The Sun. — London, England, 1860-06-30 00:00:00

BENSON'S WATC HE S. "Perfection of mechanism."—Morning Post. Gold Silver 2to 50 guineas. Send 2 stamps ter Benson's Illustrated Pamphlet, descrip tive of every construction of watch now made, with their prices. Watches sent to all parts of the kingdom free by post, or to India and the Colonies for ss. extra. 33 and 34, Ludgate-hill, London. E.C. Established 1749. T HEATRE -ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lessee, Mr. J. B. Buckstone. THIS EVENING the performances will commence with THE OVERLAND ROUTE. Messrs. C. Mathews, Buck stone, Compton, Chippendale, Rogers, Mrs. C. Mathews, Miss Weekes, and Mrs. Wilkins. After which, the new farce, entitled FITZSMYTHE OF FITZSMYTHE HALL. Messrs. Buckstone, W. Farren, and Rogers; Mrs. Wilkins and Miss Heurade. To conclude with THE ODDITIES OF TIIE OHIO. By the Leelercqs. Commence at 7. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.- Lessee, Mr. A. Harris. THIS EVENING, will be performed THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR. Sir John Falstaff, Mr. Phelps. To conclude with THRICE MARRIED. Mr. Meadows, Miss C. Leclercq, &c. Commence at 7. A DELPHI, NEW THEATRE-ROYAL. r 3.. Sole froprietor and Manager, Mr. Benj. Webster. Reproduction of the powerful Adelphi drama, "The Flowers of the Forest." Ninth week of the popular American Actress, Miss Julia Daly THIS , :VENING, THE FLOWERS OF THE FOREST. Messrs. J. L. Toole, I". Bedford, Billington, Stuart, Eburne, C. J. Smith, Powell, Romer ; Miss Woolgar, K. Kelly, Mrs. Billington, Miss Laidlaw. Atter which, OUR FEMALE AMERICAN COUSIN. Messrs. Stuart, C. Selby, Billiagton, Eburne, Miss Julia Daly, K. Kelly, Laidlaw, and Mrs. Chatterley. Commence at 7. Box-office open from 10 till 5. Private boxes, £2 2s. ; Family Boxes, £l. Orchestra Stalls, ss. ; Balcony, 4s. ; Front Circle Stalls, Is. ' • Pit Stalls, 2e.; Pit, is. 6d. ; Amphitheatre, is ; Gallery, 6d. Acting Manager—Mr. Wm. Smith. DRENCH PLAYS-ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. Directeur, M. Talexy.—Lessee, Mr. F. B. Chatterton. Positively the last appearance but One of M. LECLERE. THIS EVENING, L'INVITATION A LA VALSE : Maurice, by M. Pau' Devaux. LES NOCES DE CLEOPATRE and M. Leclere. Orchestra Stalls, 7s. 6d. ; Balcony Stalls, ss. ; Pit, 2s. Gallery, is. Private Boxes, from Two Guineas. Commence at 8. Madlle. Marie Basta A STLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.- ..4 - AL Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Wm. BATTY. New Engagement, for nine nights previous to his departure for the Continent, of the Greatest Rope Dancer in the World, HERR CIIRISTOFF, and the popular French Clown, MoNS. L'EPINE. MADLLE. LEONTINE received with enthusiastic applause. file superb Hippo-drama is a decided success. On Monday, June 25, leso, and during the week, the En tertainments will commence with the Grand Historical Spectacle in Three Acts, entitled " FAIR ROSAMOND, or the AMAZON CRUSADERS." To be followed by an incom parable display of Equestrian Achievements in the Scenes of the Arena, supported by the most talented Artistes in Europe, including Madlle. LEONTINE. To conclude with a Popular Farce. Doors open at half-past 6, performance commence at 7. Box-office open daily from 11 till 4. Stage Manager—Mr. W. WEST. C A NTERB UR Y HALL THIS EVENING, C. H. GOUNOD'S OPERA. FAUST. First Time in this Country. Faust Mr. Henry Herbert. Mephistopheles Mr. C. Bernard. Siobel Mrs. Anderson. Marguerite Conductor Mr. Jonglimans. And selections from Dinorah, Trovatore, Macbeth, and numerous other Entertainments. Balcony, is Hall. 6d. Comic Vocalists —Messrs. George Hodson (the Irish Come dian and Mimic), and W. T. Critchfield. The AFRICAN OPERA TftOUPE, their first appparance since 18.52, consisting of ELEVEN STAR PERFORMERS, who will give the whole of their inimitable entertainment every evening. The gallery is open from 5 till 11 on Sunday Evening. CONCERTS.- THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, JUNE 30, 1560. THERMOMETER, TN THE SHADE. 61—highest since noon yesterday. 52 —lowest this morning and during the night. 60—this day at noon. BAROMETER-30.27 ; a sudden rise of nearly half an inch. WlND—North-Easterly ; light, with unsettled weather; rain is the night and this morning; now fine, but cloudy. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIB DAY.—Morning, Ilh. 24m.—Afternoon, —h. —m. To-moßßow.-Morning, 12h. Om.—Afternoon, 12h. 28m, The Conservative Banquet appears to have passed off with great good humour yesterday. It took place in Willis's Rooms, St. James's, the scene last year of a very different political demonstration. Then, the assemblage had not an atom of conviviality about it. On the contrary, it was described by these inimical to it as almost amounting to a conspiracy. Insomuch that one might nearly have been led to suppose that, had there been anything at all of a festive character within those closed doors, it must have resembled somewhat the ghastly hobnobbing over a bowl of blood recorded by SALLUST in regard to CATALINE and his Accomplices, or like the merry-making in the blind man's cellar, during the Gordon riots, related by Boz in reference to the ' prentice followers of the thin-legged SIM TAP PERTIT. There was, at any rate, this justification of the charge of a political conspiracy directed twelvemonths back against the Liberal gathering in Willis's Rooms, that almost immediately afterwards the then Opposition ousted their opponents from office and became, in the form of another Coalition, the Government. From an examination of the pro ceedings of yesterday in the same locality, it would be hard indeed to predict any similar conse quences. The Conservative-, so far from evincing, like their foes, any sober, serious earnestness— would seem to have met in the purest vein of plea santry. And although among the after-dinner speakers there were numbered three of the ex- Cabinet Ministers, and another oratorical great gun no less formidable than the late Attorney-General for Ireland—the speeches were made up for the most part of gay jests directed against the winning side, or at any rate against the side that is " in,' and complimentary allusions to the absent leaders of Conservatism. Lord JOHN MANNERS, although entrusted with the toast of " The Church and State," thought it not unbefitting even that solemn theme to close his remarks upon it with a scrap of Tory doggrel. General PEEL— commenting upon the extravagant estimate re cently given by our chief morning contemporary as to the annual cost of each of England's soldiers-- argued the matter thus drolly. He said, "He had recently seen it stated that we had only 30,000 men in this country, and that they cost us £5OO a-piece. That was one of those ingenious fictions which the well-known writer of the military articles in the Times was so apt to indulge in. There was just as much truth in it as there would be in his offering to give the fortunate winner of the Derby £5OO for his saddle and bridle, provided he would throw the horse into the bargain, and then going and saying that saddles and bridles cost £5OO a-piece." Sir J. P Aang oTON—referring to the Commercial Treaty with Fra nce - and England's unadorned Plenipoten tiary —mould not resist the tempation of reiterating the jibe cruelly directed against the latter by another writer in that same contemporary of ours, to wit, that our "amateur negotiator had been supremely diddled." Asto Mr . M - • ---EREWETTIER —he forsooth must c ome out as an original distinct jester— • Q. C. indulging his hearers with three puns in the course of his speech, on proposing the toast of the House of Commons. Exulting in the first place that they had made the