The Sun.
London, England, 1862-03-25 00:00:00

15. 5. 6.

IRD EDITION.

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LA TIT MTELLIGENCE.—(This Day.)

COURT OF DIVORCE.
(Before the Judge Ordinary.)
lIIJIMOUGIIS V. BITUROUGHS.
This was a suit instituted by the wife against her hus-
band for the restitution of conjugal rights, It was heard
before his lordship some time ago when judgment was
postponed.
Sir F. Slade said he was instructed to ask for
the judg-
ment of the court in the case.
The Judge Ordinary said he was not prepared to give it.
BURROVGFIS V. PUILROUGUS AND COCK.SIL
t time
This case, it will be recollected, was heard shor
ago, when the petition for divorce was presented by the
husband against the wife on the ground that she had been
guilty of adultery with the coespn
that the wife's expenses
ondent.
Dr. Swabey made an applicatio
to the termination of the suit might be paid by the husband.
' Dr. Spinks opposed the application on the ground that
this might, as the case had been so recently disposed of, :be
an application for a now trial. He also opposed it as,
during the progress of the trial, it appearedlthat the wife had
been fighting the case of the co-respondent.
• His lordship refilsecl to ere at present.
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POLICE IN7'ELLI'I-ENC F.—( 7 his Day.)

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
Ss OEBLACKS.—SamneI Lucas, ono of the St.
Vincent de Paul Shoeblack Brigade, was chargedthe Red
with
assaulting William Time, another shoeblack of
Brigade.
The comp'ainant, a pale-faced little fellow, said he had
risoner demanded
cleaned a gentleman's boots when the p
the half of what he had received, and because he refused to
give it ho gave him a violent blow on the nose, smothering
him in blood.
James Stevens, 112 C, said the complainant had lost a
good deal of blood.
Mr. Tyrwhitt fined the prisoner 205., or 14 days.
John Julien, a Frenchman, who has before been charged
with assaulting the police, was charged with assaulting
John Chapman, 79 C, and fined 10s., or 14 days.

ADELPHI THEATRE.

CONFEDERATE BET O.RT OF THE
BATTLE OF FORT DOIVNEL6ON.

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Last night a new farce entitled "A Private Inquiry,
was produced hero for the first time, and for nearly an hour
kept the audience in a continued state of laugh ghtaer.
certain
The
fun of the trifle consists in the perplexities
elderly gentleman, a Mr. Warricow (Mr. J. L. Toole), in-
volves himself in his over anxious endeavours to ascertain
the treatment his daughte: is receiving from her newly
married husband. his first uneasiness is occasioned by
leading a case reported in the newspapers as having
taken
place in the Divorce Court, where the words "the name of the
party did not transpire" occurs. This! person, ho at once
believes, to be his son-in-law, Mr. Madison, and thereupon
he determines to act as a detective, and "nose out" the
whole affair. He rummages his son's apartments about for
proofs of his misconduct, and, finding a coat, he searches
the pocket and there discovers a letter signed "Laura." This
letter has been given to Madison by his wife who has just
received it from a dear friend of hers, who is about to pay
them a wedding visit. Warricow at once assumes it to be
a love letter of a lady friend of Madison's, and acts on that
supposition, the result being tat he involves the
Warricow,
whole of
the parties in a jealous quarrelh, to mend which, -
to remove the mistake, which he begins to perceive he had
made, makes " hot love" to the wife of his son's visitor.
He is discovered on his knees at the lady's feet by the
husband, and things, instead of improving, becomes worse
reduces the letter he had
and worse. At lest Warricow p
taken from Madisen's pocket, in justification of his con-
duct, when the mistake is explained, and all got a hearty
laugh at Warricow's expense.
▪ Mr. Toole, as the over-anxious and suspicious
is so r fathe
e-
r,
acted with al. that quaint drollery for which
- markable ; and Mr. David Fisher, as Madison, was a very
pattern of a newly. married man. Miss Kato Bland made
_ her first appearance as Mrs. M adison, and pro
ladylike acting. The other
favourable impression by her
parts were most effectively supported by Mr. Billington. and
Miss Kate Kelly. Thep iece was announced for repetition
by Mr. Toole amidst the loudest applause of a very large
audience. —............—.......................

