The Sun. — London, England, 1857-07-14 00:00:00

TATTERSALL'S.-IUONDA.Y. Bushiess was resumed somewhat more ".ctively than nst:al. Rog‘xthorpe was in st-a - ly demaiid for the Liverpool Cup, and hi 3 closing price sbowe 1 an improvetuen , , on his "City quotation ; 5 to 1, 9 to 2, 4 to 1. and firmly LIU t, 30„were book<A. ab,ut him. Bashi-Rizoutc was second favourite. Moose and G 1 iver-3taVe companions—we, e backed for money, tie forme-, however, having the larger :umber of support:us. Grey Pyrrhus was also in request at 12 and 10 to 1. Prizefighter was frindless. The odds quoted against Martinet for the Good wood Stakes were bo3lied. t. 501. Gunboat was the only animal demand for this event, and 20 to 1 was with difficu ty obtainable about him at the clr , se. For the Goodwood Cuo 9to 1 to 1001. was taken abAit , he "Fr, uch hore" Florin, and 1,800 to 200 about Gemma di Vergy. The only noteworthy transactions on the St. Leg-r were 5 t 2to 1001. agst Rink Bonay, and 30U to 100 agst Ignoramus. CLOSING PRICES. LIVERPOOL Cur. 10 to 3 agat Rogerthorpe (4 to 1 taken freely) sto 1 agst B Bazouk (taken and off,:red) 9 to 1 agat Newton-le-Wlltows (taken) 10 to 1 agst Grey Pyrrhus (taken) 12 to 1 agat Janet 100 to 8 agst Pan'omime (taken and offered) 14 to 1 agst Gilliver (taken and offered) 15 to 1 agst Moose (taken) GOoDWOOD STAKES. 10 to 1 agat Martinet (taken) 20 to 1 agst Gunboat Oaken freely) 20 to 1 agat So:nefset 20 to 1 asst Van Dunek GOODWOOD Cue. 5 to 1 agst An , on (taken) 9 to 1 agst Florin (taker)) 9to 1 agst Gernma di Vergy (taken) 12 to 1 apt Fisherman (taken). ST. LEGER. sto 2 *get Biiok B e nny (taken) 3 to 1 ag , t Lnoramus (taken) 21 to 1 agst Drumour (taken) 20 to 1 agst Adamas (taken) 40 to 1 aget Sir Colin (taken) D.ERBT. 40 to 1 agst Dumfries (taken to 1001.) ARRIVALS AT LIVERPOOL. Newton-k-Willows, Chicken, General William°, De Ginkel, Polly Pracbum, Crow, Lard Nelson, York, Fi-herman, Mink Bonny, l l's Well, Pantomime, filly by Faugh - a - ballagh—Vandl a , Schnieder, Gilliver, Maid of Ma'xh , ftn colt, C,,rissa, colts (2), Moose, Dipthong colt, Sunbeam, Dispute, Lady Albert, Tattler, and several for Plates. Many others expected. CBICBET.—THE GENTLEMEN AGAINST THE PLATERS.— The first innings of this interesting match terminated to-day-at Lords, at half-past one o'clock. The score was as follows : Players, 199 ; Gentlemen, 194. PRINCE NAPOLEON AT MANCHESTER,—Si g Royal Highness Prince _Napoleon arrived here yesterday morning; The Mayor (Sir Jiniss Watts) ; Sir Harry Smith, general commanding the northern and midland districts ; with Lieutenant-Colonel Wilbraham, assistant aidesadjutantgenera ; l Captain Payne, and C apta i n C aw l ey, welcomed the prince, who seeme d muc h de ccamp,w pleased with the compliment•wh e i d chhad been paid t him. e The distinguished party proce eded at once to Queered Rotel. E SUN, LONCON, PARLIAMENT I d PERIAL ELECTION COramiTfEEF.—(This Day.) LAMBETH. Tile committee re-mseratil , d this morning al., 12 &el-J(1. Mr. Trewman, who v-as tin 7er ex%mioation yesterday afternoon for a short time was re-caled and examined by Mr. Edwin James, Q C,, in reference to payments made at various public houses where Mr. rourJeTs committees and sub-committees assembled. In those rooms with which he was connected there were unpaid committee men and paid eanvavers. The central comrdttee I , new of no paid chairmen, tut some of the chairmen of the sub-committees might have acted as canvassers and been paid for their eervice , . When 1.-m'a cases came under the notice of the central committee, their names were struck off the hat. In his crosa•examination by Mr. Phico, the witness stated that he ha•l never paid anything or proulised ans tbint;•for a vote during the elecion, It was at his sug gestion that the arranzements were made for dividing the borough into districts, so that there might be a more regular and systematic canvas cf the electors, a large majority of whom were unpolled at previous elections. The committees were presided over by gentlemen of in fluence in the bonne), and no man was paid as a chairman. A number of persons who acted as agents were exa mined, and gave similar testimony to that already pub limbed. Mr. Roupell was Examined. He stated that Lie agents were directed to use no intimidation or undue influence, nor were they to pay voters for cervices ren dered to indace them to vote for him. He further stated that the night before the petition came on he was called out of the lobby of the house, and informed by 'one of the petitioners' agents clerks that if he would only say he would not proceed for costs the petition would be withdrawn. He need not say he would, but merely move his finger if he assented to the proposition. He was also informed that if be would became a director of the South London Railway and would use his influence to pass the bill, the petition would be withdrawn in 20 minutes. He declined to do either. This evidence suddenly chewed the petitioner's case. The committee will assemble to-morrow to consider the decision. BATH. The committee re-assembled thin morning at the usual beer, and proceeded with the scrutiny. BURY ST. EDMUNDS. The committee re-assemllsd this morning to consider the evidence given before them, but they had not arrived at a decision when our deQpwch left. MAYO. The committee delivered their decision in this case at half-past three o'clock this afternoon. Mr. Soho!afield, the chairman, stated that the com mittee were of opinion that Mr. Moore, the sitting member, had been guilty by his agents of undue influence, and they declared his election void. The conn mAtee were also of opinion that undue influence and spiritual intimidation was made use of to a great extent, e-pecially by Fathers Conway and Ryan ; and the com mittee deemed it their duty tv report their conduct t 3 the house in order that such steps might be taken in re ference to them as the house might think proper. The committee were further of opinion that Mr. Moore did not personally sanction, nor was he aware of the course pursued by his friends and agents. LAW INTELLIGENCE.—(mss Day.) COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. (Before Mr. Commissioner Fane.) IN EE G. DE STIRLING--OUTLAWRY. This bankrupt bad carried on business as a miller, &c., of Ormesby, Norfolk, and to-day was appointed for his last examination. No accounts however had been filed, nor did the bankrupt appear to surrender, and he will therefore be outlawed in due form at the rising of the Court. From evidence given on the last occasion it appears that on one of -the crediteri calling at the bankrupt's, be was coolly told by his wife, that the bankrupt had got some money and had gone to Ame rica, and she knew nothing about him. The debts proved amount to about 8001., and the property at present secured by Mr. Johnstone, the mes senger of Mr. Holroyd's Court is estimated at about 2001. POLICE INTELLIGENCE.— (This Day.) MAR LBO ItO Ef -STREET. CaARGE 01 'MIMING DOOR-IMILLS IN PANTO:I-STREET. This day two young men, who gave the name of John Thomas and James AV , lllarns, and who were fe,Lionably d-e47ed, were charged before Mr. Beadon with ringing the door bells of the house of Mr. M. Wr. I, ,, ,nthad, tailor, 5, Parton street. The complainant stated that about half-past 6 o'clock thA morning he was alarmed by hearing some of the dcor bel!, ringing. Thinking the house was on fire, he got up hastily and went down stairs. On opening t;A:t street door he found the prisoners at the door. They were intoxicated, and had a bunch of rotten flowers and water cresses in they hands. H asked them what thuy wanted, when one of them offered him a bunch of Bowe', and anotLer some water cresses. He refused to accept either, upon which Wail:lnas observed that if he would nut take a bunch of rotten flowers, that he was ware he was not fond of poetry. Mr. Beation—llow often were tho bells rung Complainant—Three times, sir. One of the prisoners was enough to go for a policeman. A policeman came, who evsntualy, span my representation, took the pri4onefs to the a.ation house. Mr. Lewis, whO attended fur the: prisoners, asked the a)ropllinant.if there were not more persons at the door I Complainant replied that there were, and that he re sided next door to a hcu , e of no very great repute. Mr Lewis—Yes ; that is the case. There were other young men there, who went to that house. The pri soners deny that they sang the bells of complainant's were fined each, the penalty for being drun's. The fines were pail Naval and .111J:2•: - .ary irrtiligezce. The East India Company's tr op.3liirs Prince of Watt4'and Qleen 1,000 tons burden, have arrive.l in the. Thames from Calcutta, li , ving on board sveral Tar„ze de'achments of triops from Ihe various cavalry and infantry regiments serving in India. A niteab,r of r tlicers in the East India C , rnpany's service came home as passengers in the Prince of Wairs. • We learn from LPg'r rn that the Royal Albert, 'bearing the flay; of Admiral L.n.l Lyo ns , accom panied. by the Brunswick, Conqueror, and Centu rion, screw s , eamships of the line, Ariel steam cor vette; and Vigilaw and Os;.rey, gunboats, ardved at that port on Cie `'7th of June, and the Wan derer steam gunboat on the day prec ding. The Pre-ident, 50, Captain C. Fr, , derick, was paid off out of c•nanission at Chatham yesterday, after being in commisiion four years. The Terror floatng battery adjus'eci her com passes yesterday, preparatory to her leaving Shee:- ness for 11.