The Sun.
London, England, 1860-05-11 00:00:00

(LEFT SITTING.)

HOUSE OF COMMONS.-(THIS EVENING.)
*The SPEAKER took the chair at 4 o'clock.
PRIVATE BUSINESS.
The Lords' amendments to the following bill"; were con-
sidered and agreed to, and the bills were orftered for third
reading :—Andover and Redbridge Railway, Midland
Railway (use of Railways in. and near London), and West
Somerset Railway.
The following bilk were read a third time :—Cardiff
Water, Carrickfergus and Larne Railway, i; üblin and
Wicklow Railway, East India Coal Company, Matlock
Water.
ENIIISTMENT IN IRELAND FOR THE POPE.
Mr. STEUART gave notice that he would ask for infor-
mation relative to the enlistment of troops in Ireland for
the Papal service, whether such enlistment was considered
objectionable ; and, if so, whether any steps would be
adopted by Government in reference to the matter ?
BED OF THE SEA, &c.
Mr. A. SMITH moved for certain returns on the subject
of the rights of the Crown to the beds or shores of the sea,
or the beds and shores of tidal or navigable rivers, &c.,
which were ordered,
THE BENGAL CODE.
Mr. KIWNAIRD'asked the Secretary of State for India
whether any and what steps have been taken by the Govern-
ment of India for bringing the subject of the repeal of the
Regulation XIX. of 1810 of the Bengal Code, and the Re-
gulation VII. of 1817 of the Madras Code, under the consi-
deration of the. Legislative Council of India, as directed by
the despatch of Lord Stanley, dated the 24th of February,
1859 1

Sir C. WOOD said that he would be quite ready to pro-
duce the papers alluded to, but only a portion of them up
to the present time were in his possession. He expected
the remainder of thorn by the Calcutta mail.

THE PROVINCE OF ORISSA.
Mr. SMOLLETT asked the Secretary of State for
India, with reference to a letter from the India-office,
addressed to the Manchester Cotton Association, and dated
the 16th day of April, 1860, stating that the proposals of
the Madras Irrigation and Canal Company, for oonstruct-
ing works of irrigation, drainage, and navigation in the
province of Orissa, were under the serious consideration
of her Majesty's Government, whether such serious
consideration applied to that portion of the scheme which
involved the guarantee of a minimum dividend to the share-
holders of this company upon the whole or any portion of
their stock.

Sir C. WOOD replied in the affirmative.
FORGERY OF TRADE MARKS.
Mr. BASS asked the President of the Board of Trade
whether, as no clause in reference to the forgery of trade
marks had been introduced in the bill for consolidating and
amending the law of forgery, he would, at the earliest op-
portunity, introduce the measure he had prepared on that
question.
Mr. M. GIBSON said that it was his intention to in-
troduce such a measure as that mentioned by the hon.
member as soon as the state of public business would per-
miNf his doing so.

PUBLIC BUSINESS.

In reply to Mr. DISRAMI,
Sir G. C. LEWIS said it was proposed to proceed with
;he Highways Bill this evening.
COOKING IN THE ARMY.

On the motion for the adjournment till Monday,
Colonel LINDSAY drew the attention of the house to
the system of cooking in the Army invented by Captain
Grant, and naked the Secretary of State'for War if ho in-
tended to recommend that some remuneration should be
given to Captain Grant for the great services he had
rendered in improving and economising the system.
He contended that the gallant captain was entitled to the
gratitude and the substantial proof of the approval of his
services by the country. That officer had been requested
by the Russian and other Governments to supply them
with his invention.

Mr. CAVE also advocated the claims of the gallant
officer.

HARBOURS' OF REFUGE.

Mr. LINDSAY asked the President of the Board of
Trade when her Majesty's Government intended to intro-
duce measures to carry into effect the recommendations of
the Harbours of Refuge Commission. The hon. member
having adverted to the gre t loss of life and property which
had taken plac) during the past year, said 'that a com-
mittee had been appointed to inquire into the best means for
the prevention of such losses in future. That committee were
unanimously of opinion that the best means to be adopted
was the establishment of harbours of refuge on the coasts
of Scotland, England, and Wales. (Hear, hear.) That
committee recommended the appointment of a royal
commission to ascertain the most eligible site
for these harbour. He was a member of that commission,
and they had endeavoured to carry mit their duties. They
recommended that £2,360,000 should be expended on the
construction of these harbours of refuge. He thought it
was a waste of time to appoint commissions if they did
not act on their suggestions, and ho considered that

if the money required could not be advanced, that
there should be loans towards carrying out the construc-
tion of harbours of refuge.

