The Sun. — London, England, 1856-05-09 00:00:00

THE STIN, LONDON FRIDAY EvElvive, MAY 9, 1856, had the war continued, we should have heard of their rendering most efficient and useful aid. He would avoid all topics of controversy, and therefore say nothing of the original formation of those foreign legions. But with regard to their present position and their future pros pects', whatever ohjsctions there might have been to the manner in which they were originally raised, he was cer tain there would be but one opinion that, the war bay ing been now closed, those foreign troops ought to be dealt with liberally . and generously. (Cheers.) They had come forward to assist the British Government in its hour of difficulty, and many of them would have ex posed themselves to consequences and placed themselves in a position more or less inconvenient and unpleasant to themselves ; their relations with their own country had been to a great extent interfered with by their enlisting in our service. How we might be able to dis pose of them it was not for him (Lord Derby) to say, but he did say that the country would approve and would expect that they should be dealt with liberally by our Government, (Cheers.) There was another service to which their lordship? attention had been called. He meant that of those English country gentlemen who, sacrificing their own private affairs, their domestic ease and comfort, had exposed themselves to all the in conveniences and privations which were attached to ac tive service ; and those men who, having enlisted in the first instance only for a casual and very temporary ser vice, within their own immediate neighbourhood, had cheerfully responded to each successive demand upon them, had been in embodied service, had cheerfully left their homes and country, and efficiently supplied the place of the regular troops in foreign garrisons, thereby adding materially to the member of our forces at the seat of war ; and he would venture to say that they would have been only too happy, if her Majesty had thought fit to accept the tender of their further services, and permitted them to share the perils and the glories of war along with the regular troops, instead of acting in a subordinate position. (Cheers.) He trusted that, now he war was over, now that we had proved the efficiency of the militia, when we had been enabled by this instru mentality to raise not less than 100,000 men, of whom 30,000 men had been already dra test into the regular army, and between 60,000 and 70,000 more remained, a large proportion of whom, if the war had continued, would no doubt have gone on to feed the army—he trust ed that we should not be in haste to dispense with the services of that most valuable assistance to our military. force. (Cheers.) He knew that in time of peace we could not keep those militia regiments permanently ens bodied, nor did he think it desirable that we should do so, but he trusted that we should not fall into the error which had been committed on former occasions, of suf fering the staff and organisation of those regiments to fall altogether into disuse and inefficiency ; that we should not neglect to keep up, at all events, such a nu cleus of each regiment as might be called out every year, or every two years, for a certain period of service, so that the whole skeleton of the militia system might be always ready to be filled up and completed whenever occasion should arise, and so that we might keep alive amongst the men the habits of discipline which had been now acquired, and 'the military feeling which had been engendered, by the short period of service which they had undergone. He quite agreed with the noble lord the Minister of' War, that both as to the militia and the regular army i.; would be very false economy to do away ' hastily with that which had now been established. Re ductions on a large scale must undoubtedly take place, but whatever reductions were made in the numbers, let us keep up the efficacy of the system—let us keep the organisation complete, and improve it —let us keep the men and the regiments of our army, not as a mere agglomeration of men and regiments, as they were at the commencement of the war, but as a regularly organ ised, though not a numerous army, formed in brigades and divisions, and habituated to act together, so that whenever we should again be at war, numbers might be all that we should then require. These numbers we might depend upon it the spirit of the country would always affird ; but to make numbers effective and available, it was necessary that we should have a complete organisa tion, and officers who were accustomed to act , together, and acquainted practically with the working of that sys tem by which, in time of peace, a model would be repre sented, on a miniseure scale, of the organisation of an effective army. (Cheers.) He woul I not detain their lordships any longer,' but he cordially agreed, as the house and country unanimously would agree, in the vote of thanks which had been proposed. The Duke of CAMBRIDGE felt thet, as he belonged to the army, it would ill become him to add one word to what had been said on both sides of the house, as to the conduct of this war ; but, as having been present in some of the gloßious scenes of the campaign—(cheers)—and having been a witness of the hardships to which both officers and men were exposed in it, he might be permit ted to say, that those hardships were borne with a cheer fulness and with an endurance which had reflected credit on every individual of the men who were so circum stanced ; and he knew that it had required all the energy of mind and body, both for men in high position and for the men in the lower grades of the army, to go through what that army bad to endure in November and Decem ber, 1854. (Hear.) And he was quite sure that all those who had survived that portion of the campaign--that all those who bad gone through it and were now alive— would feel grateful to their lordships for the compliment which was now so handsomely and liberally paid them. There was one tribute he was anxious to pay, and which especially was what he had risen now to do. Allusionhad - been made to the services of the navy. It was correct, as had been stated by his noble friend, that the navy—and he alluded now to the navy in the Black Sea—had not those opportunities of distinguishing themselves which were given to tho army ; but the cause of that was that the enemy, as had been correctly stated, did not choose to come into collision with our navy. Wherever an op portunity was afforded to them, they had bebn but too anxious, too zealous, 'and too desirous to avail them selves of it. Raving himself seen the manner in which the navy went into action on the' 17th of October, 1854, before Sebastopol, be was sure that these who were engaged in that operation deserved and fully me rited the thanks of the house. But further, he could as a witness assure their lordships that the services ren dered by the navy to the army had been such that, without the navy, and without their cordial assistance, we could never have arrived at that happy result which had been so fortunately attained. From the admirals to the lowest grade in the navy, everybody had worked zealously to supply the wants of the army ; and those wants, it was well known, were indeed very pressing. He thought that, if nothing else had resulted from this war than the great cordiality and good feeling which now existed betWeea the two services, and the hearty co-operation between them, it was a most fortunate re sult ; and, on the part of the army, he gladly availed himself of that opportunity of expressing his thanks to the navy for their assistance. One more circumstance he would allude to reg arding the militia. He certainly was delighted to fi n d that the militia had not been omitted in the thanke now given ; for no doubt, although they did not actually join in the operations of the war, he was sure, from various circumstances, that there were many militia regiments which would have willingly gone out as a body, and have joined the army ; and, no doubt, the fact-of those militia regiments volunteering when they did was of the greatest assistance to her Ma jesty's Government, and t the greatest usefulness to the country, as it enabled all those regiments which were then in the Mediterranean to he forwarded to the seat of war, and that at a moment when matters were very pressing. He therefore most cordially joined in the hanks to the 'militia for their services, and having him self seen many of the militia regiments, he might be permitted to assure the house that, with the exception of their uniform, he should hardy have known, in many instances, the militia regiment from a regular regiment. Tne Earl of CARDIGAN as a h um bl e mem b er o f th e army expresst d the satisfaction ieh he was sure'every office must feel at receiving this vote of thanks. He would also add his tribute of respect to the late Lord Raglan, that distinguished general under whom he served, and under whose command all the great victories and glories acquired by our army were gained. He deeply regretted that nolle lord had not lived to see the reward of all his great services in the restoration of peace. He was perfectly satisfied that there never was a finer army than the British army which now stood in the Crimea, with regard to its numbers, its discipline, is organisation, and its efficiency. He would say, as he believed with all their lordships, that be viewed the re storation of peace with satisfaction ; he believed that the war had been carried on with vigour by the Govern ment, and that the peace was a safe and honourable one. Earl GRANVILLE complimented the illustrious duke, who bad himself contributed in no small degree to the success of the war by sharing the hardships of the soldier. He (Earl Granville) rose on the part of her Majesty's Government to express their