The Sun. — London, England, 1857-12-11 00:00:00

2rbirbf Mbition SUN OFFICE, Severt, o'Clock. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS.—(This Evening.) The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack at five o'clock. IMMIGRATIGN OF FREE NEGROES. The Earl of SHAFTESBURY, seeing the noble earl the Secretary for Foreign Affairs, elated his attent ion to the scheme for the immigration of free Negroes in the French colonies. It had come to his ( Ear l Sbaftee bury's) knowledge that a decree had been issued by the French Government for the purpose of carrying the scheme into effect. The question be begged to ask was, whether it was true that any such decree had been leaned ! The Earl of CLARENDON said he was gratified in being able to inform their lordships that the decree to which the noble earl referred had no existence, but be believed that certain contracts bad been entered into with several firms, and which agreements bad received th e assent of the French Government on the understanding that it should be a bona fide immigration of free negroee. Now, it was impossible for such a con dition to be fulfilled, as there was no such thing as free immigration from Western Africa. We ourselves had tried the scheme 16 years ago, !the negro bad been treated ith every comfort, and had had his return to his native country guaranteed to him, but the plan utterly and signally failed. It was felt that the further trying the plan Would lead to the revival of the slave trade, and the project was finally abandoned. The plan adopted by the Trench Government was, that a number of African chiefs were to supply a certain number of negroes on board ship, and a form was gone through of asking those ne groes whether they were willing, for a certain amount of money, to work in a French colony for a limited period. Now, it was perfectly clear that, under such circumstances, there could be no free choice, and the contractors to the French Government were brought into contact with the regular Spanish slave dealers. The British Government bad entered into communication with the French Government on the point, and the subject bad been considered by the French Government, in order to bring the grievance to an end. The French Government had informed her Majesty's Ministers that although there was in fact no treaty on the subject, yet they intended to act as if it was in existence, and they further solemnly declared there was no intention of reviving the slave trade, but that they were as anxious At the present moment to put a stop to the infamous traffic as they were when they signed the declaration in 1815, for the suppression of the slave trade. The Earl of DERBY did not for an instant doubt the sincerity of the French Government, but he felt that the scheme of free immigration was a perfect delusion, and was in fact but the revival of the slave trade in another form. The Earl of CLARENDON said he believed there was no intention on the part of the French Government t) forcibly put an end to the project. _ _ Earl GREY was also of op - iniOn that the scheme could lead to nothing else but a revival of the slave trade. When be held the seals of the colonial department be was con stantly urged to permit a trial of the scheme, but he had invariably refused. He hoped her Majesty's Ministers would keep - the subject in view and not allow it to sleep. The subject then dropped. (LEFT SPITING.) HOUSE OF COMMONS—('Phis Evening.) The SPEAKER took the chair at 4 o'clock. NEW MEMBERS. Mr. DEEDS took the oath and his seat for West Kent, and Mr. BAGSHAW, jun., for Harwich. MAIN DRAINAGE OF THE METROPOLIS. Mr. LAURIE asked the First Commissioner of Works, whether any, and if so, what steps had been taken for the purpose of carrying out so much of the Act'lB and 19 Vic., c. 120, as relates to the main drain age of the metropolis. Sir B. HALL at great length minutely entered into the f.tate of this question, from the passing of the act in 3355, up to the present time, the particulars of which have already been made public through the press by reporting the proceedings before the Metropolitan Board of Works, and the conference between that board and the right hon. baronet. He said that what he con. tended for was, that the Metropolitan Board of Works were bound to cleanse the Thames from the pollution that passed through it in the metropolitan area, but the Metropolitan Board of Works contended that they were only called on to carry out that which was generated in the metropolitan area generally, and not anything gene rated outside it. In answer to a question from General CODRINGTON, Sir B. HALL said that great misapprehension prevailed with referecce to the outlet of the drainage. What he had always contended for, and did now, was that the outfalls should be at the points indicated in Captain Birstall's report. NEW WRIT. A new writ was ordered for Whitehaven, in the room of Mr. Hildyard, deceased. ISTHMUS OF SUEZ. Mr. GRIFFITHS gave notice that on an early day after the recess he should call the attention of the Government to the application of the French Govern ment to the Turkish Government for peralission to con struct the Suez Canal. BARON ROTHSCHILD. Mr. T. DUNCOMBE gave notice that immediately after the recess he should call the attentio❑ of the house to the fact, that during the two preceding sessions of Parliament three of the members for the City of London only bad taken their seats, he should move a resolution that Baron Rothschi►d be permitted to take the oaths as appointed by law most binding on his conscience, and in accordance with the faith ha professed. (Cheers.) NEW SOUTH WALES. In answer to a question from Lord A Cnuacamn, Mr. LABOUCHERE said it was intended to sepa rate Moreton Bay in the colony of New South Wales, from that presidency, the boundary to be near the river St. Lawrence. With regard to the form of legislation it would be on the model of New South Wales, but on what principle, whether strictly what was called execu tive or not he could not then give an answer. . THE PRACTICE OF MEDICINE AND SURGERY. Mr. KINNAIRD asked the Vice President of the C ,uncil of Education whether it was the intention of her Majesty's Government to introduce any measure after the Christmas recess, with the view of amending the laws relating to the practice of medicine and surgery in the United Kingdom ? Mr. COOPER said it was the intention of the Government to introduce such a measure. TRANSFER OF LAND (IRELAND ) Mr. VANCE asked the Attorney-General for Ire land if the Government intended, during the present session, to bring in a bill to facilitate and simplify the transfer of land in Ireland? Mr. FITZGERALD said such a measure was under the consideration of the Government. THE BANKRUPTCY LAW. Mr. HEADLAM asked the Attorney-General whe ther it was the intention of the Government to introduce sty amendment of the law of bankruptcy in the present session of Parliament ? The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said the bankruptcy la w required legislative interference. (Hear, hear.) The subject was under consideration, but he could not state when a bill would be introduced upon the subject. TRANSPORTING INDIAN MUTINEERS. Mr. ARTHUR MILLS asked the President of the Bard of Control whether the attention of Her Majesty's Government bad been called to the question of trans porting a certain number of the mutineers in India to such of the West Indian or other colonies as may signify their willingness to receive such transported offenders, and their families, and to contribute to the cost of their removal ; also, whether, in the event of any measures for the transportation of such offenders being adopted, the Government of India were empowered to carry out such measures under the Acts of the Governor-General in Council of May and June last, for the punishment of offences against the State, and military offences ? Mr. V. SMITH said it was a question of great im portance and delicacy. The subject had occupied the attention of the Government. It would be very desirable to have a place to transport thorn whose lives would be epered ; but the question was, where to send them. Of course they could only be sent to such colonies as were willing to receive them. He believed no punishment would be dreaded more by the high-caste natives especially as transportation. SMITHFIELD MARKET. Mr. HANBURY asked the Chancellor of the Exche titer, whether the consent of the Government was likely to be given to any proposition of the Corporation of the City of Londo❑ to build over the site of Smithfield Market, whether for a Dead Market or any other pur pose ? - The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said he believed it was the intention of the City of London to introduce in the ordinary manner a private bill for establishing a dead meat market in some part not far from Smithfield. The question with regard to the gvoutid claimed by the Crown would be hft to the decision of the select committee on thaL bill. PRIZE MONEY. 