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1 - 8 DAY.) r OCKS. . 13 1111/2101 I 103 2 93i 4 4 108 9 102 1 (M}Bl9Bll 99 " 11 11} 9 98 7} f I 92 11 2} 41440}111} whit'. .09i j 0 92 2 i I d 4 8 76 3 4 i I i 15 59 1 i 1 1 Madam Deis. 611 2 Wi I ~_ TRIED EDITION. SUN OFFICE, 'Seven o' Clock. IMPERIAL PARLIAM:ZIN T. HOUSE' U LDRDS—(Tnis EVENING.) The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack at the usual hour. NEW PEER. The Earl of DEVON (late Lord Courtenay) took the oaths and his seat. Petitions were presented against the abolition of church rates by the Earl of Derby, Lord Chelmsford, and several other peers. THE BALLOT. Lord TEYNHAM presented a petition from Torquay in favour of vote by ballot. PRIVATE BITSINEISS. The following bills wore read a third time and passed : the Commercial Dock Acts Amendment, and the Sheffield Cutlers' Company Bill. SAVOY AND NICE. Lord WODEHOUSE laid on the table the papers rela. tive to Savoy and Nice. ALTERATION OF THE LITURGY. Viscount DUNGANNON presented a petition against any alteration in the Liturgy from some of the clergy in the county of Durham. The petition was ordered to lie on the table. THE YEOMANRY. Earl POWIS begged to ask the noble earl the Under-Secretary for War whether the Government intended to assemble the yeomanry either for permanent duty, or for training, or for exercise during the present year. Earl DE GREY and RIPON said it was plain, from the estimates on the table of the other house, that it was not he intention of the Government to call out the yeomanry, either for duty or training, during the present year. There was no feeling of enmity with respect to the yeomanry. wo years ago the yeomanry were not called out, and the sam steps that were adopted on that occasion would be followed at the present moment. The force on that occasion did not deteriorate, and he had no reason to expect that would take place after the present decision. The sole reason for not calling the yeomanry out was a desire to keep down the army estimates. The Earl of CORK felt great pleasure in hearing the assurance just given by the noble earl that there was no feeling of enmity towards the yeemanry. (Hear, hear.) The noble earl had stated that the yeomanry was in a state of efficiency, but he thought the present decision was not the way to keep it in the same state. The arms the Govern ment put in the hands of the yeomanry was of the worst description, and it was only after great persuasion that the force consented to use them. As to hitiug a mark with them that was quite impossible. The Earl of MALMESBURY and the Earl of DARNLEY both expressed their regret that the yoemanry was not to be called out during the preset. year. The subject then dropped. (LBFT BITTING.) HOUSE OF COMMONS—(TiIIs EVENING.) The SPEAKER took the chair at four o'clock. PETITIONS Several petitions were presented in favour of and against the treaty with France; against the Highways Bill; from 10,000 inhabitants of Edinburgh against the Lord Advo• eate's Annuity Tax Bill ; against the system proposed for licensing eating-houses, dm. CORONERS' INQUESTS. Mr. FENWICK moved an address for returns from the clerks of peace for the number of inquests held in each county of England and Wales in each of the several years beginning the 29th day of September, 1849, and ending the 29th day of September, 1859 ; of the number of inquests in which the coroners' fees had been disallowed in each of the said years ; of the amount paid for coroners' inquests in each of the said years ; and, like return from cities and boroughs having a separate court of quarter sessions of the peace.—Ordered. SAVOY AND MOIL Lord J. RUSSELL laid on the table the correspondence relative to the annexation of Savoy and Nice. The noble lord, in reply to several questions, said, with respect to a treaty between France and Sardinia relative to any annexa tion of these provinces, her Majesty's Government had no information of such treaty, and he did not believe it existed. He had stated on a former occasion that the Emperor of the French had promised he would not take any steps in reference to the annexation in question without consulting the great Powers of Europe. He could not do better than quote the words of the Emperor in the speech he had just delivered " Looking to this transformation of Northern Italy, which gives to a powerful State all the passes of the Alps, it was my duty, for the security of our frontiers, to claim the French slopes of the mountains. This reassertion of a claim to a territory of small extent has nothing in it of a nature to alarm Europe and give a denial to the policy of disinte restedness which I have proclaimed more than once, for France does not wish to proceed to this aggrandisement, however small it be, either by military occupation or by provoked insurrection, or by underhand maneauvres, but Tfrankly explaining the question to the Great Powers. ey will doubtless understand in their equity, as France would certainly understand it for each of them under similar circumstances; that the important territorial re arrangement which is about to take place gives us a right to a guarantee indicated by nature herself." The Emperor of the French must be the best interpreter of his own views, and he (Lord J. Russell) had nothing to add to what the speech contained in reference to this matter. It was the opinion of the Emperor and of the French Government that the creation of a large State in Central Italy would have the effect of placing France in a worse position than she at preient occupied, for, in case of war, she might be invaded most disadvantageously on the side of Savoy and Nice. France had contributed very largely towards the prosecution of the war in Italy, and she con sidered, and he thought not unjustly, that she might ask for a more secure frontier on the side of the Alps. (Hear, hear.) He repeated, that the Emperor of the French had declared that he did not intend to proceed to effect the annexation without previously consulting the views of the other great Powers of Europe. (Hear, hear.) He (Lord J. Russell) could not go beyond that declaration, Lit he inferred that, if it were the unanimous or even gene". ral feeling of the great Powers of Europe, that the annexa tion was not desirable, and might endanger the security at the peace of the continent, that the Emperor of the French would not proceed to carry out any views he entertained relative to the matter. With regard to the views of her Majesty's Government they were contained is the corre spondence laid on the table. In reply to several questions, Lord PALMERSTON said that the trustees of the British Museum considered that instead of purchasing ground in the immediate neighbourhood of the build''ng to en. large it so as to adapt it for containing th e co ll ec ti on in tion, they should select some other place for th e reception of . that collection. It was determined, therefore, to remove the lighter articles to some other place, which, however, had not yet been selected. Wilt regard to the memorial respecting the papal territory, he had received such a document signed most numerously and respectably by Irish noblemen and others, but he could not de more than acknowledge its receipt. He could state that the policy which the Government intended to pursue was to allow the Italians to settle their own affairs. (Cheers.) As related to Captain M'Clintock and the crew of the Fox, there was no fund applicable to rewarding them ; but if the Parliament thought fit to vote any special amount for such purpose, the Government would not throw any obstacle in the gratification of their generous feeling. (Hear, hear.) He thought - it would be desirable that a monument should be erected to commemorate Sir J. Frank • lin and the sufferings of those who had been engaged in the Arctic 'expedition. [LEFT SITTING.] LONDON GAZETTE-(T1118 EVENLY&) LORD . CHAMBERLAIN'S OFFICE, MARCH 1. Notice is hereby given, that the State Apartments of Windsor Castle will be opened to the public on and after Monday, the sth instant, subject to the usual regulations. WAR-OFEICE, FEB. 29. The Queen has been graciously pleased to give orders for the appointment of James de Vismes Drummond Hay, Esq., British Vice-Consul at Tetuan, to be an ordinary member of the civil division of the third class, or com panions, of the most Honourable Order of the Bath. FOREIGN-OFFICE, FEB. 29. The Queen has been pleased to approve of Don Ramon de Silva Ferro as Consul in London for the Republic of Chile. purchase ' • vice Couch, who retires ; Ensign William Cunliffe Powys to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Proctor; Ensign Louis Richard Grismond Vaughan has been superseded, being absent without leave. 34th Foot,—Ensign Lutley Jordan to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Peel, promoted ; Ensign Charles Edward Leeson to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Mathew, who retires. 39th Foot—Lieutenant Frederick Augustus Lynam, from the 10th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Corballis, who ex changes. 47th Foot—Captain Graham Taylor, from the Ord Foot, to be Captain, - vice Gamier, who exchanges. 52d Foot—Ensign Henry:iikinsou Adair to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Julian, promoted. 53i Foot—Captain Brownlow North Garniqr, from the 47th Foot, to be Captain, vice Taylor, who exchanges. 58th Foot—Henry Thomas Butler, Gent., to be Ensign without purchase, vice Reeves, deceased. 84th Foot—Ensign William Frank Wheatley to be Lieu tenant, without purchase, vice Lambert, deceased; En sign James Murray Thomas Simpson to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Wheatley, whose promotion, by pur chase, as stated in the Gazette, of the 21st February, 1860, has been cancelled ; Lieutenant William Frank Wheat: ley to be Adjutant, vice Lambert, deceased. Ist West India Regiment—Captain Gage HalID wyer, from the 14th Foot, to be Captain, vice Mackenzie, who az- changes. 