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terests of the country were involved as a game in which it
was perfectly competent to him to embarrass when he
could, to utter his sarcasms and taunts, without considering
what important consequences might flow from such a course.
(Hear.) If he found that his party would go with him on
any great question, let him ask the house for a vote of want
of confidence ; let him act as his predecessors had done.
But if there was a question ou which he and his party wore
not bound by any principle of theirs to oppose the Govern-
ment, let them act with that enlarged character, and that
integrity of conduct, which had distinguished that party
in former days. This was one of the causes which had
rendered so difficult the conduct of public business of late
years. (Hear, hear.) He (Lord John) had certainly post-
poned the Reform Bill with the greatest reluctance ; but
he did it in agreement with the great majority of members
on his side, and in accordance with the opinion of the house
generally. (Hear.) He had certainly not changed his
views as to the importance of that measure; but he had
postponed it because he could not stand against the general
impression which prevailed in the house and throughout
the country. (Hear, hear.) He felt great confidence that
the time would come when these defects which remained
in the first Reform Bill would come under the considera-
tion of the house, and amendments would be deemed ne-
cessary. (Hear, hear.) He had only further to say, with
regard to Mr. Napier, that nothing was further from his
intention, in moving that the chairman should report pro-
gress, than to disparage his speech or the conduct he had
pursued. He could not conceive that any kind of pro-
gress would be made with the bill that evening. What
had happened to it had happened frequently under various
Governments in the middle of July, when it was found
impossible to go into various complicated questions and
arrive at solutions of them. There would be no advantage
in attempting to pursue the bill further. He did not say
that it was the duty of the Government to leave the ques-
tion without a solution. He believed the most useful mea-
sure that coal(' be proposed would be one giving power
and force to voluntary contracts, and a simple remedy for
the violation of those contracts. (Hear, hear.) One of
those measures contained provisions fur that purpose, and
he trusted that before long it would become the law of the
land. Whether or not it would be possible to go further,
and make a compulsory arrangement of all the relations
between landlord and tenant, was a matter on which he
had very great doubts, not merely because it was a diffi-
cult matter of legislation, but because he doubted whether
legislation could be so applied as to act with efficacy and
with justice. (Hear, hear.)
Mr. V. SCULLY went at very great length into a
history of the whole subject, and introduced a castigation
of Mr. Lucas for his language in reference to an absent
member of the Government, whom he would not have
dared to attack in his presence.
Mr. MAGUIRE expressed his conviction that the Im-
putation on Mr. Lucas's courage was unfounded.
Mr. DISRAELI said the noble lord had entered into
some comments on the relations which existed between the
members of the Conservative party and those who had the
honour to direct their general conduct. The noble lord
had stated that while they had no confidence in their
leader their leader had confidence in them ; but that still
they were always putting the Government in a minority.
(" Hear, hear," and laughter.) That was certainly an ex-
tremely inconvenient state of things, but ho wished to dis-
abuse the noble lord of the impression that he had formed
respecting himself (Mr. Disraeli). So far from its being
his principal business to study how he could put the noble
lord in a minority, the noble lord, if he were to change
places with him, would find that in the present peculiar
conjuncture the principal duty of a leader of Opposition '
was to study that, if possible, the Government should not
every night be placed in that position. (Laughter.) The
noble lord had made some strong comments upon this re-
markable state of affairs. He avowed that he did not ex-
pact him (Mr. Disraeli) to propose a vote of want of confi-
dence in the Government, and be thought the noble lord
was quite right ; because although such a vote was un-
doubtedly a constitutional mode of proceeding, yet it did
somewhat interfere with the prerogative of the Crown, and
ought, therefore, not to be taken except under extraor-
dinary circumstances. But the noble lord said the Oppo-
sition ought to ask the opinion of the house on some great
subject, and if then the result were adverse to the Govern-
ment, they might draw some deduction from the circum-
stance. If that were so, it was really incumbent upon the
noble lord to say what was the great subject on which he
wished the opinion of the home, to be taken. (Cheers.)
Surely, reform and national education were great sub-
jects; and there were other subjects of first-rate impor-
tance on which the Government had been placed in a
minority some 12, 14, 16, or 18 times. (Loud cheers.)
As the noble lord was a great constitutional scholar,
he would remind him that in former times, when
a Government had found itself placed in circum-
stances of great difficulty—though, to be sure, a govern-
ment which had been in such frequent minorities he had
never beard of—(cheers)—its conduct had not been for its
members to get up in that pettish spirit which had lately
been displayed in so many instances, and to taunt the op-
position with not bringing forward motions of want of
confidence. (Hear.) Such had not been the course purl'
sued by the government of which the noble lord himself
was so long a distinguished member. On the contrary,
that Government felt that nothing could be more embar-
rassing, nothing more inconvenient, nothing more injuri-
ous to parliamentary government, than that power should
be possessed by men who apparently could not pass their
measures. (Cheers.) Heaven knew that he (Mr. Disraeli
had no wish to disturb the present administration; but he
supposed they had still a claim to exercise their *constitu-
tional right of opposing those measures of which they disap-
proved. He supposed they had still that privilege. He
had said before that he would never himself be a member
of that administration that existed only on sufferance.
(Hear, hear.) It was not, however, that he did not ap-
preciate the great sacrifices which her Majesty's present
Government were making ; what they must go through in
public and in private it was impossible for the house to
conceive ; but while he was giving them credit for their
patriotism, the noble lord taunted them with not moving
a vote of want of confidence. If the noble lord wished the
opinion of the house to be tested, let him do what he had
. done before—let him ask one of the supporters of the Go-
. vernmeut to introduce a motion calling on the house to
declare their confidence in it. (Hear, hear.) Tho noble
. lord said that Sir H. Peel, when in opposition, had taken
. a different course from that which he (Mr. Disraeli) pur-
sued. Now he knew pretty weil the career of Sir 11. Peel,
, for he had set on the same benches with him, and he had
read the history of his political career before he (Mr. Dis-
raeli) was a member of Parliament. But he wont(' risk the
no)le lord when Sir Robert Peel ha I had to encounter a
Ministry which was placed iu a minority on the avere:,e3
twice a week? (Loud laughter and cheers) Every mo-
tion on which the present Government had been beaten,
with the exception of some of the divisions on the Oxford
Bill, had been proposed by those who sat upon their own
beaches. He must again repeat that ha admired the powers
of endurance which were exhibited by the Government-
When the Coalition was formed he was asked how long it
would last ; and he ventured to say that it would last
until every member of it hail irretrievably injured his
public character. (Loud cheers),
The committee then reported progress.
STAMP ACTS.