11"141. LAURIE asked th e U n d er S ecretary for War, r e m l y e vi t laaonYz6 money was t o b o di s t r ib ute d to t h e the Queen , 6 t o re enga ge d i n t h e C r i mea ? and, whether easure at wou inindia, wh o t, :o k posJessi on o f , Sir J. RA.MSDEI4:..eu"3" allotted to them ? tribute ar ch the said the form er was too small to and Y. counting more than e. 6d, to each officer, would therefore take place. • to each soldier. None Mr. V. SMITH said with reference toD • a money would only be allowed where the n` tre a ts t ri h Pre . wnazs near taken from the natives. ( near, hear,) MINISTER OF JUSTICE. Mr. WARREN asked whether any and what p ro _ gees in the angemente t,m for s , 1 . - gress bad been mad iug a Department of Justice, arr in e, conform ity with the vedge given by the G o vern ment in the last i session The ATTORNEY-GEN E RAL said the matter had been under consideration. He should be mole to give a more satisfactory answer after the receo. THE REBELLION IN INDIA. Mr. BLACKBURN asked if the Indian government bad resolved to admit the principle that compensation was to be made for property destroyed by the rebellion in India. Mr. VERNON SMITH said the question had not yet .been decided. PETITION FROM CALCUTTA. Mr. WISE asked why the memorial from the inhabitants of Calcutta, complaining of the Governor General, had not been presented to the House of Commons, and by whose authority it had been with held. _ _ Lord PALMERSTON said he hail returned it, because it was contrary to the invariable rule to re ceive such docnments, except through the Governor- General, who, at the same time, forwarded his answer to the complaint, by which Government were put into possession of the facts on both sides. BISHOPS' RETIRING PENSIONS. Mr. GRIFFITHS asked the First Lord of the Trea sury, whether it was his intention to bring in a bill this session to provide retiring pensions for bishops resigning their sees, according to his pledge of last session ? Lord PALMERSTON said the subject was still under the consideration of the government. He was unable to make any pledge on the subject. (Hear, hear.) RIGHT TO PRACTICE IN THE ADMIRALTY COURT. Mr. HADFIELD asked the Attorney-General whether he intended to bring in a bill to abolish the right to practise in the Court of Admiralty, now enjoyed by proctors (who were empowered under the Probate Bill t 9 become attorneys and solicitors), and to enable the legal profession generally to practise in that court, as decided by a committee of the whole house in the last session, during the discussion of said Probate Bill ? The ATrORNEY-GENERAL said the subject was under consideration. Probably a measure to that effect would be brought in after the recess, but he was unable to say when. THE SCY LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 11, 1857, IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT, HOUSE OF COMMONS.—(YEsTBRDAY.) JEWISH DISABILITIES. On the motion of Lord J. RUSSELL, the house re solved itself into aUommittee of the whole house—" To consider the oaths of allegiance, supremacy, and abju ration ; and also to consider the disabilities affecting her Majesty's Jewish subjects." In committee : Lord J. RUSSELL—I am glad to say that it will not be necessary I should long detaia the committee, as this subject has eo frequently been under discussion, and as the House of Commons, having heard the very able statement of my noble friend at the head of the Govern ment, when he last year introduced a measure with a view to the admission of the Jews into Parliament, is already fully aware that the general principle of our legislation is not to disqualify for legislative functions or public office any class of her Majesty's subjects on account of their religious opinions ---a principle which of late years has been established in the case of the Roman Catholics and dissenters, although in those instances political reasons had in former times operated in favour of exclusion. The house is also well aware that there is no positive disability affecting our Jewish fellow-subjects, and that their exclusion from this house is owing to the construction put on the oath of abjuration, and that that oath was not originally intended for such a purpose. (Hear.) So little is that the case that the persons re fusing the oath of abjuration, namely, 40,000 of our Jewish fellow-subjects, are in the eye of the law 40,°00 popish recusants —an instance of the absurdity of con sidering them to have been originally contemplated in the framing of the oath, I shall not now enter into the theological question, and neither do I think it necessary to go into the reasons that exist for altering the present oath, wbich on the face of it is so exceedingly absurd as to oblige members of this house to swear that they will not support the claims to the crown of these realms of a person or persons who really have no existence. I shall merely state the nature of the bill I propose to in troduce. The bill of last year contained a simple form of oath not similar to that which I intro duced in 1848, and which might be taken by all members of the house, but one which could not be taken by members of the Roman Catholic persua sion. The oath which I propose to introduce on the present occasion will contain the words "on the true faith of a Cbristian." I introduce them because they have a prescriptive value in the eyes of many persons, and likewise because one of the most eminent supporters of the Jewish claims—l mean the right hon. member for Bucks—has Expressed his opinion that they should be retained ; but I propose that in administering the oath to Jews these words should be omitted. (Hear, hear.) It follows of course, and in a more logical way than in the bill introduced by my noble friend last year, that the Jews will be disabled from certain offices which at present cannot be held by Roman Catholics, as I do not propose to put them in a position superior to that of the Roman Catholics, but to admit them to precisely the same privileges. I may say further, that although I do not propose by this bill to alter the oath for Roman Catholics, because I consider that a separate question, yet I do not think that if this bill pass there will be any objection made to an alteration of the oath of 1829, so as that it may be taken by Roman Catboros without those feelings of repugnance which some of them now entertain. But there is another question upon which I cannot refrain from detaining the committee a few me ments, because I am sure it is a question which will naturally arise. It so happens that in the short session of 1847 which took place on the suspension of the Bao.k Charter Act, on the 14th or 15th December I introduced this very bill, or rather a precisely similar one, for the admission of the Jewe into Parliament. That bill, and .dl similar bills, have been rejected in the other House of Parliament ; and it may be asked wbat prospect is there now that the present bill will in another place have a fate different from that of its predecessors (Opposition cheers.) To that question I should answer that I have framed the bill in the most conciliatory form possible; that this house has at all times, with one ex ception, :armed. the principle of religious liberty in favour of the Jews; and that last year themajerity wasfar greater than it had ever been ; and in the whole course of le g islation I have f oun d th a t re p ea ted d ec i s i ons o f t h e House of Commons,ratified by increasing majerities i bave always had in the end the greatest weight with the other House of Parliament. But yet I do not wish to conceal from the house my ultimate intentions on this subject. In the course of last year I was informed by myboe. and learned friend the Attorney-General that the act 5 and 6 William IV. entitled this house to frame a declaration to be taken by members in place of the oath, should they think fit, mid on hearing that opinion from so distinguished an ornament to his profession as the Attorney-General 1 thought it right to have the question examined by a se lect committee of this house. The house agreed to the nomination of a committee, and the question was therein thoroughly debated. No witnesses were examined, but the question was thoroughly sifted by gentlemen belong ing to the legal profession. The result was unfavourable to the position taken up by the Attorney-General, but at the same time the hostile majority was a very narrow one, consisting of one original member of the committee and two members of the legal profession, who had been subsequently added. My right hon. friend the member for Droitwich had prepared a motion which he wished to propose, but which, owing to the course taken by the committee, could not be introduced. His moiion was to the effect that the two Houses of Parliament were in , dnded in the act of Wm. IV., but that it was not exile. dient to use the power then given unless no other con• stitutional course should appear to be open for the attainment of the object. Now it was not my duty, not being chairman of the committee, to express any opinion or to take any part in its discussions, but certainly had I been called on to give an opinion, my opinion would have exactly coincided with that of the right hon. gentleman. Such being my opinion, it is unnecessary now to reopen the argument. I will only say that the argument was stated by the Attorney-General with all his usual lucidity and more than his usual earnestness, and that it met with the concarrenoe not only of the right hon. member for Droitwich but of the right hon. member for Bucks, and of the noble lord the member for Lynn, together with the Lord Advocate and many other distinguished members of this house. It was likewise supported in a speech of great ability and acuteness by the bon. and learned member for Boston. Fortified by these opinions, and convinced by the argument of the Attorney-General, I said I should not think it right to let the question drop altogether without placing before the house, whether or not they should adopt the pro posal of a declaration in place of an oath, in the case of members who object to the words of the each of abju ration. It is not for mo to say how the house will de cide, but I must confess my own opinion to be that we have been perhaps somewhat to blame in allowing the seat of a member of this house to be discussed in courts of law. My belief is that this is a question which by the constitution of this country the courts below are hardly competent to decide, and that as it would be impossible for them to entertain the question of whether a mem ber had been duly elected, it is not competent for them to decide whether our oaths have been properly taken. Such was the spirit in which the House of Lords acted in the case of the Wensleydale peerage. They may have been right or they may have been wrong in their decision, but nobody bas disputed that it was in the competence of the House of Lords, that they were per fectly competent to