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.~ : • "MP NU, • 114,144 76" (44 , 7 1 Afte • • 411 , 1 i 41,?' 1, / , • 1 3 7 S ! di ! ‘& \ " l \\‘ , co tl/ • -•-• ' ^ A N aA;-v 71- ‘,4zze . / „ A ir (4 , P.; • , • . , MR. ALBERT SMITFI'S MONT BL ANC, TO-NIGHT, and EVERY EVENING (except Saturday), at o' clock , and Tuesday, Thursday, and -aturday Mornings at .5. Stall s , gs .. , area, 25. ; gallery, Is.—Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly. tkr,c;p A tv's Government if the fortress was not properly defended: si! s s lST-*.. - They were not responsible." Adding that the Govern ment had no responsibility respecting the state ft 'saFfs3.ss . , , affairs in Asia. Now it appeared to him that every lash -' ss. in the blue-book tended to contradict that statement of . ' the right hon. gentleman. (Hoar, hear.) Look at the ir:; structions to General Williams. On Aug. 2, Lord Clausal . : ' ' : don said, " You will have learned from Mr. Brandt the Jk i T sr. state of di sorgan i sa ti on o f t h e Turkish army in Asia, and 7, -LK your first duty will bo to ameliorate its condition ; and as it may be nee ssary to call the attention of the Porte to the subject, you will communicate with Lord Strutfusf without pre V 1.0113 reference to Lord Raglan. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER—Send IS formation. Sir J. P AKINGTaN—Taking the hypothesis that the Government was to aumme no responsibility, ho wanted , s to know how he was to account for these instructions or - the reports of Lords Raglan, Stratford, and Clarendon. He contended that the Government bad made themselves responsible, and were responsible for the whole of the dis asters. Again, the Chancellor of the Exchequer urged that the campaign in Asia Minor was comparatively unitn portant ; but there was no doubt that, with the possession of Kars and Erzeroum, the Russi ans would have had a clear route to the Bosphorus. and, as a c onsequence, to Constantinople. He (Sir J. Pakington) begged him to ob- ; serve that it wss no part of his intention to vindicate the conduct of Lord Stratfo d in these transactions, or his neglest of General Williams. He had no doubt but that such co - e 7 uct must have very much impaired the useful- nese of that officer, and that he (General Williains) Must , have felt himself se y much crippled by the want °flints port from Constantinople ; but at the same time he was hound in truth to state that be was not of opinion that the conduct of Lord Stratford, however reprehensible—he did not attempt to defend it - had had any material effect in procuring the fall of Kars. He believed that the fall was to be attributed to the subsequent conduct of her Ma jesty's Government—and he thought he could prove his assertion by a brief reference to two letters. He thought he could prove, first, that Government bad no justification for the statement that they had assumed no responsibility ; and secondly, th it the fall was not attributable (as the hon. member for Dorsetshire had said) to the corruption of the Turkish paellas, but mainly to the vacillation and want , „ Li of vi gou r di s pl a y e d b y t h e English Ministry. He would 7 ~." first allude to Lord Clareudon's letter to Lord Stratford of the 13th of July, and secondly to Lord Stratford's answer to that letter. Lord Stratford had previously called at tention to the state of Kars, and the plan whi c h th e P orto proposed for its relief, including an army of 41,000 men, of whom 10,000 was to be the Turkish Contingent. And here he (Sir J. Pakington) begged to remark that on the pre vious evening the rejection of this plan was attributed by the Attorney-General to the French Government, whereas the plan upon which the French Government expressed an .. _ . . rz, t31 , ,N . A . !* 0 1 / 4 t 7. . . ARGYLL ROOMS.-LAIIRENT'S CASINO NOW OPEN for the winter season. Principal Cornet tristonM. Boulcourt.—Doors open at S. Admission One Shilling. 11. Laurent's new Varsoviana and St. Patrick Quadrille every night 1 ,. .: .;-," .4:,..:L,f1 the trade Bar'oh LONDON. WEDNESDAY EVE'NING7 A • W. S. WOODIN'S OLIO of ODDITIES. Fifty instantaneous Metamorphoses of Voice, Character, a nd Costume, concluding with an impersonation of Mlle. Rachel, as e in "Lea HoraceB" TO - NIGHT and every evening, at S. Krivate boxes and stalls may he secured In advance, without extra Viarge. Polygraphic-hall, King William-street, Charing-cross. A rer fwValice every Saturday Morning at 2 o'clock, and night at S. r O ,, 19,931.) _ - MIL :30 1856. [PRICE 4D. STAMPED SD• s. s• 22 2 8 38 4 0 40 47 41 4S 37 38 „35 37 Dia 4 37 3 ? 3 30 ff 33 31 PUBLICATIONS: IMPERIAL PARLIAMEN T. 79,245, and in order to prevent , the inconvenience of such a number of persons congre'2:ating at one point, he had given directions with the of •probaiion of Col. Willis, for a band to play in Regents Park between the hours of Divine service. With ref pect to the' band in the Vic toria-park, a couinnunic ation hadAseen received frono Woolwich from Lie i tenant-Colonel ,Dickson, the officer of one of the res:irneiits of :4inilitia, offering the use of the band to play in that hi*ity. Ile intended to answer theletter of th t 3 gallant el:Ocer, thaekieg,hini for the offer, „which, it was his intnction to accept. .The only a'ccornmo4ation for th e hal*" in Xensingten rzardens was the platform , that ; was! , used on 'the dais that ladies and gentlemen wornena4d..Rotten•row. The, same was used on Sundays, but it' was intended to erect' a now one. • With respect to the accommodation of She public, if he found that the present ~e,rrangernents, were j j not commensurate, - her should propose 'that some tem porary building or tent should be 1 erected: '. The. 're freshments ...that were sold were of !the most wholesome • description, and consisted of tea, cdffee; fees, lemon ade, soda water, and other non-itittlxieating drinks: Amongst those present last Sunday, many -of the no.' bility were observed, and the numi of persons on. that occasion amounted to 79,000 perieniik •"The ;stiperin tendent of the gardens waited uponlica the following. Monday morning and informed him 'that not a siflgle shrub had been injured. (Hear, hearty' If viite ihie-in tion to proceed-as he had begun, the people had shown, by the way in which th ey h conducted them selves, that they were in every-way 7 by the Plea Sure, which, he was glad to say, they d u l y apprepia*:.,(Foond cheers, and cries of " Hear, hear.") Lord R. GROSVENOR'asked the Pritilr Minister whether any of those individuals wiio colrimied the band and were compelled to give up tbeir Sunday -after noons to the public, objecting from potalgence or other wise, would be permitted' to petition i4„house, . or any other authority, to be excused from 4 . 4: ,:ttendanie ? Lord PALMERSTON Elikik 3 ; '‘ , 4 0,4 -. 4 -.. • , .r• 46441;r4th .'t'he - 411 - eitiiin; - "t ictFro - lia - 61Y'lbe . . 1 ltder Secretary for Mar, when he arrived, would be able to do so. Lord J. MANNERS asked what was the usual practice ? (Cries of "Order.") The subject then dropped. ASCENSION DAY. Turkey might be strengthened for the prosecution of the war, and hence it was felt that the governments who ware taking upon themselves a liability tor its payment had a right to be satisfied with regard to its due application. I need not say that the finances of Turkey are like those of most oriental countries. Great laxity undoubtedly prevails as aaiybody may see who reads the Kars correspondence. The Government cannot always place confidence in its own agents, but is liable to be cheated and plundered by its own officers. Hence, it can hardly be disputed that it was a reasonable precaution on the part of England and France to say that they would not undertake a, liability unless se tisQod that it was bona fide to be applied to the purposes of the war. Such being the position of things, the tVvo go vernments appointed commissioners, who were sent to Constantinople, ha order to arrange, in concert with the Turkish authorities, the securities which should be given for the due application of this money. Immediately upon the arrival of the commissioners at Constantinople, they drew up a memorandum in which were contained the re gulations which they proposed the Turkish Government. should agree to, with respect to the expenditure of the money to be from time to time hhnded to it. That memo randum was submitted to the ambassadors of England and France at Constantinople. It was approved by those am. bassadors; it was submitted to the Government of the Sultart, having been submitted to one of his Ministers on Sept. 20. The house will see by this that on'our part there was ne unnecessary delay to this point. NO answer was received for some time from the Porte ' • at the end of seve ral-weeks Feed E ff endi wrote to request an interviewwith the commissioners.. r._,This interview took place . few days after--viz., on'e' it he 24th October—the delay'in the interval having arisei ca from the inaction of the Tirkish Govetinment. On thei.. t-mentioned date the memerandtim was fully disoussed, and an agreement was come to on all points, with one exception. The commissioners thought it, their luty to require that some evidence should be shown in detail of the application of the moneys paid to they Turkish Government ; that Government contended, on the other band, that they ought to follow their ordinary vac: tic°, which was merely to show that agross sum had, • , DR. KAHN'S ANATOMICAL MUSEUM, 4, Coventry-street, Leicester-square.—Open (for Gentlemen MY) thin to tin 10, containing upwirds of one thousand models , aOO Preparations, illustrating every part of the human frame in 2ealth, and disease, the race of men, &c. Lectures delivered at 12, f ‘ : 4, and half-p as t 7, by D r . G. SmoN, F.R.G.S. ; and a new and t"gblP-Interesting series of Lectures is now In course of delivery 3' Dr ' K AHN, at half - past 8 every evening.—Admission, One This day, complete in 2 vols. Bro., with Portraits, 305., MEMOIRS OF THE HOUSE OP LORDS—(YEsTEnDAy). The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack at five o'ciot,K. COURT OF THE REGENCY . From original Family Documents. By the Duke of BUCKINGHAM and CHANDOA, K.G. Hurst and Illackett, Publishers, successors to Henry Colburn, 3, Great Marlborough-street. Lord AVELAND (late Sir Gilbert Ileathcote) took the oaths and his seat. :'s prices ; not much The Royal Assent was given by commission to the 'folhwing bills, viz., The Exchequer-Bills (21,182,7001.), Public Works, Public Works (Ireland), London Docks, Knottingly Gas, Colonial Bank, Weymout! - .. and Mel corube Regis Gas, Chorley t'.Vhter, Haglingdon Water, Lancaster Gas, and Southport Water. Now ready, in 2 vols., with Illustrations, 215., bound, 383 to 7:7 , 8 is ; tearot L2s ; peas, ROYAL CREMORNE GARDENS. —Open cert Dally; admission is.