The Sun. — London, England, 1863-06-06 00:00:00

136.PERIAL PARLIAKENT HOUSE OF LORDS—Last Evening. The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack at five o'clock. PRIVATE BUSINESS. The Stockport District Water and Ely Valley Exten sion Railway bills were read a second time. THIRD READINGS. The Gravesend and Milton Gas — lraerness and Perth Junction, and Perth and Dunkeld Railway Companies-- Penaxth Harbour Dock and Re.liway, and Midland Rail way Extension to London bills were read a third time and passed. TILE DUCHY OF CORNWALL MANAGEMENT BILL. The Duke of NEWCASTLE said, before the adjourn ment for the Whitsuntide holidays, the second reading of this bill was taken with the understanding that any dis cussion on the measure might be taken on the motion for going into committee. In order that the property of the Prince of Wales might be managed on the most advantageous manner a committee of the Council to 'whom t h e care of it was confided sat, and their deliberation , resulted. in a report, and it was to carry out the recom mendations of the Council that the present bill wan proposed. Th e p ro p er ty of the Prince of Wales was held under a most remarkable grant 137 Edward 111. , in favour of his son the Black Prince —and the great desire of the King seemed to be to make the property inalienable, and the greatest difficulty was oc casioned by such a proceeding. By one of the provisions of the charter the Prince of Wales had no Power to grant leases beyond one life, and in the reign of their Majesties George and William IV. the arrangement produced the most inconvenient results. Towards the close a the last century the income derivable from the property of the Prince of Wales averaged about £16,000, but on the accession of her Majesty he believed it amounted to about £ll,OOO. A f e w days after the birth of his royal highness, a Duchy Connell met and deliberated as to the best means of improv i ng the property, and in 1844 an act was passed . w hi c h improved the estate very largely, so that instead of £16,000 per annum, it produced about £50,000. The noble duke then highly eulogised the exertions of the late Prince Consort in his endeavours to improve the property, and said the main objects of the present bill were to abolish fines on the renewals of the leases, and that for the future no lease for land should be granted by the council for a period longer than 31 years, whilst that for houses was not to exceed 99 years. The bill, he thought, was calculated to lead to the best results, and therefore he hoped their lordships would give their ap proval to it. The noble duke concluded by moving that the house go into committee on the bill. Lord BROUGHAM bore tribute to the great ability of the late Prince Consort as President of the Council of the Duchy of Cornwall. After a short conversation, their lordships went into com mittee on the bill. _ . Clauses to 38 were agreed to. On clause 39, Lord CHELMSFORD objected to giving an appearance to the bill of enabling the Prince to grant sites for Dissent ing chapels and meeting-houses. The Duke of NEWCASTLE protested against anything which might even bear a resemblance to an attempt at 1 preventing the Prince of Wales from dealing with his pro perty as he might think necessary, under the circumstances of any want of convenience for religious worship or schools. It would be like compelling the Prince to enforce the rights and ignore the duties of property. (Hear, hear.) A discussion ensued, in which Lord Chelmsford, Lord St. Leonards, Earl Powis, the Marquis of Bath, and the Duke of Newcastle took part. The clause was• finally agreed to, with an understanding that some alteration was to be made on the bringing up of the report. _ _ _ . - The other clauses were then gone through, and the house resumed. THE STATUTE LAW. The LORD CHANCELLOR postponed his promised statement on introducing a bill to revise the statute law. VACCINATION (IRELAND) BILL. Earl ST. GERMANS moved the second reading of this bill., which was agreed to after some objection from the Earls of Clancarty and Belmore. BAKEHOUSES REGULATIONS BILL. Lord SANLEY of ALDERLEY moved the second reading of this bill. Lord REDESDALE objected that the provisions for en forcing cleanliness were too minute, The bill was read a second time. THE ROYAL VICTORIA ASYLUM AT WANDS WORTH, Lord ST. LEONARDS, in asking a question, according to notice, of the Secretary of State for the Colonies, took occasion to allude to the debate which had lately taken place in the other house upon the subject of the Royal Victoria Asylum, and complained of the manner in which he had been alluded to by his right hon. friend, Sir John Pakington. The committee of ladies, of whom his (Lord St. Leonards') daughter was one, had objected to the manner in which the lady superintendent and the chaplain had conducted the asylum, and they had called for the re• moval of both these officers. The Royal commissioners had not enforced the recommendation of the ladies' committee, and seven of the ladies had resigned in consequence. His right hon. friend had said that he (Lord St. Leonards) had taken up the question very warmly becanse his daughter was one of the ladies' committee. Probably he had taken up the matter warmly. It was his habit when ha felt strongly to speak warmly, but his interest in the asylum was of older date than his daughter's connection with the lathes' committee. He had been one of the Royal commis sioners from the first, and he had been chairman of the executive committee for two years. Having recited the complaints which the ladies had made against the manage ment of the lady superintendent and the chaplain,in causing a girl to be placed in solitary confinement, where she died, in causing a girl of 16 to be whipped with a birch rod, in sending girl to be mesmerised, and in permitting girls to go to London without proper care, his lordship said that he still retained the same opinion upon all these matters. BLit . as he and the ladies' committee had been over-ruled, he at once submitted, and subsequently he had met and acted towards the chaplain and the lady superintendent precisely as if nothing had occurred. He considered that to be one of the duties of subordination. He wished to ask the noble duke whether any steps had been taken to obtain a new committee of ladies, for he thought the asylum ought to be always wider the control of such a committee. The Duke of NEWCASTLE was sure his noble and learned friend did not expect him to enter into the per sonal matters to which he had referred as being in dispute between him and the right hon.gentleman (Sir J. Paking ton.) As to the question of his noble and learned friend he (the Duke of Newcastle) was not a member of the executive committee of the asylum. He was only one of the royal commissioners. He could therefore only say that of the 12 ladies who formed the original committee five con tinued to act, and ho believed they visited individually from time to time the asylum. (Lord St. Leonardo shook his head.) His noble and learned friend shook his head as if h denied the statement. Well, that only proved that his noble friend knew more about the affair than he (the Duke of Newcastle) did, and therefore could rather give than receive information from him. (A laugh.) However, all he could say was, that the executive committee would meet on Tues day next to consider what steps should be taken to increase the number of the ladies' committee. The matter was then allowed to drop, and the house ad journed at 20 minutes to 8 o'clock. HOUSE OF COMMONS—Last Evening. The SPEAKER took the chair at the usual hour. LISBURN ELECTION.—BRIBERY AND CORRUP TION.