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IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS—(YEsT%B.DAy.) The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack at 5 o'clock. Lord CAMPBELL stated that lie had received a number of petitions respecting Church rates, but as the bill was in progress in the other house , the rule of their lordships prevented him presenting those petitions until the bill was brought up. Personally, be hoped the bill would never be brought up. Lord ELLENBUROUGH presented a petition, com plaining of the evils that had arisen since the union of the sees of Gloucester and Bristol. SHERBURN HOSPITAL BILL. The LORD CHANCELLOR moved that this bill be referred to a select com,tlittee. The Bishop of OXFORD agreed in the reference of the bill to a conanittee. Tuis was the first time these religi ous institutious had come before the charitable commis sioners. It was a complete mistake of the commi,sioners to make it a case of a medical hospital ; they had con founded h,ospitium with " hospital," a complete mistake. The meaning attached to the word hospitium at the time these hospitals were founded was not at all that of a medical infirmary. The question now arose, for the first time, what was the proper application of the cy pres duc• trine to these institutions The LORD CHANCELLOR thought that the com missioners bad arrived at a proper solution of the ques ion. They had thought that the hospitals ought to be applied to the relief of persons suffering under some sort of disease, because tlissy were originally founded for lepers, a class of persons not now existing. The motion was agreed to, and the lords were named, comprising Lord Dungannon and the Earl of Burlington. THE MOULTON SCHOOL BILL, This bill went through committee. THE MAGDALEN HOSPITAL (BATH) BILL. This bill also went through corumitt-e. THE STOKE POGES HOSPITAL BILL. This bill likewise went through cenpoittee. INDUSTRIAL AND PROVIDENT SOCIETIES BILL. Lord ASHBURTON moved the second reading of this bill. Doubts and difficulties had arisen in the act of last session which this bill was to remove. The bill was read a second time. REFORMATORY AND INDUSTRIAL SCHOOLS desired it to be carried on to Exeter. If we had been lately at war with France inste-ad of Rua-ia, we shculd have found the greamot difficulty in c nveying forces along the coast. He trussed, therefore, that the double line would becompleted, and withoutaoy postponement. If 20 mks could be done one year, 20 more could h-, done in the next year, and in a third year the whole would be completed. The company did not want funds, for their shares were above par. Lord STANLEY said he believed the promise to be gin the double line was bona fide, but he thought the company's request for delay after the first 20 miles were completed was reasonable. On the motion of Lord STANLEY of ALDERLEY, The house adjourned at 16 zoinute4 p 1.4 t seven, until Monday next, to-day (Friday) being the annivenary of her Majesty's acce3,qcn. HOUSE OP COMNIONS.--(IfEsTERDAY.) THE AUSTRALIAN MAILS. Mr. T. CHAMBERS asked whether there was any objection to lay the tenders for the conveyance of the mails to and from Australia, and which he understood had been opened on the previous day, before the house ? Mr. J. WILSON replied that the tenders had reached him only just before he came down to the house, and would be exemined by him in the course of the evening. There were objections against laying them on the table, but the Government intended to accept the lowest in price and the shortest in time, and he would state the restat to-morrow ('his due). BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE. In reply to queatione froin Mr. T. Hawkey, Mr. New degete, and Mr. Hadfield, Sir G. GREY intimated that the National Gallery Site Bill would be taken to-morrow evening, and after wards the Cambridge University Bill. He intended to ask the h-use to give a second reading to the City of London Corperation Bill, if posaible, in the course of next week. He would give notice of the day. Lord PALMERSTON ad led, that as other business intervened to prevent the Wills and Administration Bill being proceeded wiah on Monday, as previeuslyarranged, his hon. friend the Solicitor-General would bring it on on Thursday next. He did not think it likely that the Church-rate Bill would come on to-morrow. The ar rangements mentioned by his right hon. friend of course depended upon their getting through the estimates that evening ; if not, they would begin the business of to-morrow evening with the estunatee, and if there was time after- ' wards the Agricultural Statistics Bill would be taken. THE GOVERNMENT DEFEAT ON TUESDAY. Mr. WALPOLE—I understand that the noble 'ord made an annooncement yesterday to the house in answer to a question put to him by the hon. member for Louth, that he considered that the resolution to which the house came on Tuesday ought to be reversed, and that he would eive up Monday, a Government day, to the hon. member to move a resolution on the subject. (Cheers from the ministerial benches.) That I think was the effect of the noble lord's announcement. (" Hear, hear," from Lord Palmerston.) Will the noble lord permit me to ask him, supposing he sees no objection to putting, the 1 house now in possession of the information, whether be 1 is prepared to state what course the Government propose to take on Monday on the subject of Irish national edu cation ? Lord PALMERSTON—It is perfectly true that my hon. friend the member for the county of Louth announced yesterday that it was his intention to propose to the house on an early day some motion or resolution tend ing to reverie the decision to which the house came on Tuesday, and begged to know what early day the Go vernrnent would be prepared to give him for that pun pose. I stated in answer that I thought the matter so important, the decision to which the house hail cmue to be so nrechievoue, and the urgency of recensateratien so great, that I would give him the earliest day the Govern. went cou:d afferd for bringing the question for ward, and that he should have precedence on Monday next. Mr. WALPOLE—The noble lord will parlon m, fer saying that that is scarcely all anee e , - t ) my question. It is important that Peeietiment should reqeire—an .1 it ought to require—am be infermed what course her Ma• jesty's Government prop \se to take in reference te. any motion that may be made for rescinding the address to the Crown which was voted on Tuesday last by the House of Commons on the subject of national education in Ireland. Lord PALMERSTON—I really can hardly suppose, after what I have already tated, that the right hon. gen tleman can entertain any doubt on the subject. Always as4uming that the motion of my hon. friend is unobjec tionable in point of form, which I cannot doubt, her Ma jFsty'e Government will feel it their duty to support it, or any motion tending to reverse the decision the house came to on Tuesday last. (Hear, hear.) Lord NAAS—When the hon. member for Louth is in his place I •hall ask him what is the form or the mo tion he prop -es to bring forward on the subject of na tional education in Ireland. (Hear.) MR. CRAMPTON'S DISMISSAL. Mr. GLADSTONE gave notice tat he would to morrow, on the motion fer the adjournmentef the house to the fallowing Monday, inquire when Mr. Marcy's despatch in relation to the dismissal of Mr. Crampten would he laid before the house. (Hear.) SUPPLY—THE CL AIMS OF THE SCIENTIFIC CORPS. On the motion that the house go into committee on the army estimates, Capt. L. VERNON rose, pursuant to notice, to mov e a resolution, that it is the opinion of this house that it will he to the advantage of the service to employ gene , ral ~ f Ect,-; from the scientific corps on the staff of th , - , army. Pic eh.e rved that about sixteen monillA ago the , Clerk of the Ordnance, in detailing the estimates for that branch of the public service, p o i n t e d ou t th e a d vantages I which would result to the scientific coree by the trans i ferenca of the military brine!' of the Ordnance to the H Tee Guards, in opening up to them staff appoint ments, from which the; had previously been excluded The premise thus conveyed that the offickre of the artillery and engineers would he allowed to compete for staff appointments gave great satisfaction at the I time, but hitherto not a single staff nppeirament in the 1 army—he meant as contranietinguiehed from the depart -1 mental staff—had been given to any one of those officers. The Under Secretary for War recently stated that there would be no objection to the employment in such ap poiritenents of the officers of the scientific corps in pro portion to the officers of the rest of the arny —that was in the proportion of one in twenty. That, however, we ,, not the fair proportion, which should be one in five. But not a single general officer of the scientific Corp: had been appointed, and he would state. how they had been treated by the Horse Guards. When General -imp son was removed from Portemouth the command then devolved upon a major-general of engineers, hut his ap peintemment was not confirmed, and he had to give place to a general officer of the lino, who was his junior, and afterwards, when he was removed to Aldershott, he was ee.ployed in enia . rinten.lino the er-ctione Of the wooden shede Take a case on foreign service—Sir J. Burgoyne, when our army first set down before eeeleistopel, was seem d in c' mmand to L or d R ea l m) , an d oug ht t o h ave Isucceeded him, but being an engineer officer be was removed. Ho was fully acqnaintal with the nature of the fortifications—had stated what afterwards turned 1 nu to he true, that the Maiakhoff was time key to the p , sition, aid that that taken the other fortifications would fall ore after the other like a pack of car4—and had he succeeded to the c ',nonacid, he w,,iild have had the tight t i direct half the attack with the French corn man , h-r-in•chie, rind wonfl, doubtle,s, have made a faint ion the Redan, instead of a regular isanit. How did the French treat time efficers of their scientific corps ? When the rank of oeneral was react eel, they !cave them the Icommand of divisions like the officer, of the line. Let Lim give a few instances in tee French service. ammo merit, who was a marshal of France, and who served in 51 battles and numerous sieges, was an artilery officer. Picheeru was an artillery officer. Napoleon I himself was an artillery officer. 