96i 71

R. d.

—Galignani,

We find in the Atlanta (Georgia) Confederacy the official
report of General Pillow, who commanded the Confederates
at Fort Dennylion. Thereport is very long and woul fill
several columns of our paper. General Pillow took cdom-
mand at Fort Donnelson on the Bth of February, and he
says that he immediately set to work to improve its de-
fences. This was done under the supervision of Major Gil-
mer, chief engineer of General A. S. Johnston's Staff. Be-
fore the works were completed Pillow states General Floyd,
his senior in rank, arrived. He then says :
" I had placed Brigadier General Buckner in command of
the right v,-iu g and Brigadier-General Johnston in command
of the left. By extraordinary efforts we had barely got the
works in a defensible condition when the enemy made an
advance in force around and against the entire line of outer
works."
He then gives the details of the fighting on the 12th and
13th (the gunboat fight included), all of which our readers
are familiar with. The General continues thus
On the 14th inst. the enemy was busy throwing his
forces of every arm around us, extending his line of invest-
ment entirely around our position and completely envelop-
ing us. On the evening, of this day wo ascertained that the
enemy had received additional reinforcements by steamboat.
We were now surrounded by an immense force, said by
priscners to amount to 52 regiments, and every road and
possible avenue of departure was cut off, with the certainty
that our sources of supply by the river would soon be cut
off by the enemy's batteries placed on the river above us.
At a council of the general officers, called by Gen. Floyd, it
was unanimously determined to give the enemy battle next
day at daylight, so as to cut open a route of exit for our
troops to the interior of the country, and thus save our
army. We had knowledge that the principal portion of the
enemy's forces were massed in encampment in front of our
extreme left, commanding the two roads leading into the
interior, one of which we must take in leaving our position.
We knew that he had massed in encampment another large
force on the Union Ferry road, opposite the centre of our
left wing, and another in front of the left of our right wing;
his fresh arrival of troops being encamped on the bank of
the river, two and a half miles below us, from which latter
encampment a stream of fresh troops was continually pour-
ing around us on his line of investment, and thus strength
At
suing his general encampment on the extreme right.
each of his encampments, and on each road, he had in posi-
tion a battery of field artillery, and 24-pounder iron guns on
siege carriages. Between these encampments on the roads
was a thick undergroveth of brush and black jacks, making
it impossible to advance or manceuvre any large body of
troops. The plan of attack agreed upon, and directed by
Gen. Floyd to be executed, was that with the main body of
the forces of our left wing I should attack the right wing of
the enemy, occupying and resting upon the heights reach-
ing to the bank of the river, accompanied by Col. Forrest's
brigade of cavalry ; that Brigadier-General Buckner, with
the forces under his command, and defending the right of
our line, should strike the enemy's encampment and forces
on the Winn's Ferry-road ; *that the forces under Colonel
Heiman should hold his position, and that each command
should leave in the trenches troops to hold them. In this
attack was suc-
smeyssryoutotebde, seenth at i fhinisyretreat would be
ordere e
es fuoLf battleand
thi w
et
enemy
along his line of investment to sards Winn's Ferry-road,
and thence toward his reserve at the gunboats below. In
other words, my success would roll the enemy's force in
retreat over upon General Buckner, when, by his attack in
front and rear, we could cut up the enemy and put him
completely to rout. Accordingly, dispositions were made
to attack the enemy. At 5 o'clock a.m., of the 15th, I
aoesant
sa
fielb in position d
obrnly
moved out of my position to engage him. In less than
half an hour our forces were engaged. He was prepared to
meet me in advance of his encampment, and he did meet
me before I had assumed line of battle, and while I was
moving against him without any formatieonngfaogretmheenetngiawgea;
decided
van
fought himad for
ee
u
meat. For
embarrassed
rrtahsea
efidr first half
ghouretting th ofee
mmt hran y d
pro-
perly to meet the foe. Having extricated myself from the
position and fairly engaged him, we
nearlyenh hoursim. H He
contestedbefore this
eraflae
iond
dl e
loss of both armies at this port of tbe was . Thehea
the enemy's particularly, as I discovered by riding over the
field, after the battle, with General Floyd. The enemy
having been forced to yield this portion of the field
retired slowly towards the 'Winn's Ferry-road, Buckner's
point of attack. He did not retreat, but fell back
fighting us, contesting every inch of ground. The fight
was hotly and stubbornly contested on both sides, and it
consumed the day till 12 o'clock to drive him back as far as
the centre, where Gen. Buckner's command was to flank
him. While my command was advancing and slowly
driving him, I was anxiously expecting to hear General
Buckner's command open fire in his rear, which not taking
place I feared some misapprehension of orders, and came
from the field of battle within the works to learn what was
the matter. I there found the command of Gen. Buckner
massed behind the ridge within the works, taking shelter
from the enemy's artillery on the Winn-road, it having
been forced to retire before the battery, as I learnt from
him. My forces were still slowly advancing, drivingßuck the
enemy towards the battery. directed General
ner immediately to move his command round to the
rear of the battery, turning its left, keeping in the
hollow, and attack and carry it. Before this move-
ment was executed, my force, forming the attacking party
on the right, with Forrest's regiment (cavalry), gallantly
charged the battery, supported by a body of infantry, driv-
ing it and forcing the battery to retire, taking six pieces of
artillery four brass and two 24 •pounder iron guns. In
pursuing the enemy falling back from this position Gen.
Buckner's forces became united with mine, and engaged
the enemy in hot contest of nearly an hour with large forts
of fresh troops that had now met us. This position of the
enemy being carried by our jsint forces, I called off further
pursuit after seven and a half hours of continuous and
bloody conflict. After the troops were called off orders
were immediately given to the different commands to
form and retire to their original position in the intrench-
ments. The operations of the day had forced the
entire command of the enemy around to our right
wing, and in front of General Buckner's posi-
tion in the intrenchments, and when s command
idly
reached his position he found the enemy ra hi a
pdvancing
to take possession of this portion of the work. He had a
stubborn conflict, lasting one hour and a half, to regain it,
and the enemy actually got possession of the extreme right
of his position, and held it so firmly that he could not dis-
lodge him. The position thus gained by the enemy was
a most commanding one, being immediately in the rear
of our river battery and fieldwork for its protection. From
it he could readily turn the intrenched work occupied by
General Buckner, and attack him in reverse or advance
under cover of an intervening ridge directly upon our
battery and fieldwork. While he held this position it was
manifest we could not hold the main work or battery.
Such was the condition of the armies at nightfall after
nine hours' conflict on the 15th inst., in which our loss
was severe, and leaving not less than 5,000 of the enemy
dead and wounded on the field. We left upon the field
nearly all his wounded because we could not remove them.
We left his dead unburied because we could not bury them.
Such conflict and courage has, perhaps, never before oc -
curred upon this continent. We took about 300 prisoners
and a large number of arms. We had fought this battle to
open the way for our army and relieve us from an invest-
ment which would necessarily reduce us and the position by
famine. We had occupied the whole day to accomplish our
object, and before we could prepare to leave, after taking in
the wounded and the dead, the enemy had thrown around
us again in the night an immense force of fresh troops, and
reoccupied his original position in the line of investment,
thus again cutting off our retreat. We had only about
12,C00 troops, all told. A large proportion of these we had
lost in the three battles. The command had been in the
trenches night and day for five days, exposed to the snow,
sleet, mud, and ice water, 'without shelter and without
adequate covering, and without sleep. In this condition the
General officer held a consultation to determine what he
should do. General Buckner gave it as his decided opinion
that he could not hold his 'position ono half-hour against
an assault of the enemy, and said the enemy would
attack him next morning at daylight. The proposition
was then made by several officers to again fight through
the enemy's line and cut our way out. General Buckner
said his command was so worn out and cut to pieces
and demoralised that he could not make another fight ;
that it would cost the command three-quarters of its
numbers to cut its way through, and it was wrong to sacri-
fice three quarters of a command to save one quarter ; that
no officer had a right to cause such a sacrifice, General
Floyd and Major Gilmer I understood to concur in this
opinion. I then expressed the opinion that we could
hold out another day, and in that time we could get steam-
boats and set the cof mand over the river, and probably
save a large portion of it. To this General Buckner rep
that the enemy would certainly attack him at daylight, and
that he could not hold his position half an hour. The
alternative of the propositions was a surrender of their
position and command. General Floyd said that he would
neither surrender the command, nor would he surrender
himself a prisoner. I had taken the same position. General
Buckner said he was satisfied nothing else could be done,
and that, therefore, ho would surrender the place in com-
mand. General Floyd said that he would turn over the
command to him if he could be allowed to withdraw his
command. To this General Buckner assented. Thereupon
General Floyd turned the command over to me, 1 passing it
instantly to General Buckner, saying twould neither sur-
render the command nor myself a prisoner. I directed
Colonel Forrest to cut his way out. Under these circum-
stances General Buckner accepted the command, and sent
a flag of truce to the enemy for an armistice of six hours to
negotiate for terms of capitulation. Before this flag and
communication was delivered I retired from the garrison."

