The Sun. — London, England, 1855-01-24 00:00:00

_~ consent, the parties who had signed the counter-petition withdrew their opposition, a nd he had since rece ivedajority a petition from that town, with the s ignatures of a majority of the rate-payers attached, in favour of applying the act, and with the prayer of that petition it was his in tention to comply. He woul d now p roceed to state the nature of the provision of t he p roposed bill. The bill contained 170 clauses, anti raightbe desc r i e i l b a e te d d a ts theo General Board of Healt h ani its con sistingconstitution of three nstatution ; parts — first , that w hich second, as to the manner in whic h the sot might be adopted and applied • and, third, as to the pow ers and duties of the local boa rds. It would embody several useful provisions which were contained in former ac ts ; end amon g st these the provisions in the act of last year with regard to the constitution of the General Board of Health would remain precisely the same. (Hear.) He proposed that the act Should be applied either by adoption or by application. First, any small number of persons, being ratepayers, might present a requisition to the mayor of a place, being a borough, or to the principal parish officer in case of a parish, who should thereupon convene a meeting of the ratepayers to take a vote whether the act should be adopted or not in that locality; and if at that meeting the ques tion should be decided in the affirmative, then the resolu tions of the meeting should at once be sent to the General Board of Health, who should have power, if they thought fit, to apply the act to that district. If, on the contrary, there was a division of opinion at the meeting, the le h cer convening it should name a day for the purpose of taking a pall of the inhabitants, to determine in that way whether the act was to be adopted or not ; and in the event of their decision being in favour of applying the act, the general board should have power to apply it accordingly. This regulation would, of course, apply to districts having definite boundaries, and hereafter it might be applied also to places not having definite boundaries, and to parts of p l ac es. He proposed also that a petition for applying the act might be presented to the General Board of Health from the inhabitants of a district, signed by one-tenth of the ratepayers, as at present; and u pon the receipt of that petition that the board should have power to send down an inspector to make the necessary in quiries, and who should give fourteen days' notice by public advertisement that the general board would make a provisional order for the application of the act in that dis trict. The provisional order should then be sent down for the consideration of the inhabitants, and if the majority consented to it the Public Health Act should be applied, but if they objected it should not be applied. So far as he had gone he had shown that the present act was only to be applied with the consent of the ratepayers. There were oases "; however, in which it would be necessary to apply it by appeared ulsory power ; as, for instance, in those where it by the returns of the registrar-general that the deaths in any place exceeded 23 in every thousand of the population. Where such a state of things as that existed he proposed to apply the act compulsorily. He should also take power to apply it to parts of places adjoining districts in which the Public Health Act was already in operation. One remarkable case was brought before him no longer ago than last Saturday, when he received a communication from a district where the Public Health Act was in force, and where the deaths amounted to 21 in a thousand of the population ; whilst in a place imme diately outside that district the deaths numbered the enormous amount of 39 in a thousand ! He thought this so remarkable a case Oat he sent down an inspector to make inquiries on the spot, and by his report and the re gistrar-general's returns the statement had been fully borne out and confirmed. He proposed, therefore, that where the mortality in a place of that description was ex cessive, the Board of Health should have power to attach the place to another district ; and in the particular case he had referred to, he found that the district adjoining was perfectly ready to the adoption of such a measure. Having shown how the act might be put in force, either by adoption or application, he came next to the powers and duties to be exercised by the local boards. They would have power to appoint officers, procure maps of the locali ties, have the sewage and cleansing under their control, and possess the same powers of drainage as were now in exist ence. In the next place he proposed to take some very large powers, and to this proposition be desired to call the especial attention of the house, because if it were sanctioned by the legislature , it would not only interfere with man y of the existing duties and privileges of the Houses of Parliament, but would also to a great extent supersede tho necessity for applying to parliament for local acts. He pro posed to confer powers which had been long desired, and in favour of which committees of the House of Commons had reported over and over again iii reference to the subject of private bill legislation. If any hon. gentleman wished to see what was the opinion of the commissioners on this im portant subject, let them read the report which was issued in 1847, in which the proposition he was about to make was fully considered and favourably reported upon. But if those large folio volumes were too formidable to wade through then he would suggest that the Edinburgh Review of the present month contained an article in which the re commendations of the various commissions were admirably summed up. From that article he would for the present content himself with reading the following short extract:— " These abuses of private bill committes have been the subject of discussion almost annually during the present century in both Houses of Parliament. There are upwards of 70 long reportsin which the delay, expense, and general inconvenience of oar private bill system have from time to time been pointed out. Some salutary changes have cer tainly been made in the constitution of committees, the mode of selection, and reduction of the number of members, and the more important reform has been carried of pro viding by general law for several subjects hitherto dealt with only by private acts ; but the system of private bill , legislation, and the grea t er por ti on o f th e inconvenience I still remain." , He held in his hand a list of the number of improvement bills which had been presented to the home and prose cuted from the year 1850 to 1855, and from this it ap peared that the number in 1850 was 47 ; in 1851, 53 ; in 1152,_ 70 ; in 1853, 85 - in 1854, 96 ; an d i n lass o tices of bills), 77, in the whole not less than 428. H ead ap plied to the gentlemen who were best qualified to give hina information on the subject, to know what might have been the probable cost of prosecuting these bills, and he was informed that if he put down 20001. for each bill, inde pen tent of the expense of opposition, he would be quite within the mark. It consisted with reason, therefore, that no less a sum than 356,000/. had been expended in the prosecution of private improvement bills from the year 165 J to tho present moment. Now the proposition he had to make was, that where the local boards desired to ac quire land, either within or without their localities, for the purposes of any drainage or waterworks or other pur poses of that description, they should have the power of acquiring that land without the necessity of corning before a committee of the House of Commons. But to make him self distinctly understood upon this subject, which was one of very great importance, he would read the clauses of the bill which referred to it : "Clause 76. The local board shall have power to .par chase any land necessary for carrying into execution the above objects. And for the purposes of this section the, Lands Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845, shall be incorpo roted with this act ; but the exercise of the above powers shall be subject to this restriction, that no such reservoir as aforesaid shall be made, nor shall any land be purchased under the compulsory powers of the said Lands Clauses Consolidation Act, for the purposes aforesaid, except with the sanction of the justices assembled at some court of quarter sessions, such selection to be obtained by the local board who have projected any such work in manner herein after mentioned. " Clause 77. Every local board, before applying for such sanction as aforesaid, shall do as follows—that is to say, publish once at the least in each of three consecutive weeks in one of the newspapers circulating in the district a notice, specifying the place where such reservoir is proposed to be made or land purchased, the place where plans and sections of the works proposed may be seen at all reasonable hours, and the quantity of land that they require for any of the aforesaid purposes, and stating the day and the place at and on which the application for such sanction as aforesaid is to be made. Serve a notice in manner hereinafter men tioned on the owners or reputed owners, lessees or reputed lessees, and occupiers of the land intended to be taken for the purposes of such sewage reservoir, such service to be made four weeks previously to the week in which the ses sions are holden at which such application is intended to be made : and it shall be lawful for any persen.upon whom notice is so served as aforesaid, and also for any person who or whose property may be injuriously affected by the con struction of such sewage reservoir, to appear at the sessions, and by himself or his counsel, or attorney in cases where attorneys are allowed to be heard, to oppose any applica tion that may be made by any local board for the sanction of the justices, and to support such opposition by such evidence as he thinks fit. "Clause 80. The justices assembled at such court of sessions as aforesaid may, after proof of the publication and service of such notices as aforesaid, and after hearing the application of the local board, and anything alleged in op position thereto, either give or withhold their sanction • or may, with the consent of such local board, grant their sanction upon such terms and conditions as they think fit ; and any decision so made by the justices shall be binding on the said local board." The effect of these clauses would be, that where at pre sent parties were obliged to give their notices and then come