'garment, Duke of Ragusa, was ;n the artillery ; it is said that he went first into the line, but did not find scope for his genius there, and so he wet int , time scientific awes. Then, in the present day, Laeaericiere and Cavaignee, who were k-own to he superior to Peliseier and Camirobert, and to St. Arnaud, who was now known to be superior to the two others, were officers of eneirieers. Iledean was in the arialery ; and last of all, Marshal Vaidaeit the iilinister of War, was also in the engineers. In the East India Company's service the scientific corps were Put on the staff and in commands. In Cabulaf M`Naghten had taken the advice of a eubiltern of engineers he would not have fallen in the disastrous events which t mok place ; and when another campaign was to he under taken in Afigha.nictan the command cvaseiven to Pell. ck, I an artillery officer. In the Kaffir war, Tyldeo, then a subaltern sf engineers, wh o wee a f terwar d s kill e d a t I Sehastepol, was surrounded, with only 6 sappers, by a I numerous body of Kaffirs ; and althoueh it seemed hopeless that be could escape, yet by great skill he ex• tricated himself, and he gained such a reputation that Sir Josias Clnete said that he was the officer beet calculated to be male a general of division. When the Turkish Contingent was to be organised, the first. person chosen was Chesney of the artillery, Williams of Kars was in the artillery, arid his eget land (Teesdale) was also in the artillery, anti his left, if he might use the phrase (Lake), was an officer of engin.-ere. (dear.) He had shown that the officers , f the scieivitie corps in the French service acquired dietinctien because a chance was given them. As long as Sehast , pot was remembered the names of Dacres and Dupuis of the artillery must be remembered, and they had become general officers, while Chapman and Gordon of the engineers, who respectively ceminanded the ri g ht an d l e f t attack, weuld shortly reach that rank. When these officers became generals they would be swept from the active list, and never heard of, and their military talents would be lost to the coun try, Re thought he had shown that our scientific corps Ought to have a chance for stiff appointments and com mand., and he hoped the house would affirm his resolu fon. Mr ' l '• PEEL said he entirely agreed in the principle he believed it would hon, and of the resolution of c.„31,1,„fi coked aligeemriebr:imth:tertra gallant gentleman, and to be able to empi, be alt advantage to the G mverrirnent the scientific corps to . whether the G verninentr'efiloturloPeln; lo but the question care. as in the case of the particular eel- : Y hori. and gallant i 1 (. 4 ' f t t tP e i r 3 h a which h ought al- I member at Pertsmouth, eft „ cel on y el w t s r e n e co o m fa m ee e r .nd . s, ways to be left to their discretion. warrant of : 1 1854 power was viven to employ and be saw no reason why colonels W h o the scientific corps should not be selected for those com mands, mends, and if ,they gave satisfaction being confirmed in - them. Col. Chapman and Col. Gordon, of whom the l hon. and gallant gentleman Lad spoken as c omnamidit, g : , the right and lel- attacks at Sebastopol, who had a. i 1 tained brevet lieutenent colocelciee whihl on that eel.. vice, when they had nttained the rack of colonel, would be perfectly eligible for the staff and the commands of .' districts. He could see no objection to the spirit of the 1 resolution, but he saw no advantne in its being adopted BILL. The Bislaop of OXFORD, on the report of the amendments of this bill, moved an amendment to the fifth clause—a power to the magistrates to send the juvenile offenders to the schools without sending them to prison. The prison might be full, and at all events it seemed absurd to send the boys to the contamination of a gaol before commencing the process of reformation. The effect of the clause would be that the magistrates might commute the sentence of imprisonment in a gaol to confinement in the school. Lort-R..-IVENSIVORTH said he had had no notice of the amendment, which was one of great importance. The main feature of the bill was, that it abstained from introducing any new principle. And surely no new prin ciple should be introduced without any notice, e-pecially one so important. The question whether magistrates should have power to send boys at once to the schools, without sentencing them to imprisonment, had been much mooted. The Bishop of OXFORD said he would move the amendment on the third reading. Lord RAVENSWORTH said the question was cer tainly one of great interest, and well worthy of conside ration. The report was received. EXCISE BILL. The house went into committee on this bill, which went through committee. INSURANCE ON LIVES (ABATEMENT OF INCOME TeX) BILL. This bill went through committee, THE DEFENDERS OF KA.RS. On the order for reading the bill granting an annuity to Sir W. Williams, The Earl of MALINIESBURY rose and eaid--My lords, I wish to say a few words upon a subject almost identified with the bill before us, and which is about to be passed unanimously and with such cordial approval. wish to call the attention of the Government to what bee occurred within the last week—toe death of one of those gallant Brstish officers who assisted Gen. Williams in the ever-memorable defence of Kars. Their names, my lords, I am sure you will reneinber are Teesdale, L Lke, and Thompson. (Hear, hear, hear.) My lords, tue last of them—Captain Thompson.— hid distinguished himself already in India, where he had served nearly ten years, having also been wounded. lie repaired to Asia Minor, and assisted most materially in the defence of Kars, especially in the great victory of 29th September, when his gallant conduct was especially de , cribed by General Williams. After his captivity, that gallant officer returned with Colonel Lake to this country, ex pecting, no doubt, to reap here all the honours you were. ready so liberally to bestow urn hilne and to receive in the bosom of his family all those proud coegretulations which they were prepared to heap upon bun. But it did not please the Almighty that he hold he thus rewarded. Within four days of his arrival in London it pleased the Almighty that he should die in Ilia mother's arms. My l)rde, Ido not think that I ever heard of any more affecting misfortune than that sus tained by Mrs. Thompson. I believe she would, if she bad a choice, almost have preferred to have heard of her son having fallen on the field of battle than to have him expire in her arms at the moment when the consolation of her maternal pride and affection .i , 14 about to be realised on his return. But, my lords, it was not merely to express a sympathy in the fate of this gallant officer that I called your attention to the case. I am not sure that even a premature death is for his sake to be regretted so much when it has closed a life of honour. But I have heard, my lords, with great concern that his mother is not in possession of a provision such as to se cure her those comforts which we should ad desire that she should enjoy; and, if your lordships would excuse my reading a letter I have received from a friend of the family, it will explain what is her condition : "I feel convinced, knowing the straitened circumstances of his widowed mother, that at least one-fourth of her in come will he swallowed up in meeting the charges attend ant upon the illness and funeral of her son. I can assure your lordship that so fixed and limited is her means—so portioned out to meet the expenses of her large that it is with the utmost difficulty funds can be provided. to enable her to go to the sea-side immediately after the funeral, the physicians representing that they will not. an swer for her life if she does not have change of scene." My lords, I am not authorised to make any appeal to public charity ; I do not know if it would be accspted ; but I thought it not improper to let these circumstances be known. (Hear.) The Marquis of LANSDOWNE said he had no know ledge of the facts so feelingly stated by his noble friend, and was not prepared to give any a-4stfrance upon the subject. At the same time he should be sorry that suce a statement should be meet) in terms so feeling-, and eo calculated to make a deep impression up .n their iord ship, without its meeting setne iminediats relemse. could only say that every one mu•-t feel the livtliest in- 1 terest in the misfortunes of this lady—(heap)—elot every one must feel that not only wa ju -dee to be done to Sr: W. Williams, who had the merit of foundirn a mill ary :mewl under the peculiar circumstaeces in which he N . Ati placed—(bear) —but that all.veto had been his assistants —as all had been eau illy distineuishe t for their gallan try —were all equ thy entitled to the attention aed re spect of the public, and (so far as it wes possible) the consideration of the Government. (Near) And he could assure their lord-hips that the facts so feelingly stated to them to-night by the noble earl would, whea brought before the proper authorities, receive the ut most consideration. (Hear.) The bill then passed. CAMP AT ALDERSHOT. Earl FORTESCUE asked a questien relative to an invention of Cept. Grant for use in the field, and which he understood had be:)., tried et the camp at Al icrshot, Lord PANMURE stated that the invention was one of considerable value to the army, and ha .l been found suited, not only for the camp Aldershot, bat fur use in the field. THE DORCHESTER AND SOUTH-WESTERN RAILWAY, The Earl of MALMESBURY said it was more than a month since he had called attention to the agree ment between Parliament and the Dorchester and South-Western Railway Company to double their lime when their receipts for three years should have amounted 1 to 196,0001. He had sent to, the Bsard of Trade a me morial on the subject, with accounts showing that the receipts jfor three past years had reached that amount. The Board of Trade, on reference to the company, had, after a very lo ng d e l ay, rece i ved other accounts showier es receipt than