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THE FAIN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENIN . G; MAY 12, 1858 IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT' I could have wished. I received a letter,—l don't now justice c fit, when we are still totally ignora n t o f th e remember its date, bet about the time Mr. V. Smith reasons which he himself is prepared to assign for th e received his letter. (Lord Ellenborough.—" After the issue o' f the proclamation. (Cheers,) It is this, and this despatch had gone out.") That letter was of a private only, wish to impress on your lordships, namely, that nature, but it referred to three or four snhjects of pub- we are bound to reserve our judgment altogether on the lie interest which I wished to communicate to the noble questions of the proclamation. As far as I can at present earl by reading it to him in the lobby. I am bound to judge, T might be inclined to disapprove the proclama confess that I did not read all that I meant to have done, tion, but I know that men, far more intimately ac because after having read the first portion of the letter, (painted than lam with the state of India, believe the and before I had finished what I intended to read to proclamation, even with the present information they him, the noble earl gave me so interesting, but at the possess respecting it, to be right. a (Hear.) That being same time so long an account of his views of the affairs the case, it is fair for ns, on the commonest principles of India at that moment, that, after having made one or of justice, to suspend our judgment till we know Lord two ineffectual attempts to get a hearing, I put the Canning's reasons for it. (Cheers.) I only wish to add letter in my pocket in despair. (Laughter.) I may one word more. I cannot help thinking that a great state with regard to the letter addressed to Mr. V. deal more is made of the non-communication by Mr. Smith, that it arrived while he was engaged in Ireland Vernon Smith of a private letter than it deserves. (Hear.) on a subject which interested both himself and the Lord- Because, what really is the fact ! My right hon. friend Lieutenant. On returning to London he found a p r e- received a letter announcing that the Governor-General vote letter from Lord Canning, which had been d e lay e d, had not had time to write an explanation on the subject waiting for him. That letter was private, but it eon . of his proclamation. Mr. V. Smith did not know that tamed a paragraph to this effect—l don't profess to give proclamation or its importance ; and, though it is greatly the words,—" I have sent home a proclamation, —not to be regretted that he did not communicate the letter one that I have issued, but which I mean to issue. I to the Government, yet it was quite natural that he should have liked to send along with it an explanatory should not have done so, and in point of fact the Govern despatch by this mail, but every hour of this day is coon- ment would have learned nothing from the communica pied and I cannot do so." Now, could Mr. V. Smith tion but what they ought to have known without. (Hear.) imagine that upon this intended proclamation—within an The Government received the draught of an intended hour of its reception by her Majeety'sGovernment—ther e proclamation, but they had not received the proclama would be written one of the strongest censures ever sent tion as issued. Now, we know that the most important out t (Cheers.) I admit it would have been better if Mr. State papers frequently undergo alteration between the V. Smith had given even that meagre information to the time of their preparation and issue. (Hear.) We also government, but he could merely have told them, "I know that the proper occasion for sending a full expla understand you have received Irene the Governor-Gene- nation of the views of the Indian Government in issuing rat a proclamation which is to be issued, and I have re- so important a document is when they transmitted to ceived a private letter which intimates that probably an England the procltmation as issued and informed the explanatory despatch will be sent by the next mail." home Government that it bad been issued. Until the What has happened is that Lord Canning, not having home Government received a despatch informing them had time to send an explanatory despatch with the pro- that the proclamation had been actually issued, I say clamation which he intended to issue, has deferred doing that in the absence of any private letter, we are bound so until he sent home the modified proclamation which to presume that in due time some explanation will has been issued, and I have no doubt the noble earl will arrive. Therefore, in point of fact, the non-communica see that explanatory despatch in the course of time. tion of the private letter which has been referred to left The Earl of ELLENBOROUGH—The letter to the Government in ignorance of nothing which they which the noble earl has alluded, enclosing the erode- were not bound to know without seeing that private motion, was received on the 12th April. The answer was letter. (Hear, hear.) not written till the 18th April. It was dated April 19 ; The Earl of DERBY—I will not enter into any dis and it was not sent off until April 26. There was, there- cussion of the merits of the proclamation as drawn up fore, ample time for considering what the letter reflect- in the first instance, or as subsequently published ; but ing upon the proclamation should contain, and also for I must say, in answer to the statement that the Govern further consideration after it was written, as has been ment were bound, after receiving the proclamation as shown by my ',obi. Mend near me. Reflection only more intended to be issued, to wait before making any expla strongly induced me to think that it was absolutely ne- nation of their opinions until it was actually received as cessary to send the letter as it was originally written. published, that I altogether dissent from that doctrine. What lam accused of is not the writing of that letter. Earl GREY—I never made any statement that Go- I have heard no one yet find fault with the letter, vernment might not express their opinions, but I said neither have I yet heard any one defend the confiecatioi that they had a right to anticipate that an explanation of of the proprietary rights of the landholders of Oude. The the circumstances under which the proclamation was only question is—was it or was it not right to publish published was on its way and would in due time be the letter which was written I As I understand the re- received by them. solution which was to be moved on Friday it relates to The Earl of DERBY—The f au lt w hi c h , I appre h en d, is found with the Governme n t i s th a t, on rece i v i ng t h e that question only. Now, my lords, the publication of proolamation intended to be p u bli s h e d, t h ey expresse d that letter was an act as wholly mine as the writing of the letter. I take upon myself the whole re- in a secret letter to the Gov ernor -G enera l t h e i r die sponsibility, and I will tell your lordships how it bap- approval of it ; and, without i n t en di ng t o di scuss th e proclamation, I must say that th e G overnmen t were pened that that publication] took place. Some ties before I had written a letter in contemplation of undoubtedly of opinion that th e i ssue o f a proc l ama ti on in which confiscation was made th e genera l ru l e wou ld the capture of Lucknow, which was subsequently laid upon the table, and which was published as soon produce the dangerous consequ ences , d r i v i ng maul to as we knew we were in possession of Lucknow, despair and inducing others to co m bi ne . (C r i es o f " in which I directed the Government of India, " Order I ) having exhibited their strength, to temper justice Earl GRANVILLE rose t o order.—When t h e no bl e earl rose, after the importa n t d ec l ara ti on ma d e b y h is with generosity, to proclaim an amnesty, to disarm the people, and wherever the amnesty was proclaimed to noble colleague, I thought he was going to give some establish the ordinary administration of the law. I ap- explanation of a personal character, which lam sure prehended obstruction to the Government in the execs- your lordships would have listened to with attention ; tien cf these orders from subordinate officers, maddened but when the noble earl proceeds to discuss a matter as I expressed it, by the scenes they had witnessed. I which we have already said we do not intend to argue at desired the Government to persevere in doing what they this time, and to make a speech applicable to a motion thought right, and I told them that is acting in that which is to come on towards the end of the week, I have spirit they would have the unqualified support of the a right to say that the noble earl is not in order, Government. (Cheers.) Soon afterwards I received this especially as he has already spoken. (Hea r .) proclamation, of which the only very important point The Marquis of SALISBURY rose to move the ad was that inflicting confiscation. [Lord Granville here onrnment of the house, in order to allow the Earl of made an observation across the table, which was moan- Derby to address their lordships. The Earl of ELLENBOROUGH said, he would save borough continued) to communicate by electric tele