The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1855-06-19 00:00:00

RAILWAY

A mbergate,Nottingbatn,
and F.. Junction ;
Cslenoninn
Do. Preference
Eastern Counties
East Lancashire 774 84
Edinburgh & Glasgow 5B 60
Great Northern 92} 3:i
Do. A. 75 7

Do. B. 126 8 NoriiiStaffjr&hiie::..
Great Western
Lanc.and Yorkshire Bli 24 York, Newcastle, and
Do. Fifths — Berwick
Leeds Northern l4i York and N. Midland.. 51i 2,1
LAND SHARES.
Australian Agricultural Peel River
S. Australian Invest.... IN. B. Australian
Crystal Palace
French Threes closed this afternoon 67 50, being a tall of 1
per cent. from Saturday, and there was further heaviness in
English Funds in consequence. Consols, 914 ; Omnium,
41 1. On 'Change, Linseed Oil firm at 395. on the spot.
Tallow, a slow sale at 525. Good business in Spelter at £23,
and in Scotch Pig Iron at 778. Cotton quiet; sales 600 bales
at full rates. Two cargoes of Foreign Sugar fetched full rates.
At Dantzig, on the 15th, Wheat was 2s. to 4s. lower, with
little or nothing offering. Timber very dull, freight risen 2s.

LONDON Coax MARKET.—(From Kingsford and Lay's
Circular.)—The supply of Foreign Wheat is moderate, and
realised an advance of is. upon Monday last. Attendance
rather better than of late, and included several large millers
from the interior. Foreign Wheat met a small inquiry at an
improvement of is. Barley met a steady sale at fully last
Week's rates. Beans and Peas unaltered. Oats are in better
demand ; fine, 6d. dearer. In Flour there is pot much doing,
but the extreme prices of this day week are sustained.
ARRIVALS.
Emr,lish. Irish. scotch. Forei•xn
Wheat 5177 14740
Barley 331 666
Malt —
Oats • 365 1750 44 16904
Beans
Peas —
Flour

n 4171 sks.

METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET.—Beef, 4s 6d to 5s 6cl;
Mutton, 4s 10d to ss. ICkl ; Veal, 5d to 6d ; Pork, 4s 2d to ss;
Lamb, 5s 6d to 7s. Beasts, 3,719 ; Sheep and Lambs, 22,010 ;
Calves, 216. Arrivals :—Holland Beasts, 468; Ditto Sheep,
1,440; Ditto Calves, 163 ; Spanish Sheep, 620 ; Norfolk and
Suffolk Beasts, 2,000; Scotch Beasts, 500.—Beast and Sheep
trade very brisk, at a considerable advance. Lambs sold
freely. Calves 10d. dearer.

LONDON PRODUCE MARKET.—There is little passing on
home or continental account. Prices are unaltered, still de-
liveries are favourable for consumption, and stocks generally
less than last year. Operations are larger in Colonial and
British Wool, at stiffer prices. Tallow : Stock 46,917 casks,
against 31,498 last year. Deliveries : 1,070, against 1,292
last year.
GLASGOW PIG IRON MARKET.—Pig Iron firm, with rather
more demand; 775. cash for mixed numbers. Very little
Iron offered.

MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE.—Manchester, Sheffield,
and Lincolnshire, 271 ; ditto New Preference, prem. ; Dis-
trict Bank, 8-1- prem. ,
LEEDS STOCK EXCHANGE.—Lancashire and Yorkshire, 82;
Midland, 741; East Lancashire fifths, 5-16.

BETTING AT TATTERSALL'S—Tms DAY.

STEWARD'S PLATE, STOCKBRIDGE.--2 to 1 agst Oulston,
tk; 7 to 2 agst Kingstown, tk.
NORTHUMBERLAND PLATE.-8 to 1 agst Vindex, tk.
GOODWOOD STAKES.-15 to 1 agst Homily, off; 16 to 1 agst
Quince, tk freely; 16 to 1 agst Pumicestone, tk; 16 to 1 agst
Mishap, tk ; 16 to 1 agst Syragee, tk ; 25 to 1 agst Wantage,
tk ; 25 to 1 agst Robgil, tk ; 25 to 1 agst Minesty, off.
GOODWOOD Cur.-4 to 1 agst Oulston, tk ; 4to 1 agst
Rattle, tk.

ST. iRGEE.-8 to 1 agst Marchioness, tk.
DERBY.-10 to 1 agst Fly-by-Night, tk ;20to 1 agst Fazzo-
letto, tk; 20 to 1 agst Danube, tk; 22 to 1 agst Bird in Hand,
tk; 28 to ,1 agst Result, tk; 40 to 1 agst Rhedycina colt, tk.

THE LxvEarooL IMPROVEMENT BILL—The committee
upon this bill sat yesterday for several hours, and adjourned
at three o'clock, till to-day, when the further consideration
of it will be resumed. Owing to some mistake, our parcel had
not arrived at the time of going to press.

