The Sun.
London, England, 1855-03-27 00:00:00

LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, MARCH 27, 1855.

SPIRIT OP THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

INACTIVITY OF THE ALLIED GENERALS.

(From the Times of this day.)
The last accounts from the Crimea allow us to entertain a
belief that the condition of the troops is materially improved.
The fire of the Russian batteries on the heights of Balaklava
opened on the 13th, but without effect, for Elie enemy was
routed by the British troops, assisted by a French division ;
and four days later, when the Russians attacked the whole
line of the allies, they were driven back with great loss, and
victory thus marks the opening of the second campaign. We
accept for all they are worth these indications of au improve-
ment in the aspect of our affairs, and we heartily wish that
we could extend these encouraging prognostications to all the
circumstances of our present military position. But neither
the last public despatches from the allied camps nor the private
communications we receive from numerous authentic sources

are of a nature to heighten our confidence, and we cannot but
regard with considerable anxiety the inert haracter of our ope-
rations at a moment which appears to us to be in the highest
degree critical. The object of exposing the troops of the
allied armies to the hardships of a winter passed among the
bleak hills and deep ravines before Sebastopol was to enable
them to take effectual advantage of the first return of the dry
season, and especially of that interval during which the Rus-
sians must still be cut off from their reinforcements. We are
unwilling to prejudge the conduct of the allied Generals; we
hope that the successful engagement of the 17th of March
may speedily be followed by more decisive results ; but it is
impossible not to remark that of late all the originality and
enterprise shown in these operations has been on the side of
the Russians, while the French and English armies seem con-
demned by their commanders to remain on the defensive

within their lines. Yet their numbers are reported to be not
far short of 120,000 men—a force amply sufficient to under-
take with success two or three distinct operations of war upon
a scene of action so contracted as the south of the Crimea, in
presence of an enemy not now superior iu numbers, while we
ourselves have abundant means of transport to every part
of the coast. The army at Eupatoria might be so rein-
forced as to enable it to take the field ; an expedition might
be detached on Kaffa, so as to take the Russian positions in
the rear, and destroy their magazines ; a strong reconnais-
sance might advance to the Belbek, or force the passes of
Baidar ; or, lastly, the whole strength of the armies might be
concentrated on the siege. It would be presumptuous in us
to attempt to determine which of these courses all the cir-
cumstances of the case render expedient, but we speak from
high military authority when we say that one or more of these
operations must be attempted, unless we are prepared for a
termination of this enterprise hardly less inglorious than that
of the Athenians against Syracuse. The same want of com-
mand which was so fatally perceptible in the arrangements
for the winter encampment of the army, and in all that re-
lated to the stores, the hospitals, and the port of Balaklava,
now begins to manifest itself in the preparations of the army
for the field; and we learn that our gallant allies, whose
troops are numerous and well prepared for war, view with
great surprise and some, discouragement the inactivity of
their own chief.