sincere thanks to the noble earl (Earl of Derby) for the useful and elo quent speech be had just made ; not for any political ad vantage which it gave to the Government, but because it showed the two services that whatever betided in that house they were safe from party conflicts, and that they might rely upon the grateful feelings of all parties. He (Earl Granville) confessed that be thought that part of his speech was most graceful on the part of the noble lord when ho spoke of the gallant foreigneis who had joined this country because they believed the war to be a just one ; and he thought it would be mo , t useful to the country to see the course pursued on this occasion by those who were usually opposed to her Majesty's Government. In one point the speech of the noble earl strengthened the hands of the Government —namely, as regarded the disbanding of the army. H e beli eved the views of his noble friend at the bead of the Depart ment were, not to encourage lavish expenditure, not to keep up an armed force which the wants of the country did not requi re , b u t to k ee p u p, at the least exp ense, that organisation which could best be developed if war should again occur. Earl GREY gave hie cordial assert to the vote before the house, but he could not concur in the spirit of his noble friend's concluding observations. He wa , , he con fessed, alarmed when be heard his noble friend express a hope that the house would not let the military power of this country fall into the state it was on the last peace on a view of false economy. He thought it was a wise economy, on the contrary ; for it was that which bad mainly contributed to the success of the late war. He (Earl Grey) had been always of opinion, however, that the army had not been kept up in the manner it oul,ht during the peace; but that the grants made by Parlia ment for the purpose were sufficiently liberal if properly applied. That which was most remarkable in the war, and which must have had the effect of convincing Russia of the impolicy o' continuing it, was the extraordinary resources of this country, than which nothing was more marvellous. These resources arose chiefly from the wealth accumulated, and the science and skill developed during the long peace, through the policy he bad de scribed. Large ve ssels, proof against artillery of the heaviest character, had been constructed in three wntlis, and all through the policy in question. The policy of Russia had been, on the contrary, to prevent the growth of prosperity in the nation, by keeping up an enormous army in time of peace for a period of 40 years ; and when the time of trial came, it was found that this great mili tary force was unable to compete with the resources of this country. Russia was c mvinced of her mistake now, and she was desirous to give free scope to the energy of her people in the accumulation during peace of that wealth which might be employed during war. He (Earl Grey) protested, therefore, against the idea of keeping up a large military establishment, and he trusted this coun try would never think of nmint doing a force prepared to take the field in a European war. The motion was then agreed to. The vote of thanks to the militia *as then put by the LORD CHANCELLOR. Lord PANMURE said that this might be a conve nient opportunity to state the intentions of the Govern• ment in reference to the militia. It was proposed to add to the staffs of the several regiments quartermasters, who should hold commissions, and who would relieve the staff from the care of the stores and arms of the regiments. With regard to the subaltern officers, many of whom had incurred considerable expense in joining the militia, it was proposed to allow each subaltern three months' pay as a gratuity. It was intended to allow assistant surgeons a year's pay ; and it was intended to pay the private soldiers at once the pound bounty which was still due to them. The Marquis of SALISBURY agked if it was the in tention of the Government to add the non-commissioned officers to the staff, so as so retain it of the strength at which the regiment was embodied ? Lord PANKURE E ail the subject of the question was under the consideration of the Government. After a few words from the Duke of BUCCLEUCH, the mntinn was agreed to. SMOKE NUISANCE ABATEMENT BILL. On the motion of Lord RHDESDALB, the Smoke Nui Panes Abatement (Metropolis) Act, 1353, Amendmen• Bill was read a t•econd time. MARRIAGE LAW AMENDMENT BILL. Lord BROUGHAM moved the second reading of a bill for amending the law of marriage in relation to mar riages celebrated on the borders of Scotland. Lord CAMPBELL did not think the bill would carry out the objects intended. Lord Si. LEONARDS thought it desirable that the marriage law should be placed on a better fou.ndatton in regard to marriages in Scotland. After a few words from Lord BROUGHAM the bill was read a second time. COUNTY COURT ACTS AMENDMENT BILL. This bill passed through committee. JOINT-STOCK COMPANIES WINGING-UP ACTS AMENDMENT BILL, This bill also passed through committee and was re. ported. THE' PENSION TO LORD DALHOUSIE. The Marquis of CLANRICARDE, pursuant to notice, asked " whether her Majesty's Government have sanc tioned the grant of pension of 5,0001. a-year chargeable on the revenues of India to the Marquis of Dalhousie ; and to move forcopies of any correspondence or previous communication upon the subject which may have passed between the Board of Control and the East India Com pany ?" No one acknowledged more than he did the eminent services and great merits of Lord Dalhousie, but considering the position in which the Court of Direc tors stood, he contended it was unconstitutional in them to grant away the revenue of India in this way, and it was equally unconstitutional for Ministers to sanction it. After a few words from several noble lords the mo tion was withdrawn. Their lordships then adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS.--(YESTERDAY.) THANKS TO THE ARMY AND NAVY. Lord P ILMERSTON said—l rise, sir, in pursuance of the notice I have given, to propose to this house to return its thanks, and express its grateful acknowledgments, for the great and eminent services performed by that portals' of the army and navy that was engaged in the operationsof the war, and for the zeal and merit of the embodied militit at home and abroad during the period of that war. Sir, it was natural that the nation should upon the termination of a successful war, and upon the conclusion of an honourable and satisfactory peace, be lel by its first impulse to th , temples of religious worship in order to render thanks to that Almighty Power which has directed and favoured our arms during the war, and which has blessed our councils in the negotiations for peace. The next duty which is incum bent upon the country is to return its thanks and express its acknowledgments to those brave and gallant men who have, under the blessing of Providence, been the instru ments by which our success in war has been accomplished and the conditions of peace have been attained. Sir, it is the peculiar privilege of a free people, upon the occasion on which the national will has to be expressed, that they aro entitled as by right to participate with the Crown in the expression of the national feeling. (Hear, hear.) In other countries, not so fortunate in their institutions as we are, these honourable expressions of gratitude are con fined to the Sovereign alone; and the brave men whc have porilled their lives, or wasted their constitutions ir. the service of their country, have not the additional satis faction of knowing that, in conjunction with the apfroba tion of the Sovereign, they receive the grateful and heart felt thanks of their country. Sir, the value of that co operation of the Crown and the people is well known, and cannot be exaggerated. We all remember the remarkablt expression of tlartt gallant hero, Nelson, who, when going into action, exclaimed, "Now for Westminster Abbey or the House of Lords," thereby intimating that he looked for the co-operation of the Crown and the people in estimating public services. But if the hopes of such rewards are a con solation to those who think that they may not be spared tt enjoy them, how much more gratifying must those hopes be to those who think that they will themselves live to re ceive the acknowledgments of a grateful country? (Cheers.: There have been wars, no doubt, of much longer duration there have been wars much more diversified by great events; there have been wars in which greater battles have beer fought, and in which operations have been conducted on larger scale, but there have been few wars of which tht result has been more important—(hear)—and there ha been none in which the various qualities which peculiarly belong, I am proud to say, to our race, were more called into action—none in which our brave men had better or more frequent opportunity of displaying that impetuon• courage in attack and that irresistible intrepidity in de fence, that endurance of privation, and all those other qualities which adorn our soldiers and sailors, than that which has just terminated. (Hear, hear.) When the , war began, in March, 1851, there sallied forth from th. shores of this country a gallant band of about 10,00( men. At that moment the anticipations of the court try hardly went beyond, the idea of fortifying the Dar danelles and defending Constantinople, They never dreamt that that gallant band would be increased to the amount at which our army now stood in the East. Fear :ever expected that that little band would by successive augmentations accomplish the great results which have crowned its labours. It was like that little cloud, no big • ger than a man's hand, which is often seen in the distant horizon in other climates, but which is soon followed by cloud that spreads over the canopy of heaven, and unfolds elements of power which nothing