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Intrb labition+ NEWCASTLE RACES. (THIS DAY.) (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) TRIAL STAKES. Hogpodar . Filly by Faugh.a-Ballagh NORTH DERBY Rotherham ...: Dame Judith . Seven ran. MEMBERS' PLATE. St. Andrew Cardsharper Caliph Fifteen ran. TYRO STAKES. Van Galen Hebe Six ran. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS—(YESTERDAY.) THIRD READINGS. The following bills were severally read a third time end passed :—Aberdare Valley Railway ; Birmingham Canal Navigation ; Caledonian R a il way ; E ast B en t Railway ; Regent's Canal (Hertford U n i on ). The Carnegie Restitution Bill passed through com mittee, an d was ordered t o b e rea d a t hi r d t i me to morrow. The report of the committee upon the Weights and Measures Bill was read. The Stamp Duties Repeal on Matriculations and Degrees (Oxford) Bill, was read a third time and passed. The Charitable Trust.; Bill was read a third time. The Grants of Land Bill was read a third time and passed. The Public Libraries and Museum Bill was read a third time and passed. The Spirits of Wine Bill was read a third time and passed. The Consolidated Fund (10,000,0001.) Bill was, on the motion of Lord STANLEY of Alderley, read a third time and passed. The Spirits (Ireland) Act Amendment Bill was read a second time. Their lordships then adjourned. ROUSE OF COMMONS-(YESTERDAY.) The SPEAKER took the chair at 4 o'clock. The Lords' amendments to the Colonial Life Assur ance Company B►ll and the International Life Assurance Society Bill were considered. The Dundalk Harbour and Port Bill, and the Gates head and Hexham Roads Bill, were read a third time and passed. THE HANGO MASSACRE. In reply to Captain - DuNcomßE, Sir C. WOOD said the Admiralty had received de spatches this morning from Admiral Dundas, stating the steps that had been taken, and also the most wel come intelligence that several of our sailors, though taken, were not wounded. The right hon. bart, added, that the story of our sailors taking soundings off Kertch Bay while landing the Governor's carriage was utterly untrue. REPRESENTATION OF THE CITY OF LONDON. Mr. T. DUNCOAIBE rose to ask the Attorney- General whether, under the provisions of the Act 22 Geo. 111., c. 45, a new w r it oug ht no t to b e i ssue d f or t h e City of London, in the room of Baron Rothschild, who bad since election entered into a contract for the public service, a copy of which had been laid before that house? He thought from the information be had received he should be justified in moving for a new writ for the City of London, as Baron Rothschild had entered into a con tract for the public service. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said the question was one for the house to answer, and not for him. At the same time he felt bound to say that if the hon. member wished for his professional opinion he could have it on the usual terms. (Hear and laughter.) Mr. MALINS wished to ask the right hon. gentleman the First Lord of the Admiralty whether, from the state ment he made on Friday night, he believed the hon. member for Tynemouth to be interested in shipping con tracts ? Sir C. WOOD said the statement he made was that, as far as he knew, the hon. gentleman the member for Tynemouth, though he had given up his interest in those contracts before he entered the house, must have been aware of most of the circumstances attending them. (Hear, hear.) CHELSEA. HOSPITAL. Colonel NORTH rose to ask the Paymaster-General whether an undertaking was not given by the late Se cretary at War, on behalf of the Government, that 120 soldiers' sons should be admitted into the Asylum at Chelsea, and whether only 50 soldiers' sons had been ad mitted ; and what was the cause of the delay, and on whom the blame of it rested? Mr. BOUVERIE said the only undertaking by the Government was that part of the building occupied by pupils was for 120 children, and he proposed to admit them into the school. There was a building for the pur pose of being occupied by the military schoolmasters, which was proceeding with the utmost despatch. BUSINESS OF THE SESSION. Mr. SPOONER asked whether it was intended to go into committee of supply that night ? A reply having been given from the ministerial bench, in the negative, Lord PALMERSTON said—lt may be now the most convenient opportunity for me to redeem the promise I made en Friday, that I would state, so far as I was able, the intentions of her Majesty's Government in re gard to the various bills which are now before the house. The number of them is certainly Very considerable ; but those who have looked at theca with a view to classifi cation will see that those children whose fate is to be disposed of are, in a great proportion, the offspring of private members ; and those in regard to which the Government can claim responsibility are, comparatively, a small proportion of the whole. It is, therefore. with these only that the Government can deal. Of course, we do not promise to take 1 4 . upon ourselves to dispose of bills that have been brought in by private mete/fors ; and it will be for them to judge, as they are responsible, how far they think they have a fair chance of carrying them through, and at what period they may think it most convenient to proceed with them. There are of Government measures thirty-three in different stages of progress, independently of continuance bills, and of bills sent down from the' House of Lords. I should only be occupying time unnecessarily by reading through the list of them. Some of them are mea cures which are of comparatively small interest, or whioh would not give rise to much discussion. There are others of considerable importance, which the Government con ceive it is essential to pass, whatever discussions may take place upon them. Among these I should mention the bills upon the subject of limited liability and partnership ; the bills of my light hon. friend the President of the Board of Health upon the government of the metropolis, and upon the provision to be made for the removal of nui sances and the preservation of the public health ; and of course the bill which provides for the transfer of the pro perty in Ordnance lands from that board, which has now ceased to exist, to be vested in the Secretary of State for the War Department. These measures of course are es sential, and we must endeavour to pass them. It will be best perhaps that I should state those which we think it . will not be desirable to press on the attention of the house this session ; and the first will be the Jurors and the Juries Bill for Ireland, which now stands for the second reading. The Secretary for Ireland thinks that bill might stand over for another session. On the same principle the bill for grand jury sessions in Ireland, which stands for the second reading, will not be pressed. With regard to the Education Bill, it 'is generally un derstood that all the bills connected with that subject which stand for the second reading will, if the house should agree to read them a second time, be referred to a select committee, not with a view of passing this ses sion, but to have the opinion of a committee in regard to their general and aggregate object. Therefore that bill, together with the bills of the right hon. baronet opposite, and of my right hon. friend the member for Manchester, it would of course be proper to press on to the second reading, to be referred to the select committee. Next comes the Testamentary Jurisdiction Bill. Now, it was clearly understood, and the Chancellor stated so in the other house, that that bill should be coupled with a bill for Church discipline. Various circum stances have hitherto prevented the Government from presenting to Parliament a sufficient and satisfactory bill on this subject; and at this advanced period of the session I think it is hopeless to suppose those bills Could elicit sufficient discussion to justify the house in passing them. We therefore do not mean to press the Testamentary Jurisdiction Bill. (Cheers.) There is, thee, the Court of Sessions Bill for Scotland, which, al though i t has reac h e d a very a d vance d stage i n thi s house, gi ves rise, we know, of opi n i on to a very considerable dif ference; and in deference to that, we intend not to press it i n t h e present session. So much P for the Government bills in different stages of progress. With regard to the continuance bills, they are mostly matters of a mere temporary form. There is a bill for the con tinuance of the Metropolitan Sewers Commission, which, , of course, will drop, because the bills of my right hon. friend the Preside nt of the Board of H ea lth ould su per- Bede the present Commission of Sewers, and;render, there fore, its continuance unnecessary. There are seven bill s come from the Lords which I hope the house will se riously consider. It is not our intention to withdraw any of those bills. Then come 36 bills of pri vate members. There is one bill, the Tenants' Compensation (Ireland) Bill, which the Government will support, and it is in a condition from which we hope the house may be dis posed to pass it with the amendments and improvements that may be made. That is as far as we can at present State it the view of the business before the house, and I should hope that there yet remains sufficient time in the session to pass into law those bills tha t I have not mentioned as being withdrawn. I may at the same time say that at this time of the session, considering the importance of the Government measures still under ' consideration, it will be utt er ly impossible for her Ma jesty's Government to yield t o applications that may be made to them to gi ve Government days for the purpose of bringing forw ar d the hon. gentlemen's bills or motions, and therefore those gentlemen who have bills before the j THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, JUNE 26. 