dible in the gallery.] How was it possible (Lord Ellen The neeessity for a motion of adj ournmen t by mov i ng graph I I said that soon after the letter to which I bave ;hat the order of the day hr th e sec o n d rea di ng o f th e referred was published here I received this proclamation Chief Justice of Bombay Bill b e di sc h arge d. (H ear , which is a direct contradiction to the principles laid down and laughter.) in the letter of which the noble earl opposite approved. The Earl of DERBY then pro cee d e d. H e sa id,—l The principle of confiscation of the whole proprietary certainly was anxious after th e s t a t emen t ma d e b y my noble friend to take an opport un ity o f express i ng th e co rights of the landowners of Oude was not clemency ; it was inconsistent with amnesty; it was persecution after incidence of my concurrence, a s f ar as I cou ld concur defeat ;it was contrary to the principles laid down in pith him, in the course he has adopted, and of explain the first letter, to the feelings of the Government, and to ing that point on which lam unable wholly to agree with the principles upon which they had determined to act. him. I wish also to b e a r t es ti mony t o th e man l y an d When I read that proclamation I felt it my duty at once generous manner in which my nobl e f r i en d—if h e h as to express my own sentiments on the subject, which committed any indiscretion—has mor e th an a t one d f or were adopted by my noble friends. I should have been that indiscretion, and done hi mse lf i n fi n it e hono ur . (Cheer') I was proceeding to answer some observe .e,_ _Lo_ 100 e on the other aide. I th oug ht en worthy of a seat in this house if I had acted otherwise; but I felt at the same time that it that proclamation were really published as it stood before me, it was quite it was made a matter of comp l a i nt aga i nst us that, with impossible that my letter with respect to it should be out waiting fur explanations from the Governor-General, withheld from the public. I knew that the moment the we hastened to express our disapproval of the proclama tion about to be issu e d. I sa y th a t if we did d isapprove, proclamation was published in this country questions would be asked in Parliament, and that neither in this as was certainly the case, the tenour of that proclama house nor the other house could the answers be satisfac- tion, and feared the eff ec t it wo uld h av e up on th e popu tory without the publication of this letter, which we lation of India, it was our bounden duty not to lose a could not resist. My lords, I did desire its publication single mail in expressing to the Governor-Ge nera l our —(cheers) —and I will tell you upon what grounds, apprehensions as t o th e co nsequences which mi g ht ensue. Having informed the Government of India that I Such was the object of the despatch sent out by my no bl e would remove all obstructions raised against them by friend the President of the Council on the 26th of Ap r il, and I still think it is deeply to be regretted that be officers, and that I was determined they tween the 19. h and the Nth my noble friend was no t should be assisted and supported in doing what they thought right in the prosecution of principles of cle- informed that e xplanations of the intended proclamati on inency, I was determined they should know—the gover might b e ex p ec t e d t o arr i v e by an early mail. (Hear.) nose as well as the governed—that the Cabinet were But your lord s hip s mu st bear in mind that the despat c h resolved to enforce that system of clemency be the parson sent out on the 26 t h was intended to be, and was, a who he might who noted in opposition to the principles secret despatcb. (Hear, hear.) It communicated our ap thus laid dowe. I felt and still feel that letter is a roes- prehensione to the Governor-General, and we hoped it sage of peace to the p e opl e o f I n di a ; I hold that it lays would be in time to alter the determination to which he down principles whi c h, if no t so l a id d own , never wou ld had come ; but, af ter a ll, it did not contain a distinct have been generally a d o pt e d th roug h ou t th a t coun t r y ; injuncti on t o L er d C ann i ng to recall or revoke his pr o - I know that it will offer conciliation to those who dread clamation. Far from it. It simply expressed our anxious retribution—that it will compel all in office to act in the hops that in carrying into effect the doctrines put forth spirit of the Government by which that letter was sent in his proclamation he would find it necessary and proper out, and, therefore, for the public peace I desired that to mitigate their strictness and rigour. (Hear, hear.) that letter should go forth. But I take to myself the Although the proclamation as we have since received whole responsibility of having given publicity to the it does not go the length which I might desire in that letter. I knew it was right to do so, and I did it at once. sense, yet undoubtedly one paragraph, which has been I might very properly, no doubt, have taken the letter inserted since the receipt of the copy to which the de to the Cabinet, and in the Cabinet have asked the opi spatch of my noble friend the President of the Council nions of my colleagues before deciding to make it public I applied, does materially modify the terms of the original That might have been the right course—(hear)—but proclamation. (Hear, hear.) that course I did not adopt; and, therefore, to accuse The Earl of ELLENBOROUGH—Not with respect my colleagues of any misconduct with respect to the to the principle of confiscation. publication of that letter, is to raise a constitutional fie- The Earl of DERBY—My noble friend says not with tion. lam responsible, and let me alone bear whatever regard to c mfiscation, but I hope and believe it must censure may be attributed to the act of publication, I be the intention of the Governor-General, although un thought this explanation ;to be due to my noble col- fortunately he lays down confiscation as a rule, to make leagues in this house, and to my right hon. friends in th e large exceptions, for the purpose not only of freeing other House of Parliament ; but now I have to consider, from further penaLies, but of restoring lands and pro under these circumstances, what is my duty not only to party to those who may have forfeited them by their my colleagues, but to the people of India. I have served recent conduct. (Hear, hear.) The despatch sent out the people of India as much out of office as in office for on the 26th of April, as I said before, was a secret den nearly thirty years. The most earnest endeavours of my patch. When the proclamation finally came home and public life have been used with a view to their benefit, was made known by the public journals it excited con and I will not do any act towards the close of that siderable attention and animadversion. My right hon. public life which by any possibility might injure their in- friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer arrived late terest. This question will be differently construed in in the hou3e that day. A question of which no notice this country anc in India. Here it is a question be- had been given was immediately asked as to whether the tween one party and another. (Cheers) Here it is proclamation had been received, whether any despatch more a question whether my noble friend near ine had been written in answer to it, and whether we should remain in office, or whether we should sub. were prepared to lay that despatch upon the table of the mit to that to whiCh we have an intuitive dislike—the house. Without any communication with the Chancel restoration. (Hear, hear.) This is the real practical epees- for of the Exchequer, or with any other person in either tion to be brought under the consideration of this and the house of Parliament, unfortunately, as I think, the Se other house of Parliament. (Cheers.) The question in cretary to the Board of Control rose and at once stated li:idlibae understood isavery diff erent question. The question there that a despatch b a d b een sent out, an d wou ld b e la i d on w to be the conflicting principles of con- the table. Now, I concur with my noble friend the Presi fiscation and cle mency —(hear)—and I feel satisfied that, dent of She Board of Control in thinking that sooner or later according as the decision of this and the other Howe of it was indispensable that that despatch should be pub- Parliament may app ear t o i ncline to one or the oth e r of lished. Questions must have been asked as to whether these principles, there will be broadcast (VESTERDAY.) throughout India such a despatch was sent, and whether we approved t h e lIOJ . SE OF COMMONS. -- t _ the seeds of perpetual war, o r h opes will be given to the policy indicated in the proclamation ; and if the silt j- , ct The &Line a t oo k th e c h a i r at 4 o ' c l oc k. people of India and of England —the hopes of permanent had given rise to discussions we should have been ex- PRIVATE BILLS. reconciliation and peace. (Hear, hear.) I know well that, pected to show the terms in which we had written to the The Altidstone Gas Bill was read a third time and passed,be the public importance of a question wh a t i t may, and 1 Governor-General. But I regret that that premature Vie Mowing bill s were considered and ordered