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We also received some evidence regarding the position
of Officers of the Commissariat Department, and
statements from the Treasury, calculated to exhibit in
detail the condition and prospects of this class of public
servants. These documents will be found in the Ap-
pendix to our Report ; and also a memorandum from
the Treasury, giving a succinct narrative of the pro-
gress of the Commissariat Department.
We,bowever, have ascertained that th control and
' management of this branch of the public service have
been recently subjected to investigation before two
Commissions ; and it does not appear to us that any
separate examination is required at our hands, as the
Board of Treasury appears to be invested with full
powe►s to redress any grievances that may be found to
affect the officers of this department. Itic forbear,
therefore, to offer any recommendation to your Ma-
jestyon this subject. .

With reference to Pursers of the Navy, we have to
report to your Majesty that we received evidence and
documents, in some of which an entire alteration of the
principle by which the duties and remuneration of the
Pursers have hitherto been regulated, v.% s strongly ad-
vocated.

We considered that such a proposition must necessa-
rily require a lengthened examination of official details
and calculatioLs ; and that the tendency of this inves-
tigation would be to lead us from the objects we had
your Majesty's instructions to keep in view, namely,
the promotion and retirement of officers.
We deem it most advisable, therefore, with a view
of securing a sound and satisfactory decision thereon,
to suggest to your Majesty to refer the whole case and
applications of this class of Naval Officers for the in-
vestigation and decision of the Board of Admire

Our labours here terminate ; and we surrender again
into your Majesty's hands, the important trust which it
was your gracious pleasure that we should fulfil.
We have spared no pains to investigate the condi-
tion of each class of Naval or Military Officers, and to
ascertain the origin and course of the various streams of
promotion which influence the progress and direct the
fortunes of those embarked in the different professions
constituting the Military force of this country on sea
and land.
If our inquirybas been unusually protracted, we en-
treat your Majesty to believe that it was from no re-
missness on our part ; that it did not arise from any
indifference to those claims into which, under your Ma-
jesty's instructions, we proceeded to examine ; but that
it sprang from a conviction that it was expedient to give
our most anxious consideration to every propositioning
was placed before us ; that it was incumbent upon us to
trace accurately, and step by step, the progress of the
Military or Naval Officer under the existing system ; to
ascertain his position and his prospects in each succor-
sive rank, either on service or in retirement ; and, fi-
nally, connecting the facts thus ascertained, as to the
condition of the Officers of the services, with the de-
mands of the country upon their energies and exertions,
that it was imperative upon us to pronounce an opinion
whether the duties to be discharged could, under such
circumstances, be always satisfactorily performed ; or
whether an improvement in the situation of the Officers
was essential to secure an active and efficient Army, a
useful and well-directed Fleet.
We trust that the several divisions of our Report
wili sufficiently exhibit our desire to unravel the com-
plicated systems of promotion adopted in the different
services. We have at least endeavoured to remove all
difficulties in the way of a clear perception of the situa-
tion of all classes of Officers ; and if the result of our
deliberation shall not prove quite satisfactory to those
who, detecting errors and disadvantages in the present
system, are willing to incur the responsibility of recom-
mending further change, we persuade ourselves that we
shall leave upon record ample proof that our judgment
has been formed after a full investigation of the subject,
and upon a consideration of all the material points that
could be necessary to assist us in the inquiry.
It has been our care to regard economy as strictly as
your Majesty had enjoined us ; but we have felt at the
same time the absolute necessity, which we were equally
desired to keep in view, of reporting where the effi-.
ciency of the service might be said to languish from
the want of due encouragement ; and in our recommen-
dations, therefore, we have not hesitated to suggest
various augmentations of pay which, from the number ,
of Officers who would be entitled to benefit thereby,
woold cause a considerable addition to the public charge.
We arc not prepared to report to your Majesty
what the extent of this increased charge would be, as
no perfect judgment could be formed till the several
Claims to retired allowances have been strictly inves-
tigated.

—We submit the result of our deliberations to your
Majesty in a perfect confidence that the whole will
receive your Majesty's gracious consideration ; and that
our attempt to discharge the important duty which was
delegated to us will he acknowledged as a faithful endea-
vour to set fairly before your Majesty the exact con-
dition of the officers of every branch of the service,
and to suggest such changes as appear likely to lead to
practical improvement both in relation to their dB,

ciency and to their just claims upon the country which
they are serving, with that due attention to economy
which, in obedience to your Majesty's instructions, we
were bound to maintain.

To all of us this inquiry has been a matter of the
deepest interest, a trust of the highest importance and
honour. But to none has this interest been so pro-
found, this honourable trust so imposing, as to those
amongst us who have passed tho best years of our lives
in the very services we were required to examine ;,
and we trust your Majesty will receive and permit us
here to record the expression of our warmest sympathy
with those whose condition and prospects we have had
under review.

