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a t 4111. , • •• H_ ..,,,~.~ • L ONDON NORTH-WESTERN RAIL WAY. REDUCTION in the CHARGE for SMALL PARCELS. The Public are requested to take notice, that on ind after the 20th February, 1854, Parcels of Ilb weight and under will be conveyed between London and Liverpool. Manchester, Bud lersfleld, Stock port, Chester, Warrington and Preston only, at a charge 01 f-ixpence, including delivery within the usual boundaries. And Parcels of 21b. weight and under, at a charge of One shilling. To insure the transmission of Parcels by this conveyance, they Must be delivered to the c mpany at one of their stations named above, or at one of the following offices of their agents (tl wars. Horne and Chaplin), in London : - Spre.ed Eagle, Grscechureh-st. ; Swan•with-two-Necks, Gresham-street (late Lad lane) ; oss Keys, Wood-street, Cheapside ; Holt - in - Tu n, Fleet-street ; White Horse, Fetter-lane ; Peacock, Islington ; George and islue B tar, Holborn ; Angel Inn, -t. Clement's, Str d Golden Cross, Charing-cross ; Do., 33, Regent'—circus ; -pread Eagle, Regent's-circus ; Griffin's Green Man and Still, Oatord-street. Th e ' lomPanY will not hold themselves liable for detention or loss to any parcel not delivered to them at one of their own allees, or to the charge of their agents. By order of the Directors. LIFE ASSURANCE; REPORT of the SELEC COMMITTEE of the HOUSE of CO NI MONA, and the DEPOSIT SYSTEM —the New and Important Feature of Life Assurance adopted by The DEPOSI and GENERAL LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY The following - fa an extract from the Report of the Select Com- . Mittee • " THE OBJECTS which person. RAVE IN VIEW IN EFFECTING IN SURANCES upon their lives, are GINERALLY OF AN IMPORTANT AND ' SOLEMN ch.rzicte ' viz., the PROVISI•tt4 FOR WIDOWS AND ORPHANS after the death of their NAIORAL PROTECTORS; Wink any ordinary transaction of tradh, a CONTRACT ONCE ENTAXYD INTO CANNOT BE DISCHARGED OR ABANDONED, If doubts of the stability of an office Ahould arise, WITHOUT A. SACRIFICE OF PREMIUMS PAID IN PAST YEARS, and the necessi y of effecting new pollens ire other offices, at. InCroiased rates of premium, owing tu the greater age of the assured - ; persons are thus placed in the ANXIOUS AND UN HAPPY DILEMMA Of BEING COMPELLED TO PERSEVERE IN PAYING TARMIDINS TEAM YEAR TO TRAIL with SOME suspicion and doubt as Utile ultimate SOVarttaalt of doing -0, OR OF INCURRING THE SE RIOUS LOP WHICH UNDER THE MOST FAVOURABLE CIRCUMSTANCES, BMW ATTEND THE ABANDONMENT OR SALE OF A POLICY." On the DEpoor SYSTEM a person is NOT "COMPELLED" to pay INCA " YEAR TO YEAR." and he does not, it desirous of ABANDON ING" his Police, imxix any ' stators Loss," but, on the contrary. he may pay such amounts, and at such Limes , s he may find most con venient; he can atop paying whenever he pleases, and he can with draw the whole or part or his premiums. If the whole be with drawn the Policy is cancelled ; if part only, then the value of the Policy li diminished by the assured value of the part withd awn. A B, aged 20., opens a deposit policy with a payment of 51 , which It Will. be seen he increases from time to time, and occasionally diminishes. Il• O ~., e g „yoo-,:rtOm.molvm- , ov a rigV 8 . 1 t 4=747g=3C,4g=7 , g§ 4 - - - ----, t u -se • ....100.—e , (00, —.O, ....... •. , A T 7 " 3 ' A ] R. 4 PI % 4. • O c. v . N 34i iVi a 1 .73 ve 4 1111 Go II III to o . . w ', , 15 4 V Go Go -.— Go f 4d 4 0 C. - . ▪ 4 . . 4 NN N N. NM - 10., ; ~ • t.,.. • „......,,- Wa...e.pme*,,m4oqq. ~..,........,.,,,,-. i CI C 002 Si; ' Y.! .4 H :- r...) gti .. , ~ t tr g 4 _ ..... NM ICO WVO N CML4 * . * .ai a a fe W 1-..'.., c. 4 ci o g 5•3 4 N M .e) ':', w ft , a .... ,-. X ... t-. . .... I I :.:....:,4.. ... •:': O: ^:. .:,.; I t d , ;littVlli . gb tl el 4 • , 4 .a'4' 0r..-4,=-. , ,oAcImZ 01 •W . . . . ,-... .. : , • . , ..0. ~ .. . . . . .. mm Y C., -, . _ _ Thus AB, in 10 years, has saved and. Inveqed at different int• r vide various sum; amounting to 971., by which he had he-n Insured in case of death for 2601. 12s. 'd ; but A. B reruires 22/. ; h draws this sum out, and diminis4es the value of his Policy by 60/. Ss. 3d. at different times, leavinc him In case of death a Policy for 2001. 42. 4d., extol during his life a fund of 75t. to draw out at any time, in part or wholly. The first claim settled by the Deposit and General Life Assurance Compafiy was Upon a deposit of 101. which a parent made for each of Ave children. instead of a 'ding it to an account they had at the Savhaci Bank. One .;f them died a few days after the 101. was de posited, and the father received 341. 65., being the amount of the De poet Polley. EXAMPLE NO. 2. Supposing A B, aged 28, when he opens a Deposit Policy lvs the means, and continues votancraanT to pay the same sum every year In the same way as he is COXMLED to do in the ordinary system. Year. Age. 11111..........................1. ................. ....... . £ g. I. d. 1851 ;...•••• —••.. •• 23 18 49 6 6 1861............ „ „ 24 )8 48 16 0 1853 •••••••••••••• 36 18 47 18 0 26 18 47 4 6 46 10 6 1154.-- •• ——• • •• 28 18 45 17 6 1857.. :•..•••• •• •••• 29 18 45 4 0 1858.........••• —•• 30 18 44 10 6 11159............-- 31 18 43 17 6 43 4 0 1860,--. •• —•• 32 18 1 90 206 7 6 11165:.•r•'••• •... •• • . WI 11166;..:•• —..:.•• •• 3 B? 90 190 4 6 11170.•••• , ..••• •••••• 42 N 071..4.-- ........1 43? 72 141 3 0 to 46 .••••••••••••• 1814 •• 432 1,000 4 0 1379" ••••••• •• •• •• .... 47? 103 194 13 6 to uso• ............ , s t ; . 5 1u1.... • • -- 7- "- 90 - 147 I8"6 to 11186....•••••••• • • •• b 7 1886 ..... • •••••••••• 58 / 108 182 10 6 to . - 189 j• .....• 8 3 738 1,525 o 6 ti premium o f jar. commencing at 23 years of age. and paid anon an ordinary Policy (Al Pr DIVsT Be) every year tin if A A.B. is 46 lives ' years old, will secu re the same sum, viz., 1,004., but B 7 years longer (which N the probable 'oration of life at the time he elected the insurance) his Deposit Policy. for the same payments as for an ordinary Policy of 1,0001., will hare Increased to 1.525/. Gs. Gd. TRISTIMe. The Right nononrable the Lord Viscount Drlttnlanrig, M.P., P.C., Comptroller of her Majesty's Household. Xajor•Goneral Sir VV. Clayton, Bart.. 79, Gloucester -place , Port man-square. Fir Charles Pricesßart. Banker, London. Vise-Admiral Ayscough ' , Prospect House. Southampton. CitAIRMAN. The Right Hon. the Lord Viscount Dretmlanris. M.P., P.C., Comp. troller of her Majesty's Household. CONSULTING eoramtv. -Francis G. P. Nehian. E-q.. F.L.S . • rrANDiso COTINSIL. I. B. Crowder, Esq., Q.C., M.P., Recorder of Bristol. Counsel to the Admiralty, and Judge Advocate of the Fleet. R. Matins. Esq., Q.C.. Lincoln's-inn. .Chief Office, No, IR, New Bridge-street, Blactfriars, Lendon. 'Leans granted at 5 per cent. on real or personal security. Annuities dices y ethe r oon most favacceptedourable terms. at equitable r Diseaates. sed lives and lives de- For in Prospeetusea and thither fornrination apply to the agents in oessadry, or to C. W. Bevan, Resident F•ecretary. Agents wanted in all parts of Ike United Kinedom /1-11.—Life A-eurances effected on the ordinary plan. PC mphiets, to be had watts on surmlication at The Publishers by letter enclosing a postage stamp.) 