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London, England, 1859-02-15 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 15, 1859.

TO THE ELECTORS OF THE BOROUGH OF

MARYLEBoRk. -
GENTLESIEN, When I accompanied my
brother here in October last, I confidently hoped to
have returned early in the session of Parliament. But an
attack of cough falling upon a constitution, weakened by my
long previous illness, makes it impossible, in the opinion of
my medical advisers, that I should come home before Easter
with any hope of being able to attend to my parliamentary
duties, and without great and permanent injury to, my health.
Under these circumstances I should ill requite your much
tried forbearance, if, by clinging; farther to my seat, I were to
deprive you of your right of being represented by both your
members in the important discussions which are shortly
coming before the House of Commons.
I will not dwell on my regret at retiring from that assem-
bly, or on its Immeasurable aggravation by the severance of
my connection with a constituency so great and influential,
and, as I have good reason to know, so generous and indulgent
as the electors of Marylebone.
The path of duty, however, is clear, and so I beg to place
my seat at your disposal, and I shall forward to my father an
application for the Stewardship of the Chiltern Hundreds, to
be made by him to the head of the Government.
In taking my leave of you let me assure you that I shall
ever entertain a deep and grateful sense of obligation for all
the many kindnesses which I have received at your hands,
but, above all, for the unexampled amount of support which I
experienced on my first contested return for your borough ;
and, if possible, stillmore for the unexampled kindness with
which, by the consent of my former opponents, I was unani-
mously re-chosen at the last general election, when I was
absent from ill health on the Continent.
I have the honour to remain,
Gentlemen,
Your obliged and faithful friend and servant,
(Signed) EBRINGTON.
Funchal, Madeira, Jan. 30th, 1859.