The prosecution of the siege has for many months been
regarded, with reason, as the primary duty of the army. Tho
approaches directed against the southern side of the town of
Sebastopol have been pushed forward with infinite labour and
perseverance ; batteries have been constructed and armed
with new guns of heavy calibre ; and an immense supply of
projectiles and ammunition hail been transported from the
harbours to the front of the lines. The day on which the fire
of the besieging armies would re-open on the place has been
repeatedly named and impatiently expected. Yet it would
seem that some doubts are still entertained of the result of
this attack, and still graver uncertainty prevails as to the pos-
sibility of the assault by which it was to be followed. The
Russians, on the other side, have displayed extraordinary
energy and skill in extending the defences of the place. No
sooner was one portion of their works menaced by a battery,
though as yet unmasked, than they found means to establish
another redoubt so as to command our guns. The seizure
and fortification of the right bank of the Careening Harbour
is described as an act of singular boldness and judgment on
the part of the enemy, for the troops which hold that
position are separated from their base of operations by
a deep and impassable ravine; yet the attempt to dis-
lodge them from it was unsuccessful, that attempt was
not repeated, and, as this point remains in the hands of the
Russians, it materially interferes with the projected attack on
the Malakhoff Tower Lord Raglan writes that the besieged
forces are bringing forward their advanced works with great
activity, and that the roads on the northern side of the place
are covered with stores of food and munitions of war, which
he cannot intercept. Yet we hear of no attempt from the 23d
of February to the 10th of March to check these formidable
demonstrations, and to avail ourselves of the superiority of
the allied armies. We can only infer that in the opinion of
the council of war the dangers of such an operation outweigh
its probable advantages.
But if the siege operations, properly so called, are reduced
to this inactive condition, the greater is the motive to resort
to other means of attack. If our lines are extensive and diffi-
cult to guard, the concentric lines occupied by the Russians
b you& our outposts must be still more so, and General
Osten-Sacken is, moreover, compelled to watch with a consi-
derable part of his army the intrenched position of the Turks
at Eupatoria. Moreover, we now learn that the attack on
Balaklava and our lines has failed. It is stated, pro-
bably with truth, that fresh Russian divisions are attempting
to advance from the Dnieper to Perekop, but that they have
been stopped iu their march, by the melting of the snow on
the steppes they have to traverse. The country iu the Cri-
mea is, on the contrary, already favourable to the movement
of armies, and wo have reason to believe that, without mate-
rially weakening the forces required to protect the works, it
would be practicable for General l3osquet to operate with
30,000 men on the Belbek, while Sir Cotta Campbell might
with a coLnurablo force towards the mot,.
moral condition of the army, its confidence in its chiefs, and
in the ultimate success of the enterprise, would be powerfully
revived by a movement of this nature, and the military rea-
sons must be extreme'y strong which as yet deter the gene-
rals from attempting it. Our political interests at the pre-
sent juncture equally demand some further proof of the un-
abated power of the army to enforce the terms wo are
endeavouring to dictate at Vienna, for the language of our
diplomacy and the policy of other nations are of course mate-
rially affected by the attitude of onr troops. The troops only
require to be led against the enemy. Their true safety lies
in their power of attack, and in the hands of a general of
enterprising and original genius the fate of Sebastopol would
be determined outside its walls.

THE NEWSPAPER STAMP BILL.
( From the Times of this day. )
It is the fate of every question discussed in the House of
Commons, however simple it may be, however practical, to
branch into numerous issues. Every member has his own
view, which may or may not be a purely theoretical or fanci-
ful way of treating the subject. Mr. Deedes selected his
financial bearings of the Newspaper Stamp Bill, and he im-
plored the house to pause before it sacrificed 200,0001. a-year
without being sure of an equivalent. Certainly, that is a
large sum of money. On Mr. Lindsay's estimate it is a tenth
of what has been wasted in the idle detentions and frivolous
use of the transports engaged since the beginning of the war.
But, after all, the fate of this bill had to be decided on grounds
more peculiar to itself, for the real question is how tb do jus-
tice to the Press, how to encourage its freedom and enter-
prises, and how to render it the greatest possible convenience
to the public. It was natural that we should ourselves take
a simple view of the matter, and that we should recommend
hon. members to regard it as plainly and practically as they
could before they finally settled the position of the Press, the
most public-spirited and the best managed institution in these
realms. Lot hon. members take the bill as it stands, let them
suppose it to be the law of the laud, and then fellow its ope-
ration,lwe will not say upon ourselves, but upon every paper
whatever that does its work well, and thereby attains a cer-
tain amount of success, and they will see that as soon as the
paper has succeeded so far as to give more news and to con-
tain more advertisements than its contemporaries, it is
immediately weighted and hindered in the competition,
in order to give all the " torpids" and " slow coaches,"
and broken-winded jades a better chance with it. That
lb the case as the law now stands, and it is no slight
argument against the bill in its present state that,
while it pretends to a permanent settlement of the
question, it perpetuates an injustice. But it will be seen fur-
ther, that in the event of the London newspapers finding it
necessary to throw off the weight, by choosing the alternative
of an unstamped issue, which is likely enough, they will im-
mediately be exposed to the most extensive depredations.
Their bulk will exclude them from the post, while the light-
fingered and light-bodied gentry that live upon them win pass
at small cost through the post, besides having a large provin-
cial circulation independent of it. The moment the Times
or the Morning Herald arrives at the banks of the Mersey
or the Clyde, all its precious news, its costly reports, and
priceless correspondence from the seat of war, will be seized
by the Manchester Pickpocket, the Bury Appropriator, the
Birmingham Plunderer, the Liverpool Thief, the Glasgow
Burglar, the Paisley Pilferer, or the Edinburgh Pirate,
and the industrious population of 'the_ north will bask in the

