest, and they unanimously recommended the continuance of the ap pointment. ROYAL ENGINEERS. Captain VERNON called the attention of the house to an order issued from the Horse Guards materially affecting the organisation. of the Corps of Royal Engineers, and to move for all correspondence respecting the same. Mr. S. HERBERT said that there was a select commit tee on the subject under the presidency of the right hon. member for Carlisle ; and he thought, therefore, that it would be most inconvenient to enter on the question at pre sent. FOREIGN DESPATCHES. Mr. B. COCHRANE said that after the statement of the noble lord the Foreign Secretary that he would make an explanation on Thursday, he would not ask the question of which he had given notice, namely, whether he would lay on the table of the house copies of the despatches which have passed between the noble lord and Lord Cowley and Sir James Hudson since the announcement of the armistice between France and Austria. HARBOURS OF REFUGE. Mr. PEASE asked the Firs t Lord of the Treasury, whe ther it is the intention of the Government to propose to the house, during the present session, any measure with a view to the encouragement of the formation of harbours of re • fuge on the coasts of the kingdom, in conformity with the report of the Royal Commission oilast year upon this sub ject ? Lord PALMERSTO N said that everybody must be aware of the importance of this subject, but according to the calculations that had been made, the cost of erecting these harbours would bo £4,000,000. However, any per son acquainted with the subject must be aware that the expense of such work generally exceeded the estimates, and the Government did not intend to make any provision this session for the formation of these harbours. SHIP PRINCESS ROYAL. Mr. W. WILLIAMS moved for a return of the name o 1 the captain of her Majesty's ship Princess Royal, who or. dered 2,141 lashes to be inflicted on 53 of the crew of that ship, who were flogged in the year 1857, as stated in a re• turn presented to this house. The return was ordered. THE TREATY. Onpply .the order being read of going into committee o. su Mr. GRIFFITH asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he had reason to believe that there is a provision or understanding in the late Treaty of Villa franca that the late dynasties of Tuscany, Modena, and Parma are to be restored to those possessions, if necessary, by military force; and, if so, whether her Majesty's Go vernment are prepared to take part in any Congiess, or other diplomatic negotiation, having that object. Lord J. RUSSELL said he understood from the Govern ment of the Emperor of the French that there was no pro vision or understanding that those dynasties were ito be restored by military force, and he further understood that it was not the intention of the Emperor of the French to employ force for the purpose of restoring them. THE NATIONAL GALLERY. Mr. CONINGHAM, in moving that it was the opinion of this house that the system of management which now existed at the National Gallery was highly unsatisfactory, and was detrimental to the public service, said the increased expenditure in all departments of the Government was matter of general observation. The people did not feel that they got value for their money, and they were discontented. The expenditure was so great, and the system, as a whole, was so colossal, that no member could deal with it in its en tirety. But with regard to the expenditure on the National Gallery he hoped to be able to show that in that department a bad system had too long prevailed, and it ought to be abo lished. It appeared by the return which he held in his hand, that during the last 12 years there had been an expenditure of £90,000 for augmenting our national collection of pictures, and he would boldly assert and appeal to those who had a knowledge of pictures, whether the National Gallery as it now stood, compared with what it was before it came under its present administration, had not positively deteriorated. It was not by the quantity of pictures, but by their quality, that a national collection was to be judged. So large quan tity of inferior pictures had been purchased for the National Gallery, that the masterpieces were lost sight of in the mass of rubbish that had been collected around them. In 1857-8 the expenses for the National Gallery amounted to £29,000, but the vote of this year was reduced to £9,000. He was not actuated by any personal feeling towards Sir C. Eastlake, by whom he had always been treated with courtesy ; but a sense of public duty compelled him to set forth the errors of his administration. Since 1845, Sir Charles Eastlake had been attached to the National Gallery in various capacities. He was appointed keeper of the gallery, at a salary.of £ 2OO a-year, but he was soon deprived of that office in consequence of the constant attacks which were made on his administration. He gar chased a Holbein portrait which was a double counterfeit — a counterfeit Holbein and a counterfeit work of art. Thi s picture cost £633. He also purchased a " Youthful Saviour" and a " St. John" as Guido's, but they were described by him (Mr. Coningham) as a disgrace to the National Gallery. He also purchased for £2,604 a work as Titian's, which he (Mr. Coningham) asserted to be spurious. The hon. gen tleman quoted extracts from the Examiner and the Westmin ster Review, in confirmation of his opinion of the bad admi nistration of the National Gallery under Sir C. Eastlake. So much for the comments of the public press. He would now quote Sir C. Eastlake against himself. On the 12th November, 1852, he reported, " I approve of the result of the cleaning of the Queen of Sheba," but in March,. 1853, he wrote, "To my mind the Queen of Sheba has been too much cleaned; the glaze or dirt has been taken off. It wants dirt ; dirt answers the purpose of glazing, and is quite as good." What was the opinion of Hogarth ? He said, "It is absurd to talk of pictures being improved by time or dirt." In May, 1853, Sir C. Eastlake recommended that " The Annunciation" should be left without the glass, that it might be improved by the dirt. He says, "I thin k the dust will give it gusto." That was Sir C. Eastlake's opi nion of the cleaning process. As a specimen of his taste it was only necessary to quote his remark that " early German art was corrupted by the introduction of a classical taste." Even Punch assailed the system ; he said, " Pictures care fully removed. Apply to the director of the Natio nal Gal lery., ' (A laugh.) Honourable gentlemen might laugh, but it was their duty, as guardians of the public purse, to look after this large source of expenditure. He would next call attention to the eight pictures stated in the report to have been purchased this year. The first was an Antonij Moro, purchased from Mr. Nieuwenhuys ; that gentleman was one of the most experienced dealers in London; and it would have been easy to get a good picture from him instead of giving £2OO for such a wretched vamped up specimen. The next was :called a Moretto, purchased for £360; then a Lippi and a Marco Zoppo, purchased for £2OO. The next was a Marco Basaiti, purchased in Florence for £640 This was one of the results of the £6sopaid to the travelling agent. There was not an inch of the original picture left. The next a Zelotte, for £216; and last, was one called a Palmezzano, which was nothing but a coarse, common - place pictura by some tenth: or fifteenth rate artist. The same system of management still went en, except that the destruction of the p ictures b y cleaning had stopped—an admission that the system was wrong. The management made this country an object of ridicule on the continent. When the agent arrived in any place the price of pictures at once went up 500 per cent., and he never got anything but the most indifferent specimens. £12,000 or £14,000 was paid at Venice for the Paul Veronese, and shortly after an English amateur went over and purchased from the same gallery several Titians and Giorgionis, each of which was worth an acre of Veronese. The Paul Veronese was] bought to cover the purcfigsn of " The Ado r ation of the Magi," which after being. handed about for £2OO, was sold to the National Gallery for £2,000. This subject was'one which would test whether the Government were in earnest in their promises of re trenchment and economy ; and i f he had made out his case, the noble lord at the head of the Government was bound not to oppose his resolution. The motion