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London, England, 1859-08-05 00:00:00

EDUCATION IN IRELAND.

Lord CLONCARTY asked whether it was the intention
of the Government to propose any change in the system of
national education at present in operation in Ireland, with
a view to the relief of those who object to avail themselves
of it. The noble lord said he had hoard it rumoured that
there was to be a commission to inquire, but he looked upon
such a proceeding as a tub thrown out to catch a whale.
There was Ito lack of information on the subject to enable
the Government to come to some deci:eion on the point.
Earl GRANVILLE said it was not intended to issue a
commission, as such a course was totally unneces-
sary. As to the exact time whew a measure would
be introduced, he could only say that the Secretary
for Ireland was fully alive to the importance of
the question, and would do all he could to prepare a bill on
the subiect, but he could not give the noble lord any dis-
tinct pledge when such bill would be produced.
[LEFT SITTING.]

HOUSE OF COMMONS.—(This DAY.)
The SPEAKER took the chair at 12 o'clock.
PRIVATE BUSINESS.
The Earl of Kintore's Estate Bill awl the Bombay,
Baroda, and Central India Railway Rill were read a third
time and passed. The Newcastle-un:der-Lyme Burgess's
Land Bill was considered.
SALE OF GAS BILL.

Several petitions were presented in favour of this bill.
THE KINGSTON-UPON-HULL ELECTION.—
ARREST OF COL. F. GREVILLE.
The SERGEANT-AT-ARMS announced that., agreeably to
the order of the Speaker, he had given instructions that
Col. Greville, a member of that house, should be arrested,
and he was at present in custody.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL for IRELAND said
that he was auhorised by his hon. and gallant friend, the
member for Longford, to say that he was absent from the
house on what he conceived important public duty, and that
immediately on receiving a notice at his seat, in Ireland,
he came over, and on his way he met the Deputy-Serjeant.
He was also authorised to say that his hon. and gallant
friend had not intended to neglect his duty, or to commit
any disrespect to the housp. The hon. and gallant mem-
ber regretted extremely the inconvenience and expense
which the parties interested in the petition had been put to
by his absence.
Sir F. BARING said he hoped, from what the house
had heard, that it would not be considered necessary to
proceed further in this matter. It was not necessary to add to
the painful feelings of the hon. and gallant member, and
therefore he would move that he should be discharged from
custody on the payment of the fees.
The motion was agreed to.
The committee appointed to try the merits of the King-
ston-upon-Hull election petition was then sworn.
SUPPLY.—CLEANSING THE SERPENTINE.
On the report of the Committee of Supply, agreed to
yesterday morning, being brought up,
Sir J. PAXTON said he thought the vote of £17,000
for the purpose of purifying the Serpentine had been agreed
to rather hastily, and he thought it was quite impossible at
present to say what the actual expense of the undertaking
would be. Besides the steam-engines and filtering appa-
ratus that were to be erected would disfigure Kensington-
gardens.
Sir J. SHE LLEY offered some observations to the
same effect, and drew attention to the state of the bed of the
water, in whicth there were holes to the depth of 24 feet,
which, from the facilities that existed for obtaining rubbish,
might have been easily filled up.
After a few words from Mr. WALTER,
Sir M. FARQUHAR said the proposal agreed to in this
case was merely a half measure, and would prove ineffec-
tual so long as the mud at the bottom of the water was per-
mitted to continue in its present condition, or the Ranelagh
sewer was allowed to empty itself into the Serpentine.
Mr. FITZROY said that he could only repeat the state-
ment he had made yesterday. When he came into office
he found there were two plans to be considered, and one of
them involved an expense which it would have been im-
possible to estimate until the water was cleared off. The
pumping machines would be used for 200 days in the year,
and the expense would be only £1 a-day.
The report was then agreed to, as well as the report of
the votes of last night.

