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fiitrb ?attton! SUN OFFICE, Seven o'clock. T RAOES.—(This Day.) (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) £5O PLATE FOR TWO-YEAR-OLDS c by Collingwood Apathy Six ran. RIDDLESWORTH STAKES. Walmer beat Davernay. BURWELL STAKES. Saraband Cannobie Jack Sheppard 1 2 . ........ 3 Fourteen ran. SALE STAKES. Furioso Barfleur... • 1 Four ran. SUBSCRIPTION PLATE. Flacrow Brazen .... Two ran. LATEST BETTING-. CHESTER CUP. 8 to 1 ag.t Hospitality (taken) DERBY. sto 1 aget Cannobie (offered). 16 to 1 agst Fly-by-Night (offered). 50 to 1 agst Barbarina colt (offered). IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS—(This Evening.) The Lord CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack at fire o'clock. On the motion of the Earl of CARNARVON a re turn was ordered of the various sums contributed to the Patriotic Fund. On the motion of the Bishop of OXFORD a copy of the letter addressed by the Archbishop of Canterbury to the Lord Chancellor was Ordered to be laid on the table. The same right rev. prelate gave notice of his intention to ask a question of the Lord President of the Council as to whether it was his intention to proceed with the Education Bill, after what had occurred in another place. ' THE POSTMASTER OF HUNTINGDON. -The Earl of SANDWICH inquired of the Postmas ter-General the reasons which had induced him to with draw from the prosecution of the postmaster of Hunting don at the late assizes ? The Duke of ARGYLL said, that in all cases involv ing prosecutions for felony, it was customary for the Government to consult the law authorities of the Crown. In the present instance that course had been adopted, And the result was, that the law officers did not advise a Prosecution. The party, however, was dismissed, as it was considered that he had been guilty of a grave offence in epenine a letter containing an order in favour of Mr. Du Barry, the proprietor of the article called A rabica Reva!enta, for a supply of that arti cle, with a view of obtaining a commission in the transaction, ho being one of the local agents, by sending it directly from himself. The ordinary rule had been adopted in this Case, and no difference was made as the noble earl had stated'between the Huntingdon post master and the Staffordshire official. The fact was in the one case a prosecution was advised, in the other it was thought advisable not to inqitute a prosecution. OXFORD UNIVERSITY. The Earl of DERBY complained of what he con sidered a discourtesy to the noble earl opposite (Har rowby) in laying on the table last evening, just before the rising of the ho use , a bill f or t h e amendment of the act relating to the University of Oxford. He certainly should have expected that ha would have been informed of the proceeding . ), considering his connection with the unverisity. ent The Earl of HARAOWBY assure d th e noble lord that not the slightest discourtesy was intended. The niehsure was not of any great importance, it being merely to remedy some technical defects, and he did not think it was necessary to mention the subject to the noble earl: - The London Docks Bill and the Knottingly Gas Bill were severally read a third time aid passed. Their lordships then allourned. HOUSE OF CONIPIONS—(This Evening.) The SPEAKER took the chair at the usual hour. A number of petitions were presented praying for a withdrawal of the grant to Maynooth. THE LATE SIR CHARLES lIOTHAM. Lord HOTHANI moved an address to her Majesty, praying for copies or extracts of a despatch from Sir Charles Hotham, inclosing the speech which he delivered at the opening of the Legislative Council of Victoria on the 23d of November, 1855, together with the answer to it. And also for a copy of a despatch from the :Acting-Governor of Victoria, announcing the death of Sir C. Hotham ; and of despatches from the Secretary of State on tha same subject.--Agreed to. FACTORIES. Mr. BROTHERTON . moved fora number of returns relating to the number of cotton, woollen, worsted, fax and silk factories subject to the Factory Acts in each county, and distinguishing each of the five descrip• tions of factories.—Agreed to. WESTMINSTER IMPROVEMENTS COMMIS SION. Sir J. SHELLEY presented a petition from the boad holders under the Westminster Improvement Commis sion, praying for an inquiry into the affairs of the com mission. Leave of absence was given to Mr. Cobden for three weeks. Mr. L. KING gave notice that on this day fortnight he should move for leave to introduce a bill to remove certain obsolete acts from the statute book. LOAN SOCIETIES. Mr. POLL ARD-LrRQUHART asked the Chief Se cretary for Ireland whether it was the intention of her Majesty's Government to introduce a new bill to regu late the Loan Fund Societies in Ireland, in conformity with the recommendation of the committee of last year ? Mr. HORSMAN said the Government had no bill in preparation. ADMINISTRATION BILL. Mr. HADFIELD asked the Solicitor General whether the second reading of the Wills and Administration Bill would be moved on Friday next ? The SOLICITOR-GENERAL said, if the order was arrived at befere ten o'clock on Friday night, he should proceed with it in the regular order; if not, he should postpone proceeding with it until a future day. - - THE MILITIA. Lord NAAS asked the Under Secretary for War, whether any rule would be laid down for the disembody ing of the several regiments of militia in the order in which they were embodied. Mr. F. PEEL said it was not intended to disembody the militia regiments in the order in which they were raised." Those regiments which would be disembodied first were those now in billet or in barracks. EDUCATION. Mr. HADFIELD asked the Lord Advocate, whether he intended to move the second readinc , of his two Edu cation Bills on Friday next, though deli►ered only on Monday last. The LORD-ADVOCATE said if the state of business permitted he should proceed with these bills on Friday next. THE FRENCH. WAR MEDAL. Colonel LINDSAY asked the - Under Secretary for War whether the French war medals which were said to have been transmitted for distribution to the troops were to be conferred on every officer and soldier who served in the Crimea, or whether the decoration was to be con ferred on such officers and soldiers as her Majesty may please to select for that honour ? Mr. F. PEEL said the French war medal would be conferred on 10 men in every 1,000. It would therefore be most desirable to select the most deserving. General .Codrington and his officers-were engaged in making the selection. FOREIGN TROOPS. Col. DUNNE asked the Under Secretary for War, . 2 ,t what time the Government have determined to dis band the foreign troops in the British service, whether now in England, in the East, or i n any foreign country; and whether such troops., when disbanded, amid re ceive any advantages of pension or emigration, which wou ld not be granted to . British troops of the line or militia ? - - Mr. F. PEEL said the foreign troops would be dis bandedas circumstances allowed. , " The foreign troops. were not entitled to receive a pension, but a gratuity would be given to officers of 12 months' pay, and the privates - to six months. They were entitled to a free passage home to the North American colonies or the Cape, whichever they might select. POLICE BILL. - In answer to a question from Sir J. PAKINGTON, • Mr. B. OSBORNE said if the state of health of the gteretarY for the Horne Department permitted, it was intended to proceed with the police bill on ' 7x that evening, irrespective of the - Vice.President of the Coucil of Education Bill. Lord PALMERSTON raid that it :was the intention of:the Government to go on with supply-on Friday. The Home 'Secretary was temporarily indisposed, and he Painterston).coul4 nut say if :the two bills named would be proceeded with on that night. - , . ' :. " --130 ViTICIENt .11A7ROOTIL - . . •Mr. SPOONEIt rote to move his annual motion with reference td-the encloWinerif (f Maynooth, viz, :--- i` That this house do resolve itself into a committee for the pinr - Poso .44 c° llB itlei'ilig the acti : for - the endowment of the • • Csllege of Maynooth, with a view . to the withdrawal of aiy!endOwitient out of the 'Consolidated fund, due regard being had to vested rightk.Or interests." He said that, often' -as lie bad had to. bring this subject under the consideration of the house, at no time did he feel the importance of. the subject:awl the difficulties he had to z ,eontend . with greater than at thepresent time, and he ° if possible, to take:a division on the reiso vP4l ltitiaiiifithout a debate. (Laugh'tei.; and . loud cries of '`•4.':a4l-Nitride.") The hon. gentleman refeirfA to the report the eemnaission of last year, which he said had been tattered having been tent - to Itskpae b iforeit I "'"" was submitted to the house, and proceeded to detail the course he intended to pursue on this occasion. The hon • gentleman first entered into a co ns id era ti on o f various parts of the report of the commissioners, in the course of which he remarked that from the manner in which the evidence was taken by the commissioners, the inquiry into the real working of the College of May nooth had turned out a mockery and a sham. The per sons examined by the commissi oners were persons whose feelings, if honest and sincere, and held the doc trines taught at Maynooth, would equivocate, if equivocation was for the benefit of their Church, and he (Mr. Spooner) contended that the question of endowing this college was a question which the house ought seriously to consider. It was not to be justified that we, as a Protestant nation, should be taxed and made to provide such books as Mr. M'Gee had enume rated in a work he had published, as containing the doctrines of the Romish Church. That publication he recommended to the perusal of the members of that house, and he doubted not but that after reading it their opinions would be much shaken as to the propriety of continuing the grant to Maynooth. The Roman Catholics, if true to their Church and its teachings, ought