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gewommtnt t) advice her Msjtety, in accordance with the
oaLtiona to her hisjeety in Coomii, from numerous muni-
cipal borougho and other pieces in the West Riding, krt the
tenter secocantodation thereof, to remove the mese, for that
Mb( from York to WakstleldP
Yr. WALPOLE—That le a question which ruins ha-
moan batmen in she West Riding ; but betas any decision
oft be come to on the claims of the Waist t4was which
dedre the bang -rem. of she amino to them, they out be
all mai& red together at the same time. Ido not say that
the govetaraeat Las come t 3 any decision oa the easiest.
DECORATIONS OF THS BATH.

Lord
a question rowing to the evade( practice et molting the
genera of the dinemelone of the Order of the Beth on the
' demh of each member of the order, said that it would be re-
&hated that lest armies he &eked his right hoe. friend
whether it wee neennery that the families of members of the
Order of the Bath shoed, eater their deaths, return the deco.
oakum which bad ban oculars& on them. He hal also m-
imed to the het that the 'stave conferred on the Knights
Comeemehou ware mode clerk ihrior materials that It was
impenethis to weer them. He hotel that his right hon.
Mead bed emend the matter.
Gemmel era Dspp, to Inform my noble friend
ilea leartZ.hee been to don with that
Mats% of free
of the Beth which rendered it necessary
that the of Heights Grand Cross atd Knigh's Com-
' neenthre ehanid be returned after their death. This &pea.
wiles will egptg not only to future awe. but to the meat
seederset the Maly. It t
heibe nommity to_ retain the
sellers and badges osly of t Knights Grand Close, and
la the cite et sternotios from • lower to a MOM grate of
th• eider, the ladgnia of the lower order would be reewned.
I bare aloe to date that the start of the Keigh's Comma-
riptell."118.111116‘63110•11 he made {lotion fa the
I totAttee Wrifaira bi.
Ike d
mast panne homy lad for Maggie ioit which
be mode. (Boor, bear.)
THE APPOINTMENT OF A MASTER IN LUNACY.
Mr. CLIVE—I The to put the queetios of width I yes-.
Way gme make. I wet only ray a wort Is rehreare to
Mee ebeervationi of the fight hon. gentians* the Chan:
lOW of tit@ Imitegoto. I was not aware that it was mina
le give private notice of questions ; bade. which it was
wify attear o'clock that I made up my mind to pot the goes-
tins, ad I duo endeavoured to find the right hoe. gentle-
mis the lloolotosy for the Hese Department, and I saw
bin Is the lobby sad spoke to him, bat he seemed too busy
to tatted to rm. I beg to eek whether 111 r. William French
Mates bee bets appointed to the office of • ma,ter in
lismeyt
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER—Since
this gaud= war mitred in the house yesterday with respect
lon lennemdous of which I had that no Ithowlidge, I have
had • terminologies from the Lord Chtncellor, in which
he informs me that be should not Dave appointed Mr.
Fiends Higgins to the Mos enters he ba4 be-en therou&y
contrisced dais competency to fulfil the duties of that oft,.
Bat the Lord Chancellor adds that it is neamenery to eater
iato say oostroverey on the merits of that ginEmsae, dam,
I believe without say comultation, certainly sneonditleattlty
rad spinaneoudy, the moment Mr. Higgins was informed
of what took ewe have yesterday, he resigned that dike.
(Chars) Mr. Higgins acok that step, I em bound te way
an Mee, not from any belief that he was unable ho fetal the
their of the office, but became, after what had attuned
it wart not consishot with his feelings any lower to
held that appcdatmest. I am bound Is threw my
opinion that, in taking that coarse, Mr. Higgins
hes acted with • doe sense of selforipect, and
from what I have beard of that gestiemaa from many
menthers of the house and from scree who bad otholal rela-
tions with him for a number of years, I believe I may ray
that la abbe that tonne be has acted condeteatly with the
tenor des kosearable lib. (Cheers.)
