The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-03-04 00:00:00

ASSASSINATION IN IRELAND.

Mr. Thaddeus Callaghan, a respectable solicitor, of Dublin
and Ballyronan, was assassinated near Portumna, on Friday.

HOUSE OF LORDS.

MONDAY.

Their Lordships assembled at five o'clock.
Lord BROUGHAM moved for copies of two letters from Pro-
fessor Levi to the Statistic department, and their answer
thereto. Agreed to. He then laid upon the table five reso-
lutions with reference to the judicial statistics of this country,
but he did not then ask the house to adopt those resolutions.
The Commons Enclosure Bill passed through committee.
The house adjourned at 6 40 p.m.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

MONDAY.

The house met at four o'clock.

The second reading of the Imperial Hotel Company Bill,
the object of which measure is to erect an hotel on the site
of the National Gallery, Trafalgar-square, was carried on a
division by a majority of 8.
On the motion of Mr. GIBSON leave of absence was given
to Mr. Bright on Recount of ill health.
Sir G. GREY stated, in reply to Mr. Masters Smith, that
government had no present intention to introduce a bill to
legalise the appointment of district instead of parochial sur-
veyors.

In reply to Mr. T. Duncombe, Sir G. GREY said that the
government had no intention to introduce any bill this session
for the reform of the licensing system, as recommended by
the committee of last year.
On the motion for going into committee of supply, Sir Da
Lacy EVANS entered into an explanation of his remarks on
Friday last respecting Captain Dowbigan, Colonel Gordon,
and the Duke of Cambridge, and if he had said anything in
disparagement to the Duke he eould only attribute it to the
heat of debate, and not to real conviction since. All his expe-
rience and predilections were decidedly in his Royal High-
ness's favour. With regard to Captain Dowbigan and Colonel
Gordon, perhaps the excitement of the momeni had carried
him further than he had intended to go, and he was very sorry
for it. He also explained the proposition which he made to
Lord Raglan for the safety of the British army after the battle
of Inkermann, and he hoped the house and the country would
give him credit for strict military honour, and believe that he
had not been wanting in his conduct as an English General.
Lord CLAUDS HAMILTON said he had never imputed want
of courage to the gallant general, but he was prepared to
show that he had foundation for what he had said on Friday
night.

Sir DE LACY Eveys hoped the noble lord would not go
into the matter now. At the proper time he should be pre-
pared to disclose all ; and then it might appear that, how-
ever good they might have been as soldiers, they were not
perhaps the best of prophets. .

Mr: GORDON was satisfied with the gallant general's ex-
planation. •
Lord PALMERSTON and Mr. DISRAELI expressed hopes that
after the explanation the matter should he allowed to sink
into oblivion, and it dropped accordingly.
• Mr. LAYARD called the attention of the house
to our relations with Persia, which appeared to him
to be in a highly critical state. The British representa-
tive at Teheran had got his government into a quarrel with
Persia; and which, also, if peace might be restored in Paris,
might ultimately result in the advantage of Russia, and seri-
ously endanger our Indian interest. He was afraid we were
on the eve of a war with Persia, if hostilities had not actually
been commenced ; and since we were decidedly in the wrong,
be protested against this course in the name of England.

Lord PAL3IERSTOR rebuked the hon. member for intro-
ducing this question while the dispute was still a subject of
negotiation. He denied that hostile measures had yet been
taken against Persia. All that had been done was to send two
small vessels from Bombay to the Gulf of Persia to protect
the interests of British subjects pending the dispute, which
was yet capable of adjustment.
Mr. DISRAELI said, it is stated that preliminaries of peace
have been signed at Paris, and it would no doubt be satisfac-
tory to the house and the country if the noble lord could as-
sure us of the fact.

Lord PALMERSTON replied—The house and the public are
aware that certain articles were proposed some time ago by
Austria, with the previous consent of England and France, as
conditions to be offered to Russia, and to serve as the
foundation of a treaty of peace. These conditions were at
first accepted by Russia with some reservation, but these re-
servations were rejected by Austria, and the conditions after-
wards accepted by Russia unconditionally. The acception
was pure et simple, as it was called, and these articles were
afterwards recorded in a protocol, and signed by the repre-
sentatives of the contracting powers at Vienna. At the
meeting of the conferences in Paris, this protocol was adopted
and entered on the minutes as the act of the Plenipotentiaries,
and that having been done, they at once proceeded to the
discussion of the other questions which the final treaty of
peace is to determine. That is the precise state of the matter
as it at present stands.

Mr. DISRAELI inquired, when was this protocol, embodying
the preliminaries, signed at Paris.
Lord PALMERSTON replied, some recent day last week.
SUPPLY.

The House then went into committee of supply.

The balance (Z 500,000) of the vote of £7,000,000 for paying
the land forces, £6,500,000 of which were taken on Friday
night, was agreed to after a miscellaneous discussion upon
the administration of the army.

£1,000,000 was voted on account of the embodied militia.
£BB,OOO was voted for the voluntser corps in Great Britain.
£260,000 was voted towards defraying the expenses of the
Army Works Corps. £190,063 for salaries and contingencies
of the War Department. £22,791 for the head-quarters at
Military Establishments.
At 12 o'clock the house resumed.
The house went into committee of ways and means. A
vote of £26,000,000 was granted on the Consolidated Fund.
The Out-Pensioners (Chelsea and Greenwich) Bill and the
Trial of Offenders Bill were read a second time.

The Secretary to the Poor-law Commissioners (Ireland)
Bill, the Annuity Bill, and the Exchequer-bill Funding Bill,
was read the third time and passed.
The Mutiny Bill passed through committee.

It was agreed, on the motion of Lord Du)TcAN, that a select
committee be appointcd to inquire into the ordnance survey
of Scotland.

The house adjourned at 12.35 a.m.

ARRIVAL OF THE JAMES BAINES.

The royal mail ship James Baines, of the " Black Ball"
Line, arrived in the Mersey this morning at 1 o'clock, a.m.,
with 230 passengers and a heavy mail. She has a large
amount of gold on board.