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IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF 1 LORDS—(YESTERDAY).
The LORD CANCEL LOR took his seat on the woolsack
M five o'clock.

SECOI TD READINGS.

The East Suffolk, the Weymouth and Melcombe Regis
Markets and Pier, Wimbledon. and Dorking, and Epsom
and Leatherhead r bills.
THIRD READINGS.
The Newry and Ar magh Railway, Shepton Mallet
Water, Swansea Vale Railway, and Kirkwall Harbour
bills were severally read a third time and passed.
SALE OF GAS.
Lord REDESDALE laid on the table a bill to regulate
the sale of gas.
The bill was read a‘Erst time.
EDUCATION IN INDIA.
The Duke of ARGYLL, who bad a notice on the paper
on this subject, said, owing to the present position of pub-
lic affairs, he should postpone for the present proceeding
with a subject so important. (Hear, hear, and laughter.)
Lord STANLEY of ALDERLEY asked the Secretary
of State for Foreign Affairs whether any instructions had
been sent to the Earl of Elgin to negotiate with the Chinese
Government respecting the admission of British salt into
that empire, and also whether any communication had been
received by him on the subject ? The noble lord also in-
quired whether any instructions had been given to the
Hon. F. Bruce, her Majesty's ambassador at Pekin, direct-
ing him to press this matter on the attention of the Chi-
nese Government.
, The Earl of MALMESBURY said the question of the
noble lord could not be embarrassing either to her
Majesty's Government or the Opposition. (Hear,
hear, and a laugh. No instructions had been given to
the Earl of Elgin; but the Hon. Mr. Bruce, previous to
his departure to Pekin, had had his attention drawn to the
subject, in order that he might press the matter on the at-
tention of the Chinese Government.
THE MINISTERIAL CRISIS.

The Earl of DERBY, in moving the adjournment of
the house, said he trusted that his silence would not be
misconstrued, with reference to the vote of last evening,
or that their lordships would not suppose him wanting in a
sense of the importance of their present position. On the
contrary, he considered he should best consider the conveni-
ence of the public, and best show his conviction of the im-
portance of the present state of affairs by postponing,
for the present any reference to the course the Go-
vernment had deemed it their duty to pursue. He had, in
consequence of thevote of last night, thought it advisable to
hold a consultation with his colleagues that morning,
and he had since had an interview with her Majesty. He
had not the sanction of her Majesty to make any communi-
cation to their lordships with reference to the course the
Government intended to adopt. He thought, however,
as the House of Commons stood adjourned until Monday
next, that he should be acting in a manner most conducive
to the public advantage, by postponing, until that
evening, any explanation with regard to the course the
Government intended to pursue. On that evening, how-
ever, he should be in a position to give their lordships a
full explanation of the advice which he and his colleagues
had tendered to her Majesty, and the course they intended
to follow.
Their lordships then adjourned.

RECRUITING THE ARMY.

(From the Gazette of last evening.)
WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, MAR= 29.

