The Sun. — London, England, 1855-03-06 00:00:00

1%17 -C 7 rbri 7- Al Alt T A ND °OA/ MEE (lIA L INTELLIG EN CIE. Til e cotto n CITY, TWO o'CLOCK. • etc. ad . market at Liverpool yesterday was h al f_ a _ive; the sales amounted to 20,000 _or 25,000 ti o , ‘ "? ja bout half of which were taken on specula po;',,, ct .or export. The prices obtained were id. 41, ''° bugher than on Saturday. The Railway "Tarhe:lnvarket is active and firm. Itt, i 2 ley , ' taken of the present aspect of political 41 , 1 116 . at St. Petersburg is certainly more favour we) but hi thin many reasons why too much confidence themis,_Yespect should not be felt are adduced in sul o i n i aid ch,...„ ea. communication from Messrs. Smith le i . 04-ies :—... the Ir L e circular of last Friday we were led to review sfh utstory of the tallow market since the outbreak liiiioestilities, and to t f recast the future in ly r t event ofa sudden peace vour o con o tinuntion of the war. t4 sa o ff il t at a momentwhen or no a t the remotest intima tekhiotue illness of the late Emperor of Russia had itli.ingti'lvtilli_s, c w ountry, our remarks as to the state of hop of ~a n t w o e ul r d be likely to prevail on the rest e o n ra- Oh why; T f, e e entirely free from thati hadtinged they !4 t iik ___ a under the present circumstances, when a panic to t, w e:lN:session of the market. With this introduc tt of ol ls' l l . yia,sle circular be permittlectl to regeodeugetthaett, ii,, ~ °II our rnarket w o h urd. h the .e a l; s enna • negotiations 64;1 terminate in Peace, the price of tallow would pro !llletione.eliae to 485., and then experience a considerable i ll km awe nominal price of tallow since the repeal of 0,811 4 1,.;g 4 may be taken at 455. ; but so disorganised iZle to -. 0 " b 1 8 Yespects Russia trading, it would be impos ..4Btry i_ event an average supply this season from that `td °t -,,'; . of peace; the trade in this country is unpre litilliZl bare of stock, the consumption would be unu tayhTege: It will be seen, then, that we.expected (and we t i 8 01 4 ,, L , °, °serve that nothing has transpired to affect this ~ tiiin) Prices to rule above 50s. in the event of peace. ' l 9u, s :''' 80 certain that peace will be the necessary con -81/4 'Lye of il l , Il ie 1 10 t oni death of the late Emperor? Alexander it skat e ~Y the rightful heir to the throne, but . in all tiii h r e tt eh documents of Russia, as well as in the liturgy L fer e ta li, he is recited as such. His accession was, in th , a matter of course. It is true that he has hitherto ,S .of fe tc . ate of peace. It is also true that he is kna g : ps intellect, and averse to extreme measures; Cifo re '7 . tlrenient rather than activity, and likely, iiNke "° shun anything calculated to make a li h ille i ° ll his energies. But the war party, I' IL is, it e a.' l a which is his brother Constan -44 is underatood, in the ascendant in St. o, t and the very qualities of Alexander's charac iiktin„!e been . relied on as our security against his Ltap ot e the Policy of his father, are just those which I N probably render him the tool of the dominant bZte th e wore Alexander to exhibit a determination to 16 4 Will of this faction his throne would not be nc e rt,hB purchase —a catastrophe which all the h am ' taos,„a,', th arts of his ac c ompli s hed, b u t anabiti into avert. uld be directed to Moreover, Nat.tha intereet of the leaders of the army to lit6Bt th e war; and the power of these men at such a 4 1f. li Present is an element that must not be lost lii i , b ei "e do not believe it is in the power of any NI th, t a to calculate with the least approach to cer• 2Po ki t °tirse political events are likely to take ; but „YBt, 0 1 ,„„ 1 3 ' 88 Y—that while the death of the late Emperor 8 4 ( 1 , ro a n', t ° 7 lo great obstacle to the termination of the k ti 4 sir e ‘ have given birth to a thousand others ; and Net ever desirous we may be for a return to the hies -of Would be absurd to conclude aril the ac k!vile a ° Emperor Alexander will necesy secure tk ei l t , a laica advices notice a very auspicious k t e%: for developing a new source of industry k t klh a , s ' to th e f i brous plants of the island. k i k:, s pecimens of these vegetable fibres fit be sent of cordage and textile fabrics th ,,,,eit t o th e P ar i s E x hibi t i on. Th e p l ants ;,_y.''' l taßeously in the luxuriant soil of the :11,,,_ dpi market is gradually relapsing into a b 1 state after the recent excitement ; and N?q oh e speculative account, which has to be '4 sit ' the Bth inst., is the main cause. A isiitAW,o back this was supposed to be Bearish ; O t k' r obable that the o p era tions for a rise klie L4ll-fled the balance the other way. Con , t A i t ' , et' 93 to 931 for transfer, and 93 to „4.."tl, h raday, being at present down to 1,7 Val The New Three per Cents. have been ZBOO t 1,? 941, and the Reduced at 93/ to i. 'skj'';,tkOls have been rather heavier, at ss. to Nt ' 4 l • but although money is in fair de- Lei er e . , zikt k, the no pressure, and, as compared with Nt's 1 1, &, 41 ere is a change towards ease. It N We t 41 1 3'' satisfactory that Saturday's pay kAll4,,a° well met, and that the immense t tthe ,„. not lead to any important failures 'l l ( 4 nerbrileral mercantile body. East India 41790 PI firm at 224. , a' a'ecurities have been duller also, but 7°(l th - : r .„Ceuts. hare been supported at 36, 4 .4l4.?,"eferred at 181 to ii. Turkish Bonds , tt ec r, 784 to 79. Venezuela Stock has pi4s and Equador 4. Sardinian Bonds at 8 61. N :,,ring are the nominal prices of foreign k % Grenada Fet to 21i ; Deferred Bonds, sto 6 ; Mexi- Alis o sf , 4. _ P eruvian, 70 to 72 ; ditto Three ka. ' 1 , 4 ," ''.' 02 ; Portuguese Four per Cents., Niir--Lusslati Five per Cents., 99 to 101 ; k ji, au d - a-Efalf per Cents., 89 to 91 ; NOtt s I Deferred, 18f to 18i ; ditto Three hk';r4 to 37 ; ditto Certificates, 42 to 5 ; t tt, k a l i % 4 to 44-. t! Rl lset W ay Share Market has been flatter LlkZtit 1 a s far as prices are concerned, and gki 7 k, l tt:tr . business doing. Caledonian have igtiV . '"vittvitlealt in, as well as Ambergate, -tkp it 411; 14Ei. 4 h a *e b 't4 i : , North-Western, and Midland. ' ''ob i 's Rotterdam Pes have been a shade lower, but l i k'obt's b keep up, and the Scinde '-s it , !re l lo o. NZ done at 1 premium. esti d qN ) . Mine Shares are rather cheaper, ~,le adly ti United Mexican in brisk demand, The Nee' la lgher rates, upon more favourable e 11 4 N il • }l ,: (I,2 ll tigh • . 4b.' tv illes dull .ares are steady, and the Land and t 7 . l lth‘ a . ~ s .- . 1 bS THIS DAY.—CLOSING PRICES. Itt A 247. 0/4 the Ogdita- i i It. •44 . -. .. Iln , dness done L N . kki,•... .... , ... ,9.L: t i N o t , ,3 4 „ 0 7 Annuities.. ......... u• it a . 93 i 3 8 2i itk t t t t i:t. • Annuities.Z iritie 934 i 4A 33 I i 1 1 441, k .: Ez Pire sth Jan., , 1860 -16 d 104 till , , 014 ................ ....... Vet .s- -. .. . , AeCi o oo lO lk' I I la b lait; Bth March 93 i2i i l ... - " I * 4;1. ... ... )0b t ii::..................... Vtttillit 185 :4;ii .... .1: . ELT N IL t:/- - FOREIG N FUNDS THIS DAY. 4* 1 1 ,31 e, 4; ' , 6 Per Cent loli t ikilittmeetii: .... . 'I N kr e.., 4 „ . 4 per Cent. isli‘k li i ona;" 1 : ••• • .. ... ......... ,„ Per "Cent 863 i li N 141 ). 44 3 , Par Ceut . - ...... *** * b y, e e eenut... vbk,c4 i l e rved, 3 per Cent lBi i plizo,l4 :44 l 4 ll 4 : Ac tr tu c i c t i n t — 781 9 Sa '7l/Ntii; ............................ ki,7 4 ' 3 A Per Cent. ....... ..... 147 4 ; i rs , on the above payable In London. 2 i Per Cont. 12 Guil 62g . Di tt 7, - THREE O'CLOCK. 0 - t te ll 921 3 .- axe Account 4 V VI4k ,S: -- " t 4 ,lt ih'l,47ttakTlON IN THE PUNJAB.—It is probable , NOtili t i , ll of the flax cultivation in the Punjab +6 u l e found to be about forty-five thousand 1 1 41 here were probably some two thousand in ktiv i Z i e' Produce of this quantity of flax land Not ~._ . ;here about five thousand tens of linseed, No:',ll 4 Ct e ,, lt ,t'eti hundred tons of flax, involving a Nkil,i, - ,...k1as of rupees, the employment of more 1 1 10 h !ItO lti , °oats on the rivers, and some five or six i t tOst lt tri t ' t r aehee. It will be a very considerable :"Nlta,t4 tretion, contributing materially to the de .)lVoe,Nit, C resources of the Punjab, if as success ),,klkNo.i;:tok as present appearances would lead one 0 \ ; ,4, 1 -i iit, l -1) ,,,.. ) Chronicle. .12 Al (0, -. * - 7 1 . INCREASE IN THE EXPORTATION OF a leCilpea ta ', 4l - document has just been issued, from t 5Ol Si , that in the month ended the sth Feb. 1 ', 1 .4 k 44 4, 41 114 e of beer and ale exported was ke ti ve. ' ll the same month of last year it was th Ifi I li tp 4 kgz, S e gh, ENLISTMENT.—The Lausanne Gazette Itltit'4lllso,l,6::°nd Foreig n Legion, in the service of N . ' . .c . c a(l 3 , its fulcomplement of men, double &lifiti!SiZTlred having presented themselves to o .9 ‘ ,4lish e l le officers are several belonging to the ill; i ' 4 0 ,.q tir '' families. N r , tl tt O. rib, Lt. 's AND OTHER GOVERNMENT SECURI t:Nt44 'On :, 3 , ordered, by the House of Lords, til lk liiitlktgoVeted respecting Deficiency bills and 01444 t rro til ti_seenritiel. The interest paid on Defi tigi et %I ° 17 , B e 6 th July, 1854, to sth January last, 4:4 Ilit ) . t he o u 4 /. 16s. sd. The balance in the Ex -I,4tllite 1:4 , ,vv , e 4 3 1 t meneement of the last quarter, the 4 1 , 1 / 4 4 as e i 5,015,612/. 13s. 6d. Of Exchequer iltttott. li Et ,„ 3 , , O the hands of the Commissioners, on d PlC 4 ell e p -Iv as 40 5;6001. t ih, t ; Y i a a '8 4 lt t ip k . -O'Dea] against the judgment ordering Vti °l l \ p a y o'„egouve's new tragedy of Medea, or : i cAt t ati h c ,"°f; damagea for every day's delay, i l lcktt I "ed -att l on Saturday before the Imperial 1 6 t t i tl b:c luect r er by the chief judge, M. Delangle. !, 1 5 11: 1 4 t.4 11 hal t h e4 ne had been even worse used by the t, 4 4 4 s tt er ltr s a 44 in the court below. Although the A 0 km sle h , s Poke in her favour, the law was li li° °,, t, t (l o ;:d gai nst her that the Court ' not merely Vltt w , e h f. f "et a, but awarded besides to M. 11 4 k t IA h i__t at ° '' Past damages. k i % lii,:soCkBa4,4l: LIBRARY AND READING-ROOMS.