The Express.
London, England, 1860-05-10 00:00:00

Tan BAUM SoczerT.—The wieldy moiling of
the executive committee was held at the adicas,s,oldldhall.
dumber', on Tuesday, Mr. Elt Is the alio Mr. White-
hone, Mr. Elydenhara Nodes, Mr. Nan, lb. Ls Maitre, kc.,
IMO pramme. The Rev. P. Nailer, Chigwiarow ; the
Rae. Yee. Webb, Ipswich ; the Rev. Robt. &heti. end
Samuel Mr, Esq., Mbyte**, were elected memben of
the mu m& An intarssit=natostioa Iran Mrs.
Caroline Chisholm (the at finals
tics). in relation to the baCirtNew Beath
;16W and Victoria, was read, and waned to be eon-
ninaicatal to the public prams. LAWS frame siliceous
miabeni et the wawa were read, whin suirasthns re-
-1 epolins the seiludo• for the ballot, which were eassidsad,
' sad dbudirpo 11141 to carry out those which wars
The eismilts• Tun also engaged in arnagiagairr:hal;
mow* bail ohs. in the committee as the Reform
Bill

T>QY>eolo6sTAlc Rims Coare.—Let evening
the eusod which includes the St. George's,
the Mole the Westminster, and other distils.
gaihedleallpee ail paraded in Holland-pat k, under the corn.
mood d Lard Broalegh. Them was a very large muster
--Party 1,500 as. be on the ground ; and when formed
la double mak Ks lie reached alined from one side of
the park to the fear. The Westaimten were the first to
arrive, and while they were waiting for the rest of the
brigade, the Qom drove peat in as open carriage. The
amp imtantly prameated aroma ; her Majesty was
he to spend amp time in ise=twitt
ii=or Os
the park, royal party
Ms. 5 the Wilde, who also loyally promened seen. M
'mood by a hap number of
=ll gentlemenwere on ho • but the
puma public were not admitted 'within the
park. They clustered, however, about the gate and
and appeared to take a lively interest in the in-
, @penal. The six-foot corps, which mustered about 30
areem, was the object of very particular 'iota*. The Pi-
! form is scarlet, sad for its numbers the company made a
pet imprembre show. The only other scarlet uniform in
the brigade is that di the Eogineers, who were also tolera-
bly well repeal del The evolutions were executed is a
mot eatabinery manor, and left no use present in doubt
ae to the perfect tildesey which the volunteer drill is
capable of vortirliss Se those who take part is it. Soon
sifter sanest the prods broke up, and the corps marAsed
sway to their reapplies rendezvous, where they separated.
HOTAL LONDON YAcnr CLUIL—The entries for
the Ant read reigattaef this popular club closed last night,
at the club-house, Csledienisin Hotel, Adelphi, and are as
follows :—Thied_ <lre page oder 10 toss : Ruche,tom,
Mr. Thomas Hartis4 OWIIIII ; Clue, 7 tame, Kr. J. B.
Dwarf ; Violet, 9 tees, Lord de Roe ; Surprise, 8 tom,
Kr. name Carr. Extra-claas. under 6 tam : Eugenie,
=rte. D. T. White; Blue Bell, 6 toss, Mr. J.
W. y ; Spray, 5 tam, Mr. George Haloes ; May Fly,
4 toes, r. t5tillnm Roe. The race takes Mom Tuesday
Belt, the 15th inst., sod there are three Feiss. ia each clew,
both of which are open to any yacht Glob. The course is
from Erith, round a bout moral off Coal Home Point. and
back to Greenwich ; and the }Yews of Wales General
Steam Navigation Company's Ammer will oecompusy the
race, with the Hos. Artillery Campsite band on bond,
leaving Loodou-Isidge at nine o'clock. There LS ever' pro-
bability of there being a fine race, and the Haidee, N inlet,
Spray, end Blue Bell, are particularly spoken of as lately
boats.

