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IM'• For particulars see advertisements on Bth page gI)P lior*rn Eimm, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1859 THE DAY'S NEWS _ The absorbing topic of the day is still the Em peror's Speech, and it is somewhat remarkable that the favourable feeling produced by the first impressions has gradually given way to more gloomy forebodings. Not only in Paris, but also in London, has there arisen a strong feeling that the document lacks that openness and candour necessary to ensure confidence in the' future. Coupled with this, the reported activity of France in warlike preparations tends to increase the feeling of alarm which prevails. The Paris correspondent of the Times telegraphs, that a private telegram :rum Alg a e n ri t , dated-7th instant, announces that the 23rd were Regiments of the line, and Bth Chasseurs day for Marseilles, I commence embarking on that embark the 41st and 56th Regi ments were to during the following week. The Paris correspondent of the Globe, writing on Monday night says, th e conclusion of all who heard the Emperors speech i s, that if justice is not done in Italy by the poofwer holding the adverse possession the writ inejectmcnt will be issued and enforced by 400,000 Diplomacy will avail nothing, just the stubborn he man who, having brooded over the n 'o w as il e l , is in the worked himself into a conviction that oafnda right, will see it out. The Paris correspondent of the D a il y AT e uo . sass writes still more gloomily. He :L....“ Th o - Emperor's speech will have spread consterna ti on in every capital in Europe. It i s b y f ar the most alarming symptom of a coming storm th a t h as been seen in modern times. Not only does it dis appoint the hopes' of those who within the last forty-eight hours have been encouraged by official hints to believe that it would be decidedly pacific, but apart from the expression of a bare and matter -of-course hope that the peace will not be broken— an expression which, in the Imperial mouth, signi • fies nothing more than it did in the confessedly, alarming speeches of Lord Derby and Mr. Disraeli —there is not a• syllabic in the discourse tending to contradict or explain away any one of the gronnds of just apprehension which have pre-occupied the public mind since January Ist. But what is more serious still, the speech openly preaches th• doctrine of universal intervention, and sets at naught alike the advice of friendly foreign powers and the opinions, wishes, and interests of the French peopk. A despotic monarch at the head of the most powerful military nation in Europe— who, eight years ago, was raised to the throne by universal suffrage, aided by a success ful conspiracy and the unscrupulous use of bayonets—now tells his people and the world that his nation has " confided y its destinies" his individual will ; that he sits on an elevation far above the regions of " vulgar interests ;" that he makes no account of the present generation, and accepts the jurisdiction of no tribunals I:aat those whose judgments are either secret or to be made manifest in futurity—" God, his conscience, and posterity r Doctrines more frightful than these have never been proclaimed from any throne. As long as they remain in the ascendant in France the peace of Europe can never be assnred, and the curse of large standing armies and ruinous military preparations must con tinue to paralyse commerce and thwart political progress." "'The Neapolitan government," says a letter from Vienna in the Cologne Gazette, "has drawn up a document in which it explains minutely the situation of Italy. This document, it is said, has been communicated to several Italian govern ments, and to the Cabinets of St. Petersburg and Vienna." Advices from Naples mention that King Bomba has become again seriously ill. A Berlin letter, of the sth, states that her Majesty Queen Victoria, the Emperor of Russia, the Queen of Prussia, the Grand Duke of Weimar, and the Princess 'Charles of Prussia will be the godfathers and godmothers of the infant prince.. Captain Pullen's ulterior surveys have con firmed him in the opinion that the Red Sea offers no difficulties whatever to the successful submer gence of a telegraphic cable. He has sounded the mid-channel from Suez to Perim, and finds the bottom soft mud from Suez to Jebal Teer, but rock from thence to Perim. The greatest depth on this line is 1,050 fathoms. He has also sounded the whole extent of the sea inshore and within the reefs on the eastern side, and the same from Suez to Suakin, on the western side. He is now anxious to complete the survey on this line from Suakin to Perim, as he judges that to be by far the preferable route, the bottom through out being much more even, and the soundings considerably less. The Glasgow Daily Mail mentions that a deputa tion of the Licensed Victuallers is about to proceed to London for the purpose of urging upon Parlia ment the necessity of an