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London, England, 1865-06-20 00:00:00

THIRD READINGS

The following public bills were read a third time and
passed without discussion :—Greenwich Hospital, Forti-
fications (Provision for Expenses), Malt Duty, Harbours
Transfer, Pier and Harbour Orders Confirmation (No. 2),
Pier and Harbour Orders Confirmation (No. 3), Trusts
Administration (Scotland), Record of Title (Ireland), Wick
and Ayr Burghs Election.

INLAND REVENUE BILL.
This bill, as amended, was considered and agreed to.
FIRE BRIGADE (METROPOLIS) BILL.
In clause 10,

Mr. BARING moved the introduction of the following
words :—" Including the payment of all pensions that have
been granted to the members of the said fire engine esta-
blishment, according to a list that has been furnished to
the chairman of the said board by the chief officer of the
said fire engine establishment, and all trustees for the same
shall be indemnified against such liabilities and obliga-
tions."

The amendment was agreed to.
In clause 11,

Mr. HARVEY LEWIS moved to strike out the words
" thirty-five pounds," and to insert instead "eighty-seven
pounds ten shillings." The object of the clause was to protect
the metropolitan ratepayers from payingmore than £15,000
to make up the £50,000 annual expenses incurred by the bill.
The fire insurance offices were exceedingly wealthy, and
he did not see why they should be allowed to escape at the
expense of the ratepayer. It was estimated that the expense
of carrying the bill would be £50,000 ; now, as the fire
insurance offices were to contribute £25,000 per annum,
the Government offices were to contribute £10,000; and
he considered the remaining £15,000 was all that ought
to be contributed by tie ratepayers.
Sir M. FARQUHAR opposed the amendment. He denied
that the fire offices wished to escape any of their just liabi-
lities. They were remarkable for the promptness and libe-
rality with which they liquidated their claims, and he
thought it was unjust that they should be made in
-any way responsible, further than they had agreed, for
the protection of the uninsured property of the metropolis.
There were, it was estimated, £900,000,000 worth of pro-
perty in the metropolis, out of which only £300,000,000
was protected by insurance.
Mr. AYRTON thought that insurance ought to be paid
according to the risk.
Lord FERMOY thought that the fire insurance
offices would be much better off under the now law than
they were previous to its passing. That being the case
he felt that the proposal of his hon. colleague was a per-
fectly fair one. He thought the insurance companies ought
to lower their rate of insurance, because the public were going
to greatly improve their position. He felt it was quite
true, as had been stated, that in the end the whole of the
cost of extinguishing fires would be cast upon the rate-
payers, without some provision was made to prevent it.
He did not see why the burden should be taken off the
rich insurance companies, and cast upon the poor rate-
payers, and for that reason he cordially supported the
amendment of his hon. colleague.
Mr. BARING could not agree to the amendment. He
thought that the principle laid down in the bill, that the
proportion to be paid should be according to the amount of
property insured, was the best mode that could be adopted.
The committee divided, when there appeared—.
For the amendment l6
Against
Majority —4s
The amendment was therefore negatived.
Mr. AYRTON moved another amendment to the same
clause, but it was negatived without a division.
Mr. BARING moved to add the following words to the
clause :—" Provided that any insurance company which at
the time of the passing of this act contributes to the ex-
penses of the said fire engine establishment may, in re-
spect of all payments to be made by it in the year one
thousand eight hundred and sixty seven, but not after-
wards, contribute after the yearly rate of thirty-five
pounds in one million pounds of the business in respect of
which it contributes to the said fire engine establishment
for the present year according to a return which has been
furnished to the chairman of the said Metropolitan Board,
instead of in the manner in this act pro.vided. '

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The motion was agreed to,
Mr. AYRT ON objected altogether to the clause. He
believed it had been slipped into the bill by some of the
companies in order that they might escape their just amount
of taxation.

The committee divided upon the proposition.
Ayes
Noes
Majority
The amendment was then agreed to ; and the clause was
also agreed to.

Clauses up to 15 inclusive were then agreed to.
On clause 16,
Mr. BLACKBURN said by the clause it appeared that
the quota to be paid by the Government offices was
£lO,OOO, instead of that he thought that the Government
property should be assessed at the rata of one halfpenny in
the pound levied upon all property rated to the relief of the
poor. _ _ _

