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MPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS-(YESTERDAY.) _ ROYAL CO.IIMISSION. The Royal assent was gi;enTycominission to the fol lowing bills :—Adrniuistration of Oaths Abroad ; In fants Marriages ; National Gallery (Dublin) ; Carnegie's Restitution ; Great Northern Railway (Increase of Capital) ; Colonial Life Assurance ' • Cork and Y oug bal Railway ; Met ro p o lit an R a il wa y ; Gomersal tnd Dews bury Road ; Basin g stoke, Stockbridge, and lz)b combe Corner Road ' • Dundalk and E nn i s killen Railway ; Lighpill a n d Bordlip Road; Peterborough and Wellingborough Road ; Stroud and Chalford Road ; Rhymney Railway ; International Life Assurance So ciety; Bridport Road; Bridport and Broad Wiiasor Road ; Bombay, Baroda, and Central India Railway ; North Yorkshire and Cleveland Railwa Glasgow Water ; y ; ' Ayr Harbour; Aberdare Valley Railway • Birmingham Canal Navigation ; E xe t er an d E xm outh Railway ; Electric Telegraph Company ; Bognor Railway ; and Sci nde Railway. The Lords' Commissioners were the Lord Chancellor, the Duke of Argyll, and the Earl of Harrowby. Their Lordships adjourned during pleasure. The LORD Cluastonwit took his seat on the woolsack at five o'clock. SECOND READINGS. On the motion of Lord REDESDALE the following bills were read a s econd time, viz. :—Hedon and Hull Roads; Glasgow, Sirkintilloch, and Baldernock Roads ; Royal Medical Benevolent College ; West Bromwich Improvement ; Dearness Valley Railway ; Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Railway (No. 2) ; Stokes Bay Railway and Pier ; Torquay District Churches ; England and Ireland Improvement Commu• nication Railway; Great Northern London Cemetery ; and Shrewsbury Improvement. THIRD READINGS. The following bills were severally read a third time and passed :—Harvest's Estate ; Stockton and Darling. ton Railway ; Royal London Militia ; Staines, Woking. ham, and Woking Railway (alterations, &c.) THE DEATH OF LORD RAGLAN. Lord PANMURE said, since their lordships adjourned on Friday last, he had received a communication an nouncing the death of Field-Marshal Lord Raglan. He would not say more upon the subject at the present mo ment, but would present a most gracious message from her Majesty. The LORD CHANCELLOR then read the Royal message, which stated that her Majesty, taking into con• sideratioi the brilliant services performed by the late Right Hon. Lord Raglan, Field-Marshal and Commander•in- Chief in the East, and being anxious to confer some special mark of favour upon the widow, and upon Richard Henry, the son of the late distinguished nobleman, re commended their lordships to agree to any measure that might be necessary for the accomplishment cf that object. Lord PANMIIRE moved that her Majesty's most gracious message be taken into consideration tomorrow. (Hear, hear.) TICKETS OF LEAVE. Lord ST. LEONARDS rose to call their lordships' attention to the last return of the convicts to whom tickets of leave had been granted. The noble and learned lord having referred to the number of committals by magistrates of ticket-of-leave men, said that it was quite evident that the system had worked most injuriously, and that the well-being of society generally demanded some remedy. Earl GRANVILLE entered into a, brief state ment, for the purpose of showing that the system could not be considered a failure, and said that he would com municate with th e Home Secretary upon the subject. The LORD CHANCELLOR said that the returns showed the number of persons who had been released to be 1,5C0 or 1,600, would lead to the impression that the alteration had turned that number of persons loose on so ciety. The fact was, that of that number 1,267 had been sentenced to only seven years' transportation, and, according to the old system, would have been turned loose on society and absolutely discharged. So far as they were concerned, there had been no alteration, ex cept that under the ticket-of-leave there was the power of recapture in case of relapse into crime. There were 267 cases of persons who had been transported for ten year& A large number of those would have been tran sported under the old law, and an allowance must be made on that account. There were twenty persons who had been transported for terms exceeding ten year;. Probably a large proportion of these would have been actually transported ; and that must be considered an addition to the number turned loose on society. Making proper allowance s , he did not think that an addition of 100 had been made by the alteration of the law. After a few words from the LORD CHANCELLOR, The Duke of CAMBRIDGE - said that everything Possible ought to be done to raise the condition of the army ; and he considered it very unfortunate that ticket -of-leave men should be allowed to enter the army. The intercourse in the army was such that if a black sheep was admitted into a regiment his presence was felt throughout that regiment. (Hear.) Although he admitted that the question was a difficult one, he lived some means would be adopted to prevent ticket-of leave men getting into the service. (Hear.) The COrtrericati,an then Ar.Pi"• ACCIDENTS ON RAILWAYS BILL. Their lordships then went into committee on this bill. Clause 1 was agreed to. On clause 2, which provides that the Board of Trade shall have power to require the substitution of a bridge or a level crossing. Lord EGLINTON objected to the clause on the ground thai the power conferred on the Board of Trade Was much too great. Lord STANLEY of ALDERLEYdefended the clause, stating that the power had been conceded to the Board of trade in every act passed sinced the year 1314. Several verbal amendments having been agreed to, Their lordships divided on the question that the clause as amended stand part of the bill, when there appered— Contents Non•contents .............. Majority for Government —4 The remaining clauses were agreed to and the bill , passed th rough committee. * Bill was report of amendments on the Assize and Sessions was bro ug h t up and agreed to. The Union Ch arges Act Continuance Bill was read a second time. The Spirits (Ireland) Act Amendment Bill was read a third time and passed. Their lordships then adjourned, o'clock. shortly b e f ore seven HOUSE OF COMMON YESTERDAY.) The SPEAKER. took the chair at four o'clock. CHARITABLE TRUSTS BILL. bar The Sheriffs of the City of London appe are d a t th e , and presented a petition from the Lord Mayor and Corporation of the City of London, pravin; , that the above bill be referred to a select committee, and that they might be heard by counsel against certain provisions thereof. The petition having, been read by the Clerk, was ordered to lie upon the table. The Lords' amendments to the Carlisle and Silloth Bay Railway and Dock Bill were considered and agreed Th e \Vem and Brorygarth Read s Bill was eonsider::d and ordered to be read a third time. The ermarty's Estate, Huddersfield Burial Ground Amendment, and the South Shields Parochial Districti Bills were read a second time. MESSAGE FROM THE LORDS. Mr. PELMAN, Yeoman Usher of the Black Rod, ap . peared to summon the attendance of the h ou , e to' the House of Lords, to hear the Royal assent given by com mission to various bills, (for which see Lords' report.) The SPEAKER, accompanied, by sevens' hon. members, then proceeded to the House of Lords. WITHDRAWAL OF THE SUNDAY" TRADING BILL. On the return of the SPEAKER from the House of Lords, Lord GODERICH rose to put a question to the those at•ri noble lord the member for Middlesex (Lord It. Grosve nor) as to whether . , • his intention to proceed with the Sunday Trading Bill. o Lord R. GROS VEN OR said he was rather in an awkward predicament. with the intention of be mobbed and bullied out A. laugh.) Nobody liked t of a measure—(hear, bear)—which was introducedtisimilar from havi ng e ff ec ts so totally dissimilar hoped the hou se and the was a ineasure which o bservance of the county would remember that this was not i ntended to en f orce the better S aadY ; it was a meas ure man's w ee k ly labour—with no man 's which interfered with no religious opt _ nions, but as large an wa sam eahsoulrideayinftoenr led over-taxedto procure ., anaoutkt of adieu s of thi s country as poss ibl e . But oonsiderin,o. was one o f those measures peculiarly liable to misrepre sentation and ridicule, and that m ridicule had been most exercised to sant it, and considering also the late unsp aringly is e repres h e e nt : l e t s io : o l n a g period of t which we had arrived, and th formidable opposition with which this measure was threatened s threatened he did not think it right to keep up the existin • for the bare chance of passing the measure Za"sritationr He begged, therefore, to move that the die°rn (Ilea .) for the third reading of the bill, which stood ef f the day nesday