not being seconded fell to the ground. EDUCATION IN IRELAND. Mr. HENNESEY called attention to the failure of the system of mixed education in Ireland. He contrasted the separate denominational sybitem in England with the mixed system in Ireland, and showed that the latter had not ful filled the expectations formed from it, and had not identi fled itself w ith the spirit of the country. He addu ced a variety of facts to show that the results of the Queen's Col leges were in no way commensurate with the expen se, that their stud ents were attracted by an undue proportion of scholarship s 1 i o i‘ ra ir ti . o l n v t i j o the iT E pj m and rewards, and even with this inducement had fallen off. He was, however, willing to trust for ame lioration Irish Governmment. said that the College of Belfast, with which he bad , E 0 Derby acquaintance, was not a failure. The plans of Lord D this respect had not been car ried out. He entered hltOnseveral details to show what, in his M o r p . ini ßr on x , T t o h N e sanystdemmroft o t x to or t. LD having made some remarks. Mr. ADDERLEY hopedttehamt t of he ed tim uca e w tion oul f d o come ° r the me t when hre e t h ere would be a uniform sys kingdoras. Mr. MONSELL said that every person who had ffra d u " ated at the (queen's College had cost the country h-,--000. Could any failure be more signal than this ? Mr. LEFROY demanded that religious teaching should THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENINQ, 31T.LY 23, 1.869. the grants would ere long reach the enormous amount of £3,000,000 per annum. They had, therefore, the highest authority to lead them to believe that the grants were ra • . pidly increasing, and would soon arrive at a sum which would demand the most serious consideration of the house as the trustee of the public purse. (Hear, hear.) These grants began about the year 1832 with the sum of £20,000. In 1847 they had crept up to £lOO,OOO ; in 1856 they were £451,000 ; and in 1859 they were £836,000, being an in crease of no less than 26 per cent. on the grant of the pre vious year. The system of capitation grants began in 1854 by a stroke of the pen in Downing-street, and with out one word of explanation or defence uttered in that house. What was the scale :upon which they were first introduced? It - was this :—that they were to be applied to the small towns and rural districts; and it was estimated that they would extend to one-half of the population of England and Wales. Two years after wards, by another stroke of the pen in Downing street, and without any discussion in Parliament, those grants were extended to the other half of England—to all the richer districts and the large towns, and he could state from his own knowledge that of two schools in Leeds receiv ing a large amount of the capitation grant one cf them be longed to the most wealthy manufacturer in the whole county —a man not only of great wealth, but of large liberality. Another case was that of the most wealthy and excellent school, viz., the school of St. George's Church, to which belonged one of the most respectable, liberal, and pious con gregations possible and well able to support the school, and yet because the public money was offered to that school, that respectable, that liberal and wealthy body received it without the slightest previous demand having been made for it. That was one of the most wanton and most unwar rantable wastes of public money that had ever come under his notice. (Hear, hear.) And they were going on in that way now, and expending the public money to an extent which threatened to embarrass the Chancellor of the Ex chequer. The same objections arose with regard to 'the schools in Scotland and Wales, and this year the capitation grant was to be made in aid of night schools. If the parties —most of whom it should be remembered were in the receipt of wages—attended one night a week, they were to receive That was a squandering of the utterly without precedent, and he a n i a d ti fr on o al m ftunhedpau wh i ch i oh money was did entreat the right hon. gentleman to attend to his state ments. Then, again, the committee wore allowing public grants to enter into competition with private efforts. Me chanics' institutions were origin!ited for the purpose of con veying instruction in the evening to the working classes, but the committee were, by giving away the public money, taking away the subscribers from those institutions. In Yorkshire they had no less than 138 mechanics' institutions with 25,000 subscribers, and of these 8,000 or 9,000 were instructed in the evening, but the system pursued by the committee would damage those institutions very materially. (Hear, hear.) Then as to the training colleges, the vote last year was £67,700, but this year it was no less than £122,000. They were spending £26 for every student who chose to enter one of these colleges for instruction ,• if that were a necessity he should not begrudge it, but it was not. Then, again, the British and Foreign School Society formerly expended large sums for instructing teachers—the object for which it was established—but now the whole amount required was charged upon the public funds. That was a most unnecessary and profitless waste of the public money. It should be recollected that the Government did not educate other classes of society except schoolmasters, and he would venture to tell the committee that it was not a safe, solid, or right thing to distinguish between that class and other classes. The right hon. gen tleman said the proof of a good system was known by its results, but he did not show that there were results from the present system which would not have been arrived at without this system, and results which justified this enor mous expenditure. The right hon. gentleman said there were 821.000 scholars in connection with the system, but were those new scholars ? There was no proof that there was one new scholar, and the probability was that there was not one ; for it appeared from the census report of Horace Mann that from 1818 to 1833 the number of day scholars in England increased from 674,000 to 1,276,000, or at an increase in 15 years of 89 per cent., and during the whole of that time not one 6d. of public money was granted in either aid of buildings or instruction in England and Wales. Then from 1833 to 1851 the increase was from 1,276,000 to 2,144,000, or at the rate of 68 per cent. ; and though during nearly the whole of that period Parliament had made no grants in aid of annual expenses, yet in 1847, and since, grants were made for building schools. Now, whereas no grants were made in the period, the increase was 89 per cent. ; in the latter it was only at the rate of 68 per cent. (Hear, hear.) He had no sectarian feeling in this matter. (Laughter.) He was sure hon. gentlemen who laughed did not understand him. (Hear, hear.) He was open to approve of all systems of education which did not infringe on the rights of conscience, nor had he ever expressed jealousy of the growth of Church of England schools. The number of day scholars in 18 37,was 558 , 000 ; in 1837 it had increased to 955,000 ; and in the report just published the numbers were given for 1857 as 1,187.000. In the former period of 10 years the increase was 62 per cent., during a time ir. which no money was granted ; and in the latter decade the increase was only 24 per cent., notwithstading that millions were granted. (Hear, hear.) He thought these were most important facts. He fully believed the increase of day scholars was less since the system of grants wasbegun than it was before. (Hear.) It was stated the national system had failed in Ireland ; and it was very singular that no hon. member said that system bad not failed from one source or another. The Rev. Mr. Warren had lately published a report on this subject which was of great importance. The rev. gentleman said children only remained on the average three years at school. He differed with the rev. gentleman on that point. The fact was, the children remained at one school only two or three years ; but as the poor were always removing the children were always changing their schools. In 1851 Mr. Horace Mann said the average of the attendance of every child in England and Wales was no less than five years. (Hear.) As every child in the kingdom did not go to school, of course the average was much higher for those who did. (Hear.) There were several of the principal Dissenting bodies which by their own principles were deprived of any opportunity of receiving any