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The Earl of EGLINTON presented several petitions in favour of the reading of scriptural lessons in the national schools of Ireland. • Lord LYTTLETON presented a petition from a place, the name of which we did not hoar, in favour of reforma tory schools. Lord BROUGHAM bore testimony to the importance of establishing reformatory schools, calculated, as he contend ed they were, to improve the morals of the people, and lessen the public expenditure in the prosecution of criminals. Earl GRANVILLE was happy to inform the noble and learned lord that a measure of this kind was now under the consideration of the Government. (Hear, hear.) By order of the Court of Directors. HII , HI INNEe, CAMERON, General Manager. CANCER HOSPITAL, London and West Bromp on. Treasurer—John Parkinson, Esq., 66, Lincoln's-inn-flelds. Hon. Chaplain —Rev. Thomas Pearson, 4, Tregunter-road, Brompton. Bankers—Messrs. Coutts and Co., 59, Strand. eeretary's Office—l, Cannon-row, Parliament-street, Westminster. The cnseii have now increa ed to 625. The remedies required are expensive ; and it is admitted that the mo=t generous diet is abso lutely necessary. The committee have, every week, to provide funds to meet these demands, and they feel assured the humane and affluent will sympathise and co-operate with them in their endea vours to alley' .te the pain and misery attendant on this, of all others, the most distressing disease, to which we are all subject, as well rich as poor. Annual subscriptions are particularly solicited to form a perma nent fund, and Messrs. Rivington, 3, Waterloo-place, and Messrs. Hatehard's, Piccadilly, will be most happy, in conjunction with the Treasurer, Hon. Chaplain, and the Bankers, toreceive contributions. NATIONAL EDUCATION IN IRELAND. Earl FITZWILLIAM presented a number of petitions from the patrons of several national schools in Ireland, relative to the resolution of Bth July last. The noble earl said he would not trouble the house further than to read a few, extracts from the petitions themselves. This he did, but in so low a tone as to be very indistinctly heard in the gallery. The Earl of EGLINTON then rose, pursuant to notice, to move for • the appointment of a select committee to inquire, itito the practical working of the system of National Education in Ireland. He thought the time was come when an inquiry into this system was imperatively called for, the more so as three of its most distinguished patrons—the Archhiebop of Dublin, and two most eminent members of the Irish Bench had retired from the board of national education. He could assure their lordships he approached this subject in no spirit of hostility. On the contrary, he believed the partial support which he had given to the system had given offence to those with whom he usually politically acted. It was to the religious portion of the teaching of the system he wished particu larly to call their lordships' attention ; with regard to the secular portion of it he believed there never had been any objection from any quarter. (Hear, hear.) After describing the original composition of the board and the books used in the schools, the noble earl proceeded to say a large por tion of the Episcopalians and Presbyterians of Ireland had, he thought most unfortunately, refused to join in carrying out this system, and thereby gave the Roman Catholics an undue preponderance in the management of the schools. In the autumn of 1852, the Archbishop of Dublin had to inspect the model school of Clonmel, and to his sur prise he found the Scripture Lessons and other books ordered previously to be used in the schools were not in use. He also found this to be the case with regard to other schools. Upon finding this the Archbishop complained to the Commissioners of National Education. The result was, that the commissioners agreed to expunge from the list of books used the " Lessons on Christianity," and in fact it might be said jrom that time to the present there was no strictly religious teaching in those schools. (Hear.) He thought if there ever was a case deserving of parliamentary inquiry it was this. He was now arguing whether the separate or the combined systems of religious and secular education would be the best ; all he asked was for a committee of inquiry, and he now begged to move for the appointment of a select committee. (Hear, hear.) The Earl of ABERDEEN said, when the noble earl first intimated his intention of bringing forward this question he was inclined to oppose it, thinking, as he did, that the system of national education in Ireland had been productive of incalculable benefit to the people of Ireland. Silt on consideration, he thought the system itself could suffer no disadvantage from the fullest inquiry, and there fore he had no intention now of offering any opposition tc the motion of the noble lord. (Hear, hear.) This course relieved him from the necessity of discussing the working of the system. He confessed that he had regarded with great anxiety the retirement from the board of the Arch bishop of Dublin ; but he had the satisfaction of saying that the determination of the right reverend prelate had not been attended with the slightest detriment to the sys tem, the benefits of which he was extremely anxious to uphold and extend. The schools had never been in a more flourishing condition than they were at present. He would only observe that there had been no change in their admi nistration since the death of Archbishop Murray. The Bishop of DOWN and CONNOR said the , patrons of local schools were not expected to use all the books approved by the board, but only such as they deemed suitable to their particular districts. That which might be applicable in Tipperary would be out of place in Belfast ; and it was very remarkable that the changes made to meet such cases had been proposed by some of the very gentle men who had seceded from the board. It was, therefore, a fallacy to suppose that the use of particular books ap proved by the board was absolutely required, even inlmodel schools. He wished, however, for a full and searching in quiry into the working of the system ; but he feared it might be attended with the evil of religious agitation. The Earl of QLANCA.RTY, in a discursive speech, con gratulated their lordships upon the Government having conceded this inquiry, and hoped that the report, when made, would embrace the sugestion of remedial measures in order that all difficulties and objections might be over come. The Earl of DESART denied that inquiry would have a tendency to produce agitation in Ireland, and said the sys tem of national education had not produced the beneficial effects anticipated from it. He regarded the innovations which had been described as only part of an organised system on the part of the Church of Rome to obtain entire control over the education of the people. Still he should go into the inquiry in a perfectly unbiassed spirit. Lord MONTEAGLE, in reply to Lord Clancarty, said the retirement of the commissioners was a sufficient ground for a parliamentary inquiry ; but he could never consent to re-open the whole