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Prices—l3oxes, It. is.; Stalls, 35.; Arca, Is.; sack, is. No. 20,535.) [PRIM 4D. STAMPED 50.] Commons, embodying the recommendations of the select committee of that house, 1856, upon the E3clesiastical Commission I He said that a committee of the other house had looked int• the subject, and had made mail) , important suggestions. A bill was introduced into the other house, founded on that report ; but coming to their lo:dships' house at a late period, it was not passed. He wished to know whether it would be re-introduced, or any similar bill. The Earl of DERBY said that the best answer he could give to his noble friend was to lay on the table, and ask their lordships to give a first reading to the bill to which he referred. He should have done so on Mon day las', but was anxious to obtain the sanction of the Archbishop of Canterbury ; and in consequence of the right rev. prelate not being in town he did not receive his answer until Wednesday morning. He would now lay the bill on the table in precisely the same shape in which it caine from the other house last session, and move its first reading. Re would propose the second reading on Tuesday, and give a statement of its pro visions. The bill was read a first time. The Duke of MARLBOROUGH said that if the bill did not contain any provision relating to capitular estates, he should take an early opportunity of introduc ing a bill on that subject. Their lordships then adjourned. PUBLICATIONS. BANK OF DEPOSIT, Established A.D. 1844. 3, PALL-MALL EAST, LONDON. Parties desirous of INVESTING Moray are requested to examine the Plan of the BANK OF DEPOSIT, by which a high rate of interest may be obtained with ample security. The Interest is payable in January and July. PETER MORRISON, Managing Director. Forms for opening accounts sent free, on application. PROFESSOR WILJALBA FRIKELL. ST. 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THE COMMISSIONERS of the METROPO LIS TURNPIKE ROADS North of the Thames will hold a SPECIAL. Me.ETING at their Office, No. 22, Whitehall-place, in the parish of Saint Martin-in-the-fields, in the city of Westminster, en FRIDAY, the Seventh day of May next , at the hoer of one O'clock in the Afternoon, for the purpose of consulting whether at/, or any, and which of the several Toll-Gates and Side- Bars now placed on and by the sides of the Third District of the staid Metropolis Turnpike Roads north of the Thames, shall be rem veil and placed elsewhere, or discontinued, and win ther any Toll-Cate and , Ide-Bar shall be erected on or by the side of thelißoads in the said District, and in what situations the same shall be placed. Ry order of the Commissioners, GEORGE LABAL MONDIERE,ChIef Clerk-and Secretary. Metropolis Roads' Office, Whitehall-place, 9th April, 1858. " OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT" Pays Twenty-one Million Pounds of Tea have been released by the Possession of Canton.—The EAST INDIA TEA COMPANY snticip•ite the arrival or this, and have reduced the price of their 61b. bag of Sound Tea to 2s. 2d. per lb. ; ani Coffee in the Berry to Ild.—Warehouses, 9, Great St. Helen's-churchyard, Bishopsgate. METROPOLITAN COUNTIES LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY, 27, Regent- treet, Watarlco place, London, S.W. Life assurance, annuities, endowments, and Yowls on advantageous terms. F. FERGUSON CAMROUX, Manager. A.B. Policies in force, notwithstanding the Decease of the Life Assured, provided the Premiums be paid within the thirty days of grace. I NTERNA TIONAL LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY, 142, Strand, London, W.C., Feb. 25, 1858 : estab lishedlB37.—Payment of Premium within Days of Grace, —lt always has been and still is the practice of this society to pay claims under policies of assurance notwithstanding the death of the assured oc curring within the 30 days of grace, and before payment of the annual premium, provided payment thereof be made, or notice of the death be given to the office before the expiration of such days Of grace. For the Court of Directors, E. S. SYMES, Chairman. THE INTERNATIONAL LIFE ASSUR kNCE SOCIETY, 142, Strand, London. empowered by Act of Parliament. for LIFE ASSURANCE, SUE VIVORSHIPS, ANNUITIES, ENDOWMENTS, &c. DIRECTORS. EDMOND SIIEPPARD SYMES, M.D., Chairman. Wm. Renworthy Browne, Esq. Henry J. Hodgson, Esq Samuel King-Church, Esq. John Moss, Esq. John Elliotson, M.D., Cantab., John Symes, Esq. Joseph Thompson, Esq. SECRETARY TO TILE BOARD. Alexander Richardson, Esq. CORRESPONDING( SECRETARY. Augustus Blondel, Esq. AUDITORS. Pro%ssor Wheatstone, F.R.S., and Professor J. Radford Yoang. MEDICAL REFEREE GENERAL. Elliotson, M.D., Cantab , F.R.S., 37, Conduit-strict. ♦CTUARY. W. S. B. Woolhouse, Esq., F.R.A.S., F.S.S., &C. ♦SSISTANT ACTU ARY. Barker Woolbouse, Esq. BANKERS. Messrs, Glyn, Mills, and Co., 67, Lombard-street. SOLICITORS. Ileum Gregory-, Gregory, Skirrow. and Rowcliffe, Bedford-row. The next Quinquennial Division of Profits will be declared in Nay, 1860. Examples of Bonus up to May, 1855 : Bonus in I Permanent Policy Sum addition Bonus in Reduction of taken Age. A ssured. to Styr, Cash. Annual Pre• out in Assured. mium. --....,..• X £s. d. £s. (1. Xs. d. 183 g 55 3,000 867 17 7 423 1 4 56 3 8 181 1 48 - 4,000 749 4 0 325 16 0 32 0 4 1845 i 59 2,000 232 18 0 156 15 0 16 6 0 1848 60 1 2,000 1 154 2 8 103 16 8 10 15 2 1451 55 2,800 1120 17 0 72 14 6 67 7 ___ The following are amongst the advantages offered by the I nter tational Life Assurance Society : The Society was established in 1838. Tyro-thirds of the profits are divided amongst the assured every ere years. Its subscribed ,;anital is five hundred thousand pounds. its investments, at the date of the last annual report, amounted one hundred and seventy-one thousand pounds. Its annual income is ninety thousand pounds. The number of policies now in force exceed six thousand. About one thousand new policies are added every year. Since its einnmencement the Society has paid in claims upward Of three hundred and twenty thousand pounds. For prospectuses and every other information, apply to the Chair man, 142, Strand. 142, Strand, London, W.C. EDMOND S. SYMES, Chairman. TI IE SECRET INFIRMITIES OF YOUTH AND MATURITY ust published, price Is., post free, in an Envelope, for 13 stanaos ct ELF-PRESERVATION. —A Medical Treatise on the Functions and Disorders of the Generative System. t ." , 1 on the cure of Nervous and Physical Debility , resul tin g vicious habits acquired during the critical passage from youth to I ianhood, with practical observations on the Physiology of Mar . "ag ein its social, moral, and physical relations. To which are added `erriv.rks on the wonders of the Microscope in revealing the hidden ul3'st ell" "of Life within Life," and its advantages in detecting , by "a7examination, the cause and effect of every variety of these "a' Plaints, with numerous engravings and cases. - - - BY SAMUEL LA'MERT, M.D., 37, BEDFORD SQUARE, LONDON, ulated Member of the University of Edinburgh, Honorary Nre tu ber of the London HospUal Medical Society, Licentiate of AP , , tirecaries' hall, London, &c. The essential object of this treatise is to point out the fearful con ,ecluen es resulting from certain habits, irregularities, and excesses, lave produced more misery in Youth, degradation in Man -1"4, a. id premature decay at all stages of life, than, perhaps, any other cls 'as of disease known to modern pathologists. Its perusal is Particula rty recommended to persons entertaining secret doubts of their phy eical condition, and who are conscious of having hazarded the health,- happiness, and privileges to which every human being is catttled. It is absolutely necessary that all men should know that there are rinciples of personal management which cannot be violated with oat incurriwz grievous penalties, and when wisdom and regret suc ceed the hey lay of inconsiderate self-indulgence, how those penalties May be mitt, fated, how the sting of their bitterness may be removed, and how the evil and its consequences maybe avoided, and, above all, that there is t carcely any degree of physical infirmity or functional derangement to which the timely aid of science cannot , ftpply a cure. Published by J. Allen, 23 Warwick-lane, Paternoster-row, and ally he had if Maim, 39, Cornhill; Horne, 19, Leicester-square ; Ocrdon, 146, L eadenhall.street or from the Author, who may be consulted daily, from II till 2, and from 6 till 8, at his residence, 37 Bedford-square, London. Tie work may be had in India, of Mr. Von Li; zky, Loll Bazaar ; Calcutta —Messrs. C. and J. llormusjee, Apollo-street; Bombay— Circulator Office ; Madras—Mottissilite Office A ,, ra -Dodsworth ; Colenabo, Ceylon; and of all P.oo',s,llera threuchout the Colonies. XEW AND IMPORTANT DISCOVERY IN THE SCIENCE OF MEDICINE. patent Office Seal of Great Britain. Diplome d'Ecole do Pharmacie Pharmacien do Paris. Imperial College of Medicine, Vienna. TRIEREMAR No. 1, 2, and 3, prepared in the form of a lozenge, devoid of taste or smell, and can he carried in the waistcoat pocket. 