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but he certainly should wish to hear something of it
details before he pledged himself to support i.
Mr. L. HEYWORTH said a few words that did not
reach the gallery.
.The bill was brought in and read a first titre.
EDUCATION OF PAUPER CHILDREN.
_ _

Mr. E. DENISON rose to move for leave to intro-
duce a bill to provide for the education of the children of
poor persons in the receipt of in-door relief. His bill
was not so much a new measure as a supplementary
measure to other bills which had already been proposed
to the house. He had been urged to persevere with his
bill by the introducers of the other bills ; and the object
of his bill was to enable education to be given to poor
children, but not as a condition of relief to the parents,
and not making it compulsory on children to attend any
particular kind of school. He should have been glad to
introduce a clause to make a portion of the expense fall
upon the Consolidated Fund, but on a communication
with the Chancellor of the Exchequer he was informed
that the state of the public funds prevented such a clause
from receiving countenance. He trusted at a more
favourable time this part of his plan would receive con-
sideration. He believed there would be no opposition
to the introduction of the bill, and he would conclude
by asking leave to introduce it.

The bill was then read a firlit time, and ordered to to
printed.
LAND AND ASSESSED TAXES DIVISIONS.

Mr. FREWEN moved for leave ta bring in a bill to
facilitate the formation of divisions within and for which
meetings of commissioners of land or assessed taxes may
be held in that part of the United Kingdom called Great
Britain.
The bill was read a first time.
SUPPLY.

On bringing up the report, and on the vote of
100,000/. for education being brouL.,,ht forward,
Mr. HADFIELD objected to the vote f,,r educational
purposes. He objected to Government interfering with
education at all, because it checked those efforts which
were being made by private enterprise. It had been
said that tile voluntary system had failed, but he denied
this ; the voluntary system had not failed, it had worked
and was working wonders. The compulsory principle—
the taxation principle—had failed, and had dune the ad-
mitted mischief. The voluntary system had produced
this result, that one in every eight persons was now re-
ceiving education, whereas, before this period, the pro
portion was only one in eighteen. The education given
by the system of Sunday-school training was a strictly
religious edui ation, and Gov,rnment with all its power,
and at whatever cost, would fail to equal such a result.
Nw should move that this partioular votes 100 aim.ll.wca.
Compulsory education would fail as it had failed—and
as Government had failed in becoming manufacturers,
so they would fail in their educational scheme.

Sir G. GREY said an opportunity would be given to
every hon. gentleman at a future stage to state his ob-
jections to any vote that bad been arrived at last night.
He hoped the bon. gentleman would not persevere in
his objections.
The vote was then agreed to, and the report was re-
ceived.

The Convention with Sardinia Bill was then read a
third time and passed.
The house then adjourned at five minutes past eight
o'clock.

PARLIAMENTARY DIVISION.

HOUSE OF CONINIONS.—Apnir, 17.
MEDICAL DEPARTMENTS.

Motion made, and question put, "That a Select Committee
be appointed to inquire into the state of the Medical De-
partments of each of the two services, Army and Navy."
The house divided—Ayes 69, Noes, 73.

AYES-69.
Bailey, Sir J. Hadfield. G. Pakenham, T. H.
Baillie, 11. Hayes, Sir E. Pechell, Sir G.
Baird, J. Herbert, Sir T. Pellatt, A.
Ball, E. II i miley, C. Percy, J.
Batesoa, Capt T. Holford, R. Reed, J.
Bell, J. Hudson, G. Robertson, P.
Biggs, W. Jones, Capt. T. Scobell, Capt. G.
Blandford, Marquis of Kennedy, T. Shelley, Sir J.
Brady, J. Kinnaird, A. Smith, W.
Brainley-Moore, J. Liddell, H. G. Spooner, It.
Challis, T. Lowe, R. Stafford, A.
Chambers, M. Luthington, C. Stanhope, J.
Child, Smith Id acsrtney, G. Stirling, W.
Cholmondeley, Lord Macgregor, Jas. Strutt, E.
Christopher, Robt. A. Malins, R. Tancred, IL
Christie, Samuel Massey, W. Vernon, L.
Davies, J. L. Michell, W. Waddington, D.
Duff,, C. G. Mowbray, 3. Waddington, H.
buncombe, T. Kuntz, G. Walinsley, Sir J.
Farnham, E. Murrough, J. Williams. W.
Ferguson, J. North, Col. J. Wise, A.
Goderich, Vis. O'Brien, P. TELLERS
Graham, Lord W. Otway, A. Boldero, Col. 11. 0,
Greene, John Parke. C. Trollope, Sir J.