—Grand Vocal and Instrumental Con "el7 evening at six, supported by eminent artists—Ballet Diverti setrtent—Grotesque Chinese Pas-de-Trois — Troupe of Trained w o g — SPanlsh Ballet—the great Devani—Dancing rl Fresco, &c., On Sunday, at four o'clock, the whole of the extensive grounds are o Pea for promenade, from which time until seven in the evening ylnOrchestra of first-rate musicians will give effect to the compo-i -c7 2 1 dj of the mo s t renowne d mas t ers , tooth ancient and modern, in din Bandel, Hadyn, Mozart, Be othovEn, Weber , Meye . be er, . .undelssohn, R oss i n i , Hama, Herold, &c. FASTERN HOSPITALS and ENGLIS El NURSES The Narrative of Twelve Months' Experience in the Hospitals of Koulali end Scutari. By a LADY VOLUNTEER. "The story.of the noble deeds done by Nli , s Nightingale and her devoted sisterly od will never be more effectively told than in the beautiful narrative contained is these volumes."—John Bull. POSTAL COMMUNICATION WITH AUSTRALIA. • , receive") )rts, from Hunt and Alackett, Publishers, successors to Henry Colburn. The Earl of ELLEN,BOROUGLI presented two peti tions, one from the merchants and others of the city pf London, and the other from the general association con nected with the Australian colonies, praying that the postal communication with Australia might be re-esta blished. The noble earl expressed a wish that the com munication should he eF.Lablished on an improved footing , with respect to the quality of the vessels employed in it. l'wo of the principal of those colonies had already ex pressed their willingness to contribute to the necessary ex penses. :- 5 . 2 P. F... On Wednesday next will he published, in fep. Bvo., L,IFE in the TRENCHES beforeSEBASTOPOL, iL.4 By Major WHITWORTH PORTER, Royal Engineers. LONDON and NORTH-WESTERN RAIL WAY.- WHIT AUNTID E lIOLIDAYS.—DAY TICKETS issued on SATURDAY, the 10th May, and intervening days , will be Available trail TUESDAY, 13th May. My order. MARK ifasager's Office, Euston Station, April, 1856. - London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Lon mans, 425 I SG& 19 , 140 NEW EDITION OF CRESY'S ENCYCLOP.,EDIA. OF CIVIL ENGINEERING, WITH SUPPLEMENT. On Wednesday next will be published, in One Volume Bvo., With above 3,000 Woodcuto, price 631. cloth, ENCYLOPIEDIA of CIVIL ENGINEER ING, Historical, Theoretical and Practical. Bv EDWAIW CRE , ;), - , Civil Engineer and Architect. Second Edition, revised; and brought down to the Present Time in a Suoplement, compr,sing the Metrop titan Water Supply, Drain age or Towns, Railways, Cubical Proportion, Brick and Iron con struction, Iron Screw Pile Tuhular Bridges, Sec *** the -upplement , nay be had separately,: price les. 6d. cloth. London : Longman, Brown, Green. and Longrnans., The Duke of ARGYLL stated that the Government had the subject under thew earnest consideration, and they would do everything possible to carry it duly into effect. LONDON and NORTH-WESTERN and MID LAND RAILWAYS. W tITSUNTIDE 110i,IDA.YS. LA\TICKETS, FIRST and SECOND CLASS , w ill be issued from ,PON to ...,inc o i n I owdham I Norminton Collinghara Nottingham Oakenshaw Newark York Doncaster Fiskerton Bradford Sheffield, and . Thurrarton Leeds Masbor o ' • q the ordinary trains on SATURDAY, May 10, and intermediate Sys, to FRIDAY, May 16, inclusive, and will be available tor re 41'11 by the ordinary trains on any day up to and including Saturday, slay 17. , xill'ess day tickets will also be issued on the same days, available to return by express trains. •. D ...t tickets will also be issued from —,t•—..e . -ronr.TraeStinfttl Inston Station, April, 1356. me as last the sane eh lower• to 8d in MEMENTO OF PEACE, - CELIIRCEIES ;*AND CHAPELS, The Bishop of EXETER submitted that sotne:natienal testimony of thankfulness for the restoration of peace shou'Ad be offered ; he suggested that increased facilities for attendin; Divine worship should be given to the peciple ; at present great numbers of them were without the means of attending public worship on the Sabbath. While that was the case it was a mockery to _prevent day, but y tho full Price 4s. 6d., LIFE'S A DREAM: The GREAT THEATRE of the WORLD. From the :bluish of CA.LDEROY. With an Essay on his Life and Genius, by Rrcutan CHENEVIK TsElicli. London: John W. Parker and Son, West Strat,24,_ Beans. Os Od Os Od Os Od inceol •Lcmd4a,,. COMPLETION OF THE BUTTERFLIES. THE HOUSE LONDON an WAY.—TR A I: C ommunication by Fw si NORTH-WESTERN RAIL ARRANGEMENTS for MAY.—lmproved st Trains has been established between London This Day, price Threepence, or post free, 4d, Number 111. of A MANUAL of BRITISH BUTTERFLIES and MOTELS. Halifax I Bradford Normanton York, and Leads Hull In answer to a question, Lord PA.LMERSTON said he proposed that the house sh , uld sit on Thursday at two o'clock. (Cries of " Oh ! oh!") s• '• ...17 6 ,„.15 6 ~..16 6 ~..17 0 15 3 „AG 0 ...17 ..17 6 _l6 0 ...15 9 16 0 ...17 3 _l6 0 _l6 6 ...17 6 ..16 0 _2l 0 ..:21 6 ey.lB 0 ...21 0 21 0 Post office dac 11 En,'nad. Ipril 30 Tucort en laflP lay 15. ay 16 lace nal]; u.Th.sat wicedaill wicedally thotmo &20 vicrdaily A y 6 20 mo. leertain Icertain ;.I6mon I n mon cc (T A hed fl I 'ACLES, Xottingham Derby Sheffield $ P Huddersfield .._ F 0 r particulars of wi "Wells ea the Main Li General Manager's leh, as well as 3d Clast Train and other alte ae and Branches, see Time Tables. By order. MARK HL ISH. , ffice, Euston-station, April, 1856. GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY. GRNND MILITARY REVIEW, and L kYING the FOTT ',,^rION-STOLE, by her MAJ,STY, of the WELLINGTON COL -I'E, on SATURDAY, May :id. 'Jo this occasion Return Tickets at Single Fares will be issued from Paddington to Twyford for 1.4 and 2d class Passengers and for Car- Vages and Horse;, from whence well-appointed four - horse Omani uses will run direc to the ground, returning after the Review to ,„ "'Sion], where Special Trains will be provided to return to London. T here will be also a number of Carriages and other conveyances Provided at Twyford. The Regular Trains for Twyford leave Paddington Station at 7.40 •• 8.15 a.m , and 10 a.m. ; and a Special Train will also be pro `‘;."ed at 10 15 a.m., which will tun on to Reading for the convenience ;Passengers who may wish to go by the South-Eastern Railway by of route, and will return from Reading to Paddington on the arrival South-Erstern Train at 7.35 p.m. To insure places by the omnibuses, and to engage carriages, apnli iox should be made, not later than Friday, 2d May, to the Super totelident of the Paddington Station. F ares from Paddington to Twford and backi—lst elms, 55. 6d.; 2d s , 4s. Single horse, 10s. 9d. ; a pair, 17s. 541.; a two-wheel car "aim- 10s. 9d. ; a four-wheel ditto, 14s. 4d , F ars iv , omnibus from Twvibrd Station to the Review and back , 0,, 235. Cathages—nie hone, 205.; Pair, GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY. ALTER.VTION OF TRAINS. On and after May 1, the following Alterations will take place : The 12.50 DOWN TRAINS. o'cl k tra 4 n from Paddington will run to Oxford. The 1 ozi ? o v r _ train from Didcot will be discontinued. A train will leave d for Birmingham at 4.10 p.m. Bir kenhead, o'clock t ra i n fr o m Paddington will be continued o n to .&. and will cease to stop at Woodstock - ro ad . He y ford, and 3 nho , • The 4.50 p.m. Express from Paddington will be continued Swansea. UP TRAINS. ~al 10.25 a.m. trait from Cheltenham will be discontinued. A ~aln will leave Cheltenham at 3.10 p.m. for London, in connection t. ll a train from Milford. The 5.20 p.m. train from Cheltenham e ": 11 leave at 5.45 p.m. The 10 a.m. train from Birmingham will will to atop at , tolihull. The 11.5 a.m. train from Birmingham will wil l at all stations up to Didcot. The 12 coon train from Birmingham k i l eave at 12.5, reaching London at 3.45 p.m. A. train will leave rt ningham at 1 30 p.m for Dideot, calling at all stations The 3.15 train from Birmingham R ill be discontinued. The 2.45 p.m. train from Birmingham will leave at 2.50 p.m , and will cease to call at n eyfoid. SUNDAYS. DOWN Taanis.—Trains will leave Paddington at 4 p.m. and 6.30 v•n . .• for Wi n d sor an d i n termediate stations. 1 1' TRAINS —Trains will leave Windsor for London and inter zilediate stations at 5 p.m .. 6.30 p.m., and 8 p m. The 3.45 p .m. train 3 .—Paddington, Windsor will be discontinued. For minoc a lterations see time _ lll3 .—Paddlngton, April 24, 18 co 24 DAY OF GENERAL THANKSGIVING.- sT L ANTIs E o C p T L I E O . N S FOR A MEMORIAL CHURCH AT The following letter and resolution are in the ceu•se of circulation a mong the incumbents and officiating ministers of all churches and chapels in Great Britain and Ireland. As it is possible, however, that the circular may not reach every parish in time, the clergy are respectfully solicited to accept this mode of application. 79, P.ll-Mall, London, April 28th, 1856. Rev. and Dear Sir, —I am directed by the Society for the Prone gat lOg of the Gospel to communicate to you the subjoined resolution, and to express a very earnest hope that you will he enabled to help forward the great work which the society has taken in hand, of erecting and endowing a Church at Constartinopl, Such a church, it is generally felt, will he at once the most suitable memorial to our gallant countrymen who have fell n in the late w it with Russia —a hank-offering to Almighty God for the restoration of peace.— and a means of promoting the highest Spiritual interests of British residents and visitors at Comtantittople.