before this house, whiob all parties must admit was not the most satisfactory tribunal, in future they would have to go before the court of quarter sessions—a court having jurisdiction and sitting within the locality in which the land required was situated, and composedof gentlemen Who would know .he circumstances and requirements of the locality, and would be well able to judge and deter mine whether those circumstances and requirements were such as that power ought to be given to the local boards for the acquisition of the property. He had already stated that it was his desire to put a stop, if possible, to the Power which was now exercised by p ersons o f building houses back to back, by which means there was no venti lation or outlet for the air except in front, where also the °_ l6 ces requisite to be attached to every dwelling-house were erected apractice which in his opinion was so objec subject h tiouable as ' P net on any account to bo tolerated. Upon this 1.. ° had received many communications from vari ous min,* 4„ Coventry, . ".WaS S amongst them Sunderland, Leicester, and There was als o and eh e proposition was approved by them all. (by general - een t i Viause with respect to slaughter-houses posed that no new o nes a ver y moth: " great nuisance), and he pro and that every existing be used without a licence, such within three should be registered as of the passing of the act. The local boards would raise money on mortg age . h ave aso power . to levy rates and some of these might indict pen Vaake bye-laws, and as t t,. he proposed that they should be first subjected to royal of the re that the Secretary of State. It was further leaisapdpeosfi the act. At local boards should report on the execution therefor present the ratepayers had no knowledge of the manner in which their money was expended; he proposed that every local board should make an annual report :i what they had done in the execution of the act, and fur nish a copy of that report to every ratepayer in the dis- h l 1 erd of Healtl i s ou c h ave powe r t o triet and to the Gener al Board of Health. He proposed, moreover, that the Bo inspect the towns where t he act %vas in operation, for th e purpose of seeing that the money was laid out in conformity n , done that, he thought with the plans they had sanctioned. That was all the Power ho p ro p ose d to Lake, and havi❑,,, v . hat had been done in the General Board of .11-;alth ought in its turn to make an annual report to Parliarneet of , the execution fthe and 'I o act, Leo I .lsl e local boardspublish reports an t, nually of their proceedings and r cliis bill, and to send a copy to each of th e ratepayers. When it would be necessary for the local boards to burro w money, they should first obtain the sanction of the General Board of Health ; and the money which they should borrow must lso appropriated in accordance with the scheme snbreittad previously by the -atepayers themselves. The act of last session was only to operate for a period of one year, and until the end of the next ensuing session of Parliament. He proposed that the present measure should operate for a period of two years, and until the end of the next ensuing session of Parliament, lie believed by that time that the house and the country would have an opportunity of seeing how far this bill had carried out the objects which he had in view. His own impresaion was that it would prove most useful for coun try districts and he was cer t a in that if the per son who was placed at the head of the department which he now THE STIN t LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 24 1855 . occupied would make up his mind —not to put forward fanciful theories—not to determine that there shall be one rule for all parts of the country, but to frame an act that was applicable to the peculiar circumstances of each local ity—he believed that the office would be respected rather than shunned ; and though the department was not one of the highest in the State, it certainly might be made one of the most useful. The right hon. baronet concluded by moving for leave to introduce his bill. Mr. W. WILLIAMS was glad to find that the right hon. baronet had taken up this question, which was one of the greatest importance. He also approved of the inten tion of the right hon. gentleman to refer his bills to a select committee. As he understood it was not the inten tion of the right hon. gentleman to make his first bill ap plicable to the metropolis, but his second bill, the Nuisances Removal Bill, was to apply to the metropolis as well as every other part of the country. He trusted that the right hon. baronet would allow evidence to be taken by the select committee ; for thero were many trades of great importance which would, no doubt, be affected by the pro visions of the second bill. _ ... Leave was then given to introduce the first bill. Sir B. HALL, on rising to move for leave to introduce t his second bill, said that it was a measure that would a ffect the metropolis most materially, and be knew of no measure that was more wanted during the visitation of the late epi demic. At the time the metropolis was suffering from cholera the act in existence upon the sub j ect was found c by it.t were Some par tieswholly inoperative. Innumerable complaints had not db t een made to him that the provisions of thatat all adequate to the purposes i ntended m others comp ion And almost all par ti es seemed disp were des l ir a o in u e s d o o f f ev t a n d e in e f irn th b e ro f u u s l p m ro e c n ee t d o i f ng th s o n i e r c d e s uly r y in order to put the ac t into rat; op k e e all sorts' of excuses for a n ct e . en T ne h i e l l n o r ca e l n h ie o i a e rd e s f oint those officers who a h a noted comp o r l N y a v e u r ß g , newexri with e h p o e s t f thee H d underetateolrHealth, o m : r t oa d e f e r t e s h p e p i ought to exist in every locality, whose duty would be to suppress nuisances and to keep the country free from every thing that was calculated to engender sickness or disease. On the 12th of August, when he went to the office of the Board of Health, there was hardly one inspector in exist ence in the whole of the metropolis, and he had great diffi culty in getting boards of guardians to appoint inspectors, and to make some of them do their duty. In one place, Clerkenwell, he was obliged to threaten the holding of an inquest in case of any more persons dying in the district, unless it was properly visited by the board of guardians. He did have an inquest upon one occasion. The coroner sat, and everything connected with the case was fully brought before the jury. A most excellent effect was produced—the local body having been madeto do their duty. Now, as to the expense attending upon the neces sary medical aid. In this parish, comprising a population of 139,003, in which the rateable value was 500,0001., u penny rate produced 2,0831., being a sum deemed sufficient for the purpose. But in order to show the way in which the health of the people was cared for in this metropolis, he would read a copy of the directions sent from the Lain both Workhouse on the 12th of August, 1854. The docu ment stated that the authorities at the workhouse were of y qtnhael epidemicqualified medical men, i p n r t e o p prepared d e n d s u a r g i e n i a g e n t e w p i by which they would be paid ls. 6 d. for the treatment of re th v p al r e o n properly rl each person suffering from diarrhoea, and 2s. 6d. for each person suffering cholera. (Laughter.) That any such medical gentlemen as were willing to agree to those terms should sign the accompanying form, and enclose it back to "W. T. Logan, clerk." Now, in alluding to particular districts in the metropolis, he must say, that the parishes of St. George, Paddington, Islington, and St. Pancras,had lafforded him the greatest a ss i s t ance h e cou ld d es i re, an d showed an example to other local boards in the metro polis which it would be well if they followed. There was one remarkable feature exhibited in reference to what might be effected by a system of constant sanitary supervi sion. He would take the case of the model-lodging-houses in the metropolis. The report in respect to them showed that where the commonest ears for the health of the inha bitants was taken the proportion of deaths was extremely small indeed. He wished to draw the particular attention of the house to the circumstances under which London it self was, comparatively speaking, spared during the late awful visitation. Mr. Simon, who was appointed the medi cal officer of the City of London, whom he (Sir B. Hall) had consulted in the framing of those bills, and to whom his thanks were due for the great assistance he had ren dered him throughout, had sent in a report to the commis sioners of sewers, in which he stated that during a period of two months, when the cholera was raging in the metro polis, the mortality within the city itself was only 16 to 10,000 persons, whereas, even in the neighbourhood of Hampstead, and other elevated parts of the metropolis, the mortality was nearly three times as great. Mr. Simon attributes this difference to the precautionary measures that had been taken to abolish nuisances, and to get an improved supply of water within the City of Lon don. He was now going to ask the house to give the same powers to other parts of the country as wet e already given to the City ; and he thought if they did so they would save a great deal of misery and human suffer ing which otherwise would ensue. Ho proposed to place every district in England under the constant sani tary inspection of local boards, which would have the power of removing nuisances, and of preventing the occur rence of fresh nuisances, and to deal with such houses as were manifestly unfit for human habitations. They would also have the power of removing or abolishing offensive trades. The measure also proposed to compel the local au thorities to make reports of the proceedings under this bill annually, and to furnish a copy of the same to each rate payer. In the event of inaction and carelessness in the discharge of their duties by those local boards, they would be compelled by the bill to perform their duties, and the measure would inflict penalties upon them for a wilful ne glect of such duties. He now wished to call the attention of the house to one of the most valuable reports ever pre sented to Parliament. It would be recollected that the noble lord the Secretary of State for the Home Depart ment sent a commission to Newcastle last year to inquire into the circumstances connected with the outbreak of cholera in that, town. The report made by that commis sion was drawn up by