The Sun. — London, England, 1860-06-08 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET AND CITY NEWS. CITY, Two O'CLOCK. The Foreign and Colonial Produce Markets, during the last few days, have not shown much activity ; the attractions . of the Races at Ascot having in some measure prevented the attendance of dealers and brokers. Teas have been in steady demand, and at fall prices. For the better descrip tions of sugars, suitable for home consumption, there has been a fair enquiry ; and in the refined market prices have been well supported for dried goods. Copper has been dealt in to some extent at public sale, and the better qualities have been at higher prices. Saltpetre continued inactive, and a steady business hes been done in tallow for both present and forward delivery at former quo tations. Business in the Liverpool Cotton Market yester day was rather active, but prices were steady. The setles were about 9,000 bales. At the Bank of England yesterday' there were 110 bullion operations of public interest.. To-morrow a call of £lO per share, amounting to £20,000, is due on the Danube and Black Sea Rttilway shares. Subjoined is a list of the transfer books which di( Ise to-day, and also their dates for re-opening : Shut. Open . _ _ Bpt n. Cent. Consols Friday, June 8.. Tuesday, July 17 4 p 77 er Cents 77 8 • • 77 „ 17 2f per Cents 77 77 8 • • I f „ 17 New 5 per Cents „ „ 8.. „ „ 17 Ann uities,Jan.lBBo „ „ 8.. „ „ 17 India Stock India 5 per Ct. Stk Friday, „ 8.. Tuesday, ~ 17 A.t the meeting of the Commercial Dock Com pany, held to-day, the directors' report was adopted, and a dividend of 2-L-- per cent. for the half year was declared. A moderate business is reported in the general discount market, but owing to the rates accepted by the bankers and brokers the Bank of England authorities are still unable to secure a large propor tion of the bills offered for negotiation. The rates for loans at the Stock Exchange are al to 4 per cent., and the usual quarterly advances will be ob tainable at the Bank. The Stock Exchange markets present a dull appearance. Rather more firmness, however, is e.xhibited in the English Funds, although the ac stual variation is unimportant, Consols being 941 9t; for money, and 951 S for the account. Very fe w transactions have been recorded. The New Threes are firm, at 93 ; the Reduced are steady, 93/ 1; India Loan at 1061 a ; ditto 5 per Cent. Enfaced Paper has improved to 98 ; ditto 51 per Certt. ditto to 1621 103 ; and the Debentures are at 96 ; Exchequer Bills have receded to 9s. pre m. A. moderate amount of business is recorded in J - Foreign Securities, and prices are firm. Turkish 6 per Cents. are 76 to 761; ditto New Loan, 591-. I to -591 ; Peruvian 3 per Cents. have improved to. 70; Mexican to 211 2-; and Belgian 41 per Cents. to 97/ ; Venezuelan remain at 25, but Brazilian hai -e receded to 99i. 'he Ocean Ma rine Insurance shares are 2 / pm. ; the Thames and Mersey ditto, 11, s prem. ; and the Un'iversal ditto, -} Z- prem.. The dealings in the Railway Share Market have ben on a moderate scale, and some of the prin eipal lines have slightly depreciated in value. I 4ancashire and Yorkshire, South-Western, Mid land, and North British have receded ss. ; Great VTestern, North Eastern (Berwick), and South- T;astern, 10s ; Great Northern A Stock improved s. ; and North-Western, ss. In the Colonial Market East Indian remain steady at 1021. Great Indian Peninsula have im proved to 1001, 1001 and Grand Trunk of Canada have declined to 311 311. Joint-Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares are rather flatter. London and Westminster are 61?,-; British North American, 514 ; Union of London, 234, and Canada Land, 121. BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICE,s. Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 931 1 3 per Cent. Consols Annuities New 3 per Cent. Annuities India Stock Ditto 4 per Cent. .. Ditto Enlaced Paper, 4 per Cent — Ditto 5 per Cent.... 93 Ditto 51 per Cent .. 1021 3 Ditto Debentures, 11,58 .... :Ditto, 1859 Ditto Bonds 1:1,00Mj Ditto under £l,o'jo . Consols for Acr,ount, 10th July 9si I Exchequer Balls, £l,OOO, 114 Ditto Small FOP SIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. Brasiliar. 5 per Cent Ditto 4f per Cent. 1852 BB Ditto 1860 Ditto Scrip -- - Mexican 3 per Cent ha Ditto Account Peruvian 4f per Cent Ditto 3 per Cent. Account 7O Turkish 6 per Cent Ditto Account Ditto New Loan Ditto Account Venezuelan 3 per Cent Dividends on the above payable in London. Belgian, 41 per Cent., Ex. 25f 9 7 14 Datch Exchange, 12 Guil. 2i per Cent 66a Ditto Certificates, 4 per Cent. THREE O'CLOCK. Consols ' Money Ditto Account ;COURSE OF EXCHANGE.—This DAT. Amsterdam Ditto Rotterdam — 11 16i 11 17 Antwerp Brussels — 25 30 25 35 Hamturgb. Paris Short. 25 121 25 171 Ditto Marseilles — 25 35 25 40 Frankfort on Maine — 1171 1171 Vienna Trieste Petersburgh — 35 35i Madrid Cadiz — 491 50 Leghorn — 30 35 30 40 Milan — 25 40 25 45 Genoa — 25 40 25 45 Naples Palermo Messina Lisbon Oporto Rio Janeiro New York — .. •• • • Foreign Gold in Bars (Standard) ...per oz. £3 17 9 Mexican Dollars 0 ••• 0 2 21 Silier in Bars (Standard) fl 5 1 South American Doubl ons Li t '54 521 53 LAW INTELLIGENOE.--(TLIIS DAY.) COURT OF CHANCERY. (Before Vice-Chancellor Sir William Page Wbod.) EARL OF SHREWSBURY V. TRAPPES.--71YDGMENT. This was a suit instituted by the plaintiff to set aside a bill of exchange for £15,000, granted by him in certain transactions as shareholder in Sheene-au-Over Company for the purchase and sale of landed estates in Belgium, on the grcund of misrepresentation of the value of the pro perty of the company. His Honour dismissed the plaintiff's bill, with costs. Musical Education. —We will maintain our opi nion that the general system of teaching music as an accomplishment, without any reference to the pupil's natural taste and capacity, and wit hout any purpose save that of display, is alike tyrra';nical and absurd. Zee, know several very clever and intell i g ent g irls, who well up in various branches of education , but who can not master the acquirement of music—having no ear nor in clination for the art—but their parents insist on music being “learnt" - become , and music being exhibited ; so, the poor victims labour ,Inpressed with a false estimate of their abties, or whip, 4 1 o k o e ll white slaves, under dread of that terrifying is an inherent -conventionality." We believe that music while in otherscortituent of the organisation in some, most popular forin t is scarcely recognised even in its juvenile days, the We remember that in our very u s, that every love of music was so strong t e mpted ; and with instrument coming within our reach was at strings, and strum on a instinctive power we could tune a sot of single note. We had a p l utno before we had been taught a whistles, and miniature v ar o g s e investment in Jew's harps, private practice on the laftert-h°rne. " We admit that our pub lic nuisance , indeed, more than have formed some opinion to us on this subject ; __ 4 l ) l tone. party confided their effect as fine a blast, in a sma ll wll4 within a week we could coun try town in the dead of h . c _ty,.as a ever roused a pronounced to be 6 , a musio l a tt , a . nd ,, then we were might have developed into a f arr mu l s. Perhaps we and money had been lavished on u s e • but,orgen, if care fortunately, little notice was taken of our premature symptoms one; so Apollo,:determined not to lose his chance na this dis- dis ciple, led us craietly on one side, and said, " Never mind • if they won't e ncourage your 4 , pl a ' y i n _ g, ” I'll teach you to 4 , s ing ;" and under this authority we got on famously in the department that made no household noise. That music should form a part of general education, is highly desirable, provided the pupil has a degree of natural capacity, and betrays the possession of " ears," as hands in the service of sweet sound ; but when a simple ballad is sung out of tune and out of time, and 16 pages of .Sterndale Bennett are rendered in a fashion that induces a sensitive listener to exclaim, " Stop that noise 1" then we should earnestly advise the study of music to be relin quished, and some more congenial acquirement substituted. —.6liza Cook's "jottings from any Journal." SHARE MARKET-(THIS DAY.) ORDINARY SHARES AND STOCKS. Railways. Paid. Closing Business Prize. Done. Belfast and Ballymena Wol , and Str. Val. Birk., La., and Ch June Blackburn Blyth and Tyne Bost. Shef. and Mid. Co Bristol and Exeter Caledonian Carmarthen & Cardigan Cork and Bandon Fork, iiirock., &Passage Cornwall D° A (A gets no div until 6 pc perm Do B • hasbeen pd. toB Dublin & Belfast June. Dun., Perth, &Ab. June. East Anglian Eastern Counties ...... Eastern Union, A stock Do do B do Do Nw A, late EU3ds East Suffolk Do Edinburgh & Glasgow Edin. Perth, & Dundee rorth & Clyde Junction Purness Glass. and S. Western Great Nthn. of Scotland Great Northern Po do A stock 8 8i 71 73 11 121 61 7* 102 104 91 91i 911 i To doB do Gt. S. & W. of Ireland Great Western Str Val gll9. stock 'rish Sion th-ea stern LaneasNre Torkshir London- dßlackwall Lon., Bright.. & S Coast Lond., Chat., ai.'d P°ver, l Lond. & Nth. We:. kern v Do eighths • • • Lon d. & ,4 th. Western..