The house went into committee on these acts.
After a few words from Mr. V. SCULLY,
Sir H. WILLOUGHBY said the house was called upon
lo pass a resolution which would inflict a heavy tax to be
levied on an entirely new principle, on a particular portion
of the property of the country. He should be glad to know
what was the cause of this change, and how much revenue
the Government expected to derive from it. He complained
that as soon as the term of 99 years had been exceeded the
tax was to be doubled, though practically there was no dif-
ference between a lease for 999 years and a fee.

Mr. HADFIELD said if the Secretary to the Treasury
would trust to his own judgment, instead of relying en the
authorities of Somerset House, there would be no occasion
to debate this question. There was no intrinsic difference
between a lease of 100 years and one of 1,000 years; yet it
was prop,sed that there should be a duty of 3 per cent. on
leases of 100 years, and a duty of 6 per cent. on leases ex-
ceeding that period. It was unjust to make such a dis-
tinction. After the recent abandonment of an excessive
charge, it was not right for the Chancellor of the Exche-
quer to impose this new charge on Lancashire conveyancing:
There were 10,400 subscribers of building societies in Lan-
cashire alone, all whose little conveyances would be charged
25 per cent. by this bill. He proposed to abandon the
second schedule altogether, and to limit the amount men-
tioned in the last schedule. He would take the sense of
the committee on.the question.