• NOES-73.
Acton, J Fitz Gerald, J. Perry, Sir T.
Antrobus, E. Gordon, A. Phillimore, J. G.
B 11, J. Greene, Thomas Millington, J.
Baring, Sir F. Grey, Sir G. Pollard-Urquhart, W
Bass, T. Grosvenor, Ld. R. PowPr, N.
i!erkeley, Admiral Gurney, J. Ricardo, 0.
Bland, 1.. Fl. Heyworth, L. Ricardo, S.
mouverie, Hon. E. P. Hofsman, E. Seymer, IL
Brand, 11. B. W. Johnstone, Sir J. Smith, R.
Brotherton, J. Kershaw, J. Steel, J.
Browne, W. Lee, W. Thornely, T.
Cavendish, G. Lindsay, W. Vivian, H. IL
Chambers, T. Lockhart, A. E. Water park, Lord
Chec them, J. Luce, T. Weds, W.
Cowper, W. F. Matheson, Sir J. Whatman, J.
Craulurd, E. IL J. Milligan, R. Whitbread, S.
I). nicon, J. E. Mills, T. Wickham, H. W.
De Vere, S. Molesworth, Sir W. Wilkinson, W.
Duncan, Viscount Monck, Viscount Wilson, J
Duncan, O. Moncreiff, J. Winnington, Sir T.
Dunzat van, Viscount Monselt,W. Wyvill, M.
Eurington, Viscount Mc,tyn, T.
linliot, J. O'Brien, J.
Ewart. W. 0 borne, R.
XVIA , t, J. rcel, F.

TELLER/

Hayter, W.
1,1.416tavn, Muil of

HEALTH OF LONDON DURING THE WEEK.

(From the Report of the Registrar-General.)

In the week that en 'ed last Saturday, the deaths of
1,347 persons (715 males and 632 females) were regis-
tered in London. In the ten corresponding weeks of
the years 1845-54, the average number was 1,035,
which, if raised by a tenth part for increase of popula-
tion, becomes 1,138. Hence it appears that a high rate
of mortality still prevails, the excess of deaths in the
nresent return over the estimated number being 209.
' The weekly number of deaths from bronchitis ob-
serves a remarkable uniformity ; in the last five weeks
it has been successively 163. 146, 155, and 153. Pneu-
monia is less regular in its effect, the cases in which it
was fatal in the same weeks having been 135, 96, 113,
98, and 92. There is now a decrea3e in the mortality of
hooping-cough. From six avmotic disease, small-pox,
measles, scarlatina, hoopmg-cough, diarrhoea, and
typhus, there were altogether 191 deaths last week.
Last week, the births of 912 boys and 806 girls, in
all 1,718 children, were registered in London. In the
ten corresponding weeks of the years 1845-54, the
average number was 1,411.
At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean
height of the barometer in the week was 29 519 in. The
highest readings occurred at the beginning and end of
the week, when they were respectively 29.94 in. and
29.92 in. The mean temperature of the week was 47.2
deg., which is 2.1 deg. higher than the average of the
same week in 38 years. The air became warmer towards
the end of the week, and on Saturday the mean tempera-
ture rose to 50.4 deg. ; and the highest temperature in
the week occurred on that day, and was 63 deg. The
lowest temperature was 36.2 deg., and occurred on Sun-
day, on which day snow fell in the north of Scotland.
The mean dew-point temperature of the week was 39.9
deg., and the difference between this and the mean air
temperature was 7.3 deg. The wind blew generally
from the south-west and west. On Tuesday there was
very active positive electricity, with strong galvanic cur-
rent, and abundance of sparks, and positive electricity
was generally shown the rest of the week.