prime agitato r of feel the truth of the words—" All that's bright must fade," and secondly, that they had enabled people to say of that gentleman, coupling his fate with that of his newspaper— " None has fallen so far Since him miscalled the Morhi;2g Star" And maintaining finally that while "these were great triumphs for the Conservative party; they would no doubt be able to increase them if they would give not a blind, but a faithful, adherence to that leader who, having twice changed defeat into success, was entitled to the earnest, continuous, and not quarterly gratitude of his followers." All which is surely very innocent pleasantry. People who can talk like this can hardly mean mis chief, or what SHAKSPERE calls " Miching Malecho." With a demonstration having about it so little malignity, neither Ministers nor their supporters can quarrel—not even the arch supporter of them all, the chief butt of all these pleasantries, the hon. member for Birmingham. The only harangue of any importance throughout the whole of these proceedings was the very able one delivered by Sir JOHN PAKINGTON, the one in which that eminent administrator paid a generous tribute to the chiefs of his party, " their talented and patriotic leader, Lord DERBY, and that great and distinguished man, Mr. DISRAELI." Few, if any, we are satisfied, will turn captiously either from the genial jokes or the graceful compliments imparting a momentary zest last evening to the demonstration of the Conservative Opposition. The great Reformer "is abroad." Should the weather and prices continue long what they have been, even Manchester men may think that a Re form Bill should have had precedence of a commer cial treaty under which, for the present, almost everything has become dearer while employment is not better. Indeed it must, in all probability, become worse and worse, for the money spent on food, of course, cannot be spent on that which keeps Manchester spinning-jennies and looms in motion. The price of meat, especially, is such as to touch very seriously the means of the several lower strata of the tenpenny income-tax payers, and we doubt not, many of them, unbounded as is their faith in the wisdom of our Manchester friends, feel painfully squeezed themselves in the vice, in which the Go vernment has placed them, of heavier taxation on one side, and higher prices on the other. They are beginning to fancy it might have been a little better if we had kept our revenue and left foreign wines where they were. But whatever income-taxpayers think of the as pect of things, the classes which do not pay in come-tax are becoming very uneasy. At Sheffield, Nottingham, Paddington—we hear of meetings of working men to discuss the causes of high prices, and the possible remedies. While at Swindon we read in a local paper of a meeting of 300 agricultural labourers, who seem to have been drawn together by the common calamity of having to maintain them selves, and that at present prices, on 9s. a week, or ls. 6d. a day. They had assembled without any definite purpose, and it appeared towards the close of the meeting that these unavaricious cottagers would actually think themselves rich enough on 12s. a week ! Pity it seems, indeed, that such moderate desires are little likely to be gratified, and that the poor rustics will have to starve on. The accounts of no one of the meetings is so touching as this. One poor man had his wife and seven children to keep on the ls. 6d. a day—only think of education for such poverty ! Another had Is. 6d. to pay first for rent, and " after other things are paid for," the money isn't enough to keep us— a proposition it does not need a Cambridge mathematiciantodemonstrate. AMINIDAB SMITH— the man must have had Methodist parents—"was a cripple, sixty-five years of age,with a wife and eight children, one could earn the house rent, and the 9s. had to maintain ten of them." WILLIAM SMITH had but two children, yet he found himself getting further back every week, and wanted to know when he was to pay it; what then could the poor AMINI DAB do? CHARLES MOULDER complained that if a man got ss. into debt, he was thought to be a big rogue, yet after twenty years' experience he could not help it. Years ago he got three loaves of bread for a shilling—he then got Bs, a-week, but was NI( r ' Z'ittk * 4,5? I*/ ' A 0,1 1. / 01011 k....- Ir-fit,:34) • - • • THE SUN. LONDON, SATURDAY, JUNE 30, 18E0. better off than he should now be with 12s. And yet these Englishmen did not talk of the workhouse—they loved their independent though hungry homes—they put down an abusive speaker, a returned convict, who spoke of setting one half the farmers to hang the others, and quietly dis banded, with the intention of meeting again next week, after having agreed to ask the farmers for the moderate advance abovementioned, of 3s. a week. Poor men,—they know nothing of the doctrines of MALTHUS and ADAM SMITH. They do not know that Science versus Genesis, says they ought not to marry and to increase and multiply—know no thing about the great truth that the article la bourer, like the article cotton, can only fetch what it is worth in the market ; according to the third great commandment—" but, thov shalt love thy neighbour's labour at starvation wages, if he will take them." All these high and holy truths of the Gospel, according to the 19th century, they, poor heathens, have never been taught. We doubt not the farmers and landlords who will be asked by the poor men to pay them wages which will keep body and soul together, were ready enough in 1846 to scout ADAM SMITH, and to iniist on protective prices for wheat ; we shall be a little curious to learn whether they will be ready to own, now wheat is much higher than what they demanded it should be, that their labourer's life and health need protection as much as rents and farming profits. Of one thing we are certain— that if any of these famishing men threw his , stick at a hare, and by special good luck knocked it over, a brace of clergymen and a country squire or two would send him to find a supper in the nearest gaol, and read him a very pious lecture, too, on the sin of poaching. The townsmen at their meetings take quite another course, one the poor farm-labourers could net take—they propose to buy no more meat till the butchers sell it cheaper. It is quite certain that the 9s. a week men are guiltless enough of raising the price of meat. We fear they have only too little to do with the price of dry bread. There is, however, a clear connection , between the price of meat, and the number of persons who eat it ; only, in this case, those who renounce meat would need more bread and raise the price of that to all; just as once the " Good Old King," and his more bene volent nobles, actually raised the price of the in ferior kinds of flour, under the falsely benevolent notion of relieving the poor by not using fine wheat flour themselves. Still, nothing could be more reasonable than the resolve to dispense with mere luxuries. Better for their health and vigour, on which their earnings depend, to give up tobacco, beer, and above all gin, at least till the crisis were over, than enfeeble themselves for work by abstain ing from meat. We suppose, however, there is little danger of their doing it. It is rather remarkable that at the meetings, they should begin to talk of a vote for every man, and at the same time to blurt out treason against politi cal economy, by attacking the provision dealers, and the large dealers in grain. Reasonably enough will hundreds of forcibly converted Protectionists now say that they should not, ignorant as they are, have a vote all. To which the men might surely reply—ought you, then, to have had a vote, much morn to have