inquiry into the existing grievances of the trade, and to suggest the nature of the remedies which ought to be, adopted. A petition, signed by upwards of 900 members of the spirit trade, calling for inquiry, is about to be forwarded to Robert Dalglish, Esq., M.P., for presentation to the House of Commons. Similar petitions, we understand, are about to be forwarded from Edinburgh, Stirling, Perth, Dundee, Aber deen, Kilmarnock, Paisley, and other of the principal towns in Scotland. Both houses of Parliament had short sittings last night, the House of Lords having risen at half-past six, and the Commons at half-past seven o'clock. In the Lords a discussion took place on the propriety of giving the Royal assent to the Jamaica Immigration Act recently passed. In the Commons a new writ was ordered for Ennipkillen, and also for Greenwich. In reply to Sir George Cornewall Lewis, the Chancellor of the Exchequer stated that £7,600,000 of Exchequer Bills had recently been funded on account of savings' banks. Mr. Ewart moved a resolution, that the House should not sit after twelve o'clock on Tuesday's and Friday's, but on a division it was lost by a vote of 137 to 28. Sir J. Trelawney obtained leave to bring in a bill for the abolition of church-rates. Locally there is no news of importance this morning. The steamer Armenian, with the African mails, arrived in the Mersey . yesterday, with 2,300 ounces of gold. Her advices report the death of King Eyo, of Old Calabar. MR. GLADSTONE AND HIS lONIAN MISSION. IT by no means follows, that because Mr. GLAD STONE has not succeeded in reconciling the lonians to their present position, and dissuaded them from their desire of being incorporated with Greece, he has failed in his mission. He did not, it seems, undertake to do what it is said he has fallen short of doing. It were not likely, indeed, that he would engage in any thing not only so problem atical as to its success, but so officious as an act of interference. They are, it is true, under the Protectorate of the British Government. But they are so, not for British but for European interests. And however mistaken they may be as to the advantages they anticipate frcim their being annexed to the Greek , nation, it is neither unnatural nor unreasonable that, with so much in their character, their connections, and their situation, that is Grecian, they should prefer to cast in their lot with the Greeks. The fact of the lonian Parliament having unanimously declared for union with Greece, attests the general and deep-rooted feeling that prevails upon the subject, and shows how impossible it would have been to turn them from their purpose—had such really been the object Mr. GLADSTONE had in view. All he could do, and all he attempted to do, in the case, was to advise them that their resolution was contrary to the Constitution, and to suggest that a Committee be merely empowered to address a petition to her Majesty Queen VICTORIA,—which they have done; and given it to Mr. GLADSTONE, with the request, that their desire for union with Greece may be laid before the Great Powers who THE NORTHERN TIES= VEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1859 moderate as to be ineffectual. To be Conservative it must be comprehensive—only keeping justly and fairly within the limits of the Constitution ; and it cannot, be sufficiently comprehensive, unless it is really operative for the object in view,—the securing a full, free, and fair representation of the people. This, , then, is the great point on which unanimity is so desirable. And certainly, as a great moralist has truly said, • "an honest party of men acting with unanimity, are of infinitely greater consequence than the -same party aiming at the same ends by different views,"—a remark the force of which becomes irresistible if we regard all true and constitutional Reformers as constituting such a party. were parties to the present Protectorate It is evident from the frank and unreserved manner in which Lord DERBY stated the case of Mr. GLADSTONE'S mission, on the first night of the Session, that there is nothing to conceal respecting it. The acceptance of the very onerous office, by so distinguished a statesman, was an act for which not only England, but Europe should be grateful. But he undertook no such task as that which he is now so ungenerously taunted with having failed to perform. The reason why Mr. GLADSTONE was sent out, as Lord DERBY has explained, was the statement from every side that from various causes the Government of that country had come to a dead lock, and that for years and years it had been impossible for the Government and the representa tives of the people to carry on the legislature of the country in a satisfactory mariner. Under these circumstances,--circumstances thwarting the very object of the Constitution, which gives Eng land the Protectorate,—he was commissioned to personally investigate the causes which had occa sioned the difficulties in the working