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THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, APRIL 5, 1856. 0,—.--,.............weeeeeeeeeeee..................-- -.ie..... vuthorities of others—of Captain Hall, Mould only perhaps weary the house in into collision with the hon. and gallant admiral ( Napier ).., the house, but the t educed these naval auth orities, - and I I will, however, adduce testimony—a witness the most un- and others ; but Is, .-s_vill su ffi ce to show that I had more exceptionable, and one that even the hon. and gallant ad- so doing. I have pr, uin my assertions. I wrote a letter miral shall not be able to object to. I shall produce the think that they alone know if the hon. . and gallant ad evidence of Sir Baldwin Walker, who was then in the ser- I than a shadow of trot him or by Admiral Stopford be. vice of the Turkish GOvernment, holding the rank of ad- to Sir C. F. Smith to rairal. His evidence will be unimpeachable. The next wit- miral was consulted b 3 fl ees I shall bring is Sir Houston Stewart. He is command- ( fore the attack : ing. the Mediterranean fleet during the absence of Sir E. " Grosvenor-place, April 2. Lyons. I have had an opportunity of communicating with .‘ Sir, -1 question havie tg arisen in Parliament respecting 'cal to you as the British military bine, and the house shall hear the written communication . the arrangements prior to I she attack on Acre at the cal o f submitted to Sir H. Stewart and confirmed by him. I October, 1840, I have to ape shin also produte the written evidence of Captain officer in command on that ce lcasion, and to ask whether the Codringten, commanding the Talbot, who took all the I, determination to make the at tack was taken before orders to soundings, and who in every respect is a good witness It I that (effect reached you and * che admiral from home ; and mtiiy be said that this is all naval evidence,- but T will whether Sir Chas. Napier was onsulted by you and the ad not stop here. I will bring the evidence of Sir C. Smith, miral before your final decision WaS the formed. of a statement 1 who served with Admiral Stopford, and w ho Commanded " I melee this inquiry because accuracy the military part of the expedition. I will read to the made by me in Parliament has been impugned by Sir Charles hogs. my letter to Sir C. Smith and his reply. Having Napier. - "I am your faithful and obedient done this I shall appeal to the how. an d gallant admiral "J. R. G. GRAIIA3i. and the house. lam willing to believe that in a moment " Lient.-Goneral Sir C. F. Smith, -s K.C.8." April 3, 1856. of' haste the hon. and gallant memb er for Southwark has " Onslowquaree expressed himself in language too strong, and that he has Sir,—l havee the honour to acknowledge your letter of the committed an error. I may have committed many errors 2d inst., in evl rich I, as having held the command of the allied myself; but if the hon. and gallant admiral expresses his land forces in. i Syria, am appealed to for information respect regret in having written this letter—if he says he will not fug the arrant Temente prior to the attack on Acre in 1840 ; adhere to the strong language in it—l for one shall be and, as such Ii tter appears to have been written under the satisfied. I will now proceed to show to the house the sanction of aettl iority, I can have no hesitation in stating that proof of the first allegation that the naval attack on Acre on the 29th of October in that-yea and mr self tha tit was finallyiege determined re was set suggested by the hon. and g allant admiral (Nae, between Sir Rol A. Stopford y the sAc pier), butithat the first suggestion to Admiral Stopford and should be forth'w'ith undertaken, that the merit of the enter. Ste C. Smith emanated from Sir Baldwin Walkereand no prise was our's, *riffle the subsequent receipe of an order to go o ther q u a rter. I will first read this letter : against it relieve ,l us of a p ortion of the res p onsibility we were "My Lord,—l have the honour to enclose an extr act from vo luntarily on the' eve of incurri n g; that Commodore Napier the Syrian jotienaltof a gentleman employed in the Turkish was not privy to oeu • determination, neither was he a party to service, and a man of; sense. (The name of this gentleman our plans and arrane!ements for the;expedition, all mine having his been mentioned to mee 4;94 I believe heis now in London.) been in progress of e 'xcation many hours before the Vesuvius This extract contains matter netegentioned in other reports, arrived with the orde vs in question. Furthermore, I ought and states facts worth being submitted to our lordship's here to add, that on t, 'le morning after knad taken possession e - el lile ,i , of the fortress, Sir Rob ert Stopford communicated o ffi c iall y to attention.—l have the honour, cte., - "": iNSONBY:t me, as his colleague, the censure that he felt it to be his duty I will next read extracts from a Syrian journal : to pass upon the cendue sof Commodore Napier during the (Inclosure in No. 249.) operation. Extract from Journal.) " I have the honour to thee sir, your most obedient, humble se " Sunday, Sept. 27. se rvant , s 1 C. F. SISITH, Lieut.-General." " Captain Walker came en board. [Here follows an Now, sir , it will be said wley was this subject of Acre - account of his- attack on SAida, iu which Captain Walker, troducedinto a debate with leeference to the Baltic fleet in - Commodore Napier, and the Austrian archduke took a In the first place lam bound to • say that till a recent period part.] I went with Captain Walker to Sea Sir Robert —till this dispute arose betwe en the gallant officer and Stopford. . .' . . Leaving Sir Robert I accompa ni e d m y self, I p artook of the genet sll impression that not only Captain. Walker to see Izzel Pacha. We found him suffer. the success of the land operatic 'Ms, thatbi t t ed the which had taken plice to the southward, Captain Walker naval operations was mainly du• •to the activity, exertions, declared it to be his opinion that an attack on Acre would be counsel, and conduct of the bon a t e to • and im gallan tssion. member had for successfusuccessful."Southwark. That was my ng pre certainly reason for believing so f, win the hon. and gallant member's own account of the w er in Syria. In vol. 1, p. 17, of that work the hon. a nd gallant officer, on the 23th of October, Sidon having b ten taken on the 29th, states : 'Ottoman ship of war Mookaddimay-i-hire, at sea, Oct. 27, 1840, " Sir,—l have the honour to forward for your ex3ellency's fnformation a statement made by two men who were sent off to this ship by Captain Boxer, of her Britannic Majesty's ship Pique, on the evening of tho 26th inst , at the moment of our denarture from St. Jean d'Acre, by which yo u will p erceive that much discontent reigns in the garrison of that town, and how ready the Syrians are to assist the cause of his Imperial Majesty the Sultan. "I have the honour to be, Sir, your most obedient humble servant, "B. W. WALKES. " "To - his Excellency Admiral the Hon. Sir R. Stopford, G.C.8., die." "The Druses armed at Sidon about two days ago, have cut off the supply of water conveyed , to Acre by the aque duct. The fortress of St.' Jean d'Acre contains 5,000 troops, but the greater part of them are sick, and about 25 desert and die daily." The deserters from St. Jean d'Acre declare the troops to be disaffected, and that a cannonading of the fortress would be a signal for them to desert to us." Now, this is important to observe, that tie attack en Acre was made on the 4th Nov., and that the letter is dated the 27th Oct. The decision t', attack Acre was taken by Admiral Stopford and Sir C. Smith on the 29th Oct. Let the house be good enough to remember these dates. On VIE, UM. Oct. Sir Baldwin Walker writes to the Turkish admiral : " Bey).'out, Oct. 25, 1840. "I am pressing the admiral to scud no to take Tripoli ; this will finish all Lebanon. " C.-Rariza. " To the Emir." Tripoli was evacuated by the Egyptian' forces, and the magazine in the castle was blown up. " Seeing no further prospect of active operations, I turned my attention, in common with my brother ,officers, to the immediate attack on Acre, which I had thorOughly recon noitered, and felt satisfied that the ships in ave.'y short time would drive the Egyptians from the guns, if then , 'was a pos sibility of approaching within a moderate distance Of the walls. " The subject was frequently raised on board th e Princess Charlotte, and discussed ; but whether the commi ander-iu chief was restricted by orders from home, or was afraid of the lateness of the season, I am not aware, but certain 17 - much valuable time was lost. On my arrival at Beyrout, to my great astonishnsent, I found a steamer had arrived from England with orders to attack Acre. This was indeed a change for the bettor, tlAre wasno further room for indecision." _ This statement operated on the public mind, and I, with the majority of persons, partook of the impression that the real credit of the naval operations was mainly due to the hon. and gallant member. I quoted on a former evening' what I thought had a bearing on the selection of the gallant officer for the command of the Baltic fleet—that the last operation against stone walls was by ships at Acre, and I repeated the pasiage from that. very work. After giving an account of the attack on Acre, the hon. and gallant member states : " Ottoman ship of War, Mookaddimay-i-hire, Beyrout, Oct. 31, 1840.. "My Lord;—ln consequence of my representing to Admi ral the Hon. Sir Robert Stopford the good effect likely to arise from the appearance of her Majesty's flag off St. Jean d'4cre, I have the honour to inform your highncis that I left this anchorage for that town on the 2 ith inst., and arrived on the evening of that day. "On the ensuing morning I pulled iu with a flag of truce fur the purpose of delivering the enclosed summons. This, however, was not received, nor the boat permitted to land. " On the following day I stood in with this ship and fired at the fortres es ; and although I appeared near enough for the guns to have done me considerable injury, I was much surprised at their not returning our fire. This pacific dispo sition ontbe s part of the enemy, an t the information -I ob tained fruit atwo natives who carne- off to this ship from Nalffre, confirmed me in my previous opinion that much dis content prevails iu the garrison of that town. "'These particulars I fully communicated to the English admiral, and I have now the great satisfaction to inform your highness that a force, consisting of eight ships cf the line, five frigates, and four steamers, the whole having on board 3,500 Turkish troops, will leave Beyrout this day for St. Jean d'Acre. " We continue to receive daily deserters from the enemy, and the Crescent steamer, having on board 450 deserters and prisoners, will leave this evening for Constantinople. " I have the honour to be, Etc., " B. W. WALKER. " To his Highness the Capudan Pacha, dre." 'New, sir, Tatty that the documents I have read afford, if not conclusive, the strongest presumptive evidence that the decision of the General and the admiral commanding the expedition relative to the attack on Acre emanated from Sir Baldwin Walker. But it may be said this is only negative evidence that the naval attack did Rot proceed from the counsel of the hon. and gallant admiral. I will read some direct testimony—that of Sir Baldwin Walker himself. In order to state the matter correctly I will read serial im each question with its answer : •• 2. ¢. cm Acre by the fleet was not advised by Sir Charles Napier, but was undertaken en oppoettiva eu his advice and opinion, expressly given to Sir Robt. Stopford. " A.