principle of national education with a view to impairing a system which had produced most con ciliatory effects in Ireland. The high Protestant party had first obj ected to the system because it included the Scrip ture extracts ; and now they objected to it because it ex cluded them. There was no satisfying these gentlemen ; but he reminded them that the extracts had never been read compulsorily. The Earl of DONOUGHMORE confessed that be was . no friend to the system of the national board. Ho approved of inquiry, but the inquiry ought to include other matters than those referred to. One was, the original intention of the system, and whether that intention had been adhered to. The original intention was, that the Seripture extracts should be read in the hours of united education, while the Scriptures themselves, either in the authorised or the Douay version, should be read in the hours of separate instruction; but this had not been carried out. He as serted that the inquiry would show, especially in the south of Ireland, that the system had checked rather than pro moted education ; and that the concessions already ob tained by the Roman Catholics for their own advantage would be followed by a demand for others, unless Parlia ment resolutely put a stop to th em . I n con clusion, he accused the Roman Catholics in the west of making use of public funds voted for secular education for the purposes of proselytism. The Earl of EGLINTON, in reply, expressed his satis faction at hearing that the number of scholars had in creased ; but he could not help suggesting that the increase might be owing to an accession of Roman Catholics in con sequence of the innovations to which he had referred. The motion was then agreed t o . The Earl of ABERDEEN laid upon the table the answer of the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland to the letter of the Arch bishop of Dublin, announcing his resignation as a commis sioner of the board. He could not understand the reason why this paper along with the others had not been before produced, particularly as they had been all laid upon the table of the other House of Parliament. He supposed that it was occasioned by some mistake. On the motion of the Duke of NEWCASTLE, the fol lowing bills were read a first time, viz.:—The Landlord and Tenant (Ireland) Bill ; Tenants' Improvements Com pensation Bill ; and the Leasing Powers Bill. Their lordships then adjourned. 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On the return of the SPEAKER, he intimated that the Royal Assent had been given to the Assessed Taxes Act Amendment Bill. laid on the table before the Army Estimates were brought up. With regard to the second question, the Government had no such intention. THE REFORM BILL. Mr. WARNER wished to ask Lord J. Russell on what principle the proposed 6/. borough rating franchise is to be calculated ; whether on the municii)al assessment in each case, or whether means will be taken to adjust the great inequalities between the assessment and the actual value which now exists in different boroughs, in many cases under the special acts of Parliament ; also, how it is proposed to deal with the assessment of compounded pro perty. He also wished to know if the principle of allowing the minority to be represented, would apply to places re turning only two members. Lord J. RUSSELL said the bill would be printed in a few days, and he must, therefore, leave it for the clause it self to answer the first question of the hon. member. With regard to the second question, he had no such intention as that suggested by the hon. member. ROMAN CATHOLIC PROCESSIONS. Mr. NEWDEGATE wished to ask the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies whether there is any law in force in Canada which constitutes the refusal to do homage to the Roman Catholic procession of the Host an offence punishable by law. And whether her Majesty's Govern ment will ascertain for the information of the house, the result of the trial of Narcisse Filian, of Beaussart, in Lower Canada, which was moved by certiorari into the Superior Court of Canada, after Filian, on the 4th day of June last, had been convicted and fined by the justices of the peace at Beaussart, for having refused to take his hat off while the Roman Catholic procession of the Host was passing him. Mr. F. PEEL was not aware of any such law in Canada. There was, however, a law in Lower Canada for punishing persons who misbehaved themselves in a church or chapel of any sort. With regard to the other part of the question, no such information had been received at the Colonial-office, but enquiry should be made about it. RECRUITING IN IRELAND. In reply to Mr. JAMES O'CONNELL, Sir JAMES GRAHAM said the gallant officer entrusted with the duty of raising coast guard volunteers in Ireland had been very successful in his task, and in no case had there been any interference with him on the part of Roman Catholic priests that be was aware of. THE BLACK SEA FLEET. In reply to Mr. GROGAN, Lord J. RUSSELL repeated that, in the existing state of affairs in the East, it would not be desirable to lay before the house the instructions which had been sent out from time to time to the admiral commanding the Black Sea fleet. (Cheers.) ASSISTANT-SURGEONS IN THE NAVY. On the motion that the Speaker leave the chair for the purpose of going into a Committee of Supply on the naval estimates. Colonel BOLDERO rose to move that, whereas the house passed a resolution on the Bth of April, 1850, to the effect that " the accommodation provided for assistant-sur geons on board her Majesty's ships of war is inadequate and insufficient for securing the full benefit of their pro fessional services," the Admiralty regulations since the pas sing of the aforesaid act have not been in the spirit of, nor have they fulfilled the intention of, the said resolution,- it was the opinion of this house that the above resolution should be forthwith carried into effect. He fought it his duty to bring this subject prominently before the house because he believed that assistant naval surgeons, as a class, had been very much maltreated ; that the time had arrived when the injustice from which they had suffered should cease, and that it, was the opinion of Parliament, as well as of the country in general, that as this particular period, especially, the naval service should be complete and sufficient in all its branches. (Hear, hear.) We had at the present moment one of the finest navies, as far as ships were concerned, in the world, and one of which Eng land might well be proud ; and yet, notwithstanding all the advantages at our command, we allowed our assistant surgeons to occupy a station and position which was not such as their education and abilities gave them a right to demand. There were many reasons which would ,suggest themselves why medical attendants in the navy should be taken care of, but there was no reason why they should be placed in a worse position than surgeons in the army, ord nance, or mercantile marine service. (Hear, hear.) That they were so placed was owing to the orders:which had been issued by the Admiralty on the subject, and so long as those orders remained, we should never be able to