The Sun. — London, England, 1866-07-18 00:00:00

ThIPERTATA PARLIAMENT HOUSE OF LORDS.-LAST EvEITINT The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack at five o'clock. COLONIAL BISHOPRICS. In reply to a question from Lord Sr. LEONARDS, The Earl of DERBY said it was the intention of Go vernment to obtain all the information they could in respect to the subject of the endowment of colonial bishoprics, and to lay the same on the table as early as possible. PRIVATE BUSINESS. The Imperial Gas Company (No. 3)rBill was read a second time. The following bills were read a third time and passed : Port i h and Clyde Navigation, Sheffield Water, Merthyr, Tredegar, and Abergavenny Railway, East London (East ern Extension) Railway, London, Chatham, and Dover (Chatham Dockyard Branch) Railway, Great Western Railway, North British (Glasgow Branches) Railway, London, Chatham, and Dover (Various Powers) Railway, London, Brighton, and South Coast (Various Powers) Railway). LAND TENURE (IRELAND) BILL. The Marquis of CLANRICARDE, in moving the second reading of this bill, said that he believed the principle of it was never generally understood and its proposed object recognised. The subject had undergone considerable dis cussion in and out of Parliament, and particularly in Ire land, and it was very desirable that the question should be satisfactorily settled. One of the principal provisions of the bill was that which proposed to repeal all existing acts on this subject. Another was that which related to im provements or alterations in land by tenants for which they claimed compensation. To the principle of that com pensation he consented, but did not think that it should be left to the discretion of the tenant without reference to the wishes of the landlord. He contended that considerable ignorance prevailed in reference to the agricultural con dition of Ireland, for the farmer or peasant proprietor was notin the anomalous state generally described. For instance, although some peasant proprietors possessed from 5 to 20 acres, still there was a large class who hold farms of consi derable extent in Ireland. He denied that there was any hostility between landlord and tenant in Ireland, such as was supposed in this country to exist. He con tended, further, that the doctrine of the relation between landlord and tenant in respect to land should rest on vo luntary agreement, and not on legal compulsion. The Earl of DERBY did not think that was a suitable occasion to enter into a general discussion, but great credit was due to the noble marquis for the trouble and time he had devoted to this difficult subject. Whilst agreeing in the main with the noble marquis as to the pernicious effect of the agitation which prevailed, he was willing to redress any really valid grievances of the occupiers, and secure to them a fair and an equal compensation for improvements. He saw no objection to the principle of the bill, and would not oppose the second reading, but he could not pledge himself to the details. Earl GRANVILLE also observed that he would not op pose the bill at that stage, but he protested against its being considered as a settlement of the question. The bill was then read a second time. The Duke of Buckingham moved the second reading of the National Gallery Enlargement Bill, which Lord Her ding() recommended should be delayed, as the whole ques tion was shortly to come before the House of Commons. The suggestion was concurred in by Lord Houghton, but after a brief discussion the motion for the second reading was agreed to. The order of the day for the second reading of the Public Companies Bill was discharged, and the bill with drawn. A motion of the Marquis of Clanricarde to go into com mittee on the Dogs Bill was opposed by Lord Crauwortb, and on a division was negatived by 37 to 14. The bill was, therefore, lost. Their lordships then adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS—LtsT EVENING. The Speaker took the chair at 12 o'clock. LORDS' AMENDMENTS. The Lords' amendments to the following bills were agreed to : Caledonian Railway (Greenock and Gourock Extensions), Great Eastern Rail way (additional powers), Great Yarmouth Haven, Port, and Rivers, Llantrissant and Taff Vale Junc tion Railway, London and North Western Railway (new works), Mold and DenbighJ unction Rail way (branches, &c.), North Eastern Railway (Yorkshire New Lines), Ogmore Valley Railway (No. 1), Waverney Valley Drainage, Wy combe Railway. The Anglesey Central Railway bill, the Central Ireland Railways bill, and the Metropolitan Sewage and Essex Reclamation bill were read a third time and passed. The Belgravia and South Kensington New Road bill, Rawson's Estate bill, and the Waterford, New RoSs, and Wexford Junction Railway bill were read a second time. MILLWALL CANAL COMPANY. This bill was read a third time and passed. DUBLIN TRUNK CONNECTING RAILWAY BILL This bill was withdrawn. ThAMES NAVIGATION (RE-COMMITTED) BILL. The house went into committee on this bill, Mr. DODSON in the chair. Clauses 1 to 5 were agreed to. On clause 6, that one of five additional conservators be appointed by the Board of Trade, Mr. AYRTON moved to leave out all after appointed, and insert "by the Metropolitan Board of Works, who shall bo at libetty at any time to revoke any appointment made by them, and to appoint another conservator instead, when and as they may think fit " The amendment was negatived without a division, and the clause was agreed to. Clauses 7,8, 9, 10, and 11 were agreed to. On Clause 12, section 1, - - - • Mr. AYRTON moved to leave out " or in default" to "Board of Trade," and insert " the Secretary of the Con servators." After a short discussion, the clause was retained in its original form. Clauses 13 and 14 were agreed to. Clause 15, relative to voting papers, was withdrawn. Clauses 16 to 43 were agreed to. On clause 44, with regard to compensation, Sir G. BOWYER, in reply to Mr. AYRTON, said the clause did not give the owner any right to compensation in respect of tolls, because the bill provided for the aboli tion of these tolls. But supposing a man had laid out a good deal of money on any of those weirs, and handed them over in a very good condition, he had a very fair right to compensation for the expenditure he had incurred. " " Sir W. HEATHOOTE said the learned gentleman's ex planation was to him most puzzling. (Hear, hear.) The abolition of the tolls seemed to him to be the very reason why compensation should be given. Mr. AYRTON said the words of the act were that any person having any estate in any lock, dam, or weir was en titled to compensation. In order that they might define what compensation was to be given for, he moved that " estate" be left out of the clause. Mr. LOCKE said that any tolls or right of fishing was part of the estate, and therefore the clause ought to be altered or struck out altogether. Mr. GIBSON said the intention of the committee was this—that persons who had laid out a good deal of money on locks, and really laid out more than was really required should be compensated—that their claim should be consi dered. Mr. AYRTON then withdrew his amendment, on the understanding that the clause would be amended by m r . Cave. _ . -- - - Clauses 45 to 56 were agreed to. Mr. AYRTON moved the rejection of Clause 58, but, after some discussion, the amendmentywas negatived. Cl a uses 59, 60, 61 , and 62, a fter a sfiort discussion, wore agreed to, and the chairman was ordered to report pro- gress. An adjournment took place at four o'clock. The house resumed at six o'clock. Lord J. MANNERS and Sir S. NORTSCOTE took the oath and their seats on re-election. THE JAMAICA COMMISSION. Mr. J. S. MILL—I beg to give notice that on Thursday next I shall put the following series of questions to the Chancellor of the Exchequer :—Whether any steps have been or will be taken to bring to trial Lieut. Adeockfor un lawfully putting to death two men, named Mitchell . an , d without trial, and six persons after alleged trial by court-martial on charges not cognisable by a military court for flogging without trialMr.JohnAnderson and others, and authorising one henry Ford to flog many men and women without trial, one of whom, named John Mullens, died in consequence. Whether any steps have been or will be taken to bring to trial Captain Hole for hanging one Donaldson without trial ; for shooting and permitting to be shot various persons without trial ; for putting to death by hanging and shooting thirty-three persons after trial by a so-called military court for acts not cognisable by a military court, and without observance of the rules prescribed by the Articles of War ; for flogging various men and women without trial ; and for being accessory after the fact to the unlawful putting to death of numerous