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London, England, 1855-07-04 00:00:00

THIRD READII,C67§-

The following bills were sverally read 3 third time
and passed Hartlepool Pier and Part.; Er 3 y'4s E ;tate;
Fife and Kinr 083.-Railway ; Qai,iight and Coke
.Corn7any ;Ga teshead Quay; ..iboyne, Ballatqr, Braetwar,
anal- Cairn well Road.

`The Earl of HARDWICKE gave notice, that on
Thursday ner t he should call the attention of their
lordships to ti Le state of education on board her Ma.
jesty's navy.
REF :1C31C.,,1TS 'WORSHIP BILL.
The Earl of SEIAFTESBURY said, on the motion
for the third rc ,ading of this bill, which had been referred
to a select com tnittee, he should move that the bill be
read a third tir to that (lay three months.
Lord PORI SIAN Presented a petition from the
tenant farmers of the county of Dorset, complaining of
the larp• expen d'ture of county rates.
The Earl of EIA.RDWICKE was understood to say
that the large e gpenditure was unavoidable.
THE LATE LORD RAGLAN.
The clerk at t be table having read her MajegtfA most
gracious inessag

- Lord PAN/ LURE, in rising to xneve that her
Majesty's most gracious message be now taken into
consideration, said he trusted the house would
bear with him vs bile he discharged his most painful duty.
It was not only the loss of those that had fallen in the
field, but also of ethos° who had fallen victims to disease,
that the coun try had to lament. They were
now called up o a to record the national feeling
ofsorrow learnini ;that an illustrious individualhad been
taken from them, in whom the army had the greatest
confidence. It had' Teased God to remove by disease Lord
Raglan from the he ad of the army in the Crimea ; and it
was a singular fact that the same calamity should have
fallen upon both of those commanders who had been
placed at the head of the French and Englisharmies. France
had to lament St. Ar naud, and England to mourn for her
Raglan. It was scarcely necessary for him to remind
their lordships of th e great services Lord Raglan had
'rendered to his country. At an early age he embraced the
profession of arms. In 1807 he was selected and associated
with the late Duke of Wellington, and was placed on the
staff of that great corm:wander upon the occasion of the
expedition to Portugal. The Duke of Wellington
select sa Lord Fitzroy Somerset to be attached to
his staff, and an intimacy continued from 1807 to
1552, to the termination of the Duke of Wellington's
life, during which the noble duke reposed the greatest
confidence in Lord Raglan. There was not one great
engagement in which the Duke of Wellington had been
engaged, in which Lord Raglan had not to bear a con-
spicuous part. At Waterloo, Lord Raglan lost
his arm, and at the close of the war Lord
Raglan, instead of retiring into private life, still
continued his services to his country. From the
close of the last war until the very moment of his la-
mented death his unceasing exertions were still given to
the cause of his country. If there was one point more
conspicuous in the services of Lord Raglan than
another, it was that he had established the alliance
and the most friendly relations between the
armies of the two countries -- an alliance
which it was hoped would never be shaken. Of his
amiability he could himselfspeak, for it had been his hap.
piness to have been associated with him for six years.
The noble lord having observed that Lord Raglan had
been called upon to take the command of that army at
a time when there was not a man that could do it better,
delivered into the hands of the Lord Chancellor the re-
ply to her Majesty's most gracious message.
The LORD CHANCELLOR then read the reply,
which was an echo of the royal message.
The Earl of DERBY passed a brilliant eulogimin
on the deceased commander, dwelling in most forcible
language upon the more prominent features in the career
of the noble lord. He observed that the military services
of Lord Raglan, his long connection with the most illus-
trious captain of our day, whose confidence and friend-
ship he possessed to an extraordinary degree, the services
which he performed in the civil administration of the
army—above all, the disinterested and noble manner
in which, at the call of duty, he again girded on his
sword, and the manner in which, at the head of his
army, he has performed the most arduous and the most
important duties, entitle hint hardly less than his great
master and chief, to the reaped and veneration of the
country at large.
Lord HARDINGE, after expressing his deep regret
at the loss of his noble friend, with whom he had been
connected nearly fifty years in the service of his country,
said, whilst regretting the misfortune which the country
had sustained in the loss of Lord Raglan, he hoped
that a worthy successor would be found, and that the
operations of the campaign would be conducted to a
successful issue.
The Duke of CAMBRIDGE, having been associated
with his noble and illustrious friend, trusted their lord-
ships would permit him, as a humble member of the
army which Lord Raglan so ably commanded, to say
that he cordially agreed with what had fallen from his
noble friend the Minister at War, and did not think
that, in the whole army or in this country, there could
be found one individual who could have conducted him-
self in a manner so well calculated to combine the pro-
ceedings of the allied armies, and to insure that intimate
association which was so absolutely necessary to success.
The Earl of CARDIGAN also paid a brief tribute to
the memory of his deceased commander.
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After a few observations from the Earl of GALLOWAT
and the Duke of BEAUTORT,

