The Sun. — London, England, 1851-06-13 00:00:00

COURSE OF EXCH./ Amsterdam •• • • 11 13 1)Itto, three months.. 11 17 , 4 Rotterdam • • •• •• 1 1 1 8 25 25 Brusselz ••• • • . ••• ••• • • 25 25 Edinburgh .. •• • • M.B . 1 3 71 Paris, 3 days'siztit .. • • 25 5 Ditto. 3 months 2.5 2234 Marseilles •• 25 5 Bourdeata.... .• •• . • rritnlttort on :11.4ing.. 119%1 Vlerina, effec. • • 12 44 Trieste, ditt0.....• •. _ 12 47 Peitersburgh, Sll. Hble 37 36 Mr.dzid •.• • • 50 Cadiz .••• • • • • 50% B aroclona .• • X 34,930,641 Detail the 12th day of June, 18; WHITEHALL, MAY 23. The Lord Chancellor has appointed Arthur Ransom), of Sudbury. in the county of Norfolk, Gent., to be a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery. WHIrERALL JUNZ 7. The Lord Ch ancellor has appointed George Col quhoun, of Woolwich, in the county of Kent, Gent., to be a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery. WHITEHAL, JUNE 9. The Lord Chanoailor ha L d appointed Thomas Southaut of Manchester, in the county pelantine of Laneacer, Gent., to be a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery. BANKRUPTS. 19Sarauel Ratcliff, miller, Suffolk, to surrender Jut e and July 05 t w t .,._ .orp , a ©nee t the Court of Bankruptcy. , n 3"."! „ official 2ssig, Balinghall-street ; C. j, t'cii-el:-..h,Whishaw, Gray's-inn-square; and Robinscm c h 4 es S :v ii ( tLlk. , weu, ihne 1 . , -)ody, pork butcher, Goswell-road, Clerket at th e at half-past one, and July 25, at eleven, BiraliLoiaurt 'of Bankruptcy. ' Cannan, official assignee, Ba9inghall•i'rCOrnhill; Smith, Stenning, and Croft, John Mut - isr . July 25, at v Mute July —o 0 , victualler, Barbican, June 25 and hid; official as,i n, at tho Court of Bankruptcy. Starts sq uare. gaae; Rine and Robinson, Charterhouae- John Walters, li June 2rnanstd victualler "Great Rider-street, St. James's, , buiireron-street, Ci:y. ruptey. Graham, ct iValY 25, at the Court of Bank .Burbey, Suffolk-lan e , ect : 4l assignee • Dimmock and John Mildrum ,Oakley -terrace, Chelses, 3diddlesex, June 24, at eleven and July 24, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Cokman-etreet-buildings, m oo _ 11 , official assignee, Ccrnhill. rgate-street ; Turnley, John Latham, pianoforte manufaetur ;Si m o n a street, Ettzroy-sqUare, June 21, at eleve n - - --"' at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Pet Vell A o u ffi g. i:i assignee Gui!dhall-chambers, Basinghall-Street; ' ID, --e reet; -,axon, Bloomsbury-Equare. Thomas Fisher, piano forte manufacturer, Tottenh street. Tottenham-court•read, Jun' 26, at tleven, rllll n ,i July 15, at two, at the Court of Bsnkraptcy. G rocm, official assignee, Abchurch-lane; Cox, Pinner, =hall Old Brcad-street. William Clipson, bull-ler, Chester, June 20 and July 18, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court. Bird, official asaignee, Liverpool; Hostage. Chester. • Benjmiu Whittaker and John ullalove, manufac turers, Manchester. June 30, and July 21, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court. Fraser, official assignee,, Manchester; Hitchcock, Buck/21, and Tidavvell, Man cheater. PRICE OF SUGAR. The average price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, CO puted from returns made in the week ending June Idsl, exciusiva of Customs Duties paid or payable there on on th 4 importation thereof into Great Britain : From the British possessions in America 255. 9d. per crert ; From the Mauritius 265. 104 d. From the East Indies 19s. het. ~ NGE.-(1 LI IS DAY. Gibraltar.. • ... I Leghorn .•• • • • • • Milan -• •• •• • • •• •• Naples 1) -sierrn , ), per oz Messina ...... • ....... Lisbon.... • • •• Rio Saner° • • •.• • • • Buenos Ayres • • gem York, 60 dayesight Philadelphia .... • • .. PRICES OP BULLION, PER Oz. Foreign Gold in bars.. £3 17 9 Portugal Gold Cain .. 0 0 0 Spanish Doubloons .. 0 0 0 Now Dollars ...... 0 4 11 1 Silver In bars 0 5 0 I 25 40 BANK OF ENGLAND. (From this night's Gazette.) An Accoant, pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth of Victoria,cap. 32 for the Week ending on Saturday, the 7th day of June, 1851. ; ISSCE DEPARTMENT. X. Notes ts 27,198,335 .C. Government debt .. 11,015,100 Other securities .. .• 2,984,900 Gold coin and bullion 13,161,960 Sliver bullion • ..... 33,375 :t27,194,335 I £27,198,335 Dated the 12th day o f June, 1851. MARSHALL, Chief cashier BANKING DETABTXISN T. X. Proprietors'capital.. 14,553,000 Rest -. ... •• •• • • 3,089,074 Public deposits (in cluding Exchequer, Commissioners of National Debt, Sav- Ings-batiks, and DI - vidend accoun,s).. 7,488,615 Other deposits • • 8,726,633 seven day and other Et11y.......... .. • • 1,073,309 Government securi ties (including Dead Weight Annuity).. 13,544,329 Other securities .. • • 12,55 a, tto Notes ••• • • • 8,190,1 20 Gold and silver coin.. 63t1,:22 £34,930,681 • ILLRSIIALL, Chief Cashier. THE LONDON GAZETTE. (THIS EVENING.) FOREIGN-OFFICE, JUNE 12, 1851. The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. Jona than Binns We re as C onsu l- General in Australia and Van Diemen's Land for her Majesty the Queen of Portu gal and the Algarves. The Queen has also been pleased to approve of Mr. Jonathan Binne Were as Consul at Melbourne, Port' Philip, for the Free Hanseatic City of Hamburgh. DOWNING-STREET, JUNE 13. The Queen has been pleased to appoint Joseph Pope, Esq., to be her Majesty's Treasurer for Prince Edward Island. CROWN-OFFICE, JrziE 11. MEMBERS RETURNED TO SERVE IN THIS PRESENT PARLIAMENT. County of Argyll—Sir Archibald Islay Campbell, of Succoth, Bart., in the room of Duncan Al• Neill, Esq., who has accepted the office of one of the judges of the Supreme Court of Scotland. CoMbined Counties of Clackmannan and Kinross James Johnstone, Esq., of A fra, in the room of M:tjor- General William Morison, deceased. OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, JUNE 12. Royal Regiment of Artillery—Second Captain Ed ward Arthur Williams to be 'Adjutant, vice Burrows, romoted, June 22 ; Second Captain Herbert Wiusio e ratto n to be Adjutant, vice Laurence, deceased, Oct. 26. Commission by her Majesty's Commissioners of Lieu tenancy for the City of London. Regiment o f R oya l London MilLia—Samuel Wilson, Eenat-Colonel t s q . ' Alderman, to lig Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Lieu illiam Thompson, M.P., promoted, June lu. Commission by the Lord-Lieutenant of the North Rid- North York ins of Yorkshire. A ceased. D Regiment of Militia—John Edward de Dolby, Gent., to be Lieutenant, vice Grille, fi rif 4 0, - ; tf 7-trzlv4i v SUN 017;ICE, Sewn o'Clock. DENMARK AND THE DUCHIES. A letter from Altona, in tLe Adependanee of Brussels, says :—" The discord between the represen tatives of Holstein and the deputies of Schles wig and Denmark in the Assembly of Notables, at Flensburg, becomes greater ard greater every day. It is a singular fact, that the Schleswig representatives are much more opposed than the Danes to the adminis trative and financial union of Schleswig and Hol stein, and which the representatives of the latter duchy wish to restore to the same state as before the revolution of 1848. As the Schleswig and Danish representatives form the majority, it is expected that those of Holstein, having no hope of getting their plans adopted, will retire from the Assembly, after putting in a protest against the proceedings." An explosion, which caused the loss of two lives, took place on the 7th in the fortress of Rendsburg. Some artillerymen were engaged on the wall of the Neuwerk in emptying the exploding powder out of some old shells, when one of them exploded, killing two men on the spot and severely wounding a third. It was necessary to amputate his arm immediately. The cause of the explosion is not known, but is sup posed to have arisen from friction in boring out the stoppers. In consequence of the dissolution of the School of Cadets for the sea service at Kiel, the several teachers of that establishment received their dismissal on the 30th ult. The Danish National Festival held on the 6th on the heights of Duppel, in memory of the action fought there on the same day in 1849, was attended by more th an 8,000 persons from Alsen, Sundewit, and Fl ens b urg. General von Krogh and five of the Notables were a l so present ; speeches adapte d t o the occasion were delivered. BOSNIA. Letters from Agram, of the 2d, in the German Journal of Frankfort, state from Bosnia that a new insurrection had nearly broken out at Trawnik and Serrajevo, but that the arrival of Omer Pasha at the former place defeated the intentions of the enemies of the Government. Omer Pasha directed several high dignitaries to be arrested, and Fazli Pasha among the number. Many of the malcontents have been in corporated in the army, and others have been exiled to Tripoli. TRIAL OF COUNT AND COUNTESS DE BO CAILYE. The whole of the sitting of the Court of Assizes of Mons on Wednesday was occupied with the requisitory of the Procureur du Rci• Re entered into an elaborate examination of all the circumstances proved in evidence, and contended that they established that the murder had been resolved on by both the accused, and perpetrated by both; and that both had taken the measures they considered calculated to prevent their guilt from be coming known. He had not concluded when the court rose. The following noblemen and gentlemen and other cliatingaished pereona ,, ts visited Mr. Wyld's large Model cf the Earth, in LeieLter-square, during the past week: ..—Duke of Wellington, Duke of Northumberland, Duke of Hamilton, Earl of Dartmouth, his Excellency the Austrian Ambassador, Lord t:nd Lady Granville, Lord Craven, Colonel Bailey, M.P., Captain Green, M.P., Sir W. Clay, L.P., and Mr. Walter, M.P. THE SUN, Average price of the three foregoing de scriptions of sugar, jointly, computed as above, and exclusive of duty ... 255. 3d. „ By authority of Parliament, lIENLY BICKNELL, Clerk of the Grocers' Company, Grocers'-hall, June 13. MARKET INTEL LIGEN CE. (From the London New Price Current, June 13.) SErGAR.