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A during the Ir., oil 3014 unaltered. ►ck to to --' to --" ch- to Ind • —to --- Per Too. )3 to 9/ Os Od 10s 8112.6 ' 1 Os Od to Ot Os Os t• 001 Os )d to 135 s Od —s to — 6 ▪ 00s to ON Si tol2/ 15s Od to Oa none .;t \ , • • • 20 114 90 ... 4314 120 , 4 iz(”4 F .. • • .--- sight -- 114, riga OZ. .E 3 17 9 • o .. 0 0 0 •o o 0 .. 0 o rat Post oftlG3 w,,, duo In Enoaftd. Aprll 31 R. ALBERT, SMITR'S MONT BLANC, TO-NrcaT, and EVERY EVENING (except Saturday), at 8 o'clock, and Tuesday. Thurs,lay, and -aturday Marr,ings at stalls, 3s. ; area, 2s. ; gallery, ls.—Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly. ARGYLL ROOMS.--JAURENT'S CASINO NOW OPEN for the winter season. Prhripal Cornet a Plmton, M. Bouleourt.—Doors open at g. Ashniggion One Shilling.. H. Laurent's new Varsoviana and St. Patrick Quadrille every night MR. W. S. WOODIN'S OLIO of ODDITIES. Fifty instantaneous Metamorphoses of Voice, Character, and Costume, concluding with an impersonation of Mile. Rachel, as Camille, in "Lea lloraceA," TO-NIGIIT and every evening, at 8.• Private boxes and stalls may be secured in advance, without extra charge. Polygraphic-hall, King William-street, Charing-cross. A Performance every Saturday Morning at 2 o'clock, and night at 8. DR. KAHN'S ANATOMICAL MUSEUM, 4, Coventry-street, Leicest er-Kuare.— Open (for Gentlemen Oulu from 10 'till 10, containing upw , rds of one thousand models and preparations, illustrating every part of the human frame in health and disease. the race of men, &c. Lectures delivered at 12, 2,4, and half-past 7. by Dr. G. SEXTOK, ; and a new apd highly -interesting series of Lectures is now in course of delivery by Dr. IC &UN, at half-past 8 every evening.—Admission, One Shilling. ROYAL CREMORNE • GARDENS.—Open Daily; admission is.—Grand Vocal and Instrumental Con cert every evening at six, supported by eminent artists—Ballet D ivertisement—Grotesque Chinese Pas-de-Trois—Troupe of Trained ogs — Spanish Ballet—the ore tt Devani—Dancing al Fresco, &c., oce. On sunday, at four o'clock, the whole of the extensive grounds are Opel for promenade, from which time until seven in the evening an Orchestra of first-rate musicians will give effect to the composi tions of the most renowned masters, Loth ancient and modern, in cluding Handel, Hadyn, Mozart, Be .thoven, Weber, Meyei beer, Mendelssohn, Rossini, Hamz, Herold, &c. LONDON and NORTH-WESTERN RAIL WAY.— WRIT !IDE HOLIDAYS.—DAY TICKETS issued on SATURDAY, the 10th May, and intervening days, will be available until TUESDAY, 13th May. By order. Ifaviager's Office, Euston Station, April, 1856. MARK HUISH. Ld NORTH-WEST WAYS. 4ITSIINT 'ST and SECOND CLASS, 'ERN and MID 'IDE HOLIDAYS. will be issued from LONDON an LAND RAIL , DAY TICKETS, Fin, LONDON to Lincoln lowdbam I Ncnnanton Col!lngham NottinOiam Oakenshaw Newark York • Doncaster Fiskerton ' Bradford I Sheffield, and Thurgarton Leeds Masboro' by the ordinary trains on SATURDAY, May 10, and intermediate days, to FRIDAY. XV it J. ^ li‘vo, 4ad-wal ba Available-tor 4e, turn by the ordinary trains on any day up to and including Saturday. ]Lay 17. Express day tickets will also be issued on the same days, available to return by express trains. Day tickets will als, be Issued from the above stations to London. By order. I uston Ration, Aprll, 1856. L ONDON al Communication ay Fa and Nottingham Derby Slieflield Huddersfield For particulars of wit Cations on the Main Li] General Manager's id NORTH-WESTERN RAIL :N ARRANGEMENTS for M AY.— Improved st Trains has been established between London Halifax Bradford Normanton • York, and Leads Hull 310. as well as 3d Class Train and other alto lie and Branches, see Time Tables. Ity order. MARK IIUISIL. .cc, Euston-station, April, 1856. REAT WESTERN RAILWAY. GRAND MILITARY REVIEW, - and LYING the POITN"- DATION-STONE, by her 1111,J' STY, of the WELLINGTQN COL LEGE, on SATURDAY, May 3 d; On this occasion Return Tickets at Single Fares will be 'sued from Paddington to Twyford for fst and 2d class Passengers and for Car riages and Horses, from whence well-appointed lour-horse Omni buses will run dir..c to the ground, returning after the Review to Twyford, where Special Trains will be provided to return to London. There will be also a number of Carriages and other conveyances provided at Twyford. The Regular Trains for Twyford leave Paddington Station at 7.40 tt m.. 8.15 a.m and 10 a.m. ; and a Special Train will also be pro vided at 10 15 a.m., which will run on to Reading for the convenience of passeugera who mac wish to go by the South-Eastern Railway by that route, and will return from Reading to Paddington on the arrival of the South-Erstern Train at 7.35 p.m. To insure places by the omnibuses, and to engage carriages, evil at tow should be made, not later than Friday, 2d May, to the Super intetident of the P-eldington Staten. :Fares front Paddington to ?Word and back:—ist class, Is. Gd.; 2d elm?, 4s. Single horse, tOs. 9d. ; a pair, l 7s. 5d.; a two-wheel car riage. 10s. 94.; a four-wheel ditto, 14a. 4d, Vans Iv. omnibus fe. m , wv eon] Station to the Review at:aback, 68 , Cnriages.-one horse, 20s. ; pair,2ss. CREAT WESTERN RAILWAY. ALTER I.TION OF 'TRAINS. On and after * May 1, the following Alterations will tak . e place • DO W N TRAINS. The 12.50 p.m. train from Paddington will roil to Oxford. The I o'clock train from Dldcot will be discontinued. A train will leave Oxford for Ilirmiiigham at 4.10 pm. The 2 o'clock train from Paddington will be combined on to Bir kenhead, and will ceate to stop at IVoodstock-road. Heyford, and Aynho. The 4.50' p.M. Express from Paddington will be continued an to Swartseas. ' • ur TRAINS. The 10 23 a.m. trail from Cheltenham will be discontinued. A Train will leave Cheltenham at 3.10 p m. fur London, in connection with a train from Milford. The 5:2Q p.m. train from Cheltenham will leave at 5.45 p.m. The 10 a.m. train from Birmingham will cease to stop at Solihull. The 11.5 am. train from Birmingham will call at all stations up to Didect. The 12 !loon train from Birmingham will leave at 12.5, reaching London at 3,45 p.m.. A train will leave Birmingham at 1 30 a.m. for Meet, calling at all stations The 3.15 P.m. train from Birmingham e ill be discontinued. The 2.45 p.m. train from Birmingham will leave at 2.50 p.m , and will pease to.call 1111 fleyfoi d. aw SUNDAYS. —V . , Down TIIAINS. will leave Paddington at 4 p.m. and,6.30 p.m. for Windsor and intermediate stations. UP Mums —Trains will leave WinciS3r for London and inter mediate stations at 5 p.m.. 6.30 p.m., and 8 p in. The 5.45 p.m. train from Windsor will be discontinued. For minor alterations see time bllis.—Paddington, April 2i, 1856. €6lo434tglititAL COLLECTIONS FOR A 111EMORIA.L CHURCH AT CONSTANTINOPLE. The following letter an resolution are in the course of circulation among the Incumbents and officiating ministers of all churches and chapels In Great Britain and Ireland. As it is possible, betrayer, that the circular may not reaca every parish in time, the clergy are respectfully solicited to accent this mode of application. 79, Pall-111a11, London, April 28111, 1556. Rev. and Dear Sir, —I ant directed by the Society for the Propa gation 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 Constantinople. Such a church, it is generally felt, will he at once the most suitable memorial to our gallant countrymen who have fall , n in the late w tr with Russia a hank-offering to Altnielity God for the restoration of peace.— and a means of promoting the highest spiritual interests ot British residents and visitors at Constantinople.