--I cannot call to mind that I ever heard Sir Charles Napier express any opinion on the subject; but Sir R. Stop ford, on several occasions when the question of attacking Acre was discussed, informedme that Sir Charles was opposed .to it. My own impression always was that Sir C. Napier was tanxious to advance into the interior at the head of the army, and conduct the laud operations. `.` 2.Q.—SirC.Napier before the attack remonstrated against taking up the position assigned to the Powerful by the ad. miral ? " A.—l was present when Sir R. Stopford pointed out to Sir C. Napier the position which the Powerful was to take tip Off the south-west angle of the fortress of Acre, and the • reply made by Sir C. Napier was, that if he anchored in that position his ship would be sunk. "3. Q.—ln making the attack Sir C. Napier did not take up the position in question according to his orders, but let go his anchor short of it in a less exposed. position, and thereby threw the whole previous arrangement into confusion? " A.—The position pointed out by Sir R. Stopford was not takeu up by Sir C. Napier. He anchored before he reached it, which the ships of his division were not prepared for, and which caused some confusion. " 4. Q.—Acre was taken by, a landing at a distance from Sir C. Napier's bombardment, and by an operation in which S he took no part/ ".A.. Acre was taken possession of before three o'clock iii the mbruing, after the bombardment, by a force landed from the Turkish flag-ship, at the sea gate on the south side ,_ Sir C.,Napier was not prescut on the occasion. 5. Q.—Sir. R. Stopford after ;the aation, expresse 1 to S:r Charles Napier his dissatisfaction with the conduct of Sir Charles ? " " A.—Sir R. StoPfOrd in my presence, on the quarterdeck 'of the Plicenix, expressed - to Sir Charles Napier that he was notsattsfied with the position taken up by the Powerful, add log that he ought to have gone to - the south-west.angle. This 'is stated by. Sir. C. Napier in his work on Syria. I very much regret the occasion that has arisen for puts Vase the above questions, but ha , ing beet' appealed to, I a.a bound to state facts, so far as I am acquainted with them. ":1 have been most anxious to be correct. I therefore wrote' to Sir Houston Stewart, who a reas with me in all essential particulars, and he has suthorised me to qnote his testimony in support. " B. W. Wastes." will next read what Capt. Codrington, who commanded the Talbot. in the attack, and who knew the vario4s - posi- Coil 3 of the ships bettor than any one, and the poeitious assigned to them. I will read the whole of his 'letter, which is dated the 26th March, 1856 : " Her Majesty's ship Algiers, Portsmouth, Marc 26, 1856. I had frequently been engaged with batteries last war, and I believe I was the only officer iu the squadron who had emu mandeda ship, in action against stone walls, and the system I followed was the one I always had been accustomed to ; it was the plan loll Owed by the leading ship at the battle of the " Dear Sir Maurice,— I will reply to your questions seri 2- tint, in the same order in which you put tliem. 1. I :do not know whether Sir C. Napier objected to the position assigned to his ship after he received his orCers from Sir R. Stopford.; but having been myself present, with other captains,; at the discussion which took place in the admiral's aftercabin, on the evening of the 2ci: of November, 1•,40, I well remember Sir Charles Napier expressing strongly his disapproval of the ar rangement of attack which was a :vocated by Capt. Boxer, Capt. Houston Stewart, I think, and others —(hear) —and which wad approved by Sir R. Stopford ; viz., that the line of-battle 'ships should be taken in first by the steamers, and' that the smaller ships should follow them, and fill , up the vacant spaces, &e. (Hear.) At this discussion —a very wares one—Sir Charles Napier , strongly maintained that the small -ships should be taken in. first, and placed under the batteries by the steamers, and that the steamers should afterwards come out again, to take in the line-of-battle ships. The admiral finally put an end to the discussion very decidedly,. in these words I will not hear any more about it, Napier; I will not have the small ships sacrificed for the large ones.' • (Hear, hear.) By his wish we all the" retired, to enable him to write out his orders for the attack of next 2. I have neVer seen the ordersO which were yeii m orn in g . for the attack ; but I was told then, and have Sir always: Nhaepairedr since that by the admiral's orders he was intended to anchor his ship much nearer t h e south-west an g le of fortress,the and en its seaward-=in elicit a position that the fi re from his ships should rake the line of guns opposed to our division, in the same way that the fire of the Carysfort, Talbot, &c., di , y'& ,O the line of guns opposed to his division. This was not d . one. (Hear, hear.) ' The admiral's' plan contemplated the commodore's running in from the south-west towards that angle, and them that he should anchor the ships of his divi sion in succession along that western or sea face of the works, • beginning with his own ship when well abreast of the point. - He varied from this plan by going round by the northward, under (it is said) an impression —which the event did not justify—that the sea breeze might fail. Having reversed his part of the admiral's plan - of attack, so far as, relates to the approach, he did not provide, by fresh orders to the ships astern of him, against, the disarrangement consequent on ugh a change. Thus, he did not himself reach within a con iderahle distance of the station assigned to him, and by his atratoritig where be did, the ships following astern of him were thrown 'out from the position they were intended to take up. ilitimately-the -Revenge weighed again, and moved on nearly to the position . originally assigned to the Power ful-. 3. si r c Napier had nothing to do with taking posses sion of Acre--(hear, hear)— or landing men for that 'purpope, so far as relates to the decisive time when the garripon were abandoning the fortress in the night just after the action. It was Sir Italdwi Walker, who, being close in shore, first be came aware of th e evaeu ati n t aving commenced, aid it was by his exertions, and his personally going to various ships, • including the Austrian squadron, that a sufficient force was obtaine i for landing a t once , and the sea-gate of the town talon possession that very night. of during the latter part of 4. On the morning of the 4th of November _iv C. Napier went on board of the i hcenix to see the admiraland it . I was noell t present myself, but I heard at the time, was w known through the squadron, that the admiral had, at that, jute view, very dec idedl y e xpressed to Sir C. Na p ier his dis approbation of the manner in which he had placed theme vi ,Mon 'du r ing the attack. Indeed, the very words that ped during that conversation were mentioned genera ly in- the squad:on at that time, and are still in my recollection. ,c I a m, dear Sir Mature, yours truly, - " H. J. CODRINGTON, Captaip, R N. " Rear Admiral Hou. Sir Maurice Berkel e y, K . C,8., Amiralty." I. said that I Would no t only lay naval antlioaties before Nile, &c." I have said that the whole question is a matter of evi dence, and that I would abstain from any adverse com inent. I hope the house, having heard the evidence will acquit me of the grave charge preferred against me that I and the - gallant member for Gloucester, who was an eye witness of the transactions, have trumped up some story with reference to Acre not only without truth, but ,with out the shadow of truth. Much more do I hope that the house will not agree with the hon. and gallant member for `'Southwark, that we have, failed in our veracity fume a motive so base and malignant as the desire to injure him. I thank the house for the patience with which they have listened to my explanation. , Sir C. NAPIER—I suppose, sir, this is the first time that an officer who had,served his country for sixty years with reputation was placed in a situation like that I am at present in. (Hear.) Most of the people concerned in the business referred to are' dead, a great many of them are absent, and I have not the same means of referring to docu ments as hon. gentleman connected with the ,Admiralty have. But. I think I have papers enough in my possession to prove that the charges brought against me are wholly without foundation. I believe the house is aware that, when it was decided to send a force to Syria to drive out the Egyptians, 5,000 men had been sent by the Turks to .4.1.8 *h. I se / sew:ten_ Sir C. Smith was sent to command these troops, but on his arrival his health be came so bad that he found himself totally unfit for opera_ tions. Sir R. Stopford wrote to me offering me the come mand, saying that he knew of no other person to conduct the operations. I landed with these 5,000 men. We had on our right 15,000 of the enemy at Beyrout, 10,00 d in our front, and 5,000 on our left. Sir R. Stopford wrote that if 1 'found a large force coming down upon me I was to come away. Notwithstanding the large force opposed to us, we made a strong fortified camp for the protection of the people of the country. At various times reports were current that the enemy was approaching, and I am not surprised that Sir R. Stopford felt extremely , alarmed, and issued contradictory orders. After remaining some time I set to work and explored the whole country, and soon became aware that it would be impossible to retain .5,00) men there during the winter, and that the inhabi tants would not come down unless in the presence of a stronger force. The first stop was to get possession of Bey rout, but that step Sir It. Stopford always avoided. No consideratiOn could induce him to take it. I found it im possible to persuade Lim to do it. I then proposee another plan. Stillman Paella, was sent to reconnoitre our position. I got permission to attack him, which I did, and I beat him, taking froM 300 to 400 prisoners. The prisoners were brought to Beyrout, but even that did not give Sir R. Stop ford sufficient confidence in me. in September he wrote to inform me that Salle:ran Yachts intended to attack me ; that he was anxious I should not remain longer ; and that he recommended e me to re-embark. I found if impossible to do that, for had I done so the whole of the mountaineers would hi.ve been sacrificed to the fury of Ibrahim Pacha. I therefore decided not to embark, and.persaaded the Ad miral to allow me to remain. Shortly afterwards I pro posed to Sir R. Stopford to attack the strong town- of Sidon, and he consented, but not without great difficulty. Even after I started to take a position off Sidon I receivtd orders from Sir It. Stopford that I was only to land , arms for the natives. I persevered, and went to Sidon ; and with' the assistance of the gallant member for Gloucester, who commanded the Thunderer, succeeded in broad day light in taking the place. That gaVe U 8 a position iu Syria whitih we bad never bad before. Bat even then our posi tion was not secure, for we had not sufficient forces to dis lodge the Egyptians. We obtained permission from Sir It Stopford to march against Beyrout to force them out of it. We marched, and to our astonishment next morning found Ibrahim Pacha with an army of 3,000 or 4,000 men en camped in a very strong position, it being almost inacces sible. It was thought necessary to try our strength with Ibrahim; because if he succeeded in