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    ¦ » . ¦ IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT . Monday , July 11 . VOLUNTEERS AND MILITIA . In the House of Lords some questions respecting the drill and instruction of volunteer rifle corps gave rise to a conversation on the subject in which the Earl of Winchilsea , the Marquis of Clanricarde , the Earl of Malniesbury , and other peers participated . Lord Ripott said it was not the intention of her Majesty ' s Government to pay instructors for the volunteer rifle corps ; it was simply intended to supply them with trained instructors , who would be paid and boarded by the rifle corps themselves Neither was it designed to issue pay and uniforms to the corps of volunteer artillery , but only to supply them with guns , ammunition , and instruction . He also stated that her Majesty ' s Government had made preparations for the instruction of 25 adjutants and 100 sergeants at the school of musketry at Hythe , who , when sufficiently trained , would be employed to instruct their comrades in the use of the Imfield rifle , which would then be issued to . the . embodied militia . —Lord Malmesbury thought artillery corps would be more attractive to volunteers , if i * were understbod that they Would not be employed out of their own counties . —Lord Ripon declined to enter into a discussion on so important a matter .

    • COOLIE IMMIGRATION . Lord Brougham in presenting a petition called attention to the subject of coolie emigration to the British West Indian Colonies , which he contended , under the operation of local acts and practices , had degenerated into something not far removed from a revival of the slave trade . The Earl of Cork inquired whether the Government intended to bring in aiiy . bill for the better management of endowed schools in Ireland . —Lord Granville said the Government did not intend to introduce a bill this session . The subject , however , was . at the present moment under the consideration of the Government . Their lordships adjourned at six o ' clock . BED SEA AND 1 NDJA TELEGRAPH BILL . In the House of Commons , on the motion for taking into consideration the Lords' amendments on the Red Sea and India Telegraph Company ' s Bill , Sir J . Graham : moved as an amendment that the further consideration of the measure should be postponed for a fortnight . As the bill , in its amended shape , was laid before the House , there is a provision that the Government give a guarantee of four and a-half per cent , upon the capital paid up , and this guarantee is to extend for half a century . Such

    a . guarantee might , as Lord Duncan said , amount to a Government grant of 45 , 000 / . a year for a Red Sea telegraph . ' It was the late Government that wished to make this arrangement , with the view , as Mr . Disraeli explained , to establish telegraphic communication with India . Mr . Gladstone said the present ( Government wore not disposed to overthrow an -arrangement which might have the appearance of . breaking fuith with » . company . The bill was ^ agreed to in its amended shape by a majority of 47 , . hut not fewer than 130 members divided with Sir James Graham for postponement .

    Sir S . NojiTiicoTE inquired whether the Submarine Telegraph Company had been permitted by ¦ the Government to lay down any additional wires bqtween England and France , and whether the perjtnission had been given to them without requiring a surrender or modification of the monopoly recently granted by the French Government , which gives them an exclusive right to lay down lines of telegraph between the two countries ?—Mr . Laing stated

    Lord Gbanville , in answer to a question from Lord Airlie in regard to the report of the Commissioners of the University ( Scotland ) Act , said he could not give any definite reply , as the report was still under the consideration of Commissioners , and had not been yet communicated to her Majesty ' s Government . Their lordships adjourned a little after seven . greive ' s disabilities removal bill . In the House of Commons the second reading of

    Greive ' s Disabilities Removal Bill , brought in as a private bill , was opposed on the ground that it involved a public question . Mr . Greive , it was contended , having fallen under episcopal censure in Scotland on account of errors which he had not rer canted , had no title to enjoy an endowment in the English church . After a prolonged discussion an amendment moved by Mr . A . Steuart , to defer the second reading for three months , was carried by a majority of 232 to 84—148 ; so that the bill , which had passed the other House , is lost .