a the Constitution. And, said the. Premier, " he readily accepted that mission, for which I consider that his high position, his peculiar ability, his great honour, and the interest which ho always took on the s-abjeet, eminently qualified him." There gall he no question whatever of all this, It would have been impossible to have chosen any one better qualified for such a mission ; and while his appoint ment was most creditable to Lord DERBY, his acceptance of it was highly honourable to himself, evincing as it - did his readiness to serve the public interests, at whatever inconvenience to himself, or even risk to his own reputation. • The nature of the proceeding which has ensued upon Mr GLADSTONE'S interposition, has been . also, though briefly, yet candidly and honestly stated by Lord DERBY. Circumstances, as we already knew, had occurred to render pit unde sirable, if not also improbable, for the High Com missioner (Sir JOHN YOUNG) to propose to the lonian Parliament such improvements as would have any chance of being accepted : he was there fore recalled. And, as the Premier went on to say, "it was advisable that Mr. GLADSTONE should be the means of communicating to the Senate and people those alterations and improve ments which he thought desirable ; and it being also absolutely necessary that Sir JoHN YOUNG should retire, Mr. GLADSTONE consented to re main, at considerable inconvenience to himself, and to give all the - authority and influence which would result from his charaCter and acqnointance with their interests." . • Hence his appointment as , - Lord High Commissioner, pro tempore, and foi-'that specific object. A permanent High Commissioner having now been" appointed, Mr. GLADSTONE has by this time, it is probable, brought his labours to a close,—and there is no doubt that, as Lord DERBY added, " when he again appears in his place in the House of Common's, he will there satisfy Parliament as to the wisdom and policy of the course which he pursued." It were but fair, therefore, to await his re-appearance there, and the account he will doubtless then render of his mission, in all its main details, before any unfavourable judgment is passed upon a proceed ing which, whatever may be its issue, appears to have been by no means injudiciously projected 'by the Government, or to have been undertaken by Mr. GLADSTONE with any other feeling than one of disinterested devotion to public duty. UNANIMITY ON REFORM There never, perhaps, has been a great political question on which so much unanimity has been found to prevail, as it is now evident there does on that of Parliamentary Reform; and. this circum stance, one would think, ought to be full of hope for the enactment of a complete and efficient measure. Certainly, Reform in Parliament now presents itself stripped of all those terrors which once_ it : was thought to possess ; and this cannot but have the effect of securing it that' more unreserved, and more thorough practical application to the case which all now admit it so urgently calls for. As 'was observed by the seconder of the Address in the House of Commons the other evening, "it was scarcely compatible with the dignity or the constitution of the House that it should be required to be patched and tinkered every quarter of a century." Though, at the same time, as it was admitted, "in the lapse of time, in the increase of population, in the advance of education, in the spread of intelligence, in the extension of some places and the contraction of others, there -was a just cause for the introduction of such a measure of reform as should be sufficient without being violent." And we believe this is now a national conviction, and its accomplishment a national desire. The notion, it is true, has been suggested—nay, in certain quarters insisted upon—that only by those who are popularly called and considered par excellence " the people," would any real and sub stantial measure of Parliamentary Reform be encouraged and supported. But, as that un doubted liberal, the Hon. Mr. BYNG, the member for Middlesex, observed, in addressing his oia constituents at TavistOck, a few days since, "when the four great heads of political parties, Lord Aberdeen, Lord Derby, Lord Palmerston, and Lord John Russell, are all prepared to inves tigate the question fairly, and to carry out what they believe to be best for the interest of the country, what need is there for supposing that the aristocracy or the upper classes are likely to oppose it ?" Why, on the contrary, the foremost of Parliamentary Reformers have been found amongst those classes. Of course, they do not seek such a reform as would upset the Constitution, or in any degree impair it, but one which they believe would still further consolidate and strengthen, and thereby perpetuate it. The hon. member we have just mentioned, quoted the remarks of an old and tried Reformer, who has said,—" There are some who are willing that the Constitution like the ancient temples of