-rmuda. The reception of the Transatlantic cable on board her Mtjeity's ship Agamemnon coulin.ne4 to pro gress without the slightest int erruptiori. Yesterday -at five o'clock tie arnouat eoile:1 in the hold was rules ; draught of wa'er forward, 23ft. 2in. ; aft, 25ft. tin_ As formerly ann , 'laced, she will be in r•-adiness for sca ab the.24th ins - . The stelm freigh•s!do Gibralta!• is chartered by Government - to embark military stores from Wool wich for Gibraltar, and is to be laden in - the Lon don Docks. The saili ng fre;glitship Jessy is ordered to g) down to Wo blwich to-day, to embark military stores for St. Lucie. The sailing freightship Mary Stoidart has com menced receiving ammunition from Woolwich for Malta. troopship D ee , Her' Majesty's Master-Corn ' mandaut Pullen, -11 , ts arrived Portsmouth, and at Woolwich, from !. was yesterday received ' ' basin to ship maminery a n d steam into the ‘,.$11111t) :dentinal ion, The. Buff-do will gear iui fur the d iuto the basin at the same time, to be laid up a in The Rev. R. M. Inskip i 4 appointed cri7r,".. and first naval inst-ructor, and Mr. K. M. i l l i t i naval ibstrattor to the Illustrious training-su li m a ' ' Tile i'llow-ing appointments were made ' . ynster - day at, the Admiralty :-- - Lieutenaut E. E. Maun.ell, to the command of the Lizard ; E. H. E. Grey and EL L. Perceval; to the Vie.oria and Albert ; C. E. Phillips, assistant- Paymaster, to the Madagascar ; John H. Sheriff, assistant-paymaster, to tha Formidable ; George Robe Robert, eltrk, to the Madagascar. —.......—....... • The gold fiob i Melt,ourne by the James Baines is 241.256/ . making with the arrivals of Sa'urtlay a total be taken to the Bank. proportion o; vibich is expeted to DUBLIN, MONDAYEV ENING.—Joseph Spoiler), second • l ion of aoonsed, d•posed to day toad, on the evening of Mr. tt le's raoroer, hr saw his fatter puttingsomething : down the chimney of the railway forge. Ho identified • 1110 •two razors and hammer as hi s f at h er ' s. N ot hi ng • else material was elicited. The pri soner was remanded till Wednesday, when committal will , be g ran t e d. It is rumoured that the police are on tae scent of the ac e iroplice of Spollen. SPORTING NOTES. HARD '•TILES." After all the boasting about Cock-a-doodieeloo feed Greenfiech, people were much di,appointed by the manner in which those horses "performed" last week at Newmarket. To extenuate the Grey's inglerinus exhibition several causes have been alleged, some to the effect that he was "gut at," and others that he was sent to the post unprepared. The horse's want of con dition may he accepted as an excuse for his defeat, but still I am disinelieed to believe that John Scott would have be.:=n se confident of success if tho horse were reelly unfit. Cock-a-doodleeloa was the first beaten in the race, but from the spirit which he was subsequently backed fur the Derby, it is evident that some people do not believe that he figured in his true colours at Newmarket. Certain it is, that there wee something amiss with him, fir it is said that the day after the race he refused his cern and was not able to quit his stable. The youngsters that figured for the Chesterfield were all heads and tails at the finish, and indeed taking the two year olds that ran at Newmarket altogether, I do not think "a flyer" could be picked from them. The letter which Lord Derby has addressed to the Jockey Club has made a deep impression. Every genuine reeling man admires its temperate tons and respects the feelings which dictated it. The time has arrived when the turf mnst be cleared of the abuses which are destroy ing it, and it is to be hoped that the Jockey Club will earnestly commeace a work which they have too long delayed. The members of the club ought to be aware that they can exercise a most beneficial influence over the people's pastime ; but they seem to think that their self-sought po'i'ion entailed upon them no other trouble and responsibility than those of making a trip to New market, hurrying through Form) dull routine business, and occasionally discussing impracticable resolutions. The present stewerde of the Jockey Ciub are popular men, and much may be hoped from their social influence and example. The Times has used the letter of Lord Derby as a peg on which to hang some crude notions re specting the condition of the ring and the mod us operandi of betting men. In an aricle, remarkable only for recklessness of assertion and an ignorance of the subject, the Times attempts to confound the blackleg and needy adventurer with the true supporters of the turf. All classes and conditions of racing men are tarred with the same brush in Printing house-square, the potent, grave, and reverend seignors of which affect to believe that a betting man must be a rogue, and that because a few scamps have adopted horse-racing as a ready means of duping the public, the followers of the sport live by a systematic course of plunder. Never was so unreserved an application of the proverb of he that lies down with dogs will get up with fleas. The distinction between the Stock Exchange and Tattersalls is not very wide, and it would be some. what difficult to mark the difference between the specu lator for a " rise" or " and the speculator on horse racing. Recent disclosures have shown that the morality of the commercial world is not greatly superior to the morality of the sporting world ; end, indeed, if the accounts were properly reckoned the balance would, after all, be in favour of the turf. Le sport bas too much vitality at present to be destroyed by the malignant attacks which have been made on it. The Liverpool Meeting► will be celebrated to-morrow and the two following days, and already have metropoli tan turfites taken their departure to assist at the gather. ing. The racing will be both abundant and interesting, and a continuance of fine weather will be an additional inducement for pleasure-folk from the surrounding vil lages and towns to flock to the coarse. The programme contains its usual number of items, and I trust that the untiring exertions which Mr. Top ham has made to sustain the popularity of the gathering will be duly appreciated by racing men. For the Mer sey Stakes the penalised animals are Polly Peachum, Terrific, and York; and I shall expect to see Polly and York occupy the first and s-coed positions. The Derby and Oaks victress, Bnak Bonny, will, it is reported, show for the Lancashire Oaks, and she may frighten al her opponehti trona the field. For the Lentinck Test monial Handicap I shall select Mongrel, Wardermareke, and Sir Humphrey. For the Nursery Plate, Knockburn and Broadlauds are ray "fancy." Flacrow and Princes Riyal shall do battle for me for the Sweepstakes of 15 80,78. From the spirit with wh . c% Rlgerthorpe has been backed for the Liverpool Cup, we may infer that he has vita recovered from the effects of the sore hocks which he had at Stockbriig,e. If the horse be in form, his success may be deemed as great a certainty as the glorious uncertainty of the tort will admit. Bashi-B:wiuk has ere now given prof of his staying qualities and his gameness ; and although he will un doubtedly run forward, yet I fa-icy tbat he will succumb to both Nowtou.le-Willows and Moose. Could I have calculated upon a start, however, I should have selected Lima alone of all the three-yr-olds to represent nay is terest. As it is,.l Wow the talent, and stand by ROGERTZIORPR AND GRET PYRRHUS. The Licensed Victuallers' Plate presents a formidable list of nominations. C ruing my eye down the list, my attention i ntt need by the names of Eller,nira, Vander, meulie, Lord N,lion, Peeping Tom, and Be! E-perauza. Shiuld Blink Bonny enter the lists for the Liverpool St. Leger, with hor 9-lb penalty, some interest would be created. She will be oppo,ed by Adamai:, who, if he has of late done any work, will, I fancy, be the winner. July 14. A FRESH MAN. PORTO RICO. TO TRU EDITOR OE THE BUS, rt - 1,1 ) , t r y , ur nc,te I beg to inform you that Porto Rico was scratched for his Stockbridge engage ments at 4 a.m., on the. 24th Juco, 1857. I am, Sir, ccur mo-t obedient servant, JOHN DAY, Clerk of the Course. Dnuebury, July 13. RUFF'S GUIDE TO TILE TURF.—The July Supplement of this well-known publeatiun has LPeo juet published by MeEn , rg. Piper and Stephenßun. It bas beau compil,d with fxtra-rdina; y care, arpi cuntaias a macs of informa tion of the ntrnotA utility to racing men. HOUSE OF LORDS.