MR. VILLIERS' DEFALCATIONS.—In the Court of Queen's
Bench, on Saturday, before Lord Campbell and a special jury,
the case of Clark v. Lord Clifden was brought on. Mr. Edwin
James, Q. C., and Mr. T. Jones appeared for the plaintiff; Sir
F. Thesiger, Mr. H. Hill, Q. C., and Mr. Prentice for the de-
fendant.—This was an action on a bill for £3,000, drawn by
the Hon. Francis Villiers upon Lord Clifden, accepted by him,
and endorsed to the plaintiff. When the cause was called on,
Mr. James said he wished the plaintiff to be called. This was
done accordingly, but he did not answer. Mr. James applied
to his Lordship to postpone the trial. Lord Campbell said he
was very unwilling to press the case on, and he would therefore
take another cause. This was done accordingly. At a later
period of the day the case was again called on, but the plaintiff
did not appear. Mr.Panies said, under the circumstances he
must withdraw the record ; which was done accordingly. In
the cases of Ford v. Lord Clifden, and Wisden v. Lord Clifden,
the records had been withdrawn at an earlier period of the day

HOUSE OF LORDS.

MONDAY.

Their lordships met at five o'clock.

A discussion took place between Lord Broup„izam, Lord
Portman, and the Lord Chancellor, on the subject of the fees
paid in County Courts, but it produced no result beyond an
assurance that the subject was engaging attention.

Bills upon the table having been advanced a stage, the
house adjourned at 0.55 p.m.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

MONDAY.

The house met at four o'clock.
ARMY INQUIRY COMMITTEE.
Mr. ROEBUCK brought up the report of the Committee on
the Army before Sebastopol, and it was read by the clerk at
the table amidst the deepest silence. It was for the most part
an historical narrative of the management of the war in the
several departments at home, and in all of which it described
a great want of system, and equal mismanagement. It fur-
ther stated circumstances which showed great neglect on the
part of nearly the whole of the authorities at the seat of war.
The report went on to acknowledge the exertions of private
persons to relieve the exigencies and distresses at the hospitals
in Scutari. Having stated that the conduct of the adminis-
tration at home had been the chief cause of the calamities
which had occurred, it concluded with bearing testimony to
the admirable manner in which the army had borne its mani-
fold sufferings. The reading of this important document
occupied the clerk exactly one hour and a half.
MASSACRE OF A BOATS CREW BY THE
RUSSIANS.

Captain DIINCOMBE asked Sir C. Wood whether it was true
that the Russians had fired upon and destroyed a boat's crew
of one of Her Majesty's ships which approached the coast of
Hango to deliver up some Russian prisoners.
Sir C. WOOD regretted that the report was only too true..
He had, to-day, received despatches from Admiral Dundas,
the substance of which he would state, giving an account of
the transaction. Some time before, Her Majesty's ship Cos-
sack took and destroyed some Russian vessels near Hango,
and some persons made prisoners—the captain of one of the
vessels, his son, and a sailor. Admiral Dundas, anxious not ta
use any unnecessary severity towards the trade of the country,
so long as the supplies for the Russian forces were interrupted,
directed the Cossack to return to Hango, in order to put
ashore the persons so captured, who had also requested to be
put ashore at that place. Four other Russians, who had also
been taken prisoners, also requested to be landed there. The
Cossack thereupon went to Hango, and anchoring some little
distance from the place, sent the ship's cutter with seven
Russian prisoners, and the ordinary boat's crew, The boat
approached the shore under a flag of truce, which she dis-
played for half an hour before she reached the jetty. The
officers and the prisoners landed, with their baggage, upon the
jetty—with the exception of the officers, every man remained
in the boat—a body of Russian soldiers, between 300 and 400,
all armed, came down to the jetty. The English offieer Waved
his flag of trace, and explained why the prisoners were put
ashore. The Finnish captain then took the flag of truce from
the Lieutenant, and tried to explain both in Finnish and
in English the purport of the visit. The officer in command
of the Russians spoke not only Finnish, but English also; and
he said he did not care for the flag of truce, and that he would
show the party how the Russians could fight. Some hundred
. _

of the Russian soldiers immediately fired upon the British
officers, and the Finnish prisoners upon the jetty,
and killed every one of them. They then fired into
the boat, and killed every man but one. They then
rushed into the boat, threw some bodies overboard, dragged
one wounded man out and killed him ; but they left five
bodies for dead in the boat. The boat not returning, later
in the day, the eig was sent out in search, and it was ascer-
tained from a distance that the disaster had occurred. There
Was left on board the boat a black man, who was wounded
with two bullets through the arm, and one through his
shoulder : he tried to cut the fastenings of the boat, and to
scull the cutter to the ship. In the meantime the Cossack
was standing, in order to ascertain what had become of the
cutter; and a boat being sent out picked up this man, who
was the only survivor. Ou his evidence, of course, the whole
of the story which he had just detailed must rest, as he was
the only person left alive after the transaction.
This statement made a profound impression upon the house.
Soon afterwards,
Mr. HR.! DLAM asked whether any British officer had
availed himself of a flag of truce to take soundings at Kertch

or elsewhere.
Sir C. WOOD replied that, so far as any reports had been re-
ceived at the Admiralty, such a statement was utterly untrue.
The papers relative to the outrage at Haugoe were then laid
'rte), the tank, endD 3i
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printed.
REFORM. .

