The Sun. — London, England, 1857-07-29 00:00:00

TO 7 1 Er. • of Y•) vho :ing re►h t Up a,uy- 1 for ;toes piut after had I no >lace was dng I for ) to' lon )usi- pie P. 3 the ices, iota- brl s aka I tho bops aots. Od 6d; . w•, 1.31. ,ving tho vvout -An )uke froth 111 24 1:1-1 r;T A 7) 7" ART) COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, Two O'CLOCK. The Liverpool Cotton Market yesterday mani fested a firm appearance, and pri , !es were fully as dear for all descriptions. The sales were estiehaled at 8,000 bales, 1,500 of which were taken by the B Peculaters. The Railway Share Market closed quii-tly, with very few transactions, and prices Were without any material a'teration. The efflux of bullion from the Bank of England continues, and during the last week upwards of 200 ,0001. has been withdrawn. This is a most un favourable movement ; but large amounts of specie are daily expected from Australia, which may socn Make up the deficiency thus produced. Yesterday a furthersum 0f45, 000/. was sent away for transtniFsi; .n to the Continent, whole supplies of silver are being obtained for the Els'. The Overland Mail, now telegrapher', reports a slight advance in the rates of exchange in India and China, and this is likely to occasion increased shipm' nts to those countries, but there is still every prosrect of the receipts of specie being suffi.:ient to satisfy this demand and eave a small surplus for the Bank. The alterations Da the exchanges will be seen —by the following table : This Mail. s. d. s. d. P. d. s. d. Calcutta 2 Ito 2 1 2 21 to 2 2a Bombay 2 2 to 2 2,1 2 21 to 2 2,i } long Kong 4 11i 4 11i to sOf 7 Laat Mail. Shanghai 7 2 to 7 3i 7 3 to 7 4 The advices state that money in India was be coming dearer, and trade, as might naturally be expected, was almost at a stand-still. Some Persons seem disposed to view the intelligence in a favourable light, but the majority are disap pointedb The Continental exellangem, yesterday afternoon, were less satisfactory, the operations in silver hav ing had an unfavourable influence. The demand for discount accommodation has increased, and full rates are now, in almost all c ases, exacted for the negociation of commercial Paper. This revived pressure, however, is likely to be only temporary ; and as soon as the pay ments of the 4th are completed, some relief w i l l no nnubt be experienced. Besides the preparations for the engagements then maturing, the arrange kents connected with the harvest also give ex tended employment to capital. In consequence of the advices by the Overland Mail tea is held for 4d. per lb. advance, and salt petre has risen ls. 6d. to 2s. per cwt. The advices from India being considered rather more encouraging, the fall in the Funds has been arrested. Some of the speculators for a decline have realised, and pric s are firmer. Increased confidence is apparent, and an early settlement of the insurrection is calculated upon, but when the mail is deli v e re d it is not improbable that the intelligen ce may be deemed more unsati-factory. very large amount of stock has been sold of late, and there is consequently a slight pause, as the I ndian news has been " discounted." Consols fur transfer have been 94 91, and 91A, while for ac count they have been 911 1. The present quota tions are 91k for money, and 91-1 I f )r the account. The New 3 per Cents. have be-n 91i and the Deduced 911 g. Exchequer Bills continue to im prove, and they are now quoted 2s. to ls. dis count. The Bonds are 988, and India Bonds Poreign Stocks are generally firmer, but there is ne animation. Turkish 6 per Cents. have recovered ,!° 94 1 95, and the 4 per Cents, are at a small a nprovement. Sardinian Bonds are 89 to 891 ; do. Deferred, 25 ; Dutch 4 per Cents., 98 ; and Mexican, 22k. Peruvian 4/ per Cents. brought 81 4, and do. 3 per Cents. 55i: The following are the nominal prices of Foreign Stocks :—Grenada Deferred Bonds, 6 61 ; Mexican, . 24 i; Peruvian, 81 2 ; ditto 3 per Cents., 55 6; Portuguese 3 per Cents., 441 5 ; Russian 5 Per Cants., 110 12 ; ditto 4i per Cents., 97 99 ; SPauish 3 per Cents., 40 ; ditto New Deferred, 25 ; ditto Certificates, ö ditto Passive, 51 I. A moderate business has been done in the Rail way Share Market., and prices, in most instances, have shown an upward tendency ; the charges, also, for "carrying over" to the next account are easy. Caledonian, Great-Western, Great-Northern, Lancashire and Yorkshire, North-Western, and Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, advanced ss. ; and South-Western and South-Eastern, 15s. ; North-Eastern (Berwick), and North-Eastern (York). were flat, and declined about 10s. to 15s. In the French lines no business was reported, and quotations a-e nominal ; the Canadian are inactive, at about previous rates. East Indian are steady. Mining Shares have shown very little activity. ar Cons ds are at 20, and Vale of Towy, Join -Stock Bank Shares spew but little variation 4 ° 1 4 previous values. L'indon Joint-Stock have advanced about 10s. City, Bank, English, Scot ti sh, Australian Chartered, and London Chartered of Australia, were at previous prices. The values of Miscellaneous Shares have rather improved. Peninsular and Oriental Steam have Iniprov e d Bias, ; 131t1 -T ISII FUNDS.—CLOSING PRICES—THIS DAY. (From the Officzal List:) 3 Business Tore. 3 P e ' Cent. Reduced Annuities 9li i $ i 11!)er C ent Consois Annwitie - lh 1 T 3 ? Per Cent. Annuities MIMI °" Annuities, expire Rii Jan. 1 F6O 24 India. Stock e k 23 19 d n - iiotitti, latltit) ' 4'. Sels for A 4enunt Ei ehequer 13ills, 2d. RlOco ' ••• ... ao() * ktall * .. ••• P , i renequ . er Bonds, 1858, :4 per Cent.... 'Atte, 15359 _Jaexiraecan ilian . 5 !_n , :PR ICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS—THIS DAY. per Cent. 3 per Cent 22h : Peruvian Bonds, 41 per Cent Bl} IS_ t Di tto 3 p er C en t . inian Donis, 5 per Cent. ~. ....... 89 I i p thb :,n,,•ds, 3 per Cent. Dittc Now Deferred, 3 j-er t. C 11 . • Turki s h ;'otds, ii per cent 25 946 + Ditto Account 94i 5 Dividends on the above payable , Lei, , n. hitch Exclange, 2 per Cen:;., 12 Guilders Do. 4 per Cent. Certificates ...... . ... 2 1 5 d ... 5 1 2 5 d ... 1 d par 5 d ... 98 THREE O'CLOCK. Cananis ' money Cousoltsfor account, Aug. U .... 91 The Jupiter has arrived from Bong Kong. Mr. Rose, of Canada, had an interview with Mr. secretary Laboucbere yesterday at the C)lonial-offico. A marble monument to the memory of Sir John Campbell, who was killed at the storming of the Redan, was landed at Southampto n last week from Rome. It is still thought that the Ripon, on the 4th August, will take out about one million sterling in silver, the sum engaged being about 900,0001. Of the 61,3001. in specie hniught by the Niagara from Now York only about 12,0001. came to London. This amount was at once taken for remittance to the Con tinent. The report of the Netherlands Land Enclosure Com- Pany shows that the progress of the works is encourag ing. The growth of c.dza on the Bath polder has yielded a profit which, it is stated, justifies favourable exnecta tions. Further acquisitions of land have been made, in cluding, in one case, 1.760 acreP. Tns OYSTER FISUERIES.—Copies of directions given for giving effect to certain rasa or b% a-laws made by the Committee of Council for Trade on the 21st of May last, respecting the oyster fisheries in the seas between the British islands acid France, and on all parts of the Coast of Great Britain within the British fishery limits have keen laid on the tab!e of the House of Commons And printed. The prospectus has been issued of the Westminster Palace Hotel Company, with a capital of 100,0001. in 10/ shares. The site is a plot of ground close to the Abbey in Victoria -street, and the p:ornoters point to the advantages to be derived from its proximity to the tiou , es of Parliament and the courts of law. The building is to c ,uprise 200 sleeping rooms. PRICE OF GOLD —The quotation of gold at Paris is about 4 per mine premium, and the short exchange on London is 25.20 per 1/ sterling. On comparing these ,rates with the English Mint price of 3/. 