Mr. Simon, Mr. Hume, and others, and was as follows : " The corporation of Newcastle is described as not only being ancient, wealthy, and influential, but as having for at least seven years possessed under its own local acts, he 1537, 1846, and 1853, unusually extensive sanitary powers.' " The town is said to afford remarkable facilities for draining. " llnuor those of 1837 and 1846, they 'obtained complete powers of supervision and extensive powers of control over the formation of new streets and the erection a houses, including the provision of proper domestic conve niences, and other important points.' " Under the local act of 1846 they obtained power to lay down rules for cleaning and whitewashing filthy and un wholesome dwellings, and to make regulations for tho re gistering of lodging-houses and the maintenance of cleanli ness therein. "It is also enacted that the owner lof every house un provided with necessary outbuildings should provide them, and that no house should be erected without them. " It gave powers for the cleansing of all necessaries, ash pits, &c., and for the management of public necessaries ; for compelling owners of houses te pave the streets on which the houses abutted; for regulating the keeping of swine, and for compelling manufacturers to consume their smoke. " By the act of 1853 the town council were empowered to cause streets to be sewered, drained, &o. " To make regulations as to the levels of houses, streets, drains, &c. "To order the closing of dwelling-houses unfit for hu man habitation. "To order the erection of necessary out-buildings to hotels and public-houses. " To carry private drains into the common sewer at the expense of the owner. " To cause the owner if ahouse to repair and cleanse the private drains. " It was also enacted that no house should be erected or rebuilt until the drains were made; and that all manu factories, fire-places, and furnaces, should be constructed so as to consume their own smoke. "These acts were obtained at great cost. " In January, 1854, a commission was sent to Newcastle to inquire into the cause of the late outbreak of cholera. " They state that the average of deaths for 15 years was 28.6 in every 1,000. "They ascribe the virulence of the outbreak of cholera to the neglect of proper sanitary measures by the town council. " In the words of the town surveyor, the local acts 'have been a dead letter altogether.' " The powers conferred on the town council by these acts are also said to have been allowed to remain wholly inoperative,' no exercise or enforcement of them appears te have taken place ;' and again the commissioners speak of the entire neglect of the town council of their appa rently unlimited power as to cleansing filthy and unwhole some dwellings.' " ' There are districts in Newcastle which were more misconditioned probably than any other district of anything like the same area in Great Britain.' • " Many of the necessaries and ashpits are so built that the liquid filth oozes through the walls' of the houses. "New houses present the same evils as old ones, and many of them are utterly unsewered and undrained.' "The corporation property is, if possible, in a worse con dition than any other. A great part of their tenanted property was really unfit for human habitation, and should be condemned as such.' "It was suggested to the commissioners that the act was not enforced because the town council own house property. Inspectors have found in one room from 9 to 15, 16, 17, and 19 persons. "Cholera broke out in rooms in which as many as 20 or 25 occupiers were congregated,' whichgave but 50 cubic feet of air for each person. "The stench in the rooms is described as overpowering " No advantage has been taken of the Lab our i ng Cl asses . Lodging-houses Act (1851). " There is no map of the drainage. Onlf i l42l houses have water-closets, or any drainage. The remaining 8032 are entirely unprovided.' " In Sandgate, out of LI population of 4600, perhaps not 100 had right of access to any private necessary ; and at the very lowest computation, more than nine-tenths of that resident population, besides the casual population of the shipping public necessary.' alongside, were wholly dependent on a single •" In another district, containing 3000 inhabitants, there were but one public and one or two private neces saries,' 15,000 families would have no right of access to any private necessary. " From the want of necessaries utensils called 'kits' are used. These are kept in the house until the scavenger's cart drives round, or else emptied out of the windows ; and In some eases the roads aid footways have thus been raised from 10 to 20 inches. The necessaries provided by the cor poration are of the rudest and least decent construction. " Tho streets and roads are ill-paved ; and in a report made in 1849 it is stated that not a single street had been paved under the provisions of the act of 1846.' " And the accumulations of filth in different parts of th e t w ow . tat the outbreak of the cholera, were so great, that it deemed ad v i sa b le not to remove them, but to cover them with earth. "The att ent i on beeno wholly b y o f r t . h i e t icorporationnnsreport, bays twohbeet repeatedly called to all these L • awl 3 3(A:111011S, and A rancee, es pec ially e i h O e l s b h e a a v r e d guardian s o yak disregarded.fr e,lu frequently s a p tuh r i o et c ar e re e yP d ra e es d : ag,a,iin,shtetphoewceorrpoofratiou enforcing e the consumption of smoke has mil sauces of its own creation, it abate Cr remove been ' left entirely in abeyance.' " The expense occasioned by the outbreak 3 opal which might have been avoided by timely prewcaausti!is—. Now the bill proposed to establish a local authority in every district of the count r y. The town council, where such a body existed, would be that legal authority. A nd in towns where there was no such body, the board of health, or the trustees or commissioners appointed for the general purposes o f the district, would t h e n be authorised to act. The local authorities wo uld be com p elled to a pp oint a duty it would be' to initiate pro sanitary inspector, whose posed that the local authorities should. have powg; to ask ceedings for the removal of all nuisances. He fu r t her pro. for admission, in order to inspect premises between the hours of nine o'clock in the morning and six o'clock in the evening, and if any person shall refuse to admit the party properly authorised to inspect the place, then a justice of the peace, upon being informed of such refusal, and upon hearing it stated upon oath that there wasreason able ground for supposing the existence of a nuisance upon the premises in question, should have power to issue a summons, which should be heard and determined by two justices. Those justices should then have the power to abate nuisances and to prohibit the occurrence of them. He now came to the case of houses which were manifestly unfit for human habitations. He proposed, in the event of any houses being proved to be unfit for human habitations, that the authorities should have the power of prohibiting such houses being used for the purpose until they were rendered fit for occupation. He wished to show the house what good grounds there were for such a provision. He could speak with accuracy of one set of houses in the metropolis, inasmuch as he had visited them in company with Lord Shaftesbury ; and the same were noticed in a small pamphlet entitled "The Labourer's Friend." He referred to a locality in the neighbourhood of Drury-lane. The number of families in it was about 2 pa present state of Wild-court, and suggestions for its im p: vegetable partly gorrd p settoltl r c e a s fibisf e nirl netoacht from matteryn, occupiedsstetthhaq ete:unewegcc emitting isio x eihtfoh c t ot e inlhu p aei ges t sl m ew m in e u n s a e ti aatmhte made overflow beneath t o h f e b a floordly-c o i n n s t s i o u n c i t e e d instances'tl ry'brick not drains, more thanw h c three ‘v" lumberNemiloneene ht 9 p , teeoflhublangdrlyc, theroi:oi3 ustnfu:btnrhhaha- Itßefldmhi mhomaeaooaxerarnsneaelst atdr:efidaaoanaannauni drdlaew: extract f rom a report on the inches. There is no paving to these floors. " In the houses 2,3, 4, and 5, the necessaries are large open holes, sufficiently capacious for a man to fall into ; they have risers and wood rails in front, but no seats. For tunately the rails are fixed too high for children, but acci dents must now and then occur. This is one reason the yards are constantly in such a filthy state. " Dust-bins are placed in one corner of the yards, and generally emptied once a week—sometimes, and I fear very frequently, once a fortnight only. Complaints have often been made of the stench arising from these places, especially by the tenants occupying the back rooms en the ground floor. Every morning the yards are abominably filthy, and present more the appearance of large cesspools than anything else. I have seen some of them about six inches deep in places of all manner of soil and filth, through which any person requiring water must wade to the water butt, as well as to the privy. At times the very passages are covered to the entrance-door. I have frequently been unable to get from the stairs to the yard from this dis gusting practice. " Before closing this subject I must say a few words on the state in which the roofs and gutters are to be seen any day. It appears from inquiry and examination that the families occupying the upper rooms or garrets get rid of their soil and refuse by throwing it on the roofs at the back of the houses. It then passes, in some instances, exposed to view in the room, along the gutters, arranged on the side of each front attic, to that in front of the houses, thence by the stack piping to the drains. Some of these gutters have wood flap covers, partly hinged and partly fixed. "The ventilation throughout is very imperfect. No provision whatever is made in the attics beyond an open ing in the window, or by the side of it, about 12 inches or 14 inches square, as shown. " The other rooms are equally bad. The windows in most of them cannot be opened for the want of linos, weights, or beads. The larger portion of the glass in the windows is broken, and partly pasted over with paper and partly stuffed up with old rags. Some of the win dows are at least two-thirds blocked up in this manner. " It is hardly possible to convey in terms sufficient an accurate idea of the filth and wretchedness to be seen. "It is actually necessary, in order to form a just idea of the present state of the court and its occupants, to make a personal visit, examine, and institute inquiries." The place was in such a state of filth and beastliness that he (Sir B. Hall) should be sorry to have one of his dogs sleep ing there. When, then, they saw such wretched houses occupied by human beings, he thought that they ought to insist upon them being put into a decent condition. The most exorbitant rents were generally demanded for such places, and the miserable human beings who inhabited them were liable to be turned out from week to week, if they failed in paying their rent. In reference to another wretched, filthy locality, called Charlotte-buildings, Clerk enwell, the book to which he referred contained many drawings of houses ; amongst them is one exhibiting an attic in a state of repose. Mr. Goodwin says " This, if possible, exhibits greater poverty than below. The walls are full of large holes, and the light is visible through the roof. The rent of the attics is the same as the floor below. It may seem strange that the price of rooms should not vary, but this uniformity is effected by the landlord removing those whose necessities are greater, or who may be a shilling or so in arrear of rent, to the upper quarters. The first feeling after visiting this place is that of as tonishment that persons should be allowed to let such dilapidated buildings to these poor people, who really pay more than a fair rent for a good house; the rooms are seldom unoccupied, and th e l oss t r ifli ng ; the rent would be 411. 