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London, England, 1854-04-11 00:00:00

THE WAR-THE FAST DAY.

On the motion of Sir J. Y. BULLER it was agreed that
all committees on private bills which stand adjourned.
till Tuesday, the 25th day of this instant Apia, be fur-
ther adjourned till Thursday, the 27th day of this instant
April.
MIDDLESEX INDU4TRIAL SCHOOLS.

Lord R. GROSVENOR moved that the following be a
Select Committee :—Lord D. Stuart, Sir J. Pakington,
Mr. Henley, Mr. Baines, Mr. Roebuck, Sir W. Clay, Lord
R. Grosvenor, Sir G. Grey, Mr. J. O'Connell, and Mr.
Grey ; and five members to be added by the Committee
of Selection, on the above subject.—Agreed to.

PETITIONS.
Petitions were presented—by Sir J. WALMSLEY, from
Leicester, praying for the admission of dissenterst o the
universities ; by Mr. A. PELLATT, to the same effect,
from
Manchester and other places; by Sir J. Y. BULLER, from
certain electors of Barnstaple, praying to be heard at the
'bar of the house on the Bribery at Elections Bill ; by Mr.
BRIGHT, from Stoney-Stratford, in favour of an ocean
penny postage ; by Mr. Sergeant &LEE, from a place in
Londonderry, praying for vote by ballot ; by Mr. BLAC-
KETT, from Mr. J. B. Brown, who, owing to an accident,
lost his eyesight, and conceived he had met with undue
neglect from a medical officer of the East India Company,
and praying the house to grant him compensation ; by Sir
PAKINGTON, from 1650 Protestant inhabitants of New-
foundland against the granting of independent action to
the Legislature of that colony unless accompanied by cer.
tail], restrictions ; by Mr. COLLIER, from Plymouth, in fa-
'our of ocean penny postage ; by Mr. GRENVILLE BEM.
KELET, in the absence of Mr. Tufnell, from East Stour-
house, Devon, in favour of an ocean penny postage.
LIMITED LIABILITIES.
Mr. CARDWELL said he found it would not be possi-
li ble
mite to la theft report of the commission on the subject of
d liabily on the table till after the recess.
STATUE OF GEORGE 11.
Mr. T. DUNCOMBE said he should put off his motion
on the letter-carriers till after Easter. In reply to the
same hon. member,
Sir W. MOLESWORTII—As to what had become of
the statue of George 11. which had stood in
square previous to 1851, 'he had found it was under the
Great Globe on that site, and further that Mr. Wyld said
the statue in question was almost valueless, *and- that it
was besides private propel ty.
ABANDONMENT OF THE REFORM BILL.
Lord J. RUSSELL, in rising to move that the house at
its rising do adjourn until Monday the 24th, took the
opportunity of entering into an explanation with regard
to the Reform Bill. He had proposed to move that the
house should adjourn until the 21th, but from various cir-
cumstances which he explained, such as the fast
day which was fixed for the 26th, he thought it would be
better to adjourn until the 27th. (Hear, bear.) He would
now state the course which Government had determined
to take with regard to the Reform Bill. The house was
aware that Lord Aberdeen and his Government accepted
office upon the distinct pledge or understanding that a
new measure of parliamentary reform would be one of its
first. measures. Now, his own personal
only accept office
lhonour being
mined up with that question, ha could
under Lord Aberdeen on such terms, but when the
time came for introducing such a measure lalct,l
wereyear,
it was found which that the affairs, of India, I
very preaiing at the time would preclude its intro-
duction, and it was thereforo not brought forward last
Session. During the recess, however, the Cabinet again
gave its attention to the subject, and at the opening
of Par-
liament this year the n
-,-Aleeu announced from the throne
that such a measure had been prepared, and would be
speedily laid before the house. It was so laid before the
house on the 13th of February, but owing to the rupture
with Russia it was afterwards thought advisable to post-
pone the second reading of the bill until the 27th
of this month. (Hear, hear.) At the same time,
however, he then stated his opinion, that in the
abstract, the country being in a state of war was not a
sufficient reason for postponing MallFlroi of domestic
abaractet like a Reform 8114. bata bait npeared