'Sold in tin cases, divided into separate doses, as administered by alpeau, Lallernand, Roux, Ricord &c , and adapted for both sexes. --pRIESENIAR No. 1 is a Remedy for RE -‘- LA XITION, SPERM kTDRItiIi:EA, and all the distressinz co. asequences arising trout early abuse, indiscriminate excesses, or toi long residence la hot cl mates. It has restored bodily and sexual sir .tngth and vigour to thousands of debilitated individuals who are ncn e in the enjoyment of health and the Functions of Manhood: an w3s, ttev , r may be the cause fur DISQUALIFICATIONS for MAR- A!, tGE, they ar.: effectually a ibdued by this Wonderful Discovery. TRIESEMAIS. No. 11. fris tually, in the short space f three days, completely and entirely eret licates all traces of Gonorrhoea, both in its mild and aggravated .non an antidote for, to the fort t is, meets, Pains of the meets, Strictures, rritation of the Madder, Non-retention of DI Loins and b K e l e d n ne t y m s disorders which Cop alvi and Cubebs ha vast long onion of thegiidt n Population. ru lof the health of a p those TRIESEMAR NO. 111. and all al is t great Continental It. riled) , for Syphilis and Secondary. ton is . It also constitutes a certain cure tor Scurv y , Scrofula, anSynap. Cut at icons Eruptions, removing and e x p ellin g in its cour se all corrup tion s and imp ur ities from the vital stream , as alto g eth er to eradicate the v irus of disease, and expel it with the insensible perspiration thro ui h the medium of the pores of the skin and urine, and i s s never, -tailing remedy for that class of disorders which unfortunately the 1 igllsh Physiciaa treats with Nlercury, to the inevitable destruc tion o the patient's constitution, and which all the sarsaparilla in the N for ld cannot restore. Price I Is., free by post. is. Bd. extra to any Sam tof the kingdom% or tour cases in one for 335., by post, 3s. 2d. Tr: t, w hich saves I Is., and in Si. cases, whereby ther e is a saving of 2s. Sold by Daniel Church, 78, Gracechurch - street , ; llNmer, 43, King William-street, (four doors from London ) Watts, 17, Strand ; Trout, 229, Strand ; Hannay, 63, Ox f treet ; Sanger, 150, Oxford-street; Butler,_4, Cheapside ; Ed 'Ardt St. Paul's Churchyard. E - _UMAN FRAILTY ; a Medical Work rice Is., post free, ill us t ra t e d w ith 100 engravings, containing the ? pint ons of Valpeau, Lallemand, Roux, Ricord, &c. It gives instruc t tom • for the perfect restoration of those who are prevented by im *di merits from entering into the marri‘id state, also showing the ht idful results from early aiiiuse, g,onorr`—i.a, and i4yphilis, and the belicflts arising from the chemical tests and examination of the !Derwatoza, by the newly-constructed microscope, with powerful rlases.. The Author may be consulted Daily according to the rules itf ither Book.—Sold by J. Allen, 20, Wirwick-lane, Paternoster-row, from all agents for the sale of " Triesemar, Hurst and Blackett, Publishers, Successors to Henry Colburn. This day, IR crows Bvo., with Plans of Battles , is. 6d., THEELEMENTS of the ART of WAR. By LIEUTENANT COLONEL GRAHAM, Late Military Secretary to General Vivian. London: Richard Bentley, Publisher in Ordinary to her Majesty. This day, in post Bvo, price 10s. Gd. 1848 -HISTORICAL REVELATIONS. • Inscribed to Lord Normanby. By Louis BLANC, Chapman and Hall, 193, Picea&lty. This day, in decoy Bvo, price Gd. AVOICE from ENGLAND in Answer to " L'EMPEREUIt NAPOLEON 111. et L'A.'..,TOLETERRE." BY AN ENGLISHMAN OUT OF OFFICE. Chapman and Hall, 193, Piccadilly. On Tuesday next, in 2 vols., post 3 , r0, price 18s. - . POETS AND POETRY OF GERMANY. Biographical and Critical Notices. -K. By I%ladaine L. DAVESIES DE PONTES, Translator of " Egmont," " The Niebeltmgen Treasure," "Korner's Life and Works." Chapman and Hall, 193, Piecadiiiy, WITH A NEW PREFACE. The Sixth Edition of OM BROWN'S SCHOOL DAYS. By AN OLD BOY. Now ready in Crown Svo. cloth, price 10s. Gd. The Preface may be obtained by the purchasers of firmer editions, on application to their respective Booksellers, or on forward ing two p..stage stamps to the publishers. Cambridge: Macmillan and Co. May be had of all Booksellers in town and country. THE STORY of the SULTAN MOURAD and his WELCOME GUEST may be obtained GRATIS on appli cation to any I4ookseller or NeWSTeRdOr throughout the kingdom ; or it will be sent FREE from the Pub , ishing Office to any person for warding his address. Office, 148, Fleet-street, London, E.C. FEIST'S RACING RECORD for 1858. Part II f., price 3d., will be published on the Ist of May. The 'Record, containing a complete calendar of Sport in England, Ireland, and Scotland in 1857, and Nominations for 1858, may be had price two shillings. W. Wright, Fulwood's Rents. Holborn. ON SPERMATORR ['W.A.—Translated from the German of Dr. Bickford. Just pub'ished, the Fourth Edition, price 55., by post ss. Gd., ON TRUE t FALSE SPERMATORRIICE..4, with a View to the Correction of wide-spread Errors in;ltela ton to its Nature, Consequences, and Treatment. By Dr. BICKFORD, With Important Introductory Remarks by the Editor. "The editor has conferred a great boon by translating this little book , and by laying bare the scandalous practices of unqualified adventurers, who profess to cure a disease of which they know nothing, with no other object than to fill their own purses. This volume is well cal culated to put an end to the empyrical system of treating Sperma torrhcea, and to place the treatment upon a more rational and phy siolnical basis. It is, therefore, likely to do much good."—Medical Circular. London, H. Balllere, 219, Regent-street. SPERMATORRH(EA RATIONALLY CONSIDERED, Just published, price 25., by post, free, 2 s. 2 d. ON SPERMATORRHCEA, and the PROFESSIONAL FALLACIES and POPULAR DELUSIONS which prevail in relation to its NATURE CONSEQUENCES, and TREATMENT. By F. B. COURTENAY, INIEMBER OF TILE ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS. " We never commence the perusal of works on this malady with out preparing ourselves to meet most appalling descriptions of human sufT , •rings. It was, therefore, a most agreeable surprise to us to find this error (as it appears to us) carefully avoided In this work, and the suhl,ct treated in a common sense, and truly practical manner. . . . No medical man should undertake the treatment of spermatorrhcea without first consulting this work."--Medical Circular, Jan. 13, 1858. London : H. Railliere, 219, Regent-street. Sent free by Post, Price Is. 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Supported by many respect• able persons, whose health has been restored by it, after all other means of cure had failed.—Mann, Nephews, 39, Cornhill, and through all Booksellers in town and country. EORGE HOBSON begs to invite the attention W •f Gentlemen to his new Stock of Trowserings for the pre sent season, price 21s. to 255. G. H. submits for inspection his new Overcoats, in all the new ap proved and various shades of colour for string wear. Excellence with Economy. A suit of clothes made in a few hours' notice. GEORGE HOBSON, 57. Lombard-street. Excellence with Economy. TO THE WEALTHY AND RESPECTABLE CLASSES. THE honour of an INSPECTION of the thilowlug ARTICLES OF DRESS is requested by 11. J. and D. 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It is, moreover, the best food for infants and invalids generally, as it never turns acid on the weakest stomach, nor inter feres with a good liberal diet, but imparts a healthy relish for lunch and dinner, and restores the faculty of digestion, and nervous and muscular energy to the most enfeebled. We extract a few out of the many thousand expressions of grati tude from invalids :—Cure No. 71, of dyspepsia, from the Right Hon. the Lord Stuart de Decies. " I have derived considerable benefit from Du Barry's Revalenta Arabica Food, and consider it due to yourselves and the public to authorise the publication of these lines. Stuart de Decies."—Curs No. 49,832. "Fifty years' indescribable agony from dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, cough, constipation, flatulency, spasms, and sickness at the stomach and vomiting, have been removed by Du Barry's excellent Food. %iariaJolly, Wortham Ling, near Dies, Nortolk."—Cure No. 47,121. Miss Elizabeth Jacobs, of N azing Vicarage. Waltham Cross, Herts, a cure of extreme ner vaasnoss, indigestion, gatherings, low spirits, and nervous fancies. — C Ire No. 48,314. Miss Elizabeth Yeoman, Gateacre, near Liver po 31 : a cure ot ten year's dyspepsia, and the horrors of nervous irrita bility. Cure No. 18,216. Dr. Andrew Uro of constipation, dyspep sia, t ervous irritability. Cure No. 34,210. Dr. Sherland of dropsy and debility. Cure No. 36,212. Captain Allan of epileptic Its. Cure No. 42.116 Major Effie of enlargement of the liver and total prostration of strength. Cure No. 36,418. Rev. Dr. Minster of cramps, spasms, and daily vomitings, Cure. No. 26,418. Dr. Harvey of diarrhoea and debility. Cure No. 39,628. Dr. Wurtzer of con sumption. Cure No. 32,883. William Hunt, Esq., barrister, of para lysis. Cure No. 46,270. Mr. James Roberts, wood merchant, Frimley ot thirty years diseased lungs, spitting of blood, liver derangement, partial deafness. Cure No. 4-;,814. Mr. Samuel Laxton. Leicester, of two years' diarrhoea. Cure No 52,612. The Dowager Countess of Castlestuart, of many years' nervous irritability, bile, and indi gestion. Cure No. 54,812. Miss Virginia Zeguers, cured of con sumption, after her medical advisers bad abandoned all hopes of recovery. Cure No, 180. "Twenty-five years' nervousness, con stipation. indigestion, and debility, from which I have suffered great misery, and which no medicine could remove or relieve, have been effectually cured bs Du Barry's Food in a very short time. W. R. Reeves, 181, Fleet-street, London." No. 4,208. "Eight years' dis- PePsia, nervousness, debility, with cramps, spasms, and nausea, for shieh my servant had consulted the advice of many, have been effectually cured by Du Barry's health restoring Food. I shall be happy to answer any inquiries. Rev. John Flavell, Ridlington Rec tory, Norfolk." N o. 32,83 G. "Th ree years ' excess i ve nervousness , with p ains in my neck and left arm, and eneraldebility, which ren dercld my life very pn i serable, has g been radically removed by Du Barry's health restoring N Food. Alex. Stuart, Archdeacon of Rosa, and general debility holive9b°6een Skibbereen." Cure co ß u a g rr h y , , i s ndl ex g c e e s ll ti e o n n t , removedTh i rt e e b y y e a p r s u ' Revalenta Arabica Food. James Porter, Athol-street, Perth." Important Caution against the fearful dangers of spurious imita t talons: The Vice-Chancellor Sir 'William Page Wood tion on the 10 t h March, 1854 , against Alfred Hooper Neville, for ' im it a ting "Du Barry s Revalenta Arabica Food." Suitably PaCked for all climates, and with full instructions. In can i s t e rs, lib 2s 9d ;.21b 45 6d; 51b lls 121 b 225. The 121 b car gage free, on receipt of Post-office order. Barry Du Barry env London' Fortn, Co., 77, Regent - street, 18q, adm In ' , mason. and Co.. pur veyors to her Majesty, h t i ; Jetnes Wells, 4a, Sloane street ; also at 60, Gracechurc -s ree ; 330, 430. and 451. Strand ; 4, Cheapside ; 49, and6o,l3lshopagate - street ; .G 3050 and 198 ox ford-street. LONDON and. RAIL vAY.