The Sun.
London, England, 1857-07-31 00:00:00

ila7al madMaly intelligence.

The Royal Commission of Inquiry into the Mili-
tary Purchases in the Army met yesterday at No.
1, Whitehall-yard. The Duke of Somerset presi-
ded. The other Commissioners present were—the
Right Hon. Sidney Herbert, General Sir De L.
Evans, Major-General Sir H. Bontinck, General
Wynyaid, and Mr. G. C. Glyn.
Yesterday General Sir J. F. Burgoyne, G.C.8.,
Inspector-General of Fortificstions, visited the
Royal Engineers' establ.shment at Chatham, for
the purpose of inspecting the field operations now
being carried on by the Royal Sappers and Miners
and East India Company's troops. In the after-
nosn Sir J. Burgoyne, accompanied by the staff at
present at head-quarters, proceeded to Chatham
lines, where the A troop of the Royal Engineers
train, under the command of Capt. T. Siborr,e,
with Lieut. L. A. Hale, Lieut. F. A. Marindin,
and Adjutant H. Saville, was drawn up in review
order. Gen. Burgoyne having ridden up and down
the line, the troop IToke up into sections and went
through a variety of manwavres.. They afterwards
went through the lasso exercise, which has been
taught them by Sir F. Head.
The troops embarked in the freightsbip Whirl-
wind, mentioned yesterday, were the fol!owing
1 field officer, 2 captains, 4 subalterns, 3 staff, 22
sergeants, 9 drummers, 8 corporals, 225 privates
of the 19th Foot. The following were the officals :
—Lieut.-Colonel J. L. Rocke, C. 13., Captains H. J.
Uniacke and G. H. Warburton ; Lieutenants H. J.
Browne, E. N. Kinde!sley, A. C. Martin ; Ensign
H. Thompson, Paymaster T. Palmer, Adjutant T.
Thompson, Surgeon T. Longmore ; also, Captain
M'Pherson, Ensign Spooner, and Assistant-Surgeon
M'Lean, 3 sergeants, 2 drummers, 6 corporals, and
65 privates of the 42d Highlanders. The Whirl-
wind was to sail last evening for India. She took
also vast quantities of stores.
The 42d Highlanders went into Portsmouth gar-
rison from the camp yesterday :—Three field offi-
cers, eight captains, 19 subalterns, 6 staff, 38 ser-
geants, 29 drummers, 719 rank and file. As at
present arranged 128 of the troops will embark in
the James Baines, 159 in the -Champion of the
Seas, 119 in the Golden Fleece, 122 in the Victoria,
and 203 in the Australian. The officers are Lieut.-
Col. A Cameron ; Majors F. G. Wilkinson and E.
R Priestly ; Captains J. C. M`Leod, J. Drysdale,
G. Fraser, W. C. Ward, J. G. Grove, F. C. Scott,
H. H. Moseley, and W. Baird ; Lieutenants J.
Wilson, W. Lawson, C. Douglas, W. Green, F. E.
H. Farquharson, G. W. Cockburn, Hon. R. H.
Stewart, A. J. Bramley, R. K. Bayly, P. M. Bos-
worth, and G. A. Furse ; Ensigns W. James, A. J.
Ceely, J. E. Christie, S. G. M`Dakin. F. G. Cole-
ridge, W. S. H. W. Fielden, and T. Mackenzie ;
Paymaster J. A. Bazalgette ; Adjutant W. Wood
(Lieutenant) ; Quartermaster A. Macgregor : Sur-
geon J. S. Furlong, M.D. ; Assistant-Surgeons W.
A. Mackinnon and H. Thornhill. The 42d will com-
mence embarking to-morrow or Monday.
The 34'h Regiment arrived at Portsmouth from
Edinburgh yesterday for embarkation in the Golden
Fleece for India. These troops comprise 51 sergeants;
23 drummers, 701 rank and file, and the following
officers :—Lieut.-Colonels R. D. Kelly and J.
Ssmpson ; Brevet Lieut.-Col. J. Gwilt, Major J.
Maxwell, Captain M. G. Best, Brevet-Major J.
Jordan, Captains H. E. Ball, F. P. Cassidy, D.
Stewart, G. W. Puget, A. G. Shaw, Brevet-Major
G. B. Harman, Captain C. H. Marsh, Lieutenants
A. W. Boyce, J. L. Moore, J. B. O'Loghlin, J.
Byron, T. H. Saunders, F. Pell, J. F. Wyse, R.
J. Cochrane, E. Jordan, W. M. Dunbar, T. S.
Holroyd, M. Lainfen ; Ensigns T. G. Applegate,
L. J. Grier, G. Malcolm, B. Shiffner, J. W.
Horne, R. P. Fox, A. W. Gilley, and C. L. Dash-
wood ; Paymaster C. B. Roche, Lieutenant and
Adjutant R. J. Leeson, Quartermaster T. Rowan,
Surgeon W. R. Chalmers, Assistant-Surgeons R.
J. Worthington, W. Howard, and W. T. Paliolo-
gus. They are expected to embark about Tuesday
next.