17s. 101 d per wance for standard gold, it appears that gold is about 1 0ths per cent dearer in Paris than in London. By advices from Hamburg the price of gold is 422 i per mark, and the short exchange on London is 13.41 per 11. sterling. Standard gold at the English Mint price is therefore about 2-10ths per cent. dearerin Hamburg than 1p London. The course of exchange at New York on London for bile at 60 days' sight is 1091 per c-nt. which, when compared with the Mint par between the two countries, shows that the exchange is about at par; and, after making allowance fur charges of trans port and diff erence of .nterest, tne present rate leaves camly any p onthe roat importation of gold from the Ritt4 6t4tte, froul f: o 9 Len roaPit Say ; ted ; übo; resit, [SOD• ena, oser out• 7claf daY, 'rreY .4,d9 aricf hful sae, )Re ire, the 1' E 61111. - MAIILLTS—,Ihi3 Day.) - RAILWAYS Closing Price this day Bu imess dune this day. 5i - .53 ... +~ .., 8i - 9 6') - 71 8 - 8i 90 - 92 - 76 351 - 36;11 4 - ~5 9 - 10 20} - 2O 11i - 52 - 54 35 - 36 8— 7 d 96 98 = 63 ii : iii 99 - 101 8 - 9 97 - 93 91 - 93 1 20 - 122 103 - 105 63. - 64 63 - 65 70 74 6 8 6 8 ;", too 6a 11 11? LO3 - 103.!, , . ..-• ... d 39 i 1004 tii = :ii 83 - 54 - 14 - 1:5 65 - 34 - 31 45 - 46 93 94 23 -- 23 2i -1/, 434 44 , 1 76/ 97 99 - 74 8 10 - 10 341 351 6 td lot 106 25 26 49 50 3 2 17 18 741 753 91 - 93 1 st}- 411 5i - 4:1:1 9 - 11 41 - 43, .4. ••• 21i -22 i - 7 - 9 3 -3, 5i - 5i 3 hr• ( ;aid RAILWAYS. 10 krobz. Wottng. Bost. Si Eastn. June..... . 50 , all Belfast & Ballymena 1 3i all Birmug. Wolverh. Stour Valley St. 100 Birkenhd. Lanesh. Cheshire Jnuet 25 all P,lackhurn 25 all i ßlyth & Tyne original £25 (iss. at £45) St- 100 Bristol & Exeter St. 100 I Cs. ed0nian........... SA. 100 Chester & Holyhead DU all Cork and Bandon 20 all Cork, Black: & Pass 20 all . ( Cornwall 1 0 all D 10 8 Do. B V, 45 Dublin&Belfastjunc 6 ° all Dun. P. &Aber.Junc. S q t ,-; 1 00 East Anglian ......... a „",. all Eastern Counties..... 100 EasternUnion,A.stk. 0-5 . 100 Do., do. - 35 84 Do, New A 25 17i East Kent ....... St. 100 East Lancashire ...... 20 all East Suffolk 10 4 Do. St. 100 Edinburgh & Glasgow 0 all Ed!nb. andPeobles... t. 100 Eflinb.Prth.&Dunde 0 all Forth and ClydeJunc. St. 109 Furness ...... . St. 1( ' Gl asgow & S.. Western 10 all 'Great N. of Scotland 100 'Great Northern ...... St. 100 Do., A. Stock ft- 100 !Do., B. Stock .... St. 100 ;Gt. Sth.&West.are. St. 100 IGreatWestern. . St. 100 Do. Str.V.B gua.S: 12 all (Irish South-Eastern 5( , all 'Lancaster &Carlisle. 10 3 14f;D0., Third 5........... 16 1, 12 'D o . New Thirds it. 100 Lancash &Yorkshir 1 .„ 6 6 Do., do. F £l6 .. Do., Wst. Riding Un 2r all Do. Southport...... ,!, - 15 1 all London & BlackwsY 100 Loud. Melt. S.Cst St. 100 London &N. Wester.• 20 all Do. Fifths . . 10 , all 12 :1 5 Do. Eighths st• 100 London & S.Weate r 25 I a ll L n d n d r ry.&Coleram 25 all Lndndrry. & Ennisk S t- ;100 Manch .Sh ef. &Lineln 1 ,2 I 1 Metropolitan 0 1 Do. J. L. Ricardo', arrangement ..... Midland ........ Do. Birming. & Derb Midland G. West.ar. St. 'lOO S t. 'lOO 50 all 25 100 I all 25 all 50 9 20 all Do. i Shares St. 100 50 3A St 100` St. 100 St. 100 B t. 100 St. I too 25 all 25 16i 50 all St 100 St. LOO 10 31.1 !O 17; !CI all .0 all ;t• 100 20 16 10 10 St. 100 St. 100 St. 100 10 6 • all M. 100 O all >t. 100 all O 10 n all 15 all ;5 15 R. 100' ;t. 100 ;5 22 :0 all !CI all i 0 all 1 ,0 all .0 all 5 all 5 all 20 all 10 all 20 all 10 all Newcastle & Carl isle. Newpt.Aberg.&Hrfd Newry & Newry, Warrenpoin & Rostrovor N0rf01k................ Northn. Counties Un North British . North Devon, Rail. Dock Stock Do., A Stock ......... Do., B Stock ......... N. Eastern Berwick Do. do. Extension Do do. G. N. E. Pnrch s Do Leeds Do. York North L0nd0n....... N. & S. Wstn., Hamp stead, and City Jn North Staffordshire North Western N. & S. Westrn. June xford Worcester & Wolverhampton 'ortsmouth Rhymney Scottish Central Scot. N. E.Abrdn. St Shropshire Union Sitingbourne &Sheer South Devon South Eastern Do. 44 per:. Shares South Wales S. Yorkah. River Dur D 0......... ............ Staines,Wok.,&Wok. Stockton & Darling Do. do., 1834 Do. do., 18c5 Stockton & Hartlopl Taff Vale Do. Pref., No. Thames Hay. D. &R. Vale of Neath. ..... Waterfd. & Kilkenny Waterford&Limerick West Col nwall.. West End of London and Crystal Palace Do. A Do. B , West London Do. First Class Do. Second Class Wmbledon &Croydon BRITISH POSSESSIONS. 75 i i 1!.'0 all Atlan. and St. Law. 1 ••• ••• 18 9 'Bombay, Baroda, and Cen.lnd,guar. 5 P.c. 4 d par 18 all Do. 204 10A P.uffalo & Lake Hur 44 4 d 100 100 - Boff. , Brut& Godch tBB 92 100 100 6 p.c.b.ds., 1 Aug.,'72 f Do. do., 1 July, 73 85 90 100 100 Do. do., 1 June, '74 85 90 20 2s. Calcutta and S. East, 20 2sod Central Oude (Lim.) ... •,. 20 lOs Ceylon A s/ares — 20 1 Do. B. (1 , - 174 all Denierara 20 2s. Eastern Bengal - I St. 100 East Indian 99 101 20 15 Do. C Shares 4d -- par 100 all Do.4A p.c.Bnds.,'s7 100 all Do. do. do., '59, do. ... 20 all Geelong & Melbourne guar. 5 per cent. 2) 204, St. 100 . Trunk. of Canada 54 56 100 all Do. 6p c. Deben B3 89 I 20 all Gt. In t Pen. g. 5 per c. 20 20 4 Do. New. guar. 5 p.c. jd par' 204 all Gt. Wcstn. of Canada 21i 224 20! 101 Do. New 100 all Do. Bds., payable '57 99 101 100 all Do. do., '76, p. '6O lO9 —•• 113 100 all Do. do., '73, do. 100 all Du. do., '73, without option 107 10) 20 all Madras, guar. 44 p.c lB 19 20 all Do. do., 5 per c. 19 —2O 20 10 Do. 44 p. c. Eaten. 1 1 d 20 5 Do. 3d Ex., g. sp.c. A 4d 20 5 Do. 4th Ex., do. 20 ss. Onde (Limited) 20 5 Scinde, guar. 5 per c 20 all Do 971 92 i 64 3i 64A toot i 63 ]ll¢ ll 103$# 100 a ~, 831 8 93 i2l 44. f 76 5 13$i 7i 34 5 174 74i 5 891 i 00,16 no 1 87 i i 8i 193 3i 1 4 211 ,•• •• I I - • tP, FOREIGN. 10 all Antwrp &Rotterdam 61 61 20 18 Ardennes... ......... ..• 5 all ... ... 20l 6 13e Belgian zi e rs t 0 E a o s r t a . i Bse Janet. sBa e •. .1 . A —.... 1 . !. 6 all ICarmcaux&Toulous p Coal Mines and By. 41 40 20 12 Dutch Rhenish 4 3A f 20 all Eastern of France 261 27/ 261 20 all Do. New ... 20 2s. Euphrates Valley 20 18 Gt, Central of France 23i 24 231 20 all Great Luxembourg 7l . 8 7 16 4 Italian Junction . ... _ 20 i all Lake Conat. & Bale .. ••• 20 all Lierre and Turnhout • . .... 4 20 6 Lomhardo-Venetian 4/ 4;p 5 all Lucca 61 Pist.sp.c.) ... •• 20 all Lyons and Geneva 20 all Lyons & Mediterran. ... ••• 33/, all Maria Antela 10 all Do. Now •• ••• 20 all Namur & Liege 20 all Do, do. 6p. c. Pref l9; 20 16 all Northern of France 331 -3 3 i 10 all NorwegianTrnk•Pref 84 W 20 all Paris and Lyons 54/ 541 20 all Paris and Orleans 56 53 20 7 Reeife & San Fran , 1 0 7A Re fi t i e la s a n m d .) Fma g. E 7 0..... 13 t . i a .. ... • I 2(5) alla l a 1 laaulil Royalßo p y . l s DanishAswpeera c. Pref 1 81 _ . .. . 1 19 ! 171 2C all Sambre and Meuse 7A D w o e . s s t i ma pc ii r d c e e rs nt. pref. 8 ,4 , ^ 5 O 1 180 0 i 20 all Southern of France.. 261 271 20 all 'W.&N.W. of Franc( 28 - -- 29 20 6 Western of Austria„. —• 2O all , West. of Switzerll ••• '' 6 all Wiesbaden . .. 6 all ; Do. Bp. cent. .. --- ... 20 all Zealand.... • "' "'•• .•... . ... •• ••• _ JO INT - STOCK BANKS. 40 all f Australasia . 89 91 25 181 Bank of Egypt 100 50 Bank of London 2 —11 d 45 —.. 4 7 40 all Bri.Col Bk.&Ln. Co. „. --- 50 all , British N. American . . 16 - 6 65 50 20 BC. Rk.of Ind•Au.&Ch il Id 100 City 100 25 'Colonial . ... 100 20 Commercial of Lond. ... -_ 2O all lEng.Scot.&Aus.Cht. 18 co 184 20 all ILon.Ch. Bk.of Aust. 17 13 17i i 20 all Ditto Now — ... 2t, 29 London and County .• ... 30 50 50 Lud.&E Bnkng.Corp ... ... 50 10 London Joint Stock ... ... 