— k: 1 ti ) ,l t Ze4l tr,,lhat we announce the liberality of a Q) ) , Ni l , 41 i)lish „, es __nl . a . n_ (Illr. Worth), the proprietor d , vttgtlivis t o i r a :Z d ent in l: e Lsl l i f n o g f to t n ii , e who has assistant o tr h a a d n e e. 4 4 4 t1y 14 4 i f klit t i e nt of 201., but who has since offered l ik i tt 4 :l* 3'e tt °Vi reading-room. It now remains 1 ,, l i , tt ill i , "g men wh 11441414 p ri .of 8 1 . , .0 improveare " liberated" . by the et, ,04, ,Ncie will their minds or li ki ',:ual 4 6 '2, and as they have been accused of ' l4 ' tli ii f4 r ei e t best means of ascertaining the Y of such statements, 1 25 St, 20 St 25 412 E St. 20 20 10 10 St. 10 St. 25 20 20 50 20 10 5 20 20 ,100 20i 100 20 20 20 20 33 10 20 40 20 •rof o i iota' • ; d 1 04 tle je 00116 a for. , 6f roti~~; • ;:!1 Ds''` i, J ~ P;'l t r t'oito a rt,''; to; o,' Og le° to 44 1 5 ) 1.4 01 61 0 1 1 ,1 1 '7 icm it t r 1 0 ,9 9.'" . If a ' 4 o °l „el 1 , ios A oo f tfr )eA Al e OP 'Ol 416 e ote_a4 tb 01' 40 t % 1 'el 6 : t y. ) , de j oy, to o er,,iw th e t be l o v e )is 1 P° o °. n i 1.00- ShARE M ARKETS. (ThIS DAY.) RAILWAYS. IC:losing Prices this thy. Business done this day. RAILWAYS. Aberdeen . Ambg. Nottrig. Bost and Eastn. Junct... Belfast & Ballymena. Binning. Wolverh Stour Valley Birkenhd. Lancsh Cheshire Junct Do. Chesh. dr Birk., £3O and £25 Cons. Do., £20..... Blyth & Tyns origina £25 (issd. at £45, Bristol and Exeter Caledonian Carmarthen and Car digan Chester dx Holyhead. Cork and Bandon Cork, Black, & Pass Cornwall 6'l-left' Junction DublindrßelfastJunc Dundee Perth &Abel deen Junction Do. New East Anglian Eastern Counties Eastern Union, .A Stock De., B. Stock Do., New A East Lancashire too 8, Edinburgh & Glasgow Edinb. and Peebles.. Edin. Pah &Dun& e Forth & Clyde Jun,. Furness . Do. Extension...... Glasgow & S. Wester) Great Northern Do., A. Stock IDo., B. Stock Gt. Sth. &West.(lre Great Western Do. Stour Val. Rai Gua. Stk [rich South-Eastern. Lancaster & Carlish Do., Thirds Do. New Thirds__ Lancash.andYorksh Do., Fifths Do., Wet. Riding Un Liv.Crsby.&Southpt Loudon & Blackwal Lond. Bright & S.Cst Lond. and N. Westn Do. Fifths Do.lo/. Sh., Do. Eighths London andS. West', Do., £5O Do., £4O Lndndrry& Col eraint Lndndrry. & Ennisk Kanch.Shef & Limb Do. Sha:e No. ) Do., Man. & Lin. Un. Midland )0. Birmng. &Derk Hidld. G. West. (Ire, Do. Half Shares Newcastle & Carlisle. Newmkt.BuryExten., Nwpt.Aberg. &Hrfd. Newry & Enniskillen Newry Warrenpoin. and Rostra vor Norfolk NTorthn.Connties Un North British worth Devon, No. ) Do., No. 2 .)0., A Deferred Do., B Guaranteed Y. Eastern—Berwick Do. do. Extension Dodo. G.N.E. Parch Do. Leeds Do. York North London Do. New £lO.. N.&S.Wstrn.,Hamp• stead, and City Jn North Staffordshire North Western N. & S. Westrn. June Nuneaton, Hinckley and Leicester 'Oxford, Worcester,& Wolverhampton Portsmouth Scottish Central., IScottishMidland: Threwsby. do Herefd ihropshire Union South Devon Loath Eastern south Wales i. Yrksh. dt Riv. Dm 4..a.inos, Wok. &Wok Stockton k Darliu qc2liten di Ilartlepl gaff Vale Do. £lO shares... Do. Pref., No. 1. Thames Haven Doc: and Rtilway Vale of Neath Waterfl. & Kilkenn: Waterford&Limericl West Cornwall West End of Londoi and Crystal Palace West London Wimbledn&Croydoi 204 - 21 4i - 5 8 - 13 -12 i 16 -- 17 74 -- .6id 90 - 92 631 - 64; i.. 7 fi ••• ..... .. 3 - 2. 5 i - 6i 11 - 15 111 - 11; 29 - 21 20 - 22 72 74 55 57 2d par 20 21 70 - 7.2 90 - 91 72 - 74 [27 - 128 90 - 61i - 65 58 - (0 70 - 75 5 - 71) 5 77 - 77 ...d, 8A 98 100 994 100 d r d id d 851 8 • 7 71 6i 241 -- 2ii 74- ssi 691 —4.! 11 a 9 24 49 - 51 31 34 29 30 8 10 1.? 73 - 74 7 6. 4.f 3i 124 12.; 491. s)i 49 LO d par 41. 44 51. 6 1 d par 30 - 31 99 - 101 64 - t 6 46 - 48 13 - 14 60. - 61 28A - 29 4 - 2 2 - 1 37 - 39 . • • ...... . 3 - 44 (q 17 34 - 23 - 5 5A - i . 7-: i FOREIGN. A ntwerp& liotterdam Belgian Eastn. June.l Beziers to Graissessae Bombay, Baroda, and Central I ndia.Seril Central of Italy Demerara Dijon and Besancon. Dutch Rhenish. Eastern of France Do, New East Indian Do. Mr.:elision Do. 4 p. c. Bds., pay '57, convertible Do. do. do., '59, do Gd. Tk of CanadaA is Do. St. Lawrence & Atlantic do. Do. Cert. of Deben., con. into Stk. till '63 Do. Comp. 6 p. c., do. Gt. Central of France Gt. Indian Peninsula Do. New 5 per cent. Great Luxembourg Constituted Shares Do. Obligations Gt. Western of Canad• Shares ... Do. Bds., payable's7, with option till '55 Do. do., '62, p. '56 Do. do., '76, p. '6O Do. do., '73, without option Hamilton & Toronto, Do. 6 per cent. Lake Come. & Basle Lucca & Pistoj a 5 p.c. , prof 'Lyons and Geneva ... Lyons & Mediterran Madras Do. New Maria Antonia Do. do. Now Namur & Liege (wits interest) Do. (ex interest) Northern of France. D 0.201. Sha.late Char leroi and Erquelines, guar. 3 p. c. & red., at 22M. dur. 88 yrs. I from 1 Jan. 1854 Do. 201. 3 p. c Bde (fmy. B. & Ams. Shs.) NorwegianTrunkPref Paris and Lyons Ditto Bonds Paris and Orleans., Paris and Rouen._ ParisCaen di Cherbrg. Rouen and Havre Royal Danish Royal Swedish iambre and Meuse._ Do. 54 p. cent. Prof. iouthern of France it. Andrew's and Quebec (A) West Flanders Do 5i per c. Pref Western of France West. of Switzerland Wiesbaden ...... Zealand SOINT-S' Australasia British Colonial Bank and Loan Company British N. American Chartd. Bank of Asia , Chrtd. Bnk. of India, Australia, & China Colonial Commercial of Lond English Scottish and Australian Loud.. Chart. Bk. 4;) Australia Ditto New. London and County London Joint Stock Loud. & Westminstei 'National Provincia' of England Do. New National of Ireland..! Now South Wales._ ,Oriental Bank of Corporation Provincial of Ireland Do. New .., Royal Australu .Bkg. & Gold DA) Co 501.43 1 1 A.‘,stral la Union of Australia Do. New Union. of J,Acquipu -3 3, par i p 21 - 33 - 334 6 - 7 2 - 2 - lip ... ...d 1A 2 iP par ip 2 3 2 3 171 - 17 96 - 98 95 - 97 100 - 102 92 94 2 d par' 97 100 ... dis li 2p • A d—p ar 1 lip Q - 7i 34 :I - 3:4 tl -- 12 - 9A 21i - 22 p ••• ••• 47 41 40 42 . • —• pro 21 22 ld par 1 8 8.1 ••• - pm 3i 4 d 7 BPI .• . . 1 . .7A - 18-1 BANKS. 81 -- t 3 I'd : la 2i . - 21 21 22 par p 34 - 36 38 - 40 I. '.' ... 40 64 - 66 7 - 9 4i. i 5 4i 5 63! 44 3/ 90i i 1 72 3 91 2 641 5k 41 77i i 7 99,f 81 9i 99i / 100 99/ If 86i 6 4 691 1 i 9 50 49i 29i 30 73i 3 13 12} 50,f 611 601 i 281 9 81 71 I i i V5l 211 ~~ THE !MN, LONDON, TVESDAY EVENING * MARCH 6, issi, ARMY BEFORE SEBASTOPOL COM- MITTEE DAY.) --Or^ - The inquiry was resumed this day at noon. A large number of persons were present during the proceed ings. The examination of Sir De Lacy Evans was resumed, and at the outset he corrected a mistake which had ap peared in the report of his evidence yesterday, namely, that he stated the Guards were encamped in a marsh. This was not the case, and if he had so stated it, it was erroneously, for the Guards were encamped on very high ground. With regard to whether there was proper provision made for the sick and wounded, he stated that the war opened with, be presumed, a belief on the part of the au thorities that there would be no wounded, but it was always his opinion that proper provision ought to have been made. There was sufficient ambulance means whilst he was there for the removal of the sick and wounded. He did not altogether approve of the French means of conveying ,the wounded in swinging baskets. They were all very well, and a few might be desirable, but he would rather have light carts. With regard to the bringing up of the tents, he believed they were all brought up by the 2d October, but a great many of them were in a very indifferent condition. There were advantages and disadvantages connected with hos pital tents as far as sickness was concerned. Up to the time he left the Crimea the hospital tents were but in differently supplied with beds ; but the men who were without beds had generally something else un der them besides their blankets. He did not think that in any case the men lay upon the ground. He had visited Balaklava, which was in much disorder. He never saw a town taken from the enemy which was not in some degree of disorder. The apportionment of residences to the principal officers of the army in Balaklava generally devolved on the Adju tant-General, and seme houses on the outskirts were allotted to some officers. He had an opportunity of seeing the water's edge at Balaklava. There were no quays, or facilities for the landing of provisions or stores ; and there was occasionally some confusion and irregularity in the town in the conveyance of provisions, but he was notaware of the troops suffering in consequence. Supposing the communication between the camp and Balaklava had been cut off by the enemy, or the town taken, the consequences would have been very calami tous, as he was not aware of any depot for provisions and clothing besides. - If such an event had taken place, however, it would have been necessary to shift the ves sels containing stores round to Kamiesh Bay. He had some cavalry and artillery in his division, and the horses were sent to fetch forage, and he was thereby much crippled. He should have thought transport waggons might have been in the meanwhile sent from Varna ; but that was altogether a question of maritime transport. On arriving first at Malta, where the troops were first sent to, ho learned that the Commissary- General had been sent before them to Constan tinople to provide for the army. On arriving there, however, he found that that officer had made no purchases of mules, while the whole of the commissariat staff was wholly incompetent and inade quate to its duties. A number of deficiencies began after their arrival to appear, and he sent word to the Commissary General, and asked to see him, but the an swer he got was, that that official was unwell ; and eventually, Lord Raglan insisted upon some change. In deed this was very necessary, for the soldiers were put to many inconveniences, such as having to wait four or five hours for rations, &c. During all this time no ade quate provision of transport arrivals was made. He did not attribute these shortcomings to the commis sariat department, but to the spirit of the Cabinet, for he firmly believed that the Government had no idea that what had taken place would have occurred when they despatched