benefits from these grants. The Independents and the Baptists could receive no assist ance from them. He would ask was there not a great hard ship on sects who could not so receive grants, in being'com pelled to pay for such grants to other religious bodies. (Hear.) With his own views he could not bring himself to make persons pay for that which they did not conscien tiouslyrel(H believe in. He would give the Roman Catholics everything that he claimed for himself. (Hear.) He trusted the committee would believe hy, and e h e thanked enter t ained thethed h views omweshe mexipttreeesser, ihtsonkeinstdlylyabnedarsiningce. ear, hear.) Mr. ADDERLEY said that the system of national edu cation had invariably turned out thmughout the whole king dom to be denominational, and according to his experience it was the only system which could be effectually carried out. (Hear, hear.) The hon. gentleman who had just spoken complained of the enormous expense of that system, and they would all symp athise with him to that extent, and agree that the gradual increase of the vote deserved imme diate consideration; but, when he said the voluntary sys tem was sufficient for national education, he must be per fectly oblivious as to the state of education before the pre sent system was established. (Hear, hear.) As to whether the present system would be a permanent one, or whether it was merely an experiment, he answered that would de pend upon the policy of the Administration which con ducted it. If their policy was sound, and they properly controlled the expenditure, he thought it would be perma nent ; but if they adopted an unsound policy, and spent the money carelessly, the system would come to an end. Mr. COWPER said it was a mistake to suppose this vote would bo regulated by mere administration. No doubt the expenditure would be open to the Government so long as the minutes remained as they now were, and they must make up their minds to the increase while the minutes re mained what they were. Though the vote was a large one there was no doubt that the committee would grant the money, provided the results were commensurate with the expenditure. As to the capitation grant, no doubt some of the schools did not require it; but on the whole it would manifestly be a great hardship upon many schools to withdraw the grant. He could not agree that the pro posed night schools would interfere with the schools of the same class already existing. He even thought the Govern ment might go further, and assist the schools connected with mechanics', institutes. These mechanics' institutes were I rapidly becoming most important sources of instruction. They do not extend merely to reading and writing, but they embrace natural history, science, and many other branches of knowledge which were calculated to communi cate a good moral tone to the people. It was well known that botany and horticulture were much cultivated to Lan cashire, and these schools would tend greatly to promote those studies. Until we were prepared to make a great or ganic change, he thought they must makeup their minds to advance this large sum for the sake of the moral im provement and education of the people. (Hear.) Sir J. PAKINGTON said, in answer to the appeal which had been made to him, that he could not say he was prepared to modify the opinions he had before expressed on this subject. But although he was not prepared to enter into the subject at length, he could not refrain from express ing his extreme admiration at the speech of the right hon. member for Leeds (Mr. Baines)—(hear) —and the pleasure be felt at hearing the right hon. member state so clearly the views which he was known to entertain of this subject. He (Sir J. Pakington) was afraid that the right hon. gentle man's aspect of this question was taken from a very different point of view than his own, but he could not but admire the zeal which the right hon. member had so long displayed. To a certain extent he and the hon. gentleman both viewed with distrust the immense amount to which the voee had risen ; but the hon. member did so because he altoge ther disapproved of State assistance for the purpose of edu cation, while his own objection was based on a serious doubt that ,they were giving that assistance in the wisest and most economical mode. (Hear, hear.) On several past oc casions he had warned the house with regard to the rapid growth of this vote ; and he had no doubt if the present system were persevered in, the amount would, as already stated, speedily reach the sum of from £2,500,000 to £3,000,000. The bad effects of a centralised syst6m were as much as possible obviated in practice, but there was no doubt that by the mode in which the grant was being ad ministered, it was acquiring some of the evils alluded to. He had no objection to the expenditure of any requisite amount for the accomplishment of the object proposed ; but ho did not believe it possible for any central board in Lon don to dispense the funds so as to acquire the greatest pos sible amount of advantage. He would not, however, vote against the present system until he saw a prospect of abet ter one being established in its stead. (Hear, hear.) He wished to ask the President of the Board of Trade, in the first place, whether the Duke of Newcastle still continued to act as the president of the committee appointed last year, and whether in the event of other and more onerous occupations rendering it necessary that he shbuld relinquish that post, the right honourable gentleman was prepared to state whom the Government would ap point as the successor of that noble lord. He also wished to know at, what period there was a prospect of their receiving the report of the committee. He agreed in thinking that neither the mind of the house nor that of the public could be prepared for any great changes before that report was made public and was fully considered. Mr. LIDDELL said although the grant was unquestion tionably a large one, he considered that it had been far from profitless in its results. The great difficulty which was to be encountered lay in the unwillingness of parents in humble life to allow their.children to avail themselves of the advantages of education; but from the pains and expen diture which had been bestowed on the rising generation, he believed that similar difficulties would not be experienced with the future race of parents in those classes. (Hear.) Mr. WALTER said that the reports of the inspectors very inadequately represent the extent of education in the country, for they in no way related to those schools under the voluntary system. Mr. HENLEY had no intention of taking part in the dis cussion were it not for some observations which had fallen from-the right hon. gentleman the Vice-President of the Comtnittee of Council. He quite agreed that there were some defects in the present system, but until they obtained a better system they had better go on with the one they ' had. The right hon. gentleman said that one of the great neither be compulsorily enforced nor compulsorily ex- eluded. Lord NAAS auguredthe greatest good to Ireland from the temperate spirit in which the subject was now treated by all parties. As for the national syste.m, it had been productive of great good ; but it had departed from its original plan, and could no longer be counted as a nee onalsystem. The su bjecti had been deeply considered by the late Government, and if they had remained in office they would have presented a scheme for extending the sphere .of usefulness of the system. He could not agree that the English system should be transferred to Ireland, It was true that some ' thing should be done, and he trusted that the.present Ad ministration would put an end to the present difficulties. After some remarks by Mr. ESNONDE, Mr. CARDWELL expressed his surprise that the Queen's Colleges should be regarded as failures, when all the difficulties of their origin and position were taken into account. What they had done gave every reason for hope and encouragement. It was idle merely to quote the num ber of graduates, they should consider the number of those who received education without requiring a degree. Com paring the results of the new academies with those of others, he saw no reason for di ssatisfaction. The cairn temper of the present debate was a sufficient proof of their beneficent influence. He further denied that the national system, even in the point of view of being a mixed system, had failed. The practical result had, in every way, been invaluable