The Sun. — London, England, 1854-08-09 00:00:00

MONEY MAR KET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY - . TWO o'CLOCK. The sales of cotton at Liverpool yesterday Were estimated at 5,000 bales, all to the trade. The market closed firmly at previous rates. The Bales comprised 4,000 American, 400 Pernam and Maranham at 6,1-d. to Bd., 300 Egypt'an. at 6 d. to 81d., 300 Surat at 2-id. to 4d. per lb. Rail- Way Shares were dull at rather lower prices. There was more firmness yesterday afternoon in the rates at which bills of exchange were drawn upon the Continental cities, but with very little doing. Trieste was a shade lower. Paris, 90 days, Was done at 25 25 to 30 ; Amsterdam at 11 17 to 1 7k, Hamburg at 13 6 to 7, and Trieste at 12 28 to 34, Most of the Australian gold has been taken for exportation, and even that, per Medway, delivered yesterday, has been mostly taken for shipment. The gold by the American steamer, being chiefly fine, has been melted and sent into the Bank. Mexican dollars have been in demand at ss. 2cl. per ounce, Spanish Pillar Ferdinand dollars at ss. 3d., and Carolus at Gs. The Hon. East India Company drew bills, dur ing the fortnight ended yesterday, to the amount of 133,7031. 14s. 4d. The parties interested in the illegally created sterling bonds of Peru have made application to the Committee of the Stock Exchange for permis sion to have them quoted in the official list, as the object for which they took these securities cannot be attained unless the public is entrapped into the buying of them. Once open the door to such mal practices, and all 'protection for the English creditors of foreign states is gone. A well founded jealousy exists in England at any attempt to increase the permanent debt, except by direct authority of Parliament, and how much more necessary is it, therefore, to resist such facile means of adding to debts abroad? The new bonds which the Peruvian agents are now attempt ing to circulate here represent a home stock granted to some extent in compensation of claims for damage to property during the civil war, but enormously exaggerated beyond the amounts that were really due, Court favourites who bought up the claims being, of course, particularly successful in getting them recognised. In this manner a Very large home debt was saddled upon the Peru vian, people, which a future Government may well _feel justified in cutting down. Other of the new bonds have reference to a railway contract that is Partly dependent upon their realisation for success, and when we consider all these circumstances and the warm interest which the Earl of Ca.' rendon has taken in th© matter, we think no bondholder, however he may, from imper fect information, have allowed the parties interested in the new stock to gain his tacit ac quiescence to a paltry compromise, under the guise of an increased sinking fund, will feel bound Morally or legally to continue that acquiescence. At the Australian Consols meeting to-day, it was agreed to re-organise the Company, with an accession of members of the Shareholders' Com mittee to the Board of Direction. The English Funds have been very flat, princi- pally upon the indication of a change of weather, • but there was an absence of any definite foreign - news. The supply of stock being so much larger recently, owing to sales by the broker acting for the Court of Chancery, and also on account it is said of the Irish Banks, makes the jobbers shy of puchasing more unless at a reduction, and the set tlyment on the 17th inst. will consequentlybe looked for with interest, if not doubt, though the account is supposed by many to be bullish. Consols have been 921 to 921 for Transfer, and 92g- to for Account. We shall see in a few days whether a contango arises. Bank Stock is firm at 209 to 210, Exchequer Bills are is. discount to 2s. premium, 4nd the Bonds are tog premium. There is rather more ease in the market, another instalment of 25 per cent., say 500,0001., having been paid ye sterday upon Messrs. Rothschild's contract. The day of settlement in the Cumberland Her ta tite Iron Ore Company's Shares on the Stock- Exchange is fixed for Monday, the 14th inst. _Foreign Securities are quiet and rather heavy. Per avian 41 per Cents. are 69 to 69k, and Bra zilian New Bonds steady at 94. Russian 5 per Cents• at 99, being at the full. previous value. Sardinian Bonds have realised 85 to 85k. Spanish New Deferred are weaker at 19, 5 „ and the Passive at Dutch 2i. per Cents. are at 601, and the 4 per Cents. 92, being lower. The following are the nominal prices of foreign stocks .:—Grenada Deferred Bonds, 6to ; Mexi can, 24 to 24i ; Peruvian, 68 to 70 ; Ditto 3 per Cents., 51 to 52 ; Portuguese 4 per Cents., 39 to 41 ; Russian 5 per Cents., 97 to 99 ; Ditto 41 per Cents., 83 to 85 ; Spanish New Deferred, 19 to 19 ; Ditto 3 per Cents., 39i to 40 ; Ditto Certi ficates, 5 to 51 ; Ditto Passive, 4 to 4±. A moderate business is doing in English Railway Shares, but sales still predominating a further de cline has taken place in the principal lines. This is most observable in the instances of Great North ern, Great Western, Lancashire and Yorkshire, -Brighton, North-Western, and Midland. As ex •ceptions must be noted, Eastern Counties, North .British, and Shrewsbury and Birmingham are firm, and Edinburgh and Glasgow, together 'with Edinburgh, Perth and Dundee, have ad vanced. The Forei g n and Colonial lines have ,been very little dealt in. Great Luxembourg are E teady, and Northern of France higher. Mining Shares are dull, and Portgibaud are LDwer. In Joint Stock the transactions have b een wry limited, and prices nominal. Land Shares /tre without particular variation, and Crystal Palace are not lower. RITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. ( Front the Ofteictl List.) Pusiness done. BE talk Stock 3 leer Cent. Reduced Annuities.. ........ 3 i per Cent. Consols Annuities 92a i 3i per Cent. Annuities 931 0 i Lc.ng Annuities, Expire sth Jan., 1860 -16 D'. MG 30 Years, Expire 10th Oct., 1859 4 ; Consols for Account 17th August 9 2li ft Exchequer Bills, lid. £IOOO Small 4 pm par Exchequer Bonds Scrip • 9Bs Ditto 1859 PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK. Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent. — Ditto New, 1852, 43 per Cent 943 Peruvian Bonds,t4i per Cent. Russian Bonds, 1822, 5 per Cent. £ St 993 Sardinian Bonds, 5 per Cent ......... ... Spanish Bonds, 3 per Cent -,-- Spanish New Deferred, 3 per Cent 193 Ditto Passive (Converted) Dividends on the shove payable in London. Dutch Exchange, 2i per Cent. 12 Guil Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates . .. HALF-PAST TWO. Consols 92?: h' Ditto August Account . 1 • • PRICE OF GOLD.—The quotation of gold at Paris is about 4 per raffle discount (according• to the last triff), which, at the English Mint price of 3/. 17s. 101 d. per ounce for standard gold, gives an exchange of 25.07 ; and, the exchange at Paris on London at short being 25.00, it follows that gold is about 0.28 per cent. dearer in Paris than in London. By advices from Hamburg, the price of gold is 42112 per mark, which, at the English Mint price of 3/. 