The Sun. — London, England, 1855-07-17 00:00:00

d pollee if f l" D r n off• 2- ` ? peep.i , 1 : 11 ,. Eutaw the" a ssault 00 , number of ices. )ersors erl ere that dal rtich cas. es ecessary 1'10; well•dr so Thep j o l ns ;na tbe t 1,1 not re°' ; by 3 Pl e d ' )r six` °°l B i ble [ Olt Pc's ° tf of tWen rs A 0115 U at the he 11 " lever saw), crowd. • lered instruct 0 or SO, ow witnes s t "' to of ,„g was stannie 3t ip wh en i n fer os police did it have bee f L when tilem psi they in do police te t o about tee_ 't et e alcu g ere persons ;04 %mu the crowd ixr dl ner f o r a . e to eoVrtte day. IS 3ople, purpose. c o then no i,e, make btoil g eby frig ble thipg c tu " felt 11 0 1 5 0 , red to ~j L' e eini e ' t at th e 'to 1.1 1 spositioa be t large nuoi 0 0 )le pa" g rep Ls not so b F o lay. 11° O fore bell',, ty 10 de t, ca pt3 l , o Ofsa Ile Air 3s , l c ip id 5 o' c ir ' 49 eo 1) ,,d ein , t 3 " - to be offherog Pot le ha nd'. ti t t le sacs e" 8 011 ulace Wet° r , Is 4 o vr 11 101 . 1:4 0 11 , 3 1 e saw e - ffo outod• ia - acl llsre 'o 3 0 , ' fi° 0 01 0 0 wg th e ! t Mr. g t " l prdorlY• gerl..lo k w e „ r tic w ,o ° it I' jot, c os A that p°oooo/ )n roeu 0 1‘ 11 0 ( lair stri;ar. if notice ncling 0.4 r, done. .P . ' l. ; ly rely r ou ,, g toO d f i li # d • c - , r 3 for t b , fV prioOn e• t 'orioti' te 'nape° recu JP, who .°Olll.OlO bol3o' l 'oo park 3 ter e r : great bei3l, 000 y t see l' A i l oOftl f a tt6- tb e out i ° f 0 0:0 mined was C °l3 Lards W e e o re vle i jiel l The P" 00. Tbe•a°o4 pf way. 00 4 0 soldier,b,oo7, • it. ). g ol ( le roi l o d id the Toe t luch• . g ue 06, or a P a rse s 2' 0 vecl, e l 11 1: 1 el L e cro w e f oil rea ch 0 0 00 4 3; 1 s to diapd, PO9 L)ourbu", c 0.,. 0 0 1 Lb , p o viitt , oo , r eagy • „tfe e ,l for'' 0 StaW s jOe, bl 10C'04 1 ' mon °,,Co),,clin • the t e ;l air, 5° be r 0 f anY r. a u ra 0i flou gair O t ole:j the p °ll t o A 1) ill n o or 3- 0 0 t i i flian)Y 11 0136 , c l° P . ;b r' o s tit .. o cti °tl iii 0 D O, pi; ga ve e°. P e P 'Dot t 05 C i t) Ott oy ;11 gr e ' et ne t ' Ar t o e po lio 0 , to l .if dovi dea ( 7 .1 a 0 s i b a e ll e o l i t : o t o iC e f ,4 buildetet ei pt utiog c 0 0 0, h i o i ris ta oc r h (15vge t ti) f , ":o ° ,ir c al at o 3! ,f o g .ch," 613 0 r. 'O t ) After voc e tco i ) to P e PTbe Pse 111 ' tho 0 , or w /~ have been a goneral disturbance. At this particular titne eight or ten soldiers came across the park, some of them heir' , nilitia men, and as some pute Was going on between the regulars and the militia, while the mob near them was aiding the police, jii , liciously interfered and prevented any diEtarbance taking place. The Court then adjeurned for half an hour. THE BEER, ACT.-(THIS DAE) :rh e committe e met again this morning. The first wit ness examined was Mr. Elliott, the Lam beth police magistrate. He said the conflicting deci sions of the magistrates h a d cause d muc h inconvenie, ce, and he thought' the Legislature ought at once to set the quetion at rest. With regard to closing the public houses at 6 o'clock on Sunday, Mr. Elliott observed that the longer public houses kept open th e greater were t h e i n d ucemen t s to drinking He did not think 11 o'clock on Sunday too late for the houses to keg) opdn. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF COMMONS—(THIS DAY.) The SPEAKER took the chair at 12 o'clock. The Lords' amendments to the following bills were Iconsidered an d agreed to : Gateshead and Hexharn oatis Bill, P or t smouth Railway Bill, and Shrewsbury nProvement Bill. ilarnmond's Estate Bill and Livesey's Blackburn Estate Bill were read a third time and pass.ed. Jenkins's Estate Bill was read a second time. THE SUNDAY BEER BILL. Mr. AL COCK presented a iargc number of petitions Praying that th e S unday Beer Bill of last session be either repealed or modified. He moved that the petitions be referred t o th e select committee now sitting up-stairs on subject. CROWN SUITS BILL. The house went into committee on this bill, which was reported with amendments, and the house resumed. PUBLIC HEALTH BILL. bill till B. HALL then moved the postponement of this till next session, in order that the bill might be printed and circulated during the recess. Agreed to. n S c „ repot to oir H. WILLOUGHBY, , 11. B. HALL aga i n rose and sa id it was hi s i n t en ti on , ne stat e d t h e other day, to introduce a short bill ofuriiinegaitthhefpor one res Sear.entsrs session to continue the present Board LEFT SITTING. MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.) 81tr i , HAY MARKETS. trti.,—,,IIPTELD.—OId meadow hay, 3/ 3s to 5/ 15s ; new on 0610 s to 5/ Os emvet ,4iOsto 6/ 10s ditto, to n and straw, 17 58 0(1 to l' 10s Od per loati 'olztromderate supply, an d a s l ugg i s h demand. Oitt ~"11LAND.—Old meadow hay, 31 lOs to 5 / 153 : new 44 4 ° ./ 8s to 5/ Os ; old eiov, ,4'03 to 61 .8 s ; and new g u 4/ 08 to 5l Os • and straw, if 4s to 11 lOs per low, 1 1 3 7 rather limited, and trade firm. aitt 12s • new rtITEc tiAPEL.—OId meadow hay, 3/ 12s to o . (titt n ° ' ' ll 10 8 5s • old cloy 4/ 4s to 6l 15s ; new L. a — d ' e 3 / 18s to 51 Os; and straw, 1/ 5s to 1/ 104 per load. TE A. COLONIAL. ." -- There i s no alteration in the market. bett e 4 l , ll . — Poreig u has been sold at full rates, and the rtl t ' is at a slight advance. Floating cargoes are a r 0 p e ," ° th by the home trade and for export dion. There C louial at full rates. Refined is not Lug ".' iS t o aken o for home use. Brown lumps at 475, hat ;p, °e erY at . 47s 6d to 53s per cwt. There were landed 1 45 t; e4 „ at the East and West India Docks 2,379 Wads, 34 brls. There were taken for home use 1,804 l'eB, and tes, 488 brls ; and the stock is 11,510 hhds, 912 C brls Gn o C ;T F ,, - 'E. -- -There . are a few parcels of Plantation Ceylon fact o : r, and the home and export demand continues satisi koch`Y. Stiff rates are asked for all descriptions, and c is rather dearer. 4 71 '.—This article is firm, but quiet. 'ts—There have been no sales of importance. aar,;eklTPETßE.—Very little is doing, but prices remain the d~ c R l -ti 31 ." ---- There were landed last week at the above-named 123 381 puns, 5 hhds. Th ere were taken for home use Th Duns, 11 hhcis ; and exported 567 puns, 340 hhds. e stock is 10,495 puns, 738 hhds. p3::l:rlGo.—The quantity so ld i s 3 , 747 c h es t s , o f 5,495 ed. Prices are the same as last week. SPORTING INT ALLIGENOE. TATTE RSALThLc, Business was remarkably dull, and a strong proba bility exists that ere l ong i t w ill be duller than ever ; for ould the proposed motion—" that no bets upon races ju future shall be play or pay"—be carried into effect by tthe Jockey Club, speculation will thenceforth be con ried within the na rrowes t limits possibl e. That i t w ill 47 e a purifying effect there can be no doubt ; but the general opinion is, that, in purifying, it will materially tend to paralyse. The principal movements this afternoon may be briefl de scribed. y Pot th e Goodwood Stakes Hom i ly was b acke d f or 11'115 money at 12 t o 1 ; 2 to 1 was betted freely against tulston for th e Goodwood Cup, and 3 to 1 taken about a rtT le ino- At the close- only ' 5 to 2 was offered. anv e transactio ns on th e D er b y were no t mar k e d by C Le ature of imp or t ance . ' l osing prices : NOTTINGHAMSHIRE HANDICAP. sto 1 on the field. GOODWOOD STAKES. 10 to 1 agst Quince (taken) 12, to 1 agst H om ily (taken) 100 to 7 agst Supplicant (taken) 15 to 1 agst Calamus (taken) 25 to 1 agst Katerfelto (taken) 25 to 1 agst Goorkatt (offered) 25 to 1 agst Mishap (taken) 11 to 1 agst Instructress and Katerfelto coupled (taken to 401.) C OODWOOD CUP. to 1 agst Oulston (taken and afterwards off.) to 2 agst Baroncino (3 to 1 taken) 1 2 to 1 agst Royal Quand Meme (taken) DERBY. 9 to 1 agst Fly-by-night (taken) 16 to 1 agst Wentworth (taken) 20 to 1 agA Fazzoletto (taken) 20 to 1 agst Dramatist (taken) 2 5 to 1 agst Artillery (taken) 25 to 1 asst Yellow Jack (taken) 30 to 1 agst Polmoodie (taken to 1001.) to 1 agst Mario (late Chanter) (taken) °,vi-r t b °ward h as so ld hi s t w o-yr-old colt Cbeshunt, 1856 r other t o S cythian. H e i s engaged in the Derby, and has gone into John Day's stable. ktti, b -ACING FIXTURES FOR 1855. li.bi,, lam l9 Ludlow 4 a,rl g b u o u ri h; .. 19 Knutsford e htliz at u gh *************** 24 Teignbridge ord .. 24 Goodwood r/ AUGUST. 11, OlStaffordshire 7 I Lewes. r • i ghtou 8 I Tonbridge l7 20 Il A r l i r a ti t r it i e o ******* ................................. 1 9 0 I G , r o e r a k t Yarmouth W o i v 1 1 ub Read etuampton .13 Radelffe 27 Eng . 14 Derby lioa.,_ .................. 28 cvla ..,._ - . VP • ally; . 3° 1 2 . 6 -.31 1 14 I SEPTEMBER. wiek ............. 4 1 ................ 11 Lic~ ge . ................. 