—l ,gym, Rev. awl dear sir, yours faithfully, ERNEST HAWKINS, Secretary. At a meeting of the Society for the Propalation of the Gospel, on Friday, 18th April, 1856, Present— llic the ARCHBISBOP of CANTERBURY, the Pteddent, in the Chair, The lIIIHOP of BANG'IR, 1 The BISHOP of ST. DAVID'S, I The BISHOP of LICHFIELD. } Vice-Prwidents. The BISHOP of OXFORD, The BISHOP of ST. ASAPH, And a large attef.dance of member!, It was resolved unanimously-- That the incumbents, or o elating ministers of all churches and chapels in Great Britain ml Ireland, be respectfuly invited to Make Collections on the day of the General Thanksgiving. in aid of the Lund for the erection and endowment of " The Memorial Church at Comstantinople ;" and to transmit the amount to the Society,* 'which, in accordance with a resolution passed on the 16th March, 1855, has undertaken to become the trustee of the fund. * Remittances may be mada by cheque oa a London banker, Crossed to " Messrs. Drummond," or order on the General ro,t office, London, or draft on a London banker, payable to "Rev. Dr. Mortal John Russt 11." If nciyment be made through a country banker, a letter of ai.Tlceaddresael to the office is. requested. Inany May 16. Iday 16 lUncortAlD SCOTTISH WIDOWS' FUND LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY. Founded A D. 1815. HEAD OFFICE —\o. 5. St, Andrew-square, Edinburgh, The Assured or Members are the only parties interested in the rands of this Institution, which now amounts to upwards of TITRES MILLIONS S _ - The Society's claims to public confidence and support are grounded Mainly on the sound and equitable principles of its constitution, and on the care and success with which its operations have been con ducted (ruin their commencement up to the present time. While the Premiums are not hither than those required by many other Offices, the Society does not pretend to compete with those which hold out the attractions of cheap rates, whether as being the lowest which are compatible with s..fety, or as being based on what Is termed the " HALF-CREDIT SYSTEM." There being no Proprietary, however, those of the Assured who by the terms of their policies are enTled to participate in the Profits of the Society, are the only part'es who derive benefit from the rates being More than what are found from time to time to be required to meet the a , ...tual risks; and the remit of past allocations of Surplus Profits has been such that in the csse of all the earlier Policies, which have become claims within the last few years, the amounts paid to the representatives et decessed Members have been MORE THAN DOUBLE THE SUMS ORIGINALLY ASSURED. In cases where family provlsio , i is the sole object this result cannot fail to be considered as of the most satisfactory nature • while in other instances where the parties are desirous of secu r i ng benefit from the Surplus Payments NUKING THEIR OWN LIVES, instead of allowing the Bonus to remain an t (Mitten to the Assurance payable at death. the alternatives practicable under the laws of the office have been com mensurate in degree. In ma •iy cases, in consideration of an aban donment of the reversionary claims for Bonus Additions already de clared, such parties have either received large payments in PRESENT CASH, or have been LONG AGO ENTIRELY RELIEVED FROM FURTHER PAYMENT OF PREMIUM, the Policies atilt remaining 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 bo had on application at the Head Office, or to any of the Agents in the three kingdoms. I JOHN MAPKENZIE, Manager. Uncertain Edinburgh, March 1816. W Vii. LINDESAY, Secretary. ITa.Th.Sat !May 4 l i Twicedalll ITMoodAlly May 2 DRi., 16400000 4 84 20 a Twice&Al Ma y 6 4, 20 mo. May I ;Uncertain & 16 men 1 & 16 mon I will he India Cull spateh•d tl 8 0 1.11•11,1•.Maall ...-......,.ri1,..M1 mham, tl3 • Ace, Hyde' ts, the wife he wifo c f eh, Mr. Rd it daughter LONDON HONORARY BOAED. George Young, Esq., Mark-lane Charles Edward Pollock, I?,'sq., Barrister, Temple David 11111, Esq., East India. House John Murray, Esq., publisher, Albemarle-street Samuel Laing. Esq., M.P. Sir John Thomas Briwgs. Admiralty Leonard Horner, Esq., Home•otfce John Taylor, jun., Esq., C.E., Queen-street-place LONDON AND THE SUBURBS. , CENTRAL AGENT. Eugh *item, 4, Royal Exchange-bnildings, Cornhill. DISTRICT AGENTS. cllptiOit. S. Ridge, 49, Pall-mall, Agent for the West End Marie mftWo Seeley, 2, Hanover-street, Regent-street ilibes 38, Harris, St. George's•square, Beigrave-road , Pimlico. ty. Brixton, of the late o Harriott ockwell. , Richard ;ford, aged IN THE HIGH COURT OF CHANCERY. T RIESEMAR.—On the 29th of May, 1855, an nction was granted by the Eigh Court of Chancery, and on the 11t h of June following was made perpetual, against Joseph Franklin and others, to restrain them, under a penalty of one thou sand pounds, from imitating this Medicine, which is protected by Roy ie deal Letters Patent of England and secured by the Seals of the &Jo Pharmacia de Paris, and the Imperial College of Medicine, Vienna. TRIESEMAR, No. 1, is a remedy fo r Relaxation. Snermathrrbai, and all the distressing consequences arising from early abuse, &c., and its effects are efil eacious in youth. manhood, and old age ; and t^ those persons Who are prevented entering the married state from the results of early errors it is invaluable. r, Esq., of ,General'o in France, ylam, late YOUNG N. 112, ooluity of TRIESEMA, , effectually. In the short space of three days, completely and entire) indicates all traces of those Disorders which Capaivi and Cuhobs he 'e so long been thought an antidote for, to the rum of tho health of a vast portion of the copulation. . TRI EMAR, No. 3, •is the great C3ntlnental Remedy for that class of Disorders, which unfortunately the English physician treats with Mercury, to the in evitable destruction of the patient's constitution, and which all the sarsaparilla in the world cannot remove. TRIES EDI AR. Nos. 1,2, and 3, are a li ke devoid of taste or smell, and of all nauseating qualities. 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MARQUEES, TEN and RICK CLOTIIS. PARLIAMENTARY DIVISION. HOUSE OF CO :Stl SIONS.-4.raiL_2 SI FALL OF KARS. '. Motion made, and question put, " That the debate bo now adjourned." The house divided—Ayes 173, Noes 243. AYES-173. /Leland, Sir T. Galway, Viscount Naas, Lord Adderlev, C. B. Gaskell, J. Na ler, J. Alexander, J. George, J. Newark, Viscount Annesley, Earl of Gilpin, col. Pr. Newdegate, C. Bailey, C. Gladstone, W. Newport, Viscount Baidock, E. H. Gladstone, Capt. J. Nisbet, It. Ball, E. Goddard, A. Noel, G. Baring, T. Gordon, A. North, Col. J. Barrow, W. Greenall, Gilbert Northeote, Sir S. Bateson, Capt. T. Greene, John Oakes, J. Bellew, T. Grogan. Edward Ossulston, Lord Bennet, Capt. P. Guinness, It. S. Ot way, A. Hemlock, G. Hale, Robert Pakington, Sir J. Bernard, Vist. Hall, General John Palk, L. Bignold, Sir S. Hamilton, Lord Claud Palmer. Robert !Bake, M. J. liandcock, H. Palmer. Roundell Illakemore, T. Harcourt, Col. Peacocke, G. Itlandford, Marquis of H ar d y , G. Phillimore, R. J. Bond, J Hayes, Sir E. Portal, M, Booth, Sir Rt. Gore Ileatheoate, Sir W. Repto aG. Bowyer, G. Henley, J. Robert s on, P. Bramley-Moore, J. Herbert, Sir T. Rust, James ll ramst on, T. W. Hervey, Lord A. Seymer, H. Buck, Col. Ilildyard, R. C. Stnijih, Sir W. Bailer, , ir J. Hill, Lord A. E. Smbh, Abel Burronghes, EL N. Ilona - all, T. Somerset, Colonel i'urrowes, Robert Hume, W. Spooner, It. Cabbell, B. B. Jones, Admiral Stafford, A. Cairns. 