17s. 10Ad. per ounce for standard gold, gives an exchange of 13.31- ; and, the exchange at Hamburg on London at short being 13.44, it follows that gold is 0.53 per cent. dearer in London than in Hamburg. The course of exchange at New York on London for bills at 60 days' sight is 1094 per cent., and, the par of exchange between England and America be ing 109 23-40 per cent., it follows that the exchange is nominally 0.17 per cent. in favour of England ; and, after making allowance for charges of transpOrt and difference of interest, the present rate leaves a trifling profit on the importation of gold from the United States. SUDDEN DEATH OF MR. R. SNOW.—Yesterday morn ing, Mr. Langham, deputy coroner for Westminster, held an i❑quest relative to the sudden death of Robert Snow, Esq., aged 49, late of the firm of Snow, Dean, Paul, Strahan and Co., of the Strand, bankers. It ap peared by the evidence that deceased, who had previously been subject to fits of an epileptic character, was found dead in his bed-room by a servant last Friday morning. .The post mortent examination showed that death was oc -0 asioned by disease of the heart, and the jury returned a, verdict accordingly. PLYMOUTH, Tuesday Evening--Three deaths have occurred in the Sound on board the hospital -ship An dromeda since the death of Sergeant Taylor on Friday —namely, two children, named Elizabeth Murphy and Edward Barnsley on Saturday last, and James Joseline, 60th Regiment, to-day. There are now 16 sick cases on board ; twelve of those are cholera cases, of which four are almost hopeless—viz, two soldiers, one woman, and one sailor. Five cases of diarrhoea are under treatment on board the receiving-fillip Endymion. READING RACES. (THIS DAY.) (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPR.) INNKEEPERS' PLATE. Six ran. READING STAKES. Y Cletavi . Clotiide . ..;~. Six ran. NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE. Le Jnif has arrived. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF COMMONS-(THIS DAY). The SPEAKER took the chair at twelve o'clock. Stocker's Divorce Bill was read a third time and passed. _ ___ Lord D. STUART presented a petition from the hackney-carriage drivers of the metropolis, complaining of the conflicting decisions of the magistrates, the lowness of cab fares, &c., and praying that the fares might be raised to is. for the first mile, and that they might have a right of appeal from magisterial decision. Mr. NAPIER presented a petition from a portion of the Irish clergy, praying that steps might be taken to insure a better observancc, of the Sabbath. THE MENAI STRAITS. Sir H. WILLOUGHBY wished to ask the Secretary of the Treasury if the Commissioners of Woods and Forests have lately granted a lease of the Menai Straits as an oyster bed, to the exclusion of the fishermen of the neighbourhood, who have hitherto dredged in those straits time out of mind. Mr. WILSON stated that Messrs. Russell held a lease of the Menai Strait, as an oyster bed, under the Bishop of Bangor. Some robberies having been com mitted, they prosecuted and established their claim. Since then they had obtained a lease from the Crown, but such lease was subject to any existing public rights. CONSOLIDATED FUND (APPROPRIATION) BILL. On the motion for the third reading of this bill, Mr. HUME called the attention of the house to the report of the last session on the state of the Slave Trade, and urged renewed application for the fulfilment of the treaties with Spain for a total suppression of the slave trade to Cuba. Lord J. RUSSELL admitted the importance of the question, and said that the most stringent measures had been taken this year for the effectual suppression of the slave trade, which he hoped would be attended with the best results. He added that he was quite sure the new Government of Spain would second these efforts to put an end to this dreadful traffic. Sir G. PECHELL considered the answer of the noble lord very satisfactory, and was rejoiced to learn that there was now some chance that Spain would ear nestly co-operate with us for the suppression of the slave trade. Sir. H. WILLOUGHBY—Passing to another sub ject, interpellated the Chancellor of the Exchequer on the subject of the war expenditure. The house, he said, had voted in estimates between 64,000,0001. and 65,000,0001., including the credit of 3,000,0001., while the country had been given to understand that it was the intention of the Government to meet the expendi ture with the taxes raised within the year. Now, he believed it would be impossible to carry out that inten tion, and, he therefore wanted to know the amount of debt, in some shape or other, which the State would have to incur, to meet the excess of expenditure over the ways and means already voted by Parliament. The hon. baronet also complained of the dangerous power exercised by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, in con verting or selling Savings' Bank Stock, which he hal already done to the extent of 617,0001., without the consent of Parliament. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER could add nothing to what he had already stated on the sub ject of the public revenue and expenditure, except that up to the present moment the revenue had fully realised the expectation which he held when he made his financial statement last May, in fact, up to the 9th of August, the expenditure was within the revenue, and, therefore, he had nothing to retract from what he had said about meeting the ex penditure from the taxes raised in the year: The right hon. gentleman then proceeded to show that the apparen t decrease upon the last quarter's revenue of 570,0001. was falacious, because the return did not include the Irish Revenue, while a sum of 770,0001. had been included in the former quarter, which ought to have been brought into this. With regard to the state of the exchequer bonus account, it stood thus : 4,000,0001. had been ne gotiated and 3,000,0001. had actually been received. There still remained power to issue 600,0001. and 700,0001. more, while the amount of running Exchequer Bills was less in amount than usual, being about 16,500,0001. As to the question of revenue and expenditure the account stood thus,—the expenditure up to the present time, as compared with last year, was about 3,500,0001. in excess ; but he anticipated that on the 10th of October there would be a balance in the Exchequer of about 4,500,0001., and with that surplus at his command he had no reason to suppose, calcu lating upon existing experience, that he should have to call upon the bank for assistance. With regard to the Savings' Bank Stock, it was a mistake to suppose that it was absolutely at the disposal of the Chancellor of the Exchequer ; it was placed to the credit of the National Debt Commissioners, for the purpose of meeting the claims of the Savings' Bank depositors both for principal and interest. During the early part of the year there was a run upon the Savings Banks, and anticipating that the withdrawal would continue, he had taken advantage of the recent high price of the funds to sell out for the purpose of meeting these Savings Banks demands. He was happy, however, to say that the run had stopped, and now the deposits far exceeded the withdrawals. After a few words from Mr. W. A. WILKINSON and Mr. HOME, Mr. J. S. PHILLIMORE took the opportunity gallant e fl m e e e t m . b H e e r for Gloucester q u honourable estion rela t v e a ton the d g of ingth a ° hwaidshseudeteoeekdnedowinitesiteawpiansgtrfuroemif t a h v e a ß lu a a a b i l e e fl ß e u et ss z ian prize Admiral BERKELEY sai d there was a report to that effect, but it required confirmation. A read a third time.ftersonieremarks from Sir J. WALME SLEY, the bill was On the question that the bill do pass,. BaSnikrs. Hm.oNnVe money L h L a d O U beenG ll appropriated r said r ahetebelieveda t t e h e p u S r a p v o i s n e g s s but if the right hon. gentleman the Chancellor of the Exchequer would assure him that he had only used these funds for Savings' Banks purposes, his objection would fall to the ground. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER declined to give such an assurance. Savings Banks money was held by the State in trust for the depositors, but like private bankers, the State was entitled to sue it for their own purposes, if they could do so with profit. The bill was then passed. ENCUMBERED ESTATES (WEST INDIES) BILL. This bill was read a third time, and passed. LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL (CANADA) BILL. This bill was read a third time and passed. CUSTOMS BILL. This bill was read a third time and passed. EAST INDIA COMPANY'S REVENUE ACCOUNTS. The resolutions agreed to in committee last night on this subject were reported and agreed to. (LEFT BITTING.) MARKET INTELLIGENCE. (From the London New Price Current of yesterday.) SUGAR.—There has been rather more inquiry, at about Friday's rates, but the public sales are still progressing. Duty paid samples have realised full rates. Floating car goes are wanted. The quantity of British Plantation landed last week at the East and West India Docks was 1,187 hhds 148 tierces 830 barrels. There were taken for home consumption 961 hhds 68 tierces 485 barrels. The stock in the same places is 9,552 hhds, 1,678 tierces 3,476 barrels. Refined brown lumps are at 44s per cwt. COFFEE. - There is a quiet market, although yesterday the demand was better for Native Ceylon at 44s to 455. There are buyers of Plantation at full rates. Costa Rica has been in more request. s Rum.—The quantity landed last week at the East and West India Docks was 964 puns 19 1 hhds ; there were takenfo r 239 pupshom e 2consumption hhds. The stock in puns t 42 hhds,ae placesand i s ex ported 9,457 puns 1,951 hhds. e same RICE.—At auction 2,400 bags Bengal were offered, and all bought in at 12s 6d for mid. PimENTo.---•At auction 700 bags were nearly alt sold at sid to 68d fo r m id coarse t o goo d mid even. TEA.— The demand has been limited, but holders are firm. Ord. congou is at lld per lb, with a prompt sale. TTALLOW.—.Sgreat increase has taken place in the de mand for Russian for consumption; many speculative contracts have been conc l u d e d , an d a d van ced terms are obtained. First sort. P.Y. Candle, on the spot, sells at 67s to 67s 3d, and f or l a t e d e li very 69 s t o 69 s 6d. Home melted is higher, and in 'extensive request ; the currency is now 66s to 66s 64 cash. Of other descriptions the supply is not ample f or th e demand, an d th e prices obtained were for—Australian, fair to fine mutton 62s to 675, beef 61s to 655; and South American 61s to 67s per cwt. Tho stock of tallow is 15,000 casks greater than last year, and deliveries are 5,000 smaller. Prices rule 15s to 16s per cwt above that time. OILS.--.A brisker demand has been experienced for Sperm, and an advance is paid : good to fine quality realising 1041 to 1061 per tun. Headmatter, however, sells slowly at 1021 to 1031 Seal is not much sought after, and a de sire is expressed to sell pale at 391, and other sorts 351 to 381. The reluctance shown to buy cod continues, and prices are drooping, ranging at 391 per ton. Southern sells more readily at frog 331 to 411, and the market presents a firm appearance. In palm a large business has been done, and 45s to 48s isgenerally obtained for mid to line. Of Cocoa nut many parcels have been dis posed of; Cochin at 50s 66 to 51s, landed, and other kinds 48s 64 to 50s. Linseed oil met with increased attention for home trade and shipment, and prices are firm at 35s 6d to 36s on the spot. In rape oil there is an increased business ; pale 44s to 44s 6d, and brown 41s 6d. Lard oil is a more ready sale at 54s to 555. Large parcels of olive have changed hands. TEE BRITISH CRUISERS IN THE BALTIC.—A. letter from Hamburgh of the sth, states that the governments of the neutral maritime States of Northern Europe, with Prussia at their head, are on the point of joining in an urgent representation to the British Government on the interference of our cruisers with their merchant ships. The interference complained of is the very necessary practice of searching suspected vessel for contraband of war. FOREIGN. 10 all Antwerp&Rotterdam 6 —61 d 5 3 Belgian Eastu. June. 1 20 8 Beziers to Graissessac 31 3 d 20 2s. Bombay, Baroda, and Central India,Scrip id—ip Central of Italy ••• 20 all Charleroi & Erquelin 171 all Demerara 20 14 Dijon and Besancon p 20 9 Dutch Rhenish . 3 31,1 20 all East Indian li 21 20 2 Do. Extension 1 d 5 all Gt. Indian Peninsula p 20 10 Gd. Junct. of France 25 10 Grd. Trunk of Canada 6 5 d 100 40 Do. Debentures 7 6 100 all Do. do — 20 10 Gt. Central of France 1 d 201 all Gt s • 1 7i 181 Do. Bonds (Ist is.)' s7 ..• •• • P 206 all Hann ••• lton & Toronto #p N l V la e r s e t s ernof C anada •• 1 2 0 0 0 5 all Lucca & Pistoj a 5 p .c. dig prof ••• 20 15 Luxembourg ••• all s Do. Lake 6 CPoeln:t. cent. Basle 10 10 Do. (Rai1way)........ ••• ••• 5 2 Do. Pref — ••• .5 3 Do. (Canal) 10 5 Do. 6p. ct. pref _ 20 10 Lyons and Geneva 20 12 Lyons & Mediterran ••• 20 131 Madras id—iP 33?,, 333 Maria Antonia 10 all Do. do. New 20 2 Melbourne Dk. &Ry ..• 20 all Namur & Liege (with interest) 7 8 20 all Do. (ex interest) — 16 all Northern of France 324 331 33a a Do. 201. 3 p. c Bds 20 all (fmy.B. dr Ams. 10 all NorwegianTrunkPref "8 20 14 Paris and Lyons l7i —lB p 40 all Ditto Bonds 10 all Paris and Orleans 45 47 20 all Paris and Rouen 39 41 20 all Paris and Strasbourg 311 -- 311 20 10 ParisCaen&Cherbrg. pm 10. 101 Quebec & Richmond 20 all Rouen and Havre 22 —23 2;00. 1 2 5 66 R oRD Southernooyy. a a l i w Danish e odefi 20 all Sambre and e s nF M h tr e .a n pn s cr e ei,f i p l d . 20 8 St. Andrew's and Quebec (A) ••• 81 all West Fl an d ers ... . 3i 4 3 i in 10 all Do 54 p er c. Pref . d 20 10 Western of France • 5 6 10 7 West. o f Switzerland . p 41 --34 d 20 2 Wiesbad en .• 20 15 Zealand ••• ••• al. allall A An g g o CalifornianA srin. Gold ria ll 1 2510 0 :0 aaaa Britishß Baden A, A i a u u cess s ntt t r Australian r Australian,,,, i a iiGaoa s udnun i . a 5. t . n :F;10..rr.1ii... . i0en.. . . ya. f . d. . a 1 ll ................................. 1 9 ; • all ll ll tt a A Australian uilaF Coal 320 5 1 2 a 1 4 l s. s. .u. e..d. I:s a ß o r b it r i o sh e l o r p o p u ei .. 4 . :C s t o . c j P a o ul e i s in . &" l3 . l a L 4 ]. 20 el 40 30 911 15 cliDEaoano°tiig... English suco and e. Rey ... 16 Copiapo . 2 : 82- p • 2 St. all Copper ************ 25 all Do. Pref. 7 0f En g' 52 5 . 1 7 5 5 1' • all Copper Smelt Austin. 20 all General_ g* Co. 14 2 all Gt.NuggeiVe.i ********* *• •• -- 2 Do. Registeredn.Se - A " . • • 3 all Great Polg oo th . ***** 1 all Lake Bathurst ******* 1 1 all Liberty ********* • 3 all Linares,,,,,,,,,,,,,""********* h 1 all Lond.&Cacoli 9 10 Quartz Crush. C 0,,, 1 all ISlariquita.. ** 10 9 Delexican&S.Ameri "en G 6i 1 all New Granada ** . *** 1 all New Linares * § an d Smelting g 1 all N ou veau Monde **** ,••• 20 all Pontgiband Silvcr" 4 Lead Min. & Smelt. 