The Sun. — London, England, 1855-07-24 00:00:00

O$ A RS ‘, i O 4 " tb ° ; o l i cier ri d l3 I nt fir ; n$'VP is so is of; ) osi b is cla u slo, r d , 0 100' 0 03 1 ;d fter o lio v era ir oO k t il with ( " l , i 0 otft r$ e bur lb 3 ; 1, tfi 0 L.ep oe c° 9 l " ,1 Ol e t be r e, I. o f o°, r ,ri or 0 6 , 1 ' cl ‘! te J i o") P °Bl ti) e b e 00 oil 5 ,1 2ft i e t ,,,Pi'P e% it- fi) 1°2 .0 b a lo o ,Is 4 o oo ri3ti the „ lic e ot . • Vi c o sl ) c° aPr.ote'l44il yti sr. A., th' A oe, •?oxtie ;10 4ONE`' AND 0041/31.ERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, Two o'CLoeft.. i The C °tton Market .at Liverpool yesterday le s , e i d firmly, pale s t The sales were estigiated at 7,000 Th 01000 of which were taken on speculation). and c e i - Railway Share Market was better supported, , closed with ari upward tendency in prices. la their report upon the Indigo auctions, Messrs. L ane n) Rulbert, .44/1.,, and Co. state that at the com thelne4t the proprietors gave strong support to reed marks, until' the competition of the buyers t o le reil such unnecessary. The German agency use s e h a and our home consumers made their pur 4..ses very freell'iduring the first 8 dam but were h u : 80 eager subsequently. Messrs. H. W. Jews tell' an d CO. consider the rise to be 2d. to 6d. on ;gal) but raid. ord. Madras went at par. d„ ' 11 ° report o f t h e Co b re Company, rea d a t this a qsrn eeting, was higbly satisfactery, from showing T i g i re at increase in the produce of the past year. of ecliec t°Ts made a dividend of 4/. a share out The stance in hand. featiireme ease of the money market is in the St ec i r c e D generally remarked, and not only in aNle l ehange, but likewise among the bankers It Iscomit houses there is a decided plethora. calitj e o learcely be remarked, however, that great t h at nis still exercised, only paper of an undoubted of t i rer being taken on any terms. As to the amount th e i , ' afloat, it is scarcely, we presume, up to tie e 7ve rago of some years of peace, when specula foritis rifer. No definite conclusion can yet be th e pi respecting the result of the applications for kw fn re neh Loan, but we have at last to pre are the vi f,the guaranteed Turkish Stock, and nearly tak en unle of the instalments may be expected to be /4 away in hard cash. x t , i• tioit l , L g ish Funds there has been very little the j 6 ,' A unt 4te quotations are rather buoyant under 90i i - i„ttetnie of investments. Consols have been of t h o rm uli for transfer and account. The passing 4 ge,!,-unrkish loan motion, last evening, has had 3 p er e ffect, but was fully expected. The New de em ' Ce nts. have been 92i to 921, and the Re -215:' - p 'll t to 92. Bank Stock is up to 213 k and Th e - Innequer Bills are without alteration. advi,„ c p°roulittee of Mexican Bondholders have Daei t Z f a irotri Mr. Whitehead by the West India Ite xi — a nd. by way of the United States, dated de nt -e b e i the 2d, 11th, and 19th ult. The Presi bet had been returned to the capital on the . Bth ult., t itle et !" bell too much occupied since to take into (If cons ideration the memorial of the committee Th e t of March last. tl'z :,-- "vent India packet brings $10,752 41, and te g 4O from Tampico and $9,921 from Vera Cruz, 'nd er $ 3 B 173 41, for Colonel Facio for the di ena t ,„ Id. , , Th e i," Id. ~i'llkta' ° ign Securities have been much. duller. 4 1ex e 7 eferred have been 19k, being steady. 4 411 -11 a, e quiet at 22. The remittance is but toit a : d ana the amount in the Bank of England eee t ;" B ,a dividend is 120,7831. Russian 4-i per ‘:eat a . L L 'ave been done .at 891. Dutch 24 per il; c uave been at 63k. Peruvian remain at 77. I toek, - Rowing are the nominal prices of foreign ear l ,)",:---j4renada Deferred Bonds, 6i to 71 ;' Mem' Iler'd'kt to 22 ; Peruvian, 77 to 78 ; ditto Three i 3 t o e 'l t a., 55 to 56 ; Portuguese Four per Cents., ditt o litt e '-, 5 ; Russian Five per Cents., Q 9 to 1 ; i lk • e b . " ll r-and-a-Half per Cents., 88 to 90 ; ditto P Deferred, 19 to 19i ; ditto 3 per 'itt °(' to 374 • ditto Certificates, 4i to 4/3. ; t) p a . , Th e ,;!Ive, 1i to 4. Pat,6.,.-Lariquita, Company have received d.e_s %teal' of Which the following is an abstract . l 'eeti v 7; llll9 . Mines tor the month of May—Cost not ituk.,7eft'4) estimated at $6,500 ; returns, $21,205, e % t 0" t ens dressed ore • produce of the month, , 4 ,, ul an °, dressed ore. ilarmato Mines 'for the 4 , P arini',APril—Cost, $12,180 ; returns, $15,083. t 94 ,514: dines for the month of April-Cost, , Th i ,"` ; 'returns, $3,316. i t e•da; Market for English Railway shares is flat I t oir re" sad some of the principal lines are I t to' i 1 1 1 I\l . „ 3 outh- Western, however, rule firm, and T he p ° " - Western there is not much alteration. l l 'z'rted - °r eign lines are very dull, but well sup ate ho the Canadian the dealings are limited. ares ne '„- „'"aning, Banking, and weak h. I. ' Little, request. Crystal Palac© are I Tte 11 FUNDS TMS DAY.—CLOSING PRICES. Prom the Oficiai L. Business Anne t u 214 13i 15 1, - ` / 3 to k ' , tv vent. c' 911 i 2 li D* lt. Reduced Annuitin • 91i 90k li 90 i 5t,,,, Consols Annuities . 92* fi 1 9 Le ° Per Cent. Annuities il ei t , 44 Anities, Expire sth Jan., 1Beo . bitr a 0 Years, Expire sth Jan ,1860 . . ,4 16 15-16 itiii., ',° 30 Years, Expire sth April, ' 188.5 1 0 4 ) *C it toZLlkna63, .tioot) 91i 90i 2(1. t t0 7 1 ., 11 'i Account, Bth August -4eT 1 .,,,, Birk, 21d l9 22 40 0() . ••• _ 40 0 ........ .-.., .................... 120 23 ttt,ratil ............................ ...... 7 t, a , I) 11 1,, , i tltteloo va. 0 : 5 ..................................... ITOI-4111617:;i4DAY. " 1141 1 ti t • m °luta 5 per Con .. Qi•e tadr, ° , . 8 oncls 6. ti s : 11 ° 1 1c1s, V I per Cent. greiliz Deferred, V, per Cent . 4i 5 111 / 4 t Nil dfi h NO ei.,ti, 4, .... fi t ....... 1 , f 15 P. 22 li re,,,, or the Account ,„, ilZ 4 _ lll ' Fiends, 44 per Cent ...... ...... 77 11 114 6 7 . f„ . 0 1• the Account . - 89* t lpa,, - "Q *Ani s al er Cent. „ T., p .a. •-... I} itt o I° dB, 3 p&r Cent -- ~,Dit i. ,,, .New Deferred, 3 per Cent. 19 * . 41 rki - j il 'or the account , 1 01:1 1 g Ditt o • 14) thcis, 6 per cent 91i 1i 1 s J ite4l4,or the Account . ..... 83 t , `! Per Cent. ..... . . .... ..... ;;;;,,, Lor.,,n s'titth Exchange, o, the above rev 63* 44change, 2* per Cont. 12 Ani l R 0 °LOCA. e r „ mB _ THRE 1)10 4 for the Account 91 4 .4:nkir IVEWS.—(THIS DAY.) N t HAY MARKETS. ' t to -4)l Rtai.--cold meadow hay, 4/ Os to 6 / O s : new t ll to ;old •► u v-. ,4/Os to 6110 s ; new ditto, --4 40rti 51 Oi • and Os tra; l 17 6s Od to It lOs Od per loao. t t , :1ik k .7 1 ,1) . P13% and a stra w , dem o a w nd. ay ditt; (j a L to NtOld lci ln . e i ad v . h ~ s 3, to 6! 6s ; new Os ,41 U to 6/ 10s ; and new 1e ._ 1 to • ° and . ° stiaw, 11 7s to V 12s per loaa. 4 . 17 N, ' 14° 1° t E C)IIA P - Old meadow hay, 4/ Os to 6' 63; new to ' fi L i — Os; old elov, • 4.1 Os to 61 10s ; new Pl s lvi.••"' to 51 ss; and straw, 11 63 to 11,10 s per load. waited, and trade firm. 6 4 (1 COLONIAL. ' t 4i4 , 4 11,7 - Thore has been a demand for floating cargoes ktti k ,",„,‘a for home use and shipment, and the . prices d i tl eat - ,% 4 t in ed. Duty paid kinds have been also in goo lb, 0 441 full rates, for the low and superior samples. t c l°vp til ceutinues firm. Refined sells freely for home use, * 5 4 e -ti a tt iPs at 475, and ord low to fine grocery at 47s 6d et 1,,', There were landed last week at the East and * b 6 , l t V ul Decks 1 410 hhds 18'0 tierces 335 brl , s; there it- t ,'tli 4 , - ,, e 4 , 11 for home use 1,851 hhds 161 tierces 250 br s, ~ ,,, ,0 1, i- 7 4ock i s 10,567 hhds 758 tierces 1,932 . br15 : vi,rqa ~1 4.---T here have been several transactions in native t e ;,‘ 4 83 61 to 49s 61 with a limited supply. r 4 0 44 114, s have ben obtained for plantatio d n e s x oit The Is steady, e both for consumption an porlation. t ItIoti!ella at full r a t es (1 4 1 t.; ---- :eegal, f rom ' the ship, has realised 14s 3d to 14s article tends upwards. Refraction do cent. has been sold at 31s 6d to 32s 9d per cw t. t. flt t bThe market is quiet. • l ''" -- The hold ers are firm, and there is not much 5 . 1 4 14 'be their circular Messrs. Smith and Charles nauenced by the circumstances mentioned in our Friday, the tallow market has advanced about 1 0 4 ; "Of in all p os iti ons. O ur i n f orma ti on from various o l I flcri;" Country to-day confirms the reports we have th e cir,Veceived, and f rom ti me t o time mentioned iu . rep ent s, th a t th e h ome supply i s b e l ow an average , in tato, diet the London cattle market to-day ? tend Ti r i ci4a tk tion and this is by far the most important 'sof' oism,. n ee we have to repoh at the present time. ;:et has been firm to-day. There being very few a " ° have not had much business doing. Oar closing Ail le n - P °t new, b4s 9d • old 53s 6d ; all this month, 4, l 4 trail a - flt• and Dec., 51; 6.1; separate months, 56s ; 12 14t h .A,n l ll 81 'eflP, 545 6d to 534 6,1; beef, sts 6d to 51e ; if' to o s e,7flau, r4s 6cl to 55s • Cocoa Nut Oil Cochin, 19 4 ,, 6 ,, (1 •1,;:` ;,Ceylon 41s to 41s 6,1; palm oil, 40s 64 to 'id'• tossed' oil, 44s • tallow oil, 37s 6d ; tallow elaine, the 14 th tallow, 52s 6d. The Petersburg, advice! are ' T tO 9 0 o '„ j111 3' ; 4chloge 36s 7-16ths 9-10ths ; carriage, Vl`r l 3l. e- ' 4 . ; 1 .110 chs done on the spot at 117 s to 118 s. t ci laet t T h m e a followin g are the quotations as compared 0 ., sale :---Fine shipping, 2d to 3d higher ; dit ° 4ll4 * °r '''fl 61 d - I and fine, 4d to 6d do. ° 6 d do. • goo d con suming, 4d to 6,l do. ; hi, z Ood and 0 0. ; Madras, gooi d ' 4 '; dit to ' I . , par ; Kurpah, goo and fine, 4d to 6( , laid and ord, par to 3.1 higher. ------ ------ ------ law does b t o. 41 MAINE LAW IN NEW YORK.