The Sun. — London, England, 1852-04-30 00:00:00

THE SUN, centrate all entertainment in one spot. The motion before the House was not opposed in any prejudiced spirit. He Would rather sae 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 be most cheerfully and readily offered. He had been informed, on What he called first-rate authority, that the 'ouilding had al ready been purchased, that the purchase-money had already been 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 tolbe opened, and the pur poses to which it was to be devoted. He could only say that the Government would be most happy to afford every per manence 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. He hoped then that the House would reject the motion of the Hon. Gentle man, as a motion unnecessary in itself, and inasmuch as the subject 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 asmuch as he believed that every good object which the Hon. Mover had in view would be better promoted by the cordial and friendly co-operation of the new possessors of the baildingin Hyde-park with her Majesty's Government. Mr. D'EY.'SICOURT rose amidst cries of "Divide." H e said that if the Government would agree to the motion, the promoters were prepared to take all trouble and responsi. bilitv off their hands. He alleged that the evidence of Sir J. Paxton had not been fairly dealt with. He thought the names of such men as the Duke of Devonshire, the Duke of Argyll, and the Earl of Carlisle afforded a sufficient guarantee for the success of the undertaking. The Right Hon. Member, who was interrupted by loud cries of " Di vide," concluded by expressing his intention to support the motion. Mr.' LABOUCHERE said he must encounter whatever Unpopularity might attach to opposing the motion. He looked upon the question merely as one o f good faith.— (Hea r .) The Government had pledged themselves that the building was to be only a temporary erection for a temporary object, and that object having been attained the pledge must be redeemed.-4 1 aear, hear.) He was one of the parties who had given the pledge, and he was bound to redeem it by resisting the present proposition.—(Hear, hear.) If the . House and. the public had been unanimous in favour of the retention of the building, there would not of course have been the ' same reason for redeeming a pledge with which those to whom it was given would thus have been willing to dispense. But judging from the usual organs of informa tion, he did not believe there was anything like such a unanimity of feeling upon the subject.—(Hear, hear.) He protested against the question being treated as if it were Merely one as to the propriety of promoting the recreation or instruction of the people—the importance of which he did not at all undervalue.—( Hear, hear.) And he begged the House to recollect that the Government had shown no indis position to give that subject the fairest consideration. The Commissioners had arrived at the conclusion that the build ing ought not to be retained; and the House were in posses.; Bion of the reasons by which they had reached that conclu sion, . In that conclusion he entirely concurred, and he should certainly vote against the present motion, the fate of which lee hoped would finally decide the question.—(Hear.) • Mr. G. CAVENDISH said if any pledge had been given it Was given to the public; and he contended that the vast ' Lumber of petitions in favour of the retention of the building Proved that the people were ready to dispense with the per lOrmance of the promise. Mr. MACGREGOR rose amid loud cries of " Oh, oh," and " Divide." Whatever might be the opinion of that House, . the opinion out of doors was that the building should not .be taken down.—(Oh, oh, and Divide.) If the building were pulled down without the consent of the people, a tres pass would be committed on the right• of the public.- -(Laughter, and Oh, oh.) If the House should decide on re- Moving , the Crystal Palace it would prove itself guilty of barbaric Vandalism.—(Laughter, and Divide.) ViscountPALMERSTON said—l am anxious to state the, reasons why I will give my vote infavour of the motion -ef My Hon. Fieend.—(Cheers.) Sir, I think no man who Went to see the Exhibition of last year could fail to be ,struck, that, however wonderful and worthy of admiration Were the multitude of objects of industry and art contained in that Exhibition, there was nothing within the building compared with it as an object of admiration.—(Cheers.) And I *could not help regretting that a building so extra ordinary—for there is nothing like it in the world to compare :with it—should be pulled down. I think that -"sentiment must also have inspired every man who, since the close of that:Exhibition, passed by that won derful structure. I fancy that every man must have felt a wish that some purposes could be found which could be safely 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 buckling might be converted into a place which would b ene fi t the community at large. Hundreds and thousands of our countrymen enjoyed amuse ment and instruction from the i nspect i on of the ox bibited in that building, and I cannot myself see the reason why it is.not possible to make it the scene of future exhibi tions, sot so extensive, but calculated to yield the means of instruction to the various classes of so c i e t y. Ido not con fine myself to the humbler classes; but I think it might afford 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 down. 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 hot 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 motion, bat those who spoke against it, all tend to the same t as n.e, e ltesion, viz.—that the subject is of sufficient interest to b‘ ll , inquiry, and therefore that the proper course would Lo refer it to a Select Committee, so that the House might 'sve fuller and more ample grounds fork ts discussion. e L ord SEYMOUR could assure the House that w ith regar d o this building he had no other feeling in the matter than a desire fairly to fulfil the engagement into which as a mem ber of th e l ate G overnment he had entered.—(Hear, hear.) 'e Would n o t re f er t o th e s p eec h es wa d e i u 1830, b ut if h o ,id, l they would show that unless a promise were given to remove this building after the Exhibition closed, the building The never have been allowed to be erected.—(Hear, i t tie position he (Lord Seymour) then occupied necessarily ra Plieated 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 amount in house property in that locality; pad when they told him they feared an excitement would be t o t 11 P—petitions being easily manufactured—and every emus used to retain the building, he (Lord Seymour) re red, that they had the strongest pledge they could have— bearletY, the character of the nobility, that such should not the calm; therefore the nobility were .pledged to the re- V " eval of t h e b u il d i ng. The case of these gentlemen was i s :—Sestne years since, the House might remember, there tool ' alow range of buildings where Prince's Gate now stood' The Government was anxious to remove hem, but the cost was very great. A number °lre gentleman joined with Government, and the property was finally purchased. Now he asked the House pee it fair, after these gentlemen had subscribed some locality, and expended it in building and improving the c i l i e s e "tY7 that that House should turn round and block up t e 's very luiuses?