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in
,any plaint or`action, or in advocating in court for him
}riease of illness, absence from home, distant residence,
.and other, special grounds or reasons." •
Mr. ROEBUCK opposed the clause. It was intended
to do away, by a side wind, with the interference of
barristers. If it was desirable to do that, let it be done
openly, and not in this covert manner.
After-some discussion, the clause was negatived with-
out a division.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL moved there-insertion
of the clause permitting a registrar or assistant clerk to
reside out of the district under special grounds and by
consent of the Lord Chancellor ; or, when the district
is within the Duchy of Lancaster, by the consent of the
Chancellor of the Duchy, but his office to be within the
district. He thought the house ought not to call
upon the registrars of populous districts such as
Shoreditch and Bethnal-green to reside within them
After some discussion the clause was negatived with-
out a division.
Mr. ROEBUCK complained that the clause referring
to the retiring allowance to be given to County Court
clerks had been altered since the bill passed through
committee; from one-fourth to one-third.
The SPEAKER, said the alteration could be made
without notice. .
Sir JAMES GRAHAM—Then the matter being
now passel, is beyond our control.
Mr. WILSON wished to explain.
The SPEAKER—It cannot now be discussed.
Sir J. GRAHAM—Then 1 cannot sufficiently express
both my surprise and sorrow, that so important an alte-
ration wheiild have been made without previous notice.
The SPEAKER—The hon. member can refer to it on
the question that the bill do pass.
The remaining clauses, after some discussion on vari-
ous amendments, principally of a verbal character, were
agreed to.
On the question that the bill do pass,
Mr. WILSON entered into a detailed statement with
reference to the position of the clerks in the Government
getting rid of the plurality of courts', and stated that the
vested interests of the clerks in these courts, considering
they had resigned their private practice on taking these
offices, and the justice of the case, demanded that the
retiring allowance should be one-third instead of one-
fourth. The increase in amount would be small, but
would not increase the existing charges which were paid
out of the fees of the Courts.
Sir J. GRAHAM said if it had not been too late he
shouid have moved the reduction of the amount one-
fourth, believing that a sufficient retiring allowance.
He deprecated the change that had been made, and con-
sidered it contrary to the rules of the House.
The SPEAKER said that in accordance with the
rules of the house the amendment had been irregularly
introduced into the bill, and he cancelled it accordingly.
The retiring allowance was then altered to one-fourth,
as agreed to in committee.
The bill was then read a third time and passed.
VICE-PRESIDENT OP COMMITTEE OF COUN-
CIL ON EDUCATION BILL.
On the motion that this bill be read a third time,
Mr. HENLEY moved that it be read a third time
this day three months. He saw no object to be gained
in the appointment of a new functionary before a gene-
ral system of education was proposed.
Mr. GLADSTONE supported the amendment; and
condemned what appeared to be a growing evil in that
house, viz., that of creating offices before defining the
duties to be performed. By adopting the bill the house
would be sanctioning a bad precedent, because the new
functionary would be lightly worked and very much
overpaid. Instead of its being a department with wee
responsible head there would be two Privy Councillors
working cheek by jowl with a divided responsibility.
Sir G. GREY supported the third reading of the bill.
It was introdueed at the request of the house, and in
accordance with the promise of the First Lord of the
Treasury, to meet the view of the house on the necessity
of their being a minister for education in that house.
Tee objections of whether that minister should be known
as a privy councillor or a secretay, or paid 2,0001. per
annum, or 1,500/, were details which could be altered
in the next session of Parliament.
Mr. NAPIER was in favour of the appointment of a
responsible minister for education in that house, but he
objected to the provisions of the present bill, which
would have the effect of widening the breach between
the two countries.
Mr. H. VERNON considered it would be sufficient
to appoiet a secretary, because the officer referred to
would have to carry out the wishes of Parliament and
not devise some brilliant scheme of education. If the
hon. member fer"Oxfordshire went to a division he (Mr.
Vernon) should support him.
Mr. HADFIELD opposed the third reading of the

BREVET.

