The Sun. — London, England, 1847-04-13 00:00:00

THE IRISH CHARACTER. The dis'.nal monotony of our Irish intelligence is lagreeably relieved this morning by a very unexpected novelty. It is absolutely startling in its extraordinary singularity. A Roman Catholic clergyman, in a discourse from the pulpit, is reported to have lectured his Hock upon their ignorance and indolence. His language is 'nothing short of high treason against the Irish character : Interested and designing knaves," says this apostle sof truth, " have told you you were the finest peasantry s ea earth ; those who told you so were impostors. You etre a patient people, warm-hearted and religious ; but Dtou are an unenlightened people, not half educated, and every few degrees removed from barbarism. . The gime is arrived when you must help yourselves, and the first step to that is to till the ground. . . . Sympa thising nations feel your sufferings, and are ready to as sist you. But if you do not shake off this apathy, this torpor, which seems to be taking possession of your very souls, and do all in y our p ower to produce foo d for the nest year, instead of exciting their sympathy, you will arouse their contempt, and you will become a byword to the nations of the earth, as a lazy, indolent, mean people, who would rather trust to the bounty of others than exert themselves." The place where this unparalleled audacity was perpetrated is Tralee, an assize town a few miles poor and north of the Lakes of Ra - in llarnty, but s ituated ill-cultivated country. The very Reverend Dr. WEnery was the perpetrator, and his name deserves to be enrolled among the benefactors of his country. His conduct shows to us like real he he roism. Dependent upon the sod will of the p eo p le, does not flinch from setting before them the most unpalatable truths. The mass of mankind in all ages and in all countries has loved dark ness rather than light- Populus vult decipi. The passion is e to 1 and universal , in the democratic assembla g es of the Athenian forum and the king-loving demonstra tions on the Irish hills. Individual vanity working in t h e a ggregate and calling itself patriotism—to this the mob-orator must appeal, flatter, cajole, and keep the flame alive. All who trade upon the sympathies of the people, whose stake is popularity, who live upon com mon fame and reputation, whose dependence is on the many-headed monster, who exist only in the smiles and would perish by the frown of the capricious multitude—to all such—and how many are they in Ireland I—truth is forbidden, honesty is a luxury be yond their means, and integrity a thing impossible. They are the victims of circumstances. It is a struggle with them between conscience and prudence —a per petual conflict between honest impulse and sordid ine terest. A strife of this kind can never have but one termination. It is too strong for the weakness of hu man nature. Conscience, in the end, is inevitably stifled. Very few days are passed since we commented upon the absence of all public exhortations to labour on the part of the Roman Catholic clergy. They had not seemed to us to have used their influence with the people for the best purposes. It appeared such a simple thing to inculcate the primary duties of civilized man— industry and obedience. Patience was much recom mended—a passive virtue, the attribute of brutes ; but we do not recollect to have met with any instance before this at Tralee of a spiritual exhortation of the character of Dr. M'Enery's. The occasion was obvious enough. Time pressed. Nature was advancing in her course, but man stood still. The fatal consequence was pointed out in many quarters, but not by the priests. Why not ? Let those reverend gentlemen explain the matter as they may. For our part, we can conceive but one answer, and that is sufficiently indicated in the foregoing re marks.— Times. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. GUILDHALL. Sir J. Duke and Mr. Alderman Gibbs were engaged for three hours in hearing an information for an in fringement of a registered design, which appeared to excite great interest in the lace trade. Mr. J. Payne, the barrister, and ill.. Tippets, a soli citor, appeared to support the complaint ; and Mr. Clarkson and Mr. Wordsworth attended as counsel, and Messrs. Devonshire and Wilson, as solicitors, for the defendant. The information charged that Mr. Webb, of Wood street and Manchester, had registered an original design for a protective rouche tray, and that Mr. Hesketh Hughes, of Cripplegate-buildings, had sold a fraudulent imitation of such design. " Rouche," it was explained, is a piece of thin lace, about two inches in width, and a yard in length. The lace is first crimped (or ;offered, as it is termed) ; a thread is th en run d own t he centre, and next the lace is folded in half. It is then ready for use, either as ladies' " whiskers," or as a double frill border round a cap, &c. Mr. Payne said, he understood the question was to be met upon its merits, but he was prepared to go into the preliminary proot by putting in the certificate of regis tration, proving that notice was given to the defendant not to infringe on the register, mid that he had, never theless, sold - the fraudulent imitations of the design subsequently. Mr. Clarkson said he would give him no trouble on these points. . Mr. Payne proceeded to explain the state of things before the invention was registered by his client. The rouche lace was kept in round boxes containing three tiers, and the mischief was that only one-third of the lace could be shown at a time, and no part of it could be removed without disturbing the rest. The com plainant, who is a rouche maker, invented a box for his goods which enabled a draper to exhibit the goods bet ter, and to remove any portion without disturbing the rest. Instead of a round deep, he had a long shallow one, and instead of laying strips of paper between each row of lace he folded a sheet of paper so as to form a series of ridges The lace was then put into the troughs between the ridges, two of which troughs held a complete length of lace. It contained 12 yards, like the round boxes, but presented the whole to view at once. About six weeks after the registration the defendant registered the in fringement. By ripping open the top of each ridge, he was enabled to put into the tray nearly double the quan tity. This might he an improvement, but it was neither law nor common sense, that if a man added some little improvement to another man's original and novel design, the improver should take the benefit of the whole. In such a case the improver inti:t either make an arrange ment with the inventor, or wait till the inventor's term of registry or patent expired. Ile referred to Words. worth's work on the Patent Law, and urged that the cutting open the tops of the ribs or ridges, all the rest being precisely the same, was bit a colourable change, and, in fact, a fraudulent imitation. Philip Capelain, a registration agent, deposed that he prepared the specification. The ridges were all com plainant claimed as novel, and the defendant had copied these, slitting the ridges open at the top. Cross-examined by Mr. Clarkson—The defendant's tray exhibited the plain edge as well as the two goffered edges, which the complainant's did not. The com plainant's box was ten inches wide, and the defendant's about six inches. The length of each was the same. Mr. Clarkson said, there was no infringement in this case. The specification of the complainant's invention was insufficient, for it did not specify what parts were new and what were known before, as particularly re quired by the Act. It was not new to put lace into an oblong paper box, nor to put slips of paper between the rows of lace; but it was mew to fasten the strips of paper to the box, of which the specification took no notice; and it was new to have a sheet of paper folded so as to present a series of ribs instead of having separate loose ribs. The specification contained no reference to what was old, and what was therefore defective. The Act had reference only to matters of form. It was nothing that the same principle or idea was taken up if the form and means were different. Principles were protected by the Patent-law, and mere shape by the Registration-law. If he showed the shape was different, and essentially more useful, ho should relieve his client. The complainant's invention was a series of triangular ridges. The defendant's was a series of detached pieces of paper, folded to form three sides of a square, the bottom side being pasted to the bottom of the box, and the effect was to obtain a saving of nearly half the space, and show the plain as well as the crimped edges of the material. Space was a great object in sending goods into the country or abroad. The compl a i nant ' s di v i s i ons were lik e a V inverted, thus " A," and if a square was a different form from a triangle ther e was no i m i tat i on h ere o f t h e s h ape re gistered by Mr. Webb. He called several witnesses. Reuben Hansoll, from Messrs. Grocock's, said, they were the largest dealers in Rouche lace in the world, They sold about 1,800 boxes per week. Mr. Webb in vented the rid ges , b ut Mr. Hughes ' s plan * was much better. It was important to see how both edges (the folded and the goffered edges) were made, which could not he shown by the ridges. The space saved was a great object, and they sold 12 of Hughes's to one of Webb's on that account. Mr. Brooman, the patent agent, and other witnesses, were called on the same side. The magistrates retired, and, after being absent some time, Sir J. DiaKE said, they felt great difficulty in deciding on the case, and they therefore left the parties to pursue any other remedy they had. 