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( From a Supplement to last night's Gazette.)
WAR DEPARTMENT, MancH 24.
Lord Panmure has this day received a despatch and
its enclosures, of which the following are copies, ad-
dressed to his lordship, by Field-Marshal the Lord
Raglan, G.C.B.:—

Wilts&C.;omrst

ltWestn.

Before Sebastopol, March 10.
My Lord, —I hare really nothing to report to your
lordship this day.

I sm.happy, however, to`gbe able to inform you that
the weather is exceedingly fine ; and that I entertain
great hopes, derived from the reports of the Principal
Medical Officer, that the sick will materially benefit by
the improvement in the temperature.
Our advanced batteries are making considerable
progress.

Every effort is directed to the maintenance of the
camps in a healthy state, which, as the warm weather
approaches, becomes daily more important.
I inclose the return of casualties to the Bth instant.
I received on the eveninc, of the 6th instant, a tele-
graphic despatch from Lord John Russell, dated Berlin,
the 2d, announcing the death of the Emperor of Russia
at twelve o'clock on that day.
According to the information of deserters, the event
has not been promulgated.at Sebastopol.—I have, (tc.,
RAGLAN.

The Lord Paiimure, &c., &o.

Enclosure 1.

RETURN OF CASUALTIES FROM THE STH TO
BTH OF MARCH, 1855, INCLUSIVE.
Ist Regiment of Foot-1 rank and file killed
9th Foot-1 rank and file, wounded.
17th Foot—l rank and file, wounded.
30th Foot-1 rank and file, wounded.
34th Foot-1 serjeant, wounded.
Total—l rank and file, killed ; 1 serjeant, 3 rank
and file, wounded.
J. B. BUCKNALL ESTCOURT,
Adjutaat-General.

Enclosure 2.
NOMINAL RETURN OF NON-COMMISSIONED
OFFICERS AND PRIVATES KILLED FROM
sTri TO 8111 MARCH, INCLUSIVE,

KILLED.
6ru MARCH.
Ist Regiment of Foot.
Private Edward Garland.
J. B. BUCKNALL ESTCOURT,
Adjutant-General,

Enclosure 3.
NOMINAL RETURN OF NON-COMMISSIONED
OFFICERS AND PRIVATES WOUNDED
FROM STEE TO Bra MARCH, 1855, INCLU-
SIVE.

WOUNDED.
MARCH 5.
17th Regiment of Foot.
Corporal Thomas Swain, severely.
MARCH 6TII.
9th Regiment of Foot.
Private Peter Mulroney, slightly.
30th Regiment of Foot.
Private John Vernon, slightly.
MARCIE 7TH.
34th Regiment of Foot.
Sergeant B. Willett, slightly.
J. B. BUCKNALL ESTCOURT,
Adjutant• General.
STATE T BA D E.

From the Manchester Guardian of this day.)

MANCHESTER, March U.—During yesterday and to-
day the market has been less animated than it was on
Tuesday last, and the amount of business transacted has
been much tr.ore limited. The German :net-chants
continue to buy moderately, and in water twist'', they
have to pay the advanced price established at the
beginning of the week. For the home market, and
for India, there is but little demand, and cop and hank
mule yarns are quoted at former prices. The cloth mar-
ket continues somewhat depressed, although during the
week numerous considerable purchases have been mad..
Stocks of shirtings and other India fabrics are not so large
as they were a few weeks ago, but there has, thus far,
been no demand sufficient to encourage any improvement
in price. The Greek merchants have been less active
this week than during the past few months, and the
heavier classes of cloths, such as are bought for the Le-
vant markets, have been more difficult to sell. There
are, however, no stocks of them in the market, and
prices therefore remain very steady.
LEICESTER, March 23.—We have no improvement in
any branch to report. Worsted spinners are producing
carefully, the demand being very limited, and no altera-
tion in price.

