The Sun. — London, England, 1855-05-08 00:00:00

8 ~-------________ _ ARE M ARKETS LINES iii F. ....SED \ T FIXED f,.ENTALS. (THIS DAY.) Leasing losing Price,. .i..ir ess 1 7 - - ..................._____ RAILWAYS. -iin. Palo RAILWAYIIs C ompany this day. this day. . lit, N it CO all Bedford and London 8 ..\ 14" VA Bletchley ... N. W " t- ••• - -.....,,, 72 . Closing p r i ce , 13 ,,,i nc ., dons St. 100 B uc k g i mi ngl i . L. &,N. W. 96 -98 ---.................. this day, this day. St. ICO Clydesdale Je. % , • 1 1 ' len. • 96 - 98 St. I nn --___ - lti "" Abend 8, &be .. S'ud. and Hal. E. C ... - ... g. Not .. -it l9 - •i 0 St. 100 E. Lincoln gr. 1 10 and t a. --g• Bost „. sll B elt , An. Junct,„ 4} - 4i 6 per cent. It.Nrthn. 133 - 1.55 441 8•11 Blain & Bally mena. ... - St. all Glas. Barr. & .I.l9.ldonian. 0 al Ste g. Wolverh. & •-• St. 103 Neils. Direct B it ,' l r Valley. -• ••• Do. New...... Do ethd ...... • 8 1 - 8 i 25 al l Glstr.e.r Dn. Fr .It. 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Bnk. of India, Aust r alia, & Chi na Colonial . ........... ... Commer cial of . Lond. English Scottish and klatralian Chart....' Loud. Chart. Bk. oi l Australia . ........... Ditto New . ........... London and County.. Loudon Joint Stock.. & Westminster National Provincial DDo. England .......... o. New ............... National of Ireland.. islew So uth Wal es .... Chiettal Ett Corporatio mk of b ...... ... oNeil of Ireland . .............. Royal Australn.Bkg. At geld IMP Co."' Routh Australia ...... U nion of Australis.. bo. New ... . ..... I.llllou of itondolli a OO. 10 22! kW IQ kll all 4 76 i 51 6 71 93 98 7/ 8k 681 91 7 14 1 12i 48 7i 59i I 27 :GN. I PM 24 12i 19b i 19 i 98i 8 7i 8 39i i I 1., li P t. 100 L2i 5 1.0 all It. 100 eo 9 .2i all . 2,6 all ,o all 6 4 all to , It: too It. 100 ;t. 100 L 6 5 all - it. 100 ',t.. ~ 10.1 8 1.0 ;t. 1100 51 4 MISCELLANEOUS. 25 17i ' Australian A gricult. 28 30 10 all Aush-aln. Royal Mail ... ~. 10 7 Berlin Water Works 3} 2d 50 40 Brit. American Land ••• ... 5 1 Brit. & Coln. Smeltg. and Reduction Co. .. ••• 100 32i Canada llO 315 St. 100 Can ada Gov. 6p. et Jan. and July 1( 81 —no 109 i 5 all Crystal Palace.. 3 3$ 3# 5 4 Do. Preference 4 all Crystalet France ... ..• 1 i Duston Iron Ore ... •• 20 SA Eastern Steam — 25 22 Electric Telegraph l6 17 1 all Electric Teleg. of Ir. ... ..• 15 14 Gen. Steam Navigat. ... ... 20 all General Screw S team ... -- ... 14a 1 20 10 Irish Beetroot Sugar ... ... 20 10 Magdalena St. Navig. ... ••• 10 all Mediteran. Elec. Tel. ... ••• 10 9 M emean &S.Americn. 6i 7 ug 10 24 Do. New ...........••• ... • 1 all Nat. Pat. Steam Fuei 10 5 Netherlands Land.... I II 2 1 LS. W. Coal &Inter. Steam Navigat. Co. .., ;•• 2 1 0 Ili 211 24 N ctoE ll 2h:suiop Australasian... .! -- f., all Peel Rr. Ld. & Minrl. 2i 2 50 all Peninsular& Oriental 59 61 60 10 Do. New 1.14 12 113 i i 2 all Portland Iron Co ll ..... 1 i 100 60 Royal Mail Steam . 68 70 69} I 1 cll Seot. Austral. Invest ll 1 i 11 1 i Ditto New„ ...... A ip Qgi 25 all South Austral.l, 1 all Submar. Tel. Scrip 4 1 1 all l'ire/. Revi,tiste t.. a ei 20 5 Trust& L. Co.U."&n . . ... .. ... - i 100 2,3 i Van Moan's 1444 13 . isa. 13 ....- ••• ••••• llia 40; 1 THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, MAY 8 1855. TliE BALAKLAVA ANDSEBASTOPOL RAILWAY. The following excellent resume of the eperations 01 the railway and description of the country are taken from a report addressed to Messrs Peto and Brassey by their chief engineer. It may not be out of place here to state that Lord Raglan has been so pleased at the energy and zeal of Mr. Beatty that he directed Mr. Romaine, who is acting (honorarily) as secretary to the Railway Board, to write that gentleman a letter, expressing his lordship's high sense of his services : " The bay of Balaklava opens into a wide plain towards the north. The high hills by which it is bounded on the east and west are composed of limestone. On the west the rock comes down steep to the water's edge. On the cast, on which the town stands, the ground rises gradually for some distance to the foot of the hills. " The harbour is not approachable when the weather is rough, but once in, the shipping can ride with perfect safety ; they are completely land-locked and protected by a point pro jecting inside, called the Castle Point . , which effectually covers the entrance. " It is rather more than a mile from the mouth of the har bour to the extreme end, but one-third of this is shoal water, and only available for small boats, and little more than half a mile long by an average of 300 yards wide is available for ships. In this space were crowded at one time upwards of 200 large vessels. " There is a landing-place at the north-west side, called the Diamond-wharf, where most of the heavy guns and powder have been landed out of boats, but the Balaklava, or east side, is where vessels discharge their cargoes, and where 41 the stores are. "The valley opening out on the north side of the harbour continues for some distance beyond Kadikoi, and is composed of a very rich deposit, and was, when taken possession of by the British, beautifully planted with vineyards and poplars, not a vestige of which now remains, except some large poplar roots, which the tools in possession of the soldiers were un able to make any impression on. " This valley is exceedingly soft, and covered with water after heavy rains. At Kadikoi the direction changes sud denly to the west, almost at right angles, and extends for about a mile towards the Flagstaff, the lowest point of the ridge surrounding the plateau on which the army is en camped. It is after passing Kadikoi altogether outside the intrench molts, and therefore not available for the railway (the Flag staff is about 660 feet above Balaklava), and extends to Inker man on the right, and to the French camp on the left. " What strikes a new comer most on his arrival here is the immense extent of country covered by the allied forces. From Balaklava to the extreme right is about nine miles in side the intrenchments, and the length of defence and attack ing works is over 16 miles, so that, instead of being a siege concentrated against a certain point, it is a series of detached batteries against batteries. I mention this to show that a few milts of rails are soon swallowed up in attempting to give railway accommodation to the army. " The whole is composed of lime and sandstone, covered, except where the limestone crops out, with a light, rich, luxurious soil, varying from 12 to 18 inches deep, over the surface, which works into a heavy and tenacious mud after rain. The whole face of the country changes after 12 hours' rain from a good hard surface to worse than a newly-ploughed field. " The line commences from both sides of the harbour and proceeds direct up the valley to Kadikoi, where it turns sharp to the west round the foot of the hill, on which is placed the Sailors' or 4-gun Battery, and through the French camp, thence along the side of the hills to the Flagstaff at the top of the plateau, and about half a mile from head-quarters. The line then diverges to the north, and proceeds direct to the Woronzow-road ; this is about seven miles from Bala klava. There is also a branch about one mile long to accom- ' modate the Third and Fourth Divisions and left siege train. Before the navvies arrived Lord Raglan placed at my disposal 2 , ..10 soldiers of the 39th Regiment, who were em ployed in collecting stones from the several old buildings and walls between Balaklava and Kadikoi ; theso were placed on the site of the railway to form a base for the rails, and very well they have acted. After 24 hours of the heaviest