decide, after her Msjesty had by letters patent created a peer, whether that peer had a right to be received. (Hear, hear.) In the same way I believe that the Howe of Commons can decide whether a member, having taken an oath or declaration is corn peteet to a seat in this house. That, however, not being the question at present, I shall bring in the bill, and endeavour to obtain for it the cons en t o f th e w h o l e Le gielatnre ; but for my pert I will n o t wa i ve th e r i g ht s o f the House of Commons stated by a high legal authority. (dear, hear ) I beg now, Sir, to move that leave be given to bring in a bill to euhetitute one oath for the three now in use, and to relieve by its provisions persons professing the Jewish religion from their present disa bilities. Sir F. THESIGER believe the noble lord under stands that it has been arranged that no opposition shall be offered to the introduction of this bill, the noble lord having engaged not to ask for a second reading until after Christmas,- and I must suggest to such hon. friends an agree with me on this subject, that, considering the various,former bills for the admission of the Jews, it is much more desirable we should wait and see what is the particular measure about to be introduced, in order that we may be enabled the more satisfactorily to deal eith it. I cannot help congratulating the noble lord on his having resumed hie natural position on this ques tion. In 1847, when the noble lord was first returned for the city of London with Baron Rothschild, and when he gave that pledge from the hustings that he would in troduce a measure for the relief of the Jews, the ques tion seemed to belong of right to the noble lord ; but on the lest two occasions on which the question was sub mitted to this house the noble lord has been rather pieced in the backgro un d . I n 1856 , w h e ther it was that the young and zealo us a d vocates f or th e admission of the Jews were diesatiefied with the slowness of the movements of the noble lord I cannot tell, but then Mr. M. Gibson forestalled the noble lord, and such was the ( xuberance of his zeal, that he proceeded to the extremity of deeiring entirely to g e t r id o f the oath of abjuration, and the noble lord's d uty was lim i te d mere ly t o c irrect ieg the zeal of his assoc i ate, by ietro d uc i ng i n comm i t tee an amend:tient by which the oath of abjuration wal preserved. During the last year the noble lord fought under the banner of the noble lord at the head of the Government, but I believe that was mere from policy than humility, for the noble lord was thus enabled to move the whole machinery of Government, and t ) wield all its weight and iefluence in support of his daring pro jeck. The noble lord now appears again in front of the battle on this question, and, I am happy to find is again treading in constitutional paths—(hear, hear)—although not without some Hly glances at those indirect and crooked ways which have been occa3ionally attempted for the purpose of for c i ng t h e J ews i n t o thi s h ouse. The noble lord does not now threaten us with a resolution that shall seat the Jew in defiance of the Howe of Lord., but he has adverted to that which was one of the most, extraordinary schemes that was ever 'submitted to Parliament. The noble lord supposee that there is an act of Parliament which will enable this house, not only in defiance of the House of Lord, but in defiance of the courts of law, in case this bill ehoula not pass, to admit the Jews to seats in the Commons House of Parliament. Now, I must confess that any thing mare extraord inary, to my mind, than the disco very of al act of Parliament which had been overlooked for many years, and which was euppoaed to make a ehort one, an influence member of the Cabinet was allowed to walk out without voting. He hoped that there would be no repetition of that. There could, he maintained, be no greater compliment to the reformations carried some centuries aro than the fullest toleration. cut to the object, could hardly be found in the whole of our parliamentary annals. The noble lord has fully adopted it, but it was to the Attorney-General that the bright idea first occurred that an act ofParlianoent which had hitherto escaped the vigilance of everyone might, in default of legislation, serve the purpose of the noble l o rd. I can imagine the pleasure of the hon. and learned gen tleman when this new light flashed across his eye. I can imagine the haste with which he hurried off to the noble lord, crying "Eureka!" but I hope not exactly in the condition of the person who first used the exclama tion. (A. laugh.) The noble lord has intimated that he may find it necessary to use the discovery of his hon. , and learned friend, and to revert to that ac t o f Perna- l ment on a future occasion, in case he should not succeed in a constitutional manner in obtaining the admission of Jews into Parliament; but I think and hope that the noble lord will pause before be adopts a course which will be accompanied by so much danger, and by the cer tainty of a collision with the courts of justice, in which it is'undoubtedly not very likely that this house will come out of the contest with any great credit. The noble lord fancies he finds a precedent for this course in the proceedings of the House of Lords with respect to the Wensleydale peerage, but surely the noble lerd forgets the important distinction that exists between the two cases. The oaths required by this house and by the House of Lords on ihe admission of a member are im posed by act of Parliament, and there are penalties attached to persons who should attempt to vote with out having previously taken these oaths. Now, if the words, "On the true faith of a Christian," are essentially and substantially part of the oath, as has been frequently decided, not merely by courts of law, but by the determination of the noble lord himself, then the question must come before the courts, and then wo all PUBLIC HEALTH ACT. know how those courts must decide the question. Tee Mr. COWPER then moved for leave to bring in a bill noble lord has adverted to the gentlemen of the legal to amend the Public Health Act. It was the same bill profession who were on the committee, and to the sup- as last session. He trusted it would not meet with the port which they gave to his view of the case, but I have same fate, and that was why he had taken the earliest carefully looked through the list, and I find in the mine- opportunity of introducing it. The bill would enable all rity not one single name of any member who had not for towns, great and small, to acquire, at no considerable a very considerable time been favourable to the admis- cost or difficulty representative government in this mat sion of Jews into Parliament, or who were not recently ter. The suburbs of London had enormously increased, adopted converts, and we all know converts are prover- without any regularity with regard to building, and bially not the most lukewarm supporters of a cause, with provisions with regard to underground drainage. But I turn to the other Rid*, and lam not afraid of poll- The consequence was, that there were ditches in all ing lawyer for lawyer. I find this remarkable distinction directions, which were made the receptacles of thh that amongst the majority are to be found at least five refuse and filth of the houses, thereby creating nr xious members of this house who have been in favour of the vapours to the great injury of the health of the admission of the Jews, and who have yetbeen so satisfied neighbourhood. The bill would meet those evils that the construction of the Attorney-General was not which produced typhus fever, erysipelas, and scrofu the correct one, that they would not allow their wishes lous diseases, including consumption and to influence their opinions, or permit them to force u s cholera. Cholera, especially was to be guarded against into those perilous courses which the noble lord's speech by sanitary regulations, and no stronger instance could has indirectly indicated. Let us now consider the posi- be cited than that of Newcastle and Tynemouth. In the tion in which we stand. The noble lord speaks of religi- latter town precautions had been adopted, while in the ous liberty, and has spoken of our placing the last stone. former they had not been, and the consequence was that on the edifice of freedom of conscience and removing the in 1853 the deaths were 2,000 in Newcastle aeainst four last remnant of religious intolerance. But ifl understand in Tynemouth. Another important subject with regard the proposal of the noble lord, he does not propose to to health was the supply of water. The beneficial effects place the last stone on the edifice of religious liberty. of a pure supply of water had been exhibited, in the Other anti-Christians are excluded by statute, and why southern localities of London, where the public health should not the gates off the temple of religious liberty b e had wonderfully in proved since the improved supply of opened to Mahometans and Hindoos as well as Jews ! water had been given. He trusted that the bill whioh (Hear.) I hear a cheer which I understand to be a cheer he elm - about to introduce would receive the coneidera of approbation, but considering the circumstances that tion and sanction of the house, for great as were the are daily occurring around as, and the hostile feeling to subjects that were coining on for consideration, none Christianity exhibited by Mahometans and Hindoos, it count be more important than that of the public health. certainly does appear to me that the present is not the He therefore begged leave to move for leave to intro. time for us to entertain a proposal of that kind. (Hear, duce the bill. hear.) Of course, with regard to the Jews, I 'anew per- Mr. AYRTON said no opposition would be offered to featly well that whatever meet be the animosity of the any measure of a sanitary character that was constitu- Jews to Christianity, they are not likely