• L'derry & Coleraine .. L'derry & Ennisci Man. Shef. & Lin^oln liaryport and Carlisle.. Do do shares... Metropnlitan •Do F arming. & Derby Hid. Gt. W. of Ireland Do /t shares IMM Kent ....... Do, Cray Line ...... Newcvtle and Cu.lisle' New., Aber. & Herefd.. Newry & Armagh, def.. Newry, Warnpt. & Ros. Norfolk hn. Counties Union.. North Be tish ..... Nor.Dev.Rail&Dk.stoe% D , Astk;Arecsnod. until 6pchas beenpd.B Do B stock . . Nth. Eastern—Berwick Do do . G.N.E. purchase DoLeeds ...... .• • • • • • • DoYort• ....... ....... North London .. North Staffordshire.... FN. and S. W. Junction .. Not. &Grantham Rail.. I Oxf. Wor. & Wolverptn Peebles.... • • • ........ Portsmouth Rhymney.. Scottish Central Scot. N. E.. Aber. stock Do Scot. Mid. stock Shropshire Union Sittingbourne Sheer. South Devon .• . • • • • • • • South Eastern • • • • . South Wales • • • • S. York. and River Dun Staines, Wok,. and Wok Stockton tt Darlington Do do Stockton & Hartlepool Taff Vale . . . • • • • • • Do Pref. No 1 Thamesnavent , k&Rail Ulster . •• • Do Vale of Neath !Victoria Ste. and Pim Waterford & Kilkenny Waterford & Limerick West C rnwall West London • • Do IQt_ class ........ Do 2nd class; ........ Worcester & Hereford.. 0 7 8 9 16 17 54 55 36 38 25 27 78 ” 30 3L 103 105 115} 116/ 115 117 131 133 112 113 69 691 60 65 10 t/ 105) - 70 71 1141 1151 101 111 lon 1(2 1d ip 93 94 10 11 41t 42i 2 2 116 117 94 96 10 11 7 6d 64 56 3 d 61 62 96 96! 11 s d 52 524 81 814 105 107 1:0 131 911 9 61 61 44 46 14 16 114 116 34 35 87 89 49 51 4 '3 d 42 44 85 86 67 69 78 80 6 8 39 39i Si 9 p 55} 56i 2i 34p jp 55 - 00' 10 11 5/ 61 2 1 d PREFERENCE SHARES. Share Railways. Blythe and Tyne 10 per c. pref. (issued at £5O Rris. Exet.4 p.ct.stock Do. do. do. Shares raledon £lO, 44 per cent Do. Quar. Shares, No. 2., Cork A"- RRnricn. 5N p. c. Cornwall, 5 per cent Dun.PerhkAber..Tun E.Anrn.Class A 7 &sp.c Do. do. Class B s pc:. • • Do. do. Class C 7 p.c E. Conn. Ex. 5 p. c. No.l Do. do. No. 2 Do. New 6 per et. stock. Eastern Union, 4 per ct. stork 12.10 Do. 5 per c gum • F:din.&Glas.sp.c. shares Do. 4 p. c. Rua. S. & D. Odin. Perth& Dun. 4 p.c. Furness, 5 per cent Glas.& S. West.g.a. 5 p.c. 'Great Northern, 5 p. et. Do.sp.c.Redm., 10 p.c.pm Do. 44 p. c. do. do. • Do. 5 , p.c. Redm. 5 p.c. pm Gt. Tsi h. of Scotid. Ist pf. G t.Sn. & ViT (Ireland) 4 ) p. et. pref. stock Great West: (Berks and Hants) Ext. 5 p. ct Do! Redeemable, 41 p.ct. Do. Redeemable, 4 p. ct. Do. Irredeemable, do Do. 5> p.et. Redeem. Pref. Do. Birm. Pref. Shares. Gt. W. Ches. 8 p.c. pf.sh. Do d o sp. ct. pref Do Birmg.guar. Do. Chester gua. shares Do. do. do. Do. do. do. Lan.&York 6 p. c. stock Po.Barnsl.stEs3s 10d pc Do. 6 per c. (E. Lan.) Lon. & Brig. 5 pc.gu. No 1 Do. 5 p. c. No. 2 Do.gua.Op.C. Do. do. 5 p. c. No. 4 Do. do. 4,1 per cell'. .... Do. do. 4i p. c. shares.. Do. 7 p. et. Pref. stock. Do. 6p.c. do. (W.E.&C.P.) Do.4p.e.S.(div.dettil '65) Lon. Chat, and Dover.. Lon. and N.W. Coy. and Nuneaton, 5 p. et Lon. & S.W, 7 p. ct. stock Lotidondy. & Cole. J sh. Londony. & Ennis. sh. 'Wan. Sh. &Lin. 6 per ct. Do. £6 Do. 34 per cent Do. redeem. 6 per cent Mary:. ort & Car., 4 p. c Do. 4i per cent. Mid. Con. 6 p. c. stock Do.Con.Bris. & Bir. 6 p.c Do. 4i p. C. pref. stock Do. with option till 1860 Do. Leic. & Hit. pref. st. NewportAber.&c.pret 5 p.c.redeem.at 5 p.c.pm. Do. Perpet. 6 p. c. with option till 1566 Do. till 1869, Ist is. Do. do. 2d is. Norfik 5 p. c. Ex. st. 1846 Do. 54 p. c. Pref. do. 1847 Do.sWar.Val.Ex.stlB47 North British, 5 p. c. Do. New, gua. 5 p. c Do. Bor. 'Ern. g. pf. shs Do. do. do. Nth.Dev.Rail.&Dck.Co. stock 50 stock stock stock stock stock 264 stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock 124 124 stock 6 stock i2i stock stock stock 6 stock 12 10 121 stock stock stock stock stock 101 stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock 10s. 10 1.0.6 stock stock stock stock stock stock N-East.Cons.Pref. 4 p. C. Do. Berwick, 4 p.c. Pref. Do. do. do Do. Leeds, 6 p. a No. 1 Do. do. Quarters, 1848 Do. York, H. & S. Purch North Staffordshire Ox.Wr.Wol. 6 p. c. Ist g. Do. Redeem. 2d gun Do. Trredeem. 2d [run_ Rhymney Guaranteed. Scottish Central. new pf Scottish North-Eastern 3 1, p. e. pref. stock Do. Aberdeen, Erlla.6p.c. Do. 7 p. c. pref. stock South Devon, Ann. 10s. Do. Fixed 4.1 per cent. South Eastern (Reading. Ann.. 1.0.6) Do. 44 per cent Do. Fixed p.c. Ist is. = outh Wales,'kua. 4 p.c. Do. Ai ner cent S.-Yorkshire, 4 p. C. gua Stock. & Dar. A. 5 p. c Do. 13 6 per cent Do. 0 6 per cent Watrfd & Kilkny, 6 p. c Closing Business Paid. Price. Done. all 1100 N 9S all 100 100 100 all all 100 100 100 all all 751 113 1051 1001 1 21 i 100 100 100 100 100 5 1 I 1021 100 991 1101 103 5/ 101 103 112 115 109 112 110 112 109 111 81 83 110 112 90 92 75 76 118 120 117 119 111 112 104 106 86 88 97 99 99 101 89 91 91 93 103 105 91 101 17 18 101 74 70 191 201 9k. 10k 14 15k 139 141 .16 118 .16 118 L4O 145 116 118 [O3 105 154 157 132 136 68 70 21 22 115 117 1521 157 i 12 12i1 125 127 4 IP 68 To i iP, 140 142 102_ 104 - - 94 1 95 P 9; 111 121 .10 112 I $P 91 93 96 97 1 4d 23 21 123 125 120 122 73 75 10 lot 231 231 101 103 101 103 89 91 99 101 86 ,88 28 29 33 341 321 331 44 48 LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. Railways. Bedford and Bletchley Buckinghamshire .... Chester & Holyhead.. Do. do. 51 per cent. Do. do. 5 per cent. Clydesdale Junction.. Colchester, Stour Val. E.Lincolnshire,z.6 p.c., E.lTnion,rfarwich Shsi Ln&N.W •• Ln&N.W 96 98 Do. sli 52 Do 125 127 Do 113 115 Caledonin E.U.ezE C 16 17 Gt.North.l3B 140 E.Counts.; Do. WOodbridge ••• Gls. Barn& Neils,Drct. Do. New Gloster& Dean Forest Hartlpool.Dok.&RaiLl Hull and Selby Do. A Shares Do. Shares Lanc.& Carl. gua.s London & Greenwich Do. Preference .• • • • • Lon.,Tilhy.& Soutend. Lowestoft, g up.. 4 p.ct. Do. 6 per cent ...• • • • • Manc..fl u xtu. & Matk. Mid. Bradford Prefer ence Stock ..... • • Newmarkt.,BuryEx guaranteed 5 p c Northn.& F.s stn. 5 p.c. a ll Do. ..... . Do. do. 6 per cent .. all Do. Do. Fixed 5 per cent. all Do. North Western ...... all Midland L.i. Wl' Preston and Wyre. all et L.Yk. 5 Do. 3 Stares all Do Roystn.Hitch.,& Shep 100 (It:North Shrewsbry& Hereford. 100 T.Brassey Do. Do. I 1 ...... South Staffordshire , all M‘Clean Wilts and Somerset . . 100 Gt. West. Virimbledmi& Croydn. l all L.& Brgtn DOCKS. Caledonia! Do. Gt. West.l Yk.N.&Br Yk.N.3ld. Do. Do. till it S. East.. Do. Peto & Co ' N , Tfolk Da ,LNW&3II Midland E.Connts' 5. 5. 6 Share Docks. 2i 31 96 98 * bpi 55 57 141 143 1135 134 102 104 911 94 Si Closing Paid. Price. sto^k Commercial lOO stock Do. 4 per Cent.Pref.llin lOO stock East and West Indies 1" •4 stock London lOO stock St. Katharine lOO stock Southampton lOO stock Victoria. 80 Do New t 2 id ip Leasing Closing Business Paid. , Co.'s. Price. Done. Business Done. 69} g 9 1041 f 5 70} 101} ; 93 I 117 16i 61 f 96} 6d 521 2 811 13/ 45 41 85 i 41 51 100 100 100 10 13 4 100 100 100 174 all all 9 163 10P 100 111 113 206 209 03 65 ;115 120 94 97 411 E SITN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, JUNE 8, 1860, BRITISH POSSESSIONS. a third time. The Hay Railway Bill was considered and ordered for third reading. lsing Share) Railways. Paid. C Business done F o rice. 100 Atlantic &St Lawrence all _B5 87 864 Bom.,Baroda&.Cent Ind_ stk r 100 961 974 ( Gu. 5 per cent.. .... 18 Do, Do. • B 134 / d 4 d 204 Buffalo and Lake Huron all 44 5 d 44 20. Do. New 10 Do. Preference .. . 100 i Buffalo,Brant&Godr • ic • h 10 0 75 80 I 6 p. ct. bds. Aug. 1, 1872 100 Do. do. July 1, 1873 100 70 75 1 00 Do. do. June 1, 1874 100 68 73 5 Clcutta.&S.Eastn. (Lim) 1. 30. 1 d 41 , 20 Cape,Eastn.Prov. (Lim.) 2s. 20 Cape Town & Dock Scrip 3s. 24 14 d 20 Ceylon Guarantd. 6p. c. 71 1 4 4 .• 64 174 Demerara all 20 Eastn. Bengal gu. sp. c 5 1 1d 44 stock East Indian, gu. sp. a. 100 102 1024 1 02 4 4 2 4 4 20 Do. F Shares Ext lO par 4 p 20 Do. Jubbulpore lO par 4 p 100 Do. 44 pc. Debentrs all 984 99 991 stock Do. .5 p. c. Deb., 1864 all 1001 1011 1014 1 20 Geelong & Melbourne all 21 22 sto. Geelong Corporation 6 10 0 _ per cent. Bonds stock Grand Trunk of Canada 100 31 32 314 4 100 Do. 6 per cent. Pref all 91 93 100 Do. 6 per et. Debentr all 60 83 611 1 100 Do. 7 per cent. 1862 100 Do. do. 1867 all 05 70 100 Do. do. 1872 all 65 70 stock GtlndiaPenin.gua.sp.c lOO 991 1001 1001 1 20 Do. New atm.., p. c 6 4d 1 d :54 20 Gt. South.of India (Lim) 10 11 14d ' 4 guaranteed 5 per cent. 204 Gt. W. of Canada Shares all 12/ 124 204 Do. New 100 Do. Bonds pay. '76, with all 98 100 opt, till '6O 100 Do. do. '73 till '60...... all 98 100 100 Do. do. '73 without opt. all '9B 100 100 Do. 51 p. c. do. '77 d 0... all 92 94 • stock Madras, guar., 44 p. c... 100 88 90 stock Do. do. 5 per cent. .. _ 100 98 99 981 4 stock Do. 41 p. C. Extension 100 91 93 921 20 Do. Fourth d 0........ 