1855_ house must make up their minds as to the course they will pursue. Mr. DISRAELI said, that when be alluded to the state of the public hu , in- , s on Friday night the noble lord at the head of the Government endeavoured t i c) con vey an impression to the house that his inquiry was an unreasonable one, and stated that it was to private mem bers the house was indebted for such a pressure of busi ness. The noble lord bad repeated that statement to night, but so far as he (Mr. Disraeli) could ascertain, such was not the case. Of the bills not yet read a second time 28 were Government bills, and 17 bills of private members ; in committee 22 Government an 12 pri vate bills ; bills as amended to be considered, four of each - an d of other bills, three of eac h ; amoun ti ng i n the whole to 53 Government bills and 36 of private members. The orders of the day, with two adjourned debates, now amounted to 89. Mr. HADFIELD said it was his intention to take the sense of the house to-night on the Education Bill. Lord R. CECIL protested against the Government intention of pushing forward the education bills to send them to a select committee. He protested against their being sent to a select committee, and assured the noble lord there would be a debate on each of these bills, and unless the Government was prepared to sacrifice a great number of Government nights to their discussion, it was impossible the bills could be proceeded with. Lord PALMERSTON reminded the house that one of these bills had been introduced by a member of the Government. TURKISH LOAN. Mr. RICARDO asked the First Lord of the Treasury whether it was true the Government was about to gua rantee a loan to Turkey, and whether the noble lord would inform the house if the Government had any such inten tion, and if so, when the subject would be brought before the house ? (Hear.) Lord PALMERSTON said, when the Government had a communication of that sort to make to the house they would immediately do so, but it was not the usual course for a Government to answer prospective ques tions. (Laughter.) No intention to do so had been come to as yet by the Government. Mr. M. GIBSON said that as there would in all pro bability be a considerable !opposition to having recourse to the old system of subsidising, he hoped the noble lord would give the house ample notice if he had such a pro position to make to it. HEALTH OF TOWNS ACT. In answer to a question from Mr. PALK, Lord PALMERSTON said it was the intention of the Government to proceed with the Health of Towns Act. SUNDAY TRADING BILL. Mr. OTWAY asked the noble lord if it was his inten tion to take any measure to induce the noble lord the member for Middlesex to withdraw. the Sunday Trading Bill? (Loud cries of "Hear, bear.") Lord PALMERSTON said it was not his intention to interfere with the bill, but that he should leave the house to deal with it as it thinks best. (Hear, hear, and cheers.) ADJOURNED DEBATE ON THE EDUCA TIONAL BILL. Sir JOHN PAKINGTON called attention to the adjourned debate on this bill being put on the paper for to-night instead of the Gth July, as arranged on Friday night. Sir G. GREY said that the reason why the adjourned debate was put on the paper for to-night was in conse quence of the house, at a later hour on Friday night, ob jecting to the debate being adjourned for so long a time. LIMITED LIABILITY BILL. In answer to a question from Viscount GoDERIdU, it was stated by a member of the Government that this bill would be taken into consideration on Friday night. THE EDUCATION BILLS. Lord SE VMOUR asked the noble lord whether he wished the house to stultify itself with reference to these bills by calling on the houseto affirm the principle of religi ous teaching in one bill and to exclude it in another— (hear)—for the purpose of sending these bills before a select committee, and asked whetber, with the feeling of the house and the state of the business before it, it were not better to postpone them altogether ? Lord PALMERSTON said he thought it would be better not to discuss the question by anticipation, but wait until the question came in a proper shape before the house. THE CRIMEA. Mr. SCOTT wished to know whether the Govern ment had received any further intelligence from the- Seat of War, as he understood there were some accounts in the papers of to-day. Lord PALMERSTON observed that a list of the officers killed had been received by the Government, and he believed their names had been sent to the news papers, and would be published in a Gazette. It might, however, be as well that he should state that the number of officers killed and wounded was 93, that the whole number of men and non-commissioned officers killed was 144, and the wounded 1,053, making a total of 1,295. GIBRALTAR. Lord J. RUSSELL, in answer to an hon. member, stated that a despatch had been received relative to the Government of Gibraltar which would be laid on the table in the course of a few days. VICTORIA GOVERNMENT BILL. The house then went into committee on this bill. The preamble was postponed. The first and second clauses were agreed to after a short discussion. On clause three being put, which proposed a distinc tion between local and imperial legislation, Mr. ADDERLEY proposed to leave out the clause altogether. Lord J. RUSSELL said that he had stated on a former occasion that there would be great difficulty in making a distinction between Imperial and local legislation for the colonies, and he owned that he could not, notwithstanding the high authority of his right hon. friend at the head of the Board of Works, see the force of the discrimination which he had at onetime attempted to draw. He thought, too, that even if we were to make such a distinction it would be more hurtful than beneficial to the colonies. The hon. member for South Staffordshire (Mr. Adderley) had said that there were many cases which appeared to be of an Imperial nature, but upon which local legislation had acted very beneficially. He instanced the case of the " Canada rebellion claims;" but if the house were to adopt the sug gestion, and make the distinction which had been laid down, it would still be necessary that the governor of the colony should send home the bills in order to receive the sanction from Government. But on the other hand there might be cases which would trench so much upon the prerogative of the Crown as to be incon sistent with our legislation, which would be a serious evil if left in the hands of the colony without any supervision from the Home Government. To avoid the difficulty of discrimination, the plan proposed by the hon. member in volved even a still greater difficulty, as he proposed to take away all distinctions whatever, and leave it entirely to the discretion of the governor to agree to any bill which he might think fit. Now he (Lord J. Russell) was not disposed to place such unlimited confidence in the governors of our colonies as that which the hon. member proposed to place in them. It might often happen that, with the best inten tions and with the soundest judgment, the governor of a colony might find popular opinion so strong, that he would be unable to resist g iving his assent to any bill which might be brought before him. Now, with respect to the grievance alleged to be connected with the present plan, he found that only four acts had been disallowed by the Government at home since 1850, none of which wore measures of any vital importance. As an instance of the evil which might result from the plan of the hon. member for South Staffordshire, suppose it were proposed by the colony to place her Majesty's forces in the colony under some local authority, it would certainly be very inconve nient if the governor should be induced to give his consent to such a measure, as by giving his consent it would imme diately become law. From all he had heard from persons with whom he had had any communication, he did not think any strong feeling existed in the colonies on the sub ject, and he hopedthe committee would agree to the clause, and not take away from the Crown the exercise of that prerogative which he considered to be exceedingly useful in the government of the colonies. (Hear.) Mr. LOWE thought that the noble lord ought not to allow himself to be influenced by any statements which had been made