the army, and when hostilities did com mence they were quite overpowered and paralysed. During the whole time the allied armies were waiting for some further instructions as to the result of some con ferences, whilst the Russians were gradually pushing their movements forward. Returning to the commissariat, he eventually applied to Lord Raglan to appoint two voluntary officers for the army to assist the commissariat department—and very great advantage resulted; but these officers were so much at tached to their more regular duties of warfare that they declined after a short period to remain in the depart ment, and he, of course, could not compel them. The Commissary-General never came to the camp to his knowledge, or to consult him as to the necessaries re quired in his &vision. He (Sir De Lacy Evans) thought the Commissary-General ought to have done so. Lord Raglan had supreme command in the army in all its departments, and the commissary might have been dismissed by his lordship. To do justice to the commissary, the duties were very onerous and arduous, and the officers sent out might have done very well in the office, but they were quite incompetent in the field. Up to the time of my departure no road had been con structed from Balaklava to the heights. There was a track, which was good enough in dry weather, but there was no regular road. As he stated yesterday it would have required 1,000 men to have made a proper road. that number of men could not have been spared from the camp ; but he thought the Turks might have been employed advantageously. Up to the time he left there was great difficulty in getting a good supply of forage. There was some barley sent up to them, but no continuous and regular supply, and the horses consequently fell off in number—bard work con tributing to reduce them. He did not consider it necessary that an officer should have been appointed to look after the sanitary condition of the camp ; the inspection of the camp in this sense devolved on the staff department, and other officers under it. In reply to a question as to the manner in which staff ap pointments were made, General Evans explained that the officers selected from his personal staff were all officers of merit, experience, and high standing. They were all re commended to him, and he bad never seen one of them before. With regard to the general staff he believed when an army was first organised for the field he thought the demands made upon such officers were rather un reasonable. Sir De Lacy Evans was under examination when we went to press. REPRESENTATION OF CAVAN.—Mr. Burrowes, of Stradone, in whose favour the Hon. Captain Annesley and the Hon. C. Butler have withdrawn, is a sound Conservative. Mr. Henry Hughes, Q.C., and some time ago Solicitor-General, appears determined to go to the poll. Several other Ministerialists say they will —but they will not poll a man. NORTHAMPTON.—The nomination took place yester day at Northampton. Mr. R. Vernon smith, who had accepted the office of the Board of Trade, was re-elected without opposition. THE CRIMEA DECORATION.—The decorations for the victories in- the East will not be ready, we understand, before the beginning of May. Applicants on the behalf of deceased persons are to apply to the War Depart ment. TIC CAPTAIN NOLAN.—A neat tablet is about to onsTbe Captaini I r e i E o e t r LieocAnte: Nolan, erected i , n , wHhei Maidstone cfhe llhaetah Church h hh u ee racdh of following ftot the e the memory of li ap h propriate t 2 c s avalry brigade, in the charge at Balaklava, on the i October, 1854, aged 36. General Sir George Bern v of K.C.8., on whose staf f be served in India, General ee : Airey, his brother officers and friends, have erected this tablet as a slight tribute of their esteem and affec tionate regard for the memory of one of the most gallant, intelligent, and energetic officers in her Majesty's ser vice." The tablet, in the form of a marble scroll, is exe cuted by T. Gaffin. CAPE OF Goon HOPE.—We have received Cape papers of the 30th December inclusive. Considerable alarm had been caused on the Eastern borders by some re ported movements on the past of the natives ; but it does not appear that any serious apprehensions were en tertained respecting immediate hostilities. Sufficient, however, was known to warrant suspicion and vigilance, which doubtless would go far to check, if not altogether to prevent, any outbreak on the part of the disaffected. COMPULSORY PRE-PAYMENT OF LETTERS TO THE SEAT OF VAR. — General Post-office, March, 1855.—As there is reason to believe that the rule requiring the pre payment of the postage upon letters addressed to officers, soldiers, and seamen serving in the army and navy at the seat of war, is not generally understood, the particular attention of the public is called to this regulation, inas much as letters which are not pre-paid are detained at this office for the purpose of being opened and returned to the writers. The same regulation applies equally to letters addressed to officers and seamen in the transport service in Turkey and the Black Sea.—ROWLAND HILL, Secretary. AUSTRALIAN FREEHOLD GOLD COMPANY. —A general meeting of this company was held yesterday at the offices, Nicholas-lane, for the purpose of making a fur ther distribution of the assets. Mr. Renald was in the chair. A vote was passed confirming an award of 50 guineas to each member of the committee of investiga tion, and 25 guineas to the directors, the latter only after the strenuous opposition of Mr. Guadella, who in sisted that the old directors had received a large propor tion of shares wherewith to rig the market. It was proposed to make a further distribution of 2s. per share, in addition to the 6s. already paid, and upon that ar rangement wind up the company. For the purpose of carrying out this plan, two rival committees were pro posed. A discussion disfigured by gross personalities ensued, and many innuendoes were employed. At length a poll was taken, and it was declared that 77,245 votes had been recorded, a new source of difficulty, seeing that only 72,000 shares had been issued. The meeting was ultimately adjourned to this day (Tuesday), at 2 o'clock. A MAD COW IN FLEET-STREET.—An extraordinary degree of excitement was caused last evening, about eight o'clock, in the immediate vicinities of New Bridge street, Blackfriars, Ludgate-hill, and the Blackfriars road, in consequence of the following occurrence. It ap pears that a cow which had been driven from Smithfield Market to the Surrey side of the river, owing to the yel ling of some boys, became quite furious, and darted off at a desperate rate towards Blackfriars-bridge, knocking down, in rapid succession, three men and one boy, who were severely injured. The cow then passed over the bridge, and made its way i.ito New Bridge-street, where it knocked down several other persons. People, to avoid being knocked down climbed up the railings round the two obelisks in Bridge-street and Farringdon street, whilst several hundred persons of both sexes crowded the foot of Ludgate-bill and Farringdon-street, in or to escape coming into collision with the infuri ated animal. Fortunately, owing to the exertions of some drovers and the police, the cow was ultimately secured at the bottom of Ludgate-hill, and a cart having being procured from Snow - hi ll, it was p laced therein, and - driven to " soma' neighbouring, stables. , Who the owner of the caw was could not be ascertained ; nei ther could it be learned whether or not the parties \ I knocked down were fatally injured. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS-(YESTERDAY.) _ ROYAL ASSENT. The Royal assent was given this evening to the Con solidated Fund (3,000,0001.) Bill, and the Consolidated Fund (20,000,0001.) Bill. The Royal commissioners were the Lord Chancellor, the Duke of Argyll, and Lord Stanley of Alderley. HILL'S ESTATE BILL. On the motion of LoriftiblsDALE, Hill's Estate Bill was read a second time. ROMAN CATHOLIC PROCESSIONS. The Bishop of EXETER gave notice of his intention to-morrow to move for copies of the opinion given by her Majesty's law officers in Ireland, in 1852, relative to the construction of the statute prohibiting religious proces sions of Roman Catholic ecclesiastics; also for a copy of the opinions given by her Majesty's Irish law officers re cently in respect to their construction of the said act ; also for a copy of the proclamation of her Majesty, published on the 15th of June, 1852, warning Roman Catholic ecclesiastics taking part in such processions. Lord BROUGHAM presented a petition from the Leeds Chambers on the subject of the law relative to accommodation bills. The Earl of CARLISLE presented six petitions from places in Lancashire and Yorkshire, praying for the repeal of the law authorising the sale of spirituous liquors. The. Earl of ALBEMARLE presented petitions from Bristol against the sale of spirits on the Lord's-day. EDUCATION IN INDIA. Lord MONTEAGLE—who had a notice on the paper for copies of Report of Jan. 13, 1855, on the examina tion of candidates for the appointment of assistant sur geons in the company's service ; copy of the report of Nov., 1854, on the examination of candidates for the civil service ; also, a copy of the letter respecting the college of Haileybury, and of the regulations framed for examination of candidates for appointments in the civil service of the company —said that he rose to call their lordships' attention to the subject, and to two papers respecting it recently laid before them, After referring to the importance of the Renewal Act of the charter passed in 1853, and to previous renewals, the noble lord said that if they looked back they would find that many of the enactments of Parliament, especially previous to 1813, on the subject of the Government of India, enact ments of the greatest importance, and on which the greatest reliance had been placed, had been forgotten, and allowed to remain inoperative. He might refer to those arrangements made in 1813, for the purpose of education—to the declaration made at the time Lord Grey was in power, in 1833, to put an end once and for ever to all distinction as respected caste, colour, and birth, by opening up all employments