The Sun. — London, England, 1858-06-11 00:00:00

RAVIA. St. Jaznes'o 'es" in refe- De indulged im, Knights ge ball Wag aving been n and scat- Stapleton, a Egerton, Mr. WlBO, Shrewsbury dr. Briscoe, M.P., Mr. unbent of St. purling, in- Rev. J. E. en, the Re►. chbishop of oumbent of W. Cadman, v. Marshall became his a system of by a dun nab.- .d. He doh he had lad been es : room of St. to have been nd cannot of caused loud It had been dl that this of profligate y could get, women did and it was nd upon an ridence from d their evi he could get Che hon. and that codes id in that die bishop, who lilies, issued Bishop of k, B.A. Lord Bishop September, is ' der his hand e to perform n the Church of St. Paul, ithin our dio u the yearl7 wing the said thority given mt, made and reign of her 'An Act to and to make y," and of all ordinary and aoving, do by void the said love you, tko it stipendiarf aid, from this f May, in the id and, epieco• )ON." L S should 130 6 Mr. Liddell'', him tO Example end t. A woman the lived for of St. raurev lour fitted up ►liar covers& 's. She had ying, in or ,o them. 111 f lady visitor• 'feats, for the, )n. The re.: had searched and this wa d ended. (Tr•• >glum en the In of hia . rdehip wou ld,' l dealt Wit h ration of those He conclude!' , for the lud, l * . b r inging t he .stical anttiorr motion, w bleb all the bag' og, to the ear" till eXpootatiOo ! CE. meeting of the Company wa° ies of the f ol. rere su bmitted t ble the South line of railwei land at NO' I to enable the ete their Pea' oke Dock, t° to abandon [outh, sod f ° , l ie Londe° 03' atruct wor k* Ities of SAWN ick, Cheaters r alltho6oll3 red Post al id and Ir ele o l Compenl , k l dereey DO ; corks at 13'_.1." ion to, thl rpoo sea-wall t I DO I " A ug a rail Ruth Viest e ' o f the pariah 4 with a b 011390 ;mat Vireetst_ Esiewortht l of direot ° /: used APPr° Dap•) English w h i e l ' •age. 20•""t pt) a, the cie. te formire of . • e Boos es were ll° e rg Lowevor, it is curren_oco• cbang° .sign oli o r s ted, at )t cheaPer' 1 :14)ar. 920 2, 090 69 0 W. ;60 1041 L. 98/ e. r 3 ..3 ..4 ~3 t d. 0 .; g 0 0 4 31 4 0 4 6 6 4 4 6 stea a l' " eg tea° e wr 12l ;plan Biog. • est to 51 ' all • w Su °-- IN Par (”1 i nt° %te b ut ' 'let Pu blic g OP' iy f 03 • ktes• u sli . •etter t d Atarkfo, fly Prev' flat' toOr- i . t o l e ,sooP )n 9 . t ide, this sr ier obe*Per' o - 11 bus.' S o me full valuf; ialities e t ill the BP es I l a st tbr C °6 ,tat P u of uell- - ip )ne - ob• good 7, NEWTON RACES.—(This Day.) (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) LYME PARK STAKES. Ra.pberry A.wful lead Knowledge. Tbr( • ran. OITZY MARKET AA D CO tyt CIAL CITY, Two o'CLocx. The market for Foreign and Colonial Produce during the past few days has exhibited rather more a ctivitly, some large quantities of most of the lead g sta pies having been offered at public sale. Tea na g realised steady rates, and sugar of good grocery has slightly improved. Coffee rates at rather higher t ql!otations, more particularly for good bold descriptions of Plantation Ceylon. There has been a fair inquiry for fruit and spicez, but rice has been dull and at public sale lower rates were current except for the finer qualities. The demand for saltpetre continues very steady and full values are realised for the better qualities. In indigo a fair amount of business has been done by private C ontract, and prices of East India have improved 2 d. to 3d. per lb. on the rates realised at the close of the fast sales. For tallow there has been rather More enquiry, and prices are steady. P.Y.C. on t he spot is quoted 535. 61, July to September 613 - Gd., and last 3 months 50s. 6d. per cwt. ~.accounts from Liverpool state that the Cotton -elarket yesterday closed heavily, and prices slightly receded. The sales wore estimated at 3 00 0 bales, 1,000 of which were taken ou apron 4tion. The Railway Share Market manifested rather an animated appearance, and quotations again advanced. _ _ _ The Rink of France have reduced the minimum rate of discount from 6 per cent., at which it was adjusted on the 18th February, to 3i per cent. This measure was generally anticipated, and t he monthly balance sheet now published allows that it was fully justified. The lion has further accumulated, and in the other principal departments an improvement " 4 also occurred. A notice was posted at the 3 oluse to the effect that the rate of interest and (l ificount had been lowered, but it caused no further I m provement in values, because the alteration had been so generally anticipated. The alt.: , rations exhibited in this return will be s een by the following table : B ullion,, .Z 20,415,526 ... Increase £2,710,168 Discounts advanced on pub lic 8 . f . 1 339 868 Decrease 96,696 A securities • • • •Alvanced on rail -B„nriti„.., 2,672,067 ... Decrease 469,448 ` 4l3 tes in circulation 23,421,935 ... Decrease 277,006 The meeting of the North of Europe Steam Navi gation Company to-day was for receiving the report " the ballot in respect to the amendment on the report of the directors, but the business having be en conducted illegally no report was made, and the meeting therefore adjourned, having passed a v°lo of thanks to the directors. The market for English Securities opened with tilt:lnes; and at a slight advance in quotations, lit there has since been a little flatness consequent 11 0 3 ° 11 a few sales. The transactions, however, have been limited, and all departments of the house ?resent a singularly dull appearance. Consols f or account, ex div., have been at 96 961 ; and they are now 951 96. The New Threes are 951 961 ; and the Reduced 96 to 961. India Debentures, s , C i ) i ; India Bonds, 203 . to 21 s. pm. ; and Ex chequer do.. 1001 101. Bank Stock is 219t0 221. The transactions in the Foreign Stock Market Ir e, extremely limited, and prices are stead y . t - urkish 6 per Cents. are 95 ; Brazili an 4 f p er ‘'ents., 98 ; Grenada Deferred, 6 ; Peruvian 3 e r Cents., 66 ; and Portuguese 3 per Cents., 46 i ; B razilia n Scrip is par to 1 premium. i,s _kessrs. D. Bell, Son, and Co., give the follow -" as the prices of American Securities : GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. Redeemable. Per Cent. 114 4 tr ed States 6 per Cents. 1867-1868...105 106 sited States 6 per Cent. Bonds 1868...103 106 STATE SECURITIES. jklike bas 5 per Cent 7B 4 11 tucky 6 per Cent. Bonds 1868-1872... 91 93 k_tYland 5 per Cent. (Sterling Bonds)... ... I q o 2 9 kriebusetts 5 per Cent. (Sterl. Bonds). Oi 101 k ltßiasippi 6 per Cent. Bk. onds lB4l-1871... p ' 4ll lssippi 5 per Cent. Union Bk. Bonds ... p... 64ll sylvania 5 per Cent. Stock f m4 sYlvania 5 per Cent. Bonds ~..1877... 82 84 le!onessee 6 per Cent. Bonds Irillia.6 5 p per Cent. Bonds 1886... 83 85 er Cent. (Sterling Bonds) 1888... 83 84 )L_ LOANS OF CITIES. krton 4i per Cent. Bonds 1883... 90 entreal 6 per Cent. Bonds 1856-1865... evf Orleans 6 per Cent. Stock 1883... . RAILROAD BONDS. tams Central 7 per Cent. Ist Mortgage, .„,$)?ot Convertible 1875... 80 82 V!!nols Central 6 per Cent 1875... 80 82 'minion Central 7 per Cent. Freeland Bonds 1860... 77 79 Tanis Central (Shares), $3O paid ... 16 d 14d Michi gan Central 8 p. Cent., Convert 1860... Do. do. do. 186 9... 82 84 NY k Central 7p. Cent., Convert 1864... 92 94 or 61 v York Central 6 per Cent., not Convertible 1883... 81 83 -A. very limited business has been transacted in the Railway Share Market this morning, but a ill ight improvement may ba reported in the values . °ll everal of the leading lines. Eastern Counties, r eat Western, and North Eastern (York), im proved ss. ; Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, i dland and Vale of Neath, 10s.; Caledonian, 155.; an d Brighton, 11. In the Foreign and Colonial 44 kets scarcely any business has been done. aria and Lyons have improved ss. ; Namur and Li e Re, 55.; and Pernambuco, ss. East Indian have a dvanced 15s. Por J o i n t Sto c k Bank and Miscellaneous Shares th ere has been a very limited enquiry. Bank of t itYpt have declined ; Ottoman Bank, ; Lon -104 Chart er ed of Australia, Union of London, P alace General Omnibus Company, and Crystal .r alace are at previous quotations. thlt ITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CI °CS. (Fran the Official List:) ' lt enk Stock 3 New Cont. itenncod Anusitleo i'ew l per Cont. Annuities 96 6 5k India Loan Debentures 994 i 41 1(lia, , sonde, .6aOOU •• ... ....... 21 %to, under £lOOO 2O 1 '9.° l -30: 1 3 for Account 4 :cheq uer 131114, 2;d. March. June. st:io % null 36 i /Irchequor Bonds, 1858, 3i por Cent.... Ditto 1559 • P— ICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK. r oan 5 per Cent. birenadtto 4i Cent. 1853 9B %I a New ® Actve, 2} per Cent. , b itto Deferred — 64 o .