The Sun. — London, England, 1863-06-17 00:00:00

11/PERTA T, PARLIAMENT HOUSE OF LORDS--Last evening. The LORD CHANCELLOR took .;n1 seat on the woolsack at, five o'clock. Lord CALTHORPE. presented petitions from the Chamber of ,Commer,:e, at:Halifax, against the Telegraph Bi'd. PRIVATE BUSINESS. The Acton Estates Potteries Junction Railway—Brecon Junction Railway—and the West Midland Railway Bills were read a second time. THIRD READINGS. The Mayo Grand Jury Cess, Skipton Gas, Norwich Poor, and the Siourbridge Railway (Amendments) Bills were read a third time and passed. THE CASE OF MR BISHOP, The Marquis of NORMANBY corrected some mistake that had arisen in the remarks he had made the other even ing. He said Mr. Bishop was a confirmed invalid, and the worst results might follow a lengthened imprisonment in the fo'Aress of Alexandria, and urged on the Government the necessity of addressing a strong representation to that effect to the Government at Turin. THE EXHIBITION BUILDING. "The Duke of ItUTLAND said on Thursday next he mhould put a question to her Majesty's Government with :respect to the purchase of toe Exhibition building. SALMON FISHERIES (SCOTLAND) ACT CON TINUANCE BILL. On the motion of Lord STANLEY OF ALDERLEY, the re port of amendments to this bill was received. VACCINATION (IRELAND) BILL. This bill was read a third time and passed. BLEACHING AND DYEING WORKS ACT AMENDMENT BILL. This bill passed through committee, and was reported with amendments. Their lordships then adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS—Last Evening. The SPEAKER took the chair at 10 minutes after 12 o'clock, a house not having been made before that time. PRIVATE BUSINESS. The following bills were read a secoad time :—Carmar then and Cardigan Railway (No. 1), Newry and Greenore Railway Pier and Wet Dock, North British Railway (Steamboats) The following bills were read a third time :—Edinburgh and Dunfermline and Perth (North British) Railway, Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway, Newcastle and Carlisle Ruad, North Eastern Railway (Hull and Doncaster Branch), Scottish Central Railway. The following bills were considered, and ordered to be read a third time :—Great Eastern Railway, Great Northern Railway (Cheshire lines), and Bonelirs Electric Telegraph Company. The second reading of the London (City) Traffic Regu lation Bill was postponed until Thursday. FISHERIES (IRELAND) BILL. The house then went into committee on the bill. The consideration of clause 4 was resumed. Mr. BRUCE explained that the Government had lis tened with great attention to suggestions from all parties interested in these fisheries, and he believed that whilst the best parts of the Act of 1842 were conserved by this bill, it would likewise lead to the proper distribution of salmon, which all unbiassed and disinterested persons desired. The Government considered that the clause as amended would work well. Sir N. SOMERVILLE said he was a supporter, though reluctantly, of the compromise which had resulted in this bill, and it was rather too bad for its supporters to feel it their duty to oppose such alterations in the claase on the part of the Government, which would legalise stake and bag nets, and thus destroy all salmon that ascended the rivers. Had the bill of the hon. member for Wexford (Mr. M‘Mahon) not been interfered with by the Government, he believed it would have received the assent of the house. Mr. BRUCE denied that the clause as amended would legalise these nets. After much discussion, the committee divided on the clause as proposed to be amended, the Government having proposed the omission of the words " or any other waters," when there appeared— For the amendment 33 Against Majority —2 Several verbal amendments were then agreed to. Mr. REDMOND proposed the insertion of the words " or estuaries" after the word " rivers." The alteration was opposed. After some discussion, the house divided, when there appeared— For the amendment Ayes Majority Mr. BUTT proposed the addition of words to the effect that in cases where persona owned the whole of the rivers and the right of fishing therein, they should have power to maintain or erect bag nets. Mr. O'HAGAN did not approve of the amendment in its present form; but the Government would consider the sub ject. After some discussion the amendment was withdrawn, the Government having undertaken to frame a clause on the subject. The discussion of the subject occupied the remainder of the sitting. The house resumed at six o'clock. CHURCH RATES. Lord A. CHURCHILL gave notice that on Tuesday the 7th of July he would move for leave to introduce a bill for the amendment of the law relating to.the recovery of church rates. THE EXHIBITION BUILDING. Lord ENFIELD gave notice of his intention to ask the noble lord at the head of the Government whether he had not received a report from the Treasury to the effect that the value of the Exhibition building was only £30,000 less the cost of pulling it down ; and, if :so, whether there was any objection to lay the report upon the table before the discus sion was taken on the proposal to purchase the building. Mr. AIL RTON gave notice that when the vote for the purchase of the building was brought forward he should move a resolution to the effect that, in the opinion of the House, the sum of £67,000 voted for the purchase of the land at Kensington should be applied to the discharge of the liabilities of the commissioners of 1851, and that the property of the commissioners, subject to any charges upon it, should be vested in the Commissioners of Works. (Hear, hear.) THE COURT-MARTIAL ON CHARLES THOMAS• Mr. HADFIELD asked the Secretary to the Admiralty whether his intention had been called to the proceedings of a court-martial held on board her Majesty's ship Victory, at Portsmouth, on Charles Thomas, a seaman, charged with insubordination and using offensive language to a boatswain, who had ordered the liberty-boat to leave before its appointed time, when the prisoner was returning to his ship, after the expiration of his leave of absence to get mar ried ; and if so, whether it was true that, under the circum stances of that case the prisoner was adjudged to be reduced to the second class, to receive forty-eight lashes, to be im prisoned in Winchester Gaol for two years, and then to be discharged with disgrace from her Majesty's navy ; and whether he would lay the proceedings of the court upon he table of the house. Lord C. PAGET said the hon. member was misinformed with respect to some of the particulars of the case. In the first place, the hon. member was mistaken in his assump tion that the sailor Charles Thomas was prevented merely by accident from returning to his ship ; that was not so, for according to the evidence of the other sailors in the boat, they did not quit the shore until the appointed time, and Thomas was not down in time to go on board. However, he afterwards found his way to the ship, and then he showed himself very indignant towards the boatswain in charge of the boat, and used most violent, offensive, disgusting, and insubordinate language towards that officer, and towards the captain of the ship. His offence was so grave that it was naturally thought requisite he should be tried by court martial, and accordingly he was so tried. The second in accuracy of the hon. member was in stating that the prisoner had been on leave of absence to get married. Now, the pri * liar himself set up no such defence ; he stated that he had ,een 0 on shore to see his brother, and had got intoxicated. But t he evidence of the other sa il ors was that he was sober wh en _ '" mel e e use of the very gross language charged correet 7 a te, „ sentence of the court-martial, it had been g, R ear, be :::; . by the hon. member. (Ironical cries of like individuals Reims bound to say that courts-martial, criesof Rear : v. 7_7 . e occasionally liable to err—(ironical leniency, an d 60 7 0 2 — sometimes erring on the s id e o f (Hear, hear.) At u r ea "ling on the side of severity. courts-martial came and % larae r time, the proceedin gs of a ll and it not =freque n tl y happeneci i4 e revision of the Admiralty, able to exercise the bla me d pri ,,,,...tbet e the Admiralty were tigate the sentences upon in i i , o 7 eni; and : 3: 1 i hea rtiercy it , riv d eartoedrato i,, them sentences were too harsh the present case the Admiralty w ould b h e a