next, be now discharged. (Loud cries oofrlaWe)d. The order of the day for the third readin g of theeasri;n day Trading Bill was then discharged. Mr. OTWAX congratulated the noble lord on the de termination he had now arrived at. At the same tim e he could not but express his sincere regret that the noble lord did not on a former occasion, when an appeal was made to him, withdraw that bill. Re (Ur. Otway) wished to ask the Secretary of State for the Home be partment whether, in consequence of the proceedings that had taken place yesterday in Hyde park, which he believed to be attributable mainly to the vacillation of the Home Secretary--(cries of oh, and hear)—and to the fact that the Government lied entirely abdicated their functions, and that both the noble lord at the head of the Government and the Home Secretary had expressed them. selves with respect to this bill in a most flippant manner and had acted with the greatest vacillation—he believed it was to that that the tumult is liyde-park yesterday was owing, and to which was also to be attributed the fact that 104 persons were confined in the gaols of the metropolis—be wished to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department vihetber it was his int,entiiin to take any steps to procure the liber.,Coo of those 104 persons who were now in gaol for having assembled he (Mr. Otway) believed, legally and properly, in Hyde-park yesterday, and whether he would lay upon the table a copy of the instructions that had been issued on that oc casion to the police ? (Hear, hear.) Sir G. GREY considered the hon, member for Staf ' ford had no grounds for charging him with vacillation in this matter, seeing that he (M?. Otway) took no part in the discussion of this bill when in committee. (Mr. OTWAY—I voted against the second reading.) He (Sir G. Grey) expressed his opinion at the time the bill was in committee on various clauses, and he was prepared to express them again on the third reading of the bill, and he did not consider he could be justly charged with vacillation. It was not a Government bill, but introduced by the noble lord the member for Middlesex, and supported by the majority of the metropolitan members. (Hear.) He was informed by the police in the course of the week that 11 or 12 notices had been issued calling on the people to assemble in Hyde-park on Sunday last, which it was feared would lead to some disorder, and there could not have been a greater dereliction of duty on his part than his permitting such a monster meeting to be held at all on the Sunday, which was an interference with that free enjoyment of these parks by the public, and a privilege which the people of this country possessed, scarcely equalled by any other city or town on the continent. (Hear.) In accordance with his directions notices were issued stating the illegality of the meeting, and a large body of police stationed there in the event of any out break, and it was not until the carriage way had been obstructed, and the noise and hooting caused some of the horses in carriages and others that were ridden to run away at the imminent risk of the lives of the persons in the carriages and on horseback that the police at tempted to clear the road to allow the public to exercise that right of enjoyment in the park which they all were entitled to. (Hear, hear.) The hon. member had asked him it it was his intention to order the liberation of those persons who had been taken into custody in con sequence of what occurred yesterday. In the first place of the 104 persons said to have been taken into custody, 74 only were reperted as having been apprehended for assaults on the police, or riotous or disorderly conduct— (hear)—the remainder being composed of pick-pockets, a class of persons who generally frequent such places. Surely the latter was not a class to whom the hon. member would wish to have the prerogative of the Crown extended, and with regard to the former the offenders were undergoing an examination before the magistrates, and he did not consider himself ju , tified in interfering to prevent the ends of justice being carried out. (Hear.) Mr. T. DUNCOMBE did not object to the with drawal of the bill, a course which be recommended when the second reading was moved, when he and his col league the member for Lambeth protested against it ; and they were the only two metropolitan members who opposed the measure in its early stages. (Hear.) He was glad, although perhaps rather late, the bill having been withdrawn, to see hon. gentlemen coming to their rescue ; and, seeing the Home Secretary in his place, he wished to present a petition to the house, and ask him a question upon it. The petition was from Mr. Edward Medley, a constituent of his, who states he saw many women and children struck down the previous day in Hyde-park by the bludgeons of the police, they being quietly and peaceably conductieg them selvee there, whilst other persons were taken into cus tody and shamefully treated by the police without any cause, and the petitioner asked that an inquiry be made into the conduct of the police on that occasion. (Hear, hear.) The question he wished to put was whether the Secretary of State for the Home Department had received any report from the police magistrates with regard to these disturbances, and if so, whether he had any objection to lay it on the table. He (Mr. Duncombe) was creditably informed by persons who were in the park yesterday, that the police, instead of behaving in that tetnrierate and forbearing manner they usually did, had behaved most shamefully, by maltreating innocent wo men and children in a shameful manner. (Hear.) He also understood that in consequence of several soldiers witnessing the conduct of the police on the occasion to which he alluded, that a collision took place between them and the police, the result of which was that they were taken into custody, and had that day been broughtup before the police magistrate. He wished to put a question to the Home Secretary to that effect, because he thought it only showed the danger of legislating on subjects of this kind. When the noble lord introduced this measure, he warned him it would have the effect of producing collisions between the people and the police, because the people would not bear coercion on this sub ject. (Hear, hear.) Supposing there was that extent of trading in the different districts the noble lord bad visited—(perhaps these were the persons who returned his visit last Sunday in Hyde-park)—(laughter) —were they to increase the police force merely for the purpose of gratifying the bigotry and prejudices of the Sabbatarians, and to support the police have the mili tary under arms, as was the case yesterday. (Hear.) It was a disgraceful state of things for the Government and that house to entertain such legislation and bring about such consequences as those of yesterday. (Hear.) He should at all times oppose such measures as this, al though he bad been told by some of his constituents who dissented from him that, if they had the opportunity, he would be ducked for his opposition (not like the noble lord, in the Serpentine), but the reverse of water, which be would not name, and probably by some of the noble lord's friends. (Laue.hter.) Mr. WILKINSON expressed his dissent at bills of this kind being brought forward by private members of the house, instead of by the Government—(hear)—and his disapprobation at the conduct of the police yesterday. Mr. W. J.'FOX was of opinion some inquiry should be made into the conduct of the police yesterday in Hyde Park. From all he could learn the conduct of the police appeared to have been atrociously brutal ; and had it not been for their inter position no violence need have occur] ed. The people assembled to protest against what they considered an outrage on their rights and liberties, and he thought they had a perfect right to do so in an orderly and peaceable manner. He thought a very rigid in quiry should be instituted into the conduct of the police yesterday. (Hear, hear.) The string had been pulled too tight, and the people would not beer any restriction on their freedom of action, as this bill contemplated. The people were quite right in remon strating against the encroachment of their liberties, and which they intended to do only in a legal, peaceable, and orderly manner. In that manner their resistance would have been expressed yesterday, had it not been for the manifold provocation given by the police. (Hear.) After some further discussion the matter was dropped, but a severe stricture was passed upon the police for the course they had adopted. THE DEATH OF LORD RAGLAN. Lord PALMERSTON presented an address from her Majesty, calling upon the Commons to provide for the widow of Lord Raglan, and stating that her Majesty taking into consideration the great services performed by the late Lord