The Sun. — London, England, 1854-03-03 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, MARCH 3, 1854. seam to the army, which at present belongs to the secre taries of State, should for the future be vested in the Se cretary at War. 2. An alteration should be made in the 'form of the appointment of the Secretary at War :—I. `That he should in future be always a member of the Cabinet. 11. That he should be the Minister by whom the advice of the Cabinet, as to the amount of the military establishments, should be laid before the King. 111. That he should be the person to consider and act on all points with the Commander-in Chief on behalf of the Administration, and to be imme diately responsible to Parliament for all the measures of Government with reference to the army. IV. That he should assume all the merely formal duties relating to the subject now performed by the Secretaries of State, such as the preparing and countersigning of military commissions, and the issuing of orders for the delivery of arms to the troops. 3. The Secretary of State, to whom the civil administration of our numerous colonies, with all their complicated interests, is entrusted, cannot possibly give the attention to the subject (amount and distribution of the army) which it requires. 4. The Secretary at War, by whom the army estimates are now moved in the House of Commons, seems to us to be the person to whom the important duty of watching over the whole military administration of the country should be properly com mitted. 5. To give him (the Secretary at War) a direct control over those large branches of busi ness relating to the military service of the country which are now managed by the Board of Ordnance and by the commissariat department of the Treasury. 6. With respect to the Ordnance, we think this might best be accomplished by dividing the civil from the military duties of that department. I. The latter (the military du ties) should be left, as at present, in charge of the Master- General, who should exercise the same authority he now has in all matters of discipline, promotion, &c., subject to the general orders of the Government, to be conveyed to him, as we have already explained, by the Secretary a t War, instead of by the Secretary of State. 11. He should also retain under his immediate orders the 'nspectougene ral of fortifications, and be charged with the duty of su perintending the execution of all military works. 7. The civil business, on the other hand, should be brought under the more direct control of the Secretary at War, by making the board officers, by whom it is more immediately con ducted, su b or dinate to him instead of th e Master-Master-Genial and Board of Ordnance; so that their separate divisions of the business would become branches of the War-office, and the whole expenditure connected therewith would be pro vided for in the general army estimates." In support of these recommendations, the hon. member read some ex tracts from the evidence of Earl Grey before the committee of 1850, which, ho observed, ought to carry conviction to every mind. He had hoped that these changes would have been made long ago, not forced upon us by an impending war. This was not a state of things which ought to con tinue a day longer. The Government ought to take steps for carrying out these recommendations without delay. A fogtnight ago he had asked if there was any such intention, and being answered in the negative, he had no alterna tive but to b r i ng on thi s mo ti on . It might be said it was ill-timed, but he contended that no further delay ought to be permitted. The bon member concluded by moving the resolution of which he had given notice. Mr. A. PELLATT seconded the motion. Mr. S. HERBERT said he certainly agreed much more with some of the opinions which the hon. gentleman had advanced in his speech than with the motion with whi h he had concluded. He differed from some very material portions of the report which he asked the house to adopt ; and he (Mr. Herbert) concurred in many of his objections to it. The house must first consider at what time and un der what circumstances this report of 1837 had been made. There had then been great impediments to tie carrying on of the public business, through differencies and controver sies which had arisen between different branches of the war department. It was true that in 1812 there had 'been very serious differences between the then Commander-in- Chief, and the Secretary at War ; and at a later period, shortly antecedent to the sitting of the committee, there had been grave differences of opinion and very warm con troversy between them. There was peat in lispoeition on the part of the military authorities to adopt any changes or improvements, or to listen to suggestions from the War office and Lord Howick, fearing that his plans would not meet With the concurrence of the military authorities, felt that some change was necessary in the organisation of the departments, to enable him to carry out those plans which be was rightly convinced were necessary to the well being of the army. On more occasions than one he had had to speak in high terms of Lord Howick's efforts for the improvement of the condition of the army ; but if those controversies existed then, and rendered the appoint. ment of a commission necessary, an entirely different state of things now prevailed. In the first place, the energy of Lord Howick succeeded, in spite of all difficulties and opposition, in carrying his plans into effect. At present, - therefore, the ground of want of harmony between the different officers no longer existed. In the last few years very great changes had been originated in the War office; and ultimately they had been invariably successful. During the administration of the present Lord Panmure two of the greatest changes in the army were proposed by him, and successfully carried out—the abolition of service for life, and the substitution of a limited period of ten years, and the introduction of examination for commissions in the army. Those two were very vital changes. The first altered the whole condition of service in the army. The military authorities thought service for life almost a necessary condition for the efficiency of the army ; but, in spite of that Mr. Fox Maule was successful in carrying out the change. In point of fact, at the present day, there was harmony between the military and civil authorities ; and the former entertained such enlightened and extended views that the indisposition to introduce a ny c h ange h a d entirely disappear e d. Therefore, on the ground of contro versy between the authorities, there no longer existed any necessity for a change. (Hear.) But it was said the army ought to have one head, as the navy had. Bat the navy was not under one head, in the sense which tn.° hon. gen tleman proposed. In the nature of things, the navy must be supplied with artillery anti stores by anotherdepartment. All officers agreed that matters relating to artillery and projectiles were more likely to be understood by those who had devoted their lives to that scientific profession than by the officers of the navy themselves ; and therefore thecom mission of 1837 did not recommend that the supply of the navy with ammunition and warlike stores should be taken from the Ordnance. Neither with regard to the disposition of the forces was the navy under one head. The First Lord took the orders of the Secretary of State as to where the forces should be employed. When he was Secretary to the Admiralty, applications constantly came to them from the Foreign-office ; and the.) , used to think it most inconve nient, inasmuch as the political necessities of the country often diverted ships from places where, for the efficiency if the service, the Admiralty wished to concentrate them. A few years ago, when the insurrection broke out in the lonian Islands, the Secretary of State issued orders to the First Lord of the Admiralty to send ships from other ports of the Mediterranean to assist in putting down that dis turbance. More recently, under the authority of the Home Secretary, ships were sent , to Ireland to supply the re quired assistance there. Therefore it was not correct that if the Secretary at War were constituted into a Secretary of State, he would be in the same position as the First Lord of the Admiralty, who, in fact, took his ()niers from the Secretaries of State. -Then came the question —was it wise that he should receive orders from the Secretary of State ? It was proposed that an officer should be constituted who should perform all the duties now performed by the Secre tary at War, by the Master-Gener a l o f th e O r d nance ( as .far as the ci vil duties of the ordnance went), by the trea sury, and by the commissariat ; ands in addition to this vast consolidation of offices, that he should likewise per form the duties of two Secretaries of State for the Home and Colonial Departments, and by his authority order and be responsible for the distribution of all the forces of the country. This would not increase promptitude, or make the machine less cumbrous. How was the Secretary at War to judge whether an additional force was requisite in a certain district in England ? There might be strikes in Lancashire, bread riots in Wales, or political disturbances in Ireland ; but the Secretary at War could only obtain information of these things from the Home Secretary. For that reason he would not be responsible. He had no knowledge on the subject, and could only gain it by going to the Home Secretary. The same with regard to our colonial empire ; he could, in fact, be only ago be tween. Tee Colonial Secretary knew what colony might require the presence of troops; the Secretary at War could not know it. In point of fact, therefore, it would be the Home Secretary and the Colonial Secretary who would dic tate to the Commander-in-Chief, as now- but, in place of doing it themselves, the o r d ers mus t be filtered through this new officer, who would be like a third wheel placed between two cog-wheels that were moving each other with accuracy. The result would be to create great difficulties where now there was much simplicity, and a far more cir cuitous and cumbrous mode of arriving at the same end. He did not pretend to say that the present system was a perfect system. (Hear.) Theoretically, no