RATING OF GOVERNMENT PROPERTY.
Mr. WILSON asked whether the attention of the Rovers-
meat bed bees directed tothe wales* of the eltstgeabffity of
poor ride on overnmeet pen
The CHANCELLOR if the 11XCHKQUIR meld that it
was the *Moe of the government some Imitation wee m-
mdred on tbatinsportant selnect, sad lie thou. friend the
Preiddeat oldie Poor-law Bowd would take an early oppor-
tunity of hattedsolng • MI with that view.
TESAT'MENT OF LUNATICS.
Mr. TIM moved the sppoianewt ct a select ematelltee to
inquire Into the opatfen of the laws reauleting the
care and trastrasse at hisua especially of thole
found to to lusatim by isgOlttm. He stated that
there were now 21,000 !tirades Moue kind mato her &Eng-
land. There were the pauper lunatics the number of whom
wee Meted in the last years report of the COMllilleillllBlll at
17,672, havWg in one year increased to that flambee from
16,137 ; and there were about 6,000 lunatics of other kinds.
=sliantreil=t4=lll jnthdletiame—firstly, the Cots-
the charge of the FAZIOe hthotios
and of private 'nylons ;* sicondly the Chaseery breathe
wen under the charge ota board detainee, wfth a *Witte
ijerioliction ; end the third dos wlik th•l of the erhsfael
'elastics. The laws relative to this subject were cienfiktin.
In 1828 the first hiw of an entenoire mope wee pool ; it
was &moiled is 1832, Main In 1834, and is 1838,
.1841, 1849- aid • holly In 1846 it was matey
rwmodelei. In 1663 the act. regulating the Cban.
cery kitties, ot- tione bud •so by iamtleirfoit, Was
Cllau act draws Am by Lord Si. Leotard.. Late m Laaim
. Tits)) drew attestios to the to entios of that aet,
which he %Wooed to be ismanwatent ant oppressive. The
number of lunatics undo. the care 6I the Court of Charter,
was 1,600, end the total mown of their proprry tinder
the emorel of the coast was upwards d 200,0004
The eit dpefiament drawn up by Lord St. Leonard* did
:askiniellipenriwas act., but teamed to them, and the pro-
*Me abaft to loamy were to be found in five or Ms
seprdes oda • With mad to criminal lunatics also, it
appani sea maw movidoe was neonsary. There were
sew Ma er amen hundred of them. He thought that, as a
thimthel hem* was sot regarded es morally reeponeible for
the act he had committed, wises be was restored to health
beabould be !mewed lo eoddf. Al probed there wee so
pewee to do this, except by the judgment of the Home
ale shim and Men wee very aikidos emeeiwl le the matter.
Another large dare of Moths oeseleted of these who were
last above the «iodides of pm •pm v. Is flesdasd, In every
I.rge town, there wee an asylum for them; in Leaden there
weie two great founded's', M. Weep, width only took
them for one year, and Bethlehem, whith took thent only
under particular drellolll.JlSoolll. He hoped the committee
would nos der whether it was sot possible to do erimetling
for that large dam, who eared extremely, se well as their
families, whenever that dimming dhimAir overtook thew
What was wonted wen a mere complete supervieion ; sad
the measure now required was one for the comolidation of
the law, defining the &actions of the several boards, white
had now a distinct and divided ectiou.
Mr. WALPOLE raid it was true the hon. member bed
got a hind of pledge from the government that they would
not oppose the inquiry, if it were go conducted asM kid to •
prettiest result. There were four chases of lunatics, namely,
the r riminal Inea ica, the lunatics who bed been lewd so by
Inquisition under the Conn of Chancery, the lonath e eon-
fitted in private:oTbm,, sad them hi county or borough
aaylume. An to the criminal lunatics, he thought there coold
not we'l be any material interference ; bat with regard to the
second clam, he did think gems amendment night be made
in the law in two re epees. With reference to the ONUS., fa
which inquisitions wire hell, and inquiet..e coducted, ea-
ter:ding over lung p Hods of time at a great expose-, and to
the great affliction of many people concerned in ebem, a great
improvement might b node. He also thought that with re-
ference to the &emotion and paters' superintendenee of
the treatment of there loads, it might be provided
for In a more careful and cooristent minter than at present.