Ti GILT BELL, ITS Sri's:MOOß, AND ITS
Durt-Tr.— Mr. Thomas Webby writes :—" It appears that
Dr. Percy has made his first report oa the composition of
the great bell—Big Ben the Second —sit Wanntiestcr
mi.. to Qs Bowel of Works ; while Mr. Cowper has in-
formed the Moues of Commies that the bells cached
seriously in novena places. 1 therefore vesture to insert
confidently—notwithstanding all that has been said about
sz vo: and 'soldering'—that it is in vain to listen to any
p
fur •jocsonag ' the wounds of poor EN ; for
science and experiments lave shown, agaia and again, that
then is no possibility of restoring a bell in such a cam so
as to satisfy the mimed ear. The beet course to panne
will be to giro proper instructions to ear most eniusent
roomier to produce a bell from his own metal, for the
quality of which he should he held respoosible. in the
meantime, as I suggested in October last—the chimes being
silent let the clock strike the hours upon the heaviest
quarter bell, which ought to emit a deeper note thsu that
of the great bell at the Abbey."

The following oorrespendcmoe has been publinholl:
.. Chelimbewes:tenee, hay 5, ine.
DIU Lord John,—lt it reported us tbe nempapses that
whin hr. Waipok on Thursday night quoted in the=
of Ommomis ray amienaticue ef the rename which
me to acquiesce as a member of year goverment in yeas i
bringing forward-a bill of reform in Ifebroery, 1852, you
interrupted him by saying "It ia not true." Whet yet
meant to assert to be mires is not alder from the report,
but you are understood to hareiPren a direct metradicsina
to the statement I made in the Home of Lords. Of comes
it is very ;Maul to um ; end sr lem ecersimed that wry
statement was strictly amerate, and that if bed 3.06
correctly informed Ed its purport you would never hem
questioned its being so, I feel it to be to mil yew
attention to the foßowing report of whst I eddetrtlelith
of April, which I hare taken from the Timm, .re=bel e&'
yea whether there is any point on which you differ freer
me:
" I cheered the obesazof the nobie *Ms when be
0.,,,r
said I implied that the Bill of 1852 from
the indiscretion of encees. the
thee at the of the
iztirot. lam le hid I Midi Weed
en tide initkillalues the tml ~ le,. I
litheve, well knower to di Ant allittgb h
,
msArraumbres,
re
mpreerfap• the
et
time ism NW * eripp a imp Wait
itecla
In the meamm TM& That opinion Imo
witimat the hilsetien to eirprem It hasher toil
as far as I kern, to any ace of his solleurma,:m=
not to the rant.l Übe,* when that
wen wait it wee set improved by en„ or at. lemt by mem
than ems se tare tombola et tht cabinet saye4
_I
can my itta.......,............,.
I did net to eonetel, m Jelin Rome ein
testify, the betetmlime witM I law nimbi
same from the maw in which Lord John Mesta bed
giro that pledge, mad with the spinier. I wWwebeed sad
mewed as to this peuMelh& ft ma with ear.* seine-
twee that I commted. dler there - te am
Vase a member of that adadeiehertiw&
to to
all the elnumehmees dMat time, I fit it to be q
to ro min in the pavermaant, yet I did en airtime* mem
ing tyself the right net to be repaid as eleming
pledged to my measured reform until I saw what
proposed, and not disguisingjmnoonriction that ilerV
the question at all was ines t if it, could be
Such weephe situation of airs when pastilemeni was about
to meet in 1862. The Reform Bill, win& wee etteeweni
laid epos the table of the House of Osmium, wee sub-
mitted to the Wirt • ler my own pert I sower
it. I taught it ems to the gnrest objection& aawn:(3l,
lei, I mierhimed te.seesmet to its being introdiaild Into
perhement ity Ude me wilmideratioe —I knew Dobai
goverment tree en the used Idling, and it so .I=2
that the yeinelpal alines made upon it were ,
against the Jmetteder tispartmiet with wbieb I wee In-
trusted. I ilia not think it would be honourable towards
my elaultaisi .or right towards myself, that at encli a
son
lambi appear to rem away from the poet which
I held ; mid being pewmaded that Me hill had not the re-
motest lime, of pada& having stated that to the cabinet
before hme btaght ia, I' eembledly acquiesced in lie
introd estien. "