preventing the moun taineers coming down the whole war would have been at an end. I sent orders to Omer Paella , to go round to the rear of Ibrahim with the Emir, while I took him in front. . Things went on well. At twelve o'ciock it was re ported to me, by spies, that Oruer Pacha was passing round to the left of Ibrahim, and I sent. another battalion to the right.' We attacked in front and rear at the same time, and I am happy to say we defeated Ibrahim and took7oo to 300 prisoners. We stormed his strorg i 03iti011 on the heights, and totally destroyed the -whole of his stores and provisions. This enabled us to take possession of the Le batten district, and to secure its people from danger: It was, perhaps, something new for a naval officer to take the command of troops on shore, but the experience I had had in Spain and Portugal enable Imeto do so. Iwa4 ef opi nion at the time that if Sir R. Stopford had ordered the marines and 2000 of the men I sent him to follow Ibrahim, the war ie Syr:a would have been ended. (Hear.) Sir It. Steipford did not thiuk"fit todo that, but contented himself with taking possession of Beyrout. It is quite true there were two courses—one the taking of Acre, and the other the following up of Ibrahim. I ,was at first for following up and totally destroying the army of Ibrahim, but I was overruled altogether. Sir C. Smith never moved for - ward, and remained so long at Beyrout that the Govern ment recalled him from his command. I come to Acre.. Every officer in the fleet hail been constantly pressing Sir lt. Stopford to attack Acre. After the battle I had fought and won against Ibrahim on the 10th October, what reason was there, except the delay of Sir R. Stopford, that Aare was not taken till the 2d Nov.? We lay there totally inac 'tire. The fleet and the troops remained idle at Beyrout, nno no enterprise of any description was undertaken. I went, by the orders of Sir R. Stopford, to deliver the fir, man to. the new Prince of Lebanon. From the heights I noticed alt the English squadron, except the Powerful, under weigh for Acre. Sir R. Stopford- and, I were not on. good terms at the time. I had been obliged to push him so strongly to und ertake someth i ng — so b a d his own captain hat he got pettish with uI. They l ea rned for the first time that Sir R. esopord had decided not to attack Acre - before orders arri ved from England to do so. That was not known to any o ffi cer of uattack Acre, tinging Sir R. Stopfo r d to and we all thought that his squadron. I re memb er T w h o e u would admiral l d w e to do nt in th a s o p , o h: e t r t f li tt e l r n w eX a t s ni no er t morning we e order took a look at Acre, and. then reeturned to Beyrout; . If, then,- Sir It. Stopford intended to attack Acre, why had he delayed till that season of the year when, it ?wee most difficult to do so ? At last we 'all proceeded to attack Acre ; aad anchored there in the night. lam told I had no thi ng to do with persuading Sir R. Stopford to take Acre. I have a few documents here which, I think, will show that I had :---" ' 4 - ••'' NAPIER TO SIR VV. raRKER.— Oct. 15, 1810. "Tripoli ought to bo taken immediately, which should be ' followed up be an attack on - Acre, bstkof which would fall." NAPIER TO LORD MINTO—Oct. 22, 1840. ,• I think Acre ought to be attacked, but I fear there Is no idea of it." - NAPIER TO COLONEL HODGES--Oct. 31, 1840. "After 20 days' inactivity, it is :at last: decided te go to Acre, with 3 , 500 men, 'Which - I hope will not be changed; but ckanges are so comrnoa here that I feel certain of nothing till it is actually in motion.' • - LORI/ PONSONET TO NAPIER—NOV. 9, 1840. = " I write only to congratulate you upon your having spi rited up our chief to attack St. Jean, for. I feel no doubt you did it • - • -LORD PALMBRSTON TO -NAPIRR--NOV. 14, 1840. " I wish you had been allowed to attack Acre. I have no doubt that you could have taken it. Perhaps our instructions upon that subject may have arrived in time to allow of an at tack being made." SIR W. PARKER T() NAPIER— Dec. 3, 1840. _ . " Your opinion on the result of an early and vigorous at tack has been verified." SIR C. ADAM TO NAPIER,. " The board have written to Sir R. Stopford their admira tion of your intrepid and useful services, and to hoist a red pennant." SIR C. ADAM TO NAPIER. " I am most happy to express to you the pleasure I feel at your receiving the Commandership of the Bath." MOTTO TO NAPIER—Oct. 7, 1810• " I congratulate you on thm success of your operations on the coast of Syria, in which your zeal, judgment, and ability hare been conspicuous." Silt R. STOPFORD TO NAPIER—Noy. 6, 1840. " I do not apprehend that a difference of opinion implies a censure upon either party, as I cannot allow infallibility of anybody. That I differed in opinion from you is true, but that thereby a censure was intended is without foundation.' No man knows better than the noble lord at the head of the Government the hand I had in the affairs of Syria, and I trust the noble lord will state his opinion as to the share I had in the business. The following letter I received from Sir W. Parker :-- " Sherstone Lodge, Dec. 3,1.840. " My dear Napier,—Most heartily do I Congratilate you and your brave companions in arms on the reduction of St. Jean d'Acre. Your opinions on the result of au early and vigo rous attack have been verified to the letter, and accomplished in a manner most triumphant for our profession and the ge neral interests of Europe. I need not add that I have been delighted that a becoming acknowledgment of your own ener getic and successful services has been manifested by the Go vernment in your advancement to the first class broad pen dant and. the Commandership of the Bath, which has been nobly won, and, I trust, will be long worn by you in health and every possible enjoyment. I trust, also, that promotion and rewards to the officers of the squadron generally will be liberally bestowed. " Believe me, my dear commodore, " Always faithfully yours, " W. PARKER, Rear-Admi_raL " Commodore Napier, *Ste." I shall be able to show that Sir R. Stopford did not disap prove of my conduct. When the fleet was before Acre, I went on board Sir R. Stopford's ship ; Capt. Boxer and others were there also. At the time there was a coldness between Sir R. Stopford and myself,originating in my con stantly urging him to do what he did not deem proper to be done. In one of his letters Sir R. Stopford strongly ad vised me po the to return as soon as possible, after armin g pulation about Sidon. I hold in mY hand an importan paper which showed how unfit Sir B. Stopford was for the command he held. The hon. and gallant member read the document which appeared to be an order to him to send the marines on board the ships, and also to embark the Turkish troops if he thought they could not defend themselves. I was then directed to leave the whole , of the inhabitants of the Lebanon to their fate. The house might easily believe that I opposed that to the utmost of my power. On arriving at Acre the officers all assembled on board Sir R. Stopferd's ship. Capt. Boxer had the ear of the admiral, and a great deal of jealousy existed among the officers. The admiral told me he had talked the business over with Capt. Boxer; that he would shift his flag to a steamer ; that the three of er steamers would tow- three ships ; and, after placing them against the batteries, would return and tow in three more. Such a scheme appeared so inconsistent with the safety of the fleet, and so unlikely to be successful, that I pointed out the objections to it. Capt. Boxer replied, " We nave EeAled the whole questionwith Admiral Stopford, an , l, commodore, it is of no use for you to interfere." I rumi nated on the matter that night, and went en board Sir R. Stopford's ship in the morning, and said that I conceived it to be my duty, as his second in command, to tell him that if three steamers were sent to tow three ships against such fortifications as those of Acre they would fail. I ask you too look at the Radon and say whether the officer in command had not been blamed for attacking with an in ferior force. What would have been the use of leaving six or seven sail idle, and attempting to do the work with three ships, with other three ships to take their place ? To prove that I must have been tight, Sir R. Stopford at last adopted my plan, and gave up thi attack by vessels towed in bythe steamers. Capt. Henderson was then on board; but he and many others to whom I might have appealad are now no more, and I am left to defend myself .with the little evidence I have been able to procure, without the benefit of those official resources which the hon. and gal iant admiral has. I told Capt. Henderson to inform Sir R. S topford of the fact, that towing in ships and returning for Others would take the steamers two hems. At that time touring was not so quickly done as it now is. After it was decided that towing should not take place, it became a quee. - ion how the ships were to go in. The wind at the time was from the southward. The squadron was ordered to get sander weigh, which they did in a helter-skelter sort of a wanner. I do not cast any reflection on the office's, for the helter-skelter was caused by the desire to get into ac tion. l'be weather fortunately became calm. No plan or system had been laid down. i remember Capt. Fanshawe urging mg to get on as fast as possible. My reply was, " Acre ought either to be attacked properly, or not at all. It is not a place to be trifled with, and ought tobeattacked in the way I proposed." The wind then changed to the northward. It was appointed for me to anchor on the south-west angle of Acre. Capt. Fanshawe was to pass and anchor ahead of me. Ido not know what orders were given to the other officers. The rule in anchoring in successionwas for one chip to drop anchor, and for the next ship astern to pass outside and anchor ahead. When the wind changed to the northward it was necessary to decideimmediately as to what was to be done., I immediately decided not to at tempt to go southward and anchor on the north-west, be cause the ship could not well have got to her anchoring station between the south and north-west angle of Acre. The admiral sent to me to know what I was doing. I re ported I was going northward. I desired the master to pass a small battery of four guns, and anchor me alongside of the strongest part of the walls of Acre, and not against the weakest part, as stated by the right hon. baronet. Along the curtain I believe there was a battery of 10 guns. After I let go my anchor the whole order was reversed. If the mode of anchoring as adopted by Sir S. Hood and Sir J. Saumarez was good against ships, it was equally good against stone walls and batteries. I never was more astonisueu ch.o wawa I the Princess Charlotte let go her anchor astern of me, and the Thunderer and /3.llcw plion du the same. There was no time for me to make a signal, for the ships would have ben at anchor before the signal. could have been hoisted. It was the duty of the com •mander-in-chief, who. was outside in a steamer, to make the signal. I believe he made a signal for the Thunderer to get under weigh. Nelson's maxim was; "No ship can do wrong in anchoring herself alongside the enemy." I anchored alongside the strongest pert of the wall, and not half way, as the right hon. hart. insinuated. I took up my position to the north, which was the proper position to occupy, while the other divisions of the fleet went to the ' southward, and Capt. Baldwin Walker anchored his vessel outside of the rest. I have entered into these details in