The Sun. — London, England, 1861-03-02 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS.-(YESTERDAY,) The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack Ist the usual hour. CHURCH RATES. The Earl of DERBY presented 101 petitions against the abolition of Church-rates. Several other peers presented petitions to a similar effect. SECOND READINGS. The following bills were read a second time :—Sutton Coldfield Corporation Estates, Caledonian Railway (Stone house Branch), and Glasgow and Milngavie Junction Railway, ITALIAN AFFAIRS. The Marquis of NORMANBY rose to move an address for copies of any despatches which have been exchanged between her Majesty's Government and those of France, Sardinia, or of any other European Power, on the question of the recognition of the blockade of Gaeta ; also of copies of any despatches from her Majesty's Minister at Turin con taining a report of the number of persons qualified to vote, and of those who actually did vote, at the last 'elections in Italy:—Similar returns of the partial resolutions in September last; also copies of despatches trans mitting the proclamations and general orders of Generals Cialdini, Di Sonnaz, and Pinelli as to the struggle going on in the Abruzzi and other parts of the Neapolitan dominions between the Neapolitan Royalists and tho Piedmontese army ; also copies of any despatches g i v ing an explanation of the Royal decree arbitrarily abolishing the administrative autonomy of Tuscany, immediately preceding the meeting of the National Parliament, which was summoned nominally to decide upon the reconstruction of the whole country ; also, c opy of any despatches from Mr. Elliot giving an account of the proceedings with reference to the plebiscite which extinguished the separate existence of the Government of the Two Sicilies ; also, copy of any de spatches explaining the extraordinary circumstances that some of the constitutional Ministers of the King of Naples remained without any intermission in the same confidential situation under General Garibaldi ; and also copies of any reports made to the Lords of the Admiralty from the admiral commanding her Majesty's fleet in the Mediterranean as to the part taken by that fleet from the landing of Garibaldi and during the invasion of the coun try by King Victor Emmanuel. The noble lord said these papers bore on very important points on which the papers already given to the house furnished no information. A remarkable circumstance connected with the papers already published was—it appeared that Sir J. Hudson took a small share in the correspondence with the Government relative to Italian affairs. It seems to be almost certain that the distinguished diplomatist must have had some most im portant conversation with Count Cavour, and the result must have been communicated to the Home Govern ment. The noble lord referred to the affairs of Savoy and Nice, and observed that, when he asked a question relative to a certain despatch on a former occasion, he had been informed that the reason it had not been produced earlier than it was arose from the circumstance that it had not arrived from Paris until three days after it was written ; but on referring to the Blue Book he found what appeared to him to be somewhat strange, that in no _ _ single instance was there a despatch from Lord Cowley in Paris, but what had been received the day after it had been written. After alluding at some length to the idea that the Government had been disingenuous throughout the whole of their Italian negotia- tions, he spoke of the different schemes for Ita lian government that had been tried at different times. These were all crowned by the last new plan for a uniform Italy, the Italy of Liborio Romano, the Italy of Count Cavour, and, he was sorry to say, the Italy of Lord John Russell. (Hear, hear, and laughter.) He con tended that the term national independence had been abused by Sardinia, particularly in her treatment of the countries which had been annexed to Piedmont. He argued in favour of a federal as opposed to a unified Italy, by the former of which Naples might have been liberalised and still pre served to the King. He argued that the gold of Piedmont had as much to do with her success as her arms—large sums having been distributed in Sicily and Naples. In ge neral he contended against the late movement in Italy, and the settlement which had been arrived at. Lord WODEIIOUSE said that it appeared to him the speech of the noble marquis required scarcely any reply from any noble lord representing her Majesty's Government, for the noble marquis had said almost nothing as to the con duct of the Government. With regard to the first papers in the list moved for by the noble marquis, the only corn munication received by her Majesty's Government was a formal Rotice from the Sardinian Government announcing the blockade of Gaeta, which had been published in fin Gazette. There had been, indeed, a question put to Lord Cowley respecting the siege, which, however, led to no fur ther communications. As to the second point, the produc tion of despatches giving the number of votes at the elec tions, no, doubt that might be a very suitable return to move for in the Sardinian Chambers ; but her Majesty's Government was possessed of no information on the sub ject. As to the proclamation of General Cialdini, it was to be found among the papers on the table. The other pro clamations moved for, he believed, were not amongst these papers ; but upon this part of the subject all the despatches in the possession of the Government had been laid before Parliament. The next inquiry was as to Mr. Elliot's de spatches. On this point lie thought the noble marquis could scarcely have read the papers which he described as so meagre; for, at pages 115, 117, 132, there was abun dance of information on the subject. The circumstance that several Ministers of the King of ,Naples remained in the same situations under General Garibaldi was certainly a very remarkable circumstance--(a laugh)— and ;,if he (Lord Wodehouse) were possessed of any secret information tending to throw light on this interesting sub- jcct, he certainly should not withhold it from their lordships —(a laugh)—but he had none. Lastly, with respect to Ad miral Milady's despatches, the noble marquis's motion con tained an assumption, as well as an inquiry for papers, the assumption being that the admiral in command of the fleet had taken an active part in the proceedings in Italy. The only occasions on which Admiral Mundy interfered were two; ono was when the general commanding the Neapolitan troops wished Admiral Mundy to meet him, and the meet ing took place on board the admiral's ship ; the other was an occasion on which he gave Mr. Elliot and General Gari baldi an opportunity of meeting on board his vessel, and when an offer which was made by Admiral Mundy was politely declined. These were the only occasions on which Admiral Mundy had interfered, and there would be no ob jection to lay his despatches on the table. If therefore the noble marquis would be good enough to amend his motion in the above particulars he should be happy to accede. lie briefly commented on the lengthy remarks of Lord Nor , manby, and asserted that the Government had the greatest sympathy with, and admiration of, the efforts made by Vac Italians for their independence ; while he was astonished that the noble marquis seemed to have not a spark of sym pathy for those efforts. The Earl of MALMESD URY urged that the Italian re volution should be looked at from a political rather than a poetical point of view, and expressed his opinion that, look ing to the difference of character between the Italians of the north and south, it would be better to have two kingdoms than one in Italy. He argued that Sardinia was influenced in her conduct more by interested motives than by a pure desire :or the freedom of Italy. Lord LLANOVEF said, as far as he could judge, not only from his visit to Naples on the occasion referred to, but also from having been frequently among them, and knowing the feelings of the Italian people generally, he must say his noble friend was entirely wrong in stating that their feelings were violated in any way whatever on the occasion alluded to; on the contrary, there were great re joicings on that occasion. With regard to the presence of the French fleet at Gaeta, he felt perfectly certain that were it not for that circumstance, Gaeta must have fallen at a much earlier period, and all that great effusion of blood and that reactionary movement which was spreading through the country would not have taken place. With reference to another point, the confiscation of the property of the royal family of Naples, the noble lord the Secretary for Foreign Affairs protested as far as he could against that act, and wrote a despatch to Turin expressing a hope that no proposition of that kind would be carried out. The noble lord said also that there was no feeling whatever for Eng land existing in Italy. lie (Lord Llanover) never saw any feeling more strong from Naples to Turin in favour of Great Britain. The people