—(Hear, hear.) Such a transaction c ould be • decid e dly di s h ones t, 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 pro perty—(Hear, hear.) He (Lord Seymour) could not derstand the consistency of the Earl of Carlisle in doing i eealreetly what he did not wish t o d o o p en ly.—(H ear , ;P e t) Though the Com m i ss i oners were well affected towards eu retention of the building, he yet should say they were bench e compromis e d by their arc hit ec t an d secre tary.—(hear, hear.) ' Sir Joseph Paxton had sent round the entire l'e e em ee try a 'pee of alarm, in orde r t o d e f eat the object of the uommissioners' obligation.—(Hea r , h ear. ) Sir Joseph Ileum complained that his evidence before the Corn eeiesionere was not sent to him as . in the case of others. Now when he (Lord S eymour ) 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 ratione of hi s h av i ng sent a copy of his own evidence to Sir _roseph Paxton."— (Cries of" Hear, hear.") Sir Joseph Paxtotrenbsequently admitted that, instead of 12,0001. per year, it would cost 20,000/. to maintain the building; He understood now that the building was to be self-supporting. Be had made in the building wgittrY, and had learned from Mr. Cole that if night as a place of recreation: be r self.suetaining it should be open at pettin ea tion.e.-(Laughter, and Hear, hear.) It was talked oe tees ; but were these ftil itteunder the management of trus.. parks? es of Sir Joseph Paxton to inter fere with the royal , of hear.) The edification of the people bad been the ef anxious to promote the edifi •: He (Lord Seymour) was stem and education of the people, and the House had alwaca • n t n u t l that tb e d ibduinl building res ev e inced a similar disposi tion on proper occasions , but MP --Tear, hear.) They had bee great trade collegactpiwils; admirably adapted for a but, then, these trade collections Hear, hear.) generate into bazaars, which, ie w ore apt aPt to de fered with shopkeepers and tradesmen.. turn, inter- It hid been admitted by Mr. Cole that the — a alecturebuildingme ti 11;11 batno t warehouse until ( Rear, better seated for , the purpose of a museum or that it would answer a s a eOlll4 be found. Now he (Lord Seymour) objected to 2 ,0 acres of the park with a .warehouse —(gear, inested the House would persevere in rejecting at once, and settle the question for ever.—sn eer 7Zet n Mr. WAKLLY said the Noble Lord who had just sae down aPpeared: to be actuated by very strong feelings on this subject. , A glass house, at all events, did not appear to be i re fil . l e i rel ng d fit plain for the Whigs.—(A. laugh.) He could not under- St and why the Crystal Palace should be immoral in Hyde. peril- and moral in Battersea.--(Hear, and laughter). H e could not conceive, indeed, how such a building could lead ; e s immorality anywhere. The Great Ex hibition had d one 'to bring into harmony the various p eo p les of the W orld who had congregated there, and he altogether depre cated the dest ruc ti on of the building, to which they all owed so mach. GEACH, amidst loud cries for a division, supported me Motion After few in from Lord J. M le a words explanation 'ert dN - S, ' • Sir re ese - PEcetzne and Mr. J. Eva vs supported the motion. ti ter a few words from Lord SEYMOUR, also in explana ea-p in which he said that the inquiry to which he was a J e enly had reference to the applicability of the building t ee attpurposes, and did not at all touch the question of r• esd e ciseese that Yea.. moved the adjournment of the debate until . aY Week. Sir the • PEEL said that his opinions against the retention • ` u e d i e mg had undergone a change.—(A laugh.) He net: think o l d (' just:, the edifice was of that lasting character which • thi a ., 7 its permanent.retention, but his views generally D u et. , _ubject bad. become modified. He trusted that the ,shied faith of the Noble Lord (Seymour) would not prove 114 a T ee elestacle to the retention of this edifice.—(A laugh.) Plee ee ! l " sl e• as might be the admiesion, Parliamentary ei lan a g ; . n u e f ed not form any very formidable obstacle to a be formed `opinion.—(Laughter Pledges, indeed, might k etzt. and fashioned according to the caprice of the mo oeie. . I ' o- - elm how easily faith was changed he need be ••T Point .do the conduct of the Noble Lord the Mem feS Lot n, who one day voted for and another day lee_"The Alilitiaßill.—(Hear, hear, and laughter.) He be eee Bete on supporting themotion for the Committee, ` 4ll se he diet should believed th at b y t h e ma i ntenance o f that build e ff a ai e Y . b e promot i ng t h e i nterest o f t h e people, and lebi e hl§ t ibeee a means of social and physical improvement 111 r, e 9 ought) a 8 far as possible, to endeavour to secure. ter, and es for Who rose amidst loud derisive cheers, laugh denyr th a division, said he believed no one could Metropolis w4S- desirable that there should exist in this a lar •°' art ge edifice devoted to the reception of objects se , and of ip d "eats if 'even th ° es of our mechanical skill. He hoped rue edifice would at motion were rejected, the erection of such . trEy‘,):lot be lost tight of. " wuuD was wee d replied. He thought that the pledge which p— en ea witheen • • given in that matter had been -t-ey fairly dealt w !.anowledged the bY the Earl of Carlisle, who had cist , . -pledge, but hadadded that it would be r i "Ise on the part e lie Of the aristocracy to insist on elter eees of • eYweod) should further that if the tiv ert ally parties could be • observe, UZI / from that 1 injuriously affected by a pledge, th e Proposed Committee would I ; v~ L. . 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, press his motion to a division. The House then divided, when there appeared— For the motion agliust it Majority against the motion llB • COLONEL OUTRAN. Mr. ANSTEY moved for copies of the papers and corre spondence concerning the investigations made by Colonel Outram, C. 8., into the existence of corrupt relations between the Guicowar or his subjects and certain officers of the Bom bay Government; and also concerning the removal of the said officer from his post of resident at Baroda. Mr. HERRIES said that the lion. 