The Express.
London, England, 1860-08-18 00:00:00

INSPECTION OF RIFLE CORPS.

The Earl of MAIAILSBURY sad he wished to call the
noontime of the noble earl opposite (Earl de Orr) to the
Incenvonieece of volunteer corps in anal dcts being
ordered to go a long way from their heedquertsou far in-
spection.
Earl DE GREY and }UPON said he wee obliged to his
homffiriend for having brought this subject before the house,
r it afforded him an opportunity of corresting an error into
which it appeared some officers and imps had fallen
in conserjuenee of the correspondence between the Corn.
manderimehief and the Secretary for War. He could
assure his noble friend in the first piece that government
had no desire to compel these small bodies of volunteers to
take steps which might in many cases be expensive and ex-
tremelyreenvenient. They had no desire, and if they bed
they had no poyer, toccespel them, only in ease of invasion
earl or issaumet, in which case the volunteer corps
came under martial law the ism) as any other military
body. lb, celgia at the correspondence to which his noble
friend hed allndedmac thie—aceasideKable number of corp. in

visions parte of the country, especially since the review in
Hyde-park, had a:premed a great desire to be reviewed or
inspected by her Majesty. That wm impossible ; but it was
considered that where there was a desire to be reviewed and
inspected by general officers, it was desirable to afford ea
opportunity. It had been found that the reviews that bad
been hitherto held, so far from checking the volun-
teer movement, had, on the contrary, given a great impulse
to it. Under them circumstances his right hon. friend the
Secretary for War, finding that the assistant inspectors were
not officers of the high rank to be proper officers to inspect
imp masses of troops, wrote to the Commander-in-Chief,
asking him to make such armegementa as would enable the
general officers of districts to bold reviews in their districts
of such volunteers as might desire to come together for the
purpose. In the act of parliament it was distinctly laid down
that there was no power to compel any corm to attend, and the
government had no desire to compel them, but if there were
corps that were anxtous to come together for the purpose ef
being reviewed it was considered advisable that the oppor-
tunity should be afforded, and that the general officer of the
district should attend and review them, although the ex-
pense must be borne by the volunteers themselves. Sims
the order had been made one review of this description had
been held in the county of Leinmater, and he believed Loed
Derby intended to have a review on the Ist of September at
Knowsley, which he had no doubt would be very successful.
He did not apprehend that there would be found any great
difficulty in the different companies co-operating together in
combined movements, for he was happy to say that at the
repent reviews both in London and Edinburgh, although
many of the companies assembled had never before acted
together, no each illOODVelli•DOS bad resulted as the noble
earl had referred to, and he might add that which was no
small praise, that these companies were by no means the
worst.

REFRESHMENT-HOUSES AND WINE LICENSES
(IRELAND) BILL.
The home then went into committee on this bill.
On clause 3,
Lord DENMAN moved the addition of a proviao requiring
twelve month. residence as a preliminary condition before
vanting the license.
After a brief diecumion, the amendment was negatived.
On clause 8,
The Marquis of WESTMEATH objected to the with-
drawal from the magistrates of the power of regulating
licensed houses.
The Earl of DONOUGHMORE moved the introduction
of weeds to prevent the application of the clause to towns of
ler than 4,000 inhabitants.
After a short conversation, their lordships divided :
Contents
Non-contents
The amendment was consequently led, and the clause
was agreed to.
Clauses tip to 23, inclusive, were also agreed to.
Upon clause 24
The Intl of HARRINGTON sad the professed object of
the bill was to pecende the oosattgaptioa of light wises and