never to be content until they had put themselves on a par, at least, with the Protestant establishment in this country, and he called on the house to support him in maintain ing oar constitution in Church and State that had been purchased by the blood of our aicestors , and which, if they did not take care, would be taken from them. Roman Catholics were exercising an unconstitutional influence over Parliament, and were creeping into the Government, and obtaining undue power. Look at what the noble lord had done and the appointments that he had made, and it would be found to be the case. The noble lord was unconscious of the amount of evil he was thus bringing on the country, against which the whole country was loud in protesting. The only motive that induced him (Mr. Spooner) to come forward on this subject so unpopular in that house, was to do his duty as a Christian man—his duty to his country, and his duty to his God—and to do everything he could to put an end to this system which the Esta blished Church of this country had declared to be idolatrous. [LEFT SPEAKING.] LONDON GAZETTE—(This Evening.) FOREIGN-OFFICE, APRIL 14. The Queen has been pleased to approve of Doctor John William Mackenna as Consul-General in Australia for the Argentine Confederation. BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, APRIL 14. The Right Honourable the Lords of the Committee of 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, ea closing copies of the following French Imperial Decrees, regulating the export and import duties upon certain articles DECREE No. I.—Animals intended for agricultural pur poses, agricultural implements, and machines, as also agricultural products of all kinds arriving from foreign parts, duly certified at the frontier Custom-house, as in tended to be shown at the Univeral Exhibition (Concours 13 - nivel-awl), to be opened at Paris for the years 1856 and 1857, will be admitted accordingly, as the exhibitor may desire, either on deposit of the amount of import duty, under bond to pay tho duty chargeable, or under engage ment to re-export the animals or articles within four months, at the expiration of which period all sums de posited on account of such animals or articles will be ap propriated by the Treasury. Prohibited articles received for the Exhibition will be ad mitted to home consumptlm on payment of a duty of 20 per cent, upon their actual value. This charge will be the maximum amount of duty levied upon any article admitted to the exhibition. DECRE& No. 2.—The import duty upon freestone (pierres de taille), of 5 centimes per 100 kilos., is abolished. DECREE No. 3.—The town of Besancon (Doubs), is ac corded an entrepot for prohibited and non-prohibited goods, under the conditions prescribed by the laws and regulations, and particularly Article 16 of the laws of 27th February, 1832. BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, APRIL 14. The ±light Honourable the Lords of the Committee of 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 Minister at Naples, en closing the following translation of a resolution passed by the Neapolitan Board of Health with respect to the qua rantine to be observed by vessels coming from eastern ports, together with other sanatory regulations :- Ist. That all vessels coming from the Sea of Marmora, from the Bssphorus, and from the Black Sea, shall be sub jected to a quarantine of ton (lays, with the purification of the goods, and the airing of the articles in use, in I,tz rettos of the first class only. 2dly. That vessels coming from other ports of the Ot toman Empire and from Greece shall be subjected to seven days' quarantine of observation, to begin from the time that the purification of the articles in use shall take place. 3dly. That vessels coming from Malta and the lonian Islands, in order to be admitted to free pratique, shall be furnished with a Certificate from the Royal Consul, certi fying that in those islands, and especially in the military and civil hospitals, are no persons attacked with typhus fever with the symptoms lately manifested in the East ; in default of which they shall be subjected to the same quarantine of observation of seven days. 4. Lastly, that vessels on board of which, during their passage, there shall have been deaths or persons attacked with the above-mentioned disease, shall be refused admit tance. WAR DEPARTMENT, APRIL 15. 2d Regiment of Dragoon Guards—G. E. Logan, Gent., to be Cornet, without purchase, vice Powell, promoted. Scots Fusilier Guards—Ensign and Lieutenant T. F. S. Fothringham to be Lieutenant and Captain, by purchase, vice Gregory, who retires; Chas. White, Gent., to be Ensign and Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Fotheringhatn. Gth Regiment of Foot—Captain W. A. Stratton to be tajor, by purchase, vice Fraser, who retires ; Lieutenant Robert Unwin to be Captain, by purchase, vice Stratton ; Ensign J. E. Tewart to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Unwiu ; James George Cockburn, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Tewart. 7th Foot—Quartermaster-Serjeant William Cook, from the Grenadier Guards, to be Ensign, without purchase. Bth Foot--Ensign W. R. Webb to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Craster, promoted. 10th Foot—Lieutenant Edward Armstrong, from the 3cl West India Regiment, to be Lieutenant, vice Mont gomery, promoted, without purchase, to an Unattached Company. 17th Foot—Ensign Wni. Presgrave, to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Seagram, deceased. 26th Foot—Staff-Surgeon of the Second Class John Coates, M D., to be Surgeon, vice Grogan, who exchanges. 52d Foot—Lieut. Charles K. Crosse to be Captain, by purchase, vice Hewitt, who retires. 67th Foot —Capt. Geo. Wightman, from half-pay 48th Foot, to be Captain, vice Brevet-Lient.-Colonel J. B. Creagh, who exchanges • Lieut. Wm. D'Arcy, to be Cap tain, by purchase, vice iirightman, who retires. 76th Foot—Ensign Luke E. O'Connor to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Rising, who retires ' Richard William Beachey, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice O'Connor. 83d Foot—Ensign Thomas Gethin Coote to be Lieu tenant, without purchase, vice Metge, deceased. 93d Foot—Lieutenant Robert Crowe to be Captain, without purchase, vice Brevet-Major the Hon. A. M. Cathcart, whose Brevet Rank has been converted into Sub stantive Rank under the Royal Warrant of 6th Oct., 1851. 96th Foot—Captain Richard R. Cnrrer to be Major, by purchase, vice Hill, who retires ; Lieutenant Patrick Jas. John Grant to be Captain, by purchase, vice Currer ; En sign Wm. C. Geddes, to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Grant.; Wm. Osborne Barnard, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Geddes. Ist West India Regiment—Ensign Francis John Green, from the 3d West India Regiment, to be Lieutenant, vice Sykes, who retires. Ceylon Rifle Regiment—Lieutenant Alexander Maxwell Rutherford to be Captain, by purchase, vice Graham, who retires. LAND TRANSPORT CORPS. Assistant-Paymaster Maxwell Reeve, of the Royal Ar. tillery, to be Paymaster. BRITISH GERMAN LEGION. Ist Light Dragoons—Hannach Poten to be Cornet, vice You Bergen, whose appointment has been cancelled. 2d Light Dragoons—Carl Von Hollenberg to be Lieute nant. let Light Infantry Regiment—Captain Evans Crompton to be Major, vice Winneberger, invalided by a medical board ; Lieutenant Adolph Bliesener to be Captain, vice Noodt, invalided by a medical board; Lieutenant Carl von Bromsen to be Captain, vice Crompton, promoted; Ensign Francis Valentine to be Lieutenant, vice Bliesener, pro moted ; Ensign Heinrich von Bromsen to be Lieutenant, vice Bromsen, promoted. 3d Light Infantry Regiment—Ensign Richard Altham Cumberlege to be Lieutenant • Ensign Louis von Zastrow to be Lieut enan t ; D a Lacy Richard Frank Woolridge to be Ensign. 6th Light Infantry Regiment—The appointment of Sur geon Carl Wagner ' to bear date 15th Feb., instead of the 25th of that m on th as previously stated. BRITISH SWISS LEGION. 2tl Light Infantry—To be Lieutenants—Friedrich Goetsehz, Eugene Vanelli. To be Ensigns—Jacob Kohler, Alex. Rudolph Bonner, Joseph Frey, Joseph Wiki. let Scharfschutzen Company—Johann Spielmann to be Captain ; Eugene Thaler to be Lieutenant ; Hauer Ro bert Geiseler to be Ensign. PROVISIONAL DEPOT BATTALION. AssiStant-Quartermaster Thomas Moore to be Quarter. master, vice Cowell, who retires upon half-pay; Quarter master Thomas Walker, from the 71st Foot, to be Assis tant-Quartermaster, vice Moore ; Quartermaster William M`Kay, from 91st not, to be Assistant-Quartermaster. ITNAT rA. c HED.—Brevet-Major the Honourable A. M. Cathcart, 93d Foot, to have his Brevet Rank converted into Substantive Rank, under the Royal Warrant of 6th October, 1851. CHAPLAINS' DEPARTMENT.—The Rev. H. Hare to be Chaplain to the. Forces. - 4 QomuissailiAT DEPARTMENT.—Deputy Commissary satiat Clerk J. enera l Geo. Adams, C. 8., to be Commissary-General. To be Deputy Assistant-Commissaries-General--Cbramis tio&PlTAl STA FF. — Surg eon John Alder •C o • - • the 26th Foot, to be Staff a. Lindsey ; Commissariat Clerk S. B. _ , mmissariat.Clerk M. Winter. Coates, who exchanges. wood, M. 8., from the 4 Staff-Surgeon of the Assistant-Surgeon A geon to the Forces. The surgeon George Slaughter to be C _ B eon Grogan ,M. 8., from Assistant-Surgeon Fgeon of the second class, vice ve l a a n ss ted in a T d urkey. Acting waSsotetnes o llit o o o o z is t e s o i w o ii t :tob f e thT A eh s lo s om i c s aa t l a s Staff-Assistant to 13th Dec., 1854. Acting Assistant-Surgeon Wm. Stewart has been permitted to resign his appointment.. Acting Assistant . Surgeon H. B. Clarke has ceased 'to do - hi bejne; no longer occasion for his services. —.3 (I'll7 ' ther ! BREVET!, - The undermentioned officer, having completed three n rLa t i-tig S ke u ro r tf .. years' actual service in the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, to be promoted to be Colonel in the Army : Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Henry Somerset, of the Cape Mounted Riflemen. Captain George Wightman, of the 67th Foot, to be Major in the Army. Brevet-Major George Wightrean, of the 67th Foot, to Lieutenant-Colonel in the Army. The undermentioned Quartermaster, retired upon half pay, to have the honorary rank of Captain, under the Royal Warrant of Dec. 17:—Quartermaster John Cowell, half-pay, of a' Provisional Depot Battalion. Major F. Pinclli, of the Ist Regiment British Italian Legion, to have the honorary rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in the Army. _ i lizzoairlait. —The removal of Cornet C. IMO% from .