17 i L e i ceat i e u r .................. 17 I , 19 Lanark 2O Newmarket F 0 25 Walsall 26 Nortballerton el e ,, .....00TOBER. Vir ester .. 9 W ick Autumn , re%h ................... ... flrw Lledi r , ,41:11 ................ 4 Richmond 4e,„;:f, ..................... 4 Newmarket Ittlar,!'ket S 0 . 8 I Worce,ter ' k;aledonian Hunt .10 I 14et Dool NOVEMBER. ......... a vy e Place u n d erstandbetween a matrimonial alliance is about to take 2( i,,, r4 _. et , , iveen the Hon. Helen buncombe, i d so a n u , gh s t e e e r on o a f 1(1 I %4Z' Lady Feversham, and Mr. _ . 21 , Cotr,'Ll'. benison, M.P. for South Yorkshire. 2( fell 2( utirinp—littkrlCß.—The very heavy showers which Il csd4 early the whole of Tuesday and part of e l r V al e i d ty - i( ( c,.f tli e ave been peculiarly beneficial for . the e u t." l . ez., r °l 2 B on the light lands around this neighbour- )! T he la a ,,.`ue wet, no doutt made it unfortunate for h' t 4 -he .„-ecgt, although some portion of it was secured.. ct ,t, to th:igeat here looking rather a thin plant, owin,, il ere," e t of is the spring, but the barley is a heavy 21 th er , sath o i ugh it is considerably laid in ninny places _b o y ,. 1 th eb a n• The showers were particularly favourable w f e.. 1 I , 4 fe,sea4ll,B and peas and mangold and turnip crops, as arell 1 e4a7p-y"tuceollpotatoes, which are doing well, and we . 21, e h tear are not affected by any appearance of dis- Y T • --.. e c ite ni B ford Chronicle. el The Turkish Government have granted an e .. x e - _ 2 Ilaitl' concession for a submarine telegraph from th an d the to Alexandria. The cost will be 120,0001., _ A, 11 t a - : line could be completed in twelve months. 4 ' 4 to annuli subsidy of 4,500/. for twent ears 4 c ifßei ' n e , Paid by Turkey for the transmission of . -11di:1,w---"ages and, as the communications from t i and 4.1, 111 be accelerated from five to six days when this io "Lie general system of telegraphs now constructing ur ' tie4°Pean Turkey shall have been completed, an a - 11 raol re venue of 10 400/. is calculated upon by the pro - 1. , are from that source. At the same time proposals I.i i 0.,, t , ll toot for extending . the project to India by carry athe °th"e communication viceS-aez and Aden toKurrac ? t , the ,e. Mouth of the Indus, where it would connect t w c h . v um lines already in operation, or in course of cons rthe y a ,, i ' n bY the East India Company throughout r .a. tene:s presidencies. The total length from the Da a re_ (mired o Xurrachee is about 4,000 miles, and the sum I Al e for the whole (including the submarine line to l nweandria), would be 8 50,0001. Application has been 4 ,, Q _ to the India-houso for support,' in the shape of an i tl '.. : ila allowance of 30,000/. a-year, subject to reduction itiaT)ePojtion to the ultimate success of the undertaking. ta:tealilrte line to India may, it is estimated, be com- Gen two years. sl iPeri n e t ral j "lini, the well-known military writer, who per or ~„.!nded the military education of the late Em eartp,ltlicholas and afterwards became his first aide-de- Elo per a s , 'aYs the Austria/I Gazette, obtained from the a.,(iiii to Alexander permission to retire to Brussels, of o„,_ ° , take up his residence in that city at the beginning i "?Rert The Geueral 14 77 Yegirli a V). - A RE MARKETS DA Y.) RAILWLYE. RiILWATO. Olostnx Priers yesterday. 23 - 25 4a 4g 8 - 13i -- 13 15i - 16 86 -76 A 92 - 94 62 - 63:j 13 - 11 8 - 10 ::: - ...a -15 i Ili 12! 32 - 36 23 - 25 76 - 78 57 - 59 - 19 - 20 .•• 4... 70 - 72 91 - 92 70 - 72 126 -1: 8 100 - 102 67 674 53 60 73 - 73 1 8 - 931 8 - 9tl! 81/ 81i 100 - 102 100 100} 4d iP - par Bii -51 j 8 • 74 1 7L• 601 -25 A 8 r- 84 7if - 43 - 45 •e• ~' 9 - 7 1. - li - 52 30 .* 31 73 3 / 4 74 7 - 64 13i 1 - 144 50 51 48 - 50 d par - ir 51 - 51 61 - 61 d I ar ... - - 26 - 28 0:3 105 67 69 45 47 14? 2 61 62 30i 311 4 2 2(.1 par 39 - 41 4i - 5 19 3 / 4 20 3 3 / 4 - 20 - 22 5 - 7 Busineis done this day. 100 A.1. - frerdc en ..... . A.rabg. Nottvg. Bort and Eastn. Junet... all licifast Bally - mond. all Birming. Woli ~113 -tour Vallc•y !Pi Birk Lanesl.. d Chest Li•re Juliet . al? Do. Chesil. & Biek , £5O and £25 Cont , . I.P Do., £20... all Rlyth SL,Tynorigina , £25 (issd. at £45, , 100 Bristol and Exeter...! 100 Caledonian.... ,61s. Carmarthen and Car digan al. •Chester & Holyhead. 111 (lurk and Bandon all Cork, Black, & Pas- 16 Cornwall 14 Gil -ff Junction 41 Du.Aiii&BelfastJuuc all Dundee Perth&Ab.‘; ,teen Junction all Do• N -•••-• ••• 100 East Aa.glian 411 Eastern Counties..... 100 Eastern Union, A Stock .. 100 Do., B. Sto-k. St Do., New A. 100 East Lancashire 100 P,cli nburgh &Glasgow all Edinb. and Peeblos tuo Edin.Prth ZlDurdec 9 ''orth & Clyde Ju all Furness all Do. Extension.. 100 Glasgow &S. Western 100 great Northern 100 Do., A. Stock 1 00 Do., B. Stock . 1)t; Ot. Sth. &West. ( Ire. ) 100 great Western LOO Do. Stour Val Rail Gua. Stk 12 all Irish South-Eastern .50 all Lancaster & Carlisle 16i 14i Do., Thirds 1.6 S 7 Do. New Thirds St. 100 Lancash. and Yorks 3 - Do. Wet. BidingUn. 20 all Liv:Crsby.&Southpt 11 all London & Blackvral St. 200 bond. Bright & S.Cst St 100 Loud. and N. Westn. 20 16 Do. Fifths 10 51 Do.lo/. 5h.,M&8... 2A Do. Eighths it 100 London andS. West: 50 . a7.=: Do., £5O 40 8 Do., £4O 25 all Ludn drryea Col erai 25 all Lndndrry. & Enial7l. St. I_oo Mauch.Sb k 25 all Do. Shares, No. 1 2s s2s. Do., Man. & Lin. Un. St. 100 Midland .4. 100 ; I °. l.irinng. &Derb:, 50 all Midi& G. West. (Ire, ) 25 all Do. Half Shares AO all Newcastle & e 23 Nwpt.Aberg. & Hrf si, 8 Newry & 10 all Newry Warrenpoint and Rostrevor St. 1.71/ Norfolk 50 3,3 Nortlln.Connties Ur, St. 100 North British 16 all North Devon, No. 1 16 all 1)o., No. 2 8 ;all Do., A Deferred 8 all Do., B Guarant , ed St. WO N. Eastern—Berwic , 25 20 Do. do. Extension 25 13 T)o.do. G.N.E. Purch 50 all Do. Loecle. St. 00 Do. York 50 I! North London 10 all Do. Now £lO 10 3 1. %.&S. Wstrn.,HaraT.- stead, and City &1.. 17? North Stafforclshi - e , - , .. '0 a 1: `forth 'Western 10 all N. le S. Westrn. June 1.0 Nuneaton, Hinckley I e,l? d Leicester Oxford, Worcester, k Wolverhampton - '0 8 Portsmouth St. f slt Se.,.,ash Central St. 13 Scottish Midland .... St. 100 Si iropshire Union .yo a ; South Devon gt,l South Eastern 50 all South Wales •!0 1 S. Yrksh. do Illy. Due _ Do.. '0 it Anines,Wok &Wok 5 al Stockton ;z Darli' Stclkton & ltr.rtlepl O 'l'aff Vale .0 9 Do. £lO shares ;t, UV) Do. Pref., No, I 5 :Pm:nes Haven Docl and PRilway. ...... !O ITlverstone & Lanes. :t) all Vale Neativ ?0 all Watertl. & Kilkenny 50 all Waterford&Limer , pi 7.0 all West Cornwall LO 5 West End of London and Crystal Palace 20 all 'West London 10 I all )Vinibledn &Croydon FOREIGN. all Antwerp&ii.ett ,rdarn 4 Belgian Facto. June. 10 Beziers to Graiesessae 10i. Bombay, Baroda, and Central Inclia,Serip 17 all Demerara 20 10 Imtch Rhenish 20 all Eastern of France 20 10 I)o. New 20 all Fast Indian, g. sp. c 20 10 Do. EY - ..ension 100 411 Do. 4l p. c. Yids., pay '57, convertible all no. de. do., '59, do 17? Tk of Canada-kis aLi Do. St. Lawrence & Atlantic do. 70 Do. Cert. of Deben , con. into Stk. till '62 all Do. Comp. 6p. c., do, 10 Gt. Central of Fran all Gt. Indian Peninsula guar. 5 per cent. D o . New 5 per cent. 2 Do. Extensions.... ~• all Do. d 0... ............... 13 Great Luxembourg) C ons tit u ted Shares all Do. Obligations... all Gt.V.Tostern of Canad‘' Shan.ss . all Do. lids., payable's7, with option till '55.. all Do. do., '62, p. '56... a ll Do. do., '76, p. '60... all Do. do., '73, without option all Hamilton & Toronto all Do. 6 per cent. 14 Lake Const. & Basle all i Lucca di Pistoja 5 p.c. 10 5 2( 1 18 prof 10 Lyons and Genova 14 Lyons & Mediterran all ' Madras 10 Do. New Maria Antonia al 1)o. do. New all Namur & Liege (with interest) Q,ll Do. (ex interest) all Northern of France all D 0.20/. Shs.late Char leroi and Erquelinee guar. 3$ p. c. & red. at 22P. dur. SS yrs. from 1 Jan. 1854.... all Do. 20/. 3 p. c Bde (fmy . B. & Ams. Shs. all NorwegianTrunkPref 16 Paris and Lyons all Ditto Bonds all Paris and Orleans.... Paris and Rouen... 15 ParisCaen & Cherbrg all Rouen and Flavre all Royal Danish 3 Royal Swedish all I Sambre and Meuse_ all Do. 5:1 p. cent. Pref 2s Scinde , all Southern of France 16 St. Andrew's and Quebec (A) all West Flanders all Do 54 per e. Prof 18 Western of France lri Wee'. of Switzerland all Wis)sbaden all Zealand ail [0 all 0 all 15 5 JOINT-STO I Listrala sin British Colonial Bank and Loan Company N. American • Chartd. Bank of Asia lartd. Bnk. of India, Australia, & China City Jolenial Commercial of Lond !Inglish Scottish mad Australian Chart , Loud. Chart. Bk. of Australia ►itto New London and County London Joint Stock Lond. & Westminster, National Provincial of England Do. New National of Ireland New South Wales lOriental Bank of Corporation Provincial of Ireland Do. New Royal Australn.Rkg gi GI , Ad Imp Co South Australia Union a Australia Do. NOW PAioq of Lo - pa 23 - 2 21 - 21 2 - 2i 1 - 35i -35 i 9 - 10 251 - 25/ - 4 r. • • •. 