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London, England, 1865-06-21 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT

HOUSE OF COMMONS—Tins DAY.

The SPEAKER took the chair at a quarter past 12.
MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS (IRELAND) ACT

AMENDMENT BILL.

Mr. BLAKE moved the second reading of this bill, the
object of which was to change the oath required to be
taken by Roman Catholics, to give them the privileges
which English corporations now enjoy with respect to
choice of sheriffs, and to remedy .several very palpable
mistakes which had been made in the two Municipal Cor-
poration Acts which had been passed by that house. The
bill also gave the power to the Lord Mayor and other civic
officers to appoint deputies for the time being, which con-
venience was possessed by the English corporations.
Sir R. PEEL said he regretted he could not give the
hon. gentleman his assistance in passing the bill in its
present shape ; indeed, he believed the hon. gentleman's
intention was merely to ventilate the matter during the
present session, as it was certainly too far advanced for
him to hope to press his bill to a successful issue. 'With
respect to oaths taken by Roman Catholics, that had been
met by the bill of the hon. member for Limerick. He did
not think there was any occasion to complain of sectarian
feeling in the nomination and election of gentlemen to
serve the office of sheriff.

Mr. BLAKE said sinco the time of James 11. only. two
Roman Catholic citizens of Waterford had been appointed
to the office of sheriff.

Sir R. PEEL replied that no doubt it was the case, but
then during that time Roman Catholic gentlemen had
declined to take upon themselves the duties of the office.
He assured the hon. gentleman that if ho could point out
any injustice which could be remedied, he and the other
officers of the Irish Government would only be too happy
to do all that was in their power to meet tho matter. He
hoped the hon. gentleman would withdraw the bill for the
present session.
After a few words from Mr. VANCE, the bill was, by
leave, withdrawn.
MERCHANT SHIPPING DISPUTES BILL.

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Mr. DENMAN moved the second reading of this bill,
the object of which was to create courts in certain districts
for the settlement of disputes in shipping ports. It pro-
posed that the courts should be presided over by a presi-
dent and two assessors, who should be persons conversant
with mercantile shipping. The president was to be ap-
pointed by the Lord Chancellor. Re did not expect that it
would be possible to pass the bill during the present ses-
sion, although he had used his utmost endeavour to get
the bill in earlier, but he would move the second reading
pro forma, in order that he might hear the opinion of the
Government on the matter.

Mr. HEADLAM supported the bill. He said it had
received the approval of almost all the shipping ports in
the country, and he hoped it would soon become law.
Mr. M. GIBSON said the matter was one which un-
doubtedly deserved the fullest consideration of the Board,
but the bill before them involved legal considerations of
great importance, he hardly felt competent to offer an
opinion beyond which he had -been enabled to form from
merely reading the clauses of the bill. Ho thought one of
the great principles of the bill was doubtful, the judge
in his opinion ought to be a lawyer ' • but the fact of the two
assessors having votes they in fact became the judges. He
thought that if an Admiralty judgo was to go on circuit
some advantage might result ; but be that as it may, he
could not agree in opinion with the hon. gentleman that
there would be a saving of expenses in passing this bill ;
on the contrary, he thought there would be an increase.
However, if the hou. and learned gentleman would consent
to let the matter stand for the present, he promised him it
should receive the fullest consideration of the Board of
Trade, with a view, if possible, of introducing a measure
next session to meet the evil complained of.
After a few observations from Mr. Henley, the Solicitor-
General, and Mr. Cave, the bill was withdrawn.
BANK NOTES (IRELAND) BILL.
Sir C. O'LOGHLEN moved the second reading of this
bill, the object of which was to make the Bank of England
note a legal tender in Ireland, and to do away with certain
restrictions which exist with respect to banks of issue in
Ireland. Gold was now the only legal tender in Ireland,
and in times of panic gold had to be taken from England
to meet the demand. He thought the fact that the Bank of
England note was a legal tender in this country was
a strong argument in its favour of its being so in Ireland.
It was true that Bank of England notes were receivable in
liquidation of taxes in Ireland, but that only showed that
that which the bill proposed was reasonable.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER could not
consent, so far as he was concerned, to allow the house to
commit itself even in the abstract to the second reading of
this bill. It was a most difficult and* delicate matter to
deal with the question of the currency, and with respect to
making the Bank of England note a legal tender in Ireland,
he thought at present the matter was quite impracticable,
because the directors of the Bank of England had not been
consulted whether they were favourable to an extension
of their business to Ireland, because if the house made its
note a legal tender in Ireland the Bank of England would
have to open offices where the notes could be changed, or
they would be at a discount. Ho objected to the second
reading of the bill.
After a few observations from Lord FERMOY and Mr.
BLACKBURN, the bill was withdrawn.
EDUCATIONAL AND CHARITABLE INSTITU-
TIONS BILL.