• • iveren*,,••• THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL 15, 1856, the Ist Dragoon Guards to the 6th Dragoons, as stated in the Gazette of the Ist April, has been cancelled. a year, and they had besides a resident vice-consul, with 2,0001. a year. At, Naples they paid an ambassador 3,6001. a year, and a consul 500/. a year ; and at Lisbon there was a consul who received 6001. a year, and a vice-consul who did all the work, at 3001. a year. He was really anxious, for the honour of the country, to have the amount of the present vote fairly distrilented and judiciously ap plied among the consular body. He then came to the sub ject of superannuations and compensations. With regard to superannuations ho had nothing whatever to complain of, except that they were in very many cases by far too low in amount, considering the salary enjoyed and the age of the recipient. But the amounts granted as compensation were very large, and in many cases wholly unnecessary and uncalled for. The former consul at Tripoli was awarded 8501. a year as compensation for the abolition of his office ; and in that very year in which the office was abolished a new consul-general was appointed, with a salary of 600/. a year, which had since been raised to 800/. There was a case of a similar description at Venice. A gentleman 43 years of age held the office of consul-general, with a salary of 1,2001. a year. His office was abolished, and he received 6001. as compensation. The reason for that compensation was the abolition of the office, yet in the same year another consul was appointed, with a salary of 700/. a year. But the worst case was that at Chagres, where a gentleman only 38 years of age had been compensated with a pension of 1,000 . . a year on the abolition of his office; but, not withstanding that abolition and compensation, a new con sular establishment had been created, comprising a consul general, with a salary of 1,6001. a year, allowances 997/., and a vice-consul at 500/. a year. He wished to know how it was that when as office was abolished and compen sation given, another consul was immediately appointed, with a considerable salary ? With respect to the amounts granted for] superannuation, he theught they wore not sufficiently large to attract the most efficient men to the service; and there was this further injustice as regarded the consular department—that those employed in it had to submit to a deduction of 5 per cent, on their salaries, while those in the diplomatic department received their salaries without any such deduction. Thus a consul who had served 25 years at a salary of 5001. a-year, would have 625/. taken from him in the shape of deductions, and at the end of that period would only be entitled to the paltry allowance of 2501. a-year. With regard to the question of patronage, he confessed he put great faith in the now re gulations of the Earl of Clarendon, if they were properly earned out, on the subject of examinations for consulate offices. They would then secure a supply of consular ser vants who would speak the language of the country to which they were sent. With respect to the distribution of appointments hitherto, an analysis of the returns would speedily show who were the parties appointed to positions with salaries of 1,800/. 1,6001., and 1,2001. a - year , an d who got the situations Which ranged from 2001. to 5001. a year. He would suggest the adoption of the French sys tem, by which they secured a constant supply of pupil consuls, and those were regularly advanced in the service. lie thought the present system of paying consuls by fees was excessively injurious, and ho hoped the Government would take the subject into consideration with a view to abolishing it. The whole of the fees last year amounted ,nly to 31,0001., and if he had had the power of doing so, fie would have moved the increase of the vote to 200,000/. on condition that those fees were abolished, because he contended that our consuls should be our protectors abroad, and not tax collectors. lie thought, also, there were far too massy foreign consuls in the service of the . 2Sovernment. No matter how honest or how well dis dosed they might be, it was impossible they could feel for the interests of England as an Englishman would. With 'respect to consul merchants, he thought it was .nest important that no consul should b 3 in business. In cases where they were at present it was a constant source of jealousy and dissension, and it had, besides, the effect of frequently preventing our consuls obtain ing information so early as they otherwise would have done. If a consul failed in trade his official position was 'asneediately compromised, and where they were merchants they frequently had great temptations to advance their private emoluments in many ways, to the prejudice of ether traders. He thought it would be much wiser to pay them proper salaries. They would then have an undivided interest in their office and the country. Tho case of the Mermaid was a notorious instance of the manner in which the private interest of consuls clashed with the public. Phat vessel had 400,(03/. in gold dust on board, besides 30,000/. worth of wool, and on her way home touched at Pernambuco for fresh vegetables and water. The consul, who had the power to do so, ordered the ship into dock to be repaired, alleging that she was unseaworthy. Captain Bailey and the passengers remonstrated, as they were per fectly satisfied with the ship. The consul threatened that if Captain Bailey refused compliance ho woull report his conduct, and deprive him of his rating. Captain Bailey old sail for this country without any repairs being made, and arrived-safely at Liverpool. The consul carried out ass threat, and an inquiry was ordered by the Board of Trade, which resulted in the decision that Captain Bailey dad acted very properly in the course he had adopted, by which he saved 10,0001., which would otherwise have gono to the consul, who was entitled to 2i per cent. upon the gold dust had the ship been repaired. The continuance of such a system as this must be highly detrimental to the public interest. He hoped the three or four points he had mooted would be considered by the Government, and such men would be appointed consuls as would be most likely adequately to servo their eountry. Mr. KINNAIRD entirely agreed with his hon. friend in the propriety of bringing forward this motion. A coun try whose trade is so extended as ours ought to have able men to represent it—men trained for the purpose, and brought up iri habits of diplomacy. Had such a system as this been established before the beginning of the late war, he believed the Government would have been in possession of much more valuable information than they possessed. He believed there was great room for amendment, and hoped the matter would not escape the earnest attention of the Government. Mr. W. S. LINDSAY thanked his hon. friend for the very clear and able speech in which he had brought for ward this question. Trade was every day becoming more and more developed, and it was of groat importance to have thorough representatives of our commercial interests in the different ports of the world so as to advise our merchants, who wore now engaged in an ardent competition with the United States of America. Upon the whole, though some consuls might be too highly re m u nera t e d, he thought the consular body ill-paid. It was of great importance to have the best men, and he hoped a committee or a commission would be appointed to inquire into the subject. (Rear.) Lord PALMERSTON concurred with his hon. friend, who had begun the discussion, in the importance of the various duties which the consul had to perform. His hon. friend had very well explained those duties. The hon. gen tleman who had just sat down (Mr. Lindsay) spoke of periodical reports as to the resources of trade and other circumstances of the colonies in which they were placed. Now, it had been his (Lord Palmerston's) duty for many years to peruse these reports, and he felt bound to bear testimony to the ability with which they were drawn up. These reports were invariably sent to the Board of Trade, and were not, in consequence of their being so voluminous, laid before the house. His hon. friend objected to the sys tem of fees, but he was of opinion his hon. friend entirely mistook the nature of those fees. Originally consuls were paid by fees on shipping, but in 1826 or 1827, an act was passed, placing those fees on a different footing, and giving salaries instead. The fees were now only levied for the pur pose of enabling the consuls to pay the expenses of their office clerks, Sic. It was but in comparatively few cases that any fees went to the consuls merely as emoluments to them. As to the appointment of consuls, his hon. friend seemed to think improper selections had been made. He geoid most sincerely state that daring his time at the Foreign. office he had made the best appointments in his power. He did not think the duties to be disoharged in the consular office required any considerable previous educatimi or training. A man of good sense would be able, with a little application, to perform the functions of consul. Wh a t h a d occurred ' in that house illustrated the change of opinion which had taken place here upon this question. For a great many years, whenever the matter of the appointment of consuls was discussed, hon. members had urged the selection of commercial men. Now that was objected to. The only way to get