to no matter bow great may be the interests involv e d i n it, announcement should have been made. (Hear.) I ex- be read a third time :—Aberdare Water ; Dundalk and persona l considerations but too much sway the decisio ns pr esse d my regre t on th e f o ll ow i ng d ay , an d I reco ll ec t Er.niskil en Railway ; Sculcoates an d Kingston-upon of both Houses of Pa rliament. I hav e determined, there- that upon that occasion a noble earl opposite drew atten- Hull Ge o fore, to remove those Personal considerations. la m r e - tion to the fact that, instead of defending the publics- GLOIE INSURANCE COMPANY—(STAMP solved that this question shall be con'idered on its merits; tion of the despetab, I confined nay observa ti ons to the DUTY ON MEMORIALS.) and, determining to do ever y thin g I can to the l ast ino- ! policy expressed in it. (Hear.) That is perfectly true. The muse went int o comm itt ee on this subject when, r.FORSTER moved the following resolution : aunt o f my lif e for the benefit and peace of India, I have I fslt then, as I feel now, th a t, th a t h aa t and immediate That ; s t amp d u t y o f fi ve p oun d s shall be payable for and tendered to her Mojesty my resignation, and it has been a p n u n b o li u sh nc t e h m e e d n a t ,p t a h t a c t h_ th a e n G a o n v n e o r u n t. in c e e n in t e e n v y t er i e na e d ir e ep w a i r t e h d ou to t uponthe fi rst memorial w hi c h ma y be enrolled pursuant accepted. to a bill to enable the Globe Insurance Company to Earl GREY said,—The question whether it was pro- t communication with any member of the Government alter and amend some of the provisions of their deed c of ettlem f ent, and to confer further pow ers on the ) h) np s a h n a y l b r e o f rom deemed,w h which memor ialheld, a nd t per or not to publish the despatch which the noble earl was an act of imprudence, and that the results of the I eminently a m o f that upo no all in occasionsi opinion now ; sent out to India will come regularly before the house on pub'ication of the despatch would be unfortunate. I w taken he names toe he the te trusteesperso persona a subsequent day, and it would be inconvenient for me Was o a f n t d ba h t o : s it t , y ioi: htlileehns;oof ,he company shall appear, and upon and for every now to anticipate the discussion which will then arise ; and my noble friend near me, with that cat dour, frank- otier such memorial in which the name of any person stall for the first time be inserted as a trustee but I must protest against the fairness of discussing at fleas, o that act was his and his alone, an d that he and he only .ble upon p the this mom en t th e ques ti on w h e th er th e p ro clamation off characterise his conduct, comes forward and s t a t es that the Stamp company tam the like sum of five pounds , Dutiesbe lieu Lord C ann i ng was r i g ht or wrong, an d I pro t es t againste de w h ic s h u r r w e o n u d l e d r o th a e c m cv l i s s e s ions, e a o y ; it going out to the country that it is a question between I ought to be responsible for the consequences. (Hear.) assurances in the law which, in case the said bill were confiscation and cleme nc y. (Cheers.) I d eny t h a t th a t i s There is nothing, my lords, so painful to my feeli ngs „ not passed, would be req u i re d i n order from time to time al accurate version of Lord Canning's proclamation— 1 the possibility of being suspected for any p urposes of to vest the trust e s t a t es an d proper t y o f th e compa n y i n (hear, hear )—but I will not be dragged into a course sothe trustees for the time being of the company.—Agreed ever to. unfair towards r sacrificing a colleague, and I knew not that I have Lord Canning as to discuss the grounds in my life felt dee r Er pain than when I received from my RAIL WAY BILLS (GROUP 8). on which he issued the p roc l amat i on, and the policy an / o w e f r i en d, no t a teDder of Lie resignation, but a coN Of Mr, B . CARTER moved that Mr. Hussey Vivian HOUSE OF LORDS. —(YESTERDAY.) ROYAL COMMISSION. The Royal assent was given by commission to the following bills, viz.: —Exchequer Bills (20,911,500/0, Exchequer Bonds (2,000,000/.), Customs' Duties (No. 2), Excise Duties, General Bo a rd of Health, (Ski p t on , &c.), Cambridge University Matriculation and Degrees, Birmingham and Staffordshire Gas, Chel tenham Water, Whitehaven Harbour, Edinburgh Life ~aanranceCompany, Chester Gas, Nottingham Gas, Madras Irrigation and Canal, Hasling den and Rawtenstall Water, Gosport Water, Folke stone Water, Liskeard and Looe Union Canal Company Railway, and Acton's Naturalisation Act Amendment. The Royal Commissioners were the Lord Chancellor , the Marquis of Salisbury, and the Earl of Hardwicke. Their lordships adjourned during pleasure. The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack al Ova o'clock. Earl GRANVILLE.—It has been stated that the question was put without previous notice. Mr. Baillie must have had notice of it, or how could he have com municated with the noble earl upon the subject? (A. laugh) a letter in which he had already submitted his resignation to her Majesty. I was bound to consider not private and personal feelings only, but what was due to the great interests of the country. I was bound to consider whe ther it was desirable that the Government should stake their existence as a Government upon their liability for an act of which they were not in the slightest degree cognizant—whether they should take upon themselves the defence of that which they felt they could not wholly defend ; or whether they should accept the noble self-sacrifice of my noble friend, and thereby through his generosity allow his colleagues to have justice done to them. The conclusion to which I came,—and I never felt greater pain than when I arrived at that determine. tion,—was that, in justice to the public interests, it was my bounden linty to accept the self-sacrifice of ray noble friend ; and, painful as I felt it to be to separate from one for whom personally I entertain the highest respect, whose knowledge of Indian subjects, whose long ex perience, whose devotedness to the cause of India, and whose entire abnegation of all selfish feelings for the pro motion of the public welfare render him an invaluable councillor on Indian affairs—(cheers)—and whose with drawal could not but be regarded as a great loss to the Cabinet of her Majesty, I yet felt bound by still stronger considerations, though with the deepest pain, to concur in the suggestion of my noble friend that his resignation should be received. (Hear, hear.) I have now made all the observations which I think it necessary to address to your lordships upon the present occasion. I will admit to the noble earl opposite that this is not the time to discuss the policy of the proclamation of Lord Can ning, either as it was intended to be issued, or as it may hereafter be proved to have been issued. I regret with him the premature publication of a document which I think, ought not to have been so soon laid before the public, though sooner or later it must have been ' submitted to Parliament. Still, feeling myself unable to defend the hasty prounulg ation of that despatch, I have been, with the greatest reluctance, com pelled to accept the resignation of nay noble friend near me ; but in doing so I feel it due to myself, and due to my colleagues, and due to him to say that we sepa rate from him as colleagues, —I trust we shall never separate as friends,—with the deepest and sincerest re gret for his loss, and with an earnest hope that we may still have the benefit of his disinterested and impartial advice in our effort to settle the great problem of the government of India. (Cheers.) Earl G RANVILLE--I shall trouble your lordships with only a few observations. I was certainly not pre pared for the important announcement made by the President of the Beard of Control in a statement which, as truly remarked by the noble earl who has just spoken, was most honourable and straightforward ; and, how ever widely we may differ upon points of policy, I can not but feel that a large portion of the eulogy to which your lordships have listened is well deserved. (Hear.) How far the resignation of the President of the Board of Control may affect the position of his colleagues I am not prepared to say. My object in rising is simply to call attention to a small matter of fact upon which some doubt still seems to rest. The noble earl at the head of the Government has stated that the question in the House of Commons was asked without any notice having been given, and that it was answered by the Secretary to the Lard 6f Control without previous communica tion with any other member of the Government. Now, what I want to ask is—and the fact must surely be known to the noble earl—whether Mr. Baillie was net aware that a question would be put to him, and whether he gave his answer without knowing q the wishes of his coll eagues. The Earl of DERBY.