ob tain sufficient and good men to serve as surgeons in the navy. What were the consequences of such orders being enforced ? The effect of the orders of which he com plained was to lower the standard of merit in the pro fession • and; upon the very eve of a war, to force upon the service of the country a body of inferior I men. According to the old orders, the rule was, that naval medical assistants, among their other qualifications, should I walk the hospital for two years, and have accommodation for at least 150 patients ; and the time of the attending the hospital was now altered to 16 months, and the number of patients reduced to 100. This was not a time, it ap peared to him, to lower the qualifications of medical men in the navy ; on the contrary, he believed that this was especially the time when we ought to raise them as high as we could, in order to procure the very best men that either the Universities, England, Ireland, or Scotland :'Gould send iis. assistant-surgeon in the navy be worse than that of a sur geon in the army? Surely Government has no interest ' that this should be so, especially when it was remembered how much more difficult it was to make a perfect naval surgeon than a perfect army one. A surgeon in the army might learn his duty at once, but not so a surgeon in the navy, insomuch as both time, experience, and knowledge of a sailor's life were requisite to enable him efficiently to discharge the duties of his position. (Hear.) The resolu tion of 1850, to which his question referred, recommended that the injustice of which he complained should be in quired into and remedied; and, inasmuch as Government had only carried out a part of such recommendation, his hope in bringing the question now before the attention of the house was that the house would enforce the remaining portion of it. (Hear.) Sir J. GRAHAM said, that nothing was more opposed to the feeling of the Government than that so useful and learned a profession as that of naval surgeons should suitor in any way. The subject to which the hon. and gallant member referred had been thoroughly investigated by the Admiralty, and it had been found a most difficult mat ter to carry out effectually the resolution referred to. He bad heard much the same speech from the honour able member on previous occasions as the present, and he felt bound to say that his answer to-night must be much the same as it was on such occasions. He held in his hand a report made on this subject with reference to the difficulty of making such alterations for the benefit of assistant-surgeons in the navy as were desirable, and • uch as the resolution of 1850 recommended. According to this report, there was, even in times of peace, the greatest difficulty to afford the room and accommodation that were required. He would read the words of the re port on the subject, which were : " The gundecks of ships of the line are now most incon veniently lumbered with cabins, enclosing many of the gnus, thereby preventing the ship from being at all times in a state of readiness for action, which is the most essential point in a man-of-war. Since the war, cabins have been added for the chaplain and naval instructor, and for an additional lieu tenant. Should it be deemed necessary to have a cabin for the assistant -surgeon, it can only be done, in ships of the old class, by interfering further with the efficiency of the ship, or by one of the officers of the present establishment being dis placed; but in the new ships of the line, where cabins are built on the orlop, arrangements m a y b e made for an additional cabin. The heavy armament of ships of the present day has ren dered an increase necessary in the complement both of officers and men ; and it is found that the._ space occupied by the cabins, the mess, and sleeping places of the officers on the different decks, leaves barely sufficient room for the accom modation of the crew; for not more than 14 inches in breadth can generally be obtained for each man's hammock to hang under the beams." These were the words of the report on this subject during a time of peace, and when war was not contemplated ; so that if these difficulties existed then, much more so must they exist now, when we were obliged to ship complements as if for war, and room and accommodation were obliged to be found for the captain, the commander, the naval in structors, and others. (Hear, hear.) Since the introduc tion of steam, also, into our navy the means of accommo dation had been much decreased, and extra room was obliged to be found for and occupied by machinery. He was happy to say that an alteration was contemplated in the mode of paying in the navy, so as to do away with the system of long credit—(hear, hear)—and make quarterly payments, as in the army. (Cheers.) In reference to this subject, it would be as well perhaps to explain to the house the regulations which were passed by the Admiralty in July, 1850, relative to assistant-surgeons in the navy, who PETITIONS, were by such regulations divided into two classes, the first Mr. V. SMITH presented two petitions from North- to consist of all those who had completed three years ser ampton, one in favour of the establishment of reformatory vitude from the period of their first entry, one year of schools, and the otherpagapinssetu of the police rate. the consolidationof ru hs boron which, at least, must be on board a commissioned shi p , purposes and counties, for theand the other two might be served in one of her Majesty's Mr. WALTER presente dpree Proms, against petition the f p ro up m er th d e uty. proprietor naval hospitals, and who had passed their examination or f of the Spalding surgeon, either at home or in abroad, as directed by the Ad- Mr. COBDEN pre sented a p etition fro m Yorkshire in miralt y instructions; but case the service on which the favour of a decimal coinage, a petition from Australia in ship might be employed should render it improbable that favour of an ocean penny postage, and a petition from three surgeons could be assembled for a considerable period Yorkshire against the paper and newspaper stamp duties. of time, then the captain might give an order to the sur- Mr. H. BERKELEY presented a petition from the cor- geon of the ship to examine the assistant-surgeon whose poration of Bristol in favour of the establishment o f re f er . p e riod of time had expired, and, if found competent, might matory schools. grant him a temporary certificate until the requisite officers Sir J. DUKE presented a petition from merchants could be assembled. Assistant-surgeons who had served trading with Australia, Praying for a semi-monthly mail to more than three years, and had passed the examination and from that colony- for surgeon under the above conditions were to rank next Mr. LA.BOUCHERE presented apetition from Hull s tet- to naval instructors, and were to mess with the wardroom ing that the chief commissioner on the commission ap• officers, and to be allowed cabins when the accommodation pointed to inquire into corrupt practices at elections for the and space on board would admit. The second class of borough resigned before the commission agreed to its report, assistant-surgeons were to consist of