The James Baines and Champion of the Seas
clipper freight-ships bad not arrived at Spithead
last night. The former will embark, as at pre-
sent arranged, 868 of the 97th Regiment, besides
the detachments of the 42d, and other troops
before named. The Champion of the Seas is
ordered to embark 837 of the 20th Foot, besides
the detachment of the 42d and others before named.
The Victoria will embark 286 Royal Artillery, be-
sides the number of the 42d before given.
As soon as the 34th have embarked in the Golden
Fleece the 54th Regiment will proceed to Ports-
mouth from the camp and most probably embark
in the Lady Jocelyn.
The Himalaya, steam troopship, Commander
Harwell, arrived at Simon's Bay, Cape of Good
Hope, on the 24th of May from St. Vincent's, fol-
lowed on the 28th by the Transit, steam troopship,
Commander Chambers, from the same place, which
she left 24 hours before the Himalaya, which we
are informed has lost many of her crew and soldiers
by desertion. The Transit had lost four. One man,
a quartermaster ef the Himalaya, in attempting to
leave the ship on the night of the 2d of June to
swim ashore was drowned. The Penelope, 28,
paddle frigate, Capt. Sir W. Wiseman, arrived at
Simon's Biy rom the Maurit'us on the evening of
the 3d of June, all well, closely followed by the
Barra,couta, 6, Commander Fortescue, from China.
The Hinia'aya left Simon's 134 on the morning of
the 3d June at 11 o'clock, and went out of the bay
beau'ifuly. She was followed on the next morn-
ing by the Transit, which disembarked 1 officer,
30 men, 1 woman, and 2 children of the Royal En-
gineer corps on the morning of the 29th May, who
proceeded to Cape town.
The floating battery Terror, 16, Capt. F. Hutton,
and the paddlewheel steam-sloop Devastation, 6,
Comander E. Marshall, arrived at Plymouth on
Sunday from Woolwich for the West Indies.
The gunnery ship Cambridge, Capt. A. W. Jer-
ningham, left Plymouth Sound on Wednesday
evening for Spithead.
His Netherlands Majesty's war steamer Gehdi,
Commander Haring, from Helvoetsluys, entered
Plymouth Sound on Wednesday for coal. She is
armed with six heavy guns, two mortars, and a
long heavy pivot gun, and is bound to Batavia,
touching at Rio Janeiro.
The Frolic, 16, Commander L. W. Peyton (1856),
which was paid off at Chatham yesterday, has been

