The Sun.
London, England, 1850-07-20 00:00:00

MACKINTOSH ESTATE BILL.

The Committee of the" Lords on this Bill sat for the
second time yesterday; the Earl of Shaftesbury in the
chair. The ether members of the Committee were thiPearl
of Eglinton, the Earl of Colchester, and Lord Redesdale.
Mr. Hope and Mr. Sergeant Bellasii, and Mr. Rich-
ardson (Parliamentary agent) appeared for the promoters;
and the petitioners against the Bill were represented by
Mr. Andrews, and Mr. Webster (Parliamentary agent).
The object of the Bill is to effect certain changes in
the management of the Academy of Inverness, and for
alienating a large portion of the Education Trust
Fund, commonly called the Macintosh Fund,
for the general purposes of the institution.
This fund, which originally amounted to 22,0001.,
was left by Captain Mackintosh, by his will,
dated sth October, 1797, to be invested in lands in the
burgh of Inverness, in the name of the magistrates of
Inverness, for the purpose of educating boys of the name
of Mackintosh. The petitions against the Bill were signed
by about e 0 persons, bearing the name of Mackintosh,
being members cf the families of Farr, Holm, Dalmi-
gavie, and Kyllochy, or their descendants and nearest of
kin; also by several of the trustees of the fund, and
a number of residents in Inverness. They stated
that the Inverness Academy was now, and had been ade-
quate to afford to the bursars of Captain Mackintosh's
endowment, a good and respectable education, and that
the present Bill would be highly unjust to the numerous
parties who had a vested right and interest in the fund.
After the reception of the necessary documentary
evidence,
Mr. Colquhoun, advocate and sheriff-substitute, and
one of the directors of the school, gave it as his
opinion that the school, as at present constituted, did
not afford a sufficient amount of education to the bur-
sars, and he attributed this to the small
amount of remuneration which was given to the
masters and teachers. Considerable mismanage-
ment was shown in the manner in which
the scholars were lodged in the town, and on one occa-
sion he found a boy living in a public-house, and another
in the same room with his sister. In consequence of
the state of the school, the number of scholars attending
it had been considerably diminished.
Cross-examined by Mr. ANDREWS—SeveraI excellent
rival schools had been established lately in the town,
and they might have drawn away some of the scholars.
At present there were 184 scholars, but he believed the
number in attendance had been at one time as large as
230. He had attended the examination of the pupils
and signed certificates eulogistic of the way in which they
had acquitted themselves. Two or three of the Mackin-
tosh boys had been sent to the University, and they had
honorably distinguished themselves there.
Mr. McDonald, minister ;of the High Church, at
Inverness, and Moderator of the Presbytery, said he had
been educated at the schcol, and bad for some years
directed his attention to its management. The
course of education was limited, the means of instruction
scanty, and the encouragement to teachers not such as
was likely to secure the services of able and efficient
men. There was a rector and three masters, and the
number of scholars was between 150 and 160. There
was no drawing-master, nor any master of
the English language, or of natural philosophy.
The school was not in as good a state as when he was
a scholar, the number of teachers being fewer and the
attendance of scholars more limited. In his opinion an
outlay of 3001. annually would be required to make the
school efficient and prosperous.
Cross-examined by Mr. ANDREWS—When he at •
tended the school Homer and Demosthenes were read
by the pupils of the classical class, but they were not
read now, or, if so, by a very limited few.
This concluded th© case for the promoters.

The Rev. Mr. Clack was then cal!el by the oppo-
nents to the Bill. He was the oldest member of the
Presbytery at Inverness, where he had been a minister of
the High Church for twenty-eight years. He entered
the academy as a student in 1807, and he believed that
as good an education was given now as at any period
during his acquaintance with it. All the teachers
were as accomplished in their several branches
of learning as any of their predecessors. The di minu•
tion in the number of scholars was to be attributed to
the fees being higher than those of the Free Cnurch
School end the Bell's School. The number of Mackin-
tosh scholars was now ten, and if the Bill were passed,
thqt number, he thought, would be diminished to
six. He believed that the object of the test ttor
was to elevate the whole clan of the Mackintoshes, and
that had been accomplished by the persons who had had
the management of the fund. Some of the boys who
had been educated in the school were now doctors of me•
dicine, and others occupied eminent positions; but all
derived great benefit from their education, and had not
only done honour to themselves, but had elevated the
character of the clan to which they belonged. If the
school was in need of improvement, it could be done by
the trustees without an Act of Parliament.