all those who had not that report was only signed by two of the commissioners, passed their examination for surgeon. First-class assis and praying that the report should not be taken into con- tant-surgeons, who might be serving in small vessels com sideration until the report of the chief commissioner, mended by lieutenants, were to mess in the gunroom with which was being prepa red, had been p rese nted to the the other o ffi cers. He denied most emphatically that the house. The right hon. gentleman observed that he had qualification of naval surgeon had in any way been dimi thought it right to present the petition, though he dis- niched, but, on the contrary. would assert from his own agreed with its prayer. knowledge that the examinations were more striugent and IRISH WORKHOUSES. the standard of merit higher than it had ever been before. On the motion of Mr. KENNEDY a return was agreed to With respect to what the hon. and gallant member I?ad . connected with the industr ial em p lo y ment of chi ldren in said relative to the falling off of applicants for the app oint ment of naval assistant-surgeons, and in answer to resent workhouses, in Ireland. ELECTORAL REFORM. an assertion, he begged leave to say that in the present Sir F. KELLY brought np his bill for preventing bri- year there had b -en 109 applications for apintments, berg at elections, which was read a fi rst time. and only 35 had been appointed. (Hear, hear.) He could (assure the house that there was no dif ficu lty THE MILITIA. in getting good and competent men for w o uld lea ve a l- Lord SEYMOUR wished to ask Lord J ohn Russell thou g h, if he thought it were not so, a want. (Ch he no whether it is the intention o f the Govern ment to lay on effort of his unexerted to remedy such l ea v e ) the table of the house the militia and commissariat esti- Aft e r the statement be had made to the house he hoped but, if on the mates before proceeding with the army estimates, so that the present motion would not be Pressedho us ewould • • the house may be enabled to consider at the same time the contrary it should bo, he hoped that the Join whole military expenditure of the country. And whether him in opposing it. (Hear , hear.) it is the intention of the Government to introduce any j Mr. M. CHAMBERS considered t hist h übject on gh o_ne of not i the measure with the view of bringing the several departments deepest possible importance, and o whi t n an uuu w rs h e o had re connected with the administration of the army un d er th e a ny way to be lightly tisposed of. 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(Hear, hear.) In addition to this the regulations of the Admiralty with reference to the admission of candidates forithe office (as it was called) of naval surgeon were stringent in the extreme. Among other things, they provided that no person should be admitted as an assistant-surgeon in the Royal navy who should not produce a certificate from one of the Royal Colleges of Surgeons of England, Edinburgh, or Dublin, or from the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow, of his fitness for that office ; nor, as a surgeon, unless he should produce a diploma, or certificate, from one of the said Royal colleges or faculty, founded on an ex amination to be passed subsequently to his appoint ment of assistant-surgeon, as to his fitness for the situation of surgeon in the navy ; and in every case the candidate producing such certificate or diploma was to undergo a further examination, touching his qualifications in all the necessary branches and points of medicine and surgery for each of the steps in the naval medical service. Previously also to the admission of assistant-surgeo pr oof into having re the navy, it is required that they shall produce 1 ceived a preliminary classical educat ion, and that they of - ' possess, an particular, a competent knowledge_ of Latin ; ' also., thatAey are o f moral tharacter, the ciertificate, of which baust be signed by the clergyman of the parish, or by a magistrate of the district ; that they have served an apprenticeship, or have been engaged for not less than six months in practical pharmacy ' • that their age be not leas than 20 years, nor more than 26 years ; and that they are unmarried ; that they have actually attended a hos pital in London, Edinburgh, Dublin, Glasgow, Aberdeen, Manchester, or Bristol, for 18 months subsequently to the age of 18, in which hospitals the average number of patients is not less than 100 ; that they have been engaged in actual dissections of the human body 12 months, the cer tificate of which from the teacher must state the number of subjects or parts dissected by the candidate ; that they have attended lectures, &c., at established schools of emi nence, physicians or surgeons of the recognized Colleges of Physicians and Surgeons, in the united kingdom. In ad dition to the tickets for the lectures, certificates must be produced from the professors, &c., by whom the lectures were given, stating the periods (in months) actually at tended by the candidates. The time also of actual attend ance at a hospital or infirmary must be certified ; and the tickets as well as certificates of attendance, age, moral character, &c., must be produced by the candidate previ 1 ously to his examination. Although the abov e were the only qualifications which were absolutely required in 1 candidates for the appointment of assistant-surgeon, a favourable consideration was given to the cases of those who had obtained the degree of M.D. at either of the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge, Edin burgh, Dublin, Glasgow, London, or Aberdeen ; or who, by possessing a knowledge of diseases of the eye, and of any branch of science connected with the pro fession, such as medical jurisprudence, natural history, natural philosophy, &c., appear to be more peculiarly eligible for admission iota the service. By the rules of thu service no assistant-surgeon could be promoted to the rank of surgeon until he should have served three years (one year of which must be in a ship actually employed at sea), and could produce a diploma from one of the before-mentioned Royal colleges or the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons. (Hear, hear.) By these Admiralty regulations, then,these assistant-surgeons were required to be men of excellent education, of intelligence and industry ; and, after having passed a strict examination before the College of Surgeons, or before the board appointed by the Admiralty, they had the great advantage of being allowed to go on board one of her Majesty's ships, and of being turned down into the cockpit among young men, no doubt, of gentlemanly habits, but not of the ago nor the pursuits which fitted them to be associates of medical men. Ho had recently received a letter from one of those sufferers, detailing the annoyance of the daily life of one of the junior assistant-surgeons which he would read to the house : "The naval assistant-surgeon is messed with the midship men, and dependent on their society, being totally excluded for the first three years of servitude from the lieutenants' mess, of which the chief engineer, chaplain, naval instructor, and second