The Sun. — London, England, 1854-12-20 00:00:00

bae'r , e , .,Ve.e.*e'eeereteeee , te e .eeeee - e - eea!eeee e e' -e e"" •,..eee-eeeeese-,0•.--e-eeee - - , -- - 1 ' I cannot dwell upon the mystery of where we are to oh- after the failure of the e—rp'edritie;t-o-ii;aleheven. The duke tan those foreign troops which we propose to raise; all was then in a position of immense difficulty ' at the head of a s we ask you is to allow her Majesty to have the p ower to force of onl y 20,000 nee in the Penin ul, , a nd a magnificent raise foreign volunteers and enlist them i n her service, and army, in conse q uence of an ill-conceived by the Eng you, as the representatives of the people, may take upon ' lish Ministry of the day, had been destroyed and wasted, not yourselves the power and the responsibility of limiting the withstanding their valour and discipline, in the expedition to number of these foreign mereenariese , But, s ir, w h e n the Walcheren-(hoar, hear)-where 40,0)0 men had been put noble lord impresses upon us th e i m p or t an ce o f the measure . hors de combat, whose , aid would have boon invaluable to as one which we ought to adopt immediately, on the ' Wellesley, The Duke of Wellington wrote to Lord Bathurst,l ground that we cannot carry on a war with an empire ; believe (I speak from memor • he said, " Let me give you some which outrivals us in military resources, I do not agree 1 consolation for the deplorable consequences of the Walcherou with the noble lord in the observation he has made, that ' expedition. If the 40,000 men had been sent to m e , I all her great commanders have adopted this s y stem, an d could not have received them ; 20,000 is as much as I can that the plan proposed by the Government is one which manage in this country, with imperfect supplies, and the im has received the sanction of the highest authorities. It is mouse difficulties I have to meet." I would not have men nnnecessery for me to touch upon that part of the subject Coped it to any other minister but to the Secretary at War. which has been so ably and completely treated by former I think that is a despatch which the right hon. gentleman speakers-namely, that the foreign troops which have been may think it necessary to read before he again makes a simi levied were the troops of those with whom we were in al- far statement to that which he has made to-night. Now, sir, liance ; it is unnecessary for me to refer to the German I have not dabbled at all in the constitutional objections - to Legion, or the troops enlisted at Hanover under the reign this plan of the Government. I say that is for the sentiments of a late King ; it is sufficient for me to say that such of the people of England to deal with, and all we, as their re troops were the servants of our Allies, or who from peen- presentatives, have to do is to see that there is nothing legally liar feelings had sympathy with this country. (Hear, unconstitutional in any act to which we give our assent. I hear.) It cannot be supposed that our soldiers would have think 'I have offered some facts for the consideration of the any objection to be engaged side by side with foreigners house which will make it hesitate before adopting that esti who are bound by sympathy in the same cause ; but it mate of the value of the forei g n le g ion which the noble lord was, I admit, with feelings of great disappointment that I has i ndul g ed us with. I do not think the Secretary of State heard the noble lord's ob b servations • in which no mention is a very high authority on the subject of a foreign legion. I was made of the enthusiasm. with which the soldiers think the Secretary of State's opinion of the militia is of more of England would fight by the side of their folio w-coun- importance than upon the subject of the enlistment of foreign trymen. (Cheers.) The noble lord alluded to the deeds troops. The noble lord greatly praised the foreign legion of our armies under Marlborough, at a time when which served in Spain. Ido not think it resulted in any they were assisted by foreign troops, and'pointed to the thing creditable to British feeling, or in any advantage to the battles of Blenheim, of Ilamillier and of Malplaquo t, throne of S p ain ; but when he rises to eulogise the merits of which he ;n ye, were won not merel by British troops, the En g lish militia, I think he has better cause to speak than but by an army of 60,000 men, one•t y hird of whom were when we hear him praising foreign mercenaries. (Hear.) foreigners ; but the noble lord failed to tell Us the history Now I come to the policy of this proposition. Under the of the grand alliance in the time of William 111., or to present circumstances 1 think that, irrespectively of all other deduce thence the not unnatural consequence that the considerations, looking merely to the merits of the proposi means which had been used in fighting the battles of the tion, I can prove that the measure the Government is propos- Euglish nation under the circumstance of that grand alli- ing is one that will be fruitless and barren of the results which ance Wont& be continued while those means were in exist- i desires from it. Let us look at the. policy of the measure. mice: -(Cheers.) The whole argument of the noble lord Here we are engaged in a war which even the highest authority to-night has been founded urea this fallacy-that we were now calls a great war. You, the ministers, omit no opportunity objecting to the measure before the house because we had now of dwelling upon the magnitude of the peril, and of the a prejudice against Englishmen fighting by the side of fo- greatness of the resources of the enemy with whom you are con reigners. But that fallacy of the noble lord's is very tri- tending. The country watches with anxiety the conduct of your fling when compared with the gross, and I may say dange- army 3,000 miles from home. There is a solemn convict on in roux error, which pervaded the rest of his argument. He the public mind that this is a crisis in the struggle between the imputes to us that we object to our soldiers fighting by the Western Powers and Russia. Parliament is suddenly called side of foreigners; our objection is simply to see them together-so suddenly that, even at the last moment, Minis-,, fighting by the side of foreigners who are condottieri and teas as it were, changed their mind. - The attention of the whole of Europe is attracted to the events of this important mercenaries, but we have no objection to their fighting by the side of foreigners who are allies. Wo admire the con- assembly, especially when it assembles under circumstances queror of Blenheim and Ramillies just as much as if the so remarkable. It is announced that we are assembled toge whole of his troops had been English. (Hear.) But tiler in order that her Majesty's Ministers might commuuie throughout the whole of his speech the noble lord argued cafe to the Council of the nation for its adoption and sanction just as if there was no such nation as the French -nation- those great measures which the Government thinks adequate Just as if there was no such army as the French army for the exigencies of the time. The noble lord the Secretary (cheers)-and as if that intimate alliance between the Eng- of State, who has just sat down, has taunted this side of the lish and French troops, and that cordial friend shi p between house with always pressing on the Government to take men the Generals, to which he adverted so gracefully b ut a few : sores equal to the exigencies of the moment, and, when the evenings ago, were, in fact, dreams which he had forgotten first measure is proposed in that they cavil at and miticis it. immediately after the night on which he proposed the That was not a generous taunt on the part of the noble lord thanks of this house to the French and English armies. (hear)-generosity may not be much valued in the House of (Hear, hear.) If it be true, as the noble lor d sa y s, Commons, though I hope truth.- may long linger among us; • that there is on the part of a large portion of this but, I venture to say that the- is not just, for the Go house- that is, of gentlemen who sit on th is side of vernment has received no obstacle whatever a in the conduct the house-and in the country generally, a great preju- of the war, from the Opposition. (Hear, hear.) There has dice against Englishmen fighting by the side of foreigners, not been a vote proposed by them which has. not been cheer• how can the noble lord account for the not merely fully acceded to them. The Ministers might have had any' cordial sympathy and appreciation, but the absolute amount of money or of men for merely asking for it. They enthusiasm with which the French and English alliance knew they might count upon us for a cordial, sincere, and is now viewed, not only in this house, but in the cou n- earnest support of their policy, and I say; sir, they received" try? The noble lord says that hon. gentlemen must not it. -It is net, therefore, just on the part of the Secretary of think because we have despatched 54,000 men already to State to rise now and, having entirely failed in defending a the seat of war that force is sufficient to resist the power measure which lam bound to say lam not surprised that ho f of this great Emperor of Russia. Well, air, lam g l a d to failed to . defend-for even his talents must be sometimes hear that we have been able in the first year of the war to baffled-he treat afll by. casting reproaches iu the faces of the people of e a-he was not justified in attempting to cover his re send out so many men, but I must remind the house t h at we did not send out these 54,000 men to carry on a single- England and of the Opposition. (Hear.) The noble lord handed contest with the Emperor of Reggie. We sent has attempted to convey that he aud his colleagues have them out to be companions in arms and comrades in glory experienced from us a factious opposition ; that we have of our great and gallant ally-(cheers)-who was, we were cavilled at their policy, taunted them into action, and at always told, and whom we always believed to be, a first- the moment - when they demand our support we refused rate military power. (Hear.) Surely, the noble lord, it. It is a notorious fact-and no misrepresentation can when he was calculating our resources to resist the Ein- disguise it from the people of this country-that, instead peror of Russia-to use a word not very classical or ele- of taking advantage of the difficulties of the Government as gent, but very commonly used of lato-ignored the exist- Oppositions before now have done. (Hear.) Instead of once of the French nation and army, and he somewhat throwing obstacles in their way, we have said from the first, forgot that we possessed a most powerful military ally. " Act with frankness and firmness, and you may count on the (Hear.) I maintain that the noble lord, in taking that same support front us that you would expect from the view of the case, misrepresented the spirit of this measure, adherents you most trust." From that line we have never and conveyed to the house and the country a totally false deviated. I say, then, unaer these circumstances, I can con and fallacious view of the position which. we occupy with ceive nothing more impolitic than a minister coming down to regard to the resources at our disposal for carrying on this Parliament, not asking to embody the national force, or for war. (Hear.) Having vindicated the claims of the French very large votes, or for the grant of a great number of men, allies to be remembered by the Ministers of the Crown in or for any other measure which shows a consciousness that they are embarked in au almost internecine struggle ; but calculating our resew cas, I will