persons by soldiers under his command. Whether any steps have been or will be taken to bring to trial Lieut. Oxley for putting John Burdy to death after a similar unlawful trial, and for per mitting the men under his command to fi re a t unarmed peasan ts, and cause the death of several perso ns . - W hether any step been or will be taken to bring to trial En sign andCullsenhave Dr. Morris for putting three men to death Without trial, and Dr. Morris for shooting one William G ra y. Whether any s teps have been or will be taken to y magistrate Fife for burning houses e h a o t u h t o t f ri: a l, ri a o n u d s bring to trial stipendiar y o f peasants, putting to unlawful f o u n t b e ing accessory to the e person putting to w d i t Brand, apt. to others. Whether any stepsnheaz bring to trial Attorney -General taken will be apt. Lake, and Capt. Field, for sitting as p residents or embers of alleged courts-martial, by whom numerous Wh steps ersons were unlawfully put to death. have been or will be taken to bringto trial ethe Gen. r O' any Connor for having been accessory before and nu merous unlawful executions, some after the fact to of them without trial, and others after the illegal trials already specified. Whether any steps have been or will be taken to bring to trial Col. Nelson, brigadier-general in Jamaica, for unlawfully cans gto be tried in time of peace, by military courts irregu larly composed, for acts alleged to have been done before the proclamation or beyond the jurisdiction of martial law, and after such trial to be unlawfully put to death the fol lowing persons :—Geo. Wm. Gordon, Edward Fleming, Sam. Clarke, Wm. Grant, Geo. Macint3sh, Hy. Laurence, Letitia Geoghan, and six other women, one of them in a state of pregnancy ; Scipio Cowell, Alex. Taylor, Toby Butler, Jasper H. Livingstone, and various other persons who ,had been previously flogged; and about 180 other alleged rebels ; and for authorising the flogging without trial of Alex. Phillips, Richd. Clark, and numerous others. Whether any legal proceedings have been or will be ordered to be taken against Mr. E. J. Eyre, lately governor of Jamaica, for complicity in all or any of the above acts, and particularly for the illegal trial and execution of Mr. G. W. Gordon. If not, whether her Majesty's Government are advised that these acts are not offences under the cri minal law ? METROPOLITAN WORKHOUSES. Mr. G. HARDY, in reply to an inquiry of Mr. Fawcett, stated that the Government did not contem plate introducing any general measure relating to the infirmaries in the metropolitan workhouses during the pre sent session, by reason of the want of time to consider the subject fully. The condition of those places, however, should receive immediate attention, and the powers vested in the Poor-law Board, which had hitherto been in abey ance, should be put in force, they being adequate to dealing with the existing evils. He should also ask the house to grant to the commissioners the power of altering and en larging the sick wards where necessary, without the con sent of the,guardians ; and early in the next session he hoped to be able to bring in a general measure relating to the workhouses of the metropolis. (The statement of the right hon. gentleman was received by both sides of the house with cheers.) Lord STANLEY stated, in answer to Mr. Greufell, that he had not seen the paragraphs in the Berlin Borsen Zeitung to the effect that " the English Cabinet had given it to be understood that England would not allow any part of Hanover to be handed over to Prussia, it being the interest of Great Britain to see the integrity of Hanover , main tained on account of cert a i n eventual her editary claims ; but he assured the hous e th a t the statement was absolutely without foundation. Mr. GRAVES moved an address to the Queen for a Royal commission to inquire into the present condition of the seamen of the mercantile marine, with the view of as certaining whether, within the last 20 year; the supply of British seamen had or had not fallen off either in point of numbers or of efficiency, and, if in either a continuous decline should be apparent, then to ascertain furthsr what were the causes which had led to such decline, and whether any remedy could be suggested. The hon. member quoted statistics to show that since the year 1858 there had been both a proportionate de cline in the number and a deterioration in the quality of the seamen employed in the merchant service, and that the increase in the number of foreigners sailing in English ships had been vastly in excess of that in native sailors, compared with the growth in the amount of tonnage. For this state of things he suggested that the true remedy would be the establishment of training ships at various harbours round the coast, and a revival of the old system of apprenticeship. The motion was seconded by Mr. LIDDELL, and opposed by Mr. HENLEY, who objected to all Government inter ference as having a tendency to land us in the French system, which was essentially a bad one. It was not by means of training ships that the race of seamen had been reared who had fought and won our greatest naval battles, but through lengthened apprenticeship, which brought men face to face with and accustomed them to danger, and made them hardy and adventurous sailors. Ile believed the decline in efficiency was to be traced to the shortening of the term of apprenticeship to the sea and to the super ficial and inadequate knowledge imparted in school ships, where it was not easier to make a thorough sailor than to teach swimming on the grass. _ _ Sir S. NORTHCOTi did no t di spu t e t h e accuracy of the representation which h a d b een ma d e o f t h e present condition of the mercantile ma r i ne . Th e f ac t s were pa tent. They were before tho house in returns lying upon the table. There was no doubt that, relatively to the quantity of tonnage employed, a falling off had taken place in numbers within the last few years. It followed, there fore, that quality was likely to some extent to be deterio rated. The knowledge of these circumstances, however, made it unnecessary to institute an inquiry by means of a Royal commission. He admitted that the question required to be dealt with, and in order to do that the first step should be to take up the recommendations of the com mission appointed whilst Sir J. Pakington was at the Admiralty on the last occasion ; and he promised that the subject should receive his careful consideration, and after looking into it he would make a definite explanation of the views of the Government respecting it. Mr. GR!VES having expressed himself satisfied with tho statement of the President of the Board of Trade, the motion was by leave withdrawn. TUE BALLOT. Mr. BERKELEY said he held in his hand a petition from the inhabitants of Bridgenorth, which ho begged to move should be read by the clerk at the table. The petition, which was in favour of the ballot, was then read. Mr. BERKELEY then rose to move " that, having re gard to the failure of all direct legislation against corrupt practices at parliamentary elections, it is expedient to make experiment of the system of taking the votes at such elections anonymously, according to the laws now in force in other parts of her Majesty's dominions." He said he feared he must not expect any great favour in bringing forward this question in the present House of Commons, which had steadily opposed reform, and shown itself hos tile to extending the privileges of the working classes. For 29 years during his service in parliament he had been pain fully impressed with the evils which had crept into our electoral system, and which had from the commencement of her Majesty's reign been steadily on the increase.: No doubt our electoral constitution in its original state was well adapted to give the people that voice in the election of representatives which free fltstitutions demanded, but of our electoral constitution in its present state of abominable demoralisation we had every reason to be ashamed. (Hear, hear.) There was no hon. member who, would dare to gainsay that each elector ought to vote freely and in differently, without fear of consequences. He would call the attention of the house to a few of our greatest authorities. Lord Russell had said . " our most an cient statutes, our greatest constitutional laws, and our best maxims, lay down the proposition that the people of England ought to elect their representa tives freely and indifferently." No doubt his lordship referred to the opinions of such men as Walpole, who spoke in eulogistic terms of the privilege of electing members to serve in Parliament; to Burke, who, speaking of the electoral franchise, said '•his unbiassed opinion, his mature judgment, his