light of satollites borrow all our light and give none in
Icturn. Can any menruer or a.. —0 -0.7....aux0ns deny-
that this is the certain result of the bill in its prmnt form ?
Cau any member say that any London newspaper could stand
such continual depredations upon its substance and curtail-
ment of its circulation ? Can any member say that we are
not justified in requiring sueh a measure to be considerably
qualified ?
The question, then, as we take it, concerns the very prac-
ticability of a great newspaper, which by dint of exertion,
expenditure, organisation, and a lengthened experience, shall
command the very first intelligence from all parts of the
world, and offer such comments upon it as the
public nay think it worth while to read. That there
should be a newspaper or newspapers of this class
is certainly more important to the public than even the
200,000/. a year which was the object of Mr. Deedes' and Sir
F. Baring's patriotic solicitudes. We think it, too, rather
more important than that the Attorney-General should be re-
leased from the trouble of ascertaining what constitutes a
newspaper. Sir B. Lytton has earned our thanks by the very
handsome testimony he has given to the conduct of this paper,
and to the integrity, candour, and courage of its writers. He
avows that he would desire no more lasting memorial of the
existing British civilisation than a file of the Times. But,
perhaps, he has presumed too much on the supposed impossi-
bility of suppressing public opinion. After all, public opi-
nion is not a plant of universal growth. It does not flourish
in all climes, and has not long flourished in this. It has been
much more hardy since the appearance of our first number,
or, to speak in general terms, since the commencement of
this century; and nobody can pretend to say that public opi-
nion, as it now exists in this country, is not intimately asso-
ciated with the existence and prosperity of its most powerful
organs. It is all very well to suppose the existence of a
thing as a sort of abstract idea in the mind of the people, or
as a general feeling, apart from any acts or institutions. But
it might so happen that when hon. members bad on the one
hand, shut the Times out of the post, and on the other ex-
posed their Gulliver, bound hand and foot, to the attacks of
some thousand Lilliputian depredators, they might some day
miss the stern, independent, and 'incorruptible organ of

their opinions. Among a crowd of newspapers thoroughly
representing with infallible and appreciable accuracy the
opinion of Lord This or the Duke of That, of the Country
Gentlemen or the Manufacturers, of the Independents
or the Latter-day Saints, of the Manchester Econo-
mists or the Crotchet-work Knitters, they might live
to ask in vain for a journal that represented no school, and
that did not cultivate a mock consistency by perpetually
dishing up afresh the articles of the previous day.
As if to illustrate the animus with which this subject is ap-
proached in some quarters of the house, there were two dis-
tinct efforts made last night to divest the press of its anony-
mous character, Sir B. Iltton is fvr adopting the cuipplo