to act so etre- tional . in its provision. - No opposition last session cloudy as the Hindoos, or to he guilty of the savage to such measure was given on the ground of its objects, ferocity of the Mahometan, but if his feelings of hos- but on account of the interference with the free action of tility be equally deep is it desirable to give him power, the people. He hoped the present bill would be free by means of a seat in the legislature, "to work in close from objections of this kind, and that no machinery of design, by fraud and guile, what force cannot eflectu- the Privy Council would be introduced. In that case ate?" (Cheers.) In conclusion, the hon. and learned the bill woul I easily pass. gentleman implored the noble lord to pause, and con. Sir A. ELTON hoped that some power would be eider what the consequences would be of the measure he established to reuse the torpor of the local authorities. was then proposing. For his (Sir F. Thesiger's) part Leave was then given to bring in the bill, he was resolved to maintain the position which he had SIR HENRY HAVELOCK. always assumed, and on every st age o f thi s bill to resist On the motion for the second reading of Sir H. Have it to the utmost of his ability. He would do so i ecause lock's Annuity Bill, he believed that by seating the Jew in Parliament he Mr. WILLIAMS said he bad great pleasure in giving should inflict a fatal blow on that Christianity which his sanction to this bill. He was sure the house would was so intimately interwoven with every part of our in- share with him that pleasure. stitutions. (Opposition cheers.) Mr. BOWYER said Sir 11. Havelock bad saved an Mr. DILLWYN supported the introduction of the empire, and what were they going to do I Why, to give measure. him a thousand a year for life. Why, he was being shot Mr. BENTINCK thought the bill ought not to be at forty or fifty times a day ; what, then, was the value introduced, and be was prepared to vote against the of suc h a penSion I There was a rumour that Sir Henry motion. Havelock had been killed. He trusted that rumour was Mr. COX agreed with the hon. gentleman who had nob true. It was usual in such cases to confer a pension just sat down, that proceeding with this measure was a t) be continued ho the successor. As to the baronetcy, farce, because there was no chance of its being success- it must be borne in mind that a similar honour was fre fut. He bad the honour of numbering amongst his cont quently conferred upon gentlemen holding a high muni stituents a large number of gentlemen belonging to the cipal office, and in one case it was conferred on a gentle- Jewish pereuasion, and, in voting for the admission of man who gave a dinner to the Emperor of the French that class of persons to Parliament, he did not think If no one else did it, he (Mr. Bowyer) would move in he was taking a course which e ould tend to unchris- committee that the pension be continued to Sir Henry tianiso the legislature. It had been said by ono gentle- Havelockht son. man, that if they admitted Jews into the legislature they Sir C. NAPIER went further than the hon. gentle might as well admit Hindoos and Mahomedans, but it man. He thought the pension was too small. No more must be remembered that they must be elected by some brilliant services had ever been performed than those of constituency before they could take their seats. (Hear.) Generals Havelock and Wilson. He thought that the He had read in " Pickwick "—(a laugh)—a remark by Government ought.to take the subject again into - their Sam Weller that the game of battledore and shuttlecock consideration. General Havelock was surrounded by was a very amusing and exciting game, but that when it 70,000 men and 300 guns. General Havelock had his happened that you were the shuttlecock, and two law- son with bins serving under him, and this thousand yers battledores, it became very unpleasant. So with a-year was not sufficient for such men. - He thought the the Jew Bill between the two noble lords. He believed services of the army were no t su ffi c i en tly r e w arded. that whatever might be clone with the bill now, it would His gallant relative had fought great battles in India, never pass through the other house, and he protest e d and hiS reward was a rot ribbon. Lately, we had had against the question being again dragged through the peers Mr. NEWDEGATE was sure that if Baron Roths child were to take his seat by resolution, he wo u ld himself too weak far the statute law of the country, which would at once unseat and fine him. This introduc- made—one because he was f a th er -i n -l aw t o a d u k e mire, another because he was so n of a marquis, an d ano th er because he had written a book, (L atee ht er. ) Si r H enry Havelock ought to be made a p eer , as L or d G oug h ae d find others had been. General H ave l oc k h a d f oug ht more battles than were fought in the Peninsula. He (Sir C. tine of the Jew was but a step to the total destruction Napier) would take that opportunity of reading a letter of the Christian character of the Legislature. Toe time which he had received about the conveyance of troops. then reed a letter, giving th e ti me o f cer t a i n vesse l s at, for introducing the bill was most ill chosen, a n d h e was [ glad of it, as it would awaken the attention of the coun• arriving in India, from which it appeared that the steam try to the iniquity of the measure, ere had arrived leng, before the sailing ve eels.] Not', Mr. PEASE held that the forms of Christianity were they were told in the surniaer by the First Lord of the distinct from its principle. The principle of Christia n ity Admiralty, and by the Secretary of the Admiralty, that had no occasion to fear the Jew ; it would be to suspect sailing ships would take troops to India quicker than its power to believe'that the new dispensation would be steamers. He thought the Government were right in not in danger if it met the old. sending troops by way of Suez, but he said they had Mr. I. BUTT, though he had hitherto opposed the made a lamentable mistake in riot n-ine steamers. It admission of the Jews into the house, now felt that such bad been said in the House of Lords that captains in admission would do no damage to the Christianity of that na vy objected to carry troops, but he was convinced house. The Christian character of the nation rested on that no capta;n in the navy would have objected u something better than a phrase in an a ct o f P ar li amen t, in such a case as this. The Duke of W e lli ng t on cou ld Mr. B. STANHOPE said that this question must be have taken 1,200 men, and the fault was riot will the viewed in connection with our rule of India. If we navy, but.with the House of Commons. The cry of re• admitted the Jew to our Legislature, how could we erenchwent had been the cause of the inefficiency of the govern that country on Christian principles ? navy. The navy had been greatly reduced. Let them Mr. D. GRIFFITHS denied that the House of contider what would have been the effect of twelve sail- Commons was a religions assembly. He Should support of-the-line arriving in Calcutta with 12,000 men. He the motion, did not mean to say that Cawnpore would have been Mr. WALTER compared the dread of the admission saved, but Lucknow would have been, and now the next of Jews to the dread of greased cartridges entertained by mail might bring the intelligence that the people shut up the eepoys. The Christianity of the house would no more in that garrison had been sacrificed. He trusted, how be destroyed by the admission of the Jews than that of ever, that General Havelock would not allow the women the country was by allowing the Jews to remain in it. and children to fall into the hands of the savages, but Mr. ADAMS protested against attempting to threaten that he would rather send them all into the fort and blow the house into the admission of the Jews. The period a t them all into the air, and fire the t ra i n hi mse lf. I t was which the question was introduced was most inoppor- his duty to do so. Then, last accounts said that they tune. He deprecated all conflicts between the house and were killing the bullocks, why he (Sir C. Napier) would the judicial bench, which had always resulted hitherto to kill every Hindoo and eat them. He trusted and hoped, the detriment of the house, however, that hatter notes were coming. He trusted Lord J. RUSSELL denied that he was interfaing that the Alinighty,Providence who had already done a reat deal more fo r us th an we h a d done for ourselves, with public business. If he bad interfered with the g Indemnity Bill or with the committee on commercial would still protect the unfortunate creatures, and that distress and issue he could have understood the General Havelock would be able to march out again charge, but there was no other business for teat ni n e t t, and destroy the whole of the savages by whom he was and he did not see how he was to blame. (Hear.) It surrounded. must be recollected that the city of London from 1847 Mr. P. O'BRIEN feared that the discussion had to the present time had elected as their member a gen _ diverged from the legitimate subject before the house. tleman of the Jewish persuasion, and that that question (Hear, hear.) He rose to express the gratitude of had never been finally decided by the house. H e his countrymen for the gallant conduct of the troops thought the citizens of London were entitled to have in 'lndia. (Hear, hear.) It was not in money velue their bill introduced at the very earliest period, but be that the services of such a man es General Havelock had no intention to press i t with undue haste, and b e could be estimated ; but, notwithstanding the eminent readily as:ented to the postponement of the second read- services of that gallant officer, there were other officer , ing until after the recess. The hon. gen tl eman had i n I n di a w h o h a d claims upon the gra tit u de of the coun made a personal observation which was b o y s unnecessary t r y. General Nicholson—(cheers) —had been a coun• and uncivil. He stated that he (Lord .