to him on this subject, as from all ho (Mr. Lowe) knew of the parties who had made these representa tions, he did not consider their o pi n i on suc h Es cou ld he acted upon beneficially by the Government at home. He considered the clause as a relic of the old oppressive sys tem under which our colonies had been governed. He firmly believed that till this clause was removed from the bills affecting our colonies, peace and prosperity would not long continue to exist in them. The main point to which he objected in the present clause was that it would have the effect of giving the governor power to give his assent to any bill passed by the colonial legislat ure , and after so giving his assent he would send the bill home to the Government of this country, where it might be disallowed by the Colonial Secretary, and that' which had been law in the colony for one or two years might be repealed at the end of that time by an act of the Imperial legislature at home. Great evil constantly resulted from the uncer tainty which prevailed as to what was and what was not to be considered as to the law of the colonies. The noble lord the Secretary for the Colonies had stated that only four bills had been disallowed since 1850, but it was not the number of the bills that was disallowed which made the grievance, but the power to disallow that produced constant uncertainty, which caused so much evil to the colonies. He should most cordially support the amend ment for the omission of the clause. (Hear, hear.) Sir J. PAKINGTON said that he considered that a great deal of weight which would naturally attach to what fell from the hon. member for Kidderminster, in conse quence of his great experience in the Australian colonies, was a good deal lessened by the personal feelings and re collections which appeared constantly to influence the re marks which he addressed to the house on the subject of colonial matters. The hon. member had thought it right to tell the noble lord (Lord J. Russell) not to attach import ance to statements which had had been made to him by gentlemen who were connected with the bill. He (Sir John Pakington) thought it right that the house should under stand who thoseparties were to whom the hon.gentleman had referred. He had referred to a body of gentlemen, intimately connected with the Australian colonies, and who in consequence of that connection had associated themselves together to attend to Australian in terests, more particularly to the progress of this bill now before Parliament. These gentlemen were in number between seventy and eighty ; they were intimately connected with the colony ; they were members of the Co lonial Legislative Council ; they were proprietors to the amount of several millions of property in the colony, gentle. men of the highest respectability, and who had taken part in passing the bill through the colonial legislature. They wore all aware that the hon. member for Kidderminster had great experience in New South Wales, but ho very much doubted if he could adduce the opinion of any other gentleman in this country who had been interested in this c ww o ho lo ue n itdh y ee w ru ll hggo ich would be e n titl e d t oss muc h we i g ht as th a t o f the l arge b o d y of gentlemen to whom he had referred. He suggest to tothneothon. consider mem it berpfroorpeSrotuothdeSetlainffeortdosphrierses, his motion t o a division, when the motion was one which was not concurred in in opinion by the advisors of the ;for had been expressed Crown, upon a subject closely affecting the prerogative of for his own part he able toresistthe prels;tb fi l l t th u e n viewst e Crown wie noble lord the pressing his motion, he certainly Se cretary for the Colonies. y would vote against him. friend insisted on Afr, LOWE denied that he had said anything against . 84 Majority —26 The amendment was therefore negatived, and the words referred to were inserted. The paragraph was then ordered to stand part of the bill, as were paragraphs 62 and 63. The remaining provisions of the measure were agreed to without opposition, and the bill was reported to the house. NEW SOUTH WALES GOVERNMENT BILL. The house then went into committee on this bill. Clauses 1,2, and 3 were agreed to. On clause 4, enacting th a t no change should be made in the constitution without the assent of two-thirds of the colonial legislature, Mr. LOWE moved an amendment, with the view of enabling the colonial legislature to alter or vary the provi sions of the constitution by the vote of a majority, in the same manner as they might carry into effect any other legislative enactments. It was absurd to say that a majo rity might not alter what a majority had enacted. The amendment was negatived without a division, and the clause was agreed to, as were clauses 5 to 9. On the schedule, Mr. LOWE mored as an amendment, with a view of making the upper chamber electoral instead of nominee. There were no materials for such a chamber in New South Wales. NV hy, if they constituted a peerage there, half the peerage would go through the insolvent court in the course of a few years. (A laugh.) Mr. ROEBUCK said that so early as 1835 the noble lord at the head of the Colonial Department had presented to his:, in the case of Canada, the very question now raised by the hon. member for Kidderminster. The demands of Canada were rejected, and the consequeaca was that the colony rebelled. He was afraid that the same result might follow in the case of New South Wales. Lord J. RUSSE FA. defended his conduct with regard to the Canadian constitution, and contended that the measures which he adopted relative to that colony bad proved en tirely successful. The proposition before the house had been considered and approved by the Legislative Council of New South Wales, and be thought he was justified in adopting the recommendation of that body rather than that of a public meeting. The house then divided, when there appeared— For the amendment. 36 Against it . 173 Majority for Government —137 Mr. LOWE protested against the gross jobbery which had been practiced by the Attorney-General of the colony and others who, having been placed upon the committee to fix the civil list of the colony, voted for themselves a perma nent increase of their salaries. The schedule was then agreed to. The bill was also re ported to the house with the amendments, and ordered to be read a third time on Friday next. The Waste Lands (Australia) Acts Repeal Bill passed through committee and was reported to the house. The further consideration of the Education (Scotland) Bill in committee was fixed for Friday next. The Union Charges Act Continuance Bill passed through committee. The house went into committee on the Youthful Offend ers (No. 2) Bill, the several clauses of which were agreed to. The Merchant Shipping Act Amendment Bill was rand a second time. The Burial Grounds (Scotland) Bill was real a third time and passed- The Ch'ristcburch (Todmorden) Marriages Validity Bill passed through committee. The Administration of Oaths Abroad Bill was read a third time and pasted. EDUCATION (No. 2) BILL. Sir J. PAICINGTON moved that the adjourned debate on this bill should he further adjourned until Monday next, statinc , that ho would in the meantime consider what course he should take as to the future progress of the bill. Lord SEYMOUR renewed his complaint against the waste of time involved in this discussion, without any prospect of coming to any definite result. He would therefore mew) that the debate be adjourned for three months, and if unsuccessful now he wou'A renew his mo tion on Monday next. Lord J. RUSSELL hoped his noble friend would not persist in this motion, but would allow the matter to stand over till Monday. The question was of great im portance, and created a g rea t I n t eres t i n th e country. Mr. M. GIBSON joined in the same request, and said that the carrying of the noble lord's motion would bo tan tamount to throwing them out altogether. Mr. WALPOLE suggested that the better course would be to discharge the order for the readings of these bills. At the same time he was in favour of postponing the dis cussion till Monday next. After some further conversation, Lord SBYMOUR con sented to withdraw his motion till Monday. The Stock in Trade Bill was read a second time, and ordered to be committed. The Court of Session (Scotland) Bill was withdrawn for the present session. CRIMINAL JUSTICE BILL. The house went into committee on this Sir G. GREY stated that the bill was to be confined to offences of simple larceny. Clauses 1 to 7 inclusive were agreed to. The house thou resumed, the chairman reported pro. gress, and obtained leave to sit again. JURORS AND JURIES (IRELAND) BILL—JURORS AND JURIES (IRELAND) (No. 2) BILL. The orders for the second reading of these bills were read and discharged. _ _ BILLS OF EXCHANGE AITD PROMISSORY NOTES BILL. The house resolved itself into committee on this bill. Mr. SPOONER proposed in chose 2 that sixteen days instead of twelve should be the limit withinwhich a debtor should be brought before a judge. Mr. ATHERTON opposed the amendmens. Mr. VANCE