1 6 5 1 Port Phil i p 1 all Quartz Rock 50 all Rhymney Ir on ...... a 15 15 Do. New u . b a. n. a . 28 : 94 - 2 3 1 0 18 i i ala all SSll ll:onnauiltttlihaeard Mexican " 11 1 Ti W yWu n e e bs s e ta t r m g : Aof a i : a t i d . s. i n . p te. a l l al d s a a all 1 12s, INA'oursttranliag Minin g o i all JOINT-STOCK B A NKS. 40 all Australasia. B4 86 ' 40 all British Colonial Bank and Loan Company 50 all British N. American • 25 5 Chartd. Bank of Asia . d 20 2 Chrtd. Bnk. of India, Australia, & China ...d 100 25 Colonial ... . 100 20 Commercial of Loud - • 20 14 English Scottish and Australian ..• 2i 21 d 20 20 Lond. Chart. Bk. of Australia . . . 50 20 London ancl..unty ..4 50 10 London Joint Stock ••• 10) 100 35 20 27 a x d d and b 2 50 0 1 2, 0 2. T D N AI o c outf. N a ti o nal idEoN. E nnal gl a nd Ireland... : ti . ca . 1 . 7 ; f 20 all' New South Wales 25 all Oriental Lank of C orpora tion. 46 47 25 5 Do. NOW ... 100 25 Provincial of Ireland 49 10 all Do. New ••• 5 1 Royal Australn.Bkg & Gold Imp Co • • 25 all South Australia 4O 42 25 all Union of Australia :66 68 d ••• 50 10 Union of London ..• • .• CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAlLWAY.—Traffic return for the week ending July 30, 1854 25,985 10 5 Corresponding week last year 6,121 13 4 andCE L Iron o A n N 7 ()IJ . .. 7 .. . - 5 all A.ubin C 3ll oal B 25 176 Australian A ---_ ........ i., JIN.O• 40 all Australasia. ' 84 __ gricult 4 40 all British Colonial Bank 86 ' 20 11 Australsn.Pcific.Mai) 3 * 45 43i and Loan Company ... ...... 10 8 A.ustraln. Royal Mail *** 10 4 Berlin Water Works •'' 50 40 Brit. American Land *** 20 2 Chrtd. Buk. of India, 5 1 Brit. & Coln. Smoltg. 65 70 Australia, & China ... ..... ... d 2 5 5 0 alsl Chartd.British N Bau . A k in o e f ri A T i n a i...d and Reduction Co.. 100 25 Colonial ............... 100 32 Canada BB ••• —. ... 5 5 Crystal Palace — 92 100 20 Commercia l of Loud. „...... .. 20 14 English Sco ttish and ••• , 5 3,L, Do. New ...... .... ..• 4 44 4i .. Au5tra1ian............ 2i —2l d 4 2 Crystal Pa.l. of France ... •• ' 20 20 Lond. Chart. B k. of 20 5 Eastern Steam — ••• Aus tralia ............. 20 4 .. 25 20 EleetritTelegraph(A) 19 _ 20 i 211 50 20 L on don ancl Comity.. ... .... . 25 all Do. (B) lOO 20 Loud. & W estminster x d and b 20 50 10 London Joiut Stock.. ... —27 a d :: 1 1 Electric Teleg. of Ir. •.• ... ... _ • 15 14 Gen. Steam Navigat. ... —10 J Nationa l Provincial ••• 20 18 adnoral Screw Steam ... ... of England •.• ... 20 V, Irish - Beetroot Sugar ... _ ••• 20 10 Do. New 20 10' Niagdalcua St. Navig. ... ._ .” 50 22?, National of Ireland ... _ . • 1 all Nat. Pat. Steam Fuel ... __ .** 20 all' New South Wales._ ___ 2: . 10 3 Netherlands Laud.... i li 25 all Oriental Bank of 21N.S. W. Coal & Inter. • C orpora tion. 46 —47 ... 25 5 Do. New 1 all N. B. Australasian._ B _ i• 100 25 ProvinCial of Ireland ... _ .*: Steam Navigat. Co. _ . 49 10 all Do. New 1 A Do. New ..• ... 20 10 Nrth.ofEuropeSteam ... _ 5 1 Royal Australn.Bkg. .• --- ... ~. & Gold Imp C 0.... 5 all Peel Er. Ld. & Minrl. 4 —4O S ou th Australia 4O 42 4i ... _, . 50 all Peninsular& Or iental ... ... 25 all 50 40 Do. Do. ... ...p 25 all Union of Australia— :66 68 2 all Portland Iron Co i— ip ... 2i Do. New ............... ... ... a d 100 60 Royal Mail Ste am 1 all Scot. Austral. Invest. 2i 2i 25 25 South Austral. Land 33 —35 CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAlLWAY.—Traffic return for 1 all Subrnar. Telegraph.. i— li , the week ending July 30, 1854 1 `all Do. Registered t ii• Corresponding week last year £5,985 10 5 6,421 13 4 28i .iran Diemen Land 11 —l2 ...._ ---- . Decrease in 1854 £436 2 11 IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS-(YESTERDAY.) • The house met at five o'clock. The Duke of ARGYLL presented a petition, very numerously si g ned, from Glasgow, against the manufac ture or sale of spirituous liquors. Lord REDESDALE proposed several verbal amend ments in the standing orders of the house. Lord BROUGHAM entirely approved of the pro posed alterations. The noble and learned lord took oc casion to bear testimony to the advantages, as well as saving of expense, which had resulted from the introduc tion into this house of the system of appointing exami ners of standing orders in rega r d t o private bills, and intimated that he looked forward confidently to other improvements in the mode of disposin g of their private business. EPISCOPAL AND CAPITULAR ESTATES MANAGEMENT, 1854, BILL. On the motion for considering the Commons' amend ments in this bill, . . A brief conversation arose respecting the taxes upon law proceedings in the county courts, in which Lord Brougham, the Earl of Aberdeen, and Lord Campbell, took part. The amendments were ultimately agreed to. The amendments to the National Gallery (Dublin) Bill were agreed to, The Commons' reasons for disagreeing to an amend ment made by the Lords was taken into consideration. The amendment after a short discussion was aban doned. The same occurred in the case of the Towns Improve ment Bill. The same occurred in•the Prisoners Removal Bill. On the motion for the third reading of the Merchants' Shipping Acts Repeal Bill, Lord STANLEY of ALDERLEY moved to add a clause to give power to a magistrate to require a sum of 301. from the owner, consignee, or master of any ship, bringing into this country any Chinese, Asiatic, African, or Sandwich Islander, or natives of any place that has no consular representative in this country. • The clause was added to the bill. The bill was then passed. On the motion for the third reading of the Duchy of Cornwall Bill, the bill was read a third time and passed. On the motion that that the Public Revenue and Consolidated Fund Charges Bill be read a second time, Earl GRANVILLE moved that inasmuch as the provisions of the Public Revenue and Consolidated Fund Charges (No. 2) Bill are precisely similar to those of the Public Revenue and Consolidated Fund Charges Bill as the same were amended in committee in this house, the report of which amendments was, on the 28th day of July, ordered to be received that day three months, the peculiar circumstances under which the said (No 2) bill has been sent up to this house from the House of Commons make it reasonable that the same be allowed to be read a second time this day, if the house shall think to so order. The motion was agreed to. On the question being put for reading the bill a second time, The Marquis of CLANRICARDE complained of the loose manner in which the first bill was drawn, and said the grossest injustice would have been committed had that bill passed without amendments. Earl GRANVILLE defended the bill. The amend ments had been caused by some verbal mistakes which had crept into the bill. The - Marquis of CLANRICARDE denied that the mistakes were verbal. They included, for instance, the Master of the Rolls, and the Masters in Chancery in Ireland, whose salaries were proposed to be made the subject of an annual vote. Lord MONTEAGLE bore testimony to the defects of the original bill, especially in the points alluded to by the noble marquis. The judges of the superior courts of com mon law in Ireland, in the administration of justice at special commissions, were introduced into the bill. The Government bad only adopted the amendments because