rain I ever saw, the portion of the line on which these stones are placed, with a sprinkling of ballast over them remained uninjured; whereas the whole surface of the camp was next door to impassable. We have also been so far fortunate as to find a large bed of tolerable ballast close to the town, which has been of great service in making the road travellable over the soft valley as far as Kadikoi and elsewhere, where we had not sufficient stones to form a base. " Beyond Kadikoi there is no ballast, except what comes out of the cuttings which are in sandstone rock, soft at top, but about six feet down it becomes very hard and compact. Between the French camp and the Flagstaff there are a few small excavations, unavoidable from the nature of the ground, and which, although they required some little time to get out, were available and necessary for ballast, as the horses cannot travel on the surface for any length of time, the soil working into a tenacious and deep mud. " From the Flagstaff to the Woronzow-road the line follows the surface for upwards of a mile. There are a few small cut tings (sandstone) necessary, from the nature of the ground, in this portion, but they will be all out and ready for laying the road through as soon as the materials are advanced that far. The branch to siege train will also be chiefly on the surface. "As regards the labour furnished by the army, I men tioned that 150 men of the 39th Regiment (afterwards in creased to 200) bad been placed at my disposal for a short time (from the 27th of January to the 6th of February) ; they were of the greatest assistance, as far as they went, in forming the line, and were becoming very fair navvies, but, unfor tunately, were removed before they had time to be of much real benefit to us. I took a great interest in these men ; the officers seemed to take a pride in their work, and I was almost in despair when they were taken away. " Two hundred Croatians were given me on the Ist of February ; they were at first literally useless, except as beasts of burden, and were only employed is carrying stones for the road. The want of interpreters who eould speak English was also a great loss to us at first ; however by dint of perseverance, we have at last broken a bout 30 oethem to handle the spade and shovel and wheel a barrow. The re mainder have been and are still engaged unloading the ships, for which they are 'extremely well qualified. " With the exception of these 200 Croats and 200 sailors lent by Captain Lushington for about 10 days, we have had no assistance in labour from the army ; indeed the Quarter master-General told me from the first that he could not spare any soldiers, and I do not believe ho could. The amount of fatigue duty and work in the trenches had fully occupied every available man in the army; and I feel quite certain that General Airey, from whom I have lately re ceived the greatest kindness, would have willingly afforded me military aid if he could ; but the truth was, until we began to convey goods by rail, and relieve the army of their daily trudge into Balaklava, the trenches were not half manned. From Balaklava to the summit the line has been completed some time ; now it is comparatively down hill, and the labour of transport is reduced to a mere nothing. To give one instance—six horses can now take 30 13-such shells from our depot at head-quarters to the advanced trenches in one day ; before it was as much as ever they could manage when the weather was fine to take 6 13-inch shells from Balaklava, to the siege train. " e railway was commenced on the Bth of February by the navvies ; it conveyed commissariat stores to Kadikoi on the 23d, and on the 26th of March it conveyeil shot and shell to the summit at head-quarters, 4i miles from Balaklava ; which, with the Diamond Wharf branch and the double lino from Balaklava to Kadikoi, ma kes upwards of seven miles of rail laid down less than seven weeks ; and now I approach the most important question of the whole—what has the railway done, and what is it calculated to do ? " First, I will give a list of the stores to be sent up to the front daily, as furnished by the commissariat officer, Mr. Bay w h i o l e have- lo This ng is s i e n x e i, e 4 u m a s i v d e e o u f steh of fli thei Highland line e d f i g g e a t d t n o g r u c a p v tahhe•yi stores : " Mein. daily supply of provisions for the front : Biscuit, 300 bags, 1121 b. each 33,6 00 Salt meat, 100 casks, 4501 b. each G r oceries and extras — say 30,000 Corn— say, 500 bags, 1501 b. each Hay, 120 bales, 150 lB,OOO 45,000 Fuel, wood, and charcoal—say 246,600 Total " Say, 112 tons daily. " W. BAILEY. " Up to last night the railway has taken up as nearly as can be 1,000 tons of shell and shot, 300 tons of small arms, 3,600 tons of Commis sariat stores (fuel and forage), besides upwards of 1,000 tous of m iscellaneous—viz., guns, plat forms, huts, Quartermaster -General's stores, &c. " The biscuit, salt meat, and groceries, Commissary- General Ender has not made any arrangements about issuing at head-quarters as yet. I have volunteered time after time to take everything up for the Commissariat, and at one time it was settled everything should go by rail, but this was countermanded. The Commissariat have now at their disposal every day 30 waggons or more, and these might be filled on the average twice a-day, sufficient to take up every thing in the shape of stores ; but the Commissariat men will not work before 8 in the morning nor after half-past 5 in the evening, and the Commissary-General does not seem disposed to take any steps, by inducing them to work later in the evening or earlier in the morning, to make any further use of the railway—in fact, he will not put himself out of the way one step to forward the comfort of the army as far as the railway is concerned. Lord Raglan is, I believe, quite aware of this, and has strongly urged him to the point, but lie is immoveable ; so that, as regards the food of the men, unless the divisions send down men, and draw their own rations at Balaklava, and get them up by rail on their own account, the Commisary-General will not assist them. " Iu addition to the amount stated above, we have taken up all the railway materials for extending the line, forage, commissariat huts for our own people, fuel for engine, &c. ; and this, until the arrival of the 65 horses per the City of Norwich, was all done by 35 of our own horses and 20 Com missariat mules; so that if the success of the railway has not come up to your expectations at home, it is not owing to any want of labour or energy on the part of the expedition ; but, in addition to what has been done in reality, it has had au inconceivably good moral effect on the army. It has shown them that everything that can possibly be done to assist them and lighten their labours will be done. It has enabled the siege to open again by the immense quantity of shot and ammunition taken up. It has relieved the artillery horses of the killing journey up bill from Balaklava to the camp, and enabled them to pick up their condition, which was deplorable in the extreme. It has—l say it without hesi tation—been the means of clearing Balaklava of the wretched and filthy Turks who possessed the place and made it a per fect pesthouse, and, by the example afforded by the navvies, has shown the army how to work ; and I am convinced that 50 soldiers will do more than double the number would two months ago. " Now, as to what it is likely to do :—lt will show the army that there are other and better means of transport than on ordinary roads ; that without infringing on the prerogative of military men they may yet