supported it, and expressed his intention to divide the committee. Aftrr some discussion, in which Mr. Keating, Mr. Vance, Mr. Butt, Mr. Walpole, and oth er hon. members took part, the committee divided, when there appeared-, ' For the original clause Against it Majority against the amendment —23 The clause was ordered to stand part of the bill. The other clauses of the bill were agreed to. Mr. ATHERTON moved the addition of the following clause :—" Every protect of a notary public of a bill of exchange or promissory note shall be received in all pro ceedings under this act as evidence of the facts therein set forth, in like manner as the protest of foreign bills of ex change is now received as evidence of such facts." Mr. GLYN opposed the clause. Mr. KEATING hoped his hon. and learned friend would not press the clause which, if adopted, would oversot our laws of evidence. The clause was negatived without a division. Mr. ATRERTON moved the addition of the following clauses :—The holder of every dishonoured bill of exchange or promissory note shall have the same remedies for the re covery of the expenses incurred in noting and protesting the same for non-acceptance or non-payment or otherwise, by reason of such dishonour, as he has done under this act for the recovery of the amount of such bill or note. The holder of any bill of exchange or promissory- tote may, if he think fit, issue one writ of summons according to this act against all or any number of the parties to such bill or note, and such writ of summons shall be the commence ment of an action or actions against the parties therein named respectively, and all subsequent proceedings against such respective parties shall be iu like manner, so far as may b; as if separate writs of summons had been issued. the character of the gentlemen who bad formed the depu tation that had waited upon the noble lord (Lord J. Rus sell). Ho did not deny they were wealthy; on the con trary, it was because they were wealthy, and possessed of such enormous property in land of a particular description, that their opinions were not entitled to that weight which the right hon. baronet appeared to attach to them. Mr. WILLIAMS thought it had been incorrecty stated that by this bill the prerogative of the Crown would be affected. That, however, was not the object of the bill. It was not the prerogative of the Crown which was concerned, but it was the power of her Majesty's Ministers to do cer tain acts, upon many of which in all probability the Crown was never consulted, and probably knew nothing whatever about it. We had already gone too far in the matter of interfering with the government of our colonies. It was now high time to allow our colonial legislatures full exercise of the rights which belonged to them. He should support the amendment of the hon. member. Mr. SCOTT said there was no doubt some difficulty ex isted in consequence of the present system of the governor giving his assent t o local bills, which were afterwards dis allowed at home; but these difficulties were rapidly dimi nishing in proportion to the increased celei ity of communi cation which was now taking place between this country and the colonies. The committee divided on the amendment that the clause be struck out of the bill. For retaining the clause Against it 3B Majority —72 Mr. MIALL then moved that all the words after " colony" be left out of clause 4. The clause made it imperative to provide for religious institutions, whereas be thought it should be left to future colonial legislatures to make such provision or not, as they should deem fit. Lord J. RUSSELL opposed the amendment. The clause was framed in accordance with the determination of the co lonial legislature, and he did not think it would be right to put an absolute lestriction on the colonies in respect to the provision they should make for their religious institutions. Mr. LOWE objected to allow the present Legislative Council to fetter all future Legislative Councils. After a few words from several hon. members the com mittee divided, when there appeared— ' For the amendment Against it 65 Majority The clause was agreed to, and also clauses 5 and 6, being the remaining clauses of the bill. The preamble having been postponed, the committee•pro ceeded to consider the various clauses in the " scheduled bill " appended thereto, being the measure sent home from the colony. The clauses to 43 inclusive were agreed to. On clause 44, which has reference to the regulation of the boundaries of the colonies, being proposed, Mr. LOWE objected to the provisions contained in it, and asked, how could the legislature of Port Phillip make re gulations respecting what the other colonies ought to do ? Lord J. RUSSELL must own that the clause was very defective, but was not prepared to strike it out. The clause was agreed to, and also clauses 45 and 46. On clause 47, by which provision is proposed to be made for the civil list, Mr. MULL proposed to omit from the amount the sum intended to be appropriated for religious purposes, and with that view to reduce the sum named from 112,750/.to 57.750/. Mr. BALL submitted that the sum could not be consi dered excessive when the value of money in the colony was taken into consideration. The colony had a revenue of three millions, and had no debt ; and the sum proposed, which amounted only to one-twenty-sixth part of the re venue, was not a subject for objection. The committee divided. The numbers were— For the clause Against it Majority —42 Mr. LOWE objected to the forty-seventh paragraph of the schedule, contending that the civil list had been obtained from the colonial legislature under false pretences. Ho should therefore move the omission of this paragraph. Lord J. RUSSELL defended the paragraph, and the principle on which it was founded, as providing equitable compensation for public officers in cases where they were removed in consequence of the establishment of responsible government. The amendment was then negatived. On paragraph 61, Mr. - ADDEitLEY moved to omit the words, " or in the said schedule hereunto annexed, D." His object was to leave the items referred to in the power of the colonia," legislature. Sir J. PAKINGTON opposed the amendment. The committee divided, when there were— For the amendment Against it After a discussion they were agreed to, and added to the bill. The report to be received on Thursday next. THE . TIATLEYBURY COLLEGE BILL. This bill vv,s read a seeimd time. THE ENCUMBERED ESTATES COURT. In reply to a question from Lord NAAS, Mr. HORSMAN stated that the Solicitor-General for Ireland had a bill ready which would bo presented in the course of the week, to carry out the intentions of the com missioners in reference to the Court of Chancery in Ireland. It would be necessary to introduce an act for the present year to continue the powers of the Encumbered Estates Court for a short period. The other orders of the day were disposed of, and the house adjourned at a quarter past one o'clock. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. EAST KENT. A special general meeting of the proprietors of this company was held at the London Tavern, Bishopsgate street, yesterday, for the purpose of considering a bill to enable them to extend their authorised line by the construction of a railway from Canterbury to Dover, with two branches at Dover, to increase their capital, and for other purposes. Lord Sondes, the chairman, presided. The usual preliminaries having been ob- served, The noble CHAIRMAN said he had really nothing to say to the shareholders with regard to the object for which they had been called together, as it was so well known to them all. A circular bad been duly forwarded to every shareholder explanatory of the objects of the proposed undertaking, and the replies which had been received were, with scarcely any exception, of an ap proving character. (Hear, hear.) He had but little doubt, therefore, that these satisfactory feelings with regard to the measure would be confirmed on that oc casion. (Hear, hear.) Arr. FRESLIFIRLR, solicitor to the company, then read over to the meeting the heads of the various clauses of the bill, after which, Mr. J. SADLEIR,I M.P., rose and said, it became his duty to propose a resolution which was essential under the provisions of the existing law, when a railway company undertook the extension of its original objects. He need not detain them in regard to the objects of the Legislature in requiring a meeting of that kind to be held, but they would be aware it was not one of the ordinary meetings of the company. He need not enter at any length into an explanation of the objects they had in view, by the promotion of the measure before them, because he was well assured that most of those whom he bad the honour to address took a deep and natural interest in the success of that important undertaking, and deemed it, therefore, their duty to make themselves masters of the more material facts and details , connected with it ; but he might observe that the steps taken by the directors since the last annual meeting had been induced by circumstances which