—A VOID ELECTION. Mr. EVANS brought up the report of the committee Appointed to try the merits of the petition against the return John Doherty Barbour. The committee declared that he was not d u l y e l ecte d a b urges s to serve in the present Z ll 2 l xnent; that the last election was a void 7 L and further, that Mr. John Doherty Bar "Y himself and his agents, were guilty of d treatin • • in whoneed, b y tnie 0 . ~g , that a person named Come was th ef t ga i v ula agents to personate his father, a voter, Bannister ttalb eer lost and that another voter named report was a The payment of £5O. The following b ills the tabl Sudbury, and y read a thi rd • wood B (mall B r i dtm a time :—Ashbourne, The ri l—Stirlin g ia Estate m %tout er an d Call i ng- The Ir r i gat i on and Canal Compa n y Bill was read a seco n d time. PETITIoNS. By Sir W. threeMputlizes.ho from somereetehi„, closing of the on the Sabb a th. 4 ganst th e MADAGASCAR On the motion of Mr. LEFROY' extracts of papers relating t o t h e co ' n 7 —. as for c o p- or King Radama of Madagascar on hia gra wa ,„„ i -ula n .. t°l7 ._ blissi lea on to papers relatin g t o th e in 1861; and, of correspondence and a p e - t he throne mission to Madagascar in 1862 for thit ing the portraits and presents sent by moat et Present oat Gracious Majesty to King Radama, was agreed to. COTTON. Mr. CAIRD postponed his motion until this day week, in consequence of the indisposition of the Secretary o f state for India BELGRADE. Mr. D. GRIFFITH gave notice that on the motion for going into Committee of Supply, on the 3d July, he should ask a question with respect to the siege of Belgrade. NATIONAL E DUCATION (IRELAND). Major O'REILLY gave no tice that on going into supply on the estimates for national educ ation in Ireland, he should call attention to the large amount proposed to be expended, and propose a reduction. ROYAL VICTORIA PATRIOTIC ASYLUM. Mr. TORRENS asked Colonel Wilson Patten, whether there a were any vacancies in the asylum at Wandsw orth ; if o what number : And, further, he wished to state whether it Was the rule or intention to fill up any vacancies in the asylum solely with chil dren Crime a , t o of soldiers who died in the sidUaiOa of the children of those Who, having served in the Crimea, have since died on service with their regiments in India or elsewhere. Col. W. PATTEN replied that there were at this time 37 vacancies in the asylum, which were caused by the neces sity that had arisen for providing a temporary hospital. The institution could afford accommodation f 00 children, and the full complement would shortly be pl aced on the foundation. The design of the institution w s for the re ception of children of soldiers who had died in the Crimea during the Russian war, either in action, from their wounds, or disease. They had the first claim. It was under the consideration of the Commissioners whether it would not be well, as vacancies occurred, to admit the chil dren of soldiers who had died in various parts of the world in the service of their country. In the end all the claims of soldiers' children would be met. THE COTTON DISTRICTS—UNEMPLOYED MAR.. RIED WOMEN—GOVERNMENT WORKS. Mr. FERRAND asked the President of the Poor Law Board whether he had received the return of the unem- ployed unmarried women in the cotton factory districts, and when the works sanctioned by the Government engi neer was likely to be commenced ? Mr. VILLIERS replied that he had no authority to compel such a return, but the local committee were en deavouring to collect the required information, and he hoped shortly to be in possession of the figures. When the Go vernment works were commenced would entirely depend upon the legislation of that house. lONIAN ISLANDS. Mr. D. GRIFFITH asked the First Lord of the Treasury, whether the G'ivernment intended to complete the transfe rence of the lonian islands to the possession of any other power, without any further reference to the approval or consent of Parliament. Lord PALMERSTON replied that the lonian islands were erected into an independent State and put under the protection of Great Britain by treaty—not by aot of Parlia ment. If the islands were transferred it would likewise be effectuated by treaty, but all the particulars would be duly laid before Parliament. _ Mr. S. FITZGERALD trusted that all the communica - - - tions with foreign papers would be laid before the house, ao that the house might see whether or no there was any danger of disturbing our present relations with foreign Powers. Lord PALMERSTON apprehended that no danger would arise to our friendly relations with foreign Powers. As he had said all the papers would be laid before Parli ment. COURTS OF JUSTICE BUILDING (MONEY) BILL Mr. LYGON asked the First Commissioner of Works when he would move for leave to introduce this bill ? Mr. COWPER—Probably some day next week. EDUCATION. Mr. F. S. POWELL asked the Vice-President of the Committee of Council on Education when the report of Council onEducation would be distributed ; and whether it was the intention of Government to propose the vote for education before members had hail ample time for consi- deration of the report ? Mr. LANE replied that the report would be presented in the course of next week. In the present state of public business he could not postpone the bill, but ample time would be given for its consideration. GREECE. Lori J. MANNERS asked the First Lord of the Treasury whether the vote of the lonian Chambers upon the proposed cession of the Seven Islands to Greece was to be taken before the consent of the Powers of Europe, assembled in Congress, to that cession had been obtained; whether the Congress was to be confined to the Powers who were signatories of the Treaties of 1815, or whether it was to comprise all the Powers of Europe, including Turkey ; Whether, in the event of Turkey not being invited to at tend the congress, any communication would be addressed to the Sublime Porte on the subject : And whether the consent of all, or only of the majority of the assembled in congress, would be required to authorise the cession? Lord PALMERSTON replied that the islands could not be ceded without the consent of the Great Powers who were parties to the treaty. Only those who were parties to the treaty would have a voice in the matter. Turkey was not one of those Powers ; and would, therefore, have no voice in the proposed cession. Lord J. MANNERS asked, in the event of there being a difference of opinion between the Great Powers if the opinion of a majority would be adopted ? Lord PALMERSTON replied that the question included matters of international law. If the Greeks themselves were unanimous in the matter he did not apprehend that any of the great powers would offer any objections. DAY SITTINGS. Lord PALMERSTON intimated that they were ap proaching the time when morning sittings would be indis pensable. (Oh, oh, and hear, hear.) He proposed that the house should sit on Tuesday in order to take the Irish Fisheries Bill. PUBLIC BUILDINGS IN THE METROPOLIS. On the motion for going into committee of supply, Mr. B. COCHRA.NE rose to move that, for the sake of obtaining greater unity of design in our publie build ings, and with a view to the efficiency and economy of the public service, it is desirable a permanent Com missioner of Public Works and Buildings, or other officer, should be appointed to the :present Board of Works. The hon. gentleman traced the mismanagement and extrava gant cost of our public buildings and statues to the want of a permanent officer of the kind suggested. Mr. COWPER entered upon a lengthy explanation. He admitted that in the past there had been a good deal of mismanagement and much waste of money in consequence of a false economy as in the case of the National Gallery. He explained the course he adopted during his term of office, and indicated the improvements he had introduced. Sir J. SHELLEY supported the motion, and defended the report of the committee, which recommended the ap pointment of a permanent commissioner of works, and that on one of the junior lords of the Treasury should devolve the duties of the office in that house. They had a perma nent under secretary at the Home-office-- an arrangement which worked well, and he could not see why a junior lord of the Treasury should not be able to represent the Office of Works in that house, by the advice and assistance of a per manent officer, who would not be changeable with the Go vernment. This was the course which gentlemen took in the management of their own properties; they appointed a person permanently to take charge of them ; and why should not the same rule be applied to the management of the parks and the public property. 6ir S. M. PETO said that, having been a contractor for public works in foreign countries, he was able to speak of the manner in which those works were carried out. In France the Minister of Public Works was the Minister of Public Works ; in this country the Minister of Public Works was no Minister at all. (Hear, hear.) He would be sorry the Minister of Public Works was not a member of that house; for he thought it was of great advantage that he should be present and take part in discussions relative to his department. But what they wanted was that which existed in France, a board of able and practical men in as sociation with the Minister of Public Works, capable of directing him to right conclusions, and preventing the con stant disappointments which gave them so much grief, and which made their public works a bye word. (Hear.) He had executed various works for the Government of France, and he had found the estimates so well considered, and the plans and all the details so well sifted, that he had been able to adopt the estimate of the Minister, and he had never found himself a loser in any one instance; and the consequence was that in France the public works were carried out upon the estimate. But no public work in this country was ever carried out within the estimate. That condemned the whole principle. They had a remarkable instance of it in the con. struction of harbours of refuge, which were carried out under the direction of men who, although they might be clever nautical men, knew nothing about the administra tion of public works. How were these things done in France? If a dock was to be constructed, the Admiralty had