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SUN OFFICE, Seven, o'clock. OFFICIAL DESPATCHES FROM SIR CHARLES NAPIER, (FROM THIS EVENING'S GAZETTE, ADMIRALTY, JUNE 2. Despatches have been received at this office from Vice- Admiral Sir Charles Napier, K.C.8., Commander-in-Chief of her Majesty's ships and vessels in the Baltic, of which the following are copies : (No. 96.) Her Majesty's Ship Duke of Wellington, off Hango Head, May 20, 1854. Sir,—l beg to enclose a letter from Captain Yelverton, of the Arrogant, giving an account of a smart operation he performed at Ekness, 12 m il es in the interior of the country. Great credit is due .to him for his perseverance in threading up so narrow and intricate a navigation ; and it wi;ls how the enemy that they are not safe even in their country towzs. Captain Yelverton very properly abstained from damag ing the town. He speaks very highly of the gallantry of Captain Hall, of the Hecla (who, I am sorry to say, is slightly wounded), as also Lieutenant Haggard, first of the Arrogant, and Lieutenant Crew Read, the senior lieutenant of the Hecla, which gallant officer has received a severe wound, which I fear has endangered the sight of his eye. All the officers and men behaved as British seamen and marines were wont to. I enclose a list of killed and wounded on this service.— I have, &c. (Signed) CxJB. NAPIER, Vice-Admiral and Commander - in Chief. I also enclo se a sketch of Ekness, and one of the Hec la's funnel. The Secretary of the Admiralty. Her Majesty's Ship Arrogant, Skagathlenden, May 20, 1851. Sir,—l have the honour to inform you that I tame into yesterday, in company with th. Heela, the inner passage for the purpose of examining the channel. At three in the afternoon, just as I was about to anchor a little beyond Tevertninne, a strong foret of the enemy's troops opened th e i r fire upon both ships from be hind an extensive sand-b an k ; the effect, however, of a few hem. broadsides from .Flecla an d thi s ship soon dispersed t No one, I am glad to be able to say, was hurt in either vessel. I did dothing to provoke this attack on the part of the enemy. I ascertained from a pilot who lives here that three large Russian loaded merchant ships were at Ekness, eight miles to the northward. I lost n o ti me i n proceeding there early this morning so well p ; but did no t expect to find the enemy repared to receive me. Owing to the Hecla's light draught of water she led the way; a task not easy to per form in a narrow and intricate passage, exposed as she was to the first of the enemy's fire. In addition to a field battery of five guns (two of which I dismounted) and one mortar, they had erected a strong battery which they supplied very efficiently ; Captain Hall aueceeded in dismounting and bringing off three of the guns. The engagement lasted longer than I expected, as they returned to their guns twice in the midst of our fi. e, and where only compelled to leave them when their guns were destroyed by our shot. On reaching the anchorage of Ekness, I found that two the merchantmen were aground, but Captain Hall brought out one under the fire of a battery, which my draught of water would not allow me to near sufficiently to com pletely destroy. I most carefully avoided firing one shot in or near the town of Ekness, directing the whole of the fire of the guns exclusively to the batteries and troops at tacking us, which consisted, in addition to the brigade of Horse Artillery, of a considerable body of cavalry and in fantry, moving abreast of the ship as she advanced. I cannot give sufficient credit to Captain Hall for the assistance he rendered nie on this, as on all occasions, since he has been under my orders ; the admirable way in which he went in and brought out his prize, under a galling fire from the enemy, deserves the greatest praise. I beg also to call to your favourable notice Lieut. H. V. Haggard, senior lieutenant of this ship, whose most zealous services at all times were particularly displayed on this occasion, and also that of the whole of the officers, sea men, and marines of her Majesty's ship under my command. I regret to say that I had one man killed, and five wounded. I must not omit to mention how very highly Captain Hall speaks of Lieutenant Crew Read, First Lieu tenant of the Hada, for the support he had from him throughout thoj engagement (until he was unfortunately wounded and carried below), as also from the officers, sea men, and marines, of her M a j esty ' s ship under his coin. man d. I beg leave to enclose herewith a list of casualties on board the Hee la and arrogant, in the engagement.—l have, Stc. (Signed) R. R. YELVERTON, Captai A. List of casualties on board her Majesty's ship Arrogant, on the 20th May, 1854, when engaged with the Enemy. William Dingle, A. 8., killed instantaneously ; shot through the heart. William Vincent, stoker, mortally wounded ; since dead ; shot through the abdomen. William Glover, Captain Mizen-top, slightly wounded ; contusion of back. Fergus Thomas, Private R.M ., severe contusion of foot. Joseph Brown, A.B. slight contusi on o f l o i ns. Thomas Brunner, Ordinary, ' contusion of hand. (Signed) J. GA.LLIGEI3R, M.D., S urgeon. (Signed) H. R. YELVER,TON, CaptaiL. List of wounded on board her Majesty's ship Ueda, 20th May, 1851. Captain W. H . Hall, Captain, slightly wounded ; bruise of right light leg from a spent rifle ball. 0. Crowe Read, First Lieutenant ; a severe but not ball. dangerous wound of left eye and cheek, from a spent rifle T. Brock, slightly wounded ; bruise of right thigh from a splinter. T. Lamborn°, Boy, 9 4 class; a severe but not dangerous flesh wound of left arm, from rifle ball. John McCarthy, Ordinary; hit by round shot and after. Wards drowned. (Signed) ROBERT POTTINUER, Surgeon. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS.—(THLS EVENING.) The house met at five o'clock. ROYAL COMMISSION. The Royal assent was given by commission to the County Courts Extension Acts Bill, the Baindary Sur vey (Ireland) Bill, the Navy Pay, &c., Bill, and the Manning the Navy Bill, and a considerable number of Private bills. The Lords Commissioners were the Lord Chancellor, Earl Granville, and the Duke of Argyle. UNAUTHORISED NEGOTIATIONS BILL. Lord CAMPBELL said that, considering the ad vanced period of session, and that this was an inauspi cious occasion for bringing forward any salutary mea sure of reform, he intended to postpone his bill for pre venting unauthorised negotiations with foreign Powers, undertaking early next session to present it to their lord ships in a form which was more likely to meet with their approval. Lord BROUGHAM thought the noble and learned lord had adopted a wise course in withdrawing the bill for the present. THE BANKRUPTCY AND INSOLVENCY (SCOTLAND) BILL. The LORD CHANCELLOR presented a petition from the Faculty of Advocates at Edinburgh against this bill. Lord BROUGHAM contended that the bill had met with the unanimous approval of the cemmercial and Mercantile interests of Scotland. BANK OF ENGLAND. Lord MONTE AGLE moved for a copy of the agree ment entered into between the right hon. Henry Goul burn, as Chancellor of the Exchequer, and the Bank of England, respecting the allowances made to the Bank for the public services, and also copies of all correspon dence which may have taken place between the Govern ment and the Bank in 1854, respecting the advances re quired on deficiency bills, and the state of the public revenue. [LEFT spEAKING.] SOUSE OF COMMONS —(THIS Th e S P4ASER t oo k t h e chair at four o'cIock EVENING.) . PRIV ATE BUSINESS. The Traethb A ach Bridge an d R oad Bill was read a third time and nassed. Th e waya Bill i Way and Glasgow and South-Western Rail . a 4 considered and agreed to, and ordered to be read a third•tirn The Portland,e., and ordered to bekno'rernitte. . Chapels Bill was read a second time, ROhe I,- Mr. Ptit.‘taN, t aude ..-81, COMMISSION. peared a t the table, man U s h er of the Black Rod, ap tho bar o f the Peers to heurnmoned th e h ouse to attend at Mission t o several bills, fo7 t v i tt o yal assent given by core- Lords' report. P ETITIoNT Be° Petitions were presented hYfm,. lirrseny, from places in Ireland, in favour -- Mr. FERGUSON, from Carlisle 13- tenan t right ; by lition of church rates ; hy 3 t E r ' . k a yine for the market, praying praying for a reduction of tfie,T i t . ,! . 1."1 Now by Lord D. STUART, from a place in Wales, nn wino ; of the war, but expressing a hope that ampl e ' e a n PPrevin g would be taken against any future s hat 7 1T, In sa te i e ,, e WHITEHALL, JUNE 2. and that at the conclusion of peace Russia would be ‘ l l , n - ai' The Queen has been pleased to order a Conge d'Elire to to pay the expenses of the war ; by Mr. B. DENISON an.l the Dean and Ca for of the cathedral church of Wells, other hon. members, from various parts of the country, en aPowering them to elect a Bishop of the see of Bath and against the opening of the public-houses on Sundays ; by Fells the same being void by the death of Doctor Richard Mr. Lavann, from the Aylesbury Board of Guardians, in ..itgot, late bishop thereof; and her Majesty has also been rtigaislizt,dßto recommend to the said Dean and Chapter the favour of a national poor-rate; by Mr. R. LOWE, signed ev;end Father in God Robert John, Lord Auck land, 3,700 inhabitants of the colony of New South Wales, land, n o of Sodor and Man, to be by them elected against the constitution agreed to and sent home by their bishop o7theissha°i.P.l see of Bath and Wells. ST. &LILES'S PALACE, MAY 30. Local Legislature. On the motion of the hon. member, this The Queen has he petition was read by the Clerk at the table. n pleased, on the nomination of the Right Honourable en Foley, to appoint H o arye Puo;ot WHITSUNTIDE RECESS. White, Eq., late Captain Metros Army, one her Ma- On the motion of Lord J. RUSSELL, it was agreed jesty's Honourable Clorp s of Gentles Army' Foote ES'S PALACE, JUNE 1. that the house at its rising should adjourn until