in India to the whole of her Majesty's subjects. In 1833 special provi sion was made regarding the admission of persons to Haileybury as candidates for the civil service, and those persons only were to be admitted who were recommended by the directors, and who had proved their competence by competition with persons similarly recommended. That provision had been entirely set aside by the com pany. He referred to these things for the purpose of showing that it behoved Parliament, from time to time, when it passed an important measure, which, was left to be carried out, not by the Government at home, but by persons at a distance, to make inquiry in order to ascertain whether its provisions had been complied with. He wished to call their lordships' attention to the minute, dated July 15, 1854, relating to the esta blishment of a system of education in India. The act renewing-the charter passed in 1853, but he did not com plain of the delay in issuing the minute, because the question was a difficult one. He presumed that the President of the Board of Control had communicated with the Government of India, and that the despatch had been issued with their concurrence. A. more important document, in his opinion, never was laid before Parlia ment, for it was a noble design, and one worthy this country to undertake to provide a system of education for 150,000,000 of her Majesty's subjects in India. The document related to the whole subject, from the ♦illage schools to the universities in the presidencies, and dealt with the question in a macner highly satisfactory. He regarded it as the work of his right hon. friend the late President of the Board of Control, and was putting an end to what had been for some time a matter of doubt —viz., whether the education of the people of India was a task this country ought to undertake. The document in question, and the evidence on which it was founded, at once settled that question ; for it was quite clear that it was now beyond the power of those who had opposed education to prevent it, nod that education in India was advancing and extending itself among the people. His right hon. friend had proposed a scheme of general vil lage education, a scheme of collegiate education, a scheme of university education, and that scholars to a considerable extent should be supported at the public charge. The university scheme was the same as that which had been adopted in the University of London, recognising in religious matters a perfect neutrality. If any one fact demonstrated more than another the iinpolicy of the Government interfering in re ligious matters, it was the success which had at tended missionaries who had no connection with the Government. No point had been better established before the committee than the impropriety and impo- Hey of the Government interfering with the religion of the natives. There was another document to which he' must refer, and in which, though be found much to ad mire, he also found much from which he must withhold his assent. By the act of the session before last, the system of nomination by the company of candidates for the civil service had been put an end to, and in lieu of it an open examination had been proposed. The Board of Control had been called on to form rules for the ad mission of young persons to the civil service, and these rules, drawn up by several able and eminent men, had been made public. The paper with reference to the open examination of candidates for the civil services was open to objection. The question he referred to was no less than the free eligibility of the natives of India for politi cal office in the civil service of India. In the act it was provided that no one by reason of his birth should be precluded from holding office in the civil service. The natives only had been admitted to small offices. But the distinction that had hitherto been adhered to was in tended to be done away with. But according to the paper he referred to, the course of examination was framed, he would not say intentionally, but practically, to exclude the natives from the civil service, and to fa vour the; European candidate almost exclusively. The peculiar courses of study prescribed, as they demanded a wide study of European languages, were not calculated to form a native tax-collector or an opium-duty ga therer. Certainly, the natives would not stand a fair chance against the European in such a course of educa tion. He submitted to their lordships whether the course oT examination, such as was intended, would not have the effect of excluding the natives ? And was that fair to the people of India ? In short, the system adopted with respect to history, to languages, and to composition, would practically prove an exclusion to the native scholar. He should be glad to receive a contra diction from some official quarter that the paper had not been so prepared as to exclude the native subjects of her Majesty in India. There was one other subject so interesting and so important that it could not be overlooked, and to which he would now draw attention. otf l (Il i n et ad d hc o aie o n, wb o t au st h a i u g n n h da a c tri vates appointmenths o , e fi wnnlhe India. ‘ o vhd hadeiaa c.tcivil o studiedwh serviceiowing gwtaoms hisede medicine, done e i et n rhu e s en , In reference to this he would remind tke house that a e ipnestovteerwcohlineihngroundvdweearrperseverance tn r he e e : he had neb b l e e en kr a a dm he it r t e ed re t fe o rr t e h d e aspired.e obstacles, to the case of the Hindoo gentleman Ch k uc erbutty whose interesting history appeared a 1 ew days ago in the public press, who had acq u i re d hi g h h onours at college, vho was refused an appointinentby the East India Com pany because he was a native, who, after passingfurther honours in India, did, through the aid of the new bill, which removed his previous disability, obtain the ap pointment which had previously been refused to him. He had a letter in his hand, written to Sir Edward Ryan, in w hich Mr. Chuckerbutty said he would use his last effort in the service of his country, that he would find his way to England, in the hope of distinguishing himself in his profession, and getting the appointment of assistant surgeon, but he was in the dark with reference to the nature of the examination he was subjected to, and with all his hopes it might be that he should fail in going through that routine inquiry which was indispen sable before he could obtain the position of assistant surgeon. He had heard many objections to the appoint ment of this gentleman, on the ground that such promo tions would endanger the safety of our Indian dominions. Such arguments, however, could not weigh fo4a moment in the mind of any _liberal and reasonable man. He thanked their lordships for their attention. He trusted that the interpretation of the act would be such as to render the natives of India eligible to posts in the civil service, and he trusted their lordships would enforce their own generous. intentions by enforcing the true operation of their own measure. ,He would now move for any cor respondence received from India on the subject of these appointments. Lord ASHBURTON said it was a severe censure on the report of the committee to say that any intention existed to exclude the natives of India, or that such a construction should be able to be put on the course of examination prescribed. The opinion of Sir E. Ryan was, that the examination had been so framed as to give due facilities to the natives of India, and the noble lard's anxiety would be relieved when he learned, as no doubt he would. do, that the natives carried. off a number of prizes. There was a general anxiety that the doors should not be shut on any one wherever he might come from, and whatever might be the course of study he had followed. The Earl of ALBEMARLE expressed his concurrence in the sentiments of the noble lori who had brought the question forward. He thought, however,, that while the motion as regarded the first report was unobjectionable, that which regarded the second, which was in contrast with it, was not so. Ho hoped that the new Governor- General of India and the new President of the Board of Control would consult with the late president of that board, as no one was better acquainted with the subject, or bad more at heart the interests of the natives of India. He would also suggest that the new President of the Board of Control should take into his counsels in this case the new secretary of that board, who bad been the chairman of the Reform Association, and who was well acquainted, therefore, with the wants of India. Seeing, however, the virtual impossibility which existed of the natives of India taking advantage of the act as regarded their candidateship in this country, he suggested that a certain number of the 40 appointments in question should be placed at the disposal of the Governor-General, and that the examination for those appointments should take place, in India, so that the natives might have a chance of deriving some benefit from a system which at, present amounted to a praclinal exclusion. Lord WYNFORD said, when it came to be considered that the natives of India bad to come 10,000 miles for examination before they could qualify for their appoint ments, it was to deceive them and to deceive ourselves to say that there was fair competition as regarded them. The energy of one man had certainly shown the capa bility of the natives of India, and be (Lord Wynford) hoped that gentleman would reap all the rewards due to his intelligence and determination ; but it wa.'s pre posterous to suppose that, as regarded the natives of India generally, the examination could be considered. a fair one. To make it a fair examination it should take place in India. He (Lord Wynford) should like to know whether any of the distinguished men in this country who bad been connected with India were con sulted on the framing of the present system, or whether the advice of.the East India directors had been asked or given I _ _ Earl GRANVILLE said the object of the Govern ment in the bill was to find the ablest men possible to conduct the Government of India. The admission of natives was a great advantage but, nevertheless, he