doubt, there was much fault to be found with it; practically, it worked well. But it was his conviction that by a well considered change it might be made to work better. In support of his view he would refer to the evidence of Lord Panmure before the committee of 1850, as to the direction and distribution of the forces. He was asked what member of the Government he thought most competent to form an opinion with respect to the wants of the public service, and if any one was more so than the Home Secretary. He said certainly not— the Home Secretary was the most capable, and he ought to be the person who should advise with reference to all matters connected with the preservation of the peace, for he was constantly in communication with all parts of the country, npr could any one be so immediately responsible in case of civil war or disturbance. - Whoever might be the party to decide on what force was to be maintained in the co untry, Ile of course must be guided by the advice of the Home hoSecr_e_ta_ry, .as to what force should be maintained in the se w er u et m ary istzte If these duties were transferred to the War, he would have to go to the Home Sec. a n d ?l' f av or the information necessary to guide his judgment, it lifinis ,,lld be a m ere s hifti ng o f respons i bility from one mur to nether. Such was the opinion of Lord Pan l 'ellPonsibility of the new Minister would sim - ply aMOILIIL sotOniathnia, that he was told by the Home Secre tary that After all he would treoops t a were required in the coun t r y. taries of Stat e andthebu go-between between the ecre nCommander-in-Chief. His own s iews were that they cou l d Btrtdd very largely to the existing consolidation in the -the duties of three or fournitenae department. It had had 1815. He confessed that if h Partments cast upon it since ference to any existin g eircume had the power, without re circumstances, or the di ffi culties in which we were placed at this m oment, when it was neces a clea th r not to change our tree.% but n di se st t in li c e t m io , n he be s t h w o e ul en d say that there ought to be the Ordnance and the Commander • General of the Ordnance was a far more • • -th-ebi e f • The Master than the latter than the Commander-in-Chief. wag true officer had the appointment of o ffi cers, the selec tion ; but that was almost a matter of cour t:Lon and make no alteration in the army which involved He could pensewithont the consent of the Secretary a t - ar opix promoted whom he pleased to a vacancy; but that v . ri — oe e could only be created by consent of the Secretary at Nv a • Similar duties were performed by the Master-General of the Ordnance, but without the same check. The Produc tion of arms, the construction and maintenance of fortifi- Cons both came under the decision of the Master-Ge neral of the Ordnance. These duties were very complicated in their nature, and required the advice of men eminently scientific. If batteries were erected in places where they were useless, an unnecessary expense was incurred, and men were kept there when they might be more usefully employed in other parts. One error carried with it very grave and serious consequences. He was therefore justified in saying that, though not so high in rank, the office of Master -General was a more difficult and important one than that of Commander-in-Chief So far as he had seen of the working of the War-office in connection with the Horse 4 31uards, h e a tt r ib ute d very much of the financ i a l econom y in the management of the army to this fact—that one offi cer incurred the expense, and a different officer checked it. (Rear, hear.) He believed that the reason why the army had been administered so much more economically than the navy was, that there was an extraneous officer vigilantly watching every step, and with full power to ar rest any step inconsistent with economy. He thought that the check applied by the War-office to th , 3 Horse Guards ought to be applied by the War-office to the Ordnance. That was a matter of private opinion ; he pledged no other member of the Government to it. A furth,r division might be made, though there were difficulties in the way. Let the Commander-in-Chief command the personnel of the army, and the Master-General of the Ordnance have the direction of the materiel. That would be a plain line of demarcation, and one that would tend to the greater efficiency of the military service. (Hear.) But he was aware that opinion was not shared by many who had con sidered the subject. It was not indispensable to that he had mentioned before, which he thought sound and almost indisputable, that the check over the military expenditure now exercised by the Secretary at War on the Horse Guards, might be applied, with great advantage to the public service, to the Ordnance. (Hear.) Commissions were at present drawn up in the office of the Secretary of State : he knew no reason why they should not be drawn up in the office of the Secretary at War, and counter signed by him. The commission of 1837 stated, that when arms were required, the commander-in-chief wrote to the Secretary at War, who wrote to the Home Secretary, and there the thing stopped. Properly, the Home Secretary ought to have taken the King's pleasure, who would have signed a warrant, and upon that warrant the arms would have been delivered. But King George the Fourth had a great aversion to immediately signing his name ; conse quently the Secretary of State ceased to send the warrants to him ; the applications were waste paper, and the arms were sent by private intimation to the office. But her present Majesty chose to sign whenever she was required to do so ; and, with the wish to identify herself with every portion of the public business, she had continued to sign every one of those warrants ; therefore they bad ceased to be waste paper. The commission which sat before 1837—he thought in 1831—had drawn up a draft report, bat which was not signed, taki g a different view from the commission of 1837 with regard to the Master-General re taining in his possession the command of the artillery ; but some of their recommendations had since been carried out, as regarded the identifying in some respects the regu lations of the artillery and of the line ; and there were others which might be carried oat with greater facility. With regard to the commissariat department, he was of opinion--keeping in view the general principle that the commander-in-chief should have the control over the per sonnet, and the Ordnance-office over the materiel of the army—that the commissariat might be transferred to the latter, if the command of the artillery were transferred to the Horse Guards ' • but then he would apply there also the financial check of the Secretary at War. (Hear, hear.) He had explained unreservedly his own opinions to the house, but he thought that whatever changes were male should be made step by step. They ha i a system which, whatever its defects, gave practically, in emergencies like the present, very efficient results. It sometimes happened that gentlemen overrated the evils of a division of labour. What was really of importance was that there should be consentaneous action amongst different departments for the production of a given result. If colleagues were animated with a firm desire to carry out the objects of the public service, it was possible to combine their action together was to produce the same results as if they were under one head. Since he bad been in office it had been the custom to meet periodically at the Home-office, when the Master-General of the Ordnance, the Inspector of Fortifications, the First Lord of the Admiralty, the Commander-in-Chief, and him self, went carefully through the different changes made with regard to the home defences. Where colonial questions were treated of the same thing was done, with the addi tional presence of the Colonial Secretary. The Colonial Secretary was, to a certain extent, a war minister, for several of their foreign possessions were not colonies in the strict sense of the term, but rather colonial garrisons, such as Malta, Gibraltar, Bermuda, St. Helena, and Manritius, which were held for war purposes. No one ever thought of proposing to put the government of these colonies into the hands of the Secretary at War. Of the three secre taries of state the Foreign Secretary's office had the most onerous duties at present ; the duties of the Home-office were increesing, and those of the Colonial Secretary alone were likely to become much lighter. Where they trusted the responsibility of self-government to the colonies, the administrative duties of the Colonial Secretary were ' almost entirely cut off. Some 15 or 16 years ago Canada gave more trouble and caused more anxiety in the breast of the Colonial Secretary than all the rest put together. (Hear, hear.) There was no part of their colonial empire which now gave less trouble to, or con sumed less of the time of, the Colonial-office than Canada. As soon as they gave self-government to the Cape, to Ans . tralia ' and Van Diemen's Land, where they h a d n ow go t rid of the greatest of all their difficulties, the convict ques tion, the same thing would happen. The Colonial Secre tary and the Secretary at War were unfit to direct the ope rations of war ; but practically they had experience as to how the machinery worked under high pressure. They were sending out now a larger force—he would not' say than ever left these shores—but it was a larger force than was sent out with the Duke of Wellington to Portugal, and was even a larger English force than went to Waterloo, and it left with far greater attention bestowed upon their efficiency and health than upon any previous force which left their shores. They did this also in an unprecedentedly short space of time. All persons who saw the troops leav ing concurred in saying that troops never wont forth in a higher state of efficiency, both as to appearance and spirit, than those who had recently left. (Hear.) They knew by experience, therefore, that all these different depart ments of the Government worked harmoniously together, and though he confessed it was his own wish to carry out the changes he had stated, he should look with alarm to the success of a motion which pledgedithein to put the whole of the machinery out of gear, and to substitute in a time