12s. per annum. " The population of this small court is immense. If we take an average of 15 persons in each floor of the houses visited, and this is greatly below the number, we find 60 persons are occupying one house, and 900 are in the court. "Something should be done with Charlotte-buildings forthwith. Few of the countless throng who flood the paths in Gray's-inn-lane have any knowledge of the hot bed of disease and vice which exists within a dozen yards of them." He, therefore, proposed to take powers to put a stop to those miserable dwellings. He also proposed to give power for appeal against the order of the justices upon 14 days' notice being given of the intention of the party to appeal and in the event of the structure of the works ordered exceeding the sem of 15/. In proposing that no offensive trades shall be allowed to be carried on within a certain distance of the town, he (Sir B. Hall) embodied in his bill the powers already granted by the legislaturein the Towns Improvement Clauses Act. Then, with regard to the non performance of duty by the local authorities, he proposed that the surveyors of highways should be liable to a pe nalty of W. for the neglect of duty. In the event of the existence of a nuisance, notice should be given to the local authorities on the subject; and in ease no steps were taken by such authorities for its removal, it should be lawful for the justices, at the instance of one witness, to issue their summons to the party offending. He also proposed that the local authorities should snake reports in the same manner as under the former bill in reference to the pro ceedings taken under this measure. It was his intention to move that those bills be referred to a select committee. In respect to the observation of the hon. member for Lambeth (Mr. W. Williams) he must say he did not see the necessity of taking evidence before the committee. If, however, the house should determine otherwise, he would not make any objection to such a proceeding. His anxiety was that some legislation upon the subject should take place at the earliest possible period of the session, in order that the country might be better prepared than it was before to meet such an awful visitation as it had last year. The right hon. baronet concluded by moving for leave to introduce his bill. Mr. WILKINSON expressed a hope that some corn ' pensation would be granted to such persons as would be compelled to remove their trades, which might be con sidered offensive under the bill. Mr. THORNELY asked whether it was intended to place the regulation of the burial grenade under any new authority ? Sir B. HALL said at present the regulation of the burial grounds was placed under the authority of the noble lord the Secretary for the Home Department. There was no intention whatever to make any alteration in this re spect. Sir H. WILLOUGHBY said it appeared to him there was one point connected with the subject which required explanation. He wished to ask whether it was contem plated to introduce any bill in conjunction with the last measure of the right hon. baronet to create local authori ties in the various districts of the metropolis for the pur pose of carrying out the provisions of this bill. Every person who had been listening to the right hon. gentleman must have perceived that he was constantly referring to local authorities. Now it appeared to him (Sir H. Wil loughby) that in effect there were no local authorities in the metropolis properly qualified to act under this bill. He never could understand why the metropolis should be deprived of the benefit of municipal institutions. (Hear.) All those questions touched upon by the right hen. baronet were of municipal interest. After t hey had passed the executive, those provisions were to be carried out by municipal bodies. It was, therefore, of the greatest im portance that there should be constituted proper bodies for carrying the provisions of this bill into effect. There was a very general feeling entertained in the metropolis that such bodies were greatly wanted to act in the different localities. It would not be at all satisf%ctory if the owners and occupiers of property were to find their property ex posed to the surveillance aid reports of those with whom they were in no way connected. He therefore wished to ask the right hon. baronet whether he contemplated the cstablishment of any municipal system for the metropolis ? In such case they would know to whom their pecuniary interests would be entr ted after the acts of the execu tive. It appeared to is tVat the time had naturally .... arrived' when they mus deal with that question. Here was a large city, into which it wal•geopeled to introduce certain' sanitary measures which would' iequire the forma tion of several boards to ensure tbeifproper operation. He therefore wished that the right lion, gentleman would state whether he contemplated in his present bill, or by any other measure, the establishment of local authorities for the several districts of the metropolis. He submitted that it would be necessary to establish good municipal authori ties before they could hope to effect any substantial ad vantages under the bill of the right hon. baronet. Sir B. HALL said there were too many local bodies, with large powers, already. He had given notice of a bill for the second of next month, which he hoped he would be allowed to introduce; and in that bill he proposed to create municipal bodies, with power to work the provisions of the Nuisances Removal Act, as well as the provisions of other metropolitan acts. Viscount EBRINGTON thought it would be undesirable for the house to eater on the subject of metropolitan legi slation until a positive opinion had been pronounced with regard to the measure to be applied to the country at large. The question of legislation for the metropolis was a more difficult and complicated question than that for the coun try at large; for many provisions which would be appli cable to the smaller towns would be wholly inapplicable to the metropolis, numbering as it did a population equal to that of Scotland, concentrated within a radius of ten miles of the seat of Government. He hoped, therefore, that con siderabre progress would be made in the one measure be fore the other was entertained. He rejoiced that there was now a promise of effective legislation on the sabject, and he promised his right hon. colleague his best co-opera- 1 tion. Air. A. PELLATT asked whether the bill would contain a clause similar to that in the last bill on this subject, for raising the wharfage on the river side at Southwark ? Sir B. HALL was understood to say that this should be the subject of a separate measure. Mr. W. WILLIAMS said the clause of the last bill threw the expense of raising the wharfa,g3 on the proprie tors and occupants, which he thought was unfair. A 8 the work was for the gonoral good, it should be paid for out of the public money. Leave was then given to bring in the bill. Sir B. HALL brought in both bills. The house then adjjarued at a quarter to seven o'clock. M. Paulin Guerin, a - painter of come celebrity, died the day before yesterday. His chef-d'ceuvre, " The Curse of Cain," is in the gallery of the Luxembourg. Tufa MOUNTGARRET PEERAGE CASE.—The applica tion for a new trial in this case, after several days' argu ment, was decided yesterday in the Court of Exchequer. The motion was grante d, on t h e groun d s o f m i s di rec ti on of the judge and the reception of improper evidence. The coats were given. JIILLIEN'S CONCERTS. A_Y-ti • RJYAL ITALIAN OPERA, COVENT-GARDEN. LAST NIGHT BUT SIX. The PROGRAMME for THIS EVENING, Wednesday, Jan. 24, will include—Kalkbrenner's Fantasias on Beßini's Opera, Il Pirate (first time), performed by Madame Pleyel; Gipsy Song, L'Etoile du Nord, and New Song, Charlie, sung by Madame Anna Thillon ; Overture, William Tell ; L'Etoile du Nord Quadrille ; the Andante Cantabile in F, from Mozart's Jupiter Symphony; grand Selection horn Rossini's Stabet Mater; Vale d'Adieu (last t'me); the Pan tomime Quadrille ; Scherzo in G minor, from Mendelssohn's mid summer Night's Dream ; Solo, Trombone, Mr. Wlnterbottom ; the Sleigh Polka ; and the Grand Allied Armies Quadrille, assisted by the three Bands of her Majesty's Guards; God Save the Queen; Partant pour la Syrie, &c. &c. PRIMO OF ADMISSION. Promenade, Upper Boxes, Amphitheatre Stalls, and Am phitheatre ...... ..... • • • • • • • • Dress Circle Private 'Boxes for Six Persons on the Grand Tier 3ls. 6d. Ditto ditto First Tier . ..... •• 21s. Od. Ditto Four Persons on the Second Tier l2s. Od. Commence at Eight. Places and Private Boxes may be engaged at the Box-office of the Theatre, and Private Boxes of the principal nausicsellers and librarians. BAT, MASQUE. M. Jaßien begs most respectfully to announce, that in consequence of his provincial engagements, the season will positively terminate Wednesday, Jan. 31. The grand Bal Masque will take place on Friday, February 2, and will be on a scale of unprecedented splen dour. ')BURY-LANE.—Lemee, Mr. E. T. &fifth.— lieduc A Prices as usual.