HOUSE OD COMMONS. -•-FRIDAY, Auousr 17.
(Conbaued from yesterday's Exprte.)
The house then went into committee of supply, and
passed several votes, among them that for Canadian
establishments, the civil establishment is Chins, the
Regime Locum. 6a. ; and they were discussing the vote
for the expense of the F,cclesiastical Commission when the
sitting was suspended.
The Louse reamed at 6 o'clock.
• SAOIIIII4IIR444ECMAN LIFE 1K DdHOICILTs
Lord FERMOY proceeded to say he had now to call the
attention of the house to a very different subject—he meant
the Doti,* .he had placed en the paper with regard to the
very serious mcri.fice of human life which was about to
teke place in Africa. The noble lord then read the
paragraph which hadreoently appened. in the newspapers
stating thatjhe Kieg of Dahomey intended to celebrate the
religious new connected with his Wheel death by the
macrnice of 2,6llohronac beings, whose blswei be had resolved
30 treasure until there was sufficient to Boot a canoe. He
thought that even now there would be ample time to make
ea effectual remomitrenee to the King of Dahomey, because
it would probably take six months or more for the King of
Dahomey to fled out where the weak tribes were.
Mr. lONNAIRD joined his entreaties to those of the
noble lord, that the government would take some steps by
'ordering the °Soar in command off the coast of Africa to
try and pet a to this barbarous custom.
SYR
lAN MASSACRES.
Mr. iengwk went on to ask the Secretary for
Foreign Affaieswhether lie had made any representations to
the Turkish government, or taken any steps to influence
then'to demand the restoration of the Christian women
carried off rind weld by the Drums ? The bee Heenan
'ski 4000 Christian women had been sold by the Druism to
the/led/nip Arabs at the rate of ES piastres each ; he
wished to ask if the government bed taken any steps to
Clthe recovery of these women I Fuad Paella had
etant out with full powers to punishtbeguilty, especially
.Kurschid Pacha. - But be (Mr. Kinnard) had seen
a gentleman who had jest returned from Constantinople,
who soured him that Kurschid Pacha, who had been sent
borne by Fuad Pacha in disgrace, had been received at Con.
stentinople with military honours.
Mr, A. FORTESCUK was not able to go into this quell.
Mce of the slave trade in Dahomey—it was a question for
the Forelms-office. With respect to the people of Abheo-
kuta, with whom we maintained friendly relations end
from whom the supply of victims for these horrid sacrifices
were principally derived, the King of Dahomey had been
offiCmlly ink,rrned that the British government would aid the
people of Abbeak ete reset these incursions, and that
they would take hostile proceedings against them.
THE ACCIDENT AT DOVER.
Mr. II: B. SEERIDAN asked the Secretary for War
wW,her the gun which so recently burst at Dover had bees
imteil by a government officer with a view of ascertain-
ing whether Weis were imperfections in the metal sufficient
to ritemmt for the explosion which took plate ; whether
the gweernment had any means of knowing how often the
gun had bees previously fired during the long period it
named to have been in use ; whether it was the intention
of government to make any investigation, with the view of
deciding, on scientific grounds, how often guns of similar
calibre might with safety be fired ; whether government
supplied to rah volunteer artillery corps as efficient officer
at government expense capable of superintending and
instructing the volunteers in artillery practice ; and,
whether it was the intention of government to aid in the
efforts of the local authorities to compensate the represen-
tatives of the unfortunate persons who had thus lost their
lives in their endeavour to serve their country, relying upon
the supervision of the government with reference to the
material supOied.
Mr. S. HERBERT said that as soon as be heard of the
melancholy accident at Dover he sent down Captain Harvey,
of the Royal Artillery, and the Commander-in-Chief also
sent down an inspector, to make a thorough inquiry into the
matter. Captain Harvey inspected the pieces of the gun,
with the view of secertaimug whether the accident had
arisen from any flaw in the material of which the gun was
composed. Nothing coakl be more healthy than the ap-
pearance at the various pieces of metal, and there was,
therefore, no reason to suppose that there had been
anything so defective in the construction of the gun
as to lead to the belief that it was owing to a flaw in
the cannon itself that the accident arose. With regard
to the second point be might state that the gun was sent
from Woolwich a few months ago for the practice of the
Royal Artillery at Dover. The Royal Artillery had con-
stantly used it, but not to such an extent as to injure it or
to wdenger the lives of those who need it, inasmuch as the
number of rounds fired from it only amounted to 200. A
register WY kept of the number of rounds fired from every
gals and therefore it was always known what degree of
strain was placed upon it, and after a certain number of
rounds were fired the gun was pat said, as unserviceable.
With regard to the fourth part of the question, an officer of
the Royal Artillery was appointed to attend all the volun-
teer one, and he was not only present on this occasion, but
moths °Sear of the Royal Artillery wageless present, whose
duty it was to see that no ball practice was commenced until
the volunteers arrived at • peeper state of efficiency. Lastly,
with respect to the question as to what the government in-
tended to do in reference to awarding compensation to
the representatives of the unfortunate parsons who had lost
their lives, he bad inquired into the platter, and if it ahould
turn out that the family or widow of one of the deceased
persona required am/stance he bad no doubt that the mac
would receive the most favourable consideration at the
hands of the government. (Hear, hear.)
SYRIA-

