The Sun. — London, England, 1855-06-14 00:00:00

ITAMPTON RACES. (THIS DAY.) (BY ELECTRIC TEISORAPII.) BUSHY PLATE. s Pi . naway 4 dt:line Nine ran. 1/gdo-Meli alrllerston VISITORS' PLATE. Six ran. RAILWAY PLATE. DBll rer .. 4, 1 • ******* ace ... Cottenhtiilon .- Five ran. Pa irner RICHMOND PLATE. ston .. ef rwiek anbourne Six ran. QUEEN'S GUINEAS. Witlkfield . 4 %bto n ketinyside Hero Eight ran. NEWTON RACES. (THIS DAY.) (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) NEWTON PURSE. 1 1." v b Y b • Richardson Six ran. tl tk ST. HELEN'S PURSE. Nine ran. fbar ...•'.• NEWTON HANDICAP. iapeebo; ***************** 1 Six ran , tourth'7},Strition SUN ,OFFICE, Seven o'clock. 14r j ' L-11, DIAL PARLIAMENT. BoD The ' OP LORDS.—(THIS EVENING.) ' t P R D CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack t in 2 clock. tl l 4l li7 zi(4 n t IG - TI presented a petition from the trustees 4 t aging committee of the Warenford Hospita', in '111„ l Leanzungton Priors, in the coun of War alnst the 53d clause of the Charitable Trusts The RELIGIOUS WORSHIP BILL. t he h ., 4 , 1.1 of DERBY, after referring to the smallness 4 i 1 ‘ , 4 ,,, -- a.lority by which this bill passed through coin t,4,erinn.ell Tuesday, namely, a majority of one, and con- Zke r , that this was the only discussion which had d- t eu ti .. ta .? e upon the merits of the bill although it bad P front the other House of Parliament, , and consi. I, 0 44 it p invol ved th at • question of the deepest _ Ped ~,7e and interest to the Established Church, he 11 0 a tio ; l oat the noble earl who had charge of the whole Lts 44 ., Would consent to refer it to a select committee 1 „ 11 ' the practical operation of the law proposed .11 Api Pe ated by that bill, and whether it would be ex .„!ither to relax or repeal that act. e art of SHAFTESBURY said he regretted that d ltl, °- ,„.(1 not com ply with the request of the noble 41 1 4 0 i t his bill iniolved a simple proposition, and he ' L er t .. t hink that in the present temper of the f k % • , tr i ,i, W ould be possible to retain on the statute book , her s Preventedm or h e . than 20 persons meeting to. That law was obsolete of religic2ns worsi k A l 4 ti tli f„ Years. He did . not, p iherefore, see the expediency th:Y. - ` l g' whether it should or should not be swept ehi tee he only argument he had heard urged against t , lire was that it would interfere with the paro tA,,Ateel. To meet th a t o bj ec ti on h e wou ld b e ; 4, leg ' , to propose a clause that nothing contained in in any way affect in the least degree the ki,; (4 e i l ea' submission of the clergy t o th e i r super i ors. M of DERBY, in consequence of the answer lt=l, a o Y the noble earl, gave notice that, Lr Pel , ,, ko lendment, he should move that a O n iie l lttee.be appointed to consider the propriety 'top h ., t he 7of repealing or relaxing the law referred to. A 1 44,P/1 4 : 0n of Lord REDESDLE, te Land 4 (lC' - " tQ4 Company Bill was read a third time and .44 1) 1 , 11 ' te T,ION OF THE STANNARY COURT 11 0 0 , AMENDMENT BILL. - "lbons' amendments to this bill were agreed to. i t6 i ‘ 4 t e k I rIOURS OF LABOUR BILL. of SHAFTESBURY rose to move l'Z i kl 4 1 .' 1 r ls . Te cdleomen Limitation of H o u r s o f 1 1 ;4: „till be referred to a sel ec t comm itt ee I,,, t he i 7e standing order No. 175 respectitg bills of trade. In doing so, the noble earl ;t h 'it lv 'est affecting picture of the sufferings of the Vtt „„? I llen of this country, and read extracts from the t4 4 .14;Z0n by the most distinguished medical men for Vett ~e ! l ` of showing that this system of employment tp,ol, ol ;ue most appalling suffering and privation on tl, o th, t W omen, in the shape of cons um pti on , bli n d ness , k4%,l2fi' ri evous afflictions. It was no uncommon thing kt 4ll 'tt., 4 t hose poor w om e n t o l a b our f or 17 an d 18 I ''t dea Y• The evil had increased to such a mag ylit 'Qat le g i s l at i on was a b so l ute l y necessary t t , t aa4lto t ection of thi s mos t h e lpl ess c l ass o f th e Y * Ile proposed a short bill for the 4 1 . °f 1 I nitigatink th e ev il. H e p ro p ose d th a t the 1, h l n t „ °t lz should be limited to a certain num. Y e lior a . in the day, m a king a distinction between of t hin the Ist o f March to the Ist of August, , bin L e er Part of th e year . H e p ro p ose d t o re f er ,Ytrl b 't] a sele c t comm i t t ee . 0 1 ' 1- VILLE had no objection to the course mlice 1 „,, - Y the no bl e lord, but he b egged that the corn -441;t0t th e into th e i r cons id er ation the practica kl4Ptrae ) 1/ abort conversation in which the Earl of kt.:tity:/t/, Lord CAMPBELL, Lord STANLEY of e d t o. 411 (1 other peers took part, the motion was ALDEI`h. bilruLD FINGER RING BILL. @LE v en th e mot i on of L or d STANLEY o f Qh ; %vc,„ - tt was rea d a secon d time . bill R IDGE UNIVERSITY BILL. kliN 4 the motion of the LORD CHANCEL- YllNf r e ,,aci a third time, and passed. —"rEtATION OF 0A.T113 ABROAD. thozed throlgh committee. oLill Was IMPROVEMENT BILL. 1 1 o e , i 'S read a third time and passed. NTYI4II 'ESTASTICAL COURTS BILL. w t, a4 read a third time and passed. to PA LATINE OF LANCASTER TRIALS h BILL. passed through committee. leoe U REA- t , Vitt Earl L ENT OF SHIPS FOR TONNAGE. 111 of 11' -r iARDW kt t he . 1s a ,. ICKE said that he bad given to bit Ul lzet I,entlon to call the attention of the house IkOsii i to th of the measurement of ships for tonnage, tt l ito t .l) ,k R h- mode of estimating the steam-power for 1 1N' blit no ITS ith a view of amending the law on this I„lfti t lt t . 4l b e e ,_"v begged to introduce a bill with this W° defer l th e second readin any remarks he might have e r lr read a first time. g. ullas then adjourned. 1.11 VOPIOAg COMMONS—{THIS DAY.) tit - t le,. R took th e chair at 12 o ' clock. '4 71 " g bills were read a third time and passed:7 b °1 11 1 , 1It 7Y; Gat es h ead Quays and Improvements; London Cemetery ; Halifax Gas. kt, and and I otteldlreland Improved- Communication Ytiti et ed, and ordered to be read a third time. s,l)kheOs 1,,e PETITIONS. yk t im presented by Mr. F. Scully, from vari ht,:eL4ti tilllPPerary, in favour of the Tenants' Com-- 1 / 4 4:th, hY Mr. Cowan, several petitions from OtPttiti-Kainst the et Maynooth grant ; a l arge num aZzlie W ere present e d by various members, in N o against the Lord Advocate's Edu ca ti on Ad toLN LOCAL MANAGEMENT BILL. I,.yoti nn said he wished to postpone the further a e , t, of . this bill, which was fixed for to-day, to `4ti ~,,a dd then to resume it on every Tuesday `" l laing till the bill was disposed of. 11:1411 kotvas agreed to. ! t s k ttl ) o °/4 ,. , e 6.12„Ffl EDUCATION BILL. ; 0 11, 4 t gone into committee en this bill, Lit h t)k : A ver ntt " to ask the noble lord at the head Otj th e el lt h. question with reference to the Nti th„nleasure. The question he wished to ask . ti l the n e veut of the bill passing, it was the Privy .or education among the various sects in 1, 1 01, 1 0 !t1 ) 11 sp 4t RsToN said this bill, if passed, i. l l/ ' rlPt . eb end .2 - schools rA, 4 4, O f eou end ed, make provision for those was „'') l , t te I ,,tl tkat rae the object of the Government I thb c'e, and there was not the slightest NA•etit assistance from ose schools, and the p,,Vier.j:°ol,(l be dispos e d to Ch ive the most favour -ith or • - "L'a to the P I •of such schools, whether k 2 ll g th .aims _ a %mi t .' country, which were not in such :Ntv %„. t en KS would enable them to do as much ip Apt, l ed for their own schools. (Hear.) t le th k t c th e the moved as an amendment that t a,te", o l 3 , sPreanthle, 16th line, page 1, after the 1; cti Ptures," and th e wor d s in the 17th, 61 9t h aud the words in the 20th line, Words "And whereas," be left out, and t - . .- !=o , * it, , ..,, , .,,,i17. - :7: -4 -Z. '''' "' ' ft.