v a e no doubt that in of exercising their mitigatory privile ge . gi ... the °l , Portunity he believed the ho use would a g ree with In E n — d u r tr . ) But arrangem ent the Admiralty might make, t ' Whatever gation of the sentenc e mi g ht be enforced , it s 1 _ 6Z mica_ l. be clearly understood that that mitigation was not the result of the interference of that house. For it certainly would not conduce to the discipline of the navy if that house were turned into a court of appeal from decisions of courts-ma r _ tial. (Hear, hear.) Such being the circumstances of the case, he hoped the hon. member would not press for a pro duction of the proceedings ; and the more especially as, under the Naval Discipline Act, the prisoner would be en titled, after an interval of three months, to a copy of the sentence and the proceedings of the court. Mr. HADFIEL D expressed a hope that some means would be devised for preventing the publication of such In accurate statements. Lord C. PAGET said he sincerely wished he could pre vent misrepresentations of the kind appearing in news papers ; and, as he was on the subject, he might observe, in reply to a question put to him by the right hon. member for Kilmarnock (Mr. Bouverie), that there was not the ' slightest foundation for a statement which had appeared the other day in the papers relative to a sailor having been or dered to prison for three years, and as having committed suicide in consequence. The only suggestion he had to offer Was, that when such statements reaehed hon. members they should bring them forward in that house, in order to afford him the opportunity of correcting them. (Hear.) THE HIGHWAYS ACT. Sir W. MILES asked the Attorney-Generil whether, in the construction of the following sentence in the schedule of the Highways Act, viz.. "All question- shall be decided by a majority of votes of the members preiert," it was ne cessary that there should be a majority of the persons pre sent, or whether it was sufficient that there should be a majority of those who being present gave their votes. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said the question had not as yet been submitted to, nor had it obtained, judicial interpretation, but it appeared to him that tha matter was not open to any for doubt. In his opinion, it was not sufficient that there should be a majority of those who being present gave their votes, but there ought to be a ma jority of persons present voting one way or another. PUBLIC WORKS -(MANUFACURING D IS TRICTS) BILL. In reply to Mr. FERRAND, Mr. VILLIERS said that the second reading of this bill was fixed for Thursday, and that it would be talon early, but he could not decide upon fixing the committee on the bill for a morning sitting, as the bill had not been as yet read a second time, nor indeed did the matter rest with him at all. TIIE ENGLISH AT ZANZIBAR. Mr. STIRLING asked the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he had any information respecting an outrage said to have been perpetrated by Arabs on an English subject at Zanzibar, in February last, and respect ing reports lately published in the French newspapers of hostile feeling aga i ns t t h e E uropean residents, excited in the minds of th e na ti ve population of Zanzibar b y cer t ain alleged operations of British cruisers engaged in the repres sion of the slave trade? Mr. LAYARD said that, in consequence of the question of his hos. friend., he had referred to the French papers, and he found in the Journal des Debats an account of a state of things as represented by his hon. friend. It ap peared that a meeting had been held at Zanzibar of some European residents, relative to the feeling of the Arab popu lation towards the English. But it appeared also that the meeting was presided over by a French gentleman, and, considering the sources of our information on the subject, that circumstance was somewhat suspiciou s . If h on. mem bers would refer to the slave-trade papers laid up on th e table during the present session, they would see that while the slave trade was repressed on the west coast of Africa, it was obtaining an unhappy development on the east coast, where it was carried on not only by French agents, but under the French flag. The British cruisers, however, under treaty with the Sultan of Zanzibar, were endeavouring to put an end to the traffic, which had depo pulated whole districts, and was working an amount of misery almost impossible to describe. Mr. STIRLING asked whether any official information had been received at the Foreign-office corroborating the statements in the French papers. Mr. LAYARD said that none such had been received ; and he desired also to state that he ought to have de scribed the trade which the French were carrying on OR the east of Africa as being nominally carried on for the obtaining of free labourers. CAPTAIN FISHBOURNE AND THE PATRIOTIC FUND. _ . Mr. CONINGHAM asked the hon. member for Tyrone what was the salary and the emoluments of Captain Fish bourne, one of the honorary secretaries of the Patriotic Fund. Mr. CORRY said that Capt. Fishbourne received a salary of £6OO a year, not as hon. secretary of the fund, but as a member of the executive committee. He received no emo luments, but his travelling expenses were paid, and these amounted, during the eight and a half years of his tenure of office, to a total of £2Ol, or about £25 a year. THE EXHIBITION BUILDING AND CAPTAIN FO WKE. Mr. B. COCHRANE asked whether any arrangement had been entered into by the Government with Captain Fowke whereby he was to be paid for the designs exhibited by him of the suggested improvements in the Exhibition building. Mr. COWPER said that, as far as his department was concerned, he certainly was not aware of any such arrange ment. He had been all through under the impression that, in respect of the designs referred to by the hon. member, Captain Fowke had acted as a volunteer. WEIGHTS AND MEASURES STANDARDS. Mr. DOULTON asked the Secretary to the Treasury whether any steps had been taken to teat the accuracy of the standard weights and measures deposited in the Exche quer in the year 1825. Mr. F. PEEL said the existing standards had been in use, the one since 1834, the other since 1835 ; but there was no reason to suppose they were not perfectly accurate. At the same time, there was no means of re-verifying them, and no doubt their occasional ,re-verification was ne cessary. The matter was under consideration. OBSTRUCTIONS IN IRISH RIVERS.' _ _ _ Mr. BLAKE called attention to the reports of the officers of the Admiralty and Board of Public Works in Ireland regarding the serious obstruction caused to navi gation in the rivers Bride and Blackwater, in the county of Waterford, by stake and head weirs; and moved that, in the opinion of the house, it was the duty of the Govern ment to carry the law into effect by immediately removing the same. Mr. M'MAHON moved to add—" And all other en croachments on the property of the Crown and the rights of the public in the tidal waters and shores of Ireland." However, after a short discussion, in which Mr. F. Peel, the Attorney-General for Ireland, Col. French, and Mr. Longfield took part, the motion and amendment were both withdrawn. THE BALLOT. Mr. H. BERKELEY then rose to bring forward his annual motion, to introduce a bill to cause votes at the elections of members of Parliament to be taken by bal lot. The hon. gentleman said that, from the state of the house just before, he had expected there would have been no opposition to his motion, but he now saw that the noble lord at the head of the Government and the right hon. gentleman the Secretary of State for the Home Department had arrived; nevertheless, he would venture to lay the question once more before the house. It would be remembered that after the Reform Bill passed there were many eminent men who considered the bill defective. Amongst others were Lord Macaulay, Mr. Brooke, Lord Durham, Sir C. Burrell, and others, who complained, first, that many of the English boroughs were left in a state which was a positive disgrace to English institutions; and secondly, that electors had not proper protection at the polling booth. Mr. Brooke urged the latter view before Parliament for some years in a series of most logical and argumentative speeches, that had never yet been answered. The subject was sub • quently taken up by Sir Henry Ward, who