derive some assistance from the skill and science of civilians ; that a railway—one of the most improved means of transport—can be laid over an ordinary country as easily and quickly as a common road ; that an im mense amount of tonnage can be removed in one-fifth of the time required on common roads. " I am happy to say that the Royal Engineers are very friendly. I have been of some assistance to them in furnishing them with timber for their gun platforms and other purposes, and they reciprocate this accommodation by giving me every information and assistance they can—indeed I may say that every department works cordially with us. " Colonel M`Murdo is organising the Transport Service into an efficient corps, and I find him a good and energetic man of business. " Now, with regard to the men to be sent home :—lt will require very nearly all the navvies to work the line. There must be a breaksinan to each waggon, then we must furnish drivers for the mules supplied by the Land Transport Corps ; the remainder will be barely sufficient to maintain the road— in fact, I do not think that a single good navvy can be sent home. The carpenters and smiths are fully occupied, and, had I double the number, they would not meet the require ments of the army and the expedition. The only men I can dispense with for some time are the masons ; a few of the miners might also go home ; but they are a very useful class of men out here, where the whole country is rock, and the majority of them can always be advantageously employed in quarrying stone to the limekilus. Before the Prince of Wales leaves with Captain Raymond matters may take a different turn ; but at present I certainly do not see that we can spare many men without seriously crippling the usefulness of tare expedition. Captain Raymond has received positive orders from Captain Andrews to send home all the ships, except the Levant and Von Humboldt. These are to remain ; the latter is a very handy ship for our purpose, and may yet be exceed ingly usefuL " P.S.—Since writing the above I have just learnt that Commissary-General Filder has received a positive order to establish an issue department at head-quarters, and we take up stores to-morrow." itTAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE. The Enterprise discovery-ship, Captain Collinson, C. 8., is ordered from Spithead to Sheerness, and will sail to-day. The Cruiser, 14, Commander the Hon. G. Douglas, returned to Spithead yesterday from the Channel. The floating battery Trusty, from Woolwich, was towed into Sheerness Harbour on Sunday, at 4 p.m., by the African steam-vessel, R. Harvey, master. This vessel is in a very leaky state. She was taken into the fitting basin yesterday. The. Dapper gun-boat, Lieutenant Giant, has been placed in No. 5 dry dock, Sheerness, to ascertain and make good her damage received by being on shore. Telegraphic orders reached Sheerness yesterday for the gun boats Cracker, Clinker, Fancy, and Eoxer to get up steam and proceed immediately for Portsmouth en route for the Black Sea. They all left yesterday between 1 and 2 o'clock p.m. The Pylades received orders yesterday to leave Sheerness to-day for the Baltic, and to convoy and assist when necessary the gun-boats Starling, Redwing, and Thistle. The Volcano is having her defects male good, and will be ready for sea in a day or two. The Odin will be detained at Sheerness tntil after to-morrow, in consequence of a court-martial, about to assemble on board the Waterloo on that day, to try an officer for a serious breach of trust. PLYMOUTH, MAY 5. Tho Agincourt, 74, is ordered to be fitted as an exercising ship for newly raised men at this port. The Conqueror, 101, had her masts and trewsprits put on board on Thursday. She was docked on Friday, to be cop pered ; after which she will be taken to Keyham, to receive her boilers and have her engines fitted. In Harbour —lmpregnable, Royal William, Belleisle, Pro metheus, Hecla, Sanspareil, Coufiance, Zephyr, and Pike, tugs. THE BALTIC FLEET. We hear from the Baltic that the fleet are advancing. The Bulldog, 6, paddle, had been sent to cruise off the Moen light. The Locust, paddle, had joined the eommander-in.chief, April 25. - The Lightning, 3, paddle, had arrived, April 30. To reinforce the advanced squadron the admiral had or dered Captain Vansittart, in the Magicienne, 16, paddle, to proceed to Faro Sound, with the Cuckoo, 3, paddle ; Princess Alice, paddle ; and the screw gun-boats Snap, Snapper, Pincher, Gleaner, and Magpie. THE BLACK SEA. Our letters leave Rear Admiral-Lyons in the Royal Albert, 121, screw, Captain Mends, off Sebastopol, with his fleet. The Queen, 116, Captain Greville, and London, 90, Capt. Jones, left Constantinople to join him on the 21st inst., towed by the paddle-steamer Oberon. The Himalaya, screw transport, Commander Priest, left Constantinople, April ;22, for Alexandria, for cavalry- for the Crimea. The Highflyer, 21, screw, Captain Moore, was under orders to proceed from Sebastopol to Kertch. The Viper, screw despatch steamer, left for Kertch on the 17th ult. Another screw despatch steamer (Snake) had been sent to Eupatoria. The Melampus, depot, Capt. Borlase, sailed from Malta. for Constantinople ou the 27th ult. , where she is to receive the flag of the admiral superintendent Rear-Admiral the Hon. P. W. Grey, C B. The Abundance, screw, fitted up as a flour mill, and carrying a cargo of flour, arrived at Malta from Woolwich on the 29th ult., and left to join the Black Sea fleet on the 30th. The Steady, store-vessel, arrived at Malta from Cork on the 29th April, and left for Constantinople on the Ist of May. The French squadron, under Admiral Penaud, left the Downs on Sunday, for the Baltic. The White Sea squadron, under the orders of Capt. Baillie, remains in the Downs, waiting orders. THE NEW SCREW GUN-BOATS. Although from the reports it will be seen that those vessels that started for the Baltic have been compelled to put back, and have received some damage, the circumstances of the peril and-damage must not be regretted, as they have proved most satisfactorily, not only the good qualities of the vessels themselves, in spite of sententious croakers, but the difficul ties and dangers have served to develop° the skill, pluck, and perseverance of the commanders, )fficers, and crews. It must be remembered that the gale eruesday night and Wed nesday morning was one of the severest which has visited. our coasts for some time, and that severel disasters have been re ported as its effects. The more prase, then, is due to the commanders of the gun-boats, who weathered that gale, and. proved themselves worthy of the commendation that we hear has been conferred upon them and their officers and crews by the Admiralty. Praise in those instances for such services is gracious and timely, and cannot fail to encourage the de serving, and secure the object of those who are its dispensers the efficiency of the naval servi3e. _ _ We understand that on the recommendation of the Sheer ness officers, inch cables are to be supplied to the screw gun boats, instead of five-eighths cables. It is now determined to increase the number, so that both fleets in the Baltic and Black Seas shall have a squadroaa of these powerful little " sharpshooters." MANNING TEE FLEET. Although our fleets and squadrons are imfiroving in disci pline and seamanship by the colstant exercise of the lands men and boys, and may be deened of double the strength this year (that is in the Baltic) as compared with last year, yet it would be very desirable :f the vacancies in our screw guard-ships and other men-of-Near in the home ports were filled up. We require at least 