2d West India Regiment—Lieutenant Lloyd Richter Creak Drouet to be Captain, without purchase, vice Murray, deceased ; Ensign L. Lowdham Brett to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Drouet ; Andrew Truelove Edge, Gent., to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Brett. Ceylon Rifle Regiment—John Sheil, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Mesham, promoted. PURVEYOR'S DEPARTMENT.—Purveyor's Clerk of the First Class, Henry de Burgh Adams to be Purveyor to the Forces, vice 1. A. Corbett, whose services have been dis penned with. BREVET. Colonel Henry Powell Wulff, retired full-pay loyal gineers, to be Major-General, the rank being honoriry_oulY. Lieut.-Colonel Wm. Henry Miller, of the Madras Artil lery, to be Aide-de-Camp to the Queen, with the rank of Colonel in the Army. Paymaster James Twibill, 38th Foot, to have the hono rary rank of Captain, under the provisions of the Royal Warrant of the 27th Jaa., 18(30. WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, MARCH 2. NOTICE.----The next examination of candidates for direct commissions in the army will be held at the Royal Hospi tal, Chelsea, on Weinesday, the 11th of April next, and following days. MILITIA AND VOLUNTEER CORPS. COMMISSION SIGNED BY THE QUEEN. st Durham Regiment of Militia—Edward Kent Fairless, Gent, late Captain same Regiment, to be Quartermaster, from the Bth October. COXMISSIONS SIGNED BY LORDS-LIEUTENANT. County of Durham.—lst Durham Rifle Volunteers—Robt. Thompson, jun., Esq., to be Captain ; John James Wil son, to be Captain; George Metcalfe Watson, Gent., to be Lieutenant; Thomas Hutton Close, Gent., to be Lieu tenant; William Braithwaite Mills, Gent., to be En sign; Richard Thomas Jackson, Gent., to be Ensign. County of Berks.—Berke Rifle Volunteers, 4th Company —Lieutenant-Colonel itobert Loyd-Lindsay to be Cap tain; John Samuel Bowles, Esq., to be Lieutenant. sth Company—Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Vansittart to be Captain; Edmund Sawyer, Gent., to be Lieuteriant Henry Micklem, Gent., to be Ensign. City of Bristol Rifle Volunteer Corps—James Ford, Esq., to be Captain; Alfred Elton, Gent., to be Lieutenant; Henry Gruning, Gent., to be Ensign. East Riding of Yorkshire.—East Y. irk Artillery Volun teers, 2d Company—The Rev. Robert Mitford Taylor, Clerk, to be Honorary Chaplain ; Charles Wakefield, jun., Esq., to be Honorary Assistant-Surgeon. East York Rifle Volunteers, 6th Company—Harold Bark worth, Esq., to be Captain; Richard Hodgson, Esq., to be Lieutenant ; Henry William Bainton, Esq., to be En sign ; Robert George Boulton, Esq., to be Honorary Assistant-Surgeon. County of Cambridge.—lst Cambridgeshire Rifle Volun teers—Francis Russell Hall, Esq., to be Honorary Sur geon. 2d Cambridgeshire Rifle Volunteers—The Rev. William Bonner Hopkins, 8.D., to be Honorary Chap lain. County of Leicester.-2d Company of Leicestershire Rifle "Volunteers—Wm. Earle Welby, Esq., to be Captain; George Gordon, Esq., to be Lieutenant ; George Gillett, Esq., to be Ensign. County of Southampton.—Hampshire Artillery Regiment of Militia—Edward Burnett Robinson, Gent., to be Second Lieutenant, vice Lillingstone resigned. County of Carmarthen . ---Ist Carmarthenshire Rifle Volun teers—David Prothero, Esq., M.D., to be Honorary Assistant-Surgeon. Isle of Wight.—lsle of Wight Rifle Volunteers-Ist Sub division—Sir Henry Oglander, Bart., to be Lieutenant; Augustus Frederick Leeds, Esq., to be Ensign. Newcastle-upon-Tyne.-Ist Newcastle-upon-Tyne Rifle Volunteers—Sir John Fife, Knight, to be Lieutenant Colonel-Commandant; Robert Roboy Redrnayne, Esq., to be Major; Thomas Ausen, Esq., William Adams Mather, Esq., Henry Scott, Esq., Hugh Lee Pattin son, Esq., William Donaldson Cruddas, Esq., to be Captains ; Robert Yeoman Green, Gent., William Neesham, jun., Gent., William Henry Welford, Gent., Alexander Laing, Gent., Charles John Cruddas, Gent., to be Lieutenants; Charles Edwin Crighton, Gent., Archibald Matthias Dunn, Gent., James Morison Burnup, Gent., William Laing, Gent., John Charles Jobling, Gent., to be Ensigns; - James Acworth Angus, Gent. / To be SUrgeon. County of Glamorgan-Ist Glamorgan Aitillery Volun teers—Thomas Williams, Esq., M.D., to be Honorary Assistant-Surgeon. Glamorganshire Rifle Volunteers -Ist Company—John Felton, Gent., to be Ensign ; Hop kin Llewellin Prichard, Esq., to be Honorary Assistant- Surgeon. 2d Company—John Ludford White, Esq., to , be Honorary Assistant-Surgeon. 3d Company—James Griffith Hall, Esq , to be Honorary Assistant-Surgeoa. County of Salop.—lst Company of Shropshire Rifle Volun teers—William Jas, Clement, Gent., to be be Honorary Assistant-Surgeon ; the Rev. Henry Greenwood, M.A., to be Honorary Chaplain. 3i Company of Shropshire Rifle Volunteers—Thomas Groom, Gent., to Honorary Assistant-Surgeon. 4th Company of Shropshire Rifle Volunteers—Hubert Smith, Gent., to be Lieutenant • William Bache, Gent., to be Ensign ; Alfred Matthias, Gent., to be Honorary Assist.-Surgeon. Gth Company of Shropshire Volunteers—Lieut. William Lepton Lowndes to be Captain; Ensign Roger Chafes Blakeway to be Lieutenant ; William Reynolds Anstico, Gent., to be Ensign. 7th Company of Shropshire Rifle Volunteers—Lieut. Thomas Campbell Eyton to be Cap tain; Ensign the Hon. Robert Herbert to be Lieutenant. County Palatine of Lancaster-2d Lancashire Artillery Volunteers—Joseph Hughes Manger, Esq., to be Cap tain; Hugh Reid, Gent., t" be First Lieutenant. 11th Lancashire Artillery Volunteers —Charles Maclver, Esq., to be Lieutenant-Colonel; Donald Currie, Esq., Robert Thomsom, Esq., W. Boyd Muenster, Esq., Ken neth L. Morison, Esq., D. Maclver, Esq., to be Captains ; Alexander Logan, Gent., James Currie, Gent., and Charles Christopher Funston Todd, Gent., to be First Lieutenants; James Boyd Forsyth, Gent., John Mac Iver, Gent , William Balfour Crawford, Gent., Robert Shaw, Gent., and James Walter Murray, Gent., to be Second Lieutenants. County of Kent.—Kent Artillery, Subdivision (Corps 11th) —John Taylor, Gent., to be First Lieutenant; John William Howard, Gent., to be Second Lieutenant. Kent Rifle Volunteers, 28th Company—George Walkup Cong.- den, Esq., (late Colonel Royal Marine Light Infantry), to bo Captain ; George Hall Graham, Gent., to be Lieutenant; William Caryl, Gent. to be Entign ; Kent Rifle Volunteers.—Subdivision (Corps 21st)—Thos. Watson Parker, Gent., to be Lieutenant ; Stephen John Newman, Gent., to be Ensign. (26th Corps)—William Evans S. Orem, Esq , Charles D. Piper, Esq., Wm. S. Thorne, Esq., Sumner Toms, E sq .. R. Forest, James Davidson, Esq., William Tozer, Esq., E. Denton, Esq., Wm. Storrie, Esq., Wm. Angus, Esq., and John Holli day, Esq., to be Captains ,• John Pettman, Gent., Jeffrey Smith, Gent., John Farrell, Gent, Wm. Charles Butter, Gent., John Henry, Gent., Geo. Rennell, Gent., David Campbell, Gent., Jas. Liddel, Gent., J. Hay, Gent., W. Bush, Gent., and R. Donnelly, Gent., to beLieutenants; Robert Smith, Gent., George Rowo, Gent., Thomas Skelton, Gent., Joseph Bell, Gent., Alexander Jack, Gent., Thomas Carlisle, Gent., Peter Brown, Gent., J - c.hn Douglas, Gent., Henry Budd, Gent., James McNaught, Gent., to be Ensigns. Kent Rifle Volunteers.-12th Company—Rev. George John -SurgeonsCompanyt—William m Blomileld to be Honorary Surgeon • Richard Tipp e tt s , Streatfeild, Esq. late Captain, 47th R eg i • d nient, to be Lieuten ant ; Richar David Turner, Gent., Gent., to E s b g e . U ss te istan lst t I w V a e r l d l 8,0 Ogle to be Ensign. 27th Company—Edward Wilkinson, Esq., to be Captain; William Benjamin Bembrooke, Esq., M.D., to be Ensign ; Edward Downing, sq., .Ge., to be Lieutenant ,• Charles_ Stubbing, Gent., to be Assistant- Surgeon. County of Elgin.-Ist Elgin Rifle Volunteers John George bones, Gent. , to be Assistant Honorary (Forres)— V o lunteers (Elgin)—James Alexander Cameron, Gent., to e Lieutenant; James Jameson, Gent., to be Johnston, Surgeoild 2nd Gent., ltgoinbeE Rifle Captain ; Ensign. County of Lanark.-Ist Lanarkshire Artillery Volunteers —Second Lieutenant Duncan M Tarlane to be First Lieutenant in the Gth Company; Frederick David Esq., to be Second Lieutenant in the 6th Company, vice M'Farlane, promoted. Lanarkshire Rifle Volun teers, 3d Company.—James Dunlop, Esq., M.D., to be Honorary Assistant-Surgeon. 16th Company (Hamilton Ist)—Samuel Simpson, Esq., to be Captain; John Austine, Esq., to be Lieutenant; Henry Donald son Muirhead, Esq., to be Ensign; James Loudon,Esq., M.D., to be Honorary Assistant-Surgeon; the Rev. William Robertson to be Honorary Chaplain. 19th Corps (Glasgow 2d Northern Battalion)—Ensien James Robertson to be Captain of the 24th Company, vice Gilkison, resigned ; James Fulton, Esq., to be Ensign in the 24th Company, vice Robertson, promoted. 27th Company—Thomas Small, Esq., to be Captain. 48th Company (Airdrie)—James Kidd, Esq., to be Cap tain; John Rankin, Esq., to be Lieutenant ; Robert Addle, Esq., to be Ensign ; Thomas Torrance. Esq., to be Honorary Assistant-Surgeon ; the Rev. Benjamin Brown to be Honorary Chaplain. 52d Company (Hamil ton 2d) James Nisbet, Esq., to be Captain ,•" - William Forre s t, J un ., E sq., to be L i eutenant ; Edward Pellew Dykes, E sq ., to be Ensign. 55th Company (Lanark)—William Bertram, Esq., to be Captain ; Ed ward Gilroy, Esq., t o b e Lieutenant; David Stodart, Esq., to be Ensign. 56th Company (Bothwell)--Alexan der Turner, Esq., to be Captain; Joseph Bain, Esq., to be Lieutenant; David Lockhart, Esq., to be Ensign. 66th Company—James Thomas Henderson, Esq., to be Captain; James Godfrey Booth, E sq ., t o be Lieutenant; Duncan Stewart, Esq., to be Ensign. 67th Company-- Robert Laidlaw, Esq., to be Captain; Thomas Kennedy, Esq , to be Lieutenant; Peter Thomas Ramsay, Esq., to be Ensign. County of Bedford.—Bedfordshire Rifle Volunteers, Ist Company—William Crosbie, Esq., late Captain Rifle Brigade, to be Captain; Thomas Jobson Jackson, Gent., to be Lieutenant; James Howard, Gent., to be Ensi gn . County of Devon.-Ist Devon Mounted Rifle Volunteers —Thomas Dyke Acland to be Captain. 6th Devon Rifle Volunteers—Lieut.