Brevet-Colonel Robert Georgo Hughes, retired full-pay
521 Foot, to be Major-General, the rank being honorary
only.
Quartermaster Michael Wall, half-pay of the 61st Foot,
to have the honorary rank of Captain, under the Royal
Warrant of the 17th Doc., 1855.

The undermentioned promotions to take place in the
East India Company's Army, consequent on the death of
Lieutenant-General Duncan 'Macleod, Bengal Engineers,
Bth June 1856 :

-ifajoi-Veneral G. P. Wymer, G. 8,, Bengal Infantry,
to be Lieutenant-Greneral._

Colonel J. T. Lane, C. 8., Bengal Artillery, to be Ma-
jor• General.
The undermentioned o:Mcer of the Esst India Company's
Service retired upon full pay, to have a step of honorary
rank as follows :

Dlaj,-)r Henry FitzSinions, Bengal Infantry, to be Lieut
Colonel.

ADMIRALTY, JULY 11.

Corps of Royal Marines—First Lieutenant T. B. V,
Fitzgerald to be Captain, ♦ice Brooker, deceased.

ADMIRALTY, JULY 18

Corps of Royal Marines.—Her Majesty has been gra-
ciously pleased to restore Mr. Joshua Rowland Brookes to
the rank of First Lieutenant, his commission to bear date
11th July, 185 G.

COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY LORDS-LIEI7TENANT.
Alexander Stephenson Fetherstonhaugh, Esq., to be
Deputy Lieutenant of the Tower Hamlets.
Royal Mid-Lothian Yeomanry Cavalry—Captain the
Earl of Dalkeith to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Lord
Aberdour, promoted to b• Lieutenant-Colonel Command-
ant; Captain Robert Balfour Wardlaw Ramsay to be
Major, vice Trotter, resigned ; Lord Henry John Douglas
Montague Scott to be Captain, vice Ramsay, promoted;
Lieut. James Forman to be Captain, vice the Earl of Dal-
keith, promoted ; Cornet Peter Maclagan to be Lieut.,
vice Wardrop, resigned; John Crawford Tait, Gent., to
be Cornet, vice Maclagan, promoted.
Worcestershire Regiment of Militia.—Flenry Shirley,
Esq., to be Lieutenant, vice Oldham, promoted.

BANKRUPTS.
Arthur Allen the younger, dealer and chapman, Hay,
row-road, Paddington, to surrender, August 1 and 29, at
half-past one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Whitmore,
official assignee, Basingball-street ; Paterson, Bouverie-
stree,,, Fleet-street.
Hylton Carr, shipbuilder, North Hylton, Durham,
Aug. 4 and 28, at twelve, at the Newcastle-upon-Tyne
District Court. Baker, official assignee, Newcastle-upon-
Tyne ; Burn, jun., Sunderland.
William Webster, tavern keeper, Snow-hill, Aug. 1, at
twelve, and Aug. 2LO, at half past eleven, at the Court of
Bankruptcy. Carman, official assignee, Aldermanbury ;
Wyatt, Verulam-buildings, Gray's-inn.
Ed ward Ind Thurgocd, builder, Orchard-street, Kentish-
street, Middlesex, July 30, at half-past one, and August
27. at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Stansfeld,
official assignee Chidley, Gresham-street, City.
Edwin Kay, licensed victualler, Duke-street, Manches-
ter•square, Aug. 1, at twelve, and ,Sept. 5, at half-past
eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Canaan, official
assignee, Aldermanbury;` Synaes, Teesdale, and Sandi.
lands, Fenchurch-street.
SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.
Philip Denholm, flasher, Dunbar.
Hopkins and Bell, engineers, Glasgow.
Alexander Fraser, builder, Edinburgh.
James Johnstone, wine and spirit merchant, Airdrie.
Thomas Macdonald, writer, Fort-William.

