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

MONEY MARKET COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, Two o'CLoox. The Liverpool Cotton Market yesterday closed quietly, but somewhat heavily, and prices of all descriptions were unchanged. The sales were esti mated at 6,000 bales, 1,500 for export, and the re mainder for the trade. The sales comprise 30 Per ham and Maranham, 61,A. ; 100 Egyptian, 7d. to Bid ; and 150 Surat, 40. to 51d. per lb. In the Railway Share Market yesterday's prices were a shade lower. The Colonial Produce Markets this week have continued firm, and the quotations of some of the principal staples have advanced. Sugar has been in fair request, and the prices have rather tended upwards. Coffee has been in fair request. Rice quiet, and saltpetre steady. In spices the dealings have been limited, and tallow has been inactive. The public sales of colonial wool commenced yes terday, and it is expected that about 52,000 bales will be offered during the series. Letters from Naples mention that the king has promulgated a decree which prorogues the law allowing the export of wheat, maize, barley, and other cereals from his dominions to the 15th June. The duties to be levied upon these articles of food are reduced to one-half. Adyices from Riga, by way of Hamburg, state that the navigation of the gulf re-opened on the 26th April. The first vessel which entered the port was the Swedish steamer Hull, with a cargo of salt, which came to a good market. There were 24 sailing vessels in sight, making for the harbour When the ice broke up. Accounts from Holland state that the Minister of Finance had brought forward a measure in the Chamber of Representatives for the purpose of Mortgaging the sum of 10 million florins of the National Debt, which was unanimously adopted by the Legislature, on his satisfying the mem bers that the money would be applied for th e construction of public works of utility, particu larly a further extension of the lines of railway communication throughout the State. The Cham ber likewise adopted a treaty of commerce and navigation with Austria, which tends to establish the commercial relations of the two countries upon a more liberal basis than has previously existed. The announcement of the New Loan, which will be found in another column, had no material in fluence upon the English Funds, the amount, viz., 5 , 0 00,000/., being so_ much smaller than most Parties anticipated. A decline of 4 per cent. Only has occurred, Consols being 921 to 93 for money, and 934 1 for account. The New 3 per Cents. have been 92 to 92} and the Reduced Annuities 911 The Exchequer Bill Market is firmer, the March issue being at 2s. Premium, and the June ditto at 2s. discount to Par. The Bonds have been 981. Bank Stock is 2 11, and India Bonds are worth about ss. to 2s. discoun t. The Market for Foreign Securities is extremely quiet and no charge of importance has occurred in Prices. Turkish 6 per Cents., however, are flat at 9 7 I. The Guaranteed 4 per Cents. are firmer, being 101 2. Mexican Steck is dull at 221 In Spanish Bonds a very limited business has been done, the New Deferred being 25, and the Passive Russian 4i per Cents. are 95. Dutch 24 per Cents. 631 to 64, and the 4 per Cents. 94i y. The following are the nominal prices of foreign 'tucks :—Grenada Deferred Bonds, 18 ; Mexi can, 22i ; Peruvian, 77 ; Ditto 3 per Cents., ; Portuguese 4 per Cents., 48 ; Rue li - l ian 5 per Cents., 104 ; Ditto 44 per Cents., ; Spanish 3 per Cents., 441 ; Ditto De ferred, 24i ; Ditto Certificates, 51 ; Ditto Pas sive, 7 7i. Messrs. D. Bell, Son, and Co. report the market fo r American Securities as remaining without ma terial alteration, at the following quotations : Redeemable. Per Cent. trnited States G per Cents. 1867-1868...105 106 'United States 6 per Cent. Bonds 1868-105 106 STATE SECURITIES. Alabam a 5 per C en t BO Alabam a 5 per Cent. (Sterling Bonds) Californi a 7 per Cent. Bonds 1870... 80 82 lientucky 6 per Cent. Bonds 1861-1872... 90 Maryland 5 per Cent. (Sterling Bonds)... ... 88i 89. Massachusetts 5 per Cent. (Sterl. Bonds). ... 99 100 Mississippi 6 per Cent. Pl. Bk. Bonds lB4l-1871... 43 45 Mississippi 6 per Cent. Union Bk. Bonds - ... 16 18 Pennsylvania 5 per Cent. Stock renn e ylvania 5 per Cent. ........ 80 82 Tennesse 6 per Cent. Bonds B7 89 'V irginia 5 per Cent. (Sterling Bonds) 1888... 84 85 Virginia 6 per Cent. Bonds 1886... 86 87 LOANS OF CITIES. Boston 5 per Cent. B3nds (Divers) Montreal 6 per Cent. Bonds ......... 1856-1865... 83 85 - - • RAILROAD BONDS. Illinois Central 7 per Cent. Ist Mortgage, not Convertible 1875... 79 8 0 Illinois Central 7 per Cent. Freeland Bond s 1860... 81i 85i Michigan Central Bp. Cent. 1860... 90 92 New York Central 7p. Cent., Convert 1864... 93 91 New York Central 6 per Cent., not Convertible 1883 ... 78 80 New York and Erie 7 per Cent. Ist Mort gage 1867... 98 100 New York and Erie 7 per Cent. 3d Mort gage 188 3... 81 85 ~ .„ 4 ` l • York an d E r i e 7 Cent. Convertible 1862 ... 7 9 } 81 i N• York an d Erie p 7 per Cent. Sinking Fnnd tenama Sterling Bonds 1864.— 93 P ennsylvania Central° p. Cent., Ist Mort 1380... 90 91 Railway shares generally remain at previous rates, but rather a flatter tone pervades the market. north -Western, Great Western, and South-Eastern have been most dealt in. The Foreign lines are quiet, but Great Luxembourg are a shade firmer. Banking shares are generally at nominal prices, but Union of Australia are lower. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. ( Prom the Ofocial List.) Businest. done. Bank Stock 3 Per Cent. Reduced Annuities... 6 per cent. Consols Annuities 93 2i 3 New 3 per Cent. Annuities Ong Annuities, expire sth Jan. 1860— 3i India Bonds, 1.1000 Consols for Account (June 4) Exchequer Bills, 21d. March. June. £1000 £5OO — Pruall Ditto Bonds, 3358, 3i per Cent. 984 Ditto, 1859 PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLO( K Mexican 3 per Cent — Ditto Account Russian Bonds, 1822, £ St., 5 per Cent — Ditto 4i per Cent. gpan i e b Bonds, :3 per Cent — Ditto New Deferred, 3 per Cent. Ditto Passive ?widen Bonds, 6 per cent — Ditto Account 97i a Ditto Guaranteed, 4 per Cent. — Ditto Account lola i nividends on the shove .avehle in London, Dutch Exchange, 2:1 per Cent., 12 Guilders 64 31 Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates TWO O'CLOC EC. Consols for Money 92A i Ditto Account (June 4) 93 i 20 2) 50 2 The Austrian Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian left sienna on Monday evening for Paris. In his suite is Count General Mensdorff-Pouilly, ex-envoy at St. Peters. burg. The Belgian papers reproduce with much eagerness the remarks made in our Houses of Parliament, and in the British journals, upon Count Walewski's crusade against the liberty of the press in Belgium. It is stated by the Paris correspondent of the Inde pendence Belge, that the publication of the special treaty sig ne d on the 15th of April between France, Great Britain, and Austria, guaranteeing the execution of the stipulations of the general treaty—took the Russian plenipotentiaries by surprise. They were unaware, it is said, of its existence. Sergeant Owen Guinea, of the 68th Light Infantry, stationed at Fermoy barracks, was shot dead on Tues day by Private Charles M'Cready, of the same corps. The act was committed in revenge, M'Cready having felt exasperated at some slight punishment to which he had been subjected. The culprit, who expressed no Sorrow for the crime, has been handed over to the civil power. THE NAVY ESTIMATES.