The other two dames were Awe in county or bonnet 11 asy-
lums, end them In private seyloms. Since the nofeet of
motion was gives lad summer. he led male moo taquiries
on the subject, and he would now Mate the results. He found,
upon tempering the number of Inest;ca in 1862 with those
in 1867, that in the firmer you the total number was 17.412,
ezein-im of the pauper lunatics in the union workhouses.
There were 4.430 in private asylums of whom 9,836 were
realm and 2,0110 were feaa'ee. In the county tad borough
thee, were 12,962. In 1857, the totel number had
inereased to 22,910; end of tlw se, there were in ;is 'tau vel-
lums 4,732, hug 2,502 malts and 2.230 female.. Thera
was:a preot isereies In this peeled of five years—an imams
of more than 5,000. This inerems, however, wee in the
county and borough mylume ; the inane* to private asy •
lam was hardly terceptible. He believe' that increase wee
owing party to the legislation by which ro much better pre-
set lame, the result being that perm cam was taken of thee,
vision mat made for the pouter lunatics and those In
and their lives wore protot red. The moat important distinc-
tion, however, wee between the cased. and the itlCOrab'P.
1 here woo, out of 21,311 patients 1.11 1857, only 3,327 «treble,
and 12,934 kited robe &curable. Of them in private mylonts
public
ooe fourth ware comb* whibt °misty and borough sm
itten there wen but one-tenth amok. Thin
wwe a tw
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but if a public:, inquiry were to take place, the pattent would
be looked at with suspicion and tatesstheas when he went
back to his lame end baldnese, sod the eonseireases of this
would tend to provost his ewe. The objects now to
be aimed at by heelers
should be a prow inuatoo, previous to the confinement of
were three. Firstly, there
any peter, that this did net take Otto without due err;
lotollolV, the homes of reception should be suitable for their
accommodation; thirdly, they should not be &teamed there
longer than was seers ; and fourthly, their treatment.
whether curable or should be the beet that could
be obtained. The bill owl, ha proposed, with regard to
private asylums, would have then four objects in Sr. In
the first ratans, hs proposed that so person shard be pat
ia CDOfintalet without a mire berg met to the comer.
es
within ratty-four hour The Jure If web
eseaty should appoint medical examiners he particular die-
tads, and when the commis:ions* received arcs of any
lemon having been put under constraint or le eoresasenr,
they would seed down to the mat ezauthen to visit the
pence, end brain Into the 01101. The aseetedree
✓oad have power thenera to repoet to the juries of the
county, and or oe the peepleter or eurristendest of the
beer as ghe further ezpienations. With regard to the hoar
leer, the plans sod estimates for it were to he laid bar
the crealroaers, who naightl= nice drool to the not-
& Prates, so that antral 8 tender, and actuare
knowledge would to combine with local expertente. He
or hoerM that the aced:don al private asylums wee
nrt drys esgidesy, and the socoramodatioe provided In
them was lasammeerrate with the payment required. He
proposed that in adder& ts the lour regular inspections now
mote rob year, the comnibsiorre should, either by then-
rose at by IMMO authored person, pay three visite to the
here, slid that they should her power to call on the pro-
peers of the bore to show their account, for task gra
dent, proving that the idleliehate was perry ratted foe
tolebenefl- t. With regard to the fourth point, some provi-
sions were micheaary-to seem that the patients who reco-
ver should not bemired a day beyond the time who they
reit to be discharged. He proposed that in every instance
a oe Moraine* Aver po and visit the patient within
thee eseethe of the time whim he was pieced la orefinesent,
sad report ppm:Wray roe the progress of his ere. The
keeper'. or asylum Arad sot be slowed to catity that a
peers ices d =tour mina In err that the person eight
be trosehned, with that certiferate, to another hour ef. cos-
deem's!. It vras;Manover, provided that not'ce of the pa-
tiara merry should be immedirly seat mot oeiy tit his
frfeuds, but to the eseaserd ern, In ender tle4 they might
take trite ern is. He hoped that these
_rewrote wore
orramd the unfortunate persons thus enroll with every
check and grawidee Sr could be provided. Pewee weer
Sao be veer le the trisimioners to allow Whale he be

oat teal, faities cam, eta a Miew'ta emseida
wbe Miseselom Ilkaffy, mate proper nerietitem.
