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must therefore suppose that the Ordnance had done so little that it could not be stated. 11Ir. MUNTZ said it was because the Ordnance depart ment had spent money which they had no right to expend that he proposed the reduction of the vote. For the vote nto a eentract for setting up 20,000 muskets • but the sights were not ordered till the middle of March. With respect to the 90,000 order, it was not till the 22d of June that any part of the barrels were ordered. The first order for locks was heated on the 30th of June, but the patterns were not delivered for two months later. A quan tity of bayonets were ordered on the 10th of July, but the patterns were not delivered till the 11th of August. The rammers were ordered en the 30th June, bat the patterns were not delivered till October. An order for 30,000 bayonets was i s s ued on the 7th of A u gust, and part of the contract was to he executed on the let of Sep tember. The pattern was not delivered till that day. And yet the Board of Ordnance came dow he ) nd told t house that the arms trade could not supply th em. he country owed a debt of gratitude to the hen. member for Birmingham for devoting f himsel to f a cilitate the produc tion of arms. Day by day, during the past year, he which had been employed merely in removing the difficulties the Roars' of Ordnance created against their arms supply ; and there could be no doubt that but for those difficulties, Birmingham, which had actually produced from 40,000 to 50,000 stand of arms within the year, or about double what Sir Thomas Hastings had called the maximum of its productions, would have produced 100,000. (Hear, hear.) He was sorry to say that only a slight change bad been made in the Governmen t system. Formerly there were but four contractors employed to set up the arms. The Government were induced to appoint 13 mere, who received an order to m ake a quantity o es' f mus kets on the 27th of November. T he 17 together employ all the labourers in Birmingham. But in January there was another contractor appointed. He was not a gun maker at all, but a sword-masker • and, of course, he had not a single tradesman fit for employment in his new occu pation. lle could only do one thing, which was to entice away the workmen of the other contractors ; and that the Government called expediting their supply of small arms. In short, an utter want of busine-s management, and a total ne glect of every commercial p rinci p le, appeared n the i transactions of the Board of Ordnance with the trade. Those whose duty it was to decide the pa.tterns knew nothing about gunmaking ; while, as to the inspection of small arms, he would content himself with mentioning one fact. A. late inspector, finding that he could not defeat the Birmingham traders by issuing impracticab le instructions, actually had crooked sights put on the 20,000 Minie rifles which were now in the hands of our soldiers in the Crimea ; and had it not been for the traders of Birmingham, the troops would have left England with those inefficient arms. (Cries of " Name.") T he Government had now got an efficient inspector ; but M r. Sumner was not properlyi in s tructed by the Ordna nce De p artment. They required him to visit all the manufactories in which Government contracts were executed; but his proper place was else where. What they wanted was a first-rate workruan— which he believed Mr. Sumner was —always in the view ing-room in Birmingham, to be a referee between the workman and the -viewer ; but it would be absurd to ex pect him to perform that duty and travel through the country too. Every foreign Government —ovary important commercial house--had a well-qualified commissioner to watch the progress of trade. This was exactly what the Board of Ordnance required. At present their whole connection with the arms trade was a mass of confu sion. There was no inability on the part of the trade. They had produced within the last year double the maximum assigned by Sir Thomas Hastings ; and if the Board of Ordnance employed a business man to regu late and conduct their connection with the manufac turers, they might depend upon it that they had in Eng land, available now, an arms trade far superior to any ma nufactery which they might themselves establish. (Hear.) One hon. member had said that there was no machinery employed in the construction of arms in this country. Now, the most perfect machinery for making the barrel was used at Birmingham, and that machinery was applied to every part of the construction of the rifle except the stook, and, by the showing of Mr. Anderson, it failed so far as the stock was concerned, because such a pattern was insisted upon that no machinery could bo applied to it. There was as much machinery employed as was consistent with profit and the manufacture of the kind of arm insisted upon. It was said that arms could not be made in England, and therefore they must be obtained from abroad. Now, if the Government had been content with an arm serviceable, strong, with a good lock, but without any fancy finish, they I i might have obtained double the quantity they were now re ceiving ; but when they insisted upon an expensive pattern great impediments were thrown in t he way. The plan which had been adopted was not calculated to meet the emergency of the war, but the truth was there existed a determination to take the supply of arms from the trade of England, and he could not understand why, except from a professional jealousy,it was the determination of the board to have the matter in their own hands. (Hear, hear.) Mr. MONSELL said he had heard many statements from the hon. member which were utterly unfounded. The accusation made against the Ordnance was this. It was stated that they insisted on having a most elaborately finished gun, with a great deal of artistic devices, which were utterly useless, and that that was the reason they had been placed in their present position. Nowhe ed t board h ad consulted Mr. Westley Ric hards, who suggest certa alterations, and those alterations were adopted by the board. (Hear, hear.) A short time ago he was waited upon by the chairman of the Gnnmakers' Association at Birmingham, and another gentleman connected with the town, and when he asked them if they had any thing to find fault with, they said " no," and yet the hon. member was trying to raise a cry against the Govern ment by denouncing their dealing with the trade of Bir mingham, and thereby endeavouring to induce the com mittee to reject a measure which was of the highest import ance to the country. (Hear, hear.) Mr. Anderson and two other gentlemen had examined the manufacturers in Ame rica, and had presented a most elaborate report, and he had no doubt that by adopting their recommendations mus kets mild be made as correct as the Minio rifle, at one-half the expense of that inst rument. (Hoar.) There would be no real opposition between the manufactory and the gun trade of the country. From the number of arms required the scan trade of Birmingham need not he afraid of having their orders stopped for many years, and he had informed them that the Government would receive as many muskets as they could make. It had been stated that the proper number of muskets had not been delivered because the pat tern was not given in time. Now, every one of the gun makers had the proper materials put into their hands. He wished to impress this fact upon the committee, that machinery to the extent of 26,0001. had. been ordered, 17,0001. of which was American machinery, and 9,000/. machinery produced in this country. The contract had been made, and the committee was now called upon to re ject a vote, the effect of which rejection would be to leave the machinery without any factory for its reception. He believed the establishment of this factory would have the effect not of stifling the gun trade of Birmingham, but of setting them an example, and inducing them to employ the best kind of machinery ; and ho eked the committee, by a large majority, to sanction a measure which he believed to be of the highest importance to the country, and place it in a position to create a, large number of muskets at any time with great rapidity. (Hear.) Mr. NEWDEGA.TE, in reference to the recommendation ef Mr. Richards, to which the hon. member hd allud, said that the sight u e d was n ot made accordinga to th e pdeat tern of Mr. Richards. Lord SIgYMOUR said the hon. member (Mr. Monsen) a depa r t men t which had been condemned was defending both by the house and the Government. Mr. JOHN M'GREGOR objected to the Government becoming manufacturers. He said that Lord Palmerston had, in the formation of his Government, been more un fortunate than was ever any other Prime Minister. Lord PALMERSTON had heard with great sirprise and astonishment the opposition which had been made to this vote- We were engaged in a war whioh, by universal con sent, it required the greatest exertion to conduct with sue c,ess. It was well known that owing to various circumstances we had for some years suffered from a great deficiency in the supply of small arms fei the army. A proposal was made for the establishment of a factory which would not probably at any early period enable the Ordnance to furnish the num ber required, but which would contribute to furnish our army with an excellent weapon, and which might probably in course of time render them iadependent of other sources of supply, er at all events enable them to command those sources on moderate and reasonable terms. And at this moment, when we required every exertion possible to furnish our army and militia with arms, when it was well known that in Ireland some regiments of militia were doing duty with broomstieks—(a laugh)—for want of mus- and kets to pat into the ir hands—lion. gentlemen got up, , upon various pretences, endeavoured