—My noble friend (Lord Ellen. borough) stated distinctly that Mr. Baillie gave the answer by hie authority and on his responsibility with out the knowledge of any member of the Cabinet. For myself, I had not the slightest idea that that question, or any other question upon that subject was going to be put. - - house had of late years greatly improved. He did not think that the proposal of the noble lord would work practically, and he therefore felt bound to oppose it. Lord STANLEY denied that the members of the house were unfit to perform the duties of deciding upon private bills. Still he thought that the practice of those com mittees could be much improved. The discussion was continued by Mr. Inseam, Mr. D. Griffiths, Lord Ebringten, Mr. W. Evart, Mr. T. Egerton, and other member., after which, Lord R. CECIL withdrew hie motion. BARRACK ACCOMMODATION. Lord EBRINGTON moved a resolution to the effect that the mortality of the British army was caused by the bad sanitary condition of the barrack accommodation. That while the house viewed with satisfactien tho efforts hitherto made for the improvement of the soldier, much yet remains to be done with regard to barrack accommo dation —first, for its increase with a view to the discon tinuance of the billeting system ; and secondly, with a view to the healthy accommodation of the troops in gene ral, and to the decent accommodation of the married sol dier; and that, in the opinion of the house, such increase and improvement are imperatively called for, not less by good policy and true economy, than by justice and humanity. He compared the mortality in the army with that of other classes of the community, to show that its bad accommodation was the cause of its great relative mortality, Sir F. SMITH yielded to no man in the desire to im prove the accommodation of the soldier. There was no doubt that of late years the amount of accommodation given to each soldier was much increased. They no longer slept two in a bed, or one over another. He referred to barracks where there was a less proportion of chilli° feet per man the mortality was not so great as in some where there were more cubic feet. The amount of duty was not of so much consequence as the character of that duty, the running in and out instead of taking the duty " right off" as the policeman did. When a policeman had done his night duty he went home, had a cup of tea, and went to bed. But the soldier was not allowed to turn down his bed in the day time, and he had his accoutrements to clean. The married soldier was batter off; he went home like a policeman, had his tea, and went to bed; and by' the time he got up his wife had cleaned half his accoutre ments for him. The army was much indebted to the noble lord for bringing on the question, but they must not run away with the notion that it was the small num ber of cubic feet alone that caused the morthlity. There was touch less mortality amongst Sappers and Miners, chiefly froni the circumstance that they had only about one-tenth the night duty that other regiments had. Capt. ANNESLEY read some statistical statements, comparing the police with the brigade of Guards, which he said were about equal in number.. He observed that the greater portion of the police were married, and their pay allowed them to live in comfortable houses. A policeman could retire by givin g a month's n o ti ce . Th e so ldi er must serve his time unless he was invalided. Bad characters and drunkards were discharged from the police, and policemen were not imprisoned, whereas the colonel of a regiment could not get rid of them in so summary a manner, but must have them punished by imprisonment with hard la bour, and came back with health impaired. He compared the number of men required to keep up the str sngth of the police and of the Guards respectively. There were 25 men per week discharged from the police, so that in 12 months 1,300 new men were required to keep up a force of 6,000, while the Guards only required 623. If th e army could get rid of their bad characters and unhealthy men at that rate they would beimmortal. Mr. W. WILLIAMS said a barrack was one of the best buildings to look at in London, so there must be some great mismanagement in the interior arrangements. The house had been charged with niggardliness, and the Commander in-Chief was reported. whether correctly (..r no, to have said in another place that he could not get money enough from this house to repair the barracks. He did not know whether that was after dinner. The sums laid out in bar racks for the last few years was enormous. In 34 years it had been upwards of 76 millions. It was said that the night duty did the mischief, and it was suggested that the police should be employed to do the duty, but he was sure that no gallant officer in that house would wish that the soldiers should have police to take care of thew. He un derstood that there was a costly pavilion erected for the Queen at Aldershot. It was a strange thing for the Queen of England to require a pavilion in the middle of a camp of soldiers ; but if she wished for it the house did sot grudge it to her. Only it was not fair to say that money could not be got for barrack accommodation. The soldier was a costly article, aud should be taken care of on grounds of economy. Cal. NORTH said the thanks of the army were due to the noble lord. He could not understand why the soldier should not be allowed to take off his great coat. Of course he must wear his accoutrements to guard against surprise, but a man was better prepared to act freely witkout his great coat than with it. But the real reason was that in most of the barracks there was no means of hanging upthe great coats. It was a mere question of pounds, shillings, and pence. There were sometimes two pegs, but that was not sufficient. He was quite sure that after dinner or at any time his Royal Highness the Commander-in-Chief would bo found to speak the truth, and would show him self, as he had always been, a true friend of the soldier. Mr. PEASE said that however they were satisfied that there was a right thing to be done, there was also a right time to do it. They had spent three and a half millions on barracks within the last three years, and with the expense of the war on our hands, and our financial affairs only just patched up by the clever arrangement of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, he had great doubts whether this was a proper time to undertake fresh barrack expenditure, with out first ascartaduing whether the expenditure at present going on was to any purpose. Sir J. PAXTON said it was agreat mistake if the house supposed that the three and a half millions referred to had been spent in giving improved barrack accommodation. It was applied in providing barracks for the greater num ber of men required in consequence of the Russian war, &c. He would recommend that all these town barracks should be sold, and that the money should be appropriated to the erection of barracks out of town. Sir H. 'VERNEY thought the motion a good one. It would be productive of good to the seller, and of economy to the country. Col. BOLDERO advised the adoption of the motion. Lord PALMERSTON thought the army would be greatly indebted to the noble lord for bringing forward this motion, which he hoped would be adopted. Mr. SIDNEY HERBERT had no wish to make any objections to the accuracy of the statistics that bait been advanced by the military commissioners in reference to the mortality of the Guards. He thought the great want was of a statistical department in connection with the military department of the Government (Hear, hear.) The right bon. gentleman thought that intemperance was not the real cause of disease amongst soldiers, but that it arose generally from the bad ventilation of barracks. General PEEL said that every man who had the welfare of the military at heart would thank the noble lord for bringing forward his motion, to which he should offer no objection. The accommodation had no doubt been bad, but the attention of Government would bo directed to the subject. and Viscount Bury be discharged from further attend ance on Group 8 of Railway Bills, and that Sir E. Cole brook° and Mr. W. Martin (W. Kent) be added to the said committee.—Agreed to. ROYAL ASSENT. The SPEAKER, accompanied by many hon. members, attended the House of Lords, and heard the Royal assent given by commission to various bills. [See Lords' report.] EQUALISATION OF THE POOR-RATES. Mr. W. WILLIAMS presented a petition, signed by 3,400 persons resident in the borough of Lambeth, for an equalisation of the poor-rates. ABOLITION OF TURNPIKE TOLLS. Mr. W. Williams, Mr. Ingram, Mr. Byng, and Mr. T. Duncombe presented petitions for the abolition of turn pike and toll bars within the metropolitan district. THE BALLOT. Mr. H. BERKELEY gave notice that he should on the Bth June, move for leave to introduce a bill for taking the votes of electors by ballot. THE PROCLAMATION OF THE GOVERNOR GENERAL OF INDIA. Mr. STUART gave notice that he should, to-morrow, put a question to the Under-President of the Board of Control whether her Majesty's Government had yet re ceived any communication addressed to the late Presi dent of the Board of Control relative to the proclamation of the Governor-General of India. THE VOTE OF CENSURE ON THE GOVERNMENT. Lord V. TEMPEST gave notice that he should move as an amendment to the motion of the hon. member for Oxford (Mr. Cardwell), to the effect that this house in its present state of information, ab stains from expressing an opinion on the policy of any proclamation which may have been issued by the Governor-General of India in relation to Oude, or on the course pursued by the Government with reference to such