11. Kendall, N. • Stanhope, J. reel', 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, 11. ' Coles, 11. Lacon, Sir E. Sullivan, Michael Compton, II C. Langton. W. H.P. G. Swift, R. Conolly, T. La slett, W. Trollope, Sir J. Corry, H. T. L. Lennox, Lord A. F. Tyler, Sir G. Disraeli, B. Lennox, Lord H. G. Vance, John Dod, J. Liddell, 11. 0. 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Roebuck, J, Brotherton, J. Herbert, H. Russell, Lord J. Brown, H. Heywood, J. Russell, F. C. Bruce, Lord E. Himiley, C. Ruvell, F. W. • Bruce, H. A. Hogg, Sir J. W. Sawle, C. ' Buckley, Gen. Holland, E. Scholefield, W. Burke, Sir T. llorsman, E Scobell. Capt. Byng, G. MC. Howard. C. Scully, F. Castlerosse, Via. Hutt, W. Seymour, H. Caulfield, Col. J. Ingham, R. Shafto, R. Oavendish, C. C. Ingram, H. Sliee, Serjt. W. Cavendish, G. C. Jackson, W. Shelley, Sir J. Challis, T. Jermyn, Rt. Hn. 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. R. Somerville, Sir W. Cobbett. J. Kinnaird, A. Stafford, Marquis. Cockburn, Sir A. J. E. Kirk, W. Stanl, IV. Collier, R. P. Labouchere,Rt.Hoß.H Steel, e J y ohn Colville. C. R. Langton, H. G. Strickland, Sir G. Cowan, C. Layard, A. H. Strutt, Hon. E. Cowper, W. Lee, W. Sutton J. Craufurd, E. IL 3. Lemon, Sir C. Talbot, C. Crossley. F. Lewis, Sir O.C. Tancred, H. Dashwood, Sir G. Lindsay, W. Thompson, G. Davie, Sir H. It. F. Lowe, R. Thornely, T. D . I T: i x o b n r l i d b g i l e l : Deasy, R. Luce, T. Al Mackie, ario Dent, J. rti j a . uks, T i to, W. Be Vere, S. E. Megan, W. Trail, G. Earl W. DevereuX, J. Dillwyn, L L. Martin, J. Vane, Lord H. Martin, P. Drummond, IL Villiers, C. Massey, W. Dnff, G. Vivian, H. H. Waddington, D. Mills, T. Duncan, George W alnuleY. Sir J. Milner, W. M. E. Walter, J. Dundas, F. Duncan, Viscount Milligan, U. Dungarvan, Viscount Moffat, G. Warner, E. I )unlop, A. Monck, Vis. Waterpark, Lord East, Sir J. Moncreilt J. Wats on , W. Ebrington, Viscount Monsell, W. Wells, W. Ellice, E. Morris, D. Whatman, J, Esmonde, J. 31otyn, E. Whitbread, S. T Esteaurt, T. bi owatt, F. Wickham. it, Euston, Fad of Mulgrave, Earl of Wilkinson, w. Ewart, W. Muntz, G. Willcox, B. Ewart, J. Napier, Sir C. Williams, M. Fenw.ck, H. N o rth, F. Williams, W. Fergus, John O'Brien,, P. Wilson, J. ir Ferguson, Sir R. O'B r i en , J. Winnington, $ T. Fitz Gerald, Sir John O'C onne ll, D. Wise, A. Fitzgerald, J. O'Connell, J. Wood, Sir C. Fitzroy, Henry O'Flaherty, A. Wyvill, M. Foley, J. 11. Oliveira, B. TELLEs.s. Forster, charles Osborne, R. Hayter, W. Forster, John Owen, Sir J. ::1 , IS, Berkeley, G. C. 7 ,,, -- ,;„; ~-~ar WEDN ES DAY 'EVENING:, IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS—(YESTERDAY). riie Lott]) CITANCEIZOR took his seat on tho woolsack five o'clo,s. Lord AVELAND (late Sir Gilbert Heathcote) took the oaths and his seat. The Royal Assent was given by commission to the :followitiq, bills, viz., The Exchequer-Bills (21,182,7001.), -Public Works, Public Works (Ireland) London Docks, Kuottin&y Gas, Colonial Bank, Weymouth and'Mell c,mbe Regis Gas,. Chorley Water, Ilaslingdon Water, Lancaster Gas, and Southport Water. POSTAL COMMUNICATION WITH . AUSTRALIA. The Earl of ELLENBOROUGLI presented two peti. tins, one from the merchants and others of the city of 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 be established onan improved footing with respect to the quality of the vessels employed in it. Two of the principal of those colonies had already ex- . pressed their willingness to contribute to the necessary expenses. The Duke of ARGYLL stated that the Government had the subject under their earnest consideration, and they 'would do everything possible to carry,it duly into effect. MEMENIO OF PEACE..- CHURCHES AND CHAPELS. The Bishop of EXETER submitted that sorne:natienal testimony of thankfulness for the restoration of peace should be offered ; he suggested that increased facilities for attrnding Divine worship should-3)e '-given to' the People.; at present great numbers of them were without the, means of attending public worship on the Sabhatli. While that was the case 'it was a mockery to prevent their going to 'places of public enjoyment on that dat. THE FIREMEN, &c... BELONGING TO THE HOUSE. Lord REDESDALE, in presenting a petition from Mr. Scott, who bad been engaged in the inspection of the,tentilatinaof the-house, complaining he had been dismissed from the office he held oh the utiderstanding . it'was for life, again called att-3ntion to the case of the nre 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 had 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 he sup posed it never woold be completed. Lord, STANLEY of ALDERLEY stated that the entire responsibility for the safety of the building had been trausferrei to the Coml . Commissioner of the Board Qf Works, and the bon.° 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 cireurnstances to take this course, for I can assure your lordships that I ha 1 a very sincere and earnest intention to bring this inter esting subject under your consideration. For the delays Which unforrunately 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 importance of my mo tion rendered it necessary that I should give a lull week's notice of it, and as your lordships do not sit next Thurs. day—that being Ascension-day--I could name no earlier day than next-Friday lid-the debate. But no later than yesterday the Foreign Secretary laid the Treaty of Pans on the table, and, as he has invited us to take it into consideiation on Monday evening, I eaenot think that it would meet • the approval of your lordships to' forestall the interest of that great occasion by remarks and anirnad versions on such subjects as the war in . Asia Mlnor and the surrender of Bare—topics which it would heimpossi ble to discuss without reference to their consequences 114 revealed by the treaty. Under these circumstances I have thought that the better course is to w ithdraw the motion. Had I not done so we should have had two debates on the same subject, the one ou 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. (Hear.) I would be understood, however, as reserving to myself the right of bringing forward any motion I may think fit on Moriday 4evenine% I wish -t0... tick -my •-sioNerfrtertilt , * . Whether he has any iiihjeetion-ete Nylon your lordships' table, on Friday, the terms of the acidness which Lord Clarendon will [neve on Monday next 7 Earl GRANVILLE—If I rightly understand the noble lord be altogether withdraws his notice of motion with respect to Ken'. The Earl of MALMESBURY—Yes. Earl GRANVILLE—I am giad to hear it. (" Hear, hear," and a laugh.) The Earl of MALMESBURY—The noble earl has not replied to my question. Earl GRANVILLE--The terms of the motion to he made by my noble friend on Monday evening will be laid on your lordships' fable on Friday. The Mercantile Law Amendment Bill and Mercantile Law (Se dland) Bill passed through committee. The Mercantile Law (Scotland) Amendment Bill was next passed Omagh co nrnittee. Their lordships then adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS.--YESTERDAY.) The SPEAKER took the chair at the usual hour. PRIVATE BUSINESS, The B ith 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. WILLS . AND ADMINISTRATION. Mr. PALK moved for a reti ra of the number of wills proved and administrations granted, in each year during the last five years by the Episcopal, Arcbdeanry, 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 ) Mr. GROGAN moved f l or a eturn 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. —Agreed to. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY. 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 the survey to the end of April, 1856.—Agreed LEAVING SHOPS. Mr.BRADY asked if th e Government intended giv ing instructions for the prosecuti on of the man ° and others owners of " Leaving eh Perkins- BR Ps who appeared before Sir Robert Carden at Guildhall a few days ago for receiving goods and lending money thereon w ithout having a pawnbroker's licence ? an d also it (in the event of the law being found imperfect, so as not to reach such cales as alluded to in his former question) the Govern ment intended introducing any measure this session hesing for its object the suppression of places so incen ti re to crime ? Mr. WILSON said the solicitor to the Inland Re venue had received no information on the subject al luded to. But with respect to the second quest i on he bc,gged to say the law was in a very unsatisfactory st ate, and he iotended to bring in a bill on the subject, THE BAND IN KENSINGTON GARDENS. The Marquis of BLANDFORD asked the Chief Com missioner of Works if he would state what arrangements h ad been made, or were contemplated with reference to t ae perfarmance of the military bands in the public parks on Sundays; that is to say, in which of the public park t was proposed that the military bands should in future ierform ; and whether there was any truth in the state. I cents that had appeared, that preparations were coo t emplated in such places for the accommodation of the performers and the public by the erection of an orchestra aad a place for the sale of refreshments ? Colonel NORTH—He wished the hon. baronet would info rm the house whether the permission of the colonels of the regiments Who usually paid the expen ses o f t h e r.,e,menta'l bands had been obtained. Sir B. HALL said he had made a communication to th Horse Guards that the bands should play at stated b. iurs in Kensington-gardens, which request had been co implied with. He had also been in communication with tb e officers of the 2d Life Guards, and a satisfactory ar ra e gement had been come to with respect to payment of the so Idlers. The noble marquis's question or questions were fel it in number. With respect to the first he begged to sa . it r that last autumn he gave directions that th e b an d play on Sunday in Kensington - gardens for the eh, lid real iation, he might say the innocent recreation—(hear, hear )—of the inhabitants of the metropolis, and in urdee than there might be no exaggeration of the number o ' t hose performan( es he had given or d ers perm ins attending that the number might be ascertained as nearly as pos sible , and it was found that they amounted, on various occa sions, from 35,000 to 75,000 persons. The arrange. Men is of last year would therefore be continued this ill respect to the second part of the question, he had of nerved that last year the number of persons attending IC ensin gton Gardens amounted to 75,000 ; lout the umber attendink there last Sunday week amounted to APIUL 1856. *I , -, ; • , 79,245, and in order to p revent th e indonvenjenc l of such a n'ornber of .prsons congregatfig at on pbbit, he Itrad given directions with tilt approbation' of. Col. W Ilis, for a band to play in Regents Park between the l ours of Divine servtce. With respect th'the band in t e Vic toria-park, a communication( had , been receiv d from Woolwich from Lieute , :ant-Colonel, piiksion,_ the 1 officer of one of the regiments' bf 'militia, Ole insthe use of the baud to playin that:locality' 'He i tended to answer tho letter of th e ga ll ant oflicer,,,,o4nk eg him for the off,r; which it was his inteotinn to !accept. I , The only accommodation for the band , in-ICenftington qa,rdeus was the platform that, was used, on the days that ladies and gentlemen promenaded Rotten.row. The same was used, en Sundays, butit was intended o erect a new one. With respect ta- the accomittedition of th — e` public, if he found that the present arrangemenen were not commensurate, be Omuta' propose that some tem porary building or tent should be erected. The re freshments that were sold were of the most wholesome description, and consisted iif 'tea; coffee, ices, ilemon ade, ,soda. water, and ntner'idnikanxicating drinks. AmoNst thosa present last Atriday, many of the no bility were-observed, and the itiftriber of persona On that , occlsion amounted to 79.000:. persons: The superin tendent of the gardens waiter upon liim the following Mon•la9 morning and inf• , rmed hfin that not a single shrub had been injured. (Bear,-hear.) -7t was his in tk,it to proceed as he had begun, and the people had sliowic by the way in which they had conducted them selves, that they were in every way worthy the pleasure, which, he was glad to say, thyydoly appreciated. (Lotiti cheers, and cries of " Hear, hear.") Lord R. GROSVENOR asked , the •Prime Minister whether any. of those imilividel . thLwho:.qomposed.the. -.* .:, hand and 'were compelled to,li:iigatpthlir :Soo day' after noons to-the public, objeCtinerom crinscience or :other-. wise, vrotild:be permitted to..petition the house, for any, other authority, to be excused from such attendance ? Lord . PALAIERSTON ';aid he was unable to answer the 'question, but probably the Under Secretary for, War, when l'e arrived,*wbuld be able to do so. I 4 ord J; MANNERS. asked what was the usual practice ? (Cries of " Order.") The subje?t.thep dropped. ASCENSION DAY. In antswer to a quesltion, Lord PALMERSIQINT said he proposed that the house siwuld sit ou Thursday at two o'clock. (Cries of "04 ! • THE TREATY OF PEACE. Tn answer to a question from Mr. LAYARD, Lord PALMERSTON said it was usual to propose an addresg to the , Orown on the conclusion of 'peace when the Treaty, was-taken into consideratibn. ' ' THE FIREWORKS. - In answer to a question from Lnrd HOTHAIif, The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said he had uo estimate for the expense of the firework. 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 would produce one. SLEEPING STATUTES. Mr. L. KING obtained leave to bring in a bill to re• peal e-trtain statutes which are sleeping and not in use. DEPOPULATION OF IRISH RURAL DISTRICTS. Mr. M‘MAEION called attention to the subject-mat ter of a petition from certain inhabitants of the parishes of KilbegnA and Ballynakill, in the county of Galway, present last year, and, moved for the appointment of a select committee to investigate its allegations. He stated the particulars of the case, which related to the " . clearance" by an Irish landlord of the tenantry on an estate which he hail Purcha-ed in the Encumbered Estates Court. Hi S object, he said, was to devise means for restraining the depopulation of rural districts in Ire laA, and he suggested some expedients by which this abuse of a right might be checked. Ths motion was seconded by Mr. BELLEW, who stronly urged the impolicy, as well as cruelty, of these wholesale clearances,- and called upon the Go vernment, in the name of humanity, to grant this' inquiry. Lord ' PALME RSTCN . _ -.....i 01 1 . , LA., _. admitted that the labouring population ofireland wai not greater than its wants re quired, though it was injudiciously distributed ;, but; although , t h ere were enaniyipteets of the country , in• which the'accumulationof labour,was greater than was corn 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 in 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 Ole day. ' Mr. DISRAELI concurred in this course, and, after some further discussion, this amenOnent was agreed to. The Whicwood Forest Bill pass through committee. ' The Bankers' Compositions ) was read a third lttmran d7Posaideee• , , , ,-1-srouir__ --- ---:- 4e- - eeeetree-,W -: • " -- " -- 1 j ic to 'The motiort thgt *limns° teiliCead. the orcjers of . the day was then agreed to. ' ' "A THE FALL OF KA RS.