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LONDON, SATURDAY, JULY 19, 1856.

POSTSCRIPT.

THE INSURRECTION IN SPAIN.
A despatch from Madrid, Thursday, states :
To•day order is completely re-established at Madrid.
The Queen, accompanied by the King and by Marshal
O'Donnell, has just reviewed the garrison. The troops
and the people received their Majesties and the Marshal
with enthusiasm.
To-morrow will take place the solemn burial of the
soldiers who have died gloriously in defending the throne
and order. _ _ _ _

The twelve pieces of cannon posted on the Plaza Sevalds
belonged to the insurgents. They were captured by the
Royal troops after some hours of fighting.
The insurrection has been victorious at Saragossa. The
garrison there goes along with the people.
Catalonia is in a state of insurrection.
Arragon is in insurrection.
Ourrea has arrived at Saragossa.
General infante having assembled some forty members
of the Cortes, General O'Donnell had them dispersed.

The Paris correspondent of the Morning Post
(second edition) in his letter dated Thursday, speak•
ing of the Italian question, says :—" With respect to
the communication received from the Neapolitan

Government, the French Emperor has expressed
himself with a warmth quite foreign to his usual
habits of reserve. It requires no cleverness to fore-
see that, in the degree of temporal power reserved to
the Pope, and a thousand other questions of detail,
there may exist differences of opinion. The French
Emperor is reported to have lately cut short the re-
presentation of these difficulties by saying, Let
them (the Italians) settle their own affairs.' "
The Moniteur officially confirms the appointment
of Aide-de-camp General Count Kisseleff, Minister
of the Domains, as Russian Ambassador at Paris.

The last despatches from Athens, up to the 11th,
mention that Marshal Pelissier was expected at the
Piro3ns. The Russians having sent back to Greece
the Greek Legion that they had formed, the Greek
Government refused to receive these troops, and de-
manded that they should return to Odessa. The
Cabinet of King Otho have in the meantime applied
to the English admiral for his assistance in sup•
porting their protest.

Accounts from Constantinople, of the 10th, states
that an electric telegraph will shortly connect Con-
stantinople with the Dardanelles.
The Russian Consuls appointed for Turkey have
set out for their destinations.

The Governor of Trebizond has sent two batta-
lions to Batonm to repress the inhabitants of the
neighboming province, who had revolted after the
departure of the Turkish troops.

A letter from SL Petersburg,
sayi

in the; DThats,

The former commander of Kinbnrn, General Kochano-
witch, has been acquitted by the council of war, and placed
for the time being in the cavalry. On the other hand,
General Bodisco, commander of Homarsund, has been
placed on the retired list. Prince Menschikoff lives in a
very retired manner, and remains a stranger to all poli-
tical affairs. All the officeis who possessed high com-
mands during the late war have thus received fresh com-
mands, with the exception of Prince Menachikoff.

THE PRESS.

The Caucasus contains a report, dated April, of
the expedition of a detachment, consisting of the
garrisons of the fortresses Fresnaia and Wosdvi•
schenski, in the course of which the Russians on their
way to the Black Mountains and back destroyed
everything they could meet with in the way of huts
and stores of corn. It is mentioned further that
Schamyl has married his son, who was brought up as
a Russian officer, to the daughter of the Naib Tagil,
whose territories had been laid waste in the above-
mentioned foray of the Russians.

A meeting of Russian and German capitalists,
together with the representatives of the credit insti-
tutions of Coburg, Dessau, and Dramstadt, has been
held at an hotel in Frankfort-on-the Blaine. The
object of the meeting appears to have been to settle
the programme of a large undertaking to be entered
into by their united financial forces in the south of
Russia. The capital that they have subscribed for
this purpose is said to be 24,000,000 silver roubles.

The Australian Mail will be detained for letters
till Monday the 21st, and will sail on Tuesday
morning.