unexpectedly *rose subsequent to that meeting. Since that time almost every public man—he might almost say without exception—connected ith the great interests of the country—those, in faet, who were at the head of the naval, military, and ordnance departments of the Go vernment, had become impressed with the extreme im portance of direct railway and telegraphic communication between the metropolis and Dover. Animated by this opinion, and acting under a deep sense of their official responsibility the directors of the East Kent Railway had made great efforts to obtain the sanction of 'Plc Legislature to the extension of their line to that port during the present session. (Hear.) Eneouraged also by the promises of the authorities he had alluded to as well as he might say by the Prime Minister, the directors thought it their duty to avail themselves of the favourable opportunity which had now sprung up for the completion of the original design of I their undertaking—which was not merely the establish ment of railway communication between Strood and Canterbury, belt its continuation thence to Dover. In the first instance, however, they were constrained to curtail the proportions of their original design from cir cemstances over which they had no control, and though never abandoned it was postponed until a state of things should supervene which should be more favourable to the complete realisation of that idea. (Hear, hear.) That state of things had now come about, and it was very gratifying to the directors and all those interested in the enterprise to observe that there was after all but a very limited—indeed, he might say a very feeble— amount of opposition to their efforts to extend their communication with Dover. The great argument, it would be recollected, which was formerly urged against the utility of the East Kent line by its opponents, was that it did not extend to Dover ; they always dilated upon the fact that it was simply a railway from Strood to Canterbury, and that because it went no further that it was unworthy of support. There was he was bound to confess something in that objection as matters then stood—but he found now that the directors found themselves in a position to extend their communication with Dover as they from the first cent emplated doing, these same opponents changed their tactics and condemned the project as visionary and use less. (Hear.) Nay, more, they protested against the Go vernment entertaining any such views as thoee he had al luded to; and further, they said that a more unfit tribunal ' to determine what were the requirements of the country in this respect could not be conceived. Those indivi duals were bold, indeed, to assert such opinions as these, ' and he could only account for theis entertaining them by the fact that those persons were disappointed and irri tated at the gradual and progressive success of the E:ist Kent Railway, in recovering from its difficulties, and placing itself in a position to complete, in its integrity, the original design of the undertaking. (Cheers.) He deemed it quite unnecessary to expatiate upon the nu merous advantages which must accrue from the com pletion of the oommtuication with Dover; but he might observe that, before taking any steps with a view to accomplish this desirable end, the directors thought pro per to consult the feelings of the inhabitants of Dover in the matter. They accordingly attended a large and in fluential meeting there, and he had the honour of ex plaining publicly the considerations which induced him to think it was not only the duty of the directors to pro ceed with the bill, but that it was an object that de served the sympathy and support of the people of Dover. The result of that meeting was eminew-,ly successful— (hear, bear)—and he might add that he did not hesitate to tell them, as he ventured now to repeat, that whenever a co-operative body could combine with advantage to their own interests anything which was calculated to promote the welfare of the country it was their duty to carry it out. (Cheers.) Ile did not feel called upon to dwell upon the objections that had been urged against the proposed scheme ; for he was disposed to take broad views in such matters, and to overlook such as were of a merely trivial nature, But with regard to the opposition of the South-Eastern Company, no doubt the directors would 'feel bound to maintain it, not so much from a mare spirit of antago. nism so much as a natural desire to increase their own interest by endeavouring to retain in force a species of monopoly, which, however advantageous it might be to the shareholders, was obviously disadvantageous to the public good. (Hear, hear.) Although he should be the last person in the world to wish to crowd a particular district with railway communication, he felt that the scheme which the directors had in view was essential to the prosperity of the district through which the proposed line would pass, as well as calculated to be of immense advantage to the country in general. ThAe were the views which the directors as a body entertained ; and they pledged themselves to avail themselves of every fair means of accomplishing the desired object, provided they were fortified by the confidence and support of the share holder,. The hon. gentleman then moved a resolution embodying tho approval of the shareholders of the pro posed extension of the line, and the other objects of the meeting. Sir J. TTLDEN said he seconded the resolution with peculiar pleasure, because he had been for many years an advocate, in common with many he saw around him, for the extension of the line to Dover, in accordance with the original object of the undertaking. To look at the proposed scheme in a merely pecuniary point of view was to regard it in a minor sense compared with the advantage which would accrue from.. it in a national sense. The inhabitants of Dover seemed to be fully alive to its importance, for they not only cordially approved of it, but signified their approval in an unmistakeable and tangible manlier, by coining forward with th e i r purses to aid the project. (Hear, hear.) Supported as they were in this manner, and also by the Prime Minister himself, and other official authorities, the di rectors, in going to Parliament to obtain this bill, only required the sanction and approval of the shareholders to prosecute the undertaking with perfect confidence in their success. (Hear, hear.) He sincerely hoped, therefore, that by the next annual meeting, he should have to congratulate them upon the passing of the necessary Acts of Parliament, and upon having sufficient capital to commence the new line. (Cheers.) Mr. HILTON, as a large shareholder in the company, having said a few words in cordial support of the pro posed scheme, Alderman SALOMON, sair: he differed entirely from a great deal he had heard that day. So far as the line from Strood to Canterbury was concerned it was wanted, inasmuch as it filled up a gap in the country ; and so for from not having, as had been stated by some persons, a terminus, it opened up a corn municetion with the centre of the county of Kent, and was thereby productive of the most important advantages. As to the extension to Dover he admitted its desirability in a national point of view, but in a coun try like this the Government ought to come forward and lend its assistance to the undertaking if it was intended to bring about any national benefit. (Hear, hear, hear.) Instead of this, however, he found it was proposed to mortgage the existing line —or, in other words, to grant preference shares for the construction of the Dover Extension. Now, he did not think this was at all fair. It had been said that the people of Dover had come forward with their money ; but there was nothing to thank them for, because until the extension would pay the competition of the South-Eastern Company must be overcome, and then, before the shareholders could receive a farthing, the profits, if any, would be swallowed up by the pre ferenee shares granted to the Extension proprietors. At the same time he was an advocate for the contract for the construction of the line being thrown open to public competition and executed at the cheapest rate, and un less the directors would guarantee this he must, though he should do so with regret, give his unqualified apposi tion to the scheme. He had attended there simply to ex press his opinion as being unfavourable to the extension for the reasons he had stated, and having done so, ho sincerely trusted that nothing might occur which would induce him to Move an amendment. In the course of a long discussion which ensued, Mr. FRESIIFIELD pointed out that although the new bill created a preference, at the same time the existing law of the country prevented that being in any wa: prejudicial to existing preferences ; and the chairman explained that at present no contract for the line had been made, but the directors whilst entering into no pledge as to their conduct in that matter would take into consideration the objection of Alderman Salomons. The resnlntir.n. wa9 after 7 , 3 rd was.l agre,d t 9 tIlAall'(1101111;. Tiie pr. - xeedings ;Imre I.,ri - :,,L;l)t. to a conehLiion by a vote of thanks to the noble chairman. LONDON AND SOUTH-EASTERN RAILWAY.