—A Morning' Performance every Wednesday. at Two o'clock. THIS EVENIN(I. Jew. 24. Will be performed THE KING'A SEAL. After which, the successful Farce of THE UNITED SERVICE. To be followed by the entirely original, extraordinary, lite rary, traditionary, comical, gastronomical, and peculiarly culinary and fan'astic domestic grand comic Christmas Pantomime, entitled JACK AND JILL; or, Harlequin King Mustard and the Four and-Twenty Blackbirds Baked in a Pie. The extensive scenery, en tirely new, by Messrs. Nicholls, Cuthbert, Cooper. Gordon, Wilson, and Moore. The machinery by Messrs. Tucker. The extraordinai y properties, decorations, tricks, changes, and transformations by Mr. Needham. The Choregraphic arrangements by Madame Louise. The overture and music composed and selected by J. H. Tully. Leader, Mr. Hayward. The whole of the designs, models ,and sketches furnished from the studio of Dikwynkyn, who for many weeks past bas been personally supervising, their execution. The novel grotesque burlesque opening invented and written by E. L. Blanchard; and the whole arranged and produced under the immediate superin teudence of Mr. Edward Stirling. Principal Ingredients in the Christmas Bill of Fare : —The Hall of Hypochondria in the Domains of Dulness.—Misanthropy (Genius of Gloom). Mrs. Belford. Fog, Drizzle, Taxes, Spleen, Indigestion, Quarter -day (his Ministers of Melancholy), Messrs. E. V. Dent, E. V. Wet, E. V. Load, E. T. Day, E. T. Weight, and E. V. Bill s . A zur e Diabolicals in attend ance, Messrs. Croak, Quake, Fret, Fidget, Worry, Flurry. Fume , Vex, Groan, Growl, Grumble, an d G r i zz le. Apparition of Misan thropy on her favourite Ni g ht mare , a nd Magical Appearance of Good Humour in her Christmas Car. Good Humour, Miss Alder ; Lightheart and Sunshine (her Attendants), Misses Honey and Brown; Mrs. Glasse (the original "Cook's Oracle," an 1 the well. known adviser of the " First catch your hare," &c.), Miss Rosina Collins. The receipt given to snake a good pantomime , and its con coction accordingly. Cottage of Jill on the borders of Fairyland (by Sunrise), with Enchanted Kitchen, Garden, and Region of Preserves "Sing a song Si Sixpence, "Pooket full of rye, " Four-and-twenty blackbirds, " Baked in a ple."—Ancient Nursery Legend. ,Jack (the interesting hero of the olden story, who went np the hill to fetch, &c ), afterwards Harlequin, M. Milano ; Jill (the heroine of the adventure, in love with Jack), afterwards Columbine, Mdlle. Bolen° ; Marmalade (the Fairy Queen of the Preserves), Miss K. Warrington ; Pineapple, Raspberry. Lemon, Cherry, Apple, and Greengage (her Assistants), Misses Clifford, Gower, Johnson, Love, Lunis, and Richardson ; Strawberry, Cranberry, Gooseberry, Cur rant, Apricot, Damson, Quince, &c. (Fancy Preserves), Misses Grace Honey, Ellen Honey, Laurance, Louise, Therese, Charles', Rine, Sidney, Gordon. Barnes. Emily Barnes, Richardson, Eliza Richard son, Rose, Sidney, Emily Moore, Elizabeth Smith, Lille Ellis, Rosa Harrison, E. Box, Tayler, Matilda Chenley, Martine'', St. Clare, Evsns, John Levines, S. Johnson, and Roberts ; Preserved Ginger their warm ally), Master Pungent; Fruit Blossoms by a Blooming Selection of Coryphees. The Will and the Way—the Talismanic Sixpence—The Change. Grand Ballet. Principal Dancers, Mdile. Therese and Annie Cushnie, Therese, Smith, &c. The Four-and- Twenty Blackbirds, Masters Tweet Tweet, Toot Too, Loodle Loodle, Pee. The Reading of the Will— " Jill must not a husband take , Till she a pie can make and bake." interior of Jill's Cottage (by Moonlight).—Coal, Mr. Hobbs ; B un dl e of Wood, Mr. Halfpenny; Contereve Box. Mr. Fizzer ; Bellows, Mr. Leathertongue : Dutch Oven, ,Mynheer Von Tan ; Robing Pin, Mr. amoothpaste ; Gridiron, Mr. De Bar; Frying Pan, Mr. P , roadrim ; Soyef's Three-legged Iron Pet, Herr Potluck. Cruet Castle in the Table Cloth Territory (by Moonlight), and Golden Palace of King %Instard.—King Mustard (afterwards Clown), Barry Boleno ; the Empress Vinegar (afterwards Pantaloon), Herr Kohl ; Black Pepper and White Pepper (sentinels on duty at Cruet Castle), Mr. Husky end Mr. , :neezums ; Sweet Oil, Miss Florence: Cayenne, Mr. Capsi cum ; Harvey's Sauce (attendant in waiting), Mr. Savoury ; the Army ; Horse Radish of Zests, Messrs. Indian Soy, Curry, Capers, Ketchup, Mushroom s , Garlic, Shalot, Sweet Merbs, Potted Tongue ; Potted Beef, Potted Bloaters, atei t • h s,. Potted s Anchovies, table), by a PRoatteeindir PNbralT Arendps, S'e Review—Ter rifle Attack upon the Appetite, and Rally of the Relishes—Great Progress of Jill in her Culinary Career. The Abode of Chutnee in the Pr wince of Pickles (by sunset). — Chutnee (Chief of the Pickles), Mr. Fiery Fad a a; the Pickle Army, Messrs. Onions, Walnut, Gher kins, Cauliflower, Red Cabbage, &c.; Small Jar, Master Piccalilli. Great demand for Pickles and determination of the Door to Stand a Jar. Interior of he Stupendous Salt Mine (by Moonlight).- Salt Rock (a bright White sprite), Herr Willikind Mole n o. I mm i nen t danger of Jill in splitting upon a Rock of Salt—Treachery of Vinegar —Upsetting the Pall above, and Evaporation of the Saline stalactite Columns, disclosing The Emerald Temple of Salad.—Mrgical Union of the Sweets and Sours, and " a Pie" termination of the Loves of Jack and Jill. The Transformation. -Harlequin, M. Milano; Columbines, Mdlle. Bo'eno and Miss Ellen Honey; Pantaloon, Mr. Cole: Sprite, Herr Willikind Moleno ; Clown, the celebrated Harry Boleno (his first appearance in London for many years) ; Aerial Evolutionists, by the inimitable Italian Brothers. The Turk's Head Public-house and Hairdresser's Shop.—Hairdresser, Mons. Pomade; Publican, Mr. Billy Williams; Customers, Messrs. Rednob, Sinockface, Owen Swift, Beardless, Whisker Want, Baron Nicholson, and Tom Steed; the British Pub ic by themselves; Policeman A. I, Mr. Vigilant. Approach of tho Great Rugged Russian Bear—How he Whines after the Porte, which, being rather old, turn; out somewhat crusty—A Dose of Turkey Rhubarb—A Don-e Cossack—Pure Circassian Cream—How one Sham 11l maker all well—The Great Bear turns out a Great Boar —Russian Attachment to Grease—Clown Cuts his Customer's Hare end afterwards Dresses it a la Soyer—The Great Moustache Move ment—A Close Share —Clown shows his high attachment to the Pole—Sudden Rise in Porter—An \I.T.M.P.—A Patten Leek at 10 o'clock—A Balla Fide Traveller—Ginger Beer and Gin without get —A Mill, a flight, a Regular Row, and Station-loase for Tyro. Great American Baby Show.—Arrival or the Infantry—Sudden ccertli—Ma's upon the Ere or Battle—General Attack—A,,ardine. the Prizes—Mown and Pantaloon's Offsprings—The PrettVst Bahr n the World—A Model Baby and a Spirit Child—The Wonderful Effects of Dr. De Jongh's Cod Liver 011—Clown's Great Prize Bahr —Fresh Arrival of 300 more Babies—The Judea Confounded - Great Uproar—An Unwelcome Visitor to a Ladies' and Juvenile Party— Ind Extraordinary case of Suspended Animation by the Ita 'lan Sprites. Scott's Oyster Shop, Newspaper-onlee, and Pursell's Biscuit Baking and Confectionery Establishment, Cornhill.—" Up rouse ye then, my merry men, it is our opening day"—A Holster or one *Ka a Lobster for two—A Mueenlman and a Man for a Muscle—Ditty and Cestom - A Bride Cake and a Wedding flake— First Edition and Second Edition—Left Oat for Want of Room Press- r c i n u t t e e r s m , p; Messrs. Pre-is of the Privilege and Privileges of the Press —" Oh. w h a t a row, a rumpus, what a rioting." Raker, Mr. Crusty ; Fi s h monger . ;Mas : te "E r d N lto e r w , C , u C te h m ri cl st e ni w a n s ; b C o r x iL €P, sir. ryp. Sg i es Chapel Pas sengers, Messrs. Trot, Cosey, nrutalong, Lounge, Loiter, and Walk about; Unaraman, Mr. Bobaday. Bosier's Shop and New Wing of Somerset-house.--Bere we are—Merry Christmas and a Ham- New Year —High Prices and Low Prices—Manchester Staff—Eng lish Comforters—Stocks on Hand and Handsome Stocks—Ford's Eureka Shirts--Reform in the Civil List and Uncivil Treatment 01 the Clerks—Transfer day at the Bank, and General Rolyday at Somereet-hOure --Hosier, Mr. Stocken ; Shopman. Mr. Early bird ; Iloy, Master Toddles. Soyer's Magic Kitchen.—Chef de Cuisine, Mons. Soyer; Kitehenmaids, Misses Rasteaway and Drippingsell ; Guardsman, Coreoral Longshanks ; Policeman, Sergeant Podger. Cupboard Lovers —Soyer's Last Soup Where's the Knives and Forks?—Boiled and Unboiled Lob sters—Headless Swains—Lobster Patty aid Giblet Soup—Clown Gone all to Pot—Harlequin Gets well Towelled an I afterwards Mangled—Clown and Pantaloon in a Stew—A Regular Broil-- Thou comest in such an unquestionable shape, that I will speak to thee (Soyer, or rather Shakspeare)—Too Many Cooks Spoil the (Clown's) Broth—The scene finishes in a very spirited manner. . . AnilljuninateTPag;Ofth;ili;io7Tof England.—Grand Allegorical Tableau with Panoramic Effects, illustrative 07 the Triumphs of the Allied Forces. Toung Jullien's "Allied Army Quadrille," by the doable ban'ts of the English and French. "God save the Queen," " Partant pour la eyrie," and " Pule Britannia." Daughter of the Regiment, Miss Rebecca Collins. in which character she will sing: the spirited patriotic effusion, published in "Blackwood's Magazine" for December, and written by Corporal John Brown, of the Grena dier Guards, when the men got some drink for the first time at Balaklava, Sept. 25th : "Come all you gallant British hearts that love the red and blue, And drink the health of brave who made the Russians rue. Then All the glass, and let it pass, ihree times three, and one more, For the twentieth of September, eighteen hundred and fifty-four." Vestibule of the Temple of Victory. The Tribute of England to the Brave Patriots. Distribution of Laurel Wreaths, Gorgeous and Flectrle Scenic Climax, with Revolving Columns and Variegated Illuminations. Terrill* Flight of the Italian Brothers. The whole scene presenting a coup d'ceil never before witnessed on the English stage. Admission :—Stalls, ss. ; dress circle, 45.; second price, 25.; upper circle, 25.; second price, Is. 6d. ; pit, 2s. ; second price, Is.; lower gallery, Is. ; second price, rd. ; upper gallery, 6d. ; private boxes, 10s. 6(1., 155., 213., and upwards. Doors open at half-peat 6, performance at 7 o'clock. Half-price at 9 o'clock. The box•oftice open daily, from II till 5 o'clock, under the direction of Mr. Edward Chatterton, Notice.