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fourtt Ebitton SUN OFFICE, Seven o'Clock. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS—(THIS EVENING.) The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack at fire o'clock. ROYAL ASSENT. The Royal assent was given, by commission, to the As sewed Taxes Act Amendment Bill. The Lords Commissioners were the Lord Chancellor, Earl Granville, and Lord St. Leonards. The Earl of EGLINTON presented several petitions in favour of the reading of scriptural lessons in the national schools of Ireland. Lord LYTTLETON presented a petition from a place, the name of which we did not hear, in favour of reforma tory schools. Lord BROUGHAM bore testimony to the importance of establishing reformatory schools, calculated, as he conten ded they were, to improve the morals of the peop le, and lessen the public expenditure in the prosecution of criminals. Earl GRAIN - VILLE was happy to inform the noble and learned lord that a measure of this kind wa s now under the consideration of the Government. (Hear, hear.) NATIONAL EDUCATION IN IRELAND. Earl FITZWILLIAM presented a number of petitions from the patrons of several national schools in Ireland, relative to the resolution of Bth July last. The noble earl said he would not trouble the house further than to read a few extracts from the petitions themselves. This he did, but in so low a tone as to be very indistinctly heard in the gallery. The Earl of EGLINTON then rose, pursuant to notice, to move for the appointment of a select committee to inquire into the practical working of the system of National Education in Ireland. He thought the time was come when an inquiry into this system was imperatively called for, the more so as three of its most distinguished patrons—the Archbishop of Dublin, and two most eminent members of the Irish Bench had retired from the board of national education. He could assure their lordships he approac hed this subject in no spi r it o f h os tilit y. On the contrary., he believed the partial support which he had given to the system had given offence to those with whom he usually politically acted. It was to the religious portion of the te achin g of the s y s t em h e w i shed particu larly to call their lordships' attention ; with regard to the portion of it he believed there never had been any objection from any quarter. (Hear, hear.) After describing th e original composition of the board and the books used in the schools, the noble earl proceeded to say a large por tion of the Episcopalians and Presbyterians of Ireland had, he thought most unfortunately, refused to join in carrying out this system, and thereby gave the Roman Catholics an undue preponderance in the management of the schools. In the autumn of 1852, the Archbishop of Dublin had to inspect the model school of Clonmel, and to his sur prise he found the Scripture Lessons and other books ordered previously to be used in the schools were not in use. He also found this to ho the case with regard to other schoOls. Upon finding this the Archbishop complained to the Commissioners of National Education. The result was, that the commissioners agreed to expunge from the list of books used the " Lessons on Christianity," and in fact it might be said jrom that time to the present there was no strictly religious teaching in those schools. (Hear.) He thought if there ever was a case deserving of parliamentary inquiry it was this. He was now arguing whether the separate or the combined systems of religious and secular education would be the best ; all he asked was for a committee of inquiry, and he now begged to move for the appointment of a select committee. (Hoar, hear.) The Earl of ABERDEEN said, when the noble earl first intimated his intention of bringing forward this question he was inclined to oppose it, thinking, as he did, that the system of national education in Ireland had been productive of incalculable benefit to the people of Ireland. But on consideration, he thought the system itself could suffer no disadvantage from the fullest inquiry, and there fore he had no intention now of offering any opposition to the motiob of the noble lord. (Hear, hear.) (LEFT SPEAKING.) HOUSE OF COMMONS.-(THIS EVENING.) Thco SPEAKER took the chair at four o'clock. The following bills were read a second time, and ordered to be committed :—Ouse and Derwent, &c., Drainage ; South Devon Railway ; Burnley Gas. ROYAL ASSENT. Mr. PIILMAN, the Deputy-Usher of the Black Rod, summoned the house to attend the House of Peers, to hear the Royal Assent given by commission to a bill which had passed both houses. Oa the return of the SPEAKER, be intimated that the Royal Assent had been given to the Assessed Taxes Act Amendment Bill. PETITIONS. Mr. V. SMITH presented two petitions from North ampton, one in favour of the establishment of reformatory schools, and the other against the consolidation of boroughs and counties, for the purposes of the police rate. Mr. WALTER presented a petition from the proprietor of the Spalding Free Press, against the paper duty. Mr. COBDEN presented a petition from Yorkshire in favour of a decimal coinage, a petition from Australia in favour of an ocean penny postage, and a petition from Yorkshire against the paper and newspaper stamp duties. Mr. H. BERKELEY presented a petition from the cor poration of Bristol in favour of the establishment of refor matory schools. Sir J. DUKE preqented a petition from merchants trading with Australia, praying for a semi-monthly mail to and from that colony. Mr. LABOUCHERE presented apetition from Hull stat ing that the chief commissioner on the commission ap pointed to inquire into corrupt practices at elections for the borough resigned before the commission agreed to its report, that report was only signed by two of the commissioners, and praying that the report should not be taken into con sideration until the report of the chief commissioner, which was being prepared, had baen presented to the house. The right hon. gentleman observed that he had thought it right to present the petition, though he dis agreed with its prayer. IRISH WORKHOUSES. On the motion of Mr. KENNEDY a return was agreed to connoted with the industrial employment of children in workhouses, in Ireland. ELECTORAL REFORM. Sir F. KELLY brought up his bill for preventing bri bery at elections, which was read a first time. THE MILITIA. Lord SEYMOUR wished to ask Lord John Russell whether it is the intention of the Government to lay on the table of the house the militia and commissariat esti mates before proceeding with the army estimates, so that the house may be enabled to consider at the same time the whole military expenditure of the country. And whether it is the intention of the Government to introduce any measure with the view of bringing the several departments connected with the administration of the army under the superintendence and control of one responsible depart ment. Lord J. RUSSELL said with respect to the first ques tion, it was very desirable to proceed with the Army Estimates as soon as possible, and he was afraid the Militia Estimates could not be prepared in sufficient time to be laid on the table before the Army Estimates were brought up. With regard to the second question, the Government had no such intention. THE REFORM BILL. Mr. WARNER wished to ask Lord J. Russell on what principle the proposed 61. borough rating franchise is to be calculated ; whether on the municipal assessment in each case, or whether means will be taken to adjust the great inequalities between the assessment and the actual value which now exists in different boroughs, in many eases under the special acts of Parliament ; also, how it is proposed to deal with the assessment of compounded pro perty. He also wished to know if the principle of allowing the minority to be represented, would apply to places re turning only two members. ' Lord J. RUSSELL said the bill would be printed in a few days, and he must, therefore, leave it for the clause it self to answer the first question of the hon. member. With regard to the second question, he had no such intention as that suggested by the hon. member. ROMAN CATHOLIC PROCESSIONS. Mr. NEWDEGATE wishe.l to ask the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies whether there is any law in force in Canada which constitutes the refusal to do homage to the Roman Catholic procession of the Host an offence punishable by law. And whether her Majesty's Govern ment will ascertain for the information of the house, the result of the trial of Narcisse Filian, of Beatissart, in Lower Canada, which was moved by certiorari into the Superior Court: of Canada, after Filian, on the 4th day of June last, had been convicted and fined by the justices of the peace at Beanssart, for having refused to take his hat off while the Roman Catholic procession of the Host was passing him. Mr. F. PEEL was not aware of any such law in Canada. There was, however, a law in Lower Canada for punishing persons who misbehaved themselves in a church or chapel of any sort. With regard to the other part of the question, no such information had been received at the Colonial-office, but enquiry should be made about it. RECRUITING IN IRELAND. In reply to Mr. JAMES O'CONNELL, Sir JAMES GRAHAM said the gallant officer entrusted with the duty of raising coast guard volunteers in Ireland luid been very success f u l i n hi s t as k , an d i n no case h a d ther e b een any interference with him on the part of Roman C gliolic priests that be was aware of. L / in r 1 THE BLACK SEA FLEET. orclP to Mr. GROGAN, o f affairs i n IaJSSELL repeated that, in the existing state the house the e . East, it would not be desirable to lay before t i me to til.to, which had been sent out from fleet. (ch ee v re. ' ) the admiral commanding the Black Sea motion 9EONS IN THE NAVY. On the „ Captain Boa i or ra ging into committee of supply, Whereas