The Sun.
London, England, 1856-07-22 00:00:00

FRANCE.

PARIS, MONDAY EVENING.
The reports continue to be satisfactory from
Spain. The attempt at Barcelona was mare de-
termined than the Government journals allow, but
it was nevertheless completely put down without
serious loss at either side. It is rumoured that
Saragossa would not persist in needless resistance
to the Queen's troops.
The Messager de Bayonne says :—" In conse-
quence of the events which have just taken place
at Madrid, the Spanish Government has sent word
by the telegraph to arrest the course of the
13,000,000 fr. forwarded last week from this place.
That amount of specie is to remain at Vittoria
until further orders."
A certain number of Spaniards of distinction
residing in Paris since the events of 1854 left yes-
terday for the Spanish frontier. Amongst others
is General Ortiga, formerly captain-general of one
of the provinces of Spain.
The Moniteur contains a letter addressed by the
Emperor to the Minister of Public Works on the
subject of the recent inundations. The Emperor
examines from an engineering point of view the
causes of the occasional overflow of the great rivers,
and recommends, in order to prevent the recur-
rence of such disasters, the barrage of the affluents
of those streams. The Minister is directed to
cause a technical survey of the river valleys, in
order to such constructions.
The Afoniteur contains the official announcement
by the Russian Government of the establishment
of custom-houses at Perekop, Jenitchesk, and the
bridge of Tehanjar, with the view of preventing the
introduction by contraband of goods into Russia
Proper from the Crimea.
An Imperial decree promotes Col. Auger, head
of the staff of the artillery of the army of the East,
to the rank of general of brigade in the first sec-
tion of the general staff of the army.
BOURSE, July 21.—The following were the last
quotations :
Cash. e. End of Month,
4i Per Cents ...... 93 50 —f. —O.
3 per Cent 5.............. "70 50 70 SO
New Loan .. 70 50
Ban
Share; .................. 4,125 Roman
9r.g6clit Mobilier 1,460 Austrian
.os. Ila •
4 n Fives. ....... Spanish Threes —
nechnontess(s) ...... 90 Home Debt ....« 37i
RAILWAYS-10R CASH.
fr. e. fr. e
°Jlealla ............ 1,388 75 Western 962 s'B
Northern rn 1,065 Strasburg
i.......... 1,415 New Ditto
. ""neva •800 Test° .............. 772 50 Austrian Com.

"1-& DANUBIAN PRINCIPALITIES.
Ou the 7th of July the Hospodar of Wallachia
addressed the following proclamation to the Ad-
ministrative Council of the Principality :--
"Rarely has a land suffered under such an uninter-
rupted series of extraordinary misfortunes as our own
country from 1849 up to the present day.
We
BringD seven years, which were but one long crisis,
guided by a sense of duty, and our conscience
"
tells us that we were never actuated by any other motive.
A new era begins for our country from this day.
A commissary of the Suzerain and the commissaries of
the great Powers will assemble in Bucharest, in order
to
learn the wishes and necessities of the nation, and to
secure for it a durable and happy future. During this
period of transition a Provisional Administration will
alluTage the affairs of the country until the new organi-
ation which has been guaranteed to the Principality
rei
shall be established. We, therefore, to-day resign the
gns of government, dle the rovisional admi-
stration of the country in the handsp of the Extraor-
dinary Administrative Council.
f "Ilia
Excellency the Ban Manuel Balliano, President
o the Council, and the other chiefs of the departments,
will
Jaccordin
11l carry on the business of their respective Minis-
viety and gto their instructions, and with that ac-
further zeal which the circumstances require, until
" er orders are received from the Sublime Porte.
Rood We have still a duty to perform. We appeal to the
feelings of our countrymen, and recommend to
them
unanimitY, for the welfare of our common father-
and illlPerstively demands that all personal conaide.
" The
rations and party interests should be sacrificed.
present moment is of the utmost importance,
f
or the whole future of the country is dependent on it.
quiet, dignified, and discreet behaviour will render. the most efficient service to our cause, and best corrhe
11313 ed with the benevolent intentions of his Majesty the
Sultan and the generous views of the great Powers.E___,,
"STIRB Ir.
.
4 On the sth inst. the Hospodar left Bucharest, as
was said, to inspect the upper districts of the
Prinipality, but on the 7th M. enar, the direi
c-
t°r of his Chancellerie, returned Paj
with the proca-
Illation above given. Stirbey isy now with his wife
the Convent of Bistritza.