----Traffic re turn for the week ending June 23, 1855 £19,637 4 4 Corresponding week last year 17,638 8 4 Increase in 1855 £1,948 16 0 LONDON, BRIGHTON, AND SOUTH COAST RAILWAY.— Traffic return for the week ending June 23, 1855 £14,720 14 4 Corresponding week last year 17,842 5 11 Total of the half-year to this date, 1855 285,623 5 4 Total of the half-year to this date, 1854 E 293,288 8 0 GLASGOW AND SOUTH-WESTERN RAlLWAY.—Traffic re turn for the week ending Juno 23, 1855 £6,205 12 6 corresponding week last year 5,637,,18 1 Increase in 1855.. 2567 14 5 IN RE STRAHAN, PAUL, AND CO. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, BASINGEIALL-STREET, JUNE 25. (Before Mr. Commissioner Evans.) This was a meeting for the proof of debts and choice of assignees in the bankruptcy of William Strahan, Sir John Dean Paul, Bart., and Robert Makin Bates, who had carried on business as bankers at 217, Strand, and also the business of navy agents, at 41, Norfolk-street, Strand, under the style of Halford and Co. The petition was filed on the 11th of June. The petitioning creditor is Montague John Tatham, proctor, of 26, Great Carter lane, who is a creditor for 1,5941. in respect of the balance of an account of moneys had and received by the bank rupts as bankers, in respect of which no security or sa tisfaction had been given. The public are aware that criminal proceedings are pending against these bankrupts under the 7th and Bth of George IV., sec. 49, by which any person convicted of unlawfully disposing of securities is liable to be trans ported beyond the seas for any term not exceeding 14 nor less than 7 years, or to be imprisoned for any term not exceeding 3 years. The case caused intense interest, and the court was crowded to excess. The proceedingslwere commenced by Mr. Lawrance, the solicitor to the petition, who stated that for the sake of convenience sundry proof.; of debt had been taken out of court'and pasAed by the official assignee. His Honour then directed that the names of the re spective creditors who had thus proved their debts out of court should now be read aloud in open court, so that it might be ascertained if there were any opposition to them. Mr. Lawranee said that, in order to mitigate the pres sure in this court, which was extreme, the registrar (Mr. Abrahall) was taking proofs in another court. Mr. Ballantine appeared for Mr. Strahan and Sir J. Dean Paul ; Mr. Parry for Mr. Bates ; Mr. Chidley for the Marquis of Clanricarde, Lord Galway, and other creditors, the aggregate in amount being about 250,0001., and Mr. Linklater for Sir Lucius Curtis and other cre ditors; and Mr. Cooper for several noblemen. Mr. Lawrance said, as a great many of the creditors were present, it might be satisfactory to them to have the figures, which were an approximation at least to the correct sums, so far as he had been able to ascertain them. The following statement was then handed in by Mr. Lawrance : Total creditors unsecured £502,372 3 4 Add Earl Fitzwilliam's bal p.nce of debtor and credi tor account .. £1,454 5 0 Sir J. D. Paul Deduct, in Sir J. D. Paul's separate Acct , 72,2501. of this— Loan £27,000 0 0 Ditto IO,GOO 0 0 —237,000 0 0 Namur and Liege Railway.. 4,910 8 4 °filmy extents 2,787 16 7 Amount raised on securities Hal ford and Co Liabilities, value received Ditto, no value 2,743 0 6 £505,115 3 30 44,698 4 7 113,000 0 0 26,522 0 0 68,220 0 0 12,500 0 0 £680,65819 3 take the first opportunity of placing it before the Court, I and ilPnocitiegjt in the hands of the nffioi . ,l .• , given) it to the off,:. • r 'hand Tile following is the statemait. , ciefr€.d : LIST OF PARTIES WHOSE SECURITIES ARE SOLD. Lady Carnarvon 5OO Exchequer-bills. Adm. Aylmer (H. k, Co.) 500 ff Cap. Frederick (TT. &Co.) EOO If Duke of Rutland (Militia Account) lOO IP Tollemache and Collett 5OO ff Lord Manners 3OO A. D. Wigsell 5,000 /I Strahan and Co 2,800 ft 10,.500 C. A. Caldwell Mrs. Weir Mrs. Hare 600 ~ J. Tregon well 9,4''o ff Mrs. L. Herbert 2,t410 I P Mrs. Yatmen 2OO „ R. K. Neville 10,401 India Bonds. Mrs. Strickland 3OO „ W. C. Morland Sir A. Clifford Wynn, Tyler, Brown, and Kirwan Dr. Griffith.., lO,OOO Danish Three per Cents. Do. Do. Amelia Bailward. E. S. Bailward ff Julia Bailward If Miss Churchill 11. Sir A Clifford 36,000 If G. S. Gough R. H. B. Hall 3O 000 ff Dalton 7,100 tf Burton (Raiford and Co. 75,000 f 1 Captain Jones do. 10°.801 ,/, Morris do. 9,000 Heringham do. 28,000 YP Bailey do. 19,000 11 Heppean (Trustee) Miss Reynolds F. Sawbridge 24,000 9% Mrs. J. Streatfield (Trus tee) Mrs. F. Streatfield John Tregornwell 50,0`:0 ff George Willis Mad .tm e Charritte Colonel Peacocke Mrs. Boyd Miss Meyrick. Admiral Aylmer LIST OF SECURITIES SOLD OR DEPOSITED. 558,000 fie. Dutch Two-and-a- Half per Cents. 1-1,500 India Bonds Ditto .., 14,500 0 10,500 Excheqr. Bills (March) Ditto ... 10,500 0 120,011Dutch'Two-and-a-Half per Cents. 10,000 Danish Three p. Cents 150,000 DutchTwo-and-a-Half per Cents. 83,000 Dutch Three-and-a- Half per Cents. 50,000 Dutch Four per Cents Gurney, and 27,000 0 6,0 1 0 Canada Bonds 5,000 Danish Five p. Cents 2,700 Brazilian Five per Cents. 12,000 Brazilian Four.und-a- Half per Cents. ......... 10,000 ditto Five per Cents 1,300 India Bonds Sold Ditto ... 6,137 10 . 7,487 13 Barnard and { 20,000 0 Co. Sold 2113,625 0 Mr. Dalian tine said the three bankrupts were prepared to swear to this. His Honour—Are there any more proofs ? If so, let them be disposed of first. Mr. Lawrance said the following were prepared to act as trA, a,ssig►neos :—Mr. Earvvis, navy agent, New Boa weli-o , urt ; Mr. Charles Appleyard, solicitor, of Lin coln's-inn ; and Mr. Edmund Waller, stationer, Fleet street. These gentlemen were sub3equently appointed. No other creditors were proposed in opposition to them. • Mr. Lawrance observed that the object they had in view, having regard to the vast number of creditor , , and the indisposition of many of them to come into court, was to affrrd them all the facility in their power, and accordingly an adver:;isement was put into the papers informing the creditors that they might have their proofs prepared at his office if they chose, and many of them had taken advantage of that offer. His Honour—That is only the usual course. 14r. Lawrance—Powers of attorney were also for warded to each creditor living in the country. The result was that some powers of attorney bad been for warded to them, but a great many noblemen and gen tlemen had authorised their own solicitors to vote for them. The charge of employing an itinerant commis sioner was simply untrue. Mr. Parry renewed his application to Mr. Pates to be examined, stating that his client was anxious to disclose everything he knew as to those transactions. CHELMSFORD—JuN 22 ' a wher ° s - - ViThents to-day experienced a dull trade, iii ) , r igieg ti,"l as t were pressed second-rate qualities suffered 3 , ' iro ineci_ ite , barley excepted, rnerlt in price—the better qualities barely " d "fim week's rates. Spring corn of all sorts unaltere Wheat, white, old, per s. which was the turn dearer. qr.6l new 61 red, old 57 new 57 29 09 ...... •"' 39 84 I Oats, per q.;ide • ... ' 3 9 7 7 8 6 64 I Peas, 1- 1 1 :o rall i rilirt lveb; ............ '' '' ''' 36 1911 1, - '''' :7 3 .2 1 Beans, 30 1 :- I ii ic zrr30 : s c a . ... ; . t .o i .,1 0 .. 1 ‘ 8 ..:..3s ; 74 Ditto, Barley Chevalier 09 Grinding 25 Malt 63 Chevalier . 7O COL CHESTER— JuNv 23. .te 163 t° eat O ° Prices to-daywere as follow ;—Wheat, w 3 11 :t0 P344; 0 red, 728 to 78s barley, 32s to 348 ; oats , - 2 44 to 48° ' Pe ' Mazagan, 40s t 4 9 s ; middle and s mall, --- 9 white, 46s to 48s ; grey, 42s to 445. Toe d re pits, frO Official Statemenb of the Quantities of Corn , . 8113 ' in the port of London, from the foll oWi tt" the 18th to the 231 June, , oth inclugive. in the port of London, from tuts A-- the 14th to the 23,1 June, both inclusive. • • 0 P I ....--"' cp r- ----- ---8 2 t _.--- ----- _--- ------ "--. 511 Colchester - -- 41 '" .. .. i? Harwich 489 1 --- 9SU Leigh - ' hialclon TZ . 1 .. R .. ''''''''''''''"''" "J . 21c33 r „ 2 1 3 ,: n...i ! v 0.ci n a1• S ill Linds of grain aoa slow sale at l ast NI e fa:: C r AateL:Y— !UNE 23 . a _ ja,,0,. slei qn W ic ? , had f small supplies of all kinds of grEttaun'a•oats 0 _ wheat at 1.5 per qr. advance • barley , TWO S ' First Wit cat. 1 Barley. OatS. I --„ 03 Second ;1 85 0 0 d a 1 3379: 0 0 cii 3324: g 1 o o u 6 : . 01 Third Od 1 2,s 01 I 70f; 0:1 31 :1 ......................a ...... flook Pr son iC ' ..... COAL 111/2111,10ET.—JeN13 25. e s s irr o , f ut C:a 3 . 1 r. ....................... close of the market. 0, a, Holywell ........ ._:•:. ••• ' l9 - Howard's West . tfartiey 1S (: v 15 Netherton ............... , Tanfield 'door •.. ......... T an fi e ld Moor 1 3 ut cs ..... .1 5 0 W a lk er P r imrose . ....... .14 C Grey's West Hartley —. 17 9 .... I.S 0 Wsrlain .................. Wallsend, &o. 19 6 6 Ed e n Main ................. 19 Belmont ..................... _. 