or der to vindicate my character, which has been so unjustly as persed by the right hon. gentleman the late First Lord of the Admiralty ; and perhaps the house would permit me, for the same purpose, to read a letter which I hold in my hand, hewing date the 2d of April, and which was written by Capt. Hastings, a well-known and distinguished naval officer. It is as follows : " United Service Club, April 2, 1856. " My doar Sir Charles,—Sinee my conversation with you last evening, I have endeavoured to bring to my recollection some of the circumstances of the attack on the. Fort of Acre on the 4th November, 1840. " the division under your orders attacked the western face, and that in which was the Edinburgh, the southern one. At the moment of weighing anchor the wind veered to the northward, and necessitated a change in the mode of attack. " Instead of running and anchoring under the batteries - from the south, you were obliged to perform the operation from the north. This caused some little misunderstanding ; the ships anchored astern of you, instead of in line ahe:d. I remember also that the southern division was thrown into -momentary confusion by Sir Robert Stopford hoisting the signal to follow the Powerful. It - is probable, in this case, that the signal officer omitted to hoist the divisional flag. I mention this .to show how easily mistakes may arise, and that they should not always be attributed co the commander in -chief, or to the commander of a division. , " It is difficult to recollect all the facts of a feat of war which tcok place 16 years ago ; yet rn4in facts are engraven on the 'memory, not to be effaced. Your exertions during that short campaign were patent to all, and greatly contri buted to the rapid success which was obtained—a success of the greatest moment,- when the public feeling in France at ' that moment is taken into consideration. "Nor is this my opinion only, but that of the majority of the fleet with you, and under the orders of Sir Robert Stop ford. " As a proof of this assertion, let me call to your remem brance what took place on your return from Alexandria to Marmorica. As you passed into the bay to' take up your anchorage, each ship—at least, a large •majority of the ships —spontaneously cheered you, and with a heartiness not often ' exhibited even by seamen. " Believe me, very truly yours, F. D. HASTINGS, Captain. " Sir Charles Napier, 1C.C.8." Do. you think the seamen of the fleet would have, upon a dark and rainy night, thus come on board their ships to cheer me if they thought I was open to such charges as those which the right hon. baronet has advanced ? I have hare another letter, which I have received from the master of the vessel which I had.the honour to command at Acre, and to which perhaps the house will also have the kindness to listen. The writer says : " Deptford, March 31, 1856. "My dear Sir Charlps,—ln reply to your note of the 25th instant, requesting me to state all I remember about ' Acre,' I beg to state that on the evening previous to the attack, when you came from the flag ship, you told me that the plan arranged for the next day by the commander-in chief was Oa', three steamers ware to tow in Powerful, Princess Charlotte; and Bellerophon ; the same three steamers were then to go back ann bring in three more. I remarked the chances would be in favour of our being sunk before the second three could be brought in. You then sent for the late Capt. Henderson, who, in reply to a question from you, said that not less than two hours should be reck oned upon for getting the second three ships into action. Youtheu went to the flag-ship, and I went sounding and buoy ing for the remainder of the night. In the morning you told me that the plan of attack had been altered ; that Powerful was to lead and anchor off the first bastion, the other ships to pats us, and anchor in succession, each covering the other, similar to Lord Nelson's attack at the battle of the Nile. This is certainly as I understood it ; whether we went in by the north or the With channel, the plan was to be the same. When we came abreast of the first bastion, I asked you if we were to anchor there; and you said no, that there did not ap pear vins'enough in it to make it of importance. Yon di rected me to pass to the next guns, and anchor as close as the depth of the water would permit. This was dome, and I was never more surprised in my life than I was to see the Princess Charlotte anchor astern instead of passing us. I suggested to you to make the signal for Revenge to come in and anchor a head of us. You objected to this, saying that you could not make signals with Commanders in-Chiefs ship so close to you, with his flag flying, who must see the necessity of it as w:11 as yourself. Ultimately this signal was made, and Capt. Craw ford conveyed Your wishes to Capt. Waldegrave as to the position he should take up. • " I forgot to say that, on the morning of the attack, the master of the flag-ship and myself were sent to the Vesuvius to sound, and try the north channel, the wind at that time showing every indication of coming from the northward. After we came' back we went to th e flag-ship, and made our report of there being a good channel with a leading wind. "This is all I remember of what occurred. Some things I uiay have forgotteia, but what I have stated is to the best of my recollection.—l remain, dear Sir Charles, yours very faithfully " E. J. PEARS.' I have also a letter from the commander of my ship, to which I should wish to call the attention of the house. The letter is as follovis : " Royal Hospital, Greenwich, April 3, 1856. "My (lear Sir Charles,—ln answer to your questions rela tive to A cra, so long a time has elapsed that I can only do so , to the best of my xecollection. 1 " I have always been under the firm conviction that you were most zealously anxious for the attack on Acre. The shift of wind which forced your division to attack from the north, instead of the original plan of battle from the south, reversed the - order of attack, which may have led to some misconstruction of orders by the ships astern ; but I have not the slightest hesitation in stating that it was your firm con viction that the ships of your division would have anchored ia succession ahead of the Powerful. By this mode of attack the anchored ships would protect the advancing ships, which in my humble opinion is a subject of vital importance to the protection of ships and their crews. " You question—whether I have read what has been said in Parliament within these last few days on the subject of the battle of Acre ? My answer is, I have been so fully employed I have not read a newspaper for some days, and I am very glad I have not, as it gives me the opportunity of answering your questions free of bias. " In the hope that you are better to-day, " Believe me, my dear Sir Charles, yours faithfully, " P. LIANDET." I commanded a ship daring the greater part of the last war, and I believe I took a greater number of batteries than any other officer, except, perhaps, Admiral Coiling wood and one or two other . I took an island upon the coast of Naplt.s with two ships, and without the loss of a single man. The right hon. baronet, the late First Lord of the Admiralty, may say, " But why did you not perform similar achieve ments in the Baltic ?" lly answer to him is, that there is a widedifference between doing that which, though difficult, is feasible, and that which it is absolutely impossible to accomplish. (Hear.) I must now obierve that I wrote to Sir B. Walker, expressing a wish that he should furnish me with his opinion with reference t) the mode in which I had acted at Acre, and to that request I received the following reply : " Admiralty, April 3, 1856. "My dear Sir Charles,—l am placed in a very painful position in having to answer questions put to me by friends, who have made statements in the House of Commons which are at variance ; but, however disagreeable, I am bound to reply to them to the best of my recollection. With respect to that part of your letter in which you say, ' You must surely remember we were all persuading and urging him (Sir R. Stopford) to go to Acre repeatedly,' I cannot call to mind any conversation I had with him on the subject ; but Sir R. Stopford told me, on mere occasions than one, that you were opposed to an attack on Acre. As far as my recollection serves me, my impression was, and is, that you were anxious to advance into the interior at the head of the army, and con duct the land operations; and I am bound to state that, at the commencement, we were all greatly indebted to you, as the success on shore was owing to your great exertions. With reference to that part of your letter in which you state that Sir Robert informed you that he intended to remove his force from the coast before the bad weather set in, I can only say that he made the same communication to me, on which occasion I asked him to supply us with anchors and cables, which he consented to do, for I felt that we could not aban don the mountaineers who had joined the Sultan's cause, and had been armed. You were strongly opposed to the ships being towed into action at Acre by the four steamers, :.nd I think you were right, for only four could go in at the same time, and those, of course, would have had to bear the brunt of the action before the others could have got in; but not having anchored where the admiral wished, you ought, I think, to have made the signal fa. the ships astern to plss on.—Believe me yours very faithfully, " B. W. Wetan. "Vice-Admiral Sir C. Napier, K.C.8., dm. " I am very sorry to hear that you have been so unwell. " B. W. W." Now, is it to be said that because I counselled a particular line of action before the decision to attack Acre had been arrived at, that when that decision had been pronounced I hesitated for a moment to act upon it ? (Hear, hear.) The fact is, I was then as much inclined to make the attack as any one could be. There is another accusation brought against me—and Heaven knows that was needless, because the charges preferred against me are sufficiently numerous already—to the effect that I was not at Acre when it was evacuated. It is true I was not there at the time, because it was my duty to be at the north-east angle, and I knew nothing whatever about the evacuation until Sir B. Walker, who, from his position, had become acquainted with the fact, had taken possession of the town. Besides I do not think that there would have been any very great merit in being the first to take possession of a place which had already surrendered. I shall now proceed to inform the house what took place between Admiral Stopford and myself after the capture of Acre had been effected. Sub sequently to that event I went on board the steamer in which Admiral Stopford had hoisted his flag, and so per fectly conscious was I that I had done my duty, and had placed my ship in the proper place, that I at once observed to him that I hoped he was satisfied with the position I had taken up. He answered gruffly, " No, I was not, you ought to have gone to the south-west." I felt myself so aggrieve I by this reply of the admiral that shortly after I let his ship I wrote to him, begging that he would appoint a court-martial to investigate my conduct, but to that re quest he refusal to accede, at the same time apologising for the expression which he had used in my regard. That apology I did not think was couched in terms which ought to induce me to accept it, and the consequence was I refused to look upon 4 t as satisfactory. Captain Stewart and some other captains afterwards came to beg and en treat that I would not, by insisting upon having a court martial, be the cause of serious dissension in the fleet, and tkat I would be satisfied with the apology which Admiral Stopford was prepared to make. My reply was, that I would accept no other than an apology which I considered proper under all the circumstances of the case. Admiral Stopford did afterwards make that apology, and it was to the following effect : "My dear Sir,—l do not apprehend that a difference of opinion implies acensnre upon either party, as I cannot allow infallibility to anybody. That I differed iu opinion with you is true, but that thereby a censure was intended is without foundation.