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

rHE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, JULY 31, 857

Naval and Military intelligence. Graham, C. 8., to be rear-admiral of the white, IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.
vice A. T. E. Vidal, Esq., to be rear-admiral of
the red.

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. Bentinck, General
Wynyard, and Mr. G. C. Glyn.
Yesterday General Sir J. F. Burgoyne, G.C.8,,
Inspector-General of Fortifications, visited the
Royal Engineers' establishment 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-
.noon 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. Siborne,
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 broke up into sections and went
through a variety of manoeuvres. They afterwards
went through the lasso exercise, which has been
taught them by Sir F. Head.
The troops embarked in the freightship Whirl-
wind, mentioned yesterday, were the following :-
1 field officer, 2 captains, 4 subalterns, 3 staff, 22
sergeants, 9 drummers, 8 corporal, 225 privates
of the 19th Foot. The following were the officers :
—Lieut.-Colonel J. L. Rocke, e. 8., Captains H. J.
Erniacke and G. H. Warburton ; Lieutenants H. J.
Browne, E. N. Kinder sley, A. C. Martin ; Ensign
H. Thompson, Paymaster T. Palmer, Adjutant T.
Thompson, Surgeon T. Longmore ; also, Captain
M'Pherson, Ensign Spooner, and Assistant-Surge oil
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 diummers, 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 Victor is,
and 203 in the Australian. The officers are Lieut.-
Col. A Cameron ; Majors F. G. -Wilkinson and E.
R. Priestly ; Captains J. C. McLeod, 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, .W. Cockburn, Hon. R. H.
Stewart, A. J. Brarnley, 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 421 will com-
mence embarking to-morrow or Monday.
The 34'h Regiment arrived at Portsmouth from
Edinburgh yesterday fur embarkation in the Golden
Fleece for India. These troops co cup rise 51 sergeants,
23 drummers, 701 rank and file, and the following
officers :—Lieut.-Colonels R. D. Kelly and J.
Sampson ; 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. li. Marsh, Lieutenants
A. W. Boyce, J. L. Moore, J. B. O'Loghliu, J.
Byron, T. H. Saunders, F. Pell, J. F. Wyse, R.
J. Cochrane, E. Jordan, W. M. Dunbar, T. S.
' Holroyd, M. Lauifen • 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 had not arrived at Spithead
last night. Th,-) 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 he 42d and others before named.
The Victoria will embark 286 Royal Artillery, be-
aides 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 of 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 Bay from the Mauritus on the evening of
the 3d of June, all well, do-ely followed by the
Barracouta, 6, Commander Fortescue, from China.
The Himalaya left Simon's Bay on the morning of
the 3d June at 11 o'clock, and went out of the flay
healthfully. 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 c )rps 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 Devasta'ion, 6,
Comander E. 'Marshall, arrived at Plymouth on
Sunday from Woolwich for the West Indies.
The gunnery ship Cambridge, Capt. A. W. Jer-
niughaw, left, Plymouth Sound on Wednesday
evening for Spithead.
His Netherlands Majesty's war steamer Gehdi,
Commander Haring, from Flelvoetsluys, en.ered.
Piymouth Sound on Wednesday for coal. She is
armed with six heavy guns, two mor ars, and a
long heavy pivot gun, and is bound to Batavia,
touching at Rio Janeiro.

TheViolic, 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. Noiloth.
During the time she bas been in commission she
has been employed 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 Nerburlda, 16, but wi,hout effect. In 1856, i
Commander NoHuth 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. SI3)
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 bru•al
murder of Mr. Hagan, 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. Fear deaths occu. red 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 51. to Corporal
Weeks ; gratuities of 7/. 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 Curragh. 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
e.corupany of the GOth Rifles.
The Right Hon. Sir C. Wood, as First Lord of
the Afluihalty, held his last leiree this season yes-
terday.
The following appointments were madeesteD.
day, at .the Admiralty :
Y
Capt. H. Xyres, to the St. Vincent ; Commander
J. F. Ross, to the Brubswick ; G. F. A. Drew,
surgeo, t the 1" —"wk • J. H. N. Moss, second
mastern, too thJaseur ; L. Kell, second master,
the Pyladee.
to the Jasper; W. Smith ,acting
second-master, to

A captain's good. service pension alio 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. 8.. K.C.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 this offi-
cer and the next in seniority, Captain W. S. Smith,
have not served their time as captains, the third on
the list, Captain the Hon. H. Keppel, 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 George Brown
(1847) comes on the 12s. 6d. per diem list.

HOUSE OF LORDS-(YESTERDAY.)

