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LATEST NE WS. PARIS, TUESDAY, JULY 22, B:A.m, The follo'vvin2,- despatch has been received here, dated Sr,. Sebastian, July 21, 2 : SantaLd , :a• 11131113 an attempt at a movement, but order has been restored there. -Navarre and the north provinces are tranqu It is said that at Saragossa matters are in a fair way of arrangement. The troops entered Logrono without resistance, The National Guard is being disarmed. FRANCE. PARIS, MONDAY EVENING. The reports continue to be satisfactory from Spain. The attempt at Barcelona was mare de termined than the Government journals allow, but it was nevertheless completely put down without serious loss at either side. It is rumoured that Saragossa would not persist in needless resistance to the Queen's troops. The Messager de Bayonne says :—" In conse quence of the events which have just taken place at Madrid, the Spanish Government has sent word by the telegraph to arrest the course of the 13,000,000 fr. forwarded last week from this place. That amount of specie is to remain at Vittoria until further orders." A certain number of Spaniards of distinction residing in Paris since the events of 1854 left yes terday for the Spanish frontier. Amongst others is General Ortiga, formerly captain-general of one of the provinces of Spain. The Moniteur contains a letter addressed by the Emperor to the Minister of Public Works on the subject of the recent inundations. The Emperor examines from an engineering point of view the causes of the occasional overflow of the great rivers, and recommends, in order to prevent the recur rence of such disasters, the barrage of the affl uen t s of thos e streams. The Minister is directed to cause a technical survey of the river valleys, in order to such constructions. The Afoniteur contains the official announcement by the Russian Government of the establishment of custom-houses at Perekop, Jenitchesk, and the bridge of Tehanjar, with the view of preventing the introduction by contraband of goods into Russia Proper from the Crimea. An Imperial decree promotes Col. Auger, head of the staff of the artillery of the army of the East, to the rank of general of brigade in the first sec tion of the general staff of the army. BOURSE, July 21.—The following were the last quotations : Cash. e. End of Month, 4 i Per Cents ...... 93 50 —f. —O. 3 per Cent 5.. ............ "70 50 70 SO New Loan .. 70 50 Ban Share; .................. 4,125 Roman 9r.g6clit Mobilier 1,460 Austrian .os. I la • 4 n Fives. ....... Spanish Threes — nech nontess(s) ...... 90 Home Debt ....« 37i RAILWAYS-10R CASH. fr. e. fr. e °Jlealla ............ 1,388 75 Western 962 s'B Northern rn 1,065 Str as b urg i .......... 1,415 New Ditto . ""neva •800 Test° .............. 772 50 Austrian Com. "1-& DANUBIAN PRINCIPALITIES. Ou the 7th of July the Hospodar of Wallachia addressed the following proclamation to the Ad ministrative Council of the Principality :-- "Rarely has a land suffered under such an uninter rupted series o f extraordinary misfortunes as our own country from 1849 up to the present day. We Bring D seven y ears, which were b ut one long crisis, guided by a sens e o f d u ty, an d our consc i ence " tells us that we were never actuat e d by an y o th er mo ti ve . A new era begins for our country from this day. A commissary of the Suzerain and the commissaries of the great Powers will assemble in Bucharest, in order to learn the wishes and necessities of the nation, and to secure for it a durable and happy future. During this period of transition a Provisional Administration will a llu Tage the affairs of the country until the new organi ation which has been guaranteed to the Principality rei shall be established. W e, therefore, to-day resign the gns of government, dle the rovisional admi stration of the country in the hands p of the Extraor dinary Administrative Council. f "Ilia Excellency th e B an Manuel Balliano, President o the Council, and the other chiefs of the departments, will Jaccordi n 11l carry on the bu siness of their respective Minis viety and gto their i nstruct i ons, and w i th that ac further zeal whi c h the circumstances require, until " er orders are received from the Sublime Porte. Rood We have still a d uty to perform. We appeal to the feelings of o ur countrymen, and recommend to them una nimitY, for th e we l fare of our common father and illl Perstively d emands that all personal conaide. " The rations and party int eres t s s h ou ld b e sacrif i ced. present moment is of the utmost importance, f or the whole future of the country is dependent on i t. quiet, dignified, and discreet behaviour will ren der . the most efficient service to our cause, and best corr h e 11313 ed with the benevolent intentions of his Majesty the Sultan and the generous views of the great Powers. E ___ ,, "STIRB Ir. . 4 On the sth inst. the Hospodar left Bucharest, as was said, to inspect the upper districts of the Prinipality, but on the 7th M. enar, the dire i c t°r of his Chancellerie, returned Paj with the proca- Illa tion abo ve g i ven. Stirbey isy now with his wife the C onvent of Bistritza. RUSSIA. tzuraz z , I t July 10.—The controversy lately men u being carried on with great eagerness in Russian press, and which seems to turn for l ef t most part on the question whether the Russian t w ing gave way prematurely at Alma, is spoken himself las the cause of Prince Monschikoff having taken ! off rather unexpectedly from St. Peters °A"gs and repaired to his seat near Moscow. struggle Another conflict of old bet nßussian part much older date—viz., the ween the so-called German and the Y--is also being carried on just . O . _W with renewed vigour, though under very different auspices from those that obtained in the early stages of thelate war. General Todtlebeit has . been receiving an incessant series of ovations has the capital andrlelsingfors, and still more lately ha_ s been presented with a gold medal of the value ?f 500 silver roubles by the Engineering and Artil lery Academy in St. Petersburg. General Mouravieff himself seems to be earnestly int entr,, upon a final subj uga ti on o f th e Ci rcass i ans. The Caucasus is comtinually mentioning the depar ture of reinforcements for the fortress of Grosnaia, or for that of Vladicaucas ; the intention appears ,to be to isolate the Caucasians by a powerful mili tary cordon. The Inv alide 'also contained a lett€r of thanks from the Emperor, addressed to Bruot, General of Engineers , for the successful accom plishment of th e e task assigned him of erecting a Serie s of fortresses along the two rivers, the Oxus and the Jaxartes (Six-daja). By means of these fortresses Russia now commands the water com munication, the trade, a n d, a t th e same time, the str ategeticl centre whence she can exercise her in fluence over Persia. The peuplades that inhabit the steppes in that quarter of the world are depen dent on these streams, and consequently on the Power that possesses them, and now the military organisation along the Asiatic frontier, extending from there up to Siberia , where the Russians are how very active on the Amoor, may bo said to be complete. The sentence of a court-martial passed upon Colonel Misinoff, late commander of the separate Orenburg corps, and subsequently confirmed by ,the Emp eror, condemns him to the loss of his rank, his orders, and his nobility, an d d egra d es him to S erve in ie Cossack ranks ; his offences consisted of embezzlement and falsifying his accounts, for the purpose of his own advantage, at the expense of the soldier's rations. Telegraphic communication with Madrid is still V Tho following intelligence has, how , now been forwarded from Bayonne. The roost im portant is that E s p ar t ero , w h o i t was re - Mad Ported , had goneto g Lo rono ) is a prisoner in r id. gone The following was addressed by O'Donnell to the President of the Cortes a few hours after its meetin g :___ Which is not possible for me to accede to the wish letter il Your Excellency makes known to me in your of this evening, because, since it is evident and 'notorious to every one, and the government has been in 'riled bY official communications, that there are not at c , kaid a sufficient number of deputies to constitute the :Jones, the government of her Majesty cannot recognise a rued. to . it by Your Excellency, teuttbe meeting held to-day the legal character attri freedi:rity of for it was composed Of the the Constituent Cortes, without ee al indispensable to their deliberations, . in coo itreuee of the pressure which might be exercisd over h the Y the insurrection. This is precisely the reason wmy. ~..._:.PPointenent of the new cabinet has not been co g• l eated to the Chamber. )44ini vattehrejoiryal command decided upos in the council of give you this answer, and inform you that i future no answer will be returned to any . letter that You and other of the 0 Godstituted.