of Italy did not wish us to rush into war, but they knew very well we had sympathy for them, ' and they know also that the expression of those feelings, whether within the walls of the English legislature or t ie biroushout the country, would have great effect in Europe. there wl: v hed at this moment there was no intervention—if and be was not, depend upon it Italy would soon settle dow n et ; and h e h o p e d now , from circumstances which taken place within the last few days, thatan illustrious personage would see that it was impossible to please two go with the ° parties so o to each other, and that he must either of this he Wasultramontane(mite party or go with his people. But themselves, and allowauere, that if they left the Italians to would make use of those d them to manage themselves, they given them, but of whieeh benefits which God Almighty had them. (Hear, he ar .) hitherto despots had dep r i ve d The Marquis of NORMINgy briefly replied. lie wanted / who vvveisdhed there was no to know if his noble friena intervention there inter vention at Naples, had not observed any G nd o did he not know I in the shape of the English they were encouraged by the English LLANovER—I am not aware of it.] T he l eri b 7' en t [ l,o ;rd came noble friend's knowledge of Naples was not e w antlt B'4 his Garibaldi Perhaps his noble friend was not aware eitherthatertl /ouch. there were ;500,000 inhabitants in Naples, all that th°llgb for ward out of that number show sympathy f or by joining the legion was just 80. The noble marqui s con _ eluded by saying that he should accept the paper in the modified form agreed to by his noble friend (Lord Nde house.) The motion, as amended, was agreed to. Their lordships Adjoi,trAoti At 8 o'clock, HOUSE OF COMMONS.—(YESTERDAY.) The SPEAKER took the chair at four o'clock. PRIVATE BUSINESS. The Bristol Channel Pilotage Bill was real a second time, and some private bills were read a first t Ti e. WESTMINSTER IMPROVEMEN F BILL. On the motion for the second reading of th's bill, Sir W. GALLW EY said that he did not rise to offer any obstruction to the progress of public business, but he felt bound to oppose the second reading of this bill, not from any special interest he felt in the subject, but on public grounds solely. He drew attention to the course pursued by the Dean and Chapter of Westminster Abbey, who made a condition with the com mission that before commencing operations they should purchase certain grounds in the vicinity of the Abbey, and then resell it to them. The result was that the latter purchased the property in question and erected buildings on the site which obstructed a communication, which it was one of the main objects for which the commission was appointed to carry out. He had asked for a select commit tee on this subject, but he was met by a statement to the effect that the commission was nothing more than a mere building company, and therefore that Government was not justified in interfering. But he contended that it was not a private company. It had been originally established as a Royal Commission, and a noble duke who was then in the Government inau gurated it. £.50,000 was advanced by Government in the first instance and 130,000 subsequently, of which advances they had not received one sixpence in return. It was required that there should have been a strict and detailed account furnished for the half year to show how the money had been expended, and that the half-yearly balances should be clearly stated. He understood that the unfortunate bondholders attributed their utter ruin entirely to the neglect of the Commis sioners of Woods and Forests in regard to this hybrid com mission, and contended that Government should have re quired the sheets of the returns half yearly. The hon. baronet concluded by moving as an amendment that the bill should be read a second time that day six months. Sir J. SHELLEY said that the hon. baronet had given no reason whatever for opposition to the bill, but that his arguments had an effect directly the contrary. He under stood this bill to be a sort of Encumbered Estates Bill, and was introduced for the purpose of winding-up a disastrous concern. There was no doubt that there had been great mismanagement on the part of the commission, but that formed a special ground for a measure like the present, and ho would vote for the second reading. Mr. COWPER said that this was a subject in which the Government could officially interfere. After some further discussion the amendment was with drawn, and the bill was read a second time. Mr. S. ESTCOURT then formally moved that the bill be referred to a committee of private members to be selected by the house, which was agreed to. M;e PETITIONS. Several petitions were presented against the abolition of church-rates ; against the Parochial Assessment Bill, and Poor Law Removal Act; in favour of the Thames embank ment being carried out under the direction of Government and the Metropolitan Board of Works, &c. NAPLES. Lord R. MONTAGU moved an address for copy of de crees of the King of Naples of the Ist and 15th days of March, and of the Ist day of May, 18G0; together with all the despatches of the English Minister at Naples enclosing the same.—Ordered. NATIVES OF INDIA. In reply to Col. SYKEs, Lord PALMERSTON said his opinion was that the claims of her Majesty's subjects in India had not, with re ference to eligibility for public employment, undergone any alteration since the transfer of the Government of India from the East India Company to her Majesty's Govern ment. PRIZE MONEY FOR IRISH SOLDIERS IN INDIA. In reply to Sir E. GROGAN, Sir C. WOOD said that at present the money could not be paid to the soldiers in question, as the Government did not know exactly who they were, or where they were at present. THE UNIVERSITY OF DURIIAM. In reply to Mr. FEN WICK, Sir G. C. LEWIS said it was intended to introduce a bill for the appointment of a commission, with powers similar to that of the commission on the Oxford and Cam bridge Universities. DELINQUENT BOROUGHS. In reply to Earl JERMYN, Sir G. C. LEWIS said that with regard to Gloucester and Wakefield the house had made an orc'er that no such writ should be issued for these boroughs without a week's notice being given. It was therefore competent for any hon. member to give such notice, and in the meantime the franchise of these boroughs would be suspended. With respect to boroughs on which reports had been made, an inquiry had been directed as to whether any prosecution should be instituted. FUNDS IN THE CHANCERY COURT. Mr. DISRAELI asked a question relative to the Royal Commission recently appointed to inquire into the custody and management of the funds of the Court of Chancery. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER entered into an explanation to the effect that it was considered the time had arrived for the appointment of the commission in question. TIIE FRANCHISE IN SCOTLAND. Sir E. COLEBROOKE asked the Lord A dvocate whether it was his intention to introduce any measure in the present session on the subject of the registration of county voters in Scotland. The LORD-ADVOCATE said the subject was under consideration. CONGRESS ON ITALIAN AFFAIRS. Mr. GRIFFITH asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, whether her Majesty's Government were of opinion, that now that the first Italian Parliament had assembled for the transaction of business, and had unani mously voted to the King of Sardinia the title of King of Italy, there was any reason or necessity for the appointment of any Congress, as had been suggested by the French Government, to settle the internal affairs of Italy ? Lord J. RUSSELL said there was no proposition before the Government for any congress on the affairs of Italy, and when it was made it would be the duty of her ➢Majesty's Government to consider it. (Laughter.) REBEL OCCUPATION OF CHINA. In reply to Mr. WHITE, Lord J. RUSSELL said that her Majesty's Government had not received any authentic information by the last mail from China of the occupation alluded to. With regard to the latter part of the hon. member's question, her Majesty's Government had never interfered between the rebels and the Government of China. COLLIERY ACCIDENTS. On the motion for adjournment till Monday, Mr. DILLIVYN drew the attention of the house to the great number of violent deaths which occurred in the coal mines, owing chiefly to explosions of fire-damp, and ho con tended that more efficient supervision of these mines was imperatively required, and asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether the candidates for the in spectorships of coal mines were subjected to a competitive examination as to fitness for such office ; ma if so, whether Mr. J. P. Baker, the recently appointed inspector of col lieries for the district of South Staffordshire, was subjected to such examination, and pronounced qualified by the examiners Sir G. C. LEWIS said he never heard the name of Mr. Baker until he received a memorial from the Mayor of Wol verhampton and several proprietors in the district, recom mending him as fully