Thursday Ma cdonald i r i. et ,T irl d l it neat. S nomination of the NEW WRITS. Lord J. RUSSELL moved that in the cases of the city The Queen has bee el plteoasaepdp,,ooirtiathwe ourable Corps of _________ of Canterbury and the boroughs of Cambridge, Kingston- Right Hon. Lord Fol. her' H,,nilliam Walter Car- [AnvEnTieEmENT.I- - Holloway's Ointment and Pills 'upon-Hull, Maldon, and Barnstaple, where the sea t s of gill, Esq., one of M tjesty /bombers h. h we een declared void by election committees Gentlemen-at-Arms, vice Hughes, retired. effect wonderful Cures of Bad Legs and Old Wounds,— previous ,grounda of bribery or treating, no motions for the WA' a-OFFICE, JUNE 2. If these medicines are used according to the directions "mg of new writs shall he made without seven days' prmevrioti_s noti Ambulance Corps- —Captain John Pelting Pigott, upon given with them, there is no wound, bad leg, or ulcerous ce being given in the votes half.p a y unattached, Staff-officer of Pensioners of the sore, however obstinate, or of lob' standing, but will W. O. STANLEY contended that . it was highly un satisfactory t lowl Reowawehtahese cases to remain in their present Salisbury District, to be Captain, May 29. yield to their curative properties. ' Numbers of persons position. OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, JUNE 2. who have been patients in the large hospitals, and under Upon the Barnstaple ir t o;tan of the committee which sat swellings, tumours, the care of eminent surgeons, without deriving the least is no medicine that tion established in teal i ion, and the bribery and corrup case Was of so glaring a character William Bo pin to be Lieutenant, Royal Regiment . of Artillery—Riding -house Establish or benefit, have been cured by Holloway's ointment and that should merit —Serjeant-Maj • n full-pay, June 2. steps be taken t vice M`Pherson, retwed o put a stop to it in future. pills, when other remedies had foiled. For glandular Sold by all dr ' DEPARTMENT. In 1819 this house passed a bill o to disfranchise the borough on acc oun t o f its corrupt state, but the bill was thrown Seni ° or ß S D u N rg A ti lC on CE Joh ili n E l D V l a C llo A n L .H D . E l — a . a . an to be Deput-- s o c a u o ry b y e , o a s n e d d d w is it e h as s es of o t o h d e akin there o g out of the Lords. The uggiets, and as Professor Holloway's, 244, mule partie d ' • yerling, retired on full pay; Stir p ties who carried Ina nec t or _G enf sa l, vice oa the bribery in 1810 were al, , — " I t" P t. of ' ard Thomas Parrett to be Senior Surgeon, Strand. sr les guilty goon James Edo BUCKINGHAM PALACE, M AY 31 . This day had audience of the Queen : The Chevalier Bunsen, Envoy Extraordinary and Minis ter Plenipotentiary from the King of Prussia, to present to her Majesty his letter of recall : To which audience ho was introduced by the Earl of Clarendon, K.G., her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and conducted by Major-General the Honourable Sir Edward Cuit, K.C.H., her Majesty's Master of the Ceremonies. I WHITEHALL, JUNE 1. The Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent to be passed under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland constituting and appointing the Right Honourable Sir James Robert George Graham, Bart., G.C.B. ; Rear-Admiral Maurice Frederick Fitz hardinge Berkeley, C. 8.; Rear-Admiral the Honourable Richard Saunders Dundas, C. 8.; Captain Peter Richards, C. 8.; Captain Alexander Milne; and the Honourable William Francis Cowper, to be her Majesty's Commis sioners for executing the office of Lord High Admiral of the said United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and the dominions, islands, and territories thereunto belonging. NEWSPAPER STAMP. Mr. M. GIBSON gave notice that after the recess ho should ask the Government what course they intended to take in consequence of the resolution which the house had come to on the subject of the newspaper stamp. SALT MONOPOLY OF INDIA. In reply to Sir J. PAKINGTON, Sir C. WOOD stated that a correspondence had taken place with the Government of India on the subject of the salt tax, and an inquiry was now going on with the view of ascertaining if the duty could not be collected by way of excise, An Hon. MEMBER asked when the Indian budget would be disclosed. Sir C. WOOD could not bring it forward until he re ceived the final accounts from India, which were closed on the last day of April. CHOLERA IN JAMAICA. Sir J. PAKINGTON wished to ask the Under Secretary of State for the Colonies whether her Majesty's Govern. ment have lately received any information as to the reap pearance of cholera in Jamaica; and whether it is intended to take any measures, either by the renewal of the appoint ment of an inspector, or otherwise, for the promotion of ( sanitary regulations in the West Indies ? Mr. F. PEEL stated that in the early part of this year some cases had occurred, but it was hoped by this time that the epidemic had subsided. The West India colonies were uniting together for the purpose of establishing sana tory regulations for each. THE lONIAN FLAG. Mr. HUME asked how ships, with the lonian flag, now under the pr o t ec ti on o f E ngland, will be treated by Russia —are they to he neutral in the eyes of England and France? Lord J. RUS SELL said, after mature deliberation, it had been decided by the Government and the Law Officers of the Crown, that the lonian Islands being under the pro tection of her Majesty,could not be considered as a neutral state. OPERATIONS IN THE BALTIC. Mr. HUME asked the right hon. the First Lord of the Admiralty, if he could give the house any information of the operations of the fleet in the Baltic ? Sir J. GRAHAM replied that to-day a despatch had been received at the Admiralty from Sir C. Napier, which was dated " Hango Bay, at the en trance of the Gulf of Finland, 23d May," and which gave an account of a gallant exploit that had been performed by the Arrogant, a frigate, and a small steam vessel under the command of Captain Hall, called the Heels, on the 23d of May. These ships heard of three large Russian merchantmen being at anchor in an inlet fully ten miles inland, and under the fire of a fortress of considerable strength, besides a fire of musketry from a large force on troops on land, Captain Hall, in de fiance of the fire both of the fortress and mus ketry, succeeded in getting inland, and in a most gallant manner cut out the only Russian merchant man he could find there, which he carried back to the fleet in triumph. Sir C. Napier remarked that this exploit was worthy of the best time of cur naval history. (Cheers.) He might add that the fleet was in the best order and con dition. At the time the despatch left the French fleet had not yet joined, but it was expected to do so in about five or six days, so that by this time it must have joined the British squadron. (Hear, hear.) SUCCESSION DUTY. Mr. HEA.DLAM asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether it was his intention to introduce, during this session of Parliament, any measure to impose a tax upon land held by corporations, and for permanent object s , equivalentimposed to the S uccess i on Duty up on o th er la The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said it was not intended to introduce such a measure this session. DRESS OF THE ARMY. Sir G. HEATHCOTE asked the Secretary at War if it was the intention of the Government to take any steps to make the dress and accoutrements of the army more con venient, and in accordance with the requirements of actual service, especially in hot climates ? Mr. S. HERBERT replied that this subject had been under the consideration of Lord Raglan, who had it in cotemplation to dispense with the stock of which so much complaint had been made, as well as to make other altera , Lions to render the dress of the troops in the East more adapted to the climate. (Cheers.) Mr. H. HERBERT asked if it were true that an altera tion was about to be made in the regulations respecting shaving. (A laurth.) Mr. S. HERBERT could not announce that any charge had been made in the regulations respeeting shaving, but from the terms of Lord Raglan's letter, which had been receivod on the subject of the dress of the soldiers, it would appear that his attention had been called to that subject also. (Hear.) [LEFT SITTING.] THE LONDON GAZETTE. (THIS EVENING.) the corruption in 1852, and something ought to be done beyond merely suspending the writ. He wished, therefore, to ask the noble lord if the Government have any intention to propose any further measures for the repression of bribery- and corruption in those boroughs which have been the subject of inquiry under commis sioners specially appointed ; and if they propose the sus pension of the writs until any such measures shall have been considered by the house. Mr. BUCK thought the Conservative party of Barnstaple had been very badly treated by the house. Attempts had been made to establish bribery against them by means of perjury which was wholly unnecessary, because at the commission 240 electors came forward voluntarily to con. fess their past faults, on the understanding that they would n ot be p un i s h e d f or the confession. An effort had been unsuccessfully made to b rea k that pledge, but now that the bill was withdrawn which was to have accomplished that, he hoped the house would let byegones be byegones, and consent to issue a new writ for the borough. Mr. F. FRENCH thought the house was taking an un constitutional course in delaying the issue of these writs. Mr. L. KING moved, as an amendment, that no new writ should issue in any of these cases, until the 30th of December next. Mr. DISRAELI supported the original motion but at the same time he announced that at the expiration of the seven days notice he should not be prepared to consent to any further postponement of these writs. Mr. BOUVERIE reminded the house that the course they were taking was likely to be attended with great in convenience, because