the Greeks and Romans, should remain with all its dust and cobwebs about it, and who think it profane in any hand. to attempt to remove the corruptions by which it is defaced ; and others are the champions of Radical Reform, who seem desirous to raise their name by applying a firebrand to a sanctuary which has stood for ages." But this was the case only when Reform was so apt to be made a scarecrow of ; and even honest, though perhaps weak politicians were affrighted by what they thought it threatened, against the stability of the monarchy, and the peace and order of society. Experience, however, has shown them the ground lessness of their apprehensions. There is no dan ger now to be apprehended in any comprehensive measure of Parliamentary Reform, if only it is fair and just to all the settled interests to be affected by it. As Mr. BYNG further very truly observed, " the measure could be arranged without exciting any ill will ; only if they were to be told that the landed interest was to be deprived of its rights, class would be set against class, and such a pro ceeding was highly dangerous. If they were to be told that the manufacturing interest was to get the larger portion of the representation it would set class against class to a degree highly dangerous. Their object should be to carry out a good bill, and they should not upset the old constitutional steamer of 1832, and place some wash-tub in its stead, not able to live in a troubled sea." It is such views as these, we consider, that make the question now so generally acceptable—that constitute it, in short, one of the most Conservative questions of the day. Wr do not mean by Conservative anythi ng s THE ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH Now that the Legislatures of the two nations are both assembled, which the Atlantic Telegraph is to unite in immediate intercommunication, with all its mutual and inestimable advantages, let us hope that something will be done by each of these great national Councils, in still greater furtherance than ever of an undertaking that is universally acknowledged to be of such paramount importance to the interests of the two countries. The practi cability of the principle has been proved. A first attempt to give practical effect to it has tempora-. rily and not unnaturally, failed,—it has been so, more or less, with most of the applications of the great discoveries of science. But this ought not to discourage its enterprising projectors. It is a strong reason, we consider, why they should be backed up by the two countries, that they may go to work again with renewed energy, profiting by . the experience of the past. But it is no reason whatever why there should be any distrust, let alone any despair, in the matter. Much that was fabulous and fanciful in ancient and superstitious times, it has in our day been shown may be made . real and actual—and, moreover, beneficial and profitable,—even to the possibility of realising the boast of Puck, " I'll put a girdle round about the earth.? The boasted power and prowess, too, of old HOMER'S fabled king of gods and men, of an ima ginary wire 'twixt heaven and earth, has in the case of the Telegraph been rivalled,—and that, not mythologically, but actually and truly ; although his ideal wire, it is true, aimed at bolder and more awful objects than the real one that has united and is to bring into instant reciprocal com-. munication continents that are two thousand miles apart. "Having suspended a golden chain from heaven, do all ye gods and goddesses suspend yourselves therefrom ; yet would ye not draw down from, heaven to earth your supreme counsellor JOVE, not even if ye labour ever so much ; but whenever I, desiring, should wish to pull it, I could draw it up together, earth, and ocean, and all ; then, indeed, would I bind the chain around the top of Olympus, and all these should hang aloft." Such was the imagi nary chain of the Pagan bard of ancient Greece, the father of poetry and 'prince of the poets, and which has been regarded as one of the highest' stretches of all that was fabulous and mytho logical for a period extending back to centuries before the Christian era. But the reality of our time soars far beyond the poetry of HOMER,--or of all the poets that ever set the universe a-wondering and admiring.' For we have seen as facts, what with them were only imaginations : 'our wonders are realities, whilst theirs were only fables. And the most wonderful of all these realities, the wonderful achievements of science, is certainly this Atlantic Telegraph, conveying messages, as it has been shown to be capable of doing, through the tremendous depths of the sea, and along the immense width of that mighty ocean, in a moment of time. "If quick as thought,' " said Pro fessor THOMSON at Glasgow the other day, at the dinner to him in acknowledgment of his arduous and valuable services during the laying of the Atlantic Telegraph Cable—" if ' quick as thought' was an