RESERVE VOLUNTEER FREE SEAMEN BILL.
On the motion for going into committee on this bill,
Lord C. PAGET said he took that opportunity of enter-
ing into some explanations relative to the bill. They per-
ceived from an announcement in the Moniteur that in
France there was to be a partial disarmament of the
forces both on sea and land ; and therefore it
might be considered that the present time was
premature to bring forward this bill, but he was of a con-
trary opinion. By this bill it was not proposed to increase
the naval force, but to have the same means of recruiting
and reserve for the navy that existed for the army. The
principle of a militia for this purpose was established in
other countries, and he could not help feeling surprised at
no such provision being made in a country like this which
owed so much to its navy. It was true they had increased
their coast-guard, but it amounted to less than 4,000 men.
There was also a coast volunteer force, which, however,
many persons, and amongst them the commission which
inquired into the subject last year, greatly doubted, would
be found an efficient force in a case of emergency. He did
not share that opinion ; but that force laboured under
one radical defeet namely, that the country had
no right to demand its services at a greater distance
than 300 miles from the coast. The impressment
had failed, for instead of being an advantage
it was found to be the contrary, and it was indispensable
that they should have some efficient means for manningtheir
navy. By the arrangement that existed in France there
was always a reserve for the navy, and there was always a
body ready for action when required. The Royal Com-
mission recommended that there should be a force of 30,000
royal naval volunteers who should receive a retaining fee
of £6 a-year, from which a deduction was to be made to pro-
vide for pensions payable at the age of 55 years at the rate of
6d. a day. The bill was based on that recommendation,
and it was proposed to enrol 30,000 naval volunteers for
five years, during which period each man should receive
£5 per annum. They were to be called out for 28 days for
training, and they should receive non-continuance pay
according to the wages they were earning when they were
required. At the expiration of the five years they could,
if they desired to, re-enrol themselves. They would
receive £25 in the first five
.years, and at the end of
ten years they would be eligible for pensions. In case
of war it was proposed to call these men into active
service, and they should be liable to serve in any part of
'the world for three years, during which period the Govern-
ment was to have a claim on their services. It was pro-
posed to render the Royal naval service so attractive to the
merchant sailors as to induce them to enter, and to regard
a dismissal from it as the greatest punishment. He believed
that the Emperor of the French was sincere in his inten-
tion of disarming a number of his forces; but it should be
remembered that in a very short time they could be called
into active service.

Mr. LINDSAY said if he was satisfied that the sum
proposed to be voted would effect the object contemplated
he would agree to it cheerfully, but he was of a different
opinion. As a member of the committee appointed to
inquire into the subject he had put questions to several
distinguished officers who were examined, and elicited that,
in their
.opinion, the increase of pay would not
be an inducement sufficient to make the sailors
in the merchant service enter the Royal Navy.
He believed that the repugnance to enter the Royal Navy
would not be diminished so long as excessive drill was
maintained, or the articles of war permitted to exist in their
present form. If they had a reserve force, they should also
have officers for that force, and he suggested they should
select these from the merchant service, and confer on them
some badge or other distinction of which they would be
proud. They should not allow punishment to be
inflicted without the sailor being tried by a jury
of his compeers. If they reversed the articles
of war and adopted the suggestions.hehad thrown out, ho
believed they would succeed in making the royal naval
service popular. If, however, they did not adopt such
alterations he was satisfied they would appeal in vain to the

merchant service in vain for the purpose of recruiting the
Royal Navy.
Sir C. NAPIER gave the Admiralty credit for
being now sincere in their desire to adopt necessary
steps with reference to the Royal Navy, and
they were going to work in earnest. He considered that
corporal punishment should still be retained in the service,
and he believed that nine out of ten of those acquainted
with the subject would say, that without such punishment
it would be impossible to maintain discipline. He consi-
dered, however, that there might be some alterations in-
troduced which would be of great benefit, and which would
render the condition of the men in the Royal Navy more
comfortable, and the service more attractive. The ob-
jection to the clause in the bill by which it was provided
that at the expiration of ten years the reserve volunteer
corps should receive a pension even in time of peace, be-
cause it was not equitable to place this force on the same
footing as those engaged during war.
Mr. F. BARING approved generally of the bill, but de-
preciated the proposition to fortify the navy by the Coast-
guard, and considered that if they wanted to strengthen
the service they should have sailors. He was atso opposed
to offering bounty during time of peace.
Sir J. ELPHIN STONE supported the bill, and ex •
pressed his opinion that the continuous service had not had
a fair trial. That service ought not to contain a single man
who was not an able-bodied seaman.
Mr. CARDWELL explained some of the details of the
bill, which he supported.
The house went into committee on the bill, but it being
close upon ten minutes to four no progress was made.
The Coinage, the Letters of Probate and Administration,
and the Police Boroughs Bills were read a third time and
passed.
The sitting was suspended at four o'clock.

The house resumed at six o'clock, and was
[LEFT SITTING.]

LONDON GAZETTE.-(THIS EVENING)

BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL,_AUG. 4.