nothing to do with the construction of it; the Minister of Public Works had the proper estimates and plans made out, and the works would be done for the sum specified ; and they would not find that where £200,000 or:£300,000 had been asked, the work ultimatelycost a million. (Hear.) What they wanted was, that the Ministerof Public Works should be responsible for all the public works in the country, and that he should lay before them estimates prepared by his board of associates, who should be responsible to him for ltahmeiernctoarbrleecetxnceesss. ses S i u n c t h h a e n es a t r i r m an at g e e s m fo e r nt p w ub o l ul ie d w p o r r e k v s e w n h t the had brought so much discredit on the administration. The rule to which he referred was equally in force at Vienna o s u u l:l ro n un ev d e e r d ha th v e e a t h n e d i r ß d e e r p l a r i n , t m a s e n w t eol of minister with men who were p racticall y conversant with pasubinlicPwaroirsk;s anundtitlhtehyewy the nature of the duties. (Hear, hear. Lord J. MANNERS, while concurring in the criticisms passed by his hon. friend on certain public works, did not think that the remedy proposed by him would effect any beneficial change. It had been suggested tha t there should be a permanent officer attached to the department of works, is Order to ensure the efficiency of its administration; but eihm : tent na nce P tha rled lt teo tt i t ly th o e .f re ha w y r ug e th uc e h h a e n ad offi of ce t r h al e readyin depart lawnes ineiao bo t : en d ience p-_ aroseu v;: man ill it u da s at tia er t coo ed fns i t ; ei the case of the poor the b oard in th r t " h ary years there was no representative of consequence w r as .th th a a s t ep g to r tto e in at w board was mad: but. sinee,the president of the po wn or that thoofusaefritehnedlt: spirit aria" ' had been The mischief whicerhatittmaal had given genera and their taking exo ept i g :n 7 t e hd it ra h w is n au pp oo rt. among those who motion of his ho n . f r i e : d l"° mch ° that's pl plained of, he could not • The motion was then INDIA—THE ATTACK• Sir J. HA Y postponel his moti day three weeks, at which thno he hoOpned held thcneiloeffionice., mainly sa t is fa c tion. owing to would not remedy the AB the ON TRlNGtaitt. t.h subject t° t hat India would be able to be in his place. e Seeretar Y 1 4 r ORDNANCE SURVEY. Mr, BAILLIE called the attention of the house to a rep t recently presented by Sir H. James of the p rogress oft e ordnance survey of the United Kingdom. The hon. mere- ber expressed his opinion that there had been alreadytt much discussion on the subject, and his only object making the motion was to obtain a statementrrom the Go vernment as to the course they intended to adopt, With regard to England, they had a complete map on the 1-inch scale, which was perhaps the most convenient; but for other purposes it might be necessary to have a larger one, and the most advantageous would be a 25-inch scale. They had also two complete maps for Ireland—one on the 1-inch scale, a second on the 6-inch scale, and a third upon a 1-inch scale with all the physical features, was in progress. But what was the case as regarded Scotland ? Of the 30,000 square miles of Scotland only 6,438, or little more than one • fifth, had ben surveyed and published upon the 6-inch scale; and only 4,022, or less that one-seventh, had been executed upon the 1-inch scale. Mr. E. ELLICE corroborated the statement of the hon. member, and said that Scotland had good reason to be dis satisfied at the manner in which she was treated with regard to the ordnance survey. Scotland had been 40 years wait ing for a map, but it was now proposed to make a second survey of England, which would have the effect of postpon ing the completion of the Scottish survey to an indefinite period. Mr. DODSON thought that the demand made on behalf of Scotland was like the fable of the dog in the manger. The low parts of Scotland had been surveyed, and what remained were the Highlands. During half the year the Highlands could not be surveyed, owing to the severity of the weather there; but they were called upon to do nothing in England until the whole of Scotland was completed. He trusted the Chancellor of the Exchequer would not pledge himself to such a course. Mr. FINLAY said it was a mistake to suppose that all the low ground of Scotland had been surveyed. The matter then dropped. THE TRINITY BOARD ELECTRIC LIGHT FOR LIGHTHOUSES. Lord LOVAINE called attention to the correspondence between the Trinity Board and the Board of Trade, and asked the President of the Board of Trade whether, in his opinion, the experience of the electric light for the past two years was not sufficient to wart ant its adoption at Portland ? Mr. M. GIBSON said whatever power was exercised by the Board of Trade with reference to lighthouses, and the mode of illuminating lighthouses, was in accordance with the provisions of the Merchant Shipping Act. But that act had given them no authority to incur expenditure in the experiment of lighting lighthouses. The duty of the Board of Trade was simply to control expenditure; and it was no part of their province to force upon the Trinity Corporation any expenditure of which they themselves did not approve. Some time since the Trinity Corporation proposed the re constructing the Portland Lighthouse, and the Board of Trade suggested that before the work was undertaken it might be well clearly to ascertain whether Portland Light house was not fitted to receive the electric light, and also to take care that the light itself had a full trial. The Trinity Corporation decided that for the present it would not be right to adopt the electric light at Portland, and in coming to that conclusion they had the assistance of the advice of that most able man, Mr. Faraday. As for himself, if he had an opi nion upon the subject, he should say that the trial which took place at Dungeness was most satisfactory—(hear) — and that, too, was the opinion of Mr. Faraday. The noble lord might rely upon it that no unnecessary obstacles would be thrown in the way of the adoption of the light, but then reasonable time must be allowed to ascertain if the invention could be safely applied. Sir J. PAKINGT ON having listened very closely to the statement of the right hon. gentleman, was nevertheless quite unable to ascertain what were his intentions. He could not avoid saying that the official experience of the right hon. gentleman had made him the most perfect speci men of Ministerial caution ever heard in that house. (A laugh.) The generalities of the right hon. gentleman were really quite bewildering. He said that he was anxious to obtain the aid of scientific experience in the matter. Well, it surely was not to the Trinity Corporation that he should go for scientific experience. Mr. Faraday was in favour of the light—and if the right hon. gentleman wanted further time for investigation, what time would satisfy him ? The Portland Light wanted repairs, and so also did the " Start" Light, and it became an important question whether the commerce of the country ought Ito be any longer deprived of the advantages of a great dis covery for reasons so unsubstantial. Lord H. VANE drew a more favourable augury from the statement of the President of the Board of Trade than the right hon. gentleman opposite. It was true, the Trinity Corporation had shown no great alacrity in the matter; still, they were at the head of the navigation of the country, and unless they took the lead, it was impassible for the Board of Trade to do anything. His right hon. friend how ever, had admitted that he himself saw the advantage of the light, and therefore it was to be hoped that before any very long time the Trinity Corporation would be brought round to the same opinion. Mr. P. HENNESSY read extracts from the report of Mr. Faraday, to prove that the opinion of that gentleman was unmistakably in favour of the new apparatus. The subject then dropped. THE CASE OF SERGEANT-MAJOR LILLEY. Mr. FORTESCUE rose to call attention to the circum stances attending the death, after four weeks' imprison ment, of Regimental Sergeant-Major Lilley of the 6th Dragoons, at Mhow, in India, on the 25th of May, 1862; and to the imprisonment at the same time, for a still longer period, of Troop Sergeant-Majors Duval and Wake field, of the same regiment, without either of the three having been brought to trial, or any formal charge having been preferred against them ; and to ask whether the commanding officer under whose authority those things took place, was still to be left in command of the regi ment. The hon. member at the outset disclaimed all inten tion of making an attack upon the Commander-ir-Chief, whose abilities and character he held in the highest respect. He was quite sure that if the action of his Royal Highness had not been in the first instance interfered with by the strange course taken by the high military authorities in India, not a day would have been lost in insuring that ample justice was