in consequence of this seven days' notice, the motion for issuing the writ would take the motion out of the category of a question of p r i v il ege, an d it could no t be brought on at an early period of the even ing, but could only be taken in its turn. He should there fore move that when the motion was to be made for the issue of one of these writs, it should take the precedence of all other business. Mr. GOULBURN should object to that addition to the motion. . -- Sir E. DERING supported the original motion. Mr. T. DUNCOMBE thought the issue of these writs ought to be postponed until the noble lord's new reform bill was introduced. (A. laugh.) These were such gross cases of corruption that there was no getting to the bottom of them, and to allow these writs to be issued without first taking steps to prevent a repetition of such abuses would be simply absurd. It would be tanta mount to telling the country that the house was not sincere in its desire to prevent bribery and cor ruption. These boroughs had been convicted of in sufferable corruption, and now the house shrank from the task of inflicting upon them the punishment which they so well merited, namely, to disfranchise them, and establish new constituencies. The war could not last for ever, though no doubt this year it would serve the purpose of defeating all measures of social reform ; but let the war be brought to an end, still any measure of Parliamentary Reform would remain unpopular in the house, because the house was not in earnest in either that or this matter. Mr. BRIGHT had no difficulty in saying that the house ought to agree to the original resolution. The punishment of bribery as inflicted by the house was most ineffectual for its purpose, and since there was no means of meeting , these cases of bribery the most prudent and con stitutional course for the house was to proceed to the issue of the writ. (Hear, hoar.) Having disposed of these cases in that easy way, it would then be open to the house to consider what steps should be taken for the prevention of bribery, and then he should be prepared to urge the ballot as the best remedy for the evil. Sir J. V. SHELLY also believed that bribery would never be put an end to until the ballot was adopted. Lord J. RUSSELL, in reply to Mr. STANLEY'S ques tion, stated that it was not understood to propose any fresh measures with regard to these boroughs; but he be lieved if the writs were delayed until a now law of bribery, which was now being investigated by a select committee, there would be some chance of the abuse being checked at the next election. Mr. J. HUME asked if the new law in contemplation failed, would there be any objection to try the ballot. Lord J. RUSSELL replied that if the new means failed the Government would be prepared with some other remedy. The amendment was then withdrawn, and the origin& motion was agreed to. HE LONDON,- 'PItiITAYrIi:VEN SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS. George Robertson, contractor, Plains of Thornton, near Glammiss, Forfarshire. John Ure and Son, calenderers, Glasgow. David Bakie, merchant, Thurso. Alexander Purdie, innkeeper, Ardrishaig, Argyllshire. BANK OF ENGLAND. An Account pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth Victoria, cap 32, for the Week ending on Saturday tho 27th day of May, 1854, ISSUE DEPARTMENT. £ Notes issued ...• .... 26,012,250 Government debt.... 11,015,100 Other securities ...... 2,944,900 Gold coin and bullion 12,012,230 Silver bullion .. •. 426,012,250 Dated the Ist day of Jane, 185 £25,012, 250 MARSHALL, Chief Cashier. BANKING D 1 X Proprietors' capital .. 14,553,000 Rest .....• • . . ....... 3,227,015 Public deposits (in cluding Exchequer, Commissioners of National Debt, Sav ing's Banks, and Dividend Accounts) 2,489,944 Other deposits ... • •. 10,283,180 Seven Day and o•ber Bills ........ •. • . 1,026,415 , 'AIT3fENT. Government securities (includg.Dead Weight Annuity) •• • 9.856,309 Other securitles...... 15,441,9 6 Notes •••• • • . • 5,552,710 Gold and silver coin .. 728,599 X 31,579,584 X 31,579,584 :. MARSHALL, Chief Cashier. Dated the Ist day of June, 1854 PRICE OF SUGAR, The average price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, computed from the returns made in the week ending the 30th day of May, 1854, is 235. 34d. per hundredweight, exclusive of the duties of Customs paid or payable thereon on the im portation thereof into Great Britain. 'COURSE OF E.XCJ Amsterdam 11 16 Ditto, three months .. 11 17% Rotterdam .. Antwerp .......• • • •... 25 25 Brussels . 25 25 llamburgh ..... 13 •7 Alton • • •• Paris • . 25 0 Ditto, three months .• 25 30 Marseilles.. ...... • • • • .. 25 30 Bourdeaux • • • . Fra nkfort - on -Maine .... 118% Vienna .................13 40 Trieste ........ •• •• • • .. 13 45 Petersburg!,.. •• • • ...... sfadrld Barcelona.. 'ANGE—Tare DAT. 'Gibraltar ...........• • • -- Leghorn .........• •• .. 30 50 Genoa . 25 371 ............... ,4 Milan ................ Venice . . .............. (Naples ................ 42 (Palermo 156 N Messina .... • 127 (Lisbon .......... ..... . 52& Oporto ...........• • • .. :Rio Janeiro . ...... Buenos Ayres .......... 'New York, 60 days' sight Philadelphia .......... -- PRICES Or BULLION, PER OZ. Foreign Gold In Bars £3 17 9 Portugal Gold Coin .. 0 0 0 Mexican Dollars .... 0 5 1 New Dollars 0 0 iiilver in bars ...• 0 5 111 4 9 Ti . . 5 0 I,i EPSOM RACES (THIS DAY.) (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPII.) RAILWAY PLATE. Thirteen ran. FOAL STARES, VISITORS' PLATE. Eight ran. DERBY AND OAKS. Child of the Mist ....................... Vaultress ...... Nine ran. Child of the Mist objected to. MARKET INTELLIGENCE. (Front the London New Price Current of this day.) SUGAR.—To-clay the British Plantation Sugar market closed with a dull appearance, and the prices accepted were 6d per cwt. under last Friday for both grocery and refining sorts. Oerations were 329, making 1,828 hhds. &c., for the week. The sugar market will be closed on Tuesday on account of the holidays, but large public sales are declared for the following days. REFINED.—To-day Refined Sugar was operated in with caution for home trade purposes, and rates rather declined, brown lumps selling at 46s Gd to 475, and low to fine grocery 47s to 51s. A large business doing in Dutch Crushed Sugar for exportation, chiefly at 268 3d to 275. COFFEE.—Today operations in Native Ceylon were on a more extended scale privately at 42s Gd for good ord. Plantation also met with more attention, and realised full term. None of any sort was submitted to public sale. MOLASSES.—To-day several purchases were made in Molasses, Antigua 17s 3d, and St. Kitts 15s per cwt. TEA.—The currency is for low to good ord sound with a prompt Did to lli, rather blackish to blackish leaf 11id to ls 31d, and s t rong to Pekoe flavour is 4d to 2s Gd per lb. There has been more activity in the market for Green and prices are well supported. SPICES. —There is more desire to operate in pepper, only a moderate quantity is now offered, and prices have be come firm. TALLOW. —For consumption and on speculation pur chases have been on a limited scale during the week, and prices continue unsteady. The closing currency for first sort Pale Yellow Candle on the spot Gls to Gls 3d, and 62s 3d to 62s Gd August delivery. Of home melted pro duction increase, and dealers not being much inclined to operate, there are sellers at 58s 6d to 59s cash. In other sorts of tallow transactions are limited— Australian mutton at 55s to 603; beef, 53s to 56s ; and South American 55s to 69s per cwt. At auction the quantity offered this afternoon was 500 casks, etc. There is a greater stock than last year by 13,000 casks, and deliveries show a decrease of 11,000, still prices rule above that time. vice Halahan; Assistant-Surgeon Wm. Henry Mackintosh to be Surgeon, vice Parratt, promoted ; April 1. Tempo rary Assistant-Surgeon Robert Win. Cockerill to be Assis tant-Surgeon, vice Mackintosh, May 21. COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY LORD LIEUTENANTS. Royal Gloucestershire Regiment of Hussar Yeomanry— Major George William Blathwayt to bo Lieut.-Colonel, vice Browne, deceased, May 29. Warwickshire Yeomanry Cavalry —The Honourable Edward Chandos Leigh to be Cornet, May 27. Hampshire Yeomanry Cavalry—Hugh Alexander Baring, Gent., to be Cornet ; Alfred Bonham C ar t er, G ent., to be Cornet, M ay 29 . Hampshire Militia Artillery—Edward Rodney, Gent., to be Second Lieutenant, May 31. Northumberland Regiment of Militia—Edward Charles Charleton, Gent., to be Lieutenant, May 27. Bedfordshire Regiment of Militia—Lieutenant Charles Samuel Lindsell to be Captain, vice Macnamara, resigned. May 25 ; Ensign Henry Meux Smith to be Lieutenant, vice Lindsell, promoted, May 26. Queen's Own Light Infantry Regiment of Tower Ham lets Militia—Grenville Macleod Andrews to be Lieutenant, vice Exlam, resigned, May 8. Royal Bucks or King's Own Regiment of Militia—Law rence Robert Hall, Gent., to be Ensign, April 8 ; Ensign William James Voules, to be Lieutenant ; Ensign Isaac King, to be Lieutenant, May 27. [This article is substituted for that which appeared in the Gazette of Friday, May 26.] 4th or Royal South Middlesex Regiment of Militia.