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'centrate all entertainment in one spot. The motion before the House was not opposed in any prejudiced spirit. He Would rather say that any facilities which her Majesty's Go vernment could give towards the erection of the Crystal Pa lace in some such site as that indicated would he most cheerfully and readily offered. He had been informed, on 9/hat he called first-rate authority, that the building had al niady been purchased, that the purchase-money had already be en deposited in the bank, that agreements were drawn up, and that the purchasers were now anxious to communicate with Government as to the site on which it might be erected, the conditions under which it was tos i be opened, and the pur- Pose sto which it was to be devoted. He could only say that the Government would be most happy to afford every per- Maumee and encouragement to that endeavour, and he hoped that the building erected on a happier site, and not tarnished With the stigma of broken faith and violated public honour, Would become the means of fulfilling useful purposes, and affording innocent recreation to the people. Ile hoped then that the House would reject the motion of the Hon. Gentle- Titan, as a motion unnecessary in itself, and inasmuch as the nabject which it was proposed to refer to a Committee had already been most fully investigated, inasmuch as his object could only be granted by a violation of public faith, and in ,fietnuch as he believed that every good object which the Ilion. Mover had in view would be better promoted by the cordial and friendly co-operation of the new possessors of the b uilding in Hyde-park with her aiajesty's Government. Mr. D'EYNCOURT rose amidst cries of "Divide." He aa.id that if the Government would agree to the motion, the Promoters were prepared to take all trouble and responsi. bility off their hands. He alleged that the evidence of Sir J. Paxton had not been fairly dealt with. He thought the na roes of such men as the Duke of Devonshire, the Duke of Argyll, and the Earl of C arlisle afforded a sufficien t ge arantee for the success of the undertaking. The Right li wl• Member, who was interrupted by loud cries of " Di 71S'e," concluded by expressing his intention to support the mot ions r. LABOUCHERE said he must encounter whatever lloropularity might attach to opposing the motion. H e looleed upon the question merely as one of good faith.— ilentr.) The Government bad pledged themselves that the building was to be only a temporary erection fer a temporary objject, and that objec having been attained the pledge mst be re d ee med.—(Hear, t hear.) He was one of the wh o had given the pledge, and he was bound to redeem it by resisting the present proposition.—(Hear, hear.) If the .use and the public had been unanimous in favour of tb a retention of the building, there would not of course have be en the same reason for redeeming a pledge with which ta ose to whom it was given would thus have been willing to dispense. But judging from the usual organs of informa ti, on, he did not believe there was anything like such a to ianimity of feeling upon the subject.—(Hear, hear.) He protested against the question being treated as if it were erely one as to the propriety of promoting the recreations or instruction of the people—the importance of which he did Diet at all undervalue.—( Hear, hear.) And he begged the tI ouse to recollect that the Government had shown no indis pc .sition to give that subject the fairest consideration. The G ommissioners had arrived at the conclusion that the build in g ought not to be retained; and the House were in posses >n of the reasons by which they had reached that conclu- Si( 41. In that conclusion he entirely concurred, and he should ce rtainly vote against the present motion, the fate of which he hoped would finally decide the question.—(Hear.) Mr. G. CAVENDISH said if any pledge had been given it Vas given to the public; and he contended that the vast 'amber of petitions in favour of the retention of the building Pt eyed that the people were ready to dispense with the per f4 nuance of the promise. Mr. MACGREGOR rose amid loud cries of " Oh, oh," and 4 Divide." Whatever might be the opinion of that House, ,the opinion out of doors was that the building should not oe taken down.— (Oh, oh, and Divide.) If the building e* re pulled down without the consent of the people, a tres -11 los would be committed on the right of the public.— ( Laughter, and Oh, oh.) If the House should decide on re trtioving the Crystal Palace it would prove itself guilty of 011tbaric Vandalism.—(Laughter, and Divide.) - Viscount PALMERSTON said—l am anxious to state has reasons why I will give my vote infavour of the motion Ivlvamy Hon. Fr.end.—(Cheers ) Sir, I think no man who aot to see the Exhibition of last year could fail to be stir uck, that, however wonderful and worthy of admiration 'there the multitude of objects of industry and art contained that Exhibition, there was nothing within the building compared with it as an object of admiration.—(Cheers.) 4 Lnd I could not help regretting that a building so extra -0 rdinary—for there is nothing like it in the world to ompare with. it—should be pulled down. I think that entiment must also have inspired every man who, Si lice the close of that:Exhibition, passed by that won di3rful structure. I fancy that every man must have felt a wish that some purposes could be found which could be eafely applied for its permanent endurance.—(Hear, hear.) Now I must say that many of the purposes which have been stated appear to show that the building might be converted into a place which would benefit the community at large. Hundreds and thousands of our countrymen enjoyed amuse ment and instruction from the i nspect i on of the articles ex hibited in that building, and I cannot myself see the reason vib.y it is not possible to make it the scene of future exhibi tions, not so extensive, but calculated to yield the means of instruction to the various classes of society. Ido not con fine myself to the humbler classes ; bat I thi n k it might leord amusement and instruction to all classes, high and low. There may be difficulties on this question, and one of them arises from a pledge given that the building should be pulled ( h)asn. Now, the Noble Lord admitted that if the demand upon the part of the public were strong, that objection would not have weight. Whether public feeling was unanimous or not is a matter of doubt. Other persons thought that an other site would be better adapted for the erection of the building. That is a matter for inquiry. Therefore it ap- Pears to-me that not only those who spoke in favour of this Th °tiol2, bat those who spoke against it, all tend to the same e raolasion, viz.—that the subject is of sufficient interest to tjustify Inquiry, and therefore that the proper course would ha to refer it to a Select Committee, so tha the House might "it fuller - and more ample grounds for s t discussion. to this building SEYMOUR could assure the House that with regard is building he had no other feeling in the matter than uresire fairly to fulfil the engaement into which as a mem of the late Government he x had entered.—( Hear, hear.) w ould not refer to the speeches made in 1810, but if he they would show that unless a promise were given to remove this building after the Exhibition closed, the building itnild never have been allowed to be erected.—( Hear, hear.) ao,. Position he (Lord Seymour) then occupied necessarily ePticated him more than any other individual. He had an a pplication made to him by a body of gentlemen who had in veSted a large am o un t i n house prope r ty in that locality; a nd when they told him they feared an excitement would be go t 11 P—petitions being easily manufactured—and every ee 9ans used to retain the building, he (Lord Seymour) re glied, that they had the strongest pledge they could have-- b e it YZIY, the character of the nobility, that such should not e.ue Case; therefore the nobility , were pledged to the re -serval• this. of the building. The case of these gentlemen was it",'" - SOrtie years since, the House might remember, there " a low range of buildings. where Prince's Gate t hem, stood. The Government was anxious to remove 4. 4 % 1, but the cost was vary great. A number gentleman joined with Government, and the r)Perty 'finally purchased. Now he asked the House 2 ,, i s it fair, after these gentlemen had subscribed some locality, le and expended it in building and improving the th e —a "tY , that that House should turn round and block up se- very houses?—(Hear, hear.) Such a transaction r.duld b e d ecidedly dishonest, an d suc h as no i n di v id ua l Member of that House would be guilty of on his own private Property:—(Hear, hear.) He ( Lord Seymour) could not .eratand the consistency of the Earl of Carlisle in doing rrarectly what he did not wish to do openly.—(Hear, the i..r) Though the Commissioners were well affected towards etention of the building, he yet should say they were mush compromised by their architect and secretary.—( Hear, e ,r) Sir Joseph Paxton had sent round the entire r e ) ntry a. note of ala rm , i n or d er t o d e f eat th e o bj ec t o f the Commissioners' obligation.—(Hear, hear.) Sir Joseph Paxton complained that his evidence before the Com tialssioners was not sent to him as in the case of others. New` when he (Lord Seymour) saw that statement he in quired of the secretary what foundation there was for it, and the secretary replied that "he could make a decla ration of his having sent a copy of his own evidence to Sir Joseph Paxton."--- (Cries of " Hear, hear.") Si r J ose ph Paxton subsequently admitted that, instead of 12,000/. per year, it would cost 20,0001. to maintain the building. He lieetraslood now that th e b u ildi ng was t o b e se lf- support i ng. made inquiry, and had l earne d f rom M r . C o l e that if t.l4 li bu a il angiwaeeren to be selfesustaining it should' be open at It was talked of recreation.—(Laughter, and Hear, hear.) tees; but were thetseintf. it under the management of trus fere 'with the ro par ct ? ees of Sir Joseph Paxton to inter --(1, Hear, hear.) The edification of the people Nad al b eet , 8 anxious to promote t h e He (Lord Seymour) was edification and education of the people, and the House had at present evinced a similar disposi tion on proper occasions, but been that did not apply. hear.) They ad rea to t le trade the admirably adapted - for e bui e l o d l i l nL i w en as ; but, then, these trade collections their turn, inter n'enerate into bazaars, vrhich, were apt to de feted with shopkeepers and trades It had been admitted by Mr. Cole that the was not hall, but suited for the purpose of a museum or that it would answer as a warehouse until could be found. Now he (Lord Seymour) objectedmg better 20 acres of the park with a Warehouse_ (Hear , to fillin (Hear, head—and he trusted - the House would persevere in rejecting the motion at once, and thus settle the question for ever......(HearTrion Mr. WAKLEY said the Noble Lord who had just sat down appeared to be actuated by very strong feelings on this subject. A glass house, at all eveats, did not appear to be fit place for the Whigs.—(A laugh.) l b lla could not under stand why the Crystal Palace should e n immoral in H y d e _ took and moral in Battersea.