—To-day there was a much better demand for West India Sugar for home consumption; tha rates ob tained are equal to those of Friday last, and in some cases Gd above. The purchas es today were 1,190 hhds, &c., including at aucti on 125 hhd s 12 t rcs 95 b r l s ar- badoes, which realized 40 s t o 41 s f or fi ne y e ll ow , 36s to 36s 6d for low to good, and fair brown 35s to 35s Gd. REFINED.—To-day home dealer s were buyersvebecome to a fair extent of Refined goods, a nd r 6 a s te 6 s d h firm; low to good groce r y l um p s a t 4 demand is not better for Crushed Sugar; there ever, no reduction in the value. t a o 49 i ss how ever, o e MAIIRITIIIS.—This afternoon of Mauritius Sugar, but privately bags found sale buyers at rates equal to last Friday. EAST INDIA.—This afternoon there aboutw27oonoo good demand and realized fnll terms; a Bengal at Sugarau ctionmet with ,63 333 to 375, and good bags sold, good and fine white Benares went at 4 ls 6 d to 42s 6d, date yellow ord to good soft brown 29s 6d to 303. Of Ceylon 50 casks realized 36s to 363 ad for fair yellow. FOREIGN.— there tto 22s a r fore few To-day there was more offerededesire to fo r operate in Foreign Sugar for exportation; andfloat ing cargoes e o ll f o Brown y, H a v ann a Bahia,h ditto, i a t n t d 20 s bat 6 sellers thereat. Of white Bahia 1,200 bags realized 403 per cwt, duty paid. For auction 22,000 Java are de ya.ppearance for all c 1 a m r e o d L b a y s s t E h a e . t h c e h in T a r r a k d e i t n h g a s C a o m g u p i a e n t sorts, whilst rates have a downw ar d tendency. For the week only 150 hhds West India have been sold at from 12s 6d to 16s for low to fine, only small parcels Of Bengal and Mauritius have been disposed of at 12s, Cuba and Porto Rico at 15s to 15s Gd per cwt. COCOA.—The home trade demand has been better for West India private treaty this week and rather higher rates are paid, red Trinidad selling at 41s to 475, grey 37s to 40s and G renada 35s to 40s. In Foreign opera tions are however still upon a small scale ; Bahia and Para at 26s to 283„ and Guayaquil 30s per Mt. COFFEE. —To-day there was a reluctance on the part of all parties to do business in Coffee, and rates still have a downward tendency. At auction 351 bags Na tive Ceylon were taken in at 375 to 38s, and of 164 casks Plantation a part only sold at easier rates, good mid went at 53s to 54s 6d, mid 49s to 525, other sorts 41s to 48e, good ord pale 38s to 40, t r i age 34s 6d to 375, and mid pea berry 57s 6d to 60s per cwt. TEA. —To-day the public sales of Tea went off with much dulness, and of 11,500 pkgs passed, the small quan tity of 2,400 which sold, nearly all green, for which the rates taken are ld per lb under those previously cur rent. Scented Teas went:rather cneaper, as also did the small quantity of C ongou t h at sold. The ' value of good ord is now 10d to Mid. RICE. —To-day several parcels of East India were sold privately at full former rates, and 1,365 bags realized lOs 6d to Ils for fine white, and damaged 9s to Os 6d per cwt. SPICES —Full rates have been obtained for Nutmegs, and auction 40 pkgs were sold, good brown want at 3s to 3s 4d, mid and good mid 2s 6d to 2s 10d, small 2s ld so 2s sd, and wormy 7d to is 6d per lb. The value of fine brown is as 5d to 3s 10d, and of low to good limed is 6d to 2s 7d. Mace is wanted, and realize full last week's rates. At auction 7 cases, and 2s to 2s Id for good thirds; privately better sorts are selling at 2s 2d to 2s 7d. The limited bnsiness done in Pepper has been rather under late rates. At auction 1.929 bags Malabar were disposed of et 3 to 34d for good shot, whilst 1,282 bags Batavia and Penang were taken in at 24d for good light. Clean Sumatra can bo obtained at 21 , 1 to 3d per lb. White has been purchased with caution at .sil to 7.f. Of African Pod 1173 bgs at auction were taken in at 453 for mid, but two cases fine Cap/rine sold at Is 9d to is 11d per lb. Although rates are low for Cloves, dealers still operate with caution, and at auction 120 cases Bourbon and Z eozihar only realized 6d to 6i. The value of Penang is 9d to is 3d, and Am boara 8d to Bd. For Pimento the demand is on the in crease, and the parcels soli privately were at rather higher rates. At auction 263 were disposed of, good mid went at 4id to 41-J, low mid and mid 4-ad to 4id. Paces hai e again given way for Ginger, suit able for home consumption the sudply being on the increase. At auction 183 pkgs Jamaica were sold, good went at 95s to 1065, mid and good mid 703 903, other sorts 62s to (382. 340 cases Cochin a small part only sold at 53s ad to 55s for mid, and at 60s to 65s for goer), whilst 204 bgs African were taken in at 30s. The value of export East India remains at 155 to 17s, and with few buyers. Of preserved Ginger GO cs at auction were again taken in at 9d per lb. Cassia Lig nea is held with fin/mess at 90s to 100 s, only small orders have been executed. Cassia Buds are scarce, and realize 105 s to 110 s. At auction cs Cassia Vera sold at 36s to 476 per cwt. In Cinnamon there is rather more trade doing, still rates remain for Ceylon at is to 3s 6d per lb. .r,CCCIIINEAL.—To-day at sale 80 bags Honduras Co chineal sold at 23 1 Id to 3s 2d for low to ord, with a few mid silvers; 12 bags good Mexican silvers taken in at 2s. SirTrETuE."*To-day at auction 1,110 bgs Calcutta Saltpetre were offered, a part was withdrawn, and the remainder sold at stiff rates, mid 131 to lli per cent :refraction at 25s 6d, 17 per cent 255, good 61 at 27,. INDIGO.—The quarterly sale has been fixed for the Sth of July, and at present 9,200 chests aro declared. The stock is 4,000 chests more than last year, deliveries decreased 4,400, an d i mports aro 1,600 chts larger. Spanish dull and late rates are with difficulty supported. At auction 21 erns Guatemala sold at 2s 7d to 4s 9d, and one lot low is 10d. The stock is 2,280 srns. SPIRITS.—Eass India Rum is not offered under ls 3d proof, but there are now few buyers, and larger parcels are on offer. Leeward Island has been operated in with caution at is 4id to is sid proof; still holders are not disposed to press sales. Of Demerera severat parcels have i been 'sold, but no advance ; prices ruling at is 10d to 93 2d for 30 to 40 per cent. over proof. Fine Jamaica has been in gooe demand, both for home corsumption and shipping, and the rates paid have been 3s 3d to 4s 3d for 34 to 38 over proof. For other sorts there is a dull market, with sellers of plain and mid qua lity 30 to 35 over at 2s 3d to 2s 6d; good mid to good 32 to 36 over at 2s 7d to 3s 2d. There is no advance for Brandy. Prices are firm ; and rule for best braoda of the vintage of 1850 4s 4d to 43 6d, 1849 ditto 4s 7d to 4s 9d, 1848 ditto 4s lid to 5s Id, 1847 ditto 5s 4d to 5s 6d, older sorts 5s 10d to 7s, inferior kinds 2s 6d to 3s 10d, and ißordeaux 2s 2d to 2s Bd. Geneva is 7d to is 8 for ord, and fine is 9d to 2s, Wm.—This afternoon the quantity of Sperm Oil offered at public sale was 150 tuns, and chiefly b old; British at 791 10s to 841 ss; and Heade:tatter 89/, these are lower rates. TALLOW.—Thin afternoon the public sales of New South %Vales Tallow, consisting of 660 casks, went at lower rates; Sheep at 35s 3d to 36s 9J; Ox, 33s 9,1 to 35s 61; 12 casks Bermuda, 31s 9d to 34s 3d. MPERIAL PARLIAMENT, (Tills EVENING.) HOUSE OF COMMONS. The SPEAKER took the Chair shortly before Four o'clock. NEW MEMBER. Sir A. S. CAMPBELL took the oaths and his seat for Argyleshire. The Hon. Member was introduced by Sir J. Hope and Sir R. H. Inglis. PRIVATE BUSINESS. The Lords' amendments to the following Bills were considered, and agreed to:— Briton Ferry, Docks, and Railway. South Devon Railway. THIRD READINGS. The following Bills were read a third time:— Copper Miners m England Company. Dublin, Dundrum, and Rathfarnham Railway. Great Malvern Improvement, Police, Sewers, Water , works, Gas and Markets. Shrewsbury end Chester Railway. Waterford, Wexford, Wicklow, and Dublain Railway. The following Bills were considered and agreed to and ordered to be engrossed:— Cheltenham Improvement and Health. East Anglian Railways. Electric Telegraph Company. Magneto-Electric Telegraph Company. Newark-upon-Trent Improvement and Market. United Kingdom Electric Telegraph Company. The Christchurch (Southwark) Parish Bill was read a second time and ordered to be committed. PETITIONS. Mr. ANDERSON presented a petition from a Soot "lsre.ar, praying for the abolition of light dues. Edwards, presented a second petition from ANHieebhwargnye,atezzbaylweacturhdoes, the witness who was committed to House for misconduct before the St. The Hon. Com mittee, praying to be released. should moveti lbe it ' e gave notice that on Monday he a printed, with the view of founding motionmn i i t t oprio ITLImTAIN WATER BILL. ted similarY Mr. Alderman from Southwark against th e RY presented a petition gaiest t rpolitan Water Bill, counsel. ratepayers r p . ra m y cl in vv g t A o T be T h p e r a e r s d en a e io L n from the ratepayers of Marylchone. Sir G. GREY presented a petition from Finsbury favour of tßill. On the mo bs tion of the Right H on . in Baronet, it deFed that an instructi on to the Committee of Selection to refer the several Bills con nected with the supply of water to the metropolis to the same Committee to which the Mttropolis Water Bill is to be referred. Mr. Alderman lIUMPIIERY presented a petition from the parish of St. ()lure's also against the Bill. Sir B. HALL presented similar petitions from St. Andrew's, Holborn, and St. George the Martyr. All these petitions were ordered to be referred to the Select Committee on the Bill. ADJOURNMENT OF THE HOUSE. On th e motion of Mr. C. LEWIS, it was agree d t h a t the H ouse at its rising should adjourn till Monday next . Lord SPIRITSIN BOND. N AnA of Commerce S presented a petition from the Chamber i n the modeof at Edinburgh, praying for an alteration bond. levying duties on hume-made spirits in BRITISH MERCHANTS IN VENEZUELA. Mr. DISRA ELI present e d a pet i t i on f rom M r . Ward, a British merchant, resided at Caraccas, complaining of the oppression of the Government of Venezuela. Th e petitioner stated that, after having been established a t Caraccas for more than a quarter of a century he was suddenly arrested at his private residence by the Govern ment of Venezuela, and thrown into the common pri son, and there kept a prisoner for the space of twenty six days, on a groundless suspicion that he was con cerned in some revolutionary project.