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London, England, 1850-07-19 00:00:00

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SUR OFFICE, Seven o'Clock.

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MACKINTOSH ESTATE BILL.
(THIS DAY.)
The Committee of the Lords on this Bill sat for the
second time to-day; the Earl of Shaftesbury in the chair.
The other members of the Committee were the Earl
of Eglicton, the Earl of Colchester, and Lord Redesdale.
Mr. Hope and Mr. Servant 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, watch originally amounted to 22,0001.,
was left by Captaia Mackintosh, by his will,
dated eLti October, 1797, to be invested in lands in the
burgh of Inverness, in the name rf the magistrates of
Inverness, fur the purpose of educating boys of the name
of Mackintosh. The petitions against the Bill were signed
by about 60 persons, bearing the name of Mackintosh,
being members of the families of Farr, Holm, Dalmi-
gavie, and Kyllcchy, 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 is which the
had acquitted themselves. Two or three of the Mackin-
tosh boys had been sent to the University, and they had
honorably distinguished.theraselves tin re.
Mr. Me Donald, minister of the High Church, at
Inverness, and Moderator of the Presbytery, said he had
been educated at the school, and bad fur some years
directed his attention to its management. The
course of education was limited, the means of instruction
scanty, and the encouragement to ti achers not such as
was likely to mule 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 Dem.isthenes 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 the case for the promoters.
The Rev. Mr. Claik was then called by the oppo-
nents to the Bill. He was the oldest member of the
Presbytery at Inverness, wherehe 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 diminu-
tion in the number of scholars was to be attributed to
the feet being higher than those of the Free Church
School and the Bell's School. The number of Mackin-
tosh scholars was now ten, and if the Bill were passed,
that number, he thought, would be diminished to
six. He believed that the object of the testator
was to elevate the whole clan of the Mackintoshes, and
that bad 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 Innes Mackintosh, a surgeon, residing in
North Lincolnshire, said be had been educated as

bursar of the school, and he believed it to be an effi-
cient and well-conducted institution. The course of
education.puraued would tit a person for any station in
life, and was Trite equal to that given to the higher
branches of the Mackintosh family.
The Committee adj,Jurned until Tuesday next at one
o'clock.

TILE LONDON GAZETTE.

(THIS EVENING.)

FOREIGN-OFFICE, JULY 17, 1850.

The Q leen has been pleaied to approve of Mr. Di-
ward Wallet-stein as Consul-General in Lonrioa for the
Republic of Co to Rica.
DOWNINU-STREET, JULY 19.

The Qw.en has ben pleased, by letters patent under
the Greet 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
Gas; 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 Jenosaphat
Mountain, Doctor in Divinity, heretofore 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 he ordained and consecrated Bishop of
the said see of Montreal.
Her Majesty has also been pleasel to appoint
Nathaniel Hart, Esq., to be her Majesty's Treasurer,
and Robert Shany Harper, Esq., t) bo Provost Marshal,
for the island of Sr. Christopher.
Her MAjesty has been further pleased to appoit t
Johannes Cornelius Schade, Esq., to be Financial Ac-
countant for the colony of British Guiana.
WHITEHALL, JULY 18.

Her 11,jesty has been pleased to present the Reverend
Duncan Maclunz;e to th 4 church and parish of Gair-
loch, in dm presbytery cf Lochc3rron, and county of
Ross. vacant by the deposition of Mr. John Campbell,
late Minister thereof.
CROWN-OFFICE, JULY 18.

MEM RERS RETURN ED TO SERVE IN THIS PRESENT

PARLIAMENT.

Borough of D.tonport—Sir John Romilly, Knight,
her Majest)'s Attorney-General.
Town of Southampton—Alexander James Edmund
Cockburn, Esq., he, M,jesty's Solicitor-General.
VAR-OFFICE, JULY 19._

6th Regiment of Dragoon Guards—Ensign 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 Pbiilimore, 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 ex-
changee, July 19.
11th Foot—Ensign Philip Doyne Visors to be Lieute-
nant, by purchase. vice Pattison, who retires, July 19.
15th Foot—Staff Surgeon of the Second Class Thomas
Rose Dyce to be Surgeon, vice Dobson, promoted on the
Staff, July 19.
13th Foot—Captain Abraham Parkinson Kenyon,
from tho sGth Foot, to he Captain, vice John Bruce,
wbo retires on half-pay of the sith Foot.
21st Foot—Ensign, Robert Harkness, from the 71st
Foot, to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Robert
Nicholson, cashiered by the sentersco of a General Court
Martial, July 19.
37th Foot—Ensign Robert Mark Halyburton, from
the KBth Foot, to be Ensign, vice Henry, appointed to
the 86th Foot, July 19.
3-Bth Foot—Captain Napier Turner Christie, from
half-00'; Unattached; to be Captain, vice Thomas
Southall, 'who exchanges- Lieutenant William James
Loftus to be Captain, mice 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 Cormick, promoted; William Ilickes
Idorgdon Messenger, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase,
vice Blyth, July 19.
56th Foot—Lieutenant Allen M'Donald has been per-
mitted to retire from the Service by the ale of his com-
mission. July 19.
65th Foot—Lieut. Christopher Rhatigan to be Captain,
without purchase, vice Smith, deceased, Dec. 14.
71st Foot—Lieut. Frederick J. Colin Halkett to be
Captain, by purchase, vice Dash wood, who retires, July
19 ; Ensign Robert Charles William Stuart to have the
rank of Lieutenant, July 18 ; Ensign Jsbn Fuller to be
Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Halkett ; Ensign Duncan
Downie Fletcher, from the 42nd Foot, to be Ensign,
vice Harkness, promoted to the 21st Foot, July 19.
72d Foot—Captain John William Gaisford to be
Major, by purchase, vice Moclean, promoted in 3d West
India Regiment; Lieutenant Walter Barrington Odynell
Campbell, to be Captain, by purchase, vice Gaistord;
Lieutenant Lydston Newman to be Captain, vice Lord,
who retires July 19.
3d West India Regiment—Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel
Chorles Maxwell Maclean, from the 72d Foot, to be
Lieutenant-Colonel, by purcbase,•vice Perry, who retires,
July 19.
HOSPITAL STAPP.—Deputy Inspector. General of
Hospitals Charles- St. John, M.D., to be Inspector-
General of Hospitals, vice Henry Franklin, who retires
upon half-pay; Deputy Inspector-General, with local
rank.* Andrew Fergus:on, M.D., to be Deputy Inspec-
torioaerieral of Hospitals, vice St. John; Surgeon Wil-
liam Dobson, frornthe 15th Foot, to be Staff surgeon

of the First Class, vice Fergi isson; Surgeon Alexander
Cribb, M.D., from the 45th Foot, to be Staff Surgeon of
the Second Class, vice Dyce, appointed to the 15th Foot,
July 19.
UNATTACHED.—Brevet Major Guy Clarke, from the
77th 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, cf the 29th
Foot, March 2.
To be Majors in the Army in the East Indies—Captain
Herbert Benjamin Edwardes, of the Ist Bengal Euro-
pean Regiment, March 22; Captain Henry James Stan-
nu:, of the sth Regiment of Bengal Cavalry, April 17.
Commission by the Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire.
The Hon. Richard Thomas Rowley to be Deputy-
Lientenant, July 12.
Commission by the Lord Lieutenant of Lancashire.
John Abraham Tinne, Esq., to be Deputy-Lieutenant,
July 12.