1 MORTALITY IN THE METROPOLIS.
NUMBER OF DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES REGISTERED
IN THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, APRIL 14.
Zymotic Diseases
Diseases of Uncertain Seat
Tubercular Diseases
Diseases of the Brain, Nerves and Senses
Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels 7O
Diseases of the Lungs and other Organs of
Respiration.. .....
Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs
of Digestion
Diseases of the Kidneys, &c. 70
19
Childbirth, Diseases of the Uterus, Ste.
Diseases of the Joints, Bores, and Muscles
Diseases of the Skin, rte.
Malformations 4
Premature Birth and Debility 43
Atrophy 34
Old Age
Sudden
Violence, Privation, Cold, and Intemperance 39
Causes not specified

DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES 1,347

. Population Deaths to cone- Deaths
Enumerated. sponding week in the
West Districts 18111. of 18,4. Week.
, 376,427
North District* 490.396
Central Distriel„s 393,256
East Districts 485,522
South Distrintn

-Totals ... ..... 2,362,236
Males._
Females;

1,347
15
132

1,087

BIRTHS IN THE WEEK.
Males.....
Fema.le3..

112
106

Tot 1.1
1/18

COUB SE OF EXCHANGE.—YEsTERrLY.
Amsterdam... ......... 11 19 , Gibraltar ..... .
Ditto, three months .. 12 L,gborn
Rotterdam ... ......... 12 Genoa ..... ...•...... 25 57y4
Antwerp ..... ......... 25 45 3111 an ...... • • .......
Brussels ..... ......... 25 4.5 Venice ............... --
I Draburgh ... ....... 13 8% Naples •.
4 %
Altone •.• • •. • ~. •• •• • • Palermo •••• . ,.. 131.4
PAr'5........ ........ 21 20 111es:sina .. •
Ditto, three . months .. 25 52% Lisbon .. 131%
53%
MarseiLes ... ........... 25 52% Oporto ........ .....
Bonnie tux . . ........• ltio Janeiro .....
Fiankfort•on Z. laine •• .. 119% Buenos Ayre5........
Berlin •••• ••
Vienna...... .—, .• .... 12 12 i Philadelphia .... ....
I.? 44 , PRICES OF suLucz, PER oz.
; Foreign Gold in BArse3 17 9
Petersburg .. • - , .......
Trieste.• •• .• II •w.•• • . • •
Dollars 0 0 0
. 41,7.' i Portugalr Gold Coin .. 0 0 0
C5O 3 exlean....
. •
I New Dollars ...... 0 0 0
/ Silver in bars .....0 0 0
5evi11e................. --
Barcelona rel.!: na: . ..
..
: ..".. :: . ..

The Duke of Devonshire has not gone to Catsworth
as stated. " 'I 'he noble duke, on quitting his mrine re3l-
dance at ic.el rap Town, proceeded to his villa aChiswick,
where his V• 4 oe intends to reside durio g the Ammer.

NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE.

The Britannia, 120, on her return lately to Portsmouth
from the Black Sea, landed a fine brass field-piece, a
trophy from the memorable field of Alma. This is about
being removed from the Gun-wharf, Portsmouth, to
Woolwich, for national exhibition. It has already been
inspected by some hundreds of military men and civilians.
It is a 14-pounder, with carriage, driving limber, bucket,
sponge, rammer, worm, scraper, and ail appurtenances
complete. The top of the bucket also serves as a torn-
pion for the gun ; the axle•tree bears strong evidence of
an attempt to cut it through to prevent the enemy get-
ting it off the field when its capture became imminent,
and the pole was effectually cut away. The gun has an
elevating screw, worked by a winch through the limber,
and so simple as to " beat" anything of the kind in the
British gunnery working. The ranges of the gun are
inscribed on the carriage, which is made with the view
of mounting a 24-pounder if needed. It has " 1852"
marked on it.