—CONTRAC' prepared to receive Tenders for stores, viz.:— No. of Contract 3. Copper 4. Canvas G. Carpets and Rugs 7. Axles 8. Coals 9. Crucibles 10. Curled Hair 12. Co'ours 12a. Drysaltery 13. Coach Trimmings 15. Bags, Ropes, &c. 16. Glass, Plate 16a. Glass, various 171. Lamp Cottons 18. Leather. 18a. Leather Specifications and Forms of Tender may be had on and after Mon day, April 19th, on application to the Secretary, Easton Station, London. Forms of Tender for each Contract are printed separately, and parties applying should state the particular Contract or Contracts for which they propose to tender. Patterns may also be inspected on and after Monday, April 19th, from Ten till Four o'clock, at the Company's Pattern Room, Euston Station, and any further information require 1 may be obtained on application to the heads of the several departments. Tenders may be sent in betore Ten o'clock on Monday, May 3d. By order of the Directors. CIIAS. E. STEWART, Secretary. Easton Station, April 15th, 1858. SALE OF OLD STORES AT CHATHAM. ADMIRALTY, SOMERSET-PLACE, 14th April, 1158. THE Commissioners for Executing the Office of Lord high Admiral of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland do hereby give notice, that on TUESDAY, tie 11th May, next at 11 o'clock In the forenoon, the Captain Superintendent will put up to Sale, in her Majesty's Dockyard at Chatham, Several Lots of Old Stores, consisting of Old Rope (canlelaid and hawserlaid), Shakings, Y arn, Ocham, Canvass cuttings and stripe, Hemp tyers and It.ikings, Lead Ashes, Old Leather, &c., &c., 5:c., all lying in the said Yard. l'ersons wishing to view the Lots must apply to the Superintendent or notes of admission for that purpose. Catalogues and Conditions of Sale may be had here and at the Yard. tif R. HOWARD, surgeon-Dentist, 52, Fleet. street, has ntroduced an entirely new description of ARTI FICIAL TEETH , fixed without springs, wires, or ligatures. They so perfectly resemble the natural teeth as not to be distinguished from the original by the closest observer; they will never change colour or lecay, and will be found very superior to any teeth ever before used. rhis method does not requ i r e the extraction of roots, or any painful operation, and will support and preserve teeth that are loose, and is guaranteed to restore articulation and mastication; and that Mr. Howard's improvement may be within the reach of the most econo mical, he has fixed the charges! at the lowest scale possible. De cayed teeth stopped and rendered sound and useful in mastica tion.-52, Fleet-street. At home from ten till five. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS.-.-(YESTERDAY.) The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the wool sack at five o'clock. PUBLIC MEASURES. The Marquis of WESTMEA.TH brought in a bill to suppress barrel organs and other nuisances in the public streets of the metropolis. (Laughter.) PATRIOTIC FUND. The Duke of NORFOLK gave notice that on Monday next he would move a humble address to her Majesty praying far certain returns relative to the patriotic fund, COMMUNICATION WITH DUBLIN. Viscount DUNGANNON asked the Postmaster- General whether any arrangement had been definitely come to on the part of her Majesty's Government with the Dublin Steam Packet Co. relative to the transmission of the mails between Holyhead and Kingstown ; and whether the difficulties repots ed to have arisen with regard to carrying into effect the object of lager vessels, capable of performing the passage in a shorter period of time, being placed on that station, had been overcome I Lord COLCHESTER said he would endeavour to answer the question, though as far as he was concerned he had taken no part in it. A scheme had been under taken by three great companies, viz., the North- Western Railway, the Cheater and Holyhead Railway, and the Dublin Steam-packet Com pany. The contract had been submitted to the Post•office authorities, and by them referred to theTrea silry for their sanction, and there was nothing to lead him to entertain any other hope than eventually the con tract would be signed by all parties and then carried into execution. There was no specific time prescribed in the contract for the sea passage, but the companies were bound under very heavy penalties to effect the journey from Euston-square to Dublin in 11 hour. Lord REDESDALE said a difficulty had arisen be fore him with respect to this subject. Their lordships might not be aware that there was now on foot measures for the complete amalgamation of the North-Western and the Cheater and Holyhead Railways, the effect of which would be that the North-Western Railway would so arrange the fares that the whole of the traffic between London and Dublin via Holyhead would f .11 into the hands of that company, including the mails. No company, if this arrangement was carried into effect, could compete with the amalgamated companies, and no large sums had been spent on the improvement of Kingstown Harbour. He thought Parliament ought to be very cautious how they granted to any company such a monopoly as he had mentioned. He had told the parties who had been before him that he would be no party to such an arrangement. Alter a few words from the Marquis of CLANRICALIDE, the subject dropped. THE PASSPORT SYSTEM. The Earlof MALMESBURY—I beg leave to lay upon your lordships' table the correspondence between the English and French Governments on the subject of pass ports. It may be advantageous to the public generslly if I should briefly explain what has been done by the late Government and the present Government on the subject. Your lordships know very well that after the attempt on the Emperor's life at Paris the French Government was naturally alarmed at the plots of foreigners in this coun try and in France. They thought that the Emperor's life would be made more secure by a change in their sysltbe em of passports . As suggestion was made to them by, lieve, her Majesty's Consul at Havre (if I am in error the noble earl opposite can correct me). that no passport given to an Englishman should be signed by any French agent. That suggestion was communicated t and adopted by my noble friend. Many complaints have been made against the French Government on this 'object, but very unfairly, because, if a passpsrt system be ad hered to by the French Government, nothing can be more just than that they should require that any subject of a foreign country visiting France should present a passport signed by the authorities of the country to which he belongs. The alteration in the system of pass ports occasioned some difficulty to English travellers. Many Englishmen formerly went without any passports to Boulogne, Calais, and Paris. At all events, if they had no English passports, they without any difficulty ob tained passports from French agents, without being obliged to came to the Foreign-office in London. lam glad to inform your lordship: that the French Govern moot have most liberally said that Englishmen living in France may travel from one town to another in Franco without English passports, and simply with the French passports given to them in France. They have also said that any French consul may wiser an English passport, and have appointed agents at the principal ports in the Channel and at Liverpool to wiser English passports, which will do away with the necessity of English tra vellers coming to London. So much with respect to the steps taken by the French Government. When my noble friend opposite found that he was to give the whole of the passports granted to Englishmen by the Foreign. office he required some sort of security that the person described in the passport was really the person to whom it was granted. It has been said that an Eng lish passport should be merely a certificate of British citizenship; but I think reflection will bring your lord ships and my countrymen throughout England to the conclusion that that would not be sufficient, and that a passport must necesssrly identify the person who bears it. My noble friend sought for that security in a certi ficatetomabyr andeogra magistratesntedtoapers of person a te p h pl t y o i n w g nsin fora whch he passport it by the applicant resided. That process, in consequence of the small number of those who could grant such certificates, and of the necessity of transmitting such certificates to the Foreign-office, was found to be very incsnvenlent to many English travellers. Those teho complained of the inconvenience sus , gested that mayors and magistrates should be empowered to give passports independently of the Foreign- ffice. That was a very plausible suggestion, but we all know that what is everybody's business is nobody's business. No mayor or magistrate could be ob liged by any act of Parliament or executive authority to vise' or grant passports. In many cases it was of the ut most importance that passports should be granted with out a moment's delay, and, if that burden were oast upon them, applicants fur passports might make their demands upon them at any hour of the night or day. Some mayors and magistrates would no doubt be good natured enough to such applicants, but we may imagine a mayor the mo ment he sat down to dinner, or a magistrate just as he was going to meet the hounds, being asked for a pass port. It is very likely that in such cases the applicants would hear anything but the expression of wishes for a good jour ney. (Laughter.) On consideration I thought it would be best to widen the area of the godfathers (if I may say s.o), who should give certificates of identity to applicants, Her Majesty's Government having approved