enlightened conscience, the elector ought to sacrifice to no man living." Lord Chief Justice Holt had said—" It is a great privilege to vote for those who make the laws which govern life and property—a pri vilege not to be deputed to another." If to delegate it were to depute it to another, what should they say to its being continually wrested from the rightful owners and used by others who could have no possible claim to it, more especially by that noble class of non-electors who were forbidden by the orders of that house to interfere in elec- tions ? The miserable state of our electoral system was I admitted on all hands, and was the laughing-stock of Europe. As they had found no other remedy, he asked the house to try that which the most enlightened writers, from Daniel Defoe down to Jeremy Bentham and J. Mill had in sisted on as the one most likely to produce purity of elec tions, and the principle which was adopted by England's greatest Parliament in the year 1628 under the advocacy of Hamilton, Pym, Elliott, and Coke; which a century after wards passed the House of Commons under the advocacy of Walpole, but was rejected in the Lords by the Opposi tion of Godolphin ; and which in the present century had had the advocacy of Lord Macaulay, Sheil, Molesworth, Bethell, and many others. (Hear hear.) He was con sequently asking the house to make an experiment for which he had some little sanction, and he hoped that no; young member jwould accuse him of desiring the adoption of a crotchet of his own. (Hear, hear.) These great authorities had left a fortress of argument, which although unassailable by any reasoning he had ever heard of or read, had yet fallen from time to time under the hot fire of unscrupulous bolts. The arguments used against the ballot were, first, that it was unmanly ; next, that it was un-English—(hear, hear)—thirdly, that it was not successful where it had bee oa n u t ae rie t d ho tried; and fourthly, was a that trustit was wrong in principle, because hiseleddbyoptehnelyel.ec(toHresarfo, for htheaernsn-eNloecdtoorns,htanhdomn.usgt4be ieexmeern c b to u t t t h h e ey ar w gu o m ul e d n not recogniseopposit e ap t p h r s ov a e n d s o w f e t rs hes t e o a th rg e r . en As ts, particularly in the military d to be very unmanly. unmanliness, it was the mod a e nd of n v a o v ti a n l g i oln n ha, th a e n c d lu o t more particularly passing this by, it s to enable courts - mart i a l tary and naval men wer h e o n ni o d t s i t 3 l e ppose remembered that an act of Parliament was passed every year to vote in secret. farce, and (Hear, hear.) He thoeufgahetortehtatnota word could be said against the manliness voting. That the ballot was un-English was a complete t h h a e d t beenhi r third t o r e j e d c , t w i o a n s , e t q h u a a t hadt yeri. n been u f n e s ru thece unsuccessful t r a w r y h e r w e a it a the fact. He would first refer to America. (Hear, hear.) He thought h e s h ou ld h ave a cheer. (L aug hter.) But that was an ironical cheer from a member opposite. Ho bad never held up America for modes of voting which this c ri o e u ld et l r l y p ought Americato a im s ingithataev.On the contrary, he had always shunned, for i n America a n s a y n stem migh w t hch s i tink ou h g is ht to voting e paper in his hat, or hold it in his hand—he had seen men do it —for every one to see. Yet open voting in America had led to great corruption and intimidation, and tchaewboaulllodt,tahuindktothhoasevemoadpemnenvowtinhgo eposeyroeprynd'antoillaboAralisehri instead. The ballot protected the voters from evil conse quences—from violence and Lynch law, from drunkenness and demoralisation ; and so the Americans had got the ballot. When his royal highness was in Philadelphia there was an election going on, but there was no disorder. People were seen in the streets talking in knots, but there was no more disorder than in an English town on a market day— there was no drunkenness, no roughs, no lambs, and no men in the moon—(laughter) —and any person might ven ture to ask his royal highness what he thought of an elec tion in America and in this civilised country. He had on former occasions adverted to Belgium. There were many gentlemen from that country now being entertained by the volunteers, and they could say whether they would like to give up their system for our own. He might refer to Paris, where the people voted by ballot against and in the very teeth of the Government, and they continually proved that they could so vote without coercion. His friend, Sir John Bowling, had lately received a letter from Paris, in which the writer scouted the idea that the ballot was not successful in France, and he (Mr. Berkeley) would be happy to hear any evidence to the contrary. In 1862 there were commissioners from the colonies in Australia to the Great Exhibition, and while they were in this country certain questions were put to them by the Ballot Society, and the answers were that voting by ballot quite prevented the way in which a man voted from becoming known un less he chose to mention it; that it prevented bribery disorder—and that diminished expenses. The Times had written against manhood suffrage and the ballot—two things which had no connexion—but the Melbourne cor respondent of that paper took it to task, and wrote in favour of the ballot. There could be no doubt that the ballot had worked well in the Australian colonies. The fourth objection against the ballot was a very paltry one, s a e ci trust ln t lhye itd b m an y tts d e t l as e be c t u o n e r x s s o e f u r o c n r i d so t . h d l e t b ewna openlyse fi t t h i a o n t f t o n h r d o e n e f - r a r e l t n e h c c a h t t o is r n s e , o w n e fe ans lectors might know how electors discharged their trust. He had no ob jection to calling the franchise a trust ; but it was a trust with a limit, and with functions clearly defined, and they were that electors should vote freely and indif ferently, without fear or reward. If electors voted openly they could not discharge the functions of their trust. Non-electors were either whigs, tories, or radicals, and were frequently strong partisans, and pushed their opinions to extremities. If a Tory non-elector found an elector voting for a Whig he was base. If a Whig non elector discovered an elector voting for a Tory he was faithless ; and a Radical non-elector considered an elector unworthyif he did not support the Radical candidate. That was the consequence' of open voting. What was the re sponsibility of an elector ? It might be financial ruin—per sonal violence—notice to quit by his landlord from his house and home ; and in many cases that reduced a man to poverty. " You take my life when you do take the means by which I live" might very often by said by electors. Those were responsibilities which electors ought not to bear. (Hear.) He would next refer to a resolution of the great Parliament of 1628. The House of Commons at that time decreed that the elective right was not a franchise in the nature of a possession or a privilege, but a service to be used pro bane publico ; the elector was to discharge those services as his conscience dictated. Next as to the demo ralisation in which constituents were sometimes plunged, and upon that he would say one word in reference to an election which had just taken place at Guildford. Now he quite concurred in the opinion that the appointment of Mr. Bovill to the office which he held was as graceful to the Government as it WMS honourable to the hon. and learned gentleman himself. (Hear.) ,When at Guildford as a can didate—whether blushing under the honours which had been showed upon him he did not know- 4 -the hon. and learned gentleman used these remarks in reply to some person who asked him whether he would vote for the bal lot : " I will not. (Hear.) To be a representative of the people was a great trust ; and what would they think of their representatives voting by ballot ?" What would they think, indeed ! (Laughter.) He (Mr. Berkeley) had heard of a man who, when asked if he could speak the German language, said he did not think that he could, but he had a brother who could play the German flute. (Oh, oh.) There was just as much analogy between the functions of an elector and a member of Parliament as be tween the German language and the German flute. (Laugh ter and " hear.") An elector was answerable to no one. If his vote was given freely and indifferently, he discharged the duty imposed upon him by law. He could not be re warded or punished, but members of Parliament could be both rewarded and punished. They made their speeches upon the busting; and if they did not act up to tLem the electors knew what to do, and therefore he would repeat there was just as much analogy between the German lan guage and the German flute. (Hear, hear.) The hon. and learned gentleman while at Guildford went on to say that he trusted the time would never come when honest Eng lishmen would be afraid to record their votes openly. (Hear, hear.) It might be very well for the Solicitor Ge neral, with his position and his wealth, to say ho could go to the poll and record his vote openly, but let them sup pose the case of William Bovill, the tallow-chandler, or a man dependent on another, and could it be said that the time had come when he could record his vote without fear. (Hear, hear.) There were thousands of such cases, and this was not confined to the working classes but extended to the educated classes. He would cite one class—the ,medi cal profession. What young medical man, with a rising family, dare give a vote ? If they wanted an answer to this lot them take any directory, and having found the names of the medical anon, turn to the register and then to the poll-book, and they would be satisfied that that class of moo, who were rarely qualified by their education to give a vote, were virtually excluded from doing so. Was there no intimidation at Guildford?