The Queen has been pleased to issue a Commission under
her Royal sign manual, of which the following is a copy,
to inquire into the present system of Recruiting the Army,
Victoria, by the grace of God of the United Kingdom
of Great Britain and Ireland, Queen, Defender of the
Faith,
To our right trusty and well-beloved Beaumont, Baron
Hotham, of that part of our United Kingdom called Ire-
land, Major-General of our Forces -
Our trusty and well-beloved Sir Alexander Murray Tul-
loch, Colonel in our Army, Knight Commander of our
Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Military Superinten-
dent of Out-Pensioners of our Army ;
Our trusty and well-beloved William Frederick Forster,
Knight of the Royal Hanoverian Guelphic Order, Major-
General of our Forces ;
Our trusty and well-beloved David Russell, Esq., Colonel
in our Army, Companion of our Most Honourable Order of
the Bath ;
Our trusty and well-beloved John Thomas Leslie, Esq.,
Colonel in our Indian Forces, Companion of our Most
Honourable Order of the Bath ;
Our trusty and well-beloved John George Smyth, Esq.,
Colonel in the 2d Regiment of West York Militia ; and
Our trusty and well-beloved Peter Blackburn, Esq., one
of the Lords Commissioners of our Treasury, Greeting :
Whereas we deem it expedient, that a Commission should
issue for the purpose of inquiring into the present system
of Recruiting our Army :
Now know ye, that we, reposing great trust and confi-
dence in your zeal, discretion, and ability, have authorised
and appointed, and by these presents do authorise and ap-
point, youths said Beaumont, BaronHotham, Sir Alexander
3ftuTay Tulloch, William Frederick Forster, David Russell,
John Thomas Leslie, John George Smyth, and
Peter Blackburn, to be our Commissioners, to enquire into
the present system of recruiting our army, with the view of
suggesting such changes in the existing regulations and
organisation of the recruiting department, as may tend to
facilitate the raising of men in a more expeditious, satisfac-
tory, and economical manner, and to prevent desertion, and
fully and carefully to consider these important subjects, and
all matters relating thereto, which may appear to you to be
necessary.
And for the better discovery of the truth in the premises,
we do, by these presents, give and grant unto you, or any
three or more of you, full power and authority to make such
inquiry as aforesaid, either in London or at the recruiting
depots, or other places of the United Kingdom, as to your
judgments may seem best, and in the manner which you
may deem most expedient, and ,to call before you, or any
three or more of you, such persons as you shall judge neces-
sary, by whom you may be the better informed of the truth
of the premises, and to inquire of the said premises by • all
other lawful ways and means whatsoever.
And we do further, by these presents, give and grant
unto you, or any three or more of you, filll power and au-
thority, where the same shall appear to be requisite, to
administer an oath or oaths to any person or persons whom-
soever, to be examined before you, or any three or more of
you, touching or concerning the premises.
.nd we do farther, j)y these presents, give and grant
unto you, or any three or more of you, full power and
authority, to cause all persons to bring and produce before
you, or any three or more of you, all and singular records,
books, papers, and other writings, touching the premises,
which shall be in the custody of any of them.
And our further will and pleasure is, that you, or any
three or more of you, upon due inquiry into the premises,
do certify to us from time to time, under your hands and
seals, your several proceedings as the same shall be com-
pleted, and do within the space of one year after the date
of these presents, or sooner, if the same can reasonably be,
certify to us in like manner the whole of your proceedings,
under and by virtue of these presents, together with what
you shall find, touching or concerning the premises, upon
such inquiry as aforesaid, accompanied by such suggestions
for the amendment of the system at present in existence,
for recruiting our army, and the means by which recruits
may be more easily raised, and desertion prevented, as you
may have to offer.
And we further will and command, and by these pre-
gents ordain, that this our Commission shall continue in
full force and virtue, and that our said Commissioners, or
any three or more of you, shall and may from time to time
proceed in the execution thereof, and of every matter and
thing therein mentioned, although the same be not con-
tinued from time to time by adjournment.
And we do hereby command, all and singular, and
Justices of the Peace, Sheriffs, Mayors, Bailiffs, Constables,
Officer's, Ministers, and all other our living subjects whom-
soever, as well within liberties as without, to be assistant

to you, and each of you, in the execution of these presents.
And for your assistance in the due execution of this our
Commission, we have made choice of our trusty and well-
beloved John Milton, Esquire, to be Secretary to this our
Commission, and to attend you, whose services and assist-
ance, as well as the services and assistance of such clerks
and other persons as may appear to you to be necesssary,
we require you to use from time to time, as occasion shall
require.
Given at Our Court at Osborne, this twenty-third day of
March, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine, in the
twenty-second year of Our reign.
By Her Majesty's Command,
(Signed) J. PEEL.

EFFECTS OF DRUNKENNESS.—On Monday a man
named Hugh Murray, a labourer, residing in Donnelly-
street, Garngad-road, on returning home from Blochairn
ironworks, where he is employed, found his wife drunk,
and his little son, Alexander, nearly three years old,
drowned in a tub, placed behind the door, which contained
about four inches of water and a quantity of filth. Dr. Wil-
lis, Garngad-road, was immediately sent for, but though
the body was still warm on his arrival, all efforts to restore
animation proved unav ailing.—North British Mail.