—This York city. h e to to receive much attention in N h e a w ve not seen the ieCaentnt.ercia/ of July 7 says :—" We 4 • n It is t° %Ili 4 aid of such a law being in opera,do . ill (Intents and purposes a dead letter, an obsolete law and all oth, tir rnidst. hotels, saloons, eating houses, tioicit establishments where liquor has hitherto beenrs Th tl "!1 it to-day as freely and as openly ;7EI ever. . t )11 Lagert4 '43' Warningtoday ar'd yesterday morning cart loads of , beer brou • ht into the city as usual. In fact I,lw here has not made the slightest change. itler ha MAINE LIQUOR LAW. —A large open-air meet th ° ,, has held on Friday at Batts, near Rochdale, wit . ) tioti view of obtaining populr support to the proposi oppl °I. IPressing the traffics n intoxicating drinks. Tt, l, e ntaj t e n "ta of this object however, mustered in stren . gt., t o , e t to airycr resolutions expressive of a determina ti,_ resist dof any such law, and fur ""re peal of the Beer B al.—Manchester Guardian. PE A RIA EA. 1 E lag members :-Mr. Cheatham, Mr. Alderman .Challis, S;r W. Clay, Mr. Aleock, Mr. Fox, Mr. Disraeli, Mr. Wilkinson, - and Mr. Massey. ' 's‘ relieve them and liberate t7)e:11. The principle of the 1 • clause had been already sanctioned in the case of the coal-heavers. Lord STANLEY of ALDERLEY said a monopoly was a sole arm exclusive right of disposing of a c.n.nnio slits', and this clause would give the Trinity House the exclusive power of getting ballast. .The Bishop of OXFORD said the clause wsuld allow the shiplwners to get the ballast as they pleased, and would only interfere with a set of middlemen who inter posed between the shipowners and the ballast-heavers. Lord STANLEY of ADDERLEY still denied the soundness of the principle oil which the clause was framed. The Bishop, of LONDON supported the clause on moral, social, and religious grounds, considerations which he hoped would weigh with their lordships. These bal last-heavers were in a state of social slavery, and merely sought emancipation. The Bishop of OXFORD then handed in the clause, stating that it was not his intention to press it in that stage of the bill. • The bill then went through committee. RELIGIOUS WORSHIP BILL. On the motion that this bill be read a third time, The Bishop of OXFORD said he wished to make a few observations personal to himself. The first time this bill was discussed he (the Bishop of Oxford) stated that a meeting of the bench of bishops was held, at which meet ing the bill was unanimously condemned. In the debate which subsequently took place his right rev. friend the Bishop of London corrected an extremely malevolent and slanderous statement which appeared in a newspaper purporting to be of a religiouscharacter, and to the effect that he (the Bishop of Oxford) had stated an entire false hood, as no such meeting as that to which he referred bad taken place at all. Even after the correction of his right rev. friend this newspaper pertinaciously sdhered to its malevolent misrepresentation, and maintained the state ment that the entire thing was a fabrication on his part. Ns,w the meeting took pace under the presidency of the Archbishop of Canterbury, and the bill was nenvine Mir tradicente condemned. He should be unworthy of their lordships' respect did he misrepresent even to a hair's breadth any matter ; and he now took that further op portunity of setting himself right in reference to this ab surd and slanderous imputation. (Hear.) The bill was read a third time and passed. The Burials Bill was read a third time and passed. The Dwelling-houses (Scotland) Bill was read a third time and passed. The Crime and Outrage (Ireland) Continuance Bill was also read a third time and passed. The Turnpike Acts Continuance Bill passed through committee. The West Indies Relief Loans Arrangement Bill also passed through committee. The Lunatic Asylums (Ireland) Bill was read a second time. The Huddersfield Burial-ground Act Amendment Bill was also read a second time. THE EDUCATION (SCOTLAND) BILL. Lord POLWARTH said he wished to know whether, if the Government did not mean to introduce before the close of the session a bill for continuing to the paro chial schoolmasters in Scotland the present amount of their salaries,' they would be prepared to support such a measure if brought forward by some independent mem ber of Parliament 1 The Duke of ARGYLL said that if the Government did not think it advisable to introduce such a measure, he thought it could hardly he expected that they would give to it their support if it should be brought forward by some member of Parliament unconnected with them. He quite agreed with those who said it would be very unfair to make the schoolmasters in Scotland suffer in consequence of differences of opinion among members of the Legislature on the subject of, education? But the Government did not consider it desirabla to bring forward a continuance bill in that case during the present Bessie!), mainly because they did not believe that it was really wanted. The present salaries would be paid to the pa rochial schoolmasters in Scotland up to the next Parlia ment, and the next payment would not be due to them until a period which would extend more than two months and a half beyond the usual time of the re assembling of. Parliament, so that a sufficient oppor tunity would be afforded of re-considering the subject. The Duke of BUCCLEUCH said that if the act were not renewed in the present session the people of Scotland would be put to the inconvenience of making prepara tions for an alteration of the law before Parliament could re-assemble. He should take that opportunity of ex pressing his belief that the most determined opposition would be offered to any attempt to destroy the parochial school system in Scotland. But at the same time he did not deny that a different kind of schools was neces sary in the large towns and populous districts. The conversation then dropped, and their lordships adjourned. • SUPPLY 'OF GUANO. Mr. STIRLING asked the first Lord of tha Admi ralty if the comma,nderB of her Majesty's naval squadron in the Pacific had reported the progress of the search, promised by the late Board of Admiralty, for undisco vered deposits of guano within the bounds of that sta tion ; and whethvr there would be any objection to pro duce their reports ? Sir C. WOOD said no report had yet been received on the subject. HOUSE OF COMMONS-(YESTERDAY.) The SPEAKER took the chair at 12 o'clock. The Lords' amendments to the following bills were considered and agreed to :—Severn Valley Railway Somerset Central Railway ; Torquay District Churches. The following bills were read a second time :—Hadow' Divorce ; Jones's Divorce ; Merton's College Estate Sumner's Divorce. NEW WRIT., On the motion of Mr. HAYTER, a new writ was ordered for Southwark, in the room of Sir W. Moles worth, appointed Secretary of State for the Colonies. NUISANCES REMOVAL AMENDMENT BILL, On the order of the day for the third reading of the above bill, some discussion took place on proposed amendments in various clauses that had been postponed in committee on the bill. On clause 45 being put as amended, Mr. CHILDS moved as an amendment to insert a proviso that the operation of the clause should not interfere with the efficient working of trades, or be extended to mine., or the smelting of ores and minerals. After some considerable discussion. in which Mr. Henley, Lord R. Grosvenor, Mr. Dillwyn, Mr. Muntz, and several other members took part, The house divided, when there appeared— For the proviso 35 Against it s 32 . Majority for the proviso —3 The proviso was then added to the bill, which was read a third time and passed. METROPOLITAN BUILDINGS BILL. The house then went into committee on this bill, for the purpose of considering the schedules. After some short discussion the schedules, with some verbal amendments, were agreed to, and the bill was ordered to be reported. PASSENGERS ACT AMENDMENT BILL. • The house then went into committee on this bill. Clauses 1R to 26 were agreed to without opposition. On clause 27. having reference to life-boats, Capt. SCOBELL proposed that instead of leaving a vessel to choose her own life-boat, that it be left to the Admiralty to select a perfectly adapted boat for that purpose, and that the Admiralty be also . empowered; to order a second life-boat in vessels of large tonnage, it such should be considered advisable. The hon. and -salient gentleman recommended for adoption the inven don of the Rev. Mr. Bartham, a model of which was ex hibited in the United Service Museum. Mr. J. BALL thought it was rather premature . to make such a provision as that suggested by the hon. and gallant member, inasmuch as the naval authorities of the country had not yet come to a decision upon the point in regard to troop ships, in which most valuable lives were usually embarked. He should imagine that ship owners, as a matter of self-interest, would take care to provide the best means of security in case of shipwreck. Captain SCOBELL having replied, insisting that there was great responsibility resting upon the authori ties to take every precaution in case of accident, and that that object could be best attained by the measure he advocated, Some further discussion took place in opposition to the amendment of the hon. and gallant member for Bath (Captain Scohell.l Captain SCOBELL withdrew his amendment ; and afterwards moved, as a further amendment on the clause, that " every passenger ship carrying 50 persons and up wards shall be provided with one or more life rafts, or buoyant c,,ntrivances, capable of floating at least one tenth part of the passengers and crew of the said ship— such raft or contrivance to be of the pattern or descrip tion approved of by the Board of Admiralty from time to time." After some discussion, in which