Raglan in the Crimea, was anxious in consequence of his merit to confer some mark of her favour upon Lady Raglan and her son, and she trusted her faithful Commons would adopt some course to produce so de ir able a result. On the motion of Lord PALMERSTON, her Ma jesty's message was ordered to be taken into cousidexa tion. DESPATCHES FROM THE CRIMEA. Mr. DEEDES wished to a-k the noble lord at the head of the Government whether any despatches had been received at the War -office from the late Cominau der-in-Cidef of ou r army in the East relative to the actions of the 18th June ; and, if so, why they had not been made public ? He had been induced to ask the question because private letters up to the 10th inst. had been re ceived in London. Lord PALMERSTON replied that despatches of the nature referred to had been received at the War-office this afternoon, and they would be duly published in the Gazette. EDUCATION SCOTLAND (.BIL. The house th en went into committee NO on ) this bill, and resumed its consideration at clause 14. Mr. HADFIELD, at some length, complained that the bill as altered was not calculatedgenetroalr y r , orn b; t t e on t toe education of the people of Scotland of a section of the community. It was exciusively a Presbyterian measure, and its title was eonsequeot y a delusion and a snare. The test claus e had completely changed its operation ; and had that clause exited in the first instance, the house would never have sanctioned the introduction of the bill. It was on that account, therefore, that at this stag e of the bill, when there was so much business of an import ant character to be transacted, when there were s o many influential petitions against it from both sides of the house, and when, moreover, even some of the best in, that friends of education were opposed to it, he saw no rea scn if it were lost th h s ear s .) s. why it should i be persevered esionit would except be lost Under such circumstances for ever. he felt bound J an ohter.) that the chairman now report to move progress without asking , (Hear, hear, leave to sit again. (Hear and 1‘ could not nut that question. n moved instead that the ,i r . FITZROY (the Chairman of the Committee) said he r r. HADFIELD therbeuipro to ask the noble lord at the WILLIAMS "I he intended to dispose of Mr. Government how f the Govern education in Engl end and Wales. bead 0 a n nosv leave th . e sh c ed a voted for the 331,000/. vo Chairman this According to a colon a. the cost of carrying on member for Berwiukshire, which would therefore only hill would be 200,0001., . England and Wales. I anon which had been made by the leave 1 81000/. for education i Lord PAL formerly been under this year `could be a pl i ed as it had . il. With re the direetions Committee of Council. of the Commi he should suggest I but g tra at Whether e s r h s re gar to the measure before the house, conten:l that the hones MERSTON said that that the amount voted its time in I should not waste die cussed I the bill ought to be ,c . or not proceed to the Prae tical question, a,,,i mild at once p p inciple it involved, for surely there w ere e() a ll''i e d n'T the " r li on the paper to occupy much v a l ua l -- -Eilents enoug . After some furtherd' ti was iseussion the amendment withdrawn. On clause 14, I . Mr. BAIRD moved to ins • I a line C the foliowin4 words :-._."rA ert lmeeting of the 111111 L • . aters and heritors shall I have been called for the purpose of examining and elect ; ing a parochial schoolmaster, notice of such meeting shall be given 14 days previously to the inspector of the district, 'who shall attend and take part in the examina tion ; and if the inspector be satisfie.i with the zeneral qualifications of the rr , on chosen by the said meeting to bo the schoolmaster in the vacant parish, the induction may then take place ; but if the inspector should not be satisfied with the qualifications of the person chosen, he shall report the examination and his objections to the board, who may, after hearing the minister and heri. tors, dispose of the case as they think fit." The LORD-ADVOCATE objected to the insertion of the words. The amendment wasthen negatived without a division. Mr. E. LOCKHART moved in line 8 after the word "Appoint," to insert, "in such manner or ()Rauch branches of literature as, with a due regard to the circumstances of the parish, may be prescribed." The object of the amendment was, he said, to maintain the superintend ance of the Church in regard to religion alone, and he was determined to take the sense of the committee upon it. The LORD ADVOCATE opposed the amendment. Mr. SCOTT supported it, and The committee divided— Fur the insertion of the words Against it 94 Majority against the Government —4 The announcement of the division was received with loud cheers by the Opposition. Mr. E. LOCKHART then moved the insertion in line 16, after the word " minutes," of the following words, "in regard to his sufficiency for the office in re spect of literature." The LORD ADVOCATE said he should divide the committee on their introduction. The committee divided— For the amendment.. Against it 97 97 _ Loud laughter followed this announcement. The CHAIRMAN (Mr. Fitzroy) then said—ln ac cordance with the usual practice, I shall vote with the ayes, in order that the house may have the opportunity of discussing the amendment on a future day. (Cheers.) The amendment was then carried. Clause 14, as amended, was agreed to. On clause 15. The LORD-ADVOCATE moved the following pro viso :—" Provided always that every such schoolmaster shall, prior to his election, produce to the electors a certificate signed by a minister of the religious denomi nation to which he belongs attesting his religious and moral character." Agreed to. Mr. C. BRUCE tnen moved the omission of the clause. Mr. MIALL said that the clause was a mere snare, without any sincerity about it. After a few words from Lord DALICEITEI and Mr. H. BAILLIE, The LORD-ADVOCATE said it was a mistake to imagine that the clause proposed any test, but this clause had been introduced to protect the religious feeling of the people of Scotland from outrage. The schoolmaster was not bound by any test to teach any dogmatic religion, but at the same time he would be prohibited from teach ing anything which was at variance with the religious feelings of the parents or of the people of Scotland in general. After a brief conversation, in which Sir A. Campbell, Mr. C. Bruce, and Mr. Hadfield took part, the committee divided, when there appeared— For the clause lO9 Against it Majority —23 The clause as amended was accordingly ordered to stand part of the bill. Clauses 16 and 17, with some verbal amendments, were agreed to. Clause 18 was agreed to. On clause 19 being proposed, which provides that ratepayers and parishes shall consider proposals to found public schools, Mr. STIRLING moved as an amendment the intro duction of the words "and other," whereby the survey would be extended to other schools. The LORD ADVOCATE objected to the amend ment on the ground that by its adoption the whole prin ciple of the bill would be upset. After some discussion, The committee divided— For the amendment 4O Against it 73 Majority against —33 The clause as amended was then ordered to stand part of the bill. Clauses 20, 21, and 22 were agreed to with amend ments. On clause 23, Mr. PELLATT moved to add the following proviso: —" That where the board shall require schoolrooms from the Free Church or otherwise, any grants which shall have been made by the Privy Council for the partial erection of schools or purchase of sites shall be deducted front the price given." The LORD ADVOCATE could not agree to adopt the proviso in this shape, but would accede to the follow ing modification :—" That in the event of the acquisition by purchase of any building, school, or ground hereto fore used for educational purposes, the whole of the sums expended upon such building or ground from Privy Council grants shall be deducted from the price paid." The proviso was accordingly added in this form, and the clause as amended was agreed to. Clause 24 was agreed to. On clause 25, fixing the amount of the salaries of the schoolmasters at not less than 501., Mr. VANSITTART moved to insert the words "not less than 351." , Mr. "WILLIAMS supported the amendment. After some discussion the committee divided, when there were— For the amendment 36 Against it aj vrity —6o The amendment was therefore lost, and the clause, with some slight alterations, was agreed to. Ciause 26 was agreed to. On clause 27, providing that religious instruction should be give*in the parochial and public schools, Mr. SMOLLETT moved the insertion of the following words The religious instruction to be given in all parochial and public schools under this act shall be in accordance with that heretofore in use in the parochial schools of Scotland." The LORD ADVOCATE said that at present there was in every school in Scotland, with few exceptions, an hour set apart for religious instructlon, during which children belonging to other denominations were not bound to attend. He thought it desirable to put that in the bill, to show that the old practice in Scotland was to be continued. At the same time he did not like to legis late more than was necessary on religious subjects, and thought the proposed words unnecessary, their substance being set forth in the preamble of the bill, The committee divided, when there voted, For the amendment ........................ 