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vanced in the higher class of the army, not through the • £1,431 for the household of the Lord-Lieutenant of Ire- bury, late Captain 6th Dragoon Guards; to be Senior Major,
vice Edward Winnington, ;
services they had rendered, but on account of influence. land. resigned Lieut. Ernest Peel to
Agreed to. £75,904 for the Chief Secretary's Office (Ireland). be Captain, vice Norbury, promoted; Ensign Geo. Coulson
The following votes were agreed to :-... £5,204 for Paymaster of Civil Services Office (Ireland). Childs to be Lieutenant, vice Augustus Belle de Lasalle,
£265,702 for retired officers. £1,709 for Inspectors of Lunatic Asylums, (Ireland). resigned; Lieut. John Verne Monckton late Ist West
£395,600 for pensions to widows, &e. £16,105 for Board of Public Works, (Ireland). York Rifles, to be Lieutenant, vice J. L. Vivian, resigned;
£24,433 for pensions for wounds. £22,466 for Commissioners for Auditing Public Accounts. Wm. Henry Howes, jun., Gent., to be Ensign, vice A. H.
CIVIL SERVICE ESTIMATES. £12,621 for Copyhold, Inclosure, and Tithe Commission. Garland, promoted.
The committee then proceeded to the civil service esti- £8,680 for expense of enclosure and drainage acts.
mates. £26,300 for General Register Office, England and Wales.
On the vote of £667,000 for salaries, &c., at the customs, £2,296 for General Register Office, Dublin.
Sir H. WILLOUGHBY complained that this sum was - £3,302 for Registrar of Births, &c., Scotland.
largely increased since last year. £10,652 for expenses of National Debt Office. '
Mr. LAING said that the amount appeared larger be- £1,300 for Public Works Loan Commissioners.
cause these votes were now more correctly apportioned £670 for West India Island Relief Commission.
amongst the various services than they had been. £2,642 for Commissioners in Lunacy.
Agreed to. ' £2,814 for the Commissioners of Lunacy.
The vote of £1,151,000 for the Post-office was agreed to. £723 for county roads in South Wales.
The vote of £326,000 for the superannuation allowances £1,128 for registration of Friendly Societies in England,
was agreed to. Scotland, and Ireland.
On the vote of £44,980 for the expenses of royal palaces, £22,000 for foreign and secret services.
Mr. WILLIAMS again protested most earnestly against £247,420, stationery, printing, &c. for the two Houses of
proceeding with these estimates when no time had been Parliament.
given to members to consider them. Mr. WALPOLE said that the contract for printing ex-
Mr. FITZROY put it to the hen. member that consider- pired at the end of this year, and he wished to know whether
ing the exceptional nature of the session, these estimates had the Government proposed to renew it.
been sufficiently long in the hands of hon. members. Sir G. C. LEWIS said it would be desirable, on grounds
After an observation from Sir H. WILLOUGHBY, of economy, to make some alteration in the terms of the
Lord PALMERSTON hoped the house would, at least, contract as regarded the printing of statutes, but before the
allow his right hon. friend to pass such of the estimates as end of the session he would state what course the Govern-
were not objected to. ment proposed to take.
Mr. WILLIAMS protested against the course of the Go- Mr. HADFIELD referred to the printing of Bibles and
vernment, and announced his intention of taking the sense Prayer-books, which formed part of the contract with the
of the house on the motion to report' progress. Queen's printer.
Lord PALMERSTON repeated his hope that the com- After a few words from Sir G. C. Lewis, Mr. Walpole'
mittee would allow the undisputed estimates to pass. and Mr. Dunlop, the vote was agreed to, as were the fol-
Mr. J. WILSON reminded the house that usually these lowing :-
estimates were the first business after Easter, and now they £76,750 for postage in the public services.
had arrived at the 15th July. If they, however, postponed £31,545 for the office of Solicitor to the Treasury, and
them now, they would subsequently have to pass them hur- costs of Mint prosecutions. •
riedly at morning sittings, most likely without any conside- £150,000 expenses of prosecutions at assizes and quarter
ration at all, sessions.