lieutenant of Marines, an ensign in the army, are members at once. He is denied a cabin, which is accorded to the carpenter, gunner, and boatswain. His hammock having been unslung from its position in the dark close cock pit, in common with the midshipmen (boys of from 12 to 18 years of age), at half-past 6 or 7 o'clock, he next proceeds to make his toilet and wash upon his sea-chest ja multum in . . . . parvo of a certain regulation . size, supposed by Admiralty order to contain all the equipments of the medical officer, uniform, books, instruments, &c.) Those operations in ships of the line he has to perform in the presence of the midship men and others of his mess, and in smaller vessels frequently under the gaze of the whole crew. After this comes his morning duty, in the details of which, in all except ships of the line, he is subjected also to the scrutiny of the crew. Then comes breakfast hi a small confined - datite; berth, among thoughtless wild boys, varying iu number from eight to 25, not at any time peculiarly observant of etiquette. (A laugh.) Between visiting his sick, reports, and walking the deck (for read he might as well in bear garden "—I once attempted it, but was glad to recover my books, denuded of their covers and titlepages), he kills his time till noon, the service dinner hour for the men and young gentlemen,' in which category is ranked the assistant surgeon. In like manner is spent the day till o'clock, when the hammocks are piped' down by the boatswain, the lights Put out for the crew and midshipmen, after which the wretched assistant-surgeon, having been accustomed to a life replete with reading, intellectual research, and social improving converse, now disgusted and disheartened, climbs into his hammock to reflect (until he finds himself cut down' and his head bumping against the dock—the facetious trick of some wanton midshipman-messmate)—(laughter) —to reflect on the little chance he has had during the day of doing good for himself or fellows, debarred as he is by his false position from the society of the wardroom officers, his more fitting equals, with whom at least he could interchange ideas, in consequence of his age and education." In the debate of 1851) he observed that a benevolent Lord of the Admiralty of the time stated that it was absolutely necessary that the junior assistant-surgeons should serve a three-year apprenticeship in this way—that they should not be admitted into the wardroom until after a three years' probation of that description. And why not? Was it that they were unfit to associate with the ward room officers ? If such were the opinion of the Lords of the Admiralty, it certainly was not that of the navy—at least to judge from the conduct of the officers of one of her Majesty's ships, who had recently taken the easistant-sur geon on board their vessel by the hand and invited him to join their mess, thus placing him in his proper position. One very important part of the question was the low po sition in which assistant-surgeons in the navy were placed as contrasted with assistant-surgeons in the army. Part of our army was about to be sent abroad, and if any regiments wore embarked on board her Majesty's ships it would not be very pleasant for the officers of either service to find that, while the assistant-surgeon of the vessel was put down in the cockpit among the young midshipmen, his equal in rank—the military assistant-surgeon—would mess, as a matter of course, with the other officers, his equals and associates, and, perhaps, even with the captain. In 1850 a resolution was passed highly honourable to the house, but which h Al not been properly carried out by the Admiralty. The Lords of the Admiralty sent out a gene ral order that the assistant-surgeons should have a cabin, whenever it was practicable—a saving clause which was a cover for the greatest neglect and indifference. Of course it was all very well for the Admiralty to come forward now and say that while war was impending it would be impolitic to interfere with the armaments of vessels of War, and that there was not room enough to give proper accommodation to the assistant-surgeons ; but since the resolution alluded to had been passed by the House of Commons cabins had been girt n to four or five officers, while nothing had been done for the class whose cause he was now supporting. He was told, too, that on a recent occasion, when a vessel of war was fitted out to convey a noble lord who had been sent on a scientific mission, a cabin was allotted to his valet-de-charnbre—(laughter)-- notwithstanding the want of space to find proper accom modation for assistant-surgeons ; nay, more, that, on the same occasion, the ladies'-maid had been furnished also with a cabin. (Laughter.) Now, in point of humanity, the assistant-surgeons were the very persons whose accom modation ought to be attended to ; for, if they had good surgery, they would save a great many men, and it was the interest, therefore, of the navy to place the assistant-sur geons in such a position as to secure the best possible sur gical assistance. (Cries of " Question.") No doubt hon. gentlemen were anxious to get to the Eastern question, but this, he contended, was part of the Eastern question, as effecting deeply the efficiency of our navy, on which the ultimate 'success of all our operations must depend. Admiral BERKELEY thought the House of Common r ! just eat vi wa e s e, n w ot hih the e w fit ere heplaceet left odfet tob thtete Admiraltyhe details ofttehde bad n i r e a u l s e e n. He was sorry that the hon. ge ntleman who have been imposed upon by sue the writer of that had read to the house. In the first place, rgeons messed in the down had shown so little knowhleadretotefrteshethsuebtjwechticahs he ergee s there e ea being letter stated that the assistantot-su Which he had to answer cock-pit with the midshipmen, in the cockpit. Next, that in no one ship "ndoinstruments in a box, the size of to keep books a by the Admiralty, he could e ' a ws s n sis avy tan w t- a s gentleman that this assertion was altogether with the hon. gen i n her to the e t y • Their books and instruments were kept iu out foundation. of which was regulated . , the sick -bay, w hich, if he chose here to go, was th e p roper place for the assistant-surgeon to go if he wi s h e d t o rea d and study without interruption. Whoever had written that letter to t he hon. g entlemen had im p osed on him most grievously. The hon. gentleman next said that, sinc e thi s subject was started, cabins had been allotted to other o ffi cer s, but that was not the case, for no cabins whatever h a d been allotted to any other officers since that time. With regard to the next allegation about th e valet-de a special f complainr gat m ehavingthat heae tu a; b nh e ou e bt u l es fi ul t or t er e ld a y, O st ll lein t et t h o ion e n o a. chambre, he supposed that the hon. gen tl eman a lluded to o o u anb coulden m p a na notoenf u a l convey ig l a e a t i e n n errand, should have a cabin allottedto him for his servants. Then carne the greatest enormity of all—that a ladies'- maid had been accommodated with a cabin ' and all that he could say to th a t was, th a t h e s h ou ld very