* John Russell) tryman and companion of his own, and it was a source was acting under the influence of a great capitalist, of pride to feel that that gallant general by his admirable evidently pointing at Baron Rothschild. The hon. gen. conduct had won for us the fealty of the Sikh nation, tleman not knowing the history of this question had and had aided Sir John Lawrence in the acquisition of not observed that long before 1847, whenever the ques - the Punjanb. (Hear.) Acquiescing in the justice of the tion was introduced into th a t h ouse b y Sir Robert amendment, be nevertheless regretted that the forms of.l Grant, he (Lord John Russell) always supported the the house would not permit of its being carried into claim of the Jews, and always gave his vote in their execution. (Hear, hear.) favour. The hon, gentleman had omitted likewise to Sir H. VERNEY said that this short debate could notice that so far from his (Lord J. Russell's) election not be without its advantage., if it conveyed to the Go having been favoured by Baron Rothschild, Baron vernrnent the feeling of the Parliament, that the grant Rothschild joined with three other gentlemen at the to Sir H. Havelock should be increased. He suggested last election, and if that coalition had been successful, that the case of Sir H. Havelock was a special one for he (Lord J. Russell) would have been no longer memb er consideration—(hear, hear) —ae there could not be a for the City of London. The people, however, stood by doubt that the services of officers who moved large him ; and he was g r a t e f u l t o th em. H e was under obli. bodies of men in the field d eserved a innr e signal recog gations on that occasion neither to Baron Rothschild nor nition than those of other officers,. .(Hear, hear.) He the princely merchants, but to the people, who stood by reconsider ns i Government dehrth eiorf i si n , e c o i r s d i o e n r that. Thetle him when he was attacked. The hon. gentleman's his- throw t t l i l l i e s n h t in i e n o ig u h t t to Govern tory was also very inaccurate. The honourable gentle epaargteof the' H. Government iiayel°ci a la m rg a : n n , o t a f h n t e d although he approved man the member for North Warwickshire said that he proposed o t s h e e d pensionreverse (Lord J. Russell) intended that Christianity should be caution in such matters generally expressed no longer acknowledged in that house as thebasis of the as a general rule, he hoped her Majesty's Ministers constitution, and that he wished to destroy the Chris resent distinction was (Hear, h r th ea . tianinity of the Legelature. He (Lord J. Russell) ter- wwis h oul d o f takethe into consideration ) e i e arch. (Hear, hoar.) tainly said, with regard to the form of this bill, quoting beers h ge a rir t a greater r p the words of Mr. Canning, he was not bound to that secu rity ; but, with regard to the general principle, he had An observation had . e . made t , an hon, and gallant only an t e i L in l s Y tal l i t n o en e t d o always maintained that our Christianity would ' not be could not allow to rin,a"snsibuenrn°o'tiriceod.h.lN4Tl:leileeci:ihtwolil:.ichh:,,indhegallaiit wencher sail book," ~e orif, reed on a man destroyed, but that it would give a more strik ng proof of our oliristiarity by knockin down these bar- - that a peerage l a; trail recently a Y riers which intercepted the passage of the Jew to that " because he 1 1 that a * (a'"r.) He (la r. house, tha n by maintaining thorn as they stood. lie had Clay) thought i very illiberal sentiment. (Bear,) it The House of Commons had often been el • always put this question, and he could not see how enlightened by and delighted with the talents could be answered—do you acknowledge this to be a 01: 1U 8 1:18a of Baron Christian nation ? There are 40,000 Jews in it, and if Macaulay—(cheers)—and t he believed her Majesty had those 40,000 Jews prevent this being a Christian nat i on, never acted mo re its uis i eon with the feelings of her you are n o t a Christian nation. I ask you, then, if those people than when she raised that distinguished man to 40,000 do not unchristianize the nation , how can one or the peerage. two Jews in Parliament make it an unchristian p ar e a . Captain SCOTT bore warm testimony to the services ment ? To that argument lie had never heent an answer lof General llaveleck, and e xprested clhsgemintreent at ' • • did he think an answer could be given. What the iiieileo (tatty of the re wirl i ' given, nor Isotowed !loon him— lo oath which Leal , Mean) The i• 1 'le of her Horsy ' ' ' ' .' he bail always raid was, that I„ 1 . al ii i ha- Heery Havelock aas not Belingbrolte or Mr. Gibbon took at that t a bl e cou ld i r i ch—(hem-)—hi., son was ileeendant for support on his make them a Christian legis l a ture, but it de p end ed Papay,and on hie a ce es i on to the tit'e ho would most on the sentiments of the member e, They c'nld not likely fled hialteli hall , p re I with it for the want of enforce Christian principles by acts of Parliament. sufficient menes. gear,( ). He had only further to say, that in case there were Sir F. SMITH said that nothing could exceed the no other constitutional mode left. he should thi n k it conduct of the gahantgeneral in question, who was an right to bring the subject under the consideration of the honour to the Briti-h nation and he earnestly hoped house on that question on deuce the Attorney-General that the Government consist the clearly expressed had formed a decided opinme, as he thought it was a f eelings ofathhouse would .. dealing with his oute and the nation in matter of such grave ituportanee that Some decision I 1 • in • c mine a liberal spirit, (EL,ar.) should be come to upon it. Mi RIC/3.ARDe t ON also thought the proposed pen . Mr. CONINGHA. el alarge said he represented • * con- Simon inadequate, as a recognition for such brilliant stituericy, and their opinions were most decided! with services as thosewhich had been performed by the tile noble ln.d. He begged leave to tell the Go r- Y II ' sernment ,ga nut gen e ra l . • to be • that their conduct, in this cint,,tion weult be 3 narrowly 1 Tee bill was then read a second time, committed watched by the public, ceptchilly when it • was remeirs this day. bored that last session the reueetiu a, not b • edi g a Cabinet The house then adjourned at eight o'clock, NEWDEGATE explained that he had never dis• putod that the majority in that how would be Chris tian, but he did not maintain that the introduction of Baron Rothschild or any other Jew would violate the Christian.character of the house. Mr. BhNTINCK explained. The noble lord had said that he (Mr. Bentinch) had accused him of acting from a pressure from without, which could not be the case, as he had brought a similar measure forward on a former occasion. What he had said was, that the mea sure was brought forward at a time and under circum stances which made it irregular, and therefore it looked as though it was in consequence of a pressure from with out. Mr. STEWART said the argument about the Jews having been the depositories of the sacred writing might with equal force be applied to the monks, in favour of admitting the bishops of Rome into that house. Giving a Jew political rights did not make him an Englishman. Ile had a distinctive character, and, as had been said elsewhere, he looked to the future as a consolation for the present—to a greater exodus than that out of E;ypt. The hoax. member for Brighton had said that the Go vernment would 133 narrowly watched upon this subject. Now no question at the last election excited so little attention as this. The motion was then agreed to, the house resumed, the Chairman reported the resolation, and the bill was ordered to be brought in. REFOR,I , I OF THE CORPORATION OF LONDON. In answer to a question from Sir D. L. EVANS, Sir G. GREY said he intended to bring in a bill for the reformation of the Corporation of London imme diately after the recess. (Cheers.) THE KING OF DELHI. Mr. HORSMAN inquired upon whose authority the life of the King of Delhi was saved ? (Hear, hear.) Mr. V. SMITH said that if it was proved on the trial of the King of Delhi he was not implicated in the rebel lion, his life would be spared. He would then be sent to Allahabad, and afterwards cut of the country. Captain Hodson found that he could not capture bun without making the promise he had, and under that promise it was impossible for the Government to do otherwise than abide by it. (Hear, hear.) EDUCATION. Sir J. PAKINGTON gave notice that on an early day after the recess he intended to move a committee for inquiry into the present state of education in Eng land. (Hear, hear.) TELEGRAM FROM INDIA. Mr. S, WARREN a.ked it any additional telegram had been received from India, and to what purport ? Mr. V. SMITH—OnIy that published in all the papere. Colonel KNOX :asked which was correct. Two had been publi6hed, one stating that when Gen. Cainpbell crossed the Ganges on the 10th, it was with 1,500 men, and the other was the 9th, and with 5,000 men. (Hear, hear.) He wished to know which was correct. Mr. SMITH said he was only answerable for the in formation received by the Government. Mistakes, how ever, might arise in figures in transmission. PURCHASE IN TOE ARMY. Sir DE LACY EVANS gave notice that, early after the recess, he sh.Juld call the attention of the house to purchase in the army. (Rear, hear.) MEDICAL CHARITIES (IRELAND) BILL. SUPPLY—DR. LIVINGSTONE. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER in moving a postponement of the Committee of Supply said that it was proposed by the government to devote a sum of money to Dr. Livingstone to prosecute his discoveries in Africa and especially the Zl.mbesee river, believing it might lead to important commercial consideration, as it was a district likely to produce cotton. (Hear.) As it was not in tended to take votes in supply before the recess, he asked permission of Parliament to allow GovernMent to advance 5001. out of the Civil Contin gencies, and take a discussion on it when it came on in proper order. The reason for so doing was that if Dr. Livingstone did not start in January,. the expedition would be delayed another year.