make this admission to the noble lord and to the Secretary of • State, vho seems to they come forward with one only measure, which I have think that he was to carry this measure with that good- shown from the records of experience to be of so imperfect natured blustering which he so well knows how to employ and paltry a character. (Hear, hear.) I want to know what -(a.laugh)-that in the course of the late war there wore effect the noble lord supposes it will have on European instances-a few instances-in which forei troops were Cabinets and public opinion abroad ?' I will not quote au gn p enlisted in the service of the Sovereign of this country, authority similar to that which I hive already quoted, which enlistment could not be vindicated by those legiti- which I did as a matter of fact, but I read to-day in an mate principles which have been referred to in the course organ which does exercise great influence in Europe, not un of this debate. I admit that in the last war there were friendly to the Western Powers, I believe, though it takes a instances in which the policy of 1778, when the Hessians moderate and mitigated view of these important transactions -a great continental authority-I read an article on the were seat to America, was imitated. The circumstances of that case I need not refer to ; they must be fresh - in the policy of the Government, concluding with the observation historical memory of every hon. g entleman ; it is a shame- "all we can deduce from the policy of the English Ministry fill page in the history of E n g land -and the saying of is that the recruiting powers of England are exhausted." (Hear, hear.) I ask the noble- lord, and the President of the Frederick the Groat, who, when he heard that the Elector Council, or any gentleman in the house, is not that a fair of Hesse and other petty German p rinces were thus bar inference and the only ono to draw ? (Hear.) Can any taring the blood of their subjects, declared that as they ono doubt that is the opinion which will affect the con passed through his dominions he would levy a toll upon duct of public neon ' and nations ? It will affect the them as upon so many cattle, was one of the most justly conduct of these German Powers of which we have heard severe observations which I have ever met with. (Hear.) The noble lord the Secretary ol` State told us that the so much. Do you think that the Austrian treaty, which we were called upon to congratulate the greatest commanders, and Napoleon among others, had Throne for-do you think the results of that are had recourse to this measure to sustain their military strength, and that they had always approved the system ; likely to be more important because of the impression that the recruiting power of the country is eXhaisted ? but in answer to the noble lord I will take the liberty ef But, sir, if that is the effect upon foreign countries, is it quoting the name of a commander not second even to the - passible to shut our eyes to what the elect may be on our great Napoleon-I will quote the authority of the Duke own country ? (Hear. hear.) Does anybody believe that the of Wellington. (Hear.) The passage lam about to read is tendency of this important measure-impertant I mean as an extract from a letter from the Duke of Wellington to to the spirit in which it is conceived, and that of the measure Lord Liverpool, dated the 19th of January, 1811, and it Vamp we deliberated upon yesterday, in any other than to shows the value of those troops who do no t j oie our sten amp the readiness of the people of this country to rally lard from any sympathy of political feeling of convictiou. round the standard of the Sovereign ? I believe, sir, that the Duke says,- that is the universal impression and the conviction which pre-, " I am sorry to give you bad accounts of the Brunswick wails in every class of the community. Well, I say, is this Legion. They continue to desert in lar g e numbers ; and on the policy-ithis the conduct that wise, experienced; and the night before last 14 deserted t o g o to the enemy; 11 responsible statesmen, the Minister of a country like England were caught, 1 was shot while making th e attem p t, aud only should pursue at this moment ? Tell me, as we have been told 2 got off." to-night, that we can only enlist boys, when the experience of (Hear, hear.) Again, on the 23 d of Ap ril, he writes to every gentleman in this house convinces him of the fallacy of General Graham (Lord Lynedoch) :- that obeervatiou-(hear)-aud . i , if it be not fallacious, the ob " I attribute the disposition of all foreign recru its to desert servation is only more unwise aud njurious. But to make from our armies to the regularity of system and to the strict statements of this kind, which are not to be decided by the ness of discipline which arises, and which must be upheld in experience of any gentleman wherever ho si ts, but b y statisti order to keep a British army in the field in a state of offici cal documents and that body of information as to the resources eney ; and their desertion is frequently very inconveniences, of the country which is iu the possession of every well-in- I am not desirous of increasing the number of foreign troops formed person, is to me a most extraordinary proceeding. with this army." , Why, the returns of the census contradict you-Livery public (Cheers.) I recommend this last passage to the attention of the Secretary-at-War, who seems to think that ne Ge- document of your own officers contradicts . your assertion. The natal was ever yet known who was not desirous of increas- state of the population of the country is notsuch as that it can only furnish for recruits' those who aro . mere boys. It is d ing his armies. (Hear.) This letter was written in Jan• vary, 1811, and in June of the same year the Mike writes nut the . truth in theory-it is not the factln d practice; ctic . e ;an it is impossib e that the noble lord can rise au tell us in sober thus to Lord Liverpool :- sadness that it is not in his power to-morrow, if he appeals to " Since the commencement of the siege of Badajoz 52 of parliament, to • e 100,000 who are not boys; it is im the Chasscurs Brittanique have deserted, though we have with the army only a selection of that corps, 686, who are the sanction he can make that statement and receive for it suspected, being left at Lisbon." the sanction of the House. Well, if that be so, ought it to have been made ? and is not the making of such statements as those (Loud cheers, and laughter.) lam sure the house will ex of the noble lord and his colleagues calculated at this ma• reuse me for reading these passages ;it is, indeed, like hay- tto paralyse the conduct Government,ofie and to l ing the counsel and advice of the duke himself upon this point. (Hear, hear.) On the 6th of May, 1812, the duke moot lilt of the country; and, instead of bringing abo p u a t s a y successful and triumphant issue, rather to- will not say, writes to General Cooke :- consummate the catastrophes that may be impending, but " In regard to General Ross's complaint of the inclination to prepare l a future full of anxiety and gloom to this coun of Wattevills's Regiment to desert, all general officers who try (Hoar.) We have been told in the comse . of this debate have foreign troops under their command have the same cause to complain. (Hear, hear.) In that part of the army -and it has - been mentioned very elaborately in the course of this . short . session -that thecause of our inconvenient and under my command called British there aro between 6,000 iti-ikijauti the e s siCi on as a militarypower " nstate of a war is, and 7,000 of them who desert' whenever they cal get an country has resolvedalways to i a maintainpeace opportunity." establishment, Now, sir, is that true ? Is that accusation (Laughter.) Now, these are the free lances whom the Go- against the House of Commons made by Ministers to-night, vernment would have us have recourse to. I was deter and on other occasions, founded on fact ? I have had some mined to meet the objections of these well-informed gen- . • tlemen, her Majesty's Ministers, who get up and make fine nee in this house, and many hon. gentlemen around statements about all foreign troops employed by the Crown aud before me have bad longer experience, and Ido not re beng bound to us by feelings of political sympathy, and so member any appeal made on the re.,ponsibility of a Govern on.. (Hear, hear.) There were many free lances of this meat in time of peace to the House of Commons for the in description in the Peninsular army, but I would not be crease of our establishment which has not been responded to with a heart 3, and generous confidence. (Hear.) Why, what understood as at all referring to the German Legion. Of took place under the administration of Sir R. Peel? There that corps I would speak with all the honour which it de were many circumstances at that time which, if not of a very serves and which it has received. I say nothing of all those alarming and perplexing character in our foreign relations, troops who joined us because the interests of their country were at least not such as could be placed before the country were bound up with ours, who were either subjects of the to agitate its spirit and excite its etthusiasni so . as to raise for same Sovereign or subjects of Soverei g ns for whose cause the support of the Ministry that immense fund of public feel we were fighting, and who, I believe, behaved throughout lug and sentiment which you have now the advantage to the war with admirable fidelity, courage, and discipline. command. But still they were grave aud serious matters, (Hear, hear.) I confine myself to those free lances, to causing to the distinguished Cabinet of which Sir R. Peel those foreign mercenaries, to those condottieri, 'who were was chief the utmost anxiety. They had considerably t o engaged in the cheapest market , and who had no political increase the naval and military establishments of the convetions or patriotic syml athies-who were purchased country. Did this house then refuse to support Sir R. Peel, b y -th e Power tha t p aid them most, and whose achieve though he asked for au increased expenditure of several mil ments are immortalised by the passages I have read lions? What happened in 1852, when you had a Whig Go from the pen of their illustrious commander. I have vernment not supported by the majority of the House of Com read extracts from the Duke's letters in 1&11 and 1812, and and not only supported by such a majerity l but now, if you will allo w me, I will read you what he says in molls, which met us on every occasion by factious combination 1813. On the 25 th of February, 1813, he thus writes to and sinister intrigue ? What occurred then ? There were General Campbell at Alicante :- circumstances which made it our duty even under such a state " I have received your letter of the 12th, regarding the of things, to appeal to the House of Commons * for an increase conduct of the 2d Italian Regim ent, and I entirely concur in of our forces. Did that. House of Commons, anxious and all the measures you have adopt ed, and applaud the decision ready as it was to throw every impediment in our way--did and firmness of your conduct. T he foreign troops are s° it, when the Ministry seriously appealed. to it, refuse its much addicted to desertion that they assent to the proposition No. The Secretai ' at ' are very unfit for our War, on armies-(hear, hear)-of which they necessarily form too a this and another occasion, has dilated with Leh eagerness large a proportion to the native troops. Th e evil is aggl-- on the difficulties of the position of the Government from the voted by the practice which prevails of enlisting prisoners as