-(YESTERDAY.) The Royal asssent was given by commission to the following :—Turnpike Trusts Arrangements; Ran ley B r ugb Incorporation; Militia (frelan•l) Act (1854) Amendment; Sound Dues;Site4 tor Workhouses; Joint- S:ock Corporation Amendment Act; Wil-aston and Lawton Roads ; Fraserbur , h limboor; North-Eastern and Hartlepool D cks and Railway Company's Amalga mation; Forth and Clyde June ion Railway; Lpndport and Southsea Improvements ; Wearmouth Bridge, Ferrie3, and Approaches ; south Durham and Lancashire Union Railway ; Ely Valky Railway ; Gdasg Gas ; St. Phi Lip's Church ; Liverpool New River Company ; Wet Hartlepool Railway ; NfanEfield and Worksop Road ; Portsdown Water ' • Fawnhope and Holme Bridge ; Nortb-Eastern Railway ; and Ipswich Water. Toe Royal Commi ,, sioners were the Lord Chancellor, the Earl of Harrowby, and L , •rd Campbell. Their lordships adjourned during pleasure. Their lordships re-aseerabled at five o'clock. THE INDIAN REVOLT. The Earl of ELLENBOROUGII was anxious to put a question to the noble earl opposite with reference to the news which had just been received from India, and with reference also to the course which her Majesty's Government intended to pursue. It was now three months since the minds of most men had been directed to the state of the army in that country, and every mail which had since arrived had only tended to increase the anxiety which was felt. Neverthelese, no official infor mation whatever had been given by her Majesty's Go vernment to Parliament ; but they bad been left to de pend upon private letters, and upen articles in news papers. The empire was in danger, but they knew nothing whatever either with respect to the causes of that danger, or with respect to the measures which had been adopted by the Government to meet it. (Hear, hear.) That was a state of things which ought not to be allowed to c ;ntinue. They were told by successive telegraphs that the crisis was past, that the danger was over, and that things had been at their worst. But that was not so. In cases like this, when extensive mutinies had taken place, things only went on from bad to worse, until the strong hand of power interfered and established once more the authority of the Government. (Hear, hear) Those who called themselves the public instructors of the country were endeavouring to in duce persons to believe that this was a passing calamity to which very slight measures indeed would suffice to put an end. (Hear.) It seemed to him (the noble earl) that tnere were men amongst us like that sagacious ani mal which, when pressed by its pursuers, hid its head in the sand and thought that it was unseen because it could not see. (Hear.) But all Eerily) was regarding with the deepest interest the conduct which her Majesty's Government might pursue ; for upon that conduct would depend not only our present character but our future position in the civilised world. (Hear) He did not be lieve there existed in either house of Parliament any in dispoeitien to grant her Majesty's Government any mean.' for which they might ask. Upon them, therefore, rested the responsibility of the course they would pur sue, and if they took a false step, the disgrace would be with them, although the loss would undouhtedly be our. It depended upon the noble viscount (Lerd Palmerston) whether he would obtain for himself a reputation similar to that which was obtained in difficult and dangerous circumstances by Lord Chatham, or whether his Gevera ' meat should be known to posterity as the most calami tous, the most disastroue, and the most disgraceful which had existed in this country since the time of Lord North. Since the Government had received the last telegraph, their conduct had been right—they could not have ap p inted a betterofficer than Sir Colin Campbell. (Chews.) He (the noble sari) bad at all times had a higher opinion of that gallant officer—an opinion derived from the late Sir Charles Napier, and confirmed by subse quent observation—than of any other in the Indian army. (Hear, hear.) But to give full effect to the ap pointment of Sir Colin, two things were necessary. In the first place, he must be relieved from the thraldom to which it had teen too customary to subject the com mander in the field—the thraldom, namely, of the poli tical agents. (Hear, hear.) The same powers should be committed to him which were confided to Lord Har ris by Lord Wellesley ; and be need not remind their lordships what successes rewarded that generous mea sure. (Hear, heir.) He perceived, too, with great satisfaction, that the Indian Government bad appointed Sir Patrick Grant. (Cheers.) He would not ask whether that appointment was justifiable in a strictly legal point of view; for he thought the Indian Govern ment e ere bound, in a season of public danger, to select the best man ; and in so doing they had deserved well of their country. (Cheer?.) But on the arrival of Sir C. Campbell, the powers of Sir Patrick Grant would cease ; but he (Lord Etenborough) considered that it was of the utmost importance that the Governor General should have Sir Patrick Grant for a mili tary adviser. That great object might be effected by the Ceurt of Directors appointing Sir Patrick an extraordinary member of Council. (Hear, hear.) There was at present a very respectable officer in the Council, and there was a very respectable military secretary ; but there was nothing in their previous ser vices /chicle would enable them to give to the Governor- General of India that authoritative advice upon which he might rely. It was, therefore, most desirable that the Council should he reinforead by Sir Patrick Grant. Taera were persons in this cnuetry who were di , ap- Pointed at not having received by theltst telegraph in formation of the capture of Delhi; but he (Lord Ellen borough) thought that that disappointment was un rea-ionable. (11...ar, hear.) He (the noble earl) had not ecepected it ; nor did he think that they could in any way justifiably impute blame to those in command, con sidering the hot season of the year and the want of means of carriage', bscauee they had not made a march of 130 miles in the time in which it was calculated it couhl have been performed. As far as he could understand the telegraph, ;he troops had succeeded in defeating a force which had been posted to interrupt thew march. Now that circumstance brnuoht two things into his mind. Fires, that the insurgents Inwt be very much stronger than they hal been given to suppose, or they would never have been induced to go beyond the walls of Dell i ; and. sex, her joiced tn say it convinced him that they could not have a man to command them who understood his business. Hs (the noble earl) happened to kno a: theground and he was, therefore, not in the smallest degree surprised that they should have lost all their guns, because it was a position in which, being pressed, it would have been perfectly itnpooiibie for them to carry off their artillery with them. (Hear, hear.) Nevertheless, this was a most serious muter. They now heard that the di-affec tint. was becoming very general ; that it had extended to 26,000 men, and that the Bengal army—and more than .that, the troops in the Punjaub —had been dis banded. Amongst the regiments which were included in these troops were two of which he had had reason to know the history—the 16th ant the 26th. The 16th . was one of the finest regiments in the Indian army. It carrie 1 upon its colours almost as many records of ac tions fought aid victer:ee grilled as any regiment in her Mejesty's service. Brigaded with her Majesty's 40th 2-;invent, it served dung{ the whole of Sir William Nott's operations. It served at Maharajshpore by its Fide, and it equelled it in courage arid devotion. The *6th was with Sir George Pollack, at Pesbawnr. There were there 4,000 men, cf whom 2,800 were in the hospital, by far the larger number on account of their anprehensione, rather than on account of sickness. In that army the oily regiment on which Sir George could depend was this 26tb, which had been disbanded. It must have been a long-congnued course of mismanage ment—a c iur- eof misceriduct which he could not compre hend—to have so changed the nature of the soldiers who o imposed these eegiments. There could harllybave been a no: eoorninissioned native officer—there could not have been a commissioned one, who had not given proofs of his gallantry and fidelity under Sir W. Nott and Sir G. Polloek, and it was most melancholy that such regiments should be obliterated from the army in India, or that circumstances should have occurred of any kind what ever to make it necessary to deprive them of arms which they had so gallantly and so successfully borne. (Cheers.) It was not for their lords to look at this mail or at that mail, but it was for them to look forward and con sider from the facts which they ttari before them what was likely to be our position in India on the let of November, at the time when our troops would have ar rived, and when, the rains being over, it would be pos sible to undertake military operations. On this point he had endeaveured to form an opinion. He assumed that our troops would be able to take and to hold Delhi, Meerut, and Allababad. He knew the locality of Delhi ; and he knew that no European regiment had ever yet been stationed there on account of the sickness which prevailed ; for aftr r the rains, two-thirds of the strength even of the native troops were in the hospital. if therefore our troops should take Delhi and bold it, they must not expect that they would be in a position after the rains to do more. All that he could venture to assume was that the three places he bad named would be held, We should, in fact, be in the same position in the Upper Provinces as that in which the French were placed in Spain. We should hold