—l am, Rev. and dear sir, Yours faithfully, ERNEST HAWKINS, Secretary. At a meeting of the Society for V i e Propapition of the Gospe Friday, lsth April, 1856, Present— nis Grace the ARCHBISHOP of CANTERBURY, the President, hi the (hair, The BI;HOP of BANGOR, 1 The BISHOP of ST. DAVID'S, I The BISHOP of LICHFIELD, ). Vice-Presidents. The BISHOP of OXFORD, The BISIIOP of ST. ASAPII, And a large attendance of members, It ova s resolved unanimously— That the incumbents, or o elating ministers of all churches and e naPela in Great Britain and Ireland, be respectfully invited to gtake Collections on the day of the General Than ks g ivin g , in aid of e tund for the erection and endowment of" The Memorial Church at C onstantinople ;" and to transmit the am ount to the Societ y ,* I VO, in accordance with a resolution passed on the 16th March, bas undertaken to become the trustee of the fund. *- Remittances may be made by cheque of a London banker, Cros se d t o .. Messrs. Drummond," or order on the General Po:t 2 11 ce. London, or draft on a London banker, payable to "Rev. Dr. J ohn Russell." Tf payment be made through a country banker, a l etter of adVice addressed to the office is requested. SOOTTISI4 WIDOWS' FUND LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY. Founded A D. 1815. MEAD OFFICE—No. 5, St. Andrew-square, Edinburgh. _ T he Assured or Members are the only parties interested in the r Unds , ot this Institution, which row amounts to upwards of THREE MILLIONS STERLING. The Society's claims to public confidence and support are grounded -4 ‘ 3l h l Y on the sound and equitable principles of its constitution, and ( 2 11 the care and success with which its operations have been con- Mimed from their co-cmencentent up to the present time. While the Premiums are not higher than those require.' by many other Offices, the Society does rot pretend to compete with those n'hich hold out the attractions of cheap rates, whether as being the 'Jest which are compatible with safety, or as being based oil what As termed the " HALF-CREDIT SYLTEM." There being no Proprietary, however, those of the Assured who by the terms of their policies are entl led to participate in the Profits of t h e Society, are the only parties who derive benefit from the rates u OtIZ more than what are found from time to time to be required to meet the actual risks; and the remit of pest allocations of Surplus Profits has been such that in the csse of all the earlier Policies, which have become claims wthin the last few years, the amounts Paid to the representatives of deceased Members have been MORE THAN DOUBLE TIE suns ORIGINALLY ASSERED. In cases where ... family provision is the We object this result cannot fail to be considered as o; the most satisfactory nature ; while in other Instances where the parties are desirous or security; benefit from the Surplus Payments RURtNG THEIR OWN LIVES, instead of allowiistr the Bonus to remain an sedition to the Assurance payable at death, the alternatives practicable under the laws of the office have been com mensurate In degree. In ma ty cases, in consideration of an aban donment of the reversionary claims for Bonus Additions ahead, de eared, such parties have either received large payments in PRESENT CASII, or have been LONG AGO ENTIRELY RELIEVED FROM FURTHER PAYMENT OF PREMIUM, the Policies still remain.ng entitled to partici pate in future allocations of the profits. Illustrations of the application of Bonus on either of the footings above referred to are contained in the Society's Prospectu , es, which, together with Forms of Proposal, &c., may he had on application at the Bead Office, or to ahy of the Agents in the three kingdoms. JOIIN NfAcKENZIE, Manager. WA. LIND ESAY, Secretary. Edinburgh, March 1856, LONDON HONORARY BOARD. George Young, Esq., Mark-lane Charles Edward Pollock, Esq., Barrister, Temple David Hill, Esq., East India House John Murray, Esq., publisher, Albemarle-street Samuel Laing, Esq., M.P. Sir John Thomas Brizgs, Admiralty Leonard Homer, Esq., Home-office John Taylor, jun., Esq., C.E.; Queen-street-place LONDON AND THE SUBURBS. CENTRAL AGENT. Hugh M'Kean, 4, Royal Exchange-buildings, Cornhill, DISTRICT AGENTS. Captain R. S. Ridge, 49, Pall-mall, Agent for the West End District Renton Seeley, 2, Hanover-street, Regent-street James Harris, 38, St. George's•square, Belgrave-road, Pimlico. IN THE HIGH COURT OF CHANCERY. TRIESEMA.—On the 29th of May, 1855, Rall injunction was granted by the Nigh Court of Chancery, and on the 11th of Jane following was made perpetual, against Joseph rranklin and others, to restrain them, andor a penalty of one thou sand pounds, from imitating this Medicine, which is protected by Royal Letters Patent of England, and secured by the Seals of the Ecole de Pharmazie de Paris, and the Imperial College of Medicine, :Vienna. TRIESEICAR, No. 1, 12 a remedy for Relaxation, Spermatorrhcea, and all the distressing' comonuences arising from early abuse, &c., and its effects are effi cacious in youth, manhood, and old age ; and to those persons who are prevented entering the married state from the results of early errors it is invaluable. effectually, in the short space of TRIESEM th A ree ß days, completely and entirely er ,dicates all traces o f these Disordors which Capaivi and Cubehs 'cha so tong been thought an antidote for, to the ruin of the health of a 'Mit portion of the population. TRI ES EMAR, No. 8, Is the great C3nt:nental Remedy for that class of Disorder!, which unfortunately the English physician treats with Mercury, to the in evitable destruction of the patient's constitution, and which all the s aparilla in the world cannot remove. TRIESEMAR. Nos. 1,2, and 3, are alike devoid of taste or smell, and of all nauseating qnalitiu. 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Motion made, and question put, " That tha debate be now adjourned." The house divided—Ayes 173, Noes 243. AYES-173. Acland, Sir T. Galway, Viscount Nadi, Lord Adderley, C. B. Gaskell, J. Na ier, J. Alexander, J. George, J. Newark, Viscount Annesley, Earl of Gilpin, CPI. A. Newdegate, C. Bailey, C. Gladstone, W. N: wport, Viscount Baidock, E. H. Gladstone, Capt. J. Nisbet, R. Ball, E. . Goddard, A. Noel, G. Baring, T. Gordon, A. North, C01..T. Barrow, W. Greenall, Gilbert Northcote, Sir S. Bateson, Capt. T. Greene, John Oakes, J. Bellew, T. Grotran. Edward Ossulston, Lord Bennet, Capt. P. Guinness, R. S. Otway, A. ttentinck, G. Hale, Robert Pakington, Sir J. Bernard, Vist. Hall, tictieral John Palk, L. Bignold, Sir S. Hamilton, lord Claud Palmer, Robert Blake, M. J. Handcock, H. Palmer. Roundell ltlakeinore, T. Harcourt, Col. Peacocke, G. Illandford, Marquis of Hardy, G. Phillimore, H. J. Bond, J Hayes, Sir E. Portal, M. Booth, Sir Rt. Gore Heathcoate, Sir W. Repto it G. Bowyer. G. Henley, J. Robertson, P. Bramley-Moore, J. Herbert, Sir T. Rust, Jaunts Bramston, T. W. Hervey, Lord A. Seymer, 11. I Buck, Col. Ilildyard, R. C. Smijth, Sir W. Ruler, , ir J. Hill, Lord A. E. Smii h. Abel Burroughes, IT. N. Horsfall, T. Somerset, Colonel hurrowes, Robert Hume, W. Spooner, R. Cabbell, B. B. Jonas, Admiral Stafford, A. Cairns. 11. Kendall, N. Stanhope, J. Cecil, Lord Kennedy, T. Stanley, Lord Christy, Samuel King, J. Starkie, Le G. Clinton, Lord C. Knatchbull, W. Stracey, Sir H. Clive, Hon. R. W. Knight, F. Stewart, Sir M. Cocks, T. S. Knightley, R. Stuart, Captain Cole, H. A. Knox, Col. B. W. Sturt, H. Coles, H. Lacon, Sir E. Sullivan, Michael Compton, 11. C. Langton, W. H. P. G. Swift, R. Conody, T. Laslett, W. Trollope, Sir 3. Corry, H. T. L. Lennox, Lord A. F. Tyler, Sir G. Disraeli, B. Lennox, Lord 11. G. Vance, John Dod, J. Liddell, 11. G. Verner, Sir W. Drax, J. Li3',llrlle, Earl Vernon, G. ...... Duncombe, Hon. A. Lushington, C. M. Vernon, Duncombe, llon.W.E. Lytton, Sir E. Vern on , Admiral. Dunne, Colonel Macartney , G. Warren, S. Egerton, Sir P. MacEvoy, E. Whiteside, J. Emlyn, Viscount Evelyn, W. J. Farnham, E. Williams, T. N M a s, c em Gr a e h g o o i r , , , James W P. hitmore, Maguire. J. F. . e T,o g fius T. Farrer, J. Matins, Richard Willoughby, Sir H. Fellowes, E. Manners, Lord J. Woodd, hamß. Gen. Filmer, Sir E. March, Earl of Wynd, Fitzgerald, W. R. S. Maxwell, J. Wyndham, 11. Foyer, J. Meux, sir Et Wynne, John Follett, B. S. Michell, William Yorke, E. Forester, Col. Montgmuery, H. L. Forster, Sir Geo. Mowbray, J. B. Franklyn, 0. Mundy, W. Gallwey, Sir W. Murrough, J. P. T ELLERS. Jolllfre, Sir W. Taylor, Colonel ~'=;.~ {. NOES-243. -- - - Acton, Joseph •Forttscue, C. S. Paget, Lord A. Ar'air, 11. Fox, W. J. Palmerston, Viscount Adair, R. Freestun, Colonel Patten, Co l . Agnew, Sir A. Gib son , M. Paxton, Sir J. Anderson, Sir J. Gifford, Earl of Pechell, sir G. Atherton, W. (Jofierich, Viscount Peel, Sir R. Baines, Rt. Hon. M. Goodman, Sir G. Peel, F. Ball, J.• Gower, F. Perry, Sir E. Baring, H. Greene, Thomas Philipps, J. Baring, Sir F. Gregson, Samuel Phi Ilimore, J. G. Barnes, T. Grenfell, Charles pigott, F. Bass, M. Oreville, Colonel F. Pilkington, J. Baxter, W. Grey, Rt. Hon. Sir G. Ponsoiiby, A. Beamish, F. Grey, R. Portman, W. Beaumont, W. Grosvenor, Earl Power. N. Bell, J. Hadfield, George Powlett, Lore W. Berkeley, Sir M. Hall, Sir Benjamin "'tee. W. Berkeley, Hon. H. F. Hankey, T. Pritchard, J. Bethell, Sir R. Hamner, Sir John Ramsden, Sir J. Biddul ph, Col. R. M. Ilarcourt, G. G. Raynli am, Viscount Illy gs, W. Ilastie, Alex. Ricardo, 0. Black, Adam Hanle, Archd. Ricardo, S. Bland, L. H. Headlam, T. Rice, E. Bonham-Carter, J. Heard. J. Richardson, J. touverie, Hon. E. P. Heathcote, G. Rid; ey, George Brand, II B. W. Heneage, Geo. H. Robartes, T.J Brocklehurst, J. Heneaze, Geo. F. Roebuck, ,T. Brothcrton, J. Herbert, H. Russell, Lord J. Brown, 11. , Heywood, J. Russell, F. C. Bruce, Lord E. Ilindiey, C. Russell, F. W. Bruce, H. A. Hoge, Sir J. W. Sawle, C. Buckley, Gen. Holland, E. Schol efield, W. Burke, Sir T. Horsman, E &obeli, Capt. Byng, G. 11. C. Howard, C. Scully, F. Castlerosse, Vis. Hutt, W. Seymour, H. Caulfield, Col. J. Ingham, B. Shafto, R. .;`avendish, C. C. Ingram, H. Shee, Serjt. W. Cavendish, G. C. Jackson, W. Shelley, Sir J. Challis, T. Jermyn, Rt. Iln. Earl Sheridan, R. Chambers, M. Keating, H. Smith, J. B. Chambers, T. Kershaw, J. Smith, M. Cheetham, John King, L.- Smith, R. Clay, Sir W., Bt. Kingscote, Capt. B. Somerville, Slr W. Cobbett, J, Kinnaird, A. Stafford, Marquis; Cockburn, Sir A. J. E. Kirk, W. Stanley, W. Collier, It. P. Lahouchere,Rt.Hon.H Steel. John Colvile, C. A. • Langton, H. G. Strickland, iAr G. Cowan, C. Layard, A. 11. Strutt, lion. E. Cowper, W. Lee, W. Sutton, J. Craufurd, E. H. J. Lemon, Sir C. Talbot, C. Crossley, F. Lewis, Sir G. C. Tancrcd, 11. Dashwood, Sir G. Lindsay, W. Thompson, G. Davie, Sir 11. R. F. Lowe, R. DeaSY, B. Luce, T. Thornely, T. T u l i x o b n , t i d h g i 1 e l ~ Earl W Dent, J. Mackie, J. Tite, W. De Vere, S. E. Megan, W. Train, G. D e vereux, J. Marjoribanks, D. Dillwyn, L. L. Martin, J. Vane, Lord H. Drummond, H. Martin, P. Villiers, C. Duff, G. Massey, W. Vivian, 11. 