in commission four years, haviug been fitted out at
Portsmouth in 1853 by Captain M. S. Nolloth.
During the time she has be -n in commission she
has been emplored cruising on the African coast.
In 1854 she was engaged in surveying on the
coast as far as Namaqualand, and fur a month was
searching to discover any of the remains of the
illfated Nerbudda, 16, but without effect. In 1856,
Commander Nolloth having been posted, Com-
mander Peyton was appointed to the Frolic, which
then proceeded to Quillimane to wait for Dr.
Livingston, who was taken to the Mauritius. She
was also employed in taking the Bishops of Cape
Town and Mauritius on a cruise. In December,
1856, the Frolic sailed to the Chagos Archipelago
for the purpose of making inquiries into the brutal
murder of Mr. Hugan, and succeeded in discover-
ing his mutilated remains at Lubine, one of the
six islands. On the sth of April last, the vessel
was near the spot where the Nerbudda was sup-
posed to be lost, when she was struck by a whirl-
wind, which nearly sank her. The effect of the
whirlwind, which lasted about a minute, was so
severe that the sea was tossed into waves 100 feet
high. During the time the Frolic has been in com-
mission, she has sailed over upwards of 40,000
miles. Four deaths occurred on board from dysen-
tery. On being paid off yesterday, a good conduct
medal was awarded to Sergeant Beddington, of the
Royal Marines, and a gratuity of 5/. to Corporal
Weeks ; gratuities of 71. each were also awarded
to William Hewitt, Isaac Day, and George White.
Official orders were received in Cork on Wednes-
day, directing the 99th Regiment to hold them-
selves in readiness to proceed to the Curragb. The
companies of that regiment in garrison at Spike
Island, Camden, and Carlisle forts, have been re-
placed by a detachment of the 14th.
The Carthage, 1,000 tons, is to leave Kingstown
to-morrow with two companies of the 38th; and the
third and last division of the Ist Royals will embark
to-day on board the Defiance, which also takes out
a company of the 60th Rifies.
the Admiralty, held his last levee
The Right Hon. Sir C. Wood, atshFisirssetasLonoryes-
terday.
The following appointments were made yester-
day at the Admiralty :---
t.
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the S Vincent • Com d
second master,
Bruns;wd.ckii. N.
Moss,
spe and
J. croew
CFa.p
Ross,t. 11. Etyor es,
the
surgeon, to the Mohawk
*tltaiijcinKgesllecond-master, to
mtoatshteer
J, :tsoptehre; Jvcras.esunur ;
the Pylades.

DEATH OF
KADMIRAL SIR
K.C.B. HUGH PIGOT,
.C.H. AND

we regret to state that this venerable and truly
gallant and distinguished flag officer died yesterday
evening, at his town residence, in Ebury-street, in
the 82d year of his age.
The following advancements and promotions are
consequent on Sir Hugh Pigot's decease :
To be Admiral of the Blue.—Vice Admiral of
the Red Sir Edward Tucker, K.C.8., vice Sir
Lucius Curtis, Bart., to be admiral of the white,
vice Sir Hugh Pigot, deceased.
To be Vice Admiral of the Blue.--i-Rear Admiral
of the Red Sir Houston Stewart, K.C.8., com-
mander in..chief on the North American and. West
India stationyvke Robert Wauchope,
vice admit al of the white, vice Jahn Brett Purvis,
Esq., to be vice admiral of the red. Esq., to be
To be Rear Admiral of the Blue...CaPt Goor
RodueY Ituudy (January 10, 1837)rvise-CWiee

Graham C. 13., to be rear admiral of the white,
vice A. E. Vidal, Esq., to be rear-admiral of
the mi.

A captain's good service pension also reverts to
the patronage of Sir Charles Wood, on the pro-
motion of Rear-Admiral Mundy.
The senior vice-admiral now is Sir Edward
Chetham Strode, K.C.B . K.0.H., and the senior
rear-admiral is Sir James Stirling.

Captain Sir William Dickson, Bart. (1837), is
now the senior on the active list ; but as t his offi-
cer and the next in seniority, Captain W. S. Smith,
have not eerved their time as captains, the third on
the list, Captain the Hon. H. Keppet, C. 8., is the
next officer for promotion to the active flag rank.
Captain William Dawson (1841) comes on the
14s. 6d. half-pay list ; and Captain Goorge Brown
(1847) cimes on the 12s. Gcl. per diem list.

STATE OF THE MARRIAGE-LAW IN

AUSTRALIA.

While Parliament is occupied with a mist im-
pirtaut law in regard to divorce, and devising t)
prevent monstrous injustice to married women for
the future, the law officers cif Australia are inter-
preting the law of bigamy in such a manner as
must, if they are correct in opinion, make it utt rly
impos.9ible for ninety-nine per:oes who have Evian
rearried in England to prove the fact in the Austra-
lian courts, and save their childrrn frow bastardy.
If their view of the evidence necessary to es'ab-
lish the civil condition of a woman who lits been
married according to law in England be correct,
no written document is available. Copies of the
parochial record of marriage iu a church by the
incumbent, certified under his own band, and car-
tificates from the registrars of marriage, are
but so much waste paper, though these things
are intended by law to be evidence of a mar-

riage. The colonial law requires the production of
one of the witnesses of a marriage that took place
at a distance of ten thousand miles from the Aus-