inadequate expression for common tele- graphic operations, even lightning became slow through the Atlantic Telegraph. The most sudden electric shock at one end gave a • sluggish, long protracted current through the other, which, after a quarter of a minute, was still working its way feebly out of the wire. That such would be the action through a telegraphic cable of ordinary construction, connecting Britain with America was pointed out by FARADAY long before the existence of the Atlantic Telegraph Company. An exact mathematical investigation of the cir cumstances showed that a sufficiently large size of conductor and insulating coat would entirely remedy the anticipated embarrassment. But a cable of such dimensions as the calculation showed to be required for signaling through 2,000 miles, at the rapid rate of an ordinary telegraph, would be too unwieldy and too costly to be thought of in a first attempt. Therefore the Atlantic Telegraph Company, in adopting the improvement which he suggested, did not carry it further than in making the quantities of copper and of gutta percha in any part of their cable nearly double of those in an equal length of any previously. constructed telegraph line, so far at least as their first cable was concerned, and prudently, in his opinion, they left the further mitigation of the anticipated slowness to be worked out by improvements in the methods and instru ments to be used for the transmission and the receipt of messages." Now, it is these improve ments we want to see worked out, without further delay,—for further delay would probatly be fatal to the whole • project. The Atlantic Telegraph Company have done their utmost, it is believed, according to their means, to accomplish the great object in view. But their means are . exhausted, and must needs be replenished; and, in our humble opinion, the national resources of both sides of the Atlantic might fairly be drawn upon for that purpose. Let us hope that, at any rate, the subject will be brought under the consideration of Parliament. The case, as we have said, is one full of confident hope of ultimate success. " On no one point," has the same learned Professor we have already quoted declared, " could it be said that there was any insurmountable difficulty, and least of all on that which had proved the CallBo of ruin in the present case. Increased - caution in the manufacture and preservation, even without improvements in the material, - of the insulating cover, with a more searching system of detection for faults, might, he believed; make very sure against any recurrence of such a failure." But then, we repeat, there must be the means at hand to do all this. And since private enterprise, of itself, is unable to provide them, the national aid of England, along with that of America, may with great projariety be extended. MAIL NEWS.—The departure of the outward Austra lian Mal via Southampton, is postponed until Saturday, the 19th inst., and the Marseilles portion will follow four days afterwards. The Thames, with the homeward Australian mail is expected at Southampton to-day. • NEW PEERS.—In addition to the new peers who took their seats in the Honse of Lords on Thursday last, the following peers sat first in Parliament after the deaths of their fathers : --The Lord Dumfermline, the Lord Lyons, the Lord Poltimore, the Lord Skeemersdale, and the Earl of Aylesford. APPOINTMENTS.—Lieutenant and Captain Frederick Charles Koppel', Grenadier Guards, is gazetted Equerry to the Prince of Wales, vice Major ,Lloyd Lindsay, resigned ; and Colonel Charles William Ridley, C. 8., Grenadier Guards, as Gentleman Usher to the Prince 'Consort, vice Dr. Lyon Playfair, C. 8., resigned. THE LIVERPOOL CLIARITIES —A GaA.ND FANCY BALL. —Our readers must rerneniher the grand fancy dre,.-; ball that took place, some two years ago, in St. G3Ol Hall, for the benefit of the Liverpool Charities, and the interest taken in it by the public generally. We regret to state that the in my noble and benevolent institutions of this town, which render such essential service to the poor and needy, are, so far as funds is concerned, by no means in a flyarishiug condition. Thi, is to -be deeply deplored on all 'accounts, but still we know there are hearts -to feel and 0p,211 hands to stretch forth towar'd3 the paw. Sync beievo lent gentlemen have called oar attention to this import ant subject, and it has been saggesiel that a grand fancy ball, such as that ,alluded to, and which proved so suc cessful, should be organised this year, in order to recruit the exhausted funds of the different charities. The suggestion cannot"be too highly appreciated, and we are,. convinced it will -be hailed with satisfaction. We ' have been informed that the floor in St. Geo . rge'- hall, laid- down for the late occasion, „remains there still, and need not be removed until after the intended ball; and if that be a fact, of which we have not had time to make ourselves cognisant, a saving would