31i i 160 20 Lond.andWestminst. ... ... 100 35 National Pro. of Eng. ... ... 20 10 IDo. New .............•• ... ... 50 22i 1 National Bank 20 All New South Wales.... 46 43 25 all Oriental Bank Corp 34 36341 5 4 20 15 Ottoman Bank . 1C:0 l5 ' Provinc al of Ireland ... --- 10 all Do. New . -••••• ••• 5 1 R.Aus.S.&G.Im.Co .. . ••• , n „, 25 all South Australia 32A —33 t 25 all Union of Australia 54 55 ... 2; I Do. New . 6 7 50 10 I Union of London . _ .. ... 14)1 50 Unity Mutual .. _. d WO 50 Westrak of Lo'n'tl ..- , l3 /14 0 SUN, WEDNESDkv LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. Leasing Companies Closing ['deo , this day Ln.Saf.W. Calk.don E. TJ. & E. C Gt. Northn I E. Count. Caldonian. , 91 - 93 1 11 - 13 1133 - 135 I 3 i - 4. "It. Westn. Y. N.M Do Do 107 - 109 S.F.storn Do 12 - 124 2' -23 1100 - 102 I is-AP Peto &Co Do IAI. drN .W W. v Midld. Midland... 21 - 25' .01 - E. Count Do Do Do L. &N . W Do Gt. Northn T. Brassey M. Masan Stk.diDar Do Gt. West n 55 - g 5 -57 r ... f ... - 131 I 8 - Si 9 - 9J 32 = 89 - 91 FERENCE SIIAR: 89 - 91 35 - `97 6i lil - 115 112 - 116 - 121 - 124 ii Pm • .. - • • 70 - 72 -11 G 105 - 107 100 - 102 60 -- 62 10i -- 10 51 -- 6i 92 -- 94 82 - 84 t 43 -- 85 1 93 -101 91 -10 t 17 -- Of -- 73 -- 75 19i -29 t -10 k 14/ 15t STEWARDS' CUP. t3B - 141 1115 - 117 155 - ]5B Thirty-four ran. 501. PLATE. 61 - 69 1.33 - 135 97 - 99 87 - 89 11 - 11 Leamington Gunboat 50mer5et......... Nineteen ran. ••• - •.. 102 - 104 93 95 I# id 1 Acl 22i 117 - 119 98 - 100 114 - 116 105 - 110 18i -- 19 224 - 23 98 - 100 95 - 100 27 - 2 - .2i_ 2 SUN OFFICE, ►even u'Olvek. THE MU ' T'I NY IN THE INDIAN ARMY. Lord Clarendon has this afternoon received the accompanying telegraphic despatch from the Acting Consul at Triest". July 29, -1.85. TELEGRAPH FROM MR. RAVEN, ACTING CONSUL AT TRIESTE, TO LORD CLAREN DON. ALEXANDRIA, JULY 22, 1857. The India mail brings no authentic account of the capture of Delh;. It was not taken on the 10th of the last month, when Gene ral Barnard, having repulsed two sorties, was waiting reinforcements, . which must have since joined. A letter from Banuy and Co., dated Madras, the 27th of June, states •posi tively that official intelligence had reached Madras the previorm . day cif the fall ,of Delhi, but this is net confirmed from Bombay on the Ist July. The mutiny had spread consi derably in the Bengal army, though it is not even now general, as might have been expected. At Be nares, on attempting t) disarm the 37th N. 1., the greater part of the Sikhs and the 13th irregular Cavalry, joined the mutineers on the 14th of June. The ex-King of Ondt., implicafed in the conspiracy, by intercepted papers, was lodged in the Fort William, and his followers disarmed. On the same day the native troops at Barrackpore and Calcutta were quickly disarmed. English troops are arriving fast.__. An act has been passed by Legislative Council for placing the Indian press under license to be with drawn at pleasure. In Madras and Bombay pre sidencies all remains quiet. The only disturb ances being a mutiny of the first Nizam's Cavalry, at Turungabad, promptly put down by Bombay co lumn. Our usual forces in China, on BthJune, took a fort and destroyadabout one hundredand twenty seven junks, mounting nine hundred guns. Three officers and 8 men killed ; 3 officers and 53 men wounded on oou side. The capture of thirteen junks on the 27th •day of May, and twenty-seven junks on the 28th of May ; also mentioned. The dates are, from Calcutta, June 21; Madras, 28th June ; Ceylon, Ist July ; Hong Kong, 10th June ; Bombay, Ist July. (Signed) RAVEN. GOODWOOD RACES.—(This Day.) (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) Tournament .......................... . . ......................... 1 Unexpected ............................... ...... . ......... 2 Theodora Madame Olicquot Grand Duchess Dispute ................................................. Seventeen rao. SWEEPSTAKES OF 300 SOPS. Lord of the Hills 97 8 Two ran. GOODWOOD STAKES. LATEST BETTING. GOODWOOD STAKES. sto 1 agst Hobgoblin 7 to 1 agst Fisherman 10 to 1 agst Barflenr 10 to 1 agst Martinet 12 to 1 agst Bird-in-the-Hand 12 to 1 agst Somerset 16 to 1 agst Van Duna -16 to 1 agst Homily. , • 25 to 1 agst Potocki 25 to 1 aght Gunboat IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF COMMONS—(This Day.) The SPEAKER took the chair at 12 o'clock. DROGHEDA ELECTION COMMITTEE. The members of the committee appointed to try the election returns for Drogheda, were called to the table and sworn. PRIVATE BUSINESS. The amendments to the Islington Parish Act Amendment Bill were considered and agreed tr.. EASTERN ARCHIPELAGO COMPANY. Mr. DRUMMOND asked the Secretary to the. Trea sury on what guarantee 43,0001. of the public money had keen advanced to support a private specu lation of the Eastern Archipelago Company ; what secarlty for the same bad been given ; whether the Government was itself going to work the coal mines of Labuan, and, if not, whether the Government were mortgagees and at what rate of interest ; whether the Government bad guaranteed to pay to the Sultan his royalties or to ensure that they should be paid ; whether the Government had taken seaurity that the money should be lona fide employed in the way for which it had been asked, and when the money was to he repaid I Mr. WILSON said that the question of the hon. member assumed that an advance bad been made by the Government towards a private speculation. He (Mr. `Nilson) knew nothing of the circumstances, and as his attention had only been called to the question within the last quarter of an hour, he bad been unable to make inquiries relative to the subject. He would give an answer to the question to-morrow. SMOKE NUISANCE (SCOTLAND) ABATEMENT BILL. The house went into committee on this bill. Oa clause 1. Mr. BOUVERIE said he was friendly to theobjects of the bill, but was not prepared to support the comprehen sive provision of the clause which would take in every description of manufacture throughout Scotland. He considered some inquiry should be instituted before they agreed to it, because great difficulties existed in carry ing out the provisions of the English Act, and the pro blem of removing the smoke nuisance has yet to be removed. He moved the onai.sion of the clause. A discussion ensued, in which Sir J. Calebroke, Mr. Dunlop, Mr. Kinnaird, Mr. BJuverie, Mr. Buchanan, Sir J. Anderson, and other hon. members took part. The clause was agreed to. Clauses 3, 15, and 18 were struck out. The other clauses with amendments were agreed to, and the bill passed through committee. The house remumed. SUPERANNUATION ACT AMENDMENT BILL. The debate on this'bill was resumed t)y. Mr. RICH, who said that he was obliged to speak against time on a former occasion, from hon. members bel)w the bar refusing to hear his objections to the measure. His oljections to the bill were—first, that the bill was imperfectly framed ; secondly, that it would be unjust in its operations ; thirdly, that it was unneces sary ; fourthly, that it was based on erroneous state ments ; fifthly, that it would involve, a useless and ex travagant expenditure of public money : and sixthly, that it strongly recognised and encouraged a breach of confidence. He denied that this was a question of abatement or no abatement—that had been decided by the committee—but whether 1 00,000/. per annum should be added to the salaries of one-third of these public ser vants, and that third the richest part. He called upon the house to support the committee's report. • Lord NAAS said that the bill put before the house s caablaletdemoennt, and it was on that to decid e . H e regre tted that t q h u e e s h t o i o u n s e w o a f that the noble Secretary to the Treasury had felt himself bound to oppose the bill, and said that be considered that bon. gentleman had shown a