—( Hear, a d . laughter). H e such a building could t o immorality not conceive, indeed, how . lead Exhibition had done inamorality anywhere. The Great touch to bring into harmony the various peoples of the w orld who had congreg a ted there, and he altogether depre cated the destruction of the building, to which they all owed Eo much. „lAN GEACH, amidst loud cries for a division, supported the motion. M AN - After afe words in explanation fro m Lord J. 'Sir G. PEcierne, and Mr. J. EVANS supported the motion. t: After a few words from Lord SEYMOUR, also in explana- I P in which he said that the inuirto which he was a Party only dreference the applicability of the building to a to various purposes, and did not at all touch the question of good faith, until th • ALCOCK moved the adjournment of the debate th at week. p ° _l R. PEEL said that his opinions against the retention o th e ai d 'Juliano; had undergone a change.—(A laugh.) Ho not think the edifice was of that lasting character which oMl.saustify its permanent retention, but his views generally p . nl subject had become modified. He trusted that the e 'gat e d faith of the Noble Lord (Seymour) would not prove Re, _ nous obstacle to the retention of this edirice.—( A laugh.) t ,`,',Opalatabl e as might be the admission, Parliamentary rg_ge 8 need not form any very formidable obstacle to a b e _ge e of opinion. —(Laughter.) Pledges, indeed, might d and fashioned according to the caprice of the mo 'ur To show how easily • faith was changed he need only f p int to the conduct of the Noble Lord the Mem a• or London, who one day voted for and th d ano er ay gainst the Mil i tia (H W as det • ermined on supporting the motion for the Committee, ing becausethe he believed that by the maintenance of that build y should be promoting the interest of the people, and °r uin them Whicha means of social . and physical improvement they ought as far as possible , to endeavour to secure. WYLD, who rose amidst loud derisive cheers, laugh ter, and cries for a division, said he believed no one could deny that it . was desirable that there should exist in this th'LP large edifice devoted to the reception of objects a Zt v , and of models of our mechanical skill. He hoped an edifice w e ven that motio n were re j ec t e d, the erection of such ould Mr. not be lost sight of. It was contended replied. He thought that the pledge which very fairly ed had been given in that matter had been Y dealt with by the Earl f Carlisle, who had o acknowledged theedg pledge, but had added that it would be most unwise o P it. H e (Mr. Heywood)il the part of the aristocracy to insis. on irit eretu a or should f ur th er observe, that if the L any parties could be injuriously affected by a rewire from that pleda 'Ag -proposed Committee road THE SUN, be most ready to listen to their complaints, and even to award them compensation if it`could be reasonably claimed. He preferred Hyde- park to Battersea-fields as a site for the building; and he should, therefore, piess his motion to a division. The House then divided, when there appeared— For the motion Against it... . .. 221 Majority against the motion —llB COLONEL OUTRAM. Mr. ANSTEY moved for copies of the papers and corre spondence concerning the investigations made by Colonel Oatram, C. 13., into the existence of corrupt relations between the Guicowar or his subjects and certain officers of the Bom bay Govern went ; and also concerning the removal of the said officer from his post of resident at Baroda. Mr. HERRIES said that the Hon. and Learned Gentleman was entirely mistaken as to the groundwork of his motion. Those documents that have been referred to had not as yet come into the hands of the Government. The Court of Directors bad not as yet had time to deliberate upon the case. It was, therefore, quite premature for the Hon. and Learned Gentleman to make such a motion as the present. The questio 1 was not in such a state as to be made a fit subject for eiiscussion in that House. When the documents were receive d, and in such a state as they could be produced, the Government would be ready to lay them before the House. Lord JOCTLYN said that he considered the explanation given by the Right Hon. Gentleman as satisfactory. He, however, thought it was a question in which the honour of the East India Company was deeply concerned. It was due not only to t;he Company, but to the honour of the Gallant Officer referr eel to, that these papers should be produced as speedily asp ossible. Sir J. lIO'G defended the course pursued by the Bombay Gavernment in reference to the subject before the House. He could not, however, be induced to enter into a discussion of the ruatter,in the absence of those papers which would inform the H;ouse of the real facts of the case. The Hon. Member had been told the documents bad only arrived by the last mail„ and that some of them were under considera tion. After gach a statement, he believed the Hon. Member in proceeding with his motion had taken the course most likely to produce the result he complained of. He felt called upon positively to deny the assertion of the Hon. Member that any of i he civil or military servants of the East India. Company had either been accused or convicted of the cor ruption imputod to them. He had shown the Hon. Member the passage ire the letter of Colonel Outram, in which, alluding to the fact that corruption had been imputed by the native subordinate servants for their own purpose, be stated that he had laboured to bring to punishment the indi viduals through whose means attempts had been made to tarnish the reame of the British Government, and that he had brought those miscreants to merited punishment. With regard to the case of the widow alluded to, it was one of greater op pression than had ever occurred even in the East. The child, which was said to be spurious, was taken from her, and' died ; but it was not murdered, and she was deprived of her fortune. Colonel Outram, on hearing the rumours that had been raised, instituted an inquiry, and had the individuals who raised them signally punished, the principal delinquent having been sentenced to eight years' imprisonment. The woman was restored to her caste—the injury she bud sustained was proclaimed, and all was done that could be done by Colonel Outram, whose conduct had received the app , obation of the Bombay Government. He had not yet had time to read the memorial, but the atten tion of the Court et Directors would be given to it. The impression created by the remarks of the Hon. Member was that the civil and military servants of the company had been guilty of the corruption imputed to them. If the Hon. Member had any such charges to make, he should make them openly, and not by dark and vague insinuations.— (Hear, hear.) If there was any scandal at all in the case it was in casting imputations on men discharging their duty at a distance.— (Cheers.) After a few words from Mr. Scholefield, Mr. Baillie, and Mr. G. Thompson, Mr. ANST/E Y, in reply, said he was not the person to cast an imputatio a on any one where he could not make a charge. What he had said was that imputations had been cast on officers of high rank in the Company's service, and that Colonel Outram thought they were of so a grave a nature as to call for an inquiry. After hearing the statement of the Zion. Gentleman he should not press his motion to a division. The motion was then by leave withdrawn. Mr. AN STEY next moved, "That it be an instruction to the Select Committee on Indian Territories that they do ex amine Colonel Outram, C. 8., touching the alleged corruption of officers of the Bombay Government with bribes from Baroda." Mr. HERRIES hoped the Hon. Member would see that this motion also ought to be withdrawn. The House was not in the habit of giving instructions to a Committee which had been appointed for a specific purpose, unless some docu ments or facts were first laid upon the table which justified. it in doing so. Mr. G. THOMPSON thought that the circumstances which had been stated in connexion with the name of Colonel Outram constituted a sufficiet reason for the motion. Mr. HERRIES said that it was no doubt within the scope of the instructions to the Committee that they might undertake the investigation of this subject, inasmuch as it had been referred to them to consider the mode of adm'inis tration of all the affairs of India, and he dared to say t here would be no disinclination on their part to investigate any public interest. But as the Committee of this course if they thought right, it was s h u a b d j e powerc t to takew a was quite unnecessary for this House to instruct them further, unless some particular facts and documents had been laid before the House to warrant it in taking such a step. The SPEAKER said the Committee had full power, under the order issued by the House, to take the subject referr ad to in the motion into their consideration ; but no rule of the House could be clearer than this —that no instructions r xmld be given to a Committee to do that which they coul.d do without such instructions. Mr. ANSTEY, after the statement of the Right Hon, Gentleman, would not press his motion to a division. The motion was then by leave withdrawn. FRIENDLY SOCIETIES. Mr. SOTHERON moved the appointment of a Select Com mittee to inquire into the operation of the law relating to friendly societies, He trusted it the House acceded to his motion, that the result of the inquiry would be to put the House in paqqpssinn of such a hndy of P vidm act as wnn!d ma terially assist it in placing these popular institutions on a just and proper footing. After some conversation the motion was agreed to. On the motion of Lord J. MANNERS, leave was given to bring in a Bill, intituled, "An Act for Registering Births, Deaths, and Marriages in England." On the motion of Mr. AGLIONBY for the third reading of the Enfranchisement of Copyholds Bill, Sir J. STRICKLAND moved that the Bill be read that day three mouths. After some discussion the house was ordered to be cleared for a division, but the amendment was withdrawn, and, the Bill was read a third time and passed. The Friendly Societies (Salaries and Expenses) Bill was passed through Committee. The Repayment of Advances (Ireland) Bill was mad a third time. The Episcopal and Capitular Revenues Bill was brought in and read a first time. Adjourned at One o'clock. Colonel Clifford . paired off in f avour o f the retention o f th e Crystal Palace, wan Sir Charles Douglas against. ROUSE OF LORDS, April 29. Lord REDESDALE presided in the absence of the Lord Chancellor. _ CRYSTAL PALACE. The Marquis of NORMAN BY presented several peti tions in favour of the retention of the Crystal Palttoe• The Noble Marquis added that he dissented from the prayer of the petition, gposidering that such a step would involve a breach of public faith. INSPECTION OF NUNNERIES. The Earl of RODEN presented petitions from severs, places in Scotland praying for a measure to place nunneries under Government superintendence. GENERAL ROSAS. Earl GRANVILLE rose to put a question to the Noble Lord at tho head of Foreign Affairs as to what his Lordship termed the extraordinary honours which he saw by the public papers bad been paid to General Rosas on his arrival at Plymouth on Monday last. He wished to know whether these honours had been paid to General Rosas in accordance with official instruction. The Earl of MALMESBURY said that until he had that morning received a communication from the Noble Earl he had not heard a word on the subject of his reception. Certainly no order had pro ceeded from the Foreign-office, and he might say from the Treasury. The only communication which the Government had bad with General Rosas was to ask leave to reside in this country as quietly as possible as a private individual. lie could not, there fore, tell why the authorities had received Gene ral Rosas in the manner they had, except it was from a very natural feeling which animated them, to show kindness to one whose conduct in his own country had always been of the most kindly disposition towards British merchants. That certainly was a feel ing which he could not blame, because, though we might not be able to pity the fate which his own conduct had brought upon him, yet, as he came to this country as a fugitive, and seeking an asylum, it certainly was not the time to remind him of his faults, and to seek to visit them on him. The Marquis of CLANRICARDE inquired if there had an been n ous ,. y Treasury order issued to pass General effects without search and duty? any great amo unt of The Earl of MALMESBURY said that he was not aware,_ but it was very probable. It was, however, a fled to this mistake to great poverty. co untry almost destitute, and that General Rosas was possessed of a NtaLE LORD, unt of wealth; the fact was that he had In answer to The Duke of in a state of Rosas on boardtaake particular order y . THUMBERLAND said that no -had:.bees issued for the reception of British man.of-war, but there General Lordaeoby the Brazi l ian troo ps, azfas,t, and a a d ques tiont whe therh a t was a general order to o y s were b e r l e e to on save this t P w l means e h e i e l d e imminent t i h n f p e - the lives of those who said that to the o dan ger.