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not be liable to lose his dignity and salary within a certain
period; and that he -should never lose them by any act of
the Lord High Commissioner, in case the two Chambers
should by address express their desire that he should retain
them.
"The powers of the Council of Ministers will arise
mainly under three heads :
" First, You are invited to declare that to it shall be
carried over the executive powers now attaching to the
Senate. Secondly, that all acts which the Lord High Com-
missioner now performs by his own sole authority, shall, in
order to their validity, require the countersignature of the
proper responsible Minister; except as to such powers as
her Majesty may, by Order in Council, within a period to
be :limited,' declare it to be indispensable to retain, either
permanently or for a time, with a view to the due exercise
of the Protectorate. Thirdly, that the acts which he now
accomplishes in concurrence with the Senate, shall here-
after be performed, subject to the like exception under the
reserved power of her Majesty in Council, simply by the
Ministry or by a Minister alone.
"I have next to address you with respect to the legis-
lative veto of the
Protectorate. The institutions of the
country are not yet so mature as to. permit of an attempt
which may hereafter, under favouring circumstances, be
practicable, to separate between laws which affect the
duties •of the Protectorate and laws purely domestic. In
the meantime there is proposed to you a new recognition
of the free and substantive action of the Parliament, by
providing that in the case of all future laws, instead of re-
citing in the body of them the approval of the Lord High
Commissioner, it shall suffice to their validity if he shall
attach to them his visa. And you will be free to add, if
you think fit, that the period granted by. the Constitution
for the disallowance of laws in England shall be greatly
reduced.
"In two other vital particulars you are invited to con-
cur in restraining the powers which essentially belong to
the Protection—first, by declaring that the power of rele-
gations under the article of high police shall be abolished ;
and secondly, that an exceptional state of law, proclaimed
in cases of actual or approaching disturbance, shall cease
upon the re-establishment of order.
" The Lord High Commissioner must of necessity be ir-
responsible to lonian authority; but her Majesty deems it
fitting to make further provision for his responsibility to
herself.
"This may be effected in a manner known to the practice
of England, by which any complaint of grave malversation
of office, proceeding from an authorative source, would, in-
stead of passinc, into the routine of administrative business,
be brought by the Secretary of State to a judicial hearing
before the highest authorities ; I propose to you, therefore,
that when either Chamber shall have presented any such
complaint against the Lord High Commissioner, it shall
have power to send an agent to England to support it, and
to order payment of his reasonable charges.
"A systematic division of public powers into those which
are internal and those which belong to the Protectorate,
would be scarcely possible, even under the happiest circum-
stances, to draw in theory and by anticipation. An admi-
nistrative system cannot with safety be subjected to sudden
and general change, and the attempt to sweep away in a
day the habits and growth of 40 years, would alike injure
and displease the country. Something more might at once
have been attempted in this direction, had the state of
opinion in your country been so harmonious as to allow of
your co-operating in the first inspection of a plan, instead of
leaving to the Protecting Power its undivided burden and
responsibility; but, in any case, experience would still re-
main the chief and the best guidei as to particulars. The
light obtained from daily and confidential relations of busi-
ness between the Lord High Commissioner and the lonian
Ministry would gradually clear the problem. Each must
have the strongest motives for harmony with the other, and
in the operation of these motives will be found to lie the
real means of solving the difficulties of politics.
" I am now speaking to youlanguage which has acquired
historic warrant. lam inviting you to follow the example
of the nations, great and free, which have been content to
establish effectually for themselves the great principles and
guarantees of constitutional government ; and have with-
out fear trusted to experience for the rest, as the only effec-
tual instrument for working out their legitimate conse-
quences, and at the same time for preventing the fatal evils
which might arise from misinterpretation.
" One word with respectto the manner in which seats in
the Senate are to be obtained and held. On this subject
her Majesty has no desire but that the Upper Chamber
should have weight, independence, efficiency, and a separate
and distinctive character.
" A resolution, which I shall recommend, proposes that
the seats shall be held for a term longer than that of the
single Parliament ; and that the body shall consist of a
majority elected by a special constituency:, and of a mi-
nority named by the Lord High Commissioner, with the
concurrence of the Ministry, from among a circle of persons
qualified as may be declared by law. lam not able to sug-
gest a better method in which this peculiarly lonian ques-
tion can be dealt with. Still her Majesty does not pre-
clude from entertaining any modification which may ap-
pear to command general favour, and which may be as well
or as better adapted for the attainment of the indispensable
ends that I have described.

" The points which I have now named to you are those
which appear to be essential to a beneficial re-adjustment
of your Constitution. It is requisite that I should give you
fully to understand that the few but important provisions I
have recommended as guarantees for tranquil and stable
government, are tendered to you as a whole. Any vote
impairing any of these would be fatal to the entire plan ;
and I must add, with respect to all the leading points I have
touched, that England has kept nothing in reserve; and that,
if you do not approve the outlines she has laid down, you
may find advantage in dealing with them generally, and
declining to accept them. I feel certain that in any case
the Assembly will meet the question frankly ; and that,
mina= ur its aignity, it will discountenance any attempt
to evade by indirect measures the duty of uttering a clear
and intelligible opinion upon proposals of such great mo-
ment to the lonian peeple. In tliat spirit I act when I in-
form you that any vote, such as to alter materially their
character, would be to shake the whole fabric to its base, and
might at any stage annul the labours previously spent, by
rendering it needful that the whole subject should 1)e re-
considered.

‘! The development of the scheme in its details would
however, if you should accept the bases, of course remain a
subject for future and free deliberation. The adjustment
of them, with the aid of mutual confidence, will, I am per-
suaded, not be difficult.
"Besides the provisions which I have described as ap-
pearing to be essential, I earnestly recommend it to you to
consider whether the adoption of measures for the following
purposes might not be attended with great public advan-
tage :
" 1. That the session of Parliament be annual, and be
ordinarily of two months.
"2. That the 12 months assigned for the disallowance of
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lonian laws by the protecting Sovereignreduced to
three.
"3. That each island be represented by at least one
member of the Senate.
"4. That the Senate shall try public functionaries when
impeached ; with the advice of the Supreme Council, as
often as required, on points of law.
" 5. That Ministers may be members of either Chamber

—a provision which experience warrants me in describing
as one valuable alike, if not even indispensable, to liberty
and order.