Admiral WALCOTT supported the motion, the amendment was negatived, and the clause was ordered to stand part of the bill. Clauses 28 to 36 were agreed to without opposition. ROYAL ASSENT. At this stage of the proceedings, the Deputy Usher being Spea the t o e y r a a l n Af d o sus t re h n e ot, c H gloi o ve u ke sne thettoo s he the e rs H ae o t u h se bills.en of Peers tb hear of the Black Rod (Si r A ug ustus Clifford) summoned the It adjourned until L- six. The SPEAKER took the chair at six o'clock. NEW WRIT. Mr. HAYTER moved that the Clerk of the Crown issue a new writ for the election of a member for Mary lebone, in the room of Sir B. Hall, who had accepted the office of Chief Commissioner of Works. ORDNANCE ESTIMATES. Mr. MONSELL laid upon the table the supplemen tary Ordnance estimates. PETITIONS. The following petitions were presented :—By Mr. Baines, from Leeds (5), praying for a law to prohibit during the whole of Sunday the opening of public houses for the sale of intoxicating liquors. By Mr. Oliveira (5), from inhabitants of the metropolis for repeal of Sunday Beer Bill before prorogation of Parliament. By Sir G. Goodman, to same effect as above, from Leeds. By Mr. H. G. Langton, from Bristol, for with drawal of permiss-on given by the Home Secretary to establish mass in Brixton Prison. By Mr. Cobbett (5), from Wolverhampton, for repeal of the Beer Bill. By Mr. J. Bailey, from Newport. in favour of the Marriage Affinity Bill. By Colonel Adair, from clerks of petty sessions, Antrim, for increased salary. By Mr. Milli gan, from Mancter, Bradford, &c., for alteration in the University Of Cambridge. By Mr. H. Berkeley, from 1,500 inhabitants of Bristol, praying for legis lation against the Sunday Beer Act before the close of the present session. By Mr. Bright, from Man chester, signed by 1,100 persons, praying the house to repeal the Beer Bill during the present session ; also, from Redruth, Cornwall, in favour of the Beer Bill. By Major Cotton, from Carrick Fergus, against the sale of intoxicating liquors. By Sir M. S. Stewart, from Scotland, for enforcement of precau tionary measures against fires on laud adjoining rail ways. By Mr. Massey, from Islington, for repeal of the Sunday Beer Bill. By Mr. Cairns, from the Ulster Railway Company, against the Accidents on Railways Bill. By Mr. Al Pellatt, from the metropolis, nume rously signed, for the repeal of the Sunday Beer Bill. For modification of the Sunday Bcer Bill, by the follow• TR_E suN, LONDON,,, 7111ESDAY EVENING, JULY 24 55. to whj.ch he : ,1 111 :r ‘:ould not he 'adhered to by the other house of Parliain , :ne?" Lord PALMERSTON said it was not for him to say what the other House of Parliament naiglit'decide with regard to the course of its proceeding. But the resolu tion of that house was accompanied by 'the reservation, that in case of urgency bills might be taken though they did come up from this house after the day specified in the resolution. EDUCATIONAL TOTE. Sir G. GREY intimated that the educational vote for England and Scotland would be taken on Thursday next. TURKISH LOAN. Mr. FITZROY brought up the report of the commit tee on the Turkish loan. On the question that the resolution be read a second time, Mr. S. WORTLEY was anxious to express his regret that the house should on Friday night have been sur prised into a division which be believed gave a very imperfect indication of its opinion's. (Ministerial cheer ing.) He had attended the house that evening, and re mained until considerably after eight o'clock. When he left be understood from various quarters that it was not intended to carry the dismission beyon.d conversation — certainly not to a division—(hear hedl)—and his convic tion was.tbat if the house had been full at the time of the division, that division would have been much'larger, and the majority large in proportion.. (Cheers.) He regretted the occurrence that had taken place, although he admitted that there was, On the face of the treaty and the convection founded upon it, much that might be made the subject of hesitation and animadversion. (Hear, hear.) He could see the difficulty of carrying out that convention. He could see plainly the force of what bad been urged with such ability against the par ticularforrn of that convention, and the eMbarrassment which might arise from the mode in which each party was made to guarantee the full amount of the loan. (Opposition cheers.) But it was with reference to the particular position of affairs in Europe at this time, espe cially our relations with the great power which bad joined us in this guarantee, that he could trot but regret some of the language which was held on that occasion ; and still more, that it should go forth to Europe that this house had nearly rejected the convention altogether, and only given it its sanction by the small majority of three. He did not believe, that such a trifle would have the effect of disturbing the alliance between Franca and England ; but it certainly might be taken as an indica tion in favour of Russia, and as symptomatic of a mis understanding between the two powers in alliance, and perhaps of hesitation in maintaining the war. (Hear.) Mr. BRIGHT said he was prepared to defend the course he had taken. He denied that there had been any surprise ; the Government had been warned that the loan would meet with opposition. He agreed with the arguments he .had heard urged against the loan. If the revenues of Egypt, Syria, and Smyrna, were on the condition of Turkey, this mortgage would be the first step towards her partition. Mr. Bright .concluded by complaining of being brow'beaten by the . _ Mons ro.sourees,'.which our commissariat would have done \Visely to avail itself of much more largely than it has done." The second letter bore date Samsoun, the 15th of June, 1855, and stated,— " Asia Minor is fulfilling your predictions. It has become one of the chief producers of supplies to the allied armies, es pecially Samsoun. Our harbouriscrowded with sh ippiug, load ing animals and grain. The quantity of bullocks in the country is extraordinary. We have delivered as many as a thousand a week to the commissariat, and might give many more if re quired ; but we suffer rather from too many beasts than too few. Steamers are constantly coming in—French, English, and Turkish for supplies I have made large pur chases of horses, mules, and camels for the land transport; and we are sending off great quantities of firewool for both armies. There is no doubt that from this the three armies will receive next winter a very considerable proportion of their supplies of all descriptions—animals, barley, wheat, straw, and hay." This description was applicable, not to Asia Minor alone, but to Turkey in Europe. What the noble lord (Palmerston) said the other night was strictly true. No country had made such rapid progress as Turkey had done within the last 15 years. In 1839, when he went to Turkey, there was scarcely a steamer in the Black Sea. Since then a trade had been opened in every port, and companies now sac their vessels to Trebizond, Samsoun, - Varna, and other places. What Turkey most required was roads. The hon. gentleman (Mr. Bright) cheered that statement, but what were the facts? About 2 years ago the Turkish Govern ment was on the very point of signing with a British firm of groat eminence a contract for the construction of a rail way fret)/ Belgrade to Constantinople, with branches to other points. That railway would have developed . tho re sources of the country, and quadrupled, perhaps increased tenfold, the revenue of Turkey, but its construction was prevented by the Austrian Minister, who declared that such an undertaking would meet the strongest opposition of Austria, and would be regarded by her as an act of hos tility towards her. Again, in Asia Mpor, the Turkish Government was on the point of constructing a road from Bethune to Kars, but was prevented by Russia. What Power had prevented Turkey from uniting the Danube with the Black Sea ? Why, Russia again, It was to repress such interference that the present warhad been mainly undertaken, in order to permit Turkey to de velops her resources, which were so great that a trifling debt of 5,000,000/. could be easily met. At present that country had no debt to bear, but he believed that to some extent a national debt es as an advantage —(hear)—because it interested the holders of the debt in the welfare of the country. (Hear, and laughter.) The hen. gentleman laughed, but he (Mr. Layard) was reminded of the case of the Turkish pa-hes who committed all sorts of atrocities against the inhabitants of the district which they governed, but they could not be removed because they always owed money to Christian bankers, who said to the Porte,'" You cannot remove this man, or we shall lose our money ;" and yet these very Christians were the people who complained of the injustice and oppressions of the pashas. He 'vas of opinion that by the neglect with which this country had treated Turkey the resources of the latter had been seriously crippled. In Asia Minor, by our neglect, we had suffered Turkey to be deprived of her valuable trade with Persia, and he feared still worse consequences would follow. Two years ago he entreated the Government to keep its eye upon Asia Minor, and the noble lord the mem• ber for London, at the beginning of the year, had assigned as one reason for quitting the late Government that his (Mr. Levard'e) representations upon the subject had not been attended to. Yet the noble lord had since then held office, but no steps had been taken upon the subject; but, on the contrary, everything had been done to prevent the Turkish Government from doing anything in Asia Minor. Ile (Mr. Layard) looked with alarm at the probable conse quences of such conduct. If the Russians