of emergency for old arrangements which practically worked well, others which might possess a greater degree of theoretical perfection, but which were new and untried. The success of departments depended on an accurate know ledge of routine. In the public departments of this coun try they had some men of very great ability. (Hear, hear ) There were others who, though not possessed of such great ability, were yet very useful from their long experience, and who, from having their minds constantly fixed on on object, were so much masters of the details of business that their information and action on the subjects of their office was almost mechanical and involuntary. (Hear.) But if they chang -d the position of these men ; if they were asked to originate a new routine, if they were run off the rails, as it were, it would lead to complete con fusion. (Hear, hear.) His right hon. friend the First Lord of the Admiralty organised a change in that depart ment of the largest and most important kind. He (Mr. S. Herbert) asked him if he would have done that during a war period, or a time of pressure. He said that it took years to get the different officers to accustom themselves to the use of the new machinery, and that it would be impossible to attempt such a change during the pres sure of war, which taxed the energies of all the departments to the utmost. He thought the greatest credit was due to his hon. friend the member for Montrose and the house generally for the support which they had given the Govern ment during the present emergency—(hear)—but he con fessed that if the present motion necessitated the immedi ate adoption of so large a change and so great a consolidation of departments, it would militate most seriously. if feasible at all, which he doubted, against the efficiency of the public service (Hear, hear.) Having expressed the opinions he entertained himself, with entire unreserve, with respect to the changes which he thought shonld be made at the proper time, he hoped the hon. gentleman would not press his motion on the present occasion. Lord SEYMOUR said he joined his right hon. friend who had just sat down in his liberal and well-considered views with respect to the improvement of departments, and he did not even object to the statement by which he qualified his argument, when he said that this was not the fitting time to effect it. He heard with no dissatisfaction an argument of that kind from a member of a cabinet by whom that plea had been treated with such scorn and con tempt (Hear, hear.) The office of Secretary at War was created in 1795, and in 1801 the colonies were transferred to him. At that time the Secretary of War had little to do with regard to the colonies ; they did not give the trouble which they did at a later period. He hoped his right hon. friend's prophecy with respect to the colonies would prove to be right; but seeing that they had forty colonies, with only one secretary to superintend and answer all the correspondence, and to make himself acquainted with the details which were brought under his notice, he thought that was quite sufficient for one man, without his having also to be responsible for the management of a great war. Earl Grey, who had been Secretary at War, stated before the committee, when Se cretary for the Colonies and Secretary at War, that it was perfectly impossible for him to exercise a constant super intendence over the military affairs of the country. (Hear, hear.) In former times, during the last war, he believed the Colonial Secretary had an under secretary who was a military man. At present there was nothing of the kind. He wanted to know if any assistance would be aflOrded to that officer in this respect, so that ho might not labour under any disadvantage, as compared with the Secretary at War during the last war? The real question after all was, had the 'resent system worked well ? They had at one time the Duke of Wellington Prime Minister, Sir G. Murray Colonial Secretary, and Lord Hardinge Secretary at War, but even at that time, with all these military men in office, Lord Grey stated that the arrangements were so complicated that the system by no means worked well. The noble lord proceeded to quote official letters from the Governor of the Bahamas, complaining of the unhealthi ness of the officers' quarters, and also those of the men, and showing that bad health, and frequently mortality, resulted from this state of things, and yet in consequence of the press of business in the colonial department these letters went for a whole year without answer. At last a letter, signe.l James Stevens, admitted that the early portions of the correspondence had been lost, and that the delay in answering the remainder arose from the fact of the matter having had to pass through five departments. (Hear, hear.) It was this multiplicity of correspondence, and con sequent delay, of •thich they complained. (Hear.) In an other case a question arose as to the repair of barracks in Turk's Island, and after a year's correspondence it was ascertained that the island was not under the Board of Ordnance at all. Another and a strong case of hardship arising from the present system was connected with the supply of food to the troops in the West India Islands. For nineteen years there had been complaints from the medical department on the subject, and at last when Lord Howick became Secretary at War he endeavonrnd to sub stitute fresh for salt provisions. There was no end of cor respondence among all the officers, and it was a year before the change was effected, and then it was found that the change was not healthful but economical, and that during the nineteen years lives might have been saved and health preserved had there been a prompt and efficient means of making a necessary change. (Hear, hear.) He (Lord Sey mour) would leave it to the Secretary for the Colonies to say what troops were necessary for the places under his superintendence, but he would place the general civil administration of the army in the hands of the Secretary at War. He wished to say, however, that every member of the committee had been deeply im pressed with the efficiency of every one in the Secretary at War's department, and their only regret was that they , had not a little more to do. Although he did not think it necessary to divide the house on the present motion, nor I would he assert that the present was a fitting time for im portant changes, still he thought that by transferring much of the duty now performed in the Colonial-office to the Secretary at War, much good would be done both to the service and the country. Sir J PA.KINGTON thought that the hon. member for Montrose had done service to the house and the country by introducing this subject. (Hear, hear.) He agreed in the spirit of much that had fallen from the right hon. Secre tary at War, but did not think he had been successful in clothinganswering system, a yof the points raised by the hon. member for Moatrose. The hon member had adverted to the mmaunenhearciai ; v d ahl the . system of purchasing cavalry t horses, and other points, which from time to time had wasbroutghhet were but rt the main with the army ic o h n' th t e h s e ev se e r r v a l l e d e e ' pa men s connected report comm ission 'n o Pakingto of n th ) e wm net ash a med (Hear, hear.) He (Sir J. e f d lB3 to 7 7p .gu ress a b b is y n s p u p e r h ov n a a l m o e f s th aes Palmerston and J. Russell, although sle it would seem from n th o e bl s e p; o ec rds h ofw a t s he pr S ep ec a r r e ed tary liw at to W cany ar that out ntheieteorwouf viewsthose s there expressed. They seemed to think that the present was not a time for making great changes, although that argument did not seem to have influenced them in other and very important matters. (Hear, hear.) Surely it would not be contended that the present was a satisfactory mode of carrying on any Government department, or one that could produce efficiency. In the first place, they had an army governed by a Secretary of State for the Colonies. Then they had the Commander-in-Chief, and again they had the Master-General of the Ordnance. Where was the necessity for these distinctive offices in carrying on a public department which, like all others, would be much more satisfactorily conducted by one authority ? The noble lord (Seymour) had referred to matters which he (Sir J. Paking ton's) experience tended to confirm. When he was Secre tary for the Colonies, he recollected on one occasion re ceiving urgent representations as to the health of the troops employed on colonial service in different parts of the world. The soldiers it appeared were suffering from sickness caused by a deficiency in the commissariat, and when he sought to apply a remedy he found that he had to refer to one depart ment, which had to refer to another, and while these several departments were putting questions one to another, no remedy could be provided. He thought the right hon. gentleman had altogether failed in answering the argu ments put forward in support of the motion ; on the contrary, what he had stated as an answer, tended to confirm those arguments. The right hon. gentleman said, " Tree, we have all these separate departments for the management of the army, but they are all acting har moniously together." If they were acting harmoniously now, it could not be forgotten that there had been discord between them, which discord might revive, and it was of the greatest importance to take measures in time to guard against the injury to the public service which must result should such discord occur whilst our army was in the field. I (Hear, hear.) The right hon. gentleman said no sufficient reason had been adduced for creating a Secretary of State for the War Department. Now he J. Pakington) did not understand the motion to point to that conclusion. What the hon. member for Montrose did in his resolution was to urge the necessity of placing the department under one efficient officer. (Hear, hear, from Mr. Hume.) That was the hon. gentleman's object, and when the right hon. gentleman (Mr. S. Herbert) stated that the Queen's com mands were now conveyed sometimes through one officer and sometimes through another, he certainly showed no reason why the Secretary of State for the Colonies should continue in the anomalous position of being also Secretary :It War. The