imperfect establishments which they had at their well as deserters, and Frenchmen as well as other foreigners. but has never bad the generosity to admit that, Lev' command, m as a o n u d ;• The consequence is, therefore, that a foi eign regiment cameo; Government was, we increased the force of the army and also that we created a Channel fleet and.put our Ar -be placed in a situation in which the soldiers can desert from it that they do not go off it numbers, and in the Peninsula tillery in au efficient state. I am not saying this in any spirit they carry to the enemy the only intelligence which he canthe charge that has been of the navy ; acquire. (Hear.) With this knowledge, I seldom, if over,, e against this house. I say, both at the period of S" •It of boastfulness, but in answer to use the foreign British troops of this army on the duty of outposts; and, whatever you may determine regarding the peel's made saministration, and at the period of the administra n tion 2d Italian Regiment, I recommen d the same practice to your o f which I bad the honour to be a member, appeals were made cons ideration." , . to the House o f Commons, from the nature of affairs without , (Loud laughter.) But, says the noble lord in the addressof this house, hand these appeals any communication of causes -appeals were made to the con were which he has made to us to-night, this is the most absurd if that be true g sa dd 1 y great is the re opposition which has been suddenly raised ; it cannot he oppce • responded to. Well, Ministers who su en y acceding to office - fidence and patriotism tolerated for a moment ; it is against the spirit of the age sponsibility of those A E eror of Russia had ro o d and against every patriotic feeling, and we cannot canyon a month bad the war without this measure. Every nation, we are told, elapsed were aware Olaf the my 1 the partition of Turk° even the French nation, is at this moment employingthat were necessar . B l u ni t, foreign troops, and has a foreign legion. That is the stances make the preparations y-who did not under these p cir r ei se p parations in y times of position of the noble lord. lam going now to quote , says the Secretary of State, " Make - re tions were going on • from a French newspaper ; it is from memory, but ,p e e i ce - make preparatlo us when negotia se such a thing.' I pledge myself for the accuracy of my quoted us. t'ons but undr I would not quote from a French newspaper if it Why, when is a Government to make pr - ' ePara All l the re ara were before those exploits with regard to the press such circumstances and in such a position.? PP .. . to which only one of her Majesty's Ministers tin ions made by your 50 years, pren predecessors for the last were preparatiou do j u stice -(laughter)-but I am quoting a de.ailed semi . =nary to war, or in confirmation of peace, official statement it the Constitutionncl-a paper which ap• , made in this swine manner. You had your militia called out, pears under the highest authority-and it is a statement with , and there was no declaration of war. It was no impediment regard to the cause of the surprise which, to use the larg cage 'largelyto your uegociations if you had increased your forces very of the Constitutionnel, caused the sliedd:ne of so much of the •.. instead of very slightly.' This Occurred in the year best blood of the finest armies iu the world. According to 1653 , h but what did you do in 1854 -(licar, hear)-wlien you the semi-official Constifutionnef, the members of the foreign , 'a w l I s e ;have been conscious for a year that war was inevitable ?, a you were on the • ' legion of Franco deserted to the enemy, the Emperor of i of even d 1 • point, under certain contingencie s, Russia, whom the noble lord, the Secretary of State, is to i e n c . i , t i rieg war, which ultimately you did declare -s -1 when eve defeat by the foreign legion ; they 'gave him, or rather his 1 calling i the previous autumn the nation was absolutelY , generals, accurate information of all the weak points of our soraer oounryfret to a take decided measures and you did even position, of those parts which had been unfortunately, but . duct then ? fleet outer the Black Sea -what was your con position, The Constitutionnel , w henyou de • clued war, did you not take perhaps inevitably neglected. those measures which y would deplores - this. It says there is not a braver body of men than ferent position - whichwoaldh i ave placed you in a very dif ferent foreign legion in the service of Franco; their courage is of prevented great national calamities, and the necessity : • most undaunted, their achievements are the achievements of to pass this bill ? (ilea lo - calling Parliament together the most desperate valour ;but being foreigners, aud not aid conduct of thewhichr he And this loads me to the the noble President of the Council mated by the sarde feelings as' Frenchmen aud Englishmen, has, I think, war, unnecessarily brought und •our • .giving information to the under consideration, they took the first opportunity of aud which the I secretarythe of State has ostentatiously b roug h t enemy, which has ,pread desolation through, every home in before us, leave E o - noble lord to his eulogium of th e pe this country. (Hear, hear.) And here, pe rha p s, I might re- culiar naval power of uglaud, and of the magnificent achieve mind the Secretary at War, who said just now that there meats which i never was a general who comp l a ined of having too man y y under the well-cons dered expeditious of th e " G , overnment, have been accomplished in the Baltic. (A laugh.) ' troops ;I am surprised that he cannot recall one of the most ' But," says - the noble lord, the Secretary of State, "we are interesting despatches from the Duke of Wellington, written caned why wo went to gobastopol ?" Why I don't know that anybody asked the noble lord that question_ (A laugh.) I expect some day that he w ill rs k us that. I expect that the time 7111 conic when her Majesty's ministers will give an ample information on that subject ; but I have not beard any ono so presumptuous as to enter into any-criticism on the scheme and conduct of these campaigns. I did hear a minister the other night —the Secretary at War—offer an ingenious argu ment in vindication of the Government of which he is a mem ber for the military exploits of the campaign which they bad recommended and achieved. The Secretary at War said that the country insisted upon their going to Sebastopol. (Hear, and a laugh.) Most extraordinary ! I always thought that ministers were men of superior minds, with the advantage of peculiar and exclusive information—that by that combivatiou of intellect, experience, and knowledge they exhibited, they did, upon all grave matters, follow the course which was for the greatest advantage of the community whose affairs they were called upon by their Sovereign to guide, and who acted under a responsibility not merely to the present, but to the future. Aro we, then, to believe that the present ministers are men who undertook expeditions of the great importance of this invasion of a province of the enemy only because public opinion insisted upon their doing so.? (hear) —that though they might be in complete ignorance of all those cir cumstances which should guide opinion—though it was a leap iu the dark, they were prepared to take that leap because public opinion goaded them to do it ? (Hear, hear.) Why, Sir, if that be the state of affairs —if these are the rules that regulate the conduct orprudeut men like the Ministers of the Queen -I say, why are they Ministers of the Queen? Why should they bo responsible if public opinion is to be the only impulse to their actions, and they are to undertake the most precipitate conduct against their own convictions, in violation of the knowledge they possess, simply because public opinion calls on them to achieve that which is rash and to accomplish what is impossible. But the Secretary at War said something more the other night. He seemed to say that it was not merely the people out of doors, but people in doors—gentlemen on this side of the house, and members of Parliament, whq had urged the Government to take a decided course, and to at tack Sebastopol. I don't mean to say that upon that subject members of Parliament have not given much, and perhaps very foolisleadvice to her Majesty's Ministers ; but if they have given it, there was no reason why her Majesty's Ministers should adopt it. (Hear.) This, however, I will say, that no gentleman on this side of the house has ever given that advice to her. Majesty's Ministers—that no one sittingon this side of the house ever said, " Invade the Russian empire, and attack Sebastopol." On the contrary, Sebastopol was never men tioned on this side of the house but once, and then it was by myself, in answer to the strange and startling speech of the Lord President, in which I, is company with hundreds, did understand in the month of July that he announced to Europe and Asia that the British Government Thad re solved upon invading the Crimea and besieging Sebastopol. (Hear, hoar, hear.) Then I did say—speaking, T am sure, the opinion of my friends around me—that I had heard that declaration, not only with surprise, but consternation, and I think the noble lord the Secretary for War can hardly pervert that speech into an encouragement to undertake a siege. . (Cheers.) That there were appeals made by other members of Parliament, the right faithful and trusty friends of Government, I don't at all deny, but I am' not responsible for the observations of those gentlemen. You share their confidence, and they share yours. (" Hear," and cheers.) But, if there must be a responsibility for your conduct which I am not now at all entering into—if you persist in the habit of attempting to shuffle off the responsibility of your conduct on what is called the public, or members of Parlia ment, let it be clearly, understood that it was not the Censer vative portion which urged you to that course, and that we reserved to ourselves the , cright opportunity to examine into your policy, when the noble lord and yourselves would con ' descend to give us the reasons for the course you had taken. (Cheers.) Sir, I feel myself that this is a subject which we should now treat with the utmost delicacy. lam not going, in spite of the boastful speech of the Secretary-at-War, and in spite of the assertions of the noble lord the Lord President of the Council—l am not going to be drawn into a discussion as to the conduct of the war as planned and . schemed by the Government: I feel persuaded the time will come when this house will expect that upon the policy of the Government there should be a full and a complete discussion. (" Hear, hear," and cheers.) 