succeeded, as he feared they would, in taking liars, the whole of Asia Minor would be in their bands. Then how could we pro pose terms of peace? If we took Sebastopol, and would not allow the fortress to remain or to be reconstructed, the Crimea would be useless to Russia, who would say, " We don't want the Crimea, because we have a material guaran tee for the whole of the East in Asia Minor." He earnestly entreated the attention of the Government to this point as one of the most vital importance, upon which account he had referred to it on the present occasion, although it was not strictly connected with the subject under discussion. Mr. GLADSTONE, after replying to Mr. Layard and Mr. Shee, observed that he had not confined his objections to this Convention to financial views ; the financial mis chief might be limited to 5,000,0001., but the political ob jections to the measure were those upon which he mainly rested his opposition, and he thought Mr. Wortley had not well considered the hearings of this question upon our alliance with France. He denied that he had uttered a single syllable that east a suspicion upon the good faith of that nation, which was entitled to stand as high as our own in pecuniary matters. His argument was, that the Convention would tend to create and husband occasions of quarrel, and not one of his objections on this head had been answered by tho Government, which, he hoped, would bear in mind that, although there had been great difference of opinion as to the pro priety of voting for the Convention, there was no difference as to the prudence and wisdom and expediency of its terms. He hoped that before the committee upon the bill, Lord Palmerston w ould• consider well whether he could not ad vise the Crown to institute proceedings, in the way of nego tiation, for mitigating some of the more formidable dangers which might attend the ulterior working of the convention. Mr. JOHN M'GREGOR urged upon the house the de 'sirableness of having it clearly fixed for how much of the interest England was to be liable. As the terms of the convention stood sho might be called on for the whole, whereas Government ought to sec that she should be liable only for her moiety; and he thought an arrangement of that kind could easily be made with the other guaranteeing power. Mr. KIRK remarked that the French had an army of 120,00) men in the Crimea, while the English had only 30,000. If, therefore, England had lent the whole 5,000,0001. to Turkey, it would have been but fair and rea sonable; and he must say it struck him as being extremely 1 generous on the part of France that she had proposed a joint guarantee, especially as the interest we had in the struggle was much greater than hers. Mr. LAING would be quite content to leave it to the country to judge whether he had done rightly in voting to put a stop to the mischievous system of joint guarantees. His only object in rising was to contradict the imputation that the minority of Friday night showed a disregard to the French alliance. Their objection lay to the form of the guarantee, which involved very great difficulties and com plications; and he cou'd not imagine that the Emperor of the French, acquainted as he was with English institutions, would ever take umbrage at their exercising their consti tutional privileges on the question of the manner in which assistance should be given to Turkey. Mr. CAYLEY deprecated the renewal if the opposition to the plan of the Government, which wag so near leading to a perilous result on Friday night. Mr. CROSSLEY said he always supported Government as much as he could ; but last Friday he voted on the me rits of the question ; and if they were not to be allowed to vote on the merits, ho would much rather the Executive would decide for themselves, and not bring it within the power of members of that house to say either ayo or no. Mr. MUNTZ had voted with the Government on Friday night, because his opinion was, taking all the circumstances together, that was the best course to pursue. He had had no transactions with the Turkish Government, but he had with Turks, and never lost a shilling by or had a dispute with any of them. Ha therefore thought that there was a good prospect for the repayment of this money. Mr. PHILIPPS had voted with the Government, and he still believed that in doing so he had adopted the wiser course. The worst that could happen from adopting the vote was that we might lose the money. To have refused it might have produced most serious political difficulties. The report was then agreed to, and leave was given to bring in a bill founded upon the resolution. SUPPLY—THE REINFORCEMENT OF THE ARMY. On the question that the Speaker leave the chair, Mr. PALK called upon the Government to give some explanation of the measures they were taking to reinforce the army in the Crimea. He contrasted the immense forces under arms in 1813 with the present state of things, when our army was 40,000 men under the estimate voted by the house. For this Ministers wore themselves respon sible, as no encouragement was given to gentlemen to raise regiments or companies. He hoped the Government would take some steps before the house separated to allay the fears of the house and the country. Mr. PEEL declined to give any information, which he said would only serve the purposes of the enemy. He might state that the English force in the Crimea was never so strong as at the present moment, and there was a consi derable reserve at Malta. There was now about 4,000 men in the Foreign Legion, and the difficulties that first at tended their formation were in the course of rapid removal. He hoped the house would excuse him from entering into details. THE ENCUMBERED ESTATES COURT. Lord EBRINGTON complained of the amount of busi ness now before the Encumbered Estates Court, which had choked up its usefulness, by means of which the suitors suffered great disappointment, and he moved a resolution to that effect. Sir G. GREY said a bill on the subject was in progress from the other house, and he hoped the house would not now go into a discussion on the subject. After some discussion, the noble lord's motion was ne gatived without a division. PROMOTIONS IN THE NAVY. press. Mr. Serjeant SHEE said, he was as little of a parbisan as Mr. Bright, and he attributed the division to a pre concerted intention on the part of a strong party in the house in order to embarrass the government. After the house had come to an unanimous vote to continue the war until a safe and honourable peace could be obtained he was surprised that Mr. Gladstone, who had been one of the counsellors of the war, and who had supported it until (he supposed) he found it could not be carried on out of our ordinary revenues, took the opportunity of endeavouring to trip up the government. He (Mr. Shee) had voted for the resolution because he thought the arguments against it transparently fallacious. Mr. Gladstone had, he said, uttered a taunt and an insult against the allies of this country, and had made a direct attack upon the honour and good faith of France. Sir H. WILLOUG HBY justified the vote he had given in favour of the resolution, though he trusted the objections to the Convention would be considered, and that souse means would be found of preventing the en tanglements alluded to by Mr. Gladstone. Mr. ALCOCK, on the other hand, justified his vote against the resolution. Mr. RICARDO defended the course be had taken. It was, he said, because he believed that the Convention would not assist either in the prosecution of the war, or in obtaining a peace, that he objected to it. He believed it to be an unwise and impolitic measure, which would induce Turkey not to rely upon her own resources, but to lean upon France and England for succour. Sir DE LACY EVANS said he thought the vote of Friday night had substantially taken many honour able members by surprise. (Hear.) It had come by surprise on him. He had not voted at all, but if he had thought that ' the consequences of the vote would have been so serious as it now seemed to have been, he would have given his vote in unquali fied support of Government. It had been said that lending money to Turkey was only a means of rendering her dependent instead of independent. They had been told a great deal about the superiority of Russia over Turkey. England was, year by year, paying interest on a loan of 3,000,0001. to Russia, and he had never yet beard that that country was becoming dependent. Everybody must remember the excellent services which the troops of Portugal rendered to our army in the Peninsular war. Their troops were maintained by a loan, the distribution of which was superintended by a British coruniissioner sitting at Lisbon. (Hear, hear.) In the present state of the Turkish army any delay in sending this money would be most injurious. It had been said that the Turks were not men of honour. There was no country in Europe which had given less ground for such an imputation than Turkey. It was a country which had less public debt than any other country in Europe. During the present war Turkey had made great efforts ; she had organised her regular army, aud her artillery was in the highest state of efficiency. Assuming that the noble lord' would take proper precau tions for the due application of this money, and that the money would be applied to legitimate purposes of war, he could not see any objection to the loan. He must giVe his support to the pr o p osition, although, perhaps, there might be some unfairness in allocating particular duties for the repayment of the interest. (Hear.) Mr. LAYARD trusted that, as he was one of those mem bers who were not aware the other evening that a division of such importance was about to take place, he would now bo allowed to say a few words. He hoped that the right hon. gentleman