°deputies may address to me in the name o long as these shall not be lawfully eon pr .preserve your Excellency Dalysidencv of the Council of Ministers, M idrid. „, 14, 1856 . many years. .to his Excellency the Presid entLEOP o O f LD O'DONNELL. ~ the C onstituent Cortes. The Madrid Gazette publishes the following : ROYAL DECREE. rayincooonformity with what has been proposed to me by S a p of ministers, I have resolved as follows : vie article. Ail generals, superior officers, and officers, remaining on the territory occupied by the rebels of this capital shall be suspended from their function, and subjected to tue penalties which, in virtue of this ordinance, shall be inflicted en them by a council of war. Given at the Palace, July 15, 1855. Sig lied with her Maje , ty's The rresicio.t of tne C , ,uncil of Ministers, LE:,roLD O'DO HELL, Doo, Leap.-Id O'Donnell, Count of Lueena, Pre sident of the Council of Ministers, and General in-Chief of the Army, &c. Considering that the capital of the monarchy is now in a state of rebellion against her Majesty's government it is declared to be in a state of siege, and in consequence I order as follows : Art. 1. All classes of persons are prohibited from en tering or leaving the city. Art. 2. The introduction of provisions and goods of every kind is likewise prohibited ; all that may be taken will be deemed prize of war, and the parties conveying them shall be brought before a military commission. Art. 3. The introduction of all kinds of provisions and food is permitted by the gates of Alcala, Recoletos, and San Vincente, which are held by the troops. Madrid, July 15, 185 d. LEOPOLD O'DONNELL. (Extract from the Gazette Extraordinary of July 16.) OFFICIAL NOTIFICATION. The rebellion is conquered and terminated ; order and the dominion of law are reestablished. The deputation and the municipality of Madrid have been 'dissolved by order of the military authority ; the national militia has been disbanded and declared subject to re-organisation. This decision does not extend to the two companies which remained true to their oaths, to the Queen, and to the country. At this moment, seven o'clock in the morning, they are proceeding to disarm the National Guards. The factious minority, consisting of deputies who went the day before yesterday to the Palace of the Cortes for the purpose of deliberating unlawfully, and who yes terday morning assembled for a sitting, after they had received the declaration of the Government respecting their usurpation and violence, has thought fit to dissolve itself. The internal communications of the city have been re. established. PREFECTURE. Inhabitants of Madrid,—ln announcing to you that order is re-established, ruy firat duty is to address to you a word of confidence and peace. All honest and peaceably-disposed persons, without distinction of party, will receive from the Government the most complete protection. Order, tranquillity, re spect for the laws and the constituted authorities, are what your civil governor expects from you. On his part be promises you to keep incessant watch, so as to pre vent any attack upon the safety of individuals, and every kind of excess. _ The national guards may with perfect confluence give up their arms to the alcaldes of the several quarters. Men of Madrid, return to your employments, in order that neither commerce, nor manufactures, nor labour may be paralysed. The Government, which knows how to be strong against armed insurrection, will protect with its whole strength the safety and interests of private persons. S) promises you, in the name of her Majesty's Go. vernment, your civil governor, MANUEL ALONZO MARTINEZ. Madrid, July 16, 1856. PROCLAMATION OF THE O'DONNELL GOVERNMENT. The following proclamation was issued on the 15th by O'Donnell and his colleagues : Inhabitants of Madrid,—The situation in which her Majesty's Government, with frankness and loyalty, now address you is certainly a difficult, a solemn, and a cri tical one. Your conduct has put the Government into a painful perplexity. Victims of the evil passions of a handful of auda cious men, you have been drawn on to consequences which your own consciences must disapprove ; and the Government, complying with the imperative duty im posed upon it for the conservation of your interests, your principles, and your liberties, finds itself under the necessity of resorting to means which are not agreeable to the sentiments of its heart. Listen, then, to an austere but friendly voice, which warns you to consider that he judgment, not of a re mote posterity, but of the reason and true conscience of this nation and all Europe, will have to pronounce itself immediately between the Government and you. It is no puerile ambition, no mean party interest, which obliges the Queen's Government to take the attitude of coercion in which you have placed it. The existing Ministry accepted this saving commission because the late Cabinet, in the most critical circum• stances, had left the nation without protecting support, and had abandoned the Queen. The Ministry, confident that it represents public opi nion, and that it is adapted to those imperious necessi ties which late events have caused to be so acutely felt, hesitated yet for some hours to shed blood. It was un willing to come to extremely rigorous measures in the application of force, and it hesitated before it adopted ex treme measures, being fearful of adding to the horrors of the evil those of the remedy. Its hope being disappointed, or, to speak more truly, being destroy e d, it now fi n d s it se lf compelled to bring into action the ample forces of tho army at its disposal against an aggrnssion which, though at first merely the frenzy of a minority that was led astray, is now assum ing the proportions of a most unrestrained and subver sive revolution. • It is not their own cause that the Ministers are de fending—that is not the question at issue in this struggle —what is at stake is you r f ree d om ; t h e contest involves those principles which form the very basis of society, and the interests of your property and your homes. The contest is for your mental improvement, your well being, the lustre of your rank among the nations of Europe, and surely these are interests and principles more elevated than those which have been contended for in other political conflicts. The blood that will be shed during its continuance, the misfortunes and horrors that may arise, will return upon yourselves, and it is to you that history will im pute /theta. Inhabitants of Madrid ! The great, the immense majority of individuals bearing arms in your National Guard know well the actual and the awful truth ; they know that the triumph of the means about to be employed by the government is sure. But, in the extraordinary situation in which we find ourselves placed, there is yet another and more terrible truth, which is that the worst calamity of which you could be the victims, and the situation which would hurry you into the lowest abyss, the most bloody anar chy would be your own triumph. Inhabitants and National Guards of Madrid !—Spare the government this hard conflict ; spare yourselves this blood-stained disgrace. Distinguish between and separate the pretences of a few deluded and discontented persons from the lawful rights and just liberties, which the government neither can nor will infringe, and has never wished to infringe, and enable us to save the prin ciple of power without having recourse to the means of force and to the horrors of blood. Assuredly this solution is easy. Remove from your selves, all of you, those who are our cruel enemies. We do not ask you to combat them ; it will be enough that you abandon them, (Signed) LEOPOLD O'DONNELL, NICOMEDES PASTOR DIAZ, ANTONIO DE LOS RIOS ROSAS, MANUEL CANTERO, JOSE MANUEL COLLADO. Madrid, July 15. The following extract from the Messager de Bayonne of the 19th contains details of interest:— The Madrid mail of the 15th, due today, was not, able to leave in consequence of the fighting, which be gan on the evening of the 14th. We have neither letters nor journals. The only diligence which has arrived is the Victoria, which left Madrid at 9 in the morning of the 15th. The office of this coach being outside the Bilbao gate, it was able to get away. At the moment of its departure the cannon was roaring, and a hot fire of musquetry was going on. Some few national guard', who Gook part in the early stage of the combat and afterwards were forced to abandon their barricades, have found means to come to Bayonne. The following is a summary of the news brought•by them, the authenticity of which we do not, of course, guarantee " Oa learning that the Duke of Victory had resigned, several of the deputies assembled in the hall of the Cortes, with General Infante in their chair, and drew up a protest agai ns t a ll th at b a d b een done, declaiming that they recognised no other authority than that of the Duke of Victory and the Constituent Cortes. The commanding officers of the battalions of the National Guard who were present at the meeting imme diately put themselves at the head of their men, and marched to support the Cortes. Numerous barricades were