Mr. LYGON moved the second reading of Bill, which
was one which was entirely confined to the interests of
the Church of England, and did'not in the slightest degree
touch the rights of Nonconformists. The object of the bill
was to provide places of worship for public shools, alms-
houses,

(LEFT SPEARING

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE—This day.

LONDON, June 21.—Wind this day at noon—North-
Westerly; moderate breeze, and fine weather.
SOUTHAMPTON, June 21.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Delhi,
steamer, from Alexandria.
OFF HARWICH, June 19.—Wind S.—Arrived—Oronato,
from Buenos ,Ayres. _ _

CLYDE, June 20.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Ainadona,
from Santiago de Cuba. Sailed—Athene, and British
Queen, for Madras.
FALMOUTH, Juno 10.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Harold,
from Havannah.

SHIELDS, Juno 80.—Wind
for New York.

CARDIFF, June 20.—Wind N.W.—Arrived—Lucknow,
from Bilboa. Sailed—Fanny Fern, for Salonica ; Oeean
Dart, for Gibraltar.
OFF QUEENSTOWN, June 20.—Wind S.E.—Arrived—
First Fruit, from Newfoundland.
PORTSMOUTH June 19.
Wind N.E.—Arrived—Middle-
sex, from London for Madras.

QUEENSTOWN, June 21.—Wind S.E.—Arrived—Maria,
from Rio Grande.

LOUGH FOYLE, June 20--Arrived—Belgrade, steamer,
from Quebec.

BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.

GRAVESEND, Wednesday Morning.
Arrived, Juno 20.—Maas, and Cologne, for Rotterdam.
Arrived, June 21.—Queen of the Isles, for Caen; Velo-
city, steamer, for Calais; Batavier, steamer, for Rotterdam.
No arrivals. DEAL, Wednesday Morning.

LONDON GAZETTE---Last Evening.

FOREIGN-OFFICE, JUNE 20.

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The following despatch has been received from her Ma-
jesty's Minister at Washington:—
Washington, June 3, 1865.
My Lord,—l have the honour to enclose copy of a Noti-
fication issued by the United States Government, declaring
that passports will no longer be required from persons
entering the United States from foreign countries.—l
have, &e.,
(Signed) FREDERICK W. A. BRUCE.
The Earl Russell, K.G., &c., &c.
(In closure).
Department of State, Washington, June 2, 1865.
Whereas, pursuant to the order of the President, and as
a means required by the public safety, directions were
issued from this Department, under date of the 17th of
December, 1864, requiring passports from all travellers
entering the United States, except immigrant passengers
directly entering an American port from a foreign
country ; and whereas the necessities, which required the
adoption of that measure, are believed no longer to exist,
now, therefore, the President directs that, from and after
this date, the order above referred to shall be, and the
same is hereby rescinded.
Nothing in this regulation, however, will be construed
to relieve from due accountability any enemies of the
United States or offenders against their peace and dignity,
who may hereafter seek to enter the country, or at any
time be found within its lawful jilrisdiction._