—(Hear, hear.) might V putting rumouredtroo occupa tion BEA.UMONkeTthe opportunity s t i n o b u j etocoft the Monteh he w ou Video Nobledi dt was s s m lik e e re ly ly to be attended emporary inatte t r ha o t f oc p c o u li p e a e t , i o on r important political results. by any The Earl of MALMESBURY said he believed it was m correct onte irthiadteottes h n a o d w b i e n e t n h s e u p c o h es a e n es oc io c n up o a f t t i h on e Brazilian troops. He was informed, however, by the Brazilian Minister that this occupation was only intended a s a temporary measure. The subject then dropped. EXCHEQUER BILLS' BILL. This Bill passed throug h Committee. SHEEP CONTAGIOUS DISO RDERS PREVEN TION BILL. . THE METROPOLIS. SANITARY CONDITION OF This Bill also pissed through Committee. The Earl of SLIAFTESBURY rose to move a reso lutiuu that the sanitary condition of the metropolis quires the imm e di a t e attent i on and nterposton of her t t Majesty's Gover nmen t. He would then proceed to state to , their Lordships th e consequences o f the present condition of met . i re the many thousands, both in a moral and sanitary point of view. He believed that, if legislation did not inter fere, the Australian Emigration-office, before long, would take the very . flower and vigour of their rural population, whilst the remainder would flow into the towns, where they were cer- I lain to undergo the deteriorating process, until premature old age took them cff, in many instances leaving a sickly and useless ff,pnng.—(hear, hear.) The population of this metropolis, as also ot all great to wns, depended altogether on provincial supply. .The census of 185 1 —not yet fully pre' pawl—would tg.hlblt more striking re4olt4 than Ulm of LON DON, 1841. No great town could sustain its population from its own resources. The population of the metropolis was sus-. tained by immigration from the rural parts, which, if diverted away, the populdtion would become extinct in a very few years. In the parish of St. Luke, by the census of 1841, the number of those bora in country as compared with those born in the parish was 34 per cent. ; in St. Giles's, 42; Marylebone, 54; Pancras, 39 ; Kennington, 43 ; London, 40; Westminster, 48; Lambeth, 54; Newington, 48. In almost every instance half the population was not born in the town, but in the country. In Manchester the out-of town births, as compared with the town, were 35 per cent.; and in Liverpool, 44, As regarded the mortality, very much the same might be said. So that with mortaliy to such an extent, simultaneous with the emigration drain, there could be no doubt that the result would be as stated— a very considerable reduction in the amount of population. It had been remarked by an eminent statist, that "If the metropolis were surrounded with a wall of brass, so as to ex clude all ingress, the population would become extinct in some 20 years." It was, therefore, for their Lordships to consider the matter, otherwise the result might be a positive scarcity as regarded all the great civil, social, industrial, and military purposes of the country. By the return of the Re gistrar-General it appeared that the deaths in the first six years between 1.540 and 1851, both included, were of scarlet fever 9,872, whilst in the second six years they reached 11,728. The deaths by diarrhoea in the first six years of the same period were 4,200, and in the second six years 13,659. Of scrofula, in the first six years, 3,098; iu the second six years, 7,016; and these ware altogether inde pendent of the deaths resulting from cholera. By the report of last year it would be seen that there were received from all parts of the metropolis 877 cases of fever ; and of these there came from one side alone of Gray's Inn-lane 211 cases. One house in that lane had 12 cases, and another 20 cases; so that Gray's Inn-lane alone furnished one-fourth of the mass of disease in that year. In the towns of Cheshire and Lancashire, which were also fed from the country districts, the mortality was even greater than in London. In Lancashire there was an excess of deaths over births, and the same might occur in London. These evils are confined to great towns, and were sure to exist in thickly-populated districts, where sanitary arrange ments did not prevail. In the towns of York and Selby mortality had been very great of late years ; and here in the metropolis—where parties crowded in courts and alleys, having neither water nor drainage—hundreds imbibed disease and death.—(Hear, hear.) Let them look at the present state of our intramural interments. He believed it was universally admitted that that was an execrable practice; and yet, nevertheless, it was continued, and was still decimating 2,000,000 of her Majesty's subjects. Recent inquiries proved that those graveyards were exhaling an amount of mephitis gas which was most pernicious to all who came within reach of it. It should be recollected that those masses of dead bodies not only poisoned the air, but pervaded the soil, and tainted the supplies of water. Sir James Macgregor, who had attended the army in Spain, gave an illustration of the mode in which the de composition of dead bodies affected the health of the living. He said, that on one occasion about 20,000 bodies had been interred in the space of two or three months, and that the result had been, that the troops who bad remained in the neighbourhood had been generally attacked by fever and dysentery. In this metropolis there were annually interred, in a space of 218 acres, not less than 50,000 bodies. In Bunhill-fields, one of the oldest of our graveyards, which consisted of an area of less than four acres, there had been interred, according to a register which had been very imperfectly kept, between the years 1713 and 1832, not less than 107,461 human bodies. In the ground attached to St. Pancras Church, of which one half had been used as a burial place for at least six cen turies, there bad been deposited the remains of more than twenty generations ; and assuming thirty years as the life time of each generation, there must have been interred there 1,500,000 dead bodies. He would next pass to the question of drainage. Many portions of the metropolis were most im perfectly drained, or had no system of drainage whatever. In the neighbourhood of Whitechapel, and in several other dis tricts, it was easy to find by the smell the ill effects of the defec tive arrangements upon that subject. A survey had been made of what might be called the subterranean works of London and the result of that survey would, he felt assured, startle any one who might be made acquainted with it, because it revealed the portentous danger to which we all, and more especially the poorer classes, were exposed, from the presence of an intense and deadly poison in our atmosphere. It ap peared from that subterranean survey that there was accu mulated in undrained cesspools in this metropolis an amount of matter which would cover an area of 700 acres to the depth of six inches. From these cesspools there was neces sarily thrown out every moment an enormous amount of mephitic gas. Many of the cesspools were under houses, and some of them were only separated by a boarding from rooms in which nine or ten persons spent a large portion of the day and slept by night. But it would be impossible they coals/ have a good system of drainage unless they had a good sup ply of water. The great subject of complaint on that head was the defective distribution of the water. There were thousands of people who had no water at all, except what they fetched from a considerable distance. But an abun dant supply of water was indispensable, not only for cleanliness but for health. As an instance of the beneficial results of the contrary prac tice, of affording people an abundant supply of water, he would refer to what had happened in the city of Hamburgh. Not many years ago a large portion of that city had been burnt down; and those who had been charged with its re-construction had shown the most earnest and en lightened desire to make the best possible provisions for the health and comfort of the inhabitants. They had sent over here for au engineer who might have the most complete ac quaintance with the principles affecting the sanitary condi- , tion of the people, and they had resolved on entrusting to him the management of the supply of water in their city. Mr. Lindley had accordingly gone over to Hamburgh, and he had taken the necessary measures for supplying every room, from the bottom to the top of every house, in that city with a constant and unlimited flow of water, at a cost to each occupier of something under a penny a week. And what had been the result of that supply of water in Hamburgh? iVhy, it appeared from a statement of the medical men of that city, that since that supply had been furnished cutaneous disorders, which had previously been com mon among the working classes, had become almost outirPly unknown. Th. .apply o f water in London wee of a far more unsatisfactory character. He had him self visited a court here to which a flow of water was fur nished at irregular intervals, and where the inhabitants had been in the habit of losing hours in waiting for it, until they had at length stationed an old woman - at the top of the court and paid her sixpence a wed( fi r giving them notice when the supply should have begun to flow, and when that time arrived the people rushed to fill with the water every variety of vessel.