'The country knews now that one of the greatest expeditions ever sent out by the energies of this nation was ordered by her _ Majesty's Government to invade the Crimea and to besiege Sebastopol. Since the expedition against Sicily by the Athenians, I do not know that there ever was au expedition from which so much was expected, or upon which so much was at stake. (Hear, bear.) There is unhappily in the commencement of both these expeditious too much similarity. The schemers were arrogant, boastful, and over-sanguine. There were too many Generals in the Sicilian expedition ; there was .. too little cavalry ; there was a winter campaign, and there was uo reserve. (Hear.) When hon. gentlemen go into the country iu a few days- I under stand they are . to be absent a month—there may bo moments when the battue is exhausted, and when there may be a frost. I recommend hon. gentlemen at such a time to re fresh their memories by turning to the pages of " Thucydides," and reading the despatch of Is icias to . the Athenians, espe cially where he says, " Meu of Athens, I know you do not like to hear the truth ; but understand this—you sent mo out to be a besieger ; :but, lo II am besieged." (Hear, hear,"and cheers.) Now, s:r, we know what was the end of the Sicilian expedition. May Divine Providence, guarding over the expedition in which we have embarked, save us from a similar conclusion, but at least let us do now what the Athenians did even in their proud despair. They sacrified to the gods and appealed . to the energies of their countrymen. We, at a , moment not, I believe, of equal danger, are in a situation which I pray may end in triumph, but still a situa tion of doubt, of peril, and of anxiety, if unwisely we bring in a bill iu order to enlist foreign mercenaries to vindicate the fortunes of England. (Loud cheers.) Mr: MUNTZ said - he did not approve of foreign aid being sought until the resources of our own country in providing men for the army had been exhausted. He was decidedly of opinion that if the Government gave a large bounty, and had Englishmen instead of foreigners, they would Obtain as many men as they wanted. What would have been the fate of the army at Inkermau if we had had foreign troops to defend our position instead of our Guards I (Opposition cheers.) Why, the whole - army would have been driven into the sea. If they were determined not to raise men in our own country, they should at least take the next best step, and go to our allies. (Cheers.) They could not find any such men as those of the Emperor of Franco among their foreign auxiliaries. The French had an army of 400,000 men, 100,000 of whom were at Boulogne doing nothing. if they believol the Emperor of France to be sincere, he (Mr, Muntz) thought it was the bounden duty of the-Government to make an application to him. (Hear.) One Frenchman would be worth half a dozen of such refuse as they were about to pick up from all parts of the world. (Hear, hear.) It was very clear that he (tho hon. member) could not vote for this bill, Ho could not vote from party spirit. (Hear, hear.) Somebody was certainly at fault for the way in which the war had been carried on e and the Government bad not corrected that fault. Why did they go to Sebastopol at such a seasou of the year, and with such an inferior force.? The great Duke of Marlborough did not attack a place in this way—he did not attack upon one side, and leave the other open.' There had been a series of blun ders from beginning to end. He should like to be informed who it was that made a treaty with Austria, and allowed them to enter the Principalities, and thus permit the Russians to march out and with all their generals and other troops in vest our army in the Crimea ? (Hear, hear.) He was most anxious to give his support to any Government that wished to carry on the war with spirit and energy, but he could never vote for such a measure as the one now before the house. Mr. DEEDES said he was one of many in that house, and he doubted not, certainly, one of thousands out of it, who had engaged : in this struggle those who were near and dear to them. Tho noble lord (Lord J. Russell) in putting the ques. ton, upon the ground of his desire to relieve the wants and' sufferings of the army in the Crimea, had begged it altogether. If there were no other means of sending relief to their troops, it might be a question whether the priiate feelings of hon. members would justify their giving a vote against their pub lic opinions; but he (Mr. Deedes) felt this was not the only measure to which recourse might be had. Ho should vote from a conviction that if ho supported the bill he should be doing that which was not consonant with the feeling of the country. (Hear, hear.) Lord J. RUSSELL Sir, the right hon. member for Buckinghamshire has said that wo have endeavoured to throw off from our own shoulders the expedition to the Crimea, and to attribute it to public opinion and to the statements of some members of this house. I beg leave to say, on behalf of her Majesty's Government, that they wish to throw off no part of the responsibility ; as the Executive Government, it belonged to them to decide whether such an expedition should be undertaken—they con sidered it very deeply, and in their opinion it was a measure calculated to promote the success of the war. But with re gard to the measure now before the house the responsibility will , not be that alone of the Executive Government; they have brought it forward conceiving that it would tend to the success of the war, and let us see what has been said in op position. The noble lord opposite said that he, with great reluctance, came forward to oppose that which the Govern ment 'thought necessary to the conduct of the war; at , er hon. gentlemen have stated the same reluctance, yet have not fairly considered the present situation of Affairs, nor the re medies to be applied. Now, the state of affairs is this—you have voted - and fairly and liberally voted—a large number of men, but you have not by that vote obtained the number of mou you wished to recruit, for no less than 20,000 men have fallen short of the vote—(hear, hear)—besides , this,' many of those who were reported were so young as to be called, as they were—and properly so—by my noble friend, mere boys. (Hear, hear.) The right hon. gentleman says that it is not a fair statement, and that hon. members know that it is not so; bat I will tell you that my Lord Raglan, writing from the Crimea, complains that those , sent out to him, and that were draughted to join the regiments,' were so young, being below 18 years of age, that many went into the hospital, and could not be introduced into his ranks. (Hear, hear.) Then we are told in reply, that the whole country is for carrying ou the war with vigour, and why not rely ou the country ? These are grave but very vague' terms. No doubt there are many landowners, and merchants, and others who declare in favour of the war, who support the Patriotic Fund, and who come forward liberally to supply the means; but if you want soldiers they are not of the station or age to enlist, and therefore all this enthusiasm, though good—(Oh from the Opposition benches, and cheers) —does not give the 10,001 men you are in want of. Some hon. gentleman, had said—why not ask for snore men ? It would have had a very great appearance to have come and asked for 50,000 men. We should have been much applauded for our vigour; but, to have asked for additional men, with 20,000 short of the last vote, would have been absurd. (Hear, hear.) Well, then, it is said, lower the standard and increase the bounty. (Opposition cheers.) The standard has been lowered, the bounty has been increased, men have been allowed to enlist up to 30 years of ago. You might say, allow men to enlist at 35 years of age, but the number of men who would come forward between 30 and 35 years of ago would be very small. (" No, no.") For the number between these ages is not near so great asdietween other periods. Such being the case, with these very doubtful expedients suggested we have ventured to propose, and conforming to the precedent of the last war, that we should be enabled to get men from foreign countries. It is said, " You may rely on the enthusiasm of the country, and men will be forthcoming." You in'gh just as well say, " Do not go to Liege for Millie rifles, for there is plenty of ore and coal hi the country, and in time w: may obtain th: rifles." So, in time, these men would become soldiers, but the question is whether, within the next four months, we 'could obtain an additional supply. (Hear ' , hear.) The hon. tueml er fur Birmingham says that we hail no such men as these Germins at Inkernian ; but, if we had had sonic of those men who fought with the Duke of Wellington in va rious battles, I should say that we had an' addition to our brave iufautry which would have b en of great service, and that the bloddslied on the part of our army would have been mach less. The right hon, gentleman mentions various occasions in which desertions of German soldiers have taken place, but there was one thug he omitted, and • a very im portant one—viz., that there was a custom that the Ger man prisoners who were brought to this country were al lowed to go back and enter the German regiments; these German prisoners having served in the French army, finding the discipline of our army irksome to them, went back to the French. It is not such a force that we propose to co ll ec t. The right hon. gentlem an read instances of 14 deserters, 11 of whom were caught, one shot, and two escaped, and there ho ended ; but the letter to which he referred goes.en to say that they were men who bad only joined the regiment two ~. N 0 Fq, N .O LI own° 14,_riv gnNri s r 3 Air )131 V iil 741 N eV111013141 E n . - 110, 1 0 64• ---- - t (Bear, hear.) The right imOn. gentleman found it convenient w da a y s s ; m1 e t s b i a r t ab i l h e ey ZrZo ' h ia a ° v n e el irti l i a ° t h a a r d m b y e e e n n i i e s n t i c i d Bt d e d e s;ebrtut i ers wise, the right lieu. .gerilite e l i e . m ls antohkercaPia•essuaogt° twohqicnho,telik:_e to omit these pan ages." "The desertion is terrible, and is quite inconceivable, parti cularly among the Britieh - troops;;Alun not astonished that the foreigners should go—(Opposition chi ors) —as those *1 enlisted the foreigners for Government have taken -Cleat in general from the prisons." (Loud counter cheers.) Such was the ingenious way in which the right hon. gentleman read extracts from these despatches; but we know very well that the Duke of Wellington said, not only in 1852, but a'so in repeated despatches, that he admired the courage of the Ger man troops. In one place he says —" I wish I had 3,000 cavalry, either British or German ;" and he placed, in fact, the greatest reliance on those troops; and then the right hon. gentleman gets up some case where German prisoners had been enlisted, and chooses that as a fair-sample of the duke's opinions. (Hear, hear.) We were told, not very long ago, in the public papers, upon the authority of the hon. baronet the member for Lincolnshire, that there was great enthusiasm in Germany against-the. Russians, and in behalf of the Western Powers, and we thought it was possible, seeing that such en thusia-m existed, to find a considerable body of men who, having been already trained to arms, would be of use as au addition to the force which is now serving in the Crimea The hon, gentleman who spoke last referred to the French. Undoubtedly, the Emperor of the French has said that what ever troops he had ready to go he should be ready to send to the Crimea, but it would be 'just as if we 'sal& -•` r Know ing how ready an ally you are; we will ureic-nem exertions, but we will rely entirely on the French army in order to in crease the forces in the Crimea:" (Hear.) The right hon. gen tleman has said that-1 referred to that campaign. Now, Ido not wish to go into details respecting what has occurred since the beginning of the war; but - I think, if hon, gentlemen will look for a moment to results, they will find that there have been few occasions in whicir this country, having been only nine months at war, the results Were so considerable as those which have now been obtained. At the end of the last war, after various combats, we were exceedingly satisfied and proud because we found ourselves complete masters of the sea, and the enemy could not come out of their ports. Lord Nelson and Lord Collingwood did not think of going and de stroying Cadiz ; it was never thought necessary that the Channel gal epoomr ports complete of e the triumph French i ,1 ; b the last war, and our gal lant fleet which was always in theutnow it m should se e s