An enormous quantity of shot, guns, and shell, rifles,
pistols, and common arms have been supplied from the
Portsea gun wharf for the equipment of the Baltic fleet.
and a very large supply of Colt's revolving pistols has
also been provided there for the same service.
The Indiana screw steam-transport left Portsmouth
harbour for Southampton yesterday morning to refit.
The Lightning, paddle-wheel tender to the Duke of
Wellington, left Portsmouth yesterday for the Baltic.
The Grinder new steam gun-boat got up steam in the
factory basin at Portsmouth yesterday, to test *le work-
ing of her engines, which is reported as satisfactory. The
Retribution, 28, paddle-frigate, Captain Fisher, flag of
Rear-Admiral Bayne will be ready to leave the steam-
basin at Portsmouth this day. The Malacca, 17, Capt.
Farquhar, will be ready to haul out of No. 2 Dock to
the fitting-basin in Portsmouth Dockyard, to-morrow ;
she has had some new ceating-skuttles cut. The Jasper,
new steam gun-boat, was to be taken into dock yester-
day, to be coppered and completed for service.
We learn by electric telegraph from Plymouth that
the hired screw-steam transport Adelaide, No.l3B,Capt.
A. W. Young, which left Constantinople March 24,
Malta 30th, and Gibraltar April 9, put into PI) moue'
abort of fuel yesterday, with sick and wounded soldiers
from the Crimea. Her passengers are-Colonel Bell, Ist
R yals ; Capt. Benson, 28th, and wife; Capt. Brendon,
R A., in charge of invalids ; Lieutenants Fitzpatrick,
28th, and Perese, 90th ; Staff Surgeon, J. Ewing, in
medical charge ; and Assistant-Surgeons Abbott and
Woodfall, and the second and third officers and boat-
swabu of tlxo 13,1tuUurgli, lust urtbr D.lt,
chik, Match 15. The invalids consis:, of one each of the
6th and 13th Dragoons, 11th Hussars, 17th Lancers,
Sappera and Miners, 4th, 14th, 34th, 42d, 93d, and
97th Regiments; two each of the let and 4th Dra-
goons, 49th, 57th, 77th, '79th, 90th, and 95th ; three
each of the Ist, Sib, 19th, 21st, 23d, 47th, and
l'aath • four each. of the 8 b, 28th, 30th, and 88th ;
live of the Scotch Fusilier Guards, 9th, 20th, 41st,50th,
634, and 68th ; six of the Coldstream Guards, 7th,
and 33(1; 7 of the Grenadier Guards, 8 of the 46th and
Rifle Brigade, 9 of the 38th, 10 of the ambulance corps,
and 18 Nei Royal Artillery, in all, 175 rank and file. Five
deaths have occurred on the voyage,-viz., March 27th,
Private Pardin, 38th ; April 4th, Private Newalls,
68th ; April 6th, Corporal Joy, 7th; April 7th, Private
Ewittson, Coldstrearns ; and April 10th, Private John-
' son, Royal Artillery. The Adelaide bas experienced
very stormy weather on the let of April in a heavy gale
from the westward ; the sick suffered severely by the
labouring of the ship, and several temporary berths,
fitted by Government on the troop deck, were broken.
Captain Young then bore up for and took shelter in
Cagliari, where the French line-of-battle ship Jena was
at anchor. At Malta were the steam-vessels Niagara,
Jason, Victoria, and Einu. At Gibraltar.-Her Ma-
jesty's steam-vessel Hecla, and the transport-ship War
Cloud, which arrived on the 9th, bound for Balaklava.
Spoke, Aprillo, in hat, 36.26 long. 7.29 W., the steamer
Bacchante, outward, and exchanged numbers with the
ship Raphael, steering S.E. Her Majesty's transport
ship Tyne, Captain Wellington, sailed yesterday evening
from Ply mouth for Ascension, St. Helena, and the Cape
of Good Hope. The hired transport Wide-awake, No.
38, Captain Moon, with a troop of the 11th Hussars on
board, went from Hamoaze into Plymouth Sound yester-
day evening, and is appointed to sail to-day for Ba'a-
klava. 204 of the drivers and others of the Land Trans-
port Corps embarked yesterday, in Plymouth Sound, on
board the hired transport Fleetwood, No. 35, bound for
Balaklava..