-- rnviau Bonds, 4i per Cent — D itto 3 r Cent. . Pe D itto — ttto Account . . Tlrtuguese Bonds, 3 per Cent., 1853 (I ,, r) tieb Bonds, 6 per cent D itto Account .. Dividends on the above payable in London. TWO O'CLOCK. 95/ 6 Googol s for account l'ltO7s/ GALWAY TO NEW YORIL—A second trial trip i n 'the steamship Indian Empire was made at Southamp- Ic a un Wednesday, with a disticguished company on l a %rd, f or a fi na l t ea t o f e ngines and speed preparatory to at first Transatlantic voyage from Ireland to America. i t ° Prising the Government measured ground in Stokes h t Ythe "knot," or nautical mile of 2,026 yards, was h „° in 4 minutes 46 seconds, with 161 revolution s per t :',,inute. The trial was considered eminently satisfac ‘;7. The Indian Empire leaves Galway for Halifax New York on Friday, the 18th inst., with passen , t r t‘ and the mails for Nova Scotia, Canada, and the v a tll L ted States, being the first steamer of a projected " e ltlY line . The voyage from Galway to Halifax is ex ranted t o be . run in eight days. O V XIGHT OF THE NEW BIG BEN.—This bell was 3 , a llied yesterday, and the result given by the steel tlitrd was 13 tons 10 cwt. 1 qr. 12 lb., or rather more e 44 two tons less than the former one. It is still, ID:tw ill") one of the largest bells in Europe, excluding ei: °B4 , the country of large t ells, being only i nterior in e a nd weight to those of Vienna and Olmutz. The .11..eflirt bell now exceeds it a little in weight, for though v . : diameter and thickee.s are loss its height is greater. yeeLeact dimensioi.s of the present Big Ben have not 11 0 - T en iven and aas follows ;—Diameter, 9ft. fat ou g side;7lt . 6in. re ; 6ft. 4Ain. ; thickness of fo und bow, 84in . • thickness of thinnest part, gio. The uutir, quarter bells 'of which the tuning was suspended tj e c i ll the rec a ;ti og , of the great bell, are expected to be p -ver d ed in a few days, atter which they will be taken illeZ" hung without delay, and the clock will follow .. 1 .2 .3 SHE.: 0; MARKETS— (This Day). RAILWAYS. raILWATs, Closing Price yesterday Bestows done this day. Ambg. Nottng. Bost. b Eastn. June..... Belfast & Ba. Hymen Blrmng. Wolverh. d Stour Palley Birkenhd. La.ncsh. 6 Cheshire Junct Blackburn Blyth & Tyne original £25 (iss. at £45) Bristol & Caledonian-- ...... . Chester gz Holyhear' Cork and Bandon Cork, Black. & Pass Cornwall 531 - 61 7i - 8i 6 9 - 71 9i - 10 26i -27 t 88 - 90 82i -82 i 34 - 36 ••• --- .. 4i - .5 Dg A Do. B Dublin&BelfastJune Dun. P. &Aber Juno. East Anglian . Eastern Counties Easterntrnion,A.stk Do., do. Do. New A .. East Kent East Lancashire ..... East Suffolk ........ Do. Edinburgh & Glasgow Edinb.Prth. diDund , 34 Forth and ClydeJunc. Furness ... Glasgow & S. Western Great N. of Scotland Great Northern Do., A. Stock Do., B. Stock Gt. Stb. &West. (Ire). Great Western. Do. Str.V.it. gua.St Irish South-Eastern. Lancaster &Carlisle. Do., Thirds.... ....... . jDo. New Thirds 8 -8) 161 - 17: 60: - 613 1 46 - 48 31 - 33 14i -- 15, 88 -- 90 64 - 65 26 - 28 ... .." •1 94 - 95 9i - 10 102 - 103 88 - 90 128 - 13( 102 - 104 51i - 52 5G - 58 85 -- 88 101 110 102 -- 111! 90 -- 902 1 -- 2d i a Lancash. &Yorkshire Do., do. F £l6 Do. Do., £9 Do., Wst. Riding Un Do. Sonthp6rt. London & Blackwall Do. New, iss. 5/. 10s. Loud. Bright. & S. Cs t. London St N. Wester Do. Eighths 6 - 6. 107 - 109 91i - 91 1$ - 1i 93 - 94 London & S.Weatern Lndndrry.diColeraine Lndndrry. & Ennisk, Manch. Shef. diLincln. Metropolitan Midland . Do. Birming. & Derb Midland G. West. (Ir. Do. Shares ..... Newcastle & Carlisle Newpt.A berg.&Hrfd Newry & Armagh „, %ewry, Warrenpoin' dg Restrevor 37 33 2 ld 92 92 61 66 12 = 13. Norfolk.-- ........ Northn.Counties Un North British ...... 60 - 62 3 2 ?- - 3 491 - 60 North Devon, Rail. & Dock Stock Do., A Stock Do., B Stock ..... N. Eastern—Berwick Do. do. G. N. E. Purch. Do. Leeds Do. York worth London . N. & S. Wstn., Ramp stead, and City Jn. North Staffordshire.. North Western........ N. & S. Westrn. June Oxford Worcester di Wolverhampton..... Peebles Portsmouth Rhymney Scottish Central Scot. N. E. Abrdn . St 'Do. Scot. Mid. Stock Shropshire Union Sitingbourne &Sheer 'South Devon South Eastern South Wales... S. Yorksh. River Dun ••• -.' ... 834 904 2 1 e 45 46 69i 704 95 98 5 bid 7i 8 9 29 - 31 ••• •.• 7 4 d 104 111 26 28 81 83 44 46 2i lA 35 —36 A 67* —68 i 80 82 13 15 7 5 c 8 10 24j 35* D 0........ Staines,Wok.,&Wok. Stockton & Darling► Do. do., 1854 Do. do., 1855 Stockton dt Hartlepl Taff Vale. Do. Pref., No. Thames Hay. D. &R. Vale of Neath Waterfd. & Kilkenny Waterford&Limerick West C0rnwa11........' West End of London and Crystal Palace.. Do. A Do. B ••• - ••• 98 -- 100 21 - 3i 64 - 61 West London Do, First Class Do. Second Class.. Paid BRITISH PI Atian. and St. Law. Bombay, Baroda, and Cen.lnd, guar. 5 p. c. Do. Do. Additional A Buffalo dt Lake Mir. Buff., Brut. dt God ch. 6p. ds., 1 Aug. , 1 7‘2 Do. do., 1 July, '73 Do. do., 1 June, '74 Calcutta and S. East. Central Oude (Lim.) Ceylon A s/ares Demerara . Eastern Bengal East Indian Do. C Shares Do. E. do. . ..... D 0.44 p.c.Bnds.,'s9 Geelong di Melbourne guar. 5 per cent. Gd. Trunk. of Canada, Do. 6 p. c. Deben Gt. In. Pen. g. 5 per c Do. New. guar. 5 p.c Gt. Wostn. of Canada Do. New Bda., payable '57 do., '76, p.'60... '' do., '73, do. do., '73, without option Madras, guar. 4A p.c Do. do., 5 per c. 1 Do. 4i p. c. Exton ' Do. 3d Ex., g. sp.c Do. 4th Ex., do Oude (Limited) &ludo, guar. 5 per c Do ISSESSIONS. i d i p! d par 71 s 183 88 75 80 74 78 ... - ••• i ""- li d pari 10 i 3i Mil i• - i ••• ••••• .•.1 18i -- 191 46 -- 48 81i 82i 20i -21 i par -- 4 12i8i —2 18i 0 1 107 - 17 0 10? - 110 106 -- 108 18 -- 19 204 -20 i 1 d Id 4 d p d p r - i P FOREIGN. 10 all Antwrp &Rotterdam 51 - 51 20 all Ardennes • ••• 20 3 Bahia & Francisco par ip 5 all Belgian East. Janet — 14 20 all BezierstoGraissessac 6 all Carmeaux&Toulouse Coal Mines and Ry. 21 2 20 15 Dutch Rhenish 20 all Eastern of France 244 - 25 20 2s. Euphrates Valley 20 all Gt. Central of France . . 20 all Great Luxembourg 7l 71 71 i 1.0 6 Italian Junction •.• ••• 20 all L..ce Const. & Bale 20 all Lierre and Turnhout .20 6 Lombardo-Venetian 3 342 5 all Lucca •St Pist.sp.c.p. 20 all Lyons and Geneva 334 all Maria Antenla 10 all Do. New • ••• 20 all Namur & Liege 20 all Do. do. 6p. c. Prof 2l —21 i 16 all Northern of France 361 - 37 20 8 Do. New 10 all Norweg,ianTrnk.Pret ' 6l 20 all Paris and Lyon 294 304 291 20 all Ditto New • ••• 20 all Paris and Orleans 47 49 20 9 Recife do San Frau , (Pernam.) g. 7P. C. 4 —. dB4 20 11 Riga and Danaburg 10 all Rome and Frascati.. 20 all Royal Danish • -- 5 all Royal Swedish 1 4 all Do. 7 per cent — 20 all Sambre and Meuse 74 71 10 all Do. 54 per cent. pref 8 94 20 all Southern of France 194 —19 i 81 all West Flanders 9i 5 10 all Do. 54 per c. Put 20 all W.&N.W. of France 224 —2.3 A 20 6 Western of Austria " 20 all West. of Switzerland 6 all W iesl aden 6 all Do. Bp. cent. prof. ••• 20 all Zealand JOINT-STOCK BANKS. foo 50 Agra & United Serv. 40 all Australasia 79 81 25 all Bank of Egypt 100 50 Bank of London . „ 45 47 40 all Bri. Col. Bk • dt „. 50 all British N. American 20 10 I C.Bk.of Ind. Au. &Cl 31 21 100 50 City 56 58 100 25 Colonial ••• ••• 20,1 all Commercialof Canada 100 20 Commercial of Loud. 20 all Eng • Scot.drAus.Cnt. 1 . 8 20 all Lou. Ch. Bk.of Aust. 194 20 194 50 20 London and County • 50 10 London Joint Stock. 100 20 Lond.andWestminst. 100 35 National Pro. of Eng. 20 10 Do. New ••• 50 25 National Bank 20 all Now South Wales 25 all Oriental Bank Corp 35 37 20 all Ottoman Bank 100 25 Provincial of Ireland 63 65 10 all Do. New 25 all South A astralia 25 15 Do. New 25 all Union of 464 474 ' 1 4 8 71 15 Do. New ' 3l 33 50 10 Union of London 100 50 Unity Mutual ••• . . 100 50 Wootrnßk of Loud 19 - 174 100' 100 all 00 all 25 all 10 1 9 20 all St. 100 501 34 St. 100 St. 100 St. 100 St. 100 St, 100 25 16i St. 100 St 100 St. 100 10 3/.1 j 17i all all 100 16i 100 100 all all all all all all all all 1100 i 100 'lOO 2s. ,2s6d 00 20 20 20 174 all all all all Do. Do. Do. Do. 89 82f 31 2a 6011 G 2 li 109 3i9lf 2 11 38i 1 92 a a 701 i 44 a 1011 4 1 21 i THE SUN, RAILwAYS. Bnckghamsh. Clydesdale Jo Col.Stour Vy. g. 6 p.c E. Un. Tl. Sh. Glas. Barr. di Neils. Direct. Do. Now IGletr.&Dn.Fr 1111111 & Selby IDo. Shares Do. i Shares hon.& Greenw Do. Preference Lon. Til., &S. Do. Bark. Sh. Manch.Bxton. and Matlock Mdld. Bradfd. ,Newmarket BuryE.G.spc. N.&Est.s p.c. Do. 6 per ct • Do. Fixed sp. c Prost. & Wyre I Do. Shrs. A Roystn.& Hit. ' Shrews. & Her S. StatTordsh WearVal.g6pc Do Wilts&Somrst, Leasing ICompanies Ln.&N.W. Caledon... E.U.&E.O Gt.Nortlen E. Count. Caldonian. D 0..., Gt. Westn. Y. & N.M Do Do . S. Eastern Do Peto & Co Do Ln. &N. W. dr Midid. Midland... 'E. Count Do Do 'L.~r.w. Do Gt. Northn T. Brassey M. MCloan Stk.