6 bid 18 - 19 65 - 67 95i -96 i 31. - - 6 p iP 5i - 6 3$ - 31 3i - 3$ 21-- 21} 100 - 102 107 - 109 109 - 112 106 108 .22 - 22, 108 - 111 5t - 6i 201 -- 21ip 2i -31 P 5 7 2 -- 3 6 - 6 s - ss; 12k -- 13 -- 9 49 3 / 4 - 49iP 46 -- 48 - Pw 24 26 21 -- 22 4 9i --10 i 2i 2a . ) pm 31 - 4 ... - a 9t - 104p1 ••• ..... • ii = 5 BANKS. 8¢ -- 85 61 —66 }d—}P 5 p 4 d - 4 176 -18 i 19 - 20(11 4 - 36 - 38 .v 4 • • ••• ... ••• 35 - 36 38 - 39 501 - 61. 73 - 75 8 - 9 ra 2i St. St. .24 20 25 1 A 17 20 ..22 16 20 ..30 13 1 2 0 ;0 1 all !O i 5 9110 9 all all 10 25 LO 5 1 5 all 5 all THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, JULY 17, 1855 LINES LEASED FIXED HENTALS. 12,,a1n, Co':aipaf, lotting r'ae , yeter lay. RAILWAY% Ledford and Blet)hley Buckgbamsb. Clydesdale Col. Stour Vy. Sud. and Hal. E. Lin. g. 6 pc Glas. Barr. & Neils. Direct Do. New Glstr,4 Du. Fr Nrtlpl. Dk & Railway Hull & Selby Do. Shares. Do. Shares. Lon.&Groenw Do. Preference Lon., Til., & S. Lowestoft , gr. 4 per cent. Do. 6 per et. Manch. Bxtn. and Matlock Micldlcsbro' & Rec.tear. Midld.Bradfd Newmarket Bury Exteu ! N.& Est.s p.c. Do. 6 per et. Do. Fixeds p Prest. & Wyre Do. Shrs. A Roystn.& Hit. Shef.Roth anti Cooleg.sp.e. Shrews. &Her S. Stafforasb. Wear Valleygr 6 per cent._ Do Wilts&47-omrst 99 - 101 100 - 102 1:;5 ii - 29 108 - 109 12A -- 13 23 -- 24 11A -- 12 2B - 2i 95 - 96 i - b 58 - 60 133 = lii 8i - 8i 2t - 2i; 32 - 33 94 - 96 E SHARES. Lor.(l,:n N. W , :•.t. [4.&N. W. Caledon... Un. fi Cgt.lsirtful. Caldonian. qt. Wes ,3 Vit. New. & Bcrw. V. &N M Do. S. Easter , Do Peto & Co. 'Do 1..4t N. W • ➢iidld. Stckton Darlingt. Midland En. Coun. E. Count Do L. &N.W &Ln&Yk Dr, GtNorthi ',awash &, York sh. T. Brassey hiCleax Stockt. Darlingt Do qtw, PREFEREN , It. 'lOO ft,. 1100 15 1 all ,t. 100 !O 5 It. 100 L 5 all Aberdeen Do. N 0.2, 7 p. c Bl3rthanclTyne 10 pm c. pref. (issd.atsoll Bris. & Er. 4 p. c. St. Do. 4 p. c. Shares Caledonian £lO Chester & Hol:Thead Guar. 5i per cent Do. do. Pref. No. 2 Do. do. Pref. No. 2 Cork &Bandons Dun .Prth .& Aber. J. Anglian Cls. A Sh. Do. do. Cis. B 6 p. c. Do. do Cls. C 7 p. c. Eastern Counties Ex tension,s p. c. No. Do. No. 2 . Do. New 6 p. c. st., East Un., G. 6 p. Do. 51., 10 ner cent.' Do. 101. Deiieutr.Sh. Do. do. 4 per cent East Latmash. 6 p.ets FL &W. York. J. sths Gel Prth.&Dun.4p.c. Furness Glas. & S. W. G. 5 p c. Great Northn. 5 p c Do. 5 p. c. Redeem., at 10 p. c. prem. , no. 4: 1 ; p. c. Do. 5 p. c. Scrip, Red. t 5 p. c. pm nt.N. of Scot. let Pre Gt. S. &W. (Ireland) Do. 4per c. Pr?f. St Gt. Westn. (Burks fzz Hants Er. 5 p. c)... Do. con. red. 41 p.c. Do. con. red. 4 p. c. Do. irred. 4p.c. Do. Birm. Pref. Do. Chester 8 p. c.P.S. Do. do. 5 p. c. Do. Birm. Gua. Stk Do. Ches. Gua. Sh.. Do. do. do Do. do. do Lan. &York. F. £2l Do. 6 p. c. Lon. &Ilrigli. G. 5 p. e. Do. Pref., 5 p. c. St. Do. New Guar.6 p. c. Do. do. 5 per cent Lon. &N. W., Coy. 4 Nuneaton 5 p. et Lon. & S. W. Con.3th Lowly. & Col er. a Sh. Lowly. & Ennis. `Jan., Shef., & Lin Now, £lO Do. £6 \farypt.&Carl,4p c Du. 4. per cent )o all ?,4 all 64 all , 14 all LO 2 It. 100 It. 100 6i all 6 all LO all !O all ••• --- •• 08 - 100 ii -- 96 6 3 - 4 6 - 6i 1 - lip 1 - lfp 136, - 14 it. all it. 100 5 all ;t. 100 , ) .0 all it. it. 100 it. 100 61 - 63 .. - ... liB - 120 ;t. 100 12 5 110 - 112 104 - 106 - 91 9.4 tO all it. 100 I 0 9 • •• ."'' 6 - 99 - 101 90 - :12 92 - 94 10 - 11 17 -17 i 10i 10i 74 -76 194 - 20} 94 - 10.-} 14i - 151 - ,137 139 ••• ... - 2/ - .3i 'or 5 .2, all .2i , 1,11 .0 Al 6 44 L 2 all 1 ,2: all 103 it. LOO It. 100 po fl 131 13/ o Do Cousol.6 p„e F;+ Do. Consol. Bristol Birm. 6 per cent. Do. 4 p. c. Pref. St 1)o. Pret. :39 - 141 97 - 4$ - 5 all' Do. 5/. Pr , i. - 4 p, c,. t. 1.00 Ditto Leicester awl Hitchen Pref. St., SI all Norfolk Detaature it. 100 Do. Pref. 4p.c.St l' It. 100 Do. sp. c. Est It. 100 'Do. 5 4 per ct.pref It. 100 Do. Way. 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New 2. all Portland Iron Co l6 —. 2 100 60 Royal Mail Steam 1 all Scot. Austral. Invest. 1 2 1 Ditto New 25 all South Austral. Land 364 57; 1 all Submar. Tel. Scrip... 1 all D... Registered. ....... —. 1 5 Trust& L.Ca.ll.Call. 10' 404 Van Dienzon's 111 = m ,hr.lPate 4.1 I .10 ft. 100 3t. 100 24 ;t. too ;t. 100 ;t. 100 5 all 'OO all ro all L2E\ all .2z all !O all X) all 11,0 it. toil 5: 1 all Ico 3 5i io all ifi i 0 all ;5 all .2A all 3t. CO !fi 10 all 12 1-1 50 .1,11 15 all it. 100 ti t 11 4 ,11 es s this day. IMPERIAL PARLIANIEN T. - - HOUSE OF LORDS-(YESTERDAY.) ROYAL COMMISSION. The Royal assent was given by commission to the fol lowing bills :—County -Palatine of Lancaster Trials ; Woolmer Forest ; Duchy of Lancaster Lands (1855) ; Union Charges Act Continuance ; Cinque Ports Indem nity ; Court of Exchequer ; Stock in Trade, Copyhold, &c., Commission Continuance ; Haylebury College ; New South Wales Government ; Victoria Govern ment ; Waste Lands (Australia) Acts Repeal ; Militia. (No. 2) ; Hartlepool Pier and Port ; Fife and Kinross Railway ; Carlisle and Selleth Bay Railway and Docks ; Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway Capital ; Stockport, Disley, and Whaley Bridge Railway ; Carmarthen and Cardigan Railway and Dock Improvement ; Weymouth Water ; Grand Surrey Canal (No. 2) ; Torquay, Tor, and St. Mary's Church Gas ; Hedon. and Hull,' &c., Roads ; Sligo Gas ; West Bromwich Improvement ; Staines, Wokingham, and Woking Railway ; Cape Town Railway and Dock ; Glasgow, Kirkintilloch, and Baldernoch Roads; Aboyne, Ballatin, Braemar, and . Cairnwali Roads ; Gateshead Quay ; Halifax Gaslight and Coke Company; Royal London Militia; Luton, Dunstable, and Welwyn Railway; Folkestone Improve ment ; Gun Barrel Proof House (Birmingham and London) ; Stockton and Darlington Railway ; Somerset Mineral Railway ;Wolverhampton New Water; Bradford Corporation Water; Dublin Roads (No. 2) ; Keighley and Kendal Road ; Liverpool Improvement ; Medhurst and West Farlegb. The Lords 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 wool sack at five o'clock. The Earl of HADDINGTON presented two petitions from Huddersfield and another place against the Scotch Education Bill. The noble lord said he entirely concur- red with the prayer of the petitioners. THIRD READINGS. On the motion of Lord REDBSDALE, the following bills were read a third time and passed :—Wavensy Valley Railway ; Barrow Harbour ; Furness Railwai; England and Ireland Improved Communication ; Bir kenhead and Liverpool Ducks (Trust Property of Bir kenhead Dock Trustees) ; Haddow's Divorce ; Sum ners' Divorce ; and Jones' Divorce. The Earl of SHAFTESBURY presented a petition from a meeting held in Freemasons' Hall, and signed by the chairman on behalf of the meeting, in favour of the Religious Worship Bill now before their lordships. Earl FORTESCUE presented a petition from the governors of Exeter and Devon Hospital against the Charitable Trusts Bill. The Earl of DERBY presented petitions for the total abolition of Church-rates and for the better observance of the Sabbath. On the motion of Lord REDESDALE, Lord and Lady Raglan's Annuity Bill was read a first time. Lord BROUGHAM, in reference to the subject of slavery, paid a high compliment to the Earl of Malines bury, when Secretary for Foreign Affairs, for the able manner in which he conducted the correspondence on the subject of slavery. The Earl of ALBEMARLE presented a petition from the inhabitants of the Presidency bf Madras pray- ing for a redress of grievances, and that the administra tion of the British territory in India be transferred to the East India Company or the Crown. The petition was signed by 14,000 persons, and complained of never having received any redress of the many grievances com plained of in a petition presented by the Earl of glenborough. The petitions particularly referred to the salt and tobacco monopoly, in inflicting great misery, disease, and incovenience upon the natives. The noble earl then proceeded to enumerate several other subjects of taxation which were most oppressive and vexatious to the people. There was a tax called the matourfa, levied upon trades and professions, which was most bitterly complained of. No trade, however humble, was ex cepted from its operation, and the manner in which it was levied caused great discontent, being in one case only is. and in another case 10s., while the whole amount received from the tax was only 115,5191. from a population of 22 millions. Another prominent griev ance was a kind of land tax—the ryotwary—that acted most