doubted if the:increase of men in the service, who had not sufficient energy of character to come to this country for examination, would be Of any advantage. His noble bend had referred to Mr. Chuckerbutty, and he (Earl. Granville) could state that the feeling of the Govern ment was one of great gratification at the success of that gentleman, because it showed, among other things, that those who denied the quality of moral courage to the natives of India had gone too far, Mr. Chuckerbutty having fully proved that he, at least, possessed that quality. In all the late references to the affairs of India, the President of the Board of Control and the Governor- General of India had acted in the manner they thought best calculated to be of advantage to the natives of India in this matter. He (Earl G.) had no doubt that under the 41st clause of the act it was competent to the India Company to admit persons who had not passed through Haileybury. In reply to the noble lord who spoke last, he (Earl Granville) begged to state that one of the best proofs of the intentions of the Government were the names on the list, and he (Earl Granville) asked whether Mr. Macaulay was a man likely to in tentionally prevent the natives from being admitted, or whether that right hon. gentleman had not sufficient sagacity to see all the bearings of the subject ? The present, he (Earl Granville) asserted, was an honest at tempt made to devise the best possible scheme, and he could state that next year one or more natives of India would cempete for the highest prizes. Under these circumstances he was understood to decline ac ceding to the motion. Lord MONTEAGLE replied. He was perfectly sa tisfied with the explanations that had been made, and he should not, therefore, press the motion. si The house tLea adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS-YESTERDAY. ORDNANCE ESTIMATES. Mr. MONSELL, in moving these estimates, observed that-, though they were much larger than had ever before been demanded, the house and the country were only too painfully aware of the reason. He should commence with the supplemental estimates of 1,200,0001. The first vote, 267,0001., was for barrack supplies, of which 129,5191. was required for barrack bedding at the new hospital at Smyrna and for the establishment at Malta. For greatcoats 3,1061. was required and for boots and shoes 54,3751. Some re mark had been made with regard to the quality of the beets and shoes, and also with respect to their size. Not withstanding it was complained that they were too small, the Government, in sending them out, had taken the pre cau!don to select only the two larger sizes. He attributed the fact of their being too small to the circumstance that the men wore more than one pair of stockings, for certainly the boots supplied to the soldiers in the Crimea were con siderably larger than those worn by the men at home. The next item was 234,8601. for camp and miscellaneous stores, and of this 124,9061. was required for tools, a large portion for warm clothing for convalescents in different hospitals, and 92,0541. for camp equipage. The next vote was for 1,000 huts, 54,8001., and 19,0411. for stable huts that were finished within 18 days of the time ordered. For hospital buts, which had been completed within 14 days, 2,0001. •sere required, and for huts for 3,0i0 sol diers of the Foreign Legion at Heligoland, which had been finished within 10 days of the order, 13,9311. The next vote was 382,5001. for warm clothing. On this subject there had been a great deal of con troversy. All he could say was, the warm clothing was sent out by gentlemen who undertook to supply that, and that undertaking was, in his opinion, carried out with great celerity and ability. As an instance of the de spatch used, he would mention that when the intelligence of the loss of the Prince arrived in this country, within two days a similar amount of clothing to that which had been lost was supplied. The house would be surprised to hear the enormous extent of the shipments of this article. In the month of November 130 tons were sent out by the Government, and 344 tons by Messrs. Hayter and Howell; in December, 234 tons by those gentlemen, and 752 tons by the Government ; and in January, 180 tons by Messrs. Hayter and Howell ; and 309 tons by the Government. The second point he desired the committee to consider was, whether the clothing had been supplied economically. It had been supplied in great haste and under the most urgent circumstances, and everybody who had had to do with it had felt that their great object was not price, but time, and this bad been the essence of all the contracts. Calculations had been made, from which he came to the conclusion that the amount paid over and above a fair rea sonable price at which the goods could have been supplied under ordinary circumstances was 4i per cent. Be was also convinced, after 4 searching inquiry, that the warm clothing sent out to the Crimea was, generally speaking, of excellent quality. A great deal had been said as to the mode in which the things sent out had beeu packed. It had been stated that the transport-ship Robert Lowe had conveyed medical stores to Scutari, but that they could not on their arrival be delivered, as they had been placed under heavy c)linders for powder. A committee had in quired into this case, and had unanimously reported that the charge was unfounded, and that it was impossible, be cause the great cylinders were of such enormous weight that they were obliged to be packed iu the hold of the ship. The neglect in this case, and also in another in which goods were sent to Balaklava, was not on the part of those who packed the goods, but of those who had to deliver them on their arrival. The next item in the estimates was that of 25,0001. for the factory for the manufacture of Lancaster shells. It would be in the recollection of the committee, that this shell was first submitted to the Government in 1852 ; a variety of experiments were made, and before the invention was quite ripe it was considered desirable that it should be made use of. It was necessary in the structure of the shell to use a Nasmyth hammer ; and in the first in stance, because the experiment had not been sufficiently tested warrant the erection of a large factory, the con struction of these shells had been very expensive, each shell having had to be reheated 11 times, in consequence of there being only one of Nasmyth's hammers in use, and some 1,800 shells had been made, each of which had cost 61. In November Lord Raglan transmitted a report from Colonel Lake which was extremely satisfactory, and the Govern ment immediately decided that a large number of shells should be produced with as little delay as possible. He (Mr. Mousell) had the advantage of a consultation with Mr. Nasmyth, who most liberally placed his factory at Manches ter at the disposal of the Government; but, on con sidering the plan that would have been required there, and the plant already at Woolwich, that gentleman came to the conclusion that it would be more economical for the Government to proceed with their own factory. This was accordingly done, and in two months, owing to the exertions of Sir C. Fox and Mr. Henderson, the factory was erected. It was now at work, producing 60 shells per day, and would very soon produce 100 per day ; and these, instead of costing 61. each, would only cost 11.165. 2d. The next vote in the supplemental estimates was for 15,00 W. for the gun factory at Enfield, but in the esti mates would also be found the further sum of 40,0001. for the same factory; and he would therefore at once explain the grounds on which he asked for these sums, amount ing in the whole to 55,0001. It would be recollected that last session there had been a committee for the purpose of considering a proposition made on the part of the Govern ment for the erection of a large factory, intended to pro duce 150,000 muskets per year. The committee were un favourable to the erection of a factory on a large scale, and recommended one on a limited scale, which would serve as an experiment as to the advantages likely to ac crue from a large factory, be a check on the prices of con tractois, and also a resource in times of emergency. Three gentlemen of great experience —Colonel Burn, Captain Wallow, and Mr. Anderson—then wont to America for the purpose of making inquiries and investigations. These gentlemen were authorised.to spend 10,0001. in the purchase of machinery in America. Shortly after they went to that country they communicated with him (Mr. Monsell) on the subject of the machinery they had witnessed there. Colonel Burn wrote, stating that the more they had seen of the operation of the musket machinery in Ame rica, and the extraordinary effect it produced, the more they were convinced of the absolute necessity of a radical change in our system, and of our establishing a complete and permanent organisation to enable us to secure a con tinuous supply of the best article at a cheap rate. Colonel Burn also observed that, though the work of the machinery at Springfield, in Massachusetts, and at Harper's Ferry, in Virginia, differed in certain respects according to the skill of the engineer, yet the operations were so perfect that an interchange of muskets in all their parts *as made between them quarterly, and that the result was found to be the same as if they had been all produced by one engineer only. Subsequently Colonel Burn applied for permission to spend a larger amount than the 10,0.:01. first specified in the pur chase of machinery in America. and the Government upon further consideration accordingly authorised a total expen. diture of 17,000 1 . for this purpose. When these gentlemen returned home they brought with them an elaborate and lucid report, detailing the results of their investigation. In this document they stated that their anticipations not only as to the rapidity with which the muskets could be manufactured, but ► 5 to the lowness of their cost, were more than realised by what they had witnessed, and they their conviction that the experiment of establish ing a musket factory in this country would prove signally' successful. The committee then considered