'rera questions put by the magistrates it was evident that they h d formed different opinions ; Mr. Alderman Gibbs nlZing the Defendant's plan a piracy of the corn plainant's tially differentaud Sir .Duke that the shape was essen to the trade. . and the defendant's tray far more useful The complaint, therefore, was in effect dismissed. Lydia Bossy, a rather eizide%Tv.voman, ...0w shabby mourning, was eh with having dressed in the Admiralty, whomonaYit t r defrauded naval officer, to a Pension d n ee oi Lled widow Qf a granted. Per annum was in to On the death of Lieutenant James Guttery,o t the pension was granted to his vrido l w B4 , l l;u 183 3, receive it up to her own death, in band of the prisoner, with whom the deeeateeCltilevilhuL" been lodging, in Reynold's-court, Cripplegate co a t' to disguise her death from the Admiralty, and, by Turley:dna of a false declaration, to get the money into his ow , hands. This continued up to about a year ago, when he died also; since which time the prisoner, by continuing to personate Mrs. Guttery, had still received the pension. Information of the fraud, however, now reached the Ad miralty, and Inspector Haines apprehended the prisoner, at a house in Prince's -court, where she appeared to be living with her children, one of whom was afflicted with blindness, in a most impoverished condition. She at first denied all knowledge of the matter, but at the police station made several admissions establishing her guilt. She said that the pension was originally bequeathed to her husband by Mrs. Guttery, and that, at his death, he left it to her. It was quite clear that a third party (said to be a woman) had assisted them in effecting the fraud. Mr. Whalley, from the Paymaster-General's office, produced certain declarations, signed by two cl ergymen, and representing the .woman as the widow of Lieutenant Guttery, upon t e faith of which declarations the pay. ments were continued, through the navy agents, Blears. Pettet and Newton. Mr. EWA marked upon the _iiigsvigerMi wise. quences of signing declarations without possessing any knowledge of their contents—a very common practice, but one which he had invariably declined at Bow-street, at the risk of being thought uncivil and disobliging. The prisoner was remanded for n week. A man named Harrison, keeping a public-house called the Peacock, in Iloughton•street, Clare-market, was charged with a felonious assault and robbery, at the Tailors' Arms, Clement's-court. The landlady of the Tailors' Arms, a Mrs. Turner, said that she had retired to her bed-room for a little nap during divine service on Sunday week, when the prisoner, who had been drinking in the tap-room, forced his way into her bed-room, and, throwing himself upon her, attempted to violate her person. She escaped him, and sat down exhausted in a chair, when he re peated the attempt. She pulled his ear and scratched his face, upon which he struck her several times with violence, and then left the room, taking with him 11.155. from a work-box on the table. Her husband being out of town, she took no steps in the matter till his return on Friday, when he caused the prisoner to be apprehended. A lodger in the house, afflicted with paralysis, saw the prisoner break into the room, and heard the scuffle. The prisoner, who reserved his defence, was fully committed for trial. MARYLEBONE. Mr. Rawlinson was occupied for nearly two hours in the investigation of a charge against a number of persons who had been taken into custody for having been con cerned in stealing property to the amount of nearly 6001. from a van belonging to Messrs. Crowley and Co., which firm had by handbills offered a reward of 801. for such information as would lead to the apprehension and conviction of the thieves. The names of the prisoners were John Freer, William Martin, Henry East, Samuel Freer, John Cherry, Joseph Taylor, James Taylor, Joel Taylor, Joseph Cooper, and William Pellin. A considerable degree of interest was excited in consequence of the numerous robberies which from time to time have been perpetrated at the different stations, and the court was therefore much crowded. Mr. Vann attended for the prosecution; Mr. Wilkin son, manager to Messrs. Crowley, the well-known rail way carriers, also attended, as did Mr. Barker, superin tendent of the Railway Company's police, and Inspector Pasco, of the N division. A great deal of evidence was gone into, from which it appeared that several of the prisoners had carried off from the terminus a quantity of goods in a van, and that they had no right whatever to do so. A portion of the said goods was ultimately met with by Sergeant San ders, at 3, Colnbroke•place, Hoxton. It was further stated that at the house in question much of the pro perty stolen was discovered. Other evidence was gone into touching the robbery, and the six prisoners first named were remanded till Tuesday next; and the others were discharged on their promising to appear on the day named. THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL 13, 1847. WORSHIP-STREET. A young man, named Willia;n King, was char ge d w i t h having been concerned with anoth er man , not i n cus tody,in stealing 27 gold rings and other articles of jewellery from the shop of Mr. Robert Lindsay, a jewel ler, in Crown-street, Finsbury. Between three and four o'clock on Saturday afternoon the prisoner and another man were o b serve d lurking about in a suspicious manner in the front of the prosecu tor's shop , and directly afterwards the prisoner was seen to withdraw his hand rapidly from the window, and transfer a quantity of jewellery into one of his pockets. The two men then parted from each other, and both ran off in different directions, but the prisoner was hotly pur sued by a young man named Ralph Hale and a number of other persons, who were quickly gaining upon him, when, to divert their attention, he commenced scattering portions of the jewellery at intervals upon the pavement as he ran ; but Hale perseveringly followed him until he took refuge in a court in Clifton-street, when he suc ceeded in capturing and giving him into custody, though not in time to prevent his getting rid of the valuables, of which only one ring was found in his possession upon searching him at the station-house. Several gold seals, pins, and brooches, and a card con taining 27 gold rings, were produced in court by different witnesses, who had picked them up during the prisoner's flight, and identified by the prosecutor, who stated that, in addition to the property recovered, a quantity of other costly jewellery, consisting of dress pins, gold finger rings, and other articles to the value of 201., were still missing. Policeman Kemp, of the N division, deposed that for several years past the prisoner had subsisted entirely by uttering counterfeit coin and committing other depreda tions, and that he had not long since completed a lengthened term of imprisonment upon a conviction for felony at the Central Criminal Court. The prisoner, on being asked if he wished to say any thing, &dined offering any defence, and was committed for trial. SOUTHWARK. Mr. Dunn, the barrister, now an inmate of the Queen's Prison, addressed a note to the magistrate relative to an application for a summons against a shoemaker for re fusing to deliver up a pair of shoes with which be was intrusted to.repair. The writer, in setting forth his com plaint, mentioned that having a pair of shoes the soles of which were rather too thick, particularly as he was not compelled to be out in dirty weather, he was anxious to have the old soles taken off and a new pair of lighter ones placed on in their stead. Ile therefore sent for a shoemaker, and, having pointed out to him the repairs he required, the shoes were taken away, and n hen brought back he had reason to be displeased with the workmanship as well as the price that was charged. The shoemaker had in fact made a claim of -Is. 6tl. for Soling the shoes, and although the old soles were in point of fact better than the new ones, the former being, as was mentioned before, too thick, that being the only fault, yet he refused to make any allowance for them. The writer added that the object of the present application was to obtain a warrant or summons against the min of whom he complained, for he absolutely refused to deliver up possession eE the shoes unless 4s. 6d. was paid—an extortionate demand, which he refused to comply with, and he could not get the shoes out of his hands except by compulsion. Mr. SFcKER, who perused the note, could not h( 1p smiling at the contents; and, addressing the bearer of it, a boy, desired him to inform his master that no pro:ess c.nid be issued from this court against the shoemaker upon such a complaint ; that Mr. Dunn ought to have made an agreement as to the pric..3 he was to have given for the repairs of the shoes before they were finished, and then this complaint of his would have been obviated. I', however, that gentleman still considered the shoe maker had not acted fairly on the occasion, he could sue him, if he pleased, for breach of contract, at the Scuthwark Small Debts Court ; but, at the same time, he (the Magistrate) would not advise such a step, but would rather recommend Mr. Dunn to pay the shoe maker his demand, get his shoes back, and the next time his shoes wanted mending, to agree about the price beforehand, and then there would be no reason to complain. UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. BALLIOL COLLEGE. OXFORD, APRIL 10.—The Rev. Richard Pole, M.A., of tbis C , 4llegk., has been presented to the rectory of Ewhurst, Hants. EXETER COLLEGE. The Rev. Francis John Hext Kendall, M.A., vicar of Lanlivery, Cornwall, has been appointed chaplain to the Sheriff of Cornwall. ORIEL COLLEGE. The Venerable William Hale Hale, M.A., Archdeacon of London and Master of the Charter-houie, has been presented to the vicarage of St. Giles, Cripplegate. The Rev. Baden Powell, M.A., Savilian Professor of Geometry, has been elected one of the Council of the Royal Astronomical Society. there was no vacancy to be filled up at this college yesterday, which was election day. PE3IBROKE COLLEGE. The Rev. Bradford Denne llawkins, M.A., !ate Fel low of this College, has been presented to the vicarage of Henham, Essex. On Tuesday there will be Latin Litany and sermon at St. Mary's. The Rev. C. Daman, of Oriel, will preach the sermon. _ _ . Easter Term begins on Wednesday, when the new Proctors will be admitted. CAMBRIDGE, APRIL 10.