woad he altstarp. Re saw proposed, es am seeseasaw
the km aseabees wedge, that the select roamillee Medd
be appealed to again labs Wm titration of the ado of pr-
lament ix tha seguation of the we sad tratimeat of
lunatics, and Moir .Ilse Minded to sales the two
bills to this maul tie, the flolidtmOsateal bad another
bill lapr.p a Marin bikes fired of maenad Mad
b coq i~iiML' 1f the rank of this Imlay were to larva
the ecalidow of those afflitted people, be should be highly
gadded. (Cbmwe.)
After a bw weeds bow Mr. DIIMMONN
If,. TITS wad to rasp& the macadam& of the govern.
meet for the appointment of the select owandke in the
terms
Mr.sPradt emptier& bis mYm. that the deliberatiem
of the select 011111Matiell limit also be Weeded to Miami
lunettes wen wedged is thepubßc asylums.
Alter • law wade Lad Be G Guy, ftErgeler• of him
"%Vof the aurae m eneeed,
I= wil•ladrow his modes, and a committee me ap-
pasted in samehaste with Me ingiestiee et Mr. Walpole.

, .
BANKRUPTCY AND INSOLVENCY.
Lord J. RUSSELL, in modest for leave to brio, in • bill
to emend and c neolidate the laws Marlow to bankruptcy
astlneolveney, eapbbeed is the Scot plies the reseone
which hod In him to, miladoke e mar .es difilleolt ea
well se so Imprdent. He then adverted to the rola Mee of
winkle to their creditors, the oriole of the bankruptcy low.
the ander the old system, the Outages imradoet4
by Lard Brougham, end the institution of the Courted Bonk-
'grey. He nut coeddend the general compleints made
el the preeent ma'am. The Let complaint was the very
VIM earille or the mot, SD per cent or we of the
mods bdag cessamed It the prootedlegs. He pro-
posed to comet this mil by don g away with the absolute
seres.ity of seetetkeg to the eidelal asetenem end
hy piecing other topmast upon the Carotidal's' end
He then reposed to abolish the distinction between traders
sad sure-taidere, which had so red fomdation, while it gave
rise to difficult &measles% and to make the law sone ails to
bankrupt& mad Insolvents alike. A single court mold intro-
duce much greater tooscosy end more uniktrinity of mowed-
fag. He proposed, likewise, that the creditors absoM hero
the %du of carrying the ease Wino • coast/ court.
Another evil of tee mistiest system was the west of power
to tusks yolardary settle mato Such eettlameate, it wee .
true, were sow much resomd to, but they bed so sufficient
authority or surd" ,ao in Accrued, sad he proposed teat
when a majority If the °team to somber, their debts lo,istg • -
four-fifths hi value, 'greed to a pirate arrangement, it .
should be Medal aad Milistlhe settlement. Another cons- .
plaint was the mem feisty of the punishment for Mad, and •
for this the bill provided a remedy. It elm abolished the .
different cleat. a sad grades of ow tificates. The bill oat in-
tended not oely to amend, but to consolidate the law of bank-
reptcy—s meteor of drop and vital importance.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL, on the pert of the
goventeent, did not oppoies the Mtn election of the bill. He
doubted the pone, of deism away with the oftleial assignees
who weft mapomilie atom appointed by the most. He
approved the skittle& of the distinction hetw, en traders and
nos.tretires; but he quell fated the espedi. um of amt. wing •
upon the county coons a co-onlisate piddled= with the .