&Dar Do IGt.Westn. 50 all 50 all 50 all 25 all 12i all St. 100 10 all' 12 all 50 all 25; all St. 100 ; PREFERENCE SHARES. 25 all Blyth and Tyne 10 p. e.pref. (issd.at 501.) ... . . St. 100 'Brie. & Ex. 4 p.c. St 95 97 gg 20 9 Po. 4 par c. Shares ... ... St. 100 'Caledn. £lO 4} p. c 100 102 St. 100 Ches. & Ho, 54 p.c ... ... St. 100 Do. do. 5 per cent ... ... 64 all Cork&Bandons4p.c ... ... 64 all Dun•Perth.&Aber.J 6 64 St. 100 E. Anglian Cls. ASh ... St. 100 Do. do. Cls. B 6p. c 110 -- 115 St. 100 iDo. do. Cls. C7p. c 107 112 St. 100 Eas„Co.Ex,sp.eNo.l 115 118 116 St. 100 Do. No. 2 ll3 116 St. 100 Do. New 6 pr. c. St 132 134 20 all East Un., G. 6p. c. 79 81 5 all Do. 51., 10 per cent. ... ... 10 all Do. 10/. Debentr.a. ... ... St. all Do. do. 4 per cent ... ... St. tOO East Lancash.6 pets ... ... 5 all EAW. York. J. sth• ... ... 10 9 Edin.& Gl. sp.c. Sh ... ~. St. 100 Ed.Prth.&Dun.4p.c. ... ... St. 100 Furness, sp. c — ••• St. 100 Glas. & 5.W.G.5 p.c . . -- St. . . 100 Groat Northn. 5 p.c. 120 122 St. 100 Do. 5 p. c. Redoem. at 10 p. c, prem ll2 114 St. 100 Do. 44 per cent lO4 106 100 60 Do. 5 p p . r e e . m , Red. at E p. c. 64 16 10 all Gt.N.ofSeot.lst Pr( 20 all Gt. S& W. (Ireland) ... ... 20 all Do. 4 pe:c. Pref. St. ... .. 50 d Gt.W.(B.&H.Ex.spc 51 ri I St. 100 Do. con. ;ed. 44 p.c. 91 93 St. 100 IDo, con, red. 4p. c. 65 87 St. 100 Do. irred. 4 per tent. 85 87 St. 100 Do. sp. c. red. pref. 100 102 8 all Do. Birm. Pref. Sh si 104 10 all Do. ChesterBp.c.P.S l6 17 10 all Do. do. sp.c. do 9l loi St. 100 Do, Binn, Gua. Stk 73 74 26i all Do. Chesh. Gua.,Sh lB4 196 134 all Do. do, do 94 81 20 all Do, do. do 136 144 St. 100 Lan.& York. 6pc.St l3B 142 St. 100 Lon. &B. G. 5 pc.No.l ... ... St. 100 D0.,P.,5 p.c.St.No.2 ... ... St. 100 Do. New Guar. 6p. c. ... ... St. 100 Do, do. sp. c., N 0.4 ... ... K. 100 Lon. &N. W., Coy. et Nuneaton sr. et ... ... St. 100 Lon. & S.W. 7 perct late 3d Shares 124 all ,Londy.& Color, 4Sh ... ... 124 all Londy.&Ennis. 6Sh ... ... St. 100 11., S.,&L. 6p. Cont l2l 123 6 44 Do. do. do. £6 ... ' 4 i St. 100 Do. do. 34 per cent. 66 68 124 1 all Marypt. &Carl. 4 p.c. ••• ... 124 all Do. 44 per cent ••• ••• 126 101 Do. do. - ••• St. 1100 Mid.Consol.6 p.c. St ... ... St. !100 Do. Con. Br. Dir. 6 p.c 137 139 St. ;100 Do. 44 p. c. Pref. St lO2 104 1024 St. 100 Do. L. do 11. Pref. St 92 94 10 all New., Aber., Sic., pr 5 p.c.red. 5 p.c.pm . . ... 10 all Do. Perpet. 6 pr. et ll 114 10 all Norf k . Deb. 4 p.c. Sh ... ... St. 100 Do. sp. c. Ext. 1846 ... ... St. 100 Do. 54 p.c. pf , 1847 ... ... St. 100 Do.Wv.V.sp. ~1847 ... St. 100 North British 106 108 ,1074 7 34 Do. 71. Preference . , . . St. 100 N. E. Berw. 4p. c•Prf 97 99 17 fii Do. do. d 0..,., 1 4 d 20 13 Do. Leeds 6pa. No. 1 ... ... 124 9 Do, do. Qrs., 1848 . . 25 10 Do • York H.& S. Per ft JP 20 all North Staffordshire 224 234 St. 100 10x., Wor. & Wolv. 6 St. St. 11 1r0 Do, D Io P 84 6, 1 A p o . n e nt . f. ) 1 ..0 5t g 2b u , r 0 . 5r. .. 6 . d. guar.,, 11.2(1: ):1 1! _—____ 1 12 2 g3 0 73 all Scot. Cent. New Pref .. ... St. 100 Sc.N.E.Aber,g.6p.c l2O 122 St. 100 Do, do. 7 p.c. pf. St 125 330 St. 100 Do. do.3i p.c. pf. St 73 75 '744 25 all South Devon lO 104 10 all Do. fixed 44 pr cent ... ... .0. all S. Eastern (Reading St. 100 o. 44 per cent lOl 193 St. 'lOO Do. Fixed 44 p.c. Sh lOl 103 it. 100 Do. New 44 pr. cent ..• ... St. 100 S. Wales Gua. 4 p. c. I ..„ St. 100 Do. do. 44 p. c joo 102 20 all IS.Yorksh.4p.e.Guar l5 17 25 j all 'I Stock. &Dar., sp. c 274 284 25 , 19 [Do , do. do. i ••• St. 100 Waterfd&Kilk. 6 pc. 43 --- 48 BRITISH MINES. ... 2112 , Alfred Cons. (PhiDO 10 11 20 14 British Iron. ••• 20 Condurow (Cambrn.) 75 85 10 1 Dev.Gt.Cnsls. (Tay.) 460 48) ... 30 East Basset (Illogan) 90 • 95 ... 17s ,Great South Tolgus l4l 151 „.. 11 i,G rt. W. Alfrd. (Philk. ) 5 51 ••• a Grt.W. Vor (11elstn.) 11 2 ... 17s Lady Bertha ... 8 N. Frances (Illogan) 6 7 ... ... N.W.Basset (Illogan) 9 10 ... 6115 North Wheal Crofty 51 6 1 ••• 11 Par. Cons. (St.Blaxy) 191 201 • 9 Porkellis U. (Wend.) ... ... .:: 6s. Sort. Cons. Min. Co. 11 11 ... 21 S. Caradon (St. Cleer) 395 —• 405 ... 2S. Carn Brea (Illogn. ) 31 41 ... 19 S.W. Frances(lllocm. 230 240 5 41 Tam. S. &L• Min . i 1 10 9 Tin Croft 3l 4 ... 40 Un.Mines (Gwennap) ... ... ... 1286 V. of Towcy (Camar.) 1 li ... 11 W. Basset (Illogan) 243, 251 ... 20 W. Caradon (Liskrd ),100 110 ... 51 Wh. Basset (Illogan) 2lO 215 ... 5 Wh. Buller (Rdruth) 2BO 290 ... 51 Wh. Edward(Calstck) 4 41 ... 117 s Wh. Kitty (U. Llant) 10 11 8 Wh. Ma. Ann (Menht. ) 47 49 4 Wh. Trelawney (Lis.) 23 25 FOREIGN MINES. zu 1 7 * I Australian ) — 11 1 10s. Bon Accord Cop. (IL ) II —i A 35 27 Brazilianlmp.(issued at .C 5 pm) 30 all Do. Cocaes & Cuiada .. .. • 20 15 Do. St. John Del Rey 121 -- 131 1 1 Clarendon Con. Min. Co. of Jamaica— . . ._•. 4 40 all Cobre Copper...... • . 16 Copiapo 1 all Dun Mountain Cop-) per Mining Co 4 I 2 all Fortuna 20 all General 3 all Linares - 10 5 li Lusitanian ... . 11 i d 1 all Mariquita 1 , all New Granada * I 1 all Novean Monde 20 all Pont.Sil.LdM.&Smlt • 6 7 5 1 Port Philip ••• ••• 30 16i Santiago de Cuba - 21 all United Mexican 3l 31 '3l MISCELLANEOUS. 1000 900 Atlantic Tel. (Lim.) .•. -- ... 25 19 Australian Agricult. 29 30 10 all Australn. Royal Mail 1/ 11 10 all ,Berlin Water Works. 31 41 4 10 2 Do. New iss. at Si. d ... 50 40 ,'Brit. American Land ... • 100 321 Canada St. 100 Do.Go.6pc.Jan&July 115 A ••• 1161 1161 i 16 St. all Copper Min. of Eng. 25 30 25 all ;Do. Pref. frg p. cent. 25 27 5 all ,Crystal Palace ll ig 1g 5 all Do. 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New . 7l —81 p 50 all Rhymney Iron 20 22 100 60 Royal Mail Steam 5B. • 594 1 all Scot. Austral. Invest 1 ii St. 100 S.Ans,Gov.6p.o.bele ll 112 25 all South Austral. Land 361 371 1 all Submarine Tel. Scrip 4 1 1 all Do. Registered 20 5 Trus.Ln.Co.Up.Can. .... ... 10( 284, Van Dienieu's laAnd.., 13 r._- IA 12 25 20 St. St: St. St. 25 LONDON, Closing Prices this da y Business this day. 99 - 101 101 - 103 13 - 15 138 - 140 4 - 41 ••• ... ••• ".'" - 13 -14 24 - 25 98 - 100 24 - 2i 97 - 99 4 . • iP 57 - 59 'l3B - 10 8i - 81 9i - Si - 33 1 90 - 02 1 - EVENING, JUNE 11, 1858. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS.--(YESTERDAY.) The LORD CHANCELLOR took h!s seat on the woolsack at five o'clock. THE SHREWSBURY PEERAGE. The Earl TALBOT took the oaths and his seat as Earl of SHREWSBURY. CHURCH RATES ABOLITION BILL. This bill was read a first time. PRIVATE BUSINESS. Oa the motion of Lord REDESDALE, the following bills were read a second time : —Andover Canal Rail way, B-lfast and County Down Railway, Doan Forest Turnpike Tr ust,EaA Kent Railway (Western Extension), Horsham Turnpike Tru 0-, London, Brighton, and South Coast Ra4way (Shoreham to Hentield, &c.), London and South-Western Railway, Salisbury and Yeovil Railway, Waterford Gas, Waterford and Kilkenny Railway (Capital), Wexford Harbour Embankment, Chiswick Improve-trent ; Portsmouth Railway ; Corris, Machynl leth, and Riv er Dove), Tratnroai Llandaff Districts Markets ; and Taunton Water. The Westminster Palace Hotel Company (Limited) Bill was read a third time and passed. BILLS OF EXCHANGE. Lord BROUGHAM laid on the table a bill to render penal fraudulent negotiations of bills of ex , :hange. The bill simply consisted of a single clause, which roach-I.s a person convicted of such an ottince liable to four yaara' penal servitud e , or such other punishment as the (mutt might think fit to infl ct. The bill was read a fir,t time. THE ABOLITION OF PROPERTY QUALIFICA the people of England were entire'y opposed. The expo rience to be derived from the proceedings of foreign countries of late years was not lost upon our own. In France, as their lordships were aware, the inhabitants had, in his opinion unfortunately, thought fit, instead of reforming by constitutional means a form of government which was defective and corrupt, to establish a system of extreme democracy. What had been the consequence ? .Why, that the system bad been found to be so oppressive that those who lived under its influence had become al -1 most universally desirous of a change. That cbange bad ultimately been brought about. The sys . em of extreme democracy had been superseded, ands form.of govern ment established in which the Emperor was practically absolute. (Hear, hear.) Their lordships were also :lea - es that in the United Stites of America a constitution of extreme democracy bad been tried— and tried, too, under circumstances far more favourable than could in an older society and a more thickly re - inlet country be fairly auticipa'ed —yet we knew, not only from the observation of travellers, but from the tes timony of some of the most enlightened citizens of those States, that in proportion as the checks on democracy had been removed, in the same