that we stood upon, but beyond that little or nothing else. It would be impossible when the army which constituted our strength was gone, when the soldiers had become either rebels or robbers, and when we bad no reliable police, it would be impossible to collect the revenue or administer the government. Oar possessions would, in fact, be confined to the 'three or four places which we occupied. In the Punjanh things might be a little better. Perhaps it might be possible for our troops to maintain their own there, and to collect the revenue ; but be apprehended we shoull not be able to do more— we ehould not be able to move troops beyond the banks of the Sutlej to render any assistance in other parts of India. When this insurrection began, there were three regiments in Bengal, two at Calcutta, and the other at Dinaporee 376 miles distant. Between that place and Agra and Lucknow, which were 200 or 300 miles off, there was not another European soldier. Two regiments were coming from Bombay, and one from Madras, which he hoped bad already arrived. We should therefore have six regiments in Bengal when those arrived. Now the first thing to consider was the protection of the capital of the empire. It was the seat of the Government : the Treasury Wa , there, containing money to the amount of several millions, and there was an enormous amount of mercantile capital. It was the port at which alone the salt revenue, the customs, and the opium revenue could be collected. In apdition, therefore, to the three regi ments which it was proposed to station in Calcutta, there ought to be at least six steamers in the river. (Hear.) Then one regiment should be sent to Jellaba bad, another to Luck now, and a third to another sta tion. In this manner he calculated that eight regiments would be required for the protection of Bengal ; but, in addition to these, the three regiments brought up from the other presidencies ought to be sent back at the ear best possible moment. What was actually being done was to send out five regiments; but he held that five TUESDAY EVR[',HING, JULY 14, 1P57 were insufficient. Nor was this all. There was no tve is having troops un!ees they could move them. No e, they I could net find horses in 11 , ngal to moon' the cevalry, nor even horse their artilleey on the spo% It aeeild therefore be absolutely ritc , s-ary to send out horses from th s country, and to give orders at the Give and in Awe. traiie, to forward all the animals they could find fit for the purpose. He would now assume that the fire regi ments which were being sent out were placed at Ailaha bad. They must not expect them to be there on the Ist of November. They would reach Calcutta on the 1 t of No vember, but they would not be at Allahabad till the 1-t of January. The force would be utterly insufficient. It wax quite toe much to expect an army of that strergtb, without cavalry or artillery, to enter a country contain ing a population of 40 or 50 millions, and that the orl i y military people in ludia, the Raj poots. Tosy ought to send nine regiments of infantry, three regiments of ea velry, and six batteries of artillery. The artillery must also be sent out from home. It would not do to leave Calcutta again, as it once had been left, with only six guns for its defence. The gun carriages, however, must be made in Calcutta or Madras, fur those which we sent out were quite useless in India. What he had said re lated to the country between the Ganges and the .3 - W13133j but he did not think it would be sufficient to act upon that line alone. He thought that they ought also to form another basis of operations between the Indus and the Sutlej, for the purpose of connecting the Punjaub with the line at Allahabad. He thought it most important likewise to have a reserve of at least two regiments sta tioned at Allahabad for the purpose of protecting the supplies that would require to be sent up. W e had five regiments in China, and if all these five could be sent to India they would supply the reinforcements required. The total force that would be necessary, therefore, in addition to those sent out, would be eight or ten regi ments of infantry, six of cava'rh and 12 b a tt er i es o f ' artillery, and with thehe troops we must send horses. He firmly believed that if Parliament and Government should determine to reinforce the army of India to the extent he had suggested, they might with almost abso lute certainty—subject, of course, to those accidents of fortune which might befal all military operations—they might rely on it with certainty, that by the middle of April nev e the authority of the Vritish Government would be firmly re-established in every part of the upper provinces. But if they acted in a different manner—if they acted undecidedly—if they thought there was no thing in the present crisis, and that it would die of itself —if they were not disposed to put forth the strength of this country, they might depend upon it that less and disgrace would pursue us until our character and autho rity in India were entirely destroyed. He (the nob!e lord) did not believe there was any indisposition on the part of this country to support the Government. He trusted, therefore, that her Majesty's Ministers would prove themselves equal to the occasion, and to the great ness of the danger in which we were involved—that they would come forward to maintain the national character and the interests of this country in ludia—that they would give permanent security to our empire, and do honour to themselves. He (the noble eat%) wished to know whether the Government had considered what measures they would take for reinforcing the army in India, and whether it was their intention, at the earliest opportunity—say within three days—to lay the official information they pes , eesed before Parliament ! (Cheers.) Earl GRANVILLE demurred to the noble earl's corn on the accuracy of the statement of the petitioners, and he thought the best coursci would he to the prayer of the petition, The noble earl then read the petition, which st'ited that in the months f May, June, an I Jul:7, 1855, the p,titicriers were enr lied (pursuant to the Foregn Enlistment Act) in the Sties under certain articles edistment then printed and puldi-hed at Berne, in Sviizeiland, dated Sebles;tadt, 1855, and bearing the signatures of Hans Su!zheiger, colonel ; Charles E. Funk, lieutenant-colonel; and John Baumgartner, captain. Such articles containeC, amnnget others, the following stipulatioqn :—" That the rffitiza's and men should be enlisted for the duration of the war, and f=ir 12 months after the ratification of peace; that upon disbandment the officers should receive 15 months' full pay, and the nor-commissioned cffieers and men the full pay of two years." In July following the British Government caused certain °Vier articles, with out date, to be printed and published, wherein it was stipulated that the officers and men should be enlisted for the duration of the war, awl for one year after the ratification of peace, and ghat on disbandment the offi cers should be allowed three months' p.iy to carry them home. The petitioners conceived that thee would he en titled, under either of these articles, to 15 moeths' pay after the ratification of peace ; that is, that they were en- I listed for one year after the ratification of peace, and that, on being disbanded, they were to receive 3 months' pay. Petitioners went on to say that on dishandiocntthey were offered three months' pay, which they accept d under prote t, and that a further offer of three months' pay had been made to come of them, which in most instances had been rejected. The noble earl proceeded to say that if these men were deceived, it was a question whether Go vernment should not be bound to carry out'the conven tion. It rested on the word of one man against another, , but the question was a serious one, and affected the in• ' terests of the country. They should consider the possi bility that some day or other we should again want to enlist foreigners in onr service. When the qeestion was first mooted in that house, he expressed his regret that it was necessary to enlist foreigners, but the experience of the last war had shown him that if we were bound to the voluntary system of erleAnient, our armies could not equal foreign armies or he equal to the exigencies of the ease. Therefore, it was most important that this country should bear a good name among foreigners. Tne Swiss were the best nation that we could have recourse to, because their morals were not in the least degree injured by foreign enlistments, ae they bad for centuries served foreign sovereigns, and I,,oked upon it as an honour to do so. He thought Government ought to look favourably on the case of the petitioners, especially seeing it would tint makea difference of more than 2,700/. _ _ Lord PANMURE said he thought the fact that out of the whole body of foreign officers who had taken service under the British Government, only 47 had been found to complain purilicly of injustice, proved at all events that the complaints of the officers were not general. There was no indisposition on his part to settle the claims both of the officers and men of the foreign legion, and to meet all the engagements of the