"6. That the Supreme Council be rendered more inde-
pendent both of the Lord High Commissioner and of the
Assembly, with a view to its greater public weight and
utility; and that it be consulted on all judicial appoint-
ments.

-7,f. That the large islands be divided into two or three
districts each, for the distinct representation of the various
local interests. _

"8. That, with a view to economy and to efficiency, the
local Governments of some of the islands be as far as pos-
sible consolidated.

" 9. That public offices cease to lapse of right at the end
of the quinquenniura.
" 10. That further provision be made for the revision of
any part of the constitution when required.
" Having explained the course of organic legislation on
which her Majesty encourages you to enter, I will not now
proceed to enlarge upon the general benefits which ought to
ensue from the amended construction of your Government.
Suffice it to say, there is much to be done ; and most of all,
perhaps, in that which constitutes the elementary and para-
mount duty of a popular chamber—the regulation of the
public taxes and expenditure. •
" The reformation of the taxes is urgently needed. Your
peasantry, sometimes exposed to pressure, pays an artificial
price for bread. Your chief products are laden with heavy
duties on export. Burdens are not equally shared between
town and country, between producers and consumers.
" But you cannot effectually reform your taxes without
revising your expenditure. And here, too, the need is great.
For military protection you pay more lightly, if I reckon
aright, than almost any people in Europe; for your civil
government perhaps more heavily. It is not that the sala-
ries of your
.public functionaries are in general too high,
but that their number is disproportionate to the number of
the population and to the work to be done. The paid ser-
vants of the public, in all their classes, are above 2,200
among 240,000 inhabitants. Such a proportion equals or
exceeds even that of the army in other European States, to
the entire number of the population.
" This evil has been fostered by special causes ; neither
can it be cured in a day. The attempt to apply a too sharp
and sudden remedy would defeat itself by cruelty and in
justice to individuals, which provoke reaction, and thus
impede even wise and salutary change. The case demands
forethought and steadiness of purpose ; it also absolutely
requires the aid of ministerial responsibility, which alone
can arbitrate aright between public economy and legitimate
personal interests.
" There are other sources from which savings may be
effected. When constitutional and stable government shall
have been developed in these islands the charge of their
public debt, while it exists, may be reduced. The circula-
' of notes payable on demand ought to yield some profit to
the State. The management of roads, when placed under
executive instead of elective officers, may be conducted
much more cheaply. I may, in passing, observe that I
shall propose to you the re-organisation of your municipal
and local governments ; and that I hope it may be found
practicable to liberate their ordinary proceedings from the
interference of the Protecting Power. To resume ; on the
part of that Power, I shall to ready to lead the way in the
work of economy, by proposing to take upon the reserved
civil list of the Lord High Commissioner several charges
which have heretofore been defrayed out of the general
revenue. Nor shall I, on returning to my own country,
forget to watch for an opportunity, when the state of Eng-
lish finance may render it practicable, to recommend, as far
as in me lies, the further reduction of the still heavy duty'
duty of import upon currants, that great staple of the
southern islands. But, while, in regard to some finan-
cial improvements, I have thus ventured to offer
friendly counsels, I trust that all such matters will be
hereafter managed, under the action of improved institu-
tions, by your own sagacity and good sense.
" I need now detain you no longer on the particular topics
to which I have referred. Those of them which I have de-
scribed as essential will be brought under your notice forth-
with, in the form of resolutions ; and by means of a message,
since this is the vehicle specified in the Constitution. As to
their general scope, gentlemen, these reformations may be
easily and briefly described. They are intended to secure to
you, in the management of your internal affairs, the full ad
vantage Oa constitutional and a stable Government, better
better adjustment of the influ-
enceguarantees for public rights,
of the respective classes of society, a more free career
in political life for the ability with which the country
abounds. They do not tend to complicate but to simplify
Yoltr relations with the Protecting' Power. They create no

new bond between the two countries, except it be a new
bond of goodwill.. England proposes to you a law, and not
a contract. She asks from you nothing. Not a single point
is added to her powers.