-Colonel Robert Wyllie, late Bengal Army, to be Captain ; Edward Bourchier Savile to be Lieutenant; John May Miller to be Ensign. 9th Devon Rifle Volunteers—Thomas Eales Rogers to be Captain; Robert Coard Tucker to be Lieutenant; Richard Coulton to be Ensign. Exeter and South Devon Rifle Volunteers—William Buckingham to be Lieutenant; John Wilson Rimington to be Ensign ; Reginald Templer to be Ensign. County of Cornwall-sth Cornwall Rifle Volunteers— Benjamin Snell to be Lieutenant, vice 'William Goat wyck Gard, resigned. North Riding of Yorkshire.—lst North Riding of York shire Rifle Volunteer Company—William Charles Cop . perthwaite, Esq., to be Captain ; Thomas Walker ' jun., Gent., to be Lieutenant; Thomas Robinson Ettv, Gent., to be Ensign; Richard Jones, Gent., to be honorary ' Surgeon. Ist North Riding of Yorkshire Artillery WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, MARCH 2. , 22nd Regiment of Foot—Major-General Sir John Lysaght Pennefather, K.C.8., from;the 46th Foot, to be Colonel, vice General Sir William Francis Patrick Napier, K.C.B. 46th Foot—Major. General John Geddes, to be Colonel, vice Major-General Sir John L. Pennefather, K.C.8., transferred to the Colonelcy of the 22d Foot. 2d Regiment of Dragoon Guards—Cornet Edward Vando - leur to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Payne, who re tires. sth Light Dragoons—William Potter Stephenson, Gent., to be Cornet, without, purchase, vice John O'Gowan Smith, who resigni. Bth Light Dragoons—Thomas Coates, Gent., to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Goldsworthy, promoted. 9th Light Dragobns—Ensign John George Buchan Hep burn, from the 4th Foot, to be Cornet, vice Crofton, pro moted. - 10th Light Dragoons—Cambre Brabazon Ponsonby, Gent., to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Barthorp, promoted. 11th Light Dragoons—The Commission of Paymaster Coventry to be antedated to Feb. 1, 1860. Royal Engineers—Brevet-Colonel William T. Renwick to be Colonel, vice Wulff, retired upon full-pay; Captain and Brevet-Colonel Lintorn Arabin Simmons, C. 8., on the Seconded List, to be Lieutenant-Colonel; Captain and Brevet-Major George Archibald Leach to be Lieu tenant-Colonel, vice Renwick; Captain Robert Dundas Kerr, from half-pay, to be Captain, vice Brevet-Major Barry, deceased • Second Captain Richard Warren to be Captain, vice Leach ; Second Captain Charles Augustus Rice, from half pay, to be Second Captain, vice Wlrren. Ist Regiment of Foot —Lieutenant James Creagh to be Cap tain, by purchase, vioe Chrystie, who retires ; Ensign Cresswell Keane Charles Rooke to be Lieutenant, by pur chase, vice Cumming, who retires ; Ensign Fergus Farrell to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Creagh; Hutchison Posnett, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Bloomfield, promoted. 6th Foot—Lieutenant James George Cockburn to be Ad jutant, vice Lawrell, promoted. 10th Foot—Lieutenant John Bartholomew Corballis, from the 39th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Lynam, who ex changes. ' 12th Foot—Captain Francis Williams, from half-pay, Un attached, to be Captain,. vice Samuel Fairtlough, se conded, having been appointed Permanent Instructor at the School of Musketry at Hythe. 14th Foot—Captain James Dickson Mackenzie, from the Ist West India Regiment, to be Captain, vice Dwyer, who exchanges. 19ih Foot—Lieutenant John Minnie Mackenzie to be Cap tain, by purchase, vice Uniacke, who retires ; Ensign Brumhead Rogcirs to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Mackenzie. 224 Foot—Lieutenant Henry Proctor to be Captain, by „;( THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, MARCH 2, 1860.- • Yolunteer Company—Henry Thompson Thos. Vaughan, Esq., to be Captain; Wm. R. Innes Hopkins, Esq., to be ; Captain ; Wm. 'Vaughan, Gent., to be First Lieutenant ; Charles Ferdinand Henry Bolekow, Gent., to be First Lieutenant ; James Innes Hopkins, Gent., to First Lieu tenant ; Robert Lloyd, Gent., to be Second Lieutenant ; James Stovin Pennyman, Esq., to be Second Lieutenant ; John Brewster, Gent., to be be Second Lieutenant. 2d North Riding of Yorkshire Rifle Volunteer Company— James Simm Metcalf, Gent., to be Ensign. 6th North Riding of Yorkshire Rifle Volunteer Company—John Michell, Esq., to be Captain ; C. R. Robinson, Gent., to be Ensign ' • W. Walker, Gent., to be Honorary Surgeon ; 6th North Riding Yorkshire Rifle Volunteer Company Hebden , Esq., to be Lieutenant ; Harcourt Johnstone, l• sq., to be Ensign. County of Wigtown.- —lst Company of Wigtown Volunteer Artillery—Viscount Dalrymple to be Captain; John Campbell, Gent., to be First Lieutenant; Alexander Guthrie, Gent., to be Second Lieutenant ; John Orgill, Gent., to be Honorary Surgeon; Rev. Wm. Mungall Simpson, to be Honorary Chaplain. Ist Subdivision Wigtown Rifle Volunteers—Robt. Vans Agnew, Esq , to be Lieutenant . ; William James McHaffie, Esq., to be Ensign. Court' of Lincoln.—lst Company of Lincolnshire Ai slip y Volunteers—Andrew Mercer Adnam, Esq., M.D., to be Honorary Assistant-Surgeon. 2d Company Lincoln ' shire Rifle Volunteers—Samuel Trought, Esq., to be Honorary Assistant-Surgeon. 3d Lincolnshire Rifle Volunteers—William Earle Welby, Esq., M.P., to be Captain Commandant—, Ist Company 3d Lincolnshire Rifles—John Fowler Burbidge, Gent., to be Lieutenant ; Edmund Tumor, Gent., to be Ensign. 2d Company 3d Lincolnshire Rifles—C. J. B. Parker, Esq.; to be Captain. James William Jeans, Gent., to be Lieutenant ; Henry Benjamin Thompson, Gent., to be Ensign , Bth Com pany—Anthony Willson ' Esq., to be Captain. 11th Company—John Samuel Lister, Esq., to be Captain ; Augustus Laurent, Gent., to be Lieutenant; John Hig gins, jun., Gent., to be Ensign; Edward Cooke Odling, Esq., to be Honorary Assistant- Surgeon. 13th Company —Thomas Hilliam, Esq., to be Captain; Franolb Thomas Selby, Gent., to be Lieutenant ; Ash ley Maples, jun., Gent., to be Ensign • the Her. Edward Moore to be Honorary Chaplain ; Anc,ell Ball, Esq., M.D , to be Honorary Assistant-Surgeon. Royal South Lincoln Militia—Warwick Oben G. Richards, Gent., to be Lieutenant, vice Ingram, struck off. County of Wilts.—Wiltshire Volunteer Rifle Corps—lst Company—John Magor Carden, Gent., to be Honorary Assistant-Surgeon. County of Stirling.-90th or Stirlingshire, &c., Highland Borderers Light Infantry Reg iment of British Militia — Robert William Cullen, Gent., to be Ensign, vice Hor rocks, resigned. County of Sussex-sth Sussex Rifle Volunteers—Arthur Charles Ra.msden, Gent., to be Lieutenant; William Alston Head, Gent., to be Ensign. 6th Sussex Rifle Volunteers—Captain Walter Barttelot Barttelot, late Captain Ist Royal Dragoons, to be Captain. 7th Susses. Rifle Volunteers—Sir John Henry Pelly, Bart., to be Ensign, vice Dickins, resigned. County of Worcester.—Worcestershire Volunteer Rifle Corps, sth Company—William Nichols Marcy, Esq., to be Captain; John Bury, junior, Esq., to be Lieutenant; George Beddoe, Esq., to be Ensign. 6th Company—Ferdinando Dudley Lea Smith, Esq., to be Captain; James Philip Hunt, Esq., to be Lieutenant. 7th Company—Henry Money Wainwright, Esq., to be Captain • Francis Sanders, Esq., to b e Li eu t enan t ; Ch as . C. Hewitt, Esq., to be Ensign. Bth Company—Joseph Rogers, Esq., to be Captain; Charles Harrison, Esq., to be Lieutenant; Benjamin Dunks, Esq., to be Ensign; 9th Company—James Foster, Esq., late of the King's Dragoon Guards, to be Captain; Michael Phillips Gras • brook, Esq., to be Lieutenant; Frank Evers, Esq., to be Ensign. County of Oxford.—Oxford University Rifle Volunteer Corps—The Hon. Robert Charles Henry Spencer (lately Colonel Royal Artillery), to be Lieutenant-Colonel ; Lieutenant Charles Stewart Parker to be Captain; Lieu tenant William Holding to be Captain; Ensign Edward Cecil Coney to be Lieutenant, vice Parker, promoted; Ensign William Matthew Hale to be Lieutenant, vice Holding, promoted ; Ensign Walter Payne Gepp to be Lieutenant; Ensign Windham Thomas, Viscount Adare, to be Lieutenant; Sergeant-Major Charles Thomas Luck to be Ensign, vice Coney, promoted; Colour-Sergeant Henry Emerson Westcar to be Ensign, vice Hale, pro moted; Colour-Sergeant John Cecil Russell to be En sign, vice Gepp, promoted. County of Brecknock.—Brecknockshire Rifle Volunteers, Crickhowoll Subdivision, 3d Corps—Frederick Ximenes Gwynne, E• s, to be Lieutenant; John Hotohkis, Esq., to be Ensign. • County of Hertford.-4th Hertfordshire Rifle Volunteers— William If'urey Cust (late Honourable East India Com pany's Service) to be Captain ; William Paxton, Gent., to b 3 Lieutenant, County of Surrey.—South London Rifle Volunteer Corps— Lieutenant Alexander Lodwick Irvine to be Captain, vice Boucher, promoted; Lieutenant Edward Dresser Rogers to be Captain ; Ensign Alexander James Scrut ton to be Captain ; Frederick Andrew Durnford, Gent., to be Captain; Ensign George Phare to be Lieute nant ; Ensign John Russell Clipperton, to be Lieu tenant; Ensign Henry Kimber, to be Lieutenant; Ensign Robert Henry Bristowe, to be Lieutenant; Travers Barton Wire, Gent., to be Lieutenant ; Charles Henry Robottom, Gent., to be Lieutenant ; James Elliott Cunningham, Gent, to be Ensign; Edward Barnaby Gudgeon, Gent., to be Ensign; William Riddell Bran don, Gent., to be Assistant-Surgeon. 7th Surrey or Southwark Rifle Volunteers—Thomas Beeby Moseley, Gent., to be Ensign. 15th Surrey Rifle Volunteers (ChertseySubdivision)—Francis Lewis Dowling Gent., to be Ensign. 2d Cumberland Artillery Volunteers—Silas George Saul, Gent., to be First Lieutenant; John Giles Mounsey, Gent., to be Second Lieutenant ; 'William Reeves, Gent., to be Honorary Assistant-Surgeon. 3d Cumberland Rifle Volunteers—John James Spedding, Esq., to be Lieutenant. County of Monmouth-6th Monmouthshire Rifle Volun teers—James Pearce King, Esq., to be Captain; Alfred Evans, Gent. to be Lieutenant ; E ger t on I saacson , Gent., to be Ensign. County of Derby.