— no interference by high personages? He held in his hand a letter from Earl Percy's steward, dated Albury, July 10—" Mr. Dowling.—Please make up my bill, as I may probably desire to close the accounts on Saturday next." (Hear, hear.) He would mention another case, in which he might be exc.usod from naming the individual. A tradesman at Guildford attended at Albury-park, the seat of the Earl of Percy, the day before the election, having received a message that a certain person there, whom he (Mr. Berkeley) would not name, but who certainly had a right to command, wished to see him, and that person, whose name would not be stated, asked the tradesman howhe intended to'vote. The tradesman said he had not made up his mind—(laughter) — and the intimation was immediately conveyed to him— " Unless you vote for the Solicitor-General you shall never do any more work in this house :" and the statement was likewise made that it was the intention of Lord Percy to send for the poll-book, and that ho never more would em ploy those who voted against the Solicitor-General. He (Mr. Berkeley) had reason to believe that these statements could be fairly borne out ; at all events, they invited in quiry. If they were true, he might fairly say the Solicitor General was a little two-faced when he said that the honest Englishman ought never to be afraid to give his vote. With regard to the demoralisation of constituents, Mr. Ma caulay, Mr. Brooke, and others came to the conclusion, after the Reform Bill of 1832, that the fatal omissions in that bill were the close and rotten boroughs, and the neglect to protect the electors at the poll. Things went on until Lord Aberdeen's administration, when an act was passed which had the evident intention of protecting delinquent candi dates, because the candidates could get off on any pretence; and although the punishment, if any, went to the elector, it was in point of fact nugatory, because no jury could be found to convict. Of that bill Lord Derby had said it was of no more use than so much waste paper, and yet it went to the country ; and now, after their septennial saturnalia, and smarting from its orgies, here they were, helpless and hopeless, with that act of parliament for their guide. (Hear, hear, and laughter.) Instead of its being a Corrupt Practices . _ Prevention Act, it was a Corrupt Practices Encouragement Act, and was so viewed through out the country. If the house doubted the position in which they were placed, let them look at the loading Tory pape rs. He supposed they might now call the Times the leading Tory paper—(laughter)—but the Standard and Morning Herald had been supposed to occupy that posi tion. They complained loudly of the state of things at the last elections. Sir G. Jenkinson, the Apry baronet, had stated that he was told at the election for Nottingham at two o'clock on the polling day that, he could win the elec tion-if he would resort to certain means, but he preferred saving his honour and losing the election. The h[m. ba ronet added subsequently that if the ballot would provide a remedy for such a state of things he would vote for it. The Chancellor of the Exchequer was another authority as to the insufficiency of the existing means of preventing bribery and corruption, and as he (Mr. Berkeley) had looked in vain in the address of the present Chancellor of the Exchequer for a declaration on the subject, and as Lord Derby did not propose a remedy, he (Mr. Berkeley) asked the.house to accept his resolution. Ho advised the hon. member for Westminster (Mr. Mill), who had back elided to some extent on this subject, to support the mo tion. He found in that column of the local paper a charge against the Duke of Somerset of having evicted his tenants without any ceremony or any other pretence than that they voted against him, and that none but those who voted for him should live in his houses. He hardly dare trust himself with reading it, but it was so. (Cries of " Read.") Well, besides that, there was a statement in a newspaper that the Marquis of Bath had evicted 12 of his tenants at Frome, without any other reason being assigned than that they had all voted for the Liberal candidate. These were statements publicly made, and ho did not think that any man, however exalted his station, was too high to give a contradiction to them, if they were untrue. At all events, if the aristocracy of England allowed such accusations to go forth without proof, they did themselves a great in justice in not contradicting them. He had like wise the statement of Mr. Whitmore, at one time mayor of Bridgnorth, but as be had presented that gentleman's petition that night, and had it also read. at the table, he would not further digtte on it, except to slate that that gentleman was turned out of his house on account of the manner in which he yoted. He trusted, therefore, that he should be successful in gain ing his bon. friend's vote. But he was afraid that when great philosophical characters got hold of some point, there was very 'great difficulty in inducing them to let it go. (Laughter.) At all events, if his respected father were here, he would say to him, " My son, stick to the ballot, and neglect the whim of the moment." (Loud laughter). That, therefore, g t e o d. the He ho u n o . w me ss m k be e r d , f t ee he bl h y ou bu se t b zealously inh te n to try the experiment of the ballot, not in his own name, s d o a n accountunw orth o y f f ears their a n w a ad m sh e ho o ins f e t as h ptra u e y i e llu lr strious men whom he had quoted. calledol i f e the p e opl e, up upon n f h r o t n h .e they membersgh m i ght b truste d t e o t d r i u smis all loyalty and honesty. The people, however, felt that the house would not give them the protection of the ballot, THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JULY 18, 1866, because it would be protecting them from the oppression of those above them. That he had good reason to know was the feeling of the people. The ballot, however, must come, because justice could not deny it for ever; and he appealed to them if it were not better to gracefully yield the boon at once, rather than wait till they were forced to yield it ungraciously. Let not therefore their fears deny that which at no distant day their fears would compel them to grant. He would not detain the house further than by stating that he had a firm conviction that the words of Bentham were true, namely, that " secrecy of the suffrage was the pole star of reform." (Cheers.). Mr. MOWBRAY said, in rising to offer a few observe, tions in opposition to the motion, he considered he had a right on behalf of the House of Commons to complain of the attack made on it by the hon. member for Bristol, in describing it as a hostile House of Commons. The hon. gentleman was the last person from whom such a charge ought to have proceeded. Mr. BERKELEY remarked that what he said was "hostile to reform." Mr. MOWBRAY said on the 28th May last the house passed in the most general terms an instruction to the committee on the Reform Bill, that the committee should have power to make provision for the better prevention of bribery and corruption, not specifying any particular plan, not excluding this particular crotchet of the hon. member for BristoL But against that particular proposition the hon. member for Bristol recorded his vote. (H ear .) H e thought, therefore, he had a right to say that the house, whenever he took its general feeling as expressed by the resolution or as evinced by the various inquiries which had taken place before the various election committees, had shown itself