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IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS-(YESTERDAY). The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack at five o'clock. Lord DUNGANNON gave notice of his intention to ask the noble lord at the head of the Board of Trade on Monday next whether the Government had any mea sure in contemplation to compel vessels sailing along the coast in the British Channel during the night to ex hibit lights, and whether the Board of Trade had before them any plan in reference to this subject ? Lord DENMAN presented a petition in favour of the Oath of Abjuration Bill. SECOND READINGS. The following bills were severally read a second time, Lowestoft and Beccles Railway, Leeds Improvement Act Amendment, Leeds Water, Crowland and Eyre Road, Eastern Counties Railway, Tcrmoham Water, Walmesley's Estate, Ingham's Estate, Talbot's Divorce, and Edinburgh Municipality. PEACE PRESERVATION (IRELAND) BILL. On the motion that the house go into committee on this bill, The Earl of DONOUGH4ORE stated the many and great objections he had to this bill. In 1847 a. measure had been passed for the prevention of crime in Ireland, which expired in 1852, and from tune to time there were continuous acts introduced ; but all these bills were founded upon special circumstances, which were said to justify such coercive proceedings. It was, however, re served for'a Liberal Administration to declare that the people of Ireland should be subjected for ever to a system of legislation outside the spirit of the constitu tion. It was sought by the present bill to render the power perpetual. The Lord-Lieutenant was to have the power of proclaiming certain districts whenever he deemed it necessary, and within those proclaimed districts no person would be able to possess or carry arms without a licence. In the proclaimed districts the Lard-Lieu tenant was also to have the power of sending any addi tiOnal police force he thought proper, and to compel the ratepayers within the district to liquidate the ex penses. He highly objected to such a measure becom; ing a permanent enactment. The Earl of BESSBOROUGH supported the measure. Lord REDESDA.LE thought that such power as was conferred by this bill ought to be merely temporary. The Earl of WICKLOW said Governments for seve ral successive years had always found it necessary to enact a law of the present nature, and it lito invariably been found to work well. He did-not think there could be any objections to the enactments of the present mea sure becoming permanent. It would unquestionably be easier to repeal such a measure as the present than to renew it from time to time. Lord ST. LEONARDS objected to the bill. He thought the present state of Ireland rendered the passing of such an act as the measure now before their lordships quite unnecessary. . . The Earl of EdLINTON thought a new bill ought to be introduced that it might be rightly understood what the enactments were. . Earl GRANVLLLE said that it was not necessary to withdraw the bill, as alterations might be made in com mittee. The Marquis of CLANRICARDE referred to some experience of his own, as to the advisability of introduc ing new bills, instead of that of altering old ones. Lord BESSBOROUGH seeing the feeling of the house, would consent to limit the bill to five years. The motion was then withdrawn, and the house went into committee on the bill. On clause 1, Earl POWfS moved its rejection. After a slight discussion the motion was withdrawn. The four clauses of the bill, after some verbal amend• ments, were agreed to, and the bill passed through coal mittee. The house then resumed, APPELLATE JURISDICTION (LORDS) BILL. The LORD CHANCELLOR, in moving the second reading of this bill, said it would scarcely be necessary for him to recall to their lordships' attention the circum stances under which the select committee in reference to this sulsject was appointed, and upon whose report the bill was introduced. Their lordships would recall that in the yearly part of the year her Majesty was pleased to confer a life peerage on Mr. Baron Parke, but their lordships after a protracted discussion came to a resolu tion that the learned baron could not take his se; t in • their lordships' house as such, and thereupon the Earl of Derby moved, and the house consented to the motion, that a select committee should be appointed to inquire into the appellate jurisdiction of their lordships' house. The committee, consisting of between twenty and thirty members, met, and examined a number of persons con nected with the administration of justice in their lord ships' house, embracing - eminent practitioners at the bar, two distinguished judges of Scotland and others, with a view of ascertaining how far the adminis tration of justice by their lordship as an ulti mate court of appeal was or was not satisfactory to the suitors and the great bulk of her Majesty's subjects, and the result of that investigation was—he might say the universal feeling of the committee was that, although there were matters that required remedy, the administration of justice by their lordships was an administration of justice by a tribunal for which it was believed no substitute could be formed. Whether that was an opinion rightly or wrongly formed, it was for their lordships and the public to decide, but such was the universal opinion of the com mittee, as well as those who gave evidence before them. The question to which the committee first directed its at tention was to ascertain how far the complaints that had been expressed as to the mode in which their lordships ad ministered justice in that house were well grounded in facts ; and the result of that inquiry might be represented as this, that though no substantial grounds of com plaint existed, there were certain matters of detail which required amendment, .and the moat prominent amongst them was that of the business being practically conducted, as necessarily must be the case, by those dis tinguished members of their lordships' house who were ex-Lord Chancellors, and were known as law lords. It, Was also felt that there was no security for the attend ance of any number of these learned gentlemen, and the result was that though sometimes the causes of great importance were investigated by four of these law lords, it sometimes happened there were but three, and in many instances but two, and occasionally but one, which no doubt gave rise to much dissatisfaction. It had been urged by persons conversant with jurisprudence, that an undivided responsibility compensated for the absence of members, and consequently more than one mind in con ducting judicial inquiries, and from that opinion he had always felt great inclination to defend it, and was inclined to believe in the force of the opinion. The committee, however, to which he had referred were universally of opinion that the ultimate court of ap peal ought to be a court at which the attend ance of more than one judge should be secured, and the committee as unanimously came to the con clusion that it was a point which they ought 'to re commend to the attention of their lordships. Then, as to the number there was a diversity of opinion, some witnessses recommending five, others three ; and then, again, many recommended that the number should he four, in accordance with the number in the common law courts at Westminster-hall. Ultimately, however, the committee decided on recommending to their lordships that the number should he three, and that they should be peers for life, taken from the judicial bench, of five years' standing, and in which he entirely concurred, believing it to be the best and most satisfac tory way of recruiting from time to time the judicial strength of their lordships' house. The next question for the committee's consideration was what status these per sonages should have in their lordships' house, and they ultimately decided that, as the Lard Chancellor was one the other two in addition, being pee/0 for life, should be apppointed Deputy Speakers, so as to assist the Lord Chancellor in the various duties he had to discharge in their lordships' house. The salary proposed was 5,000/. or 6,0001. per annum, as their lordships might decide, and they were to he subject to removal the same as the judges, by petition from both Houses of Parlia ment, on proof of misconduct. This arrangement was not intended to deprive the law lords of attending and as sisting as now in the discharge of the appellate jeriedic tion of their lordships' house. It was also proposed to take powers for this tribunal to sit after prorogation of Parliament, and get rid of any arrears of business there might be on the paper. These were the main principles of the bill ; but there were other matters for their lordships' consideration, which, however, were more those of de tail—such as whether those learned personages should or should not Wear a costume during the time they were attending to the appellate jurisdiction of that house. Ile was, however, of opinion that it would be more satis factory to the people if they were to do so, and assume more the appearance of a judicial court than was now nte r me The noble lord also alluded to other matters of detail, that of altering the present mode of sub mitting "a clue" by the suitors for their lordships' guidance, which, if not abolished, might be presented in a printed form, which might have the effect of reducing expenses. After Borne furthe r remarks,thenoble and learned learned lord moved the second readi ng of this bill. The Earl of MALMESL inty Wished to know if these life peerages should be appointed, and either of them was afterwards removed for judicial misconduct, whether he would retain his privileges as a life peer ? (Hear, hear.) It was a