a commercial man was to appoint one who was there, or had been engaged in commerce. He was inclined to think that though there was an economical advantage in appointing commercial men as consuls, yet that there were many political considerations which might intervene, private connections, and o th er c i rcumstances t h at would render them more or less liable to be visited by the Govern. ments under which they resided. As a general rule he would admit that it was not desirable to employ merchant consuls, but the house must not forget that they procured the business to be done more economically through mer chant consuls, and, therefore, if they were determined not to employ merchant consuls, they must increase the sala ries of consuls who wore not merchants. He felt bound to say that, as far as he knew, merchant consuls had never abused the influence which their appointments gave them, nor were they less assiduous in maintaining the rights of their countrymen. In respect to vice-consuls that was an other and a different matter. His hon. friend objected to the employment of foreigners. Bat the very cases he had mentioned showed the necessity of none others being em ployed but foreigners under the present system. The salary was only 100/. or 1501. a-year. The rule was, that where British subject s were res id e n ts i n a p l ace, and were duly qualified, they should have a preference, but where such were not to be found, the house would see that, ata salary of 100/. or 150/. a-year, it was almost impossible to find any one but a trader to perform those duties. The hon. gentleman said the salaries of consuls were not pro perly distributed, and pointed to Madrid. Well, the consul there received 2001. a-year, but was, in fact, only a con sular clerk, who corrected the returns sent from other con suls to Madrid. But as to the objection to the pay of con suls in Naples and Lisbon, there was no force, for these were ports to which much British commerce was sent, and the duties of consuls were consequently heavy and impor tant. His noble friend at the head of the Foreign-office had employed a system of examination for consuls, and had sent out a circular to our consuls requiring answers to a gent number of questions bearing on matters to which his hon. friend had adverted, and when answers and infor mation had been received, ho would be prepared next ses sion to agree to the appointment of a select committee to take into consideration the whole of the consular system. As to the question that the Government 'should have ap- pointed consuls who ought to have given information be fore the breaking out of the war concerning Russia, he could only say that the consuls at Odessa and at Taganrog had, in his opinion, discharged their duties. There were none in the Crimea, because the Russian Government would not permit any to reside there. Bat the house would recollect that consuls could not act as spies, but could only forward information, properly accessible, to their Govern ment—accessible by open means. The consuls at Odessa and Taganrog had forwardol much valuable information to the Government regarding the resources of the country, and all other matters properly within the scope of their knowledge. As to the high salaries of consuls-general, his hon. friend must recollect that such offices could not have been abolished without compensation. When a consul general was aboli had, as in Tripoli, a salary of 800/. a year was given instead of 1,600/., and the same was toe case in Venice. (Hear, hear.) Mr. WILLIAMS said that the young men who were se lected for the duties which they had to perform were, on the whole, fully paid. He found that in Turkey there were 42 consuls, who received amongst them in salaries the sum of 15,6351., and in fees, 5,7351., making together , 21,370 /. ; and those consuls were in addition to those employed in Egypt, and at Tripoli, and Tunis, who received about 13,000/. In the United States there were only 13 consuls, receiving 5,000/. a year, and to that country the groat mass of their exports were sent. At Constantinople ho found they had a consul-general at 1,5001. a year, a vice-consul at 4001., and another vice-consul at 300 /., besides having another consul at Scutari. The hon. member complained that in Spain there were two new appointments of consuls —one at Sual, and the other at Illilo—at salaries of 4001. a year. These matters required to bo fully inquired into. In answer to a question from Mr. BELLEW, Lord PALMERSTON was understood to say that it was not the intention of the Government, either directly or in directly, to interfere with the internal affairs of Madagascar. The vote was then agreed to. e On the vote of• 25,00 1, for defraying the extraordinary disbursements of the embassies and missions abroad, BOWYZA complained of the preieht - mtem of attaches in the diplomatic service. These attaches, upon whom the public service very materially depended, ought to be well pail, and care should be taken that none were appointed who were not capable for the position. The attaches ought to be put through a course of international law, and be well-read men, so that when a Minister re quired information he would be able to turn to them for it ; but Ministers could not expect this from young men who were not paid anything. He thought the diplomatic service required to be thoroughly reformed. Lord PALMERSTON said the subject to which the hon. and learned member alluded, of paid and unpaid attaches, belonged to the diplomatic establishment. The expenses of the diplomatic establishment were defrayed outof the charge created upon the Consolidated Fund, and about 160,0001. a year covered all the expenses of salaries and retired al lowances, whhsh could not bo exceeded. But the subject referred to by the hon. and learned member was very elf ferent to this, and ho apprehended that the attaches which he referred to in Turkey were the young men sent there for the purpose of becoming British interpreters of Turkish, and to supersede the Turkish dragoman hitherto employed. Tho Vice-Chancellors of Oxford and Cambridge had each the privilege of recommending a young man, selected by them, who were sent to Turkey to become interpreters, and these are the attaches here mentioned. What the hon. and learned member said against the system of unpaid attaches had some force. There were two classes of attaches, paid and unpaid. They began as unpaid, and after a period of time they were promoted and became paid attaches. It was quite true that the diplomatic service did not hold out those brilliant prospects which young men anticipated who were anxious to enter it. Theyspeut a long time, lee., as unpaid an.l paid attaches before they became secretaries of legation. He did not agree that the attaches should be well road in in ternational law and history in order that the Minister could turn to him for assistance. International law and historical facts were necessary to enable the Ministers at foreign courts to perform their duties, and he mast assume that they had risen to their posts through a long period of time, and that they wore better able to perform their duties than those young men who ware just appointed, or they would not be fitted for the responsible duties to which they had to attend. Mr. BOWYER explained that many persons were ap pointed to the pest of Minister without having gone through any training in international law whatever. Mr. EWART reminded the hon. and learned gentle man that there was now established a system of examina tion for public offices, and that for the future attaches would be examined in history, languages, and international law. Mr. WISE regretted that the salaries of the ambassadors wore still paid out of the Consolidated Fund instead of comine before tho house in the estimates. He wished for an explanation of an item of 1,4631 put down as lost by Ambassadors by exchange. Mr. WILSON explained that the English Ambassadors at foreign Courts had frequently to make large disburse ments for the public service; and it often happened that when, they drew bills for that purpose the rate of exchange was against them, and therefore it was but fair that they should be reimbursed for the loss they sustained. Mr. WILLIAMS dist not see why we should have Mi nisters at six of the petty Courts of Germany. He might pass over Hanover on account of the relationship existing between the King and her Majesty.; but that excuse die not apply to Wurtemberg. He believed that our first connection with that kingdom was whoa a princess of Englan I married the Elector, as he was then collect; but since her death there had been no Minister of that State at this Court. Mr. J. G. PHILLIMORE reminded the hon. gentleman that the ruler of Wurtemberg had never been canted an Elector, but that his former title was Duke of W urte in berg. Mr. OTWAY called attention to a charge of 21. 