proclamation. (Cheers.) THE COLONIES. Viscount BURY gave notice that he should on the Bth June move the appointment of a select committee relative to the expediency of putting Penang, Singapore, Malacca, and other places In the East under the con trol of the colonial department. POSTPONEMENT OF THE VOTE OF CENSURE. Mr. CARDWELL said it was the wish of her Majesty's Government that the motion of which he had given notice for Thursday should be discussed on that day, and he appealed to hon. members who had notices on the paper for that day to give way, that the motion might have precedence on that day. (Hear, hear.) Mr. HEADLAM said he would give way and post pone his motion if other hon. members would do the same. (Hear, hear.) Sir J. TRELAWNY declined to postpone his mo tion on Thursday relative to the Church-rate Bill, unless the Government would give him another day. (Hear, hear.) Mr. CARDWELL said it rested on the Government under the circumstances to state whether the motion should come on on Thursday or on the fullowing day (Friday). ____ Mr. DISRAELI—Friday ig quite at the right hon. gentleman's service. (Cheers.) Mr. CARDWELL—Then I will bring it on on Fri day. (Cheers.) BENGAL ESTABLISHMENT. Mr. W. VANSITTART asked the Secretary of the Board of Control whether it was true that the three new European infantry regiments, already authorised for the Bengal establishment, were to be officered by a simple transfer of European officers borne on the rolls of the first six Native Sepoy corps of the line ; if so, what peculiar claim the officers of the first six Native regi ments, no longer existing, had over the other extinct Native regiments. Mr. BAILLIE said it was true, as stated by the hon. member in his question relating to the efficiency of the regiments referred to, the selection rested with the Governor-General of India. ENDOWED SCHOOLS (IRELAND). Mr. BAGWELL asked the Chief Secretary for Ire land if her Majesty's Government intended to legislate this session upon the report of the Endowed Schools (Ire land) Commission, with a view to the improvement of endowed sehools in Ireland, for the better manage ment of their endoweuents, and for the better regulating, managing, and governing of such schools, and for the general promotion, in connection with them, of acade mical education in Ireland. Lord NAAS said it was not the intention of her Ma jesty's Government to propose any measure of the kind this session. THE CAGLIARI. Mr. BINNAIRD asked the Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs, whether the Government had settled the amount that ought to be claimed as compensation from the Neapolitan Government for the engineers of the Cagliari, Watt and Park ; and, if so, whether the demand bad been actually made, or whether it had been left to arbitration under the arrangemen t s suggeste d at the meeting of the Congress of Paris ? Mr. CRAWFORD put a question to tba Under- Secretary for Foreign Affairs, of which be had given notice, relative to the statement in the morning papers of what had passed in the Turin Chambers, relative to the negotiations bet ween thi s country an d Sardinia, which was different to the statement made by the hon. gentleman to that house on a former occasion. Mr. S. FITZGERALD, in reply to the last question, appealed to the house whether anything was more un usual—(cheers)—more inconvenient, or more unfair, than that questions of this kind should be put with •ut previous notice ? (Cheers ) In reply to the other gueE don, the right hon. gentleman said her Majesty's Go vernment had inst••ucted Mr. Lyons as t‘) the definite sum to be demanded as compensation from the Neapo litan Government. :211:itotneethate CAPTAIN KING'S PROMOTION. Mr. BRADY asked the Secretary far War why Capt. King, of the Depot Battalion Department, was promoted to a majority, he not being the senior adjutant cr senior captain of that branch of the service, and was not such appointment contrary to the rules of the service ? General PEEL appealed to the house as to the pro priety of those questions being put in that house. (Cheers.) The only answer he felt it his duty to give to the question of the hon. member was that he (General Peel) was fully aware of the appointment, and he held himself fuLy responsible for the promotion. (Cheers.) THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE MAILS. Mr. MACARTNEY aske I the late Secretary to the Treasury, the cause for altering the port of arrival and departure of the Cape of Good Hope Mails in England to Devonport in place of Southampton, as set out in the copy F of o rt thehe mo accepted tiono Union Steam Shipping Company, bearing date the 27th day of rd J. RUSSELL, the August, 1857, laid on the table of this house (No. 119), whether at the desire of the Postmaster-General, the Board of Admiralty, or the inhabitants of Devonport ; and also, why the additional sum inserted in the con tract should be 3,0061., in place of 1,2001., as named in the eighth column of the tender, for such change of the port of departure 1 . Mr. WILSON said no alteration had been made since the acceptance of the tender. OATHS BILL. The adjourned debate on the Oaths Bill (Amend manta) relative to the nomination of Baron Rothschild a member of the committee for the Lords' Conference, was resumed by The SOLICITOR-GENERAL, and after some dis cussion, in which Mr. Whitbread, Mr. Headlam Mr. Macaulsy, Mr. Col'ier, Mr, H. Drummond Mr. Malins, and other hon. members took part, the ' house . divided. The numbers were— Against it. .................................. 196 Majority ....................... 55 committee was therefore carried. once OT nh e w t hitehdmotionmotion o ro appointingL &lona PENNANT supported the motion. Sir W. CODRINGTON advocated an extension of bar rack accommodation. Colonel KNOX thought there might be better plans for the accommodation of soldiers in barracks. He trusted also that some means would be taken to improve the ven tilation of the barracks. Mr. S. HERBERT explained. • Mr. MONSELL said that the report with respect to barracks had not been acted on, simply because no new barracks had been constructed since it appeared. The best mode of raising money for the building of new and efficient barracks would be selling old and useless ones. Lord BURGHLEY also pressed the necessity of an im proved ventilation in barracks. After a few words from Lord EBRINGTON and Mr. B. JOHNSTONE, the motion was agreed to. TURNPIKE TOLLS (IIETROPOLIS). On the motion of Mr. BYNG, it was agreed that an humble address be presented to her Majesty, praying that she will be pleased to issue a royal commission to inquire and report as to the beat means of aff rding to the inhabi tants of the metropolitan districts, within six miles of Charing-cross, a relief from the abolition of turnpike-gates and toll-bars similar to that which the legislature has already granted, on the recommendation of a royal corn mission to the metropolis of Ireland. ELECTION COMMITTEES. Mr. COLLINS moved for leave to bring in a bill to fur ther limit and define the jurisdiction of election commit tees in cases of scrutiny, by extending the provisions of the act of the 6th Vic., chap. 18, sec. 98.—Agreed to. ASCENSION DAY. Lord R. CECIL moved th , t all committees of the house stand adjourned over Thursday next, being Ascension Day. Mr. WALPOLE said it was usual not to sit until after wo o'clock on Ascension Day. After a brief discussion the motion was withdrawn. WEIGHTS AND MEASURES. On the motion for the second reading of this bill, • Mr. BROWN could only assent to the second reading on the understanding that by passing it through that stage, the deliberations of the select committee, to which it was to b 3 remitted, should not at all be prejudiced. Mr. HORSFALL opposed the bill. The second reading was postponed until Tuesday next, PROPERTY QUALIFICATION BILL Mr. BEN TINCK gave notice that when it was proposed to go into committee on this bill, ho should move that that stage be taken that day six mouths. The report of supply and ways and means was then brought up. The Stamp Duties on Drafts Bill was read a third time nod passed. _ The house then adjourned at 20 minutes to 1 o'clock. CENTRAL CRIMINA COURT.—May 11. THE TOTE OF CENSURE. Lad SHAFTESBURY laid on the table the terms of Itis motion of which he bad given notice yesterday : " 1. That it appears from papers laid upon the table of this house that a despatch has been addressed by the Secret Committee of the Court of Directors to the Go vernor-General of India, disapproving a proclamation which the Governor-General had informed the Court be intended to issue after the fall of Lncknow. "2. That it is known only from intelligence that hag reached this country by correspondence published in newspapers that the intended proclamation has been a issued, and with an important modification, no o .ve ci d 1 . account of this proceeding having yet been recet at. , that this house is therefore st ill without fullin f h o a r s m act ed , lo to ass to the grounds upon whi ch Lord Cannin g and his answer to the obje ctions made ohis intended proclamation in the desp atch of the Secret Committee cantiot be received for several weeks. is $. That under these circumstances this . house is unable to form a judgment on the proclamation issued by Lord canning, but thinks it right to exp ress its dis probation of th® premature publication b y her Majest y's o f the despatch addre ssed to the Governer l'jeini ne s e t a e l r , s aince this public con d e mnation of bis conduct is calculated to weaken the authority of the Governor- General in India, and to encourage those now in arms against this country. LORD CANNING AND THE GOVERNMENT. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE (who was most in distinctly heard) was understood to claim their lordships' indulgence for a few minutes while he endeavoured to correct an error, whether material or immaterial, into which circumstances very easily explained might last evening have led him. When he came down to the house yesterday be was not at all aware that there was likely to be any conversation on the subject which was then alluded to. In the course of the discussion which then arose, however, he bad been induced to communicate to his noble friend (Earl Granville) that which, sub stantially, was perfectly correct, respecting a com munication received by Mr. Vernon Smith from Lord Canning. Prom a conversation which he happened to hold in the morning with that tight hon. gentleman, he understood that a letter had reached him in which Lord Canning expressed great anxiety to furnish an ex planation of the grounds upon which the proolamatior, lately the subject of so much public attention, had been issued. He certainly was under the impression, in the course of the casual conversation which took place, that that letter had only been received at the time when the communication of the proclamation and of the censure sent out respecting it had been made to both Houses of raxliament simultaneously. He found that, however, to be inaccurate, but was led naturally into the error, be cause he had understood his right hon. friend to inform him that it was of no use after that announcement had been made to communicate the note. But what he found was said by his right hon. friend was, that it was of no use to produce that note after the censure of the Go vernment had been sent out. He (the Marquis of Lans downe) did not see any material difference between the statements ; but he had been led to make this one in stead of the other from the manner in which it had been made to him. In anticipation of any question which might naturally be asked on the subject, he wished to aid that no private communication whatever on public question had been received from Lord Canning by Mr. V. Smith since the period when he left office—nothing but a single sentence, embodied in some references to private subjects, which could hardly be called a letter, but in which Lord Canning expressed his regret that the extreme pressure of business had prevented him from giving what he should have been desirous of giv ing —namely, a full, clear, and ample explanation of the grounds upon which the proclamation was issued. Mr. V. Smith, owing to the change of Government which had taken place, received that note without the procla 'nation. The Earl of DERBY—Nobody in this house or else where would suspect the noble marquis of making a state ment which he did not believe to be entirely correct, and he has now cleared up the a mount of inaccuracy into which he fell last night. I naust take the liberty of remark ing, however, that the difference between the two statesmen is a considerable one ; because, according to isis statement last night, the private note future explanations on cue part 01 Lin U c..anning Was not received until after the communication to Parlia ment of the disapproval of the proclamation. Tho noble marquis now admits he was in error on the point, but he has stopped short in his revelations, far he has not told us what was the precise date at which that private note was received by Mr, V. Smith. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE—I stated that it had not been received until after the censure was sent out, on April 19, when consequently it could have bad no effect on the sending out of that censure. The Earl of DERBY—I am very glad the noble mar quis has given us the precise date, because if on April 19 the note had been communicated to my noble friend (Lord Ellenborongh), it was in ample time to have pro duced in his mind all the effect which might result from a knowledge that such a letter was in existence, for this reason,—because, ',although the censure, as the noble marquis has called it, and it certainly was, of the tencur of the proclamation dated April 19, it was not sent out until the mail of April 26, and consequently, if Mr. V. Smith, at the time he received that private note, had given my noble friend the President of the Board of Con trol an intimation that the Governor-General intended to forward an explanation of the proclamation—(cheers) —Lord Canning having written that private note to Mr. V. Smith under the impression that he was the person who would receive it at the same time with the procla mation,—the object contemplated by Lord Canning would have been achieved, and my noble friend (Lord Edenborougb) would not have been led to pronounce a premature condemnation of a proclamation which the Governor. General, in a private letter, asked time to explain. (Some ories of "No, no.") As I under stood, certainly, Lord Canning stated in that note that be would take an opportunity of forwarding an explanation by the next mail. (No ! and hear, Lear.) My noble friend near me (Lord Malmes bury) remarked last night, with great truth, that the conduct of the late Secretary f ,r Foreign Affairs af• forded a very marked contrast to the course pursued by the late President of the Board of Control. My noble friend the late Secretary for Foreign Affairs (Lord Cla rendon) knows well that persons i❑ the confidence of the Government employed abroad frequently send over pri vate letters, accompanying public despatches, which re ate to matters of great importance, and that those let ters are most valuable a explaining the real meaning and intent of the despatches. My noble friend opposite re ceived many such letters, and I venture to say that there was not one connected with public business which he did not in the frankest and fairest manner communicate to my noble friend (Lord Malmesbury) who succeeded him. I am unwilling to impute to Mr. V. Smith any other reason for his conduct than that he was not aware of the ordinary course of proceeding ; but I may be permitted to say that such a departure from the usual course is neither fair to the Government at home nor to those who are employed in the service of her Maj,:sty's Govern ment abroad. (Hear.) I say that it was the bounden duty of Mr. V. Smith, if he received a private 'Ater addressed to him on the supposition that he still held the office cf President of the Board of Control, and such private let ter contained a statement on the part of the Governor- General of his regret that he was unable by that mail to send an explanation of his proclamation, not to have per mitted his successor, the President of the Board of Con- trol, to remain in ignorance of that letter. I say, also, upon the statement of the noble marquis himself, that if that letter had been communicated one week would hate been afford e d h er M a j es t y ' s G overnmen t f or cons id er i ng the reply which was sen t ou t t o th e G overnor -G enera l . Earl GUA.N'VILLE—I am not g.,ing to argue in the iatligihatest lf,t important--especially degree against th e p r i nc i p l e l a id d own th a t p u ortant----especially when chan g es of government take In " I Y the place a" ffi 14" more rapidly than was fur hould one who ha s qu itt e d ocs s c ommunicat e to h successor publiccessor i al n l tf t r h a e a t. info; I mation he c an afford affecting b am aware that my noble friend Cl the late S ecre t ary for Foreign Affairs (Lord mayarendon) ha s t l i peal to m y no bl e o that course ; and I think I pur,ued friend opposite whether such infornaaai • n much less important subjects has not nas b l e could gi ve as was i n my power. lam bound to saa['forded as fully z t , b al t s b o, that no one acted more fairl y in this respect t noble earl the Presiden t of the Board of Control (Lord ° Ellen borough), who afforded the late Government valu able information upon matters of great public import ance. I was quite prepared to follow that course in his instance, although I did not do so as completely as CHIEF JUSTICE OF BOMBAY BILL. The LORD CHANCELLOR appealed to his noble friend not to perseveru in his motion for the discharge of the order of the day for the second reading of this bill. The Earl of ELLENBOBOUGFI then withdrew his motion, and substitutad one for it that the bill should be read a second time. The noble earl stated that the ob• jest of the bid was to legalise the act done by the Lord Chief Justice of Bombay after the appointment of a suc cessor, whose patent was sign° I on the 22d February, the Lts Government having resigned on the 20th of that anon t b. TLe bill was real a second time. TRANSFER OF LAND BILL. Lord CRA.NWORTIImoved the third reading of the bill. It was a measure that would ensure a safe title on the purchase of land. • Lord Sr. 