matter well wo r th their lord ships' attention. He also suggested that, as f i ve years' service on th e b en ch before their appointment was to be considered a part of the fi fteen years ' service, that the cause with reference to their appointment should be fixed at ten instead of fifteen. Lord REDESDALE hoped, if their lordships decid e d onigranting those life p eerages , they would place the m in the same position as to privileges with hereditary peers, so as not to co ns tit u t e t wo c l as ses of peers in their lordships' house. Earl Gl'vEYdid not object to the creating of two legal officers to assist in discharging the duties of the highest court of appeal in the country; but he objected to their being appointed peers for life, because it might be used as a precedent far granting life peerages to high officers of State, who at present had not a seat in their lord ships' house. Lord CAMPBELL expressed his entire approbation of the provisions of this bill, and denied that any pre viols message from the Crown was necessary before it amid be introduced. For, according to the authorita tive decision of that house, the Crown had no right to make a peer of Parliament for life, and therefore this bill enlarged instead of diminished the power of the Crown. Consequently, the previous assent of the Crown to its provisions was not necessary. As he ran: the re port of the committee of the house, it was stated theta was expedient that there should be peers for Hie in order to assist the admini tration of justice. He be lieved that the app oiale jurisdiction of the house had been most beneficially exercised, that the nation was fully satisfied wish it, and tbat the appellate jurisdiction could not be vested elsewhere without onsiderable inconvcnieaco, He believed that with the addition of two law life peers to that house, the judicial functions of that house would be discharged with univer sal satisfaction. He did not like his noble friend who spoke last regretting that the bill did not give the Crown power to create naval and military peerages fur life. He thought that the hereditary character of that house (on which the liberties of England so much depended) would by this means be attacked, and that the constitution itself would not long survive. He did not, however, ob ject to the addition of four law life peerages, because their creation was absolutely necessary for the retention of-their appellate jurisdiction. He should not say any thing about the details of the bill until they went into committee. . Earl FITZ WILLIAM expressed his surprise at one passage in the speech of his noble and learned friend, in which he had stated that the question ofa, life peer created by the Crown to sit in that house was res judicatu. Did he suppose that after one debate on the question whe ther Lord Wensleydale had a right to sit in that house, it was res judicatu ? They must recollect the case of the Middlesex election. And he could not forget that Mr. Wilkes was deprived of his seat by more than one resolu tion of the House of Commons, and yet that these reso lutions were subsequently rescinded, as he believed, to the universal satisfaction of the people in general. (Hear.) In the sixth clause, which regulated the manner in which her Majesty was to exercise the right of creating life peers, he thought that words might 'be introduced, the eff,::ct of which would be the same, but which would not have the appearance borne by the present word, of attack ing the prerogative of the Crown. And if no other peer took up the question, he should move an amendment to this effect in committee. _ _ Lord CAMPBELL did not rely on a resolution of either house of Parliament to declare the law ; but by the constitution the House of Peers was the only tribu• nal to which 'the question of the validity of a peerage could be referred ; and when it had once decided the question, it became ree judicata. Lord DENMAN was at a loss to conceive how the bill would work. He was understood to oppose it. Earl GRANVILLE did not intend to go into the question of life peerages. He still retained the opinions which he had previously expressed on that subject, but he did not think it would be expedient or advisable now to argue that question over again. He might, indeed, rpmark, that it appeared to him that the evidence taken before the select committee, on whose recommendation this bill was founded, furnished a justification of the course which the Government had pursued in the crea . . . tion of life peerages. What, however, he had more par ticularly risen fur was to guard himself from its being supposed that ho assented to the defence which had been offered by the Lord Chief Justice from - the manner in which the Government bad introduced this bill. He could not admit that this bill extended the Royal prero gative. On the contrary, he thom,h; that it limited it— and that it was, therefore, necessary that the assent of the Crown should be signified while it was going through that house. The only question was as to the manner in which that assent should be given, and he thought it was more consistent with precedent that some noble lord, probably himself, should at some stage of the bill express it, than that it should be communi cated by a message previous to the introduction of the bill. The bill was then read a second time. The Annuities (No. 2) Bill was read a second time. THE NATIONAL GALLERY BILL. This bill was read a second time, Lord GRANVILLE stating that its object was to en able certain pictures, which were not wanted, to be sold. Lord ST. LEONARDS recommended that c'auses should be inserted rendering it compulsory to invest the money derived from the sale of any pictures in the pur chase of others. The report on the Oxford University Bill was received. FIRE INSURANCES. This bill passed through committee. The house adjourned at 5 minutes past 8 o'cloes. ROUSE OF COMMONS.-4YESTEIu AY.) The SPEA.KEU, took the chair at the usual hour. Several petitions were presented against the abolition of Church Rates, the sale of spirits on the Lord'd-day, and the Leases and Sales of Settled Estates Bill. PRI VATE BUSINESS. The following bills were read a third time and passed : —Bawtry and.Ticsley Road, Middlesbrough Extension and Improvement, Penrith and Cackermouth Roads, and Rotherham and Barnby Moor Road. Tho following bills wore considered and ordered to be read a third time :—Brough and Lamont Bridge Road, Crystal Palace Company, Dooping• Fen Drainage, Wandsworth and Putney Gas, and Westminster Termi nus Railway. IMPORTS AND EXPORTS. Mr. J. BALL moved fur a return of the duties pay able under colonial enactments on goods imported into and exported from the British Colonies (in continuation of Parliamentary Paper, No. 295, of session 1855).—Or dered. HYDE-PARK. Mr. W. EWART moved for a return showing to what purposes the houses, grounds, and meadow land situated between the soldiers'. quarters in the middle of Hyde park and the Receiving-house of the Royal Humane So ciety, near the Serpentine, are now given up ; what rent (if any) is received for them ; by whom and to whom it is paid ; and whether it may be practicable on the expiration of the lease, or on some other oppor tunity, to throw the whole space open as a portion of the Park, for the convenience of the public.—Agreed to. CUSTOMS DUTIES. Sir S. NORTHCOTE moved for copies or extracts of any correspondence which has taken place between the Colonial•ofce and the Governors of our North Ame rican and West Indian Colonies, on the subject of a proposal for the mutual abolition of customs and duties upon the productions of Canada and the West Indies.— Agreed to. SCOTCH AND IRISH POOR. Mr. T. DUNCOMBE asked the President of the Poor-Law Board if it was his intention to persevere with the Scotch and Irish Pauper R9tnovals Bill during the present session, in opposition to the numerous peti tions that had been received from all parts of the country, as well as from the metropolis, against the ?ending provi , ions of the measure ? Mr. BOUVERIE Raid he certainly intended to' p er severe with the bill, but if ho was opposed by the Scotch and Irish members the chances of the bill passing would be very precarious. Sir C. NAPIER gave notice that, on ithe 3d of June, he would ask the First Lord of the Treasury wbether he would have any objection to lay cn the table of the house certain returns relating to the manning of the Baltic fleet, when it wa , ; under , his command ? Lgrd PALMERSTON begged to ask a question of the hon. member for Inverness as to the time he intended to bring on his motion relative to enlistment ? Mr. H. BAILLIE said it was his intention to bring on the subject on the house going into committee on the Army Estimates. DULWICH COLLEGE. Mr. T. DUNCOMBE asked the Secretary of State for t'.:e Home Department if it was the intention of the Government to introduce any bill during the present session to carry out the last scheme of the Charity Commissioners in v.ference to D•.lvrich College; also, whether the commissioners possessed any authority to prevent in the interim the filling up three vacancies, viz., of one poor brother and two poor scholars belonging to the parish of Saint Luke, Middlesex ? Mr. BAINES said it was the intention 'of the Go vernment to bring iu a bill on ihe subject alluded to by the hon. member. MONUMENT TO THE LATE DUKE OF WEL- LINGTON. Lord CHELSEA begged to ask a question of her Majesty's Government as to the purpose it was intended to put the unexpended sum of 25,0001. which remained of the sum voted to defray the funeral of the late Duke Of Wellington ? The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said it was quite true that a sum of 25,0001. remained unex pended of the smn voted to defray the expenses of -the Duke