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.
WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, JUNE 20.
9th Regiment of Lancers—Cornet Francis Henry to be
Lieutenant, without purchase, vice William 11. Law-
rence, deceased.
10th Hussars—Staff Assistant-Surgeon James Hinton to
be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Lucas George Hooper, pro-
moted on the Staff.
11th Hussars—Lieut. Reginald Calvert to be Captain, by
purchase, vice John Annesley, who retires ; Cornet
James Scott Black to be Lieutenant, vice Calvert ; Act-
ing Veterinary Surgeon Charles Percivall to be Vete-

rinary SurgeOn vice David Paley, who resigns. -
15th Hussars—Alexander G. P.' C. Perceval, Gent., to be
Cornet, by purchase, vice Robert Marcus Briscoe, pro-
moted.
19th Hussars -Staff Surgeon Major Edward Menzies to be

Surgeon ; Staff Assistant-Surgeon Byng Thos. Giraud,
M.D., to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice George Richard
Woolhouse, appointed to the Staff.
20th Hussars—Staff Surgeon David Field Rennie, M.D.
to be Surgeon.
21st Hussars—Captain John Mathew Biddle, from 100th
Foot, to be Captain, vice Parker, who exchanges; Staff
Surgeon Gavin Ainslie Turnbull to be Surgeon.
Royal Artillery—Surgeon-Major.John Alexander William
Thompson, M.D., from 80th Foot, to be Surgeon-Major.
To bo Surgeons—Surgeons John Gibbons, from 95th Foot,
Thomas Bassett Reid, Walter Moses Gibaut, Robert
Menzies, Andrew Knox Drysdale, William Wilson Mills,
Edward Malcolm Sinclair, M.D., Alexander Maclean,
Robert Augustus Chapple, Charles Ricketts, Charles
Carroll Dempster. To be Assistant-Surgeon—Staff-
Assistant-Surgeon George Edward Gaacoyen, vice Chas.
Ricketts, promoted-on Staff.
7th Regiment of Foot—Lieut.-Colonel Montagu Hamilton
Dowbiggin, from half-pay late 99th Foot, to be Lieut.-
Colonel, vice Brevet-Colonel Reginald Yonge Shipley,
C. 8., who retires upon temporary half-pay ; Major T.
Wright Marten to be Lieutenant-Colonel, by purchase,
vice Montagu Hamilton Dowbiggin, who retires; Capt.
James M. Clayhills to be Major, vice Marten ; Lieut.
Horace Sibbald. Harrison to be Captain, by purchase,
vice Clayhills : Ensign Thomas Groube to be Lieuten-
ant, by purchase, vice Harrison.
13th Foot—Staff Assistant-Surgeon John Stuart to be
Assistant-Surgeon, vice Peter Nevill Jackson, promoted

on the Staff.
22d Foot—Staff-Surgeon William Henry Pollard to be
Surgeon, vice Robert Beresford Smyth, M. 8., appointed
to 102 d Foot ; Staff Assistant-Surgeon Thomas Francis
O'Dwyer, M.D., to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice James
Edward Clark, appointed to 38th Foot.
30th Foot—Captain Lachlan Macpherson to be Major, by
purchase, vice Robert Dillon, who retires on half-pay;
Lieutenant Pelham T. Pelham to be Captain, by pur-
chase, vice Macpherson ; Ensign George Edward Cobden
to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Pelham ; Alexander
John Goldie, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice
Cobden.
33d Foot—The appointment of Lieutenant Edwin Sandys
Wason as Adjutant has been antedated to 20th Decem-

ber, 1854.
38th Foot—Assistant-Surgeon James Edward Clark, from
22d Foot, to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Thomas Wright,
promoted on Staff.
40th Foot—Ensign Charles Francis Hulme to be Lieuten-
ant, by purchase, vice Albert Simeon, who retires ;
James Brougham, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice
Hulme.