It is
This melt sabdastialky wiensate as far as it goes, bat
mai aheidgeil (es is not unusual with respect to
speeches wok at the eod of • long debate), which makes
it not quite erg kg • tenon who was not prom* fully to
understand of wart bs. aid the spemh bees en more
at length it would ham Moored that I was of the
°Pinion you awaited three or four yease biro-
duction of the la el 116/4 „whoa I said that this was dose
without the coseemeses of yeer colleagues, and =
beginning of the dilismilies shout reform ; that I
these diffeulties to have beer Mermaid by .the defeat of the
government on Yr. Locke King's motion in 1861, to which
the Duke of Argyll had adverted ; and that in demoribleg
my reluctance to continue In the adminidmitkm,l to
ferred to the time when, Lonl Derby haring failed to
form a veroment, we mnuted our oea, which we bud
is • after that ddeat. Subject to these expless.
thee, the report of what I said is subelantielly oar-
red, and as both Lard Lansdowne and Lord Clearkorde
ham Odd me they are satisfied of the aocurasy of my state.
wool, I treat the& yea will also adroit it, and ths....Latr
eroloothition3 hirro Are 110111* ti* to
Asa Oman* to awn
RE user relargeoll to what bad pasiw lig
ea LEP& •It would give me
_grerA pismire to Ind
this to be Use case, and to be ambled by yen to math'
pablishy that them is no difference between us on a matter
of 64.-1 am, to., Gazr.

Pembroke May 6, IMO.
Dear Lord Orey,—l had certainly eriaood that your
statement in the Rouse of Lords referred to the speech
which I made en Mr. Locke King's motion in February,
1861. That speech was made, as you are aware, after re-
peated discuauons in the cabinet on the extension of the
suffrage, and the propriety of bringing forward any measure
cm the subject in the session of Iflfil.
As your statement did not apply, to that speech my con.
tradictiou of your supposed assertion of course falls to the
ItPt now appears you were speaking of the opinion I ex-
Mrthaw or four years before the introduction of the
1852.

I have therefore referred to the speeches made by MO in
&newer to Mr. Hume on parliamentary reform, or national
representation, in 1848 and 1849. Those speeches appear
to me of a very conservative nature, but they contain
opinions which I held then, and which I hold now.
I have no recollection of anything which passed in the
cabinet upon that subject at the times but if I had I
should not think myself at liberty to allude to any dif-
ferences in the cabinet to which I belonged without the
permission of the Queen, which I have not asked, and do
not mesa to ask.

INTl;liTaiairs are so absorbing, and events mooted each
lOther so madly, that they are apt to slip from the memory.
II And that in 1848 some very strong language was used in
regard to your conduct as Minister for the Colonies by the
late Lord Gone Bentiuck and others. It was my business,
and I might my my delight, to defend your honour
nommtions which I thought unjust. I little sup that
at that time you were boarding up aonuations to be used
against me 11 or 12 yen afterwards in • place where I
meld nut reply.
However, I do not mean to make any statement of my
own in contradiction to what you have said. I will con-
test myself with quoting a speech of
_yours in the debate
en the address to the crown in 1852, and by which I
am willing to abide. After referring to other speeches,
you are reported to have said :—" Now, my lords,
let me point out the real circumatiuioes of the
case. Three years ago if I remember rightly, various
motions were mode in the other house of parliament, and
obtained in that hoses a considerable degree of support,
ail only frees those who voted for those measure.„ but in
the Impression of Mk opinion by gentlemen of great weight
and Influence, that experience lad shown that there were
defeats in the Reform Act which required further legisla•
lion. My noble friend, feeling the force of these remarks
and of public opinion, and seeing defects in the arrangement
of the Reform BA which had not answered the expectations
of the country, thought it right to engem his opinion that •
time might come when it would be proper to make home al-
teration in the existing laws relating to the franchise. My
I noble friend ex premed that opinion in the strongest manner
sad particularly after the noble proofs that were given in
11448 by all clams of the population of loyal attachment
to the crown and to the existing institutions of
the country. My noble friend expressed that opinion
so far back as 1849, and since that time has had to combat
various proposals made in the other house of parliament for
alterations in the Reform Act. But it was my noble friend's
opinion that if in combating these proposals for hasty and
inconsiderate alterations in the Reform Act he had not ex-
=pressed in favour of future improvements he would
ken the foundations of that great settlement of our
constitutional to My noble friend therefore mid, and I
think be MIA • t, that he was not averse to well-considered
aniandmonts. it was impossible that be could take this
line in combating those propositions, which be looked upon
as dangerous, without thereby contracting pledges which he
ecomider It his duty to fulffl at a proper time. I ask, can
there be ed
• better tints for redeeming them than the premed!
Is not the very apathy of which the noble earl speaks a sof&
dent reason for calmly approaching the subject, sod calmly
considering what amendments ema be introduced ! Would
that apathy have ,anted if we had pronounced the Reform
Bill to be • Anal measure, and if be had said there were no
blots in it which we would attempt to get rid of ! If be
had taken that line, would there mot have been • very dif-
ferent disposition on the part of the pee* of this country
with regard to changes in the Redeem Act far less tempe-
rate than those now about to be prepaid? I firmly believe
there would; and I say this became I think it isa justtheis-
tho of the line which my noble friend has taken, and in
which hi colleagues joined."
When you made this spank you were eight years nearer
to the time when I made those slatemonte of which you
now complain. You bed not then imbibed those prejudices
against me of which I lave lately felt so painfully the
effects.-1 remain. he. (Sired) J. Itunaci.L.