—(Hear, hear.) Oa his liberation from the common prison ho was not allowed to depart from Caraccas for seven months, and the consequence was his effairs and his coffee evate went to ruin. This imprisonment was contrary to the con stitution of the country, and a violation of the law of nat i ons . He applied to the Venezuelan Government for redress, and one of the local tribunals assessed the damages which he had sustained by the loss of his cotree estate at 35,000 dollars, but the Government had neglected to pay either that or another claim of 25,000 dollars which he had against them. He bad, he wit l h eg oul al t therefore, com e over to this country and appealed to our Governm en t to i nterfere, but hitherto without o success, and as h e h a d b een advised by h authorities in England that his imprisonment was a direct violation of the law of nations. He prayed the House to take his case in hand and cause it to be fully investi gated. The Hon. Gentleman gave notice that on Mon day he would address a question to the Under-Secretary of the Colonies on the subject of this petition. next GOVERN MENT BUSINESS. Lord J. RUSSELL moved that on the Ist of July the orders of the day have precedence of notices of motion on Thursday. The Noble Lord observed that at this period of the session it was desirable that the House should be enabled to proceed with those Bills which were already on the paper. Mr. DISRAELI said when the arrangement was first proposed some sessions ago the Government had a variety of measures of very great importance which it was desirable should be passed. The House on that oc casion cheerfully agreed to the motion, notwithstanding it was a great sacrifice of the privileges of independent Members, but he was not aware that such a prodigious number of Bills was before the House this session as would justify the Government in bringing forward this motion. He should, however, not formally oppose the motion, though he considered it would be a very dan gerous precedent if they agreed to it as a matter of course. Mr. FRENCH observed that the Government had to propose several measures which were of very great im portance to Ireland. Mr. W. WILLIAMS thought the Government were treating the House very unceremoniously in asking the House to agree to such a motion. The effect of it would be to surrender the whole business of the House into the hands of the Government. He should oppose the Noble Lord's proposition, because he considered it very unrea sonable, as it amounted to a prohibition to private Members to proceed with the Bills which they might introduce. Sir B. HALL took the opportunity of asking Lord John Russell whether it was the intention of the Govern ment to intoduce a Bill that session with respeot to the Metropolitan Commission of Sewers? Lord J. RUSSELL said the Government had been prevented bringing in the Bill in consequence of the delay in the progress of the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill. As to the, motion, he observed that the Government were called upon now more than ever to introduce mea sures of legislation, and, besides, it was their duty to bring forward all questions relating to the supplies of the year, which now took up a much greater amount of time than formerly. After some further discussion, The gallery was cleared, but the motion was - sub sequently agreed to without a division. CHANCERY REFORM. Lord J. RUSSELL rhse to move for leave to bring in a Bill to improve the administration of justice in the Court of Chancery and the Judicial Committee of Privy Council. Ho said a Bill on this subject was impera tively called for by the necessity which existed to relive the Lord Chancellor of some of the duties at pre sent imposed upon him both in the Court of Chancery and the House of Lords, and after some consideration, one thing seemed certain, that it was desirable to retain the Lord Chancellor in his present political func tions, and in his position as Speaker of the House of Lords. A proposal had been made that two juries, the Master of the Rolls, and a common law judge should sit in the Court of Chancery, to take the business when the Lcrd Chancellor should be absent, but objections had made to this scheme by many parsons of great experieeco in the Court cf Chancery. Among others, he had received a letter from the late la mented Lord Cottenhem, whose opinion was that the measure ought to be directed more to the relief of the Lord Chancellor himself than the Court of Chancery. One important principle which had b.en laid down, and on which Lord C o tt en b am himself had drawn up and introduced a Bill, was to separate the judicial and political functions of the Lord Chancellor, to have a Chief Judge in Chancery to sit in the Court of Chancery, and in place of the Lord Chancellor, end another to sit in the House of Lords in appeals. The objection mode to that plan was that unless a judge sitting in appeals in the House of Lords were to sit at some period or other in the original court he would not be able to preserve that ability which ho once might have possessed, and his decisions would lose that weight which attached at present to those of the Lord Chancellor sitting in appeals. Another mode would be to appoint a Vice-Chancellor to sit in the place of the Lord Chancellor when ho was absent in the discharge of political functions, but that was open to the charge that although the name and the authority cf the Lord Chancellor might be attached to the Vice-Chanchellor, yet the decisions in appeals after all would carry with them only the influence of the de cision of one subordinate judge set against another. The mode which appeared to him (the Noble Lord) to pos sess the greatest advantages, and to be least open to ob jection was that during the absence of the Lord Chancellor from his own court, two judges appointed for that espe cial purpose, to be called the judges of the Appeal Court, should sit to decide on all cases brought before them. The only objection which he could foresee to this plan was the increased expense, which would be brought upon this country, or on the suitors' fund, but they must remember that a great object was to be gained. There could be no doubt that the amount of business disposed of in the Court of Chancery was very great indeed. By a return which had been laid before the House of Lords, it appeared that from the 2nd of November, 1850, to the 13th May, 1851, the number of cases disposed of in all the courts was no less than 5,270. Now that was an enormous amount of business, and showed how excessive the labour of those must have been who had the disposal of it.—(Hear, hear.) The experience of late years bad proved that when all the judges regularly attended their courts, the business that came before them could be easily got rid of; but in case of illness overtaking any one of them, the whole machinery of the courts was checked, and the business immediately fell into arrear. Again, the Lord Chancellor's attention was often called away from his judicial functions by having to attend to his political duties. Now , he proposed to pr ov id e f or those contingent evils in this way :—Whenever the Lord Chancellor should be attending the House of Lords one of the judges of this new Court of Appeal should sit for him, and then the business would not be interrupted. He pr: posed besides, that in case of any one of the other judges of the Court of Chancery, from illness or other cause, should be unaLL to attend his court, the Lord Chancellor should have the power of makiug such an arrangement as to enable one of the Judges of the Court of Appeal to sit for him.--(Hear, hear.) The advantage of this provision was obvious, it would save the public from the annoyance of loosing an accomplished judge like the late Vice-Chancellor Wigram, through temporary illness, because the Lord Chancellor would be in a position to supply the place of any of the existing judges by appointing one of his own colleagues to sit either for three weeks or three months as the case might be. Another advantage of this arrangement would be this. It would give the Lord Chancellor more time to attend to his political duties, and watch the pro gress of those measures w hi c h might tram time to time be. brought forward for amending or improving the law.—(Elear, hear.) For instance, of late, only in this very session the Lord Chancellor had been prevented by his jndicial functions from attending on the Bank ruptcy or County Courts' Committee in the other House, and ler these reasons he thought it highly desirable that they shculd adopt the plan he had proposed, namely, appoint two new judges, who should be called .Judges of the Court of Appeal, and who fhould exercise the functions he had already specified. With regard to the financial view of the subject, he did nut think rho bur den would be very heavy on the public, because he pro posed, as he stated en a former occasion, that in future the Lord Chancellor, instead of 14,00 a year, should receive ' 0,0004 a year, thereby prodveing a saving of 4,0001. a year, and that the Master of the - Rolls should receive 6,000/. a year instead of 7,0001., thereby saving 1,0002 a year.—(Hear, hear.) Now, with respect to these two tew judges to be appointed under this Bill he proposed that they should be placed on the same looting as the Master of the Rolls, namely, that each judge should receive 6,000/. a year, which would increase the expense on the suitors' fund by the 12,0001. a year, but then against that they must place the saving of 5,0001, thus reducing the actual increased expense to only 7,0001. a year.