Mr. V. SMITII said there appeared to be a wrong
impression existing with reference to this bill. It was
not introduced for the appointment of an officer to carry
out either of the many schemes discussed this session
that might have been adopted by the house, but for the
creation of an office in connection with education, the
holdertf which should be a rne Dber of the house, and
carry out their views on that question.
Mr. A. PELLATT objected to the bill on the ground
that it was inexpedient to appoint an officer before the
duty of his office had been defined. He called on the
house to reject the bill.
After some remarks from Mr. NEWDEGATE and Mr.
HEYWOOD,

COURSE OF EXCHANGE.—This Day.
Amsterdam-- ...... 11 17y,, Gibraltar
Ditto, throe months .. 12 01A Leghorn ..
Rotterdam ............ 12 014 Genoa ........ • • ...... 7.5 7731
Antwerp .. ••••••• • • • • • 25 57y, Milan • ••• •• • • ••• • ••
Brussels • • • • • • • • ••• • • • 25 57% Venice .• • • • • •• • • • .
Uarnbrirgii •••••••• • • • • 13 9 Naplqi •. • • ...•• .• •. •• 44
altona .. Palermo ....
Paris..

GRAHAM said nothing but necessity should
induce them to consent to the addition of paid servants
of the house. He looked with extreme jealousy on
these additions, and regretted that during the last ton
years they had greatly increased. He should support
the amendment.

Ditto, three months .. 25 65 -,
Lisbon ...............• 531 i
Marseilles 25 6754 Oporto ........ • . .... • • 53
Bourdeaux .• • • ........ Rio Janeiro...... • • ....
Frankfort-on-Wain.... 120 it Buenos Ayres.. • .•
Berlin ••.••••••• .• •• New York,6o days' sight
• • .... 10 22 Philadelphia ......
Trieste 10 23 1 mete OF BULLION, PICA oz.
Petersburg ............ 373,i i Foreign Gold in Bars £3 17 9
Madrid 49,4 Portugal Gold Coin .. 0 0 0
Cadiz ....• ••.••••• •• •• 50 I Mexican Dollars .• • • 0 0 0
Itarrelona ............ New Dollars ...... 0 0 0'
•• •• •••••••••• Sliver ln bars ...... 0 5 114

The house then divided when the numbers wme—

/s)r. the second reading
Against it
- • - -

Majority for the third reading ... —42
Mr, HADFIELD then moved that the duties of this
office should be extended to Ireland.
Sir G. GREY said that if the amendthent ho carried
it would be inoperative, because by the present law pro-
vision was made for the supervision of education in
Ireland.

The amendment was negatived without a division.
The bill Was then read a third time and passed.
PROCTORS IN ECCLESIASTICAL COURTS
BILL.

This bill, which was introduced last night by Mr.
HADFIELD, and read a first time, was, after a short dis-
cussion, rejected without a division.
The house suspended its sitting at half•past 3 o'clock.

The house resumed at 6 o'clock, and was
[LEFT SITTING.]

LONDON GAZETTE—(This Evening.)

FOREIGN OFFICE, JULY 24.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint the Earl Gran-
villo to be her Majesty's Ambassador Eltraordinary to the
Emperor of all the Russias, on the occasion of his Imperial
liajeety's Coronation.
_ • WAR DEPARTMENT, JULY 19.

The Queen has been graciously pleased to give orders
for the appointment of Lieut.-Colonel Sir Win. Thomas
Denison, Knight, RE., Captain General and Governor-in-
Chief in and over the colony of New South Wales, and of
Rear-Admiral Chas. Elliot, Governor and Commander-ir -
Chief in and over the Island of Trinidad, to be Ordinary
Members of the Civil Division of the Second Class, or
Knights Commanders of the Most Honourable Order of
the Bath.