seriously upon the cultivators, and was most detri mental to the improvement of the land. The noble earl then entered at length into the other evils complained of, and stated that torture in some instances had been re sorted to to collect the hateful impost. Earl GRANVILLE observed that the subject of the ryot tax was under consideration by the Indian Govern. ment, with the view to its abolition, and instructions had recently been sent out by the Home Administra tion in order to expedite the arrangement. THE BANK AND THE DIVIDENDS ON THE NATIONAL DEBT. Lord MONTEA.GLE moved for copies of all corres pondence between the Governor and the Deputy-Go vernor of the Bank of England on the subject of the de parture from antecedent practice in paying the dividends, as introduced in April, 1854. Ho said that on a former occasion when be brought this subject forward the no ble lord who represented the Government in that house said the correspondence was of a private character, but afterwards he laid on the table one document which he said was of a public character. From the time of the commencement of the consolidated fund in 1785 a principle was laid down and acted upon by all successive Governments, and sanctioned by act of Parliament, with regard to the payment of dividends. At the commencement of every quarter a balance was struck by comparing the amount which was in the Exchequer with the amounts of the dividends due, and if there was an excess of demand Government was authorised to issue deficiency bills and place them with the Bank of England, and the practice had been to issue deficiency bills for the whole amount of the deficiency. In April, 1854, however, a change was made, by which Govern ment, instead of issuing deficiency bills for the whole amount, issued them only for the probable amount that would be called for, so that it was possible there might be a suspension of the payment of the dividends. It was an important subject, and he thought they ought to have the correspondence produced. Earl GRANVILLE said he certainly never really conceived the feeling of a buffer in a railway train till he found himself acting in that capacity session after session, in the long-continued collisions between his noble friend and his right hon. friend the late Chancellor of the Exchequer. Chancellors of the Exchequer p assed awa y , but his noble friend, immortal and unchang ed, remained to wage another battle with most perfect good humour and courtesy to the unfortunate buffer who stood before them. (Laughter.) His noble friend was perfectly cor rect in the statement he had made with regard to the ( practice that prevailed up to April, 1854. It seemed that the change that was then made by the late Chan cellor of the Exchequer was a most un nece•sary and wanton one. Now, the course formerly p ursued, which appeared to be devoid of common sens e, was, that the y borrowed money from the bank which i t was p h y sicall y impossible that the bank should pay, gave to the public in their account an appearance of a deficiency which did not exist, and at the same time paid interest fur money that was not wanted. The course taken by the late Chancellor of the Exchequer was this —he ascertained what was the largest sum ever called large margin, an d then issued deficiency bills for the amount thus arrived a+. Neither the late Chancellor of the Exchequer nor the Governor of the Bank of England bad any objection to the production of a correspondence, but both they and the present Chancellor of the Exchequer thought it would be injurious to t he public interest to produce the correspondence. Lord AIONTEAGLE remarked that the correspon dence had been produced to the Bank proprietors, a n d he saw no reason why it shoul d not be produced to Par- liament. The Earl of DERBY said he could not conceive how this correspondence could be of a prianvated if the nobler He thought it ought to be produ ced, l lord divided the house on the subject he should vote for the motion. Earl GRANVILLE said the opinion of the law officers of the Crown was, that the course taken by the late Chancellor of the Exchequer was legal. If the noble lord insisted on the motion, and was supported by his noble friend opposite, he should not divide the house upon the subject. , The motion was then agreed to. the Christ RELIGIOUS WORSHIP BILL. On the motion of the Earl of SHAFTESBURY the bill was ordered to be recommitted to a committee of the whole house. The Dwelling-houses for the Labouring Classes Bill, Commons tchheurDublinChurch ( T 0d Carriage rnorden ) A ( 1 4 a s rri Amendment ages va,iid i Bill, ty E i li , Act (Ireland) and the Burial of Poor Persons Bill, were read a second time. The Endowed Schools (Ireland) Bill, Youthful Offen dEenreslo(Nsuor.e 2)B Bill, and nGdoEldn‘eVumedbdeirnegd R E i s n t g a s tes ß A ill c , Continuance Bill, were read a third time and passed. The Piers and Harbours (Scotland) Bill was postponed, after a few remarks fr om Lord WYNFORD. Their lordships adj o u rned at ten minutes before seven. ROUSE OF COMMONS-{YESTERDAY.) _ The SPEAKER t oo k the chair at four o'clock. Lord J. RUSSELL entered the ho use about half-past 4 o'clock, and took his seat on one of the back benches, between Sir G. Strickland and Mr. Duncan. Mr. G. BERKELEY took the oaths and his seat for Cheltenham, in place of Mr. Craven Berkeley deceased. The Lords' amendments to the lloniton Road Bill and the Dagenham Docks were considered and agreed to. The Cromarty Estate Bill and Pedder's Divorce Bill were read a third time and passed. Bray's Estate Bill and Harvist's Estate Bill were read a second time. MESSAGE FROM THE LORDS. Mr. PULMAN, Yeoman-Usher of the Black Rod, appeared at the table and summoned the house to attend in the House of Lords to hear the Royal assent given by commission to severa l bills (for which see our L ords' report). The SPEAKER, an d several memb ers o f th e house im mediately repaired to t THEHheOP DUTY. House of Lords. In reply to Mr. PELLATT, The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER stated it was not the intention offs he Government to alter at present the rate of duty chgeable on foreign hops. Mr. E. BALL asked the Chancellor of the Exche quer if he bad taken into his consideration the inconve nience and loss sustained by the maltster from his be ing obliged to find securities for the payment of malt duties, and the great hardship that persons so becoming ;securities make their entire property responsible for the said duties, and are prohibited from disposing of any portion of their estate in land or h ones ? The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said he had made iniuiry into the present state of the law, and should be prepared to propose an extension of the regu lations introduced with regard to bonds given to the Board of Customs by the act of last ses6ion, but one which he thought would remove the grievance com plained of. AUSTRIAN SUBSIDY. Mr. S. KNOX asked the First Lord of the Treasury whether, at any time during the recent negotiations at Vienna, a subsidy to the Austrian Government had ever been entertained by the Government of this country ? (Hear.) Lord PALMERSTON—No, sir ; never. (Hear and laughter.) EXPLANATION OF LORD J. RUSSELL, AND THE VOTE OF CENSURE. Upon the Clerk proceeding to read the order of the day, Lord‘J. RUSSELL rose and said—Sir, my noble friend has given notice of a motion to postpone the order of the day for the purpose of allowing the hon. baronet opposite, the member for Hertfordshire, to bring on the motion of which he had given notice. Sir, as that motion refers both to my conduct at Vienna, and also to my continuance in office since my return from Vienna, I think it right to state to the house that which has has bearing bearing on the motion about to be brought on. I have to state to the house that, having on Thursday evening informed my noble friend the First Lord of the Treasury my wish to retire from the ser vice of the Crown, her Majesty has been graciously pleased to accept my resignation, and therefore I now only hold office until my successor shall be appointed. I should be disposed to rest satisfied with this declaration, were it not that recent events have been of so complicated a nature in themselves, and also been so perverted by malice—(hear, hear)—that I think it is desirable to place before the house some account of my conduct in those recent and very diffi cult transactions. It has been stated in a circular which has been often referred to—that I informed the Aus trian Minister for Foreign Affairs, before I left Vienna, that I would use any influence which I might possess to procure the acceptance of certain Austrian proposi tions which were to be an ultimatum. Sir, I do not dispute the general correctness of that assertion. It is not true, as has been stated, that I engaged to state to the Cabinet the views I entertained, but it is true I pro mised to lay those propositions before the Cabinet in the most favourable manner. I did so in conjunction with other persons of great weight and authority. Besides the three resident Ministers of France, Great Britain, and Turkey, there were at the time in the capital of Aus tria Ministers of Foreign Affairs of France and the Mi nister for Foreign Affairs of Turkey. After many and repeated discussions there was at length a proposition made to us which both the Ministers for Foreign Affairs of France and the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Turkey—a person certainly less well known in this country, but who is a man distinguished for his intelli gence, sagacity, and knowledge el the affairs of Europe, thou ht might be accepted as the foundation of a propo sitionlo be made for peace. I concurred in those opinions, and, after a confidential interview with M. Drouyn de l'lluys, we agreed to bring it before our Governments.