the h ouse moved the following resolution : April, 1850, to the rased a resolution on the Bth day of vided for assistant_ e ffect ' That the accommodation pro of war is inadequate e ns cn board her Majesty's ships benefit of their p ro f essio uji,nrafficient for securing the full lotions, since the p a „ in " g % f services ' the Admiralty regu lations, act, have not been in the spirit nor have they tlle fulfilled the intention of, th e said resolution, it is th ihnvriionth carried into effect." of this house that the above resolution should bt7foOtPt between the army There ought to be no distinction made but if one ser vice the navy—the soldier and respect, it was n ilo t i: hi vice deserved to be better cared for sailor th e nav y, because it was more difficult t: s the clues distinction betwe en Ballinee two ser of a sailor than a soldier. But he footing, r IPPIy the place Lion on a far higher consideration placed the He did not wish to see any vices, but he wanted them piaced on the and lie hoped after this complaint the just deman ds of the Navy would no longer be disregarded. Sir J. GILAHAIII said nothing could he further from big feelings than to treat with disrespect the claims of the assistant-surgeons in the navy ; but, nevertheless, he could only give to this motion the same answer which had been given by all his predecessors. The Board of Admiralty has evinced a sincere desire to put the rsolution of the house in force—(hear) —but the want of space i n ships of the line totally precluded the possibility o f providing a separate cabin for the assistant-surgeons. tHear hear.) This want of space wh ich had been felt -I ,an a time of peace was increased by the p ros p ect of war, 1 l ,„, i antittlhe introduction of screw machinery in our ships, i And - U(64,0a afraid he could hold out no hope of his being able to K 1144111 effect to the resolution of the house. For he ' - soaktenet,la introducing -f into the navy the same m ethod d vv . ../. 1 % - t t service that prevailed in the army, And for 1 ( . I that purpose the existing space to cabins would have to be still further curtailed. He could assure the house that everything had been done, and would continue to be done, to insure the comfort of the medical officers of the navy ; and he was rejoiced to know that there was no want of ap plications from competent parties for surgical appoint ments in the navy. (Hear, hear.) Mr. M. CHAMBERS reminded the house that the regulations affecting the entry of assistant-sur geons in the navy were exceedingly stringent. They required that the candidates should have been highly-educated, and have obtained some diploma from the College of Surgeons in either of the three branches of the kingdom. N o w, surely, parties who could comply with such stringent regulations as these, were entitled to the treatment of educated men, but he was sorry to tell the house, that so far from this being the case, they were com pelled to mess with boys and seamen, and submitted to other indignities of a description which he need not fur ther allude to. He insisted that they ought to be at once placed upon the same footing as ward-room officers. Admiral BERKELEY gave it as his opinion that the House of Commons was not the place to discuss the details of this question, and he hoped it would be pursued no further. He assured the house that ample accommodation was pro vided for the surgeons and assistant-surgeons of the navy, while many of them declined to mess with the ward-room officers. Mr. NAPIER pointed out the discrepancy which existed in the gallant admiral's speech as compared with that of the First Lord of the Admiralty. The latter said the ac commodatian was not so ample as he could desire, while the former contended that it was all that could be wished. Mr. Hl ME suggested that ample room could be found for the surgeons and assistant-surgeons of the navy, if the cabins appropriated to the captains and commanders were slightly curtailed. Mr. A. STAFFORD opposed the motion, believing that the Admiralty had done all in their power to promote the comfort and convenience of the medical officers in the navy. Mr. BRADY supported the motion, and called upon the hon. member who had brought it forward, to divide the house upon it. Mr. COWPER rose, and was [LEFT SPEAKING.] THE LONDON GAZETTE. (THIS EVENING.) LORD CHAMBERLAIN'S OFFICE, FEB. 13. Notice is hereby given, that her Majesty will hold levees at St. James's Palace, on the following days, at two o'clock :—Wednesday, the 2'2d of February inst. ; Wednesday, the Bth of March next. REGULATIONS TO BE OBSERVED AT THE QUEEN'S LEVEES AT ST. JAItES'S PALACE. The noblemen ;;(Igentlemen who purpose to attend her Majesty's levees at St. James's Palace, are requested to bring with them two large cards, with their names clearly written thereon, one to be left with the Queen's Page in Attendance, in the Presence-chamber, and the other to be delivered to the Lord Chamberlain, who will announce the name to her Majesty. Those gentlemen who are to be presented are hereby in formed, it is absolutely necessary that their names, with the name of the nobleman or gentleman who is to present them, should be delivered at the Lord Chamberlain's Office, before twelve o'clock, on the Monday previous to each levee, in order that they may be submitted for the Queen's approbation ; it being her Majesty's command, that no presentation shall be made at the levees but in conformity with the above regulations. It is particularly requested, that in every case the names be very distinctly written upon the cards to be delivered to the Lord Chamberlain, in order that there may be no difficulty in announcing them to the Queen. The state apartments will not be open for the reception of company coming to Court, until half-past one o'clock. Notice is hereby given, that all persons having petitions or addresses to present to her Majesty at the levees, are to deliver a card (having on it their names, a statement of the object of such petitions or addresses, and the names of the persons from whom they come), to the Lord Chamber lain's office, before twelve o'clock, on the Monday previous to each levee above announced ' • and that two other cards, having on them precisely what is written upon that sent to the Lord Chamberlain's office, are to be taken to the levee ; one of the two cards to be delivered to the Page in the ante-room, and the other to the Lord Chamberlain, who will read its contents to her Majesty; and, on these occasions, no other statement is to be addressed to her Majesty. A Deputation to present an Address is not to exceed four persons. BUCKINGHAM PALACE, FEB. 16. This day had audience of her Majesty :—General d'Oxholm, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipoten tiary from the King of Denmark, to deliver his credentials to which he was introduced by the Earl of Clarendon, K.G., her Majesty's Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and conducted by Major-General the Hon. Sir Edward Cust, K.C.H., Master of the Ceremonies. CROWN-OFFICE, FEB. 15. MEMBERS RETURNED TO SERVE IN THE PRESENT PARMA- 3fENT. County of Devon.—Southern Division.—Lawrence Palk, of Haldon House, in the said county, Esq., in the room of Sir Ralph Lopes, Bart., deceased. BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, FEB. 14. The Right Honourable the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade and Plantations have received, through the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy of a despatch from her Majesty's Consul at Acapulco, re porting that the Supreme Government have made the fol lowing reduction in the tonna,e dues upon all vessels ar riving in that port laden with coal, and consigned to any Steam Boat Company, having a depot of coals in the har bour, viz.: 4 reals, or 2 shillings per ton, instead of 1 dollar 4 reals, or 6 shillings, as formerly. WAR-OFFICE, FEB. 17. _ _ let Regiment of Dragoons—Lieutenant Henry Sykes, to Le Captain by purchase, vice Sibthorp, who retiree; Cornet Thomas Keane Fitz Gerald, to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Sykes ; William Edmund Curtis, Gent., to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Fitz Gerald, Feb. 17. . Srd Light Dragoons—Jacob Camao Murphy, Gent„ to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Vyse, promoted, Feb. 17. Scots Fusilier Guards—Major and Colonel Henry Lord Rokeby to be Lieutenant-Colonel, by purchase, vice Colonel Henry Colville, who retires upon half-pay ; Captain and Lieutenant-Colonel and Colonel George Morton Eden to be Major, by purchase, vice Lord Rokeby; Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet-Colonel the Honourable Charles Beaumont Phipps, C. 8., from half-pay unattached to be Captain and Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Eden ; Lieu tenant and Captain Henry Percival de Bathe to be Cap tain and Lieutenant-Colonel, by purchase, vice Honour able C. B. Phipps, C. 8., who retires ; Ensign and Lieu tenant Roger Mostyn to be Lieutenant and Captain, by purchase, vice de Bathe ; Ensign and Lieutenant the Honourable George Grey Dalrymple has been permitted to retire from the service, by the sale of his commission ; Battalion-Surgeon Thomas Richardson to be Surgeon- Major, vice William Henry Judd, who retires upon half pay; Assistant-Surgeon John Ashton, Bostock, M.D., to be Battalion-Surgeon, vice Richardson ; Assistant Staff- Surgeon Arthur Guy Elkington to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Bostock, Feb. 17. , 2nd Foot—Captain George Wolfe, from 87th Foot, to be Captain, vice Mathias, appointed to the 54th Foot, Feb. 17. 19th Foot—Ensign Edward Robert Ward Bayley to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Beadon, who retires ; John Henry Kirke, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Bayley, Feb. 17. 