cloaca House terrace.

Dear Levi John, —I bare reerivargeer letter of yester-
day, and what 1 am glad to fled year contradiction was not
meant to apply to what I nag! add In the House of Lords,
but to what yen au yapped Jae to hare stated. I
must expresa
written to Imoay regret at tie smarter in which you twee

I do not think it neweseary to defend myself (as I molly
might) aviinst all the unjust insinuations contained in your
letter, hut there are some obsemations that I must make
tipou it. It is quite true that your speech on reform in
l rail W. made ohm. repeated discussions in the cabinet on
the subject, but it is equally trot. that we entered upon

.
/*edamlay be place at 80r4z.E.L...
smith earminseq el the admision ef '
al the Lewin Voteemilv. The sus Ibeehre 'Wel=
will a weeper of Mks end gentlemen eoseolled to wit-
s= the proesediega The Chaseellor of the University, •
Bid Osamu; • 001 l oamm those who sup-
bins were • Lea Toplam, Lord Lyt-
Lord Wendephie. the
me Bea de J. 8. Wean,
Sienoil
Yom.,,r Jelhoz Sykes, X P.,
Doerr Bre* S. ~ James H
Ea., and J. ektee., with Farseise7
arbor delme~ ma et eases.
veneerer, Dr. Cannot/Ith, reed a had report, from
it wowed that at the nakindatien examination of
the radvenift in the pest year ISt audidates were ad-
mitted. Of then ewes detinguilbed afthafftwoos when
ender ezeiminetith Ise haremen, by their thethimente in
=hiand moral pbßaavoktr, eleven diet'
ra n=eyd
dank" twelve in chembery, four in
he. is Zoology. Sixty-seven endidates pared the Mt
insenhailen for the degree el Datibilor al A 214. Of these,
fera diainiphhed Humana in mathematics, seven in
laden sem in 20=111a h Feensh, and five in
Swum. Tfuly the first examine-
thin fer the dte el Dardthor errisliedieine. Of these, eleven
dothgnithed themselves in eneetha and physiology, eleven
in theraistry, a seven ma & inmate en. ad plus-mamma:al
themisery, two in bain
sep. Sarventy eandkiates pared the
rfer the apse ef B.A. Of thus, der
eneetithatheth k tabards. sal anon phile-
debt in &mho, Ones In almility, three in mama
s le hate y. Ten gradates pained the drab
ineminetien In the text of the lieriptures and in
dripthe ldnivryi if when six obtained pima, and three
, rased a turthse semethstka he the MUM sabjeota. Thir-
teen candidates peed the Beth examiathion for the degree
of M.S. 04=re ditiloriehed thereelvee to rywo-
=eritoullsefli ali
oatio•T. EOM in bli 'a
live in neidwifiey. Meths iiiineemend
the ecomthatbm for the degree of LL.B. OE Ore seven
1 eiliorkbut tbsoteelves in the prhxdokeeithiaroo. two
hi easverealag, three in the law of the
.=
two in the menace law and two in Room law.
candidates paned the Inal exuatiaaties fee the degree of
X A. Eleven peened the 111Ailaarliqa her the, deem of
M.D., and one coodidat• obtained the kern if 1.1. D.
The gentiemen to be eelmilbed to degrees, a whom
the following is a athgblis Bekteine esesessivelz raped
up and presented to the Manner by the Pesrespats e .
other profess.s of the colleen end inthitheone in which
they had been educated
Andrewtheimins,LL.D„ Queen's Gadget
_Cork ; Michael
Foster, Thomas laws, Maks Universiry College ; George
William Lawrence, Edward Evan Derek Diehard Wilkin-
son, M. D.s, King's Za; John Engles Haydn D
M.D., London Hos ; 'Alfred Ouroter, Johnli;lM
Oonains, M.D.., fit s Hospital ; William Newsmen,
IL D., St Bartholomew's Hospital ; Samuel Guar, M.D.,
Guy's Hospital i Robert Gasp Hardwick, M.D. Lade
School of Medicine; Maras Nathan Adler, Sense/ Hesse
Behrend, Samuel Wardaw M'All, Hoary Arthur Nesbitt,
X A.s, University College; Walter West, ILA.,, King's
College ; Edwin Smith, M.A., Manchester New Co
John Francis Holton, James Dickerson Davis, M.A.s,llege ;
New College ; Silas Mead, /X A.. Regent's Park College ;
Thomas Green, XL, 8 Hill Col ; Archibald