38 Against it 93 Majority 55 The amendment was accordingly rejected. Mr. P. URQUHART proposed that the hour set apart for religious instruction should be " either at the opening or the closing of the school." The LORD ADVOCATE said it would be better to leave that point in the hands of the school committee. The amendment c‘as negatived without a division. On the motion that the clause stand part of the bill, Mr. A. HASTIE moved that the clause be omitted altogz,ther. Ylr. HADFIELD supported the motion for the omision of the clause. The committee divided, when the numbers were— For the clause Against it 79 Majority ---3 The clause wai accordingly retained. The motion was negatived without a division. Clause 23 was agreed to. Clause 31 was agreed to, with the addition of some words which would include parochial as well as public schoolmasters. Clauses 32 to 36 were agreed to, with some verbal amendments. Clause 37 was ag reed to, with th e a dditi on o f some words introduced b y the LORD ADVOCATE with re ference to rating, and which had become necessary in consequence of the recent valuation made in Scotland. On the motion of Mr. LOCKHART, the following proviso was added to the clause :—" Provided always, that any heritor qualified in terms of the said recited act of the 43d year of King George the Third, and entitled to be present and vote at any meeting held under autho rity of this act, may attend and vote, either personally or by a representative authorised by a letter or writing under his hand, and when so represented he shall be held to be a member present in the sense of this act." Clause 38 having been agreed to, The LORD-ADVOCATE proposed the addition of the following proviso :—" Provided always, that it shall not! he necessary for any industrial or reformatory school in Scotland, in order to obtain the sanction of the Secre tary of State, under an act passed in the seventeenth and eighteenth year of the reign of her present Majesty, intituled ' An act to render reformatory and industrial schools in Scotland more available for the benefit of vagrant children,' to provide accommodation within the premise s of such school for the lodging and residence of 1 . 1 1 - 1 0 0 3,171 s isupyharcoei. contemplated riietc:et:omico committee thel n o and r schools sheriffo i o n u s such vagrant children. Provided always, that the rules of such school are otherwise satisfactory as provided by cht withino f transmitthishe jurisdiction said vagrant c t t a e l3 t e e tY d d ß i b v y N id t e h o d i e: j repealed.as se restricts hielerbeyn when objected bill —namely, aohruetrheeleyp, appeared, r t o h p e o r s e e if d ma tamend ment,ioa on the ground of its introdncieg matter not orie.i of criminal offenders. - For the amended clause ....... Against it . .............................. Majority for the amended clause... —74 Clauses tr y to 44 were agreed to. Clause 45 was agreed to. On the last clause, Mr. DUNLOP moved the insertion of the words, "in so far as respects any power thereby conferred on the presbyteries of the Church of Scotland," his object being to reverse the decision which had been come to that evening, and which had overturned the former decisions of the house. Mr. SCOTT objected to any amendment which went to reverse a decision of the committee brought on during the snipe evening, and without notice. The LORD ADVOCATE thought it but fair to give notice of the amendment, and recommended the hon. member to propose It oil bringing up the report. The clause was ordered to stand part of the bill, and the bill was ordered to be reported with amendments to the house. On the SPEAKER resuming the chair, Lord B. CECIL complained that the chairman o committees had left the chair without giving an oppor tunity to those who had amendments to propose. On the motion that the report be brought up on Thur44;ty, ST A. CAM PDELL mr)•.•,:d im the ground that thei'e was Money c:allM! ilt it. After a conversation, the amendment was wididrawn, and the bill was ordered to be printed with amendments. EDUCATION (No. 2) BILL. On the order of the day being read for resuming the adjourned debate on the second reading of this bill, Sir J. PAKINGTON moved that the order of the day for the second reading be discharged. He could not abandon the further proceeding on this bill with out expressing his earnest hope that the house would not allow this most important subject to end where it now was, but that in an early session—he hoped in the next session—it would be brought to a settlement on these principles—first, that there should be no unnecessary in terference with the existing agencies, which have done much good, and are effecting much good at this moment ; secondly, that the deficiencies of the existing agencies should be supplied by means of a public fund to tie ad ministered by local authority ; thirdly, that the religious element should be retained in our religious system of education, but that the religious teaching should be com bined with the most perfect respect and toleration for the reliious opinions of those denominations of Chris tians who dissent from the Established Church. These he believed were the great principles on which only this great question could be settled. He had been charged with exaggeration, but he wished to be allowed to re mark that every statement which he had made was founded on official information, and was perfectly correct. Mr. HADFIELD said that whenever the measure was brought forward again, he should feel it his duty to give it his strenuous opposition. Lord J. RUSSELL agreed with the right bon. gen tleman in the three principles which he had laid down. With regard to future legislation upon this important subject, he thought they ought not to be strictly guided by the experience either of the despotic states of the Continent or the republican states of America, both of which were inapplicable, but they should seek rather to adopt a system of education which was the best adapted to the genius and wishes of the English people. It would be much better to improve the present state of things than to introduce any thoroughly new system based upon the experience of other, and of course differently situated, states. All things considered, he did not think the Government could have acted wiser originally than to establish the Committee of Council for Educa tion, upon which the several Ministers of the Crown sat from time to time to consider the best means of advancing education and encouraging the formation of schools in thickly-populated districts ; but circum stances had changed since that committee was first created, and now it was incumbent that the President of the Council should be acknowledged as the minister of education, while the department over which that func tionary presided should be represented in the House of Commons by some official person holding the rank of a Privy Councillor, who should be prepared to defend any measures that the general committee might propose, and from time to time be ready to explain the views of the Executive Government on the subject of education. In the meanwhile, the efforts of the Committee of the Privy Council for Education would be directed towards devii , - ing the best means for meeting the wants of large and populous towns; but at some future period the Govern ment would be prepared to introduce some general mea sure based upon the rating principle involved in the bill, which he must now ask leave to withdraw. Mr. M, GIBSON observed that the proposition con tained in his bill for giving moral and secular instruc tion to the people at the expense of local ratepayers, leaving religious instruction to be provided by voluntary means, had been suppr rted by 170 public meetings in the country, held in 28 different counties, and he was convinced that no other plan w, uld satisfy the !polarity of the people. They must either teach one religion in this country or none at all, and since there was no one general system which the people would tolerate, he con tended that the only alternative was to adopt his plan of providing secular education at the expense of the State, through the medium of local rates, and leave the religious element to be supplied by voluntary efforts. After a