—Believe me, dear sir, yours truly, " Commodore Napier, C. 8." " ROBERT STOPFORD. (Cheers.) Now why, after all I have stated to the house, are accusations brought against me such as those which the right hen. baronet the member for Carlisle has pre ferred. Admiral Stopford might have been wrong. I say that his plan of towing up the ships was wrong ; and the question is one which I should confidently leave it to any committee of naval officers to decide. Why, I would also ask, if the right hon. gentleman the Naval First Lord of the Admiralty deemed that my conduct at Acre was open to censure, did he advise his colleagues to send me out in command of the Baltic fleet —a fleet of vast magnitude, and destined for a dangerous and an arduous service ? Yet the right hon. gentleman did recommend his colleagues to give me the command of that fleet. Nay, more, he was himself anxious to go out as my second in command. I have it in his own waiting. (Hoar.) Is it not somewhat hard, then, sir, that an officer who has had testimony such as I have adduced borne to his professional character should be so foully aspersed ? (Hear.) But in addition to the documents which I Sieve read to the house, I have a letter from Sir Alexander Cochrane, complimenting me upon the services which I rendered at Martinique. When I was engaged in the Portuguese service, too, and where, I may say, it was of vast importance to settle the question between Don Miguel and Donna Maria by a single coup, I, with three frigates, ran on board and took a considerable fleet in about ten minutes. (Hear, hear.) I have letters from the right hon. gentleman the Naval First Lerd of the Admiralty giving me the highest praise, and stating that he would stick to me to the last, and yet the right hon. gentleman has dared to state that I was not fit to command the Baltic fleet, and that I lost all nerve while in that position. It I did lose all nerve, as the right hon. gentleman has asserted, the treatment which I experienced at the hands of him and his colleagues was the cause. (Hear.) My susceptibility is great. I have long been accustomed to praise. I therefore find it difficult to support censure. (Hear.) I wish the right hon. gentleman had been sent out in command of the second expedition to the Baltic. He was the officer who signed the letter ordering me to attack Sweaborg, and he did so knowing, as must have been the case, that at that season of the yeare—the month of October—it would be per fectly impossible to carry the order into effect. When I was relieved from the command of the fleet—and I may say that under no circumstances would I again have served under a Board of Admiralty by which I was treated as the right hon. baronet and his colleagues treated me—a fleet much superior to that which I had under my control was sent out. It was entrusted to the direction of Admiral Dundas, a member of that very board which had found fault with me for not taking Sweaborg. Has he succeeded in accomplishing that which I was censured for not having achieved? But it is unnecessary to enter further into this matter. I have explained my case to the house, and to the country I leave. it to say whether I am justly open to the accusations which have been heaped upon me. Admiral BERKELEY said that if the hon. and gallant admiral who had just spoken Tied not so pointedly alluded to him, he should have felt it to be unnecessary to address a single observation to the house. He believed that hon. members must allow that the evidence which had that evening been adduced by the right hon. gentleman the member for Carlisle, in support of the statement which upon a previous occasion he had made with respect to the capture of Acre, was perfectly conclusive. The hon. and gallant gentleman who had just sat down had appealed to the house as to the injustice which had been done by the accusations which had been brought against him; but he (Admiral Berkeley) should also ask the house whether it was fair that he should have been obliged for the last ten days or a fortnight to labour under the imputations which went so far, almost, as to say that the truth was not in him? The hon. and gallant admiral seemed extremely touchy whenever his own character was concerned, and he ought to consider 'that others, as well as he, had a reputation to maintain. The hon. and gallant admiral had asked why he (Admiral Berkeley), being aware of his conduct at Acre, had recommended his colleagues to send him out in corn mend of the Bahia fleet ? Now, in reply to that question, he might state that he should never have mentioned the subject of Acre at all were it not for the abuse which the hon. and gallant admiral had thought proper to lavish upon him and the board of which he had the honour to be a member. In a speech which the gallant cflicer had made to his constituents he had been pleased to recapitulate all the distinguished services which he had rendered to thecountry anti had endeavoured to show how great had been the in gratitude with which he had been treated by him (Admi ral Berkeley), as well as his right hon. friend the member for Carlisle. In the speech in question the hon. and gallant officer had made use of these words :—" I was the person who struck the final blow which put an end to the campaign in Syria." Now, the hon. and gallant officer must be aware that he (Admiral Berkeley) bad denied a similar statement made in a pamphlet which was attributed to the hon. and gallant officer, and which statement had, upon his (Admi ral Berkeley's) suggestion, been corrected. The gallant admiral then had taunted him, holding the opinion which he did upon the subject, with having sanctioned his ap pointment to the command of the Baltic fleet. He himself had been an honest and fair candidate for that command, and had be taken advantage of his position as Senior Naval Lord to induce his right bon. friend the late First Lord of the Admiralty not to appoint the gallant admiral to it, he felt that he should have been acting a part at once ills honourable and unmanly. More than that, although he would maintain all he had said • with regard to Acre, still he maintained that it was an error in judgment ; and because a man committed an error in judgment in one action that was not to do away with the high character he had obtained in the service. (Hear.) He would not follow the hon. and gallant admiral in what he had said about Sir Robert Stopford, the captains rf the fleet, the attack upon Acre, and all that had passed. Those things had been discussed over and over again, and once teo often. The hon. and gallant admiral said that he could pro lute letters from him (Admiral Berkeley) praising anal lauding a tho whole of his conduct in the Baltic. He admitted it : freely. (Hear.) He admitted that knowing his previous character, knowing his energy in former actions, he had put lull and complete confidence in him, and he had ex ' pressed that in hit letters. It was not until Sir Charles's return from the Baltic, when he heard what was stated by captains in the fleet, thathe could wholly and solely change his opinion. When-he did change that opinion it became his duty not to recommend that the hoe. and gallant officer should be re-appointed to his flag; but he would take upon himself to say that there never was a Board of A ItnirAlty that took more pains to soften the hlinuling down of that flag than was taken by the board to which he balonged. The hon. and gallant admiral was not only thanked for his service 4, but ha was thanked precisely in the same words that Lord Howe was thanked for his vie- tory of the Ist of June ; and yet be complained that he was not thanked sufficiently. Had he kept quiet, his cha racter would not have been damaged so much as it had been by his divulging private letters, and compelling him (Admiral Berkeley) in his official capacity to speak that Which he would much rather have left unsaid. Mr. LINDSAY had listened with much attention to the debate, and had been much grieved by the right hon. baronet going back for 16 years, in order to attempt to rob the gallant admiral of that which was dear, and must ever be dear to him. He had attacked him for his want of moral courage. Why, the commonest sailor that trod a deck did not want moral courage. (Hear.) But the hon. and gal lant admiral had given a most triumphant answer to the char.es brought against him that evening. He had made a very good finish of his case ; and it was w to be hoped they should hear no more of it in that house. (sear.) If the statements of Sir. J. Graham were correct, was it not ex traordinary that immediately after the siege of Acre Sir C. Napier should have received the thanks of,that house, and should have been decorated by his Sovereign with various honours ? Another point had been sufficiently an swered. If Sir J. Graham, holding a very responsible position, which he held at a most critical moment, knew (and he ought to have known), or supposed, or had reason to suppose, that the charges he now made against Sir C. Napier were correct, why did he appoint him to the high and responsible position of the command of the Baltic Fleet ? ([rear.) Sir James said he did not know of them then. But he ought to have known of theel ;it was his duty to have known of them before ha appointed the gal. laut adudtal to a command where the honour of England was at stake, and a great number of lives were placed in his hands. If he had taken the same pains as he had be . _ . stowed within a short time back in getting up these charges —a matter of far less importance to the country than the appointment to the command of the Baltic fleet— ho must have known all that he knew now. Had he not with him at the Board Admiral Houston Stewart and Sir Baldwin Valker, whom he now brought forward as witnesses against Sir C. Stapler, at the very time when he appointed Sir Charles to the command of the Baltic fleet ? If he did not make full inquiry, not only as to the 'courage, but the abilities of the gillant, admiral, he had neglected his duty. Mr. MALIN'S having given his best attention t.) the statements on both sides, was of opinion that the gallant admiral had proved that there was not a shadow of founda tion for the charges made against him on the subject, and had showed th 6 impropriety of the conduct of those who had introduced this subject to the attention of the house. He thought the conduct of the late First . Lord of the Ad .. . miralty was most blameable in this respect—that, after appointing the gallant admiral to the command of the Baltic fleet, and having prided himself upon the appoint. meat, ho should, now that a difference had taken place be tween them, have gone back sixteen years, raked up by gone transactions, and endeavoured to show that the man whom he had himself entrusted with the Baltic fleet had behaved in a manner deserving of the severest censure. at the taking of Acre ; for, if the charges of the hon. baronet were subttantiated, they amounted to