proportion chcayed that liberty which consisted in freedom of action, of thought, and of speech upon the part of individuals, and the en joyment of that full security of person and proper y which prevailed under the protection of equal law: , fairly and firmly administered—(hear)—while at the same time :here had been an increase of corruption and a diminu tion of efficiency for good, not only of the general Go vernment, but of the separate Governments of individual States. Such was the present state of things in America, according to the best testimony ; and he could not help feeling that the example of that country had its due weight with the inhabitants of our own, who, he felt a , - cured, were by no means desirous to alter our constitu tion, in order to assimilate it with that which existed at the other side of the Atlantic. But, although he f-it persuaded that such ae he bad described it to be was the general inclination of the peop'e of these king doms, yet it was, he thought, impossible not to per ceive that the usual means by which the balance of a constitution was changed was by having recourse to gradual and petty alteraiions—(hear)—none of which were perhaps of extreme importance in them selves, but each of which tended to consequences upon which there was much reason to look with apprehen sion. (hear.) There could, for instance, be no doubt that the avowed policy of that party in this coun`ry which sought to effect extreme changes in our form of govern ment was—being hopeless of carrying out their objects if they proposed to do s o o p en ly and directly—to use their own language, to obtain that in detail which they were unable to procure in gross. (Hear.) That was the 'node of action which was adopted, and it was, he feared, a policy which was all the more likely to prove successful owing to the fact that, although the party by which it was adopted was at present weak in com parison with others, yet it wielded a power in conse quence of the divisions subsisting between those other parties far greater than it ought, and also owing to the circumstance that a disposition had been exhibited among the public men of various parties to bid for the support of those for whom, as a general role, they differed on political matters by concurring in the various measures which the party to which he referred deemed it its duty to propose. (Hear.) From a tendency such es that he should confess he believed great danger to the country was likely to arise; and it was his observa'ion of the ex:stence of that tendency which rendered him so reluc tant to give his assent to the passing of the bill before the house. But, in giving expression to those views, he must not be understood as being opposed to a deliberate and well-considered revision of cur representative sys tern. Upon the contrary, he was of opinion that the time which had elapsed since 1832 had rendered such a revision desirable, if not necessary. He wished it, how ever, to be effected only after sober and calm deliberation. (Hear.) Meantime he strongly objected to being asked to take small steps year after year, which some people were disposed to regard as being of no consequence, but which tended to throw additional power into the hands of those by whom those radical changes to which he had referred were sought to be effected, and which, if prosecuted to a successful issue, would only serve to stimulate their appetite and to lead them on the accom plishment of objects the attainment of which he could not look urn otherwise than with dismay. (Hear.) In any well considered measure of Parliamentary reform which might be introduced it would, ho felt convinced, be found necessary that some changes should be effected which were not altogether c f a popular character, and which should have for their object tberemoval of defects which were not those dwelt upon by ordinary popular orators, but which at the came time must not be regarded as the ess substantial or important. Now, if any alte rations of that character should be found to be necessary, it was, he thought, extremely expedient that their lord ships should, as a measure of common prudence, abstain from making concessions on their part until they knew what concessions would be made on the other side. (Hear.) Fur these reasons he regretted extremely that such a measure as that under their notice should be allowed to pass without a single word of explanation from her Majesty's Government. Upon a subject of such transcendent importance they had a right to de mand that they should not be led blindfolded along a path of which they could not see the end. (Hear.) He should, therefore, call upon noble lords opposite, who concurred with him as to the necessity of exercising great caution in dealing with a question so grave to watch with duo care the conduct of their leaders. If their leaders would only stand by them as they ought, he saw no reason to suppose that it was not possible that the entire question might not be fairly and satisfactorily settled. If, however, those leaders should pursue a different course, and, trusting to the aid of that party to which they had hitherto acted, should at the same time seek by dangerous concessions to'earn the support of those who differed widely from them in peliti cal principles, then might the consequences which would, follow turn out to be formidable indeed. (Hear.) Now, the expectation had been held out to the country that in the course of next session a general measure of Par liamentary Reform would be introduced by her Majesty's Government, and if they were prepared to act upon that intimation he should beg to impress upon them the greet importance of taking—before they even entered upon the consideration of their proposed scheme—some steps to collect, by means of able and trustworthy persons, information bearing upon the subject. He believed that an immense amount of statistical and other information might be obtained by persons fitted for the duty, and would throw great light on the best means of improving the constitution of the House of Commons. He hoped that if Goternment intended to bring forward a measure of reform next session they would, during the present autumn, take steps to collect such information and place it before Parliament. (Hear, hear.) Lord EBURY confessed that he was a little astonished at some of the observations made by his noble friend, but he should not now trouble their lordships by die cussing the five points of the Charter, or other large measures of reform which might be desi►ed by any party in the country or in Parliament. He did not agree with his noble friend in thinking this a very un important measure. It had been his miefortuno to serve upon committees of the other House, appointed to inquire into the validity of the property qualifications of two members, and the proceedings of those commit tees were so tedious and protracted that he was con vinced the House of Commons would desire to be relieved from duties of this disagreeable character. Here, then, was one not unimportant advantage which would be conferred by a repeal of the law. That law, however, as it stood, was but a delusion and a 'mare, and on this ground, too, he would support the present measure. Nor did he see why they ought to quarrel with the noble earl at the head of the Government for adopting this reform. Why should not the noble earl be allowed to change his mind on this and on other subjects, even though he might formerly have pro nounced decided opinions of a different kind I He (Lord Ebury) should give his vote fur the Dill, and was glad to understand that it was not likely to be opposed by the Government. (Hear.) The Duke of RUTLAND was afraid the noble lord who had just sat down would have to "go the whole hog" on the five points of the Charter, and perhaps some thing more, if ho allow e d hi mse lf t o be influenced by a desire to relieve hon. members from the difficulties to which they were now exposed. He believed that no re spectable man was prevented from obtaining a seat in the other house by the law as it stood, and be should, therefore, enter his protest against the repeal of that law. The Earl of DERBY (who was indistinctly heard) said,—lf I did not rise immediately after the noble earl (Fortescue) it was not from the slightest wish to conceal the opinion I have formed upon this subject, but merely becau'e, not intending myself to offer any opposition to the second reading of the bill, and understanding that it was the intention of the noble earl who spoke second (Earl Grey) to offer some opposition to it, I was anxious to hear what arguments he was prepared to submit. I confess it has been satislactory to me to fin-1 that my opinioes with regard to this bill are in a great measure shared by the noble