A donation of 1001. has been forwarded to the
Royal Medical Benevolent College by M. Otto
Goldschmidt, who at the same time expressed his
deep regret that Mme. Otto Goldschmidt (née Liud)
had been unable to sing for the benefit of this noble
institution.

His Royal Highness the General Commanding-in-
Chief will hold a levee at the Horse Guards on Sion-
day, at one o'clock.

HOUSE OF LORDS—Fumtv.
COMMUNICATION WITH IRELAND.
Replying to the Earl of Dungannon,
The Duke of ARGYLL stated that negotiations were
still pending with certain steam navigation companies
for the purpose of organising a non official and rapid
system of transit between Holyhead and Kingstown
harbours.

DRAINAGE IN IRELAND.
The Drainage Advance (Ireland) Bill, which stood
for third reading, was withdrawn by the Marquis of
Salisbury.

THE CHELSEA INQUIRY.

Lord PANITURE stated that the report was already
printed, but her Majesty's Ministers had not yet de-
cided what advice they should offer to the Crown
respecting the matters to which it related. Their
determination, he added, would be arrived at, and the
document presented, by Monday next.
The Encumbered Estates (Ireland) Bill was read
a third time and passed, after some remarks from the
Marquises of LANSDOWNE and CLANRICARDE.
The Perthshire Schools (Scotland) Bill was also
read a third lime and passed.
Other bills having been advanced a stage, their
lordships adjourned at eight o'clock.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.—FarnaY.
THIRD READINGS.
The house met at noon, when the following bills
were read a third time and passed, after some mis-
cellaneous discussion :—The Income and Land
Taxes Bill, the Stamp Duties Bill, the Race-horses
Duty Bill, the Coast guard Service Bill, the Cor-
rupt Practices Preventive Bill, the General Board of
Health Continuance Bill, the Cursitor Baron of the
Exchequer Bill, the Militia Pay Bill, the Lunatic
Asylums Act Amendment Bill, the Marriage Law
(Scotland) Amendment Bill, and the Mercantile Act
Amemling Bill.
The house, at two o'clock, adjourned to the
evening.

The house resumed at six o'clock,
BANKING FRAUDS.
In answer to a question from Mr. Roebuck,
Mr. J. FITZGERALD stated, that in the course of
next session it was intended to bring in a bill with
the view of providing some more stricgent means
than now existed for preventing or punishing frauds
similar to that which had been discovered in the
case of the Tipperary Bank.
THE FOREIGN LEGION.
Colonel GILPIN having inquired what were the in-
tentions of the Government respecting the Foreign
Legion,
Lord PsusERSTON protested against these con
tinned interrogations, and declined to answer the
question. Her Majesty's Ministers, he contended,
were responsible to the house for their completed
acts, but were not bound to submit to cross-exami-
nations as to their future intentions. When the
result transpired it would, he added, be found that
the men belonging to the Foreign Legion had been
treated with a due regard to law and propriety.
MR. JAMES SADI.EIR.
lath. ROEBUCK gave notice that on Monday next he
should move that one of the members for Tipperary
(Mr. James Sadleir) should be summoned to attend

SATURDAY,

in his place, preliminary to a further notice for his
expulsion, in case of disobedience on the Thursday
following.

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY BILL.
The Lords' amendments to this bill baying been
brought up for consideration,
Mr. HEYWOOD moved that the amendment by
which the clause admitting dissenters to a share in
the government of the university should be dis-
allowed, except so far as related to any interference
with theological matters.
On a division the motion was negatived by a
majority of 92 to 71-21.
On the motion of Mr. Mitts., the house again
divided on a simple negative to the Lords' amend-
ment, when appeared—For the clause introduced in
the Upper House, 90 ; against, 73. Majority, 17.
The Lords' amendments were then agreed to with-
out modification.

CIVIL SERVICE

TATION.

On the motion for going into committee on the
Civil Service Superannuation Bill many re-
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monstrances were urged against proceeding with
the measure by several honourable members, and,
after a brief explanation from the CHANCELLOR of the
EXCHEQUER, the bill was withdrawn.