the size of the factory that should be erected, and ultimately decided that it should be one capable of manufacturing 50,000 muskets per annum. They found upon calculation that the same staff and nearly the same quantity of machinery would be requisite for manufacturing 25,000 muskets annually as would be necessary to manufacture double that number ; and that if they had determined upon having a factory . only adequate a havete to t e re furnish m eie the dl e therefore prepared for a factory sufficient for the produc tion of 50,000 muskets a-year, the . situation selected for it being at Enfield, and the first estimate of the cost of its smaller supply tshuoppylyeart.he Plans were machinery erection was 30,0001. In deference, however, to the sug ge,fetnetrl%evienredne w r h e s e e l had ved v i u s p i L e o n a , 41,000/. The co. of the machinery contracted for in Ame rica nd America,the a a n c t en na l about 9,000/. worth mere was goeustltiaoynsfoorftthheebuilding amounted to between 43,0 001 . and was 17,0(V. ; and largement was con tracted for after the return of those gentlemen, making 26,003. —an amount very nearly corresponding with the supplemental estimate of 25,0001. taken last year. During the months of October, November, and December there was a lamentable deficiency in our supply of small arms, to obtain which the Government were obliged to resort to the markets of other countries, and the Minister of War, in the emergency that had arisen, authorised the Board of Ordnance to enter into contracts for, the erection of the factory. The building was now in progress at Enfield, and the factory would commence operations about the begin ning of next July, and be able, no doubt, to manufacture a considerable quantity pi small arms in the course of ,t,he present year.„-Paseing from the subject of the supple mental estimate, he came next to general estimate for the year. The increase in the estimate for Ordnance stores was 103,514/., which eras made up by the addition of half a battalion of engineers and a battalion of artillery, amount ing to 73,4151. ; additional staff for the movement of troops, 11,200/. ; and a sum of 12,9941. consequent upon the in creased bounty now oered; • need hardly point out the necessity for increasing . the engineer and artillery force—a force which was now aboUt 7,000 less in e trength than it was in the yeer 1814. No - orce in any country could have distinguished itself more than our artillery and engineer corps had done in the recent operations in the - Best. ,(Hear.) It was a remarkable fact that our platforms before Sebes topol had required so little repair that, although shells had exploded over our magazines, not one of them had been blown up. The next vote he had to submit was for barrack supplies, and it showed an increase of 103,493/. The sum required for barrack suppliesamountedto 355,450/. including supplies for the camp at Aldershot, 36,000/. for foreign troops, 40,0001. for the depot about to be formed at Malta. There was a sum of 115,000/. for great-coats, and in the amount for boots and shoes there was an increase of 43,5121. The clothing for the foreign legion was 90,0001., men and and clothing for the militia, an increase of 56,9501. He might add to his former remarks respecting the warm clothing, that the Government h a d sen t ou t an experienced officer with an experienced clerk, and some of the best labourers from the Tower, well acquainted with the package of stores, to 13alaklava, there to collect the warm clothing and send them to a storehouse in the Bosphorus, with a view to pre serve them for future use. Vote 3 was intended to be withdrawn. There were certain changes likely to be made in the Ordnance-office, and when those were effected an estimate would then be presented to the house. On vote 4 there was an excess over last year of 19,504/. for Ordnance establishments. There was an increase in the home esta blishments, 5,954/. ; lodging the Irish militia, 10,0001. ; lodging the foreign legion, 2,5001. ; and additional clerks of works, 9381. However, in every colsnial establishment, except those situate near the seat of war, there had been a diminution of expense, and the decrease upon that head would have been greater bad it not been for the necessity of forming a new establishment in the Bosphorus. Vote 5, for wages, 368,8921., was 81,027/. i n excess of last year, arising of course from the enormous demand for labour at the different establishments. There was a diminution of 16,336/. in the amount asked for the now gun factory at Woolwich. That circumstance was remarkable, and he wished to explain it. In May last he found the supply of shells was very deficient. If at that time any great action had been fought, either on land or at sea, it would have been impossible to replenish the magazines, and the coun try would have beet exposed to great danger. Finding that to be the case, he sent for an officer of mo s t distin guished scientic talent, Captain Boxer. That gentleman, upon the circumstances being explained to him, undertook to meet the difficulty if he were allowed to make use of an old storehouse at Woolwich for the manufacture of fusees and benching of shells, and to erect machinery at a cost of about 7,000/., which sum he undertook to save the country in the first six months. He (Mr. Monsell) readily agreed to that proposition—the factory was constructed, and in one week's working it saved the country 1,2001. The fac tory could not work continuously, as the supply of car cases of shells could not keep pace with the production of the factory. A few items would show the great advan tage which the factory had proved for the country. Before its establishment there were 500 Moorsom fusoes made weekly ; afterwards there were 1,050, and a saving of 1411. Of shells prepared for fusees there had been 3,500 per week; since the establishment of the factory the number was 10,257, at a saving in wages of 110/. There had been 3,000 wooden fusees made weekly, now there were 10,000, at a saving of 72/. The result was, that whereas in May the number of 8-inch shells in the storekeeper's departments was 4,398, it now amounted to 10,886. He was perfectly aware that this country, with its manufacturing powers so extensively developed in all articles of ironwork, ought to produce any number of shells which could possibly be re quired ; but still the fact remained that we had now been a year at war and that a sufficient number of shells had not been supplied. The demand had, in truth, been much greater than the supply. It was found also that a consi derable increase had been raade by the contractors in the price of shells supplied to Government. In 1852 8-inch shells were supplied to Government at 71. Bs. per ton, but the price charged in 1853 was 13/. 165., making au in crease of 61. Be. per ton. No doubt it would be said that this increase was caused, to a certain extent, by the in crease in the price of iron ; but the cost of iron of the quality of which shells were made, which was, in 1852, 31. 2s. 7d. per ton, in 1855 had only risen to 3/. 18s. 4d, per ton, being an increase of 16s. 2d. The amount of fuel re quired for the manufacture of a ton of shells was said to be 5 cwt., and at that calculation, the cost of fuel for manu facturing shells would be 4s. 95. per ton in 1852, and, in 1855 6s. 25., making an increase of Is. 2d. In the same way, the labour which, in 1852, cost 1/. Is. per ton, in 18 6 cost if. 9s. 6d. ' according to tho authority of one of the largest manufacturing firms in Bradford—one of the principal places where the manufacture of Government shells was carried on ' • and, lastly, the freight from that district which, in 1852, was 10s. per ton, in 1455 had risen to 1/., being an increase of 103. This made altogether an increase of 11. 10s. 15., leaving an increase which could not be accounted for of 4/. 178, lid. The Government, therefore, feeling the immediate want of shells—though they knew that, in time, they should be able to obtain as many as they might require —taking into consideration the great increase of the price of shells, and the advantage of putting themselves in a position to control the contractors, and being sensible, moreover, of the importance of attach ing a foundry to the Royal Laboratory, where they might be able, at a moment's notice almost, to supply any number of any given sort of shells which might be wanted on a sud den emergency, had determined to establish this foundry at Woolwich ; and ho was firmly convinced that, had it only been established six months ago, a saving would already have been effected of more than the amount, 10,000/., which was asked for its construction. It would be of the great est service, too, in enabling the contractors to learn with greater rapidity how to make the particular sorts of shells which were required, for at present considerable time was lost before they were able to construct them with that accu racy and perfection which were indispensable in these ar ticles, and he was sorry to say that very frequently the old contractors were backward in allowing the now contrac tors to inspect their modes of manufacture. This vote, however, for the shell foundry was net the only one which he was about to ask for on account of machinery in con nexion with the Royal Laboratory ; but it must be remem bered, with regard to all these works, that they were re quired for the manufacture of articles for which there was no demand in the country except on the part of the Go vernment, and that the country, therefore, to be prepared for the commencement of a war meusteither have kept lame stores of these articles or else have had establishments i n which these stores could be rapidly replenished. Now, nothing . . could be more inexpedient than to keep large stores at a time when every day was bringing forth new discoveries, and when a thing that was new one day was obsolete next. As a mere matter of economy,.it was of the greatest possible importance for the Government to endeavour to put them selves in a position to be able to manufaCture shells rapidly by means of machinery; and that, in a few words, was the jestificatiOn of the vote for nisChinery generally. In vote six there was fv , ooneiderabla increase over last year in the estimate for small arms; 'while in vote seven, which re lated to -works, buildings, and repairs at home and abroad, there was another large increase, occasioned by the erec tion of new barracks on the western height of Dover, at Gosport, and at Aldershot. In vote eight, for the scien tific branch of the Ordnance Department, there . was an increase of 3,8281. over the estimate of last year. The great item in this estimate was for the ordnance survey, and perhaps it would be interesting to some hon. members to know what was the preciie state of that survey. Last year there was some controvery as to what should be the size of the survey, but after considerable inquiry a deci mal arrangement was adopted of somewhere about twenty-four inches to the mile. At the present moment the experiment was being made of endeavouring to work this survey by means of contracts through pri vate individuals, and by means also of piece work. Al ready a considerable quantity of piece work had been laid out, and in the course of,three or four months so much ex ' perience would have been obtained as to enable the Ord nance to come to a final decision upon it. The hon. gen tleman having apologised for detaining the committee so long, concluded by moving, "That 1,402,961/. be voted to her Majesty as a supplementary estimate of the charge which will probably be incurred during the year 1854-55, for Ordnance services." Colonel DUNNE wished to say a few words upon the general subject of these estimates, and, in the first instance, he deprecated the establishment of a permanenthospital at Smyrna or Rhodes, because he knew, from . personal expe rience, that those localities were so unhealthy as to be quite unfit for the purl:voile. (ffear.) • With ,regard to supplying greatcoats to the army, he was sure the Ordnance would not, for a considerable time,be able to supply them—cer tainly not to the militia regiments ; and as several regi -manta in Ireland were suffering great inconvenience from the want of greatcoats, he would suggest that permission should be given to the colonels to supply greatcoats them ielves in the - saixio **that the other Clothing was fur nished. (Heim) 'The hoots which had been sent out to the Crimea were not large enough for the purpose to which they were to •be adapted,; nor were tome of the 'tents, owing to theirbeing - Weat oat withopt lining. . Now, as - to warm clothing; the 20th ; 46th, and 63d regiments were I sent at late n November ; without any ettpiply at all, and the consequence had been that the reginients were completely decimated almost directly after they reached the trenches. Could not all that have been avoided by furnishing the regiments with warm clothing before they went ; but it was in this way that half our army had been destroyed. They had absolutely perished, indeed, through the neglect of the authorities at home. (Hear.) With regard to the manufacture of muskets, he did net coincide with some of the hon. gentleman's 'observations, nor did he think it prudent for ua to send out petterne to be Manufactured by foreign contractors at Liege and else where, because they would always be ready to furnish the enemy - with supplies_ of the same musket before executing' our orders,_provided they got a higher price for it, which the enemy ,was . rarely 'indisposed to give. (11 ear, hear.) He objected to the erection of new _ stand b arr acks in Ireland, and suggested that the ma n y thousandof arms no w . lying useless in that part the king oni should be distri buted to the militia and pensioners. (Hear, hear.) H e urged that no time should be lost in settling the length of the new li g ht infantry musket, as it was most i m p or t an t t o have this point decided. - He could not conclude with outan apprehension expressing that the present quarters for the .Guards in London would. prove quite insufficient, and his hope that the hon. gentleman would give them some explanation with regard to this: ' • • Mr. MUNTZ could perceive no improvement in the pre sent estimates, which were only an old dish re-hashed.• Last 'rear Mr. WhitwOrth, when examined before the committee, had stated that 5,0001.• would be sufficient for establishing an adequate manufactory of. gun-stocks. Now, in addition to the vote of 25,000/. for. the Enfield estab lishment in the estimates of 1854, and 15,000/. more in the supplementary estimates, or 40,0301. altogether, they were now asked to vote a second sum of 4 0,0001., making the enormous amount of 80,0001. in all. None of the state- , ments made by persons connected with the Ordnance had been verified by the result. The hon. gentleman had not told them why he had received a much less quantity of arms than he had calculated upon. The. Board of Ord nance was in fact a type and sample of all Government ettablishments from beginning to'end ; men were placed in all sorts of offices to do all. Bolts of duties without pos . bessiug nay real knowledge or qualifications for them. He wanted to show them the true leison why they had received .only 50,00 rifles in 1854. Tho contracts were not made till the Month of June last, but the patterns for the men to work upon were not delivered until the months of August, September, and- October, and tha materials to Work with not until Noiember, yet they wondered that the quantity they wished had-not been received. (Elear.) Had the contract been made and the patterns given out in due time, he ventured to say that the 90,000 rifles would all have been finished before now ; but such had been the blundering of Government about the order for bayonets, that half IA the guns had been prevented from being finished for want of bayonets. As it was, they would soon have a supply a2,000n-weel l if the business were attended ' to in a fair and tradesniatilike way, the present number of 1,600 might very 'speedily be doubled. !Ekoy had already -expended . a -large_ slim ..uponi,the manufactory, whence 10,000 rifles a-week might be funagiecr; yet last' Gsi 1 286 6 E'W,S PAPER 7 4 7 ( fri Pc44 4 k .• lair? Um! , was 4 Ispol..erial ti., siv4viiii t#S , -- 4 ' 4 eta, i ts. I .:,., ) moot at that place, and transport it,,re.,,, .'-noinch, , :- : . . b"Atr's must divide the house against this votc,,aS flie'felt unable ' to sanction the principle of an Outlay bf money; made , without consulting, anybody, and Without km:Wing wlietsbv!r : t'icy were right or wrong: Ho con idered the manufacture of carcass shells, as proposed now to be conducted, one of the grossest jobs ever known. In the end, the recommen dations of the committee would be found far more valuable, and far cheaper than th6 - se of any let of scheming engineers.- . -,' --, : Sir J. PA_XTON observed that Government had pur chased a very excellent site for exercising large bodies of troops at Aldershot, with two railways and a canal close to it, and they had heard that large barracks were to be is readiness this spring for an extensive encampment of troops. He had been surprised to find that nothing was done, not even a tender sent sut, before the 22d January, when tenders were issued for the erection of huts to hold 20,000 men, to be completed by the 15th March. It struck him at the time as very extraordinary, that the Ordnance should only have given six weeks for this purpose, as oa calculatin g he found that it would require the contractors to deliver from 500 to COO tons of building materials a day on the spot. On examining the specification he found that the timber to be used was to be fir from Memel, Riga, or Dantzic, and yellow Christiana deals; but if they a sk e d any wood contractor in London they would find that there were not sufficient deals in the country to erect half of them. A fortnight after the 22d another tender came out from the Ordnance-office, for foundations to be laid in concrete and brick, thus giving but a single month to lay the foundations and fix the whole buildings. (Hear.) He need not say this was almost an impossibility, and if it were done it would be the most wonderful thing that had ever been done in this country; but he did not believe a woad of it. (Hear, and a laugh.) According to the terms of another b ontr act , there was to be a regular expenditure of 10,0001. 3 month in permanent barracks, yet no preparation whstever had been made to enable the contractors to begin their work with facility. Had they issued tenders last summer f0r20,000,000 brinks to be laid down on the spot, he did not believe it would have been necessary to put up the hats they were now going to frame at so large an expense, and they would have had a large portion of the brickwork finished by this time; but nothing of this had been done, and now a large sum would have to be sacrificed in precipitate operations. With regard to the small arms manufactory at Enfield, he heldtit to be a very bad principle for either the Government or companies to manufacture a thing themselves unless they wanted it. regularly. It would be very impolitic and prejudicial to the interests of Government to have largo establishments fitted up in war times which would not be wanted in days of peace. It would, besides, have a very bad effect on the manufactories of Birmingham, for when a large demand arose they could not expect that any ex pansion in the means of supply would take place. °~;~' Lord SEYMOUR, said it had been shown in the, com mittee last year that 15s. might be saved in the manufac ture of a 31. rifle by giving up a little superfluous decora tion ; but Governmem% would neither abandon the useless ornament nor consent 'co give the enhanced price. When they wanted a speedy supply, evidently the first thing to be done was to give out the pattern, but they had not done this, and thn they comae down to complain that the supply was not delivered in time. Ho thought it singular that they should not know Ito whom the expenditure of the large sum to be voted on account of the Rnfield estab lishment was to be entrusted. They could not expect the London and Birmingham manufacturers to improve their machinery if the Government announced theirintention to erect a largo establishment at Enfield. Ho admitted that a small manufactory at Enfield would have been useful; it would have