We humbly submit this our unanimous Report to
your Majesty's most gracious consideration.
WELLINGTON (L. S.)
RICHMOND (L. S.)
MINTO (L. S.)
MELVILLE (L. S.)
IJOWICK (L. S.)
HILL (L. S.)
G. COCKBURN (L. S.)
H. HARDINGE (L. S.)
JAMES KEMPT (L. S.)
R. H. VIVIAN (L.S.)
CHAS. ADAM (L. S.)
A. DICKSON (L. S.)
Downing-street, 26th March, 1840.

WAR WITH NAPLES.
Lord MAHON said it should be recollected
:hut just before the recess, he had called
the attention of the Government to this subject.
Ile saw it stated in this march e's papers, that
intelligence had been received that hostilities
bad already commenced. Ile begged leave to ask the
Noble Lord, in the absence of his colleague, whether
that intelligence was confirmed by any account received
by the Government ?
Lord JOHN RUSSELL said he certainly was not
aware that any such account had been received. He
had met the Secretary for Foreign Affairs two hours
before, who had not then received any, though it was
possible he might since bare done so.
MAINE BOUNDARY.
Mr. H UME said, as great anxiety existed an this
subject, he wished to know what was the present state
of the negociatiou, end how fat we might expect a
favourable result.
Lord J. RUSSELL said the Hon. Member asked a
question of great importance, and perhyps would allow
him to take until to-morrow to give an answer to it.
JUVENILE OFFENDERS BILL.
Sir EARDLEY 'WILMOT moved that the House
should go into Committee on this Bill.
Mr. BARNEBY said he had received the strongest
expressions of disapprobation of the Bill, and should
therefore move the House should go into Com-
mittee on it that day six months. He ob-
jected to the' Bill because, by its provisions, crimes
of the heaviest nature, if committed by juveuile offen-
ders, were left to the decision of two Magistrates ; and
also on account of the heavy expenditure which would
be entailed upon the country in order to carry its pro-
visions into effect. The Magistrates had power given
them to order the payment of all expenses out. of the
county rates ; and it was also enacted that place's; should
be provided for the holding of Petty Sessions, which
by one of the clauses of the Bill were prohibite d from
being held at public-houses. This.would en tail an
enormous expense upon the counties. These he felt to
be insurmountable objt;ctions to the proposed in easure,
and he should therefore move that the Bill be read a
second time that day six months.
Mr. PRYME seconded the amendment.
Sir EARDLEY WILMOT said the 13W had
already been before the House three months ; it had
been read a first and second time, and had been refelered
to a Select Committee, and it was rather hard t hat
the Hon. Member should come forward at the elevei ith
hour with an amendment such as the one which had bcen
just proposed to the House, more especially as the arg-u-
-'Dents urged in support of it had been over and over
again refuted. The Bill was not one of punishment
but of mercy, its object being to give prisoners a chance
of avoiding the contamination of a goal. If the mea-
sure had been one of punishment, he would admit it
might be conferring too great a power on the Magis-
trates, but looking upon the measure as one of mercy, he
thought the areuinents of the Hon. Gentleman not ten-
able. He thought that alterations might be made in the Bill
which would render it a very useful measure. From
everypro
ving of
ff its Enpgr
idp
ihee; had received communications
suggesting amendments in the details of the Bill, but
fLe Hops° would Lot refuse to g
and he,
therefore,
the subject,ointoco hopedmmi that
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Mr. J. JONES said that there were certainly several
Pr°
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top in the matter. Another point worthy of eonside-