of Wellington's funeral, but that surplus could be a;plied to any other purposh without the permission of Parliament. Her Majesty's Government, however, in tend to apply for a sum of '25,0001. to erect a monument to the latelillustriongiluke, and as soon as the subject W 33 matured it was intended to send out for designs for such a monument, with the understanding that the coat was not to exceed the sum of 25,0001. MI LITIA. COMPENSATION. Col. GILPIN rose to call the attention of the house to the compensation proposed to be given to the militia, and went at some length into the injustice of allowing the militia, 'after the great 'service they had rendered the country, to return to their homes in the manner it was proposed they should do. The hon. member in sisted that the paymasters should be treated with greater respect, and that they should also receive the same amount of remuneration as surgeons. He trusted that when an increase of the army was again required the militia would be applied to before foreign legions were again raised. Col. STUART joined in the expression of the same hope, and thought that they were entitled to at least a month's pay, to provide them with necessary clothing. Col. DUNNE said the men could not leave their regi ments and go home unless they had some money given to them. He also wished to know the intentions of the Government with respect to the staff ; for if it were not placed on a better footing than at the termination of the las', war it would be throwing money away. He wanted aleo to know what was to be done with the Foreign Le gion, and whether they were not to be kept up ? Lord BERN A RD t h oug h t i t very una d v i sa bl e t o sen d thew which e nlitia back t o I re l an d w ith ou t neces s ar y clothing, many of th e men wou ld no t h ave a ft er g i v i n g u p their regimentaler in a dress. The ahouri state,ng classes a nd i t w 6f as t t h i a le t country were most lamentable labouring duty of the Government to set them every example and ren 4er them ev ery assistance in improving their condi tion. Mr. PEEL wa3 ready t o admit that the more liberally ::lie Government behaved on the n disembodiment of the militia the more men ! readily th e and on officers would re join the regime nts when ca l led u pon , and the more po pular the Government would Governmentbecome . b t ut he thought the Government ought not to look solely question of popularity in that matter. Both offic ers o a t , h d e o o n vernment men had performed their duties admirably, bu f4 t d t ti h r e a G . were bound to consider whether th duration of their services had been long enough to lay the foundation for a geieral system of compensation. With reference to the appointment of a permanent staff, the only object was to furnish the means of protecting the stores and arm s o f the militia regiments during the period of their disernbcdiment, and to form a nucleus for obtaining a supply of officers at a futare time. The Government did not feel justiied in placing any officer permanently on the staff, uuless there was sufficient work _for him to do. With regard io officers not on the permanent staff, the paymaster's duty aid continue for some time after the disembodiment of the regiment, and probably the com pensation after the same rate as that to the surgeons, as had been suggested, would not be found excessive. The surgeons received twelve months' extra pay en their dis charge as a compensation for the sacrifice of their prac tice, which could not always be speedily recovered. The privates and non-commissioned officers would be paid up to the date of discharge, and also then receive the ba lance of the bounty money, which under other circum stances would not have been paid until the commence ment of the training period next year. With regard to the new clothing just issued that would be required to be delivered back, but the men would be allowed to re tain that of last year, in addition to the fatigue suit given by the Government. Col. DUNNE—That belongs to them already. Mr. PEEL added that no just comparison could be drawn between a subaltern at ss. or 6e. a day and a man who worked for ls. a day, and could get employment at this season of the year without delay. With regard to the Swiss, German, and Italian legions, there had been three separate conventions, but the terms were identical in each. It had been 'thought that something ought to be done for those men, and a free passage to the colonies had been offered them, which, no doubt, many would accept. After a few words from Col. GILPIN, in explanation, Colonel BUCK thought the men were under no great obligation to the Government for the promise to pay them that which they were entitled to, namely, their pay to the time of their discharge. As for the clothing that the men were to return with (in addition to the " gratitude of their country"), if hon. gentlemen would just picture to themselves the well-known figure of " Jerry," at Ascot, they would have a very good idea of the appearance of the men in their last year's clothing. Tae hon. and gallant gentleman then deprecated the em ployment of foreign troops at all, and maintained that England for the English ought to have been the maxim of our Government, and the honour of the country_ left in the hands of British soldiers, who never shrank from their duty: Mr. WALPOLE reminded the Government that it would be autumn before the militia were disembodied, and hoped as that was a bad time for men to obtain work their case would bo considered, and something done for them. Col. W. P..k.TTEN said that the men always got rid of their private clothes soon after they joined, and sug gested that as their regimentals were to be given asp, the shell jacket should be given up too, and a small gratuity allowed. Col. NORTH contended that it was no gratuity at all to give the men their last year's clothing, when they had paid for it already. With regard to the officers, it should be remembered that militia officers were formerly men of wealth and station in the country, but the case was very different now. Many of them bad given five or six years oftbeir time in acquiring a knowledge of their pro fession, and now they were to be discharged with com paratively no compensation. LordPALMERSTON—I trust the house does not ex pect me to enter into any of these matters now; but I can n at allow this conversation to close without assuring hon. members that no men can be more sensible than are her Majesty's Government of the extreme value of the militia force of this country. I agree with what fell from the right hon. gentleman opposite (Mr. Walpole) in reference to the security of the country, viz., that in all cases of emergency this militia force would be an invaluable force for the public service ; and nothing could be fur ther from our intentions or wish than that anything should be done to indispose either officers or men from pursuing on future occasions the same honourable course they have pursued on late occasions, by coming forward in the most gallant and handsome manner, and sacrifie ce in all private considerations out of regard for the public 6 service. With respect to what has fallen from the right hon. gentleman as to the probable date of the return of regiments from the Mediterranean, I may say that arrangements have been made which I think will secure their return home certainly before the harvest. But, sir, there is a material distinction between the con dition of the militiaman and the foreigner. The militia man is brought back to his own country and to his own home, and he falls back on the ordinary pursuits of his country. The foreigner is taken altogether away from his country, and he is in a more helpleas condition than the other. Therefore, when the offer made to foreigners —to Germans, Italians, and Swiss—to join in the ope rations of the war, it is only natural to suppose that some additional inducement would have to be offered for them to leave their country. It is trot, however, as the hon. and gallant member seems to suppose, from any distrust of British subjects that foreigners were engaged. The simple fact is that we have no conscription. We do not throw a casting-net over the population and compel them to come into the ranks the moment they are wanted. Our army and onr militia were formed by vo luntary enlistment ; and although a slower, it is, I think, a better process. (Hear, hear.) Mr. J. O'CONNELL reverted to the suggestion of presenting a gratuity to the militia on disembodiment. It appeared to him that employment being so uncertain iu Ireland, young militia soldiers might find great diffi culty in resuming their accustomed occupations, and they would, therefore, be forced to emigrate. He would suggest, therefore, to the noble lord at the head of the Government, that some encouragement. should be held out to the militia on service, if not in degree at least in principle to that afforded to the Foreign I,gions, to emigrate to the colonies. He would also observe that he thought the Irish regiments of militia had reason to complain that the offer to volunteer for the Mediter ranean stations had been confined exclusively to the English regiments. The subject then dropped. • AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS BILL. Mr. O. HAMILTON ventured to express a hope that this bill, which was viewed with great interest by the agricultural community, would not be pressed on at a period of the session when it could not undergo the requisite consideration. Mr. LOWE said it had been suggested that it might meet the views of hon. gentlemen opposite if th►s bill, after it bad been read a second time, wer: referred to a select committee. Mr. HENLEY could not ngree to a second reading, unless some objectionable porticos of it were first