—The amount of the original navy estimates for the current year was 19,876,665/., and the amount of revised estimates 16,568,614/. The amount already voted is 16,780,1541., leaving 811,2601. to be voted, The estimates already voted include 75 6,4871. for the packet service, and 6,000,0001. for the transport service and prisoners of war. There is a sup plimentary estimate of 41,0001. for new works, improve bleats, and repairs. Lord Wodehouse will ge, not as ambassador, but as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the court of Russia. Thii appointment will vacate the office of Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs. Lord Wodehouse's successor will probably by the Earl of Car narvon, unless arrangements can be made by which Mr. Byng can hold that office consistently with his seat in the House of Commons, where the presence of an Under !lecretary for Foreign iffairs is at present most :finked. _ )eing Luan vete- "Some efore case. the Dimly rre it ; Mr. a of the tion in )pinion ight te , but nn, and ight as verpool ent for s in the mis had the last wen in• was not ned Go- that it Aritn€SS unicipal 'ed that mained mitted, witness of the of the nteci to .odueed collec- the ira >wn, he proved n other ad this to any ith any must be to levy be dues ,bstand xiff wag rere not Crown n at the 1 at the I grant, un• s of salt "reemao, •ecalled, 3 in the ,0 1855, tad been d which the last mmittee , which Bromp' .ints and er, the re gene al atten• deemed )re of its arry out don and ►ath one in Pic uon•row levulent public es more onsider- a appre• Ile insti :rotary's Ist-office i James 7E1)410. to Court ) future, Lock ou [ajestY'o 1 special a pabii.o lie bob" Lag .and hada,' .e SHARE MARKETS. (THIS DAY.) RAILWAYS. RLIIWAYI. A.tnbg. Nottng. Bost 4,1351 Eastn. Jana 3,,lfast tiallymenA. %ming. Wolverb ;lonr Valley ..... Orb eand. lanvel.. & ' Chest:fro Jnuct....,. N). Chub. & Birk. £5O and £25 Coale Do., tlyth & Tyn 3 origin s .£25 (iced. at .£4'; liristol and Exeter Cann, and Cardigan Chester & Holyhead. Cork and Bandon.. Cork, Black, & Pub Cornwall Do. A Do. B 'rieT ~ ),A).in&BelfastJure. fun. P. & —. Jnc. East AL glian Eastern Countios.. ie. A st. ',Tejon, A SC Do., B. Stovr. Do., New A... East Kent vast Lucashire ntdinburgh&Gltuwo - , Edinb. and Peebles Prth & Dnad worth & Clyde Jun Furness Do. Extension..,..... Glasgow&S W-st Great N. of Scotlnd. Great Northam Do., A. Stock Do., B. Stock ,i) a 114.5 th. &West.(lre Great Western O. Stour Val Rail Gna.. Stk. Irish South-Eastern. Lancaster & Carlisle 0., Thirds Do. New Thirds...... Lancash.andYorksh. Do., Wst. Riding Un. Liv.Crioy. &South pt London & Blackwell Lond. Bright & S.Cst. Lond. and N. Westu . Do. Fifths D0.101.13h.,M&8 .0 Do. Eighths_ London and S. Westr. Do., £5O Do., £4O landndrry&Colorain , Lndndr7. & Enniek. Sranch.Shef.& Lin& i 1)o., Man. & Lin. Un Metropolitan Midland I )o. Birmng. & Derb y Midi& G. West. (Iro. • Do. Half Shares Newcastle & Carlisle Nwpt.Aberg. &Hrf4 Newry & Enniskillen Newry Warrenpoint and Rostrevor Norfolk . .. Northn.Counties Un North British ... Nth Devon Rail. & Dock Stock 110., A Stock 'o., B Stock Do., i B Guarantee N. Eastern—Berwie 1)e. do. Extension „ 0..d0. C.N.E. ?urn' , Do. Leeds Do. Y ork Nortb London NI .&S.Wstrn., Ram - stead, and City JO.. North Staffordshir , -.. North Western...... N. k S. West rn. June Nuneaton, Hinkle • , and Leicester Ox., Wore.. ~ tz Wolv, ,'(,rts•raonth ,sottish Central ~, Scottish Midland Thropshire Uri , n _ South Devon South Eastern South Wales IS. )'rk.Fh. & Riv. Dur Do. Staines, Wok &WO , Stockton & Darn Sto.::kton dr. Mutlop Taff ....... , Do. Pref.,~N0.1...., 17-mom Hay. T").& R, Ulverstone 6t Lamy , V9.l€ o Neath... Watertl.lkonn Waterford& Lime r , r:k !West Cornwall 'West End of tondo . , and Crystal Palm]. . Do. A Do. B West London. , Wimbledn & Croydon Closing Prices yesterday 25i -26 i 4 41 8i 9 17 - 18 15 - 16 12 - 13 87 -- 83 - 60 -- 60 ... - 15 But/leas doss this day. FOREIGN. 10 all totweri.dot. , tt rd-m 81 - 81 40 40 Do. 5 p.c. Ob lgs. con. in Sh. at par till '64 par - 2 p 20 10 Ardennes 7 - 7.1( 5 all tclgian Eastn. June 2 20 14 Beziers to Graissessa 4i 5 f ISt 18 4. Bombay, Baroda,an Central India,Scri 11 -. 18 all Do. - ••• 17A ail Demerara -•• 10 11 Dutch Rhenis h ll - 114 p 20 all Eastern of France - 421 10 t 9 Do. New ••••• 20 all Bast Indian, g. 6 p. , 22i - 231 20 15 no. Riitension.. 221 - 23 100 all D 0.41 p.c.Bnds.,' s7 100 a' I DO. do. do., '59. dr•• ••• - 20 16 Gee'ong Az. Melbourne guar. 5 per c nt.. ••• - 20 all Do., Lou. allot., do. ... d 211 i 25 221Gd•Tkof CanadaAis 11 •••• 9 121 25 -.1 Do. ........... . 100 99 Do. Cert. of Deben con. into Stk. till '6? 65 .4; 75 1.00 all Do. Comp. 6p. c. • do. 75 - 85 20 14 Gt. Central of Franc 91 -.. 101: 20 all Gt. Indian Pe ninsulr. - 221 26 14 Great Lnzembour, Constituted Share' 61 - 6 51 4 all Do. Obligations... 31 sp 3 1 20 11 Do. rs-is. lorftd. Sh. - 201 all Gt.WssternofCan.a d a ghares 201 51 Do. New. 31 9 1.(X) all Do. Bds.,layable' s7 , with option till ' 55 .. 99 - .101. 100 all Do. do., '62, p.'56••• 100 - 102 100 all Do. do., '76, p. '6O 125 130 WO all De.. do., '73, withou t option lOB 109 201 all Hamilton & Toronto 25 - 26 100 all Do. 6 per cent. ... . . 124 - 128 20 17 Lake Const. & Basle ••• 20 all Lierre and Turnhout - ••• 6 5 all Lucca & Pist. sp. c.p t'T n . 20 16 Lyons and Genova - 12 t 20 14 Lyons dr Mediterran 20 all Madras, gua•-. 4; p.c 191 - 201 20 10 Do. New 0., sp. c 11 - 2 20 10 Do. 41 p. c. Eaten 1p 314 all Maria Antonia ••• 10 all Do. do. New .. 20 ali Namur & Liege (witl Interest) 7 - 71 ri 20 all Do. (ex interest) 5 - 61 16 all Northern of France 441 - 441 20 all Do.2oZ.Shs. l2l -- 1.24 Do. 201. 3 p. c Ms (fmy. B. et Ame.Shs. . - 10 all NorwegianTrunkPre •. 8 - • 9 20 all Paris and Lyons . 574 . - 58 40 all Ditto Bonds • ••• 20 all Paris and Orleans 55 .... 5 7 10 5 Rome and Frascati 20 ali Royal Danish l9l - 20 5 all Royal Swedish ..... 4 all Do. Obligations 20 all Sambre and Menso ll/ - 12 11t 10 all Do. 5A p. cent - Pref 94 - 9 20 5 Scinde, guar. sp. c -- 20 all D 0... ....... 20 all Southern of France - pin 20 16 St. Andrew's and Quebec (A). •• ••• 8 r. 1.1 West Flanders •44 - 3 4/ 10 all Do 5A psr c. Pref ••• 20 18 W. &N. W. of Franct. 37 - 374 20 all West. of Switzerland - ••• 6 all Wiesbaden ... ..• 20 all Zealand - ••• 10INT-STOCH BANJUL 0 .11 ArtstralaMA 25 5 Bank of Egypt - ip 100 50 Bank of London 63 6 5 40 411 atri. Col. Bk.& Ln. C. 50 all British N. 'American : 25 5 Chartd. Bank of Asia ' 20 4 Chrtd. Bnk. of India, P Australia, & China . . 4 100 50 City 63 100 25 Colonial •• ••. 100 20 Commer c i al of Lond. 20 all Eng.Scot.&Ans.Cht. 151 -- 1 . 64 20 all Loud. Chart. Bk. of Australia l7i —18 i 20 5 Ditto New 50 20 Landon and ..... - 10C 50 Lna.&E.Bnkg.Corp. par 50 10 London Joint Stock. 100 10 London and Paris 4 -- 2 d 100 20 Lond. .k Westminster ••• 100 35 National Pro.of Eng 20 10 Do. New ... ... . ... •.• • ••• • 50 22i National of Ireland. • ••• 20 all New South Waist.