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 had 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 question was not in such a state as to be made a fit subject for discussion in that House. When the documents were received, and in such a state as they could be produced, the Government weuld be ready to lay them before the House. Lord JOCELYN 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 the Company, but to the honour of the Gallant Officer referred to, that these papers should be produced as speedily as possible. Sir J. HOGG defended the course pursued by the Bombay Government in reference to the subject before the House. He could not, however, be induced to enter into a discussion of the matter.in the absenca of those papers which would inform the House of the real facts of the case. The Hon. Member had been told the documents had only arrived by the last mail, and that some of them were under considera tion. After such 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 the civil or military servants of the East India Company had either been accused or convicted of the cor ruption imputed to them. He had shown the Hon. Member the passage in the letter of Colonel Outram, in which, alluding to the fxt that corruption, had been imputed by the native subordinate servants for their own purpose, he stated that he had laboured to bring to punishment the indi viduals through whose means attempts had been made to tarnish the name 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 oppression than had ever occurred even is 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 had sustained was proclaimed, and all was done that could be done by Colonel Outram, w h ose conduct had received the approbation of the Bombay Government. He had not yet had time to read the memorial, but the atten tion of the Court of 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. ANSTEY, in reply, said he was not the person to cast an imputation 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 elll for an inquiry. After hearing the statement of the lion. Gentleman he should not press his motion to a division. The motion was then by leave withdrawn. ➢ir. ANSTEY 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. HERRIE3 hoped the Hon. Member would sea 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. THOINIPSON 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 adminis tration of all the affairs of India, and he dared to say there would be no disinclination on their part to investigate any subject which was of public interest. But as the Committee had power to take this course if they thought right, it 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 referred to in the motion into their consideration; but no rule of the House could be clearer than this that no instructions could be given to a Committee to do that which they could do without such instructions, Mr. ANSTEY, after the statement of the Right ion, 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 tho roeult of tho inquiry would be to put the House in possession of such a body of evidence as would 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 months. After some discussion the hotise 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 read a third time. The Episcopal and Capitalar Revenues Bill was brolight'in and read a first time. Adjourned at One o'clock. • Colonel Clifford paired off in favour of the retention of the Crystal Palace, With Sir Charles Douglas against. DOUSE OF LORDS, April 29. Lord REDESDALE presided in the absence of the Lord Chancellor. CRYSTAL PALACE. The Marquis of NOR,MANBY presented several peti tions in favour of the retention of the Crystal Palace. The Noble Marquis added that he dissented from the prayer of the petition, considering that such a step would involve a breach of public faith. INSPECTION OF NUNNERIES. The Earl of RODEN presented petitions from several 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 the head of Foreign Affairs as to what his Lordship termed the extraordinary honours which he saw by the public papers had been paid to General Roses on his arrival at Plymouth on Monday last. He wished to know whether these honours had been paid to General Roses 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 had with General Rosas was to ask leave to resido in this country as quietly as possible as a private individual. He could not, there fore, tell why the authorities had received Gene ral Roses 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 f ugitive, and seeking an asylum, it certainly was not the time to remind him of his faults, and to seek to visit them on him. Tha Tho E Mar arelot t s of CLANRICARDE inquired if there had been Rosaea c,ff any Twf ie hA a o z itt ry seE o sa r tß d c e uh r a i ny s d an sda e ui l dt y to pass Genera) any great amount of aware, but it was?that he was not mistake to suppo e probable. It was, however, a at General Roses was possessed of e t v r y wealth; the fact was th a t he had sleet poverty. in a state of fled to thi s country almcfst destitute, and Eln answer to a Nout, E ' L The Duke of NoßTti.",9an, particular order b a d a u a II 3 ERLAND said that no General Roses on board'a'l32Bued for the reception of w as a general order to tale all h mrinsof-war, but there the lives of those who might bemeans possible to save ger.—(Hear , hear.) placed in imminent dan- Lord BEAUMONT said that while the subject he would take the opportunity of utt t: n r eon thi s tion to the Noble Lord relative to the ramouredgtra ques tion of Monte Video by the Brazilian troops • and whe ther that occupation was merely intended as a temporary any ma tter of police, or was likely to 'be attended by - important political results. The Earl of MALMESBURY said he believed it was correct that there had been such an occupation, and that Monte Video was now in the possession of the Brazilian troops. He was informed, however, by the Brazilian * Minister that this occupation was only intended as a temporary measure. The subject then dropped. EXCHEQUER BILLS' BILL. This Bill passed through Committee. SHEEP CONTAGIOUS DISORDERS PREVEN TION BILL. This Bill also passed through Committee. SANITARY CONDITION OF THE METROPOLIS. he the raotropoits t E lia 3 t ri th o e f-S sa li n A X E e S o of to move a ' reso lution T re quires the immediate attention and interposition of her Majesty's Government. He would then proceed to state to their Lordships the consequences of the present condition of the many thousands, both in a moral and sanitary point of view. lie believed that, if legislation did not interfere, the Australian Emigration-office, before long, would take the very flower and vigour of th e i r rural population, whilst the remainder would flow into the towns, where they were cer tain to undergo the . deteri orating process, u ntil premature old age took them o il, in many instances leaving a sickly and useless offspring.—(Hear, hear.) The population of this metropolis, as also of all great towns, depended altogether on provincial supply. The census of 1851 —not y et f u ll y pre pareci—would exhibit wore stri king rat than thole of • 0 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 population 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 81 par cent. ; in St. Giles's, 42; M a rylebone, 5 Pancras, Lambeth,39 ; Kennington, at ; Newington, a 3 London, 4s. In 40 ; Westminster, l; a tb li e no t s o t w e d v , er b y i at ns i t a anc tb e e h c a tai lf nt th r:sr e .. po i p a u • i‘laiatidocuawesatesrntobtebeournt-eifn town births, as compared with the town, were 35 per cent ; and in Liverpool , 44 . As re g arded the mortalit y , very ' much the same might be said. So that with mortally to such an extent, simultaneous with the.emigration drain, there could be no doubt that the result would be as stated--- a tvery beenc on s i de ra b remarkedl b u y c t a i o n n a m i n t e h n e t mu.a ata o tia n t t o t f b a p t o p i u , 1 11 i t o b n e . I metropolis were surrounded-with .a wall of brass, so as to ex . elude 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 1840 and 185 both included, were of scarlet fever 9,872, whilst in the second six years they reached 11,798. 