struck out. Mr. LOWE should propose to send the bill to a se lect committee, merely on the understanding that the principle of collecting agricultural stativtics (that princi ple being compulsory) had been agreed b by the house. Mr. SPOONER said that, before ho could consent to referring the bill, all idea of arriving at the amount of stock must be given up. Such, he presumed, was the view of his right boo. friend (Mr. Henley). JOINT-STOCK COMPANIES BILL. On the motion of Mr. MALINS, the order of the day for the second reading of this bill was postponed until Monday. CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY BILL, Mr. BOUVERIE, in rising to move that the house go into committee on this bill, said hon. gentlemen were aware that in the year 1852 a commission was appointed to inquire into the University of Cambridge, its colleges, its statutes, and the state of its education. The cam mission having reported to her Majesty's Government, a bill founded on that report was introduced in the other House of Parliament, which subsequently came down to that house ; but owing to the late period of the session it was ultimately withdrawn. Well, the measure no e! before the house was similar in most respects to that which had been thus withdrawn. Apart from the attachment which he felt for a place where he had spent so many happy hours, it was impossible for any one who felt the least tincture of love for lite rature not to have the deepest interest in the wel fare of a great educational institution like Cambridge University. For himself, therefore, he could not approach the subject with any other feeling than a sincere desire to improve the university, and extend and strengthen its foundations. At that time of day it was needless to argue the right of Parliament to interfere with such a corpora tion. Certainly it was not many years since the right had been stoutly disputed, but the question was new deter reined. It was admitted in the passing of the University of Oxford Bill two years ago that Parliament hal the right to interfere with the statutes and property of the'uni versities. The universities were great national institutions, founded by act of Parliament, enjoying great privileges, as well as receiving annually grants of public money, be sides k.eing solely entrusted with the education of the &orgy of the Established Church. He would the e"ore ad dress himself to the necessity for the interference of Par. Lament as the ground upon which he wished to argue the present bill. The proposition which he would ley down to justify such interference W3'; this—that the University and colleges of Cambridge being institutions with vast wealth intended to be devoted to the education of the people of the country, that that wealth had not been turned to the best account ; that, in fact, the results' produced were very small as compared with the means of the university. Now let him state what the resources of the university and colleges were; But first he might observe that the wealth of the university was not iu pro portionate dimensions to that of the college!, which, in fact, had very much overbalanced the university and had practically a monopoly of the teaching. The income of the university available for general purposes at present, it was stated in the report of the commission, was as fol lows :-7,9001. ; appropriated to specific objects, 8,7001.; salaries of prizemen, 7,8001. ; total income about 24,500/, a year. Well, now as regarded the colleges. The com missioners stated that they had not got returns from the whole of the colleges ; but they enumerated the incomes of 12 colleges which did send in returns. St. Peter's had 7,3001. a year; Pembroke, 12,000 e ; Trinity 3,000/. ; Kind's, 26,0001. ; ,Queen's, 5,300/. ; Christ's, 9,000/. ; St. John's, 26,000/. ; Magdalen, 4,0001. ; Tri nity 3,400/. ; Emmanuel, 6 ,5 0 0/. ; Sidney Sussex, 5,6001. ; Downing, 12,0001. The commissioners state, as the net average income of the eollegee, that it cannot amount to less than 135,000/. a year. Now, adding that to the 24,5001. a year, the income of the university, it made the income of the university and colleges together not less than 209,5001. Well, that fully justified the assertion that the appliances of the colleges were enor mous. Then came the question, what were the results of such appliances ? Well, no one would deny that the fairest modes of testing that would be to settle the num ber of degrees conferred by them. But let him recall to mind the enormous inducements held out to attract per sons to the university. A great portion of its revenues were held out as prizes to members in fellowships and scholarships, besides which there was a great number of livings which belonged to the enllegee. Let him give the number of fellowships open for competition. The total number of fellowships, including 75 at King's, which were confined to Eton, were 356, of which 2„ were unr.etric'ed and 45 restricted. Now, what was tlee ice elle of the different foundation fellowships? Some of them were' very considerable—as, for instance, St. Peter's, which was 2581. a-year ; Pembroke, 3171.; Christ's, 3301.; St. John's, 1401.; Trinity, 3251. The amount of ed uca ti on i n the University was nothing like what it ought to be ; the institution was a machine which did net do the work it ought to dz. Then, with respect to the nature and quality - of the education, he contended , that it did not confer those decided advantages which induced persons who could afford it to send their sons to Cambridge. He entered into details, from which he ar gued that in the three learned professions—theology, law, and medicine—the state of education in the Univer sity was eminently unsatisfactory, and that in those branches of science and learning which, though not immediately remunerative, were of the last import ance in a commercial country, its shortcomings could net be disputed. If the University had enjoyed free action, the blame of these deficiencies would rest with it ; but he did not blame the University, which he ad mitted had made great efforts to remedy them ; its powers were, however, restrained and controlled, not only by external but by internal causes, and therefore it required the assistance of Parliament to enable it to amend the existing state of things. The University was troubled, he said, with a most antiquated and confined constitution, the nature of which ho explained, and then shortly detailed the changes proposed by the bill with reference to the University and the colleges. In regard to the former, it got rid of the Caput, and substituted a Council, endowed to a great extent with the chief func tions of the University, and the power of amending its constitution and laws ; and it authorised, as in the case of Oiford, the appointment of a Parliamentary commis sion. Mr. WALPOLE thought the right hon. gentleman had been led into exaggeration when depreciating the results of education at the University of Cambridge. The object of the bill should be to impose as little restric tion as pJssible on the colleges—to leave them as free as possible consistently with the improvements which it was deemed desirable to carry out. Judging by what had been den(' by the university itself within the last 30 years in the way of improvement, he must say ho doubted much if more would not be done by the university of its own accord than ever could be arrived at by means of this bill. I[e was opposed to the establishment of pri vate halls in the case of Oxford ; but as they were given to Oxford he would not oppose them here, for he thought it of great importance that the two universities should be as nearly as possible alike in their discipline. There Was no power in the Oxford Bill for a Parliamentary commission to control its action, and he could not see the necessity cf it hero. He had the strongest possible objection to that portion of the bill, as calculated to in terfere with the peace and tranquillity which it should bo their object to maintain undisturbed. lie would oppose in committee the points he referred to, and those only, although he thought they. would have probably done better to have loft the improvement attempted to the care of the university itself. Mr. POLLARD•URQUHART sapported the bill, and thought Mr. thuverie might have gone further. He would especially recommend that the governing council should be elected by the Senate, and generally he would opposo the amendments prop med by Mr. Heywood. Mr. J. HEYWOOD condemned that portion of the bill which excluded dissenters from being members of the Senate, which was equivalent to excluding them from voting for the members of the University. He thought, generally, that the condition of the University was not sufficiently considered by the framer of the bill, but there was enough in it to induce him generally to support it. After some remarks from 111 r. J. G. PHILLIIIORE and Mr. WIGRAIi, The house went into committee. Clauses 1,2, and 3 were agreed to. Upon clause 4, Mr. WALPOLE said he had objected to this clause in the Oxford Bill, and thought it very objectionable. Mr. J. G. PHILLIIVIOitE said that every man took an oath'subject to his duty to his country, and the obli gation to do nothieg unlawful. Now, if an act of Pz.rlia meet declared a thing unlawful, the obligation of the oath was done away with. Lord PALMERSTON said ho could not agree with the argument of the huh. and learned gentleman upon the obligation of the oath. Mr. WIGRAM said he could not understand an ac of Parliament dispensing with an oath. The committee divided. The numbers were— For the orginal clause For the atalndment Majority The clause was then agreed to. Upon clause 5, Mr. HEYWOOD moved that the word "sixth" be left out at line 29, and the word "first" (of November) be