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enable to state who had paid the ba•
Laneter
RR' DPORT ELECTION.
The SPEAKER annonoced that the petition against
the return for Bridport had hi,en withdrawn.
RETURNS.

and 0,
Piece

Several unopposed returns were granted without
opposition,

INDIA.

Mr. ROEBUCK asked the Vice-President of the
Board of Control whether the Government or the East
India directors had received a telegraphic communica-
tion from India, stating that the Bombay Army had
mutinied? He was induced to put the question from
the statement he had seen in one of the daily papers.
Mr. V. SMITH said that neither the Government
nor the East India Company had received any such com-
munication. In consequence of the great excitement
that naturally prevailed in reference to Indian affairs, he
begged to state the present means of communication be-
twe,n the two countries. There were two mails a
month; and as soon as they arrived at Suez, a short
account of the contents of the mils were telegraphed to
Trieste, and from thence to this country, in anticipation
of their delivery. He was at a loss to conceive how it
was the rumour referred to had originated. (Hear.
hear.) He had no wish to interfere with the
manner in which the respectable editors
of the press in this country conducted their business, but
he hoped after what he bad said relative to the means of
communication between the two countries; that they
would be cautious how they received rumours of this
kind, which necessarily caused much uneasiness to the
public. (Hear, hear.) He did not place the least reli-
ance in the rumour alluded to, and his impression was
—from the last account—that there was no disaffection
in the Bombay and Madras armies. (Hear, hear.)
SAVINGS BANK BILL. _ _

Mr. BAXTER asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer
if, cJosidering the advanced period of the session, and
the fact of their being 30 amendments to the Savings
Banks Bill on the notice paper, he would consent to
withdraw that measure, and refer the whole subject to
a select committee I

The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said
that he did not consider the state of pnb!ic business
would permit his bringing on the Savings Bank Bill this
seas ion.

The bill, at a subsequent period, was withdrawn.
CAVALRY FOR INDIA.

Capt. VIVIAN asked the Under Secretary for War
whether it was true that the order to send additional
cavalry from this country, on account of the news which
was brought by the last mail from India, had been re-
scinded or suependedl
Sir J. RAMSDEN eaid that two regiments of cavalry
had been for Borne time under orders fur India. A third
regiment was afterwards ordered for India, but that
order had been recently su.pended.
CRIMINAL LUNATICS. _

Mr. J. EWIRT asked the Secretary of State for the
Home department, whether it was the intention of the
Government to establish asylums to be exclusively de-
voted to the confinemei.t of criminal lanatick.?
Sir G. GREY said it was, and reminded the hon.
member that a vote had been taken this session for the
purchase of a site for that puronse.
GREAT YARMOUTH HAVEN.

Mr. WATKIN asked the Secretary to the Treasury
if the attention of Government has been directed to the
importance and facility of making Great Yarmouth
Haven a harbour of refuge ; and whether he was pre-
pared to order evidence to be taken and a report to be
made on the suhj-ct, and to lay such report before the
committee on harbours of refuge ?
Mr. WILSON said that the committee now sitting
would, no doubt, take evidence on that part of the
coast as well as the other, hut he was not aware that it
was the intention of the committee to orderits inspection.
REFORM OF THE LITURGY.

Mr. WALPOLE asked Lord R. Grosvenor if be in-
tended to proceed to-morrow week with his motion rela-
tive to a reform of the liturgy I
Lord R. GROSVENOR said that, in consequence of
the misconception relative to the scope and purport of
his motion, he should be obliged to bring it on on the
28th. Should the motion meet with opposition, he
should not press the house to a division, but postpone
its further proceeding, in order to bring it forward at a
more convenient seagon next Reqgion.
ANNUITY TAX (SCOTLAND) BILL.
In answer to a question from Mr. ELLICE, son ,
The LORD ADVOCATE stated that he would to-
morrow state what course he would take in reference to
this bill.

THE RUSSIAN TARIFF.

In annwPr to a queßtion from Mr. NEWDEGATE,

LJrd PALMEIiSTON said that he had received a
communication from Lord Wodehouse, stating that the
revised Russian tariff was published in the Russian
language. It was the intention of the
Russian Government to publish a translation of it in
the French language, and as soon as it was issued he
(L rd Wodehouse) would transmit a copy of it to this
country.