afterwards requested him (Mr. Berkeley) to be his successor; and, feel ing convinced that the question must some day be settled, he recommended that it should be brought forward every year. For that reason he had annually, for the last 16 years, brought the question before the house. There was no ques tion as to the existence of a great grievance, and to that mo ment the arguments for its abolition were founded upon rea soning, which was like an impregnable fortress. It had been assailed from time to time in that house, no matter which party were in power, but the attacks had always been unsuc cessful. He should not then bring forward any new argu ments, but simply throw himself on the defensive. (Hear, and divide.) The old objection was that the ballot was un- English and unmanly. He wished therefore to show that a number of very large establishments conducted their busi ness upon the principle of the ballot. Amongst others he might mention the London Institution, the Royal Astrono mical Society, the Society of Antiquaries, the Royal So. city, the London Linnrean Society, Christ's Hospital (elec tion for Governor), Dulwich College (election of master of grammar school), the Bank of England, the Charterhouse, and the clubs known as the Carlton, Senior and Junior United Service, Travellers', Oxford and Cambridge Uni versity, Brookes's, White's, Boodle's, the Wyndham, and the Union. He believed also that the Manchester Unity and the Freemasons elected their masters and treasurers by the ballot, together with about 20 friendly societies--(divide) —the Church Missionary Society, the Wesleyan Metho dists, the United Methodists, the Free Church, and some of the Baptists. Finally, in Canada the bishops were elected by ballot. That was curious evidence of the prac tice being un-English and unmanly. (Hear, hear.) An other point he wished to refer to was, that the right to vote was a responsibility which no elector ought to try to evade. The honourable gentleman then quoted same extracts from speeches of Earl Russell and Edmund Burke in support of his views upon the ballot question, and in cited some in stances of hardship to tenants and electors consequence of the ballot not being in operation. At a Cork election some time back, when Mr. Murphy, Mr. Fagan, and Mr. Chatterton were candidates, there had been a great struggle, and a number of men were stationed by the priests to watch the booth, with the instructions, " We do not want any vio lence, but we think that whoever votes for Fagan and Murphy is a good man, and whoever votes for Chatterton is a bad man." The next day the principal inn in the town was more like an hospital than a place of entertainment ; yet the noble lord had a notion about these electors being the trustees for the non -voters. He believed however that the l at th T e h hon. nt r e eee electionsgen tl e ballotprev was founded on a b s t ract truth and justice, and must n atSouthampton , a Ithen he n referred Ea s t ancesKent, Totnes, Lill d, and D evonport . described in rood' ' The latter place was the fostering wins of the Guide" as being under singular that wheng I : r he Dukes of Somerset. It was very duke's candidate get fOur Heath and Mr. Dent put up the state of an English boron- h ths of the votes. That was the mean to say that there wa s g aenven now. ( Hear.) He did not y t if there were the noble duke w oulradthb in the all egat i on, but was a non-elector, and had a r i g h t e to u d e . used, twee he tenantry. (Hear.) Was he not to do as he likeletid t - a with to hip wown? In Kent a man had notice to quit f or voting forDe'k against Knatchbull ; but the landlord, having the Corrupt i> r Bill before his eyes, afterwards went to the tenant, Sir, mind I do not turn you out from any political motive:l And so that wonderful Act of Parliament was put aside in a moment. Another man who was turned out in the saw. Way, asked the landlord the reason. The latter said it had nothing to do with his vote ; " but, sir," said he, " I have a great objection to Roman noses, (Laughter.) You, sir, have gOt a nose like a reaping -book. (Renewed laughter.) In. future I intend to ha - e nothing but snub. nose tenants; go back to those who sent you, and tell them what I told you." (Laughter.):The man went back to his lawyer and told him what had been said, upon which the lawyer observed, "No redress; you must consider you have been turned out on account of your nose." ' (Laughter.) Since he has had the honour of addressing them on this subject, the ballot had been bearing excellent fruit in every part of the world—even in America—(hear, hear)—it was looked upon as the support of respectability against an over weening democracy. What did the correspondent of the Times say of the ballot ? He always found that the faithful correspondents and reporters of that paper were constantly in opposition to the gentlemen who wrote the leading articles. The leading article came out one day ferocious against the ballot, but the next day the correspondent wrote, "that the ballot was the only hope of upsetting Abraham Lincoln and his crew." The correspondent did not say the ballot was perfect in America, but it was the best institution they had got in America. (Laughter.) The hon. member then referred to the recent French elections in proof of the good working of the ballot in that country, and quoted some remarks which were made by one of the Opposition candidates in answer to a series of questions which had been addressed to him by the Ballot Society. The remarks were to the effect that the present system of voting in France was the shield of public liberty in that country, and that the Opposition can didates would not have been returned by open voting. The hon. member next referred to the working of the ballot in Australia, and said it was not owing to the existence of the ballot that the electoral system had broken down in the colony, but because a residence of three months was made necessary for the possession of a vote, and also the qualifi cation of reading and writing (which last he thought very proper) ; but when the electoral constitution came to be re vised, not a man appeared who said the ballot was at fault. He begged to place the motion in the hands of the Speaker, and though he had no hope it would be agreed to, yet he sat down convinced that the foundation of the ballot was laid in that house. (Cheers.) Mr. AYRTON seconded the motion, observing that it • was only the noble lord at the head of the Government who answered the arguments of his hon. friend ; that he did so with great spirit, and to the satisfaction of hon. members opposite ; but for his own part he believed the arguments of his hon. friend were unanswerable. The LORD MAYOR (who rose amid loud cries of " Divide") said he rose with reluctance, but he felt that the arguments brought forward by the hon. member for Bristol were of that nature that it was well they should be protested against. The hon. member's arguments in sup port of this measure were mere fallacies. Amongst other things he alluded to the United States, France, and Aus tralia; but if the house wanted the strongest arguments against the unconstitutional and un-English form of secret voting they could not have three more convincing illus trations against the system. What was the secret of the United States difficulties? It was that there were no lead. ing public men in the country to lead the public mind and keep them out of their difficulties. (Laughter.) They had got the ballot, but they had no public-spirited men. (In creased laughter.) The United States was a standing warning to this country. He believed what was going on in the United States had created a reaction in the public mind which saved this country from the downward tendency towards this motion. (Much laughter.) The existence of the French Government in its present form was due to the ballot box. And as to Australia, it was a warning to the world to avoid and eschew the ballot-box. (Laughter.) He thought the house and the country would say that the ballot-box was a thing not to be tolerated in this country. They had publicity. Thank God they had that array of reporters— (laughter)—and so long as they had publicity they would re tain their position; but when they lost that publicity they would sink to the dead level of the United States. The hon. member for Bristol had referred to Southampton. That was one of the