been legislators, when you talked as we now do ? It would go rather hard with our legislators themselves, in both the Lords and the Commons, if they could not attain their honours without first passing an examination in political economy • The truth is the men's THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, JUNE 30, 1860. not having a vote is just the reason why they have never been appealed to, and never examined these questions, and been enlightened on them. In France they are as wise as these artisans, for in Paris where prices are even higher for meat than they are here, the Government will not allow the bakers to raise the price of bread. Bread and shows the Parisians must have, or the tables might be timed, and the King of NAPLES have to enlighten his Imperial brother at the Tuileries on-how to keep a throne. French Govern ments do not seem to have advanced beyond English meetings of artisans. LATEST NEWLi. The following telegrams have been received at Mr. Reuter's office : NAPLES, JUNE 29. There is great agitation here. Even in the streets things are far from quiet. The proclamation of reforins does not appear to have given satisfaction. NAPLES, JUNE 28, EVENING. This evening riotous assemblages took place in the Strada di Toledo. A grand gala was held to-day to celebrate the inauguration of the constitutional flag. TURIN, JUNE 30. The Neapolitan Government has ordered the res titution of the two captured vessels, and the re lease of crew and passengers. The state of things at Naples inspires great fears of anarchy and of conflicts between the Lazzaroni and the remainder of the population. ROME, JUNE 29. Reports are current that the Papal Governmetv is about to grant reforms. PARIS, JUNE 30. A private telegram from Naples, dated Thursday evening, states that on Wednesday some disturbers of the public peace assaulted and wounded the Minister of France. On the 28th inst. the commissariats of the 12 districts of the city were simultaneously ransacked and pillaged. The archives were burnt and the agents murdered. Naples had been proclaimed in a state of siege, and any assembling in the streets had been prohibited. PARIS, JUNE 29. The treaty to arrange the boundaries between France and Sardinia has been signed here. The French Government has communicated to the Powers that it is willing to accept one of the three following modes for settling its differences with Switzerland . 1. To negotiate direct with the Federal Govern• ment. 2. To admit to this negotiation the Powers who signed the final Act of Vienna. 3. To assemble in Conference. If a Conference shall be determined on, it will very probably take place at Paris. It is quite certain that France will make no cession whatever of territory. PARIS, JUNE 29. The King of Naples has instructed the Marquis d'Antonini to express to the French Government his most sincere regret on account of the cowardly insult offered to Baron Brenier, and promising a severe retribution upon the guilty parties, who, however, were not yet discovered, havingsuccecded in escaping immediately after committing the assault. PARIS, JUNE 29. The Paris papers publish the following telegram dated Antibes, to-day : "Numerous inhabitants of the communes of Tende and Briga, in the department of Nice, are flying from the villages militarily occupied by the Piedmontese. " Peaceable citizens have been arrested for hav ing shouted, ' France for ever !' The Emperor for ever !' " It is also stated in the Paris journals that Barn!' Brenier is not dangerously hurt. 'VIENNA, JUNE 29. It is stated that Lord A. Loftus has informed the Austrian Government that England is prepared to take part in a Conference with the other Powers who signed the final Act of Vienna, in order to settle the difference pending between France and Switzerland. Lord A. Loftus having also been instructed to as certain the disposition of Austria in reference to an immediate assembling of the Conference, Count Rechberg is said to have replied that, as M. Thouvenel in his last despatch of the 21st inst. ac cepted, in the name of his Government, the Con ference as claimed by Switzerland, Austria does not object to being represented therein. Count Rech berg added that Austria recognises that Switzer land (whose interests are especially concerned by these discussions) has a right to take part in this Conference. She persists, however, in maintaining that Sardinia can show no title for being repre sented therein, Count CaTour having himself stated that, in consequence of the treaty of the 24th March, Sardinia would henceforth remain a stranger to all questions in reference to Savoy. TURIN, JUNE 29. The Chamber of Deputies has voted for the new loan by 215 against 3. Baron Poerio and Signor Mancini made interpellations relative to the state of affairs at Naples. Both speakers logically opposed any arrangement with the Bourbons. The Minister Farini replied in a manner favourable to the idea of national unity, but with reserve. • TURIN, JUNE 29. The protest of Spain against the connivance of the Sardinian Government with the volunteer ex peditions for Sicily was not remitted to Count Cavour by the Spanish Ambassador himself, but by the First Secretary of the Legation acting as Charge d'Affaires during his Excellency's absence from Turin. TELEGRAPH FROM RAGUSA TO ALEX. ANDRIA. VIENNA, JUNE 29. The convention between England, Austria, and the Porte for the establishment of a submarine telegraph line from Ragusa to Alexandria wa s signed here at noon to-day. CONSTANTINOPLE, JUNE 29. By order of the Sultan the Finance Commission has been transformed into a Council of Coltrol, with extended powers. Mehemed Ruschdi Pacha has been appointed President at the new council. dolence from almost all the crowned heads of Europe. The funeral of Prince Jeiome will take place 1 on Tuesday, at eleven in the morning. The Em peror, it is said, will not be present; the ceremony will be conducted by Prince Napoleon, chief mour ner. All the members of the diplomatic body have paid visits of condolence to the Prince and the Princess Clotilda. The post mortem examination of the body of Prince Jerome led to the discovery of a ball which had remained in his chest, after a duel which he fought in his youth with a brother of Marshal Davoust. BOURSE, June 29.—The opening of the market was dull, and the prices depressed, but they are now about the same as yesterday. Three varied from 681 45c to 681 571 c ; Mobilier, 670 f to 672 f 50c ; Austrian, 523 f 75c to 525 f ; Lombard, 501 f 25c to 502 f 50c ; Lyons, 876 f 25c to to 877 f 50c ; Orleans, 1,338 75c to 1,340 f ; Northern, 982 f 50c to 983 f 75c. The following are the last quotations : 41 per per Cents 96 40 , Do end month 3 per Cents Do. end month 6B 65 Bank Shares . . 28'20 Credit Mobilier 672 50 Do. Account 675 Credit Foncier 865 Belgian 41 — Piedmontese Fives B3 25 Roman Austrian Spanish Threes 49 Home Debt RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans 1340 1341 25 Northern New ditto B7O Lyons and Mediterranean 880 877 50 Geneva — .. 398 75 Southern 516 25 .. 517 50 Western Eastern Sardinian 4lO 410 Austrian Lombard COWES, ISLE OF WIGHT.—.Tune 28. ROYAL YACHT SQUADRON INTELLIGENCE. Arrivals—June 23.—The Dream, Geo. Bentinck, Esq., M.P., from Portsmouth. June 27.—The Brilliant, G. H, Ackers, Esq., with his fender; the Rose Diamond, from the westward, and bound for Southampton. Sailed—June 26.