business of the colonial department alone was more than enough for any one man without encum bering it with the duties which in no way belonged to it. In time of peace perhaps the Secretary for the Colo nies might continue to act as Secretary at War, but when he held the office ho felt that should war take place it would be impossible for the business of the two departments to be satisfactorily performed by the same person. They had been told that this was not the time to make any change. But the recommendation of the commission was made in time of peace, and then the change was not made because we were at peace, and now it way to be deferred because we were entering upon war. Depend upon it the public would not be satisfied that a question involving the efficient administration of so im portant a department should be thus trifled with. He hoped the Government would seriously consider whether it would be unwise at the present moment to organise a new department, and if they should be of opinion that the working of such new department at first might be incon venient, and prejudice the service, then he would urge upon them to consider whether some change might not be made by which the colonial department might be relieved from duties which it could not properly discharge. The noble lord had thrown out a suggestion which he thought a good one—namely, to appoint a now secretary of state to transact the war business. The right hon. gentleman had met the case in a frank spirit ; for he admitted that the present system was bad, and ought to be changed, and he trusted the Government would act upon that admission, and effect the change as speedily as was prudent— (hear, hear)—and in that hope he would press upon the hon. member for Montrose not to press his motion. Mr. E. ELLICE also expressed a hope that his hon friend would not divide ; for if he (lid he thought the Go vernment would be left in a minority. In the face of the almost general feeling of the house, it was impossible, he thought, in a rational country to permit the present confused administration of an important public depart ment to continue. But there was one influence which ap peared to be paramount with the Government—that of Sir Charles Trevelyan, of the Treasury. He had the highest respect for that gentleman, but he would urge the right hon. gentleman who was now adopting some of his views, to look back at the evidence he gave before the committee on the army and navy expenditure. The right hon. gen tleman would there see an instance of a public officer who had the faculty of making plenty of business if he could not very readily despatch it. He recollected that Mr. Sheridan once said of Mr. Whitbread that he was so indus trious that it was a pity he had so many dray horses, be cause if he had not he would draw all his drays himself. (A laugh.) Sir Charles Trevelyan seemed equally indus trious, and was anxious to add to the business of one department the whole of the emigration business of the country. For his own part, he always looked with suspi cion upon a man who proposed to do by a public depart ment that which the public out of doors could do much better for themselves. The incompatibility of the duties of the war department being united with those of the Colonial Secretary was shown the other day, when but for Mr. Guthrie's letter the troops would have been sent out without the necessary ambulances and field hospitals. It was due, however, to the Duke of Newcastle to say, that the moment his attention was called to the subject they were provided. The clothing of the army was under a board of general officers ; the arms tinder one authority, the commissariat under another ; in short, the details of the service depended upon so many different parties that in no other country in the world would such a system be tolerated. What they wanted by this motion was to take from any Secretary of State the duty of providing for another department than his own. They wanted to have one authority to whom the Colonial Secretary, the Home Secretary, and the Foreign Secre tary, when troops were required for the service of either department, should apply, and that all the military au thorities should report to one head. With regard to the sxpedition sent out to the East, they had the consolation of knowing that it was commanded by one of the best officers in the service--(cheers)—and at the same time one of the best practical men of business in this or any other country. (Cheers.) They might depend, therefore, that there would be no division of authority when that noble lord (Raglan) commanded, and that the ordnance, commis sariat, and medical department, anti everything else con nect d with the force, would be looked to by himself. (Hear.) And as that was the best mode of carrying on the military department abroad he and his hon friend (Mr. Hume) desired to see the same principle at home. Colonel KNOX hoped the ordnance would be placed under the same management as the rest of the army. He believed that it was necessary that the whole army should be under one head, and it never would be in a state of efficiency until that was the case He thought that as we were embarking troops for foreign service, it was rather late for the Government not to have made up their minds as to what description of arms the troops should have. There were two sorts of arms in use by the troops and se veral kinds of ammunition, whereas there ought to be one uniform kind of arms and ammunition. As recorded the Minie rifles, he was told that they required with the balls and ammunition a certain quantity of grease ; and in a hot cli mate, with 60 rounds of cartridges, the requisite quantity of grease would be diminished ; and after firing a few rounds the rifles would become inefficient, in consequence of the want of grease, without which the balls could not he forced down. This was a matter that required atten tion Colonel MAULE said there were only two kinds of arms carried by the troops, the smooth bore musket and the Minie rifle, and only two corresponding sorts of ammuni tion. As to the difficulty of loading the Minis, he was assured by Colonel Hay that to a man accustomed to using the rifle there was no difficulty in forcing the ball down. Lord J. RUSSELL said—Sir, I confess that my opinion as to the general evils of the present state of the War De partment is not very much altered from what it was when tip subject was inquired into some time ago. As to the re medywhich was then proposed, I have some doubts certainly with regard to a part of the authority which it was suggested should be given to the Secretary at War. I think that other arrangements might, perhaps, be bettor for the attainment of the object we have in view. At all events, I consider it is very clear from what has happened at various times—with respect more particularly to the Ordnance department, and the difficulty of making arrangements for the health of the troops—that a more efficient and more direct authority is required. My right hon. friend has stated that he thinks the Ordnance ought to be more connected with the Secre tary at War than it now is—that as the Secretary at War checks all the expenditure of the Commander-in-Chief, en he ought also to check the expenditure of the Ordnance. I believe. if this were done, it would not only serve as a check, but the operations of the Ordnance department would be much facilitated and made more effective than they now are. It has been asked why it was that the re port of 18.37 was not carried into effect. The first consider ation of that report came naturally before Lord Melbourne, who was then the head of the Government, and he imme diately entered into a correspondence with the Duke of Wellington on the subject. The Duke of Wellington wrote two or threelettersto Lord Melbourne, who found that those letters contained many objections to the report. They were chiefly objections of a constitutional nature, as relating to the functions of the Secretary-at-war. His grace thought that certain things could only be done by the Secretary -at- War—that he was the proper person to take her Majesty's Pleasure, and to give directions to the Commander in -Chief. These objections, proceeding from so high an authority, and being enforced by able arguments, induced Lord Mel bourne to think it better at that time not to take steps to carry out the report. I quite concurred in Lord Melbourne's opinion, and would not have liked to be a party to enforce objections. j e e n ct e i w on a s. rra w ng it e tt ment against the authority of the Duke of reeP ll t to explained the the Great Wellington, who, on this point, entertained very decided e nt now di difficulty t y P°l my right hon. friend and inconvenien ce th at would arise from attemp ti ng t o carry into effect a n ew organ i sat i on of the d epar t men t s a t a mo ment when they are all required to make the utmost exer tions in the preparation of this expedition. But there is one suggestion which has been made in this house that has already been taken into consideration, viz., the suggestion that there should be, and especially in time of war, not only an Under Secretary of State f r the Colonial Depart ment, but that there should be a military secretary attach ed to the office of my noble friend the noble duke at the head of the war and colonial departments. That suggestion has already been taken into consideration, and will, I trust, in a very short time be adopted. I believe it is necessary that some arrangement of that kind should be made to enable the noble duke to carry into effect the preparations in which he has been so busily engaged. My noble friend, having, charge of the War and Colonial Departments, has ' paid the utmost attention to all the arrangements which are necessary at this moment. Instead of its being a great public convenience I believe it would be a great pub lic inconvenience, if the carrying out of these arrange ments were to he transferred to any other department; but I quite agree with the hon. member for Montrose, that hotter arrangements are required, and I am sure that the hon. gentleman and the house will feel satisfied after the speech of my right hon. friend the Secretary at War, that no want of attention will he shown to this subject. Mr. HUME said that, after the statements which had been made to the house on the part