they were in a minority. The bill was prepared with such such a want of consideration that there had been no pro vision made to except persons having a life interest. There were considerable objections to the bill as it stood, though he (Lord Monteagle) should not embarrass the Government by raising them. There was one referring to the Scotch clergy, which, on examination, appeared to be for the detention of offenders. The bill was, in fact, prepared in the most " slip-slop" manner, if he might be allowed to use so unparliamentary a phrase. The select committee had adopted a resolution not to deal with the question of superannuations without fur ther information than was laid before them. This was complained of elsewhere. But he (Lord Monteagle), as a member of that committee, had applied for the infor mation wanting at the Treasury, and the reply was that the Chancellor of the Exchequer declined to furnish it. He (Lord Monteagle), therefore, complained that the committee should be impugned for neglecting to ask for information on the subject. He (Lord Monteagle) had been applied to by Mr. A. Stapleton, late private secre tary to Mr. Canning, who had been made Commissioner of Customs at the request of George IV. The salary was 1,2001., and Mr. Stapleton held two other appoint ments, making 1,9001. a year in all. Subsequently, Mr. Stapleton resigned his three offices for a retiring allowance of 9001. a year—thus effecting a saving of 1,0001. a year to the country. Mr. Stapleton had, however, sought to obtain employment in the service of the country ; and his income being a subject of public contract, he (Lord Monteagle) thought it unjust to place it at the mercy of a committee of supply. The case of the Bishop of New Zealand was one in point. The salary of that office had been placed on the committee of supply, and it had been withdrawn by the Government after several years' continuance. He (Lord Monteagle) thought the select committee had acted quite rightly in asserting the principle they had asserted, and refusing to proceed in ignorance of the facts. There was a rumour that the financial business of the House of Commons was to be transferred to select committees, on the plan of bureaux in foreign legislative assemblies, but when the House of Commons parted with the power of the purse, and abdicated its func tions, it real influence with the country was gone. Earl GRANVILLE did not feel inclined to take the authority of the noble lord, on the subject of Scottish law, though he would not venture to contradict him on the subject of Irish law. With regard to the refusal of the Treasury to give the noble lord the information he required, he (Lord Granville) had made it his business to ascertain the facts of the case, and from these it ap peared that the noble lord, having had some communi cation with the Chancellor of the Exchequer, in answer to a question put to him by the noble lord, the Chan cellor of the Exchepier stated that the persons most competent to give him information respecting the bill were two gentlemen in the Treasury—Mr. Anderson and Mr. Shelley. The noble lord thereupon wrote to Mr. Shelley to the effect that he had been authorised by the Chancellor of the Exchequer to ask him and Mr. Anderson for information, and requesting them to call upon him with the papers for that purpose. The answer of Mr. Shelley was, that he and Mr. Anderson would be happy to call upon the noble lord, but it was necessary that he should specify what papers ho required. To this the noble lord rejoined that it was a matter of no consequence ; that he had written the note merely to save time ; and that the committee would meet that afternoon and determine what papers they intended to call for. Next morning the noble lord called upon those gentlemen, and asked for information somewhat vaguely, and they furnished him with certain infor mation accordingly, under the impression that he had the authority of the Chancellor of the Exchequer to ask for it. But when the noble lord proposed that they should give him the estimates that had not then been laid before the House of Commons, they at once said that that was a matter beyond their discretion, and they must therefore refer the noble lord's request to the Chan cellor of the Exchequer. They did so, and the answer of the Chancellor of the Exchequer was, that they must not give the information to any individual member of the committee. He (Lord Granville) had also been assured by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, that when the noble lord asked him as to the proper source of in formation, he had no notion that the noble lord, being himself hostile to the government bill, intended going to the Treasury to obtain it. At the same time his right hon. friend stated that it had never entered his head to refuse to communicate any information which the com mittee might require. The noble lord also intimated to Mr. Shelley that if he did not give him the information he would move for it in this house. But not only did he not get the information from Mr. Shelley, but he had never moved for it. Now, whilst he (Lord Gran vine) was ready to admit that the Government were bound to supply ample information to both houses of Parliament, or to any committee of either house of Par liament, he did not think they were bound to allow their subordinates to give official information privatebt to any member of such committee, and thus enable him to select the weak points of a case—(Hear) —omit the the strong points, and put himself in a position infinitely superior to that of a person who defended the bill. (Hear.) He was well aware that nobody better remem bered the contents of the papers that were laid before Parliament, or was more able is place his finger upon any particular spot in areport, than his noble friend—(hear, and a laugh)—nobody, moreover, was so skilfel in extracting information for the purpose he had in view, both from friend and foe. (Hear, hear, and laughter). H friend did perfectly right to g et all the information noble tionhe could ; and he understood that he had beent closeted with the secretary of a public departmen one whole nd further, hour previous to the d eb ate coming that a witness, who was like l y to be ea a x n am_ minie d n db i y n his noble friend, had boasted of his presen f having declined an invita tion from his noble friend to breakfast before the committee assembled. and intimated at the same time that be would be glad to breakfast d completod its labours. with him after the committee (Loud laughter.) The only heather pohlt which the noble lord dwelt was a nrumour which he said was pre ot the first time that their valent. Now, that lordships had had rneis-veais•umours debated in that home ; he (Lord Granville) must be excused , however, if ho de clined to enter into ar efutation of rumours that had no substance whatever. Lord MONTEAGLE assured the noble lord that it had never been his desire to obtain information in an irre gular or a disingenuous manner. At the period he was in office as Chancellor of the Exchequer there was a pro per officer at the Treasury whose duty it was to answer those inquiries, and who, when a member of P ar li ament went to him, could state whether he might have such and such a paper or not. At present it was a constant cause of complaint that papers were laid upon the table without