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THE MINISTERIAL CRISIS.

Against the various factions ranged for a few
hours under one banner, the Conservatives oi Thurs-

day night mustered in the division 301, i -eluding
tellers and pairs. This is a party of w. ich any
leader may well be proud ; and Lord D by is the
only statesman of the age who can summon such a
band to the rescue. On the opposite side were
ranged old Whigs, more exclusive than any Tories,
pure Whigs Liberals of all degrees, Radicals, the
Irish-brigade, and politicians of every hue, with
opinions as varying as their professions. In spite
of unparalleled exertions only 340 appeared in the
fullest house on record to do battle for the cause.

Half-a-dozen leaders, by dint of extraordinary
efforts, managed to bring into the field a majority
of 39 over a single party, led by the most distin-
guished statesman of the age. Pledges were broken
and consistency set at defiance, or the result would
have been different. Even a few moments before

the division actually took place some members had

not made up their minds, while others appear to
have gone into the wrong lobby, at least if we may
judge from the striking contrast that exists between
promise and performance. One of the last speakers
in the debate, Mr. Walter, the member for Not-

tingham, said " With the permission of the
house, he would state very briefly the reasons
which had induced him to determine both to vote

against the second reading of the bill, and also to
abstain from voting in favour of the resolution."
Yet a few minutes after these words were spoken
the honourable member, with admirable con-
sistency, walked into the lobby with his friends
and helped to swell the majority in favour of that
resolution for which he had declared he could not

vote. Only two Conservatives proved recreant on
the occasion. These were Lord Hotham and Captain
Gray, whom we especially recommend to the notice
of their constituents, hoping that they may be able
to furnish them with satisfactory reasons for the
desertion of their party in the hour of need.
Had the question been fairly argued upon its
merits we should not complain. Even conscientious
Conservatives might, by some mysterious process
of reasoning, have arrived at the conclusion that it
was not their business to support the second reading
of the bill. Lord John Russell knew that a majority
of members, even of the House of Commons, could
not be induced to reject the measure at that stage.
His object, therefore, was to 'frame a resolution that
might accomplish this aim. So honourable members
who intended to support the second reading were
asked to accept an amendment that virtually
arrested the progress of the measure. This was per-
haps the worst parliamentary dodge of which we have
any record, and it does not redound to the credit of
independent members that they should have been
caught by such a shallow pretence. Very careful
were many of them to state that their confidence in
the present Government remained unshaken. Nor
did others hesitate to add that the return to power
either of Lord Palmerston or of Lord John Russell

would be a national calamity. What, if these poli.
ticians were sincere in their expressions of respect

and confidence, is the meaning of this hostile-ma-
jority ? Is it to be regarded as a solemn censure
from the lower branch of the Legislature, or as one
of those humiliating spectacles that may sometimes
be witnessed in the only independent Legislature
in the world ? A short time ago these sapient
legislators were seized with the Palmerston fever •
now they. place the ex-Premier on a pedestal, with
the inscription, " Unfit for Service." If it is in-
tended to turn the proceedings of Parliament into
ridicule we may possibly understand these votes,
at variance with the settled convictions of the
greater part of the majority, and these unfair at-
tempts at damaging a rival. If it is pure malice,
why do not these legislators say so at once ? They
supported Lord John Russell's resolution, although
they condemned its spirit and the manner in which
it was introduced; they opposed the second reading
of the Government Reform Bill, although they
thought that no opposition ought to be made to the
measure at that stage. How is the mystery to be
explained ?
The scene at the close of the first division on
Thursday night will not be lost upon the British
public. No sooner had these intriguers advanced
one step towards the chief object of their hopes
than the old jealousies were revived, and theybegan
to fight amongst themselves. The moment Mr. Wyld
moved his amendment in favour of the ballot a scene
of terrible confusion occurred. Mr. H. Berkeley de-
clared that he would not vote in its favour. His