destroy B e t w having obtained the complete mastership o f th e se a, an d suc reosbt taanindedot no her ceeded.in enclosing the enemy in his harbours, is rather a matter of reproach. Lbeg to submit to you the present posi tion of the Emperor of Russia. What is the situation of his fleets ? Here is a great marine force, a fleet of 27 sail of the line in one place, and. of 18-sail of the line in another place ; in time of peace sailing about with great show and splendour, but the moment war is declared, these fleets are shut up in their harbours. Is that a very agreeable position ? Is it not rather a very humiliatingipositiou for a naval Power? (Hear, hear.) You speak of 'Ong, negotiations; but let us remember what wore the pretensions of the Emperor of Russia at the 'commencement. The Emperor of Russia then pretended to get the signature of a note from the Sultan, which the Sultan's Ministers declared was entirely subversive of his independence. Does he require that now ? He has entirely given up any pre tensions to it. The Emperor of Russia said, " Yes, I will occupy the-principalities asa material guarantee." But does be occupy them-now? (Cheers.) There were certain terms laid down in protocols.at Vienna. The Emperor of Russia said, " I will not accept them," but in a little time afterwards he was quite ready to accept them. Time Allies have gone on; and they agreed upon certain conditions with Austria, to which they also obtained the assent of Prussia, unwilling as Prussia is to do anythine , unpalatable at St. Petersburg before they were sent to the Elperor of Russia, The Emperor of Austria then sent these conditions to St. Petersburg. What was the reply of the Emperor -of Russia 1 Ho sent, through Count Nesselrode, a haughty and indignant reply, that these conditions were destructive to the power of Russia, that they were.such conditions as could only be agreed to after a long and disastrous war, and that it would be humiliating in Russia to agree to them. But what is the language of Russia now? The Russian Minister declared at Vienna, only the other day, that the Emperor is willing to accept these pro positions as the basis of the, conditions, which in August he had rejected. (Hear.) Well, sir, is that a triumphant posi tion for Russia, or one that is humiliating for us? (Hoar.) We are carrying on military operations of great hazard. I was ono who believed that the facilities of attacking Sebasto pol were greater than they haver trtrued out to be, and, in consequence, there has been a degree of privation and hard ship among our troops, and, at the same time, the necessity for displaying a degree of courage which has hardly ever beell'paralleled in the _history of the world.. (Cheers.) I ad mit I was mistaken, and high military and naval authorities both of England and Prance were also mistaken in their esti ftgmoee intleman ts risl cheery)- aestsurdet over l n lh g aet t 1 tf t h,htale o lps f pvtre S oon e se b tpci af ec t t otpo pages go o tef l h . s - h ia.ne o iss u ;-; e d o i A s disaster—(loud Athenian es e i t , —( h ,a e Tu l h o l r the do not envy him his •satisfaction. (Cheers.) I still trust that the British army will remain to be victorious —that time flags of England and France will float in triumph in the Crimea--nail that these two great nations, fighting in the cause of the, liberties of Europe and of European civilisation, will still triumph over every obstacle that numbers and bar barism can boast. (Loud cheering.) • ' Colonel SIBTHORP had deeply felt the gross insult offered to the body to which he belonged—the militia of the United Kingdom. Ho firmly believed that almost any number of good and true Englishmen could be obtained; and, as to the noble lord's talk about 30 and 35 years of age, he had seen devilish good soldiers much older than that. (Laughter.) He was confident English soldiers could be hail, and that by their condo t they would defy the aspersions of men who were uo soldiers.t Il s e should with pleasure give a firm negative against this measure of the Government, as well as any other Measure of which they might be the forerunner. The conduct of ministers was underhand, low, dll•ty,..mean, cowardly— (laughter)—unworthy of Englishmen.. wits and except the noble lord the Secretary of State for the Home Department they bad no proper feeling. With that 'eteeption, the Lord have mercy on such a set. (Laughter.). The Marquis of BLA.NDFORD was met by loud calls for a He observed that no one- who Ira heard the debate could help feeling the deep solemnity and uncertainty of the position in which they were placed. .had no intention to diminish the responsibility of Goveriitn,:nt in this measur e. Theirs was the reepOnsibility, and on them let it rest. (Hear.) He wished to make ono appeal to the smile lord, connected with the motion on the notice paper of the right hots, gentle man the Incinber for the University of Publimi. (Murmurs of impatience.) lie would suggest that Government, should take into its serious Consideration the propriety of preparing a public form of prayer in time present emergency. t" No !" and " hear.") to let their subjects enter our nerd" no 6,30 eoto have ob. jected to such a measure, nor would any one have required to express limitation to the case of States actually at war. Tina, hOWeier, is a very differat thing from coming before `Parliament with a measure avowedly lot enlisting against Russia men of all nations, at war with Russia or tot, threat ened by Russia or not, sympathisers, mercenaries, revolution ists, insurrectionists, incendiaries of all kinds, ready at every call to lend a band towards severing the bonds between na tion and nation, or people and rulers. On, the principles upon which the bill has been advocated it would be - difficult to condemn what is called a War of ,priviciple, or a war of nationalities, dividing into opposite sides the whole population of Europe, and, indeed, of the world: . otrsuch principles we must give up the stern old maxim that you may treat as a pirate, and hang without mercy, every subject of a State with which you are not at war who may venture individually to invade your territory or wage war against your armies. It is said that Radetski made an example of some Romans and Neapolitans whom he found in Lombardy, yet no one can pretend that they had less justifica tion for attempting to drive the Austrians over the Alps than the Sw!ss would now have fOr driving - the Russians across the Pruth and destroying Sebastopol. So far, indeed, as the precedent of the German Legion will really cover the present measure, the Emperor of Russia cannot object to it, inasmuch as the Russians fought side by side with that Legion in the late war. We must, howev r, expect the Russian Gene rals and lawyers to scrutinise rather narrowly the application of a precedent which is construed iut ) meauing that every mem ber of the whole human race may lawfully take up arms to-mor row against Russia simply for occupying so extensive a territory and having so large an army. If report speaks true, we have executed summary justice on the Russian Major who was caught assassinating our won :fled men ; and Prince Afenschi koff, on being invited to sign the sentence, replied in a spirit of cavil, which bodes ill for future controversies on interna tional law. Let us suppose the case of a Milanese orNeapolitan gentleman found in the Crimea iu arms against Russia, but pleading the commission of her Britannic Majesty. Should the Russian - General pronounce him a bandit, and hang him accordingly, we should certainly be in a very unpleasant case unless we could cite chapter ant verse iu the law of natioas in our favour, and have undeniable authority for protesting against the act. The second reading has been carried by a majority which must be considered very slight, when we take into account the almost entire unanimity which prevails as to the object and general prosecution of the war. We cannot help thinking that a little tact, or rather a little more simplicity and honesty, would have procured the passing of the measure, as every war measure ought to be passed, without a dissentient voice. The public ought not to have been taken by surprise. Some intimation of the bill - ought to have been given beforehand, and it ought to have been alluded to in the Queen's Speech, together with the bill enabling Government to send the Mi litia abroad. If one, why not the other 1 The measure is introduced quietly and by stealth, and the very, looks and movements of its advocates betray their own misgivings, slid inform us that if we are conscientious, as they believe us to be, we shall hesitate to comply with • their wishes. We are now-informed that the bill has been in hand several mouths, and that its speedy enactment is one of the chief objects of this December sitting. If so, why not introduce so impor tant a measure into the Queen's Speech, which is not over charged with matter, and might have been even improved by the introduction of something like a real announcement ? Never was there a secret so wall kept, though we eannot see why any measure necessary for the prosecution of a just and popular war should-have been thought a fit subject for a close conspiracy. lint, according to,Mr. Sidney Herbert, this con spiracy was as dark au affair to the conspirators themselves as to the public at largo. None of them can pay how the foreign legion is to work, whence it is to be levied, or where it is to be posted. On this point all parties in the house con fess a delightful agreement ; and at this moment Mr. Sidney Herbert would be very much obliged if anybody could tell him where ho is to get the soldiers necessary for carrying out which it mystery, the purposes of this bill. This is a very delig h t ful stat e o f ignorance, and speaks wall for the : success of the measure. all to thiseo e'rd disturbance, . ba secrecy aaa, this continued uncertainty about a measure i ntended to be. with this has Per Perhaps it matured. is o nl y a feint Yet only a return to the manners and customs of old English wars Ministers at least deserve a fright, and a narrow escape. They have obtained'both, and we trust they will learn a little more wisdom or some other Christian grace' for the future. - - (From the Morning Pest.) The Government have carried, and Parliament has passed by a majority of thirty-nine, a measure to which, there can not be the slightest doubt, the opinion of the country at large is decidedly and strongly opposed. 