due inquiry being first ma d e w h ether they could be produced or not. The Duke of ARGYLL complained of the speeches of the Marquis of Clanricarde and Lord Monteagle as convoying an erroneous impression, He utterly denied ► that there bad been any violation of the principles on which the Government professed to act. Lord CAMPBELL said that as apprehensions seemed to be entertained that something very sweeping was in tended hereafter, he hoped the Government would pro ceed with great caution and deliberation. He should say that, per incurian I, there had been some departure from the principle originally laid down. He had great respect for the House of Commons ; nevertheless, there were some functions which it was not desirable that that house should exercise. It was a deliberative and an inquisitorial body, and was never designed to be an exe ' cutive Government ; and at the present moment, in fact, it had not time to discharge the functions with which it was invested by the Constitution. For his part, there fore, he thought that it was very inexpedient, when both houses of Parliament had decided, after much delibera tion, what salary should be attached to particular offices, to transfer that salary from the Consolidated Fund, and give to the House of Commons the function of deliberat ing every year what the salary should be, and whether the functionary who held the office bad performed his duty during the year or not. The bill was then read a second and third time, and passed. MILITIA BILLS. The Militia (No. 2) Bill, the Militia (Scotland) Bill, the Militia (Ireland) Bill, the Militia Ballots Suspension Bill, and the Militia Pay Bill, were severally passed through committee. PUBLIC HEALTH BILL. Earl GRANVILLE moved the suspension of the standing orders, for the purpose of passing this bill through, its several stages. Earl of SHAFTESi3- URY said that the law under which the Board of Health was constituted would ex pire at the end of the present session of Parliament ; and that the necessity for the present measure was rendered the more urgent by the increase which had taken place in the mortality arising from cholera. The noble earl stated that the deaths from these causes in the metro polis were — For the week ending July 15 Cholera Diarrhces, Total For the week ending July 22 : Cholera Diarrhcea Total —B4 For the week ending July 29 : Cholera Diarrhcea B4 Total —217 And for the week ending August 5 : Cholera ' 399 Diarrhcea l4B Total 547 The bill was then read a second and third time, and passed. METROPOLITAN SEWERS BILL. Upon the motion of Lord STANLEY of ALDERLEY, this bill was read a second time, and the standing orders having been suspended in its regard, it subsequently passed through all its stages. MIDLAND GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY OF IRELAND (BARONIES' CONTRIBUTIONS) BILL. The order of the day for the second reading of this bill having been moved, The Marquis of CLANRICARDE proposed the fol lowing resolution :—" That whereas disputes and litiga tion had arisen between the Midland Great Western Railway of Ireland and the ratepayers of the counties chargeable with certain payments in respect of the cost and maintenance of the said railway, it was urgent that the bill in question should, notwithstanding the late pe riod at which it had been brought up from the House of Commons, be allowed to be read a second time that day if the house should think fit so to order." The motion, after some opposition from Lord REDES DALE, upon the ground that the circumstances of the case were not urgent, was read a second time. Upon the motion of Lord REDESDALE, it was ordered that Mr. Samuel Smith and Mr. Thomas Erskine May should be appointed examiners of standing orders for the ensuing session of Parliament. Lord REDESDALE then moved for a return of all houses, buildings, &c., hired for o ffi c i a l purposes, includ ing Crown property, showing the situation of each ; the terra for which it was held ; the amount of rent and taxes with which it was chargeable; and the purposes to which it was applied. -The noble lord said he had moved for these returns with the view of being thus enabled *to demonstrate the expediency—in order to bring the vari ous public offices into as convenient a position with re spect to one another as possible—of securing the vacant space of ground between Downing-street and Great George-street for that purpose. There were also other matters with respect to rendering Parliament-street a more suitable approach to both Houses of Parliament, and with respect to the appropriation of the several pub lic buildings throughout the metropolis to particular uses, upon which he wished to obtain information. The Duke of NEWCASTLE had no hesitation in at once acceding to the motion of the noble lord. He thought the returns would furnish very useful informa tion. (Hear.) Ho agreed in the abstract with what his noble friend had said ; but yet consideration was required in the matter. He had no doubt the returns moved for would astonish many as to the mode in which the public offices were now managed. They were pay ing rent at present for something like 56 different offices, independent of those offices which might be termed fee simple. The sum thus paid in rents was not less than 20,0001. a year, and not alone that, but owing to the offices being apart, and distant from each other, great extravagance existed in consequence of th e severa l staffs in each office. (Hear.) Then the present system was very inconvenient. The offices were situated in private houses, never intended for business, so that much valu able space, in point of accommodation, was thrown away. It would be much better to expend a sum of money in the erection of suitable buildings—(hear) —and which might be done for a less sum in capital that 20,0001. a year by way of interest represented. The Board of Trade was carried on at present in ten or eleven different buildings. Something the same might be said of the war department—independent of the Horse Guards and the Ordnance Office ; whereas all these departments should be under proper and effi cient control. (Hear, hear.) The question was not one merely of pounds, shillings, and pence, but also affected the interests of the public service. How ever, as the country was engaged in expensive ope rations at present, it might not be the most fitting time to press a question of the kind ; but he had no doubt the demand for funds for this purpose, if made at a proper time, would meet with unanimous approval. After a few words from Lord REDESDALE, the motion was agreed to. COURT OF CHANCERY BILL. On the motion of the LORD CHANCELLOR, The Commons' amendments in this bill were agreed to. BRIBERY, &c., BILL. On the motion of the Duke of NEWCASTLE, The amendments of the Commons in this bill, limiting its operation to one year, were agreed to. Their lordships adjourned at five minutes to nine o'clock. 