my suggestion, we have agreed that not only mayors and magistrates 'but clergymen of the various Christian de nominations, physicians, surgeons, solicitors, and nota ries should be empowered to give certificates of identity to persons -wishing to obtain passports. I think it will be almost impossible for any one in any part of England to fail in, obtaining a passport under this new arrange. must. It bas been said that it is a great inconvenience to travellers to come to the Foreign-office in London with these certificates for passports, and that passports ought to he granted at other places besides the Foreign-office If that were the case the foreign officials would have great difficulty in ascertaining the genuineness of paeep rte granted elsewhere than at the Foreign-office, and English travelers would be detained till the doubts of the officials had been removed. Those foreign offcials are well ac quainted with the arms or the Queen, and the signature of the Foreign Secretary for the time soon becomes fa miliar to them. I therefore thought it was of the utmost importance to English travelling Ow their passports should be issued from the Foreign-nffice. In order that persona may not be under the obligation of repairing to London to get a passport, her Majesty's Government have appointed agents at Dover, Folkestone, Southamp ton, and Liverpool, for the purpose of delivering Foreign office passports, and others may be sppeinted if it be foand necessary. Persons who wish.to travel, therefore, will only have to take the certificate of identity which I have described, either to the Foreign office or to the agent at the port where they mean to embark, and a Foreign office passport will be delivered to them which will be s by the consul of the French Government at that port; or, if they do not wish to take the certificate themselves, they may send it a day or two beforehand to the Foreign office, or to one of the agents, with a request that a pass port may be ready for them by such a day and such an hour, or that it may be forwarded to them by post. Under these circumstances I cannot see that the slightest inconvenience will be eustaired by any person wishing to obtain a passport. We have further thought it right to lower the duty upon these Passports. (Hear, hear.) The stamp duty is at present is., and there is a fee of ls. for Foreign-office Expenses. We propose to reduce the stamp duty to Is., and to retain the le. fee ; so that the, cost will be 21. It is only fair to the poorer classes of travellers—pereous who go abroad in search of employment—that the cost should be as low as pos sible. I do not thick we can do more than I have stated to facilitate the acquisition of passports. 1 have made this statement, hoping that it will be well under stood and circulated through the country in the usual coarse, because one of the great reasons why so much inconvenience has been experienced is that the regula tions laid down by the late Foreign Secretary have not been properly understood. I will only add this recom mendation to all likely travellers, and especially to that class on whose behalf there have been so many hypothe- tical complaints in the papers—psreOns residing on the coast of this country, whose families reside on the coast of France, and who are liable to be called abroad sud denly en account of illness in their families—that as a passport will now only cost 25., every man might as well furnish himself with one at once, just as be would with a Bradshaw or an almanac. If that is done no one who has to go abroad will suffer any inconvenience on this side of the Channel, and from the liberal conduct of the French Government I think I may say that they are not likely to meet with any on the other. (Hear, hear.) The Earl of CLARENDON — I have listened with great satisfaction to the statement of my noble friend, and I have no doubt, from the liberal arrangements which have been made by the French Government, and especially from the exten led facilities which are to be given in this country for obtaining passports, that the object in view will be attained. The arrangement which I made after the French Government bad deter mined not to allow their consuls in this country to grant passports to any but their own countrymen was merely provisional and adopted to meet an emergency, although it is much the same as that which was adopted three years ago in order to enable artisans and others ref that class to visit the Paris Exhibition. I always felt that the system was capable of great enlargement after there had been time for consideration. It was adopted at a time of year when there was not much travelling, and though of coarse some per:ous will al ways suffer when there is a cfiange of system, I do not think that the inconvenience has been so great on the whole as has been supposed. The change proposed will no doubt be a great benefit to the poorer classes of travellers who go abroad in search of employment, and travellers in general will find great advantage in being furnished with a passport from their own Government instead of with one granted by a foreign consul. But the whole system of passports is a great mistake. (Cheers.) It gives no protection to foreign Govern. inents in respect to those very persons against whom they wish to guard themselves, because they always take good care to have their papers eta reyle, and it is the in nocent and ignorant travellers who sulk's:- annoyance from some unintentional omission. (Hear, hear.) I know that this is the opinion of the Emperor of the French. tSernom, yearse but he ago a she fairly wished beaten to get ridy the of objectionsthe passport ra raised aty was necessary o aryfor the represented to him that pai,pohrtiss o w w er n e o in ffic so ia m 4 e w a p g re a tp in e s r t c h a i r Ea ryi b n y g out of that system of strict surveillance which is deemed necessary. s The Bail of M RES 11IIRY—There is a great pass. port interest, in fact. The Earl of CLA.RENDON—Just so. But things are not so bad in this respect as they used to be some years ago. In Austria, where the regulations were more vexatious and were carried out with greater strictness than on any part of the continent, a great change has been made within the last twelvemonths in the passport system, and I believe there is no country in Europe where a traveller call go about with greater ease. But, however, we cannot impose our notions upon foreign countries ; all we can do is to afford all the facilities in our power to our own countrymen, and I think my noble friend has shown his readiness to do that. I heard with great pleasure that be intends to reduce the cost of the passport, though I do not under stand exactly how he means to do it. When I reduced the cost, some time ago, from 6d. to 6e. it was by cutting down the fee of the Foreign-office from 2s. 6d. to ls., which I found would be quite sufficient to pay all expenses, without leaving any profit. But when I applied to the Cha cellor of the Exchequer to do away altogether with the stamp duty, it was found on inquiry that this bad been imposed by Aot of Parliament, and of course could only be abolished by Act of Parliament. The Earl of MA.LMESBURY—I ought to have said that we intend to bring in a bill for the purpose. The Earl of CLARENDON—That of coulee explains the difficulty, but I think while they are alsout it, the Government, having made up their minds to sacrifice 45., may as well get rid of all the duty, which will leave the cost of the passport just is. as far as the English Government is concerned. Toat would be the moat satisfactory course, and I am sure it will be a great boon to all interested in this matter. In answer to a noble lord, Toe Earl of MALMESBURY said, that as regarded Britisb-born subjects there was no limit of time to Foreign-office passports. As regarded naturalised sub jects it had been the custom to grant them only for one year. by e by yihe French t e t h i eGo E v n t - Earl GREY sl id , there cou ld b e no g rea t er p roo f Governmentf the ror e i a g r id atiri sanctioned proposeds of the absurdity o f t h e passport s y s t e m than th e regu office was to d e l iver passports to a ny one who brought a certificate fr om th e var i ous perso ns whom th e noble earl had named, of th e a uthenticity of which the Foreign-office could h ave no proof, be saw 110 reason why all the m a y ors an d mag istrates in the king dom should not b e f urn i s h e d with blank Foreign gralinshient office passport.., which they could fill up and deliver to applicants without any further formality. There was no pretence of investigation to prevent any one not a British Subje c t Be tting a passport, nor any se curity against a British subject handing over his passport the next moment to a foreigner. When the noble e.irl had gone so far he did not see why he should not go far ther, and supply p assports rea d y fill e d up to c om p e t en t authorities in the different towns to deliver them on their own responsibility at once to any applicant. (Hear.) The Bail of MALMESBURY—I am not here to de fend the system of passports. There is not a man in this house who thinks more contemptuously of them than I do. (Hear.) But I thought that I had made myself clear when I gave the reason why I did not send these Foreign-office passports to the towns, or allow any others to be distributed by the mayors or magistrates. It is because they would not be obliged to deliver them. Some magistrates might choose only to distribute them between 12 and 2, others only in the evening, and, again, others might refuse to distribute them at all. People must be obliged to do it, and paid to do it, and when they are paid they are obliged to do it. If it is to be a self supporting establishment, it mast be conducted e conoinios.lly. The more agents there are, the more agents must be paid, and if eac h of a large n umber of agents distributes a small number of pass ports, the payment which would be sufficient for a small number of agents distributing