qualified, by ability and practical ex perience, for the office of Government Inspector of Mines. The application was further supported by Lord Hatherton, the lord lieutenant of the county of Stafford. Under these circumstances he had appointed Mr. Baker, but he subse quently had that gentleman's capacity tested by an exa • mination. The report was unfavourable to Mr. Baker, on account of his deficiency of scientific knowledge for his situation ; but as Mr. Baker had had great practical expe rience in mines, and as he had been appointed without any condition as to his passing an examination, he (Sir G. C. Lewis) did not think it right to cancel the appointment. He had heard no complaints of Mr. Baker. On the contrary, he seemed to have given great satisfaction to the persons in whose district he had inspected. If he had to make an other such appointment, he would take care that it should be preceded by a scientific-examination, and, if there were more candidates than one, that it should be made on the competitive principle. RE-PAYMENT OP INCOME TAX. Sir M. FARQURAR rose to ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he was aware that a document, headed " The immediate payment required," calling for payment of assessed property and income taxts due at Christmas last, and suggesting the disck.ige in advance of taxes due on the 20th March nefr, had been issued in certain districts in London; alai by whose authority such a document had been circulated. The hon. gentleman stated that he had reeeived a circular from the collector of the district in Which he resided; demanding payment of income'tax under schedule A, due on the 20th of December last, and also for the current quarter's, instead of waiting for the usual half-yearly collection in April next. The col lector gave notice that he would call in the ensuing week, and observing that he could not make a second call ; and the concluding part of the notice was in the form of a sug gestion. He was surprised at receiving; that notice, espe cially as he had paid wider schedule D in January, and he at first feared that the revenue must be in a very delicate position. (Hear and laughter.) The same notice had been left for the hon. member for Taunton, and generally throughout the district, where it had excited very consider able astonishment. Now, as ho could not suppose ti- - such a circular could have been issued to the the r - ig u h ri t Y h ' on e . geengtgleed ethxceTerihpuet upon instructions from a high anti— .t h^"bi ayers equer, and to u put to him to m anb bring tchheamn Chancellor t o o l. the th :x notice ch e e st a ion Aj of c w E h L ie L b. o h it e had t gl h ' e ven Ex no c ti ß ce E . EXCHEQUER he rithileisenz felt much obliged to his h o o f n. friend for having mentioned toNe2v,r.faii:Lhthcihelie ouse yesterday evening; for though, for would state, ho was unable to give him PI 494 49 g 4 kCCI kg; Ygt 10 991114 040 Iv Win with precision for how much of the document on which he had commented the Government, and he might say the Legislature, were responsible. As a document they (the Government) knew nothing of it whatever. His hon. friend was no doubt aware that under the system of law prevail ing in this country the direct taxes of the country were levied—with a certain number of exceptional cases—and assessed, not under the authority of officers of the Queen's Government, but of local and independent authority. It was no doubt under the instructions of these local and inde pendent authorities that the circular in question had been issued. His hon. friend very properly asked an explanation of it, and was told by the collector that he had received it from the Secretary of the Tax .office in Red Lion-square. To get proper information on the subject, therefore, it would be necessary to get the exact instructions given by the secre tary of that office, who was a local officer. With regard to the substance of the document, his hon. friend was aware that it was a proceeding taken under instructions from the Revenue Department, in connection with the law of last year. A statement was then made to the house of the amount necessary to be raised by income tax in order to square the accounts of the country, and methods were suggested by which that might be done. Now, he quite agreed with the hon. gentleman that it was by no means pleasant to pay taxes three months before they were due. That ho took to be in disputable. (Hear.) Only, what was the alternative ? Not that that quarter's tax should be collected a quarter earlier, or a quarter later, but a yield of income tax at the rate of 7td. in the pound was required, and the house had two alternatives as regarded the manner in which that sum might be raised. It might have been made payable half yearly, or in three quarterly payments ; and the later mode was adopted instead of half-yearly payments. Therefore, although it was not agreeable to have to pay taxes in ad vance, yet it was agreeable to pay them in January rather than in the previous October. As regarded the very courteous invitation of the collector referred to by the hon. gentleman, for that he begged to disclaim all re sponsibility whatever. Any collection of taxes in advance was contrary to the spirit of their financial arrangements, and he was sorry such a suggestion should have been made ; for though no doubt made in good faith, it was a step which he altogether disapproved and deprecated.' He could only offer the hon. gentleman a conjecture in reference to it, and that was, that it was a practice often pursued with reference to local taxes in London. He had often seen it himself, and it appeared to him to suggest the true explanation which the hon. member desired. )" THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, MARCH 2, 1861; EMBANKMENT OF THE THAMES. - - Mr. BENTINCK rose to put a question to the Chief Commissioner of Works on the subject of the Royal Com mission appointed to examine into plans for embanking the river Thames within the metropolis. The hon. gentleman referred to the reports of the various committees and com missions on the subject, which, in his opinion, showed con clusively that the scheme was impracticable, and would only involve the country in a vast and useless expenditure. It was also agreed that the subject was one for the Chief Commissioner to deal with, and that it was hopeless to ex pect:any practical result from a commission. Those, too, were undertakings which ought to be defrayed out of the proceeds of metropolitan taxation only. Under those cir cumstances he had to ask the right hon. gentleman to state the intentions of Government with regard to this [object. Mr. COWPER, in reply, said his hon. friend opposite had found very considerable blame with the Board of Works, but he thought that the observations which had just been made by his hon. friend would be very accept able to some gentlemen in this house, who were very anxious to resuscitate in the country party feeling and party spirit. He could, however, assure his hon. friend that there was no ground for the observations, or the objec tions he had made. If the hon. gentleman meant by hi s proposition that the improvements should not be carried on, unless by the wish of the whole country, he could assure him that he did not think the country would agree with him. With regard to the commission to which the hon. gentleman had referred, there was no doubt it was one of great public importance. But he must refer to the committee of last year, which recommended the proposed improvements. That committee also recommended that the expenses of carrying the improvements out should be paid out of the coal dues, and they also recommended that a body should be appointed to carry them out, and that body whom they named was tho Board of Works. But although that committee were naturally anxious about the embark ment of the Thames, they did not express any opinion of their own as to what plan the improvements should be made upon. They merely recommended the embankment, and pointed out the sources from which the money was to be got, and also the body that was to execute the improve ments. They did not lay down any plan of their own for adoption. It appeared to him that the commission appointed last year would not be an expensive commission, for every body who was appointed on it had given his services gra tuitously, and the only expense that would be incurred would be those of the secretary and the stationery. It had been said that the Crown ought not to exhibit any interest in the matter ; but, inasmuch as the property in the foreshore was the property of the Crown, he thought the Crown had a right to see that the public had the benefit of a good and and approved plan for the contemplated improvements, be fore it surrendered its rights. He did not think the labours of the past commissioners had been lost, for although as yet they had not attained their object, they had paved the way for the improvements. The plans for those improve ments were-now before them, and he thought it would not be difficult to select a plan upon which to act. With regard to tin state