-2d Derbyshire Volunteer Rifles—Cap tain Lord Vernon to be Captain-Commandant; the Hon. E. Wentworth Keppel Coke to be Captain ' • J. Bott, Esq., - to be Lieutena n t ; J o h n B roa dh urst, Esq., to be Ensign ; 9th Company of Derbyshire Volunteer Riles—Lord George Henry Cavendish to be Captain ; William Pole Thornhill, Esq., to be Lietilinant ; Robert William Mills Nesfield, Esq., to be Ensign ; James Smith Walters, Esq., to be Honorary Surgeon. BANKRUPTS. John Mintorn, jun., manufacturer, 106, New Bond street, to surrender, March 10, at twelve, and April 16, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. John Lowe, printer and publisher, Cheltenham, March 12, and April 16, at eleven, at the Bristol District Court. John Geard Bedells, chemist, Brewood, March 12 and April 2, at eleven, at the Birmingham District Court. Alexander Jacobson, jeweller, Clerkenwell, March 14, at half-past twelve, and April 11, at two, at the Court of Bankruptcy. James Blackmore, builder, Wellington, Somersetshire, March 14 and April 11, at twelve, at tho Exeter District Court. , . Henry Hobbs, brewer, Wooburn, Buckinghamshire, March 14, and April 11, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. George Clark, builder, Ashford, March 12, at two, and April 16, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Jame!. Berger, broker, Creat Tower-street, }larch 16, at twelve, and April 13, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Joseph Chatwin, gas fitter, Birmingham, March 16, and April 5, at eleven, at the Birmingham District Court. Thomas Holgate, grocer, Bradford, March 19, at half past eleven, and Ap r il 16, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court. William Clarke Gill, racney scrivener, Manchester, March 13 and April 4, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court. Henry Fridlingtou Kemp, and William Skey, distillers, Louth, Lincolnshire, March 12, and April, 18, at twelve, at the Leeds District Court. SCOTCH BANKRUPTS. Archibald Orr, watchmaker, Dumfries. John Darling, manufacturer, Dunfermline. James Crawford, shipowner, Saltcoats, Ayrshire• BANK OF ENGLAND. An Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth Victoria, cap. 32, for the week ending on Wednesday, the 29th day of February, 1860 : OXFORD DRAMATIC CLUB BALL: The annual ball of this amateur dramatic society was held at Willis's Rooms on 'Wednesday evening.- The entire suite of rooms have been re-decorated, and looked very handsome. Up wards of 400 ladies and gentlemen responded to the stewards invitations, and kept up the "spirit of the bill," to the ex cellent music of Mr, Jones's band, until five o'clock the following morning. 7111 S DAY'S MARKETS. CORN EXCHANGE. Fresh up to-day very little English wheat came to hand, coastwise or by land-carriage, hence the show of samples was small. Good and fine qualities moved off steadily at full quotations, but other kinds were a dull inquiry, at late rates. We were well supplied with foreign wheat. For the most part the sales were confined to retail parcels, at Mon day's currency. Floating cargoes were firm, although the arrivals are rather numerous. Taganrog Ghirka wheat has sold at 47s to 47s 3d per 492 lbs. The show of both English and foreign barley was limited. On the whole trade was firm, at extreme rates. We have again to report a dull inquiry for malt on former terms. The arrival of oats is still limited, and the demand was steady, at extreme rates. Beans and peas were firm in price, and the flour trade ruled healthy. ARRIVALS TR'S WYE): wheat. Barley Malt. Oats. Flour. English 1,820 r 1,480 1,220 1,220 1,060 Irish Foreign 450 7,100 460 50 aks, I 5,990 ids. NICE AND SAVOY. (From tke Times.) The most important part, however, of this important speech is the declaration of the Emperor of the French that he intends to annex to France a portion of the dominions of a neighbouring and friendly Power. It is no longer a rumour. It is now an avowed fact that Napoleon 111. in tends to take to himself all that portion of the Savoy Alps which slope from the watershed line towards the French frontier. He declares it to be his duty, for the sake of the safety of his frontiers, to proceed to this slight aggrandizement. The words " edamer" and "rovendi firer," by which he designates this operation of the Im perial will, are distantly suggestive of a previous title, and would rather present the idea that he considers himself to be reassuming what was once his own that he is seizing upon the ancient patrimony of his close ally. No doubt there is a semblance of French title to these moun tains, but it is a title depending only upon the wars of the French Republic. There is also, as the Emperor urges, a certain ratural convenience in the boundary thus obtained, but similar natural conveniences abound upon other of the frontier lines of France. The saran title and the same plea of natural convenience will carry the French frontiers to very alarming outposts, and may even convince the most indulgent and unsuspecting of the Emperor's neighbours that peace has perils to other countries besides France. It would be a curio* and an easy task to calcu late how many words in this paragraph of the speech would require alteration in order to make the declaration as to Savoy apply to ono of the banks of the Rhine. It is well that the Emperor is careful to tell us that France menaces no one. We sincerely congratulate him upon his resolu tion to allow his progress in an enlightened commercial policy to be arrested neither by the clamours of parties nor by the threats of selfishness ; and we hail with real satis faction his emphatic acknowledgment of the great truth, that " The greater the riches and prosperity of a State the more she contributes to the riches and prosperity of all other States." We will venture, however, to hope that in future speeches these and similar excellent sentimets will not be exposed to damage by contact with so very question able an act as th a t o f th annexation of Savoy. • (From the Paris Correspondent of the Times.) The Emperor was interrupted two or three times by ap plause, and some isolated cries of "Bravo I" and the clos ing sentence was warmly received. The applause was marked when allusion was made to the demand for the French sides of the Alps —any increase of territory, how ever small, flattering the national amour propre. The para graphs relating to the commercial reforms were listened to with attention, but I must also say, in silence ; and it is inferred that the Italian question is not so definitively settled as people expected, for the allusion to Pied mont did not seem to produce any warm feeling. Out of doors the opinion I have heard expressed is, that the speech, though pacific in tone, is too sparing of infor mation on Italian affairs. and, with one exception or two, vague and slightly embarrassed, and, as a whole, by no means equal to previous speeches. It was naturally thought that something precise and definite would be an nounced on the points which have so long kept in suspense the mind of the public. Many think the speech is not precise or definite, and frankly express their disappoint ment. (From the Morning Herald.) Every possible reason urges him to stand well with the greai powers. It is not to his interest, one would imagine, to drive the continental states into a league against him, by treading in the footsteps of his uncle. It was but the other day that all Germany bristled with arms against him. Russia, if she has not signed a treaty with Austria, never will and never can be a reliable ally to France, England looks with greater suspicion than ever on the recent deve lopment of his Italian policy. In France he is gradually alienating the sympathies of the enlightened classes ; and he has pushed away one of his strongest supports, the clergy. What, then, are we to think, when, under such circumstances, ho deliberately announces his intention to protect his frontier from the incursions of Piedmont by the annexation of Savoy, except that he, too, yields to the intoxicating delight of military triumph, and is ready on a very slight pretext to give his 700,000 soldiers a new cause and a fresh battle-field. The annexation of Savoy, now openly proposed, is a deliberate gage of defiance to Europe. It is the proclamation of the Majesty of force and of the Emperor's triumph over the treaty of 1816—a proclamation rendered all the more significant by the assur ance that if Europe will leave France to do as she likes in Savoy, France will not interfere with the projects of her powerful neighbours upon weaker States. Europe, the Emperor may rely upon it, will form its judgment of the Italian policy of the French Court quite apart from his protestation of disinterestedness. The notion of Piedmont being a dangerous rival to France, or in fact being any thing but a third-rate power, whilst the line of the Mincia forms the Austrian frontier, is too preposterous to be dis cussed. All the arguments and assertions in the world will not convince the world either that the agerandisement of France is not one of the "ideas" which dignify the call ing of the " Soldat de Dieu," or that Napoleon himself.is a maligned and calumniated, but well meaning and amiable ruler, whose chief desire is to develope the res mrcos of hie country and live in amity with his neighbours. MPERIAL 'PARLIAMENT. ...... 4,, %..,,,..e..••• HOUSE OF COMMONS.