of France, by compelling a signature to every article or other
communication to a newspaper. He cannot have given ten
atinutes to the previous question—what an article in a news-
paper really is. It is necessarily more or less the result of
private discussion, in which people become acquainted with
one another's views, and, to a certain extent, modify the ex-
pression of their own, with a view to a combined and, as
much as possible, harmonious result. The name of Thomp-
son or Smith at the fleet of au article which the said Thomp-
son or Smith would write probably in a very different style,
or more probably would not publish at all, but for their com-
bination in a newspaper, would convey an untruth. Of
course, when M. Kossuth, or Sir B. Lytton, or Mr: Douglas
Jerrold, or anybody else, gives his name as the editor and
writer, we understand it to be a weekly pamphlet or speech,
and we read it accordingly as we listen to our Sunday ser-
mon. In the case of the ordinary British newspaper it is
ssaciently understood that there is a certain centre of com-
munication open to all parties, that letters of advice and in-
formation pour in upon the editor, that ho is the
of communication to the writers, who have to thank him
for suggestions which he, under these circumstances,
alone can give, and that, at least, they avoid so much
singularity or personality of opinion as to impair the
general effect, and shut out the other contributors. Sir B.
Lytton wishes to destroy this system, which, indeed, is the
essence of British journalism, and substitute the egotistical
speculations of certain known, or more probably unknown,
writers. Mr. Drummond items to aim at the same conclu-
sion, when he very unwarrantably obtrudes on the house
some names which he may possibly have heard or read some-
where in some gossipping correspondence as connected with
this paper. Mr. Drummond happily is not himself a repre-
sentative of public opinion, or even common sense, though he
may be of a certain eccentric humour and mysterious spiri-
tuality ; so his suggestions on this point and his opinions as
to the position of the British press will be received only at
their proper value. The house, however, will do well to ob-
serve that there does exist-a desire in some quarters to de-
stroy newspapers as organs of public opinion, and degrade
them into the vehicles of Messrs, A. B. and C. It knows too
well the necessity of a free pthlic opinion to its own existence
to sacrifice that foundation to the indulgence of an idle curi-
osity. , - , - • ----

fired off. In addition to these monster pieces she will carry
two long guns or pivots on the upper deck, 95 cwt. each, or
681 b. shot, and two howitzers.

APPOINTMENTS.

Lieutenants.—James W. Vaughan (1 '
848) recently serving
in the Britannia, 120, flag-ship in the Black Sea, to the James
Watt, 91, screw, at Portsmouth ; Joseph H. Marryatt (1852),
to the Hawke, 60, screw, at Sheerness, for service in the
Clinker, tender; Henry J. Grant (1846), from the Cressy, to
the Colossus, 80, screw, at Portsmouth, for service in the
Dapper, tender ; Francis T. Han-Alton (1848), from the St.
George, to the Pembroke, 60, screw, at Spithead, for service,
in the-Grinder, tender; William H. Truscott (1853), from
the Powerful, to. the Hastings, 60, screw, at Spithead, for
service in the jasper, tender.
Assistant Fiurgeon.—Henry G. Ruby (1854) has been con-
firmed in tW Bulldog, 6, steam-sloop, at Devonport.
Clerks.---/Henry T. Read (1850), from the Neptune, to the
Caesar, 91, screw, at Devonport ; lirolphus D. Albutauson,
to the Duke of Wellington, 131, flag-ship, at Portsmouth;
Edward A. Burnston, to the Majestic, 81, screw, at Sheerness.
Acting Clerk.—Allen F. Gain, to tho Geyser, 6, steam-
sloop, at Portsmouth.

Temporary Clerk.—W. R. Watson, to the Exmouth, 90,
screw, at Devonport.
Naval Cadet.—E. C. Drummond, to tho James Watt.

MILITARY.

It is not intended for the present to send out the detach-
ments that have been told off from the Household Brigade
of Infantry to reinforce the service battalions in the Crimea.
Those men belonging to the Ist battalion of the Grenadier
Guards who volunteered for active service will, until re-
quired, do garrison duty at the Tower and Royal Mint, and
the men belonging to the Coldstreams and Scots Fusiliers
will continue to do the duty at the Royal Palace and West-
end. Detachments for infantry regiments of the line before
Sebastopol will be the first to embark for the seat of war,
viz.:—

Ist Royals (Ist battalion,)
3d Buffs,
7th Royal Fusiliers,
-18th Royal Irish,
19th Foot,
21st Royal North British Fusiliers,
23d Royal Welsh Fusiliers,
33d (Duke of Wellington's Own),
42d Highlanders,
50th Foot,
55th Foot,
68th Durham Light Infantry (2d battalion,)
71st Highlanders (2d battalion,)
68th Connaught Rangers,
93d Highlanders, and the Ist and 2d battalions of the Rifle
Brigade.