—MEDICINE.—The Dimming Professor's Lectures on the Materia Modica commence on Monday, the 19th inst., at twelve o'clock. S.T. CATHARINE'S HALL. John Smyth Burton, 8.A., has been elected a Foun dation Fellow of. this Society. YEOMAN BEDEL. Mr. John Crouch has been re-appointed Yeoman Bodel of the Unirenity. THE CHURCH. Tho following appointments have taken place:— The Rev. Thomas England, of Pembroke Col lege, to the rectory of North Lew, Devon. The Rev. Augustus Packe, M.A., of Christ's College, to the rectory of Walton-on-the-Wold, Leicestershire. The Rev. John Lawson, M.A., of Christ College, to the rectory of Sherborne, Hants. The Rev. John Noble, 8.A., Sidney College, to the rectory of Nether Broughton, Leicestershire. The Rev. William Beal, 8.A., of Trinity College, to the vicarage of Brooke, near Norwich. The Rev. Dunbar Stewart lialkett, M.A., of Trinity College, to the curacy of New-church, Isle of Wight. The Rev. George Coulcher, M.A., of Corpus Christi College, to the curacy of Wattisfield, neAr Botesdale, Suffolk. SHEPPEY, APRIL 9.—GREAT FIRE AT MINSTER, REAR SREERNESS.—EarIy this morning a chimney canght fire in the vicinity of the farm whkh adjoins the Abbey vs of Minster, in this island. A strong gale was " t 'ving. and some sparks were blown from. the chimney 0 the farm barn, which, with several stacks of hay, wheat, B.se yard enwinesewl7ttrA' v i tabie , o ••, were presently destroyed. "Cho fire was four miles distant, Sheerness m ules around, and attracted attention at t. . prey 1 n nt uj t. z b n, , , e ro invaluable arid four of the patched' to th e shiPwn r: g that the abbey adj i o ' i r) ri t A pprehensions we re entertained shipwrights were dis would become aMc of antiquity, set vigorously to work, ant i a b le ?' Th e men, however, the Rifle Brigade, who arrived fr ci o nr" aie.ed. by a party of the fire from spreading further.ra s r l ir ru< ' es t prevented perty of Mr. Webb, of Sheerness and 1 " ra is the pro- Mr. Thomas Burford, both of wi:om, it ,Ar 21,96 tenanted by sured. The value of the stock consumed is a re se sat preF.ent The Countess of Lonadale steamer strived in t1- 4e 1 • river early yesterday morning, with the Hasnburgh In a ii.-1 BOILER EXPLOSIONS.—We have, before: thiB, maid the necessity of some supervision of boilers . Scarcely a week passes without the occurrence of a' a accident, as well with new boilers as with old ones.. Every new boiler should be tested by a responsible in spector,-771 Builder. e EAST INDIAN RAILWAY COAL PANY. A meeting of the shareholders of this company was held yesterday at the London Tavern, to receive the report of the directors and to transact other business. Present, Sir G. Larpent, Chairman ; J. Baxendale, Esq. (for merly Chairman of the South-Eastern Railway Com pany) ; Sir J. Campbell, K.C,11. (Deputy Chairman of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Com pany) ; C. D. Bruce, Esq.; J. Catley, Esq. ; Major-Ge neral Caulfield, C. 8.; D. De Nitre, Esq. ;J. Pascal Larkins, Esq. ; Captain Alexander Nairne, E. H. Pal mer, Esq., and J. Stewart, Esq. The CHAIRMAN, after the notice convening the meet ing had been read, said that was the first meeting of the shareholders that had been held since their company was formed, therefore he had to read to them the re port of the directors, which he would now proceed to do. The CHAIRMAN then read the report, from which it appeared that the affairs of the company were proceeding very favourably; that very advantageous terms had been entered into with the East India Com pany, and concluded by a strong recommendation of the line to the support of the shareholders. The Chairman then read a statement of the traffic estimates, from which it appeared that the total of goods carried on the Gan ges in 1844-5, was 2,115,885 tons, and along Mirzapore railroad and Damooda river, during the same period, was 110,474 tons. The passenger traffic between Cal cutta and Mirzapore was 570,000 tons per annum. The goods traffic between Mirzapore and Delhi was 446,851 tons. _ _ The CHAIRMAN then said, such was the report which the directors had to lay before the shareholders, which gave not only a narrative of their proceedings, but ad vised the company to adopt a certain course, and he thought they ought to take that advice, when they looked at the gentlemen who composed the body of directors, and who were joined with them in their undertaking, consisting of officers in the civil and mili tary service of India, as well as the merchants in this country, whose experience would so materially contri bute to the success of their undertaking. The first object with which they were entrusted was to obtain ss. per share, and that experiment bad realised 22,0001. This comprised all the expense that they had contem plated. Not less than nine hundred miles of railway had been surveyed by engineers, sent out from England at a great expense, in ten months, which showed not only the economy of the management, but also their vigilance. (The Chairman here read a correspondence that had taken place on the subject of railways in India, which set forth their prac ticability, and spoke most favourably of the line of the company.) He thought he had now established two great points, namely, the practicability of railways in India, and that the company's line was the best. He would now advert to the terms proposed by the East India Company. He had always thought that railways in India should, if not actually under the control of the Government there, should at least be identified with it. He must say that, in his negotiation with this body (the East India Company), he had found every disposition to meet the views of the company. He was unwilling to enter into any discussion upon this part of their affairs ; but he must say that the inconvenience that had taken place in the ultimate settlement of the affairs of the company was in no way attributable to the East India Company. He would now call the attention of the company to the cast of the line, which, as a commercial speculation, must occupy a very important place. 1'7,000/. per mile was the cost that they had assumed, and when they looked at the cost of the railways in this country and in France, he thought they should not be considered as having been extrava gant. They had taken 10 per cent. for certain pecu liarities of the country. Eight per cent. was the amount then by the Oriental Steam Navigation Company. (The Chairman having read a correspondence to show that the want of railway accommodation was felt in the East Indies, continued)—He thought he was therefore justified in stating that the accommodation at present afforded to India in the way of transit was somewhat like what it was in this country some years ago—that of a pack-horse. He was satisfied that, whether or not this undertaking was carried out, railway travelling must be, shortly adopted in India. Great stress had been laid in the report upon the advantages which this line would confer upon the Government of India in a political point of view. There could be no doubt that it would effect a great deal in this p&iit of view, for in the case of any disturbance arising there was a quick mode of transit for European troops by the establishmeat of the pre sent line. Besides, the great mortality that prevailed among the soldiers, and which was in a great degree owing to the want of speedy transit, wculd be prevented. He would now refer to the terms which the East India Company had offered. Four per cent. was what they had offered, but though that was more liberal than what other Governments had offered in railway speculations, he hoped they would be able to make bettrr terms. After some further observations, the Chairman conchrled by proposing that the report should be received, adopted, printed, and c'rculated among the shareholders, a hich was unanimously carried. Thanks were voted to the chairman and other direc tors, for the zeal and ability they had dicplayed in the di charge of their duties, and a resolution confiding the fteure management of the affairs of the company to their hands, was agreed to unanimously. The meeting then separated. HAMBURGH and FLANDERS MAIL CORN. BRUSSELS, APRIL 11.—The French farmers are generally of opinion that it will be impossible for them to bear the competition with Russia if the Government ailopted the principle of free importation of corn. When this question was discussed in the Central Congress of Farmers ; calculations very alarming to the French farmers were brought forward respecting the price of wheat in the southern provinces of Russia. The Constitutionnel laid it down es a certain fact that wheat was worth no more than 4f. per hectolitre on the spot. A Russian landowner on this occasion addresses the following letter to the Pressc _ _ Sir,—l live in one of the provinces which are nearest to the Port of Odessa. I am pi r:eetly acquainted wuh the style of agriculture, and I venture to affirm that the allegations of the Constitutionnel are ill founded. I have never seen wheat purchased in our domains fall to 4f. the hectolitre. In plentiful years, and when there is little demand for exportation, we sell it at 71. at the minimum price, but to the purchase price we must add the convey ance to the port of embarkation. This conveyance is effected by oxen, many of which die o n th e roa d i n con sequence of fatigue. It is a long and tedious journey, which can be undertaken only during four summer months ; consequently wheat delivered at Odessa gem-rally rises to the price of 121. or 131. From Odessa to Marseilles the price of our wheat is increased by lf. 50c. freight, and if we add the habitual profits of the merchants, we shall find that Russian wheat cannot reach France at a lower price than 20f. per hectolitre. (Signed) " DE POLSCIIINSKI, " Councillor of State to his Majesty the Emperor of Russia." BP.USSELS, APRIL 10.—In the market of Antwerp to (Uy 200 sacks of foreign wheat and 60 of rye were ex posed for sale, and immediately sold ; the prices re mained the same as last week ; wheat at 27f. 10e., and rye 18f. 16c. per sack. There was not much corn of our own produce. Wheat was sold from 30f. 05c. to 321. ; rye from 211. 