SUN OFFICE, Seven o'clock.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT•

HOUSE OF LORDS—TUTS EVENING.
The Loup CHANCELLOR took his seat on tho woolsack
at five o'clock.

[LEFT arzAxlNG].

HOUSE OF COMMONS-THIS EVENING.
The SPEAKER took the chair at four o'clock.

MEW MEMBERS.
Mr. MORRITT took the oaths and his seat on his elec-
tion for the North Riding, and Mr. J. R. Mills for Chip-
ping Wycombe.
PRIVATE BUSINESS.
The Berwick-upon-Tweed Harbour Bill and the Fros-
terly and Stanhope Railway Bill were read a third time
and passed.
The following bills were considered and ordered for third
reading :—Coventry Poor Act Amendment, Daventry
Railway, and Leeds, Bradford, and Halifax junction Ran-
i way,

THE REVISED CODE.
A. very large number of petitions were presented against
;he Revised Code, and one was presented in its favour amid
much laughter.
THE INLAND REVENUE.
Mr. HORSFALL gave notice that on this day fortnight
he would move for the appointment of a select committee
to inquire into the mode of collecting the inland revenue,
with a view to a greater economy in that department of the
public service.
THE MILITARY TRAIN CORPS.
Colonel STUART asked the Secretary of State for War
whether the Military Train was now a purchase or non-
purchase corps ; if the former, to state when and for what
reasons the change was made ; if the latter, to explain on
what principle officers were allowed to exchange from the
line into the. Military Train, and vice versa; also to what
extent commissions are sold in the Military Train
Sir G. LEWIS said that the corps in question was the
same as any other in this respect.
THE TAEPINGS.
Mr. FREELAND asked the Under Secretary of State
for Foreign Affairs whether any communications had been
received from our military or naval officers in command on
the China station with reference to the character and ope-
rations of the Taepings, or rebels; and whether the Go-
vernment would lay upon the table of the house copies of,
or extracts from, any such communications ?
Mr. LAYARD said that the papers in question were
prepared, and would shortly be laid on the table of the
house

THE DRUE RELT GI 0 N .—During Fuad Pasha's
IE
mission to Syria, a very ancient Arab book, relating to the
religion of the Drum) was discovered at Pilater, a large
village near Baalbak. it is said that Fuad Pasha has
charged one of his aides-de-camp, Major Chain Bey, to
translate this work into the Turkish language. Very little
is known as to the origin and foundation of the Druse reli-
gion, and there is reason to hope that this old work may
throw some light on their auperstitions and religious belief,