MINISTER OF EDUCATION.

The Vice-President of the Committee of Council
Bill being considered in committee, a prolonged dis.
cussion took place respecting the amount of salary to
be assigned to the proposed Minister of Education.
Two thousand per annum was suggested by the
Government, which Mr. HADFIELD proposed to
reduce to 1,2001. This amendment was carried to a
division, when the larger allowance was affirmed by a
majority of 78 to 47-31. The bill was then passed
through committee.
The Charities Bill, and the Joint-stock Bank Bill,
also passed through committe.
The house adjourned at a quarter to one o'clock.

THE CORRESPONDENCE between her Majesty's
Government and that of Brazil upon the subject of
the " unsatisfactory nature of the vigilance and
energy used by the Brazilian Government to sup-
press the slave trade," has appeared this week,
Mr. Jerningham, our Chargé d'Affaires at Rio Janeiro.
in a letter of the 7th of March, intimates, with re-
ference to some later slavery transactions on the
coast at Serinhaem, that unless the Brazilian Go-
vernment use their utmost efforts to discover the
aggressors in the case in question, or in similar acts,
and do not prosecute and punish such persons with
the utmost vigour of the law, the British Govern-
ment will put in force the act of Parliament of 1845,
" and that while British cruisers will exercise on the
coast, in the rivers, and in the harbours of Brazil
that watchfulness and activity which the agents of
the Brazilian Government neglect to use, British
courts of justice will pronounce those sentences of
condemnation from which Brazilian courts may be
found to shrink." To this note the Brazilian Govern-
ment replies in terms of indignant surprise, charac-
terises Mr. Jerningham's note as a manifest and in-
explicable contradiction to all former admissions of
the English Government, asserts that his statements
are founded on "inexact and doubtful information,"
recommends him to obtain better information of the
Brazilian Government, and appeals to the public
opinion of England against so unjust an act as that
of 1845 being put in force :
Now, however, that the peace of Europe appears to be
possible, Mr. Jerningbam thinks fit to deny the efforts of
the Imperial Government, to accuse it of neglect, and
utter threats in the name of the Government of her
Britannic Majesty with regard to the execution of the bill
of the Bth of August, 1815. . . . Nor can the threat
directed in such offensive terms against the Imperial Go-
vernment in the name of that of her Britannic Majesty
produce any of the intended effects ; but only lead to the
discouragement of the Imperial Government from pursuing
its generous promise of repression, even though it is to
her the accomplishment of an international duty, as one of
the principal political interests of the empire, and a ques-
tion of public order and future welfare. . . . Recog-
nising, however, as it does, that the suppression of the
slave trade is not only an interest of the empire, but an
obigation contracted by it towards her Britannic Majesty's
Government, yet can it not admit that this obligation is to
be connected with an instrument offensive to its dignity
and sovereignty, or that the agents of her Britannic
Majesty are entitled by the convention of Nov. 23, 1826,
to interfere in the execution of the municipal law of the
empire, or to distribute at its pleasure praise or bionic)
in respect of acts done by the Imperial Government or its
subordinates.

THE STATE OF PUBLIC BUSINESS will not permit
the prorogation to take place on the 24th, as in-
tend.ed ; that ceremony will most probably occur
on Stiturday, the 26th.
A MILITIA ACT to suspend the making of the lists
and ballots for the militia of the United Kingdom
has been issued. All meetings relating to the militia
and ballots for such militia are suspended to the Ist
of October next year. Proceedings may be had
during such suspension by an order in council.

JULY 19, 1856.

Fag molitarg ntelligtna.