—(Hear, hear.) He pioposed not only that the two judges of the court of appeal should be Privy Councillors, but also that three judges should form a quorum, and in that way ho thought it would not be difficult to obtain a sufficient number sf Members to attend the Committee. He did not propose to alter the constitu tion of the court, which had worked most safely, and was looked up to with confidence. All he proposed was to give greater facility for the transaction of business. The Noble Lord concluded by asking leave to bring in the Bill. Mr. STUARTasked the Nobe Lord whether at this late period of the session, when there was already such a pres sure of public business, he thought he could bring forward a measure of such enormous importance with any hope that it would receive a sufficient amount of considera tion to put it into such a shape as would justify the House in passing it into law this year? The provisions and details of the Bill were entirely new to the House, and would require a very gat de. w o h f oth d er el t ib h e o r i a a i r i g on e . nonos l s t ion dnefsbernvseindess into the Court of Chancery arose from accidental circum stances, or from the effects of recent legislation. It would also be well to consider whether a great portion of that business r might not be conveniently, advan otafgeeenther; tarnibdunPalesperly of a want of business of making th t h e r . a ir nsact g e n h the t it would liberty impossible, who awshhni oo:d2duntilihrdtnn.aook usl7o supplyme degree adapt the Court e respectivec d by c t o h u e r ts. judges li o w ns e f r u e ladl these nvoawne advanced dcomplainingasobservations,th es ea ETIIELL svpported the and wal'atonpecaessasaitryeatlblyat had perfect measure. n which he thought g t o b e t e h n e W g growing before ore l the Masters, iaonofbusiness intelligence ofthe In regard be before the House which wou ld re li eve t h ose f unctionaries of that h tmo e etrh b iel o s lic a iv c e c d umn and that a Bill would shortly. part of their duties which burdened and harrassed them, and to some extent prevented the due administration of justice.—(Hear.) (LEFT SPEAKING.) MANCHESTER RACES. (THIS DAY.) (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH, Lady Eden The Castle Liven Stakes. Grand Stand Plate. ... 1 ... ••• ... ••• The Salford Borough Cup. ... 2 ... 2 JUNE Select Committee, e hich be had meant to move for adoption as en am, ndment were, " Thu' in 1792, at the commencement of the war with France, the number of admirals was only en; after 33 years' peace the present number of admirals is 150, exclusi of the reti re d a d m i rals, and of three, 75 ove f the effective list are above 70 years of age. A certain proportion of the list of admirals must he composed of officers who have grown old in the service, who deserve well of their country, and who are entitled to higher rank and to higher pay on account of their merits, although they are no longer able to serve afloat; but when it is considered that in the last naval war with France (the greatest on record), not more than thirty-six admirals were employed at any one time, and that at the present moment the services of only fourteen are required, it would not seem unreasonable that the number of admirals now fixed, according to the scheme sanctioned in 1846, at 150, should he gradually reduced to a number not exceeding 100. Your Committee re commend that this gradual reduction should be effected by promoting only one captain to the rank of admiral on the death of three flag officers, according to the rule of promotion adopted in 1830 until the list: shall have been reduced to the maximum of 100; and thenceforth a cap tain may be promoted to fill each vacancy as it occurs on the lists." On behalf of the naval officers he (Mr. Hume) felt bound to say that he considered that rule ex tremely hard which made promotion contingent only upon six years' command of a ship in peace end four in war, seeing that many of them were within five or six months of that period of service when their command had expired. Sir F. BARING said the Hon. Gentleman had asked him how ho could maintain an opinion based on the plan that had been suggested? His Hon. Friend, how ever, did not appear to object entirely to the plan in question. The Board of Admiralty had recommended a plan, the principle of which was this:—ln the halt-pay of tho active-list officers had qeen included who were not on active service. Now considering the large num ber of officers unemployed, the country justly com plained of the few that were actually on active service, though, at the same time, they figured on the half-pay active list. He thought, therefore, it was expedient to modify the list, so as to have only those on the active list who were really employed or capable of employ ment; removing those who had been placed on the ac tive list for good and gallant services, but who, from age or infirmities, were unable really to perform active ser vice. That was the plan proposed by Government. His Honourable Friend, however, objected to removing from the list those officers who the Admiralty by , their proposed plan thought advisable should be removed. But he must remind the House that it would be impossible to follow out this or any other plan of reform without doing alleged injustice and violence to the feelings of certain parties. Bat what injustice, be asked, would be done by the proposed alte ration? He contended no injustice would be done what ever. On the contrary, the parties affected by the pro posed alteration would be placed in even a better posi tion. The same chances of service would exist, and their pay would be placed on a better footing. In the ' event of a war, the Crown reserved to itself the right of placing them on active service, with their own consent. The very hardship complained of was, that from the great number of captains it was impossible to find em ployntent for them. His opinion was that we ought not to have a greater number of officers than the service of the country demanded. A proper reduction of the num ber of officers was advantageous to the service and to the country. If the House would permit him to follow out the new arrangements—which he admitted had been met with disapproval in some quarters—he firmly believed they would be found of great advantage to the service generally. He begged to move the vote of 6500/. Mr. HUME said one great complaint was that parties who were not in service during the war had been pro moted, while others who had been in the war were passed over. Sir F. BARING replied, but was not heard in the gallery. Mr. WILLIAMS did not approve of the result of Committees generally. Take, for instance, the Com mittee on salaries. They had made certain recommen dations, but all those roc , rnmendations had been thrown overboard. He also objected to the practice of one First Lord of the Admiralty making reconauseadations, which his successor, perhaps, would neglect or refuse to carry out. This system, at least, ought to be modified. The House ought not to agree to any increase in the amount of the retired navy list until the House had sufficient security that the plan would be carried out. The Government scheme presented a favourable contrast to the scheme of 1846, which was adopted more for the benefit of individuals than for the general interest of the navy. He wished the Right Hon. Gentleman to get an order in Council to compel every First Lord of the Ad miralty to carry out the proposed scheme of his prede cessors. However, he feared that was a request not likely to be granted. He thought the House ought to assent to the proposal of Government. Sir DE LACY EVANS understood that the object of Government was to promote eventual economy without impairing the efficiency of the service. These were two principles which he must always approve of; but he had been informed that the scheme in question would neither attain economy nor would add to the efficiency of the service, because coupled with conditions which involved the sacrifice of both of these important principles. Now with regard to efficiency, ho had been informed that some of the later promotions of admirals had been indi viduals upwards of 70 years of age. In times of peace he could not say that an admiral 70 years of age was not an efficient officer, nor was he inefficient in tiase of war. But to comp to the cases of individuals, he would refer to the case of Sir G. Westphal! (we understood), who had been actively employed during the war, and was now a most efficient officer, but he was to be set aside by the new plan as soon as ho was made an admiral. This was insulting the feelings of an efficient officer without promoting economy, or promoting the efficiency of the service. There was also the case of Admiral Watts, who only desired to be employed in the service of his country, but who could hardly expect, if the plan was adopted, ever to succeed in his wishes. If the compulsory part of the clause was not altered, ho cer tainly must vote against the Government proposition. Sir G. PECHELL did not think the proposition likely to effect much good, and he doubted whether the plan could be carried out for the sum stated. He did not think due consideration was paid to the commanders and subordinate officers, though it had been admitted on all sides that no class of officers were more meritorious. The expense of the plan would be, not 6,500/. as stated, but 15,180/. Ho agreed in what had been said that some cases of hardship would occur in compulsorily carrying out the scheme, and thought some consideration ought to be shown towards such officers as were able and wil ling to serve. Some of the officers on the retired list would be as capable as officers on the active list. Was he to understand that the Right Hon. Gentleman had proposed that officers on the retired list might be called on again to serve? He should like very much to see a list of those whom the Right Hon. Baronet stated might have had a ship, and who consequently would have been eligible at the present moment for a flag. Within the last ten or twelve years the service had been governed by a clique who had made out an active list of their own.