02c. to 221. In this market and Lisle, on Wednesday, 1,076 sacks of wheat were offered for sale ; there was a decline, o n an average of lf. 65c. per hectolitre. It is hoped, says the Journal du Lisle, that this decline will continue, and that the markets of Lisle will follow the example of most of the other markets in the kingdom. the Moniteur promulgates the law which grants to the, Department of Public Works a provisional credit of 1,107,984 f. for to meet the exigencies of the month of April, 1847 ; and another law, by which the credit of 2,898,260 f., granted to the Department of Public Works, April, 1845, for the building of the stations of the public railways, will be applied to the sum of one million of francs for the extension of the means of conveyance of goods. The Minister of Finance of the kingdom of Saxony has determined that corn from foreign countries passing in transit on the Elbe to Saxony, as well as pulse, flour, &c., shall be admitted till the end of September free from duty on the Elbe. The legal obligation to give regular notice of such cargoes, however, is continued. ST. PETERSBURG, MARCH 30.—His Majesty the Em peror has given orders to the Medical Council, through the Minister of the Interior, to submit to accurate observa tion the new process of rendering surgical operations free from pain by inhaling ether. The Medical Board has complied with this order, and reports that though many favourable effects have resulted from this process, both here and in foreign countries, yet the number of cases is not sufficiently numerous to decide positively on the consequences, or to give an opinion on the beneficial or injurious effects of this process.—Brussels Papers, April 11. BELGIAN FUNDS.—BAUSSELS, AMU. 10. Actual Debt, 234 per Cent • • Rothschild's Loan, Five per Cent Loan of Thirty Millions, Four per Cent • ... Ditto Three per Cent.. ....... ....... Ditto Thirty-seven Millions, ditto Ditto,ditto,lB4o.• • • • • • • • • • • • • •• • • •• •• 100% Ditto ditt0,1842.• • • • • •• • • •• • • • • •• • • • • 100% . _ _ Ditto, 1844.• ••••• • • • • ••••• • • - • • •• • 951 Ditto, 1830 ..... •••••••• • • • • .• • • _ Ditto, 1838 Ditto of the City, 1832 • • • ••• 99 Ditto, 1843 ••••••••••••• • • • • • • • • • • • • • 97% Bank ofßelgium • • • • • ... •• • • • —Brussels Papers, April 10. HAUB UEGH BORSENIIALLE, APRIL 9. Bills. Money. Austrian 5 per Cents 109 Bank Shares • • • • • • ...• 1590 Anglo-Russian Loan ................ —10 G Russian 5 per Cent., Hamb. Certificate. 101% 101% Ditto Ist series Inscription . .• • • Ditto, /Tope and C0.,3d and 4th series • . 971 Ditto, in Certificate ••••••••• • • • • • .. • • 98 1 ( 93 New 4 per Cent., Hope and Co. Ditto Stieglitz • . ... •••• • • • Spanish New 5 per Cent ••••••• • • • • • • • 16% 10% Ditto 3 per Cent ••••••••• • • • • • • • • • Anglo-Portuguese Loan, 2% per Cent • • Dutch Actual Debt, 2% per Cent Ditto 3 per Cent. • •!• •••••• • • • • • • Polish Neis 4 l per Cent. loan, 1814. •• , 74 Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent • , National Bank Shares • • • • rt li ALE, r — e : e c i lf; to report, L EIC E LEICESTER t E h R o uT; is one gratifying feature, as it d The home demand from thf:e't quarter has commence e t of some ag C a o i n n t month ; and it is expected in the course of the next i o t e ll a l thv eartythselyacwki.ll bear r e s A om m e e p ri r c o an o r o t r i c o l e n r t s o are now rally shows that with the amount :f ar : ge n u s B n e 3o7 s fe s siolt this eornd count ry his been doingthei increased States lately in bread -stuffs. Wools and yarns 'remain very r 'teat,' notwithstanding the slackness of trade.— rease . d ,eicesterViir e Merc_ru John ilus 11 Hegel 1 a lTd h a i : 3 1 interview ofueiai I:)QYri li n g - stZeet, residence with in ENTERTAINMENT BY THE DI RECTORS OF THE SOUTH-EASTERN RAIL• WAY TO LORD TORRINGTON, GOVERNOR OF CEYLON. Yesterday a very sumptuous entertainment was given by the Directors of the South-Eastern Railway Com pany to his Excellency Lord Viscount Torrington, on the cccasion of his leaving this country to assume tixe important post of Governor of the colony of Ceylon. His Lordship's long connexion with all that appertains to the welfare of Kent in its commercial and agricultural relations, coupled with the warm interest and solicitude he has shown in his capacity as a director of the South- Eastern Railway, in the promotion of the best interests of the county as regards its endowment with the most efficient railway communication, were amongst the more immediate motives that prompted this mark of distin guished attention. At six o'clock, between 100 and 200 gentlemen sat down to a dinner that, without entering into a minute description of its features, we may oharacterise as splendid in all its details. The chair was occupied by Mr. James Macgregor, the chairman of the South-Eastern Company, supported on his right by Viscount Torrington, and on his left by Lord Sondes. We also observed Sir J. Jervis, M.P. (the Attorney-General), George and Robert Stephen son, Aldermen Humphery and Lucas, Mr. Dodd, M.P., Mr. Hastie, M.P., Mr. Douglas, M.P., Sir Edmund Filmer, Bart., Mr. Alexander, Q.C., Mr. Bidder, Mr. Cockburn, Q.C., the Mayors of Rye and Rochester, Mr. Duncan Macgregor, of the Board of Trade. Mr. Martin Luther Pritchard and Captain Tyndale, directors of the company, officiated as vice-chairmen, supported by Mr. G. S. Herbert, the secretary, Mr. James Walter, the superintendent, Mr. P. Parlow, resident engineer, Mr. Wentworth Dilke, Mr. C. J. Collins, Mr. Lewis Smale, Mr. Thomas, Mr. Fothergill, Mr. Cooke, Mr. Robert Knox, Mr. Barrow, Mr. George Whitehead, Mr. Knatch bull, Captain Graham, Mr. Merewether, Hon. F. Byng, Captain Airey, Mr. J. Brogden, Mr. R. Christian, Mr. J. P. Fearon, Captain Gregson, Right Hon. R. Lashing ton, Sir George Larpent, Mr. Ross Mangles, M.P., Hon. T. L. Melville, Mr. Wykeham Martin (Mayor of Maid stone), Alderman Neame (Canterbury), Cap cot, Colonel Norcliffe , Rev. S. Rogers,l3ulweltlain Pre Rectory, a Nottingham ; lion. Sir F. Stapleton, Mr. J. Tileard, and others. After the usual loyal toasts, The CHAIRMAN, in proposing her Majesty's Minis ters, said that if ever there was a time when it behoved that they should be endowed with all grace, wisdom, and understanding, it was now—now that they had fallen upon days of difficulty and distress, and when he was sure the sympathies of all classes were rallied round them in support of the measures they proposed. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL, in returning thanks, said he was sure that, whatever might be the general opinion, support was accorded to her Majesty's Ministers, if only from a conviction that they were endeavouring to do their best with uprightness of principle, and an inflexible intention to carry out the prosperity of the country. — (Cheers.) All, he thought, would concur with him in thinking that her Majesty's Ministers were influenced by the best of motives in the selection of their official officers; and in no case, he thought he might with truth fulness affirm, more so than in their present appointment of Lord Torrington. In selecting that Noble Lord, they had fixed upon one whose natural aptitude for busi ness had been matured by his commercial and agri cultural connexion with the county of Kent and the South-Eastern Railway, which were so well calcu lated to fit him for the distinguished post of Governor of Ceylon.--(Loud cheers.) The CHAIRMAN then, amid loud applause, proposed " Lord Tor r i ngton ," and ' expressed his gratification at having been associated as a Liverpool merchant in the South-Eastern Railway with a nobleman of such talent, perseverance, and unquestioned energy.—(Cheers.) Lord TORRINGTON, amid loud acclamations, returned thanks. He looked back, in spite of party differences, with the greatest gratification on his past connexion with the South-Eastern Company, both in its struggles in Kent and the House of Commons. It was no desire for speculation that had induced him to join the South- Eastern, but an earnest desire for the advantage of Kent, so as to introduce into it the system that would prove most advantageous, and he believed that the system that had been partly propounded by the Legislature would cause the county, as far :as railways were concerned, to be the most vitally advantaged. The land of Kent had already increased in value, and the farmer had been greatly benefited by low carriage, consequent on loco motion. He thanked them for this splendid entertain ment. Many who had gone before him to occupy the post he was about to assume might excel him in the ability to discharge its duties, but none, he trusted, would distance him in energy and perseverance of pur pose, under the tutelage of the Noble Earl at the head of the Colonial Department. The CHAIRMAN then proposed the " House of Peers," which having been briefly responded to by Viscount Torrington, Sir EDMUND FILMER acknowledged the " House of Commons." Speaking of railways, he adduced a rather felicitous illustration of their progress. lie had recently read in an old newspaper that in 1743 there was a fast coach that started from Bristol to London, and reached its destination in four days. In March, 1845, however, a medium train on the Great Western did it in some thing under four hours ! So that one short century alone had converted days into hours, by a silent but peaceful and improviog, instead of destroying revolu tion.—(Loud applause.) Lord ToRRINGToN proposed the health of the chair man, alio had, he said, sacrificed so much of his time and talents to the advantage of the E'nuth-Eastern Com pany. lhe CHAIRMAN, in reply, cbserved, he believed he might say that those who had embarked in the South- Eastern were now about to gather the golden apples of their enterprise. In projecting the South• Eastern Rail way, they did not confine themselves to Dover, they did not stop at Boulogne, they did not pause it Paris, they saw something even beyond the Continent,' for Calcutta was not too far, and even took Ceylon within their eir cuit.