to srevent the country from having the advantage of the establishment which this vote was intended to afford. Of all res.sons on earth, the reason of his noble friend behind him (Lord Seymour) seemed to him the weakest he could possibly imagine. He forsooth refused the vote because the Government was going to reorganise the Ordnance Department, to improve its or ganisation, and to make arrangements by which errors and delays which had occurred at former periods might he prevented. For that very reason, because the depart ment was going to be made more efficient, and more capable of performing the public service with prompti tude and accuracy, his noble friend objected to the vote which was now proposed. IV hat would he have said if the contrary had been the case ; if the Government had said that the department of which he complained was perfect, and wanted no improvement ; if they had announced to the house that they wore not going to make any alteration or any improvement in the arrange ment of the civil department ? His noble friend would then have turned upon them and said, " Then Irefuse you the vote. You won't imp ro v e y our s y stem ; you won't make a better org anisation of the executive departments which are to carry this service into practice, and therefore I refuse." Now, because they were going to de the very thi ngs which he had urged to do, he made that a reason for refusing to the public the advantage of the establishment which they asked the house to give them the means of pro tags (Hear) He (Lord Palmerston) did trust that the would rise superior to these miserable quibbles. (Cheers a n d allow itself . t. ounter cheers.) He tru sted it would not Ise made the victim of local interests — (cheers)— or of interests connected with particul ar p laces particular and viii Z ,ff ancl ies of trade. We wanted all sources of supply all that Birmingha m possibly obtain. We wanted obliged to have recoutars could afford is. We had been what vie required. ahree,V,iege to assist us in obtaining d been compelled to go to the United States of America t e an additional supply, and he did think that that nov ae wou ld not be performing the duty which it owed. to the thatinZise if it refused that which his hon. friend now asked n a tion purpose of estab lishing that which would be only a very D 2: ld. his rimental establishment for the supply partial . and expo noble friend (Lord Seymour) imagine • ,000/. which was Toted. last year was enough to establish was only a sum upon account. a sa man u" 0/ cou ld have ° plan factory - of arms ? It could imagine that for -5,00 . youco erected an establishment which would have affor dedyou the means of ascertaining whether you could make arms at a cheape r • o p`' su rate than was cha r g ed by the private trade. He did h that the statement of nix hon. friend would be i n duce the house to ac cede to this vote, and that cient to the Go vernment would not, at a time when it required every exs ertion to furnish our army , sur militia, sad o ur colonic with arms, be turned. round and deprived ofdwould the mean offs of supply which the establishmen t now proposeord. Mr. H. BAILLIE wished to know w hether the contracts for forage for the army had be en made by the Ordnance Department or the Treasury ? Mr. MONSELL replied that the Ordnance had been made use of by the Treasury for the purchase of some oats ; but that was all it had to do with the forage. Lord PALMERSTON said the commissariat department was responsible for the supply of forage. Mr. MUNTZ persevered in his amendment. The noble lord (Lord Palmerston) seemed to intimate that he was supporting some local interest at the expense of the coun try. He denied this was the case. No man was more sincerely anxious to promote the public interest than he was ; and when publio and. private interest came into col lision, he always sacrificed the latter. (Hear.) Lord sEYMOUB, did not wish to embarrass the Govern ment, and as he understood that the money had been spent he should not vote iu favour of the amendment. He had received no answer to his question of what had been done towards the ootablishaint of this foottrY l and he eviir • • flirb tl4l ttiOn. ............ .. .. 17304 SUN OFFICE, Seven , o'Clock. Against Majority The vote was therefore agreed to. The next vote was of 22,346 officers and non-commie- 1 sioned officers and men for the service of her Majesty in the several Ordnance corps and departments for the service at home and abroad during the year 1855-56. Mr. W. WILLIAMS complained that the sum of up wards of one million had been expended durin lithe las at t and present years in barracks. He was glad to th the vote for the Ordnance -office was to be withdrawn, and he t he c ure that a great amount of saving might be effected by the consolidation of that office and the Commissariat Department with the office of the Secretary at War. Colonel GILPIN said as the question had turned upon barracks, he wished to ask whether any arrangements had been made for the better accommodation of marrie the same d mon in barracks? He believ ed that they were still in disgraceful state which he had pointed out last year. He was sure the public would agree to any mto lodge thse men in a manner more consistent with d suecency and with their comfort. Captain SCOBELL said he had seen a most excellent suggestion for floating hospitals. There were a great might many line-of-battle ships lying useless in ordinary, which be easily ventilated, and made otherwise available for the purpose. ed u Mr. M. SMITH urgpon the Governme nt the neces sity of adopting a better system of ventilation in the medi cal hospitals. o n the formati on of Mr. OTWAY wishe d to know if, the camp a t Aldershot, it was i ntended to exorcise the troops in the construction of huts ? He thought that, in stead of employing labourers in constructing; the huts, ten thousand men might be exor cised in constructing them. Colonel his ten t like to know where the hon. mem ber would get his ten thousand soldiers? Why, they were not in existence. Mr. MONSELL said these they would last long time. They would be particularly useful in respect to the move ments of the militia in Ireland. Mr. OTWAY could not see why ten thousand men I should not be employed at Aldershot constructing the huts. Mr. DIONSELL said the reason was that they would be too much occupied learning the goose step. The vote was agreed to. The vote of 1,117,8131., to pay allowances and contin gencies for the Ordnance, was agreed to. On the vote of 1,460,8171. for commissariat and foreign supplies, Colonel KNOX thought the sum of 90,0001. for clothing the foreign legion, which existed only in the imagination of the Government, was a large one. With respect to the great coats served to the army nothing could be more use less. The cloth was little batter than baize. He did not know if they were surveyed ; but if so, the person who surveyed them should be dismissed. They were disgraceful to the country, and a fraud on the soldier. Mr. MONSELL took the same view as the gallant mem ber of the great coats. They were not made of the sort of cleth they ought to be, and they were altogether out of 1 the pattern. The real fact was they were made as light as possible. Lord W. GRAHAM called attention to the shell-jacket, out of which the Ordnance ha I struck the lining. Lord ELCHO drew the attention of the Government to a process by which the lightest tweeds were rendered wa terproof. Ho had observed that on very cold days the soldiers here were on sentry in their red coats ; wereas when the weather grew warm they had on their grey h coats. Why had they not their great coats hung up in their sen try boxes, like the soldiers in foreign countries ? Mr. PERCY complained of the wretched parsimony in the making of the coats. From 6Ad. to 101 was the price pail for making the coats, and it was impossible they could be well made. Mr. E. BALL said it was exceedingly scandalous that our soldiers, who had undertaken such arduous duties in the Crimea, should bo s upplied with such wretched cbat9, i after the enormous sum. voted by the country for supply ing them with proper requisites. Colonel DUNNE thought the quality of clothing for the soldiers was disgraceful, except in the Guards and some other favoured corps. Lord ELCHO called attention to the ammunition boots sent to the Crimea, which were much too small for the i men ; they were also objectionable on account of having smooth solos without nails. Mr. MILES said another objection to the boots was, that they were so badly put together that the soles separated from the body of the boots. There were several items taken in the estimates for the foreign legion, but he understood there Ivan not a man yet raised for it. He wished, there fore, to know whether it was the intention of the Govern ment to take up the Turkish contingent as the foreign legion. At present the latter was an imaginary body, but he should have no objection to vote the 90,000'. for the Turkish contingent, which he believed would be a really effective auxiliary force. Lord PALMERSTON assured the hon. gentleman that no money would be spent on the foreign legion if it should not be raised ; but the Turkish contingent was totally different from the foreign legion. Mr. MONSELL repeated the explanation he had before given respecting the size of the beets seat out to the Crimea, but observed that the ammunition boots were not supplied by the Ordnance. The veto was then agreed to. On the vote of 303,1491. for establishments at home and abroad, Sir J. ANDERSON expressed a hope that the establish ments at home would be used for lodging the militia. The inhabitants of Stirling had the militia billetted on them ; though there was accommodation for them in the Castle Barrcks. Mr. COWAN observed that great dissatisfaction pre vailed among a certain portion of