Mr. WILSON said that there were two kinds of con-
veyances of fee ; one where the money was paid down, and
the other in the case of a perpetual annuity. The last
were common in the neighbourhood of the hon. gentleman,
and his object was to reduce the stamp on them. The
hon. gentleman contended that because the stamp on
leases for a long term of years was low, the stamp for the
conveyance of a chief rent ought to be placed on the same
footing. The Government endeavoured by a compromise
to meet the wishes of those fur whom the hou. gentleman
was interested ; but whilst he was willing to adopt the
lowest part of the Government scale, he would not consent
to the higher part, which alone could bring them home in
point of revenue. What the Government proposed to do
was to reduce the stamp on conveyances, where the consi-
deration was an annuity, to the same amount as on the
higher class of leases.
Mr. MULLINGS thought the proposition of the Govern-
ment was not only a fair, but generous compromise.
The committee divided—
For the amendment
Against it l2O
Majority —B4
Tho resolutions were then agreed to, and the house re-
sumed.

To be Captain and Lieutenant-Colonel without purchase.
Brevet-Lieutenant-Colonel T. Sydenham Conway, C. 8.,
from the 22d Foot, July 15.
To bo Lieutenants and Captains without
-purchase.
Ensign and Lieutenant William Andrew M. Barnard,
vice Bradford, July 14.
Ensign and Lieutenant Claud Alexander, vice Bruce,
July 14.
Ensign and Lieutenant John Murray, July 14.
To he Lieutenant and Captain by purchase.
Ensign and Lieutenant William Brough Phillimore, vice
Lindsay, July 14.
To be Lieutenant and Pe,ptain without purchase.
Captain Arthur E. Valetta Ponsonby, from the 62d
Foot, July 15.
COLDSTREAM FOOT GUARDS.
To be Captains and Lieutenant-Colonels without purchase.
Lioutenant and Captain Dudley. Wilmot Carleton,
July 14.
Lieutenant and Captain Lord Augustus Charles Lennox
Fitzroy, July 14.
Brevet-Lieutenant Colonel Arthur St. George H. Step-
ney, from the 54th Foot, July 15.
Major James Talbot Airey, from the 22d Foot, July 15.
To be Lieutenants and Captains without purchase.
Ensign and Lieutenant Horace William Cust, vice
Carleton, July 14.
Ensign and Lieutenant Philip Sambrook Crawley, vice
Fitzroy, July 14.
Ensign and Lieutenant Sir James Dunlop, Bart.,
July 14.
Ensign. and Lieutenant Gerald Littlehales Goodlake,
July 14.
Captain James Armar Butler, from half-pay Ceylon
Rifle Regiment, July 15.
SCOTS FUSILIER GUARDS.
To be Captains and Lieutenant-Colonels without purchase.
Lieutenant and Captain Francis Haygarth, July 14.
Lieutenant and Captain the Honourable Richard Char-
teris, July 14.
Brevet-Lieutenant-Colonel Franklyn Lushington, C. 8.,
from the 37th Foot, July 15.
Major Lambert Lyons Montgomery, from the 80th Foot,
July 15.
To be Lieutenants and Captains without purchase.
Ensign and Lieutenant Francis Baring, vice Haygarth,
July 14.
Ensign and Lieutenant Seymour Lionel William Daw-
son Darner, vice Charteris, July 14.
Ensign and Lieutenant Rowland F. W. Childers Julyl4.
Ensign and Lieutenant William Wheatley, July 14.
Captain Edward Robert Wetherall, from the Ist Foot,
July 15.
Captain Arthur Charles Greville, from the 21st Foot,
July 15. .