DIVORCE, &o , BILL.
In reply to a question from Lord J. MANNERS,
Lord PALMERSTON said it was his intention to
proceed with the Divorce, Ric'., Pill on Friday next.

b:UPPLY.
•
On the bringing up of the report of supply by the
CHANCELLOR of the EX.CREQUER,
Mr. BENTLNTCK called the attention of the house
to the state of the naval and military defence.; of the
country.

[LEFT SPEAKING.]

L'ANGELIER A SUICIDE.

(From the Medical Times.)

The presiding judge, caught, probably, by the
advocate's sophi4try, fell into a similar train of rea-
soning, in the course of which he showe I a very
general ignorance of the cDnduct and motives of
suicides. The fa-it that L'Angelier sent for a doc-
tor, or rather allowed one to be sent for, and that
he did not proclaim himself a suicide, argued, as
the judge thought, that the man wasn't a suicide.
Our psychologists will give us another reading.
They will tell us that such proceeding is a mirke 1
s.gn of the mania of suicide ; and what most sui-
cides instinctively do when they hive brought on
sympt imS, without death, is to send for a clec-or,
and ei her to say nothing about, or even to deny,
their own deeds. This is a natural sequencs of
suicide. The act, however long premeditAted, is
sudden and determined at last. Let it succeed, and
the suicide can do no more ; let it succeed in part
only, and when the agony of body approaches, the
mania for death disappears. The desire still ta live
increases with each pang that proclaims remaining
lifr. nen the horror of the act and the shame de•
ve'op as the impulse for destruction disappears. So
—longing for life and shrinking from exposur.,
what more instinctive than that the suicide should
send for relief, and suppress or deny his crime ?
We are not writing theory here ; for if we were wo
should be spelking as rashly as did those we would
criticise. We speak from observat ou and fact in
cases of suicide.

Another strong point is, that the amount of ar-
senic taken by the deceased is in favour of suicide.
From the proportion found in the stomach after
death, it is probable that the real quantity swal
lowed would have required for its solution nearly
two quarts of any ordinary drink. Row could
L'Angelier have been induced to drink any such
quantity ? or, how could it have been given in the
sold form without his knowledge ?
Any way to connect the prisoner and the crime,
after the evidence that was adduced, was impossible.
It is true she bought poison—arsenic twice—aild
that she tried to buy prussic acid. Ali h well.
What d;d she want with them, say you, except to
poison L'Angelier ? Let us see. She says that
she used the arsenic as a cosmetic, but the prussic
acid she does not account for. Let these facts pa-s.
Let the scoundrel L'Angelier also move off the
scene for a moment. Now what is the picture in
the weeks preceding L'Angelier's death ? •A ruined
hopeless girl, wrung with s grow, mad with rage
at her own folly and sin, dying with fear at her
father's wrath, educated by her seducer to the idea
that suicide is morally right, thinking death better
than exposure.
This is the picture. And now let us ask whether,
in such an hour of despair or temporary madness,
the poisons might nut have been intended for a
much more deeply injured and broken-hearted vic-
tim than Emile L'Anpelier ?

The Patrie reports the total loss of the French ship
of war Newton in the new harbour of Portau-Choix,
Newfound land.
CRYSTAL PALACE. —HALF-A- CROWN DAY.-00 Sa-
turday, the admissions on payment were 5,838 ; by sea-
son tickets, 2,296 ; total visitors, 8,134.
nTHE CONVICT JIMMISON.—This wretched woman, who
was convicted on Monday last, before Mr. Baron Chan-
nel', at the Yorkshire assiz-is for the cruel murder cf
her child at Mooresholme, will undergo the extreme
penalty of the law, on Saturday the Sth of August,
should no reprieve or respite arrive in the meantime.
Letters trots Castlebar state that the news of Mr.
Moore's eviction from the House of Commons had creat-
ed tremendous excitement there. Lord John Browne
immediately commenced an active canvass, in which he
is said to have been most successful. Col. Higgins is
tinnily expected, and everything portends a bitter con-
test.

Great Northern Railway stock has shown great firm
during the last few days, owing to the anticipation
that the company must now commence their purchases
to extinguish the stock fraudulently over-issued by Red
patb. As the ordinary and A stocks are still at a dis-
count—though in the tormer case at a very trifling one
—it is presumed that there can be no legitimate motive
for delay.

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Naval and Military Intelligence.