" ReformatiOns such as these, in the ordinary course of
history, are demanded more frequently than offered ; are
extorted by superior strength, more commonly than given
of free will. From divisions of opinion in these islands,
there has been left to the Crown of England the credit and
the grace of making this spontaneous tender, and of urging
its acceptance. On the part of my country, I feel the diffi-
culty, but I prize the honour. No impulse has prompted
her Majesty in her gracious offer, except the sentiment of
due benevolence towards the lonian people,
i and the convic-
tion that the reputation of England s. con.cerned in their
enjoying freedom, prosperity, and contentment, not merely
in a degree equal to that of neighbouring or kindred coun-
tries, but in the highest degree which it may be in her
power to procure.
" Her Majesty has now done her part, and the rest, Mr.
President and gentlemen, is in your hands.
" I entreat you to contradict, by the testimony of facts,
the imputations of those who declare that in these islands
the spirit of restless demagogism on the one hand, and the
inveterate traffic in place on the other, render good and free
government impracticable.
"Those official persons, for whose conduct the Protect-
ing Power is by the Constitution made virtually responsible
will, as such, co-operate in the effort on behalf of the
lonian people; for England would not be justified, at such
a juncture, in neutralising any assistance which she can
command.

',The efficacy, however, of that assistance must ultimately
depend, not on those who give, but on those who receive it.
If, then, you are a feeble State, endeavour to be strong with
the strength of reason. Freedom must be freely accepted,
or the gift would be poisoned in the act of giving. You can
make this effort effectual ; you can also make it vain. You
can intercept the benefit on its way; you can convert the
promise into a mockery. You can prolong or perpetuate the
reign of that legislative paralysis, of those administrative
abuses, respecting which, as the inevitable fruits of a still de-
fective system, you:have generally, andrecently, and eagerly,
and in terms of at least sufficient strength, complained. Of
that over which you have no power, I need only say that
having no power, you have no responsibility. Of that which
is now within your reach I shall have said enough when I
remind you that here your responsibility is entire, and, fur-
ther, that the habits engendered by well-ordered freedom
for the present, form the only efficacious preparation for
the hidden contingencies of the future. I conclude, then,
with giving utterance to the prayer that the Almighty may
guide your counsels, and may forbid that the interest of the
lonian people should receive, in the crisis of its destinies,
and at the hands of its servants and sworn defenders, a
deadly wound.

" W. E. GLADSTONE.
"By command of his Excellency.
"G. F. BOWEN, Sec. to the L. H. Commissioner."

"Resolutions proposed to the Legislative Assembly.
"Mr. President and Gentlemen,
"It has appeared to the Protecting Sovereign that it is
expedient to provide by a new constitutional act or acts
for the purposes set forth in the following series of resolu-
tions :

" 1. That the Civil Government of the lonian. State
should henceforward consist of
"A Presidency;
"A Parliament, comprising a Legislative Serate and a
Legislative Assembly ;
" A President and Council of Ministers ;
"And a Judicial Authority, together with the neces-
sary subordinate officers.