into consideration, he had no doubt a very slight addition
to their number would enable the judges to go four:circuits
in the year instead of two circuits, as at present. With a
moderate increase of. the county court judges at the same
time, there might be, if not forty-two, at least twenty-six
criminal courts held once a fortnight in every county in
the coma try. He admitted that the expense would be great,
but there was a fund which might be made applicable to
this purpose. He had no doubt a great saving of expense
and a great improvement would be effected. The average
cost of each prisoner in Scotland was 131., the average cost
of each prisoner in England was 211., and he was most
anxious to make a fair proportion from the dietary, which
might be different in the two countries. After inquiry
into the subject, he found that only 21. was to be ascribed
to the difference ef diet. With respect to clothing, which
was dearer in Scotland, a prisoner had the option of wear-
ing his own or the prison clothing. In Scotland the prison
clothing was universally chosen, so that in Scotland the
clothing was dearer than in England. Again, in Scotland,
from the work which was done by the prisoners, the
average of 191., after allowing for the 21. from the diet,
was reduced to an average of 131. It would therefore be
observed that a total saving of 90,0001. or 100,0001.-would
be gained by the adoption of this improvement; but the
incalculable benefit in the moral improvement of the pri-
soners, and in their moral character, must also be taken
into consideration. He must apologise to their lordships
for the time he had taken, but the subject was one of the
utmost importance. He would quote the opinion of Sir
Matthew Hale, who, as the result of his experience and
long reflection on the subject of I,gal defects cud Jaw
amendments, had left, his opinion to the following effect :
"Thai, the amendment of the law ought to be done by
judicious and competent persons. Reforms must be done
some time or othor or they would be done by persons
actuate" by enmity to the profession, mistaken int ntions,
or for popular favour. Amendments ought to be made
in time by persons who knew their business, and much
evil would result unless the business was undertaken
by such hands. It would otherwise be too late, and it
would give occasion for the pretext that, as the lawyers
and judges would not make the reforms, they must be
done by other hands." If a person went on a travel
to indulge his curiosity in a distant country, and on
his return stated that he had found a people, not inn
the depths of barbarism, who had laws for the punishment
nf cr
exe ime, but who had no means of carrying those laws
into cution ; who left in the hands of persons most likely to abuse them, or not likely to perform their work
at all ; in this country which this person had explored,
he had also found that some thines were considered not
offences, and others which were not offences were most
severely punished, and that persons were imprisoned month
after month who were all the time innocent, and might all the
time be able to prove their innocence; that' in some parts
of this country the administration of the law was as per-
fect as it could be devised, whilst in all others it was as
wrong as it could be; if a person should say this, it would
hardly be believed that such a country could possibly ex-
ist on the face of the earth ; yet it would turn out that
this was only a faint and imperfect description of the
country in which their lordships were living. On the last
occasion on which he had addressed their lordships on this
subject he had told the late Lord Chief Justice that these
addresses were the testamentary acts of persons in their
situation ; but he little thought his words would then be
s© unhappily and so soon true. He (Lord Brougham)
deemed it his duty to bequeath these observations on these
most important subjects to their lordships and to the
country before he was called home, or before he sank, as
he was daily more and more tending, into the state of
feebleness incidental to old age. (Hear.) The noble and
learned lord concluded by moving his resolutions, stating
that it was the imperative duty of Government to direct
their attention to these highly important subjects.
The LORD CHANCELLOR said he could not follow his
noble and learned friend through the important subjects to
which ho bad so lucidly and ably callfd, attention, and if he
did not attempt to do so he trusted Oat his apology would
be that the only notice which his noble and learned friend
had given was his intention to call the attention of the
house to criminal procedure. Of course, on a subject so
vast, and involving such important considerations, it was
impossible he could be prepared to follow the able, lucid,
and long—although not too long—statement of his noble
friend. Hs (the Lord Chancellor) could only say that with
the great bulk of those observations he most entirely and
most heartily agreed. In what was the fittest and most
practicable remedy opinions might differ, and it would not
become him to offer off-hand any confident opinion. With
regard to some of the observations he must express his
entire concurrence. In the first place, the organisation of
the police throughout the country was a perfect anomaly,
and almost seemed to be contrived to secure impunity to
criminals. Government had turned their attention to the
subject, and last year the noble lord now at the head of
her Majesty's Government had brought in a bill for the
purpose. He (the Lord Chancellor) must express his re-
gret that the measure had not passed, whatever might be
the defects in it. He also trusted that some measure with-
out the defects of the bill of last session might be eventu-
ally adopted with regard to criminal prosecutors. He
agreed in the abstract that the existence of such functiona-
ries would be attended with great benefits, but when his
noble and learned friend spoke of a single public prosecu-
tor, ho (the Lord Chancellor) could hardly think that 500
would be sufficient to discharge the duties of such officers.
One or more would at least be required in all the large
towns and more important districts. He believed, how-
ever, that the wants of the country would require the power
of proceeding as was now done. It might be the relic of a
barbarous age, but ho could never believe that it would be
allowed that on great questions it should be left to any
officer of the Crown to say whether the offences should be
prosecuted or not. In the case of murder, for instance, the
institution of the coroner, which was a popular institution,
was a means by which the public always felt that they had
the power of bringing a delinquent to justice if the rnagis-
trates did not choose to do so. He must, therefore, guard
himself from assenting to the suggestion that the institu-
tion of public prosecutors would be a safeguard against
many of the e;ils which his noble and learned friend had
so ably exposed. In the case of a man committed for for-
gory, 'against whom a true bill was found, but a witness
was cot forthcoming, Le did not see how a public prosecu-
tor could remedy that, or that there was any remedy ex-
cept by keeping the witnesses in close confinement until
they were wanted. He believed that his noble and learned
friend would agree that this remedy would be worse than
the disease, but any witness who chose would °them ise
escape the public prosecutor just as ea,ily as he did at pre-
s,ut. With regard to the increase of the number of the
assizes and sessions, lie was much inclined to agree with
Lis noble friend, and to think that, to some extent, an in
crease might be not only desirable, but practicak.le. Here
again, however, it must be borne in mind that the ques-
tion was 'out a balance of the inconveniences, and as long
as they had trial by jury they Mould always find it ex-
tremely difficult in small counties to secure juries oftener
than at present.
Lord BROUGHAM made some observations with re-
spect to paid. juries.