To be Adjutant.
Lieutenant and Captain Hugh Fitz Hardinge Drum-
mond, vice Stephenson, promoted, July 14.
22d Foot—Major James Talbot Airey, from half-pay
Unattached, to be Major, vice Conway, promoted in the
Grenadier Guards, July 14.

BREVET.—Captain John L. A. Simmons, of the Royal
Engineers, to be Major in the Army; Brevet-Major John
Lintora Arabic Simmons, of the Royal Engineers, to have
the local rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in Turkey; Lieu-
tenant and Captain James Armar Butler, of the Coldstream
Guards, to be Major in the Army, July 14.
The name of Lieutenant Nasmyth, of the Bombay En-
gineers, is recorded to have the Brevet rank of Major,
when he shall have been promoted to the regimental rank
of Captain.

WAR-OFFICE, JULY 14.
To be Captains, without Purchase.

Ist Regiment of Foot—Captain Wm. Brooke Northey,
from half-pay Coldstream Guards, July 14.
7th Foot—Captain Hamilton Edmonds, from half-pay
60th Foot, repaying the difference, July 14:
9th Foot—Captain Charles Pearson, from half-pay un-
attached, July 14. •

13th Foot-I-Captain T. lnigo Wickham Freeman, from
half-pay unattached, July 14.
15th Foot—Captain Charles John Lord Colville, from
half-pay unattached, July 14-
16th Foot—Captain Wm. Ward, from half-pay un-
attached, July 14.

38th Foot—Captain George Schreiber, from half-pay
18th Light Dragoons, July 14.
41th Foot—Captain Thornhill Warrington, from half-
pay 76th Foot, July 14.
45th Foot—Captain David Davies, from half-pay Unat-
tached, repaying the difference, July 14.
51st Foot- -Captain Cooke Tylden Pattenson, from half-
pay Rifle Brigade, July 14.
55th Foot—Captain Henry Connop, from half-pay Cape
Corps, July 14.

60th Foot—Captain Francis J. Swayne Hepburn, from
half-pay Unattached, July 14.
72d Foot—Captain Charles Cox, from half-pay 87th
Foot, repaying the difference, July 14.
79th Foot—Captain George Newbery, from half-pay
44th Foot, July 14.
89th Foot—Captain Robert Hudson O'Reilly Hoey, from
half-pay Unattached, July 14.
90th Foot—Captain the Honourable Richard Hare, from
half-pay Unattached, July 14.
3d West India Regiment—Captain John James Greig,
from half-pay unattached, vice Brabazon, appointed to 17th
Foot, July 14.
Rifle Brigade—Captain Ralph Pigott Ince, from half-
pa/ unattached, July 14.

BREVET.
TO BE MAJORS IN THE ARMY.
Captain Thornhill Warrington, 44th Foot, July 22, 1830.
Captain Charles Cox, 72d Foot, Jan. 10, 1837.
Captain Cooke T. Pattenson, 51st Foot, Jan. 10, 1837.
Captain David Davies, 45th Foot, Jan. 10, 1837.
Captain George Newbery, 70th Foot, Jan. 10, 1837.
Captain George Schreiber, 35th Foot, Jan. 10, 1837.
Captain T. Inigo W. Freeman, 13th Foot, June 28, 1838.
Captain Wm. Brooke Northey, Ist Foot, Nov. 23, 1841.
Captain Henry Connop, 55th Foot, Nov. 23, 1841.
Captain Charles Pearson, 9th }loot, Nov. 23, 1811.
Captain Honourable Richard Hare, 90th Foot, Nov.
23, 1841.
Captain Hamilton Edmonds, 7th Foot, Nov. 23, 1841.
Captain Francis J. Swayne Hepburn, GOth Foot, Nov.
11, 1851.
Capt ►in Ralph Piggott Ince, Rifleißrigade, Nov 11,1851.
Captain John James Greig, 3d West Llama Regiment,
Juno 20, 1854.
To be Lieutenant-Colonels in the Army.
Brevet-Major Thornhill Warrington, 44th Foot, Nov.
9, 1846.
Brevet-Major Charles Cox, 72d Foot, Nov. 11, 1851.
Brevet-. Major Cooke Tylden Pattenson, 51st Foot, Nov.
11, 1851.
Brevet-Major David Davies, 45th Foot, Nov. 11. 1831.
Brevet-Major George Newbery, 79th Foot, Nov. 11,
1851.