Mr. MONSELL said he wished to learn from the Roble
Toed at the had of the gorertunent what instructions had
been given to Lord Dufferin, her Majesty's commissioner to
Syria, and whether those instructions would be laid on the
table of the house!

Sir C. NAPIER admitted the dangers that might arise
from the occupation of Syria by the French, an the hones
was well aware of the circumstances which had attended
the French occupation of Rome, but he °mitered that
he for one would far sooner see the French in of
Syria altogether, and affording protection to the unfortu-
nate inhabitants of the mountains, then he would see the
country left to the tender mercies of the Turks. (Hear.)
Lord PALMERSTON said he was sorry that his hoe.
and gallant friend the member for Roscommon (Colonel
French), when he had nothing better to do, should feel it
tinerabent upon him to launch an arrow against his noble
friend the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (Lord Carlisle). He as-
sured the hoe. member that he would meet with no sympathy
in these attacks, either from those who personally knew
Lord Carlisle or from those whose affairs that noble lord
conducted, became anybody who knew him, either offi-
cially or individually, must be aware that there never was
a man in • high position who took to his work with a more
hearty desire to promote the welfare and happiness el those
whose interests were confided to his charge (tiger, Dent)
He thought the Under Secretary of State (Hr. C. Perigee=
had sufficiently answered the question of the noble lo
the member for If arylebone in reference to the King of
Dahomey, but be might add that the matter had for a long
time engaged the attention 'of her Majesty's goveromeut.
It was his lot, when at the Foreign-office, for a long
period of time to use great endesvouro to persuade
the former Kings of Dahomey to &tendon those
abominable practices to which reference had been
made. He had sent two or three missions to the
king, and he was sorry to say they represented that when
they arrived at the pan= they found ostentatiously dis-
played upon the Was surrounding it, not those ornaments
which people were accustomed to see in a civilised country,
but human skulls belonging to victims who had been sacri-
ficed. He thought the late king seemed disposed to lend •
favourable ear to our representations, bat whether the pre-
sent king was disposed to do so remained to be seen. The
capital of Dahomey, however, was a considerable distance
from the mast, and the road to it was a very difficult one
to traverse, being entirely through marshes and jungles.
It was, therefore, scarcely possible for any Eunipmn force
to be employed there. He could =sore the noble lord that
' her Majeety's government would do all in their power to
pet • atop to this sacrifice. The practice had, he feared,
ansen, to a great extent, through its being connected with
slavery. (Hear, hear.) Not that sort of slavery which his
=Me friend had Referred to, for it had nothing to do with
the internal arrangements of Afrim, but with that which
her Majesty's government had laboured incessantly and
with ouch greet success to pat an end to, namely, the cap-
I tore of persons who were taken in the interior for the
purpose of selling them in slavery. He would
remind the noble lord that the capture of Lagos
and other arrangements connected with that capture had
eery much diminished the means of the chiefs of the
interior, who were in the habit of capturing persons for the
purpose of sending them out of the country. But they had
=variably found that it was the chiefs, and the chiefs alone,
who dung to this traffic, because they derived their revenue