is able to resist. That band of 10,000 men had been multiplied by 10, and there are now under the command of the British general in the East 100,000 men ; and if the war had continued, the result of their operations would, I am persuaded, have contribut ed still further to justify that vote of thanks which it is now my duty to pro Pose. (Hear.) The events of the war are too well known to require any detailed recapitulation on the part of any one discharging the-duty which now de volves upon me. It is well known that after our temporary sojourn on the coast of European Turkey, when it was found that, by the cessation of the siege of Silistria, no immediate necessity existed for our remaining any longer on that coast, our army was transferred, in conjunction with that of our allies, to the coast of the Crimea. Every one recollects the glorious battle of the Alma—every one remembers with what daring intrepidity, led by the gallant hero, as I may call him, Lord Raglan—(cheers)—the British army, acting in union with our gallant allies, sharing with the soldiers of France the same dangers, and braving the same resist.' ance of the enemy, carried heights which might be deemed impregnable—defended as they were by troops that were supposed equal to any in Europe. (Hear.) That battle of the Alma was not long afterwards followed by the flank movement on Sebastopol, and the siege of that place. Then came the equally severe battle of Inkernian ; and it we, remarkable that these two battles, following each other at no distant intervals, brought into prominent display tht' various qualities for which the British soldier has always been distinguished : for while, on the one hand, the bat tle of the Alma showed that nothing could resist the rush of the British troops—that no enemy could maintain a position, however strongly defended, against the intre• pid dash of the British army —so, on the other hand, the battle of Inkerman showed that, when British troops are placed to defend a position, whatever may be the force by which that position may be attacked, however superior the numbers by which it may be assailed, there is that in the stern steadiness of the British character that will enable the British soldier to maintain his position against any force that may be directed against him. That defence of Inker man reminds me of an incident in the battle of Waterloo. When an officer, at a moment when superior numbers threatened the position of the British army, asked the Duke of Wellington what he meant to do, the simple answe r of the D u k e was , " I d o no t mean t o b u d ge ran e a ra this t o - n i g ht." (H ear, h ear. ) S o aga i n a t I n k er• ° the position power was able to d is possess the Bri t i s h from that memorable which th ey h e ld. A n d th en th ere was a l so battle of Balaklava—a battle in which all arms h a d an equ a l opportunity of displaying their skill and intrepidity At that battle the gallant 93d, when charged by a f orce of course to the ordina r y tactics cavalry r i y n , fa d n i t sai r d y by disdained to mliaveinreto square, but stood in line a s if they hadnothing but infantry that the like themselves to encounter, an d in that position repelled the attack of the enemy's cavalry. At Bri tish heavy cavalry had an opportunity ofb they could perform, and the charge which tey wi m n a i w e was one most honourable to our arms. The charg e of tlaceliZlit cavalry upon the same occasion, although unfortunately not successfnl, as, indeed, under the circumstances, it could not be expected to be, was nevertheless, one of the most heroic enterprises that was ever undertaken. (Hear, bear.) lt was an enterprise of which the countrymen of those gallant soldiers may well be proud, and Which will live in the records of history as long as the memory of these days shall survive. Then there were two other occasions also of which the English people may well be proud, although victory did not then attend our arms. I mean the two attacks on the Redan—the ono of the 18th of June, and the other on the Bth of September. (Rear. These attacks were not succassful, because it was hardly possible that success should attend them. But no one can fail to admire the daring courage with which our troops traversed the open space of 250 yards, exposed to a most martlerous fire of cannon, of musketry, and of every imple ment of warfare calculated to deter men from persevering in an attack. In spite of difficulties and dangers, which would have made any other men quail, our troops still rushed forward in theperformance of their duty, and though they fell by scores and by hundreds, nevertheless they re mained faithful to their duty, and accomplished all that human bravery was capable of accomplishing; and although success was impossible, honour and glory were obtained. (Cheers.) I have already said that the events of that war brought out all the qualities which adorn and dignify the race to which we belong. Bravery in action is a quality which we do not pretend, to monopolise; it is a quality which is shared by other nations, which we are proud of in ourselves, and which we honour and respect in others. (Hear.) But the power of endurance—the power of sub mitting to privation and silent suffering is perhaps a quality still more to be admired, because it is less general than that which boldly leads men to despise danger; and that quality our army laud ample opportunity of displaying. We all remember the sufferings of that brave army during the dark and dismal months of the first Crimean winter, when, notwithstanding all the care and efforts of the Go vernment at home—notwithstanding the fact that there were in the immediate neighbourhood great quantities of everything essential for the comfort of the troops—yet, owing to that want of arrangement which was, perhaps, incidental to the first beginning of a war on such a scale, at such a distance, and after so long a period of peace, the troops were unfortunately subjected to the greatest and most trying privations ; and, in addition to that, they had to perform a duty which seldom befalls an army in the field —they had to carry on siege operations of the most difficult kind. When a large army invests a fortress, however large that fortress may be, the garrison is limited in num bers, the extent of works is known, and it is a matter of scientific calculation at what period of the siege a breach can be made, and the superior force without can place it self in personal conflict with the inferior force - confined within. -But this was a case of a totally different kind. Here were two armies, equal in number, or, if there was any difference, the army of the enemy was superior, in the first instance, at all events in numbers; it hat an open communication to the rear, by which great reinforce ments could be brought down periodically from the inte rior of the country. The position of the enemy precluded a battle in the field, and our army had therefore to carry on the siege against not a limited fortress and garrison, but the whole military power of the Russian empire; and the operations of a siege so conducted necessarily imposed upon our gallant troops an amount of fatigue, followed by sickness, which has seldom occurred for so long a period together in the military history of the world. (Hear.) Our mea bore their sufferings with the same steadiness with which at Alma they had carried the heights of the enemy, and with which at Inkerman they had defended their own position; and, to the honour of the British sol dier be it said, that in the long course of those operations they displayed not only courage and endurance, but that generosity which belonged also, I am proud to say, to the character of our countrymen. (Cheers.) It is well known that many a private soldier, whose health had been im paired by his servicea, who ought to have gone into hospi tal, and who was advised or commanded to do so, refused to avail himself of permission, or to comply with such orders, because he said, if he did, the duty would fall heavier on his comrades, and he would, he said, go on as tong as he could, and share with others the labours and dangers of the siege. The history of the war confirmed the well-known adage— " That noble actions may as well be done By weaver's issue as by prince's son." (Cheers) The private soldiers were distinguished in the war by every quality which gives dignity to human nature, ind of the conduct of their officers it is impossible to say too much. Such, then, having been the bearing of our brave soldiers, without entering into any further details, [ think you will reedily concur that there cannot be a fit ter occasion upon which this house, as the organ of the national sentiment, should express its thanks and convey its acknowledgments to those brave men who have thus earned the gratitude of their country. In regarding the ;rest and glorious deeds of those who survive, it is impos sible not to remember with feelings of regret those of whose services the country has bean deprived. We have lost in that war many a bravo and gallant officer and man. S ,me have perished on the field of battle, others have fallen in the service of their country by the wasting effects of disease. But those who have suffered private losses must at least save the consolation of thinking that, whether their gal taut relatives fell on the field of battle, or by wasting di• sease, they are equally entitled to the gratitude and admi ration of their country, and that their names will equally survive in the fond and proud recollections of England. We lost, in the first place, that great man, for so, on ac count of his neble qualities, he may well be called, Lord Raglan. He had reached a time of life when, without my disparagement to himself, ho might have declined the motive service proposed to him to take. He hold high and important official situations. He had won his spurs in for ger wars, by