indifferent to ary measure for the prevention of bribery and corruption. The hon. member had taken them back 240 years and over all portions of the globe, but he owned when he recollected the freshness of the illustrations with which the hon. gentleman had been in the habit of portraying the organs of these septennial saturnalias that he had not entertained them with such amusing illustrations with reference to the demoralisation and bribery as he had been accustomed to do. The hon. gentleman had divided his arguments into four classes, first, that in answer to the ballot being unmanly, he said that the ballot prevailed at all the clubs, and especially at military clubs ; but he need not remind the house how often that argument had been quoted, and how it had invariably failed from want of analogy. One was the election of a person for social purposes ; the other was the election of a person to discharge a great public trust. But when the hon. gentleman taunted them about the doings of clubs he thought he was going to enlighten the house with regard to the arcana of one with which he was conversant, and tell them what was the position of the Reform Club also with regard to the ballot. The hon. gentleman said the second argument against the ballot was that it was un- English, and he met that argument by saying that it was not so. He (Mr. Mowbray) contended that it was against the feelings, habits, and convictions of Englishmen—nay, more, it was so far un-English that it was opposed to the general opinion of this country. America used to be the stock argument in favour of the ballot, but now America was given up, and the hon. member took them to Wimbledon to see the volunteers. Then the hon. member took them to France, and he quoted a French elector, who, speaking of the candidates, said, " They enforce a promise, but they cannot secure a vote." That was exactly what the opponents of the ballot said, that they might get a pro mise, but the man would tell them a lie, and would not give them the vote. (Ironical cheers.) Then they were taken to the Australian colonies, and if those colonies had not adopted the ballot within the last half-dozen years he did not know where the hon. member would have gone for his argument. The hon. member had completely failed to prove that the ballot had been successful to such an extent in Australia that it was right it should be adopted in this country. Then the hon. gentleman came to the argument against the ballot that the franchise was a trust. The hon. gentleman always found a difficulty in encountering that argument. He was obliged to admit that it was a trust, but then ho tried to explain that in his own way ; he said it was a trust which the voter was to exercise fairly and indifferently. Clearly it was not a property. The hon. member, he supposed, would not. contend that a man had a right to sell his vote. The franchise was a sacred trust, and the voter must not be allowed to shelter himself under secret voting. Publicity was the first principle of all our proceedings in public life; publicity characterised the pro ceedings of the house, of courts of justice, and municipal institutions. But he believed that the attempt at secret voting would be inoperative, for the Englishman's whole course of action must be altered, his election speeches and canvassing must be put down, his tongue must be tied among his own friends and in his own house. It was be cause ho believed the ballot would tend to degrade the public spirit of this country ; because he thought it would tend to endanger the institutions which had given us greater freedom than any other nation that he opposed the adoption of this motion. Lord H. PERCY said, as the hon. member for Bristol had brought unfounded accusations against his brother, he repudiated them with scorn. The hon.member had brought three accusations. Two of them ho had not heard of before, but with regard to the interference of his brother's steward ho was prepared to deny it. (The noble lord then read a letter from the steward in which he stated that he had em ployed the voter in question, but that he found ho could get the work done for less, and had therefore written to state that he desired to close the account). Mr. ONSLOW said he did not wish to enter into the general question, but to state to the house certain facts which had come to his knowledge within the last few days, and which had transpired in the borough which he had the honour to represent. He admitted that gentlemen on his side of the house were as guilty of evil practices as certain gentlemen were on the other. The Liberals were, how ever, very clumsy imitators of those masters of the art, the Conservatives. (Laughter, and cries of " Oh.") The great landowners were bitter enemies of the ballot, and why ? Because the last thing in the world they would give up was that political influence which they most un justly and unfairly exercised over their dependents. There was an election at Guildford last w ee k, w h en the Solicitor-General was one of the 'candid a t es. The hon. and learned member w as o pposed by a gentle man w h o becausethe because ha the occasion was the first and most fitting opportunity that was afford e d o f protest ing against a Government which he With many o th er per sonsd an wish to sit i n Par lciaammeenfotrw—(alr notad4hte Par liament—(laughter)—but believed did not enjoy the full confidence of the coun try, and also of protesting against the methods that had been adopted for the purpose of defeating the most modest proposal of reform ever offered to the country. (Cheers and laughter.) This gentleman came forward, and he (Mr. Onsdow) did his best to help him. They got at least half the promises in the borough. There were 647 voters, and the Solicitor-General polled 316 ; but the intimidation that was used was so extreme that it threatened to ruin the trade and prosperity of the borough, and so the Liberals withdrew their man. (Laughter.) They had a right to assume that those who had promised them their votes would have appeared at the poll if they had dared. (Oh 0 For forty years the Liberals had always stood at the head of the poll ; and why did they not on the late occasion? How was it then that the Solicitor-General should have polled3l6 and the Liberals only 12 ? (Laugh ter.) Such i thing was unparalleled in the annals of Parlia ment. The fact was that if they had persevered the town would have been half ruined : the tailors would have had to close their shops, the shoemakers would have made no shoes, the laundresses would have been unemployed, the butter would have been unchurned, and the whole borough would have been ruined. (Laughter.) The noble lord as serted that the letter he had read had nothing whatever to do with the matter ; but he (Mr. Onslow) had it in his hand. It was dated Albury-park, July 10, and it was writ ten to a saddler:—" Mr Dowling—Please make out your bill, as I may probably desire to close the account on Sa turday next"—the day after the poll. (Cheers.) Ho (Mr. Onslow) would make no comment on that letter (Cries of " Name.") It was written by Mr. G. W. Howes, the steward of Lord Percy. To mention another case. There was a tradesman in Guildford who went to AlburY - Park on the morning before the election. He was in his draw ing-room and was doing his business there. (Laughter.) The nearest relation of Lord Percy was in the room, and that party— (a laugh)..... sa i d, " Well, how are you going to vote ?" The tradesman replied, " I have not made up my mind." The party then said, " If you vote against the Solicitor-General, you must not come to this house again ; it is the intention of Lord Percy to send for the poll book, and those who vote the wrong way shall no longer come near this house in the way of trade." (Cries of "Name.") He, (Mr. Onslow) had the greatest possible faith in his information, and if the noble lord wished he would give it to him in a private interview. Ho consi dered that the Liberals had only rolled so few votes in consequence of the bribe r y, corruption, and intimidation, which were employed on the other side. (Cheers.) The SOLICI TOR-GENERAL said the very style and tone of his hon. colleague's remarks showed that he had recently returned from the hustings. The letter which he had just produced was represented at the Guildford elec tion to have been received from a peer of the realm. It was made to do duty in a most remarkable manner, and suspicion had in consequence attached to a noble lord re siding in the neighbourhood of the town. After all, what did that letter prove ? Admitting that its object, notwith standing the disclaimer of his noble friend, was really to intimidate Mr. Dowling, it had wholly failed in its object. For what did Mr. Dowling do ? Why, the