WHITEHALL, JULY 22.
The Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent to
be pass..ei under the Great Seal, granting the diginity of a
baronet in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ire-
land unto Sir Allan Napier Macnab, of Dundurn. in tho
county of Wentworth, Canada West, Kut., and to the
heirs male of his body lawfully begotten.
ST. JAMES'S PALACE, JULY 19.
The Queen has been pleased, on the nomination of the
Right Hon. Lord Foley, to appoint C ipt. Stephen Ryder
Dampier, one of her Majesty's Honourable Corps of Gen-
tleraen-at-Areas, vice Marshall, retired.
BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, JULY 19.
The Right Honourable the Lords of the Committee o
Privy Council for Trade and Plantations have receive
through the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy
of a despatch from her Majesty's Plenipotentiary in China,
announcing -that the duties on the importation of cotton
chintzes and prints into Shanghae, have been reduced to
5 per emit., ad valorem.
BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, JULY 21.
The Right Honourable the Lords of the Committee of
Privy Council for Trade and Plantations have received,
through the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy
of a despatch from her Majesty's Minister at Lisbon, stating
that the prohibitions and restrictions upon the importa-
tion of rice from Asia into the continent of Portugal and
the adjacent islands have been abolished.
WAR DEPARTMENT, PALL-MALL, JULY 22.
Ist Regiment of Life Guards—Charles William Dun-
combo, Gent., to be Cornet and Sub-Lieutenant, by pur-
chase, vice Lord C. W. B. Bruce, promoted.
6th Dragoon Guards—Lieutenant James M. Burn Mur-
doch has been permitted to retire from the service by the
'sale of his commission. The first Christian name of Cor-
net Grainger is Richard,
7th Light Dragoons—Cornet W. S. Carr Standish to be
Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Avtoun, promoted.
Uth Light Dragoons—Cornet Edward King to be Lion-
tenant, by purchase, vice Steward, promoted in the 21
West India Regiment; John Evans, Gent., to be Cornet,
without purchase, vice Grainger, appointed to the 6th
Dragoon Guards.
Royal Artillery,- Who scored
isCßhreirsttiiea,nannaamnoet or,firtioc,uat.s
prir:vibaol sittemtdelrt:issubtiyAs,uparriliiiladmne
ootf t3hieoln.;isebuytiennasntappointedpreviously
6stnatjetidn;o 2tlhjeisappointment of Lieutenant Harry Adair
Tracey to bear.date 7th April, instead of 7th July, as
stated in Gazette of 11th inst. •
Bth Regiment of Foot-Captain Aston Thomas Welsh,
from the 80th Foot, to be Captain, vice Woods, who ex-
changes.
21st Focit-Liatenant C. H, T. Bruce de Ruvignes, from
the B)th Foot, to 'beLieutenant, vice John Bennett, whO
exchanges. •
22d Foot—Captain Herbert George Bowden to be In-
structor of Musketry.
34th Foot—The name of the Ensign, appointed on Bth
instant,is Brown, and not Brown, as previously stated.
37th Foot—Assistant-Surgeon William Thomas Irwin,
from the Staff, to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Smith, pro-
moted on the staff.
40th Foot—Ensign Fredk. Dudgeon, from the Monaghan
Militia, to bo Ensign, without purchase (Supernumerary
to the Establishment), vice Stuart, whose appointment
has been cancelled.
51th Foot—Lieutenant Percy G. &Mehl Lake to be
Captain, by purchase, vice' Swetenham, Rho retires.
deetenant Henry Riilout Floyd, fi.om the 81st Foot, to
be Lieiitenant, vice Humphreys, who exchanges ; Ensign
Thomas Parr to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Lake
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-1856, is GOsset and not Gossett, as previously stated.]
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[The surname of the Ensign appointed on the Bth July,
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v 1 ice Lake, promoted.
60th Foot—Lieutenant Conynghani Jones to be Captain,
without purchase, vice Clapcott, deceased ; Ensign
•