—The Eugenia, Richard Frank land, Esq., in company with the Cecile, the Mar quis of Drogheda, for the Channel Isles and Ireland. The Ariadne, which is to accompany the Prince of Wales on his visit to Canada, will be well worthy of a visit from our trans-Atlantic cousins, as, although only mounting 26 guns, these are of the heaViest calibre, and she actually measures nearly 100 tons more than the Hero, which mounts 91 guns ; she has also 1,000-horse power, whereas the latter ship has only 600. According to present arrangements the Flying Fish will start a day or two in advance, so that she may be able to reach the shores of Canada at about the same time with her more powerful consorts.—Army and _Wavy Gazette. The King of the Belgians and the Count of Flanders and suite took leave of her Majesty and the Prince Consort and the younger branches of the royal family this forenoon, and left Buckingham Palace for Ostend, where his Majesty and the Count of Flanders purpose to sleep to night. The Marquis and Marchioness Spaventa and family have arrived at the Brunswick Hotel, Jermyn-street, from Italy. Lord and Lady Saltoun left town yesterday for Philorth House, Aberdeenshiro. A marriage is arranged to take place between Lord Conyers and Miss Curteis, daughter of Mrs. Fitzroy Campbell and step-daughter of Colonel Fitzroy Campbell. His lordship, who is the eldest son of Mr. Sackville Walter Lane Fox, by the only daughter of the sixth Duke of Leeds, obtained his barony, it will be remembered, last year upon the death of the late Duke of Leeds. The Baroness Groeninx de Zoelan has left the Brunswick Hotel for Holland. Sir Humphrey and Lady Annette de Trafford have left Edward's Hotel for Trafford Park, Lancashire. A deputation of Paper-makers had an interview with Viscount Palmerston yesterday. The deputation in cluded Messrs. William Joynson (Kent), chairman, John Evans (Messrs. Dickenson and Co.), Thomas Wrigley (Manchester), William Watson (Messrs. Cowan and Sons, Edinburgh), Henry Bruce (Edinburgh), George Chater, James Spicer and Deputy Pewtress (London), William M'Murray (Wandsworth), T. H. Saunders (Dartford), F. C. Phipps (Dover), Henry Hall (Kent), William Delano, Messrs. Delane, Magnay, and Co. (Norwich), Charles Longman (Herts), Alfred Curtis (Herts), George F. Busbridre (Maidstone). Henry 1NT1 . ... 1 0 , * (High wycnrraws), Thomas thllingworth (Maidstone), B. Brown (Tunbridge), C. Potter Darwen, John T. Norris, M.P., A. Town (Messrs. Annandale and Son, Edinburgh), and Archibald Kintrea, Parliamentary agent. A deputation on the subject of the Metropolis Gas Bill had an interview with Sir G. C. Lewis yesterday at the Home-office. The deputation consisted of Sir John Shelley, M.P., Mr. John Locke, M.P., Lord Enfield, M.P., Mr. William Roupell, M.P., Sir C. Napier, M.P., Mr. W. Williams, M.P. ; from St. Georges, Messrs. Wes terton and Dowden ; from St. Mary's, Newington, Mr. Redfern; from Lambeth, Messrs. Stratton, Jeffrie, War. ren, and Wade; from St. Olave's, Messrs. Walker and Langley; from St. James's, Mr. Chinnock ; from Isling ton, Mr. Elt ; from Chelsea, Mr. Lahee ; from Westmin ster Board, Mr. Godeon and Mr. Hartley; from Kensing ton, Mr. Green, Mr. Wyatt, Parliamentary agent; Mr. Beal, hon. secretary ; and Mr. Hughes, engineer. A deputation on the same subject had also an in terview with the Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson and the Right Hon. W. llutt, yesterday, at the office of the Board of Trade. A deputation on the Wine Licenses Bill (Scot land), consisting of Mr. Archilbald Livingston (Glasgow), and Mr. Neil M'Neill (Glasgow), , Rev. J. A. Johnston (West Linton), and Mr. John S. Marr (Glasgow), had an 'interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday at his official residence in Downing -street. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat yesterday. An appeal from Bengal, " Ram Gopal Mooker• jee v. Mosseyk and Kenny," part heard, was concluded. Despatches from the Governor of the Falkland Islands were received yesterday at the Colonial -office. Despatches were sent to the Governor of the North Ame rican Provinces. At the recent final examination of cadets at the Royal Military College, some forty young gentlemen passed an examination which was declared to have fitted them for commissions in the line. Nevertheless, the Duke of Cam bridge, in addressing them, was obliged to s t a t e th a t it was out of his power to give commissions without purchase to more than twenty of them ; and the first twenty on the list, according to the number of marks, were selected. The re maining twenty are left either to purchase commissions, or do the best they can. We are well aware of the calls upon the Secretary for War to prevent the Reserved Fund being unduly diminished, especially with a number of cavalry retirements impending; but we do think, even in the face of this, and of the Fifteen Million Bill before us, that these young men have a right to complain of not merely a virtual, but a direct, plain, and positive breach of faith on the part of the Government. That a satisfactory career at Sandhurst secures, or has been in the habit of securing, a contmission without purchase, is a matter of sufficient notoriety to render it at least very equivocal conduct on the part of the Secretary for War to take away the privilege without long and distinct notice. But, in the present instance, these young gentlemen went to Sandhurst under a distinct com pact with the Government, contained in the regulations • then in force. The words of paragraph 20 of these regulations are, " With a view to the advantage of the Service, and as an enc ouragemen t t o young gen tl emen edu cated at the Royal Military College, and a stimulus to their exertions, commissions are given to all those passing an ex amination before the Collegiate Board." Notwithstanding this very distinct s ti p ulation, the young gentleman who hate performed their part of the compact are told the Go vernment cannot fulfil theirs. There was nothing about competition when they entered Sandhurst. They invested their time and money in the acquisition of a military edu cation, in retnra for which they are promised the gift of a commission. They are pronounced duly qualified ; there is no question as to their - having earned the prize honestly, lAA itis not convenient for the Minister for War to diminish his balance by giving it. As regards a private individual they could undoubtedly maintain an action-at-law ; as against the Minister, we hope public opinion will see that right be done.—Army and Navy Gazette. LOVE AND SUICIDE.—At an early hour yesterday morning a respectably dressed female was seen to precipi tate herself into the water of the Regent's •canal, Victoria patk. She ran along the towing-path immediately at the rear of the Cricketer's Arms Tavern, and was soon strug gling in the water. An al arm was raised, but the deceased disappeared. Mr. Russell, the lock-keeper, and his son instantly hastened to the spot with the drags, but some minutes elapsed before the body could be secured. The deceased was carried to the nearest public-house, and Mr. Maldola, a surgeon, was promptly in attendance, and used • every means to restore animation, but, unfortunately, with • ont avail. The deceased was a fine young woman, and subsequently she was identified as Mary Ann Fage, aged 20 years, the daughter of Mr. Fage, the extensive broker of Whitechapel-road. It appeared that the deceased was much attached to a young man, with whom she had kept company four years. They were out together last on Thurs day night, had some.words, and while standing at the door of the father's house the young man refused to shake hands with her. Tho deceased was much annoyed and cried, and told him that, if he did not shake hands with her before they separated, she would drown herself. He did not heed what she had said, and left to go home. The deceased, however, left home unseen, and committed self-destruction as above described. DESTRUCTIVE FIRE IN GLASGOW.