— 41 25 all Oriental Pank *nrporzti, n.......... 41 43 20 5 Ottoman Bank 1 p 100 50 Royal British 25 all kustra 1% 25 all onion of Australia 69 - 70 A Do. New -- 81 50 W f Cond.!, „„, . Western Bk of Loa.. it IS - 16 10, -- 17, 9 10' 33 35 23 - 25 76 - 78 60 - 62' 27 -• 28; ••• 88 -- 92 7 - 8 95 96 79 - 81 125 127 102 - 104 61 62, 57 59 67 - 70 5 i 6 0 5i 6h 884 - 89. 7 74 101 103 I 2 100 i 1 I 01 cl I P il # el 94 95 ... ..'. NO 29 -29 i - 4 74i - 75 43 - 45 ••• "'" • • •-13 i 53 - 53 3 3 / 4 - Sig{ 34 3 / 4 353/4 78 79 3i -- 5 3 a 15i 16 55 , 56 85 90 6 - Old 51 -• 61 101 100 26 - 28 103 105 75 77 46 18 :4i 15i 71 72 71 73 4 2• 1 Ad 9 -- 36 371 1S - 20 4i - 5 - 6 - 2i 5 - EiP - 84 i 101$ 1130 i 1011 I li 2 29 8j I 15 7270 a 1 1 THE Sell, LONJION;. FRIDAY EVENING, MAY 9, 1856. LfNES AS11) AT RIKEn -I.EN'VALtS. IFa`~•~ RArLwi.ts. Laurin Companc Clovinr. Frio** yesterlsy. ihie d&Y. London & N. We it. L &N. W. E. Un. & E. 0 Gt. Nrthn E. Count Caldonian Do Gt. Wenn Yk. Now. & Borw. Y. &NM Do Do all I all 100 100 S. Easton Do Peto & Co INorfolk Do __ Midld. Stckton Darlingt. En. Coun. E. Count. D 0... Do L. & N. W all V)0 Gt Northn Le.ines.sh& Yorksh. T. Brassey MClean Stockt. & Dartingt Do OtWestn 95 - 97 94 - 98 11 - 13 132 - 134 4f... 4i *so "" 164: 106 iii —ls# 1110 - 115 21 - 21 93 - 94 - 56 - 58 45 : 47 132 - 134 • la .....- ••• ri 8 31 - 201 31~ 32~ CHESTER RACES.—(This Day.) (sr ELI?CT.I2IO TELEORAPH.) WIRRAL STAKES. Theodora... Saunterer .... Four ran. G RAND STAND CIIP. Mary Ten ran. LAW INTELLIGENCE.—(This Day.) COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCa. (Sittings at Nisi :Prins at Westminster, before Lord Chief Justice teanipbell and a Special Jury.) B4OX. V. SIR J. L. GOLDSIIID. This was an action brought by the plaintiff, the pro prietor of the Egremo nt Arms, Brighton, to recover of the defendant the sum of 1201., for board, lodging and attendance, supplied to Mr. Moses Galdsmid, the de fendant's brother. The defendant pleaded never in debted. It appeared that the brother stopped at the defendant's house in company with a, female, and was supplied with everything they required. At the end of four or five days, the bill was handed to Mr. Moses Goldsmid who referred the plaintiff to the defendant for payment. Application was then made to the defendant, and he, not knowing the female in question, was residing at the Egremont Arms with his brother, sent to the plaintiff and informed him that he would be an swerable for all that was necessary that was supplied to his brother. Subsequently the bill, amounting to 1201 , was sent into the defendant, in which there were seve ral items for champagne, claret, &c., when inquiries were instituted, and the facts above stated were known to the defendant, who refused to pay for the luxuries and what had been supplied to the female. A verdict was taken by consent for 601. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. Both houses met yesterday at two o'clock for the pur pose of conveying the addresses voted to her Majesty on the restoration of Peace. There was not the slightest excitement on the occasion, and the attendance of both Peers and Commoners was not near so numerous as on the usual occasion of convey ing addresses to her Majesty, viz., the opening of the session of Parliament. The Speaker, wearing his state robes, accompanied by the members present, proceeded to the House of Lords, ar.d from thence the members of both houses proceeded to their carriages, and drove to Buckingham-palace. Thy bells of St. Margaret's of course rang a merry peal on the occasion, and the attendance of the police in the vicinity of Westminister Hall was exceedingly nu merous, but their services were not required. HOUSE OF LORDS--(YEsTrzaty). the LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack at five o'clock. Lord DUNGANNON presented a petition from Dublin against the Oath of Abjuration Bill, The Earl of ELGIN gave notice that he should post pone the bringing forward of the motion of which he had given notice until an early day after the Whitsuntide mom. THE ADDRESS—HER MAJESTY'S ANSWER. The LORD CHANCELLOR read the answer of her Majesty to the address of that house presented this afternoon. The Queen, in reply, stated she had received with great sati-factio❑ the loyal and dutiful address of their lordships presented to her, and thanked them for the cordial support they had rendered in the mea sures that were deemed necessary for the prosecution of the late war, and which had led to a safe and honourable peace. PENSION TO GEN. WILLIAMS, K.C.B. The LORD CHANCELLOR informed the house that her Majesty, being desirous to confer some signal mark of her approbation upon Sir William Fenwick Williams for his eminent and distinguished services as her Majesty's Commis i-ioner in Asia, and particularly for his gallant defence of Kars, she recommends to the House of Lords the propriety of making a provision of 1,0001. a-year to that distinguished officer during his natural life. Earl GRANVILLE said that her Majesty had been graciously pleased to confer upon Sir W. 'Williams the dignity of a Baronet of the United Kingdom, under the title of Sir 'William Fen wick Williams of Kars. EXCHEQUER CHAMBER. (Before the L )rd Chief Baron, Mr. Baron Alderson, Mr. Justice Wightman, Mr. Justice Coleridge, Mr. Justice Crompton, Mr. Justice Erle, and Mr. Baron Bramwell.) COOPER V. BLADE, Q 0.-THE CAMBRIDGE ELECTION- JUDGMENT. Their lordships delivered judgment in this case, which has occupied the Court several terms, and was with re ference to what constituted treating at an election. The defendant, who is the well known Q.C. of the Western Circuit, was returned, in conjunction with Lord Maidstone, at the last election for Cambridge. After the election the defendant was sued by the plain tiff under the 17th and 18th Vic., cap. 102, for certain penalties of 1001. each, for promising money to one Carter, an elector of the borough, for voting for him and Lord Maidstone, and for having paid Bs., the railway fare of the ♦oter from Huntingdon, where he resided, to Cambridge to vote. The case was tried before Mr. Baron Parke, when the jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff. A bill of exceptions was tendered to the ruling of the learned Baron, which, it was contended, was contrary to the law in regard to the construction of the act of Parliament in question, and the case was afterwards argued before the judges, who took time to consider their judgment. Mr. Baron Alderson to-day delivered the judgment of their lordships, which, with the exception of Mr. Justice Williams, was unanimous. The learned Baron said the question which the Court had to decide was the proper construction to be put upon the 17 and 13 Vic. c. 102, which made it illegal for any person to promise money to a voter to induce him to vote at an election for a par• ticular candidate. After looking at all the circum• stances of the case, their lordships were of opinion that the promise of money to be paid to Carter, intimated in a circular forwarded to him by defendant's committee, and that of his railway fare from his residence to the poll, had not been made with a view of inducing him to vote for Lord Maidstone and the defendant, and that consequently the defendant had not been guilty o f any act that brought him within the provision of the above Act of Parliament. It was difficult to say why a promise to pay a voter'► travelling expenses should be held to be illegal when a promise to give refreshments was not. If it were illegal it would reader every per son taking a vote to the poll in his own carriage liable to a misdemeanour, which would be an alarming d ictrine. It was true that committees and also many Learned Judges had held giving refreshments were ille gal, whilst others had decided differently, but that dif ference of opinion might have arisen from a difference of circumstances surrounding each case. The judges iu this case were of opinion that the payment of the rail way fare as intimated in the circular issued by the de fendant's committee was not the payment of money to a voter for corrupt purposes, and therefore reversed the verdict of the Court below, and ordered it to bo onterod for the defendant. TFIE NATIONAL GALLERY. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. is to be desired that the authorities at the National Gallery will apply an unwontedly mild treat ment to their fragment of " wall jinting" by Giotto, as, a day or two before the sale of Mr. Rogers' pictures took place, I was informed by one of the attendants in the auction room that it was safely deposited in a dark corner, and cuuld not be moved, because it was "falling to pieces'" From this I infer that the beautiful picture of Puck— Shakspere illustrated by Reynolds—is not as yet in a sufficiently mellow condition for the connoisseurs at the National Gallery.—l am, &c., Kemptown. WILLIAM CONINGHAM. LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—(This Day.) LONDON, May o.—Wind this nay at noon, N., strong breeze and dull hazy weather. PLYMOUTH, May B.—Wind N.E.—Arrived—ll.M. (str.) Magicienne and Cruizer, from Westward. FALMOUTH, May B.—Wind N.N.E., strong gala —Sailed —Jane Lowden, for Quebec—Off the port—Calypso Suri nam, for Amsterdam. WHITSTABLE, May B.—The Good Intent, of Whitby, has parted her cable and driven on the main. BRIDLINGTON, May B.—Wind N.E., a gale.—Arrived.— New Darlington, from Seaham, for London, ♦ery leaky. HOLYHEAD, May B.—The John Shelley, of Yarmouth, ran on the Platters Rock, last evening, but came off soon after. HARWICH, May B.—The Charlotte Maria, of and from Fowey, for Newcastle, was abandoned on the 6th inst. off the Kentish Knock, with loss of foremast, mainmast and bowsprit, &c , having been run into by a brig of about 500 tons, with white painted strakes and black posts—crew saved. (NCB XLEOTRIO TELEGRAPH.) SOUTHIMMPTON, Friday Morning. Arrived- Coralinda, from Cherbourg ; Friends, Cardiff; Clyde and Don, Newport; Catherine, S un d er l a nd. Sailed—Unity and Vulcan, fur! Cardiff. LIVERPOOL, Friday Morning. . . Wind N.N.E. Sailed —lrene, for Buctouche ; Jarlen, Rio Janeiro ; Helena, Bayonne ; Mary Ann, St. Thomas. QUEENSTOWN, May 7. Wind N.N.E. Arrived—Her Majesty's steamer Victoria and Albert, from Nfaderia. Sailed—hiontery, for Marseilles. (BY SUBMABINE AND BETTIBIITELEGRAP4O GRAVESEND, Friday, 10.30 a.m. Wind N.E., fresh and fine; tide, last hour's ebb. Arrived, 9th—DorotheaCatharitns, from Skive ; Fresia, Emden ; Hilda, Stockholm ; Barbara, Nykiobing. Sailed, Eth—Nereide, for Jamaica. Sailed, 9th—Governor Morton, for Port Philip. DEAL, Friday 9,50 a.m. Wind N.N.E., fresh. Passed, Bth—Limena, from Shields, for Caldera ; her Majesty's steamer Flecla, Sheerness, Portsmouth. Passed, 9th- -Her Majesty's steamer Black E tgle, from Portsmouth, for River ; Tally Ho, London, Constanti nople. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.—The re-opening is fixed positively for to-morrow evening. Alboni makes her first appearance in England these five years. WHAT NEXT ?—THE CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHE QUER AN) THE NURSEMAIDS. —It is rumoured that a tax of one guinea per annum is to be laid upon peram bulators. A nursemaid's petition is also already talked of. CHELTENHAM ELECTION.—The contest for the repre sentation of this borough closed yesterday afternoon at four o'clock, when Captain Berkeley, the Liberal candidate, was returned by a majority of 186, the num bers bein t :—For Captain Berkeley (Liberal), 841 ; for Mr. Hallowell (Conservative), 655. The Royal Commission which has been appointed to consider the working of the purchase system in the army will probably include the Duke of Somerset, the Right Hon. Edward Ellice, Mr. S idne y Herbert, Lord Stanley, Mr. G eorge Carr Glyn, Sir De L acy E vans, Lieut.-Gen. Wynyard, Sir Henry Bentinck, Sir Harry Jones, and Col. Wetherall. THE ENLISTMENT DISPCTE.—The enlishment affair, which was mad. a matter of international dispute, and permitted to disturb the commerce of the two nations, was wholly an error of the Government. Had our Cabinet at once applied the only remedy which was con sistent with the dignity of the State—the dismissal of the parties who violated our laws—there the case would have ended. The people of the United States cared little for the offence, or how it might be settled, short of making it a subject of serious difference between the two Governments. The whole case was one of pure legal and diplomatic technicality, involving in the acts com plained of no feelings of resentment, and demanding at most its disavowal by the Government of her Majesty. It was prolonged into a controversy, and magnified into a serious question of difference, solely for ulterior pur- P0408,,by the Piorcy•Maroi 00baet.—Neut York livald. THE MARITIME LAWS. The Earl of COLCHESTER gave notice of his inten ion, on the 23d inst., to bring under the consideration of their lordships' house those articles of the treaty agreed to at Paris which affected our maritime laws. Lord BROUGHAM expressed a hope that the noble lord would not include in his motion the arrangements entered into for the abolition of the practice of pri vateerinw. The Earl of COLCHESTER said he would lay on the table a copy of his resolution in ample time for the noble and learned lord to fully consider it. THE MURDER OF MISS HINDS IN IRELAND. Lord LYNDHURST presented a petition from Thos. Dunn, who had been convicted of the murder of Miss Hinds in Ireland. He stated he had applied to the Attorney-General fir his fiat to obtain a writ of error under the circumstances, which he set forth in his petition. That fat having been refused by the Attorney- General, he prayed their lordships to take his case into their consideration. On the motion of the noble and learned lord, the peti tion was read at length at the table. Lord CAMPBELL said it was his opinion that, under all the circumstances of the case, the Attorney-General had acted properly in so refusing. The LORD CHANCELLOR was of a similar opinion, and observed that it would be impossible to carry out the sentences in such cases if writs of error were to be allowed to all persons who, like the prisoner, were con victed of the capital offence. MERCANTILE LAW AMENDMENT ACT. The LORD CHANCELLOR said in deference to the wishes of tke merchants and bankers of London, as well as to other parties, he would consent to refer the bill to a select committee. Lord CAMPBELL said the measure was a very valu able one, and regretted the referring of the bill to a select committee, as it would now be very uncertain as to whether this bill would be