—(Bear, hear.) Mr. S. HERBERT was glad that the Right Hon. Ba ronet had undertaken to grapple with this question, though he confessed he was disappointed with the result. He thought the Right Hon. Gentleman might improve the plan if he gave it farther consideration. With re ference to the remark of the Hon. and Gallant Officer who last spoke, he might state that there was no more widely -spread popular delusion than that everything at the Admiralty was done by interest. He said so, not merely with reference to the board with which he him self had been connected, but having watched the promo tions that had taken place during the time of Lord Auckland, as well as those made by the Right Hon. Baronet opposite, he believed there was no ground for the accusation that Parliamentary or any , other influence had been used to put an incapable officer over the heads ,of those whose merits were acknowledged. The ques tion of retirement was brought under his notice when he was at the Admiralty; but the proposal which he had made did not touch the question of admirals who had not served for a certain time, because that point was considered to have been settled by the navel and mili tary commission. The necessity of having younger men for the flag had been universally admitted. In 1811 the average age of captains promoted to the flag was only 39. Sir G. Cockburn obtained his flag at 39, and so did Lord Nelson. The result of the retirement in 1846 had been so far satisfactory, that it had bettered the posi tion of officers by at least five years. He did not see any advantage in the proposed plan of putting those officers who had not served six years on a separate list. He was not sure if the Right Hon. Baronet had stated that these officers were not to be eligible for future service. Sir F. BARING had stated that he thought it advis able in respect of admirals and subordinate officers, that in case of war the Crown should have the power of p l ac i ng them, with their consent, on the active list. Mr. S. HERBERT' said that that would not give them tforehe right to employment in th e t i me of peace; and, , their position would be worse than it now was. He was never inclined to stand out for the right of individuals against the public service; but he must say he did not see how younger admirals were to be ob tained by placing the names of 100 of them on one page and the names of 50 on another page. Indeed, the plan i so far from di m i n i shing, would increase the list. In round numbers there ware 110 admirals on the active and 40 on the inactive list. It was proposed to buy off 10 from the active list by pensions of 150/. each, and to leave 100 on the list. The promotion was to be made from the captains' list by seniority, and the officer who had served six years was to be entitled to be put on the active list for any vacancy that might occur. But, sup pose there stood at the head of the captains' list five offisers. If the four seniors had not served six years they would not be entitled to their five The fifth would go to the active list, and his four seniors would go to the inactive, so that there would be in such a case 100 on the active and 54 on the inactive list. Where no clear and deciaed ad vantage was to be gained to the public service, the rights of individuals ought to be respected. Ia the pre sent case he saw no advantage in separating the names beyond making more apparent the names of those officers who could serve,which was, in truth, the grievance of which they complained. He did not see the object to be gained by ta k in g a course which would do some! vio lence to th e f eelings of these officers. In his opinion it be was worthy o f cons i deration whether it would not better to allow the officers to die off rather than remove their names from the list. Wish respect to the other ranks, he was nut quite sure if he understood the plan. He had a strong CHI: vimion that the immense extent of the navy li st aas of the greatest evil, ..hot only to th e to r public cldu s e e e r i v r i . ce, l b b u , t ! t ;D o i n t ( ) , d u i r v a i ( b i u l e a 1 a s . t, ( T 1 h o e ~,d i l i f a i n i c t u I t ye ember o wa se b n:: posite had asked for justice to the war efficers; but it might not to be forgotten that at the end of the war a vast promotion - took place, which had clogged the list ever rinse. Subsequent promotions had been for sub- 3, 1851. sequent services. Promotion was not only a reward fur good service, but it was granted in order to secure to the country the services of men capable of defend ing it in an emergency. The necrnsity for retires mint on the captains' I:st was iadispensable but in the inferior ranks of cernmanders and litutenauts there was not the same object for retirement. He hoped the Admiralty would never concede their right of eelection, for in case of a war it would he absolutely requisite to exercise some such right. It would bt bad econerny to establish retirement in those ranks in which it was not necessary. There were many captains who would be ex cluded by this system from their flea, who might other wise have obtained it. He thought it was absolutely ne cessary to fix the number of captains, and was inclined to believe that a smaller number was saiviselele. The more• the list of captains was reduced—provided a sufficitent number were secured—the better would it be for the service and for the officers themselves.—(hear.,) Look ing at the present number, he thought a lower ratio might be taken. At present there were 75 captains em ployed on full pay, and there were 7 in the civil service; together, 82. Now, he thought a list of 350 unnecessary from which to mike the selection. Even if the number were treble the list would be ample. Ho should there fore suggest the fixing of the active list at a lower amount. He apprehended that whatever arrangement was now made it would be binding on succeeding boards. He should prefer seeing a regular study annual promo tion instead of th e present periodical, and, he might say, gambling system. He did not know whether the present Admiralty considered that, as regarded officers retiring from the active list, the promotions to the va cancies would be on the system of one in three. Sir F. BARING said that they would. Mr. S. HERBERT—At present the number of cap tains who had accepted the retirement (as the Hon. Member was understood) was 218, and there was a prospect of some twenty more also doing the same. He hoped, however, that the Right Hon. Baranet would place a limitation to the extent of that retirement, and that the list should be gradually allowed to die out. By the system of promotion at present in operation in the navy it was not cno to every three that was appointed, as was supposed, but one to every two, as it was now in the army. He would show how he maintained that al legation. Assuming, then, that 27 captains had died off, there would be nine commanders promoted, and, in ad dition, there would be four lieutenants advanced to the rank of commanders. Thus there would be 13 promo tions, in all, upon the falling in of the 27 vacancies. Whatever was done now in the way of arranging the navy list should be done advisedly and with due consi deration, for it should be binding on all future Admi ralties. It was the more necessary, therefore, that all their plan should be well considered and well devised ; and he hoped the Right Hon. Gen tleman would not object to reconsider part of it, so as to render any future change uncalled for and useless. He would take the liberty of making a few suggestions on the subject. He would propose to leave the present Admirals' list, supposing at 150, as a maximum. But hereafter he would never have the ac tive list exceed 100, and when the 150 came down to that number he would there have it stop. The 150 would in a very short time come down to the proposed standard of 100, without doing anything of injustice, or inflicting any unncessary pain upon the feelings of a body of officers in every way deserving of respect. He would wish to see the captain's list of 350 less than that number, for that was more than he thought was necessary. On re ferring to the number of captains, commanders, and lieu tenants at present employed, he found it amounted in all to 742. He would, therefore, propose for the captains' active list 250, for the commanders' 300, and for the lieutenants' 1,000; and that, he thought, would be suf ficient for all the requirements of the service. Is would b- perfectly easy to make any selectisn necessary from these three different ranks. He hoped the Right ILn, Gentleman would take his suggestions in good part, and give them due consideration in carat ing out his plan. Sir G. TYLER doubted much whether the plan pro posed would have the effect which it was intended, and which the Hon. Member for Montrose desired it should have. It had been said that when captains arrived eat the top sf their list they were too old, and therefore un fit fur active service. This had been ascribed to the great promotions which had taken place in 1815 and subsequently, which bad clogged the list. The proposi tion which was now made was, that all those unfit for employment should be removed to the half-pay list. Now he would ask them to examine in what that alleged unfitness might consist. It might proceed from various causes, anti be well-founded or otherwise. He main tained, however, that the act of placing those who had not served on th e capta i ns ' list, out of te chance of pro motion, was an act of injustice to tee service. The at tainment of a rank on the captains' list was always a great object of ambition in the navy, and if they re moved