done. The hon. member then recapitulated the well-known history of the case : the irregular arrest of the three sergeants by order of the commanding officer of the regiment (Col. Crawley), on the eve of their appearance as witnesses at a ,court-martial which was being held on the commanding officer, in consequence of charges brought against him by Captain Smale, the paymaster of the regi ment ; their being kept in most rigorous confinement, with out—as had been admitted by his Royal Highness the Com mander-in-Chief—a shadow of evidence being brought for ward against them, a confinement from which one of them —Sergeant -Major Lilley—was only released by death, and anther to find himself lodged in an asylum as a raving lu natic. On the death of Lilley no inquest was held, and the surgeon reported that his death was caused by apoplexy, in duced by the painful circumstances in which he was placed. The hon. member then described the place where the sergeant was confined, and narrated all the circumstances attending the death of his wife, which have long since been in posses sion of the public. It was too late to offer reparation to Sergeant Lilley, for the poor fellow was dead, but it was not too late to punish the man who had been the cause of hi s sufferings. (Loud cries of "Hear, hear.") The hon. mem ber next adverted to the memorandum recently published by his Royal Highness the Commander-in-Chief, and ex. pressed his astoniehm , nt at the strange leniency which had been exhibited towards Colonel Crawley in permitting him to remain in command of the regiment. In conclusion, he stated that it was the fixed intention of the relatives of Ser geant Lilley to indict Col. Crawley for manslaughter in ca se that officer ever put his foot in England. MI. CONINGHA3I said that although the question of Colonel Crawley's conduct had been already within the last few days under the consideration of the house, the memo randum just issued by his Royal Highness the Commander in-Chief completely altered the aspect of the case. Th e Horse Guards, by condoning the conduct of Col. Crawley, had made themselves responsible for that conduct ; and he sincerely trusted that the full weight of the indignation of that house would be directed against the course taken lay his Royal Highness. Having quoted portions of the me morandum of his Royal Highness, the hon. member pro ceeded to say that if his Royal Highness could issue such a memorandum, he was not fit to be in command of the Bri tish army ; for if anything could tend to sap the high spirit which animated our soldiers, it was to see conduct such as that of Colonel Crawley remaining uncondemned by the heads of the army. He trusted, therefore, that when the noble marquis rose to make his reply he would address him self not merely to the justification of Colonel Crawley, but like wise to the justification of his Royal Highness the Com mander-in-Chief. The Marquis of HARTINGTON having explained that the delay which had taken place in connection with the ordnance survey of Scotland was occasioned by the difficul ties attending the survey of the mountainous districts, ad dressed himself to the case of Sergeant-Major Lilley, and explained that the arrests of the three sergeants had been ordered by Colonel Crawley, on a charge of conspiracy against himself. It could not be denied, however, that their examination previous to arrest had been most irregularly conducted, When they were arrested, Colonel Crawley in formed the major-general in charge of the Mhow district, requesting instructions as to bringing them to trial, and requesting also his sanction for placing them under close arrest. With regard to the placing the sergeant-majors under close arrest, it was added that Colonel Crawley had been instructed that, pending the investigation, the arrest should be closed. On the 28th of April Sir Wm, Mansfield wrote that the evidence did not appear to substantiate the tbeencharges ag ainst the sergeant-majors. That opinion was chieflyo grounded upon the fact that the sergeant-majors had n warned before their examination that th e ir evidence ht be used against them. He went on to say, however, might that their conduct had clearly been highly improper, and that Sergeant-major Lilley oug ht to be dismissed, and he directed that the latter should be ke p t in close arrest until the end of the court-martial. Shortly afterwards, at the beginning of May, the court-martial had been unexpectedly adjourned in consequence of the illness of the paymaster, Captain Smale. The sergeant-majors were kept in close the order arrest during the interval. On the 24th May Sergeant-major 4 .: 1 ; 11 eY was reported sick, and on the 25th he died. (Hoar.) , n the 2d June Sir W. Mansfield wrote to Gen. Farrell uuat h e 1.,.., thought the court ofo g er h eard,i through the public papers, of the death marti : l 7 o : idi l l e t r Lilley, but that he rimed at the death of Lill ._ ,ve been terminated shortly after the arrival and exp rmb ; Z P him in close arrest arrived at Mhow, nicated with by a te 'r_uPrise that he had not been cornmu um also stated the regret he me anest. The eaemora l r alTh. to obtain a release from the VI and his reams for coxitinu- THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, JUNE 6, 1863. ing the close arrest, viz, Ist, That the sergeant-majors had narrowly escaped (if they had escaped) the commission of a great crime, and it was necessary to keep them out of temp tation—(oh, oh)-2d, That there might be no tampering with the witnesses ; and 3d, That it was necessary the charge brought against them by Col, Crawley should not be condoned by the release of the prisoners until it had bcen discovered what evidence there was forthcoming. Such were the facts of the unfortunate occurrence. (" Un fortunate," and hear, hear.) The opinion of the Judge Advocate-General upon them was that Col. Crawley had not sufficient evidence before him of the charges brought against the sergeant-majors, that the arrests were illegal, and the reasons alleged by Sir W. Mansfield were not valid. (Hear.) It was clear that some persons were to blame. (Hear.) The question was how the blame was to be distri buted. Sir W. Mansfield evidently thought he was simply acting as a police magistrate would have done in remand ing a prisoner; and Col. Crawley felt himself justified by the order of his superior officer. It was not to be forgotten that, in dealing with officers of their distinction and ser vices, great caution and delicacy required to be observed by his Royal Highness the Commander-in-Chief ; but a claim having been made by the relatives of the sergeant-major, who were persons in poor circumstances, who had been de pendent upon him, the Government had thought it right to award an allowance of about the same amount as would have been payable had Sergeant-M a j or Lill ey b een dis chargedin i m ns in te d thadoaft allhavingthe ral codlileadte circumstances had not. (Oh, oh.) It was t o b e borne yet become thoroughly known, and the account of Lieut. Fitz-Symons, who had just arrived, contradicted several of the important particulars in the chargest against Colonel Crawley. He did not doubt that to many persons it would have been more satisfactory if a victim could have been pro duced for punishment. That was not so ; but full inquiry would be made into those collateral circumstances which could alone criminate the officers. Great as had been the pain and disgust caused by that story of scandal and mis management, the Secretary for War must not allow himself for a moment to be diverted one hair's breadth from the strict rule of military justice. Mr. Alderman SIDNEY thought the expldnation of the noble marquis would be very unsatisfactory, and that had the parties implicated been ordinary civilians a very diffe rent course would have been pursued. When such men as Col. Crawley were retained in command for only the strange reason that they enjoyed the confidence of their Com mander-in-Chief, it showed a negligence of the lives and liberties of men which would tend to endanger the confi dence of the whole army. (Hear, hear.) The noble lord had not said a word about the gross indecency that had been shown in the treatment of Lilley's wife. (Hear.) Colonel BARTTELOT defended Colonel Crawley,who he said was ready and anxious to come forward with full ex planations. Mr. PIGOTT did not think the noble lord could be censured for any want of tenderness in his treatment of the officers in question. The subject was one of the greatest importance, and the investigation ought not to cease until the really responsible parties were discovered. (Hear.) Captain ARCHDALL said that, as there was to be further inquiry, he would merely express his gratification with the vindication of the regiment pronounced by the Commander-in -Chief. Mr. HEA.DLA.M said it was clear that Colonel Crawley was protected by the order of his superior officer; and therefore he could not be removed from his command on that ground. The house then went into committee