nett Gregg Henderson to be Lieutenant, without p
..urchase, IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT vice Jones.
61st Foot—Quartermaster-Serjeant John Dowler to be !
Quarterinseter, vice Wall, who retires upon half-pay. _
HOUSE OF LORDS.—Y 69th Foot Ensign. Edward Harwood Vincent to le , - ESTERDAY.
Lieutenant, by purchose,, vice Roberts, who retires ; • SLAVE TRADE IN THE BRAZILS,
Montgomery Williams, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, The Earl of MA LMESBURY called the attention
vice Vincent.
of the house to the dispute which had arisen between
80th root--Capt. Richard William Woods, from the I theßritishGovernmeut and Brazil owing to Bth Foot, Foot, to be Captain, vice Welsh, who exchanges ;
teo behaviour of ourrMinister at Rio, onthe a matter
tient. John Bennett, from else 21st Foot, to be Lieuten-
arising out of the slave trade, and who had been sup-
ant, vice de Rueignes, who exchanges.
81St Foot—Lieut. Wm. Humphreys, from the 54th ported by Lord Clarendon. The noble lord concluded
Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Floyd, who exchanges; En. 'by moving for papers connected with the affair.
sign Henry Harrison Briscoe to be Lieutenant, by purs Lord CLARENDON explained the circumstances of
chase, vice Weir, whose promotion, by purchase, on the the case, which had arisen from an apprehension justly
18th April, 1856, has bean cancelled. - entertained by the British Minister at Rio that great
Edward
Hugo.
The Government
trilav e trade in Brazil. inent bad thought it
Johnston, M.D.
85th Foot—Staff-Surg eon of the Second Class John Wm.
ho be duty to supportits agent abroad, but he was
87th Foot—Lieutenant Sae eaurgeon, appy to think that, after the mutual explanations to be
kurgeon, vice Armstrong, deceased.
ville George Lane Fox, >
from the 21st Foot, to bu Lieutenant, vice Fitzgerald, pro- which had been given, the Brazilian Government har-
meted, without purchase), to an Unattached Company, bouted no against the Government of this
STAFF.—Brevet-Colonel Edward Robert Wetherell, country,
Unattached, to be Deputy Quartermaster-General to the After some observations from Lords ABERDEEN and
Forces serving in Ireland, vice Brevet-Colonel Greaves. MALmESBURY, the motion (for papers) was agreed to.
DEPOT BATTALION Captain John Atkinson, from the RENT AND ISMAIL—THE RUSSIAN EMBASSY
89th Foot, to be Assistaut Adjutant. • •
ITNATTADHED.—Brevet-Illajor the. Hon. Somerset John TO ENGLAND.
Gough Calthorne, Bth Light Dragoons, to have his Brevet - The Earl of MALMESBURY, having apologised for
Rank converted into Rank, under the: Royal again trespassing on the house, proceeded to askthe noble
Warrant of 6th Oct., 1854.
earl (Clarendon) whether it was true that the two for-
' HOSPITAL STAFF.
tresses of Rani and Ismail, which were included in the
Assistant-Staff-Surgeon Richard Edward Fitz-Gibbon
to be Staff-Surgeon of tho Second Class, vice Robert Win- territory which Russia bad made Over to Moldavia by
chester Fraser,
sistant-Surgeon Will MD,
toiatn Page placed upon
be Assistant-Surgeon Aetin
to As- the treaty of Paris, were entirely destroyed ? It was the Forces, manifest that that territory was of little use as abulwark
The undermentioned Acting Assistant-Surgeons have on the frontier of Turkey if there were no fortresses
ceased to do duty, there being no longer, occasion for their there.' While Ismail stood as a fortress no 'Russian army
services:—John Ringland, Spencer B. Gibb, M.D., Archi-
couoi pass the Danube without leaving that fortress and
bald Weir, William Fletoher, John Robert Cole; Robert
Turner. another in its rear; but as things now were, with the for-
tresses, destroyed, the frontier remained mach as it was
• before the war. As we had given up Sebastopol, Kertch,
Eupatoria, Kamiesh, and the fortresses on the Circas-
sian frontier, he did not think that there was anything
like a fair exchange even if the territory ceded remained
as it was, with the fortresses untouched,- but it was far
less, fair now, if they had been destroyed. He wished to
ask the noble earl whether it was true or not tbat these
fortresses had been dismantled, and, if so, whether it was
agreed upon in the treaty of peace that they should be
dismantled ? In the case of a guaranteed government like
Turkey, there should have been a condition that the for- '
tresses were to be retained. He would ask Whether any
fortresses were to be rebuilt on the right and left bank of