The following regiments will proceed to the Crimea as soon
as relieved by regiments of Militia, viz. :-
2d Battalion Ist Royals, from Cephalonia.
31st Foot, from Corfu.
48th ditto, from Corfu.
66th ditto, from Gibraltar.
72d Light Infantry, from Malta.
82d Foot, from Corfu.
92d ditto, from Gibraltar.

The 94th 'Foot is to be held in readiness for embarkation.
The cavalry draughts for the Crimea will proceed during
the ensuing month. It is estimated that the horse transports
already in the service, exclusive of those employed in the con-
veyance of artillery, aro capable of transporting 3,000 horses
and nearly 5,000 men.

The invalids from the seat of war who arrived at Ports-
mouth last week in the Alps steamer were located in the old
hospital until yesterday, when they left for Chatham invalid
depot, with the exception of six, who were taken to the gar-
rison new hospital.

Assistant-Surgeon W. Mac Andrew, M.D., from the 96th
Foot, has been promoted as Staff-Surgeon of the second class,
vice Delmego, promoted.

PARLIAMENTARY DIVISION.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.—MARcit 26.
NEWSPAPER STAMP DUTIES BILL.

Motion made, and question proposed, " That the bill b•
new read a second time." Amendment proposed, to
leave out the word " now," and at the end of the ques-
tion to add the words " upon Monday the 30th day of
April next." Question put, "That the word now'
stand part of the question."—The house divided : Ayes
215, Noes 161.