14s. 2d. —a piece of extravagance which the Prussian Minister had been guilty of for fetes and illarninatione—(laughter)--- perhaps iu rejoicing for the signing of the treaty of peace. He wished, also, to suggest that there should be a system of interchange established between the clerks in the Forlen office and the attechee. Lord PALMERSTON said that wherever such inter change could take place without interruption to public business it had bean dens. With regard to the observe Guns of the hon. member for Lambeth, ho had to assure him that it was highly important that England should be represented at the smaller States of Germany, as the other nations of Europe were. These States were the consti tuents of the German body, and exercised a considerable influence upon it, and during the war the conduct of Austria and Prussia, in a great measure, turned on the feeling of those States. Mr. B WART hoped that the suggestion of the hon. member for Stafford (Mr. Otway) in reference to the inter change of the clerks in the Foreign-office and the attaches might not bo lost sight of. The vote was then agreed to. On the motion that 116,537/. be granted as superannua tion and compensation to persons formerly employed in the public service, Mr. WILLIAMS called attention to the necessity of more attention than had yet been given to those superannuation allowances. He found one case in which a pension had been enjoyed for 65 years, and another in which a salary of 7001. a year had been enjoyed for 36 years. Then there were four persons who received 2001. a year as "commissioners of metropolitan buildings." Why were these persons not employed under the now board? Mr. WILSON said that these officers were appointed under a former act. By the act of last year appointing the Metropolitan Board of Works, it was enacted that those offieers employed under the former commission, who should not obtain employment under the new board, should be superannuated. It had not been possible to pro vide employment for these persons, and therefore they re ceived their allowances. Lord NAAS wished for some explanation how it hap pened that one counsel of the Irish office of London, per fectly competent to his duties, bad been superannuated, while another had been appointed to perform the same work. Colonel DUNNE complained that superannuations were frequently given to men in the full vigour of mind and body, and adverted to several cases of this kind in connec tion with the Irish board of works. Mr. WILSON said the office of counsel to the Irish office in London had been abolished in 1853, under the im pression that such an officer was not necessary. SUbee quently, however, it had been found necessary to appoint another gentleman to perform their duties, After a few words from Mr. WHITESIDE, Mr. HORSMAN said the present Government neither abolished the office of the counsel to the Irish office in London, nor pensioned off Mr. Batty. That was one of the ill-judged "reforms" in the Irish office instituted by the Marquis of Chandos under the Derby Aelministration. Last year the inconvenience of allowing each department to draw its own bills was discovered; and it was also found that having separate persons to draw bills for each department entailed additional expense. The Government therefore made an arrangement to secure the services of one of the experienced bill drawers in London, who had engaged for 500/. a year to give the whole of his time to the work of drawing bills for the Irish office. That was a sum not larger than was paid for drawing one set of bills, with regard to tenants' compensation, under the Darby Government. Mr. NAPIER said the whole of this discussion showed the necessity of having a department of public justice. He did not think that the drawing of the Tenants' Compensa tion and Law of Landlord and Tenant Consolidation Bill under the late Government was overpaid. He did not know who was the present draughtsman of the Govern ment bills, but the experience of a bill which he had lately drawn had convinced him (Mr. Napier) that he was very imperfectly qualified to discharge the duties committed to him. Mr. DISRAELI said the fact that the duties of the counsel to the Irish office were now done for half the salary that was paid when the Government of the Earl of Derby came into office, showed the wisdom of the policy whi c h they had adopted, and which had led to this desirable re sult. Lord NAAS entered into some details as to the changes in the Irish office which had been effected under the late Administration, and vindicated the dismissal of Mr. Batty. ijUA discussion ensued on the number of superannuations on the list, in the course of which Captain SCOBELL said there were 303 persons on the list of superannuation, many of whom retired at 32 years of age, and asked why these gentlemen were not absorbed in the Government otfices ? Mr BOWYER suggested that in future the superan nuation list should be divided into sections, instead of being voted in one sum and at once. Mr. WILLIAMS withdrew his amendment, and the vote was agreed to. The next vote was for 2,2701. for relief to Tonlonese and Corsican and other emigrants, which was ultirnatelyagreed to, after Mr. WILSON had explained the gr an t s were origi nally made under acts of Parliament for two generations. 2,0001. were then *asked for to defray the expenses of the vaccine establishment. Mr. STAFFORD asked for an explanation why a violent attack on vaccination by Dr. Gibbs had been printed by the Government. Mr. BROTHERTON said that the committee had re fused his application to• print this pamphlet, but in conse quence of a notice on the books by the hon. member for Finsbury that it should be printed, the printing committee consented to it, and it was printed. Mr. MICHELL defended the statements contained in the pamphlet complained of, and said he could prove vac cination had a tendency to produce death rather than pre vent it. He advised hon. members to'read and become acquainted with the subjects it contained. Mr. GROGAN condemned the house turning this pamphlet into ridicule, and said that it contained facts with reference to vaccination that every member ought to read. If Mr. Cowper had done so he would move the repeal of the Vaccination Bill. Mr. COWPER said that if it had not been for the state ment of the learned doctor (Dr. Michell) he should have thought the writer of 'the pamphlet in question was raving mad. (Laughter.) The vote was agreed to. The next vote was for 3501. for defraying the expenses of the Refuge for the Destitute. • • • Mr. COWAN wished to know if the Edinburgh Refuge for the Destitute was not entitled to Royal support equally with the one in question ? Mr. WILSON said that thin refuge was situate at Dalston, and was for the support of 25 convicts, females, removed principally irons the metropolitan prisons. H e could not answer the question of the honourable member, but adviSed hiuq to bring the question before the house for a specific grant. The vote was then agreed to. , A stun .of 4,0001. was next agreed to for the support 'of Polish refugees and distressed Spaniards. A suns of 4,371/. was voted for miscellaneous allowances formerly defrayed.from the civil list. On the proposal to vote a sum of 2,5 51. for infirmaries in Ireland, Mr. WILLIAMS considered that there was no necessity for this vote, now that the poor-law had been established iu Ireland. Mr. WILSON explained that the vote proposed was given under two old acts of Parliament, and was to be discontinued as soon as the present trusts had ceased. After a few words from Colonel DUNNE, 'The vote was agreed to. A sum of 1,2951. was next proposed for the support of the Foundling Hospital, Dublin. Alter some discussion, in which Mr. Blackburn, Mr. Williams, Mr. Herman, and Mr. Grogan took part, Mr. HASTIE moved that the vote be reduced by the sum of 1201. lOs. , being,lo per cent. on the amo unt , on the ground that the people of Ireland ought to support their own foundlings, and not make them a charge upon this country. After some discussion the committee divided, wh en there appeared— For the amendment Against it Majority against the amendment The vote was then agreed to. The next vote proposed Was 11,7901. for defraying' the expenses Of the House of Industry, Dublin. Mr. A. HASTIE propoied a reduction in the vote of 1,1791., in accordance with the recommendation of the com mittee, thates reductien of 10 per cent. should be made. Mr. WILSON defended the vote, stating that the Go vernment had already acted on the recommendation of the committee to a certain extent; and that, if they had top IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS—(YESTERDAY). (Continued from the Sun of last niyht.) _TORTURE IN INDIA. The Duke of ARGYLL said that the Government fully concurred in every word which had been said by the noble earl on the subject of torture in India, and he considered it his duty to say that her Majesty's Govern ment looked upon the subject with abhorrence, and regarded the system of torture as not only injurious to the best interests of the empire, but opposed to every consideration of justice and good policy. It was hardly three years since both houses of Parliament were engaged in an inquiryrespecting the renewal of the char ter to the East India Company. So far as the committee of that house was concerned, he was not aware that a single whisper had been heard on the subject of the prac tice of torture in India, and he should certainly have ex pected that had it been a known fact that either the British Government or that of the East India Company practised it, it would have formed one of the most pro minent features of the inquiry. There was, therefore, it would appear, a most remarkable degree of ignorance on the subject. The practice of torture in India was first die. cos'ered in consequence of a statement made in another place, to the effect that torture was practised in Indic. That statement was denied by hon, members connected with the East India Company, and by the right hon. bark. the then President of the Board of Control. Her Majesty's Government,on thus hearing for the first timeof the cus tom of applying torture,appointed a commission to inquire into the subject, and within ten months from the date of the issue of that commission the evidence and report on the subject which was now before their lordships. There had therefore been no want of energy on the part of the Government in inquiring into the custom, and it was most unfair to charge anything like an encouragement of the system upon the British Government. Neither wa it true that the system had originated with the British Government. On the contrary, it was one which had been inherited from the empires that had preceded us. The noble duke referred to the report of the commission ers, from which he read several extracts, showing that the system of torture was one that was ingrained in the whole social system of India, and was invariably prac tised by the inhabitants in every relation of their life. The great ignorance which existed on the subject of the existence of torture, notwithstanding its extensive prac tice, arose from several causes—among others, the very large extent of the territory entrusted to the magic trates, and the