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London, England, 1849-07-31 00:00:00

TffE EIGHTEENTH STANDING ORDER.

Lord BEAUMONT moved a standing order to amend
the IBth Standing Order; the object of which is to pre-
vent int,Truption to the business of the House by Mem-
bers talking, and orders that Members having occasion
to talk together during any business in agitation, shall
go below the bar. The amendment of the Noble Lord
ordered that the Speaker shall stop the business in agita-
tion, and desire Members so conversing to retire to the
Prince's Chamber.

Lord BROUGHAM said he admitted that it was far
better for Members to talk on their legs than on tht-ir
seats, but still he had a fundamental objection to the
order just moved for by his Noble Friend.—(Laughter.)
The rule of the House was that the Speaker was not the
guardian of order in the House, but that the House
itself was. The order, rnoreovt-r, did not, in his opinion,
ain at the right object; b!cause, according to his expe-
rience, the great talking from which on many occasions
he had suffered, occurred behind the Woolsack, which
space was not, properly speaking, within the House, and
the parties who indulged in conversation there were
Members who are just come down to that House, and
had not taken their seats. This was a qaestion which,
he apprehended, their Lordships would not dispose of
without much consideration.
Earl GREY said he wished to call attention to the
fact, that by the order just moved, they were not to in-
vest the Speaker with any particular powers. In com-
mon with every other Member of their Lordships' House,
the Speaker had the power of calling to order, and the
intention of the order was rather to oblige him to ex-
ercise it. The Spe:eker had power to stop the business
in agiLtion, and call to order, by a statute as old as the
year 1670.
The order was agreed to.
ADMIRALTY RETURNS.

The Earl of TALBOT moved f a- certain returns from
the Admiralty, in continuation of others which he had
moved for on a previous day, and took occasion to ex-
plain that although he had no intention to say anything
which could offend or hurt the feelings of Sir Charles
Napier, when he first moved for these returns, still he
must say, it would have been more consistent with the
station occupied by the Gallant Officer, as having com-
manded the fleet, to have abstained from writing to the
newspapers, expressing his opinion of the probable issue
of a naval war with France. In his (Earl Talbot's)
opinion, our fleet was as able as ever it was, and was still
capable of maintaining the superiority which it had
always possessed.—(Hear.)
Lord MONTEAGLE complained of irregularities in
the delivery of Irish papers, which his Lordship said
ought by law to be laid on the table of the House within
a certain number of days after the report.
The Earl of RODEN said that in consequence of
observations which had been passed upon a Noble Lord,
a Member of their Lordships' House, materially affect-
ing his character, he felt it his duty to take the earliest
opportunity of making an expiation to their Lordships
with respect to the whole transaction, so far as he was
personally acquainted with it, out of which they arose;
and he intended t) make that explanation to-morrow.

TROOPS IN INDIA.—C HAMA 111, JULY 30.—The
following detachment of regiments serving in India as-
sembled this morning on the parade ground of Chatham
barracks for inspection by the Commandant, Colonel
James Simpson, these troops having been selected from
the Provisional Battalion for service in the Bombay
Presidency by the commanding officer of the battalion:
—viz , 126 men of the 60th Rifles, 14 men of the 64th,
and 19 men of the 83d Regiment, with the following
officers:—Lieutenant Maloney, Lieutenant F. Dawson,
Lieutenant Richard Freer, and Lieutenant Macqueen,
officers of the 60th ; Ensign Grady, 64th ; Ensign
Sweeney, with Ensign Fitzroy, 83d ; making a total
of 7 officers and 159 men. These troops, together with 6
women and 6 children, embark on the morning of the 31st
inst. at Gravesend, on board the ship Aboukir, 900 tons
burden, Charley Scott, commander. There were also in-
spected the same morning, on the parade, 14 men of the
Bth Foot, 38 ne:'n of the 22d Foot, 32 men of the 78th
Highlanders, 17 men of the 86th, and 8 men of the 94th,
with the following officers :—Ensign Horace Ximenes,
Ensign Lillicrate, and Ensign Iluddlestene, of the Bth
Foot ; Lieutenant 11. G. Bowden, Ensign Fraser, and
Ensign Cairncross, of the 22d Foot; Ensign Cochrane,
of the 86th, Captain W. H. Kirby, Lieutenant Hon. 11.
Pratt, with Ensign Jaminson, of the 94th Regiment.
These troops embark at Gravesend also on the 31st inst.,
on board the ship Cressy, 800 tons burden, Commander
Thomas H. Withers, for Bombay. A detachment of the
10th Hussars, from the Cavalry Depot, Maidstone, con-
sisting of 35 men, with 4 women and 1 child, embark
with the above; also S women and 6 children of the Bth
Foot, 2 women and 2-children of the 22d Foot, 10 women
and 4 children of the 78th Highlanders, 5 women and 2
children of the 86th Foot, and 5 women and 9 children
of the 94th, making a total of 10 officers, 141 men, 34
women, and 17 children.