—(Bear, hear.) He said that such a state of things was a disgrace not only to this country but to the age in which we lived ; and he hoped their Lordships would not allow the session to close without recording their anxiety to remedy those ev il s . Th e city of Paris stood in a much better position in that respect than London. The late King, Louis Phi. lippe, had devoted much time and attention to that subject; he had got a turncock placed at the corner of almost every street in Paris , a nd the water w hich was so supplied had previously been well filtered. As far as the supply foirfty per wat oeersnvt. in a betterascancerne tio d o , en t d h i ep n eople of Paris were fully than a large portion of the inhabitants of London. He would next proceed to consider the state of our courts and alleys, and the general condition of the dwellings of the poorer classes in the metropolis. In the year 1843 a survey of those dwellings had been made in anticipation of the coming cholera; and Mr. Grainger had made a report, after having conducted that in quiry. From that report it appeared that according to the uniform testim o ny of medical men, the dw ellin g s of the in dustrious cla sses in the metropolis were in a most de p lorable condition ; that they were filthy, ill-drained, ill-ventilated, and deficient in every arrangement demanded by decency, health, arid comfort; and that there prevailed in them ex treme misery, sickness, and mortality. According to the evidence of Mr. Lloyd, a surgeon, the interior of those houses were in a most neglected condition, and were filled with an impure atmosphere; and there were cases in which as many as ten persons slept in one room. Then there was the state of that famous place called Jacob's Island," in which the houses were built over a stagnant pool, from which the inhabitants drew their sup ply of water. There were several other districts which vere hardly better circumstanced; and it was no wonder that the cholera should have ravaged such districts. Let him show them the effect of even a slight attempt at re medying those evils. In one of those districts the parish engine had been brought to bear, for the purpose of cleansing it ; and when the sewers and cesspools had been emptied, and lime-wash had been applied, the cholera had instantly abated. There was abother place called Tindal's-buildin_Pf in Gray's Inn-lane, whi c h was well deserving of notice, be cause it exhibited almost all the evils to which he was refer ring. He had received last year a statement with respect to the condition of that locality so strong, that he had thought it desirable to visit it himself. He had gone there with Dr. Southwood Smith ; and he could state that what they had seen there had far exceeded anything it would be in his power to describe. That was the more remarkable, because it was a place which at first sight would not strike one as being peculiarly filthy and unwholesome. It was a narrow court, with a tolerably clean pavement ; and it was only on gibing into. the houses that one saw the length and breadth of all the misery and mischief there. In one of those houses not less than twenty cases of cholera had occurred. He would state the condi tion of a single house, which was by no means one of the worst. The interior was dirty, filled with a foul stench from a cesspool; the floor of the cellar, which was below the level of the main sewer, could not be drained; and to remedy that a hole had bean dng, which was filled with impurities that could only be removed by baling them out. Some of the houses had been in so filthy a condition that it had been utterly impossible for him to examine them, because he could not, even for one moment, have endured the intensity of the horrible stench within them. He believed those were fair representative cases, and he would undertake to show that what he had stated with respect to those houses was true with respect, not to 100 or 200, but with respect to 1,000 or 2,000 houses in the metropolis, and with respect to the condition of several hundreds of thousands of its inhabitants. There were other nui sances equally great and detrimental. In some of the densest portions of London numbers of works were carried on of the most filthy and pestilential character. There were, for instance, in Lambeth the bone-boiling fac tories; there were the lay-stalls in Whitechapel ; and there were in Bethnal-green the night -yards and places where hu man ordure was manufactured into manure for exportation, All these processes very prejudicially affected the health of people living in the neighbourhood where they were carried on. He had frequently heard complaints made of those nui sances, and made in terms calculated to excite one's com passion. He had seen in Bethnal-green a large pond, about e tha t an acre in extent, into which the cesspools of a great portion of the neighbourhood were emptied, and which presented an enormous exhaling surface ; and the complaints made by persons e x p ose d t o th a t nu isan c e were perfectly heart•rend of the poisonous 'r ises h e such as h e had described might be necessary; bnt ing. A lab our i ng man h a d a t one ti me f a llen into that pond; and th foremana lthough poor (thenmtan could a l of not S have h af tes bury) remained - 2 in it more than a second, he had been broughs out ouite dead, so p ower f u l h a d b een th e eff e ct they oug h t not t must have inhaled. Factories i te allowed to stand in the centre of populo us di str i cts. —(Hear, f r 0 0 m ut t b h r e e s a o k f s a c o t f o rdiiesse,asa and d h had suddenly occurred: these districts in co nsequence o f th e wind having c h anged and or 50 children had in night. Many of these a tway been struck d own i n one disgustingf processes were carried on, not by Englishm en b ut by because in no other capital in o i r,eigners, who h a d come h ere to establish them.—(Hear, hear.) ope would they be allowed smoke nuisance, which h e believed might be put a n en d to Then there was the w ith advantage to all parties. A person by consuming his smoke he saved notlesshtand told him that It was impossible to go among the poorer classes 300/. a yea r . them in their dwellings without being struck with the per and to see nicious e ff ec t s —moral, social, and physical —produced by th e se evils. In their mor a l effect they created discontent exaspera tion of spirit, recklessness, indifference to cleanliness , and to order , and extravagance. Hundreds and thousands,s male and female, young and old, were driven to the gin -palace and the pot- house by the want of domestic comforts ; and those parties ehould not be visited with too severe a condemna- EVENING, A PILL IA 30. '1552. FRIDA V tion, because the exhausting influences to which they were exposed naturally drove them to seek a stimulus in some intoxicating liquor. Under these physical disadvantages it would be idle to hope ,to extend to the working-classes the advantages of a good . education. The City missionary and the district visitor would tell them that it was nearly im possible to produce any effect upon persons so situated. He was certain that while that state of things continued they would never fail to have an ignorant and dissolute popula tion. The evils which he had attempted to detcilbe" were also producing the most injurious effects on the physical condition of the people. An eminent surgeon, who had lately visited a great many of the courts and alleys of Lon don, for the purpose of ascertaining the condition of the in habitants, had stated that the appearance of the children there clearly indicated the poisonous influences to which they had been subjected, for the first persons who were injuriously affected by physical disadvantages were children. The surgeon to whom he was referring had found the children in those courts ' pale, squalid, sickly, irritable; and the great majority of them had suffered from dis eases which would leave' permanent effects through out their lives. He (the Earl of Shaftesbury) could himself entirely confirm that statement. He had scarcely ever known children in those localities to have a healthy appearance, except those who had just arrived from the country. It further appeared from the in quiries of the surgeon in question, that the youths in those oistricts were stunted, and presented a sickly and cadaverous aspect; and the parents, who had in general come from the country, had a far more healthy appearance than their ricketty children, who had been born in London. In a dis trict which that surgeon had examined, out of 152 children there had been only 46 living; and he bad expressed his be lief' that unless the poorer portions of the town were recruited from the country the race of children would soon become extinct. He must also call the attention of their Lordships to the increased amount which had become chargeable on the rates in different parishes for medical relief. In Bermondsey, in 1845 the amount was £193 99 1851 Holborn ... ... -.1845 400 .................. If 1851 Manchester 1841 959 ...... 1851 Liverpool ......1845 ......... 9 13 1851 In every instance in which sanitary measures bad been adopted a corresponding improvement had taken place in the health of the district. That was particularly proved by the state of the model lodging-houses. In the model lodg ing-house of Bloomsbury only one out of 795 inmates bad been attacked by disease, whereas in Liverpool one person in every 76 of the population was attacked. In another model lodging-house only one case of disease, of diarrhoea had oc eurred among its 110 inmates. In the Albert-street lodging-house there had been, from the date of its being opened to the present time, only five cases of death out of 208 persons. The strongest case he could give of the mor tality of the metropolis related to children. Of children under fifteen years of age the mortality in the metropolis was three times greater than the mortality in this model lodging-houses. It was from a conviction, founded upon inquiry and personal inspection of the most painful kind, that such a state of things concern e d t h e honour and safety of the kingdom, that he had humbly ventured to call the attention of their Lordships to the subject. He feared that there was some danger of their becoming callous to the sanitary condition of the people, and that in reading the re ports of the Registrar-General they never paused to inquire whether the mortality arose . from preventible causes or not. Many persons believed it inevitable because it was constant. The same delusion prevailed once with respect to gaol fever, but where was that fever now? If out of 300 prisoners some 30 were attacked with fever, the whole press and Par liament would be in a commotion, and yet the decimation of the ordinary population was suffered to go on as a mere matter of course. He 'begged to move to resolve—That the sanitary state of the metropolis requiresthe immediate inter position of her Majesty's Government. The Archbishop of CANTERBURY said that the Noble Lord had taken up the question to which he had directed their Lordships' attention with so much prudence and ear nestness, and had given so much of his time to the subject, that he must consider him a true philanthropist. His object in rising was merely to bear testimony to the correctness of the statement made by the Noble Lord with respect to part of the population of the parish of Lambeth. He was glad the Noble Lord had brought the question forward. The difficulties in the way of any present society effecting any extensive improvement were great, and nothing short of the interposition of the Legislature would go to the root of the evil. _ _ . ___,. ~ ..... The Earl of DERBY said that no one could doubt that many of the details brought forward by the Noble Earl pos sessed a most painful interest, but he was afraid that after all they were only elucidations of that well-recognised truth —the Noble Earl might, perhaps, not be offended if he called it a truism—that in proportion