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notwithstanding the representations of the want of merit
and ability in the man. •
" You will, I am sure, do me the justice to believe that I
do not for a moment presume to ,question their lordships'
snaking any promotion or annulling any orders they in their
better judgment may think fit, but I am prompted solely
by the feeling that I should be doing less than my duty and
falling short in the trust confided to me if I abstained
from putting you in, possession of. the whole 'state of ,the
Case. - • .

" If.Phave erred in so doing,"if I can lave misunder-
stood the instructions and injunctions of .the 27th of Fe-
hruary, 18t7, which .have induced me thus to address you,
May I beg, as the greatest favour that can be.conferred,
you will be pleased to say so in such explicit terms as shalt
leave no room for future" doubt. .
' " have much to regret in. not, havinc,. the honour of.
being personally known-to you, and also that circumstances
prevent me ,from naaldng this ennumtnicatiou personally
rather than by letter, • _ - •

" I have the honour to remain, sir, your faithful and
obedient servant, " R. M. RICHARDS.
" Aug. O'Brien Stafford, Esq., M.P."
The Chairman then read the following letter. from Mr.
Disraeli :

" Grosvenor-gale, Mfiy 181;3.
"My My dear Lord Ilenry,—l should feel very nitwit obli;(1
to you if you would have the kindness to attend the dock-
yard committee this morning, and state to the chairman
(Lord Seymour) that as my name has been. injuriously in.
trOduced. into the evidence, I am prepared and desirous to
to appear hefore the committee at their convenience.
Yours sincerely, • - • -
" B. Disnani."..
. .
"House of Commons, May-a, 1853.
"My Lord,—ln compliance with the wish expressed in
the enclosed note from Mr. Disraeli, I have attended before
the dockyard committee, respectfully to, request that your
lordship will call Mr, Disraeli as a witness, should you, as
the chairman of that committee, be of opinion that Any-
, evidence has, been-. adduced before you which can in any
way impugn. tha character and . conduct of Mr. Disraeli
while he held office Under- the Crown.--I 'have the honour
to remain yov" obedient servant,
" HENRY- GORDON LENNOX."
"The Right Hon. Lord Seymour."
The committee then adjourned to Thursday, at delver'
-o'clock. •

The following is the third letter of Admiral Parker to
Sir Baldwin Walker,- produced in evidence, but not yet
published

"2", th August, 1g52.
Dear Sir taldivin.' —I quite agree with you about the
master smith, and that it will be of advantage 'to the
service. Captain Richards, the superintendent of Chat-
ham yard, was with me this morning, complaining of the
jobbing taking place in Chatham yard. My advice was to
rest on the good cause. It is really lamentable that such
a system should go on through a secretary who fancies
himself First Lord. It is disgusting, and the sooner it is
exposed the better.

" HYDE PARKER."

CITY TERMINOS-DEPUTATION TO LORD

PALMERSTON.

On Monday afternoon a very numerous and most influ-
ential deputation from the citizens of London and the me-
tropolitan districts waited, by special appointment, on the
Home Secretary, at his office, to solicit his support, and
the active co-operation of the Government, in carrying-out
the projected City improvements at Farringdon-street and
Holborn-valley, in connexion with the proposed City rail-
way terminus, as designed by Charles Pearson, Esq., City
Solicitor. The deputation included members of the firms
of Fisher and Robinson ; Morrison Dillon, and Co. ; Brad-
bury, Greatorex, and Co. ; J. and C. Boyd and Co. ; and
many other of the great wholesale houses. The deputation
•was attended by the members for the City (not in office),
and several of the metropolitan representatives ; also by
the late Postmaster-General, Lord Clanricarde, and by se-
veral clergymen and medical men, who take an interest in
the sanitary improvement of the metropolis, and in ame-
liorating the condition of the poor.
R. CURRIE, Esq., M.P.,
,having briefly introduced the
deputation, thus stated their object :—My Lord, a royal
commission acting under the instructions of the Secretary
of State for the Home Department in 1846, reported that
railways ought not to bo admitted into the City, except in
combination with extensive street improvements, to be
effected at the joint cost of the railway company and the
localities to be •benefitted by them, and to be executed with
the approval and under tho supervision of a. department of
Government and the Corporation of London. Mr. Charles
Pearson's grand project of constructing a trunk railway in
connexion with the removal of the acclivities of Holborn and
Snow-hills, has been approved by the Corporation, and re-
quires only the concurrence of the Secretary of State, sub-
ject to a negotiation now pending between the company and
the Common Council, as to • the proportion in which the
cost of street improvements sheuld be defrayed. The plan
proposed isnot a nieasnre of mere city or even metropolitan
improVement. It -is an object of national- of universal
'interest ; for it proposes to provide, both by road and rail,
a grand arterial orgali of communication between the ter-
minal stations of the railways and the outlets north of the
ThamoP, and the heart's core of the metropolis of the ern--
pire, in which are and have been concentratedlor ages-the
greatest public monetary and 'commercial establishments
in the world. By the plan proposed 10,000 persons will be
' daily conveyed by this great iron highway, composed of
four double lines, to stations in Farringdou-street—the
widest and least frequented broad street in London—with
diverging streets for passim passengers in all directions to
• and from the stations without confusion, and without in-
commoding the ordinary traffic of the streets. Thousands
of omnibusses and cabs, which now creep through our
• principal thoroughfares, plying between the western and
northern outskirts of London, and the great railway sta-
tions in these directions, will by these means be superseded,
and their passsengers will be cheaply and expeditiously
conveyed by rail in a well-lighted and well-ventilated
subway to within a walking distance of their
.places nf
destination. Gentlemen attending in this deputation re-
present 15000 influential and intelligent persons of all
classes in the City and its suburbs, who, for various reasons
expressed by them, have petitioned in favour of this plan.
It has received the support of merchants, bankers, and
professional men in groat numbers, because it will diminish
the overcrowding of the streets, while it will largely in-
crease the facility and economy of - railway travelling; by
giving to the inhabitants of this vast metropolis the benefit
of cheap, frequent, and punctual trains, which the daily
travelling of such masses of a migratory population entitles
them to expect. The wholesale houses of the City,'
who are represented in this deputation by membererof leading
firms, support the plan, because it will enable them to got
their goods carried with more economy and less delay to
and from the groat railways which conduct the -transport
of goods.. The retail dealers give the project their support,
because, by facilitating and cheapening rail Way carriage
for their customers, and by diminishing the overcrowding
of the streets, they hope to recover some of the retail trade,
which for some years has been passing out of the City, as
• obstructions in the thoroughfares have increased. • Philan-
• thropists and sanitary reformers are represented in this
deputation by clergymen, laymen, and medical men, who
take a deep interest in the sanitary, social, and moral wel-
fare of the poor, and who advocate the plan because this
- railroad will practically annihilate the distance between