- that the following words be substituted, viz., " ought not to be conducted at the expense of any of her Majesty's subjects who conscientiously object to the principles taught, or to compulsory taxation for the teaching religion, or to the reading of the Scriptures, in any public school." Mr. L. HEYWOOD seconded the amendment. Mr. BALL opposed the amendment, believing that, if it was carried, it would act most detrimentally on the education of the cour`ey. The LORD ADVOCATE did not concur with those who thought that taxes should be levied for the purpose of religious education. Mr. A. PELLATT supported the amendment, con sidering that the parties for whose benefit the bill was introduced ought not to be allowed to tax the whole community. Mr. F. SCOTT opposed the amendment, because it was in his opinion inoperative and ineffective, and he hoped the bon. member would withdraw it. After a few words from Mr. A. HASTIE, Mr. MACGUIRE said that the Roman Catholics of Ireland were as much in favour of education as any class of her Majesty's subjects, but they objected to being taxed for the advantages of other religions. Mr. DE VERE stated that after the intimation that had been given by the noble lord at the head of the Go vernment, he should withdraw his opposition to the clause. Mr. HADFIELD having replied, the house divided upon his amendment, when there appeared— For the amendment Against it Majority against the amendment--161 20 The amendment was consequently lost. St. Mr. C. BRUCE moved to introduce words for the purpose of declaring that the Christian religion should St. be taught in the schools. 25 St. The LORD ADVOCATE considered th e amendment St. of the hon. member totally unnecessary, as the bill, as it 10 at present existed, provided for all the objections of the St. hon. member. After some observations from Mr. SCOTT and Sir G. GliEl", the committee divided, when there appeared— For the amendment Against it ). lO5 Majority against the amendment 37 The amendment was consequently lost. Mr. SCOTT moved that the words "superintendence of the schools should be altered and extended" should be amended by the substitution of the word " extended" for " altered." The committee divided, when the numbers were— For the amendment Against it Majority against the amendment---S1 On the motion that the preamble as amended be agreed to, Mr. HADFIELD objected to it entirely, and moved that it be struck out. The committee again divided when the numbers were— For the amendment Against it Majority against the amendment... —59 The preamble was accordingly carried. On clause 1 being put, Mr. SMOLLETT objected, and moved that the con sideration of clause 1 be postponed until after the in terpretation clause bad been agreed to. • The LORD ADVOCATE objected, considering it B;2i was better to proceed with the bill in a regular manner, St. by taking this clause first instead of the last clause, St. which was the interpretation clause. 50 The feeling of the house being against the motion, 25 Mr. SMOLLETT withdrew it, and clause 1 was proceeded 1 2F with. 50 The LORD ADVOCATE proposed that the clause 20 which provided for the establishment of the board of education, should be amended, with relation to its for- St mation, as follows:—That the board should consist 50 of 16 persons, four persons, one of whom shall be Bt. elected by each of the Town Councils of Edinburgh, t 6 Glasgow, Dundee, and Perth ; four persons, one of whom 1.6 shall be elected by the Commissioners of Supply of each of the counties of Ross, Aberdeen, Renfrew, and Ayr ; ° and four persons, one of whom shall be elected by the 25 Universities of Edinburgh, Glasgow, Saint Andrew's, 25 and one alternately by the Universities of King's. College 5 0 and Marischal College, Aberdeen, the former having the st, first electien ; a member to be elected by the Educational 50 Institute of Scotland ; and 3 persons to be nominated by 10 her Majesty; and the members of the board shall hold office 10 for three years, and shall be capable of re-election or ap pointment; and the first election under this act shall take place at a meeting duly called, to take place on the 30th day of October, 1855 ; and the beard shall be called "The Board of Education in Scotland." In compliance with the suggestion of an hon. member the Lord Advo cate consented that the Lord Advocate and the Solicitor- General for the time being should belong to the board, and the words were accordingly inserted. Mr. LOCKHART moved two additional members to the board, from Lanark and Perth, on which the com mittee divided, when the numbers were— For the amendment Against it l2O Majority against the amendment —45 On clause 3, The LORD ADVOCATE moved a proviso to be added to the clause for giving a salary of 6001. per annum to the chairman. 20 20 10 10 Mr. WILLIAMS inquired from what source the salary wou►d be derived? Tie LORD ADVOCATE replied that that was pro vided for by clause 2. The clause, ao amended, was then agreed to. On clause 4, Mr. STIRLING proposed that a representative of the general body of schoolmasters should have a seat upon the Board. (Hear, hear.) Mr. C. BRUCE quite concurred with the observations which had fallen from his hon. friend ; and in case the board should be sanctioned, he wished to impress upon the house the propriety of giving a seat to a representa tive of the parochial schoolmasters. Mr. MA - GUIRE had a strong objection to the clause as it at present stood, and moved that it be omitted altogether from the bill, in order to substitute for it a provision to the effect that it should be in the power of her Majesty, on the recommendation of the Committee of Council on Education, to appoint an inspector-gene ral of schools to carry out the purposes of the act under the direction of the committee. He suggested, however, that the salary should be 1,0001. instead of 6001., at which remuneration it could not be expected that an efficient person would undertake the duty. After a few words from the Lord Advocate in reply, and also from Mr.' Scott and Lord J. Manners, Mr. MAGUIRE maintained the desirability of the proposition he had brought forward. Mr. E. ELLICE agreed with the hon. gentleman op posite (Mr. Maguire) that a salary of 6001. was much too low to induce a properly qualified person to under take the responsible duties of the office of Inspector- General of Schools. (Hear, hear.) Sir J. FERGUSSON thought that the board would be very cumbrous in its operation, and would fail of attaining the object sought beneficially to the schools of Scotland. The government of schools would be much better conducted by one responsible person than by a variety of conflicting interests. This would not only be productive of delay, but also would, in all probability, frustrate the intended usefulness of the act. After a few words from Mr. HENLEY in favour of the wo clause as amended, and also from Mr. STIRLING, The LORD ADVOCATE (it being now ten minutes too to 4 o'clock) said it would not, he thought, be necessary . 100 to take a division upon the amendment, as he should pro- 100 ceed with the bill in the evening, and he hoped the Scotch members would alter their tactics with zegard to 20 100 the measure. Mr. BRUCE protested against the words made use of 2g by the right hon. and learned gentleman, but Mr. FITZROY left the chair, in accordance with the 20 standing orders of the house. 20 The house then resumed, and 20 Mr. BRUCE repeated his complaint of the expression 20 made use of by the Lord Advocate. 33! Mr. FITZROY explained that it was not out of dis- 10 courtesy that he had left the chair whilst the hon. gen- 20 tleman opposite was speaking; it was not optional on his f ( 6 ) part. He was obliged by the standing orders to vacate it at ten minutes to four. 911 Mr. IRTON also complained of the language used by the Lord Advocate. Mr. ELLICE thought the expression was perfectly justified, as the Scotch members would admit that they were merely talking against time to delay the progress of the bill. Mr. SCOTT denied that such was the case so far as he was concerned, and the subject then dropped. The house afterwards adjourned until 6 o'clock. The house resumed its sitting at six o'clock. VICTORIA GOVERNMENT BILL. 