Mr. John Inner Mackintosh, a surgeon, residing in
North Lincolnshire, said he had been educated as a
bursar of the school, and he believed it to ba an effi-
cient and well-conducted institution. The course of
education pursued would fit a person for any station in
life, and was quite equal to that given to the higher
branches of the Mackintosh family.
The Committee adjourned until Tuesday next, at ono
o'clock.

FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE

OF FRIDAY.

FOREIGN-OFFICE, JULY 17, 1850.
The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. Ed-
ward Wallerstein as Consul-General in London for the
Republic of Costa Rica.
DOWNING-STREET, JULY 19.

The Queen has bean pleased, by letters patent under
the Great Seal of the United Kingdom, to re-constitute
the Bishopric of Quebec, and to direct that the same
shall comprise the district of Quebec, Three Rivers, and
Gan 6 only, and be called the Bishopric of Quebec; and
her Majesty has been pleased to name and appoint the
Right Reverend Father in God George Jehosaphat
Mountain, Doctor in Divinity, heretcfore Bishop of
Montreal, to be Bishop of the said see of Quebec.
Her Majesty has also been pleased, by letters patent
under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom, to consti-
tute so much of the ancient diocese of Quebec as com-
prises the district of Montreal, to be a Bishop's see and
diocese, to be called the Bishopric of Montreal, and to
name and appoint the Reverend Francis Fulford, Doctor
in Divinity, to be ordained and consecrated Bishop of
the said see of Montreal.

Her Majesty has alio been pleased to appoint
Nathaniel Hart, Eeq., to be her 141ajesty's Treasurer,
and Robert Shany Harper, Esq., to be Provost Marshal,
for the island of St. Christopher.
Her Mljesty has been farther pleased to appoint
Johannes Cornelius Schade, Esq., to be Financial Ac-
countant for the colony of British Guiana.
WHITEHALL, JULY 18.

Her Majesty has been pleased to present the Reverend
Duncan .Mackenzie to the church and parish of Geir-
loch, in the presbytery of Lochcarron, and county of
Russ, vacant by the deposition of Mr. John Campbell,
late minist,.r thereof.
CROwN•OFFICE, JULY 18.

MEMBERS RETURNED TO SERTE IN THIS PRESENT

PA RLIAXENT.

Borough of Devonport—Sir John Romilly, Knight,
her Majesty'sAttorney-General.

To..vn of Southampton—Alexander James Edmund
Coeliburn, Esq., her M:josty's Solicitor-General.
WAR-OFFICE, JULY 19.