of On the vote o f SUPPLY. Lord C. PAGET X 165,000 for harbour s o f re f uge, said, in answer to Mr. Lindsay, that it was not intended to extend the works at Dover beyond the present plan, Mr. LINDSAY moved the reduction of the vote by was unfit for a h ar b our of refuge, and would be useless in £3,000, the sum p roposed for the harbour of Alderney. It time entering or leaving the channel, and no sane man would attempt to run into Alderney in a gale of wind. Already more than a million of money had been expended on Al derney, and the best thing for the committee to do was to boldly admit they had committed an error, stop the works, and thereby save a million of money. Every penny spent there was so much money thrown into the water without any corresponding advantage. Lord C. PAGET gave a detailed history of the progress of the works at Alderney, from the commencement to the present time. Arrangements had been made with the con tractors to give them compensation tor the plant, &c., pro , cured, and the expenses they had incurred necessary to carry out the breakwater of the eastern arm of the harbour which the Government had stopped. They were only completing , their substructure to a certain point, which was now just under the surface of the water, and if allowed to remain in its present state would be dangerous to shipping. Sir J. ELPHINS2 ONE thought the money might be better laid out in improving harbours of refuge nearer home. Mr. EVANS supported the vote. 'The works could not be left unfinished. After some further discussion, • Sir S. M. PETO said he wished to know from the noble lord the Secretary to the Admiralty whether or not it was intended to extend the pier at Dover further than the foun dations had been laid. Unless he received a distinct answer he should take exception to the vote for Dover as well as for Alderney. Lord C. PAGET replied that there was no intention of extending the Dover pier farther than the limits of the foundations, and said the Government had also given up the eastern arm of the breakwater at Alderney. Mr. BAXTER expressed his amazement at the noble lord's change of opinions with respect to Alderney. Two years ago the noble lord thought Alderney would be valu able as a look-out station, now the noble lord recommended it as an important naval station, Viscount PALMERSTON said he could understand if they were only beginning the work why hon. members should hesitate to vote the money—but, considering that the works had been some time in progress, and ware ap proaching completion, he could not see why the committee should refuse to pass the present vote. The committee divided. The numbers were— For the amendment 62 Against it Majority against The vote was then agreed to. On the vote of £68,39 for works at Holyhead and Port patrick. Sir H , CAIRNS moved the reduction of the vote by £ 5 ,000 on account of Portpatrick, on the ground that it could not be made a harbour of refuge or a packet station unless at an extravagant outlay. The amendment was withdrawn, after an explanation by Mr. M. GIBSON, and the vote was agreed to. Upon the vote for £89,618 balance of the sum of £114,618 for public buildings in Ireland, Mr. MAGUIRE proposed to reduce the vote by £3,000. The committee divided-- for The e 84 Majority for th e vo t e .... —65 iji vo y° t ee e se was then agreed to. The Ch a i rman r eported p rogress , an d th e h ou se resumed. INLAND REVENUE BILL. The bill as amen ded was cons id ere d an d agreed to. D RAINAGE AND IMPROVEMENT OF LAND (IRELAND) BILL. On the motion for the third reading of this bill, Mr. HENNESSY moved that the bill be re- comm it ted, Purpose of having the principle of arbitration in troduced, After some discussion, Lord PALMERSTON moved that the debate be ad si ; °lll.ll ed until Monday, and the proposal was agreed to. . 1 , T , 116 Canaan Islands Bill passed through committee. ' 4"/ house was counted out half-past two. STATE Or TRADE. MANCHESTER, June s.—For yarns there has been a little more i nquiry than there was on Tuesday, and there is a more ch eerful feeling in the market ; but upon the whole business is q u i et, and in some cases prices are rather easier. These remark s apply as the ho me trade. The cloth market remains fully as quiet as o to yarns for all foreign markets, as wel n Tuesday, but there is a less gloomy feeling, and there is some in qu i ry, terms. The h.._ On Tuesday and Wednesday the feeling was one of extreme despondency, and business was almost impossible on any thou g h it does not lead to much business. though there not been much done by merchants, some turers holding v e ...- iy business has been practicable on a small scale with buyers improvement in tone is very decided to-day, and for moat markets, There is no actual change in prices, but, 1.1. anything , the tendency is to lower rates, though so slight as I.—_, '""culy to be worthy of notice, manufac turers no necessity to press sales. Letters are to hand from Calcutta and Bombay, dated the sth and 13th of May, light stocks, and having, therefore, and telegrams to the 15th and 16th. Both are of a very dia. num ber of ships ports, "Business suspended ; shirtings 3d. to 41. lower." The ac character, and one telegram from Calcutta re mutts from Hongkong and Shanghai also reports the markets worse than at previous dates. CARDI/P, s th.—Within the last tow days a large num- Nassau bein g fine Americans, and others are daily expected. The de have entered the docks, including several very mend for steam coal continues unabated, and is with diffi culty ai PP l ieci. Freights are in much more settled condi tion. ; Jamaie m, 22s ; Marseilles, ' 265. ; Alexandria, 255. ; 10s. Coastwise Genoa, 258. quoted 24s • St. Thomas's, 225. ; Havannah, ; Constantinople, 24e. ; Naples, 26s ; and Ali 40s. ; Shanghai 5 0 . Othlr freights are—Madras, 30s ; Hongkong, , Valparaiso, 255. 6d. ; and Stockholm, business was don are low, and business is rather dull. sad atd to abo th u e t n r ea u r e } s ' d r a e r nc s h r,,. ports the freights NOTTINGHAM, sth.—The demand for lace yarns r ' Exchange-hall to-day was limited, and a env' . rather more doing in hosiery yarns. supported. Spun silk meet, are in favour of th e e ,, ,, note in other kir , in brown - wG this share of ~..oces. There was , and fully late rates were a bettor demand, and prices ..per. There is not much change to --.‘As. There was nothing of importance done oats; Prices remain steady. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. DAILY NEWS.—The illegal and arbitrary decree by which the King of Prussia has assumed a power of life and death over the newspapers in his domi nions, is the most despotic measure on which his Majesty has hitherto ventured. But it is in perfect conformity with his antecedents. The King has openly broken with the intelligence and pubic spirit of the nation, and having insulted and dis missed the Chambers, which were its constitutional organ, was not likely to tolerate its free n auifesta lion through the press. And as the Constitution guaranties to every Prussian the right to express his opinion freely, by writing and printing, and for bids any restrictions on the liberty of the press otherwise than in the way of legislation, the Con stitution is again violated. The decree of June 1 makes the dependents of the King► the absolute dis posers of that liberty, and empowers them to prohi bit and suppress any . journal with the tone, tendency, or "attitude" of which they may be dissatisfied. No reason is given, and none can be pretended, for this new violation of the rights of the subject. No foreign war or internal commotion menaces public tranquillity. Toe Prussian journals, like the people, are moderate and self-restrained under the gressest provocation a nation ever received. In the Ministe rial report, which in the Prussian Moniteur precedes the Royal decree, it is expressly said that the Go. vernment is compelled to assume an arbitrary power over the press, because the newspaper articles most objected to contain " nothing of which the law can take hold, nothing which can be made the ground of a prosecution." It is, therefore, the utility and not the abuse of the press that the Government seeks to destroy. It is no light thing for a nation pre-eminent for education and enlightenment— a people among whom intelligence is diffused more widely than among any other in Europe—to be exhibited to the world as the helpless victim of a Government which is dis tinguished for nothing but ignorance and brutality and the suspicion and jealousy which always accom pany misrule. The downward course in which the King has made such rapid progress since his coro nation has compelled the mcst moderate of Prussian patriots to ask themselves and one another what the country has further to hope from a family which for the last - 40 years has done nothing but betray the confidence of the nation and obstruct its pro gress. The new outrages. which the King covers with his name and which too faithfully represent his character, are