THE REVISED CODE.
Petitions against the Revised Code were presented by
Lord Cranworth, the Earl of Derby, Lord Kingsdown, the
Bishop of Worcester, Viscount Dungannon, the Marquis of
Bath, the Earl of Devon, Lord Redesdale, Lord Calthorpe,
and several other.peers,
EMPLOYMENT OF WOMEN AND CHILDREN
BILL.
This bill was read a first time. .at the Rev. William
SIR JOHN SOANE'S MUSEUM BILL.
..y Celle .., Worcester, Rural Dean,
The Duke of BUCKINGHAM moved the second read- 41 Coventry, late Professor of
ing of this bill, which was to enable the trustees of the College, London, to be Honorary
1e
teen pleased
A L L ,
to MARCH
direct
- nary to her Majesty.
museum to lend some of its treasures to the Commissioners
of the Exhibition of 1862. *
Lord OVERSTONE said he thought this bill required T12:6 I.' VCR has\V 11-letters patent to be
pas',.,ed Under the Great Seal, constituting
serious attention. In the approaching summer, when a the Right Honourable Henry John,
Viscount
andpajpointing
great number of foreigners were expected to visit ~xis
K.G. ; the Right Honourable William Ewart olrdersontoeill
country, he thought that it was highly objectionable that Edward Hugessen Knatchbull Hugessen, Esq. , sirstvin"
the interesting museums and galleries of the metropolis Liam Dunbar, Bart. ; and Lieutenant-Colonel Luke. White,
should be denuded of the'r great attractions. He thought to be Commissioners for executing the offices of Treasurer
that instead of such being done, it would be of the
of the Exchequer of and Lord
Great Britain,
highest importance that the various attractions should be surer of Ireland.
arranged in the highest order, and therefore he was of FOREIGN-OFFICE,
The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. J. H.
M
opinion that some further explanation was necessary before MARCH 22.
the present bill was agreed to. The same demand as
'Chesney as Consul at Newcastle for the United States
that which they were now considering had been of America.
made to the trustees of the National Gallery, but after full
OFFICE, MARCH 24.
consideration the authorities thought it would be moon-ME CROWN OFFICE,
RETURNE TO SERVE IN THE PRESENT
sistent to comply with the request. He did object to the D
MENT.
sec* County of York (Northßidi reading of the bill, but he thought the subject should PARLIA
ng)—William John Sawrey
WA be hastily disposed of.
Earl GRANVILLE agreed that it would not be desir- a Merid, Esq., of Rokeby, in the room of Edward Stilling-
able to denude our public galleries, but he did not think fleet Cayley, Esq., deceased.
that because the National Gallery had refused to lend some WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, MARCH 25.
P.
P Ewart
of its pictures, the trustees of Sir John Soane's museum 2d Regiment of Life Guards—Lieutenant Henry
should be precluded from lending some of its treasures to t°Captain,by purchase, vice Edward Ffolliott Wing- '
be
the coming exhibition, as last year not more than 2,000 field, who retires ; Cornet and Sub-Lieutenant Sir S.
persons visited the establishment. Hercules Bart., be 1.,"
Hayes, to Lieutenant, by purchase.
second finis. sth Lancers—Cornet Edward Llewellyn Thomas, from 9th
The bill was then read a
AND. Lancers, to be Cornet, vice Edward Philippe Mackenzie,
POL
The Earl of CARNARVON rose to call the attention of who exchanges,
9th Lancers—Cornet Edward Philippe Mackenzie, from sth
their lordships to the present state Of Poland, and also for
Lancers, to be Cornet, vice Edward Llewellyn Thomas,
the purpose of inquiring of her Majesty's Government who exchanges.
whether Prince. Gortschakoff' ei circular letter of the 20th of 11th Hussars—Henry William White, Gent., to be Cornet,
March had been.communicated to them.- Thy noble lord corn- by purchase, vice Verschoyle, promoted.
menced his observations 'hy alluding to the difficulties of the Grenadier Guards—The appointment of Ensign and Lien-
subject which he was about to bring under the atten- tenant Viscount Castle-Cuffs to bear date 19th instead of
tion of the house, and he thought that cold indeed was the 18th March, 1862, as previously stated.
heart of that person who did not feel a sympathy for Po- 14th Regiment of Foot--Colour-Sergeant John Moore to
land, whose sons had borne up under every difficulty, as be Quartermaster, vice William A. Armstrong, who re-
nothing had ever shaken their courage or devotion to their verts to half-pay.
country. 25th Foot—Captain Matthew Fanning, from the 64th Foot,
to be Captain, vice George K. Shaw, who exchanges.
29th Foot—Major Lindsay Farrington to be Lieutenant-
Colonel, by pureness, vice Edward Henry Westropp,
who retires; Captain Henry G. Walker to be Major, by
purchase, vice Farrington; Lieut. John N. Bomford to
be Captain, by purchase, vice Walker ; Ensign Ernest
A. P. Brune to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Bom-
ford; Julius Tennyson, Gent., to be Ensign, by pur-
chase, vice Brune.
44th Foot—Staff Assistant-Surgeon Arnold Royle to be
Assistant-Surgeon, vice Baker, appointed to 80th Foot.
50th Foot--Ensign William L. Fleury to be Lieutenant,
without purchase, vice Lee, promoted ; Ensign Kenneth
Douglas, from 65th Foot, to be Ensign, vice Fleury.
63d Foot--Lieutenant Arthur G. F. Griffiths to be Cap-
tain, without purchase, vice C. A. Hand, deceased; En-
sign Daniel F. Tarratt to be Lieutenant, without pur-
chase, vice Griffiths.
64th Foot—Captain George Kennedy Shaw, from 26th
Foot, to be Captain, vice Mathew Fanning, who ex-
changes.
65th Foot—Lieutenant Richard Swift, from the 81st Foot,
to be Captain, by purchase, vice Frederick Rice Stack,
dismissed by the sentence of a general court martial, but
allowed to receive the value of his commissions.
81st Foot—Ensign Halkett Francis Jackson to be Lieute-
nant, by purchase, vhe Swift, promoted, by purchase, in
65th Foot; Herbert Fitz Roy Jefferson Eaton, Gent., to
be Ensign, by purchase, vice Jackson.
85th Foot—Ensign Chaigneaux Colvill Parkinson to be
Lieutenant, by purchase, vice William Henry Urquhart,
who retires; Nathaniel Henry Hodgson, Gent., to be
Ensign, by purchase, vice Parkinson.
90th Foot—Lieutenant Henry Carver Treacher to be Cap-
tain, by purchase, vice Rattray, promoted.
2d West India Regiment—Ensign Edgar Gardner to be
Lieutenant, by purchase, vice John Sheil, who retires ;
Richard Edward Derby Ness, Gent., to be Ensign, by
purchase, vice Gardner.
3d West India Regiment—Joseph Fitzgerald Lynch, Gent.,
to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Little, promoted.
Cape Mounted Rifles—Lieutenant Duncan Campbell L.
Fitzwilliams has been permitted to retire from the service
by the sale of his Commission.
STAFF.—Captain James Pope, upon half-pay 6th Foot, to
be Town-Major at Montreal, vice Lieutenant Coin
Macdonald, unattached, deceased.
TSIEDical, DEPARTMENT.—Deputy Inspector-General of
Hospitals Charles Scott, M.D., C. 8., upon half-pay, to
have the honorary rank of Inspector General of Hospitals;
Staff Surgeon-Major George Carr, who retires upon halt-
pay, to have the honorary rank of Deputy Inspectoe
General of Hospitals; Assistant-Surgeon Charles Hery
Giraud, from the 31st Foot, to be Staff' Assistant-Sur-
geon, vice Royle, appointed to the 44th Foot.
Ed 11.11 to
CHAPLAINS' DEPARTMENT.—The Rev. 2. C.. g i
be Chaplain of 4th Class. !
BREVET.
Lieut.-Colonel and Brevet-Colonel Michael Wm Smith,
C. 8., 3d. Dragoon Guards, to have the local rank of Major-
Genral in India while in command of a sub-division of the
army in Bengal.
Lieut.-Colonel Reginald Yonge Shipley, 7th Foot, hav-
ing completed five years' service as Lieut.-Colonel, to be
Colonel in the army, under the Bth clause of the royal war-
rant of 14th October, 1858.
Captain Thomas Edmund Miller, 12th Foot, to be Major
in the Army.
The undermentioned officers of theßoyal Marines, retired
upon full pay, to have a step of honorary rank, under her
Majesty's Older in Council of Nov. 13, 1858 :
Col. Edward Rea to be Major-General.
Col. Sandys Stamen Walsh, C. 8., to be Major-General.
Lieut.-Col..Charles Joseph Hadfield to be Colonel.
The following promotions to take place in her Majesty's
Indian Military Vorees, consequent on the retirement of :
Major-General Sir Richard James Holwell Birch,
K.C.8., Bengal Infantry.
Major-General Clement Clemons, Madras Infantry.
Major-General John Kennedy M'Causland, C. 8., Ben-
gal Infantry; and
Major-General William Cotton, Madras Infantry; on the
31st December.