Lord COLVILLE presented a petition from a place
in Fife against the Lunacy (Scotland) Bill.
Viscount DUNG-ANNON presented a petition from
Edesmere in Litchfield, against the Divorce Bill.

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 bills were read a second time :—Boun.
daries of Land (Ireland) Bill ; Glebe Lands (Ireland)
Bill.

The following bills passed through committee :
Public Works (Irel Ind) Bill ; Turnpike Acts Continu-
ance Bill ; Banking Bi 1 ; and the Industrial Schools
Bill.

The following bills were read a third time and passed :
—Militia Ballot Suspension Bill ; Public Health Act
(Aldershot) Bill.
The Reformatory Institutions Bill was withdrawn.
RELIGIOUS BR A.WLS (IRELAND).
Viscount DITNGANNON presented a petition from
the protestant inhabitants of the parish of St. Ni-
cholas Without in the City of Dublin, praying that they
might ba protected from mob violence, that their minis-
ters, scripture readers, and school children might have
awarded 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.)
CASHEL ELECTION.
The SPEAKER announced that the petition against
the return of Sir T. O'Brien had been withdrawn.
INDIA.—HER MAJESTY'S ANSWER TO THE
ADDRESS.
Lord CASTLE ROSSE, Comptroller of the Household,
brought up her Majesty's most gracious answer to the
address agreed to by the House of Commons a few nights
since on the motion of Lord J. Russell, relative to the
present state of India. Her Majesty thanked the Com-
mons for their loyal and dutiful address, and the assur-
ance of the cordial support of any measures that
might be deemed necessary for repressing tbe distur-
bances in India, and for restoring contentment and
tranquillity in that important portion of her Majesty's
dominions.
The other orders for the morning sitting were disposed
of, and the house suspended its sitting at 4 o'clock.
The house resumed at 6 o'clock.
MILITARY EDUCATION.
Sir J. R MSDEN laid on the table the first report of
the Council on M;litary Education.
EAST INDIA. (OUDE).
The Earl of GIFFORD obtained an order for copies
of a despatch from the Governor-General of India in
Council, dated the 4th Sept., 1853, together with its en-
closures, and of the reply from the Court of Directors of
the East India Company relating to Oude.
THE STENCH FROM THE RIVER.
Mr. ADDERLEY asked the First Commissioner of
Works whether he had any plan for the prevention of the
pestilential stench which comes every evening into every
window on the river front of the Houses of Parliament ;
whether there is any power to enforce better trapping of
the drains, or a removal of the deposits of bones and
other refuge on the opposite bank, or whether legislation
for the purpose is necessary ; or, if there be redress,
whether any plan has been suggested by which the
stench may be shut out of the houses by closing up all
the windows on the river side, and admitting air from
another eUrection ?
Sir B. HALL replied that the providing of a remedy
for the evil did not rest with the department over which
he presided, but with the Board of Works, but in con-
sequence of the representations that had been made he
had seen Mr. Gurney on the subject, and that gentleman
had given him this explanation :—That the stench came
from the mouths of the sewers, and that the whole neigh-
bourhood was infected. Another cause of this annoy-
mace, he was informed, was that the Great Victoria
sewers had broken up, so that the sewage was diverted
into the Bridge-street sewer, where it had caused a blow-
ing up of the trapping. Another great cause of the an-
noyance was on the other side of the river, where certain
offensive trades were carried on. And here he must
remind the house of a circumstance which occurred when
a bill was brought in to suppress nuisances of this kind in
large towns, and was referred to a select committee. When
it came down from the committee it was in such a state
that had it passed as it then stood, ample power would
have been given to the local authorities to suppress such
nuisances, and there was also a clause to impose a penalty,
on the local board if they negleCted their duty in this re-
spect. But no sooner did this state of the bill become
known, than the bone-boilers and gut-spinners—
(laughter)—canvassed the members of this house, and
the result was that those clauses were struck out. We
were thus left entirely in the hands of the local boards,
and if it happened that any persons carrying on those
trades were on the boards, it was not to be expected
that much would be done in the matter. It was a
curious circumstance that the hon. member who put the
question was one of those who were most instrumental
in making the alterations which had left the law in its
present state. (Laughter.)
REGISTRATION OF IRELAND.
Mr. ESMONDE asked the Chief Secretary for Ire-
land if it was the intention of the Government to intro-
duce in this or the next session a measure to provide for
the general registration of birth., marriages, and deaths,
in Ireland I
Mr. H. HERBERT said it was not the intention of
Government to introduce any such measure at present.
THE MILITIA.
Colonel GREVILLE asked the Under Secretary for
