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great; with reference to postal arrangements with Spain, but they were not in a sufficiently advanced stage to be presented to the house. JUVENILE CRIMES. In reply to a question, Mr. SCOTT said that on Thursday he in tended to have brought a motion on with reference to juvenile crime on Thursday next ; but as it was doubtful whether he could bring it on on that day, he should do so as soon fag possible after Easter. He in tended then to move, for a select committee to inquire into the increase of crime amongst juveniles and females. SALARIES OF CUSTOMS OFFICERS. Sir S. NORTHCOTE asked the Secretary to the Treasury whether any petition had been received by the Treasury lon the Board of Customs 'from the officer in the depot of the Receiver-General of Customsh eir for an increase of their salaries in consequence of the ir official labours, whether any answer had been re turned to that petition, and whether there would be any objection to lay the papers on the table of the house ? Mr. WILSON considered, under all the circumstances, it would not be desirable to lay the correspondence on the table of the house. BAY ISLANDS. In answer to a question from Mr. M. GIBBON, Mr. LABOUCHERE said that the warrant constitut ing the islands in Honduras Bay into a colony under the name of Bay Islands was dated March, 1852, a n d the first appointment of a presiding magistrate was dated Aug. 5, 1852. LOCAL DUES ON SHIPPING. In answer to a question from Sir F. ru......EaieErt, Lord PALMERSTON said that he proposed to move the appointment of the committee on the Local Dues on Shipping Bill on Thursday next, and as the motion of the learned gentleman ap peared to meet the views of the. Government with refer ence to the duties of that committee, he intended to adopt it POLICE COUNTIES AND BOROUGH BILL. Sir G. GREY, in moving - the second reading of this bill said that although when bringing in this measure he made a short statement as to the reasons. which had induced her Majesty's Gdvernment to introduce it to the house, yet so much misconception had since prevailed as to the object and scope of the bill and the effect of its provisions, and such determined opposition had been expressed by an in fluential class, not merely with respect to certain clauses, but as to the whole bill, that he felt it his duty, on the • present occasion, to state its nature, provisions, scope, and effect; and also to: mention the modifications which Government were prepared to make in it on the sugges tion of parties in favour of the bill, who had been good enough to state their opinions to him with a view of removing objections to the measure, and at the same time rendering it more efficacious for the detec tion of crime and the apprehension of offenders. It was necessary to call the - attention of the house to what had been done by the house itself in respect to this measure. In the year 1853 it appointed a committee on the subject, who examined a great variety of witnesses, including seve ral magistrates of counties and boroughs, chairmen of quarter sessions, tenant farmers, landowners, and heads of police, both in counties and boroughs ; and he thought it was impossible to say that those witnesses, many of whom wore well known to members of this house, and some of whom were themselves members of the house, were net folly entitled by their character and'position to give an opinion as to the matters referred to the committee which the house must receive with attention and respect. (Hear.) The committee made two reports. The first consisted solely of evidence, the second was a repo r t o f f ur th er ev id ence, accompanied by a Belies of resolutions, all of which were agreed to either unanimously or by very large majorities • of the committee, and which any one must feel to have been fully borne out by the evidence contained in their re port. The principal points established before that com mittee were these. First, it was established by accumulated evidence that the county police, wherever it had been esta blished under the existing acts, which rendered it op tional in the justices of counties to adopt a comity consta bulary or not, had been attended with very beneficial re sults, and that those results had been chiefly evincedin the increased prevention and detection of crime, the repres sion of the vagrancy, and the consequent increase in the • value of the property both of landlorde and occupying te nants. (Hear,) The evidence also showed conclusively the utter inadequacy of the system of paying constables and superintending constables—(hear)—and equally conclu sively the obstructions which were placed in the way of the apprehension of offenders and the repression of crime by the partial application of the existing acts —a police force existing iu one county and none in another, afford ing the means of escape to criminals, and thus preventing the detection and punishment of crime. The evidence fur- ther went to show that where the.police were inefficient it arose from the want of co-operation between the borough and county police force ; and that the expense—or rather the apprehended expense —had hitherto acted as the great bar to the general adoption of a police force, the evidence going to prove that where a goo d an d an e ffi c i en t police existed there expense was saved in many other re peats by the police discharging many duties which in other places were performed by other agencies, and by the pro tection they gave to property, which in other counties was exposed and liable to depredation. (Hear, bear.) Amongst the witnesses who were examined before the committee was an eminent magistrate of Hampshire, the hon. gentle man the member fox the University of Oxford (Sir W. Hea,thcote), and he bole testimony to the fact that since the establishment of a rural police in that county there had been much less undetected crime, and that the Offence of housebreaking in the daytime had greatly ditninished. A large amount of evidence was given as o the advantages which the county constabulary e•eaferred on the poorer classes of the community vapeoially. Witness after witness stated that the poor man enjoyed the advantage of protection to his pro perty, without any expense , to, himself, to an equal ee a tee with the protection which was afforded t o th o pro perty of the rich ; and Capt. M'Hardy, the chief constable of Essex, gave evidence to the 'effect 'that this was the great recommendation of the constabulary in that county. With regard to the expense of establishing a county con stabulary, it appeared from the evidence that the appre hensions on that subject had been very much exaggerated, Capt. M`Harely stating distinctly, as is Essex, that the saving effected showed almost a balance in favour of the county by the establishment of the existing constabulary, whilst a report from a committee of magistrates for Hamra shire, of which the Speaker of this house was a member, showed that a saving of not less than 1,5001. a-year must have been effected in that county. The resolutions of the select committee of this house were in accordance with the evidence to which he had referred, and were, in effect, that it was most desirable that legislative measures should be introduced without delay by the Government rendering the adoption of an efficient police force on a uniform principle imperative throughout Great Britain. Several gentlemen in various parts of the house had also urged upon the Go vernment, the importance of taking up the report of the committee, and endeavouring to form a police force which, • founded mainly upon its recommendations, would establish a more efficient police throughout the country, and render unnecessary those isolated attempts to improve the system which had been justly condemned by the committee in their resolutions. It was in accordance, therefore, with that which he understood to be the general wish of the house, and with his own sense of the duty which devolved upon him in the office he held, being satisfied that there was ample room for improvement both as to the county and borough police, that ho had endeavoured during the recess to frame a bill which would accomplish the object that the committee and the house had in view, and at the same time respect, as far as possible, that principle which he was not prepared to infringe, the principle of local management and control iu the administration of the police force. (Cheers.) He would now describe the state of the law and the facts as to counties; and next the state of the law and the facts as to boroughs. He would then leave the house to say whether, in its opinion, there was room for improve ment or not, and, with respect to the provisions of the present bill, whether they were such as were calculated to effect the object required. By the existing constabulary acts it was optional with the magistrates of a county to adopt a county constabulary or not. If any county did adopt a constabulary, it was left to the justices to deter mime how many constables should be provided, subject to this proviso, that the numbers should not exceed one in one thousand of the inhabitants, the Secretary of State having power to make rates for the government, pay, and clothing of the force, and thejustices o f appo i nt i ng a chief constable subject to t he approbation of the Secretaryof State. In 20 counties, and in two of the ridings of Yorkshire, no county constabulary had yet been appointed, whilst in seven other counties it had only been partially established. In short, he believed that half the surface of England and Wales was at present unprovided with an ef f icient county constabu lary. The process of establishing a police force in the counties where it now existed had been a very gradual one. The system had generally been extended in this way : a . county having established a police force, and the adjoining county having none, the inconveniences experienced by the latter were so great that they had been induced, partly by witnessing the results of the system in the neighbour. ing county, and partly by witnessing the inconveniences which arose from thieves and other bad characters being driven within their bounds, to exercise the option given them by act of Parliament, and establish a police force in their turn. In the county of Surrey, for instance, within the last two years there was no county con stabulary • but the met ro p o lit an po li ce district abutted on one side of it, and the Hampshire police on another. Proposals had bowl made for establishing a county con stabulary iu Surrey, but the dread of the expense and the displeasure of the ratepayers were, he presumed, the principal reasons for those proposals not being adopted. Well, there being no county constabulary, a Tbang of housebreak ers and burglars, known as the " FriM ay gang, were allowed with impunity to meet at their places of rendezvous to °once •t, their schemes of plunder and depredation, and at last they