—On Monday morning the Lancefield Cotton Spinning nn ,e ing b Faetory, Centre street, Tradeston, was totally in stock, buildi ngs , and machinery esr is 3 estimatedyfire. at which is nearly c ov e re d b y the fol l ow i ng insurances—Cor poration of Live r p oo l , £ 3,000; R oya l, £2,000; Globe, T S ll B e , O lo O s o B , £1,360; Phoenix, £ , 1,500; Sun, £5OO. PRINTED PAPERS,—By a Parliamentary return just issued it appears that the cost of printing reports and papers presented by command of her Majesty, during the session of 1859, was £19,700 9s. sd. This sum is exclu sive of the cost of the printing ordered by the two Houses of Parliament, of job-work, printing, and of all printed work not laid before Parliament. (TBE PRIVILEGES OF THE 110 USE OF COMMONS. The following Report was presented to the House of Commons yesterday : The Select Committee appointed to search the journals of both Houses of Parliament in order to ascertain and report on the practice of each House with regard to the several descriptions of bills im posing or repealing taxes have searched the said journals accordingly, and have agreed to the fol lowing report : I. Your committee have searched for precedents in the journals, from the year 1628 to the present time, in order that they might ascertain and re port on the practice pursued by either House with regard to the several descriptions of Bills imposing and repealing taxes. The practice and the modeof procedure is somewhat different, according to the character and object of those Bills. Your com mittee have, therefore, for the sake of clearness, classified the same chiefly under one or other of the following heads :- 1. Bills of Supply and Tax Bills ; 2. Bills for appropriating Supplies ; 3. Public Bills, which ire not strictly Bills of Supply or Tax Bills, but which operate as a tax or charge on the people; and 4. Bills for altering or repealing Acts which re late to Supply, Taxes, or Charges. Your committee have thought it necessary to call the attention of the House to those cases only in which the Lords have interfered. 11. Your committee commenced their search with the year 1628, for two reasons—first, because the previous cases are most ably commented on in the great precedent of 1671; and, secondly, because the year 1628 is the year in which the present form of granting the supplies may be said to have been practically established. BILLS OF SUPPLY AND TAX BILLS. The Commons grant : the Lords assent. 111. The most ancient manner of giving aids to the Crown was by the Lords and Commons, sepa rately from each other, each for themselves only, and without mutual communication. But from a very early period the Lords and Commons joined together, and, since they did so, the fundamental rule has always been—the Commons grant, the Lords assent. In the great conferences held with the Lords in 1640, 1671, and 1691, reference is made to the " indemnity of the Lords and Commons," in 9th Henry IV., 1407. This precedent is so important that your committee think it right to give it in full : " On Wednesday, the 2d day of December, (1407), which was the last day of Parliament, the Com mons came before the King and the Lords in Par liament, and there, by command of the King, a schedule of indemnity, on a certain altercation that had happened between the Lords and Commons, was read; and on this, it was commanded by the King that the said schedule should be entered in record on the roll of Parliament; the tenour of which schedule follows: "Be it remembered that, on Monday, the 21st day of November, the King our Sovereign Lord being in. the Council Chamber within the Abbey of Glocester, there being in his presence the Lords spiritual ,and temporal in this present Parliament assembled, it was discoursed among them concern ing the state of the kingdom, and how to defend it against the malice of enemies, who on every side are threatening the said kingdom and the faithful subjects thereof; and that this malice cannot be re sisted unless, for the safeguard and defence of his said kingdom, our Sovereign Lord the King have in this present Parliament some considerable aid and subsidy granted to hlm. And on this, the afore named Lords asked, by way of question,—What aid would suffice and be needful in this case ? To which demand and question it was by the said Lords severally answered,—That, considering the necessity of the King on the one hand, and the poverty of his people on the other, less aid would not suffice than a tenth and a half from the cities and boroughs, and a fifteenth and a half from the other lay people ; and; besides, to grant a pro longation of the subsidy of wools, hides, and wool fells, and of 3s. of tonnage and 12d. of poundage, from the next approaching feast of St. Michael till the feast of St. Michael two years next ensuing. On which, by command of the King, a message was sent to the Commons of this present Parliament that they should cause to come before the King , and the said Lords a certain number of persons of their body to hear and report to their companions what they should have in command from our Lord the King aforesaid. And on this, the said Commons sent to the presence of the King and the said Lords 12 of their companions, to whom, by command of the King, the aforesaid question was declared, together with the answer of the said Lords severally given to the same. Which reply it was the will of the King flint they should report to the remainder of . their companions; so that they should take steps to conform to the answer of the Lords. Which report being made to the said Com mons, they were greatly disturbed, saying and affirming that it was in great prejudice and dero gation of their liberties. And since our Lord the King had become aware of this, not wishing that anything should be done now, or in time to come, which might be any wise turned against the liberty of that estate for which they have come to Parlia ment, nor against the liberties of the Lords afore said, he wills, grants, and declares, by the advice and assent of the Lords, in manner as follows, — that is to say :—That it is lawful for the Lords to consider among themselves, in this present Parlia ment, and in every other time to come, in the ab sence of the King, of the state of the realm, and of the remedies needful for this. And in like manner it is lawful for the Commons on their part to con sider among themselves on the same state and reme dies. Provided always, that neither the Lords on their part, nor the Commons on theirs, should make any report to our said Lord the King, of any grant, granted by the Commons and assented to by the Lords, nor of the discussions on the said grant, before that the said Lords and Commons are of one assent and of oue accord in that matter ; and then in man ner and form as is accustomed—that is to say, by . the mouth of the Speaker of the said Commons for the time being ; so that the said Lords and Com mons shall be agreed with our Lord the King. Be sides this, the King wills, with the assent of the Lords aforesaid, that the discussion in this present 2arliament, had, as above, should 'not be drawn into an example in time to come, nor be turned to the prejudice or derogation of the liberties of the estate for which the said Commons are now come, in this present Parliament nor in any other in time hereafter. But he wills that they and all the other estates should be as free as they were :be fore."