'LEONARDS opposed the motion. The Court of Culncery had not the means of carrying out the business that would be thrown upon it in conferring par 'atom:sift: 7 title under thin bid. If the tucaauropalaed into a law there ougtit to be a separate court established for eariying out its provisions, similar to the Irish E ;cumbered-Estee& Court for Ireland. The state of the country did not require that the purchasers of estates should go to the Court of Chancery for a parliamentary title. After some remarks from the Earl of DONOUGH MORE, Lord WENSLEYDALE rose to express his objec tion to the tb:rd reading of the bill. Lord CRANWOR rll —Will you let me postpone the third reading of the bill Lord ST. LEONA RDS—No. He would move it himsel. lie then moved the third reading of the bill this day six nionths. Lord ORAN WORTH—Then I will second the motion. Lord WENSLEYDALE said he bad the most serious oLjectins to the bill, which he stated at considerable length when it was introduced. It would Eff-ct a total alteration in the present system of conveyancing ; but his principal abjection to it was, that in sales through the Court of Chancery the title would be investigated by persons who had no interest in the dispu e, and who would only we the ordinary degree of care exercised by public officers, and not by the scrutinising eye and interested motives of professional conveyancers. All mortgages of land would be decreased in value by the passing of the measure. It was a measure so full of danger that ;heir lordships ought to pause before passing it into a law The LORD CHANCELLOR complained that the course proposed with reference to this bill bad been unusual. It was customary to discuss the principle of a measire on the second reading, but no discussion took pima on the second reading of the bill, and the result was that it with others were referred to a selec eommittle to examine their details, and he understood his nobb and learned friend (Lord Lyndhur,t) who took great interest in the select committee on the bill, and endeavoured to improve it, did not intend to oppose the third reading of the bill, Lori LYNDHURST : No. The LORD CHANCELLOR said he considered the bill an experiment that ought to be tried with the least expense to the country, and he looked upon it as a step in theright direction. The object of the bill was not to compel purchasers to take paltry titles, but to give them the option of having the titles there examined. The Court of Chancery was not a very popular court, but he thought that court the best in which to try the experi ment. He wished the bill to pas , , believing it would be found to be a successful experiment, and then provision could be made for establishing a separate court for its working. lie should supp.rt the third rea ling of the Lord ItEDESDALE opposed the third reading o ebill. L:rd ABINGER opposed the third reading of the bill. After some remarks from Lard CRANWORTIL to reply, 'f it Lordship) then divided. The numbers were— Cantentl l3 1•1 ) ) h - z:ontents l2 Majority —l This hilt was read a third time and passed. TENANTS FOR LIFE TRUSTEES, ko., 'BILL. This bil passed through committee. LOAN SOCIETIES BILL. The Wag read a gecond time. LAW OF PROPERTY A.MENDMENT BILL. Tee arietrinientm to this bill were agreed to. The !mine adjourned at a quarter to g o'clock. MINING OPERATIONS Mr. RICARDO presented petitions from the copy. theirth e S livest ef fo andr dsh r property potteries, t o holders and inhabitants and th e mayor and corporation of the borough c w o h m ic p h lai t n hv i e ng were subjected b y t h e mining operations 4 Yt i under the Duchy of La ncas t er ; and moved that a select committee be appoint e d t o i nqu i re into the allegations of the petitioners, and t o report whether any and what of of e ll peril remedy can be afforded to them, should the grievance of which they compl in be proved to exiele lie stated that the mining operations in question undermined a large amount of property, and thereby ruined it, besides caus ing a serious risk of life. It was a matter for serious investigation. Mr. BAINES said that there had been an immerno rial commercial cestorn in these copyholds under which those who build upon the land have been made aware of the risk they run on account of the land being situated above the mines, and have received an allowance in the purchase money in consequence. Moreover, the matter was not under the control of the Duchy of Lancaster, but depended upon leases .granted to a private family, that of the Granvillese Alderman COPELAND thought that the case de manded inquiry. Mueh property, which some years :lg.) had cost large sue - is, had been altogether destroyed by these mining operations. Ile urged the appointment of a c mmittee. Air. WALPOLE would, on the part of the Crown, offer rio objection to the committee, if he thought that it would be of any use. But he was convinced that inquiry would lead to no result, as the question involved points of law which the house could not possi bly decide. The best course to adopt would be to sub mit one case to legal decision, by which the others should be governed. The Marquis of EIARTINGTON said that no ground of complaint had beon substantiated on the part of the petitioners. Viscount INGESTRE thought that inquiry ought to he granted as an act of clemency towards the poorer clar,ses. Sir R. BETIIELL opposed the motion for a commit tee. What would the house do after the committee had made its report ? He proteste I against so dangerous a precedent for meddling in a matter which ought to be brought before the courts of law. After some observations from Mr. WISE and Mr. ATHERTON, Mr. RICARDO replied, and the house divided — For the motion 63 Again -t it Majority PRIVATE BILLS. Lord R. CECIL moved a resolution, that it is expedi. ent that the investigation into the merits of private bias at present conducted by select committees of the house, should in future be conducted by a paid and permanent tribunal. Mr• W. PATTEN said that private business of a e but involving an offence of a very serious descrip tion, and for which only a few years ago his life would have been forfeited. It was very painful to have to pass seutet,ce upon a person in his position ; bat he should not be doing his duty to the public if he were to pass over such an off nce with a light punishment, and he therefore felt compelled to order him to be kept in penal servitude for ten years. POLICE INTEL LIG ENCE.—Airay 12. MARYLEBONE. —THE LATE ADROIT ROBBERY BY THE SOI-DISANT " MISS CONSTANCE BROWN."--• OIiiIITTAL OF THE PRISONER ON Two CHARGES.-0 The court was crowded to excess, the greatest anxiety being manifested to obtain a sight of Louise Moutat, who had been remanded on the charge of having, in a most adroit and extraordinary manner, possessed herself of a diamond bracelet, of the value of 3201., from Hunt and Roskell, Bond street, under the pretence that it was for Lady Campbell, 14, Radnor-place, Hyde -park. A clerk from the banking -house of Messrs. Cox and Biddulph was examined, and some further evi dence was taken in reference to a second case, in which the pris ,ner had obtained jewellery from Mr. Ray, jeweller, Great Castle-street, Oxford-street, to the amount of 501. The prisoner wr►s fully committed to take her trial upon both charges. MARLBOROUGH-STREET.—ThE ROBBERY AT LORD FOLEY'S. —Thomas Partridge was charged with being concerned with others in committing the large plate robbery at Lord Foley's, in Grosve nor-square. Police -constable A 346 said the prisoner answered the descripliou of one of the parties concerned in the robbery. Mr. Hannant, the superintendent, said on Mon day next he would be prepared with further evi dence. Remanded till Monday. Country IVlarkets. LER L. MAY li . Arrivals of grain IV and fI POO our continue moderate. A d demand has been ex p er i enced for Indian corn for expo rt o to Ireland, and the quantity this week sums up to 14,000 qrs. At this day's market no alteration of quotations could be made in any article. Trade quiet. DS, MAT 11. We have a go o d show LEE of English and foreign wheat, and fair arrivals of both ; holders generally are pretty firm ; millers are, consequently, inactive, and the business done is at about the prices of Friday last. Barley as before. Beans and oats firm : other articles unchanged. Averages for the week : Wheat, 42s 100 I Oate, 21s std I Peas, 46s 10d. Barley, 36s lOicl Beans, 40s lid Rye, —s Od. NORWICH CATTLE —MAY 8. We had a great many Scots and short horns today, bui very few Devons and Irish. Sales dull. Fat beasts, 6s 6d to 7s Od ; prime, 7s 6d per stone; being about same as last week. Sheep, 42s to 41s per head, and good store pig s , 18s to 24 5 . F a t por k ., 6s to 6s 6d per stone of 141bs; trade dull. PROVISION lif A RICET. Beef, per lb ... . ....... 6d to 7d Butt"..3r, p lb. is Id to i s 21 Lamb Mutton, per 1b.... 6td t o 7d I Egrs, per 18, Os Od to i s 01 , do., Os 9d to ON 10d. I Bens, p pair Os Od to Os 01 Veal, per lb ... 6d to Os 6A. 1 I Chickens,do.4s Od to 6s 01 Pork, perlb...os std to 63d. 1 Ducks, do., 4s 6d to 6E: 6tl Salmon, per lb ... ...... Os O'a Ducklings,do 2s Od to 2s 6 I Grouse, per brace.....os tf:, Os 1 Turkeys, each Os Od t o 0 3 01 Tallow, p stone, O s to -.--5 Od P o t a t oes, pr sok, —d to —cl --- COURSE OF EXCFEANGE.—YESTERDAY. ‘msterclam.. .• • • •• 11 14% Gibraltar ••..••• • • • • • Ditto, three moD'alis 11 17% Leghorn . Rotterdam 11 .•• • • •• 29 92 /4 17% Genoa • •... 25 52 Antwerp ••.• •• •• •• •• •• 25 32% Milan •• •• •• •• •• •• •• Brussels •• a••.