—ADJOVRNED DE 3ATE. The debate was resumed by Mr. J. G. PHILLIMORE, who reeretted that the hon. member for Enniskillen had not chosen a more fit opportu nity fur the display of his abilities. The hon. and learned gentleman ought to recollect that although it was an allow able artifice for an advocate to hide all parts of the case that male against him, such conduct was not admissible in a Senator. The hon. and learned gentleman had given a vote on the subject of the Turkish loan which had more influ ence on the fate of Kers than any rhetorical displ y. It mattered little that any hon. gentleman should make a pa triotic sp .ech, but it mattoree much that no vote should be given in which Russia could rejoice. The hon. and learned gentleman had entered into considerable detail with regard Co the conduct of Lord Clarendon. He would not follow him through all, but he would endeavour to show that the chaegee against Lord Clarendon were founded on entire misrepresentation. 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 Cl ar endon left no effort un exhausted to obtain from the Turkish Government the re cognition necessary to his cadency ; 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 unlerstanding.. Even if such was the case, it would have been in itch to Lord Clarendon's credit that he had succeeded in reconciling two such importene public servants. Lord Clarendon saw that the quarrel existed, and did all in his power to reconcile them ; but surely that could be no charge against him. The hon. gentleman had complained of the rebuke administered to Lord Stratford. What did the hon. gentleman mean ? Did ho wish to have Lord Stratford re •alle , l or not? Lard Stratford's abilities were groat ; his knowledge of the people and the language was unrivalled ; ho held the thread of affairs in his hand, and no Minister 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 sibility of recalling a single soldier from Sebastopal to send to Asia Minor ; no Minister would have imperilled the main object of the allies. The hon. and learned gentle. man said Lord Clarendon sent three men and a doctor. What did those three men aad the dootor 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 norvic 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 Panmure said no such thing ; on the letth of July he wrote :--rn" More over, from all the information which has reached me, I have every revoa to believe the army of Batoum to bo in a deplorable state. I know the contingen,t to be scarcely organised ' • of the Bulgarian troops you can have no know ledge, endl pi mine that Beatson's Horse are as little to duced to control and discipline as your own troops. In short, I am assured that it would be madness to attempt to succour 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 Panmure had filled the office of Seraskior, and if Lord Cl aren d on h a d held that department whicli 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 Majesty'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 eommissioner to the Turkish army. Now, sir, much criticism was made by him upon the powers of Gen. Williams ; it was said th e y were indefinite —it was said they were insufficient—it was said her Majesty's Govern moot did not obtain from the Gov ern nment of the Porte sufficient authority to enable hire to carry his views into effect. It may be 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 fortresi they de puted Gen. Williams to be t he British commissioner. Ho was a man about whose ability, about whose energy, about whose military capacity there wore not two opinions given or existing in the house or a mongst any body of English. men who bad either read this blue book or the various publications in which his conduct had been illustrated. No dente., can exist as to the assistance sent to him ; it was no blame at all to the Governme nt 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 usable to arm him with eutherity which could only ema nate frtm 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 leas consistent with the truth than to impute to the Government of this country any ne glect, any oversight with regard to the operations in Ash Minor. All thet 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 Turkish authorities in the fortress of Kars, they rendered AittennielieS a party to the respoesibility inyoluedl in the operations. But they were' tlnabla td send troops, anti they sent other efficient assistance. General Williams, bybeing 0 /4 limit _was placed in no anoutelottis partition ; he evas the I . l3ritish Commi ss i oner t o th e T er ki s h army. We sent also a commissioner to act in caeceet f aith the French beneral . at his head-quarters; and the French Government did the same with regard - tons. But the circumstance, of hie po sition gave to Gan. Williams an importance which ille'other commissioner did not possess. • lle" wfa &man of atxtraor (finery 'energy and wonderful ability ; ho found airnself obligeil to act in concert with -a Turkish general who was deficieht in energy and ability, and who wanted hll the most important qualities required for the command of a besieged fortress. (lean) It was owing to that dirente stance that Gen. Williathee boridubt has attracted so ranch -importance; it was owing to that circumstance that he was compelled to assume- the command of the fortress of Karp, and to form the army which defended it, Now, the hon . . and learned gentleman makes the charge as if the defence of Kars had rested with an English army. 'Batas the Government at all responsible for the army that did defend it ?; The hon. arid learned gentleman would have it supposed that they are,' but noshing csu be more re mote front the troth. (Hear, hoer.) Now, I have etated that, Irene the beginning, - the Government of her Me jesty had attached great importance to the opera tions in Asia Minor ; they had attached far more insport ance to those ,operations than our allies, the Ernperorof the French er the King bf Sai'dinia. ' lid& witched from the beginning. the proceedings. in Asia Mime. ;- but we were not precluded from acting in concert with our allied, nor did tte Orli attention to be much diverted froth the 'Crinieni. (Hear,) Now, is it or is it not•true that there is great justice in the view which has been taketati the French Goterntuent, especially at the begin- Mng of the-campaign,. mato the great importance of the Crimea, and looking upon the operations in Asia Minor as fi m ) 3 o dt secandaryadtailieet. And yet, any one who had listened to the speech of theetteereeand learned gentlemen yeaterday would have suppose" Asia Minor was the Main theater' of' the War. 