made, both by the National Guard and the people. The first barricade attacked by the troops was in the Rue Mayor, near the palace. General Concha sent a battalion of Chasseurs to attack it, and their car bines mowed down a great many national guards. At the same time two guns opened fire, and the defenders of the barricades were so harassed by the splinters of the stones that they were forced to abandon it. "The insurgents, closely pressed by the troops, were, after a useless defence, successively obliged to abandon all their positions, which were the Plaza Mayor, Calle Mayor, Pueta del Sul, the Ministry of the Interior, the Post-office, the Prado, &c., and all the line of neigh bouring street, many of the houses in which were occu pied by the insurgents. When driven from all these points, the National Guard fell back upon the Rue de Toledo. Hemmed in by numbers, and menaced by a fermi iable artillery, they asked for a suspension of hos 'ities. Two hours were given them to lay down their arms. "On the 18th, the Spanish consul received a despatch announcing that, on the evening of the 17th, Barcelona, Girono, and all the fronti,:r were tranquil. " To this news we may add that a part of the garrison of Pampeluna, and 5,000 men from that of Madrid, are marching upon Saragossa, where au insurrection has broken out, the details of which have not reached us. " We are assured that Evader° is at Madrid, and under arrest (garde h vuf-) in a house belonging to the mother of Gen. Guerrea." We have not received auy Madrid journal to day, the only communication which has reached us being the following letter, bearing the date of the 17th, and giving us some additional details : "Madrid is calm. The military tribunal is sitting, and is working with energy. Muskets and other arms are being collected. The disarmament of the national guard proceeds with activity ; 15,000 muskets have already been collected, and although TRIM SUN. LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING; JULY 22, 185s' a certain number are wanting, the aim of the measure is considered as obtained. The no ' torious Pueheta was killed by a pistol shot at the moment that lie was escaping by the Toledo gate be endeavoured to sell his life dearly, and fired on four soldiers and a lieutenant of Tala vera coassours, bet his resistance was useless. is stated by some that ETartero is hidden in the British embassy. GoVernment has decided on act, in generously towards him, and will permit him to withdraw to any spot he may solicit. MM. Patricio Escosura, Pascal Madoz, Sagasta, ealvo Ascenio, and other deputies, who resisted at the bead of the battalions of national guards under their orders, are likewise lying hid. No news has been received of Gans. Zavala ' Serrano, Bedoya, Triarte, Ametter, Valdes, and others who have not offered their services to Government. Ge neral Falcon, commanding in Aragon, and who placed himself at the head of the pronuncia inento of the national guard and population against the actual government, has been taken by royal decree and summoned before a court-martial. All the generals, superior officers, and officers of the army who remained inactive at Madrid during the events are likewise to appear before this court. General Dulce has been named to the command of Aragon. It is probable that he has power to put down the insurrection, and his troops are acting in concert with those which left Vittoria against Sara gossa. The Captains-General of Valladolid, Va lence, and Catalonia have offered troops to the government. The news from the provinces is satisfactory. The direction-general of the colo nies has been re-established and. adjoined to that of public works." .Tvl PriM IA L P..4.31L T.A.MEN '3'. HOUSE OF LOttDS.---YE'ATEUDAY. The LORD CHANCELLOR to , A. te:itt, on the wool 5 o'clock. IZO VAL u 0 Arls> JON at Sebastopol. But there wag a great cliffer,?nce between the two cases, and besides, since the peace was signed, although there may have bee❑ sonic destraetion, ther e been no demolition of fortrk:sses by the allies, there has been. a diemartling of Reni and Is ?A- afire• of pea [Jt it' t~ The rovef a•eeeit w..e4 e eerze. eia :u eevieg brie: -Ceti` eh iui:diee :•.e (1 , ExAeqn , .l- (•ic .tf an ;), Sr. BiirE..'t.: Ma... 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The Lorde' Commissioners were—the Lord Chancellor, the Earl of Harrowby, and Lord Stanley. REGISTRATION OF TITLE DEEDS. Lord LYNDHURST said that three years ago a bill was introduced for the registration of title deeds. That bill was referred to a select committee. It came back again to their lordships, and was passed by a large ma jority. It then went down to the other house, but what afterwards became of it he did not know, except that it never passed into a law. A commission was subse quently appointed to inquire into the subject. He wished to know whether that commission had made a report, and, if not, what was the cause of the delay ? Before he sat down he wished to express his regret that so many important measures had been this session lost. He believed that so great an amount of bills lost or abandoned in the present session was unprecedented in the history of Parliament. The LORD CHANCELLOR said that the commis sion referred to had not made its report. The Registra tion bill alluded to had gone down to the. Commons, after receiving thegeneral concurrence of their lordships' house. It, however, did not meet with as favourable a reception+ in the Le rver House, when it was refer red to a select committee, who reported against the bill. They recommended the adoption of a different plan •of registration, and a royal commission was issued with a view of considering how far the scheme recommended by the select committee was practicable. That commission commenced its sit tings in 1854, but they had not as yet made their re port. He had frequently communicated with the mem bers of the committee, two of whom were the Solicitor- General and Mr. Walpole, and he was informed that there were a great many difficulties in the subject, and that they were considering the whole of the matter very attentively. They had drawn up a draft of a report, which they hoped would be soon ready for presentation. He had prepared a bill in the early part of the session on the subject, but was induced to withhold its pre sentation under the expectation of the report alluded to being presented. Unless he received the re• port during the recess he would certainly introduce his measure next session. especially lier Uut upatoria , °lig bt tc Wien d coilsidared fined, those fortress leace was and that it vould have been dishoneuntl,le to se dee, ,•yeti therm We consider, therefore, that Russia bad no right, from the day that the treaty was signed, to meddle with Is mail or Rent'. That is the opinion of her Majesty Go vernment, and it has been communicated to the court of Russia, but we h ave a s y e t rece i ve d no f orma l answer on the subject. There is another fortress to which my noble friend has not alluded—l mean Kars. I have also made inquiry with regard to that fortress of the Russian Government, and the answer I have received is, that the moment peace was signed the Emperor sent orders to Kars that nothing should be destroyed ; other wise the destroying of the citadel of that fortress would have been an express violation of the treaty of Paris, but owing to the disturbed state of the country those orders did not arrive in time to prevent that being dove ;hut the moment they did arrive no further destruction took pl,sce. There has been also a report that in a part of the territory ceded to Moldavia certain crown lands were to he sold. I accordingly sent to make inquiry on the subject, and was told that some of the authorities were going to sell some of the crown lands, but the sale had been stopped, the Russian Government admitting that they were no longer theirs. The Russian Government has stated in the strongest terms its intention and desire to carry out the treaty in the most faithful manner, and I hope there will be no further occasion for any disturbance of that confidence which, after peace has been established, should exist between the different countries. With regard to the arrival of the Russian Minister in this country, I have to say that we received an official intimation from Baron Brunnow when he came to this country to deliver a letter to her Majesty, that Count Crepto witch had been appointed minister to this country. As he had been so long in coming, and this country was left without a re presentative of Russia, which was somewhat disrespect ful to her Majesty, I inquired at St. Petersburg the reason of the delay, and I have been informed that the minister will be here at the end of the month, and that the delay was wholly unintentional. The Earl of ELLENBOROUGH said that Russia had ceded the fortresses on the lett bank of the Danube, and due precautions should have been taken by the Govern ments who accepted the territory. They should have taken care that provision was made with regard to the state in which those fortresses were to be given up, whe ther they were to be given up with their guns and their ammunition, and whether the archives and plans of the fortresses were to be given up. All those contingencies were always provided for in treatiesrelating to fortresses, and if the noble earl complained about what had been done in this instance, he could only say it was the noble earl's own fault for not having taken the usual precau tions. He could not but regret that there was the least glimmering of a misunderstanding between this country and Russia. The Earl of CLA_EENDON.