consummated their crimes and horrified the whole county by breaking into a clergyman's house and murdering its owner. What was the consequence ? At the next Surrey quarter sessions no tice of motion was given for the establishment of a county constabulary, and he believed the magistrates unanimouily —at all events by a very large majority—resolved upon the establishment of a police force in the county. That force had since been established, and he understood it was one of a most efficient character. But the question was, whether it was desirable to delay the exercise of the option given by the act of Parliament until some such cr i me as that he had mentioned had been perpetrated? (Hear.) He (Sir G. Grey) did not at that moment see his hon. friend the member for the West Riding of Yorkshire (Mr. B. Denison) in his place ; but that hon. gentleman had given notice of his intention to oppose the second reading of the present bill. Well, what was the description given of the west riding of Yorkshire? In the first place a petition had been presented to the house by his right hon. friend the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (Mr. Baines), from certain justices of the peace in the county palatine of Lancaster and the west riding of Yorkshire, wherein the petitioners stated th a t in 'the county palatine there was a numerous and efficient rural elicit, established under the 2d and 3d Vict. and 3d and 4th Vict., which had for 16 years past been in active opera tion; that in the west riding of Yorkshire there was no other police fcrce than the parish constables and 30 super attending constables, recently appointed under the sth and 6th Vict., chap. 109; that in the west riding a large amount of undetected crime existed, and many offences against good order were committed and remained unpu nished, and that the efforts of the magistrates to discharge their duties were c ften rendered useless and of no avail for want of a more active and e ffi c i ent constabulary; that in Lancashire, w: ere an efficient police force did exist, they exper;wh ed no such difficulty; and that in their, opinion th e bill now b alers the house would operate most beneficially in (:i taste withi n their jurisdiction, and enable them to diielarge their duties as magistrates with greatly increased advantage. That petition was signed by the letter of the law to be broken, in order that its spirit the risk of such jealousies and animosities as would inevi. many magistrates residing on the border of the two coun- might not be defeated by the non-appointment of a gentle- tably render future legislation upon the subject necessary. ties, and the information they gave as to the state of crime man in all other respects most efficient for the discharge of (Hear.) But was it not a delusion to talk of pecuniary aid in Yorkshire, and as to the difficulty of dete c ti ng it, w a s the duties of the office. There were one or two other points from the Government in such a case as that now under borne out by other documents, including a letter from Mr. in which the law was altered. The first had reference to consideration, for where was the money so freely tendered J. Peel, of elitheroe. Two days ago a petition was sent to the power which justices were to exorcise on appointing to come from but out of the taxes paid by the people ? Tho him by occupiers of land and owners of property in a village county constabulary, in dividing the counties into districts right hon. baronet had repeated that night a charge ,he in the West Riding, praying that the bill m i g ht b e passed for the purpose of equalising the rates. The expediency of , previously made against the boroughs, that they did not into law. He also received a letter from Lord Scarborough, this was shown by the unequal distribution of the popula- ' maintain a sufficieut force to protect the towns in case of who stated that having himself experienced the very great tion in agricultural diatrictsa small population beingspread riot. Did he seriously mean to imply that a body of police inconvenience the district had suffered by being deprived over A large, andin mannfacturingdistricts a large number were constantly to bo kept up to act as though a town was of the benefit and protection of a rural police, he heartily 11 ing within a narrow compass. There was great appre- l in a state of siege ? (Laughter.) The charges against the concurred in the prayer of the petition, which was prince- heneion entertained that the police rate would fall une- ; efficiency of the borough police he did not believe to be pally signed by persons resident on his estate. His lordship dually on such counties, and it was therefore thought de- . well founded; he was sure they were not as regarded Wal also added that the parish constables were perfectly useless suable, as the county constabulary was no longer to be sail, the borough he had the honour to represent. The plan in preventing offences. The right hon. baronet then re- optional, that on the representations of the ratepayers, the that had been constantly adopted in that borough was to ferred to the address of Mr. 0. Wilson, the chairman of the justices should be required to exercise the discretion now get the best men that could be obtained, and all considera- Quarter Sessions at Sheffield, on the 10th of March last, in vested in them by law, and to divide the counties into dis- tions of favouritism were invariably laid aside. Indeed in which he made allusion to the great increase which had tricts, so as to equally proportion the rates. He now came every case the successful candidate for the highest position taken place in the cases of violence at these sessions. He to the provisions of the bill which affected alike boroughs amongst the police bad been a stranger to the town. The (Sir G. Grey) thought that th e st a t e of things disclosed in and counties, which contained a declaration as to the duties ' great majority of the petitioners who had addressed the those different communications was very discreditable to a of the police. The most material was that which em- house, instead of receiving the bill with pleasure, and as a civilised country, and more especially so when he took into powered her Majesty to appoiut inspectors to ascertain the relief from those evils under which they laboured, looked account the great wealth of the West Riding of Yorkshire, state of the police as regarded numbers and efficiency ; upon it with alarm and called for its immediate rejection. to which they particularly related. In consequence of the and this power was inserted in accordance with the recorn- I They saw in it a principle of centralisation which was most absence of a county constabulary in Somersetshire, the mendation of the commission of 1839. It was owing to ' obnoxious to an Englishman's views. (Hear.) He (Mr. magistrates, from a sense of the inefficiency of the parish the circumstances reported by that commission, and to ; Forster) knew p er f ec tl y we ll t h at uo i mproper advantage constables, frequently applied f o r th e ass i s t ance o f the other circumstances which had since arisen, that a portion i would be taken by the present Home Secretary, or of any police in Bath, where there was an admirable bormighforce. of the police expenses was to be defrayed out of the Con- , Cabinet of which he might bo a member, of the power this Surely that was a state of things which ought not t o be solidated Fund. It was necessary that some means should bill would confer upon him ; but it could not be said so allowed to exist. He would now proceed to advert to the be adopted to see that the police were efficient, and for that confidently how another minister might use the power, and existing law and facts with regard to boroughs. It was s a id purpose inspectors were essential. He bad heard no objee- he asked the house therefore to be cautious how it tam that, though the bill might be very useful so far as it r e l a t e d tion to that provision, and he believed that Parliament , pored with the municipal institutions of the country. to counties, there was no reason why Parliament should in- wou ld a g ree i n the reasonableness of the proposition. There (Hear.) The boroughs knew that they had done nothing terfere to provide a more e ffi c i en t p o li ce f or any boroughs was another point, with respect to the power to grant an- to forfeit the confidence of the house, and they felt that in the kingdom, and that such an interference on the part perannuation allowances to the chief constables of counties; ' they had reason to complain strongly of the course which of Parliament would be a violation of the first principles there ought to be such a power to reward meritorious offi- ; had been taken in reference to them since 1853. They of self-government as laid down by the Muni c ip a l A c t. cars, and he therefore anticipated no objection to the adop- I were most improperly treated by the committee of that Now, had Parliament altogether abdicated its functions in tion of the clause. - He had now stated all that was neces- ! year, which was composed entirely of county members. this respect, and had it no right to take additional precau- sary with regard to counties. He trusted that the house , Looking to the composition of that committee, aad to the tions to render the police for boroughs more effi c i en t th an would have no objection to allow the second reading of the ; course of procedure before it, it was never for a moment they were at present ? The sth and 6th Wm. we chap. bill. He had already received many valuable suggestions supposed that the committee was to take into consideration 76, gave power to the town council of bor oug h s t o app oin t from - hon. members, and he was ready to listen to any the borough police, and no evidence on behalf of the bo a watch committee, which should provid e a suffi c i en t n um . others they might think proper to make. He had been sur- roughs was tendered. When the report came out the Bo ber of fit persons as policemen to k ee p p eace by d a y an d prised to find opposition to the bill from boroughs of a kind roughs were astounded by the inaccuracy of-the statements night, and give ample protecti on t o lif e and p ro p er t y i n which, to him, was wholly unaccountable. Some boroughs contained in it, and demanded a fresh inquiry, but nothing the borough. Did Parliament, as w as as sume d by th ose had been in favour, and others had taken no part in was heard in reply until 1854, when a bill was introduced who opposed the bill, stop there—did it vest the wh o l e the matter. There had been deputations from town coun- by the noble lord now at the head of the Government, who authority with regard to the poli ce ab so l u t e ly i n th e b e . cils. He would particularly refer to Manchester, which was then the Secretary of State for the Home Department ough authorities, and give an implied pledge that it would objected only to certain portions of the bill • and he —a bill