few words from Mr. WIURAM, Mr. G. VERNON asked if the Government intended to introduce this session any measure for the appoint. ment of a Minister of Instruction ? Lord J. RUSSELL replied in the negative, as the Government wished to take time to consider the whole subject—(hear)—though at the same time he should state that they fully contenp;ated renewing a measure next session based upon the rating principle. (Hear.) Lord .7. MANNERS gave notice that whenever such a measure was brought forward be should be prepared to meet b with a direct negative. (Hear, hear.) The orler of the day for the second reading of the Educatioi (No. 2) Bill was then read and dischnrged, as was aho the order of the day for the second reading of the Education (Lord John Russell's) Bill, and the Free Schols(Mr. M. Gibson's) Bill. The West Indies Relief Loans Arrangement Bill was read a second time, and ordered to be committed. STOCK-IN-TRADE BILL. This bin was passed through committee. CAL MINES INSPECTION BILL. The home then went into committee on this bill, when the first Wee clauses were agreed to. In answer to Lord LOVAINE, Sir G. GREY said it had been arranged that before a new inspec;or was appointed, he should be subjected to a full examination by persons competent to test his fit ness for the office to which he asphed. The house then resumed. GOLD AND SILVER WARES (No. 2) BILL. The report on this bill was brought up ar d agreed to. DUBUNCARRLA.GE ACTS AMENDMENT BILL. This bill was read a third time and passed. ENDOWED SCHOOLS (IRELAND) BILL. The louse went into committee on this bill, when the first two clauses were agreed to. Some discussion hav ing grim on the third clause, the house resumed in con sequence of a threat by Mr. Brotherton to move the ad journment of the house on account of the lateness of the hour. I; was then past one o'clock. Mr. BROTHERTON moved the adjourment of the house. _ Viscount PALMERSTON said that if the motion were ag reed to th e y wou ld l ose a d ay . The motion was withdrawn. The CopYhold, &c., Commissioners Continuance Bill passed thrJugh committee. The County Palatine of Lancaster Trials Bill was read a third time and passed. . - The Piers and Harbours (Scotland) Bill was read a third time and passed. . _ The Partnership Amendment Bill was committed pro forma, for the purpose of inserting amendments. The Limited Liability Bill was also committed pro forma, for a like purpose. It was also arranged that the bills should be re-printed. Mr. COLVILLE moved the third reading of the Jus tices of the Peace Qualification Bill. Colonel DUNNE objected to the application of this bill to Ireland. Mr. BROTHERTON moved, as an amendment, that the house do now adjourn. The house divided. The numbers were— For the amendment Against it nijority _ The house accordingly adjourned at a quarter before two o'clock. 27 MR. ADOLPHUS FRANCIS.-A reading. of Knovvles's TT illiu~n Zell was given by th►s gentleman last week, at the Westminster Literary Institutlon. Mr. Francis is one of the most successful of this class of demonstra tors, and his delineations on the occas►o❑ in questi , n were characterised by scholarship, pr, - ,pri,ty, and nn elocution at once broad and forcible. He was listened to with great attention and interest. [ADVERTISEMENT.] TIM WAR IN TILE EAST. —POWF,RF Li PATENT RECONNOITRING CI.AsSr.S. Messrs. S. and B. Solo rnons, opticians, 39, Albemarle-street, Piccadilly. Observe opposite the York Hotel. 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He has proclaimed to the world that what English legis lators deny to temperate and rational remonstrance, they will concede to menaces. Tnis is the most disreputa ble characteristic of the position which Lord Robert took up last night, but by no means the most ridiculous or humiliating. He vehemently protested that the object of his bill had been misunderstood ; that it was " not intended to enforce the better observance Sabbath," but " to procure as large an amount of holid a y f or th e over t taxed artisans of this onus try as possible." This is not the first time that Lord Robert has endeavoured to ex plain his bill in this sense ; but we cannot recollect any occasion on which he gave this interpretation before public opinion was unequivocally expressed against it ; and assuredly this was not understood to be the object of the bill by the great body of its most zealous advo cates. Either Lord Robert deceived them when he pre vailed upon them to support it, in the belief that it was a measure to promote the (so-called) better observance of the Sabbath, or he is seeking to deceive its opponents now. In either case his conduct has been equivocating, insincere, shabby, and unworthy of an English gentle man. Nor is it true that the bill would have given "as large an amount of holiday for the over-taxed artisans of this country as possible." The individuals it was (osten sibly intended to release from work are the comparatively few, who serve the artisan and small-tradesman classes in the same way that domestic servants do Lord Robert and the class to which he belongs. By arbitrarily preventing these individuals from following their avocations on Sun day, the numerous sections of society whom they serve would have been obliged to work for themselves on that day. It must beastrange kind of religion that teaches men like Lord Robert Grosvenor that it is meritorious to abridge the Sunday leisure of the many under false pretences. The Home Secretary seems to have been determined last night not to lag behind Lord Robert Grosvenor in ridiculous and discreditable equivocation. Sir George Grey—one of the most zealous promoters of superfluous and vexatious Sabbath legislation—actually attempted to persuade the House of Commons that he ordered the police to attend in Hyde-park last Sunday to prevent "interference with the free enjoyment of the parks by the public." The pious Sir George condescended to affirm that he had called out the police to protect what he and those who think with him are accustomed to call " Sabbath desecration." Apropos of Sir George, we observe that .a suggestion was thrown out in the House of Commons last night as to the expediency of instituting an inquiry into the conduct of the police on Sunday. We regret to have to say that the communications we ' have received leave no doubt upon our mind that the conduct of the police was unnecessarily, and we might even say brutally, harsh. Our table is literally covered ' with letters from gentlemen of rank and station—from officers in the army, barristers, and others moving in the same case of society, who have transmitted their names and addresses—who went to Hyde-park on Sunday as spectators ; and all of them express a deep sense of in dignation and disgust at the conduct of the police. But we are not disposed to throw away indignation upon subordinate agents, who had no choice but to undertake a task in the discharge of which their tempers were sure to be severely tried. It is our rooted conviction that but for the presence and interference of the police there would have been no serious disturbance on Sunday. Sir George Grey, ass we understand him, takes upon himself the whole responsibility of calling out th I police, and of the authorship of the notice or proclamation issued on Satur day respecting the contemplated assembly in Hyde-park. Nuw, that proclamation referred less to what had ac• tually taken place in Hyde -park on theprevious Sunday than to certain anonymous placards, of very question able teste and temper, that had appeared in the course lof the week. If the Home Secretary had taken the trouble to inform himself of the general appearance of the multitude who assembled in Hyde-park on the first occasion, he could not have failed to perceive that the placards we allude to were not likely to have emanated from them. To identify the respectable tradesmen and artisans who composed that multitude with the authors of these placards was a deliberate insult, and could not fail to send them in an angry spirit to brave the force with which they were threatened. Sir George Grey has been the main cause of last Sunday's disturbance. Of this he cannot fail to be conscious, and yet instead of being bowed down by this distressing consciousness, he last :light answered the members of the House of Commons who addressed questions to him in a tone of insolent flip pancy servilely copied from the Premier. He sneeringly told Mr. Otway that there were not 104 persons taken into custody for coming into collision with the police, but only 71, the rest of the individuals apprehended being pickpockets, "a class," he impertinently added, "to whom the hon. member would not wish to have the prersgative of the Crown extended." Sir George went on to affirm that the parties apprehended-for coming into collision with the police were " brought by this time be