—The remarks of the no ble earl are founded on treaties in which fortresses are named ; those fortresses were not named in the treaty of Paris. The Earl of DERBY said it struck him that the sur render of territory in which those fortresses were si tuated, by a treaty in which those fortresses were not named, was an additional neglect, as the only value of the territory in question was founded on the existence of those fortresses. The remark of the noble earl only shifted the blame from one instance of neglect to another. He did not exactly understand the noble earl. The noble earl admitted that the Russians had been guilty, if not of a breach of faith, at least of a breach of an understanding so indisputable that it was not thought necessary to inscrt it in the treaty ; and that in other matters they have treated this country with a want of respect which was calculated to embarrass the future re- THE RAJAH OF COORG. The Marquis of CLANRICARDE called attention to the case of the Rajah of Coorg, who was at present in England. This unfortunate gentleman had been a state prisoner in I3enare , , and applied to the East India Com pany for leave to visit England for the purpose of bene fiting his health and the education of his daughter. The Rijah having been compelled to remain some time longer in this c ,untry, he received a note from the East India Company, requiring him to return to India forthwith. He wished to ask the Go• vernment whether they had received any information as to the treatment experienced by the Rajah at the hands of the East India Company, against whom he was prosecuting a suit at law. The latter fact might account for the anxiety of the Company for the return of the Rajah to India. lations of the two c)untries. He begged to ask the noble earl whether, as he had received an answer with regard tct the fortress of Kars, he had received any reply to his remonstrance with reference to the two other fortresses ? The Earl of CLARENDON said the object of ceding the territory in question was to prevent Russia having any access to the left bank of the Danube. In answer to the noble earl (Derby) he had to say that he had not yet received any answer on the subject of the two other fortresses. The Earl of ELLENBOROUGH—By the first ar rangements proposed, Russia was to be excluded from the Pruth. The fall of Kars occurred, and then came only their exclusion beyond the Danube. The Earl of CLARENDON—They are excluded from the Danube, and 200 miles beyond that river. The subject then dropped. CONSOLIDATION OF THE STATUTE LAW. The Duke of ARGYLL said the noble marquis evi dently knew more of the subject than he did. He, how ever, thought that the East India Company having given this gentleman a certain leave of absence might reasonably .refuse to extend that leave without being subjected to any charge of cruelty. The subject then dropped. THE IRISH MILITIA. Viscount DUNGA.NNON asked the Secretary of State for War whether be had received any official com munication of the dismissal of 57 men of the City of Limerick Artillery Militia from Youghal on the sth inst., who were suffered to depart, many of them, with scarcely any clothing, and who bad to proceed all the way to Limerick with only 6d. allotted to each indivi dual; and also whether it was correct that 240 men were discharged on the 10th inst. from the Curragh, belonging to the Mayn Rifles, to find their way home with only one day's pay allotted to them ? The noble lord took occasion to complain ►ery strongly of the conduct of the Government towards the Irish Militia. The LORD CHANCELLOR rose to call the attention of the house to the second report of the commissioners for consolidating the statute law. He stated that the house would remember that after the session of 1854 a royal corn mission was appointed, consisting of several legal func tionaries and persons of high standing in the law, with a view to the consolidation of the statute law, and as far as possible to introduce into that consolidation any portion of the common law it was thought would tend to make it perfect ; and at the suggestion of Lord Lyndhurst, it was made an instruction to the commissioners not merely to consolidate the present law, but to offor any sugges tions which might occur to them with regard to the forms of future legislation. The task was found to be one of over Nhelming difficulty. The statutes of this realm were contained in 40 closely printed folio volumes, and were 15,000 in number. The first inquiry of the corn ', missioners (among whom were Lord,' Lyndhurst, Broug ham, and Campbell, the Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, Vice• Chancellor Page Wood, &c.) was directed to the mode of proceeding. It was suggested that there should be a general sketch made of all the statutes, under separate heads, and this was to a certain extent set afoot, but found to be almost impracticable. The commissioners formed themselves into sub-clancittees, and it was an instruction to one of them to endeavour to improve and simplify the language of the existing statutes. It was soon found, however, that anything like an entire con solidation and emendation of the statutes would not be completed in half a century ; and they then made a very general classification and consolidation of them under the heads of criminal law, property law, mercantile law, and others. The commissioners made a report at the end of last session, but they had not been able to produce any thing fit for legislation. They found that their work Lord PANMURE said in reply to the first question of the, noble lord, that he had received no com munication, either publicly or privately, of the nature to which the noble lord's question referred. He had re ceived several communications.recently from the Lord- Lieutenant of Ireland, but nothing of the kind alluded to was contained therein, and he was sure if there was any truth in the statement the Lord Lieutenant, who was lately at Limerick, must have known everything about the matter, and would have mentioned it if it had occurred. In respect to the second question, he had to state that the men were not discharged, but permitted to go at their own request to their homes, having received the.bounty and balance of pay due to them. SLAVE TRADE IN THE BRAZILS. The Earl of MALMESBURY called the attention of the house to the dispute which had arisen between the British Government and Brazil, owing to the uncour teens behaviour of our Minister at Rio, on a matter arising out of the slave trade, and who had been sup ported by Lord Clarendon. The noble lord concluded by moving for payers connected with the affair. Lord CLARENDON explained the circumstances of the case, which had arisen from an apprehension justly entertained by the British Minister at Rio that great preparations were being made for the extension of the slave trade in Brazil. The Government had thought it to be their duty to support its agent abroad, but he was happy to think that, after the mutual explanations which had been given, the Brazilian Government har boured no ill-will against the Government of this country. would be useless unless there was an improved method of continued legislation ; for if it went on in the manner in which it was now carried on, all future acts would be unfit for consolidation. The subject had been much con• sidered during the last recess, and early in the present session the commissioners carne to the conclusion that this was a necessary preparatory measure. That was what the Government intended to recommend. It was Atter some observations from Lords ABERDEEN and MALMESBURY, the motion (for papers) was agreed to. RENI AND ISMAIL—THE RUSSIAN EMBASSY TO ENGLAND. •. The Earl of MALMESBURY, having apologised for again trespassing on the house, proceeded to ask the noble earl (Clarendon) whether it was true that the two for tresses of Reni and Ismail, which were included in the territory which Russia had made over to Moldavia by the treaty of Paris, were entirely destroyed ? It was manifest that that territory was of little use as abulwark on the frontier of Turkey if there were no fortresses there. While Ismail stood as a fortress no Russian army could pass the Danube without leaving that fortress and another in its rear; but as things now were, with the for tresses destroyed, the frontier remained much as it was before the war. As we had given up Sebastopol, Kutch, Eupatoria, Kamiesh, and the fortresses on the Circas sian frontier, he