an imputation of cowardice. No man's reputation was safe if it was to be liable to attacks made under such circumstances and at such a distance of time. The course which had been tak,n was one calculated to inflict serious injury upon the public ser vice, and he hoped that these angry discussions might cease, and that the three gentlemen who were now at va f iance would shike hands and forget their past differences. Mr. ROEBUCK was pained to think that there should have been any cl tference between two persons who were so well worthy of the consideration of the house. When he found the right hot'. baronet coming forward with his practised abi lity to make charges against the gallant admiral, he felt that the gallant admiral would be at a loss. But he must confess that when the gallant admiral sat down ho felt that the practised disputant had been foiled. He saw the prac- tired rhetorician had been at fault, and that the plain and unvarnished, and unpractised statement of the gallant admiral had completely triumphed. The hon. baronet had ch aged the gallant admiral with want of judgment, and some thing like want of courage on the part of the gallant admiral at Acre. Now, he would put it to the house whether those chirges did not amount to this, that the gallant admiral did not like the position assigned to him at Acre—that he took means to get out of it, and that in doing so he threw the fleet into confusion. Now he thought that the gallant admi ral had shown that he was prevented from taking up the posi tion assigned to him in consequence of the state of the wind. Not being able to take up that pos tion, he went on, passed a battery not strong enough to engage him, and cast anchor op posite another and stronger one. The real fault lay w.th the gallant admiral the member for Gloucester, who did not take his ship ahead of the gallant admiral the member for South wark, but cast anchor too soon. These were miserable things for the House of Comaious to be occupied with, and he put it to the right Lou. baronet that it would be better i.o let these controversies cease. lie certainly admitted that he had himself expected more from the campaign in the Baltic, but he attributed this to his own ignorance. He was quite ready to admit that a man who had passed a long life in the service of his country was more likely to know what it was possible to effect than was he (Mr. Roebuck). Mr. COWPER contended that Sir C. Napier had been throughout the assailant in these controversies ; that it was he who had set the example of attacking Sir J. Graham and Admiral Berkeley ; and that they were amply justified in defending themselves in the manner they had done. The gallant admiral the member for Southwark neither satisfied the expectations of the Admiralty who sent him out nor of the country, nor of his own officers ; and yet no public cen sure was cast upon the gallant admiral, he was thanked on hauling down his flags, and it was entirely duo to his own indiscretion that these painful discussions had arisen, (Hear, hear ) He thought that his right honourable friend the member for Carlisle was amply justified in the course he had that night taken by the line adopted by the gallant admiral the member for Southwark, and by the charges which he had chosen to cast upon him and the gal lant admiral the ihember for G.oucester. Admiral WALCOTT referred to the reply of the hon. baro net the member for arlisle, and the gallant admiral the mem ber for Gloucester, to sir C. Napier's speech on a former evening, and censured their dangerous tone. The hon, baro net then referred to certain letters in which the gallant admi ral had expressed an opinion that officers abo e 60 years of age were not fitted for high command. Now, not only was the case which the hon. baronet had made of these letters in cousisteut with the fact that the hon. baronet; knowing his age, had appointed him to the command of the Baltic fleet, but it was also inconsistent with the praise which he had himself given to the gallant admiral hi that house, and with the offer which the gallant admiral the member for Gloucester had made to servo as second in command to Sir C. Napier. He believed that the Baltic fleet of 1834 was not furnished with appliances adequate to meet the expectations which the ceuutry had formed of their exploits. He thought that they did as much as the country had a right to expeet from them. At the same time, he thought that Sir C Napier had brought much that had taken place upon himself byhis conduct at the Reform Club diner, which aroused expectations that could not be realsed. However, Sir C. Napier returned from the Baltic, but was not again sent out, in which he (Admiral Wal cott) thought the Admiralty did right, because the gallant ad-. miral' s manner of addressing the Admiralty was not such as it ought to be. The lion. and gallant admiral (Walcott) then censured the conduct of Sir C. Napier since his return, cad for his speech at the ld,nsion-house dinner. Ho condemned Sir C. Napier for what he did at Acre, and his apology for it, and said when ho anchored he should have hoisted the signal, " pass onwards." The hon and gallant admiral said he could not do it because the commander-in-chief was there, but he (Admiral Walcott) would have disobeyed any order, if his country's honour had been at stake, even if he had been broke the next morning. He would not have cared for a hundred commanders-in-chief on such an occasion. (Cheers ) Reverting to Sir C. Napier's conduct towards the Admiralty, he again condemned it, and said that it was not right or the Admiralty to stand in au inferior position, and that, if Sir C. Napier felt aggrieve 1, he should lave demanded a court martial on his conduct. lie blamed the Admiralty for giv ng Sir C. Napier a second vote of thanks, and said that he con sidered Sir J. Graham and Admiral Berkeley were much to blame iu the matter, and that it was to be regretted that such speeches as those hon. members had made should have been addressed to the house. The subject then dropped, and the house wont into com mittee of supply. The following votes were agreed to :- 16,7831 for Government inspectors of prisons. • 415,960/. for Government p; icons awl convict prisoners. 161,595/. for the maintenance of prisoners; criminal luna tics, it.c. 25,485/. for the transportation of convicts. 236,605/. for convict establishments in the colonies. ED UCAT On the vote for education, Mr. WILSON said that, instead of asking for a vote of 450,0001. for education,.he proposed to ask lea; for 300,0001. au account, leaving 150,0001. to stand over until after the decision of the house on the resolutions of the noble lord the member for the City of London on education. Mr. MOWBRAY called attention to the Louse and pre mises known as Kiteller Hall ; he saw that,' by the estimates of last year, 4,800/. were voted for it, but now, in conse quence of that institution being a failure, he wished to know what it bad cost the country, and what sum was likely to be realised for the premises? Mr. WILSON said a similar return was ordered last year. There would be uo objection to furnish it again. . It was im possible to state whit amount the premises might produce. Mr. MOWBRAY asked what proportion the return for these premises were expected to bear with reference to the expenditure on the institution ? Mr. WILSON said it was impossible to say. After some further remarks from hon. members, T'ue vote was agreed to. In reply to a question from Mr. BARROW, Sir G. GREY said that the gratuitous grants of books, maps, &c., would be continued to adult schools so long as they came within the conditions of the grant. 64 , 6 351. was granted for the general management of the department of science and art, and the schools in connection with the Geological Society. Mr. WILLIAMS expressed his dissent to the manner in which this vote was distributed, and instanced a large sum being entered for the agricultural colleges for teaching the people to " buy and sell cattle." Mr. BLACKBURN also objected to the vote. From the return of the working of these schools, they appeared to be a failure. He moved the postponement of the vote. Lord PALMERSTON said that the hon. member, to be consistent in his conduct, ought to oppose every vote for the education of the lower classes. Education was to teach people that that would bo useful to them in their passing through life. Mr. WILLIAMS moved that the vote be reduced to 23,905/, Col. DUNNE said the agricultural schools had done great service to the public. All that was required was that the money should be well expended. Mr. BARROW thought the vote ought to be reduced, in order to cut off those excrescences which injured the cause of education. Mr. MOWBRAY said he found one item of 1,000/. for teachers of neatness and cleanliness. (Laughter.) Now, he thought, considering that they had teachers of all sorts pro, vided, some of them might have embraced the teaching of cleanliness and neatness without its being necessary to have a vote of 1,0001. f.,r special teachers of those qualities. Mr. KINNAIRD suggested to the Government the pro priety of reconsidering this vo e. Mr. MACARTNEY complained of the number of the higher-classed officers of this establishment. The vote had been increased from year to year for these officers. The amount for administering this vote was no less than 14,0001., being 1,000/. more than it was last year. The extrava gance of this establishment requited the whole system to be revised. Mr. PHILLIMORE characterised this vote as a job. Ono item in it.wa-s " literary teachers to the literary teachers.' (Loud laughter.) He thought the Government would do well to reconsider the vote, which bore upon , its features such strong marks of a job. Mr. DISRAELI thought the vote required further con sideration. lie was not prepared to say that a model farm iu Ireland was net calculated to be of advantage, although he was opposed to model farms generally ; but in this case it Was not a model institution, but a Parent institution, and it came to this, that they were in fact providing for the culti vation of the whole country. The noble lord had te.lked about encouraging education. Now, there was uo differ ence of opinion as to education, which meant the literary education of the people—the education of the mind. But if the propositions of the noble lcrd were to be ad - opted, where were they to stop ? Education did, not mean edu cating the people in trades. The principle of these votes was substantially false. Why they might have a similar vote to this for teaching people to work mills. If the principal were to be adopted, he could not see the limit that could be put to it. As to th;sl model farm, he would have beau glad to have heard something from the Secretary for Irel ud and some of the Irish members. So far as they were concerned no illumi nation had been thrown upon this subject. He found that there were 19 agricultural schools under this model farm. (Hear, hear.) There was a model school in Limerick, and surely the right hon, gentleman the Secretary to the Ord nance might have given them some information as to the working of that school. This was only one of 19 districts, and this was a very good opportunity for the members for those districts to come forward and contribute to the debate. (Laughter.) The country had fallen into a habit of unnecessary expenditure. Ho would not of course object to any expcndi- tura for the legitimate education of the people, but let it not be an education which was to teach them trades and how to till the soil. Mr. HORSMAN said this vote was similar to one which the right