286 - Foot—Lieutenant Henry Robert Crew Godley to be Captain, by purchase, vice de Winton, who retires ; Ensign Thomas Lyndon Bell to be Lieutenant, by pur chase, vice Godle ; Charles David Ingham, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Bell, Feb. 17. 44th Foot—Ensign Bradford Smith Hoskins to be Lieu tenant, by purchase, vice Richard Fitz Richard Eyre, who has declined purchasing, Feb. 17. 54th Foot—Captain Frederick Mathias, from the 2d Foot to be Captain, vice Fane, appointed to the 87th Foot, Fe b. 17. 57th Foot—William Jesser Coope, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Johnson, who retires, Feb. 17. 87th Foot—Captain Francis Fane, from the 54th Foot, to be Captain, i vice Wolfe, appointed to the 2d Foot, Feb. 17. 91st Foot—Lieutenant Alexander Watson Mackenzie to be Captain, by purchase, vice Bayly, who retires ; Ensign Lloyd Henry Thomas to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Mackenzie ; William Prescod Gurney, Gent., to be En sign, by purchase, vice Thomas, Feb. 17. 97th Foot—Richard Stovin Warburton, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Nash, who retires, Feb. 17. Ist West India Regiment—Ensign Henry Francis Luke, to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Stokes, promoted; John Tryon, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Luke, Feb. 17. UNATTACHED.—Lieutenant and Adjutant Thomas Beck with Speedy, from the 7th Foot, to be Captain, without purchase, Feb. 17. MEMORANDIIM.—The Christian names of Ensign Brooke, of the 40th Foot, are " Charles Francis," and not Charles Frederick, as previously stated. OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, FEB. 17. Royal Regiment of Artillery—Captain Edward Fitz- Herbert Grant to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Walker, re tired upon full pay ; Second Captain John James Brand ling to be Captain, vice Grant ; First Lieutenant Edward Taswell to be Second Captain, vice Brandling ; Second Lieutenant Arthur Lister Kaye to be First Lieutenant, vice Taswell ; Second Captain Alfred Romaine Wragge to be Captain, vice Lempriere, retired upon half-pay ; First Lieutenant John Singleton to be Second Captain, vice Wragge; Second Lieutenant Jones Julian Smith to be First Lieutenant, vice Singleton.—Feb. 17. OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, FEB. 17. Royal Regiment of Artillery.—To be Colonel-Comm an d.ant--Colonel John Edward Jones. To be Colonels—Lieut.-Coloaels Poole Vallanoey Eng land, vice Jones ; Irvine Whitty, Henry Lewis Sweating. To be Lieut.-Colonels—Captains John Wray Mitchell, vice England ; George John Beresford, vice Whitt ; Robert Fitzgerald Crawford, vice Sweating ; John St. George, William Robert Nedham, Edward Charles Warde, Henry Coope Stace. To be Captains--Second Captains William Haultain, vice Mitchell ; Frederick John Travers, vice Beresford ; Mathew Charles Dixon, vice Crawford; Henry Rogers, vice St. George ; John Turner, vice Nedham ; Augustus Charles Lennox Fitzroy, vice Warde ; Edward Henry Fisher, vice Stace ; Robert Frederick Mountain, Samuel Cleaveland, Samuel Hood Stovin Inglefield, Edward Mon rier Boxer, Charles Scudamore Longden, Wm. Alexander Middleton, Roquler John Cannon, James Robert Gibbon. To be Second Captains—First Lieutenants Wm. Edmund Moyses Reilly, vice Haultain ; Wm. Boyd Saunders, vice Travers ; Charles Hodgkinson Smith, vice Dixon ; Henry Terrick Fitz Hugh, vice Rogers ' • Whaley Nicoll Hardy, vice Turner; John Lawrance Boulton, vice Fitzroy ; George Henry John Alexander Fraser, vice Fisher ; Thomas Lambsrt, vice Mountain ; France James Soady, vice Cleaveland ; Edward Eldon Robert Dyneley, vice Inglefield ; Frederick Hervey Bathurst Phillips, vice Boxer ; Joseph Godby, vice Longden ; Dominick Sarsfield Greene, vice Middleton ; Philip Francis Miller, vice Can non ; William Wigram Barry, vice Gibbon ; George Hat ton Colomb, Thomas Henry Harding, Philip Davies Mar ge4son, Mervyn Stewart, James Frederick D'Arley street, Archibald Motteux Calvert, O'Brien Bellingham Woolsey, Alfred Was Drayson, Cadwalladar William Elgee. To be First Lieutenants—Second Lieutenants Eardley Maitland, vice Reilly ; Maurice Edward Covey Stocker, v ice Saunders ; William Arnold Burrowes, vice Smith ; ,413a.loyohnrn, v la o ar eenu dn a e r r iy C ; la H rk e e n , ry vi Th ce o F ru it h z i h ll u , g v h ic ; e Al ßu ge ui r tu no u n ; Purling Arthur Gratwicke Pearse , vice Fraser ; Thomas Priaulx Carey, vice Lambert ; William Francis Walker, vice Soady ; Geoffrey Joseph Shakerley, vice E l YneleY_' Henry James Alderson, vice Phillips ; Alexander Hadden AiHutchin lit,,.„-ice„G°(ll_37.i. Francis Temple, vice Greene ; Frederick 6e ''''''" ve unin, vice Miller; Thomas Henry Pitt, vice BarrY ; Frederic Las licpkiniion Lyon, vice Colomb THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 17, 1854. Charles Lennox Tredcroft, vice Harding ; George William Holmes, vice Margesson ; John Edward Ruck-Keene, vice Stewart; Henry Archdall Doyne, vice Street; J. Theophilus Daubuz, vice Calvert ; Robert Hodson, vice Woolsey ; Ernest Courtenay Vaughan, vice Drayson ; Frederick Sid ney Maude, vice Elgee ; Francis Towry Adeane Law ; Major Francis Downes ; Albert Charles Hugo Light ; Francis Henry William Nisbett ; Falkland George Edge• worth Warren ; Henry Clement Swinnerton Dyer ' • Thos. Lloyd Still ; Joseph Hanwell; Joshua Frederick Betty ; Francis Wm. Eveleigh Savage ; John Kelly Holdsworth ; William Frederick Moore; Maurice Henry Fitzmaurice ; Wilbraham Digby Milman ; Arthur Richard Robinson ; Henry Richmond Martin, Feb. 17. _ _ OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, FEB. 16. Corps of Royal Eno neers—Second Captain Frederick Edward Chapman to be Captain, vice Frome, placed on the Seconded List ; First Lieutenant James Frankfort Manners Browne to be Second Captain, vice Chapman; Second Lieutenant Wilbraham Oates Lennox to be First Lieutenant, vice Browne, Jan. 7. OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, FEB. 17. Corps of Royal Engineers—To be Colonel Commandant —Lieutenant General Sir Henry Goldfinch, K.C.B. To bo Colonels—Lieutenant-Colonel Philip Barry, Bre vet-Colonel Sir William Reid, Lieutenant-Colonel Wiliam Redman Ord. To be Lieutenant-Colonels.—Bevet-Major Henry Ser vante, vice Barry ; Henry Owen Crawley, vice Ord ; John Twiss, John Walpole, Thomas Aiskevr Larcom, Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Vicars ; Brevet-Majors, St. Aubyn Molesworth, Edward Frome ; Captain Charles Edmund Wilkinson. To be Captains.—Second Captains Thomas Fenwick, vice Servants ; Gother Frederick Mann, vice Crawley ; Spencer Westmacott, vice Twiss ; Charles Acton Broke, vice Walpole ; William Collier Menzies, vice Vicars ; Robert Michael Laffan, vice Molesworth ; Arthur Henry Freeling, vice Wilkinson ; Harry St. George Ord, David William Tylee, Hampden Clement Blamire Moody, John Linton Arabia Simmons, George Archibald Leach ; Brevet- Major Richard Tylden; Second Captains Philip John Stapleton Barry, Henry Arthur White, Paul Bernard Whittingham. To be Second Captains—First Lieutenants Fitzroy Mo lyneux Henry Somerset, vice Fenwick ; Horace Wil liam Montagu, vice Mann ; Valentine Thomas Mairis, vice Westmacott ; Frederick William King, vice Broke ; Francis Fowke, vice Menzies ; Charles Richard Binney. vice Laffan; Frederick Henry Rich, vice Freeling; Francis Rawdon Chesney, vice Ord; Thos. Andrew Lums den Murray, vice Tylee ; Herbert Newton Penrice, vice Moody; Wm. Lawtie Morrison, vice Leach ; Anthony C. Cooke, vice Tylden; Thomas Inglis, vice Barry; Ben Hay Martindale, vice White ; Charles Scrope Hutchinson, vice Whittingham; HenryWray, Chas. Pulley, J. Stokes, Andrew Clarke ; Francis Dn Cane ; Robert Dundas Kerr ; John Yerbury Moggridge ; Francis Koe. To be First Lieutenants—Second Lieutenants Arthur Leaky, vice Somerset ; Edward Loftus Bland, vice Mon tagu ; Charles Edward Stuart Baynes, vice Mains; Charles Le Gallais, vice King ; Anthony William Durford, vice Fowke ; Donald Augustus Frazer, vice Binney ; Harry George Teesdale, vice Rich; Thomas Molyneux Graves, vice Chesney ; William Christian Anderson, vice Murray ; Edmund Frederick Du Cane, vice Penrice ; William Cross. man, vice Morrison ; Willoughby D. Marsh, vice Cooke ; William ;James Stuart, vice Inglis ; John Clayton Co well, vice Martindale ; Robert Hawthorn, vice Hutchinson; Gerald Graham, vice Wray ; Charles Elwin Harvey, ♦ice Palley; Robert William Duff, vice Stokes; George Phi lips, vice Clarke ; Charles Nassau Martin, vice Du Cane ; Francis Edward Pratt, vice Kerr ; Alfred George Goodall, vice Moggridge ; John Mervin Cutliffe Drake, vice Koe ; Edward Renouard James, William Bailey, Frederick Ed ward Blackett Beaumont, Charles George Gordon, Oliver Haldane Stokes, John Henry Stockman Carter, William Frederick Gilley, James Bevan Edwards, John Fretchville Dykes Donnelly, John Edwin Cornes, Thomas Graves Lowry, William Meredyth Somerville, Alexander De Conroy Scott, Carew Lewis Augustus O'Grady, Hon. Ca meron Wrottesley, Feb. 17. ADMIRALTY, FEB. 17. Corps of Royal Marines.