the member for Oxford University would forgive him for expressing his conviction that the course he had taken on this subject was alike unwise, unstatesman like, and unpatriotic. That section of the Cabinet of which the right hon. gentleman was a most distinguished orna ment was perhaps mainly the cause of the present war, ow ing to the vacillating policy it had pursued. That Cabinet launched the country into the enterprise in which it was still engaged, the despatch which ordered our troops to the Crimea having been signed by the Duke of Newcastle ; and now, when we stood in great straits, the right hon. gentleman and his friends were the first to turn round and embarrass the Government. The right hon, gentleman could not have adopted a more effective mode of further ing the designs of our enemies than he had done. Sup posing the opposition to the guarantee had been successtul the other night, what would have been the effect upon Russia ? Why, sir, St. Petersburg would have been illu minated, and universal joy have been spread throughout the length and breadth of Russia. And what, on the other hand, would have been its influence upon Turkey? The Turks would have been disheartened, and would have thought this the first step towards our deserting them. (Hear, hear.) He would say nothing of the effect of such a vote upon our ally across the Channel, but he believed it would have been most disastrous. (Hear.) But the right hon. gentleman was responsible for the embarrassments of Turkey. About two years ago the Porte wished to raise a loan herself in this country, and she might have done so on favourable terms, the market hav ing then been well supplied with money. He (Mr. Layard) had entreated the right hon. gentleman to say one word in support of the credit of the Turkish Government, and if something of that kind had passed Turkey might have raised a loan without coming to our Government at all. The right hon. gentleman, however, being at the time a member of the Government which was about to embark in a war in defence of Turkey, made a speech at Manchester in which he declared that the Turkish empire was falling to pieces, that it was a country which we could not sup port, and one that was rapidlysinkingunder the fate which the Emperor of Russia had ascribed to it—viz., that of " the sick man," who was dying fast. (Hear.) That speech would have been enough to destroy the credit of of Turkey in this country, and tp prevent her Government from ob taining the loan which it might otherwise have raised. It was true that at the commencement of this war Turkey was in some pecuniary difficulties ; but why so ? Because she had made considerable exertions in time of peace to place herself in the rank of civilised European States. With this view she bought up all her old coin, and took other steps in improvement which had in cidentally caused some embarrassment to her finances. She had also made great and successful efforts in organisingher army, which had necessarily entailed upon her considerable expenses. The course pursued by the hon. member for Manchester was not so open to censure, because it had at least the merit of consistency, that hon. gentleman having plainly told the house that he would endeavour to embarrass the Government in the conduct of the war. [Mr. Baron dissented.] Now, no doubt a joint guarantee of a loan might be exceptional iu form, but considerations of statesmanship outweighed minor objections of that kind; and certainly it could not have been expected that a division would have been insisted on upon such a question. Two classes of objections had been stated to this guarantee — one relating to the honesty of Turkey, and the other based on her want of resources. Now, the fact was, Turkey had never yet repudiated a debt that she had contracted. She might not have satisfied every extortionate demand, but she had faithfully liquidated every shilling she had ever undertaken to pay. Indeed, Turkey was not only per fectly honest, but was even generous in her pecuniary transactions. In some instances the Turkish Government had been actually defrauded and imposed upon ; and, in the case of the Tripoli claims, particular merchants re ceived sums to which they had no sort of right, or title. With regard to the resources of Turkey, he would take the liberty of reading interesting extracts from two letters which he had received from a gentleman who was better acquainted with the state of that country than perhaps any one else that he knew. The first letter was dated Sam soun, the 30th of January, 1855, and said— " The war, no doubt, has stimulated the trade of this place ; the necessities of our army and the closing of the Danube and Odessa have created a great demand for grain here ; this will cease to a certain extent, when the extra ordinary causes which have produced it shall be terminated by peace. But my belief and hope is, that the trade created and fostered by the war will not cease with the war ; the peo ple of the interior have learnt to send their produce hither for sale, and have gained so largely that they have attempted to extend tillage to the utmost in their power. The forests behind us are being cleared, and, as men are scarce, the wo men are used to cultivate the land. This immense increase of production must come hither for sale, as the interior has no consumption for it. I have been quite s ur p rised to learra the riches of some of the lauded proprieto rs in Asia i! one Bey offered to give in one sale 30,0001. worth ofAiwi bly wa s the all stored and ready for delivery I This, prob i ?: am sm ._ proceeds of two or three years' h arve st, but , tl4' what may prised that such riches should still .existtii:. T aal aristocracy, be called the landed gentry of Anatole—.nsething may , per in fact, of the country — out of wis, Anatolia possesses enor ic o enor haps, some day be made. • • Captain SCOB ELL moved for returns respecting promo. tions in the navy, and called attention to the evils that were caused to many officers by the present system in ope ration, but the preceding motion on going into supply having been negatived, the motion could not be put. Sir C. WOOD intimated that he would have no objec tion to grant the returns sought for by the hon. and gal lant gentleman when regularly moved for. ORDNANCE SURVEY *OF SCOTLAND. Lord SEYMOUR called the attention of the house to the conduct of the Government with respect to the Ord nance survey of ScAlaad. When this subject was last before the house the Government promised that they would not continue the 25-inch scale of the survey beyond Ayrshire and Dumfries-shire ; but it now appeared that other counties were begun to be surveyed on the same scale. The LORD ADVOCATE defended the conduct of the Government in the matter, and said the counties referred to were begun to be surveyed before the Government pro mise was given. After some further discussion, Lord PALMERSTON insisted that he had kept faith with Parliament. Ho had considered the matter, and had laid a Treasury minute in favour of the 25-inch scale 0 . 1 the table of the house as far back as May last, when i was comp etent to any member to bring the question be fore the house. He was willing, however , to sus p e nd matters as far as possible, and to submit the ma tter to deliberation of a committee next session. e The matter then dropped. SALE OF BEER ACT- taste o f public Mr. ALCOCK drew attention to .. h Government the Rion, with the view of urging upon a mend the same. opinion on the subject of the Sale oftßetehe; • g immediate step h a d a nnounced, not necessity of taking The decision which the Government. committee reported, had given to do anything until the c l o o m or m B. l A.ct of last ses- What he proposed Was great dissatisfaction out of c f Parliament untouched with to leave leave the present a_ service on Sunday, but to per. He founded that day night till spect to the . ci a o mil the opening of public-houses from one on Sunday till after r g odflunbelio-houses from twelve on Satur. night. He 'ore the committee proposition ee on the act on the evidence The best way of effecting his public-houses during object would of last session al the act otfhought it was the duty be to repeal . o t twelve l e a l svte session.e n . Sunday z ir e ti ehremi hadt ti ng mentioned. the opening He o f the Government to introduce such a measure, and he hoped the First Minister would pledge himself to do so. Sir G GREY said it was quite impossible, thein a h b o i u l l rs p for the Speaker leaving the chair, to .on ao motion a bill to repeal the Beer Act of last give leave to bring session. The Govern ment Gould not assent to the introduction of such a mea sure before the comm i ttee Act had made th e ' appointed to consider the Beer their report. STATUTE LAW COMMISSION. Mr. CRAUFIIRD called attention to the report of the I ~;1 PA HOUSE OF LORDS—(YESTERDAY.) ROYAL COMMISSION. The Royal assent was given by commis:lon to the fol lowing bills, viz. :—Lady Raglan and Lord Raglan's Annuities ; Endowed Schools (Ireland) ; Gold Wedding Rings ; Comnions Inclosure (No. 2) ; Spirits (Ireland) Act Amendment; Friendly Societies ; Dublin Carriage Act. Amendment ; Christ Church (Tod morden); Marriages Validity; Burial-grounds (Scotland); Bills of Exchange and Promiss or y Notes ; Waveney Valley Railway ; Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway ; Wisbeach Port ; Bolton and Nightingale's Road ; Royal Medical Benevolent College ; Londonderry and Coleraine Railway ; Cavendish Bridge ; Holland Ward Roads ; Dagenham Docks ; London. Necropolis and Na tional Mausoleum ; Honitoo.Road ; E ,st of Fife Rail way.; Gateshead and Rexham Roads ; Portsmouth Rail. way ; Shrewsbury Improvement ; Northern Lon , don Cemetery ; Mid Kent and North Kent Railway ; Barrow Harbour ; Birkenhead and