greatest election struggles that had occurred for a long time. They did not want the ballot-box there, nor did they care for it. More than that, they did not care for their masters, but were prepared to vote against their masters. (Great laughter,) Viscount PALMERSTON said he would not detain them more than a few minutes, but he was unwilling that his hon. friend should go to a division under the impression that he had convinced him by the mere assertions, which were frequently made, that all the arguments used in favour of the motion had been unanswered. His hon. friend had given his exploration, and, like other great performers, had had his annual benefit, but he did not think it would draw much to his side. (A laugh.) But his hon. friend, with great simplicity and frankness, said that he had tried all over the house to find somebody who would undertake to moot this question, and he could find nobody. So mach for his conviction as to the value of the question in the esti mation of members in general. Well, then, his hon. friend said that, although he had a great number of amateur sup porters, still every Government responsible for the admini stration of affairs was opposed to his motion. That showed, prima facie, that there must be some value in the objections that were urged against the motion. (Hear.) But his hon. friend seemed to him to place the whole thing upon a wrong foundation; and in his arguments for the ballot he seemed to forget that which was the vital principle, the breath of life of the British constitution, namely, public opinion and public responsibility. (Cheers.) His hon. friend quoted the opinions of a number of private societies that sat in buildings for the election of private members. Such opinions had nothing to do with this matter, and were fo reign to the purpose of the argument. Those were private societies, who had no public responsibility, and who were not responsible for the election of members. They had merely to consider who were likely to be pleasant or unpleasant to have in the club-room. The argument was devoid of any applicability whetever. If the hon. member had gone further and said there were always reporters present to detail what happened to the newspapers, he might have ad vanced something to hit purpose. But what was the effect of the ballot-box upon public opinion ? What was public opinion? It was the avowed opinion of the aggregate members of a community. Well, according to the ballot, an elector was not to avow his opinion. His opinion was to be kept secret, not only on the day of the election, but all through his life, because, if a man expressed his opinion to his friends and neighbours, everybody would know when he went to the ballot-box for whom he voted. The voter would be obliged to conceal his opinions from his wife ; and that was a position to put an Englishman in ? (Laughter.) It was clear that sneaking up to the pall with a bit of paper and putting it into a hole was not secret voting, unless it was accompanied all the time by an entire suppression of a man's opinions. Well then, he said, if they were to divest a man of the responsibility which belonged to him, and which he owed to the rest of his countrymen, they would extinguish the great principle of the British constitution, and it was therefore unconstitutional and un-English to vote for the motion of his hon. friend. The hon. member had spoken of America, but everybody knew that what was called the ballot in America was not secret voting. The elector put the paper in his hat, and with the exception, he believed, of one State, it was no more secret voting than in this country. The hon. member had also spoken of making converts ; but he could evidence conversions the other way. There was a society in this town which adopted the name of the Reform Club, the members of which were sup posed to hold advanced opinions. (A laugh.) It was reported that this society had become a convert to the opinion of his hon. friend; but, from information he had received, while up to a recent time,the election of members was upon the mode similar in other clubs, they had lately, after dis cussion, and upon the advice of the hon. member for Birmingham—(a laugh)—decided that election by ballot was not a proper mode of election, and they went further and invested a select committee with the choice of the members. (Laughter and cheers.) What were called the " unanswerable arguments" of his hon. friend had had no effect upon him, and he trusted the decision of the house would be what it had been on former occasions. (Cheers.) Mr. COX (amidst loud cries of " Divide") said the Liberal party looked upon this question as one of the cardinal points of their creed, and he asked the house to consider the ques tion with that calmness and deliberation to which it was entitled. (Hear, hear, and Divide, and other manifestations of impatience.) The principle of voting by voting papers had for many years been adopted satisfactorily. (Divide, divide.) When an election took place by ballot the tempta tion to bribery was less than by the open system, as the progress of the election and -the state of the poll was kept longer a secret. (Divide, divide.) Believing that the ballot was a cure for the evils that at present existed, he should vote for the motion. (Divide, divide.) Mr. H. BERKELEY, in reply, combated the opinions expressed by the noble lord at the head of the Govern ment, urging that public opinion would be more influ enced by secret than by public voting. He defended the wives of electors from the imputation that they would disclose their husbands' secrets in election matters, and thereby inflict great oppression on them and their fami lies. He had a higher opinion of them than some hon. members appeared to possess. (Hear, hear, and Divide.) The arguments used by the noble lord had failed to convince him that the ballot was not wanted. The house then divided. The numbers were— For the motion Against it 122 Majority —2o (Cheers.) The motion was consequently lost ASSIZE AND CIRCUIT ARRANGEMENTS. Mr. M'MAHON moved a resolution " That it was ex pedient to make such alterations in the assize and circuit arrangements as would secure a more speedy trial in the country of country causes." Mr, HADFIELD seconded the motion, and urged that the expense of the proposed changes was not to be put in comparison with the benefit which they would confer upon the country. Mr. BAINES supported the resolution, and instanced Yorkshire as the county which suffered the greatest incon venience and hardship under the present system. - - - Sir F. CROSSLEY was proceeding also to support the motion. when An !lox. MEMBER moved that the house be counted,and There being only 34 members present, i The house stood adjourned at 10 minutes to 10 o'clock. Pull benefit of reduced duty obtained by pur °lasing Rorniman's Pure Tea; very choice at 3s 4d. and ton‘g'elistiganh d Stan mo d s a t rd de la ci t 4e. 4d. (formerly 4s. Bd.), is the ous imported. Agents in every town supply it in pAcuo, 1 THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EiTILIVING, JUNE 17, 1563. THE NAVY. he threw under Jackson upon his enemy's rear, and with the third he opposed the great Federal host in front. Higher audacity was, I belietei never manifested by mortal General than when General Lee, about 4 on Saturday afternoon, opened fire along his whole line against his gigantic foe, in order to distract his attention from Jackson, who General Lee knew must then be approaching Hooker's rear. Again, I am reluctant, by reason of its incredible smallness, to disclose the number of men by whcm fire was opened that afternoon upon the intrenched and multitudinous masses of the Federals. History will do justice to the sagacity which led General Lee to divine that his enemy, having fallen back many miles to get into his intrenchments, would be little likely to leave those intrenchments and take the initiative. But it kill be difficult to do justice to the composure with which General Lee sent back men to meet Sedgwick, without for a moment relaxing his gripe upon Hooker; with what astonishing prescience he read and frustrated the design and purpose of his foe. General Hooker has shown ability, daring, and energy ; but in striving to outmanccuvre Gen. Lee it was the urchin boy conjuring with the wand of Michael Scott. lticilmoND, May 10. Consummatuni est. One of the purest, most guileless, most