Bankruptcy Coed. He raggested other warm of &Mil for
lithe considetatlon of Lord J. Rowell ; and with reference to '
the costal dittos of the law of bankruptcy, he stated that Ai:
devenunent had under consideration a general scheme of ,
ceesobdetlos of the lava._

After 103011 1/12113111 by Mr. BRAMAN and Mr. MOP.
war kayo was given to iatrodues the LiU. I
Mr. ALCOCK morel an wither to her Majesty praying
that des will to pleead to brae a royal commission to
*sire Into and report as to the best wane of &tool sbiog
the tolls on the turnpike roads and bridges in England and
Wales. He buisted-npow the practical diey of eitinguisheng
the debt without say severe burden upon property, end was
proceeding in his speech when the house was counted oat at
tea =beaten peat 8 o'clock.

MILITARY NONOUNII 20 1311010U8
112042118810N.2

The following is a copy of the general circular of
the laic Lard Eli, alluded to by Esc E. B. Lytton, as the
order which now regulates the conduct of the military in all
owl ion= catholic colonies :

" Hone Onerde, Jane 26, 1837.

" It baring been doomed expedient to lay down And sad
specific rules with owed to the eatable which her Moiety's
laud force shall, for the Man, pay military honours to
religions processiots it catholic countries in which any
portion of the sold form shell happen to ho erring, I hen
it is command to direst your spacial attention to the follow-
ing, and to eaves Ltd Mtn's desire that you cause the
sten to be strictly amend by the troops Boning under your
order., vk. :
" Troops ars not t o torn out An move with. sr take any
active tart in any religious proceseion or ceremonial.
"All entries are, however, to elate the preas.fou as it
enistpla";::?i!'n.:thlare.dwPis:ittarmeiNoituossita.berlotake:,,rmeadlawAteasrll"r7rta.pasrdmisisseso.athpaftilh..leh,:tcrbtilk'3t7:p.soesfnaedoothtf ttst""amillE.
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utmost forbearance and teepeet t morn the moisten and
other members al the cathol.c religion, as cell as
towards then! religious institution, bateg conasstly:th
mood that the easent regulation is made to meet the con-
eciencious erupt.' of individuate, withmt is the remotest
degree isieng or contumbuirg a dimMutice of that
respectful conadarafion with which the Br.ti-h army has
sees bees enjoiaed to regard the relig;ous te.oliogs, habis,
sad sues windless of every to•cign country in which it
he. beim required to serve.—l hove,
_lre.,
(Signed) "JOHN MACDONALD, A. G.
" Addrea•ed to General Ofilairs Commanding at pica
Mediterranean, Mituritiu., and Canata."

OXFORD. FEB. 15.—The Rev. Henry Anstey of
Usiverdity College, sr Want letterer at St. May'. Ef y'a ell:be
been appotated Asplah at Quern's College, Word.
THE CASE OP MR. POOLE.—The Archbishop of
Canterbury ball Elrod Friday seat, Fob. 18, for Waring Mr.
Poole's appal, at the Palace, Laatbe.b.
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THE cue of " DICKSON V. the Earl of WILTON,"
after occupying the Court of Queen's Bench for five
days, hag terminated in favour of the plaintiff, the
damages being assessed at 20M. This is Co. of those
cases that never ought to have been brought into
court at all. But after the charges against Colonel
DICKSON had reached the War-office, it wee
no longer Fallible to settle the matter privately;
while some of those charges affected his profeeeia••l
character so seriously, that it was quite natural bs
should desire to exculpate himself as far as possible.
This attempt has been in a considerable degree SOO-
cessfill. The grave accusations of misappropriating
the regiment funds, and instigating its creditors to
prosecute the Earl of Wttrox u its responsible
bead, were not made out. Whether the lighter
complaints of carelessness and neglect in keeping the
accounts, and managing the affairs of the mess; weer
not established, the public is well able tejedre.