'By what impulse the House of Commons has been induced to this unexpected course—whether they have been driven by the threat, we believe empty threat, of resignation, of late sn customarily, and, we may venture to say, even unconstitutionally, used by the existing Administration, or whether they have been persuaded 'by the force of the .singular arguments used by Lord Johu Russell, we know not ; but whether the one or the other circumstance was the motive power, the conclusion to which it has conducted ParliaMent is ono which we are con vinced will be regarded with strong feelings of discontent and distrust, both by the country at largo, and by those classes upon whom (luting the ensuing year wo must draw for that supply of money and of man without which we can not hope to carry to, a successful issue the serious contest in Which we are engaged. It must be evident to every man anxious for the energetic prosecution of the war by means in- accordance with the sym pathies of the country, that the advernmeet, with a fair field before them, and with a course cleared' by anticipation of all ordinary obstacles, should have gone• out of their way in so singular and unaccountable a manner to build up a wall against which to run their own heads and those of the people, who permit themselves, by an unfounded belief in resignation and au exaggerated view of its consequences, to be delivered over, bound hand and foot, to their despotic For the second reading ... • Againstit .......... Majority _20 239 The announcement of tlie number wai received with loud cheers from the ministerial sde of the, house. . The bill was then read a second time, Lord J. RUSSELL proposed going, into committee upon the bill this day, but he thought it' would be convenient if the right boa. gentleman opposite would state what course he in tended to pursue. - Mr. DISRAELI said that the course he should prefer _would be that the noble lord shquld postpone the committee until after Christmas. The measure had not been long enough be fore the country, and had been very quickly hurried t hrou g h he could only say that ho should be in his place, and a second reading. With regard to the course he should pur sue, would offer every opp os i t i o n to the further progress of the The committee Was then fixed fol. this day at 12 o'clock. The house adjourned at 2) minutes before 2. THE FOREIGN ENLISTMENT BILL. Even more mischievous than the conclusion to which Par liament has been driven aro the bases upon which Govern ment, represented by the Lord President of the Council, has placed it by his speech of last night, and by the language which he is currently reported to have held to the various political parties with whom ho is customarily in commu nication, in the ,event of such a party crisis" as that over which the Cabinet has just tided, Lord Jo!in Rnsseli, speak ing in justification of the bill, assures the public that, but for the strong conviction entort Lined by her Majesty's Minis ters that this country is quite incapable, even wit'i the alliance and aid of nanco-zi7ul of Turkey, of waging war successfully against Russia, the measure would never have been pressed upon Parliament, When money only is in question, says the noble lord the Leader of the House of Commons, the English people do, indeed, shine with a brilliancy quite remarkable. Start a Patriotic Fund, ask for blankets, demand jellies and plum-puddings, t round a begging-box for flannels and port wines, touch, in fine, only the po,:k.:.ts of the Eng lishman, and who can compare with him in the prompti tude and largeness of his answer to the appeal. His pockets gape wide, as it were, by instinct, and his money rolls out uncoulited in a stream inexhaustible. He may be drawn upon in that line, says the noble lord, to any extent, but you must not touch his person—you mus not ask him to abandon his fireside, or to confront in his own person the perils and discomforts of eampiigns. No. Pro digal of his money, he is careful of his limbs, and bent upon commerce and thrift ;—absorbed in the fluctuations of Thre, per Cents. and enamoured of the endearment of domesticity, he abhors the tented field, and shut's his ears against the drum that beats so loudly, and the voice of the cannon that screams the wild halloo of death to struggling thousands. The Englishman's nerves cannot stand all this, and in pure pity Lord John suggests that he should stay at home and pay out of his willing pockets his P.l-erman cousin to do all this disagreeable work for him. That an English Minister should have been permittml— should have porm:tted himself, iudeed—to make to the Par liament, and to the country of Great Britain, 10 ridieteous and so unfounded a statement, must be a matter of deep re gret—we had almost said of deep shame—to every British subject. We will not believe that the majority of last night was gained by faith in it. We will rather believe that it was given to the Gwerument on ground less shameful, but equally impolitic, as affecting the future government of the country, that, its the event of the bill being rejected, Lord J. Russell and his colleagees would leave in this great crisis England without a responsible Executive Administration. We warn Parliament, we warn the country, that, in yielding to this tricky sort of coercion, they are periling very seriously that important control over public affairs with which the constitu tion has invested them. The doctrine of expediency has been now for many years in this kingdom the bane of wise and complete legislation. (Poyin, the Times.) The argument for the 'Foreign Enlistment Bill deteriorates, while the necessity, as we are ass ure d, i ncre ases. All official people say in an un d er tone that we must have the bill, and in exact proporti on to the urgency and success of that " must" the Parliamentary case assumes a reckless and almost shameless character. In such au affair ono would think the best course would be to say as little as possible. It is said of a judge that his judgment s wou ld h ave c ommanded respect had he not given his reasons, and if her Majesty's present Ministers had ask e d for a few foreign regiments without re quiring our ass en t , not only to the reg iments, but also to some very serious principles, we might have been disposed to acquiesce, simply as a ma t ter of con fid enc e. It is, in fact, the reasons th a t we protest amainst. Wo felt it our duty to repudiate the ide a th at what is asked is only th e old expe dient, and th a t t o employ against Russia 10,0 00 foreign ers from cou n t r i es at peace with Russia is the same thing as employing them against a common enemy. Lord John i Russell has now imposed on u s the neces sity of another p rotest. Assuming that we have gone t o war with Rtisaia to p reserve the balance of power , an d p re vent , any dangerous en l argement of the Russian emp i re, h e main tains tha et. w may, on th a t ac count alone, invite not only the ries from oth e r States. L't hero are the words : —"Whenever any Power has co - operation of oth er States but of vo l un t eer s and mercena es we should overstate the argu ment,attained A prepond erant force i n E uro p e, so as t o threaten the independ ence of small e r States," we may then " use force to obtain the a dj ustment of the balance ;" or, in other wor d s, ' to maintain the independence of the smaller States of Europe. William 111., he tl.eu tells us, went to war with Louis XIV. because " ho perceived his power and preponderance to be dangerous to the independeilce of Europe." Iu this and other such instances th e d anger was common, an d the cause there fore public. It was quite natural and right, L or d J o h n argues , to invite the co- operation of foreigners* . The present is oulyan other instance o f th e same sor t, a nd th ere f ore, as heretofore, we may once mo re h ave our H a noverian reg i ments, our Hes sians, our Dut c h , cur p anes ,' our Swiss, an d even our Spaniards and Portuguese. They are all threatened, and all may come to the rescue, in order to save Europe from the probable aggressions of au overweening Power. Such is the theory to which we are suddenly invited to subscribe. The un expected nature of the demand, the mental op era ti ons o f a life to be gone through in a day, the violence off e r e d t o a ll politi ca l pur i ty, the enormo us significance th us gratuitously attached to a single vote in Parliament or a single line in this paper, remind ones 9f the terribly abrupt and comprehen sive surrender of all liogeringdoubts and cherished convictions occasionally demanded by your neighbour at a dinner-table. An enlightened and energetic elderly lady all at once asks you to close forher satisfaction a queition which has disturbed you ever since you came to years of discretion. You feel as if you were suddenly accosted -by a highwayman with the usual enema- Care: In a tone something between that of a Strang-minded woman and a prJfessional footpad, Lord John Russell calls on the House of Commons to assent to the whole theory of the balance of power, as the justification of another not less ques tionable doctrine —viz., the propriety of employing foreign mercenaries, of any country whatever, so long as th e State to which they belong cm pretend a common interest in the pre servation of the balance of power. As it happens, there is not the least occasion to talk of tl:e balance of power, of preponderant force, aud, the threatened independence of smaller States, inasmuch as Russia has cflusunitted an overt act against the peace of nations by ler invasion of the banabian provinces. - Indeed it is new some comfort to rell ct that England hls no merely speculative justification for the war. She is protect ing an old ally from the violent encroachments of a neighb )nr. In this cause she lies invited the co operation of the German States, treat and small ; and it does so happen that Germany, besides being a collection of independent States, is also, to some extent, a natural unity, included in one circumference, having coranioa interests, a commou language, common traditions, and, it C mint be entirely put out of the question, certain common expectations. It cannot be disguised that all Germany is in real jeopardy from the designs of a neighbour not only ambitious —not only strong— not only preponderating, dangerous. and threatening, but actually offendiu,g, and bursting like a torrent of lava from the walls of its crater. All Germany under such circumstances has a right, and indeed a duty, to stay the torrent of ambitious invasion. We are asking German States to join us, and, should they consent, in that case the precedent of the German Legion will strictly apply. We are willing to admit that such a danger necessarily extends in a degree beyond the adjacent countries, and it would not be easy to lay down what' States may lawfully go to war with. Russia, and what not. Had the present measure been demanded in order to meet the case of States involved in the war, being ready - 17'.4 - 10:;44.11ENVARY DIVISION. HOUSE OF COAL‘IONS.—DEo. 19. ENLISTMENT OF FOREIGNERS BILL. Order fur Seond Rea ling read ; Motion made, and Question Proposed, " That the bill he uow read a second timo :" Amendment proposed, to leave out the word " now," and at the end of the Question to add the words " upon this day six months :' ° --Question put, "That the word 'now' stand part of the Question :"—The house divided; Ayes, 211 ;- hoes, 202. ' - . AYES. -241. Aclaisd, Sir T. Gladstone, W. Pechell, Sir G. A'Court, C. . Glyn, G. Peel, Sir R. Acton, J. Goodman, sir a. Peel, F. Adair, R. Gordm, A. Peel, Col. J. Adair, R. Gower, F. Pellatt, A. Anderson, Sir - 7. Grace, 0. Perry, Sir T. Armesley; Earl of Graham, Sir J. Philipps ' J. Atherton, W. Green, Capt John Phillimore, R. J. Bagshaw, J. Greene, Thomas. Phinik,, p„ Baines, lit. Iron. M. Gregson, S. Pigott, P. Ban, J. ' " Greaten, Chas. Pliklngton,.T. Baring, Sir F. Gray, Sir G Pinney. W. Baines, T. Grey, It. Pollard-Urquhart, W. Bass, T. Grosvenor, DI. R. , Portman, W. Berkeley, Admiral Grosvenor, Earl P fee, Sir It. Berkeley, Hon. II Game , .1. ltainsden, Sir J, Bethell, Sir It: Hall, Sir it. • Reed, J. liiddu!ph, It. 31. Harkey, T. Ri:ardo, J. Riggs, W. Harcourt, G. hicanlo, 0: Blue:Jett, J. F. B, 11.trdinge, lion. C. Rich, U. Bland, b. IL Hastle, Alex. R chardson, J. Benham-Carter, J. Hastle, Archd. Robartes, T. Bouverie, Hon. E. P. lleaclla r, T. Roebuck, J. Brady, J. Ileathcoate, J. Rumboll, C. Brainston, T. W. lleatheote, Sir G. Russell, Lard J. Brand, H. B. W. Heatheote, G. Russell, F. C. Brocklehurst J. Herbert, 11. Hassell, F. W. Iteockman, E. D. Herbert, S. Si Heir, John Itrotherton, J. liervey, Lord A. Sawle, C. Brown, 11. Hogg, Sir J. W. Scholefleld, W. Browne, W. Howard, C. Scobell,Capt. G. isruce. Lord E. HowArd, Lord . -Scroll", G. But'er, C. Hughes, W. . Snlly,F . 