—Agreed to. THE ADJOURNMENT OF THE HOUSE. Lard PALMERSTON said that as the course Government wished to pursue was not to keep the Homo sitting after to-morrow, it was not his intention to move the adjournment of the house till Monday, if the debate on the motion for appointing the Bank committee was agreed to to night. (Hear ) The house would then meet to-morrow for the royal assent to the Indemnity Bill, and adjourn for the holidays till Thursday, 4th February. GENERAL .11AVELOCIC3 PENSION. Lord PA LMERSTON said that the Government, in accordance with the wish of the house, would grant the pension to General Havelock for two lives. That would entail on the house the necessity of passing another resolution on which to found another bill, and that would be deferred till after the recess. (flear, hear.) SENDING TROOPS TM:Z.OI7GB. EGYPT. In reply to an observation from Mr. J. FITZGERALD, Mr. V. SMITE' repeated Lord Palmerston's eta.te ment of last night relative to the diffioullies and dangers of sending troops through Egypt in June last, and added tbat if the Governm mt had done so they would have been guilty of impeachment. Sir J. PAKINGTON rose and addressed the house on the subject, and was (LEFT SP EAKIN G.) LONDON GAZETTE —{This Evening.) ST. JAMES'S PALACE, DEC. 8 The Qaeen has been pleased to ap: oint the Hon. Spencer Cecil Biabazen Ponsonby to be Comptroller of Accounts in the Lord Chamberlain's Department, and Extra Gentle man Usher to Her Majesty. DOWNING STREET, DEC. 8. The Queen has been pleased to appoint William Henry Pinder, Esq., to be Police Magistrate for the District of Long Island, and George lass, Esq., to be Police Magistrate for the District of Abaco, in the Bahama Islands ; Thomas Owen, Esq., to be Inspector of Schools in the Island of Antigua; Robert Bradshaw, Esq., to be a Member of the Council of the Colony of Sierra Leone during the absence of the Queen's Advocate ; and Thomas Chown, Esq., to be a Member of the Legislative Council of her Majesty's Settlements iu the Gambia. CROWN-OFFICE, DEC. 10. MEMBERS RETURNED TO SERVE IN THE PRESENT PARLI i MENT. Borough of Thetford--Alexauder Hugh Baring, of Buck enham, in the county of Norfolk, Esq., in the room of the Honourable Francis Baring, who has accepted the office of Steward of her Majesty's Chiltern Hundreds. Borough of Harwich—Robert John Bagshaw, of Dover court, in the county of Essex, Esq , in the room of George Drought Warburton, Esq., deceased. DECEMBER 11. County of Kent, Eastern Division.—William Deedes, of Sandhog Park, in the county of Kent, Esq., in the room of Sir Edward Cholrnley Daring, Bart., who has accepted the office of Steward of Her Majesty's Manor of North stead. BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, DEC. 11. The Right Honourablo the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade and Plantations have received, through the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy of a despatch from her Majesty's Ambassador at Paris, enclosing copy of a French Imperial Decree, opening the Custom-house of Caen, in the department Calvados, for the importation of machinery and mechanical implements, either complete or in detached pieces, also opening the port of Caen as an entrepot for prohibited merchandise of all BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, Dile. 11. The Right Honourable the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade and Plantations have received, through the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy of a Despatch from her Majesty's Consul-General at Algiers, enclosing copy of a French Imperial Decree, re pealing the Decree of the 20th September, 18.56, and 2d October, 1857, prohibiting the exportation of wheat and barley from Algeria. WAR OFFICE, PALL-MALL, DEO. 11. 4th Regiment of Dragoon Guards—Lieut. Daniel P. Webb to be Captain, by purchase, vice T. M. Clarke, who re tires ; Cornet Edward P. Baumgarten to be Lieutenant, vice Webb ; Henry E. Bridges, Gent., to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Baumgarten. sth Dragoon Guards--William J. Scarlett, Gent. to be Cornet, without purchase, vice Balders, promoted. 7th Dragoon Guards—Captain N ew t on Charlesi Chichester, from the 3d Light Dragoons, to be Captain, vice Dettmar, who exchanges. Ist Dragoons—Lieutenant Henry F, George Coleman to be Captain, by purchase, vice Davenport, who retires ; Cornet F. Radford to be Lieutenant, by pur chase, - vice Coleman. 3d Light Dragoons—Captain Montague Dettmar, from the 7th Dragoon Guards, to be Captain, vice Chichester, • who exchanges. 12th Light Dragoons—Cornet J. H. Randall Stoddart to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Hodgson, pro moted in the Bth Li g ht D ragoons; C ornet Samuel Adams to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice 'White, promoted ; James Henry Bourdieu Vaughan, Gent., to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Adams. 14th Light Dragoons—Cornet Wm. H. S. Beamish to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Gordon, promoted. 16th Light Dragoons—Lieutenant James Christine Hart to be Captain, by purchase, vice Severne, who retires ; Cornet Arthur John Armstrong to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Hart ; James Henry Corballis, Gent., to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Armstrong. Ist Regiment cf Foot—Alfred Moberly, Gent., to be En sign, without purchase, vice Dixon, whose appointment, as stated in the Gazette of 17th ult., has been cancelled. 6th Foot—Robert W. Macleod Fraser, Esq., late Major, 6th Foot, having raised abattalion!of 1,000 rank and file, to be Lieutenant-Colonel, without purchase. To be Ensigns, without purchase—Daniel Colin Campb e ll, Gent. ; William Neal, Gent. ; Albert Henry Harrison, Gent. 7th Foot—The promotion of Lieutenant W. M. G. Keats, from the 81th Foot, as stated in the Gazette of Gth has been cancelled. Bth Foot—To be Lieutenants, without purchase—Ensign Andrew Moynihan, vi ce William Robert Webb, died of wounds ; Ensign William Edward Whelan, vice Pogson, died of wounds ; Ensign Willi am Ed gewo rth, v i ce Whelan, whose promotion, on 23d October, 1857, has been cancelled ; Ensign R. T. B. Browne, vice Corry, promoted; Ensign Edward Tanner. To be Ensigns, without purcha , e—Arundel Bill Cotter, Gent., vice Moynihan ; Philip Homer Page, Gent., vice Tanner ; John Geor:to grown, Gent.. vice Edgeworth. 9th Foot — Brevet-Colonel William Graham, froin half pay 'Unattached, to be Captain, vice Cox, appointed ro ; t n he , , ta s l 3:l t. Foot ; Lieutenant J. B. Taylor to be Cap tgictu: r a ! sa , , b eie purchase, ,Jihacaemic r cvicege Johnston,Gr h am , who retires ; Assistant 10th Foot_SEu,nrißgionitn, ti t h i n c ß e teg M 3iri eadows, appointed to the from the Staff, to be 53d Fool-- Liautevigensinitehnal Regiment. Lieutenant, by pur- Gent. to b 0 e ztl t on , l2 ,w p h u o rc r h e a t s ir e e , s v ; ice T ß he a o u p . hilus Scott, Luck to be Captain, with out purchase, James Winsmore Corrield to deceased ; c h ase , vice Buck, whose p r) em e ol a e i n jta o i n n ' 3 w o " O ouu c t t te : P b au e n r t Ensign Robert Holt Truell 1857, has been cancelled ; to he Lieutenant, ithout purchaae vice Buck; John Charlesßell, Gent., to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Truell. 71st Foot—Lieut. Charles George Wingfield has been per mitted to retire from the Service by the sale of his Com mission ; Assistant-Surgeon W. Pirrie, M.D., from the Staff, to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice M`Neece, who re signs. The second Christian name of Ensign Musgrave, appointed on 17th ult., is Courtenay. 75th Foot—Lieut. W. J. J. Smith to be Captain, without purchase, vice Chancellor, died of his wounds ; Ensign Montague C. Morris to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Fitz Gerald, killed in action ; Ensign Henry O'Brien, from the 48th Foot, to be Ensign, vice Morris. 84th Foot—Brevet-Major W. Justin MacCarthy to be Major, without purchase, vice West, retired on full pay; Lieut. Wm. M'G. Keats to be Captain, without pur chase, vice MacCarthy ; Ensign Robert Fraser Humph rey to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Saunders, killed in action ; Wm. Chas. Driberg, Gent., to be En sign, without purchase, vice Humphrey. 97th Foot—Ensign Frederick W. Parker to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Aylmer, who retires; Henry Chaw pante Crespin, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Parker. 99th Foot—Ensign George Clayton to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Ely, promoted ; Charles Coates, Gent„ to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Clayton. Ist West India Regiment—Staff-Surgeon of the Second Class Thomas Moore Sunter, M. 8., from half-pay, to be Surgeon, vice Daniell, appointed to the Staff. Royal Canadian Rifle Regiment—Assistant-Surgeon Robert Wyatt Meadows, from the 9th Foot, to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Kingdom, promoted on the Staff. Gold Coast Artillery Corps—Charles Francis Herbert Lloyd, Gent.,..to be Ensign, vice Thompson, promoted. COMMISSARIAT DEPARTMENT. Commissariat Clerk Charles Das is O'Connor to be a Deputy-Assistant Commissary-General. HOSPITAL STAFF. Staff-Surgeon of the Second Class Wellington Poole, from half-pay, to be Staff-Surgeon of the Second Class. For James Jameson, M.D., to ba Assistant-Surgeon, vice Cruice, appointed to the 86th Foot, which appeared in the Gazette of the 27th nit.,—read Jas. Jameson, M.D., to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Cruice, appointed to the 84th Foot. BREVET. ElLient.