—Secoml. Lieutenant James Conway Travers to be First Lieutenant, vice R. G. Halli lay to half-pay. ADMIRALTY, FEB. 16. The following promotions, dated the 11th inst., have this day taken place, consequent on the death, on the 10th inst., of Vice-Admiral of the Red Honourable George Poulett : Vice-Admiral of the White Charles James Johnston to be "Vice-Admiral of the Red. Vice-Admiral of the Blue Charles Sibthorp John Haw tayne to be Vice-Admiral of the White. Rear-Admiral of the Red Honourable William Gordon to be Vice-Admiral of the Blue. Rear-Admiral of the White Sir John Gordon Sinclair, Bart., to be Rear-Admiral of the Red. Rear-Admiral of the Blue Henry William Bruce to be Rear- Admiral of the White. Captain John Leith to be Rear-Admiral of the Blue. BANKRUPTCY ANNULLED. John Edward Loader, builder, Mile-end, Middlesex. BANKRUPTS. Henry Erkine Wethered, linen-draper, Pimlico, to sur render, March 3, and April 6, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Johnson, official assignee, Basinghall-street. Depree and Austin, Cheapside. Benjamin Parfitt, stone mason, Bermondsey, March 3, and 31, at half-past eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Carman, official assignee, Aldermanbury ; Butler, Tooley street. Valentine Henry Gay, tailor, Blackfriars-road, March 1, at two, and March 28, at eleven, at the Court of Bank• ruptcy. Stansfeld, official assignee ; Greville, Lombard• street. John Rodway, victualler, Gloucester, Feb. 28 and March 28, at twelve, at the Bristol District Court. Acraman, official assignee, Bristol ; Smalridge, Gloucester. Edward Banks Green, ironmonger, Bilston, Stafford, March 7, at twelve, at the Birmingham District Court. Christie, official assignee, Birmingham ; Smith, Wolver hampton ; Motteram and Knight, Birmingham. Henry Whitmore, tailor, Stockport, March 1, at one, and April 19, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Pennell, official assignee, Basinghall-street ; Tilleard, Son, and Freeman, Old Jewry. Thomas Gately, iron merchant, Derby, March 7, at twelve, and March 30, at eleven, at the Birmingham Dis trict Court. Whitmore, official assignee, Birmingham; East, Birmingham. Richard Keily, commission agent, Ladbroke -terrace, March 1, at two, and April 19, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Pennell, official assignees, Guidhall cham bers; Lawrance, Plews, and Boyer, Old Jewry-chambers. Samuel Bircham Alpe, milliner, Duke-street, Manches ter-square, Feb. 20, and April 5, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Nicholson, official assignee, Basinghall street; Linklater, Sise-lane. John otherwise Jonas Bergthiel, merchant, 33, Abchurch lane, Feb. 22, at one, and March 22, at half-past eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Nicholson, official assignee, 24, Basinghall-street ; Reyroux and Bromehead, 35, Old Broad-street. John Corner Blacklock and Thomas Robinson, drapers, Cirmingham, March 4, and April 1, at ten, at the Bir mingham District Court. Bittleston, official assignee, Birmingham ; Wills, Birmingham ; Hodgson, Birming ham. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATION. James Cooper, currier and leather merchant, Aberdeen. BANK OF ENGLAND. An Account pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth Victoria, cap. 32, for the Week ending on Saturday the 11th day of February, 1854. 188173 DEPAZTMINT. Notes Issued .. • • .... 29,466,190 Government debt.... 11,015,100 Other securities.- 2,984,900 Gold coin and bullion 15,466,910 Silver bu11i0n........ - SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TATTERSALL'S. -YESTERDA Y. A scanty attendance, and business very limited. LIVERPOOL GRAND NATIONAL.—Miss Mowbray was again buoyant. After Bto 1 had been taken to 351., 7 to 1 was booked to a similar sum, and the taker was desirous of having the odds laid again in fifties. La Gazza Ladra was in good demand ; and Maurice Daley and Trout received some pretty strong support at the odds quoted. In the City the latter had been backed at odds varying from 25 to 20 to 1. CHESTER CIIP.--No change in the positions of the two leading favourites—both were nominally at 18 to 1. Two THOUSAND.-3 to 1 was the highest offer against Ruby ; Bto 1 taken about Phaeton. Boiardo was not named—in the City, however, he had been backed for 751., at 5 to 1. MPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS-(YESTERDAY.) LAW OF TESTAMENTARY JURISDICTION. The LORD CHANCELLOR then rose to call their lordships' attention, pursuant to notice, to a measure for the amendment of law relating to the probate of wills and the granting of letters of administration. There were no fewer than 386 distinct tribunals scattered over the country—commissary courts—archdiaconal, and peculiar courts—all having appeals to the diocesan courts, for the purpose of deciding tes tamentary matters. Such a number of courts was in itself a great practical evil. In the first place, owing to the number of appeals. But that was not all. Very often there were contentious matters of great delicacy, difficult and hard to be dealt with even by the Prerogative and Consistory Courts, and clearly be yond the capacity of the functionaries of those little petty courts in the country. A party dissatisfied with a decision in the courts of law had now only one course open to him—to come before their lord ships for an appeal. Attempts had been made from time to time for more than twenty years to remedy this evil. In July, 1830, at the commencement of the reign of William the Fourth, a ernmission was issued to inves tigate this very subject, both as to the common and the ecclesiastical law. They rezommended the abolition of all the ecclesiastical courts as far as wills were con cerned, with the exception of toe Prerogative Courts of Canterbury and York. They made their report in 1833, and in the session of that year his noble and learned friend (Brougham), who had always shown so much ac tivity and vigour on these subjects, introduced a bill on the subject, but that being the year of the Reform Bill, it was no wonder that, amidst the major concerns, the minor matters of the Ecclesiastical Courts Bill was lost sight of. (Hear, hear, and a laugh.) In 1834 Sir F. Pollock introduced a bill to give effect to these recom mendations, but it did not pass ; and in 1836 the subject was again taken up by Lord Cottenham. Neither was he successful, and it was thought that such were the in fluences against any bill on this subject from the number of persons who were likely to be affected that it was con sidered useless to introduce the subject again. However, on the return of Sir R. Peel to power, a new bill was in troduced by Sir J. Nicoll, but it did not pass, and subse quent attempts at legislation on this subject were made by Lord Lyndhurst and Lord Cottenham. His noble and learned friend behind him (Lord St. Leonard's) laid the foundation of legislation on this subject. At the end of 1850 his noble and learned friend, Lord Truro, issued a com mission to inquire into the state and practice of the Court of Chancery. They reported in 1852, and the amendments made in consequence of the report of that commission constituted now the law of the Court of Chancery. His noble friend behind him thought it right to refer to the same commissioners, who had shown themselves so com petent, this vexed question, which no one had yet been able to solve, and he added to the commissioners a num ber of individuals who were connected with the ecclesi astical courts. These were Sir J. Dodson, Dr.Lushing ton, and the Queen's Advocate. These learned men were engaged the whole of last year in investigating this sub ject. He had been much pressed after he received the great seal to proceed at once to call attention to this subject, but as there was a commission then sitting, con sisting of so many eminent and able men, he thought it the better and wiser course to wait for their report. They re ported in the beginning of the present year, and upon the receipt of their report he proceeded to frame a bill, not adhering precisely to their recommendations, but varying it in some particulars; his reason for doing so he would state to their lordships. The only dissentient from the report as a whole amongst the commissioners was the Queen's Advocate. The commissioners recommended the abolition of all the existing jurisdiction, and that the whole jurisdiction of the ecclesiastical courts as to the probate of wills and testaments should be vested in a new court, to be called the Court of Probate. This court was to be a temporal court, and not an ecclesiastical court, and in it all power as to wills was to be vested. In the aboli tion of the existing courts he quite concurred, but he did not concur in the creation of a new court. His opinion was that, subject to some modifications, by far the safest, easiest, simplest, and cheapest course to pursue, would be to vest the whole of the conten tious jurisdiction in the Court of Chancery, in ac cordance with the report of the Real Property Commission. He ought to say that ninety-nine hundredths of the business of the Prerogative Court consisted of business of common form, with which the Court of Chancery would have nothing to do. He proposed, therefore, to give the Court of Chancery jurisdiction in the case of personal as well as real pro perty. He doubted if a new tribunal would deal with this subject as completely and as well as a court which had been in the habit of dealing with it. Another great advantage of transferring the jurisdiction to the Court of Chancery was that the Court of Chancery alone had the power of construing wills. He proposed, therefore, that there should be a court of probate connected with the Court of Chancery. The power of proving and con struing wills would therefore be in the same court. It was not merely for the sake of making things look square that he proposed this, but from the con sideration that every court of probate should be of the same extent as the court of construing ; and for this reason, that when a man made his will, and afterwards appended a codicil thereto, it might be come an important question for consideration whether that codicil did not revoke the will. That could only be determined from the language used. A court of probate must constitute a construing court for that purpose, and it only got out of the difficulty in an awk ward way—that was to say, by putting all the docu ments to g ether, and leaving the Court of Chancery to deal with the question. It would be a great advantage, therefore, that the court of probate and the construing court would be one and the same, and that when a will was construed, it was construed once for all. All this related to the contentious business. With regard to the common form business, there was great difference of opinion. He proposed to get rid of the necessity of proctors in order to prove the