the Danube, and, if so, by what soldiers they were to be
garrisoned ?' By the treaty of Adrianople those fortresess
were not to be garrisoned by Tetkisli soldiers ; but 'he
supposed that treaty bad been sponged out by the war.
He also wished to ask another question of bis noblefriend.
It was now nearly two months since his nobie.friendhad.
sent a mieisterfrom this.country to St. Petersburg. Lord
Wodehouse was appointed and sent out Very soon after
the peace was signed, and he had been at the court of
Russia for amonth ; but no minister, or anything. like
one, bad appeared at the court of England as the.repre-
sentative of Russia ; and he thought that, without
being too punctilious on these points after a great war,
we should have, stood a little upon form, and not have
risked the dignity Of her Majesty by sending an envoy
to Russia so soon, without ascertaining that one was
coming to represent that country in England. He wished
to know why the just expeotation of such an event had
been disappointed, and why the Minister for Russia bad
not arrived in this country, and when it might be ex-
pected that the Court of Russia would be represented at
the Court of England
The Earl of CLARENDON—I will answer the ques-
tions of my noble friend in the order in which he has put
them. lam unable to tell him what is the state of the
fcrtresses of Reni and Ismail, incense the commissioners
appointed to settle the frontier of Moldavia, although
they have•been occupied in that business, have not yet
gone to the point where those fortresses are situated ;
and I heard this morning from St. Petersburg that
no report had been received there as to what had
been done with them. But I have no doubt that
those fortresses have' been dismantled, and I
think it a most unusual—a most irregular proceeding--
a very unfortunate mode of inaugurating a peace. , No
precise terms with regard to the fortresses were inserted
in the treaty .of Paris, and I should have thought it
would have been considered almost an affront, to have
mentioned that with regard to which there could have
been no difference ofopinions I era told that the Rus-
sians assert that they have the same right to demolish
those fortresses as the allies had to demolish the works
at Sebastopol. But there was a great difference between
the two cases, and besides, since the peace was signed,
although there may have been some. destraetion, there
has been no demolition Of fortresses 'by the' allies,
whereas there has bsen a dismantling of Beni and Is-
mail since the signing of peace, We might as well as-
sert that by right Kerteh, Kamiesh, and Eupatoria,
and especially,Kertcb,, ought to have been destroyed ;
but we considered that, as soon as peace was
signed, those fortresses belonged' to Russia, and that it
would have been dishonourable to have destroyed them..
We consider, therefore, that Russia had no right, from
the day that the treaty was signed, to meddle with Is-
mail or Reni. That is the opinion of her Majesty Go-
vernment, and it has been communicated to the court of
Rusris, but we have as yet received no formal answer
on the subject. Taere is another fortress to which my
noble friend has not alluded—l mean Kars. I have
also made inquiry with regard to that fortress of the
Russian Government, and the answer I have received
is, that the moment peace was signed the Emperor sent
orders to Kars that nothing should be destroyed ; other-
wise the-destroying of the citadel of that fortress would
have been an express violation of the treaty of Paris, but
owing to the disturbed state of the country those order's
did not- arrive in time to prevegit that being done ;• hut
the moment they did arrive no -.farther destruction
took plce. There hes been also a report that in apart
of the territory ceded to Moldavia certain crown lands
were to be sold, I accordingly sent to make inquiry on
6 le subject, and was told that some of the authorities were
going to sell some of the crown lands, but the sale had
been stopped, the'Russian Government admitting, that
they were no looger theirs. The Russian Government has
stated in the'strongest terms its intention and desire to
carry out the treaty in the most faithful manner, and I
hope there will be no further occasion for any disturbance
of that confidence which, after peace has been established,
should exist between the different countries. With regard
to the arrival of the Russian Minister in this country, I