RUSSIA.
tzurazz,
It July 10.—The controversy lately men-
u being carried on with great eagerness in
Russian press, and which seems to turn for
left most part on the question whether the Russian
t wing gave way prematurely at Alma, is spoken
himself las the cause of Prince Monschikoff having taken
! off rather unexpectedly from St. Peters-
°A"gs and repaired to his seat near Moscow.
struggle Another conflict of
old bet
nßussian part much older date—viz., the
ween the so-called German and the
Y--is also being carried on just
.O._W with renewed vigour, though under very
different auspices from those that obtained in the
early stages of thelate war. General Todtlebeit
has. been receiving an incessant series of ovations
has
the capital andrlelsingfors, and still more lately
ha_ s been presented with a gold medal of the value
?f 500 silver roubles by the Engineering and Artil-
lery Academy in St. Petersburg.
General Mouravieff himself seems to be earnestly
intentr,, upon a final subjugation of the Circassians.
The Caucasus is comtinually mentioning the depar-
ture of reinforcements for the fortress of Grosnaia,
or for that of Vladicaucas ; the intention appears
,to be to isolate the Caucasians by a powerful mili-
tary cordon. The Inv alide 'also contained a lett€r
of thanks from the Emperor, addressed to Bruot,
General of Engineers, for the successful accom-
plishment of thee task assigned him of erecting a
Series of fortresses along the two rivers, the Oxus
and the Jaxartes (Six-daja). By means of these
fortresses Russia now commands the water com-
munication, the trade, and, at the same time, the
strategeticl centre whence she can exercise her in-
fluence over Persia. The peuplades that inhabit
the steppes in that quarter of the world are depen-
dent on these streams, and consequently on the
Power that possesses them, and now the military
organisation along the Asiatic frontier, extending
from there up to Siberia, where the Russians are
how very active on the Amoor, may bo said to be
complete.
The sentence of a court-martial passed upon
Colonel Misinoff, late commander of the separate
Orenburg corps, and subsequently confirmed by
,the Emperor, condemns him to the loss of his rank,
his orders, and his nobility, and degrades him to
Serve in ie Cossack ranks ; his offences consisted
of embezzlement and falsifying his accounts, for the purpose of his own advantage, at the expense
of the soldier's rations.

Telegraphic communication with Madrid is still
V Tho following intelligence has, how-
, now been forwarded from Bayonne. The
roost important is that Espartero, who it was re-
Mad
Ported , had goneto g Lo rono) is a prisoner in
r id. gone
The following was addressed by O'Donnell to
the President of the Cortes a few hours after its
meeting :___
Which is not possible for me to accede to the wish
letter il
Your Excellency makes known to me in your
of this evening, because, since it is evident and
'notorious to every one, and the government has been in-
'riled bY official communications, that there are not at
c, kaid a sufficient number of deputies to constitute the
:Jones, the government of her Majesty cannot recognise
a rued. to.it by Your Excellency, teuttbe meeting held to-day the legal character attri-
freedi:rity of for it was composed Of
the
the Constituent Cortes, without
ee al indispensable to their deliberations, . in coo-
itreuee of the pressure which might be exercisd overh
the Y the insurrection. This is precisely the reason wmy.
~..._:.PPointenent of the new cabinet has not been co g•
leated to the Chamber.
)44inivattehrejoiryal command decided upos in the council of
give you this answer, and inform you that
i future no answer will be returned to any. letter that
You and other
of the 0 Godstituted.°deputies may address to me in the name
o long as these shall not be lawfully eon-
pr
.preserve your Excellency
Dalysidencv of the Council of Ministers, M idrid.
„, 14, 1856. many years.
.to his Excellency the PresidentLEOPoOfLD O'DONNELL.
~ the Constituent Cortes.
The Madrid Gazette publishes the following :
ROYAL DECREE.
rayincooonformity with what has been proposed to me by
Sap of ministers, I have resolved as follows :
vie article. Ail generals, superior officers, and

officers, remaining on the territory occupied by the rebels
of this capital shall be suspended from their function,
and subjected to tue penalties which, in virtue of this
ordinance, shall be inflicted en them by a council of
war.

Given at the Palace, July 15, 1855.
Sig lied with her Maje,ty's
The rresicio.t of tne C,,uncil of Ministers,
LE:,roLD O'DO HELL,

Doo, Leap.-Id O'Donnell, Count of Lueena, Pre-
sident of the Council of Ministers, and General-
in-Chief of the Army, &c.
Considering that the capital of the monarchy is now
in a state of rebellion against her Majesty's government
it is declared to be in a state of siege, and in consequence
I order as follows :
Art. 1. All classes of persons are prohibited from en-
tering or leaving the city.
Art. 2. The introduction of provisions and goods of
every kind is likewise prohibited ; all that may be taken
will be deemed prize of war, and the parties conveying
them shall be brought before a military commission.
Art. 3. The introduction of all kinds of provisions and
food is permitted by the gates of Alcala, Recoletos, and
San Vincente, which are held by the troops.
Madrid, July 15, 185 d. LEOPOLD O'DONNELL.

