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London, England, 1858-03-26 00:00:00

Government to move further in thii direction, as they
said the statistics would be useless if obtained. After
the Easter recess it would be his duty to see what could
be done with rewectto Scotland. (Llear.)

The motion was withdrawn.
NAVY" RETURNS.

Sir C. NAPIER moved for returns of the number of
continuance service men in the fleet on the Ist day of
January, 1857, and the number discharged that year,
and whether discharged by survey or not—of the number
of continuance service men in the fleet on the Ist day of
January, 1858, and the number since entered—and, of
the number of first and second class boys in the service
on the Ist day of January, 1857, whether apprentices
or not, and the number discharged, with their own cnn•
sent or by survey; also, of the number on the Ist day
of January, 1858.
After a few remarks from S r J. PAKINGTON and Sir
C. WOOD the motio❑ was amended by omitting from the
latter part of it the words referring to the class of boys,
" whether apprentices or not," and " wi:h their own
consent, or by survey ;" and thus amended the motion
was agreed to.

GALWAY FREEMEN DISFRANCBISEMENT

BILL.

On the order of the day being read for the second
readinf of this hill,
Mr. ROEBUCK moved that the bill should be read
a second time that day six months. T-ie measure, he
said, was unjust, in that it punished the electors who
had bee brined, but let the bribers escape.

Mr. WALPOLE suggested that if the bill were
allowed to pass the second reading, the just award of
punishment for an admitted offence could be determined
in committee.

Some discussion ensued, in which Lird Livaine,
Lord A. Vane, Lord J. Russea, and qr. Di=:raeli tlok
part. The amendment was then withdrawn, and the
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bill read a second time.

The aouse adjourned at half-past 12 o'clock.

NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE.

The Parliamentary Commi•sioners for Inquiring
into the State of the Hospital and Barrack ACC-Jill-
mod,ttion in En viand and Wales—consisting of Mr.
S. Holbert, M.P., Dr. Sutherland, Dr. Burrell,
&c.—arrived at Chatham yesterday, for the pur-
pose of making an inspection of the barracks and
military hospitals at that garrison. The commis-
sioners first inspected the large hospital at Fort
Pitt, over which they were conducted by Dr. J. R.
Taylor, C. 8., the head of the establishinent, and
in the course of their investigations inspected the
numerous wards, kitchens, washing-houses, closets,
&c., after which they proceeded to that part of the
fort known as "The P►t," which is arched over,
and fitted up for the accommodation of invalided
troops undergoing medical treatment. The corn-
missibuers likewise inspected the large now lunatic
asylum at Fort Pity, which is occupied by insane
officers and soldiers, chiefly those returned from
India. Atter leaving the Fort the commissioners
proceeded to Chatham 'wracks, Brompton bar-
racks, St. Mary's barracks, and the huts ; they
also went over the Garrison hospital, and the
hospital which has ben formed of one side of
Brompton barracks.

Thy 18th depot from Chatham, consisting of
four officers and 126 men, and the 27th depot,
from the same garrison, comprising four officers
and 150 men, will proceed from Chatham this
morning to Portsmouth to embark on board the
Bitt-rn steamer for Cork.

A brigade of light infantry wasyesterday reviewed
on Woolwich-colimon by Colonel Brown, Com-
mandant of the Woolwich division of Royal Ma-
rines, the brigade consisting of two battalions of
Royal Marines, the whole disposable regiment of
the East Kt,nt Militia, in comorand of Colonel

Brockman, and tue Oxford Militia, in command o:
Colonel BowleA. T(e mAnoeuvres were the ord..

nary bait tlion movements, ordered on similar occa-
sions, without firing. Tile Royal Horse Artil'ery
assembled on Pluinstead-common and went throuh
a variety of gun prictice. Numerous squads of
ne /4y-enrolled recruits were likewise scaAered over
the artillery fiel I, undergoing various stages of ac-
tive d ill. In fact, the garrison has throughout as-
sumed the ordinary routine of summer drill and ,
out-door practice. The binds of militwy music
are ordered to perform in various localities at speci-
fied hours during the day, and from the uousutl
number of recruits recen ly enlisted, who are con-
stantly mare sing an I countermarching, tog-ther
with the ordinary garrison duties, the vicinity of
the main qf an I its thoroughfares present a lively
s:ene throughout tho city.
Her Majesty's iron paddle steamer Oberon, hav-
ing undergone considerable rep tirs in ship and
machinery at Woolwich, was yesterday unlocked,
and was replaced in dock by the Admiralty yachi
Blak Eagle.
The new church in Woolwich dockyard has been
roof.d in, and will be ready for Divine service
about the commencement of June. A small space
is about to be en losed, surr.iun ling the elifi.:e,
which is to be laid out in an of nainental sr,yle of
"cAtage garden," and protected by iron gates and
rails.

A detachment of the 4th Foot is ordered to em-
bark on board the sailiqg transport Golconda,
under orders to ship ammunition at Woolwich fur
the island of Ceylon.
The freightship Rlen commenced receiving w:ir
stores yesterday from Woolwich Arsenal for the
Bahamas, and the Olive Branch fur at. Lucia.