of the traffic in the public streets, the feeling of every man who had to proceed from the West end to the Bank was, that he would find it much more quick and much more convenient to him to walk than to proceed in 'a carriage. (Hear.) The proposed embank ment of the Thames would improve the navigation be sides solving the difficulty of the low-level sewers, without any disturbance of Fleet-street. (Hear.) He agreed with the commissioners in thinking that the execution of the work should be left to the Board of Works, and that the payment of the expenses should be defrayed out of some public property. After a few words from Mr. AYRTON, the subject dropped TIIE CHRISTIANS IN SYRIA. Lord J. RUSSELL said that the last papers which he had received relative to the affairs of Syria were a conven• tion entered into by the five Powers with the Ottoman Porte, and which had been laid on the table at the com mencement of the present session. With regard to the negotiations that were going on, he could not consistently with the iatcrests of the public service give any informa tion at present respecting them, as discussions relating to them were going on at Beyrout, Constantinople, and Paris. He hoped, however, that before Raster, or immediately after, he should be able to lay on the table further papers relative to the affairs of Syria, and those papers would con tain the reports of the consuls to Sir Henry Bulwer. He would take that opportunity to answer the question put to him last night by the hon. member for Horsham. With regard to the part which had been taken by the French Government the hon. member had asked him whether any representation or note had been addressed by the Russian Ambassador to the Porte, and whether that note had been supported by the French Ambassador. He (Lord J. Rus • sell) had no means then of answering the question ; but Lord Cowley had received from M. do Thouvenel informa tion that the French Ambassador had not interfered in any way in the matter, either in seconding the proposal or in giving any opinion. The only thing that the French Am bassador did was to express a hope that the reforms pro vided by the Sultan would be speedily introduced, and that thus the necessity of the meeting of ambassadors which bad been proposed by Sir H. Bulwer might be so far obviated. COLLIERY INSPECTORS. Mr. NE WDEGATE, reverting to a question which had been asked early in the evening, expressed his hope that no colliery inspector, however accomplished or scientific, would be appointed who had not a practical knowledge of the inte rior of mines, and of the symptoms of explosion. Sir J. SHELLEY said that with regard to the question of the Thames embankment ho thought the experience they had already had was not in favour of the interference of the Government. He hoped and trusted the question of the management of the metropolis would be altogether taken out of the hands of that house. Mr. J. LOCKE said he did not think the ratepayers of the metropolis were:imore interested in the Thames em bankment than the constituents of the hon. gentleman down at Hertford. The hon. member for the Tower Hamlets wished the Metropolitan Board of Works to do everything, but he (Mr. Locke) had great cause of complaint against that body. All they had done since they were first con stituted was to make a road from the corner of King -street into Long-acre. A sum of no less than £94,000 had also been given them in the outset for the improvement of the borough, but what had they done ? They had pulled down some most desirable property in High-street, in the Borough, and left a large chasm, and not attempted to pull down any property of a less expensive description behind it, so as to complete a new street. Mr. CONINGIIAM thought the Government were quite right in taking steps to carry out this important experiment of the embankment of the Thames, and ho considered the whole community were interested in the scheme. The motion for the adjournment until Monday waS then agreed to. TRANSPORTATION. On the motion of Mr. CHILDERS, a select committee was appointed to inquire into the present system of trans portation, its utility, economy, and effect upon colonisation, and to report whether any improvements could be effected therein. THE BOARD then B Or ADMIRALTY, ra d fo ,yera s Admiral N elect com mittee to inquire into the b onstitution of the Board of Ad miralty and th 13 4. . var t,;s duties devolving there o n ; a l so as to the greri: , ,:t on fr ef2l.. of tittcu l, system on the navy, The hen, 8r ' - ..,1 gallant officer observed that the disetission which tot - ,:: place the night before, and the resolutions submitted by the hon. member for Portsmouth had in a great degree fore stalled that which would otherwise have taken place on this motion, and he owned he should be well pleased if it should be accompanied with less discussion hilt more fruity, In bringing the subject fOrward he could not but admit, in the first place, that great want of courtesy which had been shown him by the right hon. baronet the member for Droit wich. Last year he submitted to the consideration of the right hon. baronet a motion like this. His noble and gal 'l4l° ki " 6l°l3 l 3 °§itel I titOSOcretArY 9f the Aclwinith oploca the motion on the ground that three or four committees had been or were sitting with regard to naval matters, that the Beard of Admiralty had been at that very moment under consideration, and that no good result could be expected to accrue from pressing such a motion at that part of the session. He bowed to that opinion, and with the leave of the house withdrew the motion. The right hon. baronet the member for Droitwich, however, on that occasion not only opposed the motion, but even, at the cost of his dinner, he feared, remained in the house to vote against it. The right hon. gentleman said emphati cally that he should be sorry to see such a question handed over to a select committee that would be composed of members who could not possess the requisite knowledge or experience to aid them in arriving at a satisfactory con clusion. Now that was very much the position of the right hon. baronet himself when he came to the Admiralty; for whereas in the Duke of Northumberland's Board eight out of nine members were naval officers, and in the present one of the Duke of Somerset eix out of nine, in that of the right hon. baronet only four out of the nine were naval officers. After the expression of that strong opinion, there fore, he could not suppose that on this late day of the ses sion the right hon. gentleman would have given notice of a committee. That was the fact, however, and the right hon. gentleman had given the notice almost in his (Admiral Duncombe's) own words, without troubling himself to as certain whether he meant to introduce the motion again. The house would remember that he (Admiral Duncombe) stated last session that it was his intention to introduce the motion again this session, unless he should see good cause for not doing so. In renewing the motion he ought to say that he did so without an) intention of imputing blame to the present Board of Admiralty. He believed that that board was composed of earnest and intelligent men, who were sincerely desirous of doing the best they could with the cumbrous machinery at their disposal, and which he believed was by no means equal to the increased require ments of the day. He wished that a committee should be appointed, by which alterations and modifications might be introduced into the present system, so as to enable it to answer more perfectly the naval interests of the country. Last session he stated that he believed it would be an im provement if the naval affairs of the country were put under the management of a Minister of Marine, assisted by a council, the constitution of which w ould be different from that of the present board. The Minister of Marine would be a Cabinet Minister, and therefore a political in dividual; but he would be assisted by competent and highly experienced officers. Since he hazarded that opinion in that house, several pamphlets had ap peared, in which much the same thing had been pro posed and advocated; and the motion of his hon. and gallant friend the member for Portsmouth tended in the same direction. They were told of discontent on the part of naval officers, amounting almost to disaffection, of crews in a state of insubordination, and of the extreme difficulty of maintaining discipline on board her Majesty's ships. There could be no doubt that a wide-spread dissatisfaction existed on board various ships. What were the causes of that dissatisfaction it was not for him to say, and perhaps no man living could tell ; but at least an effort should be made to ascertain them, in order to satisfy the officers and crews of one of the finest services in the world. The man ning of the navy was a subject which particularly called for inquiry. The reserve was tantamount to a failure, and an improved scheme should be found by which seamen might enter the Queen's service more readily, and which would make them more satisfied with it when they had entered. (Hear.) With