the side of his greet commander and friend, :he Duke of Wellington. He of an age when men are ;enerally considered exempt from active duty, but haring devoted all his life to the public service, he would not shrink at the last from the call which his Sovereign and 'ifs country thought proper to make upon him. He fell a sacrifice to that performance of his duty—(cheers)— and [ am convinced that the only feeling of regret which crossed his mind at the last moment of his life vas that he hat not the good fortune to fall in ;he field of battle, the dangers of which ho hail often so bravely and freely encountered, end the consolation to breathe his last in the front of an enemy, rather -.han in the manner which it had pleased Providence to selease him. We cannot sufficiently lament those other ;anent generals whom we have lost. Cathcart, Golding, itrano•ways, Torrens—ay, Torrens, for though he did not lie in the Crimea, ho succumbed to the wounds he received hero—(cheers) -Estccurt, and Sir John Campbell, and ether names which belong to the same cataloguo of brave )(Beers. But it must be a satisfaction to the families of hese men that, though by the will of Heaven they were taken, they died in a noble cause, maintaining the honour ev their country and their own dignity. Although onr losses we deeply to be deplored, yet, upon the whole, taking into consideration the great difficulties which our armies had to encounter, the various battles they have fought, and the cervices in which they have been employed, it cannot be laid that the number is greater than might inevitably have 'men expected. The whole amount of casualties of all rinds in the course of the war—that is to say, the whole amber drawn from the army bydeath in the geld, by death n hospitals, or by discharge under various circumstances, amounts to 22,456 men, of which the number killed in action was comparatively small. Ido not mean to underrate he extent of these losses ; at the same time, when we cona sere the disasters of war with those calamities to which dl nations are subject—with the scourge of pestilence—it oust be remembered that one epidemic sweeps away far nore men than those I have enumerated. The dangers of hese epidemics may be mitigated by art and science. It las been said that in peace sons bury their fathers, and in var fathers bury their sons ; but it must be recollected that here are in peace calamities which sweep away whole fa nilies, and leave mothers widows and children orphans. these calamities may be avoided by the appliances of art ind skill. We ought, therefore, to be thankful that our osses have not been greater than they are ; and, when we consider that there are 90,000 Russians lying under the sod en the heights before Sebastopol—and, as I have been as sured, on good authority, since the commencement of the .var 500,0J0 men have been swept away from the Russian army—althongh these results do but increase the horrors, sod make us to regret the necessity of war, at the same time we cannot but be thankful that our losses have been eemparatively so small in prosecuting a just and necessary war to a successful issue. (Hear, hoar.) In this war the levy has not had the same opportunity of so brilliantly listinguishing itself as the army. The Emperor of Russia lad for some time expended a large portion of the revenue d' his empire in collecting together a vast navy, as well as s great army, but the presence of the British ships was done snfficient to deter that fleet from coming into contact vith them ; and neither in the Baltic nor in the Black Sea tad our brave and gallant navy any opportunity of encoun `-,ering that fleet which our enemy had for so long a time, and at eo large a cost, prepared for war. But in the Black lea the navy contributed greatly towards the successes of ,heir brothers in arms. Fear not only were they ever ready o meet the enemy at sea, bet we know that a naval.brigade was formed, who took up a position in the trenches before Sebastopol, and the blue jackets and the rod coats, side by side, shared the dangers and the toils of the Beige. We night have extended our operations in the Black Sea, and 'aid in ashes the city of Od essa, but we thought it better 'lot to do so. (Hear, hear.) And, therefore, that which is sometimes made matter o reproach to our navy, was, in -etlity, a matter of satisfaction. (Hear.) The house will also remember that there is to be no longer any fortifica tions on the Aland Islands. Well, in the succeeding cams oa.ign, we were no less fortunate, Admiral Dundas having accomplished the destruction of the great arsenal of Svveas berg, an enterprise which was conducted with great skill 'aid courage. Well, then, I say our brave sailors, no less than our gallant soldiers, are entitled to the admiration aid thanks of the country. (Cheers.) But I say it is a proud fact recorded in the history of Europe, that Eng land having begun the war with a small army, and a comparatively small navy, at the end of two years tho country which began the war with 20,000 men, ended that war, having in the Mediterranean under their general, including the foreign corps, 110,00) troops, such as were well described by a noble lord in another place as placing this country in a position of exhibiting a mighty armament the like of which the world never saw before. (Cheers.) But, sir, it is due to the great body of the men who compose the civil service of the country to do them the justice to say that they lent a most efficient aid in car rying out the operations connected with the war. The army in the Crimea required immense supplies of every article and material connected with warlike operations ; and without the utmost energy of the civil administration, it was impossible that the army could be now in such a condition as no army ever stood in before. (Cheers.) In the same manner with regard to the fleet the First Lord of the Admiralty never could have produced such an aug mentation of our naval force if he li id not been seconded by all the subordinate officers under him, including the people employed in the dockyards. (Cheers.) Well, air, neither can we forget the groat services rendered by the militia. (Hear, hear.) We must remember that that force was intended only for self-defence ; that it was officered by the gentlemen of the country ; and I may mention that, though ten regiments went out for foreign service, there were 68 regiments who offered their services besides those who actually went. (Cheers.) I must do them the jus tice to say, that the regiments that went ou t were mo d els of military efficiency ; and I had it from the officer who commanded at Gibraltar that-he never met a better officer than Col. Wilson Batten. (Cheers.) With regard to the act which enabled the Government to employ foreign corps I may state that we have in our service 16,000 Swiss, Ger mans, and Italians, and better troops I never saw—(hear) —anti if the war had gone on I believe the country would have been thankful to those men who had entered into her service. (Hoar, hear.) In former years the militia had been raised by conscription; bat it is now a remarkable fact that in all our vast armament we have neither in the army nor navy one man who has not entered as a volunteer. (Loud cheers.) Thus it is clear you have augmented your forces solely by the public spirit of the people (Cheers.) Well, then, I say those men of your army and navy have well earned the thanks of this ho use ; but, sir, though it is not within the functions of the Parliament of a free country to interfere as the dispensers of praise or censure, in regard to another country, yet I k , m sure in the expres sion of our feelings we cannot for a moment forget the great services that were rendered by the army and navy of our illustrious ally the Emperor of the French. (Loud cheers.) Neither can we forget the services of the gallant troops of Sardinia—(hear, hear)—nor those of the Sultan of Turkey. (Hear, hear.) To speak of the ac hi evemen t s of the F renc h army were t o men ti on every thi ng great i n the hi s t ory of man ; those ac hi evemen t s are too well known to req u i re praise from any living man—history is the best record of their glorious achievements. (Cheers.) But, at the sam e time, it must be pleasing to every man in thi s a country, and matter of satisfaction to know that the forces of Franco and England, whether soldiers or sailors, worked together like brothers in arms, and that a feeling of brotherhood existei among them: (Cheers.) The troops of the King of Sardinia did not arrive in time to take part in those great actions which distinguished the earlier actions of the war, but at the Tchernaya they displayed a military science which did them the greatest honour ; and I believe, if the war had continued, they would have per formed feats of most distinguished bravery. (Cheers.) Sir, for the Turks I may say that they kept watch and ward on the Danube. (Cheers.) They defended with skill — Omer Pacha showed he had great skill—the posts entrusted to them, and in a subsequent period of the war, at the only opportunity offered them of distinguishing themselves —at Kars—they fully bore out their character for bravery. (Cheers.) The noble lord concluded by placing the resolu tion for a iota of thanks to the army and navy in the hands of the Speaker. Mr. DISRAELI—I have the honour, sir, to second the motion for a vote of thanks to the army and navy on the conclusion of a war which, though as the noble lord justlyobserved, has been of immense importance, yet owing to the marvellous improvements in the modes of communi cation, and the complete information which has reached ns from the scenes of this war, has been characterised by dif ferent features from any preceding war. There has been a variety of means, and a development of heroism that have become, as one may say, household words in every village, and at every fire-side ; and the