1,500 more petty officer s and seamen to man efficiently the fleel in commission. ARRIVAL OF THE LILY FROM CHINA. Her Majesty's sloop Lily, 12, Commander Sanderson, arrived at Spithead yesterday morning from the Chin<'► and Australian stations, last from tie Brazils. She was de tached from the China squadron and left Singapore on the 18th of November, 1854, arrived at Port Philip Dece:mber 29, left on the 23d of January, arrived at Rio on the 10th of March last, and left on the 17th for Spithead. She brought gold dust from Australia to the amount of 40,000/. sterling, on merchants' account. She net with strong we sterly gales, and in latitude 58'46 S. longitude 161.8 W. fell in with large icebergs, and was running among them for a fortnight; on coming upon theta the barometer wPis ob served to fall a great deal, accompanied by heavy snow storms. She passed the Exodus, of Liverpool, about 300 miles S.W. cf the Lizard, on the 28th ult., with less of topmasts. When she left the Australian station her Ma jesty's ships Calliope and Acheron were at Sydney, and the Fantome and Electra at Melbourne ; the marines and sea men of the Electra bad been landed on several occasions to act with the military in the late disturbances. The Electra had been to King's Island to rescue the crew of two merchant vessels wrecked there, and had saved 20,000/. in specie. The Lily has been five years and three months in commission, during which time she has circumnavigated the globe. She brought home Lieut. Davis, on promotion from the Electra ; Lieut. Brock, on promotion from the Lily; Mr. Howarth, mate, from the Electra ; Mr. Tucker, clerk, from the Fan tome ; and Mr. Douglas, mate, from the Styx, to join the Bulldog. THE TRANSPORT SERVICE. The following ships have been engaged by the Admiralty as regular transports :—Orinoco steamer, No. 218 ; Samuel Laing steamer, No. 219; Imperatrico steamer, No. 220 ; Dodo steamer, No. 221. The transport, No. 99, arrived at Spithead at 5 o'clock last evening. The Lancashire Witch transport embarked a fur ther remount of cavalry yesterday at Portsmouth, consisting of Cornet G. S. Davies, 1 sergeant, and 50 men of the 10th Hussars, from the cavalry depot at Maidstone. This: regi ment has lately been removed from India, and has taken up wards of 800 horses with them ; this detachment consequently takes no horses, but will be mounted on arrival in the Gzimea. TILE MEDWAY, TRANSPORT.—SOUTIIAMPTON, May 7..—The Medway is now taking on board a troop of Royal Horse Ar tillery, comprising 220 horses and 207 men, for the army in the Crimea. They take with them four 9-pouuders, two 24- pounder howitzers, one 24-pounder rocket tube, a quantity of ammunition, c. Thirteen medical officers of the Turkish Contingent will also embark in the Medway, which will pro bably sail on Wednesday next. MILITARY. In addition to the draughts from the cavalry depot{ i and the cavalry regiments already noticed as being about to em bark for the Crimea the following regiments have been placed under orders to proceed to the seat of war, viz. :—The Ist, or King's Dragoon Guards, from Piershill Barracks ; '2d, the 3d Light Dragoons, from Man chester.or Queen's DragoonfrGolaiii•dos,unfsrloomw ;D7utnhddailtkto;(B6tlahckDrnaogisooen) mentioned regiments will form a force of The 14th f G l7iio.c u oacin a r i l Guards D. 30 ( C u: ogb i T I 0 1 ,1 • 0i hbhnei sabres. tb e e. s vas ) : Light Dragoons, upwards of been ordered to the Crimea. This regiment is at present stationed in the Bengal Presidency, and. has a depot of nearly 200 efficient men at Maidstone ; consequently the strength of the corps could be immediately augmented to 900 mounted men. Captain Campbell's company, No. 2, Ist Battalion of the Royal Artillery, in garrison at Sheerness, consisting of 120 gunners, 14 non-commissioned of f icers, and one trumpeter, were ordered on Sunday to hold themselves in readiness to embark in a transport that would call there for them for conveyance to the Crimea. This company is at present com manded by Captain Curtis, and are all ready for embarkation at a moment's notice. The Oneida, 2,370 tons, lately built by Messrs. Scott and Sons, of Greenock, for the Canadian Ocean Steam-ship Com pany, has been engaged by the Transport Board for the con veyance of cavalry to the East. It is expected she will carry 220 horses and as many men. COURT-MARTIAL. A court-martial assembled yesterday morning on board the Victory flag-ship, to try Mr. Charles Hobb s, Chi ef Engineer, of the 2d class, serviag on board her Majesty's ship Hastings, Captain Caffin, for negligently performing his duty on the 24th of April, 1855, whereby he did not take the ne cessary steps to discover a fire which broke out between the boilers of the said ship Hastings on that day, and for not reporting the same to the commanding officer. The Court declared the charge proved, but, in consideration of the prisoner's previous good conduct, only adjudged him to be dismissed from her Majesty's ship Hastings, to be placed at the bottom of the list of the chief engineers of the second-class, and to remain there for the space of one year. The jack was then dipped and the Court reconstituted, with Captain Fisher, of the Retributio n , i n the place of Captain Wellesley, of the Pembroko, to try Lieut, John Packwood, R.N., on the following charge :—" For that the conduct of the said Lieut. John PackAsood, serving on board her Majes ty's ship Cornwallis, being in actual service and full pay, fraudulent and unofficer.kke i n k now i ngly incurr i ng which he has since refusedto pay." The Judge-Advocate pro nounced the charge partly prov e d and the sentencedCourtb the prisoner to be dismissed from her Majesty's ship Corn wallis. ....1 ~,f t ". ir _ SUN OFFICE, Seven o'Clock. NEWMARKET RACES. (THIS DAY.) (B Y ELECTRIC TELEGRAPEI. ) £5O FOR THREE-YR-OLDS & UPWARDS. Testy High Priest £5O PLATE Gelding by Weatherbit Affghan B.M. All ran but Frederick. SUFFOLK STAKES. Tumbler Venison Seven ran. SWEEPSTAKES. Merry Monk Cortes Bobby HANDICAP SWEEPSTAKES.-Off. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS.—(THIS EVENING.) The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the Wool sack shortly after five o'clock. SECOND READINGS. On the motion of Lord REDESDALE the following bills were read a second. time : The Plymouth and Stonehouse Gas, the Bangor Markets, and Public Institutions. THIRD READINGS. The following bills were read a third time : Belfast and County Down Railway ; Colchester, Stour Valley, Sudbury, and Halsted Railway ; Grand Junc tion Waterworks ; Heywood Waterworks ; South Wales Mineral Railway ; Southwark and Vauxhall Waterworks ; and several other. , Lord EGLINTON presented a petition from the town of Ayr against the Maynooth grant. Lord BERNERS presented several petitions against the sale of spirituous liquors on Sundays. INCOME-TAX BILL. This bill passed through committee. VIENNA CONFERENCE. The Earl of CLARENDON laid upon the table the papers and protocols connected with the Vienna confer erence, which were ordered to be printed. The house adjourned at 20 minutes past 5 o'clock. HOUSE OF COMMONS.-(THIS EVENING.) The SPEAKER took the chair at 4 o'clock ; but there being only nine members present the house was imme diately adjourned. Almost directly the SPEAKER declared the house ad journed a considerable rush of members took place from the lobbies and library, but of course too late, and the Speaker then at once retired. ARMY BEFORE SEBASTOPOL COM- MITTEE-(THIS DAY.) (Continued from our first edition. ) Mr. Monsell--Never knew of an instance where the guns were not ready before the ships to take them. The Baltic and Black Sea fleets were fitted out in a very short space of time, which was attributable to the ad mirable working of the department at Woolwich. By the Chairman—Was• it not insinuated that you applied to Lord Panrnure to deprive Sir 11. Ross of the appointment of clerks, because he was disinclined to pro mote a person on your recommendation ?