very first thing he did on receiving it was to express his intention of re cording his vote, as an Englishman should do, in accord ance with his own political views. The letter, therefore, instead of proving any necessity for tho ballot, was really an argument against it. (Hear, hear.) Then the hon. gentleman told a story of some body that had told him that somebody had been to Albury, a nd that somebody had said something to him there. This was the Bast time that he (the Solicitor-General) had heard of the matter, or he would have inquired into it ; but he could quite under stand that in many places statements of the kind might be made. One of his own housemaids had said to a work man, "If you don't vote for Mr. Bovill don't show your face here again ;" and he (the hon. gentleman) had no doubt a good many housemaids had said that. (Laughter.) The fact was, the housemaid had been long in his service, and took a warm interest in his success ; but the man to whom she spoke was a decided Radical, and nothing that she could have said could have had the least 1 influence upon his vote. Ho (the Solicitor-General) had long resided in the neighbourhood, and had associated himself with persons of all shades of opinion ; but he had never heard it suggested that any number of house maids would deter any workman or tradesman in the town from exorcising his privilege of voting as he pleased. As to the result of the late election, he could only say that the opposition candidate had been selected with great care, and he was convinced that that gentleman had only been withdrawn in consequence of the total failure of the friends' expectations, and after resorting to means which he (the Solicitor-General) would have been ashamed to imitate. (Cheers.) They opened a number of public-houses by way of maintaining the freedom of election and the independence of the voters. (No, no.) He (the Solicitor-General) said " Yes." He was pressed to follow the example, but he de clined. He was ashamed to take up so much time by re ferring to the Guildford election, and he could only repeat that nothing which had occurred had in the least degree shown that there was a necessity for the ballot. (Cheers.) Capt. VIVIAN (who spoke amidst cries of " Divide ") deprecated the introduction of any personal element into the discussion. Ho really did not see why the subject should be treated as a party question at all, as it was only a ques tion of procedure, and merely concerned the mode of taking votes—not the votes themselves. Ho agreed that the fran chise was a trust, to be exercised for the benefit of the non electors. But if on the day of nomination the non-electors decided by a show of hands that the polling should take place by secret instead of public voting, the returning offi cer might be authorised to declare the mode of election in conformity with that decision of the non-electors. (Oh, and hear, hear.) Mr. LOCKE (who rose amidst loud cries of "Divide ") said that his right hon. friend opposite (Mr. Mowbray) made use of the reference which had been made by his hon. friend (Mr. Berkeley) to the Frenchman,who told him that under the ballot he could made a promise, but that it could not be enforced, as an argument against the ballot. Now he (Mr. Locke) contended that it was a strong argu ment in fovour of the ballot, because he denied the right of a man first to exact a promise, and then to enforce it. What right had a man to enforce that which they all admitted was a secret in the bosom of the person who had the right to exercise it ? He admitted that the franchise was a trust, and that the voter should have full oppor tunity of performing that trust, but under the present system you get a promise, and then you wish to have the means of preventing the voter from performing that trust according to his conscience. The ballot was the only mode in which he could exercise his trust as an honest and con scientious man. In the Reform Club they for a time aban doned the system of a general ballot, and they delegated the trust to forty members who were called the forty thieves—(laughter) —of whom he had the honour to be one. (Laughter.) But they had recently at a general meeting determined to return to their first-love, and now the old system of general voting was adopted. (Hear, hear.) After a few words from Mr. BERKELEY, in reply, the house divided— For the motion ~. 110 Against it ... 197-87 Mr. HUNT obtained leave to bring in a bill to enable her Majesty to declare gold coins to be issued from her Majesty's colonial branch mints a legal tender for pay ments; a bill to confirm provisional orders under the Drainage and Improvement of Lands Act (Ireland) and the act amending-the same ; and a bill to amend the acts relat ing to the intended courts of justice. Tho Militia Pay Bill was read a second time. The County Assessment Bill was read a third time and passed, as was also the Now Forest Poor Belief Bill. The other orders on the paper having been disposed of, the house adjourned at half-past twelve o'clock. Naval and Military Intelligence. VALETTA, July 14.—Her Majesty's paddlewheel despatch vessel Psyche, 2, Lieut.-Commander A. R. Blanc, which left Malta on the 22d ult. for the Adriatic, returned to this port on the sth inst. The Victoria, 102, screw line-of-battle ship, bearing the flag of the Vice-Admiral Commander-in-Chief, the Right Hon.. Lord Clarence E. Paget, C. 8., and the Royal Oak, 35, ironcased frigate, were at Patras on the 3d inst. The Resistance, 16, ironclad, had either left, or was on the point of leaving, for Naples. Lord Clarence Paget intended to leave in the Vic toria for Corinth, thence cross over the Isthmus, where he would meet the Gibraltar, 81, and proceed in her, together with the captains of the respective ships, to Athens, to have an audience of the King. The Gibraltar would then leave for Malta to refit, the Arethusa having been sent to the Piraeus to re lieve her. The Enterprise, 4, ironcased sloop, Com mander Rowley, which , was at Ancona when the Austrian fired into the Italian fleet, has been or dered into Trieste. The Racer, 11, screw corvette, Commander L. Brine, is at Corfu. The Assurance, 4, Commander Pym, took the last mail from Malta to Patras, where the Commander-in-Chief was ex pected to return about the 9th inst. The next mail will be taken by the Psyche, now in port. The Wizard, 2, Lieut.-Commander Murray, arrived at Patras, from Malta, on the 3d at noon, and is ex pected back here to-morrow with despatches. Deputy-Inspector-Gen. C. A. Anderson, Chief Me dical Officer of the Royal Naval Hospital at Malta, has been offered the post of Senior Deputy-In spector-General at Hagar, and has signified his willingness to accept the appointment. The Italian paddle-wheel corvette Archimede, 6 guns, arrived here on the sth inst. from Naples, and is likely to remain here some time, with the view, it is sup posed, of exercising a wholesome check on persons in this island who are suspected of making clandes tine shipments of arms and ammunition for Sicily, with treasonable intentions against the present Italian Government. The boats of this vessel having been observed making soundings in the port, the attention of the Italian Consul was drawn to the subject, and the commander of the Archimede was informed that such a practice was contrary to the port regulations. The Italian commander is perhaps unaware that charts with all the soundings of Malta harbour can be had from any bookseller at the cost of a few shillings. In my last letter I informed you that a quarantine of seven days had been put by the Malta Government on arrivals from Liverpool. Before there was even time for this term to expire the Government cancelled their pre vious order, having in the meantime ascertained that no cases of cholera whatever existed at Liver pool. Our Chief Secretary to Government, Sir Victor Moulton, leaves to-day by the Marseilles packet, to meet Sir Henry Storks in London. The unarmoured screw frigate Mersey, 3,733 tons, 1,000 horse-power, nominal, of engines, made an official trial of her machinery at Stokes Bay, near Portsmouth, under the superintendence of Capt. W. C. Chamberlain, commanding her Majes ty's ship Asia and the Steam Reserve at Portsmouth, on the completion of her repairs and refit for com mission. The hired sailing transport Charlemagne, belong ing to Messrs. John Lidgett and Sons, of London, has arrived at Portsmouth from the Thames, and will embark detachments of troops to-day for con veyance to Calcutta. The iron turret-ship Wivern, 4, Capt. Hugh T. Burgoyne, V.C., is preparing at Devonport for ser vice on the North American station. The iron turret-ship Prince Albert, 4, Capt. Arthur Wihnshurst, will be taken from Plymouth Sound into Hamoaze to receive some alterations. Yesterday