that they would take away one great incentive to professional advancement. But there were ways and modes of reducing the cap tains' list without doing so much injustice to the service. An option might be given to captains of retiring if they wished it. Now, that might be a little more expensive, but it would clear the list to the extent required. During the period of the war the average time for remaining on the captains' list was seventeen or eighteen years; whereas an admiral made nowa days was generally thirty-six years a captain before he got his flag. He would strongly urge upon the Lords of the Admiralty the expediency of reconsidering the arrangements they were now making, with the view of rendering them more just and conclusive. There were services, which might be of as much benefit to the country as any other, in which a naval officer might be engaged—such, for instance, as the service of the Cus toms, or the civil service of the Admiralty ; yet the length of time a man might be so employed was never taken into calculation at all. He had been glad to hear from the Right Hon. Gentleman that in case of war those who had been placed on the retired list could be again put on the active list, if they wished it. On the whole, however, he thought the present plan would be better to be reconsidered, and it might then be made less unjust, and more satisfactory to a large class of de serving officers. Sir F. T. BARING said the Right Hon. Gentleman opposite (Mr. S. Herbert) admitted that the Admiralty had undertaken to grapple with an evil of immense ex tent when it proposed dealing with the existing navy list. When he (air F. T. Baring) laid on the table a plan for the reduction of that list, he was fully prepared for a general admission as to the extent of the evils which existed—he know ho should have a great many compliments as to the good intentions of the Admiralty, but at the same time was prepared for a general disin clination to do anything at all in the matter.—(Hear, hear, and laughter.) Ho was told by some Hon. Mem bers to reconsider the plan ho proposed, yet they had suggested nothing practical in return. That plan had nut been brought forward without due consideration. He had last year refused to introduce it until all its pro visions could be fully discussed and considered. He was not prepared to adopt the suggestions which had been made, and he could moreover inform the Committee that all the objections urged to the plan of the Admi ralty had been before heard and weighed. He could say that if they intended to do anything effective in that matter, it was impostible to do anything with out dealing with officers high in the service on the same principle as they dealt with the commanders and lieutenants.—(Hear.) He thought if any one had a right to complain of the carrying out of the details of the proposed plan it was the commanders and those low in rank; but they heard nothing from those, %bite the admirals and captains were pronounced to be a most ill used set of individuals. If they took up a principle they should act upon it equally. last them reduce their navy list generally, then, to something commensurate wi t h th e wants of the service, —(hear, hear.) It was on that class of eßicers, the commanders, that a grievance really might be said to press, for they often asked for service and employment and could not get it; yet no one objected to placing them, after a certain number of years' service, on half pay, When, however, they began to touch the higher classes of the officers in the service, they at once were told of the hardship they inflicted, and every sort of objection was made to the plan. He was not prepared to deal with the lower class of officer:4 in a manner different from that on which he dealt with the higher; and that was his firm determination. They could not make a reduction in any class without causing some inconvenience, loss, or annoyance to some individu als. Even in the civil service such could not be effected without some loss to some one. Now, that was not the case in what it was proposed to do with respect to retired admirals, who had, comparatively speaking, no injustice at all done to them. Ile did not wish to refer to individual cases on occasions like that; but as allu sions had been made to parties, he would briefly answer them. What were the real facts of the case of Admiral Watts? He was a most gallant officer; but though he had been 34 years a captain he had never served. Sir DE LACY EVANS—That was not the question. He complained that they had never employed him, yet afterwards stated he had not served. Sir F. T. BARING would ask did the Hon. and Gal lant Member think the Admiralty ought to have sent that Gallant Officer to a command in preference to other officers ? In that case he maintained that there was no practical grievance. The public now had some light thrown upon these matters.—(Hear, hear.) The great extent of the navy list was an acknowledged evil, and if many Hon. and Gallant Officers were put upon halap ay they had no real grievance to complain af.—(Hear, hear.) There was another case, that of air G. Wastplaall, W h o had been 30 years on the captains' list, y et h ad oLly served three years afloat. Sir DE LACY EVANS—He had b een three years commander of a 50-gun ship, and after th at had served under Sir G. Cockburn; yet he, too, could net get em ployment. Sir F. T. BARING would ask W h ether th e non and Gallant Member meant to say: that Sir G. Cockb Unwilling to give a ship to Sir G. Westphal), I urn u:as a applied Officer to for it? lie certainly thought the G a l lant were anxious for would have obtained employmente if he it, and therefore he justified in s,lating that an a be cad not s wish to very great grievance. Ile confessed put forward personal cases in that diseussion, but when they were quoted it became necessary' for him to allude somewhat to them. It Was v t e h ry Plain, however, that those officers who were real! were not those who cum e most hardly dealt with Honourable Gentleman eopppoll.inteedatshkeedill°h6irm. The Right with regard to the maim a question manner in which he proposed to deal with the lower class of officers. Now the Right Hon. jectGentleman ought to haveh some experience on that sub . Yet he had not number of There wore a large comdmanderss,owwhnom, u m eh u . ch advanced in years, had teen a goo deal of service; arid his (Sir F. a'. object was to Barin ' • get a certain number of those promoted, and then allow them to retire with the little additional prey of the higher rank, and with SUCK a mark of the approbation of the Admi ralty of their goo d service as cold not fail to be satis factory to them. In the discharge of his cfficial func tions at the Admiralty he centested he had often found his feelings opposed to his sense of duty; for a necessity might sometimes exist of appointing a younger man, who would be fitter for the service, over the head of an older one who would be better entitled from seniority and longer service. There had been some difficulty in filling the retired list of 200; but he proposed it s hould continue at that number only until the captains' active list clime dorm to the proposed limit, and no longer. That, he thought, was only fear—(hear. hear.) The Right Hon. Gentl eman oppesite though* the Lumber Or., admirals wa s t oo l arge. Now, the exact number of that clas s h e had not; defined, end was not so easily fixed. With regard to the captains, however, and the commanders and lieutenants, the Right Hon. Gentleman had named a certeia limit. That limit, however , be , did not think su ffi c i ent l y strong for the requirements of the service. The Right Hon. Gentleman had likewise said that the present arrangement was to be con sidered final and conclusive. Now, he was by n ,. e mF ans sure that it was so. He thought that if any su e seque n t Ad m i ra l ty considered the proposed lists larger then were required, it was at perfect liberty to reduce them, and it would be its duty to propose that they should be confined to the wants of the, service.—(3",r' hear.) Nothieg, howe ver , cou ld b e more in j ur i ous . 1 0 _ the re a l i nterests of the navy, and the fficiency of t r . e service, th an to h ave an overgrown navy list, whic h would prevent a ll f a i r and legitimate promotion. , se. Mr. MACGREGOR admitted that was a " Il e d red cult subject ; b ut at the same time it should be con-es that an admirals' list was a thing to astonish t h e worl d, and a matt r which called for some correction. Th e Right Hon. G ent l eman had done himself grea t creditn i attempting to r e d uce that enormous list; but, i n addi tion to that att empt, the public should have somegua rentee that that list would never increase more in future . There were altogether 3 ,504 officers on what was cab", the active list ; but h e contended that a vast num b er of them had no right t o b e considered members of suc h ...a list. What was the course pursued in France? 