" 2: That, until further provision shall be made, the. Pre-
sidency of the lonian State shall be held either by the Pre-
sident of the Council of Ministers, or by the Councirin its
collective capacity.
"3. That the administrative powers of the Senate shall
in general pass into the hands of the Council 'of Ministers
collectively, or of the members thereof.
"4. While the Lord High Commissioner will appoint and
remove the Ministers, they will, in order to their due har-
mony with the Legislative body, hold office during pleasure
only; and he shall be bound to remove them on a joint
address to that effect from the two Chambers.
" 5. That, with the exception of such heads as her Majesty
shall by Order in Council; within a time to be limited, de-
clare to be requisite for the discharge of her office as pro-
tecting Sovereign, all acts in which the Lord High Commis-
sioner now has sole authority shall be performed by him
only with the counter signature of a responsible Minister ;
and all acts in which he has now an authority concurrent
with the Senate, shall be done without his intervention by
the Council of Ministers, or a member thereof.
"6. That as to all new laws, it shall be sufficient, in lieu
of reciting therein the approval of the Lord High Commis-
sioner' that there be substituted his simple visa, without
which they shall not take effect.
"7. That relegation under the powers of high police be
declared henceforward illegal.
" 8. That if an exceptional state of law shall at any time
hereafter be established in cases of actual or approaching
disturbance, it shall not continue after order shall have
been restored.

"9. That when either Legislative Chamber shall pray her
Majesty to grant a judicial hearing of any complaint
against the Lord High Commissioner, for grave malver-
sation in the exercise of his office, said Chamber shall have
the right to send an agent to England to support such peti-
tion, and of its own authority to order payment of his
reasonable charges.
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"10. That the authority to pass altii di Governo as at
present defined, be abolished.
" 11. That the Senate, divested wholly of its initiative
and executive powers, shall simply have a veto upon all
Bills for granting a civil list or budget and for raising
taxes, and a concurrent authority with the Assembly in
regard to all other Bills.
" 12. That the majority of the Senate be elected, for a
lengthened term, by a special constituency ' and that the
minor part be nominated by the Lord High Commissioner,
for the same term, with the concurrence of the Ministry,
from among persons qualified in a manner to be determined.
" 13. That the Assembly shall have exclusive power to
impose taxes; and to authorise public expenditure.
" 14. That, except as herein provided, no tax shall here-
after be imposed, and no outlay of public money authorised,
otherwise than upon the proposal of the Executive Govern-
ment, and to an amount not exceeding such proposal.
" 15. That the allowance to members of the two Cham-
bers for their needful expenses shall not exceed a daily
quota of dollars in the Senate, and - dollars in the
Assembly, together with an allowance for the cost of
joumies ; and that such daily allowance be not reckoned
for more than 60 days in any one year, unless a special act
of Parliament shall be passed for the purpose.
" 16. That the Assembly shall have the right to impeach
all official persons before the Senate, and of its own autho-
rity to orderpayment of the charges of such impeachment.
" 17. The Municipal and Local Government shall be re-
organised, the existing restraints upon their proceedings
shall be reconsidered, and they shall consist of paid execu-
tive officers, and of councillors serving gratuitously.
0 I introduce these resolutions to you hi the form pre-
scribed by the seventh section of the seventh chapter of the
Constitution ; and I earnestly recommend them to your
favourable consideration. " W. E. GLADSTONE.
" By command of his Excellency,
"G. F. BoWEN, Sec. to the Lord High Commissioner.
" Corfu, Feb. 5,1859."

ANSWER OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE LEGISLATIVE
ASSEMBLY.
" Excellency,--The established usages and regulations
of the Assembly will not permit me to reply fully at pre-
sent to your Excellency's speech.
"The official reply shall be delivered in the name of the
Assembly on a future day, which will be duly announced.
" Your Excellency will permit me meanwhile to say that
we greatly rejoice in seeing a personage so renowned and
phihellenic in the chair of her Majesty's representative.
" With respect to the grave and momentous subjects con-
tained in your Excellency's speech, it is my duty to assure
you that the Assembly will devote their greatest attention
to them, so that they may freely and judiciously pronounce
an opinion in conformity with their sacred mission as re-
presentatives of the lonian people.
" By command of the President of the Assembly,
" N. Lusi, Secretary of the Assembly."

LAW INTELLIGENCE-(THIS DAY.)

COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH.