that amount by the small sum of 90/: (A. laugh.) That was indeed a hairbreadth—(hear) — and as he had the accounts for 1853 4-ssign Itee secretary, which showed for three years a t o t a l rece i pt exceeding the required amount by upwards of 2,00 C/ , be wished to ask. the President of the Board of Trade whether he was aware on what Principle the company made up their accounts, and whether he coud el the disparity. He had to observe that it was of very great consequence to the public that these companies should be made to fulfil their engegeninwts and t he onl means of compelling them to do s o was by CO appeal J.) Parliament. The company in question had already most signally broken its faith with Parliament with respect to a promise to construct a line from Dorcheeter to Weymouth. That the company was well able to per• form the promise to which lie bad referred w as vain from this, that they were engaged in making a singl e line from Yeovil to Exeter, a distance of 120 mil e, far too great to be travelled upon a single line, which wan far from safe. Lord STANLEY of ALDERLEY said the company had claimed a right to make certain deductions which reduced the net receipts for the three years a little be'e v the stipulated amount. They hats, however, ietonated that they iatended to construct a double line fir t4 ,, ,rity miles, at certain parts of the line ; but they hoped thee should not be compelled to complete the d,Jubie Ina , until a year after the opening of the Wilts line, as the e r. I cheater and Southampton line was not a good one. Aod I he thought that not unreasonable. Lord WYNFORD said the public had been put to great inconvenience by the conduct of this company ; and he believed they had never performed any of their engagements except upon compulsion. The Earl of MALMESBURv said he hoped the pro wise to.constract the double line for 20 miles was bona, fife, and not a mere feeler. But Ere could not admit that the reasere wee greed ;Mr not centinuino the double line along the whole of the line was valid—viz., that the ' line was a bad one. On the contrary, the Duke of Wellington had been of opinion that the line was one of the most useful for the conveyance of troops, and had . THE SUN, LONDON . FRIDAY EVEN I s 6, JUNE 20, 1856. by the house, becanee the Government ought to be left free to decide when it was necessary to ava.l themselves of th.• advantage of drawing c•omnnandiug officers front the s:ientific corps. I wcu:d be very inconvenient to adopt a resolution which would imply that the Government should always employ officers of the scientific corps, either in a given ratio to their own corps, or in a given ratio to the whole army. There were reasons why hitherto general officers of the scientific corps were not selected for commands so frequently in proportion as officers of the line. Those general officers were usually advanced in years, because the artillery and engineers being senio rity corps, had not the advantage of purchase to insure the promotion of younger men, and, besides, their pro motion to the rank of general was not made according to their standing in the army, but according to their regimental rank. For the future, however, the only question would be what promotions were best for the :,..rvice of the country, and if any 'general of artillery cir engineers should be selected to command a b. dy of mixed troops, there could be no objection, and no jealousy felt as to what arm of the service he belonged. Tere had been hitherto a jealousy on that point, for it was only natural that the Horse Guards should not be anxious to employ officers who were under the command of the Master-General of the Ordnance, and over whom they had no control ; but now that thtsa corps were transferred to the Horse Guards, there would be no in terest f-It there for employing one set of officers rather than another; and the Government would be able to .elect the best instruments for the command of troops wherever tbey could find them, without regard to what aria of the service they belonged. Major KNOX said the hon. gentleman had stated that officers who had reached the rank of colonel, and were afterwards appointed to the command of brigades or divisions, would be continued in the commands if they gave satisfaction. It would seem, then, that the colonels who had commanded brigades, and, in one instance, a division, in the Crimea, had not given satisfaction, for they were to return to their regiments and not to be made major-generals, The motion was not pressed, and the house then went into committee of supply on the that the gratification those fireworks afforded was worth all the money. Lord HOTHAM observed that if the Clerk of the Ord dance did not know the expense at kVoolwich, it was be cause he had taken good c are not to inquire. If he inquired of competent persons at Woolwich, he would find that they put it down at not lees than 30,0001. Mr. MITCHELL said where he stood to witness the fire works, one of the rockets came down and killed a boy. He looked at the rocket, and it weighed 2lbs. He would cau tion the Master-General of the Ordnance, if he ever hid such an exhibition again, not to allow such missiles to be sent up to fall on the heads of persons who were not at all expecting them. The vote was then agreed to. The next vote was 101. in addition to 4,000,0001. previ ously voted, to supply clothing, forage, fuel, provision, and light. Mr. MONSELL said before he made any reference to this ii subject, he would assure the noble lord that he was willing to give any in',7ormation with regard to the fireworks. Oue of the first directions that he gave to the o;_acer at Wool wich was to keep the account as separate as possible, in order that if any hon. member wished to have it it might be forthcoming. He was willing, indeed anxious, to lay the account on the table. With regard to the present vote, he was happy to be able to inform the committee that although at the time the reduced estimate w.,s framed it was considered it would be necessary to take a vote of 500.000/. in addition to the vote already taken, they had now ascertained that they were able to dispense with that sum, and therefore this was one of the nominal votes. The reason that the former calculation had been discovered to be erroneous was that the troops had come more rapidly from the Crimea than they anticipated. Tao first item in this vote was for clothing. The original estimate was 1,826,0001. The estimate now was 1,023,1211. With regard to the commissariat the amount that was required ex clusive of the troops at the seat of war, was for provisions 571,764/. ; forage, 385.0 0/. ; fuel with light, 206,0001. Of course in those items there could be no reduction. It would appear at first sight that there would be au increase on ac count of the number of troops coming home, bat that in crease would be slight, bec ause th e di sem bodiment of the militia would reduce the number of troupe to be provided for by the commissariat. A sum of 328,000/. was taken for provisions at the seat of war, instead of 1,600,0001., as in the original estimate. The original estimate was calcu lated on the assumption that we should have 100,0 .0 men at the seat of war throughout the year, and in point of fact, - in the month of April, there were 10 1,000. For the article of forage at the seat of war the vote was only for three months, making a sum of 456,0001., instead of the enormous sum of somewhere about four millions and a half asked for in the original estimate. For fuel and light instead of a sum of 222,0001., only 53,0001. was taken, making altogether in the commissariat a reduction of 2,315,0001., and leaving a margin, without taking an addi tional vote, of somewhere about 400,0001. for the purpose of meeting contingencies. On the question that 10,0001, balance of 2,500,0001. be voted to defray the charge of stores fur the land and sea force% Sir C. NAPIER drew attention to the result of the ex periments at Shoeburyness, and adverted to the bursting of mortars at the bombardment of Sweaborg. lie attributed the bursting to the rapidity and continuous repetition of the firing ; for at the siege of Martinique which was carried on entirely by means of mortars, none of the guns burst, owing t) their being fired only at intervals of a quarter of an hour. Mr. MONSELL said the authorities at Shoelauryness had expressed an opinion that the rapidity of firing did not render the gun more liable to burst. The experiments hitherto, however, had not been quite satisfactory, and they were being continued, particularly with reference to guns of a long range. Sir C. NAPIER would put these two cases. Suppose 1,000 rounds were fired within 24 hours, and I,ood within a week ; was it the opinion of those who had made the experiments that in the latter the gun would be just as liable to burst as in the former? Mr. MONSELL was understood to reply that the opinion of the artillery officers certainly went to that extent. The right hon. gentleman then proceeded to enumerate the items in the original estimate which showed reduction. In tke supply of small arms there was a retluction of 203,0001.; in the supply of iron, &c., 3 i 1,651/. ; saltpetre, 2 009/. ; gunpowder, 121,0004. ; and 128,0001. in the miscellaneous stores. The total of the reductions was 1,765,185/. ; and he could assure the committee that the Ordnance ware taking the means to effectually prevent any improper or undue expenditure of stores. It must be obvious to the committee that after this year the vote for stores would bo very small, because large quantities were coming heck from the seat of war, and thy would be available for the future. Mr. A. PEI;LA.TT Wished to know what had been the result of the machinery for the construction of small arms, and whether the factory at Enfield was to be continued? Mr. MONSELL said that question opened up a fruitful field of controversy ; but he could state that within the last few days he had seen arms turned out of this factory made in first-rate style, and admitted by the Birmingham gentlemen to be quite equal to any work Trade at the price which certainly astonished him. In fact the saving in the cost of producing small arms woul,t be such that in two or three years it would be enough to pay the expense of erect in; the factory. (Hear.) Recently a meeting of the prin cipal grin manufactu'ers of Birceiogham was held, and at that meeting the majority decided on taking steps for the erection of similar machinery in their own establishments ; but at all events, if they do not, they will soon find out that the Government could beat them at their work. However, every opportunity would be given them to see what was going on at Enfield, and he hoped they would bike advantege of what they saw. (Hear.) Mr. MUNTZ was di3posel to doubt whether Govern ment could be it 134;ninghatn—(a laugh)— but he would not re-open that controversy now, as he wanted to say a few words upon the print referred to by the h- n. and gal lant admiral. The truth was, the weakness of the mortars was owing to the want of improvement in their construc tion, and it was no proof at all that they did ❑ot burst when they were tested at, Shoeburynes3. The guns were 201bs. practice, and yet they had 211 b. proof. It was asto nishing to him that they did not burst. Mr. M. CHAMBERS observed that hitherto it had been the practice to keep large quantities of arms in store, and when improvementawere discovered they were found to be totally useless. 