— William Elias Taunton, Gent., to be Lieutenant, May 15. BANKRUPTS. Richard George Prentice, grocer, Pimlico, to surrender, June 13, an d J u l y 12 , at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Graham, official assignee; Wilde, Rees, Humphrey, and Wilde, College-hill, City. Edward Pateson, draper and hosier, Preston, June 19, and July 7, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court. Hernaman, official assignee, Manchester; Sale, Worthing ton, and Shipman, Manchester. Joseph Wormald, shoe maker, Glossop, Derby, June 14, and July 6, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court. Hernaman, official assignee, Manchester; Sale, Worthing ton, and Shipman, Manchester. James Palmer Shapcott, wool-dealer, Preston Plucknett, Somersetshire, June 8 and July 6, at one, at the Exeter District Court. Hirtzel, official assignee, Exeter; Slade and Vining, Yeovil James Howard, grocer, Levenshnlme, near Manchester, June 19 and July 12, at twelve, at Manchester District Court. Fraser, official assignee, Manchester ; Dawson, Manchester. George Edmund Shuttleworth, Mark Hodgson Shuttle worth, and George Edmund Suttleworth the younger, auctioneers, Poultry, June 14 and July 12, at 2, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Graham, official assignee; Crowder and Maynard, Coleman -street. George James Rollason, brasssounder, Warwick, June 14 and July 13, at twelve, at the Birmingham District Court. Bittleston, official assignee, Birmingham; Part ridge, Birmingham. PRISONERS REMOVAL BILL. This bill passed through committee. THE TICKET OF LEAVE SYSTEM. Lord St. LEONARDS moved for certain returns re sting to tickets of leave.—Agreed to. LETTERS FOR THE BALTIC AND BLACK SEA FLEETS. Lord BEAUMONT wished, before the house rose, to put a question to his noble friend the Postmaster-Ge neral with regard to the transmission of letters to the officers and seamen serving in the British fleets in the Baltic and the Black Sea. He understood that many letters written by the friends and relations of persons who were serving in those fleets, and sent through the post, had been delayed and that others had not reached their destination at all. This might be owing, in some degree to their being erroneously di rec t e d , f or he found that many persons had directed their letters to the Post-office of the capital or town nearest which the fleets were supposed to be, as Copenhagen, or Stock holm, and as the postmasters at those places had no instructions to forward them on, the letters would thus be delayed. But he understood that there was some further delay in the distribution of letters even after they reached the admiral's ship. He believed that the usual course was to send all letters directed to persons serving in the fleet to the admiral's ship, and when they reached that vessel, and were sorted, a signal was made for the other ships to send their boats for letters, and thus the distribution was made through the fleet. He did not know, but it might be worth consideration, whether it would not save time, and insure a more accurate delivery of the letters, supposing them to be properly addressed, and the name of the ship for which they were intended, was placed upon them, were assoi ted at the Post office here before they were sent out. The questions he wished to put to his noble friend were, first, in what manner the Post-office wished, for their own convenience, the letters to be addressed ? secondly, whether means had been taken by the Postmaster to effect a regular trans mission of letters intended for the fleets ? and, thirdly, whether it was within the jurisdiction of the Post-office to make such arrangements, or whether the transmis sion depended entirely upon the chance of ships going out, or upon the admirals being able to despatch a steamer or a boat to the port near which the fleet might happen to be for letters ! He also wished to ask his noble friend whether, supposing the troops should make any forward movement towards the seat of war, any means had been taken for sending letters to this country. He would suggest that it might, perhaps, bo most con venient to send letters through Austria rather than despatch them via Constantinople. Viscount CANNING was much obliged to his noble friend for the opportunity which be gave him of explain ing this subject, as it was one of much importance and also of some difficulty, considering the means of trans port at disposal of the Post-office. With regard to the Baltic fleet the arrangements were these. Upon the Tuesday in every week a mail was made up in London and despatched by Belgium and Prussia to Dantzic. The admiral in command had received instructions from the Admiralty to send a steamer from the fleet every week to meet the mail at Dantzic, and convey it thence for distribution. The same steamer of course brought letters from the fleet, to be returned to England by the same channel as the mail from tAis country. In regard to postage, by a convention en tered into by Great Britain, a postage of Bd. was payable able on letters to Dantzic, and thus, being under engage ru en' to Belgium and Prussia, England could not reduce th,s amount of postage below Bd. on officers' letters. As reg arced seamen's letters, her Majesty's Government had mao'e arrangements whereby the postage would be re duceti to sd. Newspapers could not be conveyed by the Damaic route, because according to the arrangement with the Prussian Government there was no means of prepaying newspapers to Prussia, and the papers could not le aye Dantzie until the postage upon them was paid. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS—(YESTERDAY.) PROVISION FOR THE EMBARKATION AND DISEMBARKATION OF TROOPS IN THE EAST. The Earl of ELLENBOROUGH rose to request from the Government some explanation of a correspondence which appeared in the Morning Chronicle relative to the embarkation of our troops at Gallipoli. The Earl of WICKLOW rose to order, The time had arrived for reading the order of the day. The Earl of ELLENBOROUGH expressed his wil lingness to ask his question to-morrow, but at the same time if a peer was to be precluded from asking questions upon matters of pressing interest by the rule to which the noble earl adverted, it would be necessary for their lordships to alter the rule. (Hear, and cries of" Go on.") It being the wish of their lordships that he should pro ceed, he would do so. The newspaper to which he bad referred contained a letter from General Brown to Lord Raglan, giving an account of important assistance given by the French on the embarkation of our troops at Galli poli for their removal to Scutari. The letter was in the following terms : " utari M 7, 185. " My Lord, —l n communicatinCo you , the a s y afe arrival in this port of the 93d Regiment, and of the second brigade of the Rifles, I should fail altogether in my duty if I did not inform your lordship of the prompt and efficient assist ance which I received for the embarkation of these troops from Admiral Bruat, General Canrobert, and all the French authorities residing at Gallipoli. " Not having on the spot any English vessel of war, and finding myself without any other means of establishing a communication with the steamers or transports but the very defective aid of the boats of the locality furnished by the commissariat, it would have been impossible for me to effect that embarkation without a considerable loss of time had it not been for the aid of our allies. "In such circumstances I did not hesitate to apply t the French admiral and general, whose readiness to lend assistance to the troops of her Majesty had been already appreciated by me on previous occasions. General Can robert at once placed at my orders all the flat-bottomed boats which he could dispose of, and Admiral Bruat was kind enough to employ all the boats of his squadron both in towing the others and in carrying troops, until all the men wore placed on board. " The result of this prompt and friendly co-operation was, that the two regiments, which had already marched eight miles from their lines at Gallipoli, of which the em barkation did not in consequence commence until 1 in the afternoon, were all on board, with upwards of 100 horses, by sunset, so that it was possible to weigh anchor before nightfall. "I am deeply impressed with the feeling that, owing so much personally to these distinguished officers for the kind co-operation which they afforded me on this occasion, as, indeed. on many others, I should be most ungrateful were I not to seize on the very first occasion to express the obligations under which they have placed me from the first moment that I have been acting in concert with I them. " I have the honour to be, my lord, your very obedient humble servant, " T. BROWN, Lieutenant -General." That letter completely confirmed the apprehension he had frequently given expression to, that the transports and steamers in which our troops had been conveyed to Turkey were not provided with a sufficient number of suitable boats for the rapid embarkation and disembarka tion of the soldiers. (Hear, hear.) It must be unneces sary to impress upon their lordships the extreme import. ance of attaching to every vessel employed to convey troops as many boats fitted for the embarkation and dis embarkation of troops as could be given consistently with the demands of other departments of the public service. It was impossible to say how much the success of our operations would depend upon the rapidity with which a large number of troops could be thrown ashore. Suppose only a portion of a force to be landed, a sea might arise which would render it impossible to land more, and in that.case the troops already landed would be exposed to attack from the enemy which they would not have strength to resist. Again, an officer, in order to gain sufficient time for, disembarkation, might be obliged to select an unfavourable instead of a favourable spot for that operation. This subject attracted atten tion eight years ago, and it was then thought expedient that all vessels employed for the conveyance of troops should be provided not only with a sufficient number of flat-bottomed boats, but also with one large boat with an amount of steam power sufficient to enable it to tow the other boats. Should this system be adopted, troops could be disembarked with great rapidity. The Duke of NEWCASTLE admitted the letter which the noble earl had read to be perfectly authentic, and he was happy to be able to assure their lordships that the troops serving in the East were provided with ample means of embarking and disembarking. The noble earl must be aware that in consequence of the necessity which existed for sending from this country two of the largest fleets that ever left our shores, it was deemed