much liked to have seen the hon. gentleman helping the ladies'-maid into a hammock. (Laughter.) He could assure the hon. gentleman that no man had a greater anxiety than himself that the assistant surg•eons of the navy should be properly accommodated, and as the hon. gentleman had mentioned au instance, without giving the name of the ship, where the wardroom officers hat invited the assistant-surgeons to their mess, he would only answer to the hon. gentleman that instances had come to his own knowledge where as sistant-surgeons hadexcused themselves from messing with the wardroom officers on the ground of its being too expen sive. (Hear, hear.) Mr. NAPIER said that many of these assistant-surgeons were constituents of his, having been educated at the uni versity which he represented, and he was bound to say that the communications which he had received from them on the subject of their treatment agreed in substance, though not to its full extent, with the account which had been road by the hon. gt pusitiou were Consideration ; complaint th,. without delay. Mr. HUMP. observed that he had himseldierved .4.3 a surgeon on' board a ship, and he was therefore capable of appreciating the merits of the question now before the house. The whole matter appeared to him to lie in a nut shell, being merely whether the seamen of this country were to be placed in a similar _position to the armyrespect ing medical attendance. (Hear.) With regard to the gentlemen accepting situations in the naval service, - he re marked that, generally speaking, no men would enter the navy who could find employment elsewhere, in consequence of the inconvenience, to which they were subjected. The matter must, however, rest with the Admiralty, though he believed, if the Lords of the Admiralty properly con sidered the question, ample and proper accommodation might be found for gentlemen of the medical profession. • He believed that half the accommodation given to the cap tain of a vessel might be cut off without any great incon venience resulting, and appropriated to the use of the medical gentlemen employed in the naval service, (Hear.) Mr. STAFFORD protested against the observations of the hon. member for Montrose with respect to the medical gentlemen employed in her Majesty's navy being gentle men who could not obtain employment elsewhere. (Hear.) The motion of hishon. and gallant friend (Colonel Boldero) was one which he considered attached some censure to the board with which he (Mr. Stafford) had been connected, but he entirely agreed with what had fallen from the First Lord of the Admiralty (Sir J. Graham), namely, that the members of the late board had done everything in their power to ameliorate the condition of the service. (Hear.) , Mr. BRADY commented upon the position occupied by a medical man on board one of her Majesty's ships. The first-class medical man might rise in his profession, but the assistant-surgeon could not, and he contended that great injustice was done to the country and to the naval service by the regulations now adopted. He was perfectly satis. fled that, unless some alteration was made in the regulations, the naval service could not be as effective as it would other wise be. He believed that the assistant-surgeons employed in the navy were so situated that they were not only de graded in a social and professional point of view, but they weSe not afforded those opportunities of cultivating their profession which they ought to have. He argued that it was of the greatest importance that the medical profession in the navy should be sustained and supported by the Go vernment ; as he believed that incompetent persons might otherwise be appointed, and that the greatest injwartight consequently be inflicted upon the service. As one of the representatives of the people, he held that Parliament should at once take the question into serious consideration and fix it on a better_ basis tkan that upon which it now stood. Mr. COWPER said the regulations of the Admiralty were well known, and assistant -surgeons applying for ad mission into the navy were perfectly acquainted with them. Those who disagreed with the regulations in force had nothing to do but retire and employ their services in another direction ; for, whatever the pressgang might have been, it could not be said to apply to the existing service, the assistance of persons of high medical skill and position being always obtained. The hon. member for Greenwich (Mr. M. Chambers) had endeavoured to show that young men belonging to the medical profession had to undergo great hardship. Of course they underwent hardship if they went to sea, and it was entirely out of the power of the house to prevent them, in that case, from being exposed to very great inconvenience. (Hear, hear.) In fact, he saw no power the house could possibly possess of preventing assistant-surgeons from undergoing the hard ships to which other young men in the service were sub jected. If advantages were given to assistant-surgeons which they did not now possess, those advantages must be taken from the accommodation suppled to the men, and he did not think the house would feel inclined to give as sistant-surgeons increased accommodation at the expense of the proper working of the ships in her Majesty's service. He disagreed from the belief expressed by an hon. member who had already spoken, that accommodation could be taken from that at present allotted to the captains in the ,ervice, and he considered that if any space on board ship were appropriated to the assistant-surgeons, it could come iron no other source than the space allotted tothe common seamen. Tha Lords of the Admiralty were animated by an earnest desire to make the service as agreeable as pos sible to gentlemen of the medical profession, and, gene rally speaking, he believed members of the medical profes sion were perfectly satisfied with their present position. Captain SCOBELL thought that as this was a question of detail relating to the naval service, it would be exceed ingly unwise for the house to set a bad precedent in taking out of the hands of the Admiralty arrangements of such a nature as those which had been discussed. The medical profession in the navy had been compared with that of the army, but he believed the comparison was an improper one, inasmuch as in the army plenty of space could at all times be procured, while in the navy a limit must necessa rily be fixed upon it. If assistant-surgeons in the navy were put to mess with persons who were not gentlemen, he could then fully understand the arguments which had been put forward ; but the fact in reality was, that they messed with the mates and masters' assistants, who were young gentlemen of the a'amo position as themselves. It was absolutely impracticable in all ships in the service to carry out the plan suggested for the adoption of the house, and if it could not be carried out universally, it would be much better not to adopt it at all. It might certainly be carried out in guard-ships, and in ships in harbour ; but, speakin g from experience, he was perfectly convinced it could not be carried out universally throughout the service. In the majority of ships there,were already too many ca bins, and it was a most unfitting moment in a time of war to attempt to increase the accommodation on board ship. If the privilege of admission into the cabin were granted to assistant-snngeons, he felt there were other persons equally entitled who would at once put forward their pre tensions to the same rights. (Hear.) _ _ The house then divided ; the numbers were-- For going into committee For Colonel Boldero's motion Majority 216 ... 