'Would it be better, then, to abandon the practice of ntorirg to any great extent, now that there was machinery ?tiniest ado rate to meet every demand ? But another evil attendant input extoosively storing was, that it le , d a tendency to prevent the adoption of improvements. Mr. H. BAILLIE asked whether any progress had been made in the manufacture and issue of breech-loading arms ? Mr. NIONSELL said a committee had been carrying on experiments at Enfield with regard to breech-loading arms, but as yet no arm had been found which was considered to be altogether successful. They had got for the cavalry be tween 2,0)0 and 3,000 breech-loading arms, but at the same time they did not come u? entirely to that degree of per fection that had been expected. With regmr to storing arms, the committee need be under no apprehension that it would be carried to excess, because at present the supply. did not at all keep pace with the demand. The vote was then agreed ‘o • Upon the oue4tio❑ that 45,000/. in addition to 1,794,0691. already agreed to be voted to defray the charge of works, buildings, and repairs at home and abroad, Lord BERNARD urged upon the Government the neces sity of establishing a riding school in connection with the garrison of Cork. He knew from experience derived during the late w .r th ttstr.th a school was much needed at Cork. Capt. L. VERNON could second the appeal the noble lorl He had served in various military capacities in Ire laud, and had had frequent opportunities of experiencing the want of such a school at Cork, which was both an ar tillery and a military station. Col. LINDSAY enforced the importance of at once taking steps to improve the barrack accommodation of the country generally. Of late a great deal had been done to ameliorate the condition of the army, but so long as bar racks continued in the state in which even the new and improved.ones ware still to be found, it would be idle to sxo?ct as many respectable persons to enlist as they could desire. _ _ The CLERK of the ORDNANCE entirely agreed with all that had fallen from the gallant colonel, and so far as those barracks which were about to be built, or which were in the course of election, wore concern, d, all that the hon. gentleman wished could be effected without entailing any such additional expense as would be likely to meet with opposition. The cost of building barracks for 1,00 f men on the cld system would be about 70,0001.; the cost upon the proposed plan, giving one-fourth the number of cubic feet additional per man, separate quarters for married sol diers, additional rooms for staff-serjeants, a sufficient num ber of lavatories, and the like, would only be about 15,000/. extra. (Hear.) PAXTON thought the argument of his right hon. friend with regard to barrack accommodation rather showed that they ought not to proceed any further with the vote. An a member of the Barrack Committee, he perfectly concurred in all that had been said. Indeed, it had been demonstrated before them that the soldier was the worst housed person in her Majesty's dominions. (Loud cheers.) It appeared that the prisons had cost no less than 15D,1. per wan ; . and he thought that our brave defenders de served to he lodged at least as well as criminals. (Cheers.) Thu vote Was then agreed to. On the vote of 38,401/. for expenses with relation to the Ordnance survey, Mr. ELLICE said that the principle of this vote in volved a question of the expenditure of 5,000,0 01. of money. It had been admitted by the head of the Ordnance devirtmeat that in five years two years had been wasted, and. 45,000% had been pectively thrown away. The propo sition, which the committee who hed sat upon the subject, had affirmed, went to this, that every proprietor in Scot land should have a complete plan of their estates at the public cost, (Hear, hear.) Beyond the use to the owners of the property it was difficult to say who would benefit by this expense, and even with regard to these, the contin ue d changes, in the sub-division of laud and the position of buildings, would speedily render such a plan false and use less. It had been said that this plan would simplify the transfer of land, but what he had already said with refer ence to the changes in the features of estates would soon render those plans unavailing for such a purpose. The six-inch scale was condemned by everybody, and was only kept up by the Ordnance as a sort of experiment, and to justify their own vanity of setting before the world an en gineering curiosity. He thought it time to call attention to the fact that this was the beginning of an expenditure, the end of which it was difficult to foresee. There would be a saving of 600,0001. in Scotland alone between the cost of the inch scale and the six-inch scale. He would bring the matter to a point by moving that the vote be reduced by 8,0001. Mr. MONSELL observed that the matter had been sub. mitted to the most eminent scientific men in the country , who had expressed their opinions in writing, in favour of the plan which the hon. gentleman called a mere engineei. ing curiosity. The scale decided upon in the case of Scot land was in accordance with the expressed wishes of the people of that country, who objected to the one-inch scale, and preferred a twenty-five inch scale, which had been determined upon, and which might be executed at a comparatively moderate cost. The committee should re collect that a great proportion of this work was done by the Sappers —a most important body of men in time of war, and which it was necessary to keep up, but for whom there was no other employment during peace. For this pur pose, therefore, this e xpenditure was useful. He hoped the committee would resist the amendment, as there could be no acre prolific source of unnecessary expense than con stant changes of the plan and the mode in which the sur vey-was to be carried out. After a few words from Sir T. D. ACLAND, Sir W, JOLLIFFE spoke in favour of the amendment, and complained that the survey of Scotland had been corn rrenced before that of England was completed, and that those districts where the extent of the population and the value of the property required the survey—which would have insured a large sale of the maps—had been neglected, while in other distiicts, where there was not likely to be any such demand, the survey had been completed and the map etriarave 1. Mr. STEPHENSON considered that each scale had its advantage, but observed that they were left without that which would be the 'most useful map of an y other—that wee a map of the whole a .( tiaritainikucl Ireland on 0 uniform scale. What all scientific men called for was the completion of the one-inch scale. In France and other conti.iental countries there was no difficulty in procuri-g correct maps prepared by the government —we, who p,.id infinitely more money than ,they did, find nothing of the kind. He called in questiim the report of the Ordnance Survey Committee, anti observed that the Ordnance deter mined to go oa with the six-inch map, which was not re quired, neglecting the inch map, which would be generally useful. Lord DUNCAN, as chairman of the committee which sat on the subject, defended their recommendation, quoting the authority of Col. Dawson and other witnesses who were examined, that the larger survey was, upon the whole, the more economical. It wrs impossible to increase an inch survey to a higher scale, whereas there was no difficulty in reducing the larger to the smaller scale. He had heard it insinuated that this was a job of the Scotch pro- ' priators. (" [fear, hear," from Mr. W. Williams.) He knew that when grants were proposed for the metropolitan police, the hon. member who cheered was not in the hebit of opposing them ; he recollected, too, how he had sup ported similar proposals with regard to the metropolitan parks. (Cheers and laughter.) Having probed this ques tion to the bottom, he found that the 25-inch scale did not originate with the Scotch proprietors, but in the example set by France, where a committee of inquiry sat for ten years on the subject. ( Laughter.) The Emperor Napoleon adopted the 25-inch survey which the French committee recommended ; Bavaria, Austria, and other countries fol lowed the example thus set ; and evidence was given before the committee of which be (Lord Duncan) was the chair man of the entire success of that survey. Mr. Vignolles stated in Ilia examination that one effect of the survey was to do Away with conveyanciug—(laughter)—and thus testimony was supported by the opinion of a gentleman whom he saw behind him—(great laughter)—the Lord Ad vocate. He admitted that for a geographical map a one inch scale was quite sufficient, but the committee thought that a survey should be completed which would serve many national purposes, such as the registration of estates and the enclosure of waste lands, and that for that end a 25-inch scale was desirable. It was their opinion that the time had at length arrived when a survey should be made on the most comprehensive plan. He had no wish to