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earl might he erected to celebrate that event, with the
100 guests mentioned by the nobk earl. (Laughter.) fie
agreed with the noble earl oppoaito in thinking that at
the present time it was not at all desirable to lay out a
large sum of money, some 70,000/. or 50,0001., on a mag-
nificent building for the Foreign-office. That money ex-
pended on the war would be more serviceable than if it
were expended in diplomacy or in objects which would
render diplomacy more brilliant. He concurred in the ob-
jection to the removal of the Enclosure Commissioners.
He thought that any decent house in Carlton-place
would be adequate to all the requirements of the Secre-
tary of War, and would suit the public convenience.
(Hear, hear.) With regard to the staff of the office, he
was of opinion that it should be composed of men who
knew war, and had seen service in different parts of the
globe, and taken from all arms of the service, cavalry,
infantry, artillery, and engineers. In his opinion it was
essential if the duties of the office were to be efficiently
discharged, that the staff should be composed of military
men, of weight and authority in war. If it was thought
right that the head of the department should be a civi-
lian, it was essential that he should have facilities of
constant communication with military men in the office,
who would advise him not as his equals or as a board,
but as persons responsible for the advice they gave. If
that were done, he was sure that all the advantage
which the public expected from the severance of the two
offices would not be in vain. (Hear.)
Lord REDESDALE hoped that nothir°, would be
done with respect to the appropriation of the spare
ground till the subject was fully considered. (Hear.)
Great inconvenience existed from the narrow carriage
passage to the houses of Parliament, and it might be
thought necessary to widen Parliament-street. Great
inconvenience arose also from the scattering of the
public offices, and the continuance of the present build-
ings across Downing-street would be very desirable.
Lord CAMPBELL said that some scheme should be
laid down with respect to the courts of law. (Laughter.)
They could not continue in their present disgraceful
state. They were considered now to be an obstruction
to the cohesion of Sir C. Barry's great plan. They
wanted no splendour or luxury in the courts of law, but
they did want the necessary accommodation for the
judges, the jurymen, and the witnesses who had to at-
tend the courts, and which was quite inadequate at pre-
sent. On a recent occasion three of his learned brethren
of the Queen's Bench were sitting in the Bail Court,
when they were driven out of it by an invasion—not of
the Russians, but of stench that was " sublime."
(Laughter.) Mr. Burke said in his treatise "On the
Sublime and Beautiful," that a stench was a source of
the sublime—(laughter)—and if that were so, this was a
sublime stench. (Laughter.) His learned brethren fled
from it as from an enemy. It was intense, pestiferous,
as any of their lordships might, by going there, be able
to judge for himself. (Laughter.) He was frequently
ashamed to show the courts of law to foreigners who
came over to this country. (Hear.)

Lord ST. LEONARIiS said that, with very little ex-
pense, the courts of equity in Westminster might be
given up to the courts of law, and the equity courts then
removed to Lincoln's-inu. He objected to the carrying
out of Sir C. Barry's plan in extenso.
The LORD CHANCELLOR said that it was the
fault of his noble and learned friend's colleagues that they
did not sit in the Court of Chancery, for he gave direc-
tions that the courts of law might sit in it when he did
not use it himself.

The Marquis of LANSDOWNE said that Sir C.
Barry's building was the admiration of all foreigners
who came over to England.
Lord BROUGHAM said that, however excellent the
execution, he retained his fundamental objection to the
barbarism of erecting a Gothic instead of a Grecian
building in the middle of the 19th century.
After a few words from the Earl of MALMESBUET, the
subject dropped.
WARWICK ASSIZES BILL.
This bill was read a second time.
EDUCATION.

Lord BROUGHAM gave notice that on the 17th
inst. he would move a series of resolutions upon the
great subject of national education.

CANADA.

The Earl of DERBY gave notice that on to-morrow
he would put a question to the Government respecting
an important despatch which had been received from
Canada (as was understood) by the Secretary of War.