— I verbally, he making a written communication. I will not now enter into the nature of those propositions, although I may have something to say about that by and by. I brought these proposals to London. I arrived on the night of the 29th of April. On the 30th there was a Cabinet Council on the subject of the recent nego tiations. I have stated that the result of the discussions of the Cabinet was that those propositions were not adopted by the Government of this country ; but, sir, I think I should state, to complete what I then said, that there were circumstances which arose in the course of these discussions which made it appear to my mind impossible to urge the acceptance of those propositions. There was, therefore, at the end of that week a con currence of all the members of the Cabinet that those propositions could not be adopted. I should say the circumstances to which I allude were circumstances quite independent of the merits of the propositions 'them selves, and did not alter my opinion of the merits of those propositions. Sir, this agreement having been come to, Lord Clarendon wrote a despatch which is on the papers recently presented to Parliament, and dated the Bth of May. Now, sir, a few words with regard to the merits of those propositions ; not that I wish to enter upon them at all completely, but I do so in con sequence of an observation which was made by the right hon. gentleman the member for Buckinghamshire (Mr. Disraeli.) The right hon. gentleman said that those pro positions were such as to convince the people of this coun try that if those propositions were received there was no great issue at stake which justified the exertions which this country was making to carry on the war. Now, sir, it was because I thought the war necessary— because I thought those exertions should be made— that I became the bearer of those propositions, and thought they were fit to be accepted. I conceived the magnitude of the peril of Turkey to be such—l con ceived both the power and the projects of Russia to be such, that it is necessary, if possible, to unite all the great Powers of Europe out of Russia in order to com bine against her efforts in war, and afterwards to give Turkey security in peace. Such, therefore, was the foun dation of my opinion—an opinion certainly not formed on the merits of the earlier of those propositions ; be cause the house will find—at least those hon. members who have rend the papers recently printed will find — I objected to that which is the main principle of these propositions—viz., the principle of counterpoise. But when these propositions came to be enforced—which they were only the day before I left Vienna, or, per haps the very day—by a declaration of the Emperor of Austria, through his Minister, that he was ready both to present those terms as an ultimatum, to St. Petersburg, and, after conclusion of a treaty, to enter into an alliance—a defensive alliance with France and Great Britain— to prevent and to resist any future aggression on the part of Russia against Turkey, then I did think that thereby security would be obtained for the future peace of Europe, which, whatever might be the services of the arms of France and Great Britain, and however glorious their efforts might prove, they would scarcely place Turkey in it secure position if Austria did not combine with us, or if she should at a future period participate in the designs of Russia. In stating these opinions I should hardly expect to hear any different views expressed by the hon. baronet the member for Hertfordshire, because, speaking, as he always does, with great eloquence and great ability, he pointed out the advantage of having Austria as an ally, and the importance of her position in the centre of Europe. Such, then, were the general grounds on which I thought that these propositions might be accepted. I have said already that they were not accepted, and that the Cabinet, some for one reason, some for another, concurred in the despatch of Lord Clarendon which rejected these propositions. Now, sir, that despatch was written upon the Bth of May, and upon the 16th of May Lord Westmoreland wrote a despatch containing the views of the Austrian Govern ment, in which he stated that the Austrian Government conceived that by proposing an ultimatum they had ful filled the conditions of the treaty of the 2d of Decem ber, and they proposed only that they should in con ference lay down some proposal for the limitation of the Russian fleet, declaring at the same time to France and Great Britain that, having complied with the terms of the treaty of the 2d of December, if that proposition were rejected by Russia they did not mean to make it a casus belli, and would break up the conference and re tire. When we received that proposition there was no doubt on the part of her Majesty's Government—and I think that there could not well be a doubt—that it was not worth while to go into conference to support a pro position of that kind, it being a proposition less favourable to the allies than the condition which bad been proposed by M. Drouyn de l'Huys and myself, when it was nearly certain that Russia would reject it, and quite certain that Austria would not support it to the extent of going to was, or even of making any further prepara tions for wig. Instructions were accordingly given to Lord Westmoreland that if such a proposition were made in the conference he should not discuss its merits—that he should not enter into any further debate, but should declare that in the views of her Majesty's Government it was desirable to put an end to the conference. Simi lar instructions were given to the Minister of the Em peror of the French. Now, sir, that proposition of Austria to which I have referred arrived here on the 19th of May ; from that time, therefore, there was altoge ther an end of any negotiation with Austria for the pur pose of proposing an ultimatum to Russia, and there could be no longer any doubt whatever that the war must be continued in order to obtain the object of the allies. The third point declared that the effectual ar rangements for carrying that point into effect must de pend upon the events of the war. I will, however, take the liberty of reading to the house the very term s of that third point :--- " The revision of the treaty of July, 1841, must have for its object to connect the existence of the Ottoman empire more completely with the European equilibrium, and to put an end to the preponderance of Russia in the Black Sea. As to the arrangements to be taken in this respect, they depend too directly on the events of the war for it to be possible at present to determine the bases ; it is suffi cient to point out the principle." We had reverted, therefore, to that condition of things in which it was necessary to carry on the war, in order to obtain a solution of the third point, which solution we had not been able to obtain by negotiation. This refers, therefore, to the first part of my conduct — namely, to what I stated to the Minister of Austria con fidentially at Vienna, and the conduct that I pursued when I came home in my acquiescence in the deci sion that was arrived at. and my concurrence in car rying on the war. Well, sir, the next period is when the right honourable gentleman opposite, the member for Buckinghamshire, made a motion in this house which my noble friend at the head of the Go vernment told him was made before the negotiations could be said to be formally closed, but which he per sisted in, and which ended in this house giving the as surance that it would support her Majesty in the prose cution of the war. It has been made a reproach