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 ; in the second six years, 7,016; and these were 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 eases, 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 conimed • 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 mephitic 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 remit had been, that the troops who had 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 had 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 detec 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 coule 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 resultsa r for w a s health. thousands of people who had no water at all, except what they fetched from a considerable distance, But an abun dant of the not only of. d of a r n t the cleanliness ssupply beneficial. a bwn instanceAscon a t n rary 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 an 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? Why, 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 cow men among the working classes, had become almost entirely unknown. The supply of water in London was 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 week for 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.— (Hear, 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 evils. The city of Paris stood in a ,much better position in that respect than Loudon. The late King, Louis Phi lippe, had de%oted much time and • attention to that subject; he had . got a turncock placed •at the corner of almost every street in Paris, and the water which was so supplied had previously_ been well filtered • As far as the supply of water was concerned, the people of Paris . . condition than a were fully fifty per cent. in a better large portion of the inhahitante 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 1848 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 testimony of medical men, the dwellings of the in dustrious classes in the metropolis were in a most deplorable condition.; that they were filthy, ill-drained, ill-ventilated, and deficient in every arrangement demanded. by decency, health, and comfort ; and that, th er e 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 wh ich .sere 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 another place called Tindal's-buildings , in Gray's Inn-lane, which 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 stroug, 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 /le being peculiarly filthy and unwholesome. It was a narrow court, with..a tolerably clean pavement ; and it was (nab , on. going 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 bp drained, and to remedy that a hole had been dng, which was tilled 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 fur 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 ha -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 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 exposed to th a t n u isance were p er f ec tly he a rt-rend- ag-; A labouring man had at one time fallen into that pond; bury) that although the poor man could not have remained in it mo re broughs out than a second, he had been of the poisonous quite dead, so powerful had been the effect such as lie hads gases he must have inhaled. Factories they ought not toeslieribellt might be necessary; but populous districts. —(gear, b owed to stand in the centre of suddenly occurred in these ear.) Outbreaks of disease had wind having changed and istri f ? in consequence of the or 50 children bad in that blownway beenom these factories, and 40 night. Many of these disgusting struck down in one they not by Englishmen but by foreigners,proces s were carried on, b ec ause in ne other capital in Europe wouldw had come here to establish thein. — (Hear, hear.) Then tbeey;e was the be allowed sm oke nuisance, which he believed might be put an w ith advantage to all parties. A p erson had teldbim t end ba to ° by consuming his smoke ho saved not l ess t h an 3001. aeart It was impossibl e to g o amon g the p oor er classes and to see them in their dwellings. without being struck with the per nicious effects—moral, social, and physical —produced by these evils. In their moral effect they created discontent, exasperation of spirit, recklessness, indifference to cleanliness and to order, and extravagance. Hundreds and thousands, 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 s hould hot be visited with too seve r e a condemna- LONDON, FRIDAY r EVESTIN4, so, Lion, 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-ciassea 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 deseibe 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 di sa dvantages 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 count r y . ' I t further appeared from the in quiries of the surgeon in question, that the youths in those aistriets 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 had 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 £l9B IPf 1851 Holborn .........1845 ft 1851 Manchester .... 959 1851 ...... Liverpool ......1845 , . 1,713913 • f t 1851 . In every instance in which' sanitary measures had 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 had 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 concerned the 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 feyer 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 sa 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 byehe' 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 n o thi ng 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 15, 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 extensile 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 other parts. But that part of the speech of the Noble Earl which fell most short of what their Lordships had aright 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 thepresent, 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 first given —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 recommendation of !a remedy for the evils he had pointed out. The application of Act to the metropolis-- the provisions o fthe Board of Health The Earl of SH4FTESBURY said it was not in the motion. The Earl of DERBY present motion, it Was in turionaarked, that though not in the two days ago. It was not in motion as it stood on the paper But it was of that which.. the present motion—quite true. former case the Noble Ear he had to complain ; for in the Was a remedy, but in ti l i :ointed out what he thought evils without even sug ge t• • present be had pointed out the which he would recomtn: „ T ng to the Legislature the means He was the more surprised' member at for the mitigation of those evils. Earl was an active that,• inasmuch as the Noble intendence of the health made °f of a board which had the super the country, and wh ich had a report, dated t h e in his hands since b 30th of March, but only placed in which the means such evils as those co : re e ntered the House that evening, Pointed out for the remedy of was associated; with the _. , ll l).lained of.