Government, and even to =tend the generosity of this Government beyond those engagements, in order to show toat we appreciated the services which had been rendered. But of course in the settlement of these claims many disputes both on the part of the t,fficers and men must arise, and if his noble friend had been at all aware of the infinite se ,ianr o twi d w yati l ths e i edoayng withps e a. de accepted a e tu dei disposition By Col. ue tr Lviitetehue Dicksonancsodafasserted the ho,,fe rta G hsi‘e o its v iae, e ibe r ey4 n os7tt m e e: n semer trouble they bad taken to adjust these claims, he would er o ht offi cersovdeetaah acknowledged :l er fairly o a cffi4 p r p tc o 3e i ir n tsi ted by him to bring into action the Foreign Enlist ment Act, so far as it affected the raising of a Swiss legion, and there was a committee consisting of Colonel Dickson, Cul. Funk, and Major Baumgartner. The head-quarters were at Schlestadt, inasmuch as tee levy of Swiss for service in the English army was an ant not recognised by dee Swis s l aw . C er t a i n ert i e l es were d rawn ' by up the committee, and Cl. Dickson left them to be printed as so drawn up. They ev, re not so printed, Ma jia Baumgartner not only printed them in a manner that Colonel Dickson bad not approved of, but he forged the name of his colleagues to the articles he had printed. Colonel Dickson, as soon as he saw the articles printed, took immediate steps to deny their authenticity, and to toeplain to the officers who Lad taken service that these were not the terms on which they had accepted it, and up to the moment of the disbandment of the legion they never beard one word of compa tint from the legion that they were not satisfied. But that was not all. The spurious articles appeared to have been issued towards the end of May or the b -ginning of June, and there was no doubt but by the beginning of July it was well known that those articles were spurious. Now it so turned out that the vast rnejority of the indi viduals who had signed this petition entered the service after the beginning of July, after eel. Dickson bad taken step to show them that the articles were spurious. It appeared to him that this was a case got op by foreigners piecing themselves in the hands of some English lawyers. Every one of these officers had given a r cnipt for his gratuity, and signed a declaration that he had no further claim on the British Government, and he did n o t b e li e ve there was any of them who received the money under protest. He was the more convinced of that as he had received a letter from Major Baumgartner (as we tiuder etoed), coyly intimating that this claim would be brought before Parliament, but that they were open to a corn promise. Having regard to the honour of the country he refused to compromise. He agreed with his noble friend that it was important no feeling should tout on the partof foreigners that the British Government had not dealt fairly with them. He had the gratification to in form his noble friend that one of the officers who had signed this petition bad written to the Foreign-office, the letter having bees received that morning, to say that having heard of the state of affairs be was willing to serve again, and that he had no doubt all who had. en rolled tberneelves under the British service before would readily enrol themselves again. He was convinced that in parting with the Foreign Legion at the close of the late war, we had left an impression on their minds that England had dealt fairly with them, and that they had dealt fairly with England.• Commencing in May, 1855, in the month of August of that year 4,000 men belonging to foreign legions were thoroughly equipped, armed, and drilled, and in the course of a few months afterward not less than 6,000 were at the theatre of war. He had received from the officers in command the highest testimonials of their conduct. With reference to the eons• went of foreign troops, so long as we bad no troops n them the evei c it on o s f cr a ip io we n foreign war must ; treat and with in dealing with we must do go honestly and fairly, at the same time taking care that the tax-payers of this country were not caled upon to pay more than the justice of the case re quired. (Hear, bear ) The Earl of MALNIESBURY said this wan a matter which depernled upon the word of ono roan being placed against the word of another. One of the officers who had been accused of promulgating false docunients, as he (the Earl of Malmesbury) had been informed, had cononenced ao action a ; !ainst. Colonel Dickson. The Earl of HARD WICKE thout;tiethe cost of these foreign legions ought to be bid before Parliament. Lcrd PAN MURE said that had been done. The Earl of HARD VVICKE believed that if the properraising nn enough steps were taken, t a c theyairy on an coel ul; warlAa y: that rely might upon plaint that the Goes wheat had withheld itif meatier] re specting the Indian army, aed be t hallenged him to point out any occasion in which they had hesitated to answer any questions which had been put to them on the sub ject,. He was quite sure that there vroult be no objec tion on their part to lay before Parliament the informa tion which would probably be received that evening or on the following day. With regard to the intelligence which had already arrived, he really thought that their lordships were in possession of it all. The Government had only received three or four telegraphs, some from Malta, one from elareeillem, and some from Trieste, the whole substance of which had appeared in the usual sources of information; and he had nothing to add except that one telegraphic despatch stated all was quiet in the Punjaub. He could assure the noble earl that the Go vernment would consider well the matter he had brought before them, and that they would consider it was a most serious question, (Cheer?.) But when the noble earl talked of calamity, disgrace, and disaster, he (L Ord Granville) could not say that her Majesty's Government shared in that view of the case. (Hear.) He (Lord Gran ville) would not enter into any prophecies, and he thought that the noble earl, notwithstanding his experience and knowledge of the Fuhjuct, would perhaps have acted more wisely if he had satisfied himself e ith giving an opinion upon the facts which had transpired, and if he had not gone into speculations which were based in a certain degree upon imagination, and upon the probability of welts, was likely to coma to pass. At the same time no thing could be more interesting than the noble earl's re marks ; and he could assure him that whatever he sug gested on such a sub,ect, though not always adopted, was always mad e th e subject of serious consideration by her Majesty's Government. (Hear ' hear.) With regard to military d e tails, he (Lord Granville) was quite incompetent to speak ; but even if he was not, he thought it would be inconvenient to follow the noble earl into them. So far as her Majesty's Government were acquainted with what had occurred, they were perfectly satisfied with every step which had been taken. With regard to what they were doing at home he could assure the house that the most effectual precaution would he taken to strengthen the hands of the Government of India. (Hear.) There was an in pression abroad that her Majesty's Government was in possession of information as• to particular persons, of whom they had no information whatever. He was sorry, however, to say they were informed that General Anson had died from cholera. Those who knew the character of that gallant officer were aware that be was a man of great ability, of sound understanding, and of clear views. (Hear.) He (Lord Granvi le) thought the Mahn Go vernment had acted most judiciously in appointing Sir Patrick Grant; and he rejoiced to hear the noble earl's approval of the selection of Sir Cohn Campbell. (Hear, hear.) Every one must be of opinion that they were most fortunate in having that gallant officer, and that the greatest credit was due to him for being ready to go out at absolutely a few hours' notice after the intelligence was received. (Hear, hear.) He (Lord Granville) had only to repeat that to should be ready to give every information iu his . power. H e care f u ll y a b sta i ne d from going into the slit jests touched upon by the noble earl ; but when the noble earl spoke of the general die affection of the country, the fact was, so far as the Go vernment were informed, that the disaffection did not extend beyond the army. (Hear.) Even with regard to those regiments which the noble lord had spoken of as having been disbanded, the Government had no intelli gence that such had really taken place. Her Majesty's Government were determined to give every infnination to Parliament and to the country. Tney would deal with the greatest vigour with the present emergency, and they would not give way to what he trusted would prove an unfounded expectation of calamity and disas ter. (Cheers ) Viscount MELVILLE said the Bengal army was the worst of which he had any knowledge. It was, in fact, the worst in the world ; and certainly he had never served with Fo bad en army. (Hear, hear.) He had never seen such irregularity as eseeted in the Bengal army. H e ve al told that the late Gen. Alison, ever