of the Government, he would not at present persevere any farther with his motion. The motion was then withdrawn. HUSTINGS EXPENSES. Mr. HUME said that he was sorry to trouble the house, but he had now another question to bring before its notice. (A laugh He won!" move for )rave to brin:‘,. in 1 ) 111 o charge th e expensei of hngt i ngs at elections upon counties and boroughs in lieu of the candidates. The motion having been seconded by Mr. WILLIAMS, Lord J. RUSSELL stated that he saw no objection to the introduction of the bill, and leave was accordingly given. On the motion of Mr. HUME, the following returns were ordered :—Copies of the report and evidence, from a com mittee in 1849, appointed to inquire into the coat of mus• kets. Of the petition of the gun-lock makers in 1852 re specting Minie rifles. Of the advertisement for tenders for the materials of 20,000 muskets in September, 1853, and of the tenders sent in, stating the names of the persons tendering, whether accepted or rejected. Of any contract in October,'lBs3, with Brazier and Sons for 20,000 mus kets, stating the time for executing the contract, and whether executed. AUSTRALIAN EMIGRATION. On the motion of Mr. RUSSELL, in the absence of Mr. Butt, the following returns were ordered : —Returns of the depots established by the Colonial Land Emigration Commissioners for the purpose of sending emigrants to the Australian colonies with free passages, with the date of the establishment of each. Of the total expense of maintaining each depot in each year since its establish ment, and of the number and salaries of the persons em ployed in each. Of the sum expended in each year in paying the expenses of the transmission of emigrants from Ireland to each depot. And of the total number of emigrants in each year who have been sent with free pas sages from each depot, and of the number of such emi grants who have been Irish. REPEAL OF TAXES ON KNOWLEDGE. The annual public meeting of the Association for Pro moting the Repeal of all Taxes on Knowledge was held last evening at Exeter Hall. The meeting was nume rously attended. The chair was occupied by John Lewis Ricardo, Esq., M.P., who was supported by Mr. Cobden, M.P., Sir J. Walingley, M.P., Mr. Lawrence Heyworth, M.P., Mr. Craufurd, M.P., Mr. H. Ingram, Mr. Nicholay, Mr. Cassell, &c., &c. The CHAIRMAN, in opening the proceedings, said that the question they had to discuss resolved itself into two points, that of revenue and that of polioy. It, had, for many years, been adopted as a principle in our fiscal system, that the raw materials of manufactures should be exempted from taxation ; and certainly a raw material which had a better claim to exemption than paper he could not con ceive, for it was at once a raw material of manufacture and a necessary means for the diffusion of education and intelligence amongst the people. He was afraid, however, that they would be met with peculiar diffi culties in agitating for the remission of this tax during the present year ; because the Chancellor of the Exchequer WAS sure to tell there that, in the face of the large expen diture that would be incurred for the war, be could not afford to remit any taxes. To that, however, the associa- . tion replied that better sources of taxation might be found than paper. With respect to the stamp on newspapers, he did not think that any Chancellor of the Exchequer would tell them that that was a question of revenue. It would be better to stamp anything rather than the newspaper, the necessary means of the dissemination of knowledge amongst the people. If there ever was a time at which it was important to remove every impedi ment to the progress of education, it was the present, when we were going to extend the franchise to hundreds of thousands of new voters. At the same time he be lieved that the people had a natural desire for knowledge, and that if the means of obtaining it were placed within their reach, the education of the people would soon make considerable advances. It was no doubt true that if the stamp were abolished a good many indifferent papers would be started at first, but he believed that the com mon sense of the people would soon teach them to dis criminate between the merits of the different publica tions, and that the good ones would alone be eventually successful. Mr. Ricardo then commented upon the pre sent anomalous and unsatisfactory state of the law with respect to newspapers, and upon the want of success of the attempt made by the Government last session to de fine what a newspaper is. He believed that, as the law now stood, it would be quite possible for a publication to give news without rendering itself liable to a stamp, by simply introducing each paragraph with a comment, and throwing its statements of facts into the form of leading articles. In conclusion the hon. gentleman said that this was a people's question and a poor man's ques tion. ,It was in vain to expect that the friends of that association could succeed in the house unless they had the aid of the people, and it was to obtain that aid that they had come there that evening. (Cheers.) Mr. JOHN CASSELL moved the first resolution, "That paper, the raw material of knowledge, and an important element in our manufacturing and commercial prosperity, is not a fit subject for taxation, and that any increase of expenditure ought to be met by taxes less injurious to the general interests of the country." With the excep tion of intoxicating liquors and tobacco, it was the only domestic manufacture now subjected to the espionage of the Excise. Paper was used in a variety of trades ; and in proportion as its consumption was extended the employment of the people would be in creased. On this ground alone every friend of corn mercial freedom must seek the repeal of this tax. Mr. Cassell then accused the Government of insincerity in its professions on the subject of education in still levy ing a tax which amounted to a profit upon our cheap literature, and which, combined with the scarcity of the material for the manufacture, threatened to extinguish it altogether. Being a printer and publisher himself ; he could speak on this subject. He was not a printer and publisher, however, by profession, for all the schooling he ever got was finished by the time be was nine years of age. Now that he hail got into the business he had made it his duty to publish that description of hooks which suited the class from which he sprung. His efforts, how ever, had been much checked by this tax on paper, and, as one instance of it, he might state that during the first year of the existence of the Popular Educator, published by him, he bad paid no less than 1,3201. in the shape of taxes upon paper. On another publication, that of Euclid, a shilling publication, he had paid for that ls. publication no less than 601. to Government in the shape of taxes. He was now publishing a weekly publication. It was a penny publication, and was illustrated ; bat what would they think when be told them that on that penny weekly publication he paid no less than 1201. per week as a tax on the paper of it, being 6,0001. per annum. (Hear, hear.) That showed how this tax on paper prevented a proper flood of intelligence being let out upon the people. Mr. HERBERT INGRAM, of the Illustrated News seconded the resolution. The duty curtailed his efforts in every department of the business he was connected with, and he hoped it would soon be repealed. Mr. Dis raeli, when out of office, objected to the duty, and wished its repeal, but when he got into office, like most other members of Parliament he changed his opinion, and could not consent to its repeal. (Laughter.) Mr. Gladstone was also favourable to its repeal, but being on the eve of a war, he perhaps would not consent to it at the present time. That he considered no objection to its repeal, for they could hit the Empe• ror of Russia as bard and as effectually with paper bullets as they were likely to do with theircannot shot. (Laughter.) He was a manufacturer as well as a consumer of paper, and knew that there was no fear of a scarcity of the raw material, for paper might be made of bark and many other substances. The duty was of the most annoying kind. Were it not for it, at a certain stage of the manufacture of paper, and when it was in a wet state, they could use it for the purpose of printing ; but at present they could not do that by the Excise laws, as they had to dry it and pack it up in sheets. while it had to be wet again before it was used for the purpose of printing. The consequence of this was that he paid 4001. a year, which he might save were it not for these Excise laws as re garded paper. What the officers cost the government he did not know. A drawback was allowed on books sent abroad, but there was infinite trouble in going through the necessary forms, inclucing the attendance of the proprietor, with his sureties, at Towes-hill. A few years ago he had published a spelling-book at a shilling, which, but for the Excise duty, might be published at sixpence. One of the anomalies of the existing law was that plain paper imported from abroad paid 3d. a lb. duty, but if it were printed, only lid. That was the way in which the government encouraged English print ing. (Cheers.) The materials of paper (rags) were col lected in all parts of Europe, including Russia, and it might be some consolation to the serfs of that country to be told that their rags were converted into paper on which we told the Emperor of Russia what we thought about him. (Cheers.) Much good had been done by the repeal of the advertisement duty ; and he hoped the paper duty would soon follow. Mr. HODGKIN supported the resolution, and read an extract from the Alta-California of Jan. 16 last (pub lished in San Francisco, a city which had not an exist ence six years ago, but had now eleven daily papers), stating that many people in England took second-hand papers, and asking, " Who in A merica would think of taking a second-hand newspaper'" (Hear, hear.) Nothing could be thought a greater meanness than to wear second-hand clothes ; but the people of this coun try were obliged to be content with information at second-hand ; and the great bulk of the people did not know of the most important events, in which they were deeply interested, until the day after they were pub lished in the