respect to the appointment of the committee, which, he was told, was not going to be opened, his own wish would be that no ex-First Lords of the Admiralty should be upon it. No one could doubt the great adminis trative talents of those gentlemen, but he thought it far bet ter that the committee should have the benefit of their evi dence, than that they should be members of it themselves. With that suggestion, he would only further say that he hoped the inquiry would be searching, fearless, and impar tial, and that such alterations and improvements might be made by it, as the naval efficiency of our fleets demanded. We might then have every confidence that, should the day unhappily arrive when their strength should be measured with that of an enemy, they would not be found wanting. (near, hear.) The hon o and gallant gentleman concluded by moving for the committee. Admiral WALCOTT observed that it would be impos sible any longer to withhold consent to a proposition of this nature ; for the discontent of the navy could now no longer be concealed, and it had communicated itself to the country. A committee of inquiry, composed of men, who would give their earnest attention to a subject so extremely valuable, would no doubt load to many improvements. He had great pleasure in seconding the motion. Lord C. PAGET said that on the part of the noble duke, the First Lord of the Admiralty, he had to state that, so far from any opposition being offered to this motion, they would bo glad to give any assistance in their power, that the very important subjects that would come under the consideration of the committee should have every possible elucidation. Ho thought ho was bound, also, to state on the part of the Board of Admiralty that from the time they took office there had been no desire to shrink from any inquiry . (Hear.) Now that wo were in a stateof peace, was the time to look into our pol Neal departments, and to introduce into them such changes as might appear to be called for by the necessities of the country and the scientific improvements of the day. He was not aware that there were any disasters that should call forth the opprobrium that had been given expression to against the Board of Admiralty. That there were defects in the Admiralty he did not for a moment deny. lie thought it was very important that the accounts of the Admiralty should be looked into, and he was bound to say that the Board of Admiralty had treated him with the greatest consideration upon an occasion when he calledatten tion to what ha considered an improper expenditure. He asked the noble dukenow at the head of the Admiralty for a commission to inquire into various matters connected with the Admiralty; and the noble duke not only granted the commission with the gracious consent of her Majesty, but he issued instructions that all the defects of the Board of Admiralty should be inquired into. That commission ap pointed various committees, who inquired into the various departments of the Admiralty administration, inclus ding, amongst other matters, those which related to the gunboats. He could not but here remark that the tone in which an hon. and gallant friend of his addressed the house last night was not creditable to him in relation to his views of the grounds upon which it was desirable that changes should take place in the various departments of the Admiralty. C. Paget) s h owe d, on a f ormer occasion,He (L was dee e m rd ed desirable that an inquiry sho u ld cn take place. The session then passed away; but the noble duke now at the head of the Admiralty requested him to put himself in communication with the gallant admiral opposite, with a view of ascertaining from him when it would be con venient for him to bring forward his motion. At the same time, he was surprised at the want of courtesy shown him by the right hon. baronet opposite, in not giving him notice that it was his intention to bring forward his motion for a committee. An hon. gentleman wished him to propose that he should be chairman of the committee ; but he felt it to his duty to oppose it, in the same way that he himself, fron4 the interest which he felt in the matter, would not be a fit person to be chairman of such a committee. The whole con duct of the Admiralty, it should be borne in mind, was at stake, and he therefore thought that the hon. gentleman should not be placed in the position of chairman of the com mittee. Now, as to the discipline of the navy, and as to the discontent of the officers of that branch of the service, he thought he heard the word " disapprobation." (Hear, hear.) Why, God forbid that there should be any "dis content" in the minds of the officers of the British navy. They might not, it was true, be satisfied with their pay. It was certainly true that the pay was not sufficient; neither did he think that either branch of the service was sufficiently paid. (Hoar, hear.) But he had done all in his power to endeavour to improve the position of the officers of the navy, and the navy estimates which he meant to bring forward on Monday evening would show that ho was desirous to improve their condition. He thought it was not his business to sing an Jo Pecan in praise of the present Board of Admiralty in this matter; but he thought they might ask the public to suspend their judgment at present in relation to the Board of Admiralty. (Hear.) Ile was not now going to enter Into a long state ment, but he was bound to say that the Board of Admiralty had occupied much of their time in effecting great improve ments in various departments under its direction; and in the last session there was an act of Parliament passed for tlso better discipline of the navy. Now, that act, although it passed through the house very quickly, had received a great deal of consideration by the Admiralty; and added to that, there were instructions to the navy which were about to be issued, that also received a great deal of consideration by the board. Then there was, in addition, another mat ter. The Government of Greenwich Hospital was ex tremely defective, and in connection with this institution he could not but refer with regret to the death of his gallant friend the late Sir C. Napier, with whom he had had many discussions on this subject; and injustice to the memory of that gallant officer, he was bound to say that ho was really a true friend to the British sailor. (Heat.) Well, his ay, noble friend s the noble duke at the head of the Admiralt had brought in a bill to alter and improve the Government; of the Greenwich schools; and here he might say that the whole of the machinery of those schools, as it bad long ekisted, would beswept away, and the whole of the esta blishment would be hencefof th on a different footing, so that all children who had claims would be freely admitted into the schools. (Hear.) He thought, then, that the Admi ralty deserved much credit. (Hear.) His opinion was, with regard to the constitution of the committee, that the names of some hon. members ought to be excluded. The right hon. baronet the member for Carlisle, for instance, ought, he thought, to be upon the committee, and in like manner, his right hon. friend the member for Portsmouth. (Hear, hear.) He should be sorry to see the names of such men not on the committee. Sir J. PAXINGTON confessed he was not prepared to bear the charges which his noble friend had just now made against him. He had never been guilty of a want of c0ur t.;,.7,1 towards the noble lord in not giving him notice that it was his intention to move for the committee. He believed it was not the uniform custom of hon. members to cross the house and tell that it was their intention to bring forward a motion. He must give a direct denial to the charge that he was guilty of any discourtesy towards the noble lord ; and 140 1114 , 4 gay that he lam Wm 9 t the r ., 70‘ kind that the noble lord complained of ; and he must tell him again that there was not that he knew of any custom or any practice by which any member of that house who proposed to give a notice was bound to go across the house and tell the party that such was his intention. He must tell his noble friend that he knew of no such practice—(hear, hear)—and so far from his having anything to apologise for he must tell his noble friend that it was he who owed an apology to him (Sir J. Pakington) for discourtesy. (Hear, hear.) His noble friend laughed, but he must tell him that it was contrary to all custom for members to cross the house and communicate their intentions and he must tellhis noble friend also that he had not departed from any custom, but on the contrary, that he had observed the custom of the house. He did:not unlerstand, then, upon what ground the noble lord came forward and made such a statement, but he denied altogether the imputations of the noble lord. He had made a public statement in the house of the motion which he intended to bring forward, and of the motives which led him to withdraw the previous motion of which he had given notice, and he did not think it necessary, therefore, to give any further notice on the subject. He should not now