--A-787Turr oN FIRE.—The Bombay Times of the 25th
of June, in a postscript, states:—" A little before ten
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turned out that these were signals that the ship Lowjee
and merchant vessels around immediately put off to the
the exertions of their crews, by midnight the flame's
had made rapid progress in the work of destruction.
B. y two o'clock she was nearly one mass of flames, and
It became evident that all hope of saving her was
past. She was accordingly lett to her fate. The
middle and after part of the ship continued to burn
with great fury, and shortly after two the flames
reached the forecastle, when the unfortunate Tp4sel
presented one of the grandest sights imaginable. She
was in flames from stem to stern—immense columns of
smoke rising from the burning mass—and the whole sky
was illuminated for a considerable distance around.
A little before three the upper portion of her poop fell in,
and added increased brilliancy to the flames. A few mi-
nutes after that hour her mizenmast went over the stern,
and was followed almost immediately by the mainmast.
At four the foremast had just fallen over the lee bow—
the bowsprit appeared untouched. The hull near the
stern and amidships was burnt down to within a few
feet of the water's edge ; the sea was apparently
making its way into the vessel at the stern, and
the flames were rapidly consuming the fore part of the
ship. It is likely she will continue to burn yet for some
hours, unless a sufficiency of water gets into her to sink
her, which is not unlikely. The Lowjee Family be-
longed to Messrs. Forbes and Co., and Messrs. B. and A.
Hormusjee. She was of 1,070 t9ns burden, and was
built at Bombay in 1791, being thus 58 years old. She
was to have sailed for Calcutta on the Ist of July with a
cargo of salt, and thence to the Mauritius. We could not
learn how the fire originated. It was first discovered in
the orlop deck; her crew are, of course, lascars; they
had received, it is said, four months' wages in advance a
few days since.

PAY STATIONS OP PENSIONERS.—The staffofficers
of
of pensioners have received instructions to put a stop as
much as possible to the practice so prevalent
among pensioners of contracting debts and then leaving
the district. By the instructions referred to these
officers are enjoined to warn all the pensioners
that any of them who may hereafter be found
removing from a monthly to a quarterly pay-station,
for the sole purpose of receiving their pension
quarterly, will, as a punishment, be placed on
weekly payments for twelve months, which pay-
ments will be made either through the parish or union
authorities in the neighbourhood, or by the out station
sergeant on the spot. They are also directed to report
all such cases as they occur in order that the punish-
ment may be carried into effect. In order to obviate the
necessity of migrating pensioners coming in from out-
stations for the purpose of signing their transfer certifi-
cates, the staff officers are recommended to carry a few
blank transfer certificates with them, and if any pensioner
applies for one at the payments it should (except as re-
gards the description) be filled up and signed by the pen-
sioner. On the officer's return to head quarters he can,
at his leisure complete the description, and send it to
the district where the pensioner proposes residing.
These instructions, in conclusion, call attention to the
principle that staff officers of pensioners have no right to
refuse transfers on account of debt; and that, by inter-
fering in such matters, they only facilitate pensioners ob-
taining credit, and counteract all those arrangements by
which the Secretary at War has long been endeavouring
to check habits of improvi,lence.

TILE 79T11 HIGIILANDERS.—A reunion lof 20 Gin-
cerq, now or formerly belonging to the 79th Pighlan-
' der; took place in Eaton-square, on Wed:lnlay, the
25th inst., at a dinner given by Sir Duncan MacDou-
gall, who formerly commanded that pliant corps. Sir
Allan INl`Nab and Captain Sir George Back, RN., who
had been much connected with the regiment, wore pre-
sent. A more joyous and happy party never met toge-
ther, and scenes of former days were forcibly r.,called
by the stirring and warlike music of tho Highland bag-
pipes, to thi sound of which the regiment so frequently
marched to battle, and always to victory.
UNITZD STATES STOCKS.—The amount if Gwern-
mant stock issued on foreign account at Washington
during the week ended the lath inst., was 246,700 dolls.