—(Leud cheera) They were in fact the great high way for the Continent. The tit xt toast, " The Bench and the Ear," was re sponded to appropriately by the ATTORNEY-GENERAL. Mr. Alderman LUCAS, in acknowledging " The Lord Mayor and Aldermen of London," said he rose to make a public et cantetion. Originally he and a great many of his brethren in Kent had, through mistaken views, made a great error as regarded railways. —(Hear.) Had not the great landowners of Kent, through some lamentable short-sightednc , s, opposed the railways tooth and nail, they would years ago have had a direct line to Dover by the South-Eastern Railway.--(Loud cheers ) Perhaps this strange conduct of the Kentish men was owing to their no; knowing so much in the southeastern as they did in the manufacturing districts—(Laughter)—or from a prepossession that if they wanted a railway they could do it for themselves. They were, perhaps, to be par doned in some respect, for at the time he alluded to most men's minds were not so clear as they were now on ra il wa y subjects. It was necessary to accommo date them by degrees to the system. They hal suffered however, for this their treatment of the South-Eastern, and were now contritely confessing their past errors. The CHAIRMAN then proposed "Prosperity to Ceylon." Sir GEORGE LARPENT said, connected as he and many gentlemen around him were with their colonial posses sions and Ceylon, he could not hut hail the appointment of the Noble Lord as an augury for good.—(Cheers.) Ceylon was possessed of a fine climate, a noble soil, and a peaceable population, removed from all the chances, and only required to be further put in possession of those civic virtues and intelligence, which were the dis tinguishing characteristics of the Noble Lord, to be pro du2tive of the finest fruits that labour and industry could cause it to develop.—(Cheers.) He regretted, in conjunction with many of his colleages, to say that up to the present time great errors had existed in the fiscal and commercial relations of Ceylon. He had pointed them out to her Majesty's Government, and they had received every attention, and it was only fair to assume that under the governorship of the Noble ' Lord a better system would be introduced in the ar ' tides of coffee and cocoa, and by the introduction of machinery.—(Cheers.) Moreover, there was a railway projected in Ceylon which would bring everything by rapid transit to the water's side, and as the Noble Lord had learned his lessons in railway practice and diplo• macy in an English school, they could not but hope that it would eminently prosper under his auspices. Mr. GEORGE STEPHENSON, in returning thanks for his own health, and that of his son, Mr. George Stephenson, both of which were received with rounds of applause, adverted to the gratifying part he and his son had taken in carrying out the railway schemes of this country, and in none more so than in their connexion with the South-Eastern Railway. It was a proud thing for them to reflect upon, that they had been mutually instrumental in connecting as by one chain all the na tions of the earth, and in making more closely kindred the whole human race.—(Cheers.) Subsequently the health of Viscountess Torrington wmar. sngiavreknewr,itthhegtrosseattmecalitte. . r The vocal and instrumental concomitants t o th e conviviality were ably sustained by Messrs. H o bb s, Mudie, Francis, and Machin, assisted by M ICROSCOPICAL SOIREE.—On Wednesday witness t i h n e last the Fellows of the Royal College of surg eons eveningas sembled their exhibition spaci o u o f s hail e i n o f N t i h c e h o m l s o o s n t ' s i - n s t t e r r e e e s t t , i u t g forms of of infusional animalculre. Sir William conservatorg in g of been e the en appointed museum, proceededt o take the most to chair, xt N e r. w tiege demonstrate,-, by th e a id of numerous di ag rams, the existence of such i nfinitesimal beings, of a stru cture as beautifull y de signed a n d a d apte d to a ll the varied functions of life as complicated of any of the higher animals. And when sp ea ki ng o f t h e polygastria, Mr. Lee remarked that thei r essent i a l c haracter was the immense numb er of their sto mac h s, so me species possessing more than a hun dred, and exp l a i ne d how these digestive sacs mig h t be rendered app aren t by feeding them with carmine, indigo, or other colouring matter; and that the same method was calculated to exhibit very beautifully the action of the cilia, with which both the polygastria and rotifera were provided as organs of locomotion, and which served also for the prehension of their food; for by the action of their cilia, currents were produced in the water car rying the smaller creatures, or other floating particles, towards the mouth, and that the ciliary processes were at the same time subservient to the function of respira tion, by constantly changing the surrounding medium. And, after speaking of their muscular and nervous sys tems, and the complicated dental apparatus which some possessed, and of which diagrams were exhibited, Mr. Lee observed that a large portion of the polygastria were provided with skeletons or cases, composed in some cases of calcareous matter, or of pure transparent silex and that he hoped upon some future occasion to give an account of the various states in which their remains were formed, and to exhibit a variety of fossil forms.—Edin burgh Witness. Mr. and Lady Emily Pennefat her arrived at FArrance's HOW, Upper Si:agree-street, yesterday. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE 01 COMMONS, April 12. The SPEAKER took the Chair at Four o'clock. EAST SOMERSETSIIIRE RAILWAY. Mr. BANNERMAN presented several petitions against this railway. WILTS AND SOMERSET RAILWAY. Lord DUNCAN presented petitions against this BELFAST IMPROVEMENT BILL. This Bill was read a second time. WINDSOR, Sze., RAILWAY STATIONS. Mr. WYSE presented several petitions against the Windsor and Staines Railway Stations. WILTS, SOMERSE AND WEYMOUTH RAILWAY. Mr. SEYMER presented several petitions against this railway. GREAT WESTERN PROJECTS. Mr. H. BARELY presented several petitions against these projects. NORTH-WESTERN PROJECTS. Sir R. H. INGLIS presented several petitions against the projects for these railways. SCOTCH REGISTRATION BILL. Mr. BANNERMAN prestated a petition against this Bill. GOVERNMENT EDUCATION BILL. Mr. DUNCOMBE presented a petition against this Bill. _ . RAILWAYS REGULATION BILL. Mr. STRUTT presented a petition from 1,400 of the principal merchants and traders of the city of Glasgow, in favour of the Railways Regulation Bill. NEW MEMBER. Lord CHARLES took the oaths and his seat for the county of Bedford. SCOTCH REGISTRATION BILL. Mr. LOCKHART presented several petitions from Scotland against this Bill. GOVERNMENT PLAN OF EDUCATION. Mr. TRELAWNY presented several petitions against this Bill. NATIONAL DISPUTES. Dr. BOWRING presented a petition from Newport, in the Isle of Wight, in favour of arbitration in national disputes, instead of an appeal to arms. The Hon. Member also presented three petitions from Dissenting teachers in Bolton against the Government education plan. GREAT WESTERN PROJECTS. Mr. SPOONER presented upwards of a hundred peti tions against the several projects of the Great Western Railway Company. Mr. HUME presented a petition from the provost and corporation of Addington praying for the repeal of the inventory stamp tax. EXAMINERS OF PRIVATE BILLS. Mr. HUME gave notice that to-morrow he would move for leave to bring in a Bill authorising the Speaker to appoint examiners of the proceedings of all private Bills before the House. REGISTRATION BILL (SCOTLAND). Lord G. BENTINCK preented several petitions from Ayr and other place' in Scotland against the Registra tion Bill (Scotland). GOVERNMENT SCHEME OF EDUCATION. • _ Mr. MATHESON presented four petitions against the Government Education scheme from Dissenting congregations at Ashburton, Buckfastleigh, and Newton Abbott. ANATOMY ACT. 'Air. F. FRENCH presented a petition praying for inquiry into the operation and working of the Anatomy Act. WASTE LANDS IMPROVEMENT BILL. Mr. LABOUCHERE postponed the Waste Lands Improvement Bill until to-morrow (Tuesday) week. EDUCATION. Mr. WILLIAMS presented a petition from a place near Coventry against the Government scheme of edu cation. MEDICAL OFFICERS IN THE ARMY. On the order of the day for going into Committee of Supply being read, Sir H. DOUGLAS begged to call attention to the cases of medical officers, surgeons, and pay masters of regiments, who have net been included in the warrant issued in July, 1846, consequent upon the motion made in April, 1815, for an improved retirement to a limited number of medical officers, and all officers of regimental staff, to extend to them in limited numbers, the bene fits conferred by warrants dated 1840 to limited numbers of officers of all other branches and arms of the ser vice ; which motion appeared to receive the unanimous approbation and support of the Committee, and was only withdrawn on an express assurance that the pro position, for an improved retirement to all officers of regimental staff, would be taken into favourable con sideration. Ile was deeply impressed with the calamity which had befallen the sister country, and be would feel a great difficulty in recommending any measure which would embarrass the Government at the present moment, but the act of justice which he re commended would not be of such a description; and he was sure that if his Right Hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer were present he would be very much surprised at the smallness of the amount of money requisite to perform this act of justice. He would tell the Right Hon. Secretary at War that this demand on the public purse would not, at the utmost, exceed 1,3001. per annum. He would state briefly to the House the case of those whose interests ho advocated. In the year 1842 a warrant was issued granting a full pay retirement to a limited number of officers of the infantry and cavalry. There were 20 lieutenant-colonels, 20 majors, and 115 captains, 45 of whom were brevet majors. This boon was extended soon after to the cavalry, the engineers, and the marines. To the officers of the latter corps was granted permission to go on in the service, which, however, was not permitted to the cavalry and infantry. He thought that such a difference ought not to have been made. The boon cost little or nothing, and he said that it should in his opinion be extended likewise to the , officers of the cavalry and infantry. It was, however, extended to them at length, but the officers of the regi mental staff, the surgeons, the quartermasters, the pay masters, and the veterinary surgeons, were still ex cluded from its benefits. Ic 1845 he had given his opinion upon this exception, and the lion. Secretary at War who was then in office promised that some alteration should be made. In 1846 a warrant was issued, granting an increased retiring allowance to the quartermasters and veterinary sur geons, to the exclusion of the paymasters and surgeons. The maximum pay of a surgeon on full pay after thirty years' service was 11. 