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London, England, 1856-02-20 00:00:00

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The Lord Panmure, &c.

BILL.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.—(This Day.

The SPEAKER took the chair shortly after 12 o'clock.
The following bills were read a second time, and or-
dered to be committed :—Dover Water ; Lyming,On
Railway ; North British Railway ; North-Western
Railway ; Saint Ives and West Cornwall Junction
Rail way.
The second reading of the British and American Great
Railway Land Company Bill was postponed till the 15th
April.

OPENING THE MUSEUM, &c., ON SUNDAYS.
Numerous petitions were presented against the opening
of the Crystal Palace, British Museum, and National
Gallery on Sundays.

Sir J. WALMSLEY presented nine petitions from
the working classes of the metropolis praying that the
above might be opened to the public o►: Sunday after-
noons ; and Mr. Spooner presented 33 petitions from the
inhabitants of Birmingham against opening the Museum,
&c., on Sundays. Petitions were also presented in fa-
vour of medical teform ; against the Local Shipping
Dues Bill, and the Police Counties and Boroughs Bill ;
and in favour of, and against the abolition of, Church
rates. Mr. Williams presented 21 petitions from the
suburban districts of the metropolis against opening the
Crystal Palace, &c., on Sundays.
EPISCOPAL AND CAPITULAR ESTATES BILL.

On the motion of the Marquis of BLANDFOBD the
second reading of this bill was agreed to, and en the
motion of Sir G. GREY it was ordered to be referred to
the Committee on the Ecclesiastical Commission.
DISSENTERS' MARRIAGES BILL.
The second readiag of this bill was postponed.
MEDICAL PROFESSION BILL.
Mr. HEADLAM moved the second reading of this
bill.

Mr. SPOONER hoped the house would not hastily
proceed with this measure, against which there were
many objections.

Lind R. GROSVENOR called attention to many ob-
jections be bad to various provisions of the bill. He
considered the principle of the bill was based on a mo-
nopoly, for it gave to one college the power of conferring
the right to be registered and to practise as a qualified
medical practitioner. Th• state of medical science in this
country was not in such a state as to justify the adop-
tion of this measure. Before the house agreed to it he
asked them to reflect whether by doing so they would
mot be inflicting a serious injury on the community.
The public bad never asked for this measure, but only
medical practitioners. He assented to the principle of
education laid down in it, but the othtr portions of the
bill he dissented from. He would not object to the se-
pond reading, but suggested some alterations to be
made in committee.

Sir G. GREY- said no doubt there were some of the
details of the bill that required alterations which might
be done in committee. Repeated applications had been
made to the Government fur an alteration of the laws
with reference to the medical profession, and several
attempts had been made to accomplish it, but which had
failed owing to the jealousies that existed amongst the
different branches of the medical profession.

Mr. HENLEY and Mr. NAPIER having briefly ad-
dressed the house,

Mr. HEA.D LAM replied to many of the objections of
the noble lord the member for Middlesex, and said that
any suggehtions that might be made by the medical pro-
fession or hon. members would receive every considera-
tion.

The bill was read a second time, and ordered to be
committed the first Wednecday after Easter.
DRAINAGE ADVANCES ACTS AMENDMENT

In reply to some observations from Mr. WILLIAMS,

Mr. WILSON repeated his statements with reference
to the operation of the bill which he addressed to the
house on its first reading. The principal object of the
bill was to charge landowners who applied to the Go-
vernment for advances under the Drainage Act, interest
on the money so advanced from the date of the cheque,
and not as now when the money was drawn from the
Bank of England.
gr. HENLEY said he thought this way putting the
screw on the landowners, but, under the circumstances,
considering the advantage these advances were to land-
owners, he should not oppose the bill.
The house then went into committee ea the bill; Lerd
DUNCAN in the chair.

The clauses of the bill were agreed to without opposi-
ion.

The house then aijourned at 10 minutes past one
o'clock.

DESTRUCTION OF FORT NICHOLAS.

(Front the Gazette of last Evening.)
WAR DEPARTMENT, FEB. 19.

Lord Panmure lrts received a Dospatch, of which the
following is a copy, addressed to his Lordship by Gen.
Sir W. Codringtou, K.C.B.

Sebastopol, Feb. 4.

My Lord,—Marshal Pelissier informed nse a few dais
ago that this day Fort Nicholas would be destroyed ; and
he again sent to say that at one o'clock p.m. the mines for
this purpose would be fired.
The view over the whole harbour is well obtained from
the interior slope .of the Redan Hill, and from other
points within the Russian lines.
The day was magnificently clear ; every sentry on the
opposite side could be seen, every working party watched,
every soldier that was lounging in the sun ; occasional
shot and shell were sent from the enemy to the Karabel-
naia and the town, but otherwise nothing disturbed the
usual appearance of quiet, almGst of desolation.
Ou our (the south) side, we looked down on the largo
ruined barracks in front, on the inner creek of the Dock-
yard, the Quay, and the remains of Fort Paul, the spa-
cious inlet from the harbour on our left, beyond which
stands the roofless buildings of &bast spot itself. There
also is the well-remembered long line of pointed arches,
the casetnates of the interior of Fort Nicholas, of which
the embrasures in double tier pointed to seaward and away
I from us.

It juts out into the harbour built on an inner tongue of
land ; Fort Constantine forming a similar but more out-
ward defence for the sea approach on the north.
The scene and feeling of expectation were of great in-
terest, for another tangible proof of power and success was
to take place, and 106,0J0Ibi. of powder were in the seve-
ral mines.

At the hour named a burst of smoke, dark and thick,
rolled from our loft of the building ; it was followed by
another; the heavy sound arrived, the stones were shot
into the air and to the sea ; the explosions of the extreme
right and the centre mingled at little intervals into one
drifting cloud, which veiled the destruction below.
The light of the ann played. beautifully on the mass of
smoke, of which the lower part lay long and heavily on its
victim, The breeze passing it away over the. remains of
the town, showed that a long line of ruin was all that re-
mained of the pride of Fort Nicholas, and one standing
menace of tbo harbour lay buried under its waters.

TlO state of the docks has been given in detail in my
letters. They are all destroyed, whilst the earth sur-
rounding them is shaken into cracks ; basin, decks,
masses of broken granite, capstans, gates, beams of iron,
and of timber aro tumbled into one miss of destruction.—
I have, &c. W. J. CODRINGTON,

General Commanding.

RAILWAY TRAFFIC RETURNS.

LONDON AND SOUTH-EASTERN RAlLWAY.—Traffic re-
turn for the week ending Fob. 16, 1856 £12,881 10 10
Corresponding week last year 10,950 18 9

Increase in 18:).6
LONDON, BRIGHTON, AND SOUTH COAST RAILWAY.—
Traffic return for the week ending Feb. 16,

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1856 ..... . £3,183 9 2
Oorresponding week last year 7,23G 7 3
Total of the half-year to this date, 1856 69,015 11 8
Total of the half-year to this date,lBss

GLASGOW AND SOUTH-WESTERN RAlLWAY.—Traffic re-
turn for the week ending Feb. 16, 1856 £5,552 16 9
Oerresponding week last year 4,945 11 8

Increase in 1856.
GREAT LUXEMBOURG RAlLWAY.—Traffic return for the
week ending Feb. 17, 1856 £3OO 16 6