—(Rolls of Parliament, 9th Henry IV., No. 21.) IV. It was in 1628 the preamble of Supply Bills was finally fixed as we now find it :—" Most gra cious Sovereign, we your Majesty's most faithful Commons have given and granted to your Majesty." On the 7th of June in that year a committee, con slating of Sir E. ;Coke, Mr. Glanville, Mr. Selden, and many others, was appointed to draw the pre amble of the subsidy. In the preamble as so drawn, the Commons only were named, and the Lords omitted. To that omission the Lords took exception. Conferences were held, but the Commons adhered to their own form, for " this course was not likedin this house, as being of a dangerous example in point of consequence." Ulti mately, the Lords passed the bill without altering the preamble, but, contrary to usage, they retained the Bill in their House, " to which much exception was taken." Nevertheless, when the King came to prorogue Parliament, the Speaker presented it, praying "his Majesty's Royal assent unto the bills passed both houses." V. In the short Parliament of 1640, the King having come to the House of Lords and denianded a present supply, the Lords requested a conference, which was held on the 25th of April. A question arose whether the Lords could in any way interfere with the Commons relative to precedency which sup ply should have over other matters. On the 27th of April the Lords expressed to the Commons their opinion that, in regard of the urgency and even the necessity of the King's affairs, the Commons should begin with giving the King a supply, and a con ference was desired on that subject. The conference was held, after which Mr. Herbert, the Solicitor- General, reported, among other things, that the Lords at the conference had stated that, "though my Lords would not meddle with matters of sub sidy, which belonged naturally and properly to you, no, not to give you advice therein, but have utterly declined it, yet, being members of one body, and subjects of the same King, and all concerned in the common safety, and in their duty to his Majesty, and in their zeal and natural love to their country, themselves, and their posterity, they have declared by vote, ' That they held it most necessary and fit that the matter of supply should have precedency before any other watter or consideration whatso ever,' and therefore desired a conference with you to let you know their reasons." Upon this the Commons resolved "that, by the matter propounded in the late conference with the Lords, the privi leges of this House are violated." And further, "that their Lordships' voting, propounding, and declaring, touching matters of supply in such sort as is contained in this Report, before it moved from this House, is a breach of privilege of this House." On the 27th of April a committee was appointed to prepare an address unto the Lords for " righting their privileges." The address was presented by Mr. Pym, at a conference held on the 28th of April. In this address Mr. Pym said, " Your Lordships, in. the last conference, have been pleased to affirm that the matter of subsidy and supply naturally belonging to the House of Commons, your Lordships would not meddle with it—no, not so much as to give ad vice ; yet after you were pleased to declare that, you have voted in your Lordships' House that it was most necessary and fit that matters of supply should have precedency of all other business ; and this being done, your Lordships would freely join with them in all things concerning matter of religion, propriety of goods, and liberty of Parliament." On the same day the Lords resolved by the major part of the votes thus —" That, by their Lordships first voting (we are of opinion t hat the matter of his Majesty's supply should have precedency, and be resolved of, before any other matter whatsoever), was no breach of the privileges of the Houss of Commons." The address of Mr. Pym is preserved in the journals, and will be found in the appendix, and the same committee ,that had been directed to prepare the address was, on the 2d of May, ordered "to take into consideration the privileges mentioned in the conference with the Lords, and to view such records as might any way concern the same, and to present the same to the judgment of the House, to consider what course to take for the preservation of the same privileges." It does not appear from the journals of either House that anything further was done in the mat ter, Parliament having been dissolved on the sth of May. .. . _ _ . . VI. The practice which had been settled with re ference to the preamble in the year 1628 was con firmed at the Restoration. On that occasion the Commons took the earliest opportunity of asserting their privilege ; for on the 21st of July, 1660, when Sir Heneage Finch, afterwards Lord Chancellor Nottingham, reported a Bill for continuance of the customs of tonnage and poundage, it was resolved that the first clause in the Bill be thus amended — namely, " The Commons assembled do give and grant to your Majesty the subsidies hereafter fol lowing, most humbly praying your Majesty that it may be enacted," &e. This Bill, having been read a third time, was carried to the Lords; and Mr. An nesley was directed " to desire the Lords that, it being a Bill concerning money, it be sent back to the House when the Lords have passed it." As soon as it had passed the Lords' House it appears, front their journals, that a message was sent to the Commons " to deliver the Bill to them which their Lordships had passed ;" and it further appears from I the same journals that the Commons by their Speaker presented it to the King. From that time to this the practice with regard to Bills of Supply has been in conformity with this precedent. The Commons alone are stated in the preamble to make the grant. When the bill has passed their house the Commons desire the concurrence of the Lords ; when it has passed the Lords a message is sent to the Commons, stating that the Lords have agreed to it. The bill is afterwards returned to the Com mons, and when the Commons are summoned to attend the Queen or. the Lords Commissioners, the Speaker presents it for the Royal assent. It is not unworthy to remark that the practice with regard to Bills of Supply as thus established is identical with the provisions of the Indemnity Ordinance in 1407, as explained by the Attorney- General in the precedent of 1671. " And as for the case of 9 Henry 1V.," ho therein says, " called the indemnity of the Lords and Commons, these things are evidently proved by it; — "First, that it was a grievance to the Commons and a breach of their liberties to demand a com mittee to confer with about aids. " Secondly, that the Lords ought to consider by themselves, and the Commons by themselves apart. " Thirdly, that no report shall be made to the King of what the Common's have granted and the Lords assented to till the matter is perfected ; so that a plain declaration is made, that the Commons grant, and the Lords assent. " And, fourthly, that the gift ought to be pre sented by the Speaker of the, Commons." BILLS OF SUPPLY, AND TAX BILLS. Practice of the Commons where the Lords Amend. VII. In the 17th century there are a few in stances where the Lords have amended Bills of Supply, and the Commons have agreed to- such amendments. It is impossible in all cases to ascer tain at this distance of time the exact 'nature of such amendments. In some the amendments were made for the purpose of preserving to the Peers the ancient custom of assessing themselves by com missioners of their own ; in others, the amend ments were made for the correction of clerical errors, or in furtherance of the intent and object of the Bill; and in one or two eases the Commons agreed on special grounds, such as " the present necessity cast upon them by the shortness of the session." With these exceptions, it appears from the journals that this House has reserved to itself the exclusive power over such Bills by'not allowing any alterations of a substantial character to be made in them. Thus, in the great precedent of the 13th of April, 