—The following pieces are approved and in preparation, and will shortly be produced : —The Grand Christmas Pantomime, by E L. Blanchard, Esq. ; a Drama, by Dion Douro'. cault, Esq.; Two Dramas, by A. Harris, Esq. ; an Adaptation from Meyerheer's Opera, L'Etoile du Nord, with new scenery, properties, and effects; to be succeeded by an English version (by Mr. Reynold sou) Muck's Iphigenia in Tauride. The Grand Historical Egyll- Ilan Drama, many months in preparation, will also shortly appear, THEATRE ROYAL HAYMARKET. Under the management of Mr. Blackstone. TRIS EVENING, JAN. 24, Will be performed the Comely of PRESENTED AT COURT. Principal charaf‘ters by Messrs. Buckstone, W. Farren, and Howe ; Misses Reynolds, E. Chaplin, Grantham, and Lavine. Followed by the new grand Christmas Pantomime, entitled LITTLE 80-PEEP; or, Harlequin an-t the Girl who Lost her Sheep. Little 80-Peep, Miss L. Thompson; Harlequin, Mr. Chapin° ; Pantaloon, Sfr. W. Barnes; Clown, Mr. Appleby; Columbine, Miss M. Brown. ROYAL PRINCESS'S MINIUM, OXFORD-STREE T. Under the Management of Mr. CHARLES KEAW. Tlll3 EVENING, JAR. 14, Will be performed HAMLET. Principal character by Mr. C Kean. After which will be produced a New Grand Christmas Pantomime, entitled. HARLEQUIN BLUE-BEARD; or, The Groat Balsam; Harlequin, Mr. Corrnack Clown, Mr. Hultno; Pantaloon, Mr. Pauli earl Columbine, Mies Desborough. ROYAL 'LYCEUM THEATRE. Under the Management of Madame Vestris.. THIS EVENING, JAN. 24, Will be performed AGGRAVATING SIM. Principal character by Mr. C. Mathews. After which will be product the new and original Fairy Extra vaganza, entitled PRINCE PRETTYFET and THE BUTTERFLY To be followed by TWO HEADS ARE BETTER THAN ONE. Box-oMee open from 10 until 6. Sole agent for Private Boxes, Mr. Aileron, 15, New Bond-street. THEATRE ROYAL ADELPHI. Proprietor, Mr. B. Webster.—Directress, Madame Celeste, THIS EVENING, JAN. 24. Will be performed the Drama entitled THE MYSTERIOUS STRANGER. To be followed by the new Eccentric Extravaganza, called ZIG ZAG; or, Travels of Messrs Danube and Pruth. ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. A. Wigan. THIS EVE STING. JAN. 21. Will be present e d th e new C ome dietta, ellled TIT FOR TA T, In which Messrs. F. R o b son, A. Wigan, and Miss Maskell will appar. Ater which, a new Fairy Extravaganza. entitled THE YELLOW DWARF AND THE KING OF TILE GOLD MINES. Characters by M . • F. itotma, Miss Julia St. Geo - ge, Miss E. Ormonde, Miss Marston, Miss Bromley, and Mrs. Fitzallan. To eotcludo with A WIFE'S JOURNAL. ASTLEY'S ROYAL A3INIETHEATRE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. Wiu. Cooke. THIS EVENING, Fourteenth week, the saccessfUl Equidrama, the BATTLE of the ALMA, with its graphic picture of war. After which, the unrivalled SCENES in the CIRCLE, invented and arranged by Mr. William Cooke. To conclude with the new Comte Pantomime called GULLIVER and the LILLIPUTIANS ; or, Harlequin and Britannia. A MORNING PE L:FORMANiIE on MONDAY next, at Two o'clock, The BATTLE of the ALMA and the Scenes In the Circle. Box-office open from Eleven till Four. stage Manager, Mr. W. est. Acting Manger, Mr. W. H.. Cooke. Equestrian Director, Ur. W. Cooke, jun. Itlll WATER AT WNDON BRIDGE. 'ins DAY —Morning 18 tnin.after 6 I Kvening 39 min.aft. 6 - Vic , rning 2 min.atter 7 / Evening 26 niin.sft. 7 Vi!Z WEATHER.—Sur OTMN, Jan. 24. TIEEMOLIETEB, IN THE Si' BADE. 3R highest since noon yesterday. 84 —lowest this morning and during the night. 40 —this day, at noon. BAROMETER, 30.09. WIND, N.N.W. —Light breeze, and mild, muggy weather. It froze last night again, but a strong thaw has now set in. qs 4 4f.w. • , foottki fl LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 24, 1855. The Parliamentary campaign has opened. Ministers no longer hate it all their own way, to act as they may deem expedient, without let or hindrance, or even question. They are once more reminded that they hold responsible offices, and aro bound to answer for the manner in which they discharge the duties thereof. They must, submit to searching interrogatories and cross interrogatories—defend themselves against direct and positive charges, and generally render all the explanations that may reasonably be required ! Thisis indeed a change, and one by no means palatable to some of the Cabinet, who have to render very unpleasant accounts of shortcomings and backslidings which would, if possible, be willingly slurred over and passed without notice. The first fruit of the meeting of the represen tatives of the People was yesterday given in the shape of information respecting the alleged nego tiations at Vienna. It appears that there are really no negotiations whatever going forward— that the usual diplomatic procrastination has been displayed ; and that at the very time when it was supposed that the discussions and conferences had been brought to a conclusion, and a positive decision of one kind or the other arrived at, the matter had not even been opened, or authority given to our Minister at Vienna to negotiate upon the bases which our Government suggested ! It is instructive to consider the tortoise-like pace at which matters have proceeded, and the remarkable contrast afforded in thesa days of railway express and electrical velocity. In November the Russian Government instructed their Minister at Vienna to declare their accept ance of " the Four Points." Almost immediately afterwards, on the 2d December, Austria con cluded the long-pending treaty, being probably induced so to do by the intimation thus given. In place of the Western Powers disposing of the matter themselves, Austria thus got " her finger into the pie," and became the chief instrument of mediation. Nothing then appears to have taken place until the 28th December—four weeks being 1 literally wasted, according to the approved cus ' tom. Prince GORTSCHAKOFF then repeated the proposition he had made in November. An in terpretation of the Four Points was then put in by the representatives of England; France, and Austria—a kind of " act to explain an act," which could not have been required if the former had been distinct and explicit. Prince GORTS CHAKOFF, though authorised to accept the Four Points, had no power to act on the interpretation. He required time, which was of course granted. Another meeting was held on the 7th or Bth of January—it was seemingly a mat ter of such profound indifference that the Ministerial Leader in the House of Commons could not speak with certainty as to the exact day—when Prince GORTSCHAKOFF produced a memorandum from his Government, which being rejected by the other plenipotentiaries, was with draw, and not only the Points, but the interpre- Con, unconditionally accepted. What then ? One might have supposed that the matter would have proceeded. The Allied Governments de clared that they were ready to enter into negotia tions on certain bases. These bases were uncon ditionally accepted ; and yet a fortnight has been suffered to elapse without the power being given to our Minister to commence the negotiation ! We confess that we do not greatly regret this apathetic indifference. It proves beyond the possibility of doubt that the English Govern ment are perfectly aware of the gross humbug of the entire affair that they clearly see that until Sebastopol has fallen, and the Crimea is our own, the CZAR will not make up his mind to swallow his leek with becoming humility, or to surrender his long cherished policy of spoliation and self-aggrandise ment. We must remember that the acceptance of the Four Points, and of the interpretation, is by no means conclusive. The Russian Envoy will still retain the power of making any objec tion he may think proper to the terms and stipu lations founded thereon. The explanation .of last night will show that the British Government feel the absurdity ; and yet, from what cause we know not, they are still play ing the game of the CZAR, and unnecessarily creating delays, when procrastination is the great object of their adversary ! For the present we shall say no more on a subject that will fall within the notice of the member who will take upon himself the important duty of directing public attention to the whole question of the conduct of the war—not merely as respects the Army of the Crimea, but in every respect, by the ABERDEEN Cover n went. The Swedish Government has apparently been awakened from its protracted slumber. It at length exhibits evidence that it is aware of the magnitude of the existing emergency, and the critical position in which it is placed. The affected indifference to the events of the day—the attempt to maintain a strict neutrality, while war is raging on every side, is as absurd as the placid indiffe rence of the Irish philosopher who received the intelligence of the house in which he was residing being on fire with the remark that he was " only a lodger." OSCAR of Sweden can no longer avoid the responsibility which is cast on him. He must choose his side—must, select the banners along with which he will maintain the struggle ; and know that the decision of the belligerents will be, that those who are not with them are against them. Orders have at length been given "to place the entire Swedish army on a war foot ing, and. to do so with the greatest promptitude, so that they may at once be ready to march !" This, as we have *stated is important, for it being once de tided that, Sweden will take some part in theWa - z, as m ; .yeasily bo discerned from so decisive a step, not much doubt or difficulty can remain a 4 j to what that step must be. Sho Las too many old grievances still rankling a l ;air ist her gigantic neighbour. Sho cannot for •gi 3t her plundered territories. She cannot behold "...Finland and the Baltic Provinces in the possess' Lon of the AUTOCRAT, without many bitter pangs f or the past, and sad forebodings for the future. She cannot think of the palpable in tentions of fibs CZAR, manifested by the construc tion of the )orate fortifications at Bomarsund, without pax ee i v ing the formidable perils she has escaped by the capture and de struction of that menacing stronghold, that Northern Sebastopol. Under such circumstances, then, she could not hesitate as to the side on which to array her forces. Besides, as a military force could scarcely act against France or England, it must be against Russia that it is in tended to operate ! We feel all the importance of this demonstra- tion. Russia can never be completely humbled until its Northern as well as its Southern claws be clipped. And this can only be done through the instrumentality of Sweden, and with the assistance of Swedish troops. Theie is no necessity for depriving it of the means of defence ; all that is required is to limit its means of aggres sion—to prevent it from menacing inferior powers if they do not yield implicit obedience to its views. The great want of the day is confessed on every hand. We want a Minister of War ; one with competent abilities and competent powers. All the rest would then come quickly right. Great, we acknowledge, is the sweep it would make of official and aristocratic rubbish, and well tried ought the ability to be to which the requisite powers should be intrusted ; but necessity is a stern teacher, and the whole nation is now