will. It had been thought that the having au intermediate agent between the party interested in the will and the solicitor directly employed, greater security was afforded against improper or dis honest conduct, the proctors being a limited body, consisting of eighty practising persons, whose faces were well known in the Ecclesiastical Court. The consideration was not entirely without weight, but it would be a very great misfortune if they could not relieve the public from the necessity, in convenience, and expense of having a double system of agents to conduct the same bnainess. With regard to persons dying in the country, leaving a small property which it was thought might be more cheaply managed and administered in the country, he proposed to consti tute certain district registrars, who would really have to do little more than to examine the apparent accuracy of the instruments, which when so examined, whether proved in London or the country, would have validity throughout the whole kingdom, whether the property were large or small. He thanked their lordships for their kind attention, and trusted that they would give the bill a first reading. Lord BROUGHAM conceived that a change must be made in the present system ; and expressed a hope that the proposed transfer of the existing jurisdictions to the Court of Chancery would be approved by their lordships. Lord ST. LEONARDS approved of the abolition of the existing courts, but condemned the suggestion for a new court of probate. He entirely agreed that the Court of Chancery ought to have the whole jurisdiction in testamentary matters. The business, too, ought to be thrown open to the general body of practitioners. But he objected to real estate being made subject to probate. Lord CAMPBELL strongly approved of the whole proposition , • but, unlike his noble and learned friend who last spoke, thought there ought to be a probate of real as well as of personal estate. He was disappointed, however, at finding that the reform of the ecclesiastical courts was not to be entire and complete, by taking away , theirjurisdiction in matrimonial causes, slanders, defama tions, and brawlings in church. The LORD CHANCELLOR assured his noble and learned friend that a bill would be brought in on the subject of the ecclesiastical courts in the course of the session. The bill was then read the first time. RETURNS. The Earl of POWIS moved for certain returns relative to the fees payable upon the obtaining of degrees at the Universities, which were ordered. Their lordships adjourned shortly after half-past seven o'clock. HOUSE OF COMMONS-(YESTERDAY.) CORRUPT PRACTICES AT ELECTIONS. Sir FITZROY KELLY moved for leave to brin g in a bill to regulate the practice at the election of members to serve in Parliament for counties, cities, and boroughs in England and Wales, to prevent bribery, corruption, and intimidation, and undue influence at such elections, and to diminish their expense. The hon. and learned gentleman argued that experience had shown the in crease of the constituent body to be no safeguard against corruption, and that the ballet would probably prove as little efficacious. The means to which he looked for suppressing this great evil were to be considered as re garded the candidates, the agents, and the electors. First, he proposed to appoint a public officer at every election—a person of character, knowledge, and pro- bity—to whom all moneys due on account of elec tions must be paid over by the candidate, with the view of preventing any money being paid through channels for illegal or corrupt purposes, and who should have the whole management and control of the expenses of the election. The candidate would be required to swear that he had made no pay ments on account of his election to any other person. Re proposed that this election officer should be a bar rister, appointed by the judges, as the revising barristers were. If the source were stopped at once and for ever on the part of the candidate, bribery would soon die out of itself, and few agents would be found to give their time and services at elections. The candidate was to declare to the election officer the names of the agents employed by him, and no others were to be admissible ; these agents also must take an oath before the election officer in conformity with that taken by the candidate, and which would have the like effect with regard to all funds placed in their hands, whether proceeding from clubs, subscriptions, or other sources. Expenditure for processions, music, and the like was to be pro• hihited. The bill further contained a series of provisions for enabling the electors to give their votes by means of voting papers, accompanied by safeguards against fabrication, mutilation, and fraud. This would get rid of all the tumults, agita tion, and violence, often attended with danger to human life, heretofore prevailing ; so that the voter might, if necessary, give his vote at home. It would further save the vast sums now expended for the conveyance of voters, which at county elections often amounted to 4,0001. or 5,000/., and further opened an unlimited door to treating. The evil of intimidation and undue in fluence would in like manner be mitigated, if not alto. gether remedied, by the machinery he proposed. The giving of the vote should consist in the act of signing the voting paper, and the declaration therein contained, which was then to be delivered to some competent person for transmission to the returning officer. For this purpose the magistrates of the county or town would sit at fixed places for three or four days after the nomination, to receive and transmit the voting papers. By this plan even in the most numerous constituencies the greater part of the votes would be given at an early period of the election without pressure or inconvenience. The declaration in the voting papers would consist of—first, as to the place for which he was entitled to vote ; then, that he was the person named on the register ; and then the voting-paper contained a solemn declaration to be made with all the sanctity, although not in the form of an oath, that the voter had not received any species of bribe, reward, or consideration in respect to his vote. To meet the case of intimidation, he also proposed that, in addition to solemnly abjuring bribery, the voter should declare that he gave his vote freely and willingly, ac cording to the best of his judgment and conscience, and without any intimidation, coercion, or undue influence Such a declaration would, he thought, put an end to a single word of pressure or intimidation from any one. He proposed the Queen's printer should print a suffi cient number of voting papers, to be transmitted to the various places in which elections were to take place, to the election officer, who should have power under this bill to call around him parish officers and others having local knowledge in the various places, who would have the register before them and be attended by others who had the means of knowing the voters, and, in fact, be attended by a proper staff of assistants, like those who now assisted at the polling places. The election officer would make up from the register and transmit voting papers to all the voters. In case of miscarriage or mis delivery of the voting papers, they might be obtained at any stationer's shop in the kingdom, where they would be sold, so that in case a legally qualified voter had not received one he might purchase it, go before a magistrate, make a declaration of his title to vote, and transmit it the same as if the paper had been sent to hi►n. The election officer would examine by the regis ter all the voting papers that were returned, and, with the aid of check clerks and the assistance, on behalf of the respective candidates, of those whose services were usually employed, and on a comparison of the voting papers the return of the member would be declared. He did not intend by this bill to prevent any one from voting openly at the poll. Any one who pre ferred the publicity and notoriety of such a step might take his voting paper before the returning officer or the magistrate who received it, and there publicly deliver his vote, as he did now, at the hustings. It was necessary to reserve to the election officer, in cases of personation, or forgery, or fraud, the power of laying aside any of the voting papers which might be objected to by any check clerk or inspector in regard to any particular vote. If the return of the candidate were not affected by the num ber of such objectionable votes, the papers might merely be laid aside ; but if the return of the member were af fected, then the officer would have power to investigate the validity of the vote, and, if a charge of personating a vote had been made which was not true, the voter so charged could establish the validity of that vote. Under such circumstances fabrication or fraud would be almost impracticable, and, if not impracticable altogether, it would be very difficult. He did not think any person would be willing to incur the punishment imposed by this bill and by the common law of England on the forgery or fabrication of papers of this description, not only with the great probability of detection, but when the greatest uncertainty would exist of benefiting the candidate whom he wished to be returned. Such was the outline of the measure he proposed to submit to the house ; but he ought to observe, with respect to the ex pense of elections, it was necessary, in order that the election officer might well discharge his duties, that jus tice should be done to those who might have really fair demands in respect of elections. In order that there might be no excuse for the dispensing of money to any other person than the election officer, he proposed that that officer should be entitled to demand from every candi date who was nominated at any election a deposit, ac cording to what might