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preciously to the renewal of such contracts ; and whether
itjwas intended that such renewals shall be opened to com-
petition?
Sir S. NORTHCOTE said that there had been no altera •
Lion in the contracts, and he had heard of no complaints on
the subject.
EXCLUSION OF ROMAN CATHOLICS FROM

JURIES IN IRELAND.
Viscount CASTLEROSSE asked the Chief Secretary for
Ireland, whether his attention had been called to the fact
that at the late trial at Tralee of Daniel O'Sullivan, con-
victed of being a member of the Phoenix Society,
the eleven Roman Catholic jurors (including a gentle-
man lately appointed a magistrate of the county) who
were called and answered to their names, were directed to
" stand by" by the Crown ; and, if so, whether such a
Course had been adopted with the approval of the Govern-
ment ?
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said the
Government had given no instructions for the exclusion of
Roman Catholics from juries in Ireland.
After some discussion the subject dropped.
COMMISSIONS IN THE ARMY.
Captain VIVIAN asked the Secretary of State for War,
a luestion relating to the appointment of Mr. Cunningham
to an Ensigncy in the 13th Regiment of Light In-
fantry, and drew attention to the advertisements
put forward by certain parties, stating that they
possessed peculiar facilities in procuring commissions
for persons who were desirous of entering the
army. Commissions should be given without purchase
only to relatives of those persons who had rendered emi-
nent services to the country, for such gifts were
the same as giving so much money; and ho wished
to know what Mr. Cunningham's claims were to a commis-
sion without purchase.
General PEEL said with regard to the general question
of commissions in certain cases having been obtained
without purchase, he thought it would be most in-
convenient to enter *nto any statements on a question on
which an inquiry was being instituted. With reference to
Mr. Cunningham, he was the son of a distinguished officer
in the Bengal army, and his grandfather had been a general
in the British service. That gentleman had received testi-
monials from Sir S. Steele and Sir Robert Vivian. (Hear.)
MR. BARON BRAMWELL ON THE NORTH
WALES CIRCUIT.

Mr. SALISBURY called the attention of the house to
remarks said to have been made by Mr. Baron Bramwell,
at Bala and other assize towns in the North Wales circuit,
and asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department
if he had any explanation to offer to the house on the con-
duct of the learned judge. The hon. member denounced
the observations made by the learned judge in question as
most uncalled for and injudicious.
DISMISSAL OF MR. SANFORD FROM THE
EMIGRATION OFFICE.

Mr. HOPWOOD asked the Secretary to the Treasury
for an explanation of the recent dismissal of a gentleman
who had been employed for two years and a half in the
Emigration Office, and had subsequently passed a satis •
factory examination before the Civil Service Commis-
sioners ?
THE INDIAN OFFICE.

Sir E. PERRY asked the Secretary of State for India
what steps had been taken for removing the political
establishment of the Indian Office to the neighbourhood of
the other public offices of Government ?

CARRIAGE ROAD BY THE SIDE OF BERKELEY

HOUSE.

Mr. KINNAIRD asked the Chief Commissioner whether
the Government would make up their minds by the meet-
ing of the new Parliament (seeing that Berkeley-house is
now pulled down) as to making a carriage road by the side
of Berkeley-house, from Cockspur-street and Charing-
cross, into St. James's Park ?

Lord J. MANNERS said he could not answer the first
part of the question, but he certainly would take no steps to
prevent the new Parliament from expressing an opinion
on the subject.
THE CONSULAR COMMITTEE.

Mr M. MILNE asked the Under Secretary of State for
Foreign Affairs, in what mode, and to what extent, the
Government intended to act upon the recommendations of
the Consular Committee of last session ?
Mr. S. FITZGERALD said that some of the recom-
mendationsof the Consular Committee had been carried
out, but they could not consent to carry out with reference
to an increase in the remuneration of some of the officials
as the expense would be enormous.
(LEFT SITTING.)

CONVENTION WITH BRAZIL.

(From the Gazette of this Evening.)
NOTIFICATION.

With reference to the notification which appeared in the
Gazette of the 10th of September last, that a Convention
had been concluded between her Majesty and the Emperor
of Brazil, for the settlement of all outstanding claims of
subjects of either party upon the Government of the other,
by means of a Mixed Commission, and that Commissioners
were about to meet at Rio do Janeiro for the purpose of
carrying out the stipulations of such Convention :
Notice is hereby given, that the Commisioners held their
first meeting on the 10th ultimo ; and that all persons,
subjects of her Majesty, who may have claims to prefer
upon the Government of Brazil, arising out of transactions
prior to the 9th of September, 1358 (the date of the ex-
change of the ratifications of the Convention), should
forthwith transmit the particulars of the same to her
Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs,
or to her Majesty's Minister at the Court of Brazil, toge-
ther with the requisite evidence in support thereof, for the
purpose of being submitted to the Commissioners.
Notice is also hereby given, that, in conformity with the
following stipulation of the third Article of the Conven-
tion

" Every claim shall be presented to the Commission
within twelve months from the day of its first meeting, un-
less in any case where reasons for delay shall be established
to the satisfaction of the Commission, or of the Arbitrator
or Umpire in the event of the Commissioners differing in
opinion thereupon ; and then, and in any such case, the
period for presenting the claim may be extended to any one
time not exceeding s:x months longer ;"
Every claim which .may not be presented to the Com-
mission before the 10th of ,March, 1860, will be inadmissible,
unless reasons for delay ho established to the satisfaction
of the Commissioners, or of the Arbitrator or Umpire ; and
that every claim which shall not ba presented to the Com-
mjs,,!oners before the 10th of September, 1860, will, in
conformity with the fifth article of the Convention, be con-
sidered an treated as filially settled, barred, and thence-
forth inadmih,lible•
Foreign-office, April 8, 1859.

LONDON GAZfTTE-( THIS EVENING)

FOREIGN-OryicE, APRIL 6.

The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint
Horace Young, Esq., to be her Majesty's Consul for the
provinces of Biscay and Guipuscon And of Old Castile, to
reside at Bilboa.

FOREIGN-OFFICE, Arm?. 8.
The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. Emil
Oesterley, as Consul at Calcutta ; of Mr. Carl Schultze, as
Consul at Singapore ; and of Mr. John Anderson, as Con-
sul at Peterhead, for his Majesty the King of Hanover.