as drainage and other sanitary works were adopted, the mortality of the district would probably be decreased. He was not pre pared to contest the accuracy of the details with reference to the population of crowded cities, but he did not know where that salubrious district was where the deaths amounted to not more than 1 4-10ths per cent. of the popu lation. If that were so, every person of that district must, on the average, live to the age of 75, provided they lived and died in that district, but the calculation was good for nothing if the district was one in which the population did not re main, but into which an extensive immigration took place. He was not about to enter into the statistics adduced by the Noble Earl. He was ready to admit—indeed it was a matter of notoriety—that the country population was longer-lived than the population of towns, and that large cities like the metropolis, and the crowded towns of the manufacturing districts, were not so salubrious as ether parts. But that part of the speech of the Noble Earl which fell most short of what their Lordships had a right to expect, was that in which, after having shown the existence of great evils, the Noble Earl failed, not only to point out what remedy was applicable, •but in what degree the Government—he spoke not of the present, for it had been too short a time in office to take up the matter —but is what degree any Government had failed to give their attention to measures for the remedy of evils which, after all, perhaps no human legislation could altogether do away with. He was glad the Noble Earl had seen cause to alter the terms of his notice, because in the form in which it was u.t fsivoii—of an address to the Crown, praying her Majesty to take steps not to exclude the metropolis from the General Board of Health—it implied that some obstacle existed which prevented Parliament adopting what measures it might think right on the subject. He was anxious to hear how far the Noble Earl went in the e recommendation of a rem e dy f or the evils he had pointed out. The application of the provisions of the Board of Health Act to the metropolis-- The Earl of SHAFTESBURas a said it was not in the motion. The Earl of DERBY remarked, that though . n present motion, it was in the motion as it stoodonteut in the two days ago. It was not in But it was of that which former case the Noble Earl he had to complain; for in the ae present motion—quite true. the out what was a remedy, but in be thought . evils without even su ggaati whichhe would recommend for. present he had pointed out the He was the more surprised Earl was an active member at of those evils. to the Legislature the means or the mitigation intendence of the health 4f that, inasmuch as the Noble a board which had the auper made a report, dated the 3 in his hands since be oth of March, but only Placed the country, and which, had. are entered the House that , a, in which the means evening, such evils as those complained Pointed out for the remedy of was associated with the soners of that board the le Earl and the other Commis oflab of.—(Hear, hear.) There the Board of Yorks, andentleman who was at the head tice given by the Noble as that brought forward t arl on a former occasion, as well Yet he believed that the no any communication or and his associates at the consultshnion between the Noble Earl metropolis under the admi tx.(l ' e- niht,: had been given without bad been made by differentministration of the Board of Health The proposal of placing the tion was made by t h e Gevernrnents. Such a proposi (Earl Carlisle), but he had and was obliged to post ble Earl opposite when in office The Noble Duke on she castle) had also expressed his if not to abandon, the attempt. p o tie, the difficulties insuperable. stated, when in office, that looking views on this point, and had cross benches (the Duke of New rests and the great nate t looking to the variety of inte question, he could no mo re °f Population concerned in the Board of Health Bill Noble Earl who had than include the metropolis in the br also, much to his surprise, evaded he could Paris or Vienna. The forward this motion had pointed out the evils He was ready to admit that without evaded the question and had even hinting at the remedy. Noble Earl were the at of disease and suffering; the causes adverted to by the . sources of a great amount to i n k These were intramural in sewerage, and accumulations the first—intramural i -rite . 4 of nuisances. With regard to saPPly of water —deficiency of for an early and careful consideration, it was one which pressed because the evil, was i deration, and an early remedy, guage could exaggerate the increasing year after year. No lan guage continually generated b earful amount of disease which practice of interment in the crowded the loathsome and disgusting grounds of the metropolis.... f eLaded churchyards and burial was passed giving Powers of ‘ "ear.) Two years ago a Bill to a general board on this citi:ryery extraordinary character tive—partly because the po , ar u ", but it had been inopera time ; partly in consequence of the , given were limited as to the board; anti partly owi ng fle short duration assigned to powers. The board was 9 the a b sence of compulsory all existing cemeteries— authorisedto s to purchase the rights of chase land for cemeteries, se a ra l t4 l ; stretch of power—to pure terment, and for the proper Deemdispke arrangement s for in and burial. 'f he board were to be f the body between death of all funerals ; were to make all arrangements with the control with them; and were to levy a re arrangements connected tion to defray the expense. isa m a cb 'e on the whole popula not unnaturally—to a general rate objection was felt—and abandoned ; but it was proposed to levy nd it was, therefore, conducted by the board, and those fe a fee on all funerals security on which money might he bores were regarded as a the objects of the Act. But then it w_ royed for carrying out these fees:might be sufficient for th e n aa a _ round, that, although funerals were conducted compui sori r;eary expenses, if all such a compulsory power was given....o by the board, unless monopolise the funerals of the metro p o li s n a les s the board could private undertaker, it would be imp ', possible supersede every neces sary funds. The only means on Which .. to raise the carried out svas:by levying a fee on eaery t d n e e a eobame could be this great Government company, whether death, to be paid to buried by the company or not. In point -0 fact, e person was be a tax on death, even in those cas e ' s , w , er there was to buried at the expense of their friends. Te at ent e persons were com pany with powers so extensive and arbitrar rust any justified on the supposition that there was Y could only be which could be adopted., He believed th at no other remedy cemeteries in the neighbourhood of the metropolislaOt only the will ing to contract for burials at a fair and reasa were that many metropolitan parishes were desirous a rate, but should be given them of , purchasing land that powers a not far from the metropolis for the purposes of interment. In such cases he should be favourable to granting a Pow extra mural interment. He tho u g ht that in practice Power of t would be more beneficial to give su ch p owers, i n , such cases, than to grant all the powers to a g eneral com p an y . If he not mistaken, a Bill was at th e p resent mome nt before Las n other th e neighbourhood for the purpose of est ablishin g a ne w cemetery i n l te w n e ighbourhood of a railway , a nd at tome distance from Lon don. The site proposed contained, he belie ved, about 2,000 acres of fitting soil, an d it was proposed to make parishes, but for provision not only for separate . what some thought more important, different Christian denominations. That Bill was still under the consideration of a Committee of the other House, and the result remained to be seen ; but he believed if carried into practice it would go a . great way, if not alto gether, to supersede the necessity of compulsory Powers such as those which had been proposed. With regard-to the sup ply of water and the sewerage of the metropolis—if it were possible to invest .with colossal powers one single and, of course, competent authority on those questions—if they had a tabula rasa to deal with, and had no obstacles in the vested interests of existing companies —then, no doubt, one sueh single authority would be much more efficacious than separate authorities. It had been admitted that there was great difficulty in deciding as to the nature of such an au thority under the circumstances. It was easy for the Noble Earl to say that other countries made better provision with regard to their subjects than this country did. The Noble Earl should have recollected that the Governments of foreign countries were freer to act for what they believed to be the public benefit than a Government which was subject to po pular influence and control, and which had to consult not only the interests but also the feelings of those for whom it had to legislate. He agreed with the Right Rev. Prelate who had spoken that cleanliness was nearly allied to mora lity, and might be regarded as one of its handmaids; but they could not by Act of Parliament compel people to be moral, or decent, or clean. The great difficulty which he had to contend against in all these cases was, that they were asked to legislate against the wish of the persons them selves who suffered. The Earl of SHAFTESBURY—No, no. The Earl of DERBY—The Noble Earl. said " no;" but the Noble Earl had given them instances of gross and cul pable neglect on the part of householders. The Earl of SHAFTESBURY—No. The Earl of DERBY —The Noble Earl had given them most disgusting instances of accumulations of rubbish and filth, leading to contamination, pestilence, and even to the death of persons living within the immediate neighbour hood of them. Those nuisances could only have been per mitted to remain through the negligence of the persons themselves. The Earl of SII A.FTESBURY—No, no. The Earl of DERBY said he had listened with very great patience to the statement of the Noble Earl; and he honed the Noble Earl would permit him to mike, without inter ruption, any answer he had to give. The Noble Earl had alluded to several cases, and in particular had referred to a pond into which the inhabitants of the adjoining houses were perpetually throwing every species of ifith, though the inhabitants of these very houses were the pars els who had complained most loudly of the accumulations. In such a case legislation would evidently be against the persons interested in removing the nuisance, for their apathy was one of the evils they would have to deal with. In fact, under the General Pulice Act of 1839, which contained se veral stringent provisions with regard to nuisances, the inha bitants of the houses in question might have obtained the removal of the one referred to.