advisal,le that the large land force which had gone to the East should be conveyed, not in vessels of war, but in vessels hired for the purpose, which had been previously em ployed in commerce. These vessels, of course, had not flat bottomed boats, which were necessary for the dis embarkation of troops engaged in military operations. The French troops had been conveyed chiefly in vessels of war, which were provided with flat-bottomed boats, and upon the occasion referred to in General Brown's letter the French authorities very courteously placed some of them at our disposal. Their lordships, however, might rely upon it that ample provision was made for the embarkation and disembarkation of our troops in cases of emergency in the Black Sea. This was a matter which had been ma turely considered, and only this day a letter had been received from Admiral Boxer, under whose corn mand the transport service had been placed, stating that every necessary provision had been made for the safe and rapid disembarkation of troops on any given point. The Earl of EL LENBOROUGII said, it appeared to be the case that the Government did not wake any arrangement with the persons to whom these transports and steamers belonged, in order that the vessels should have, on this particular occasion, when they were to con vey troops, a larger number of boats—and boats, too, of a larger kind, than they were accustomed to carry. In point of fact, if the troops had depended on the boats belonging to the transports, they could not have disem barked without the greatest inconvenience and delay. The Duke of NEWCASTLE observed, that any arrangement such as the noble earl adverted to could not possibly have been made. When such ♦essels as the Himalaya and Orinoco were taken up at a fortnight or three weeks' notice, did the noble earl suppose that the Government were in a position to call on the parties to whom the vessels belonged to supply flat-bottomed boats for the embarkation and disembarkation of the troops ? No company could have made such a preparation with out three months' instead of three weeks' notice. What the Government did was to take care that, when the transports arrived in the Bosphorus, sufficient means should there be provided for disembarkation. The Consolidated Fund (8,000,000/. No. 2) Bill was read a second time. The Bills of Exchange Bill was read a third time. The reports of the amendments in the Railway and Canal Traffic Regulation Bill was, after some discussion, agreed to. ----- SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. The Napoleon, Cape of Good Hope to Melbourne, lat. 40 S. long. 106 E. The Henrietta, Clyde to Melbourne, lat. 40 S. long. 50 E. The Reindeer, of New York, Now Orleans to London, May 5, lat. 47 N, long. 43 W. The Jenny, of Shields, Newcastlo to Quebec, May 15, lat. 27 N, long. 26 W. The Zephyr, of Sunderland, for Quebec, May 27, 1at.51, long. 8. The Alberta, for Quebec, May 8, lat. 45 N. The Bolon a , J ersey to Quebec, May 15, lat. 46M. The Annie Henderson, April 21, let. 2 N, long. 28 W. The Caroline, May 19, let. 47 N. long. 27 W. The Helena Christina, Batavia to Rotterdam, April 18, let. 5 N, long 16 W. The Johanna Elendrika Hock, Batavia to Amsterdam, April 8. The Amharawa, Amsterdam to Australia, April 16, lat. 2 N, long. 21 W. The Nieuw Lekkerland, Liverpool to Melbourne, April 28, let. 18 S., long. 3 W. The Andreas, Callao to Cowes, May 20, let. 49 N., long. 20 W. The John M`Lelland, Dublin to Melbourne, Dec. 14, let. 19 N., long. 23 'W. The James I , Poole to Labrador, May 21, let. 49 N., long. 17 W. The Fifeshire (ship), homeward bound, May 15, let.. 42 N., long. 32 W. ; Anna, London to Melbourne, same dAy, lat. 41 N., long. 15 W. The Chandernagor, Liverpool to Port Louis, April . 7 , lat. 2 N., long. 19 W. Glenstrae.. Monge Champagno Middlesex Assayer Roebuck --------...,.. -------• • could not carry such a proposal ; but at some i'll ._ t .,.a tire I time h e s h ou l d be ready to admit them. He belle= the University of Oxford was calculated to diffuse greatshould h o u prevailedkl be benefits mthoerre o e f h e widelythe educationthought extended it v i e e td r hi etnhttehi time count manner y de r ; ever might be said in favour of the system of education that this clause, which he trusted the committee would rodikr assent to. (Hear, hear.) Mr. WALPOLE believed they were all agreed as to i t.h t : necessity of extending the benefits of the universityloa l l/ system of education ; but then came the question that extension was to be accomplished. His own diffloolv . in this was this • the clause took the means or mode of et' tension out of the hands of the university authorities. Th y university had been actively engaged in extending its of . tern of education, by throwing it open, not merely to ' l t higher but to the middling or lower classes, and it was IP. fair or judicious to force upon them a system which Govern' ment thought best, in preference to the system which they themselves felt to be best. He confessed that object° alone to the clause, if there were no other, and there CI: come btbut, proposedt when h what'el: . 1. I . tainly were many, would be sufficient to make him vote against it. I n hi s opinion the clause was directly a' variance with those which followed it. Sir W. HEATHCOTE thought it his duty to vote for the experiment which this clause was to effect. Whe n a looked to the increasing population of the country, st_ i i , noticed that not one thousand persons matriculated each year, he thought it was plain that something faulty existedl in the univ ers it y. H e thought that the clause as it stood would meet the requirements of very many who were no" excluded from Oxford. (Hear, hear.) The committee divided-- For the clause ............... .......... .. ......... 205 i For th e amendment ........................... 113-9 4 The clause was then agreed to, as was a l so c l ause 27- Lord J. RUSSELL said—As the house is tolerably fol l ',_ I will just s t a t e t h at it is proposed to make considerable alteration w ith regard to the remaining clauses of the bli" The discussions which have taken place on parts coruPs, ratively easy s h ow t h at a very great length of time world be occupied by discussing in detail the numerous clauses that yet remain. Ido not propose at present to enter into any explanation or discussion of the clauses which are Pre; posed to be substituted ; but I will say in few words, thss we propose that the commissioners shall have certai n Dowers which, if the coll eges agree to them, or unless they dissent from them by a ma j or i ty of two-thirds, shall enable the conh , lissioners to enact certain statutes in regard to the colleges. The clauses which I propose to introduce for . that pu r p ose are four or five in number, making with those that are retained 14 clauses to be disposed of ; ° that the whole number of clauses in the bill will be 42 lli' stead of 68. Sixteen clauses, of very great detil, wl ~b. omitted. It i s not my intention to state the a plan, il s ,, T 4 ' less to discuss it, until the clauses are in a printed shape. What I propose, therefore, is to add these clauses—omit' ting the clauses that are to be left out—and going into committee afresh ; or, if that course be not thought collo; nient, give n o ti ce o f the clauses, have them printed, and to let them wait till Monday week, when we propose to consider the bill again. I believe the most convenient course would be to re -commit the bill, and to print it with the amendments already agreed to by th e comm i t t ee , power of cours e b e i ng reserved to re-discuss them-on the report. lam prepared, however, to adopt an y comaswhich may b e d eemed best. I now propose that the c hair man should report progress, and that we should take the bill pro forma to morrow. Mr. WALPOLE, who was very indistinct, was under' stood to say that his apprehension of the noble lord's meaning was that the effect of the additional clauses would be to give the commissioners the power of making certain alterations, unless the colleges made them. Lord J. RUSSELL said he did not know that the power would bale comm ess confiissioners would be more extensive, but theY: ned than they were as the bill stood at present. NG, J - UNE 2, 1854. There were, however, other means of communicating with the Baltic fleet, by means of Queen's ships and tran sports despatched from this country—and this mode, though longer and more circuitous, would be cheaper. Letters by this latter means would be conveyed at a penny per letter, and newspapers entirely free. It was impos sible, of course, to give accurate statements of the time of these vessels departing, as that depended upon circum stances. He would, however, mention that during May five vessels were sent out, and that during Apra four were despatched. There was every probability that ' the departures in future would be quite as frequent. In respect to the suggestion that letters should be sorted before they were despatched from the London office, he wished to state he doubted very much whether greater delay and inconvenience would not arise from that course than from leaving them to be sorted on board. He understood the practice to be that upon the mail arriving at the fleet the idlers were directed to occupy themselves in sorting the letters according to their ships, and upon their being sorted signals were put out for the various vessels to send boats for their letters. If the sorting took place in London, it would be necessary that letters should be posted at an earlier hour than they now were, and this he thought would be a greater inconveni ence than the short delay which now occurred in sorting. With regard to the delay which had taken place in the transmission of some letters addressed' to the Baltic fleet, the noble lord had anticipated the reason. It was, as he seemed to suppose, that they had been misdirected. In fact some had been sent to the Post-office, Copen hagen, before the fleet had arrived out there. The next