—(Hear, hear.) There sioners of that board the of the Board of Works, °W e Earl And the other Commis- Gentleman who was at the head tice given by the Nobe and yet he believed that the no es that brought forward Earl on a former occasion, as well any communication or c and his associates at the t°- night, had been given without co nsultation between the Noble Earl metropolis under the ad board; -- The proposal of placing the had been made by different ministration of the Board of Health tion was made by th e , Governments. Such a proposi (Earl Carlisle), but he had found Earl opposite when in office and was obliged to post found the difficulties insuperable. The Noble Duke on th i e uh° ' . if castle) had also expressed cross not to abandon, the attempt. benches (the Duke of New stated, when in office, th. ;" B views on this point, and had, rests and the great maw 9 00 king-to the variety of lute question, he could no r ° ' .PoPulation concerned in the Board of Health Bill thine ore include the metropolis in the Noble Earl who had brn he could Paris or Vienna. The also, much to his surpris et ight forward this motion had pointed out the evils witet; evaded the question and had He was ready to admit t h en t even hinting at the remedy. Noble Earl were the at the causes adverted to by the of disease and suffering. sources of a great amount terments—deficieney i n th'e .These .were intramural in sewerage, and accumulationi' enliely of water —deficiency of the first—intramural interments,lof nuisances. With regard to for an early and careful consideration, it was one which pressed because the evil was • lucre - and an early remedy, guage could exaggerate the L s e in g - year after year. No lan was continually generated by gni Amount of disease which practice of interment in the 4 ..e - loathsome and disgusting grounds of the metropolis.-_? t ried churchyards and burial was passed giving powers o f ` a ear.) Two years ago a Bill to a general board on this tii „„.:Tery extraordinary character tive—partly because the p ;° 11 ; but. it had been inopera time ; partly ihi conifeqUence i i - t r i given were limited as to the board ; and partly o3wing tO-the duration assigned to powers. The board was author' --e absence of compulsory all existing cemeteriea grea l t s.ed to purchase the rights of chase land for cemeteries, a n d t,--stretch of power—to pur terfnent, and for the proper disposarake arrangements for in and burial. The board were to beat the body between death of all funerals; were to i make all htrusted with the control with them ; and were to! levy a. rat a r o rangements connected tion to defray the expense. M ach e ,h then ho popula not unnaturally—to a , generat• rateoojection was felt—and abandoned ; but it was proposed to levyand it was, therefore, conducted by the board, and those fees a fee on all funerals security on which mon might be borrowed were regarded as a the objects of the Act. ut then it T wasrofwed for carrying out these fees:might be suffi ient for the le found, that, although funeras were conducted compulsorily ~ necessary expenses, if all such a l t ompulsory power was given__uur the board, unless monopolise the funerals of the metropolis, unless the board could private undertaker, it would be impossible to supersede every sary funds. The only means on which the raise the neces carried out was:by levying a fee on every death,scheme could be this great Government .company, whether the to be paid to buried by the company or, not. In point of fact, there was to buried at the expense of their friends. rr. ...o en; persons were pany with powers so extensive and arbitrur rust any com justified on the supposition that there was . h Y o could only be which could be adopted. Ho believed that other remedy cemeteries in the neighbourhood of the metro only the ing to contract for burials at a fair and reasonable were will that many metropolitan parishes' were desirous _!I rate, but should be given them of purchasing powers from the metropolis for the-purposes of inter not far . interment. In such cases he should be favourable-to grantibg a power of extra mural interment. He thought that in practice 't more beneficial to give such 'powers, i n such __ l would be grant all the powers to a general company. • I `Fr e s, than to mistaken, a Bill was at the p resent mome nt before the lvas h" House for the purpose of est ablishin g a n ew cemetery other ete neighbourhood of a railway , an d at som e distance ry in the from Lon don. The site proposed contained, he belieVed, about - 0 000 acres of fitting soil, and it was p ro p osed to make provision not only for separate paris hes, but for ' wh at someto more important, different Chr istian denominations. ught That Bill was still under the consideration of a Committee of the other House, and the result remai ned 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 as those which had been proposed. With regard-to the such sup ply of water and the sewerag e of the metro polis - -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 ob s t ac l es in thecom ) vested interests of existing panies--then, no doubt, one sueh single authority would be much more efficacious than e separate authorities. It had b een admitted that there was great difficulty in deciding as to the nature of such an au thority under the circumstance's. It was easy f or t h e Noble Earl to say that other countries made better provision with regard to th e i r su bj ec t s than this country did. The Noble Earl should have recollected that the Governnaents of foreign countries were freer to act for what they believed to be the public benefit then a Government which Was subject to po- The pular influence and control, and which had to coneult not only the int erests b ut also the feelings of those for wham it had to legi s l ate. He agreed with the Leiht Rev. P re l a t e who had sp o k en that cleanliness was nearly allied to mora lity, and might be regarded as one of handmaids; but moral,they c oourlddenceont decent, A ctoa clean. The Parliament,he gr eat difficulty SHAFTESBURY—_\'o, Eari no said peoplet whiche yh et were hade h r e e to contend against in all these cases thatw eo a rn s, pel asked to legislate against the wish of the persons them selveswE or l o suffered. fs itA Tiie " no ;" but m N ins b t l an ' ces . of gross and the rr NbeobElearEl alifrlphEadiTiYv—enit'ahee cul pable neglect on the part of householderasr. l had given th em molTslthdeeiEslg!:aaurrslltotoaff SHAFTESBURY—No. gpEinsßtaßnYce—sTobfe Nobleaccum E ulatioas of rubbish and filth, leading to con t am i nat i on, pestilence, and evenn to the hdeoaotdhoof thepi fpersous Th li e v s i e ng nai w aa i n th o i e n a o th ou e ld im moneldyiahtaave ei een per neighbour- hood mitted to remain. through the neglig ence of the persons T T h h e e E E a a r r l l o o f f D SI E I R A B F I TE ea S i B d U h R e Yha—dNliost,ennoe.d with very great patience to the statement of the Noble Earl ; and he hoped the Noble Earl would pe rm it hi m to make, without inter ruption, any answer he had to give. The Noble Earl had hatw a hae pond eohmea i lr n bepp t gile o taitasia w nlnaaet h ltsdli i y c oom h aft oht t wsh h rteoo e siwuo i Qliu n dovd h ge aeyr very e i oi t dvf a hee n ntor t hy: s lesye asa o pcb f wecee t uei h mrea e eagutao a l biafdnejt against accumulations. pn n l ttsei filth, s g : nlpt n h she rooswsuauo though alluded to several cases, a n d i n particular