or of some other regiments, have not been since sent in
that ship.
Mr. PEEL said he would answer the questions on
Monday.

THE MILITIA.
Colonel CLIFFORD asked the Secretary of Stmte for
the Home Department, whether in his opinion the act
of 12th May, 1854, had not deprived any militiaman,
whether enrolled before or since, of any right to claim
his discharge by reason of the embodiment of the mi-
litia, without the existing danger of invasion?
Sir G. GREY gave it as his opinion that the provi-
sions of the act of last session applied alike to militia.
men enrolled before as after the passing of the' act.
That, at least, was the opinion of the law officers of the
Crown.
BALA.KLAVA BURIAL GROUNDS.
Mr. G. DUNDAS asked the Under Secretary for
War if the Government had taken any steps with re-
gard to the state of the burial grounds in the neighbour.
hood of Balaklava, and the large quantity of decaying
and putrid substances in the vicinity, to counteract the
natural effects of so much offensive matter, and prevent
as far as possible the spreid of fever and disease 'I 'Also
if those composing the sanitary commission, recently
sent out to the Crimea, were indued with full powers to
adopt at once such means as may appear to them neces-
sary to secure the health of the troops ?
It PEEL said the attention of the commissioners had
been especially directed to that subject, and large quan.
tities of peat charcoal, and other disinfectant-3 were
about to be sent out to be placed at their disposal. The
commissioners bad the power referred to in the second
piestion.