degreee of unfairness Y the figures he used in year nine of illustration eminent of eb civil nist ia s nc e et r u v o a afr n ai t er s sg ü b wme er ne t e. xa L m a in t ed before the committee, and they stated that a longer deduction was made from the salaries than the pensions of the Government represented. H e denied that he had charged Government with a breach of contract. All they asked for was an alteration of the present system, which was a very bad one from its nature. He admitted that if there had been an increase of salaries within the last two or three years, it would have been an additional reason why his proposition for an increase should not be acceded to, but he was prepared to show that the salaries in many of the departments had not been increased, and he in stainced the Admiralty and Customs. In 1834 the num bl9er9 , o a f t c a i n vil rvansenuaalnetxspeenmseplootyse9d,2i6n the Admiralty was 61., giving an average of 2971. In 1856 the number was 262, the exoenses 74,385/ , and the average 2831 per annum. In 1834 the Cust , ims were collected by 4,856 persons, at a coat of 722,1001., giving an average of 1491. In 1856 the num ber was 5,570, the cost 814,0001., and the average annual salaries 1461. (Hear.) In further confirmation of his assertion, that salaries had not increased, he quoted from two. speeches delivered in that house by the Under secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Wilson.) On the 12th of June he said that notwith standing there had been an increase of business - in th,, deputoieuto. thole bad !:nseu adoabsoltito aid ftiaLwArs. 100 Buckghamsh. 100 Clydee.aleJc. all Col Stour Vg.' 100 g. G p all E. Un. H. Sh 100 Glas. Barr. & Noils.Direct !00 ;Do. Now all iGlstr.&Dn.Fr all I Hull dt Selby. all ;Do. Shares. all I Do. Shares. all Lon.dtGreenw all Do.Preferencc 100 Lon. Til., &S. Sh. all Manch.Bxton. and Matlock 100 ;Mild. Bradfd. 61 511Newmarket IBuryE.G.spe. 50 all N.dzEst.s p.c. 50 all Do. 6 per et 50 I all Do.Fixe(lsp.c 25 all ,Prest. dt Wyrel 12. j all IDo. Stirs. i St. 100 ißoystn.dzllit. 10 all ISlirews.& Her 12 all S. Stallordah 50 all WearVal.g6pe 25 all Do St. 100 :WiltskS.,rnrat 26 13 20 I St. St. 12i 12i 126 100 100 100 100 all St. 100 8A all St.' 1100 St. 100 St. 100 25 all 10 all 1.0.6 all 20 25 25 100 100 100 100 all all all ;i c2j. Blyth and Tyne 10 p. e.pref. (issd. at 501.) Bris. & Es. 4 p. c. st. Do. 4 per C. Shares.. Caledn. £lO 41 p. c. 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Lon. & S.W. 7 per ct.i late 3d Shares Londy.& Color. Sh Londy. &Ennis. Sh M., S.,&L. 6 p. Cent Do. do. do. £6 Do. do. 34 per cent Marypt. < Carl. 4 p.c Do. 44 per cent Do. do. Ntid. Consol. 6p. c. St. Do. Con Br. Bir. p.c. Do. 4i p. c. Pref. St. Do. L. &H. Prof. St. New.,Aber.. &c., pr. 5 p. c.red. 5 p.c. pm. Do. Perpet. 6 pr. ct. Norf k.Deb.4 p.c. Sb. Do. 5 p. c. Ext. 1846 Do. 54 p.c. pf , 1847 Do.Wv.V.sp. ..,1847 North British Do. 71. Preference K.E. Berw. 4 p.c.Prf Do. do. do Do. Leeds 6pc No.l Do. do. Qrs., 1848 Do. York H. & S. Pur North Staffordshire Ox., Wor. & Wolv. 6 p.c. Ist guar Do. 6 p. c. 2d guar Scot. Cent. New Pref. Sc.N.E.Aber.g.6p.c. Do. do. 7 p.c. p 7. St. Do. do.n p.c. pf. St South Devon Do. fixed 46 pr cent. S. Eastern (Reading Ann.) of £1 Os. 6d. Do. per cent Do. Fixed .q p.c. Sh S. Wales Gua. 4 p. c Do. do. 4i p. c S.Yorksh.4 p.c.Guar Stock. &Dar., s p. c Do do. do. Stock. & Hard. g. 5. p.c. till July 1, '56 Waterfd& Kilk. 6 pc. Alfred Cons. (Philk. ) British Iron .. . Condur3w ( Cambrn.) Dev. Gt. Cnsls. (Tay.) Great South Tolgus G rt. W. Alfrd.(Philk.) Grt.W. Vor (Helstn.) Lady Bertha 28 •- 3 p BRITISH MINES• 17 - 18 6 - 7 30 - 140 [lO - 450 15 - 17 3 8 41 10 - 12, 12 - 13 3 - 4 19 - 21 5 - 6 2i - 315 - 325 5 - 7 :75 -- 28 5 - 3i - 2ti - 28 i2O - 130 2.30 - 250 300 310 - 6 20 21 47 - 49 24 - 26 N. Frances (Illogan) IN.W.Bissei (Illogan) 6115INorth Wheal Crofty 16 Par. Cons. (St.Blaxy) 9 Porkellis U. (Wend.) 6s. Sort. Cons. MM. Co 26 S. Caradon (St. Clear 2 S. Carn Brea (Illogn. 19 S.W. Frances(lllogn. 44 Tam. S. St L. Min. Co 9 Tin Croft 40 Un.Minet, (Gwennap 12s 6,V. of Towoy (Camar.) 14 W. Basset (Illog 20 W. Caradon (Liskrd ) 56 Basset (Mogan) 5 'Wh. Buller (Rdruth) 54 Wh. Eclward(Calstck 117 s Wh. Kitty (U. Llant 8 Wh. Ma. Ann (Menht. Wh. Trelawney (Lis.) FOREIGN (Australian Brazilianlmp.(issued i at X 5 pin) Do. Cocaes & Cuiada Do. St. John Del Rey Clarendon Con. Min. 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New Royal Mail Steam Scot. Austral. Invest Do. New S. Aus, Gov. 6 p. c. bds South Austral. Laud Submarine Tel. Scrip Do. Registered True. Lu. Co. Up. Can. Van Nemon's Laud... MINES. li - li 11 - 13 45 47 1 10 12 1 15 17 71 71 ld p i - 7 *ig = .ii - ii ,ANEOUS. 21 - 23 . .• .• , I*. -- NI 138 142 113 - 114 30 - 35 24 26 4i 5h 6 7is •••l- ..., j - lg 11 1 1 3i 3i 14 2: la IA,I - 31 31 3 - 3A 1 - 18 - 97 • 9) 8i - lh -2/ ip 68 - 4. 1 ; - 5p 22 24 6 - 8 59 - 61. 11- ••• 105 -. fin i 3 35 1 1 •111 ..' ••• 11 ... VA itusinesa this day Do.. all 40 32 100 ' 100 100 all 100 all all I 103 100 all all all 10s. all all all all 84 1001 103 98 9 1131 3 i i 31 981 i 69 8i 8 9 14i 33 i : - .1: I Vt ' ' 1 ,'.„. _ - 7 .-.' - '•: (3,, , prso off r. t 4,0 ti U , Y tion of salaries ; whilst, on the 23 I of Joe-, the same right hon. gentleman said that there had been a large inc e Ise of salaries in altno:t eva:y branch of the public service. (Hear.) The noble lord denied that his bill was one for the benefit of the richer part of the service, as it had been stated. His bill would effect the lower class of servants—those receiving 1401 per annum and less, and two-thirds of them would be found to be only receiving 861. per annum. It was. therefore, he con tended a bill to benefit the poor clerks. (Hear.) The noble lord characterised the present system as a tontine of the worst description. It would be impossible for more than 1 in 7 to receive any benefit from it. After referring to many of the statements of the right hon. gentleman the Under-Secretary for the Treasury in opposing the hi 1, and also to what be called Mr. Wilson s ingenious cal culatiens, he said that the right hon. gentleman on a former occasion said that 1,600 servants of the civil eel.- vice received superanuations amounting to 606,0001, whilst the military pensions only amounted to 568,0001, but the right hon. gentleman omitted to take i• to con sideration the out-pensioners, amounting to 1,169,000/ , which made the expenses of the non-effec:ive service of the army amount to upwards of two millions. The noble lord said that the c oninittee referred to recommended that there should be a toted aboliti n of deductions from the civil service for superanuation, without a con. re , pending reduction in their salaries ; and he appealed to the house to carry out that, as will as the other re commendations of the committee, from a belief that the present system onestit no longer to he maintained. Mr. GLADSTONE admit ed the rights of the civil servants to a fell end respectful hearing, and a clear and ; definitive understanding rehreive to their grievances. It 1 was material that the house and the Government should I hold intelltible language on the subject, and he could not doubt that the Government intended to maintain the remuneration to the civil servants on the present. basis, and such a statement he expected the Chancellor of the Exchequer wool I clearly and explicitly make this day, lie contended that the house were capaple of de ciding on this question without the aid of arbitra'ors, and he regretted that the whole subject bad been del - gated to a Royal Commission, and ho earnestly pro tested against it, being no party to the arrangement, fie admitted that the statistical part of the question might have been salfactotily referred to a corn tnis:iion. Sir Charles Treveliyan -did not fix these solatise, as had