be effected of over £53. We incline to think that as the inhabitants have behaved so- liberally towards the memory of a dead poet, they will act in a spirit of tenfold generosity to help the living poor--we know they will. The occasion, too, is an auspicious one, and we are willing to think that the subject has only to be publicly broached to receive a hearty response. If we may offer our humble opinion deputations from the several charities ought to meet and form a committee, and there can be no doubt of the result. We throw out these • brief remarks to-day, in order to arouse public attention, and "we would mistake the kindly spirit, and philantrophic disposition of our fellow townsmen, if the proposition meet with other than a hearty and cordial reception—for whilst it will afford pleasure to the participators, it will confer vast benefits on thousands of our poor fellow creatures. THE COURT WINDSOR CASTLE, Feb. 7.—The Queen, with Prince Arthur, walked and drove in the Home Park this morning, and visited the Duchess of Kent at Frogmore. Princess Alice and Princess Helena rode on horseback. Princess Louisa and Prince Leopold drove out in an open carriage and four. The Earl of IVlalmesbury arrived at the Castle yesterday on a visit, and returned to London again to-diy. THE HOUSE DUTY.—According to a recent return, the house duty, in the year ended the 31st March last, amounted to £754,044. RECORD OF WRECKS. — From published returns it appears that during the month of January the number of wrecks reported was 177. THE STAMP DUTY ON PROBATES AND LEGACIES.— From a return to Parliament lately issued, it appears that the stamp duty on probates and legacies in the year ended the 31st March last, amounted to £3,032,433. We regret to learn that Lady Chatterton, wife of General Sir James Chatterton, met with a severe acci dent on Thursday last, at Newbridge, near Dublin, having broken her collar-bone by an accidental fall. PORTLAND HARBOUR OF REFUGE, FEB. 3.—The wind, which has been blowing heavily from the westward for some days, has considerably moderated and veered round to the north, which has enabled a large number of vessels, bound down Channel, to leave the anchorage. Upwards of 80 weighed and sailed during the day. Her Majesty's ships in harbour are the Blenheim, 60, the Liffey, 50, and the gunboat Biter, 2. ROYAL COLLEGE or SURGEONS.—The following gen tlemen, having undergone the necessary examinations for the diploma, were admitted members of the college at a meeting of the Court Of Examiners, on the 4th instant, viz., Messrs. Adolph Weber, Lima, South America; William Hepworth, Guisley, near Leeds ; Henry Stokes, Brixton ; Frederick Keene, Bow-road ; Robert Jacob Jordan, Bedford-square; and Charles Sanders, Chigwell, Essex. A POOR OLD PRINCE. Everybody asks, What is the r4le to be assumed by the poor old Prince de Mouleau, who, in spite of present poverty and obscurity, did marry in the faee of day, and was publicly recognised as the lawful husband of the Dowager Queen of Sardinia ? Will he still remain condemned to poverty and obscurity, or will he be recognised as the near kinsman of the Princess Clotilda, and be treated accordingly, or will he be re q Jested to remove his residence elsewhere, as was the can ) with another poor moth, who singed his wings in the same manner. - Court Journal. EXTENSIVE FORGERY.—Within the last few days, forgeries, on an extensive scale, of leases granted by some of the city companies have been brought to light. The perpetrator, Mr. James Purssell, formerly connected with the well known confectioners, has succeeded in raising money upon the spurious documents in various directions, and has fled on the discovery of the fraud. Although in the aggregate the amount reaches some £30,000, the loss in no individual case will be very considerable, the transac tions haying been spread over a wide circle, and the measures adopted to secure his property prompt. THE DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM'S ESTATES.—A portion of the Duke of Buckingham's estates, comprising a valuable freehold estate in the parishes of Rodney Stoke, Priddy, and Westbury, Somerset, including two-thirds of the manors of Stoke Rodney, alias Stoke Gifford and Dray cott, the rectorial tithe rentcharge of Westbury and Priddy, and about 2,400 acres of land, producing alto gether nearly £3,000 per annum, were last week submitted for sale by auction, at ;Wells. The biddings started at £70,000, and reached the sum of £85,000, bona fide offered, but the property was bought in at £86,000. AN AMERICAN PROPHET'S BODY FOUND NEAR CAIRN CLEUGH BURN.—A few sportsmen met last week on Padanburn Heights, for the purpose of fox-hunting, and when proceeding northwards, one of the party found the body of a man lying in a well near Cairncleugh Burn. The hat and one shoe were missing. The body was con veyed to Falstone, and an inquest was held on Monday, when it appeared that the deceased, from his tracts and other papers, was an American prophet, and was last seen alive on Saturday week. It is supposed that he died that night or on the following morning, the weather being very stormy, and a verdict to that effect was recorded. This ought to caution strangers crossing that wild dis trict at this season of the year.