—lt was so in s'nuated, but I distinctly deny ever having done so. The Secretary at War issued an order for 300 huts for the troops on the 17th Nov., and the Secretary for War sent it to the Ordnance on the 13th. Within 25 days the contracts for the huts were entered into, the huts constructed, and 757 despatched to the Crimea. The contractors had contracted for the huts the very day on which the Board of Ordnance received the order from the War-office. Messrs. Price's contract was to supp,y the huts at 271., delivered at Glocester, and Mr. Chand ler's 341., delivered on board at Southampton. Sir Frederick Smith, commanding engineer of the south-wester❑ district, gave evidence to show there was no delay on the part of the Board of Ordnance, nor any of the officers of the department in procuring and send ing huts to the Crimea ; double canvassed tents would have answered the purpose quite as well as the huts, and would have been more easily and rapidly trans mitted and put up. By Mr. Layard—The first huts left the 3d December 1 As a military man, he would not have sent out huts. The contract was taken for vertical roofs at 271., and it wasnot until the 7th December after many had been made that the question of roof was finally settled, and then Messrs. Potter and Price bad 1/. 10s. per hut more for the horizontal roof. Tools, nails, and a plan of the huts went out with each cargo. A sapper also went out, capable of properly erecting them. All the huts from England went out perfect. The Committee adjourned at half-past three o'clock. THE LONDON GAZETTE. (THIS EVENING.) [Extract from the Dublin Gazette of the 4th of May, 1855.] CROWN AND HANAPER OFFICE, DUBLIN. In pursuance of an Act passed in the fortieth year of the reign of his Majesty King George the Third, intituled " An Act to regulate the mode by which the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and the Commons to serve in the Parliament of the United Kingdom, on the part of Ireland, shall be summoned and returned to the said Par liament," I do hereby give notice, that the Right Honour able Hayes, Viscount Doneraile, has been chosen by a majority of votes to be the Peer to sit in the House of Lords of the United Kingdom, in the room of John Bruce, Viscount O'Neill, deceased. Dated the 2d day of May, 1855. C. FITZ-SIMON, Clerk of the Crown and Hanaper. OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, MAY 7. Cows of Royal Engineers.—Lieutenant Charles Her bert Sedley to be Second Captain, vice Crofton, died of wounds before Sebastopol, April 16. ADMIRALTY, MAY 5. The following promotions, dated the 2d inst., have this day taken place consequent on the decease, on the Ist inst., of Rear-Admiral of the White Armar Lowry Corry : Rear-Admiral of the Blue, the Hon. Richard Saunders Dundas, C. 8., to be Rear-Admiral of the White. Captain Follett Walrond Pennell, Captain William Alexander Baillie Hamilton Captain Edward Purcell, Captain Ch ar l es Elli o t, t o be Rear-Admirals en the re served half-pay list. Captain Thomas Bennett to be Rear-Admiral of the Blue. The following captains on the retired list have also been promoted to be retired Rear-Admirals on the terms proposed in the London Gazette of Sept. 1, 1846, without increase of pay : Captain Theobald Jones. Captain George Lloyd. ARMY AND ORDNANCE MEDICAL DEPART MENT, MAY 5. The office of the Army and Ordnance Medical Depar_ ment has been removed from No. 13, St. James's-place St. James's, to No. 6, Whitehall-yard, Westminster. [This Article is substituted for that which appeared in the Gazette of 6th April last.] COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY THE QUEEN. Royal Cumberland Regiment of Militia—Lieutenant William John Robinson, of the Royal Cumberland Militia, to be Acting Quartermaster, vice Lumb, who retires, April 3. COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY LORD LIEUTENANTS. County of Berks—The Honourable Jacob Pleydell Bon velie' commonly called Viscount F o lk es t one , t o b e De puty Lieutenant ' • the Right Honourabl e Willi am Good enough Hayter to be Deputy Lieutenant ; John Walter Esq., M.P., to be Deputy Lieutenant; Robert Allfrey' Est., to be Deputy Lieutenant, May 2. Royal Berks Militia—Ward Soane Braham, Gent., to be Ensign, vice Williams, resigned, May 2. King's Own Light Infantry Regiment of Militia—Ensign Peter Wells to be Lieutenant, vice Kell ; John Robert Conway Hickson, Gent., to be Ensign, vice White ; Alex. Milford Sutherland, Gent., to be Ensign; Willis Peat, 'Gent., to be Ensign. Queen's Own Light Infantry Regiment of Tower Ham lets Militia—William Maitland Chiffuey, Esq., to be Lieu tenant, vice Ridge, who retires. Light Infantry Battalion of the Royal Sussex Militi,i— James John Pickford, Gent., to be Ensign ; Charles Wal. linger, Gent., to be Ensign, May 1. 2d Regiment (Light Infantry) of West York Militia— Captain Charles Augustus Cobbe to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Brandling, retired ; Lieutenant Robert Greaves Walker to be Captain, April 26 ; George Williams, Gent., to be Lieutenant ; Ensign Francis Morley to be Lieutenant; Henry Charles Chaumer, Gent., to be Ensign, May 1. 6th Regiment of West York Militia—John Bradley Swann, Gent., to be Lieutenant ; James St. Clair Glasson, Gent., to be Lieutenant, April 25. Ist Regiment of the Duke of Lancaster's Own Militia — William Philip Allington Jones, Gent 'to be Lieutenant, April 25. 6th Regiment of Royal Lancashire Militia—John Ireland Blackburne, Esq., late Paymaster of the 4th, or Duke of Lancaster's Own (Light Infantry)Royal Lancashire Militia, to be Captain ; Edward Francis Roche, Gent., to be Lieu tenant ; Joseph Banks Sladen, Gent., to be Lieutenant ; William Edward Whelan, Gent., to be Ensign. May 5 . West Kent Light Infantry Regiment of Militia — Lieu tenant Alexander Henry Ross to be Captain, vice Go dden resigned, May 1. 3d or Royal Westminster Light Infantry Regiment Ewen to e- Lieutenant, of m , Middlesex Militia—Ensign James Henry He n ry Lieutenant, vice Halawell, resigned ; E nsi g n ley to be Lieutenant, vice Lea, resignemdiEFwreend:n;ckomAßoluftelrked Stone, Gent., to be Ensign , vice May 4. sth or Royal Elthorne Light Infanty Middl e sex Militia —Major Lo d g e Murray Prior,r tenant-Colonel f tenant-Colonel Comtmavniedeenßtfakev,icreesigirnieltlii,erms,ayr4es.igned ; Charles.Seaton, Gent ., vice . R e giment--Wm. Henry R e W en a e r t w t!r sq h . ire , late3fltolfbleth.Leie3uOttehnFanoto,t,Atoprbile2C7a.ptain ; Geo. Woodyatt, Gent., 2d Regiment of th o o Royal Surrey Militia—Seaton Ralph Foster, Gent. , to b e Ensign, n Jan. 27. [The following appo i ntme ntg is substituted for that which a ppeared in the Gazette of Jan. ": 3.] Royal Cumberland Regiment of Militia—Stafford Chas. Mathews, Gent., to be Ensign, Jan. 9. [The following appointment is substituted for that which appeared in the Gazette of the I st May inst.) Forfar and Kincardine Regiment of Militia Artillery— 6 i i i 100 5 144 $ i , dim 87 105 1061 93} 100/ Charles Frederick Gibson, Esq., late Brevet-Major 24th Regiment, to be Captain. BANKRUPTS. Henry Joseph Pratt, trunk-maker, New Bond-street, Middlesex, to surrender, May 22, at eleven, and June 19, at half-past twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Stans feld, official assignee ; Smith and Sons, Barnard's-inn, Hol born. John B ra