earl, and that, instead of oppos ing the bill—as I expected he would do—he has con fined himself to making certain observations, not so much w;th regard to the measure itself as to the pos sible consequences which he thought might follow its adoption,. I agree with the noble earl in the opinion he expressed that the bill is in itself of very trifling and immaterial importance, and I also agree with him in the view which he takes of the danger of some ulterior measures with which he sought to connect this bill, but with which I confess I em not able to see any connection. Whenever measures of a character dangerous to the constitution may be proposed nothing will give me greater satisfaction than to find that in resisting them—as I should resist them on whatever side i f the House I might happen to sit—l have the conscientious su pport and assistance cf the noble earl. I must con fess, however, that while the noble earl will find no one more sincerely and conscientiously opposed than myself to tie democratic measures which he announced his determination to resist, I see no necessity for the solensn warning he gave to those with whom I have the honour of acting to be cautious that their leaders do not place them in a dangerous position. I am sure the Conserva tive party will be deeply grateful for the noble earl's ad vice, and I hope they will give it due weight. What ever importance they may attach to his recommendations I am sure they will attach great value to his promise of assistance in resisting the progress of extreme measures. The question is, however, how far the Bill now before us is connected with the other measure to which the noble earl has referred. The noble earl says that the proposal to abolish the property qualification, is sup ported by a party who will demand a' redistribution of electoral districts, the vote by bailee the shorie n i eg o f the duration of Parliaments, and a very large extension of the suffrage, all of which, as I understood, the noble earl is determined to oppose. Earl GREY was understood to say that what he had stated was, that these proposals, considered as a whole, and without any compensating measures on the other side, would amount to a revolution, and so they would. (" Hear," and a laugh.) The Earl of DERBY—Then, I want to know how far, in the opinion of . the noble earl, the measure is revelu tiona,ry. The noble earl has said that the bill is utterly unimportant and immaterial. I inuet protest, then, against his coupling his objections to this b 11 with his onjeations to other measures, which, he sae, taken altogether and unaccompanied by any compensation would be equivalent to a revolution. Does it follow be caime the House of Commons are prepared to sanction this measure that they are also prepared to sauction the other measures to which the noble earl has referred I The noble earl has alluded to secret voting ; but the Fame House of Commons which regards the bill now before us as a perfectly safe and immaterial measure was not prepared to give its sanction to what the noble earl regarded as a revolutionary element —namely, the dangerous measure of vote by ballot, for in a very full house that measure was rejected by the House of Commons by a very large majority. I believe that at this moment the House of Commons is eueaged in considering another of the measures to which the noble sail referred, and it is impuesible for me to say at what conclusion that house may arr ve. The noble sail, who seems to think that her Majesty's Government will give their support to all the measures which may be sent up to this house by the House of Commons, has alluded to the measure which may be sent up founded upon Mr. Locke King's proposition to extend the 101. franchise to counties. I can disabuse the noble earl of any impre.- sion he may have formed by assuring him that such a measure will meet with the most strenuous opposition I can offer to it. (Cheers.) It will be r your lordships if any of the measures to which the noble earl has re ferred should come under your consideratien during the present session, to express your opinion upon each cf them singly and separately, according to the merits of each proposi tion, and without reference to those other questions with which it is supposed they may be connected. With re gard to the bill now before us, although I am notaexious either for its adoption or rejection, I am not prepareo t offer any opposition to a measure which immediately affects the composition of the House of Common', winch has been pasesd by that house, and which appears to me of such intrinsic unimportance that it ought not to be allowed to add to the causes of difference which exist ee tween the two houses. If I thought that the existing law afforded an actual security for the independence the sta tion, and the position of those who sit in the House of Commons, and that the adoption of this bill would mater T ally diminish the status and position of members of teat house, I should hesitate long bele re I acceded to the pas s ing of the meaeure, although it comes up to us recom mended by a large majority of the House of Commons. But when I find that from time to time the law upon this subject has been relaxed; that the question has always been dealt with, not as part of a great measure of reform, but as a separate meaeure ; that in the ccurse of the present reign the rigour of the previous provi sions, which required that the qualification of members should consist exclusively of lauded property, has been relaxed and extended to property of every kind ; arid when I see that the amount of qualification required is not, in the present day, what can be regarded as a guarantee for the independence of any man who taixes in society, and who has to maintain his position as a member of the House of Commons—such a guarantee of independence as would withdraw him from the exer cise of undue influence—l confess it does not appear to rue that the alteration proposed by this bill would effect any real and eubstan ial change in the position of mem bers of the House of Commons. There is one difficulty which I certainly do anticipate, and which I think re quires some consideration before this measure is sanc tioned. I refer to the probability —or, at all events the possibility—that the absence of any qualification may lead t', vexatious contests and to vexatious opposition— (bear, hear)—by putting up on the hustings men of straw, merely with the view of causing vexation and annoyance. (Hear, hear.) I know I may be asked whether such instances Lave occurred in Scotland, where no qualification for members of Parliament is required— (hear, hear)—and how a system can be defended with reference to English members of Parlia ment which is not considered necessary in the case of Scotch members, Ido not say now whether I think it desirable or not that the bona fide qualification of mem bers of the House of Commons should be of a somewhat higher character. I do not agree with the noble earl who introduced the bill that the requirement of a qual - fication is a violation, of any of those civil and natural rights which belong to individuals. [Earl Fortescue was understood to say that he did not state that as hie own opinion, but that it was entertained by some per sons.] lam gratified to learn that the noble cart does not rely upon that principle, but when I find that the qualification of members of the House of Commons has, trom time to time, been altered and relaxed ; that such steps have been taken, apart from all measure,; of reform, that the law relating to qualification, such as it is, has in many cases, almost by the connivance of the House of Commons, been evaded ; that almost any person may obtain—l do not say whether justifiably or not —a qualification which is not real ; that the fact of qua• hfications being so granted, may, owing to blueders or bungling on the part cf lawyers, lead comeara tively innocent men into the commission of ap parently great offences, which no one thinks very discreditable, but which may expose them to grave censures and animadversion, and subject them to heavy penalties—when I find that this is the case, and that the House of Commons, by a considerable majority, have sent up to your lordships a bid with the view of abolishing a requirement which is in many in stances evaded, I think—apart from questions upon which we may have, and have had, considerable diffe rence with the House of Commons, and others which may come before us, upon which it may be necessary and essential that we should make a stand against dan gerous propositions emanating from that assembly—that io point of policy and wisdom it is is not advisable and expedient, if your lordships think this subject is really and substantially immaterial, that for the