morning steam was got up on board the American national iron-clad turret ship Mian tonomah, Capt. Beaumont, and it was expected that she would leave the Nero for her contemplated visit to the Baltic. The officers of the Ordnance Select Committee of Woolwich Arsenal yesterday terminated a course of firing to test the efficiency of Col. Boxer's improved breechloading cartridges. They are adapted so as to suit and be perfectly applicable to the various grooves of each kind of musket to be used in the service with a rifling of •577 bore. The following have been used in the experiments with a satisfac tory result :—The Enfield and naval rifles, the ar tillery carbine, and the Lancaster rifle. An order has, in consequence, been received from General Peel, advising Colonel Boxer to prepare an un limited amount of these cartridges for the gene ral service of the army, as Colonel Dixon, supe rintendent of the Royal Small Arms' Fac tories, has stated his intention of forwarding to the Military Store Department at Woolwich, with the joint assistance of the various contracts about to be issued, not fewer than 150,001) breech-loaders be fore the close of the present year. The strength of the cartridge-filling branch of the Royal Labora tory is consequently to be augmented by some 500 or 600 lads and girls. The department, during the Crimean war, was organised so as to be carried out on an extensive scale in the Plumstead marshes, and on a principle to exclude, with ordinary care, the possibility of much danger, each shop being separated by a high mound of earth, and a plentiful supply of water being ready at hand. The most complete arrangements are also made for the com fort of the young people employed. A spacious garden surrounds the little territory of shops, which produces an ample supply of vegetables at a cheap rate, and, together with a moderate provision of meat and bread, under careful and well directed supervision, mess dinners are provided at a few pence per head. In the evening the young people are conducted in gangs to their respective abodes, and are reassembled similarly each morning with great care and punctuality. The five troops of the C brigade Royal _Horse Artillery, in command of Col. Huyshe, recently re turned to headquarters from India, have been horsed and equipped for ready service, and yesterday un derwent inspection at Woolwich by Major-General Warde, C.B. The horses appeared to be already under perfect control, and the men, who have all returned from an extended furlough granted them to visit their friends, appeared well up in their bri gade duties. After inspecting the men and the accputrements, recently supplied from the Royal Arsenal, the General, attended by his staff, took up a position in front, and the batteries marched by in slow and quick time. The men were in drill cos tume, and performed the marching past remarkably well. Yesterday the following troops embarked at Go vernment quay, Gravesend, on board the chartered transport Beaumaris Castle, for Calcutta, for the purpose of augmenting the Royal Artillery serving in the Bengal Presidency,—viz., 9 sergeants, 14 corporals, 4 drummers, and 268 men, with 34 women and 40 children, of the Depot Brigade, Royal Artillery, together with the following officers : Capt. H. C. Hammond, 46th Regiment ; Capt. R. Aislabie, Lieut. B. Raikes, Lieut. J. E. Josselyn, Lieut. V. 11. Walker, and Lieut. Robert de Marylski, Royal Artillery ; Ensign Harvey R. S. Foley, 42d Royal Highlanders ; Ensign A. P. nines, 91st Highlanders, and one army school master ; the whole under the medical charge of Assist.-Surg. C. A.Mannsell, M.D., Royal Artillery. The hired transport St. Lawrence embarked at Gravesend yesterdaythe following officers and troops for conveyance to Calcutta to join the service com panies of their respective corps :—Capt. J. Walker and 63 non-commissioned officers and men of the Royal Artillery ; Lieut. A. J. Harrison, Lieut. H. W. L. Paddon, Ensign A. H. Morgan, and 115 non-commissioned officers and men of the Ist bat talion of the 7th Royal FusiAeers, together with 13 women and 10 children, the whole in medical charge of Assist.-Surg. A. S. Russell, M.D., Royal Artillery. The whole of the above troops embarked yesterday under the direction of Brigade-Major W. W. Lynch and the officers of the Quarter master-General's staff at Chatham Garrison, the Beaumaris Castle and the St. Lawrence having previously been inspected by Major-Gen. Si r Robert Walpole, K.C.B. Both vessels will leave the Thames to-day, 24 hours elapsing after the em barcation of the troops to allow of their settling down on board before proceeding to sea. The screw unarmoured sloop Cruiser, 5, 752 tons, 60-horse power nominal and collective, of engines (a vessel of six knots measured mile speed, and ab surdly allowed to carry guns and figure on the official Admiralty " Navy List" as a fighting ship) yesterday steamed out of Portsmouth harbour and made a trial of her machinery, under the supervi sion of the officers of the steam factory and reserve, on the completion of her outfit for commission. . A naval court-martial is ordered to assemble on board her Majesty's ship Victory, at Portsmouth, to-morrow, Thursday, for the trial of Commander Hunter and the officers and crew of her Majesty's late screw sloop Amazon, for the loss of that ship by collision with the merchant screw steamer Osprey. ry The iron armour-plated turret s hi p W yvern, 4 Capt. Hugh T. Burgoyne, V.C., go t up steam yes terday, and went outside Plymouth Sound. She will probably go back to Hamoaze. The sailing brig Sealark, 8 (tender to Impreg nable), Lieut. J. N. Croke, left Plymouth Sound yesterday for the Channel, to drill and exercise the boys. The Russian frigates Ossliaba and Vitiaz, which have been at Falmouth for the last few days, left esterday afternoon for Lisbon, &c. Salutes from her Majesty's ship Ganges and Pendennis Castle were given and returned by the Ossliaba. After repeated experiments with the newly-intro duced wrought-iron gun . carriage and platform, made on the Woolwich Arsenal design, an order ,3,3 r was granted by the War Department for the manu facture on that principle of 32 carriages and plat forms to serve that number of gin. and 7in. guns, to supply a demand from Halifax. The order is now complete, and will be shipped from Woolwich shortly for its destination. The advantages of em ploying wrought-iron in the place of wood are stated to be that it is less likely to splinter when struck by an enemy's shot; that the carriages for heavy guns are lighter than those of wood, and that a constant supply of the necessary material can always be obtained from the Thames Iron works and other establishments at hand. A diffi culty has been frequently experienced in purchas ing well-seasoned wood. The mechanical arrange ments for depressing and elevating the gun, fitted to the more solid material, are also less liable to derangement and become less affected by the severity of the weather. The Royal carriage department officials have now received instructions to commence, 1 on an extensive scale, the construcion of wrought ' iron carriages to furnish the whole of her Majesty's ships of the fleet. The establishment will be increaed for that purpose, and the work will be urged on as speedily as possible. The Ordnance Select Com mittee of Woolwich Arsenal have recommended that the principle on which the new carriages are to be built shall not be confined exclusively to the Arsenal system, but shall embrace por tions of other inventors' methods. The elevating and depressing apparatus will be on Sir William Armstrong's principle, the running -out gear on that of Capt. Scott, and the general construction of the carriages on that of the Royal Arsenal. As the work progresses the carriages are to be issued to the whole of the ships in commission, so as not to interfere materially with existing arrangements. Mr. George Turner, master shipwright in Wool wich dockyard, appointed in July, 1859, yesterday resigned his post, on superannuation, at his own re quest. He is to be succeeded by Mr. W. Ladd, from Deptford yard, now on leave of absence. The 31st Regiment, stationed in Portsmouth gar rison, will embark from that port for Ireland, ac cording to present arrangements, on the 27th inst. This regiment will then have changed its quarters six times within two years. There can be no ade quate reason for pursuing such a course—a course detrimental to good order and discipline, entailing heavy cost to the country,and ruinous to the married officers in the regiment. THE PRUSSIANS IN HANOVER.—At Ilanover Gen. Falkenstein has seized on the military chest containing 285 thalers in silver, 300,000 in gold, and 20,000 in paper, He has also made a rather large requisition of horses. [ADVERTISEMENT.]