1 4 France they had only two admirals, ten vice-admira ls, and twenty rear-admirals; themaking in all thirty admiral, All the other officers of same rank were penstot.ircir off, and were never again to be employed. A sim i lar arrangement was adopted in France with respect to other officers; and the same system was followed in Holland, Sweden, and the United States. The only country °_ cept England in which there was a large list of officers without any service was Russia. There were 73 adr e se rals on the Russian list; but three-fourths of them were persons who had never gone to sea. He readily _ ac knowledged, however, that the Right Hon. Gentleman the present First Lord of the Admiralty bad done much to insure economy in our naval expenditure. Since the Right Hon. Gentleman had come into t ffice he had re, educed that expenditure by not less than 2,750,000/. Bu b it appeared to him (Mr. Macgregor) that economy might still be carried to a much greater extent in our nava l _ system, and more especially g in our dockyards and our shipbuilding. Mr. CORRY sa id t h at on the whole he should pre fe r the proposal o f t h e Right HOD. Baronet the First Lot . d' of the Admiralty to that of the Hon. Member for Mol l " trose. He believed that the rule of requiring that 8 pe r : son should have served six years as a captain before be' could be mad e an a d m i ral, would be productive of con' sidereal() advantage to the public, and would ensure greater efficieecy in the serv i ce. It was true t h a t . might operate with apparent severity in the case t i officers who might h ave served a few months less til.e.n six years ; b u t i t was absolutely necessary to draw tnu line somewhere, and cases of apparent harshness to in" dividaals would always be inevitable if any rule of the kind was adopted. lie wished to know to what precast' extent the Ri g h t li on. Baronet proposed to reduce tho flag-officer s , flig-offi cere , stud how he meant to carry out his Vier" upon that subject? Sir F. BARING said that he proposed to reduce tha flag-officers to eineteenine, and to place the others the reti: T d li st . B ut if the Committee should not adop that propo sa l, they wou'd hav e t o cons i der the p l an of , his Hon. Friend the M em b er for Montrose, to which he confessed that he entertained considerable objection.. Mr. S. HERBERT said that the Right Hon. Gentb 3- men bad stated that he wished to extend the same prin' ciple to captains which he would adopt in the case ,of ceininanclers and lieutenants; but the fact was that, frcoi the different nature of the two cases, it would he impos' sible rigidly to carry our the principle. Alter a few weres from Colonel aIBTHORP, Mr. HUME said that he had no wish to oppose the Government for mere Opposition sake. He believed del had at pre erit entered on the right course, and he on If complained that they did not strictly adhere to it. 119 observed that the system of promotion by brevets was to brought to a close, and ha very much rejoiced at Out, for he believed that the ssstetn in question had been productive of th e greatest abuses. The Committee o ' 18' 1 3 had recommended that that system should cent a; cud yet, in the year 1837, there had been 193 effice re promoted by brevet in the navy ; in the year 1838 the re had been 170 eflieers promoted; in the year 1841 the re bad been 293 officers promoted; and in the year 18 4 6 there had been 246 brevet promotions. The fte/ was, that the system of promotion which had hitberto been adopted in the navy was only calculated t° ensure the advantage of individuals at the .ex: pense of the public. It appeared that out of 1.68 ' captains, in the year 1840, not less than 313 had no vet seen any service since they had been promoted to tl tat rank; and out of 807 commanders, not less than 419 2 had not served since their promotion to the post. Be was aware that the present Board of Admiralty was I tot to be blamed more than its predecessors for the abu sea of the system. Under all boards aristocratic influet , eg prevailed, an d promotion was given in consequence o'e powerful family connexion. Men wero raised to h. igh posts in the navy while their services were in no v taf required by the country, and then they were placed on half-pay, and became a burden on the public. In his opinion they ought to have a fixed number of officers in the navy, as they had in the army; tied then a ch( , ek would be put on the unlimited abuse of patronage in that branch of the public service. The Board of Ads Di' ralty at present possessed arbitrary powers of promote 00 in tho navy, such as neither her Majesty nor any oth ter authorities possessed in the army. Lie should furti ter I say that he could see no necessity for our maintaining ee many as 100 admirals, and he believed that it would of sly be fair and reasonable to reduce their number to 50. . 11 ; the height of the war wo had had only 30 admirals, at la not more than 14 of them had been employed. I Admiral GORDON said he was aware of the gre at .difficulty of devising any means of dealing with th at question which might not appear to operate severe If against some individuals. But it should be remembered that it was the paramount duty of the Admiralty to ase cure the services of efficient officers. He knew of ;ao better means of affecting that object then the adopth of an extensive system of retirement in time of peat 8. Without any wish to say anything that could be offen sive to individuals, he believed it might with perfect truth be stated that not many of our admirals at press)] at possessed that activity of body and of mind which bad so eminently characterised our admirals throughout Ole war. He should be glad to find the plan of the Adm.i rutty, as explained to them that evening by the Rig' it honourable Baronet, come into operation at an earlie r period than the Right Hon. Gentleman had proposes l. The plan would come into effect so gradually that ;it would not afford an early opportunity of bringin g forward young and efficient officers. Ho though t that some modeication might reasonably be made ii the proposal, under which a service of six years woulal he required on the part of captains before they could be promoted to the rank of admirals. In his opinion the time ought to be reduced, or a service of a com matader ought to some extent to be allowed to count in tho matter. But, in any case, he thought that the sr rvice required should be an active, and not a merely nominal one. Sic DE LACY EVANS said he believed there was, a general determination on the part of the Committee, to aid the Admiralty in carrying out their views. upon that subj,et ; but there was also a general wish that the compulsory provision should not be carried into effect. Sir G. PECHELL said he had been challenged to but he had suggested one in 1848. call the atte n ti on of the First Lord to He suggest n,ishe a d p t l o an „ the mode in which freight money w as now disposed of. At present very few had the benefit of it. Thre advantage was ceefined to a few aristocratic fa milies. In one instance a sum of 11%0004 had been divided between the captains of seven ships. He had, year after year, pressed this subject on the attention of the House. Mr. COBDEN said it was generally understood, whets a C o mm ect itteo w toasre appointed cn th e navy estimates, that thewas duce expenditure, and not to iecreaw it; and he had heard no good reason why the recom mendation of that Committee should not be acted on. He• admitted that very great difficulty would be found in dealing with the claims of officers long in the service, who had catered it expecting certain advantages from this system then in existence. The most ardent reformex would find it extremely difficult to deal with this clue' with any view of immediate saving. Ho merely tea to stipulate that the public should have all future adea tt . trig© to be derived from a . minute of council o f 1830 reco change of system. The mmended that the should. diminish th e number of admirals, coupled with a y recom mendation to diminish the number of cadets. If they neglected to act upon this they would find themselves 1 years hence in the same predicament as now. The Com ruittee recommended that in fixing the number of cadets a margin should be left for the exercise of discre tion, for the (act of an invariable rule would lei) to snake the number too great for the wants o f the service in one yi ar, and too small in another .; One h un d red was the number suggested by Lora. Auckland, an d th i s appeared to the Committee to, be the maximum number which ought to be allowed in a time of peace. If there was not employment for them, the same rule should be applied to the officers of the navy which was applied to the civil service; and if they were not wanted, the public would not pay them in any shape. Therefore the Admiralty would do justice to the public and justice to the young men them selves who had entered the service injudiciously by re. , diming the number much below that amount. Sir F. T. BARING said it was quite true that 100 west stated t be sufficient. Mr. CO BDEN-100 was the nrsmimure. Sir F. 'l'. BARING said when he came into Chide, het found that Lord Auckland had fixed the number at 100' in accordance with his opinion. His (Sir F. T. Baring's) experience during two years led him to believe that they would not want that number; in fact, the Admiralty had already diminished it. After persons bed entered the service any stop to promotion must interfere with their expectations when they joined t h e s therefore, concurred in the oi ervice; and h e , nion th a t t h e restra i nt should be exercised in p preveetieg too teeny from entering the service, which would ir.flict hardship on no one. Sir W. JOLLIFFE protested tigaieet a rigid ad hervnce to an ord, r in council, white' would operate is, jUriOUSIY on arcertain eless of officers; and hoped that Government would reconsider their determination in this respect. tiir F. T. I%A.RING could not consent to alter the plan of the Government. _ :24 LONDON, FRIDAY Merry Bird Green Oaks Alonz) Paquetta IRS'T SOIREE AT THE ROYAL COL LEGE OF SURGEONS. The president and council of the College of Surgeons gave the first of their three soirees on the occasion of the Ureat Exhibition, ou Wednesday evening, when Professor Owen delivered a lecture, of which the follosvng is a brief summary, to the elite of the profession and several dis tinguished foreign surgeons. The Learned Professor commenced his lecture by re marking upon the great difficulty in distinguishing be tween animals and plants. The chemist had endea voured to help us, and it was supposed that a close examination might reveal the true nature of dubious objects ; it was found, however, that many supposed animals exhale ex) gen, whilst many fungi and alga, exhale carbonic acid. As regards the binary character of the vegetable compounds also, and the ternary and quaternary of animals, it hes lately been shown that the mantle Cr