The Marlborough, 131, Captain Lord F. H.
Kerr, flag of Vice-Admiral Fanslu,wc, haul-d
off from Portsmouth Dockyard to her hulk yester-
day afternoon to complete her fit out in the stream.
She gathers hands y slowly, and is not yet much
more than half manned.

Vice-Admiral Martin, First Naval Lord of the
Admiralty, accompanied Rear-Admiral the Hon.
George Grey to Portsmouth yesterday, and in-
ductel him into his office as Superintendent of
the DockyaLd.
It is rumoured that the Renown, 91, Captain
Forbes, the Diadem, 31, Capt. Cracroft, Cnracoa,
31, Capt. Mason, and the Racoon, 21, Captain
Poynter, will be despatched on an experimental
cruise shortly, extending as far as Lisbon, pro-
bably to be in time to join in the festivities upon
the marriage of the King of Portugal with the
Princess Stephanie, of Hohenzollern, on the 29th
April. The Diadem needs some repairs, but which
will be done without her going into harbour, if
possible. The Renown continues short-handed.
The Alban, 3, steam-vessel, Commander the
Hon. W. B. de Blaquiere, haulei alongside the
dockyard jetty at Portsmouth yesterday, to be dis-
mantled and return stores, being ordered to be paid
off.

The Blenheim, 60, screw block-ship, Captain
Francis Scott, C. 8., will haul out of the angle
dock air Portsmouth to-morrow ; shortly after
which she will proceed o her station in Portland
Roads. She will be clear of the dockyard by the
31 of April.

SHIPPING STATISTICS.—In 1817 there were 9,676
Britiwn sailing vessels, or 767,925 tons, and einnloyin:::
37,138 men, with 383 British steamers, of 92 481 tons,
and employing 6 462 men, employed solely as " home
trade" ships ; 1,098 -ailing ships of 162,112 tons, and
66 steamers of 20,859 tons, were emphys.l par!ly as
13,0ne traders and partly as flreivi traders in 1857 ;
7,655 saili,•g vessels, of 2,900 082 tons and 107,289
rn,n, and 445 stea,mers of 263,023 tuns attd 17,291 rn.-n,
were ernoluyed solely as for-ign-going ships it, the same
year. The Irish trade in 1857 employed 18,429 sairnig
snips 899 steamers, with 151,434 men in toe former,
and 24.953 in the latter. Toe total number of sailing
ant steamers together is s-t down in this retort.
i‘t 19,328, the tonnage at 4,211 482, and the number of
men employed, exolo•ive of m;eirrs, at 176,387.
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COMMITTAL OF • A ,REM VINE OFFICUR, FOR MAN-
SLAUGHTER. —Oa Seturday afternoen la.t an adjourned
inquest held at the B ue Pig Inn, Great Barr, on
the body 1;f:-Eizabeth Perry. The dec need was the
daughter of a labourer, and was two years of age On
the 23,1 of February the deceased was burnt by her
clothes taking firee some oils were applied tot he burns,
and on the full swing Thursday toe father went to the
Rev. H. Bagnall, the incumbent of the parish, an -I the
latter wrote to Mr. T. B. Purnell, the relieving officer at
Wal-all, staling th tt the cleceaeed was badly burnt, and
that Perry C nut afford to pay a eurgeen. Perry
took this ante to the relieving officer at Walsall, to oe-
tain an order fir the parish surgeon to attend deceased,
The relieving officer inquired what had been done to the
barns, and the father replied that some oile bad been
applied, when Mr. Purnell said, "You take your ready
money to the chemist, and two or three days afterwards
you come to the parish," and he refused to give any note
to the surgeon, but said if the child should be likely to
die he would give him a note. Tee father then left, and
Mr. Purnell, the relieving oflic:ir, never went to his
house, and no surgeon saw the decemed, who deed on
the 8,1 instant. The father was only earning 13s. per
week, and had a wife and four children. Mr. Fletcher,
surgeon, Walsall, made a post morlena examination of
the bo ly, and described the appearance it presented,
and stated that death had arisen frnn the b irning,
and he gave it as his opinion Oat if medical
assi,taece had been oblaine.l when applied fele the
dec eteed wool! in all probability have recovered. Mr.
T. 13. Purnell was pre cot, and having been cautioned,
stated that he received the note frmi Mr. Baenall, and
that the father told him (qr. Paine' ) the child was not
badly burnt, and that it was goirg on nicely, and that
upon be Mg ae'eed why he Caine for a note, replied he did
not know, but Mr. llagneli set bun. AST. Parnell aei;l
he replied that it dialno. seem to him from the fathers
toldonand that be
the statementfather if t filet
chbe Iv ad ,iidt
g surgeon,o on well to come or
send to him, and he would clirnt the medical officer to
attend, and that the father replied " Very well,' and
wont away, and did not apply to him aga:m. Tee deputy
coroner summed up the evidence, calling attention to the
principal parts of it, _and explaining the la et of man.
slaughter. Tile jury emsidered fey some time, and torn
returned a verdict -of " Mauslaueliter". againet T B.
Purnell, who was.corninitted to take hie trial.— Wolver-
hampton Chronicle.