fore the magietrats." He did not inform the house that these unfortunates were kept till past 3 p.m. in a kind of Black Hole of Calcutta before any person appeared on behalf of Government in the Police-court to pro secute them ; that not a single case of this description was called on till a quarter to 5 ; and that the whole of the accused were discharged on their own recognisances—Mr. Clarkson, who appeared for " the Treasury," having previously proposed that they should be placed before the magistrate and -ills- , charged. The whole affair is a wanton piece of petty tyranny on the part of Government. Much though we disapprove of the conduct of the promoters of the Sunday Trading Bill, in yielding to in timidation what they stubbornly refused to yield to reason, we are glad .to be rid of the measure. Whilst we admitted that the Sunday eatheriugs in Hyde-park were natural, we d:d not hesitate to express our die like of therm It is clear that the example was spread ing. Similar demonstrations were attempted yesterday in the Victoria and Greenwich-parks ; and other demon strations of a yet more dangerous character have been industriously recommended to the populace. The ob noxious bill having been withdrawn there is now no pretext for such assemblages, which, however venial in themselves, were pregnant with danger ; and this im portant question of unnecessary and vexatious Sunday legislation can now be temperately discussed in the House of Commons upon its own merits. The Sunday Trading Bill was only one of a number of measures, all of which are a systematic arbitrary attack upon what have been the habits of the English people from time immemorial. The opponents among the working classes of these vexatious encroachments on the innocent and healthy recreations of the people stand upon purely conservative ground. They may address the ascetic and meddling legislators of the aristocracy in the very words which the ancestors of those legislators addressed to the monarch who called in question their titles to their broad lands : Nolumus legas Anglite mutari. And in their opposition to unnecessary and vexatious Sunday ' legislation, they stand not only on the ground of pre. scription, but of reason. Let us among our differ. erces of opinion learn to bear with each other. Let those who wish to observe the Sabbath by stern self-denial learn that they have no right to compel those who do not share their con victions to become hypocrites, and act externally as they do. Let those who see no necessity for such excessive acts of penance and maceration abstain on the Sunday from noisy pleasures likely to hurt the feelings of a ' numerous class of society which, though in some re spects pedantic and overweening, is animated by many virtues. Let all men, so long as they do not break the law, or outrage public decorum, act freely upon their own convictions. The withdrawing of the Sunday Trading Bill is good ; but there is more to be done. 1 There are statutes to be repealed, as well as bilis to be dropped. Our Beer Acts must be cancelled, and the compulsory closing of houses of public refreshment on Sundaes. For these laws we are mainly indebted to the moral cowardice of those members of the Legislature who have no faith in the influence of compulsory legis lation on such subjects for good, but shrunk from oppo sing measures which they felt to be intolerably harsh and unwise, because - they wero promoted by men who by vehement pubic protestations had contrived to ob• twin a reputation for superior religious zeal. These timid conformers now see the danger of the hypocritical concessions they have made, and may not be unwilling to retrace their steps. Now is the time to urge them on by calm, temperate, well-reasoned petitions, nume rously signed, against the whole tribe of Beer Acts and kindred enormities that disfigure the Statute Book. windra' (From the Times of this day.) The Londoners have thrown out Lord Robert Grosvenor's Bill for the Better Observance of the Sab• bath, without any of those dilatory proceedings which render Parliamentary deliberation so tedious to the bystanders. We have fallen back upon the customs of our Anglo-Saxon forefathers, who, in the last resort, assembled on some open plain, overruled the resolutions of the Notables, and decided with out appeal by the acclamations of the whole tribe. Hyde-park on Sunday was the Champ•de-Mars of the English race, and there in the afternoon of that day it was solemnly decided that the Sunday Bill was not to pass, and that if Lord Robert Grosvenor persisted in running counter to the wishes of the people he had better retire for a season into some secluded and rural residence. To do him but justice, he had the sense, at the eleventh hour, to take the hint in good part, and withdrew the bill. Now, the result obtained has just been as follows: —The House of Commons has been driven from a course which they had deliberately adopted by the voice of a mob, and what is worse is this—the mob were in the right and the House of Commons in the wrong. The next point is, that a scene of riot and confusion took place in the heart of the metropolis on a Sunday after noon, that many of the Queen's subjects were most bru tally handled by the police, and all because a foolish Lord persisted in pressing on a foolish bill. One might have thought that here was the 10th of April come again, with the exception of the special constables, for no special constable would have accepted a truncheon in such a cause. Finally, incalculable mischief has been done by stirring up jealousies and heartburnings between the various classes of society. Contempt and hatred towards the lawgivers pass rapidly into contempt and hatred of the law. A man of discretion and sound judgment would have seen at a glance that this was not one of the occasions on which men will listen to any thing—even to reason. The bill, however, is withdrawn, as may be seen by our Parliamentary report of last night. Lord Robert Grosvenor admitted that he was "in a most awkward predicament "—which, no doubt, he is. He went on to say that his mea4ure interfered with no man's recreation or religious convictions, but that, as it bad been made the subject of misrepresentation and ridicule, and had caused much irritation, he was desirous of withdrawing it. Lord Robert Grosvenor, if he be a reasonable man, should admit a suspicion , into his mind that perhaps his bill was not exactly calculated to promote the end he had in view, since the persons for whose benefit it was intended revolted so violently against its provision s . Hyde-park on Sunday afternoon was certainly not fiqed ; the CuaLrin: t : . . . ~t, f . - 3!7 - tc,. the indignai.iun was express e d ag.,,inst the order to whiell Lord Robert Grcsverior belongs. They have him to thank for such a conclusion. The upper classes of this country are quite innocent of any participation in Lord Robert Grosvenor's legislative labours, but the people refuse to examine so closely into the niceties of the question. They only see that the upper classes are making laws which will interfere with their actions and with the exercise of their free will on every Sun ddy throughout the year. They see, moreover, that the day which they are called on to observe with such Puritanic strictness is devoted by a very large section of the persons who pass the restrictive laws to purposes of amusement and dissipation. Alter all —and we appeal to Lord Robert Grosvenor's own candour —must nut a Sunday Bill stink in the nostrils of an unshaved, hungry, exasperated artisan, who has been debarred from pro curing any little comfort on the Sunday, save at hours most -inconvenient to him ? The best thing which can be done is to leave the question alone altogether —cer tainly for a time, for the people have been irritated be ycnd measure by the lollies of these Sabbatical legisla tors. Lord Robert Grosvenor complains that he does not lil.