be the prospects of a contest, of a sufficient sum of money, not exceeding, in counties, the sum of 3001„ and in boroughs 2001. (which latter suns he trusted would soon become the largest expended at any election), and that lie should likewise take a bond of two sufficient sureties, or a deposit, in lieu of a bond, of 1,0001., to meet the whole expenses of the election. He had intended, in the event of the present bill receiving the sanction of the house, to have proposed, in a separate one, to abolish the law of property qualification for members of Parliament ; but he was not sorry to find that that had fallen into abler hands. The right hon. member for Devonport had given notice, as he understood, of his intention to bring that question before the house. Should his bill proceed he believed sufficient security would be given for the re spectability and independence of every candidate for a seat in this house, and he should be happy to render any assistance he could to the right hon. gentleman to enable him to carry his measure. He concluded by saying he felt he had ♦entured on a task to which his humble abilities were altogether inadequate, unless he were sup ported and encouraged by the assistance and approba tion of the house. With that assistance he did not de spair of effecting very great good, and of putting an end to a very great evil in the constitution of this country. He had brought it forward, animated by no party views, and had prepared it in all its details without the slightest reference to party considerations. If it should receive the sanction of Parliament, and conduce to the great ends which he had laboured to obtain, he should rejoice that he had lent his humble assistance in giving freedom and security to that part of our constitution upon which the liberties and well-being of the people of this country depended. Colonel SIBTHORP denounced the plan as impracti cable and futile. He would not, however, oppose the bill at that stage, but he would see this public officer far enough before he would take his oath about any such matter, and would feel inclined to exercise the argumentunt ad baculum to him, even though he might be a barrister. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL, on the part of the Government, did not oppose the introduction of the bill. It contained, he observed, matters which, novel in prin ciple, were worthy of consideration, though some parts were of very doubtful policy, especially that relating to polling papers, which would tend to renew the evils of protracted polling and scrutiny of votes. Mr. HUME said the object of the bill was a good one ; but, if they wished to meet this evil, why not take the simplest means ? He was afraid the hon. gentle man's bill would add to existing evils. The simple mode he proposed, and which he had brought before the house some years ago, was that no candidate should be sub jected to any expense whatever, that the counties or boroughs should defray the expense of electing members, and that they should come there and declare that they never bad nor ever would pay a shilling for their elec tion. Why should they ? They were public servants, and it was preposterous that they should pay large sums of money in order that they should be placed in a posi tion to act for the public good. So long as they made the members pay, bow could they hope to escape vena lity ? He hoped the time would shortly come when common sense would prevail in the house on this sub ject. Mr. H. F. BERKELEY declared his belief that the bill would stop neither intimidation nor bribery. Leave was then given to bring in the bill. THE TRUCK SYSTEM. Mr. C. FORSTER moved for leave to bring in a bill to alter and amend the act commonly called the Truck Act, and in doing so entered into a statement of the evils which arose from the evasion of the existing act, and of the necessity of making its provisions more stringent. He did not object to the masters becoming shopkeepers, but wished them to descend to the retail arena on equal terms with our shopkeepers. He and others, anxious of amending the truck system, were desirous that the law should enforce a bona fide payment of wages in money, leaving the workman free to dispose of it when and where he pleased—merely realising to himself and the rest of the community the benefit of full competition. The present act would pro hibit shops being attached to the works of em• ployers. Another alteration he proposed to effect was in the penalties. As the law stood at pre sent, the fine for the first offence was not less than 51. and not exceeding 10/.; for the second offence, 101. and not exceeding 201.; and the third offence was a misdemeanour. When they considered that the profits of the tommy-shopkeepers amounted to hundreds and often thousands of pounds, it was clear penalties so small would not have the effect of stopping them in their career. He therefore proposed that the fine for the first offence should be 101. and not exceed 201., and that the second offence should be declared a misdemean our. As regarded the time of laying the information, taking into consideration the difficulty of getting men to come forward and give evidence, he should adopt the rule of the Justice Act and extend the time from three to six months. As to the application of the penalties, he did not propose to leave the award, as at present, in the hands of the magistrates, but to give the informer one-half of the penalty. He knew the law looked upon such appli cations with jealousy, but taking into consideration the present precarious source from which funds for laying informations were derived—the contributions of shop keepers and the workmen—he thought the Legislature would not object to deal with this matter as they did with the Excise penalties. These were the principal provisions of the bill he asked to introduce. Before the select committee all parties would be able to state their case, and the house would be put in possession of the necessary evidence to enable them to legislate on the question. By doing so, they would give a proof to the working man that, amid more exciting topics, they were not neglectful of his interest, and convince him that the protection of his rights was not to be found in trade unions or strikes, but by stating his grievance, which, when proved, stringent legislation should prevent his being deprived of his right to receive a fair day's wage for a fair day's work, the payment for which should be in the lawful coin of the realm. Mr. PETO thought there was no great necessity for the bill being referred to a select committee. A great deal of attention had been given to this question and many inquiries made, and he (Mr. Peto) could not conceive any circumstances under which the payment of a man's wages should be withheld, or that for such pay ment anything else should be substituted for money. When first he became connected with public works the payment of money was the exception and not the rule ; but, from 25 years experience, he could conceive no reason why there should be a departure from the rule, that a man's wages should be paid in the current coin of the realm. The firm with which he was con nected had employed in England, Canada, Denmark, Norway, and variouasici wager w pwaratasooftreizttimineunitn, money,3O,ooo meu, and they never p and always took care the men had it in sufficient ! time to derive the full benefit from it for their families. He asked the hon. gentleman and the Government not to refer the matter to a select committee, but to a com mittee of the whole house, and he was certain there was no hon. member but would say that the proposed measure sought to secure to the workman his simple and inalienable right. Let them make the act as stringent as they might, they could not be doing an injustice, as it was but right that an obligation should be discharged in the spirit in which it was incurred—by a proper pay ment at the proper time. Mr. HUMF said all the bills on this subject en forcing penalties had invariably failed. Mr. BRUCE supported the bill. Lord PAL ME RSTON said he would certainly support the motion for the introduction of this bill, because it was in conformity with a pledge he had given at the conclusion of last session. He brought in a bill last year similar to that which the hon. member for Wal sall had now asked leave to introduce, and he withdrew it, not in consequence of any change of opinion as to the principle of the measure, but because the session was drawing to a close, and because considerable objections were made to some details of the bill, and it appeared to him impossible, at that period of the session, to give those objections the fair consideration to which they were entitled. He quite agreed that, on general principles, it was much better to leave classes of men to arrange I and settle among themselves as they best could all mat ters connected with their mutual interests ; but at the same time, they knew perfectly web that, from the arti ficial arrangements of society, cases would arise in which some of the parties were more or less dependent upon others, and unable to take proper care of their own inte rests and concerns. He thought it could not be disputed that before the introduction of the truck acts great abuses were practised. It was a fact perfectly notorious that at times, when the masters had a pull upon the men from the state of trade and the labour market, then, under pain of losing their employment, men were com pelled to receive payment of their wages partly in arti cles given them at a price far beyond their real value, and for which they had no use whatever. (Hear, hear.) He remembered that on one occasion at Sheffield shovels, tongs, and pokers were given to the workpeople in part payment of their wages—(a laugh)—and they were compelled to sell these articles at a price far below the value for which they had received them. In principle, he