10 14 / d 20 Do. d 0..... - .... all stock Melb.Corp. 6p. c. Bnds. 100 20 Ry.&Land(Lim.)g.6pc NewErunswick & Canda • all 5 7 Class A Capital Share Do. do. Land do ........ 20 Do. do. B Capital d 0... Do. do. Land do. .... all 5 7 20 Oude (Limited) ...... :• . ss. i stock Scinde ...• ...... 6.,..; 100 100 101 1004 20 Do. Pnnjaub .... ca all 14 d 1 d 20 Do. Dl. .... .. t 5 d stock Do. Indus:St. Flo. , g c ,',S., 100 95 91 954 1 20. StAndrews & Quebec A 18 10 Trinidad (Lim.) Scrip.. 1 1 1 d COLONIAL GOVERNMENT ,SECURITIES. Can. Gov. 6 p.c.Ja. & J uly 100 114 116 - Do. 6p. cent 18St - 100 - - Do. 6p. cent. 1881 100 - - Do. 6p. cent 1882 100 - - Do, 6p. c. Feb. & Aug. Do 110 112 Do. 6p. e. Mar. & Sept. 100 110 112 - ( Do. 5 per cent lOO 102 1024 1024 i DO. Scri N.8.64v. 0 42 - 45 pc. sa.&•July 100 108 109 Do. 6p. a Ap. & Oct. 100 _ N. S. W. Gov. 6p. c., 1866 100 100 101 Do. sp. c.. 1871 to 1 8 7 & 100 Ico 101 Do. 5 p.c.,lBBB,tupwds' 100 100 101 Nova Scotia Gov. t; 2. al S.Aus.Gt.6p.c.lB7B &up.l 100 110 112 . sterling, 1875 .. . llOO 1103 109 109 Vic. Gov. 6 p.c. Ja.&July 100 I Do. do. 6 p.c. Ap.&Oct 100 1064 1074. 1074 PETITIONS. Several petitions were presented in favour of the intro - duction of some measure to amend the present defective mode of registering births and deaths, for the opening of the British Museum and other public institutions on Sun day, &c. THIR EDITION. SUN OFFICE, Seven o'clock. THE INSURRECTION IN SICILY. The following telegram has been received at Mr. Reuter's office : GENOA, JUNE 8. News from Sicily states that a capitulation has been concluded between Generallza and Gari baldi. 'The conditions are not known. ASCOT RACES.—(This Day.) [BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.] VISITORS' PLATE (Run on Wednesday). Plumper disqualified, and Neoptolemus gets the stakes. THIRD CLASS WOKINGHAM HANDICAP. Suburban 1 Philomela Convivialist • .. 3 Six ran. SWEEPSTAKES OF 50 SOUS. Trovatore Walked over. FIRST CLASS WOKINGHAM HANDICAP Prelude Predictor White Rose , Fourteen ran. SOUTH-WESTERN PLATE. Amsterdam Sneer filly South Australian Twelve ran. SECOND-CLASS WOKINGHAM HANDICAP. Horace - Mentmore Penalty 3 Twelve ran. QUEEN'S PLATE. Avalanche Promised Land Cougreve Five ran. ENGLEMERE PLATE. Ticket-of-Leave Niger Six ran. SWEEPSTAKES OF 30 SOVS. The Wizard walked over. _ _ IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS—(YESTERDAY.) PARLIAMENTARY REFORM. Lord TEYNHAM then moved the following resolu tions :—" That this house, greatly desiring the settlement of the question of Parliamentary Reform, for the satisfac tion of men's minds, for the sake of the peace of the coun try, and that the business of Parliament may be pro ceeded with without let, is willing to give its most careful consideration to the prayer of the petitions which have been presented to it in favour of manhood suffrage and vote by ballot; this being the broadest basis for the elective franchise which has been presented to it by petition : That this house hopes to discern them who for any reason ought not to 1 1 allowed a vote, and to point out means whereby improper persons may be deprived of the franchise after it is legally possessed ; so that, on the one hand, no man shall be left without the franchise against whom no just or suf ficient reason for his disfranchisement can be assigned ; and, on the other hand, no man shall be put on the list of voters, or continued thereon, against whom just grounds of disfranchisement can be alleged and proved : That this house is, therefore, prepared to recommend such alterations in the criminal, vagrant, and poor laws as shall appear necessary to cut off from the register of voters all improper persons. In this way the house hopes to grant the spirit of the prayer of its petitioners for manhood suf frage and vote by ballot, not only without detriment to the common weal, but with great advantage to the same." The noble lord said that besides the few petitions he then had the honour to present to their lordships, in an earlier part of the session he had presented very numerous peti• tions, principally from Northumberland and Cumberland, in favour of universal suffrage and vote by ballot, and from other parts of the country in favour of the ballot alone. Deeply conscious of his weakness and incompetence to perform the task he had undertaken, he had ven tured to address their lordehips, sheltered by the peti tions of the people, At the same time he must candidly admit that he fully adopted those statements, and in the remarks which he was about to address to their lord ships, he wished to be understood that he fully approved in his conscience the truth and justice of the cause he was advocating. There were formerly colonies of this country which it pleased Parliament, iu their wisdom, to endeavour to tax. The people of these colonies—not of one or of some, but of all thirteen put together—rose in:opposition to that attempt. They were told that in like manner there was a. very large number of unrepresented persons in the United Kingdom who were in the same position, and who not withstanding all that had been said and done, were like so many dead men's bones. But the experience of the United States bade him hope better things concerning them namely, that the same views would breathe life into these dead men's bones. In the contest for truth, in the struggle for justice, almost uniformly the battle was of the weak against the strong—eventually the weak had triumphed. Now the unrepresented in England were weak and poor; yet history led to the belief that better hopes might not in vain be entertained for them. He had therefore ventured to undertake the cause of the unrepresented in a their lordships' house, !wiling that if he aid not, it was not likely that an other would take his place. (Hear.) The sum and substance of his motion was this—that their lordships would be will ing to give their most careful consideration to the prayer of the petitioners in favour of universal suffrage and vote by ballot ; and if their lordships thought fit, that a select committee or royal commission might be appointed to in quire into what was necessary to be done in order that the prayer of the petition might be granted. In an eloquent speech recently made by Mr. Gladstone, he had fully admitted the right of the governed to make choice of their governors. In that sentiment - he fully agreed, and at the same time he congratulated the Univer sity of Edinburgh on the choice which they had recently made by the selection of so able and eloquent a man as Mr. Gladstone to be their rector. The petitions which he had presented had in many instances been signed only by the chairman presiding at public meetings, who thus repre sented the views of hundreds and thousandeof persons. A common idea seemed to prevail that the unrepresented were —if he might use the expression—represented by those who were represented, and that Parliament had become the trustee for a majority of the people. On this subject he would venture to remind their lordships of what had been said by Burke. (The noble lord read several passages fr9m one of Burke's speeches, and continued.) Let their lord ships only compare the circumstance% under which they were then met and those under which Edmund Burke ad dressed the other House of Parliament. At that time there were some hundred thousand descendants of the people of this country living beyond the sea whom it was endeavoured to tax; but the attempt was resisted, and the result of the conflict was crowned with success. He therefore prayed their lordships to grant his plea to-day. He begged to direct their attention to the way in which universal suffrage bad been presented to the human mind. In every age and time the greatest truths had been taught by means of fables, and their lordships remembered the parable of the trees who met to choose a king, and when the olive and the vine were asked to reign, they refused, Finally, as they well knew, the choice fell upon the bramble. Next to the sacred writings, he might refer to Shakspcare, and the language put into the mouth of Brutus in Julius Caesar would occur to their lordships' recollection. It might be said that the right to vete was merely an ab stract one ; but abstract or not It was a right, and being a right might be pleaded, and being pleaded it was one to which just men would give