Sir J. PAXTON was willing to accept the arrangement (On this vote a conversation was originated by Mr.
proposed by Lord Palmerston--namely, to pass the unques- Henley, as to the mode in which the county accounts were
tioned estimates, and to postpone those upon which a die- made up and audited, but nothing resulted from it.]
mission was expected. £164,275 for the county and borough police of England,
After an observation from Mr. DODSON, Wales, and Scotland.
Mr. WILLIAMS expressed his firm conviction that Lord £1,145 for the Crown Office of the Queen's Bench.
Palmerston knew nothing about the votes which he asked £1,300 for the. Registrar and expenses of the Admiralty
might be passed without discussion, (A laugh.) He (Mr. Court, Dublin.
Williams) knew that money was wanted for the royal pa- £5,176 for the Insolvent Debtors Court, Dublin.
laces, but there were certain items in these votes upon which £22,740, expenses of the Court of Probate, Divorce, and
he should like to make some observations. How could the Matrimonial Causes.
noble lord understand votes which had been prepared by a In answer to Mr. AYRTON,
previous Government ? Lord PALMERSTON said that a bill would be brought
Lord PALMERSTON admittodthathebadnot examined in this session, to improve the jurisdiction of the court.
the votes, but his right hon. friend had, and would be pre- £126,150 for expenses of County Courts, was agreed to.
pared to vindicate them. If his hon. friend would not give £14,000 for police courts in the metropolis.
some confidence to the two governments, they would hardly £90,000 for the metropolitan police.
get through these estimates before September. £2,500 for the Queen's prisons. .
The committee then divided on the motion to report On the next vote being proposed,
progress- Mr. SPOONER protested against the committee going
Ayes
Noes
The vote was agree to. The house then resumed.
£8,2740 repairs of public buildings; £lB,OOO furniture in SUPPLY.-REPORT.
public offices ; £17,525 expenses of the new Houses of Par- The report of the votes agreed to last night was received
liament... Agreed to. and confirmed.
In answer to a question from Sir H. WILLOUGHBY, MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS BILL.
Mr. FITZROY said it was understood that this was the The second reading of this bill was postponed till twelve
last vote that would be required for the works, except what o'clock on Tuesday. i
might be necessary for the annual expenses connected with NEWSPAPERS, &c:, BILL.
so large a building. This bill passed through committee.
Mr. BALL asked if £6,500 was required for the clock ? CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY.
Mr. FITZROY said that £4,000 of the vote was for the Sir G. C. LEWIS obtained leave to bring in a bill to
tower. continue the powers of the commissioners under an act of
Mr. BALL said that they had been watching the clock the 19th and 20th years of her Majesty, concerning the
anxiously for months. (Hear, hear.) Sometimes it went, University of Cambridge, and the College of King Henry
and sometimes it was still ; sometimes it struck, and some- VI. at Eton.
times it refused. (Cheers.) He wished to know if this PACKETS AND TELEGRAPHIC CONTRACTS
vote would complete the works ? COMMITTEE.
Mr. FITZ ROY replied that the present vote would in- Mr. BUTT moved that the select committee on Packets
elude the whole expenditure. and Telegraphic Contracts do consist of 21 members ; that
Mr. POLLARD-URQUHART thought that the pre- Sir Edward Grogan and Lord J. Browne be added to the
sent vote was one that ought to be postponed. committee. There were now only 10 Irish members on the
Mr. AYRTON complained of the mode of ventilation committee, and that was not a sufficient representation of
adopted. When the house got warm, cold air was pumped their interests. (Hear.) The real origin of the committee
in at the feet of hon. members, thus driving blood to the was to inquire into the circumstances under which the late
head, and compelling them to leave the house. In addition Government granted a subsidy to promote communication
to this, they were treated with the most abominable odours, between Ireland and America, and therefore the Irish mem-
sometimes chloride of lime, and sometimes the unmitigated hers were entitled to a fair representation in it.