Earl GRANVILLE said that her Majesty's Govern-
ment rejoiced at the unanimity of feeling which had been
shown by their lordships on this most sad occasion—a,
feeling which he believed to be a faithful echo of the,
regret experienced by every class of the community. In
Lord flagletn's confidential letters to the day of his death
there was not one angry word against the persons who
made charges against him, and in one of his last letters/
he expressed a strong belief that of all who had thought
it their duty to complain of his conduct, there was not
one single person who was actuated by any feeling of
towards him. Now, there did not exist in the
War-office one single despatch bringing the slightest ac-
cusation of any sort or kind against our brave and gal-
lant allies, or describing a single transaction which
could give colour to any imputation against them.
There was not a man who did not feel regret that
Lord Raglan, who had not only an English but a
European character, as being the bravest and
gentlest, one of the most chivalrous and one of the
best men that ever sacrificed his life in his country's
cause, should be taken from us at this moment of difficulty.
The Earl of ELLESMERE and Lord BROUGHAM having
expressed their cordial concurrence,
The motion ,was unanimously agreed to, and their
lordships adjourned.

HOUSE OF COMMONS—(YESTERDAY.)
The SPEAKER took the chair at six o'clock.
OPENING OF THE CRYSTAL PALACE ON
SUNDAY.

Sir J. V. SHELLEY gave notice that, early next
session, he should bring in a bill to legalise the opening
of the Crystal Palac© on Sunday. (Hear.)
THE DECORATION OF THE BATH.

Admiral WALCOTT asked the First Lord of the Trea-
sury whether it was intended to recommend the issue
of the existing decorations of the Bath, without refer-
ence to the projected order of merit, contemporaneously
with the eminent services which deserved them, espe-
cially at a time when gallant officers, some, indeed,
already formally recommended for distinction, were in
hourly exposure to loss of life ; and, therefore, in the
case of death, whether it would not be proper to date
back the Gazette which rewards the survivors, in order
to include the names of the fallen, as a national
acknowledgment of the merit of these who died nobly
for their country, and a sacred heirloom of their fa-
milies. (Hear.)
Lord PALMERSTON said that the Order of the
Bath would be issued without reference to the Order of
Merit ; and with regard to those officers who had been
recommended to receive the order, but who bad been pre-
vented by death from receiving the honour, their names
would be published in due course, in order that the pub.
lication might grace their memory. (gear')
THE HYDE-PARK DEMONSTRATION.
In reply to Mr. ROEBUCK, who called the
attention of the Home Secretary to the factthat the d
in connection wi h
pri-
soners who had been apprehende
this affair had been confined in prison for some time
before being brought up for examination,
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intoS
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prisoners were to be defended by F,o_ at the
EAGJNIv:vN. MESSAGE
Crown should be represented in a feln_lar ,uanner.
DEATH OFFELOOMRDTRR
house, for the purpose of talc:nng.i.nto consideration her
Majesty's gracious messap Fe the subject of making
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provision forthowidow a
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heirs of the late Lord Raglan.
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deration the groat and brilliant services performed by the
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taken place in the Crimea,
in recognition of these and Lis other
didogutshed merits, to confer some mark of her favour
usainrsabebell,einsatituted
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ußaegnlryan,Luoprdonnaghie.
'3 and. the next surviving heir male of the body of the
said Richard Henry Lord Raglan, recommends the Hone,
of Commons to concur in such measures as may be neces-
"rY for the accomplishment of this purpose. " V.R."
Lord PALMERSTON then rose, amid the profound
silence of the house, and said—l rise to perform one of
the most painful duties which can devolve upon a Mi-
nister of the Crown, but which, at the same time, is one
not devoid of feelings of consolation, and it is one which
I am sure, will at all times secure the sympathy of the
house, and will be certain to be accompanied by the
sanction and approbationtivgilee ofof
thethe peoplecotm of
a freetry.(Che country
(Cheers.) It
is, sir, the great privilege
to share with their Sovereign in the manifestation of
those feelings of gratitude and the award of those ac-
knowledernents which are due to those heroic men who
devote themselves to the military and naval service of
the country, and who in foreign fields or distant seas
sustain the honour and dignity and maintain the into.
rests of their Sovereign and their country. (Cheers,
t Other nation' Who are.not eo fortunate in Oak coxed
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