heed, The doctrine of univer sal suffrage was taught anologically by the arms borne by the different republics, in which equal prominence was given to the symbol of each state. Thus in the/Helvetic Confederation each canton was represented by two depu- I votes, and they should ask that that and the other acts which hung upon it should be repealed. There was an appeal from Parliament to the common law, and he thought the unenfranchised should choose au irreproachable man living in a county, and en his behalf plead in a court of common law to have his name put upon the register, though the statute of Henry VI. did not permit it. The first Parliament of King Charles 11. passed an act declaring the Parliament then sitting a lawful Parliament, notwithstanding any want of writs, or other defect ; and the first Parliament of William and Mary also passed an act to the like effect, and if the non-electors, when they had failed in their petitions and failed in their application to the courts of common law, were to choose their own representatives, and those repre sentatives assembled at Westminster and called themselves the Commons House of Parliament, he questioned very much whether it would not in deed and in truth be the Commons House of Parliament; and it might be that not in two instances, but in three, it might be read by their children hereafter that a Parliament, summoned not by ordinary writ, met at Westminster, and determined itself to be the Parliament then and there. His notice of motion referred to the practical manner in which the question ought to be dealt with. He thought they ought not to give, as in France, the vote to persons in the army and the navy, nor should it be granted to criminals or paupers. He would not detain their lordehips long on the question of the ballot, but he was bound to refer to it as it was part of his motion. The ballot was not only used in certain cases by the House of Commons in the reign of Queen Anne, but in the reign of Queen Elizabeth it was employed by the Presbyterians of Northamptonshire, who were by no means a cowardly set of people. Then how could it be said to be un-English, when it was still resorted to in the reign of Queen Victoria by our fellow-Englishmen the colonists of Australia P He allowed that the electoral franchise was a trust; but the voter should therefore be enabled fairly and fearlessly to discharge that trust. He NM acting judicially when he had to decide on the fitness of a candidate, and for his conduct in That capacity he could not legally be called to account, so that there was no ground for making his vote public. In conclusion, the noble lord said he regretted that it had been his duty to trespass so long on their lordships' attention in moving these resolutions. The sum of what he asked was that they should pledge themselves to give to the petitions their serious consideration. Earl GRANVILLE said it was Impossible to have heard the noble lord without acknowledging the earnestness and sincerity with which he had advocated the doctrines he considered so important to the future welfare of the coun try ; but this made it all the more imperative on him (Earl Granville) very briefly and plainly to state that it appeared to him that it would be impossible either for himself or the house to consent to the resolutions to which the noble lord had proposed. The form and language of those resolutions were somewhat unusual ; but without applying to his noble friend the chairman of committees to decide questions on which it would perhaps be painful and embarrassing for him to give an opinion, he (Earl Granville) must remark that the substance of these resolutions was such as to make it impossible for the house to agree to any one of them. They were four in number, and the house was asked by adopting them to affirm a fact, and to express a hope or intention. Their lordships were, however; first called upon to say that they greatly desired the settlement of the question of parlia mentary reform. He (Earl Granville) did greatly desire it, and he could not doubt that their lordships felt the same desire. He could not, therefore, attribute the very thin at tendance of their lordships that evening to any want of inte rest in the matter, but rather to a feeling that this was not the most practical way of dealing with the question. But it would be perfectly impossible for them to declare " that this house is willing to give its earnest consideration to the peti tions for universal suffrage and vote by ballot ;" because adopting a formal re:solution of that sort would be going so far as to imply their intention of favourably considering that request. They were next called upon to express a hepe that they would be able to cut off from the register of voters all improper persons, which was one of the most diffi cult things it could possibly be proposed to them to attempt, and the noble lord offered no scheme for effecting that object. The last resolution, which contained the pith of the whole, declared that the house might grant, in spirit, the prayer of the petitioners for manhood suffrage and vote by ballot, not only without detriment, but with advantage to the country. Now he (Earl Granville) was extremely desirous of reforming the present representation, and he had been endeavouring during some weeks to elucidate whatever evidence could be obtained to show that a considerable ex tension of the frartchise might take place without detriment to the common weal. But when they came to manhood suffrage he was not prepared to give any countenance to the adoption of any such proposition. He need not follow the noble lord through all his philosophical, religious, his torical, and almost treasonable reasons for adopting univer sal suffrage ; indeed his memory would fail him if he at tempted to do so. The noble lord had indeed referred to precedents, and this was always desirable in discussing con stitutional questions. But it secret voting was once re sorted to by the House of Commons in the reign of Queen Anne, it was clear that the system was then tried and con demned. The example of the Presbyterians of Northamp tonshire could hardly be applicable. With regard to the suffrage, it was not correct to say that universal suffrage existed in the reign of Henry VI., for the suffraps was . then rattined to frechobicrs alone. One Wrtlilreetacit jections to universal suffrage was that it was likely, as he believed, in large countries where there was. a powerful and long-established administration, to tend, more than any other form of representative government, not to the im provement of liberty, but to the destruction of liberty and the establishment of despotism. (Hear.) And when the noble lord urged the example of 1818 in France, he (Earl Granville) must remark that the form of government which had arisen in France was not suet as we could wish to see arising in England. Switzerland was, no doubt, a country from which very sound lessons of liberty might be learned, but it was very different from our own country in its size and in its position, and in all its circumstances. The noble lord said that in Switzerland, as soon as the father put a rifle into his son's hands to qualify him for the defence of his country, he became possessed of the franchise. Yet the noble lord himself proposed, in Eng land, to deprive every man in our army and navy of the franchise, and so the absolute doctrine broke down by the indefeasible right of every man to vote who had not dis graced himself by crime. For these and other reasons he thought it was not desirable to adopt the resolutions moved by the noble lord. (Hear, hear.) The resolutions were then negatived without a division, and their lordships adjourned. ties, and its arms consisted of a circle enclosing a number of smaller circles, oae for each canton. The arms of the Dutch republic were a bundle of arrows, with the legend " Concordia res parvo crescunt ; discordia maxims diruun tur." The stars and stripes of the United States conveyed the same lesson; and so careful were the founders of that republic to preserve the connexion between taxation and representation, that only twelve of the thirteen states gua ranteed ono of their earliest paper transactions, the repre sentative of the thirteenth happening to have been absent when the issue was determined upon. He now came to universal suffrage as it existed in the church of God. The judicious Hooker, in his great work on the Laws of EccleL siastical Polity, said that the natural origin of power to make laws civil was the commonwealth, and so the natural origin of laws ecclesiastical was the entire body of the church; for equals could not impose statutes upon their equals. Nevertheless, in England, where all men were equal before the law, the represented took upon themsels es HOUSE OF COMMONS.