(Extract from the Gazette Extraordinary of July 16.)
OFFICIAL NOTIFICATION.
The rebellion is conquered and terminated ; order and
the dominion of law are reestablished. The deputation
and the municipality of Madrid have been 'dissolved by
order of the military authority ; the national militia has
been disbanded and declared subject to re-organisation.
This decision does not extend to the two companies
which remained true to their oaths, to the Queen, and
to the country.
At this moment, seven o'clock in the morning, they
are proceeding to disarm the National Guards.
The factious minority, consisting of deputies who
went the day before yesterday to the Palace of the Cortes
for the purpose of deliberating unlawfully, and who yes-
terday morning assembled for a sitting, after they had
received the declaration of the Government respecting
their usurpation and violence, has thought fit to dissolve
itself.

The internal communications of the city have been re.
established.

PREFECTURE.

Inhabitants of Madrid,—ln announcing to you that
order is re-established, ruy firat duty is to address to you
a word of confidence and peace.
All honest and peaceably-disposed persons, without
distinction of party, will receive from the Government
the most complete protection. Order, tranquillity, re-
spect for the laws and the constituted authorities, are
what your civil governor expects from you. On his part
be promises you to keep incessant watch, so as to pre-
vent any attack upon the safety of individuals, and
every kind of excess. _

The national guards may with perfect confluence give
up their arms to the alcaldes of the several quarters.
Men of Madrid, return to your employments, in order
that neither commerce, nor manufactures, nor labour
may be paralysed. The Government, which knows how
to be strong against armed insurrection, will protect
with its whole strength the safety and interests of private
persons.

S) promises you, in the name of her Majesty's Go.
vernment, your civil governor,
MANUEL ALONZO MARTINEZ.

Madrid, July 16, 1856.

PROCLAMATION OF THE O'DONNELL
GOVERNMENT.

The following proclamation was issued on the
15th by O'Donnell and his colleagues :

Inhabitants of Madrid,—The situation in which her
Majesty's Government, with frankness and loyalty, now
address you is certainly a difficult, a solemn, and a cri-
tical one. Your conduct has put the Government into
a painful perplexity.
Victims of the evil passions of a handful of auda-
cious men, you have been drawn on to consequences
which your own consciences must disapprove ; and the
Government, complying with the imperative duty im-
posed upon it for the conservation of your interests,
your principles, and your liberties, finds itself under the
necessity of resorting to means which are not agreeable
to the sentiments of its heart.
Listen, then, to an austere but friendly voice, which
warns you to consider that he judgment, not of a re-
mote posterity, but of the reason and true conscience of
this nation and all Europe, will have to pronounce itself
immediately between the Government and you. It is no
puerile ambition, no mean party interest, which obliges
the Queen's Government to take the attitude of coercion
in which you have placed it.

The existing Ministry accepted this saving commission
because the late Cabinet, in the most critical circum•
stances, had left the nation without protecting support,
and had abandoned the Queen.

The Ministry, confident that it represents public opi-
nion, and that it is adapted to those imperious necessi-
ties which late events have caused to be so acutely felt,
hesitated yet for some hours to shed blood. It was un-
willing to come to extremely rigorous measures in the
application of force, and it hesitated before it adopted ex-
treme measures, being fearful of adding to the horrors
of the evil those of the remedy.
Its hope being disappointed, or, to speak more truly,
being destroyed, it now finds itself compelled to bring
into action the ample forces of tho army at its disposal
against an aggrnssion which, though at first merely the
frenzy of a minority that was led astray, is now assum-
ing the proportions of a most unrestrained and subver-
sive revolution. •

It is not their own cause that the Ministers are de-
fending—that is not the question at issue in this struggle
—what is at stake is your freedom ; the contest involves
those principles which form the very basis of society, and
the interests of your property and your homes. The
contest is for your mental improvement, your well-
being, the lustre of your rank among the nations of
Europe, and surely these are interests and principles
more elevated than those which have been contended for
in other political conflicts.
The blood that will be shed during its continuance,
the misfortunes and horrors that may arise, will return
upon yourselves, and it is to you that history will im-
pute /theta. Inhabitants of Madrid ! The great, the
immense majority of individuals bearing arms in your
National Guard know well the actual and the awful
truth ; they know that the triumph of the means about
to be employed by the government is sure.
But, in the extraordinary situation in which we find
ourselves placed, there is yet another and more terrible
truth, which is that the worst calamity of which you
could be the victims, and the situation which would
hurry you into the lowest abyss, the most bloody anar-
chy would be your own triumph.
Inhabitants and National Guards of Madrid !—Spare
the government this hard conflict ; spare yourselves
this blood-stained disgrace. Distinguish between and
separate the pretences of a few deluded and discontented
persons from the lawful rights and just liberties, which
the government neither can nor will infringe, and has
never wished to infringe, and enable us to save the prin-
ciple of power without having recourse to the means
of force and to the horrors of blood.
Assuredly this solution is easy. Remove from your-
selves, all of you, those who are our cruel enemies. We
do not ask you to combat them ; it will be enough that
you abandon them,
(Signed) LEOPOLD O'DONNELL, NICOMEDES PASTOR
DIAZ, ANTONIO DE LOS RIOS ROSAS,
MANUEL CANTERO, JOSE MANUEL
COLLADO.