hon. gentleman had himself introduced into tue estimates when he was in office. He (Hr. foreman) was not prepared to vindicate all the items of the vote, • It might be a question for future discussion, whether or not the commis sioners bad acted wisely in disposing of the money which had been placed by Parliament at their disposal —(ironical che:to from the Opposition)—but this he was bound to say, that if the vote asked for were now refused, tke establishment which was now in active o eration, and which it was admitted on all hands had worked well, would be unceremoniously bro ken up. Mr. M'MAIION said, he hoped that the vote proposed for this year would bo granted, with the understanding that on future occasions such grants would be strictly inquired into. Sir J. SHELLEY complained that the Secretary for Ire land (Mr. Horsman) had done an injustice to the land owners of Ireland in supposing they required this vote. Those landowners had established a Royal Society of Agriculture, upon which they mainly relied for the results which this vote was intended to achieve. Mr. WILSON protested against the vote of the present year being disallowed, and urged as a reason that the esta blishment, at present in full working order, would. be de stroyed by it. Mr. STRAFFORD said that as an Irish landowner he had watched this agricultural training school for many years past, and could not see that it had been of any use. It was a class legislation—of the agriculturists against all other trades—and class legislation on the part of Ireland against England. He was particularly connected as a landowner with Limerick, and why should he not put in a voico, for a vote in favour of ship building ? He thought that the agriculturists of Ireland should be left to themselves, a course by which they would greatly benefit. He found, indeed, that it bad come to this, that he as a protectionist was preaching free-trade to free traders. (Hear, and laughter.) . . Mr. BARNES considered it his duty to oppose this vote on the ground of its obvious injustice. Lord PALMERSTON said that if the right hon. gentleman the member for Buckinghamshire (Mr. Disraeli) 11 , A relied more upon his memory than upon the force of his imagina tion, he might have remembered that he was answerable to a very considerable extent for these votes. Perhaps, however, his memory did not serve him when ho broke his lance against his own shield. He (the noble lord) could not admit the doctrine the right hon. gentleman had laid down, that the efforts of the Government for educational purposes should be limited to religion and morality, which would entirely preclude encouragement being given to persons who were desirous of maintaining themselves respectably in the course of their future lives. He had always understood that wha', was meant by education in its highest form was to enable people to go through their career in life, under any circumstances in which they might he placed, with cre dit to themselves and usefulness to the community ; and it certainly was to him a new doctrine that it was a waste of the public money to instruct people in industrial occupations. (Hear.) It had been said, if you teach people agriculture, why not teach them cotton-spinning ? Why, Government did teach them cotton-spinning. Government established sehoo!s of design to assist the manufactures of the country, end why not, upon the same principle, establish schools of agriculture for tho people of Ireland ? not for the purpose , of making fortunes or accumulating, but to enable them to ' keep their wives and families, and to sustain them in their struggle through life. (Hear, hear.) Supposing it were ad mitted as a general principle that it was not expedient to de vote public money to purposes of this kind, Ireland would certainly be an exception. Not to go into those discussions with which every hon. member must be familiar, all must know the unfortunate condition in which Ireland had for ages past been placed. Everybody knew how Ireland had been mismanaged—(ironical cheers)—when they reflected that Ire land was a country comparatively poor—poor because in former ages it had been subjected to an improper system of Government —the victim of sectarian oppression and class legislation—when they reflected that Ireland was suffering from these calamities, the result of English misgovernment, he thought it was fairly entitled to be an exception. (Hear, hear.) But what was the infliction—what was the calamity that had pressed upon Ireland during the last few years? It was famine—deficiency of food iu consequence of the in efficient manner in which the cultivators of little acres had been able to discharge their duties. While, then, the minds of bon. gentlemen were affected by the evils of that state of things —when they were callei upon to devote a small portion of the revenue to prevent a recurrence of that calamity, was it to be said that it should be refused because it was a misapplication of the grant ! (Hear.) It might be true that this system, like many others which were inherently good, had been carried too far by those who had established them. It was possible that this system of training schools might have been carried beyond the necessities of the case, or even that their benefi cial results rendered their continuance no longer necessary. These allegations might be admitted, for it was never sup. posed that these institutions were to be permanent. Every one knew that they were merely of a temporary character, to cease when they had accomplished the purposes for which they were established. He w.s quite ready to admit that this might be a fit subject for revision in future years, but he could not be a consenting party to a reduction of the vote in the present year_ Mr. DISRAELI said the noldo lord had been extremely humorous in reference to his forgetfulness of memory ; but if the house would deign to remember such circumstances, it would remember that when he assumed the responsible post of Chancellor of the Exchequer, it was -an arrangement that the Goveimment of which he was a member should accept and move the estimates of their predecessors. Ho was somewhat surprised at the tone of the noble lord in reference to this vote. The noble lord had complained that Ireland had been the victim of sectarian differences for years past, and that therefore it became necessary to establish model farms. That reminded him (sir. Disraeli) of the earlier days of his Parlia mentary experience, when he constantly heard of the miseries of Ireland. Ho believed now. that Ireland was a country upon which they might look with delight and envy, but the noble lord's remarks had thrown a cloud over the whole de: bate. At all events the noble lord had had a half-century of official responsibility in connection with Ireland. As the noble lord had abandoned the principle upon which he started he should not press his opposition, or seek in any way to em barrass the Government, more especially as the noble lord admitted that such votes could not again be submitted to Parliament. Lord PALMERSTON said he should be sorry to take ad vantage of the right hon. gentleman's vote upon such an un derstanding. All he had said was that the subject might be properly discussed in future years. Mr. HADFIELD was of opinion that Ireland had had too much done for her. He believed that the noble lord would never be a party to such wrangles if he was left to his own free will, but he was goaded by gentlemen before, and goaded by gentlemen behind, so that he was obliged to move on. (Laughter.) There was a power in the minds of the na tion far more anxious to educate the people than there was in the people to be educated. Those grants were bidding against public spirit, and silencing the proper feeling of the country. Mr. T. HANKEY wished to know the meaning of 700/. voted to workhouse teachers. Those teachers in England were paid out of the poor-rates. Mr. SPOONER said that it would be doing a great injustice to persons whose livelihood depended on these grants to take `them away. Mr. VANSITTART moved to reduce the vote to 200,0001. Mr. WILLIAMS said that the noble lord seemed inclined to abandon the principle of the vete ' but the Secretary of the Treasury gets up and says that it had, been voted year after year, and defended it at all hazards. Ho thought that the Government should postpone the vote. Mr. BLACKBURN said that no injustice was proposed to persons already in the possession of contracts, but the pre sent votes contained an increase of 12,000/. Unless the Go vernment would pledge themselves to a future reduction, he thought the house ought to go to a division. Mr. MOWBRAY thought that the sense of the house should be taken on the two votes of 3,0001. for a model school in Londonderry, and 4,000/. for a model school, place not specified. Lord PALMERSTON could only repeat that the whole subject should be left to the commissioners. The Govern ment could not pledge itself further, and the house ought to be satisfied with the assurance. The amendment of Mr. Vansittart having been withdrawn, the house divided oa the original amendment, when there appeared For the amendment . Against it Majority The original question having been put, Mr. MOWBRAY moved the reduction of the vote by the two sums of 3,0001. and 4,0001. for two new schools, not as yet sanctioned, and of one - of which the Government had not as yet decided on the site. After a few words from Mr. WILLIAMS, Mr. HEY WORTH rejoiced that the prospects of economy bad made more progress on the other side of the house than on their own. These grants were as much a violation of public justice as of public economy. Mr. INI'MAHON supp•erted the full amount of the vote. The house divided, when there were— For the amendment . 4l Against 126 Majority --85 Mr. SPOGNER moved to report progress on account of the lateness of the hour. Th 6 motion was agreed to. The Joint-Stock Companies Bill was committed pro forma, for-the purpose of being reprinted with amendments. The Public Works (Ireland) Bill was read a second time. The house then went into committee pro forma on the Bankruptcy (Scotland) Bill, for the purpose of its being re printed with amendments. JOHN SADLEIR AND THE ENCUMBERED ESTATES COURT. Mr. DEASY moved for returns of the several purchases made in the- Encumbered Estates Court by the late John Sadleir, or any one in trust for him ; specifying the name or title of the estate or matter in which each such purchase was made, the names of the solicitors having the carriage of the sale, and the amount of the purchase money. Of the number of declarations of trust made by or to said John Sadleir, ap pearing in any book or document in the Encumbered Estates Court ; specifying the names or titles of the estate or matter in which such declarations of trust were made, and the names of the solicitors having the carriage of the sales in such mat ters. Of the several orders made by the commissioners, or any of them, extending the time for lodgment of purchase money by said John Sadleir; specifying the date of the or der, the amount of the purchase money, the name or title of the estate, and the period for which the time of lodgment was. extended. And, of the number of conveyances executed by the commissioners to the said John Sadleir, or any one in trust for him. Mr. HORSMAN consented to the returns being granted. The house then adjourned at twenty•five minutes to two o'clock. -. 