41st-Foot--Lieutenant Francis Blake Eagle, from 48th
Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Duncombe, who ex-

changes.
47th Foot—Gentleman Cadet Joseph John Burnett, from
the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, without pur-
chase, vice Sandilands, transferred to Rifle Brigade.
48th Foot—Lieutenant Thomas Henry Duncombe, from
the 41st Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Eagle, who ex-
changes.
COth Foot—Staff Assistant-Surgeon George Allan Hutton
to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Adam Graham Young,
promoted on the Staff.
71st Foot—Staff Surgeon Major George Thomas Gal-
braith, M.D., to be Surgeon, vice Win. Barrett, M 8.,
placed upon half-pay.
73dFoot—Ensign Clement Wolesley Featherstonhaugh to
be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Edward Broughton
Knowles Lacon, who retires ; James Henry Sproule
Rivett-Carnac, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice
Featherstonhaugh.
80th Foot—Staff-Surgeon Thomas Wright to be Surgeon,
vice Surgeon-Major John Alexander William Thompson,
M.D., appointed to the Royal Artillery.
95th Foot—Staff-Surgeon Thomas John Murphy to be
Surgeon, vice John Gibbons, appointed to the Royal
Artillery.
100th Foot—Captain Howard Harker, from 21st ftussars,
to be Captain, vice Biddle, who exchanges.
101st Foot—Staff-Surgeon Edward Young Kellett to bo

Surgeon.
102 d Foot—Surgeon Robert Beresford Smyth, M. 8., from
22d Foot, to be Surgeon.
103 d Foot—Gentleman Cadet Eden Currie Showers, from
Royal Military College, to be Ensign, vice John Galway,
deceased.
104th Foot—Staff-Surgeon Lucas George Hooper to be
Surgeon.
105th Foot—Staff-Surgeon Alexander Mackay Macbeth,
to be Surgeon.
108th Foot—Surgeon Edward Gregg Noott, from half-
pay, late of 2d Foot, to be Surgeon.
Rifle Brigade—Ensign Horatio John Thomas Walpole to
be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Hugh William
Reid, deceased ; Ensign James Walter Sandilands, from
47th Foot, to be Ensign, vice R. W. Ormerod, promoted;
Staff Assistant-Surgeon Robert James Blair Cunyng-
hame, M.D., to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Alexander
Guthrie, M.D., promoted on Staff.
Ist West India Regiment—Lieutenant David Gardiner to
be Instructor of Musketry, vice Lieutenant C. L. J.
Fitz Gerald, who was ordered to revert to Company
duty.
Cape Mounted Rifles—Frederic Eosoingrave Harvey, Gent.,
to be Ensign, by purchase, vice J. P. D. Vanrenen,
transferred to 7th Dragoon Guards.
MEDICAL DEPARTMENT.
Staff Surgeon Major George Thomas Galbraith, M.D.,
from half-pay, to be Staff Surgeon Major, vice Surgeon
Andrew Knox Drysdale, appointed to the Royal Artillery.

TO BE STAFF SURGEONS.

Surgeon George Thomas Woodman, M.D., from half-pay
39th Foot, vice David Field Rennie, M.D., appointed to
20th Hussars.