which was withdrawn in accordance with the gene not in any way interfere with the police for the future? The would, therefore, proceed to consider the reasonable objec- rally expressed wish es of th e country. What had occurred act did not stop there. There wa s a p rov i s i on i n th e ac t tion e of those who were favourable to the principles of the since that time to justify the Government in again moving which, although not regularly complied with, required th a t bill. He, found great misapprehension prevailing in some in the matter, and in dragging up representatives of local a quarterly return should be sent to th e H ome Secretary by quarters as to the bearing of the provisions of the bill on authorities from all parts of the country to protest against every municipal borough of the numberef police withi n th e local government. What was the object of the bill ? It their proceedings, and to defend the sights which th' borough, and the regulatio ns ma d e f or th e i r government b y was to provide an e ffi cient poliedey force, havi ng d ue regar d thought wore secured to -them by the Municipal Act of the watch committee, in order that the Secretary of State, to local control. It had been asserted that by this bill 1845 ? (Hear.) He regretted very much that, as a gene who here exercised the central authority which was so the management of the police would be transferred from ral supporter of her Majesty's Government, although, at much objected to, might see at one glance wh e th er th e b o - th e t own counc il s and watch committees to the Secretary the same time, a strictly independent member, he was rough authorities fulfilled the directions of the statute. of State. To that he could give an unqualified denial, obliged to resist the measure which the Government had Therefore, Parliament did not abdicate its functions. Pri- and would refer for proof to the bill in the hands of hon. introduced. Her Majesty's Ministers must bear in mind sons were placed under the control of the municipal bodies members. By the bill, the management of the police was that it was the Government that had deserted the ho by the same act, but inquiries had since been made into the not to be taken from the local authorities ; there was to roughs, and not the boroughs who had deserted the Ge state of prisons, both in counties and boroughs, and acts be no interference with the appointment or dismissal of verument. (Hear.) If he might venture to make a sug passed amending that law, and giving to the Hom e Secre- constables, and there were no compulsory powers in the gestion to the right hon. baroaet the Home Secretary, it tare , the right of supervision over local control and super- bill as to the number of police to be provided. Not wish- would be that he should withdraw the present bill, with intendence, for the benefit of the community at large, as ing to present a bill to the house theoretically perfect, he a view to introduce another which would be free from the well as for the benefit of the inmates of the prisons them. had declined to insert powers to appoint constables cr to objections to which that now before the house was un selves. He did not see why, after that had been done with determine what number each borough should appoint. doubtedly liable. (Hear.) regard to prisons, without any objection and complaint of The right hon. member for Droitwich (Sir J. Pakington) Captain SCOBELL, ee in seconding the amend, said the practical exercise of th e powers con fid e d by Parliament had suggested th a t it wou ld b e desirable to fix a minimum ; he was asked to be a witness on the committ m t ent w owhich to the Secretary of State, that there should be an exagge- but he (Sir G. Grey) did not think that it would be ad- the hon. gentleman who had just sat down had referred, rated apprehension — forsohemustcallit—astothe supposed visable ; and he emphatically denied that by this bill he but he refused, knowing how the committee was consti abuse of the powers which it was now proposed to give that wished to doanything more thanestablish onenuiform stun- tuted, and that the majority of its members had made up Minister in reference to the police. This question had been dard of police throughout England. By the fourth clause their minds how they should decide before they entered argued as if only particular localities were interested in it, it was provided that const a bl es o f b oroug h s should have upon the inv e iti ga ti on . Th e f ee li ng i n Bath (the town he whereas it affect e d th e coun t ry a t l arge. The public the same po wer i n coun ti es w hi c h county constables had represented) was universal against the bill ; but if he were had a direct pecuniary interest in the matter. When now in boroughs; be had never heard any objection to not of the same opinion he would not take that view of it the Municipal Act was passed, all the expenses of pri- that clause, and he thought that, for the better adminis- in the house. In his own county (Somerset), in which he sons and prosecutions were entirely borne by th e tration of justice, it was expedient that constables of had taken an active past as a magistrate, the amount of community within which these prisons and prosecuti ons counties and boroughs should concurrent jurisdiction. crime was as small as in any of the previous 25 years, with were, but Parliament had since thrown a lar ge po r ti on o f The fifth clause provided for the performance of the one exception, and that was a county without etny rural those expenses on the Consolidated Fund; an d th ere f ore duties of the constables, which were to be regulated by police. In SOmerset and Devon counties, without any if, owing to a deficiency in the police of any county o r the justices or watch committees, and power was given rural police, the amount of crime in 1851 was lin 590. In borough there was a great increase of crime, the additio na l by the Secretary of State to make such regulations from Gloucestershire, Wilts, and Southampton counties that cost entailed by that fell immediately upo n th e publi c . time to time as might be necessary. He would state the had the advantage of a rural police, the amount of crime He now proposed to deal with the a ll ega ti ons th a t th ere object of this clause being introduced into the bill, and, was lin 478. So much for the argument that criminals was no evidence to show that the borough police through- at the same time, mention that this was on e of the were driven out of counties by a rural police into counties out the kingdom was not aaperfect as it could be, and th a t clauses to which great objections had been made which where th ere was none, and where they might with the there was no room w h a t ever f or t h e interference of Parlia- objections, he wees bound to think, were entitled to greater faciliti es carry on th e i r unlawful pursuits. He ad meat. If these allegati ons cou ld b e sat i sfactorily proved, great weight. But the objectof the clause had been greatly milted. that in many parts of the country parish es ho would not be at a ll di s p ose d t o encounter the opposi- m i sunderstood by some and misrepresented by others. The had n o t p rove d an efficient body of officers, ut constables bthat was tion of so manyof his hon. friends for the sake of advocat- clause in question had reference to the savin g of expense the fault of the system, not of the men, who were meat in ing any mere theory. A return was moved for a year and to boroughs and counties, by appointing constables who adequately paid. A policeman got, perhaps, 601. a year, a half ago, giving the number of police and th e amo un t of should devote the whole of their time to the performance of a parish constable perhaps not 60s. Had it been shown population in each borough under the Municipal Act. their duties, including those which in a well-regulated po- that time ulic were in favour of this bill ? The right hon. Some slight variati on h a d subsequently taken place, and lice force— suc h as i nspection of weights and measures, barons, had b submitted a few petitions and had read letters he had endeavoured to supply that so as to render the re- serving notices and precepts, suppression of nuisances, Ste. Irons a few private individuals, including superintendents turns as I correct as possible. There were several of th e —were performe.l gratuitously by the constables; bet of rural police, who were, of course, interested in keeping smaller boroughs in which no attempt had been m a d e t o which could not, it was believed, bo enforced by the local up a system under which they enjoyed good appointments. com ply with th e requisitions of the Municipal Act. There authorities without extra pay. It was suggested that as But what was such testimony ceenpared with the 100 cor were eight boroughs with an aggregate populatio n of doubts existed on this point they should be removed, and poratioes who had petitioned the house uuder their corpo -34500, in which there was only one policeman for day that express powers should be given to impose those duties rate seal. There had been, up to the last returns, 145 pe and night duty. In 20 other boroughs, comprising a popu• on the police, and with that view this clause was intro- titions against the bill and only sin _favour of it, a pretty lation of 82,000, only t wo p o li cemen di sc h arged the duties dice!. It had been objected that this clause as it stood conc l us i ve proof, he thought, of the state of feeling out of imposed by the act. With regard to the larger boroughs, would give power to the Secretary of State to determine doors. It had been said that in some of the boroughs the he was happy to say that the town councils of Liverp oo l, the duties of the police. To meet that objection he would number of police was too small ; if that were the case, and Birmingham, Bristol, Newcastle, Hull, and some other propose the omission of the latter portion of the clause, and there was no doubt it was so, let it be altered by a proper large and populous boroughs, had adequately fulfilled the leave it to the local authorities to determine what duties measure, but not by a bill which conferred such large powers obligations imposed upon them by the Municipal Act, and the police should perform. The next clause, viz., the sixth, upon the Hoe Secretary, and swept away all the rights of he did not think the p resen t bill would have the effect of had been greatly objected t o b y th e boroughs • the counties the municipal corporations. (H ear .) It had been stated that making practically any alteration in the s y s t em o f po li ce were not concerned in it. The clause enable d the Secretary in certain cases one-fourth of the expense of the police was already existing in boroughs of that class. He was sorry, of State to make rules for the government, clothing, pay, to be paid out of the Consolidator( Fund, but that fourth however, to find that the same remark could n o t apply &0., of the police in the boroughs, in the same way and to only applied to the pay sal clothing of the police, so that to those boroughs which, though of a secondary class, the same extent as th ey h a d w i th respect to the county all the remaining expenses would fall upon the boroughs, were very impo r t an t i n respect to the extent of th e i r police for the last 15 Wiled years. Apprehensions were enter- the Gent, in realit, not paying more than population. I n I n A s ht on-under-Line, with a populationed that it was intended by t he Secretary of State to sixth of t overnm he whole amount y of the expenses incurred. But, of 30,000, there w ere on l y seventeen policeman. At Black- take altogether into his hand s th e power o f regulating and oven if that were an advantage, was it to be supposed that burn° there were only 46 policemen to a population of interfering with the local powers of the watch committees. the magistrates throughout the country would submit to 17,000; at Bolton, there wereonly 27 policemen to a popu- He mud again repeat that there was no such intention ;it be bribed by a mere money payment to the cornmi-sion of lation of 61,000; at Okiham, there were but 33 policemen was only proposed to place boroughs in the same position as a great wrong upo n those munisipal corporations ..