since be as-utned the command In India, had repre sentel to the Government the indispensaele neoessity of increasing the European force in India, and no sort of attention had been paid to that recommendation. The system pursued in the appointment of native officers was one of the reasons that had led to the mutiny. They were not selected for their fitness, but rose as a matter of course. These mutinies were not altogether new ; this was not a singular instance of mutiny in the Bengal army. In 1849. when he was commanding on to fron tier, and So. Colic Campbell was serving there, two Ben gal regiments mutinied. When be came home in 1850 he was requested to give his opinion as to the state of the Bengel army. Ho expressed that opinion, which was one of strong disapprobation, but was told that, however true it might be, it would be imprudent to express it. No steps bad since been taken to remedy the defects in tbe discipline of that army. They could net be unknown and had long been known to the Court of Directors. Most energetic mea sures should have been taken to put it in a proper state of discipline, and to have brought it as near as possible to the state of the army of Beinbay. He bad the honour of commanding the Punjaub division of the Bombay army and he had the greatest satisfaction in saying nothing could be more exemplary than its conduct. To give their lordships; one instance of the state of the Bengal army, be would relate what happened at the sip ofMooltan. An officer in command of a company had a covering party. One night a tremendous disturbance arose. He went to see what was the matter, and he found the se pop; of a Bengal regiment obstructing the sepoys of a Bombayregiment because they were digging for trenches. The Bengal sepoys said they would fight but not work- It was not until the officer told them they should be shot that they could be induced to r etire, and they did not do one foot of work pointed out by the engineer. The morning after the a ssault at the Park Gate Mr. Lake asked the officer commanding the picket to place a sergeant and twelve men to prevent any one coming our, Shortly after three officers of a British re giment approached the guard, who told them they could and they said only some not pass ; they asked them what th e y bad g o t under a tarpaulin they had with them, engineering tools and cartridges ; on the guard liftin g up the cover they found someplunder. As it might be thought he was acting w ith jealousy, he did not report the circumstance; but the thing s that he saw showed t he want of discipline in that army, and that the officers did not do their duty in the way tbat those of the Bombay army did. In the Bembay army the native officers were selected for their activity, vea l and intelligence. He . hoped her Majesty's Government, seeing what had hap. paned, would en f orce on the Board of D irectors the ne cessity of reorgani s i ng the B engal army , a nd putting it in a proper stat e , w hi c h wo uld secure our Indian empire. Ac to saying thi s mu ti ny had occurred in consequence of anything connected with the greasy cartridges, he did not believe a word of it, but it was to be traced to other sources." The Earl of ALBEMARLE said he had a letter in his hand from Dr. Ruist, editor of the Bombay Times, dis tinctly tracing one of the causes of the y to the selecting men of high caste, to the exclusion of every other, to be officers in the B e ngal army. In the Bom bay. army it was quite different —the y 'took hi g h caste and low caste men, without dist inction. THE SWISS LEGION. The Earl of MAL MESBURY then rose, pursuant to notice, to present a petition from officers of the late Swiss legion. Re said he particularly wished their lordship; might be persuaded that he bed no .intention whatever to make any attack on her Majesty's Government on this question. The case was simply this : there were uo less than forty-seven officers of the late Swiss legion who complained that certain articles under which they were e6rolle;cl had not been faithfully fulfilled b y her Ma jesty's : Government, and that they bad not received the p a y t o which they were entitl e d. The whole case must depend wise. The Earl of CLANCARTY said that no more un popu!ar measure hail ever been had recourse to than that of calling on foreign aid to car ry on a wa r . A con scription at home wouil be infinitely preferable. The subject then dropped. SLAV E TRADE. Lord BROUGHAM gave. notice that on Thursday he s .on d move an address on the subject of the African slave trade. session. He asked the Lord Chancellor, not to press the 1,2001. for legal expenses connected with Builington progress of these bills this session, became thtir lord- house, which appeared to h'm a large sum. The neat ships bad not had time t consider them, item was ridiculous ; it was 181. for a robe for the Lerd- Lord WENSLEYDALE urged the paeeing of these Lieuteneet of Irstand. Special mi•sione And outfits bills, which hal been produced by the statute law coin- w ire down in the present vote for 35,9071. That was an misdoners, after careful consideration n their part item which was going on every year, and it was difficult After seine remarks from the Marquis of WITSIMEATH to di-cover the actual amount, because the vote was die and the Earl of DERBY, the bills were eeveratly read a tributed over several estimates. He would mention that second time. the charges for consular services had, since 1840, SALE OF OBSCENE BOORS, &c., PREVENTION amounted to no less a sum than 51 millions. The BILL. charges for the different embassies were mush higher Lord CAMPBELL moved the third reading of this than hon. gentlemen supposed, from the fact that the bill, and in doii gso his lordship read a lett e r from the charges were so distributed over different estimate s th a t secretary of the Society for the Suppression o f Vice, it was very diffi , ult to ascertain the actual amount. Ho showing tl e inadequacy of the present law to prevent should suggest, therefore, that all the items should be the sale of oh-cane books, &c. There had been 150 collected into one sum, Such a course woul Ibe a satis prosecutions of works of that elsaracter in the 85 y e ars faction to hon. gentlemen in that house, and of great ad. of the society's Exletence. Of these 5 had been ac- vantage to the country. quitted, and the remainder convicted. The trade was Mr. BLACKBURN wished to know how the trans so profitable that, like the slave trade, the v e nders of lotion of the French Serif could come to 2871., and bow icdeceut books thrived noon an average of seizures. it was that the charge of 2 0001 a year fora standing Peremptory attacks by policemen and immediate set- commis-ion at Erzsroum had been continued for years zuree were the only means of eradicating the evil. He after that commission bad returned home produced a book, said to have been sold at a rail Sir JOHN TRELAWNEY objected to the charge of way eta ion. He had received a letter from Messrs. 621.175. Bd. for granting a pardon to Frost. It was Smith and Sons on this subject., stating that they bad enough to have paid for convicting him and sending him used every endeavour to cause all the books sold at the out to Australia, without having to pay for hi s p ar d on . stations over which they had any control is be as pure Mr. W. WILLIAMS called attention to the large as possible, and if any others were sold it was not with amount remaining unexpended of money voted for civil their consent. contingencies in former years, amounting to about The Earl of SIIAFTESBURY said that Messrs. 15,0001. He thought they cught to expend what they Smith had done tbeir best towards supplying proper had in h e before asking the house t o vo t e more mone y. literature to the pubic, and the collection at their sta- He could Writ out many more items which in his opi tions was as 'lure as that of any library in the kingdom Ilion afforded evidence of wasteful expenditure. He Lord LYNDHURST, after some sharp comments concluded by mentioning several ex implee. I upon Lord Campbell's last speech, in which be men- Mr. GREGORY explained so me f ormer observation Coned the fact of Lord. Campbell's having picked out, and sent to him as a present the volume of his Lives of the Chancellors in which he (Lord Campbell) had spoken against him, went en to say that his objection to the bill was its wideness—nothing could escape it— no printseller could be safe . from its annoyances. A war rant taken out by an informer was to open every room in a man's house, even his wife's bedroom. Lord Camp bell said that was not what his bill meant, but this was wkat it said, never heless. Did Lord Catnpleell remem ber the case of Hetherington, who when in prison for selling blasphemous works sent to Mr. Moron's shcp, and bought a copy of Shelley's works, just edited by his widow, and indicted the publisher for selling irreligious works t The bookseller was acquitted, bat the costs and law expenses were enormous. Lord WENSLEYDALE, though objecting on prin. ciple to domiciliary visits, was nevertheless not opposed to the bill. The Archbishop of CANTERBURY supported the bill, which, after a few words from several noble lords, was read a third time and paesed. • THE LAW OF