purpose of keeping upa vain and shadowy app. arance of qualifica tion you should unnecessarily put yourselves in opposi• tion to the House of Commons upon a question which materially and directly and exclusively concerns the composition of that house. (fleas.) For these reasons, without saying that I should have thqugkt it necessary to introduce a measure of this kind, but finding that it has been introduced, and has received the eeseut of the House of Commons. and believing that it would be practically innocuous —that, if unproductive of any very considerable benefit, it weuld be perfectly immaterial, I certainly am not disposed to effer any opposition to the bill, reed I would humbly advise your lordships not to reject it. (Hear, hear.) Toe Duke of NEWCASTLE said, that as the bill ap peared to have been supported by faint praise, and, on other hand, to have been opposed by hesitating he was anxious to explain that he supported the bill on its merits, because he thought it important in itself and in its consequences. The noble duke opposite said he opposed the hie!, because he did nut think that any grievance existed in consequence of the present state of the law I but it was astonishing that the noble duke should have made such an assertion, when their lord- ships had heard that a gentleman was now undergoing imprisonment for a violation of the Jaw, when they heard from the noble earl who moved the bill that that violation was participated in by nearly one-half of the members of the Douse of Commons, and after they had heard the evidence f a noble lord behind him as the results of election committeee. (Rear, hear.) He bad had himself a great marl years txperience of the House of Commons, and had eat on el e cti on commit- tees, and he recollected instances of hardship occurring in both directions. Gentlemen notoriously not pos sessed of the qualification required by law had had their seats disputed, but bad been sewed on petitions; on the ether hand, gentlemen notoriously po:ssessed of ample qualification, but in whose title lawyers found means to detect certain flaws, bad actually been un seated on a technicality of law. The noble earl who op posed the bill considered this matter as part of a great constitutional change, and the bill as a concession to a party advocating greater and more extersive changes. Now, he could not conceive that this was a great change in the constitution. The present law was not very an cient in its origin, but was introduced by an act of the 9th of Queen Anne, under the Harley Government, and was passed for a special party purpose. The stock-brokers and merchants t f that day were opposed to the Govern ment, and therefore, to throw the balance in favour of the Government, the act was passed, essentially in tended to exclude the trading interest, from the House of Commons, and requiring a landed qualification for members. So the law ranained until about 20 years ago, when a mitigation of the law was introduced, and the same amount of qualification in personal estate WAS placed on an equal tooting with a landed qualification. (11, ar, hear.) Still, a great many anomalies re mained in resp e ct t o thi s matter at t h e present momen t. Th e Scotch member s , th e mem b ers f or t h e un i vers ities, an d the eldest sons of pe ers , nee d e d no t t o possess any peon niary qualification to sit in the House of Comn.inonkn ht e. i ß g ut a greater anomaly tha n all was that the son of House of cum. of the shire was entitled to s it in the mons without a pecuniary qualificat qualification lo of n, though his father was required to have a pecuniary 6001 a-year ; and the moment bis father died, he would then become disqualified to sit unless he possessed a cer tain amount per annum. (Hear,hear.) Another ano. malt' was, that no pecu niary qualification was required i from a peer to sit in the House of Lords. (Rear, hear.) He attached importance to the present bill, because a ii ,ich wash f re quently evaded inflicted a moral evil - o - n - the c ountry, and ought to be repealed as speedily as possible. A g ain, the maintenance of the present qualifi cation for members of the House of Commons excluded many goo d members from tbatlouse who were unable to carry on that dalliance with falsehood which the Legis lature encouraged by the establishment of the present qualification. He certainly had no fear of those evils which had been threatened in the other house in the event of the existing qualification being no longer required—namely, that the House 0 1 Commons would be fl )oded with bankrupts and swin dlers. In the first place. the existing law did not ex clude characters of that kind, but he should rejoice t.) see a measure passed, not only with respect to the House of Commons, but also with respect to the Hom e o f Lords, which would abolish that privilege from arrest which the members of the Legislature at present enjoyed (Hear.) He certainly did not dread the passing of th present bill on the ground that the alteration of the la v FRIDAY TION BILL. Earl FORTESCUE, in moving the second reading of this bill, said he need hardly inform their lordships that it had passed the other house by a very great ma jority drawn from all sides, and with the support of the leading members of her Majesty's Government ; and, though be was not authorized to state that it would re ceive the same support from the noble earl and his col. leagues in their lordships' house, he thought he was war ranted in stating that they entertained no objection to the measure. In stating the grounds on which he asked their lordships to support the bill he would not dwell on the point, much insisted upon by many, that there should be no restriction on the natural right of the people to choose their representatives, because, whatever might be his own opinion on that subject, he was ready to admit that while the possession of a certain amount of pro perty was required as a qualification in the once of ma gistrates and deputy-lieutenants, and for the exercise of the elective franchise, he was not prepared to maintain that there was not reasonable ground of analogy for the requirement of a qualification for the higher office of a seat in the Legislature. To make the analogy just and fsir, however, it should be carried through, and a quali ficAtion required for a seat in their lordships' bailee as well as in the House of Commons ; but they were aware that that formed no part of ntieir Parliamentary consti- * tution. No qualification was required for a seat in their lordships' house ; but he believed it was notorious in former Parliaments and in recent times—he was making no allusion to the present House of Lords —that peers had sat and voted in their lordship.' house who had not a clear income to the small amount required in a repre sentative of a borough in the House of Commons. The first property qualification was imposed by a statute passed in the flth year of Queen Anne. He would not enter into the motives or views of the promoters of that bill, but he believed from its first enactment insuperable difficulties stood in the way of its being carried into effec tual operation, and Hallam stated th at the Act was noto riously evaded. After an interval of some years an Act was passed to render that of the 9i,h of Anne more stringent, and it was then provided that, before a mem ber took his seat, he should snake a declaration that he had bona fide such an estate for his own use and benefit after anti-fying all encumbrances, as qualified him to sit as a member for the place for which he was returned. The amount of that qualification for a county was 6001. a-year from a landed estate, or a rentcharge from laud to that amount, and half of that suer for a borough. Shortly after the Union that Act was extended to Ire land, and then a regular system of fictitious qualification became perfectly notorious, Ile would only mention one which occurred when he was a member of the other House of Parliament. A gentleman who was returned fora large constituency in Ireland, was not questioned at the election respecting his qualification, and perhaps be might not have been aware until he came to take hie seat that any qualification was required ; his means were not very large, and finding that a property qualification as necessary, he procured a map on a large scale of one of the largest counties in Ireland, with the aid of which he selected the names of certain town lands on the map in a mountainous district. Those names he inserted in his declaration as his qualification, and upon that quali fication he sat for two Parliaments. (Hear, and a laugh.) He might have continued sitting upon it had be not quarrelled with some of the parties who assisted in pro curing his return. Things went on in that state, the