point to be referred to was the communication with the Black Sea. He must begin by stating that the facilities of correspondence which the army and navy were to enjoy were very much owing to the considerate liberality of the French Government. The whole postal service in the Mediterannean .was at the present time, and had been for some time, in the hands of that Govern ment. They despatched six steamers a month from Marseilles to Constantinople, which form a very fre quent and sec ure means of communication. Very shortly after the first division of the forces had reached Turkey, the Emperor of the French signified to the Post-office of this country that he desired that all the conveniences—of frequency, security, and cheapness —enjoyed by his own seamen and troops in the East, should be enjoyed by the seamen and troops of Great Britain. The result of this was, that the despatch of letters to the Eastern army would take place six times a month, and the charge for letters under a quarter of an ounce would be but 3d. ; that amount franking them from this country to Constantinople. The share of that 3d. taken by the country would be only id., the remain der being the foreign postage. The noble lord (Beau mont) had also asked whether any arrangements had been made for facilitating the postage service from head quarters through the Turkish territory. In reply to this, he had to state that the precaution had been taken of appointing two officers of the post office to act as postmasters to the army. These gentlemen would in a short time be at their posts ; one of them at Constanti nople, and the other —most probably, for this was not actually arranged —at the headquarters of the army. It was right to explain to their lordships that the low rates of postage would apply only to those letters which were bona fide letters for seamen, officers, and soldiers, and not to any mercantile correspondence. The liberality of the French Government bad reference, of course, solely to the troops and to the seamen and officers of the fleet. The safest mode of addressing letters to the fleet was simply to state the name of the vessel on board of which the person addressed served, adding " Baltic" or "Black Sea Fleet," as the case might be. It was desirable that persons should not mention any port or post town in the address, for that course would probably cause much delay. Letters to the army should be directed to the regiment of the person addressed, adding thereto either " Constantinople," or " Army in the East." After a few words from Lord COLCHESTER, Viscount CANNING said that he ought to add to the statement which he had made that all letters ought to be post-paid. The house adjourned at a quarter to 8 o'clock HOUSE OF COMMONS--(YESTERDAY.) BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE. Sir J. PAKINGTON then rose to move the following resolution : " That it be an instruction to all committees of the whole house to which bills may be committed, that they have power to make such amendments therein as they shall think fit, provided they be relevant to the subject matter of the bill 2 • but that if any suc h amen d ments shall not be within the title of the bill, they do amend the title accordingly, and do report the same specialty to the house. " That the questions for reading a bill a first and second time in a committee of the whole house be discontinued. "That in going tin ough a bill no questions shall be put for the filling up words already printed in italics, and commonly called blanks, unless exception be taken thereto ; and if no alterations have been made in the words so printed in italics, the bill shall be repOrted without amendments unless other amendments have been made thereto, " That on a clause being offered on the consideration of report or third reading of a bill, the Speaker do desire the member to bring up the same, whereupon it shall be read a first time without question put. "That Lords' amendments to public bills shall be ap pointed to be considered on a future day, unless the house in any case shall order them to be considered forthwith. "That every report from a committee of the whole house be brought up without any question being put. " That bills which may be fixed for consideration in committee on the same day, whether in progress or other wise, may be referred to a committee of the whole house, which may consider on the same day all the bills so referred to it, without the chairman leaving the chair on each sepa rate bill; provided that, with respect to any bill not in progress, if any member shill raise an objection to its con sideration, such bill shall be postponed. " That the house, at its rising on Friday, do stand ad journed until the following Monday, unless the Louse shall have otherwise ordered." The first six resolutions were agreed to, and the seventh was withdrawn. THE VIENNA PROTOCOL. Lord J. RUSSELL, by command of her Majesty, brought up the protocol signed by the Four Powers at Vienna on the 23d of May. It was ordered to lie upon the table. INCOME TAX BILL. On the motion for the third reading of this bill, Colonel DUNNE asked if the allowance on interest charges on estates in Ireland would apply to the double as well as the single tax. Mr. WILSON said the only object of the bill before the house was to increase the amount of the income tax ; it in no way varied the conditions and terms of the in come tax of last year. The special commission appointed in the first instance for Ireland had been rescinded ; but there was an arrangement by which special commis sioners still sat in Ireland periodically, for the purpose of hearing appeals, and that entirely answered the pur pose for which the commission was appointed. The bill was then read a third time. Mr. WILSON brought up a new clause for the pur pose of preventing the returns of poor rates under the act of last year from being made quarterly, and providing that they should be made only at such times as the com missioners pleased. Mr. HUME asked whether the Government had taken any precaution against the defalcations of the col lectors ? It was a most mischievous circumstance not to have those tax-collectors under the control of the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Let the Governent appoint those collectors, and be alone responsible for their conduct. Mr. BUCK trusted that the honourable Secretary of the Treasury would not lose sight of this matter. Great burdens had been thrown upon the county rates by those defalcations. Mr. W. WILLIAMS also urged the importance of a satisfactory arrangement of this matter. The clause was then read a first, second, and third time, and was added to the bill. The bill was then passed. THE STAMP DUTIES BILL. On the suggestion of Mr. HADFIELD and Mr. W. BROWNE. Mr. WILSON consented to the postponement of the committee upon the bill until Monday week. OXFORD UNIVERSITY BILL. The house then wont into committee on this bill. On clause 26, Mr. EWA.RT said he had an amendment to propose, the object of which was to enable students to reside in private lodgings as well as in halls. This was a part of the ancient constitution of the University. Formerly there were three hundred hostels where students were allowed to reside; and if the house wished to restore the spirit of the ancient university, it should place it in the power of the students to live in the town at a moderato expense. This was not only conformable with the ancient character of such insti tutions, but it was the best way of enabling poor students to avail themselves of the advantages of university educa tion. Ho was convinced that this was one of the most essential amendments that could be made in the bill ; that the colleges would not suffer from it ; and, above all, that the nation would derive the greatest advan tage. Tho hon. member concluded by moving to insert after the word " convocation" " resident householder in Oxford." The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said the hon. member proposed to go back, without mitigation, to a state of things which ho presumed to have existed, and which substantially did exist at one time, in the university. He (the Chancellor of the Exchequer) thought it was a very dangerous thing for any one age to imitate the manners of another. To import the precedents of five or six hundred years back without considering the consequences which they involved was very hazardous. He was not prepared to accept the ancient system of the university in full, for this reason, if for no other, that that was a state of things which belonged to a turbulent period, a period when the ideas of discipline wore of an entirely different character. The discipline which existed at that period was ecclesias tical discipline; and, notwithstanding the fact that eccle siastical discipline was then at its height, the universities were among the moat turbulent places in the country. There were not only rows like those which had been known in modern times, but frays and fights tending to break up the peace of the city were of common occurrence. He did not mean to say that that was precisely what would follow from th e amendment - but ono of the consequences he von tured to predict would be that the corporation of the city of Oxford would at once make a considerable addition to its police force. (Laughter) The hon. nleman had cited the case of the Scotch universities. He t (the Chan cellor of the Exchequer) deprecated the founding of an arguent ou them. He was bound to say that, to the credit of Scot:and, the powe r o f individual self-control and self-government was greater in Scotland! than in England; and it was roost dangerous to argue that, because the system succeeded in Scotland, it should be introduced into this bill. The Government proposed to go as far as they could towards the old university system, without break ing up personal discipline. The discipline of the uni versity at the present moment was far from being per fect. At the samo time it was real discipline, and