•••• •• • • 25 32y4 V en i ce ••••••• • •• •• •••• zialuburgh „,• •• ••• •13 6% NapleB -• •• •••• •••• •• 41% Altona •••••••••• •••••• •• Palermo •• • • 12 5 14 Parts. ....... ... 25 7% Messina Do. three months .. 25 32% Lisbon .. .... 51 5 4 Marseilles .• •• •• •• •• 25 32% Oporto •• •• •• •• •• •• 04 .• 5 1% Bourdeaux ............ .. Rio Janeiro ..... .• • .... Frankfort-on-Maine •• .. 118% IBuenos Ayres Berlin ..•• •..... ••• • •• • • .New York 60 days' sight Vienna ............ .... 10 33 !Philadelphia Trieste•• •• •••• •• •• 10 34 PRICES Or BULLION. PEE On Petersburg 35 14 Foreign Gold in Bars £3 17 9 Madrid 49 Portugal Gold Coin .. 0 0 0 Cadiz ......... • • 49% Mexican Dollars .... 0 5 0 % Barcelona .. .• •• .• New Dollars ...... 0 0 0 Seville" •••••• •• •• • • •• 'Silver in bare •• •••• 0 5 1% LOCAL B.IIA JIB IV A RKBTA, LIVERPOOL—MAT 11. STOCK EXCHANGE—The market opened at a decline to• day, which was soon regained, and prices closed firal• Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln 37$ to I—London and North We s t ern , 94 4 Lancashire and Yorkshire, 91 to -- Midlands, 93 4—Eastern Counties, 12 ,4—Caledonian, 421 —Blackburn, 94 10 --South Eastern, 20i—North British, 12 11-16—Dutch Rhenish, 4$ d.—Great Western of Canada, 19$ 191—York and North Midland, 371 1 -- Chester and Holyhead, 18A 18$—Berwicks, 23 5-16 — Grand Trunk of Canada, 124 s—East Lancashire, 901- - Leeds Northern, 234 4—Birkenhead stock, 711 2. id AN CH ESTER., MAT 11. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The market opened with a weak business, but prices were not fully maintained, and closed rather lower. Dovers, 20 1 5- 16—Midlands, 92/3—Leedm, 90$ —East Lancashire, 904 Sheffield', 37/3—Matlock", 2 11.. 6—North Eastern (York), 75$—Blaekburne, LEEDS, MAY 11. STOCK EXCHANGE.—London and North-Westerns, 94 —North Eastern (York), 75,1—Leeds, 9oi—Dovers, 6 9 — North Western, 8.1.9. ttIRMINGHAM, MAT 11. STOCK EXCHANGE. —This market was flat to-day, aad prices rather weak: South Staffords were done at 101- - Birmingham New Unian Mills at 2.l6.3.—GreatWesteruil closed at 55—London and Brightens at 108. [ADVERTISEMENT.] —The intelligent portion of the public can no longer remain inattentive to the convincing personal evidence which has been given by Fifty Thousand respectable individuals, as to the extraordinary cures (ffected by Messrs. Du Barry's Revalenta Arabica Food, in various stages of the undermentioned mal a di es, and after medicine bad utterlyfoiled, or had, in many cases ag grava t e d the original syniP• toms : dyspepsia (indigestion), constipation, functional in. , ' gularity, obstructions, acidity, cramps, spasms, fits, heart* burn, dia.rrhcea, nervousness, bili ousness, affections -of the liver and kidneys, flatulency, distension, palpitation of the heart, nervous headache, deafness, noises in the head and ears, giddiness, pains between the shoulders, and in almost every part of the b dy, chronic inflammation and ulceration of the stomach, eruptions on the skin, scurvy, fever, scrofula, impurities, poverty of blood, consumption (if not beyond human aid), dropsy, rheumatism, gout, influenza, grippe, nausea and vomiting during pregnancy, after eating, or at sea, low spirits, spleen, general debility, paralysis, cough, asthma, tightness across the chest, phlegm, inquietude, sleeplessness, involuntary blush ing, tremors, dislike to society, unfitness for study, de lusions, loss of memory, vertigo, blood to the head, exhaus tion, melancholy, groundless fear, indecision, wretchedness, thoughts of self-destruction, &. Amongst those who have joined in this magnificent testimonial of gratitude are such men as the Right Hon. Lord Stuart de Decies, the Venerable Alex. Stuart, Archdeacon of Ross ; Major-General King Captain Parker Bingham, R.N., &c., die. The catalogue likewise includes the names of hundreds of ladies, who, with a noble resolution, overcoming for humanity's sake their natural repugnance to publicity, have come forward to de scribe their long-continued sufferings under the anguish of disease, and the misery of fruitless medicine-taking, and their final delivery from all this wretchedness by the use of the light and agreea bl e R eva l enta Food. In numbers of in stances it has been the salvation of women in pregnancy, and of delicate nurses and infants ; and the duration of chronic diseases, which it has effectually overcome (after all other methods of cure had been used in vain) was in some cases, upwards of sixty years. If we de. signata the discovery of this food as the greatest physical blessing which the good fortune and ingenuity of au individua have yet conferred upon the human species, we feel that we are speaking quite within bounds ; and we can only express our hopes, for the sake of society at large, that the use of this inestimable preparation may become as universal as its capacities for good are certain and inexhaustible. Sup from dchbyemteissttii.ym:opnira.lsAf.roumret;hDe rf.olsloh worinlagnde;elDebrr.alltearvd Pro fessors Dr. Campbell ; Dr. Gattiker ; Dr. Wurzer ; Dr, Ingram Lord Stuart do Decies; the Dowager Countess of Castlestuart , Major Gen. Thomas King, and many other resp ec t a ble per sons, whose health h as b een restored by it, after all other i means of cure had f a il e d . S u i ta bl y packed with fu ll nstrue• tions, In canist ers , 11b . 2 s. 9d .; 21b . 4 s. 6d .; 51b. 11s. ; 121 b. 225. Th e 121 b can i s t ers are sen t carr i age f ree on re ecipt of Post-offi c e order. Barry Du Barry, und Co., 77, Regent-street, London. Important Cautionagainst the fear. ful dangers of spurious imitations.—The Vice-Chancello r Si r William Page Wood granted an Injunction on the 10th March, againstlB34, Alfred Hooper Nevill for imitating " Dui Barry'eßevalenta Arabica Foo " a atBIRTHS.., at 4, • GLYN—On the 9th i lmperial-square, Ch lien- OLD COURT. ham, the ' wife of Lieut.-Colonel Glyn, 3d 13attilion e Rlis Brigade, of a daughter. (Btfu..e the Recorder.) DOUGLAS—On the 27th tilt., at Lynburn, near Ratho, THE CASE OF THE REV. GEORGE RADCLIFFE. N. 8., the wife of Captain the Hon. G. H. Douglas, George Radcliffe, 55, described as a clerk, was R.N., of a son. placed a t 't the bar to plead to three indictments, the Ali -On the 9th inst., at the G Bd le the range,. e a , first of which charged him with feloniously forging on. Mrs. T. J. Monson, of a son. the signature for a transfer of etch to the amount . MARRIAGES. of 1,0281. 6s. 3d., with intent to defraud the Gover- CARY —KEIGHLY On the 11th inst., at St. J a mes's nor and Company of the Batik of Engl an d , and : Church, Paddi ng t on, the Hon. Lucius C n Care 'so of the the others wi7ll. forging certificates of a d ea th and lfriseount Fa'kland, to Sarah Chri s ti ana , only d a ughter o . the lato Major each Keighly, Judge-Advo" burial of the person interested in the stock in clues_ , c.te-General of the Madras Army, and of Idlioote House. tion. ' Warwickshire. er Mr. Giffard appeared for the prosecuti o • S n n - UDSON— WEST—On'the llth lust. t the a Congregational Mr. geant Ballantine was specially retain e d, W ith M .Chapel, New k Begley, y,sir. Francis Hudson, of Barns' Bodkin, on behalf of the pr &:ner. i bury-road, Islington, to Julia Anne onl da u g hter of It will be remembered ghat :h Iv e prisoner, 'Ol3 , • Mr. John W es t, o f B ex l ey , Kent. ' y au a clergyman, was committed upo n the e l iarge of DEATHS. ARIISTRONG— On the 10th inst., at 3, Belgrave Villas, forging the signature of a gertleman who was b• Stratford, Essex, John Armstrong, Esq., aged 50- co-trustee for certain stock in the 134iik of Enol Pi and) BROWNLOW—On the 18th March, a - Lucknow, aged 2 5, and at the same tint° repre,4entin(r that this ' gentle- f,ora the effects of a gunpowder explosion, Elliot Paken: man was dead, and producing certificates of his ham Brownlow, Lieut. Bengal Engineers, second son or de tth and burial, which certificates were the f oun ) a _ Hi.try Brownlow, Esq., of Portland-pl ace , B a th. tion of the other two indictments. RIDEOUT—On the 7th inst., at Woolwich, Capt. Samuel The prisoner, who appeared to be suffe • Hideout, 12. N. ring acute . mental anguish, pleaded guilty s to the whole of the i riaLING-0a the 3d ul., at the Hotel d e Wi n d sor , Paril charges. sir Samuel Stirling, Bart., of Glorat, Stirlingshire, an d Sergeant B a ll ant i ne sa i d he appeared with his Renton, Berwi c k s hi re . Q .JTAINFORTEI—On th inst., Elizabeth, wife of Lieute learned fri en d on b e h alf of the prisoner, and upon Colonel Stainforth, e of 9th Jersey. a consideration of all the facts and the position of SKINGLEY -On the 7th inst., Henry Skingley, E sq ., o f welte c o the prisoner and his connections, . they had come to Coln,-hal, E-ser, aged 58. the conclusion that the most advisable course to be WINGFIELD —On the Bth inst., Lieutenant-Colonel Thorns's taken was that the prisoner ' should plead guilty, Henry Wingfield, late of her Majesty's 32d Regt. and that the matter should be left entirely in the hands of the court. LONDON : Printed and Published by WEIRDO YOUN t; ' The Recorder then addressed the ' prisoner, and o f No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun Otlioe. No. said thathe had pleaded guilty to three ludi c , m en ts, 112, Stran d , i n t h e Precinct of the Savoy, in the conn t l all no doubt _connected with the same transaction of Middlesex, Wedneslay i May 12, 1858. • '.'; . .