been stated, hut the Finance Minister of the day, and as he (Mr. My-% gone) hell that position at the time he was responsible for it, and he made that statement before the committee. The right hon. gentleman said that ho could see no diff,- rence between the noble lord's bill, and an indi,-crimi nate increase of salaries to those entitled to superannua tion, and that it was diametrically opposed to the deci sion of the committee of the house. Referring to the increase of public salaries, the right hon gentleman said that when they began to tamper with the rights of the public in matters of this kind, the extravagance did int ..top. It was not content to feed on its first food, but it spread from one subject to another arid ran through every department of the public expenditure, and they had now the first fruits in that house, probably from the laxity of their votes. If they gave way the move ment would produce many fruits. There appeared aleo to be a tendency to increase political salaries, but should it make its appearance in that house he woul I be the first to oppose it. It had been said that the pensions to be paid from these deductions would not exhaust the whole of the proceeds of the funds, but he contended that that fact had not been established, and if it had it would not affect the question before the house. The right hon. gentleman then proceeded to eater into the original in tentions of the parties who framed the bill, which he said had been misapprehended, and had teen the cause of the present movement, and observed the deductions were imposed in lieu of a diminution of salaries, which would at the time more than have exhausted the amount of the deductions. There had been no prima facie case made out that the civil servants were entitled to the reloretion of these deductions, and to demand of Parlia ment an increase of salary by the abolition of this charge. They had also to consider the public in this case ; and he said, in reference to the average of salaries paid by the Bank of England and the Crown, that the salaries cf those who were paid for ma nual labour bad wrongly been taken into ac account, which had greatly reduced them, but if they omitted that class, he contended it would be found that the civil servants were paid higher than any others, and so far from being under-paid they would he found to be well paid. This bill proposed to add 75,0001. a year to the expenditure of the Government. It was a small sum, ' it was true, but it granted it would spread to every de partment A proposition such as that before the house for the increase of bile salaries for one-third of the civil servants could not have been moved constitationally by the noble lord in committee, and he ought net to have adopted this course to attain that object. He called on the house to reject the second reading of this bill. Mr. DISRAELI concurred in much that bad been said by the right hon. gentleman (Mr. Gladstone). He reviewed the proceedings of Parliament and the com missioners in reference to this question, and added that he believed the noble lord bad taken a wise course in ask ing the house, by his bill, to decide the question. (Hear, hear.) Ile dissented from the statement that because the proposed increase was given to 16,000 civil servants, that the other departments should also be increased, or that it prevented Par liament from revising the various salaries of the different departments of the State. The political salaries bad been revised and some reduced. He hoped the noble lord would press his bill and settle the question. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said the question before the house ought to be considered as a question of feeling, equity, and expediency. As re regarded the first, if he consulted his personal feelings he ' could do no more act gratifying to him than accede to the second reading of the bill, but his public duties pre vented his doing so. The right honourable gen tleman referred to the introduction of his bill on a former occasion which was referred to a committee, and the discussion that had taken place on the question. He denied that the civil service servants bad any claim in justice, or on the grounds of expediency, for what they asked. He further contended that there was no grounds for increasing the salaries as proposed by this bill, or, at all events, that the higher priced clerks deserved a greater increase than the lesser paid. clerks. He called upon the house to negative the second reading of the bill. The house then divided—the numbers were— For the second reading , l7l Against it Majority for second reading 6O The announcement was received v.ith loud cheers. The bill was -ead a second time, and ordered to be committed to-morrow night. OATHS BILL. Lori J. RUSSELL postponed the second reading of this bt till Monday, and expressed a hope that Baron Rothschild would be permitted to take his seat before that time, and obviate the necessity of this bill. Sir F. THESIGER, asked the noble lord if he could inform the house when Baron Rothschild would attend for that Purpose . - Lord J. RUSSELL said he could not. As soon as the Baron informed him of it he would give the house notice. (Laughter.) The second reading of the bill was accordingly post- poned till Monday. COURT OF SESSION (SCOTLAND) BILL. This bill waq read a third time and pas.ed. ELECTION PETITIONS BILL. ------. _ The house went into committee on this bill. Mr. B. OSBORNE expressed his gratitude to Mr. Adderley for introducing this measure, and entered into a detail of the annoyances he and his hon, and gal lant colleague had been treated in reference to their seat, remarking that be bad been the victim of a sham petition, which was got up to get possession of the seat, but finding be and his honourable col league were not to be frightened, the petition was withdrawn after the committee was struck. _ Sir G. GREY said he thought it would have been better to have had a committee of inquiry first, and legislated after. Lord W. RUSSELL (Dover) thought that some very stringent measures should be adopted to put an end to the present course. _ _ _ After some remarks from Mr. ADDERLEY and Mr. AMON, the further consideration of the bill in com mittee was stopped by the rules of the house, it being a quarter to six o'clock. BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE. Lord PALMERSTON gave notice that to-morrow be should move that on Tuesday, and on every succeed ing Tuesday, orders of the day should take precedence of notices of motion. GLOUCESTER ELECTION. Lord R. GROSVENOR, chairman of the Gloucester (City) Election Cirurnif,tee, reported that Mr. Price and Alderman Carden were duly elected at the last election for Gloucester (City.) GREAT YARMOUTH ELECTION. The Earl of MARCH, chairman of the Great Yar mouth election committee, reported that Mr. McCullagh and Mr. Watkins were not duly elected, on the ground of bribery. NEWS FROM INDIA. In answer to a question from Mr. HILDYARD, Lord PALMERSTON said he was unable to account for the delay in the receipt of the Government Indian telegraph communication. He had communicated its contents to the evening papers. The other orderi were disposed of, and the house ad journed at 6 o'clock. CAPTURE or A GANG Cr SHEEPSTEALERS.