stench of the Thames. In fact, all their measures were The SPEAKER having put the question that the com-
carried on in the most absurd and extravagont manner. mittee do consist of 21 members,
Sir 11. VERNEY was understood to say that a com- The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER regretted
mittee of which he was a member were engaged in an in- he could not assent to the motion; there was no jealousy on
quiry when the new Houses of Parliament were about to be the part of the Government ; the subject of the Galway con-
built as to a change in the site, and it was stated that the tract was indeed a part of the inquiry, but even if that cen-
real reason why they were kept in that spotwas because the tract had never been made the general question must have
Government wished to have a means of escape from mem- been inquired into by a committee. The proposal now made
bers, and the river Thames afforded a better mode of escape was one to send into the committee a number of gentlemen
than the parks. With regard to the mode of ventilation, pledged to support the Galway contract. (No, no.) Could
he himself kept a pair of worsted stockings and gaiters for there be a doubt of it'i? There were already on the committee
wear in the house, in order to keep his feet from the cold air. four gentlemen who had been parties to the contract, and
of course with a distinct conviction ready to support their
Mr. FITZROY said with regard to ventilation he be Thee
lieved that the plan of Mr. Goldsworthy was the best. It Policy. . public
on any addition to the corn-
'ublie of England and Scotland would
was difficult to obtain an equal temperature in the house
look with jealousy
towards morning, which was, he believed, the time that gentlemen with fixed and declared mittee of
opi-
members suffered most from the ventilation; for perhaps nions on the subject. If they tampered any
after a debate in a full house of 400 members, most of them further with the constitution of the committee they would
shake public confidence in it. There was a direct objection
streamed out, and that necessarily created a great change
in the temperature. It was impossible that the most
to one nrse
of the other names proposed (Lord J. Browne),e as the rule
n the selections had been to ex-
scientific ventilation could be complete, and he believed adopted
that Mr. Gurney did the best he could. elude any member having a local interest.
Sir B. BRYDGES suggested that some of the windows Lord J. BROWNE said he was not aware it was intended
in the lobby should be set open,
to propose his name. He admitted he was as much preju-
The vote was then agreed to. diced one way as the hon. member for Montrose the other,
a
The following votes-were agreed to without observation :nd if they were both on the committee the fairest thing
-129,130 for expenses connected with the Probate Court they could do would be to pair off. He begged to say he
and registries, £5,550 for British embassy houses abroad, had no local connection with. Galway.
On the vote of £174,000 for harbours of refuge, Colonel DUNNE supported the motion. They did not
Mr. BAXTER said he hoped Government would not go want to be governed after the manner of the lonian Islands.
on with this vote, inasmuch as the hon. member for Sun-
Lerd DUNCAN read an extract from a petition pre-
derland had given notice of an amendment, and he was not
sented by
.Sir W. Russell, to show that the investigation of
present.
the committee might seriously prejudice the election peti-
Mr. B LACKBI3.IIII said an additional reason for post- tion now pending against the return for Dover, and sug-
poning the vote was that certain returns that had been or-
gested that the Boyercontract should not be inquired into
until the election petition was decided.
dered respecting it had not been made. Mr. WHITESIDE admitted that the Chancellor of the
Mr. PEASE also supported the postponement. An emi- Exchequer had been just in placing some of the accused on
the
sent engineer had told him that the works at Alderney
committee, but there were other interests involved in
were a disgrace to the country. the inquiry; why was there no representative of the com-
Mr. GORDON remarked that these harbours were more
mercial interests of Ireland on the committee ?
for war purposes than anything else, and the works ought
The house then divided-
not to bo interrupted. For the motion 47
Mr. WARRE hoped there would soon be harbours of Against it 134
refuge'along the eastern coast. These were works of great
Majority
utility and necessity.