did not think that there was anything like a fair exchange even if the territory ceded remained as it was, with the fortresses untouched, but it was far less fair now, if they bad been destroyed. He wished to ask the noble earl whether it was true or not that these fortresses had been dismantled, and, if so, whether it was agreed upon in the treaty of peace that they should be dismantled l In the case of a guaranteed g overnment like Turkey, there should have been a condition that, the for tresses were to be retained. He would ask whether any fortresses were to be rebuilt on the right and left bank of the Danube, and, if so, by what soldiers they were to be garrisoned? By the treaty of Adrianople those fartresess were not to be garrisoned by Turkish soldiers ; but he supposed that treaty bad been sponged out by the war. He also wished to ask another question of his noble friend. It was now nearly two months since his noble friend had sent a minister from this country to St. Petersburg. Lord Wodehouse was appointed and sent out very soon after the peace was signed, and he had been at the court of Russia' for a month ; but no minister, or anything like one, bad appeared at the court of England as the repre sentative of Russia ; and he thought that, without being too punctilious on these points after a great war, we should have stood a little upon form, and not have risked the dignity of her Majesty by sending an envoy to Russia so soon, without ascertaining that one was coming to represent that country in England. He wished to know why the just expectation of such an event had been disappointed, and why the Minister for Russia had not arrived in this country, and when it might be ex pected that the Court of Russia would be represented at the Court of England ? The Earl of CLA.RENDON—I will answer the ques tions of my noble friend in the order in which he has put them. I am unable to tell him what is the state of the fortresses of Reni and Ismail, because the commissioners appointed to settle the frontier of Moldavia, although they have been occupied in that business, have not yet gone to the point where those fortresses, are situated ; necessary that such a measure should commence with a session of Parliament ; and it was proposed that there should be officers appointed to perform, with regard to public bills, the'duty which was in a great measure dis charged by the examiner of private bills ; and that a similar officer should be appointed in a similar way by both houses, with a competent staff. His duty would not be to interfere with the policy of bills, which of course rested with the Legislature ; but it continually happened that even in Government bills, 'there being no one to see whether they harnionised with existing law, or did not clash with the language of existing statutes, great blun ders crept into them every session. It would be the duty of that officer to look to this, and so put a stop to the grosser part of the evil, which went so far that some acts were ob!iged to be repealed the very session after they were passed. He had said that the statute-book contained 15,000 acts, but many of them would not be called laws in any other country than this, as they re lated to mere matters of administration, which by the constitution of this country were dealt with by Parlia ment—such acts as related to finance, the administration of the army and navy, the Appropria'tion Act, acts of in demnity and others, which were mere annual acts. The Statute Law Commission—one of whom was Mr. Coal- son, whose experience in these matters was of great value—had examined the acts of last session, and it was found that they were 134 in number, of which 68 were not law, properly so called. There was now in existence one classification of bills—namely, their se paration into public and private bills. It had occurred to the commissioners that this classification might be carried much further, by separating the annual and temporary acts from the others. That would reduce the bulk of legislation to one-third of what it would otherwise be ; and of that one-third related only to India and the colonies, By means of this classifica tion the actual statute law would be reduced to the smallest space. With that !view he proposed to call attention to the recommendations of the commission ers, and the Government early next session proposed to establish such an officer as he had already described, and some kind of committee, to be in communication with that officer on the subject of bills in Parliament. He had a number of bills which had been prepared, which, however, he had not had time to look at, and which had been subject to revision. There was a, bill for the consolidation of the law relating to stamps, which was under the consideration of the Stamp office. But, with regard to one class of laws, namely, the criminal law, Lord Wensleydale, the Chief Justice of the Com mon Pleas, Sir Fitzroy Kelly, and Mr. Greaves, had made a consolidation of statutes relating to criminal law. There were many offences arising out of particular serial enactments, as the Customs Acts, the Bankruptcy Acts, which could not be introduced in any general bill of con solidation, and which were therefore omitted. Another class of offences not included were those relating to re ligion. There were a great many old statutes upon this subject remaining on the statute book which they de sired to repeal, for however applicable they might have been to the times in which they were passed, they were wholly unsuited to the-habits and usages of the present time. To consolidate them in any general act it would be absurd. Under the heads, offences against public Jjastice, offences against the person, larceny, malicious injury, and forgery, all the criminal statutes relating to them were, as the commissioners believed, embodied in the six bills that had been laid on their lordships' table. Besides which, there was embodied in another short J bill all the acts relating to the law with regard to principal and accessory in criminal cases, and in an eighth bill was consolidated all the acts relating to cri minal proceedings on indictments, juries, &c. These measures, the commissioners believed, embodied all the enactments of 40 acts of Parliament, and portions of 150 others, and from his own inspection of them he believed and I heard this morning from St. Petersburg that no report had been received there as to what had been done with them. But I have no doubt that those fortresses have been dismantled, and I think it a most unusual—a most irregular proceeding— a very unfortun ate mode of inaugurating a peace. No precise terms with regard to the fortresses were inserted in the treaty of Paris, and I should have thought it would have been. considered alutobt an affront to have mentioned that with regard to which there could have been no difference of opinion. I ant told that the Rus sians assert that they have the same right to demolish those fortresses as the allies had to demolish the works that they did all they professed to do. There was one thing that struck the commissioners in the preparation of their bills, that was, that thPy mustbe taken more up9n trust than bills submitted to Parliament ordinarily were, seeing that they were not measures for altering but slut cisting statutes; and, to enable a with a somewhat 'mils strict in- ply for cons.olidat Parlia,naont to pas-3 i than usual, there would bea:short report with each of the bills, showing what alteration, if any, it pro posed to effect in the lay.% The rule which the commis i,ion2rs lad aid do•vn tor their guidance framing these bills was to make no change in the law, but in some few caice it had been found that rule could not be adhered to. It had also been an object with the commissioners to maintain as nearly as possible the language of the acts they consolidated, but inasmuch as they found that the same offences were described sometimes in one set of words, and at others in another, they had adopted that set of words which they thought the best, and adhered to it throughout. At present the written laws of the country extended over 40 volumes, and embraced same 15,000 acts of Parliament. The coirimis3ioners thought that the whole might be reduced to about 300 (some were sanguine enough to say 250) statutes, which might all be brought within the Compass of three or four mode rate sized volumes. After thanking thehouse for their at tentiou, the noble and learned lord laid the bills upon the table intimating that he proposed to go no further with them than the first reading in the present session, and to leave them to be considered during the recess. The bills were then laid upon the table and read a first time. vestig CONSOLIDATED FUND (APPROPRIATION, BILL. This bill WaR read a second time. COURT OF CHANCERY (IRELAND) RE CEIVERS BILL. On the motion for reading this bill a third time, The Earl of WICKLOW objected that the measure was founded on entire ignorance of the state of Irish property. He especially objected to the clause which limited the appointment