was prepared to say that wages ought to be paid in money. But then came the difficulty that had been alluded to, for, although they might compel the masters to pay their workmen in money, there were many ways in which that arrangement might afterwards be evaded and defeated. The workman might be told— " Here is your money, but there is a particular shop, and unless you take your money to that shop and leave part of it there, we shall not employ you any more, and some other person will be put in your place." Therefore, a natural provision of the bill was that no shop should he allowed to be established on premises belonging to the master. But then, it was stated to him last year, that in many of the iron districts—for instance, in South Wales where the works were at a very considerable distance from towns, a provision of that sort must clearly interfere with the comfort and advantage of the men, for, as had been stated by the hon. member for Merthyr Tydvill, cases might happen where there were no shops within a reasonable distarce of the works to which the workpeople could go and obtain at a fair price the goods which they required. He thought these difficulties were so completely esta blished, that he was induced to withdraw the bill at the end of the last session, and to enter into an engagement with his hon. friend that if he (Mr. Forster) would bring in a bill again this year, he (Lord Palmerston) would agree to its being read a second time, for the purpose of being referred to a select committee. That, he thought, would be the best course the house could pursue, and with that view he supported the motion, hoping that his hon. friend would put off the second reading for some little time, to enable those who were interested to ex amine the provisions of the bill, which could then be re ferred to a select committee. Mr. MUNTZ did not wish to oppose the introduction of the 1) . 41, but he thought the noble lord had shown that, with very few exceptions, such laws were totally ineffec tual. After 45 years' extensive experience in the em ployment of workmen, and never having adopted the truck system, perhaps he (Mr. Muntz) might be allowed to give the house a little advice ; and to show them that all that could be done in the way of legislation would be disappointing to the parties whom tuey wished to serve. He remembered that 10 years ago, when Sir R. Peel was in office, and when Mr. Ferrauti made violent attacks upon masters for their treatment of their workpeople, he (Mr. Muntz) ventured to offer to show the house that all the laws they could pass would never prevent the system of truck. His statements at that time convinced the house generally that it would be quite unavailing to pass laws to put down that system, and Sir R. Peel said that he (Mr. Muntz) had perfectly satisfied him that they would be ineffectual. He (Mr. Muntz) then said that it was not necessary for any master to have a shop for truck ; it was not necessary for him even to say that he wished to truck his men, or to say that they should buy their pro visions eta certain shop or place. All that it was neces sary for the master to do was this —he could make arrange ments with any shopkeeper to allow him so much per an num if he sent his men to that person's shop to buy provi - sions. It was only necessary for the master to recommend his men to deal at that shop, and if they did not, the conse quence would be that there would be no work. Here they had the truck system without ally power of legal pre vention. He thought the present was an unfortunate time for the introduction of such a measure as this, when the employed were disputing with their employers. There were not now half a dozen men running after mas ters, but the masters were running after the men. and any workman of sober and industrious habits might obtain work at higher wages than he (Mr. Muntz) had ever known. Under such circumstances how was it possible that any master could truck ? But let a time ofpressure arrive, when the men were running after the masters, and then let them see if they could prevent the truck system. By the simple plan he had mentioned, any law might be evaded, and therefore he di , approved of this bill, which, in his opinion, would deceive the working classes and the country. The bill was supported by Sir H. Halford and Mr. J. G. Phillimore, and opposed by Mr. lUMalion. Leave was then given to bring in the bill. TENANT RIGHT (IRELAND) BILL. Mr. Serjeant SHEE, in moving for leave to bring in a bill to provide compensation for improvements made by tenants in Ireland, justified his motives in doing so, observing that there was no better mode of convincing the Government and the house than to set before them, in the shape of clauses, what he thought would be im provements in the measure of the Government to come from the other house. He then explained the provision of the bill he proposed to introduce, and in what it dif fered from the bill which had passed that house last ses sion, and to the merits of which he bore testimony ; its main defects were to be found, he said, in the specifica tion of improvements (important classes of improve ments being omitted) and in the restrictions upon claims for compensation. Mr. P. URQUHART seconded the motion. After some observations from Mr. GEORGE and Col. GREVILLE, Sir J. YOUNG, on the part of the Government, said he would not object to the first reading of the bill, if no further steps were to be taken until the bills of the Go vernment should be placed upon the table. Mr. NAPIER enforced the necessity of some decision upon this subject being come to during the present ses sion, as keeping open the question was detrimental to the value of property in Ireland. After some observations from Mr. M‘MA.Erox and Mr. E. B. Rocuz, Leave was given to bring in the bill. COMMITTEE OF PRIVILEGES. On the motion of Mr. BUTT, the Committee of Pri vileges, to whom the complaint of the paragraph. in the Times newspaper is referred, was appointed to consist of the following members :—Sir John Young, Mr. Solicitor- General for Ireland, Lord Hotham, Mr. John O'Connell, Mr. Bright, Mr. George Moore, Mr. Henry Thomas Liddell, Mr. Ker Seymer, Mr. Macartney, Mr. Muntz, Mr. George Bentinck, Mr. Napier, and Mr. Dunlop. That nine be the quorum of the said committee. The committee was ordered to meet on Monday next. The house then adjourned at 20 minutes past 11 o'clock. EMIGRATION.—The Emigration Commissioners have advertised for two vessels to carry emigrants to New South Wales and Victoria. One is to be ready, for Sydney, on the 7th, the other, for Geelong, on the 11th of April. {ii:DVERTISEMIiNTI—The Earl of Aldborough and Holloway's Pills.—An astounding cure by this miracu lous medicine after every other means had failed. 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Alexs. Stuart, Archdeacon of Roes, Skibbereer!. —" Fifty years' indescribable agony from dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, cough, constipation, .fl t i . Ltulen b cy as , spasms, sickness at the stomach, and vom i‘ i_t ar n i i a gs been removed by Du Barry's excellent food. I . Jolly, Wortham Ling, near Dies, Norfolk." Copies of testi monials of 50,000 cures (including those of Lord Stuart de Decies, M a jor-General Thomas King, Shorland, and Harvey (gratis). Incan6iste Drs. Ure, 51b., n rs,withfull33s. . instructions, 11b., 2s. 9d. ; 21b., 4s. d. 121 b., 225. ; super-refined, 51 b., 22 5. ; 101 b. , The 101 b. and 121 b. carriage free. Barry Du Barry and C o .- Mason, 77, Regent-street, London ; also , Fortnum, aSOR, and Co., purveyors to her Majesty, Picoectilly. £29,466,910 £29,466,910 M.'3IAItSHALL, Chief Cashier. Dated the 16th day of Feb., 1854. Proprietors' capital .. 14,553,000 Rest 3,440,601 Public deposits (in- ' eluding Exchequer, Commissioners of National Debt, Sav ing's Banks, and Dividend Accounts) 1,911,907 Other deposits ...... 12,357,045 Seven Day and other 8i115........ ... . 1,119,351 £33,451,904 Dated the 16th day of Feb., 18, BANKING DEPARTMEI4T. Government securities (hicludg.Dead Weight Annuity) 7. 12,941,666 Other securities.- 13,415,280 Notes 7,3.58,340 Gold and silver coin.. 736,618 • £33,451,904 Chief Cashier. PRICE OF SUGAR. The average price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, computed from the returns made in the week ending the 14th day of Feb., 1854, is 235. 110. per hundredweight, exclusive of the duties of Customs paid or payable thereon on the im portation thereof into Great Britain. COURSE OF EXCHANGE—THis DAY. Am5terdam............ 11 14% Gibraltar .............. Ditto, three months II 16 Leghorn 30 55 Rotterdam ...• •• •• •• •• II 16 :Genoa ................ 25 57% Antwerp .••• •• •••••••• 25 20 MUan ................ Brussels .............. 25 20 Venice •••• 000 • •••• Elamburgh 13 5 Naples .. 42 Alton& •• •• •••• •••••••• Palermo •• .• •• •••••••• 12r-3( Paris.. ........ •• .. .... 25 0 lisiessina .............. 127 Ditto, three months .. 25 32% Lisbon ...... •• • • 53 % Marseilles........ • • .... 25 32% Oporto .......• •••• • • • • 53 % Bourdeaux ............ ,Rio Janeiro ............ Frankfort-on-Maine .... 118% Buenos Ayres.. Berlin ............ • New York, 60 days' sight Vienna ................ 12 58 Philadelphia .. •••• Trieste ............ • • .. 12 13 PRICES OF BULLION, PIZ OZ. Petersburgh............ !Foreign Gold In Bars Z 3 17 9 Madrid ................ 50 !Portugal Gold Coin 00 0 Cadiz.. - .......... •..... 50% , Mexican Dollars .... 0 5 0 Barcelona...—. New Dollars ...... 0 0 0 Seville '••••••• " • • • • •• Silver in bars ••• 0 0 0 HARROW RACES. (THIS DAY.) (BY ELEOTRIO TELEGRAPH.) OPTIONAL SELLING HURDLE. Theodine.. Reindeer .. Beresford.. ...(Green) 1 Three ran —won by three lengths. OPTIONAL SELLING STEEPLECHASE. Blue Stockings Widow Machree Six ran. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. CUSTOM HOUSE, FEB. 16. ENTERED INWARDS.