Sittings at Nisi Prius, at Westminster, before Lord Chief
Campbell and a Special Jury.)
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After we went to press yesterday the Duke of Cambridge,
the Earl of Wilton, and Lord A. Hay were examined.
The Earl of Wilton gave his evidence at great length,
and concluded by saying that he considered his conversa-
tion with Mr. Dtmcombe to be as confidential and sacred
as anything this side of the grave.
The Duke of Cambridge, Commander-in-Chief of the
Army, was then examined by the Attorney-General. He
said—l was requested by the Secretary of State for War to
nominate the members of the court of inquiry on Col. Dick-
son. All the communications on the subject were official.
I never had any communications with Lord Wilton, or any
person on his behalf, concerning the matter.
By Lord Campbell—l never would have permitted any
such communications to me.

Re-examination resumed—lt would most assuredly be the
duty of a commanding officer of a regiment to send along
with the report of a regimental board inculpating an officer
any other facts which had come to his own knowledge. It
would also be his duty, after he had sent it in, to add any
other charges which might reach him against the same
officer. Of course he would inquire into the truth of the
charges. If he thinks there are sufficient grounds to show
their probability or possibility it would be his duty to re-
port them. I beg, however, to observe that as regards the
militia I do not know the exact course which is pursued.
I do not know whose duty it is to report them, but they
ought to be reported. Militia regiments when disembodied
are not under the control of the Commander-in-Chief. A
colonel of a militia regiment has no power to pass sentence
on an officer ; he must report the matter to his superior
officer. _ _ _

Mr. Edwin James—ls it usual for a board, consisting of
a major and two officers, to sit and hear charges against
their superior officer, the lieutenant-colonel?
The Duke of Cambridge—Such a board would be ap-
pointed merely to inquire whether the charges are provable.
They are a board to make a preliminary inquiry into certain
subjects brought before them, and it is impossible to know
what will be the result of their inquiry.

Cross-examination resumed—When they make their re-
port it is the duty of the colonel to send it forthwith to his
superior officer. Of course it is his duty to make any in-
quiry he thinks proper first; but, having made up his
mind that the report should be sent to his superior officer,
)2e ought to send it at once. In every well-regulated regi-
ment there ought to be a mess meeting once a month at
least. I know they are not held in some regiments oftener
than every three or six months. They are not held as re-

GREENWICH ELECTION.

STATE OF THE POLL.
Eleven o'Clock.

Salomons
Angerstein

Majority
Twelve o'Clock.

Salomons .
An gerstein

1,929
1,449

480

2,133
1,612

Majority
Two o'Clock.

Salomons .
Angerstein

Majority
Three o'Clock
Salomons
Angerstc.in

. 2,978
. 2,200

778
3,223
2,391

Majority
Four o'Clock, and final result.
Salomons
Angerstein

Majority
The return will be made by Mr. Chapman to.
morrow at twelve o'clock,

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT

HOUSE OF LORDS—(Tnis EVENING).
The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack
at five o'clock.

PASSING TOLLS.
Lord STANLEY of ALDEItLEY asked her MaJobtr.
Government whether it was their intention to introduce
any measure in the present session of Parliament to relieve
the shipping interest from passing tolls and other burthens ?
The noble lord complained of the manner in which the
memorials and petitions agreed to at many influential
meetings of shipowners had been treated by the Govern-
ment.

The Earl of DONOUGHMORE said the Government
were not prepared to introduce any measure on the subject
referred to by the noble lord, because they could not see
that it would lead to any satisfactory results. He thought
their lordships would agree that the Government had acted
wisely in not taking up an ill-digested and hasty measure,
which had been under the consideration of the late Govern-
ment.
THE SLAVE TRADE.