'pow, is there the, snisilest' granted, in a military poiritof View, fe'rjustifying that doc trine of the hon. and learned gentleman ? Why, what are the principles for coeducitirig a reel- ? - Why, the greetest masters of the military artehavw leidait down, and this was singularly illustrated by the tectics e ofNapoleon in the. bite 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 Raisin, inthat region ? Can anybody donbatliat 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 mein, object of the campaign? (Hear.) Sir, I cannot conceive that there can be any difference of opinion upon &question, the 'answer to Which is so raapi fest to all persons who judge either by the reason of the thing be- by the authority Hof the opinions of great military judge 4. All the military judges of the campaign agree that the main object of it wae to hold Sebastopol ; we had staked otie re putation on the fall of that faetrese when" the niefotiations last , year took plaCe at the Congress of. Vienna. Wliat were the feelings of the country and of the house upon the: sub ject ? Were they not tnostorgent that no terms of Peace should he accepted, while Sebastopol remained untaken ? Therefore it seems to' me quite undeniable that the Govern ment 'would hatafailed 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 •ft 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 movetnept was at once made in the direction of Kars, but unfortunately it was then too late. Ido not wish to go into the quest on of the compa rative advantage of the two roa is by Erearourn and Ku tnis, of which we heard so much last night. Unfortunately, Omer Pacba was not in time to . relieve the place ; but the great principle on which the campaign Nes conducted was nevertheless unimpeachable. When the place was taken when Russia was in possession of Kees—it was, according to the hon, and learned member, in possession of the key of Constantinople; and (said the hen. mornber) it was a gross dereliction of duty to give such e.n a :vantage to the enemy and lay open the road to the capital. lint what are; the facts? If the road to Constantinople Was open to hire at the and of November, what advantage did he make of it ?.j We see that after the taking of Kaashe remained inactive, and dill net advance one inch ; in fact, of. tide great suc aegi' not one atom tof use was made by General adonravieff, 'an officer of whose talents not a doubt exists. 13tit even supposing that at the end of the winter another campaign had , been opened, toes-lint uee cauhl 'Genera Mouravieff have then turned his possession pp Kate? .Thazoinmeni -Milieus with Kars are' and were much easier . to Turkey, France, and triglancis thin *ere to Russia. The distance which Russia, would have had to a:leveler Wanes' ter give ilia *necessary Strength' to garrison , .at- Kars weuldshavobeen enormads.. Thais - amortise laid,?taanariort to Which. the Russian troops at Sebastopol had been ex po,ed decimated their ranks, and if the most autheitic accounts which we have received. can be credited anade 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 seed them to a greater distance, in order to insure the success of Kars, it is obvious that a most simpleoperatien at the beginning of the spring would alone have been necessary in order to !deprive Russia of this great advantage, and to drive her back across' the Caucasus. In • tever w L theferalaa crustrees& atlht; +: 1 ere aler. i bas c ul e & • - t ar continued to this spring, it taunt 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. lam therefore clear that, confining the matter within a military point of view, it is impossible, for the hon. member to esta blish the impoitance of the loss of Kars. Ho 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 acid , 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 iu 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 coleideration 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, whore 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 received a definitive fo m before the capture of Kars was thrown into the scale. I call upon hon. gentlemen to compare these preliminaries with the treaty as it was when it was signed by the plenipotentiaries at Paris, and as it is now on the table of the house. After they have gone through the preliminaries, item by item, article by article, I defy thorn to show that the treaty falls short in any respect of the preliminary articles ; ou 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 admitted to be the fact, which it cannot be denied to be, that these preliminaries were conceived and put into shape without any idea of the fall of Kern 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 the capture of Kars can be said to have had any political effect? (Hoar.) I will ask, too, any gentleman to go through these protocols, which are upon the table, and state where they show so much as a trace of any concessions having been made by England on account of the disaster at Kars. I positively affirm that no 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 Kars would not be consistent with our duty its 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 Russian 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 sai I 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 Kern, 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 stops 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 Goveihment 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 the payment of the first icstal ment. The interval, however, was a short one, for on the 25th of August 100,0001. sterling were delivered to the War Department for shipment to Turkey. On the 31st of A u gust another 100,0001., t., and on the 1 0 th, 13 th, and 15th of September three o ther sums of 100,0011, each, were de livered over to the 'War Department. These facts, which appear in returns upon the table, shove that there was no remissness on the part of her Majesty'n Government. Sir, when the French Government agreed with our own to make a j o i n t guarantee on behalf of the Turkish which. was willi ng l y acqu i esced it was made an express stipulation on thepert Government, should not be p a da over at once o it f tbhye us,E te t p b e a r t o r t : em ministry. on 0y to the Turkish Government, but that in the first place a security should be taken that it would be applied to the purposes of the war, The loan was guaranteed expressly that ~~.~fl~ ~i~ E.ON CRIMEAN TENTS.—A large quantity, suit . able Per gardens, lawns, &c , to be SOLD at greatly reduced prices. 12 fee t square, 51 ; feet in circumference, 31. 154. 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Great laxity undoubtedly prevails as anybody may see who roads the Itars correspondence. The Government cannot always place confidence in itsown 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 nuclertalso a liability unless sa tisfied that it was bona fide to be applied to the purposes of the war. Such being the position of thingS, the two go vernments appointed commissioners, who were sent to Conetantiuople, in order to arrange, in concert with the Turklida authorities, the securities which should be given for the due application of this money. Immediately upon tke 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 handed to it. That memo randum was submitted to the ambassadors of England and France at Constantinople. It was approved by those am :bass:tams ; it was submitted to the Government of the Sultan, having been euhrtiitted to one of his Ministers on Sept. 20. The house will see by this that on oqr part there was no unnecessary delay to this point. No answer was received for some time from the Porte ; at the end of seve ral weeks Fund Effendi wrote to request an interview with the commissioners. This interview took place a few • slays after--viz., on the 24th October—the delay in the interval having arisen from the inaction of the Turkish Government. Ou the last-mentioned. date the memorandum was fully discussed, and an agreement was come to on all p-dnts, with one exception. The commissioners thought it their duty to require that some evidence should be shown in detail of the application of the moneys paid to-the „Turkish Government ;,_tlas Government contended, on tle• • other hand, that they ought to follow their ordinary pi eel tics, which was Merely to show that a gross sum had been transmitted to the service of the army, and that such transmission should alone be evidence of due application. 