144 ... ----106 Mon'signor Patrizzi will set out from Rome to wards the end of May for Paris, in order to repre sent the Pope at the baptism of the Prince Impe• rig Coantry Markets. LIVERPOOL-ArRIL 4. A fair attendance to-day of millers and dealers, but a disinclination to buy wheat and flour at any higher tering than were practicable on last market day. The busineog., transactions were moderate in extent. Quotations for ell article 4 of the trade remain much the same as on Tuesdoi 1 art, excepting Indian corn, which was 6d per qr. lower/ and not in so much favour. WAKEFIELD-APRIL 4. There is a fair quantity of grain on offer to-day. Tb i t wheat trade is steady, and a moderate business doing last week's rates. Fine heavy barley is per qr. dearer; other soits no alteration. Ia bean% oats, and shelling 0 change. EXETER—APRIL 4. CORN.—In our market wheat may be quoted from 8s S a to 8s 6d. Malting barley, 4s 6d to 4s 9d ; grinding do., Cl° Od to Os Od. Oats, 3s 4d to 3s 6d. Beans, Os Od Od. Peas, OOs Od to OOs Od. FLOUR. —Fine, 00s 0.1 to 51s 0.1 ; seconds, —B OA to 49° Od per sack. CATTLIC.....Fat oeef was sold at from 9s 6d to 108 3d P . ., f score ; fat calves, 56d to 6,1 per lb ; barrenners, 6e to 6 4 I rj pi. score ; cows and calves, 121. to 171. —a ; butchof calves, to —d per lb., rearing calves —s to — 0 each' Sheep, ewes and lambs, 21. to 21. 5s per couple ; ewes. to 6,i(1; wetbers, qd to 6i l ; lambs, 11 2s each. piggy o large size, 45s to 51s ; second size, 24s to 30s ; slips, 1), to 20s ; suckers, 6s to 12s. Rough fat, 3id per 1 Pork carcases from LOs Od to lls Od per score. BRISTOL SUGAR-AnuL 4. Our market has been characterised by much fir and a fair business has been done in raw sugars, at a slig ht advance on last week's quotations. The stocks in Or" hsnds are now greatly reduced. Refined goods a &di sale, at prices quite as high. Rums still neglected. COAL MARICE Priem of Coal por ton at a. d. 17 6 .'.-APRIL 4. the glom of the market, Walleend, 14 OElaswell 14 Okletton .14 6 Peusher South Hatton Wallsend, Sze Cassop Riddell l5 . Wharncliffe l6 O l NTest Kelloe Braddyll l6 9llerwentwater Hartley Ships at market... 39 Sold Byass's West Hartley Taufield Moor Taufield Moor Butos , West Pelton e. 17 .15 17 ..16 17 17 COURSE OF EXCHANGE.—YESTERDAY. materdara............ 12 Gibraltar .............. - - , 6 Ditto, three months .. 12 2V, • Leghorn .. • • .•• 90 Rotterdam •• •••••• •• •• 12 2 y;, Genoa .......... •• ..• Antwerp .............. 25 67% Milan ......•• - Brussels ............. . 25 67 y 4 Venice •• •• •• •••• •• • Bamburgh ............13 11% Naples •• • ..... •• 4 %7' Altona •• •• .• •• •• •• •• •• ;Palermo •• •• •••••• .• •• Paris ........ • • .... 25 4 2 1 6 Messina .. Ditto, three months .. 25 77fj, Lisbon .. 63% •• :Marseilles ......... •• ••25 77 Oporto •• ..•• •• •••• •• •• Bourdeaux ...• , Rio Janeiro ....... • FL ankfort-on Maine •• .. 121% I Buenos Ayres.... •• .. Berlin New York,6o days' sight .... 10 28 Philadelphia .... ...... Prieite........•• •• • • 10 29 PRICES OF MUNN, rss 0 0 ' 9 Petersburg 36% Foreign Gold in Bars £3 1 7 0 Madrid .•• •• ••.••• •• •• 49 1 4 Portugal Gold Coin •• 0 0 0 Cadiz ••••••• • • • • • • • ~.. 50 1 4 Mexican Dollars •• 0 0 A IlArcelona •••••• •••••• New Dollars Seville.. •• •• •• •• •• •• ..• Silver in bars ••es •• ° SEABORNE MAILS. (IT aigniftes that the mails are sent from the General Post the night—and M by the morning—despatch.) Day when made ur From whit' W'" il COUNTRIES. in General Post- Port (11%4, Office, London.* Dispatches:. 1 2 ... 1'" . ", America(byllrit.pack)N AI every Friday • • Liverpool Ap•- 9 A.moricP. (by United Ste. packet) ..........N •••• —^ - • Liverpool . • :i.incrics. (by U. States packet) .......... N ••• • • • • t'loathatiapton -A ustralia (via South ampton) ......M1 —• " -- • •• • Southampton Marseilles) Ditto (via N; • • • • • • • • • Dover ... .; Ditto (via Cape of Good, d i Hope) ............/81 ..... •••• • • „.7 08 Africa (West Coast) ..N 23d of the month .. Plymouth .. Aiez.andria.... 4 ... —17, 8 , 9, 24,& 30 of in. Dover.... Alexandria..........M 4th & 20th of moli.lSouthampton: • Ba h amas „, _ _ _ „m 17th of the menthlsomhacaptcn , Belgium ~..........N' Daily-- ... ..... 'Dover ...... Dail: Brazil ..............NI 9th of the month.. Southampton AP! u,, i d Buenos Ayres.-- _ m.9th of the month.. Soutli impten Apru_r Cape of Good Hope ..N Various port Unci P- Cape of Good Hope .. N Cape de Verde .... „N 9th of the month liouthaempton Ceylon (see India) Ceylon .............. N , . yeti.9 l ChEurdel Isles ...• ~...NlP•f°R..Wed,&Frit• Southampton ITU.x - Chili.... • • ........ M 2:1 8c 17 th of month ilouthampto ' 4 China .... . 'Once a month.. I A OI, • Censtantinople _ _ _ 2i 8,13,18,23,&28 aro Dover ...... 1 C C I 1 4th & 20th of mon. South:o4ton! ot d Twice daily ...... Dover ...... Tvri ..„ f i s t t . a o n f t Europe iuopl u _ i , . N . Egypt (sae India) I France ........ 31 & N "Twice daily...—. Dover ...... Twle'dr Gibraltar .. .... ....M 4 , 70 7 , 20, 27 •f m Southampton Greece (see India) Greytown ..........81 2nd & 17th of msn.,Southeimpton Hemaburgh .... - ......N Tuesday & Fri 1•1 .London ... • . e 1 u syanua l l •• •• •• •• „ m .2nd of the montilSolithanaptro ][a 9 Holland .. e......... 31• Baily • • • • • • .... Dover ... .. • • . 0 .'",, Y 00 , Honduras ...... .... M ll7 te c • the mom h.lSouth ampto:•. 4 8 110 0 India (viaSoutharri p t . )m 4th 20th of einin.lplym,uth •• 4i' India (via Marsellles)M 9thB•2sth of mon ili 'Devei• _,, , lonian Isles (see India).7, 17, &27 of mon D0ver...... 440 Ireland ........M & N,Twice dally ..Hot; head Vv ... . t i1l uzioen.... _ „ _ _ _ N. 7, 9, 17, & 27 of ne.;Scuthampton APT' madei „ •• •• • • •• •• .• al 9 th of the month 'Bouthamptoe,' • Madeira .......... _ N 23d of month .... Liverpool ... Malta (see India) 1 . I°P ''altslts •• „ •• •• •• •• _ N 8,18. &28 of mon. D ever -- 4, 2 0 Mauritius (see India) 14th or the month . 1 Mauritius ..........N AP ril l Mexico .... .. •••••• •• 34 2nd of the month. Bouthampt - .' 1 Na le, . ~ . ~......N 15thl5th25thormon ,Dover .... private slip ..Various pm- 1:10 0 " 24, 8; 17 th of month gonthampto• • ,440 1 5ttilfith2r•thotnion.Dover .... .1 N N e ew w Z G c r a a l n a a n d d a .• :::::: 7, . • , 'By Papal States ........14 Peninsula •• •• •• •• „mil thl7o27thofinon.'Southampton Peru .• • • .... •• •• •• •• Mi 2 d & 27 th of mon.,Southansplon' ,11. s., .. •• •• •• •• • • 1.4 - sthlMh2sthoimen,lDever .... .1 Port Natal ..........NI 3 Y private ship..., Various port., Ulig' I „ Sl i e j l i any •• ••• •• •• •• • ai,bthl 6 th2f:thoimon.lbover ......1 ii ol° venezuels ..., „„m2d a 117th ofmont , ..Southaruptre .1 - Van Diemen's 1,..nd (se , 1 1 Australia) .... —— .. , , . . &IF , 1 Welt Indies _,. •• 3,fI2EA, 17th o : month Southampton'l.--y '1t 616 / # -- it Whenany of these dates fall on a Sunday, th e rnath i A 'll spatched on the following day, with do exception of the In j eouthampton), and the Malta, both of which will be demote , ' preceding day. SHARE MARKET& LIVERPOOL, APRIL 4. !/ STOCK EXCHANGE.---The market has been ver., • c l / to-day, at a slight advance. Sambre and Menee, Caledonian, 3011—Midlands, 74/—North. British. South Eastern, 2 1i—Edinburgh, Perth, and Dund'iiii Bs. 9d.—Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshirel" Ditto, late C. and B. 22/. s h ares , 13—L on d on an d .0 se, Western, 101,1 c. i—Lancashire and YorkshireNV Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire— ' 28i 'i Qrod 00 Eastern, Be rw i c k, 19.13.9. Ditto, York ca pital 0 28i—Dutch Rhenish, 1.13.9. p.—East Lancashire. 6 per cent., 8- Luxembourg constituted, 7 d.—Great tern of Canada, 25i —Eastern Counties, mi.- MANCHESTER, Amu, 4. 1 0° STOCK EXONANGE.—There has been a fair -- bu i tle to day, and price s were s t ea dy. Sh e ffi e ld s , 29---v;" Prof.; 11—Crystal Palace, Prof., siLeeds, 88k—P°1 1 21k—Blackburn, 6i— Midlands, 74i Berwick ely Stock, ri—Great Western of Canada, 251-IC•lld 6 h Windermere, 9. BIRMINGHAM, APRIL 4. STOOK EXOHANGE.—This market was flat to-ati" regards busin e s s , an d th e p r i ces genera lly ra ther . fs,! Great Western, Bi rm in g h am P re f erence Shares. 9. 1 '01( South Staffords, 3 dis.—Shropshire Unions, 47 4e mingham and Stour Valleys, 8i 9. DUBLIN, APKIL 3. STOCK EXCHANGE.—Three per Cent. Consuls, 942 1 fit Ditto for Aceonnt, Eth April, 921 f—Ditto, for M 13.!„/, count, Bth May, 92i N ew 3 per C en t . Stock, suP•ottr f t, --Ditto, for Acc oun t, Bth o f April, 93 rr o e P Bank of Ireland, 32k—Great Southern and Weston . ° 4i , " paid), 52i—Ditto, 4 per cent. pref. 10i—Ditto 5 11 - 0 1 full, 201.), 18i—Dublin and Belfast Ju nc ti on (4 'II? 431—Midland Great Western and Royal Canal, (521. paid), 24i ex d.—Cork and Bandon, The Wolverhampton, Chronicle contradicts * in that town to the effect that Mr. Thornely was* to retire from Parliament. BIRTH . S. OF A SON. On the 2d inst., at 2, Craven-place, Hyde-Park , _on. Mrs. Jam es Augustns Atkinson. IN On the 2d inst., a t 2, G rove Vill as , C am b erw elli ° Mrs. Thomas ROutledge. JP A DAI7GHTIM. io d On the 3d inst., at 120, New Bond-street, the Samuel Fowell, Esq. o t a •On the let inst., at Hounslow, the wife of AleO n Douglas, Esq. MARRIED. ~/' iP . On the 3d inet., at St. Jam es ' s , Pi cca dill y ; the ItfAll e o Sandford, 8.D., Archd eacon o f C oventry, rector °I 0 church, to Anna, widow o f D av id Montagu, second° Erskine. 0' On the 3d inst., at Si. P ancras Church, m a j o r_l . i , .... 0 Wit Wheatstone, 45th Refit,,. to Augusta Maria, ditlig ht°l. ll; the late John Stevenson Esq., of ConduitAstreeti over - square, and Norwood Norwood-park, DIED. 0 4 4 ' On the 31st ult. at his residence, 4. Dorlinqa/ a , ' Harleyford.road, Vauxhall, Mr. Charles "'Miner, )4 9 rdSj On the 3d inst., Robert Muriel Sanders. solicitor , _ol Southampton-buildings the eldest son of Robert 1 31.P p,plf Sanders, solicitor, of New-inn, and Orme-square , '- water, aged 32. On the 2d inst., at Frond erw , Ll anrwe t , iambi° Lieut.-General Thomas Wilson, C. 8,, of Beauf e r aged 78. if° ° On the 3d inst., a t B r i g ht on, A nne Elizabeth, 1r Lieut.-General tiir Frederick Stovio K.C.8., Sto• if On the 3d i ns t ., M r. James Urquhart , foruil9, Wapping, late of 4, Vitt or i a -pl ac e, Mile-end, ste d . t olO is On th 3d lust. , a t Rotherhithe, Mr. Thomas aged 55. 0 f On the 3d i ns t., Benjamin Robinson, Esq., lato_ o 01 cester-street, Queen-suar, Bloomsber. p l od On the 30th ult., a t sea, e Rear-Admira y l SirW. 0 1 K. 8., aged 74. 04, LONDON: Printed and Published by IfITRDO v i of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun °fag*. ' l _l4 Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the ExHa - Middlesex,_Saturday, April 5,11856. .• Tin GE Hotel, 1111 WAITER, of ALBANY SET of C rooms la; o r 4 lotoK room, pervants, rooms, 'new apply to the IL A= L :Y ro L nou L ew, 411. Now 0 M. 1 GYPT marvellni .„ i ns EXVosltlon, +ate roost. Extra itl ients. 2 •'W. stui c ?MY in p°attune, em • Irt - ,, —/ ate boxes am e !,Etrge. Polyzra rer i_L l nance ever tr O I ) ES: to the S e l he e.dr t : o blic that hi Ig x ol Vtejl and gre uPEN er "Nin ; 1, at 4 m int fr oest The Ni °T. a t 12 n"uni Inter 4' and lu e stlo B series 64 . 1 ?, at hitlfin " In gNo. 4, i QGILD oq tr' Committe r te 7 1) ESD A v.e Proposals road-street. an e. 911101. street, F forte Ins the pi "us of t te uc l er e the „ MIDDLI , et of hsee, e A . An Aet f or the ;11 the 'ndusal cool tri l i Tth en ea d tlY and otl a e y -i In o f ea Teat to lend the r'eel Tender: R e :of the i n d u day' -1"-e ( tt the 14th ' of Dl,l will ad vn , ated the 2d d THE LO: cotpo The Hyde. .e MA L j( PI UFIN Altl Ac of i'Z I LIZ z two per th besos it - Acoy on " Banks B s Ooslis for le thrT "r "• De y.. 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