that there was a manifest unwillingness on the part of the
house to enter into a discussion of the bill ; while, so far
as he could collect from the number of publio meetings
which had been held son the subject, the country seemed
for the momeats- to be utterly' ndifferent to it. (Hear.)
In fact, the attention of the country was now wholly ab-
sorbed in the progress of the great struggle in which we
were now embarked ; and though the people did not dis-
approve of the provisions of this bill, the Govern-
ment yet thought that in the present aspect of
our foreign affairs it would not be advisable
even for the sake of reform itself that they should proceed
further with the Reform Bill this session. (Cheers.) He
thought that there was great truth in the observation of
the right hon. gentleman the member for Buckingham-
shire, that it was unwise to continue this bill on the paper
in a state of doubt and uncertainty ; it was unwise to con-
tinue it, then, if it could not be proceeded with this ses-
sion, because it practically declared that there were mem-
bers holding seats in the house who, in the estimation of
the framers of the bill, had no right to them—
(hear, hear)—and the Government, he repeated, feel-
ing the force of that observation, had arrived,
after clue deliberation, at the conclusion which he had
just announced. (Ilear, hear.) It had been for them to
chose between two courses, either they might have gone
on with the bill, preferring to resign in case of defeat on
the Reform Bill, or they must abandon it to a future and
more opportune period. Now, looking to the prospect of
a severe war, and bearing in mind that the responsibility
of having commenced it rested with her Majesty's present
advisers, they had preferred to take the latter course
rather than run the risk of a defeat, which might render
their resignation necessary in the midst of the present
struggle. (Cheers.) It might be asked, then, how stood
the question of reform? What were its prospects?
Well, he would confess, by way of answer, that the
views and opinions of the Government on the subject of
Pa taryßeform remained unchanged and unshaken,
and please God, should a fitting time speedily arrive, they
would be prepared to renew the measure which necessity
compelled them to abandon. (Cheers.) He knew that the
course he had taken was new ; it was unprecedented ; and
he owned without hesitation, that it might fairly
hold the Government up to some censure. No doubt
the Opposition would make this an occasion for
indulging in taunts and insinuations at his own expense,
and he should not find fault with them for doing so, but
he wished the house and the country to believe that he had
done nothing which, in his conscience, he thought would
injure the cause of reform. (Cheers.) It was only a
sense of public duty, and a sense of what was due
to the Sovereign at this momentous time, which
had induced him to sacrifice this measure for the present;
but with the risk-of a defeated Ministry or a dissolution of
Parliament, he had no alternative but to arrive at the con-
clusion that the Reform Bill must be given up for a while.
The noble lord, who was, towards the close of his
speech, moved to tears, which called forth the hearty and
long-continued plaudits of both sides of the house, re-
sumed his seat by moving that the house at its rising
should adjourn until the 27th inst.
Sir E. DERING warmly thanked the noble lord for
having extricated the Reformers from the difficulty
which the bill had imposed upon them. (Hear, hear.)
The great moral courage which the noble lord had
displayed to-night was worthy of his high reputation, and
the noble lord might rest satisfied that the people of this
country, to whom he appealed, were too generous to accuse
him of insincerity on the subject of reform, or to ques-
tion the propriety of the decision which he seemed to
have so reluctantly come to. (Cheers.) No man
could foreeee the end of the great struggle we were
unfortunately embarked in, and although the question of
Parliamentary Reform might be very properly taken up
again when peace returned, this was not the proper time
for pressing it forward. (Hear, hear.) He, therefore,
again thanked the noble lord for the course he was taking,
and promised him his support as soon as circumstances
should admit of Parliamentary Reform.
Mr. HUME had reluctantly arrived at the same con-
clusion as the noble lord ; but he thought there was no al-
ternative but to abandon this measure for the present.
(Hear, hear.) It was for the interest of Reform that the
question should be postponed until the war was at an end,
and he therefore hoped his friends around him would
do honour to the reasonable feelings of the noble lord
on this subject rather than meet him with those unbecom-
ing taunts of which the noble lord appeared to be afraid.
Mr. BRIGHT was glad that this bill was not given up
ag A sacrifice to the clamours of the Opposition ; it was
gi V6ll up because the noble lord was now thoroughly
alive to the impossibility of making progress with a mea-
sure .of Parliamentary Reform while a war was raging
arems d us. (Loud cheers.) The noble lord had been a
political Samson „in his time, and had clone much which
hereafter' would be remembered to his honour, but it would
be impos eible for the noble lord, or any other minister, to
get a Refo:en Bill passed while the war was going on.
(Cheers.) Lae had never doubted the sincerity of the
noble lord on the subject of Parliamentary reform; nay,
be would go th e length of saying, that the man who doubted
it would he eigter blind or stupid, but he blamed the
noble lord and his colleagues for having advocated
the policy which bad led to the war. (Hear, hear.) The
house, however, had supported them in that policy, and
they could not, therefore, censure or taunt the noble lord
for the course he proposed to take with regard to this biil.
(Hear, hear.) The hon. gentleman then proceeded to criti-
cise the now defunct Reform Bill, and to argue that it
conferred snore advantages on the counties than on the
towns. He advised the noble lord not to give up the
idea of reform, which he had cherished so many years,
as the people were with him, and be hoped in happier times
the noble lord would be prepared with an improved bil:
when he was convinced the country would be ready to sup
port him. (Cheers.)
Mr. LABOUCHERE believed the noble lord had acted
with his wonted integrity and courage in taking this course.
The noble lord would have seriously injured the cause of
reform if ho had been actuated by any false shame, but
seeing that the attention of the people was wholly absorbed
in the war the noble lord had manifested a wise and pru-
dent feeling in consenting to postpone his bill to a future
period. (Cheers.)
Lord JOCELYN accorded his mood of praise to the
noble lord for the sacrifice of personal feeling which he
had made on this occasion, and expressed a hope that,
now that the reform difficulty was got rid of, the war
would be carried on with energy and vigour.
Lord H. VANE rose, and was
[LEFT SPEAKING.]