TREATY WITH BELGIUM.
Mr. W. FORSTER asked the Under Secretery of State
Ler Foreign Affairs, whether he could give the house any
information relative to the commercial treaty now negotiat-
ing botween this country and Belgium ?
Mr. LAYAR D said that the demands put forward by
the Belgian Government led to the negotiations being sus-
pended for the present.
THE REVISED CODE—MR. WALPOLE'S RESO-
LUTIONS.
Mr. WALPOLE moved " That this house will imme-
diately resolve itself into a committee to consider the best
mode of distributing the Parliamentary grants for educa-
tion now administered by the Privy Council." After some
preliminary observations, the right hon. gentleman said
that he did not propose to endeavour to have
the Revised Code rejected, but he thought that
it must undergo very extensive alteration before it
could be palatable to the Parliament or the country. He
said that the right hon. gentleman (Mr. Lowe) completely
underestimated the feeling of the country when he con-
sidered there was any apathy on the part of the public
in reference to the question, for the innovation
in the existing system which it was proposed to introduce
in this code excited the greatest interest amongst all classes.
He argued that all education, to be truly valuable, mu
was st
the
be
based =religious training—(hear, hear)—and that
general conviction of the community. They must
remember that the system which it was now proposed
to supersede had been in operation since 1853, and had
given considerable satisfaction. They must combine eco-
nomy with efficiency to render any system perfect, and still
the right hon. gentleman (Mr. Lowe) said he would secure
one or the other, and not both. In fact, the Government
could not state what would be the positive results which
would flow from the proposition they presented to the
house. (Hear, hear, from the Opposition benches.) He
alluded to the report of the commission on this subject, for
the constitution of whichhe expressed the greatest respect ;
but he said that report spoke in high terms of the fact that
the voluntary principle had been enlisted in behalf of the
existing system : yet, he contended, the effect of the alteration
proposed would be, in its present form, to discourage the
efforts of the voluntary principle in reference to the Go-
vernment scheme of education. He referred also to the
opinion expressed by the commission in regard to the merits
of pupil teachers, the discipline, and the religious element
in the existing system. The commissioners were all agreed
thateducation had not sufficiently reached the lower classes,
and that the removal of the children at too early an age,
before they could acquire a sufficieiat amount of elementary
education, was most disadvantageous. They were also
agreed that not more than one-fourth of the clildren received
mole than an imperfect knowledge of reading, writing, and
arithmetic in the Government schools. But how was it
proposed to remedy the evil ? In the first place the masters
were to be increased,-but their standard'of qualification was
to be lowered. He said that they ought to test in
the most careful manner the results of a system
that hitherto worked comparatively well. By that system
he contended that according t ,the showing of the commis-
sioners themselves in their report not only were secular
results obtained, but also moral results by making the Go.
vernment grants pass through the enthusiasm of religious
bodies. They said in that report the effect of these schools
was greater in a religious than even in an intellectual point
of view. He denied that the mode proposed by Govern-
ment of teasing the results of a system merely by the an•
ewers given in three elementary matters was fallacious, for
frequently a number ot children might have left these schools
before the day of examination arrived, or they might be
subjected to depressing influences, which would prevent
their answering satisfactorily. He cited the authority of
Sir James Shuttleworth in support of his arguments on
the point, and argued that it was quite impossible to arrive
at a correct conclusion as to the state of elementary educa-
tion founded on an examination on a specific day of a limited
number of pupils. He had received an inundation of letters
from the clergy and laity, and persons of all shades of po-
litical opinion on the subject of his resolutions, and only
one of these was in favour of the Revised Code. He read
extracts fiom some of these letters. He said his right hon.
friend Mr. Lowe rested his case on two passages in the report
of the commission. (These were the passages in which the
commissioners stated that in several cases chitildren did, and
not
obtain a knowledge of reading, writing, d arhmetic,
that only one-fourth of the boys in the schools at-
tained to more than an imperfect education.)
The teachers differed from the inspectors, and
a more extensive inquiry, and he contended that Govern-
ment should have come forward with a system based on
such inquiry, and he would then have discharged his duty
nobly. (Hear, hear.)
(LEFT SPEA.KINGI