efforts to make himself heard were useless, and he
resumed bis seat amid boisterous interruption. Mr.
Milner Gibson, with admirable discretion, stated
that he was in favour of the ballot, but could not
vote for it. Mr. Bright and other members of the
new coalition endeavoured to restrain the impetuous
member for Bodmin, but he was not to be extin-
guished. Lord John Russell, the hero of the great
reform intrigue, amused the house with dumb show
for several minutes and then sat down in despair.
What a humiliating position for one who aspires to
lead to govern. The consequence was that when
the division took place Messrs. Bright, Milner Gib-
son, and Berkeley with others, quitted the house.
They could not at that critical moment give an
honest vote. They desire power ; and the ballot is
not now in good odour. The matter was at length
decided by the aid of the Conservatives, and Lord
John Russell was rescued from his Radical tor-
mentors, and the ballot disposed of for a time. Were
these eager clamourers for office to meet with suc-
cess in their schemes such scenes would be of fre
quent occurrence in the House of Commons. Mr.
Bright would occasionally refrain from voting in
order to appear with that dignity so essential in an
aspirant for office, and Lord John Russell would
earnestly entreat refractory colleagues to conceal
their real views and intentions when the exhibition
of the same might be attended with inconvenience.
Politicians who have no settled opinions,
and are always squabbling amongst them-
selves, have chosen a grave crisis in the af-
fairs of Europe in order to embarrass the
Government and hasten a dissolution. An
appeal to the constituencies would, they declare, be
extremely inconvenient just now, yet they do every
thing in their power to render such an appeal our
only escape from disaster. Anything must be pre-
ferable to a change of Ministry or the elevation to
power of Lords Palmerston and John Russell. We
know how they treated Austria on a former occa-
sion. The independence of Lombardy was not
deemed sacrifice enough. The revival of their
influence would dissolve the charm of good under-
standing that prevails in an instant, and a sangui-
nary war would be the first result. Happily for
England, Europe, and the world at large, the
principles on which the foreign policy. of England
have been conducted by Lord Malmesbury are well
known and appreciated. When that Minister
acceded to power England lay humbled in the dust;
now she holds her proper position in the European
confederation. The whole weight of her authority
is directed towards the maintenance of peace, and
by the blessing of Providence upon the exertions
of honest statesmen tranquillity will be preserved.
Industry will be permitted to gather its reward
unassailed, and the operations of trade will not be
arrested. The desire of the nations in all parts of
Europe is peace. They behold in the members of
Lord Derby's Cabinet its best guardians, and we
are not surprised that a factious combination against
it should excite alarm from one end of Europe to the
other. The fall of Whig Cabinets is generally con-
sidered a release, and disappointed placemen may
well feel annoyed at the sympathy which the tem-
porary embarrassment of a Conservative Ministry
has occasioned. It has called forth demonstrations
which show that Lord Derby and his colleagues
command the confidence both of Parliament and o f
the people, and the latter are only anxious to have
the opportunity of proving their zeal in the good
cause.—Morning Herald.