fact that nothing of the nature of torture is ever inflicted in the presence of Europeans. Severe extracts were read from the report of the commissioner= in confirmation of this explanation as to the causes of the existing ignorance on the subject of torture. In for mer years it appeared that the subject, had been brought under the notice of the Board of Directors, and since the year 1819 there had not been less than ten occasions of which the courts of justice had issued orders to prevent the continuance of this practice. With reference to the junction of police and revenue offices, to which the noble earl had referred, the commissioners in their report con demned the system in the strongest manner. But when they found that the system was one advocated by such high authority as Sir Thomas Munroe, it was hardly fair to make charges against the British Govern ment and the East India Company for having adopted this system of the union of the two offices. The more important question, however, which the house had to consider was, what steps ought to be taken in order to put an end to this abominable system. Lord Harris, the Governor of Madras, had expressed himself strongly in favour of adopting some most stringent steps in order to put a stop to the system, and one of his suggestions was the employment of a much larger number of Euro. peen servants abut there existed very great difficulties in the way of giving this increased employment. He (the Duke of Argyll) trusted that it would be found possible to effect a co-operation between the revenue and police services, and to put an end to the system of the annual assessment of land, which was found to be productive of so many evils. He was happy to find from a despatch laid before the house, that evening, that already the Court of Directors of the East India Company had di rected the attention of the civil servants to the necea sity of substituting a fixed for an annual assessment of the land. The whole subject was at present, under the consideration of her Majesty's Govern. ment, and as the resolutions proposed by the noble lord would not be productive of any practical advan tage if agreed to, but would on the contrary convey an erroneous opinion if adopted by the house in the original shape, be would add a few amendments to the resolution, the effect of which would be to show that the system of torture bad not been originated by the British Government, and that its practice had been de clared to be illegal by the British Government. The noble duke concluded by moving his amendments accordingly. The Marquis of CLANRICARDE agreed with the noble duke in the opinion expressed by him as to the ignorance which existed by all the leading statesmen of the country on the subject of the existence of torture in India, and believed that had such a system come to their knowledge, they would have adopted the most energetic measures for the purpose of putting an end to the practice of torture. He trusted that effectual mea sures would be taken to abolish the system which had g.) long prevailed, and which had been so justly cen ured. (Hear.) The Earl of ELLENBOROUGH said he had been closely connected with Indian affairs for a period of five years, and during the whole of that time he never enter tained the slightest suspicion that the practice of torture existed in any part of India, and if he had heard such a charge made before reading the book on their lordships' table he should have repudiated it with indig nation. But it was now certain that the practice had constantly existed, in a more or less degree ; a practice derived from a Mahommedan government, but continued by our own. (Hear.) We had now held those countries or more than fifty years, and it was to him a matter of the greatest surprise and regret that silence should have been so completely maintained on the part of those who were cognisant of the facts, and that they should never I have been brought prominently under the notice of the head of that Government. (Hear, hear.) He would not attribute connivance with the practice to the members of the civil service in India, but he must be permitted to say that he did not think the officers of that service had shown the sensitiveness upon the existence of so dreadful a crime which might have been expected from the feelings of English gentlemen. (Hear, hear.) It was most extraordinary that, except in a very few cases, the punishment for these offences should have been so strikingly inadequate—(hear) —and that in so many cases the magistrates should kayo held the offence to be not proved, and that in others they should have consented to a compromise between the tortured man and the person by whom the torture was inflicted. (Hear, hear.) He looked upon these things with more than regret, and hoped the Home Government and the Government in India would make the gentlemen exer cising authority under them fully understand that the administration of British India was hereafter to be con ducted in a very different spirit from that in which it appeared to have been conducted. (Hear.) Lord CONGLETON was satisfied that no beneficial result could be expected until there was a separation be tween the revenue department and the police. Those two classes had entered into a combination to pillage the people for their own advantage, and as far as the natives were concerned, it was a state of lawless barbarism. He trusted the noble duke and the Government would take speedy measures for the reparation of the two depart ments. The Earl of ALBEMARLE said it had been re emvai rl evils re marked, wouldin taking t c h t e e d c t o h u a r n se th h o e se rec h o e m c m on e d n e d m ed n , ed g . rea ß te e r could hardly conceive worse evils than those he had mentioned that evening could, under any circumstances, prevail. (Hear.) The resolutions as amended were then agreed to, The house adjourned at 20 minutes before 9. HO USE OF COMMONS.—(YEsuntDAy.) SUPPLY. The following votes were agreed to : -- For the civil establishments on the west coast of Africa, 10,2301. For the Government of St. Helena, 10,8561. For Heligoland, 9601. A vote of 12,0001., to defray the expense of the support of captured slaves, was agreed to. On the vote of 167,4981. for consular establishments abroad, Mr. WISE said that the subject of consular establish ments was one of very great importance. Considerable im provements had been made with regard to them in 1831,and the subject had since been frequently discussed in commit tees. In 18',0 a committee was appointed to inquire into the subject of the diplomatic and consular services. They made a report on the diplomatic service, and recom mended that the subject of our consular establishments should be inquired into' the following year by a commit tee. That committee had, however, never been appointed. Re trusted that inquiry would be made into the subject. The duties of our consuls were of the most important and responsible character. The consuls in the Levant, for in• stance, had both civil and criminal jurisdiction, and hav ing to perform such important duties, it was necessary that this country should have men of high principle and independent character for their consuls there. He trusted the Government would propose a commission to inquire , Into the state of •tho consular establishment in the Levant. He did not mean in any way to cast any reflections on our consuls in the Levant; there wore many of them men of the highest abilities and attainments. There was no doubt, however, that there were many of ourconsuls incapable for the positions they held. He should do wrong if he omitted to mention, as instances of men of merit and ability in the consular service, the names of Mr. Grant and Mr. Calvert, who, with many o th el s, bad served the country so well i n the last war, He (lir. Wise) thought that charges for passports and the like fees ought to be abolished, eiren -though the salaries of the consuls had consequently pro• portionately to be increased. The hon. gentleman referred to passages from the reports of the Times' Commissioner, the E trl of Carlisle's work, and Dr. Sand with's " Siege of Kars," to show that the reform of our consular system was much needed. With respect to the financial part of the question, the total sum proposed by the Government for our consular service this year was 167,0001. He did not object to that amount, but to the way in which it was dis tributed. The whole number of persons employed in the consular department was 533. There were 27 consuls general, 119 conuls, 228 English vice-consuls, and the re mainder were foreign vice-consuls. Since 1848 there had been a considerable increase in the number of consuls, some of that increase having naturally arisen out of the increase of our trade "with China and elsewhere. But, p.t the same time, it struck bins that some of our con s ul s were Unnecessary and might be removed , altogether. For, iestatlce, at Constantinople, where our embassy cost us b t i,h tiOOut.nta-yienara,dhasitsisnw, which cost u fornonecessitys2,o a o consular ce ornita;: They had au embassy at litadrid at au expense of 6,000 h v~ r~ ~.4 COMMISSION SIGNED BY LORDS LIEUTENANT Queen's Own Regiment of Yeomanry Cavalry—Seymour Lionel William Dawson Darner, Gent., to be Cornet, vice Bower, promoted. Royal Montgomery Rifles—James Duncan Thompson, Gent., to be Ensign, vice Corrie, promoted ; Frederick Loinsworth, Gent., to be Ensign, vice Vachell, promoted. let Somerset Regiment of Militia—Ensign Herbert Parker Owen to be Lieutenant, vice Chorley, placed on the retired list. 2d Somerset Regiment of Militia—Ensign Charles Framer to be Lieutenant, vice Stoodley, appointed to the 16th Light Dragoons; William Peard Jillard, Gent., to be Ensign, vice Fraser, promoted. 3d Regiment (Light Infantry) of West York Militia— Ensign John Forbes Mosse to be Lieutenant, vice Blake, appointed to the 89th Regiment • Ensign Athelstan Owen Powell to be Lieutenant, vice Bell, appointed to the 37th Foot ; Lorenzo Nicksen Mosse, Gent., to be Ensign, vice Powell, promoted. 