Lieutenant-General his Royal Highness the Duke
of Cambridge, K.G., G.C.8., G.C.M.G., was on
Tuesday gazetted to the rank of general in the army
and appointed to the command in chief of the army,
vice Lord Hardinge resigned.
His Royal Highness the General Commanding in-
Chief was at the same time pleased to appoint Major-
General Sir Charles Yorke, K.C.8., to be his military
secretary, and Colonel the Hon. James Macdonald,
C. 8., to be private secretary.
['he following General Order was also issued the
same day :

Horse Guards, July 15, 1856.
Field-Marshal Viscount Hardinge having been compelled
by the state of his health to tender to the Queen his resig-
nation of the command of the army, which her Majesty
has been graciously pleased to accept, desires to record his
deep sense of the conduct of the troops, and the obligations
be is under to the general and other officers for their uni•
form support while he has had the honour and happiness
to be at their bead.
On assuming the command of the army—succeeding, as
he did, the greatest commander which this country has
produced—Viscount Hardinge felt the weight of the duty
which, by her Majesty's favour, was intrusted to him ; but
he confidently relied on the zealous exertions of its officers
to maintain it in that high state of discipline and efficiency
for which it had ever been distinguished.
A period of war ensued, arid it was then seen how full•
this confidence we+ justified. After a long peace, a British
army took the field, unsurpassed in any of the qualities
required of soldiers. Under a leader whose loss has been
deplored by the Sovereign, the army, and the country, a
series of victories were achieved which shed an additional
lustre on the British arms.
The instructions for the conduct of the war, and her
Majesty's thanks to the troops during its operations, have
been, according to invariable custom, conveyed to the army
in the field by her Majesty's Secretary of State for War.
Her 'Majesty's sentiments have on all these occasions been
expressed with great force and truth; but Lord Hardinge
cannot on this occasion deny himself the satisfaction of
recording his conviction that at no former period of the
military history of this country has the devoted conduct of
the troops been surpassed. Their soldierlike qualities
stood the test of a siege carried on through a rigorous
winter, and for eleven months of open trenches.
The valour and perseverance of that gallant army, and
of its brave allies, were at length rewarded by the capture
of the enemy's fortress, and the attainment of an honour-

able peace.
While the Field-Marshal records his admiration of the
conduct of the troops who took part in that great achieve-
ment, he desires to convey to the army at large his thanks
for their zealous cbedience and devotion, and to express
the regret with which he separates himself from them.
Viscount Hardinge can only add the expression of his sin-
cere gratification that the command of the army is, by her
Majesty's pleasure, about to be assumed by General his
Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, K.G., G.C.8.,
the illustrious Prince whose name is associated with some
of the most splendid triun.phs of the war just concluded,
and whose devotion to the interests of the service is so well
known.

By command of the Right Hon. Field-Marshal Viscount
Hardinge, Commanding in-Chief.
G. A. WETHERALL, Adjutant-General.

His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, in
assuming the Command-in Chief of the Army, issued
the subjoined General Order
Horse Guards, July 16, 1556.
In obedience to the gracious order of her Majesty,
General his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge
assumes the command of the army, which has been con•
fided to him by her Majesty's favour, on the resignation of
Field• Marshal Viscount Hardinge.
His Royal Highness feels it no easy task to undertake
the responsibilities of so honourable anu arduous a post,
as the successor of that distinguished general, who has
found himself compelled to retire from it by the state of
his health, and who again was preceded by that illustrious
chief whose name will ever continue to be the glory of
the British army and the British nation ; but he has the
strongest reliance on the support of the general officers
with whom he will be associated, and on the army at
large ;—and in this reliance lie enters confidently on the
noble trust which now devolves upon him.
His Royal Highness has had the advantage, as a general
officer in command of a division, under the orders of his
lamented and gallant friend the late Field• Marshal Lord
Raglan, of becoming to some extent personally acquainted
with the heroic deeds of the army in the recent arduous
contest, now so fortunately brought to a successful end.
lie knows of what excellent materials the troops are com-
posed both as to officers and men. It will be his anxious
endeavour to maintain the army in the high state of efli-
cency in which it has been left to him by his distinguished
predecessor, and he doubts not that the army itself will be
mainly instrumental in enabling him to carry out this
most anxious wish of his heart.

. .... ....
By order of his Royal— Highness the General Com-
manding-in-Chief.
G. A. WETHEHALL, Adjutant-General.