The following is the Royal Marine Contingent
under orders to prepare for embatkation to China :
—4 cad,tain., 5 first lieutenants, 4 second lieuten-
ants, 17 sergeants, 16 corporals, 4 drummers and
buglers, and 300 privates from each division—
Portsmouth, Plymouth, Chatham, and Woolwich ;
and 1. captain, 4 first lieutenants, 5 sergeants, 8
corporals, 2 buglers, and 80 privates and gunners
of the Royal Marine Artillery—total, 1,500. The
staff of this battalion will consist of Brevet-Colonel
Holloway, L. H., Aide-de-Camp to the Queen,
commanding ; Lieutenant-Colonels Walsh and
Hooker ; Captain J. 0. Travers (already on
the station by special order of the Admiralty),
Brigade-Major ; Lieut. J. C. Travers, Acting Adju-
tant of the Ist Battalion ; Lieut. H. N. C. Blanck-
ley, Acting Adjutant of the 2d Battalion ; Lieut.
C. W. Carrington, acting quartermaster of the Ist
Battalion ; and Lieut. C. Gill, acting quartermaster
of the second battalion. Three medical officers will
be attached to each battalion. Colonel Holloway
commanded the marine battalion in the expedition
to Kertch.

A new system of training naval cadets is about to
come into operation afloat, in pursuance of the pro-
visions of an Admiralty circular dated the 23d of
February last. The Illustrious, 72, Captaiii Robert
Harris, is being fitted with accommodation by the
dockyard artificers at Portsmouth for the first
instalment of naval cadets who received nomina-
tions on the Ist of May to pass on the sth of August.
The Illustrious is, we believe, to be stationed off
Blockhouse, near the Gosport shore, which affords
room alike f.r nautical observations and aquatic
exercises. The appointment of the Rev. R. M.
Inskip, chaplain and naval instructor on board
her Majesty's ship Victory to be chaplain and,
ff, st naval instructor to the cadets has been made.
The cadets are to remain in the Illustrious different
periods, proportioned to their ages, those of 13 re-
maining 12 months. and those verging upon 15
only six months. Their course of study comprises
Euclid, algebra, nautical astronomy, French, and
drawing, and their practic tl course (which is the
primary object of placing them in a training ship
heals sending them on sea service) will consist of
instruction in rigging ships, managing boats, and
the general principle of manoeuvring ships at sea,
thus furnishing the ground work on which their fu-
ture professional knowledge is to be based. The
cadets thus placed in the Illustrious may still be
considered under probation, as the circular expresses
that should they have to pass the required exami-
nation out of the training ship, or should they seri-
ously misconduct themselves or show unfitness for
the navy, the Admiralty have reserved to them-
selves the right to discharge them. The cadets will
be allowed to count only three months' time for the

training ship, and will be permitted to pass for
lieutenant after five years' service, including the
three months, provided they have passed the inter-
mediate examinations, which have been judiciously
arranged to insure a steady progression both in
science and seamanship. Captain Harris has long
been engaged in training the "novices" for the
fleet.

The Actaeon, old 26, surveying vessel, Captain
Bate, with her tender, Dove, screw gun-boat, Lieu-
tenant Bullock, left Simon's Bay, May 30, with the
French brig Le Genie, for China.
The Alacrity, Inttepid, Lapwing, Lynx, and
Viper, screw gun-vessel., at Devonport, are ordered
to be rigged as three-masted schooners, and pre-
pared for commission.
The Frolic, 6 sailing-sloop, Acting Commander
L. W. Peyton, arrived at Devonport, on. Saturday,
from the Cape of Good Hope. She left Simon's
Bay on the 11th of May, and was towed clear of
the land by the Shannon, 51, screw, Captain W.
Peel. C. 8., the Shannon proceeding to Singapore,
and Frolic to Table Bay. She is ordered to Chat-
ham to be paid off.
The Hastings, 60, screw block-ship, Captain W.
R. Mends (1852), sailed from Devonport on Fri-
day, for Liverpool, to be employed there as a coast-
guard training ship.
The Megaera, 6, screw, Commander Purvis, left
Simon's Bay, April 30, for the Mauritius, with
stores and troops. On her return she will take 600
men to Calcutta, as orders for that service and
destination for hPr, instead of returning to England,
will have reached the commander-in-chief by that
time.