—EarIy On Friday morning Police-constables Booth, of Cudworth, near Barnsley, and Shaw, of Dal&ld, haying had their suspicions excited by the proceedings of a party of men, followed them to a place called Stores-mill, where they saw the fellows making preparations to riaughter a sheep, which they had selected out of a floc`. belonging to Mr. Guest, of Cudworth. The policemen were armed with cutlasses, and they bad with them a couple of dor, which, as the thieves approached the constables' hiding place, broke loose and seized one of the robbers, and so terrified the rest that they were captured almost without any difficulty. The prisoners, whose names are Thomas Simpson, one of the men charged with being concerned in the Manor Oaks burglary, John Cope, and William Bennet, had on them two life pre servers, three sharp pocket knives, two butchers' knives, a saw, a crowbar, some gauze veils, striped slops, in- struments for forcing locks, and other articles. The neigh bourhood of Barnsley has been long infected with sheep stealers, and since the rural police has been put on one or two desperate encounters have taken place be tween the c onstables and these marauders, but this is the first time any of thew have been secured in far • t ji an 6 de f, 7 I P MAL PARLIAMEN T. HOUSE OF LORDS-(YESTERDAY.) The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the wool sack at five o'clock. Lori BROUGILUI presented a petition from the Mayor and Corporation of Liverpool in favour of the eAa blis men tof Courts of 11,:con ciliation ' whereby a gr ea t amount of litigation might be prevented. FRAUDULENT TRUSTEES BILL. The LORD CHANCELLOR moved the second read ing of this bill, which had for its object the protection of parties against fraudulent trustees. The pre sent state of the law absolutely called for amend ment, and to remedy the defect, the bill now before their lordships had been framed. By the Ist clause of this bill, any trustee entrusted with funds fir the benefit of another, attempting to make use of such reerey for his own personal benefit would be deemed guilty of mi-demeanour, and he apprehended there • would be no difficulty in carrying that enactment into operation. But a clause had been introduced into the in the other house which would require great con sidera'ion, retmely, the previous sanction of a judge or the Attorney-General should be obtained before the prosecution should take place. The hill also provided a remedy for malversation of the funds of public companies by the directors, who, by a clause in this bi'l, were made criminally liable for any ini,appropriation of the money of such companies. He had no objection to the sanction of the judge having to be obtained b.-fore. He thought the bill would be improved if the Attorney-General's was only to be obtained. The noble lord having explained the other el oases, said be thought great good would fel low the passing of the bill. Lord ST. LEONARDS said he did not rise to op• pose the bill. He was, however, afraid that, owing to the wording of the bill at present before the Louse, innocent persons might, under certain circuni stance?, become liable to prosecution under its provi sions. the bi l that ho had hid upon the table would gu far to correct the evil, -but he trusted that some means would be found to prot et the honest trustee in the discharge of his duty. Lord BROUGLIAII supported the bill, which be said went far to provide a remedy for a defect in the law at present very I )udly complained of. Lord WENSLEYDALE would not oppose the second reading, but he trusted severe' amendments would be made in committee. The bill was read a second time. PRISONER'S REMOVAL BILL. This bill was read a third time and passed. The Reformatory Institutions Bill, and the Banking Bill were read a Fecond time. THE MILITIA SUSPENSION BILL. On the motion Lir going into committee on this bill, Toe Earl cf ELLENBOROUGH suggested the pro priety, in the prete,it state of Indian affairs, of postpon ing the bill for su=pending the ballot. Lord PAN MITRE said the ballot wou'd not be neces Lary even if more troops were required, and in the worst event that could happen, the Government could always depend upon the loyalty of the people to raise a large force in a short time. L-.rd I)UNGANNON expressed a doubt on that point, so far as Ireland was concerned, owing to the treatment the militia there had experienced from the Government, elle bill then passed through committee. DISTRIBUTION OF PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. The Duke of NEWCASTLE called attention to the expediency of distributing selections from the published parliamentary papers gratuitously among the various public libraries and literary institutions in the kingdom. The Duke of A.RG YLL thought the subject deserved consideration. Lord REDESDALE said tha papers could always be obtained, if required, at a very small charge. Lord STANLEY of ALDERLEY said the Board always sent the most important papers to the different Chambers of Commerce. Lord DUNGANNON and Lord TALBOT DE MA LAIIIDE expressed themselves in favuur of the sugges tion, and the subject dropped. THE PETTY SESSIONS ACTS IN IRELAND. In reply to Lord DUNGANNON, The LORD CHANCELLOR said the Attorney- General for Ireland was considering a measure for assi milating the law of England and Ireland with respect to petty sessions. PUBLIC BUSINESS. Oa the motion of Lord REDESDALE it was ordered that no bill should be read a second time in that house after the 7th of August, with the exception of bills of pressing emergency. Their lordships then adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS.-(YESTBRDAY.) GREAT YARMOITTH ELECTION COMMITTEE. The Earl of MARCH reported that the committee appointed to investigate into the return for Great Yar mouth had committed a witness, named Woolsey, to the custody of the Sergeant-at-Arms, for prevarication, and on the motion of the noble lord the witness was committed to Newgate. Agreed to. METROPOLITAN DRAINAGE. Mr. RIDLEY asked the First Commissioner of Works whether he could inform the house if there was any probability of steps being taken for carrying out the provisions of the Metropolis Act, by which it was deter mined the river Thames should be freed from the swage of the m( tropolis. The hon. gentleman said he under sto , d that the health of several officers of the house, and of persons required to attend their proceedings, had been affecte t by the nox'ons effluvium arising from the River Thames. Mr. BUTLER asked the First Commissioner of Works when the question of the main drainage of the metropolis was referred to the professional gentlemen appointed by him to consider the subject ; whether the referees were likely to make their report before the close of the present session ; and what course the First Com missioner proposed to take after he received such report, so that no delay might occur in the commencement of the works. _ _ _ Sir B. HALL replied that by the Metroplitan Act of 1855 it was provided that large intercepting sewers should be made for the purpose of diverting the sewage from the Thames. It was also provided that those works should be carried out by the Metropolitan Board of Works, but that before any works were commenced the plans should be submitted to the First Commissioner of Works for his approval. He was anxious to show that, so far as the Government were concerned, not a day hsd been lost in dealing with this important sub jec,. Plans were sent to him by the Metropolitan Board of Works on the 22 lof December, and on the 29th of December he referred them to the engineers. In reply to the second question of the hon. member for the Tower Hamlets (Mr. Butler), he was happy to state that he had today seen one of the referees, who in formed him that their report would be delivered before the end of this week ; and in answer to the hon. gen tleman's third question, be could only say that as soon as he received that report he would forward a copy to the Metropolitan Board of Works, and would lay another copy upon the table of the house. With regard to the question of the hon. member for Neweastle-upon-Tyne (Mr. Ridley), he could only state that the matter to which he referred rested entirely with the Metropolitan Board of Works. No delay had taken place in his de partment. He would forward the report of the referees to the Metropolitan Board of Works without any delay, and no doubt they would give