to Ireland. He could not pledge the Government to any course on a mat ter of so much difficulty and delicacy, but he would give it his most careful consideration, m aintaining strictly the principles under which the national system was founded. SUPPLY—EDUCATION VOTE. The house then went into a committee of supply. Upon the vote of £930,000 for education, Mr. LOWE said he would first refer to the amount required for England, which in the vote was £836,000. In the first place it was interesting to watch the increase of this vote. The first vote taken under the minute of Privy Council was in 1840, and amounted to £10,642. It gradually advanced year by year. In, 1849 it was £109,948 ; in 1852, £lBB,OOO ; in 1853, £250,000 ; in 1854, £356,000; in 1855, £369,000 ; in 1856, £423,000 ; in 1857, £559,000 ; in 1858, £658,000. The vote asked for this year included various sums to make up the deficiencies in past years. • In the year terminating the 31st March, 1857, there was an excess of expenditure over the estimate of £18,501; in the year terminating the 31st March, 1858, there was an excess of expenditure over the estimate 0f112,409 ; and in the year terminating the 31st March, 1859, there was an excess of expenditure over estimates of of £44,652, making a total excess of expend' tare over estimates, for these three years of £75,566. It must be remembered that the estimates in this, lepartment stood in a totally different position from those in every other department of the Government. They were not properly estimates, they were conjectures. The Govern ment offered money to the whole kingdom upon certain conditions, and any one who complied with these condi tions was entitled to receive the public money. (Hear, hear.) It was not possible, therefore, for this department accurately to estimate the demands which would be made upon it. The result was that, deducting the sum of £75,566 from the sum asked, there appeared to be an increase in the vote of about £97,919, which was about the general rate of annual increase. This arose mainlyfrom the fact that the system has spread wider and wider—that the demand for education has increased, and that the public is availing itself of the facilities afforded by the Government of improving its education. The item for building was the only one that had not increased in the estimates for this year. Having placed before the committee the result of the estimates, he would now willingly leave them to be dealt with by the committee, were it not usual for those occupy ing the position which he had the honour to hold to make some statement upon the subject of education in this coun try. (Hear.) The house was aware that a commission was I being held, presided over by the Duke of Newcastle, to con eider the subject of public education in this country. It would be improper in him (Mr. Lowe) to trouble the com mittee with any speculations as to the best form of educa tion. He would merely place before them what appeared to him to be the good features, and what the defects in the present system of education. Any candid and impartial person must admit that the system possessed many and great advantages. In thefirst place, it had arisen naturally outof the existing state of things without any disturbance of exist ing feelings and institutions. (Hear, hear.) It had sprung up by availing itself of the machinery already existing in those great voluntary religious bodies which occupied the spiritual domains in this country. The system had shown itself capable of extension according to its natural wants, and there was no greater proof of its quality than this natu ral power of extension according . as necessity required. They saw the result of the system in the number of schools which it had created throughout the country; for although those schools were to a great extent the result of private bounty, yet the continuance of the fund at the disposal of the Government had called forth acts of benevolence and private liberality which otherwise might not have been exhibited. The present system found popular education in the most rude state, and had substituted for it a good sound popular education, and wherever it was introduced it was found to furnish a standard education. By the machinery of pupil teachers it had raised xp an intelligent body of instructors, the posses sion of which was of the utmost service to a country which desired to advance civilisation. It had also stimulated the energies of the teachers, by securing to them a minimum salary, and giving them an augmentation of salary accord ing to the prosperity of their school. This induced them not to remain content with their present positions, but led them to aim at the accomplishment of something higher in their profession. By the education of pupil teachers it had also greatly improved the secondary as well as the primary education of the classes to which these pupil teachers for the most part belonged. These schools throughout the country were able, through the medium of the Government, to obtain their school-books at a reduction of 40 per cent. from the publishing price, which was a matter of great im portance to them. The fund at the disposal of the Govern ment had been the means of augmenting the salaries of the teachers, and this had contributed very materially to im prove their position. By the constant system of inspection it had raised the standard of education throughout the country, and had made the teachers feel that they must not rest upon their oars, but must endeavour to improve the character of their school. Every candid person must admit that the advantages of the system were of no ordi nary importance, and they must all feel that if they were to put at end to it now the good which they had accom plished was very great, and that the £3,700,000 which had been spent upon these schools had not been misapplied. (Hear.) Having pointed out what appeared to him to be the advantages of the system, he would now refer to what seemed to him to be the drawbacks of the system ; and he must say that they did not at all appear to be the result of the administration, but to be inherent in the system. The first objection was that no aid was given by the Go vernment, except where a certain fund had been contributed by voluntary efforts. The consequence was that in those parts where schools were most required, but where the re sidents were too poor to contribute anything, no schools were established. (Hear, hear.) Another evil was the neces sity of laying down strict rules, and making a great num ber of hard cases. But that evil was a necessity, as, unless these rules were strictly adhered to, the demands would in crease so rapidly, that it would be impossible to comply with them. Another evil attending the system was that it created a great number of denominational differences. When the system was first established, the trustees of schools were very loose in framing their trust deeds; but when it was found that the Government assisted thevoluntary systems of different denominations, the result was that the deeds were prepared with the greatest strictness, and the various sects of religion were marked in the sharpest manner. He thought it was to be regretted that the public money should be employed in endowing schools which were founded upon exclusive principles. (Hear.) He thought the sugg estion of the hon. and learned member for Belfast (sir H . Cairns) upon another subject was worthy of consideration, viz., that the schools should be required to insert a conscience clause, admitting to the school the children of Dissenters who entertained conscientious objections to the religious teaching of the school. There was another objection. The various denominations of schools required that the inspec tors should be members of their denominations. Remem bering that there were eight or nine different denomina tions, a much larger number of inspectors was required than would otherwise be sufficient. But for this he thought that one-third of the number might be dispensed with. There was also great perplexity in the manner in which the vari ous particulars connected with the schools were taken ac count of in the office. For instanoe, there were no less than 15,000 pupil teachers receivin g diferent rates of salaries, located in different schools , and an account of the position, salary, and character of each of these had to be kept, and every charm() made against them had to be registered. This necessarily led to great complexity of accounts. He would also mention