Hestia Dick, LA., eld Co ; Daniel
dater, XL, Weasel College, Pi ; Thomas
William' Mays, M.A., Hackney Tb Seminery
Col
John Baker - Greene, LLB., Trinity ' Dublin ;
Robert Johantone, LLB., University of Edinburgh; Eire-
miser Charles, Andrew Thomson, John Warren, Henry
Self Page Wintabothem, LL.8.% University College;
Dacimus St Jake MOlBlll, LLB.a, King's College;
George Henry LL.B., Regents-park
Samuel Hague, Richard Mendes Panidurst, Mr
Owens College ; Samuel Happen Adams? Joseph Rgmend
Otaquet, Matthew Beekelry Hill, Philip Sydney Jesse,
Charles lilt.yes Marriott, Hassridnepers, M.B.s University
College ; Wm. Wien, Wa. Edward Robb', Arthur Basest
Saloom, Edmund Byrom Thompson, N.B.', King's Oeßer ;
William Miller Crowfoot, Theodore Davis, MBA, SR sr.
tholomew's Hospital ; Waiter Mozoq XE, Guy's Hawaii;
John Allen, John Ardis, Hoare efteritou Basta^ Jenne
Bithell, Thome Dryer__
_Yawata Chodron De Come John
Dolleymore, GP M, Mott, Johan Goldamid, tes,a
Hoesman, James OadeJachson, George. Lake, Edward Miller,
Richard May Miller, Will Manning Needham, Henry
William Porter, Whim Edwin Price, Edward Daises Pte.
Solithi_George Antonio Rani, Richard Vickerman Taylor,
John Robert Vaisey, James Lambert White, Thomas
Wilson, B.A.s.,.University College ; Henry Nelson Capel,
Christopher Robert C''', Henry James Newbery,
Arthur. Willism Parana, J Smith, Matthew
Henry Stealing, Thomas Tyler, A.s, King's College;
Edward Thomas Goldsrad, 8.A., St. Cuthbert's, Maw ;
Henry Edwards, John Gerard, George Seger, Henry Ser-
geant, 8.A.!, Stop hest College ; Raymonde Wallace re-
made White, EA.. St. Patrick's, Carlow ; James Jahr,
8.A., Spring Hill &liege Charles Cecil Stevens, B.
Melbourne Univethity and Spring Hill; William Tram;
Hewett, EL, Regent's-park College' Denis Maurice
O'Conor, RA., St. s, Downside ; Colmar Boss
tnB.A., ClashantHenry; Robert Hen Roberta,
..74Baptiat College, Bristol; John William Bradley,
Arthur Win am Carver, William Willis, B.A.a, Hodgkin-
! field College ; John Than Barker, William Barrows,
Henry Griffin Parrish, B.A.a, Inneethire Independent Oel-
, lege ; Adam Clarke M'Lean, Gawp Robert Samuel, WU-
' liana Henry Sutcliffe, B.A.s, Wesley College, Sheffield;
William Cannon, Joseph Groves, 8.A.., Wesleyan, Tenneco ,•
I William Frederick Clarkson, Peter William Dustca Samuel
Dyer, John Genueell, Walter Hardie, William He
Robert Vaughn' Pryers, Frederick Hughes Seavill,
lemma Themes, BA' New College ; Thomas Dona,
Thomas Jones, Mather* Henry Parry, Robert
Barad Tangs,B.A.s, Owens College; William Crosby
Barlow, &A.,Hereby Tbookigied Seminary ; John Tho-
mas, B.A. Trevose' Clasp ; Charles Morgan, 8.A.,
Workbag Item's Older.
The names of all eandidetes who bad obtained honours in
the course of the pad year were then reed ; and tip.e gen-
tlemen only who had obtained scholarships, exhibitions,
medals, or prime were presented to the chancellor, in the
following order
LLB. : Henry Sells Page Winterbotham, University
College law echobuskip. M. B. : William Miller
Crowfod, St. Bartholomew's Hoopla', scholarship and
medal in physiology and comparative anatomy ; Ed-
mund Symee Thompson, Dia‘e College, scholarship sad
medal in medal's. ; William Miler Queried, St. Bartho-
lomew's Hospital, scholarship and medal in siagery ;
Physiology and Raymond
comparative enetosay ; Matthew
Hai, University College, medal is anger, ; Willitrkt
ward Robb., Ring's College, medal in medicine; Widen
Miller Crowfoot, University College, medal in midwifery.
8.A.: Arthur William Carver, Huddersfield
"
schobaship in mathematics ; Henry Charlton Bastian,eldrol-
versa,' College, prise in chemistry
.; Henry Chad Bas-
tian, Cniveroty College, prise in anund physioloo ; Henry
Charlton Bastian, University College, prise in botany.
Further Scriptural Examination : Henry Mason Bumps',