[The following are the resolutions which the hon. gen-
tleman will propose in committee this evening.]
" 1. That, where it is proposed to give Government aid
to elementary schools, it is inexpedient that the whole
amount of such aid should depend on the individual exa-
mination of each child in reading, writing, and arithmetic.
" 2. That the system of grouping by ago for the pur-
pose of examination would be unequal in its operation,
and an adequate test of the work done in the school, and
specially disadvantageous for those children whose early
education has been neglected.
" 3, That the provisions of the Revised Code, in the
points referred to in the foregoinc, resolutions, would, if
unamended, increase the difficulty a extending the benefits
of the Government grants to poor and neglected districts.
" 4. That the refusal of any portion of the Parliamentary
grants, on account of any children who have once passel
in the highest class of examination, is likely to have an in-
jurious effect, as tending to aggravate the acknowledged
1 evil of the withdrawal of children from elementary schools
at an early age.
"5. T oat it is inexpedient that the capitation grants on
be
account of children under seven years of ice, should
made to depend on the individual examination of those
children.
"6. That the provisions of the Revised Code with regard
to evening schools are unsatisfactory, inasmuch as the
master in many cases would be unable, after the labour un-
dergone in a day, adequately to attend to the management 1
and teaching of the evening- scholars.
"7. That the regulations contained in the Revised Code
with regard to pupil teachers ate unjust and impolitic.
" S. That it would be unjust entirely to withold the other
benefits of the Parliamentary grant from such managers of
schools as decline to undertake to provide and pay the
payable on of
stipend and gratuties, no several]
continy uance of theiraccount current
pupil teachers, during the
apprenticeship,
"9. That it would be impolitic to run the risk of a
return to the monitorial system by discouraging the em-
ployment of pupil teachers, and that such =plop:

-rY to her

Vero f9I, - . , -
Colonel Coll Macleod, Madras Infantry.
Colonel William John Baptiste Knyvetti Berzrai
In-
fantry.
Colonel Wi Ham Henry Budd, XP as Infantry.
Colonel Arthur Hall, Bengal 17,avatry.
Colonel George Pope, Bombay Infantry.
TO )311 COLONELS.

Lieutenant- :olonel John Rolmes, C. 8., Bombay Infan-
trY. -
Lieutenant-Colonel (eorge Cator Turner Stockleys Bom-
bay Infantry.
Lieutenant-Colonel Hamilton Vetch, Betgal Infantry.
Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur Sanders, Bengal Ivsfantry.
Lieutenant-Colonel Henry S. 7aters, Madras Cavalry.
Lieutenant- Colonel Edve,:r. G. J. chau,:priers, Bengal
Cavalry.
Lieutenant
fantry

..:olonel Richard Y. B. Bush, Bengal It-

Lieutenant-Colonel James G. A. Rice, Bengal Infantry.
Lieutenant-Colonel Jos. H. Hampton, Bengal Infantry.
Lieutenant-Colonel Archibald G. Young, Madras In-
fantry.
Lieutenant-Colonel Richard S. Ewart, Bengal Infantry.
Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Basil Blogg, Madras Cavalry.
Lieutenant- Colonel James Metcalfe, C. 8., Bengal In-
fantry.
Lieutenant-Colonel David Wilkie, Bengal Infantry.
Lieutenant-Colonel William Wynne Apperley, Bengal
Cavalry.
Lieutenant-Colonel William Cautis, Bengal Infantry.
Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick Gottreaux, C. 8., Madras
Infantry.
Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Cooper, Bengal Infantry.
Lieutenant-Colonel John Edward Hughes, Madras In-
fantry.
Lieut.-Col. Charles Gustavus Walsh, Bengal Infantry.
Lieut.-Col. Henry Wm. Evans, Bombay Infantry.
Lieut.-Col. Ronald M'Douell, Bengal Cavalry.
Lieut.-Col. John deWinter C, J. Moir, Bengal Infantry.
Lieut.-Col. John Joseph Losh, Madras Infantry.
Lieut.-Col. Edmund Arthur Guerin, Bombay Infantry.
Lieut.-Col. George Timing, Bengal Infantry.
Lieut.-Col. Wm. Henry Cobbs Lye, Bombay Infantry.
Lieut.-Col. George Halpin, Madras Infantry.
Lieut.-Col. George Carr, C. 8., Madras Infantry.
Lieut.-Col. William Middleton, Madras Infantry;
Lieut.-Col. John Wilson Coates, Madras Infantry.
Lieut.-Col. John Fortescue Porter, Madras Cavalry.
Lieut. -Col. W. Augustus John Mayhew, Bengal Infantry
Lieut.-Col. John Smith, Bengal Infantry.
Lieut.-Col. Charles George Graham Munro, Bombay In-
fantry.
Lieut.-Col. Edwin Marriott, Bengal Infantry.
Lieutenant-Colonel George Frederick Salmon, Madras
Infantry.
Lieutenant-Colonel William Kelly Nollen, Bengal In-
fantry.
Lieutenant-Calonel Robert Cotton, Madras Infantry.
Lientenant-Colonel Frank Brian Lys, Madras Infantry.
ant-Colonel Charles James Elphinstone,-
pson, Bengal
Madras
Infantry.ieuten
Lieutenant-Colonel Chas. Robt. Hogg, Bombay Infantry.
Infantry.euten ant-Colonel Richard Salisbury Sim
Lieutenant-Colonel James II Tapp, Madras Infantry.
Lieutenant-Colonel W illiamlL Strange, Madras Cavalry.
Cotgrave Bom-
baLy ilenuftaenntaztColonel Augustus
Lieutenant-Colonel James William Gammen Kenny,
Madras Infantry.
Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Taylor, Madras Cavalry.
Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Alexander Thompson, Madras
Infantry.
Lieutenant-Colonel James Stewart, Madras Infantry.
Lieutenant-Colonel Edwin Andrews, Bombay Infantry:
Lientenant-Colonet George Bromley Boulderson Groube,
Madras Cavalry.
Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Morrieson, Bengal Infantry.-
Lieutenant-Colonel Alexander Boyd Kerr, Madras In-
fantry.
Lieutenant-Colonel George Warren Stokes, Bengal. In-
fantry.
Lieutenant-Colonel William Lamb, Bengal Infantry.
Lieutenant-Colonel William George Arrow, Bombay In
fantry.
Lieutenant-Colonel George Walter Williams, C. 8., Ben-
gal Infantry.
Lieutenant-Colonel William Lydiard, Bengal Infantry.
Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Baynes, Bombay Infantry.
Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Robert Whitelock, Bombay
Infantry.