db ury, j o i ner, Sh e ff ie ld , M a y 19 a nd June 30, at ten, a t t h e Leeds District Court. Brew i n, o ffi c i a l assig nee, Sheffield ; Unwin, Sheffield. Thomas Purdy, wine merchant, Great Yarmouth, May 18 and June 19, at half-past o ne, at the Court of Bank ruptcy. Graham, official assignee ;Jay and Pilgrim, Nor wich ; Jay, B uc kl ers b ury. Thomas Thomp son, b ookseller, Sunderland, May 23 at half-past eleven, and June 26 at eleven, at the Newcastle District Court. Baker, official assignee, Newcastle-upon - Tyne ; Hoyle, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Frederick Newell, linen draper, Bradford, Yorkshire, May 18 and June 22, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court. Young, official assignee, Leeds ; Carriss and Cud worth, Leeds. Erasmus Symonds, merchant, 15, Great Bell-alley, Moorgate-street, May 17, at half-past one, and June 21, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Bell, official assig nee, Coleman-street-buildings ; Ashurst, Son, and Morris, Old Jewry. John Horrocks, grocer, Salford, May 18 and June 8, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court. Hernaman, official assignee, Manchester ; Lamb, Manchester. Thomas Southward, corn and flour merchant, Bolton le-Moors, Lancashire, May 22 and June 19, at t welve, at the anchester District Court. Pott, official assignee, Manchester • , Richardson, Bolton-le-Moors. Thomas Spurrier, maltster, Walsall, Staffordshire, M a y 19 and June 15, at eleven, at the Birmingham District Court. Christie, official assignee, Birmingham ; Jack son , Westbromwich ; Hodgson, Birmingham. David Foster, gunsmith, Goole, Yorkshire, June 4, at half-past eleven, and July 2, at eleven, at the Leeds Dis trict Court. Hope, official assignee, Leeds; Wilson, Goole ; Naylor, Leeds. Joseph Whiteley Broadhead, woollen manufacturer, Green Owlers, near Holmbridge, York, May 24, and June 22, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court. Young, official assignee, Leeds ; Kidd and Jessop, Holmfirth ; Bond and Barwick, Leeds. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATION. Robert Leckie, wright, Pollokshavvs, Renfrewshire ; Saracen's Head Inn, Paisley, May 16. George Robson, interim factor, Glasgow. COURSE OF EXCI Amsterdam ............ 11 18% Ditto, three months .. 12 0% Rotterdam ............ 12 0% Antwerp .............. 25 45% Brussels .... • • ........ 25 42% 13 7% :ANGE.-THIS DAY. Gibraltar ...... • ..... Leghorn .. • 30 25 Genoa ........••...... 25 57% Venice • • ...... Naples Palermo 131% Messina ... 132 Lisbon Oporto . ....•••••• •• •• 53% Rio Janeiro ..... .•• .... Buenos Ayres.. •. • ..... New York, 60 days' sight Philadelphia .. Altona Paris... ..... ........ 25 22% Ditto, three months .. 25 47% Marseilles ............. 25 47% Bourdeaux . ........ Fr ankfort-on; Maine .... 119% Berlin ................ Vienna..........•• .... 12 50 Trieste•••••••••••••••• 12 52 Petersburg..... .. 35 Madrid ............... 49 ai( 49% Barcelona PRICES OF BIILLICN, PER OZ. Foreign Gold in Bars £3 17 9 Portugal Gold Coin .. 0 0 0 Mexican Dollars .... 0 0 0 New Dollars ....•. 0 0 0 Silver in bars . .... 0 0 0 MPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF COMMONS—YESTERDAY. THE COMMISSARIAT OF THE SARDINIAN CONTINGENT. In reply to Lord W. GRAHAM, Lord PALMERSTON said that the answer he had previously given on this subject was virtually correct. Whilst he was on his legs he would take the opportu nity, with the permission of the house, of replying to a question which he believed had been put by the hon. gentleman opposite (Mr. Disraeli) in his absence. The protocols relative to the Vienna negotiations would be ready to-morrow, the only hindrance which had taken place having been ca,u,ed by the temporary indisposition of a gentleman in the Foreign-office. He wou!d also take the opportunity of stating that his right hon. friend the Minister for War would, this day week, Ftate in his place in the other house the arrangements which he intended to make with a view to the concentration of several military departments. (Hear, hear.) NEWSPAPER STAMP BILL. On the motion for the third reading of this hill, Mr. HA_DFIELD wishe I to c al the attention of the Chancellor of the Exchequer to the extremely hard pro vision of the 15 clays' clause, and to express a hope that some more extended provision would be made. He thought 15 days was but a short period during which stamps on newspapars were to be effectual. (Hear, hear.) All newspapers were obliged to publish a greater number of stamped copies than they had an immediate demand for. He considered that an allowance for spoiled stamps ought to be made on all such copies returned to the stamp-office within a certain time. He would also suggest that a newspaper should be allowed to pass at any time after publication if a penny stamp was affixed. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that the reason of his proposing the present clause was the fear of abuses ; but, if it was considered that fifteen days was too short a period, he should have no objection to extend it to thirty days. (Hear, hear.) With respect to the suggestion of the honourable member of a postage stamp, he would inquire into the subject, and see what could be done with respect to to the transmission of papers through the post. As soon as this bill passed it was the intention of the Government to issue a new and reduced scale of charges for the con veyance through the post of " other printed matter," not newspapers or periodical publications. Mr. BRIGHT said that the principle of retransmis sion was bad from beginning to end, and he looked for ward to the entire abolition of the Newspaper Stamp. The question had been brought forward chiefly by the newspaper proprietors, who had made it a matter ap parently of great advantage to attack this matter it self. He was of opinion that the newspaper proprie tors would gain nothing by the system of retransmis sion, because the public, he considered, would rather by and by buy a separatA paper than have one second, third, or fourth hand. He suggested it as desirable at an early period to abolish the stamping of newspapers on account of its excessive injustice to the manufacturers of paper in the different parts of the kingdom. There were at present only four places where the compulsory stamp was attached to the paper, and the manufacturers in the neighbourhood of those places had a great advan tage over the manufacturers of paper in other neigh bourhoods. He was told a short time since by a Bristol paper maker that the system prevented his supply ing the newspapers with paper published in the game city, , because he bad to send his paper up ,o London to be stamped, and had the expense of carriage both ways, whereas the paper manufacturer in the neighbourhood of London had only to send his paper one way, and consequently had only half the ex pense of carriage to pay the Bristol paper manufacturer was subject to. That he (Mr. Bright) considered a great injustice, because it gave a monopoly to the manufac turers of paper carrying on business in the neigh bourhood of London, Manchester, Edinburgh, and Dublin, where the paper was stamped. It was highly desirable the whole system of the compulsory stamping should be abolished, and with it the monopoly to which he had referred, and the expenses of the stamping office. He was ready to vote for the abolishing of the retransmission of newspapers, which would have the effect of making every man pay for the postage of his paper, if he availed himself of the post office the same as he now did when he posted a letter. The sooner the house came to the simple question of