his constituents, upon whom fell the burden of providing lodging for the militia. Lord PALMERSTON said, that he thought it highly desirable, wherever it was possible, that the militia should be in itrracks ; and that the deficiency of such accommo dation at the beginning of last year was one reason why only a portion of the militia had been called out. The vote was then agreed to ; as was that of 368,8721. for wages of artificers, labourers, and others employed at the several establishments in the united kingdom and the colonies. On the vote of 2,792,3481. for Ordnance stores for the land and sea service, Mr. MUNTZ moved as an amendment that the vote be reduced by 40,0001., being the item for the small-arm fac tory at Enfield. Lord SEYMOUR recommondedthe hon. gentleman potter the expression of o p inion upon the 15,0001. vote, to I \ divide the committee ; but oomplained that the Govern ment had not had the courtesy to state what progress had been made with the building, and when it was likely that some arms would be produced. Mr. MONSELL said that he hoped to be able to com mence the manufacture about the beginning of July. A great portion of the American machinery had already ar rived, and the building would soon be completed. Mr. H. HERBERT called attention to the fact that the Irish Militia were without arms, and narrated a circum stance which had occurred in his own county. Not having received any printed forms, his regiment had sent a requi sition for arms to the Quarter -Master General in Dublin, in manuscript. That officer sent it back to the general of the district, stating that the requisition ought to have gone through him (the general of the district), and that he could take no notice of any that was not printed. The general of the district, therefore, transmitted it to him (Mr. Her bert). He had to send to London fir a printed requisition to apply for arms ; and the consequence was that two months had passed by, and the regiment had not got a single musket. In the meantime the general of the dis trict had ordered his regiment to supply men for sentry duty, and they were actually keeping sentry with sticks in their hands. (A laugh.) Though a shillalagh might be a national weapon, and might be very effectively employed at times, yet he thought that a limited supply of " Old Brown Bees" would be desirable. (Hear, hear.) Mr. MAGUIRE moved that the chairman report pro- --1 36 COVENTRY RACES. (THIS DAY.) (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) £5O HANDICAP PLATE. Lady Flora ............ R0me0.............................................. COVENTRY HANDICAP. Kiteflyer Sleeping Partner . Sa,ucebox Six ran STEEPLECHASE. Augustine Tom Gurney St. Arnaud HURDLE RACE Warwick Star of England AKRlVED.—Tipperary Boy, Spring, Augustine, St. Arnaud, Freedom, Salopian, and Potter. LE CROIX DR BERNE STEEPLECEIASE.—bI gentleman from our establishment, late this afternoon, applied at the proper quarter for a list of the acceptances for this steeplechase, bat the required information was declined. LIVERPOOL RXCES. ADDITIONAL ARRIVALS. - Bnurton, Peter, Trout, Escape, Nugget, Garland, Cutaway, Little Charley, Torn, Medal, Polestar, Meleora, Lady Tatton, Noddy, Elton Star, Bacchus, and Van Dunck. I3IPERIAL PARLIAAIENT gress. Mr. NEWDEGATE hoped, if the vote were passed, that the noble lord at the head of the Government would take immediate steps to assure the trade that he did not intend to supersede them ; otherwise the vote would do more to shake their confidence than anything that oould be done. Mr. MUNTZ expressed his determination to divide upon his amendment. Lord PALMERSTON hoped the hon. member (but Maguire) would not insist upon reporting progress, but take the discussion on the report. Mr. MAGUIRE was only anxious to have the subject discussed, and, on the understanding that another oppor tunity would be given for that purpose, would withdraw his amendment. Mr. SCHOFIELD contended that this was net a mere Birmingham question, but one affecting the country at large. The gun trade formed a very small fraction of the trade of Birmingham, and it was not on account of the supposed interests of Birmingham, but because he believed the Government could not provide themselves so well with arms as private manufacturers could do, that he was op posed to this vote. Mr. WALPOLE said, there existed a misapprehension that on account of the resolution come to by the committee last year, the Government had been prevented from obtain ing as large a supply of arms as otherwise they would have done, but he believed that had the vote been carried last year it would have been impossible to establish the manu factory in time to provide the necessary supply of arms. Mr. MONSELL said the right hon. gentleman was per fectly right in his cousion. It would have been imp in sible for Government to manufacture the arms required n any circumstances. The committee divided, and the numbers were— For the amendment Against llO — B6 Majority ......... The vote was then agreed to, and the house resumed. The report on the Army Estimates was brought up ant agreed to. The second reading of the Newspaper and Postage aid St a mp Duties Bill was postponed ti ll Friday next. The Tea Duties Decline Suspension Bill was rent a second time. The Ecclesiastical Courts Bill passed through committee. The house adjourned at 1 o'clock. ASSISTANT-SURGEONS or THE NAVY.—At a general meeting of the students of the London Hospital, held yesterday, Dr. Andrew Clark in the chair, resolutions were agreed to in reference to the present condition of the assistant-surgeons of the navy. The first resolution appointm en t s. was to effect that their positir n was dero g ator y to the toytheiot u best t ti nd n dm t i e ai r r e a s i t t s y otfhtahteitsershviocuel,danfodltlohwe stehceonedxasmugpgiee setsted Board in the distribution of their medical g fo ing viewed w . l y h in alarm the present policy of the Admi raltyt The third resolution was that the meet in employing the owing unqualified men as dressers in the Baltic fleet, thus the example already set by the sister service in casedutiesof the Scutari dressers, who the are now p erformin gassistant-surgeons. [ADVERTISEMENT.]—HoIIo of extrao rdinary medicines for zer. Ointr* and Pills est Win. Hill, of Exeter, bad for upwards of bad legs.—Mr. ulcerated kg of a most fearful r den r4s of three years an the best medical skill to heal, having been which defied Hos pital, King's College, and the Devon anden in Guy's •,. 1 Each pronounced it incurable, and piLa.,s•Hos. be to have • the only remedy be could obtain would it amputated Notwithstanding these opinions, he made a trial of Hol loway's ointment and pills, which effected more goo d in a few days than all the treatment he had heretofore received, and subsequently the wounds on hfit m ed leg ici were completely healed. Sold by all vendors one, and at Professor Holloway's Establishments, 244, Strand, London, And 80, Maiden•lane, New York. THE SUN S LONDON, _ TUESDAY EVENING, MARCH 6, 1855. since his election had accepted the office of a Lord_ of the Treasury. PAUPER CHILDREN. Mr. MILES wished to ask the President of the Poor Law Board whether any communication had taken place between the President of the Privy Council and himself, relative to the el ncation of children receiving out-door relief ; and, if so, whether there was any objec tion to lay such correspondence: before the house Mr. BAINES said there was a correspondence on this subject in the possession of the Poor Law Board, and there would be no objection to produce it. Mr. MILES next asked the President of the Poor Law Board -whether any communication bad taken place between 'himself and the Emigration Commissioners relative to the Act passed by the New South Wales Legislature, 16 Vic., c. 42, s. 7 and 8, whereby the Emi gra.t'ion Commissioners are declared competent to engage avy boy or girl, of and above the age of 13, from any -parish or board of guardians, the parents or guardians i of whom shall be willing to contribute towards their passage to the colony, the colony paying a sum not ex ceeding 8/. sterling towards the passage money ; such children, upon their arrival in the colony, to be appren ticed to proper employers under certain conditions. Mr. BAINES said there had also been a correspond ence on this subject, and, if the hon. member would n3. , 3ve for it, there would be no objection to produce it. SANDHURST COLLEGE. Col. NORTH gave notice that, this day fortnight, he should move an address to the Crown relative to th 6 Royal Military College of Sand D hurst. POLAN. Mr. PHINN postponed his motion relative to the restoration of Poland until this day fortnight. COFFEE FOR THE CRIMEA. Col. NORTH wished to ask the Secretary of the Treasury upon what days the following ships laden with roasted coffee for the Crimea sailed from England : Sydney Hall, steam-transport, Adelaide, steatn-transport, and Lady Eglinton, steam -transport. Mr. WILSON said the first sailed on the 2d Decem ber • the second, on the 29th December ; and the third ; on the 4th January. Colonel NORTH asked the Under Secretary for War if he was aware that green coffee was served out in the hospital at Scutari on the 17ch day of February. Mr. F. PEEL was not aware of the circumstance ; but up to the middle of January no coffee had been dis xibuted ARMY BEFOICE SEBASTOPOL COM MITTEE. CRIMEAN MEDAL. Mr. STANLEY asked the First Lord of the Treasury, or Under Secretary for War, if it was intended that the Crimean medal shall confer two years' additional service, or any peculiar advantages similar to those conferred by the Waterloo medal in 1815. }Joni PALMERSTON, in answer to the question, said undoubtedly these actions were actions in which the brave troops of the country displayed a much valouress ,as e ver was evinced in former actions,neverthel although medals had been prepared for these actions, it was not intended to accompany those medals with the priv lege of counting these actions as ten yeaonars' sehrviceese . The battle of Waterloo was quite exceptil to t actions or those in the Peninsular, because it decided, as it were, the fate of Europe. HOUSE OF LORDS.