address the house but for such observations as those made by the noble lord ; and having once publicly given notice of the course he meant to pursue, it was wholly un necessary for him, in his opinion, to say anything further on the subject. He would certainly give his vote in sup port of the motion. He stated last night that there was a feeling out of doors that there ought to be an inquiry into the administration and constitution of the Board of Admiralty (hear, hear) and that there should ' be an inquiry into the defects of the system, and that the board should be conducted upon a different system—a system which would involve a greater degree of respon sibility. (Hear, hear.) He believed that the absence of that responsibility was the principal cause of the necessity for a change (hear, hear) and that constituted the principal object of the inquiry. There was one other reason for the inquiry, and that was an opinion that he himself strongly entertained, of the position which the First Lord of the Admiralty occupied on the present occasion. How far honourable gentlemen opposite might concur in his views he could not say, but his opinion was, that the position which the First Lord of the Admiralty occupied at the board was not the position which the First Lord of the Admiralty ought to hold ; and he here thought it necessary to explain why he thought so. The hon. member for Colchester had stated that, in his opinion, the First Lord of the Admiralty was "supreme," and that such was the opinion of therright hon. baronet the member for Carlisle. He was exceedingly sorry that the right hon. baronet was not now in his place; but when he heard those opinions attributed to him, it brought to his recollection the evidence of the right hon. baronet before a committee of that house on the subject of the administration of the Admiralty. The right hon. baronet here read the evidence of the right hon. baronet the member for Carlisle (Sir James Graham), given before a committee of the house, showing clearly, in the words of the right hon. baronet, that the First Lord was not supreme, that ho merely gave his opinion when there was any different expression of views, and that the other naval lords had, in their opinions, an equal power. He merely presided at the board, but was not supreme. As the Board of Admi ralty was at present constituted the position of the First Lord was often one of embarrassment, and such as a Mini ster of the Crown ought not to be subjected to. He should have preferred the appointment of a Royal commission for the purpose of inquiry, to that of a select committee of the house, but the Government having sanctioned the latter course he should not offer any opposition. The constitution of that committee was an important consideration, and he was glad to hear the noble and gallant lord the Secretary for the Admiralty, express an opinion that hon. members who had occupied the post of Lords of the Admiralty should not be excluded from acting on the committee. He hoped the committee would proceed with its duties in a spirit of prudence and caution and in a manner calculated to condtice to the improvement of the public service. There was no doubt that public opinion required considerable changes should be made in the constitution of the Admiralty depart • went. Lord C. PAGET said when he expressed an opinion that the right hon. gentleman the member for Droitwich was disqualified from occupying the chair of the committee in consequence of the position he had occupied at the Admiralty nothing possibly could be farther from his intention than in any manner to reflect on the personal honour or reputation of the right hon. gentleman. Sir F. BARING explained the constitution and working of the Board of Admiralty. The first lord was responsible to Parliament for the working of the board, and there was no doubt that, practically, he had his own way in the con•• duct of the public business, and ruled the board of that department. Great caution, in his opinion, ought to be exercised before they pulled to pieces the Board of Admi ralty, which was put together after the model of the Board of Ordnance, constituted by the authority and on the advice of no other man than the Duke of Wellington; and a Finance Committee nAninated for the purpose. The Board of Admi ralty was in no respect responsible for the harbours of refuge. They merely carried out the recommendations of a Royal Commission appointed on the suggestion of the House of Commons. The Board of Admiralty, again, was censured for the smallness of the work at Keyham harbour, when the French Government was carrying out works of magnitude at Cherbourg and other placer along the French coast, but in respect of this matter the Board of Admiralty was blameless, and merely had that done which the House of Commons ordered and voted. One arguMent against the present constitution of the Board of Admiralty was the con stant politicill changes of the First Lord. He did not see how they could ; prevent this unless they got rid of the re sponsibility to Parliament of the Minister at the Admi ralty. If they chose to have a permanent Minister, not responsible to Parliament, they might change the consti tution of the Admiralty, but then they would change the constitution of the country and abandon the powers of the House of Commons. The substitution of a Secretary of State for the First Lord of the Admiralty would afford no more security than they had under the existing state of things. He believed the permanent officers gave the very highest satisfaction, because they brought their expe rience to assist the political officers, who were always liable to be changed. The right hon. gentleman who had just sat down said his great object was to get responsibility, but they had it at that moment, because the First Lordwas practically responsible to Parliament. , Have him respon sible, and do not go lower. They had him as a responsible Minister, but if they throw it on subordinates they did away with it altogether. It was now very fashionable to talk of having a council to assist the board, which was to have a power in cases of an increase of expense or a dimi nution to set aside the opinions of the First Lord. They were to have those powers for five years, and for his own part he really could not see why the House of Commons could for a moment grant such an authority to any body of persons. _ _ _ - Mr. HENLEY approved of the motion, and was glad to hear that the Government also had consented to the ap pointment of the committee. Mr. BENTINCK wished to make a remark as to the composition of the committee. He thought that as one of the objects of the committee would be to inquire whether those who had conducted the naval affairs of the country were qualified for the performance of their duties, none of the members or es-members of the Board of Admiralty should be on the committee. Mr. CO NINGHAM contended that the responsible Minister of the Navy ought to be in this house, instead of being, as was the case at present, a member of the other House of Parliament. It was also the fact that the War Minister was a member of the House of Lords. To cap the system it was only necessary that the Chancellor of the Exchequer should be a member of the other house. He had merely risen to point out the fact that the heads of important departments were all in the other house, and that it was inconvenient that they should be so. Sir CHARLES WOOD admitted that the whole tone of the discussion was fair and candid. He did not anticipate that there would be a change in the Board of Admiralty, nor did he think that a case had been made out for any such change. Complaints had been made as to the changing character of the Board of Admiralty; but what was the fact ? Why, that the principal officers of the board had been in that office for several years, notwithstanding the change in the Administration. He at the same time must say that a change in the heads of the department consequent upon a change of Government was desirable, and tended to the benefit of the public and the public ser vice. He never knew a First Lord shrink froia carrying into effect an arrangement which he believed was calculated to improve the efficiency of the public service, and under those circumstances he did not think they would get a greater responsibility from the First Lord under a different system than they now had. A divided authority they would find would only involve them in new difficulties. The First Lord should have the assistance of a board of naval officers, without which his office would be no value, and he trusted that the committee to be appointed would give effect to that principle in a manner that would be the most con ducive to the interests of the public service. Mr. DISRAELI said he was in favour of granting the committee, not that he apprehended it would be important As regarded any great changes it would be likely to effect. Like other connnittees which had sat to consider subjects on which the public attention had been strongly directed, it would throw light o z.' the working of the Board of Admi ralty as at