Madrid, July 15.
The following extract from the Messager de
Bayonne of the 19th contains details of interest:—
The Madrid mail of the 15th, due today, was not,
able to leave in consequence of the fighting, which be-
gan on the evening of the 14th. We have neither
letters nor journals. The only diligence which has
arrived is the Victoria, which left Madrid at 9 in
the morning of the 15th. The office of this coach
being outside the Bilbao gate, it was able to get
away. At the moment of its departure the cannon
was roaring, and a hot fire of musquetry was going
on. Some few national guard', who Gook part in the
early stage of the combat and afterwards were forced to
abandon their barricades, have found means to come to
Bayonne.

The following is a summary of the news brought•by
them, the authenticity of which we do not, of course,
guarantee

" Oa learning that the Duke of Victory had resigned,
several of the deputies assembled in the hall of the
Cortes, with General Infante in their chair, and drew up
a protest against all that bad been done, declaiming
that they recognised no other authority than that
of the Duke of Victory and the Constituent Cortes.
The commanding officers of the battalions of the
National Guard who were present at the meeting imme-
diately put themselves at the head of their men, and
marched to support the Cortes. Numerous barricades
were made, both by the National Guard and the
people. The first barricade attacked by the troops was
in the Rue Mayor, near the palace. General Concha
sent a battalion of Chasseurs to attack it, and their car-
bines mowed down a great many national guards. At
the same time two guns opened fire, and the defenders
of the barricades were so harassed by the splinters of
the stones that they were forced to abandon it.
"The insurgents, closely pressed by the troops, were,
after a useless defence, successively obliged to abandon
all their positions, which were the Plaza Mayor, Calle
Mayor, Pueta del Sul, the Ministry of the Interior, the
Post-office, the Prado, &c., and all the line of neigh-
bouring street, many of the houses in which were occu-
pied by the insurgents. When driven from all these
points, the National Guard fell back upon the Rue de
Toledo. Hemmed in by numbers, and menaced by a
fermi iable artillery, they asked for a suspension of hos-
'ities. Two hours were given them to lay down their

arms.

"On the 18th, the Spanish consul received a despatch
announcing that, on the evening of the 17th, Barcelona,
Girono, and all the fronti,:r were tranquil.
" To this news we may add that a part of the garrison
of Pampeluna, and 5,000 men from that of Madrid, are
marching upon Saragossa, where au insurrection has
broken out, the details of which have not reached us.
" We are assured that Evader° is at Madrid, and
under arrest (garde h vuf-) in a house belonging to the
mother of Gen. Guerrea."

We have not received auy Madrid journal to-
day, the only communication which has reached
us being the following letter, bearing the date of
the 17th, and giving us some additional details :
"Madrid is calm. The military tribunal is sitting,
and is working with energy. Muskets and other
arms are being collected. The disarmament of the
national guard proceeds with activity ; 15,000
muskets have already been collected, and although

TRIM SUN. LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING; JULY 22, 185s'

a certain number are wanting, the aim of the
measure is considered as obtained. The no-
' torious Pueheta was killed by a pistol shot at
the moment that lie was escaping by the Toledo
gate be endeavoured to sell his life dearly,
and fired on four soldiers and a lieutenant of Tala-
vera coassours, bet his resistance was useless.
is stated by some that ETartero is hidden in the
British embassy. GoVernment has decided on act,
in generously towards him, and will permit him
to withdraw to any spot he may solicit. MM.
Patricio Escosura, Pascal Madoz, Sagasta, ealvo
Ascenio, and other deputies, who resisted at the
bead of the battalions of national guards under
their orders, are likewise lying hid. No news has
been received of Gans. Zavala' Serrano, Bedoya,
Triarte, Ametter, Valdes, and others who have
not offered their services to Government. Ge-
neral Falcon, commanding in Aragon, and who
placed himself at the head of the pronuncia-
inento of the national guard and population against
the actual government, has been taken by royal
decree and summoned before a court-martial. All
the generals, superior officers, and officers of the
army who remained inactive at Madrid during the
events are likewise to appear before this court.
General Dulce has been named to the command of
Aragon. It is probable that he has power to put
down the insurrection, and his troops are acting in
concert with those which left Vittoria against Sara-
gossa. The Captains-General of Valladolid, Va-
lence, and Catalonia have offered troops to the
government. The news from the provinces is
satisfactory. The direction-general of the colo-
nies has been re-established and. adjoined to that
of public works."