proceeded with any further this session. After a short discussion, in which Earl Grey, Lord Overstone, and Lord St. Leonards took part, the bill was ordered to be referred to a select committee. THANKS TO THE ARHY AND NAVY. Lord PANMURE, in moving that the thanks of the house be given to the Army and Navy and Marines em ployed in the operations of the late war, and to the em bodied militia, said the house had that day presented at the foot of the throne its thanks to her Majesty for the announcement of the return of peace ; but before they surrendered themselves to the enjoyment of that peace, before they hung up their sword against the wall, from from which, he trusted, it would be long ere they should take it down again, there was a duty which remained for the n to perform—namely, the duty of returning tinake to all the branches of her Majesty's service for for zeal, their courage, and their endurance dur ing the war from which they had just emerged. (Hear, hear.) In so doing he should endeavour to avoid every controversial point which might tend in any degree to lead them from that unanimity which he was quite sure their lordships would wish to el) serve on the present occasion. The first branch of her Majesty's service to which he would refer was the Navy. They had on this occasion no great triumph to celebrate ; but they had services on the part of her Ma je Sty's navy to acknowledge which, though not brilliant were nevertheless of the utmost importance, and must command their gratitude. In the Baltic they had seen the navy maintain in that inhospitable sea one of the most difficult blockades which he believed could possitly be, and yet they had maintained that blockade under all daculties without the sacrifice of a single one of her Ma jesty's ships, and almost without injury he might say, to any individual. They had distinguished themselves by re ducing one of the strongholds, they had blockaded with success the strong fortresses and harbours of the enemy, they had swept from the sea every vessel belonging to the enemy, and confined within its ports the navy of the ene my. Such were the deeds done by the navy in the Baltic. In the Black Sea, although, again, no brilliant action had been performed by the combined navy, yet by their attack on the fortress of Sebastopol, their attack on Kinblurn, ,and the manner in which they twice swept the Sea of Azoff, they had rendered the greatest service to the army. But the services of the navy had not yet been generally known in a direction which he should take the liberty of explaining to their lordships. The assistance which the navy had rendered to the cim bined army in carrying on the war, by furnishing the means of transport of the army and its stores, he thought ought to be more publicly known. The following was an account of the troops, horses, stores, &c., conveyed in British transports, ships-of-war, during the years 1854 and 1855 : L—TuooPS. British, from Great Britain (including militia) t• Mediterranean, Foreign Legion, Transport Corps, &c 123,105 British, from Mediterranean to Black Sea 26,659 Total British French, from France to Baltic and Alediterraneal 52,919 Sardinians Total troops to seat of war 221,984 Troops moved in Black Sea 170,634 Troops moved coastwise, &C..... 43,185 Grand total troops conveyed IL—HoRsEs. British, from Great Britain ----- 13,302 British, ftom Mediterranean Total British . French Sardinian, 23,061 2,195 3,325 Total horses to seat of war Horses moved in Black Sea 24,038 Horses moved coastwise. Grand total horses conyeye I M.—STORES. Tons. Tons. British, from Groat Britain 281,001 British, from Mediterranean Total Blitish French.— Sardiuian 316,7A9 18,881 4,298 Grand total stores conveyed He might fairly assume that their lordships with one voice would accord to that branch of her Majesty's ser vice their cordial thanks for the services they had ren dered during the war. He could not close this enume ration of the services of the navy without saying how fully he concurred in the tribute paid by his noble friend (the Earl of Ellesmere), the other night, to a gallant admiral now no more. He meant Admiral Boxer, who endeavoured to organise some system in the small and narrow harbour of Balaklava, which they afterwards worked out in greater perfection on the principles that he laid down. He passed now to the next branch of her Majesty's service, which he did not hesitate to say had most won his affection and sympathy, seeing that in that service he passed his early days. In moving their lordships to accord their thanks on the present occasion to the army he had no doubt that he should secure their cordial concurrence to that proposition. The army of England first embarked in the year 1854 to take part is the war upon the enemy's territory. In alluding to that service he could not forget that this army was led from England by one to whom it looked up to as its great leader—the most distinguished pupil of the illustrious duke, one who perhaps better than any other man knew almost every inlividual officer in the army, who com manded its affection and respect, and who concentrated in his own person its fullest and entire confidence. It did not please Providence to permit Lord Raglan to see the end of the triumphant career which he commenced. But when that army left this country, so full of ♦igour and so small in number, no one felt any doubt that the honour of the country was completely safe in his hands —no one felt any doubt that its banner would be al ways carried foremost in the fight—no one felt any doubt that the fame of England would be fully maintained. But there were some considerations which gave room for some doubt. That army was called upon to fight i n the same field and on the same side with the army o f France. Old animosities and antipathies were to be wiped away and forgotten, new rivalries of friendship to be established, and he had no hesitation in saying that by the tact, skill, chivalry, and generosity by which Lord Raglan was dietiogwehed, be accomplished, that cordial union between the two nations, and planted good feeling so deeply in the minds of the soldiers of both nations, that when new levies joined a similar inspira tion seized on them, and during the whole of Lord Rag lan's career the cordial friendship which existed between the armies of England and France was most remarka ble. Not only that, but when Lord Raglan's sun went down, it left its genial influence behind. He attributed to:Lord Raglan's influence the cordial friendship which existed to this ♦ery hour between the armies of Eng land and France. It was not necessary for him to remind their lordships of the career of that army. When it first landed on the shores of the East it was not immediately called into action, and the first blow which it had to endure was from a foe which it was most difficult to meet—disease. When that army lay at Varna and in its neighbourhood i t en countered that fell disease of the country which swept away many a gallant and ardent spirit, before the army bad an opportunity of showing its might in battle ; hut it had the effect of assuring the people of this country that their army had gone forth possessed not merely of physical but of that moral courage which enabled it to endure disease as well as to fight their battles. He