GUNBOATS.
Mr. W. EWART asked the Secretary to the Admiralty
what were the measures adopted for subjecting to a strict
system of inspection, while they are being built, gunboats
and other vessels, built on contract by the Government.
Sir JOHN PAKINGTON asked the Secretary to the
Admiralty what was the real extent of the injury by decay
which has been discovered in her Majesty's mortar vessels
and gun boats ; whether it was true that improper work-
manship and fastenings have also been discovered ; and
what steps the Board of Admiralty had taken, or intended
to take, in consequence of the present state of hose vessels.
• Lord C. PAGET said that he could allay any apprehen-
sion on the subject if hon. members would be satisfied with
his statements. 'With regard to the contracts for the gun-
boats, the contractors were not open to the blame that had
been attached to them, because they were compelled to use
green wood in the repairs of these boats. But
as regarded yachts the matter was different, and
in any cases of fraud it was dertermined to
prosecute the parties guilty of the same, acting of course
under legal advise. They had repaired 23 boats, and there
were 40 boats in reserve. The Admiralty had kept compe-
tent persons to inspect the ships that were being built.
There were 24 vessels being built, and there were 17 in-
spectors.
Sir C. NAPIER said that he had no doubt the con-
tractors had told the Government they could not build
these vessels except of green timber. He thought also
that the Government were quite justified in building the
gunboats of this green timber, considering the emergency
of the times. He wished to have some informrtion rela-
tive to the building of the shot boat, and the inspeeto:s that
superintend them. He thought the name!, of these
builders should be stated to the house— near, hear)—
for the fact was, in consequence of the
reference to these boats they Virtu they adopted in
vfm":, calculated to endanger
the lives of her Majesty'
s all`nrs and soldiers. He thought
the Admiralty should have had the foresight to have pro-
vided an ample sup,:ty
of war, particutiV justified
the seasoned wood for building vessels
of the present time, when events
,te'lent made by the hon. baronet the member for
He* ,".;s as to the threatening character of the times, which,
ne confessed, made him (Sir C. Napier) tremble. (Hear.)
Admiral DUNCAN testified, from personal observation,
to the bad condition of the gun-boats.
PUBLIC PROSECUTIONS.
Mr. HOWES called attention to the report of the com-
mission on the costs of prosecutions ; and asked the Secre-
tary of State for the Home Department, whether it was the
intention of the Government to bring in a bill, or take any
other steps, in relation to the subject of the said report ?
Sir G. C. LE WIS answered in the negative.
INSPECTION OF VESSELS.

Sir F. SMITH drew the attention of the noble lord
( Lord C. Paget) to this subject, and he made different sug-
gestions in reference to the matter.
(LEFT SITTING.)

LONDON GAZETTE-(THIS EVENING).

At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 10th day
of May, 1860—present, the Queen's Most Excellent
Majesty in Council—Her Majesty in Council was this
day pleased, on the representation of the Right
Honourable the Lords of the Committee of Council onEdu-
cation, to appoint Daniel Robert Fearon, Esq., 8.A., of
Balliol College, in the University of Oxford, to be one of
her Majesty's Assistant Inspectors of Schools.
WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, MAY 9.
The Queen has been graciously pleased to give orders for
the appointment of Colonel Alfred Hastings Horsford,
C. 8., to be an Ordinary Member of the Military Division
of the Second Class, or Knights Commanders of the Most
Honourable Order of the Bath.
WHITEHALL, MAY 10.

The Queen has been pleased to grant unto the Reverend
William Goode, M.A., the Deanery of her Majesty's Ca-
thedral Church of Ripon, void by the cession of the Very
Reverend Thomas Gamier, now Dean of Lincoln.

ST. JAMES'S PALACE, MAY 5.
The Queen has been pleased, on the nomination of the
Right Honourable Lord Foley, to appoint Wiliam Wise,
Esq., one of her Majesty's Honourable Corps of Gentlemen
at Arms, vice William Domvile, Esq., resigned.
WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, MAY 11.
3d Foot—Major-General the Hon. Charles Grey to be