papers. (Hear, hear.) The resolution was then put, and carried unanimously. The second resolution, moved by Mr. Collett, set forth, "that while a system of cheap newspaper postage is a matter at once of high importance, and of easy at teinment, no postal privileges granted merely to a class can compensate for the evils of the stamp tax on news and of the security system, which were originally im posed, and are still retained, for the purpose of peventing the cheap circulation of intelligence among the great mass of the people." Mr. COBDEN, M. P., said he did not cant about educa tion. What he wanted was that the people really should have the opportunity of acquiring knowledge, and of im bibing the taste for discussing questions which related to their every-day interest and welfare. He wanted not schools where little was taught, and which sometimes were really an obstruction to learning. What he wanted was that the means of information should be scattered broad cast in the land, so that all should have the opportunity, as they ran, to read and gather knowledge. He did not come there as a party to any plan for patronising the people, and doing good to them by charity or even legislative enactment. He wanted to give them the opportunity, which he was sure their instinct alone would induce them to profit by, to gain knowledge and information for themselves. It was presumption for any one or any body of men, to say that they could, by any voluntary or associated means, give general information or impart general instruction to the people. Anyone who had tried found that it was not so easy to do good to men as individuals as they had sometimes been led to suppose ; men must help themselves or they would not be helped by others. (Cheers.) If that were true of individuals, how much more did it apply to whole communities. He repudiated the idea that by any charitable or voluntary means they could give that instruction and enlighten ment which the peopla must acquire for themselves, but which he feared had been the systematic purpose of the legislation of this country to prevent their acquiring. He spoke not of the paper duty ; that was a fiscal and commercial question involving a large amount of revenue. But the newspaper stamp did not involve such an amount of revenue as need prevent any Chan cellor of the Exchequer,iwbether in time of peace or war, from remitting that tax. By remitting it, he meant doing away with the compulsory stamp upon papers, and allowing them to do what was done by the Athenceuin, Punch, the Builder, and other papers, to pay the tax on those papers which went through the post, allowing those which did ❑ot to be published with out a stamp. (Hear.) That was all they asked. Exist ing newspapers were not universally opposed to the re peal of the stamp duty ; the most prosperous and in fluential members of the press had been the most favour able to this movement. Those who were in the greatest prosperity had opposed it the least ; but the resolutions passed at meetings of provincial newspaper proprietors showed decided opposition from them. They would never succeed completely in their object till they convinced these gentlemen that they took a mistaken and narrow view of their own interest, and that in reality their interest was that of the public. In like manner, he was pre pared to show that no class was so much injured by the stamp as the newspaper proprietors. We had this ex tr:i.ordio pn , .trun , •!.c.'.' it: Poi , u!' lll Q C01,C214- trated England that there was no town in England where a daily paper was supported except in London. Had this monopoly been very beneficial to the London daily press ? Compare the daily press of London with that of New York, a city of about 700.000 inhabitants with the suburbs, while London and its suburbs had up wards of two and a half millions—London, the metro polis of the commercial world—the factor, the banker, the broker for the commercial world, and New York not a capital at all, but merely the principal seaport of one of the States of the American Union. In the first place, New York had twice or thrice as many daily papers as London. But what was their character with regard to profit ? He spoke not of the literary talent, for there was no comparison in talent between our first daily papers and those of America. He said, as the result of some investigation, that there was far more money made by the daily papers in New York, where there was perfect freedom from the stamp, than there was by the daily papers in London. Mr. Horace Greesley, the editor of the New York: Tribune, stated in evi dence before the committee two years ago, that the copyright of a halfpenny daily paper in New York had been sold for 250,000 dollars, or 50,0001., and lie should have considered it cheap at the money. That was only one out of 20 or 30 daily papers, and the cheapest of them all ; there were penny papers, and those of higher price used by commercial men. How many of the London daily papers would sell for 50,0001. ? He said deliberately, and from the best in formation both in London and New York, that twice as much money was made every year in New York by daily papers, where there was no restriction ; as was made in rich and flourishing London. (Hear, hear.) Was this a natural or an exceptional state of things ? Was it true of any other trade, the book trade, for instance? Would anybody be so mad as to say that the grocers, linendrapers, bootrnakers, hatters, or tailors of London, supplying 2,500,000 of people, did not make inure money every year than the same trades in New York, with a population of only 700,000 ? The proprietor was not the only person injured by the present restrictions, for printers, reporters, editors and news venders all suffered ; and the same held true of the pro vincial press. There were, he would engage to say, 3,000,000 adult males in the United Kingdom who never purchased a newspaper, and if the means were afforded them for doing so existing journals could not suffer by such a vast expansion of this class of readers, though they might be obliged to bestir themselves. An article had recently appeared in the Edinburgh, Review which went upon the assumption that it was to the penny stamp we were indebted for the superior character of our press. He wondered whether the writer of that arti cle was a freetrader or a socialist. His doctrine in these matters was that society would protect itself, and that in newspapers especially people would find out the best paper without being helped to it by legislative inter ference. Mr. Cobden then quoted to the meeting the concluding passage of a most interesting and valu able report on the remarkable progress of mecha nical invention in the United States, by Mr. J. Whit worth, of Manchester. Mr. Whitworth, it will be re membered,went out last summer as one of the Royal Commissioners on the occasion of the New York Exhi bition ; and his report, which has just been laid on the table of the house, concludes by attributing the startling advances which the people of the United States are making in every branch of manufactures wherein labour saving machinery can be introduced to the united effects of an unfettered press and general education. Mr. Cob den concluded by referring to the recent scandals against the Prince Consort, who it was one day believed by many people even in the metropolis, had been sent to the Tower. Such ignorance of the rights of personal liberty in this country showed a lingering credulity amom; the lower station of society which still exposed us to a Lord George Gordon riot, or a Titus Oates plot, or even impostures like that of Perkin Warbeck in the middle ages. The resolution was then carried ; also another con demning the measure of last session to define what is a newspaper, arid setting forth that the press should be liberated from all control except that of a court of law. The proceedings then terminated. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TATTEIZSALL'S.-THIIRSDAY. THE DERBY.—The report from Liverpool that 7 to 1 had been offered on the field was, at first, received at "The Corner" with a strong degree of distrust ; but in the course of the afternoon the fact of Autocrat's retro gression to that point was evidenced by two bets of 300 to 100 each being laid against him, coupled with King Tom. At the same time, the highest odds offered against the latter separately were 13 to 2. At half a point more some money would have been invested. 350 to 25 taken about Dervish, 1,000 to 50 Acrobat, and the same about Wild Huntsman, 300 to 10 Marsyas, 875 to 25 Neville, awl 1,000 to 25 Bessus. NORTHAMPTONSHIRE STAKES.-450 to 50 taken about Red Lion. THE Two THOUSAND.-150 to 50 taken about Ruby. Nothing done on either the Metropolitan or the Great Northern. The room was only thinly attended. CLOSING PRICES. NORTHAMPTONSHIRE STAKES. 9to 1 agst Red Lion (taken). CHESTER CUP. 20 to 1 agst Newminster (taken). 2,000 GUINEAS. 3to 1 agst Ruby (taken). DERBY. 13 to 2 agst King Tom (take 7to 1). 14 to 1 agst Dervish (taken). 20 to 1 agst Acrobat (taken). 20 to 1 agst Wild Huntsman (taken). 30 to 1 agst Marsyas (taken). 35 to 1 agst Neville (taken). 40 to 1 agst Eessus (taken), 3to 1 agst Autocrat and King Tom coupled (taken). MANUFACTURE OF SMALL ARMS. On the motion of Colonel MAITLE, Mr. Walpole, Colonel Manle, Mr. Manta, Colonel Boldero, Mr. Newde gate, Mr. Monsell, Lord Paget, Colonel Dunne, and Mr. Hardinge were nominated members of the select com mittee on small arms. On the name of Mr. George Dundas being proposed, Mr. MUNTZ objected that by the proposed constitution of the committee the interests of the London gunmakers would not be fairly represented. He preferred, therefore, to omit the name of Mr. George Dundas, with a view of substituting for it that of Lord Dudley Stuart. After a few words from Mr. HUME in support of the motion, the house divided, when there appeared for re• taining the name of Mr. Dundas, Ayes. . 