have a survey for Scotland alone; and, in point of fact, while the Scotch survey was going on a corresponding one was nroceeding in Durham and other northern counties of England. It had been stated that something like 5,000,0001. was going to be expended on this matter. To that assertion he gave the most unqualified contradiction. Col. James had declared, after a year's experience, that at the utmost the expense of the Scotch survey would not exceed 917,0001., and it was his (Lord Duncan s) own opi nion that it would not cost even that amount. The peo ple of this country, though on the whole perhaps the most civilised people in the world, bad certainly not shone as regarded sui vet's. Let hon. members consider for a mo ment the railway surveys. (Hear, and laughter.) On the economical question he considered himself quite as good an authority as the hon. gentleman who had just spoken. (Laughter.) As regarded expense, the course pursued in Scotland was to vary the survey according to the varying character and wants of the country. He stood there pre pared to justify the report of the committee, and he be lies-€(1 the vote now under consideration was one of the most economical votes that had ever been proposed. Lord ELCHO, after entering into a history of the Scotch survey, observed that the committee of which he was a member were unanimously of opinion that the larger scale ought to be adopted, and had abundant reasons for coming to that conclusion. Having the opinion of Cul. Dawson in favour of a 25-inch scale, they issued circulars to nearly all the most eminent surveyors and scientific societies in the kingdom, consulting them on the question, and the result of that step was, that they received 32 replies in favour of the 6-inch scale, and 120 in favour of a scale of from 20 to 26 inches. After a few words from Mr. W. LOCKHART, Lord PALMERSTON said he hoped the house would not agree to the amendment, He could understand Parlia ment declining to have any survey or map of the country, for though that would be a singular it would be an iota ligiAe decision ; but what he could not understand was having an imperfect survey. All the nations of Europe had adopted the 25-inch scale. We had the map of Eng land on the one-inch scale, and it was said that we should have a map of Scotland on the same scale, and in order to have that map it was necessary to have the survey made on a much larger scale. It was not intended to have the 25 inch map published generally ; but it would be reserved only for special purposes of valuation of land said similar purposes. It was said there was to be a large expenditure of money in the survey, but if the survey had been made on the larger scale originally there would have been a great saving of expense. He hoped no weight would be attached to the argument that the vote was only for Scotland, for that argument would apply to prevent the be ginning of any great public improvement. There was al ready a map on this scale partly finished for England and Ireland, and Scotland having come last it was desirable that the same kind of survey should be extended to that part of the country. Mr. E ELLICE said that according to the report of the committee it was intended to publish the large scale map for Scotland, and especially of the Highlands, where it would be utterly useless. It was said that this scale was adopted in all foreign countries; but Sir Roderick Mnrcbi son stated that no foreign country had published maps on so large a scale, that of Bavaria being the largest, and that, was only on a scale of 1-inch and 1-10th of an inch. As to the necessity of surveying on a large scale in order to get the map on the 1-inch scale, it was only necessary to sur vey on a 2•inch scale for that purpose. Mr. COWAN said, if the amendment was pressed, he sh i vote for it, though he bad rather it were withdrawn. . . The LORD ADVOCATE said that it was not intended to publish the 25-inch scale maps, nor did the committee so recommend, but it was only intended to publish the 1- inch and the 6-inch maps. It was admitted that the 1- inch scale as applied to Scotland would have been of no use, and it was thought by the committee that the 25. inch scale, both for purposes relating to :roperty and sanitary purposes, woubl be the best as well as the most economical. Lord LECH() said it was intended to publish the large map, but it was to bo engraved by the Anastatic process, which -would render it so cheap that the sale of 33 copies would provide for the expenw. The committee divided — For the amendment Against it l6O Majority Colonel LINDSAY wished to ask a question of the Chancellor of the Exchequer in reference to an institution (the United Service Institution) in the metropolis which was devoted to naval and military science. He wished to know whether the right hon. gentleman had taken into consideration the state of that institution, and whether he would proposa a vote in aid of it ? I'ne CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER believed that the institution b which the hon. and gallant gentle- Mall referred was one at which lectures were delivered on naval and military subjects, and which also contained a naval and military museum. His noble friend at the head of the War Department had intimated to him his wish that the ground rent of the institution should bo defrayed at the public expense. That recommendation was now under consideration. The vote was then agreed to. On the next vote, 1,5001., for the gratuitous education of 20 Queen's cadets, the sons of officers who have died ou service, and have left their families in reduced circuni tunes, Mr. WILLIAMS asked whether a larger sum would be required in future years ? Mr. F. PEEL replied that the future vote would he about 2,0001. The vote was then agreed to. and the house resumed. AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS BILL. The order of the day for the second reading being read, for the purpose of being postponed, Mr. BENTTNCK wished to know whether the noble lord at the head of the Government would fix any day for proceeding with the bill ? It had several times been post poned, to the great inconvenience of many members. Viscount PALMERSTON said that any person who attended to the business of the house must know that nothing was so itnpossiblJ as to say what would come on on any day. With the firmest intention of bringing for ward a particular measure, circumstances arose which made it impossi _ _ Mr. BE NTINCK again rose. bnt was interrupted by The SPEAKER, who said there was no question before the house. Mr. BKNTINCK then moved that the house adj•urn ; but The SPEAKER informed him he could not move the adjournment, having already spoken. Mr. E. BALL then moved that the house adjourn. Ile said the measure before the house was one of great im portance and growing interest, and he hoped the Govern ment would either fix a day or postpone it to next day. Mr. BENTINCK said the noble lord talked of the diffi culty of bringing on any particular measure, but it rested with the noble lord himself to remove the difficulty ; it was entirely in his discretion, and he had found no diffi culty in fixing a day for the proposed motion of the hon. member for Louth (Mr. C. Fortescue). (hear, hear ) After some further discussion. the motion for the ad journment of the house wise withdrawn. COALWHIP , 'ERS' (PORT OF LONDON) BILL. On the order of the day for the second reading of this bill, Mr. LOWE said the object of the bill was to continue an act, which was proposed to remedy the state in which the coalwhippers in the port of London were formerly. when they were in effect the slaves of certain publicans. The act had had the desired effect. The coalwhippers' were no longer hired in public houses, but a central office had been established. It had been represented to them by persons engaged in the coal trade of the north of England and in London that the bill was no longer necessary, and he was willing to consent to the order being discharged, on an un dertaking, which had been entered into on behalf of the coal-owners, that they will themselves uphold an office at which the coal-whippers will be engaged andpaid, and that they will be no longer hired and paid at public houses; and that if these terms are not complied with, they will make no opposition to the act being re-enacted next year. On these representations the Government were willing to consent tothe discharge of the order, but he should wish that some of the gentlemen representing the trade E hould rise and say that the undertaking was as he had stated it. Mr. FEN said the right hon. gentleman had fairly represented the understanding which had been en tered into by the coalowners. He believed that the act, although it repressed some evils, had been the cause of other evils. He could only say that if the conditions were not complies with they should offer no opposition to the renewal of the act next session. Mr. INGHAM said the sentiments expressed by the last speaker were shared in by all the coalownere. They thought that the act had - now become superfluous, and measures had been taken by which the coalwhippers wool(' not he subject to the impositions of the publicans. The agreement had been signed by the coalowuers of the Tyne and the Wear. _ . Mr. GLADSTONE had heard the assertion that this act had created other evils with very great regret. because what were the evils that had been renedied ? Why there were a body of 2,000 or 2,500 labourers who had been re duced by the system on which their trade was conducted to a state of squalid poverty and demoralisation, which was a disgrace to those connected with the trade, and a dis grace to the country. These were ev il s which induced who was not much disposed t.) interfere with the freedom of trade, to introduce this act, and which induced the Secretary to the Colonies and others to support it, and see ing that these moral results had been completely achieved, ho was at a loss to know what were the evils which the bill had caused, and which counterbalanced the evils of which he had spoken. He thought they) should be a record of the agreetnent entered into, and that Government should consent to a motion that a copy of it should be laid on the table of the how, and that