-Colonel Alfred H. Horaford, C. 8., of the 'Rifle Brigade, having completed three years' service in the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel on 23th September, 1857, to be Colonel in the Army, under the Royal Warrant of Gth October, 1851. Lieutenant-Colonel Gilbert John Lane Buchanan, of the Royal Artillery, having completed three years' service in the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, to be Colonel in the Army, under the Royal Warrant of 3.1 November, 1854. Captain and Brevet-Major Vincent Eyre, of the Bengal Artillery, to be promoted to the rank of Lieut.-Colonel in the Army. Second Lieutenant George Grant Gordon, of the Bengal Artillery, doing duty at the East India Company's Depot, at Warley (vice Arbuckle, resigned), to hare the local rank of Lieutenant while so employed. ADMIRALTY, DEC. 8. In pursuance of her Majesty's pleasure, Admiral of the Red Sir Charles Ogle, Bart., has this day been promoted to be Admiral of the Fleet ; and, in consequence thereof, the following promotions, also dated this day, have taken place : Admiral of the White the Right Hon. Thomas, Earl of Dundonald, G.C.8., to be Admiral of the Red. Admiral of the Blue Sir Thomas J. Cochran; K.C.8., to be Admiral of the White. ►'ice-Admiral of the Red Sir James W. D. Dundag, G.C.8., to be Admiral of the Blue. Vice:Admiralof the White Sir Augustus William James Clifford, Bart„ C. 8., to be Vice-Admiral of the Red. Vice-Admiral of tho Blue Francis Erskine Loch to be Vice-Admiral of tho White. Rear-Admiral Sir George Tyler, Knt., K.H., on the Reserved List, to be a Vice-Admiral on the Reserved List. Rear-Admiral of the Red Sir Thomas Herbert, K.C.8., to be Vice-Admiral of the Blue. Rear-Admiral of the White George William Conway Courtenay to be Rear-Admiral of the Red. Rear-Admiral of the Blue Henry Wolsey Bayfield to be Rear-Admiral of the White. Captain William Ramsay, C. 8., to be Rear-Admiral of the Blue. COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY LORD SLIEUTENANT. Ist Devon Regiment of Militia—John Reed Bowling to be Ensig❑. 12d Devon Regiment of Militia—Arthur Leroux Whipple to be Ensign, vice Whitloeke, resigned. Devon Militia Artillery—Charles Blandford. Crease to be Second Lieutenant. Royal Wiltshire Militia—Musgrave Wroughton Ander son, Gent., to be Ensign, vice Pocock, promoted. Leicestershire Militia—Henry Moody, Gent., to be Lieutenant; Arthur Dixon Rawlins, Gent., to be Ensign. Ist Regiment of Derbyshire Militia—John William. Thomas Locke, Gent., to be Captain, vice Milnes, re signed. BANKRUPTS. Thoma 3 Tyrrell, factor, Tonbriclgo, Kent, to anrren,lcr Dec. 2, at eleven, and Jan. 21, at ono, at the Court of Bankruptcy. George fia,mit, machine maker, Haddenham, Cambridge. shire, Jan. t , at twelva, and Jan. 19, at half-past twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. f„.George Carnm, grocer, Sheffield, Jan. 2, and 3:), at ten, at the Council Hall, Sheffield. George Morton, farmer, Hope, Derbyshire, Jan. 2, and 30, at ton, at the Council Hall Sheffield. Thomas Wolf, corn chandler, Wellington-street, Wool wich, Dec. 23, at eleven, and Jan. 27, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Wm. Baker and Lucy S. Baker, milliners, Church street, Camberwell, Dec. 23, at twelve, and Jan. 27, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Thea. M. Pritchard and Thos. Higginson, rice mer chants, Liverpool, Dec. 29, at eleven, and Jan. 19, at twelve, at the Liverpool District Court. Thos. E. Pickford, commission agent, Manchester, Dec. 23 and Jan. 25, at twelve, at, the Manchester District Court. Edward Horton, grocer , Well-street, South Hackney, Dec. 22 sad Jan. 19, a t half-past 2, at the Court of Bank ruptcy. Charles Middleton, builder, Upper North-street, Poplar, Dec. 22 and Jan. 19, at 1, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Thomas Robinson, ironmonger, Manchester, Dec. 21 and Jan. 20, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court. Samuel Rhodes and John Armstrong, cotton manufac turers, Tintwistle, county of Chester, Dec. 23 and Jan. 18, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court. James Law, shoemaker, Halifax, Dec. 31 and Jan. 29, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court. David Roberts, spinner, Halifax, Dec. 31 and Jan. 22, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court. Edward Jones, timber merchant, Welshfrankton, Dec. 24, and Jan. 16, at half-past eleven, at the Birmingham District Court. Rupert Allport, butcher, Stafford, Doc. 23, and Jan. 13, at half past ten, at the Birmingham District Court. John Vigrass, timber merchant, Walsall, Staffordshire, Dec. 23 and Jan. 1:3, at half-past ten, at the Birmingham District Court. Elizabeth sviunerton, victualler, Stoke-upon-Trent, Staffordshire, Dec. 24 and Jan. 16, at half-past eleven, at the Birmiugham District Court. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS. James Stark, grocer, Pollockshaws. John Dott, joiner, Kinguasie. Robert Stewart and Son, merchants, Glasgow. William Bennet, fleFler, Perth. James Watson, painter, Glasgow. Wm. Boyack, flasspinner, Dundee. Alexander Leask, merchant, Dundee. Duncan Weier, and Co., merchants, Greenock. Bachap Yuil, anti Co., ca,lico-printers, Springbank Printworks, Neilston. James Donald and Sons, flaxspinners and manufacturers, Dundee. BANK OF ENGLAND. An Account, pursuant to the Act the Week ending' on Weinesday, : 7th and Bth Victoria, cap. 32, for the 9th day of Dec,iniber, 1857. ..ARTMENT. Government debt • • • • 11,015,100 Other securities .... 5,459,900 Gold coin and bullion 7,563,255 Slyer bullion.••• .Z 21, 0 ,13,255 M. MARSHALL, Ch!ef Cashier. ;r, 1857. lEPAIITHENT. Government securities (includ.:.DeadWeight Annuity).. -• ...... 5 ,434,022 Other Securities...... 30,111,185 No:es ..... ......... 3,900,485 Gold an t Silver Coln.. 531,2,34 £39,916,926 sunitun, znaciCa3hier. ISdUE DEP. Notes Issued . 21,043,255 N.B. Of which two millions are issued un der the authot:ty of the letter from the First Lord of the Trea sury and the Chancel lor of the Exchequer. £24,0.13,255 Dated the 10th day of December BANKING Di Proprietors' capital 14,x53,000 Rest • Public deposits (in- eluding E xeltegaer, ComenissioJers of N ational Debt, Sav ing.,' Banks, and Dividend Accounts) 6,648,052 Other deposits Seven Day and other Bills .. ... 811,222 £39,910,920 Dated the 10th clay of Dec., 18.7,' AVERAGE PRICE OF SUGAR. The Average Price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, com puted from the returns made in the week ending Dec. 8, 1857, exclusive of the Duties of Customs pail cr . _ payable thereon, on the importation thereof into Great Britain : s. d. From the British Possessions in America 2,3 34 Muscovado, the produce of the Mauritius... . .. l7 4 Average of the above descriptions. COURSE OF EXCHANGE.- THIS DAY. isterjaln•• •• •• ... 11 18% Gibraltar .••• ....... Ditto, three months .. 12 3' aotterdarEl •••••••• •• .• 12 3 Antwerp .............. 25 85 Naples •• ....... . 41% Palermo .........• , 1234 Messina . .... 1234 Llsboa ....... ... 613 i Oporto .......... Rio Janeiro ..... .•• • ... ••••• Bllenos Ayres.... ....., •• New York ,60 days' sight Vienna .• •• •• .• •• •• •• •• I i 12 Philadolpilia •. •• ...... ••••• Trieste.. •••••••••••••. 11 14 PRICES or suratori, TER oz: iatahOrli •. •• •• •••• •• • • 30 65 Genoa Milan •••••••••••••••• Brussels •• •• •• •• •• •• •• 25 A 5 liamburgh •••••••••••• 13 13% Altcna ............•••• . Paris. ......• 25 43 Do. three months . •• 26 Marselins ............26 5 Bourkleaux •••••••••••• Frankfort-on-Mahle••.. 122 Berlin •• •• •• •• •• •• •• Petersburg .........• 33 1 4 Foreign hold In 13a...4.£3 17 9 Madrid ............... 4714 Portugal tiold Coin 0 0 0 Cadiz ................ 48 Mexican Duilari 0 5 tlf, New Dollart 0 0 0 5evi11e...... •• . . in barl . 0 5 2% The dollars brought by the Mixican packet were sold yesterday at 601 d., and the bar silver at 621 d. per cz., being an advance of id. on each description beyond the rates ob•aiued for the preceding packet. At the begin ning of List week the price of bar silver had receded to 61 Id., when the state of aff.tirs in Hamburg gave rise to a rudden.demand from that place, which, coupled with the orders for the next Indian mail, has caused a rapid advance to the prices now given. The North British. Daily _Mail states that a branch of the National Bask of Scotland is to be opened at Ayr to-day on the p: emises of the Western Bank. [ADVERTISEMENT.] KIDNEYS, BLADDER, &C, Second Edition, Price 2s.—Practical information on the origin of Diabetes, Alburninuria, or Bright's disease, and certain other chronic affections of the Kidneys and Bladder in both sexes their connection with the Stomach and Liver, and only successful mode of curs By Dr. Denis Cronin, 35, Bruton-street, Berkeley square. —" A very able work upon diseases affecting a large portion _of the population."