envelope of the ascidian molusces is com posed of a distinct binary compound. So again in re spect to the presence of a digestive cavity, the pores in the auctorial extremity, and the canals in some of the eutogoa, are clearly analogous to the radiculm a pores and canals o f pl ants. In fine, the progress of tin suience not y shows th a t we have no one dis guishing test, but even brings to light more close analogies. The immediate subject of the evening's dis course was to point out two peculiar phases of organic existence—metamorphosis and metagenesis; the former was illustrated by the passage of the tadpole from a fishlike animal, breathing by gills and living on vegetables, to the carnivorous, air - breathing frog—or, perhaps, more evi. dently in the development of the perfect, winged insect from the vermiform larva. In the monostoma mutabile, also, an eutogoon infesting water-fowl, there is an equally pe culiar transformation, one which is particularly interest. ing, as evidencin g the means by which the parasite may gain admittance to the interior of the body of the animal on which it preys. It passes from the ovum in the condition of an undeveloped mass, which shortly assumes a cercariform type of body, swimming freely by means of a long tail, until it reaches its des tined home—it can then enter by one of the normal apertures, or perhaps force its way by means of a long, sharp proboscis. Having entered, it undergoes its and becomes the fixed, motionless, final changes, in ternal parasite, Zletagenesis was illustrated by the peculiar parthokenesis or v i rg i n procreation of the aphides. This, it was stated, had been described many years ago, and late investigations have clearly proved the following facts: —I n t h e spring, when the first animal comes forth from the egg, it has a wingless somewhat crablike form, and is destitute of organs of reproduction—but within it may be seen a similar apnis, to which it gites birth —this to another, and so on to the seventn or eigath generation; then the spermatic force seems to exhaust itself in the formation of a perfect bindorn ivid with wi val, for the ;Isst of these me t agen i c aphides is Wings aid reproductive organs complete. So, again, the me dusa aureta, as s h own b y Siebolt Stirs and Daleyell, produces an embryo, which, pass ing through its first stage as a ciliated genumile, be comes fixed and PolYse-like, giving off buds—this polype then becomes constriited trunversely into segments, until at last, the constrictions deepening, each segment is cast off a perfect medusa, with its own generative apparatus— ' testicles or ovaries, ard egg -pouch, as t h e case may be. A comparison was thsudrawn between the metagenesis of a plant and of a compound polype, and the analogy ren dered beautifully eleir, it being evident that, as the seed forms its primary cotyledonary leaf, so the ciliated gene mile its first poi) pe ; the plant sends up a prolongation bearing other leuves,so the polype its stem bearing other polyps ; lastly, the plant at the end o f it s ax i s a reproductive flower, s o the polype an individual with generative appsratus and just as any leaf plants) or leaf -bud wll (in some reproduce the tree, so any polype may be removed frog the stem and reproduce another. the Learned Proiessv then traced the embryonic deve lopment of the ascaris, and deduced the principle that, as the impression PrAueed by the impregnation was diffused through the entire embryonic mass by the va rious subdivisions of he germinal vesicle, so, propor tion as the cells of tlis mass remained unchanged by development into tistes, does the property of metage nests remain in force. The lecture was heard through out with great attentive, and was illustrated with excel! eat diagrams. DEATH Or ANOTIE R SCOTCLI JUDGE.—Another of the Scotch Jud ges, Lord aindrennan, paid the debt of nature in Edinburgh n Tuesday night, from an attack of gout, followed by partlysis. The Learned Lord had only within a few weeks eturned from the north circuit, the duties of which, owing to the death of Lord Moncrieff, devolved entirely uposhimself. Lord Dandrennan, whose name was Thomas AlCitland, was born in October, 1792, so that he was nearlyiixtyyears of age at the time of his death. He was call& to the bar in 1813, where he suc ceeded in gaining for limself a very eminent position, hav ing had an extensive practice, particularly in jury cases. On the promotion of L)rd Ivory, in 1840, he succeeded to the office of solicitor7neral, which he held until Sep tember. 1841, when the Government of Lord John Russell was succeeded by that ) f Sir Robert Peel. On the death of Mr. Murray, of Brouglton, in 1845, he came forward as a candidate for the r epre*ntation of the Stewartry of Kirk cudbright, in which his paternal estate of Dun drennan is situate, and was elected without oppo sition. When the Wiigs was again a .; returned to power in 1846, he PPoined Solicitor-General. This ren mit necessary for to put his seat in Parliament at the disposal of his c(nstituents; but he was again elected without opposition. H i never made any figure in Parlia ment. He held the Iffiee of Solicitor-General from 1843 until the beginni ng if. 1850, when, on the death of Lord Jeffrey, he was raised to the bench, with the title of Lord Dundrennan. llis Loriship, ever since his elevation, sat in the Outer House, and intil the recant appointment of Lord Colonsay did all the Bil Chamber business. He gave great satisfaction as a j u d ge. He was married in 1815 to Isabella Graham Macdowall, thrd daughter of the late James Mac dowall, Esq., of Garthl kid, and a niece of Lord Hermand's, who, with four so ns am two daughters, survives him. His Lordship was an entlusiastic book collector, and has left one of the finest libraries in Scotland. MEININGEN, MAT 20.—A new edict bas been added to our statute-bo)k. It regulates the administration of an oath. The furmua begins with the words, " I take a solemn oath," tic., and (Includes "So help me God." The sacredness and inviolabli ty of the ' oath, together with the punishment attendant o t perjury, must be explained by the clergyman or rabbi of de respective parties. No Jew is in future to be compelled o take the oath in the synagogue.- Jewish Chronicle. DIPERIAL, PARLIA-IVIENT. ROUSE 01 COMMONS. June 12. SUPPLY—NAVY ESTIMATES. The House then mat into Committee on the navy estimates. Sir F. BARING, inproposing the first vote, 718,647/., for the retired half -lay allowance of admirals, com manders, and lieuterukta in the navy, said it included the supplemental estivate for retirement. Mr. I:UME, who mad a notice for going into Com mittee, but who was .‘ cut out" apparently for want of due watchfulness—coriplained that tho recommenda tion of the Select Contnittee had not been attended to ' before then, and that tie phut of reduction propsed by them had been so ion; delayed. If the regulations of the Admiralty itself "Ed been carried out—those made by Lord Melville in l B `o, those made in 1826, and those made in 1830, a great teal of the injustice that had lyzen done would be obviated Th e reeommeudatier tbe DESPERATDE. On Wednesday an inquest was held at Mr. Gough's, the Steam-packet Tavern, St rand - on-the-Green, Chiswick, before Mr. Wakley, deputy coroner for Middlesex, upon the body of Mr. Samuel Thorrington, aged 58, a coal merchant and barge-master, late residing at Hill Cottage, who destroyed himself by discharging a rifle-pistol at the back part of his head. The first witness called was Sophia Thorrington, the deceased's wife, who stated that on Monday evening, the deceased and herself wero the only persons in the house. About eight o'clock she went into a room occupied solely by the deceased, in which he transacted business, and asked him for an en velope to enclose a letter she had been writing to one of her daughters, who is living at Windsor. He said, "I won't give you one." He th en went into an adjoining bed-room, and the witness went back to her room and sat down. In a few minutes he walked in holding a pistol in his right hand, an d exclaimed, "Here, old g i r l, t time ome." She, fearing that ho was about to murder her rushed towards him, caught hold of the pistol with one hand, whilst with the other she opened the front door, and ran into the front garden and called out " Murder, police." A policeman was passing at the time, and as he was entering the garden the report of a pistol was heard by both of them. She returned to her husband's room with the policeman, and found deceased lying on the sofa, weltering in his blood, and the pistol grasped in his right hand. He was then struggling in the agonies of death. When he came to her he was without his shoes. Dr. Holdness, of Windsor, had attended him for fifteen years. Had said he was decidedly insane, and ought to be under confinement. He appeared always anxious for business, and closely attended to it. He had said she was a disreputable woman, and would not believe the children were his, although she had borne him eight. He had repeatedly threatened to murder witness. When she came it was to see his mother, and she took posses sion of a small bed-room. When deceased knew she was in the house he said he would get a policeman to drive her out, and he only wished he had a pistol. De ceased kept a s word between his bed and mattress, and a brace of pistols on the mantel-piece. She had been fourteen months away from him. Jessey Allen, police constable, 106 F, gave confirmatory evidence. Other evidence was given, including that of a Mr. Bainbridge, a son-in-law, who said, that although the deceased lived separate from his wife, he maintained her by indirect means, and he had always acknowledged his children; but there was an unhappy difference existing between deceased and his wife, created by interfering acquaint ances of the vife. A verdict was ultimately returned that the deceased destroyed himself in an unsound state of mind. 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