74 Noes 25 Majority in favour of the original motion —49 The name of Mr. Dundas was then added to the list, as were also those of Mr. Geach, Viscount Jocelyn, Colonel Lindsay, and the Judge Advocate. THE COASTING TRADE BILL. This bill was read a second time. The other orders of the day were then disposed of, and the house adjourned at half-past eleven o'clock. PARLIAMENTARY DIVISION. HOUSE OF COMMONS—MAncH 2. SMALL ARMS. Mr. Walpole, Colonel Manic, Mr. Muntz, Colonel Boldero, Mr. Newdegate, Mr. Mousell, Lord Paget, and Colonel Dunne, nominated members of the select committee. Motion made and question put, " That Mr. George Dundas be one other member of the said committee :"—The house divided ; ayes 74, noes 25. AYES-74. Bailey, Sir J. Hamilton, G. A. Ponsonby. A. Barnes, T. Hankey, T. Ricardo, 0. Btu luck. (L Herbert, A. Rice, E. 'erkeley, Hon. C. Heyworth, L. It chardson, J. Blackett, J. F. B. Howard, Lord Russell, F. C. Bla r, Col. J. 11. Joiliffe, Sir W. Russell, F. W. Brand, H. B. W. Jones, D. Saw le, C. Brace, Lord E. Keogh. W. Seymour, Lord Cairns, H. Lee, W. Stafford, Marquis Campbell, Sir A. Lennox, Lord A. Strut , , E. Card well, E . Liddell, 11. G. Thornely, T. Cecil, Lord R. Lindiay, Col. J. Vernon, G. Cockburn, Sir A. J. E. Nfacgregor, Jas. Vivian, H. 11. Cowan, C. Mandeville, Vis. Waddington, 11. D tlryruple, Viscount Maule, Lieut.-Col. L. Wilkins, Col. Davie, it It. R. F. Milner, W. WhatmAn, J. Dundas, F. Michell, Dr. W. Whi. bre.td. 4. Emlyn, Vis. Moles worth, Sir W. Wilkinson, W. Fitzroy, Hon. H. Mowbray, J. Wilson, J Forster, C. Na iier. J. Wool, Sir C. Fox, R. Oakes, J. Wrightson, W. Gladstone, W. Paget, Lord A. Young, Sir J. Goderich, Viscount. Palmer, Robert Goulburn, 11. Palmerston, Visct, TELLERS. Graham, Sir J. Percy, •J. Hayter, W. • Hale, R, Phinu, T. Mulgrave, Earl of ♦lcock, T. Anderson, Sir J. Ball, E. Barrow, W. Craufurd, E. H. J. Crossley, F, Davison, R. Duncan, G. Forster, J. Goad], C. NOES—M. Grogan, Edward Hanley, J. Kendall. N. Kersh RW, J. Kirk, W. Laslett, W. Liddell, H. T. Mitchell, T. Morris, D. Murrough, J. Pellatt, A. Scobell, Capt. G. Thompson, G. Vance, J. Williams, W. _ TELLERS. Hume, J. 3luntz, G. NAIL WAY INTELLIGENCE. The half-yearly meetings of the following railway com panies have just been held : AMBERGATE, NOTTINGRA3f f , AND BotirroN.—A dividend at the rate of 2. per cent, per annum was declared, and the directors were authorised to proceed with the bill now bet' , ,re Parliament for an extension into Notting ham, and for power to lease the undertaking to the Great Northern Company. BIDEFORD BETE:MON.—Sufficient land has been ob tained to enable the contractors to commence the works. The expenditure has been 3,586/., leaving 5,9861. in hand. The line is to be leaved by Mr. Brassey at 2,2501. a-year. _ _ BIRKENHEAD, LANCASHIRE, AND CHESHIRE.—A divi dend at the rate of 2A per cent, per annum was declared, and the conduct of the Shrewsbury and Chester to this company was very much complained of by the directors. BLACKBURN.—The directors have taken steps to op pose the amalgamation of the East Lancashire and Lan cashire and Yorkshire Companies, which, if sanctioned, would prove injurious to the Blackburn Company. The traffic receipts for the half-year amounted to 28,8961., and the expenses to 10,8001. The expenditure on capi tal account amounted to 1,050,8821. A dividend at the rate of 4 per cent, per annum was declared on the pre ference shares. BLYTH AND TYNE.—The revenue for the-year amount ed to 34,6111., and the expenses to 21,5571., leaving a balance of 13,0541. A dividend at the rate of 21. per ordinary share was declared. CALEDONIAN AND DIYMBARTONSHIDE.—A dividend •f ss. per share was declared. The receipts for the half year amounted to 5,8331., and the expenses to 3,2561., leaving a balance of 2,5771. The total expenditure of capital was 238,467/. CRYSTAL PALACE AND WEST-END.—The line is esti mated to cost 460,0001., of which 25,9311. has been re ceived, and 8,2441. expended, leaving a balance of 27,6861. They are to receive 8,0001. a-year from the Brighton Company. DUBLIN AND DROGHEDA.—A dividend at the rate of 41 per cent. per annum was declared. The traffic re ceipts for the half-year amounted to 40,5051. EAST KENT.—•It appeared the contract with Messrs. Fox and Henderson had not been decided, owing to the state of the money market ; it was agreed, however, to complete the bridge across the Medway at Rochester. GREAT SOUTHERN AND WESTERN. A. dividend at the rate of 41 per cent. per annum was declared. The re venue tor the halt-year amounted to 162,0351., and the expenses to 55,5291. The available balance was 72,214/. HEREFORD, Ross, and GLOUCESTER.—The works are progressing satisfactorily, and are to be completed in the autumn of the present year. The expenditure amounted to 227,170/. HULL AND HOLDERNESS.—It appears from the report that the works on this line are progressing rapidly. After some discussion, the shareholders rejected the pro position of Mr. Cabry, the engineer, to lease the line on certain terms, which it was said would not yield more than 31 per cent. upon the total outlay. LIVERPOOL, CROSBY, AND SOUTHPORT.—A dividend at the rate of 3t per cent. per annum was declared. LONDON AND TILBURY.—It is expected that this ex tension line will be opened for traffic on Wednesday next. The trains will run to and from the Fenehurch street station. LLYNVI VALLEY.--A dividend at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum was declared, the sum expended being 114,4251., and the balance available for dividend 2,7711. MALTON AND DRIFFIELD. —lt appears from the re port that the net revenue on the line, from its opening on the Ist of June to the 31st of December last, was much less than the directors had reason to anticipate. NEWMARKET.—The dividend declared was at the rate of 245. per cent. The Eastern Counties had agreed to purchase the undertaking. NORTH DEvoN.—Mr. Brassey, the lessee of the line, has made arrangements with the Bristol and Exeter company for working it. The expenditure on capital account amounts, to 374,7181., leaving 19,5381. in hand. The line will soon be opened for traffic. NORTH AND SOUTH-WESTERN.—A dividend at the rate of 3.4 per cent., or 7s. per share, was declared for the year. The passenger traffic commenced in August last, and had been very much obstructed. NORTH METROPOLITAN.—The plans of the city ter minus have become the property of this company. The line is to extend from the Great Western Railway to the Post-office. The estimated capital is 1,000,0001., towards which the Great Western are to subscribe 175,0001. NORTH-WESTERN.—A. dividend of 2s. 6d, per share, clear of income tax, was declared. The revenue for the half-year amounted to 27,9891., and the expenses to 14,9871. The total sum expended was 1,145,8811. PORTSMOUTH.—The works are confined to the Bari ton tunnel, of which 259 out of 484 yards have been driven. The sum expended was 27,2341. ST. ANDREW'S AND QUEBEC.- -It was stated that the works on this line were proceeding satisfactorily, and that 26 miles would be completed from St. Andrew's up to the forest in the spring. On the extension of the line into the forest the lumber trade would commence, and probably yield a good return. SEVERN VALLEY.—In consequence of the state of the money-market, the directors have deemed it prudent not to commence the works, although they have full confi dence in the remunerative character of the railway. SOUTH WALES.—A dividend at the rate of 3 per cent. per annum was declared. The receipts for the half-year amounted to 106,2341., being at the rate of 8101. per mile. The line was extended to Haverfordwest on the 2d of January. The total expenditure amounted to 3,685,0001., including sums subscribed to other lines; and it was fully expected by the chairman that the line would be completed within the estimate. The award of Sir W. Cubitt in respect to the amount to be paid to the Great Western Company for locomotive power and working stook was considered too high, and that, if acted upon, it would put a stop to the coal trade of the line. STAINES, WOKINGHAM, AND WOKING JUNCTION. — The contractors have undertaken to construct the line for 308,0001, The cost of the line will be about 16,000/. per mile. THAMES HAVEN.—It was expected the line would he finished before the next meeting, and the sale of it to the Tilbury Company sanctioned by Parliament. WATERFORD AND LIMERICK.—The line has not yet been completed into Waterford. The total exnenditure ..1 • ..nitai :Mounts tv '.1)65,615/. :rho re ceipts were 19,551/. ; Cue working expenses, 8,055/. ; the interest on loans, 6,700/. ; leaving a balance of 2, :3551, RACING FIXT MA FRES FOR 1354. CH. ...27 Doncaster Spring 7 I. Catterick Salisbury Coventry Spring l4 I Abergavenny 30 Warwick Spring 2l CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.—March 2. (Continued from, our First Edition of yesterday.) CONCLUSION OF THE PERJURY CASE. Sir F. Thesiger then took several objections, which having been overruled, he proceeded to address the jury, and after commenting upon the harshness of these pro ceedings, contended that there was no evidence of wilful and corrupt perjury, but the result of an - error ; that he evidently had some authority, if we were to take the evidence of Mr. Curtis, and that he did not know that the money came frmn ➢Mackinnon, and that he could not have had any corrupt motive, as the seat had been given up by Mr. Edwin James. The Recorder having summed up, and pointed out to the jury that the real question they had to try was not whether the prisoner had merely fenced with the ques tions put to him, but whether he had wilfully sworn to that which he knew to be false, with an intent to deceive the committee. The Jury havin g deliberated about five minutes, returned a verdict of guilty, Sir F. Thesiger then moved an arrest of judgment, and requested defendant might be admitted to hail. The Recorder said there was no point reserved, and be could not depart from the usual course, and the de fendant was ordered into custody. SHIPPING ( INTELLIGENCE. CUSTOM HOUSE, MARCH 2. ENTERED INWARDS.—The Johanna, from Emden ; Effort, Oporto ; Virginia, Ma,nzanilla ; Matilda Luckie, Demerara ; Cockerills, Salonica ; Enigheden, Kragero ; Norden, Belize ; Angantyr, Salonica ; Marie, Grayelines ; Tole, do. ; Amaranth, Ejalbecke Royal Victoria, Ham burgh ; and the usual Continental steamers. _ ENTERED OUTWARDS FOR LOADING.—The John Scott, for Demerara; Adelia Maria, Konigsberg; Waterwitch, Mogadore ; Bertha, Stettin ' • Johanna, Konigsberg ; Ann Black, Kurrachee, Cape of Good Hope, Malta, and Con- stantinople ; Cobden, Caen ; Ann, Dunkirk; Mary, Ascension. CLEARED OUTWARDS WITH CARGO.