—The Margaret from St. Michael's; Kron Prins Frederick, Kiel ; Fronke, Antwerp ; Atalanta, ditto ; Grenada, New York ; Saltano Oran ; Cecrops, Kallundborg ; Peninsula, Cadiz ; St. Pierre, Gravelines ; Corneli Henrietta, Amsterdam ; Bertha, Antwerp. ENTERED OUTWARDS FOR LOADING.—The Enriqueta, for Havanna • Anna, Geelong ; Nymph, Corfu, Cephalo nia, Zante and Patras. CLEARED OUTWARDS WITH CARGO.--The Northumber land, for New York ; Cybele, Demerara ; Eugenia, Cal cutta ; Prince Regent, Port Adelaide ; Grape, Gibraltar and Marseilles. LIVERPOOL, FEB. 16. The Lady Franklin, for New York, when going into the river to-day, (hove foul of the Star of Empire alonside the Prince's Pier, changing clocks. The Lady Franklin damaged her cutwater, counter, and one of her boats. The Star of Empire sustained no damage. The Olinda (s s.), on the Furlong Rocks, broke amid ships yesterday, and the remaining cargo has been strewed about the coast. STRALSUND, Feb. 3.—Seven vessels went ashore on the night of Jan. 30-31 in our harbour during a heavy gale, and, although they have come off, are almost all so leaky, with loss of rudder, and otherwise damaged, that they must discharge and repair. The following names are given : The Ceres (brig), from Scotland to Christiana, with coals, and the Pegasus (yacht), from Scotland to Aarhnus, with coals. CUXHAVEN, Feb. 12.—The Scandia (Swedish brig), from Canton, which was on shore at Eitzen Lock on Feb. 10, has been got off and t owe d i n t o th e h ar b our , l ea ky. ELSINORE, Feb. 11.—The Catherine, from Callundborg to London, which put back on the 7th inst., leaky, has been surveyed and is discharging to be hove down, about half discharged, in good order. MELBOURNE: Nov. 20. —The Ontario, of Liverpool, is reportei to have gone down off Point Nepean ; all hands saved. ALSTEN, Jan. 17.—The Pursuit, of Aberdeen, from Archangel, drove on shore at Raysboten, on the 11th Deo. during a heavy gale ; crew saved, and cargo expected to be saved. The Bona Dea, of and for Liverpool, from Savannah, has been fallen in with dismasted and waterlogged, off Alizen Head, and the survivors of the crew, 11 in number, taken off and landed at Crookhaven, by the Cuba Organ, except 5, which died on board the latter. The men had been on the wreck for 11 days and a-half without food or water. The master and 5 men had died from their sufferings. VESSELS SPOKEN WITH. The Nancy froth Oporto to Sydney, New South Wales, Oct. 24, lat. 39 S., long. 39 E. The Refuge from England to Melbourne, Nor. 6. The Stourbridge, steering west. The Ariel (brig), off King George's Sound. The Sir Allen M`Nab, bound to Hobart Town, Dec. 11, lat. 22 S. long. 21 W. _ The Cathay;., 13th, lat. 20 S , long. 25 W. The Glasgow, bound to Port Philip, 18th, lat.lB S., Jong. 29 W. The Santiago, from Valparaiso to Liverpool, 13th, lat. 26 N., long. 39 W. The; Oresund, outward bound, Jan. 8, lat. 2 S., long. 29 W. The Ceres, from Montevideo to Falmouth, Jan. 24, lat. 31 N., long. 41 W. _ _ The Inverary Castle, from the Clyde to Melbourne, Jan. 6, lat. 2 N., long. 22 W. The John Melhuish, from Calcutta to Liverpool, Oct. 11, lat. 19 N., long. 88 E. The James Shepherd, from Bombay to London, Jan. 13, lat. 2 N. long. 23 W. The Ann, from London to Sydney, 14th, lat. 13 N., long. 24 W. The Almade, from Bristol to New Orleans, Jan. 4, lat. 18, long. 67. The Creole, from Londonderry to New Orleans, Jan. 14, off Cape St. Antonio. The'Stewart (brig), bound E., Jan. 15, off Tortugas. The Prompt, from Grangemouth to Melbourne, Jan. 3, lat. 1 N., long. 21 W. The Typhoon, from London, 4th, lat. 2 N., long. 22 W. The Julinder, from Glasgow to Calcutta ; and Hydrabad, from London to Port Adelaide, both the same day. The Cadet, from Lond on t o Launceston, Van Diemen's Land, Sept. 17, lat. 12 S., long. 30 W. The Dorisana, from Liverpool to Singapore, Dec. 16, lat. 31 N long. 22 W. The Henrietta, from Hartlepool to King George's Sound, Sept. 30. COUNTRY MARKETS. DERBY SMITHFIELD-FEB. 14. There was an average supply of beasts to-day, which were in good request, but without any alteration in price. The number of sheep not quite so large. Buyers nume rous, and a clearance easily effected. Fat and store calves were more plentiful than they have been thi- year, both of which sold well. There was a larger supply of fat pigs than usual. The following were the quotations ;—Beef, 6d to 6d ; mutton, 7d to 70 ; lamb, 01 to Od ; veal, 60 to 7d per lb. ; pigs, 9s 9d. to 10m per score ; rough fat, 6s 3d to Os Od per 141 b. ; hides, 20 to 3d per lb ; call-skins, 30. to 4d per lb. EDINBURGH GRAIN.—Fia. 15. Wheat on the top same as last week, and the average 8d up. Barley on the top 91 up, and the average 4d down. Oats on the top same as last week, and the average ld up. Beans t,n the top Is, and the average ld, down. Top of Wheat 62 lb 90s Od Barley. Oats Beans ... Total Supply and Sales. Wheat 7BB qrs sold 588 qrs Barl®y 9BB qrs sold 777 qrs Oats 1721 qrs sold 1232 qrs Beaus 2Ol qrs sold 180 qrs Average of wheat .£3 13 2 11-12ths Ditto of Barley Ditto of Oats Ditto of Beaus BOSTON—FEB. 15. The corn trade here continues in an exceedingly excited and unsettled state. During the week the price of wheat receded ?,s to 3s per qr., some of the leading merchants and millers refusing to purchase a single grain. At this day's market, however, there was a better feeling in the trade, and good dry parcels of both red and white wheat brought an advance of fully 2s per qr. Oats and beans cheaper. Barley and peas unaltered. Prices :—Wheat, red, 69s Od to 80s Od; white, gOs Od to 83s Od extra, 83s Od. Barley, 32s Od to 41s Od. Oats, 23s to 295. Beans, 40s Od to 47s Od. Peas, 53s Od to 60s per qr. NEWARK-FEB. 15. A good attendance of farmers to-day, and the weather being dry the samples of grain produced were in bettor condition than of late. Prices similar to last week's. Prices :—Wheat, white, 84s Od to 908 Od; red, 80s Od to 84s Od. Barley, malting, 36s Od to 40s Od ; 365 Od to 38s Od. Oats, old, 30s Od to 36s Od ; new, 284 Od to 30s Od. Beans, 48s Od to 62s Od. Peas, 00s Od to 003 Od. Malt, 665 Od to 70s Od. Tares, 64s Od to 68s Od. RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS. LIVERPOOL, FEB. 16. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The folio :ing were the sales in the morning :—Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire, 221. shares, 51 d. ; C a l e d on i an, 261 ; L ancas hi re and Yorkshire, 661, ; Midland, 631 ; Shrewsbury and Chester (Oswestry and Chester), 12. The afternoon's sales were :—East Lan cashire, 16 9-16 ; Lancashire and Yorkshire, 661 ; Lon don and N or th. W es t ern, 104 ; Midland, 63 ; South- Eastern and Dover, 18 9-16. MANCHESTER, FEB. 16. • STOCK EXCHANGE.—The market has been rather dull, except for Leeds shares, for which there was a good de mand. Prices had an upward tendency. The sales of the morning were :—Sheffields, 23i ; Leeds, 66i ; Midland, 63i ; London Stock, 104 ; Dover, 18i. The sales in the afternoon were—Leeds, 664 BIRMINGHAM, FRB. N. STOCK EXCIIANGE.—The share market to-day WIIS re markably quiet, the only transactions reported on 'Change being in Birmingham, Wolverhampton, and Stour Valley shares, which were done at 9, and South Staffordshire at die. LEEDS —FEB. 16. STOCK EXC HANGE. —Business in shares limited to-day to a few sales at the following prices :—East Lancashire, 16R ; Great Northern halves, A stock, 94 ; Lancashire And Yorkshire, 664 THE PRESTON STRIKE.—Last night the weekly meet ing of the delegates from the London trades on behalf of the Lancashire operatives, was held at the Bell Inn, Old Bailey. Mr. R. Hooper, the chairman, said he was happy to say there was at last some prospect of the struggle being soon brought to a cone usion. From letters received it appeared that negotiations were on foot which would bring about results satisfactory to both masters and men. BIRTHS. OF A SON. On the 14th inst., at Ecton, the wife of B. Sunnard, Esq. On the 16th inst., at 8, Queen's : road West, Regent's. park, the wife of T. Weabherley . Phipson, Esq. OF A DAUGHTER. On the 15th inst., the wife of William Timed, Esq., of Campde thst n- 1 1o 5 dge in Ca . m a t pdez suhoill, Kensington. On the th-street, Gr osvenor-square, the wife of George T. Duncombe, Esq. MARRIED. On the 16th inst., at the parish church of St. Maryle bone, Robert Richardson, F.S.A., of Lincoln's-inn, Esq., barrister-at-law, to Maria Louisa, only child of Henry Gardner, of 5, York-terrace, Regent's_ ark, Esq. On the 16th inst., at St. George's, Hanover-square, Captain Fearon, 14th Regiment Bombay N. 1., eldest son. of the late General Fearon, to Claudine Alai:fluty, eldest daughter of Colonel Claud Douglas, Bengal Army. DIED. On the 14th of October, 1853, at his residence on the River Hunter, N ew South Wales, Colonel Kenneth Snod grass, C. 8., in the 71st year of his age. On the Gth of November, 1853, at Melbourne, Australia, while bathing in the Yarra Yarra river, Richard, aged 21, younger son of Mr. Henry Philip Fores, bookseller, of 42, South Audley-street Grosvenor-square. On the 16th inst., at 8, Queen's-road, Notting-hil), in her 83d year, Mrs. Br as i er , f ormer ly o f th e R o p e - w alk, Margate, alate of Chiswick-lane, Middlesex. On the 16th inst., at Cirencester, John Brewin, in hie 79th year —a member of the Society of Friends. LONDON: Printed and Published by MIIRDO YOUNG, of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at 7he Sun Office, N 0.112, Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the county of Middlesex, FridaYB Filartuul 17' 1854 `~+ L° The: Fehrua betwee port, CI includii weight To in must b , above, 11Orne Swans Wood-. Fetter Angel Do.. The. to any the ehe A B, St will dlminii N Thui vals vs in case this sn at Mtn 4s. 4d. part cn - The Comps et five Savine pasitee potit I - wan M ¢ a ig Ir 1,) 8 . mane In the 1865. 11166. 1170. 1871. 1814. ISM. 1880 1686. 1486. 1891. Tli an of old, year effee as ti 6a. t