there was exercised through the medium of it a considerable amount of salutary control over the conduct of the stu dents. He did not think the house would assume the re sponsibility of breaking up the system. Was the amend ment compatible with that system or not ? What did the Government propose, and what did the hon. gentl eman propose: government proposed that lilonabers of won, vocation should be entitled, provided they conformed to certain fixed statutory conditions, to open their residences as private halls, and to receive there young men, who should, to all intents and purposes, bo endowed with all the privileges of the university. His hon. friend must admit that that proposition was a bold step. (Hear.) It was a considerable variation from the existing system; but he was convinced it was a safe variation. Under clause 41 the uni versity was to lay down rules forthe regulation of the house. The person who opened the house must be a member of the university, responsible to the university, and if his conduct were such as to justify such a proceeding, his name might be struck off the books. In fact, there was not a mere paper system of safeguards, but a real working system ac companying the arrangement. It was a very different thing to allow any one, as his honourable friend proposed to tie, to open a lodging-house for the reception of stu dents. He would not enter into the system of lodging houses, lost he should offend Cambridge University; but he thought it would be most unsafe to allow open houses at Oxford to be dignified with the name of halls. The restrictions to be imposed would of course be inapplicable to the keepers of private lodging-houses, who might be men of straw, or something worse than men of straw. The Scotch universities did not say that any per• son who received students should be entitled to call his house a hall ; and, for his own part, he thought it would bo better to leave a lad of 16 entirely to himself than to consign him to the system proposed in the amendment, Without going further, he thought he had assigned suffi cient reasons for not acceding to the hon. member's pro posal, (Hear.) Mr. J. G. PHILLIMORE thought his hon friend (Mr. Ewart) could hardly be aware of the actual state of things at the period to.which he had referred. Most of the old chronicles aboundeu in descriptions of the furious con flicts of those times; such scenes not being confined to the English universities, but extending to foreign ones con ducted in a similar manner. He believed the proposal now under consideration originated in an article in the Edinburgh Review, from the pen of Sir Win. Hamilton, who, though one of the most acute logicians this country had ever produced, had on this point forme , ' a most erro neous opinion. In " Henry's History of Great Britain," it was stated that the English universities were in ancient times frequently disturbed by conflicts between the stu dents, the southern English generally combining . against the northern English and the Scotch, and that this led many to resort to other places of learning. The advocates of the proposed change seemed almost entirely to have overlooked the importance of discipline. (Hear.) Mr. BLACKETT thought that any provision which re laxed the present college monopoly would have a tendency, if not now, in future years to open the university to dis senters. He heartily supported the amendment. Mr. WIGRAM hoped the committee would bear in mind the opinion given by the Cambridge commissioners that the introduction of any such system would be fatal to the dis cipline of the university. As reference had been made to Cambridge, he would state that no such system as this, or anything approaching to it existed in Cambridge. The sys tem in Cambridge was that the masters of the colleges had a right to give a privilege to young men to reside in lodgings under such restrictions as in their judgment was necessary. These restrictions were such as to enforce discipline. There was a regular return every morning of the hours at which young men returned home at night, and the young men re siding in lodgings were required to attend chapel in the morning, and to go through the same discipline as those resident in the colleges. Such a scheme, therefore, as that proposed by the hon. member for Cambridge would be a scheme which at Cambridge there was not the slightest similitude to. He put it to hon. members whether any of them would send a young man to an university established on a principle such as the hon. member for Dumfries would introduce, a system by which he would have largo bodies of young men collected together not subject to any discipline whatever. Mr. VERNON said he could not support the amend ment, but wishing to see the university extended he should support the clause with great satisfaction. Mr. PHINN observed that though he concurred very much with the hon. member for Dumfries, both in the object which he proposed, and the reasons which he stated, he hoped he would withdraw this amendment. Mr. R. PHILLTMORE also suggested that the amend ment should be withdrawn. Mr. HEY WOOD said it appeared to him that the amend ment was of the first importance. Although according to the forms of the house it was not possible to move now that the Dissenters be admitted into the Universities, it was their duty to provide that if the Dissenters were admitted they should be enabled to live comfortably there. Mr. HENLEY said he objected to the amendment on many grounds. He believed that its adoption would quite break down the present university discipline. The proposal in the bill of private halls was bad enough, but this was a great deal worse. Mr. AGLIONBY cordially supported the amendment, Mr. EWART having said a few words in reply, The committee divided— For the amendment Against it.......... The amendment was therefore lost. On the motion of Mr. R. PALMER and the SOLICITOR' GENERAL, some verbal amendments wore agred to. Mr. MOWBRAY then moved to omit the words "as a private hall," in lines 14 and 15. A great authority, Dr. Twisden, president of St. Mary's Hall, had given it as his opinion that there was no want of accommodation in the colleges. This 26th clause was inconsistent with a subsequent one, which took away all preferences to indigent students. He doubted whether the proposed private halls would be any boon to poor students. They would mostly be opened by masters of arts, who would take care to be well paid for the accom modation they afforded. At present lodgings might be ob tained in Oxford on sufficiently reasonable terms. The only purpose which these private halls would serve would be to encourage parties. He objected to them also as tend ing to destroy the moral discipline of the university. The hon. gentleman concluded by urging that both on pr i nc i ple and authority h o h a d shown that it would be unwise to adopt the proposed plan, which was a recurrence to a sys tem in Oxford which had been tried, failed, and been given up, and from which the university had been for three cen turies relieved. Mr. G. VERNON said his hon. friend had referred to a remark of his to the effect that he thought one of the advantages which would arise to the university from this clause would be the ultimate admission of dissenters. Now he wished to guard himself by saying, that in using that expression he only alluded to the admission of dissen ters to the university, but not to degrees or any of the emoluments of the colleges. His hou. friend had spoken of the difficulty which would arise in the case of a private hall on the death of the master ; but the 41st clause gave powers to the university to meet such a case. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER would sug gest that the issue raised by the hon. gentleman was not a convenient one. The amendment as it was moved did not affect the substance of the clause, and, as a matter of ar rangement, it might be as well to omit the words in this clause and insert them in the next. The amendment did not now touch the real question in issue. After a few words from Mr. NEWDEGATE, The amendm en t was th en f orma ll y agreed to. Mr. GOULBURN rose to move as an amendment, in line 16, after th e wor d " an d," l eave out to " entered," in line 17. He said he should not have taken part in the de bate, had it not been stated that the principle here laid down with regard to a new system of education would be extended to Cambridge. Had it been left in the power of the university to decide on the adoption or non-adoption of the system of private halls, he would no t h ave said a word; and, c ons id er i ng the alterations which had been made in the governing body, that decision might well have been left to them. Feeling, as he did, that the change of discipline proposed would affect his own university, he felt compelled to move the omission of words, which he thought the essence of the clause. Mr. ROUNDELL PALMER said no system in his opinion was so elastic, or so capable of meeting the demand of the country for university education, and at the same time affording equal securities for discipline, as that pro posed by this clause. Sir J. PAKINGTON considered that the arguments of the right hon. gentleman (Mr. Goulburn) had not been answered by his hon. and learned friend, and that the sta tutes proposed by the university last month would do more to extend the advantages of that institution than the present proposal. Lord J. RUSSELL thought it might now be assumed that it was desirable the benefits of the University of Ox ford should be extended, and that a larger number of young men should receive the advantage of that which was intended as a national good. If that was the general opi nion of the committee and of the country, then came the question, how was that object to be effected ? It bad been proposed by the commissioners that householders in Oxford should be enabled to receive students as lodgers, who should have the benefit of a university educa tion, but that proposal had been