THE LONDON GAZETTE.

(THIS EVENING.)

BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, APRIL 8.
The Right Honourable the Lords of the Committee of
Privy Council for Trade and Plantations have received,
through the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy
of a Despatch from Her Majesty's Consul at Mexico, en-
closing a Decree of the Mexican Government announcing
the establishment of a duty on the exportation of all de-
scriptions of Logwood, at the rate of 8 per cent. upon the
valuation, of 50 cents. per quintal.
BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, APRIL 10.
The Right Honourable the Lords of the Committee of
Privy Council for Trade and Plantations have received in-
formation, through the Secretary of State for the Colonies,
of the following reduction, by the Governor of Algeziras,
of the quarantine imposed on arrivals from England, viz.,
from 2 to 5 days on ships with cargoes, and to 3 days
when in ballast.
OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, APRIL 10.
Corps of Royal Engineers—Lieutenant-Colonel Henry
John Savage to be Colonel, vice Jones, deceased, March
21; Captain Thomas Hosmer Rimington Lieut.-Colonel,
vice Savage ; Second Captain George Clement Baillie to be
Captain, vice Rimington ; First Lieutenant Henry What-
ley Tyler to bo Second Captain, vice Baillie; Second Lieu-
tenant Henry William Hart Davies Dumaresq, to be First
Lieutenant, vice Tyler, March 3L

MEMORANDUM.-The date of the promotion of the un-
dermentioned officers has been altered to 21st March :
Lintenant-Colonel Renwick, Captain Gosset, Second Cap-
tain Jervois, First Lieutenant Hale.
COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY LORD LIEUTENANTS.

Hampshire Yeomanry Cavalry—William Martin Powell,
Esq., late Captain of Inniskilling Dragoons, to be Adju-
tant, with rank of Captain, April 5.
2d Regiment of Royal Cheshire Militia— Charles John
Sanford, Gent., to be Surgeon, April 5.
[This Article is substituted for that which appeared in
the Gazette of the 17th March last.]
Leicestershire Militia—Edward Harry Thomas, Esq., to
be Captain, Feb. 25.
Leicestershire Militia—Edmund Arthur Paget, Esq., to
be Captain, March 15.