LIBEL. Lord CAMPBELL said, as chairman of the select ' committee appointed to consider how far the privilege of reporting the proceedings of law courts without beine subject to the law of libel, should be extended to the proceedings of the two houses of Parliament and to pub lic meetings, he had now to lay the report of the eons inittee on the table. The petitioners prayed that there should be an entire immunity for all newspapers for printing and publishing what was spoken a. any public na. eting. They heard the witnesses who were exAmined and they came to the unanimous resolution that the prayer could not be safely granted in the plenitude in which it was' sought, because a mob might be called a public meeting, and a member of a mob might utter the moat calumnious attecke on private character. What was proposed was, that the party should proceed against the speaker, and not against the journal, but that would often-leave the party without remedy. It had been pro pesed to make a speaker liable for a printed report of his speech, but that would be a great and important change in the law of England, and, he believed, was inexpedient. Th:erefore, they all came to the opinion, as the select com mittee in 1843 did, that such a c incession was unneces eery, aid could not be safely granted. At the same time, they thought they might, with perfect safety to the public, grant a protection against vexatious actions. They thought that a report of the proceedings in either house of Parliament when strangers were ad mitted should have the same privilege as was now extended t• the reports of the proceedings in e .urts of public justice ; because they thougbr, at least the ma jority thought, that all the reasons that existed for the privilege in the one case extended to the other. It was equally important to the public that the proceedings in Parliament should be faithfully published as those of the courts of law, and that those who published them should not run the peril of an action or an in dictment. An objection bad been raised respecting the standing orders of the two houses of parliament, prohi biting the publication of any of their proceedings, but one might hope that these standing orders which he might call waste paper, woul I speedily be repealed as of no use. The most important alteration ,recommended for the protecticu of the public press was this: A journal contained as account of a public meeting in which ob servations were made, which, in point of law, were libel , lous. Tue individual might bring his action, and though he had suffered no damage, the judge was bound to tell the jury that they must give him a verdict. For the purpose of remedying that state of things as far as they could, the jury found a verdict, with a faetleing damages. By a late act of Parliament the plaintiff recovered no more costs than damages, and therefore in such a case as ' that the defendant was not bound to pay the plaintiff his costs, but then he was burdened with his own. (Hear.) In a recent case, which had caused so much apprehen sion in all parts of the country, the jury found the report was a faithful report, and that there was no malice what ever, and they thought the plaintiff had suffered no da mage ; but the judge told them they must find some da mages, and they found a farthing, and the defendant was obliged to pay the cost of defending himself, which was said to amount to 4001. To prevent this, it was proposed that if there was an action brought against a public jour nal for that which professed to be a report of a public meeting, the defendant might plead it was a faithful re port of the proceedings, and that the plaintiff had sus tained no actual damage, and if the jury were of that opinion then they were to find a verdict for the defendant, and the plaintiff thus, instead of receiving damages or costs, would be obliged to pay the costs of a vexatious action, So far they thought they might safely proceed to prevent vacetioue actioee. A difficulty arose as to what should be considered a public meeting, and they recom mended that all meetings celled by alieutenant of a county or the mayor of a borough, or the meeting of a town council or a board of health, or any other body meet ing under an act of parlia-rent, or which bad a right to levy a local rat-. They recommended that where there was a f *lt hful report of suo public meetings, and the plaintiff had sustained no real damage, the jury should find a verdict for the defendant, and make the plaintiff pay the costs. This was a summary of the re commendation of the committee. He was afraid it was vain to think of legi being on such a subject during the present se,i-ion of Parliament. He personally couldeeoe make the attempt, because early to•morrow morning he set out on circuit, but he gave notice, that at the begin ning of another session he should frame a bill itr aceard ance with these resolutions, which he should-submit to their lordships, and which he trusted might me t their approbation and that of the other House of Parliament. Their lordships then adjourned a' few minutes -before nine o'clock. COWAN then moved an adjournment of the/ house ' , which Wai agreed to at five minutes to one. - .Country Markets, HOUSE OF COMMONS.—(YESTERDAY.) REINFORCE 11 ENTS FOR INDIA. In reply to Admiral \VALCOTT, Sir C. WOOD stated that the additional reinforce ments for India would be Pent out by screw vessels, as being quicker and more certain in their pa-sages. NATIONAL COLLECTION. Mr. W. EWART put a question t the Vice-Presi dent of the Beard of Education—" It appearing from the returns laid before this house, that, in the case of some of our national collections of objects of ,arts, science, and historical interest, Os well as in the case of civil and religious ed,fices and monumente (all maintain ed or as.istad by the money votes of Pariiament), the public have the benefit of imtruction by means of descrip tive labels affixed or appended to such objects, with. out incurring the expense of a catalogue ; while in the case of other such collections, edifices, and monuments (which are similarly supported by public money), no such advantage is given to the public, whether measures will be taken for extending the system of labelling generally for the benefit of the public ?" Mr. C6WPER, in reply, said that it was the inten tion to extend the system to which the hon. gentleman had alluded. On the motion for gamily into committee of supply, ORDNANCE SURVEY. Lord ELCLIO proceeeed to re-open this question. He found fault with the previous decisions of the house against the 25-inch scale, and concluded with a motion that the whole question be referred to a Royal Corn mission. Lord PALMERSTON hoped the house would not go into the question again. He had no hesitation in saying that he thought the late decision of the house upon the subject an unwise one, but as they had decided be was content to acquiesce in it, and he hoped the house would not lose time in again debating the question, but would at once go into committee. After a few remarks Irene Sir D. Norreys, Lord John Manners, and others, the motion was neeatived without a division, and the house went into committee of supply, when several votes connected with Irish charities were agreed to. On the vote for the Irish region donum, Mr. BAXTER moved that the sum be reduced to the nominal sum of 3561. He maintained that the Govern meot grant had deadened the energies of the Presby terian congr gatione, who gave less to their clergymen now than before they received the grant. He contrasted this with the prosperity of the Free Church of Scotland, which, which, h a vi ng no grant from the Government, bad formed 800 congregations, built 500 houses for their ministers, and bad raised nearly four millions of money since the disruption in 1843. Mr. KIRK defended the grant, and claimed the grant as the just right of the Irish Presbyterians in lieu of the titaes of which they had unjustly been deprived. After some remarks from Mr. GILPIN and Mr. Hadfield in support of the reduction, the committee divided, when the original grant was carried by a ma jority of 117 to 41. A vote of 323,1501. for superannuation allowances in the Revenue department was agreed to without dis cussion. On a vote of 100,000/,, for civil contingencies being proposed, Mr. WISE objected to 1,0001. having been given to the gentlemen wno brought home the treaties of Paris an d Persia. We had too many couriers and messengers to have such an item as that. There was another charge of 2,0001. for extra services of the Foreign-office clerks during the war; to which class was that 2,0001 paid ? Was it to those who worked hard, or was it to two or three of the principal clerks ? There WWI a charge of CHELMSFORD—JUL? 10: We have had a fair supply of wheat for thetine of the year in to-day's market, but the millers and factors bought slowly, at an abatement of is to 2s par qr., and very little business clone at those reduced rues. The prices were un altered for Spring . corn of all descriptions, and with a finis trade. Wheat, white, old, per a. a. qr. 44 70 Dew..” -- -- red, old 42 61 • new Barley 35 Chevalier 40 Grinding 35 Malt 73 Ch9valier. 