another difficulty, and that was that the practice of granting . public money to the managers of the schools had in it a disadvantage arising from those gen tlemen not being an incorporated, but an exceedingly uncertain _and fluctuating, body. Although these were serious drawbacks to the system, he did not state them with a view of prejudicing the mind f the house in any way, but as his humble tribute towards the formation of a full Judg ment upon the subject He would just go into the question of what might be the dimensions of•this system. At the present moment they had under instruction about 821,000 children, and the estimate for these was £761,000, or some thing like £1 per head for each child. At the same time there were about 3,000,000 children who ought to be brought un der the agency of a system of public education. It was not likely that number could be soon attained ; but he would place before the committee the following conclusions as being rather striking—that in order to educate the 3,000,000 children who might come under the control of the educa tional board, they would require an army of 200 inspectors, 18,000 schoolmasters and schoolmistresses, and 45,000 pupil teachers, and other things in proportion. These were very grave considerations ; and, of course, there were two views to take of such a system as this—the one, to rejoice that they were spending so much money in doing good ; and the other, to regret that so much responsibility should be con • tinually increasing, and that such a burden should be thrown upon the Chancellor of the Exchequer. With re spect to the schools of art he might state that returns from the scientific institutions, including schools of navigation, showed the number of students to be 65,212, and that in the art schools 79,473 persons were learning drawing, being an increase of 83 per cent on those of 1857. These draw ing schools were gradually emancipating themselves from the parent stock and succeeding alone, and so far it must be allowed that that department was in a gratifying condi tion. He thanked the committee for the attention they had paid him. He could only hope they might be enabled, by union, caution, judgment, and liberality and mutual concession on all sides, to arrive at some solution of the question, which, while it gave no offence to the dif ferent creeds of religion in the country, would really give the people of England a thoroughly good education. to fit them for those stations in life in which they might be placed. (Hear, hear.) Mr. BAINES said he never had any other opinion but that it was their duty to secure the universal education of the people, and never to rest satisfied until they had at tained that end. At the same time, however, he felt some serious alarm at the rapid progress of these educational es timates. Only a year or two ago the present Chancellor of the Exchequer said that he did not scruple to view with treat jealousy the constant growth of the educational vote; and a man who might be considered higher in position in regard to the question, namely, the Rev. Frederick Temple, head master of Rugby, and late head of the inspectors under the Committee of Council, had said that two-thirds of the grant had not been spent in promoting education, but in relieving others from the burden of doing so. The right hon. gentleman (Mr. Lowe) had drawn attention with much candour to the amazing rapidity with which these grants had increased, and the late Chancellor of the Ex chequer had led the house to believe last year that possibly defects of the system was that the stringent character of The substance of the wall of the vagina protruded, Aveling, recommending the case to his kind con the trust deeds made it too exclusive; but if that was an and this portion appeared to be lifeless. However, sideration. The statement in the petition was that evil it was brought about by the Privy Council causing it to Dr. Wilson replaced it, and afterwards treated the the aid of the benevolent was earnestly solicited be suspected that they wanted to introduce what were known as the conscience clauses. The chief portion of the educe- lacerated part with chlorate of lime and of soda, in for a poor woman having a large family, and whose tional movement had been set about by the religious f ee ling consequence of his p erce i v i ng th a t th ere was a h us b an d h a d b een so mu ch injur e d by th e f a lli ng of the country, and the parties having that feling, whe- sloughy discharge. The deceased lived until the of a building as to incapacitate him from earning ther it be interfered w rigth.ht or If wroanngy , w t would not allow themselves direc to be 22d April, and then died of th e e ff ec t s p ro d uce d by a n y more mone y f or h e r support and that of her i attempt ad th - tion it would make them still more exclusive. Within the the wound. Medical witnesses for the prosecution children. Appended to the petition were the names last few years all jealousy upon this subject had passed admitted on cross-examination that the instruments of reverend gentlemen and others, who, as alleged, away, and he therefore hoped the Government would not used by the prisoner are sometimes properly em- had contributed in various ways. take any step which would have the effect of blowing up a ployed for the purpose for which it was alleged the The witness added that as his master had lately flame, and thus they would get anew into all the trouble prisoned had used them, but they were of opinion been swindled under similar circumstances he told from which they had escaped. Gentlemen of the Estab- • fished Church looked upon the children in their schools as that if used with ordinary skill and caution such a the prisoner that he was engaged, and he desired placed in their spiritual trust, and Government would never laceration could not be made, except it were osca- her to call again the next morning. She did so, be able to make them, by Act of Parliament, give up their sioned by some extraordinary and sudden move- and he (witness) gave her a sovereign, which, by a religious convictions. The hon, gentleman the member for ment of the patient, although some medical men preconcerted arrangement with a constable, who Berks had raised a question with great force and great take the precaution of using padded instruments, was in the house awaiting her arrival, was marked. truth, namely, the extent of the education under the cog- and lacerations might sometimes occur in spite of It was further shown that the prisoner after she nisance of the Government inspectors. He did not think the Privy Council had to do with more than one-third of the greatest skill and caution. ' left the premises with the money given to her was the present number of children at school. If there had been On the part of the prosecution it was suggested followed a considerable distance by the police-con that incr ease of population since the census of 1851 which it that the prisoner had either been deficient of ordi- stable, and was then taken into custody. She ad was reasonable to expect, there would be 2,400,000 children nary skill and caution, or had, by intoxication, mitted the petition was an imposture, but she was in school but in the schools under (Hear.) There was a vast pe rendered himself unfit to discharge his duties. remanded till the officers of the Mendicity Society there were not more than 800,000. number of schools which did not want aid from Government, The evidence of the witnesses for the prosecution could be communicated with. or, if they wanted it, would not receive it if any strain was was conflictinc , upon the question of the prisoner's put upon their consciences. He should oppose any measure condition as to e ' sobriety on the night of the llth. which should interfere with men going to heaven their own Some of the witnesses spoke of his appearing to be way, and teaching the children whatever religion they " fresh" and staggering up the stairs, which were chose. With regard to the expense, he thought that in =red upon the training of pupil teachers was one very narrow, on his return with the instruments. which ought to be strictly watched, and might in a One of them declared that he was perfectly sober, short time cease altogether, for in the general education of and it did not appear that during the whole time the country they would, without going to such expense for he was with deceased he took any stimulant beyond it, get a supply of teachers fully equal to the demand. In- a single glass of