25., while the retiring pay allowed them when they left the service was 15s. a day. Now, what he wanted was to make the retiring pay of the surgeons and paymasters in the army 18s., instead of 155., as at present. This was a very small increase, indeed. This arrangement would, to a certain extent, be self-sustaining. At present, when one of these officers retired he was allowed 15s. a day, while the party who succeeded him got but 12s. for the first five years at least. There was, therefore, an actual saving in this arrangement. But, he would ask the House, under such , a plan who would consent to retire and take 15s. for 1/ 25., and give up in addition the barrack allowance, servants, attendance, coal, candle, &c.? This in addition was equal to 10s., so that the actual pay was about 11. 12s. a day. The consequence of this system was that the surgeons, rather than retire, cling longer to their appointments than was consistent with good service. The Hon. Baronet then read certain letters from seffi. cers in some of the regiments of the line in support of his position. Having granted a boon to the quartermaster, the House ought to extend the samejusiice to the paymaster, but with regard to the surgeons and medical officers of the army, in their case the claim was stronger. An ar my surgeon had arduous and difficult duties to perform; distressing scenes were continually passing before his eyes, and 13 years was generally the extent of his servitude. It would appear, from the returns, that that service of the surgeons had been altogether overlooked. He might take all the returns which had been made to the Government, and of these he might cite the ser vices of Mr. Lewis, of the First Dragoon Guards, who had served for thirty-nine years. He might also cite those of Mr. Stevenson, of the Third Dragoon Guards, who had given forty-one years' service as well as of several other gentlemen who had been injured by the present rules of the service. He ought also to say, that they had to complain of the posi tion given by the present regulations of the service. Ac cording to these regulations the surgeon was to receive three shillings a day, whereas the pay of a regi mental lieutenant colonel was eighteen shillings a day. Then as to medical rank, it was always made subservient to regimental service, and not only were the men de prived of their advantages as regards rank, but as affected pension also. The Hon. Baronet then went into the several gradations of rank, but showed that while the pensions for a regimental officer for a forty years' service were 601., those for a medical officer were only t a te /. The Gallant Member then proceeded to read a le which he had received fro m the widow of a medicalr officer who had served in the Peninsula and in the West Indies, stating that she bad lost her husband in the dis charge of his professional duties, but that the have pension which oug ht to been given to her by virtue of the relative position which her husband held in the service, had not been paid to her, and that in consequence she, with her three orphan chil dren, had been reduced to the most distressing situation. He would now conclude, and he hoped that in bringing this question before the House he had not spoken in vain. Mr. F. MAULE had only a few observations to make on the subject. His Hon. Friend complained that the warrant issued in 1846 had not included certain cases of medical officers, surgeons, and paymasters. He (Mr. F. Maule) did not think that the arrangement so lately made should be disturbed. With reference to the case of paymasters, his Honourable Friend said then that he had no fault to find with the arrange ment as far as the paymasters were concerned. There was no question that the paymasters had con siderable duties to perform which required serious at tention, but at the same time it was scarcely fair in arranging retiring pensions to place them on a footing with those who risked life and limb in the service, and who at all times were required to perf o r m ar d uous d ut i es. He found in looking to the provision made for them pre vious to last year, that their half-pay was only 12s. 6d ., and by the warrant of last y ear it was ra i se d to 155., so they had received a certain benefit. Ha did not mean by anything which he at present said, to preclude him self at a future time from considering their case further. With reference to the surgeons, their case was more worthy of consideration, and he did not mean Ito use the word in an invidious sense; they were called upon to: perform most arduous services— (Hear, hear)—and he was, therefore, inclined to look with a more favourable eye upon their claims. There was a general system of promotion among the medical officers of the army already existing. and in his opinion the subject brought forward by the Hon. and Gallant Member was one which ought not to be viewed apart from public considerations and the finance of the mut* Purin the our" of ho present year her Majesty's Government had made a sacrifice for the benefit of the army of the sum of 50,000/., by the abolition of the poundage of the pensions of the soldier:. Other great alterations were made, or proposed to be made, calculated to improve the condition of the soldier, and he could aesure the Hon. and Gallant Member that the Governmt at would give its fullest consideration to the subject, and any alterations which could be beneficially introduced would be brought forward upon the earliest occasion, with, h: , wever, a due regard to the public ex penditure of the country.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. lIUME thought that in regard to the pensioners, the Government had acted wisely, but he was not dis• posed to agree with the Right Hon. Gentleman (Mr. F. Maule) respecting the brevet. He considered that thz. t was money thrown away, without producing any benefit whatever. They had so many demands at present on the public purse, that they should be cau tious what they did. Still, if it could be shown that any one had been unfairly treated, he thought he should be redressed, so as to deal equal justice to all. He considers d the warrants should he produced, and then it would seen what were the grounds on which the distinction was made. _ _ _ _ Colonel LINDSAY quite agreed with the latter part of the observations of the Right Hon. Gentleman as to the conduct of the late and the present Governments in attending to the comforts of the soldiers. Still he thought the Hon. and Gallant Member for Liverpool had made out a strong case for placing the surgeons on the same footing as the other officers in the service. Sir DE LACY EVANS regretted that this was the course of the English law, for if it had been otherwise there would have been some reason for allowing the claim which now had been made. With respect to the plea that was made for medical officers, he must allow thatitiw as a subject that was fairly cognizant for military purposes. His Hon. Friend the Member for Montrose was mistaken when he supposed that the British army was much more expensive than the French. The fact was, that the maintenance of the French army cost considerably more than thatof England, while the service performed by the British army was more severe than that of the French. There was another point to which he would allude. Those gentlemen who • had been so mueh concerned in the repeal of the corn-laws last year dwell on the fact of the statement that the armed professions were unproductive classes. The great master in political economy, Mr. M'Culloch, had given an opinion directly the reverse. He maintained that the soldier and sailor, were magistrates by securing and protecting the rights of the community, and were pre-eminently useful. The motion was negatived without a division. ADDRESS TO HER .MAJESTY.—REGULATIONS IN THE ARMY. Sir DE LACY EVANS begged, on going into Com mittee of Supply, to bring under the consideration:of the House:— _ _ 1. The treasury regulation respecting ration stoppages in the colonies, whereby the Government derives profit at the expense of the soldier, by the variations in the price of provisions in several of those colonies, contrary to the treatment of the troops stationed in the home territories. 2. Whether the treasury order or arrangement re specting the liquor rations in Australia has been of a decisive and general nature applicable to other colonies. and sufficient in the judgment of the Commander in Chief to prevent any future probable recurrence of mutiny from this cause. 