been a check upon the private traders, and would have ensured a wholesome competition as to quality. But the house was asked to vote a large sum of money for the establishment of a vast manufactory, and to entrust the expenditure of the , money to a Board of Ordnance of which they knew no thing. The vote for the Ordnance-office had been postponed, and nobody knew how the board was to be composed. Were they, as men of business, to be called upon to vote a large sum of money, to be expended by men of whoso names even they were entirely ignorant ? He was convinced that they would get their arms more rapidly if they dealt with the trade in a fair manner, which they had never yet done, as had been proved most conclusively by the speech of the hon. mem ber for Birmingham. The Board of Ordnancilliad misma naged the whole business ; they hadnotobtained what they should have got; and he had no doubt that if they had issued their contracts early in May last, and proceeded like men of business, they would have been supplied with a much larger quantity of arms than they had actually pro cured. He observed that no less a sum than 375,000/. was to be expended for barracks at Aldershot. Now he thought it was to be a sort of encampment, and that soldiers were there to be prepared for actual service ; but he was afraid the men were to be so luxuriously housed, that they would be rendered totally unfit for warfare. Did they mean to stable the horses in the same way as in cavalry barracks, where the animals were unfitted for work in the field? For military operations he doubted whether that mode of using the bonsai was a wise one. Wen he looked at the large sum of 37,5,0001., he was curious to know whether the Govern ment had asked Sir Charles Barry to build the barracks at Aldershot. Again, the house was asked to vote a sum of 60,0001. for barracks at Dover. Who was going to look after their erectioa ? No private individual would dream of com mencing to build a house at the very moment he had dis missed his clerk of works. Yet that was the very thing which the Government now proposed to do. They had get rid of the Board of Ordnance, and yet they came down and asked the house to vote 60,003. for the erection of barracks at Dover, which, lie presumed, had nothing to do with the war with Russia. Again, the Government asked a considerable vote for the defence of commercial harbours —12,0001. for Liverpool and 10,0001. for the Humber. Now that measure might itbe necessary ; it was possible that our fleets could not defend our coasts from the Russians; but he did not think it, would be wise in the house to vote so large a sum of money until they knew something of the establishment under which it was to be expended. He had heard no reason whatever for departing from the prin ciple laid down last year with regard to the establishment at Enfield, and unless the Goverunitt could give them , one, he should be disposed to-reduce - Me vote by 14 sum of 40,000/. (Hear, hear.) Mr. G. DUNDA.S was suz.pt iced at the hostility evinced by several hon. 'members to the manufactory at Enfield for making small arms by self-acting machinery, und e r th e surveillance of the Governm en t. Ho trusted the house would adopt the suggestion that had been made by the Clerk of the Ordnance, and not go to a division. Mr. L A YA RD said the house had heard in this discussion severe! pleasing instances of the neglect, mi./management, and ignorance of the Government departments. These ex posures were coming to be too frequent ; and what was very curious, they never heard of any person being punished on account of these thing'. There was one subject upon which he would like to have some explanation from the Clerk of the Ordnance—he meant the fusee& He could bear witness to the fact; that the fusees issued during the early part of the siege of Sebastopol were so disgracefully bad, that out of every ten shells thrown no more than three or four burst at all. He believed a report was made to the head of the department upon the subject, representing that gross negli gence had been shown in the construction of the sh e ll s , an d he should like to know whether that report, drawn up in the middle of last October, had been sent to this country, and whether , in consequence any steps had been taken to investigate the case, and punish the guilty partici, whoevisr they might be ? There was another question which he should also like to put to the hon. gentleman. He observed in the estimates a sum of 50,0001. for clothing, accoutre ments, and knapsacks to the foreign legion. He should like ,to know what the foreign legion was ? (Hear.) They had heard a good deal of it ; the bill for its embodiment was pressed upon them in a very hasty manner at, the end of last year, but up to the present day he did not know where this mythical legion was, of what it was composed—whe ther of Austrians, or Germans, or Spaniards, or Dutchmen —or why they were asked to vote 50,000/. to dress these men of straw. If men had been obtained, he should like to know whether they had been consulted as to their clothing and accoutrements ? When he was in the Crimea hetalked to many French officers about the English knapsacks, but he never heard one who did not point out the great superiority of the French knapsacks over the English in point of light ness and convenience. He wished to touch upon another point. There was a large sum in the estimates for the engineers, Nor be did net intend to depreciate the ability of oar en gineers, but he thOught it would be admitted that our theoretical engineering work was not creditable to this country,-and he believed he was net far wrong when he stated that up to a late period not a single map had been sent to England of the siege operations before Sebastopol. Such a state of things was not creditable to our engineers. It might have been recently improved, but it existed so late as the end of December. An hon. and gallant member had referred to the hospital at Smyrna. Now it was stated by a member of the Government on the previous occasion that this hospital was merely intended for winter and not for summer. Bat the winter was almost passed, and sum mer was rapidly approaching in, that country, and it was only .to-day lie read in the public papers that nurses and attendants were sent out to the gmyrna Hospital. Smyrna was a very unhealthy place in summer.. There was not a single English family resident in it who did not leave it during summer. Surely we had lost life enough already, and ought not to throw more away in this wanton manner. (Hear.) Ho did entreat the Government not to go on in this way any longer. The country was too excited with its losses to tolerate such conduct. (Hear.). Why, the hospital at Smyrna was built in the corner of a bog, at the lowest and worst part of the town, and in a few weeks the place would be of aicted with gastric fever, which always raged there in summer. He also desired to call the atten tion of the Government to the state- • of Balaklava. That whenharbour o w w a s ar a m hole ]w ea th su e r r ro c surrounded th 6d e b y y NO l of ty mo untains, plague Lu v n e ta a ins t and breaking out at Balaklava,!and perbapi carrying off every man there. (H ear .) H e d i d entreat th e Government to reflect upon that subject. There was still another point to which he desired to refer—he meant the Turkish contin gent. It was proposed to raise in Turkey 20,000 men, to be commanded by English officers. A.,general officer of whom we knew no thing was to be aent out to tak e th e c hi e f command, and he observed that one rneinber of the staff was a relative of the Minister of War. — lle did entreat the Government. to consider these things seriously. Major- Gelled ,' Titian might be a very good man, but certainly what they knew'or him was not sufficient to counterbalance the want of some knowledge of the country, of the Turks, and of their language. If the Government had sent out a sum of money to enable Omer Paella to support histroopa some months ago, they might. have secured the services of a good Turkish contingent; or if they were to employ a number of Turkish officers, they might, at least to some extent, effect the object in view; but he did nottbink that a Turkish levy under English officers exclusively would ever succeed. Mr. NEWDEGATE supported thopropoealfor reducing the vote by 40,0001. It had been said that the arms trade of this country could not produce an adequate supply for the Government. He denied that statement. The arms trade of England supplied not only the Eas t India a Co m pany, but the French Government, the Portuguese, Sp nigh, the Peruvian, the Russian, and , indeed, almost every the Government in the world ; b u t such was the mismanage ment of the Ordnance department that the Imperial Go verement 'a England was the only Government which our inspector as arms trade could not supply. He would t ell the house how that forved . before the comm itt ee last instructions small ar ms gave suc h viewers that they•w ere o bli ge d t o re j ec t a D l l rg good arms. I n f ac t it was f oun d th a t at y c o a a ffi r e that to w ate Itw man in England could p ro d uce arms a bl e t o s t an d o a yo e ne quantity of the o r d n ance test; and when Mr. Lovell, the 'gentleman in question, was asked whether the Government could de pend upon an annual supply - of more than 25,000 such muskets, he replied emphatically in the negative. Now, it so happened that Mr. Lovell was appointed a judge in the Great Exhibition. A number of gun-locks had been rejected by his subordinates, acting under his instructions. One of these gun-locks was sent to the Exhibition. What was the result ? Mr.' Lovell gave a first prize to the very article which his own 'subordinates had rejected in conse quence of his instructions. . -4A laugh) The traders com plained, moreover, that they were not fairly treated by the Government in other respects. It hod been well said that an order for arms without the pattern was mere waste paper, Well, what were the exact dates of the orders last yearT On the let .of-aan..the geg_d of.,9dstance entered all all 100 100 100 100 I3t 1: all lila 10 all all 14 16 13} i 22f llf k 3 21 21 3 17i 1011 93 9 38 7 27 41