% hich to ^3,030; at Preston, there were only 37 policemen to counties; and he entertained no doubt, if the clause passed, they had so well defended. (Hear.) It was Lord Grey 30,000 inhabitants. Now, it was impossible to read these that the power would be exorci se d i n th e sei ne unobjec- who gavo municipal corporations to England, and that was numbers without feeling th a t it wa s utterly,i m p es ,ihj e tionabl e man ner as it h a d be en i n the case of the counties the great glory of his day ; but now a member of his fan, ily, that.the pollee force in these to wns co u ld ade q u a t e l y per- f or th e l as t 15 y ears , an d wo u ld give rise to no interference and one bearing his name, was endeavouring to take them f orm th e i r d u ti es . Th e amount of the police force was on the part of the Secretary of State. He would read the re- away. (Cheers.) If thi s bill passed, it would be impossible proved to be insufficient by the frequent a ppli ca ti ons ma d e gu l a ti ons w hi ch had been in operation for counties for the to prophesy what would happen in future times. An ad from time to time for assista nce t o th e military authorities last 15 yea: s. (The right bon. gentleman here read some par- ministraton was not worth two ars' purchase; and who of the district, or the Horse Guards, or yeomanry, i n or d er tio n o f th e regu l at i ons.) He would venture to say that if the could tell how sacceedieg Goverer ye nents might turn upon t o ke en s the peace upon any extraordinary occasions. It words of the clause appeared too large and too wide, and the people those instruments which this bill would place would be found that the chief constable of Lancashi re h a d were likelyto accomplish more than was intended, he should in their hands. Our statesmen were now endeavouring to repeated applications from the , numerous towns of th a t be glad to bear any reasons that might. b ged ; and if make peace abroad, while a member of the Government county for aid. The chief constable said on some occasions the house thought proper he should be wi l l in g to give to was attempting to make war at home. (Cheers - ) The that aid was given, but on some others ho could not give Parliament thaapower which; as the bill at present stood, people would not be silent, for they would not submit to a that aid, owing to the police under him being required in was vested in the Secretary of State. There would be sub- bill so thoroughly un-English—more fitted for Naples than the county; and the more so, because many of those bo- stituted for the Bth clausoone which would secure the same for the people of this country. (Hear.) He (Capt. Scobell) roughs had separated themselves from the county, ,and kind of information being regularly transmitted from time was perfectly suite of thin, that if the boroughs accepted afterwards came to ask gratuitous assistance from the to time to the Secretary of State. The object was to obtain the bill in any form, the magistracy would be digging their county which it could not give. In many of the counties that information regarding statistics of crime which Par- own graves, for they would soon be swept away by a bill ho might also state the military outposts—it he might call liament had always asked for, and which he (Sir G. Grey) which would propose to have a universally paid m them so—or detachments, had been called in and coucen- had pledged himself tq endeavour to obtain. If the bill tracy just as it was Dow proposed to have a universal po trated not only for the purpose of the present war, but to were committed pro forma with the view of having it re- lice under the direct influence of the Home Secretary. Be avoid the serious evil to the habits and discipline of the Printed, he thought it would be found that the whole of believed the present bill was part of a plot to carry into soldiers from their being so far away from he a d- quar t ers , the objections had been removed. Ile must now ask the effect that object. A return had recently been circulated He (Sir G. Grey) had, in consequence of thi s s t a t e of things, house to affi rm th e pr i nc i p l es of the bill, which, though amongst members, in which it was stated th a t th ere were thought it his duty t o i ssue I c i rcu l ar on the 28th March modified, would still retain a power over loc a l control and 19 counties that had vastly increased in crime in 1854 last year, to a certain class of boroughs, warning them management. Amongst the petitions which bad been pre- as compared with the previous four years, e increase that they must n o t d e p en d f or ass i stance on the counties. Rented was one from the City of London, which certainly being as much as 11 or 11 per cent. Would the house That circular was addressed to boroughs with' a popula- struck him with much surprise, because the City of Lou- believe that out of these 19 counties 13 bad a rural tion of 28,000 and over, in which th e p o li ce were not ono d on h ad no interest direct or indirect in this bill. What police, which was supposed to keep crime do wn ? O ne in 1,0:0 to the inhabit ants. From fourte e n o f th ose be- was the case of the City of London? He had not said one had a police partially, and the other five had none. He roughs he had rezeived an answer favourable to the word of the constitution of the City police, but he woull said reject this bill. The alteration of it was nothing. It bill, including. Leeds anti Wolverhampton, the latt er now state that it was a most efficient force ; but under the was objection a bl e i n any shape, and if modified now, it borough enjoying the distinction of having petitioned City of London Police Act the most extensive powers were would be followed in its principle by measures of a sinai unanimously in favour of the present bill ; and he was reserved to the Secretary of State, who had greater control lar character. informed that in those two boroughs steps had b een in its management than the bill before the house hinted Mr. M. STRACY thought this bill was an honest and taken for the immediate augmentation of the police, at. The corporation could not appoint a chief of police earnest attempt to give duo protection to piseperty. He whilst other boroughs expressed themselves as satisfied without the sanction of the Crown, through the Secretary believed that this bill would provide an efficient force with things as they were. He had received a letter from of State ; and when that officer hail been appointed, he both for the preservation of the peace at home, and, if the Mayor of Stafford, dated the 4th of April last year, could not be substituted without the authority of the S,- necessary, for the resistance of an attack from abroad. which stated that Stafford was the county town with a po- cretary of State. There was also a power in the City of si r G e pEcHELL said th e r i g ht hon. baronet had pule.tien of about 12,000, the county gaol contai n i ng b e . London Act which gave her Majesty, through the tsecre- failed to convince him of t o h os e bill. Tt would tween 500 and 600 prisoners on an average, and yet there tary of State, power, without the consent of the corpora- be exceedingly injurious to those towns which were cities were but one superinterelent and four policemen. At Pres. tion, to remove from his office the Chief Commissioner of i n countie s . L oca l ac t s we r e provided for efficient Police ton there was a large population, and the police force was Police. Probably the reason why the corporation ob- establishment s , b u t a ll those acts would be superseded by quite inadequate. Portsmouth he knew had taken a very jested to the present bill was because they anticipatetl thi s bill. Hes, regr e tt e d t o h a v e again to raise his voice active part in opposition to this bill ; but he (Sir G. G rey ) the introdu c ti on o f a measu re whi c h would interfere with against centralisation. Constant inroads were being made h a d several letters from Mr. Emmanuel, a jeweller and the constitution of their own ' body, and they now up on the independ ence o f th e rate-payers of the country, silversmith in that borough, praying that the bill might be made common cause with the boroughs against the and now up started the right hon baronet with a bill, the p a ssed, and stating that the population was betwe e n present bill. (Hear, hear.) .Ho had now stated the rea- principles of whi c h h a d been rejected two years ago. He 70,000 and 80,000, while there were only4oor 42 constable s sons which induced the Government to introduce the bill, should, therefo r? , eupport, the amendment. • for day and night duty, and that during the month of Feb, anti the grounds upon which the Government asked the Colonel PACKE said that, from what had fallen from in that year one-fourth of that number were absent, owing house to support it. If he had followed the advice given either to depth or disease. From the Mayor of Plymouth him by the deputation who waited upon him, and insisted the other sid f e : it migh t . be inferred that this bill was in he had a letter, stating that a large number of persons in upon the withdrawal of the measure, he should grossly being a bill for the more effectual suppression of crime. that borough looked to the bill with satisfaction, and have neglected his duty. (Hear, hear.) Ho would now hoped for great advantages from it, adding that the whole t leave the bill to the decision of the house, and whether Ono of the g reatest benefits of late years conferred on the l poor w as the system of allotmen ts. This bill would force of that town was only 45' to a population of from the house should consider it worthy of a second tea ling rural the hold e r of thosllot ets against de -55,000 to 60,000. He next came to Derby, and in a local or not, lee. (Sir G. Grey) should consider that he had dis- gi r v edators, which at this e moment a p r otection ale thever much needed. newspaper—the Mercury—of November last, he found a charged his duty in regard to the pledge he had given to report from the superintendent of the watch committee, the house, (Hear.) There was nothing in the bill of whi y ch th e y boroughs could id poor which stated that th e p o li ce f orce o f t h e b orough consisted Lord PALMERSTON seconded the . reasonably compl a i n . A s t o th e i nspectors, we law inspect no, i ns p ec t ors o f gao l s, and of everything .elso of ono superint en d en t., one inspector, three sergeants,,ooo two Mr. C. FOSTER moved as an amendment "That motion. the upon whi c h that h ouse requ i red information ; and why constables, and 27 p o li cemen , t o a population of 47 inhabitants. As t o th e e ffi c i ency of the police generally, bill be read a second time this day six months," The not then upon police matters. The towns and counties it was an essential ingredient that strict attention should right hon. baronet, in an able speech, had consented to ought to, be as one upon police matters. be paid to the regulations under which they acted. He remove the most obnoxious clauses of his bill, but he had Sir J. WALMSLEY said the objection to this bill believed that in many of the large boroughs they had not done enough to justify the withdrawal of the amend.