110IISE OF COMMONS-(YESTERDAY.) The SPEAKER. took the chair at two o'clock. Sir J. SHELLEY presented a petition from a Liver pool paper, praying that unstamped papers under an ounce in weight may be transmitted through the post on payment of a penny. CO'\IMON LAW PROCEDURE ACT. In reply' to Lord DUDLEY STUART, Lord PALMERSTON said this act, which was passed in 1852, applied only to England and Wales, and there fore it had not been forwarded for registration to the Channel Islands. NORWICH LUNATIC ASYLUM. Lord D. STUART wished to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he had re ceived a report from the visiting magistrates of the luna tic asylums in Norwich, containing the results of an inquiry, by which it appears that justice was evaded on a criminal charge ; and whether he would not direct a strict investigation to be made into all the circumstances of the case. --- -....... Lord PALMERSTON had received no official infor mation on the subject, but the facts which the noble lord had communicated to him he had submitted to the Lu natic Commissioners. SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, AUGUST - 1854. SHARE MARKETS. (THIS DAY.) BRITISH RAILWAYS. RAILWAYS. !Closing Prices yesterday. Business done this day. Aberdeen Ambg. Nottng. Bost and Eastu. Junct Belfast & Ballymena Birming. Wolverh. & Stour Valley Birkenhd. Laucsh. dr, Cheshire Juliet Do. Chesh. & £5O and £25 Cons. Do., £2O Blyth &Tyne original £25 (issd. at £45) Bristol and Exeter Caledonian Chester & Holyhead. 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Parch 100 5 100 all MEDICAL REFORM. e S H TU n m A e ß D T ep w a i r s t h m e e d to nt t , the eirn ti to S i teehcer his e p t r a i ne r s y t ee nn o t f . laws regulating the state of medical education, an d inquireowahsekt h t S i t o La n toe t r o fdo a rD p t pint a commission h. o the prac • riclom , • or to appoint practice of medicine, surgery, midwifery,t a committeeandpharm acy in the United Kint,of if a commission p surgery, midwif ery , and the House of Commons .ls for a po t i n h t a e t d i n t r is o pp.sten be And ,:ora p w n sheed t o f p ra ctitioners in med i cine , only practising in g os pharmacy from . En E gla n ulde,nldr.ehlaadnda,lraenaddyScosttlaatnedd, orthtahtosiet R of S t T he Government to appoint a com mission, . or ask a for a select committee to enquire into Lord intention this subject, but it had not yet been determined whether the enquiry should be through the former or the latter medium. SOUTH AUSTRALIA. Sir J. PAKINGTON had been given to understand that Acts of Constitution had been transmitted to this country for confirmation by the Crown from New South Wales, South Australia, and Victoria, each containing the principle of a nominated upper chamber, and he should be glad to know what steps the Government in tended to take with regard to these acts. Sir G. GREY said it was quite time that such acts had been received, but they could be confirmed without the sanction of the Parliament, and therefore instruc tions had been sent out to the Colonies that they would ba reserved for future consideration. BRIBERY E R in movingYßlLL. Lord J. RUSSELL, that the Lords' amendment to this bill be considered forthwith, ex plained the nature of these amendments which will be found fully reported in our Lords report of yesterday. The motion was agreed to. Lord J. RUSSELL then moved that the house do agree to these amendments. Lord HOTHAM objected to these amendments, and expressed his surprise that the noble lord should have asked the house to agree to them, seeing that already more than once he had voted and spoke against them. It was , moreover, exceedingly strange that these the amend ments had been introduced not at the instance o _ noble lord's opponents, but on the motion of one of his . own colleagues. He strongly objected to that amend ment ment which struck out the clause allowing reasonable travelling expenses to county voters, and he could not help thinking that it the house agreed to it, they would • so far stultify their former decisions as to excite the At the same time, scorn and contempt of the country. 100 100 all all all 14 dis 75i 584 8 251 864 i 5i 67 126 75i i 4i 105 i 6 x d 1.041 per cent. 651 i Do.. at this period of the session, it was hopeless to oppose the Government, because the attendance of members was so small, that Ministers could if they chose make bribery a capital offence ; and he should, VI • r efo re, abstain from going to a division on the motion of the noble lord. He, however, called upon the noble lord, both for the sake of his own consistency and the cha acter of the house, to reconsider the determination he had come to, and disagree with the Lords' amendments so far as they related to the travelling expenses claim. Some verbal amendments made by the Lords having been agreed to, Lord HOTHAM moved that the consideration of the Lords' amendments, which struck out the travelling expenses clause, be postponed until this day month. Lord J. RUSSELL could not agree with the noble lord in thinking that the house would be at all dis paraged in the estimation of the country by agreeing in this amendment of the Lords. If the motion of the noble lord were carried it would have the effect of de feating the bill for this session. Mr. HILDYARD said there was no wish to de feat the bill altogether. All that his noble friend re quired was simply to negative this amendment of the law; and if his motion would have the effect attributed to it by the President of the Council there would be no objection to alter its terms. The House of Lords, in striking out this clause, had acted from caprice. Mr. HUME said the Lords had a perfect right to make the amendment if they so thought fit ; and it was an insult to the House of Lords, nay, :t was revolution ary, to say that they acted from caprice in doing so. With regard to this bill, he did not believe it would be effectual unless the ballot were engrafted upon it ; but at the same time he thought the Lords had done right in rejecting these travelling expenses. If a man would not take the trouble to vote without having his expenses paid let him stop away ; give him plenty of polling booths, but no travelling expenses of any kind. Lord HOTHAM explained, that he should take every opportunity of obstructing further progress of this bill unless the travelling expenses were re-inserted in it. Mr. T. DUNCOMBE supported the Lords' amend ments, but strongly censured the upper house for at tempting to control the House of Commons by refusing to read bills a second time after the 25th of July, which was tantamount to trenching upon the rights of the people and the prerogative s of the Crown. Sir J. PAKINGTON approved of the resolution which the Lords had come to, and hoped they would adhere to it in future sessions. This bill in its present form was a delusion, and it would be no great loss to the country if it were altogether thrown out. After some further discussion, in which Mr. G. Butt, Mr. W. A. Wilkinson, Mr. Cayley, Mr. Malins, Sir 0. Burrell, and Lord R. Grosvenor took part, the house divided, when there appeared— For agreeing to the Lords' amendments 7B Against doing so 21 Majority —57 Lord HOTHAM then moved that the house " do now adjourn." His only desire was that the bill should re main in the state in which the House of Commons had declared it should remain. Mr. HILDYARD explained that if the House of Lords had thought proper to reject the bill, he had said the Lords would act capriciously, and to every word of that he intended to adhere. The house then divided, when the numbers were— For the amendment l6 Against it B4 Majority The motion was consequently lost. Lord 110THAM then moved that the debate be now adjourned. After a few words from Mr. HILDYABD, Lord J. RUSSELL hoped the