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London, England, 1857-05-13 00:00:00

that the committee ou the bank acts do consist of 25
members, and that five be a goortn.—Agreed to.
The following hon. members weie then appointed the
committee :—The Chancellor of the Exabeon.r, Mr.
Disraeli, Sir J. Graham, Mr. Spooner, Mr. Gladstone,
Mr. G. A. Hamilton, Sir C. Wood, Mr. Glyn, Mr. Wii-
son, Mr. Cayley, SirF. Baring, Mr. Vance, Mr. Wegue-
lin, Mr. Hildyard, Mr. Sankey, Mr. Blackburn, Mr.
M T. Smith, Mr. Fergn,, Mr. H. Johnstone, Mr. J. L.
Ricardo, Mr. Ennis, Mr. Tite, Sir J. Puller, Mr Ball,
and the Earl of Gifford. That the report of the select
committee on the Bank Acts of the last session be re-
ferred to the said committee was agreed to.
SUPPLY.

The house went foto committee and agreed to a reso-
lution granting supply .to her Majesty ; and a bill was
ordered to be brought in.

SiVINGS BANKS. ,
Mr. FITZliCit brought up the report on savings
banks, and a bill was ordered to be brought in.
NEW BILLS.
Mr. FITZROY brought in bills for the panful') of
lands at Chatham, and for the improvement of Portland
Harbour.

Mr. HARDY brought in a bill for an alteration of
the law relating to the sale of beer.
The house adjourned at half•past six.

Naval and rdilitary Intelligence.

The members of the Royal Commission on the
Medical Department of the Army met for the first
time on Monday', at No. 1, Whitehall-yard. Mr.
Sidney Herbert, M.P., was the president. The
other commissioners present were Mr. Augustus
Stafford, M. P., Col. Sir H. K. Stocke, K.C.8., Dr.
Andrew Smith, Mr. T. Alexander, C. 8., Sir Thos.
Phillips, Mr. J. R. Martin, Sir James Clarke, and
Dr. John Sutherland. Dr. Balfour is selected as
secretary to the commission.

The Royal Commissioners of Inquiry into mili-
tary purchases in the army resumed their meetings
yesterday. The Duke of Somerset was president,
and the other, commissioners present were Lord
Stanley, Mr. Sidney Herbert, M.P., .Gen. Wyn-
yard, Gen. Sir Harry Jones, Gen. Sir Menry Ben-
tinck, alai Mr. George Carr Glyn.
Yesterday the whole of the tt oyal Marine force
at present at head-quarters, Chatham, were formed
into three battalions in the barrack-squire, under
the respective commands of Lieut.-Col. T. C. C.
Moore, Lieut.-Col. R. J. M'Killop, and Major H.
Marriott, and, headed by Col. Second Comman-
dant E. Rea, marched to Chatham-lines, where the
entire division went through the evolutions of a
field-day.
Lieut.-Col. Street, C. 8., the officer commanding
at Colchester, is now on leave of absence ; and
Lieut.-Col. Armstrng, C. 8., is in command of the
camp. 56 men from the 76th depot have left the
camp for Dublin, being about to embark for New
South Wales.

By the death of Vice-Admiral of the Red the
Right Hon. G. G. Lord Radstock, C. 8., the fol-
lowing promotions will take plies on the Flag-list :
Vice-Admiral of the White Sir•W. H. Dillon,
K.C.H., to be Vice-Admiral of the Rod.
Vice-Admiral of the Blue Sir B. Reynolds,
K.C.8., Commander-in-Chief at Plymouth, to be
Vice-Admiral of the White.
Rear-Admiral of the Red Sir C. Sullivan, Bart.,
to be Vice-Admiral of the Blue.

Rear-Admiral of the White Henry Dundas, to be
Rear-Admiral of the Red.
Rear-Admiral of the Blue John Alexander
Duntze, to be Rear-Admiral of the White.
Captain the Right Hon. Lord John Frederick
Gordon Hallyburton, G.C,H., to be Rear-Admiral
on the reserved list.

Captain John WDougall (B) to be Rear-Admiral
of the Blue. By this promotion the appointment
of Admiralty Superintendent of Packets at South-
ampton reverts to the patronage of the Admiralty,
together with the good service pension conferred
upon the same officer.
Admiral Sir George Seymour, Commander-in-
Chief at Portsmouth, struck his flag last evening at
sunset, and went on leave to recruit his health.
The Agamemnon, screw, 91, Master-Commander
Noddal, was undccked at Portsmouth yesterday,
and placed in the steam basin to complete her outfit.
The Volcano steam-vessel (floating smithery for
the China fleet), Master-Commander Hockley, bent
sails at Portsmouth yesterday, and is ready to go
to Spithead.
The Adventure and Assistance, line steam troop
ships are ready to embark their troops at Ports-
mouth, but no day is yet fixed. An Admiralty
order has been received at Portsmouth Dockyard
enjoining that all troopships fitting at that port
shall have two quarter-boats fittsd with Mr. Clif-
ford's patent lowering apparatus. Besides the Ad-
venture and Assistance, the Agamemnon' Melville,
and Hastings are being also supplied with this
means of re idily and safely lowering the boats in
lany emerg..ncy.' .