'Lord J. RUSSELL moved the seoond reading of this bill. Mr. BALL moved that the bill be read a second time .hat day six months. Mr. MIALL supported the amendment. [LEFT SITTING.] LAW INTELLIGENCE (THIS DAY). QUEEN'S BENCH. (Sittings at Westminster in Nisi Prins before Mr. Justice _ 2C Erle and a special jury.) SELBY AND ANOTHER V. ENGLAND, 4C Mr. Chambers, Q.C., and Mr. Quain, were for the 4C plaintiffs, and Mr. Hill, Q.C., and Mr. Pigott, for the 5C defendant. This was an action brought by the plaintiffs against 0 2 , 5 the defe n d ant f or t h e recove ry of 8301. The. -plaintiffs:are " the Birmingham Patent Iron and Brass-tubing Company, me having a branch establishment in London, and the defers- 100 dant a locomotive engine marufacturer, cArrying onibusi- too ness at Hatcham Works, New Cross. The sum sought to be 20 recovered was 830/., but the plaintiff pleaded a setoff for two sums of 490/. and 289/. 133. 9a., and bad paid the difference into Court. The question for the consi deration of the jury was whether the sums above stated which Mr. England advanced to Mr. :Johns, one of the partners, but who had since left the firm, was for the benefit of the firm or Mr. Johns only. The trial had not concluded when 'our despatch left. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY—Y-IEBT ERDAY. IN B E MONTI. —The bankrupt, who was a S C ulptor i n Great Marl borough•street, passed hi s l ast e rani/nation without OP position. The grand wrfter-works of Versail'ies played on Mon day, par extiaordinaire, in honou r of the Lord Mayor of Loudon and .the English deputati, Do. Sir Janie. ; Ferguson was acciden tally shut out, and prevented voting in favour of going into committee on the Sunday Trading Bill. .1 2 .3 .. 1 .2 .3 ~ 1 .2 3 THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JUNE 14 1855, ki ARE I (THIS RAIL' T L `A T t ber , i lmbg. Nottng. and Eastn. Junct all Belfast & Ballymena all Riming. Wolt ih Stour Va11ey,,,,,,,, 29 Birkonhd. LanesL, & Cheshire Junct all Do. Chesh. de Birk., • £5O and £25 Cone. 19 Do., £20...... .11 Myth & Tyne origina £25 (issd. at £45, .00 (Iristol and Exeter 00 Caledonian 61s. Carmarthen and Car digau .. . an Chester & Holyhead all Cork and Bandon all Cork, Black, dr Pass 16 Cornwall 1 j Crieff Junction 45 Dublin&BelfastJune, all Dundee Perth dab , , icen Junction all Do. Now [OO East Anglian all Eastern Counties 00 Eastern Union, A Stock 100 De., B. Stook 81 Do., New A 1.00 East Lancashire LOG Edinburgh& Glasgow all Edinb. and Peebles 00 Edin. Pr th & Dundee 1 Forth & Clyde June, all Furness all Do. Extension 100 Glasgow &S. Western 100 Great Northern , 100 Do., A. Stock 1 00 Do., B. Stock DO Gt. Sth. &West.(lre ) WO Great Western 100 Da. Stour Val_ Rail Gua. Stk all Irish South-Eastern all Lancaster & Carlisle 14i Do., Thirds 7 Do. Now Thirds 100 Lancash.andYorksh 1 Do., Wet. Riding Un all Liv.Crsby.&Southpt all London & Blackwal DO Gond. Bright & S.Cst . 00 Lond. and N. Westn. 16 Do. Fifths 5i Do.lol. 5h.,M&8...0 2A Do. Eighths 100 London andS. Wcstn 47i Do., £5O 38 Do., .£4O 5 all Lndndrry& Coleraine 5 all Lndndrry. & Ennisk . 100 Manch.Shef.& Li ncln all Do. Shares, No. , 325. Do., Man. & Lin. Un. 100 Midland 100 Do. Birmng. &Derb all Midld. G. West. gm; all Do. Half Shares all Newcastle & Carlisle 23 j Nwpt.Aberg. & Hrfd S Newry & Enniskillen all Newry Warrenpoini and Rostrevor 100 Norfolk 32 Northn.Counties Un 100 North British all North Devon, No. 1 all Do., No. 2 all no., # A Deferred all Do., B Guaranteed 00 N. Eastern—Berwick 20 Do. do. Extension 13 Dodo. O.N.E. Pnrch all Do. Leeds 100 Do. York all North London .. all Do. New £lO 3' is N. &S. Wstrn. ,Hamp. stead, and City Jn., I North Staffordshire , all North Western all N. &S. Westrn. Jnnc 1 Nuneaton, Hinckley, and Leicester 00 Oxford, Worcester,& Wolverhampton 8 Portsmouth LOO Scottish Central . SeottishillidlanO LOO Shropshire Union a l south Devon 1I South Eastern all South Wales 15 5. Yrksh. dt Riv. Put 5 Do 11 Staines, Wok. Ar,Wok al Stockton & Darlin 16 Stcdcten Hr.rtlepl 100 Taff Vale 9 Do. £lO shares 100 Do. Pref., No. 1 21i Thames Haven Dock and Railway Ulverstone & Lancs all Vale of Neath all Waterfd. & Kilkenny all Waterford&Limerick all West Cornwall 5 West Eud of Loudon and Crystal Palace all (West London I.7ls..Wimbledn & Croydon all Antwerp&Rott !rdam 4 Belgian Eastn. June. 10 Bezi ere to Craissesaac .oa. Bombay, Baroda, and Central India,Scrii all Demerara 10 I patch Rhenish . all Eastern of France . 10 Do. New all East Indian, g. sp. c. 10 Do. EYbension all Do. 4i p. c. Bds., pay '57, convertible all Do. do. do., '59, do Gd. Tk of Canad aA is all Do. St. Lawrence & Atlantic do. 70 Do. Cert. of Deben., con. into Stk. till'63 all Do. Comp. 6p. c., do. 10 Gt. Centralof Franc , all Gt. Indian Peninsula guar. 5 per cent. 1 Do. New 5 per cent. 2 Do. Extensions all Do. do 13 Great Luxembourg Constituted Shares all Do. Obligations all Gt. Western o f Canad Shares all Do. Bds., payable's7, with option till '55.. all Do. do., '62, p. '56... all Do. do., '76, p. '6O all Dn. do., '73, without, option all Hamilton & Toronto all Do. 6 per cent. 14 Lake Coast. & Basle all Lucca & Pistoja 5 p.c. pref 10 Lyons and Geneva 14 Lyons dg Mediterran 161 Madras 10 Do. New 31i Maria Antonia 41 Do. do. New all Namur dr Liege (wit! , interest) all Do. (ex interast) all Northern of Prance. all D 0.201. Shs.late Char leroi and Erquelines guar. 33 p. e.& red. at 22,3 C dur. 88 yrs. from 1 Jan. 1854 all Do. 201. 3 p. c Bdo (fmy. B. & Ams. Shs. all NorwegianTrunkPref 16 Paris and Lyons all Ditto Bonds all Paris and Orleans all Paris and Rouen 13 ParisCaen di Cherbrg all Rouen and Havre all Royal Danish 3 Royal Swedish all Sambre and Meuse all Do. 5i p. cent. Pref 2s. Muth)._ all Southern of France 16 St. Andrew's and Quebec (A) all West Flanders all Do 5 per c. Prof 16 Western of France 16 West. of Switzerland all Widahaden all Zealand JOINT-STOI all lustralasia all British Colonial Bank and Loan Company all British N. American 5 Chartd. Bank of Asia 4 Chrtd. Bnk. of India, Australia, & China 10 City 25 Colonial 20 Commercial of Lond all English Scottish and I Australian Chart all !..ond. Chary. Bk. of Australis 5 Ditto New 20 London and County 10 London Joint Stock 20 Lond. & Weetminster 35 National Provincial of England 10 Do. New 22i National of Ireland all New South Wales all Oriental Bank of Corporition 25 Provincial of Ireland all Do. Now 1 Royal Australn.l3kg, tz Gold Imp Co.. all 4onth Australia al; of Australia... 9• Do. New 1.0 Union of London AR KB TS tAY.) LYS. d4cta this day. IfAILWAYI. 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PAPERS RELATIVE TO THE CLoSING OF THE CONFERENCES AT VIENNA. PRESENT. For Austria—Count Buol-Schauenstein and Baron Pro kesch-Osten. 1 For France—Baron Bonrqueney. For Great Britain—Th e E ar l o f Westm o rl a nd. For Ru ss i a —P r i nce G ortse h a k o ff , and 11. do_ Titoff. For Turkey--Aali Pasha, and Aarif Effendi. Count Buol opened the meeting by the following words "In the twelfth Conference I had the honour to express the opinion that the modes of solution calculated to carry completely into effect the third guarantee were not ex hausted, and I claimed especially for Austria the task of looking for means of accommodation. "We have devoted ourselves to the accomplishment of this task with a zeal proportioned to the importance of the interests at stake. I have drawn from our p weding deli berations the elements of the solution of which I am about to submit to the consideration of the Conference. In re flecting upon those deliberation s , I was convinced that various principles, admitted on all sides, might be con sidered as beyond discussion. Those principles are— "l. To connect more completely the existence of the Ottoman Empire with the European equilibrium. "2. To establish a just balance of the naval forces of the two States bordering on the Black Sea. 1 "3. To give a new confi rma ti on to the :tilt of closing the Strai ts ; reserving alway s t o th e Sublime PorTe the right 1 of calling for the fleets of her allies, whenever she might 1 m consider herself menaced. " These bases being obtained from the negotiation, w hat is the obstacle which has prevented a perfect agreement on the whole of the third guarantee ? "The principal difficulty, I should say the only