'Vag, G. Hutchins, E. SJully, F. Cardwell, E. Hutt, , W. Seymour, H. Can't' _dd. Col .J. Ingham, R. • Seymour, W. ' Cavendish, C. Jackson, W. Shaft°, It. Chambers, T. , Jenny,,, Earl Shelburne. Earl Chaplin, W. Keat.ng, R. - Smith, J., A. Cheetham, J. Keating, H. Smith, R. Clay, air W. Bt. Keogh, - W. Smollett, A. Clinton, Lord It. - Kershaw, J. Stafford, Marquis Cockburn, Sir A. J. E. King, P. Steel J. J. ... . !joint', W. Kinnaird. A. Stephenaon, R. Cogan,.W. H. F. Labouchere,Rt.Hon.H Stirling. W. Jollier, It. F. Laing, S. Strickland, Sir G. Cowan, C. Lang ton, H. G. Sutton, J. Cowper, W. F. Lee, W. Tancred. H. Currie, Rarkes Lindsay, W. Thompson, G. Dalkeith, Earl Locke, J. Thornely, T. Dashwood, Sir G. H. Loveden, P. . Thornhill, W. Davie, Sir IL R. F. Lowe, It. Townshend, Capt.J Denison, J. E. Luce, 7', Tynte, Col. C. Dive t, E. Mackinnon, W. A. llabr:dg e, Earl Drutni ,nrig, pis. Macgregor, John Vernon, O. huff, G. Mangles, it. I). Villiers, C. Duke. Sir J. Manners, Lord U. Vivian, 11. IL ' Duncan, -Viscount Marjoribariks, D. ' Warner, E. Duncan (I. Martin. J. . Waterpark, Lord , Dungat van, Viscount Massey, W. Watson, W. 'East, Sir J. - Mathison, Sir J. Wens, W. Elcho, L-I'd ' Milligan, It. Whatman, J. Ellice, E. - )Milner, W. Whitbread, 8. ' Elliot, J. Milnes, R. Wickham, 11. W. Estnonle, J. Mitchell, T. - Wigram, Loftus T. Ewart, W. Molesworth, 81r W. Wilkinson, W. Fagan, W. ' Mon erieff, J. Wil , lam, M. Feilden, AL - MOuseit, W. • Williams; W. Fergus, J. 310313'n, E. Wilson, J. Ferguson, C - -I. Mulgrave, Earl of Winnington, Sir T. Ferguson, sir R. North, P. - Wood, Sir C. Ferguson, J. O'Brien, P. Wortley, J. A. Fitztlerald, Sir J. O'Brien, J. • Wrightson, W. Fitz Gerald, J; O'Connell, D. Wyndham, W. Fitzroy, Hon. H. O'Connell, J. - Wyvil, M. Fit. william, G. ' Osborne, R. 'Young, Sir J. Forster, C . • Owen, Slr J. . Fors"er, J. Paget, Lard A. . For tescue, C. Palmerston, Viset. Fox, W. Patten, J. Freestun, Col. Paxton, Sir J. Freslifield, J. TELLERS, Bayter, W. Berkeley, a. NOES-202. AdJerley, C. George, J. Murrough, 3. Alcock, T. 01b,on, T Naas, Lord Alexander,-J. " Gilpin, Col. IL • • Napier, J. Arbuthnotr, Lt. G. 11. Gooch, Sir E. Neeld, John Archdall, M. Graham, .Lord W. Neeld, Joseph Arkwright, G. Greene', G. - Newark, Viscount Bailey, C. Grogan, Edward Newdegate, C. Ball, E. Guinness, It. Newport, Viscount. Ba!dock, E. • Hadfield, G. Noel, G. Bankes, lit Hon G. Bale, it, • North, Col. J. Baring, T. Hall, Gen- J. Oakes, J. Barrington, Viscount Hamilton, Lord C. Otway, A. Barrow, W. Hamilton, G. A. "Packe, C Bateson, Capt T. Hamilton, J: 11. - Pakington, Sir T. Bentinck, Lord 11. II anbury,Capt. Hon. C _Palk, L. Bent;rack, G. ' Hayes, Sir E. • Palmer, Robert Beresford, Rt. Ha. W. Henley, J. Parker. R. Berkeley, Sir G. Herbert, Sir T. Phillimore, J: G. Boldeto, Col. H. G. Hllyard, R. C. Porta', M. Booker, T. W. Hill, Lord I. E. Powlett, Lord W. Bright, J. liorsfall. T. Pritchard, J. Sunbury, Capt. W. Hothant, Lord Pugh, D. Burroughes, 11. Hudson, G. Robertson, P. Butt, G. Hume, W. ROIL P. Butt, I. Johnstone, 3. ' Rushout, Col. G. Cairns, IT. Jollitte, Sir W. Sandars, G. Campbell, Sir A. Kelly. Sir F. Scott, F. Carnac, Sir J. Kenda'l, N. Seymer, H. Cecil, Lord R. Kennedy T. Shelley. Sir J. Chambers, M. Knatchball, W. Sibtltorp, Col. ' Chelsea. Viscount Knightley, It. ' Sinlith, Sir W. Choi inondeley, Lord Knox, Col. 13. W. Nnith, I. '3. , Chi ',gopher, Robt. A. Knox, W. S. • Smith, Abel Christie, Samuel La.tan, CAA t. A. Smith, 3. G. Clinton; Lord C. P. P. Langton, W. Spoonbr, It. Cobbotd, J. C. Laurie, J. Stanhope. J. CObbett, J. IL Lennox, Lord A. F. Stanley, Lord Cobden, R. Lennax, Lot,' tl. Stuart, W. Cocks, T. S. Leslie, C. P. Sturt, ii. Codrington, Sir C. W Liddell, IL T. Swig, R. Coles, 'H. B. Lindsay, CoL.T. ' Toesiger, Sir F. Conolly, T. Lisbunp., Earl Tollomache, J. Corry, 11. T. L. Lockhart, A. E. Tomline, G. Davies, D. A. S. Lockhart, NV: : Trotlope, Sir J. Deedes, W . Lovaine, Lord Tudway, R. Hering Sir E. Lowther, Col. H. C. Tyler, Sir G. Disraeli, 11. LowtlicT, Cant. Tyrell, Sir J. Drax, J. Lytton, Slr 0 . Vance, J. Drummond, IL Mac.trtney, ti. Vamslttart, G. liu•kwor.li, sir J. T. Macgregor, Sat. Verner, Sir W. Dulteornbe, W. MAellsli,tri, I'. Vei 'ion, L. • Du 00, rot. Maddock. sir 3. IT. Villiers, F. . Egerton, W. M.li,,s, It. Vyvynil, Sir R. Egerton, B. March, 1.:.trl of Vyse. Capt. 11. Elinto'. Vii. Masterni All, J. tv addington, D. Evelyn, \V. Maunseli, r. Wa'cott, Admiral Farrel*, J. Aleux, Sir 11. Walmsley, Sir J. h itwerald, W. Mall. E. wag', Sir J. Fitnvi Liam, C. Mlles, W. Whiteside, J. Fl,:yer, J. Milton, Viscount W hi tln ore, U. Follett, B. Michell, Dr. W. Woodd, B. Forester, J. Id ontgoincry, 11. Wy , dham, Gen. Franklyn, G. Montgomery, Sit G. Wyndham, U. Frewe it, C. Moore, J. Yorke, F. Fuller. A Morgan, 0. Gal wey, Sir W. llowbray, J. Gilway, Viszount. Mailings, J. Gardner, It. Mundy, W. Gasket', J. Manta, 0 TELLERS Taylor, Col 31 eaclevillo, Vii. PAIRS: TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES. Sir, , --The Duke of 'Newcastle, with a strange presumption told his brother lords that, except Lord Hardinge, uo officer of capacity and experience remained in England with whom he could consult to avoid the etrors 'he had committed as a War Minister—all were in the Crimea! Ho must now be taught that there are officers still iu England with sagacity enough to see through his incapacity, and with indignation enough to rebuke the grovelling spirit which has dictated the degradation of the country and the army by the introduction of foreign soldiers to fight our• battles at the very moment when the steam of heroic big:A from Inkerman makes Eng land snort and start like a warhorse in the midst of carnage. I will not say that. the German Legion in the last war were not good and trusty soldiers—their cavalry was excellent; but, despite of the Duke of Richmond's generous eulogium, I will, with Lord Elleuborough, say, that neither they, nor any foreign troops, were ab!o to equal the fighting of the British soldier. That legion was well composed ;it was, indeed, a national force, with high moral motives, and with the gentlemen of their own country as officers ; they were thus presented in the best . possible.' form that foreigners could assume in another nation's service ; and gallant things they con d and did de; but emulate, the terrible a t o ol i d theiet her s combattila a theys fighting of the British soldier they could • not. And shall a mere mercenary band, pick ed u p for g old, without na tional feeling—poor miserable hirelings, Bening their limbs a nd lives, aye ! their very souls for lucre - read y , without a cause, if paid, to murder, to' slay , or be shin, and, of course, ready to change sides for hig her p a y if g ood occasion offer— shall such varlets sta nd in the line beside our noble soldiers w ho fight shouting " England ! England !" and dying mur mur, ",We have done our duty ?" When did. German or Switzer, Prussian or Austrian, stand b e fore the gallant French in equal battle ? And tho se bril liant,impetuous French, could even they sus tain and over a s waves have beating been, rock fierce,mig and terror of British battle, though, glorious s Such as they are indeed fit and worthy to stand abreast with the unconquerable " red line that never yields," and, to gether, they will trample in the dust any troops in the world that presume to oppose them. But let them not be s h a med by finding a hired third-rate selection from in ferior sources between themselves and their British' coin: rades. Let them not be told to depend on the dressed up f o reigners—Poor frauds , like the camels of Semi ramis, accoutred as elephants, and sure to leave dark s il en t gaps where loudest shouts and fiercest fires should stream forth in the hour of need. Shall the stern i n f an try of Inkerman, striding in blood ; shall the proud cavalry of Balaklava—those noble horsemen who accepted, not an order, but a doubtful sign only, to go bounding on as it were to the open jaws of death ; shall they have as comrades the refuse hirelings of Germany and Switzerland? God forbid You, sir, say that the Ministers will go out if the country refucs to accept their degrading measure. So let it be. Let them slink away, while the universal shout arises of "iGod and our right."--I am, sir, Your y e u N rlorbl:cn, obedient tiesetiu'tia servant, The Sumroo,a tine ship of 1,000 t ons , un d er th e com mand of Captain Henderson, arrived in the Southamp tontain I..rice, of 1,800 tons, is expected for the Docks yesterday afternoon to take on board vooden houses for the French troops in the Crimea. The Swift pose in a day or two, and several other ships :Tonnage have been engaged to follow as soon as sospailfoillneaselrbgCpleeu'. As soon as ready for sea they will be towed across the Bay of Biscay and to their destination by French w ar-steamers, which are to come to South, ampton for the .purpose. Several French officers have arrived at Southampton, who are specially cie putedby the French . Minister of War to superintend the embarkation and despatch of these houses, which are being manufactured at Gloucester. The quantity ordered will provide accommodation for 15,000 men. For. Mr. Macaulay. M. Rice. Hon. W. 0. Stanley. Mr. Foley. General Buckley. Mr. Sheridan. Mr. E. Ellice, jun: Mr. Langston. Sir J. Johnstone. lir. Mackie. Mr. Strutt. - Viscount Monck. Mr. Heard. Lord Goderich. Mr. Beaumont. Mr. G. Cavendish. Sir W. Somerville. Mr. W. Marshall. Viscount Dalrymple. Lord Emlyn. - • Against. Mr. S. Child. Mr. Dod. Mr. Wynne. Mr. H. S. Waddington. Mr. Compton. Mr. Clive. Mr. Long. Mr. Davison. Lord Ossulston. Mr. H. Gwyn. Mr. Buck. Mr. H. Liddell. Lord Bernard. Marquis of Granby. Mr. Forbes. Mr. E. Laseelles. Sir G. Forster. Mr. Irton. Mr. Duple. Mr. Greavos. THE LONDON GAZETTE OF LAST NIGHT, FOREIGN T-OFFICE, DEC. 19. NkpTIVICATION. It is hereby notified that the Rigbt. Honourable the Earl of Clarendon, her MajekAy's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, haJi received from the Lords Com missioners of the Admiralty a copy of a despatch, dated her Majesty's s7s.ip Edinburgh, Kiel, December 8, from Rear-Admiral Chads, commanding her Ma jesty's Naval forces in the Baltic, informing their Lordships that the , blockade of the Russian ports under-mentioned had been raised from that date, "Liban, Windau, Riga, and r iernau, and all Russian ports, road!, havens and creeks, fr ern latitude 55 deg. 53 min. N., bong"' tulle 21 deg. 0 min. 3 sec. E., to Cape Dager Or t , latitude 58 deg. 55 N. longitude 22 deg. 0 mil. _. 5 sec. E., the ports of 11-taspal, Waiinso Islands, Port B al _ tick, Revel, and all ,Itussiaa ports, roads, havens , and creeks, from Cape Dr aer Ort to Eckholm Light, situated in latitude 59 deg. 4 3 min. N., and longitude 25 deg. 48 min. E." " The ports of Heroingfors and Sweaberg, and all Rus sian ports, roads, ha v ens, and creeks to the westward of Helsingfors as far as Ff_ango Head (inclusive), in latitude 59 deg. 48 min. N., Longitude 22 deg. 53 min. E. ; the ports of Are and Abo, and lastly, the whole of the ports, roads, havens, and ere e.ks eastward of Helsingfors, on the Finland Shore and Eel tholm Light on the coast of Estho nia, to Cronstadt and t. Petereburgh, both inclusive." FOREIG = N . -OFFICE, DEC. 16. The Queen has bee o. graciously pleased to appoint the Most Hon. Constanti pie Henry, Ma rquis of Normanby, K.G., to be her M a j es f, y ' s E nvoy Eraordinary and Mini ster Plenipotentiary t, ► the-Grand Duke of Tuscany. FOREIGN-OFFICE, DEC. 18. The Queen has been • pleased to approve of Mr. Hermann Von Roan as Consul s 1, Port Elizabeth for the Free Han seatic City of Hambu ri;l2. WAR . OFFICE, DEc. 19. BREVET. Colonel:William Fe nwick illiams, C.B ,of the Royal Artillery, now ac ti ng as h er Majesty's Com missioner with tho Turkish army in .1 1 Ala, to have the local rank of Briga dier-General while so employed, Dec. 19. The under-mention , PI officers, who retired upon full pay of the Royal Regimes tt of Artillery and the corps of Royal Engineers, previously • to her Majesty's Royal Warrant of the 6th October, 1854 , to . be promoted to a step of brevet rank, in order to plat . 