0 Larabton! ......... . ......... ...t,,,' Plummer ... ............... ..1) [lough 11311. ............... ,i, .0 1. 5 Tees ........................ :;',., 6 Whitworth .............. .•;,', A Evenwood.••... ........ ••••',3 ; Cares llerthyr ••••...::i5 0 Derweotwater liarlidJ., .0 , Fothergill's Aberdaie .. 0 ,V. Skiborwen Aferthyr••••••og v Wayne's Merthyr 1 , - .8 I Sold .......... 31 ZV send, s"• Dell and ......... 17 0 Gosforth ................... 18 G Hilda ............... . ......... 17 6 Ships at market... 4 o ft DUBLIN', June 22.—0 n the late anuiversau itiflio y battle of a terlo n, Lord Seaton caused a gratc; W to be give n to ene h surcvor of the memorable at present residing in Kilmainhain IlospitAl• ---..—:------_ BIRTHS. OF A SON. • the //if On the 211 inst., at 53, Westbour:otrenll:o;:orso.rjts.a:lo:l Captain D. Bethnn.e, 11. N. On the 24th inst., at Crouch•end, H. Bishop. , i ,ptoe , On th© 22d in st., at Sion Souse, L.' o _ ~e3r Meyer. IN.octoa st, I' e ' ' On the 22d ins.., at the Rectory. ~, Arts SO ltiel Bath, the wife of the Roy. George o° r ,, tif ire, ..----. On the 23d inErl, in Mocklenharg-s' Hill. OF A DAITGIIT°' Tn. Sorel, mr s. o g. O s a n . it tp hue o g 2 2 g 4 4tht t atat 65, Upper Sh ru bb j e 3 r7;: st t r il : et :grs , h inert ., On the 24th inst., at 111 lb er Wit ° Wellesley. ourne-p • fe of of John James Pranoll On the 231 at d Sunderland, the Wm. Hay, Esq. Ford Hall, lace riStoll, 030 MARRIED. Iticb" a ward Parry, Bath, te Ea' On the 23d irist., at Walcot Churchl of Lo 1% 0 0 Parry, Esq., lato Royal Scots Greys, son to L° llis olad' daughter of Lie ut'onant-General Sir Ri c r oll K.C.8., & e . • ES° t o _,-, von shire , b iro. On the 23d in st , at Tor Church , -v e sta ffort f - Nro' Esl. Bengal Civil Greys, 11'0,, William Hardir.g;Esq., of Old Spring'' the 1• P .7- I • S '' Harriet Ceorgiiia, younger daughter of . c . fl., Ho wo Mulcast ar, Captain R.N., C. 1 3" and K.C. DIED. At O k n in t s h , e E 2 s l g s . t imst., at No. 7, Harley-street, SigneS Jonsingt°lj' R. O b l e i r t t li L e u 2 g 3 a d r, in t,„ _st s. at ., 1 , 9 d , B P 2 e . Pembroke-square, . ' thiOesnonth,oE2stl,i.:fsto.,iaPastzE:was.t Sheen, Surrey, ,--I(eitrietb 1° ~r gr' On the 20th inst., at 11, Tysson-terrace, Trackcni3;ria' Jonathan Shurt, of the Provident Institution, cross, aged 44. ~ 0 ,6 On the 21st inst., at Gunter's-grove, Bridgentiej"ding" t r , .. n ,:. a ri n d e n v tv r , F-,oifilKinmiltollnawalgionagq72.A•ll rector el o ts i° On the 7th 'first., in Milton, More Sebastopol, be la John Burton Forster, 62d Foot, youngest eon. of t foot , Colonel Thomas W. Forster, formerly of the 24tb of the Manor Iliouse, Holt, Wilts, aged 32. iv r 0 l'eft r ' On the 24th in,st. Mr. Samuel Patrick, Ilea r ' , j I . 69. proprietor of the White Hsrt, Tottenhatn-bale, aged peg On the 25th i;Vine-cottage, Parsou'sgroe"!,,,er Fulham, Simon Evart, Esq., formerly of Newcastle -or Tyne, a ged 73. LONDON: Print mi and Publisbod by AfilltD° -o°' 1 Olt of No. 112, St ran d, Printer, at The Sun 0131,°II"' if . 0 Strand, in fine Precinct of 0 the Savoy , in ale Middle - 4ex, Tytosaay, Juno 16, 1855. ASSETS. Debtors on loans considered good, say £lOO,OOO 0 0 Ditto, overdrawn account' 20,000 0 6 Debtor, bad and doubtful Not carried out,— Halford and Co., debtor balance Bad and doubtful, not carried out Sundry bad debts Sundry debts secured, — By policies of insurance, ... £1,300 0 0 9,000 0 0 6,000 0 0 19,300 0 0 Say va1ue...... 6,000 0 0 6,000 0 0 9,000 0 0 £13,300 0 0 Bills discounted, snpp osed good Sundry shares and securities at bankers, 5,000 0 0 35,000 0 0 Ray Debts due to Halford and Co., say.., £400,028 12 2 180,000 0 0 640,G98 12 2 Liability for which no valuo received 12,500 0 0 652,593 12 2 ' Mr. Lawrance then said it would appear that the gross amount of debts against the firm was 680,000/. ; that was quite irrespective of any deficiency which might be found in the security held by creditors, and irrespective of any surplus which might come from those securities. The assets were, as nearly as possible, debtors On loans, 100,0001. ; ditto, amount due on overdrawn account, 20,0001. ; bad and doubtful debts not carried out, 276,446/. ; Halford and Co., 19,009/., which was not an asset ; and bad debts, 31,400/. These items were rather as a matter of account, for, of course, as assets much had depended on realization. With respect to Halford and Co., be might state that the accounts kept at that house were principally kept by a class of persons who were in the habit of dra-ving in anticipation of their credit. They expected from Halford and Co. about 20,0001. upon over drawn accounts, inasmuch as the debts of Halford and Co. had all to be proved against the estate ; the same partners constituted both firms ; the 20,000/. would be in addition to the sums already given. The firm of Hal ford and Co., if it stood alone, would be solvent with a surplus, inasmuch as the debts proved against the estate were less than the assets by the sum of 20,000/. ; but of course, from the fact tbatthe same men were in both firms, it was really one common account. There were bills dis counted, and supposed to be good, in the hands of the official assignee, to the amount of 9,000/. Sundry shares and securities at the banking-house were estimated at 5,0001. If all the separate debts of Mr. Straban were I paid in full, there would be a surplus to the joint estate of 5,0001. The preceding figures were of course liable 1 to alteration on subsequent investigation. The assets would be, speaking in round numbers, and judging from present appearances, 150,0001., or 160,0001., without reference to the large sums advanced on foreign rail roads, and which would represent an item of 276,0001. The Official Assignee.— So I have guessed ; but I can not speak positively. Mr. Cooper said he appeared for several noblemen and gentlemen who had proved their debts against this est'.te, and, as the case was one of no ordinary character, he hoped the Court would direct a full and searching in vestigation. Several of the creditors might have larger claims than those for which they had proved, but they could not discover the exact amount until the accounts of the bankrupts had been examined, and the bank rupts themselves, to see what securities had been dis posed of by them without the knowledge of their customers. Re had to ask the Count, on behalf of those creditors, and for the convenience of the estate at large, to adjourn the choice of assignees to some future day, and to let the present sitting be devoted to the reception of proofs, as far as they went, and to the ex amination Of necessary) of the bankrupts. This step VIM the more necessary, as there would be a severe con test as to what gentlemen should be appointed assignees, and that contest ought not to be got rid of. Another reason for adjourning the meeting was because, on look ing through the proceedings, it would be found there were many affidavits that had been taken at the private houses of individuals, some of whom bad given proxies giving certain persons the right to vote on their behalf to-day. It might turn out right and prudent that that should have been done, or it might turn out that those persons who had made affidavits to an itinerant commis sioncr were not aware they had the opportunity of prov ing and voting in person for the choice of assignees. No inconvenience could arise to this estate from an adjourn ment, as, practically, the duties of the assignees would be discharged by the official assignee until trade assignees were appointed, or any perishable goods might be sold by special rule of the Court. That room and the next room were crowded with 6reditors, and most likely many of those who proved would go away without voting. There weregrave charges against the bankrupts—founded or unfounded he would not venture to say ; but, at all events, there were charges which involved the necessity of a full investigation. Those charges might involve some of the creditors who had now proved, and until the examination of the bankrupts it could not be said the proofs were without objection, and that the creditors were all entitled to vote for the choice. Mr. Lowrance did not know whether he need occupy the court in replying to the vary vague and unsatisfac tory statement made by Mr. Cooper, without mention ing the names of the creditors to whom that statement applied. His Honour—l do not see the least reason for an adjournment. Mr. Parry said ho appeared for Mr. Bates, who was very desirous, as was the other two bankrupts, to dis close for the benefit of the estate certain transactions which had taken place with reference to the securities deposited with the bankrupts by various creditors who bad proved their debts to-day. The conduct of the bankrupts would, no doubt, be fully discussed before his Honour, who would have to decide upon it ; but, on the part of Mr. Bate?, he now asked permission to ex amine him as to certain transactions, believing that the disclosures he would make would be beneficial to the creditors. In reference to what had been said as to some