.Tvl PriM IA L P..4.31L T.A.MEN '3'.

HOUSE OF LOttDS.---YE'ATEUDAY.

The LORD CHANCELLOR to,A. te:itt, on the wool
5 o'clock.

IZO VAL u 0 Arls> JON

at Sebastopol. But there wag a great cliffer,?nce between
the two cases, and besides, since the peace was signed,
although there may have bee❑ sonic destraetion, there
been no demolition of fortrk:sses by the allies,
there has been. a diemartling of Reni and Is
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afire• of pea

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The rovef a•eeeit w..e4 e eerze. eia :u
eevieg brie: -Ceti` eh iui:diee :•.e (1,
ExAeqn,.l- (•ic .tf an ;), Sr. BiirE..'t.: Ma...
M.ere,:ti,t.ile Law (Scetiaed) Adiendoneue, Itegietration
Voters (Scotland), Revenue Transfer of Charees, Survey
of Great Britain, Drainage (Ireland), Grand Juries (Ire-
land), Statutes-not-in-use Repeal, Dwellings of Labour.
ing Classes (Ireland), Aldershot Camp, Incumbered
Estates (Ireland), Prieons (Ireland), Police Counties and
Boroughs, London Printirg and Publishing Company,
Glastonbury and Bruton Railway, Castle Douglas and
Dumfries Railway, Isle of Wight Steam Bridge,
Metropolitan Railway, Wem and Bronygarth Roads,
Inverness and Aberdeen Junction Railway, Stirling and
Dunfermline Railway, Luton District Roads, Cleohury
North, &c., District Roads, Dunblane, t•oune, and Cal
lendar Railway, Wimbledon and Croydon Railway,
Leeds Improvemet,t Acts Amendment, Grand Junction
Water, Crystal Palace C innany, Gloucester Gas,
Thames Haven Dock and Railway, London and South-
Western Railway (Yeovil to Exeter), East Indian Rail-
way, Ely Tidal Harbour and Railway, London and
North-Western Railway, Londonderry and Enniskillen
Railway, Mid Kent Direct Railway (Bromley to St.
Mary Cray), Oxloid, Worcester, and Wolverhampton
Railway, Uttoxeter and Blyth Marsh Road, Bardney
Drainage, Walmesley's Estate, and Severn Valley Rail.
way Bills.
The Lorde' Commissioners were—the Lord Chancellor,
the Earl of Harrowby, and Lord Stanley.
REGISTRATION OF TITLE DEEDS.
Lord LYNDHURST said that three years ago a bill
was introduced for the registration of title deeds. That
bill was referred to a select committee. It came back
again to their lordships, and was passed by a large ma-
jority. It then went down to the other house, but what
afterwards became of it he did not know, except that it
never passed into a law. A commission was subse-
quently appointed to inquire into the subject. He wished
to know whether that commission had made a report,
and, if not, what was the cause of the delay ? Before
he sat down he wished to express his regret that so
many important measures had been this session lost.
He believed that so great an amount of bills lost or
abandoned in the present session was unprecedented in
the history of Parliament.
The LORD CHANCELLOR said that the commis-
sion referred to had not made its report. The Registra-
tion bill alluded to had gone down to the. Commons,
after receiving thegeneral concurrence of their lordships'
house. It, however, did not meet with as favourable a
reception+ in the Le rver House, when it was refer-
red to a select committee, who reported against the
bill. They recommended the adoption of a different
plan •of registration, and a royal commission was
issued with a view of considering how far the
scheme recommended by the select committee
was practicable. That commission commenced its sit-
tings in 1854, but they had not as yet made their re-
port. He had frequently communicated with the mem-
bers of the committee, two of whom were the Solicitor-
General and Mr. Walpole, and he was informed that
there were a great many difficulties in the subject, and
that they were considering the whole of the matter very
attentively. They had drawn up a draft of a report,
which they hoped would be soon ready for presentation.
He had prepared a bill in the early part of the session
on the subject, but was induced to withhold its pre-
sentation under the expectation of the report
alluded to being presented. Unless he received the re•
port during the recess he would certainly introduce his
measure next session.