6th Regiment of Dragoon Guards—Eusign and Lieu-
tenant Charles Thomas Lindow, from the Ist or Grena-
dier Regiment of Foot Guards, to be Lieutenant, vice
Phillimore, who exchanges, July 19.
lit or Grenadier Regiment of Foot Guards—Lieute-
nant William Brough Phiilimore, from the 6th Dragoon
Guards, to be Ensign and Lieutenant, vice Lindow, who
exchanges, July 19.
4th Foot—Captain William Augustus Fyers, from
the 40th Foot, to be Captain, vice Arthur, who ea-
ch inges, July 19.
11th 'cot—Ensign Philip Doyne Vigors to be Lieute-
nant, by purchase, vice Pettison, who retires, July 19.
15th Foot—Staff Surgeon of the Second Class Thomas
Rose Dyce to he Surgeon, vice Dobson, promoted on the
Staff, July 19.
18th Foot—Captain Abraham Parkinson Kenyon,
from the 50th Foot, to he Captain, vice John Bruce,
who retires on half-pay of the 56th Foot, July 19.
21st Foot—Ensign Robert Harkness, from the 71st
Foot, to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Robert
Nicholson, cashiered by the sentence of a General Court
IMartial, July 19.
37th Foot—Ensign Robert Mark Halyburton, from
the 68th Foot, to be Ensign, vice Henry, appointed to
the 86th Foot, July 19.
38th Foot—Captain Napier Turner Christie, from
half-pay, Unattached, to he Captain, vice Thomas
Southall, who exchanges; Lieutenant William James
Lrif'Ns to be Captain, vice Christie, who retires; Ensign
Charles William Watkins to be Lieutenant, by purchase,
vice Loftus, July 19.
40th Foot—Captain Frederick Leopold Arthur, from
the 4th Foot, to be Captain, vice Fyers, who exchanges;
Ensign Frederick Samuel Blyth to be Lieutenant, by
purchase, vice Cori:nick, promoted; William Hickes
Horndon Measenger, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase,
♦ice Blyth, July 19.
56th Foot—Lieutenant Allen M'Donald has been per-
mitted to retire from the Service by the sale of his com-
mission, July 19.
65th Foot—Lieutenant Christopher Rhatigan to be
Captain, without purchase, vice Smith, deceased, Dec.
14, 1549.
71st Foot—Lieutenant Frederick J. Colin Halkett to be
Captain, by purchase, vice Dashwood, who retires, July
19 ; Ensign Robert Charles William Stuart to have the
rank of Lieutenant, July 18 ; Ensign John Fuller to be
Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Halkett ; Ensign Duncan
.Downie Fletcher, from the 42d Foot, to be Ensign,
vice flarkness, promoted to the 21e, Foot, July 19.
721 Faot—Captain John William Gaisford to he
Major, by purchase, vice Maclean, promoted in 3d West
India. Rer;iment; Lieutenant Walter Barrington Odynell
Campbell, to be Captain, by purchase, vice Gaistord;
Limiters-ant Lydston Newman to be Captain, by purchase,
vice Lord, who retires, July 19.
3d West India Regiment—Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel
Charles Maxwell Maclean, from the 72d Foot, to be
Lieutenant-Colonel, by purchase, vice Perry, who retires,
July 19.
HOSPITAL .STAFF.—Deputy Inspector- General of
Hospitals Charles St. John, M.D., to be Inspector-
General of Hospitals, vice Henry Franklin, who retires
upon halt'-pay; Deputy Inspector-General, with local
rank. Andrew Fergusson, rvf.D., to be Deputy Inspec-
tor-General of Hospitals, vice St. John; Surgeon Wil-
liam Dobson, from the 15th Foot, to be Staff Surgeon
of the First Class, vice Fergusson; Surgeon Alexander
Gibb, M.D., from the 45th Foot, to be Staff Surgeon of
the' Second Class, vice Dyce, appointed to the 15th Foot,
July 19.

UNATTAcE7D.—Brevet Majcr Guy Clarke, from the
"702 Foot, to be Major, without purchase, July 19.

BREVET.

To be Majors in the Army—Captain Napier Turner
Christie. of the 38th Foot, Nov. 23, 1841; Captain Charles
Eustace Mac Donnell, of the 29th Foot, March 2.

To be Majors in the Army in the Eastlndies—Captain
Herbert Benjamin Edwardes, of the Ist Bengal Euro-
pean Regigumt, March 22; Captain Henry James titan-
nus, .of the sth Regiment of Bengal Cavalry, April 17.
Commission by the Lord-Lieutenant of Flintihire.

The Hon. Richard Thomas Rowley to be Deputy-
Lieutenant, July 12.
Cammissiou by the Lord-Lieutenant of Lancashire.

John Abraharia Tinne, Esq., to be Deputy-Lieutenant,
July 12.

BANKRUPTS.

Thomas Dyson, railway contractor, Newington, to
surrender Aug. 2 and Sept. 6, at half-past one, at the
Court of Bankruptcy. Whitmore, official assignee;
Rixon and Son, King William. street.
Gilbert Finlay Girdwood, chemist, Maids-hill, July
26, at twelve, and Aug. 29, at half-past twelve, at the
Court of Bankruptcy. Johnson. official assignee, Ba-
singhall-street; Lawrance and Plows, Old Jewry.
George Shepheard, linendraper, Modbury,Devonshire,
July 30 and Aug. 27, at eleven, at the Exeter District
Court. Hirtzal, official assignee, Exeter; Savery, Mod-
bury; Bishop and Pitts, Exeter.
Timothy Bourne Bourne, cotton broker, Liverpool,
July 26 and Aug. 29, at eleven, at the Liverpool Dis-
trict Court. Bird, official assignee, Liverpool; Norris,
Liverpool