of a nature to destroy the last link that connects the constitutional party with his throne. There is one person in Prussia who cannot be an unconcerned spectator of this movement. The Crown Prince does not like his father persistently shut his eyes to all sources of intelligence. He may not be aware of te extent to which national feel- ing is being gradually but surely alienated from his house. But he surely has the good sense to know what is the irresistible tendency of the policy pur sued by the King. His interests for the present, at all events, are identified with those of the people, for his rights are endangered in proportion as those of the nation are placed in jeopardy. The present is a time to try his temper and show what stuff he is made of. Whatever delusion the King may be under, he has only a life interest in the Crown, and the Prince is not bound to stand idly by and see his own rights and those of his chil dren sacrificed. The Prince appears to be aware that some manifestation of opinion, some act that will separate him from the policy of the Government, is proper in his situation. We fear, however, that the speech he has just made at Dant. zic will do little to revive the enthusiastic feeling for the Crown which the King has done so much to extinguish. The Prince confines himself to a cold and barren statement that he took no part in the deliberations which preceded the ordinances, and that their publication took him by surprise. This is all the Prince thought it necessary to say of an act which not only subverts the most essential liberties of the nation, but humiliates Prussia in the face of the world. It appears, however, that the utter prostration of political liberty is not inconsis tent with such glory as his Royal Highness desires for the nation, for he makes the astonishing remark that " under his Majesty's sceptre Prussia is se curely approaching the greatness which Providence has marked out for her." The Crown Prince is help less and hopeless indeed if he imagines that great ness of any kind is attainable by the path in which his father is conducting Prussia. TIMES. —We may search history in vain for an authentic record of a change so vast and wonderful as that which hes just come over the destinies of our great Oriental Empire. We have been in the habit for many years of referring with excusable pride to the brilliant annals of our colonial progress, and contrasting it with the chequered story of our adventures, wars, and negotiations among the faith less Sovereigns of India and the indomitable tribes of Central Asia. It is only five-and -twenty years since the attention of this country was absorbed by the advance of Persia to invest Herat, and shortly afterwards by our own unexampled calamities and reverses in the Affghan War which followed. Herat is again besieged, but the quarter of a century which has passed has taught us some useful lessons. If the world has advanced in nothing else, it has made considerable progress in.the very important art of distinguishing between the substance and the shadow. Nobody now troubles himself with the siege of Herat, but the most eager attention is fixed on a scene which has just been passing in Calcutta, where an elderly gentleman, leaning back in an arm-chair, has been reading to an attentive audience a pamphlet of some five-and-thirty pages in a man ner by no means calculated to attract the approba tion of a critic in the art of elocution. But the Indian public are right, for while they have dis covered that Herat may be taken and retaken a hundred times without perceptibly influencing their destiny, they know that the Budget of their Finance Minister is the very corner-stone of their past hopes, the talisman of their future destiny. After 20 dreary years of wars and deficits, India has at length emerged into a period of peace and surplus, and she knows well that the connection between these two things is by no means accidental. The financial statement of Sir Charles Trevelyan, studiously guarded in its estimates and moderate in its hopes, is nevertheless one of the most satisfactory docu ments of the kind which it has ever been our lot to peruse. Let us begin with the year 1861-2, for which Mr. ',ling estimates a surplus of £239,000. This surplus Sir Chas. Wood converted into a deficit of £595,000, by certain alterations in items carried to one or other side of the account ; but the revenue has been so elastic that it has filled up £580,000, and left only a deficits of 115,000. For the year 1862-3 Mr. Laing estimated a surplus of £179,000, which Sir Charles Wood by the same inexorable processatransformed iota a deficit of £284,000. But again the revenue came to the aid of Mr. Laing, and this time so effectually that there is a clear surplus for the financial year 1862 3 of £936,92b. The grass revenue for this year is£4s,ooo,ooo,while the expenditure amounts to £ 4 4,000,000. Thus are banished, we hope for ever, all those chimeras of Indian debt and difficulty which so long depre ciated the securities and overshadowed the future of India. IVe see an excellent result of this im proved state of public credit in the first attempt to supersede that most objectionable system of guarantees under which Indian railways have been hitherto forced by the construction, without gua rantee, of a loop line on the East Indian Railway. Some items in the expenditure of the year must be regarded with particular satisfaction. The total sum appropriated for public works in the current year is £5,250,000, and if we add £4,000,000 for the payment of interest guaranteed to railways, the eum total amounts to no less than £9,250,000. So com pletely are the days gone by that we used to plead in vain for the investment of money on public works, however reproductive, that we are now informed there will be no difficulty as far as money is con cerned, the real point being the difficulty of getting value for the outlay. The Indian Govern ment is ready with any sum that can be profitably employed, but it requires for that profitable em ployment, tolerably cheap labour with honest and effective supervision —two things which, in the present state of India, it is very difficult to procure. In the same way the grant for Education seems only to be limited, like our own, by the; demands of the people, and not at all by the necessities of the Go vernment. India enjoys thre e sinking funds—the proceeds of waste landee, and of the redemption of rents due to Government; the reserve, which can beafter employed in buyi ng up G overnment securities, leavieig sufficient to exchange against any notes that Tray be presented ; and the each balances in tide exchequer. From these resources £4,000,000 have been applied towards the reduction of the debt. While the debt leas thus been reduced it is satisfactory to know that for the last four years the Indian revenue hoe increased on on average by two millions and I :nree-quarters each year. With all this liberal expenditure the estimate for the current year shows a surplus of £815,000. The distribution of this surplus is to reduce the duty on iron, that first necessity of a coup ` .ry in earnest in the construction of railways, frreen 10 to 1 pe r cent. • to reduce th e duty on bees. from 3d. to a gallon, ' to impose a take C' of IR per cent, ad valorem on win es , an d to w „ -it one-fou r th o f t h e income-tax. These things ,it still leave Sir Charles Trevelyan with a balance of £480,000, which he reserves to meet unforeseen contingencies. A thorough revision of public esta blishments, with a view not so much to economy as efficiency, is also promised. This is the Indian Budget, and it certainly well bears out the assertion with which we commenced, that historei affords no parallel to a revival so complete and so satisfaetory. lIERALD.