The Fox steam yacht, fitting out at AbPrileen for

1 Laly Franklin's final search, under the command
of Capt. M'Clintock, R.N., is rapidly progressing
in her equipment. She will be a " model Arctic."
100 men are now at work upon IP; besides others
employed about her machinery. The Fox will carry
with her a speaking reminiscence of former exp di-
tions to the same regions. When Lady Franklin
fitted out thoPrinceAlb!rt, in 1851, Prince Albert
presented an organ to the expedition, which went
out in the vessel named after his Royal Highness,
wintered at Batty Bay, and in 1852, before return-
ing to England, the organ was lent to the North
Star, at Beechy Island. where it spent two years,
and was always played at church service. In 1851,
alter having spent thaee years and a half in the
Arctic regions, it was safely brought home. Lady
Franklin naturally prized it more highly, and had
it put to rights at considerable expense, and now
the same royal souvenir is about to be shipped once
more to the Arctic regions.

The following officers have taken up their com-
missions and joined their ships at Sheerness—Capt.
F. Hutton (1841), late in command of the Royal
William, 120, guirdship of ordinary at Devonport,
to the Terror floating battery ;
,Capt. Hutton com.
missioned her yesterday before noon; the Hon. A.
K. H. Legge, mate, to the Vesuvius ; Mr. W. A.
K. Craven, mate, to the Cumberland.

The Wrangler, 4 guns screw steamvessel, Com-
mander J. H. arryat, is ordered to be paid off
in the l,asin at Sheerness on Saturday next.
An Admiralty order has been received at Sheer-
ness that all seamen pensioners are to be discharged
from ships destined for foreign service. •
The newly-erected •battery, built by Messrs.
Kirk and Parry on the spit of the Island of Grain
fur the protection of the, entrances to the rivers
Medway and Thames, is being fortified.
The paddlewheel steamsloop Spiteful, 6, Com-
mander F. H. Shortt, fitted out at Woolwich in
June, 1834, for service in the Mediterranean and
the Black Sea, returned yes•erday morning to be
paid off. On her arrival at the dockyard an officer
of the Engineer Department proceeded on board,
awl accompanied the vessel down the river on trial
of her machinery. After passing the Commodore's
inspection the Spiteful is to be admitted into basin,
to be wripped and to return stores, when she will
be paid off, and subsequently go through a com-
plete overhaul.
The ste tm-transportßhadamanthus, in the inner
basin at 'Woolwich, has received new boilers, and
has undergone some extensive repairs throughout.
Her Majesty's steam troop-ship Dee, Master-
Commander Innen, steamed out of basin yester-
day, at Woolwieh, and proceeded to Devouport,.
laden with 103 tons of boilers and steam gear on
deck.

The dockyard sailing transport Ant, having been
condemned by the Shipwright Department at
Woolwich, is ordered to be broken up, and will be
replaced by the Ann.
The superintending officers of the East India
Company's service being about to purchase a num-
ber of screw steam-sloops, have solicited the attend-
ance of an inspector of machinery from Woolwich
Dockyard, to make a survey on their behalf of the
vessels selected. The Admiralty has accordingly
d.espitched. Mr. D. Patridge, Assistant Chief Engi-
neer, at Woolwich, to Glasgow and Liverpool, in
order to render the assistance required.

The following appointments have bean made at
the Admiralty :
Effingham J. Kellow, second mate to the Brune ;
F. W. Egerton, midshipman to the Princess Char-
Kate ; Hon. H. G. F. Neave and H. H. Rawson,
naval cadets to the Princess Charlotte ; George W,
M‘Donough, assistant-surgeon to the Formidable;
T. G. Harau, assistant-surgeon to the Bqscawen ;
George P. Cooke, assistant-surgeon to the Fisgard;
C. D. M`Carthy, assistant-surgeon to the Dee ;
James Thomson, assistant-surgeon to the Royal
William ; James F. Stoddart, assistant-surgeon to
the Impregnable • Samuel A. Webster, master's
assist tnt to the irincess Charlotte ; Albert Carr,
master's assistant to the Vesuvius ; Benjamin
Wickham, to the Impregnable ; Thomas J. Lay,
paymaster to the Sappho.

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patted " 30,0001. by the success of Leamington at
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