Mr. MONSELL saidthe request of the hoe. member for ENDOWED SCHOOLS BILL.
Mr DILLWYN moved that the select committee on
Montrose seemed to him to be a reasonable one ; it was that
the vote should be postponed till they had further informa-
this bill should consist of 17 members, and that Mr. Long-
field and Mr. Butt be added to the committee. The hon.
tion. The original estimate for the harbour of Alderney
member stated that he had applied to several Irish mem-
was £600,000, but last year they were told that an alteration
was proposed in the plan which would make it cost hers to act on the committee, and all had refused.
Mr. HE NNESSY protested against the constitution of
the committee as unfair.
£1,300,000. The committee did not know which plan had
been decided on, and it was therefore only reasonable that
there should be some delay until they had had information Lord NAAS suggested that the nomination should be
laid before them on this important subject. (Hear.) postponed.
Mr. LAING said the votes did not involve any of those After some further conversation, the increase was agreed
large questions to which allusion had just been made. They to, and the nomination of the committee postponed.
were simply to continue works which had been sanctioned UNIVERSITIES (SCOTLAND) BILL.
by the house. The vote for Dover was absolutely necessary Mr. DUNLOP moved that the house resolve itself into
to prevent what had already been done from being washed committee to consider a bill to remove doubts as to the ad-
into the sea. The works at Alderney had been sanctioned by
imission to the office of Principal in the Universities of Scot-
two Boards of Admiralty. It would cost £1,300,000, of
which £BOO,OOO had been already spent. With regard to Mr. B. COCHRANE moved the adjouTmept of: the del?ate.
the harbour at Portland, it was happily approaching corn- Mr. C. BRUCE objected to the bringing in of the bill at
pletion ,• another year's vote, in addition to the present one, so late an hour of the night.
would finish the works. There could really be no objection The LORD ADVOCATE supported the
m.
bills,uapilpdortexo-f
in putting a stop to the operations which were now in hand. plained that its object was merely to rectify a mistake.
Sir W. MILES urged the Government to grant the short After a few words from Mr. KB
delay whibh had been asked for. the adjournment,
Mr. BAXTER protested against going on with the vote. The house then divided-
There was a great difference of opinion as to the utility of For the motion lO
the works, especially with regard to Alderney. In order, Against it
therefore, to bring the matter to a distinct issue he would Majority .... -44
move the reduction of the vote by £75,000. The house went into committee.
Viscount PALMERSTON submitted to the house that Leave was given to bring in the bill.
these harbours had been undertaken after the most delibe-
The house adjourned at a quarter to two o'clock.
rate consideration, and on the advice of the most eminent
authorities. Great sums had been laid out on them, and the
result of not finishing them would merely be to waste all the
money. As to Alderney it was a most important position
with regard to the defence of the country. It would not
be necessary, and, indeed, it would be invidious, to go into
all the circumstances of the case. It was sufficient to re-
mind the committee of the position of Cherbourg and Port-
land. (Hear.) In connexion with Portland, Alderney was
one of the watch towers of the country, and it would be
most prejudicial to the national interests to delay its com-
pletion. (Hear, hear.)
Lord LOVAINEI thought the country must present a
curious spectacle to foreign nations, when every year some
hon. gentleman on-the other side tried to undo all that par-
• liament had previously done.
Mr. BLACKBURN said the objection was not to the
vote itself, but to voting it without information.
Mr. HENLEY thought that before agreeing to the vote,
they ought to have before them the plans which they had
been promised.
Lord DUNCAN trusted the Government would not in-
sist on the committee's proceeding with the vote without
more information. It had been stated that if Alderney
were finished on its present scale, we should never be able
to garrison it; and that we should only be building a fort
for the enemy. (Hear, hear.)
Lord PALMERSTON said he held in his hand the re-
port with the plans. It was printed, but had not been de-
livered ; and if the house wished to read it before agreeing
to the vote, he ihmild have no objection to postpone the vote.