it more easily than from their seldeekt.- The people
▪ initiated the system, as they were its victims. The only
wee to persuade those 'chiefs who were reckless of
"Vine except pecuniary profit, to abandon the trade,
but was sorry to say they were stimulated by men of
ivilised countries who ought to be ashamed to be parties toil.
hon. friend the member for Perth (Mr. liinnand) bad
ed whether any instructions bad been given to Lord
_ afferin for the purpose of rescuing from the harems of the
interior the women who were carried away by the
Drums. He might state that Lord Dufferin bad received in-
structions that when he got to Syria he wee to take such
amps ; and represeutationa had also been made to the Bri-
tish ambmsador at Constantinople to induce the Turkish
t to 00-operate with Lord Dufferin in order that
government
accomplish that 'norms object. It appeared that
the two obleds, Yunichid Pacts and Osman Bey, were sent
to Constantinople to be tried, but whether either of them
was received with military honours—ow being a mili-
tary officer--he could not tell. He had not beard
of the mutter, and therefore could not inform the
house. Those pitches had, however, been sent back to Syria,
the scene of their crimes, to be tried, and he hoped their
trial would be setisfaettoiy, and that when it was concluded
they would receive the reward which was due to them fur
such atrocities. (Hear, hear.) His right hon. friend the
member for Limerick Mansell) bad adverted to the
general question of the state of Syria, and he seemed to
imagine that the recent events were the result of the
tyranny of the Turks. So far from that being so, these
atrocities were the result of the absence of any direct autho.
shy on the part of the Turkish government.
. Mr. MONSELL explained that be did not say it was the
tyranny of the Turks, but he stated that they were netting
the Druses against the Marmite*, and keeping thefts at per-
petual was epithet each other.
• laced rALMERSTON oostiaued—The right bon. gentle-
man said the government was responsible for these events.
He distinctly repudiated having any share in this reopen-
Utility. It was not for him, speaking there, to my upon
whom the reeponsihility rested. It was not, however, with
her Majesty s government. There were very strange
reports abroad as to who were the aggressors in the late
atrocities. No doubt the Mammies were this
bet to what extent NW the question ? (Hear, hear.)
were, however, only reports, and it would not be
prudent in him to speak witk confident* about
it. With respect to the create to which his hon.
and gallant friend (Sir C. Napier) bad alluded, he
(Leal Palmersten) begged to be allowed to say that he dis-
tinguished himself on that occasion, not only era naval com-
mander, but as a military commander, and as a negotiator
—(hear hear)--for he really did great service in all three
capacities. H. first performed a gallant attack upon Acre ;
then he defeated the forces of Ibrahim Paths ; sad than he
went to Alexandria, and extorted from Mehemet Ali a very
good treaty. - After that treaty an t was made
that the government of that district shout instead of being
carried on under the direct authority of the Sultan, be
placed under the authority of two native chiefs, one
a Drew and the other a Marmite, each to go-
vern hilt own people, and both to be subordinate
to the Turkish government at Constantinople ; and
prima facie Oft would imagine that that was a good
gated things, as.each tribe was to be governed by a chief
of their own, and it would be more likely that they would
be well governed than if they were under the direct autho-
rity of the Turkish commanders. During the time that be
was at the Forecni-oftioe he knew it was the constant endea-
vour af the government at Constantinople to overthrow
that system and place Syria in the same position under the
Porte as all her other provinces were. Therefore, so far
front that arrangement being one favostratile to Turkish
tyranny it was au arrangement specifically directed to dta*
the tribes from the direct action of the Turks, and to se-
cure to them • government under two chiefs of their
own race. That was very suoxedul, although
they could not expect in half-civilised countries, where
there were two races who had been from time immemorial
at war with each other, that partial conflicts would not
arise ; yet from 1841 down to the present period nothing
bad happened there to be at all complied to the bite atro-
cious practices and calamities. (Hear, brew.) He was not
prepared to lay on the table of the house the instructions
which bad been given to Lord Dutierin. It wax not usual
to do so. But be would ammo his right hon. friend that
one of the noble lad's duties would be to act in conjunction
with hie colleagues, and to inquire frilly into the state of
Syria, and to see what system of government would be most
conducive to the welfare and benefit of the people,
and prevent • recurrence of these unfortunate conflicts be-
tween those races. (Hear, heir.)
The motion for adjournment to Monday was then put and
negetived.
SUPPLY.—COMMITTEE.