brandy-and-water, which was give deed, he doubted greatly if those whom they now educated for teachers really became schoolmasters and schoolmis- him by one of the women in attendance, by direc tresses after all, tion of the deceased's husband. Mr. Thackeray had After a few words num Mr. Puller, Mr. Hadfield, and it appeared, been attending other cases during the Mr. D. Robertson, previous night, and was not only a nervous man, Sir S. NORTHCOTE said it had been truly stated that but was much exhausted. The witnesses for the the vote before them was founded not so much on estimates as to the as minutes, or rather conjectures of what might be sane prosecution concurred in theirevidence tioned by the Privy Council. Some time ago the corn- kindness and tenderness with which throughout he mittee was really a committee of the Privy Council, at had treated the deceased. which the Treasury was represented by the First Lord and Mr. O'Brien having addressed the jury, the Chancellor of the Exchequer; but since the appoint- His Lordship summed up, and commented on the ment of the Vice President for Education neither the First facts and law of the case, on its importance both to Lord nor the Chancellor of the Exchequer. had anything more to do with it. It would be very desirable, therefore, the security of the public and to the calm and effec to come to adopt some system which would have the effect tual discharge of their duties by medical men, who of keeping down the amount, and of submitting to the were often called upon to act in cases of great and Treasury the propositions of the committee before they were sudden emergency. passed into minutes; their financial effect would thus be particularly challenged, and perhaps modified. The jury retired to deliberate, and after an ab- The CHANCELLOR . of the EXCHEQUER rose for sence of some hours, returned a verdict of guilty, the purpose of echoing his hon. friend in what he had said ; with a recommendation to mercy. for at the time he referred to the votes of the house were The prisoner was sentenced to 12 months' im administered under a committee of six or seven members prisonment without hard labour. of the Cabinet, the Treasury being represented by the First Lord and the Chancellor of the Exchequer; so that the members of the committee had to pass under the view of those who were responsible for the financial department. Since the important change which now prevailed was made, the members did not go near the Treasury at all, and he did not think the house were apprised or comprehended that such would be the consequences of this change when it was introduced. It well deserved the attention of the Govern ment, because it was not prudent nor convenient that a document forming, in fact, a standing contract with the country, should take effect and raise expectations when it had never been sanctioned. Mr. LOWE said, with regard to the pupil teachers, as to whom a question was asked, about 12 per cent. did not complete their course of education ; and of the 87 per cent. remaining, 76 per cent. became schoolmasters ; and he was not able to say what became of the others, but very proba • bly the rest of them became schoolmasters. With regard to the commission about which the right hon. member for Droitwich put a question, he knew nothing, nor when they might be able to report. What the hon. member who hail moved this amendment proposed was, to reduce the vote by £lOO,OOO ; but as the expenditure did not depend on esti mates but on the minutes, the effect of it would be that next year he would have to ask for £lOO,OOO more to meet the deficit occasicnecl by this amendment. Mr. HENLEY said that this was a very awful state of things. The Chancellor of the Exchequer had told them that he had no control over these votes, and now it appeared that the house had none. That was rather awful. (A laugh.) Mr. HADFIELD withdrew his amendment, and the vote was agreed to. The CHAIRMAN reported progress, and the house resumed. The report of the committee of ways and means was brought up and a g reed to, and a bill was ordered to be brought in, founded on the resolutions. The Boundaries (Ireland) Bill was read a second time. The Westminster New Bridge Bill went through corn mittee THE LEDB UR Y MURDER. Further disclosures of a startling character have been made within the last felv days with respect to this horrible crime, the commission of which is hemmed about with so much of mystery. When Mrs. Baker was murdered and her body burned, the money stolen, which amounted to £47, comprised two notes for £5 each, issued from the Bank of England. Vigilant and protracted inquiries were made, both by detective Wil liamson and the local police, to trace these notes, but, as all these inquiries failed, it was sup posed that the murderer had demolished the notes, and thus destroyed a dangerous item of evidence. When John Isaac Jones, the prisoner in custody was searched, he was even made to unscrew his cork leg from the remains of the natural limb, to see if the notes were secreted at the juncture. Amongst other places, the bedroom in Mr. Bowkett's house which had been occupied by the prisoner, was rigorously examined,and it was presumed that no further eluci dation could be gained in that quarter. But this has since been proved to be a mistake. Since Jones has been in custody inquiries have of course been prosecuted with undiminished energy, and a few days ago Superintendent Tanner, of the Ledbury district, took from the grate in the room where Jones formerly slept a small quantity of paper ashes. These, upon closer examination, showed traces of having been printed on, and when subjected to a strong microscopic test were perceived to be the remains of Bank of E-'gland notes. They were conveyed to Lon don, to form the subject of scientific experi ments, and it is expected that it will be ascertained that the notes of which the remains have teen so strangely traced bore the mark of having been through th,4 Ledbury Bank. Mr. Masefield, just before the robbery and murder, was in possession of eight £5 Bank of England notes, the numbers of which, running irregularly, were known to him and preserved. Six of those notes were paid away by him, and the other two were stolen on the night of the crime. Five out of the six notes thus in circu lation have been traced and recovered, so that, if these ashes can be really identified, they will fur nish a very strong item of presumptive evidence against the prisoner Jones. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.-July 21. (Before Mr. Bodkin, Assistant-Judge.) James Wiltshire, a guardsman (Coldstream), surrendered to take his trial on a charge of wilfully inflicting upon a boy grievous bodily harm. Mr. Daly was for the prosecution, and Mr. F. II Lewis for the defendant. It appeared that some boys, among them the pro secutor, the son of very respectable parents, named Leverson, were playing a game called " duck," near Museum-street, on the 4th instant, when the de fendant went up, and, according to the evidence of one of them, struck Leverson under the left ear and stunned him. After that he picked him up by the leg and back part of his trousers, swung him round, and then his arm was broken in two places. After the assault the defendant ran away, but was followed and charged. The boys obsti nately denied that the term " lobster" was applied to the defendant by any of them. Mr. Lewis, for the defence, urged that it was in credible that a man who had been five years an exemplary soldier, and had fought in the Crimea, could be guilty of doing this injury to the poor boy wilfully and maliciously. He had been irritated by some quarrel between Leverson and his young brother, and struck him in a moment of passion, hut without any intention of doing him injury. The prisoner's sergeant said the prisoner's con duct was orderly and excellent. He had been in the regiment five years, and had never been re ported, and served in tlxe Crimea eight or nine months. COUNTRY MARKETS. The Local Government Supplemental Bill was read a second time. The Bankruptcy and Insolvency (Ireland) Act Amend ment Bill was read a third time and passed. The Consolidation Fund (L 7,000,000) Bill went through committee. MEDICAL ACT AMENDMENT BILL. On the motion for the second reading of this bill, Sir E. GROGAN urged its postponement. Mr. WHITESIDE ojected to postpone it. The house then divided. For the second reading Against The jury found the defendant guilty on the count for a common assault. The defendant, in answer to the learned judge, said he was very sorry for what had occurred, and the injury was quite accidental. He was willing to do all he could by way of compensation. The Assistant-Judge asked if the defendant would be subjected to any military punishment after he came out of prison ? The sergeant said he would not. When his time was up they would send to the prison for him. The Assistant-Judge said, considering all the cir cumstances, the sentence would be four months' hard labour. Majority for the second reading .. 