loathed, in order that the election of vice-chancellor might take place under the new regime. Toe committee then divided. The numbers were— For the original clause B6 For the amendment l9 Majority Mr. HEYWOOD then moved another amendment at line 31, to insert, after the words "exercised by," "the beads of houses in their collective capacity and," the object being to place the powers now exercised by the heads of houses in the caput senatus. The amond.usent was put and negatived without a di ♦ision, and the clause agreed to. Upon clause 6, Mr. HEYWOOD moved that the words " four heads of colleges, four professors of the umiverity," be omitted. Mr. BOUVERIE said that this was a question of the constitution of the council, and he confessed he should like to see the different interests represented. After some remarks from Sir W. HEITLICOTZ and Mr. CRACTFURD mbe committee divided, when the numbers wer e -44 For tho amenciserit ..e. 3B Against it 0 - Majority against --64 Mr. HEYWOOD moved, in line 3, to leave out from "provided always" to the end of the clause. A discussion took place on the motion, in which Lard Palmerston, Mr. Bouverie, Sir W. Heathcote, Mr. Hey wood, and other hon. members took part, when the committee divided. The numbers were— For the amendment Against it Majority against The clause, as amended, was agreed to, Clause 7 provided the time of residence should be 20 weeks. Mr. HEYWOOD moved as an' amendment that the residence should be for seven weeks or one term. Mr. EOUVERIE had no objection to the time being altered, but proposed it should be for 14 weeks or two terms, which was consented to without a division. The clause as amended was then agreed to. Clause: 8 to 14 were agreed to, after some verbal amendments.. Clauses 15 to 19 were agreed to without discussion. On clause 20, Mr. WIG RAM said it provided that of 17 members of council five should be a quorum. He thought that too small a number. He proposed at the end of the clause to insert these words :—" Provided always, that in case of a difference of opinion between the Chancellor, or the Vice-Chancellor or his deputy, and the majority of the members present at auy meeting of the council, the ques tion as to which such difference may exist shall not be deemed to be carried by such majority unless the same shall constitute a majority of the whole council ; but in such case the question shall be adjourned to the next meeting of the council, and such adjourned question shall be finally decided by the majority of the members of council then present." The clause as amended was agreed to. C ause 21 was agreed to, with some amendment'. Oa clause 22, which had reference to certain oaths, Mr. STAFFORD proposed to leave out the words " not be an oath legally binding the juror," and to in sert the werde, " be an illegal oath in the said university and the collet,►e thereof." Mr. BOUVERIE said he had gone over the bill very carefully with an eminent member of the university, an 2 he recommended that the words should be retained. Mr. HEYWOOD said the words were justified by the statutes of other universities, and he could hardly see how the university could go on without some such pro- .... 63 ... 111 -.----f3 vial! n. Mr. ROUNDELL PALMER thought the committee should follow as nearly as possible the words of the Ox ford Act. If any differences were allowed it would tend to introduce an element of doubt and confusion. Mr. BO UVERIE said he hardly thought the matter was worth discussion, and ho would agree to the amend ment. The amendment was then put and agreed to. Clause 23, with some verbal amsndments, was agreed t). On clause 24, Mr. HEYWOOD said the heads of halls did not like to be called "licensed masters," which was very like "licensed victuallers." He moved to leave out those words, and to call them "principals." Mr. BOUVERIE assented, and the amendment was agreed to. Mr. WIGRA.M. proposed to leave out the word " hall" wherever it occurred, and to substitute the word " hostel." Mr. BOUVERIE said he saw no objection to the sub stitution suggested. The amendment was agreed to, and the clause, as amended, was agreed to. Oa clause 25, Several hon. members suggested that alterations should be made so as to assimilate the 'measure to the Oxford University Lord PALMERSTON said that if it was intended to make the two bills identical, the course to be pursued was of course clear ; but if any improvement were to be con sidered, it would he for the committee to make, if pos sible, amendments in the Oxford Bill. Mr. WALPOLE said the clause provided for two classes of students in the university, which would involve two sorts of discipline. By this clause one c l ass of stu dents might attend divine worship according to the rites of the Chinch of England, while another class would not have that necessity imposed on them. This was such a vague recommendation that he thought it would lead to great confusion. He believed the matter might safely be left to the University. Mr. HEYWOOD had no confidence in the university in this respect. He had known a Jewish gentleman and a Roman Catholic compelled to attend divine service at Trinity College, and he, as a Dissenter, had also b een obliged t o attend. Mr. WIGRA.II , I denied the statement as regarded the Jew, He knew there was a Jew in the university, and he did for some time attend the service, but when the attention of the Dean of Trinity College was called to it, his attendance was no longer required. Mr. HEYWOOD said his authority was the Rev. Mr. Carus of Trinity College. Mr. WALPOLE- said that he did not wish that the university should prescribe the form and regulate the precise manner in which students should attend Divine service, but merely that measures should be taken to se cure that they did attend some Divine service. Lord PALMERSTON said that this matter was left to the discretion of the colleges, and he thought, there THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, MAY 31, 1866: fore, that they should leave the authorities of these halls to make their own regulations on the subject. Sir W. HEATFICOTE adverted to the different con stitutions of the hail and of the colleges, as a reason for making the distinction proposed ; and pointed out that the bill did in other respects invest the university an t'sorities with the power to regulate the discipline of the halls. After a few words from Mr. A. PELLATT, The committee divided, when there were— For the amendment Against Majority The amendment was therefore lost. The clause, with some verbal amendments, was then agreed to. Clause 26 was also agreed to. Mr. MALINS moved that the Chairman should re port progress. Mr. BOUVERIE objected, on the ground that they bad riot yet reached the usual hour for reporting pro gress. .. 121 ~.--42 Mr. MALINS said that the next clause was one which would occupy soma time in discussion. And eventually the opposition was withdrawn, and the Chairman reported progress. WEST INDIA LOANS BILL. The house then went into committee upon this bill, the several clauses in which were agreed to without amendment. The Police (Counties and Boroughs) Bill was read a third time and passed. PUBLIC HEALTH (SUPPLEMENTAL) BILL. This bill then passed through committee, and was ordered to be read a third time on Monday next. POOR LAW AMENDMENT (SCOTLAND) BILL. This bill was read the second time. JUDICIAL PROCEDURE, &?. (SCOTLAND) BILL. This bill passed through committee. REFORMATORY AND INDUSTRIAL SCHOOLS BILL. This bill was read a third time and passed. FACTORIES BILL. This bill was read a third time. GENERAL WILLIAMS'S ANNUITY BILL. This bill passed through committee. PAWNBROKERS' BILL. This bill was read a third time and passed. RATING OF MINES. Mr. KENDALL moved that a select committee be appointed to inquire into the law and practice with re spoct to the rating of mines. After a considerable discussion, the names of Mr. Kendall, Mr. W. Williams, Mr. Deedes, Mr. G. Caven dish, Mr. Child, and Mr. Bouverie were nominated. Upon the question that Mr. Hutchins's name be added to the committee, Mr. COLVILE objected, and moved that the name be omitted, whereupon Mr. HADFIELD moved that the debate be ad journed. The house then divided. The numbers were— Noes Ayes Majority —44 The following names were then added : Mr. Hutchins, Mr. Philipps, Mr. Grey, Colonel Pennant, Mr. Ridley, Vicount Monek, Mr. Spooner, Mr. Huszey Vivian, and Mr. Littleton. The remaining orders of the day were then disposed of, and the house adjourned at one o'clock. POLICE INTELLIGENCE.-3/ay 30. GUILDILILL.—James Quid:, an intelligent lad, in the service of Messrs. Braun and Kortoski, capmakers, of London-wall, was placed at the bar before Alderman Copeland, charged with robbing his employers. Alderman Copeland committed the prisoner for trial. MARLBOROUGII-STREET.