in- "d"' t, that /Mp g done the further proceedings of this bill should be postponed for a fortnight. Atter a few words from Mr. LIDDELL and Mr. FoRSTER, Mr. LOWE assent:A to the course suggested by Mr. Gladstone, and The bill was accordingly postponed for a fortnight. SEAMEN'S SAVINGS BANK BILL. This bill was read a second time. STOCK-IN-TRADE EXEMPTION BILL. This bill was read a third time awl passed. COATHAM CHURCH MAR EtIA GES VALIDITY. Mr. MASSEY obtained leave to bring in a bill to render valid certain marriages in the church at Coatham, in the parish of Kirk Leatham, in the county of York. CHURCH BUILDING COMMISSIONERS, &c. Sir G. GREY moved for leave to bring in a bill to transfer the powers of the Church Building Commissioners to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England. Mr. HADFIELD opposed the bill, alleging that the Government had promised to let the Church Building Acts expire. Sir G. GREY said the bon. gentleman was mistaken in supposing that the Church Building Acts were of a tem porary character. They cont•iined permanent provisions, and it was necessary that there should be some authority charged with the du . y of carrying them into execution. Leave was then given. ARMY ESTIMATES. On the first vote, an addition to a previous sum of 450,000% far the civil establishments of the army, Mr. MONSELL said be had to state the reduction which had been made in the estimate for this branch of the ser vice. It had been originally 514,141/., but it had been re duced by a sum of 141,0001.; and it had been calculated that one-half of what was left would be sufficient to meet the actual expenditure. A sum of 101,0001. only would be required for the commissariat and civil establishments on the Bosphorus and in the Crimea ; many of the persons employed in that department having returned to this country or being on their way home. It would, however, still be necessary to have a number of commissariat clerks on the Bosphorus after the troops had come home, in order to make up the accounts, and ha was happy to say that he had reason to believe that the whole accounts of the ex penditure of the army in the Crimea could be examined and audited before the expiration of the year. The remain ing amount of 13,000/. or 11,000/. was for a reduced ex pense for lodging and furniture allowances, in which item he believed there would be a considerable reduction, as steps had bean taken to get rid of places hired for lodging the militia as rapidly as possible. On the whole, he would say that the a 50,000/, asked for would be amply suffi cient to defray the expenses of the present year. Col. DUNNE asked whether it was intended to keep up the War Ministry on its present system, or whether there was to be a return to the less expansive system of a Secre tary at War? He also wanted to know whether the large clothing and arms departments were to be kept up to a war establishment while the army was being reduced. He hoped some explanation would be given as what the con stitution of the War Department was to be in time of peace. Mr. MMNSELL said he could not hold out any hope of any great reduction of expendituie in the present year. In the War Department it was necessary since the peace to have additioual clerks, in consequence of the great labour of winding up the business of the department. The only answer he ceubl give to the other part of the hou. and gal lant geutieuren's question was, that undoubtedly the ex isting constitution of the War Department was to be kept up, although Lord Panmure ha I under his con .ideration great reductions. It was, however, doubtful whezh , r in the present year any great reduction could take place. From the moment that peace was declared the whole at tention of the War Department was directed to the pro motion of economy. Mr. WILLIAMS said that there had been no sufficient opportunity given to the house to see what reductions were to be in,,de in the War Department. The vote was a most extraordinary one, as there wasonly a difference of 50,0J0t. between the expeneitare of a war and peace establishment. There ought to be a fuller and more satisfactory explana tion of the vote given. Mr. SPOONER wished to have some explanation of an answer given to a question of his the other night by the Secretary to the Treasury. Ho had inquired whether any workmen had boon sent from this country to the gun fac tories iu Belgium by the Ordnance, and if so, at what ex pense ? The bon. gentleman had replied that no such per sons been sent ; whereas it was certain that some viewers had been seat to Belgium, to the artillery depart wont in that county, and others to Liege, to overlook the manufacture of gn❑ barrels. Mr. MONSELL said that the misapprehension in ques- ' tion arose from there having been two different sets of per sDns sent to Belgium. There were certain viewers sent to Liege to overlook the manufacture of the arms contracted for by this country, and some gentlemen connected with the gun trade at Birmingham had also been sent to Belgium to view the manufactures, to whom facilities had been given by the Government, and he was glad to s-ty that he had received from the gentlemen a very interesting report on the .iiffereuce between the processes of manufacture at Liege and Birmingham. We coati not have carried on our con tracts without the employment of viewers at Liege in the same way that viewers were employed on the part of the Government at Birmingham. Mr. SPOONER. asked wheOer thoss viewers were ern ployed to view the gun-barrels only, or did they not in struct the manufacturers of Liege so as to enable them to compete with those of Birmingham? What V 939 the ex pense of thoie viewers ? There was no vote for them in the estimates. Mr. MONSELL said that the expense of the viewers was charged under the small-at ms vote. Did the hon. gentle man mean to say that they ought not to have gone to Liege when they wore in great want of arms, and when they could not get all they wanted from Birmingham ? The viewers did not instruct the workmen as to the character of the arms which the English Government would receive. Mr. SPOONER said the deficient supply of arms from Birmingham was only caused by the manner in which the orders for them were given_ If the Government sent to Belgium for arms they should have been viewed in this country, and they should not have allowed instructions to be given to the Belgian manufacturers which would enable theta to compete with those of this country. The pay of the viewers in question ought not to have been included in the small anus vote, but should have been put iu a s:tparate estimate. .Mr. NE WDEGATE said that out of the 40,00 i stand of arms which had been ordered at Liege only 14,000 had hem received, and that too late for the purposes of the war, and of those ordered in America only 400 muskets had been received, and most of those spoit and damaged, so that out of all the orders gi , en to the foreign trade we had not got one musket for the war, whereas 150,000 stand of arms hail been obtained from the English trade, whie.h the Government said could not supply them. The hon. gentleman then proceeded to urge that we were actually giving to the manufacturers in Belgium and America, the chief seppliers of Rassia and other continental countries, net only the pattern of our improved unu4cets, which were the best iu the world—tor the Enneld rifle was a great im provement on the Minie—hut we were, by means of in struwors, creating that which neither America nor Bel gium ha,± yet obtained—the skilled workmen to manufac• ture that species of arms. . . - . tilr. STXFFOR,I) asked whether the vote No. 8 includ e 3 the expense of the surgeons of the civil hospitals ; also whether a deterinination had bee❑ come to as to the pay of the civil surgeons, and whether it had been determined to draw a diitinction between the ply to be granted to the assistant-surgeons an the surgeons to the militia ? Mr. PEEL said the pay of the civil surgeons was not un der inw,sttz. Lion. Mr. STAFFORD thought there was an understanding as to the civil hospital surgeons, that they were to have three months' pay, and the assistant-sargeone two months; whereas the militia surgeons wore to receive a larger sum. Mr. F. PEEL said there was no question whatever as to the number of months' gratuity, but questions had arisen as to wli,ther the duties were dispensed with when the surgeons left the East, or when they arrived in this coun try. Mr. SPOON - ER asked whether the staff of viewers in Belgium was still continued, and if so, at what expense, aed whether there would be any objection to laying on the table en account f tie expense! !dr. MONSELL replied that the viewers would be kept u p till the contract was completed. The expense was about 2; a gun. Ho should not have the least objection to lay a at ttement of the expense on the table. Col. —U,N*.NE remarked that he was quite in order in referring to the former votes, because. there was an agree ment with the noble lord at the head of the Government, that if they paseed the votes, they shoul t have an oppor tunity of discussing them afterwards. He understood it was intended during peace to retain the office of the War Department on the same extravagant footing as at present. He also wished to know if theheed-quarter staff was to re main as it was nosy? Goverment determined to procure arms from America, but there were no manufacturers in America in a position to supply them, and they advanced a firm 20,0, 0/. to build a factory, and the rifles cost 5/. each, which they were not worth. The same thing'hap pened with regard to powder, for which they were paying 85. or 9s. a b , rrel more than its value. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER wished to say a word in reference to the understanding as to the discussion of the estimates. A portion of the votes were taken definitively. In those cases it was understood that the discussion as well as the vote was closed. There was another set of votes which were taken on account, but if the Government found the amount already voted was sufficient for the year, there was to be a discussion on those votes, and a mere nominal sum was taken in order that the house might have a fresh opportunity for discussing those votes. The vote was then agreed to. The next vote was IUI., in addition to 54,2461. voted be fore, for wages of artificers in Woolwich arsenal. Mr. M. CHAMBERS Raid he wished to have an explicit understanding as to the cost of the fireworks used on the celebration of peace. They were told that the expense of them was to be 8,0001„ but he was informed that the workmen at Woolwich were employed in making the fire works, and that while they were so engaged their wages wire put to the general account. He wished to know whit the expense would be, including the wages. Mr MONSELL said he believed 6,0001. would cover all the expenses. exc , pt those which were incurred in the arsenal at Wool with, which were undoubtedly in addition to the 6,000/- Ho could not tell what those expenses woeld be ; indeed ho did not know how it was possible to make them out. Mr. M. CHAMBERS was extremely desirous to know what the expense was. Ho was informed that the 6,0001. was a mere drop of water in the sea of expense. Mr. STAFFORD observed that there were persons be longing to various departments employed in the matter, and the aseertainine the amount of ;heir wages would be simply a niattOr of curiosity. Mr. W. WILLIAMS said neither the hon. and learned. gentleman nor the country would ever know the cost of those fireworks. lAr• E. BALL wished there had been the same scrutiny ?",1) all the expen ses connec t e d with the war that there was Into.thieezpeuse of the oelebation of PIM , •I,lle thought CORRUPT - PR A CTICES PREVENTION. Viscount PALMERSTON moved for leave to bring in a bill to continue the Corrupt Practices Prevention Act, 1854. Agreed to • The house rose at 25 minutes past one. PARLIAMENTARY DIVISION. HOUSE OF COMMONS.-JUNE 19. REGISTRATION OF VOTERS (SCOTLAND) BILL. Order for Committee read. Motion made, and Question proposed, "That Mr. Speaker do now leave the chair." Amendment proposed, to leave out from the word " That' to the end of the Question, in order to add the words " this house will, upon this day three mouths, resolve itself into the said Committee," instead thereof. Question pat, "That the words proposed to be left out stand park of the Question." The house divided—Ayes, 102 ; Noes, 49. AYES-102. Agnew, Sir A. Fergus, John Massey, W. Anderson, edr J. Ferguson, Colonel Meagher, T. Antrobus, E. Ferguson, Sir K. Milligan, R. Ball, I. Fitzgerald, J. Monck, Vis. Barnes, T. Fitzroy, Henry Moncreiff, J. Baxter, W. . Forster, Charles Mousell, W. P.esteley, Sir M. French, Fitzstephen Mostyn, E. Berkeley, Hon. H. F. Gederich, Viscount Napier, Sir C. Bethell, Sir R. Goodman, Sir G. O'Connell, J. Biggs, John Greene, John Osborne, R. Biggs, W. Grey, Rt. Hon. Sir G. Patten, Col.:1 Black, Adam Grey, R. Peel, sir R. Benham-Carter, J. Grosvenor, Ld. R. Peel, F. Bouverle, Hon. E. P. Haddo, Lord Pilkington, J. Brotherton, J. Hadfield, George Pellar , l-Ur4uhart, W 'rown, W. Hutt% Alex. Portman, W. Butler, C. S. Hestle, Arch 4. Price, Sir R. Byng, G. H. C. Heard, J. Ricardo, S. Challis, T, Herbert, It. Ridiey, George Cockburn, Sir A. J. E. Horsinan, E. Russell, E. C. Cowan, C. Howard, C. Sawle, C. Craufurd, E. H. J. Johnstone, J. Smollett, A. Davie, Sir HR. F. Keating, R. Steel, John De Vere, S. E. Kennedy, T. Strutt, Hon. E. Dillwyn, L. L Kers,' Iw, J. Thompson, G. Drumiatirig, Vis. King, L. Traill, G. Dranatnond, H. Kinnaird, A. Walmsley, Sir J. Duff, G. Kirk, W. Wickham, H. Duff, J. Laboucuere,Rt.Hon.H Wilkinson, W. Duncan, Viscount Langton, U. (5. Wilson, J. Duncan, George Lockhart, A. E. Woo I, Sir C. Huntlas, F. Mackie, J. Wyndham, W. I tunlop. A. IN 'Gregor, John TELLERS. Ellice, E. McTaggart, Sir J. Hayter, W. Ewart, W. Maguire. J. F. Mulgrave, Earl of NOES-49. Arbuthnott, Gen. H. Graham, Lord 31. Seymer, H. Baillie, H. Orman. Edward Sibthorp, Major Baird, J. Guinness, It. S. Smith, Abel Barrow, W. Hamilton, R. C. N. Spooner, R. Blackburn, P. Heathcoate, Sir W. Stirling, W. Bramley- 11 , ore, J. Hildyard, R. C. Stracey, Sir 11. Bruce, C. L. C. Jollitfe, Sir W. Stewart, Sir M. Cole, H. A. Kendall, N. Stuart, Captain Conolly, T. Lockhart, W. Waddington, D. Corry, 11. T. L. Ai acartney, G. Warren, S. Davison, R. MacGregor, James Whiteside, J. Deedes, William Michell, William Whitmore, H. Dunne, Colonel Montgomery, Sir G. Wise, A. Etallyn, Viscount Mowbray, J. It. Farrer, J. Oakes, J. TELLED,S. Fergusson, Sir J. Pennant, Co!. E. Faller, A. E. Percy, J. Dandas, G. Galway, Viscount Portal, M. Campbell, Sir A. I. THE lAUNDATIONS IN _FRANCE. The Lord Mayor has received the following letter from his Excellency the Prefect of the Seine : Paiis, June 18, 1856. " My Lord,—lf I have not sent an earlier reply to the letter which your lordship did me the honour to write to me, announcing a contribution of 100,000 f, as the first instalment of the English subscription for the relief of the sufferers by the inundations in France, it has been because I wished to wait until I had an opportunity of receiving. that sum from M. de Rothschil.i, who had Waned it at once at my disposal, and the interruption of ordinary business, occasioned by the biptismal fetes, has further prevented my doing so until now. But I took care to publish the announcement of this first gift. "The pleasing duty now devolves upon me of thank ing your lordship for the excellent news contained in your two letters of the 13th and 17th of this month, and ,if exAressing to you how deeply I am affected by your cordial co-operation, and how greatly I reiiice at the interesting details you have been gon.d .enough to give me respecting the progress of the English subscription. "France will learn with lively thankfulness that her Majesty the Queen of England and his Royal Highness Prince Albert have been pleased to take part in the subscription by the donation of such important sums. These generous rnanifevations shall receive tho publi city which they merit, and which wiil testify to our cheep gratitude. " Pray receive, my Lorl, the assurance of my high consideration. &c. " Baron IlAusmAN, Prefect of the Seine. "To the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor." TOWN'S MEETING IN LIVERPOOL. A town's meeting, convenPd by the May - r, Alr. J. Stewart, was held yesterday, in the 0! Chapel-street, Liverpool, for the purpose of nxpressing sympathy with the sufferers by the recent inundations in France, and organising a suoscription in the town in aid of the fund for their relief. The MAYOR, in stein; the object of the meeting, cx preseed a hope that the alliance between the two nations', which had been cummenced in war, woull be perpetuated in peace. The Rev. Rector CAMPBELL moved the first resolution "That the inhabitants of Liverpool deeply sympathise with those of our friends and allies in France who have lately been subjected, under Pr .vidence, to severe afflic tion by the inundation which ha' destroyed so large a portion of their property, arid reduced many thousands to extreme distress." As a minister of that great peace society, the Church England, he rej ,iced to have the privilege of co-ope rating in this work of peace. Mr. ASPINALL, barrister (and a Roman Catholic), se conded the resolution, which wes unanimously adopted. Mr. W. RATHBONE moved the second resolution : " That this meeting desires to express sincere sympa thy with the sufferings of the French people, and will most cordially assist in the efforts now being made fur the alleviation of their distress." tie advocated immediate and substantial aid in eloquent terms, describing the calamity in powerful colours, and expressing his admiration of the kind and fatherly con duct of the Emperor, who by his presence and personal condolence, and still more by the tears of pity he bad shed, had-done much to endear himself to his suffering subjects. He hoped Liverpool would manifest those sym pathies which were the strong bonds that bound brother to brother, and nation to nation. Mr. Alderman S.lloLmx, in seconding the resolution, combated the selfish argument of some that France was in a position to attend to its own sufferings. Benevo lence was not geographical—was not restricted by mountains and rivers, or the conventional boundaries of the ocean. , True benevolence taught them that wher ever calamity existed in the world it was a duty and a privilege to fly to its alleviation. The proposition was unanimously adopted. _ The kev;. HUGH STOWELL Bttow - isz moved the third resolution : • • "That the clergy and ministers of religion of all de nominations in this town be requested to give their valuable aid and assistance in carrying out the object of this meeting." He argued the question on the broad principle of Chris tian oharity, which, in the definition of its founder, " nevt-r faileth," and not on that of human charity, which, according to an old' proverb he hoped would now explode, that "Charity begins at home." Charity had been beginning at home so long that she had become so weak that she had better go abroad. That charity be ginning at home was a piece of hollow, hypocritical cant. Ask ifs professors for aid for Ireland, and they would say "Chlrity begins at home ;" for England, and "Charity begins at home ;" for their own town, and "Charity begins at home ;" for their own ward, and still "Charity begins at home ;" and they might go on further un - il they found the wretches had no charity at all. (Cheers.) Mr. HENRY DANSON, as representing the trading classes, said they would not be found behind hand with the commercial pert of the community in their desire to assist the suffering people of France. The resolution was adopted unanimously, as also an other, moved by Mr. HAMILTON (a magistrate), of the firm of Brown, Shipley, and Co., and sec ended by Mr. ELIAS ARNAUD, appointing a committee for organising the subscription. Among the subscriptions announced to have been al ready raised at Liverpool was a contribution of 2001., by Messrs. D. and C. M'iver, which bad been tram witted through their agent at Havre. A vote of thanks to the mayor terminated the pro ceedings. CRYSTAL PALACE.-- ONE SHILLING DAY. Thursday June 19.—AcImis,siens on payment, 4,441; ditto by season tickets, 325 • tctal visitors, 4,766. MURDERS NEAR ' MELTON MOWBRAY.