3. The propriety of amending the 72d clause of the Mutiny Act, containing a special provision for the " wholesome" maintenance of troops on a line of march in England, no similar or proportionate allowance being made for troops on the same duty in Ireland or Scot land. 4. The case of the former pensioners of the army, whose petitions have been lately presented to the House, complaining of having suffered great misery and distress during many years, owing to their having agreed to an inadequate commutation of their pensions offered by a warrent issued from the War Office in 1832, which they were unfortunately induced to accept, through delusive promises emanating from authority—the warrant res pecting which having been cancelled in the following year. 5. The omission again in this year's estimates, of any vote being proposed for improving the barrack accommo dation (especially with regard to the sleeping rooms), so requisite, in many instances, for the health of the troops, and for more suitable and decent quartering of the mar ried non-commissioned officers and privates. 6. the claim of old Peninsular officers who have sold their commis-ions to the medal to be granted:for that war. 7. The claim of the retired officers of the line (cavalry and infantry) who, worn out by wounds or broken health, c,ccasioned by service with their regiments or on the staff, have reluctantly accepted the retired pay offered by the warrant of October, 1840, but who, though by seniority sufficiently eligible, find them selves excluded from the last brevet, which in their case would have cost the country nothing, although they see this farour extended to their brother officers similarly situated on the retired lists of all the four other branches of the service—namely, the marines, artillery, engineers, and navy. S. The expediency of gradually modifying (but with all regard to the just claims of those at present filling these posts) the rules practically observed for more than a century in our army, in selection for the responsible command of regiments, whereby seniority and money, coupled with influential connexion, are almost the ex clusive grounds of appointment. 9. Why it is that general officers of the engineers, artillery, and of the East Imlia Company's army, who may have distinguished themselves by their ability and conduct, should be deemed ineligible for appointments on the general staff, in whatever part of the world their services may be available. 10. The inconsistency and injustice, both as respects individuals and the public, of the warrant of the Ist of May last, regulating the pay of the higher class of offi cers, which admits some as eligible to the allowance at tached to their rank, without the least proof being required of meritorious conduct in peace or war ; while it precludes others whose conspicuous and useful exertions before the enemy on many occasions may have been repeatedly recognised by their commanders and the Government. 11. The system of late years pursued in respect to the Military College of Sandhurst, the only source of profes sional education provided by the British Government for the officers intrusted with the discipline, guidance, in struction, and ultimately with the commands in chief of our armies. And to move an humble address to her Majesty, pray ing that she may be graciously pleased to direct an impartial inquiry into the foregoing matters, with a view to their correction, if such should be found beneficial. After reading those details, the Hon. Member proceeded to say that there were several other passages in the re port which referred to those circumstances, and he had to say that, in the following year the Government bad endeavoured to make emends for this misgovernment. By the decision of the following year it was decreed that these men should have their pensions, but still this ap peared something like a deception, ar.d he strongly sus pected that there was not sufficient publicity given t these announcements. Now, by the decrees of 1843 and 1844, there was an evident intention to give these men their pensions, and he claimed for them a fair and equal apportionment ; and he trusted the House would give it him, notwithstanding that the Hon. Gentleman seemed indisposed to give it to him. lie was quite sure that the House was anxious to contribute to the a ell being of the British soldier, but still he could not see how his object was to be attained. There was a vote of 5,0001. to be apportioned for the washing and other conveniencies for the soldiery. Then what was shown as to the extra conveniences of their barracks. Why there was five inches between the beds. And then, as respects the delicacy of the troops, why, there was not the slightest preservation. And even in cases of confine ment for the wife—if a marrried woman—none in the least, for the only distance between those beds was nineteen inches ; and he believed that the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whom be exonerated from all blame. had been sadly deficient in their provisions for the men of the army. He certainly thought that some provision ought to be made for the several members of the Go vernment. and he hoped that a supplementary list would be brought ir. If he were correct, he trusted that the deficiency would be altered, and that some mean-. would be provided for a recompense for the officers who had suffered.--(Hear, hear.) He was sorry to find that the fears of the men in the army were too well grounded, when they asserted that their pleas had received no attention, and that they had been denied promotion of any kind. Now, it so happened that in the army generally, but especially in the Irish army, those who had served thirty-six years were en titled to promotion. The Hon. and Gallant Member then went into a comparison of the several services of the different members of the service. He held in his hand a return of 35 years, all of them were of about 40 year's service. The majority of those had received wounds in the service, and though others might be in clined to refrain from acknowledging their merits, yet he thought that a public acknowledgment was justly their due. Then there was another subject, and that was, the assertion that public rights were the first to b( considered. To this he might say, public that i o c fthe the rights a had cer tainly their due, but they might obt a i n muc h more than ssi s i e tance assistance h th a e d ir be d e u n e' ve a r n y d r h e a e dy w t as o a v v e aryil glad to seesservice evidentlycivilian mshownght the of benefitord Metcalfe,t ha that be of to the country in the t . re ul g a ion of the army. With regard to the general officers his Hon. Friend the Member for Montrose had told them that they were too old to be fit for service. Well he . admitted much, as but they formed but a small portion of the commanding officers of the army. They numbered only, he believed, 305, and the majority of these were performing very active service. Then as to expense, his Hon. Friend seemed to think that the expense of these general officers far exceeded that of other countries, but really his Hon. Friend was mistaken. The expense fell short, of the same item in France, while in this country it was a fact that the 300 officers of the class he was now alluding to had paid to the nation upwards of a million for their Commissions. He must now advert to the warrant of the Ist May last. It was an injustice to the army that this warrant was not given more publicity to tha n it received ; but above all it s spirit, which admitted of any officer of high rank claiming a retiring allowance, without reference to good conduct or merit, was highly objectionable. Many officers, who had strong claims upon the country for such an allowance, were debarred from receiving it be cause they did not possess sufficient influence to have their claims brought before the country, while the same warrant deprived all officers from promotion, or retirement upon pensions, if no papers could be found deposited in the War-office supporting their claim to advancement. In some instances these papers might be lost, and altogether ho considered the principle of the warrant to be most unjust. No less that, 29 officers had recently been excluded from retiring allowance under this warrant, of which number nine were Companions of the Bath, while the other twenty re. 1 :1 aCI Fr{ quently distinguished themselves in the se rvice _O 4 their country. It was his decided opinion, that a ll otb _ core who bed attained a particular r a nk, ought to be ,'ntitlicl to receive the minimum retiring allowance. un tit attached to their respective ranks, and that it,yst ern were estab ished, much injustice would be done to the officers of the British army He save sa no reason why some provision should n ot be d made for the education of the sons of non-corninisioneif officers as well as the sons of commissioned officers. a gentleman of private fortune sent his son to be edirs;,. catcd for the army, he had the means at his coaanisne" to give that education, but with the poor man this icat impossible, unless some increased facility were give° $ Sandhurst or elsewhere, for that purpose. H e was sorri to trespass so long on the attention of the House, 13 : 0 the importance of the subject was his apology. and bye hoped the details he had given would have the effect o f drawing attention to the subject. Steam had comple i tr e changed everything relating to the art of war, an°, _ ie hoped her Majesty's Government would direct tntehe attend n to improve the national defences, otherwise . most disastrous results might follow should an ins'asloo of Mr. thi country ever be attempteds FOX MAULE was afraid . if he alluded to all be debate his Noble Friend brow ht before the Houma' shed would take up a larger portion of their time than t . r o 'd would be inclined to afford him. His Hon. Friend " referred to rations, pension!, barracks, and almost ere a r i e s subject comprehended under military discipline. , . 