- was not to the more efficient establishment of police rage taken their rules in a great measure from those of the meat of which he had given notice. Even if he hail ' but to the interference of the Secretary of State in lotions, metropolitan police, which bled been found roost effi- eluded the boroughs from the operation of the bill, ea - clout. Still there were very great anomalies and defects. would not have removed all danger, for the prihciple of I One was that there was no provision against the pay- centralisation applied ' this to • year counties might next meat of police constables by fees. He thought that if a year be attempted to be applied, with greater suCcess to the matter. The municipal bodies could carry on these regulations . without such interference. This had been proved ample, at all events, in two boroughs, with which he war connected, namely, Liverpool and Leicester. Ho could discover no justification for this measure in the policeman was paid by fees and not by salary, there boroughs, for the Goveznment, by dividing the oppos itio n, speech of the .xig.i4 hole, baronet. Ile had made out no case would be an unequal administration of the law, and the would have secured an easier victory over each: (tlear at all. Certairey not with regard to the boroughs. The poor man would be in danger of not having justice done hear.) He quite agreed with the opinion the rich hon' bill was en unjustifiable interference with the regulations him. In many of those regulations there was a prohibi- baronet had expressed, that it was necessary to hay© a of the boroughs of the country, and there wore petitions tion against payment by fees; in some cases fees were al- more efficient police force throughout the country. There lowed to be taken. As an instance of that system, there could `be no doubt about that being a matter y o . f social from 150 of the, princip d boroughs against the bill. How was the borough of Leominster, in which the superinten- necessity, and if the object of the right hon. baronet hash from were there in favour of the bill ? Only ten. There might have been errors committed in some of thwboroughs, d e nt was paid by fees, and in his absence the police could been simply to impose on counties and boroughs where b ut th a t was n o r e a s o n for legislutio'nlike this. The wisest not act, as it would be infringing upon his fees. In Nor- there was no efficient police system to raise a force, leer wich payment by fees had existed, but the town council ing the superintendence and management f't to the • ei resit thing for that house to do was to foster local self-govern had abolished the system, and it no longer existed. He dent magistrates, as, under the Municipal Act, the borough meat. The Government had shown no aptitude for wise might say generally that where the police were most effi- police was left to the town council, he would not have administration, certainly not within the last•two years. cent, in point of fact, there was the least opposition to the opposed it. More than that, he believed that such ap 0 Mr . SMYTHE fully concurred with the right hon. bare bill. In the city of York, with a population of 36,000, posal would have met with a general concurrence from rall- net ' with respect to the necessity of au improved system of there were only 29 police. He was not going to state any- parts of the country. (Hear, hear.) He did not at I police iu the West Riding of Yorkshire. With regard to thing regarding York on doubtful authority. Be held in all agree with that part of the bill which gave to the city of York, he thought they would not have heard t o a f I much of the squabbles in the to the of York if it had his hand a copy of the York Herald of February 17, 1855, policeman of one district the power of moving I not been for the interference of the Lord Mayor of York containing a detailed re opt of a meeting of the city coun- that district in pursuit of a n offender, wh o m h cil. The first business brought before the meeting was mieht apprehend and place before a magistrate havin g e with •the right hens baronet. The alterations which the the reception of the report of the watch committee. No jurisdiction in the district were he was caught. There e hon, baronet had made in this bill had removed many of sooner was that repoit presentid, and its adoption moved another portion of the right hon. baronet's statement from the objections to it, but he thought he had bettor withdraw the bill, and introduce another applying to caunties only. and seconded, than a town councillor made a long speech which he differed ; that was where he expressed an opinioeln Mr. BENTINCK concurred in the general obj ects of the impugning the efficiency of the police, givin g very circum- that there was a jealousy between the county anti the stantial details, showing there was ample room for reform. borough police. His (Mr. Forster's) experience went di- bill. Any objection which he might have had to it had That town ceunciller (Mr. Charlton) stated that the power rectly the other way, for he•had acted some years as a ma- been removed by the speech of the right hon. gentleman. Mr. W. J. FOX would much prefer that the right hon. , of the police to prevent robberies was not so satisfactor gistrato for the county in which he resided, and had thorns gentleman should withdraw the bill altogether and intro as it ought to be, and that he believed tillth e y altered-th e found the most harmonious feeling to exist between . duce a new one. • system of paying the police by fees they never would be The right hon. Bart . having given up clauses 5 and 6, which I better off. It appeared that the inapector of police in that related to the duties of the police in boroughs, he (Mr. . Mr. HENLEY complained that this was a measure to 1 city was himself the owner of several houses of ill-fame, Forster) was relieved from the remarks he intended making take away the constitutional rights of counties and be which were the resort of thieves and other bad characters. on those objectionable points. He should have been pleased roughs, and he hoped the two bodies would stand together (hear.) That statement was not denied nor attempted to if the right hon: baronet had considered it his duty to give and defeat the measure. He cited several returns of crime be palliated or defended. Here was a disgraceful abuse up the inspection clause for he thought the proposition in various parts of the country to show that an improved years after the Municipal Act had passed, and yet the from its uncertainty, and from the power it gave the Go! i police had not diminished, crime. He was not surprised chief magistrate of this.city of York had taken upon him- vernment td raise or lower the standard of police, was ; thretthe boroughs were at present uneasy in their minds,, self to attack this bill. He would now proceed to state the highly objectionable. (Hear.) That - clause gave to the 1 which they had a good right to be. teethe eight imp.' provisions of the bill. First as respected counties, By the Government the power to direct how many ol icemen the : gentleman had , attempted to sweep away the peoperty of existing law an option was given to the justices in quarter boroughs shou ld• p • with g maritime boron and now came another right hon. gen employ, thus palpably interfering with i sessions to adopt a county constabulary ; it was pro- their local rights. The 10th clause empowered tho Govern- tlem an who proposed to sweep away the franchises of inland ,posed to take away that option and make it coinpulsory. , ment to inquire into the efficienoy of the county and bo- 1 and maritime boroughs alike. He had before shown that All the counties would then be subject to the same provi- I rough police, and the 1 lth provided that when the Govern- the police did not repress crime ; he had farther to state sions which now existed with respect to those counties ; merit had acted upon that inquiry, and directed how many . that it would not preserve order ; and he referred to tho which, in exercise of the option, had established a consta- I should be employed, ono fourth of the expenses incurred I Hyde -park riots in proof of hie assertion. The right hon. bulary force. It was objected that the county const a b u l ary' should be paid out alit° Consolidated Fund. The whole gentleman defended his county from the charges brought would then be subject to the Secretary of State for the power was placed in th e h an d s o f t h e Secretary of State 1 a g a inst the population in a petition presented by some Home D e p ar t men t . b u t thi s bill only proposed to place all , who might d elude borough s t o i ncrease their number of. i clergymen and gentlemen in favour of this bill, and was the counti es up on the same footing as those which, for the ; police, at first by a small number, on the promise to n particularly wroth at the application to them of the obso last 15 years, had exercised the optional power of appoint- 1 part of the expense, and then they % would fled themseihaeYs i fete word " criminous." ing a constabulary, and he believed he might say, that in ;in this position, that if they did not constantly inc 1 Sir W. HEATHCOTE contended that tho bill would the whole cou rse o f th a t time no difference of opinion had I the number according to his directions, he would take not affect either counties or boroughs so seriously as was existed betwe en the justices an d elle Secretary of State as ; away the subsidy, and at any