to me by the right hon. gentleman and by others that in that discussion I took part, and spoke in favour of the vigo rous prosecution of the war. I think the right hon. gentleman said that I was the uncompromising advocate of the war. Well, Sir, on reflecting on my conduct upon that occasion I do not really see what else I could possibly be. The Government had determined that the negotiations must be put an end to, the conferences were closed, and what other means were there to' o bt x a c u e i pt solution of the third point, and to obtain peace,e then by the prosecution of the war ? The main question diacusoed—indeed, the oily propositivpropositionsdiscu.rod Wer.e. 92 3 63 91i 2 70} li 70i 126 A 67 7i 81a a 101 100 1001 100 85 i 71 i 4 i 11i I 6i 25 i 11 i ex in 10 10 2A 391 9 514 1 Pm PM the propositions which bad been made by Russia in the conferences. It was maintained by those who thought that peace might be secured that the propositions of Russia afforded sufficient elements upon which to frame pacific conditions. I had entirely differed in the conferences with respect to the first proposition ; the second proposition was rejected by Lord Westmoreland without discussion, as I thought, most properly, because it appeared to me that neither of those propostions con tained the elements of peace, and therefore I naturally—. and as I think inevitably—took the course I did of agreeing with this house in supporting her Majesty in the prosecution of the war. It has been said that at that time the house was not informed with respect to the proposals of Austria in the form in which they had been laid down by her, and the answer which had been given to them. I was not the party chiefly responsible for that commu nication not being made. Of course the Foreign Secre tary is the person upon whom that duty principally de volved, but I think that the Government were quite right in not making the communication at that time. Putting aside all question of form as to the exact period at which those discussions could be said to have been formally concluded, it was clear that the mere announcement of the decision of Austria not to in terfere by force, not to move her armies upon then ussian territory, but, on the contrary, to withdraw from any prospect of a contest even to the extent of diminish ing and reducing her forces, could not operate favour ably to us. It was quite evident that the moment Rus sia, who bad been threatened—Russia, who had felt the pressure of the great increase of the Austrian army from a small force to nearly 500,000 men—perceived that that pressure would be taken off she would immediately feel herself at liberty to detach some of the best and finest of her troops to the shores of the Crimea, to oppose the armies of France and Great Britain. I think that it would have been quite unjustifiable for the Government of this country to state prematurely, or before it could be known through other channels, that the im mediate decision of Austria was not to propose an ultimatum, and that therefore Russia was at once able to send her forces to the Crimea. (Hear, hear.) I cannot conceive a greater dereliction of duty than the premature declaration of such a conclusion to the negotiations with Austria, and it appears to me that it would have been quite unnecessary for the pur pose of informing the house upon the proposition of the right hon. gentlemen what course they should adopt. I can well conceive that if the Government had themselves come forward to propose a motion in this house, they might then have waited, they might have delayed till the whole of the papers should then have been laid upon the table, and perhaps about this time they might have pro posed a vote,upon their own responsibility. But the house is well aware that such a course was not left to the Go vernment. On the contrary, first one right hon. gentle man, and then another right hon. gentleman, was anxi ous to come forward and discuss the whole subject, and the Government were forced into that discusious in the then state of the negotiations. But, Sir, as I have stated, on the 25th of May there could have been no hesitation, no doubt in the minds of her Majesty's Ministers as to what was the result of these negotiations. The right hon. gentleman said that I was the uncompromising advocate of war, and he seemed to have a notion— which, as I think, has been, as it were, adopted without reflection by a great number of persons—that '1 there are two abstract things, one peace and the other war, and that a person must be, under all circumstances, either for one or the other. I myself regretted that some years ago the persons who put themselves forward as forming a peace society were at all events and unee . 4. all circumstances for peace. I believe that the existence of that society and the professions they made tended to the very opposite conclusion to that of peace—(hear)— and rather induced foreign Powers in a hostile position to us to think that we should be loth to take up arms in our own defence. But, Sir, to say that because we are en gaged in a great war with Russia we must go on and there must be no terms on which we can settle peace, would be such an absurdity that no man could fairly and reasonably adopt such a doctrine. The right hon. gentleman, how ever, speaks of it as if it were that absolute kind of con clusion. Her Majesty's Government had taken no such views ; they had proposed a plan of limitation of the Russian fleet, upon which they would have made peace. They considered that that was a security ; it was in itself an imperfect security. I never have contended it was otherwise, but I think that her Majesty's Government were perfectly right in saying that if they could obtain such a security peace would be preferable to war. In short, every one who considers the matter must come to the conclusion that peace and war are not those abstract things ; but that peace is not desirable at all times while war is desirable at many times, and that the particular circumstances of the period must be taken into conside ration. For my own part, there are many instances in the history of Europe in which I think that war was a necessity for this and other countries, and in which one cannot but sympathise with those who were engaged in it ; for instance, with the Dutch when they opposed the dominion of Spain, and with the Dutch again when they opposed the invasion of the French in the time of Louis XIV. But no one would say, because war was desirable at that time, that there were certain terms on which peace might be always concluded. I say this because it certainly seems to have been a reproach to me that upon the Ist of May I was of opinion that arrangements might be made by which, with the concert of the Emperor of the French and the concurrence of the Emperor of Austria, there might be terms proposed at St. Petersburg which might lead to peace. Undoubtedly I thought so ; but when those terms could not be proposed I naturally fell bask into the former situation in which I had been from the com mencement of the war, thinking that the war must be vigorously prosecuted until the time should come when the preponderance of Russia should be effectually curbed, and the events of the war should have pre scribed the conditions upon which a treaty might be based. (Hear, hear.) Such was the essential part of my conduct with regard to the speech which I made upon the 24th of May, when the right hon. gentleman the member for Buckinghamshire made his motion to this house. I then advised the house to persevere in the vigorous prosecution of the war, and I continue in that opinion and to give that advice still. I may say, per haps, that during the week which I have mentioned— beginning upon the 30th of April, and ending, I think, with Saturday, the sth of May—there was naturally much consideration as to whatshould be done ; but from that time, the part of the Government being taken, there were no questions with regard to any fresh negotiations which created any long deliberations in the Cabinet. On the contrary, the Government were as united as any Go vernment I have ever known, and were as completely agreed as any Cabinet I have ever seen during the more than two months which have elapsed since that period. I come, then, to another time, and that is when the honourable member for Radnorshire questioned me as to a certain state paper which he had seen in the news papers, and when my right hon. friend the member for Manchester made, upon what I thought a very inap propriate occasion, an attack upon me for my conduct. He said that I had led the way almost in branding the right hon. gentleman the member for the University of Oxford as a person willing to consent to an ignominious peace, when I