Liverpool Docks (Trust Property of Birkenhead Docks Trustees) ; Eng land and Ireland Improved Communication ; Furness Railway ; Liverpool Docks ; South Staffordshire Rail way ; Livesey's Estate ; Pedder's Divorce ; Cromarty Estate; Hamond's Estate ; Livesey's (B lackburn ) Estate. The Royal Commissioners were the Lord Chancellor, the Duke of Argyll, and the Earl of Harrowby. Their lordships adjourned during pleasure. . The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack at five o'clock. On the motion of Lord REDESDALE, the Glasgow, Dumbarton, and Helensburgh Railway was read a third time and passed. The Bishop of LONDON presented a petition from, the inhabitants of Shoreditc,ll, and of the neighbourhood of Victoria-park, against the proposed diminution of the area of that park. LAW OF MORTMAIN. In reply to Lord ST. LEONARDS, Lord BROUGHAM said be regretted that the bill re lating to the Law of Mortmain had not come up at ar earlier period from the other house, so as to enable their lordships to pass it during the present session. Under the circumstances he would only move the second read ing of the bill, with a view to its being withdrawn for the present session. Lord LYNDHURST presented a petition from the Protestant Alliance, stating that the petitioners bad heard with alarm that her Majesty's Secretary of State for the Horne Department had given permission to cele brate the Romish Mass in the Government prison of Brixton, and praying their lordships' house to take such measures as would secure a withdrawal of the permission, and that such departure from the principles of the constitution might never again take place. sJord ST. LEONARDS called the attention to the insecurity of our public records, and expressed a hope that liar Majesty's Government would take the neces sary precautions to preserve the records from fire. The noble and learned lord also referred to the injury done to some of the partitions in Hampton Court Palace, and to the robbery of one of them. The Bishep of LONDON made some similar observa tions. Earl GRANVILLE said the Chief Commissioner of Public Works had issued orders for the institution of a rigid inquiry into the circumstances alluded to by the noble and learned lord. Lord MONTEAGLE said be hoped that due care of Marlborough House, in which the munificent do nation of pictures by a private gentleman to the nation was deposited, would not be overlooked when precau tionary measures were being adopted. Earl GRANVILLE said the whole subject was un der the consideration of the Government with a view to adopting precautionary measures of the best possi ble description. THE DISSENTERS. Lord BROUGHAM moved the first reading of a bill, the object of which was to relieve certain dissenting clergymen from the Church of England from all penal ties to which they were at present liable, and from all prosecution for schism, and from all other penalties, spiritual and temporal, arising from an adherence to their conscientious convictions. He would move the second reading of the bill to-morrow. After a few words from the Bishop of LONDON, the bill was read a first time. PUBLIC LIBRARIES AND MUSEUMS BIL bill On the motion of Lord MONTEAGLE, tis bill passed through committee. PIERS AND HARBOURS (SCOTLAND) BILL. On the motion of the Duke of ARGYLL, this bill was read a second time. COAL MINES INSPECTION BILL. This bill, on the motion of Viscount CANNING, passed through committee after a few verbal amendments. THE WAR IN ASIA. The Earl of AIRLIE then proceeded to ask the noble lord the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether the Government had lately received any official information respecting the progress of the war in Asiatic Turkey; but the noble earl spoke in so low a tone that the observations accompanying his interroga tion did not reach us. It would be (the noble lord said) very important if the noble earl at the head of the Fo reign Department could contradict the rumours which prevailed as to the miserable condition of the Turkish army, and he hoped that the Government would take all the measures in their power for the purpose of stopping the progress of the Russians in Asia Minor. The Earl of CLARENDON said the Government were fully alive to the importance of maintaining the de fence of the country around Erzeroum and Kars. Last year the Government had sent out General Williams, an able officer, who by his exertions bad succeeded in sus taining the spirit of the Turkish army. and in reforming some of its abuses, and had placed Kars in a state of defence. The latest intelligence which the Government bad received was of the date of the 23d of last month. The Russians bad then advanced on Kars, bad got within the fire of the batteries, and had been repelled. So far from the Turkish army being in the state of de moralisation and depression supposed by the noble lord, General Williams had declared that the spirit and cou rage they had displayed on that occasion had amply re paid him for his labours. .(Hear.) The inhabitants had likewise displayed the best possible spirit. They had received arms on their own demand, and whenever the appearance of danger arose they always were ready to resist it. On the 23d the Russian force between Kars and Erzeroam had burnt some stores of corn, and had sent for heavy siege guns. There was no reason to ap prehend that Kars could be take'n by a coup de main; and if it were subjected to a regular siege it would be the duty of the Turkish Government to succour it. He (the Earl of Clarendon) had no objection to produce all the information asked for. MERCHANT SHIPPING BILL. In committee on this bill, Lord COLCHESTER moved a clause, the purport of which was that if several of the seamen of a vessel sus pected her to be unseaworthy, she should be subjected to survey. The object was to protect the seamen from being sent to sea, and their lives being perilled, in an unsafe ship. Lord STANLEY of ALDERLEY resisted the clause as needless and likely to prove vex atious. Lord CACHESTER said if the law at present were theoretically sufficient to meet the evil, it was not practi cally so ;, and so the seamen thought, for great numbers of them had petitioned upon the subject. When seamen applied to magistrates upon the subject they bad actually been accused of deserting their vessels. What was wanted was a summary remedy—it was really of no use to refer the poor seamen to an action at law. He wished the magistrate to have a summary power to determine the question. Lord STANLEY—You cannot compel a seaman to go to sea in an unseaworthy ship. Lord COLCHESTER—But what is wanted is a power of deciding summarily what is an unseaworthy ship. The Earl of HARDWICKE said the subject was of great importance. Large number of ships went to sea quite unseaworthy. Once embarked, the seamen, if they left the ship, were liable to be charged with Deser tion. Therefore, though the law gave the right to com plain of a ship as unseaworthy, practically the seamen could not exercise the right. InsuranT3s were very much perverted. He, believed agriculturists sometimes burnt their corn to realise the money insured. (A. laugh.) And from similar, want of principle, shipowners sent ships to sea knovin to be unseaworthy, but which bad been insured for a sum greater than their value. He c onsidered that the seamen were in nee d of protection, and be regretted that so reasonable a provision should have been rejected. Lord ABINGER spoke in favoUr of some such provi- sion. Lord STANLEY of ALDERLEY still resisted it. The LORD CHANCELLOR said that not only sea , men but other persons might object to work in place: unsafe and perilous to life. But the present provision was likely to prejudice the interests of shipowners. No doubt persons had been guilty of setting their stacks on fire, or sinking their ships, for the sake of insurance. But those were criminal offences, until lately capital,' and legislation could hardly be moulded with a view to meet such cases. • But this clause would give seamen the power of vexatiously stopping ships from proceeding to sea. The clause was rejected. The Bishop of OXFORD asked leave to introduce a clause to protect the ballast-heavers of the metropolis, who, he said, were in the bands of a small knot of publi cans and others, and wholly unable to exercise freedom of labour. The publicans who had the ballast-heavers in theirpower compelled them to take out their wages in drink to a great degree. In 1853 the Merchant Shipping Acts Amendment Act contained some degree of protection on behalf of those poor men, which had produced a very ben , fficial effect. The purpose of the proposed clause was only to carry out the object by securing to the Trinity House the control of the ballast. This would take bal last heavers out of the hands of the publicans. Lord STANLEY of ALDERLEY said it would be best to leave the matter for the present under the exist ing act. It was true that the ballast heavers had suf fered greatly; but it was contrary to the principles of political economy that the monopoly in any trade or business should be given to any body cf men. The effect of the clause would be to give the Trinity-house the mo nopoly of the ballast business. The existing act gave the Trinity-house quite sufficient control over the bal last. The evil alluded to was being daily reduced, and would ultimately be entirely removed without any fur ther legislation. The Bishop of OXFORD said that it was a mistake to confound this clause with monopoly. The object was to secure to the ballast-heavers the profits of their la bour, not to give to Ttinity-House any part of the pro fits. He feared that the evil would not be cured under the present act. The ballast-heavers were labouring under a monopoly , a nd the ob j ect of the clause was to DECIMAL COINAGE. In answer to Mr. G. A. HAMILTON. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said the commissioners for inquiring int) the subject of decimal coinage would be Lord ?lonteagle, Mr. Hubbard (late governor of the Bank of England), and Lord Overstone. The commission had not yet been prepared, but as soon as it was completed there would be no objection to lay a copy of it on the table. PENSIONS TO OFFICERS' RELATIVES. Colonel LINDSAY asked the, Under Secretary for War whether it was the intention of the Government to extend to the mother or sister of an officer who died from illness contracted in the field the same allowance as was proposed to be given, under special circumstances, to the mother or sister of aniofficer who had been killed in action Mr. PEEL—Under the pension warrant the - mother and sister of an officer were entitled to receive a pension only in case of that officer being killed in action ; but in the event of the ufficer dying from fatigue, or under the circumstances supposed in the question, and if the claims of those relatives in other respects were pecu liarly strong, in any such instance special consideration would be given to it, aLd the Secretary at War had power to do so. Colonel LINDSAY—That is, if he dies from fatigue. Does the rule also apply to officers who may die from cholera, or other disease ? Mr. PEEL—Yes ; in the event of any such special claim being made. KINGSTOWN AND HOLYHEAD HARBOUR. Mr. H. HERBERT asked the Secretary to the Trea sury whether any orders had been actually given for the recommencement of the steam-packet pier in Kingstown Harbour, and whether any arrangements had been made or were' in contemplation with the proprietors of the Dublin and Kingstown Railway for the extension of the railway from the Kingstown terminus to the said pier ? and a similar question with regard to the contemplated peer in the New Harbour of Refuge at Holyhead. Mr. WlLSON—Orders had been given to recommence the pier at Kingstown Harbour, and he believed it had been already begun. An arrangement had been made. though not finally completed—that was, the agreement had not yet been signed—whereby the railway should communicate with the landing point of the pier, not from the terminus, but by a curve which would go off the main line to the landing point. With regard to Holyhead, the plans for the landing place were all pre pared, and the engineer was about to submit them in a few days to public tender. In reply to a question from Lord NAAS, Mr. WILSON added that he had no doubt the money voted this year for Holyhead Harbour would be applica le to the works referred to. CHURCH RATES BILL. In reply to Lord R. CECIL, Sir W. CLAY said it was his intention to proceed with this bill tomorrow. GOVERN NIENT CONTRACTORS. Mr. T. MITCHELL asked the First Lord of the Treasury whether, under existing circumstances, it was the intention of the Government to introduce this ses sion a bill for the purpose of repealing the act of 1782, which disqualified certain contractors from sitting in Parliament, and rendered them liable to heavy penalties in the event of their doing so I Lord PALMERSTON had been informed that the committee to whom the question was referred bad re ported, or were about to report, that contracts for loans lid not fall within the law ; but in any case he thought it would be tight to wait until that report was in the hands of members before any further step was taketi. There was, however, no intention on the part of her Majesty's Government at this period of the session to Lake into consideration whether it was expedient or not to propose a bill on the subject. NEW NATIONAL GALLERY. Mr. SPOONER put a question to the Secretary to the Treasury as to the manner in which the sum of 150,0001. surplus from tie Exhibition of 1851, and the sum of 175,5001. granted by Parliament for Kensington Gore National Gallery, bad been invested or otherwise disposed of, and what interest it produced Mr. WILSON said that with regard to the 150,0001., the surplus of the Exhibition fund, nod the 150,0001: voted by this house at the end of 1352, making together 300,0001., that sum had all been expended in the pur chase of the property atKensington. The greater part of it had been actually paid, and that which had not been paid remained duemerely because smite difficulties in the completion of the deeds bad rendered delay neces sary. The proportion if the Exhibition fund, which had not been paid_in conseGuence of this circtitistance, was invested in Exchequer Bills at the interest which such securities commanded n the market. With regard to I 25,0001., the sum votes last year for the purchase of a ' small piece of ground vhich ran like a wedge into the main property, that pircbase had not been completed, hut was in process of :lompletion, and the third report of the Royal commissim upon the subject would be pre sented to Parliament very shortly. THE AFFAIR' AT MALLAGT4E - A. In reply to Mr. BRIGHT, Lord PALMERSTON said he believed that some account had been received at the Colonial-office relative to this affair. None tad been received at the Admiralty. In the course of to-morrow he would inform himself as to the nature of the communications, and let the hon. mem ber know if they were sufficiently full ,and explana tory to enable him to lay them upon the table of the house. THE B T IG D H I T A , N BUDGET. In reply to Lord PALMERsroN said there were bills before the house which it was cesirable should not be delay ed, and which be was anxious should be sent to th House of Lords. The Indian budget could be taken as well after those bills were passed ; and his right hon, friend (Mr. V. Smith) was read. to make his statementa t the earliest opportunity that presented it=elf. CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY TILL. at to e r r d a P t A th L at iM m E o tT n O t. N A — l l l t h w e Mr. STIiUTT asked when this bill would be pro- Ehat he eeded with ? sc le tt ! , o give an was anxious to go on with it if there were time afforded for its discussion. a l inl id P sTy sibt AUSTRIAN TACTICS. Mr. DISRAELI would take that o pportunity of addressing an inquiry to the noble lord the member for London with respect to a statement which the noble lord made on Thursday night in his speech on a subject of great importance, and a statement which had created great sensation. The noble lord was uederstood on that occasion, in accounting for the expedition to the Crimea, to have stated that one of its principal causes was the refusal of Austria to cross the River Pruth ; and the noble lord would allow him, perhaps , now to inquire what was his authority for making that statement? Lord J. RUSSELL said his authority was his gene ral recollection of the communications which at that time had passed between the Government of Austria and the Government of her Majesty. There was not a request immediately from the Government of this country to the Austrians to pass the Froth, and a refusal of the Austrians to do so, but a series of communications with regard to the operations which Austria was ready to undertake, and those ope rations consisted in causing the evacuation of the principalities by Russia. More Subsequently there was a communication from Austria, to the effect that the Aus triam armies, being in the principalities, if the armies of the allies should enter the principalities for the purpose of crossing the Froth, the Austrian army would remain in the principalities, and allow the passage of the allied armies through their posts, for the purpoue of crossing the Pruth. He spoke only from recollection ; but the whole of the correspondence produced an impression on his mind that the Austrians were not at that time pre pared to cross the Pruth. Mr. DISRAELI could not, of course, know that the noble lord spoke from memory ; but as the subject was one of great importance, he might perhaps be permitted to inquire of the First Minister if he could state to the house whether it was in his recollection that, under the circumstances to which be (Mr. Disraeli) had refeired, Austria refused to cross t he Pruth, and that one of the rea sons for the expedition t o the Crimea was that refusal on the part of the Austrian Government Lord PALMERST ON could not answer questions like these, picked out piecemeal from a long course of negotiations between her Majesty's Government and the Government of one of the Sovereigns in alliance, to a certain degree, with her Majesty. All he could say, with regard to himself, was, that he had always thought the Crimea was the place where the most effective blow could be struck at the preponderance of Russia in the Black Sea ; and if there nad been no other reason that would, in his mind, be amply sufficient for the expedition. THE VIENNA CONFERENCES. Mr. LAING asked if it was the intention of the Go vernment to invite discussion on the papers relative to the Vienna Conferences, which had been laid upon the table of the house ? Lord PALMERSTON—CertainIy it is not my inten tion to do so. (Laughter.) We have had a great deal of discussion already, but the hon. member has been away, I believe. (Hear, hear, and laughter.) If he had beeu here he would have had ample opportunity for dis cussing those papers. At present we have public busi ness of great urgency before us, which it is my desire to press forward as rapidly as possible. Mr. LAING gave notice that he should take an op portunity of submitting a motion to the house, with a view to the discussion of the subject, and he should be glad if the Government would give him an early day for the purpose. Lord PALMERSTON—The hon. gentleman must excuse me. I can give no day. (Cheers and laughter.) A. day may be forcibly taken, of course ; but I can give none willingly. hear. PUBLIC BUSINESS. Lord NAAS said that on the 4th of May the House of Lords came