well schooled in his instructions. We acknowledge the general War policy of our Cabinet to have been most aimless and perverse, one partly wait ing on the accidents of the hour, and partly shaped to the wishes of German Governments; but that is not our point just now. On the Cabinet, as a whole, on its head especially, rests the blame of all that. It is the administration of the War which cannot be tolerated one hour longer. We will say at once, that, with the highest respect for the Duke of NEWCASTLE as a man, we have but little for the Minister of War. How can we? It may be said lie is the victim of the system. We reply, he has no right to be. He knew beforehand what the system was ; he knew that his orders might have to wait on the caprice, idle ness, or official bigness of three or four depart ments ; all this he knew. It was, therefore, open to him to demand powers which should enable him to give the nation something for its addi tional 17,0001., the cost of his office, or to decline taking it. He had, indeed, the alternative of retaining the colonies, for which he had shown a respectable measure of fitness, or of taking the new and more ambitious office. Now, with all our respect for this worthy Duke, we think he has not the shadow of a title, on the ground of the nature of the office, to clemency. He sought the office, not the office him. He clings to it in the face ©f the most disastrous mismanagement. He merely declines to defend every detail ; but the country is satisfied that the details to he repre hended make up the greater part of the duties of the office. It is utterly inexcusable for a man to thrust himself forward on the nation if he knew that he undertook to work a system in which nine tenths of the details would be mismanaged—as it has proved, fatally mismanaged. But if, indeed, he did not know that the system would work thus, what language of censure is strong enough for the audacity and self-conceit which could so ignorantly undertake the work 7 The other excuse is that he must have time to serve his apprenticeship. We repudiate such fatal lenity. Why must he ? Is it essential to have a Duke in the office, or even an Honourable or a Sir ? The country would rather see all the Dukes in England relegated to their countrt:lnanein n ns than our troops starved, frozen, or sickened into Crimean graves, to keep a Duke in office. We fear the honest verdict of a competent inquiry would be—" A well-meaning man, of very re spectable abilities, and very high rank and con nexions, but utterly below the requisitions of a War-office in time of War." We are sorry, even in Lis official capacity, to censure so respectable a nobleman as the Duke of NEWCASTLE ; but the time demands honesty. We do not ask a better heart, but a better head wo must have. Our re presentatives must do their duty ; party con siderations must be thrown to the wind, and the one demand must be a man who hays given proofs of capacity to provide for large bodies of men—to find the right subordinates to cam► out his plans —to ride rough-shed aver all the: fripperies of routine—to make his will law, eve:u if it drove an office full of aristocratic dandies from their desks to their mothers' homes ; in a word, competency and a decision of character which would compel chaos itself into order. These great requisites are to be found. We will not mention names. The mere statement of the essentials will recal some to the recollection of most. We believe it would riot be difficult for LOMB NAPOLEON to tell Lord A:I3ERDEEN Of half-a dozen men, any one of whom, were he Emperor here, he would put Pith confidence over the War administration—men who, w. ith all the disad vantages of a set of obstructiv.a officials, would, if clothed with the requisite a:athority, and made perhaps temporary dictator; in the War De partment, soon see our troops well provi sioned, well clothed, and •Rreil sheltered, and the guns and ammunition of all kinds, in ample supply, and in their pla bees. Those are the fundamental necessaries of wr irfare, without which the greatest courage and the highest skill are help less. And these are the thin ge which have been so shamefully, so inexcusably deficient ; sent too late—unable to reach the clan Ip, if sent—unfit for use, if they have been carried there, no one knows how. Such are the daily tidings brought by the post. Into the reiterated and provoking details we need not enter again. We w ish but to arouse the public to insist that the War Ministry shall forthwith be given to a man equal to his post. We care not whether he was tmined at Oxford or at a British School; whether he be a Duke or a simple Mr. ; but we affirm that, if our represen tatives do not demand a man equal to his post, the homicide of future thousands will be justly chargeable at their door. It is theirs to say, "We vote no more millions of tin nation's money until we have a man who can manage to use it as the nation expects him." Admiral Dundas arrived at Berlin on the 19th, and intended to remain there some days before returning to England. VIENNA, Jan. 23.—Count Buol has received the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour,. and M. Drouyn de Lhuya that of the order of St. Stephen, in Austria. The Correspondance of Berlin, states that the Offen sive Alliance has reached its conclusion, but that it will not be made known until the time shall come for carry ing it int) effect. _ _ Yesterday the Lords of the Admiralty gave notice, in the Underwriters' room, Lloyd's Royal Exchange, that more steamers of 400 tons and upwards were required by Government to convey troops and stores to the Crimea, as also a steamer of 500 tons to carry medical stores to the hospital at Scutari. These vessels are to be engaged for three months certain. The French Government has just purchased the la.t picture of M. Ingres, "Joan of Arc before the High Alter at Rheims." After having forined one of the at tractions of the Universal Exposition this fine work will be placed i❑ the gallery of the Luientbourg. The Academy of Inscriptions and Thdles•Lettres has named M. A. de Boisseau, of Lyons, Nv hose learned work on the ancient inscriptions found in. the city is well known, a corresponding member. We read with regret in the Debats the announcement of the death of the Count St. Aulaire, formerly French Ambassador to the Court of St. James's. There is no truth in the report that has been current, that M. Turgot, the French Ambassador to the Court of Madrid, thinks of resigning. GENERAL O.RDIRS. Head-Quarters before SebasteP°ll Janary 8, 1855. t oil The Commander of the Forc u es has the highe' ij olt faction in publishing to the army the unanimous LAI tiers of the Houses of Lords and Common?, 7;70 their sense of the conduct of the officers, non-. 104 sioned officers, and soldiers in the operation:ll)4 thj they have been engaged in the Crimea, in and decisive victory on the Alma, feat of a very superior force of the enemy on th of Inkerman. 854 ) r D ece mber - 6,1 0 1 "Resolved,—By the Lords Spiritual and T 1 0 1 0 1 Parliament assembled :—That the thanks of thie'i lti e' given to Field-Marshal the Riht Hon. Lord r ' - o f and in the op Knight Grand Cross of the most honourable' rd.olll, Bath, for the energy and distinguished a bility w' fo ot ) he has conducted the opeiations of her Maies t f il bt the Crimea, for the brilliant and decisive victor over the enemy's army on the Alma, and the sigr ic d of a force of vastly superior numbers on the Pe ' Inker R man. " esolved—That the thanks of this house b e Lieut.-General Sir John F o x Burgoyne G.0,33',4011 General Sir George Brown, K.C.8., Royal Highness the D u k e o f Cambridge , •' General Sir De Lacy Evans, K.C.8., Li °u " Richard England, K.C.8., Lieut.-Gener al Lucan, Major-General the Earl of Cardigen,,, General, new Major-General, the Hon. J. r Major-General H. J. W. Bentinek, MaPr7 Colin Campbell, K.C.8., Major-General J. L. C. 13., Major-General W. J. Codrington, Br now Major-General, li. W. Adams, C. General, now Major-General, Sir John Can2l Brigadier-General, now Major-General, G.:„' Brigadier-General, now Major-General, w• Brigadier-General, now Major-General, A., and to the several other officers, for their z e ! , and distinguished exertions in the several seti°'" her Majesty's forces have been engage d with i " Resolved,—That this house cloth highly the distinguished discipline, valour, and ,' played by the non-commissioned officers an d army under the command of Field-Marshal - A in all the operations in the Crimea, and tlot signified to them by the commanders of tir.'" ' who are desired to thank them for their d' gallant behaviour. "De, " Notice being taken that tho names of ral, new Major-General, R. Airey, QL and Brigadier-General, new Major-Genes court, Adjutant-General, were omitted in til • lution,— " Resolved,—That the like thanks be General, now Major-General, R. Airelt General, now Major-General, J. B. B. Est The same resolutions were passed unapt, House of Commons on the 15th and I°l ' 1854. Lord Raglan congratulates the arm,' 111 this unequivocal rec )gnition of their ardin the Parliament of the United Kingdom), of the opportunity of declaring that the the troops have borne the privations and have to endure, and in which they have arduous duties they have to discharge fll out an interval of rest, entitle them net °I) " probation, but to the admiration which . been manifested for their conduct, thl United Kingdom. The Field• Marshal has the pleasure at to announce to the troops, that the gou t ; anent have desired that the same tribute 0, be conveyed to General Canrobert and army, for their gallant and successful CO-( her Majesty's forces in the attack 0,1 , position at Alma, :or their energetic a nd tance in repuising the enemy at Inker T an, distinguished exertions, in concert with , troops, in the siege of Sebastopol. (Signed) J. B. B. ESTCOUVrt - The following order has been issue d b y I Canrobert : Soldiere!