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THE OXFORD UNIVERSITY BILL.

This bill was read a third time and passed.
JUVENILE CONVICTS' PRISON (IRELAND)

BILL.

ThiA bill Wa9 read a second time.
REFORMATORY SCEIOOLS (SCOTLAND) BILL,
This bill went through committee.
NATIONAL GALLERY BILL.
The report of amendments on the National Gallery
Bill was brought up and agreed to, and their lordships
adjourned at half-past seven o'clock.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.—(YESTERDAY.)
The SPEAKER took the chair at the usual hour, but
,here being but 33 members present, the house ad.
ourned until tomorrow.

PARLIAMENTARY COMMITTEES.

ALDERSFIOTT CAMP BILL.

The committee appointed to consider this bill met yes-
terday in room N 0.17.
The committee consist of Mr. Monsell (in the chair),
Col. North, Sir J. Paxton, Mr. Tite, Mr. Macartney,
Col. Lindsay, Cel. Knox, Lord Monck, and Col. Dunne.
Mr. if. Scott appeared in support of the bill ; Mr.
Macaulay, for Mr. S. Nicholls, a landowner, opposing
the bill.
The preamble of the bill stated that certain lands had
been purchased, and were now vested in the Secretary
of State for the War Department, with perpetual suc-
cession, upon trust for her Majesty and her successors,
to be used as a military camp for the instruction and
training of troops in the science of war, and that cer-
tain roads and rights of ways, if suffered to continue,
would very much interfere with and impede the useful
purposes of the military camp, and would be greatly de-
trimental to the public service. It was therefore deemed
expedient that all rights and privileges relating to roads
leading from the village of Aldershot to the third mile-
stone from Farnham to Bagshot, and across all common
lands in the parish of Aldershot and Yateley, and also
the road leading from the turnpike road, at a point op-
posite Heath Villa, from the entrance of Crantnore-lane,
should be extinguished.
Mr. Hope Scott having addressed the committee, and
called two witnesses in support of the bill, the committee
adjourned.

ISLE OF WIGHT STEAM BRIDGE AND
APPROACHES BILL.
The committee on this bill met yesterday ; Sir Wm
Somerville in the chair.

The bill seeks to effect an improved communication
across the Solent Sea, between Hampshire and the Isle
of Wight, in conjunction with the Stokes Bay Railway
and Pier Company, for which an act was passed in the
last session of Parliament. It was the intention of the
promoters of the bill to have a steam-bridge propelled
on chains across the Solent, but this part of the scheme
'134 opposed by the Admiralty, although bridges of a
similar description are in successful operation across the
Tamar, the Dart, the Itchen, and the harbour between
Gosport and Portsmouth. By the proposed bridge across
the Solent, in connection with the railways centring at
Farnham, on the composition of the Stokes Bay Rail-
way, the transit between London and the Isle of Wight
would be reduced from three to four hours and a half, and
persons would be effectually relieved of all risks, annoy-
ances and exposure, so justly complained of.
Mr. Sergeant Wells and Mr. Johnstone. appeared for
the promoters of the bill ; Mr, Calvert opposed for the
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Portsmouth Steam-boat Company ; and Mr. Rodt7tiellfOr e'r4 Ael2
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the Hyde Pier Company. 1 1
Mr. Webster was called, and examined by 11It. Ser- ,t••' io •
gennt Wells ;end he stated that this subject had ER en
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taken up eery warmly by the inhabitants of Hyde, eleee g: ";
where a public meeting was held, and resolutions were 1:11( e'r
unanimously passed in favour of the proposed plan, him' a s
affording a greatly-facilitated communication with the
metropolis, and would at the same time save a large ex-
pense which was now exacted by the Portsmouth
Steam-beat Company and the Hyde Pier Company. It
would also save the necessity of luggage being con-
veyed on porters' backs to the steam-boats, which led
to great confusion ; and several times he bad seen carpet.
bags and other packages dropped into the water.
The proposed plan would also give the Isle of Wight the
advantage of receiving many articles at a greatly reduced
cost, and particularly as regarded coals ; for in conse-
quence of the great risk of landing coals at Hyde there
was a difference in price of ss. a ton between Hyde and
Portsmouth. The public cimplained of the high pier
dues at Rede, being charged 2d. for going on to the
pier, and if a carpet-bag was carried they were charged
2d. or 31., according to the weight of it. By the bill
the promoters sought no exclusive privilege, but the in-
creased accommodation of the T, üblie. If a gentleman
sent a man from his yacht to Hyde, to purchase any-
thing, he was charged 2d. going, and 2d. when he came
lute . again. The pier at Hyde could not be used for
mercantile purposes, as it has been constructed entirely
fur a promenade ; therefore any attempt to convert it
into a pier for commercial purposes would be a failure.
The passenger traffic was altogether neglected. He had
taken up this matter as a resident of Hyde, knowing the
inconvenience to which the people were subjected.
By the Chairman—People using Hyde pier pay 2d.
for going on. The pier paid an interest of 15 per cent.
Mr. E. Marvin was the next witness. He said he was
an estate agent at Hyde. The steam-boat company and
the Hyde pier company did not give the people of the
island sufficient accommodation. With the establish-
ment of these landing-places there would be increased
accommodation to the pier, and if carried out would be
the greatest boon, not only to the inhabitants, but to
persons visiting Ryde. He concurred in the main with
what he bad heard from Mr. Webster. The communi-
cation for carriages was almost prohibited. The steam-
boat communication was most defective, for sometimes
the boat was nearly filled with luggage, and then 200
passengers were crammed in.