AYES-215.
Acton, J. Freestun, Col. O'Brien, P.
Adair, 11. Gardner, R. O'Connell, D.
Adair, It. Gibson, T Oliveira, B.
Alcock, T. Gladstone, W. Osborne, R.
Anderson, Sir J. Glyn, G. Ossulston, Lard
Barnes, Et. Hon. 31. Gordon, A. Paget, Lord A.
Ball, J. , Gower, F. Palmerston, Visct.
Barnes, T Graham , Sir J. Pecliell, Sir G.
Baxter, W. Greenal, G. Peel, Sir R.
Beaumont, W. Greene, John Peel, F.
Bell, J. Grcgson, S. Pellatt, A.
13ellew, T. Greville, Col. F. Percy, I.
Berkeley, Admiral Grey, Sir G. Perry, Sir T.
Berkeley, C. Grey, It. Phillimore, R. J.
Bethel!, Sir It. Grosvenor, Ld. R. Phinn, T.
Biggs, W. Grosvenor, Earl Pigott, F.
Bland, L. H. Hadfield, G. I'ilkington, J.
Bonhain-Carter,J Hall, Sir B. Is‘ 'lard-Urquhart, W.
Bouverie, lion. E. P. Hankey, T. Portman, W.
Bowyer, G. Bostic, Alex. Power, N.
Ready, J. Ilastie, Archd. Rice, Sir R.
Brand, 11. B. W. Readlam, T. Pritchard, J.
Bright, J. Heard, J. I:must:en, Sir J.
Tar AnVT.ll"rat X Rl2urdo. .1"
Brockman, E.D. Hervey, Lord A. Liearst°, 0.
Brotherton, J. Ileywood, J. Ricardo, S
Brown, 11. Heyworth, L. R cliardson, 3.
Bruce, Lord E. Ilig.lins, G. 0. Rob rtes, T.
Buehley, (len. Hogg, Sir J. W. Rothe, E.
P urke, Sir T. llorstrian, E. Itor!bue, J.
Byng, G• Howard, C. Russell, F. C.
Cardw,ll, E. llowaf d, Lord. Russell, F. W.
Cavendish, G. Hudson, G. Scholvilcifi, W.
Challi', T. Ilutchin,f, E. Sco'll, Capt. G.
Chaplin, W. Hutt, W. Scropt, G.
C hectli am. J. Ingham, R. Szally, V.
Clay, ,ir W., Bt. Jackson, W. heyrnour, 11.
Clifford, Col. 11. M. Johnstone, Sir J. Se3mour, W. D.
Clinton, Lord R. Keatiog, R. Shelley, Sir J.
Cobden, B. Kennedy, T. Sheridan, R.
Cockburn, Sir A. J. E. Keogh, W. Smith, J. B.
Cowaa, C. Kershaw, J. Smith, M.
Cowper, W. F. Kinnaird, A. Smith, R.
Craufurd, E. 11, J. Kirk, W. Stafford, Marquis
Crook, J. Lang ton, H. G. Stanley, Lord
Crossley, F. Laslett, W. Stephenson. R.
Currie, Raikes Layard, A. H. Stirling, W.
Dashwood, SrG. H. Lee, W. Strutt, E.
Davies, D. A. S. Lewis, Sir G. C. Swift, R.
Dent, J Locke, J. Tancred. H.
Da Vere, S. Lowe, It. Thompson, G.
Dillwyn, L. Luce, T. Thornely, T.
Druml tnrig, Vie. Lytton, Sir G. Thornhill, W.
Duff, G. Mackinnon, W. A. Trail!, G.
Dufl, J. 31`Cann, 3. -Uxbridge, Earl
Duffy, C. G. Macgregor, John Villiers, C.
Duke, Sir J. Maguire, J. Walmsley, Sir J.
Duncan, Viscount Mangles, R. D. Walter, J.
Duncan, G. Marjoribanks, D. Warner, .a
Dunclas, F. Matheson, A. Whatman, J.
Dunlop, A. Matheson, Sir J. Wickham, H. W.
Ebrington, Viscount MialLIE. Wilkinson, W.
Elliot, J. Milligan, R. Willcox, B.
Ewart, W. Milnes, It. Williams, W.
Fenwick, 11. Mitchell, T. Wilson, J.
Ferguson, J. Moles worth, Sir W. Winnington, Sir T.
Fitz Gerald, Sir J. 31onck, Viscount Wood, Sir C.
FtzGerald, J. 31on creiff, J. Wortley, 3. S.
Foley, J. Moo7e, G. Wyvill, 31.
Forster, C. Mastyn, T.
Forster, J. 31owatt, F. TELLERS
Fortescue, C. 3lurrough, J. Hayter, W.
Fox, W. North, F. 31ulgrave, Earl of