—(YESTERDAY.) to impose laws upon the unrepresented, which Hooker said • they could not do. Archbishop Whitgift , in his answer to ESTIMATING RENTAL. Mr. P. WATLINGTON asked the President of the the Admonition in 1572, admitted that in the Apostolic times, and down even to the times of Cyprian, the people Poor Law Board, whether the Instruction Letter from the had a voice in the appointment of their ministe r s , a nd that Poor Law Commissioners to Parochial Officers, dated the 22d they sometimes made a right good choice. He (the noble day of June,lB37, had ever been withdrawn, or whether the practice of considering gross estimated rental as the lord) thought that •in temporal matters th.e people would landlord's rent, the landlord and tenant respectively pay be still more likely to make suitable appointinents ; and it ing their own proper charges, prevailed in opposition to the was certainly a libel to imagine that they wished to instructions therein contained. obtain or retain their liberty without putting Mr. VILLIERS, said that the instruction of the 22d themselves to any expense. In France, although June had never been withdrawn, but possessed no other au revolutions were frequent, there were certain principles thority than as an expression of opinion on the matter to on which the people, whenever they obtained their liberty, which it referred. invariably insisted. Amongst these universal suffrage always found a place. Garibaldi, in his address to the SCOTCH AND IRISH REFORM BILLS. Sicilians, called on them all to arm, and he signed his On the order of the day for resuming the adjourned de name, "G. Garibaldi, General of the Romans, appointed bate on the Representation of the People Bill, by a government elected by universal suffrage." Well Sir JAMES FERGUSSON moved the following, of done,universal suffrage 1 He would now call their lord- which he had given notice :—" That the order of ships' attention to what had been the practice in England the day for the ' Representation of the People Bill, for many years with regard to the suffrage. In the 28th of Adjourned Debate en going into Committee,' be post- Bdward I. he read that " the King had granted unto his poned until after the orders of the day for the Repre sentation of the people that they should have an election of their sheriff in People (Ireland) Bill (second reading), and every shire." That involved universal suffrage. Then by Representation of the People (Scotland) Bill (second read the 7th of Henry IV. it was enacted that "proclamation ing).' should be made in every county of the name and p lace of Sir G. GREY said that he had not heard the motion with holding a parliament, and that all who might be there which the hon. member for Ayrshire had opened his speech. should attend to the election of their knights for the par- Now that he had heard it, he was quite at a loss to compre hend what relation it had with the two speeches made in liament, and that in the full county they should proceed to support of it, or how the adjournment of the debate could the election freely and indifferently." Though there were assist the object the hon, gentleman had in view, namely, limits in the borough at this period, universal suffrage the earliest possible consideration a the bills for the amend prevailed in the counties, in proof of which he might quote went of the representation of the people for all parts of the the preamble to a statute of Henry VI., which stated that United Kingdom. The hon. gentleman had fallen into a "elections had been made by a great and excessive number mistake in assuming that as soon as a bill for amending the of people dwelling within the counties, and who, for the representation either fur the whole oraportion of the United most part, were people of small substance, and of no value, Kingdom, had passed, it would be the bounden duty of the every one of whom pretended to have a voice equivalent advisers of the Crown to recommend the Crown to dissolve to the most worthy knights and esquires ;" and then the Parliament forthwith, in order that the new constituencies 40s. freehold qualification was enacted. Now, he con might exercise their privileges. But the passing of the act tended that an set of parliament might be void ab initio ; did not bring those constituencies into existence at once. A Parliament might exceed its duty, and pass acts which very considerable interval must elapse before the claims of were not legal. On this p oint he would give persons entitled to registration under the new law could be authorities, and the first he would quote was an American taken into consideration, and if this bill were passed before authority, "Clinton's Digest of Decisions," in which there the close of the present year, it would be impossible until was this passage, —" The Legislature is not supreme ; it is the close of the next year, after the registration had been only one of the organs of the absolute sovereignty which completed, that they could exercise their new privileg e. resides in the whole body of the people, and when it steps Sir J. FERGUSSON said that he did not mean to assert beyond that boundaryits acts, like those of the most humble m .that he believed a dissolution must take place , but that the mag i s t r ate who transcends his jurisdiction, are utterly void." conduct of the Government led him to suppose that such The LORD CHANCELLOR said he could not allow it to was their object, and would lead the country to think so be stated that an act of the Legislature which had received the Royal assent had not the full force of law. The noble t"' Sir G. GREY said that the lord quoted an American authority - which did not apply to prerogative of dissolution at any time ; but even then the this country. . Crown m ight exercise its w constituencies could not exercise their rights until a Lord TEYNII AM said he would quote an English autho nen ' 1 rable interval of time had elapsed after the passing rity, and that was Lord Coke, who said, "In many cases considerable the bill. the common law will control acts of Parliament, and ad- • . , (Hear, hear.) But he was not surprised at the course which the hon. gentleman (Sir J. Fergusson) had judge them to be utterly void; as, when an act of Perlis- taken, especially after the debate the other night. There inent is against common right and reason, the comnionlaw was a desire now to change the issue proposed by the hon. shall control it." Now, he asked, if legislation could go be t' ' that t member for Rye (Mr. ,Mackinnon). (Hear, hear.) Hon. genlemen, finding the absurdity of supper mg motion yond its boundaries, was legislation with regard to the frau ohise one of those occasions? He must again fall back upon Amei lean authority. In the seventh article of the oonstitu- —(no, no)—had devised that of the hon. member for Ayr shire (Sir J. Fergusson), and dropped that of the be n , tion of the state of New York it was provided that no one member for Rye. (No.) He could not persuade himself should be deprived of his franchise and privileges but in that any hon. member of that house could seriously enter aceordance with common law, and Justice Story said fun- Lain the motion of the hon. member for Rye as one that damental principles seem to require that the right of p ros would be conclusive. (Oh, oh.) After having affirmed party should be held sacred, and that the rights of the people the principle of the bill, after agreeing to the second read should not be taken away from them without a strong ex ing-s-the principle being that there should be a reduction Pression of the will of the people. Parliament, however, in the county franchise and a reduction in the borough acted without any expression of the will of the people in franchise, for the purpose of admitting a portion of the t a king away their franchise, and he contended that Parlia- working , classes to the franchise—he could not believe that raent exceeded its duty in the time of Henry VI., when it hon. gentlemen could seriously entertain a proposition that took away the right of the people to vote in counties. He th o se rights should be withheld, and their considerationth oug ht the people should setforth in theirpetition that they gave no fintlority to Parliament to deprive them of their •postponed for almost an indefinite p er i o d, in order to aseer ., .. .. ~. , • • • • • , .' : - tain with arithmetical precision the number of inhabitants of a few boroughs contained in the bill, and from which, on account of their comparative unimportance, it was proposed to take one of their members and transfer them to more important parts of the country. (Hear.) The hon. and learned member for Guildford (Mr. Bovill) made a long and able speech the other night, which might with more pro priety have been made in