Government has been sus tained with a firmness which can only arise from a convic tion such as the noble lord has touched upon. We have had pitched battles and a protracted siege ; and we have had throughout this campaign such traits of individual heroism as were never exceeded in any previous war. It is true the fleet of England never in this war met an enemy ; and we must remember that the flag of England for the first time waved in those waters in a hostile attitude. (Hear) The noble lord has alluded to that third arm of her Majesty's forces—the marines —which has always been conspicuous for its daring deeds, and which have this evening reaeived that expression of admiration which they eminently chasm ye. (Hoar, hear.) lam very glad the noble lord dwelt with so much feeling and justice on the services of the militia. (Hear.) I think the manner in which the people of this country, when the militia was embodied, rallied round their natural leaders, one of the most significant and im portant proofs that the heart of England is true. (Cheers.) The noble lord has reminded us that 10 regiments of militia have served in our foreign garrisons during the late war. Bat the house should bear in mind that it is not merely those 10 regiments that have defended our Mediterranean garrisons and been employed in active service, but that those 6 t regiments, who, in a manner so much to their credit, have offered their services to their Sovereign have, so to speak, bean present in great battles. For it was from their ranks that many of the best youths of England en tered into the regular army. Thirty thousand good and picked men ware by the militia contrihuted to our land forces, and it may be remembered, with a pride common to both sides of the house, that the, gentlemen of Eng land during the war garrisoned our arsenals in this country, and defended our strong places abroad—a pride not di minished by the circumstance that many of those gentle men are members of the House of Commons. (Cheers.) The noble lord spoke with a just feeling of satisfaction of our relations with our gallant allies. Admirable as was the fortune of Marlborough and Eugene, I think we may look beak to the struggle, and feel that the co-operation of England with her allies is not inferior in concord, and sympathy, and general success to what prevailed in that illustrious age. But whilst joining with the noble lord in the fullest expression of thanks to our gallant allies, let us not forget some who were not our allies—who were not the soldiers of our Sovereign, but to whom it is no less generous than wise to do justice: (Hear, hear.) I believe it is the father of poetry who said "that the strength of the conqueror cannot be more surely estimated than by the character of him who has been conquered." The men with whom the soldiers of our Queen and our allies had to contend were no common men, and were not meanly commanded. (Hear, hear.) The descendants of those legions who fought under Suwarrow, and triumphed at the Borodino, though conquered at Sebastopol, proved themselves foemen worthy of the chivalry of France and England. (Cheers.) And in doing justice to our late opponents, we are only placing the achievements of our fellow-countrymen, and of our allies in their true aspect and proper condition. (Hear, hear.) And I feel great pleasure in seconding the motion ; and, if it were not pre sumptuous, I would, before I sit down, express an opinion that when, I will not say the verdi c t o f pos t er i ty, b ut the calm and unimpassioned verdict of the times in which we live is given upon these events, it will be acknowledged that in this Atruegle our country has shown all those qua lities which maintain national greatness, and which pre vent the decline and fall o f empires. (Cheers.), The motion having been put, Mr. STAFFORD pease(' a enlogium upon the navy, by which it was that our alliance was first cemented with France, when the French and English ships wore placed yard-arm to yard-arm in Besika Bay. Attempts were made to disseminate discord, but tho admirable conduct of Ad miral Deans Dundee, to whom the country owed much. frustrated all these efforts, and completely cemented that alliance. That gallant admiral, though most unjustly cen sured, had never said or written a word in his own vindi cation. Time had shown that that which he was blamed for not doing could not have been done, and he retired into private life with the approbation of a good conscience, and the good wishes of all who knew this gallant and true hearted sailor. The hon. gentleman then alluded to the sufferings of the troops in the East during the early part of the war, and contrasted their miserable condition then with the comfort, health, and abundance which they now enjoyed. The House of Commons unable to endure the cry of the soldiers agony, had taken the hazardous step of changing the Administration ; and it had since listened with the utmost patience and interest to any member how ever humble, who soul I ingest anything which might lead to the amelioration of the condition of our troops. Our army in the Crimea was now well fed, well lodged, well clothed—so well as to excite the admiration--he believed he might almost say the envy—of foreign generals. If they were sick they were taken to our hospitals, which possessed such an amplitude of resources and excellence of detail' that as a French medical officer had told him, it was vain to compete with. If the men were sent home, the transports had the best accommodation, differing, indeed, little from land hospitals, except that the sea breezes played round them, When they arrived home, they were taken to es tablishments where every want was provided for, every wish anticipated, as any one might see at Brompton or Chatham. The bon gentleman then read an extract from a private letter from Miss Nightingale, in which that lady said she never saw so teachable and thankful a class as our soldiers. If they were aflorded a little rational amusement they would not drink, if there was work to be done, they would do it, if th ere was su ff er i ng th ey would boar it. She would rather have to do with the army than with any other clasp, and was struck with the superiority of the soldier as a moral and intellectual being. (Cheers.) The hon. gentleman, as we understood him, concluded by re commending, as an act of grace and favour, and as a solid proof that we estimated the services of our soldiery, that the Government should release from custody all those ju venile offenders who were in prison for the first time, nod give them one chance more of retrieving their characters and earning an honest livelihood. He made this sugges tion very humbly to the Government, anti he hoped they would consider such an act as a not unworthy mode of ex psessing our desp and sincere joy and satisfaction at the conclusion of the war. (Hear.) The motion was then agreed to. REFORMATORY SCHOOLS (IRELAND) BILL. The house then went into committee on the bill. Mr. DUNLOP moved several amendments to the bill. Mr. MAGUIRE' objected that the schools were used as a reply of proselytising. While the hon. gentleman was speaking, An HON. MEMBER moved that the house be counted, but there be;.ng more than 40 members present, the com mittte resumed. An HON. MEMBER having again moved that the com mittee be counted, and as there were only 37 members Pre• sent, . _ The SPEAKER took the chair, and upon counting no more than 32 members in the house, he declared the house adjourned at 20 minutes to eight o'clock. WHAT NEXT ?—TEE CIL OF THE EXCHE. QUER AND THE NURSENIAIDS.—It is rumoured that a tax of one guinea per annum i 3 to be laid upon pPratn bulators. A nursemaid's petition is also already talked of. THE PORT OF LIVERPOOL —The Liverpool Bill 6 Entry, published by the Customs' authorities, states tba _..„ the value of duty-free goods imported into that town during the first threi months of the present year amounted to 10,447,846/. THE MAILS.—LIVERPOOL, May B.—The British and North American mail steam--hip Canada will sail for Boston, on Saturday. Letters received at the Post-office until 11 a.m.. with late fee till 12 noon, and at the land ing stage till 1 p.m. A WOMAN'S IDEA OF HAPPINESS.—A lady correspon het of the Breton Times gives her ideas of " perfect bliss" in the following paragraph :—" I'm a woman, with a woman's weakness, and having a good constitu. tion can bear a great d ea l of happine=s I If I was asked my idea of perfect bliss, I should say,—` A fart horse, duck of a cutter, plenty of buffalo robes, a neat fitting over-coat with a handsome man in it. and—one of Ma dame WalSia's little French bonnets 1' If that wouldn't he happiness for one lifetime, I'm open to conviction as to what would THE ENLISTMENT DISPCITE.—The enlishment affair, which was made a matter of international dispute, and permitted to disturb the commerce of the two nations, was wholly an error of the Government. Had our Cabinet at once applied the only remedy which was con sistent with the dignity of the State—the dismissal of the parties who violated our laws—there the case would have ended. The people of the United States cared little for the offence, or how it might be settled, short of making it a subject of serious difference between the two Governments; Tale whole case was one of pure legal and diplomatic technicality, involving in the acts com plained of no feelings of resentment, and demanding at most its disavowal by the Government of her itajesty. It was prolonged into a controversy, and magnified into a serious question of difference, sole_ly Nw f e or ulterior pnr_ poses, by the. Pierey-blare Cabin.t. 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PRODUCE STAKES. Delaine filly.. W. O. SWEEPSTAKES. Lady Florence Alcyone Alcyone Usurer Cineas . Four ran. LADIES' PURSE. - Nine ran. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS--(This Evening.) The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack at five o'clock. Earl FITZ WILLIAM presented a petition from Cam bridge in favour of the Oath of Abjuration Bill. The Earl of SHAFTEiBURY presented several peti tions against V.° Maynooth Grant. Earl NELSON presented several petitions from places in Gloucestershire against the abolition of Church rates until an equivalent bad been provided. Lord CALTEIORPE presented similar petitions. Lord BROUGHAM presented several pettions in favour of an amendment on the County Courts Act, and also a petition from Liverpool in favour of an amend ment of the mercantile law. Lord .LYNDB.URST presented a similar petition from Bristol. JUDICIAL STATISTICS. Lord BROUGHANI laid on the table a bill upon the subject of judicial statistics. The bill was read a first time. THE QUEEN'S MESSAGE PENSION TO GENERAL WILLIAMS. The CLERK at the table having read the message of her Majesty in referenea to the pension to General Williams, The Earl of GRANVILLE then rose and moved a resolution thanking her Majesty for her most gracious message, and to assure her that the boule would cor dially co-operate with her Majesty in conferring a pen sion of one thousand pounds a-year upon General Williams of Kars. (Loud cheers.) The noble ear' then proceeded to review the military career of General Williams, and to pass a glowing euloginn , upon the gallant officer. The noble earl stated that General Williams first distinguished himself at Ceylon, where he fulfilled the office of an engineer. It was impos sible to read the despatches of GeneralyVilliatns, written, under circumstances of great difficulty, without coming to the conclusion that the gallant officer was possesses of very superior qualities, and was quite worthy of any honour it was in the po wer of this country and the Bre tish Parliament to confer upon him. Col. Lake, Major Teesdale, and the other British officers by whom Gen Williams was surrounded while endeavouring to defend the be!eagnered city of Kars, were also well deserving of the highest commendation for the great skill and in tegrity they displayed during that memorable siege. D.. Sandwith bad also done himself immortal honour on a, same occasion, and in the interesting book which he ha , 1 written upon the subject, he described Major Teesdal. as an officer only about 23 years of age, but who had shown the most extraordinary coolness and intrepidity even when standing amidst a shower of bullets. Tut noble Earl also paid a tribute of praise to the Turkish sol• diers, who had acted gallantly under the most distressi-p circumstances. Tnese gallant men had been known to stand guard, whilst in a starving condition over flour and falling dead at their posts rather than unlawfully touch the means whereby their lives might have been saved. The noble earl concluded by moving the resolution hr had read at the commencement of his speech. The resolution was agreed to nens con. STANDING ORDERS. Lord REDESDALE moved the resolution, of which he hail given notice, viz., that this house pill not read any bill a second time after Tuesday, the 22 I July, ex cept bills of aid, or supply, or any hill in relation to which the house shall have resolved, before the second reading is moved, that the circumstances which render legisla tion on the subject of the same expedient are either of such recent occurrence or real urgency as to render the immediate cossideration of the same necessary. After a short discussion, in which Earl GRANVILLE, Earl GREY, and other peers took part, the resolution was agreed to. CAPITAL PUNISHMENT. The Bishop cf OXFORD rose to move for a select committee to inquire into the mode of administer. ing capital punishment. It was not his intention to enter into the question as to whether the capital punishtnent should be public or private ; but what he wished to ascertain was What was the measure and na ture of public executions. The right rev. prelate then instanced the evil consequences arising from executions as at present carried out. [LEFT SPEAKING.] HOUSE OF COMMONS—(This Evening.) The SPEIKER took the chair at the usual hour. NEW MEMBER. Captain Berkeley took the oaths and his seat for Chel tenham. PRIVATE BUSINESS. The Lords' amendments to the Hey wood Gas and the Dodilinton Rectory Division Bills were agreed to. The Scotch Drainage Improvement annpany Bill was read a third time and passed. The Knaresboriugh and Pateley Bridge Road, and the Knaresborough and Hammerton Road Bills, were considered, and ordered to be read a third time. Mr. 11. BERKELEY presented petitions in favour of vote by ballot. Mr. T. DUNCONIBE presented petitions against the Settled Estates Bill, by which Hampstead•heath was sought to be enclosed. A number of peitions against the Scotch and Irish Poor Removal Bill, the Abolition of Church Rates, and the Vaccination Bill, were presented. COTJNTY COURT JUDGES. Mr. CRAUFURD moved for returns of the names of judges of c:3arity courts, clerks, or high bailiffs to whom io retiring allowance, annuity, or payment had been made by a minute of the Treasury since the establishment of the county courts in 1847, date of such payment, and amount of it in each case ; the section of the Act of Parliament by which they are authoried, and the fund from which they are paid. And, of the amount of all fees and payments made to each of the high bailiffs of ermnty courts, including all fees and payments respect ing the services of summonses, executions, holding pos session, and insolvency, or from any other source con nected with their office, in the year 1855, and the amount of payments made to sub-bailiffs, and other official expenses.—Agreed to. PAUPERS. Sir J. SHELLEY moved for returns of the number of paupers admitted into the Pour Law Union and other Workhouses of the metropolis, during th e year ending the 25th (lay of March, 1856 ; the number of persons who have been under medical treatment, and of deaths ; the salary and extras of the medical officer in charge ; by whom the drugs are supplied ; if by the iGuardians, stating the cost : And, of the number of prisoners confined in the various gaols and houses of detention in the metropolis, during the year ending t`:° 25th day of March, 1856 ; the amount of sickness, and number of deaths ; the salary and extras of the medical officer in charge ; by whom the drugs are supplied ; if by - the authorities, stating the costs.—Agreed to. CONSTABULARY (IRELAND.) Mr. DE MERE moved for P. return of the names of all cadets and sub-inspectors appointed or re-appointed to the constabulary force since the Ist day of January, 1854, and specifying the instances in which the parties bad previously served in the force.—A greed to. PRESTON WORKHOUSE. Sir G B. PECHELL moved — inrcopies of any com munication to the P0(4.-law Board from the magistrates of the county of Lancaster, acting a s ex..fficio guardians n the Preston Union. and others, respecting the erec tion of a new workhouse ; with any reply to the same, and any order from the Poor-law Board to the guardians of that union on the subject,—A greed to. THE COAST GUARD. Mr. STIRLING asked the S, !eretary to the Treasury if the withdrawal of the Coast guard for employment in the navy in 1854 and 1855 was followed by any appre ciable increase and loss of revenue. ; and Übe could state the difference of expense Isetween the Coat guard and the temporary substitute which replaced it ? Mr. WILSON said the coast guard had been with• drama to p. - , - rf.ir,n o;,her duties 'II 1854, and their places bad been supplied by other partie4, oat in consequence of that withdriwal the re,-enue had not suffered. Tae revenue on tobacco had increased. KENSINGTON GARDENS. Mr. T. CHAMBERS a ked the Firs , . Cornmiisioner of Works it Ite had talc n the opinion , f the law offi cers of the Crown as to whether the sale of refros; meats on Suoday in the b )(Ails about to be erected io the puldic parks would expose the vendors to the penalties imposed by the act 29th of Charles 11., c. 7. Sir B. HALL said, in reply to the question of the hon. gentleman, he did not think there was any necessity to consult the law officers on the point, for this simple reason, that as regarded Kensington-gardens and Vic toria-park, it was merely an exten-don of a practice that had for some time been in existence, more especially iniVictoria-park. The act of Charles was no doubt in existence, and any person could put it in force ; but if such a proceeding was adopted, every confectioner's shop would be shut up, every railway closed, and eves y telegraph stopped. (Sear, and laughter.) • THE FOREIGN LEGION. Col. DUNNE asked whether the pay and allowance mentioned in the return laid on the table of the house were the only advantages to be granted to the offiieri and men of the Foreign Legion ? Mr. F. PEEL said the return was perfectly accurate —the officers would be allowed 3 months' pay, and the men 12 month' pay. METROPOLIS LOCAL ACT AMENDMENT BILL. In reply to Mr. T. DUNCOMBE, Sir B. HALL said it was intended to withdraw the present bill, which stood on the paper for this evening, and to introduce a new bill after' he WhitsuntHe recess. THE LATE ASSAULT BY THE POLICE. Mr. BOWYER wimhed to ask the Secretary for the Elome Department if his attention had been drawn to a violent assault committed by a policeman upon a younv lady on the occasion of the proclamation of peace, ano Also whether he intended taking steps to discover the iffvnder Sir G. GREY said his attention had been drawn to the circumstance alluded to. The magistrate before whom the assault was • beard bad dismis4ed the case. lie had been in communication with that magistrate, nut it was not usual for the Secretary of State to inter Pere in such , cases unless 83ine complaint w.ts made to Tina. No inch complaint hal been made to him, but he oad given orders to the police authorities to use :.heir utmost exertions to discover the man, and when that was