time he pleased throw the I represented ; the only point of any importance being that, to the appointments which they made, and this unanimity ' whole of the of opinion he attributed to the great care with which the he might harass the town-councils, who, he contended , payment upon the borough. (Hear.) Th us ;in return for a portion of their expenses being paid, both I were to be subjected to a certain amount of inspection. justicesmad, teeirappointtnents, them • at efficientmenhav- ought not to be placed in such a state of uncertainty I He regretted that the boroughs were not to be placed on ing been selected. There was only one instance in which a Such a power undoubtedly did away with that unifer,- the same footing with counties,. where the chief constable question had arisen, and th a t wan as t o the age of the mity and order which the bill professed to aim at. One had the appointment of all his subordinates, whereas in party elected to chief• constable. In that case the justices of two things would happen. Either the towiecouucils— boroughs the appoiotment of the constables was in the were desirous to appoint a pe rson a b ove th e age allowed trite to those principles of municipal government which hands of the watch committees. Ho also contended, both by law, and upon repotoentations being made as to the fit- they had always so faithfully defended—wmild refuse all on the ground of justice and expediency, that the .allopre nese of the person appointed, the Home Secretary alloWed atseistance from GoYernment, or they would acce t lat - since of one-fourth of the expense by Government Neas no* P A enough to induce the counties and boroughs to institute an efficient police. Mr. J. B. SMITH thought that the bill ought to be met by a direct negative. If it had come from the other side of the house they would have had a- two hours' denuncia tion of Tory tyranny . froni the right hon. gentleman. The right hon. gentleman had referred to the borough which he (Hr. Smith) represented ; but the matter was in the people's hands, and they acted as they thought best. Since 1812 there Lad been turn-outs, and the police had always been sufficient for the emergency, except when in 1852 the noble lord the member for the City of London had raised an anti-Catholic cry, and the Roman Catholic chapel was burnt dawn. Mr. RICE rose amid cries of " Divide ;" and said that the committee on the subject bad been fairly composed; and the right hon. member for Oxford could find fault only with one clause. Ha was not surprised at the opposition from the boroughs. They might take it as an infraction of their rights. But he asserted that there was not a shadow of cause of complaint by the borough members as to the. provisions o f th e bill. Th e M un i c i pa l Act admitted the same principle which this bill comprised with regard to the police. He hoped, as f;.r as the influence of the rime Seeretaiy was concerned, that he would place the counties and boroughs on the same footing. He did not tee why the rules and regulations for the boroughs should not equally apply to the counties. He would ask hon. gentlemen who resided in counties if they had not there the same power as they had before the police was introduced ? Mr. DEEDES addressed the house amidst renewed cries of "Divide." He opposed the bill as being against the principle of local self-management, and contended there was no necessity for making this a compulsory measure. There had been no petitions from counties presented to the house complaining that the ratepayers had applied to the magistrates of the county for the establishment of a p lice, and its being rearsed ; neither had there been any distur bances in the country calling for this measure, as there •were in 1839. The only cause the Secretary of State had alleged for the necessity of this measure was that it was in convenient for one county to establish a police force, and for another county not to do so. He thought • the rate payeis were the best persons to judge of the necessity of the establishment of a police force in their respective coun ties. He objected to all measures that tended towards centralisation ; and if this measure were carried it would ultimately be found to bo one of that class. He objected to the inspection of prisons, which had caused a difference of opinion between the county justices and the Secretary of State, and he was apprehensive the same would be the result of the inspection under this bill. Mr. MUNTZ asked the Secretary of State to withdraw this mutilated bill. The great objection to the inspector ship of the police in boroughs was still retained in the bill, but he (Mr. Mentz) was at a loss to understand why it was retained, and why the Secretary of State wished to inter fere in this manner with the boroughs. Mr. WARNER supported the bill, reserving to himself the right of considering its details in committee. Mr. BARROW objected to the compulsory provisions of the bill, and said he should vote against its second read ing. This was an attempt to introduce the thin end of the wedge, and, if permitted, other bills would follow in sub sequent sessions, giving the Secretary of St a t e f u ll powers over the management o the police throughout the country. He did not consider the present Police Act had had the effect of diminishing crime as some hon. members sup posed. Mr. COBBETT objected to the bill. In Sussex consta bulary had been established fur 12 years in the eastern di vision, but rot in the west, and he believed if the people of the eastern division were polled they would vote against them, because of the inefficiency of the police iu the detec tion of crime. Mr. KNIGHT opposed the bill. He said he had seen the effects of a Government police on the Continent, and was convinced that no plague, pestilence, or famine could bo a worse curse to a country than that. Mr. CAYLEY approved of the bill, and road a letter from a gentleman at Wensleydale to the same effect. He was opposed to centralisation, and knew that, under simi lar pretences, great expenditure was often incurred.arminst the wish of the people, but he thought the principle of this bill good, and he should vote for it. Mr. HADFIELD.hoped the house would adjourn the debate. He was strongly opposed to bringing all the busi ness of the provinces to London, and should resist these at tempts at centralisation to the utmost of his ability. Sir G. GREY regretted that' he could not accede to the suggestions that he should withdraw the bill. He pro posed to take the second reading then, and as all the alte rations proposed could he made most appropriately in committee, he would make the.amendments, and let the bill as altered be circulated through the country. If it were not then approved of there would be an opportunity of n>jecting it on the third reading, but he pledged himself that the alterations he should make would not affect the principle of the bill. The house then divided, and the numbers were as fol [ows For the second reading 259 For the amendment Majority --153 The bill was then read a second time, and will be com mitted, pro forma, next Friday. LOCAL DUES ON SHIPPING. On the motion for brining up the report on supply, Mr. M. GIBSON called the attention of the house to an arrangement which he understood had been made at an early part of the evening between the G o v ernmen t an d th e hon, and learned memb er for Stamford (Sir F2Thesiger). He was informed that the report of the Royal Commis sioners on local dues on shipping was to be superseded, And that the matter was to be disposed of as though no such in quiry had taken place. He was also informed that the whole subject was to pass off without discussion. Lord PALMERsToNT said that what passed in the early part of the evening was this. He stated to the lion, and learned gentleman the member for Stamford that in com paring the motion of his right lion, friend the Viee-Presi dent of the Board of Tr ,:e with the amendment of the hon. and learned gentleman, he found the difference between them involved so few things that were essential, that he should have no difficulty in agreeing with the amendment, namely, that a committee should be appointed to inquire into the matters which the commissioners were appointed to examine into, and that to the committee so appointed . should be referred the report of the commission. .n sto any discussion; the house must judge . for itself when the sub ject was brought forward. (Laughter.) Mr. DISRAELI said that as the question was one which would probably excite ;Teat interest, perhaps the house would allow him to give his version of the course he under stood it was the intention of the Government to pursue. After the debate on the ministerial proposition to take away the property of the corporations the noble lord at the head of the Government proposed that a committee of inquiry should be nominated. Tao tone he seemed to take led him (Mr. Disraeli) to conclude that it was the intention of the Government to attempt to get that indi rectly which they failed to obtain directly. When the proposition of the Vice-President of the Board of Trade was first made, it appeared of such an alarming and dan gerous character that he opposed it, for he imagine:l that it was his intention to induce the house partially at all events to agree with the report of the commissioners. (Hear, hear.) Ho thought be did not misreprecont the object of the right honourable gentleman when he said that his intention was to propose to the house a committee who should decide that the recommendations of the royal commissioners should be'carried out. To that proposition of the Ministry he (Mr. Disraeli) entertained very strong objections. Upon this the houceirable and learned mem ber for Stamford moved an amendment, a moderate and wise amendment, and one which at the same time main tained the principles sad policy which had been asserted and defended on the Opposition side of th e h ouse. Th ey (the Oppositi on )• did.; no t shrink from inquiry, and they, therefore, assented to the appointment of a committee to inquire into the general question, repudiating the opinion that the committee were to be at all guided by the opinions of the commissioners, which opinions they believed were founded on principles injurious to the country and inde fensible; on the principles upon which property was based. All the honourable and learned member for Stamford wanted was a committee on passing dues and tolls. He understood that in the early part of the evening Govern meat withdrew their motion, agreeing with the honour able and learned member for Stamford that the subject should be investigated by a committee of the house, not in any way sanctioning the recommendations of the com missioners A lengthened discugion on the subject of barrack secom. modation took place, in which Mr. Monsell, Colonel Lind say, Colonel Buck, and other hon. members took part. It led, however, to no practical result. Mr. BARING - asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether it was the intention of the Government, in the Appropriation Act, to provide that what was voted for one department should not be applied to another— that which was voted for the army, for instance, should not be ap. plied to the Ordnance. Unless some provision of this sort was made the house would really have no control over the sums voted. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said there were no heads in the Ordnance department which directly reproduced the Ordnance estimates. It would no doubt be desirable to have different heads, and to make them the subjects of specific propositions. The report of the cammittee of supply was then agreed to. TRIAL OF OFFENCES BILL. The house went into committee , on this bill. Clauses 1 to 30 were, with a few verbal amendments, agreed to. The house then resumed. JOINT-STOCK COMPANIES. Mr. LOWE said he had not introduced anything into the bill which was foreign to its object, but to avoid dis cussion he would take the Easter recess to consider the best means of amending it. •He therefore moved that the order be discharged, with the object of reconsidering its provisions. - The order was then discharged. Certain returns, on the motion of Mr. RICH, were then ordered, and the house adjourned at a quarter past two o'clock. [ADVERTISEMENT.' -- &GMT AND !FRAMING. SPECTACLES, POWERFUL TELESCOPES, OPER A , R ACE AND PERSPECTIVE GLASSES. —Messrs, S, and B. Solemons, opticians, 39, Albemarle street, Piccadilly. Observe opposite the York Hotel. By her Majesty's Royal Letters Patent for valuable and extraordinary improvements in the most powerful and brilliant Telescopes, Camp, Racecourse, Opera, and Per. speetiie Glasses, to know the distances of objects viewed through them—of great importance to the army, navy, and others. These telescopes possess such extraordinary powers that some three and a-half inches, with an extra eye. piece, will show distinctly Jupiter's moons, Saturn's ring, and the double stars ; with the same teieseope can be seen a person's countenance three miles and a half distant, and an object from 16 to 20 miles. They are of larger and all sizes, with increasing p owers accor di ng l y ; w hil e th e i r vary . ing from 4 to 6 inches enable us to discover more than the above-, arid the Georgian 'with his 6 satellites, &e.—The Royal 'Exhibition, 1851.—Valuable, newly-invented, very small, Pewerf‘i waistcoat-pocket glass,the size of a walnut, by which a pereoll can be Seen and known 1j miles distaut ; they answer every pirpose ou the race-course, and at the opera houses, countrysccnery, and ships are clearly seen at 8 to 10 miles. They an invaluable for shooting, deer-stalking, yachting, to sportsmtn, gentlemen, gamekeepers, and tourists. O pera, race-et:nese, camp, and perspective glasses, with wonderful power. newly-constructed Spectacle Louses of the great. est transparent power. The valuable advantage derived from this invention is, that .vision becoming impaired is preservedeod strengthened, and very age d persons are enabled to'eseploy their sight at the most minute occii patiou- can see 'eh these lenses of a much less magnify. ing power—and th . e not require th e f requent changes to the dangerous e 4of further powerful assistance. Deafness— 4 \ Now. Disceveik--The Organi c Vibrator, an ex- N ll traordinary powerful, smalleeowly-invented instrument for deafness, entirely different fro i t asother's, t o Surpass any thing of the kied that has bee ri . X. ro" -- eably ever ran b e , 1 produced., Being of the same colour the skin, is not pe r . ceptible ; i: enables deaf persens to heaiNstinetly at church and at public assemblie s ; the unpleasant rensation of singing ' noises iu the ears is entirely removed; an&jt affords all the assistance that -:.possibly could be desired.--e 9, ,imeraaiq . i street, i!c.;cli'dy. Obrlorve—opperlo the Yokiletpl. - - - - - - Los i „4 ... 1 ... ....mss.-.:.:_:~:: ~~~: _ - THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING AIAL.CI-1 11. 1856 BANK RETURNS. PRIVATE BANKS. Average Amount. Andover Bank, Andover--Heath and Co. Ashford Bank, Ashford--Jemmitt and Pomfret 10,916 Aylshatia Bank, Aylsham-G. and T. Copeman 4,043 Aylesbury Old Bank, Aylesbury-Z. D. Hunt 31,791 Baldock Bank and Baldock and Biggleswade Bank, Baldock-Wells, Hogge, and Co Barnstaple Bank, Barnstaple-Marshall and Co Basingstoke and Odiham Bank, Basingstoke- Seymour, Lamb, and Co. Bedford Bank. Bedford-T. Barnard and Sons 33,982 Bewdley Bank, Bewdley - Nichols, Baker, and Co Bicester and Oxfordshire Bank and Oxford Bank, Bicester-R. M. and G. Tubb Birmingham Bank, Birmingham - -Attwoods, Spooner, and Co Birmingham and Warwickshire Bank, Bir mingham-J. L. Moilhet and Sons 10,700 Blandford Bank, Blandford-Oak and Co. 7,539 Boston Bank, Boston-Garfit and Co 73,504 Boston Bank, Boston-H. and T. Gee and Co 14,836 Bridgwater Bank, Bridgwater-J. and J. L Sealey Bristol Bank, Bristol-Miles, Miles, and C 0... 41,926 Broseley and Bridgnorth and Bridgnorth and Broseley Bank, Broseley-Pritchards, Boy cott, and Co. Buckingham Bank, Buckingham-Bartlett, Par rott, and Co Bury and Suffolk Bank, Sudbury Bank, and Stowmarket Bank, Bury St. Edmunds-- Oakes, Bevan, and Co. Banbury Bank, Banbury - Gillet, Tawney, and_ Co. Banbury Old Bank, Banbury-Cobb and Son 25,865 Bath City Bank, Bath - -G. Moger and Son Bedfordshire Leighton Buzzard Bank, Leighton Buzzard-Bassett, Grant, and Co 37,827 Birmingham Bank, Birmingham-Taylor and Lloyds Bradford Old Bank,- Bradford, Yorkshire -H A. and W: M. Harris and Co Brecon Old Bank, Brecon-Wilkins and Co 65,585 Brighton Union Bank, Brighton-Hall, West, and Borrer • 20,055 Burlington and Driffield Bank, Burlington- Harding, Smith, and Co Bury St..Edmunds Bank, Bury St. Edmunds- J. Worlledge Cambridge Bank, Cambridge-Mortlock & Co Cambridge and Cambridgeshire Bank, Cam bridge-Messrs. Fosters Canterbury Bank, Canterbury-Hammond and Co Carmirthen Bank, Carmarthen-David Morris and Sons Chertsey Bank, Chertsey-La Coste and Son 3,149 Colchester Bank, Colchester-Round & Green 19,410 Colcheiter and Essex Bank, and Witham and Essex Bank, and Hadleigh, Suffolk, Bank, Colchester-Mills, Bawtree, and Co 37,391 Cornish Bank, Truro-Tweedy and Co 48,150 Coventry Bank, Coventry-Little & Woodcock 7,093 City Bank, Exeter-Milford and Co 20,277 Craven Bank, Settle-Alcocks, Birkbecks, and Co Cardiff Bank, Cardiff-Towgood and C 0.... Chepstow Old Bank, Chepstow Bank, Mon mouth Old Bank, Monmouth Bank, Brecon Bank, and Ross and Herefordshire Bank, Chepstow-Bromage, Snead, and Co Derby Bank, Derby-W. and S. 'Evans & Co Derby Bank, Derby-Samuel Smith and Co Derby Old Bank and Scarsdale and High Peak Bank, Derby-Crompton, Newton, and Co Devizes and Wiltshire Bank, Devizes-Locke and Co Diss Bank, Diss-Oakes, Fineham, and Co Doncaster Bank and Retford Bank, Doncaster -Cooke and Co Darlington Bank, Durham Bank, and Stockton on-Tees Bank, Darlington--Backhouse &Co 84,285 Devonport Bank, Devonport- Hodge and Co 8,946 Dorchester Old Bank and Dorsetshire Bank, Dorchester-R. and H. Williams East Cornwall Bank, Liskeard-Robins, Fos ter, and Co East Riding Bank, Beverley-Bower and Co.. Essex Bank and Bishop's Stortford Bank Chelmsford-Sparrow, Round, and Co Exeter Bank, Exeter-Sanders and Co Fakenham Bank, Fakenham-Gurneys, Birk beck, and Co Rarringdon Bank and Bank of Wantage, Far ringdon-Barnes, Medley, and Co Farnhaii Bank, Farnham • Messrs Knight Faversham Bank, Faversham -Hilton and Co Godalming Bank, Godalming-Mellersh and 'Keen Guildford Bank, Guildford-Messrs. Hayden 14,783 -Grantham Bank, Grantham-Hardy and Co 29,802 Hastings Old Bank, Hastings-Smith, Hilder, and Co. Hereford City and County Bank, Hereford- Matthews and Co. Hertford and Ware Bank, Hertford-S. Adams and Co. Hull Bank and Kingston-upon-Hull Bank, Hull, Smith, Brothers, and Co. Huntingdon Town and County Bank, Hunting don-Rust and Veaseys Harwich Batik, Harwich-Cox, Cobbold, and Co. Hemel Hempstead Bank, Hemel Hempstead . -Smith and Whittingstall Hertfordshire, Hitchin Bank, Hitchin - Sharpies, and Co. Hereford, Ross and Archenfield Bank, and Ross and Archenfield Bank, Hereford- Morgan and Co Ipswich Bank, Ipswich-Bacon and Co. Ipswich and Needham Market Bank, Suffolk, Hadleigh Bank, Manningtree and Mistley Bank, and Woodbridge Bank, Ipswich- Alexanders and Co. Kentish Bank, MaidstoneMercer, Randall, and Co. 19,383 Kington and Radnorshire Bank, Kington- Davies and Co. Knighton Bank, Knighton-Davies and Co Knaresborough Old Bank and Ripon Old Bank, Knaresborough-Harrison and Co 21,071 Kendal Bank, Kendal-Wakefield, Crowdson, and Co. Kettering Bank, Kettering-J. C. Gotch and Sons Lane End Staffordshire Bank, Lane End-C Harvey and Son Leeds Bank, Leeds--Beckett and Co Leeds Union Bank, Leeds 7 --W. Williams, Brown and Co. Leicester Bank, Leicester-Pagets and Kirby, , 30,606 Lewes Old Bank, Lewes-Molineux and C o 31,648 Lichfield Bank, Lichfield-Palmer and Greene - Lincoln Bank, Lincoln-Smith, Ellison, and Co. Llandovery Bank, Larnpeter Bank, and Llan chlo Bank, Llandovery-D. Jones and C 0... Loughborough Bank, Loughborough -Middle ton and Cradock Lymington Bank, Lymington-St. Barbe and Co. 9,079 10,841 14,785 22,861 18,149 21,988 12,718 3,213 16,966 48,199 33,758 66,720 9,173 11,075 34,813 26,067 9,014 10,440 78,480 46,540 84,032 53,375 50,513 28,101 7,757 13,554 6,567 35,793 18,547 23,094 20,386 56,757 5,765 22,03 21,019 20,915 75,375 25,154 9,056 9,703 4,864 54;846 97,550 21,539 7,1:39 3,993 Lynn Regis and Lincolnshire Bank, Lynn Regis—Gurneys and Co. Lynn Regis and Norfolk Bank, Lynn Regis— Jarvis and Co Maccleslield Bank, Macclesfield—Brocklehurst and Co. - Manningtree Bank, Manningtree—Nunn and Co. Marlborough Bank, Marlborough and Wilts Old Bank, Marlborough Old Bank, Marl borough Old Bank and Tlnn,gerford Bank, and Hungerford Bank, Marlborough—Tan ner and Co Merionethshire Bank, Dolgelly—Williams . and Son 39,63 ]2,00 12,384 3,365 Miners' Bank, Truro—Willyams and Co.. Monmouthshire Agricultural and Commercial Bank, Abergavenny—Bailey and Co Monmouth Chl Bank, Monmouth Bank, Bre con Bank, Chepstow Bank, Chepstow Old Bank, and Ross and Herefordshire Bank, Monreouth—Bromage, Snead, and Co Newark Bank, Newark—Godfrey and Riddell Newark and. Sleaford Bank, and Sleaford and Newark Bank, Sleaford—Handley, Peacock, and Co................................................ Newbury Bank, Newbury—Bunny & Slocock Newmarket Bank, Newmarket--Eaton, Ham mond, and Co Norwich Crown Bank and Norfolk and Suffolk Bank, Norwich—Harveys and Hudsons... Norwich and Norfolk Bank, Norwich—Gur neys and Birkbeok Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Bank, Not tingham. Hart, Fellows, and Co Nuneaton Bank, Nuneaton—Craddock and Co Naval Bank, Plymouth, Plymouth—Harris and Co. New Sarum Bank, Sarum—Everett and Co Nottingham Bank, Nottingham—Samuel Smith and Co. Oswestry Bank and Oswestry Old Bank, Os westry—Croxon and Co Oxford Oid Bank, Oxford—Robinson, Parsons, and Co. Old Bank, Tonbridge, Tonbridge and Ton bridge Wells Old Bank, Tonbridge and Ton bridge Wells and Sevenoaks Bank, Ten bridge—T. H. and S. Beeching Oxfordshire Witney Bank, Witney—J. W. Clinch and Co. Pease's Old Bank, Hull, the Hull Old Bank and Beverly Bank, Hull—Pease and Co Penzance Bank, Penzanee--Batten and Co. Peterborough Bank and Oundle Bank, Peter borough—D. Yorke and Co. Pembrokeshire Bank, Haverfordwest—J. and W. Walters Reading Bank, Reading—Simonds and Co Reading Bank, Reading—Stephens, Mandy, and Co. Richmond Bank, Richmond—Roper and Co. Rochdale Bank, Rochdale—Clement, Royds, and Co. Rochester, Chatham, and Strood Bank, Roohes ter—Day and Nicholson 9,974 Royston Bank, Royston--Fordhara and Sons 14,505 Rugby Bank, Rugby—A. Butlin and Son 9,525 Rye Bank, Rye- 7 X C. Pomfret, 15 ta 3,27 19,148 10,947 31,352 10,089 34,022 11,160 10,620 43,115 10,774 8,947 12,495 31,410 30,085 6,173 4,630 An Account, pursuant to the Act seventh and. eighth Victoria, cap. 32, of the Average Amount of Bank Notes of the several Banks of Issue in England and. Wales, in Circulation during the Week ending Satur day, the th day of January, 1853 : M& 17th of moot When any of these d a t es f a l l on a Sunday. the mails e 'patched on the following day'. with the except' sn of the 111 _,,,d Ponthampton), and the Malt a , b ot h of which will be despots' preceding day. SHARE MARKETS. LIVERPOOL, MARCH 10. h be lki ST(ICK Exc IT A N —The tone of th e m arket --;:litt kfluctuating t o -d a y, an d a fair amount of business, prices generally are pretty much tho same ae On Salfittoo Caledonian, 24 —Lancashire and Yorkshire, rO 4 L'ponl, •Crosby, an d Scmthport 151—Great vv ' 61t ex div.—Midl an d s, 694 70 694—South Easter!). tel l —London and N or th W estern, 99i 3 Great " of Canada, new, 34 p. MANCHESTER, AlAncri 10. &roes EXCHANGE. —The market has been MT moderate business to-day, but prices were firm. al rather higher. Sheffields, 25i--East Lancashire , —Great Western of Canada, 25I—Leeos, S 3 l — : Railway Consols, 7013—Ditto, 43 per cents., don and N.-Western Ei g hth s, di s. —Blackburn, c,, c10 1S -301,01'90' BIRMINGHAM, MARCH 10. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The tone of the market V s O ro to-day, and shar es more i nqu i re d a f ter. Birming, rfro Stour Valley s wero d one a t 8i- London sn'',oooo7 Westerns were don e at 1 00 — Birmingham and Pv shire Gas, now, 5,, pm.—Crystal Palace, 5. ONE or THE MISERIES OF HUMAN .compositor on a newspaper, and having to in" . . 0r marriage of the girl you love with a man old e u t , be her father ! He is rich and you are poor. A rill [A DVERTISEMENT.] —H o ll oway ' s Ointment en d o f excellent R eme d ies for Abscesses.—Mr. Wm../18",r141 fillj the slo o p W es l ey, informed Mr. Reinhardt, nbe Hull, th a t a c hild o f h i s had a dreadful absces s I°,olt thigh, and that the medical men gave him no 1 10 °1 the clal's life. M r . Reinhardt, then recommel l— b e seF to use H o ll owa y' s o i ntment. H e d i d so, an d the DPI soon healed ; and th e littl e pat i ent i s now as well 10 0 -trong as any child can be entirely through the ; r e' t of the ointment, which are beyond all P rli o rld; Snld by a ll me di c i ne ven d ors throughout the:A at Professor Holloway' s E s t a bli s h men t s , 244, P London ; and 80, Maiden-lane, New - P ric; so l A. Stanipa, Constantinople; A. Guidicy, SvoYr i " E. Muir, Malta. BIRTHS. _ or• SON. - On tho fifth inst., at Kensin g t o n, th e w ife of jail° Its Ridgway, Esq. On the Bth inst., Mrs. J o h n M oser , of Wel" - Sydenham. OF A DAIIGHTIR. the On the Bth ingt., at Liverpool Lodge, Brixton' wife of C. T. Jenkinson, Esq. f On the 10th inst., a t B ec k en h am , th e w ife o Wathea, Esq. MARRIED. B nee On the 6th inst. at Marylebone Church, a g ' -e t, ' 4 ' Burrell, corn merclant, of Great Marylebone - s tr " - Martha Lydia Bigg. , On the 12th Jan., at Calcutta, Thomas Blts 2 "b e iligif Commander of the steamship Bengal, to fleinwoocl e ' s'3cond daughter of Lient.•Colonel A. C. SP 01 '"" 37th Regt. B.N.L DIED, 'dor vfeat On the 6th inst., at Clapham, Mr. John Ts wood, the eminenhigtorical engraver , ag ed 74. s ...arkso On the 7th inst., at Peckham, George Tar"' Esq., aged 37. We. " On the Bth inst., at Teddington, Middlesex, too gall, raid, widow of E. Everard, Esq., late of Middl e ne On the de w 9th inst., Mr. g S amuel Whitford, °ltown, street, Soho, and 8, St. James's-terrase, Cam aged 76. gent, gr. - On the 9th inst., at Lyme Farm, Elthamp Edward ge Paid)ley, a 57 On the 9th inst., at d 35, . Carnaby- s t re et, Golden-Ira"' Thomas Wo o d war d, Esq., aged 84. ht William , i On the 9th inst., at Ventuor, Isle of w i g Fun d ' Strickland, Esq., formerly Controller of the C tot*ln and of 23, Brompton-crescent, aged 65. _...-..."--- LONDON: Printed and Published by Mtri t ' D° of No. 112 Strand, Printer, at Ti e Sun nn ty Of Strand, in , the Precinct of the Savoy. in the e°-- Itlitidletta l Tuoldsy, Much 11,1866. 6,936 19,216 32,245 14,088 24,790 51,712 20,251 20,566 49,062 99,374 Country Markets. CHELMSFORD—MARCH 7. The wheat trade extremely dull, and to effect sales 9 duction of from 3s to 4s per qr. was submitted to,; better sampl es o f b ar l ey real i sed an advance o f -I , inferior 18 per qr. All else unaltered in value. Wheat, white, old, per R. a. qr. 52 73 Oats, I new 53 72 Peas, old 54 69 new 52 6S Barley ' 29 36 Chevalier 31 30 Grinding 27 34 Malt 70 74 Chevalier 72 76 per White........... a hr ... ... 3 ........ 1 2 . 4 Boiling ........ .8 6 Dun............. Beans, Tick ........••• 3 Harrow tick ed Ditto, neVr. red, COLCHESTER— MARCH g. tip o'7 A short supply of w h ea t to-day, and in the lit nuts done last week's prices were pretty well sto j a ' - o Barley in good d eman d an d I s par qr. dearer. Bea peas rather cheaper. to Prices to-daywere as f o ll ow : —Wh ea t , white, 7 4, to o red, G4s to 708 ; barley, 32s to 388 ; eats, 223 to '281 1 ; Mazagan, 348 to 3tis ; middle and small, 36s to 4 58 ; r white, 468 to 438 ; grey, 36s to Us. • ec tici Official Statement o f th e Q uan titi es of Corn, r fteil in the port of London, from the following poi'' the 3d to the Bth March, both inclusive. oi Co' —9. •=4 . o t• Colchester 400 120 780 80 0 Harwich 21(1 61S —• ' 23 Iv' Leigh Malden 2252 614' 122 36 4921_1/ KIRKCALDY—MARCH 7. Wheat. I Barley. I Oats. I ?.earo°' First 76s Od 39s 6.1 ( 31; 6cl 1 6 0 : 0 Second I Third 563 Od 34s Od 1 27s Od I : . .-MARCH 10. the clew, of the meter" i Wallsend, it 0 . ~ 1 7 Ffetton "lE 'lletton Lyons Ma'° Lambton ............... .. 1; Pensher ................ 15 Plummer .............. Richmund ................ Russell's fietton ......... 1T South Hetton. ........... Stewart' s . .. 16 Camdoc ..... ..... ••••"' 0 Cassop ...................... : 1 6 Hartlepool ............ Hough Hall ......... • .... , i 6 ' South Kelloc ........... 'ees ....................... .15 West Kelloe ............... Whitworth .............. 1i Evenwood ............. 17 skiDerwborwentewnamtecrrtHhiarrt.! ... Haswell ................... ' 7 1 Sold COAL MARKE' Prices of Coal per to at s. d, Bate's West Hartley 15 Oi Byass's West Hartley l7 0 Davison's West Hartley 17 3 Hasting's Hartley "l7 0 Howard's West Hartley Netherton 17 0 North Percy Hartley _l5 Tanfield Moor l5 0 Tanfield Moor Butes 15 0 West Pelton l4 6 West Riding Hartley l5 6 Wylam 14 6j Wallsend, Edcn .15 6 (losforth l5 0 Harton l5 Heaton l4 6 Hedley 14 9 Hilda 14 3 Eden Main 15 9 Braddyll FI 3 Framwellgate l5 6 Ships at market... 15; SEA BORNE MAILS. (g signifies that the mails are sent from the Gener al re st 4y the night—and 1 , .4 by the morning--•espatch.) if Daywhen ma le Prom . 141 COUNTRIES,', in General Post- ' I'o r: Office, London.. DtspAtcho traerica(byllrit.pack2N Every Friday kme:lep. (by United Ste. :,acket) .... • • tmerica (by U. States • • L L i iv ve erp rpo o o o l l . packet) .......... N •• • Southern ustrolia (via South ampton) ..... —** •• • • SouthutnplO n l)itto (via Marseilles) Ni • ••• • • •• • Dover • tO 'Ditto (via Cape 01 Good Elope) kfrica (West COAS:)..IO3d of the month . P lymout h 31 9, 24, &30 of in. Dover • • k1exandria..........14t4th ft 20th of mon..Southampt ,, flahamas ............M;l7th of the non , southaroptiri vi ill ....... pailY •••••• • • • • • . Dover • • 7 ,fstr• Brazil _3l 9th of the mouth.. south thump"' var, Buenos Ayres 9th of the month., South.iiirgt, iroa (ape of Good dope -• Ni Various Per' 1 Cape of Good Rope .!•.; :lase do Verde 9th of tb, month Ceylon (see India) Ceylon. ..... •.......N. South em pur l Tu• Chaim& . ligi.,VVOtt.,/tFrit scut hampt Chili. 2141'7ft of moot!. South/VW ," sat China . once a month Constantinople ,8,13,18,23,&es oi m Dover Constantinople 20th of men SouthaMpte' , r '.: o Cont. of Ettre;se M& r 'Twice doily .• . Dover .. Egypt (see India) I ,ay' France PR, ti :Twice daily. Dove' libraltar _24,4, 7, 17, 20.27 -f m S, ,tithhtupto ,. Greece (see I n:1..2 ; Ircytown .......... 44'21id & 17th of mon.!Sontipimpt . • , ' , iLmhurgh ~..N Toeteley Frid, London .•• levannab 2nd of the montl .])over.... ' Tolland 1) .. allY•• •• • • Gondtiras ........., m t tithe month Southompto 1 ,20 India (viaSouthompt.)m 4th 20th of mon Plymouth •• India (vta Marcel 110 c m 9th& •ar,th or month 'Dover . • •• lonian I:4' se (see India) 7. 7 . & 2 7 of moniDover.... •• Ireland •• .. •. • M& N Twice daily ...• ho 3 CI • Lichen.— 9, &17 of ri.!Souihartipto . Sfadelra ............mi9th 01 the month 14outhanip/o,'; Nfatle:.ra N j 23 d of month Malta (cep India) 0 1 Malta : Jci 8,18, & 2i4 of mon.lDover • • !'• * •: libraltar 4,7,17,20.27 Greece (see In:11,$) lreptown .......... NI 2nd & 17th of mon. lienahurgb , ...N Tuesday 14c Frio., lavannab 2nd of the monti 1),111 7 • • •• • • Honduras r,1 , 17t i r l the month,; India , viaSouthampt.)m 4th 20th of moth! India (via Mars M 9th& 25th of month , lonian Is'ett (see India) 7, 17. & 27 of mon Ireland & N Twice daily rAsben.... ........ 7,9, 17, &17 of in. Madeira ..mi9th of the month ..N 23,.1 of month •• Malta (seo India) Malta 8,18, &2i4 of mon. Mauritius (see India) mauritia 14th of the month N u k e of the month.,iliSoathamptgr: A N aples __ ........NlMblsth2sthormon.,Dover ...• • • p New 4 4ranada 218 r 17th of montloSouthamptol. .........By private st ip !Various port „w' Papal rltates 'Pah ihth2Sthormon Dovcr ...• •• I Peninsula Ithlith27thormon '', , ceitherneionl ; M2d & '27th of mon .v.out h funptor , 4 010' Port Natal ;BY Private ship Various ports, ly „ y tll 51.5th215th01m0t4, Dever ...... th2sthefinond Dover .....•' 11 ,0 , Tuscany Venezuels 2d es 87th olgion th Sou thamp tot , Iran Diemen's Land (se, Yost Indies , I 1010/D1 flonthampten 14 ADA ME NC P n Qes Iron s Plan Accour OF, Qp~ll %ij• °,t r/calti t . '"edelary , `° l ' Prosp r : Rop tt ti n ° O -Pla eriryne!T A," j PUII I er, ,r.,, r4 nce bt Per ei3,!! b,niva caall t 411'-ritOPC kilZ h th 4 iee tr r 4 , n l S . te it No, t ° y u l Of tta t r,: c to di ed g bi teei eb. delft be tZ; 40 1 :, o e rde t r be ittik t u t iT; the . 0 b4t e4 Doet l : a id this 4;10(;