•
The adjourned debate on Mr. Layard's motion respecting
Administrative Reform was then resumed by Lord Gonznrcir,
'who at some length supported the original motion.

Mr. F. PEEL followed, and, referring to Mr. Layard's speech
on Friday, replied to all the cases of alleged favouritism at the
Horse Guards in the way of military promotion. As to the
motion, he considered that it was too large, and that it ex-
aggerated altogether the state of public feeling; he should
therefore vote against it.

Mr. H. DRUMMOND disagreed with every proposition ad-
vanced by Mr. Layard in his motion, as the hon. gentleman
assumed that his opinion was to guide all the world ; but as
he had not proved a single assertion out of the whole four
which constituted his resolution, it was not very likely that
his opinion would have much weight, notwithstanding the
proceedings in Drury-lane and the city of London. He ridi-
culed the phrase of Administrative Reform, and said those
who had used it could not tell what it meant. For these and
other reasons he should vote against the motion. The amend-
ment, too, was quite as wide of the mark as the motion itself.
Mr. JOHN IMICGREGOR supported the motion.
_ _

Colonel LINDSAY entered into some explanations with re-
gard to the case of Lord Eustace Cecil, and other officers, in
answer to Mr. Layard.

Mr: J. G. PRILLIMORE disapproved of competition for pro-,
motion as a rule in the civil service ; he did not, however,
object to examination, but he should vote against Mr. Layard,
because it was neither definite nor satisfactory.
Mr. DISRAELI stated what Lord Derby's government had
done in the way of Administrative Reform in the Irish offices•
and in the Customs, and mentioned that it was their intention
to have brought the whole subject before parliament, with the
view of bringing every department in the State into a more
efficient condition. This course was one which should have
preceded all others at this time; but what Lord Derby's
government had done, and what they proposed to do, showed
that the phrase " Administrative Reform" was at least a
definite expression. That was a measure of Adininistrative
Reform of which be had himself, as Chancellor of the
Exchequer, given notice, by which the whole revenue of the
country was paid into the Exchequer, without deducting the
expenses. Great changes in the civil administration were •
necessary. Admission should be the result of fitness properly
tested, and its rewards of a higher scale, while the great offices
should be the reward of able servants, educated for the pur-
pose. These changes he had advocated more than three years
ago,
been and
if
avoided,tl d
from the highest authority be t iteos .o bmightt an.
have
a clear and distinct explanation of
the means to improve and reward the civil service, and for
this purpose he suggested a royal commission of practical
l lad
bat been
the adopted
firsts step
manyp
ashould mu calamities
lai
men, which, indeed, Lord •Derby s government were prepared
to issue. He could not agree with Mr. leyard's motion, be-
cause our disasters were not owing to the civil service, but to
an incapable government. The amendment of Sir E. B.-
Lytton accuratly embodied that which ought to be the decision of the house on this question. He was told the govern-
ment meant to adopt this amendment. If they did, they
ought to act upon it sincerely, and to appoint a royal com-
mission to enquire into the public offices and to pass acts of
parliament to carry out their recommendation. Let this be
done, and the country would derive great benefit from Ad-
ministrative Reform; but, after all, he doubted whether •
government were sincere in their desire to improve and en-
courage he
tade. civil service, seeing the last three appointments
had m
Lord PALMERSTON commenced by saying there was not
one word of truth in what Mr. Layard had stated of him at '
the Drury-lane meeting, and he wondered that a blush of
shame had not come over the hon. member, when he was
making charges which his conscience must have told him were
utterly false. He denied that the present government was
constituted, upon family principles ; and, starting from this
point, he went through the allegations of Mr. Layard, deny-
ing them altogether, so far as they proceeded upon the as- •
sumption that merit was not rewarded in the public service.
Alluding to Mr. Disraeli's remarks, he said the present'
government had actually carried out all that Lord Derby's
government only intended to do. Having stated his objections
to Mr. Layard's motion, he said, in answer to Mr. Disraeli, •
that government sincerely accepted the amendment, in fact,
it was their interest as well as their duty to make the Civil
establishment as efficient as possible.
Mr. LINDSAY said, as he had some important statements to
make, which would show a great deal of maladministration,
he should move the adjournment of the debate.
Admiral BERKELEY had waited to tell the hon. member
that his statements at Drury-lane were not founded on truth.
After a few words from Mr. OTWAY, the house divided—

ostrity 'again;
For the adjournment
336
The house -253.
pa3riliamr. Ledn:AltgDMailithen replied. He expressed his regret that
an opportunity had not been afforded to Mr. Lindsay to state
the charges of maladministration, particularly after the un-
For Mr. Layard's motion 46
Thonetohreigminaotiomnootifon
Against
Nersstegy,uetnhtelyd,elboastte 359
on the amend-
Ythdeenndiialvsidoedf thoenmthbey
question.Aduiiral Berkeley,
Majority against .---313.
ment was adjourned till Thursday. The orders were disposed
of, and the house adjourned at twenty-seven minutes. past
two o'clock. Mr.w asLi