—.Yewcastle Daily Chronicle. A VESSEL BLOWN FROM HER MOORINGS IN NEW. P3RT Dom.—During the heavy westerly gale on Tuesday night the vessels moored on the west side of the new dock, being wholly unsheltered from its fury, were with onsiderable difficulty held in their berths. About mid night, in a tremendous squall, the barque Doctor Bunting, of Newport, in light ballast trim, parted from her moor ings near the S.W. angle of the new dock, and was driven rapidly across, striking the quay on the opposite side with great force, and starting seven of the heavy kerb-stones from their foundation. Two of these stones, weighing at least a ton each, on which the " bluff" of the vessel's bow struck, were driven back into the solid earth over three inches. Notwithstanding the damage done to the quay the vessel is, with the exception of a tar, apparently t p h a e il l y oss of some coal Press. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT' HOUSE OF LORDS.—TITESDAY. rc pt Lord Brougham . enquired whether the Royal ai 6se „ - d was to be given to the Immigration Act, recently et c ! by the Legislature of Jamaica ; that act, he believe°, had been carried almost by surprise, and was open to 1113- ' great objections. a sat The Earl of Carnarvon replied, that the act had received the Royal assent, but that it would be submitted to Her Majesty by the Colonial Secretvi; The measure he contended was neither objectionable lie;, new. The principal had been acted upon for many l e + be in the colonies with the best effect, and the subject 0 act was simply to extend that principal to Jamaica. The House then adjourned at 6.30. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—TuEsnAT NEW WRITS AND NEW MEMBERS New writs were ordered for Enniskillen, in 01 0 , 1 ,. Mr. Whiteside, and for Greenwich, in place of 0: Townsend, who had accepted the Chiltern Hundreas• os Mr. Baillie took the oaths and his seat on his elect~,; for Lenlithgowshire, and Mr. Adams on his re-election' Boston. THE ROYAL ACADEMY. Sir IT. Willoughby asked the Chief Commissione r Works if the gallery for pictures is building, and in 1013 , locality ; if so, what will be the expense o f suell building, and out of what monies voted by ParliO will such expense be defrayed. The Chancellor of the Exchequer replied that , ? e i i Government, wearied by the perplexities which : 0 , so long involved this matter, had a t last is i 4 it into • ,their own h an d s . N ego ci a ti ons had, ; $ 1 consequence, been set on foot with the Academy for the purpose of obtaining, for the ,• ii of the public, the apart men t s occu pi e d by th e AcaderaY,, t ' the National Gallery in Trafal gar - square . The gov e L - 5 ' merit had not only offered a site to the Academy for a t' , building, but further offered to reco mmen d Parliarne ll ' ff r grant a sum of money for that purp ose . Thi s last O ' e f , the Academy refused as compromising its independe nc e , e, but it had accepted the site, and would,, in consequol e vacate its apartment in Trafalgar-square, and leave the National Gallery for its original object, as a reeeP? d y for public collection of pictures. It would be neees s , to remove at once the Vernon and Turner Gall e , r ;,d from Marlborongh House, which would be reqlll`-of in the autumn for the residence of the Prince to Wales. A temporary building would be erected the receive these galleries, and in two years he trusted t he National Gallery would be ready to be devoted to riblic use. - - TURKISH MEDALS. - Mr. Laurie asked the Secretary of State when it 11s4 t y probable that the Turkish medal, so long promised by the Sultan, would be issued to the army that served Crimea; and whether it was intended that a naer di vi awarded to the troops engaged during the 111— cp a General Peel replied that more than half of the Ter v f, medals had been received, including 10,000 for the Na It was intended to award' an Indian medal. CORRUPT PRACTICES OF ELECTORS. Mr. Henry Berkeley asked the Attorney--i - , o of whether, seeing the probability of an early dissolou°the parliament, it would be his intention to deal with ,0 corrupt practices, to endeavour to co rr e c t it s t o ndo) to or to permit the electors of Great B r itai n an d irelso elect members under its present enactments. f The Attorney-General said that some members ° t y government would be prepared to produce a bill on subject. EXCHEQUER BILLS Sir George Lewis asked. the Chancellor of tt, chequer if any funding of exchequer bills had re e lyi taken place, and if so, to what extent, and authority. 