—l have already made knovq., flattering and worthy terms in which 1 " her Majesty the Queen of Great Britain to" the medium of her Minister at War, your Renee of the enemy. I have now to inform you with legitimate., you partake the distinguished and rare hone : great authorities of England have just decree', On the 15th of December, the Chambers e' Commons solemnly voted to you their wag:, thanks, which thy charged the worthy Cloe' lish army, Field-Marshal Lord Raglan, to The resolution of the two high .A.ssela' words : Resolved unanimously, —That thanks be French army and its Chief for their valiant co-operation with the land forces of her attack on the enemy's position at the Alma' tune and energetic assistance which they_ii., pulsing the enemy at Inkertnan ; and, raarkable exertions which they displas'arn3d topol, in conjunction with th e British a 1: to Field-Marshal Lord Raglan is charg ed them the present resolution. ero° l This striking manifestation is not orill t :; of which you may we 1 be proud; it ldallyin the sympathy of a great nation, our which all Europe proclaims the justi 43 l ln oi. You will feel all the value of such in I shall assure Field-Marshal Lor o re '''3,r c lose, , if • and my own, that it will drag . z l,v hied' strong Bible, the ties of good fellowsh i p „„ between esteem, and bl oo d , s h e d i n coillm‘'"' D oi companions i n arms—the Brit i s h ra taj The present Genera.lOrder hall be read au cutive parades. Grand Head-Quarters before Sebastopol, - January 5,.1,4,55, - (Signenera d l- ) The G e i n -Chief, Li p ''' . (Counter -signed) The General-in-Chief ° • u The following division order has been issue General Codrington : The Major-General regrets that, in the night by the enemy on the advanced works' Hill, the breastwork was quitted, the !r i l l and have caused a loss of 1 o ffi c er (missing ) ' 18 wounded, and 12 missing. The loss of life, this riskiyg of credit and pears to have arisen from the sentries ' to the works that they could perceive e c " late. The alarm could only be given when upon the work, and thus a handful of It'*- troops would eagerly have attacked by enabled to take our ground from us for a The attention of the field-officers, an d the senior officers, present in the advi particularly called to these eircunistanF . see, by frequent visiting, that the sentries the front, and in their proper advanced - And it must be an order positively oil' the enemy, that at least ono-half of Or main up, in a compact body, with their ready either to fire upon the enemy, or to _ with the bayonet, by which he was sure t° at once. This is to be read to each company by (Signed) W. CODRINGTON, SIR DE LACY ErA O We have alluded to the speech acidr e° i se4l Lacy Evans to the deputation which W e Folkestone. Most sincerely is it to be health of the gallant General may enabl e part in the impending deb a t es o n the war. He is a ripe and approved soldier, can feel for his brothers in arms from th e , lowest. The calm but fi rm manne r in w"' the tasteless and ill-judged attempt o f the the deputation to draw him into a prom; of his opinions respecting the manager and the liberal and candid manner in the commanders in the Crimea, are a attempt to make him an instrument of upon then will be in vain. At the I ° ll3 dropped from him which show that he is , to represent the real condition of the area the improvement of the conduct of th e exactly what was to be exp e cted ill:" Evans, from all his antecedents. We 1 10 . 1 his chivalrous enterprise, in by g one pe as Constitutional Government in Spain. , he feels for the soldier as a military chi , We remember the frank and forward which, at a perilous crisis of the Reform he declared that, " if an attempt was 133( ,,, the sword, he would resist it with the so minded, generous gentleman —an eiP!r ii fearless spirit—that is the man who Is true and soothfast evidence to tke ACV army, of whose deeds, and sufferings, has been an eye-witness. Should his words will be listened to in the House T l , respectful attention ; an d h e w ill be si" one side, the unscrupul o us a p o logists of,lio of ciency ; on the other, the em pty declarns;,,l ambition, seeking to make political OP" mistakes and short-comings of men is Nan. COURT CI.ROULfr- - WIND S° ; j ? 1 - There was no addition to the Royal 4 013 terday. en or His • Royal Highness Prince Albert /° c " ~„, this morning by special train of t'" o irr il Railway, to preside at a meeting of the b - Wellington College. er°Y The Prince was attended by Major - Colonel F. H. Seymour. The other goal' were the Earl of Derby, Sir Howard ° sit , Rev. G. R. Gleig. Colonel the Hon , dent! hon. secretary, and Mr. Chance also at, te A, The meeting was held at eleven oel ° ; a 01' Palace of Westminster, and broke UP , one o'clock. . His Royal Highness returned to W rill twenty-five minutes past two o'clock. ,e 1 1; k o ° A deputation, consisting of the folloslivrialod° had an inter view with the Earl of Cl or e. I°"4 day, to pr, sent a memorial, signed by c s % influenti a l merchants, on the eubjecil f,, , 6 blockade from the river Danube :- ---31r ,fo g" r,IIM M.P., M r . Mitchell, M.P., Messrs', O a l Melvill, F. G. Goodliff e , Powell, Book s " Or 0 1 ,0 1 and Draper. ittec A ls A meeting of the Finance Co g 5 l viree, Commission for the Exhibition of 1°„,',.," re day at the Palace of Westminster. ''': e n de A r , Earl Granville (chairman), Sir OP' Bart., Sir W. Cubitt, Mr. T. F. Gihe °- ' Bowring (secretary). r V° Mr. H. R. Williams (financial otos— sion) and Mr. Cole were also present, lONE coa taizi( • - •-q t ,,, g a.i vtia.44 ~, ~. ,9 trio ..b- ,„„i. .4,4 unaninious rof" . e Bales Severs, non 'ated at °f co. Seers, non-se:o , 'et 010,, _,8)00 operationg in tiii • sales*u firi ea, in the br_ll# t itiat, ecnaprj od in the sigreio s at 5,1,4 ~ ~,, lerny on the eay 0 ~,he 1., 18.0) at the meeting v ecember 1.6,At 'la, ''eetin, %1 and Teol7d4 00:1's 1-, 6 mks of this 1111.1, ka arid '-r°Pri lion. Lord Ay. 'ails, ilia WI mrable 0111°1 toi tee of / lie din d ability witoreeo ; coil a „ "vestif,, n• Majesty's fel; ; teen, 'equenfr live victor,' 0, do! 14,,1'ired. ,Y nd the signA!,l,oi ,:uaki. ivle .a on the heh' T'iti, ter.' and c leo! "Or is houso he Pot 'YTS eat brat. yne G.C.1348,1° ti. i "IY 50i Lieut.-Gen .0, ~,- a 1,1 ftleir he letters ridge, n''""eril i Th • ~, Lieut.GenpriP Lire° eter,„ „erat tb.5.,,,,0f ,:rp'oFftge of Cardigan,' 0'7,/i,i i'ked t°,,, in ti Lou. J. I. ..„1 )01)01.) Lilo ~ , Major-O.°V ;. it,• here"a ml J. I, P6'l3/ .41 11 rodetr ll n, Brigadier' j,Tis Yet 'mil g C. 8., 13110 .'" fail uleati o'hn CatePhe a itta 8 Urea ad ,aral,i, Gisr.i3vg,;6llllle4o' 04),.ii1ta.......te1ave: iral, d• " 'O4 'ith ' arw 1 ‘ heir zeal, jut. ) 8,11,1 el, •oalleo Igett ' Co reral act) , , iti , iisir . )(.1 with thspr . ller, 4a;,' .k. i highlY 1°440 ,4 ' ualike,'" Stan and ezey.eige' 'Kers 'B at t era and 01„dalf,i4 'ere4t Xe„, farshal fill'-oes, • je, and 17.( and that tlotolir ; *) la moltthe, lof the 061 001 fr'. jitoi i4 sir dibtin;°l' 'elle 'with , S. 0 the Ag jilt° 4st eeetubf' .'81,C0e,"14 Tile dtlaeti lel es of 13134.000, p ~.11,- .c. usa ...,. to uarterrnaf 0, A ; , ~obf.„ la, a„nol ;leneral, 'l'oo - . ''''‘ ti and of ed in the f • ,it of th. Earl .0. ~. Y 41,0 meals be gigs:: Dri ' 4 ssit A 8 irey, 4,,' '' t 'fg itiBteacrl 3. Estco,o,llll 14t jettea. 4 I unanio,Bs;oll ' boPerficq Til and 18w •' rb tIY reel and . ;%id The e ec 0 1.,, erhtiN,l °Pyl army uP° or ,0f 4 , and it arduoul boil ~' ,''tt,t hiltlaora .door, Anci itt it' I vizcik pub 4 malinetbie 41% ~ b li is and har'Proei t'verl'r°eee(ir• aria , . 1 i L,,, In, have P .t l , 414 fork w 4. large air°°'to .), 4110 rat, n not 013 ,Ilit, 01 h 1144 l' 1 Ire be ,hich 13 felt, 'e , 1,. feu 1 uct, throug ,iitti ;44 a 051. :17' tiee. eleiu ure oast j I, •AN Pa,r he flb:00 , A la 1,74 ibute of . . ,t t‘ At and th:tir/ I Pkrgli'lla 3ful co-o Pe- et11414e1.113, Stc a,ek aria,beed ,Ilke ?arlr° retie a slag; , plii a 91) ,au kerman, ° . "Ilk sl,' 8440,t43 I t with her ,, '4%.;°elc hasK St ' e '0 '7 b :1013101 -16 Pc:Per so'faelld r I teig4 s ants, issued bl ' 't 10,:eurit; to ? '-' , 44 ye er• ] known 10, i •t fete: ry c. which urge, . , le, 04 II 'Aran to Prwalici 1 defeattepoit tc r, your con ';' kt,,th ti '; 'th ,:',en,i, ''ear legitimate ffi ,f, 4 cve , Ilet ( rare honoitio i 11(1 tx,'" contl ist decreed f e . .04, azi4 ambers 0101, 4 i fonts.eßussia rsitrhyc°Cngbraid °fist Tie fl7'fkre' 112! an, steoratbraiineas7;ll ~ ,1442.......%10Zt . ggra.ll fell -1. Cent li to "Acla ranks be PA, , s ,_214 . • valiant ....00"001", to 42 .')nq ,0 ;of her Pl. ty ,to p , Itu"' 1 e Alma j fff°oooo, 'jell °llr.a:ja h they 0 for 0 N.e.... (Li ,d, flnealc,„foie . ents ~7 , tisplayed •, 1=.8.8 *. 061 'bareal. ti , The D.,sire, 4L' ed to o,,'"•cii.l,v, c for , Aitu 43, 8, , oly' a Pr°° 11) -eh bus a G ,t is tke. e%13,) ; ‘; Nark% teat v air Ally ill ~ ) b 1110 t ~ice. -0, , tit there da „ . devaeustr',, Irtil 04„ zaglan, one JA I, ..-.adi, close, if tbr , , . L',4l a"l3, hic,k strong •. V_llili,•_,lti f 0 between 1 c N'T i'a. rmy-e,na 02 ,7 so are , be read at s'' hle A ' are big astopola "re Alit444 m kb_ 007 uzibs lief, CAN ' , h.. 4,,,_, (Prom led) f tbs "'' O,,NA in-Chief i) kr Ntt. ~.. . . Li Is ivin z'',,(1.0;;,: ... . been isso.fivj ,',ktt,Peilllttiat_;a4-Zo..la:lllAij in rho at,l Ditt,P'4l,n,ia .. ...."'IT 1 works 0, se ik ;',, el.,4e.,tatiii6. the anon/010i ..1 ,00k tst ti_o( nissing), 4- tte,! for A 7 Ace( ,be j'ecilor s)titlt, redit an" eiliii 4000 l4, 4. ):teniievwseirineeinti::e.sleofitiii ~ etic.,1414i5itiie1r...,ii.0........................ of Rusalam,w- ' It, tto ad 4 " . :Iced by ok' twto), 18 .00.. , . IltZ, OP p la ; for ati • , OD A fp. bi`44., 118 '4 rs, 110- ' 0,4 't. .. is, oc.(1, advanced Tr ~t,,, to ei, eetit, matanees",ol. ( bitZta Who Ace' sentries.;7ooo, ' ; 3 ,acls, 4,0 [aced pu:trw 001., ,' oi,4ll„*,,er cei) aly carro- pi , bi 4,, 'dß, 4, . of the °rola ? hitto !!) 41', 301 P their 10.0 , 'No li::.`e -T or to eh ha JO szki. fo, , ACCTbete I sure to ' D 4141110 the A rre face+ t e'r t) ' 6 pe, ay by o_,lo, , 11%11'4141c Itece°, 110111 'P' Ot4ida Co On ..••••••• b• 4015 , IN. ..... _ _l% at 2\7.1 addresS." A .I.r Bich vide lec:irei or* f° A to be 1 00 A h 011 ~., i. enabi° joii i tep ate no. e C°/3,,(1 IP, '°Sr 4a, 4 e'l 13" sofaier, . yr,,,,,,.‘ ~ poi,. ad ,_. y rani the higyfr: 1,111A:1.4. --:°4tai • ~,hich Q401004 n* In roy h tvpi of it of the °I.O ,0 , 14)roti4 and 1, prerestut °Cr 41;2, otu°:e. by toagerue% joi ot,t,j4,l;em /Iv% I ;I. in vshic et r tht44 Pti°l24 cif re a 110:1100 ( Itittstltl4. illiteiPe: ,nt of foot`' ttitliePOlottike a the 06psidt., 00 4,044: ki, the is Prei3O* %cat; 141t11,141'7 le arrefi„,o4 ,i tit, 4 b1,),vi4,0011.: of the 7,if 112, ,tI4IZ:tIZCOoa , d from 'Di 1 meo to 1411, Pl, We have Dot ts,,)t4,c,a 'lt'll %Ie: r 6 t 1,411% l'At eal ne yea.,,,, 10 these ill til ea pain. roll '', taet, aketilott%cti ry chief 0017111 ~ the t.itareia iz., orward 011 i. St.!. o,,9hte tit Reforto 104% ktf," for-Ltettil,°l vas mad. l'il tho ~.°rto „the exe the sworg:;,l 0 tiiti•liziro"sseli =•• iold IV te41•811t. 58 •eti a...par-0 .d „ , ,„„ iii,„ ith_ Arb, ho is 11_,v•ife, 1;(licilon ullt (I'4 ke actui'l 909V\ t letit' thq3' 101 d Itaki lett, er, in aP„11 j, an es Nro,°,_res. his legs, noorylp laot ;ak, a puss of 'to. v], _, 4r, - vai be ahl.tei :', day ''shiest •-„f r , olii, I,l,ttt two _,O _,O 0, 1 ,aka 4b r ., -11\.