-(YESTERDAY.) THE REFORM BILL. Lord J. RUSSELL (amid some loud cries of " Hear, hear," from the Ministerial benches) then rose to ask leave to bring in a bill to amend the representation of the people of England and Wales. He said—Before I enter into the subject it is necessary for me to make a disclaimer. I wish to disclaim entirely any intention, by the measure I ask leave to introduce, to frame a new constitution ; I disclaim any wish to alter the constitution of this house. I should feel totally unable to propose anything that would stand in the place of the glorious constitution of this country. And if I propose a bill to amend the representation of the people, it is not as a confession that the Reform Act of 1832 has failed ; it is rather because that act has succeeded. I do not think that any act was ever passed by this house that has had more complete fairness, or with which so few faults have been found ; and when I compare the present state of this eountty with what was its state some years before the Reform Act I cannot but congratulate this house that by that measure so much discontent has been allayed and so much satisfaction been given. I do not allude to our ma terial wealth, or the great increase that has taken place in our prosperity, because that progress may be attributed to other causes. But it is that the people since 1832 have been more generally satisfied with the institutions under which they live. (Hear, hear.) If I compare the year 1820 with the year 1860 I remember that in the former year Lord Castlereagh had introduced measures which he himself de signated as measures of severe repression; they were mea sures intended to restrain the Press, to prevent public meet ings in the open air, with ether restrictions of the same kind. Thoy were thought necessary by the Government of that day ; and I think the system of government then pursued may have required them. But looking at the state of the country in 1863 I find a generally prevailing spirit of loyalty to our institutions—a spirit that wishes to preserve and extend, not to destroy them. With this preface I pro ceed to say what we propose to do, in some degree at least, to supply tke omissions and remedy the defects of the Reform Act. There is one point that has snore than once attracted the attention of the house, and on which it has clearly pronounced its decision. It is the franchise in counties. During the progress of the Reform Act through' this house it was decided that freekold and leasehold tenures should no longer give the sole title to a county vote ; but that an occupation, merely, of the annual value of £5O should also confer on the occupier the right of voting. That claim having been sanctioned by Parliament, those who since that time have looked into the subject, with the view of amending the law, have very naturally said, " If an oc cupation merely is to give a title to a vote, it should no longer be restricted to a £5O holding; the occupier of a £2O or £lO holding is as fully entitled to a vote as the occu pier of a value of .L 50." That view of the question has been more than once adopted ; in principle it was adopted by the late Government. In the bill I now introduce we propose to add to the county franchise an occupation fran chise of £lO a-year. (Hear.) But we propose also to take further securities than were taken in the bill of last year, that this shall be a bona fids franchise. (Hear, hear.) It is obvious that under the plan of a £lO holding the land might be covered with small occupations that could not be called beneficial holdings. We propose that where land is attached to a dwollinghouse no sum shall be required as value in respect of the dwellinghouse, but where there shall be on tho land any building other than a dwellinghouse a sum not less than £5 shall be required as the value on such building. I now proceed to the consideration of a question which has occasioned far more disputes, which gave rise last year to warm debate in this house, and with respect to which various opinions were expressed—l mean the ques tion of lowering the borough franchise. It appeared to me, I must confess, that the late Mr. Hume had good reason to complain some time after the Reform Bill of 1832 had come into operation that a £lO franchise in boroughs drew too arbitrary a line ; that a number of persons were in consequence of the line being so drawn deprived of the right of ♦oting who might fairly enjoy the privilege, and that in that respect an injury was done to our system of Parliamentary representation. The longer the time that has elapsed the more distinctly have I per ceived that that complaint was founded in justice. It has been said that the franchise in boroughs was in 1832 pur posely framed to exclude the working classes from the right of voting; but to a statement such as that I cannot sub scribe, although I am ready to admit that it was framed with the view generally of giving weight to the middle classes in this country, whose information and character appeared to us at the time to entitle them to obtain that vast accession of power which they then received. I own, however, that I think it would be a great evil if we wore to continue much longer to exclude from our representative system that large number of the working classes who, by their knowledge, their character, and their other qualifications, aro fitted to exercise the franchise freely and independently. (Hear, hear.) It appears to us, then, that the constitution would derive additional strength from the fact that a certain num ber of those working men best qualified for the privilege were admitted to the franchise, and that a greater value would thereby be set on the benefits which the constitution confers. (Hear, hoar.) I am aware that it is said there has been no agitation on this subject; that we have seen manifested with respect to it nothing of that eagerness which took possession of all classes of men at the period of the Reform Act, and that we ought not, therefore, until some thing like a successful agitation is set on foot to proceed to extend the franchise. That, sir, however, is not the sort of political doctrine which I have been taught. (Cheers.) I have, en the contrary, been accustomed to regard the well known ma xim of Mr. Burke with respect to early re formation as being both deep and wise, I have not failed to perceive that in those instances in which just demands have been refused, as in the case of the Catholic question, the country has been on the eve of having its peace disturbed and insurrection excited because Parliament had obstinately refused to accede to those de mands. (Hear, hear.) The consequence has been that, although concession in those instances was wise and founded on just principles, yet that, coming somewhat too late, and being as it were watered by delay, we have witnessed the 'r land vexed and troubled by the agitation of those very mea sures the object of which was to pacify. (Hear, hear.) I for one am, therefore, of opinion that we ought not to wait in the present instance until agitation arises, and those classes which are excluded from the enjoyment of the franchise combine together to enforce their demands upon the con sideration of Parliament. On the contrary, I maintain that, if their petitions be just, if their claims be founded on a fair appreciation of their own qualifications, and that it would be likely to contribute - to the strength and durability of the constitution to accede to their request, we ought not to hesitate to comply because no agitation of the question prevails. (Cheers.) I have no wish to see again the flames of Nottingham and of Bristol blaze forth to warn the House of Commons that it must delay no longer to pass a further measure of Parliamentary reform. I much prefer taking advantage of these quiet and tranquil times, when any pro position on the subject can be fairly and calmly d&cussed, to submit such a measure to Parliament, to deferring its in troduction to a moment of greater excitement, when it might be out of our power to fix as we might deem expe dient the exact limits by which our proposal ought to be defined. (Hear, hear.) In dealing with this great ques tion, then, Sir, we have deemed it better, upon the whole, in order to make our measure as simple as possible, to avoid those proposals which we made in former years, and which were likewise made last year by our prede cessors in office—l allude to the introduction into our representative system of franchises hitherto un known to the constitution—(hear, hear)—which my hon friend the member for Birmingham calls " fancy fram chises," and which, although many of them might confer the right of voting on persons well qualified to exercise it, yet arc almost every one of them liable to abuse and so re sult in the creation of fictitious votes. (Hear, hear.) The principle on which we propose to proceed, therefore, is to extend still further the £lO franchise which is now en joyed ; to take that franchise generally with its present con ditions ; to require the payment of rates, as is now the case; but, at the same time, to extend it to a lower degree than that at which it stands. With that view we have made inquiries, and carefully considered their results. There is, I may here observe, one question which has been frequently discussed, and which formed the foundation of the provi sions of the bills of 1852 and 1851,--I allude to the ques tion whether this should be a rating franchise. In examin • ing that subject we found that great variety in the propor tions of the rating franchise to the true value of houses existed. We discovered that there were some instances in which there was a difference of 9 per cent. between the gross rental and the rated value of a house, while in many instances there was a difference of 28, and in others of 30 per cent. Now it is obvious that it would not be possible in a Reform Bill to make at once a change in that mode of valuation ; that, in endeavouring to effect that object, you would be subject to the discretion of local authorities, and, as a consequence, either through ignorance, custom, or pre judice, many persons would lose their votes, while others possessing the same amount of property in their vicinity would enjoy the franchise. (Hear.) I have stated the prac tical difficulty which would be involved in making the change, but there is another objection to its introduction. In striking the poor law rate the rental of a house is cal culated according to ite true value, subtracting from it, however, not only the rate charged in point of fact, but also the sum necessary for repairs. Now, in taxing property it is quite right to subtract that sum ; for, if a house be valued at £lO, and £2 are each year laid out for the purposes of repair, it is obvious that the