1671, where the reasons drawn up by the Attorney-General, and adopted by the House, are stated so clearly that we have inserted them at length in the Appendix,—amendments and clauses were sent from the Lordb in a Bill for an imposi tion on foreign commodities. On that Bill being sent back to the Commons, this House resolved, nemine contradicente," That in all aids given to the King by the Commons, the rate or tax ought not to be altered by the Lords ;' " and on the third conference with the Lords, held and reported to the House, it was resolved— " That the Lords' reasons, and the answer of this House, be entered in the Journal of this House, which are as followeth, viz. : " Thursday, April 20. "This conference was desired by their Lordships, upon the subject-matter of the last conference, con cerning the Bill for Impositions on Merchandise, &c., wherein the Commons communicated to the Lords, as their resolution, that there is a funda mental right in that House alone, in Bills of Rates and Impositions on Merchandise, as:to the matter, the measure, and the time. " And, though their Lordships had neither rea son nor precedent offered by the Commons to back that resolution ; but were told that this was a right so fundamentally settled in the Commons, that they could not give reasons for it, for that would be a weakening of the Commons Right of Privilege ; " Yet the Lords, in Parliament, upon full consi deration thereof, and of that whole conference, are come to this resolution, nemine contradicente; " That the power exercised by the House of Peers, in making the Amendments and Abatements in the Bill, intituled An Act for an additional Imposition on several Foreign Commodities, and for Encouragement of several Commodities and Manufactures of this Kingdom, both as to the Matter, Measarc, and Time, concerning the Rates and Impositions on Merchandise,' is a fundamental inherent, and undoubted right of the House of Peers, from -which they cannot depart." Then follow the Lords' reasons, with the Com mons' answer, which deserve special consideration. On the 22d of Apiil it was unanimously resolved " That the thanks of the House be returned to Mr. Attorney-General for his great pains and care in preparing and drawing up the reasons delivered to the Lords, in answer to their reasons, whi c h was by him performed to the great satisfaction of this House; in vindication of - their privilege and just and undoubted right of the Commons of England. "And Mr. Speaker did accordingly deliver the thanks of the House to Mr. Attorney-General." Parliament was prorogued on the same day till the 16th of April, 1672. VIII. Even where the amendment is for the abatement of a duty, or merely a change in the mode of collecting it, the Commons have still insisted on their privilege. Thus, on the 24th of July, 1689, the Lords sent down amendments to a Bill for collecting the duty upon coffee, tea, and chocolate. In those amendments certaiti drawbacks appear to have been allowed upon the exportation of these commodities. This House disagreed to them nemine contra dicente; and they gave as part of their reasons that " they had always taken it as their un doubted privilege (of which they have ever been jealous and tender) that in all aids given to the King by the Commons, the rate or tax ought not to be in any way altered by the Lords," And they add, " As to the proviso which your lord ships have sent to the Commons, the Commons do disagree to it, and for that do refer to their first reason ; the proviso being an alteration and lessen ing of the grant made by the Commons." To this the Lords reply that they "are much surprised at the assertion of the Commons, that, in all aids given to the King by the Commons, that rate or tax ought not to be in any way altered by the Lords, since they conceive it hath always been their undoubted right, in case of any aid given to the King, to les sen the rate or tax granted by the Commons." /n the result, the Commons adhered to their former opinion, and negatived the amendments ne lieu a contradicente. The same rule has been also app not not only where the charge is in any way but also where the Lords have endeavouredt altered,P lt h o change the mode of collecting' it. Thu: d , °nhe 17th of Land-tax of July, 1662, when the Lords a mend c t t o h . res Peerstobe wereßill , by liable p r o N s i h d e i e n g that l dh e r t e h e e e i r v a e t d e s to b y co which lc d t n n o m s e n h a t n e n d a b m y e n t h d e m m e a n e t l , v s e t s ; n h g e Commonsas their re a d s t e s e a g s r t c h e adt the right "of granting supplies to the Crown is in constitution ; and the grants, the Commons alone a s an essen o t f ia a l li p s a u r c t h of their limitation esteemed by o astionwere,lml easure, and: time, is only known to be fundamen tallyai n s t t o h e t h m e , m w a h t ie e h r , i m s in the mu our that h a a n t t e e s t e gi r s v e t e r c h a o s o n n w s for e i t n i h n a g s been neclauseconceive vn s e e t n tbh t ear d et o e w ft.h n ”e making b T y o y t o h u is r Lordshipsothat rig ri g ht. . mAan,n,cliTfehtsehtyei nil abatement of rates in Bills el t u l sy p from the House of Common s i s a es t the au e p rapleyn Lords ds emu rF fundamental, inherent, and undoubted right of the House of Peers, from which their Lordships can never depart. They have, therefore, thought them selves obliged to assert it upon this occasion. But, considering that a difference between the two Houses upon this Bill may create such delays in the pass ing of it as would be of the most fatal consequence in the present conjuncture, the Lords have not thought convenient at this time to insist upon their provisoes." It would be needless to quote to quote all the pre cedents where the Lords have interfered by amend ing Supply or Tax Bills. The year 1678 furnishes, as shown by the Journals of the House of Commons, a memorable resolution of the House on the " Rights of the Commons in granting money." It is a re port of a committee appointed, from the members who had managed the Conference on a " Supply. Bill for Disbanding the' Forces," and which had been returned with some amendments. dhey were ordered to prepare and draw up a " State of the Rights of the Commons in granting of money." This resolution, thus prepared, was agreed to by . the House, and is as follows :—" That all aids and supplies to his Majesty are the sole gift of the Com mons ; and all Bills for the granting of any such aids and supplies ought to begin with the Com mons ; and it is the undoubted and sole right of the Commons to direct, limit, and appoint in such Bills the ends, purposes, considerations, conditions, limi tations, and qualifications of such grants, which ought not to be changed or altered by the House of Lords." (For other precedents enforcing this rule see App. No. 34, 35, 41, 44, 45.) IX. The Commons have so' steadily adhered to this rule that even in those cases where they have allowed amendments for the mere correction of clerical errors, or in furtherance of the object and intent of the Bill, they have usually directed spe cial entries to be made in the Journals recording the character and purpose of such amendments. Thus, on the 25th of January, 1693, the Lords amended a Bill for granting an aid of 4s. in the pound by altering the word " receipt" into " pre cept," and by inserting the word " to," :which had been unintentionally omitted, and by leaving out the word. " any," which was a mere redundancy through mistake of the clerk. The Commons agreed to the amendments, but they or dered that " the said amendments be particularly entered in the Journals, to the end that the nature of thesaid amendments may appear." So, where the words " Great Britain" were