committee—(hear)—and he be lieved he had shown that Guildford would not be dealt with fairly by the bill. But the hon. and learned gentleman had taken another course, and had chosen to put Guildford in the van of obstruction. (Hear) The census, in fact, had nothing to do with the essential portions of the bill. The reduction of the borough and county franchise did not depend in the slightest degree upon the returns of the cen sus of '6l. The only portion of the bill to which the census could in any degree apply was that which related to the re distribution of seats, and that was only a small portion of the bill. He (Sir G. Grey) might ask why the present ob jections had not been taken on the second reading of the bill, and thus the time of the I muse have been saved. (Hear, hear.) The same objection , I might have been taken to the bill of the late Government— the only difference being a difference of one year. (Hear, hem r.) But the hon. mem ber for Ayrshire (Sir J. Fergusson) came before them inthe character of an ardent reformer, wh o was dissatisfied with the present state of the represent& ion in Scotland. The hon. member had asserted that in for maer Parliaments it had been the uniform course to proceed r ir•z passu with the bills for England, Ireland, and Scotland. Sir J. FERGUSSON—I said exactly the reverse. Sir G. GREY said hehad understood the hon. gentleman to say that the Government had de parted from the usual course. Sir J. FERGUSSON—What I send was that in 1832 the course of postponing one bill to another was adopted to the great disadvantage of the country. Sir G. GREY said the hon. gentlainan seemed to think it possible to go into committee one dayon one bill and another day on another. (Opposition cries of " No, no.") The hon. member had not been in the last Parliament. If he had he would not now have complained that the course taken by her Majesty's Government was unusual. When the right hon. gentleman the member for Bucks proposed his reform bill he not, only did not propose a reform bill for Ireland and Scotland, but he Drnzlnitnti the .eenml ..tuiuut having given the slightest intimation to the house as to the principles upon which the Government had decided with regard to bills for Irelani and Scotland. (Hear, hear.) The right hon. gentleman went further, for he announced that it was the intention of the Government, if the second reading was acceded to, to go into committee before Easter, and consequently it would have been impossible to have asked the house that year to give a second reading to the bills for Ireland and Scotland. With the expe rience of late years of the pressure of business on the Government, he (Sir G. Grey) very much doubted whea ther the best mode of securing a full and ample considera tion to bills of this kind would not be to attempt less in one session. (Opposition cheers.) If this bill should be post- poned according to the desire of some hon. members oppo site, and taken up again at the beginning of next session, accompanied by Scotch and Irish bills, there would be much less chance of a due consideration of the Scotch and Irish bills than if Parliament had assented to the bill for Eng- land, and then, guided by that assent, had proceeded to the consideration of the bills for Scotland and Ireland. He be- lieved that course would be most conducive to the end pro fessed to be entertained by some gentlemen, but of this he was sure, that if they were to adjourn the coxsideration of the bill—to what day he really did not know—the effect would be merely to interpose an obstacle to its further pro• gress without asking the house to come to any decision upon that question. He therefore asked the house, if they really wished the bill not to be delayed for two or three years, to express an opinion to that effect by a direct and unam biguous vote, and not to lend themselves to a motion whose only object was to defeat a real and salutary amendment of the representation of the people. (Cheers.) Lord J. MANNERS rose for the purpose, not of advert ing to the speech of the right hon. baronet, so far as it was made in reply to that of the hon. member for Lyme, but of considering the answer it gave to the statesmanlike speech of the hon. and gallant gentleman the member for Ayrshire. The right hon. baronet assumed an air of injured innocence and said the motion of the hon. and gallant gentleman was merely a device to delay the progress of the bill. The right hon. baronet must recollect that, so far as that side of the house was concerned, no amendment proceeding from it had yet been put from the chair. It was true that two important amendments had been submitted to the consideration of the house, one by the chairman of committees, who was certainly not connected with the party on the Opposition side of the house ; the other by an hon. gentleman who, in making it, said it was the pride of his life to be the devoted follower of the noble lord at the head of the Government. Yet the right hon. baronet could look across the table and talk of motions intended for delay and procrastination when he knew as well as any man in the house that those who were most anxious to defeat the bill sat on the benches im mediately behind him. (Opposition cheers.) But let him ask under what circumstances it was that his hon. and gal lant friend felt compelled to submit the present motion to the house. The right hon. gentleman told them, as an earnest and sincere reformer, that he was convinced of the I impassibility of wowing-the three bills in the present 1--tlessien. -- Villen did that truth first dawn on the; mind of the right hon. gentleman? Why was Parliament summoned a fortnight or ten days earlier than usual ? And why, when Parliament met, was it announced from the throne that the representation of the three countries was to be reformed ? And why when the English Reform Bill had been intro duced were the Scotch and Irish Reform Bills also intro duced the same evening ? And why were those bills made every night to follow the English bill upon the votes ? (Op position cheers.) It was clear from the first that it was in -the mind of the Government to reform the representation of the three countries in the present session, and whose fault was it that this session was so far advanced that in the opinion of the Government it was now impossible to fulfil that engagement? (Hear.) Was it the fault of the Opposition? He should like to know when, in the annals of Parliament, measures of such magnitude had been pro posed by the Government and received such a slight dis cussion as the financial bills of the Chancellor of the Ex- chequer ? If fault there were, and fault he admitted there was, it was not the fault of the House of Commons or of the Opposition, but of her Majesty's Government, who from their treatment of the business of the house showed that they did not regard the reform of the representation of the people in Parliament as the paramount question of the day. (Opposition cheers.) Mr. LONGFIELD hoped the house would adjourn sine die the consideration of the English Reform Bill until the whole question of reform could be dealt with. Mr. INGRAM had heard with regret the statement o the noble lord the member for the City of London, that he was ()lien to consider the propriety of extending the fran chise from £6 to £7, £B, or £9. He thought any increase from a would effectually destroy the value of the measure ; and he would rather see the whole question postponed until another year than that such a concession should be made. Mr. WATLINGTON saw no reason why legislation hould be pressed forward, considering the total absence of feeling throughout the country in favour of the bill. He thought the noble lord would act wisely in withdrawing the bill, and in introducing another measure if he thought proper at some more fitting opportunity, when the house could have more accurate information before it. Mr. ALCOCK said there was no supineness in the country in reference to the Reform Bill, because there was a belief that the house would agree to it. But if any attempt were made to reject the bill, the feeling of the country would soon be manifested in a most unmistakable manner. Mr. C. BRUCE felt that justice to Scotland demanded that the extension of the franchise should be made to that country, and this could not be done if they now passed the English Reform Bill. Mr. BAXTER said the majority of the Scotch members in that house were reformers, and no doubt wished most anxiously for Parliamentary Reform ; but he should be doing injustice to his own convictions, and he believed would not be faithfully representing the feelings of the majority of the people of Scotland, if he did not give his most decided opposition to the motion of his hon. friend the member for Ayrshire. (Hear, hear.) Mr. GEORGE, as