101 The bill was then read a second time. PAWNBROKERS BILL. This bill passed througb. committee. UNIVERSITIES (SCOTLAND) BILL. This bill also passed thrmigh committee. DIPLOMATIC PENSIONS BILL. This bill was read a third time and passed. POOR LAW BOARDS (PAYMENT OF DEBT) BILL This bill was referred to a select committee. NORWICH ELECTION PETITIONS. Mr. E. JAMES moved that it be an instruction to the General Committee of Elections to suspend their proceedings in the matter of the petition of the electors of the city and county of the city of Norwich, which was presented upon the 17th of June last, against the return of Mr. H. W. Schneider and Viscount Bury, until the examiner of recog nisances had reported on three other petitions subsequently presented to the house against the return of Viscount Bury, and which subsequent petitions related to the same election as the petition presented against the return of Mr. W. H. Schneider and Viscount Bury on the 17th of June last. Sir F. BARING said that, as a member of the mommit tee, it was his duty to state that they came to the conclusion that they had not power by law to do what the hon. and learned gentleman proposed. If the committee had made a mistake in the decision they had come to, they would be glad to be set right, but they believed their decision was correct. Sir G. GREY asked the house not to interfere at all. Their jurisdiction in this respect was limited by the act of Parliament, and they could really come to no decision upon the question before them. The motion was negatived without a division. SUPPLY. Lard PALMERSTON said the Government proposed to go on with the estimates on Monday morning at 12 o'clock. COUNTY POLICE. Mr. CLIVE obtained leave to bring in a bill to amend the law concerning tho police in counties and boroughs in England and Wales. The bill was subsequently brought: in and read a third time. THE QUEEN'S REMEMBRANCER. Sir G. C. LEWIS obtained leave to bring in a bill to amend the law relative to the office of the Queen's Remem brancer, and the bill was brought in and read a first time. The house adjourned at half-past one to 12 o'clock on M onday. ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. MIDLAND CIRCUIT.-NOTTINGHAM, JULY 22 • CROWN COURT. (Before Chief Justice Erle.) Daniel Gilpin Thackeray, surgeon, surrendered to take his trial upon an indictment charging him with the manslaughter of Eliza Connor. He was also charged on the coroner's inquisition. Mr. Boden and Mr. Huish conducted the prose cution ; Mr. O'Brien and Mr. Manson defended the prisoner. The charge imputed that the prisoner had caused the death of the deceased by mal praxis, as surgeon, and the facts of the case were briefly these: — The prisoner, a surgeon in large practice among the poorer class of people in Radford, a suburb of Nottingham, was, in the afternoon of Monday, April 11, called to attend Eliza Connor the deceased, who was expecting to be delivered of her first child, having been in labour from the previous Sunday night. Mr. Thackeray arrived about 3in the after noon, and remained abouthalf an hour ; he returned again between 9 and 10 at night, and expressed an opinion that she was getting on nicely, and made an endeavour to assist her in the ordinary manner. The deceased was very restless, and intreated Mr. Thackeray to assist her ; he used every endeavour to soothe and encourage her, remaining with her until 4 in the morning, together with several female relatives of the patient, who %ere acting as nurses. He then went out for a short time, his house being near, and returned, having changed his trousers, and bringing instruments with him, whi c h he shortly afterwards made use of, using the usual preliminaries in preparing them, and calling on the women who were present to assist him with the light, and• in holding the patient. One of these assistants fell sick and was obliged to retire, and Mr. Thackeray made use of the instruments, not, as was alleged on his part, with a view to affect an immediate deiivery, but to change the posture of the child, so as to assist the natural birth. After this, while sitting on a light cane chair, he fell upon the floor with the instru ments in his hand, and Mrs. Elliott, the deceased's sister, charged him with being drunk. He denied that he was so, and rose without any assistance, desired Mrs. Elliott to get the deceased into the bed, and in half an hour's time to let her have a cup of tea. He then went down stairs, remarked to John Connor, deceased's husband, that his patient was going on very nicely, but that the child would not be born alive ; he took a cup of tea, and covered over the instruments with a liandkerehief. He left at six o'clock in the morning, and returned at two o'clock, remarking that his patient was going ou nicely, and desired Mrs. Elliott to come up to his place, and he would give her something. Two visits h av i ng b een m ade to Mr. Thackeray's sur gery, and he being a way, another medical m in, Dr. was sent for, who having been t o ld th a t Dr. Th ac keray wished him to attend to the case, called on the Tuesday night and found Eliza Con nor in labour, and in the course of two hours she was naturally delivered of a stillborn child. Upon his arrival Dr. Wilson noticed that a portion of the substance of the wall of the vagina ?.ad been lacerated, and it appeared that this must have been caused by the instruments applied by the prisoner. LIVERPOOL--JULY 22. The arrivals from Ireland arLd coastwise since Tuesday have been light, and from foreign ports we have received only 850 qrs of wheat and 1,300 qrs of Indian corn. The exports in the same time comprise 543 qrs of wheat, 487 qrs of oats, 1,311 qrs of Indian corn, 131 loads of oatmeal, and 612 sacks and 107 barrels of flour. With unsettled weather and smaller supplies there has been more tone in the trade for wheat and flour. Our market this morning had the usual attendance of the trade, with a fair demand for wheat at an advance of 2deer cental. Oats and oatmeal were in moderate request, al late rates. The sane may be said of barley, beans, and peas. Indian corn met with some buyers, at 2d per rental more money-6s 6d for Galatz, 6a 4d for Ibrail, and 8s 2d for white per 1001bs. Flour met a a fair inquiry, at aboat late rates. WAKEFIELD—JULY 22. The weather during the week has been very unsettled. The wheat trade still inactive, but business rather easier, quotations for fresh parcels being 2s per qr. higher. For chambered lots not much doing, at is to 2s advance. In beans, oats, and shelling little change to note. Wheat, per qr. of 8 bushels 631 b., Essex, Suffolk, and Kent, white, old, 48s to 52s ; new, 48s to 53s ; ditto, red, old, 42s to 455; new, 42s to 45s ; Lincolnshire and. York shire white, new, 46s to 50s • red, 414 to 445. Averages for the week : Wheat .1,856 qrs., at 46s 6,1 d 8ar1ey......... „ —s Od Peas Beans l7 „ 47s Od Oats - 11 -$ Od. Rye POLICE INTELLIGENCE-July 22. MANSION HOUSE.—Maximilian Low, of 135, Fenchurch-street, commission agent, surrendered to his bail for further examination on a cnarge of having, on the 4th inst., in conjunction with an other person not in custody, obtained a quantity of printed cotton handkerchief's, value £199 9s. ld., from Messrs. Higginbotham, Sons, and Guiness, manufacturers, Queen-street, Glasgow, by false pre tences. On the former examination it was shown that the defendant went to Messrs. Higginbotham at Glasgow, accompanied by another person named ; that they represented themselves as Messrs. Pater son and Co., of 4, Corbet-,court, Gracechumh-street; that they selected goods to the amount of £199 9s. ld., for which, in default of satisfactory refer ences, they were to pay cash ; that they subse quently forwarded from London a cheque on the Bank of London for the amount (less discount); that thereupon the goods were forwarded to 4, Corbet• court ; and that, upon the cheque being pre sented for payment at the Bank of London, it was returned, endorsed " no effects." Mr. Sleigh submitted that there was not a tittle of evidence to support the charge against the de fendant, who was a most respectable man, and had merely been connected with Paterson by being en gaged to accompany him to the north and give him the benefit of his judgment in making purchases. Alderman Rose, who acted for the Lord Mayor, said the case against the defendant had entirely failed, and that he must be discharged. GUILDHALL. —Mr. Alderman Phillips re quested that the press would acknowledge the receipt of £2 from " M. F.," 10s. from " A. 8.," ss. R.," and ss. from "H. W . ," f or M rs. Thompson, the engineer's wife who, being unable to provide for herself and four children by teaching mu sic, is desirous of starting a mangle, that being a more remunerative occupation than teaching. WESTMINSTER.