inserted by mis take for the word "England" the Lords' amend ments were agreed to, " it appearing that the word ' England' was originally in the Bill when pre sented to this House, and that the same had not been altered in any of the subsequent proceedings of the House in respect to the Bill." So, too, like wise where the title had been altered the Lords' amendment was agreed to, "it appearing that the said amendments were only for the purpose of making the title agree with the context of the Bill." X. Where the Lords have altered a Bill of Supply, the former practice of the Commons was either to disagree to the amendments, and so give the Lords the opportunity of waiving such amend ments, or else to lay the Bill aside. Thus on the Bth of April, 1700, when amendments were made in the Land-tax and Irish Forfeiture Bill, although those amendments ' as stated by the Lords, did not relate to " aids and supplies granted to his Majesty in Parliament," the Commons state the following reasons for insisting on their right and their mode of enforcing it : "For that all aids and supplies granted to his Majesty in Parliament are the sole and entire gift of the Commons, and as all Bills for the granting . such aids and supplies begin with the Commons, so it is the undoubted and sole right of the Commons to direct, limit, and appoint in such Bills the ends and purposes, considerations, limitations, and quali fications of such grants, which ought not to be changed or altered by your Lordships. " This is well known to be such a fundamental right of the Commons that to give reasons for it has been esteemed by our ancestors to be a weaken ing of that right. " The Commons, therefore, leave the Bills and the amendments with your Lordships, together with the ill consequences that attend the not passing this Bill." The last proceeding in this matter was a free conference on the 11th of April, and a prorogation of Parliament took place on the same day. In some cases where a similar controversy arose the difference terminated either in the prorogation of Parliament or in no further proceedings being taken on the Bills. On other occasions the Lords have frequently given way, and so the difficulties which might have arisen have been avoided. Thus on the 11th April, 1677, the Lords madd amend ments to a Supply Bill, which the Commons disa greed to ; a free conference was held, and after such conference it was ordered that such members as did manage it " do search the journals for p rece d e nts touching adhering to bills." In the afternoon of the same day the question being put, to agree to the amendments sent from the Lords, it passed in the negative. But two days afterwards a message came from the Lords, stating that they agreed to leave out their amendments ; and so the Bill was carried. XI. In later times, instead of disagreeing with the Lords' amendments, the usual course has been to postpone the consideration of them, or to lay the Bill aside, or to reject it at once. This course was sometimes taken in the ea-Hier periods of our his tory. On the 24th March, 1670-1, when amend ments came from the Lords to a Bill for laying a duty on brandy, it is recorded in the journals that these amendments "being for laying an imposition on the people is a breach of the privilege of this House, where all impositions on the people ought to begin ; therefore the House did think fit to lay the said Bill and amendments aside." On the 3d of June, 1772, when a message came from the Lords returning a Bill, entitled, " An Act to regulate the Importation and Exportation of Corn," with an amendment made in the Lords, that no bounty should be paid on exported corn, it was " resolved, nernine contradicente, that the said Bill with the amendment be rejected." (For other cases in which a similar course has been pursued, see appendix, No. 47, 50, 99,15'8, 59, 60; 61, 63, 65.) XII. Although such Bills, when amended by the Lords, are usuilly laid aside by the Commons, it does not follow that the object of them has been lost. Where the Commons have desired to concur in the substance of the amendments made by the Lords, they have asserted their privilege by laying aside the amended Bill, and have sent to the Lords a new Bill, containing the amendment made by the Lords. (See pars. XVII. and XX.) BILLS OF SUPPLY AND TAX BILLS; Practice of the Commons where the Lords do not pass the Bill. XIII. By a resolution of the House of Commons passed in the reign of Elizabeth, it was laid down that, " according to the ancient liberties and privi leges of this House, a conference. is to be required by the Court, which at the time of the conference demanded, shall be possessed of the Bill." When. the LOrds, therefore, do not return the Bill the Com mons have lost all power over it, and have no direct means, by conference or otherwise, of coming to any agreement upon it. According to the search that has been made in the journals there is no instance of any Supply Bill having been actually rejected or postponed by the Lords prior to the reign of Queen Anne. Before that time amendments were made and conferences held, which usually terminated as above pointed out. The first instance in whick a Supply or Tax Bill was rejected by the Lords occurred in the year 1708. The Bill in that case was entitled " AA, Act for Laying a further Duty on Woollen and Worsted Yarn imported into this Kingdom.' It was a B;11 founded on the resolution of a Com mittee of Ways and Means on the 25th of February, 1707 (0.5.), and it was passed by the Commons towards raising the supply granted to his Majesty. This Bill was sent to the Lords, a nd it was ordered rejected. Charlton' by them that the said Bill shall be and is hereby re portedOn f the ro m 2l s a t o J o t m n tatroye, fthe 1 752, Mr . whole Hou se , to whom it it was referred to conside r further o f W ays and Means for raising the supp ly granted to his Majesty, " That from and after the 29th of Septem ber, 40 1752, the sum of s. shall b e paid to his Majesty for a license to be taken out yearly for every pe rson . exercising the trade dealing in second of a broker, hand goods, within the Bills of Mortality." The Bill was sent to the House of Lords, read there a second time, and committed for the 24th of March ; but on the 21st, after debate, it was resol ve d , " That the House be pu t in committee on the bill on that day fortnight." The bill was consequently lost, as Parliament was prorogued on the 26th. On the 20th of April, 1790, a bill, entitled "An Act for Granting to his Majesty a Certain Sum of Money, to be raised by lottery , " a was brought into the Commons, and a resolution of a Committee of Supply. On the 20th of May it was sent to the iLords.rt.Th e L o r d s amended it, and on the 3d of June it was ordered by them that the report of the amendments be taken into consideration on that day three months. A new bill was after wards brought up from the Commons and passed. On the 12th of June, 1827, a bill, entitled " An Act for granting Duties of Customs on Corn" which had passed the House of Commons, was ordered by the Lords to be read a third time on the 15th of June. The bill was abandoned by the Government in the House of Lords, in conse quence .of an amendment which had been made in committee, and affirmed on this report. The amend ment was to the effect that no foreign grain in bond should be taken out of bond until the average price of wheat should have reached 665. a quarter. On the 19th of June, a second Bill was brought in by the Com Mons upon a resolution, " that all corn and grain, &c., now in warehouse, or which may FRANCE. PARIS, FRIDAY. The Emperor has already received by telegraph, on the death of Prince Jerome, assurance of con- it Pe pr an Pt