11. Duncan, Viscount Milligan, R. Waddington, D. Dune .n, Mills, T. , George Wahnsley, Sir J. Milner, W. M. E. Dundas, F. Walter, J. Dungarvan, Viscount Moffa t, G. . Warner, E. Dunlop, A. Monck, V 1 s. Waterp ar k, L or d East Sir J. At °fiery lir, J. Watson, W. Ebrington, Viscount Monsell, W. Wells, W. Ellice, E. Morris, D. Whatman, J. Esmonde, J. Moityn, E. Whitbread, S. Este mrt, T. Al owatt, F. Wickham, H. Euston, Earl of Mulgrave, Earl Of Wilkinson, W. , Ewart, W. Muntz, G. Wilcox, B. Ewart, J. Napier, Sit' C. Williams, M. Fenwick, H. North, F. Williams, W. Fergus, John O'Brien, P. Wilson, J. Ferguson, Sir R. O'Brien, J. '" • Winnington, Sir T. Fitz Gerald, Sir John O'Connell, D. • Wise, A. Fitzgerald, J. Wood, Sir C. ; O'Connell, J. Fitzroy, Henry O'Flaherty, A. . _ WYvill, M. ' Foley, J.ll. Oliveira, B. TELLERS. ' Forster, Charles Osborne, R. Ilayter, W. Forster, John --- 0- - ()wen, sir J. ••.7" Berkeley, G. C. au.. i 1... Lord REDESDA.LE, in presenting a petition from Mr. Scott, who had been engaged in the inspection of the ventilation of the house, complaining he had been dismissed from the office he held on the understanding it was for life, again called attention to the case of the fire brigade, which had been discharged for the purpose of appointing other persons in their places. He be lieved the house would not be so safe under the new arrangements as under the old. The Duke of SOMERSET again asserted that the house bad been endangered on one occasion by the divided authority ; the excuse was that the fire arose in a part of the building that was not completed ; but lie sup posed it never would be completed. Lord STANLEY of ALDERLEY stated that the entire responsibility for the &afety of the building had been transferral to the Cnief Commissioner of the Board of Works, and the house ought not to interfere to lessen it. THE FALL OF MARS. The Earl of MALMESBURY—In rising to move that the summons to your lordships to attend on Friday evening be discharged, I think it right to state that it is my intention to withdraw the notice I have given of the motion I had meant to submit on that evening with respect to the surrender of Kars. It is with extreme re gret that I find myself coerced by circumstances to take this course, for I can assure your lordships that I had a very sincere and earnest intention to bring this inter esting subject under your consideration. For the delays which unfortunately prevent me from doing so your lordships will admit that I am in no degree responsible. In the first place, the noble lord the Secretary for Fo reign Affairs remained absent three weeks longer, than we expected ; in the next, the' importanc?, of my mo tion rendered it necessary tnat 'should gi've a full we sk's notice of it, and as your lordships do not sit next Thurs. day—that being Ascension-day--I could name no carder day than next Friday for the debate. But no later than yesterday the Foreign Secretary laid the Treaty of Par s on the table, and as he has invited us to take it into consideration on Monday evening, I cannot think that it would meet the approval of your Lordships to forestall the interest of that great occasion by remarks and animad versions on such subjects as the war in Asia Minor and the surrender of Kars—topics which it would be impossi ble to discuss without reference to their consequences as revealed by the treaty. Under these circumstances I have thought that the better course is to withdraw the ination. Had I not done so we should have had two debates on the same subject, the one on Friday, the other on Mon day, and, as it is manifestly desirable that if we are to spend two evenings in the disc scion of the same topic, they should be consecutive evenings, I trust your lord ships will be of opinion that I am now acting in the manner most conducive to your convenience. (Rear ) I would be understood, however, as reserving to myself the right of bringing forward any motion [ may think fit on Monday evening. I wish to ask my noble friend whether he has any objection to lay on your lordships' table, on Friday; tre terms of the address which Lord Clarendon will move on Monday next ? Earl GRANVILLE—It I rightly understand the noble lord he altogether withdraws his notice of motion with respect to KAre. The Earl of MAL MESBURY—Yes. Earl GRANVILLE—I am glad to hear it. (" Hear, hear," and a laugh.) The Earl of AIALIVIESBURY—The noble earl has not replied to my question. Earl GRANVILLE—The terms of the motion to be made by my noble friend on Monday evening will be laid on your lordships' table on Friday. The Mercantile Law Amendment Bill and Mercantile Law (Sc Aland) Bill passed through committee. The Mercantile Law (Scotland) Amendment Bill was next passed through committee. Their lordships then adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS.-(YESTERDAY.) The SPEAKER took the chair at the usual hour. PRIVATE BUSINESS. The B tth Gas, the Boston Gas, and the Canada Company bills were severally read a third time and passed. The Aberdeen and Scottish Midland Junction Rail way Companies Amalgamation, the Leeds Improvement Act Amendments, and the Sleaford and Tattershall Turnpike Trusts Bills were considered, and ordered to be read a third time. WI LLS AND AD MINIS ORATION. Mr. PALE; moved for a rettra of the number of wills proved and administrations granted, in each year during the last five ye trs by the Episcopal, Archde%nry, and Peculiar Courts proposed to be abolished by the Wills and Administrations Bill, showing the number of probates and administrations, in each year, under each progressive rate of stamp duty. —Agreed to. SPIRITS (IRELAND.) Mr. GROGAN moved for a return of the number of proof gallons of British spirits on which duty was paid in Ireland in the year ending the 31st of December, 1855, the amount of duty received on same, the deficiency in quantity and in strength on such gallons, and the allowance made by the Inland Revenue for such defi ciency in proof gallons and money.—Agreed to. PENSIONS. Mr. W. WILLIAMS moved for a copy of the Trea sury minute which authorises the purchase of pensions charged on revenue departments. A.greed to. GEO LOGICAL S URVEY. Sir D. NORREYS moved for a continuation of the Return, No. 278, of Session 1855, relative to the Geo logical Survey, together with skeleton maps correspond ing in scale and the colours used with the maps of 1855, to show the progress of oho survey to the end of April, LEAVING SHOPS. Mr. BRADY asked if the Gov ernment i ntended giv• log i ns tructions for the prosecution o f t h e man Perkins —Agreed to. l a B n s d 6 Others owners of " Leaving shops " who appeared before Sir Robert Carden at Guildhall a few days ago for receiving goods and lending.money thereon without pawnbroker's licence? and al so it (in the event being found imperfect, so as n o t to reach such hocafasvtehisneg a alws a a lluded to in his former questi on ) the intendedGovern introducing any measure thi s session Govern went having for its object the suppression of places SO incen tive to crime ? Mr. WILSON said the solicitor to the Inland Re venue bad received no information o n th e subject al luded to. But with respect to the second quest i on he begged say the law was in a very unsat i sfactory t he intended to bring in a bill on the subj ec t. ste and to THE BAND IN KENSINGTON GARDEN'S. The Alarquia of BLANDFORD asked the Chief Com missioner of Work s if he would state wh a t arrangemenbad been made, or were contemplated with reference to the perfarmance of the military bands in the public parks on Sundays; that is tosay, in which of the public park-4 it was proposed that the military bands should in future perform ; an d whether there was any truth in th e state ments that had appeared, that preparations were con templated in such places for the accommodation of the performers and the public by the erection of an orchestra and a place for the sale of refreshments ? Colonel NORTH—He wished the hon. baronet would inform the house whether the permission of the colonels of the regiments who usually paid the expenses of the regimental bands had been obtained. Sir B. HALL said he had made a communication to the Horse Guards that the bands should play at stated hours in Kensington-gardens, which request had been complied with. He had also been in communication with the officers of the 2d Life Guards, and a satisfactory ar rangement had been come to with respect to payment of the soldiers. The noble marquis's question or questions were four in number. With respect to the first ho begged to say that last autumn he gave directions that the band should play on Sun da y in Kensin g ton- g ardens fo r the recreation, h e might say the innocent recreation—(hear, hear)—of the inhabitants of the metropolis, and in order that there might be no exaggeration of the number o persons attending those performances he had given orders that the number might be ascertained as nearly a s pos sible, and it was found that they amounted, on various occasions, from 35,000 to 75,000 persons. The arrang e . ments of last year would therefore be continued this. With respect to the second part of the question, he had observed that last year the number of persons attending Kensingto n Gardens amounted to 75,000 ; lent the number attending there last Sunday week amounted tn THE TREATY OF PEACE. In answer to a question f;umMr. EA.YARD, • Lord PALMERSTON said it was usual to propose an address to the Crown on the conclusion of peace when the Treaty was taken into consideration. THE FIREWORKS. In answer to a question from Lord EiOTHAM, The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said he had no estimate for the expense of the fireworks. The expense for the fireworks in London would not exceed 6,000/., and he did not think it worth an estimate. If, however, the house wished it he weuld produce one. SLEEPING STATUTES. Mr. L. KING obtained leave to bring in a bill to re• peal certain stontes which are sleeping and not in use. DEPOPULATION OF IRISH RURAL DISTRICTS. Mr. IPMAHON called attention to the subject•mat ter of a petition from certain inhabitants of the parishes of Killiegn,t and Ballynakill, in the county of Galway, present :d last year, and moved for the appointment of a select committee to investigate its allegations. He stated the particulars of the ease, which related to the " clearance" by an Irish landlord of the tenantry on an estate which he had purcba-ed in the Encumbered Estates Court. His object, he said, was to devise means for restraining the depopulation of rural districts in Ire la-A, and he suggested some expedients by which this abuse of a right might be checked. The motion was seconded by Mr. BELLEW, who strongly u? ged the impolicy, as well as cruelty, of these wholesale clearances, and called upon the Go vernment, in the name of humanity, td grant this inquiry. Lord PALMERSTON admitted that the labouring population of Ireland was not greater than its wants re quired, though it was injudiciously distributed ; but, although there were many parts of the country in which the accumulation of labour was greater than was eom• patible with the interests of the tenantry themselves, he thought those who exercised the right belonging to them of clearing their estates did not act consistently with the public interests. Considering, however, that the house was is the middle of the discussion of an im portant question, he suggested that this subject should be deferred to another opportunity, and he moved that the house do pass to the orders of the day. Mr. DISRAELI concurred in this course, and, after some further discussion, this amendment was agreed to. The \Vhicwood Forest Bill passed through committee. The Bankers' Compositions Bib was read a third time and passed. _ The motion that the house proceed to the orders of the day was then agreed to. . TFIE FALL OF KARS.