is large number of pass ports would not be enough for their trouble, We know pretty well how many passports will be demanded, and we calculate that with . only six or seven agen t s , who will be obliged to deliver them at any time of the day or night, the system w;ll be self-supporting at a certain charge. That is my . answer to the proposition of the noble earl—a proposition which has often been submitted before; but if he can tell me bo a I am to oblige magis trates in towns or counties to deliver passports it will be a somewhat different matter. (Hear.) Earl GREY said he could not understand why there should not be a concurrent local de'ivery where parties were willing to undertake the trouble. He quite agreed that it was highly inexpedient to attempt to compel parties to deliver passports, or to have too many agents. Earl GRANVILLE said the country ought to be grateful to the noble earl the Sec re t ar y of State for Foreign Affairs for t he pains he had taken to increase the facilities of obtaining passports, but at the same time the suggestion of the nohl , earl (Grey) was worthy of attention. The whole thing turned upon whether the French Government bad aeko rated to this plan, because, if they had, there was nothing more to be said. He wished to know whether the new system applied solely to France or to other countries? The Earl of MALMESBURY—No country has ever objected to any passport . signed by the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. They have always t r usted that the passport has been signed upon his being satisfied that it was the bona fide passport of the applicant, and I have never heard of a Foreign-office passport being questioned in Any way. The subject then dropped. ECCLESIASTICAL COMMISSION. The Duke of MARLBOROUGH asked the First Lord of the Treasury whether it was the intention of her Majesty's government to proceed with the bill introduced last session by the late Government into the House of HOUSE OF COMMONS.—(YEsTER,DAY.) The SPEAKER took the chair at 4 o'clock. PRIVATE BILLS. The f Mowing bills were read a third time and passed : —Bury and Radcliffe Water, Eden Valley Railway, Haslingden and Rawtenstall Water, Madras Irrigation and Canal, Malvern Improvement, Sculcoates and Kingston-upon• Hull Gas ; Staffordshire Potterie4 Gas ; Stoke Fenton and Langton Gas ; and Ely Valley Rail way. The following bills were considered, and ordered to be read a third time :—Folkestone Water Bill ; Liskea-ci and Lone Union Canal Company's Railway Bill ; Selkirk and Galashiels Railway Bill. EDUCATION OF SOLDIERS' CHILDREN. Mr. DEASY gave notice that be should, on Tuesday, the 4th of June, call the attention of the house to the inadequate provision made for the religious wants of Roman Catholic soldiers, and the education of their chil dren, and move an humble address to her Majesty pray ing her Majesty thereon. MAYNOOTII. Mr. SPOONER gave notice that ho should postpoce his motion relative to Maynooth, which stands for Tues day next, till this day fortnigh , . (Laughter.) PROPERTY QUALIFICATION. Mr. LOCKE KING gave notice that he should, on this day week, move for leave to introduce a bill for the abolition of property qualification for mem bers of Parliament. (Hear, hear.) WEIGHTS AND MEASURES. Mr. J. LOCKE (Southwark) gave notice that he should on Tuesday week move to bring in a bill to amend the 5 and 6 Wm. IV., chap. 63, relative to weights and measures. TITE METROPOLITAN BRIDGES. Sir W. FRASER, asked whether there was any ob jection to the bridge about to be erected over the Thames next above Waterloo-bridge being called Sebastopol bridge ; also, whether there was any intention of provid iog additional means of crossing tho Thames for vehicles, either by building a bridge near Charing-cross, or by purchasing Waterloo-bridge, and opening it free of toll ? Lord J. MANNERS reminded the house that on the late visit of the Emperor and Empress of the -French to this country it was gravely proposed, and seriously con sidered to change the name of Waterloo-bridge and Trafalgar-square out of deference to those illustrious in dividuals, but be was happy to e c a t , :% . :rst the good sense of the country declined to ma . e she change, and it might be urged as one reason against adopting the pro posed change. (Rear, hear.)... He thought that the proposal to change the name of Waterloo• bridge to Sebastopol-bridge came too late. If it had been suggested at the close of the war, no doubt it would have been considered, but now that our armies were engaged in another quarter, and bad achieved deeds' of renown fresh in the minds of the people, and associated with a portion of our own foreign empire, it would be impolitic to adopt it. So far as the Government was concerned, he knew of no intention on their part to erect another bridge over the Thames for the accommodation of the metropolitan population. With respect to West minster-bridge he thought it would be better to retain that name, associated as it was with the palace in which they conducted their legislative labours, than alter it. (Hear, bear.) LIGHTHOUSES AND BEACONS ON THE COAST. Lord C. PAGET then rem to call the attention of the house to the present modes of superintending the lights, buoys, and beacons on the coasts of Great Britain and Ire land, and to the manner in which funds are now, and have been, raised to defray the expenditure thereon; and to move that this house will, upon this day week, resolve itself into a committee, for the purpose of considering an address to her Majesty, praying her Majesty to direct that measures maybe taken for giving effect to the recommendation of the select committee on Lighthouses of 184 -, namely, " that all ex penses for the erection and maintenance of lighthouses, floating lights, buoys, and beacons on the coast of the United Kingdom, be henceforth defrayed out of the public revenue." Ho said he felt it was incumbent on him, so uninfluential a member, to apologise to the house for ven turing to bring forward a motion which must involve a total change in the system of lighthouses on the coasts of the United Kingdom, and an eventual expenditure of pub lic money on them. He had requested several more influ ential members to take charge of the subject, but they thought it would come better from him as a seafaring man. (Rear.) He therefore asked their indulgence, more especi ally as he would have to refer to a number of dry details to explain the sy stem on which the coast was now lighted, and show the house that this great maritime country, the pioneer of free unrestricted intercourse, was the lowest of all nations with regard to lighting and buoying the coasts. The danger to life and property from the present utter want of system was a sufficient warrant for his motion. He be lieved no one would dispute that it was a matter of vital importance to mariners to have some simple and uniform system of lighting the coasts. Anything which tended to complication would inevitably involve them in groat dan gerought to be some simple a nd uniform rule for approaching the coast with as few a nd uvcomplicated regulations as possible—(hear, hear) —with a simple system of lights and buoys. the present before present system dohig on so our ie in nd s i v s la tr e o n s s t , h they t ahpp lossr o acohfedsp t a h r e s, c o o r as s t h e o i i o t .bhasro weather, o r e wished to return his thanks to the French Minister of P u bli c Works and to M. Louis Renaud, the head of coast with he that w ld ofcompareFra th e Lighthouse departmen t, for the aduainible work which they had drawn up for h is g uidance. France was not the only country which h ad done much in this res p ect. The nce , United States and Russia had made great reforms, and Spain and Portugal had carried out a regular system of lighting and buoying. What was the case with the south coast of England ? Ho would quote from the book of sail in., directions. b The first harbour he would refer to was Shorehatn. That was a bar harbour, as were the greater number of harbours on that coast, for which a foreigner if caught in a gale of wind would be obliged to run. Here, when there were 10 feet of water over the bar, a red flag was hoisted, and at high water a black one. At Newhaven (only a few miles off), a black ball was hoisted when there were from 8 to 10 feet, and two balls at high water ; at Dover a red flag with a black ball, from 7 to 10 feet, and a red and blue pennant from !l0 to 13 ; at Sunderland a red flag half-mast high, 8 to 10 feet, at high water the flag was hoisted to the mast head. On the coast of Scotland—at Arbroath, a blue flag and black ball showed from 8 to 10 feet. He would not trouble the house with further details ; he had given enough to show that every harbour was regu lated under a different system. In making this motion ho had no wish to attack the Trinity House, which had care of the lights on the English coast ; those in Scotland were under the control of the Commissioners of Northern Lights, and in Ireland under the Dublin Ballast Board. All three were indirectly under the control of the Board of Trade. Ho' did not want to accuse the Trinity House of jobbery, but merely to show that there was no regular system of lighting or buoying on the coasts. He had given instances with regard to signals - it was the same with buoys. Every little harbour had its own system. He was, however, bound to say that in all cases it was well done, and the different corporations showed the greatest anxiety to render their harbour as safe and accessible as possible. If they looked to a chart of the Thames they would find the most complicated system of buoying. In every channel there were red, striped, chequered, and black buoys. No stranger, without a pilot, could possibly steer clear of the dangers. He remembered some eleven years ago asking a gentleman connected with the Trinity-house why they allowed such a system ; saying that he would defy any stranger caught in a gale of wind off the Galloper to make his way into the Thames ; and that they ought to adopt the French system, of having buoys of a given colour on the starboard hand entering all harbours, and of a different colour on the port side. In France the buoys on the starboard hand were red, black on the port, and striped in the middle. No matter how com plicated the channel, no one could mistake the course. The answer he got was, " Oh, if we put buoys like that in the Thames, no one would ever take a pilot." (Laughter ) Hundred of lives, therefore, were to be imperilled to com pel mariners to take a pilot. " But," added the gentle man, " we have a etronger reason than that : if there were such a simple system as you suggest the French might come up any night and burn Chatham." Was it to be tolerated that for such puerile reasons this country should be the last in Europe to reform her system ? He was bound, however, to exclude from Scotland his sweeping condemnation, as the Commissioners of Northern Lights had within the last few weeks given notice that from a given day an uniform system of buoys would bo adopted in all the harbours under their control, — via., red buoys on the starboard hand, black on the port, and chequered on banks in mud chanuel. With his system a man could find hie way into any harbour. The French system was so gcod that he would venture to hand to his right hon. friend the President of the Board of Trade, for his guidance, the book ho had received from the French authorities. But it was not in France alone that a proper system of buoys was adopted. On the Scheldt and the Elbe, very difficult rivers, the same system was in use. The French system of signals was equally good. They used balls, which were better than flags, being more easily seen in calm weather, and with directions which did not cover half a sheet of paper a cap tain might find his way into any harbour on the 1,500 miles of French coast. He wished to keep this question of the establishment of afregular system entirely distinct from that important question which now occupied the a tt3_ ex. of the shipping interest —viz., the mode in which . tu' 9 „Ilia refer to regard to this question of expense hcom es French coast the example of France. On the 1,500 divided into two there were 210 lighthouses. 'Thee? 77 . 0 ,ht0, The cato trio pense of keeping up the lights was to ben etfrat.yed With classes—the catoptrio and dioptro p was the old reflective system, such as was used by every gentleman in his back passage---(x laugh) —viz., a lamp and a reflector behind it. Of late years a new system of light ing—the dioptric --had been invented by a Frenchman, a. Trenelle, and improved by a Scotchman, Mr. Stephenson. Of the 210 French lights 154 were on the dioptric system, and only 56 on the old catoptric. The public lights on the coast of England, under the Trinity-house, were 14 in number ; the public lights on the coast of Scotland, 45 ; and, the public lights on the coast of Ireland, 65 ; making a total of 224 public lights, for which, in the year 1356, 353,000/. was paid in the form of light dues. The French had 210 public lights, three-fourths of which were on the dioptric or modern principle, while only 17 of our lights were on that principle, and the cast of these 210 lights was only 48,000/. (Hear.) He did not wish to overstate the case. He was perfectly aware that, in order to make the comparison a fair one, it was necessary to enter into detail?. For example, the French had but one floating light for the entire coast, whereas they had 33 floating liph ts for England and 4 for Ireland. In order to avoid wearying the house, he should con fine his remarks almost entirelyto the lights under the Trinity-house, leavitig out the cases of Scotland and Ireland, more especially as the former were sufficient forhis purpose. He admitted that the sum of 353,000/. required to be given with some qualifications ; and he would state the real cost as he had been enabled io arrive at it by access to the accounts in the posssssion of the Board of Trade. In 1356 there was paid for the maintenance of lighthouses to the Trinity-house 139,50?/., to the Dublin Corporation 38,139/.,and to the Northern Light Commissioners 30,359/., making together a total of 203,003!. Now, he would ask the house whether it were not just and right, when the cost of the lights in this country presented such a contrast to the cost of the lights of France, that public opinion shoul Ibe called to the subject? (Hear, hear.) He knew there were many causes which tended to make the light houses of England more expensive than those of France ; but it was impossible tobelieve that there was due economy, duo care in the expenditure under this head ; and eonsider ing that this money was paid by a very suffering class of the community, a class which was suffering from competi tion with foreigners, and whose difficulties were increasing from year to year, it behoved Parliament to watch this ex penditure very narrowly, and if possible to prevent a shil ling being spent beyond what was necessary for the due maintenance of our lighthouses. The 43,0001. expended on the French lights included a very large outlay for new works. That sum included 1,655/. for new works and buoys. (Hear.) Having shown the house that there was great extravagance in the maintenance of our lighthouses, he would endeavour to show by what means they could get rid ortliis inordinate expenditure. He had gf.ne very carefully into the details connected with that branch of the subject. He had, in the first place, put the public land lights of England at a cost above that of the first-class lights of France. The average coot of the French light houses olthat class, was, for eclairage 8,546 francs, and for ropairs 1,250 francs, making a total of 3901. per annum. The second-class French lighthouses cost 3031., and the third class,l42l. per annum. He had allowed for the English lights 400/. a-year which was more than the cost of the first-class French 'lights ; and, assuming that the number would remain as it was, with the exception of the addition of two new Scotch lighthouses, for which he had allowed, there would,he thought, be no difficulty in reducing the coat of our lighthouses to 186,003/. That estimate included 5 ~ 000/. for new works for the neat wear. There were cer tain places where the Government had wisely determined to build new lighthouses, and he was informed by the Board of Trade that about 50,000/. would be sufficient for that purpose. It would be impossible to get rid of the old system without pensioning off some of the old servants. He had allowed 14,000/. for that, and for the establishment of a central board, whose duty it would be to assimilate our system to that of the French, and which he thought should consist of intelligent engineers and an officer of the Board of Trade. Ile proposed to get rid of the immense staff of steamboats. At present there wore in all seven vessels em ployed. The Trinity-house had five, involving a cost of from 27,00 ,/. to 30,000/. per annum. Considering that the coastguard ships were now all to have tenders attached to them, ho did not see why they should not look after the lighthouses. It would very easy for them to supply the lighthouses with provisions, to watch them, and to keep them in repair. This would at once cut off about 33,0001. a year. Well, then, there rsmain al that ancient corporation the Trinity-house. He would not for a moment urge that that corporation should die along with its twin brother whose case was before them ; on the contrary be should be very glad to believe that the Trinity-house could be advan tageously retained as the new central board ; but he very much doubted whether theyleould get an od corporation to amend its ways, and tointroduco the necessary economy and reforms. Why, one of the five steamboats which the Trinity-house possessed was a yacht. He had very great respect for the elder brethren of the Trinity-house, and should be glad to see them take an airing—(laughter) but let it be done at their own expense ; he did not see why the shipping interest should provide a yacht for them. (Hear, hear.) If the Trinity-house could be made useful as a now central board, let it be so ; but in these days, when every country in Europe and the - United States also bad established a simple and uniform system, it was incum bent on England, the great leader in all maritime matters, to reform her system of lighthouses, and to make such arrangements that every foreignev who approached our coasts would have the utmost protection that could be af forded. So manifestly superior were the French lights in brilliancy to our own, that, as he learnt from a report issued by the Board of Trade, the French system had been recommended by that department to the colonies for their imitation. To the disgrace of the English nation, there were points on the coast of the most dangerous nature, where there were lenticular lights of the first order ; whereas, on the coast of France there was no light of any importance on that principle. Thelight at Dungeness and the light at Heathy Head both being important, were both catoptric lights. Just before reaching Folkestone, they had no doubt all observed behind the vessel a magnificent light, which was almost too strong, even there, to be looked at, while in a contrary direction they beheld a light which in comparison with the other, resembled a farthing candle. The one was the light at Dungeness 10 miles off ; the other, the light at Cape Grenet, 25 miles off. (Hear.) The ex pense of changing a light on the catoptric principle into a light on the dioptric principle was only about 2,000/., and when 350,000/. was being paid yearly for light dues, there could be no solid excuse for not placing our lights on the beet modern footing. (Hear.) In the report issued by the Board of Trade for the guidance of the colonies it was stated that the saving of expense secured by adopting the new instead of the old system would be about 4 to 1, and that the comparative brilliancy would be about 3 