unselfish spirits ever lent to earth has been taken to his rest, and " Stonewall" Jackson is no more. From the violent bleeding of Thursday last he never rallied, and with circulation so re duced that the pulse was hardly perceptible he in sisted, contrary to the entreaties of his doctors, in having cloths dipped in iced water and laid upon his chest. From the first he seems to have had a strange presentiment of his approaching dissolution. At a time when nothing but the most favourable auguries were entertained as to his recovery, he ex claimed, with strange emphasis, "If I live it will be for the best, and ii I die it will be for the best ; God knows, and directs all things always for the best." There was about him a living consciousness that he was an instrument sent by God for a special purpose, and left on earth so long as he was competent to achieve that purpose. With the strong faith of a pre destinarian, he soared above all sensations of physical fear, such as accompany ordinary mortals when artil lery is roaring and musketry flashing around them. He was not a great strategist, a finessing tactician — but he was the most downright sledgehammer of war, triumphing over difficulties which stood in his way with a facility unknown to any other General. In only one quality of mind did his powers ascend to the region of genius—in the most remarkable geographical or topographical accuracy of percep tion which led him to march to his destination with the unerring instinct of the Red Indian. He knew the northern half of Virginia as the prisoner of Chillon knew his dungeon. He has gone at a moment when nothing can be added to his earthly fame. In not one of his flank movements, his fiery onslaughts upon his enemy's rear, was he ever baffled or thwarted or disconcerted by any opposing general. But never was surprise so complete as that of Saturday, May 2, never were the consequences of any of his movements so momen tously eventful. It is his own belief that if he had had one hour more daylight, a large portion of Gen. Hooker's army would have laid down their arms. These words will be probably received in the North with a howl of derision. They only who witnessed the unmistakable evidences of Federal demoralisation will recognise and admit the reason ableness of Gen. Jackson's impression. But one thing is beyond a peradventure. If he had not been wounded at the most critical moment of the battle, he would undoubtedly have cut Gen. Hooker off from the United States Ford, and it may be left to your readers and to the whole world to surmise whether the Federals would have been able to cut their way out through strong lines of irtrenchment thrown around them, when they could not keep their enemy out of still stronger lines of intrench ment on the perilous ridge and in the memorable oak thicket of Chancellorsville. He has gone, but will not his memory be a pillar of fire, leading, kindling, vivifying, and inspiring his men, and from the tomb calling them to deeds of more than mortal valour ? In one great respect his mission has been fulfilled. He has roused a heart and kindled an enthusiasm in his countrymen which will but be intensified by the thought that he is gone. While he lived it was not unusual to hear disparagements of his ability, damaging com parisons between him and other Generals, asser tions that his successes in the Valley and elsewhere were attributable to the advice and inspiration of this General or that. But, now that he is gone, the true instinct of his country's outspoken heart proclaims that his loss is irreparable. The battles of last week are unquestionably the bloodiest of the war. After careful inquiries about the Confederate loss, I find that it amounts to, but as is thought does not exceed, 10,000 killed, wounded, and missing. The computation of the Federal loss I feel little disposed to enter upon, as it must necessarily be of the nature of an estimate. But, judging from the immense amount of pri soners now being marched to Richmond, amounting to between 8,000 and 9,000, and also from the dead bodies at Chancellorsville and Salem Church, it is a moderate figure to estimate the dead, wounded, and missing of the Federals at 25 000. It is, I think, impossible that the number of Confederate pri soners captured and sent across the river can reach 2,000. Rumour puts them at 1,500. Naval and Military Intelligence. The Orlando, screw frigate, 1,000 horse power, Capt. G. G. Randolph, arrived at Spithead yester day morning from the Nore. The Channel fleet at Portland is under orders on Monday evening to proceed on a few days' cruise in the Channel, and to exercise the crews in gunnery. The iron-cased frigate Royal Oak, Capt. P. A. Campbell, will sail from Spithead to join the fleet on the conclusion of her trials. The royal yachts Victoria and Albert, Fairy, and Elfin, have each received a thorough renovation and embellishment at Portsmouth, in readiness for the service of her Majesty and the royal family during the remainder of the summer. The Cossack, 20 gun screw steam corvette, 1,296 tons, 250 horse power, Capt. W. It. Rolland, made her official trial of speed at the measured mile off \laplin Sands on Saturday last, under the superin tendence of Capt. - W. K. Hall, C. 8., of her Majesty's ship Cumberland, guardship of Steam Reserve at Sheerness, prior to leaving for the Mediterranean. Six runs at full speed, with full boiler power, were made on the mile, which gave an average of 9.055 knots per hour, the pressure of steam being 201 b. ; vacuum, 25 ; revolutions of engines at full boiler power, 80; at half power, 56, Two runs were made at half boiler power, giving an average of 5.945 knots per hour. The circle was turned with helm to port in 5 min. 29 sec., and with helm to starboard in 6 min. 12 sec. The Cossack is fitted with Smith's propeller; diameter, 12ft. lin. ; pitch, 16in., and the immersion of screw was 21 . t. 9in. At the time of the trial the draught of water was 17fL 7in. forward, and 17ft. Bin. aft. The engines are from the eminent firm of Maudslay, son, and Field. On Tuesday the Commander-in. Chief at Sheerness, Vice-Admiral Sir W. J. Hope Johnstone, K.C.8., attended by his staff, inspected the Cossack, and expressed his gratification at the condition of the vessel. Immediately after the inspection she pro ceeded to Portsmouth, en route to the Mediterranean. The Vivid, tender to the flagship Fisgard, at Woolwich, got up steam yesterday morning at an early hour, and sailed from Woolwich at daybreak for Ostend, to embark the Qneen of Prussia for England on a visit to her Majesty. The hired steam transport Samson, having shipped 80 guns of various calibres and a mixed cargo of war stores from Woolwich pier, yesterday went down to the red buoy off the Arsenal to embark 100 tons of powder. She will proceed to the following stations on the West Coast of Africa :—Cape Coast Castle, Anamaboe, Dix Cove, A ccra, W hydah, Lagos, and Badagry. The following appointments were made at the Admiralty yesterday : Edward M, Roe, assistant paymaster, to the Firefly, in charge. Alfred G. Roberts, clerk, to the Hibernia. Joseph G. IV. Hoare, assi _taut paymaster, to the Victoria and Albert, Robert P, W, Soady, assistant paymaster, to the Magi cienne. Charles Walker, assistant clerk, to the Black Prince. John E. Mills, to be retired Master, with rank of Captain. C. P. H. Burt and James Parry, assistant engineers, to the Indus, as supernumeraries. Dixon S. B, Mackenzie, Harvey H, Glazbrook, and C. H. Cockran, to be naval cadets. THE CONFEDERATE STATES. (From the Special Correspondent of the Times.) GUINEY'S STATION, VIRGINIA, May 7. Of all the strange sights which within these last few days have met my eyes nothing stranger than the small country station from which this letter is dated has as yet fallen under my observation. Situated on the Fredericksburg and Richmond rail road, 12 miles from the former town, Guiney's depot has for many months been an important en trepot for commissary and ammunition and ord nance stores, and is the furthest point to which during squally seasons in and about Fredericks burg, the trains from Richmond advance. Conceive this spot as I see it this morning, with 12,000 or 14,000 men encamped about it, swimming in mud, ghastly from the multitude of its sick and wounded men, a Babel of confusion, voices, and tongues. Here, too, are at least 6,000 Federal prisoners, look