'ln 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, aria, in fae, 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 Ist Dec., and on the 17th . of that month an answer to the meneerans dum was received from the Turkish Government, containing kgeneral assent to its provisions. I think that thullonee will see from this that it was the delay of the Turkish go vordineut, caused by its unwillingness to submit tcet rea sonable and necessary precaution, and not to any remiss-. ness on our part, whieh led to the evil of which the noble lord (Lord J. Manners) made complaint. I should state that though the inembrendum underwent some slight modi fic:stions, it reumiued unaltered in all material points, and, so unaltered, was assented to by the Government of Turkey 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. 253,009/., on the let October 200,0001., and on the 3rd of that mouth 100,000/. So that it was not so desti tute of means as the noble lord seemed to imagine. An other expedient for supplying , the Turkish Govern m ent with funds was suggested by the hon. and learned mem ber for Eaniskilleu (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 ithe Turkish Government • to relieve the garrison at- Kara. Now, I do not sea the hon. and learned membe r in his place, and tdo not wish to be supposed to use language bAsinil the back of the hon. and f leatnea gentleman %Well I would hot use before his face. I cannot, however,' re frain frotn.uoticing that throughout his speech the bon.. and learned member dealt much in vituperative ,epithets, especially condensing very many actions of the Govern." ment, and of poisons connected with it, as "contempt ible." I cannot, however, but think that if the hon. gen tleman had conic down to this house last summer, and asked for a subsidy of 100,0011. 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. Ido 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 did offer a resistance to the power ,d• France, and fence ourselves round by means of our lavish system of subsi dies. It-wasa system of defence which enabled us to bring lerge armies into the field ; but we did not send them num, 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 one of the first to object to it had the Government last session acted up to his present eugges tion. I will now say a few-words on the amendment of the b~pn. member for Dorset 'who spoke with AO:WI in olleritian `and 8 ,-- , Mow the giinglestf: He gives various reasons why huaiannot 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 decline 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, but it hears so clo s e a re semblance as to indicate that the person who prepared the ore had before him at the time a copy of the other. Lord Malniesbury gave notice for the 2%.1 of Mey 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 to the corre spondence, and the house has been called upon to prenounce a directverdict 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 qu e s ti o n should be fully 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. I shall not, therefore, be able to support the mo tion of the hon. member for Dorsetsbire. I quite recog nise its conciliatory spirit, but, nevertheless, it is, after all, 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, on the one hand, that those 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 be 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 besoems 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 house by going at any length into the correspondence, or the complicated questions which had been raised. How ever, he felt justified in saying that, notwithstanding the speech of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the able and powerful speech of his hon. 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 bad alluded to the fact that the only contributions the British Government had sent to the defence of Kars were feu! Englishmen and a doctor. He (Sir J. Pakington) confessed that he felt some regret at the terms which his . speech. learned friend had used in that portion of his hon. and (Loud cries of hear.) When his hon. a spoke of four Englishmen a right bon.furidenlrned friend behind him said " five." His hon. and learned friend misunderstood the remark, and added " General William's secretary ;" but the fifth individual to whose merits it was wished w bear testimony was the doctor, and he (Sir J. Pakingto t 4 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 hoar.) He was also happy to add his tribute to the generous conduct of Gen. Mouravieff, in at once liberating Dr. Sandwith, in consequence of the great care he had taken of the Russian prisoners when within the fortress. (Hear.) Every gentleman who like hi m (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 tarn to those portions of the right hon. gentleman's speech in which he did not concur. In his attempt to explain why no por tion of the Turkish loan had been paid until the month 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 efficient -manner. The judicious expenditure of 50,0001. or 100,0001. might have enabled General Wil liams to save Kars. (Hear, hear.) The right honourable gentleman had devote a considerable portion of his speech to proving that the capture cf Kars had had no effect upon the peace negotiations. Ha (Sir J. Pakington would not allow himself to be prematurely drawn into a discussion of these. negotiations ; but, this he would say, that he believed it would be very difficult to per suede 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 hon. 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 can attach to her Majes- Xr. K. §eyiner; tv's Government If the fortress Waknot properly defended.' They were not responsible." Adding that the Govern ment had no responsibility respecting the state as; affairs in Asia. Now it appeared to him that every lir* in the blue-book tended to contradict that statement of the right hon. gentleman. (Hear, hear.) Look at the iu structions to General Williams. On Aug. 2, Lord Chine! don said, " You will have learned from Mr. Brandt the state of disorganisation of the Turkish army in Asia, and your first ditty will be to ameliorate its condition ; and as it may be nee 13%1./7 to call the attention of .the Porto to the subject, yen will communicate with Lord Stratford without previous reference to Lord Raglan. The CAA VCELLOR of the RYCCHEQUER--- - sSend in formation. • Sir J. PAKINGTON—Taking• the hypothesis that the Government was to assume no responsibility, he wanted to know how he was to account for these instructions or the reports of Lords Raglan, Stratford, and Clarendon. He contended that the Government had made themselves responsible, and were responsible for the whole of the dig asters. Again, the Chancellor of the Exchequer urged that the campaign in Asia Minor was comparatively unim portant ; bat there was no doubt that, with the possession of Kars and Erzeroum, the Russians would have had a clear route to the Bosphorus, and, as a consequence, to Constantinople. He (Sir J. Pakington) begged him to ob serve that it %yes no part of his intention to vindicate the conduct of Lord Stratford in these transactions, or hie ne.:le lof General Williams. lie haul no doubt but that ouch co iduct must have very much impaired the, useful ness of that officer, and thst he (General Williams) must have felt himself se y much crippled by, the want of sup port from Constantinople but at the same time he was bound in truth to state that he was not of opinion that the conduct of Lard 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, that the fall was not attribntable (as the hon. member for Dorsetshire had said) to the corruption of the Turkish paellas, but mainly to the vacillation and want of vigour displayed by the English Ministry. He would 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 which the Porte proposed for its relief, including an army of 41,000 men, of whom 10,000 was to bo the T ur ki s h C on ti ngen t . 