one, rests in the refusal of Russia to impose upon herself by Treaty,a one-sided limitation of her naval forces in the Black Sea. But while declaring such an engagement to be an infringe ment on the rights of Sovereignty of the Emperor, the Plenipotentiaries of Russia have not beforehand declined to examine every proposition relating to the principle of limitation, and they concurred that a stipulation of this nature would not be an infringement upon honour, from the moment that it became the result of a mutual agree ment between the contracting parties. " With the view of removing this difficulty, one of the French Plenipotentiaries, who no longer assists at our de liberations, has pointed out a scheme which I am happy to reproduce, because it records the sentiments of modera tion which stamped his instructions. " A mutual agreement between the Plenipotentiaries of Russia and the Sublime Porte on the basis of a balance of their respective forces and the subsequent annexation to the general treaty of an arrangement signed by them on this subject, were proposed by M. Dronyn de Lhuys as a proper means of conciliating all interests and all require ments. " This course, dictated as it appears to us by an idea eminently conciliatory, seemed at the same time to be the practical application of a happy expression of the British Plenipotentiary, who also is no longer with us. "In the eyes of England (so he expressed himself) the best conditions, and the only ones which were admissible, would be those which, while being the most conformable to the honour of Russia, should, at the same ti me b e suffi cient for the security ofEurope, and for preventing a re turn of such complications as that which it is now a ques tion of putting an end to. " It is, therefore, this idea (the honour of which belongs to the French Cabinet) which has served as a basis to the project that I am about to read, and which, while it is perfectly honourable for all parties, unites, in our eyes, all the elements of a satisfactory solution of the third gua rantee." After this preface he read the project, of which a copy is hereto annexed. Having finished reading it, he concluded by thus expressing himself : "Austria, I am authorised to d ec l are , wou ld see in the acceptance of this outline the complete bases of an effec tual and honourable solution for all parties. Always faith ful to the engagements which she has contracted with her allies, faithful to the principles which she has laid down, but being in a position apart from the hostile action which sepa rates the otherparties represented here, she has considered it a sacred duty imposed upon herby herexceptional position, to exhaust all means for obtaining a triumph of those princi ples, at the same time putting an end, if possible, to the calamities of a war which has already cost so many noble victims. It is with these feelings that Austria presents this proposition, and recommends it to the serious and friendly consideration as well of her allies as of the Court of Russia." I Baron Bonrqueney said that as Count Buol's proposition had for its basis a principle so repeatedly and peremp torily rejected by the Plenipotentiaries of Russia, it was for them to speak first on this subject. _ The Earl of Westmoreland stated that he came to the Conference in pursuance of the invitation of the Austrian Minister for Foreign Affairs, but that he find s hi mse lf i n the same position i n w hi c h he was placed at the last meeting when he declared that his instructions were ex hausted. Prince Gortschakoff, whilst contesting the opinion of Baron Bourqueney that the proposition of Count ,Buol rests on a principle which has been categorically rejected by the Russian Plenipotentiaries, begs the Plenipotentiary of France to be so good as to speak first. Baron Bourqueney then stated, that as he is pressed to express his opinion, he finds himself compelled to recur to the peremptory and reiterated refusal of the Plenipotene tiaries of Russia to agree to the reduction of their naval forces by treaty, ox on a basis discussed in Conference. This refusal had of course left traces and exercised a de cided iefluence on the instructions with which his Govern. ment supplied him wit& reference to the Conference which would be called by tbe Minister for Foreign Affairs of Austria, for the purpos3 of making known the means of reconciliation to which he had declared he would devote himself. As the project proposed by Count Buol does not completely fulfil the cond3Lons which his former instruc tions point out, he mast for his own part declare that the mission of the Conference i exhausted. Prince Gortschakoff state,i, that after the declarations which he has just heard, the Conferences for peace have de facto ceased. He would, thentfore, have a right to remain perfectly silent, since to enter into particulars would only be to discuss bases which in t lie opinion of Austria are complete, whilst the Allies c onsider them insufficient. But he does not wish to take ad vantage of this right. As the Austrian propositions have already been considered by the Cabinets of Paris and Londe] 1, he will also make his Court acquainted with them, roser ving for his Court a free and full estimation of them. Nevertheless, he will express his personal opinion, as a mark of respect for the Cabinet whi chi has taken so much pains in preparing the project in question. In analysing it he asserted, in the first place, that this project does not rest on the principle as 'Bich the Plenipoten tiaries of Russia have invariably reject 'ad, and will always reject. Proceeding then to the differe lit articles, he had nothing to object to in the principle 'mkt\ flown in the first. As to the second, the gist of it lies in the direct under standing between the Plenipotentiaries rf Russia and the Sublime Porte, with regard to the cou, aterpoise of their respective naval forces. He does not reject such a combination', maintaining, however, that fixing the number of those for reo regards the two Powers directly interested, and that the rights of sove reignty of either would be infringed if other D'o'wers wishsel to dictate to them on this subject. He agrees* .to article 3. He finds that articles 4 and 5 are based upon ; article 2 of the Russian counter-project, which left his 1 tiy,liness the Sultan sovereign judge of the question of dee uding whe ther it would be, or not, compatible with his iederests ex ceptionally to open the straits. In conclusion, he finds in the general principles' of Count Buol's project, the bases of a possible solution of t lee third guarantee. M. do Titoff participates in the opinion of his cce'league ; and without having anything to add to ,the perm sal con siderations put f orwar d b y th e l e tt er, he associate him self fully with his official declaration of his wish to ; submit the plan of arrangement proposed by the Austrian M mister for Foreign Affairs to the examination and decision of his Court. Ash Pasha declares that the project of a direct wider standing between the Sublime Porteand Russia was based, as were all the other systems discussed within the Confer ence, upon the principle of limitation. The reiterated and categorical rejection of this principle on the part of the Plenipotentiaries of Russia having led to the abandon ment of every plan of this nature, his colleague and himself did not consider that they should call for instructions of their Court on this same project; and they aro, conse quently, in the same position as the Plenipotentiaries of France and Great Britain. Aarif Effendi concurred in this view. Baron Prokesch maintains that the Plenipotentiaries of Russia do not absolutely reject the principle of limitation —that their objections apply rather to the form under which it could be applied. The Plenipotentiaries of Rus sia having declared themselves ready to submit the Aus trian proposition to their Court, he expresses the b ope that the Plenipotentiaries of France and Great Britain will do as much on their side. The Plenipotentiaries of France and Great Britain de cline to bind themselves on this subject. Count