The vote was postponed accordingly.
£BO,OOO for the new packet harbour at Holyhead.
Sir S. NORTHCOTE remarked that the estimates for
this work had grown to 11,900,000, of which £400,000 was
for a breakwater, for the use of the transatlantic steamers.
It would therefore be desirable to consider whether Holy-
head was to be the point of departure for the Atlantic
steamers, otherwise the expenditure would turn out to be
unnecessary.
Mr. 'LAING was much obliged to the hon. gentleman)
and would make inquiry into the matter.
Mr. GLYN suggested an
.arrangement by Which the
American letters might be delivered 12 hours earlier. He
said that although there had been an increased estimate for
the harbour at Holyhead, the increased acccommodation
for the public was more than commensurate with the in-
creased expenditure.
On the vote of £23,403 for the annual expenses for the
service of Portpatrick Harbour, and for the improvement of
the harbour,
Mr. BAXTERnioved that the chairman report progress,
observing that Portpatrick could never be made a safe and
efficient harbour.
Mr. LAING said this was an exceptional case, but he
Considered that the faith of the Government was pledged to
the vote, and therefore trusted that the vote would be
agreed to.
Sir S. NORTHCOTE supported the vote, stating that
the railway company had gone to a considerable expense on
the faith of the sum now under consideration being granted.
The vote was then agreed to.
The next-vote was £70,421 for public buildings in Ireland.
After a few remarks from Mr. BLACKBURN and Lord
FEILHOY the vote was agreed to.
The following votes were also agreed to, to complete the
sums requisite for the several services :-
£38,959 for the salaries &c., of the two Houses of Par-
liament.
£31,600. for the expenses of the Treasury.
£17,911 for the Home Department.
112,803 for the Foreign Department.
£21,178 for the Colonial Department.
L 10,593 for the Privy Council Office.
133,942 for the Board of Trade.
£1,720 for the office of Lord Privy Seal.
£3,855 for tho Civil Service Commission.
£13,762 for the Paymaster-General's Department.
£4,898 for the Comptroller-General of the Exchequer.
£19,746 for the Office of Works.
£13,.514 for the Office of Woods and Forests.
£9,498 for the Office of Public Records.
£52,379 for administration of the laws relating to the poet.
£25,052 for the Mint.
£13,925 for Inspectore of Factories and Mines.
£3,179 for the Exchequer (Scotland).

BANKRUPTS.

Thomas Isaac James Sloper, oilman, St. Marylebone, to
surrender July 26, at half-past two, and Aug. 17, at half-
past eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Alfred Bower Blenkarn, merchant, Fenchurch-street,
City, July 25, at eleven, and Aug. 29, at twelve, "at the
Court of Bankruptcy.
Thomas Robert Dobson, tailor and draper, Colchester,
July 26, at half-past twelve, and Aug. 17, at two, at the
Court of Bankruptcy.
Henry Oppenheim, timber merchant, Old-street-road,
July 25, at half-past twelve, and Ang. 24, at twelve, at the
Court of Bankruptcy.

SCOTCH BANKRUPT.
George Gallic, cabinetmaker, Leith.

BANK OF ENGLAND.

An Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth Victoria,
cap. 32, 'for the week ending on Wednesday, the 13th day
of July, 1859:

FROM THE GAZETTE OF LAST NIGHT

ST. JAMES'S PALACE, JULY 12.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint the Rev. William
Thomson, D.D., Provost of Queen's College, Oxford, and.
Lincoln's Inns London, to be one of the Cha-
Ordinaryto her Majesty.
pPlraeinushiner at
ST. JAMES'S-PALACE, JULY 12.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint the Reverend
William Selwyn, 8.D., Prebendary of Ely and Margaret
Professor of Divinity at Cambridge, to be one of the Chap.
lairs in Ordinary to her Majesty.
ST. JAMES'S PALACE, JULY 12.