myself had been willing to accept the same terms, and was as much an advocate for that peace as he was. I did not reply to that attack at the time, but when the right hon. gentleman gave notice that he would formally call the attention of the house to the subject I thought it necessary to declare what I had done and that which I had thought, and not to deny any portion of my conduct. I communicated with my noble friend at the head of the Government and with my noble friend the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs as to the part which I meant to take in that debate. I thought that it would have been totally unworthy of my position if I had shrunk from these questions, and bad refused to answer the call which was made upon me to say whe ther or not I was in favour of the same proposals which my right hon. friend the member for the University of Oxford thought contained the elements of peace. I pointed out that the proposals which were made by Austria, which Count Buol had shortly given in his circular, and which I explained at, somewhat greater length, were proposals of a totally different nature ; and I avowed that I had been in favour of those proposals when they were brought to this country, they having the assent of all the ministers of France, England, and Turkey at "Vienna. Sir, Ido not know, in looking back to that speech, however ill I may have expressed myself, that I could have done other wise than own the part which I had taken. I should have been ashamed of myself if I bad denied that which I had done and that which was my conscientious opinion, founded upon my views of the circumstances of the times. (Cheers,) Well, sir, the bon. baronet opposite (Sir E. B. Lytton) thinks that that is a ground for want of confidence in the whole Administration of which I was a member. He is ofjopinion because I took the view that the Austrian proposals might have been accepted in the first days of May, that I must be ever thereafter incapable of serving her Ma jesty with the intention of carrying on the war. That • impression seems very generally to prevail. I myself neither see the logic of that proposition, nor do I concur in the justice of its conclusion. (Hear.) But I come now, sir, having stated these matters as shortlyas I could, to that last period in which I thought it necessary that I should tender my resignation. When my noble friend at the head of the Treasury first occupied himself in obeying her Majesty's commands to form a Govern ment, he did me the honour to ask for my assistance in office. I declined the offer at the time, and I felt con vinced, with the assistance which he obtained of men of great eminence and talent, who are now present in the house—l mean my right hon. friend the member for Carlisle, my right honourable friend the member for the University of Oxford, and others—that be would carry on the Government with great a dvaht e af e e nc t: the country. Unfortunately, in a few days a difference of views with respect to the appointment of a thhonour of led to a separation, and those gentlemen resigned offices. My noble friend again did me I believe that asking for my assistance in office. sir, is his thorough my noble friend, from his abilities, from _ this country relations of acquaintance with all the high spirit which he with foreign Powers, from the ed°imitteei; that my experience I believe, I say, that m e iVi nt a : jestiichu • s °l e du ancep has to maintain the honour iod bie lo g h hat ve it sel o is e c r te ta d in t l o y carry i;riCordntvrgya-o—Lleeeege—set o p n erso a n that her pos sible,bad asked my assistance, as hehad some time in Parliament and the position friend, and h e position which I might be enabling him to accomplish a task of some assistance the complied u t s. h e er t e o fo u re Yno with the wish of my held might be l e: and accepted one of the offices which was which I think did him greatest erelit to have I returned then va cant. Whenfrom Vienna I told my noble friend that I was ready to relinquish office ; but noble friend did not think that that would be of under taken.nobl fr ( i ff e friend, my advantage to the public. A. few days ago I again stated the same thing, being only anxious to enable bim to carry on the affairs of the country with advantage. (H ea r.) My noble friend again declined to accept my proposed resignation. But I found that the impression, whether founded on the errors which I haye committed —and no doubt those errors are many—or whether founded, as unquestionably they were - to a great extent upon misapprehension and misrepresentation of my con duct—be that as it may, I found the impression very wide and very general that my presence in the Cabinet was not consonant with the carrying on of affairs with that advantage which it was my intentioa to afford to my noble friend. When I was fully con vinced of that I told my noble friend that there could be no hesitation about it, that I could not listen to any arguments which he might wish to advance to me, but that my resignation must be decided, and that I begged him to place it before her Majesty, with his recommen dation that it should be accepted. (Hear, hear.) That conversation took place on Thursday night, and, in con sequence, my noble friend, I must say with the hand somest expression towards me, concurred with the view which I had taken. And now, sir, let me say that, having taken that course, I do not feel that I am at all discontented with the position in which I stand. I see reason to be so. In the first place, I have acted always for what I believe to be the benefit of the country. I have thought over these questions again and again with a view to the public interest, and I have advised that which I have considered expedient for the country, and I have refrained from advising that which was disapproved or rather, I should say, that which did not obtain the con currence of those who generally held the same views as myself, and who were acting with me in the same Ad -1 ministration. I have felt that in the found pos many trueitionwhichl have occupied at various times I have and attached friends, and I must say that, towards them, beginning with the members of the Cabinet which I have left, I have every reason to thank those friends for their confidence and support. Others there certainly are of a different class : "Those who make friends " And give your hearts to, when they once perceive " The least rub in your fortunes, fall away " Like water from ye, never found again "But when they mean to sink ye." (Hear.) Some there are of that class—l trust but few—• with respect to whom I can only say that I regard them with contempt. With regard to public affairs, it has been my fortune, far beyond my deserts, to carry on, or assist in carrying measures which have promoted civil and religious liberty, which have tended to the promotion of the moral and religious welfare of my country. (Hear.) I say, sir, that I have had that good fortune, far be yond my deserts, and that is a satisfaction of which I cannot be deprived. That in the course which I have pursued, and in the positions which I have at various times filled, I should have been slandered and calum niated is a circumstance at which I ought to feel neither surprise nor dissatisfaction. There have been men whom I have known, and among them I cannot but recollect my dearly loved friend Lord Althorp, whose only am bition it was to steer clear of office, and who when he held the highest offices in the State only aspired to descend from them, and yet I have known him calum niated as seeking. place. I have seen but lately a gal lant and a skilful soldier calumniate]. I mean the great and humane Lord Raglan, who was slandered and persecuted even to the very verge of the grave. I say, therefore, that I can feel no dissatisfaction and no surprise at being myself thus calumniated, but if I had to balance my political account with my calumni ators, I cculd say to them that I have been able to pre mote by measures which I have seen adopted the wel fare and advantage, the liberty and prosperity of my country, and in doing so I have met with many warmly attached and excellent friends—(hear, hear)—men of a nature as noble as that of any men who have ever taken part in public life—and I have this satisfaction that, whatever errors I may have committed, whatever mis takes I may have made, I have always endeavoured to satisfy those friends and my own conscience, and, there fore, I have no reason to be dissatisfied with the result at which I have arrived, even if that result should be for ever to exclude me from any voice in the manage ment of affairs. Whatever, therefore, may be the result of the motion of the hon. baronet opposite, I have no de sire that it should