43 them in as favourable a position as those of their ranks ►ho may hereafter obtain retirememl , under the provisions et the said warrant, the rank in bot' a cases being only hot iorary, viz.,— RO - IrAL ARTILLERY. TO BE LIEUTEI LANT•COLONELS IN THE ARMY: Brevet-Major Fredei,'Lck Wiight James Robe] t Colebrooko Lewis Simla! lan] Barrington Robertson James Smith Law John Pascoe George apillf r William Greim• good, C. B. George Mai kb aid TO BE 3IAJORS 11l THE ARMY. Captain Oliver Fry Second Captain Jean %with Oliver Flemi-,, g Henry Cliv ) ,on Martin Robert Fryer Philips . Captain John. Morse Stephens Lemoiu Charles Manners Andrew Orcber William Schalch Hugh Morgan Riehard Robinson Drew Even Morgan Lewis Edward Walsh Frederick Augustus Grifftelts Francis Holconiim William John ;;token • John Dyson William Bernera Willi VO4INI ratiViial4 ‘--- -- John Sidney Farrell Henry Higgins Donatns O'Brien , Arthur Genet . Second Caytain Samuel Jambs Skinner Robert Luard Captain James Turner John Low ' Richard Matthews PouMon Second Captain Patrick Scott Campbell Captain Henry Stephen Tireman Robert Roe Fisher William Baird Young Charles Cheetham Alexander Frederick William Papillon William Fulford Charles Robert Wynne George Drought Warburton ROYAL ENGINEERS. TO BE LIEUTENANT-COLONELS IN TOE AM'. Brevet-Major Richard John Baron Charles Rivers Richard Howorth James Lynn TO BE MAJOR'S IN THE ARMY. Captain Edward Fyers Henry Augustus Colby Samuel Camplin Melbuish John 4yonlme John Watson Pringle Ives Stocker George Vaughan Tinling James Hunter Rutherford Colin Mackenzie George Charles Degen Lewis Francis Win. Pettiugal William, Lancey Charles Oldershaw Charles Stuart Miller The above commissions to bear date Nov. 28. OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, DEO. 18. Corps of Royal Engineers—First Lieutenant viceLientena w nt . Lo bi u . is i i s u J g o i hn . Auntie() Armit to be second Capa deceased ; Second Lieutenant Constantine Phipps Carey to be First Lieutenant , vice Armit, promot e d, g oy. is. Ordnance Medical Department—Edward Willis Camp bell, Gent., to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice W a hh e, nr , o• rooted into the Army Medical Department, Dec. 8. COMMISSION'S SIGNED BY LORD-LIELTENANTs . The Tower Hamlets — Arthur Boileau)°, Esq.. .to be Deputy-Lieutena.tit. King's Own Light Infantry Regiment of Militia—liemy Bishop, Gent, to he Ensign. Royal Bucks Kin'g's Own Militia— John Maddyildoore Hewett to be Adjutanit with the rank of Captain ovin. Wanklyn, Gent., to be Ensign. 2d Regiment of Royal Bucks Yeomanry Cavalry--Cor net Charles Patrick to be Lieutenant, vice Northey, re signed; John Compton Maul, Gent., to be Lieutenant, vice Levi, promoted. West Suffolk Militia—Frederick William John Hervey, commonly called Lord Hervey, to be Lieutenant, Dec 14 ; James Holmes Gent., to be 4nsign, Dec. 15. Royal CumberlAnd Regiment of Militia—William John Robinson, Gent., to be Ensign, Dec. 12. Exeter and South Devon Volunteer Rifle Battalion— Thomns Pearson to be Captain; Frederick Gifford to be Ensign, Nov. 23. Royal North 01ot - tenter Regiment of Militia—Major John Williams Wallington to be Lieuteuant-Colionel, vice Sir DS. H. Beach, deceased ; Henry Bourchier Osborne Sa vile, Esq., late Captain Royal Artillery, to be Major, vice Wallington, promoted ; Charles Mansfield, Gent., 'bomas Merrett, Gent., and Elliott Arthur Raymond, Gent., to be Ensigns, Dec. 16. East Kent Regiment of Militia.—Ensign David White Griffith to be Lieutenant, vice Kebbel, promoted, Dec.. 8 ; Ensign Stanilas Zaba to be Lieutenant, vice Bourne, %rho retires, Dec. 10. West Kent Light Infantry Regiment of Militia.—Tho mas John Popplewell, Gent., to be Lieutenant, Dec. 10. Kent Militia Regiment f Artillery.—Second-Liento nant Walter Thomas Waring to be First-Lieutenant, vise Leslie, who retires, Dec. 10. 2d Regiment of King's Own Staffordshire Militia.— Archibald George Keen, Gent., t o be Ens ign, vice Iver, promoted, Dec. 15. Warwickshire Militia-21 Regiment—Arthur William Arkwright, Gent:, to be Lieutenant, Deo. 9. Oxfordshire Reg iment of Militi a —Willi am C ons t a bl e Brown Constable, Gent., to be Ensign, Dec. 15.' Royal Perthshire Rifle Regiment of Militia—John Wal ter Wedderburn, Esq., late Captain 42d Royal Highlanders, to be Captain ; Thomas Milks Riddell, Esq., late Lieute nant 7th Regiment Dragoon Guards, to be Captain, Dec. 13. 4th or Duke of Lancaster's Own (Light Infantry) Royal Lancashire Militia—Edward Worrall, Gent., to be Ensign, Deo.'l4. Royal Breakneck Rifle Regiment of Militia—John Win. Neville Billiugsby Parry, Gent., to be Lieut., Doc. 11. Wigtonshire and Kirkcudbright Regiment of Militia, called "The Galloway Rifle Corps"—Colvin Stewart, Esq., younger ' to be Lieutenant, vice John M`Crack a n, retire d; Thomas Hugh Vans Dalrymple Hay, Esq., to be Ensign, vice Walter Laurie, Esq., resigned, Doc. 7. Northamptonshire Militia --Lewis Percival, Gent., to be Ensign, Dec. 11; Hewitt Linton, Gent., to b e nsign, Dec .1.3. This article ifvati.batituted for that which appeared in. the Gazette of the 2lth Nov. : Northamptonshire Regiment of Militia—William Talbot Molloy, Esq., M.D., to be Assi;tant-Surgeon, vice Neville Jackson, Esq., M.D., resigned, Nov. 20. BA K Joshua, Vines and 'limes Smith, builders, Dover-re ad, Borough, to surrender, Dec. 2i at half-past twelve, and Jan. 30, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Bell, official assignee, Coleman-street-buildings ; Hall, Moor ;ate-street.__.. _ _ _ George Wilson and William RAynbani, builders, Wail iner-road, Notting-hill, Dec. 3:) 1111 , 1 Feb. 10, at one , at the Court, of 'Bankruptcy. Pennell, official asaignee, Guihl h:all-cha:nbera; Rushbury, 6[lmy-street, Strand. Charles Musett, chemist and druggist, Dies, Norfolk, Jan. 2, at two, Feb, 2, at, nvelvo, at the Court of Bank ruptcy. Edwards, official assignee, Sambrook-court; Hutton, 41, Noble-stree, Chea,pside; Cream, Suffolk. John P. White, merchant, Mark lane, City, Dec. 27, at half-past one, and Jan. 31, at two, at the Court of Bank ruptcy. Stansfield, official assignee ; Crowder and May nard, Colemen-street, City. Gcorge Climance, baker, St. Albans, Hertfordshire, Dec. 22, and Jan. 24, at two, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Stanifeld, official.assignee ; Crossley and Barn, Lombard stieLt ; Simpson, St. Albans. William Allaway, dentist, Southport, Lancashire, Jan. 4 and 22, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court. Mor gan, official assignee, Liverpool ; Dodge, Liverpool. Jabez Cooper, linendraper, Blackheath, Staffordshire, Jan. 3 and 24, at half-part ten, at the Birmingham District Court. Whitmore, official assignee, Birmingham ; Plea 'cot, Stourbridge; Motteram and Knight, Birmingham. James Sothern Tonge, commission agent, Liverpool, Dec. 29 and Jan. 19, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court. Turner, official assignee,Liverpeol; Roby, Liver- Robert Wilson Wyllie, dealer in music and musical in struments, Saint Leonard, Dovon,Dec. 28, and Jan. 24, at one, at the Exeter District Court. Hirtzel, official assignee, Exeter; Bishop and Pitts, Ex ter. Frederick Reeves Barratt, music seller, Stamford, Jan. 2, and Feb. 6, at ten, at the Birmingham District Court. Harris, official assignee, Nottingham; Law, Stamford; Hodgson, Birmingham. Jo7satlian Wriiht,WilliamWright, and Lupton Wright, worsted spinners, Oxenhope, Yorkshire, Dec. 29 and Jan -26, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court. Young, official assignee, Leeds ; Wavell, Philb i i c k, an d F os t er , H a lif a x. William Yates, cotton broker, Liverpool, Dec. 29 and Jan. 19, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Grit ; Turner, o ffi c i a l ass i gnee, Li verpoo l ; Evans and on Liverpool. Betty Baron, Henry William Knowles, and James Hey worth,r cashire, Dec. 19 and Jan. manufacturers, Bacup, Rowley and Son, Man i o ffi cial assignee, Manchester; 17, at twelve, at the Manchester 'au District Court. Fraser, cheater. - John Fletcher , c otton manufacturer, Manchester, jam. 10 and 31, at the Manchester Distriet Court. Fraser, offi cial assignee; Grundy, Manchester. J ose ph Lough, blacking manufacturer, Great Queen street, Lincoln's-inn-fields, and John James Limebeer, blacking manufacturer, Saint James-street, Dec. 30, a dleven, and Feb. 10, at twelve, at the Court ofßankruptcy. Pennell, official assignee, Basinghall-street ; C. and J. Allen and Sons, Carlisle-street. Joseph Gibb, livery stable keeper, Gray's-inn-road, Jaz. 2, at one, and Feb. 2, at eleven, at the Court of Bank reptcy. Lee, official assignee, Ald erman b ury ; Y oung an d Plows, Mark-lane. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS. Thomas Waddell, contractor, Gartcraig. Charles Staples, wine and spirit merchant, Glasgow. James Herbertson and Brothers, builders, Glasgow. NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE. The James Watt, 91, screw -steamship, Captain Elliot, went into the steam basin at Portsmouth yesterday to have her defects made good. The Penelope, 16, paddle frigate, Captain Caffin, that arrived at Spithead yesterday afternoon, from the Baltic, came into harbour yesterday to have repairs effected. As the Penelope was coming in a shocking accident happened to a seaman named George Powell. Whilst engaged in his duty on the maintop, he loot his hold and fell on deck, receiving most severe injuries, from which there is little hope of his recovering. The Penelope was, it will be remembered, the ship that got ashore under the guns of Bomarsund, and had to threw all her own guns overboard to lighten her and get her afloat, th e Russian artillery playing upon her with great danger to her. She got off, and, on the capture of the place, re covered her guns. Many of them, however , ar e i• Bp IV 1 and of no further use. The Royal Victoria steam-transport, laden with stores for the Crimea , hauled off from the dock yard at Prt mouth yesterday, and will leave this day or to-morrow into S for her destinat i o n. Denisf Tire smoratkonDdaorni,ngp,uot ito f Jersey, 37 ' Captain W ou a n r d b c' o Y n a' from Tu• es D day, and reported that in lat. 43 56 N., long. 9 28 Vv-e she passed the brig Caton, of North Shields. water : i a ft ‘ i v n .l - i l k t aßtcchaersri carried a w ay and l g o o gngee,ddecks a s b w a e n p to t r i l e n d a , 1t aft. Remains of closer ce f t d to p sa il s were hanging to fhow:e and wpor I the yards. APPOI NT MENTS. Captain J o h n - Fr as er (1841), to be borne on the books of the Fo gu a , nag-ship, Woolwich, tor service in the Royal Naval Coast I,r,3lun:oers. Lieutenant Edward Scott (1847), recently serving in the Cumbei land, 70, to-the 1\! (march, 84, at Devonport. Paymasters—Charles S. Giles (1346), from the Arupliion, 24, perov s team-frigate, to the Inaperieuse, 51, screw Fteam-friga:te James F. Phillips (1850), to the Amphion, vice Clerk William Richa ds (Piymastera-s of 1853), to the James Watt, 91 screw, stk hip. screw steam-corvette, Captain Birch, lefTt iNlireoEolswki 21, screw yesterday, for Greenbithe, where she is to take on board about 250 tons of shot, shall, and munitions of war, for conveyance to Balaklava. . After ( landing these stores there, 010 will return through the Straits of Gibraltar, and proceed to Hong Kong, for service in the China seas. Should she meet with any Russian frigates, she will give a good conduct of them, ias she carries a powerful arena Went of 20 8-inch aud one 18 -inch gun.