property is not in reality worth more than £8 per annum to the owner. The question, however, with respect to the meaning of a £lO "clear yearly value"— the phrase used in the Reform Bill of 1832 —came before the Court of Common Pleas, and it was then contended that the "clear yearly value" intended by Par liament was the same as was signified by the net annual value under the Poor Law Act, and that the Reform Act should, therefore, be construed after that manner. The Court of Common Pleas, however, decided that in the case of the Reform Act the Legislature had proceeded diverse intuitu, and that in that particular case its object was to confer the franchise according to the capacity to pay rent, and not to impose a tax on a man according to the value of his property ;—that is to say, that if a man paid £lO a year for his house, it was no matter whether £2 a year were laid out by his landlord for the purposes of repair; that he was the man who paid the £lO a year, and the Legislature de clared that the man who paid a rental of £lO a year was en titled to a vote. That being so, we did not think it advisable —indeed, we are of opinion that it would be practically in convenient, and in point of abstract right unjust, to fix upon a franchise that should be dependent on rating. Then, the question next comes as to what would be the franchise taking the gross annual rental, or, as it is expressed in the Reform Bill, the clear yearly value, of the premises. The returns at first showed a very great addition which almost any reduction in the franchise would make to the number of the electors. For instance, reducing it to £8 seemed to add an alriost overwhelming number, but when the question came to be tested aid examined, it was found that a very great number of these persons, in consequence of not having paid their rates, and from various other causes, were disabled from having a vote, and that deduction was so large as to amount to 27f per cent. Now, sir, having ar rived at that conclusion, the next question was to consider what would be the numbers added generally in the whole boroughs of England and Wales by taking any particular sum. It appeared that the whole number of electors on the register was 440,790 in the cities and borowhs. A very considerable number of these 440,790 are parties having an old scot and lot right of voting or in the enjoyment of old rights which are expiring A deduction ought to be made for the number of freemen and others to the extent of 30,765 ; the remainder, therefore, only 410,005, may be said to have the - right of voting—electors on the register by virtue of possessing a £lO qualification. Well, in clnsider ing what should be done we found that if we took those who occupied at a gross rental of £9 and over we should get 440,717 electors, being only 30,712 additiooal voters. If we took those rfte£3.9.ndtrvir,Ahe number of voters would.be 476,004 being an additional num b er o f vo t ers of aboit 66,000 —i.e., 65,999. Sir, it appeared to us, although that is ap parently a very considerable lowering of the franchise— namely, not to £8 rated rental, which some per3ans talk of, but an £8 occupation—that disturbing the arrangements of the Reform Act and introducing a measure which might excite great publie expectations, and adding no more than 66,000 to the 440,000 electors now on the register for the cities and boroughs of England and Wales, would not be a wise or expedient course. (Hear, hear.) It then became worth while to see what would bp the effect of placing the franchise at £7. At £7 and over the total number of voters, subtracting always the 27i per cent., would be 532,817 ; giving 122,812 additional voters. Well, but we did not atop at that number. We went down to the 15 rental. (Hear.) We considered what'effect would be produced by taking the rental at £6 and over, and we found that the total number of voters for all the cities and boroughs of England and Wales, including the metropolis, and such places as Liverpool, Manchester, Leeds, and Birmingham, would be 604,804, making an addition of 194,199 voters ; so that if we add the present number of electors—namely, 440,770 —we shall have as the total number of voters for the cities and boroughs in England and Wales 634,969. Sir, it appeared to us that in point of number that was no extrava gant amount (hear) ; that when you have already 440,600, including freemen, to add to them somewhere under 200,000, less than 50 per cent. of the present number, was no exorbitant addition. (Hear.) With regard, however, to the character of the persons who would be thus admitted, I must say the accounts from different cities and boroughs have been extremely various. In some places the rental is very low; in others it is high; accordingly, in some places there would be very few electors added to the present num ber. In the city of London there would be very few indeed. In Plymouth there would be some 200 or 300 In other places—at Liverpool, for instance—there would be a greater number, perhaps 15,000. But then the question is, what is the character of those who would thus be added to the con stituency ? I remember asking a gentleman now deceased, , Mr. Fletcher, who was inspector under the Poor-law Act,' to take the trouble of going through the manufacturing dis tricts'and inquiring for me what was the general lent the highest paid of the working classes gave for their houses, and when he came back he said he thought about £7 a year gross rental, or much about the same sum I have Men tioned. Now, it is difficult to lay Awn any rule or fix any particular amount as regards this class, but I think if we add what I have stated to the present number of electors, we should have a greater number the work ing classes included ; and I think it would be a great benefit to our representation and to our constitution to have this class included (hear, hear) ; and I repeat I do not think that would be any very extravagant number to add to the whole body of electors. (Hear, hear.) Well, sir, I come now to another question—a question of a totally different nature, and one on which I think it behoves this house to consider well as to the changes they make now or may hereafter make. When I had the honour, 29 years ago, of introducing a Reform Bill, the task was so vary easy that the general sense of the country condemned places which were mere mounds or ruins, which no person inhabited, and which did not allow the representation of such places as Manchester, Leeds, and Birmingham. I remember the last effort I made before the Reform Bill was to endeavour to ob tain representatives for these three towns, Manchester, Leeds, and Birmingham; and one would scarcely believe, unless he looked back to the proceedings of that day, that a very con siderable majority of this house decided against the admis sion of these great towns to the representation. (Hear, hear.) I think that was a v er y g rave question. There were certain places that continued to have repres entatives with out having the leas t semblance of population; there were other among them the great towns which a re th e c hi ef seats of our stapl e manu factures—in which Pa r li amentary representa ti o n did not exist. But, sir, the case at the pre sent day, and the case for future cons id erat i on, is a very different one, and I wish to call th e a tt ent i on of this house to what, in my v iew of this case, are circumstances which - V.ILI/...V4.4.1.i,,9 TN •,•••.,414 • - must, I think, have the greatest weight in ally decision as to what is to be done. There was, more than two centuries ago, before the names of Whig and Tory were ever knosin, a great dispute between two great parties as to the nature of the functions of the House of Commons, The one party declared and maintained that persons holding the chief weight in this house should likewise be Ministers ISSUE DEPARTMENT. Notes issued 528,952,700, ------- Government Debt £11,015,1C0 Other Securities .. 3,459,90 Gold Coin & Bullion 14,477,700 Silver Bullion .... - f 28,952,700 £28,952,7031 BANKING DEPARTMENT. Proprietors' Capi- Government Secu tal X 14,553,000 rities (including Rest Public Deposits (in- ' nutty) £10,171,100 eluding Exche- . Other Securities 21,164,840 uer, Savings' Notes anks, Commis- Gold and Silver missioners of Na- Coin 693,321 Must Debt, and Dividend Ac counts) .......... 7,013,44* Other Deposits.... 13,787,883 Seven Day and other Bills . 701,540 £40,336,741 M. : Dated March 1, 1860. £40,538,741 ARSIIALI., Chief Cashier. AVERAGE PRICE OF SUGAR. The Average Price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, com puted from Returns madein the week ending the 28th day of Feb., 1860, exclusive of the duties of Customs paid or payable thereon, on the importation thereof into Great Britain:— Per . From the British possessions i n A mer i ca .. 285 cwt 1 id Muscovado, the produce of the Mauritius .. 26s 10/d Muscovado, the produce of the East Indies.. —s —d Average price of the foregoing ............ 275 11id COURSE OF EXCHANGE.—Tuts DAY. Amsterdam Short. 11 13 11 131 Ditto . 3Months. 11 151 11 15 Rotterdam —. 11 151 11 15 / Antwerp - 25 20 25 25 Brussels ..- 25 2 0 25 25 Hamburgh Paris Ditto Marseilles — 25 32i 25 3 74 Frankfort on Maine — 1171 1174 Vienna Trieste - 13 50 13 65 Petersburgh — 34 34a Madrid Cadiz — 491 50 Leghorn — 30 321 30 374 Milan _ .25 40 25 45 Genoa — 2 5 37/ 25 40 42} Naples - 401 4 Palermo - 121+ 122 Messina — 122 122} Lisbon Oporto Rio Janeiro New York — .. .. Foreign Gold in Bars (Staudard)....per oz. £3 17 9 Mexican Dollars 911 Silver in Bars (St an d ar d) lf 0 6 2/ South American Doublons NENVGATE 'AND LEADENILALL. The supplies of both town and country-killed meat— especially the latter —are moderately extensive. Generally speaking, the demand rules inactive, as follows : Per Sibs. by the carcase. s. d. a. d. Inferior Beef 2 6 to 2 10 Mid. d 0..... 3 0 to 3 4 Pm.largedo. 3 6 to 4 0 Do. small do. 4 2 to 4 4 Largo pork.. 3 6 to 4 2 s. d. s. d Infr. Mutton. 