1 t i°l The Chancellor of the Exchequer sai d A 0 £7,600,000 of exchequer bills had been funde' account of savings' banks. CHURCH RATES , In reply to Sir J. Trelawney, 9 0 1 Mr. Walpole said that he should be prepared t ° l ol the intention of the government in respect to „„e rates, on Friday week He would not th ere fore o P e ' c ' o v the introduction_ of . another bill, provided the reading was not fixed till after that 'day. MARRIAGE WITH DECEASED WIFE'S SISTER - „al t Viscount Bury moved for leave to introduce s 11- legalise marriage with a deceased's wife sister. o f tid Mr. A. B. Hope objected to it. It was a waste : 0 A to discuss this 'question, in the face of so much P legislation. On a division of the house, the bill was carried bl OF THE HOUSE. t tIV Mr. Ewart moved SITTINGS a resolution to the effect tliude house should not sit after twelve o'clock on Ti ns and Thursdays. The resolution was opp ose d by M r . Walpole an-odic Palmerston, as likely to hinder proper discussion/ was rejected by 137 against 28. • ABOLITION OF CHURCH RATES. Sir J. Trelawuey moved for leave to introduce a for the Abolition of Church Rates. After some observations from Mr. D. Griffith sl o Packe, Mr. Drummond, and Mr. Walpole, to the ting that they were not in any way committed in ass el a ti ce the introduction of the bill, leave was given to intToi REMOVAL OF PAUPE. On the motion of Mr. Sotheron Es tc ourt, aCO t he was appointed for the purpose of considering . .., r which renders paupers irremovable after five Ye9i dence in any parish. SALE OF POISONS. On the motion of Mr. Walpole leave was 10 introduce a bill t o regu l a t e th e ' keeping all poisons. COMMUTATION OF CHURCH RATES. for Mr, Alcock obtained leave to bring in a Bw Voluntary Commutation of Church Rates. PROCEEDINGS OF ELECTIONS Mr. Collier obtained leave to bring in a Ol Assimil a te th e ti me o f procee di ng to Eleeti° ,olia Polling in E ng l an d, I re l an d , an d S cot l an d ; "ece! the time of proceedings to elections during r ritri and for vacating seats by banloupt Members o f le t!' ment of the House of Commons, and for othe r e purposes. SUPPLY. l j eo The House went into C omm itt ee o f S u ppli t , A te' usual formal resolution that the suppty be go 0 1 her Majes was agreed to. The rema ty ininm business was disposed of, a House adjourned at 7.35. Yo h ", THE BANBURY C ONTEST .—A S th e d a y 0- f e t i e , approaches for Ba n b ur y, we h ear th a t no t a Ina is entertained in many quarters that M r . Edw. 3 7 o e may be able to re sume hi s p os iti on i n the II" Commons. REPRESENTATION OF WILTSHIRE.—It LS authority that, in the event of Mr. Long's reTin; from the representation of the northern division °f shire at the close of the present parliament (ebroOy there is no doubt), Lord Ernest Bruce will be fill forward as a candidate ; and it is added that 11°,,iect°,,,t: supported by a large and influential body of the 'e NAVAL PRIZE MONEY.—The Admiralty h3i'fot,iii notice that preparations are now being made boc intended distribution of proceeds and -tonnageoe arising from the William Clark, captured en troy, August, 1857, by her Majesty's ship Firefin,,,tele, barque, name unknown, captured on the 2nd 09" !i;to 1857, by her Majesty's ship Alecto ; from the bri,.°lo unknown, captured on the 4th Oct., 1857, by b ty's ship Myrmidon. Dot 4 THE LAST OF THE CONVICT HULKS.—Tbe;SOI4 maining vestige of the system of keeping Pr' boiFll' board disused ships of war is just about to be,e. by the breaking up of the staff of the Still-I°4'l;Pd' convict hulk in Portsmouth harbour. This „,"00i,i lately been used for the reception of prisoners, seibtrol from the convict establishments at Bermuda and for ti,4 but it is henceforth to be discontinued eveni, cep' parpose, and there will no longer remain a S hulk in use in the English Prison Service.--'ilt% Gazette. Lq• the tail' SPREAD EAGLE ORATORY. —The following of oratory by which the Pension Bill was a": bil" the House of Representatives :----sg Defeat to thiop aej a standing army, like a bird of prey, will swl7, 041, and gnaw at the vitals of the Republic. Pass,ici ‘tt) million of men, from the north, south, eastt,i",,j(l.4t' from hill and dale, from your crowded cities rs"yf' fastnesses, at the first bugle blast of war, w 0 e 9; your flag ; and, like the heroic sons of the Sparta rpr will return it blazoned all over with victor'', Ireie circled in its folds as the winding-sheet."--4 S 4, oi Sun. SMART CHILDREN.—The funny man -- nf th e tbe (Mass) Post being of the opinion that the d b 9 smart children should not be monopole 0110 " Knickerbocker" and " Harper" relates the.oble yfoll " Sojourning in the elegant and most hesPito tbo sion of Dr. 11--'s last week, I was auditor I.oner lowing dialogue between the Dr. and his The daughter, a beautiful child of seven yearis. o°l was winding his watch, when he said, 10.13Y140, '710054 little girl--' Let me wind your nose up doo.'for ' child, I don't want my nose wound up, f°r-tocati„ it to run all day There was some merrloial• few moments, in that circle, albeit it was $ll