—The Volunteers' Bill, which on Thurs• day eve, tina nasseA thrnn fAilPa elicit any strong expression of opinion from the House of Commons. Whether from the circum stance that it was the Gold Cop Day at Ascot, or simply a feeling of indiffi,rence, it is certain that the legislative wisdom assembled at St. Stephen's on the evening in question languidly passed those ob noxious clauses in the bill which have created no little excitement out of doors. It is true that ob jeationa were raised, and that several members spoke, but only one alteration was insisted upon. The house fortunately would not permit the clause which prescribed that Volunteers should, if neces sary, be engaged in quelling riote, to become law ; and consequently it was withdrawn, As for the rest of the measure, Government had its own way. Four or five amendments were put forth, and after being pleasantly goesipped over, were withdrawn ; one was certainly pressed to a division, that of Sir Robert Clifton, which proposed in lieu of command ing officers having absolute power of dismissal that a court of inquiry should be inetitulmd, and the Volunteer accused of any military misdemeanour fairly tried. But this amendment was rejected by a considerable mejority, Whatever may be said by the friends of the new bill, we can safely affirm that for several causes it is unpopular with the majority of Valunteers, whose wishes have not been con sulted in the matter, and who will now find theme selves governed by laws which are derogatory to their diemity. As soon as the new bill is passed every Volunteer corps may be likened to a petty state, ruled over by an absolute monarch, vested with powers of the most despotic nature. Reluc tant as we are to make the statement, we feel com pelled to own that we see in the measure no fair legislation for the mass of Volunteers, but only enactments calculated to gratify the vanity of a few commanding officers, If this be not so, what, we would ask, is the reason for retaining the clauses which have given so much offence, unless, indeed, the bill be framed with the express view of so crip pling the movement that its existence would, for all practical purposes, be at an end. In regard to the power given to officers to dismiss Volunteers for any cause they, the commanding officers, may deem sufficient, Lieutenant-Colonel Luard, assistant in spector of Volunteers, distinctly stated before the commission that it was a power which °vet not to be in the hands of Volunteer officers. Hardly with any exception the press has raised its voice against this clause, which is in every respect contrary to the constitution of our country. Colonel Sykes, who is no mean authority on military mat ters, also spoke against it cn Thursday evening, and well pointed out that although the Volunteer had the right of appealing to the War Office, when dis missed, some independent court of appeal should be established. Upon what grounds the Marquis of Hartington forms his opinion, that not to give a commanding officer authority to dismiss would strike at the root of the discipline and efficiency of the Volunteer movement, we are at a loss to under stand, for his remark might be applied with equal truth to the regular army. It is, too, little short of an absurdity to allow an appeal to the War Office against an arbitrary decision when it is perfectly easy to constitute in each volunteer corps a court for the trial of offenders which would pass sen tence after hearing evidence and fairly investigating the charge submitted. If this were done, Volun teers would no longer have occasion to be jealous of enormous powers being in the hands of their come mandieg officers. That the authority is felt to be excessive is evidenced by the fact of its being in tended to introduce in the interpretation clause words defining Volunteer to mean " non-commis sioned officer and private." Now, we hold that in a Volunteer army what is " good for the goose is also good for the gander ;" and if a colonel be not allowed to dismiss the commissioned officers under him, neither should he be granted that power over the sergeants, corporals, and privates of his corps. The House of Commons, thinks differently, and the fiat may now be said to have gone forth which places Volunteers in a very unpleasant posi tion with their commanding officers. The clause also which allows the latter to refuse to strike out of the muster-roll those who desire to resign, - .vas, after some slight opposition, agreed to ; so that, al though a member of a corps may have complied with all the conditions laid down by Government he will be unable to retire should his colonel choose to refuse to accept his resignation—unless, indeed, he put himself to the trouble and expense of an ap , peal. As to the clause which allows officers and members of Volunteer corps to make new rules and alter old ones, but allows the far greater power to commanding officers of refusing to transmit the same to the lieutenant of the county, the com mittee passed it without a murmur, and Sir Morton Peto's motion was in sporting language " nowhere." Thus, then, th ree o f th e c l a uses in the new bill that were most obnoxious to Volunteers have been allowed to stand. The only gain of any im portance is exemption from employment in suppress ing riots; and as every man of sense has seen, ever since the movement was first sec on foot, that to use Volunteers on such a service would be an act of folly little short of madness, the rejection of a clause which prescribes such a duty was felt to be an ab solute certainty. Look at it either from the point of view of a commanding officer or that of a private, we do not see any sufficient cause for retaining the regulations laid down in the clauses to which ob jections have been taken. Colonels must feel that they will have placed in their hands powers re quiring the nicest discrimination and the utmost delicacy. Privates must feel that they are in many respects Volunteers only in name. The grant of money made by Government would have done much towards consolidating and rendering more efficient our army of civilians, but we fear that the House of Commons, by the decisions it arrived at on Thursday night, will go far towards utterly disor ganising h one asgiv e n o f birtht e institutions rate,that o e l un t present eer s age have to thank Government for giving them a grievance. POST.—Yesterday the protocol which formally settles the Greek succession was signed at the Foreign-office by the Ministers of the three protect ing Powers, and al so b y t h e Minister of Denmark.We heartily congratulate the Greek people that the question of their future government is now settled, beyond the reach even of the most improbable con tretemps. To-day it is understood that the Greek Envoys who have so long been awaiting at Copen hagen the formal settlement that has now taken place, are to be received by the King of Denmark, and by Prince Christian and his son, Thus the contract which was yesterday made between Den mark and the three protecting Powers of Greece will be completed also to-day between Denmark and the representatives of the Greek people. The vessel of the Hellenic State may now, therefore, be said to be launched anew, and with auspices incom parably fairer than on the previous occasion of a Greek monarchical settlement. In each case, in deed, the choic e of th e p r ot ec ti ng P owers devolved upon a Prince too young to be judged of by his own antecedents. But it will nevertheless be seen at a glance that there is the widest difference between the prospects to be drawn from the reign of King George, and the anticipations which might have been formed at the commencement of the reign of Otho. The new King of Greece is a prince of a con stitutional dynasty which has been as firmly attached to the principles of representative government as the Hanoverian family in this country. His inti mate connection with the powerful and consistent dynasty of Great Britain will serve also to cherish and maintain the constitutional prepossessions with which he has been brought up. The countries which will surround his new monarchy now also present a very different character from that which they wore 30 years ago when Otho ascended the Greek throne. Italy was then split up into the harshest of all pos sible depotisms, and the worst of all conceivable misgovernments. Turkey was then also convulsed with civil war ; and whether Greece looked beyond the Adriatic on the one side, or beyond the .iEgean on the other, there was neither the spectacle of peace and progress nor of rational liberty to encourage her in a career of social and political improvement. Now, however, Italy is at once free and peaceful and improving ; and though Mahometanism is ne cessarily despotic, Turkey is as busy in the promo tion of the arts of peace as the most prosperous em pire of 'Western Europe. it may be fairly hoped, therefore, that a people so apt as the Greeks to shape their own conduct from the example of their neighbours, will gain much by the contrast between what those neighbours now are, and what they were thirty years ago. In this contrast there lies another difference, even more substantial, perhaps, than the force of example. A no inconsiderable part of the trade which Greece is capable of deve loping must be carried on with the Turkish and Italian empires. Both those States are now ready to trade with Greece on a wider scale than when they were oppressed by domestic misfortunes of their own. The west of Europe also can receive much more of the natural products of the Greek Peninsula than have hitherto been exported from it. Moreover, the annexation of the lonian Islands will infuse both new blood and additional wealth into the enlarged Greek State. The lonians will be found, in point of ability and education, worthy of a foremost place in the government of the country; and in regard to the affairs of commerce w cheetnheereisn no doubt that the principal merchants of king dom of Greece will be found among them. The leading lonians, too, are for the most part a busy and thriving race, and we should not judge of them by those political declaimers at Corfu who make themselves notorious iu the newspapers, but who are by no means generally the leaders