4th Regiment of West York Militia—John Henry Steere Harrison, 'Gent., to be Ensign. North York Rifle Regiment of Militia—Lieutenant George Richard Witbingtou to be Captain, vice Hill, ap pointed to the 24th Regiment. sth or Royal Elthorne Light Infantry Regiment of Middlesex Militia—Ensign Henry Short to be Lieutenant, vice Leslie, resigned; Robert Bedford Hitchcock, Gent., to be Ensign, vice Short, promoted. West Suffolk Regiment of Militia—Alfred Robert Jen nings, Gent., to be Lieutenant, vice Lord Hervey, pro moted. Ist Regiment of King's Own Staffordshire Militia — Charles John Mott, Gent., to be Ensign, vice Marston, promoted. Warwickshire Militia—let Regiment—Ensign - William Augustus Norton to be Lieutenant, vice Tibbits, appointed to the Line. Royal Glamorgan Light Infantry Militia—Lieutenant Henry Firth to be Captain. Elst Kent Regiment of Militia—Ensign Herbert Gauntlet Panter to be Lieutenant, vice Inverarity, promoted ; En sign George Wildes to be Lieutenant, vice Griffith, pro moted ; Robert George Wynne Wrench, Gent., to be Ensign, vice Schlotel, prometed; Hugessen Edward Snatch bull, Gent., to be Ensign, vice Howell, promoted. BANKRUPTCIES ANNULLED. Thomas Cooper, farmer, Wootton, Isle of Wight. Robert Price, iron mauufacturer, Piccadilly, Middlesex BANKRUPTS. Nathaniel Ward, dealer in potatoes, Farringdon-market, to, surrender, April 25, at twelve, and May 29, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Ball, fficial assignee, Coleman street-buildings ; Pearce, Giltspur-street. Augustus John Phillips, shipowner, Oakley-street, Chel sea, April 29, at eleven, and May 2 0, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Johnson, official assignee, Coleman street; Galsworthy, Old Jowry-chambers. Colpitts Harrison, wine merchant, Liverpool, April 30 and May 19, at eleven, at the Livorpool District Court. 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Edwards, official assignee, Sambrook-court, Baainghall-street ; Buchanan, Wal brook b uild Daniel Davies, provision and general dealer, Cardiff, April 23, and May 26, at eleven, at the Bristol District GE' nut. Acraman, official assignee, Bristol; Bevan and Girling, Bristol. James Flood the younger and Cornelius Robert Schal ler, auctioneers, Charles-street, Middlesex Hospital, April 26, at twelve, and June 6, at half-past eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Pennell, official assignee, Guildhall chambers ; Goren, South Molton-street, Oxford-street. John Taylor, jun., licensed victualler, Woolwich, April 24, and May 30, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Whitmore ; official assignee, 13asinglial1-street ; Pain, Gresham-street. John Joseph Diaper (and not Draper, as advertised in last Friiay's Gazette), victualler, Mansell Arms Tavern, Wimbledon, Surrey, April 19, at eleven, and May 31, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Nicholson, official assignee, Basinghall-street ; Chiding, Gresham-street. SCOTCH SEQIJESTR A.TIONS. James Watt, outfittor, Glasgow. John Morrison, builder, Dunblane. James Tullis, builder, Glasgow. COURSE OF EXag. 11 19";,i Ditto, throe months .. 12 2 1 / 4 ,; Rotterdam •• .• •••• •• •• 12 21,• ; ', Antwerp 25 67%! Brussels •••••• •• •• • • • • 25 67%1 Hamburgh •• .• •••••• 13 12 Altona ••• • •• •• •• •• • • 25 45 ANUE.— THIS Day. Gibraltar .. .. ••... • . • Leghorn .. •• • • • • •• . 31 1034 Genoa Venice •• • • •• •• . • • • • •. Naples ......... ..... .. 43q4 Palermo .... .. Messina ... ... 131.4 Lisbon ...... Oporto .............. • • 53 Rio Janeiro ..... . • • .... Buenos Ayres • • New York,6o days' sight Philadelphia .... ...... Ditto, three months .. 25 773 Marseilles 25 7734 flourdzaux . •••• .• •• Frankfort-on Maine.... 121% Berlin •• •• •• •• •• •• •• •• Triene•••• •••••• •••••• 10 25 Petersburg •• •• •• •... 37 Madrid ••• •• •• •••, •• ••• •••• •••• •• •.•• 50 Barcelona •••• •• •• •••• PRICES OF BULLION, FEB OZ. Foreign Gold in Bars £3 17 9 Portugal Gold Coin .. 0 0 0 Mexican Dollars .... 0 5 0 New Dollars .... •• 0 0 0 Sliver in bars 5 1 evill a ................ Couatry iviaricezs. CHELMSFOI We had to-clay a large supi dull trade, and prices must best, and 2s for inferior sa for, and the turn dearer. A' value, with but little doing. Wheat, white, old, per s. s. qr. 52 76 new 58 73 red, old 54 70 new 51 68 Barley 30 38 Chevalier 33 42 Grinding 2B 36 Malt 71 75 Chevalier 73 77 D-Aitir, it. ply of wheat, which caused n be quoted le lower for the apples. Barley was inquired 11 other things unaltered in B. B. Oats, per qr 22 28 Peas, Partridge ... 38 4C White 41 47 Boiling 4l 4S Dna 37 3S Beans, Tisk 35 37 Harrow ticks 31" 30 Mazagan 34 $1; Ditto, new 33 34 COLCHESTER- APRIL 11. A good supply of wheat, and prices must be noted is to 2s per qr. cheaper. Barley continues in demand, at very full prices. Beans the turn lower. Peas scarce, and tho prices well supported. _ Prices to-diy - were as follow ;—Wheat, white, 72s to 76s ; red, 64s to6Bs ; barley, Us to 42s ; oats, 21s to 26s ; bea/sF, Mazagan, 34s to 36s ; middle and small, 31s to 44s ; peas, whito, 46s to 435 ; grey, 3Gs to 40i. Official Statement of the Quantities of Corn, &c., receive. in the port of London, from the following ports, fran the 7th to the 12th April, both inclusive. . . .• ce 4. 3 ra 5 11, g o Colchester —l 350 ' 60 Harwich 1 141 Leigh I 651 16 51 Mahlon, l4BO, 40 1 883 184 53 35 , 870 KIRKCALDY—APRIL 12. Fair supplies of wheat and oats, and only a few sacks of barley. Sales ready for all kinds of grain. Wheat and barley same as last week. Oats sold slowly, and inferior were 6d to is per qr. cheaper. Wheat. Barley. I Oats. j Beans. I First Second 72s Oct I 42s Od I 303 Od I Os Od Third 6os Od 36s Od j 26a Od Os Od COAL MARK/ Prices of Coal per ton at M-APRIL 14. the close of the market. Wallsend, &o. B.d. Bate's West Hartley 17 0 Byass's West Hartley .. 18 0 Holywell l6 G Howard's West Hartley Netherton , 17 9 North Percy Hartley l7 Tanfield Moor l4 Tanfield Moor Butes 14 :)1 Walker Primrose l4 011 e,6. I tletten Lyons Main ....17 0 Kepler Grange l7 9 Pensher l6 6 Plummer l7 0 Russell's Hetton 17 9 i Bouth Hetton 18 3 Stewart's 18 6 Caradoc l7 3 Cassop 17 3 Hartlepool lB 6 Eleugh Hall 17 0 Kelloe 17 6 South Hartlepool l7 0 South Kelloe lg 6 ,Pees lB 6 West Kelloo 16 0 Whitworth l6 0 Birchgrove Graigol a 21 9 i 0 f Sold Wallsend, &o. Gosforth . 16 C Harton l6 3 fledlep 16 3 Riddell l6 0 Wharncliffe l6 f; Eden Main l7 G Framwellgate lB C Haswell 18 Hetton lB 6 Ships at market._ 121 _ - NEW SELLONITE ESTABLISHMENT.—The house and grounds known as the Priory in Bradford, Wilts; are about to be taken on a long lease by some ladies in con section with Miss Sellon, of Plymouth, and others, bet ter known as the Sisters of Mercy, and it is their in• tention to open an establishment similar in all respect to those already in existence at Plymouth and Bristol. Great alterations are intended to be made in the pre. mises, and some new buildings added for the purpose of providing accommodation for the numerous members and pupils who are expected to reside there. BUCKINGHAM GREAT STOOK FAIR, April 14.—There was an extraordinary supply of both cattle and sheep at . this fair, with a good attendance of buyers, and the weather being favourable for the country, there was an active demand for grazing beasts, particularly for Devon, Hereford, and short-horned steers for grazing purposes, which made 101. to 121. per head, an advance of fully 1/. per head over the prices obtained at Barnet last week. Middling and inferior beasts were also in good demand at improved prices; milch cows, of the Yorkshire breed, realised 161. to 211. each, including their small calf. Sheep, the best wether hoggete, in the wool, advanced from 3s. to se. each more than last week. Young horses in good demand at high figures. Pigs, from the little stickler to the bacon hog, were a trifle lower, and nearly every head of stock was sold out. ELECTIONEERING RU3IOURE IN THE NORTH.--The liiverness Advertiser believes that, in the event of a general election, Mr. F. Dundas will meet with no op position in the Orkneys, and that Mr. Traill, now that Lord Berriedale is elevated to the peerage, will not vacate Caith ness . Si r J ames M a thi eson ' s h o ld on Ross and Cromarty has been made firmer since 1852 ; and, although a feeli ng i s prevalent in InverneSs•shire favour 7 able t o th e removal of Mr. Bailie, it is probable—chiefly, perhaps, from the great expense involved in contesting that county—that he will not be disturbed. Major h n o ( l i d i t t h L ir rn s e e , a : s ti b ze a is se a cu s r e e du te lo n u e s re N . vhi ß i.p u e t r b o o f th m Cumming B ruce and Mr. George Duff are supposed to ti W tat ic .! F d ' opposition. In Wick there is almost a certainty of a very keen and confused 'struggle. '..~, a .;~ done so entirely, it was owing to circumstances over which, at present, they had no control. The committee then divided. The numbers were— Fo.• the amendment Ag dust it Majority against the amendment —147 The vote was then agreed to. The following votes were also agreed to : 5001. for the Female Orphan House, Dublin. 1,2151. for the Sick Hospital, Dublin. 5001. for the Lying-in Hospital, Dublin. 7951. for Dr. Stephens's Hospital, Dublin. 1,9001. for the House of Recovery, Cork-street, Dublin. 6001. for the Meath Fever Hospital. The CHAIRMAN reported progress, and asked leave to sit again. The house then resumed. PUBLIC WORKS BILL. This bill was read a third time and passed. PUBLIC WORKS (IRELAND) BILL. This bill was read a third time and passed. BANKERS' COMPOSITIONS BILL. On the motion, by the CHANCELLOR of th;EXCHE QUER, for the second reading:of this bill, Mr. GLYNN said he would not oppose the bill, bat would have bean pleased if the Chancellor of the Exche quer had given the house some idea of the -views of the Government upon the matter. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said he understood that no objection was to be offered to the bill, which merely continued for a year a clause in the act of 1811, whichdif not continued, would expire in the month of August cf the present year. It had been represented to him that some bankers in the country would feel it con venient for the act to be continued, if the terms were en larged. Ho had said that he should have no objection to an enlargement, on condition that if a larger term than a year were conceded in committee, any legislation upon the subject should be subordinate to that which might take place in reference to the bank. He might say, in reference to the Bank Act of 1844, what he stated at the beginning of the session, that Government would have no objection to a committee of inquiry, if any gentle man would propose it. He did not know whether it was the wish of the house, at that period of the session, to in• quire into the operation of the Bank Act; but, if it should be desired, her Majest•y's Government would not offer and objection. At the same time he did not think that, at that period of the session, it would be able to make any great progress with the inquiry. He did not see how it would be consistent with the duty of the Government to make any proposition of this sort to the house without previonelY hearing opinions as to the operation of the act during the twelve years that had elapsed since 1845, that act having introduced important principles which fixed a legislative limit to the issue of the Bank. Mr. SPOONER was certainly very much surprised at what had fallen from the Chancellor of the Exchequer, be. cause only a few weeks ago it was sug g ested that an in° quiry should take place, and the right hon. gentleman ad' witted that some inquiry would be very proper. Both the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the First Lord of the Admiralty said that, although an inquiry was necessary, that was not the time for it, and now the Chancellor of the Exchequer came down and said it, was too late. (Hear, and laughter.) Of this he (Mr. Spooner) was certain, that they would never have a system of circulation fit to carry on the business of the country so long as the act of 101 4 continued in existence. The bill was then read a second time, and ordered to be committed on Friday. BURIAL GROUNDS (IRELAND) BILL. The house then went into committee on this bill. After some discussion, clauses up to nine were agreed top when Mr. SPOONER, moved that the Chairman report pro' gress, and the house resumed. MEDICAL QUALIFICATION BILL. _ . This bill was read a second time, and ordered to be re ferred to the . seleA committee sitting upon the Medical Practitioners' Bill. On the motion of Col. DUNNE the following returns were ordered :—Return of all those guns which have burst at the siege of Sebastopol, stating the description and ea• libre of each gun, number of rounds fired when the gun became unserviceable, and supposed cause of such bursting. On the motion of Mr. COWPER, the following names were agreed to as the committee on the Medical Practi tioners Bill :—Mr. Cowper, Mr. Headlam, Mr. Brady, Mr. Craufurd, Sir William Heathcote, Mr. Napier; Lord Grosvenor, Mr. Black, Cul. Dunne, Mr. Bell, Air. Strutt, Mr. A. Hastie, Mr. Howard, and Mr. Percy. The house then adjourned at a few minutes after ons o'clock. MARKET NE'WS.—(This Day.) HAY MARKETS. SMITHFIELD.—Meadow hay, 4/ Os to 51 15s • clover do.. 4/ 5s to Cl 15s ; and straw, 11 4s to 11 9a per load.. Trade steady. CUMBERLAND.—Meadow hay, 4l 4s to Si 15s; clover do.. 4/ 8s to 6; 12s ; and straw, 1/ 5s to 11 Ds per load. A model - ate supply and a fair demand. WIIITECHAPEL.—Meadow hay, 4/ Os to 5/ 15s; clover do., 4/ 5s to 6/ 17s ; and straw, 11 4s to 1/ 85 per load. Trade rather dull. COLONIAL. TEA.—Much dullness is perceptible in the market, sea purchasers aro awaiting the issue of Thursday's sale before entering into any transactions of importance. SUGAIL—FuII rates have been asked for both colonial and foreign descriptions, but home dealers and shippers have not shown a disposition to purchase largely at the pre. sent rates. There are large public sales advertised. COFFEE. —The demand has slightly improved, and better prices have bsen realised for both plantatioa and native Ceylon. RICE.--A moderate business has been done, but pricee have undergone no alteration. Rum.—The market continues steady, previous pried having been well supported. TALLOW.—A rather better demand has been experienced• The present rates are—P.Y.C. on the spot 48s to 48s ads last three months 48s 3d to 48s 6d. SEABORNE MAIM. (1 , 1 signifies that the mails are sent from the General Poet 01110 0 ly the night—and M by the morning--despatch.) I Day when made ui From wh it , Irv.° COUNTME9. in General Post- Port dur ii Gaze, London.* Dispatched. , Eng'sed• • -____ ~_-......---# --- Amerlea(byllrit.pack)N Every Friday • • Liverpool .., April 11 A.ILICTIOR (by United Ste. packet) .......... N ••••• • • - Liverpool,,. imerlea (by U. States packet) ...... ~.„.N I ••••• • • • - Southampton -Lustralla (via • South ampton) .... ...... MI •••••• •••• •• • • Southampton Ditto (via Marseilles) N • • • • - • • • • Dover .... Ditto (via Cane of Geed thicertal Hops) ............N &frio. ( West Coast) ...N 93 d of t •• 00000 ..•, the month.. Plymouth .. vexandria......... N 8, 9, 24, & 30 of 01. Do ver .... ... r ii„, i d r i a.......... m,4th & '2oth of moth Southampton i Bahanma ........... hi ,17th of the mom , Senthamptcut 3eigium ......... —NI Daily .... —••• • • • Dover ...... Daily 3razil ......„ „ ,„ „ NI ,9th of the month.. Southamptot, April IS. iluenos Ayres ........ 31 9th of the month.. Southampton April 16 ':ape of Good Hope ..N Various port Uncertnit Cape of Good Hope ..N , Cape de Verde .. ...N 9th of the month Southampton . Ceylon (sec India) Ceylon ............ ..N 2 .l 7Bl ,n l7 W th ed a * m F ot ri tt itio B" u t th ha am m p p C mit he.n li ft . i . I . 5 . 1 . e . 5 . ........• :. ... M N Once' a month ....I !April 20 China .... .ttoonlTu.Th•Sat 8,13,18,23,&28 °fn. Dover •• . .. . Constantinople ......N ' c i mstantimp/o .. .... ltth 20th of mon. Southampton i rwice daily ...... Dover ...... twieedailY Cont. of Europe M & N! I.l;gypt (sea India) I I Erratic() ........ Ai & NlTwice daily •• •• •• Dover .... , Twicedaal (Gibraltar ..........11, 4, 7, 17,20, 27 tfn) Soulkamptoi, Greece (eco India) 1 , reytown .......... m 2nd & 17th of mon Southampton liamhurgh .... „ .. „ N } Tuesday & Friday London ..... ilevannah ........... NI 2nd of the moat , Soutliaraptoi. ,May 2 [Tolland .......„. ~ isi Daily.. Dover...„ pally aonduras .......... Ni 17th c !the month. Southampton (D ally India (viaSouthampt.) ll l4th v 20th of mon, Plymouth .. '4 & 20 ttl India (via Marsellles)3l 9th& 2bth of month Dover .... . • 1 lonian Wes (see India) 7, 17, & 27 of men Dover...." , Ireland ........ LI & N ITwice daily ...... Rol; head , .. ,Twieedaftl Li5ben..............341 7, 9 , 1 7, & 27 of in. Southampton April 17 Aadeira .... • • ...... 311 9 th of the month Soathamptopl waaaira ............ 1 ., ii3d of month .... Liverpool ...1 Yalta (see India) i ifot a .... ....... ~N l3, 18, &2S of mon. Dover ~. . 4, 20 mO• Niattritirts ( a ce India) ~,,,,,,i tias ..........N 14th of the month I .: ..,,,,,,,,, _ _ .._ ....m 2nd of the month. Soathampten Apr l ll6 -.:77 .. 7 7 _. 7 ... ~.., , s thisth2sthotmon,lDover ...... 1 . i; l ;6 rariada ` ...... It , 24 & 17 th of month SouthaMpton I New Z ea1and .......... By Private ship .. Various port Uncertain Papal ~.,,,,. ... ._ ... 1., s thls th2sthofmon. Dover ...... ~__,f,,,`,1,'''. ' . ...: . : .14 Ithl7th27thoftnon.,•iouthampton E r . e Q r a r . u . “* .......... : . , Id & 27th of mon.l3onthampton p ‘ , r t Natal ..........N, ay private ship... Various ports Uncertain .stlllsth2stholmon, Dever ...... 3'eilY ...ea •• •• •• • • .1 .. .. 7 " . l'thUsth2sthoftnon. Dover ...... T- 13 CanY ............NI - ' ' ' ' Vertezuell .......... m rid& 17th ofmontl Southampton 1 &16 mon Van Diemen's 7Atul (sel Australia) ......... Neat noes ....... ~7.' ,, I'M& 17th 01 month I Sonthamptonli & If mon Sonthamptent When any of these dates fall on a Sunday, the malls will be tir spatched on the following day, with the exception of the Witt 04S e out hampton). and the Malta. both of which will bo despatched ti preceding day. Gas was first introduced into the houses in Melbourne on th© let of January.' Thera were great rejoicings on the occasion. BIRTHS. OP A SON. On the 14th inst., at Westbourne-terrace, Hyde-park, the wife of Ralph Allen Hussey, Esq. On the 13th inst., at Wimbledon, the wife of Robert Graham, Esq. 07 A PAUGHTIB. On the 13th inst., at the Cloisters, Westminster, the wife of the Hey. Henry Temple Frere, rector of Burs ton, Norfolk. On the 14th inst., at 36, Duncan-terrace, the wife of A. Upward, Eaq. MARRIED. On the 10th inst., at Islin g t on Ch a p e l, Willi am , th e youngest son of Mr. George Kershaw, of Upton, Buoks, to Sarah Elizab e th, th e second daughter of Mr. William Barefoot, of Islington. On the 9th inst., at Hawley Church, Hants, the Rev. Erskine Neale, vicar of Exning, to. Eliza Ann, the eldest daughter of tha late John Suavell, Esq., of Fern-hill, Hawley. DIED. On the 14th inst., Mr. Jas. W ee d on , o f C urs it or - s t ree t, Chancey-lane, aged 67. On the 12th inst., at Arundel, Richard Holmes, Esq., solicitor, aged 71. Oa the 12th inst., at South-end-green, Hampstead Mrs. Pittet, aged 91. On the 11th inst., at 257, Oxford-street, John Henry Goter, many years managing clerk of the late firm of Wil kinson and Kidd. On the 13th inst., at Emeecote, Warwickshire, George Vernon Keys, Esq., aged 57. On the 11th inst., atUxbridge, Mrs. Mary Best, aged 85. On the 11th inst., at Hayes, Middlesex, Mary Ann, wife of Mr. William Morten, aged 65. On th© 11th inst., at Worcester, An n , w if e - o f - James Sibley, .late of Limelouse, aged 51. LOirDON Printed and Published by All3/3.1.)0 YOU. i of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at 27'c Sun Oil ce, So. 112 Strand, in tha Precinct cf the Savoy, in the eounty O I blidillesea, Tuesday, Aprills, 1,856` I s . • .. . and Car Pri cha Per and Lea 2,4 141 by Sht est: 1310: yen its I Lu Gal ,cup reel sele plc' the She con evil JAR dal all A