    THE PEACE . Mr . Disraeli having inqu i red whether the results of the interview held by the Emperors of France and Austria on the previous day had come to the knowledge of the Government , Lord J . Russell stated that information had been received from the French ambassador in London to the effect that preliminaries of peace had been signed by the two Emperors . By a telegraphic despatch from Lord Cowley he had further been informed that the bases agreed upon were these : —That Lombardy should be given up by Austria to the Emperor of the French , in order to its being consolidated with the dominions of the King of Sardinia . That the

    Italian States were to be consolidated into a Federation , of which the Pope would be honorary President ; and that Venice was to become a member of that Federation , under ^ the government of an Austrian Archduke . The Emperor of the French , to whom it had been proposed that Savoy should be ceded as a compensation for the expense of the -war , had declined to accept any addition to the territory of his empire . After making this announcement the noble lord expressed the hope that Lord Elcho would not , under the circumstances , persevere with the motion of which he had given notice respecting the Italian question . Lord Elchq signified his intention to abandon that motion . FEEJEE ISLANDS . / In reply to a question from Colonel Sykcs , Lord J . Russell said the sovereignty of the Feejee Islands had been very much pressed upon her Majesty ' s Government ; that the matter was under consideration , and no final decision had been come to . At the instance of Mr . S . Herbert , who made a brief explanatory statement , Sir A . Agnew postponed his motion on the subject of salutes to religious processions . Mr . E . James , in moving for a series of papers relating to the differences between Mr . Thomas Chisholm Anstey and the authorities at Hongkong , made a statement , in order , he said , that the grounds of his motion might be intelligible to the House . — Mr , C . Fortescue stated that the Secretary of State for the Colonies , having only just entered upon his office , had found it impossible to make himself master of the correspondence upon this subject . — The motion was withdrawn .

    CIVIL SERVICE EXAMINATIONS . Mr . Cochrane moved an address to her Majesty to instruct the Civil Service Examiners that all personp who entered any service or profession prior to the 21 st of May , 1855 , to which service or profession the present system of examinations is applicable , shall be considered eligible for promotion without being subjected to any examination . He mentioned cases in which the existing rules operated harehly , and in criticising the system of examination , tho stringency of which he condemned , he adduced some . rather ludicrous examples of tho questions put to candidates . The Chancellor of tho Exchequer , after a general defence of tho system , observed , with reference to tho specific obthat Coclir had not shown

    could not but hope , especially as there was to be a meeting that day between the tyro Emperors at Villafranca , that the belligerent Powers would propose some terms by which hostilities could be put an end to . No further official information , however , had been received upon the subject except a telegram from our Ambassador at Paris .

    SUPPLY" COMMITTEE . The report of the Committee of Supply was brought up and agreed to . On the order for going into Committee of Supply , Mr Kinnaird called attention to the propriety of securing a road for the passes of carriages and horses from Charing cross through Spring-gardens into St . James ' s Park * and asked the Chief Commissioner of Works , whether he intended to avail himself of the opportunity afforded by the pulling down of Berkeley-house , and to take steps for effecting this

    great improvement . —Lord DuncaSt , followed by Lord J . Manners , reminded the House that the important question of cost and compensation should be taken into consideration—Mr . Fitzrot observed that Mr . Kinnaird should have shown the great advantage of the proposed " improvement , " and that it could be accomplished at a small cost . He ( Mr . Fitzrot ) was prepared to take issue with him upon both points . He believed the advantage would be small , and that the expense would be not less than

    53 , 000 ? ,. Sir J . Pakington asked Lord C . Paget for further explanation of the announcement he had made on Friday , since confirmed by an Order in Council , of the intention of the present Government to extend the bounty to seaman retrospectively , which he thought would establish a dangerous precedent . — Lord C Paget said he did explain to some extent the reasons of the extension of bounty on certain conditions lie could not then state the exact amount of the expense , and , as the measure would coine before the House when the estimate was laid upon the table , he requested to be excused from continuing the discussion . state

    Colonel Dickson having adverted to some - ments which had appeared in a newspaper respecting the insignificant number of troops available for the defence of the country , General Peel read a return , showing that on the 1 st of June , the aggregate number of men of all arms on / actual service in the United Kingdom , including about 23 , 000 embodied militia , was 109 , 614 . Of these nearly 14 , 000 belonged to the artillery , who could bring 180 guns fully equippped into the field at a few hours ' notice , besides having 110 more in store , with all their apparatus complete to the minutest detail . — Mr . WiiLrAMS commented upon the enormous magnitude and rapid increase in the military and naval expenditure iof the country . —The motion was agreed to , and the House , in committee of supply , proceeded to discuss the remaining votes belonging to the supplemental navy estimates .