—(THIS EVENING.) The LORD CEIANCELLOR took his seat on the wool sack at five o'clock. PETITIONS. Lord LONDESBOROUGH presented two petitions praying for the total prohibition of the sale of intoxi cating liquors. Lord LYNDHURST presented a petition from New castle-upon-Tyne, against the present system of promo tion in the army, against flogging in the army, and pray ing for a searching inquiry i nto the war. Lord BROUGHAM presented a petition from Pais ley in support of a vigorous prosecution of the war ; the petitioners further prayed that the independence of Po land might be proclaimed, and that the aid of Hungary and Italy ought to be secured. Lord BERNERS presented several petitions against the Maynoeth grant. Lsrd LUCAN gave notice that, on Thursday, he should call the attention of the house to the land trans port service in the Crimea. The Earl of CARLISLE presented a petition from Yorkshire, in favour of a total prohibition of the sale of intoxicating drinks. LORD LUCAN AND THE GOVERNMENT. Lord LUCAN, approaching their lordships table, said he regretted being compelled again to present himself before their lordships. Earl GRANVILLE interposed and said, if the noble lord intended to speak upon the same subject which he had before done, he submitted that it would be highly incorrect in the absence of the noble lord the Minister of War and the Cominander-in-Chief for him to do so.l Lord LUCAN said he was in the hands of the house, and he felt himself fully justified in again presenting himself to their lordships' notice. The noble lord was then about to enter into his case in respect to his con duct in the Crimea, when Earl GREY apologised for interrupting the noble lord, but said he felt strongly the inconvenience of the course he was pursuing. The noble lord came forward to read letters and public documents, which were not thrown on their lordships' table. If the noble lord wished to have the documents produced, he would make a motion for their production, and when they were placed upon the table it would then be in his power to raise the whole question. The course ho was now pursuing was contrary to th• rules of the house. Lord LUCAN said he had no desire to proceed irregularly. Earl GREY—WeII, then, make a motion. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE was sure the noble lord would see the inconvenience of proceeding as he was now doing. Lord PANMURE, who had just entered the house, apologised for his absence on Friday] when the noble lord addressed the house. Lord LUCAN hoped that his lordship would have no o'Jjection to his reading a letter which he had 're ceived from the noble lord opposite yesterday after noon. (Laughter.) He then read the following letter from Lord Pannsure : "My dear Lord,—As I perceive that you had read an incomplete correspondence last Friday in the House of Lords, I think it right to forward to your lordship a copy of Lord Raglau's despatch, dated the 16th of December, and addressed to the Duke of Newcastle. (Signed) PA.NItURR. Lord Lucan said as he was not aware of the existence of the letter, it was impossible that he could have read it. The noble lord then proceeded to read a copy of the letter addressed by Lord Raglan to the Duke of New castle, dated Dec. 8, 1854, in which his lordship set forth the facts of the case connected with the charge at Balaklava, and concluded by observing that Lord Lucan had not misconstrued the order. Lord Lucan then also read the answer to his application for a court martial, which was a refusal on the part of his Com mander-in-Chief to institute tuck a tribunal. Lord PANMURE hoped that his lordship would not make that house an arena for deciding points of disci pline in the army. Lord LUCAN having moved for the production of all papers relating to his conduct in the Crimea, The subject dropped. EXPORTATION OF MUNITIONS OF WAR. Lord BERNERS moved for a return of the lead or other articles contraband of war exported from the dif ferent ports of Great Britain and Ireland to foreign ports since the declaration of war, and of the imports into Great Britain and Ireland of Russian produce in neutral vessels during the last year. Lord GRANVILLE said he had no objection to the first part of the motion of the noble lord, but suggested some alteration in the latter part of it. The noble lord entered at length into the subject of the prohibition of the munitions of war, and said it was intended to limit it to three articles, viz., small arms, sulphur, and powder; asd that the Government had made concessions to pre vent the orders pressing with undue severity upon French merchants, and the French Government had made similar concessions in favour of the English, and not ono single complaint had been received He (Earl Granville) thought the course pursued was most judicious. The noble earl then alluded to the blockade that had been ,established, and said that the trade of Russia, in the Black Sea in particular, had been e ntirely suspended. Lord COLCHESTER deprecated the whole system of blockade as inefficient. The Earl of HARDWICK said that the blockade was affected. The ships could not be kept in the sea in the winter, so that there could be no blockade at that season. After a few words from the Duke of ARGYLL, The motion was agreed to. ROMAN CATHOLIC PROCESSIONS. The Bishop of EXETER rose to move for the pro duction of the opinion of the Irish law officers with re. spect to the Roman Catholic processions in Tuani. [LEFT SPEAKING.] ARMY REFORM. Mr. HUTT said, seeing, by official correspondence, that when the Duke of Newcastle found it necessary to recall Lord Lucan from the command of the British caved? y in the Crimea he was compelled to obtain the interposition of Lord Hardinge for that purpose, he wished to ask the First Lord of the Treasury whether, among the improvements in the a dministration ef the army which he promised to the house on his accession to office, he proposed to empower the Secretary for War to effect such changes without the intervention of the Horse Guards Lord PALMERSTON said there was not any inten tion to make any alteration in the subordination of the army, the staff appointments would still remain in the hands of the Commander-in -Chief_ THE CAPE. Mr. LIDDELL asked the Colonial Secretary if any report had been received of a fresh outbreak of Kafirs in the Cape. Sir G. GREY replied in the negative, but, by the last despatch from the Governor of the Cape, dated the 30th of December, the Kafirs had a sumed a very hostile position on the eastern frontier of the country. CORPORATION OF LONDON. Mr. LA BOUCHERE reminded the right hon. baronet the Secretary of State for the Horne Department that the report of the commissioners appointed to inquire into the state of the Corporation of London had been some time in the hands of the Government, and he wished to know if Government contemplated bringing in a bill to reform the corporation. Sir G. GREY said a bill was in preparation founded upon the report of the Commission for the Reform of the Corporation of the City of London, but it was not de sirable that the bill should be laid before Parliament until the measure of Sir B. Hall, for the better govern ment of the metropolis, had been dispoled of. RECORDERSHIP OF BRIGHTON. Mr. CRAUFURD moved the appointment of a select committee to take into consideration the case of the ap pointment of Edwin James, Q.C., to the office of Re corder of Brighton, the said Edwin James having been refused admittance to the Bench of the Inner Temple, on account of his conduct in respect of certain transac tions connected with the election for the borough of Horsham in 1847. The hon. and learned gentleman entered into an explanation of the circumstances attend ing the election in 1847, from which it appeared that Mr. Jervis, the son of the then Attorney-General, was returned for the bororgh, but upon petition he was un seated, and it was alleged that Mr. James was impli cated in the affair in this manner : it was said he nego tiated a compromise whereby the bribery charges against Mr. Jervis were withdrawn in consideration of his un dertaking to pay over a sum of money to the parties who made them. The charges were withdrawn, but the consideration was never paid. Subsequently two qui tem actions were brought against Mr. James and Sir John Jervis, the Attorney-General, for bribery, but they broke down upon a technical point of law. Immediately afterwards Mr. James was called within the bar, and Sir John Jervis was promoted to the Bench. Mr. James then applied to be elected a bencher of his Inn, but the benchers called upon him to give some explanation in reference to his conduct at the Horsham election. That explanation he gave, but it was not deamed satisfactory, and therefore his application to be elected as bencher was either rejected or withdrawn. Now, comparing this case with that of Mr. Stonor, be could not u nderstand upon vrlat ht round the Government could defe nd the appointment of Mr. James, and acting uponthe precedent of theStonor case be called upon the house to institute anonquiry t intof the Re the cir cumstances attending the recent app corder o corder of Brighton. Sir J. WALMSLEY seconded the motion. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL believed the hon. and learned gentleman had brought this motion forward from the purest and loftiest of motives—(a laugh)—butht have he thought the hon. and learned gentleman mig ab stained from attacking the Chief Justice of CorramonPleae. He asked the house whether the case made out against Mr. James was worthy of a moment's notice, because all that he did in connection with the Horsham election was not in his professional capacity, but in the chae ter of a private gentleman. Nor was his cond it uct in con nection with that election teinted wh abuse, w hile with regard to the case laid before the benchers he believed the benchers of the Inner Temple determined that it was one in w hich they could noelectetd in terfere. The benchers of the In ner Temple were by ballot, and ten black balls defeated a candidate. In that way Mr. James had not been elected a bencher, butsurely that was no reason why he should be excluded from office, seeing that there was no imputation whatever against either his private or public character and honour. He knew several other honourable men who had attained the dignity of Queen's Counsel without beingesi elected the a bencher of their Inn, but all that might be beside question. He would state that the Government were quite ignorant of the fact that Mr. James had been re jected ; they had no means o f knowing it any mor e than they had the means of knowing whether the learned b gen tleman had been rejected by any particular cluor not, and he therefore hoped the house would soers.t for a single mement entertain this proposition. (Che) After a few words from Mr. I. BUTT, who opposed the motion, Mr. ATHERTON, as a member and bencher of the In ner Temple, declared that no sufficient reason had been shown to justify the house in adopting the motion, because it implied no censure that a gentleman -had not been elected a bencher. The benchers claimed the absolute discretion of electing or rejec tin g Queen's Counsel, just as they thought proper, without being responsible to an one for their decision, and hence the objection of the hon. and learned gentleman to this appointment was illusory. (Hear, hear.) Lord PALA.IERSTON repeated what he had stated on a former occasion—namely, that he used his best exertions to select the most competent person for the office out of a large number of candidates who sought the appointment. The preponderance of the profes sional testimonials were in favour of Mr. James, while the majority of the Town Council of Brighton memorialised th e Government in his behalf. His appointment pro ceeded upon public grounds alone. After a few words from Sir J. DUKE, who spoke to the ability and integrity of Mr. James, Mr. CRIIIFORD replied. Sir J. WALMSLEY said he gentleman who bad moved it, but aft,of the exp l a nation he had heard he must decline to vote for it. (Hear, and laughter.) The motion was negatived without a division, the only " aye" in its favour being that of the hon. and learned gentleman who had made it. Mr. 1. BUTT moved that the motion should not be entered upon the journals of the house. Mr. CRAUFURD objected to the motion, and de clared his intention to divide the house upon it. The question was then put, and there being only a solitary " No" against it, namely that of hon. and learned gentleman, there could be no tellers appointed for the " Nos," and therefore the motion was declared to be carried. MASTERS AND OPERATIVES. Mr. MACKINNON called the attention of the house to the inconvenience now felt in the country from the want of equitable tribunals, by whose means any differ ences between masters and operatives might be satisfactorily adjusted, from which also other ad vantages might be gained in disputed claims. He alluded to the fact that there was a growing feeling in the country in favour of councils of arbitration for the adjustment of disputes between masters and men, but that at present English law did not formally recognise any such institution. His proposal was thus to legalise hem, and he contended that they would be exti eteely heeeticiusi in preventing a recurrence of those ecenee which had so lately taken place at Preston ; whilst at the same time it would condule to the interests of intention by (THIS EVENING.) HOUSE OF COMMONS.—(THIS EVENING.) The SPISAIKEIt took the ehair shortly before four o'clock. NEW MEMBERS. Sir C. Wood, Mr. V. Smith, and Sir G. C. Lewis, severally took the oaths and their seats on their re-elec tion for Halifax, Northamptonshire, and New Radnor. PRIVATE BUSINESS. The Lancashire and Yorkshire and Blackburn Rail ways Bill was read a second time and ordered to be committed. PETITIONS. Mr. MITCHELL presented a petition from a place In Cornwall against the sale of intoxicating liquors on Sundays. Mr. THORNLEY presented a petition from the licensed victuallers of Wolverhamton praying for the repeal of the Beer Act of last session. Mr. HORSFALL presented a petition from Liver pool against the opening of the British Museum and the National Gallery on Sundays. Sir J. WALMSLEY presented a petition from Lei cester, against the sale of intoxicating liquors on Sun days. Mr. WATSON presented a petition from the post masters of Hull, praying for the repeal of the mileage duty. Mr. COWAN presented a petition from the Scottish Trade Protection Society, in favour of Lord Brougham's bill for the registration of Bills of Exchange. Sir J. TROLLOPE presented a petition from the licensed victuallers of Lincoln, praying for the repeal of the Beer Act of last session. Mr. SPOONER presented a petition from the Pro testant Association, praying the house to insist upon the immediate production of the Maynooth report, and pray ing for inquiry into the circumstances under which the Pope's legate became possessed of the evidence taken before the Maynooth Commission. Mr. A. PELLATT presented a petition from the manufacturers of Southwark and Bermondsey, complain ing of certain clauses in the Nuisances Removal Act. Mr. M. GIBSON presented a petition from Man chester, in favour of the bill for the repeal of the Newspaper Stamp. Mr. LAYARD presented a petition from Newcastle upon-Tyne, praying fora searching inquiry into the con duct of the war. P.Miarn.dPalisiltNhNadptroeosTfeNnutiekdeya.petition from Bath, praying the house to extend the same measure of justice to for Portsmouth ii.WrihneWArotßeTralETß.,o On th e motion of a l n ct e r vt 4 m w o ri n t c w k asz ) - dered ____---•-......-.`..-..".....*..-...,--- ---+.-,- --3 -- ....- _ ..-.----....., .... . ___ .protecting patents from piracy. At present the only . Militia, are substituted for thew which appeared in former f 'with a convulsive gr, tsp, exclaimed in broken aciants, appeal in the case of disputed patent was to the Court Gazettes.] of Chancery which involved great expense, and On 22a December, 1854 —Ensign Andrew Tennent to be "0 e, c o . Johnson. I saw somethingon the Step/ I Take me away !" This unel 'pec&d incident imparted a re was consequently beyond the reach of a poor man. Lieutenant, vice Douglas, deceased, Dec. I. On 13th With this view, therefore, he should move that an hum- February, 1855—John Binnie Mackenzie, Gent., to be - wa s slily to the occasion wh. 'eh perhaps few present bad sk peeled. Mrs. Rollinsoi k, in an agony of terror, , ble address should be presented to her lajesty, praying Ensign, i vice Strang, deceased, Feb. ti. t t o oy b a e l CLeantanainksbilarkM' it r r Brisbane conveyed up the steps, and immediately afterwards that the necessary information as to the " Conseils des ) Esq. , 4 ioal-,Gw.;ltte to I)eeuteFu'aunke fainted. After a while her consciousness returned, Prud'hommes" in France might be obtained by 1 F e b . . 15; a commission, or in William Fullerton Fullerton, Gent., to be Lien_ but f o r a brief interval, : end she assured her friends?, order to bring before the ' tenant, Feb. 16 - William Wilson, Gout., to be Lieutenant in the most earnest and s, tlemn manner, that she had w hite house the operation of otherwis e, thse institutions in that country , Feb. 17 ; George Pollock G : t to be , Lieutenant Feb 19; . seen on the stairs a fame Je form, dressed in which were analagous to those be proposed to introduce John Reid Pollock, Geni., Gent., Enei,-,n, Feb. 15. , into England. I apparel, and that it apl oroacbed and rushed Pals.! Inverness, Bauff, Elgin, and IVairn Regiment of I h e r. The fact of no one el se having seen it made 1) (LEFT SPEAKING.) Militia—Richard Rose Manson to be Lieutenant, vice difference to her. She belie led the evidence of her eye' George Alexander, resigned ; William Chefden Goldie to sigh; in that inst . ance , as she bad been accustomed to de , be Ensign, vice Manson, promoted. Forfar and Kincardine Regiment of Milltia Artillery— on oulinary occasions, and pi -oba,bly nothing cousldnehea: shaken her conviction that she had see s . a r :, Captain David Laird to be Major, vice Rait, resigned ; Reginald Howard Alexander Ogilvy, Gout., to , be Captain, loar Feb. 9. Again she relapsed into a st ate of unconscioueness, 1 which condition she was remo-ved in a cab to her _, ings, and died there about coo aon Monday. lier dear had certainly been caused by the fright that ti r e received on the previous d.ay, up to which , en ds she was in perfect health and spirits ; and her friends concur in stating that she was by no means of a timid concur disposition. A coroner's inqui ,st was held deathTe.V... in consequence of the poor wow man's sudden.. 'II!, Liard-headed matter-of-fact jury could make sudden,nothing of i . lt.e ghost story, so they return'- el a verdict a " ___.- but natural death." We are u) )able to add that thi!l T o c_'; diet .has had the effect of extero2inating the Superstetl; f ee liog s that the tragic incident. of Sunday ha c itt 3 4,,figi.fi rumours which preceded it, have awaleened.---P dr Dumfries, Roxburgh, and Selkirkslaire Militiar—David Hope Johnstone, Esq., to be Captain, Feb. 14. East Kent Regiment of Mil itia —Lieutenant Charles 2 Castle to be Captain, vice Slark , resi g ned, Feb. 2 ; -1110 Y, Etisign James O'Donnel Annesley to be Lieutenant, vice Res resigned, March 2 ; Ensign Edwin Balfou r Wimberley to be Lieutenant, vice Castle, promoted, March 3 ; ThomiNs Shirley Ball, Gent., to be E nsi g n, vice Annelev, pro- I moted, March 2 ; Joshua John P i p on, Gent., to be *Ensign, vice Wimberley, promoted, March 3; James Bartholomew Schlotel, Gent., to be Eusign, March 4. Kent Militia Regiment of Artillery—Charles Nassau Girardot, Gent., to he Second Lieutenant, vice Bentiuck, resigned, Feb. 22. 