postage, the better it would be for the newspapers and the revenue. Mr. CAYLEY considered the honourable member for Manchester should have been the last person to oppose the retransmission of newspapers. He often told them the people in the country were less enlightened than those in the cities, but how were they to be enlightened if the re-transmission of newspapers was abolished ? By the use of reading rooms in cities one paper served for 20 or 30 persons, whereas in the country a paper was taken in by two, three, or four persons living several miles from each other, and to abolish the re transmission of the paper would be an injury to 'them. He opposed the second reading of the bill, considering many of its provisions unj. st to existing interests, and such as he did not believe the committee would have sanctioned. He was unwilling to purchase a blessing or advantage at the expense of justice. He did not believe it was a just bill, and was in hopes before it was printed the Chancellor of the Exchequer would have remedied the injustice to which he had alluded. It was his intention, if the proposition that six ounces should be transmitted by post, instead of four ounceF, it was his determination, indeed, to take the sense of the house upon the question. However great might be the advantages which were anticipated by this measure, and of which he was somewhat doubtful, though no one was more desirous than he could be to promote the spread of information, he could not consent to secure that by doing injustice to existing interests, whilst, however true it might be that three bad dinners were better than one good one, ho could not believe that three bad newspapers were better than one good one. 0. Mr. EWART said that he had always been an hearevver cate for allowing newspapers to s p rin g up they h e w v e o r e r y w d a o n o t r e s d , 0 f a t u h d e t p h e a n t p t l e h . e y H s e h w o u s s l d o b o n e t b h rou e aco g nd u 0 g w , nbh he it quit o ut n et : e relative to the abolition of the stam p duty, never found that American newspane p r o s st, but y agreed with the hon. member for Manch:sereer tshuasttatinheeyd by any principle of retransmissio i n n by newspaper for a penny a e them cheap newspapers. their own cheapness. duty to the public to giv o r e them by a system which Nv a g s o their simply f quite agreed with c ountry it was they unnaturalcould,butxdt t a o h s n u A e p r p m m a ha l a . ni fP H e ni e t3 Yb t motives which induced the m n but at the same time to advoca dance, and as near as te retransmissio • those gentlemen in the m p o ssible to let them have the doors of Mr. DITFFY called the attention of the Cha nce ll or I i n e t r h s e i p n eo a p b re. n I of the Exc he q uer to the clause in the bill rest r i c ti ng the time in which newspapers should be posted for re-trans mission to 15 days, and remarked that it would affect all papers intended for colonial postage. (Hear. hear.) The CHANCELLOR of the EXC HEQUER replied that the clause was never intended t o apply to ep coloniald postage, and if the hon. gentleman c h ose he would insert Kingdom. it was ai clause distinctly specifying that • al ply only to the. United Mr. VANSITTART said itintended to was his intention to move tt tat the bill be read a second justified e that day six months, place, because at the time this and he thought he was the Chancellor of the so doing ; in the first aware of the great increase of bill was read a second time Exchequerof taxation a h x a a d t not on the had houses i nce been imposed upon the country—especially of the large 'lncrease in the income tax, which, as they were all aw are , pressed most heavily on the majority lof the comm un it y . (H ear, hear, an d cheers.) Of all the speakers in that house whom he had heard on the sub ject, he did not think any one, except the hon. member for Manches:ter, really liked that bill. It was not de sired, and it was not wished for. The right hen: gen tleman had stated that a large amount of revenue, to the extent of 200,0001 ., would accrue in consequence o f the abolition of the duty, but lie thought the retransmission of newspapers, as proposed, would be a source of loss rather than gain to the Government. Under all the circumstances, he felt it his duty to move that the bill be read a second time that day six months. Mr. LABOUCHERE said although he had, in the first instance, voted in favour of the bill, because he thought it advisable at the time he should not vote for the amendment. We had a deep interest in the diffusion of political intelligence, and useful information by means of newspapers he admitted, but they had an equal interest in taking care that these newspapers should be of the best possible class, and that they should be carried on by men of character and intelligence ; and believing, as b e did, that the power of re-transmission was a premium on the highest class of newspapers, he should be sorry to see it abolished, and he hoped the Chancellor of the Ex chequer would pause before he interfered with its ope ration. (Hear, hear.) Mr. WHITESIDE said it was never too late to do an act of justice, and in his opinion he had been guilty of injustice in supporting that measure on a previous oc easion. The different clauses in the bill had appeared and disappeared, and again reappeared so frequently, that he scarcely knew in what position the measure now stood. Then again, in the case of the copyright, he wished to ask hi s right hon. friend why did he propose it at'allt Did he not propose it in a conscientious belief that the measure would be productive of a deep isting interests unless a remedy of some such kind were provided ? (Hear, hear.) That remedy was accordingly wrighhicthhiotnw. afsriehnisddtshtyatinjury upon ex su ggested, but upon this discussion it was withdrawn, it being vir found absolutely inoperative to effect its object. What was all this but an admission on the part of his to remedy. was still about to be was And to do ye a t n this injustice, j u injurys t i ce, inflicted for the sake of effecting some good, whi c h, Bo f quite problem a ti ca l . What right as he could see, was right had the house, whose duty it was to protect the rights of property, to do positive injury to existing interests? Well, then, having failed in this copyright cla use the next obnoxious proposition was th e li mitation of the weight of papers passing through the p ost. On what friend ground that principle — why should did his right hon. ould he draw the of line at four ounces instead s ix 2 Why, it was a positive contradicti on to tion. First of all they had abolished the adver tisement duty, but now that that had been duc of an increase of advertisements th e house pro interposed ti and said, "You have too much print e d matter, we will not allow you to send it by post without extra charge." (Hear, hear.) This was as ridiculous as it was unjust. Why not allow a man who bought an unstamped news paper, after reading it, to transmit it to his friends if he saw anything in it interesting to them ? The bill wan full of anomalies and absurdities. The honourable mem ber concluded by urging that there was no principle of legislation so unjust as to obtain a problematical good at the expense of a private or public injury. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said, the hon. member had adopted, to say the least of it, a most unusual course in respect of the bill now before the house. In committee on the bill he (the Chancellor of the Exchequer) proposed a clause with re. ference to copyright and its remedy, which the hon. member for Enniskillen opposed, on the same grounds he had stated in such forcible language that evening to the house. (Hear, hear.) The clause was not a part of the original measure, and proposed by him as necessary, but on the special ground he stated in moving the clause in committee, that the Government did it in deference to the interests of existing newspapers, who considered the measure would be detrimental to their interests by calling into existence a large class of newspapers ho would pilfer their intelligence. He did not state then, that he believed, nor did he believe now, that such a state of things would exit to any considerable extent under the provisions of the bill now before the house. The clause was considered and withdrawn in committee, and it ought not now to form an ob jection to the third reading of the bill. As to the fears of the ,:e gentlemen who believed that the passing ,f this bill would call into existence such a class of pub lwatior.s, a iemcdy could shortly be found to meet it. . . lie then proceeded to defend the proposition of charging by weight ; &c., as proposed by the Government. Lord PALNIERSTON submitted to the house whe ther they would not allow the third reading to stand over, in consequence of the illness of the Speaker, and to allow him to vacate the chair. All present must be aware of the pain the hon. gentleman was suffering, and would be anxious to relieve him from his attendance that night. Mr. .DISRAELI submitted that the best course to adopt would be to adjourn the debate on the thi r d read- iug, and the proposition Laving been acceded to, the third reading was postpon ed till Friday. The SPEAKER then left the chair ; and the house then went into committee of supply, Mr. FITZROY in the chair. Mr. WILSON said that in moving the necessary votes for defraying the sums payable for establishments con nected with justice in England, Ireland, and Scotland, and for convict departments, two courses were open, either to take four votes for the aggregate sums, or to take a sepa rate vote upon each particular item. It was for the com mittee to decide which way they thought the better ; in asmuch, however, as it seemed to him that time would be saved by moving for the aggregate sums, he should pro pose that course. Mr. HENLEY objected. He thought such a plan would only lead to long desultory conversation. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that each item should be proposed separately. The following votes were then agreed to :- 35,941/. for solicitor of the Treasury department. ' 250,0001. for prosecutions at assizes. 1,1001., for Chancery, Crown-office expenses. 2,0501., for Queen's Bench, Crown-office expenses. 15,9001., for sheriffs expenses, &o. Upon the vote of 6,0001., for the department of the Re gistrar of the Court of Admiralty, Mr. OT WAY asked if sufficient securities had been taken from the gentleman who at present held the office of registrar ? Mr. WILSON—Yes. Mr. HENLEY remarked that out of this 6,0001., 1,0001. was for incidental expen-es. Mr. WILSON said that the proceedings in this court on account of the war required a comparatively large sum for contingencies. In answer to Mr. WALPOLE, Mr. WILSON said that proceedings werebeing taken to recover as much as possible from the estate of the late '3,egistrar of the Admiralty. The vote was then agreed to. The following votes were then agreed to : 8,4151., for Isolvent Debtors' Court. 13,8501., treasurers of county courts. 23,2341., salaries and expenses of police courts. 101,2181., for metropolitan police. 4,2261., the Queen's Prison. 3,3121., for salaries of Lord-Advocate and Solicitor . General. 7,7551., expenses in prosecutions under order of the Lord• Advocate. Upon the vote 17,5261., for Court of Session, Mr. COWAN objected to this vote being passed without explanation, as it showed an increase of 5,0001. on the vote of last year. The LORD-ADVOCATE could not at that moment ex. plaia the increase. He knew that an increase in the ex parses of the Court of Session had taken place, and he pre sumed, therefore, that the difference in the vote of the two years arose from something having been omitted last year. Mr. COWAN objected to the vote being pressed in the absence of more detiuite information. The vote was withdrawn. The following votes were agreed to. 7,19,1. for salaries, &c., Courts of Justiciary. 1,5931. for salaries, Queen's and Lord Treasurer's Re inembranccr (Scotland). 57,0001., salaries of sheriffs and procurators fiscal not otherwise paid, and expenses of prosecutions in sheriffs' courts. Si,. CcI,AUFU.RD asked whether it was intended to ex tend the system of paying procurators fiscal by salaries? Those who were still paid by fees complained of the time wasted in collecting their remuneration. The LORD-ADVOCATE said that in districts where there there was much business the fees had been commuted 0 could a not salaiics ; in the others the fees remained. h ex ol t i e l nd. o d u e tany hope of the principle of paying by salary being Vote agreed to. not p a id by fees.— 11,530/7 salaries of procurators fi scal Agreed to. °Teed to wit hout discussion : The following votes were a greed 4,3181., sheriffs' clerks 0_ 1,1191., commissary prosecutions (Ireland). 51,7201., criminal f Chaucer)" (Ireland). officers, Court o 1,2911., 1338/., officers, d) Common Pleas (lre an , 1,3111, office rs ' Exc h eq uer (Ireland) 2[12,51601a solicitors,G en eral &reg°i:sev(trSekclEcodu is( Scotland). ZE l t r i d g i i n n o d b . n (Edinburgh). ). r the law courts 2001., salary, c 1,3201., (Ireland). ter to the judges (Ireland). 5,235/-, re4 ls . for Begistration of Judgments. 1,906/. th-hocAdvooates,HighCourtof Dele gates Queen's n t. 's xi Benchv offi( o f:: 1 a f n o d ). (Ireland), 3001., fees to Advocates, Court (Ireland). ofticerT er : 3,146L' ,Insolvent of Errors (Ireland). 267/., clerk, 1,6001., police justices s ess ( i D o enllob(nslvicnioc)tt.l (Scotland). ocoi., metropolitan police (Dublin). 638,5111. constabulary (Ireland). 1 1 8 , 9:1 7 2 70 1. 1 ,. Four in s p C e c o t u o r r t . s g e (Dublin). prisons in the United Kingdom. 1377,2467/9.1, Governmento Court o f Mr. HENLEY inquired whether con victsathrea.usported was now greaterieoonrl reformatorye thesesont hvnucn m tf number of settlement prisons7.oerfml formerly :utSir G. GREY said that maintained abroad was Western Australia, those who were sent to Bermuda and Gibraltar being employed on public works, the same as at home. He believed the num ber transported was between 600 and 700. Vote agreed to. 166,1741. expenses, reformatory prisons, Sce. In answer to inquiries from Sir S. NORTIICOTIC and Sir J. PAKINCTON, inmates, calculated of f e des ble to compel at Sc. per week per head. It b Sir G. GREY said that the allowances to reformatory isons was b ase d o n the number he would feared that the difScul an allowance from parents, boys as were recom• eiple of selection was to ad mi t ties of recovering it wouldbbeu mended by the judge or parents who tried the case, in being so addicted to crime, consequence of their i i n s s u u ch rmountable. The prin. and therefore unfitted to have the care of their children, ofs e or a lt o gether a w ny ith al o t u e t ra f t r i i o e n nd in s. th H e at e thought it lastught inexpedient fhe ion w ith the viewp acing the e x p ense o f th ese re formatory • s titntions wholly upon the C onso lid a ted Fund ; first, in o n account of the l arge expen di ture it wou ld involve;g and secondly, because it wou ld i nterpose au ob stacle t 3o f t o the establishment of such institutions by private and local means. Mr. MACAUTNEY complained that a compact which he said had been entered into by Sir It. Fed, tepaialt