The Right Honourable the Lords of the 'Committee of
Privy Council for Trade and Plantations have received,
through the Secretary of State for War, a copy of Procla-
mations which have been issued by the Governor of Gibral-
tar, containing the following regulations :-
1. All vessels and boats, as well her Majesty's ships of
was as others, coming from or having touched at any port
or place in the Brazils, and arriving at Gibraltar on or be-
tween the Ist day of July and the 15th day of November
in each year, shall forthwith quit the port, roadstead, and
anchorage of Gibraltar.
2. 'All vessels and boats, as well her Majesty's ships
of war as others, coming from or having touched at any
port or place in the Brazils, and arriving at Gibraltar be-
tween the 16th and 30th November in each year shall per-
form a quarantine of observation until the Ist day of De-
cember following.
3. All vessels aad boats, as well her Majesty's ships of
war as others, coming from, or having touched at any port
or place in that part of the western coast of Africa situate
on or between the 30th degree of north latitude and the
20th degree of south latitude, or the islands adjacent to the
said coast, with the exception of the, Canary Islands, and
arriving between the Ist July and 15th November, shall
forthwith quit the port, roadstead, and anchorage ground
of Gibraltar; and all vessels arriving from such places
between the 16th November and 30th June, shall perform
a quarantine of 14 days, and bo further previously sub-
jected to examination by the Inspector of Health, and that
all clothes and linen on board shall be aired and washed
under the supervision of a health guard.
WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, AUG. 5.
Ist Regiment of Dragoon Guards—Lieutenant-General Sir
Thomas William Brotherton, K.C.8., from the 15th
Light Dragoons, to be Colonel, vice General the Earl of
Cathcart, G.C.8., deceased.
15th Regiment of Light Dragoons—Major-General Everard
William Bouverie to be Colonel, vice Lieutenant-General
Sir Thomas William Brotherton, transferred to the lst
Dragoon Guards.
MEMORANDUM.—Major-General Bouverie has repaid the
difference between the full price of a Cavalry and Infantry
Lieutenant-Colonelcy, he having been upon half-pay of
Infantry when promoted to the rank of Major-General.
WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, AUG. 5.
_ _

4th Regiment of Dragoon Guards—Brevet-Colonel James
Alexander Robertson, from half-pay Unattached, to
be Lieutenant-Colonel, paying the difference between
Infantry and Cavalry, vice Brevet-Colonel Hodge, C. 8.,
who exchanges, receiving the same : Brevet-Lieatenant-
Colonel William Charles Forrest to be Lieutenant-
Colonel by purchase, vice Robertson, who retires ; Cap-
tain Thomas Jones to be Major, by purchase, vice For-
rest ' • Lieutenant John Arthur Bragge to be Captain, by
purchase, vice Jones; Cornet Henry Edward Budges to
be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Bragge.
7th Dragoon Guards—Cornet Edward Goldsmith, from the
18th Light Dragoons, to be Cornet, vica Molyneux, pro-
moted.
Bth Light Dragoons—Major Edward Seager to bo Lieut.-
Colonel, by purchase, vice Naylor, who retires ; Captain
Francis Edward Macnaghten to be Major, by purchase,
vice Seager ; Lieutenant Horace Montagu to be Captain,
by purchase, vice Macnaghten ; Cornet Herbert Crom-
well Collier to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Montagu.
9th Light Dragoons—Surgeon John James Clifford, M.D.,
from the Staff, to be Surgeon, vice Franklin, who ex-
changes.
10th Light Dragoons—Smith Hill Child, Gent., to be
Cornet, by purchase, vice Ball, promoted.
18th Light Dragoons—Lieutenant William Palliser to be
Captain, by purchase, vice Stacey, who retires; Cornet
and Adjutant Richard Saunders to have the rank of
Lieutenant; Cornet William Henry O'Shea to be Lieu-
tenant by purchase, vice Palliser.

Royal AitilleiT—Second Captain Walter John Grimston
to be Captain, vice Anson, placed on the Seconded List ;
Lieutenant Robert Hodson to be Second Captain, vice
Grimston ; Surgeon-Major John Bent, from the Staff, to
be Surgeon-Major, vice Charles Dempsey, who retires
upon half-pay; Surgeon-Major Charles Dempsey, re-
tired upon half-pay, to have the honorary rank of Deputy
Inspector-General of Hospitals, under the Royal War-
rant of Ist October, 1858.
Grenadier Guards—Lieutenant and Captain Fredk. Charles
Koppel to be Captain and Lieutenant-Colonel, by pur-
chase, vice the Hon. Arthur Frederick Egerton, who
retires.