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HOWDEN HORSE FAIR.—The attendance of
dealers at the Howden Spring Fair, on Wednesday and Thurs-
day, the 15th and 16th inst., was numerous and respectable.
The supply of horses was small, but of superior quality to for-
mer years, and for which great prices were obtained. One
dealer purchased six for 6001., and two others were sold at
125/. each. There was un exceedingly abundant supply of
cattle on Saturday, the 18th inst., and there being a numerous
attendance of buyers, a good deal of business was done, and
nearly all disposed of at high prices. At twelve o'clock the
Floviden Agricultural Society held their annual show, when a
considerable number of agriculturists, &c., were admitted, and
were ratified with a most splendid display of some of the finest
stccik of the country, and which was very superior to any former
year.tTwenty-four coaching stallions (supposed to be the best in
!he country), were entered and shown for the premiums in that
!lass, a larger number than was ever shown at any agricultural
show in the United Kingdom, thus proving that Howden and
its neighbourhood continues to be hlv pre-eminent in the
breed of this noble and splendid animal, the coach-horse. The
show of all other descriptions of horses was excellent. In short,
the entry, which exceeded 120 of different stock, was ex-
ceedingly fine, and above all praise._Doncaster Chronicle.
LABLACHE.—He was born in 1794, at Naples,
of an Irish mother and a French father, who had left Mar-
seilles to escape the perils of the revolution. But in 1799
another political commotion surprised Lablache's father in his
adopted country and brought on his ruin. He died of sorrow.
Joseph Bonaparte extended his protection to his unfortunate
family, and had young. Louis admitted into the C,onservatoire
della Pieta de Turchini, now San Sebastiano. Louis Lablache
studied at the same time both instrumental and vocal music.
One day a counter-bass player being vented in the Santo Ono-
frio orchestra, Marcell° Perrino, his master, sad to him, " You
are perfectly acquainted with the violoncello, and might easily
play the counter-bass." Though Laltlache had a repugnance
to that instrument, he had its gamut written out on a Tuesday,
and on the following Friday acquitted himself of his part with
perfect correctness. It is this which has made Castil Blaze
say, that if Lablache had riot been gifted with a magnificent
voice, he would not have shone the less in tile highest rank
among the virtuosi of the Rev • he would have played the vio-
loncello like Bohrer, or the flute like Tulon ; from the organ to
the Jew's harp, all instruments were his domain ; he would have
had but to choose between theist.
POLYGAMY.—line of the most impudent cases
of moral turpitude that ever lisgrfaeed this country, was dis-
ccaolvleerdeadt lasttiie week. An
cAffincei,nNPos eteti°7 Police, from Manchester,
, to inquire into the re-
sidence of a family named Wiley, in and from him
isnara'Neont n'tel: a
with twenty aliases,
ru,Hbad been appre-
‘lvvheoleamrnantythyateaarsmaangooflivtehde
real name is
hended on charges of bigamy and felon
George Wylie, but he has called himsyoe.,llr,
Nacyte:t.logirifietr,eutGteimoregs,,,
George Whiley, George Webb, Geo(
w
Glover, Georg, Wilsorr, and a dozen Gale
pears that I:e has been married to no les: than3d, It
waves,
4th, :-Ist, at Halifax ; 2d, at Cambridge
4th, at Portsmouth ; sth and 6th, at Norfolk ; aand v.'"trya't
W personinchester. He has also robbed almost every per
employed him ; and, having obtained money under false°, has
tences, the police at Winchester were despatched after 111171ei.
He had the unmatched impudence to be then on the point Of
taking his eighth wife, at V. indsor, when his arrest and con-
veyance to Winchester spoilt the last match. Two of h,_
wives have been found, and will appear against him.—fium;..
shire Herald.
EDINBURGH VETERINARY COLLEGE.—The
annual examination of the students attending this Institution,
established by the patronage of the Highland and Agricultural
Society of Scotland, and under the able tuition of Professor
Dick, was held in the Cde-street 1/all, on Tuesday and Wed-
nesday the 21st and 22d curt. There were nineteen candi-
dates for diplomas examined, of whom eighteen were declared
by the examinators worthy of receiving diplomas to practise the
veterinary art.
WESTMINSTER PENITENT FEMALE ASY-
tinvemfu7dAs offanthci eh
fancy sale
salaeroitfy useful aand ornamental,ester,ayl. work, in aid of

upon half-pay, nor to any Medical Officer who 1 SECON
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may hereafter come upon full-pay, until he shall have
served on some station for a period to be prescribed by SUN OFFICE, Seven o' Clock.
the Board of Admiralty.
8. That as the Army Medical Officers are allowed
the benefit of the entire period of their full-pay service,
in claims to additional pay and retirement, the Officers
of the Naval Medical Department should equally be
permitted to reckon the whole period of their full-pay
service as Assistant-Surgeons and Surgeons in claims to
to increased pay or retirement.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
The SPEAKER. took the Chair at a few minutes be-
fore Four.
Sir WALTER JAMES presented a petition from
the Covent-garden Society, in favour of the Copyright
Bill.