Colonel, vice Lieutenant General Berkeley Drummond,
deceased.
32d Foot—Major- General Sir John Eardley Wilmot Inglis,
K.C.8., to be Colonel, vice General Sir Willoughby
Cotton, G.C.8., deceased.
Bth Light Dragoons—Captain Ed ward Phillips to be
Major, by purchase, vice Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel
George Chetwode, who retires • Lieutenant the Hon.
Everard Stourton to be Captain, purchase, vice Phil-
lips; Cornet and Adjutant Michael Clarke to be Lieute •
nant, by purchase, the Hon. Everard Stourton.
Military Train—Kilncr Augustus Arthur Brasier-Creagh,
Gent., to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Munro, pro-
mote; Charles Robert Crawford, Gent., to be Easign,
without purchase, vice, Stone, promoted.
4th Regiment of Foot—Ensign Francis Robert Sandys to
be Adjutant, vice Las, promoted.
6th Foot—Quartermaster William Maloney, from the 80th
Foot, to be Quartermaster, vice Patrick Sheeran, who
exchanges.
16th Foot—Lieutenant Alexander Gibson to be Captain, by
purchase, vice Barchard, who retires ; Ensign Pierce
McCann to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Gibson.
18th Foot—Ensign Walter Carroll has been permitted to
resign his Commission.
65th Foot—Brevet-Major William Pym Young to be Major,
by purchase, vice Brevet-Colonel James Patience, who
retires ; Lieutenant Andrew Nicholson Magrath to be
Captain, by purchase, vice Young ; Ensign Edward Ver-
non White to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Magrath.
69th Foot—James Charles Henry Mansfield, Gent., to be
Ensign, by purchase, vice Beames, promoted.
70th Foot—Lieutenant Garden Duff, from the 79th Foot,
to be Lieutenant, vice Christopher Garsia, who ex-
changes.
79th Foot—Lieutenant Christopher Garsia, from the 70th
Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Garden Dult;
who exchanges.
80th Foot—Quartermaster Patrick, theeran, from the 6th
Foot, to be Quartermaster, vice William Maloney, who
exchanges.
91st Foot—Lieutenant Thomas Erskine Arthur Hall to be
Captain, by purchase, vice Macqueen, who retires ; En..
sign Horace Ralph Spearman to be Lieutenant, by pur-
chase, vice Hall.
3d West India Regiment—Ensign William Thomas Croft
to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Dugmore, promoted.
UNATTACHED.
Major and Brevet-Colonel Ernest C. Wil.kord, Assistant
Commandant of the School of Musketry at llythe, to be
Lieutenant-Colonel, without purchase.
Captain and Brevet-Colonel Ed:ward Selby Smyth, 2d
Foot, late Deputy QuartermastP,-e-General at the Cape of
Good Hope, to be Major, wiclout purchase.
Lieutenant James Young, from the 79th Foot, to be Cap-
tain, without purek-Ase.

HOSPITAL STAFF.

Surg‘'On Charles Alexander Gordon, M.D., C.B. from
the 10th Foot, to be Deputy Inspector-General of' Hos-
.

urgeon-Major John Charles Cameron, M.D., who re-
tires on half-pay, to have the honorary rank of Deputy In-
spector-General of Hospitals, in accordance with the Royal
Warrant of the Ist October, 1858.
Surgeon-Major Richard C. Elliot, C. 8., from the Royal
Artillery, to be Surgeon-Major, vice Cameron, retired upon
half-pay.
Surgeon Robert Villiers George has been permitted to
resign his Commission.
The undermentioned Acting Assistant-Surgeons have
ceased to do duty, there being no longer occasion for their
services :—Harvey Rowe, Theodore Gross, M.D. ; Percy
Lee, Joseph Thomas Mitchell, William Warman Cole-
man, John Benbow, M.D., and John Craven.

BREVET.
Captain Charles Osborne Creagh, of the 36th Foot, to be a
Major in the Army.
The local rank of Lieutenant-General in China, granted
to Major-General Sir Wm. Mansfield, K.C.8., in the
Gazette of 20th December, 1859, has been cancelled.
The commission as Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel granted
to Major Join Edward Hughes, 47th Madras Native Tn-
fantry, in tha Gazette of 7th October, 1849, has been ante-
dated to 20th July, 1858.
The under-mentioned promotions to take place conse•
quent on the decease_ of General Sir Willoughby Cotton,
G.C.8., Colonel of the 32d Foot,. on 4th May, 1860; and
Lieutenant. General Berkeley Drummond, Colonel of the
3d Foot, on 3d May, 1860 :
Lieutenant-General Sir James Henry Reynett, Colonel
of the 48th Foot, to be General.