—ADJOURNED DE3ATE. The debate was resumed by Mr. .1. G. PHILLIMORE, who regretted that the hon. member for Enniskillen had not chosen a more fit opportu, nity for the display of his abilities. The hon. and learned gentleman ought to recollect that although it, was in allow able artifice for an advocate to hide all parts of the case that made against him, such conduct was not dmissible in a senator. The hon. and learned gentleman bid given a vote on the subject of the Turkish loan which had more influ ence on the fate of Kars than any rhetorical display. It mattered little that any hon. gentleman should make a pa triotic speech, but it mattered much that no vote should be given in which _Russia could rejoice. The hon. and learned gentleman had entered into considerable detail with regard to the conduct of Lord Clarendon. He would not follow him through all, but he would endeavour to show that the charges against Lor.l Clarendon were founded on enti , e misropresentation. The first topic insisted on by the hon. and learned gentleman was that General Williams was sent out without any ostensible character. He was sent out with all the ostensible character the English Go vernment could give, and Lord Clarendon left no effort un exhausted to obtain from the Turkish Government the re cognition necessary to his ef f iciency ; if that had been ob tained the calamities might have been averted. The hon. and learned gentleman said that as far as he understood the quarrel between the ambassador and Col. Williams was at an end in March, and that they then had come to an un lerstanding. Even if such was the case, it would have been mach to Lord Clarendon's credit that he had succeeded iu reconciling two such important public servants. Lord Clarendon saw that the quarrel existed, and did all in his power to reconcile there ; but sur e ly th a t cou ld b e no charge against him. The hon. gentleman had complained of the uk() administered to Lord Stratford. What did the hon. gentleman mean ? Did he wish to have Lord Stratford re •alle , l or not ? Lord Stratford's abilities were great ; his knowledge of the people arid the language was unrivalled ; he hold the thread of affairs in his hand, and no NH/lister in his senses would have attempted to recall him ; but it was their duty to show him that the Govern. ment was dissatisfied with his apathy, and his hostility to General Williams. Lord Clarendon did so. The hon. and learned gentleman had referred to the question of the troops ; surely no man would have undertaken the respon sipility of recalling a single soldier from Sebastopal to send to Asia Minor ; no Minister would have imperilled the main object of tha allies. The hon.and learned gentle man said Lord Clarendon sent three men and a doctor. ... ...,. What ... did those three men and the doctor do? Did they not make an heroic resistance ? It was much to the credit of Lord Clarendon that he should have chosen such a man as General Williams. History showed how much a single man had done : one man saved Syracuse —one man saved Carthage. It was impossible to send numerical assistance, so moral support was sent. The names of Lake and Tees dale would never be forgotten so long as nervic energy was entitled to respect: The hon. and learned gentleman had next referred to Lord Panmure ; the hon. and learned gen tleman had misquoted him and represented him to have said that the cause was desperate. Lord Panrnure said no such thing ' • on the 11th of July h e wrote :—" More- over, from all the information which has reached me, I have every reason to believe the army of Batoum to be in a deplorable state. I know the contingent to be scarcely organised • of the Bulgarian troops you can have no know ledge, endl pieaume that Beatson's gorge" are as little re duced to control and discipline as your own troops. In short. I am assured that it would be madness to attempt to suceot- Brigadier Gen. Williams in this way." That was very different from saying that General Williams's situation was desperate. The noble lord the member for Colchester (Lord J. Manners) blamed Lord Clarendon for having encouraged General Williams to a desperate resist ance, but the hon. and learned member for Enniskillen said, distinction to the Divan, and if Lord Panruure had filled the office of Seraskier, and if Lord Clarendon had held that department which is filled by the Turkish Secre tary for Foreign Affairs, the hon. and learned gentleman's speech would have - been perfectly relevant to the question; but it appears to me that for the most part it is wholly ir relevant as directed against her M a j est y's Government. The only way in which he was able to establish that the Government is responsible for the proceedings at the siege of Kars is by adverting the appointment of Gen. Williams as British commissioner to the Turkish army. Now, sir, much criticism was made by him upon the powers of Gon. Williams; it was said they were indefinite —it was said they were insufficient—it was said her Majesty's Govern went did not obtain from the Gov es nment of the Porte sufficient authority to enable him to carry his views into effect. It may he said that the Government erred in at tempting to interfere in the affairs of the siege of Kars. They undertook the task, however, because they believed the great importance attached to that operation ; and in order to do all that was in their power to assist the Turk ish Government in the defence of that fortress they de puted Gen. Williams to b he Bri tish co mmissioner. He biwas a man about whose a ty, about, whose energy, about whose military capacity there were not two opinions given or existing in the house str amongst any body of English men who had either read this blue book or the various publications in which his conduct had been illustrated. No doubt can exist as to the assistance sent to him ' • it was no blame at all to the Government of h er Majesty that they were unable to place him in the position which he ought to have occupied, from the circumstance of their being unable to arm him with a utherity'which could only ema nate from the Porte. The French Government had the same power of deputing a commissioner to accompany General Williams, but they did not adopt that course. They did not attach so much importance as the Go vernment of this country attached to the expedition in Asia Minor ; they looped their desires and hopes to the operations in the Crimea. Nothing then could be more unjust, nothing could be less consistent with the troth than to impute to the Government of this country any ne glect, any oversight with regard to the operations in Asi• Minor. All that can be justly attributed to them is, that in attempting to do ell that was in their power by resorting to the only means that it was possible for them to take viz., appointing a commissioner to act in concert with the i T arkioll authoxitieri in the fortress of Kara, they reudered themselves a party to the responsibility involved in the operations. But they were unable to send troops, and they sent etther effi:dent assistance. General Williams, by being .thus sent was placed in no anomalous position ; he was the British Commissioner to the Turkish army. We sent also a commissioner to act in concert with the French general at, his head-quarters, and the French Government did the same with regard to us. But tha circumstances of his po sition gave to Gen. Williams animportance which the other commissioner did not possess. Ho was a Irian of extraor dinary energy and wonderful ability ; he found himself obliged to act in concert with a Turkish general who was deficient in energy and ability, and who wanted all the most important qualities required for the command of a heeieged fortress, (Rear.) It was owing to that circum stance that Gen. Williams's conduct has attracted so much importance ; it was owing to that circumstance that ho was compelled to assume the command of the fortress of Kane and to form the army which defended it,. Now, the hon.taird learned gentleman makes the charge . as if the 'defence of Kars lead rested with an English army. Bilt 7 is the c-overnmont at all responsible for• the army that did defend it ? The hon. and learned gentleman would have it guPposed that they are, but nothing can be more re trial from the truth. (Hear, he'r.) Now, I have stated that from the beginning, the Government of her Ma jesty had attached great importances to the opera tion e in Asia Minor ; they had attached far more import anceto those operations than our allies, the Emperor of the French or the King of Sardinia. We had Watched from the-beginning the proceedings in Asia--Minor-;-but we were not precluded from acting in cowed with, our alliee, nor did we allow our attention to be much diverted frOin the Crimea. (Hear.) . Now, oris it not true that there - is. great justice in the view, which has been taken by tha French Government, especially at the begin ningof the campaign, as to the great importance of the Crireei, andlooking upon the Operations in Asia Minor as l'only ; ot secondary moment. And yet any -one who had listened to the speech of the hon. and learnedgentleman yesterday would have eupposed that Asia Minor was the main theatre of the war. Now, is there the smallest l eerouhd, in o,mili . tary point-of view, forjustifyin e that triettieofettreettnit u w*/afiiiid `*Nati e the principles for conducting a war? Why, the greatest masters of the military art have laid it down, and this was singularly illustrated by the tactics of Napoleon in the late war, that you should strike at the heart of your enemy, and leave the extremities to take care of them selves. (Hear.) Well, now what was the heart; what was the centre of the power of Russia in that region ? Can anybody doubt that it was Sebastopol and not Kars? Can anybody doubt that the French Government and the Eng lish Government were perfectly justified in making Sebas topol the main object of the campaign? (Hear.) Sir, I cannot conceive that there can be any difference of opinion upon a question, the answer to which is so manifest to all