Mr. R. CURRIE presented a petition from North-
ampton, against entering into a war with China.
Sir EARDLEY WILMOT presented a petition
from Bury St. Edlnuttd'-s, in favour of the Grammar-
schools Bill.
Sir WALTER JAMES presented petitions from
Kingston-upon-Hull in favour of Church Extension and
against any further grant to the College of Maynooth.
Sir GEORGE GREY presented petitions from
Glasgow and Ayr io favour of the claim of the Scotch
Church to participate in the clergy reserves (Canada).
Mr. VERNON SMITH presented a petition from
Dissenters of Northampton, against the grant of public
money for the building of additional chui cites ; from
postmasters of Northamptonshire, praying for a repeal
of the carriage tax ; and from Magistrates of the same
county, against certain clauses in the Constabulary Bill.
Mr. Sergeant TALFOURD presented a petition
from Mr. David Booth (the lexicographer), in favour
of the Copyright Bill. The Hon. and Learned Mem-
ber presented several petitions to the same effect from
Roxburghshire and other places.
Mr. EWART presented petitions from Sunday
School teachers in Wigan against Church Extension.
Petitions in favour of Church Extension were pre-
sented by Mr. GLADSTONE, Lord CANTILUPE, and Ge-
❑eral LYGON, but we could not hear the designations
of the petitions.
Mr. PRYME presented a petition from Sutton in
Ely, praying for the abolition of Church-rates, the Im-
provement of the Ecclesiastical Courts, and the release
of John Thorogood. Also a petition from the post-
masters of. Cambridge, praying for the reduction of the
duty on Carriages.
Mr. SANi ORD presented a petition from a place
in Somerset, in favour of the. Grammar Schools Bill,
Mr. C. LUSHINGTON presented petitions from
Frome, and four other places, against any grant for
Church Extension.
On the motion of Sir E. WILMOT, the Thames
Tunnel Bill was read a second time, and ordered to
be committed.
Colonel T. WOOD presented a petition from Ful-
ham, in favour of Church Extension.
Colonel CONOLLY presented a petition from the
Board of Guardians, of a parish in Tyrone, complaining
of the excessive powers given to the Poor-law Commis-
sioners of Ireland.
Mr. J. PARKER presented a petition from a con-
gregation of ProteAant Dissenters in Sheffield, against
any grant of public money for Church Extension.
Mr. F. MAULE presented a petition from a place
in Scotland, praying that foreign vessels might be pre-
vented from fishing within nine leagues of our coast.
Also petitions from Elgin, and two other places, in fa-
vour of the principle of non-intrusion.
CAMBRIDGE ELECTION.
Sir CHARLES LEMON brought up the Report
of the Cambridge Election Committee. The Corn-
mittee reported that the Hon. J. M. Sutton was not duly
elected ; that the last election for the borough of Cam-
bridge was void, and that neither the petition nor the
opposition thereto was frivolous or vexatiocs. The
Committee had also agreed to a resolution that the
Honourable Mr. Sutton was by his agents guilty of
bribery and treating at the last election, and that an
extensive system of treating and corruption existed in
the Borough.
The Report was ordered to be entered on the Jour-
nals of the House.
Mr. WARBURTON hoped there would be no ob-
jection to have the evidence laid on the table, with a
view to its being printed.
The question that the evidence be laid on the table
was then put and agreed to.
CHINA.
Mr. GLADSTONE had a question to put to the
Under-Secretary for the Hume Department, with respect
to the accuracy of a statement which appeared in the
morning papers. It was stated that certain English
seamen had, in July last, been tried and sentenced by
Captain Elliot, at Canton, to a certain term of impri-
sonment in England, on account of having been engaged
in a riot which terminated in the death of a na-
tive Chinese. It further stated that the opinion
of the Law Officers of the Crown. was taken by
order of the Home Office, as to whether these
persons could be lawfully detained in custody- or not.
That opinion was in the negative, and that..an ostler
was seat from the Home Office for-their, discharge:
He wished to know whether that statement-was correct
in all its parts ?
Mr. F. MAULE said the statement to which the
Hon. Member referred was not correct in all its parts.
It was true that these five men were tried in China by a
Court constituted by Captain Elliot, and sentenced to
a certain period of imprisonment in England. On that
being reported to the Secretary of State, the opinion of
the Law Officers of the Crown was taken, and they
gave it as their opinion that, as the matter was not
quite clear as to whether Capt. Elliot could sentence
these persons to imprisonment in England, on the whole
they recommended that on the arrival of these indi-
viduals in England they sheuld be liberated. The sea-
men arrived in the Leander two days ago, and they
were accordingly liberated.
CAMBRIDGE ELECTION.
Sir C. LEMON brought up the evidence given be-
fore the Committee on this election, which, on the mo-
tion of Mr. WARBURTON, was ordered to be printed.
Sir JOHN WALSH asked if it was the intention
of the Hon. Baronet to move for a new writ?
Sir C. LEMON said it was not his intention to do so.
Sir JOHN WALSH said lie wished not to act
contrary to the established precedent, but at the same
time to state, as a Member of the Committee, that in
his opinion there appeared no case whatever for any ge-
neral measure of severity against the borough.—" Or-
der, order.") He thought it a very venial case.
The SPEAKER said it would be inconvenient for
the Hon. Member to make any observations on the
subject at the present period.
Lord JOHN RUSSELL said lie hoped the Hon.
Member would understand as in a former case, if any
Hon. Member thought right to do so, he should give
notice of moving for a writ.