The Queen haq been pleased to
appoint the Reverend
Charles Kingsley, Junior, Rector of Eversley, to be one of
the Chaplains in Ordinary to Her Majesty.
FOREIGN-OFFICE, JULY 12.
The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint the
Hon. William George Grey, now Secretary to her Majesty's
Legation at Berlin, to be Secretary to her Majesty's Em-
bassy at Paris.
The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint Wm.
Lowther,
Esq., now Secretary to her Majesty's Legation at
St. Petersburg.), to .be Secretary to her Majesty's Legation
at Berlin. •
Tho Queen has also been graciously pleased to appoint
John Savile Lumley, Esq., now Secretary to her Majesty's
Legation at Madrid, to be Secretary to her Majesty's Lega-
tion at St. Petersburgh.
The Queen has also been graciously pleased to appoint
the Hon. Richard Edwardes, now Secretary to her Ma-
jesty's Legation at Frankfort to be Secretary to her Ma-
jesty's Legation at Madrid.
The Queen has also been graciously pleased to appoint
Frederic Hamilton, Esq., now Secretary to her Maj esty's
Legation at Athens, to be Secretary to her Majesty's
Lega-
tion at Frankfort.
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be Secretary to her Majesty's Legation at Athens.
ADMIRALTY,
JULY 12.
Corps of Royal Marines—Captain Edward
Stanley
evi vice
Browne to be Lieutenant- oi on ,Fleming, retired on
full-pay; First Lieutenant Harry Lewis Evans to be Cap-
tain, vice Browne; -promoted; Second Lieutenant Joseph
Philips to be First Lieutenant, vice Evans, promoted.
COMMISSIONS
.SIGNED BY THE QUEEN.
Norfolk Militia Artillery—Andrew Russell, Gent, to be
Quartermaster.
Shropshire Regiment of Militia—Quartermaster-Ser-
geant James Armstrong, late Renfrew Militia, to be Quar-
termaster, vice Wallace Boyce, resigned.
COMMISSIONS BY LORDS-LIEUTENANT..
Herefordshire Regiment of Militia—Ensign Frederic
Aldrich to be Lieutenant, vice John Harwood ' Griffiths,
Frederick
ipromotedEnsign Edward Napleton Cheese to be Lieu-
tenant, vice Edward Williams, promoted; Ensign
revinTle
Wood Willett to be Lieutenant, vice Thomas Bask e
Mynors, resigned.
Royal Carnarvonshire Militia—Henry Kneeshaw, Gent.,
to be Ensign.
East Suffolk Regiment of Militia Artillery Corps--Howard
Whitbread, Esq., to be Captain
Ist Devon Regiment of Militia—Thomas Welby Ncrth-
more, to be Ensign ; Richard A 0T Brine to be Lieute-
Charles David Agar to
t'e
nant, vice Yates, resigned ;
be Ensign, vice Brine, promoted;
Pollard n
to be Ensign. ; John Tyrrell to be
Thomas Dimond Hogg to
be Captain, vice Webber, resigned
Ensign ; George Augustus
Royal London Militia —Ensign
sign Augustus Newton to be
Lieutenant, vice Arthur
'
—ECumming Thomas Brown, pro-
moted ; Ensign Frederick Richard Fortnum Keats to be
Lieutenant, vice Frederick
Peto, promoted ; and Ensign
Thurlby Smith to be Lieutenant, vice Thomas William
Andrews, protootel•
(Light Infantry) of West York Militia—
Whitten to be Lieutenant,
Ensign Eugene . Ensign William Whitaker to be
Wynne, retires ,
vice Ensign Albert Darley to be Lieutenant ; En-
-2d
Regiment Thomas Curzon
Lieutenant ;,
send Daniel to be Lieutenant.
signWojrcohnestej.reshire Regiment of Militia —Captain Chas. S.
Hawkins to be Second Major; Captain Thos C. N. Nor-