de sire to sit in Parliamsut increased, particularly, he be• Laved, among persons unqualified as to property ; and fictitious qualifications were carried on to such an ex tent that, in 1837, the late Sir Wm. Molesworth, when moving for a repeal of the Qualification Act, stated, on the authority of a respectab:e solicitor, who had been much employed in matters of property qualification, that not mere than one-half of the members sitting in that Parliament were really and legally possessed of a property qualification. A bill was brought in, he be lieved, in 1838, and carried through Parliament the following year, by which the property qualification was extended to personality as well as land. That was a great amendment on the old law. It abated considerably the number of fictitious qualifica tions, because many persons possessed the requisite qua lification who were not possessors of land. They had all heard opinions expressed that there was one law for the rich and another for the poor, but much hal been done of late years to remove that impression, and no measure had contributed more to that end than the act passed last year, by which, through the humanity, ability, and zeal of the noble lord then occupying the woolsack, a poor man was enabled to get rid of a profligate wife. If their lordelsips were not required to possess any property qua lification, he could not see why such a restriction should be imposed upon members of the House of Commons. It was within the knowledge of all that recently a member elected to that house had been unseated by the decision of a committee, and had been prosecuted for making a false declaration of Lie qualification, the prope r ty upon which he relied being insufficient to give the required qualification after deducting the encumbrances upon it. That was the first prosecution that had taken place dur ing the 150 years the Qualification Act had been in ex istence. The bill he now proposed for second reading would relieve members of the House of Commons from the.necessity cf making any such declaration, but if it were passed he hoped its first effect would be to bring about the liberation of the gentleman to whom be had referred. The noble earl concluded by moving that the bill be read a second time. The question having been put, Earl GREY expressed his surprise that no opinion bad been pronounced by Government upon this subject. It was something new in practice and in parliamentary his tory to be told, upon the authority of a noble earl moving a bill, that Government did not mean to support it, but bad no objection to it, That was a novel course of pro ceeding, as inconvenient as extraordinary, and more espe• cially, when he considered what were the former opinions of noble lords opposite, did he think that, if they in tended to advise the 4 ouse to pass the bill, it was their duty to state the grounds upon which they had come to that conclusion. As, however, he learnt from the noble earl who moved the second reading that the Government did not mean to oppose it, he presumed the measure would receive their lordships' sanction. It was not his intesition, under teoss circumstances, to trouble the house with an oppositi on which he knew would be una vailing, bt.t he could not permit the bill to pass without expressing his regret ttat it sboullipass in such a man ner and at such a time. With restie& to the measure it self, be owned he did not consider it one of great im portance. Ha altogether differed from the noble earl that th e imposition by the Legislature of restrictions upon persons returned to Parliament was "an invasion of the natural rights of electors," and thought if they began to argue those assumed natural rights they would soon get into interminable confusion and absurdity. He supposed, as his noble friend advocated the first point in the Char ter, be w as prepared to argue f or the remaining five point.. Although he (Earl Grey) did not thick there was any thing unreasonable iu Parliament requiring that before a man took his seat in the House of Commons he should show that he was in possession of sufficient property to give som e as-uraioce of his ind ependence and ability to devote his time to the duties he had undertaken, yet he was perfectly aware that the liW as it stood at present was easily evaded. He did not take the same view of those evasions as the noble earl appeared to do, for he regarded such tampering with a s o l emn declaration as not very distinguishable from_ Perjury. Be that as it might, it was true that the law was easily evaded, and he fully recognised the objections to retaining upon the etatute-book a law that was not practically in force. He therefore entertained no strong opi n i on aga i nst t hi s meas ure consideredtself; but be could not avoid thinking it derived additional importance when it was considered in conneclten with other questions and the They could not but feel time at which it way there was at thenumerous party who presentpr p°sel momenta desired to effect a complete alteration in our representa tive system. The abolition of the property qualifi cation was the first step, but there were ot h er mea sures included in the list of what they considered necessary reforms. They wished for a very large extension of the franchise, and for a redistribution of the right of returning members to th e H ouse of Commons. They wished, moreover, to establish a system of secret voting as well as to abr id g e t he duration of P ar li amen ts. Those were the objects sought to be attained by a party of considerable importance in the country, and he need hardly point out to their lordships that if the measures to which he had just alluded were carried into effect un accompanied by an y counterbalan c i ng • • the introduction of a complete changes in an op posite direction,revolution ,• into the working of our Parliamentary system would be the result. (Hear.) Instead of a constitution under the operation of which the different classes of the community would exercise a certain amount of authority, we should have, as the consequence of those proposed alterations, such overwhelming influence thrown into the hands of those classes who formed the numerical majority of the people, that all the other classes in the State would be rendered collectively powerless. (Hear.) We should have an unbalanced system of demoCracy, Now, he felt that to any change of that character the great majority of would admit into the House of Commons some artisans and poor men, for ha should like to see in that house representatives of all classes, and there was not &greater mistake than to suppose, in respect to the Chartists, or any particular class of men, that it was desirable to ex clude them from the House of Commons. On the con trary, he thought that there would be great, safety in admitting to that assembly men of all classes. Ile did not think that any fear used be entertained of increased corruption in the House of Commons b cionsequence of the abolition of the property qualification. Such poor men as might be introduced into Parliament through the instrurnentality of the present measure would be found, be had no doubt, much more honest and independent than some Of those speculative poi&cians who got them selves returned for the purpose of supporting any Govern went from whom they might obtain advanta g es either for themselves or for their friends. (Hear.) He supported the bill, therefore, because h e b e li eved it to be a moral measure, because it would effect 'au improvement of a really useful end substantial character, and because the xistiug law, to use the words of a learned judge, was "a mockery, a delusion, and a snare." (Hear, hear.) Earl GRAN VlLLE—Without wishing or intending to trouble your lordships with many observations, I may be permitted to say that the bill before us bas not only my concurrence, but the concurrence of those noble lords with whom I have the pleasure of acting in public life. (Hear.) I feel that I should be merely wasting the time of the house if I were to repeat the arguments which have been advanced in favour of the present measure. The noble earl who spoke second in the debate did not object to the bill in itself, while the slight reasons stated by the noble duke opposite, the only person who has ex pr, seed any decided opposition to the measure, have been sufficiently answered by the speeches already made on the other side of the sue.tion. I cannot admit that we ought not to pass this hill on account of the probable introduction ne x t sess i on o f a l arge and com prehensive measure of - Parliamentary reform. Considering that every Government which has existed during the last 20 years has virtually admitted that the representation requires amendment, I do not think we oan . remaix