75 Official Statement of the Quai in the port of London, fro: J uly 6 to July 11, both inc 8. S. Oats, per qr 24 37 Peas, Partridge 41 44 White 39 4t Boiling 39 46 Dun 40 42 Beans, Ti(6k 36 41 Harrow tick,' 41 50 Mazagan 36 39 Ditto, - new 36 39 Lntities of Corp> &c )m the following receive' )rte,. froig ---- ----------.--- Colchester - 160 Harwich 27 —C i --- _ 100 Leigh Haldou : 1390 r 32 f 130 i 18 ; 580 -JULY 13 the close of the market. Wallsend, gee. s d. graddyll l7 3 Lambton lB 3 Belmont 16 0 ilosforth l6 0 daswell 19 0 ;, 37 ; sold, 36. in reference to the case of King Pepple, and said be should certainly object to the passing of any more votes for money for this purpose. He read an extract from a report of Mr. Hutchinson, the consul at Fernando Po, as to the tyranny of those petty kings. • Mr. WILSON rep lied—lt had been custOmary to vote a sum of 5001. to the person bringing home the de spatches announcing a peace or a great victory, and it had never been objected to. There had been great pres sure on the War-office during the war, and' the money distributed in that office had bet n given eetially amorget all grades of clerks. With regard to the - 1,001. to the clergy in Scotland, that had been paid last year for the first time. The hon. member who had objected to the sum for the police at Aldershott, would probably be the last member in the house who would say that the sol diers should be employed to keep peace among the-civil population. He defended the vote for searching for coal. in the Red Sea. This house had in the last session ap proved of the abolition of fees for conferring the Order, of the Bath on deserving officers, and would surely not object to allow the small sum required to enable them to make the change. Mr. BLACK asked on what principle the episcopal grata was withdrawn from Scotland and continued in Ir.-land ? Mr. WILSON sail the Irish grant was very ancient, but the Scotch one was more modern, and was originally an occasioaal grant which had only lately grown into a regular grant Mr. W. WILLIAMS said there was no objection to' giving the Order of the Bath free from fees to deserv ing officers who bad served in the war. What be com plained of was, that so large a coin was withdrawn for the benefit of ale and useless officers. Sir J. TRELAWNY did not object to the or iers being conferred free of expense to the officers who received them, but objected to so many officers being unneces sarily employed in transmitting them, thus costing an unnecessary expense. He also explained scone of his ob servations on minute points of detail, and apologised for , detaining the house. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER drew the attention of the hon baronet to the fact that the sums ; had been already paid. They must reduce the; estimates. tor next year, if at al. Sir J. THE LA WNY said their control over the pabliti money was a mere farce. He should withdraw his inc. titin, as it was useless to press it. In answer to a question from Mr. WATKINS, The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said the fees of the second patent granted to Lord Wensleydale were paid by the Government, the noble lard himself' having paid those on the life peerage patent. Mr. ADAMS said as they were frequently met with: the remark that these sums were already pa.d, audit was' of no use discussing them, he should give notice that the next time a vote of 5001. was proposed for bringing home a treaty he should oppose it. In answer to a question from Mr. WYLD, • • Mr. WILSON said Dr. Barth's expedition had been highly satisfactory in its results, which would shortly be• published, partly at the expense of Government. Mr. MACARTHY said the mode of stifling questions of expenditure was discreditable to the Government and unsatisfactory to the house. The vote was then agreed to, and the house resumed.. BOROUGH OF ATHLONE. The SPEAKER read a letter from the Hon. H. Han cock and others, stating that they did not intend to pro ceed with their petition against the return for this borough. The report of the Fraudulent Trustees Bill was , brought up and received. The second reading of the Dublin Police Bill was opposed by the Dublin members, on the ground that the town council bad not been consulted, and was defended,. by the Attorney. General for Ireland on the ground that it was a mere consolidation of existing statutes. On a division the bill was read a second time by. a majority of 155 to 10. The Revising Barristers (Dublin) Bill was read a second time. The second reading of the Bankruptcy and Insolvency (Ireland) B:11 was postponed to this day. The Pimlico Improvements Bill passed through comm mittee. PUBLIC OFFICES EXTENSION BILL. On the motion for going into committee on this bill, In reply to a question, Sir B. HALL said the object of the bill was to em power the commissioners of Public Works to purchase property between Dawning-street and Charles-street. The value of the property was 170,0001. • Sir J. TRELA WN Y cautioned the committee against passing this bill,- which might be the first step to. _ wards an expenditure of five millions. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said the Government only intended to build a new Foreign Office and a new office for the war department. Mr. B. HOPE said this bid was required to maintain the dignity - of the country. It was merely an enabling bill. 'rho bill passed through committee without amend. ments. ST. JAMES'S PARK. The Earl of MAL MES BURY then rose to call the attention of the house to the subjt-ct of the improve ments in St. James's-park. The expense which had been incurred had taken place without the authority of Parliament. He had over and over again endeavoured to get the correspondence on this subject, but had not been successful, and he was now sick of asking for it. It had been.said that the expenditure had been entered upon on sanitary grounds. Now, according to Sir B. Hall, the course he took for this purpose was to clean both the lakes in St. James's-park and Hyde -park, and, being under the rollicking rule of the noble viscount now at the head of the Government, that course was taken. The e,timates first given for the works amounted to a sum that would have maintained four regiments of soldiers for at least 12 months. A. second estimate was given reduc ing the cost to 61,0001. but the work in St. James's-park was ultimately executed at an outlay of 15,000/. The noble earl said he was at a loss to understand why in this case an established constitutional principle had been violated in spending so much money without the consent of Parliament being first obtained. Money should be voted as it was required, and then its exitravagant ex penditure could be checked. He deprecated Government being permitted to spend money at their mere caprice, and afterwasds rely on the indulgence of the House of Commons to sanction it. Earl GRANVILLE defended the conduct of the Go vernment in reference to this vote, and contrasted the beautiful state of the water in St. James's-park with that of the Serpentine. He attributed the state of the water in St. James's-park in June last to the effects of a thunder-storm, which washed a great deal of filth into the lake. The lake had since been cleaned, and there was every reason to believe that in future there would be no cause of complaint. It was impossible to have a large lake of stagnant water in the metro polis without its being insalubrious. He sympa thised with the 2i millions of the metropolis who were obliged to have recourse to these parks, and he consi dered the Government bad done right in improving the condition of the water at a moderate outlay. He consi dered London did not come forward as it ought on these occasions, but he believed the people would sanction the outlay complained of by the noble earl. Lord MONTEAGLE had never heard of the insalu brity of the water in St. James's Park until now, and when the cholera was in Londod no complaint was made of its state being irjurious to public health. He consi dered the outlay a s a const i tut i onal offence commi tted by the application of public m o n e y t o purposes for which it was not origin a l l y vote d . Alter some r emar k s f rom Lord GRAN VILLE i n EA planation, The subject dropped. CONSOLIDATION OF THE LAWS. The LORD CHANCELLOR move d the second read ing of the Larc en y &C ., B i I, Offences a gainst the Per son Bill, Malicious Injury to Property Bill, Forgery Bill, Libel Bill, CoiLa„ae Offences Bid, Deer, Game and Rabbits Bill, and the Acc,Asoties and Abettor, Bill. These hills, waich proposed certain a:terations in the present statute law, were introduc.d with a view to its consolidatiop, Lord CAMPBELL was surprised at the motion. He understood the bills were to be laid on the table for their lordships' consideration bets een the present and usiat4 COAL 31A13K: Prices of Coals per ton a' a. d, North Percy Hartley —.15 6 Earsden's Hartley l6 3 Tanileld Moor Butss 14 3 Wallsend, he. Tees lB g Fothergill's Aberdare l9 Kepier Grainge l7 6 Ships at market BIRTHS. OF A SON. On the 12th inst., at 25, Grosvenor-place, the Lady Adele Goff. On the 13th init., at 12, St. George's-terrace, Hyde park, the wife of Clayton W. F. Glyn, Esq. OF ♦ DAUGHTER On the nth inst., the wife of David C. 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