—( Hear, hear.) There were immense powers vested in the Commissioners under the 31e tropolitan Police Act. There was no end to the power of these Commissioners to levy rates, to remove nuisances, and to establish public conveniences. There was no limit to the power vested in these Commissioners to remove all these nuisances of which his Noble Friend complained. And if the Noble Lord inquired he would find that great expenses had already been incurred by those Commissioners in removing nuisances. In considering any sanitary measure that should be effectual it was necessary to see how the expense was to be borne, and in what manner a controlling power was to be exercised. And however desir able it might be to legislate on this question it must be re collected, that beyond a certain point the people of the country would not go; still less would the people permit absolute control . to be vested in any ionsibie body. What was to be the constitution of the Board which was to carry into effect the extensive project of the Noble Lord? The Board of Health was the moving power in the case of towns and districts; but then it must be recollected that the measure was essentially a voluntary measure—it might or might not be adopted, according to the will and pleasure of these towns and districts. Also the officers were selected by the ratepayers, and they acted under proper control and responsibility. Did his Noble Friend propose to introduce the machinery of the Beard of Health into the metropolis? Did he mean to say that when so introduced power was to be given to deal with the drainage and to re move nuisances? Were those powers to be placed in the hands of persons elected by the ratepayers, and under the control of the parish authorities? He should like to hear if that was his Noble Friend's proposition, but his Noble Friend made no sign. The Earl of SHAFTESBURY was ready to answer the Noble Lord. His motion did not contain a single word about the introduction of the machinery of the Board of Health; his motion merely was, to direct the attention of Government to the sanitary condition of the metropolis. He only desired could av a t i o l s t h h o e a vv i , s e t l h v a s t s w of h itlhe the powers p t h o e w r r l s a role the towns Boardanodf d i h a s d t r i ° c ß t w H a e s al e t x h o t la o d i e m d p f r r o s v m e t t h h s e i o r p s e a r n a i t t t a o r y a of c t o h n a d t i t A i oont,. All t he he m i e n t t r opo e n d e l i d s by his motion othertio wasn put the metropolis on t h e s ame footing The Earl of DERBY — His N oble Friend had given a can did large simply tosvn t answer, and though he had altered his motion, he had Friend thought not altered his views; so that what his Noble thought Parliament ought t o do was, to extend the powers of the Board of Health to the metro p olis— involving in s uch extension the vesting of the elec tion of officers in the parish with the corollary that each parish in the case of their sewage was to have an independent action. This a ppeared to be the substance of his Nob le Friend's prop is was suggested as the best mode of t o meein the difficulty. He must say that when a proposition f g like import was some time back brought before Parliament the difficulty was found to be insuperable. Indeed , ever y Par liament had abandoned it. In the first place, he would ask the Noble Lord whether any parish had petitioned for the extension of the act; next, if all the parishes petitioned, would the Noble Lord say that the act would be the most beneficial mode of accomplishing his object ? If re p re sentatives were to be elected by parishes, according to the provisions of the act, then they must fall back at last on a Government board, charged with an immense amount of rate and with onerous duties, and at the same time interfering with domestic concerns in a way which they would find the public feeling against. He begged he might not be misunderstood in his remarks—he was not depreciating the object of the Noble Lord. All he intended to say was, that, with the Noble Lord's great experience, he thought their Lordships might have expected, after the statements which had been laid before them, that the Noble Lord would not have rested satisfied with saying that the question called for the immediate attention of Government — it has received the attention of every Government for several years past, that the Noble Lord would not have rested satis fied with affirming by an abstract proposition that the pro visions of the Board of Health Act should be extended to the metropolis; but that he would have dealt with more ad vantage to the subject and himself if, instead of getting their Lordships to affirm an abstract resolution, he had placed on the table of that House a Bill, the provisions of which could have been fully discussed in its progress, for the purpose of carrying into effect the particular remedy which he believed would best effect his object. He did not wish to dispute the deep importance of the Noble Lord's object, and though he should have preferred something more mitigated than the direct interposition of Parliament, and though he thought it desirable the whole question should be carefully considered before anything definite was resolved upon, yet, looking at the urgency of the case, he would say, " If 'twere done, when 'tis done, Then 'twere well it were done quickly." But to call upon Government for immediate legislation upon a question which had puzzled all Governments for the last ten or twelve years, was certainly somewhat of a demand which required consideration. So anxious, however, was he not to throw any obstacles in the way of the Noble Lord, and to avoid showing indifference to the value of the details laid before their Lordships, that after protesting to a cer tain degree against Government interposition, he would say, that Government would be prepared to deal with the ques tion when they could deal it safely. It was not his intention to offer any opposition to the resolution of the Noble Lord, which declared that a state of things existed demand ing interposition. Lord BEAUMONT said that his Noble Friend who had introduced this subject had not over-coloured his statement in the least; but in respect to the supply of water, he con sidered that the Noble Earl had exaggerated, no doubt unin tentionally, the evils which he said arose from a deficient supply of water. He believed that the water companies gave a dail y supply of water,and that they gave it in sufficient quantity. 'rhe New River Company supplied 86,00) houses and there were but 2,000 that bad not a sufficient supply. The Earl of CARLISLE admitted that all Governments, and perhaps that with which he was connected in particu. lar, might not be unjustly charged with some shortcomings in respect of sanitary measures. He was fully aware of the difficulty which surrounded the subject, and all other subjects where new ground had to be broken, where they came in contact with long existing interests, and where new modes of operation, which were still subject of dispute and doubt, had to be introduced.—(Hear, hear.) He believed that the great difficulty which attended this subject arose from the difficulty which the higher depart ments of the Government experienced in gaining the neces sary knowledge and information on these subjects. The persons on the subordinate boards were men of knowledge, energy and skill, but they required the guidance of the Treasury. He hoped that the Noble Earl opposite would devote his attention to the subject, and he could assure him that nothing would give him (the Earl of Carlisle) greater satisfaction than to see that the exertions of the late Govern ment were outstripped by the Noble Earl.—(Hear, hear.) The Earl of HARROWBY regretted the tone which his Noble Friend adopted in reference to this subject. He thought he exaggerated the difficulty in the way of applying a remedy to these evils. If the remedy was to be effectual they must interfere with existing interests. He was afraid the effect of his Noble Friend's speech would be to give fresh courage to these various interests. They should recollect that what they had to deal with was the lives, the morals, the habits, and the comforts of two and a half millions of the people.—(Hear, hear.) Unless further action was taken what had been done would leave them in a far worse posi tion than they were originally in. —(Hear, hear.) The Duke of NEWCASTLE said he considered the failure of the Board of Health was owing in a great degree to the want of efficient co-operation on the part of the Government and the public. He thought that the Noble Earl (Derby) had in many respects exaggerated the difficulties of the ques tion. The difficulties were no doubt very great, but they were not insurmountable. He considered that much more benefit would be accomplished by a small paid board than by a numerous unpaid one. He trusted that his Noble Friend would by his acts the next session of Parliament show that this subject had received his serious consideration. The Earl of SUAFTESBURY said that he had made no complaint as to a defective supply of water, but he had com plained of its bad distribution. He had to complain that the Noble Earl replied to him on the supposition that he had made a motion which he did not make. The Earl of DERBY explained. What he had said was that in legislating Parliament had to contend in a great de gree against the apathy of the inhabitants of a district. He bore testimony to the exertions of his Noble Friend ; but he was anxious to guar d the Government against the accomplishment of an object the difficulty of which he could foresee. He suggested that, instead of the words ` i_mm.ee diate interposition" of Gov ernment, the motion should` Govern ment. altered so as to say " the immediate attention" of b anTdhteheEamrlotoifonSElthAZTalEteSrßedUwßaYs The Earl of CARLISLE presented petitionsi fr t. e athcceendaedgrteoedthtios. soumgg_esatmions Palace. gate and three other places for the retention o Earl of HARROWBY The Earl of SuArrEsnunt and the C stal variou s places to the same effect. also each presented sev eral p etitions from The Lordships then adjourned. [ADVERTISEMENT.) Hollovvay's Ointment and Pills have cured a Diseased Foot and prevented Amputation. —Mr. James Palmer, No. 1, Mason-court, Blake-street, Liverpool, suffered dreadfully from a diseased foot ; the most eminent medical men attended him, and they deemed it neces. nary to remove one of his toes. Before e this healed wanted , howevam er, the disease broke eut higher up, and thn they te putate the whole foot to prevent fatal consequences. This he objected to, and resolved to try Holloway's Ointment and Pills which have effe cted a p erfect cure, and he can walk and work ow l n v as well as ever. This can be verified by Mr. Martin, c h em i st 24, Copperas-hill, Liverpool.—Sold by all druggists, and at ' Professor Holloway's Establishment, 244, Strand, London. below dtalFrirbridge, A LAUGH OTTER TAKEN NEAR noon- WINDS° BRIDGE.—On Friday week Mr. C. Tatner, of the Eagle weir, Isla and u , j h u a s d t excur sion near r as th t eonWEinodmsonrey when to their astonishment, an otter crept from the to where they were sitting. As the creatur i ground past them, one of the party gave it a kick on the h e Jounded rather stunned it, and retarded its motions head, which however, in reaching the river, instantly diving, it succeeded, to the surface on the opposite shore, near Mr. Cleavelg'and rising The chase was kept up for about ten minutes . 