The plaintiff and defendant in the action were, ee
our readers will remember, respectively Lieutesmat-
Coloul and Colonel of the Tower Hamlets Militia.
Thu regiment, after having existed ea paper for
some years, was embodied sad called out during the
spring of lead. In Muck, Major DICKSON. a mili-
tary man of thirty yaws' steadier, who had sew
sere ice in Ides, in Spain, and at the Cape, and bad
been for several years connected with the regiment.
was appointed its Lisetenant-Colosel. The fall
Cole el, the Earl el WILTON, having had
little experieees of military duty, rarely visited the
hue, and lash ate uthe part in its managemeet.
Colossi Mime had thus the whole SSW
mead, and be seers t• h•ee exerneed his aatherity
in a rather. summery and absolute meaner. Officers
of the Line are asustonsed to leek down em their
brethren of the Militia as as Lawler MOD; mad
Colonel Dicxsoe mum to have early amerted his
superiority. He sharply warned the ranger AWN
against late hours, gambling, and other miss
offences, which was of course proper neigh. Net
satisfied, however, with general warnings of this
kind, he proceeded, es more than one wane,'
deposed, to covert threats, intimating that be
had " • little bird in the corps that brought him
" news of everything that took place," sad that he
" knew bow to get rid of an officer without •
court•martial." This, though scarcely • dignified
or even justifiable way of enforcing discipline, seems,
however, not to have much disturbed the peace or har-
mony of the regiment. It was is dealing with the funds
of the regiment that Colossi DICKSON Bret excited
dimetisfaction amongst his brother officers. For
suss mouths after the regiment was embodied it had
as mess of its own, the officers Inetaing with the
Artillery quavered near it at Woolwich. In the mouth
of October, bolsi Ter, the alteen of the Tower Ham-
lets Militia determined to establish a ems of their
own. Orders were giventeffissers. SIT4IIPOS tosupply
glue and china, and to Messrs. House sad Low.
VAN to runtish the plate neesseary for this purpose.
Who gave these orders is one of the points in
dispute ; but after reading the evidence, we can-
not but feel that Colonel Dlcxsom fully managed
the whole business. Ile says, indeed, they were
ordered by the mess committee; but so far as we can
discover, Colonel Inecoole was himself the mem
committee. No mess meetings were ever held,
either to issue orders or examine accounts, Colonel
DICKSON himself says, "Mess meetings of accounts
" are not necessary, and the officers knew nothing
" about it. I managed ererythieg." But whoever
gave the orders, the chief responsibility certainly
rested on Colonel Biome. Aed the error com-
mitted at the very outset is manifest enough. The
seas kit was far too expensive, and the Lieutenant-
Colonel took no means for meeting the liability
thus incurred. For a regiment of the Line
which n
costly kit may be all very well. But for •
Militia regiment, whose active existence is eo brief
and uncertain, the mess arrangements should ob-
viously be of the simplest description. The Colonel
of the Tower Hamlets Militia not only incurred au"
siderable expense, but neglected the ordinary MINIM
of securing payment. The mess is usually ens-
nared by • committee, and supported by sabserip-
tions from its individual members. Meetings of this
committee are periodically held, to examine the ac-
counts and determine the amount of the subsoriptiou
Deeded. No such meetings were ever held during the
time the 'NWT Hamlets Militia remised embodied.
Several of the officer. wished the to be held, and
requested Colonel Diet/sox to call them ; but he
habitually refused, and actually allowed the refl.
mein to be broken up without having made a single
attempt to settle its accounts. la their complete
ignorance of the actual state of affairs, many of the
officers might naturally enough have supposed that
Colonel Dwayne Ind enough money in hand to
meet all liabilities. Complimentary entertainments
given by the officen, instead of being defrayed by •
private subscription amongst the officers, were paid
for out oldie regimental purse. Colonel Iftceeie,
in fact, received all the moneys of the force, both the
general revenues and the private subscriptions.