Brevet-Major George Schreiber, 38th Foot, Nov. 11, 1851.
Brevet-Major T. Inigo Wickham Freeman, 13th Foot,
Nov. 11, 1851.
Brevet-Major William Brooke Northey, Ist Foot, Nov.
11, 1851.
Brevet-Major Henry Connop, 55th Foot, Nov. 11, 1851.
Brevet-Major Charles Pearson, 9th Foot, Nov. 11, 1851.
Brevet-Major Hon. Richard Hare, 90th Foot, Nov. 11,
1851.
Brevet-Major Hamilton Edmonds, 7th Foot, Nov. 11,
1851.

TO BE COLONEL IN THE ARMY.
Brevet-Lieut.-Col. Thornhill Warrington, 44th Foot,
June 20, 1854,
WAR-OFFICE, JULY 14.

2nd Regiment of Life Guards—Major and Lieutenant-
Colonel and Brevet-Colonel Lewis Duncan Williams to be
Lieutenant-COlonel and Colonel, by purchase, vice
McDouai!, who retires; Captain and Brevet-Lieutenac t-
Colonel Francis Mountjoy Martyn to be Major and Lieu-
tenant-Colonel, by purchase, vice Williams ; Lieutenant
John Glencairn Carter Hamilton to be captain, by pur-
chase, vice Martyn ; Cornet and Sub-Lieutenant Ambrose
Congreve to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Hamilton,
July 14.
2nd Dragoon Guards—Assistant-Surgeon Opie Smith,
from the 48th Foot, to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice For-
teath,,promoted on the Staff, July ;4.
3rd Dragoon Guards—Robert Norwood, Gent., to be
Cornet, by purchase, vice Neave, promoted, July 14.
Gth Dragoon Guards—Henry Arthur Wight, Gent., to
be Cornet, by purchase, vicalForinby, who retires, July 14.
3rd Light Dragoons—Cornet Joseph P. North, from the
15th Light Dragoons, to be Cornet, vice Preston, pro-
moted; Arthur Salter, Gent., to be Assistant-Surgeon,
vice Reid, resigned, July 14.
9th Light Dragoons—Assistant-Surgeon Robert Orr
Crichton, M.D., from the Ceylon Rifle Regiment, to be
Assistant-Surgeon, vice Massey, promoted on the Staff,
July 14:

91 Light Dragoons—James Goldie, Gent., to be Cornet,
by purchase, vice Grant, promoted, July 14.
16th Light Dragoons—Hugh D'Arcy Pegge Burnell,
Gent., to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Leonard, whose
retirement was announced in the Gazette of the 21st April,
1854, July 14.
Ist Regiment of Foot—Duncan Cameron Brock, Gent.,
to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Muller, promoted ;
Lieutenant Theobald M`Kenna, to he Adjutant, vice Tur-
ner, who resigns the Adjutancy only, July 14.
2d Foot—Alexander Watson, Gent., to oe Ensign, with-
out purchase, vice Drake promoted, uly 14.
3d Foot—Robert Blair Hyndionan, Gent., to be Ensign,
without purchase, vice W. R. Turner, promoted, July 14.
4th Foot—Charles Patrick Stokes, Gent., to be Ensign,
without purchase, vice Sheppard, promoted July 14.
sth Foot—Eustace Beaumont Barnaby, Gent., to be
Ensign, without purchase, vice Templeman, promoted,
July 14.
6th Foot—Richard Bolton, Gent., to be Ensign, with-
out purchase, vice gansergh, promoted, July 14.
7th Foot —Lewis John Fillis Jones, Gent., to be Ensign,
without purchase, July 14.
9th Foot—Charles James Berton, Gent., to be Ensign,
with )ut purchase, vice Nugent, promoted, July 14.
15th Foot—Robert Thomas Powlett Cuthbert, Gent.,
to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Moore, promoted,
July 14.
18th Foot—Charles James Coote, Gent., to be Ensign,
Taylor,
without purchase, vice W. O'B.
14.
21st Foot—Thomas Bruce,
who reti, Gent , to be Ensign, by Pm'
chase, vice Gaskellres; James Henry Patrickson,
Gent., to be Assistant-Surgeon, July 14.
33rd Foot—Quartermaster-Serjeant Edward Vyso to be
Quartermaster, vice Jones, who retires upon half-pay,
July 14.
31th Foot—Rupert Cochrane, Gent., to be Ensign,
without purchase, July 14.
35th Foot—Ensign Alexander John Cruickshank War-
randto be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Warren, who
retires ; Gordon Stonhouse Hughes, Gent., to be Ensign,
by purchase, vice Warraud, July 14.
37th Foot—Captain John Richard Heaton, from
' half-
pay unattached, to be Captain, without purchase July 14.
41st Foot—Captain Lumley Graham, from the 48th.
Foot, to be Captain, vice Wethered, appointed Paymaster
95th Foot, July 14.
46th Foot—Percy Malcolm Jones, Gent., to be Ensign,
without purchase, vice Waldy, promoted, July 14.
48th Foot—Captain William Robert Churchill Spencer,from half-pay Rifle Brigade, to be Captain, vice Graham,
appointed to the 41st Foot ; Lieutenant Edmund thalami
Home to be Adjutant, vice Williamson, promoted ; Wm.
Hemphill, M.D., to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Smith,
appointed to the 2d Dragoon Guards, July 14.
6311 Foot—Assistant-Surgeon William Henry Flower,
from the Depot Battalion at Templemore, to be Assistant-
Surgeon, July 14.
64th Foot—Lieutenant William John Chads to be Cap-
tain, without purchase, vice Cato berle,ge, deceased ; En-
sign Alexander Benison to be Lieutenant, without pur-
chase, vice Chads, June 30.
68th Foot—Captain William Hervy Fitzgerald, Adju-
tant of Depot Battalion, to be Captain, without purchase,
July 7,
78th Foot—Edward Kingborough O'Neill, Gent., to be
Assistant-Surgeon, vice WKinnon, promoted in the Rifle
Brigade, July 14. 1

79th Foot—Lieutenant Adam Maitland, to be Adjutant,
vice Mackay, promoted, July 14.
86th Foot—Richard Chapman Lofthouse, 3.D., to he
Assistant-Surgeon, vice Todd, promoted on the Staff,
July 14.

Bth Foot—Lieutenant Edmund Gilling Maynard, to be
Captain, by purchase, vice Brevet-Major Sawrey, who re-
tires, July 14.

RIFLE BRIGADE.
To be Lieutenants without purchase.
Second Lieutenant Henry Richard Legge Newdigate,
June 6.

Second Lieutenant Julian Eargus Yonge, June 6.
To be Ensigns without purchase.
Ensign Charles Arthur Talbot, from the 63d Foot, vice
Newdigate, July 14.

FitzßoyFreniantle, Gent., vice Yonge, July 14.
George Robert Saunders, Gent, July 15.
Christopher Edward Musgrave, Gent., July 16.
Charles Browne Dashwood, Gent., July 17.
To be Assistant-Surgeons.