persons who judge either by the reason of the thing or by the authority of the opinions of great military judges. All the military judges of the campaign agree that the main object of it was to hold Sebastopol ; we had staked one re putation on the fall of that fortress when the negotiations last year took place at the Congress of Vienna. What were the feelings of the country and the house upon the sub ject? Were they not most urgent that no terms of p eace should be accepted, while Sebastopol remained untaken ? Therefore it seems to me quite undeniable that the Govern. ment would have failed in their first duty if they had with drawn troops from Sebastopol, sad so have weakened the attack upon that place, in order to secure a purely secondary object, the safety of the citadel of Kars- Upon that policy her Majesty's Government, in concert with their ally, the Emperor of the French, consistently acted. When Sebastopol had been taken, a movement was at once made in the direction of Kars, but unfortunately it was then too late. I do not wish to go into the question of the compa rative advantage of the two roads by Erzeroutn and Ku tais, of which we heard so much last night. Unfortunately, Omer Peale was not in time to relieve the place ; but the great principle on which the campaign was conducted was nevertheless unimpeachable. When the place was taken— when Russia was in possession of Kars—it was, according to the hen. and learned member, in possession of the key of Constantinople; and (said the hon. member) it was a gross dereliction of duty to give such an advantage to the enemy, and lay open the road to the capital. But what are the facts? If the road to Constantinople was open to him at the end of November, what advantage did he make of it? We see that after the taking of Kars he remained inactive, and did not advance one inch ; in fact, of this great sue cess, not one atom of use was made by General Moeravieff, an officer of whose talents not a doubt exists. But even supposing that at the end of the winter another campaign had been opened, to what use, could General Mouravieff have then turned his possession of Kars? The communi cations with Kars are and were much easier to Turkey, France, and England than they were to Russia. The distance which Russia would have had to move her troops to give the necessary strength to the garrison at Kara would have been enormouti. The immense land transport to which the Russian 'troops at Sebastopol had been ex po nd decimated their ranks, and if the most authentic accounts which we have received can be credited made a havoc compared to which the losses of the English and French armies have been as nothing. If, instead of send ing to Sebastopol, Russia had had to send them to a greater distance, in order to insure the success of Kars, it is obvious that a most simple operation at the beginning of the spring would alone have been necessary in order to !deprive Russia of this great advantage, and to drive her hack across the Caucasus. In whatever way, therefore, you look at the subject—whether in relation to its actual result or to its probable result—if the war had continued to this spring, it mist appear that the capture of Kars, in a strategetical point of view, was of no importance —that it was a matter of secondary consequence when com pared with the attack upon Sebastopol, and that when that fortress fell the allies would have had it in their power to make themselves masters of the captured citadel. I am therefore clear that, confining the matter within a military point of view, it is impossible for the hon. member to esta blish the hymn, tance of the loss of Kars. He may, how ever, say, " I admit that in a military point of view, that event cannot be shown to be important; but, politically speaking, the case is otherwise; Russia took Kars from the Ottoman empire to give her an opportunity, when she came to negotiate, of insisting upon terms which she could not otherwise have asked." Setting aside the military, the political aspect of the question is undoubtedly of great im portance, and I therefore wish to meet any arguments which may be based upon it as distinctly as possible. Now, the first plan for the pacification of Europe was discussed and reduced into writing 'at Vienna in the beginning of Nov. last, by the ambassadors of foreign governments and the foreign minister of the Austrian Government. The plan thus sketched out was transmitted to Paris for the ap probation of the French Emperor, whose concurrence it received, and it was then transmitted to her Majesty's Go vernment for their consideration and approval. It under went certain alterations not very substantial, and that plan so agreed upon by all parties may be seen in the protocols now on the table of the house, where it appears in the shape of preliminaries of peace. All these preliminaries were originally sketched out before Kars had fallen ; certainly long before the news of the capture of that fortress had been received. The house is thus in possession of the plans of pacification which were agreed to by the three governments of Austria, France, and England—which were reduced into writing, and rrc !ived a definitive le in before the capture of Kars was thrown into the scele. I call upon hon. gentlemen to compare these preliminaries with the treaty as it was when it was signed by the plenipotentiaries nt Paris, and es it is now on the table of the house. After they have gone through the preliminaries, item by item, article by article, I defy them to show that'the treaty fells short in any respect of the preliminary articles ; on the contrary, I believe it to be the fact that the treaty goes beyond the preliminaries, and that will be found to contain more conditions favourable to this country, and imposing upon Russia restrictions favourable to the future safety of Europe. If the result of such an examination should con vince this house, as I am satisfied it will, that the treaty, instead of falling short, goes beyond the preliminaries, and if it be ad initted to be the fact, which it cannot be denied to be, that those preliminaries were conceived and put into shape without any idea of the fall of Rare being present to those who arranged their terms, I ask—l would say any candid person, or any person putting himself into a judicial frame of mind—but I ask any man who has any idea of what reasoning is, if tho capture of Kars can be said to have had any political effect? (Hear.) I will ask, too, any gentleman to go through these protocols, which arc upon the table, and state where they show so much as a trace of any concessions having been wade by England on account of tho disaster at Kars. I positively affirm that uo such trace can be found, for, in truth, no such con cession was made. The doctrine which we laid down at the very beginning that the integrity of the Turkish em pire must above all be asserted by us, was never lost sight of, and it was felt that any bargaining about Kara would not be consistent with our duty in this respect. So far as the personal behaviour of the plenipotentiaries was concerned, I have no doubt but that the frank and straightforward manner which in the representative of Russia gave up the point, and did not insist upon any ad vantage in respect of Kars, tended to the harmonious re sult of the entire negotiations. In fact, if honourable members will refer to the treaty of peace, they will see that nothing is said about equivalents ; it is not said, if you restore such and such places we will restore certain others. The article is simply as follows :-- " His Majesty the Emperor of all the Russias engages to restore to his Majesty the Sultan the town and citadel of Kars, as well as the other parts of the Ottoman territory of which the Russian troops are in possession." I think, there fore—unless what I have saii can receive some answer — that the house will agree with me that whether we look to the military or political importance of the capture of Kars, the speech of the hon. and learned member (Mr. White side) is full of exaggerations. The noble lord the member for Colchester (Lord J. Manners), not confining himself to the question of the responsibility of the English Govern ment in consequence of the appointment of General Wil liams, said that we had prevented the Turkish Govern ment from taking such steps as it might have taken for the relief of the - place by our remissness in furnishing that Go vernment with supplies from the loan which was guranteed by this Government and by France. As this is a matter in which I have had some experience, perhaps the house will bear with me for a few minutes while I state the ac tual facts of the case. The act, confirming the guarantees of England, in addition to that of France, for the Turkish loan, passed last session, having received the royal assent on the 14th of August last. The management of the terms of that loan was placed by the Government in the very competent hands of Sir A. Spearman, who acted as com missioner for her Majesty's Government under the Turkish ambassador, in whom the supreme arrangement of the matter, of course, rested. The loan was contracted for on the 20th of August. Of course, immediately after the terms of the loan had been arranged, a necessary interval had to be allowed before tho payment of the first icstal mont. The interval, however, was a short one, for on the 2fith of August 100,0001. sterling were delivered to the War Department for shipment to Turkey. On the 31st of 0 , & f u g o u r s , t t e a m n b o e t r h thr l o o e o, o o t oo b e / r . , s ad oonf 100th o h , 1 0 0 00 t e l a 3 c l h h ; awnedreilidteh livered over to the War Department. art t m ab e l n e t ;sbo T w he t se ba f t ac t t b s, or e o vh w ic a h s appear in returns upon no remissness on the part ofherM Majesty's withGove o rn o m r o e w nt n . Sir, when the French Government to make a joint guarantee on behalfoftheTurltish Government, it was made an express stipulation on thepart which was willingly illini( g i lyacquiesced in n f t b h y e u E s: s t p b e a r t o r t ' b s o mi ministry, slooneytr should not be paid over at once to the Turkish Government , but that in the fir st place a security should be taken that it would be applied to the purposes of the war, The loan wads guaranteed expressly that In order to the settlement of this question, Fuad Pasha proposed a further meeting, at which the Turkish system of accounts was to be examined. This meeting did not take place immediately, it was postponed from day to day, and, in fact, did not take place until Nov. 24. That was the very day on which the capitulation of Kars took place. Hence