accomplished further steps would be taken. Mr. T. BUNCOMBE asked why the recommenda tion of the commissioners who sat last year on the poiic , cruelties in Hyde-park, that the letter: and figures on the policemen's coats should be more distinct, had not been carried into effect. If it had been, probably the lady in question would not have mistaken the policeman? Sir G. GREY said he gave d►rections that it should bi carried into effect, and he thought it had been done BREACH OF TREA.TY BY THE PORTUGUESE GOVERNMENT. Mr. T. CHAMBERS asked the First Lord of the Trea sury " what communications had passed between the Fu reign-office and the Portuguese Government on the sub ject of the claims of Yuille, Shortridge, and Compa , ,v. upon that country for breach of treaty, sines a se'ect committee of this house reported on those claims ; whether he had any _objection to lay this correspondence on the table ?" Lord PALMERSTON said that application ha , ' been made to the Portuguese Government respectin g the breach of treaty in question, but ag yet no aaqwei had been received. He had no objection ts) lay the =res pondence upon the table of the house. CANADA AND THE WEST INDIES. In reply to a question from Sir S. NORTHCOTE, Mr. LA.BOITOHERE said there had been a coinmuni cation between the Chairman of the Board of Commerce of the Canadian Legislature, and the authorities of the Wes • India Islands, relative to the abolition of the respeciv. duties on the commerce of the two colonies, but he be lieved it had not been carried into effect. He had n objection to lay the correspondence relating to it on the table of the house. PRESENTATION OF MEDALS TO THE SAR- DINIAN ARIIY. In answer to a que , tion from Mr. OTwAY, Mr. F. FEEL said that her Majesty's Govern meni had decided that Crimean medals should be distributed to the Sardinian army equal to that distributed to Of French and the Turkish armies. The medals had bee. hr warded to the Crimea, but he believed had not ye' arrived. THE WHITSUN-HO LID A.YS. Lord PALMERSTON, in deference to the wish o the house, moved the adjournment of the house at it rising till Monday the 19th. The Government won't loose by that arrangement eight hours of valuable tiint for the transaction of Government business, and b. :toped the house after the recess would have no objectio) to allow the Government to take the eigkit hours o: )1-der nights after 12 o'clock. (Laughter.) PARDON TO FROST, WILLIAMS, JONES, SMITH. O'BRIEN, AND OTHERS. Mr. T. DUNCOMBE asked the First Lord of th. Treasury, "whether, in consequence of the numerou memorials pre , ented at different times in favour of a fu , And free pardon to Messrs. Frost, Williams, June S'lmith O'Brien, and other po.itical prisoners, vrhese cot , - luct during exile had bee❑ without reproach, it was als, he icteution of her Majesty's Government, on the tale .ration of Peace, to advise her Majesty to comply wit. she prayer of those memorials, and thereby enable thos , o return to their native laud ?" Ldrd PALMERSTON ,aid that he had great plea sure in btAttng that the announcement that had ar peared in the daily papers relative to the amnest , was entirely and perfectly true. (Loud cheers.) Be tlajesty, following the impulse of the dictates of thos ;enerous feelings which so eminently distinguished her was determined to take advautiga of the rt turn to peace, and from the unexamplei loyalty .hat pervaded the kingdom from one end of it to ti, ether—(cheers)--to do an act of grace and clemency to wards all persons suffering exile for political offence (with the exception of those unf prtunate persob. who had broken all the ties of honour), and th 3innesty would therefore include the persona naniel b he right hon. gentleman the member for Finsbury whose conduct since their banishment had been exemi iary. (Cheers.) GREECE. Mr. JAMES WGREGOR called the attention of th. house to the state of Greece. (LEFT SPEAKING.) LONDON GAZETTE=—(This Evening.) BUCKINGHAM PALACE, MAY S. This day had audience of her Majesty; His Highness Aali Paella, Grand Vizir of the Ottoman. Empire, to deliver to her Majesty a letter from the Sultan The Grand Vizir was accompanied to this audience b . his Excellency Mons. Musurus, Ambassador Extro.ordinar3 and Plenipotentiary from the Sublime Porte ; and hi, Highness was introduced by the Earl of Clarendon, K.G., her Majesty's Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, an t : conducted by Major-General the Hon. Sir Edward Cust, K C.H., her Mjesty's Master of the Ceremonies. FOREIGN-OFFICE, MAY 6, The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. George A. Everitt as Consul at Birmingham for his Majesty the King of the Belgians. The Queen has also been pleased to approve of Mr. Luis Y. Sautamaria as Consul at Liverpool for the Republic of New Granada. WHITEFIALL, - .11 . Y 7. The Queen has been pleased t o present the Reverend Win. Charles Middleton Grant to the church and parish of Durness, in the;Kesbysery of Tongue, and county of Suther land, vacant by the ueath of the Reverend Alex. M'Coll, late Minister thereof. CRO WN - OFEICE, MAY 9. MEMBER RETURNED TO SERVE IN THE PRRSEIT PARMA- MENT. Borough of Cheltenham—Fr: noir' Wiliam Fitzharding Berkeley, Esi., CAptain in her Maje,ty's E,egiinent o Horse Guards, in the room of Grenville Charles Leimux Berkeley, Esq., who has accepted the office of Steward oi her Majesty's Chiltern Hundreds. BOARD OF TRAIM, WHITEHALL, MAY 9. The Right Honourable the Lords of the Committee Privy Council for Trade and Plantations have received through the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy of a despatch from her Majesty's Ambassador at Paris, en closing copy of a French Imperial Decree, regulating a, fo.lows the import duties upon cocoa (in the beau and husk) : From the French colonies From countries west of Cape H orn `present duties. From ekewhere out of Europe, n Fiech hips 65f. From the entrepots, I In ( foreign s ships 75f. } per 100 kilog. Also, copy of another Imperial decree, fixing the import duty upon iron tubes at 301 per 100 kilogs. WAR DEPARTMENT, PALL MALL, MAT 9. 6th Regiment of Dragoon Guards—hornet Samuel "vVentworth Stevenson has been permitted to resign commission. _ _ 7th Dragoon Guards—Lieutenant A. G. Montgomery Moore to be Captain, by purchase, vice Brevet-Majoi Macartney, who retires; Cornet and Adjutant David Scotland to have the rank of Lieutenant ; Cornet James Vance Cleland to be Lieutenant, by pu rc h ase, vice Moore. 7th Light Dragoons—Lieutenant David Philip Brown to be Captain, by purchase, vice Sir Lydston Newman, Bart., who retires ; Cornet William Henry Seymour to be Lieu tentiat, by purchase, vice Brows. 15th Light Dragoons Lieutenant George Travers Macartney to be Captain, by purchase, vice Brett, who retires; Cornet Chat lee William Bell to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Macartney. Royal Engineer,—The surname of the Lieutenant ap pointed on 7th April, 1856, in the Gazctte of the 29th ult. i s H om e, and not Horne, as previously stated. 7th Regiment of Foot_4he first Christian name of En sign Follett is Hardinge and not Harding, as previously stated. 10th Foot— The second Christian name of Ensign Erskine appointed on the 18th of April, 1856, is Jones. 25th Foot —Major Samuel Wells to be Lieutenant- Colonel, without purchase, vice Strao , e, who retires upon full pay; Br eve t-M a j or G eorge Holt to * be Major, witi,ou: purchase, vice Wells ; Lieutenant Astley Campbell Smith to be Captain, without purchase, vice Holt; Ensign Richard Ross to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vie, Swath; Ensign Raymond South Paley, from the 4th Mid• lesex Militia, to be Ensign w ith ou t purchase, vice Ro t; . 'Bth F oo t—Li eu t enan t Henry C. Worthington to be Captain, by purchase, vice Huey, who retires. 32d Foot—Ensign Nathaniel T. Crane to be lieutenant, by purchase, vice Power, proinot4d. 35th Foot—Ensign Woodford Wright Sherlock to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vide Dundas, who retires; Richard Parson; Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Sherlock. 50th Foot—Lieutenant Robert Charles Goff to he Ad jutaLt, vice Ensign Gordon , who resign s th e Adj utancy only. 53d Foot Ensign John Maxwell Macneill to be Lieu tenant, without purchase, vice Follows, deceased. Lieut. Joseph C. Smythe, from the Perthshire Militia, to b, Ensign, without purchase, vice 57th Foot—Lieut. Blake Goble has been permitted to retire from the service by the sale of his commission. 60th Foot—To bo Lieutenants, by puichttoo Frederick A ustin, vice Adderley, who has retired ; Edward C. Ainsley, vice Robert s o n . p romo t e d ; J ames S. A. gar, vice Fox, promoted ; E. It. .litne•-Harman, promoted; Joseph Brad s h aw , v i ce Lidd e ll, promo ted. T° be Ensigns, by purcha se —G eorge H enry M ac k enz ie, Gent vice King-Harman ; Ri c h ar d J ep h son V ersc h oy l e , Gent.' vice Bradshaw. v i ce Ellis, 631 Foot—Lieutenant F. V. M. Baynes has been pe t ' mitted to retire from the service by the sale of his 01)1 ; mission; the appoi n t men t Q nartermaster-Serge ol " James Linford to the Quartermastership to bear date 28th December, 1835, instead of 18th January; 1850, as pre vi ' ()Indy stated. _ 69 . t1; Foet—Ensign Peter Shuttleworth, from the Slig ° Militia ' to be Ensign, with ou t p urc h ase . 70th Foot—Lieutenant Charles William Quin, from the 99th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Wilson, who exchang es. 83d Foot—E ns i gn EJ wai d Dickson Ricard, from th e 18th Foot, to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Fitzßoy, promoted in the 63d Foot . ; Braithwaite Chamley, Gent" to be Ensign, by p urc h ase , i n success i on to L i eu t e nant Meade, promoted iu 30th Foot. 84th Foot—Ensign William Poole to be Li e utenan t , , without purchase, v i ce K enny, d ecease d ; E ns i gn gag" Pearson, front the 57th Foot, to be Ensign, without P r. ch see, vice Poole. 