GOVERNMENT EMIGRATION.—The Government
emigrant ship Vocalist, 1,000 tons, Captain Magnus Flett,
which sailed from Liverpool on the 16th of November in
charge of Surgeon Superintendent Patrick Culhane, with 59
married couples, 92 single men, 84 single women, 49 boys
between the ages of 1 and 12, 56 girls between the same
ages, six male and seven female infants, making a total of
412 souls, equal to 3461 statute adults, arrived at Port
Elizabeth, Algoa Bay, Cape of Good Hope, on the 23d of
January. Five deaths (all young children), and four births
occurred during the voyage.
FOREIGN -OFFICE M ESSEN GERS. —Papers relating
to the emoluments of her Majesty's foreign service messen-
gers attached to the Foreign-office have just been issued.
The subject was opened last September in a circular to her
Majesty's Ministers abroad, which, after adducing the
fact that the expenditure in 1856-7 (a time of pease), had
increased to £32,243 a-year, suggested certain means of
reforming the abuse. Lord Malmesbury drew up a memo-
randum on the subject in November, wherein he considers
thatthe average rate of emolument of each messenger (£BOO
a-year) is far too high a rate of remumeration for their ser-
vices. His lordship thinks that the whole system of mes-
senger emoluments should be revised, and that instead of
their being made up of three items salary, board-
wages, and mileage profit—a fixed sum as salary should
be paid to each messenger, and nothing besides. This
salary his lordship fixed at £5OO, the actual expense of
travelling alone being allowed ;_he also proposed to reduce
the number of messengers to 15. Of course, the messen-
gers, like all others interested in the maintenance of exist-
ing abuses, opposed this reformin a "memorial," praying
Lord Malmesbury so to vary his minute of the 4th of
November, as that an allowance adequate to the messen-
gers' hotel bill and other incidental expenses, 13s. 4d.,
while on duty abroad, be added to the salary of £5OO a
year. The messengers make out that their ordinary daily
expenses at the hotels of the principal cities of Europe are
as follows—viz :—ln Paris,N 19s. 40. (sterling) ; Madrid,
245. 2d. ; Berlin, 20,. ;
anapldesin,
Rome,2ss. 5t.22 lPetersburg,d.liord
245. 4d. ; Vienna, 225. 4d. ;
Malmesbury vindicated his reform in a memorandum,
dated the 10th of December, 1858, but so far conceded
to the Messengers as to grant them an addition to the £5OO
salary, equivalent to a daily allowance of 2s. 6d., or 31., on
an estimated detention abroad of about 200 days in the
course of the year. This will make the whole payment
£525 a year to each Messenger. The new arrangement WAS
to take Act et the commencement of the new year (1859),

THE MURDER AT WEST BROMWICH

FRIDAY AFTERNOON.
The murderer, John Corbett, yet lingers, not-
withstanding the severity of his self-inflicted in-

juries.

It will be remembered that after he had killed

his wife he, with the same weapon, gashed his own
throat so dreadfully as to entirely sever the wind-
pipe, but leaving the carotid artery uninjured. The
wound thus occasioned is of the most frightful cha-
racter. Through the horrible gap it is easy to per-
ceive the pulsatory movement of the windpipe at
the point where it is severed. Indeed the ligaments
of the centre of the throat along a line of four inches
are laid bare quite back to the spine through a
wound the gaping sides of which are in some places
nearly two inches apart. Here there is a consider-
able amount of sloughing, but as yet no inflamma-
tion, and the outer dissevered ligaments are making
great efforts to meet. They will never, however,
do so, for to aid them by the use of the needle would
be to kill the man in a very brief time. In inflict-
ing this extensive wound the murderer took off
into the mouth the delicate and beautiful valve
which guards the windpipe, and conducts the food
to its proper channel. In the event of the wound
being sewn, therefore, a portion of the food only
would enter the stomach, the greater part falling
into the lungs, with speedy death as the result. At
present life is sustained by liquid food being injected
into the stomach by a force pump applied through
the wound. In this way the murderer is fed some-
times twice a day, a pint of warmed ale with two
eggs beaten up in it, and a pint of broth sometimes
forming a meal. As, however, the seats of thirst
and taste are in the mouth, the culprit often asks
to be given food that he can taste, and drinks to
allay his thirst. These, in the form of tarts, oranges,
brandy, ginger-beer, coffee, or toast and water, are
always given to him when he asks for them. They
seem to afford him gratification, although they all
come back through the wound, falling into a vessel
prepared for the purpose, and the use of which al-
ways accompanies the taking of the food. So great,
comparatively, is the refreshment which this prac-
tice gives to him that he always expresses himself
relieved by it, and imagines that some portion of
what he thus takes into his mouth passes into his
stomach.