—Weekly News. Smith and Co. 52, Long-acre. THE LEVIATHAN. Since the efforts to move this vessel were brought to an'abrupt close by the fog of Tuesday, the whole of the hydraulic machines employed have been moved up close to the ship's cradles, so as to exert their force through a very short interval and save the loss of power occasioned by their being at a dis tance from the ship. Early yesterday morning they were all set to work again, and, after a considei able delay and after their pressure had been exerted to the very utmost, a short slip of 14 inches aft and 13 inches forward was effected, but beyond this trifling distance it was found Melva sible to move the ship. In the subsequent efforts which were made the mooring tackle wbich hauls the stern towards the river, and which (with simila r tackle at the stern) is now mainly depended on far keeping her in motion when once the rains have started her gave way without breaking, and the anchors which held it began to " come home." T hia defection of so important a part of the apparatus was final, and after a short consultation Mr. Bru nel determined to give up further efforts until to-neer row (Saturday) morning, or until such time a s a firm, unyielding holdfast can be obtained for t he moorings in the river. Since the launch was first be g un these riv er moorings have been an insurmountable impedime nt to anything like rapid progress. At the commence ment they were net in great request, but now their services are absolutely essential, and, of course, when just most wanted their break-down becomes most difficult to meet. The reasons which render them of such importance now is that the Leviathan has hitherto been moving on an incline of one foot in ten, but from the present and untie she reaches the water the " ways" over which she has to travel only slope at an inclination of one in twelve. For the future, therefore, it will require a greater force to start her, and a greater strain to keep her in motion for five or six feet at a time. It is only bee hauling on the river moorings that a continuous strain of this kind can be exerted, for the hydrau lic pressure, of course, ceases the instant the vessel yields an inch. For this purpose anchors of all sorts and sizes have been laid down right across the river to hold the moorings from which the strain is exerted. As each of these in turn proved ineffec tive, others were resorted to, until last week it large anchor of Trotman's patent was laid down to . secure the moorings at the stem, and anchor at the stern. The former still holds, though in such un favourable ground as to make it doubtful whether it will bear the required strain, but the ground where the latter was cast is such a peculiar kind; of dense concrete that a pickaxe sc trcely makes any impression on it, and all attempts even to drive. piles into it have failed. Into this gravelly mas s , even Trotman's anchbr has been unable to pe ns- ' trate more than a foot or so, and it has been at last decided to give up either faith or hope in anchors altogether, and drive piles--for the stem tackle i n the wharf c f Messrs. Humphrys at the other side of the river, and for the stern in the loose gravelly soil ' on the river's bank, near the Watergate Ferry, !; Deptford. With the strain which these piles wue enable the tackle to put on the Leviathan it is con- lid.ently hoped that at every start she will be kept' in motion fee five or six feet at a time. Should this prove so, of course this most lingering of all launches will soon be over. We must, however, own we are not sanguine as to su c h i mme di a te results, a nd much fear that now that the vessel, is on a s li g hter incline its rate of progress will be even slower than heretofore. The total distance it has alreeelYacceen plished is 104 feet 6 inches forward and 96 feet inch aft. To-morrow will be the earliest date at which operations can be resumed. CRYSTAL PALACE COMP,AIV Y. REPORT OF THE DIRECTORS. The report of the direcors of the above company to the extraordinary meeting of shareholders to be held oil Telursday next, states that the directors have given their careful consideration to the subject of the year's working from the Ist of May last to the 30th of April, 18 58, and from the best opinion they can form, they believe that the whdeaccounts, when made up to the 3 0 th Ap ril next, will show a surplus of from 10,0001. to 12,0001. to the credit of the revenue accounts, after deducting inte rest on all borrowed money and debenture stock, and a . year's dividend on the 7 per cent. preference shares. This result bas been arrived at from an actual balance of the company's books for the first six months (namely, to Oct. 31 last) ; and for the remaining six months, from an estimate based on the assumption that the receipts will equal those during the corresponding period of last year, and that the ordinary expenditure during this period will be kept on the scale to which it has been already reduced, a scale which the directors believe is about as low as can be established consistently with the si pres e rvation and protection of the company's property. It will be satisfactory to the shareholders to k now — as eshowingending od _ t c h t. a tha t3tlth:a them attractionso amount grosst to9rBe, receipts p t 7t h ls. e lfo P 7s a r. la t c hecontinueex months un impaired—that n i e a sum equal to the receipts for the corresponding period of last year. The directors submit, as a plan for reducing the capital of the c itnpany, that in respect of every ordinary and preference share which shall be agreed to be extinguished in terms of the 11th section of the company's act a ticket shall be issued to the proprietor of such share, • entitling him to a certain number of gratuitous admix- • sions to the palace arid grounds on all ordinary is. days, , • the ticket to be available without the necessity of 'the proprietor's personal presence. It may be lent, and may be used by a party of persons of any number at a time, provided the number does not exceed that of the admies sions still due to the ticket. Great facilities will thus be afforded to families and other visitors desirous to come in parties, and all the advantages given which could result from " family tickets." It is proposed that the right to use the tickets shall not extend beyond three years from thsir issue. It is thought that 60 admi sions for an or dinary share, and 120 admissions for a preference share, will be a fair number to be adopted for the first issue; and it is propo-ed that a list shalt be at once opened, and kept open say bill the let February, 1858, after which the directors shall have the power of recon sidering the terms on which any further issue shall take s d i t n h g a t a d a m r i e s s s o i l o ;u t P it " o . the The b odai r r d e c to shallors further s e r d e c , o a m u t m b e o n r by these tickets to the palace an d g rounds on S as a gratuitous afternoons after half-past one o'clock, - iTclay privilege, and without any money payment to be made directly or indirectly to the company for such privilege, the number of persons admitted by each ticket being, . however, recorded upon it. In conclusion, the directors say, that they have bad under their serious consideration the generally expressed wish of the shareholder, that the future policy of the ,company should be based on the mo-t economical plan of expenditure, and that any at tractions beyond the permanent ones of the Palace itself should be framed on as economical a scale as possible, and with a view to attracting large numbers of people • rather than a comparatively small number at high prices. In approaching the close consideration of this very im portant question, it appeared that Mr. Fergusson, the general manager, did not see his way to the adoption . of Ithe suggested line of policy, and expressed his that, if carried out, the result would be prejudicial to the general interests of the company. Under these cirs cuuistancee, he thought it his duty to tender his resigna tion to the board, which they accepted, deeply regretting that any circumstances should in Mr. Fcrgusson's judgment have occurred to tender this step necessary. Mr. Fergusson has kindly consented to continue to give the company the benefit of his assistance until the board of directors (now to be reinforced) shall have an opportunity of making suitable arrangements. The directors have made, a careful . reduction in the expen diture for the winter mouths, and they hope to be able to extend this principle to the whole of the year without impairing the real efficiency of the establishment. They have also been giving their attention to the organisation of a general programme for next year, and in the mean time have concluded arrangements for a sere 3 of juvenile.' fetes for the Christmas holidays, of a popular and expres , eivefeharacter, particulars of which will very shortly be announced. The substance of the remarks of the clii•ectors relative to the debenture stock, and the necessity that a very considerable additional amount of the stock should be forthwith taken up by the shareholders, appeared in our report of the shareholders' meeting on Wednesday last. The directors observe that the capital account of the company has been practically closed for some time past, and there has been no addition made to the amount of debt shown by the b a l ance - s h ee t su b m i tte d to t h e meet ingin June last, and which will be absorbed when the debenture stock shall have been fully taken up. The annual receipts will cover the interest on the debenture stock, and the properly of the company over which it will form the first charge is ;ve uprde of 200 acres of freehold land, with a plant and ' works upon its i n addition to the building s o f th e Palace, n w ith the greater portion of th e i r va l ua bl e contents, an aroun t.of prop ert y in the ag g r ega t e w hi c h t h e d i rectors think it only rea eotiable to assum e cou ld no t un d er any c ircumstanc es realise less th an h a lf a m illi on o f money. BIRTHS. COOKBON 011 the 9th inst., in Harley-street ) Go wife of C • Cookson, Esq., of a daughter. HEwErr-- On the 10th inst., at 35, Itertford•streot, MaYfa ir, the wife of Prescott Hewett, Esq., of a daughter. PILKINTTON—On the 9th inst., at Chevet, Lady M. Swinnortou Pilkington, of a son. MARR IA GES. Nicks —FARRINGTON -On the Pill inst., by license, at Saint Celeman-street, Thom as J o h n Ni c k s , Esq., of 1 Coleman.street, 21, Mark-lane, and L ea bridge-road, 4,i Caroline, fourth daughter of the late Joseph Farriugton, Eq., 01 Spital-square, DEATHS. C.MTER —On the 7th inst., at llarringay Villas, Green-la's.Tottenham, Henry Carter, Esq., aged 79. FONNEREAU - -On the Bth inst., P. Founerean, Esq., of 1t°914 dlcshain House, - Upper Avenue-road Regent's-park. -On the Bth inst., suddenly, at Mickley Par 6 ° ll3 g ° 9 near itipon, Yorkshire, thii Rev. John Walker Harris"' aged 68. IlAcx.AuGuT—On the Bth inst , at Veutnor, Isle or W i g ht ' A. Maeuau,ht iron merchant,. London, aged 3EL.......„! LONDON: Printed and Published by MIIRDO YOUN9, of No, 112, Strand,. P r i n t er , at The Sun Onion, 14 °' U 2, Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the conatl of Ikliddlosex, Friday, Deoeruber 11, 1857.