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of Guards ? The appointment was a new one, and he
should be glad to have some information on the subject,
though he should be sorry to follow the hon. baronet the
member for Tavistock in his attack upon the Guards.
Mr. WILLIAMS called attention to the great increase in
the cost of the staff, and asked the right hon. gentleman to
give the committee some explanation.

Colonel P. HERBERT justified the appointment of an
officer comm ,nding a brigade as being a most useful and
valuable one.

Col. NORTH wished to know why "command money,"
which appeared in the estimates to the amount of £14,000,
was not given to cavalry regiments, to which the with-
holding of it was a matter of great dissatisfaction. He
complained also of the treatment shown to seven deserving
general officers, to whose case he had directe/ attention,
mid which had been admitted to be well founded. In a
country of such wealth as England it was certainly very
discreditable. '

Sir S. NORTHCOTE asked the right hon. gentleman
how soon accounts would be produced showing our financial
relations with the Indian Government, and how it was that
the number of men on the effective strength of the army
appeared to be below the estimates, when really they were
above it.

Mr. S. HERBERT, referring to the remark of the hon.
member for Lambeth on the increase of the expenses of the
staff; said that a portion of that increase arose from the offi-
cers en service in China having been placed on a letter
footing, and the difference represented their increased pay
and allowances at home and abroad. With reference to the
general rule for appointments to regiments, he might state
that it was to this effect : that an officer was entitled to his
regiment either for home or for colonial service. With re-
spect to the question put to him by the hon. member oppo-
site, the member for Stamford, he thought the hon. gentle-
man himself, from his former connexion with the Treasury,
was better able to explain those mysterious transactions.
The hon. gentleman did not see the estimates for Indian
allowances, and for British officers service— but
the fact was, that no such estirqqt ,repared. Those
allowances were paid
_inissariat chest, and the
accounts were thence to the Treasury,
after which oalanced by votes of credit. The aye-
tern was cure:—oas and objectionable, but until recent oc-
currences he know nothing of the matter. With regard to
the other question of the hon. gentleman, he would only
observe that the apparent discrepancy arose from the dis-
charge of numerous men from India having enabled recruit •
ing to go on very briskly of late, so as to more than balance
its general slackness during harvest time. The result NI as,
that the army had not for a long time been in so effective a
condition.

The vote was then agreed to.
£387,285 was then proposed for miscellaneous charges.
Colonel KNOX moved that the Chairman report pro-
gress.

After some conversation the motion was agreed to.
The house resumed.
The Nuisance Removal and Diseases Prevention Bill
passed through committee.

The remaining orders of the day having been disposed of,
the house adjourned at a quarter-past one o'clock.

A MAN BU.RNT IN TEXAS.

The Buchanan (Texas) correspondent of the
New York Tribune writes on the 25th of April :
" Allow me a place in your columns for the follow-
ing recital of a tale of horror, but one of many of
which this section of our country is the theatre, but
which for obvious reasons are kept out of the pub-
lic prints, and especially out of those honest and.
patriotic sheets which would hold them up in their
true colours to the detestation of an enlightened
people. A young man, whose name and residence
I shall suppress for fear of harrowing the feelings
of a fond mother and sisters to whom ignorance is
bliss, came into this country as a colporteur. He
had a valuable stock of books, maps, &c., consisting
mainly of bibles and religious works, the standards
of the Christian world, histories (Prescott's and.
others), school books and Atlasses, and, unfortu-
nately for him, a few copies of the Impending Crisis,
and some tracts favouring the cause of freedom.
These were accidentally seen by some intense pro-
slaveryite, who raised the hue•and-cry against the
--- Yankee Abolition book pedler.' A mob
soon had him in their clutches, and he was at once
unmercifully flogged, and robbed of his waggon
and its contents. Here, perhaps, the affair would
have ended, but just at this time a negro man was
brought upon the ground, purporting to have been
caught running away from his master with a forged
free pass in his pocket. He (the negro) was hence-
forth lashed to a tree, and, after a most barbarous
beating, he was told to say who had given him the
pass. The half-dead and terrified negro, glad of a
chance to save himself, and well knowing who his
captors wished him to accuse, pointed ont the col-
porteur, adding, in answer to artful questions, that
he had received a knife from the pedler, with the
advice to take it and cut his way to freedom, and to
burn his master's house over his head, in revenge
for the barbarous treatment he had received. Now,
of all this there was no proof but the word of the
negro, who would have told anything to procure
his own release ; and yet it was enough for the in-
furiated mob, now numbering about 150 owners of
slaves, their overseers and sons. After a short consul-
tation the poor man was delivered into the hands of
six of the most furious of the crowd. These rolled.
the waggon under a tree, covered it over with dry
faggots, and over the whole of it poured a barrel
of tar; having first stripped their victim and im-
mersed him in the same, they passed a rope around
his neck and over a limb. Then raising him so
that his toes barely touched the top of the combus-
tible pile, the negro was made to apply the flaming
torch, and the tragedy closed in the flames of the
hellishly concocted funeral pile, and the shrieks of
the agonized victim. In justice to outraged hu-
manity, I must say that this was witnessed by
those who would have had it otherwise, but too
few to avail aught against the infuriated mass."

UNTR Y MARKETA -

MANCHESTER-MAY 31.

The attendance this morning was limited, and the pro-
ceedings were altogether of a holiday character. Scarcely
any business occurred, both buyers and sellers being equally
indifferent, and we repeat the quotations of this day sea-
night.