the house will see that whatever delay may ' have taken place it was in no respect owing to any remiss ness on the part of the English or French Government, but on the contrary, that they and their officers acted with the greatest promptitude. Ultimately, a sum of half a million was delivered to the Turkish Government on the let Dec., and on the 17th of that month an answer to the memorans dum was received from the Turkish Government, containing a general assent to its provisions. I think that the house will see from this that it was the delay of the Turkish Go vernment, caused by its unwillingness to submit to a rea sonable and necessary precaution, and not to any remiss ness on our part, which led to the evil of which the noble lord (Lord J. Manners) made complaint. I should state that though the memorandum underwent some slightmodi fications, it remained unaltered in all material points, and, so unaltered, was assented to by the Government of Turkey —a fact which proves that there were not conditions in it absolutely repugnant to that power. It ought also to be stated by me that the Turkish Government obtained large advances on the faith of this loan by bills drawn upon Messrs. Rothschild. In this manner it obtained on the 21st Sept. *23.000/., on the Ist October 200,0001., and on the 3rd of that month 100,0001. So that it was not so desti tute of moans as the noble 1 erd seemed to imagine. An other expedient for supplying the Turkish Government e'itli funds was suggested by the bon. and learned mem ber for Enniskillen (Mr. Whiteside.) He said we might have resorted to a subsidy of 100,0001., and that if the Government had come down to this house and asked for that sum there would have been no difficulty in obtaining it, and that when obtained it would have enabled the Turkish Government to relieve the garrison at Kars. Now, I do not see the hon. and learned member in his place, and I do not wish to be supposed to use laugnage belied the back of the hon. and learned gentleman wlei eh I would not use before his face. I cannot, however, re frein from notcing that throughout his speech the hon. and learned member dealt mach in vituperative epithets, especially condemieg very many actions of the Govern ment. and of poisons connected with it, as " contempt ible." I cannot, however, but think that if the bon. gen tleman had come down to this house last summer, and asked for a subsidy of 100,0001. to be handed over to the Turkish Government to assist it in the carrying on of the war, no word could more aptly have been applied than that very word—contemptible. The hon. member referred to the example of subsidies in the late war. I do not wish to go into the question of the policy of subsidies, at the same time I cannot but feel that during the late war we (lid offer a resistance to the power of Franco, and fence ourselves round by menus of our lavish system of subsi dies. It was a system of defence which enabled us to bring large armies into the field ; but we did not send them 100,0001., and I cannot but think that the hon. and learned gentleman, however he may approve of that idea now that he has the light of subsequent events to guide him, would have been ono of the first to object to it had the Government last session acted up to his present sugges tion. I will now say a few words on the amendment of the hon member for Dorset (Mr. K. Seyiner) who spoke with sound moderation and good sense from below the gangway. He gives various reasons why he cannot support the motion before the house, and offers an amendment which looks very like moving the previous question. The effect of his motion must at all events be to give the go by to the main question, as the house is by the amendment called upon to dec!ine giving any opinion at present on the me rits. Looking at the motion itself I think I can perceive in it a strong family likeness to a motion made in another place. The latter is certainly not identical in phraseology to the motion before this house, bat it bears so close a re semblance as to indicate that thee person who prepared the ore had before him at the time a copy of the other. Lord Malmesbury gave notice for the . ed of Mny to move that while the house (of Lords) feels it a duty to express admi ration at the gallantry of the Turkish army, and of the self-relying courage of General Williams and the British officers engaged in the defence of Kars, it feels it to be equally a duty to affirm that the surrender of that fortress was a disaster seriously affecting the security of Asiatic Turkey and the negotiations for peace ; and further, that it was in a great Degree to be attributed to a want of foresight on the part of her Majesty's Government. There is, then. the closest resemblance between the two motions, but I understand that since the commencement of business in this house this evening, the motion in the other house has been abandoned. However, it has been made the subject of de bate in this, having been opened by an hon. and learned member in a speech of great elaboration, full of minute details, and fortified by frequent reference t.) the corre spondence, and the house has been called upon to pronounce a direct verdict on the hon. and learned member's motion. Her Majesty's Government feel it to be their duty to meet that motion with equal directness, they believe it is wholly unsupported by the evidence which has been laid on the table, they believe it to be wholly unsustained by the facts of the case, and they are most desirous that the question should be folly discussed and sifted. They do not shrink from the closest scrutiny into their conduct, and they court the decision of the house on the motion as originally framed. 1 shill not, therefore, be able to support the mo . . . Lion of the hon. member for Dorsetshire. I quite recog nise is conciliatory spirit, but, nevertheless, it is, after a►l, merely a postponement of the question. The hon. member says—" Let us first examine the treaty of peace and the protocols, and then we can form a judgment on the conduct of the Government." I say, ou the one hand, that these papers can be soon examined, and that there is nothing to prevent hon. members from at once coming to a decision, nor any reason why the house should he again called on to discuss this matter. The hon. and learned member for Enniskillen has found ample evidence for our condemnation ; I trust we shall get ample evidence for our acquittal. I hope that the members of this house will put themselves in a judicial frame of mind, such as beseems the giving of a verdict, and if that should be the case I feel confident that this motion will result in the entire and complete acquittal of her Majesty's Govern ment. (Hear, hear.) Sir J. PAKINGTON said he should not detain the bons') by going at any length into the correspondence, or the complicated questions which had boon raised. How ever, ho felt justified in saying that, notwithstanding the speech of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the able and powerful speech of his lion. and learned friend the member for Enniskillen remained as yet wholly unanswered. The Chancellor of the Exchequer was the first member of the Cabinet who had risen to reply to his hon. and learned friend ; and certainly, although he (Sir J. Pakington) had had doubts as to the ground the Government would take respecting the disasters of Kars, he never supposed that any member of the Government would take up the extra ordinary ground that had been now taken. There was one passage in the Chancellor of the Exchequer's speech in which he cordially agreed, and that was the just and well-merited tribute he had paid to the bravery of General Williams. (Cheers.) Nor let it be confined to that gallant officer, for every Englishman engaged in that memorable s'.ege was entitled to the deepest gratitude from his countrymen. (Loud cheers.) His honourable and learned friend the member for Enniskillen had alluded to the fact that the only contributions the British Government had sent to the defence of Kars were four Englishmen and a doctor. He (Sir J. Pakington) confessed that he felt some regret at the terms which his hon. and learned friend had used in that portion of his speech. ( Loud cries of hear.) When his hon. and learned friend spoke of four Englishmen a right hon. friend behind him said " five." His hon. and learned friend misunderstood the remark, and added " General William' s sec retary w ished h:3 to bat the fifth individual to whose merits i t w bear testimony was the doctor, and he (Sir JaPakington) was sure the house would feel with him that no slight por tion of any tribute to the defenders of Kars belonged toDr. Sandwith. (Loud cries of hear.) He w_a_s als__o happy . to add his tribute to the generous conduct of lien. Mouravieff, in at once liberating Dr. Sandwit h, in conse quence of the great care ho had taken of the _Russian prisoners when within the fortress. (gear-) Every gentleman who like him (Sir J. Pakington) had had the good fortune to make the acquaintance of Dr. Sandwith must have been struck ' with the modesty and good feeling with which that gentle. man always referred to the events of that miserable and disastrous siege. (Hear.) He must now turn to those portions of the right hon. gentleman's speech in which ho did not concur. In his attempt to explain why no por tion of the Turkish loan had been paid until the mouth of December the right hon. gentleman adverted to the fact that the opposition had expressed strong disapprobation to the loan ; but that was no reason why, having been granted, it should not have been applied in the most prompt and eilhieet manner. The judicious expenditure of 50,000/. or 1 00,000/. might have enabled General Wil liams to save Kars. (Hear, hear.) The right honourable gentleman had devote t a considerable portion of his speech to proving that the capture of Kars had had no effect upon the peace negotiations. He (Sir J. Pakington would not allow himself to be prematurely drawn into a discussion of thosa negotiations ; but this he would say, that he believed it would be very difficult to peisuade the house or the country that the capture of Kars had not had an unfavourable effect on them. (Hear, hear.) But that portion of the right lion. gentleman's speech from which he wished to express the strongest dissent was that in which he made the Government in no degree re sponsible either for the defence or fall of Kars. The right hon, gentleman said, "No blame cau Attac4 to her Uojos. detpiOit:Ca AretriTifiVnTorgritalgird *-A - the respon.ibility of the Government ; and here he begged to remind the house of the observation of the noble lord the