• bob° mobbed and bullisl out of his bill ; neither do the mob like to be bullied and " GrosvernurA " out of their Sunday. One thing we promise hint—that, if he will leave the mob alone, they certainly will not in terfere with him. The bulk of the discussion last night consisted of statements made by various members of the outrageous conduct of the police on Sunday last, and of reflections upon Sir George Grey for his mismanagement of the affair. We most entirely believe that but for the police there would have been no riot at all. Had orders been given, for that one Sunday, to exclude the very few car riages which appeared in the Park from the Drive, still less would any mischief have occurred. Where would have been the great hardship ? Why should the Home Secretary be so eager to protect people who showed so little anxiety to protect themselves ? (From the Times of this day.) The Emperor of the French has opened the Legisla tive Assembly in a speech which will wake a response in every generous nature on both sides of the Channel. His Majesty reviews with simple gravity the circum stances under which Au,tria invited the Allies to a con ference with herself and Russia for the restoration of peace. At a time when the Allies had really done their work so far as regards the deliverance of Turkey, the clearance of the Danube, the extinction of Russian in fluence in the Principalities, and the disappearance of the Russian fleet from the Black Sea, and when—what is even more important —we had the approbation of Europe, and the avowed and active adhesion of Austria herself to the proceedings of the Allies, sho proposed that we should all meet to settle at her Court the lasting relations to arise out of that juncture. The Emperor passes quickly over the points on which there could be no dispute, and arrives at those which lie at the heart of the matter. Austria chose to think that the principle of the limitation of the power of Russia in the Black Sea would be fully and sufficiently satisfied by an engagement that if Russia added t o the fleet she hini possessed before the war that should be a cases belli, and that, on such an engagement being made and another for the independence of Turkey, the Allies had no further occasion for arms. As the Emperor very happily expresses it, in this way the propositions to which Austria had given her approval, and to consider which the Allies had sent the Plenipotentiaries to Vienna, have wholly evaporated. Indeed it is difficult to imagine a more utter "baulk," or a worse case of trifling with just expectations. We were to lay down our arms ; we were expressly to recognise the right of Russia to maintain au immense naval armament in the Black Sea, for no conceivable purpose except the destruction of Turkey ; we were to commit ourselves to the very number of ships up to which Russia might scour the Black Sea, or appear off the entrance of the Bosphorus ; we were to be content with a slope re-assertion of that which has been a hundred times re-asserted in vain, and which requires no re-assertion—viz., the independence of Turkey, and we were then to retire—perhaps we should say, be permitted to retire, with the honours of war. Indeed it was quite evident that all Austria desired was the disappearance of the Western Powers from the East, liberty to Au-trig and Russia to settle the ques tion after their own fashion, with every guarantee that they would not be molested in the process by the un welaome appearance of another expedition from the West. Under these circumstances the Emperor regrets that the Western Powers could no longer keep open a conference in which even their honour was trifled with, and he appeals to France to support him in maintain ing her political position and the faith of her alliance. The support which the Legislative Body is invited to render at this trying juncture is an ordinary conscrip tion to the amount of 140,000 men, a loan of 30,000,0001., a tax upon the receipts of railways, and an increase upon several indirect taxes.. Undoubtedly these are considerable sacrifices to be demanded from a country which has other avocations than war, which loves the arts and enjoyments of peace, and which has just at tained, as it we re , th e acme of internal prosperity. But, even were these things tenable without honour, they lose all their dignity and charm when it is gone ; and the worst thing that has ever been said against social refinement and a high degree of civilisation is, that they resider men indifferent to national honour, to the glory of arms, and the appeals of a righteous cause. France and England are both very great nations, and they occupy a very high place in the world ; but their very greatnesss will become, so to speak, their own pillory, their riches will become their opprobrium, and their rank the very mea sure of their infamy, if they are found chary of their money or their men in the great cause they have em braced. The cost must be paid sooner or later, and it is the soundest policy to pay it at once, and, if possible, by one mighty effort to stanch the fountain of blood that must otherwise remain open for we know not how long. It is peculiar to countries, such as England and F:aeo a that they have it in their power to concentrate all their energies on one undertaking, and by the appli cation of money, labour, and skill accomplish in one year the work of many, and bring to bear on one spot the preparations that have been made in many harbours and arsenals. We trust, then, that the Emperor of thy French will have the sanction of his people to iminq..Vste efforts, which will save them both money and the end, and that the British nation will not be behindhand. There is something like humour in the simplicity with which the E.nperor describes the conduct of Austria in these negotiations. The limitation of the Russian force in the Black Sea may or may not imply an arithmetical restriction ; but, if such is its possible meaning, and Austria would appear to acknowledge as much, that re striction should be to some less formidable standard than that which really led to the present war. It should be • a restriction to some standard suffici,nt for defence, but not for ag g ression. It sh ou ld b e t o a standard that would keep Turkey always on the eve of aniiihilation, the Western Powers always under arms in the Mediter ranean, end the peace of Europe always dependent on the good sense or the clemency of the Czar. What Austria has proposed, as her interpretation of this prin. ciple, is really no limitation at all. It is a restoration in number and a' creation in privilege. It proposes that-the Emperor of Russia may build a new man of war for every onethateither he or we have sunk ordestroyed. It amounts to a solemn undertaking on the part of the Western Powers that the Czar has a treaty right to that number, and that we have precluded ourselves from any remonstrance as to the amount of a navy which can be intended fir nothing whatever but the subjugation of Turkey, the exclusive possession of the Black Sea, and the absolute command of the Danube. It is difficult to see with what design Austria made such a proposal to two great Powers which had made immense sacrifices and attained considerable successes ' • but she can h ar dly find her account in the p resen t deep determination on all sides to try out the quarrel by the ordeal of war. We have not the least reason to doubt that such is the reso lution of Russia • we can speak. f or ourse l ves t h at such is ours ; and the speech of the French Emperor an swers for the spirit of that nation. In the nature of things a contest of this fury and magnitude cannot but spread, like a conflagration, till it embraces all that lies near. The East and the West are the fierce antagonists, and the battle extends to the North and the South. If it was Austria's speculation to thrive by the exhaustion of her terrible rivals, how will she escape the flame, which, if she has not helped to raise, she has at least only pretended to extinguish ? 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[ADVERTISEMENT.]—HoIIoway's Pills an astonishing Remedy for the Cure of Asthma.—Mrs. Newton, of Hyde, states in a letter to Mr. Wild, chemist, of Hyde, that for many years she had been afflicted with severe attacks of asthma, great difficulty of breathing, a violent cough, and acute pains in the side. She tried various remedies, and was under the treatment of several sur geons for months together, without obtaining any benefit. At length she was induced to try Holloway's pills. The first dose gave relief, and by continuing them a cure has been effected. B eing anxious that others so afflicted should obtain relief, she desires this fact to be publicly known. —S°Jd by all Vendors of Medicine, and at Pro lessor Holloway's Establishments, 244, Strand London '4 y and 80, Maiden•lane, New York. BIRTHS. OF A BON. ,On the lat in s t., a t 131 , N ew Bond-street the viu° Mr. Keste r t on I nman . , fr On the Ist inst., at Harlow, Essex, the wife of B Esq. On the 30th ult., at Nayland, Suffolk, the wife of 1" ward Liveing, Esq., of Caius Col., Cam. COUNTRY MARKETS. CH E FORD-J I:xE Hof wheat to•dey m o t a s lo w sale, maintainii,g last week's prices. Second rate samples: difficult to quit at an abatement of is per qr. All without alteration in value, and little doing therein. Wheat, white, old, per s. s. qr C 1 old 57 new 57 ▪ 29 • 29 23 .68 Oats, Peas, per qr Partridge White Boiling Dun Beans, Tick -Harrow ticks 0 0.11 Ditto, new red, Barley Chevalier Grinding Halt Chevalier ..... 