Buol, while seeing with satisfaction that the Plenipotentiaries of Russia will submit his proposition to their Courts, thinks he need not answer the observations made upon it by Prince Gortschakoff, since he himself only attached to them the value of personal impressions. He adds that he is, moreover, too just not to acknowledge that the declarations of the Plenipotentiaries of France and. Great Britain rendered it in fact difficult for Prince Gortschakoff to enter into a deeper discussion. He finally declares that the Plenipotentiaries of the maritime Powers having them selves declared the Conferences to bo closed, have relieved him from a painful duty, the accomplishment of which would have been imposed on him by his position. Whilst thanking the Plenipotentiaries for having assembled at his invitation to bring the Conferences to a suitable conclu sion, he declares that Austria has no further proposition to m a ke ; that she will, nevertheless, be al ways ready, espe cially if it were in the interest of peace, to transmit to the belligerent Powers the overtures which one or the other of them might have occasion to address to him. Baron Bourqueney again resumes, in order to define the respective positions. He maintains that after all that had passed in the Conferences, his Government had perfectly the right of considering every project founded on the principle oflimitation as decidedlyrejected by the Pleni potentiaries of Russia ; it could not,consequently,introduce a contrary proviso in the instructions with which it had furnished its Plenipotentiaries for a closing Conference. It has been confirmed in this conviction by the circular of Count Nesselrode, giving an opinion on the whole bearing of the Conferences, and authorising from that moment the belief that the Cabinet of St. Petersburg itself consider them as closed. He finally observes to Prince Gortschakoff that the Austrian project is founded on the principle of li mitation in its strictest expression. The Earl of Westmoreland declares that after the catego rical rejection of the principle of limitation, his Government no longer saw any advantage in continuing the delibera tions. It considered the preceding Conferences as closed. His full powers being exhausted, he had nothing more to say, except that he will submit to the consideration of his Government the protocol of this day's Conference. Prince Gortschakoff, in ans wor to M. deßourqueney, again maintains that both in and out of the Conferences, and at all times when the question was mooted, he had constantly declared that all limitation of forces which might be sought to be imposed on Russia would be regarded by her Plenipotentiaries as an infringement on the sovereign rights of their master, and an insurmountable obstacle to peace.; that he had invariably remained faithful to this principle, and that he again establishes it in this closing Conference ; that, moreover, he challenges the members of the Conference wh o h ave the protocols in their hands, and more particularly the plenipotentiaryof France, to find in those acts a single princip'e or a single word which is not in accordance with that which he now affirms; that Count Buol having said in his introductory discourse that the Cabinet of Vienna had applied itself to find a solution equally honourable for all parties, be has only gathered and admitted from the second Article the idea which alone is of a nature to offer a basis of negotiation for Powers who respect themselves, that is to say, the combination to 22 25 I a: I 0 5 20 18 20 50 50 100 100 20 50 20 25 59 - 75 - 82}•• 85 - 8 • 7 -• ••• ... , - 41 .• '''. ••• .• '''"' •• ••• 20 21 34 - 4i 22- 24 7 - 8 FOREIGN. # - 36 - 9i - 24/ - - 5 - 4i 19i - 21:1 66 63 95 - 97 4 - 4i 5i - 6p - - RP to 5a 3i 3 3e 231 - 24 100 - 102 112 - 115 115 - 120 104 • 106 "3i - 24 113 - 118 5i - 61 lOi -: ii 13 -13 i A -- 9 29 -29 p 48 50 416 456 !•• Pm 24 - 25 21 22 li lid 9 —96 2 1 - np ... - pm 3i 4 d 9IP ••• - .•• 18 -18 i 4f -4, - 8 . 154 - 16. 12i - 121 32 - 36 23 - 25 78 - 79 57 - 59 8 - 9 19 - 21 • .... .. 70 - 72 94 - 94 76 - 78' 126 - 198 [Ol - 103 68 -- 69 - 8 .02i -, 103} 04,E - 1041 P p 271 - 28, 8i r- 8i 4 7 1 5 4 _...-- 1.; elm ' ". •, lA. . 6 " .. ~ 9 - 7 li - 2 E 7 E 31i ... 32, 76 77 6i 6 3i 3i 14, 14 52 53 48 50 d par 484 64 - 7 ' 1 d ar 28 - 30 100 103 68 70 47 - 49 14 15 GL —63 i 28i - 294 3 1 2d par 9 - 9' 2i - 2} 11 - 11 2} - - 6i - 7 p i - lip 2i 3 p 5 7 2 - 3 Closing Prices this (Ivy 134 —12 i 16i 16. • Tei 90 - 92 63 - 64 14i - 9 - 11 ...d~ BANKS. 84 - 86 67 69 id—par 4 - 5 p 18 -- 19 20 - 21 id- 4 p 34i - 34 37} - 38, .. 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Silva, ....." • •• '''''' • • • - ... carry out a counterpoise of forces by the direct under standing and the mutual consent of the parties . interest i e l d e: Baron Bourqueney observes to him, that it 1 3 s i ne D v r e o rt . less indisputable that the proposition made by effect ~ that do Lhuys in the eleventh Conference, to the ha the Plenipotentiaries of Russia and the Ports should come to some understanding with each other , . in the . presence . of the Conference, on basis of counteip:es of • their respective 1 forces, which basis should be recorded in- an arrangem ant which they should mutually sign, and which, annexed to t he l i reatY, sbOuld have the same value and the same force," bad been rejected. Prince Gortschakoff reminds M. de Bourqueney that he will find in the. Protocol of the sitting to which he refers stehlef sprdoiorfe.etthietehdiesrsotbsjeecatiinons did not bear on the idea it feasible in whi c h it wasprgo'p o b se n d t t o e n ea th n e y method so little After some obServations of Prince Gortchakoff, made with a view of modifying the impression produced on Baron Bourqueney by the circular cf the Chancellor of the Em pire of Russia, the meeting Was broken up. (Signed) BUOL-SCRAIIENSTEIN. PROKESOMOSTENT. BOITRQUENET. GORTSCUAKOFF. WESTMORLAND. TITOFF. }BALI. AARIF. enclosure. Annex to Protocol No. 14. (Translation ) Article 1. The High Contracting Parties Wishing th a t the Sublime Porte should participate in the advantages of the system estab.7ished by public law between the diffe- rent States of Europe, engage themselves severally to re spect the independence and territorial integrity of the Ottoman Empire, guarantee together the strict observan ce of this engagement, and will in consequence consider every act or event wh , ch should be of a nature to infringe on it as a question of European interest. Tf a misunderstanding should arise between the Pprte and one of the Contracting Powers, these two States, be fore having recourse to the employment of force, should place the other Powers in a position to prevent the ex tremity by pacific means. Art. - 2. - the Russian Plenipotentiaries, and those of the Sublime Porte, will propose by common agreement to the Conference the equal amount of the effective naval forces which the two sea-bordering Powers will keep up in the Black Sea, and which shall not exceed the actual number of Russian ships afloat in that sea. The arrangement which they shall have made between themselves in this respect shall form an integral part of the General Treaty. There shall likewise be inserted in the Treaty the means upon which the same Plenipotentiaries shall have agreed, with the view of controlling the exact and constant obser vance of the stipulations of the present Article. Art. 3. The rule of closing the Straits of the Bosphorus and Dardanelles, sanctioned by the Treaty of July 13, 1841, shall remain in force, with the exceptions stipulated in the following Article. Art. 4. Each of the Contracting Parties which has no establishment in the Black Sea shall be authorised by a fir man of his Highness to send into and to station in that sea two frigates or ships of less force. At. 5. In case (which God forbid !) the Sultan should be threatened with an attack, he reserves to himself the right of opening the Straits to all the naval forces of his allies. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. (From the Times of this day. ) Through a strange omission in some quarter or another we have not had the opportunity of giving till now a most in teresting, though very short, speech by Prince Albert at the annual dinner of the Trinity Corporation last Saturday. " Brevity is the soul of wit," and his Royal Highness has put more point into an address that cannot have taken three minutes to utter than some of our Parliamentary orators can accomplish in two hours. The Princejudiciously confined him self to one topic, and that a topic of the greatest importance. He compared the operation of a constitutional and of a des potic Government at. war with each other. The comparison indeed is forced upon us by the facts, and is very striking. There cannot be a more singular contrast.. On the one hand we see a profound policy, which we may suspect, but cannot ascribe to Russia, till the Czar himself blabs it out, and puts the world on its guard. We see unknown and infinite accu mulations of stores as if by the hands of Genii, or from the subterranean workshops of th e Tit ans and Cyclops. We see myriads of armed men suddenly presenting themselves through the morning mist, whence and how conveyed no man can tell. We see a vast fortress garrisoned by men whom we once despised, but showing not only the desperate courage of fanaticism, but the inspirations of genius and the depth of a great system. The conduct of the war on the part of our foes is subjected to no canvass, and has not even the benefit of an historian. A few scanty notices in the Invalide Russe are all that posterity will read of the heroism and the taleAs of great armies. From that field of glory every ray of licrht is concentrated on one mind. One man has to endure all the uncertainties, all the suspenses, all the mistakes, and all the disappointments of the , awful conflict. On our side everything is the contrary. Virtually, the whole British public fill the amphitheatre, and surround all the arena of the war. We hear and see , verything; we discuss the programme ; we canvass the behaviour and the plans of the generals ; we criti cise, we condemn, and, what is more, we inform, we advise. We care not who listens. It is the British people that carries on the war, and they will have it in their own hands. Such is the comparison which the Prince makes, more briefly and more tersely than we have done, between the character and position of the two parties in the present war, and he draws the very proper conclusion that we oug ht to show great con sideration for the Government which has to carry on war under such manifest difficulties—that is, a public against a secret power, which is much as if a being of common mortal mould had to wage a desperate battle with an invisible demon. Such comparisons force themselves on the mind, and sug gest so many reflections, that the power of making them is a great help to the understanding. An Englishman might be at a loss to describe the conduct of the war by his own coun try, and a Russian might see little that was distinctive or worth particular notice in the military administration of his own Government. But place these two things side by side and they instantly become the measure and test of one another. Wo see, then, what neither the Englishman nor the Russian alone does, and we immediately arrive at a high degree of negative knowledge. Wo see at once, for example, that Rus sia has not newspapers, in our sense of the word ; it has not " correspondents ;" it has not public committees of inquiry, changes of the Ministry, debates on negotiations for peace, and discussions before the eyes and in the hearing of the whole world as to the best mode of carrying on the war, the proper objects of that war, and the terms we might possibly accept from the foe, ~This is, perhaps, only negative knowledge, for, after all, it does not give us the true rationale of either aide in the comparison. But it is an immense help to what may be called the infirmity of human knowledge to have such a contrast, and to make one side the foil of the other. Plntarch's Parallels has been a favourite book with thousands in every age who would otherwise have cared little to explore the several characters compared. What perhaps is not always observed, but which imparts the principal charm to these contrasts, is that the imagination assists at the pro cess, and gives a sort of dramatic affinity and likeness to the two subjects of the comparison. We put them in one an- i other's place, to see what they would do with a transposi tion of circumstances. We imagine, in this case, the Emperor of Russia harassed, anticipated, compelled to change his Mi nisters, defend his policy, announce his plans, define his ob jects, and lay down his principles, by the public opinion of his subjects. On the other hand, we imagine the British Cabinet wielding immense armies with an unlimited power of I conscription, with privileged secresy, and an utter absence of i responsibility. The purely dramatic parallel will satisfy, few minds. It will tempt them to that more particular study of each side, which is necessary to a just and useful comparison. It is true that we may learn something from the contrast, but so also may the Czar. It is true that constitutional government is tried in these days, but so, also, is despotic. Publicity has its dangers, but, if it occasionally helps a foo, it is neces sary to a friend. Commissaries, Quartermasters, Gen era l s will not tell the t ru th e ith er to War Ministers or to Empe rors; so, while the British authorities at home aro learning the approach and progress of their disasters in the newspapers, the Rumba Government only discovers them too late even for mitigation. In this country grand schemes of policy are divulged, ventilated, condemned, and possibly prevented. In Russia they run their course to actual catastrophes. An im mense secresy protects the designs and the administration of Russia, but it protects those designs to the ruin and death of their author, and that administration .to its final breakdown. The Emperor does not even know the strength or the weakness of his own army, and learns only to distrust all returns with no other warrant than that of his own servants. It is true that our councils of war are very public, and our loyalty candid ; it is true that we expose our own sores to the eyes of all the world ; but to that publicity alone we owe the correction of our errors, the present suffi ciency of our armies and their supplies, and even, perhaps, the defeat of Russian diplomacy, Possibly to her own in scrutable policy and impenetrable secresy Russia now owes that she has not one ship afloat in the Black Sea, nor more than one fortress still in her hands. In this country it is, indeed, rather the whole people that carries on war than the Sovereign or the Parliament. Thus far, that people need not be ashamed to compare its performances with those of its Im perial antagonist. Even by the te.t of success the people wages war batter than the despot. But success is not the only test, for failure also is an hour of trial. We have already turned our failures to good account. Will the Czar, like us, have either the necessary knowledge or the means to profit by his failures, to reform either his policy or his administration I (Prom, the Morning Herald of this day.) We cannot help recurring to the absolute necessity of some independent member of the House of Commons moving for the secret despatches now openly acknowledged to have been sent to the admirals in command of our fleets in the Baltic and Black Seas, whereby instructions, superseding, and di rectly contrary to those which were professed to contain the intentions of the Ministry, wore conveyed, and of necessity acted on. Be it remembered, that these secret despatches being of a nature which the admirals were bound to conceal, but to obey, directly put an end to Cabinet and Ministerial responsi bility, the very names of which become a mockery while a system is allowed to exist by which Ministers can profess one object, then positively prohibit its being carried out, and throw the whole onus upon the unfortunate officer in com mand, by recalling him as a scapegoat at the end of the cam paign, and refusing him an inquiry. The public must now take care of itself, and declare its opinion so determinately, that • independent members ap pointed to investigate shall not find that they have screened the Government by " burkine the inquiry they were ap pointed and volunteered to carry out. Our readers must re member that this present Government is composed of men who were colleagues in the Cabinet with those who have ac knowledged themselves as implicated in these most dan gerous machinations, and as we cannot suppose that indivi dual members of any Government would dare to act in the manner in which Sir James Graham is supposed, on good grounds, to have acted, it is absolutely necessary to ascertain whether Lord John Russell and Lord Palmerston are not participes crintinis, as everything would lead au observer to suppose must absolutely be the case. 