to I. (Hear.) He had begun by admitting that the adoption of his motion would eventually entail an expenditure of pub lic money, but he would console the Chancellor of the Ex chequer, by assuring him that no public money would be actually required for two years. The right hon. gentleman had at hisdieposal 400,0001., which arose from surplus light dues, and which a deputation of shipowners who waited ou him the other day asked him torefund to them. (Laughter.) Now, supposing the right hon. gentleman should be of opinion that the coast could not be lighted in a satisfactory manner without being brought under the operation of one uniform central system ; supposing the right hon. gentle. man did agree with him that, however hateful the princi ple of centralisation might be to Englishmen in relation to most subjects, yet exceptions were to be made, and no efficient system of lighting the coast could be established without centralisation, then he trusted the right hon. gen tleman would be prepared to resign this surplus of 400,000/., which would maintain the lights for two years, I at the expiration of which time there would, it was to be hoped, be an overflowing exchequer. At all events he be lieved there would be no difficulty as regarded expense at the en l of the two years, as the utmost amount of expen diture that would then be required would be 150,0e0/. In making his calculation ho had put down 50,0301. for now works ; the number of private lights was 149, each of thee.) being under a separate corporation, and the expense of maintaining them being over and above the 350,000/. ex pended for the public lights ; all these lights would, if his motion were carried out, pass into the hands of the Board of Trade, and he had no doubt that the 373 lights would be efficiently maintained at an expense of 150,000/. per an num. He thought that the central board should be under the control of Parliament ; that is, should have a repre sentative in that house, who would be held responsible for the money expended. The Trinity-house was, he was aware, indirectly responsible to the Board of Trade ; but the Board of Trade had no means of controlling its ex ponditure, nor could it control the expenditure for the Scotch and Irish lighthouses. The present system was, in fact, one of the worst forms of double Government. The coil which they were now seeking to get rid of, in relation to India, would be perpetuated iu this country so long as they kept up the Trinity Board, the Northern Lights Commission, the Irish Board, and the Marine Department of the Board of Trade. If he had not already occupied so much time, he should have entered at some length into an examination of the jobberies under which the shipping interest had suffered and were still suffering. He might, for example, have referred to the reports of two committees on this sub ject, both of which were presided over by one of the most indefatigable detectors of abuses that ever sat in that house —he meant the late Mr. Joseph Hume. (Cheers.) These reports wore dated 1834 and 1845 ; they were monuments of Mr. Hurne's care and industry, and they showed that iu his opinion the case of the shipping interest deserved the greatest consideration. As regarded the private lights, Mr. Hume thought that Parliament should take upon itself the payment of the debt. He was happy to find that the noble lord the member for Tiverton, who was a member of the committee of 1841, was in favour of bringing all the lights under the operation of one central system. It having been proposed that the Trinity-house should be the central board, the noble lord unsuccessfully offered that proposal. He afterwards proposed that one-third of the members of the Trinity-house should be nominated by the Crown, thinking that, as the board was then self-elected, that ar rangement would tend to improve it. The amount of debt of this country was 2,180,0001. The debt was manifestly ftworaer which smhegi is h ryay a ck d oi ioun b un e sg e leya n r. t recently paid off by the shipping interest incurred in consequence of a system of improvident leases of lighthouses—leases which were granted by Parliament , by the Trinity-house, and by sovereigns. In former days,' whenever a king had a favourite to provide for, and fou n d a difficulty in doing so, he gave him a lighttounigye (Laughter.) In one case a gentleman got a ll,eicf To go only as far back as the reign l en , ,—" Mr. because his wife was the daoghter of an Earl Third, they read in the Grenville corresprilo. The king Grenville went to London, August 13 ' . Mr. Gren received him with great good h d i sr ,osition, took the villa, finding his Majesty in a gr4 s 7; that there was a grant opportunity of apprising his 3! . aP r i L ,,„ g nter.) He humbly of a lighthouse at his lisp °" o ,,i, u pon him as a provision Lori s B s h y: e u r l o d e b k e , t a h r ° ll e reason as- his Majesty to besto nted, (Renewed laughter.) The king ing interest have had to pay for this ? grant the request, and did so no fresh leases ghtliousehad been held by his to do with that It was no doubt ex had the shipowners king to grant this liel th Psclobefialkieirdoe auto kindness toward e I ouse, but why should the slopp to say that , I l e was sorryas recently as 1826 a (fea r. ' granted to L ancestors for 160 years. Isaniasit:hiteesohfipthpeinrgeci " f • t being that the li sig „ e e or George the leases ewithml eie h tax a t:P d e er.:ebßetdaBeShi;the granted,: ln te m re e s n t d h a a t d i° b i e l been saddled with the payment of a debt of 2,186,000/. With regard to the last point embraced in his motion, he must say it was beneath the dignity of Parliament to allow light dues to be levied on foreign vessels, while our own ships were not subjected to any such imposts in return. There had, he believed, been a sharp correspondence between the ----- American Government and our own in . referee, subject, and be must confess he thought the Amos vernment had right on their side. They edttst ships into their ports without any senablense of rig, whereas in this country American vessels were ten, to a paltry impost; for, after all, the aggregate wee for the use of lights. For these reasons: he Ardet, house would accede to his motion. He did not wisii - tn the Trinity Board put clowie because it was an old CO:. raeion ; but, as a seafaring man, ho felt it his duty to press this matter on the attention of the house, believing that, as long as the lighthouses and buoys remained uuder the management of different independent bodies, there must be such a want of efficiency and uniformity that they would continue to be a disgrace to the country. Be lieving that the shipowners had a strong claim to consideration, remembering that iu bringing for ward a former budget the Chancellor of the Exchequer admitted that the light dues as at present levied were inde fensible, and that the noble lord the member for Tiverton had supported the views of Mr. Hume on this subject, he trusted his motion would be agreed to. The noble lord c oncluded by moving the resolutions. Mr. LINDSAY seconded the motion. Mr. HENLEY said it was not necessary to say one word with regard to the importance of this, subject. He was thankful that he was relieved from many difficulties which might have beset his course. Ho was in no way responsible for the construction or arrangement of the present system, except, indeed, in common w i t h every other member of that house. He was also relieved from the difficulty of this ques tion being regarded as a party question. It was within his knowledge that the noble lord would have brought forward his motion, and in precisely the same terms, had there been no change of government,and therefore the motion hid to be considered simply on its own m e r i t s . Moreover, as regarded his own opinions on the subject, he agreed in almost every word that the noble lord had said ; and he had often said that in his judgment it was utterly indefensible that the shipping interest should have been required to buy up psi. vats rights• That point, however, might now be discuss e d, inasmuch as the annuitants had all been paid off. Lid should have been glad, indeed, if the noble lord had con ' fined himself to the consideration of the management of the lights, and not introduced the question who was to pay for them, the two questions being perfectly distinct. Ail of them had a common interest in the adoption and carrying oat of the best system of lights that could ba discovered. Tho noble lord had with perfect candour admitted thet all the information in his (M , . Henley's) power had been given to him. He had afforded every facility to the noble lord in the way of giving information, because he considered that it would be well if the subject wore fairly and properly brought before the house. The noble lord had not dealt so candidly with the question of the relative expenses of English and French lighthouses. He had taken the ex penses of English lighthouses at 350,0301., instead of 20 i,0001.—( hurl C. PAGET - I stated the actual exianee at 208,0001.)