an Irish member, considered that the English and Irish bills should be presented to the house in a united form. His opinion was that a Reform Bill could not be passed for England without more or less a ffecting Ireland, such were the relations of the two countries. Mr. PEASE hoped the house would take some action in this question. He had been for 30 years acquainted with the working classes, and be was prepared to say from the knowledge he had of them, that even if this bill were to add 350,000 new electors to the constituency, that inspired him with no alarm whatever. (Hear, hear.) He believed the number of the working classes was small who would not look for representatives amongst the educated and higher ranks of society. He hoped, therefore, that house would not endanger its reputation and the confidence which the coun try had in it bypostponing the consideration of this question. Mr. STIRLING said the hon. member for Montrose accused the Conservative side of the house with an attempt to obstruct and delay this bill; but he thought that ob struction had come as much from the Liberal side of the house, and rather more so, than from the Conservative side. So far from any attempt at delay on that side, very few Scotch menfeers had spoken on the bill. He hoped the hon. meniter fur Ayrshire would "crivide the house. The LOI - ID ADVOCATE, after disclaiming any inten tion of going into any argument upon the general question of Reform, said that with regard to the arguments which had been urged on the other side of the house upon the motion for going into committee, they would have been appropriate if the three bills had been incorporated into one. As it was, however, he was at a loss to understand what bearing they had on the question. Ho had listened to the speech of the hon. and gallant gentleman the member for Ayrshire, with the pleasure which a well connected die course usually inspired, and only wished that it had been devoted to a better and more consistent object. The great argument he endeavoured to sustain was, that the three bills should be considered together, but what relation had such an argument with the question immediately before then? The object of the amendment which the ad to delay legise journed debate was now c9nsicl--4 LONDONDERRY ELECTION COMMITTER. The Chairman of this committee brought up the report, declaring that Mr. M'Cormack was duly elected for the city of Londonderry. - - - THE ROYAL PROCLAMATION. Mr. L. KING asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether the Royal Proclamation for the encouragement of piety and virtue, and for the prevent ing of vice, profaneness, and immorality, ordered by her Majesty to be revised on the 21th day of April was yet revised. Sir C. LEWIS said that the proclamation had been re vised and submitted to the Lord Chancellor, who approved of it in its altered form. It would be submitted to her Majesty to-morrow. FOREIGN EXPORTATION OF CORKS. ------. _ On the motion that the house at its rising do adjourn till Monday, Mr. T. DUNCOMBE asked the Chancellor of the Ex chequer if f in consequence 'of the reduction of duty on the importation of foreign wines, he had any reason to believe that his anticipations that the free exportation of unmanu factured cork from all parts of Spain might take place, would be fulfilled. The hon. member stated that he had received communications to show that the Chancellor of the Exchequer had been misled in his views on this subject. THE SUBMARINE TELEGRAPH CABLE TO GIBRALTAR. Col. P. HERBE EtT asked the Chancellor of the Exche quer a question with regard to the submarine telegraphic cable to Gibraltar, for which a sum of £30,000 was granted last year. THE AD VALOREM DUTIES. Mr. S. FITZGERALD asked the Chancellor of the Ex chequer what progress was made by the commission ap pointed to arrange the ad valorem duties, and who were now engaged on the subject in Paris. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, in reply to the last question, said that up to the present time there had been no definitive communication made to Government which could enable him to give a satisfactory answer to the question of the hou. member. With respect to the quos tion of the hon. member for Finsbury, he regretted that the hon. member had not drawn his attention to the com munications on which he founded his statement, which it appeared had been three months in his possession. The class whom the hon. member represented, namely, those employed in the cork business of this country, con siderod that he (the Chancellor of the Exchequer) had made an erroneum statoment in reference to the superiority of foreign•Viorkiteli employed in England in this business. He (the Chancellor of the Exchequer) could not alter his opiniin on the subject until he had investigated the docu ments laid before him. The six Catalonians to whom he (the Chancellor of the Exchequer) had referred obtained higher wages In this country than Englishmen, and therefore he naturally inferred that the foreign workmen in this parti cular description of employment were superior in skill. With respect to any change in the law of Spain in regard to the exportation of corks, he informed the hon. member that there was no law in that country against such exportation, but in Catalonia there was an arrangement amongst the workmen prohibit ing the exportation of these articles in an unmanufactured statq, and resembled the trades unions iu this country. The authorities very naturally did not wish to oppose the wishes of this class. With reference to the other ques tion which had been asked he begged to inform the hon. and gallant member that there was a vote in the estimates for the exponse of laying down a cable to Gib raltar, and when it came before the house in this form, then would be the time to discuss the question.. He would state that, with one exception, the laying of the deep sea fathom cable had been a failure, and under the circumstances the government would not recommend any large vote in the present instance. THE NAVY IN CHINA. Sir G. B. PECHELL asked the Secretary to the Admi ralty whether it was intend° i to give to the navy serv ing in China the same extra pay and allowances enjoyed by army in India, and which. are said to be now granted to the military forces to be employed with the navy in the same quarter ? CIVILIANS IN INDIA. Mr. VANSIrI'AUT It.,ked the Secretary of State for India whether the names of those civilians on the Bengal establishment who were killed in action, murdered, or died from wounds and exposure during the late mutiny, be tween the 11th diy of May and the 19th day of N ovember, 1857, bad at any. time been brought under the notice of the government 'APTURE bF AN AMERICAN SHIP. S asked the Secretary of State for India, Mr. SO:N -15 whether an Alne rican shi p had. been taken u p b y Govern ment for the conve7s,u?cs of stores frinn Calcutta to China ; whether eligible Britian- Ships were tendered for the same service; and if so ; whether he would state the reasons which induced the Government to make such selection ? OFFICERS OF THE BENGAL ARMY. ' Mr. K ENNARD asked the geeretary of State for India whether it was the inte ntion of her Majesty's Government to reward the services a tb.ose officers of the Bengal Native Army whose regiments reMairgd faithful to the British Government during the late mutiny. LOCAL ARMY IN INDIA. Sir DE LACY EVANS asked the Secretary of State for India whether the bill respecting the kcal army in India had not , better be introduced on some other than a motion day, Tuesday the 12th of June ? Sir C. WOOD, in replY to the first question, said that the subject of erecting such monument was still in abeyance. As regarded the question of the hon. member (Mr. Ken nard), he was not aware that any such capture as that alluded had taken place, as ho had not received any dispatch on the subject. .In reply to the hon. and gallant member for Westminster (Sir Ps Lacy Evans) it was his intention to bring on the bill in question on Tuesday, at such a reason able time in the evening as would afford ample opportunity for its discussion. 