tralian courts, and may he of twenty or twenty-five
yearsstanding. Why, often in England and Scot-
land it would be utterly impossible to furnish other
proofs than certificates of marriage. Clergyman
registrar, and witnesses may all have died long be-
fore there is a necessity to tender evidence of a
marriage; and what the colonial lawyers suppose to
be requisite must be constantly proving. to be a
cause of unmerited disgrace, impoverithment,
cruelty, and oppression.
A case of bigamy has recently brought to light
the imperfect or the iniquitous state of the law of
marriage in Australia, according to which every
married woman from Great Britain or at y other
country now in that colony, unless she can pro-
duce one who was present at her marl iage in
Britain, is, in the view of the Australian law, no
wife ; she has no rights as such, and, consequently,
by the same rule, her children are bastards. This
is no supposition of a possible case. The Sydney
2mpire says, that " there are many such cases, and
several have fallen within our own knowledge.
One most cruel case ii at this moment recurring to
us. A most respectable and excellent woman
arrives, as an emigrant, with her husband. The
wretch spreads a rumour that she is not bis wife,
abandons her to sorrow, want, and sicknes,, and
marries another woman. He cannot be prosecuted,

because the sufferer cannot be a witness in her own
case, and no certificate she can bring will stand her
in any stead in a court of law. So she perishes, and
he escapes. The moral evidence is here most con-
vincing, but, against it, iniquity, or rather villany,
triumphs. The case presented is no fiction ; it is a
terrible reality, and it may be only oue out of
many."

Tile case of bigamy to which we adverted is that
of John Gerrie, who cruelly deserted his wife and
child at Keith, in Banffshire, in July, 1854, and
who, on arriving at Sydney about the beginning of
1855, with a letter of introduction from the Rev.
A. M'Crilivray, Free Church minister of Keith, to
the Rev. A. Salmon, represented himself as an un-
married man. He gained the affections of a highly
respectable young woman, named Jane Warren,
and insinuated himself deeply into the good opinion
and friendship of her relations. The result was a
second marriage between him and Jane Warren,
Ist August, 1855. His subsequent treatment of
this young person corresponds with his abandon.
ment of his first wife, Ann Lawrence, and his
child. He is said to have behaved to her so as
to compel her to leave him, and to seek a re-
fuge from his violence. Partly from the news-
paper report of the second matriae, and partly
from private correspondence, the Rev. Mr.
M'Gilivray was led to furnish the informat:on and
extracts which were used in an unsuccessful attempt
to avenge the injured second wife, by bringing the
villain, John Gerrie, to justice. Mr. WGilivray's
signature and handwriting, it should be mentioned,
were properly attested by ite Rev. Dr. M'Kay.
The Sydney Empire, of April 8, in an article on
the state of the law in Australia, written in a manly
feeling of indignation, sar, in reference to th s
case of desertion and bigamy, " Partly to get this
individual Gerrie prosecuted on a charge of
bigamy, and partly to protect the young person
who had been apparently victimised by him here
against his pertinacious attempts to claim her as
his wife, and to treat her injuriously, application
was made to the Attorney-General, who was then
Mr. Plunkett. His reply elntains the following
passage :—" I beg to state that, as the first step iu
a prosecution for bigamy is proof of the first mar-
riage, unless there be some witness in the colony
who was present at the ceremony, the charge could
not be substantiated, so as to obtain a conviction
and punishment."

Without conviction of bigamy, therefore, the
colonial law completely sets aside the legal marriage
in Britain, and acknowledges as a legal marriage
what is a highly criminal a3t, and prosti ution of
the forms of marriage to the most improper and
guilty purposes. We say nothing of the want of
protection for the rights and honour of female
colonists, though that is bad enough—too bad, in-
deed, to be endured—but, by the same defect of
law, or construction of the law, a respectable young
person, already deeply iujurel by the bigamist, is
left expo -ed to his persecutions without redress or
refuge in the tribunals. 'lbis state of things re-
flects great disgrace upon the mother count! y itself.
None of her colonies should be outside of the pale
of civilisation, as Australia clearly is.