'We have unmistakeable evidence of the fact that the prin ciples which governed Lord Aberdeen's Cabinet are still in the ascendant, and that while professing to make war against Russia, our armies are wilfully paralysed and rendered non effective. How else are we to interpret the following facts ? That the whole effective strength of the British army in the Crimea at this the crisis of its fate, amounts to about 24,000 men. This force being without a reserve of any kind. That the cavalry is so weak as to bo almost totally ineffi cient—while regiments and detachments, which have been months under orders, are waiting, in the middle of June, for transports, which are still in Balaklava Harbour, orders having just been despatched to send them home, if not want ing there. " inexplicable d "neglect That the militia force has been by tot Ally destroyed for any efficient purpose, an no measure of any kind even announced for its restoration. That the army from want of baggage -cattle at this moment is • as immoveable, nearly, as it was at Varna. We believe it could not possibly move 25 miles from the coast without risk, . nay, certainty, o f being left ' wi thout suppl ies . Surely all these thins, after the warnings of last year. Can' not be accidents. We say, therefore, that in order to get at the delinquencies of. i!ie men now in power, we 'must investigate the proce ed. ins of thooe whose cranes they nave connived at. Bring the mischief home to Sir James Graham and we get the entire of _ Te' not, nad Ilse adopted by their col- ,orit .a..n2r(leen's Cabinet in a net, for Of coul,l not, be ignorant of Li leaque.F. vow we beg to point out to whoever—if any one have the iraee—is..to make this; motion for " belling the cat," that ill net de to ask for the papers from the Government in a printed _form. _Vfe tell the people that the admirals them selves should be called upon to furnish the originals, or printed copies for the authenticity of which they will them selves vouch. Be it kept in mind that the person more di rectly implicated in these transactions is the great " letter opener,'' and the hero of the singularly-dated document in the "great Mott ease," while the person whose complicity we wish to establish is the slum who gave to the publics .Barnes' resumes of Lord Auckland's despatches, as the an swers of the dead diplomatist to the very documents so set forth as containing his opinions. Now, we ask, are we not justified in demanding that the seer et despatches should be vouched for by the admins,73l That the doenments exist no one entertains a doubt, beeaase the almirals have both declared their willing less to produce Veen if celled in so to do by the proper authorities—their is one case having been avoided by refusing 'a 'gala-martial to Admiral Napier — in another by Mr. Roebuck and Mr. Lavard—we ta'te them as represe n t at i ves of V% g w ed h — en re q f t ils tes in ti g on t e o d a as llo t w o l A iis dnl c i o7l l - r. I committee which they inansa,We should have thou g ht t h at M L 4D. u :1, 71-41 a ( : ‘ • ar d si to rcafl Itl w eo o oO u r l di ( g l esi h ns a aal v . e been anxious to giv e . the man ll* buth (I accused sueh w . Tt . o i f d m a i p se t) o c i a n r hi n e c t ) t a t n o o T p , a p v o e r t; e n e i n ty t o h f e e a e n w n ta g hkiemnsebl by the the honourable member for Aylesbury. We are earnest upon the sn' ject of these despatches, becaue• ive la w ht e 6t b ‘: : : es l t i r e ey v ac e la , c7 e .: x tu, c : e ici p se t roe t fb h yo r o uo u ru g dr h i fis t ge h re c a i e r e mf disgraceful aii failures, w e s a h n a u n e e v g e l i e . c a t sr rin ts were baffled in the Baltic.- a d our armies starved by Liprandi in the Crimea. We hop e t he public have had enough of purposed raismar agemrint, and are anxious to probe its iniquity to the bAtor.i, q t d i tia • traitors o ews r sh foriol n e tt li e t e l Tuesday, d a y , and that they will do so in spite of the aid afforded to Govern ment-by independent- - members, who denounce Ministers es queney on votewhiehutiherEarnedmuc p ee lac in el the lv m e o h n op T e hu t r h s: Is s e t ol t f. h r e e ni fu s s e i lzs o f e or o w n a ly rd e as vid l e e n a c d e er o s of f e ca eo n nfi h d e en nation will force an inquiry into this matter. ( From the Mor — 'ning Chr on i c l e of this day.) Drury Lane Theatre was last evening the scene of proceed ings such as this metropolis has n o t w i tnessed during the last League, ten yeers. Si has been such a gathering for a political purpose as that which last night, filled boxes, pit, and galle ries of our National Theatre, The Association for the fur therance of Administrative Reform held, not their first nubile meeting, but their first oreanized meetingthe commence ment, we presume, of a series—for the propagation of their views among the great bulk of the people. T.- se was satise factory to see so full an attendance, and that the occupants of the platform, as well as those who could not personally attend, but who sent l e tt ers o f sympathy and co-operation, were of so respect a bl e an d i n fl uent i al a class. Mr. Morley; the chairman, may be said personally to em. body and represent that characteristic of this Association which distinguishes it from any preceding organisation of a similar kind. It is important not to lose sight of the fact, that this new movement is commenced, not in the interests of a class or of individuals, but in those of the whole community. Its detractors have not dared to insinuate that its promoters aro actuated by personal motives, or that they have in view the promotion of personal interests. It was originated by gentlemen who have some thing more profitable, if not more important, to attend to than political agitation ; and their having left their counting. houses to take part in it is the best proof at once of their OWII sincerity and of the integrity of their objects. Mr. Morley had already, on the occasion of the first meeting in the City, explained the reasons which led gentlemen in his position thus to step forward in the van of a great national movement. It was not in the nature of things that he could add much to the arguments he had already brought forward, in vindication of the course taken by the commercial classes. They have stepped out of the circle of the pursuits which best become them and are most agreeable to them, in order to vindicate the right of their fellow-citizens, and their own, to a more honest and rational system of administrative government than that into which the old vigorous practice of the country has degenerated. Their position places them above all suspicion as to the motives by which they may have been actuated. Indeed, it will have been remarked, that the opponents of administrative reform have never dared to insinuate that these gentlemen have any other object in view than the public good. Regarded with reference to these considerations, the speech of Mr. Morley will be read with an interest over and above that which would naturally be excited by his forcible and sensible remarks on the general question at issue. The other chief speakers—Mr. Layard, M.P., Mr. Lindsay, M.P., Mr. Tite, M.P., and Mr. Otway, M.P.