The Mohawk, 4, screw gun-vessel, at Devonport,
is haling her rg shifted to that of a square-rigged
vessel ; artificers are woik'ng extra time to com-
plete her as soon as possible.
The Orion, 91, Captain Erskine, at Colon, June
20, was to procaed shortly to Jamaica.
The Pelorus, 21, new screw corvette, recently
launched. at Devonport, was commissional on SA-
lurday by Captain F. B. P. Seymour (1851), for
service in the East Indies.
The Pluto, 4, paddle, Lieut. Commander W.
Sgin?,urna, having had her defects made good at
Devonporr, sailed bn Friday for the west coast of
Africa, t eking a mail;
The Satellite, 21, screw, Captain Provost, was
at Vancouvet's Island, on her important mission ;
her consort, the Plumper, 12, screw, Capt. Richards,
had not overtaken her. She had broken her shaft
and was laid up at Rio.
The Shannon, 51, screw frigate, made her pas-
sage to the Cape in 52 days under sail, having ex-
perienced fine weather all the way. Two fatal ac-
cidents occurred on board during the passage—Mr.
Coaker, master's assistant, fell from aloft, struck
the fore chains, and fell dead into the water ; and
the other, George Brown, a boy of the first class,
who fell from aloft inboard, and was killed. But
for the admirable facility afforded by Clifford's plan
of lowering beats, with which the frigate was fitted,
the body of the unfortunate young officer could
not have been recovered, nor the life of another
boy, who fell overboard, have been saved. On
both occasions the vessel was going at from eleven
to twelve knots under all sail, notwithstanding
which the boat was manned and lowered in little
more than a minute.
JThe Vulcan, 6, iron troop frigate, Commander
ohn Seccombe, is undergoing a thorough repair at
Portsmouth, when she will be well coated with
Hay's composition, which will enable her to aye-
rage nine knots an hour. She is p.ogresQing under
her new pendant with all possible dispatch.
The Calabar freiehtship sailed from Portsmouth
nn Saturday afternoon with the third portion of
the 88th for India, as fully reported there.
The Sparrowhawk, 4, steam gun-vessel, was com-
missioned at Portsmouth on Saturday by Comman-
der J. C. Byng for foreign service. The Roebuck
and Assurance, sister vessels, • were also commis-
sioned on Saturday by Commanders Marten and
Aynsley.
Major Anderson's E troop of Royal Horse Ar-
tillery, under or3ers for India, arrived at head-
quarters, Woolwich, at 7 o'clock on Saturday even-
ing, from Dublin. The whole of the artillery
force destined for India will assemble at Woolwich
f r embarkation, and at present three troops of
Royal Horse Artillery, and six companies of
various b Ittalions, are under orders. It is not con-
templated at present to seed out any of the heavy
ordnance.
The Royal Artillery Regiment was on Saturday
morning paraded in front of Headquarters, Wool-
wich, and was formed into column, for the purpose
of witnessing the distribution of the Sardinian
medals. Colonel Bloomfield, aide-de-camp to
the Queen, doing duty as commandant of the
garrison, attended by his staff, arrived on
the parade ground at nine o'clock, and having
inspected the column addressed himself to the offi-
cers and rcen about to receive the decoration, re-
marking at some length on the importance of this
distinction conferred by the King of Sardinia to
mark his estimation of their valour in the Crimea.
He had been delegated, he said, by her Majesty to
distribute the medals with every formality
which might tend to impress upon them the
value of the decoration as well as to stimulate their
comrades in the exertion to obtain a similar reward.
The gallant colonel then banded the medals in the
following order—to Major-General J. E. Dupuis,
C. 8., Lieut.-Col. H. J. Thomas, Lieut.-Col. E. B.
Hamley, Brevet Lieut.-Col. J. C. Fortescue, Bre-
vet Lieut.-Col. C. S. Henry ; Brevet-Majors H. P.
Yates, G. Shaw, G. C. Henry, L. W. Pen, and E
Taddy ; Lieut. E. J. Ward, Lieut. F. A. Anley ;
J. Hamilton, retired captain in the Land Transport
Corps ; Sergeant M. Hunter, and gunner T. Ar-
thur. The entire number appointed to receive the
decoration amounts to 1 general, 7 colonels, 19
majors, Pi lieutenants, 2 surgeons, and 15 non-com-
missioned officers and gunners of the Royal Artil-
lery, the renn &rider of whom areon home or foreign
stations, and to whom the medals are to be for-
warded.