—WiIIiam Cressy was finally examined charged with burglary. At half-past ten on the night of the 15th inst., Christopher Martin 33 B, was on duty at Rutland gate, when he found the side light glass out of an empty house. The constable got in and found that some person had previously entered. The officer then heard the noise of the smashing of glass, and having procured the assistance of another constable, proceeded to the upper part of the premises, where the found the front attic window open. They got out upon the roof, and after a diligent search found the prisoner on the parapet, fiftee►: houses off. Prisoner's pockets were then searched, when skeleton keys, picklocks, some lucifer matches, and a taper were found. The prisoner had his boots off, and while he was stooping to put them on the constables took a watch from between his neck and handkerchief. A jemmy and other housebreaking implements were found upon the root near where the prisoner was apprehended. Elizabeth Knapp, lady's-maid at Mrs. Astley's, 28, Rutland-gate, identified the watch produced. It was safe a few minutes before the prisoner was apprehend,' on a table in the front attic. A grating in front of the window had been unlocked in order to enter the apartment. Prisoner, who made no defence, was committed for trial. He left the court in front of Dennis, the gaoler, and while the latter was unlocking the cell door the prisoner stepped back, and with amazing agility ascended the roof of a corridor leading from the court to the lock-up, and bounding over the roof of the cells, jumped from the wall, 12 or 14 feet high, into Vincent-square, but he was recaptured and brought back before he had proceeded many yards. John West, police-constable, was finally ex amined, charged with stealing a silver watch value £2, from the person of John Green, a carpenter, living at 15, Smith's-rents, York-street, West minster. Prosecutor was sitttng on the step of his own door dozing late at night, when the prisoner, who was on duty on that beat, woke him by some pres sure on the breast, and then the prosecutor de scribed that his wat. h had been broken from his guard, and accused the prisOner with the robbery. The latter denied it, and walked away ; but being followed by th 9, prosecutor and his wife took the watch from his coat pocket, and was about to throw it, as it seemed, over a hoarding, when the woman seized it, and the ring being missing, in sisted upon searching the policeman's pocket, whi c h he submitted to, but it was not found. The prisoner was committed for trial. MARYLEBONE.—Jane Johnson, abo u t 35 years of age, wa s charged with fraudulently ob taining a sovereign from Mr. G. G. Sandeman, l`l'Frederick Raminton, the butler, deposed that on the previous evening the prisoner came t o th e h ouse w ith a letter purporting to be written by Mr. KNARESBOROUGH-JuLY 20. There was a small supply of grain at market to-day. —White wheat, 5s 6d to 6s Od per bushel ; red, 5s Od to 5a Gd ; beans, 5s Od to 5s 6d ; barley, 32a Od to 36s ; oats, 22s to 28s Od per qr. RIPON-JULY 21. We had a poor supply of all descriptions of grain to-daY l and a fair demand, Wheat ruled from 5s 3d to 6s 3d per bushel ; barley, 3s 6d to 4s Od ; beans, 5s 6d to 6s ; oats, 3s Od to 3s 6d, MANSFIELD—JULY 21. At this corn-market wheat was in small supply, and prices ranged from 40s to 483 per 36 stone. There was not much passing in spring corn, oats being quoted at 28e to 32s per 24 stone ; beans, 46s to 52s per qr. ; barley, —s to —s per qr. EXETE__ The business was extremel prices : Wheat, white 5s Od to 5s 3d 8ar1ey........ 3 s 9d t o 4s 01 I Ditto red 4s 3d to 4s 6d Oats ....... 3s Od to 3s 3d Flour, fine, 30s to 32s ; seconds, 29 s to 30s per sack. CATTLE—The market was fairly supplied with stock. A moderate attendance of farmers. Pork carcases in small supply. • 1 Fat beef,p score,9s6d t o 10 8 6 d E wes, per lb .... 5d to si a , Pork carcases, doB s Od t o 8 s 6d Wethers, do .6dto 6k Lambs, per lb. .. .. 6id t o 7d Fat calves, do... Aid to 60 Rough fat, 4d per lb. TULY 22. dull to-day at the following BRISTOL SUGAR—JULY 22. The market continues steady, but without activity; and the announcement of the Chancellor of the Exchequer that there would not be any alteration in the duties, has caused rather a flatness than otherwise ; this will probably con tinue until the stocks of duty paid sugars are exhausted, but we cannot see any reason to expect a•permanent decline• Refiners' produce of all descriptions has been rather dull, and prices a shade easier. Rum is still neglected. COAL MARE (Prices of Coal per Ton at :ET—JULY 22. the close of the market.) Walls End. s. d. Clark's West Hartley l5 6 Hastings Hartley 15 9 Lambert's West Hart-' ley 15 6 Holywell 15 0 Tanfield Moor 13 0 Tanfield Moor Butes l3 0 BKl's Primrose ..13 0 ‘V ylam l6 0 Eden Main 15 9 Walker Primrose 13 0 s. d. Hetton— .. ... l7 6 Riddell • l5 3 Belmont l5 3 Hetton Lyons Main 15 3 Haswell..... 17 6 Braddyll's Hetton 16 0 Keiper Grange l6 6 p N o ix w o e n i '; B D puffnin uffryn Thorrtley .15 3 Gosforth l5 3 West Hetton. l5 6 Kelloa l6 6 21 6 Steara2l 0 t, 67—Sold, 55. Walls End. South Hartlepool. 16 0 Heugh Hall 15 6 Ships at marke [ADVERTISEMENT.] — HoIIoway's Pills and Ointment. -- Anxiety is the greatest obstacle to human happiness; the prudent pride themselves in adopting measures for avoit ing it—they insure th e i r h ouses an d s hi ps, an d th e / till more thoughtful assure their lives—yet what is life without health ? Can pain and enjoyment dwell harmoniously to gether ? The wisest man secures his own well being, and in Holloway's remedies finds a perfect and indisputabl e policy of assurance against most of the diseases by which humanity is assailed. These preparations ward off maill. an attack, that without them would leave desolation in 1 track, and cause the heartrent mourners unavailingly t° regret that these two policies, Holloway's Pills and OiUl ment, were not numbered amongst their household trea sures. BIRTHS. DOYLE.—On the 21st inst., at Worthing, the wife of the ROY. Bentinck J. F. Doyle, of a son. GRANT.—On the 21st inst., at Riversdale Villa, Hampton ° court, the wife of George Grant, Esq., of a son. HASTIE.—On the 20th inst., at 12, Harley-place, Bee" road, Mrs. J. Hastie, of a daughter. WYVILL.—On the 18th inst., at Biarritz, the wife of M• Wyvill, jun., Esq., M.P., of a daughter. MARRIAGES. BattEß—DßEwnr.--On the 22d inst., at St. Pancras, Dr; Robert Baker, to Elizabeth M a tild a , re li ct of Edwarie Drewry, Esq., late of Highbury. SANGSTER—GARDNER.—On the 21st inst., at the Churc h of the Holy Trinity, Paddington, Thos. Henry San g ster ' Esq., Bombay Rifles, to Mary Maria, eldest daughter O_ Robert Gardner, Esq., of Uloucester•gardens, park. _ _ DEATHS. BROWN.—On the 19th inst., Colonel Andrew Brown, l ate of 79th Highlanders, aged 53. CIIATTERTON.—On the 19th inst., at Jersey. 3fargare 4 . 4 widow of the l a t e C a pt a i n T . Ch atterton, of t h e 3d Fo°" aged 65. CIIANDLER.—On the 21st inst., at 5, Grafton Villas, g al i vern-road, Dalston, James L ane Ch an dl er , e ld es t son ( 0 3 'd Mr. J. Chandler, formerly o f 195 , Hi g h H o lb or n, og 34. GLENIE.—On the 18th inst., at Bath, Spencer Melviller son of the Rev. S. 0. Glenio, Ceylon, aged 16. SMITH.—On the 20th inst., at Norfolk-street, Park-lad Daniel Smith, Esq., lat e o f St. L eonar d' s - on -Sea, ag e 72. ST. JOHN.—On the 21 s t i ns t., a t B ou l ogne - sur -Mer, S • Bury, infant son of Colonel St. John, Bombay Ar ini ' aged 2? years. ------- LONDON : Printed and Published by MURDO yoigs, Q ' of No. 112, St ran d, P r inter, at The S uo Offi ce , No. LI Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the count/ • Middlesex, Saturday, July 23, 18.39.