mid. wo of the . %Mid .11sonpiai
rnhrel'alfitt yens ; w=
bet no ret= bed been =de in
answer *4llme engem Ile did not Imes ,Nether ins p.
delpoldia hided Ind order at *demos, h* day led cer-
leaf fidlediele to it. Possibly, as •di solation
wag at' 06 Oil ti ik they looked upon it as a dropped
earl 166011116 se return had been made. Now
he Petti tiny niblean Wes returns before them, and
he bed to ask
ig=lligieteglaupeer: the gas companies
to supply those of the present bill
onniered thee the *dew pa eempanies sboaM not have
the power of =Ling off the pa is one etteet bedtime one
peer in= was eighteen poses In anear of his bill, or
k ,smiles of redriching the illuminating power of
the
,ens, or of fixing the price of pa at 4s. the
thews= cubic feet in we district, in others charging
de., 95., sad b., while in some districts then was no hmit
at all. Ow et saxel d the present MR was to enforce
uniformity of prim, thecompankes al= profit for the
money they bad • ou and at the ems time • amenity to
I the public for fair value for what they paid. le the early
days of gas there was no I=Senont bet he deress, se the '
making of gas was found to be Wend comPe-
pies started in combinative with each ether. First, in
1.850, by the London, &Obi* and Chartered ; next, in
1853, by the Phoenix, Londe% and lies* Metropolitan ;
and conjointly with them, the Surrey, as a eesellentel
breach. From that period the "oe of gas began to rise
from 4s. to is. 6d. the cads fed Under the
present system there was even a dilleelty in getting con-
tracts for the ppunblic lamps; one indeace of which had
waned in Chelsea. In June, 1858, theChebes vestry =tad
the public lamps, when they found they wee overcharged
in one year 9001. over what they codoweed for ; but when
the rod= wee brought before the Ord= of Come= Ploy
the wet= was given spinet th•veA,, es the pawed
that they could not prove that the whole quantity of pa
contracted for had not been supplied, which it was mani-
festly iniposible they could do unless they had a person to
test the lamps every hour of the right. On Nov. 19, 1857,
the Ant meeting of delegates of the metropolitan parishes
took place to have an alteration in the system. The first
thing they did was to petition parliament, complaining of
the monopoly of the pa companies, and stating that
the consumers were at the mercy of the pa corn-
pee= as to the price, quantity, and quality of the
pee supplied. The petitionset forth that no leas than
7,728,000 cubic feet of gee were consumed in ems
year in the metropolis, produced by 840,000 tons of
coal. The value of that pa, calculated at 4c 6d. the 1,000
cubic feet, was 1,738,0001., as estimated by migineen ; but
' the actual sum paid by the consumers of the metropolis
amounted to about 2,000,0001. Shortly after the Feder
recess of 1858 a parliamentary committee wee nomi-
nated, consisting of five members to represent the pa
interest, five to represent the parishes, and five independent
members. That committee did take a good deaf of evi-
deeee, but were not able to make a report to the house. In
the course of lad session, however, a bill was presented to
the home vceziirilar to the one now before the own-
=Mee. N however, took place in the matter, ex-
ewe that that afforded a bun of negotiate,* between
the parties, and it was agreed between -Mr. Wyatt, who
acted for the petitioners, and Yr. Baxter, who was agent
far the opponents of the bell, that there shnekl be so oppo-
sition on the standing orders or on the second reeding of the
bill, but that both parties were to be at liberty to take
whet step they pleased as to questions that had not been
upon. After some further remarks, counsel con.
ladod by asking the committee to enforce the order for the
production of the returns of socounta, lac., by the various
gas companies.
The room was cleared, and when the public were re-ad-
mitted,
The Chairman said the committee were of opinion that
the information required in the return ought to be pro-
duced. The committee would make no order at that
moment, but trusted the former order would be complied
with.
The committee thee adjotused till Thursday.