The freigbtship Regina saled from Woolwich on
Saturday, laden with military stores and ammuni-
tion for C ipe Town. The military store department
at Woolwich have commenc3d despatching greased
cartridges (marked, " For the European troops")
for embarkation on board the freightships Monarch
and Blenheim, at Gravesend, destined for India ;
and also five other ships, loading in the London
Docks, for the same destination, in the service of
the East India Company.
The freightsbip Spartan, in the London Docks,
is 13,ing laden with Ordnanceatores from Woolwich
for Hong Kong, and the John Brie, for the Cape
of Good Hope.
The screw blockship Hastings, 60, Capt. W. N.
Mends, left Plymouth on Friday evening for Liver-

po,‘l.
OnFriday 6 officers and 160 rank and file of the
Royal Horse Artillery arrived at Dublin from the
Camp at the Curragh, and were inspected by Gen.
Dacres. The troops embarked at about 4 o'clock on
board the City of Dublin Company's steamer Prince,

and proceeded direct to Woolwich, where they will
remain a short time prior to their le tying for India.
A number of extra hands have been entered in
the Royal Arsenal, and workmen are employed
extra hours, in c'msequence of the urgent demand
for preparing ammunition, and especially Minis
rifle balls, for shipment to India. Immense stores
of these articles are available.
THE NEEDLES LIGHT HOUSE.—This important
beacon is at length to be placed in a position where
it can at almost all times be visible 30 miles from
land. Many thousands of mariners have passed
through this dangerous passage without ever hav-
ing seen the present lights at all. The first stone
of the new lighthouse has been laid near the SW
edge of the lower cliff, and when complete will be
the greatest possible boon to the merchant service.
FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT IN PORTSMOUTH DOCKYARD
FASTORY, AND GALLANT RESCUE BY THREE OF THE
ENGINEERS. —An apprentice named Potam was, on
Saturday, in the act of adjusting a strap in a cer-
tain position, to do which he had to mount a lad-
der, when his foot slipped and his right hand was
caught under the drum. The poor boy's shrieks
brought instantly to his assistance three of the en-
gineers, Sterrick, Hepworth, and Dyson, the first
two of whom grasped the suffering Ltd by the legs
and body, and so saved him from being whirled in
among the machinery. It was a perilous moment
for all. Dyson, with excellent presence of mind,
drew his knife from his pocket and severed the
"strap," thus by a "second" releasing the boy
from a fearful death. He received instant medical
attendance, and it was discovered that the poor
lad's right arm was braen in two places, besides
his lower limbs and body being seriously strained,
owing to his being held by the men. He was taken
to feaster Hospital, where, as a matter of course,
he will receive the best medical aid and comfort. We
will hope that the courage and presence of mind
displayed by Sterrick, Hepworth, and Dyson, may
be deemed worthy of consideration,at the hands of
the proper authorities.
The following appointments were made on Sa-
turday at the Admiralty :
A. Anderson, W. C. Shuckburgh, G. F. H.
Boy es, and T. Howes, midshipmen, to the Pylades ;
E. B. Wadlow, K. kerr, C. A. G. Bridges, and
B. S. Hamilton, midshipmen, to the Pelorusi; M.
R. M. Griffiths, C. B. P. Kelso, and G. H. Law-
son, naval cadets, to the Pylades ; G. Borton, W.
E. Garnett, and John Anderson, naval cadets, to
the Pelorus ; John C. Sabben, surgeon, to the
Vulcan ; W. E. Hambly, surgeon, to the Firefly;
A. Mitchell, surgeons to the Pylades ; P. Slevin,
surgeon, to the Pelorus ; J. P. Johnson, surgeon,
to the Mohawk ; D. J. Dingair, surgeon, to the
Assurance ; J. T. Cuddy surgeon, to the Roebuck;
F. T. Johns, to the Sparrowhawk ; W. Dickson, to
the Chesapi-ake ; W. T. Carr, assistant-surgeon, to
the Chetsapeake ; W. B. Adam, assistant-surgeon,
to the Fisgard • C. Morton, assistant-surgeon, to
the Victory ; NI. Magill, acting assistant-surgeon,
to the Vulcan; J. Patterson, assistant surgeon, to
the Pylades ; R. Edwardes, assistant-sargeon, to
the Pelorus ; G. B. Jenkins, assistant-surgeon, to
the Chesapeake ; A. Jeffrey, paymaster, to the
Pylades.