need not call attention to the victories of Alma, of Inkerman, and of Balaklava. On no one occasion when the army of England was called upon to face the foe during the whole war did it suffer the smallest reverse. He need hardly recall to their lordships' recollection the circum stances of the siege of Sebastopol—that siege so long, so wearisome, so full of adventure, in which the pateince and endurance, as well as the gallantry of the army, were for a longer period than was on record with reference to any other siege so constantly tried, yet through all the difficul ties and dangers of that siege, all the privations to which that army was exposed, never for a moment shook its courage or impaired its efficiency, and at last when the siege resulted in the surrender of the town, the army was found ready to repair the disorganisation which such a siege must cause in its ranks, and its formation was re-completed, so that it was at this moment one of the finest armies that England ever possessed. He was tempted to read a portion of a despatch, already given to their lordships, which would prove to them the con dition in which the army was, and of which the nation might be justly proud. Sir W. Codrington, writing on the 19th of April, speaking of a review of the army be fore the Russian general, said— The English army was formed at a short distance in front of these head-quarters ; the siege train and the Sap pers on the right of the infantry ; 49 battalions in contigu ous quarter distance columns of regiments ; two troops of horse artillery and five batteries on the right of the line, six batteries and two heavy batteries on the left of the line —in all 86 guns. Two regiments of the Land Transport Corps were complete and in good order in rear. Gen. Lu tiers rode down the line, accompanied by a larga assembly of Russian, French, and Sardinian officers, and the troops also marched past him. I have the satisfaction of assuring your lordship of the steady, the good, the healthy appear ance of the array ; of its very apparent efficiency in every branch ; of the order, quietness, and regularity with which every regiment passed by ; and it was a subject of pride to us all to feel that such was the appearance of the army of England in the Crimea. That was the testimony of the present Commander-in- Chief of the army. He (Lord Panmure) must take the opportunity of stating that he attributed that condition not to anything that had been done at home, but to the exertions of the officers at present with the army, and to the cordial co-operation of every one of those officers, from the lowest to the highest, with the Commander-in- Chief. This was not the time for him to expatiate on the sanitary condition of the army, but he was happy to be able to say, that though it was at a considerable dis tance from home, and exposed to encampment in th e field, it would bear comparison with the condition of th e army at home. The last account of the sanitary con. dition of the army, on the 20th of April, giving the strength at about 70,000 men, gave the admissions per week into the hospital at 1.56 per cent., the proportion of deaths to strength 0.02 per cent., and the proportion of sick to well 5.72 per cent. He had had the curiosity to compare this with the sanitary state of that portion of the army that was in this country in camp at Alder shott, and he found 'that at Aldershott the assumed strength was 16,000. Of these the proportion to strength admitted to well was 2,71 per cent., deaths 6.006 and sick to 3.59 per cent. It was very gratifying to find that after all the army had gone through its sanitary condition was so good. There was one point more that he wished to advert to, and that was to the casualties that had occurred during the war. There had been unfounded and exaggerated statements on this sub ject. He had drawn up a table which would shortly show the loss which the nation had sustained in these two years of war. Officers. Men. Killed in action from 19th Sept., 1834, to 28th Sept., 1855 l5B 1,775 Died of wounds during the same period Died of cholera 35 4,244 Died of other diseases to 31st Dec., 1855 Died of wounds and disease from Jan. Ist, 1856, to March 31st, 1856 Total. 1,993 1,599 4,279 11,451 Total deaths 270 19,314 19,551 Discharged from the service since commencement of the war to 31st March, 1856 : Wounds Disease ... 998 Add deaths as aboTo 2,873 19,551 Total loss Now, when he came to compare this with the loss of the Russian army and the loss of our allies, he thought we ought to be thankful to Almighty God for having thus lightly permitted to fall on this country the scourge of war. Ho was told on good authority that the loss of the Russians was not under 500,000 men. He had no autho rity to state the loss of our allies. He would not mention the names of any of the living officers engaged in these operations, htcluse he found that on returning general thanks to the army it had not been the practice to do so ; and, besides, the number of those whom they should have to thank would make a catalogue of almost every officer in the service, But they could not but remember with gratitude the names of Cathcart, and Goldie, and Strangways, and Torrens, and Adams, and Sir John Campbell, besides many others who had died in conse quence of their wounds. Ho was happy to say, that while they reposed on the field where their fame had been earned, the cemetery in which these heroes lay in terred would, be was certain, be regarded with respect by that nation which was now no longer our enemy. He also proposed that the thanks of their lordships should be given to the foreign legions which had entered into her Majesty's service. They amounted to fully 15,000 able-bodied activesoldiers, ready, had the war continued, to enter into active service. These consisted of the British German Legion, under the command of Baron von Stutterheim At home Abroad - 9,051 Swiss, at home Swiss, abroad - 3,138 Italian, abroad 3,662 3,662 TURKISH CONTINGENT. 15,821. Natives British, the ranks 3,208 20,479 Osmanli cavalry ..... Ditto artillery 2,733 327 3,000 All those linen wore drilled, organised, and ready to march to the field bad there been occasion to require their services. Some were quartered at Scutari, two regiments of Swiss were at Varna, and all were eager for the field, desirous of showing what they could do. He trusted that when the time came to dispense with the services of these troops we should not forget the zeal they had shown in rallying round the standard of England, and that by our treatment of them we should make our good name respected throughout Europe ; and should occasion arise again, which he trusted never would, we might be able to invite them again with the expectation that the invitation would be cheerfully re sponded to. The only other portion of the British army to which be would refer was more intimately connected with Turkey—he meant the Turkish contingent. The Turkish contingent was made over to the service of this country by a special convention with Turkey. It was officered by officers of the British and the Indian army, and was commanded by an officer of great distinction, General Vivian, of whom he must do the justice to say, that he formed that contingent so effectually, that had it. been called into the field