—Several gentlemen in the course of the morning, who came to this court to make the usual half-yearly declarations, volunteered their testimony to the sitting magistrate (Mr. Bingham) in favour of the orderly conduct in general of the im mense masses of people who on the preceding night thronged the thoroughfares and parks. The magistrate and the chief clerk also declared that they never in all their lengthened personal experience of the conduct of large assemblages of the population witnessed more peaceable and praiseworthy behaviour. The onlyappear ance of disorderly conduct took place in Hyde-Park about 7 o'clock, when a party of roughs began pelting decent women with clods of turf. Several respectable women having been thus assaulted, and their bonnets and clothes damaged, a number of gentlemen began to remonstrate, and on finding their appeals disregarded formed themselves into a body sufficiently strong'to overawe the disorderließ, and to reduce them to peaceable behaviour. This had the desired effect, and the roughs, who were recognise I by one of the officers of the court as principally from St. Giles's, Seven Dials, Drury-lane, and other Irish localities, dispersed without further mis chief. There were on three or four trifling cases arising out of the peace demonstration yesterday brought to this court. Mr. R. Finney, a medical man living in Pall-mall, was charged with riding furiously down Regent-street at 8 o'clock the previous evening, when the street was crowded with people. Police-constable Philly said. he saw the horse gallop. ing through the crowd, and the defendant cutting and lashing the animal with his whip. Mr, Finney, in defence, said, tho crowd of people ac celerated the speed of the horse. Mr. Bingham said the pace at which the defendant was proved to have ridden along a crowded street might have been productive of serious accidents, and ho should therefore inflict a fine of 40s. for the offence. Fredericka Waller was charged with assaulting Louisa Spearman. 'The complainant said her dress was rather long, and, on some person treading on it in the crowd, she caught hold of a woman's dress to save herself from falling. The defendant, who was the woman, immediately struck her a violent blow on the face, and blackened her eye. Fined 41., .or one month. Robert Matthews was fined flOs, for striking John Ar nold with his whip in Regent-street. Edward Looney was remanded on a charge of having knocked down with his van constable Butter, who at tempted to check the reckless speed of the horse, and in so doing had his thigh broken. WESTMINISTER. —Joseph Macdonald, a tall, powerful fellow, was charged with aiding the escape of a felon. Jane Attery, wife of a labouring man, said that after viewing the fireworks and the illuminations she and her husband went to the Castle public-house, Great Chapel street, Westminister, to get some refreshment. Upon leaving there her husband, who went a few paces in ad vance while she was bidding a friend good night, called her by name quickly, and on her hastening to the spot she found him struggling with a man, who bad turned his trouser's pocket inside out and robbed him of 4s. She assisted her husband to secure the offender, when the prisoner came up and dragged him from them. She laid bold of him again, but the prisoner seized her and threw her down twice, and the robber escaped. She called the police, and the prisoner was taken into custody. The accused, in reply to the charge, said he was drunk and did not know what had occurred. Mr. Ingham naked whether there was any evidence to show that the prisoner and the man who had escaped were connected with each other ? Mra. Attery and a woman who was also present stated that they saw the men drinking together at the Castle on the previous night ; the former added that although the amount of money of which her husband had been robbed was trifling, it was a serious loss to poor, hard-working people. The prisoner was remanded. WORSHIP-STREET.—James Wing, a cab-driver, badge, 11,329, was charged with cruelty to a horse. Caffrey, a constable of the N division, stated that while on duty in the City-road at 5 o'clock that morning, he saw the defendant in a state of disgraceful drunken ness, driving a horse in a cab. The horse was in a ter rible condition ; it had been manifestly, overdriven, it trembled excessively, and the sweat poured off its body like water. The fare refused to go any further and got out, and the poor animal fell to the ground in convul sions, and kicked and injured itself very badly. To make the matter worse, it had cast one of its shoes. The defendant, on the witness interfering, dismounted from the box and tried to get away, but be directly after caught sight of him on the box of another cab and took him into custody. •_ _ Phillips, another constable, confirmed this evidence, and Mr. Barton, the owner oft the cab, stated that the horso was in- capital condition when it left his stables, and the defendant ought to have returned home with it at 8 o'clock on the preceding night. The prisoner said he set down a fare at Euston-square, where a gentleman hired him directly, but that the horse became unmanageable, and he could neither steady nor control it. He denied being intoxicated altogether. The horso fell, he supposed, from its having the thy gripes. Mr. Barton denied that this could be the case ; it was perfectly healthy, and had never had such a com plaint. • Mr. Hammill went to the door of the court to view the horse, and on his return said it was a very good but; had been most shamefully overdriven. Two of its legs and one of its thighs w9re badly out, an:l he should flue the defendant in a penalty of 31., or 21 days in the House of Correction. It was anticipated that in consequence of part of the pyrotechnic display of the preceding evening taking place in Victoria Park, which is in this district, there would bs an unusual number of charges of robbery, vio lence, drunkenness, or other misbehaviour ; but it is most gratifying to state—a re - nark Mr. Hammill made with much satisfaction, as testifying to the general souse of propriety of the lower classes—that though the park was throngsd with thousand 4 of " roughs" and the poorest of both sexes from Spitalfields, Whitechapel, Mile•end, lloxton, Hackney, and Bethnal-green, there was an unusually small number of charges at the court altogether, and not even one from the park or it vicinity. C LE RREN WE LL.—Charles Cook, aged 19, a rough. looking fellow, was placed at the bar on remand, cha rge d with stealing a watch, the property of Simon Smith. It appeared from the evidence of the prosecutor that on Saturday night last, at about nine o'clock, he s aw a crowd at King's-cross, and upon going to see what it had collected for he. felt a hand in his waistcoat pocket. Finding that his purse, which contained 9s. 6d., bad gone, he caught bold of the prisoner and gave him into custody.' The prisoner bad been seen near King's-cross nearly the whole of the evening ; and a lad named Davis, employed on the Great . Northern Rail wa y, w h o had been watching him, saw hi ni take the prosecutor's A letter from Vienna of the 24th, in the Boersenkalle of Hamburg, says :—." Count Damormida, the adjutant• general of the Rini; of Sardinia, who has just arrived here from Turin, is on his way to Warsaw, charged, in reply to the mission of Count Stakelberg to the Sar. dinian Court, to congratulate the Emperor Alexander in the name of his Sovereign, and to expedite the re sumption of diplomatic negotiations between the Cabi nets of St. Petersburg and Turin. [ADVERTISEMENT.]-llolloway ' s Pills most wonderful in their effects for curing Asthma.—Extract of a letter from Mr. John Bailie, merchant, Ballyn a hi nc h. T o Professor Holloway. Sir —I have much pleasure in for warding to you the particulars of an extraordinary cure of asthma by your pills. Mr. James Farey, of. Druma ghliss, Kilmore, was afflicted with asthma for twenty v years, and had tried every variety of me di c i ne i n t h e hope of obtaining relief. In this he was di,appointed ; but by the use of Holloway's pills alone he has obtained a perfect cure. Sold by all Medicine Vendors through out the world ; at Professor Holloway's establishments, 244, Strand, London, and 80, Maiden-lane, New York ; by A. Stampa, Constantinople ; A, Guidicy, Smyrna ; And E, Muir, Malta, purse. When the prisoner was searched a letter, of which the following i 3 an exact copy, and the reading of which caused much laughter in court, was found upon him : " Aldershott Camp, May 11, "Dear friend,--I write these few lines to you hoping to find you well, as it leaves me at present. I hope you came nut yesterday along with Peck, and I hops he is quite well. No doubt you heard about me being in the Rifles. Jack Marlin has got 84 days, and will be out in about a month. Ho told me all about you. I hal a letter on the quiet from Emma last week, and she wants me to scarper, which I mean to do as soon as I c.en save a bob or two, as I have not got any money, being on 4d. a day. If you and Polly get any stuff these holidays send me a half-crown's worts of stamps iu a let ter. I expect to be up next Saturday for two days' pass if I can get it. Ned 011ison is deserted again along with a corporal. There is several blokes in the 3d from Keate-street. Give my respects to Johnny Hurley and Maunchy; tell us how Coaly looks and if he spoke ab gut Sall. I hear you have had a letter from Sall, so you are all right there, and no mistake. She is a fine girl. Give my best respects to all inquirin g c , friends, and let me know how Margaret is, for I amdying to see and kiss her. So to end this here epistle, I may say good luck and goodbye. Send a letter as soon as possible, and ask Jack to send us a bob if he can in Stamps. " From your true pall, " ALFRED LEWIS." The prisoner, who in defence denied the charge, was then committed for trial. THAMES.