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fined, those fortress

leace was
and that it

vould have been dishoneuntl,le to se dee, ,•yeti therm
We consider, therefore, that Russia bad no right, from
the day that the treaty was signed, to meddle with Is-
mail or Rent'. That is the opinion of her Majesty Go-
vernment, and it has been communicated to the court of
Russia, but we have as yet received no formal answer
on the subject. There 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 orders
did not arrive in time to prevent that being dove ;hut
the moment they did arrive no further destruction
took pl,sce. There has been also a report that in a part
of the territory ceded to Moldavia certain crown lands
were to he sold. I accordingly sent to make inquiry on
the 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 longer 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 Crepto 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, and I have been informed that the
minister will be here at the end of the month, and that
the delay was wholly unintentional.
The Earl of ELLENBOROUGH said that 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 have
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 provided for in treatiesrelating 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. He could not but regret that there was the least
glimmering of a misunderstanding between this country
and Russia.

The Earl of CLA_EENDON.—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 inscrt 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-

THE RAJAH OF COORG.
The Marquis of CLANRICARDE called attention to
the case of the Rajah of Coorg, who was at present in
England. This unfortunate gentleman had been a state
prisoner in I3enare,, and applied to the East India Com-
pany for leave to visit England for the purpose of bene-
fiting his health and the education of his daughter. The
Rijah having been compelled to remain some time
longer in this c ,untry, he received a note from
the East India Company, requiring him to return
to India forthwith. He wished to ask the Go•
vernment whether they had received any information
as to the treatment experienced by the Rajah at the
hands of the East India Company, against whom he
was prosecuting a suit at law. The latter fact might
account for the anxiety of the Company for the return
of the Rajah to India.

lations of the two c)untries. He begged to ask the noble
earl whether, as he had received an answer with regard
tct 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 was to prevent Russia having
any access to the left bank of the Danube. In answer
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 Pruth. The fall of Kars occurred, and then came
only their exclusion beyond 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 Duke of ARGYLL said the noble marquis evi-
dently knew more of the subject than he did. He, how-
ever, thought that the East India Company having
given this gentleman a certain leave of absence might
reasonably
.refuse to extend that leave without being
subjected to any charge of cruelty.
The subject then dropped.
THE IRISH MILITIA.
Viscount DUNGA.NNON asked the Secretary of
State for War whether be had received any official com-
munication of the dismissal of 57 men of the City of
Limerick Artillery Militia from Youghal on the sth
inst., who were suffered to depart, many of them, with
scarcely any clothing, and who bad to proceed all the
way to Limerick with only 6d. allotted to each indivi-
dual; and also whether it was correct that 240 men
were discharged on the 10th inst. from the Curragh,
belonging to the Mayn Rifles, to find their
way home with only one day's pay allotted to them ?
The noble lord took occasion to complain ►ery strongly
of the conduct of the Government towards the Irish
Militia.

The LORD CHANCELLOR rose to call the attention
of the house to the second report of the commissioners for
consolidating the statute law. He stated that the house
would remember that after the session of 1854 a royal corn
mission was appointed, consisting of several legal func-
tionaries and persons of high standing in the law, with a
view to the consolidation of the statute law, and as far as
possible to introduce into that consolidation any portion
of the 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 law, but to offor any sugges-
tions which might occur to them with regard to the
forms of future legislation. The task was found to be one
of over Nhelming 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 corn-
',
missioners (among whom were Lord,' Lyndhurst, Broug-
ham, and Campbell, the Chief Justice of the Common
Pleas, Vice• Chancellor Page Wood, &c.) was directed to
the mode of proceeding. It was suggested that there
should be a general sketch made of all the statutes, under
separate heads, and this was to a certain extent set afoot,
but found to be almost impracticable. The commissioners
formed themselves into sub-clancittees, and it was an
instruction to one of them to endeavour to improve and
simplify the language of the existing statutes. It was
soon found, however, that anything like an entire con-
solidation and emendation of the statutes would not be
completed in half a century ; and they then made a very
general classification and consolidation of them under the
heads of criminal law, property law, mercantile law, and
others. The commissioners made a report at the end of
last session, but they had not been able to produce any-
thing fit for legislation. They found that their work

Lord PANMURE said in reply to the first question
of the, noble lord, that he had received no com-
munication, either publicly or privately, of the nature
to which the noble lord's question referred. He had re-
ceived several communications.recently from the Lord-
Lieutenant of Ireland, but nothing of the kind alluded
to was contained therein, and he was sure
if there was any truth in the statement the
Lord Lieutenant, who was lately at Limerick,
must have known everything about the matter, and
would have mentioned it if it had occurred. In respect
to the second question, he had to state that the men
were not discharged, but permitted to go at their own
request to their homes, having received the.bounty and
balance of pay due to them.
SLAVE TRADE IN THE BRAZILS.