TO BE LIEUTENANT-COLONELS.
Major Frederick Westbrook, Bombay Infantry.
Major Theodore F. Broughton. Beatson, Bengal Cavalry.
Major Augustus Russell, Madras Infantry.
Maier David Gaussen, Bengal Infantry,
Major Clement Read Browne, Bengal, Infantry.
Major Alexander Strange, Madras Cavalry.
Major Henry Matthew Nation, Bengal. Infantry. '
Major Keith Jopp, Bombay Infantry.
Major James Jackson, Madras Infantry.
Major Robert Gordon, Madras Infantry.
Major William Barnabas Legard, Bengal Infantry.
Major James Townshend. Daniell, Bengal Infantry.
Major Robert Thatcher, Bengal Infantry.
Major William Lovell Boulderson, Madras infantry.
Major Henry Rodney Phillott, Madras Infantry.
Major Anthony Martin, Bengal Infantry.
Major Andrew Crawford, Bombay Infantry.
Major John Ste*art, Madras Infantry.
Major Henry Lewis Bird, Bengal Infantry. ,
Major Jonathan Fowler, Madras Cavalry..
loorr
JHoehnnrycolVkaelrpeolliepThullilliopcsh,,BMenadgraalallnnfanfantrt7.
Major Ambrose Edward Saunders, Bombay Infantry.
Major Edmund Lissmore, Bengal Infantry.
Major Frederick Moffatt Baker, Bengal Infantry.
Major Thomas Francis Hobday, Bengal Infantry.
Major Wm. M'Culloch, Bengal Infantry.
Major Wm. Henry Oakes, Bengal Infantry.
Major Thomas Loughnan Jameson, Bombay Infantry.

BANKRUPTS.
The portion of the Gazette containing the bankrupts had
riot arrived when we went to press.

COURSE OF EXCHANGE.—THIS DAY.
Amsterdam
Ditto
Rotterdam .. 11 18t 11 181
Antwerp — 25 50 25 65
Brussels — 25 50 25 55
Hambnrgh — 13 81 13 81
Paris
Ditto
Marseilles
Frankfort on Maine.. 1181 119
Vienna
Trieste
Petersburgh — 32} 321
Berlin •
Madrid: —
Cadiz
Leghorn —
Milan
Genoa —
Naples
Palermo..
Messina
Lisbon —
Oporto —
Rio Janeiro
Now York
Foreign Gold in Bars (Standard), per os £3 17 9
Mexican Dollars
Silver in Bars (Standard)

TO BE MAJOR-GENERALS.
Colonel Willoughby Trevelyan, Bombay Cavalry.
Colonel Francis Rowercroft, C. 8., Bengal Infantry.
Colonel John Macouslie Shortt, Bombay Infantry.
Colonel James Matthie, Bengal Infantry.
The undermentioned officers of her Majesty's Indian
Military Forces, retired upon full pay, to have a step of
honorary rank, as follows :
TO BE LIEUTENANT-GENERALS.
Major-General Sir Richard James H. Birch,
Bengal Infantry.
Major-General Clement Clemons, Madras Infantry.
Major-General John... Kennedy M'Causland, C. 8., Ben.
gal Infantry.
Majur-General William Cotton, Madras Infantry.
TO BE MAJOR-GENERALS.
Colonel George N.\ illoughby Osborne, Madris Infantry.
Colonel George Burn, Madras Infantry.
Colonel John Millar, Madras Infantry.
Colonel East Apthorp, C. 8., Madras Infantry. t
Colonel Alex. Peter Le Messurier, Bombay Inf an ry.
Colonel George Logan, Madras II fantry.
Colonel Thomas Sewell, Bengal nfantry.
Colonel Francis Jenkins, Bengal Infantry.
Colonel Albert Pinson, Madras Infantry.
Colonel John Francis Bird, Madras infantry.
'Colonel George Munro Carmichael Smyih, Bengal C avalry
Colonel David Davidson, Bombay infantry.
Colonel Edmund Wintle, Bengal, Infantry.
Coliziel James Don Kennedy, Bengal Infantry.
Colonel Robert Turnbull Sandeman, Bengal Infantry.
Colonel Sir Peter Melville Melville, K.C.8., Bombay
infantry.
Colonel Charles Harington GrEeme, Madras Cavalry.
Colonel Bulstrode Whitelocke Cumberlege, Madras Ca-
valry.
Colonel George Moyle Sherer, Bengal Infantry, A.D.C.
,o the Queen.
Col..mel William George Lennox, Bengal Infantry.
Colonel Francis Archibal Reid Infant Infantry,
Colonel Daniel Hall Steved nson,, Madrasry.
Colonel Arthur Wheatley, Bengal Cavalry.
Colonel Bulstrode Bygrave, Bengal Infantry
Infantry.
ft
Colonel George Le GI and Jacob, C. 8., Bombay Infantry,
Colonel Richmond Houghton, Bengal
Colonel Richard all Madras Infantry, Madras In an ry.
Colonel Wm. HillH, .
Colonel Howland Roberts, Madras Infantry.
Colonel Arthur M'Cally, Madras Infantry.
Colonel Edward John Dickey, Bengal Infantry.
Colonel Alfred Shepheard. C. 8., Bombay Infantry.
Colonel Geo. Cumberland Hughes, Madras Infantry.
Colonel Idenry Pelham Burn, Bengal Infantry.
Colonel John Craigio Halkett, C. 8., Bengal Infantry.
Colonel Wm. Riddell, C. 8., Bengal Infantry.
Colonel Henry Clayton, B Algal Cavalry.
Colonel John Lewis Taylor, Bengal Infantry.
Colonel William Beveridge Thomson, C. 8., Bengal In.
faulty,
Colonel Patrick Gordon, Bengal Infantry.
Colonel John Swanson, Bombay Infantry.
Colonel Arthur Cleghorn Wright, Madras Infantry.
Colonel Charles Pooley, Madras Infantry.
Colonel Alex. Macleod, Madras Cavalry.
Colonel John Blaxland, Madras Infantry.
Colonel Hamlyn Laircourt Harris, Madras Infantry.
Colonel Donald Mackay Scobie, Bombay Infantry.
Colonel Archibald Lorne Campbell, Bengal Cavalry.
Colonel Robert Codrington, Madras Infantry.
Colonel James Victor Hughes, Madras Infantry.
Colonel Wright Westcott Davidson, Bengal Infantry._,
Colonel James William Henry Jamieson, .Bang.'
Infantry.
Colonel Robert Augustus Master, C.B. Bengal Cavlary.
Colonel William Fitt Robbins, Bengal InfantrY•
Colonel Hugh Body, Bengal Infantry. Infantry.
Colonel Neil Patrick Mac Dougall, Bombs,'
Infantry.
Colonel William Charles Campbell, Deng .al
Colonel George Nott, Madras Infantry. ,
Colonel John Byng, C. 8., Madras v
Colonel John William Hicks, BengalCa
fantry.
Colonel Joseph Graham, Beng
-al 'Madras Infantry.
Colonel Andrew Munro McCally,as Cavalry.
lantrlntry.
Colonel John Ita,ad Brown, lk.!
Colonel George Bingham
13 Madras Infantry.
Ar.e,authnot, Madras Cavalry.
BowdenCorydon,Madras Infantry.
v'nengal Infantry.
Colonel William Reece,
Colonel John Cope, tiswoode, Bengal Infantry
Colonel Arthur CoIeCI3S.
Colonel John. Henri r, Madras Infantry.
Colonel Nathan iel
Bleohn Gordon, Madras Infantry.
Colonel lieurY
Colonel Chtu. „Lgoray Macleane, Madras Infant y
chalerapprurmoumgohntd, ,cß.pe7BalenCgaavlairvn.f.antryr:
t Drought,
Madden, Madras Infantry.
Ccoolloonneell gicha
homas Moore, Bengal Cavalry-
Colonel Joh
l:eorge Cautley, Bengal b Cavalry.
kham Eccl
Colonel Mar es Sherwill, Bengal Infantry.
Colonel William St. Leger Mitchell, Bengal Infantry.
Colonel John Caulfield -Hann
Colonel
on, Bengal Infantry.
Colonel John Richard Reidy, Bombay Infantry.
Colonel Robert ShOrtredc, Bombay Infantry.