"The murderer does not appear to realise the awful
position in which his crimes have placed him, by
virtue of the decision of the coroner's jury. This
(although there are two policemen in attendance
upon him day and night) seems to be kept in abey-
ance by the fact of his being in the house of his
sister and receiving every attention. Even the po-
licemen are his merciful attendants. By these he is
constantly nursed by night and by day, and the
men seem to find a melancholy satisfaction in
their employment. The sight is indeed a sad one,
and the work most cheerless, for if it were possible
for the attention thus paid him to produce his reco-
very, he must eventually expiate his crime upon the
scaffold. The unhappy man is under the impression
that he will recover. He seems fully aware, how-
ever, that his injuries are too severe to enable him
to prosecute his calling as a miner, and has already
devised a mode of gaming his livelihood. To Mr.
W. J. Kite, his surgeon, who one morning asked
him how he felt he made a circle with his hand,
and a half-gurgling half-snorting sound from his
neck, which one of the officers, who had accustomed
himself to interpret the prisoner's signs and sounds,
read as " I shall get round." The correctness of
the interpretation was approved by Corbett him-
self, who, when he was asked if this was what he
meant, nodded his assent. Afterwards he intimated
that he should vend oranges for a living. Still he
receives thankfully and in a becoming manner the
ministrations of the Rev. Mr. Bradshaw, the in-

cumbent of Christ Church, with the prayerful atten- ,
tions also of pious laymen of the Methodist persua-
sion. While they are with him reading or pray-
ing his gaze is intently fixed upon them to the close.
He is fully conscious, and his emotions of gr;.ef on
account of what he has done are often very power-
ful. He said a day since that he "loved his wife
with all his heart." On another occasion, to the
rev. gentleman before named, he remarked, point-
ing to the region of his heart, that he was " sorry
from the bottom of his heart for what he had done.
Again his contrition found vent in the following
comparative expression. Lifting his right arm, he
said that he would " rather have had that cut off
than have killed his wife." Being questioned upon
the motive which had prompted him to the horri-
ble deed, he rejoined that it was "on account of
what William Evans had said to him in the pit
during the day." To evince his sense of the in-
jury which the man had done him, and the crime
which he had committed, Corbett by putting his
hands round his neck, and pointing them to the
ceiling, intimated his feeling that the man in ques-
tion ought to be " hang up."
Corbett's grief was the most intense on Wednes-
day afternoon, when his wife was buried from the
house of her mother, not more than 40 yards from
the sick chamber of her husband and murderer.
The ceremony had called into the street nearly
4,000 persons, not withstanding that during the time
a heavy snow storm prevailed. Corbett understood
the meaning of the excitement which reigned with-
out. His attendants, by loud talking, and by other
noises, tried to drown the noise and. divert his at-
tention, but in vain. The obsequies were attended
by some young women, members, like the murdered
woman, of a sick and burial club. These, as is the
custom on such occasions, sang a hymn before leav-
ing the house with the corpse. The strain caught
the murderer's ears. At this time he was sitting up
in bed. He threw up his hands, upturned his face,
bearing an expression of unmingled grief, brought
down his ands upon his pillows, turned himself
completely round in his bed, and buried his face in
his hands, and lay in this posture of mourning for
some considerable time. He bestows the warmest
attention upon his two sons when they are brought
to him, and begs that they may be taken care of.
The elder (six years of age) is with the maternal
grandmother, and the younger (four years old) is
in the same house with the father.
Corbett has expressed an aversion to see no one
who has yet been allowed to enter his room, but
strictly enjoins his friends not to admit the man
Evans before referred to. This is he, it will be
remembered from what was stated on Wednesday,
who connected his own criminality and shame with
that of Corbett's wife. He is a married man, with
three children. To the credit of his employers
(Messrs. W. H. Dawes) he was dismissed from his
work immediately that those gentlemen knew of
what he had been guilty. If he does not soon
leave the neighbourhood, there is little doubt but
the people of Westbromwich will imitate those of
Reading, and administer healthy Lynch law upon
the fellow.
If Corbett should survive, and is then sufficiently
recovered to admit it, he will early next week be
removed to Stafford gaol, and placed in the infirmary
there. The culprit is a well-built tall young man,
was 24 (not 30) years of age on the 30th of last
January, and has been in the Staffordshire Militia.