ing in their blue uniform like a crop of indigo rising from the low, sas arupy sail, and refusing until this morning to be paroled, because they professed to believe that Stoneman, or Sedgwick, or Hooker would rescue them. " John Sedgwick is not a man to be stopped." " You haven't done with Joe Hooker yet." " Wait till something is heard from Stoneman." Such are some of the phrases which salute your ears as you wander among them, com puting whether the proportion of Irish and German faces amounts to two-thirds or four-fifths. Turn to the wooden storehouse adjoining the station and marvel at the immense piles of captured muskets which have already come in, and which would fill Exeter-hall from floor to roof. These muskets have been lost in the attempt to execute Exeter-hall's ab horred, but possibly well-intentioned behests ; stronger hands and stouter hearts are wanted before those behests shall prevail. A few hundred yards from Gainey's lies a com fortable Virginian farmhouse belonging to a Mr. Chandler. In it " Stonewall" Jackson is understood to be lying wounded. With a beating heart I rode up to ask after him, for rumour had stated that his condition was not favourable. Dr. Maguire, his staff surgeon, met me outside the house. He stated that until two this morning nothing could be more favourable than his patient's progress towards re covery, that he had ceased to entertain any fears about the wounded right hand, and that it had been his intention to convey the General to Richmond today. But at two this morning the General woke with an acute pain in his side, and, although Dr. Maguire hoped that it might proceed from neuralgia, he had the greatest apprehensions in regard to pneumonia. The General was asleep while I was talking with the doctor. Shortly after he awoke, and upon examination it was pronounced that the symptoms were decidedly those of pneumonia. The doctor proceeded to cup and leech him ; from that moment I gave up all hope of his recovery. General Jackson's physique was far from being robust. It is an unerring indication of the fiery earnestness with which he entered into this war that from the time the first musket was fired he forgot his feebleness, and exposed himself to hardships, pri vations, destitution of food, exposure by night and day, such as I verily believe have never been sub mitted to by any General, whether modern or an cient, since first war desolated the earth. The famous description of Hannibal recurs to the mind as you think of him,—" Caloris ac frigoris patientm par ; nullo labore aut corpus fatigari aut animus vine; poterat." There was in his endurance of hardship, in his indifference about food or shelter, in his unsparing and undemonstrative self-sacrifice something that was positively sublime. All have felt that in military genius, in strategical ability, Jackson may have had many superiors; but the sight of him, and of him alone, stirred the blood like a trumpet, and the words " Stonewall Jackson is coming" carried confidence to his friends and terror to his foes, such as of yore the word "Marl brook" inspired when whispered into the ear of French children. I retired a few hundred yards from the house ; the train from Richmond came in, bringing with it his wife and only child—a daughter born less than six months ago. It was impossible to look at the house where he lay, and to think of the meeting between himself and his wife, from whom he had for two years almost entirely torn himself away to render eervice—and such service—to his country, without a mist coming over the eyes and a choking sense of suffocation rising in the throat. I turned to look at the wounded—the unknown and unrecorded heroes of this war, with love for whom, unsparingly as he called upon them to exert themselves, Jackson's whole heart was instinct. It was a sad and piteous sight. In no previous battle has the suffering been so great. The tangled, intricate, and difficult country in which the battle was fought, the threatening de monstrations of the Federals at several points, made it dangerous to ex pc se waggons and ambulances to the possibility of capture, and almost all the wounded who were able to walk had walked, some 12 and 14 and some between 20 and 25 miles, from the field of battle to Guiney's Station. Amputations on the field, instant attention to wounds, now known to surgeons as being vitally necessary, were in few cases possi ble. More than onecase of limbs badly shattered and untouched fir four or five days, and in which mor tification had ensued and death was inevitable, came under my notice. Many other cases were noticeable in which, though life was likely to be spared, health and vigour were manifestly gone for ever. The want of prompt surgical assistance to men wounded in battle involves not merely the alternative of death or life, but of enjoyable, elastic, vigorous, sparkling life, and the innumerable forms of death iu life, or living death. There was a com mittee of worthy and excellent citizens from Rich mond dispensing soup and medicines, but their efforts were like a drop in the ocean. I went down to Richmond by one of the trains which conveyed the wounded. It was, indeed, tra velling through the Valley of the Shadow of Death. Such sights and scenes—how many of them have I now seen !—are not to be detailed to your readers. They sink deep into the heart of him who:witneases them, as the wild screams of the delirious live and are impressed upon the tympanum of his ear. My thoughts were with Jackson ; the shadow of the coming event strode forth and cast a chill over the heart. But it was encouraging even in such a mo ment to note the energy of the Confederates, which in one day had repaired the damage done by Stone man's cavalry to the Fredericksburg and Richmond Railroad, and in two days had got the Virginia Central Railroad again in working gear. Let it now be understood, in answer to the cuckoo cry always raised by the North of overwhelming numbers concentrated by the rebels, that the late series of battles was fought by General Lee without the addition to his numbers of one man from Rich mond. When first General Hooker's menacing attitude was assumed, General Longstreet was called for by General Lee. Put Longstreet replied that he could not leave Suffolk without losing many of his waggons, which were deep in the recesses of North Carolina, and would be seized by the enemy if he retired from before Suffolk, and opened the country to the unchecked ravages of the enemy. General Lee immediately telegraphed to him not to incur a certain lOss for the sake of a pro blematical gain, and seriously inclined to make the best possible preparation for the reception of Hooker. It is not necessary that I should state how small General Lee's army actually was. No statement of mine, made when the echoes of the cannon have scarcely died away, would command credence in the North or in England, any more than the unquestionable fact that General Lee fought the battle of Sharpsburg with 35,000 against consider ably more than 100,000 men. But it will be be lieved when I state that not one man left Richmond to assist General Lee, except some small bodies which went to guard the large stores at Hatover Junction and Gordonsville, and to prevent the de struction of the railroad bridge over the South Anne River. It is too early at present to enter into an examina tion of the st rateg i cal mer i ts of General L ee ' s operations. Th e impression of all who are pest qualified to judge is that hereafter they will by re garded by competent military critics as exhibiting ability of the very highest order. Threatened at many points by an immensely superior foe, he, did not scruple to divide his little army into three por tions, one of which he left under General Early to guard the heights of Fredericksburg, one of which THE ARMY. A general Horse Guards order has been promul gated at Chatham garrison, in which bis Royal Highness the Field-Marshal Commanding-in-Chief announces that he desires it to be distinctly under stood that the actual presence of the commanding officer of a regiment is necessary at every monthly muster-parade of officers and men under his com mand. Should the commanding officer, however, be on leave, or engaged on any duty of importance requiring his attendance elsewhere, such circum stance is to be notified tagainst his name in the mus ter-roll, and the c4fficer next in command will