—Bernardo Ilenriques, a Portuguese sea man, was brought before Mr- Selfe for final exa,mina tioo, charged with the 1% ilful murder of Vennlli Medina Caligar, a native of Caligar, in Cephalonia, by stabbing the deceased twice with a sharp double-edged dagger, on the 15th inst., at Mr. Sev !flour's boarding-house for foreign seamen, No. 31, Wellclose-square. It will be recollected that the deceased, a mild and in offensive man, and nephew of Mr. Seymour, interposed to put an end to a quarrel between two foreign seamen in his uncle's house, and the prisoner, without any provo cation, took a dagger from a sheath and twice stabbed the deceased with it. The deceased txpired a few hours afterwards. The case stood over for the attendance of the surgeon, who had been subpoenaed to give evidence on the trial of Palmer, the Ittigeley prisoner. Mr. John Brawn Itosß, house-surgeon of the London Hospital, attended yesterday, and stated that the de ceased Caligar was brought there on the 15th in9t. with a wound in the abdomen and two wounds in the r . glit side. The ono in the abdomen was about three inchei in length, extending upwards and outwards. The se cond wound was between the tenth and eleventh ribs, about an inch and a ball in breadth, extending upward, outwards, and backwards, coming out on the tenth rib. Caligar died the following morning at 3 o'clock. He had since made a post mortem examination, and found the stomach wounded in two places. One wound was three inches long, the other one inch and a half. The stomach was transfixed, and the two wounds must have been muted by one blow. Caligar died from that wound, which produced inflammation. The dagger pro duced was capable of producing such a wound. The wound on the side was superficial only. Mr. Selfe said the ca'e was now completed, and, af ter the usual caution, asked the prisoner if ho had any defence to make, and he repeated what he had before sad, that he only stabbed the deceased once. Mr. Selfe committed the prisoner for trial for wilful murder. Inspect - r Gernon of the H division, who Lad charge of the ease, said that Mr. Yardley hat directed Mr. Seymour, the boarding honk() keeper, to become surety for the appearance of the for sign witnesses at the sessions ; but they had no means of maintain ing themselves, and the costs would entirely fall on Mr. Seymour if there were no funds at the disposal of the magistrate for their support until the trial. The witnesses, with the exception of Mr. Ross and the police-constable, were foreign seamen, and they wanted to leave England in their ships. Mr. Selfe o' s rved that he bad no power to order the costs of the seamen's maintenance to be paid until the trial. He could only give them a certificate for them to obtain the expenses of three days' attendance in that court, which would be 10s. 6d. each man. LAMBETH.—Johez Gabe, a person well known to the police as a railway carriage and platform plunderer, and Mary Ann Collins, a woman with whom he lives, were finally examined before Mr. Ellett on a charge of picking the pocket of Mrs. Harriett Bloomfield of a purse, containing 4s. 6d., on the platform of the South- Western Railway, at the Waterloo station. Mr. Earl, from the law department of the South- Western Railway Company, attended for the prosecu• tion, and a solicitor appeared on behalf of the prisoners. It will be recollected that the male prisoner was ap prehended by Brett, an active officer belonging to the company, on the evening of Thursday week on the up platform, while in the very act of picking the pocket of a woman of her purse. The prisoner made a desperate effort to get away from the officer, and while the struggle was going on the woman struck Brett two or three times, and endeavoured to get between him and his pri• Boner, for the twofold purpose of securing his escape, and also taking anything he might have taken away from the latter ; but by the assistance of one of the railway porters both prisoners were secured. A purse was picked up by a passenger just as the prisoners were being apprehended, and handed to Inspector Bent, and this was found to belong to Mrs. Bloomfield, who at once identified it as her property. She also before seeing it gave a description of it and its contents, among which was a lock of her deceased's father's hair, folded up in a piece of paper. On the former examination there was a deficiency in the evidence owing to the absence of the lady who had picked up the purse, but she was present yesterday, and swore distinctly that the purse had been thrown from the men who were struggling, and fell in a basket of flowers on the platform, from which she took it, and gave it up to Inspector Bent. The strongest part of the evidence came out, as is not, unfrequently the case, in the cross-examination of the prosecutrix by the prisener's solicitor. In reply to his questions she said both the prisoners had travelled in the same compartment of the railway carriage with her, and that during the journey both kept moving. She also said that while in the carriage she took out her purse to get out her railway ticket, and at the time of her so doing the male prisoner was sitting quite close to her. The prisoners were fully committed for trial. RAILWAY TRAFFIC RETURNS. TRAFFIC RETURNS FOR THE WEEK. Receipts NAME OF RAILWAY. BRITISU. Aberdeen .• ..••....•• .• •• •••• • •••• Belfast and Ballymena • • ............ Belfast and County D0wn............ Birtenhead, Lancaiddre, and Cheshire Bolton, Blackburn, and West York .... Bristol and Exeter • ...... • ...• • • • • .. Ca1ed0nian.......... " ............ Chester and Cork, Blackrock, and Passage ...... Cork and Bandon .. •• .............. Dublin and ltelfast.f unction .• Dublin and Droglieda•... ......... Dublin and Kingstown Dundoe and Arbroath ....... ..... Dundee, Perth, and Aberdeen Junetim Dundalk an? Enniskillen— East Anglian.... • • •• •• .............. East Lancashire • • • • Eastern Counties and N0rf01k...... Eastern Union •••• • • • • Ediuburgh and Glasgow' .•••• •• •• Edinburgh, Perth, aud Dundee..... Exeter and Credlton.... „ Furness Railway •• • Glasgow, and South-Western........ Great Northern Great Southern and Western (Ireland' Great Western •••• •..............; Irish South Eastern Lancaster anti Carlisle•• •....... Lancashire and Yorkshire.. .. Leeds Northern .......• •• .......... Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport—. London and North Western ......... London and 81ackwe11.............. London, Brighton, and South Coast.. London and South We5tern......... Londonderry and Enniskillen • Manchester, Buxton, and Matlock, &e, SrCauchester, Sheffie Id, and Lincolnshire Manchester and Sunlit Junction...... MAryport and Carlisle • • ............ Midland Groat Western (Irish) ..... Monklands •• •• •• •• •• •• ........ Newcastle and North British ...................... North Staffordshire ........ • . North-Western •• ...• •• Scottish Central .. • • • • . • .... Scottish Midland .......... Shrewsbury and Birmingham Shrewsbury and Cheater ............ Shropshiro Union .. •• •• •• • • South Devon South Ea5tern.......•.........•.... South Wales .. • • South York., Doncaster, and Goole Tatf Vale ••• • • • • o Waterford rnd Limerick West Cornwall Whitehaven Junction York and Newcastle, and Berwick & York and North Midland & Leeds.. FOREIGN. Dutch Rhenish • • • • •• .• •• •• •• • . Lyons and Mediterranean Moutereau and Troyes .• Namur and Liege ...... •• •• •• Northern of France ...• • • •••• • • •••• Orleans and Central .. Paris and Lyons .... •• • • •••• •••• Paris and Rouen. .............. Paris and Strasburgh •• • • •••• •• Rouen and Havre...—. Western of France 1856. 1855. Mlles ophneti, 1856. Co ntry Mairket3, LIVERPOOL-MAY 30. There was a very slender attendance at our marks' morning, and prices remain nominally as on Tuesda: Wheat sold slowly—useful sorts atTuesday's prices; sorts neglected. The same remarks apply to the tow flour. Indian corn quiet at the full prices of Tur Oats and barley the turn in favour of holders. N• in other articles. WAKEFIELD-MiT 30. There has not been much bnsines in wheat, s'• , week's prices were maint a ined with difficulty. terial charge in barley. English oats and beaus and rather higher rates aro commanded for each. $) is firm. EXETER-MAY 30. CO:IN.—In our market wheat may be quoted froo, to 9s Od. Malting barley, 4s 9d to 5s 3d. ; grindiu& ,"' Od to Os Od. Oats, 3s to 3s 6d. Beans, Os u" Od. Peas, 00s Od to 00s Od. FLOUR. —Fine, C Os CM to its flrl ; seconds, 483 Od per sack. CATTLE.—Fat beef was sold at from Od to 1 2 °' score ; fat calves, —d to 5d per lb ; barrenners, 5e per scorn ; cows and. calvee, 101. to 166. lus ; calves, to —d per lb., rearinq calves —s to Sheep, ewes and lambs, 1/. 14s to 2/. 5s per couple; a' to —d; wethers, 6.l'd to —d ; lambs, 0/ Os each. large size, 45s to 50s ; second. Eliza, 24s to 30s ; to 20s ; suckers, Gs to 12s. Rough fat, Pork carcases from lOs Od to lls Od per score. BRISTOL SUGAR-MAY 30. The past has been a broken week in our sugar and the transactions are on a very limited scale. however, are well supported and have every appeoi being maintained for some time to come. 1111 01 ' duce meets with only a limited sale at former rates. continues dull, and prices are a shade easier. COAL MARK Prioes of Coal por ton at .'.-MAY 30. the close of the mark' Wallsend, SO. s. d. Buddle W. Hartley l6 0 Byass's West Hartley l6 0 Davison's West Hartley 16 0 Howard's West Hartley Wharncliffe Eden Main Braddyll Framwellgate Eletton Kepler Grange ...... ILambton Russell's Hetton youth Iletton Cassop Fleugh Hall Evenwood ............ 16 Whitworth ............... 17 Tees ....................... Anthracite......... Netherton l6 0 Tandeld Moor l3 6 Tanricla Moor Butes 13 C Victoria Hartley l5 0 Walker Primrose l4 0 West Riding Hartley _l5 Wylam 16 6 Wallsend, &c. Oosforth l5 6 Heaton Healey 15 3 Riddell l5 6 COURSE OF BXCR. Amsterdam ............ H 18h Ditto, three months .. 12 1 Rotterdam ............ 12 1 1 4 Antwerp .............. 25 67 h Brussels .... • • ........ 25 67h Ilamburgh • • • • •• • • •. • • 13 11 Altana •• •• •• •• •• •• •• •• Paris • • .... 25 4214 Ditto, three months .. 25 75 Marseilles ............. 25 75 Bourdeaux ........ Frankfort-on Maine .... 121% ................ •• •• •••••• •• •• 10 92 Trieste........ • • .... 10 21 Petersburg 1'.6% Madrid •.•• • • • •....... 49% Cadiz ................. Barcelona •• .• ••• • •• Sevtlle.. • • •• •• •• •• ••••. INGE.—YESTERDA Y ' Gibraltar •• •• •• Leghorn .. •••• .• 90 • • Genoa ...... ..•• •• liilan ......•• •• •• ••• , Venice........ •• .• Naples ...