    On resuming , the remaining business on the paper was disposed of , and the House adjourned at twenty minutes to two . Tuesday , July 12 . PRELIMINARIES OF PEACE . In the House of Lords , Lord / Wodehouse announced that the Government had received a telegraphic despatch from Verona , stating that preliminaries of peace had been agreed upon between the Emperor of the French and tho Emperor of Austria . The noble lord proceeded to describe the principal bases of this agreement , which were , of course , similar to those recapitulated by Lord John Russell in the other House .

    On the motion of the Marquis of Clanrioardb , some returns were ordered respecting the courts of common law in Ireland . In reply to a question from the Earl of Carnarvon , the Duke of Newcastle explained tho present state of the question relating to the definition of boundary and participation of debt between the nondivided colonies of Now South Wale . s and Queenstown , and described the measures which had been adopted for the settlement of that question , EVIDENCE IN CHANCKRT . Lord Lyndhurst , in moving for the appointment of a Select Committee to inquire into the mode of talcing evidence in the Courts of Chancery and its ort thereon nted out the dif

    ject of tho motion , Mr . ano any sufficient reasons for tho interference of tho House . J-ord PAi-wEnsTON said , although , like all otlier arrangements , this system -was liable to some imperfections , he believed that , on tho wholo , it had tended very much to the advantage of tho public service , whilo it have given a stimulus to education all over tho country . Ho hadl represented to tho Civil Service Commissioners that some of tho quostions were open to objection j and tho answer—which ho thought a satisfactory one—was that they woro supernumerary questions , added to the oloinontnry questions , in order to tost the gonoral ojflloioncy and comparative intelligence of tho young men . Ho recommended Mr " . Coohrano to withdraw the motion . —The motion was withdrawn .

    effects , and to rep , poi - ferent modes of procedure in the courts of common law and equity , and complained , of tho complicated method of taking , evidence in the latter courts , Ho explained that evidence was taken by one set of persons and decided on by another , and that counsel bad tho means of tampering with evidence , or , as it was technically called , " cooking an affldavit . " Ho insisted on the necessity of taking stops to remedy the defects of a system wlilch he characterised as almost useless , very expensive , and very dilatory . ' The Lord Chancellor , thinking that tho present system was susceptible of great improvement , agreed to the motion . Lprd Cranwqrth , Lord Chelmsford , Lord Brougham , and Lord Wensleydalo made a fow remarks , after which the motion was agreed to .

    l'ACKWT AND WSMCGRAJPino 0 QNTRAGT 8 . The Chancellor of tho ExomoQunn , moved the nomination of tho Select Committee on Packet and Tclqgrapliio Contracts , —Mr . ItoicBucit asked tho

    that the company had , on application , declined to . surrender their French monopoly . Tho present Government had in consequence at first objected to " grant them permission to lay down any additional wires between England and France , but found that under the terms of their charter tho company were entitled to demand that privilege . This permission , he added , would only last until the expiration of their charter , in 1862 .

    In reply to Mr . Butler , the Chancellor of the Exchequer stated that no intention existed to bring in a bill during the present session to alter tho present system under which tho income tax was ussossed and collected .

    THE AttMISTIOia . Mr . Disraeli inquired whether her Majesty ' s Government liad received any offlicial intimation from that of Franco of the armistice agreed to between the Allies and Austria ; whether it was a msr © military convention , or whether it hold out any prospect of negotiations for peace . —Lord J . Rusbbll said , he had nothing , to add to what ho stated on Friday . It appeared on tho face of tho . armistice that It was only fojf military purposes j at 4 fto same time , its duration being for five weeks , he

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  • Leader (1850-1860), July 16, 1859, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_16071859/page/4/