7O COLCHESTER— JUNE 3D. The supply of wheat was small, but quite sufficient the demand, min the trade (lull and fully is per qr the* In spring corn no variation from last week's prices. weatli,,r now is remarkably line for the growing a which promise an abun.iant Prices to-day were as follow :—Wheat, white, 76s to red, 72s to 788 ; barley, 32s to 34s ; oats, 32s to 34s : b 3lnzaga,n, 40s to 42s ; middle and small, 44s to 48s; I' white, 46s to 48s ; grey, 42s to 44g. Official Statement of the Quantities of Corn, Scc in the port of London, from the following p the 25th to the Ist July, both inclusive. ei r' : . •U o ....9 1 .4 1,1 i , J q r" Colchester Harwich .... Leigh ....... Haldon 2CO) - - 25) 574 12 901 -- KIRKCALDY —JUNE 30. Wheat. Barley. I Oats. 1 Bel First Second Third 7os Od I 34.2 Od I 28s Od I Os COAL MAR; `.-JULY 1. Prices of Coal per ton at t ' 5. d. Bate's West Hartley 17 6 Wallsend, &o. Tanfield Moor l4 6 Lambton Tanfield Moor Butes l 4 6iStewart's 2 Wylam 18 0 Trimdon H ar tl epoo l .... -/ South Kelloe l9 Wallsend, &c. Whitworth Heaton Haswell 21 61 Netherton Kepier Grange 2O 0 Ships at market... 8 Le close of the market. :0 I Sold SEABORNE MAILS. (N Algriffies that tke ma(ls aro sent from the General ay the night—and M by the moruing--despatch.) COIYNTRIES. Day when made ui in Genera/ Post °Mao, London.* From what Port di Dispatched. f,, kraerica(byßrit.pack)N Imerice. kby United Sts. packet) .... N .imerics (by U. States , Ivory Friday .. 1 Liverpool ... I G. packet)' :.........N &astral's. (via Boutb7 GO o• we se •• ampton) Ditto (via Marseilles) N, Ditto (via Cape of Good. Hops) ...... tfriea (West Coast) ..N1 Alexandria.......... NI Ilexandria.. —MI fiahamas ....... fielgium ............N arazil auenos Ayres Gape of Good Hope ..N Cape of Good Hope ..N Oape de Verds ......N Ceylon (see Inclia) Ceylon. N tunnel Isles ........N .• )oastantinople lenstantinople Cont. of Europe M N 7.gypt (see India) Liverpool ... I Ji 1 . 13 d attic month .. & 30 or n.. itt'> S , ith of mm .1 117th of the month' 9th of the month.. 3th o the month.. 4 ft Abraltar „pi 'recce (see India) N.......... laraburgli ..........N lavannals ... ••. • . M Holland ..........31.. Honduras! .. India (viaSouthampt.)l India (via Marseilles)M lonian Isles (see India) Ireland & Lisbon ..............3N Madeira Madeira .... • • •....N Malta (see India) Malta ..............N Mauritius (soe India) Mauritius " Mexico •• •• Naples ........N New Ilranada Now Papal States ........N Peninsula ..........31 Pores Port Natal .. • . ......N Sicily lti Tuscany Venezuela .. Van Dleracn's Lan d (see Australia) Wiat Indies 9th of tin montl Mon „Wed., &Fr! z kc I 7ti, of mon: Once a month .... 5,13,18.•<3,5v0s of ith 4 :?oth of timer. Twicf.: daily ...... Twice daily.-- 7, 17, 20, 27 of u '2rld & 17th of MOP.' Tuesday & Friday 2nd of the mono Daffy.... • • 17th of the month. 4th & 20th of mon. 9th& 25th of mon t 7, 1 7, & 27 of mon Twice daily '7, 9, 17, & 27 of m. 9th of the month 23d of month •••.' Is. Is. & 28 of mon.' 14th of tho montL 2ml of the month.. i s tb ls th2sthottnon. 2d a; 17th of month By private ship sth 15th25thofmon . .1 7thl7 th27theflnon. sc 27th of mon .1 By private ship.. ~thl`,th2sthohnon,' ! s ihnth 2s tholition. , 2d rith of month! 2clf.; 17th o t month ISouthartpton Southampton f3l Dover •.,• ,9 71nouth Dover Southampton ourhlmin on Dover al 4outharnp;ol Jul; 40,!th tm, on Jul, Various ports (111, louth ampi on Southampton Ito) Southamp tor 'over .. • • . 14 , uthamptori Dover • • ••• • • Dover i.uthanapto: Au: tiou:hatrpt,.. Loadori ~outha:t,ptoJuly Dover ....„ , . Southampton July Plymouth .. Jut/ Dover • • •• • . Dover floly head T*,, Southamptol S3uthampto, Liverpool 104 (Dover ...... Southampten l itg Dover Southampton Various portf ,111 Dover ...• .• isoothemptoil isouthernot on iyarious ports llp Dover ...... Dover ISouthampton /Jul' i Southampum !gal When any of these dates fall o t a Sunday, the malls Wil l be i A spatched on the ut following day, with the exceptien of the 10d e d Sohampton), and the Malta, both of which will be deepatell preceding day. RAILWAY TRAFFIC _RETURNS. LONION AND SOUTH-EASTERN RAILWAY,—TraiII turn for the week ending June 30, 1 8:5..,,221,067 Corresponding w ee k l as t year l B, , ,6658 16 6sB 1" Increase in 1855. £2,378 10 LONDON, BRIGHTON, AND SOUTH COAST RAILW A ll Traffic return for the week ending June 30, 1855 ' £l7 678 Corresponding week last year 16,134 , 1 Total of the half-year to this date, 1855 Total of the half-year to this date, 1854 314,422 1" ,„ or, DEATH OF MADAME EMILE DE GIRARDI/C—itiv complished wife of M. de Girardin has been se eteto away from a large circle o f a ff ect i onate friends, and /apt: literary coterie of which she formed a brilliant ornala%li She made her debut, remar k ~ a French journal, fryh poetess during the period of the Revolution. It v 7 liit this youthful period of her life that Madame Girs published a vol ume o f p ' ems, which met with univetTo success, Then followed her celeb ra t e d " Lett Parisiennes" nd "La Croix de Ferny." One of o p last literary pr o d uct i ons was the -we I-known terr'j, satire sugge s t e d b y th e i mpr i sonment of her beeboPpo lan - ler the dictatorship of General Cavaignac. The 0 00 1 of this talented lady has long been the centre of 60 14 1 briiiiant literary ci rc l es o f P ar i s ; and many will relcil as much the loss of th e woman as that gifted 01 which lighted all round. CANADIAN RIFLEMEN BOUND FOR THE CRIMEA. ---. 'o train from SuFpensi on B r i dge, which arrived here g,•, 'ate hour on Monday night, b roug h t a company of C!'ict dian volunteer riflemen, armed and, equipped, botal i ° ,4 , the Crimea. They left yesterday morning, via "11, ern RaProad, for Boston, where they will to.daY 13 "1 on board a packet for Constantinople. The coulll c if numbers some sixty members —young, atbletAc, 0 0 0 -;ens of Canada—who state that "they will not Oa har..k until they lick the Russians." —N ew York Da Times. OF A DAUGHTER. On the 2d inst., in B e l grave - square, the Lady 000140 Shaw Stewart. On the Ist inst., in South-street, the wife of It. S. '- ford, .Es q ., 111. P. On the Ist inst., at Northfl ee t, K en t , th e w i fe of 10 l3eresford, Es q ., of 4, Hare -court, Temple. .40 On the I s t inst., at 52, Invern ess -t e r race , Hyde -Pi the wife of Sydney Ashmore, Esq. On the 2d inst., at Ford's-grove, Wiuchmore-h2.14 tb wife of Edward T. Busk, Esq. MARRIED. On the 30th ult., at St. James's, Paddington, JP') Somerville, Esq., of S. Benet's-place Gracechurch-ottee to Emily, widow of the late Augustus Thrupp, Esq., Bayswater. On the 30th nit., at the parish chur c h, Croyd on , :LP ye Harris Devonshe, Esq., of 12, Albert-road, Rigeo,to park, and of the Old J ewry, to Jane Priscilla, th e , elu g , daughter of Jenki n J ones, Esq., of t h e W aldrons, Ct° don. On the 24th ult. , at Marylebone Church, Mr. Edwar d Tar, Alflatt, of the Strand, to Hannah, second daughter of C. Spooner, musician. DIED. On the 30th ult. at 9, Wilton-street, Grosvenor-POI° William Kn ow im:Esq.. aged 86. On the 30th nit., at Brighton, Bertrand Wm. Lawd ot LA., of 21, Camden-square, aged 62. On the 30th ult., at Islingto n , J oseph Wickham, J-J v °a .l late of the War-office, ged 74. On the 30 th ult. , Francis J o h n B anfield, Esq., A ()- f Bedford-street, Bedford-square. On the 7 th ult., before S e b astopol, whilst defendinfbeao, Quarries against repeated attacks of the Russians, nt Francisthe Dickson, And foy o sun of late and Si r Jeremiah I). " 6Jr son, K.C.B. On the lit i ns t ., at 60, Lowndes-square, Trevor, e ld e st son of Harvi e and the lion. Mrs. Farq u h ar , age d 4 1 ° and 11 months, On the 26th M ay, at Guayaquil, Horatio H. CoX, Dot Britannic Majesty's Vice-G , nsul at that port, aged 4S- On the 31st March, at Melbourne, Australia, Frederzyr Robert, on l y son of Robert Cantwell, Esq., of WixoP° street, C aven d ish-square, aged 28. A On the 28th ult., at Staplegrove. near Taunton, EdfL, Carey Grojan, Esq., formerly solicitor, of Golden-sqliou", LONDON : P r i n t e d and Publishbd by MURDO YOIO i li v„. of No. 112, St ran d , P r i nter, at The Sun Office, No, Strand, in the Precinct of th e S avoy, i n t h e eon" ot aiddle4ex, Tuesiii 4 Y ,July 3,1868, Roue rUlld 11108 t gratui Wve, the CI Coate -~ • 'will b aortic TI Ti NOT ANI sTir itt th e %stun, the r at 4 IMENT her, 5 6.- al k t i ter th Rt. Ind p ot n o ▪ Prof ▪ tit No tr r"4100C 7 •'Bt. to / r l e t p i ti of t he ' k A t Of c h oo -etlar ad au ~` A 1 , quail ed 21St Ju ntned also b e at . othe , s aPPlte al "tie B arrack , followill —41 .201er ror tt date ror tt ror u For tt 360 For tt For tt The c infantr3 hg of at The s Each mid wh, leren te Itodati o Plan s trice, p Chaim) Alt pl Copts I'M on °Mee. Oftlee 'tall laid by Perfect Ti to , nerd t Bold Longo► end Sc chants. end PE nice r° Jul.,' 6 xlie I lad ei every to be toes Ticket 1 . 13— 1at4 40 8 6 by Zrer A' AO.l ~~. Sold all chi 4. tie, Terra Ornr :1 11r7 Ittis 61 To 0 , " Rei T , i Rii Lget ol end. Tex Fr o end. Gra, Boat in — at Sae, Bys asst eve : exe, Net are • eau the!