101 . -1.12 WAR WITH ttILSSIA. Sir H. WILLOUGHBY and Mr. LAYARD rose nearly at the same moment. There were loud calls for the latter gentleman, upon which the hon. baronet said he had in tended to call the attention of the house to the circum stances connected with the destruction of the Ottoman fleet at Sinope, but, as this was only a branch of the ques tion, he was ready to give way to the hon. gentleman, who proposed to bring the whole question before the house. (Cheers.) The SPEAKER said that, as the hon. baronet's motion stood first on the paper, it would have taken precedence of that of the hon. gentleman (Mr. Layard) if the resolution upon which the house had just divided had not been nega tived. As it was, the member who first rose (Mr. Layard) was entitled to address the house. Mr. LAY ARD—Sir, in pursuance of the notice I have given, I now rise to call the attention of the house to the present state of the relations of this country with Russia and Turkey, and I humbly conceive that there can be no time more opportune than the present for bringing under the notice of the house this momentous subject. Sir, you are called upon to leave the chair in order that we may proceed to consider the navy estimates, and we are invited to make very considerable additions to our naval forces, and to vote extraordinary sums to meet certain extraor dinary contingencies, which, if they mean anything, can mean nothing less than war. (Hear.) It may appear !lateral, and I may almost say it is the duty of the Govern ment to state to the house, before we agree to make these advances, what their intentions are, and to place distinctly liefore the country the position in which we now stand. ( Hear, hear.) And it is the more necessary that this should be done at the present moment, for, owing to the extraordinary reserve, to use no stronger term, on the part the Government, we are at a loss to know how we really do stand. (Hear, hear.) I trust, however, that these doubts will now be cleared up. But, before I ask the Go vernment what they are about to do, I have ano ther duty to perform. I wish to see what they have already done. I know how unpalatable it always is to refer to blue-books, with regard to which a singular state of things exists. If an independent member asks for any information from the Government, or seeks for any explanation which it may not suit the Government to give, he is told that it would be better not to discuss such a matter piecemeal, but to wait until the blue books are published, when he would see the papers alto gether, and when he would be able to discuss the subject with a full knowledge of all the facts. Bat when the blue books are published, which they generally are about six months afterwards, and when the interest of the subject is somewhat faded—(hear) —he is told that the time is past for adverting to the subject—that bygones must be bygones —that it is not well to rip up old sores, and that it will be better to let matters remain as they are. Now,o that may be very well under ordinary circum . ees there are occasions, like the present , when it the duty of the hous e to have at least one discussion on the subject—(hear)—and to have a proper interpretation put upon the blue-books. The house will then be able to see whether and how far the vacillation of the Government may have brought us into the scrape in which we now find ourselves. (Ch eers .) Th e house will also see how i far the past cond uc t o f th e Govern ment may warrant us n placing confidence in them for the future. (Cheers.) My duties upon the present occasion threefold,—first, to the country ; secondly, to the houseem end, thirdly, to myself ;—to the country and to this hos; because during last session I deferred to the w is hes of the . 0 Government to postpone the explanation b which I thep, be lieved, and still believe, would have e e e d n of . very consider able. importance, and ould have a d u u s t in t a o mettelifposi tion than that in which we nowaLae sonally, because last session I wished, from no idle desire to bring myself into notice, to ask for explanations which I believed to be mo s t essen ti a l t o th e i n t eres t s o f th e p u bli c service. Ido not propose to go into the blue-books to any great extent, and if I do advert to the proceedings of the Government, it will be with all the impartiality in my power, and with no wish to make a factious opposition to the Government—(hear, hear) --although I am aware that such motives are aften attributed to the younger members of this house. All I wish is to show that if we had adopted a more straightforward policy we should not have been in our present position. (Cheers from the Opposition.) I said last year that if the Government had adopted a tone more worthy of this country they would not have been plunged into the difficulties that then surrounded the question. (Cheers.) I have seen no reason to change that opinion I have gone through the blue-books carefully, and have given as much attention as most members to the question, and, with every desire to give the Government the benefit of every excuse I could make, I have since seen n o reason to change my opinion. What was the state of things last year? Why, as early as the winter of last year the Go vernavent was aware from numerous soniceethttt the Rus sian Government was beyond a doubt making vast arma ments both by sea and by land. I will not enter upon the question which arose between the French and Russian am b issailors at Constantinople. I agree in the propriety of the instructions given by our Government —that with this question we bad nothing to do. But surely, when we saw a great Power like Russia arming itself for a great contest, it cease to be a question of detail, and we were called upon to :Pk the house the reason and the cause . of these arma ments. (Cheers.) I beg to call the attention of the house to three points—the military pre p a rations of Russia, the naval preparations of Russia, and to the .statements made by the Russian Government, agents,throeuagrh.)thetFrrorate 6th and her to Majesty's Government. (Hear, hear.) 7th of January in last year—and these ese dates are imp or t an t —Sir H. Seymour informed Lort J. Russell, v . ehe then held the seals of the Foreignoffice, t the Russian army had received orders to march to the frontiers of th e Danu bian Principalities without waiting for their reserves ; and on the 20te of January Lord Cowley wrote to the noble lord to say tit the French Government had received similar information of the military preparations made by 0 11 • • .•.- „.- :entleman. He was sure that In their e entitled to receive from the Admiralty every U, and he trusted that wfiatever subject of • Ley had would be atteudecrt2,nd remedied. 7 . _ _ _ _ In