the green field; in the suburbs and the pestilent courts and
alleys in the centre of this metropolis. By means of an ex-
traordinary reduction in the charge for railway conveyance,
which nothing but extraordinary numbers can warrant, the
power of residing out of town will be extended to thou-
sands of small shopkeepers, clerks, mechanics, artisans,
porters, and others employed in the City, who will be
enabled to obtain (the price'of daily railway conveyance
included), comfortable dwellings, in healthful situations,
for less money than they now pay, in pestilent situations,
for wretched rooms, unfit for human habitation. The pro-
jected railway penetrates into the very heart of the City,
and through densely-populated portions of the northern
suburbs. These districts and the parishes with which the
railway will be connected by means of tributary lines, in
action and in contemplation, contain a population above
half a million, requiring cemetery provision for more-than
10,000 deaths each year. A cheap railroad, with one or More
funeral trains daily to a suburban place of interment beyond
the metropolitan area, would remove some of the chief diffi-
culties which have impede(' the execution of the Government
plan, by supplying conveyance for both the living and the
dead, at a charge below the present cost of walking funerals.
This deputation desire thus briefly to bring the main fea-
tures of this remarkable undertaking under your lordship's
notice ; not in its character of a railway project, but in its
collateral bearings upon the health, convenience, and phy-
sical and social improvement of the masses of this great
city. They believe that the peculiar energy, the pre-emi-
nent ability, the indefatigable devotion to the public ser-
vice, which have long signalised your lordship's career in
one of the highest departments of the Government, may
now, under Providence, be the means of conferring
domestic benefits no less remarkable—no less deserving the
labours of a great statesman—on mil)ions of your fellow"
countrymen ; and in this point of view, and under these
impressions, they respectfully submit this important under-
taking to your lordship's attention and favourable con-
sideration.
Mr. LOWREY (Holyland, Rogers, Lowrey, and Co.) said
that the leading commercial houses of the city of London
usually abstained from taking part in the local affairs of
the city, but upon a subject so deeply affecting the trade
of the city, they felt it was their duty to step out of their
usual course, and to press upon her Majesty's Government
the importance of giving its support to the measure. The
city of London contained upwards of twenty thousand
parliamentary constituents, and less than six thousand
municipal electors. It was, therefore, not surprising
of the
that they should appeal to the Government, as the local
interests of the inhabitants, and particularly
large commercial houses, were not adequately representedes.
in the councils of the coporation. By the free trade m
sures of their present commercial system the manufacturesnswere
of foreign countries in cottons, linens,
mercantile
which had been largely to increase the general f admitted into this country; the immednianted
business of the city, whore the of all foreign
eowonose(eiuAce of
production
own country.
The warehouses with the productions of their.
nations were brought into immediate competition in.
to the requirements of the extended commerce
in fact, as far as the higher class
The present state of our streets, he submitted, was utterly
inadequate
market not only of
of
ff
tethixaticleityfa,bwrihcis'ohwaswas,
concerned, the
England but of the world. The retail shopkeeper partici-
pated in this increase of trade, and the mbeerlicehvaenatsgrthanoawtd:
y particular locality as had
wholesale and retail trades concurred in believing the pre-
sentiant would make a
project to be admirably calculated to meet the
broad line of
western and eastern sides
ing wants of all classes of citizens. They
wthoeuld be to adapt London to
been
neae(Tri oofnteeonudsliyngsitipopcorosewdd,
in the modes of
oinfteLrocondmomn,uatiincad tiitosnopbeertawtceionn
the improvements which had taken pie°
as they took to reach
ofwm:anufacture. Under all
locomotion and transit of the Cit
t longhe t a time
station to
fromc come
theefr placePaddington ln fact, they took as
to the wholesale
thesedea
erscirbeuirtsotaansekesihneoGe°ovurernsem yeas open open
which they believed the natioter interest was concerned.
fir.
and Smith, Old Change)
dWhimijsEellfFof(Ltehaef, oCplersi
availed
concurrence in the statements unity
of
stating his entire
of his friend Mr. Lowrey.
As senior partner in one of the largest wholesale establish-
ments in the City, he
Could bear the ample testimony of