2d Regiment of Foot—William Ward Bennitt, Gent., to be
Ensign, by purchase, vice Hercy, promoted.
4th Foot—Frederick Augustus Wright, Gent., to be En-
sign, without purchase, vice Fuller, appointed to the 83d
Foot.

sth Foot—Assistant-Surgeon George Simpson Cameron,
from the Staff, to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Collins, ap-
pointed to the Staff.
9th Foot—Robert Dillon Hare, Gent., to be Ensign, with-
out purchase, vice Montague Alexander Scott, whose ap-
pointment, dated the 18th November, 1857, has been can-
celled.

10th Foot—Lieutenant Theophilus Scott to be Instructor
of Musketry. - _

11th Foot—George Theobald, Gent., to be Ensign, with-
out purchase, vice Miles, promoted.
17th Foot—Ensign Henry Clement Wilkinson, from the
95th Foot, to be Lieutenant, purchase, vice Bunbury,
who retires.

18th Foot—Henry Gordon Heath, Gent., to be Ensign,
without purchase, vice Lipscomb, promoted ; Lieute-
nant Edward Abbott Noblett to be Instructor of Mus-
ketry.

22d FOot—Lieutenant Thomas Clowes Hinds to be Captain,
by purchase, vice Little, who retires ; Ensign George
Henry Burt to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Hinds ;
Harry Bromley Pitman, Gent., to be Enalgn, by pur-
chase, vice Burt.
24th Foot—Capt. William Plumer Gaskell, from the 94th
Foot, to be Captain, vice Peacocke, who exchanges ;
Lieut. John Johnstone to be Captain, by purchase, vice
Goodison, who retires; Ensign E. Henry B. Sawbridge
to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Johnstone • Lieut.
Thomas Pierce Butler to be Instructor of Musketry.
_ _ _ _

'27th Foot—Major Herman Stapylton to be Lieut.-Colonel,
without purchase, vice Brevet Colonel Usher William-
son, who retires upon full-pay.
30th Foot—Lieut Henry Wood to be Captain, by purchase,
vice Williamson, who retires; Ensign Frederick Har-
court Williamson to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice
Wood ; Ensign David Matthew La Touche, from the 31st
Foot, to be Ensign, vice Williamson.
38th Foot—John Barnes Sparkes, Gent., to be Ensign,
without purchase, vice Hodges, promoted in the 76th
Foot.

42d Foot—Henry Brooke, Gent., to be 'Ensign, by pur-
chase, vice the Hon. Henry Thomas Fraser, promoted in
the Scots Fusilier Guards.

44th Foot—Henry de Parny Rennick, Gent., to be Ensign,
by purchase, vice Heane, promoted.
58th Foot—Lieutenant Andrew H. Russell to be Captain,
by purchase, vice Tighe, who retires • Ensign Joseph
Outram to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Russell :
Richard Dane, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice
Outram; Henry Nizzoli Reeve Storks, Gent., to be
Ensign, without purchase, vice Onslow, promoted.
59th Foot—Lieutenant Isaac B. Bamford to be Captain, by

purchase, vice Byam, who retires; Ensign Lancelot C.
Brown to be Lieutenant by purchase, vice Bomford.
60th Foot—Francis Wallace Grenfell, Gent., to be Ensign,
_ .

