The Express.
London, England, 1863-03-14 00:00:00

EXPERIMENTS WITH THE ARMSTRONG AND
WHITWORTH GUNS.

Sir J. FEBOITSBbIi ealreni the Secretary of State for
War whether, before the eontecittes which ha elated on
Mersday last had boon appointed to °Gadder the respective
awaits of the Armen:oar sad Whitworth gunk the latter
were to be tried against the @orrice. field, end prrison
cans of Sir W. Areertorog's pattern, sr wine Ohms of an
altered oonstreetios.

said that no reetrictione had been
Aired either upon Sir William Armstrong ce Mr. Whit-
meth with respect to the guns to be employed in the wed-
meal&

SANITARY CONDITION OF ROTHERHAM.
Mr. CHILDRES asked the Secretary of Slate for the
HOMO Department whether his attention had Men directed
Mo the dinning extent of sertallty and dimes in the town
,et Rotherham, Arkin heal Min skate of the &ohms and
-the imperfeet Ripply et water ; sod whether government
Wouldtake mama. be Were. et remedy thereof.
• Sir G. GREY said that the medical department d the
"Privy Conseil seen beeper two inspectors to inquire into
the ease of the great sad mortality which prey llad
at Rotharbam, end they made a report stating that the
rjrZcome appeared not only a deficient 'apply
to be ,
but the *hind source from which it came. Be
, believed that the ineyeratien of the town had now a bill
• beam parlissent, the objet of which was to give the
Hess aa maliSted supply of pme water.
r REGISTRY OF THE COURT OF PRORATE.
Hr. IfF.NNESSYmked the Chancellor of the Exchequer
whether it wee his MUGU°. to extend the meal civil service
system of supwanashea and clandfication to the officers
and clerks oldie principal registry oif the Court of Probate ;
and, it ao, whs. the aroessary anangemeate you'd be mar
plated.
Mr. F. PEEL mid that es the arrangement, connected
with the Wise were experimental, it had been thought
better in the first betas* to appoint clerks at a specified
fixed Wary. There would be no objection to apply a system
of elanifeation to them. Several of the candidates for
clerkships in the rea4trf had received civil service certifi-
cates, sad they would al cosine on retirement be stifled to
minim in the meal manner.
AMALGAMATION OF THE METROPOLITAN AND
LONDON POLICE.
Upon the motion for going into committee of supply,
General Sir DE L. SPANS, in bringing under the es-
Adoration of the house the expediency of amalgamating the
. setropolitaa sad city of London police establishmests,
rid he hoped that after what had recently occurred in the
City, this subject would receive the arena attention of
the 'oversewn. They were informed that the pooessioe
of the Prince of Wales and the Princess Alexandra on Sat.
urdey last was se interrupted in the City as to cause clanger
and alarm even to them illustrious persons, the mob
having more than once entirely surrounded their ear-
' riage, and some people having actually get upon it.
Prom the public ta it appeared that on the
--sprain of the the earmeatioo scoording to their
Waal custom, had a &inner i Ia foarcliette at the Mao-
Woe-boom, which led to delay, and ultimately interfered
with the amusements for the procession. A ostromen
had arisen is newspapers betweenthe head of the polies is
the City and the officer eommandiog the City rifle volunteers,
sad each appeared to oast the biome of what occurred on
the other. bat which wee wrong it was impoesible for him
to say. In his opinion, however, volunteers, though ex-
cellent soldiers. were Dot really Listed for keeping the
ground on such occasions. (Hear, hear.) Looking at the
results, it certainly did appear that in the large
area under the supervision of the metropolitan police
not ens life was lost, nor did any serious ac-
cident occur, while there was a serious Ices of life as well
many severe amidenta in the City. The
were, therefore, sot favourable to the City polies ; but his
object was simply an amalgamation of the two bodies, and
it would be for the government to inquire which of theta
was moll efficient. Few himself he had not the remotest
doubt as to which was the moat efficient, and he thought
that the jeriedietian at the metropolitan police should he
extended to the City.
_ The LORD MAYOR mid the subject involved a much
larger questioe Mau that brought forward by the hors. and
gallent gentleman. There were a umber of curious coin-
cidence, connected with the arrangements. In the first pleeN
the corn m usiouer of the polite for the City unfortunately died
a week before the arrangements for the promesioe com-
menced. In the next place, the whole minors of that tea-
ordi airy demonstration wan thrown on the City poitee7and
them only, withie the boundaries of the City. I" Oh,
and laugofhter./ Is the next place, there was 'a
secession large uswieldly mna laded with
' metropolitan police thrown into the City in the
Inn of the pronesion, meeting it, ite it were, in the
vsry face. and by settle( down peewee at differs.* points
aunieg great obstruction. He believed there wen some
members in the bens who had suffered from obstructions,
of some boom' duration. addax from that cause. It vu
' also certainly very odd that all these things Solid cultal. I
nate in an effort to deprive the City of London of the rigs-
' Mon of its owls police. Being himself a comminieme of
the Central Crinrinal Court he had opportunities
of ascertaining the opinion of the judges with re-
gard to the City police, and he knew their opi-
nion was that far Intelliience, activity, and reliability
the comparison betwene the two forces was much to the
advantage of the City shoe. (A lamb.) the personate
said that the civic ildbollithe had refused the asnistanos of
troops and the antropolitan pollee, but that was not true.
A noble lord in the bows would eosins him when be and
that an intimation wee given theta eertain mobs of troops
should be placed al the dimmed of the CIS netherHisti
and he oedema:ma they would be the Life Oast& who
wen aocustosned to Urge econnease of people. and showed
mask teepee illuselisa; wises mosillseal war