's garden. spirited manner, and eventually th e ~ fir es in the most taken alive in a large landing net. The • 2 -destroyer " was ably large one, and has bean sent alive t animal was a remark - Windsor:Express. t o a London naturalist. PARLIAMENTARY DIVISIONS. (From the Votes and Proceedings of the House of Commons) THURSDAY, AP 1L 29. EXHIBITION OF 1851 (CRYSTAL PALACE). Motion made, and Question put, " That a Select Com mittee be appointed to consider the preservation of the Crystal Palace, or the central portion thereof, with a view to its applicability to purposes of public instruction and recrea tion." The House divided:— MINORITY-AYES, 103. Adair, It. Shaft() Greeuall, G. Price, Sir R Aglionby, H. A. Greene, John Rawdon, Colonel Alcock, Thomas Hall, Sir B. Rice, E. R. Reynolds, Jonh Anderson, Arthur Harris, Richa rd Armstrong, Sir A. Hatchell, John Sadleir, John Baines, M. T Hayes, Sir E. Salwey, Colonel Barrow, W. H. Headlam, T. E. Sandars, George Bass, M. T. Hervey, Lord A. Scholetield, William Bell, Jacob Heyworth, Lawrence Scobell, Captain Brotherton, J. Hindley Charles Scro p e, G. P. Brown, W. Hughes, W. B. Scully, Vincent Sunbury, E. 11. Jackson, William Smith, J. A. Buxton, Sir E. N. Keating, Robert Somers, J. P. Carter, J. B. Keogh, William Somerville, Sir W. Cavendish, G. 11. King, P. J. Stanford, J. F. Charteris, Francis Knight, F. W. Staunton, Sir G. Clay, James Littleton, E. R. Sts utt, E. Cocks, T. S. Collins, IV. Ll'Cullagh, W. T. Stewart, Admiral Stuart, Lord D. 111`Gregor, John Conolly; Thom as Marsh, 11, J. G. Thompson, Colonel Craig, Sir W. G. Maiheson, Colonel Thompson, George Cromier, er,lt. Is. Miles, P. W. Thornely, Thomasyncourt, C. T. Riilligan. Robert Wakley, Thomas Juneau, George shines, B. 111. Walmslcy, Sir J. Ellis, John 1 1 toffatt, George Walter, J. Evans, John Morris, David West, F. IL Evans, William Mundy, William Westlicad, J. B. Ewart, William Norreys, Sir I>. Wilcox,lßroths Fergus, Joh John n O'Flahe r ty, Anthony Williams, Foley, John 11. Pa ge t , Lord A. tvilliams, W. Forster, M. Palmerston, Vii. Wyld, James Fox, W. J. Pe e h e ll, Si r G. Freesituri, Colonel Peel, Sir Robert Geach, Charles Perfect, Robert Glyn, G. C. Peto, Samuel M. Granger, T. C. Pilkington, James Ahdy, Sir T. N. Adair, Hugh E. Anson, Viscount Anstey, T. C. Archdall, Captain Arkwright, George Armstrong, B. B. Bailey, Crawshay Bailey, Joseph TELLERS_ Heywood, James Hume, J. - . Baillic, H. J. Baldock, E. H. Bankes, G. Baring, Henry B. Beckett, William Bennet, Philip MAJORITY-=NOES, 221. Egerton, Sir P. Manners, Lord J. Emlyn, Viscount Marshall, W. Estcourt, J. B. B. Martin, John Euston, Earl Masterman, John Evelyn, W. J. Maltosell, T. P. Farrer, James Maxwell, lion. J. P. Fellowes, E. Molesworth,Sir W Ferguson, Sir R. Moody, C. A. Filiner, Sir E. Morgan, 0. Floyer, John Naas, Lord Forbes, William Napier, Joseph Fordyce. A. D. Neeld, John Forester, G. C. Newport, Viscount Fox, S. W. L. Noel, Gerald J. Galway, Viscount O'Brien, Sir Lucius Gaskell, J. M. Ossulston, Lord Gilpin, Colonel Packe, C. W. Gladstone, W. E. Pakington, Sir J. Goddard, A. L. Palmer, Robert Gooch, E. S. Palmer, Roundell Goold, Wyndham Patten, J. W. Goulburn, Henry Pennant, Colonel Granby, Marquis Of Plowden, W. H. Greene, Thomas Portal, Melville Grey, R. W. Powlett, Lord W. Grogan, Edward Prime, Richard Grosvenor, Lord R. Pugh,• David Gwyn, Howel Reid, General Hale, R. B. Repton, G. W. Halford, Sir Henry Richards, Richard Hallyburtou, Lord Romilly, Sir John Hamilton, G. A. Russell, F. C. Hamilton, Lord C. Seymour, Lord Hardinge, C. S. Shelburne, Earl of Haste, Alexander Sibthorp, Colonel lieathcote, Sir G. J. Smith, Vernon Heneage, G. H. W. Smith, M. Tucker Heneage, Edward Somerton, Viscount Henley, J. W. Sotheron, T. H. S. Herbert, Henry A. Spooner, Richard Berries, J.:C. Stafford, Augustus Hildyard, It. C. Stansfiold, W. R. Hildyard, T. B. Stanton, W. H. Hill, Lord E. Strickland, Sir G. Hodgson, W. N. Stuart, 11. Hogg, Sir J. W. Stuart, J. Hope, Henry T. Sturt, 11. G. Hope, Sir J. Talbot, C.iR. liotham, Lord Taylor, Colonel Howard,!J. K. Thesiger, Sir F. Hudson, G. Thicknesse, R. A. Hutt, William Thompson, Alderman Inglis, Sir It. Trollope, Sir J. Jocelyn, Viscount Tyler, Sir G. Jolliffe, Sir W. G. Tyrell, Sir J. Jones, Captain Vane, Lord H. Knox, W. S. Vesey, Thomas Labouchere, Henry Villiers, Viscount Langton, IV, H. Vivian, J. E. Lascelles, E Vyse, R. H. Lawley, B. It. Walpole, Spencer Legit, G. C. Walsh, Sir J. B. Leonard, T.:B. Watkins, Colonel Lennox, Lord A. Wellesley, Lord C. Leslie, C. P. Whiteside, James Lindsay, Colonel Wigram, Loftus Locke, Joseph Willoughby, Sir H. Lockhart, W. Worcester, Marquis Long, W. Wynn, IL W. Loveden, Pryse Yorke, E. T. Lowther, Colonel Lowther, Henry TELLIES. Lygon, General Bateson, Thomas Mahon, Viscount Lennox, Lord H. G. Manners, Lord C. _ _ • _ Blair, Stephen Blandford, Marquis Booker, T. W. Bowles, A,liral Boyle, Colonel Bramston, T. W. Bridges, Slr B. Bright, John Brfsco, M. Brocklehurst, John Brooke, Lord Bentinck, Lord H. Beresford, William Bernard, Viscount Best, John BruCo, Lord E. Bruce, C. L. C. Bulkeley, Sir R. B. Banbury, W. Burghley, Lord Burrell, Sir C. Cabbell, B. B. Campbell, W. P. Campbell, Sir A. Carew, W. 11. Pole Cayley, E. S. Chandos, Marquis Chaplin, W. J. Chichester, Lord J. Childers, J. W. Cholmeley, Sir M. Christopher, R. A. Christy, Samuel Clive, R. H. Cobden, Richard Colebrooke, Sir T. Collins, Thomas Corry, Henry Cotton, W. H. Currie, 11. Davies, D. A. Dawson, T. V. Deedes, W. Denison, J. E. Dick, Quintin Disraeli, B. Divett, Edward. Dod, J. W. Drummontl, Home Duckworth, Sir J. Duff, G. S. Dull, James Buncombe, A.' Duncombe, 0. Duncombe, W. E. Dundas, Sir David Dunne, Colonel Du Pre, C. G. East, Sir J. B. Edwards, Henry THE QUEEN'S DRAWING-ROOM. The Queen held a drawing-room yesterday afternoon at St. James's Palace. Her Majesty and Prince Albert, attended by the royal suite, arrived from Buckingham Palace soon atter two o'clock. Her Majesty's honourable corps of Gentlemen at Arms were on duty in the State-room. The Yeomen of the Guard were on duty in the Palace, under the command of Captain Bickford, the Egon in Waiting. His Serene Highness Prince Nicholas of Nassau attended the drawing-room. Her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert en tered the throne-room, attended by the Mistress of the Robes, the Countess of Charlemont (in waiting), the Duchess of Norfolk, the Viscountess Canning, the Marchioness of Douro, the Marchioness of Ely, and the Countess of Desert, Ladies of the Bedchamber; Hon. Amelia Murray, Hon. Matilda Paget, Hon. Eleanor Stanley, Hon. Beatrice Byng, Hon. Caroline Cavendish, Hon. Lucy Kerr, and the Hon. Mary Seymour, Maids of Honour ; the Hon. Mrs. Trevor, the Hou. Mrs. George Campbell, and Lady Theresa Digby, Women of the Bedchamber; the Lord Ste ward, the Lord Chancellor, the Master of the Horse, the Treasurer of the Household, the Vice-Chamberlain, the Comptroller of the Household ; Lord Polwarth, Lord in Wait ing ; Lord George Lennox, Lord in Waiting to his Royal Highness; Colonel the Hen. C. B. Phipps, Keeper of her Majesty's Privy Purse; Colonel the Hon. Charles Grey, pri vate Secretary to his Royal Highness; Sir Edward Bowater, Groom in Waiting; Colonel Wylde, Groom in Waiting to his Royal Highness ; Lord Colville (Clerk Marshal) Equerry in Waiting; Lient.-Colonel Francis Hugh Seymour, Equerry in Waiting to his Ral Highness ; Mr. Henry Farquharson and Mr. George Gordon Macpherson, Pages of Honour in Waiting. The Queen wore a train of pink moir antique silk, trimmed with white blonde and white roses and acacias. The petti coat was of white satin, trimmed with white tulle and wreaths of white roses and accacias. Her Majesty's head-dress was composed of white roses and acacias, ornamented with diamonds. The Foreign Ministers were introduced, when the follow ing presentations to her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert took place in the diplomatic circle: — By Mrs. Lawrence, Mrs. Ingersoll, of the United States. By the Minister of the United States, Mr. Abbott Law rence, jun., son of the Envoy. By the Sardinian Minister, the Marquis Taliacarne, secre tary of the Sardinian Legation at Brussels. The diplomatic circle was numerously attended. The following ladies had the honour of being presented to her Majesty in the general circle: — The Hon. Mrs. Abercromby, by the Hon. Mrs. Massey. Lady Gertrude Acheson, by her mother, the Countess of Gosford. The Hon. Mrs. Airey, by the Dowager Viscountess Glent- worth. The Countess of Airlie, on her marriage, by her mother, Lady Stanley (of Alderley.) Lady Anderson, by the Hon. Mrs. Campbell. Miss Anderson, by her mother, Lady Anderson. Mrs. Henry Armytage, on her marriage, by her mother, Lady Charlotte Berkeley. Miss Bailey, by her mother, Mrs. Bailey. Mrs. Barnard, by the Countess of Morley. The Marchioness of Bath, by the Countess of H__areVro_ . od. . Mrs. Beaumont, by the Dowager Countes_re. s of Glasgow. sshe e_he Miss Florence Beamont, by her mother , e M Lady Berners, by the Marehione erondele C ou ntess of Miss Marianne A. Bishop, by the f o w li e n g y. Carnwath. Miss Bolton, by Lady de 11(1. e Res. Miss Ellen Bolton, by y_ on. Mrs. Cavendish Boyle,LbaydViscountess D Miss Brams Northumberland. ton by her mother, Mrs. Bra nn ms g t ar on v . Mrs. Browne, by the Duchess of Miss Browne, by the Duchess of N or thumberland. bliss Beatrice P. Brune,by her m other, Mrs. P. Brune. Miss Caroline Burgoyne and Miss Charlotte Burgoyne, by Viscountess Hardinge. b Mrs. Villebois. Mrs. Gustavus Burnaby, y h mo ther, Mrs. G. Burnaby, Miss Mary Burnaby , hy e Mrs. Hume Burnley, by t h e Countess of Malmesbury. L a dy Adelaide Cadogan, b e y reh La ie d n y es A s l o fr f e c d h P o t a ge o t n . deley L a dy Calthorpe, by the M Mrs. Frederick Calvert, of the Dardanelles, by the Countess of Malmesbury. James cowbell, by the Dowager Countess of Carnwath. Mrs. Campbell, by Lady Arthur Lennox. Miss Ellmor the Countess of Morley. Lady Carew, by Is Carpenter, by Mrs. Clifton. Mrs. Peter Carthew, by Lady Calthorpe. Mrs. Farnaby Cator, on her marriage, by Lady C. Boileau. Miss Chamberlayne, by Viscountess Palmerston. Miss Eliza Chapman, by Lady Laura Money. Mrs. Longueville Clarke, by Lady Talfourd. Miss Longueville Clarke, by Lady Talfourd. M rs . Trevor Clarke, by her mother, Lady Hyde Pearson. Miss Cludde, by Lady Clark. Mrs. Connolly, nde Princesse de Ruffano, by the Countess of Csmperdown. Lady Crompton, by Lady Truro. The Hon. Mrs. Curzon, on her marriage, by the Countess Howe. Miss Dalyell, by Lady Adam. Mrs. Dickson, by Mrs. Jones, of Pantglas. Miss ,Scott Douglas, by her aunt, the Countess Dowager of Glasgow. g Miss Sholta Scott Douglas, by her aunt, the Countess Dow ager of Glasgow. Mists Margaret Drummond, by Lady Elizabeth Drummond. The Countess of Dysart, by the Countess Dowager of Glasgow. Mrs. James Edwards, by her Grace the Duchess of North umberland. Miss Georgiana Evans, by the Duchess of Norfolk. Mrs. Fairly, by Lady Mary Christopher. Miss Emily Fane, by Mrs. Freed. Miss Charlotte Farr, by Mrs. Fraser Baddeley. Miss Finch, by the Marchioness of Cholmondeley. Mrs. William Franks, by the Countess of Effingham. Mrs. Douglas Galton, by Lady Harriet Clive. Donna Emelia de Gayangos, by Madame Comyn• Mrs. Geary, on her marriage, by the Countess of W il Miss Gill, by the M arc hi oness of Ely. weatphal. Miss Sarah Anne G ore , b y h er mother , L a dy ton. Mrs. George Gowan, by her mother, Mrs. George Stratton. Miss Ann Grant, by Lady Mary Christopher. The Lady Charlotte Granville, by the Duchess of a A y t l h er o . ll. Mrs. Elliot G rase t t , b y L ady Ch ar l o tte Watson h The Lady Gree noc k, on her marriage, by the Counte ss Cath cart. by Lady M. Vyner. Mrs. J ohn G reenwoo d , on h er marr iage, Miss Greville, by her sister, Lady AugustuesfLsobtteus• in The Countess of Guilford, by the CountessoDr; Miss Fanny Halford, by her mother,dbiGers. The Marchioness of Hastings, by 1 . 