that report their itnme diate consideration. NEW SOUTH WALES. In reply to a question from Sir J. ELPHINSTONE, Mr. LABOUCHERE said that some misconception existed with respect to a reply he had given to a ques tion put to him a few days ago as to the proposed boundary line of separation between the colonies of Moreton Bay and New South Wales. He was r,pre sented to have said that that boundai y line would be between 25 and 26 degrees of south latitude. If he had said sl he had made an incorrect statement. The boundary lino would lie between the degrees of 28 and 29 south latitude. CONVEYANCE OF MAILS BY RAIL. Mr. WILSON, in reply to Mr. BULLER, said, con sidering the etate of the public business and the advanced period of the session, it was impossible that the bid slating to the conveyance of mails by rail nay could be properly discussed before the session terminated with any hope of its bring passed into a law, and, under these circurnstance.7, it was not his intention to proceed further with the second reading of the bill, but he would take an early opportunity of re-introducing it next session. He should therefore move that the order for its second reading be discharged. The motion was agreed to. THE COMING INDIAN MAIL. Mr. EWART said, seeing the noble lord at the head of the Government in his place, he asked him whether any intelligence had been received by H er Majesty's Government from India in the course of the day. Lord PALMERSTON—The only intelligence which has been received efficially by her Majesty's g overnment is from Trieste, and the intellige nce is that the packet is in sight, and is expected in the course of an hour. That was at 10 o'clock this morning. I have seen a telegraphic message which bas b een received by a private individual, and which i s supposed to have come from Turin, but I don't know whether that is authentic or not. The Government, however, have received no information except that which I have mentioned. The probability is, that as the packet was off Trieste at 10 o'c'ock this morning, we shall in a very short time have some official intelligence from that place. REVISION OF THE LITURGY. Lord R• GROSVENOR postponed for this session, on the ground of indisposition, his motion for a com mission for the purpose of considering whether the Liturgy of the Church of England is capable of modifi cation. MILITARY EDUCATION. Sir DE LACY EVANS, pursuant to notice pro ceeded to bring forward his resolution suggesting a higher standard of professional instruction and a more complete provision for it than has heretofore obtained for officers in the army, and especially the staff. He said the subject was one to which public attention bad been directed within the last few years by a remarkable concurrence of circumstances, among which were the reports of committees of that House, a very important one espe cially drawn up by the commissioners appointed by the Secretary for War, and the very able speech made in that House last session by the right bon. gentleman the member for South Wilts other name were ventured to think, however, that lone (Mr. Sidney He rbert). He necessary for securing the object which that right hen,. gentleman and himself had in view, And it was to that end that he bad to submit to the House a resolutiiies, which he trusted would meet with the sanction of the Government. He hoped, indeed, that it wool' be re ceived by the Government in the same spirit as the somewhat kindred proposal made recently by the noble lord the member for the West Riding (Lord Godtrich) with respect to the civil service had been entertained by them, believing, as he di.l, that its adoption, liire that of the motion of the noble lord, would ttrengtb.n the hands of the Government. Ho might ri mind. the Howe that in 1799 a staff c 'liege was first formed in this country, and that it rendered itnorirtant services to the army of that day ; but after the termination of the Peninsular war the institution was reduced from year to year until it ceased to possess the means of imparting instruction to anything like the extent which it had originally done. In 1832 all Parliamentary aid ries withdiawn from the college, and he believed the TJadcre Secretary for War recently stated in the hense that during the last two or three years scarcely a single offi cmeirgh t had perhaps presented hv h e i m b s e e e l n f f a ci o r n : l i e d i h ri a i f e . i 3 o g n z e i n n t w o h i o t. ha There . ceived instruction in the institutions in that time ; hut he was not sure about that. At a.l events, he thought that was a state of things which ought not to exist. There was evidence in reports which had been laid be fore both Houses of Parham , nt that Austria, France, Prussia, and other military nations applied money to the purpose. The United States, finding ,in 1814 that their officers were singularly wantieg in knowledge, and they had probably suffered some defeats in consequer ce, established a mili tary school at West Point on a very extensive scale, and he believed that West Point College was adopted tee the plan, as near as possible, of the Ecole Polvteeheique of France, though perhaps ric t so exclusively military in its object. He would quote, as an authority upon the necessity of military education of a high etandard. Frederick the Great, in whose memoirs, after the seven year:' war, he found this passage • - • " The army has made nurueroul campaigns, but the quar termaster-general was often in want of good officers for his department. The King wished to form a corps of such officers, and selected 12 individuals, who already possessed some slight acquaintance with engineer duties, for the pur pose of instructing them himself. With this view they ware made to sketch country, mark off camps, fortify villages, in trench heights. construct stockades, regulate columns of march, and, above all, to try the nature of marshes and the depth of stvoams themsives, that they might not be deceived by the negligence of others, and cause au army to depend upon the defensive support of a fordable river, or of a marsh which infantry could cross witho t being made deep." Sir Howard Dougla9, one of the most competent, ex perienced, and scientific of our officers, gave most im portant evidence before the c 3inmittee of the house appointed to inquire into the subject, and Sir H. Dou glas, Colonel Portleck, Colonel Adams, Colonel Addi son, and Colonel Prosser, who were particularly engaged in military instruction, gave it as their opinion that the senior and junior departments of the college at Sand hurst were in a most unsatisfactory state, and required revision and reform. The pressure of undue influence, however well-intentioned the authorities might be; re quired that some preventive, such as had been adopted by continental Governments, should be established, and he ventured to think that none would be so efficient as the introduction of the competitive system of examina tion. The committee stated in their report— " The government of the college is vested in the Board of Commissioners. The official members, in addition to the Governor and Deputy-Governor of the college, are the COM. minder-in-Chief, the Secretary at War, the Master-General of the Ordnance, the Quartermaster-General, and Adjut ant-General. It is obvious that the pressing and import ant duties which fall on these officers can leave them but little time to devote to the military college." There should be an independent board to conduct the examinations. The report mentioned that during the Peninsular war, when the general staff was very efficient, a great part of the Quartermaster-General's staff was composed of officers who bad been educated at the senior department. The report expressed an opinion that the present state of things in the senior department was un satisfactory, and required revision and