The friendsof the second wife 'did not rest sathi-
fied with Mr. Plunkett's reply. They hid the case
and documentary proofs of the first marriage before
Mr. Manning, the new Attorney-General, who
remitted the following opinion I have the
honour to state, that it does not appear to me that
proof of the handwriting of the Rev. Mr.
M•Gilivray's certificate will be sufficient evidence
of the first marriage of John Gerrie, to enable
you to proceed against him upon a criminal charge
of bigmay. It is right however, I should state,
that I conceive it will not be proper for ma to com-
municate further with you upon this subj ,ct. My
duty as grand juror, is to act in somewhat of a
judical character upon committals by justices of the
peace ; and although as Attorney-General it is com-
petent for me to initiate criminal proceedings, this
power is, and ought to be, reserved for rare and ex-
traordinary occasions." We infer, tle,refere, that
the crime of bigamy by immigrants who have de-
serted their wives is Britain, and under colour of
marriage have debauched female colonists of respec-
tability, is neither rare nor evraordinary ; and
also that the difficulty of bringing such villains
as bigamists to justice in Australia, is as frequent
as we firmly believe the crime to be. " There is
every moral evidence," says the Sydney Empire,
" there is even, what in some cases that could be
named, would be legal evidence—there is I,gal
evidence up to the point that a personal witness of
the first marriage is not in Sydney, although the
usually deemed competently attested documents
are here. That the crime has been committed, and
a heartless injury has been inflicted upon two in-
nocent women, nobody doubts. But the law does
not provide for their protection, and they must
suffer to the end of their days."
They have very sufficient proof that Gerrie is
the person named in Mr. M'Gilivray's certificate
of the marriage with Anne Lawrence, for ho pre-
sented the letter of introduction to the Rev.
Mr. Salmon, who is there to make oath to that
er. fr
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marriagethey
itjhaThleersWelaf.rnewr
"Item pmroevree
ctanhe
be necessary ? At a distance of ten thousand
miles, these are the first and best proofs that can
be had. But perhaps there is a colonial law en
the subject of bigamy ; and it is commonly believed
here that some of the legislators were originally
convicts ; others, again, may have had reasons for
leaving the mother country, and, like John Gerrie,
have deserted their wives and children. For them
documentary evidence would have few recomrnend
dations. But if they have made a disgraceful law,
encouraging felony by preventing the punishment
of it, as the code must have been submitted to the
Imperial Legislature for its sanction, will be
competent for the Legislature te Labe
the matter in
hand, Hnd amend a la w which tends to introduce
polygamy into a
British colony. In another point
of view the cruelty of this state of things is unen-
durable, and we suggest that the Rev. Mr. M‘Grilir-
. ray, whose
conduct in the case of the two
unfortunate women has been above praise, place
the case in some shape that it can be laid before
Parliament.-4forning Advertiser.

CRICEET.—ETONIANS Uiil 20 AGAINST WIN HA!-
ROWANS UNDER 20 TRAPa —This match was brought**
a conclusion yesterday at 12 o'clock, in fav Air of Har-
row by 10 wickets. The following is the score :—Eton,
"Ist innings, 70 ; 2d innings, 59. Harrow, Ist innings,
115 ; 24 innings (all wickets standing), 12.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS--(YESTERDAY.)
The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the wool•
sack at five o'clock.
Lord COLVILLE presented a petition from a place
in Fife against the Lunacy (Scotland) Bill.
Viscount DUNGANNON presented a petition from
Ellesmere in Litchfield, against the Divorce Bill.
INDIA.