present constituted, and show that great misap prehension existed with respect to tii.? naval branch of the public service. He owned he should be sorry if one of the recommendations of the committee was that the he;..fl of the board should in future be a naval officer. If they carne that resolution, the next would in all probability be to take that great department out of the control of the House of Commons. They had got it there now, and he recom mended the house to keep it there. That was a task which they would not find it so easy as they might perhaps ima gine. (Hear, hear.) With that scheme for turning the chief of the Admiralty into an appointment purely pro fessional, they would be paving the way for losing that command over the naval affairs of the country which they now enjoyed, and the actual loss of which they would very much deprecate. He agreed very much with what had fallen from the hon. member for Brighton with respect to the position which the two great services of the country occupied with regard to Parliament. It was certainly un iintliPttc tUfq Ntt4 tin Apay and the 134 1 75 7 yme 49t ;9- "`-,-, presented by their chiefs in the popular branch of the Le gislature. With reference to what the gallant admiral had said of his right hon. frierid the member for Droitwich, he had to take upon himself the whole responsibility. Admiral DUNCOMBE expressed his thanks to the right hon. 'gentleman the member for Buckinghamshire. Now the thing was done with, and he did not think it necessary to say any more on the subject. Mr. KINNAIRD regretted that the naval department was not represented as it ought to be in this house, and especially when it was considered that within the last six years no less a sum titan £80,000,000 had been granted for the navy. (Hear, hear.) The motion was then agreed to. SALARIES, EMOLUMENTS, AND PENSIONS. Mr. WHITE hoped the house would grant him indul gence while he moved an address for a return of all persons in England, Scotland, and Ireland, receiving salaries, pen sions, pay, profit, foes, emoluments, allowances, or grants of public money, in the year 1860, the amounts of which exceeded £l5O, the form and particulars to be in conformity with Parliamentary paper, No. 601, of Session 1849. Ob jections had been made on a former occasion to the grant ing those returns; but their importance was very great. The hon. member here entered into a statement of the amounts of those salaries, &c., and the vast cost of their collection. He assured the house that this was not a party question, as might be inferred from there being a large number of the firm of " Jones, Brown, and Robinson" in the list of pensioners as of any other party in the State. (Laughter.) He found, on looking down the pension list, the names of 18 Russells, 12 Greys, and 7 Grahams—(laughter)—and he also found in it the names of 46 Browns and 16 Campbells. (Laughter,) But as he understood the returns would not be opposed, he would not now say more on the subject, and would sit down content. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said the returns for which the hon. gentleman m9ved would involve a great deal of trouble in th 3 making out, and he would therefore suggest to the hon. gentleman whether it would not be more convenient if he were not to ask for a return of the very low pensions, and would confine his motion to those of £5OO a year and upwards. Mr. WHITE thought if he were to do so that the object he had in view would not be accomplished. He therefore hoped the returns would be made out on the same principle as when, granted to the late Mr. Hume. NATIONAL EDUCATION (IRELAND) Mr. BUTT moved for a return, specifying the several schools in connection with the National Board of Education in Ireland in which Protestant and Roman Catholic chil dren were jointly receiving education at the period to which the returns were made up in the last report of the Educa tion Commissioners, and the number of Protestant and Ro man Catholic children in each such school respectively. The hon. member also moved for and obtained leave to bring in a bill on the subject. The bill was accordingly brought in and read a first time. TRAMWAYS (SCOTLAND) BILL. This bill was read a second time and ordered to be cow witted. POST-OFFICE SAVINGS BANKS BILL. On the motion for the second reading of this bill, The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said he understood further explanations relating to the bill were required, and as it was then late he begged to postpone the second reading.to Tuesday next. LAW OF FOREIGN COUNTRIES BILL. This bill was read a third time and passed. The house adjourned at 12 o'clock. FROM THE GAZETTE OF LAST NIGHT. FOREIGN-OFFICE, FEB. 26. Th 9 Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. Samuel Lilly as Consul-General at Calcutta for the United States of America. DOWNING-STREET, FEB. 27. The Queen has been pleased to appoint William Walter Raleigh Kerr, Esq., to be Colonial Treasurer ; and Edward Everard Rushworth, Esq., to be Auditor- General for the Island of Mauritius. Her Majesty has also been ',leased to appoint Gerard Oudkerk, Esq., to be Book-keeper, in the office of the Auditor-General for the Colony of British Guiana; and Richard Russell, Esq., to be Auditor-General for the Island of Trinidad. Her Majesty has further been pleased to appoint John Hill Beresford, Esq., to be Colonial Secretary for the Island of Tobago ; and Anthony Pemberton Hobson, Esq., to be Inspector-General of Folice for the Island of St. Vincent. WHITEHALL, FEB. 21. The Queen, taking into her Royal consideration that upon the decease of James Andrew, Marquis of Dalhousie, in the peerage of the United Kingdom, and Earl of Dal housie, in that part of the United Kingdom called Scot land, Knight of the Most Ancient and Most Noble Order of the Thistle, without issue male, which hap pened on or about the 19th day of December last, the dignity of Marquis of Dalhousie became extinct, but that the earldom of Dalhousie devolved upon Fox, Baron Panmure, now Earl of Dalhousie, Knight of the Most Ancient and of the Most Noble Order of the Thistle, and Knight Grand Cross of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, as the eldest and only surviving son and heir of William, Baron Panmure, deceased, second son of George, Earlof Dalhousie,and that, according to the ordinary rules of honour, the sisters of the said Fox, now Earl of Dalhousie, cannot enjoy that place and precedence which would have been due to them in case their father, the said William, Baron Panmure, had survived his nephew, the said James Andrew, Marquess of Dalhousie, and had thereby suc ceeded to the title and dignity of Earl of Dalhousie, her Majesty has been pleased to ordain and declare that Mary Hamilton (commonly called the Honourable Mary Hamilton), the widow and relict of James Hamilton, of Bangour, in the shire of Linlithgow, Esq., Ramsay Macdonald (commonly called the Hon. Ramsay Macdonald), the wife of Donald Macdonald, of Sandside, in the shire of Caithness, Esq., and Christian lirfaule com monly called the Honourable Christian Mule), spinster, the only surviving sisters of the , said For ? Earl of Dalhousie, shall henceforth have, hold, and enjoy the same title, place, pre-eminence, and prece dence, as if their late father, William, Baron Panmure, had survived his nephew, the said James Andrew, Marquess of Dalhousie, and had succeeded to the title and dignity of Earl of Dalhousie. And to command that the Royal order and declaration be registered in her Majesty's College of Arms. BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, MARCH 1. The Right 'Honourable the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade have received, from the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy of a Despatch from, her Majesty's Consul at Stockholm, reporting that a new Swedish Customs' Law will come into force on the Ist April next, by which the differences at present existing between bonding and warehousing in Swedish ports will be abolished, and the warehousing duty of one quarter per cent. ad valorem, now in force raised to 1 per cent. on the tariff rate, payable both on landing and refreshment. Vessels of above 24 tons will not be required to produce a consular manifest, in lieu of which a master's manifest must be delivered. WAR-OFFICE ; MARCH 1. The Queen has been graciously pleased to give orders for the appointment of Major-General Sir Pat. Grant, K.C. 8., of the Bengal Infantry, serving with the local rank of Lieutenant-General in the East Indies, to be an Ordinary Member of the Military Division of the First Class, or Knights Grand Cross, of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath. _ . Her Majesty has also been graciously pleased to make and ordain a Special Statute of the said Most Honourable Order, for appointing the followiag Officers to be Extra Members of the Military Division of the Third Class, or Companions of the said Order, viz. : Colonel Rodolph de Salis, th Hussars. Colonel Henry Roxby Benson, 17th Lancers. Lieut.-Col. Archibald Alison, Unattached. Lieut.-Col. William Keir Stuart, b6th Regiment. Lieut.