2d or Edmonton Royal Rifle Regiment of Middlesex Militia—Martinus Van Kirkwyk Bowie, Esq. Adjutant of the 2d or Edmonton Royal Rifle Regiment Middlesex Militia, to serve with the rank of Captain, Feb. 8. 2d Regiment of the Royal Surrey Militia —George Waugh, Gent., to be Ensign, Feb. 26. North York Rifle Regiment of Militia —John Bell, Gent., to be Ensign ; Join' Swainston Stratigways, Gent., to be Ensign, Feb. 28. Oxfordshire Regiment of Militia —Ensign Nicholas Gif ford to be a Lieutenant, vice Birch, appointed to the 411 h Regiment of the Lino, March 3. Royal North Gloucester Reg iment of Militia.-Ellsign Cecil Frederick Holder to be L ieutenant, vice Miiler, re signed ; Ensign Thomas Mansfield James to be Lieutenant, thur vice Lees, resigned ; Edw ard Francis Brown B.rooke, Gent., to be Ensign, vice Mansfield, promoted ; ,-- Fitzgerald Howe Daniel to bo Ensign, vice Merrett, pro moted, March 3. 2d or North Durham Regiment of Militia—John Henry Lukis, Esq., late of the 61st Regiment of Foot, to be Cap tain, vice Pemberton, resigned ; George Lewis Trotter be , Gent., to be Disign ; Win. Henry Green, Gent., to Ensign ; Randle Macdonell , Gent , to be Ensign ; Ben jamin Earnes, Gent., to be Ensign, March 1. Durham Militia Artillery—Rugh Stafford, Gent., to be First Lieutenant, vice Hop kins, resigned ; Second Lieu tenant Edward Featherstonhaugh to be First Lieutenant, vice Wood, resigned • John George Robso n, Gent., to be Second Lieutenant, March 1. BANKRUPTCIES ANNULLED. William Groom, innkeeper, Sudbury. James Lucas, cheese factor, Stroud. BANKRUPTS. Robert Edward Barnes, wine merchant and house agent, Chelsea, to purrender, March 12, at half-past eleven,. and April 25, at' eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy: Pennell; official -assignees Guildhall,-chambers ; Pain , - Greiham street, City: Thomas Berwick, licensed victualler, Half Moon-street, Piccadilly, March 16 and April 20, at twelve, at the Bank ruptcy Court. Carman, official assignee, Alderma.nbury ; Strong, Coleman-street. Llewellyn Wallington, grocer, Bridgend, Glamorgan shire, March 19 and April 17, at eleven, at the Bristol District Court. Acraman, official 'assignee, Bristol ; Ed wards and Naldor, Bristol. James Barlow, brass founder, Birmingham, March 17 and April 14, at twelve, at th Birmingham District Court. Christie, official assignee, Birmingham ; Suckling, and Son, Birmingham. John Thynne Carr, timber merchant, Regent-terrace, Cit y - r oad, March 16, at half - past tw o, and April 19, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Lee, official assignee, Aldermanbury ; Taylor, South-street, Finsbury-square. George Roots, brickmaker, New-road, Chatham , M arch 17, and April 21, at half-past eleven, at the Court of Bank ruptcy. Whitmore, official assignee, Basinghall-street ; Stopher, Cheapsido. John William Dobson, brewer, Leyburn, Yorkshire, March 19 and April 17, at twelve, at the Leeds District Court. Hope, official assignee, Leeds ; Prest, Leeds ; Willmott, High-street, Southwark. Evan Edwards, grocer, Taibach (not Taiibach, as adver tised in last Friday's Gazette), March 13 and April 16, at eleven, at the Bristol District Cci. t. Acraman, official assignee, Bristol ; Trenerry, Bristol. Francis Edward Bingley, sharebroker and auctioneer, Somerset-terrace, Pimlico, March 16, at twelve, and April 19, at two, at the Court of Bankru p tcy. Lee, officia assignee, Aldermanbury ; Lawrance, Plows, and Boyer, Old Jewry Chambers. Thomas Bain and John Cowan, merchants, late of Madras, March 16, at two, and Apri l 20, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Whitmore, official assignee, Ba.- singhall-street ; Hughes, Kearsey, Masterman, and Hughes, Bucklersbury. Joseph Wilkinson, jun., cloth manufacturer, H the Leeds orsfortb, Yorkshire, March 16 a nd A p ril 20, at eleven, at District Court. Young, official assignee, Leeds ; Bond and Barwick, Leeds. James Fenton, cotton manufacturer, Reeds, Lancashire, March 16, and April 19, at twelve, at the Manchester Dis trict Court. Hernaman, official assignee, Manchester ; Faulkner, Manchester. William Henry Miners, grocer, Plymouth, March 20 and April 10, at one, at the Exeter District Court. Hirtzell, official assignee, Exeter ; Abrahams , Southamp ton -buildings ; Bishop and Pitts, Exeter. Clifford Firth and John Archer, brokers late of Liver pool, March 12 and April 4 , at eleven , at Liverpool. Cazo nove, official assignee, Liverpool • Whitley, Liverpool. Nathan Clough, painter, Bradford, York, March 26, at half-past eleven, and April 17, at eleven, at the Leeds Dis trict Court. Hope, official assignee, Leeds ; Terry and Watson, Bradford ; Bond and Barwick, Leeds. Thomas Walker, licensed victualler, Edwin stowe, Not tinghamshire, March 17, and April 21, at twelve, at the Leeds District Court. Brewin, official assignee, Sheffield ; Neale, Mansfield ; Dixon and Blackwell, Sheffield. Edwin Sparrow, metal broker, Liverpool, March 20, and April 11, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court. Mor gan, official assignee, Liverpool ; Boggie, Liverpool. John Lambert, timber dealer, Halifax, March 22, and April 20, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court. Young, official assignee, Leeds ; Holroyde, Son, and Cronhelm , Halifax; Bond and Ba rwick, Leeds. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS, Thomas Cargill, flax spinner and merchant, Dundee. John Wilkie, warehouseman, Glasgow. Campbell, M`Nab, and Company, merchants, Glasgow. Adolphe Breysig, merchant, Dundee. Peter M'Duff and Company, tanners, Dundee. (Continued front our first edition. ) Examination of Sir De Lacy Evans continued : He thought no winter clothing had been sent to the Crimea when be left. With regard to clothing generally, whilst he was there, he did not think the army was very much distressed for want of clothing—what depressed them most, as he had often stated, was the night-work in the trenches. The men were allowed to leave the camp to fetch firewood. During the time he was there they were singularly fortunate in the weather, although the nights were cold with heavy dews. He believed that a probable cause of cholera in his division was the night exposure to these dews,whilst they were without tents from the 18th September until the beginning of October. As to the night work in the trenches, he should think one night in every three was not unreasonable under such a siege as we were now engaged in ; but continual night work was, in the opinion of all the superior officers, highly injurious to the men. His division when sent out was not properly equipped for a campaign such as had taken place ; but for all ordinary purposes of an expedi tion, partly naval and partly military, he should say they were. The strength of his division when he landed in the Crimea was between 4,000 and 5,000, but when he left, which was after the battle of Inkerman, it did not num ber above 2,000 ; but in the meanwhile it bad been rein forced. Whilst the expedition was at sea it was as well provided for as others he had seen. There were more stringent military regulations laid down than he had ob served in any former campaign. It was his opinion that from the first the work cut out for the army was far be yond its numerical strength, and that was decidedly the main cause of all the suffering which ensued. He did not see any British soldiers in French clothing as had been stated. Comparing this campaign with others in which he had been engaged, he. did not think the troops had been badly provisioned. The main cause of the disasters which had befallen the army he attri buted to over-work, but the deficiencies and irregulari ties in the commissariat had something to do with them. At the same time the provisions were of good quality. They had the full command of the sea, front which an unlimited supply of provisions might have been drawn if proper arrangements had been made. He had complaints made to him of the coffee being un roasted, and he had represented the subject to the Com mander-in-Chief, but not in the shape of an official written complaint. As to the deficiency in provisions generally, it was known down to every drummer boy. lie had other grounds—and very strong ones—for the impression that the Government contemplated, or at least hoped, that the misunderstanding with Russia might be remedied without actual hos tilities. The army and navy were not actively recruited—only 10,000 troops were organised for the expedition—and the militia were not called out. All these were grounds for inference in his mind, that the Government did not, in point of fact, anticipate what had since taken place. He never saw any waterproof clothing distributed to the army ; nor such a thing as a Mackintosh upon a soldier whilst he was there. He did not consider himself quite competent to ex press an opinion as to the general army arrangements, so far as to say that modern improvements had been madeuse of to the extent they might have been. He always understood there were ship loads of provisions in Bala klava harbour ; and he had little doubt that the diffi culty of bringing them up to the camp arose from the want of a proper land transport corps with proper facilities. Mr. Dundas, M.P., was next examined. He had an opportunity of ascertaining the condition of some of the sick in his passage from Balaklava to Scutari. No pro vision on board was made for them by way of accommo dation. The vessel, the Simoom, was clean. The sick were accommodated on the upper deck, and were brought from the shore in boats, and to the shore on ambulance mules. The weather was wet, and when they arrived on board they had no clothes to change, nor was any pre paration made fcr their reception in the shape of beds. The inen had only their great ?coats and blankets, and lay upon the bare decks of the vessel—their knapsacks being their pillows. There were no sick officers on board. There were three medical officers on board, but they were invalids themselves, and were sent down from the camp in charge of the sick. The kinds of disease amongst the men were diarrbcea and dysentery. There were foul smells in ,the vessel, but the captain did all he could to alleviate the nuisance. They lost five or six by death on thh passage to Scutari. There they found that no hospital accommo dation existed, , and it was seven, days before the whole of the sick men were landed. 