— The Emelia, for Malaga ; Richard Cobden, New York ; Norman Morison, New Zealand ; Cobden, Caen ; Abergeldee, Hong Kong ; Martha, Mogadore ; Yldefonsa, Bilboa ; Jettina, Konigs berg ; Paris and London, Rouen. LIVERPOOL, MARCH 2. The Wasdale, for Antigua, and Emanuel Boutcher, for Grenada, in proceeding down the river yesterday after noon, drifted foul of each other ; the former lost bulwarks, &c., and the latter had to cut away her jibboom to get clear. The William Panton, for Newfoundland, at anchor off the Rock, was run into by an inward-bound ship in tow of a steamer, last night, and lost bowsprit, cut-water, figure head, &c., and had her bow damaged. The Florence, for Teneriffe, has put back. The Frances Ann has arrived from Holyhead with wrecked goods, ex-Olinda. BERWICK, March 2.—The Simlax, of Exeter, Grange mouth to Havre, is on the Fern Islands, and likely to be come a wreck; cargo and stores expected to be saved. ToNNING, Feb. 25.—The Eider Pilot Galliot, hauled out of the harbour yesterday, and sailed for her station at the mouth of the Eider, but her reaching it is doubtful until the weather improves. KIRKWALL, Feb. 27.—The Jane, schooner, of Montrose, from Sunderland to Kirkwall, went on shore in Deersound, Feb. 25, 'in a gale from N.N.W.• she is expected to be got off with out much damage, after lightening. CUXHAVEN, Feb. 26.—The Caledonia steamer d ra gg ed her anchors during the night, and came in contact with the English schooners Jane and Azorian. The latter was to tally dismasted and severely injured, and the former re ceived considerable damage ; both have come into the har bour. The Caledonia subsequently dragged again, and came in contact with the English brig Isabella, and has proceeded up the river with considerable injury. The Isabella has also received damage. AMSTERDAM, Feb. 27.—The Vrouw Maria, Harlingen to London, lost anchors and chains in the Zuyder Zee, was driven over the bank during a gale, has put into Wor kum, and must discharge. The Josephine, Droback to Harlingen, arrived, with assistance, off the latter port, Feb. 27, having cut away her masts, and lost anchors and chains in Vlie Roads, Feb. 25. VESSELS SPOKEN WITH. The Ann, Feb. 11, lat. 37 N., long. 11 W. The Springbok, Feb. 18, lat. 44 N. long. 14 W. The Marguerite, from Liverpool, Feb. 20, lat. 45 .ng. 12. N ., lat 41N., 7 W. The Star, Feb. 23, Thc, Telow Jonca, ecsr.:44 southcard, Fob. 2, lat. 39 r., long. 13 W. The Atalanta, from Grimsby to Melbourne, Feb. 16, lat. N., long. 10 W. The Europe (a.), from Liyorpool, Feb, 21, COUNTRY MARKETS. DERBY SMITHFIELD-FEB. 28. The market to-day was well supplied with fat beasts, and the demand for beef was again brisk. The quantity of sheep on sale was largo, and in good condition, bringing high prices. Fat and store calves more plentiful. Ths number of English pigs limited, but that of Irish large. The following were the quotations :—Beef, 6d to tiid ; mutton, 7d to 7cl; lamb, Od to Od ; veal, 7d to Od per lb. ; pigs, 9s 9d to lOs per score ; rough fat, 6s 3d to Oa Od per 141 b. ; hides, 24d to 3d per lb ; ealf-skins, 3id to 41 per lb. EDINBURGH GRAIN. 7 -31ARen L The supply of grain in the market to-day was large. A good demand for seed and otherwise. Sales quick, and considerably up for all sorts. Wheat ou the top 4s Od, and the average Se 10d, up. Barley on the top ss, and the average 2s 6d, up. Oath on the top is 4d, and the average 2s, up. Beans on the top ls, and the average 7d, up. Total Supply and Sales. Wheat 776 qrs sold 593 qrs Barley 675 qrs sold fi49 qrs Oats lBB4 qrs sold 1348 qrs Beans 359 qrs sold 298 qrF , Top of Wheat ..... ...... ..... 63. E lb 90s Id Barley Oats ' 43ilb 40s Od -- Beans 66i lb 57s 01 Average of wheat £3 16 3 0-12ths Ditto of Barley -12ths Ditto of Oats Ditto of Bean■ ................. NEWARK-MARCH 1. A full attendance of farmers, and good supplies of grain of every description. Wheat the same as last week. Bar ley was rather higher. Prices :—Wheat, white, sBs Od to 93s Od ; red, 82s Od to 81s Od. Barley, malting ' 36s Od to 40e Od ; grindint, 36s Od to 37s Od. Oats, old, 32s Od to 36s Od ; new, 28s Od to 30s Od. Beans, 483 Od to 62s Od. Peas, OOs Od to OOs Od. Malt, 66s Od to 70s Od. Tares, 64s Od to 686 Od. BOSTON—MARcH 1. At this day's market there was a moderate show of wheat on offer, the demand for which ruled heavy, at prices in some instances a trifle under those of last week. All descriptions of spring corn experienced a. slow inquiry at declining prices. Prices :—Wheat, red, 70s Od to 80s Od; white, 80s Od to 83s Od extra, 85s Od. Barley, 32s Od to 40s Od. Oats, 21s to 325. Beans, 40s Od to 48s Od. Peas, 50s Od to 571 per qr. SEABORNE MAILS. (lsZ signifies that the mails aro sent from the General Post office 'y the night—and M by the morning —dispatci:.) Day when made ut From what • When COUN FRIES. in General Post- Port dun in Office, London.* Dispatched. England. 1 merica(bylirit.pack)N Every Friday Liverpool ... Each Mon. America (by United Sts., packet) ........ Liverpool ... America (by U States, packet) ...... • .. ........ Southampto , Arrived Australia (via South- 1 ampton) ..........M March 1.. •• Sonthampt, Feb. 20 Ditto (via Marseilles) N,March 8 Ditto (via Cape of Good' Hope) ............N Feb. Africa (West Coast)..Nl3d of the month . Plymouth .. March 6 Alexandria.......... NlB, 9, 24, & 30 of m. Dover Alexandria ..........Ml4th & 20th of mon. ,Southampton Feb. 20 Bahamas of the month , Southampton Belgium ..NlDaily Dover ...... Brazil M .9th of the month Southampton l March 1$ Buenos Ayre5......., M 9th of the month.. Southampton Cape of Good Hone ..N ;14th of the month Plymouth .. Arrived Cape of Good Hope .. Nll4th of the month. Southampton' Cape de Verds ......Nll4th of the month Plymouth Feb. 26 Ceylon (see India) Ceylon 14th of the month Plymouth .. Feb. 26 Channel Isles ........N Mon ~Wed.,&Frid. Southampton ,Ta.Th.Sat 2d & 17th of mont!, Southampton; China (see India) Constantinople ......N 7,8,17,24,&27 of m. Dover ...... Constantinople ........ .4th & 20th of mon Southampton Feb. 20 Cont. of Europe M & N'Twice daily ...... Dover ...• .• ,Twicedally Egypt (see India) 1 France ........ M & N Twice daily...—. Dover ...... Twicedaily 'libraltar ..........M,4, 7, 17, 20,27 oral SULIth :1111V-011 Greece (see India) Groytown & 17th of mon.lntouth ant pto n Arrived Harnburgh ..N Tuesday & Friday 'London .• • •• ilavannah ..... M 2nd of the monti 1 - Southampton March 1 Holland ....... ..... M Daily !Dover Pally Honduras .......... M 17th of the montli.lliouthamptor. 'F eb. India (viaSoutitampt.)M 4th & 20th of mon.!Southamptoul.March 4 India (via Marseilles)M Bth&2lth of monti,,Dover lonian Isles (see India) 7, 17, & 27 of monlDover.... • • 1 Ireland ........M & N Twice daily !Holyhead .. Tvricedally Li5b0n..............M 7,9, 17, & 27 of tn.lSouthampton March 6 Madeira M 9th of the month Southampton Madeira N 23d of month .... Plymouth .. Malta (see India) Malta ...; .N 17,17,19,27. 30 of rn.lDover Mauritius (see India) Mauritius of the monthlPlymouth Feb. 26 Mexico .... .M 2nd of the month. Southampton March 1 Naples ..N l ltthl s th2sthofmon.!Dover New Granada ......M 2d & 17th of mOnthlSouthampton New Zealand By private ship ..jVarious ports Uncertain. Papal States .. ..Nisthlsth2sthonnon.lDover Peninsula tt,t7thl7th2Bthothion.lSouthampton Peru . Mi2d & 77th of mon Southampton Port Natal ........ N l l4th of the monthlPlymouth Feb. 26 Sicily ....N sthlsth2stholtnon,Dover Tuscany stlllsth2sthofinon.Dover Venezuela 2d& 17th of niOnth,Sonthampton Van Diemen's Land (see' Australia) . . .. West Indies 2d& 17th of month Southampton March 1 When any of these dates fall on a Sunday, the malls will be dispatched on the following day, with the exception of the India via Southampton), and the Malta, both of which will be dispatched the day preceding. [ADVERTISEMENT.]—SIGHT AND HEARING. --39, Albemarle-street, Piccadilly. Observe—opposite the York Hotel. The Royal Exhibition. A valuable, newly invented, very small powerful waistooat-pocket glass, the size of a walnut, by which a person can be seen and known one mile and a half distant ; they answer every purpose on tho race-course, at the opera houses, country scenery, and s hip s ar e cle ar ly see n at 12 to 14 miles. They are invaluable for shooting, deer stalking, yachting, to sportsmen, gentlemen, gamekeepers, and tourists. 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These wonderful pills will cure any disorders of the liver or stomach.—Sold (also Holloway's oint ment) at Prosessor Holloway's Establishment, 244, Strand, London, and by all medicine-venders through the world. BIRTHS. OF A SON • On n r the let s at Woolston, S omerset, the wife of t ellesley-place Green-lanes, Totten- Heylbehtou in se s , t., qE. ins On the 2d , at W ham, the wife o f He nr y Oakley, Esq. OF A DAUGHTER. On the 28th nit., at Bolney-court, Henley-on-Thames, Mrs. Hodges. On the Ist inst., at One Ash, Rochdale, the wife of John Bright, M.P. MARRIED. On the 28th ult., at the parish church, Cheltenham, Grismond Philipps, Esq., of Cwmgwilley, Carmarthen shire, formerly Captain in the Royal Welsh Fusiliers, to Mary Anne, second daughter of the late Major Bowen. On the 2d inst., at St. Pancras Church, Charles Creed, Esq., 38, Duke-street, St. James's, to Louisa Dorothea, second daughter of the Right Hon. the Lord Chief Baron. DIED. On the 26th ult., at Otterbourn, aged 59, William Crawley Yonge, Esq., late of the 52d Regiment, youngest son of the late Rev. Duke Yonge, of Cornwood. On the 27th ult., Mrs. Haybittle, wife of Mr. Daniel Haybittle, late of St. Bride's, Fleet-street. The decea!ed had been matron of the Strand Union Workhouse ever since its formation, and filled the like situation to the parish of St. Clement Panes for many years previously. On the Ist inst., Mary More Morgan, aged 18, daughter of Mr. R. Morgan, of Warwick villas, Paddington. On the Ist inst., at York-chambers, St. James's-street, Lieutenant-Colonel Tanfiold Vachell, aged 80. 140;:adoN: Printed and P u Wished by U 0, of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun Office, No. 112, Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in, the county of Middlesex, Friday, Duch Oa leffe ,P , s oui ROT ICI The above WA LIFE AS friars, Lc, others, at Voyaging, NOT] All posted at August, 1 addresses, Solicitor to STE. The Calm General Sc Zest India . 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