The Express.
London, England, 1864-07-30 00:00:00

PRUCCE MITE& AND THE PORTE.

Kr. TAYLOR asked the first Lord of the Treasury whe-
ther it was a fact that Pr ;one Couza bad i•nuati a proclania-
ties dated 2nd (lath) July to the It urmanian people,
wherein it is stated that "His Majesty the Sultan. our
illcstrious sovereign, and the guaranteeing powers, bare
recognised the new institutions of Roumania crested by the
'Plebiscite of the 10th (?led) to the 14rh (_'6th) May."
',Lord PALMER TON—Priem Conn, of his own autho-
rity, issued edicts entirely alterieg the constitution of the
principalities. The Porte objected to that, and so did the
powers who at the treaty of Vienna had to a certain de-
pee undertaken to ware to the Principalities certain con-
stitutional iostitutious. The Prince proceeded to Cot-
etaetinople to mortonnicate with the Porte, and when
there he communicated with the Porte and with the
representatives of the powers who were parties to the treaty
of Path, and the result of the deliberations of these potties
was an agreement between the Porte and Prince Cot= as
to certain modifications in the 000stitutioo which had been
given, certain portions of that coustitution being main-
tained and other portions being altered. The result was
eoesidered satisfactory, both by the Porte and by the
goarantseiag powers.
THE VOLUNTEER SERVICE.

Yr. H. B. SRF.RIDAN asked the Coder Secretary of
State for War whether the 20th seetioe of the Voluabmr
Act of 1563 would apply to the case of • private (William
Lodge, 146. Carmonntreet-road, St. George's-In-the-East) of
tbe 3rd London Rifle Volunteer Regiment, wbo was dis-
abled while under official inspection, and thereforein actual
aiffilery service, namely, on the 16th of May, 1864, at
West-end Park, Kilburn ; the sometime referred to bean as
!,Bows:—" A vo'noteer. or non.oommissionad officer al the
volunteer permanent staff,
.disabled on actual service shall, according to his rank, be entitled to tu
be like
feasiea and other benefits, if any, as a soldier of her
. . . _ _

Mr. 'Hu nr on the &beesa of the Merquis'of Harlington)
regretted to sey that the volunteer who was the subject of
the unfortunate actideut referred to in the question was
sot, under the provisions of the Volunteer Act, 1863, en-
titled to • He wee not, within the meanies of that
set, in actual military service. Such actual mili-
tary service would only occur to a volunteer in the event
of an invasion of the country, or of the immediate &ppm-
koalas of each an event.
CASES OF FLOGGING AT SIINDERLAND.

Colonel SYKES (in the abacuses of Mr. Suitor') asked the
Seastary of State for the Home Departroset whether his
attention had been milled to the °sae of Jobe Crandon sad
Thomas Allisom, who wars dotted on Saturday last in the
seauty prison at San.lorlaed ; and what this names were of
the 'magistrates by whom the man was ordered and super-
isteaded.

Sir G. GREY said his attentive had been called to thew
eases by a questios which bad been put to him the other
*Tonic& Ile summed then that this purist:meet bad been
indicted by virtue of • sentence pared in conformity with
the provinces of an act passed lam session, which, for the
drat time, ordered corpond punislureet to be indicted in cer-
tain cases, in addition to penal servitude. Since then he
bad seen the calendar and the list of the convictions,
and he footed that these two prisoners were convicted
of robbery with violence, and were sentenced by Mr. Baron
Pigott to terms of penal servitude, and to receive 20 lashes
of a cat witbie one week of the date of their conviction. He
led no doubt that the punishment was in accordaece with
the sentesor, and that the sentence was in strict conformity
with the act of last session. Very few sentences bad been
=4l under the provisions of that act, but this was one of
The magistrates were in no way responsible for the
sentence; the only persons bound to be present at the
Indiction of the punishment being the governor of the gaol
and the surgeon.
Mr. GRIFFITH sad whether the cat was made of
Lather, and not of whipcord!
Sir G. GREY did not know the difference, or whether the
est of leather or of whipcord was the heavier instriuneet.
• jades who passed the sentence directed that the punish-
ment should be indicted with a cat instead of a larch-rod,
'wording to the provisions of the statute.
PUBLIC SCHOOLS COMMISSION.

Mr. G. DOFF asked lb. *IIICZ•tarf of State for the Home
Department whether a royal ODTIUMiIdO(I was about to be
issued to inquise into all thous endowed schools which were
act inquired into by the Let two education commiaeiona.
Sir G. GREY said an appliesUes was recently made to
the noble lord at the heed of the government for issuing •
essuanission with • view of inquiry into the state of those
eskools in which the children of the middle classes ware
principally educated, which were sot included within the
seeps of the commission for inquiry into the higher-close
schools, one within that of the oommisaion to lamina into
U. state of the ordinary schools for the lower clan, which
were supported by parliamentary grants The govetnment
thought it would be very satirdactery that such an inquiry
take place, and • eonsiniselon would shortly la issued