of receivers to properties exceed. ing 2001. a-year, which he said would be injurious to the small lenders, and to the borrowers also. The LORD CHANCELLOR said that the clause bad been introduced with the sanction of the Irish Govern ment and many high legal authorities of that country, who considered that in tho case of small properties the appointment of receivers by the Court of Chancery would eat up the estate. The bill Was then read a third time and passed. The Income and Land Taxes Bill, the Stamp Duties Bill, the Racehorse Duty Bill, the Coast Guard Service Bill, the Corrupt Practices Prevention Bill, the General Board of Health Continuance Bill, the Militia Pay Bill, the Cursitor Baron of the Exchequer Bill, and the Lu natic Asylum Act Amendment Bill were severally read a second time. FORMATION, &c., OF PARISHES BILL. The, house then went into committee on the Forma tion of Parishes Bill, when two equal divisions took place on clause 9, the numbers being 20 in each case. On a third division the numbers were— For the clause Against it 22 Majority The clause was consequently struck out. BISHOPS' RESIGNATION BILL. Lord REDESDALE renewed his opposition to the measure, and moved that it be read a third time that day three months. A smart discussion then arose as to the negotiations which had led to the resignation of the Bishops of Lon don and Durham, which the opponents of the bill asserted savoured of simony. The bill was ultimately read a third time on a division, in which the numbers were— For the bill Against it l5 Majority Some other business was then despatched, and their Lordships adjourned. THE MEDITERRANEAN. SOUTHAMPTON, TUESDAY MORNING. By the Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam-ship Ava, Captain Field, with the Indian and Mediterranean mails, we have dates from Alexandria, July 9 ; Malta, 12th ; and Gibraltar, 17th. The Ava brings 54 passengers, among whom is Lieutenant-Colonel Sir James Alexander ; and on freight 1,299 bales of silk, 182 packages of gum, elephants' teeth, &c. During the voyage the Ava spoke, on the 9th instant, the English barque Richards, for Alexan dria ; 17th, off Tdriffa, the brig Queenstown, homeward bound ; 18th, off Lisbon, the steam transport Stamboul ; and off Cape Roca, the steamer Calcutta, steering for England ; 19th, signalled the steam-ship Pactolus, from Alexan dria to Liverpool, in lat. 40.56 N., long. 9.33 W., and, off Cape Finisterre, passed the steamer Mmander, for Gibraltar. From 'Gibraltar we learn that the steam-ship Vesuvius returned from Tangier, with a cargo of bulllocks for the use of the troops. The sailing transport Mermaid, with convicts from England, arrived out on the Bth inst. Her Majesty's steam-frigate Magicienne left on the 15th instant for Malta. Returning transports continue to arrive from the Eastwar. SITTINGBOURNIC AND ShEERNESS RAILWAY. In our notice of this projected Railway, on Sa turday, we stated that the Company purchased the ferry over the Swale, producing 1,0001. a-year. Now it happens that we were led into error in that respect ; for the ferry and ferry rights were not purchased, but given to the Company as a free gift. For this gift the reason is obvious, as the Com pany are to build a bridge across the Swale, which will supersede the use of the ferry, saving much time and trouble to the public. We do not know any line of railway, so short, which promises such great advantages to the shareholders. In a Govern ment point of view, the wonder is that it had not been undertaken years ago. THE Aus fRIAv . RAILROAD. The prospectus of the Eastern or Francis Joseph's Railroad has just appeared. There are 38 founders, some of the principal of whom are Princes Paul Ester hazy and Batthya,ni, CDunts Edmund Zichy, George Appony, Charles Appony, George Caroly, Augustus Festetics, George Festetics, John Waldetein, Dominic Zichy, Alexander Erdody, and Henry Zichy. The other founders belong to the financial world. The capi tal is 150,000,000 f., represented by 300,000 shares at 500 f or 201. each. The State guarantees 5 per cent. interest and 21 per cent. ai a sinking fund. The first instalment is 150 f.. per share. The bases of the concession are :-Ist. The line is to be double, but the second line of rails is not to be laid until the receipts exceed 30,000 f per kilo metre ; 2(1. Tho line to be completed within 10 years ; 3d. The Concession is for 90 years from January let, 1862 ; 4th. The Government has not the right of purchase until after 40 years have passed. The tariff is the same as that of the Austro-French Company. During ten years all the requisites for the railroad, such as rails, engines, &c., will have to pay but one-half of the usual duty. The essence of the statutes of the company is-1. The capital of 150,000,000 of francs can, in case of need, be raised to 300,000,000 by the emission of new shares, or by means of bonds. 2. The Administrative Council is composed of 15 mem bers, four of whom are Hungarians, eight natives of the other provinces of Austria, and three fdreigners. 3. The allowance made to the Administrative Council for its services will be three per cent. of the real profits. The interests and dividends on the shares will be pay. able in Vienna, whera the general assembly will be held. Foreign shareholders can be represented by other per sons " who are members of the assembly." The interest of 5 per cent will be paid out of the capital while the railroad is being constructed. MARKET NEWS.—(This Day.) HAY MARKETS. SMITHFIELD.—OId meadow hay, 31 .5s to 5/ 15s • new do., 31 Os to 4/ 10s ; old clover, 41 10s to 6/ 15s; new do., 31 5s to 51 Os ; and straw, 11 16s to 21 Os per load. A moderate demand. CUMBERLAND.—OId meadow hay, 3/ 8s to Gl 03; new do., 31 3s to 41 ; old clover, 4/ 15s to 61 12s ; now do., 31 5s to 4/ 153 ; and straw, 1/ Hs to 2/ 2s per load. Trade steady. WHITECHAPEL.—OId meadow hay, 31 5s to Cl 03; new do., 3/ 3s to 4/ 12s ; old clover, 4/ 15s to 6/ 15s ; new do., 3/ 3s to 4/ 15 ; and straw, 1/ 16s to 2/ Os per load. A fair supply. COLONIAL, TEA.--The market hasl7eell;iceedingly dull, and prices are without variation. _ . _ SUGAR.—The inquiries for all descriptions have been very limited both for home use and exportation, and juices aro expected to give way. The sales advertised during the week are small. In the refined market rates are rather easier. COFFEE.--The transactions in this article have been rather numerous, and previous prices have been fully sus tained. The market is expected to rule firm. RICE.—In this article little business has been trans acted, but the landings have been extensive, exceeding 4,000 tons ; prices, however, are unaltered. Rum . .—There has been a good demand for East India for exportation, but other sorts ruled dull at fully previous rates. East India and Mauritius realised 2s 3d par proof gallon. TALLOW.—The market has been steady. P.Y.C. on the spot 535, and last 3 months 50s per cwt. REPORT ON IRISH FISHERIES.—The report of the Commissioners of Fisheries in Ireland for the year 1855 has just been made to the Lord-Lieutenant of that king dom, and published by order of Parliament. Much difficulty exists in obtaining satisfactory statistical in formation with regard to the number of persons engaged in the deep sea fisheries, but it is hoped that this defect may soon be remedied. They regret to state that this branch of the national industry is not in the prosperous condition which could be desired. As regards the in land or salmon fisheries, they are happy to announce that these are progressing and rapidly improving, and that the local boards of conservators are exerting them selves with zeal and success in carrying out the laws, which are generally approved. The experiments com menced for the artificial propagation of salmon continue to be followed up by several, who laudably persevere in endeavouring to render it applicable on a large scale for general advautage. Much, it is thought, must depend upon the proper management of the young fish up to the time of their enlargement from the artificial ponds ; and the commissioners still incline to the belief that they should not be detained very long, It yet remains to be proved to what extent the commercial value of the sal mon fisheries may be it:creased by such means beyond that which arises from the ordinary operations of nature. M pe e r lb e o sc u o r r n t e, fr i o t m a p t p h e e a m rs in th e a s t d t u h r e in p g re t c h i e se fi r rs e t - A US TIIALIA.