TRADE WITH CHINA.
Mr. GREGSON asked the First Lord of the Trea.
Jury, with reference to the notification from the Board
Trade of the 12th instant, published in the London
Gazette of the 13th, on the subject of the coasting trade
in China, whether the coasting trade in China by
British ships was thereby extended beyond the five
ports named in the treaty of 1842 ; if so, whether British
ships might proceed at once under the local authority
from Amoy, without waiting for the sanction of the Im-
perial Government at Pekin ; and, whether goods sent
coastwise in British ships would be admitted al the same
duty as goods imported in Chinese vessels
Lord PALMERSTON said the permission had been
granted not by the imperial but by the local authority,
and he was unable to Fay whether it extended beyond
the five ports or not. He was unable to answer the
second question.
TOOLS FOR THE ARMY.
Mr. H. BAILLIE asked the Clerk of the Ordnance
whether any trenching tools of a superior description to
those originally sent out bad been forwarded to, the
army of the Crimea, or whether the Board of Ordnande
was still prepared to maintain that the tools originally
sent out were of the best description that could be ob-
tained in this country ?
Mr. MONSELL entered into a lengthened explana-
tion in reply to the question. The tools he said were
partly supplied by colonels of the regiments, and partly
by the Board of Ordnance. The tools used in
the Crimea were issued from Woolwich, and
were made after a pattern agreed on by a
board of general officers. Conflicting statements of the
quality of these tools had been made to the Ordnance,
and under those circumstanses an officer had been
sent to Woolwich to examine the tools about
to be despatched to the army. If they were found to
be bad in quality, of course the order for sending them
out would be countermanded ; but perhaps the hon.
gentleman would repeat his question on a future day.
Mr. ROEBUCK inquired if it was true that the tools
sent out were reported against by a commission ofgeieral
officers that met in the camp at Chobham ?
Mr. MONSELL had never heard of the commission,
but he would make inquiries about it.
•
MINES.
Mr. BELL asked the Attorney-General whether any
and what progress had been made towards a settlethent
of the rival claims of the Duchy of Cornwall and the
Woods and Forests to minerals below high-water mark?
Also, if any arrangement had been proposed by which
leases or licences can be granted pending the settlement
of those claims to parties desirous of working mines in
the disputed localities, or what prevented such an arrange•
ment being entered into ?
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said the dispute was
making progress towards settlement. Pending the dis-
pute, however, a bill would be brought in to enable the
Crown to grant leases.
THE SARDINIAN LOAN.
Mr. BOWYER asked the First Lord of the Treasury,
whether her Majesty's Government intended, previous
to bringing before Parliament the supplemental treaty,
by which her Majesty engages to lend two millions to
Sardinia, to lay befcre this house papers showing the
condition of the finances of that country ?
Lord PALMERSTON said he had no doubt that
Sardinia would be able to pay interest upon the sum of
2,000,0001., which England was about to lend to her,
but he could give no particular information as to the
condition of the finances of that State.
IRISH BILLS.
In reply to Mr. E. B. ROCHE,
Mr. HORSMAN stated he proposed to postpone the
Fairs and Markets (Ireland) Bill, and the Juries (Ire-
land) Bill, until after Easter. The Lunatic Asylum
;Ireland) Bill would be taken on Monday.
MILITIA BOUNTY.
Captain STUART asked the Secretary for War
wbethtr the remainder of the 61. bounty promised to all
militia recruits (on their enrolment) would be paid to
those men who bud lately been discharged, as married
inen with lar.ze families?

Mr. PEEL said the bounty was only paid for six
years' servipe.