Rifle Corps of Militia—Thomas Parr Williams Ellis,
Gent., to be First Lieutenant, March 25.
4th or Duke of Lancaster's Own (Light Infantry) Royal
Lancashire Militia—Lieut. Robert Kershaw to be Captain,
vice Blundell, resigned; Richard Trevor Irwin Gent.,
late 21st Fusiliers, to be Lieutenant, vice Gardner, ap-
pointed to the 2d Regiment, April 8 ; Peter Herbert Dela-
mere, Gent., to be Ensign, April 7 ; Kynaston William
Smith, Gent., to be Ensign, April 8 ; John Robert Leigh,
Gent., to be Ensign, April 10.
sth Regiment of Royal Lancashire Militia—George
Smirthwaite, cent., to be Assistant-Surgeon, April 10.
County of Cambridge—Charles James Lindam, Esq., to
be Captain, April 6.
Ist Regiment of West York Militia—Thomas Frederick
Charles Vernon Wentworth to be Lieutenant, vice Hart-
ley, who retires ; Ensign Theodosius Stuart Russell to be
Lieutenant, vice Chamberlaine, promoted, March 7.
2d Regiment of West York Militia—Richard Johnstone,
Gent., to be Ensign, April 4.
3d Regiment of West York Militia—Henry William
Heaton, Gent., to be Ensign, March 24.
sth Regiment of West York Militia—Captain George
Hedley to be First Major; Captain Charles Cooley Craven
to be Second Lieutenant, March 24.

6th Regiment of West 'York Militia—Godfrey Armytage,
Esq., Adjutant by her Majesty's Commission, to be Cap-
tain, March 23; Charles Henry Connell, Esq., to be Cap-
tain ; Hylton de Cardonnell Lawson, Esq., to be Captain,
March 24.

2d Regiment of Royal Surrey Militia—William Ponti-
fex, Esq., to be Lieutenant, vice Barclay, resigned, April 3.

The Lord Chancellor has appointed the following gentle-
men to be Commissioners for administering oaths in the
High Court of Chancery
William Holt, Great Yarmoith.
William Roberts, jun., Coleford Gloucestershire.John Endell
._Powles, Monmouth.
William Henry BedfOrd Tomlinson, Wakefield.
Henry Minett, R 093, Herefordshire.

BANKRUPTCY ANNULLED.
William Morris, innkeeper, Ludlow.
BANKRUPTS.

Henry Jesse, corn factor, Basingstoke, to surrender,
April 25, at two, and May 23, at twelve, at the Court of
Bankrutcy. Stansfeld, official assignee; Johnson,
Weatherhall, and Son, King's Bench-walk, Temple, aud.
Lamb, Brooks, and Challis, Basingstoke.
Thomas Bishop and William Bishop, builders, White
Lion-street, Bishopsgate, April 19, at two, and May 23, at
one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Graham, official as-
signee ; Wetherfield, Basinghall-street.'
Bennett Alfred Burton and Henry- Mortimer Burton,
engineeis; Helfand-street, Southwark, April 19 at half-
past twelve, paid $lOO 3 at twelm at the Court of Bank-
.