it would have been found that it was amply provided with transports, and that all its arrangements for active service were fully organ ised. He now came to the last branch of the service to which he would refer, but he did so with as much satisfaction as he had felt in asking their lordships to give their thanks to those branches of the ser vice he had already named. lie proposed that their lordships should thank the militia of this country for their zeal in her Majesty's service. (Hear) He had promised not to introduce any controversial point. IT would not say that the militia had been placed upon the e most advantageous footing ; but this he would say, that all the assistance which the zeal and energy of the militia could bring to her Majesty's service had been zealously and promptly afforded. There was a remarkable fact connected with this war to which it was necessary for him to draw their lordships attention. In all former wars in this country we were compelled to have recourse to pressing for the navy and to the ballot for the militia. On this occasion we had mustered a more numerously manned fleet and a larger body of troops than upon any former occasion without its being necessary to ha ve re course to the pressgang or the ballot. It was a proud position for this country that we could assemble so nu merous an army, every man in that fleet and in that army being a volunteer in his country's servios. (Hear, hear.) The militia upon this voluntary system now mustered 63,663 men, and it bad given to the army, since November, 1854, no fewer than 33,102 recruits. It had not only done that, but it had exhibited its de sire to serve her Majesty in foreign parts. No fewer than eleven regiments of militia, mustering very nearly 6,000 men, were now serving the Queen in the Mediter ranean garrisons. And not only that, but they hal been obliged reluctantly to decline the offers for foreign ser vice et no fewer than 52 regiments. It was only the knowledge that their services would not be accepted that prevented every militia regiment in the United King dom from tendering their services, not only for Gibral tar, Malta, and the lonian Islands, but for any of the colonies ; nay, he knew that many of them were most anxious to enter the field with the allied army. (Cheers.) 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Their example had proved, that while apparently the gentlemen of England enjoyed themselves at home during peace, they were ever ready to give their services on the breaking out of war. He had much gratification in finding that those country gentlemen, who joined their regiments for the first time, had shown such zeal and desire to perfect themselves in their new profession, that many of the regiments of militia had become in a very short time equal to regiments of the line. (Cheers.) In the garrison of Gibraltar, a militia officer commanded the regiments there, and received from Sir James Fer gusson the highest encomiums for the military talents he exhibited, which had only been drawn out since the commencement of the war. He trusted that the zeal and energy of the militia would not be allowed to sub side—and that while the whole country would not for. get what it owed to the militia, that body would not be permitted to forget what it had learned in these 2 year.. One other subject he could not omit. It would ill be come him not to remember how much we owed to those allies with whom we had been acting. To the army of France weowed much, for he believed from them we had learned something of the mode of conducting war. W e owed them much for the cordial manner in which they had united at all times with our troops, and for kind and friendly feelings which had always existed between all ranks of the two armies. Much of this had been due to the conduct and ability of those officers who had been entertained as commissioners with each army. Too much praise could not be given to them, and he regretted that one of the French commissioners, Col. Leflo ' was not alive to receive the thanks of thi s country, which they, as well Sir Hueh Rose and the other English commis sioner with the French army, had so thoroughly merited. With reference to the Sardinians, they too had played a distinguished pa r t i n th e allied Lives. In the combat at the bridge of Traktir they made a successful resistance against overwhelming numbers ; by this time they had returned, the greater part of them, to their own country gratified at having acted with the French and English armies, and carrying with them as a memento of that co-operation, the Engliah battery to which, on the occa sion of the attack upon the Traktir, Gen. Marmara said that he attributed some portion of that victory to a battery of 4 guns, which Sir W. Codrington, with that courteous spirit which belonged to an English officer and gentleman, begged Gen. Marmora would carry back with him to Satlieia, in commemoration of the co operation of the English and Sardinian armies. (Hear, hear.) As for our allies the Turks, for whom we took up arms, and along with whom we had fought, be (Lord Panmure) had read the records of the war, as re ported by the public press, and he found that the troops of Turkey, on almost every occasion when they came in contact with the troops of the enemy, had beaten them on the field of battle and won for themselves im perishable renown. (Cheers.) We had seen enough to be convinced that there was ne nation in Europe which could furnish more efficient troops, if properly formed, and organised, and led, than could the Ottoman Empire. It was upon the leading and organisation of these troops, that success must depend. It was because the British troops were properly organised, and were so gallantly led by officers, who possessed the best blood of the first families of this land, they succeeded in all which they undertook, wherever their duty called them. (Cheers.) Now that peace had returned he earnestly entreated their lordships not hastily either to part with the vast and imposing navy which we had, after two years, collected together, or to part with that fine and noble army that at the breaking out of this war we found, to use the mildest term, the inconvenience of the want of instruc tion of our officers, in the operation of moving the troops in anything like large masses ur diviskns. We had now an army formed in divisions and brigades, and he should advise the Government liot to lose sight of that forma tion, but to keep the officers and men well instructed in the formation and movement of those bodies. (Cheers.) Above all, he would entreat Parliament and the country not, merely because peace was now restored, to go back to the false and mischievous economy which had been practised in former times, and for which he did not be lieve one Government had been more than another to blame, by which very large expenses were ultimately in. curred, because our military and naval establishments bad been allowed to fall into inefficiency. He hoped we should have derived a lesson against that error from our late experience, although it was right to observe a true and proper economy in the establishments of the coun try, so far as might be consistent with their efficient maintenance. It we had our army trained and disci plined as it should have beer, we