by purchase, in succession to Lieut. Allen; deceased.
61st Foot—Quartermaster-Sergeant William Fraser to be
Ensign, without purchase, vice Flood, promoted.
66th Foot—Assistant-Surgeon George Alexander Moor-
head, from the Staff, to be Assistant• Surgeon, vice
Ffolliott, appointed to the Staff.
71st Foot—Lieutenant Courtenay H. S. Scott to be Captain,
by purchase, vice Campbell, who retires; Ensign Richd.
Kane to be Sieutenant, by purchase, vice Scott ; Henry
Gleed Dods, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice
Clinton, promoted in the Grenadier Guards.
76th Foot—Ensign Edward Harrison, from the 68th Foot,
to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice W. M'Donell
Clarke, cashiered by the sentence of a general court-
martial.
81st Foot—Ensign Wm. H. Munton Jackson to be Lieu-
tenant, by purchase, vico Humphreys, who retires.
86th Foot—Lieut. Joshua James Bowness, from the 89th
Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Sewell, who exchanges.
89th Foot—Lieut. Stephen William Sowell, from the 86th
Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Bowness, who exchanges ;
Assist.-Surgeon Thomas Walsh, from the Staff, to be
Assist.-Surgeon, vice Roe, appointed to the Staff,
94th Foot—Captain Thomas Goodricke Peacocks, from the
24th Foot, to be Captain, vice Gaskell, who exchanges.
99th Foot—Forbes Lugard Story, Gent., to be Ensign, by,
purchase, vice Coates, promoted; the promotion of Lieu-
tenant Burton and Ensign Townsend, vice Williams, de-
ceased, to bear date May 16, 1859, instead of 15th of
that month, as previously. stated.
St. Helena Regiment--Ensign William Russell Nash to be
Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Tayler, promoted. •
UNATTACHED.—Lieutenant Thomas George B. Atkinson,
46th Foot, having been appointed a Captain in the late
Land Transport Corps, by General Orders in the Crimea
mFaroanklin f
pending her Majesty's pleasure, to be Captain, without
purchase.
HOSPITAL STAFF.—Surgeon-Major
the 9th Light Dragoons, to be Srligeeonn7
exchanges;lifiFbfrototzhforomthe66th F
Foot, tober
'A Assistant-Surgeonvis•scietSanruomrt.
Surgeon, vice Moorhead, appointed
Nicholasgeon C
to the 66th Foot ;
Assistant-Surgeon Francis Collins, M.D., from the sth
Foot, to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice C
to the sth Foot; Assistant-Surgeonameron, appointed
Roe, from the 89th Foot, to be William Carden
Assistant-Surgeon, vice
Walsh, sh, appointed to the 89th Foot.
BREVET.—Brevet-Colonel Usher WilliM
• amson, retired full
pay 27th Foot, to be Major-General, the rank being
honorary only.
WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, A ME —ITO. 5.
MEMORANDUM—Lieutenant James McMahon E g
having obtained a First Class ' School(
Certificate at the
of Musketry, at H th
y e, has been appointed by the General
Commanding-i' •
n-Cluef with the concurrence of the Secre-
tary of State for War, to act as Instructor of Musketry to
the Kerry Regiment of Militia.

COMMISSIONS BY LORDS LIEUTENANTS.
County of Berks—James Joseph Wheble, Esq., to to
Deputy-Lieutenant,

County of Worcester—The Right Hon. the Lord Ward
to be Deputy-Lieutenant ; Thomas Coningsby Nerbury,
Esq., to be Deputy-Lieutenant.
7th Regiment of 'Lancashire Militia—Henry William
Matthews, Gent., to be Lieutenant.
County and Town of Nottingham—The Most Noble
John Cavendish Bentinck Scott, Duke of Portland ; the
Right Hon. Henry, Lord Middleton the Right Hon.
Henry Pelham Alexander Pelham Clinton, commonly
called the Earl of Lincoln; Henry Savila, Esq.; John
Chaworth Musters, Esq. ; Robert Holden, Esq. ; and
John Dodsley, Esq., to be Deputy-Lieutenants.
2d Regiment of Royal Cheshire Militia—Ensign John
Frederick Wilkin to be Lieutenant, vice G. Walker, re-
signed.

Ist or Royal East Middlesex Regiment of Militia—
Archibald Dudingston Boyd, Gent., to be Ensign. vice
Hall, resigned.
2d Somerset Regiment of Militia—Robert Townley
Woodman, late Lieutenant 14th Light 1/lagoons, to be
Captain, vice F. J. B. Spurway, resigned.
3rd or Royal Westminster Light Infantry Regiment of
Middlesex Militia—The Queen has been graciously pleased
to accept the resignation of the commission held in this
regiment by Lieutenant Henry Bulkeley.
sth or Royal Elthorne Light Infantry Regiment of
Middlesex Militia—Ensign Arthur Horrex to be Lieu-
tenant, vice Randall, appointed to the Ceylon Rifles.
4th or Royal South Middlesex Regiment of Militia—The
Queen has been graciously pleased to accept the resignation
of the commissions in this regiment held by Captains Ed-
ward Eden Elliot and Samuel James Blencowe.
MEMORANDUM.—Ist or Royal East Middlesex Regiment
of Militia—The Queen has been graciously pleased to accept
the resignation of the commission held in this Regiment
by Ensign Douglas John Crespin.