85th Foot—Lieutenant Win. Henry Drage, from t he Essex Militia, to be Ensign, without purchase. 99th Fro,—Lieutenant Falconer Wilson, from the 7 0-11/ Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Quin, who exchanges. 2d West India Regiment—Lieut enan t G eo . J am es P e ], to be Captain, without purchase, vice Harger, decees,%. Ensign Edmond Frederick Tarte t o b e Li eu t enan t, out purchase : Lieutenant Charles Bury Cradock, from I,l' 6 , 11 Lancashire Militia, to be Ensign, without purcir.l-°' vice Tarte. HOSPITAL STAFF. Assistant-Surgeon Henry Titterton, M.D., from i b c : 39th Foot, to be Assista n t-S urgeon t o t h e F orces , I' lo Browne, who resigns ; Staff-Surgeon of the Second C' 2l for George William Powell ha s b sen pl ace d upon h a lf-PsY one year for the recovery of his health. BRnVET. Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Francis Strange, retired - fi t pay '2sth Foot, to be Colonel in the Army, the rank being honorary only. Brevet Lieut.-Colonel Henry Frederick Hawker, retire! full•pay (Staff-Officer of Pe ns i oners ), t o b e C o l one l in h Army, the rank being honorary only. The promotion of Dr. Br uce t o b e Staff-Surgeon.9.4; mann Irregular Cavalry, to b ear d a t e 19th O c t o b e r, I ° ° n4ead of Ist May, 1855, as previously stated. 7.12. COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY LORDS-LIEUTENA—, t South Herta Yeo manr y C ava l ry —C ornet A b e l Smit h j. be Lieutenant, vice Sir John Henry Pelly, Bart, resigo e ,,,,' Robert Smith, Esq., t o b e C ornet, v i ce Abel Smit h, [noted. Warwickshire Yeomanry Cavalry—The Honourable P i r :i ward Chandos Leigh to be Captain, vice Captain I A Leigh, resigned. Royal Glamorgan Light Infantry Militia—John : l. Neville Bidingsly Parry, E sq ., l a t e i n th e Royal B red" cock Rifles Militia, to be Captain. The Essex Rifles—Bertram Aynsley James Mitf ord, went, to be,Ensign. vice Bennet, removed to the line. b Merionethshire Militia—Rice Hugh Anwyl, Esq. , t f P f sl Surgeon, vice Thomas P a rry, E sq ., pl ace d on the retir list. BANKRUPTS. 12 11V William Ford, innkeeper, Chipping. Lambourne, 4hire—to surre n d er —M ay 21 , a t h a lf- past one, and I 17, at one, at the Court of B an k ru pt c y. Graham, °l-71,-: assignee; Bishop and Son, N ew Bridge-street; AS"-' i~urgerford, Berkshire. Criah Giscard, cabinet maker and upholsterer, 1 5. 13 „ g r i Lyon, Norfolk, May 24 and J une 27, a t one, a t the id"; 11. of Bankruptcy. Whitmore, official assignee, Basimg l) o 4 street ; Clowes, Son, and Hickley, King's Bench - Temple; Jeffery, King's Lynn. udi t, Henry Charles Broers, metal and general merel' i c o s Leadenhall-street, M a y 24, a t h a lf- past e l even, an d "; 0 , 7, at eleven, at th e C our t o f Bankruptcy. C613/:‘,-0 ► :fficial assigne e , Ald erman b ury ; Walter and Penaber"" Southampton-street, Bloomsbury. Iri Wm. Aspin, junr., carr i er , T oo l ey-street, S o uthlr,s r ]Lay 16, at one, and J une 18, a t t we l ve, at the C o nt ' 00 ; Bankruptcy. George John Graham, official assig n Bothaudy and Freeman, Coleman-street, City. , Tu as Maxwell Honey, g rocer , M a id s t one, M ay 17, ana,'",„set 2P:, at the Court of Bankruptcassig n ptcy. Fennel, official a ssign 3-uildhall-chambers; L o fty, P o tt er , an d S on, King - ew C hapside. ig• Peter Patch Buck, cattle de a l e r, Jervaux Abbey, -; e c11 shire, May 26, at one , an d J une 21, at eleven, at the x'," 0 11 District Court. H o p e , o ffi c i a l ass i gnee , L ee ds ; Barwick, Leeds. a rl Thomas Davies, merchant, Liverpool, May June 16, at eleven, at the Li ver p oo l Di s t r i c t C ou rt. ' l 3l - g e official assignee, Liverpool ; Bagshaw and Sou , Chester. „ a / 1 9 Patrick McDonnell, c a bi ne t ma k er , M anc h es t er , tnd June 18, at twelve, at the Manchester District "'I, eott, official assi gn e e , M anc h es t er ; T ay l or, Mancheeb e o ptl Win. Fryer, wholesale draper, Nottingham, M Tune 17, at half-p as t t en , a t th e Birmingham 'lourt. Har r i s , o ff ic i a l ass i gnee, Nottingham*. P.' ottingbam. John Jenkinson, c hi na an d ear th enware dealer -gie on.upon-Hull, June 4 and 23, at twelvo, at the oft, )istrict Court. Carrick, offi c i a l ass i gnee , H u ll; 11° • -lull. Benjamin Wilson, money scrivener, Greshamr 4ree iii 3ity, May 20, at half-past two, and June 17, at twel:1104 :he Court of Bankruptcy. L ee , o ffi c i a l ass i gn ee, „F", / ry' uembury ; Lawrence, Plows, a nd B o y er , Old 4(1 hainbers. y 2 0 t George Frederick Owen, b u t c h er , L ew i s h a m, J11.4' .t half-past two, and Ju ne 17, a t one , a t th e C o urt 01 B u r t; uptcy. Edwards, official assignee, Sambrook -0 " itubbs, Moorgate-street. rseP George Hsrding, innkeeper, Sh e pt on M a ll e t, &e e nip hire, May 20 and June 17, at eleven, at the Brist ol duc - ' riet Court. Acrarnan,as s i gnee , 14 official Bristol , ' ittepton Mallet ; Ed war d s an d N a ld er, Bristol. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS. Horatio Nelson John Guldie, manufacturer, Glasgov' James Leggat, saddler, Tariff, Aberdeenshire. llysid Stewart. draper, Dalkeith. BANK OF ENGLAND. kit Account pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth Victoria, cap- 39, Itif the Week ending on Saturday the 3d day of °May, WO. INDS DEPARTMENT. fates issued ........ 23,65-6,440 1 4 1 Government debt.... 11.0.;'90000 Other securities ...... 3,18',440 Gold coin and bullion 9 , Silver bu11i0n..... ... _ 4 0 03,656,4 :. MARSHALL, Chief CaOW' £23,616,440 f)atod the Bth day of May, 1856' BANKING PEI :roprictors' capital .. 14,553.000 ;.est ........ • • .... 3,207,670 ',mile deposit: Litt eluding Exchequer, Commissioners of ~,n o-' ‘ , .ht. SAC. ing's Banks, and pARTMENT. Government securities (includg.Dead Weight pea Annuity) Other securities 15, 4 4 ,,`"gii 3 43." Gold and silver coin .. 6:251 • owns) 3,871,709 3t' •,. 10,8 , ,6,090 ' , cyan Day and other 819,103 £33, 25" Di. MARSHALL, Chief Can• l4r• llatid the Bth day of May, 1856. £33,•!57,6G1 AVERAGE PRICE OF SUGAR. the Average Price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, CO: puted from the returns made in the week ending Abibie 185 G, exclusive of the Duties of Customs paid or paY 3 . O thereon, on the import a ti on th ereo f i n t o G rea t B r ital From the British Possessions iu America......... 275.. Muscovado, the produce of the -Mauritius ...... 278. tlitscovado, the produce of the East Indies 28s. na, average of the three foregoing descriptions 218. " Despatch from General Sir WTCodringtol (Film?, the Gazette of this Evening.) Lord Panmure has received a despatch and its er, closure, of which the following are copies, add ress ed,' iris lordship by General Sir William Codrington, SEBASTOPOL, APRIL 22, 1856' My Lord,—Enclosed I do mys e lf th e h onour to f° l„ ward to your lordship the weekly report of the In=P ee .or-General of Hospitds.—l have., &c., W. J. CODRINGTON, General CoinniandiDP The Lord Pantnure, &c. Enclosure. Head-Quarters, Camp, Crimea, April 21 , Sir,—The health of the Army serving in the Cririle ° ' as shown by the accompanying return of sick, has beso remarkably good, bettereven than could have been antie l, iated at this season of the year ; for in place of increase ;here has been an actual decrease both in the sickiie s l tnd mortality this week, which is more favourable , iwn, than I expected, and we cannot reasonably 100 It a further decr e as e as the a d m i ss i ons to s t rengt h so' only 1 . 56 per coot. ; deaths to strength 0 01 per coot'; ,ick to well 3 . 72 per cent. Thecavalry on the Bosphorus and the troops at Kerteb lave been equally healthy, and no death had occurre d it either place during the week ending 6th April. The Land Transport continues to have a larger per :)ortion of sick than any part of the army, but eve ° t,je health of that corps bas steadily improved of late , :lough, I am sorry to say, three deaths, all fro° , yphoid fever, occurred this week in the hospita l . ° At the head quarters of that corps, and one in the hos Pl. al of the battalion attached to the 2d Division, frot° disease of the heart. Tuffs rtduces the mortality in the regular army to si%t Lnd ono of these died from the dir ec t e ff ec t s o f d run ken' ocrn Li the S• vies Legion, at Smyrna, I notice an increaS t of sickness, and I s h o uld myself be app re h ens i ve o f 'tb" ration as a summer residence f. ir troops ; but as yet th ° uony is not suffering very much from disease, e ither there or at any of her place, for, taking all the station s IA all the ho , pitals, both general and regimental, into ,ccount, the admission:, to st rengt h , o f a ll classes ent i t led to medical aid, have only been 1.96 per cent. ; the death s to strength 0.02 per cent. ; and the sick to well 5.26 Pe r !eat.—l.have, &c,, (Signed) J. HALL, Inspector General of Hospitals. General Sir Wm. J. Codrington, Commander-in• Chief. COURSE OF EXCHANGE.- THIS DAY. % M5terdam............ 11 .9 1 / Gibraltar ......•••• •• ••• Ditto, three months .. 12 1% L eg h orn 30 1270 itotterdam 12 1 Genoa tntwerp .............. 25 70 Milan ......•• •• -- , trussels ........ .. Jamburgh •• •• •• •• •.•• 13 11% Naples •••• •••• .••• •• •• .43% kltona •• •••••• •• •• • • Palermo •••• •• •••••• •• Paris .• •• •• • • ••• •••• 25 45 Messina Ditto, three months .• 25 75 List* , .. Marseilles... ........ 25 77% Oporto .• .• .• .53% .iourde.tux ........ ttio Janeiro...... •• Frankfort-on Noine .... 12. Ithenos Ayre5.......... 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W Fifty 44, Costume , C amille i n ) jivate ' box„ erfonnance Po ly2 11* K 4, 'nlY) from Cov o 4" Die a ti p ra o 4 Rnd dls and half -I NN br Interest " trot 1).: rtinTh; eikit aielolea„ ORIEN Ildtu Leicest $l l , l , MODE] On P e e ' E R IiDLL In 24diti Ot La Seal °t the ] V?'11 imam Win arri, Win kiri, Will nu Rot ß 1 , 4 excel thee Her Hig Leot Azu, Will ( t N ow ce ?rin e , ri.... Tt 4 r,c,