NOES-161.
Adderley, C. Frewen, C. Naas, Lord
Archdall, M. Fuller, A Newark, Viscount
Aftwright, G. Galwey, Sir W. Newdegate, C.
linge, W. Galway, Viscount. Newport, Vlsco t.
Bailey, Sir J. Gilpin, Col. H. North, Col. J.
Baillie, H. t*ladstone, Capt. J. Northcote, Sir S.
Ball. E. Gooch, Sir E. Oakes, J.
Bankes, Rt Hon G. Graham, Lord W. Packe, C.
Baring, T. Granby, Marquis o f Paklngton, Sir J.
Barrington, Viscount Greaves, E. Palmer, Robert
Barrow, W. Grogan, Edward Parker, R.
Bective, Earl Guinness, R. Peel, Gen.
Bennet, Capt P. Gurney, I. Pennant, Col. E.
Bentinck, G. Gwyn, H. Philipps, J.
Beresford, Rt. Hn. W. Hale, R. Robertson, P.
Blackburn, P. Raiford, Sir H. Rolt, P.
Brainley-Moore, J. Hanmer, Sir J. Rushout, Col. G.
Bramston, T. W. Harcourt, Col. F. Sandars, G.
Bruce, C. Hardinge, Hon. C. Scott, F.
Buck, L. W. Hawkins, W. Seymour, Lord
Buck, G. lleneage, Geo. H. Sibthorp, Col.
Burroughes, H. Henley, J. Smijth, Sir W.
Cairns, 11. Herbert, Sir T. Smith, W.
Campbell, Sir A. Hilyard, R. C. Smith, Abel
Carnac, Sir J. Holford, R. Smollett, A.
Caylny, B. Ho tham, Lord Sotheron, T.
Child, Smith Irton, S. Spooner, R.
Cholmondeley, Lord Jolliffe, Sir W. Stafford, A.
Christie, Samuel Jones, Capt. T. Stuart, W.
Clinton, Lord C. P. P. Kelly. Sir F. Thestger, Sir F.
Clive, R. Kendall, N. Tollemache, J.
Cobbold, J. C. Ker, D. Trollope, Sir J.
Cocks, T. S. Knatchbull, W. Tyler, Sir G.
Codrington, Sir C. W Knox, Col. B. W. Vance, J.
Cole, 11 A Knox, W. S. Vansittart, G.
Corry, H. T. L. Labouchere,Rt.llon.H Verner, Sir W.
Cubitt, W. Laffan, Capt. R. Vernon, G.
Disraeli, B. Laneton, W. Vernon, L.
Duckworth, Sir J. T. Legh, G. C. Vivian, J. E.
Duncombe,Hon. A. Lennox, Lord A. F. Vyvyan, Sir R.
Dunne, Col. Leslie, C. P. Waddington, D.
Du Pre, C. Liddell, H. G. Waddington, H.
East, Sir J. Lushington, C. Walcott, Admiral
Egerton, Sir F. Macartney, G. Walpole, S.
Egerton, E. C. Macgregor, JAS. Walsh, Sir J.
Elmley, Vie. Malins, R. Whitmore, H.
Emlyn, Vie. Massey, W. Wigram, Loftus T.
Evelyn, W. Masterman, J. Woodd, B.
Fellowes, E. Meux, Sir H. Wyndham, Gen.
Filmer, Sir E. Michell, W. Wynn, Lieut.-Col.
Fitzgerald, W. Montgomery, Sir G. Yorke, E.
Floyer, J. Moody, C.
Follett, B. Mowbray, J. TELLERS
Forester, Col. Mullins, J. Deedes, W.
Franklyn, G. Mundy, W. Baring, Sir F.

PAIRS.
FOR GOVERNMENT. AGAINST GOVERNMENT.
Mr. H. Berkeley Sir J. Bignold
Mr. T. Duncombe Mr. Froshfield
Mr. W. Brown Colonel Boldero
Mr. Marshall Sir G. Berkeley
Mr. Wrightson Sir H. Maddock
Sir J. Paxton Mr. Morgan
Lord Jermyn Mr. Bateson
Mr. J. A. Smith Hon. 0. Duncombe
Colonel K. Tynte Sir H. Willoughby
Mr. Butler General Arbuthnott
Major Reed Mr. Mackio
Mr. Tomline Mr. H. Baring
Mr. Grenfell Sir E. Derinm
Mr. Steel Mr. F. Frencli.
Mr. Coffin Lord Chelsea
Mr. M. Sutton Lord G. Manners
Lord Dungarvan Hon. C. Hanbury

SHOCKING IGNORANCE.—At the Bottisham Petty
Sessions the ether day a youth, whose vocation is to
gather dung from off the roads, was charged with helping
himself pretty freely from a farmer's manure heap, when
the following colloquy took place :—Magistrate—" Do
you know the Lord's prayer ?" Boy—" Noa !" Magis-
trate—" Where do boys go to who tell a lie ?" Boy—
" Don't know." Magistrate—" Where does a good boy
go to ?" Boy—" Home, as soon as he has filled his bar-
,row I"—lpcviaEceprem