MISCELLANEOUS SERVICES.
The select committee a ted to inquire into
the expenditure in the tai • eons Services, and to re-
pute to the house whether any reduction can in their opt.
aka, be effected in that branch of the public expenditure,
met on Monday. The committee comets of the following
members :—Mr. Adderley, Mr. Baxter, Mr. Bright, Mr.
Carry, Mr. Deedea, Mr. Lein, Sir S. Northoote, Sir R.
Peel, Mr. Phihr Mr. Ler Seymer, Sir J. Shelley, Mr.
Auguries Breit Iced H. Vane, Sir IL Willoughby, and
Mr. Wise; Lord Vane prodded.
The test witness ermined was Mr. Laing, M.P. He
said that the principle on which the accounts in the civil
service are kept differs from the principle sated epos with
regard to the naval and military nervier In these services
the estimate of payments was made within the year, and
any sum not expended was surrendered to the Treasury. In
the civil service that was not the oar. The alginate was
the liabilities to be incurred in the coarse of the year. For
irtanoe, if Parliament sanctioned an expenditure of 100,0001
for any particular work, and only 50,0001. was expended
within the year, the other 50,0001. wee carried forward m •
balance. There were certain accounts running on, and the
amounts not actually expended were kept in the Treasury
as a credit for the next year. It was desirable that the
amount of these balance' should come before parliament at
the end of the financial year ; but there was a difficulty,
in eousequence of the accounts being made up at an early
period, and it being necessary to keep a balance in band to
meet coati Deice, and provide for certain parrots if the
votes should not be taken until a late period of the emir
A ranee must exist somewhere. The practical result of
the system was not very important. The principle adopted
re not to retain • larger balance than was necessary until
a fresh vote could be taken.
Sir S. Northeete—lf a government wished to expend a
sum on an object which was not likely to receive the sanc-
tion of parliament, they might, by proposing a small sum
for that object, and a largely unnecessary sum for another
object in the same vote, accomplish the matter without the
knowledge of parlament?
Mr. Laing—'Tat certainly would be possible, but they
would incur a serious responsibility in so doing.
Sir H. Willoughby—Would there be any objection to the
unexpended balances heir reported along with the estimates
for the current year, and placed in an additional column?
Mr. Lang—fn pcmciple there would be none, and it
would be right and proper ; but there might be are pre-
tier difficulty in doing so at the time of vegan up the
votes, and another difficulty would he the war et • drift
rime to meet unforeseen contingencies. In such •
ere it would be necessary to take votes on amount.
Mr. Adderley—ls it necerary to allow the haleness to
aocurder for several years !
Mr. Ireg—Try are not allowed to accumulate for ere.
rsl year. If therapist. is considerable, a smeller am ra
is taken for the following year. All "Ma Wont in aced
contingencies were expended without the control of pair
meat, bathe thought the vote should be eirred as kr as
possible to matters that could not be foreseen. DediaLM2
the votes which had been transferred, the teal
increase in the Mill001.411(.011,1 estimates from 1848 had
amounted in round numbers to 2j millions, but on examina-
tion he ford that the increase was confined to a few large
items, and was attributable to legislative policy rather than
to admini.tratiie extravagance. Mikes the increase in
this particular was checked by parliament itself it would
tahly swallow up any small savings which the incr.