1 10 ought, however, to consider that in carrying out mini.si. regulations the Government had to look to other O ho , derations as well as the improvement of the army- r f, ; 0 1 had to look to the state of the finances, and to the 1 00 which the other branches of the public service ha l i e d them. The first subject to which his Hon. Friend e Ol l . attention was rations. With regard to that, he he ll . e a ll that the mode adopted in the service might not Inv cases be an equitable arrangement —(Hear. hear.) t he subject had been brought under the attentio n 0 isie Chancellor of the Exchequer, at the close o f the tor session, but when the House recollected the ma n)? °. of considerations, which of late demanded the attention.sed that Right Hon. Gentleman, they would not be s ur qbe that he had not yet come to any decision on in be et spirit ration he was happy to say had er done away with in every colony, with the e% e „, i i lion of Australia and New Zealand, and he was h ! r e r e, to say that the most beneficial results had fella/. ie Some discontent had been manifested by a reginaenij Australia, with regard to the rum ration. And he, e e not think that the military authorities there had v e tt . wholly exempt from blame in reference to the ci rev ete stances connected with that. He trusted, however• tbrec the discontent would be amicably put an end to, and Ithe in future matters would proceed in that colony oe t he same footing as the other colonies. With regard to .0 commutation of the pension, he thought, that to ° I . 'eye ' it was an act of fraud committed on the peris l- s iele was too harsh an interpretation of that commut e of The next question which he touched upon Was shed barracks. He was quite ready to admit that in W e i la gress of civilization there is much fault to be fou n sat the over crowded state of some of the barracke.o, the fact of the matter was, that new times were aPP r ejer ing for the army. Men of the old school did not cerl'sa",et that the soldier could be better off than at the g r ,,:teti moment ; but the progress of public opinion inaw-ti, that the accommodation to the army should be g ee n et extended, and that their wants should be looked t"tee the earliest moment. The finances of the count* to permit.—(Hear, hear.) He would not de sire en o do away with the canteens, but he would Prise to put them under better regulations, and " (t oe was no reason why the canteen room should no t OiS one of recreation for the men during leisure hours. ef' Hun. Friend complained of the accommodatlellsteil forded to married men. It was no doubt to be reg re e eee that far better provision was not afforded ; bu t the W er e Lion was one of a very delicate nature, If theree, the only a certain number of married women allowed 'op army for the necessary domestic arranges:tea s e .' lO C then, he considered that they were bound to S y " 130, they were maintained in a respectful man ne r ed with regard to those soldiers who o'olol without the leave of their comma nding t cers, he was very sorry to say O a {or would be most injudicious to afford faciliiowo such a practice—(Hear hear)— and though h el e sse lie fl blushed at the little convenience afforded to the isee, women, yet he was rot prepared to advise any lord tinder the circumstances he alluded to.--(flear , o ee! With regard to another point, namely, the pas siege in the brevet of such officers as had entered Or r eire pay, he would only say that, if it was otherwise, nt tiO e ' ment upon full pay would not be permitted e% net der very extraordinary circumstances. With re.hy, t to artillery officers and engineers being i neligt " being placed upon the staff, he would obserrureof such was not the fact. There were oel instances to the contrary. He remernberehier 0 case where an officer of artillery was Gev el 'oetP Quebec, and had many regiments under his coo: 11 ,1 several instances of the same kind had 0 011 ;0 0: Ireland. There remained only seventeen or P• 00 0 cases in which any doubt existed, but of these se t ° sit eight more were granted, leaving at this monien. k . nine or ten officers who were promoted under !cub led brevet, who had not received the rewar d to wil l e d tlif, were entitled. On his entering into office be fo r 11 "s o r th e a warrant had been prepared by payment of these pensions. Ttiat warrant as and to the public as any Act of Parliament, ea , the army could not be kept in suspense or doulon sgc e 4 that warrant the pay of unattached general r"'" was granted. In 1814 that principle vis l 1 11 , forward, but was found to be too expensive', his predecewssang s i fr o 1822 an alteration eras made which , 11 0 0 the system almost upon its present rg ir 1 3 ' Several alterations were made until 1844, when 001 Hardinge framed a warrant with reference to thdeo, then before the House. It explained, on more elettlilesnill° specific terms, what the services were which wont% ore officers to the benefit of unattached pay. If ther tef any gallant officers who did not come within theitieslr lations of that warrant, but who were really en`reeol:; good service pensions from the State, upon the B O f mendation of the commanding officer, would cone ot r o C i within its benefit as to receive the pay o r 4° Gell annum. Tbe only other point which h ie edo r io Friend had touched upon, was the system °4O tion in the army. That was a wid e r 00O r • ciiscuse ; but, in the present state of th e „wir d , it would not be advisable to start so in )° ,: e iae r e topic. His Noble Friend at the head of the Gor e ; eo o o ,e and the Commander-in-Chief, had been in coorr oa yl e ' r tion on this subject, and in a short time step' etO d o taken to establish a proper examination fm. offiee e r i d, P o i ing a higher rank than they had forme-11Y h, 0 13 s o Hon. Friend had further stated that there S u ° 4 o,i some le place for the education of the children ofed and non-commissioned officers. There was , 11 10 11 0 , already established where the orphans of those r r e a o o , died in action, and of those who had served thelksyle„o, try, were educated—that was the Royal Mil itary pe e ks There was also the Royal Hibernian Asylum is Ole which was devoted to the same purpose , an Abbe was found to be most effi ctive in its operati° ,t e question, however, was one which could 11 ' r ' df to be entertained by the Government, and Pre e roe see sures sures adopted to effect the object which his " - : le d Gallant Friend so much desired. He entr e7 s tro r i ) [louse to place that confidence in the Adiniel it Y which he thought it deserved, by the measeres already adopted. 0 0 10 Colonel LINDSAY wished to make a fee,' ne e a d upon what had fallen from his Rie;lit Hon. Fr'e,bet Right Hon. Friend was wrong in saying T orOdt women, or wives of soldiers, were kept in the t he h v ir in London, for there was barely room f or teed themselves. He thought that the ventilation inelesOte rack-rooms was badly effected, for the men fr e er'" complained of the lassitude induced by the lnir os oili e ,if mosphere in which they slept. There was also C p . Ili a - 00 able difficulty in the men obtaining lodgings , Le e, 40 ' If wives at a price commensurate with their 05 0 many of the teen, in order to save their wives fre i B Fir / e4 lived, or starved, themselves upon bread and b. O There was another hardship to which the seltli e be solo exposed. Though the allowance to them Enig ht el eo9 cient for them in a singl e s t a te, they had e° 119 meet any extra expense that might be incurred ,efe,o in a married state. If a wife or child died, theno Nelf" the same expense as a civilian; yet there wag the s e, whatever made for the contingency. He tention of the Right Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Fox e OO O to this circumstance, with the hope tha t he " il sold il t d remedied. He further thought that those ~„0 , whose case Lad been brought forward by the O ti v t led o rs Gallant Member for Westminster, were fairly et s e consideration and redress. He would conclart 4. l.ool serving that of all the grievances brought fei r- n - er night, none was so much entitled to the attentie- sji Government as the case of the married soldiertn . 4 Se Mr. HUME wished to ma k e a f ew obserYstil;er had at an earlier peri o d o f t h e n i g h t o bj ec ted tna",A s vet as an expensive and useless affair, and the . 7, 0 111 t, Gallant General objected to what he said, 1 ) ,"01,50. would appear from his speech that that breve t lie ‘, l O most unfair and one-sided. In reply to hin 39 , 0 0 1 " 0 0 1 Hume) would say that he was as anxious as h e n elrlAt for the real welfare of the soldiers, but he e t - r ig' agree to the abuses which existed in the artni:bet in the service there were 368 generals, whi le be. jl were in active service. This ought not l id be 0 0 hoped that the condition of the soldier vv° e. 006 1 1 proved, especially in regard to ventilation, s e a. l'etu, health of the army might be kept unimpair e pro 3 0' he would do all justice to the active service he: F el s et' against the inefficient portion. At present th, n e J e ieo o l the efficient service 4,175,0001, while the inel'er, vice cost 2.150,0001., or one-half of the fornlthet brevet of last year alone cost 250,000/., an I/ o ° oi given entirely to the inefficient service. ) • ; `b be o f abives as these that he objected to, and wh' e fjoe' l tl° always opposed. He entirely agreed with . O noth e ',l Gallant General as to the defective educatlue army, and hoped that the Government woul d , ge° sures to have it redressed. h ieh Mr. WILLIAMS said the harmony wr e - e s y e ", among the officers of the army in t" - ii to 0 0' appeared most extraordinary. They seemed 0, e tre se , t ee e that there was nothing right in its presentt eie d o' The Hon. and Gallant General had coinplaL",, - 0 , l!„ 0 1 0 . '; present amount of half-pay, when the fact' w ihe wl; equal to one third of the whole sum paid for Owe" tenance of the army. The Hon. and Ga lls l tord s l complained that no accommodation was We'd 1 : 0 e,, soldiers' wives ; he (Mr. Williams) wood 0 0 A V: attention of military gentlemen in that Ilue sc s oi oe g s been directed to the hundreds of thousand s cce 0) 111 beings in the country, who had not only life'f co ; tion, but who wanted the bare necessaries Be rg 00 (Mr. Williams) did complain that the s heof f tel Guards were immoderately paid for i ce d t jor' . I trivial services. Certain gallant men had r 1 1 10 [JO selves to high and honourable vositions, lelirn);0000 and Gallant Frinel e,eite hue stir bt eiog these gentlemen of the Guards, witnout Olivet) service, worthy of the name, without basil, 00:00 out of the metropolis, were entitled to rob,bo veterans of the line. When a gentleman in