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 ale. minion was a different one altogether. He now came to the first of the despatches, which in his opinion established the respon ibility of the Government; and here he begged to remind the house of the observation of the noble lord the inem , no. for London at a former period, to the effect that the Prime Miaister was responsible for the despatches 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 the noble lord nor to the Government —for the spirit in which' it was wetten was craven and unworthy. It assumed, and iu 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 tho relief of tho Turkish army at kers, as sketched out in yourExcAlency's despatches of the 30th June and Ist. inst., has been attentively consi dered by.her Majesty's Government, and I have to state to co .:r Excellency that it appears to he objectionable for the iollowieg reasons : It would be iu 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 unorganised, and to expose them 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 assumed that 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 dis played of the nature of the country, and on that ground only could their of stinacy 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, Erzeroum, and Trebirond formed a triangle upon it, they concluded that, starting from Tre bizond, it was as easy to go one way us another. Let him 'call attention to the next sentence of the despatch for, without exception, it was the most tailing and unwo rthy he haul ever read in a despatch penned by a British Mi nister upon any subject. It was in these few words :-- "They would fall ill between Redont-Kaleh and Kutais, and be defeated between Kutais and Tiflis." Here was a prophecy, not only as to when the Turks would fall ill, 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? He 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, ho imagined, ever received from one of his own 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 sion 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 Minis e ters, not Duly as an. opinion, but, with mspoot. to, - - 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 Trebizoud. This opinion is not adopted by the Porte, or, indeed, by any of cial or personal authority here. The Seraskier, Omer Pacha, General Guyon, our own officers, as far as I have means of knowing, agree with the Porte and She French Embassy in preferring a diversion on the side of Re dout-Kaleh, as offering better chances of success ; supposing, of course, that tho necessary means of transport supply and other indispensable wants can bo 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 verklespair, he added—" Such being the present state of thetase, I am precluded from contributing to the Porte's extrication from its difficulties otherwise than by countenancing some new 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 tached for service elsewhere." And the despatch ended with the words—" Meanwhile the advice. from Kars are not encouraging ; and 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 when it was too late had they given their sanction to Omer Paths making a diversion in Georgia. (Hear.) Now let him ask them was it possible for the right bon, gentleman the Chan cellor of the Exchequer, in the face of these 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 was one other point to which he wished to allude, viz., the language of Lord Panmure in speaking of this lan 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 had written a despatch, which was being forwarded home by Lord Stratford, in which he said:—" I (lo 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. Pakingten) had beea surprised to hear on the pre• view evening from the Attorney-General that General Vi vian approved of the proposal for attempting the relief of Kars by the Trebizond route, and more so at hearing the Lord-Advocate state that the Trebizond roads were per fectly good for artillery, as every military man knew. He (Sir J. Pakington) must say a more audacious assertion he had never heard hazarded in Parliament, and when it was uttered he felt disposed to think that his legal friends would say almost anything.. What the right kon. and learned gentleman's peculiar means of information as to the Trebizond roads were he could not say, but he pre sawed he would allow that fhe. Tart:lab authorities and General Willinuae aht*. be 1001LeU upon as some authority; and both that General and Fund Pacha declared that the roads there were wholly un fit for artillery, an it d that it would take three or four mo nths before was possible to take an army to the relief of Kars b y that route. T he right hon. gentle. man had tried to make the house believe that Gen. Wil liams was in favour of trying to relieve Kars by way of Trebizond ; but, so far from that being so, he expressed a hope that the allies would send an expedition to Georgia to operate upon the rear of Mouravieff, and create s diver• sion, otherwise nothing could saveKars. How, in the face of 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 in Oc tober, Gen. Williams said—" Under these circumstances, I address these 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 jected. He (Sir J. Pakington) had been induced to make these remarks by the speech of the Tight hon. gentleman, and he hoped he had shown the house that the Govern ment was not justified in assuming that they wogs pPt re sponsible for the events which led to the capitulat i on tai that Kars. (Hear.) He, on the contrary, they had made themselves responsible 'by the l e blame for quoted, and that upon them mainly rested th tae an etter he had the loss of Kars. (Hear,) • Mr. LAYARD claimed the indulgence of the house for a few moments, and assured them that he would not details them longer than was necessary, for he thought it was too much the habit of that house to spend too much time in words and little in acts. He hoped, however, to be able i ct fo s rm be i f o o g re a th j e n ni dg i m n e e n u t ch u very tion a s shortly ovrwould t to id place themth p a on P° th si e . question at issue. Hitherto he thought the subject had not been closely placed before the house. They had had a resolution pro posed and supported by a most able and vigorous speech from the hon. and le reed member oppof ate. The Government had been strongly atiack.d in that and by other speech es delivered from the opposite side w hile. on the oth er h a nd, the speeches from o th f e th "r e rhseeoansur'y bench, he must say, had been somewhat almost tended t o con vert him to an oppo. site :ko'painnid had on from that they were intended to advocate. (H oar.) 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