Major -General Thomas Reed, C. 8., Colonel of the 44th
Foot, to be Lieutenant-General.
Major-General Henry Viscount Melville, K.C.8., Colo-
nel of the 100th Foot, to be Lieutenant-General.
Br.:vet-Colonel Francis Hugh George Seymour, Lieute-
nant-Colonel upon half-pay Unattached, to have the rank of
Major- General.

Brevet-Colenel William Anson M'Cleverty, from half-
pay, as Lieutenant-Colonel Unattached, serving on the
Staff of the Army in the East Indies with the temporary
rank of Major-General, to be Major-General.
Brevet-Colonel Lewis Duncan Williams, from half-pay,
as Lieutenant-Colonel Unattached, to he Major-General.
Lieut.-Colonel Charles F. Fordyce, C. 8., half-pay Un-
attached, Assistant •Quartermaster-General in Nova Scotia
to be Colonel. ,
Captain and Lieut.-Colonel Henry Hume, C. 8., Grena-
dier Guards, to be Colonel.
Brevet-Major Charles William Thompson, 58th Foot, to
be Lieut.-Colonel.

Brevet-Major Charles Shipley Teale, half-pay Unat -
tached, Staff Officer of Pensioners, to be Lieutenant-
Colonel.

Captain Henry William Bace, half. pay Unattached,
Staff Officer of Pensioners, to be Major.
Captain Oliver Nicolls Chatterton, half-pay Rifle Bri-
gade, Staff Officer of Pensioners, to be Major.
ADMIRALTY, MAY 11.
Admiral of the White Sir John Louis, Bart., has been
appointed to receive a pension of £l5O a-year, as provided
by her Majesty's Order in Council of 25th June, 1851,
vacant by the death, on the Ist instant, of Vice-Admiral
Alexander Renton Sharpe, C. 8., and the name of Admiral
Sir John Louis has been removed to the Reserved Half-
Pay List accordingly ; and in consequence of this removal,
the following promotions, to date from the 2d inst., have
this day taken place :
Admiral of the Blue Sir Edward Chetham Strode,
K.C.B. K.C.H., to be Admiral of the White.
Vice-Admiral of the Red Sir Henry Prescott, K.C.8., to
be Admiral of the Blue.

Vice-Admiral of the White Sir Charles Sullivan, Bart.,
to be Vice-Admiral of the Red.

Vice-Admiral of the Blue the Hen. Henry John Rous
to be Vice-Admiral of the White.
Rear-Admiral the Right Hon. Charles, Lord Colchester,
and Rear• Admiral William Keats, on the Reserved Half
Pay List, to be Vice-Admirals on. the same List.
Rear-AdMiral of the Red Sir Henry John Leeke,K.C.B.,
K.H., to be Vice-Admiral of the Blue.
Rear-Admiral of the White Thomas Wren Carter, C. 8.,
to be Rear-Admiral of the Red.

Rear-Admiral of the Blue John Jervis Tucker to be
Rear-Admiral of the White.

Captain Sackett Hope to be Rear-Admiral on the Re-
served Half Pay List.
_

Captain Robert Fanshawe Stopfora to be Rear-Admiral
of the Blue.

BANKRUPTS.

William Ray, shipowner, Stockwell, Surrey.
Henry Pownceby, printer, Leman.street, Whitechapel.
Jonathan Morehouse, jun., woollen oloth manufacturer,
New Mill, Huddersfield.
Henry Newland, miller, Newcastle-under-Lyme.
James Helling, cowkeeper, Edgeware-road, Paddington.
Charles Stanbridge, merchant, Cheapside, City.
Thomas Charlton Richardson, druggist, West Auckland.
Samuel Wright, hotel keeper, Manchester.
John Parnell, linen d •aper,Oxford-street.
Thomas Sturley, licensed victualler, Ilarbury, Warwick-
shire.

Joel Fox, furrier, Norwich. ""
Edward Richards Sherren, builder, Wesbourne-grove
North, Bayswater.
Charles Dawson, dealer in China, Wisbeacb, St. Peter,
Cambridgeshire.
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ThomiS Lee, merchant, George-yard, Lombard-street,
City. _

Edmond Jones, hosier, Woodbine Villas, Battersea.
William Porteous, linen draper, Brighton.

SCOTCH BANKRUPTS,
John Grant,7Edinburgh,licommission:agent.
Robert Keddie, coalmaster, Elie, Fifeshire.
William Lothian, ironmonger, Wishart, Lanarkshire.
Alexander Rowan, engraver, Glasgow.
Samuel Holburn Fyfe, ship chandler, Glasgow.