3 2to 3 6 Mid. do 3 Bto 4 2 Prime do. 4 4to 4 6 Veal 4 4to 5 0 Small pork 4 4to 5 0 BOROUGH HOP. There is a moderate business doing M good and fine new hops, at full quotations ; but all other kinds move off slowly, at barey stationary prices. Mid and East Kent pockets 82s to 147 s per ewt. Weald of Kant do. • 65s to 888 ~ Sussex'do. ... 62s to 80s „ COLONIAL. TEA.—The market has been exceedingly dull, the dealers having deferred their operations until the public sales, which commence to-day. Common con,gou is quoted is sld to is 51d per lb. SUGARS.—The dealings have been limited, and the few sales effected have been in the superior qualities, for home consumption, at former prices. In the refined market full rates have been obtained for dried goods. COFFEE.— The market is steady, but dealings have been confined to immediate requirements. Good and fine quali ties of Plantation Ceylon brought full rates. RICE.—An extensive business has been done in the lower qualities, and prices have shown an upward movement. FRUIT.—The dealings have been rather limited. At public sale superior currants sold at previous values, and there was a fair inquiry for almonds, figs, and raisins. SALTPETRE.—The market has been exceedingly inactive, prices generally exhibiting less firmness. TALLOW.—The market has been rather more animated, and prices have slightly advanced. P.Y.C., on the spot, is now quoted 60s 3d. ; March delivery, 60s. 3d. ; April to Tune, 565, and last three months' delivery, 535. 6d. per cwt. COUNTRY MARKETS BIR3IINGHAM--3IARCH 1. At to-day's market there was a large quantity of wheat offering; the trade ruled full, but we make no alteration in our quotations of last week.' Pine barley sold rather slow at late rates. Oats were firm, but very little doing. Beans held for rather mere money. Peas neglected. MANCHESTER—MA.IIex 1. Wheat in slow request, at tho extreme rates of Thursday last. Flour at former rates, and a limited sale. Oats and oatmealfa better sale. Beans and Indian corn were the turn dearer. The attendance was good. BOSTON• --Fmn. 29. We had an average supply of wheat from the growers to day, the demand for which was brisk, and at full prices. All other kinds of grain sold readily. Wheat, red .38s to 44s Oats . l7s to 261 White do .46s to 503 Beans ..38s to 43. Barley .35s to 39s Peas ....35, to 41s Averages for the week : Wheat 3,699 qrs., at 4% 31 Peas .... 163 „ 3Bs 93 Beans Barley.. ! 68 ~ 36s lld Oats I,` 63 ~ 23s 31 Rye ~ --s 01 LOUTH—FEB. 29. There was a quiet business done in wheat to-day, and prices were at about last week's quotations, viz., wheat, red and mixed, old and new, 41s to 45s per qr. ; white, 50s. Oats, 18s to 22s ; beans, 40s to 41s ; barley, 30s to 83s. MELTON MOWBRAY-FEB. 28. There was a good supply of wheat to-day, with a fair business at the mined prices :—White wheat, new, 44+ Od to 48s Od ; red, 40s Od to 44s per 36 stone; barley in fair supply, at 34s to 44s for malting, and 28s to 32s per qr. for grinding; oats, 24s to 3is Od per 21 stone; beans, 44s to 52s for old; new, 52s per 38 st. EDINBURGH GUAIN-FER. 29. Wheat on the top 3s Od up average Os 2d up. Barley on the top is Od up,...„ average average Os 9d up. Oats on the top is Od up average is ld up. Beans on the top is Od up . .. average is Id up. • Averages per Imperial quarter. Wheat.... Barley . 1 19 0 0-12ths . Oats 1 8 0 0-12ths . . Beaus • 2 6 0 0-12ths Total Supply and Sales. Wheat ...1357 qrs Sold 1103 qrs 8ar1ey........ 468 qrs Sold 239 qrs Oats .2723 qrs Sold 921 qrs Beans 337 qrs Sold 239 qrs CORK—FEB. 29. The following were the quotations this morning - : —Red wheat, 26s Od t o 20 1 Od ; white, 26s 6d to 27s 6d; barley 168 Od to 20s Od ; oats, 12s 4d to 148 Od. DERBY SMITHFIELD—FEB. 28. There was a less supply of fat beasts to-day, with a fair attendance of buyers ; the best quality in demand, and late prices maintained. Sheep were in very small supply, and better sold. Fat pigs in limited supply. Fat and store calves not so plentiful. Beef 6id to 7d Veal 7l to 7/ 4 Mutton .. Lamb Od to Od Rough fat, 58 9d per stone. Hides, 3td to 51d ; calf skins, Gd to 6td. THIS DAY'S SHIPPING. I ONDON, March 2.—Wind this day at noon, S.W. moderate breeze, and cloudy, with rain during the more ing. PLYMOUTH, March S.S.W.—Arrived—Her Majesty's ship Trafalgar. Put back—Mariner, for the Cape of Good Hope, BRISTOL, March I.—Wind S. • strong. —Arrived—The Geelong, from th e M aur itius—Amu, from Demerara — Return, from New York—Mercury, from Huelva. Tho Elizabeth, home for Trinidad, has put back and anchored near the Holmes ; has sprung her bowsprit, and will come up to Ling-road to-morrow. NaWIORT, March I.—Wind N. V.--Sailed—Wilhelm, for St. Thomas, (EY ELECTRIC TELECRAPII.) SOUTHAMPTON, Friday Morning. Wind W., rain. Arrived— Swi ft, from Cadiz, v ia Weymouth ; Havre, steamer from Havr e; L a d y E g li nton , s t eame r, from Lon don; Wender, steamer, from Jersey; Bncephalus (put back from sea) ; Madelina, from Boma; Brilliant, from Jersey. Sailed—Pearl, for Newry; Black-eyed Susan, Fanny, and Clara, for Newport ; Cornelia, for Swansea ; Lady Eglinton, steamer, for Dublin; Venus, for Sunderland ; Despatch, steamer, and Brilliant, for Jersey; Virtue, for Poole. (BY SITBMAILINE AND BRITISH TELEGB,APII.) GRAVESEND, Friday Morning. Wind S.E. ; tide two hours' ebb ; weather fine. Arrived, March I.—Queen Victoria, from Odessa; Melona, Ann, Unition, John Wesley, /no, veld Crispin, front Guernsey ; Sally, from Genoa. Arrived, March 2.—Thea Lavethea, and Providence, from Gravelines ; Ganatea, from Valencia; Sprite, from Guern sey; Cassange, front Jamaica; J. Sawser, from Seville; Rambler, from Lisbon. Sailed—Era, for Palermo; Nereid, for Sierra Leone; Stirling, for Wellington. -DEA4 Friday Morning. Wind S.S.W., moderate. Passed—Blue Jacket, from St. Michael's to the north. Anchored—Savage, from St. Michael's, for orders; Liffey for St. Michael's ; Wirgillia, for Aden ; and Marie Manu. elle, for Oporto—all from London. Yesterday 11 eases of beads, 4 cases of copper, 12 bales, cases, and 4 pigs of lead were recovered from the Earl of Eglinton. ROYAL COLOSSEUM.—This highly popular insti tution has, it affords us much pleasure to hear„ been mere numerously attended during the recent Christmas holidays than on any former occasion ; and this success is likely to continue, now that the very able and talented lessee has resumed his popular lectures on science. Those of our readers who may remember Dr. Bachhoffner's pleasant and agreeable style of imparting informa tion when, for so many years, he lectured at the Polytechnic Institution, will doubtless be glad to know that, on the Thursday evenings during the Lent sea son, they may hear hint on the favourite topic of Astro nomy. The present subject embraces a most interesting and graphic description of our satellite the Moon, illus • trated by a magnificent orrery, and several wonderful pho tographs of the Moon's disc, kindly supplied, wo are informed, by Mr. Warren De la Rue, F. R. S., and Messrs. Smith and Beck. These marvellous fac similes of the Moon's surface must be seen to be appre ciated. We must not forget to mention a most ad mirably executed series of coloured photographic views of the Holy Land, supplied by Messrs. Negretti and Zauibra, and magnified by the oxy-hydrogen microscope. Many may remember the beautiful views of the same subject, from the pencil of David Roberts, R. A. ; but beautiful as they were as artistic sketches, still they lacked the fidelity to nature so peculiar to the photographl art. To those who have not visited the Holy City, the present series of views (twenty-two in number) will form an excellent substitute, and from the truthfulness with which they are produced, and the interest attached to this now desolate land, we anticipate for the present views a large share of public favour. A very concise but interesting description accompanies each view, delivered by Mr. Jones Hewson, which, together with the other exhibitions of this noble institution, form one of the most rational and agreeable modes of spending a few hours, at the small cost of one shilling, that can be found anywhere, in or out of the metropolis. of the Crown ; 'that they and those who agreed with them should carry on the business in the name of the Clown, and that thus the connexion should be maintained between the Crown and the House of'Commonv. AcCordilig to the view of these persons, in the time of Charles I. Mr. Pytre was to be Chancellor of the Exchequer. lie would have been called what is now styled leader of this house, and would have conducted, in the name of the Sovereign, the business of the country. But there was another party that said this ought not to be the function of the House of Com mons. The function of the house of Commons is to check and control the Crown ; let the Ministers of the Crown be disqualified for sitting in. the House of Commons, and let their measures be discussed by a perfectly independent House of Com - mons. That dispute continued till the reign of Queen Anne, when it was determined that Ministers of the Crown should be capable of beingre-elected, and from that time it has been necessary that this house should not only represent generally. the opinion of , the people, oppos_ ing any proposition from - the Crown, but it has been neces sary that this house should contain within itself persons capable of conducting the business of the country—capable of conducting; as things at present. stand, the affairs of a great empire, whether with regard to our colonial depend encies, the affairs of our exchequer and the taxes:to be im posed, or with regard to foreign affairs, representing the Crown, at the same time having seats in the House of Com mons. Now, I very muehdoubt whether this can be done if you have a representation consisting either Of electoral districts or divided solely into counties and great towns. With regard to the counties it is obvious that the greater portion of the countrygentlemen who represent them would be unwilling to leave th6ir present occupations in:the coun try or to sacrifice their ease in