super intend the muster and sign the official documents. The whole of the troops belonging to the garrison were yesterday assembled in review order on Wool wich-common, and were minutely inspected by Major-Gen. Sir R. Dacres, K.C.8., in preparation for a field-day to take place on the 24th inst., after the distribution of the prizes to the gentlemen cadets at the Royal Military Academy by his Royal High ness Field-Marshal the Duke of Cambridge. It was yesterday announced that, to add to the display which is designed for the 24th, a portion of the Household troops are under orders to attend at. Woolwich, and in all probability their Royal High nesses the Prince and Princess of Wales will be present. _ _ Mr. G. Tyrrell, of Yarmouth, has contracted for £70,000 to erect Hurst Castle Fort, in Hampshire, with casement batteries, new lighthouse, &c. Mr. Tyrrell is at present erecting extensive forts for the Government in the Isle of Wight. In consequence of the entire space at St. Mary's Creek, Chatham, hitherto used by the Royal Engi neers for carrying on their course of instruction in pontooning, diving, and sub-aqueous experiments. being required by the Admiralty for the enlarge ment and extension of Chatham dockyard, the Royal Engineer pontoon depot has been removed to the opposite side of the creek, near Upnor Castle, whither the pontoons and other apparatus have been removed. Yesterday the available con-com missioned officers and men of the Royal Engineers were employed in pontooning operations in the Med way, with the various descriptions of pontoons in troduced into the service, and during the day were busily engaged in the formation of rafts and bridges for the transportation of troops and war materiel from one part of the harbour to the other. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. TIMES.—The Duke of Cambridge, in his place in the House of Lords, has given a frank explanation of the position in which he found himself when called upon, as Commander-in-Chief, to review the proceedings connected with the arrest and death of the unfortunate Sergeant-Major Lilley. When those proceedings became known to the public the emotion, as Lord Shaftesbury truly observed, was most profound. The story appeared absolutely hor rible, and everybody looked with natural anxiety for the action of the chief military authorities in a case so flagrant. These feelings were intensified when it was gradually ascertained that injustice had been committed from beginning to end, and that Sergeant Lilley, who had been deprived of life by the cruelty of his imprisonment, was imprisoned not only illegally according to military law, but on a charge which had no foundation, and which not au attempt was made to prove. Under such circum stances the public asked whether nothing was to be done, and whether some account was not due from those who had been engaged in transactions so flag rant. To these questions replies have been already given in the House of Commons, and the Duke of Cambridge has now explained exactly what, as Commander-in-Chief, he was enabled to do, and what has been actually done. The public will re ceive this statement with great satisfaction. It shows not only that the Commander-in-Chief has the power of acting in the matter, but that he has the intention also. Lord Hartington must have overrated the difficulties of the case when he said that it was "impossible" to do anything more than had been done. As we understand the Duke's ex planation, the interference of the Home authorities, though so unusual as to be all but unexampled, is not actually impossible. He has been inactive not for want of power, but lack of authentic informa tion. It takes a long time to conduct an inquiry by question and answer between India and England, but when the truth is known there exists authority enough for turning it to account. Usage has estab lished the Indian authorities in a species of inde pendence, but that independence was at once in fringed when the Duke's Minute was despatched to Calcutta. When there was power to censure, and to place as it were upon record a sentence of con demnation by suspending an ulterior judgment over the heads of inculpated officers, there was obviously power to do something more. In fact, something more has been done. After all that was said about the dead-lock of the case and the impos sibility of moving, a new Court-Martial has been ordered, the effect of which must necessarily be to reopen the entire case from beginning to end. With this prospect of justice we may reasonably be satis fied. The case has not, as was feared, been with drawn from cognizance by the operation of tech nical difficulties. There is no bar to further in quiry. The Secretary for War followed the Com mander-in-Chief' in his observations by stating that " every step would be taken by the Government to insure that the inquiry should be conducted in the most open and fair manner, in older to secure the ends of justice as between all parties." The public desires nothing more than this ; it has only been apprehensive of getting less. There is one point, however, which we regard as of the greatest importance, and which was urged by Lord Shaftes bury in the debate. He "hoped the inquiry would take place in England," and added that " it would he most unsatisfactory if it were transferred to India. 'We are entirely of this opinion. No mere considerations of expense or trouble ought to stand in the way of this decision. India is no place for such an inquiry, nor will there be any confidence in the investigation or its results unless it is conducted at home. On this condition we are willing to sus pend all further judgment. We hope that every possible opportunity of self-justification will be given to all who are implicated in the matter, but we wished to see the whole truth brought to light before a tribunal from every touch of suspicion. This alone will set our authorities right with the public. POST.—It is no doubt extremely vexatious to a neutral State to find its commerce crippled in con sequence of the quarrels of its neighbours ; quarrels moreover, in the issue of which it may not possess the least interest. But so long as the present code of international law meets with the acceptance of the world, peaceful nations must consent to the in conveniences imposed upon them by the less pacific members of the great community to which they belong. The American war has now lasted more than two years, and during that period no less than two thousand five hundred miles of coast have been declared to be closed against the commerce of the outer world. From all that coast line, extend ing from Chesapeake Bay to the mouth of the Rio Grande, in the Gulf of Mexico, both egress and ingress have been almost completely cut off. Of the effects produced upon the staple of English manufac tures by the blockade it is needless now to speak. With hundreds of thousands of our operatives re duced from independence to penury, from comfort to absolute want, it is not surprising that our feel ings should be soured against those who have brought upon us so much evil, and that we should cast about to discover some pretext for evading ob ligations which press so heavily upon us. Hence it has happened that questions have been so frequently mooted respecting the efficiency of the blockade of the Southern States, and that arguments, which under other circumstances would at once be dis missed as idle, command, at least for a time, atten tion and respect. But, in truth, in all questions which concern the strict observance of the American blockade, and the rights claimed by the cruisers of the Federal Government, our own interests do not exclusively point in the direction which Lancashire cotton spinners or their representatives believe they do. We are now neutral, but we have not unfre quently been belligerent, and may be belligerent again. But when at war there is no people in the world which benefits more by the exercise of those maritime rights accorded to belligerents than the British nation. It is, therefore, even when regarded from a selfish point of view, our interest to admit to the Government of the United States th e fullest lati tude in the exercise of its belligerent rights—even though their operation should for the moment tell heavily against us. It may be a great present hard ship to be deprived of cotton; but it is infinitely preferable to be in want of that commodity than to purchase it by evincing a disregard for those rights in others which we have ov er and ov er again, on previous o ccasions, claimed to exercise ourselves. We would not he justified in allowing the Federal Government to strain its privileges as a belli gerent against ourselves ; but neither shonid we on the London Printed and Published by WILLIAM ANDREWS , of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at TUE SUN Office, No. 112. Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the County Of ittiatilefox.—Wecluesday, Juno 17, 061 other hand press our immunities as neutrals beyond that point affixed as their boundary by international law. These observations are induced in consequence of the rather singular exposition of maritime inter national law made on Monday evening in tale House of Lords, by the Mart - leis of Clanricaeiee He laid it down, on the authority of an American Secretary of State, that a blockade should be con fined to particular ports, and could not be extended to a line of covet, and that of necessity the assumed blockade of the greater portion of the eastern coast of the United States was illegal. No principles however, has been more clearly established than that a Power may keep in blockade as great an extent of coast as it pleases, provided such blockade is efficient. It is needless to observe that this prin ciple has been frequently acted upon by this country wh ie at war, ant . , should the occasion present itself, will be acted upon again. HERALD.—The vote of Monday evening, which has acquired for the higher education of the country the site and buildings used for the Internationa l Exhibition, was not one of those decisions which might have been expected to have elicited so warm a debate or so near a division. In sober fact there was nothing else open to the House. It was placed in circumstances where practically no discretion was left it, for the result was of the logic of events and had been prejudged by the very necessity of things. Hence Mr. Gregory's long speech eva s marked by an utter oblivion of the whole question of merits, and amounted to no more than some very" emphatic " abuse of the defendant." Grant all that the hon. member for Dublin alleged against the contractors, managers, directors, and secretaries concerned in the societies and institutions brought under review—what then ? Grant that the " clique established at Kensington" is " self-eeeking,craving , meddling, flattering and toadying," and that" these managers are well known for exclusiveness, class combinations, servility, and extravagance," and are either hunters after honours and court favour, or are small clerks who have promoted themselves into' commissioners, councillors, or dispensers of honours in science and art ;" in what way does all this vitu perative description meet the well-established facts in the higher educational necessities of the country ? The National Gallery is one of those tight fits which menaces the suffocation of the two arts it was meant to encourage. Our Collection of Natural History insists on an asylum, which cannot resew ably be denied it. A Patent Museum is of urgent necessity; and the annual receipts from the Patent Office leave an unapplied surplus sufficient to pay for its erection. Then there are such collec tions as that in Lincoln's-inn-fields, left by Sir S. Soane; the collection of old masters at Dulwich; and of portraits in Great George-street ; the Museum of Naval Models at Somerset House; with some collections at Whitehall and elsewhere, whose public value would be trebled by their uniont some of which require to be at once removed by the Government, and the rest are open to removal under the easiest of Government arrangements. It would be easy to sum up the hundred reasons which show that not only must something be done, but something on a large scale, to meet the require ments thus growing upon us by the rapid develop ment of art and science, and the equally rapid dif' fusion of a popular appreciation of their uses ; but no better demonstration, perhaps, is needed than the fact of Ministers coming down to the house, & year ago, and undertaking th, responsibility of ask ing for a vote of half a million of money for a cell' struction to receive the existing collection of natu• ral history. If we were at our prayers for a con cession to meet such exigencies we could hardly' desire anything better as a gift than that we might acquire ready at our hand the edifice used for the International Exhibition on terms making it ours at about half its value. By the bargain made b 7 the house we practically receive as a present the quarter of a million contributed by the visitors last summer, and which, under a recent arrangement , 5,5 made to cover, within £BO,OOO, the cost of the original construction. We obtain the land again at a price less, probably by one-half, than what e. like space as eligibly situate would have cost any else ; and the only question really that re mained to puzzle the good sense and exercise the high principle of members in the discussion of Mon day night was, whether they would consent, under the appeal of much argumentative statement and great oratorical eloquence, to take the goods the gods had been thus liberally purveying for them. COUNTRY MARKETS. I* LEEDS—TUESDAY. To-day there was a moderate supply of English and foreign wheat, which sold at the extreme rates of the pre• vious week. LYNN—' There bas been a fair bu at fully hut week's prices. White ..46s to 50s I Barley. . 1 ....32s to 34a Rcd.. Beans .36s to 38s I Oats Jew —s to —s I Peas MARKET HARBOROUGH—TUESDAY. 'IJESDAY. iness doing in wheat to-day, White wheat, 49s to s:s ; red, 43s to 46s per 36 stone. Malting barley :at 33s to 37s per qr. ; grinding, 30s to 32$ per 30 st, Oats, old, 26s to 275; new, 22s to 24s per 21 st. ; beans, 328 t 8 39s per qr. A great change is visible in. the growing crops, the late rains having done wonders, LIVERPOOL—TUESDAY. At our market to-day there was a good attendance both of millers and dealers, and wheat experienced a more active demand, the depression of Friday being fully recovered. Oats were very depressed. Barley and peas only saleable in retail. Egyptian beans rather firmer. Flour met only a moderate sale, at a decline of Gd pez barrel on the week. Indian corn has declined 3d to 6d per qr on the prices of last week. SHEFFIELD—TUESDAY. Red wheat, per load of 3 imperial bushels 15s Od to 16s Od White f) . 2os Od to 215 Od New red , , l7s Od to 1 8 s O d New white „ .. l9s Od to 2 0 s Od Beans .. /9 les Od to 1 9 $ Oa Peas, per qr 45s Od to 56s Od Grinding barley, per qr 3os Od to 32s o€l Maltineditto, „ 34s Od to 38s Od Oats .. 2ls Od to 27s O d Flour, is 7d to 2s 2d per stone. MELTON MOWBRAY—TUESDAY. The following were the currencies :—New white wheat! 49s Od to 548 Od ; new red, 44s Od to 48s per 36 stone beans, 38s to 43s for old ; new sorts, 34s to 39s per 38 et• , barley, 34s to 38s for malting, and 27s to 29s per qr. for grinding; oats, 24s to 30s Od per 24 stone. Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS DUE. Australia and Mauritius, via Southampton .. June 18. via Marseilles drazil and Cape Verds, by British packet. July 5. Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena.. June 29. China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton. June 18. via Marseilles ...June 27. Falkland Islands Gibraltar, via Southampton June 18. India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton June 18. ' via Marseilles June 27. India (Bombay), via Southampton .. June 25. via Marseilles Portuga 1.... Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton J un e 20. via Marseilles July 10. Newfoundland Oporto and Vigo U. S. and British N. America, by Brit. packet.... Juno 24. by U.S. packet.... by Canadian packet. June 1 9 • W.C. of Africa, Madeira, and Teneriffe .. July 10 Bahamas, via New York ' July 2. Mexico.. All parts of West Indies, including Chili, Peru, I n June 2v. California. and British Columbia.. [ADVERTISEMENT.] —Holloway's Ointment and Outward Sores.—Daity experience confirms the fact which has triumphed over opposition for 27 years--that no means are known equal to Holloway's remedies for curing sores t wounds, diseases of the skin, erysipelas, abscesses, burnt, scalds, and, in truth, all cases where the skin is broken. 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