reform. The committee were of opinion that the transferring from the junior to the senior department a military staff offi cer was not sufficient. They saw no means of placing the senior department on an efficient footing unless Parliament was prepared to grant aid to that important object. They did not see the justice by which the cadet was called on to pay for the education of the staff officers. The cadets, or rather the families of the cadets. were called on to pay for the education of the.staff officers of the army, and that system continued for many years, if not to some extent to the present time. The house should recollect that during the last half century this country had been making great progress, and in no respect greater progress than hi education. The grants of public money had gone on increasing year by year, and for national schools, factory schools, union work house schools, prison schools, &c., they now amounted to 500,0001. sterling. There was a very handsome ex penditure, amounting to 18,5001. this year, for the edu. cation of non-commissioned officers and privates, and the total sum, if the children of soldiers were included, was 46,0001. But for officers, and especially officers of the army, the sum was at the outside 1,3001. It was an ; extraordinary contrast, and he believed had been remarked upon 'by the Secretary of State for War in another place. The right honour able gentleman the member for South Wilt shire estimated the expense of putting the education of the officers upon a reliable footing, by the ap 'allotment of boards of examination, at 5,0001., and a vote for that amount appeared in the estimates, but un fortunately the right hon. gentleman left office, and the vote dropped out of the estimates. Tho right hon. gen tleman, in a statement upon the subjact, last year, ex pressed some disappointment that the Government bad come to no decision upon the sill jest, and that there was no item of the sort in the estiniates. Another yea: brought only the same result, and it was a good reason for wishing, at all events, if not to express distrust of the intentions of the Government, to stimulate the Govern ment to use more promptitude and exertion. (Hear.) The first resolution which he should submit was— " That in the opinion of this house a higher standard of professional instruction and more complete provision for it than hitherto deemed requisite ought to be established for the commissioned ranks of the army, but especially for the st aff ." He ventured to think that that was a proposition which was already concurred in not only by the house, but by the country. His resolution t en went on to state that the object which he had in view " will be best promoted by recourse to competitive examination of officers desir ing to qualify themselves for the staff, and by adopting the same principle, with such qualification as may be necessary, in examination of candidates nominated by the Commander-in-Chief for commissions in the cavalry and infantry." No fair objection, he thought, could be taken to a certain degree of competitive examination in the case of candidates for staff appointments. Such an examination prevailed in our universities, where the first men of the land—those who occupied leading positions in the two Houses of Parliament—willingly exposed themselves to an ordeal similar to that which be proposed for officers seeking appointments on the staff. Even those who did not seek for honours were otliged to pass an examination, and in many instauces they were what university men called " plucked." He saw no reason why officers of the army should not run the risk of being .6 plucked" also. The officers of the navy were compelled to pass an examination not only for their first, but like. wi-e for their second and third commissions, In 1849, as stated by the right hon. gentleman the member for South Wilts, in his admirable letter to Lord Hardinge ti December, 1854, the Duke of Wellingto n i ssue d an or•ler declaring that for the future there should be an ex amination of officers for lieutenancies as well as for first commissions. Notwithstanding the authority of that great man, his proposition with respect to lieutenancies was never carried into effect ; but, as there was a similar examination in foreign armies and in our own navy, it was to be hoped that it might be renewed. The officers of the navy were undoubtedly more professional than the officers of the army, and therefore the latter need not be ashamed to imitate some of their proceedings. His reso lution next proceeded to urge the expediency of " pre serving the present system of admission of cadets for the Ordnance Corps." He weal not presume t pass any censure upon the officers of the army, and would even avoid quoting the statements of the Duke of Wellington, although they were well known to be very strong, both against the character of our private soldiers and the w ou it r h o t ffi he ce G rs o . ver T n h: en b t aale which la d y ld n u o o t t wi th provide the the officers with due opportui ites for ac q uirin g that ' officers, e ffi c iency bu o t f in formation which it was desirable they should possess in order to the satisfactory discharge of their duties. Some of the greatest authorities who bad written upon the Peninsular sieges had declared that the principal draw back experienced in carrying on those operations arose from an entire want of even rudimentary knowledge on the part of our officers, particularly referring to this ignorance of the officers and men of the line of the elementary instruction necessary for assisting as work ing parties. That was not the fault of the officers, but was o wing to the combined neglect and favouritism which had so long prevailed in the army. Th e present system o o n a cid bt c e ebwe C ena Corps f r rao p enu s s c et e a vi s e O t t d l s r a n d h . dpw eu f ilet. admission vd be H y system,uca ak a nn d exd e i o t o hf s uexs for believed hew t la h i neowrdpva was ond work -- trusted that there was no truth in the report which had reached him that there were some inclination in certain quarters to alter it. The young persons who had come forward from the various colleges and schools through out the country had been everything that could be de sired. The subjects of examination are advertised by the Secretary for War, and it was open to any one, from any public school or c ;liege, or any profession in civil life, to compete. The number of candidates was considerable—between 100 and 200—and those who showed most proficiency were selected for the . commis sions. With respect to their social position._ b e m ight state 1 Oxfords gh state that they came from the tr u ivereities o f • Cambridge, Dublin, and Edinburgh ; from the College s of Aberdeen, London, Brighton , Belfast, Eton ; Cork, Geiscay, and Chester ; from Rugby , Ba rrow, e d schools throu h. and from various proprietary and e n d asked g out the country. What right, he had , any one te youn g gentlemen were not equal in assume that these every respect to those who, if the former system had been continued, would have been nominated by the Mas ter-Genera • I of the Ordnance ? Mr. Peel, the late Under- S ecr etary for War—a gentleman with whom he bad not always had the happiness of agreeing —stated on the sth June last year that the existing plan had been found to answer well ; that the successfu candidates bad proved to be m an of superior education ; that they were gentle - men and officers in every sen es of the term, and worthy to hold the commissions they had won for themselves. Some of the authorities at Woolwich were rather die. posed to discredit and depreciate those officers, and if was, perhaps, natural that they should be so, because the new system interfered with that patronage which they might otilerwiee hga tx3rcit* but halting had all \ "' I \