—The noble lord at all events seetned always to contrast the larger sum with the sum of 48,0001., which was the expense of French lighthouses. The noble lord, however, omitted at importa.ut, element of calculation. He (Mr. Henley) believed that the French did not maintain any " light vessels"—or at all events maintained but one. These light vessels were a most important. item of expense. The average annual cost of lighthouses in England was 27,000/., whilst that of light vessels amounted to 37,0031. The not le lord did not dwell on this fact. [Lord C. PAGET : I mentioned the exi tepee of light vessels.] Neither did the noble lord distinguish, between mere har bour ligh ts and more expensive lighthouses. In France, according to the noble lord's statement, the average cost of a lighthouse was 3901. per annum. In England, light houses were classed as first, secoud, and fourth class, and the average cost of their maintenance was 3871. So that the house would see when they came to actual figures that the English system did not stand in so disadvantageous a posi tion as his noble friend seemed to think. The next subject on which the noble lord touched was that of buoys. No doubt the simple system which the noble lord advocated was, in many respects, much to ba admired, but there were two reasons against its adoption on the English coast. The estuary of the Thames was in three channels ; it was necess•try that a vessel should know which of these chan nels she was in, and the system of the noble lord would not enable her to know this. The second and more im portant reason was this : The Thames and the other great rivers of England were visited every year by thousands of ships, who never had on board a pilot. The masters and crews of those ships were able to navigate at the present timo with safety ; if the system were changed, although for one theoretically more perfect, the practical result would be that these rivers could be no longer navigated as they are at present with safety. The noble lord had also referred to the question of reflecting lights, and complained that the lights in many lighthouses were not upon the most modern and improved principles. The course which was being adopted with reg ,rd to this ma! ter was as each set of lights wore out, they were replaced by others of im proved modern construction. He believed that a duo re gard to economy justified the pursuing of this course. The noble lord next touched upon the question of steamboats, which were, as he said, maintained at a very groat cost. No doubt it would be possible for the Admiralty to furnish boats, but the only result would be that the expenditure would be paid by one department instead of another. He did not know whether the Admiralty might manage the business as cheaply as it was at present managed, but he felt sure that it would not carry it on at a less expense. He now came to what was, he believed, the most im portant portion of the noble lord's slatement, and the one to which he (Mr. Henley) felt the most inclined to agree with him—he meant with reference to the question of management. Down to the year 1853 a different system had prevailed to that now in existence. Up to that time all light dues collected on the English coast were applied ti English purposes, all Scotch to Scotch purposes, and all Irish to Irish purposes. In the year 1853 Mr. Lowe made a great change in this respect—a change which might justify still further alterations. He threw all the light dues into a common fund, and this made the larger amount drawn from those parts where considerable traffic prevailed, appli cable to those places where less tolls were received. This was a great improvement ; but there still remained some defects in the power which regulated those lights. No doubt that which the noble lord had called a double go vernment had some disadvantages. There was, besides what the noble lord had referred to, a large class of lights ' also to be provided for in the colonies. The noble lord had spoken of some sum of 400,0001. as being in his (Mr. Hen let 's) hands, end applicable to the extension of lighthouses. This sum was in truth but the surplus of dues, and was an amount upon which calls weco constantly made for the purpose of no,intaining the lighthouses already existing. He (Mr. Henley) quite admitted that this subject was a very important one ; he concurred in some respects in the views of the noble lord, but ho thought that to ask the house at once to transfer the expenditure upon lighthouses to the public revenue was takings step in haste, and doing that for which as yet there was not saffice-nt ground. He, therefere, proposed to the noble lord that he should with draw his motion, upon which the Government would issue a commission to inquire into the subject. (Hear, hear.) He thought that by this course the house would be enabled to obtain valuable information upon the subject, and thug be put in a position to do that which iu its wisdom it might think fit. (Hear, hear.) Mr. LINDSAY regretted that the right hon. gentleman had net gone a little more fully into the subject. How ever, in what he had sail he (Mr. Lindsay) could not eltogother agree ; more especially ho differed from him in his estimate of the relative expenditure of the English and French lighthouses. From a statement which he (Mr. Lindsay) had had access to, it appeared that the expense of the French lights was only one-half the expense of the Eugli-h. The right bon member had, indeed, thrown out a suggestion that those lights were not so good as those on the English coast. Hen. members, however, who had crossed the Channel could judge for themselves whether or not this ilea of the right hon. gentleman was a correct one. With regard to the sum of 400,0001., to which the right hon. gentleman had referred, it certainly seemed, notwith standing the explanation which had been given, that that sum was applicable to the improvement and increase of lighthouses. He had had no wish to press upon the Chan cellor of the Exchequer, who hadjust entered office, to find a deficient exchequer, but he thought that the exist ence of this very sum would aid the right hon. gentle man in an endeavour to adopt the plan proposed in the re solution before them. He was most desirous that some thing should be done to amend the existing system o light dues. America, France, Prussia, and even Russia heti adopted the principle that a nation was bound to place lighthouses on her own shores. That same principle had been affirmed in the committee of that house which had sat upon this question. Was it just, then, while other countries gave us the benefit of ;their lighthouses without charge, and whilst we admitted that, upon principle, we ought to do so too, that we should continue to place a tax upon foreign vessels in this respect ? And in the result we were not one whit the better, for the toll only increased the freight ; the increased freight was charged to the merchant; the merchant cast it on the manufac turer, the manufacturer on the retailer, and the retailer on the consumer. At every step it was increased ; and thus we were not only no better, but actually worse off than we should be if these lighthouses were properly and directly supported out of the revenue. The Americans complained loudly of the present system, under which each of their steamers paid 62/. for light duties. Had they subjected our vessels to a similar tax the steamers of the Cunard line alone would have paid, in the year 1850, no less than 3,2501. The house might be sure that the Americans felt very sore on this subject, and thought that their ships should be treated more on terms of equality. On the whole, he (Mr. Lindsay) was inclined to prefer a royal commission to a committee of inquiry. Mr. LOWE said that all the evils complained of by the noble lord arose out of the double government under which the whole of our lighthouse system was placed, bet7eiettli the Board of Trade and the Trinity-house. The proposition of of the noble lord did not go to the abolition of t o h r i_ ect ma. government, but would retain the present to r to p the copse chinery while transferring the *whole e'Velethat the only lidated fund. He (Mr. Lowe) effectual way of working the sywatge satsviould be under one must object to the single head, and for that reason 11 . 3 m in tbink it fair to call on mo tion of the noble lord. He did r?!.) a Minister of the Crown foil. t I If the whole of our light res.titnates over which h o wa , subsequently to have no col d under the Board of Trade it consolidated house system were would then be a fair aPubjeeectofuotr ofconsideration t e charge should be d e f ray ed ia pposed the motion. He remem bered CARD wEL , - vheio it fell to their lot. to discuss this 1 1; n et by the difficulty , that there were in bored that, subject, they r w t e r r i of the most remote antiquity, and that existence' charters difficulty in dealing with the question on there w" ,:y. since then ono corporation of groat impor that accolu antiquity had voluntarily submitted to public tance n, a nd control , but with respect to the other corporations audit ~( 7 , ye l commission was issued. The commission extended its i n quiries over every part of the three kingdoms, and re commended several very important results. Not one of those results however was carried out, and it was only in that cor poration which proceeded on its own voluntary motion that any useful alterations were effested. With respect to the speech of the noble lord, he (Mr. Cardwell) begged to say that not one penny of the 12,0.07. which came b e f ore M r . Hume's committee was now levied on the shipping interest. His hon. friend near him had compared the expenses of the lights at Grinez and Dungeness, but he should recollect that the report from which he quoted referred to a period ante rior to 145, and the noble lord opposite, whom his hon. friend supported, had shown that now the expense at Grinez exceeded that of the light at Dungeness. That the English lights were well managed was proved by the single fact that they were under the direction of Mr. Faraday ; but furtherthan that, an American commission that had visited Europe some years since highly eulogised the English light h'iuse system, and recommended its adoption in the 'United States. The committee of 1815 had been much relied es in support of this motion ; but the committee of 1845 had re commended that all the lights of the three kingdoms should be placed under one authority, that authority to be the Trinity-house, London. (Hear, hear.) As to handing the control over to the Board of Trade, he objected to handing over so much responsibility and patronage to any depart ment of the Government, and to transfer the expense from local sources to the Consolidated Fend would be to ensure a rapid increase of expense in every part of the kingdom. There was a. committee sitting upstairs on harbours of refuge. The proceedings of tha t committee were, until