noble lord (Lord Hotham) would try the question as to the decision of the House of Lords, or that of this house. Mr. V. SCULLY hoped the house would now be satisfied that it was not the Roman Catholic members of that house who were always instigated by factious motives, when English and Scotch noblemen and gentle men, with small minorities, were equally pertinacious when they believed themselves in the right. Mr. T. DUNCOMBE suggested that the noble lord should reserve his forces until he had moved the amend ment of which he had given notice, to confine the operation of the bill to one year—that, if carried, would enable him to amend it in the course of next session. Mr. MALINS complained that no notice had been given of agreement to those amendments being moved. There were many at this moment within two miles of the house who did not know what was going on, and who had no reason to know what was going on. He justified the course which he and his friends were tak ing, and which he admitted, upon ordinary occasions, wa3 exceedingly to be deprecated, upon the ground that they were asked to reverse the oft-repeated deci sion of the house, and to do it without reasonable notice. Mr. BENTINCK had not been in the house upon the two former division, but should vote for the present amendment, if it were pressed, upon the ground that it was a most unjustifiable proceeding to attempt, at this period of the session, and in such a house as was then assembled, to force on a measure of this kind without proper notice. It was a positive act of deception on the house. A measure of this magnitude, and in- volving such great interests, ought to have been brought forward and discussed at such a period of session as would have insured a proper attendance of members. The house divided— Ayes l5 Noes Majority —66 Lord HOTIIAM then again moved the adjournment of the house, and another division took place with the following result Ayes Noes 7 913 Majority —66 Mr. MALINS thought the noble lord the President of the Council would agree with him, that it was not fair that such a subject should be discussed without notice. In order, therefore, that such notice might be given, and that those hon. memb ers w h o were a b sent might have an opportunity of attending, he would propose an ad journment until Thursday. He would have preferred Friday, but he understood [that the prorogation was to be on Saturday, and he could see that Friday might be inconvenient ; but he trusted that the noble lord would think that, in proposing Thursday, he was suggesting a fair compromise. There was another reason for the postponement. It would afford the noble lord an oppor tunity of giving an answer to the question he had asked just now, and which, he thought, respect for the country and the house demanded should be answered, as to the reasons which had led the noble duke (his colleague) to move in the other House of Parliament to undo that which the noble lord in this house had himself pro posed to do. The SPEAKER said the hon. gentleman could only move that the debate be adjourned. Mr. MALINS therefore altered his amendment ac cordingly, on the understanding that, if carried, the dis cussion should be resumed on Thursday. Lord J. RUSSELL said a postponement so Thursday would give hon. gentlemen opposite a great advantage. It was obvious that they might pursue the same course on that day and on Friday as they had pursued to-day, and then the only alternative would be, that the proro gation must be postponed or the bill be lost. Mr. BRIGHT said it appeared to him there was some thing not quite so honest as they might expect in the course which hon. gentlemen opposite were taking. They were objecting now to the further progress of the bill, on the ground that a particular clause had been withdrawn, but they had voted against the bill with that f e e l a re u , s e in it ;and must the liee g t h h t e ground not ia th o their ef withdrawal opposition,of h clause, tere but in the ancient inveterate hostility to the bill itself. e t h ha o t f th a e o c b o j t e iv e t tio o n f as la w to ; want wetrhea that still t i t l h l e i n e u t h o j w e e n t , w a a n e d to ha h! d a n g e o d n e be o f u o t re o t f he t y o town, ) w h e ther there was any business which remained t o b e o( (Hear , notice e a r h ear savoured e very thought m u d s t u ho fli s e e ie hon. et n e m a members b e e f r knowing who h a o s ce h r a t mustdi c discussed, s sheed supposed e t s h e a d t t e those havew transacted of sufficient importance to detain them. The hon. and learned member claimed to represent a majo rity of the house. How did he know that ? The noble lord the President of the Council, on whose recommen dation only the house had agreed to this clause, had changed his opinion upon it ; and they all knew that the noble lord's conversion was generally followed by the conversion of a great many others. He remembered to have heard it said of a certain cardinal that he had baptised 4,000 or 5,000 people at once by the twirling of a mop ; and when the noble lord changed his opinions a great many other people changed their opinions at the same time. (Hear.) He would put it to the noble lord whether it was worth his while—as this was a temporary measure--as a majority of the House of Commons had adopted it—as the House of Lords had thought it of sufficient importance to warrant a suspension in its fa vour of the resolution it had passed this session—as the whole subject must be reconsidered at all events within the next two years—it was worth his while to persevere in a course which, supported by 13 members just " baker's dozen" —against 79, could lead to no practical result 1 Mr. HILDYARD contended that the objection made upon the ground of want of notice was the objection, not merely of a lawyer, but of a statesman, and defended the course which the opposition had pursued. Mr. BENTINCK maintained that it was perfectly consistent with the opposition that had been given to a bill which they believed to be bad, mischievous, and in efficient, to support the re-introduction of a clause, the omission of which they considered made a bad measure worse. was the establishment l taoco et him, duty himself buotffbrroimberywhbicyh Mr. WILLIAMS contended that if this clause were to become law, bribery, rank bribery, would be, for the first time, legalised. What bon. gentlemen opposite n were o f Parliament. contending Lambeth had asserted that this clause would legalise Lord HOTHAM said the honourable member for he rig left l hon. him t f o rf s e e n t d t s le u t p h o a n t q th u e est T io r n ea w su it r h y blielisnnkcnhob,brwilehheoarynh‘al; d supported it upon four or five several occasions. (Hear.) He thought the hon. member, who a l w ays claimed great credit 'for the purity of his own motives, should have avoided imputing motwivoelisnldttohhoiastvhpeeorisnsi.: htd N i cuo o ncf t ee l lwd i i t n hhh g ii ecn h hi c u (ow t Lua a ol sdrmdmnollooststot trdlrecede sacred distasteful se sense ttewof tptl h 0 u t sacrificing m con scientious feelings, and consenting to surrender of the privileges of the house. os moat unworthy his Tho house then divided-- For the motion......___ 11 11 Against it .................... ' Lord HOTLIAM then moved the adjournment of the debate. Mr. T. 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