The Sun.
London, England, 1849-03-24 00:00:00

SCHOOL OF DESIGN.

The Hox. MEMBER asked the Hon. Member for
Manchester (Mr. Milner Gibson), who had got a no-
tice on the paper for nominating the Committee on the
School of Design, if it was not his intention to put some
Irish Members on that Committee, the Hon. Member
for Dublin University and the Hon. Member for Belfast
having taken much interest in the matter?

Mr. M. GIBSON made the Hon. Member an answer,
but it was wholly inaudible in the gallery.
COURT OF SESSION.

Lord CASTLEREAGH wished to ask the Right Hon.
Baronet at the head of the Home Department whether
there was any intention whatever, on the part of the
Government, of introducing any measure for the esta-
blishment of regular sessions in certain parts of Ireland?
Sir G. GREY replied that, considering the melancholy
circumstances which bad transpired in Ireland, the Go-
vernment felt bound to introduce some such measure as
absolutely necessary, and it was intended, on the very
earliest occasion, to introduce a Bill for that object.
SEIZURE OF THE VESSELS OF THE ARGEN-

TINE REPUBLIC.
Mr. URQUHART wished to ask the Right Hon.
Baronet at the bead of the Admiralty whether any steps
had been taken to remedy the mischief which had been
occasioned by the affair, to which he had alluded yester-
day. There had been no papers or other things found
on board those vessels to justify a declaration of war,
and, therefore, there were no legal grounds for taking
possession of the vessels. _

Sir F. BARING said that until the papers at the
Foreign. office were laid upon the table the. Hon.
Member must rest satisfied with what his Noble Friend
at the head of the Foreign Department had stated yes-
terday.
COMPENSATION FOR THE CANADIAN

REBELS.
Mr. ROBINSON said that he would take the liberty
of asking whether her Majesty's Government were in
possession of any papers from the Governor-General of
Canada, intimating that in the discussion in the Com-
mittee of Colonial Legislation two separate propositions
had been made that those persons who had been engaged
de facto in the promotion of the rebellion should be ex-
cluded from any share of this compensation, and that
both of these propositions had been negatived by large
majorities.
Sir G. GREY, in reply, said that his Noble Friend at
the head of the Foreign Department was, he regretted
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able to speak on the subject with that accuracy which
was desirable. Thus much, however, he could say, that
the Government were not in the possession of any
dispatches, and all the Government knew of the subject
was the information derived from the newspapers. It
was true that his Noble Friend had received a private
letter from the Governor-General of the Canadas, but
Lord Elgin had refrained from sending any official dis-
patches until the usual period.
MUTINY BILL.
On the order of the day being read for the second
reading of this Bill,
Mr. FOX MAULE said that before going into the
consideration of this Bill, he wished to inform the
House that he had received a communication from
two members of the Liverpool Financial Association,
impugning his statement that their proceedings were
likely to injure the confidence which the soldier ought
to place in his officer. In order to show that such was
not the case, he would quote a statement from Tract N 0.4,
p. 2, to prove that there had been a most unfounded
assertion that the colonels of regiments and their
quarter-masters were combined to alter the usual attire
of soldiers—their stocks, shoes, Ike., and all the minor
articles of clothing, in order to put money
into their own pockets, Having read the extract, the
Right Hon. Gentleman expressly. denied that in the first
place there could be any collusion between the com-
mandants of regiments and the quarter-masters, and that
even if there was, that they bad asnydlorzd. to
alter the clothing
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ciation to call in question the character of the colonels
or quarter-masters of our army, nor, still less, their de-
sire to induce any dissatisfaction between the officers
of the army and the men.—(Cheers.)
Mr. HUME said the language which the Right Hon.
Gentleman had read from the tract bore out the re-
port of a Committee which sat in 1847 upon
this very subject of army clothing, and the
report itself expressed almost in the same words the
anomaly which existed then of the clothing of the army,
if economically effected, producing profit to certain offi-
cers.—(Hear, hear.) The commanding officers had
nothing to do with it; but there was no
doubt that the system was such that, if a re-
giment was cheaply clothed, more money would flow
into the pockets of the colonel than if the clothes were
dear. He did not blame the colonels for this, but the
system; and he hoped it would soon be got rid of.
Mr. B. DISRAELI said they were not likely to
expedite the business of the House when they
found not only a Member of Parliament, but a Minister
of State, no less indeed than the Secretary-at-War, en-
tering into combat with the Financial Reform Society.
Possibly they would have the tracts of the Anti-Corn-
law League, the tracts of the Protectionists, or they
might have the tractarians of Oxford to answer in
the House if this proceeding were tolerated.—(Hear,
hear, and laughter.) He had not given that thorough
study to the tracts in question which the lion. Gentle-
man informed the country he bad done. He congratu-
lated the Hon. Gentleman upon the result he had aimed
at, but for himself he had formed a very different
conclusion of the intention and objects of this Financial
Reform, Society in Liverpool. lie bad no doubt whatever
that the intention of the society was to throw a stigma
upon the British army, but he would not condescend to
notice efforts of that kind, respecting which he
thought public opinion was already made up, and
that opinion very properly treated with contempt all
societies whose labours were founded upon misrepresen-
tations, and whose only object was to throw a stigma
upon the well-cherished institutions of the ootuary.