James Allyosias Shorrock, Gent., July 14

John Ignatins Purcell Williams, Gent., Juiy 14.
Ist West India Regiment—Caulfield Francis Beamish,
Gent., to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Lees, appointed
to the 76th Foot, July 14.
M. West India Regiment—Ensign Thomas Hanrahan to
be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Moorhead, deceased ;
Lieutenant Parr William Kingsmill to be Adjutant, vice
Moorhead, deceased, May 28.
Ceylon Rifle Regiment—Joseph John Thompson, Gent.,
to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Crichton, appointed to the
sth Light Dragoons, July 14.
Depot Battalion at Templemore —Daniel O'Donovan,
M.D., to be Assistant Surgeon, vice Flower, appointed to
the 63d Foot, July 14.

STAFF.— Captain William Moffatt Douglas Willan, half-
pay Royal Artillery, to be Paymaster of detachments at
Portsmouth; Paymaster Morris Robinson Campbell, from
the 71st Foot, to be Paymaster of the Depot Battalion at
Templemore, vice Bartley, who reverts to his former half-
pay, July 14.
UNATTACHED.—Lieutenant John Robert Wilton, from
the 11th Foot, to be Captain, without purchase ; Lieu-
tenant Samuel Dunning from the 88th Foot, to be Captain
without purchase, July 14.
BREVET.—Lieutenant-Colonel Fortescue Graham, of the
Royal Marines, to be Aide-de-Camp to the Queen, with
the rank of Colonel in the Army, vice Menzies, promoted
to be Major-General ; Captain John Richard Heaton, of
the 37th Foot, to be Major in the Army • Lieutenant-
Colonel Sir Frederick Abbott, C. 8., East India Company's
Military Seminary at Addiscombe, to have the local rank
of Colonel in the Army while so employed ' • Captain Wm.
Falconar Hay, on the Staff at Warley, to have the local
rank of Major in the Army while so employed, June 20.
MEMORANDUM.—The Christian names of Ensign Ffinney,
59th Foot, are Samuel Lee Hamilton Hamilton. The
words 68th Regiment should have appeared after the name
of Lieutenant-General Sir W. Herries, C.E., in the Supple-
ment to the Gazette of the 20th ultimo.

COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY LORD LIEUTENANTS.
East Lothian Yeomanry Cavalry—Lieutenant Thomas
Sharpe Mitchell Innes to be Captain, vice the Earl of
Gifford, retired; Cornet Archibald Brain to be Lieutenant,
vice Innes, promoted; John Fletcher, Esq., yr. of Salton,
to be Cornet, vice BroAn, promoted, July 8.
Royal Mid-Lothian Yeomanry Cavalry—Captain Richard
Trotter to be Major, vice William Burn Callander, de-
ceased ; Lieutenant Andrew Gillon to be Captain, vice
Trotter; promoted ; Cornet James Hope to be Lieutenant,
vice Sir Graham Montgomery, resigned ; Cornet William
Ramsay to be Lieutenant, vice George Mitchell Innes, re-
signed; Robert Hawthorn Johnston Stewart, Gent., to be
Lieutenant, vice Gillon, promoted; Robert Hay, Gent., to
be Cornet, vice Hope, promoted ; William Macfarlane
Wardrop, Gent., to be Cornet, vice Ramsay, promoted,
July 3.
Ist Somerset Regiment of Militia—Charles Kelway Col-
ston, Gent , to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Bowdage, re-
signed, June 28 ; Ensign the Hon. Amias Poulett to be
Lieutenant, vice Jesse, resigned, July 8 ; Thomas Warry,
Gent., to be Ensign, vice Amias Poulett, promoted,
July 10.
Royal Wilts Militia—Joshua Walter Bond, Esq., to be
Captain, June 6.
Hampshire Regiment of Militia Arthur Delgamo
Swift, late Queen's Light Infantry Militia, to be Lieu-
tenant, July 8.

BANK OF ]
An Account pursuant to the Act
the Week ending on Saturda;

•
ENGLAND.
7th and Bth Victoria, cap. 32, for
ty the Bth day of July, 1854,
MUM ENT.