41 -7 hi ou oas of galtings• the mare The Lady Bertha Hastings, ivagniaat kerltley. The Lady Edith Hastings. by o t tber, Mrs. Hawes. Miss Maria Hawes, by her bY be Marchioness of Hastings. Mrs. Hay (of Hopes), by Miss Hay, by her mother, the Mew.m M g er a c y h . ionese a Douro. ms. Miss r IlHeaamthicitootn ilebd e, byLa e d n, y Rea th co te. by her sister, Mrs. .Macleoed, of Macleod. Miss Selina Hervey, by the Viscountess Urage. Hon. Mrs. Hewitt, by Lady Portham Mrs. Henry Hippisley, on her marriage. by the Counted'. of Mabnesbur2,-. Miss Hornbv, by the Countess of Derby. Miss Lucy lornby, by the Countess of Derby. Miss Elizabeth Hornby, by the Countess of Derby, Miss Howard, by Mrs. Henry Howard. Lady Hunter, on her marriage, by • the 'Hon. Mrs. Charles Bertie Percy. Miss Hunt, by her mother, Mrs. Ogle Hunt. Miss Florence Hunt, by her mother, Mrs. Ogle Hunt. The Hon. Mrs. Llwellyn Irby, by the Hon. Mrs. Kenyon. Miss Emily Rack Keene, by her mother, Mrs. Luck Keene. Miss Henrietta Ruck Keene, by her mother, Mrs. Buck Keene. Mrs. Henry Howard, by the Countess of Effingham. Miss Kenyon, by the Hon. Mrs. Kenyon. Miss Emily Kerr, by Mrs. Walpole. Mrs. King, by Mrs. Clifton. Mrs. Thomas King. by Mrs. King. Miss Emily King, by the Hon. l‘frs. Carleton. Itliss Knollys, by her mother, Mrs. Knollvs. Lady Su s an L asce ll es , by the Countess of flarewood. Mrs. Lovett, on her marriage, by the Countess of Clan. williana. Mrs. Hamilton Lindsay, on her marriage, by Lady Sarah Lindsa7. Lady Augustus Loftus, by the Countess of Malmesbary. Mrs. Ralph L. Lopes, on her marriage, by Lady Lopes. The Duchess of Marlborough, on her marriage, by Lady Fevershain. Miss Rose Frances Manning, by Lady Truro. Miss aillett, by her mother, Mrs. Miilett. Miss Adelaide Miles, by her mother, Mrs. Miles. Miss Frances Miles, by her mother, Mrs. Miles. Mrs. James Morrell, by Viscountess Dungarvan. Mrs , Morris, on her marriage, by the Marchioness of Down. shire. Mrs. Wolfe Murray, on her marriage, by the Countess of Darnley. Mrs. Charles E. Murray, on her marriage, by the Duchess of Atholl. Lady Charlotte NeYill, on her marriage, by Lady .Bray brooke. Lady Nicholls, by Lady John Russell. Lady Adeliza Norman, by her sister, Lady Elizabeth Drum.. mond. Mrs. Admiral O'Brien, by the Duchess of Northumberland. Miss O'Brien, by her mother, Mrs. Admiral O'Brien. Lady Parker, by Lady Truro. Miss Fanny Hyde Parker, by Mrs. Wood. The Hon. Mrs. Frederick Pelham, by the Countess of Chichester. Mrs. Beresford Peirse, by the Baroness de Cette. Miss Douglas Pennant, by Lady Louisa Douglas Pennant. Miss Emily Perceval, by Mrs. Spencer Walpole. Lady Pollock, on her marriage, by the Viscountess Har d inge. The Hon. Louisa Portman, by Lady Portman. Mrs. Balcarres Wardlaw Ramsay, on her marriage, by the Marchioness of Douro. Miss Selina Ramsden, by her mother, the Hon. Mrs. Henry Ramsden. Lady Caroline Ricketts, on her marriage, by Viscountess Combermere. Miss Laura Ross, by her mother, Lady Ross. Lady Cosmo Russell, on her marriage, by the Duchess Dowager of Bedford. Mrs. Boyd Saunders, on her marriage, by the Viscountess Combermere Mrs. Scott, by the Countess of Mansfield. Miss Scott, by Mrs. Scott. Miss Adela Scott, by Mrs. Scott. Mrs. Nassau Senior, by Lady Frankland Lewis. Miss Sheldon, by Mrs. Malcolm, of Poltallock. Miss Fanny Shute, by her mother, Mrs. Dean Shute. Mrs. Bridgemau Simpson, by the Marchioness of West- minster. Mrs. Sotheby, by the Baroness de Clifford. Miss Sotheby, by her mother, Mrs. Sotheby. Miss Eleanor Sotheby, by her mother, Mrs. Sotheby. Lady Eveline Stanhope, by Lady Chesterfield. Mrs. Stevens, by Mrs. Hamilton Story. Miss Stephenson, by the Countess of Morley. Miss Jane Stephenson, by the Countess of Morley. Lady Helen Stewart, by her aunt, Lady Feversham. Lady Isabella Stewart, by Viscountess Castlereagh. Miss Alicia St. George, by the Countess of Gosford. Hon. Mrs. St. Leger, on her marriage, by the Countess o Clanwilliam. Lady Strange, by Mrs. Brooke. Miss Strange, by her mother, Lady Strange. Miss Talbot, by her mother, Mrs. Washington Hibbert. Mrs. Brook Taylor, by the Countess of Derby. Miss Anne Elise Thompson, by her aunt, Mrs. V. Thompson. Miss Sarah Isabella Thompson, by her mother, Mrs. V. Thompson. Mrs. Thoroton, by the Marchioness of Downshire. Miss Thoroton, by her mother, Mrs. Thoroton. Lady Louisa Thynne, by the Marchioness of Bath. Miss Theresa Tighe, by her mother, the Hon. Mrs. D. Tighe Miss Tinling, by her mother, Mrs. William Frederick Tin ling. Miss Elizabeth Clementine Townshend, by her mother, Mrs. Townshend. , Mrs. S. S. Trevor, on her marriage, by the Marchioness of Douro. Lady Emily Tumour, by her mother, the Countess of Win- terton. Lady Harriet Vernon, by Lady Vernon. Miss Harriet Vincent, by the Countess of Effingham. Lady Wake, by the Marchioness of Ely. Miss Wake, by her mother, Lady Wake. Mrs. Petrie Waugh, on her marriage, by the Countess of St. Germans. Miss Adela Wilbraham, by her mother, the Hon. Mrs. B. Wilbraham. Mrs. Williams (Bron Wylfa, St. Asaph), by Lady John Russell. Mrs Robert Wood, on her marriage, by Viscountess Castle- reagh. The Queen and Prince Albert, attended by the ladies and gentlemen in waiting, returned to Buckingham Palace, after the Drawing Room, escorted by a detachment of the Life Guards. LADIES' DRESSES. nER MAJESTY. Her Majesty wore a train cf pink moire antique silk, trimmed with white blonde, and white roses and acacias ; the petticoat was of white satin, trimmed with white tulle and wreaths of white roses and acacias. Head-dress, white roses and acacias, ornamented with diamonds. DUCHESS OF NORFOLK —White glace train covered with crape, sad trimmed with tulle and ribbon ; petticoat of white crape, over glace, trimmed with tulle and ribbon. Head dress, feathers and tulle lappets;_ ornaments, di amo nds. DUCHESS DOWAGER OF TBEDFORD.—EmeraId green satin train, trimmed with black lace; petticoat of the same, flounced with black lace. Head-dress, feathers and black lace lap pets; ornaments, diamonds. Conness or Deitny.- Grey and white brocaded t ra i n ' tr i mme d with point lace: white Gothic moire petticoat ' tr i mme d with point lace and bouquets of white h yacinths. Headdress. feathers and lace lappets; ornaments, diamonds. LADY NAPIER.A robe and corsage of costly faunette b roc het moire antique , lined with rich white eau?, and orna mented with waved ruches satin ribbon ; a silver blonde berths, with a bouquet of silver flowers; a rich whitesilk jupe, covered with flo unces of French crepe, garnished with ribbon, and tastefully looped up with bouquets of silver flowers. Head-dress, feathers and silver lappets; ornaments, diamonds. LADY LOPEZ.—Manteau de Four of rich grey brocade, handsomely trimmed with boui!lons de , tulle and noeuds of ribbon; corsage, trimmed with ribbon,. a la Louis XV.; or naments of splendid diamonds ; skirts of glace, with three g on e. °lace; petticoat of rich broche flounces. Head-dress, feathers, lappets, and diamonds. a u finea n d H c o o r n s i a t. M covered ßs. and is RA tri EL tn l m . a with n t blue tulle and Honiton lace,. looped with diamonds • berths to correspond, fastened with turquoises Head-dress, velvet, ivy leaves intermixed with o f diamonds; feathers and lappe n ts. a profusion EBB S THEATRE. Si g nor Susini, a baritone, made hi s d e bi a last evening as Rocco, i n Fidelio, and created a very satisfactory impression. He h a s the advantage of a fine personal appearance, and sus tained the character with s pi r i t, ease, and judgment. His voc alisation is excellent, and he is evidently a sound musi eien—ao that the theatre has decidedly gained a useful ac quisition in Signor Susini. Cruvelli's Leonora, which is, per haps, her most admirable performance, created the impres sion which that gifted artiste never fails to make in a part in which she is seen and heard to such exceeding advantage. ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA. Grisi made her first appearance last night in her g rand role of Norma. In voice, style, and dramatic power, she, never was more brilliant. She seemed determined to Pub forward her capabilities to the utmost, and the result a was tion magnificent. The lyric stage can produce no irePerv i .. re _ equal to the Norma of this superb Queen of Songg• was t he ception was rapturously enthusiastic. Tauber I. ttiO °roves°. Pollione,and Formes, the mighty Teutonic boa?, .. great Bertrandi sustained the part of Adelgisa with credit. /lts in the towns, eandains " TH gl E NEW ACTRESS' l a b t us el MiSs Rochelle, of whom we have a lread y spoken favour- Miss in these columns as having m ade many successful 1 of the principal pro vincialShaksperian readings in the eleg an t S a ll e o f the Rue de la Ville L'Evegue, guar tier de la Mad e l e ine, Paris. H er i nterpretation of the love business ° bee n at giving sever passages in Romeo and Juliet are highly spoken of, as a close assimilation to nature. Nor was she a wit less effective in giving the celebrated lines of those masculine heroines, Emilia and Lady Macbeth. Mrs. Siddons would have felt pleased with such a pupil, particularly where Miss Rochelle so ably contrasted the terrible s i tuation in ivignwehn suck, and knowichLadyMacbeth is placed, when she says— , I have H o w tender 'tie to love the babe that milks me ; I would, while it was smiling in my face, H a ve plucked my nipple from his boneless gums, And dashed the brains out, had I so sworn as you Have done to this." Miss Rochelle is also an authoress, and we perceive that Mr. William Allcroft, of New Bond-street, has announced his intention of publishing a series of her dramatic works. commencing with her last production, which has been p lard before a select few in the salle before mentioned, entitled Algg, ot London and Paris. It is in three acts, depicting ° IS past, present, and future. Prior to the fulfilment of her engagements in the North. where Miss Rochelle makes her debit in The Chieftakes Daughter, an original piece of her own, she will enjoy .t ll3 advantage of a series of readings Kith the celebrated Rachel. our leading fashionable Rumour assigns the hand of this lair lady to hon . of an M.P., and proprietor of one o f journals fare Theatre, iis __--------__ We have much pleasu re in recording the benefit of ry-1 o ae Mr. Benton, the boa -bookkeeper of Drury-lane bill which, we perceive by an announcement beforeus, takes place on Wednesday , Ifay + 5 ; A splendid vided for his friend s, including Balfe's last new opera, pro. The Sicilia?! Bride, and the beautiful ballet of Giselle. LOOS ON THIS PICTURE AND ON THAT M ' —Lid buckwheat cake—warm beds —comfortable . . atri pers—smoking coffee—round . arms—red lips--(ahemomfortable slip &c.—shirts exulting in buttons—redeemed !)—&c., jacks, h a ppiness, &c. Single blessedness—Sheetst°e-klngs—boot -blue noses—frosty rooms — ice - in the it iron quilts linen—heelless .stockiugs—coffee p cher—unregenerated gutta percha biscuits—flabby sweetened with icicles— coulhs and cholics—rhubarb - .steak—dull razors—corns — HE ARCTIC —al"B— al oes " A 25.—The Arctice Expecrt: EXPEDITION: ,,TROMNESS, APRIL Sir Edward Belcher c 1 1 3 10 n " fleet," the Assistance, Capt. the . North Star, '.. ; the Resolute, Captain K ellett; Pioneer screw Commander Pullen ; and the Intrepid and 1 PClintock and steamers, under the charge of Commander and, after a Lieutenant Osborn, arrived here this morn ing,ice. All Were short delay, proceeded northward for the Tends, happy and cheerful on board the roptotive • ,i J"~ ' , 4 re :A3 al Lc% at i s d. at )0 fa is. 5° 'o' - o ea 0 l vii 9 03 o go; iet'" liOg 0 1)' )051' ]