These moseys he mixed up with his own, keeping
no separate account, and scarcely knowing what
he paid or what he owed.
It is very easy to see what the result of such a
system, or such a want of eyes's, as this must inevit-
ably be. The accounts of the regiment were in a
state of hopeless confusion, so that Colonel I lieesom
could not prods°e them is a satisfactory form in any
mess committee. This is the real uplanatiee of all
the difficulties that afterwards awned. If the
Cotoert bad made up hts accnnts,and brought them

In regular form before a mesa committee, they
might have been settled beefs ate reglpsest
was disembodied. Instead of tie, be allowed the
form to be disbanded and the officers to separate
without making any effort to explain, mach lees to
meet, the outstanding debts. the first neat of this
natant'', was that the creditors soon applied foe
payment to Colonel DICKSON as the managing, and,
in their view, the responsible head of the regiment.
Colonel DICKSON had no funds—none, at least,
at all equal to the demands ; and in his diffi-
culties he proceeds to the Earl of WILTON,
the officially responsible head of the regiment.
The Earl of WILTON, it was proved, had
really nothing whatever to do with the mess
expenses, beyond the men fact of being accidentally
present one day when specimens of china were
brought for the officers' inspection. As Colonel he
had no concern with the expenses of the mess, and
might, therefore, have said to Colonel DICKSON at
come, " It's really your own business, and you most
manage it in your own way." Being anxious, how-
ever, for the credit and character of the force, he
conferred with the Lieutenant-Colonel on the best
means of meeting its liabilities, suggesting a sub-
scription amongst the officers, and heading it with a
donation of 1001. It was too late, however, to take
this step ; the officers were scattered, and could not
be collected for the despatch of business that ought
to have been settled before they separated. Mean-
while, the creditors being importunate, and seeing
no prospect of a settlement, issued writs against
Colonel Dlcisoir and the Earl of WILTON. It is
quite obvious that the latter never ought to have
been stied at all. He was obliged, however, to pay
Mears. Binartis' bill of 6801. for goods supplied to
the meas.

It then of course became necessary that the act-
counts of the regiment should be gime into, with a
view to their final settlement. Cokesel DICKSON was
accordingly required to make them up, and this he
did for the first time a year after the disembodiment
of the force, " at the Conservative Club," having no
accounts by hiss. A Board was appointed to examine
these accounts ; and we can scarcely be surprised,
considering how they were prepared, that various
discrepancies were disoovered—oome things being
incorrectly stated, and other, altogether forgotten.
None of the items were dated, so that it was ratherl
difficult work to verify them. Bat they were so it I
accurate that on receiving the report tithe Board the
Bari of Wthvox was obliged to ask Colonel Dlcx-1
sots for an explanation. This explanation, after
being delayed for six mouths, proved to be insuffi-
cient. The Earl of Witrox, being instructed that
be we. bawd in duty to set in the matter, submitted
it *Lord Comneacher, who felt it necessary to TO-
dosmassd Colonel Diceson's resignation. On refusing
be do this he was dismissed by the War-office.
The documents furnished officially by the Bari of
WILTON to Lord Cox BMUS use constituted the basis of
the present action for libel. The second count of
the Wien, that of slander, arose out of a oonversa-
ties between the Earl et WILTON and Mr. T. 8.
DIINCOMII, the member for Finsbury, who had on-
'foreshow to ask a gamines is the Reese of Com-
mons about Colonel DICKSON'S dismissal frees his
regiment. The Earl had charged Colonel Dictum
with instigating the creditors of the regiment to
take legal proceedings against himself. This odious
sharp was certainly not established, and it is
prehebly so this greeted that the jury assessed the
damages for the deader at 2001., while those for
the libel were fixed at the nominal sum of 6L
The verdict will at least be • warning to the nominal
heads of regiments not to trust too implicitly even
to experienced Macon who may be second in com-
mand, but to investigate the affairs of the force for
themealves, sad to see set only that good discipline
impt up menet the men, but that accurate
sesseests me kept by the dims.