Mr. Rodwell—He held the pier for one year, and
although he reduced the tolls on luggage 1,5001. for that
year, then he made plenty of money by it. They took
the tolls from him then because they thought he made
too much money by them. He wished to reduce the
passenger toll to a penny, but be' was not allowed to do so.
Mr. Tudor gave evidence as to the practicability of
the plan, and the committee adjourned.

THE ARMY MEDICAL DEPARTMENT OF
THE CRIMEA.

This committee met on Monday in the room No. 12 ;
Mr. Augustus Stafford in the chair.
Dr. Lindsay, inspector-general of Haslar Hospital, at
Gosport, was the first witness examined. He stated that
the system of female nurses in the Crimea had been
found to work very well. The officers of the navy were
not compelled in hospitals to pay for leeches, medical
comforts, or nurses. The staff at Haslar was two inspec-
tors, two assistant inspectors, two staff surgeons, assist-
ant surgeons and dispensers. The surgeon makes his
round of the hospital, accompanied by an assistant, and
the nurse takes the prescription to the dispenser and re-
ceives the medicine. There is a lunatic asylum for the
navy, attended by a staff surgeon. Those officers who
are insane are not taken out of that asylum and sent to
country asylums, but they are kept there until they re-
cover or die. The system of that hospital is most satis-
factory. We draw up reports quarterly as to subjects
of medical science.

Lord De Ros said he was a major-general in the army,
and had been for 23 years on the inspection staff of the
cavalry. He produced a confidential report published
half-yearly as to the state of the medical staff of the hos-
pitals, the supply of stores, and the treatment of the
sick. From what he saw at Varna, when the cholera
broke out with such violence there, he thought that
nothing could be more praiseworthy than the conduct of
the medical officers there, but their numbers were insuffi-
cient for the duties that were cast upon them. There
was an insufficient number of dispensers of medicine;
for the surgeons, instead of being by the bedside of the
sick men, were compelled to make up pills and com-
pound medicines.