— According to the d eta il ed accounts just crtbeecirpeetiesvmeodfofngrtoohmlsd of the present year were at the rate of 12,000,0001. per annum, while for the corresponding quarter of 1855 they were at the rate of only 6,550,0001. Under these circumstances it is pointed out that, although the imports this year have exceeded those of the last, they are much more moderate when compared with the export of gold, and the consequent increase in the pur chasing power of the population. The roads to the mines are described as exhibiting such evidences of active trade as have not been witnessed for three years past. A pro portionate movement had taken place in the labour market, and all domestic servants were pressing their employers for higher wages, although the increase al ready amounted to from 30 to 50 per cent. It was there fore feared that, unless an extensive resumption of im migration should take place, agricultural operations and also the progress of public works would have to be cur tailed, The arrivals at present averaged about 320 per week, but the colony could safely absorb 1,000, and the disproportion of males to females was again becoming a serious evil. A SINGING MOUSE. — A curiosity, we know not whe yi t be a s l e U e S n US at n a t t h u e rw h 0 , u in se th o e f s m ha r. p eof Wise,a -road, Windsor. Th e littl e animal caught on premises for mer l y occupied st.v.wihnalecgsrti Victoria -dms mouse, a rnue y tseae t t,l e ,i y r niN m caeawu by Mr. Wise in St. Alban's-street. Its intonations are singularly clear and sometimes loud, some of its notes resembling those of the nightingale. Musical men, who have heard this novel singer, pronounce its execution to be most perfect. • HOUSE OF COMMONS.-(YESTERDAY.) The SPEAKER took the chair at 4 o'clock. The Lords' Amendments to the following bills were agreed to :—Dorset Central Railway. Improved Debtors' Discharge Society; Perth, Almond Valley, and Methven Railway ; and Shrewsbury and Welchpool Railway. STANDING ORDERS—REVISION COMMITTEE. Col. W. PATTEN, in moving that the reiTotT4f. --- this committee be agreed to, detailed the proposed alteration. The first proposition of importance was that no amend ment except ofa merely verbal nature should be made at the third reading of a bill, in reference to which he thought it right to say that it was only carried by the casting vote of the chairman. He, however, thought it of great importance, and proposed that it should come into ope ration next session. They next recommended that the same process should be gone through with regard to the revenues of India, and with regard to the revenues of this country. The other propositions were unimportant, and amongst them he need only mention one, which was that the committees should have leave to sit on Wed nesday without a special order. They did not recom mend that these alterations should come into operation till next session. Lord HOTITAM suggested that there should be a limitation as to the period of the session at which bills should be allowed to pass a second reading. Mr. WILKINSON suggested the abolition of exist ing privileges of private members to bring in miscella neous subjects under discussion on Friday on the mo 7 tion for adjournment till Monday. The tnotion was ultimately agreed to. Upon the motion that the recommendation relative to the revenues of India be agreed to, Sir E. PERRY objected to the proposed alteration, as it was one that would abrogate the functions of Par liament. [Mr. Pulman, deputy-usher of the Black Rod, ap peared at the table of the house and summoned the Speaker and members of the house to hear the Royal assent given by commission to certain bills.—See Lords' report.] Sir E. PERRY, in a lengthened address, pro- ceeded to show the effect of this order, and that it ought to be rejected by the house. He moved to leave out the following proposed new order :—That this house will not receive any petition or proceed upon any motion for a charge upon the revenues of the East India Company, without the recommendation of the East India Company, sanctioned by the Commissioners for the Affairs of India. Mr. V. SMITH supported the order as necessary for ,he protection of the Indian revenues. Col. PATTEN said he thought the object of the hon. baronet would be met by altering the order in ac cordance with the feelings of the Commissioners, from the " recommendation of the East India Company, &c.," to " without the recommendation of the Crown." The motion of the hon. and learned baronet was then withdrawn. On the suggestion of Col. PATTEN a discussion took place relative to the powers of the Nawab of Surat to sue the East India Company under the treaty entered into between them, in the course of which it was contended that this order would shut the native powers of India from any redress whatever—even from an application to Parliament under any treaty they might enter into with the East India Company. The house was addressed by Mr. Mangles, Mr. Roe buck, Sir J. Hogg, Sir F. Kelly, and Mr. Card well. The order as amended was agreed to without a divi sion. BANK CHARTER. INTr. TITE gave notice that early next session he would move for a select committee to inquire into the operation of the Bank Charter Act. THE BUSINESS OF THE SESSION. Mr. DISRAELI gave notice that on Thursday, or some other day, if more convenient to the Government, he should review the business of the session, and found a motion thereon. Lord PALMERSTON said it would be more conve nient for the right hon. member to bring on his state ment on Friday. Mr. DISRAELI having consented to that day, Fri day was accordingly fixed for that purpose. THE GERMAN LEGION. Mr. MURROUGU rose to put a question to the Clerk of the Ordnance relative to the officers of the British army having to furnish their huts at their own expense, whilst the officers of the German Legion had their huts furnished them at the public expense. The hon. member commenced by moving the adjournmeet of the house in order that he might make a statement with respect to recent occurrences at Aldershot. When the Foreign Enlistment Bill was brought before the house in December, 1854, its opponents pointed out to the Government the deplorable consequences which would ensue from the introduction of foreign troops into the service of her Majesty. The anticipations of those gentlemen bad been fully realised. Not only bad the prosaise of the Under Secretary for 'War, that the men belonging to the foreign legion, when they returned from the 2'4, would be sent to some British colony, not been fulfilled, but it was rumoured out of doors that a very high and distinguished personage— Mr. WALPOLE called the hon. member to order. The SPEAKER said the hon, member could not enter into the question. Mr. MTURROUGH then moved the adjournment of the house. Numbers of men were now suffering from the dirks of these assassins, and he called upon the Go vernment to speak out and state what would be done with the legion. The country was indignant beyond measure that these foreign troops were countenanced by those who sat in high places. (Cries of " Order ") It was all very well for hon. gentlemen to cry " Order ! " but it was their duty, as the representatives of the peo ple, to inquire into these matters. The SPEAKER said that if the practice of allowing hon. members to move the adjournment of the house to bring on questions of the kind were permitted it would be impossible to proceed with the business of the house. Mr. MURROUGH.—I think, Sir, that no business of any kind should be proceeded with until we have some statement from the Government on the important:ques twn which I have introduced to the notice of the house. Are the assassinations at Aldershot to be left unex plained ? Are the morals of the army, and indeed of the country at large, to be corrupted by a band of Ger man brigands ? Lord PALMERSTON said he should not enter into the unfortunate occurrence that had happened at Alder shot, not being in possession of sufficient details. The German Legion had up to this time conducted them selves well, and such an occurrence as that referred to was not without precedent. As soon as possible ar rangements would be made for disbanding the Legion. His lordship explained that, the Legion being enrolled fur only a temporary purpose, the furniture was lent them when at Shorncliffe, and on their return from the Crimea the same privilege was continued to them. THE FOREIGN LEGION. In reply to a question from Mr. NEWDEGATE, Lord PALMERSTON said that the German Legieu was not available either for active or garrison duty within the United Kingdom. THE RECENT COAL EXPLOTON. Mr. CAYLEI inquired whether Sir C. C,reY intended to employ any special means to ascertain the real 'cir cumstances under which the disastrous loss of 110 lives bad just taken place from an explosion bf a coal mine in Glamorganshire ? Sir G. GREY said the adjourned inquest would be attended by three inspnerp, who would take care that a searching investigation should take place. CRIMINAL APPROPRIATION OF TRUST PROPERTY BILL. In reply to a question from Mr. HADFIELD, The ATTORNEY -GENERAL said he had fully in tended to go o❑ with the Criminal Appropriation of Trust Property Bill this session, but he had met with so many obstacles that he was obliged to submit to delay. The objections made to the measure by several men of eminence in their profession bad induced him to alter the bill so materially that he would only bring it in with a view to have it printed and circulated, so that the Louse might be in a position to deal with it in the next session of Parliament. REGISTRATION OF LANDED