be postponed, and I am most willing that he should have the full opportunity of making any charges against me that he thinks necessary in support of the views which he entertains. To these observa tions, sir, I can only add that I am satisfied to abide by the decision of the house. (Hear, hear.) The noble lord concluded by moving that the orders of the day be postponed. Sir E. B. LYTTON—Sir, I do not regret that the course which the noblelorl has taken in'retiring from the councils of her Majesty, while it justifies the course which we con tested, has transferred the victory without a struggle to the general patriotism of thisbouse and the peopleit represents. For if I interpret correctly the sense of the noble lord's quotation, it is not before a member of my humble preten sions that he retires—not before the phalanx of a hostile party—no, it is before the general sense of the country, which is evinced in the desertion of his own followers. Nor do I think that theydeserve the taunt which the quo tation implies, that they could not accompany even so il lustrious a leader a single step which seemed to them to leave behind it the interests and honour of their country. But, though the noble lord, a second time in one cam- ' paign, has left the field, and this time paring nose base relicta, yet since he has entered at length into the vin dication of his previous conduct,. so I trust it will not seem ungenerous in me if I vindicate also those reasons which induced me to think that that conduct had shaken, and perhaps shakes still, the con fidence of the country in those who administer its affairs. But, under the altered circumstances of the case, I shall i make my statement as brief and as temperate as will be consistent with requisite proof that it was not upon slight grounds we would have brought a charge against a man so eminent and against a Government so justly entitled to the indulgence of compassion. (Hear, and laughter.) What, sir, on Thursday last was the position of the noble lord and of the Government who then so boldly accepted our challenge, and who have since propitiated the fates by selecting for sacrifice the very chief whom they then armed at all points for encounter? The position of the noble lord was this. Ho must forgive me if I state it frankly, for in the expla nation we have just heard ho does not seem to comprehend the light in which his countrymen view it. Here is a great statesman, one who has held the office of Chief Minister of the Crown, who is sent to Vienna to negotiate terms of peace, orreport honestly to us the necessity of con tinued war. Under what circumstances is he selected? He had just broken up a Government by his solitary deser tion, at the very time when that Government was put upon its trial—a desertion so sudden, and accpmpanied by a de nunciation of two of his colleagues so startling as to bo without a parallel in the records of this house—without a parallel, but not without an excuse. What was the excuse? That on a question involving the fate of armies he could not honestly conceal his sentiments. Rather than do so he left the associates whom he could not defend. Lord J. RUSSELL— What I said was, that I could not oppose the motion for an inquiry, but I did not say that I could not defend the conduct of the war. Sit E. B. LYTTON—I have not the least objection to the change of terms, and as I now understand the noble lord he left his former office in the Earl of Aberdeen's ad ministration, because he could not oppose the motion for the appointment of the Sebastopol committee ; but does he forget all the observations which he made it explanation of the course ho then took ? Does ho forget the charges, or at least the strong insinuations, which were made against the Duke of Newcastle and the Earl of Aberdeen? Surely, if the noble lord's resignation meant anything, it was that he retired and broke up the Government because of his dis trust of the warlike capacities and vigour of the Duke of Newcastle and Lord Aberdeen; and I say that that excuse for not suppressing his sentiments was, in itself, very jus tifiable ; but it certainly does require the uniformity elan inflexible political creed. Well, then, this statesman is sent to Vienna; ho apparently fails in his object; he returns; and then a suspicion gets abroad that the noble lord is in clined to favour the proposals of the Austrian Government. That suspicion is mentioned in this house on the 21th of May, and the noble loid rises to dispel that suspicion, to vindicate the breaking-off of the negotiations, and the con tinuance of the war ; and although the noble lord does not refer to the Austrian proposals at all, he does in that speech, which I do not think he has successfully defended to-night, speak with marked disdain of the proposi tions which embodied that main principle of naval counterpoise which, we know, he himself proposed. He says :—" After I had left Vienna another proposal was made, which my right hon. friend the member for the Uni versity of Oxford seems to think offered a security — namely, to leave the treaty of 1841 as it now is ; but when Turkey is menaced, to enable her to call the fleets of her allies to her assistance." " I own," said the noble lord, " I can see very little security in that proposal." Tho noble lord then proceeded to argue in favour of the e .toso lute necessity of limiting the power of Russia in 9 B 1 Sea. He ding Turks Band a ly defending . . . ebydtehneonWnceesdtertlinePoidweearso;f haendyen"ouunntceardP°tlesee nd course g celebrated philippic of osfeaoufrorbtehinegpcuozopseelloefdrteorpmetauianitain a force in the Black the noble lord wound up by the . hall, and ambition had shown itself in every council The general impres threatened every civilised nation. f the noble lord rather Demosthenes upon Macedon, when he said that corruption. Bien then was that that speech o of zeal. But we k who bordered upon the extravagance otfhethueubAleusltorridanwasnotof the spirit ; and we said, that extravagance for the sake of who is thoroughly in " Here, at all events, is " of the war." At that moment advocated the vigorous prosecution of the war, pardoned earnest the prosecution mini ster, in which Count u n the terms proposed, but he had only inclined to Peac e l upon fore his Government those de came the publication v o u f u for „ cam The noble lord expressed his b finite proposals y Is if adopted, would ()- lief that those P o . pursued,eveit - r°11" to the allied put an end to the war with honouriar the at ates circular h at Powers, and with secu rityhen the actually promis to ay e for the future. .Austrian manifesto was first until the question upon the tl t subject wee pu to the noble lord in this house. Th e noble lordthen in his place rose and confirmed that state ment. Sir, I say that the noble lord, by the course of did abuse thehi h position which he then held by the favour of his Sovereign, g and the confidence of the people in his honesty and truth • for ru , with his those sentiments •in respect to peace he joined with his colleagues and called upon the country to sacrifice the best blood of England • cseeenndun;tbw°dhYichviohueldhabseli to in a war which he believed b e wholly unnecessary. (Hear.) On the 6th of June, when the was still more directly before the [house, the noble lord acted a still more disingenuous part on the occasion when the right hon. baronet the member for Carlisle alluded dis tinctly to the report that an Austrian propo sal ha d been suggested, which had been favoured byMenschikoff, which had been favoured by France, but which had been rejected by England. The noble lord replied to that speech, and evading all reference to the Austrian proposal, he left the house, the country, and the great powers of Europe under the impression that our illustrious ally would have sanc tioned terms of peace which were utterly disdained by the lofty spirit of the noble viscount and the united chivalry of his cabinet. Now, let the house mark the consistency and want of faith in the noble lord. On Friday week what was the noble lord's excuse for his preference of peace ? Why, that Russia was so powerful! And what was the excuse of the noble lord on the 24th of May for his preference of war ? Why, that Russia was very powerful ! So that the excuse of the noble lord for either peace or war was equally th e same. (Cheers.) And what was the apology of the noble lord on Friday week for having suppressed his real sentiments, and stilled his conscientious convictions'. Why, forsooth, if he told the truth he might have da ma g ed the Government. But what was the nobl e lord's apology f or destroying the Government some months ago? y. I i , that as an honest MIMI he could not suppress his sentinitAte 33 I 21 I. 65 4