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BIRMINGHAM .RACES—(This Day).

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
ERDINGTON PLATE.

Emily Harris 1
Catherine
Five ran.

Telegraph Station nearly eight miles from the Course.

TIIIS DAYS SHIPPING.

LONDON, March 25.—Wind this day at noon—South-
Easterly; light breeze and cloudy, with rain; weather
very mild.
PLYMOETII, March 24.—Wind S.E.—Arrived—Her
Majesty's ship Cordelia, from Sydney.
QUEENSTOWN, March M.—Arrived—Arabia, steamer,
from New York.
PORTSMOUTIT, March 21.—Wind S,E.—Arrird—Her
Majesty's ship Chanticleer, from Sheerness, with two
gunboats in tow.
aurNEWPOßT,itius March 24.—Wind S.W.—Sailed—Leone, for
M
OFF MarchDARTMOUTH,
24.—Arrived—Ballarat, from
London for Shanghai
SWANSEA. March 23.—Wind N.B.—Sailed—Maria
Sophie, for Valparaiso.
Orr SHOREHAM, MArcb. 24.—Arrived—Result, from
Melbourne.

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.
SOUTHAMPTON, Tuesday 'Morning.
Arrived—Dispatch, steamer, from Havre; Eleanor
Thompson, from Swansea.

Mariafro
(BY SUBMARINE AND MAGNETIC TELE'GRAPH.)
GRAVESEND, Tuesdsqy Morning.
from Dunkirk;. Exp from
Arrived, March 24—George DIIDCSII, from New York ;
Dlleamyeareardal;ilsbweritftE, Edward, from Calizutta ;rear,hes
Copenhagen; Water Sprite, from St. atchael's ; Martha,
from Alexandria; Tickler,
from Dram.
froAmrr
Divaendt,zilel;arch 25—Dart, from Guernsey ; Hoppett,
Etheldred, from Macao ; Reward, from
DfroemmeGrauraay;aciSmopah.ie Theodorme,

DELL, TueFiday Morning.
viranace, from Calcutta for Branton; Cossipore
Famed' B bay for London.
(in tow), fro aore, from London for Baxbadoes.
Anchored- _ _ _

TSB REVISED CODE--A. Writer in a contem-
pony,' says ,--" The Government seems to have embarked
scithout a chart on what proved a bouThdless -sea of ex-
pense."
EXCESSIVE CRUELTY s—Afrightfulactofbarbarity
has just been committed at the village of Steniker, in Hun-
gary. A young girl, who was struck with mental aliena-
tion, had become dumb,
that the visitation I, and the people, refusing to believe
--et arisen from natural causes, held her,
by way of proof, over a brazier of fire, and burnt her so
severely that she Expired shortly afterwards.
EARL
RIT'sSielLL AND THE SLAVE TRADE IN CUBA.
—ln reply tp the memorial forwarded by Mr. A. Black,
M.P., and signed by Mr. Dunlop, on behalf of a meeting
held recuit.ly in Edinburgh, on the subject of the Cuban
slave tralte, the following communication has been received
,
from Mr. Layard :—" Foreign-office, March 19, 1862 • Si_l.
1 (Alit of a memorial, signed by you as chairman
—I. um instructed by Earl Russell to acknowledgeirtieehethr;
oaftatention of
of the inhabitants of Edinburgh, calling
praying that prompt measures may be adopte for insisting
ugagements with
Ler Majesty's Government to the Cuban the
eve trade, and
on the fulfilment by Spain of her treaty
reply, to acquaint you that his lordship
is
this country for the suppression of thitys
with the Spanish Government
omit no measures for accompli
desired.—
I am, sir, your most obedient is in communication
traffic. I am, in
subject, and will
• g the purpose t
humble servant, A. U.
LAYARD. Mr. John Dul".'