PROPERTY. In reply to Mr. J. G. PHILLIMORE, The ATTORNEY GENERAL I.aid he entertained a strung hope that he shoulo he able to introduce a bill on this subject in the course of the next session. THE LOSS OF THE EUROPA. Captain ARCHDALL asked whether the Govern. ment would consider the propriety of erecting a monu. ment to the memory of Colonel Willoughby Moore and the non-commissioned officers and men of the Inniskilling Dragoons who lost their lives by the burning of the Europa, transport-ship, on their :passage to the seat of war in the spring of 1854 ? Lord PALMERSTON replied in the affirmative. DULWICH COLLEGE BILL. In reply to Lord R. CECIL, Mr. BAINES said the Government did not intend to proceed with this bill in the present session, as they found that the subject would still require much con sideration. THE CRIMEAN INQUIRY REPORT. Mr. VILLIERS brought up the report of the Cri mean Commissioners, and replied to some remarks made by the Earl of Lucan iu the House of Lords, imputing that the report had been delayed from political motives. General PEEL, as a member of the commission, re pudiated the imputation to which the hon. gentleman referred as both unfair and unfounded. The report was then ordered to lie on the table. OUR RELATIONS WITH THE UNITED STATES. Mr. M. GIBSON gave notice to the noble lord at the head of the Government that before the prorogation he should ask him whether it was the intention of the Go vernment to appoint at an early period a successor to Mr- Crampton, late Minister of this country to the United States. MR. J. SADLEIR. Mr. ROEBUCK moved, as an unopposed order, that Mr. J. Sadleir do attend in his place on Thursday next.—Agreed to. The Charities Bill, the Hospitals (Dublin) Bill, the Burial Grounds (Ireland) Bill, the Mercantile Law Amendment Bill, and the Lunatic Asylums Superannua• tions (Ireland) Bill, were read a third time and passed. JOINT STOCK BANKS BILL. Mr. VANCE moved that this bill be read a third time that day three months. Mr. ROEBUCK thought there was an injudicious fear in regard to the bill. He thought it was for the advantage of the shareholders that directors should be re-appointed. The proprietors could at any time object to their reelection. The house then divided : For the third reading Against it . Majority —Bo The bill then passed. EAST INDIA BUDGET. Mr. V. SMITH moved that the house resolve itself into - a committee on the East India revenue accounts. Mr. BUTT rose, pursuant to notice, to call attention to the petition of his Highness Meer Ali Moorad (presented 27th June), and to submit a motion on the subject of the confiscation of his revenues and territories by the Indian. Government. He was very un willing to interfere with the right hon. gentleman, and prevent him from going into committee, but in order to keep his observations strictly in order, he intended to move as an amendment, "That the . . honse resolve itself into a comm itt ee t o cons id er how far 'e possessions confiscated from the petitioner form a portion of the East India revenues." He submitted such an amendment was perfectly in order. The SPEAKER slid that this was not a motion for going into a committee of supply, and therefore the hon. and learned gentleman was not in order in bringing for. ward a case of grievance to a particular individual. Mr. BUTT rose to order. He said the petition he had presented complained of a matter affecting the revenue of India, and the house was asked to go into committee to consider the revenue of India ; and he contended he had a right to ask the house to consider how far those revenues were derived from property that had been taken from the - petitioner. Lord PALMERSTON said that the object of going into committee was to enable his right hon. friend to make a statement as to the revenues of India, and how they were applied. The matter brought forward by the hon. and learned member was an individual grievance, which might be made the subject of a special motion, and had no inti mate connexion with the business of the committee. Mr. BUTT would give way if the noble lord wouldpro• nits° him Thursday for hii motion. He was quite in order in stating the grounds on which ho considered his amend• ment to be regular. Mr. FITZROY rose to order. It was not competent for a member to argue a point of order when the Speaker had declared his proceeding was not in order. Mr. BUTT submitted t o the Speaker that he was oath. tied to proceed. The SPEAKER should certainly say that the hon. and learned gentleman was not in order. ' The motion was then agreed to, and the house went into committee. Mr. V. SMITH then rose. He said before proceeding with his statement, he would allude for a moment to what had fallen from the hon. and learned gentleman opposite, in order that the committee might understand the nature of it. The hon. gentleman appeared to think that they were to dis pose of the revenues of India. Such was not the case. It was thought desirable that the general question of Indian administration should be brought under notice during the session of parliament, and that the best way of doing so was fertile person holding the office he had the honour to fill to make a statement as to the finances of India, and so give every member an opportunity of raising any question he chose. He had notobjected to the hon. and learned gentle man making his motion, as he did not wish to appear as pre. eluding any personfrombringing forwarclagrievance; at the same time he must say, if the hon. and learned gentleman had succeeded, his (Mr. V. Smith's) motion must have fal len to the ground, and at this period of the session he could not have hoped for another opportunity of bringing it forward. On the last occasion on which he had ad dressed the house on this subject, be had moved certain resolutions, the same as had been proposed by his prede cessor in office. The hon. gentleman the member for Man chester moved some additional resolutions, which em• bodied a wish that there should be some acceleration in the preparation of the accounts, and that the statement should be made at an earlier period of the session. As he had alluded to the hon. member for Manchester, he wished to express his exceeding regret at that gentleman's absence and still greater regret at the cause of it. (Hear, hear.) Ho had devoted himself w.th all the vigour of his mind to the cause of India, from no o her motive than his desire for the welfare of his fellow-creatures, of whatever country or clime. (Hear.) Re (Mr. V. Smith) had not been able strictly to comply with one portion of the recommenda tions of the resolutions ; for although it was somewhat earlier in the season, he was nosy as close to the end of the session as last year, but for that he was not to blame, as the house had not thought fit to enforce its own resolu tion, but had preferred the more important questions of peace and war to the details of Indian finance. In refer ence to the early production of the accounts, he had placed himself in communication with the Board of Directors. Ha was warmly aided by them. They applied to the local government, and the result was that the accounts had been presented this year on the 13th of March, instead of the 18th of May, as last year ; and although the actual ac counts had not been brought down to a later period than before, he had been furnished with a sketch estimate for the year 185 G-57. He thought this was going quite as far as was desirable. He would read to the committee the figures o❑ which that sketch estimate was founded, and compare it with the actual statement for 1853.51. The only inconvenience of this course would be, that hon. gen tlemen could not make the comparison for themselves, as the statement for 1856.57 had not been printed and circu lated. The statement for 1853-54, which was the same as he had given last year, was as follows :- 1. Bengal— Net revenue Local charges .. 2,200,944 Local surplus £5,395,738 North-Western provinces— Revenue Local charges 5,656,674 1,547,106 Local surplus £4,109,568 Military charges of Bengal and North- Western provinces 6,026,334 Net revenue of ditto Total charges of ditto 13,753,35 G 9,774,486 Surplus available for general pur poses of ludic ..................... £3,978,870 2. Madras — Net revenue Charges 3,315,513 ..., , 3,539,331 Deficit £223,321 3. Bombay — Net revenuo Charges Deficit Total revenue of the several presi dencies £19,705,080 Total charges of ditto £3,414,147 Total surplus o f ditto Interest on Indian debt Charges defrayed in England 3,262,289 Total further charges on Indian revenues Excess of expenditure over income £2,044,117 These accounts were in forms the same as those which had been prepared by hiq right hon. friend who had preceded him in office; and a plan was now under the consideration of the Boaru of Directors which would simplify them still further. It was proposed to do away entirely with sicca rupees in the accounts, and keep them in Company's rupees. Ho could not positively pledge himself that the claps would be effected, but, if earned out, it would 2 - . ~~,