War at what period and bow it was intended to pay this
year's instalment of their bounty to the men of the re-
giments of militia who were not called out for training ?
Sir J. RAMSDEN said the precise date had not yet
been fieetel.
CIVIL SERVICE SUPERANNUATION BILL.
Mr. S. FITZGERALD inquired what course the
Government proposed to take with respect to this bill,
the second reading of which was carried yesterday by so
great a majority.
Lord PALMERSTON said the Government had
thought it their duty to state at considerable length their
object one to the bill, which would entail considerable
increase of expense to the country, but the house having
affirmed the second reading by so full and so large a
majority, they thought it would not be respectful to the
house, to oppose it any further.
Mr. GLADSTONE asked whether it was the inten-
tion of the Government to have any revision of the sala-
ries of civil servants in consequence of this bill I
Lord PALMERSTON said that as the effect of the
bill would be to add from 23/4 to 5 per cent. to tbe salaries
of the civil servants, the revision, if any, would be a re-
vision by which these salaries would be diminished.
THE LATE TELEGRAPH.
Mr. STAFFORD asked if the Government were pre-
pared to give any explanation of the late period at which
they had received the telegraphic message from Trieste ?
Sir C. WOOD said that he was not able to give any
reason for the delay. The vessel arrived at Trieste at 9
o'clock on Tuesday morning. It was the duty of the
harbour-master to communicate the intelligence to the
consul, who in his torn had to draw up and transmit the
telegraphic message to this country. The despatch was
' forwarded by the consul at half-past 10 o'clock, but it
was not received here till half-past'l2 on Wednesday
morning. Government had no control over the message
after it left the hands of the consul, but it was certain
that the message had taken 26 hours in travelling from
Trieste to London. The East India Company received
their message about the same time, after a delay pretty
nearly equal.
Mr. WARREN asked if any apatication had been
made at the telegraph-office for intonation on the sub-
ject ?
Sir C. WOOD replied that he had not received the
answer that the telegraphic message had left Trieste
at the time he had stated. It was clear that the delay
was not owing to any neglect on the part of Govern-
ment, or of any servant of the Government.
PUBLIC BUSINESS.
Lord PALMERSTON moved that upon Tuesday
ner, and on every succeeding Tuesday during the
present session, Government orders of the day shall
have precedence.
Mr. HADFIELD said that the number of bills ap-
peared to be increasing jest in proportion to the impos-
sibility of carrying them. (A. laugh.) He asked what
course would be taken with respect to the Divorce Bill,
Probate Bill, and a bill for the Relief of Proctors?
.Mr. MALINS asked whether the Government meant
to make the Probate Bill the first order for tomorrow
(this day) ?
Lord J. RUSSELL complained that after a session of
only three months' duration the Lords should have fixed
the 7th August as the last day for receiving bills from
this house.
In answer to questions from Mr. B. Hon,
Sir B. HALL said that the Public Offices Bill had
passed through committee with the distinct understand-
ing that the Govsrnment were not to go on with it till
the vote on account had been considered by the house.
Lord PALMERSTON said there was no intention to
go on with the block plan, which would involve an ex-
penditure of millions. The Divorce Bill and Probate Bid
were of so much importance that he trusted the house
would pass them at once. If the former could be dis-
posed of that evening, the latter should stand first for to-
morrow, otherwise it would stand next to the Divorce
Bill. He asked the house to pass the bills from the
Lords for the consolidation of the statutes on the faith of
the commissioners that there was no alteration in the
law involved in them, but that they were merely for
purposes of consolidation. Should the house insist on
going into the details, it would be impossible to pass
them this session, or, for 'that matter, at any future
period. The limitation of the period during which
bills could be received from this house by the Lords was
not a new practice. The noble lord appeared to take
his standard from the beginning of the session, but the
true standard was from the end of the session. (Hear.)
Doubtless the lords would waive the rule in any case of
emergency.
Mr. BRISCOE hoped the Government would post-
pone the Public Offices Bill to next session. A measure
involving such large expenditure ought not to be passed
without plans or estimates.
Mr. HARDY said the consolidation bills .were not
mere consolidation bills, but did alter the esesting lsw
materially. If not they were useltss, for the text books
contained a sufficient digest for all purposes.
The motion was carried without opposition.
DIVORCE BILLS.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said this bill had been
regarded with alarm as being supposed to ioiroluoe new
principles. This wos perfectly groundless, as the- bd..: only
pruyided a pew aus3Line,y.to c'arry out the principles