Benares 40s 6d, and Madras 'privately 37s 6d. Mauritius
realised 35s Gd for fine yellow, 31s 61 to 35s for low to
good, and 27s to 31s for brown, being full value. Refined
has sold readily, at 44s for brown lumps, and at 44s 6d to
50 for grocery.
COFFEE.—A moderate business has been done in Plan-
tation Ceylon at 70s to 758 for fine and superior
qualities, at 69s to 72s Gd for good anti fine colorY
and favourite marks, at 57s to 64s for mid to good, at
51s 6d to 56s 6cl for fine ord and low mid, at 66s to 67s for
peaberry, at 43s 6tl to 53s for triage, and at 27s to 41s 6d
for ord. Native has been more dealt in at 43s to 44s per
cwt for good ord, and at 438 6d tfor low to good ord.
Jamaica low mid and mid brought 55s to 60s, and for fine
ord pale at 50s to 525, and triage at 33s to 44e per cwt.
RICE.—A fair demand has existed, but the high prices
asked has checked business. Mid and good Bengal sold at
12s 6d to 13s 6d, and fine white at 13s to 13s 6d.
SPICES.—Very little has been in the absence of public
sales. Privately, mid pimento realised full rates, viz, 51d
to sid per lb.
COTTON.—Prices steady, but the market is dull.
TEA.—This article is quiet.
SXLTPETRE.—Prices have given way Gd to is per cwt.
Bengal good 41 per cent refraction was sold at 334, but
good 6i was taken in at 32e, and bold greyish crystal 13 to
94 per cent at 30s 6d to 31s, though subsequently it was
sold at about 6d reduction on these prices. Madras was
taken in at 26s for low mid, small grey 191 to 261 per cent
refraction, but was afterwards sold at 25s per cwt.
INDIGO.—Lower rates have, except for some fine decrip-
tions, been current at the public sales. The quantity
passed is 3,825 chests, and 2,134 have been sold.
TALLOW.—P.Y.C. is 668 6d per cwt. on the spot, being
firm.

GREEN FRUIT.—A. quiet market. Oranges 20s per box
lower. A parcel of lemons per Tagus steamer from Lisbon,
sold by Keeling and Hunt, at public sale, wont at an ad-
vance of 2s to 3s per box. Some specimens of the diseased
grape cuttings from Lisbon, have been sent to the Royal
Botanic Society, Regent's-park, to undergo a careful exa-
mination.

COURSE OM EXOII
Amsterdam .. 11 1514
Ditto, three months .. 11 1714
llotterdam •• •• •• •• •• .• 11 17 !si
Brussels .............. 25 25
ilamburpsh •• •• •• •• •• •6 13 5%
Altona •• .• •• •• •• •• •• ••
Paris .......... • • .. .... 24 97%
Ditto, three monthsl.. 25 27
hiarseilles. .• • .. 25 2734
Bourdeaux ............
Frankfort-on-Maine .... 118 N
Berlin •••••••••• • • • • • •
Vienna .. • • ....... ..... 13 5
Trieste ............ •• .• 13 10
Pe•ersburgl... •• 38%
Mvlrld .. • • •• •••• •• •• 49%
Cadiz •• •••• •• •• •• •• 50
Bircelona....., .„ „
Saville .. •••••••• •• • • ••

AN LiE—THIs DAY.

Gibraltar
Leghorn .............. 30 4734
Genoa ................ 25 40
•••••••••••••.••

Venice •••••••• •• • • • • • •
'Naples 43
ipalermo ..............
•• •• •• •• •• •• •• 12141
IlLelsbon •• •• •• •• •• •• •• 53%
9porto .•••••• • • • • • • • 33%
Rio Janeiro . ...
Ruenos Ayres ........ .
\Taw York, 60 days' sight 48
Philadelphia ..........
PRICES OP BULLION, PLR oz.
4'oreign Gold in Bars £3 17 9
"ortugal Gold Coin .. 0 0 0
Kexican Dollars .... 0 5 1)i
New Dollars ...... 0 0
silver In bars 0 5 1%