-Col. John Ross, Rifle Brigade. Lieut.-Col. Robert Macleod Sutherland, 92d Regiment. Lieut.-Col. Greeme Alexander Lockhart, 78th Regiment. Major James Henry Wyatt, Military Train. Major-General Henry Macan, Bombay Infantry. Colonel Colin Troup, Bengal Infantry. Colonej Alfred Shepheard, Bombay Infantry. Colonel William Riddell, Bengal Infantry. Colonel Thomas James Fischer, Madras Infantry. Colonel Robert Romer Younghusband, Bombay Infantry. Colonel William Reece, Madras Infantry. Colonel William Henry Miller, Madras Army. Lieut.-Colonel James Whistler, Madras Cavalry. Lieutenant-Colonel John Holmes Bombay Infantry. Lieutenant-Colonel George Pope, Bombay Infantry. Lieutenant-Colonel John Hale Smyth, Bengal Artillery. Lieutenant-Colonel James Metcalfe, Bengal Infantry. Li eu t e n a nt-Colonel Frederick Goreas, Madras In fantry. Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Brice, Madras Artillery. Lieutenant-Colonel George Sackville Cotter, Madras Artillery. Lieutenant-Colonel Charles William Tremenhere, Bom bay Engineers. Lieutenant-Colonel George Carr, Madras Infantry. Lieutenant-Colonel Samuel James Browne, Bengal In • fantry. Lieutenant-Colonel John Pottinger, Bombay Artillery. Major Edward Wray, Bombay Artillery. Major Malcolm Scrimshire Green, Bombay Infantry. Major Frederick Turner Wroughton, Bengal Infantry. Major William Tod Brown, Bengal Artillery. Inspector-General of Hospitals Campbell Mackinnon, M.D., Bengal Establishment. Deputy Inspector-General of Hospitals Thos. Mackenzie, Bombay Establishment. Colonel William Sutton, 31st Regiment. Colonel George Marmaduke Reeves, 99th Regiment. Colonel Stanhope William Jephson, 2d Regiment. Colon,el Edward Walter Crofton, Royal Artillery. Colonel Thomas Pattle, Ist Dragoon Guards. - Colonel Francis Gregor Urquhait, let Regiment. Colonel Charles Pyndar Beauchamp Walker, 2d Dragoon Guards. _ _ _ Colonel John Hawkins Gascoigne, Royal Marines. Lieutenant-Colonel Kenneth Douglas Mackenzie, half pay, late of the 92d Regiment. Lieutenant-Colonel William MacMahon, 44th Regi. ment. Lieutenant-Colonel Andrew Browne, 44th Regimint. Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Lockhart Ross, 93d Regi ment, Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick *pence, 3 lit Regiment. Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Addison, 2d Regiment. Lieutenant-Colonel George James Ambrose, 3d Regiment. Lieutenant-Colonel William Wigram Barry, Royal Artillery. Lieutenant-Colonel Arnold Edward Burmester, 59th ment. Lieutenant-Colonel Joseph Oates Travers, Royal Marines. Li e utena:kt-Colonel Thomas Edmond Knox, 67th Regi ment. Lieutenant- Colonel John Wellesley Thomas, 67th Regi • ment. Lieutenant -Colonel Gother Frederick Mann, Royal En gineers. Lieutenant-Colonel James Robert Steadman Sayer, Ist Dragoon Guards. Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur a'Court Fisher, Royal En gineers. Inspector-General of Hospitals William Mure Muir, M.D. Deputy Inspector-General of Hospitals Samuel Currie, M.D. Commissary-general Philip Turner. CiA9QA ha§ 4111 gr0919115 1 Y Pig 9c to Ell@ °ldea 19Z the appointment of the undermentioned Officer of the Army of his Imperial Majesty the Emperor of the French, to be an Honorary Member of the Military Division of the Second Class, or Knights Commanders, of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, viz. :—M. Charles Guillaume Mari— Appoline Antonine Cousin-Montauban, General of Divi sion Commander-in-Chief of the French Laud Forces in. BANKRUPTS. Joseph Allcock, jun., miller Ilford, Essex. Carter Boddington, worsteedealer, St. Martin's-lane. Alfred Nixon, merchant, Liverpool. Joseph Buxton, drysalter, Manchester. William Smith, draper, Hanley, Staffordshire. John Copestake, - engineer, Derby. William Tommy Lloyd, miller, Llangunnidor, Brecon. Robert Oxley, maltster, Chippenham, Wilts. Stanley James Wood, cement manufacturer, Millwall. Edward Hunt, hop merchant, Southwark, Surrey. George Roper, builder, Bincombe, Dorsetshire. James Fell, tea merchant, Liverpool. Benjamin Cail, cowkeeper, Pavilion-place, Battersea. John Lock, builder, Barnsbury-grove, Islington. SCOTCH BANKRUPTS. Samuel Peacock and Thomas Todd, sole and individual partners of the Edinburgh Machine Sewing Company. William Bruce, draper, Hamilton. Walter Morison, cattle salesman, Glasgow. BANK OF ENGLAND. An Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth Victoria, cap. 32, for the week ending on Wednesday, the 27th dal of Feb., 1861: ISSUE DEPARTMENT. Notes issued X25,814,745 Government Debt £11,115,100 Other Securities .. 3,459,900 Gold Coin & Bullion 10,521,383 Silver Bullion .... 848,362 X25,844,745' 425,844,745 BANKING D Pro Xl prietors' Capi tal 4,553,000 Rest Public Deposits (in cluding Exche quer, Savings' Banks, Commis ssioners of Na tional Debt, and Dividend Ac- Government Secu- rities (including Dead WeightAn unity) Other Securities Notes Gold and Silver Coin 838,976 counts) -_ 5,820,870 Other Deposits 12,109,781 Seven Day and other Bills 586,479 5..36,506,345 bI.: £36,506,345 SHALL, Chief Cashier. Dated Feb. 2S, 1881. AVERAGE PRICE OF SUGAR. The Average Price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, com puted from Returns made in the wee.` ending the 26th day, of Feb., 1861, exclusive of the duties of Customs paid or payable thereon on the importation thereof into Great Britain : Muscovado, the produce of the British pos- PER CWT. sessions in America Muscovado, the produce of the Mauritius Muscovado, the produce of the East Indies 2 Bs Did Average price of the foregoing .. 25s nid COUNTRY .5.14.4E8T5. LIVERPOOL-MARCH 1. There was barely an average attendance of town and country trade at this morning's market, and we had a dull . business in wheat and flour, with no alteration to note in prices. Oats and oatmeal were slow of gale. Barley and peas little dealt in. Indian corn at about the currencies of last market day, with a dull sale. Beans steady. WAKEFIELD-MARCH 1 The supplies of grain here this week were moderate. To-day it is still difficult to make progress in sales, and prices are weaker. In beans, oats, and shelling a mited trade, and at lower values. Averages for the week : Wheat 1,451 qrs., at 59s Od Oats. -s Od 8ar1ey......... 1,139 ---a 40s 5P Peas • .... .. —s Od Beans 2l — 44 s 90 Rye — --5 --d EXETER—MAncit 1. Wheat, white.. 8s Od to 8s 3d 1 Earley. 4i3d to 5s 9d Ditto new .7s Od tols 9d I OW 2s 9a to 3s Od Flour, fins, 37s to —s; seconds, 35s to —8 per sack. CATTLE. There was a tolerable supply of cattle, and sales were at about last week's currencies. I Fat beef,p score, U's to 10s6d Ewes, per lb .... 6id to 7tl Pork carcases,do 105 to 11s6d Wethers, do. ad to 8d Sheep, per lb. Od to —d. Fat calves, d 0.... 6d to did Rough fat; 4id per lb: BRISTOL SUGAR.-MARCH 1. The sales on the spot this week have been limited, and the market closes quietly at prices rather lower than those of this day se'nnight. There have been sales of refiners' produce on a small scale, at about 6d decline. Rums— Mauritius, is 9d to is 10d per proof gallon. Molasses— No sales to report. COAL MARK (rrioes of Coal per Ton at .ET—MARCH 1. • t the close of the market s. d. Tanfield Moor 16 0 Tanfield Moor Butes l6 0 Bell's Primrose l4 6 Bower's West Hartley 17 0 Duddle' sWest Hartley 17 0 Byass's Bebside West Hartley ... ...17 0 Lambert's West Hart- N. d. Straker's West Hartleyl7 0 Walker Primrose 14 3 West Hartley 17 0 ley 16 9 Clark's West Hartley 16 3 Davison's West Hart- loy .. .17 01 Hastings Hartley ....17 0 Wylarn l7 0 Carway and Duffryn - Malting Carr's OriginalHartleyl7 0 1 Ships at market, Walls End. South Hett on 2l 0 Thorpe ... .19 "6 Kelloe Framweligate l9 0 North Hartlepool l6 0 South Hartlepool 19 6 Ha5we11...... 21 0 Hedley 19 0 Gosforth 18 ;9 Byron .....19 0 Hartlepool.... 2O 9 132; sold, 88. THE MAILS. MAILS DUE. Australia, Ceylon, and Mauritius (via South ampton) .. .. • . . Mar. 21. Do. (via Diarseilles) Mar.ls. Brazil and Cape Verde Mar. 6. Buenos Ayres, Monte Video, &c. Cuba and Mexico . , •• .. Feb. 28 Canada, &e. (via L'derry) Overdue. Cape of Good Hope, &c. .. March 3. China, Penang, and Singapore (via S'ampton) Mar. 6. Do (via Marseilles) Mar. 15. Gibraltar (via Southampton) .. .. Mar. 4. India (Caldatta), Ceylon, &c. (via Southampton) Mar. 4. Do. (via Marseilles) Mar. 16. India (Bombay), (via Southampton) .. Mar. 13. Do. (via Marseilles) .. .. Mar. 7. Lisbon .. .. Mar. Malta, Egypt, and Aden (via Southampton) .. Mar. 4. Do. (via Marseilles) .. Mar. T. Vigo, and Oporto .. Mar. 1. United States California, &c. , .. Feb. 28. Western Coasti of Africa, Madeira, Teneriffe .. Mar. 10. West Indies and Pacific, Carthagena, Cuba, &c. Feb. 28. [ADVERTISEMENT.] --Medicine always aggravates chronic diseases, but Du Barry's delicious Revalenta Arabica Foocl invariably cures them in a very short time. We extract a. few out of many thousands of gratitude from invalids. Cure 36,418. Rev. Dr. Minster of cramps, spasms, and. daily vomitings. Cure 26,418. Dr. Harvey of diarrhoea and debility. Cure 39,628. Dr. Wurtzer of consumption. 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