—are equally above the ordinary stereotyed insinuations of political parti sans against any public men who may come forward to fur ther salutary reforms. In former cases of great public agita ,tions, it has often happened that the leaders had previously ?been unknown men, and that they were open to the sugges ,tion of making the topic of their platform eloquence a lever 'of their ambition. Such charges cannot be applied to the hon. members of the House of Commons who addressed the audi. enco from the stage of Drury-lane Theatre last evening. Mr. Layard is a man whose fame is already universal. Elected to the House of Commons mainly on account of that reputation, his co-operation has already been courted by successive Go vernments. If his ardour in the cause of reform has some. times led him into errors, that is a fate which he shares with some of the most distinguished and influential statesmen of the day. He has &ready shown a disposition to guard against a repetition of the mistakes into which he had been led by a natural indignation at systematic misgovernment; and a strong reaction of public feeling in his favour has been the consequence of the attempts recently made in the House of Commons to browbeat him and put him down. It will be seen that in the course of his speech last evening he gracefully alluded to the parliamentary scenes in which he has latterly been a chief actor ; and that, while.he renews his protestation that he is determined to persevere with the great question which he has taken in hand, he has endeavoured to set him self right with puhlle opinion, on the only point where his enemies had any advantage. Mr. Lindsay's speech will amply repay a most careful pent sal. The honourable gentleman speaks with a thorough prac tical knowledge of his subject. There are few men in England —certainly not one in the House of Commons —more capable of exposing the incredible apathy and w ilf u l m i sconduct of the officials of the Government in the departments whereon the success of the war so mainly depends. The incidents brought forward by Mr. Lindsay will ho found stated at length in the report of the proceedings of thq meeting. They are all supported by documentary evidence, and they all bear directly on the painful position in which this country has so recently found itself placed. Surely, charges such as those preferred by the honourable member--complaints not vague, but specific, and sustained by demonstrable proof,,—call for an equally specific reply on the part of the Government. It is very convenient, no doubt, to the delinquent heads of departments to be able to hide their cul pable and noxious neglect under the blaze of our recent suc cesses in the Black Sea and the Sea of Azoff, but the public owe it to the memory of those brave men who were sacrificed last winter not thus to "let bygone be bygones." They are bound to institute a searching inquiry into the past, in order • that a repetition of those evils may be guarded against in future ; and it is here that the evidence and the advocacy of gentlemen like Mr. Lindsay become of so much value. Mr. Tite appeared before the meeting as the representative of the first great triumph. of Administrative Reform. It was certainly one of the most remarkable events of the kind on record, that a gentleman of no striking political antecedents, and who was personally unknown to the electors, should have succeeded in carrying wi h him the sympathies of a constitu ency so numerous, so intelligent, and so favoured in the talents of past representatives, as that of the city of Bath. Mr. Tite would be the last to assume, or to permit it to be assumed that any personal merit of his own could possibly have led to such a result. He rightly regards it as a come queuce of the overpowering importance and influence of the cause with which his name has been associated. - In Mr. Ot way the association has a valuable ally. The honourable nienther has taken under his care one particular branch of the public service in which " Administrative Reform "is more especially required. To his Parliamentary laurels he is evi dently destined to add the more exciting and grateful tri umphs of the platform. Upon the whole, this meeting will form an appropriate pro logue to the discussion appointed for to-morrow evening. Mr. Layard pledges himself to bring forward the subject; nor will he shrink from the very strong terms in which he had previ ously couched his resolution. The amendment of Sir Bttlwer Lytton is now before the public. Mr. Layard proposes to call on the house to resolve :—" That this house - views with deep and increasing concern the state of the nation, and is of opinion that the manner in which merit and efficiency have been sacrificed, in public appointments, to party and family influence, and to a blind adherence to routine, has given rise to great misfortunes, and threatens to bring discredit upon the national character, and to involve the country in grave, disasters." The Tory chief will not go the length of this re trospective condemnation, but proposes to substitute for Mr. Layard's proposal a resolution to the effect—" That this house recommends to the earliest attention of her Majesty's Ministers the necessity of a careful revision of our various official establishments, with a view to simplify and facilitate the transaction of public business, and, by instituting judici ous tests of merit, as well as by removing obstructions to its fair promotion and le g itimate rewards, to secure to the ser vices of the State the largest proportion of the energy and in telligence for which the people of this country are distin guished." Between these two the House of Commons will have to de cide. They will probably do so with the aid of the light afforded by this very important meeting of the Administra tive Reform Association. MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.) MEAT MARKETS. NEWOATB _AN B D ee L f, R f A r D om ENFLAL 2 L d . To T 4 b s e 2tdr emruntltoedns,t3eaadz, as follows: — Camb, 5s 2d to 6s 2d ; Veal, 3s 8d to 4s 8d ; Pork, 3s 4d to 4s 4d per Blbs, by the carcase. SOUTHALL, June 13.—The sbow of stock was moderate, and the demand ruled steady, as follows : -- -Beef, f rom 3s 4d to 4s 4d; Mutton, 3s 8d to 5s Od; Lamb, 5s Od to 6s 2d ; Veal, 3s 10d to 4s 8d ; Pork, 3s 6d to 48 2d per 8113 s, to sink the offals. ROMFORD, June 13.—Our market was firm, and the quotations wero well supported. Beef, from 3s 2d to 48 i M o i ci itt t c o n 4 , 8 38 8 11 ; p to or s k s , 2 3 d s ; 4d La to mt, 251 P 4 dt B o lb 6 s. s Store Pigs, 22s t o 26 s each. 2dQ;ualrretie 6d; l ' 3 Quarter old s er --_ SnrrfilnEL HAY MARKETS . ditto 315 E t o 6/ D.—lleadow h ay, 31 09 to 5/ lOs Od ; clover Trade , firm. lOs 'and s t raw, 1/ 3s to 119 E per load. CUMBERLAND. Meadow hay, 31 3s to 51103 ; clover ditto, 3/ 3s to 6/ (is ; and straw 1) 44 to 1/ 103 per load. Both hay and straw sold steadily, at full prices. WIIITEC RAPRL.—Meadow hay, 31 Os to 51 I— o S clover ditto, 1 5s to 61 108 andt; stray 1/ 3s A firm market,to 93 per load. arket. INFERNAL MACHINES AT SEBASTOPOL.—A French correspondent writes on the 2d imt., from befcre Sebas topol " Five days ago some soldiers who were re tiringc, from a b arr i ca d e w hi c h they bad been attack ing dropp e d upon their knees to take advantage of the inequalities of the ground. One of them in so doing broke a small glass tube. He looked at it and made a sign to his corporal ; they searched fur ther, and found a series of those tubes, filled with some substance of a very pale yellow colour. The specimens were carried to the camp, when our engineers examining them found that the substance was a mix ture of fulminating powder, phosphorous, and saltpetre Other soldiers were next sent, and they following th e course of the tubes, found that they led to wooden boxe buried about six inches in the ground. One of the n boxes was removed and found t o contain. flask of explo- sive materials. In all forty-four of these boxes were found, and conneoted by means of tubes." 1 11 20 20 20 10 - • .. - 95 liol 101 i 94i i 1 i X 44 i 1141 3i 4j 6i i li i