might have increased it, when the war broke out, at a far less cost than was actually incurred, and we might have rendered it avail able in far less time. Let us then take advantage of what had now been done, and maintain the efficiency which the army had now attained, with such an esta blishment that it might be always available, and that we might not be required to form an army almost for the occasion, as we had been obliged to do in the last two years. (Cheers.) He had now the honoar to move : "That the thanks of this house be given to the officers of the Navy, Army, and Royal Marines who have taken part in the operations of the late war for the meritorious and eminent services which they have rendered to the Queen and the country during the course of the war. " That this house doth highly approve and acknow ledge the services of the petty and non-commissioned officers and men of the Navy, Army, and Royal Marines who have taken part in the operations of the late war ; and that the same be communicated to them by the commanders of the several ships and corps, who are re epectively desired to thank those under their commands for their exemplary and gallant behaviour. " Ordered—That the Lord Chancellor do signify the said resolutions, by letter, to the Commissioners for executing the office of Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom and to the Feld-Marshal Commanding-in- Chief of her Majesty's forces. "Tbat the thanks of this house be given to the officers of the several corps of Militia which have been embodied in Great Britain and Ireland during the course of the war, for the zealous and meritorious services which, at home and abroad, they have rendered to their Queen and country. "That this house doth highly approve and acknow ledge the services of the n in-commissioned officers and men of the several corps of Militia which have been em bodied in Great Britain or Ireland during the course of the war, and that the same be communicated to them by the commanding officers of the several corps, who are desired to thank them for their patriotic conduct. "Ordered—That the Lord Chancellor do communicate the said resolutions by letter to the Secretary of State for the War Department, in order to be by him com municated to the colonel or commanding officer of each respective corps." The Earl of DERBY seconded the motion, saying that whatever doubts might have been entertained as to the address presented to her Majesty on the subject of peace, with regard to the results of that peace, which bad been obtained by the efforts of our army and navy, be was sure that in the motion now made, and in the sentiments of the noble lord's speech, there would be an universal concurrence and approval; and if he intruded himself now upon the notice of the house, it was only because, in the position which he had the honour to hold there, he was desirous of testifying, in the amplest man ner, that between parties on this occasion there could be no difference of opinion. (Cheers.) They were all agreed in this tribute of praise and gratitude to our gallant land and sea forces and the militia of the United Kingdom, 89 well as to those who had been associated with us in the conflict and the victory, and whose close friend ship w ith us, as between nation and nation, he trusted would not terminate with this war. In the praise given to the soldier-like qualities, high bearing and distinguished services of the lamented late commander of our forces, he was sure all who had had the happiness of being in any way connected with him would concur, and would feel that the noble lord's eulogium did not surpass, but, as most eulogiums must, rather fall short of his merits. He (Lord Derby) attributed to that noble and gallant commander net only much of the good feeling and good understanding which existed between the allied armies during his lifetime, but he believed that Lord Raglan's memory and example had, even since his lamented death, exercised no unimportant influence. He felt that no words of his could do justice to our army, and their de voted commander, for their courage in the field and their gallantry in battle, but still more the unflinching heroism with which they sustained disease, famine, and privations of every kind, keeping up under all theirsufferings the strictest discipline and au unhesitating performance of a their a duty, uotvye,raasrmmyucolif ahryonuartiu.opnoninthaenmy i h i T ida d n e t q am u o a tai l do o eo p sa p , v o ya r ei t lt u a i n bn i l opportunities evt they And, although no doubt it was true part of the world. which deserved t at the distinguishing naval itself service by h a a . n d y ll b o r t i with admirable zeal and energy into the common hqaudarbtreoruwghhetrtehotsbeesirersevrievemsescou be cause. If they had not achieved any con quests over hostile fleets, it was because no hostile fleet had ever faced them ; but wherever they had come into action, officers and men had shown themselves not inferior to their predecessors in the high qualities of Bri tish seamen. The noble lord had very properly ab stained from mentioning the name of any individual in either service, who was still living, to receive in his own person this token of the national g ratitude, but one omission the no bl e l or d (P anmure ) had inadvertently made ; and he had been near making another omission, when he postponed to the latter part of his speech men tion of the valuable services of the Naval Brigade,— services which it was impossible too highly to appre ciate—services which were rendered by them, not on their own element, not in the exercise of their own pro fession, but which excited the admiration of all the troops with whom they acted, and to whom they showed fan example of almost reckless courage and of superhuman exertion, which might well excite the rivalry of the soldiers. But when the noble lord alluded to those officers of the army, whose loss the country had to de plore, and whose names were to be cherished in our memory, there was one man, belonging to the naval serv i ce , which might not unworthily have been intro duced. It might have been invidious to select from those still living the name of that gallant admiral who bad returned home to reap the honours which he had merited, but it would not have been inappropriate to remember that the glory which Sir Edmund Lyons had obtained would scarcely console him for the melancholy recollection of his bereavement, by which his country had also been deprived of an able and distinguished offi cer, who might have been expected at some future time to follow in his father's footsteps. There was another omission of the noble lord's, which was, of course, like wise an accidental one. He (Lord Derby) had noCheard a single word said by the noble lord of the service of the Royal Marines, and yet there was no body of men whose services were more valuable, or had been more cheerfully rendered, especially where they occupied a most exposed position, on the heights of laklava. (Cheers.) W ith to the Turkish Can. ti neu t and the foreign legiQae , he felt ao doubt that, " IPaid, 100 100 61s. all 140 Us. 100 33 100 21 100 100 .3i is all all 1 611 I 74i I 44 35 4j 11i I St. 20 50 St. 254 LO ~0.6 40 5 tit. 15 10 28i 1 1 10 5 100 1 10 all 100 all all ES. 159 a 140 111 k 3 i i