THE NEW SUSPENSION-BRIDGE AT CHELSEA

The suspension-bridge over the Thames, at Chelsea,
now in the course of construction for the Commissioners
of her Majesty's Works, under the superintendence of
Mr. Page, their engineer, stands nearly midway between
Vauxhall and Battersea-bridges. Some particulars of
the construction may be interesting. For the founda-
tions, piles of elm timber, averaging 13 inches square,
are driven at intervals of 3 feet, on an average 28 feet
below the bed of the river, enclosed by a strong cast-
iron casing, 88 feet in length, and 19 feet in width, with
curved cutwater. This iron case consists of piles and
plates driven into the bed of the river, the piles to a depth
of 25 feet, and the plates 20 feet below the low-water line.
These piles are driven at every 9 feet; the metal is one
inch thick, and the plates are cast with ribs 6 inches deep,
and have projecting pieces arranged to fit into the grooves
of the piles : this casing forms the outside of the pier ;
it rises 7 feet above high water, and is surmounted
by a moulded cast-iron curb. From the depth of the piles
and plates below the bed of the river it prevents the
water ever undermining the foundations. The elm bear-
ing piles are cut off at a level of two feet above low
water, and are securely tied together transversely and
longitudinally, by iron bars, bolted to every pile. The
loose ground between the piles is scooped out, and the
entire space filled to the top of the piles, with concrete,
consisting of five parts of gravel to one part of blue lias
lime : upon this concrete two layers of thick Yorkshire
stone landings are bedded, care being taken that no void
is left between the under surface of the bottom layer and
the concrete, but that the stones shall bear equally over
the whole foundations. This forms the floor upon which
the towers of the bridge are to be erected. The towers,
which are being prepared, are of cast-iron columns, 10
inches diameter, firmly braced and tied together, and are
to be inclosed in an ornamental casing, partly of wrought
and partly of cast iron. The space between the frame-
work and the cast-iron casing of the piers and the
foundations will be filled in solid "with concrete,
and upon this will be a layer of Bradford landings
forming the floors of the piers. The chains will be
carried over the towers on saddles, moving on rollers
six inches diameter placed on a horizontal bed, and
secured to the -abutments by mooring-stones, from
which spring strong brick arches, which sustain the
weight of the concrete, forming the interior of the abut-
ments. The mooring-stones likewise bear against the
side walls, so that the whole weight of the abutments is
made effective in counteracting the pull of the chains.
The roadway is to be formed of wrought-iron girders
placed transversely at every 8 feet of the bridge suspen-
ded to the chains by iron bars 2 inches diameter, and
diagonally braced with smaller girders of similar con-
struction, upon which rest the roadway plates, and upon
these the pavement forming the road. The footpaths
are to be placed outside the chains, and supported at
distances of eight feet by wrought-iron cantilevers bolted
to the transverse girders of the roadway. Between the
footpaths and the roadway a wrought-iron girder six
feet deep, and rising about three feet above the road-
way, will run the whole length of the bridge, stiffening
the roadway, and preventing that tremulous motion to
which suspension-bridges are so subject. On each abut-
ment two ornamental lodges are built, in character with
the architecture of the towers, and will serve as habita-
tions for the toll-men. There is much novelty in the
construction of the foundations, and we are not surprised
to learn that, since the bridge was commenced, several
French and German engineers have visited the works,
with a view of adopting in their own countries the
method employed.

BIRTH PLACES OF THE CHIEF OFFICERS ABOUT TO
AOT AGAINST RUSSIA.—A gentleman curious in such
matters has made out the following statement :
Of the five who are to command divisions, all
are of different birth—a Scotchman, a Hanoverian,
an Irishman, a Canadian, and an Englishman—thus
Sir George Brown is a native of Linkwood, near
Elgin ; the Duke of Cambridge was born at Her-
enkausen, in Hanover ; Sir De Lacy Evans is a native
of Moig, county Limerick, Ireland ; Sir Richard England,
a native of Detroit, in Upper Canada ; and the Earl of
Lucan is the only Englishman of that rank ; he is to com-
mand the cavalry, and is a Londoner by birth, though
of course an Irishman by descent. So also it is remark-
able with respect to the two fleets, how the two highest
command are not Englishmen. Sir Charles Napier was
born near Falkirk, in Scotland, and Admiral Dundas
4 at Calcutta, though he also is a Scotchman by descent.
Amongst the eleven Brigadiers-general, it is interesting
to observe H. J. Bentinck (English ?), of Dutch origin
on both sides—his mother having been a De Reede
de Ginkle), Sir Colin and Sir John Campbell, of
Scotch blood, Colonel Pennefather, a " Tipperary
boy." Colonel Yorke Scarlett, of Jamaica descent,
while J. B. Estcourt is a Londoner, born near Port-
man-square, and Lord Cardigan, a native of Hamble-
don, leaving only four unaccounted for, and of
these, H. W. Adams is probably a native of War-
wickshire, since he is the head of an old family in
that county, Wm. Eyre is probably of Nottinghamshire
birth, and George Buller a Cornishman. Among the
six assistant adjutants-general we notice the two Irish
names of Doyle and Sullivan, and two Scotch, Maule
and Gordon. The mixed nature of our population is
here shadowed forth, but Eui,lishmen have not secured
" the lion's share " of the staff appointments.—Civil
Scrr ice Gazette. -
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the disease yielded not to their treatment, and various
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