had referred to interested in removing the nuisance, for their apathy was one of the evils they would have to deal with. In fact, under the General Police 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 Me 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 irresponsibie body. What was to be the constitution of the new 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 tomes 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 Board 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 had only desired to show, that while other lar g e t owns and districts could avail themselves of the po wers of the Boar d of Health to improve their sanitary condition, the metropolis was excluded frem the operation of that Act. All he intended by his motion was simply to put the metrop olis on the same footing as other large towns. The Earl of DERBY—His Noble Friend had given a can did answer, and though he had altered his motion, he had apparently not altered his views ; so that what his Noble Friend thought Parliament ought to do was, to extend the powers of the Board of Health to the metropolis involv in g in such extension the vesting of the election of officers in . t he parish with the corollary that each parish in the case of their sewage was to have •an independent action. This appeared to be the substance of his Noble Friend's proposi tion—which was suggested as the best mode of meeting the difficulty. He must say that when a proposition of like import was some time back brought before Parliament the difficulty was found to be insuperable. Indeed, every 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 representatives 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." I3ut 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 with 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 daily supply of water,and that they gave it in sufficient quantity. The New River Company supplied 86,00) houses and there were but 2,000 that had 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 m)des 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.—(Elear, hear.) The Earl of HARROWBY regretted the tone which his Noble Friend adopted in reference to this subject. He thbught 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 he 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 SHAFTESBURY said t hat he had made.no complaint as to a defective supply of wa ter, but he had com plained of its bad distribution. He had to complain that the Noble Earl replied to him on t he supposition that he had made a motion which he did no t make. The Earl of DERBY explained. W hat he had said was diastrict. He de gree against the apathy of the inhabitants of a that in legislating Parliament had to contend in Friend ; but bore testimony to the exertions of his Noble t a ainst the he was anxious to guard the Governm f en g which he could accomplishment of an object the difficulty o words ,* imm foresee. He suggested that, instead of the great of altered so as to say "the immediate attention" diate interposition" of Government, the motiontiea should be Govern ment. The Earl of SHAFTESBURY agreed to. and the motion thus altered was then etns from Rams- The Earl of CARLISLE presented of the Crystal gate and three other places for the retention acceded to this suggestion, Palace. var i o us places to ted severa l petitions from also each presented the same effect. The Earl of S H AFTESBURY and the Ear l of ETARROWBY Lordships then adjourned. [A D VERTISEMENT.] -- H o lloway's Ointment and Amputation. Pills have cured a Disea sed Foot M as o n -court, prevented Bke-street —Mr. James Palme r, No. 1, , Liverpool, suffered dreadfully from a diseased foot ; the most eminent medical men attended him, and they deemed it neces. sary to remove one of his toes. Before this healed, however, the disease broke out higher up, and then they wanted to am. putate the whole f oot to prevent fatal consequences. This he objected to, and resolved to try Hollovvay's Ointment and P i n s which have effec ted a p erfect cure, and he can walk and work as well as ever. This can be verified by Mr. Martin, chemist, 24, Copperas-hill, Liverpool.—Sold by all druggists, and at Professor Holloway's Establishment, 244, Strand, London. A LARGE OTTER TAKEN NEAR WINDSOR BRIDGE.—On Friday week Mr. C. Tatner, of the Eagle i B r ewery, Slough , a nd a friend, were out on a fishing excur sion near the Windsor weir, and had sat down to their noon tide repast on Romney Island, jute below Windsor-bridge, when to their astonishment, an , r crept from the ground close to where they were sitting. As the creature bounded past them, one of the party gave it a kick on the head, which de o n r i nt gu a a b nl o le u yt t. to a‘mnfiaiish rather stunned it, and retarded its motions ; it succeeded, The however, in reaching the river, instantly diving, and rising animal lnewds London n n s natahteurmal remark ably naturalist. to the surface on the oppesite shore, near Mr. Cleave's garden. a w an as e r k , l e a tn e d uP la e n v f destroyer " was Thespirited cha chase taken alive in a large one, and has been sent alive wiridsor4vrress. - 1852. PARLIAMENTARY DIVISIONS (From the Votes and Proceedings of the Ebuse of Commons ) THURSDAY, APJttL 29. EXHIBITION OF 1851 (CRYSTAL PALACE). Motioa 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, 10'3. . Adair, R. Shafto Greenell, G. Price, Sir R Aglionby, 11. A. Greene, John _.,.. Rawdon, Colonel ' Alcock, Thomas Hall, Sir B. Reynolds, Jonh Anderson, Arthur Harris, Richard Rice, E. It. Arm,trong, Sir A. Batellell, John Sadleir, John Ealnes, M. T Hayes, Sir E. Sal wey, Colonel Barrow, W. 11. Headlam, T. E. Sandars, George Bass, M. i'. Hervey, Lord A. Scholetield, William Bell, Jacob Heyworth, Lawrence Scobell, Captain Broth erton, J. IlindleyCharles Scrope, G. I'. Brown, W. H ug h es , W. B. Scully, Vincent Bunbury. E. It Jackson, William Smith, J. A. Buxton, Sir E. N. Keating, Robert Somers, J. P. • Carter, J. B. Keogh, William Somerville, Sir W. Cavendish, G. H. King, P. J. Stanford, J. F. Charteris, Fra nc i s Knight, F. W. Staunton, Sir G. Clay, James Littleton, E. R. Strutt, E. Cocks, T. 8. Collins, W. M'Cullagh, W. T. Stewart, Admiral Stuart, Lord D. M`Gregor, John Conolly, Thomas Marshall, J. G. Thompson, Colonel Craig, Sir W. G. Matheson, Colonel Thompson, George Crowder, R. B. Miles, P. W. Thornely, ThomasD'Eyncourt, C. T. Milligan, Robert Wakley, Thomas Duncan, George Milnes, R. M. Walmsley, Sir J. Ellis, John Moffatt, George Walter, J. Evans, John Morris, David West, F. R. Evans, William Mundy, William Westhead4J. B. Ewart, William Norreys, Sir D. Willcox, Brodie Fergus, John O'Flaherty, Anthony Williams, John Foley, John 11, P aget, Lord A. Williams, W. Forster, M. Palmerston, Vl3. Wylii, James Fox, W. J. Pechell, Sir G. Freestun, Colonel Peel, Sir Robert -Leach, Charles Perfect, Robert Glyn, G. C. Peto, Samuel M. Granger, T. C. Pilkingten, JameS Abdy, Sir T. N. Adair, Hugh E. Anson, Viscount Anstey, T. C. Archdall, Captain Arkwright, Cleerga Armstrong, It. B. Bailey, Crawshay Bailey, Joseph Baillie, Baldock, E. H. Bankes, G. Baring, Henry B. Beckett, William Bennet, Philip Blair, Stephen Blandford, Marquis Booker, T. W. Bowles, Admiral Boyle, Colonel Bramston, T. W. Bridges, Sir B. Bright, John