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CONVENTION WITH SARDINIA.
Lord RALmEasToN brought up a message from
the Crown, which was rPrA by the Speaker from the
chair. It stated that her "Majesty, in conjunction with
the Emperor of the French, had entered into a military
convention with the King of Sardinia, whereby her Ma-
jesty agreed to equip and keep up for the pur-
poses of the present war a f Tee of 15,000 men.
Her nbjesty had also entered into • a supple-
mental convention with the King of Sardinia, in
which she undertook to ask her Pa rliament to give
her powers to advance to his Majesty by way of loan a
sum of 1;000,000/. sterling, to be paid in two instalments
of 500,000/. each, one immediately after such power wag
obtained, and the other within six months afterwardc.
In the event of the war continuing, her Majesty
further undertook to recommend to her Parlia-
ment to allow an additional 1,000,0001. to
be advanced to his Majesty the King of
Sardinia within twelve months after the first loan—his

The LORI) CHANCELLOR—There were once paid
juries in the Exchequer Court, and the measure which
abolished them was most popular. He entirely agreed
that there were groat grievances, but unless they had a
court constantly sitting to dispose of the cases as they
arose, there must always be delay. It was a case of tho
balance of how much; but he was prepared to say that
Government ought to take into consideration, and would
no doubt take into consideration, the question whether
there should be additional assizes and sessions. He trusted
that it would not be supposed that he was answering or
commenting upon the observations of his noble friend, for
he felt that he could only discharge the last most imper-
fectly. He could only express his general concurrence in
the observations of his noble and learned friend, and in the
truth of his proposition that something ought to be done
in the matter.

Majesty undertaking to pay interest at the rate of 4 per
cent. per annum upon both loans, 1 per cent. of which
to be treated as a sinking fund. Her Majesty concluded.
her most gracious message by declaring that she relied
upon the zeal of her most faithful Commons to
enable her to make good the engagement which
she had contracted with his Majesty the King of Sart.
dinia.

After a few remarks from Lord BROUGHAM the subjec.
was allowed to drop, and
Their lordships adjourned at twenty minutes past seven

On the motion of Lord PALMS RSTON it was agreed
that the message should be taken into consideration on
Monday next.

THE FAST-DAY SERMON.
On the motion of Lord PALMERSTON, seconded by Mr,
DISRAELI, it was agreed that the tha*ks of the house
should be presented to the Rev. Mr. Melville fur the

HOUSE OF COMMONS—YESTERDAY.
The SPEAKER took the chair at four o'clock.
PRIVATE BUSINESS.
The following bills were read a third time, and passed:
--Brighton Improvement Commissioners and Municipal
Corporation ; Folkestone Water ; lloarwitliy Bridge ;
Lands Improvement Company ; Ratcliff Gas ; Surrey
Gag.

able sermon which he preached before the house in St.
Margaret's Church, on Wednesday, and that the ser-
mon should be printed and circulated amongst mem-
bers.

the Rotherham Gas and the Stalybridge Gas Bills
were considered, and ordered to be real a third time.
The Medical, Invalid, and General Life Assurance
Society (Stamp Duty on Memorials), was reported.
The West London and Crystal Palace and Westmin-
ster Terminus Railways, and the Southampton Paving
Trust, St. Pancras Bills were read a second time, and
ordered to be committed.
NEW WRIT.
On the motion of Mr. HAYTER, a new writ was
ordered for the borough of Wilton, in the room of Mr.
A'Court, who had accepted the office of Income-tax
Commissioner.

PETITIONS.
Mr. WILCOX presented a, petition from the corpo-
ration of Southampton, against certain clauses in the
Public Health Bill.

Mr. HADFIELD presented a petition from the cor-
poration of Sheffield, praying for the repeal of the news-
paper stamp.

bir J. WALMSLEY presented a petition from
Brentford, praying for the opening of the British
Museum and National Gallery on Sandays.
Sir J. PAXTON presented a petition from Coventry,
praying for the repeal of the Beer Act of last session ;
also a petition from the Licensed Victuallers of the
same place against throwing open their trade.
Mr. GIBSON presented a petition from the National
Temperance Society praying for the repeal of the news-
paper stamp.
Mr. K. SEYMER presented a petition from Wilt-
shire praying that public-houses may be closed the entire
of Sundays.