—EarIy yester day morning (Thursday) the keeper of the Thorpe toll gate (a mile out of Mclton ' on the Grantham road), named Edward Wood coc k, 70 years old, and his grand son, James Woodcock, aged 10, were discovered bar barously murdered in their dwelling. The poor old man lay weltering in his blood on the house floor, with his throat cut, a bullet wound through his body, and at least a dozen stabs ; and the little boy lay dead in bed, with his head half-severed, and bis body also frightfully gashed. At the inquest immediately held before INIr. W. Latham, deputy coroner, and a highly respectable jury, sufficient evidence waq given to cast strong sus picions upon a retu-ned convict, named Brown, of the neighbouring village of Stialford, who was inquiring the habits of Woodc'ick on the previous evening, aid is now missing. This man is now being carefully marched for, 4 . 4_ the iuqueot ioAourned. Coudtry :11.arket4 ,)EIZBY S-J\IITIIFIELD.—Jiars 17. Our market was well supplied witli fat beasts to•asf... the quality generally good, and most of them disposed The number of sheep anew lambs was la r g e, and well 01° Fat and store calves plentiful. Fat pigs scarce. The following were the qu otations :—Beef, 6iel to d ; mutton, 7d to 8d ; lamb, aid to B,d ; veal, 6d tc lb. ; pigs, 1s Gd to 11s Gd pet score ; ro u g h fat, 4s 3i to,LT per 141 b.; hides, 34d to 4d per lb ; calf-skins, 30 51 ' per lb. --- Wo hadEaDgloNocißll:arGkHet alt sorts, and a farther rise upon last week's gnotation.o Wheat, on the top, is Od up, and on the *verse ns.ld up. Barley, 3s Oct up on the top, and Os li n en p T on • e 2 !: i a i g e. up. Oats Beans on tohne thetop t 2 o s p (13:119.upip1—.....0. up—on a t es cl a s n y l" k 9 4 , 13 is 9,1 up. -120"1* 5 1 Wheat £3 1 AVERAGES PER IMPERIAL 4131 RTlllt. 0 0-1 2tlie. Do. new 2 3 9 1°421116 Barley Oats 212 6 5.121111. Beano BOSTON—Jvxs 18. The supply of wheat from the growers was tatic /4 than for several weeks past, and, owing, to the elorbitan, prices asked, a mere hand-to-moeh business was done , 0 rates fully 2s per qr. in advance last week's Of nits and beans the d r (1 IY 1312511 ' $ll e 'very exces tug prices the turn dearer. 74 00 Prices :—Wheat, red, 62s Od to 74s Od; white, • oa t, 76s Od extra, 79s Od. Barley, —s Od oa m • 04. 108 to 295. Beans, 42s Ckl. to 48 Od. Pea, per gr. qnotetionsi NEWARK—Jusz 18. • t~• ds y • We Lad a good supply of all kinds of grain w ool Wheat, white 80s to gis red 724 to 711 s; bArle o l,:,, , 22 0 t, —s to —s, grinding 38s to 40s; oats, 24st. 320 t 0 , 0 4 27s to 28s ; beans, 46s to 48s ; malt, 7':s to Ng; P e to 44s ; tares, —s to —s per qr. SEA B ORNB . rof t en" A ,i g niftes that the malls arc sent from the Can er.- 9 , the night—and M by the morning--.4e 9 Pat a t 1 . 'l' us" 1 1 gi i, MP 7..... .....-• • *all C}'' [> ay Wilkat fria - :nt onerai ?of.:- Office, London.' r o w t7.+ For ;AO l b3a ' LiverPo o ' • 3nlerica(t , yrirti.N.Ql ',..rnericP (by TTniteti S. , . aelket) ••••eriet, (by LT At r•Aia (via Liver-, pool; , [2l \ via • Aarseilles', tlemandria Oaltainss .....,... Vra .............. buen.cs Ayres.. —ls! i.ape of flood Hope (Jape or Good Rope . 02 , , , 0 de Verds Ceylon (see In,lial Fridr !Every "; uesday LiverPo°' 1 3 outivim,.t A to IT" ,4th and 19th .... LiTerpooi wow I rifleertP 16 60 °l 7l, 4 Ljtl7 p a t 11 j 60 1 , ljulf lt 110,0 ..... • • •- • %xic)l 10th:: 26th of f 0 •PI MO • 17th ot the snort )aily • • • • 9th of the month 9t, Uncertain tti •• plyraou Dever Southall* , geuthg ,33l*E Dover .. Sou thaalP , " Re.utham t " ., gallons Port 9til o'l MO. 14 96 1"1;rb.4 JO' 64 , '4 od, ), 9 mover 0: 6 , 3outhnzpto` Dover •• 1400. nri D ov er ..• 1 05. .. Sonthlraptol6, So t 1 aril p doll I London Soothanapto,, 16110 0 Dover ..... Sollth all] pton Plymouth •. •1 .106 Dover Dover.. • • Holyhead Southanotoof •9 ""0 Southampton 6, 1 LiverpoOl 116, 9 Dover 4, 91 ! 4,'Jl gouttanlP' °E i lOth and 26th.... 4th a .d 20tk ',4th and 20th .... I.oth and 26th.... 61.20 ti, Twice daily Ceylon. Channel Miss..... ^f Constantinople Constominople Cont. of Europe M N Egypt (see India) . . tiouttionaP b 4 litontheuziP 0 France 111. Gibraltar .. Greece (see India) Greytown ........ ilsmburgh ........... Ft ..........,.M ; Honduras (rilvioutliampt.)M (via illarseilles)1111 lonian Is'es (see India)! irel9,nd Madeira ...... fadeira ............ Malta (Fee India) Malta N Maurltius (see India) lir llr tillS •.•. • . . • Nexioo .. M . . .• • I New Granada, ...... New Zealand.... •• •• •.! Papal states ' Peninsula .• •• • • • • ..10 Peru •• ea • . Pert Natal alcily Tuscany —.24 Venezuclr —l)4 Van Diemen's LAti (se kustralia) w o , , T•ltlf .fi 'l'N'vice daily '4, 7, J 7, 20, 27 rf rr 12nd I>rw 17th or mom i naile 12nn of_ the rthniti !Daily •. ... • • ....•• 117 t•. of the month. 14th '1 '.!Ottl of moo. 1 91 - hgc2•6tsl of rnontl , 10 h '3.4th • viy 2d of tz o •• • • • Stn of ta e 111011,f 234 of atcnth •• 14, 10, 20, and 26.. inOntti 2Don;iniy. . of the, of the montl.. , 12 , 18 c 17th of month. Tice a month .. Southal 2 P" jolt Dover .•.• outhanrt ou ; Various port: woof Dover ..... eoUthalaP tan E ,ov, Ao acjoa rui Dover 0 re ro b i a ifir p. p p . 0. .tt 71:cs. I or: lid Xith of mon. pr!c-rAte ship... lEve•y Saturday.. Ditt0•......., .. • • 2cl 47t0 otmonth Ilth of mon. .. , I pitio !Ron th am' tAn When any of these dates fall on a •Innday, the malts lolo spe.tched on the following day, with the excepten el ‘n o bed eonthamptf , n), and the Malta. kat of which will be &SP^ preceding day. LOCAL SHARE MA.R.Kgrfi. LIVERPOOL, Jultn 19. ft si bac'd STMIE EXCHANGE.—The market has been Teri, ,t again to-day, and prices closed with A firm feel'u,Loill highest rates of the day. South Eastern, 22--Ct' c o o A 311—Nnrth Eastern, Berwick, 211—Ditto, Lieu, s 6 3 Stock, 18 —Eastern Counties, 101—Midlands, 1- I P -- 1 4 " Lancashire, ' Of 1 I—London and North Westerogo —Dutch Rhenish, 1i p —Lancashire and Yorkebirelobt Shettields, 2N —Ditto, 6 per cent. shaies, of „Op Perth, and Dundee, —Great Western of Cana" 3.11.3. p. MANCHESTER Jura 19. A fiC ie* NOOKEXCI3ANGE.—The' market, as rega r--6 1 0 0: was rather lower, but a fair amount of business wr'firi, acted. Elst Lancashire, Dl—Leeds, 95—Mid 16/3 1re f ' --Sheflields, 3(4—Ditto. 34 per cents., 684---Ditto,oo 12-11Iackhurn., Pref., 19--Dovers, 21 15'16 — Junction, 17—Electric Telegraph, 23g. JuNg ID. It to- A d l a , o y c:r w P i , t a h cri a As b a ri E s . k —T de h m i , an m d a . rk at et Midland, Birmingham, and Derby, 51 504 g °ll fords, 21 d.—London and North-Western, oh. Midland, 80 ViielYiligll4l4 LEEDS, JUNE 19. ig 191 jh "STOCK EXCHANGE. —North E as tern, Lee-h i ves!) Ditto, Fifths, 225. 6d. p.—North-Western, 7 — "`"" 8) g —Great Western of Canada, 26j. DUBLIN—JuNE 13. s ot) STOCK EXCHANGE.—Three per Cent. Conaolsf„, ( l . eel ( 94A - Ditto for Account, Bth July, 94i Account, 0 New Three per Cent. Stock, 9414 0 O a f —Dittos i w for the Account, Bth of July, 94I—Great S""' of We-tern, 4 per cent. Prof., 11-11inini COI ei Coo , Ireland, account, 15—Cork and Bandon, Ree,%, i r, Killarney Junction, 9i ex d.—Dublin and 2 5 Mi,lland Great Western and Royal Canal, 101-- ;d Dublin and Ki ngs t own , h a l ves , 27—Waterford kenny, 4a.—lrish South Eastern, account, O. 04 Vs i p 21[ADVERTISEMINT.1- We have read with muck P. . I — , ,10 Barry's report on the cure of diseases without ntedistoiiir' Barry's Food, of Indigestion( Dyspepsia), Flatulency. u'Aitbit Con, Nervous, Bilious, and Liver Complaints, Coug h ' ;0 0 ; Consumption, and Debility. The following are aOw 47,1 which appear to merit the attention of many ..—Cure N. l. ore —Miss Elizabeth Jacobs, of Nazing Vicarage, walths Herts: a cure of extreme nervousness, incligest. s % $ 1 A ',f ings, low spirits, and nervous fancies. Cars Ns' Miss Elizabeth Yeoman, Gateacre, near LiverP ool: s 10 years' dyspepsia and all the horrors of nervous irrg 4 :o o .l " Cure 52,612.—Rosstrevor, County of Down, Irelan d, Lattl 1854 --The Dowager Countess of Castlestuart fs 4j „, - 130 4 „,ir in tie interest of suffering humanity, t• state that 0 1 ;1 excellent Revaleuta Arabica Food , , h a s cured bile,f 4, all medicines had failed, of indigestion, nervousness and irritability of many years' etallu"'„rbe Food deserves the confidence of all sufferers, and 104 . 0 00 i sidered areal blessing. Inquiries will be cheerfullit.'" 0 : Supported by testimonials from the celebrated Fr ° ' — g a rf ; Chemistry Dr. Andrew Ure ; Dr. Shorland ; Dr. infra' Dr. Campbell ; Dr. Gattiker ; Dr. Wurzer ; Dr. Lord Stuart do Decies ; the Dowager Countess c '. oo ' 0 1 ' 4 1 stuart ; Major-Gen. Thomas King, and many- other re l vlb persons, whose health has been restored by it, Sft, e ,..4 l ' means cf cure had failed. Suitably packed for with full instructions. In canisters, Sibs., lls. ;1211bs r ,,ss super-refined, 11b.,. ; 21bs., lls. ; 51b; , 220.; The 101bs. and 121bs. earruge free, on receipt o f r — Loiik a °" order. Barry du Barry and Co., 77, Regent-Wee, i Fortnum, Mason, and Co., Purveyors to her braJ es 4strit dilly ; also at 60, Gracechurch-street ; 33J and 451, PI K Cheapside ;, 68, Ccrnhill ; 49, Bishopsgate-street; b b, v ing-cross ; 64, Upper Baker-street; 63 and 1 511 ' street. 0.5.1.....••••••=raw0. BIRTHS. tji e OP A SON. es hirOo On the IPth inst., at Thorny ero ft Hall, eh Ol wife of the Rev. John Thornyeroft. WO 11 t he On the 17th inst. at . Cottingham, near Hu , t Thomas Ringrose, Esq. 0! A DAUGHTER. ...1•11 101* On the 18th inst., at Tetworth ?fall, 7/anti/li— the wife of John Harvey Eaton-square , Esq. . 0 et /. On the 17th inst., at 113, Eaton-square l ago W 3 Dunn Gardner, Esq. • - MARRIED. On the 18th inst., at St. James's Church, 4' the Thomas Dyke Acland, , Esq., to Mary, daughter o f sr John Erskine. Esq., of Gore House, Rensingtol l • , 5 40, 10 , 0 On the 19th inst. , at St. George's, Hano ver tbev" Adolphus Frederick William Lloyd, to 3fathild• c Vantini. h L o co Ou the 19th inst., at the GermanLatheran Cbu r roo m don, Herman James Sillem, Esq., of Clppliaul'ol o plgo °' Emma, ()slighter of Charles Meyer, Esq., 0 f park, London. DIED. te r On the 13th i ns t., th e R ev . Gibb e a Walker jo rdon' tor of Waterst oc k, O xon . age d 56. Ilt r °' On the 17th i ns t., a t H ero nden, near Tenterw e-P Peel Crou g ht on , E, q ., age d 39. Wl' 6 . 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