The Earl of MALMESBURY called the attention
of the house to the dispute which had arisen between
the British Government and Brazil, owing to the uncour-
teens behaviour of our Minister at Rio, on a matter
arising out of the slave trade, and who had been sup-
ported by Lord Clarendon. The noble lord concluded
by moving for payers connected with the affair.
Lord CLARENDON explained the circumstances of
the case, which had arisen from an apprehension justly
entertained by the British Minister at Rio that great
preparations were being made for the extension of the
slave trade in Brazil. The Government had thought it
to be their duty to support its agent abroad, but he was
happy to think that, after the mutual explanations
which had been given, the Brazilian Government har-
boured no ill-will against the Government of this
country.

would be useless unless there was an improved method
of continued legislation ; for if it went on in the manner
in which it was now carried on, all future acts would be

unfit for consolidation. The subject had been much con•
sidered during the last recess, and early in the present
session the commissioners carne to the conclusion that
this was a necessary preparatory measure. That was
what the Government intended to recommend. It was

Atter some observations from Lords ABERDEEN and
MALMESBURY, the motion (for papers) was agreed to.
RENI AND ISMAIL—THE RUSSIAN EMBASSY
TO ENGLAND.
•. The Earl of MALMESBURY, having apologised for
again trespassing on the house, proceeded to ask the noble
earl (Clarendon) whether it was true that the two for-
tresses of Reni and Ismail, which were included in the
territory which Russia had made over to Moldavia by
the treaty of Paris, were entirely destroyed ? It was
manifest that that territory was of little use as abulwark
on the frontier of Turkey if there were no fortresses
there. While Ismail stood as a fortress no Russian army
could pass the Danube without leaving that fortress and
another in its rear; but as things now were, with the for-
tresses destroyed, the frontier remained much as it was
before the war. As we had given up Sebastopol, Kutch,
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 bad been destroyed. He wished to
ask the noble earl whether it was true or not that these
fortresses had been dismantled, and, if so, whether it was
agreed upon in the treaty of peace that they should be
dismantled l 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 fartresess
were not to be garrisoned by Turkish soldiers ; but he
supposed that treaty bad been sponged out by the war.
He also wished to ask another question of his noble friend.
It was now nearly two months since his noble friend had
sent a minister from 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 a month ; 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 expectation of such an event had
been disappointed, and why the Minister for Russia had
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 CLA.RENDON—I will answer the ques-
tions of my noble friend in the order in which he has put
them. I am unable to tell him what is the state of the
fortresses of Reni and Ismail, because 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 ;

necessary that such a measure should commence with
a session of Parliament ; and it was proposed that there
should be officers appointed to perform, with regard to
public bills, the'duty which was in a great measure dis-
charged by the examiner of private bills ; and that a
similar officer should be appointed in a similar way by
both houses, with a competent staff. His duty would
not be to interfere with the policy of bills, which of course
rested with the Legislature ; but it continually happened
that even in Government bills, 'there being no one to see
whether they harnionised with existing law, or did not
clash with the language of existing statutes, great blun-
ders crept into them every session. It would be the
duty of that officer to look to this, and so put a stop to
the grosser part of the evil, which went so far that some
acts were ob!iged to be repealed the very session after
they were passed. He had said that the statute-book
contained 15,000 acts, but many of them would not be
called laws in any other country than this, as they re-
lated to mere matters of administration, which by the
constitution of this country were dealt with by Parlia-
ment—such acts as related to finance, the administration

of the army and navy, the Appropria'tion Act, acts of in-
demnity and others, which were mere annual acts. The
Statute Law Commission—one of whom was Mr. Coal-

son, whose experience in these matters was of great
value—had examined the acts of last session, and it was
found that they were 134 in number, of which 68
were not law, properly so called. There was now

in existence one classification of bills—namely, their se-
paration into public and private bills. It had occurred
to the commissioners that this classification might be
carried much further, by separating the annual and
temporary acts from the others. That would reduce
the bulk of legislation to one-third of what it would
otherwise be ; and of that one-third related only to