0 V.E RNIAR NT BIT H 11 OF—LAND, AT PORTSMUT. In reply to Lord W. GRAtai,yM, Sir J. ELPHINST ONE said•some years ago the fashion was to sell all Goverme nt property, 'but a readkion had taken place, and at Portemouth no land would be disposed of by Government for the purposes- of the towns people, howeyer beneficial the object might be. He deprecated strongly the erection of the fortifications at Portsdown Hill, which in the case of an invasion would be quite useless. He thought the body to whom the carry ing out of these matters were not properly constituted. SALARY OF THE 'CLERK OF THE COUNCIL. In reply to Mr. GRIFFITH, Lord PALMERSTON said that the salary of the retir ing clerk of the Council was £2,509 a year, and the salary of his successor would be only £1,200 a year. [LEFT SITTING.] LONDON GAZETTE-(THIS EVENING), BUCKINGRAM PALACE, JUNE 5. This day had audience of her Majesty :—The Prince Jules and the Prince John of Schleswick-Holstein-Glucks bourg. Their Serene Highnesses were accompanied by the Count de Bernstorff, Envoy Extraordinary and :Minister Plenipotentiary from the King of Prussia ; to which audi ence their Serene Highnesses were introduced by the Right Honourable Lord John Russell, her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and conducted by Lieutenant-General the t Hon. Sir Edward Oust, K.C.H., her Majesty's Master of the Ceremonies. FOREIGN •OFFICE, JUNE 6. The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. Richard Cowell as Consul at Gibraltar for his Majesty the Emperor of Austria. The Queen has also been pleased to approve of Mr, Thomas Clegg as Consul, and of Mr. Charles Leigh Clare as Vice-Consul, at Manchester ; of Mr. T. W. Fox , j un., as Consul at Plymouth ; of Mr. A. Lloyd Fox as Consul at Falmouth ; and of Mr. William Hilligrew Wait as Con sul at Bristol; for the Republic of Liberia. BANK OF ENGLAND. An Account, pursuant to the Act nth and Bth Victoria, cap. 32, for the week ending on Wednesday, the 6th day of June, 1860 :-- XSSVE DEPARTMENT. 1 Notes issued .. £29,655,635 Government Debt £11,015,100 Other Securities .. 3,459,900 Gold Coin & Bullion 15,180,635 Silver Bullion ..• • - 129,655,635 229,655,635 1 , BANKING D, Proprietors' Capi tal £14.553,000 Rest Public Depo sits (in cluding Exche quer, Savings' Banks, Commis rnissioners of Na tional Debt, and. Dividend Ac counts) 7 , 752,799 Other Deposits... • 12,180,599 Seven Day and other Bills 680,130 , ;PARTMENt Government g ant. rities (including Dead Weight A nnuity) Other Securities Notes Gold and Silver Coin 782,467 :z38,392,8i6 W. £38,392,816 MILLER, Deputy Cashier. Dated June 7, 1880. AVERAGE PRICE OF SUGAR. The Average Price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, com puted from Returns made in the week ending the sth day of June, 1860, exclusive of the duties of Customs paid or payable thereon on the importation thereof into Great Britain : Muscovado., the produce of the British pos sessions in America ............ 25s 8d Muscovado, the produce of the Mauritius Muscovado, the produce of the East Indies —s —d Average price of the foregoing 27s Od BANKRUPTS. Alfred Bradley Bloxam, wine merchant, Strand, to sur reuder June 21 at twelve, and 18th July at two, at the Court of Bankruptcy. William Wilafge, jun., merchant, Austin-friars, June 21, at two, and July 24, at twelve, at the Court of Bank ruptcy. G. Padmore, jun., shoe manufacturer, Northampton, June 19, at two, and July 17, at half-past one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Wm. 'lasted, butcher, Alresford, Hants, Juue 20 and July 23, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Th oma s Palmor, maltster and beershop keeper, Welles bonrne, Warwickshire, June 11 and July 9, at eleven, at the Birmingham District Court. Sophia Anne Aulton, smallware dealer, Nottingham, ,Tuno 19 and July 10, at halt-past eleven, at the Shirehall, Nottingham. Thomas William Milaer, builder, City, June 21, at one, and July 19, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Thomas Edward Wright, groceroWandsworth-road, Surrey, Juno 15,. and July 20, at half-past one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. George Gregg, currier, Sheffield, June 30 and July 28, at ten, at the Council-hall, Sheffield. Edward Heseltine Old and James Pearson, hatters, King ston-upon-Hull, June 20 and July 18, at twelve, at the Town-hall, Kingston-upon-Hull. Sidney Aquila Butterworth and .Horatio Butterworth, dyers, dealers andSCOTC chapmHenß, ANKRUunPTS in the cety .of York. Miles Lockhart, quarry -master, Ardshiel. James Cameron, farmer, Lower Muckovie, Inverness shire. Lewis Macbean, grocer, Inverness. Large sums of money are being collected in Liver pool, with a view of purchasing some testimonial to mark the esteem and admiration in which Garibaldi is held by the subscribers. CUP COURSE PLATE. Romeo _ _ _ 1 Desmond Four ran. GRAND STAND PLATE. Plumper Jenny Longlegs j• • • 2 Courier 3 Four ran. MPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LDRDS—(Tnis EVENING.) The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack at•flve o'clock. PRIVATE BUSINESS. Beauchamp Almshouses Estate, Leeds Township, Egles ton Roads, Building Improvement Company, Upper Mer sey Dues, ,and North British, Peebles, and Jedburgh Railway bills were read a second time. The following bills were read a third time and passed : Bucks County Rate, Coln River Water, and London and South-Western Railway (new line to BristA and Exeter Railway at Exeter). CHURCH RATES. --- - A number of petitions were presented against the aboli tion of church rates. Lord LYVEDEN presented a great many petitions in favour of the abolition. THE BOMBARDMENT OF PALERMO. Lord BROUGHAM asked the noble earl opposite whether there was any truth in the renewal of the bom bardment of Palermo. He hoped there was none, asit would have been a deed of unexampled atrocity. Even the most execrable tyrant of ancient times was only accused of standing by while Rome was burning, and he was never accused of any such atrocious barbarity. Earl GRANVILLE said he was sorry to say that the Government had received such intelligence as that which the noble and learned lord had alluded to. The noble lord ought to have given notice of his intention to put the ques tion to the noble earl the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. It was impossible to give complete an swers unless such rules were complied with. Lord BROUGHAM said he was perfectly well aware of that, and he properly abstained from touching upon the political aspect of the question, OUR RELATIONS WITH ROME. Earl STANHOPE, moved for a copy, or extract of a despatch from the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs to regulate the diplomatic relations with the Court of Rome since the cessation of her Majesty's legation at Florence. The noble earl went at some length into the circumstances connected with the act pasted some years ago with respect to receiving a Minister from the Court of Rome which up to the present time had remained a dead letter in consequence of a clause which had been introduced into it, laying down that such minister should not be a person in holy orders, Jesuit, or a member of any religious society. He next alluded to the circumstances that had lately taken place at Florence, which had broken up the legation there, and said some new plan might surely be now adopted, with a view to direct communication with Rome. It would be extremely inconvenient to send an attache from Naples, as he would either have to com municate with the Home Government without consultation with his chief, an arrangement which would be very objec tionable, or else he would have to send his despatches via Naples, a place 36 hours further from this country than Rome. Under all the circumstances, he thought a very favourable time had now arrived for adopting some more simple and direct plan of communication, It was impossible for a young man, an attache, who must live as attaches generally do, up three pairs of stairs, to conduct such weighty matters as the relations existing at the pre sent time with. two such important countries, and such d p i e p t l e o r m ab a n ti r c g a a g n e d n t ß a e t rl t i h n e h C a o d ur e t a e o h f R ,. o d r i t r e e . et: T d h ip e l C em otar ati t e s a of ge S n t t . being the case, he was decidedly in faveu r o f h av i ng a di rec t residing at Rome, although those was not a minister from Rome residing in either of there countries, which was at tributable entirely to the circumstance that Rome refused to send any but ecclesiastics as its representative to foreign countries. If it was important that those countries should have direct communication, surely it was of equal import ance that England should have the same facilities of com munication. (LEFT SPEAKING.) • HOUSE OF' COMMONS.—(T is EVENING.) The SPEAKER took the chair at four o'clock. CLARE ELE CVON. The Chairrrian of the committee appointed to try the merits of the Clare election petition brought up the report, which stated that the committee were of opinion Mr. Cal cutt, the sitting member, had been duly returned. PRIVATE BUSINESS. The Aylesbury and Buckingham Railway Bill and West End of London and Crystal Palace Railway Bill were read stock s 4O l sto . "l‘ stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock Share 13.14 stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stocic stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock 12 10 stock stock 4 4 ' l' t ,