much longer where we are ; but when we are asked to resist small measure; on the ground that a large and comprehensive measure may be introduced, we are bound to consider what chances there are of such a measure being pa , sed. That object, as it appears to me, can be obtained in only two ways. The first is, that the lead ing statesmen and politicians of the country should con cur in seine measure of reform. Now, lam afraid that there is little chance of such an agreement, except by the ordinary means of Parliamentary di-eussion; and, though it might be - destrable to have the general concurrence of prominent statesmen in a measure of reform, I am act sure that the jeaiouq of the nation would not. be excited if political leaders were to set le, as it were out of court, what changes should be introduced into our representa tive system. (Rear.) I cannot, therefore, regard that plan as one likely to be c , ..rried into effect. The other way iu which a great measure of Parliamentary reform may be passed is, either that a strong Government should undertake to push it through, or that there ebould be a general expression of public opinion on the subject. Now, without meaning any disrespect to noble !elide opposite, I must say that the position which they hold at the present moment, ehatever may be the case here after, is not such as to enable them to carry whatever measure the-y might consider sound and beneficial, or succeeefully to resist in the House of Commons any pre position which they might deem injurious and unsafe. I am bound to admit, at the same time, that some portion of their weakness has been communicated to the other parties in the State, and that at the present moment we cannot calculate upon the formation of a Government strong enough to carry by its own unaided vigour a large and comprehensive measure of reform. Nor does it seem to me that the public generally are much interested in the question. There is no excitement anywhere, and I sincerely believe that the feeling of the country is not such as to overcome all the difficulties and obstacles which exist to the passing of a really great measure. I think the members of the House of Commons personally are disposed to say— " -- better bear those ills we have, Than fly to others that we know not of." while the constituencies, being naturally ratiefied with their present position, are not particularly anxious for tha introduction of extensive alterations into our tepre- Rentative system. At the same time, I feel certain that if we were to stand perfectly still--above all, if we were to put our. , ,elves in opposition to such reforms as could be shown to ho reasonable and desirable— we_ should immediately have a strong and overwhelming public opinion, not directed to a measure full of checks and balances such as has been described to us, but capable of being wielded in favour of a wild and dangerous scheme. For this reason I thick it would be prudent fur us, whenever bills like the present come under our consideration, not to put them off with souse' vague notion that a larger and more comprehensive measure may be preposed, but to consider carefnlly whetheithey are ca'culated to improve our i t s ti tu ti ons, and to per fect that representative system which I believe even now he superior to what exists in many other countries, but which, I think, requires considerable change and modi fication to meet the progressive increase in wealth and enlightenment of different classes of the community. While giving my vote in favour of the present bill, I shall equally deem it my duty to support other measures that may come before us, provided they seem likely to promote the public good. (Hear, hear.) Lord CAMPBELL had always thought that the pro perty qualification was inexpedient, and therefore be should vote fur the protect bill. Let Parliament look to the qualification of the electors, and then the elected could be found to be fitting representatives of the coun try. No inconvenience had arisen in Scotland from the want of a property qualification, and the Scotch mem bers bad nothing to tear from a comparisoe, in point of station and respectability, with their English or Irish brethren. He would support this bill, and he hoped it would be the precursor cf many other measures for the improvement of the representation of the people. (Hear, hear ) The bill was then read a second time. SALE OF POISONS BILL. The house went into committee on this bill, and the clauses were agreed to with some verbal amendments. MUNICIPAL FRANCHISE lIILL. Lord AI3INGER moved the second reading of this bill, which he said was intended to remedy an anomaly in the existing law, whereby occupiers of houses valued at 61. per year possessed the right of voting at municipal elections, while occupiers of houses valued between 61. and 201. were unable to do so. After a few observations from the Earl of DONOUGH MORE, the bill was read a second time. COMPENSATION IN THE CASE OF THE CAGLIARI. The Earl of AIRLIE asked the noble earl the Secre tary for Foreign Aflairs whether a final answer had yet been returned by the 'Neapolitan Government to the demand which had been addressed to it by her Majesty's Government for compensation on behalf ! of the engi neers Park and Watt The Earl of MALMESBITRY said that no final answer had as yet reached him upon the subject, but that he hoped to receive one in the course of next week. Their lordships then adjourned at ten minutes to eight o'clock. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—(YESTERDAY.) The SPEAKER took the chair at font o'clock. NEW MEMBER. Sir E. B. LYTTON toJk the oaths and his seat, on his re-election for Hertford. PRIVATE BUSINESS. The East Suffolk, Yarmouth, and Iladdiacoe and Lowestoft and Beccies Railway Companies Amalgama tion Bills were read a third time. The Carron Railway Bill was withdrawn. THE MILITIA. Mr. C. LEIGH asked the Secretary of State for War if any order had been issued by the war department re stricting the paymasters of embodied militia regiments from paying to the men the full amount of bounty due to them at the expiration of each quarter in the aggregate sum of se. to which they were entitled, and instructing them to make the payment only by instalments of 2d. per day during the 30 days next ensuing I Gen. PEEL said no alterations bad been made in the regulation of Nov., 1857, which made it optional with the colonel of th e reg i men t to pay it in one sum or by instalments. The regulation was made on the repre sentation of several colonels tba g t a wbenth t e o m dr e u n n w k e en. ro paid the s s . i n f u ll man y o f them ye way 11080. POOR LAW MEDICAL OFFICERS. Mr. S. BOOTH asked the President of the Poor L aw Board whether he intended, dur i ng the present sess i on, to introduce any measure with the view of providing a remedy for the grievances of the poor law medical officers I Mr. S. ESTCOURT said he was a ware th e present state of tbe medical relief was not in a satisfactory stets. lie hoped before the end of the session to be able to lay a bill on the table for the consideration of members and the public during the recess. - PUBLIC-HOUSES (SCOTLAND). 9 Mr. COWAN asked Viscount Melgund if be intended to move for a select committee to inquire into the ope ration of the Public-houses Act (Scotland) during the present session • and, if so, w h en h e i nten d ed to submit his mo ion to t he house ? Viscount MELGUND said be intended to bring the subject forward on the 6th July. THE ARMY AND NAVY. Sir C. NAPIER gave notice that he should to. morrow, on the motion for adjournment, ask the Chan cellor of the Exchequer if it wail his intention to ask for additional voted of seaen and marines, ha c onsequence of the vast preparations ma kisgEurope both by sea and land, and if h e i n t en d ed to call out the Be ber of militia fo r h ome duty as the men of th e a .line sent to India. In anßswEcSrltGoNaAciTLOtiNon O f r F O na M R Mr. .11 13 0 0 v V y A B I: D Mr. S. FITZGERA.LD said the Government had re . calved no official information of the particular circum stances of disrespect to the Grand Duke and Grand Duchess of Tuscany, on the part of Mr. Howard, re ferred to. \Vhen Mr. Howard left England, he was Paid the usual sum for his expenses, but, on bis resigna tion ho repaid it into the Exchequer. (Hear, hear.) i e Lord Normanhy had been instru i o n t w ed ar t d o f e e tpl i a t ne c u this ci r r ; curnsta nces un d er w hi c h M r . j to leave Florence' PROCEEDINGS AGAINST FATHERS COICV7Ay AND RYAN Lora J. BROWNE asked the Attorner_G ener d for Ireland whether the Government were, going to take auy more proceedings against the %M. Mr. Conway and the Rev. Mr. Ryan ? The ATTORNEY-GENERAL for IRV.LAND to - "~ 20 20 10 St. 1 100 100 all 100 100 1.00 5 1141