'They were landed in fifties and forties a day. The Tamar is a screw steamer belonging to Mr. Lindsay. Two days, he be lieved, sufficed for the embarkation of the sick. Had there been hospital accommodation the disembarkation could soon have been effected. The total deaths on board the vessel, including those on the pas sage, amounted to thirty-three. The sick did not at first complain of their condition ; but they soon became quite helpless. The orderlies were few, and could not, of course, be expected to attend to so many patients ; and to add to the distress of the poor fellows, many of them were covered with vermin, in consequence of their not having had a change of clothes for some time previously. He visited the hospital at Scutari two or three times. He had previously seen the French hospitals, which in his opinion were very much superior for arrangement and convenience. As to the Scutari hospital he gave every credit to the exertions of the medical staff, who did all they could, but the work was too much for them. The sick beds were generally comfortable, and he heard no complaint, but it occurred to him that the beds were too low. The wards were comparatively clean, nor was there any offensive smell in them. The orderly system in the hospital was very defective. There were- about 800 of them when he was there, who were not of very good character ; and one was overheard to say that "It was a very bad day for them when they had not two bottleb of wine among three of them." Captain the Hon. M. Ponsonby, M.P., of the Grena dier (xuards, was next examined. He said he left Eng land in October last. The regiment under his command before the arrival of the huts lay upon their blankets in the open air. They managed to procure some fuel. The weather was ultimately wet and cold, and sickness to some extent prevailed. He left Ealaklava on the sth or 6th of January. He attributed the sickness amongst the men to cold, wet, and irregularity of food. The supply, although irregular, was not deficient. The inquiry was adjourned at twenty minutes to four .ac o'clock. Times. COURSE OF EXCHANGE. —Tins DAY timsterdam.. • •....... 11 16% Gibraltar .. .. 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FOREIGN-OFFICE, MARCH 5. The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. Arnold L. Vanden Bergh as Consul at Portsmouth for the King of the Belgians. WHITEHALL, MARCH 3. The Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent to be passed under the G reat Seal, appointing the Right Honourable Robert Vernon Smith to be her Majesty's Commissioner for the Affairs of India. CROWN-OFFICE, MARCH 6. MEMBERS RETURNED TO SERVE IN THIS PRESENT PARLIA MENT. Borough of Halifax—The Right Honourable Sir Charles Wood, Bart., First Commissioner of the Admiralty. City of London—The Right Honourable John Russell (commonly called Lord John Russell), one of her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State. Borough of Northampton. — The Right Honourable Robert Vernon Smith, President of the Board of Control for the affairs of India. Borough of Radnor.—The Right Honourable Sir George Cornewall Lewis, Bart., Chancellor and Under Treasurer of the Exchequer. BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, MARCH 5. The Right Honourable the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade and Plantations have received, through the Secretary of State fer Foreign Affairs, a copy of a despatch from her Majesty's Consul at Jassy, trans mitting a Notice published by the Government of the Principality of Moldavia, authorising the admission of all vessels with their cargoes to Free Pratique on their arrival, in the absence of contagious malady, under the observance of certain prescribed forms. WAR-OFFICE, MARCH 6. BREVET. Lieutenant Charles Vaughan Arbuckle, of the Bengal Artillery, to have the local rank of Captain in Turkey, while employed on a particular service in that country, March 6. COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY THE QUEEN. Sussex Regiment of Militia—Richard Rodd Robinson, Esq., to be Paymaster from the 11th December, 1854, Dec. 11. Ist Royal Lanarkshire Militia—William Ross, Gent., to be Paymaster, vice Stevenson, deceased, Jan. 27. Warwickshire Militia-2d Regiment—Captain William Clune, late sth Regiment, to be Paymaster, Jan. 30. 2d or Edmonton Royal Rifle Regiment of Middlesex Militia—Martinus Van Kirkwyk Bowie, Esq. (late Cap tain 52d Light Infantry), from the Sligo Militia, to be Adjutant, vice Colvill, appointed Governor of Coldbath fields Prison, Feb. 7. COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY LORD LIEUTENANTS. County Palatine of Lanca ster-- Bryan Paget Greg son, Esq., to be Deputy Lieutenant, March 1. Ist Regiment of the Duke of Lancaster's Own Militia — John Scott, Gent. to be Ensign, March 1. sth Regiment of Royal Lancashire Militia—Thomas Arthur Bellew, Esq., late Captain 34th Foot, to be Cap tain, vice Roskell, resigned, Jan. 3. 6th Regiment of Royal Lancashire Militia—James Ash ton, jun., Gent., to be Lieutenant, Roger Forrest, Gent. to be Ensign, March 1; Joseph Richard Hamilton, Gent., to be Ensign, March 2 ; William Singleton, Gent., to be Ensign March 3. Comity of Pembroke —Nicholas John Dun Esq„ to be Deputy Lieutenant ; William Walters, Esq., to be Deputy Lieutenant, March 1. Queen's Own Light Infantry Regiment of Tower Ham lets Militia —William George Neilson, Gent., to be En sign • John Beaumon t, Gent., to be Ensign. Ist'Royal ll,anarkshire Militia—Robert Il d la w ' cnee C ont., to be Lieutenan t, vice Dickson; John Edward "Wii:;lit Hussey, Gent., to be Ensign, vice Naismith, resigned, Feb. 21. [The following appointments is lot Royal Lanarkshire Silver in bars . .... 0 5 P 4 FRIGHTENED TO DEATH. COUNTBY 4IASgETS. First . Second Third.. 43% L 30% • That the popular belief in ghosts is not extinct, even in a large town like Sheffield, is proved by a tragic cir cumstance of recent occurrence. It was currently re ported in Campo-lane, at the latter end of last week, that a ghost, " all in white," had made its appearance in the house of John Favell, who lives in Campo-lane, a little beyond the parish church. The story was genuine thus far, that a young woman, named Harriet Word, who lodged at Favell's house, affirmed in the most solemn manner that she had seen 4ou apparition in the cellar kitchen. This assertion was made with such an air of credibility that the other inmates in the house—Favell, his wife, and the wife's sister—could not altogether disbelieve it, though they had no visual evidence of its truth. Favell had heard strange sounds, however, which he thought might have bad their origin in super natural agency. On Saturday evening they felt so much concerned on account of the ghostly presence that, for the sake of greater security, a friend of the family, a man named Robert Rollinson, who lodged in court No. 24, South-street, Park, was requested to spend the night at Favell's house. Being neither superstitious nor timid, Rollinson acquiesced. 'He and the other persons went to bed in due time, and Rollinson reported on the Sun day morning that he had seen nothing extraordinary, but towards morning had heard a strange noise that he could not account for. He returned home to breakfast, having first received an invitation for himself and wife to dine with the Tavel's. His wife and the family with whom they lodged were very inquisitive about the ghost, but Rollinson assured them that he had seen nothing of it. His wife at once accepted the invita tion to dinner, and seemed to regard the apparition story as a pleasant jest. She little knew that within a few hours it would prove her death. She and her hus band kept their appointment at Favell's, and remained to spend the rest of the day there. It should be here stated, as a circumstance which may throw some light on this strange affair, that all the parties concerned — except, perhaps, the ghost, of whose creed nothing is known—were members of the community called Latter day Saints, whose congregational meetings are held at the Hall of Science, Rockingham-street. To this place Favell and his family and friends repaired on Sunday afternoon, leaving in their house Mrs. Favell's sister, Mrs. Rollinson and Mrs. Johnson (the person at whose house in South-etreet the Rollinsons lodged). On the return of the party who had gone to the Hall of Science, they were accompanied by several acquain tances, who had heard of the apparition and, perhaps felt curious to know more about it. Harriet Ward was elo quent on the subject of the vision, and several of the visitors went into the cellar-kitchen to see the ghostly residence and the precise spot where it had been seen. A number of persons had assembled in front of the house, understanding that the ghost was "on view," anxious to have a peep for nothing ; but Mrs. Favell, feeling annoyed at seeing so many individuals prying at the kitchen window, requested her sister to fasten a temporary blind against it with two forks. The he sister, however, had net c oura g e to perform task, although several individuals had already gone down into the kitchen, preceded by Harriett Ward with a lighted candle. It was at this mo ment that Mrs. Rollinson's disbelief in ghostly mani festations exhibited itself in full force. " Pooh, pooh !" she exclaimed, rather impatiently, " Give me the forks child !" and immediately she descended i,.to the kitchen to hang up the blind. She bad not many „io n:tilos when, looking in the diccetton of the ; : ta i is d own which she had descended, she became suddenly terror striclon, and seizing the arraof her friend, Mrs, Johnson -- ce - CHELMSFORD-MAJta rc 2. o h of it We had to-day a go od su pp l y of whi at, but nin ii t o was out of condition. There was but little dispqi'f. re' purchase, and a very small business w a a s transacedWoorrt d uc tion of is per qr. on l ast week's prices. In P ri a lso there was but little doin g . a. 16 Wheat, white, old, per s. 5. , .27 $ 8 qr. 55 SO I Oats, pa rqr ............ ‘, 4 1 new 55 80 I Peas, Pa rtridge ....... ?,` 41 red, old 51 73 WI lite ............ ;1,0, 0 new 51 73 Boi ling ......... n sf Barley 27 3 t Dui i .............. .17, 0 Chevalier 29 37 I Beans, Tik :k ...... :.. 1 0 Grinding 23 :30 I ticks sAi Ho ,rrow .ss s• Malt 70 74 I Ma zagan ...... .31 0 Chevalier . 72 76 I Dit to, OW COLCHESTER— MARcn 2 . letsly 1: 0111/1 7 The death of the Emperor of Russia comp. o ga a trade ; in the few sales made buyers had thk . 11 ""130,00 1611 is ter 2s per qr. Barley was is per qr. cheaper peas are each 2s per qr. lower. • T0 3t°763; Prices to-day were as follow :—Wheat, whits • ' 424; boll red, 61s to 705 ; barley, 30s to 345 ; oats, 27514 I t o; posh Mazagan, .16s to 38s ; middle and small, 40s to. white, 44s to 464 ; grey, 36s to 40s. 1 01111 ',dd. Official Statemeta of the Q uantities of Corn, M•t4 4 P in the port of L ondon, from the following P ° ' the 25th Feb. to the 3d March, both inclusive. Colchester Harwich Leigh . Malden 178, KIRE.CA.La Wheat. 1 Bai 72s Od I 35s 68s Od I Vs ~ 58s Od 1 29s - 1 - ,1 !! ib- ~,... -A .0 1 -J-..... ....-...-. 31' 410 20' 197; - ?t g:9 - .0 . . , Y—Mluc a 3. , 134 r l ey. Oats. lOs o& 03. 29s 6a oil o i i Od Od 272 s s es 1 Od 2 64: 1 I COAL MARKI Prices of Coal per ton at t LT.—Meneti 5. ,he close of the market' , 0 , ~.A 9 s. (1. Wallsen d, l ' • B uru hope .................. 17 0, Wharnelifie ............ •. 0 0 Carr's liartley ............ 18 t \ Eden Main ................ 19 $ Davison's West Hartley 18 6 Belmont .................... :0 Howard's West Hartley Braddyll ................ .70., Netherton ............... 18 6 , \[l ettou ................. ' . 03 ' I . Longridge's Wst Hartley 18 0 Haswell .................. '''' . .o 1 RaVeusworth Pelaw ...... 17 6 Kepler Grange ........ 'll . Raveuswortli'llastley ...18 0 , Hutton .................... 0 $ Redheagh Main... ......... 15 0\ Plummer ................. ..o_,, $ Taufield Moor ............7 0 South Hutton .. ..... .7"....P f Taufiehl Moor Butes ......... OiStewart's ................. .0 1 : Walker Primrose .......,.1 6 6 .llartlepool . ........... 7'.':sl 6 Grey's West Hartley _l7' C Heugh Hall . ......... '' .. . * 4 , 1 Wylam ...................... 19 ' 0 Iluuwiek ............ ".::,.!„, I South .......................... .‘...:.:::r0 .19 0 I,:;.jrcligrove Graigo,P' .. , ' A 19 0 Cow pen ...... :. 7 .. • .........7 , .7' Ws.llama, Sto. Gosforth Harton Heaton Lawson ;ICarr's Riddell l9 glis' • R AILWAY TRAFFIC BET rr -- A;i LONDON AND SOUTH-EASTERN RA1LV1,1,61.1).9 turn for the week ending March 3, 1855 ..... Corresponding week last year .P 1 Decrease in is! 5 - 4 „ A I • tbe• , 1 0 , ,i A. letter from Stutgar3t, 28th ult., lu f fill I er . i berg Moniteur, says :—" The Committer of its_ ao ir the Chamber of Deputies has jimt' Pub-13: ordinary eV on the bill for a loan to meet the elctraoru.ll to o di o , of the War Department. The co mcnitt, e „ ° : ,, r n i of°,,01 10 ; the authorisation of the loan for three re 111 ';;;0 1.90 it' ° '01 1 too r but on condition that the law shall clearli the loan is contracted in order to execute aof, of the Diet. The expenses of putting the copela a war footing for three months is estitnatea...l is : mittee at 1,533,497 - florins." (The Or' ~es d er, 2fr. 50c.) ' , E s s-,, WxsTiths BLISS.—An Oregan widow co sP,' tr . , experience during her sojourn on the'Pec:,ll6o.4 'PIP have indeed been unfortunate, both e' „ bre. A l ‘ l l o :l slightly palsied,, each of my legs has beehosr-. health is generally bad, I have hAd four rtbolf my time, but they all gave up and died, Pla t ? 00 , I had foul yoke of oxen, and the cursed ri PaT o (Ler:tiolfe t:l l eat them." WE ARE ALL CZARS HERE !--The s•-• a.- - Great) did not like his pesition in Lonoe•ith 4119/0. of the streets was a source of annyanee, . vi on e Onith pendent bearing of the passengers. 0rt.,„610 14 T . while walking in the Strand with car 4 pr aor said to have been jostled by a porter e "di r, peehaps inadvertently. Peter waxed , 11 ,, r itY,Tfie ' Marquis turned angrily to the man, sal' 4 o,, that this is the Czar 1" " Czar 1" replie d bo tir? all Czars here." [ADVERTISEMENTI—Many h sand cureelt.°4 effected without medicine, bytD°:BarrY'e.9: 00;4 leuta Arabica Food, of indigestion (dY0P4,811;40,',9001) nervous, bilious, and liver complainte!.?"— 00'1 ,a/ A . quote a few :—Cure No. 52,612.--• r rcS-Augos&rll; 000 " Countess of Castlestuart.—" Rosstrever, L i _ gait i Ireland, 9th December, 1851.—The P °ll 4: of 'rteo ° Castlestuart feels induced, in the interee-tv4731,30 manity, to state that Du Barry's excell e i l ',o o_4o' bica Food has cured her, after all raeal"-a i' of indigestion, bile, great nervousness and a miry of many years' Aanding. This Food deserf" 0 0 , 1 4#1, of all sufferers, and may be considerei, aeo T it Inquiries will be cheerfully answere. vi tt il Of dyspepsia, from the Right Hon. th e •,,, d 3e 6 ; t1 440 Decies.—" I have derived considerable . -- to os • • I , Barry's Revalenta Arabica Food, exa l i e de;fif yourselves and the public to authoriee:p. 0,4,40.0, these lines.—Stuart de Denies." eu re riThr e t Vise / pc the Venerable Archdeacon of Ross.- , c o.:„i ,f 9 sive nervousness, with painsinnay nee" -- e ry ,- ,iorp'il' neral debility, which rendered my life : it irry -• 1 ; 0 1 11 i been radicallyremovedbyDußarry'Sh464,oooll -od —Alex. Stuart, Archdeacon of Ross, _„„,. 01 0 0 ° - iv s ,so , 4,208.—" Eight years' dyspepsia, 1:04'),00,1 with cramps, spasms and nausea,. to fr - .44' tually removed by Du Barry's deliet", ' o ey short time.—Rev. John W. Flavell, P i ,' •v , o si o st Norfolk." Cure No. 51,416.—"Fift_.1 ' l , . : 4 40 Ve, 0,01 0 agony from dyspepsia, nervousness, 7 t hs ..AllO5lll patron, flatulency, spasms, sickness I °,l o s tP'oe se mitings, have been removed by Du 1 3 esi' . ' ' ei• o pi e —Maria Jolly, Wortham, Ling, n ear.r• • ~° p i / No. 3,906. —Thirteen years' cough, . 9 ° OA, fe ll fP : / ral debility have been removed by te,-,.., 0 115i, Fool—James Potter, Athol-streetioan"o,;/01 Fp ters, suitably packed for all climate 0, 41 ,,, P 5 0.1,,,i i p ,',6o, tions-11b., 2s. 9d.; 21b., 4s. 6c1.; b112""' 'OV' d il, super-refined, 11b., 6s. ; 21b., 10- ;salo •' ; The 101 b. and 121 b., carriage fre e d ' CP O ' 1 . 4 1, office order. Barry du Barry' on -- „,„a . is, " co 0:0 street, London ; Fortnum, Mage,t, 0 .. .4 , Jr her Majesty, 182, Piccadilly ; swTstrerthb' Gracechurch-street ; 330 and 461, 4, LP- O x ford -street ; 55, Charing-cros s ; 54, Upperßaker-street. 0 4 : 004 BIATOS 0 .1 e or A 000. i 00)3/.10 On the 3d inst., at St. Martin's.l3ll2'oo.' di ' On the 4th inst., at 33, Alfred-Pliw- wife of the Rev. H. S. Owen. or A DA00111,,,,,,. pet e. , ' - ',, On the lid inst., at Oak•hill, '- • ~•; Paul J. Foaron, Esq. _—. te ll' gP , o b On the sth inst., atliNAewftSilt.lii!lictr-:of tjbe:ol4" Paternoster, wine and spar m eroof e 00 1 1 0 to of Annie, only , daanuthratearnyoyf e t a h rs e siTiceo:oooo4oo_l4, \ metropolis .." 013 Pie ' On the 27th ult., at St. Mar; g .b i oi, , James, solicitor, of Ramsey t io ° riboi ll ' of the late Mr. George Elan ' s , " --- 0 1 DIED' a vii ~ kr, f lon.oi tb. Ail On the let inst., the Right . 0 , 01 __ fo / De la Poer Beresferd, Lord peci Co l ' i rt Y I' land. t,'etit." t° On the 23d ult., at Dublin , an te {h , 0, 3d West York Mlitia, Depotr-'1" 010-_,,i York. goose' •A‘r On the 24th ult., at South•oea fipor- I M ri o u r g r h is e , B . awrti.l,thange:l 79. .“. 25t 1°°.6'0,1.;151 $0 Oa the 27th ult. at 12, 0.°rt°;138136 /1....010 On the sth inst.i,aatt°3°,42th:eellb-estreeCbt°'"Pirg; Adf Esq. , F.R.C.S., surgeon to ' if* 7;ot 4lf ' aged 48. tohfoesupnaytrlieisaehr2sod,faignsesdtt..,Bltha.;ylrtlibfeliVriliP4ol3:ll6°l4ll - " 1 ,4 L')NDON • • bC 01' IP Printed end Pablielvi tYll or S..W.fiti, FriaWr, &t The 0 0 311itrairl. in tito Precint.e.t of tbe 0,60/41' iddiesex, Tuodg r , 171". • tjytielr at e4 r4; . ftesi Court„, ourt c eoirati7 of th ( :41": "wilkhe l izk a rf.hie 1 43 4 4 3 ' f i.,...the 1 0 trAt App tot ttb —u° °n. far t 1 seleU'ear mint ' m ule, !In Wtll b 1-% 4 4 lll4 Xt,fortt tin th • tk i tie Zt t i vil e Eta _,fu_arterl] . 4 4 4 1 1U1n 3 , 1 ° ::4 Ty, 41 thr t l l'Asts7 . h at the sank a' 4:410 4 , 4 4 1 act im entli _cal_endai 4 7 , L 1 !tc9 l 4;,: a ti thei stud , I telop 404 an Intesl 14 °1 ThoN • tut4bLAx t , A i . : 4 ,Tie l e and r; *4;7 7 i Dent ti T ) S, and 1 41 an d 4 t ll Ma ae . a°!tl O tbeta llt . I_o s a in .u4 1 .111 ASy OFFJ Health tuy l oUe eta s . and N. - prh nciplee -'• For ittlTAXis kN ow . 1 , -- `ra , AL: fp, —ate / of Ittst a lun u, on] • PaYabl AI % t ui rr ) 114 411, 1- 4 1f ci ere c i t s lls er,.: 44 oMt 4r4 D a U n t n e ' 40N..Policies ( 4 , 4 1 ittt: lt t i : t ru 1 t al 4 4 5 I 1 ` 1 ! 4 8. 41 ) 1 s 2 a to i 2 6, 2 18 6 81 .. 14 4 414 4 0 , 44 o rkit ktZ : Lt:: 4144114 .` Whole korai, for R e of Lift