to a resolution not to take any bill which was brought up from this house for a second reading after the 24th of this m onth (to-morrow). Deducting the Chancery bills of his hon. and learned friend (Mr White side), he found that there were now 12 bills before the house waiting for second reading, 8 of which were Go veroinen t bills ; 17 bills were in committee, or waiting to go into committee, and twelVe of them were Govern ment hills. Four stood for a third reading, three of them being Government bills. It would be convenient if the noble lord could state what course he proposed to take with those bills, and if it were likely that the resolutitn Statute Law Commission, and especially to certain pareTs inserted in the second appenlix to til!it report, containitl, commentsof a personal kind by Mr. B. Tier, in which, ha contended, that gentleman had exceeded his duty. Mr. WALPOLE made a few observations upon the sub ject, when the order for going into committee was post poned until Thursday. Tie Trinity College (Dublin) Bill was road a third time and passed. THE PARTIN - MIMIIP AMENDMENT BILL. Mr. BOUVERIE moved the postponement of going into committee on this bill until the 12 o'clock Bitting to-day. After some discussion on the inconvenience of discussing a measure of so much importance at a morning sitting, ir. MITCHELL oPpo - sed the proposal adjournment. The house then divided, when there appeared— For the motion Against it 76 15 Majority —6l The bill was therefore fixed for this day. The Customs LAW Consolidation Bill. and the Customs Tariff Acts Amendments Hill were read a second time. The Lords' amendments on the - Youthful Offenders Bill were considered and agreed to. The Public Houses(lraland) Bill passed through com mittee. _ . The Lord's amendments to the Weights and Measures Bill were considered and agreed to. • The Slave Trade. (Sherbro) Bill wns.read a third time. The Turnpike Acts Continuance (Ireland) Bill was read a second time. Tho Joint Stock Banks (Scotland) Bill was read a second time. The Island of Tobago Loans Bill was also read a second time. COURT OF CHANCERY (IRELAND) JURISDIC- TION On the motion of Mr. WarrEsiDE, the orders of the day for the second reading of this bill, and five others con nected with it, were discharged. The house adjourned at 2 o'clock, Mr. T. S. Daneombe paired in favour of Mr. Boehm:lea motion with Mr. Atherton against. THE BEER ACT.-(THIS DAY.) The committee re-assembled this morning at twelve o'clock, Mr. H. Berkeley in the chair. The committee at once ordered the room to be cleared, and on the re-admission of the public, about a quarter past one o'clock, The Chairman announced that the committee had de termined to suspend any further evidence for the present, and that they would adjourn until Thursday next. LAW INTELLIGENCE. - (THIS DAY.) ROLLS COURT. MORRIS V. MOSS-JUDGMENT. The Master of the Rolls gave j udgment to-day in this case. When the matter cams before the Court his Honour at the conclusion of the arguments deferred givi ag judgment, for the purpose of reading the evidence, i►l order to satisfy himself whether the trade of a mercer carried on by the testator in the cause, and which since his death had been sold by his executors, formo d part of the testator's assets. After reading the evidence his Honour felt no doubt that the trade in question which was carried on in St. Ann's-square formed no part of the testator's assets ; because from the evidence it was clearly shown that the trade had been carried on and established by the testator's wife, who previous to her marriage had carried on the business of a milliner, and to whose exertions alone the profits that had been made were attributable. His Honour must therefore decree that the business of a mercer, which had been car ried on by the testator's wife in her name, formed no part of his assets. ORVIIETT V. CORSEII—JUDGMENT. His Honour also disposed of this case, which has been several times before him within the last few days, and the facts of which we have already given, declaring that one-third of the sum of 1,0001., namely, 3331. 6s. Bd., would be due from the defendant out of the estate of his father, with interest upo❑ it from his father's death at the rate of 4 per cent. per annum. His Honour also ordered that if the defendant did not admit assets, an account should be taken of his father's estate at the time of his death. Upon its being intimated that the defendant admitted assets, his Honour ordered the usual accounts to be taken. (Before Vice-Chancellor Wood.)' HERNAMAN V. ARMSTRONG.—JUDGMENT. His Honour gave judgment in this case, overruling the demurrer, and reserving the costs to the hearing. BOND V. ENGLAND. His Honour also disposed of this case, which mooted a question of construction totally devoid of interest ex cept to the parties concerned. INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT. THE FOREIGN OPERAS AT DUI RY -LANE THEATRE:. IN RE JARRETT. This insolvent, the well-known musical director, at- tended on his application to be admitted to bail till his hearing. Mr. Reed appeared to oppose on the part of Mr. A. Jones. The insolvent was brought up from Whitecross-ztreet prison, but the bail was not in attendance. The schedule tiled by the insolvent disclosed debts from August last to 1,580/., and the insolvency is attributed to the re ceipts of the Theatre Royal, Drury-lane, being inefficient to meet this expenditure. Tue insolvent was the manager of the foreign operas at Drury-lane Theatre, and several vocalists, for services at the establishment, are inserted in the schedule for their salaries, including Mr. Hamilton Brabani. It appears that the receipts at the theatre from the 16th to the ith May, during which time the insolvent bad the house, were 1,2531. The insolvent had paid 4001. as rent of the theatre, and 586/. as salaries to th• principal artistes, and he owed them about 200/. Mr. Reed mentioned the case to the Court, and said he understood the bail would not appear. The officer of the prison made a similar statement. The insolvent had attended from the prison. .. . . The court ordered the case to be struck out and the parties retired. 111ARLBOROUG-11-STREET.-(THIS DAY.) ROBBERY OF PADDOCK, THE PUGILIST. Emily 'Schwartz, and Emma Woolir, two women of questionable character, were brought before Mr. Hard wick for final examination, charged with stealing a 201. Bank of England note, the property of Thomas Paddock, the well-known pugilist. The prosecutor stated that on Saturday the 7th inst., shortly after his fight with Jones, he was in the Coach and Horses public-house, in Greek-street. At that time he had a large sum of money in bank-notes in his pocket. He had been drinking rather freely, but was not intoxi cated. He got into conversation with the prisoners, who were in the house, and treated them with something to drink. He left and went home, and shortly afterwards he missed a 201. note from the money in his possession. He at once suspected the prisoners, and caused them to be apprehended. George Holton, butcher, Newport-market, said the prisoners, when at the station-house, acknowledged that they had the 201. note, and had changed it at Bycrafee, in Leicester-square. Thomas Watkins, assistant to Mr. Bycroft, shawl dealer, Leicester-square, said the prisoners came to their shop on the 7th inst., and purchased two mantles, pi ing for them with a 201. note. Police-Serjeant Rogers said he too k the prisoners l n . to custody, and on the way to the s tation they tolder they had found the note at the door of a pu bli c borugave The prisoners, in defence, sa id the prosecute them the note. Mr. Hardwick thought that hardly probable, and cm. mitted them for trial • HOSTILITY OF N"...4.PLES TOWARDS T tiE A LL LES. journals have (From a Corresp on tlent of thz; Morning Post.) The reported till, NAPLES, JulY h e expOrtatiOn of supplies from this king prohibition of I r. ea. The following facts will throw C; n'the report :—An application was a dorn to the \V. Temple to Car. Carafa, the 60 e cently t uail,e by nn for pertnission to export grain The answer was a negative. Again ulster • for }oereaign t , ) the Grim • when a refusal ‘ was repeated, and sir William applied, it was a dded, that his Majesty was the best judge of what was right or wrong, politic or otherwise, in hi s own States. Setting aside the tone of this curt and suggestive reply, the refusal was marked by greater hostility when the circumstances are consi dered. There is au overabundant quan tity of grain on hand in thi s ki ngdom, and the h o lders of it are most anxious to sell. Indeed the price of it is now at so low a mark, 18 cartini or 19 the tomoto, that growers are suffering sadly. At this juncture, too, are have a, most abundant harvest, so that grain may be saki to be a drug ; our population cannot consume it, and' yet the Government will not permit the exportation of it. 01 course, to say the least, had there been the slightest desire to stand well with the allies, the re quest of the British Minister would have been conceded on the instant. One of the contractors for the supply of our troops has been in Naples, and he, too, made an effort to change the determination of the Government by a substantial address to their interests. If the Minister of Finance would procure him this permission, which he sought, an offer was made to pay a voluntary export duty of eight cartini the tomoto. Even money failed, and as so powerful a motive in the South of Italy was ineffectual, it is argued that the power of the reigning motive must be strong indeed. What that is cannot admit of a doubt when one considers the general note of this Government. Captain I\l'Douga.ll, R.N , the newly-appointe fid: miralty Superintendent of Packets at Southampton, eia tered upon his duties at that. - port yesterday.