discussed and rejected. Then there was the mode of having halls in connection with the colleges, but it was obvious that this plan would furnish but a very moderate degree of extension. There was then the mode at Cambridge where a great number of undergraduates lived in lodgings, but were at the same time connected with the different colleges. But the disci pline maintained by that means it must be owned was im perfect, for it was quite impossible that the head of the college could preserve effective control over persons who were not living in the coll eges b ut l odging with house holders in the town. Both these plans being thus objec tionable, they then came to consider that of the private halls. In point of economy the commissioners gave strong proof in their report of the evidence of the head of the hall of Durham ; and Mr. Colles stated that a relation of his, who was at that establishment, was admitted in three years to holy orders—the whole expense incurred not being more than 300/., while at Oxford a young man would hardly ob tain his degree for less than 8001. But this was a ques tion not for the young man, but the parent. Take, for in stance, a person who was not poor, but who was only in possession of moderate means— no matter whether his in come was derived from a small lan 'ed property or from trade—he might be in possession of suffi c i en t means t o en- 41 112-71 able him to send his sori to the university, provid e d h e was not exposed to the rivalry of expense and expenditure that Well, now takes place there. then, would it not b e a great temptation for such a man to send his son to Oxford, if there was a person of well-k nown c h arac t er and attain ments at the the head of a hall wh o s h ou ld maintain disci pline and at the same ti me t a k e care that the ex penditureini of the young man was kept within hounds. But, on the other hand, it had b een o bj ected that halls of this nature would be opened for the accommodation or o encouragement of the gay and th oughtless ; but those wh urged this objection forgot th at the power of ire -, young $ en men to the univ ers it y would not rest with themselves but with their parents and guardians ; and it would be no temptation to them to say, " Hero is a hall open to the gay and thoughtless." (ear, h ear.) But H if they could find an establi s h ment like a private hall under the responsible management and guidance of a man well known and educated at Oxford, where the expense would not be great, and where strict attention would be paid to the morals of the student, it would be a great temptation for parents to send their sons there. Let them create such a feeling as this, and the object of this bill, which was to extend the usefulness of the university, would be obtad. But at the sam e ti me he must confess there wee evils ine con nected with a university education in this country which neither this bill nor any other legislative measure was likely to overcome. Those faults belonged to the manner of life which prevailed in the upper walks of society, and which allowed so much liberty to young men of wealth and station, that it was difficidt for any discipline to prevent their extravagant and luxurious habits which set a very bad example to the young, men of less means. There were reasons that could be urged in favour of that state of things, no doubt; but for his part, he wished some means could be devised which should have the effect of placing young men of wealth under the sage discipline that be longed to poverty. (Hear, hear.) With regard to the ob jection which had been raised against this clause on the ground that it would admit the Dissenter to the advan tages of the university by a sort of back door, all he could say was, that such an objection came with an ill grace from gentlemen who refused to admit Dissenters into the uni versity under any circumstances. He was asked by them in how it was that he did not propose to admit the Dissenters vo straightforward manger. Why, »imply bOCAlice he Mr. WALPOLE said the great objection which he had always felt to the bill was that a sufficient amount of free dom was not left to the university and the colleges. What he wanted to know, therefore, was whether they wo uld have greater freedom under the bill in its amended form. Mr. GOULBURN said the committee could hardly enter into that matter till they had the amended bill. (Hear, hear.) After its recommitment, the bill would be almost a new one. Mr. DISRAELI thought it would be very convenient to the house if the noble lord would give a general answer to the general inquiry of his right hon. friend (Mr. Wal pole). (" Hear, hear," from the Opp os iti on. ) Lord J. RUgiELL was really afraid of misleading the right hon. gentleman by giving a positive answer to his question. His own opinion was that the clauses with re gard to the university were not so much affected as those with regard to the colleges. His impression was that greater liberty was left to the colleges. Mr. HENLEY said they (the Opposition) were nart asked to consent to an alteration in the bill which would make it a new bill; and it was hardly fair that they should not have reasonable time to communicate with those who were most interested in the matter. Lord J. RUSSELL said, in order to give more time he would propose that the bill should be proceeded with Thursday se'nnight. Mr. HORSMAN said, understanding that the powers functions of the commissioners were to be considerably en• larged, he wished to know whether the Government were disposed to reconsider the composition of the commission. (Cheers from the Ministerial side.) Lord J. RUSSELL said that point had been considered, and as at all events the commissioners would have con siderably more labour, th Government proposed to make an addition to their number. (Hear, he ar .) Mr. PHINN wou ld sut to the noble lord to consider whether, as th e main interest of the discussions had been concentrated on the connexion of the different schools with the university, the commissioners should not have power to make internal regulations with regard to the schools, so as to bring them into harmony with the uni versity. He felt certain that any arrangement which did not include that would be quite futile. The CHAIRMAN then reported progress, and the bill was ordered to be re - committed this day. PUBLIC REVENUE AND CONSOLIDATED FUND CHARGES This bill wa s read a seeond timeBILL. CRIMINAL PROCEDURE BILL. Mr. AGLIONBy moved the second reading of this bill, observing that the main object of it was to lessen the contamination of gaols by shortening the duration of im prisonment in the case of persons charged with trifling offences. He admitted that the machinery was not per fect, but it might be amended in committee. Mr. MILES protested against the house proceeding at so late an hour with a bill every clause of which involved a principle. The ATTORNEY -GENERAL said, though he approved of the main provision of the bill, the object of which was I to allow accused persons to plead guilty before a magistrate, and to save the necessity of sending them to the assizes or sessions, he thought a bill of so important a nature should not be proceeded with at that hour (1 o'clock). Mr. AGLIONBY then consented to postpone the se cond reading. CHURCH BUILDING ACTS AMENDMENT BILL. On the motion for the third reading, Mr. HADFIELD expressed some misgivings as to this bill, which had been materially altered since it first came before the house. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL briefly explained. The bill was read a third time and passed. EXCHEQUER BONDS (8,000,0001.) BILL. This bill went through committee. INDUSTRIAL AND PROVIDENT SOCIETIES BILL. This bill was read a third time and passed. The house rose at 20 minutes past one. COUNTRY MARKETS. DERBY SMIT HFIELD--31.5.i 30. The number of fat beasts today was considerably less than it has been for several months. Higherrices asked, which w as met with reluctance on the part o f buyers, but an advance of prices was easily obtained. The supply of sheep and lambs was large, and in good request. The num ber of fat and store calves was about the average, and maintained former prices. There were few pigs. The following were the quotations :—Beef, 7id to Bd; r mutton, 7d to lid ; l amb, 8d to Od ; veal, 6id to 7d pe lb. ; pigs, 9s 6d to lOs Od per score ; rough fat, Cs to Os Od per 141 b.; hides, 2id to 3d per lb ; calf-skins, 3id to 4d per lb. EDINBURGH GRAIN. —MAY 31. Wheat on the top 5s 6d, and the average 21 sd, down. Barley on the top as before, and averacre Os 5d up. Oats on the top 6d down, and the average 9trup. Beans on the top as last week, and the Average 5d down. Total Supply and Sales. ............ 816 qrs so ld 730 qrs ............ 236 qrs„ so ld 162 qrs .............. 637 qrs sold 5 62 qrs ............... 157 qrs sold 116 qrs Top of Wh eat ......... ........... ......... 64 lb 81s Od Barleya.. 57.}Th 41s 6d Average of wheat 43 13 10 7-12ths 2-12ths Ditto of Ba r l e y Ditto of Oats Ditto of Beans Wheat Barley, Oats... Beaus. BOSTON —MAT 31. At this day's market we had a very small supply o f a ll kinds of gra i n. I n the wheat trade reat dulness vailed, b o th merchants and farmers being unwilling pre to do business. Wh at few sales were effected must be noted is to 2s per qr. lower. Oats a trifle dearer. Barley, beans, and peas as last week. Prices :—Wheat, red, 733 Od to 77s Od ; white, 77s Od to 80s Od extra, 82s Oct. Barley, 34s (Al to 37s Od. Oats, 27s to 335. Beans, 5Js Oct to 51s (Al. Peas, 40s Od to 47s per qr. BIRTHS. OF A EON. On the 30th u l t., at 7, Gloucestor-placo, Greenwich, the wife of Henry Graham Stokes, Esq. On the 23d of April last, at Bombay, the wife of Duncan Davidson, Esq., of the Civil Service. OF A DAUGHTER. On the Ist inst., the wife of F. T. Ham Mall, Chi sw i ck. gard, Esq,, of the On the 28th ult., at 'Windermere, the wife of Lieut.- Col. Bellasis, 31 Bombay European Regiment. 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