—Teat the fearful annual mortality o 6 , ,0( 0 yburt,g children and delicate persons of all ages may be arrested, if, instead of flying blindly to pills and medicines, which, though apparently relieving the patient, have in reality no other tendency than that of increasing debility, and with it the danger of life, we were simply to study how to increase the vital force by imparting new and pure blood, upon which the harmonious development of the whole frame depends, has been successfully proved by Du Barry's Inva lids' and Infants' Food, the Revalenta Arabica, and its thousands of cures annually. It yields three times as mush easily assimilated nourishment as the best meat, hnd for children it is the best substitute for human milk. Dr. Routh, physician to the Samaritan Hospital for Women and Children—the best authority on such matters —in his admir able publication on Food, says—Amongst the vegetable sub stances, th it which comes closest to milk in its composition is, without doubt, Du Barry's Revalenta Arabica Food, con taining both phosphoric acid in abundance and chloride of potasPlum ; it also includes casein, the same principle w hich is found in milk in its constituent parts. No wonder, there fore, that under its influence many children affected with atrophy (wasting away of the body), and marked debt i'y have completely recovered. I have given it with the greatest advantage in such cases ; and far as I may judge from my own experience, practice fully carries out what theory, from a knowledge of its composition, led us to anticipate. In tins, 11b, 2s 9d; 21b, 43 63; 51b, lie; 121 b, 225; 211 b, • 40s.—Barry Du Barry and Co., No. 77, Regent-st ree t , L ondon; also Phillips, tea dialers, 8, King William -street ; lik ewise at 61, Gracechurch-street ; 4, Cheapside ; 49, Bishopsgate street Within ; 63, 150, and 298, Oxford-street ; 330, St rand 54, Upper Baker-street; 103, Tottenham -court-road; i 4 Upper-street, Islington, N.; Harvey, Notti ng -hi ll; Clos e Brothers, 65, High-street ; and Stubbs, Queen's-terrace, St. John's -wood, London; and all respectable grocers and she. mists,—Beware of spurious imitations. The Cholera. The total number of deaths reported at the work house in Liverpool up to 10 o'clock yesterday was 13, an d there remained in the cholera wards nine cases, .of which two were expected to prove fatal. The select vestry held a meeting yesterday, and it was resolved that, should the cholera continue, a house-to-house visitation of all the poorer districts should be undertaken, and the assistance of the medical men of the town who had the time to spare to aid in the ;work be procured. It was also re solved, as considerable risk must be incurred by keeping cholera cases within the workhouse walls, and as it was very desirable that the families in which the disease had appeared should at once be isolated, to re-engage for another term the exten sive new warehouses at Bankhall, which it will be remembered did such good service at the time of the Helvetia outbreak. These warehouses will accom modate with ease from 300 to 400 persons, and it is intended to remove thither not only all the actual cases, but also the families of all who may be at tacked, and among whom there may be any danger of contagion, and those as well who may be re quired to leave their houses to admit of sanitary improvements. A separate staff and separate stores are being arranged, and when these are completed, in the course of another day, the isolation will be as per fect as well can be. Shields, Tuesday.--The cholera has appeared in an epidemic form in South Shields, in Union-alley, the " St. Giles's" of that seaport town, where common-lodging houses for tramps abound. Yesterday week a woman named Fla nagan, staying at a lodging-house in the alley, kept by a person named M'Cririck, took ill, and, as she showed choleraic symptoms, she and her daughter were removed to the workhouse hospital. The mother recovered, but on Thursday last the daughter, who had been placed among the other children in the workhouse took ill ; but by prompt attention she, too, was restored to health. A strong, healthy looking girl, named Hannah Dalton, 15 years of age, who had been in the school-room with little Flanagan, retired to rest in the workhouse on Sa turday night apparently quite well, but between 3 and 4 o'clock on Sunday morning she was seized with diarrhcea, and when the master of the work house was called up hefound her becoming cold and her finger-nails turning blue. The medical officer of the union was sent for. When he reached the workhouse he pronounced the girl in a hopeless state.= She continued to grow worse, became cramped, and sank into a state of collapse, dying at 3 o'clock on Sunday afternoon. A Mrs. Wright, residing in Union-alley, showed the premonitory symptoms of cholera on Thursday, and was at tended by the medical officer to the Board of Health and a surgeon from the dispensary, but she died in a collapsed state on Saturday night. Flanagan had been confined in the workhouse, and had left it two days before the foreign seaman who died of cholera there was brought in. The woman Wright had eaten heartily of cherries the day before she was seized with diarrhcea. Union-alley, where the dis ease has manifested itself, has always suffered severely from the effects of cholera on occasions when it has previously been epidemic in South Shields. Since the deaths mentioned above no more fatalities have occurred. The general health of the town is very good, and the intense hot weather of last week has been succeeded by cool breezes, and a somewhat low temperature, with a clear sky. COUNTRY MARKETS. LEEDS-TUESDAY. A moderate show of wheat. Trade dull, at about recent currencies. Other kinds of grain were limited in supplh and last week's prices were supported. MARKET HARBOROUGH.-T UESDAY. Old white wheat, 56s to 60s ; new red. 53s to 58s per 3 6 stone. Barley, fine, —s ; other kinds, 28s to 38s per 30 st. Oats, new, 26s to 32s ; old, 32s to 36s per qr. Beans, 01 1 1 48s to 535; now, 42s to 46s ptr qr. BRIS T OL-TUESDAY. Thera was a good attendance to-day, and a fair bus - ness done, especially in barley, at full prices. Oats in slow request, at last week's prices. Beans and peas quiet. Wheat prices asked by holders chocked sales. LIVERPOOL —TUESDAY. There was a fair attendance at to-day's market, and wheat continues dull at a further decline of 2d per cental in red descriptions since Friday ; white unaltered in value. Flour dull, and to effect sales Is per sack decline had w ba accepted Indian corn pressed for sale a , . a concession of 6d on Friday's prices. Oats and oatmeal quiet, and quo tations unaltered. MELTON M WBRAY.-T UESDAY. White wheat, 56s to Gls ; red, 54s to 57s per 36 stone• Barley for malting, 36s to 39s per qr; feed, 30s to 33s pet 30 stone. Oats. old, 26s to 345; new, 22s to 30s per 24st" Beans, old, 48s to 525; new, 45s to 48s per qr. SHEFFIELD-TUESDAY. Red wheat, per load of 3 imp. hushels....lBB Od 203 6cl White do do ....20s Od to 238 6 1 s Od New red do d o ....- 8 Od —s Oa do .... New white do Beans do do '9B Od 20s 0 Peas, pe o• rqr Grindingbarley, per qr 34s Od 37s O d Malting barley, ( o 3BB Od 42s Od Oats, do 2 - s Od 328 Od F10ur....1s 10d to 2s bd per 141 b. Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS DUE. Australia and New Zealand, via Southampton July 20. Ditto, via Marseilles July 14• Brazil and Cape Verds, by British packet ...... Aug. 5. Ditto, by French packet July 2.!. Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena...joy 22. China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton. .July 20. Ditto, via Marseilles July % 4 • Faikland Islands Gibraltar, via Southampton July 27. India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton.— July 2 0 . Ditto, via Marseilles India (Bombay), via Southampton. July 13• Ditto, via Marseilles . July 22. Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton July 13. Ditto, via Marseilles July 14. Mauritius, via Southampton Ditto, via Marseilles . . July 1 3 . Newfoundland July 13. Portugal Ditto, by private ship to Lisbon United States and British North America, by Bri tish packet July IS ... Ditto, by United States packet, via Southamp ton..... .. Ditto, ria Cork Ditto, by Canadian packet, via Londonderry ..July 2 3 . West Gout of Africa, Madeira, and Teneriffe .. .. July 1 1 - West Indies and Pacific (except Bahamas and Honduras) ••••• ....July l 4• Cuba and Mexico July 30. Bahamas, via New York. July 25 ' Bermuda, via Halifax. Aug. 1. t [ADVERTISEMENT.] - Hollow a y' s Pill s . Th e —, s eS t Friends.—Wh en b a d h ea lth overta k es mankin d , voi ,, i g would not be given t o b e f ree f rom it ? 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