Brisco, Brockfehurst, Johu Brooke, Lord BentinCk, Lord H. Beresford, William Bernard, Viscount Best, Johh _ Bruce, Lord E. Nruce, C. L. C. Bulkeley, Sir R. B. Sunbury, W. Burghley, Lord Burrell, Sir C. Cabbelf, B. B. Campbell, W. F. Campbell, Sir A. Carew, W. H. Pole Cayley, E. S. Chandos, Marquis Chaplin, W. J. Chichester, Lord J. Childers, J. W. Cholmeley, Sir M. Christopher, It. A. Christy, Samuel Clive, It. 11. Cobden, Richard Colebrooke, Sir T. Collins, Thomas Corry, Henry Cotton, W. 11. Currie; 11. Davies, D. A. Dawson, T. V. Deedes, W. Denison, J. E. Dick, Quintin Disraeli, B. Divctt, Edward Dod, J. W. Drummond, Home Duckworth, Sir J. Duff, G. S. Duff, James Duncombe, A.' Duncombe, 0. Duncombe, W. E. Dtuidas, Sir David Dunne, Colonel Da Pre, C. G. East, Sir J. B. Edw - ards, henry TELLERS. Heywood, James Hume, J. MAJORITY-NOES, 221. ------ Egerton, Sir P. - Manners, Lord J. Emlyn, Viscount Marshall, W. Estcourt, J. B. B. Martin, John Euston, Earl Ma.sterman, John Evelyn, W. J. Maunsell, T. P. Farrer, James Maxwell, Hon. J. P. FeHowes, E. Molesworth,sir W Ferguson, Sir B. Moody, C. A. Filmer, Sir E. Morgan ' 0. Floyer, John Naas, Lord Forbes, William Napier, Joseph Fordyce. A. D. Neeld, John Forester, G. C. Newport, Viscount FAY, R W. L. Nool. 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, Bowel Reid, General Hale, R. B. Repton, G. W. Raiford, Sir Henry Richards, Richard Hallyburton, Lord Romilly, Sir John Hamilton, G. A. Russell, F. C. Hamilton, Lord C. Seymour, Lord Hardinge, C. S. Shelburne, Earl of Ilastie, Alexander Sibthorp, Colonel Heathcote, Sir G. J. Smith, Vernon Heneage, G. H. W. Smith, M. Tucker Ileneage, Edward Somerton, Viscount Henley, J. W. Sotheron, T. H. S. Herbert, Henry A. Spooner, Richard Herries, J.:C. Stafford, Augustus Hildyard, It. C. Stanfield, W. R. Hildyard, T. B. Stanton, W. H. Rill, Lord E. Strickland, Sir G. Hodgson, W. N. Stuart, H. Hogg, Sir J. W. Stuart, J. • Hope, Henry T. Start, 11. G. Hope, Sir J. Talbot, C. R. Hotham, 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. Jolllffe, Sir W. G. Tyrell, Sir J. Jones, Captain Vane, Lord H. Knox, W. 5, Vesey, Thomas Labouchere, Henry Villiers, Viscount Langton, W. H. Vivian, J. E. Lascelles, E Vyse, R. 11. Lawley, B. R. Walpole, Spencer Legh, G. C. Walsh, Sir J. B. Lennard, 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, 11. W. Loveden, Pryso Yorke, E. T. Lowther, Colonel Lowther, Henry TELLERS. Lygon, General Bateson, Thomas Mahon, Viscount Lennox, Lord H. G. Manners, Lord C. 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 Rickford, 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 Hon. 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 Ma r shal) Equerry in Waiting; Lieut.-Colonel Francis Hugh Seymour, Equerry in Waiting to his Royal 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 lion. Mrs. Massey. Lady Gertrude Acheson, by her mother, the' Countess of Gosford. Tho lion. Mrs. Airey, by the Dowager Viscountess Gloat 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. Mu. 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 Harewood. Mrs. Beaumont, by the Dowager Countess of Glasgow. Bliss Florence Beamont, by her mother , Mrs. Beamont. Lady Berners, by the Marchioness of Cholmondele Cou ntess of Miss Marianne A. Bishop, by th e Dowager Carnwath. Miss Bolton, by Lady de Ros. Miss Ellen Bolton, b i y Lady de Ross. Mrr. Cavendish Boyle, Miss Bramston, by her of Northumberland. bmyoVthiesrc,"l4e.s s B D r In s g t a o r n v . o n Mrs. Browne, by the Duchess by her mother, Mrs. P. Brune. and mi ss Charlotte Burgoyne, by Miss Browne, by the Duchess of Northumberland. Miss Beatrice P. Brune, Miss Caroline Burgoyne ail Viscountess Hardinge. Mrs. Gustavus Burnaby by Mrs. Villebois. Miss Mary Burnaby, b 'her mother, Mrs. G. Burnaby. ury. Mrs. Hume Burnley, by y theb CountAesslfroefaArlaalgmeets.b Lady Adelaide Cadogan, Lady Lady. Cholmondeley. y Calthorpe b b a r ve th r z 0 1 S f la t r h c e ls p ion ar e d ss an o e f lles, by the Count ess Mrs. Frederick of Malmesbnry. Mrs. James Campbell, by the Dow ager Countess of Carnwath. Miss-Ellinor'Campbell, by Lady Arthur Lennox. Lady Carew, by the Countess of Morley. Mrs. Carpent er, b y Mrs. Clifton. Mrs. Peter Carthew, by Lady Calthorpe. Mrs. Farnaby Cator, on her marriage, by Lady C. Boileau. Miss Chamberlayne, by Viscountess Palmerston. mi ss Eliza Chapman, by Lady Laura Money. Mrs. Longueville Clarke, by Lady Talfourd. Miss Longueville Clarke; by Lady Talfourd. Mrs. Trevor Clarke, by her moth er , L a d y Hyde Pearson. Miss Cladde, by Lady Clark. Mrs. Connolly, tide Princesse de Ruffano, by the Countess of Camperdown. Lady Crompton, by Lady Traro. 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. Miss Sholta Scott Douglas, by her aunt, the Countess Dow ager of Glasgow. Miss 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. Praed. Miss Charlotte Farr, by Mrs. Fraser Baddeley• Miss Finch, by the Marchioness of Cholmondeley. Mrs. William Franks, by the Countess of Effingham. Mrs. Douglas Galion, by Lady Harriet Clive. Donna Emelia de Gayangos, by Madame Comyns Mrs. Geary, on h er marriage, by the Countess o f Wilton.w Miss Gill, by the Marchioness of Ely. Miss Sarah Anne Gore, by her mother, Lady Westphal. Mrs. Georg e G owan, by her mother, Mrs. George Stratton. Miss Ann Grant, by Lady Mary Christopher. Taylor. The Lady Charlotte Granville, by the Ducahtsesosnof Atholl. Mrs. Elliot Grasett, by Lady Charlotte W The Lady Greenock, on her marriage, by the Countess Cath cart. Lad, M. V Y ner. Mrs. John Greenwood, on her marriage, by A ZU tus Lo tus. Miss Greville, by her sister, Lady --ouuaess, Dougla s Sheffi. The Countess of Guilford, by the C a or_sl /Is m H Miss Fanny Belford, by her mother, dv Georgians Cholmeley. the March The Marchioness of Hastings, by bY —a • ionos s of Hastings. The Lad Edith Bastin ti The Lady Bertharr Hasngs by , the Marchioness of H ast i ngs . y Miss Maa Hawes, by herin e Alerchioneiss of Douro. gs" o ther, Mrs. Hawes. h Mrs. Hay (of Hopes ), -Y Miss Hay, by her mother, th ham /lay. Miss Heathcote, by Lady Hes thcote. airs. Hamilton Hehden, by her sister, Mrs. Macleod, of Miss Selina Hervey, by the Viscountess Gage. Hon. Mrs. Hewitt, Ly Lady Perth= , • , Mrs. Henry Hippislev, on her marriage. by th e C ountess of sialmeshury. - Miss Hornby, by the Countc;ss of Derby: Miss Lucy Hornby, by the Countess of Derby. Miss Elizabeth Hornby, by the Countess of Derby, Howard, by Mrs. Henry HoNyard. • Lady Hunter, on her marriage; by - the Hon. Mrs. Charles I3ertie Percy. Miss Aunt, by her mother, Mrs. Ogiwil un t. Miss Florence. Hunt, by her mother,'Mrs. Ogle Hunt.,, The Hon. Mrs. Llwellyn Irby, by the Hon. Mrs. Kenyon. Miss Emily Ruck Keene, by her mother, Mrs. Ruck Keene. Miss Henrietta Ruck Keene, by her mother, Mrs. Ruck Keene. Mrs. Henry Howard, by the Countess of Effinghani. 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 Kin g , by th e H on . M rs . Carleton. Miss Knollys, by her mother; Mrs. Knollys. Lady Susan Lascelles, by the Countess of Harewood. Mrs. Levett, on her marriage, by the Countess of Clan - william. Mrs. Hamilton Lindsay, on her marriage, by Lady Sarah Lindsay. Lady Augustus Loftus, by the Countess of Malmesbury. Mrs. Ralph L. Lopes, on her marriage, by Lady Lopes. The Duchess of Marlborough, on her marriage, by Lady Feversham. Miss Rose Frances Manning, by Lady Truro. Miss Millett, by her mother, Mrs. Millett. Miss Adelaide Miles, by her mother, Mrs. Mites. 