By Mr. F. Peel—There are at the present time in the
Crimea a number of men instructed for ho-pital duties.
By Sir J. Tiolope—Ha was aware of the hospital sys-
tem in the Guards, and be thought it would be well to
keep a b(.dy of trained IL ea for hospital service, instead of
keeping a permanent hospital serjeant. He was consulted
as to the site selected for the encampment of the army in
Bulgaria, in conjunction with the medical officers. It
proved very healthy at first, but after that it took a turn
and became very unhealthy, and then there was a defi-
ciency of hospital attendants. The governing organisa-
tion of the medical department had been brought fre-
quently under his notice, and it was his opinion that if
two assistants to the army surgeons were appointed, it
would be desirable, with a secretary. He thought that
the military secretary should be appointed by the Com-
mtrider-it -Caief, but should be removable by the Secre•
titry at War. He would add to the director-general of
the medical departtrent two other persons, who should
be subservient to him i❑ authority, a❑d they should ra-
ther be advisers than assume any independent authority.
As to the ambulance corps, lie bad occasion to complain
of their notorious conduct at Varna, and they had come
out deficient in stores, and were altogether ignorant of
their duties. The ambulance carts and waggons for the
removal of the sick were too heavy, for they could not
move them, and they were altogether useless. They were
not of the same pattern as those used during the Penin-
sular war, but were of a new pattern, and he believed
they vk era inspected by Lord Raglan previous to leaving
E4'and.

By Mr. Bellew--The arobas were very inconvenient,
and the sick were much exposed to the beat of the sun.
By the Chairman—A. medical officer should be placed,
he thought, on a Fituilar footing as an officer without
pnrchtse, and that was that he should advance by merit.
By Colonel North—The junior medical officers of the
army in the Crimea were most uncomfortable ; but, as
regarded the medical officer 3 of the marines and navy,
they had everything provided for them.

By Sir J. Trollopo—There is very little competition
to enter the army medical service, but he had beard that
there was great competition to get into the army medi-
cal service of the East India Company, as the pay and
retiring allowance were much more advantageous than
in the British army service.
Dr. Hume said he entered the service of the army in
1793, and was with Sir J. Moore in his campaign in the
Peninsula. He was also with the expedition to Wal-
cheren, and afterwards was in Egypt. He did not think
they could deal well with cases of dysentery in tents, as
it was necessary to keep up a certain degree of warmth,
which could not be done in tents. At Walcheren the
sick were placed in house', and after the siege of Flushing
300 men fell down in a few days. There was no great
sickness in the Peninsula after the tattle of Talavera,
There was no epidemic in the Peninsula. There was a
sort of English cholera, from the men eating unripe
grape=, but there was no epidemic disease. He was in
the retreat from Czarina and from Burgos, and those
who were sick were conveyed in spring waggons, for we
left none behind. The army was four days on its march
from Salamanca, but he did not remember the time occu-
pied in the retreat from Burgos. He knew of no case
of medical men, sent fresh from Eegland, being appointed
over the heads of those who had been working for the
sick for any time in the Peninsula. He preferred the
present machinery to a medical board, which existed in
his time ; but it was found not to work well, and was
abolished. There were to his regiment, when it was in
Portugal, himself and assistant surgeons, the regiment
consisting of 1,000 men. We bad two assistant surgeons
at Walcheren, and also at Egypt. We were required to
make up medicines, but we did not like it, and we taught
serje.,nts to make them up. A dispenser of medicine
was a position of great trust. No medals or honours
were given in the Peninsular war to the regimental
medical officers. They were mentioned in the de-
spatches of the Duke of Wellington after the battles
of Vittoria, Salamanca, Toulouse, &c., but nothing fol-
lowed from it. He considered, in ordinary cases, that a
staff surgeon and two assistants were sufficient for a
regiment. The army before Sebastopol was placed in a
position of great difficulty ; but he did not think the
system was to blame ; but there had been a great differ-
ence in it since his time, as they had done away with the
apothecaries to the army.
The committee adjourned at the usual hour.

ALEXANDRIA, May 23.—The steamer Hindostan,
whichbrought the mail from Calcutta, got on shore
about 60 miles from Suez, and was floated again after
eight hours, by throwing overboard about 150 tons of
coals. Fortunately, she grounded on a sandbank and
received no damage.

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HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.
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To conclude with a new Ballet, in which Madlle Marie Tag-
lioni will appear.
Applications for boxes, stalls, and tickets to be made at
the Box-office of the Theatre, Colonnade, Haymarket.