member for London at a former period, to the effect that the Prime Minister was responsible for the despatched issued by his Government. He must say that this de spatch was one which the Government ought to be ashamed of. There were many of Lord Clarendon's despatches which, he admitted, did him honour ; but this one was neither -creditable to thh noble lord nor to the Government —for the spirit in which it was written was craven and unworthy. It assumed, and in fact invented, every ima ginable excuse for rejecting the only plan by which Kars might have been relieved. It said— The plan proposed by the Porte for the relief of the Turkish army at Kars, as sketched out in yourExcallency's despatches of the 30th June and let inst., has been attentively consi dered by her Majesty's Government, and I have to state to your Excellency that it appears to be objectionable for the followiug reasons : It would be in the greatest degree im prudent to throw on an unwholesome coast, without means of land transport, without any certainty of provisions, with out an assumed communication with the rear, without an ac curate knowledge of the country to be traversed, or the strength of the enemy to be encountered, and with the proba bility of a hostile population, 40,000 men, hurriedly collected from various quarters, imperfectly disciplined, doubtfully armed and equipped, and as yet tutorganised, and to expose hem at once to all the hazards and difficulties of a campaign against a Russian army. Why the greater part of these dangers were mere assump tions—there was no proof whatever that they existed. The Government assurded th It there was wanting the means of transport—that there was no certainty of obtaining provi sions, and no communication in the rear, and that there was no knowledge of the country. If there was one thing more remarkable than another in these papers, it was the amount of ignorance the Government die played of the nature of the country, and on that wound only could their otstinacy in opposing every opi nion in the East. in reference to the Trebizond route, be accounted for. His belief was, that the Government got a map of the country, laid it out upon the Cabinet table, and seeing that Tiflis, Erzerourn, and Trebizond formed a , triangle upon it, they concluded that, starting from Tre bizond, it was as easy to go one way as another. Let him call attention to the next sentence of the despatch, for, without exception, it was the most trifling and unworthy he had ever read in a despatch penned by a British Mi nister upon any subject. It wa.a in these few words : " They would fall ill between Redont-Kaleh and Kntais, and be defeated between Kutais and Tiflis." Here was a prophecy, not only as to when the Turks would fall but as to where they would not be met, and have to do battle with the enemy with a chance of victory, but be defeated by them. What could be more calculated to damp the courage of the Turks? Ho would now advert to the answer of Lord Stratford, and that was one of the severest and most condemnatory letters that any foreign Minister had, he imagined, ever received from one of his owu diplomatic agents. Lord Stratford, writing to Lord Clarendon, said : " The unfavourable judgment passed by her Majesty's Go vernment on the plans which have been lately under discus. sign with a view to the relief of the Sultan's army at Kars, has naturally increased the Porte's embarrassment. It was my duty to make it known to the Turkish Ministers, not only as au opinion, but, with respect to General Vivian's Contingent, as a veto. A most serious dilemma is the imme diate result. Her Majesty's Government not only withhold the Contingent, but express a decided preference for the al ternative of sending reinforcements to Erzeroum by the way of Trebizond. This opinion is not adopted by the Porte, or, indeed, by any official or personal authority here, The Seraskier, Omer Pacha, General Guyon, our own officers, as far as I have means of knowing, agree with the Porto and the French Embassy in preferring a diversion on the side of Re dout-Kaleh, as offering better chances of success ; supposing, of course, that the necessary means of transport supply and other indispensable wants can be sufficiently provided. France is at the same time decidedly adverse to any diminu tion of force in the Crimea ; and Omer Pacha, ready to place himself at the head of an Asiatic expedition, requires for that purpose part of the troops now there." And then, in very despair, he added—" Such being the present state of the case, I am precluded Cora contributing to the Porte's extrication from its difficulties otherwise than by countenancing some now location of the Contin gent, which, without exposing the corps to a premature trial, might enable a force of the same amount to be de taehed for service elsewhere." And the despatch ended with the words—" Meanwhile the advices from Kars are not encouraging ; ant time of precious value is unavoid ably wasted in doubt and uncertainty." Well, he (Sir J. Pakington) relied upon these two letters, and, in his opi nion, they distinctly proved that it was the Government who were responsible for the fall of Kars. (Hear.) It was true that they afterwards changed their minds and agreed that a diversion should be attempted in Georgia ; but that was two months after they had rejected this or ganised plan of the Porte—approved of by the Sultan and his minister, and by the French and English ambassadors, and by all the military authorities; and only whoa it was too late ha 1 they given their sanction to Omer Pache making a diversion in Georgia. (Hear.) Now let him ask them was it possible for the right hon. gentleman the Chan cellor of the Exchequer, in the face of those letters, to con tend that the Government were in no degree responsible for the defence of Kars, and that they were not to be blamed for its ultimate surrender. There wee ono other point to which he wished to allude, viz., the language of Lord Panmure in speakiegof this plan as a wild, undigest ed, and mad scheme. Lord Panmure said in his despatch that, he had too much confidence in General Vivian's pro fessional ability to feel any anxiety that he could under take any expedition so wild, undigested, and mad. (Hear.) And was the house aware that at that very time General Vivian hail written a despatch, which was being forwarded home by Lord Stretford, in which he said :—" I do not entertain a doubt of the advantages of the proposed (that was the diversion by Georgia) measure if it could be judi ciously arranged." The right hon. gentleman had said he would not go into the comparative advantages of the two roads. When the question of saving or losing Kars turned upon that apparently very trifling question. He (Sir J. Pakington) had been surprised to hear on the pre• vious evening from the Attorney-General that General Vi vian approved of the proposal for attempting the relief of Kars by the Trebizond route, and snore so at hearing the Lord-Advocate state that the Trehizond roads were per fectly good for artillery, as every military man know. Ho (Sir J. Pakington) must say a more audacious assertion he had never heard hazarded in Parliement, and when it was uttered he felt disposed to think that his legal friends would say almost anything. What the right bon. and learned gentleman's peculiar means of information as to the Trebizond roads were he could not say, but he pre -1 sum wholly Fu a s a r i, e G d e n b e e r a w Williamsu c allo w t g h h a t t t o ile b T e urk k ish oke a d ut u h p o o r;ti a e s s some d Pashaa udteheoli,Litteyd; that it would take t a li n e c t i b t o h t e h r t e h a a d t s G th e e n l e e ral we a r n e d unfit for artillery, . 71 4 three or four months before it was possible to take an ar my to make the house to the relief of Kars by that route. The right hon. gentl e . man had tried b elieve that Gen. Wil liams was in favour of trying to relieve Liars by way of Trebizond ; lent e so far from that being so, he expressed a hope that the allies would send an expedition t o G eorg i a to operate up on the r ear of Mour a v ieff, and create is diver sion, otherwise nothing could saveKars. How, in the face o f such language, was it possible to contend that General Williams was in favour of the Trebizond route, he (Sir J. Pakington) could not understand. Again, writing inoc tobereWilliamsen.said—" Under these' circumstances, I address thee° few lines to your lordship, with a hope that such representations may be instantly made to General Omer to act with vigour and decision against Georgia; otherwise in spite of our brilliant victory, we must ulti mately fall into the enemy's hands." Here, again, it is clear that in the opinion of Gen. Williams relief could come to Kars only by the plan proposed by the Turkish Government, which the noble lord (Clarendon) had re. jested. He (Sir J. Pakington) had been induced to make these remarks by the speech of the right hon. gentleman, and he hoped he had shown the house that the Govern ment was not justified in assuming that they weie not re sponsible for the events which led to the capitulation of Kars. (Hoar.) He, on the contrary, maintained that they had made themselves responsible by the letter he had quoted, and that upon thorn mainly rested the blame for the loss of Kars. (Hear,) Mr. LAYARD claimed the indulgence of the house for a few moments, and assured them that ho would no t deta in them longer than was necessary, for ho thought it was . too much the habit of that house to speud ju t d oo gu m le u n c t h up ti o na n e til in e words and little in acts. He hoped, however , to be able very shortly to place the facts before them in such a posi tion as would aid them in forming a question at issue. Hitherto he thought the subject had not been clearly placed before the ho use. They had had a resolution vigorous speech proposed eh fr om and le reed mem b er opposite. The Government had b ee n. strongly attackal in a tli n e d i s ie u e pr rted by a most able and by other speeches delivered from the opposite side of the house, while, on the other hand, the speeches from the Treasury bench, be must say, had been somewhat weak, and had almost tended to convert him to an oppos site opinion from thet . they were int en d e d t o a d voca t e . (Hear.) It was unfortunate that the Government had en ti listed their case to a lawyer who had not got up his brief. (" Hear," and a laugh.) 1\ etheut presuming too much, be thought he could have made a better defence for the Goe verneuent himself. He would, however, endeavour to take away sehletiliDZ froal the fitreug elohleut of the debate, and 1210 1 elMwowl M