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 A.tholl. `Lady - Charlotte Nevill, on her marriage, by LEOly Bray brooke. Lady Nicholls, by Lady John Russell. • Lady Adeliza Norman, by her sister, Lady Elizabeth Drum.. mond. . Mrs. Adriiiral O'Brien bthe Duchess of Northumberland. Miss O'Bri en , b y 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 h er marriage, by the Viscountess Llar iurdsi. ll ß o nge m n . The c . a L rr o e u s is l a v P ar o d r i tm w an ßain Portman, bysaLya,dyonPohr4_tman. Marchioness of Douro. Miis Selina Ramsd en , b y her mother, the Hon. marriage , Mrs. Henry the 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 Mtms4eld. Miss Scott, by Mrs. Scott. Miss Adele 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. Bridgeman 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 0 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 moiler, 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 Adele 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 Boom, escorted by a detachment of the Life Guards. LADIES' DRESSES. IIEl: MAJESTY. Her Majesty wore a train of 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-d ress , w hit e roses a nd acacias, ornamented with diamonds. DucuEss of NonFoLK —White glace trai n covere d w i t h cra pe, sad trimmed with tulle and ribbon ; petticoat of white crape, over glace, trimmed with tulle and ribbon. Head dress, feathers and tulle lappets; ornaments, diamonds. DUCHESS DOW AGER OF BEDFORD.—Emerald g re e n *d i n train, trimmed with black lace ; petticoat of the same, flounced with black lace. Head,-_dress, feathers and black lace lap pets; ornaments, diamonds. COUNTESS OF I:) n BY.— Grey and white brocaded train, trimmed with point lace : white Gothic moire petticoat, trimmed with point lace and bouquets of white hyacinths. Headdress, feathers and lace lappets; ornaments, diamonds. LADY NAPIER.—A robe and corsage of costly faunette brechet moire antique , lined with rich white satin, and orna mented with waved ruches o f satin ribbon; a silver blonde ; ornaments, berthe, with a bouquet of silver flowers; a rich . white silk jupe, Covered with flounces of French ci epe, garnished with ribbon, and tastefully looped up with bouquets of silver , a la Louis XV. • flowers. Head-dress, feathers and silver lappets diamonds. LADY LOPEZ,—Manteau de Four of rich grey brocade, handsomely trimmed with bouillons de tulle and ncends of Head-dress, feathers, lappets, w bl i u th e ribbon; corsage, trimmed . with d. ribbon or naments of splend , d diamonds;, s , skirts of ogflarciech, glace, t'ilr rich broche flounces. and diamonds. MRS. DISRAELI —Maiiteau and corsage covered and trimmed with fine Honiton lace •petticoat blue tulle and Honiton lace,. looped with . of diamonds; berth to correspond, fastened with turquoises and - e Head-dress, velvet, ivy leaves intermixed ' diamonds. of diamonds; feathers and lappets. with a profusion HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. ci gn9r Susini, a baritone, made his debilt last evening as Rocco, in Fiddio, and created a very satisfactory impression. He has the advantage of a fine personal appearance, and sus tained the character with spirit, ease, and judgment. His vocalisation is excellent, and he is evidently a sound musi cian—so 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 grand role of Norma. In voice, style, and dramatic power , she never was more brilliant. She seemed determined to put nfie forwar d i l:acap r a h b e il l i y ti r e i s c sttoagte canhe utmost, and the res ult was m equal to the N orma of this superb ceotion was rapt urous l y en th us i as tic. Tamberlik was the Poll lone and Formes, the mighty Teutonic produce Queen o n f o s impersonation Her re_ basso, with ,theOro great vese. Aldlle. I3ert ran di sustained t h e par t o f Adelg credit. " THE NEW ACTRESS." Miss Rochelle, of whom we have alread y s p oken favour ably in these columns as having made many successful debuts in the leading business at several of the principal pro vincial towns, has lately- been giving Shaksperian readings in the elegant Salle ef-the Rue - d! , la Ville L'Eveque, quar tier de la Madeleine, Paris. Her interpretation of the love passages in Romeo and J uliet are highl y s p oken of, as a close asbimilation to nature. Nor was she a wit less e ff ec ti ve in giving the celebrated lines of the masculine heroi nes , E m ilia and Lady Macbeth. Mrs. Siddons would have felt pleased with such a pupil, p i ar t i chlarly where Miss Rochelle co ably cons t ra sted the terr i ble situation n which Lady Macbeth is placed, when she says— " I have given suc k, an d k n ow H ow tender 'tie to love the babe that milks me; I would while i t was smil ing in my face, u sv e plucked my nipple from his boneless gum, And slashed the brains out, had I so sworn as you Have done to this." Miss Rochelle is also an authoress, and we perceive that ti of New Broad-street, h i s i n tt.,-tion of publishing a series of her dramatic works, Mr. NI illiam Allcrof commencing with her last production, which has been plaP e l has announced before a select tew in the sane before mentioned, entitl the Algy, ise London and Paris. It is in three acts; depicting past, present, and future. Prior to the fulfilment of her engagements in the North, where Miss Rochelle makes her debut in The Chieftain's enjoy the Daughter, an original piece of h er own, s he will enjoy achel. advantage of a series of reading s r it h the celebrated t his fair lady to the son of Rumour assigns the band of.. _ an M.P., and proprietor of one of our leading fashionable iournals. _____..------- bill ,ru :f t -----=----7_ fare is i 1 Li takesptt .o ri i We have much pleasure in recording the benefit of Ba'fL's last n Mr. Bonton, the box -bookkeeper of Drury-lane m, beautiful balletof G . Theatre which, we perceive by an announcement before us' place on Wednesday, May 5. Al plend o id x new opera, The tselle. Vceildia,f;,.Br rhideis,freinedndtsininbeelanud .1.0(.)K ON THIS PICTURE AND mony—ZOt buckwheat cake —warm bed slip pers —smoking coffee—round arms —red beds —comfortable &c.—sbirts exulting in buttons—redeemedlips—(ahem !)—&c., jacks, happiness , &c. Single blessedness—Sheet stockings—boot - i bl u e noses—frosty room*—ice essedness—Sheet iron quilts. linen—heelless stockings—coffee sweetened with icicles — al the pit c h er — unrege nerated icicles— gutta percha biscuits— flabby coughs and cholics—rhubarb arb steak—dull razors--corns— coughs ARCTI C E aloes—misery, &c. 25.—The Arctice Ex XPEDITION.—STROBINBSS, APRIL Sir Edward Belche Expedition "fleet," the Assistance , Capt. Belcher, C.B. ,• the Resolute, Captain Kellett; the North Star, Commander Pullen; and the Intrepid and Pioneer screw steamers, under the charge of Commander Dl'Clinto c k an d Lieutenant Osborn, arrived here this morn• ing, and, aft er a short delay, proceeded northward for the ice. All were happy and cheerful on board the respective vessels. . ter:, alio) lent the J ae. 0* gi de 21- it the iv; i o n trY of ii , ;01e Uld e re 4. gtr or . a f' 1' IL :0 0 0 &l a ', 'AI .o t_ lol I