have to say that we received an official intimation from
Baron.Brunnow when he came to this country to deliver
a letter to her Majesty, that Count Crept° witch had been
appointed minister to this country. As he had been so
long in coming, and this country was left without a re-
presentative of Russia, which was somewhat disrespect-
ful to her Majesty, I inquired at St. Petersburg the
reason of the delay, rod lhave been infermed that the
minister will be here at the end of thou:tenth, .and that
the delay was wholly unintentional.
The Earl of EL LENBOROUGH saidthat Russia had
ceded the fortresses on the lett bank of the Danube, and
due precautions should have been taken by the Govern-
ments who accepted the territory: They should ' hate
taken' care that provision was made
,with regard to the
state in'which those fortresses were to be given up, whe-
ther they were to be giVen up with their guns and their
ammunition, and whether the archives and plans of .the
fortresses were to.be given up. All those contingencies
were always provide d for in treaties relating to fortresses,
and if the noble earl complained about what had been
done in this instance, he could only say it was the noble
earl's own fault for not having taken the usual precau-
tions, Be could not but regret that there 'was the least
glimmering of a misunderstanding between this country
and Rbssias
The Earl of CLARENDON--The remarks of the no
ble earl are founded on treaties in which fortresses are
named ; those fortresses were not named in the treaty
of Paris.
The,Earl -of DERBY said it struck him that the sur
render of territory in which 'those fortresses were si-
tuated, by a treaty' in which those fortresses were not
named, was an additional neglect, as the only value of
the territory in question was founded on the existence of
those fortresses. The -remark of the noble earl only
shifted the blame from one instance of-'neglect to
another. He did not exactly understand the noble earl.
The noble earl admitted that the Russians had been
guilty, if.not of a breach of faith,-at least of a breach of
an understanding so indisputable that it was not thought
necessary to insert it in the treaty;' and that 'in other
matters they have treated 'this country with a want of
respect which was calculated to embarrass the future re-
lations of the two c )untries.' He begged to ask the noble
• earl whether, as he had received an answer with regard
to the fortress of Kars, he•had received any reply to his
remonstrance with reference to the two other fortresses ?
. The Earl of CLARENDON said the object of ceding
the territory in question
the Danube.. In answer
any access to the left bank of
was to prevent Russia having
to the noble earl (Derby) he had to say that he had not
yet received' any answer on the subject of the two other
fortresses. • '
The Earl of ELLENBOROUGH—By the 'first ar-
rangements proposed, Russia was to be excluded from
the Prat!). The fall of Kars occurred, and then came'
'only their exclusion beiond 'the Danube..
The Earl of CLARENDON—They are excluded from
the Danube, and 200 miles beyond that river.
The subject then dropped.
CONSOLIDATION OF THE STATUTE LAW.
The LORD CHANCELLOR rose to call the attention
of the house to the second report of the commissioners for
consolidative the statute law. ' He stated that the house
would remember that after the session of 1854 a royal coin
mission was appointed, consisting of several legal func-
tionaries and persons of high standing in the law, with a
view to'the conselidation of the statute law, and as far as
possible to introduce into that consolidation, any. portion
Atha common law it -was thought would tend to make it
perfect; and at the suggestion of Lord Lyndhurst, it
'was made an instruction to the commissioners not merely
to consolidate the present lave, but to offer any sugges-
,
tams which might pcour to, them, with roger 1 to the,
forms of future legislation. The task was found to be one
of overwhelming difficulty. The statutes of this realm
were contained in 40 closely printed folio volumes, and
'were 15,000 in nuMber. The first inquiry of the coin-
.
missieners (among whom were Lords Lyndhurst, l3roug-
barn, and CAmpbell, the_ Chief Justice of the Common
Pleas, Vice,Chaucedlor.Page.Wood, &c.) was directed to
the mode of proceeding. It was suggested that 'there
should be a general skstch Made of all the statute; under
separate heads, and this was to a certain extent set'aloot,