The Royal Horse and Foot Artillery were re-
viewed at Woolwich on Saturday by Prince Oscar of
Sweden, and on Monday by her Majesty the Queen.
A general after-order has since expressed the high
sense of the services and efficiency of the corps en-
tertained by her Majesty.

THE PRESS.

The Crimean troops in camp at Aldershott were I
reviewed by her Majesty on Wednesday. The regi-
ments inspected were the Enniskillen Dragoons and
the Scotch Greys, and part of a light cavalry regi-
ment, the Royal Sappers and Miners, and the 34th,
41st, 49th, 93rd Highlanders, and the 2nd battalion
of the Rifle Brigade. The total number of men
under arms was about 14,000. The troops having
taken up their position, her Majesty and her royal
guests, in open carriages, attended by Prince Albert,
the Prince of Prussia, the Duke of Cambridge,
Lord Rokeby, and General Knollys, who was the
commanding officer of the tday, rode down each line
of troops, inspecting the men narrowly, and appa-
rently with much interest. The troops then formed
into battalions, and, headed by their bands, marched
past at quick time, when the men formed three sides
of a square, and her Majesty and the Princesses
having alighted, walked along the whole of each line,
the Queen, who leant on the arm of the Prince Con-
sort, stopping and talking to the officers about the
services of their respective regiments, and occasion-
ally singling out a private soldier who bore upon his
breast more than the usual number of decorations,
for some well-des( rved and well-timed compliment.
With the Highlanders, whose ragged colours
bore testimony to the hard service the regi-
ment had gone through, the Queen seemed
particularly pleased ; but each regiment came in for
its share of praise. The inspection over, her Majesty
resumed her carriage, and the troops having fired a
royal salute, she drove back with her guests and at-
tendants to the Royal Pavilion for the night. A few
members of both Houses were on the ground, but
the jealous arrangements of General Knollys, which
kept everyone not connected with the royal party or
the troops half a mile off, effectually prevented them
seeing anything.
The steam-transport Spartan, en route from the
East with 706 officers and men of the Land Trans-
port Corps, has been lost on the south-west end of
Cane Rocks, off the coast of Barbary. Crew and
passengers saved.
Eight hundred thousand rounds of Minie ball.
catridges have this week beeen shipped iu H.M.S
Geyser for the Cape.
The Admiralty are at length building some large
steam-frigates to carry a really heavy armament.
The Diadem steam-frigate, the first laid down of
this new class mon-of-war, , is in a forward state at
Pembroke Dockyard. Two more, the Ariadne and
Galatea, have just been ordered to be built at Wool-
wich and Deptford. Although the Diadem is only
to carry thirty-two guns, yet these are all to be 68-
pounders, and it is thought that she will be able to
carry 84's. The Diadem is being pushed forward
with all rapidity, a large number of hands being em-
ployed upon her. This frigate is longer than the
Duke of Wellington (131 guns) ship of the line, and
will have engines of 1,900 horse power. Her burden
will be upwards of 2,500 tons, and she promises to
prove a model of strength, beauty, and speed.
Lieutenant-General Sir Hugh Rose, K.C.8., and
General Windham, C. 8., have arrived home from
the Crimea. _

The Sultan bad ordered a magnificent banquet to
be given to the commanders-in-chief of the allied
army previous to their departure from Constan-
tinople.
The Russians, in taking possession of the allied
position, bad promised faithfully to respect the graves
of the dead. _ _ _ _ _

The Italian Legion were leaving Malta for Genoa.
About fifteen hundred were about to sail for Buenos
Ayres.
THE CRIMEAN CAMP.—The Crimea was defini-
tively evacuated on the oth of July. Marshal Pelis-
Bier had arrived at Constantinople, and General
Codrington was daily expected from (Hesse, where
the gallant general arrived somewhat unexpectedly
on the 3rd inst. General Luders had entertained
General Codrington during his stay at Odessa.