The screw steamgun vessel Teazer, Lieut. Commander
Nicholas, from Woolwich, arrived in Plymouth Sound
on Sunday, and went into Barnpool on Monday to refit,
previous to sailing for the coast of Africa.
The screw steamship Cornwallis, 60, Captain W ellesley,
has taken in her shot and shell, and is appointed to sail
to-day from Plymouth for the Black Sea. .
The hired steamer Ironace, from London for Balaklava
and the sailing transport Sibella, No. 5, Captain S. Pizzy,
for the Black Sea, were off Plymouth on Sunday.
The Crane, 6, Commander Thomas Millar, from the
coast of Africa, last from Portsmouth, entered Plymouth
Sound yesterday morning. On the 3d of March, two
days after leaving Ascension, she fell in with the French
merchant-ship frmorigne, of Nantes, homeward bound,
from the East Indies, which bore down to her, and, after
ouimunicating, ranged alongside to leeward, lowered
her lofty sails, dipped her ensign, and fired a salute of
three guns, a compliment which was quickly and cheer-
hilly acknowledged by Captain Millar.
A detaohment.of the 69th Regiment arrived in Liver-
'pool yesterday afternoon from Chatham, and embarked
forthwith for Dublin in the steamer Prince. for the lin,
pose of forming a portion of the British reserve. The
regiment recently arrived from India. The men are at
present armed with the old musket, but the Minie will
be sublituted before they are despatched for the Crimea.
Toe Royal Mail Company's steam-ship Medway and
the General Screw Company's steamer Indiana have ar-
arrived at Southampton, having landed their invalided
troops at Portsmouth ; the former vessel on Monday
evening, and the latter yesterday morning. Both these
ships are to be at once prepared for the troop service,
the Indiana to be fitted for the conveyance of borses.
The following appointments have been made :
Master William Le Browne has been appointed to
command the sEolus frigate.
Surgeons—Henry J. Doraville to the Centaur ; Wm.
B. Baikie to the Victory.
Paymaster—James G. Thorne to the Conway.
Assistant-Paymaster J. S. Daniell to the Conway.
Assistant-Surgeon W. B. Edkins to the ./E.Aus.
The Sitka, a fine merchant vessel of 800 tons, taken
as a Russian prizs and brought to Woolwich, left yester-
day for Cherbourg with the Russian prisoners on board,
the authorities having ordered that she should be deli-
vered over to the French Government.
Lieutenant Temple, 29 non-commissioned officers and
gunsers of the Royal Artillery, with 9 women and 14
children, disembarked at Woolwich on Saturday, hay-
ing come home from St. Helena in the Russian prize
ship Zintaka. This detachment was on board the Polar
Star when she took fire at sea. There also came home
in her 1 sergeant, 12 seamen and marines, sick and
wounded, from Petropaulovski ; the sergeant received
a musket ball in his right breast, which passed through
him in a slanting direction, and came out at the left
shoulder bladebone. He is doing well.

MILITIA.
Yesterday morning, at a general muster of the City
of London Reoiment of Militia, a guard of honour, in-
cluding the flank (Gnnadier and Light Companies,
numbering 250 well disciplined men) was told off to
escort his Imperial Majesty the Emperor of the French
on Thursday next, when he visits the Guildhall ; a por-
tion of the guard will be posted at Temple-bar, a detach-
ment will proceed with the cortege to the municipal
palace, and the remainder wilt line the Guildhall-yard
from Gresham-street. It is now uncertain when the
regiment will take garrison duty.
Since the Ist of the month 92 volunteers have joined
the West Essex Militia Corps, which requires 259 men
(inclusive of those disembodied) to make up the comple-
ment-843. During the past week the men have re-
ceived their knapsacks, and are now occasionally drilled
in heavy marching order, so as to be in readiness for
duty elsewhere.

The men of the West Kent Light Infantry Militia,
who have availed themselves of the permission to return
to their homes, after completing 56 days' training, con-
tinue daily to return, for the purpose of being re-attested;
15 of the volunteers from the regiment, for the 9th Foot,
have arrived at their quarters in Limerick.