Lord ELLENBOBOUGH reminded the noble
earl that when he read some days ago the des-
patches connected with India, he said that
if the papers furnished to their lordships were
not considered sufficient the Government would grant
others. Now there was one important document which
was not produced —it was the despatch issued
on the 16th of May by the Governor-General, in which I
attention was drawn in strong terms to the deter-
mination of the Government to adhere to their former
practice of not interfering with the religious
opinions of the natives of India. As this paper did not
form a part of those produced, he shoul'l very
much wish its production, and he did not think
there could be any objection to its being laid on the
table of the house. (Gear, hear.) He also wished to
call to the recollection of his noble friend that as far
back as the 28th of January, General Hearses'
had communicated to the Governor-General that
amongst the sepoys there was evidently an impression
that they were to be forced into the profession
of the Christian faith. Notwithstanding that intimation,
it was not until the 27th of March that the Governor-
General issued a general order upon the subject, and it
was not until the 31st that it was read to the troops at
Barrackpore. Although it was declared tbat the prac
tics of the Government had ever been not to interfere
with the religious feeling of the natives, it said nothing
with respect to the future. The proclamation was not
published until after the events at Meerut. The noble
earl then called the attention of the house to the manner in
which the Government of India was at present conducted.
For example,there was astrong feeling amongst the sepoys
that it wag impossible for them, consistently with their
religious feelings to use the cartridges that were distri-
buted to them. A correspondence took place on the
27th, and 4 days elapsed before the Government at Cal-
cutta became acquainted with this most ominous event.
Three more days elapsed before any steps were
taken to remove those objections of the troops
at Barrackpore. As another example of conducting
Indian business, he might mention Gen. Hearsey com-
plained of what he considered was an improper order.
and an explanation was then demanded, but eight days
elapsed before such was received, although the distance
was but eight miles between the respective parties.
The noble earl having mentioned other instances
of delay, said that it appeared to him that the
government of India was not conducted by the Gover-
nor-General, but was administered by secretaries and
clerks, and he warned her Majesty's Government that if
such a course was continued before long calami-
ties of the most serious description would arise.
Earl GRANVILLE said the Government had no ob-
jection to the production of the documents alluded
to by the noble earl, but with regard to the
criticisms on the mode of conducting business
in India he confessed he had not received anything like
the information which his noble friend had communi-
cated. But it was clear that the service of Government
could not be p-rformed with greater zeal than under the
direction of the present Governor General. Where the
noble lord bad obtained his information to justify
his observations that the Government of India was carried
on by clerks he was at a loss to conceive. All he could
say was that the Governor-General was acting in the
most admirable manner, and was proving himself fully
equal to the emergency. He bad seen a great number of
letters from persons residing in India, and who were fully
competent to express an opinion : without one exception
they all concurred in the opinion that Lord Canning had
rieen in the estimation of all the communities in India.
The Duke of ARGYLL was of opinion that the noble
earl opposite had greatly exaggerated the facts, and re-
ferred to certain documents with a view of maintaining
his opinion.
Lord PANMURE thought the statements of the
noble earl were calculated to do much mischief in the
present state of affairs. He thought that General Hear-
say ought to have despatched his aide-de-camp with
documents of such information, and not waited for
the post, he would then have acted in a
proper manner. All the delay, if any had
occurred, was owing to General Hearsay having waited
for the post.
The subject then dropped.
The Reformatory Schools Bill was passed through

committee after some discussion, in the Coarse of which
several clauses underwent considerable modifications,
and others were omitted.

The following bil's were read a second time :—Boun
daries of Land (Ireland) Bill ; Glebe Lands (Ireland
Bill.

The following bills passed throngh committee :
Public Works (Irel tnd) Bill ; Turnpike Acts Continu-
ance Bill ; Banking Bid ; and the Industrial Schools

Bill.

The following bills were read a third time and pAssed
—Militia Ballot
_Suspension Bill ; Public Health Ac
(Aldershot) Bill.
The•Retormatory Institutions Bill wss withdrawn.
RELIGIOUS BR AWLS (IRELAND).

Viscount DUNGANNON presented a petition from
the protestant inhabitants of the pari-h of St, Ni-
cholas Without in the City of Dublin, praying that they
might bi protected from mob violence, that their minis-
ters, scripture readers, and school children might have
awardtd to them the protection of the British law, and
that the magistrates and the police force might be com-
pelled to an impartial discharge of their duty.
Their lordships then adjourned.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.-(YESTERDAY.)

The SPEAKER took the chair at twelve o'clock.
CASHEL ELECTION.

The SPEAKER announced that the petition against
the return of Sir T. O'Brien bad been withdrawn.
ELECTION COMMITTEES.

The following cemmittees were sworn at the table of
the house :

BEVERLEY (BOROUGH).—Mr. T. W. Evans, (Derby S )
Mr. J. H. Foley, Lieutenant-Colonel Brownlow Knox,
Mr. S. B. Miller ; chairman, Mr. J. Abel Smith.
SLIGO (BOROUGH).—Mr. J. W. D ld, Earl Jernayn,
Mr. John Martin (Tewkesbury), Mr. J. B. Smith
(St Ickport) ; chairman, Sir J. Yarde Buller.
DUELIN (CITY).—Mr. Ayrton, Hon. 8.. H. Dutton,
Earl of Gifford, Hon. Francis Scott ; chairman, Mr.
T. E. Headlarn.
Ti:e three committees will meet to-morrow (Friday)
at eleveno'clock.