of the creditors not knowing what had become of their securities, Mr. Bates had prepared the following perfect statement of every security, whether Exchequer bills, shares, or other kind of security, and this he was anxious to lay before the court. He was desirous to Hie Honour—l don't see any reason for it. I refuse our application. If any creditor applies that the bank pt may be examined he may do so, but on the bank rupt's own application I refuse it. Mr. Parry:l-I formally tender this as the declaration of the bankrupts, and your Honour may accept it or not. His Honour—Let them put in what they like, and sign - This wag clone. His Honour then said, any creditor, wishing it can have a copy of this by applying to the official assignee. Mr. Parry (to Mr. Lawrance)—Do you wish to ask the bankrupts any question ? Mr. Lowrance (to Mr. Bates)—Have you signed that statement Mr. Bates—l have. Mr. Lawrance—By whom was it prepared ? Mr. Parry—By three bankrupts jointly. It was pre pared by Mr. Bates, and signed by Sir J. D. Paul and Mr. Strahan. Mr. Lawrance (to the other bankrupts)—You have heard that declaration read over and signed it ? The Bankrupts —Y( s. Mr. Lawrance—ls that a full account of all the secu rities which have been sold, dealt in, or pledged by you ? The Bankrupts—Yes. Mr. Lawrance—Which we understand to be the pro perty of your creditors ? Mr. Bates—Yes. Mr. Strahan also replied in the affirmative. Sir J. D. Paul said it was prepared with his know ledge, and was a faithful account. Mr. Lawrance—l presume that account is rot made out from memory, but that the entries in your books will substantiate it. Sir J. D. Paul—Yes; Mr. Lawrance—Has the official assignea mea.rs of verifying that account ? Sir J. Paul—l believe he has. Mr. Lawrance—Then, it may be ussumed, for the sa tisfaction of other creditors who have securities at your bank, that all the other securities are safe except those contained in that list. Mr. Dates—Yes ; quite so. Debts to the amount of about 224,4657. were proved during the day. Messrs. Lowrance, Plews, and •Boyer, are solicitors to the assignees, and Mr. Turquand i of Old Jewry-cham bers, is accountant to the estate. • Among the creditors are—Lord Palmerston, the Duke of Devonshire, Earl of Carnarvon, Viscountess Mel bourne, Earl of Dysart, Sir A. Ashton, Sir C. Coote, Sir Charles Young, Lnr Lisburne Wadham College, Lord Cavendish, Earl B ur li ng t on , Mr.i W. Snottiswoode Queen's printer; the Duke of Rutland, Lord J. R. Man ners, the Right Hon. C. C. Manners, Lord Galway, Countess of Craven, Countess of Verulam, Marquis of Clanricarde, Sir Lucius Curtis, Lieutenant-General Thomson, Lord Muncaster ;'Lieutenant-General Buller, Sir B. Macnamara, Lady Manners, Earl of Bradford,&c. AQUATICS. HENLEY-ON-TIIAMES ROYAL REGATTA. MONDAY. This meeting commenced today. Various propitious circumstances conduced to promote the success of the present regatta, and render it one of the most important of the season, while the brilliant assemblage of com pany attested, beyond all doubt, that its prestige was undiminished. The programme presented many features of interest, amongst which the Univeraity Boat racd was the lead ing and great event. The assembly of general company in the meadows on the Perks side of the course and on the towing.Y.path on the Oxon shore, exceeded that• of any previous year. The rowing commenced at two o'clock, with— The DIAMOND CHALLENGE SCULLS and PRESENTATION Cur. Race. First Heat. Mr. John Wright, St. John's College, ,Cambridge 1 Mr. E. G. Ditton, Argonauts' Club, London 0 Second Heat. Mr. Fairrie, Royal Chester Club Mr. C. Lewis, Chelsea " Lost by misadventure, directly after the start, by Mr. Lewis breaking his scull. GRAND CHALLENGE Cur, for Eight oared Boats :. _ Cambridge University Boat Club ........ . 4?) Oxford University Boat Club ............................... lb The Cambridge Crew. 11 .......... 11 12 1. Mr. P. P. Pearson, St. John's College ........... 2. l‘Tr7E. Graham, First Trinity ...................... 11 3 1 3 3. Mr. H. W. Schrieber, Trinity Hall . 4. Mr. H. E. Fairrie, Trinity Hall ................. ........... 11 8 5. Mr. H. Williams, St. John's.......... 6. Mr. 11. F. Johnson, Third Trinity 11 6 7. Mr. H. B. Pake, Corpus Christi Mr. H. R. M. Jones ( stroke ). Third Trinity 10 2 Mr. H. Winkfield (steerer), Trinity Hall 8 6 The Oxford Crew. st lb 1. Mr. W. F. Short, New College 2. Mr. J. E. Codrington, Brasenose 3. Mr. C. H. Everett , Balliol : ............ It. University 4. Mr. H. Benne, 5. Mr. T. H. Craster , Universit y 6. Mr. P. H. d Hin, • Christchurch 7. Mr. W. Pinkney, Exeter ll 2 Mr. A. F. Hook (stroke) Worcester lO 6 Mr. T. H. Marshall (steerer), Exeter The greatest interest and anxiety was created by this race. It was the first time the rival crews had met since Easter in last year, and the Cantabs were most de sirous of recovering their lost laurels • the result of the races since 1 849 being in favo ur of Oxford. After some minutes occup'ed in getting to their sta tions, they started very evenly, Oxford, being on the Berkshire s . de, and their opponents almost mid-stream. After about 20 strokes the Oxonians had the nose of their boat about five feet in advanco ; then the Cantabs I picked up, cattle level with them, and in another stroke or two were about two feet in advance. Both were ",ilj , l.= n: fin , r‘flre, I,lf..beoxcni*:.!ns T•.-• who., ~,,, raid za.;. ,, v a lent; rtrf • it k.;;L•11 , 1.416 , , I' . heautiful and p feet, rosied in a fine boat, built by the Searles. DIAMOND SCULLS. Third Heat. Mr. Casmajor, London Mr. Warre, Balliol Coliege, Oxford.: ....................................... STEWARDS' CHALLENGE Cur, for Four-oared Boats. Royal Cheater Rowing Cub .................................. 0 ••• Lady MargarA, Cambridge ............................. Won by five or six lengths. 'HENLEY PRESENTATION Cur. Mr. E. T. Giles, Henley Boat Club ........................ 0 Mr. T. Benham, Boat Club, Wargrove ......... . ........ It was a well contested race throughout, Giles Win' ning by two lengths - _ DIAMOND SCULLS. Final Heat. Afr. Casmajor ................................................... I I‘l , . 1-4 'airri 2 .. i e ......... ............................................. U _ Mr. Wright ........ Wright........ .. Mr. right was fairly done u . r; .1 . 3 .; . his . . former exertions of the day, and was obliged to relinquitth the contest v(11 early. The race was very-hollow betw een the other two, Casmajor winning easily. SPORTING INTELLIGENOA The Northumberland Pt TATTER a te SA.—oN h DAT P . and te erby we re the principal events speculated upon. ~.tco: fi l s i et .b L e te t g i ne g r wonaithreemLaivraolyollCimuipt,ederw.oodwood Stakes! up was scarcel entioned. NORTHUMBERLAND PLATE.--=-Bo:ton position of first favourite-4 to 1 was taken toocva.% .f . 200/. Vindex was backed at Courtenayo 1 and 9 t 2. 7 8 the outlay was only moderate. opold:1, to 1, and closed with an upward tendency Canute was in Canute s.ed These odds were taken to bully 1501. some demand at 8 to 1, and various sums were inv: t .. .. on Arribas, at 12, 11, and 10 to 1. to 1 was taken, but afterwards 12 t) i A strong firstdi.ogio Con was manifested to lay against Rylstone a t ~ .e d . freely ODRA Rotherham appeared to bequite friendless. Flyby' THE DERBY.-1,000 t) q taken about ~, 100 was . 1 0 00 to 4 ' Night ; 1,000 to 50 about Fazzoletto , 05 Vir tworth ; 2 1: 0 00 00 0 t t o o 4 1 0 00 13 1., ir 1 d , - O i nt a o o s d o a3u0;.t1:01) to -- e i l ) . ' 0t -Vol vode 30 to Ito 901. about YellooltJ-nacliat-9°4o°"ototolsto° each British Lion and Canning Bird ; 125/. about Forbidden Fruit. coroll a The attendance throughout the afternoon w as s ae. ratively thin, many members having left for New ca The quotations at the close were as follows NORTHUMBERLAND PLATE. 4to 1 agst Bolton (taken freely) 9 to 2 agst Vindex (taken) 6to 1 agst Courtenay (taken) 8 to 1 agst Canute (taken) • 10 to 1 agst Arribas (taken) 12 to 1 agst Rylstone (taken) 15 to 1 agst Amy (taken) (taken) 20 to 1 agst King of Trumps lta', l 25 to 1 agst Nell GWyrITIO (taken) d okerl) 70 to 40 agst Bolton and Vindex, couple advanced aTgjh A ‘, ,t o Goodwood t i : LIVERPOOL CUP. 3to 1 agst Shoreham (taken) 4to 1 agst Cock Pheasant (taken) 6to 1 agst Bianca (tak(n) 8 to 1 ag3t Atfimenia (taken) GOODWOOD STAKES. 12 to 1 agst Quince (taken) 12 to 1 agst Pumicestone (taken) 15 to 1 agst Homily ( o f red) 100 to 6 agst Syvagee (taken) 20 to 1 agst Mishap (taken) 20 to 1 agst Robgill (taken) ST. LEGER. 6to 1 agst Lord of the Isles (taken) 7to 1 agst Marchioness (taken) DERBY". 10 to 1 agst Fly by Night (taken) 20 to 1 agst Fazzoletto (taken) 20 to 1 agst Wentworth (taken) 25 to 1 agst Bird-in-Hand (taken) 30 to 1 agst Voivode (taken) 30 to 1 agst Yellow Jack (taken) n, 40 to 1 agst The British Lion (take 40 to 1 agst Forbidden Fruit (taken) 40 to 1 agst Cunning Bird (taken) o a nclical l Polestar is scratched for the No ttingham 1 and the Wolverhampton Stakes. 00U.11 7 TRY MARKP,Tg. 0. 4 4 33 a X t ll 43 7 1 so I t o 40 k t ; 45 ssi 0 • *~~ k., .h at a, 01 , , t4leit'i,' ~•i q ~ ~~ ~~.