• Palermo .... ...... •• " Messina ........ • " 53 1 ILisbon ......... •• Oporto •• •• Rio Janeiro .• Buenos Ayres •• •• ••,.1 Drew York, 60 days' OP Philadelphia .• •• •••:00 1. 6 PRICES OF lIIILLICN , A ji 9 Foreign Gold in Ball . 4 0 " ,0 6 Portugal Gold Coin •• 4 0 0 Mexican Dollars ...• 0 0 p New Dollars •• •• 0 0 Silver in bars .• •• SEABORNE MAILS. (N signifies that the mails aro sent from the General 17 'iy the night—and Ai by the morning—despatch.) 0 l, al" )2 . ,, , / ;Joe OGUNT=O. Oay when made al. in Gentral Office, London.* From syna' 1-'ort Dispa4l).aj• America(byllrit.pack)l. &mericP. (by Unitod Sts. packet) .. America (by 11. State: packet) Australia (via South. ampton) Ditto (via Marse!llea) N Ditto (via Cape of Good i )dope) ............N Afrios (West Coast) .. N Alexandria LI al lamas )11 Belgium ..............ITI Buenos Ayres ........ Cape of Good Hope ..N Cape of Good Hope N Capo do Verds Ceylon (soe India) Ceylon. Channel Isles ........N Every Friday .... ILiverpool (Liverpool SOuthAuipte l it i v t r 2 2 l3 . t,° • r 23d of the month 4,9, 24, 8; 30ot ni. ,4th 20th of moo. 117th of the month Daily.... 9th of the month 9th of the month Plymouth Dover .. •• •• SoutitamptoD Smith Anwtor Dover .. • • " Southamptop Southttinl. ton Various port: 9th of the month 2d Sc 17th of month, Once a m0nth....1 8,13,18,23062 S au.' 14th gr. 20th of 'non.; iTwica daily China .... Constantinople ......N Constantinople Cont. of Europe M & N 1 Egypt (sea India) Franco ........ M & N Gibraltar ..........M Greece (see India) Groytown ........ m.2nd g; 17th of mon Ramtergh & Friday Elavannadt Ni 2 nd of the month e ITlollond DallY•• • • tlonduras 17ta tith 'o 20th of wmonth. on. India (viaSouthampt.)Bl 9 th& 25th of month India (via Marsailles)m 27 lonian Tees (see India)l7. 17, 8; Ireland & NlTn'iaa dail of mon y• • Lisbon 9, 17, & 27 of ni. qadeira of the month Madeira of month • • Iraita (see India) Matta . Mauritius (see Ineia) Vutritias Komico VII 114 •• 0.11•• M t. •• •.N New Granada ......N ilew Papal :Rates ........N Peninsula Para •• •• •• •• ago •• ••M Pest Natal ..........N doily 2. •• •• •• •• •• •. N Tuscany Vanezuels Van Dieznon'sLond (sec Australia) Welt. Indies •„.. 70; ITvalco dai1y...... , 4, 7,17010, 27 ,r,fm. 41, 18, & 28 of mon. 114th of tho month Ind of the month.. Ath 15thI5thormon. ,12.1 It 17th of month, !By private slip th 1 sthlS Mohnen .1 ithi7th27thohnon. id & 27th of mon.' fly private ship... sthlsth2sthoimon,l ;sthlOth2sthohnon. l M 'antis oftnonth! R' 1 114)2 . rdui nightie: REPE4I **Matto ponally before 1 itupend • solitude • kr. Ha (Which Childrei QC] 1 , ..3 NI _ . renown i WAIT] renderer tuning .A.DE, a Every M : ?Kum Derfectl, the ori g decay, This m( operatic taarant renders borne er G L K ~ .....--°. which WED: CO NV `VAT 7 , fall be e t rh o : , , .I:flake i q 1216. '..T:‘ .. , . . 11 " „ w e ... , , callcr, ; ~ is A.!,,1, ... , 1 1 1. k ,raue,., '. .. -'.' : aajdet flesa w ', .:- 1,,, r . ;1' APO :,' 1 , ,:. , ~., _ , .-9;,. , k/a211,..1 I nd 10 t" :: #. 1 : . ;: 4111 No t° r t '::::Tr i c: 1 : Itttaii .l ~,,til I tit shellih l -, ..- rt - *Plato 1 gc6 : B , ; il : ;' ; ;: : i .; ;tT yin ...- oi f !e 1 ..4.',.... n.cii 0 4 9i i.„....q_ ~,,• -,. !seal *, t',i.e . :' , l tlib r)! :: exl t9 er i . ',.:4iliatiatit: ruts bl, - .4i TA.AIb eweAco 4, - \Pikeril., es. ' tr l ‘ll,ll U rig* , , . , 04r-: 160 •' P , '* - -4- 1 IliP'' lb , ,i •• " ,( P er 4. ', ~ J I v . .yi ot4 . 104 ''ii ..,71 - , 1 1.4 1 th waned,' IF *, Dr; O . ' ' A! ,11 !Ing atin go , ' 4. ta x ,4 ,....:—.,.. ..- , ,t 11 . ,11 iftl , ~ ,',, '' S •'' - ' 3' 1 1 06. , , ~ 0. ii. ?i . ' Lk 116 S Zi 9 1.-,.:.4. ' '''' ;1 6 $ ~, 4.. -•'''''' • , ...... 11 # •:-. , , 4 ,,,..-- A.- . .... i l , 4 , ATI ...... ii 9 , : day exc ' ... . 16 / 0 . = I ...... 1 ,,' 0. ' OCcabloi '''' lu , novelti( ''''' .16 # . arias cif ...... 14 # ing-offi( ..... )6 i ~ . .. .... .„„ 11 0 RC .. ..... ' both di . ' charact meat, 1 4 1' g Fresco, ... , The I .; 30 we, Six, 2s. ' • O V' In thi OOD}'J ~• , - Atli #' . IBouthampt ,l Southampton] ;Southlniptoui Dover ..•••• Southamptott 'Dover .... . bowl!' .... .. Southainptcall it',outh t: • London ... • iSouthrthipti ri Ilov ..... • Southamptt Plymouth •-• iDover ...• ILA :head . , Sodthampt , ISouthttuipt , I Liverpool . Dover .... • ' Sonthampt 3 ' Dover .... ,Southalopt Various I : n . Y Q p .. t 'Aouthampt Various Pm is (Dover Dover Bouttianapt. Einithampti 0212 Wi ll to ( ' When any of these dates fall o n a S un d ay , th e inane 1 0t,,11 sdatchod on the following day, with th e exce pti o n of t lie tc or Southampton), and the Malta, both of whi c h w ill be do 0' pceceding day. 1 ll'o 0' I e iVi'c '.l ll 1 ,a1 ;, 1 1° 36t 56r 1 4, 1" I a l Jon' 48 ,4t 6 ' 1 0l IV& 17th of mon ti, SALE OF A HUSBAND'S BODY,—At the wc7 - , e t ing of the West Derby B oar d o f G uar di an s el o , on Weinesday a letter was react from I,:l 'lty, Hartsburgh, a foreign er , as ki ng t o b e peilVot„), exhume the body of her husband, w h o di e d in 91 0 1 ;1 in 1853, and was buried in th e Necropolis. 01lepeel'ioi that her late husband bad a malformation of orairej 16 ,0,0 and extraordinary kind ; that so me on e in ' l a te" offered her 700 f. for th e b o dy, an d th a t s he , "•pg 9 j , tike it up and sell it fcr the Furpose of obta' l ' port for herself. The application w a s, of course,. ' [ADVERTISEMENTI—Among the numerous extr o 0 110 cures without medicine of Indigestio n (Dy s p e p s ia), 51 : CL ( I / Constipation, Nervous, Bilious, and Liver complaint Asthma, Consumption, and Debility, eff ec ted by ~,,u,i delicious health-restoring Rovalenta Arabica Food, ,r) . „ 1 :/ ing are not the least remarkable :—Cu re N o . 47, 12-1. 0 0 ? Elizabeth Jacobs, of Nazing Vicarage, W a lth am cros* , 4l) cure of extreme nervousness, indigestion, gathering, b ° olo and nervous fancies." Cure No. 48,314. " Yeoman, Gateacre, near Liverpool : a cure of dyspepsia and all the horrors of nervous No. 3,905. Thirteen years' cough, indigest i ° I P A general debility have been removed by Du Barry-'0 t , pe• Revalenta Arabica Food.—JAmEs PORTER, Athol-Stfeeogo i 1 , (1 Supported by testimonials fr om th e ce l e b ra t e d Pln s ior, Chemistry Dr. Andrew Ure ; Dr. Shorland ; iC t ie Dr. Campbell; Dr. Gattiker ; Dr. Wurzer ; f Lord Stuart de Decies ; th e D owager C ountess l'' p ef i t j oei stuart ; Major-Gen. Thomas Kin g , and many ether re 011 V persons, whose health has been restored by it, afte r ,iio' means of cure had failed. Suitably packed for 9 1 , with full instructions. In c a nist ers , 51b s., 11 s . ; super-refined, 11b., Cs. ; 21bs., 11s. ; Sibs., 22F.; 000 t. i0 0 ' The 101bs. and 121bs. carriage free, on receipt ca order. Barry du Barry and C o ., 77, R egen t- s treet, 9 , Y ',4l Fortntm, Mason, and Co., Purveyo rs t o h er Majeri'iotp dilly ; also at CO, Gracechurch-st ree t ; 33-1 and 451, '6slj, Cheapside ; 68, Ccrnhill ; 49, Bishopsgate-street; iug-eross; 64, Upper Baker-street; 63 and la n " street. BIRTHS. OP A SON. On the 28th inst., at Cheltenh am , th e wife of C o der S. H. Ricketts, R.N. A Or id On the 29th inst., at 31, Inv erness - roi i, Mrs. Henry Cellinson. 01' A DATIGHTNE. Of On the 29th inst., the Lady Mary Windsor Clife;,lo On the 28th inst., at 56, Clifton-gardens, tho Major G. W. Ilanailton, E.I.C.S. MARRIED. pi to On the 29th inst., at St. Jame s ' s , Hatcharn, A, 11 of Ramsay, Esq., of Great Shelford, Camblidgesock, Eliza, second daughter Qf J. P. Mongredien , Hatcham College, New cross . Siri lP oP On the 2Sth inst., at St. Mary's, Warwick, o ti nl i t of Hannay, Rig., of Leamington, eldest son of Vi r,4 '„gbt e Esq., of Nottingham, to Joan Kent, youngest da ub James Tibbits, Eeq., town clerk of Warwick. DIED.' On the 29th i ns t., a t H a y es , Middl esex , CAP' aill Carleto n , f ormer ly o f th e 2d D ragoon Guards. On the 29th inst., at Bor r yl an d s , S ur biton, Au r— Esq., arc hitect, aged 40. On the 29th inst., at Folkestone, General John °' Birch, C. 8., aged 79. f re .• On the 29th inst., at the Parsonage, Norwood, !e 14(4 the Rev. Edmund H ar d en , i ncum b e nt of All ~ wood, aged 60. icP° °l On tho 29th inst., a t F o rest-hill, Mrs. Ann aged 67. On the 28th inst., Mr. C. Garner, of Greensvi t 46, , Eitc o On the 28th inst., the Rev. Edmund William P gea et °' rector of Long Newnton, in the county of Wilts, 00170 i On the 27th inst., at Southsea, the Hon. M rs i i ter the wife of Captain James Hope, C. 8., and clang Chailes Lord Kinnaird. , IN To IrOu LONDON: Printed and Published by MURDO , of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun Of fi ce, Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the 00' Middlesex, Saturday, May 31, 1806. LIFT Ilainent the Pro Withoal The 411 Part RL Chrt At a leversl4 At Cl Of 4,24( tha n 2( Guam FOR and Viri United IN V Would hg LOA tided s attaine S' The Period Assur of Div Aosur AlooA Thy th e l a lION Burin resp e , the r those ossur the a 2031/ PSG' I .1 0°- 109 115 3714, 2q4 117 191,4 91% 20 183 U, 283 203% 3G3 25% 90 286% 161 553% 5% 183% 267 57N 289 3,:ii3 939 6,319 10,838 5,721 161 247 1,221 1,221 582 1,033 346 947 6,047 22,866 5,384 6,315 5,951 20,593 6,425 27,221 6,015 22,219 57,418 1,480 12,874 15,339 632 8,853 ,794 978 28,031 3,50 G 5,3G1 7,447 917 1,743 2,597 947 2,605 17.491 6,028 '2,132 4,242 1,294 1,010 777 327 2,283 33,561 3,269 819 5,839 11,781 4,733 211 1,174 1,174 7GO 615 956 316 S9G 5,139 24,029 5,281 5,894 5,700 19,866 6,177 27,957 5 803 20,181 59,743 1,525 18,864 . 16,492 621 10,110 879 28,832 2,863 ,5376 6,473 910 1,425 2,416 760 2,321 17,217 5,375 1,927 3,931 1,215 993 682 281 1,317 33,542 ASS and r% MEI made f FIR Lion o f ZLose 'tat of )4 eMl .1......... W. c. B. r. 11.1 S•T.I T Way vertu adder of ap futirr or al , The 59, Cal Or, 1 tic fu; Iti tl bt Or a