Staff-Surgeon Henry Huish, M.D., from half-pay, vice
Gavin Ainslie Turnbull, appointed to 21st Hussars.
Staff-Surgeon John Dunlop, M.D., from half-pay, vice
Surgeon-Major Edward Menzies, appointed to 19th
Hussars.
Assistant-Surgeon Alexander Maclean, from Royal
Artillery.
Staff Assistant-Surgeon Alexander Ilumfrey, vice
Alexander Mackay Macbeth, appointed to 105th Foot.
Staff Assistant-Surgeon Edward Louis Lundy, vice
Thomas Bassett Reid, appointed to Royal Artillery.
Assistant-Surgeon W. H. Pollard, from Royal Artillery.
Assistant-Surgeon Thomas Wright, from 38th Foot.
Staff Assistant-Surgeon Thomas John Murphy, M.D.
Assistant-Surgeon Peter Nevill Jackson, from 13th Foot,
vice W. W. Mills, appointed to Royal Artillery.
Staff Assistant-Surgeon Francis Stephen Bennet Fran-
cois de Chaumont, M.D., vice Edward Malcolm Sinclair,
M.D., appointed to Royal Artillery.
Assistant-Surgeon Alexander Guthrie, M.D., from Rifle
Brigade, vice Robert Menzies, appointed to Royal Artillery.
Staff Assistant-Surgeon Edward Young Kellett.
Assistant-Surgeon Robert Augustus Chapple, from
Royal Artillery.
Assistant-Surgeon Charles Ricketts, from Royal Artil-
lery.
Assistant-Surgeon Lucas George Hooper, from 10th
Hussars.
Assistant-Surgeon Adam Graham Young, from 60th
Foot, vice Walter Moses Gibaut, appointed to Royal
Artillery.
Staff Assistant-Surgeon Charles Carroll Dempster.
TO BE STAFF ASSISTANT-SURGEON.
Assistant-Surgeon George Richard Woolhouse, from
19th Hussars, vice Byng Thomas Giraud, M.D., appointed
to 19th Hussars.
VETERINARY DEPARTMENT.
William Black Edmonds, Gent., to be Acting Veterinary
Surgeon, vice Percivall, promoted in 11th Hussars.

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STAFF.
Major-General Lord William Paulet, K.C.8., to be Ad-
jutant-General to the Forces, vice Lieutenant-General the
Hon. Sir James Yorke Scarlett, K.C.8., whose period of
service on the Staff is about to expire.
BREVET.
Captain Simon Ridley Little, retired full-pay, Royal
Marine Light Infantry, to have the honorary rank of
Major, under her Majesty's Order in Council of 13th
November, 1858.
The undermentioned promotions to take place conse-
quent on the decease of General Sir James Shaw Ken-
nedy, K.C.8., Colonel 47th Foot, on 80th May, 1865 :
Lieutenant-General Robert Bartlett Coles, Colonel 65th
Foot, to be General.
Major-General Sir Thomas Simson Pratt,
Colonel 37th Foot, to be Lieutenant-General.
Brevet-Colonel Sir Thomas Myddelton Biddulph, R.C.B ,
from Lieutenant-Colonel, Unattached, Extra-Equerry to
her Majesty, to be Major-General.
Captain and Brevet-Major Edmund John Carthew,
Royal Artillery, to be Lieutenant-Colonel.
ADMIRALTY, JUNE 16.
Royal Marine Light Infantry—Colonel and Second Com-
mandant Wm. Robert Maxwell to be Colonel-Commandant,
vice Payne, to retired full-pay; Lieut.-Col. Richard George
Connolly to be Colonel and Second Commandant, vice
Maxwell, promoted ; Captain and Brevet-Major James
Pickard to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Connolly ;
First Lieutenant Henry Forbes to be Captain, vice
Pickard ; Second Lieutenant Henry James Bowman to be
First Lieutenant, vice Forbes.
Sub-Lieutenants John Hayes, Robert Hugh Wilder
Cornwall, Richard Frederick Britten, John Wil-
liam Jones, Charles Richard Cole Hamilton, Charles
William Jones, Edgar Richard Mathias, Edward Hicks,
John Hext, Alexander Robert Kerr, Wallace Bruce
Maardy, Henry Hill Justice, John George Jones, Julian
Agnew Dashwood, Francis Hayter, and Lynedoch Need-
ham Moncrieff to be lieutenants.
The following promotions have this day been made :
Mr. William Murray to be Acting Engineer ; Mr. Holland
Harrison to be Engineer ; Mr. Edward Watts to be Acting
Engineer; Mr. Thomas Carline to be Engineer ; Mr. Chas.
Platt to be Engineer; and Mr. Joseph Hopwood to be En-
gineer, with seniority of 11th February, 1865.

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