On the motioiiiiii.iairOThiiiio7lolloo resolve itself
into a committee of supply,
Mr. VANCE called attention to the progress of Irish
business during the present session, complaining of the
withdrawal of all the principal measures relating to Ire-
land. _ _

In reference to the militia and army estimates, which
stood for committee,

Sir DE L. EVANS made some observations on the force
of the country, expressing his gratification at the adoption
by the government of the report of the commission on for-
taficatioes, but arguing whist the objection entertained by
the government to establish volunteers in Ireland.
The house then went into committee of supply on the
militia estimates and on the army estimates.
The civil service estimates were next proceeded with
resuming the discussion of the vote for the Ecclesiastical
Commission, in the course of which Mr. Ayrton brought
forward the case of the doubling of the stipend of the Dean
of York.
The greater part of the remainder of the sitting was occu-
pied with these estimates.
The committee divided.
The numbers were :
For the vote
Against it
The announcement of the numbers was received with con.
siderable laughter.
The CHAIRMAN reported progress, and asked leave to
aft again.
XIFISOPOLITAN POLICE FORCE (DOCKYARDS)
(No. 2) BILL.
This bill was read a second time.
NAVAL DISCIPLINE BILL. _

On the motion that this bill be read a escond time,
Mr. WILLIAMS complained that he had not yet bad
me to read this important bill. Be thought it ought to
postponed wail bensorrow.
The bill was reed &mond time.
ECCLESIASTICAL COURTS AND REGISTRIES
(IRELAND) BILL
The order that this bill be committed was discharged.
PARTY EMBLEMS (IRELAND) BILL

On the motion for going isito.eassimitteeim this bill,
Mr. HENNESSY moved that the house do go into
committee on that daylthree months.
Sir B. GROGAN regretted that the government had
thought fit to introduce thia bilL lie thought its effect
wmaki be rather to deepen than to remove the spirit of
reltous dimension.
. P. O'BRIEN supported the hill, contending that it
wee the duty of parliament to interfere and put down any.
thing calculated to create animosity between different 'ac-
tions of the community.
Sir G. BOWYER said he bed opposed the Peace Preserve.
Sion Bill on the ground that the common law of the land
was sufficient to preserve the peace, and that no exceptional
legislation was necomary. Under those circumstances,
and considering that the present bill was to a certain extent
of a similar character, he felt he had no alternative but to
record his vote against it.
Mr. Seeleant 'DEASY trusted, after the long discussion
which took place upon the second reading of the bill, that
the time of the house would not be wasted by a repetition
of the debate which then oceurred. The bill was intro-
duced for the purpose of preventing the display of those
party euthlems which had produced such disastrous results
in the north of Ireland, and he believed that if the bill
passed a much healthier state of things would be produced
than now existed.
Mr. BUTT opposed the bill, believing that the common
law, as it stood, of the land was amply sufficient to remedy
all the evils complained of.
Mr. LEFROY supported the amendment. After serious
consideration he felt that be could not vote for thi:nl,l
although be felt convinced that it had been brought forward
without any feeling of hostility to the protestants of
Ireland.
The SOLIOTTOR-GENERAL contended that a declara-
tory act was no novelty in British jurisprudence, and if
the measure were merely superfluous there could be no
bound objection to it. The fact was, however, that the
offences dealt with in the bill could only be punished by
indictineot at the !Mild*, which was attended with great
delay and inconvenience, while the present measure gave
summary powers to the magistrates.
Mx. BLAND and Lord CLAUD HAMILTON opposed the bill,
which was supported by Mr. Cardwell.
The house then divided, and the numbers were :
For going into committee 53
Against it 22-31
The house then went into committee, when upon the
motion of Mr. CAIIDWILL, the chairman immediately re.
ported progress and the house mourned.
SUPPLY—REPORT.

The report onz brougi:i-p—and agreed to.
INDIA OAN BILL
This bill parsed cominiLttee.
CONJUGAtIVRTS (SCOTLAND) BILL.
This bill WM read a third time and
ATTORNEYS, SOLICITORS, PROPtglik Ac., BILL
The bill was read a third time and Weed.
Theamendments to the Sale of Gas Act Amendment 818
were considered and agreed to.
The house then adjourned at two o'clock.

EASTILItN COUNTIES RAILWAY. —The directors of
this company yesterday declared a dividend of If. Is. 3d. per
cent. for the half-year, oarr) int; forward about MOW,