Lord BROUGHAM, in the early part of the evening,
postponed the presentation of a petition which he had been
entrusted with from Jamaica, in consequence of the absence
of the Bishop of Oxford. Shortly before six the rev. pre-
late entered the house, and the noble and learned lord
rose to present the petition. It was intimated to his
lordship that the standing orders of the house prevented
him pursuing such a course, but after referrinr, to the par-
ticular order, it was agreed that the noble lord should pro-
ceed. His lordship said the petition he held in his hand
had been agreed to at a meeting held at Spanish-town,
which was chiefly attended by free negroes, and they
prayed that immediate steps might be taken to put a stop
to the Cuban slave trade.
Their lordships then adjourned.

HOUSE OF COMMONS-(THIS EVENING).
The SPEAKER took the chair at four o'clock.

PRIVATE BUSINESS.
The following private bills were read a second time and
ordered to bo committed :—Burton-upon-Trent Rail-
way ; Cowes and Newport (Isle of Wight) Railway ;
Hooton and Neston Railway ; London and North Wes-
tern Railway (Arrangements) ; Malden and Sheen Valley
Drainage ; North Eastern and Bedale and Leyburn Rail-
way Companies Amalgamation ; Ringwood, Christchurch,
and Bournemouth Railway; Sevenoaks Railway ; Stock-
ton and Darlington Railway ; Tyne Improvement ; Wans-
beck Railway; Bridport Railway; and Carmarthen and
Cardigan Railway ; Hertford, Luton, and Dunstable Rail-
way ; Isle of Wight Ferry ; Leominster and Kington
Railway; Lymington Railway; Red Sea and Indian Tele-
graph Company ; and Richmond Improvement.

CITY OF LONDON UNION BILL.
Mr. CRAWFORD moved the second reading of this bill,
the object of which, he stated, was to make the 89 parishes
of the City of London supply the defalcations that had
taken place in certain city parishes instead of those being
borne by a few parishes.
Alderman COPELAND moved the second reading of the
bill that day six months. He considered that if there were
any legislation on the subject, it should be by a general
measure, and not one limited to London. Ho was of
opinion also that the collectors and tradesmen in the neigh-
bourhood were equally responsible for the defalcations of
the officers.
The house divided, and the numbers were—
For the second reading
Against it B9
Majority
The motion was accordingly negatived.
MERSEY DOCK AND HARBOUR BILL.
On the motion for the second reading of this bill, an
amendment was moved that it be read a second time this
day week.
After some discussion, the house divided, and the num-
bers were—
For the motion
Against it
Majority ... --79
The bill was then read a second time, and ordered to be
committed.
INDIAN AND AUSTRALIAN TELEGRAPH
COMPANY.
Mr. C. FORSTER moved that the order for the second
reading of the Indian and Australian Telegraph Company
Bill be read, and discharged ; and that the bill be withdrawn.
Also, that leave be given to bring in a bill " for incorpaorat-.
ing and regulating the India, Australia, and China Tele-
graph Company, and other purposes :"—that
Duke and Captain Sir James
Mangles do prepare and brig in the
bill.—Agreed to.
RED SEA AND INDIA TELEGRAPH COMPANY

BILL
Mr. FORSTER moved that. the order for the second
reading of this bill be read and discharged and that the
bill be withdrawn ; also, that leave be given to bring
in a bill "to incorporate the Red Sea and India
Telegraph Company, and to enable the company to establish
and work telegraphs between Great Britain and India and
other countries ; and for other purposes connected there-
with." That Mr. Kinnaird and Mr. Gregson do prepare
and bring in the bill.
Agreed to.

Several private bills were read a first time.
THE CURRENCY
Mr. GREER gave notice that this day fortnight he
would ask whether there had been any depreciation in the
value of gold, or whether such was likely to take place ;
and also whether any means had been adopted to prevent a
depreciation in the value of the current coin of the realm.
COMMUNICATION WITH IRELAND.
Mr. 0. GORE gave notice that to-morrow he would
move for returns of any arrangements that had been
adopted for improving the postal communication with Ire-
land.
ARMY ESTIMATES.
General PEEL laid the army estimates on the table.
THE. DESPATCH OF LORD CANNING TO THE