order to undergo the labelers of office and the drudgery which in these times office imposes. With respect, again, to th'e memb ers for the great &ties and great manufacturing towns, we often find that they are gentlemen who are them selves engagedjn business, who can indeed give a certain amount of attention to the business of this house and can be present at all its principal debates, but who would never be Induced to risk their prospects in life that they might attain the precarious position for six months or a year of Ministers of the Crown. I hold, therefore, that it is quite neces sary, having regard to the great business of Government, that beside the counties and the larger cities and manu facturing towns, you should have smaller places returning members to this house. (Hear, hear, and a laugh from the Opposition.) There is another reason which makes it es sential that there should be something of this kind in our representation, and it is this—that you have from time to timo seen men of the greatest ability, and fitted to render the greatest service to the country, but who, representing a great popular body, incur the momentary displeasure of their constituents, and are thereby deprived of their seats in Parliament. That, sir, was what happened to Mr. Burke because he contended for the great prin4iples of liberty both here and in Ireland, as well as in America. (Hear, hear.) The same was the ease in more recent times with a man who was famous in this house and who has lately departed from among us, but who will live for ever in his immortal writings—l mean tho late Lord Macaulay. (Hear.) I say, then, that if, according to the system which has now been established for a century and a half, you are to have the Government of this country carried on in this house, it is necessary that you should have morn than these two classes of representatives—the members for the counties and those for the great cities and towns. Nor has there been any plan of reform proposed of late years which would do away with that kind of representation. The measure brought forward by the right hon. member for Buckinghamshire last year made the least change that any one has proposed in this respect ; while, perhaps, the proposal of my hon. friend the member for Birmingham Made the greatest. (A. laugh.) But it is singular enough that my hon. friend's propoial left us with between 40 and 50 members for towns having from 8,000 to 15,000 inhabitants and therefore being towns of a moderate size, such as those to which 1 have re ferred. [Mr. Bright here made a remark, the purport of which could not be gathered.] I infer from this, then, that however our plans of reform may differ, all those who have taken part in proposing such plans of late years have been of opinion that there should he a certain number of mode rate sized towns which should send members to Parliament as well as the other constituencies that I have mentioned. (Hear, hear, from the Opposition.) Having laid down that sir, as a general principle, I am far from intending to dis cuss whether as an abstract question the proposal of the right hon. gentleman the member for Bucks or that of my hon. friend the member for Birmingham would be the best, but I wish to deal with this question as one which con- cerns us practical y. For my own part I should be quite sa tisfied with the proposal which we made in 1854. That pro posal was that about 60 seats, or rather more, should be taken from the smaller boroughs and transferred chiefly to the larger counties and some to the large towns. There is another question with which I do not shrink from dealing. It is a question which concerns the present state of this house. When the Reform Bill of 1832 was introduced there were many of those boroughs which, as I have said, contained only a ruined wall or a green mound, and there was no difficulty, when Parliament was once disposed to touch those boroughs, in abolishing their franchises. I re- member one hon. gentleman who, mush to his honour when it was proposed that the borough of Ludgershall should be placed in schedule A, got up and said, " I am the patron of Ludgershall, I am the elector of Ludgershall, lam the mem ber for Ludgershall, and in all three capacities I vote for the disfranchisement of Ludgershall." (Laughter.) But the case at the present time is very different. You have no vvav • men who can dispose in that way—even if they were will. ing to do it—of these small boroughs. Ifs town has but 250 or 300 voters, these 250 or 300 voters will feel as keenly as the electors of much ltirger places. (Cheers from the Oppo sition.) They and their representatives would join with those gentlemen, whatever their numbers might be, who are the most Conservative party in this house, and I have no doubt they would be able to defeat any such measure as I proposed to introduce in 1851. (Cheers and laughter from the Opposition) Therefore, without meaning to go into the question, which does not immediately concern us, as to how many small boroughs there ought to be, and how far the growing wealth and population of the ccuntry re quire their seats to ba sooner or later transferred to other places, I may state that our proposal goes only a certain length beyond the proposal made last year by.the right hon. gentleman opposite. (Hear, and a laugh from the Opposi tion.) That right hon. gentleman's proposition was, that 15 boroughs, now returning two members each, should hence forth return only one. This I think was to be done by fix- ins on 6,000 a the limL of population, and taking one member from each of theboroukhs whose population was below that limit. Now, we propose to go up to the limit of 7,000 inhabitants, and in the same manner to take away one member from every borough that falls below that point. It appears to me that it would not be desirable to raise the question of total disfranchisement unless we went to some thing like the length we proposed to go in 1851. The prin ciple of total disfranchisement is one of very grave import ance. It ought not to be adopted without some great and palpable publi:tbenetit would accrue from it. I cannot think, therefore, that the abolition of some six, seven, or ten boroughs, leaving ei g ht or t en ot h ers of a similar character immediately above them in population, would be a wise or expedient measure. It would evidently create great dis• satisfaction among those thUs disfranchised, and they would certainly be able to show that other boroughs immediately above them were of much the same description. It is a much milder proposition to say that at the bottom of the scale there are a certain nuniher of boroughs which may still continue to be represented, but which are now Over weighted in the representation, and some of their seats should be given to the more populous towns and larger (*unties. We, therefore, propose that those boroughs,whose names I will read—(loud laughter, and cries of "hear ") shall no longer send two members to Parliament. They . are—Honiton—(a laugh)—Thetford, Totnes, Harwich, Evesham, Wells, Richmond, Marlborough, Leominster, Lymington, Ludlow, Andover, Knaresborough, Tewkes bury, and Alaldon. Thus far, I believe, the list agrees with the list contained in the bill of last year. 'We go on, how ever, to Ripon —(a laugh)—Cirencester, Huntingdon, Chippenham, Bodmin, Dorchester, Marlow, Devizes, Hert. ford, and Guildford. (Hear, and laughter.) That gives us 25 seats on the whole, w hi c h would have to be disposed of by Parliament. N ow , we p ro pose that the following counties should retuin additional members—via., the West Riding of Yorkshire two additional members, and the southern division of Lancashire one additional one additional the rest, which I will read, Lancashire, en the il division division of Kent, the member, viz., the n orthern are. county of Middlesex,t.o.ornetuotrn the western* the southern southern division of Devonshire,y k division th of Staffordshire, the north riding of d or ivi s ei nre, e parts of Lindsey (Lincolnshire), the southern tth on . of . Essex, the pastern division of .S.ei.nerse, e and western division of Nor folk, the western of Cornwall, the northern . of Essex. It will be seen that division we do not propose to divide the West Riding of Yorkshire, and the reason is that there is a . great repugnance i n th at vast riding to h av e its magnificence at all diminished by a partition. There will thus be 15 seats given to counties, of which, though some are manufacturing, others are essenti a lly a gricultural in their character. Coming to boroughs, we propose that one seat should be given to Kensing ton and Chelsea c om bi ne d ; that Birkenhead, Staley bridge, and Burnley should in future return one mem ber each; and that Manchester, Liverpool, Birmingham. and Leads should henceforth return three members instead of two. The house may remember that upon a former occasion I made a proposition which was not very pale table. to the house, and which was certainly not popular in the country, viz., that there should be a division of votes ; in other words, that where there were three met abets eaeach. elector should have only two votes. As that proposition was not very popular, although I think it we s a fair :Ad just one, I shall not attempt to renew it upon. the present occasion. I have observed that where there ar.J three members there is a growing feeling, arising from a sense of fairness and justice, that a very considerable. part y, though it may be the weaker, should not be altogothe x exc' A uclecl from the representation, but that the third mtr ober..alkeulet be given to it, though constituting.o. wino - city of . the con stituency. For a long time, chiefly bectrase 4 * lf that ques tioni of protection and free trade n which the a gricultural counties felt a deep interest, those cmiuti ei ; which now possess three members generally retnod gentlemen all belonging to the same political party—the C tonservative ; but, on looking at the returns made to the kir t parliament, 56 } LOS 8 ' 9 IO [nese ne.