India and the colonies, By means of this classifica-
tion the actual statute law would be reduced to the

smallest space. With that !view he proposed to call
attention to the recommendations of the commission-
ers, and the Government early next session proposed
to establish such an officer as he had already described,
and some kind of committee, to be in communication
with that officer on the subject of bills in Parliament.
He had a number of bills which had been prepared,
which, however, he had not had time to look at, and
which had been subject to revision. There was a, bill
for the consolidation of the law relating to stamps, which
was under the consideration of the Stamp office. But,
with regard to one class of laws, namely, the criminal
law, Lord Wensleydale, the Chief Justice of the Com-
mon Pleas, Sir Fitzroy Kelly, and Mr. Greaves, had
made a consolidation of statutes relating to criminal law.
There were many offences arising out of particular serial
enactments, as the Customs Acts, the Bankruptcy Acts,
which could not be introduced in any general bill of con-
solidation, and which were therefore omitted. Another
class of offences not included were those relating to re-
ligion. There were a great many old statutes upon this
subject remaining on the statute book which they de-
sired to repeal, for however applicable they might have
been to the times in which they were passed, they were
wholly unsuited to the-habits and usages of the present
time. To consolidate them in any general act it would
be absurd. Under the heads, offences against public
Jjastice, offences against the person, larceny, malicious
injury, and forgery, all the criminal statutes relating to
them were, as the commissioners believed, embodied in
the six bills that had been laid on their lordships' table.
Besides which, there was embodied in another short
J bill all the acts relating to the law with regard to
principal and accessory in criminal cases, and in an
eighth bill was consolidated all the acts relating to cri-
minal proceedings on indictments, juries, &c. These
measures, the commissioners believed, embodied all the
enactments of 40 acts of Parliament, and portions of 150
others, and from his own inspection of them he believed

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 unfortun ate 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 alutobt an affront to have
mentioned that with regard to which there could have
been no difference of opinion. I ant told that the Rus-
sians assert that they have the same right to demolish
those fortresses as the allies had to demolish the works

that they did all they professed to do. There was one
thing that struck the commissioners in the preparation
of their bills, that was, that thPy mustbe taken more up9n
trust than bills submitted to Parliament ordinarily were,
seeing that they were not measures for altering but slut-
cisting statutes; and, to enable
a with a somewhat 'mils strict in-

ply for cons.olidat

Parlia,naont to pas-3

i than usual, there would bea:short report with
each of the bills, showing what alteration, if any, it pro-
posed to effect in the lay.% The rule which the commis-
i,ion2rs lad aid do•vn tor their guidance framing these
bills was to make no change in the law, but in some few
caice it had been found that rule could not be adhered to.
It had also been an object with the commissioners to
maintain as nearly as possible the language of the acts
they consolidated, but inasmuch as they found that the
same offences were described sometimes in one set of
words, and at others in another, they had adopted that
set of words which they thought the best, and adhered
to it throughout. At present the written laws of the
country extended over 40 volumes, and embraced same
15,000 acts of Parliament. The coirimis3ioners thought
that the whole might be reduced to about 300 (some
were sanguine enough to say 250) statutes, which might
all be brought within the Compass of three or four mode-
rate sized volumes. After thanking thehouse for their at-
tentiou, the noble and learned lord laid the bills upon the
table intimating that he proposed to go no further with
them than the first reading in the present session, and
to leave them to be considered during the recess.
The bills were then laid upon the table and read a first
time.

vestig

CONSOLIDATED FUND (APPROPRIATION,
BILL.
This bill WaR read a second time.
COURT OF CHANCERY (IRELAND) RE-
CEIVERS BILL.

On the motion for reading this bill a third time,
The Earl of WICKLOW objected that the measure
was founded on entire ignorance of the state of Irish
property. He especially objected to the clause which
limited the appointment of receivers to properties exceed.
ing 2001. a-year, which he said would be injurious to the
small lenders, and to the borrowers also.

The LORD CHANCELLOR said that the clause bad
been introduced with the sanction of the Irish Govern-
ment and many high legal authorities of that country,
who considered that in tho case of small properties the
appointment of receivers by the Court of Chancery
would eat up the estate.

The bill Was then read a third time and passed.
The Income and Land Taxes Bill, the Stamp Duties
Bill, the Racehorse Duty Bill, the Coast Guard Service
Bill, the Corrupt Practices Prevention Bill, the General
Board of Health Continuance Bill, the Militia Pay Bill,
the Cursitor Baron of the Exchequer Bill, and the Lu-
natic Asylum Act Amendment Bill were severally read
a second time.

FORMATION, &c., OF PARISHES BILL.
The, house then went into committee on the Forma-
tion of Parishes Bill, when two equal divisions took
place on clause 9, the numbers being 20 in each case.
On a third division the numbers were—
For the clause
Against it 22
Majority
The clause was consequently struck out.
BISHOPS' RESIGNATION BILL.
Lord REDESDALE renewed his opposition to the
measure, and moved that it be read a third time that day
three months.

A smart discussion then arose as to the negotiations
which had led to the resignation of the Bishops of Lon-
don and Durham, which the opponents of the bill asserted
savoured of simony.
The bill was ultimately read a third time on a division,
in which the numbers were—

For the bill
Against it l5
Majority
Some other business was then despatched, and their
Lordships adjourned.