- Mr. BARING opposed the amendment.
After a short discussion the amendment was rejected.
On clause 17 being proposed,
Mr. CLAY moved that the following words be added to
the clause :—That the proportion of any such payment by
the overseer of any parish which shall be attributed to
rates paid by any water company in respect of their pipes
or works may be deducted by such water company out of
the next payment of rates demanded by such overseer, and
shall be allowed by him accordingly.
Mr. BARING opposed the amendment.
Mr. H. LEWIS also opposed the amendment. He said
the water company had got acts of Parliament such as
they never would succeed in getting at the present time,
and they used the public most mercilessly. He for one
would be glad of any opportunity that would lead to the
breaking up of the monopoly.
The amendment was negatived, and the clause was or-
dered to stand part of the bill.
Mr. AYRTON moved thefollowing clause :—The Board
shall maintain as many steam fire-engines on the River
Thames, within the limits of the metropolis, as may by
them be deemed necessary as part of the said Fire Brigade,
the Conservators of the River Thames paying out
of the funds in their hands, to the said Board, the
sum of £3,000 annually, provided they had a surplus,
The Conservancy Board, he believed, spent all the re-
venue they received ; but if their accounts were watched
by the Metropolitan Board they would soon have a sur-
plus instead of deficit. They kept a steamboat to go up
and down the river, and he did not see why they should
not be called upon to contribute to the fund.
Mr. BARING objected to the additional clause, because
there was no surplus or fund out of which it could be paid.
The proposition was negatived without a division.
The preamble was then agreed to, and the bill was re-
ported with amendments.

HARWICH HARBOUR BILL.

This bill passed ibrOligliCOn= committee and was reported.

CARRIERS ACT AMENDMENT BILL.

This bill passed through committee without amendment.
ROADS AND BRIDGES (S C 0 T LAND) BILL.

The house went into committee on this bill.
Lord ELCHO moved that the Chairman report pro-
gress.
After a short discussion, in which Mr. BLACKBURN and
Mr. STIRLING took part, the bill was virtually withdrawn.
The sitting of the house was then suspended.

The house resumed at six o'clock.
ILEFT SITTING.]

LONDON GAZETTE—This Evening.

FOREIGN-OFFICE, JUNE 20.
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, &c.,
(Signed) FREDERICK W. A. BRUCE.
The Earl Russell, K.G., &c., &c.
(Inclosure).
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 directi 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 jurisdiction.
WILLIAM H. SEWARD.
WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, JUNE 20.
9th Regiment of Lancers—Cornet Francis Henry to be
Lieutenant, without purchase, vice William H. Law-

rence, deceased.
10th Hussars—Staff Assistant-Surgeon James Hinton to
be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Lucas George Hooper, pro-

moted on the Sta-ff.
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 be 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 Gaseoyen, vice :Alas.
Ricketts,.promoted on Staff.
ith Regiinent 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. Clavhills to be Major, vice Marten ; Lieut.
Horace Sibbald_Harrison to be_Captain, by purchase,

vice Clayhills : Ensign Thomas Groilbe 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
Wasonas 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.
60th 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 Wm. 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-Surgeoti Thomas John Murphy to be
Surgeon, vice John Gibbons, appointed to the Royal
Artillery.
100th Foot—Captain Howard Harker, from 21st Hussars,
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, 0 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 alter 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 orde'red to revert to Company
duty.
Cape Mounted Rifles—Frederic Eoseingrave 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 oyal 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 Finish, M.D., from half-pay, vice
Gavin Ainslie Turnbull, appointed to 21st Hussars.
Staff-Surgeon John Dunlop, M.D., from half-pay, vice
Setgeon-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 ThomaJOhn 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.

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 30th May, 1865:
Lieutenant-General Robert Bartlett Cobs, Colonel 65th
Foot, to be General.
Major-General Sir Thomas Simson Pratt, K.C.8.,
Colonel 37th Foot, to be Lieutenant-General.

Brevet-Colonel Sir Thomas Myddelton Biddulph, 8.C.8.,
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. Rober 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 Hemy 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
M'Hardy, Henry Hill Justice, John George Jones, Julian
Agnew Dashwood, Francis Mayter, 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 Carlin to be Engineer ; Mr. Chas.
Platt to be Engineer; and Mr. Joseph Hopwood to be En-
gineer, with seniority of 11th February, 1865.

BANKRUPTS.
That portion of the "Gazette" containing the Bank-
rupts had not_arrived when we went to press.

COURSE Or EXCHANGE--This Evening.

Amsterdam Short. 11 171 11 18/
Ditto 3 Months. 11 19 12 0
Rotterdam
Antwerp — 25 42/ 25 45
Brussels
Hamburg
Paris Short 25 17/ 25 22i
Ditto 3 Months. 25 37/ 25 45
Marseilles
Frankfort on the Maine —120 k
Vienna. — 11 15 11 20
Trieste — 11 15 11 20
Petersburgh - 30/ 31/
Berlin
Madrid — .471 47/
Cadiz
Leghorn
Milan
Genoa
Naples — 25 50 25 55
Palermo
Messina
2
Lisbon _ 511 51/
Oporto —51 i

COVENTRY ELECTION (Tins DAY).—The 1101lli-
mination took plase this morning. About 10,000 persons
were present. The utnikst uproar prevailed, and no one
was heard. The candidates were Mr. Eaton and Mr.
Mason Jones. The show of hands was largely in favour
of Mr. Eaton.

LYCEUM THEATRE.—This house will be reopened
for one night on Wednesday, when a variety of attractive
entertainments will be produced, for the benefit of Mr. H.
Barnett, the acting-manager, a gentleman who, during the
whole period of Mr. Fechter's lesseeship, has discharged
the duties of an arduous office with zeal, ability, and un-
varying courtesy.