of lonian so ciety, or men of consequence in lonian commerce. We see reason to think, therefore, that the acces sion of the Septinanlar Republic to the Greek mon archy will exert an important social influence, upon tltia iirPPICA2 clitianonrion4hr. nli . vantages derivable to any small State from an in crease of territory and population not so large auto disturb its numerical ascendant. Naval and Military Intelligence. THE NAVY. The following appointments were made yes terday at the Admiralty:— Arundel Smith, assistant-paymaster, to the Royal Ade laide. George W. Bradley, assistant-clerk, additional, to the Cur acoa. Benjamin Barker, chief engineer, to the Cumberland, for the Salamander. William Pell, to Indus, for Sanspareil. Peter Samson, assistant-engineer. THE ARMY. The whole of the schools connected with the Royal Engineer establishment at Chatham have been fur nished with recruits, sent up to headquarters from the various recruiting districts, in order that they may be put through the usual curriculum of enei neering education in photography, surveying, topo graphy, military drawing, &c., previously to their being despatched on colonial service. All the avail able officers and men of the Royal Engineers not in attendance at the schools are going through a course of field-work instruction at the Royal Engineers' practising-ground, adjoining St. Mary's-creek, where, under the direction of Col. Lovell, C. 8., the superintendent of field_works, a regular course of fortification is being carried out. The plan of the works now in progress supposes a regular attack on St. Mary's casemated barracks, towards which the siege works are being directed. These consist of the saps, parallels, magazines, and other earthworks constructed after the modern systems of fortification, on the basis of Vauban's theory, together with sunken, half-sunken, and elevated earth batteries for the reception of the siege guns. The whole of the works are being pushed forward with great vigour, in anticipation of siege operations on a rather ex tensive scale being carried out at Chatham towards the end of the present season. Capt. L. C. Barber, from the retired list of Royal Engineer officers, Chatham, has been appointed to succeed Capt. N. H. Synge, in the Royal Engineer Department, Sheerness, under the command of Col. S. Freeth, Royal Engineers. Mr. W. Wilgress has succeeded to the duties of Assistant Superintendent of Stores and Acting Barrack Master, vice Mr. I. Moore, ordered for service at Malta. O❑ Thursday, May 28, the non-commissioned offi cers of the Veteran Battalion, Gosport, presented to their Sergeant-Major, Joseph Gibbs, of Forton, a handsome gold watch, as a mark of esteem for hia manly and soldierlike conduct during the time he has served with them. COUNTRY MARKETS. , ,6 , - WAKEFIELD—FRIDAY. A good supply of fresh wheat at market to-day, for which there was a slow demand at quotations slightly under last week's rates. Chambered parcels neglected. Other articles at the prices of last Friday. STAMFORD—FRIDAY. With the usual quantity of wheat, the trade was fair. —White wheat, 478 to 50s; red, 44s to 48s per 36 stone• Barley, malting, 36s to 40s; grinding, 30s to 33s per qr. Oats, 20s to 25s per 24 stone. Beans, old, 40s to —s per qr.; new, 38s to —s. LIV ERP OL—F RIDAY . At this day's market there was a small attendance, with a limited demand for wheat, and sales could only be effected at a reduction of ld to 2d per cental on Tuesday's prices. Oats were id to ld per bushel cheaper. Indian corn 6d per qr reduction. Flour rather lower. CORK—FRIDAY. The following were the quotations this morning :_Rfd wheat, —s Od to Os Od ; white, lOs 9d to —s Od ; barley, 66 Od to Os Od ; oats, 8s 6d to Os Od. ; black do., 7s 3d to is 3d. EXETER—FRIDAY. Wheat, white.. 6s 3d toGs 4d I Barley. 3s Gd to 4s sa Ditto red. .6s Od to 68 3d Oats .........2s 9d to 3s Od Flour, fine, 35s to 36s ; seem:l(lBo4s to —s per sack. CATTLE. Fat beef, p sc., 10s0d to 11s6d Ewes, per l b ....Rd to 6.1c 1 Pork carcases, 7s Od to 8s Od I Wethers, a 0.....,. 7d to --d Lamb, p to —d Fat calves, d0...61d to7d• Rough fat, 31d per lb. BRISTOL SUGAR—FRIDAY. There has been rather more doing in the raw market this week, and several parcels of Trinidad and Barbadoes have been sold at full rates to 6d per cwt advance. Refined goods dull of sale, and a limited business, Rum—Several parcels have been sold at full rates, say is 61 to is 7d for Demerara, and Is 5d for Leewards. COAL N Prices of Coal per Ton al .ARKET. ; the close of the market. th ' s. d. Wylam 15 9 North Felton Gas 13 0 Carway and Duffryn Malting . 19 6 Walls End. , 0 South Kelloe Riddell ..... 13 a South Hetton Hartlepool 16 O ' 16 6 K elloe Eden Main 15 ;t, 23 ; sold, 22. Walls End. Trimdoti Hartlepool...l6 01 Ships at market Foreign Mail racket List. MAILS DUE. Australia and Mauritius, via Southampton. Juno 1 via Marseilles Brazil and Cape Verds, by British packet. .......June Juno . Juunc - e 1.7 Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena.. June ---• China' Fenanng(CSsaonudthSaimn via Marseilles ...June 2. Southampton .. ....... Southaropton.June 2. .... Tune 4. G Fa ib lk ra la lt n a d r, l v sl i a a India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via So : u : t .. h .. ......... ............. .......... 2.2 India (Benabay), v i a Southampton -- .... ........ June 10. v ia Marseille s.... June 12. via Marseilles ................ June 5. Portugal.... June 4. Malta, Egypt, an d Ad e n, via Southampton June 2. via Marseilles June 5. Newfoundland Oporto and 'Vigo U. S. and British N. America, by Brit. packet.... June 4. by U.S. packet.... by Canadian packet. Jun© 5. W.O. of Africa, Madeira, and Teneriffe June 10 Bahamas, via Nev York ' June 4. Mexico June 29 , . •. . • All parts of "West Indies, including Chili, Peru, 1 June 13 , California, and British Columbia.. i SUSPECTED SUICIDE AT LONDON-BRIDGE."' Yesterday Mr. H. Rbffies Walthew, the depu t l coroner, held an inquest at the Town of Ramsgate Tavern' High-street, Wep t leg, respecting the death of a male Pe r ' Wednesday morning n, apparently about 30. Samuel Perry, of .I`lo' 53, Upper Fore-street, Lambeth, a fisherman, said tha t c:1 morning last, about 4 o'clock, while rowing h'! boat past Union •stairs,Wapping, he saw the body of deceased floating in the water. Witness towed it ashore, and PO it into the charge of an officer. The body had been in the water about a fortnight, and was quite black with decorn: position. One of the Thames police said that he searched the pockets of the deceased, and found 2s 2d in money,.i l table cover and a pattern book. Verdict — " Fo u nd dead i¢ the river, but how he became immersed they had no evv dente to prove." The deceased is supposed to be the rati ll ' who jumped off London-bridge about a fortnight since. [ADVERTISEMENT.] —Holloway's Ointment and PillsC; Uniform Success.—These remedies stand unrivalled for th cure of gout, rheumatism, lumbago, tic doloreux, and ever , other variety of neuralgic pain. The painful places hal only to be bathed in tepid salt and water, and well rubbe d with Holloway's Ointment to convince the most iceptica' of the curative power it exercises over these diseases. Til e , most desperate cases best exemplify the striking Imam% which follows the use of thi s soot hing Ointm en t an d thee' purifying Pills. Both medicaments are composed of 01 : most innocuous and he a li ng b a l sam s. Some severe cas e " of neuralgia recently successfully treated have been re' ported to Professor Holloway with the earnest prayer th he would publish the m f or the benefit of all thus tafticted• Births. CORBEL—On the 4th inst., at Aston Hall, Salop, the Wi fe of Henry Corbett, Esq., of a son. FEETHAM.—On the 4th inst , at Charlcote, t ile wife of the Rev. Wm. Feetham, of a son. a of HARVEY.—On the 3d inst., at Blackheath-park, the W.-° John Harvey, Esq., of a son. JAFFRAY.—On the 4th inst., at 28, Eaton-square, th © w ife of Arthur W, Jaffray, of a son. Marriages. BRENNAN—WELLINGTON. — On the 4th inst., at St. 1\ Woolnoth, George Brennan, Esq., of Angell-road , 1 3 r 1 ton, to Mary Susanna, only daughter of Henry - We ton, Esq., of 66, Lombard-street, city. • ell, Et.msoiv—TooD.—On the 4th i ns t., a t St. James's. mr, Major H. G. Ellison, elder son of Lieut.-Col. Ells' of of J3oultham Hall, Lincoln, to Amelia, only daughte r John Todd, Esq., Victoria-park, Manchester. Deaths. BOUTFLOWER.—On the 4th inst. at West Felton R eel°l l near Shrewsb ur y, th e R ev . H. C. Boutil ower , r ector 0 Elmdon, Warwickshire, aged 66. DEACON.— On the sth inst ,at Ealing, Barbara, the wif °°f Geo. Deacon, Esq. GRANT. —On the 4th inst., at 2, Plowden-buillings, T°l33° ple, James Grant, Esq., aged 55. 110, GOLDICUTT.—On the 2d inst., suddenly , at Neop— Kent, Wm. W. Goldicutt, Esq., aged 31. NiciossoN.— On the 3d inst., at Stone, Staffordshire, J°llll Nickisson, Esq, aged 67. 11 POWELL —On the 3d inst., at Sauthlauds, Phi lli p s Pc" aged 63. 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