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St. EBOR HANDICAP. 25 Bto 1 a gs t C a t' s p a w (taken freely). St. 20 to 1 agst King Torn (offered). 50 IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. I I°. ROUSE OF COMMONS—(THIS DAY.) The SPEAKER took the chair at twelve o'clock. PRIVATE BUSINESS. The Lords' amendments to the Electric Telegraph Bill and the Worcester and Hereford Railway Bill were considered and agreed to. T hefollowing bills were read a third time and passed :- 33 ingley Free Grammar and General Education Schools and Charity Estates ; Clitheroe School Estate Duke of Atholl's Estate ; Jesus College Estate ; Piddocke's Estate ; and Ward Jackson's Estate. SOUTH SEA COMPANY'S ARRANGEMENT AND TRUSTS BILL. ' 0 11 the motion for the third reading of this bill, Mr. SPOONER rose to move that the bill be re rted. Th e bill , a l t h oug h stan di ng on th e p r i va te paper U, a public measure , an d oug ht to have been brought 1 ; 'n by the Government. It contained most extraordinary ` . 4 Provisions, and gives the directors of the South Sea t .lt3 t , l2n Pati3' power to deal with more than 3 , 000,0001 . of f, ueir stock in a manner which the house would know nothing of until a long time afterwards. The standing 8 : i ul rde rs had been suspended in favour of the bill ; and , t'ough it was a meas ure of vast importance, they had Teard no statement whatever about it. True it was referred ',,( 1 ? incident a ll y by the Chancellor of the Excheque r in .; 4111 recent statement on the subject of the South Sea -13 - 11 1 . ties, but he could not gather from that or any 'jug in the bill itself, that every member of the a( zPany, or at least so large a proportion of them as to J u stify the h ouse i n pass i ng the bill, had received notice ; 3 fth e Purport and intention of this bill. The South Company, although a chartered company, was, ne vertheless, a partnership, and, therefore, in law, a measur e of this nature to divert the capital of the com- PauY from the object for which it was subscribed, could not be made legal without the sanction of all the part il,rs• He concluded by moving that the bill be read a third time this day three months. Mr. BOUVERIE said the hon. member complained that this bill had been brought forward as a private bill, as it w as p romo t e d b y an i ncor p ora t e d co mpany, it 'ould not have been introduced in any other way. It Involved a wise and important public object, and he 'rusted it would receive the assent of the house. Si x P. KELLY said the effect of this bill would be to In ake the South Sea Company a great trading com pany, carrying on business as trustees for other p arties ; and, although that change might be advantageous to the Proprietors, he contended that, without the sanction of tball the proprietors, it would be neither more nor less --an an act of spoliation to pass this bill. The real °Perations of this bill would be this, parties who had !wrested their money in South Sea Stock, under the topression that it was for a particular purpose, would ti e ), Paid off without ceremony, if they did not consent to e terms of the bill. In point of fact, the South Sea w at aPany was a copartnership, and the object of this bill i f tto compel the parties to dissolve the partnership. the assent of all the proprietors had been obtained to ° f . Course his objections to the bill would cease, but t i pit nout that consen t th e bill wa s notning more nor less oaw an act of s p o li a ti on . an d the house ought therefore reject it. T hey were to ld , i n d ee d, th a t the bill was th Y had n upon a resolution passed by the company, but di o information as to how the resolution was t i l sn ußsed or carried. They did not know whether all did Propri e t ors en titl e d t o v ote agreed to it ; if they of course there would be an end to his opposition, thp A n P n c these points the house was as yet entirely in Mr. 0 thi s bi u — ARDWELL had examined the provisions of di enc ; ' and he had no doubt whatever as to its expe- Whief i T as to the necessity for passing it. The p oli cy rity cf thee bill p enunciated any, was approved of by the majo gated and the reason it was not investi fm b Ya public committee was simply that the —8 of th e house required that it should be a pri nte bill. B e i ng unoppose d, it was re f erre d to %. t he Chairman of Committees, who thoroughly exa '-zained its provisions, and reported it as unobjection able. Whence, then, arose this opposition ? The bill 441 been approved of by the company in public meeting a eacinbled, and since the supposed absence of the con sent of the proprietors was the present ground of oppo- Rit icn, he thought the house ought to experience no dif kUlty in passing the measure. ISIL HENLEY suggested that the bill should be sent .34 ek to the select committee, with instructions especi ally to port the proportions of proprietors who assented t° „„ this It was true the bill did not create a ,„ -- " v ", Power, but it created new powers and new objects, ,',Lch the company were to carry out ; and before such fl e cauge as that could be made in the constitution of the -11 'Paon the house ought to be satisfied that it had been trictiorted by the great majority of the proprietors. T he bill was however, objectionable on other grounds ; f instance, it extended the principle of limited liability, b:While some of the clauses were so framed that the cora `af,,,nY could hold l an ds, a power which Parliament had "a3's refus e d t o con f er upon joint-stock companies. fall he SOLICITOR-GENERAL insisted that it was a a cY to suppose that this bill could not pass without ,Z consent of every individual proprietor. The object for e , 'eh the company was originally established had been ac fttuplished, and the company was now virtually dissolved. v4B only fair, therefore, that the company should p u b i . the power of applying their funds to uses of present "c advantage, and considering that the assent of the ZnPrietors had been given to the bill in the usual f e r in er, he thought the opposition was quite uncalled l le amend men t was n e gatived without a division, and th e bill was rea d a thi r d time and passed. STAN DING ORDERS REVISION COMMITTEE. Oh the order of the day for the consideration of the repor t of this committee, t o lVir ' W. PATTEN called the attention of the house tiothe report, and, in accordance with its recommenda titannu!: mohe insertion of certain amendments in the ing orders which were agreed to. (LEFT SITTING.) IRE°L'RVATION OF LIFE FROM SHIPWRECK. Yesterday a meeting of the general committee ef of L th if e e ' l ° f Al National Institution for the Preservation A -I. l 7 l o,l3 B h h i il 3 w c r a e p e t k ain wa t s a h m e h ld ert at pe t r h r e ett offi in c t e ßh s, eNe AT h. o a h ,i n n -stre lv et e , %80 observed present--Captain Davies, i t ," ' R. Hall, R.N. ; Mr. Edward Hurry, i , C C a a m p p t t a a a j i e in n r ~;-(Hardy, R.N. ; Captain Ommanney, -r.u.altner, Captain Washington, R.N. ; C R aptain . Ward, `'',l\i-, inspector of life-boats to the institution. read the minutes of ther previous ' meeting, the following rewards were or ed to be granted : The suns of 4/. 10s. to several men for their praise- Worthy services to the crew of the e esdchaoonsheerrtNtaivinae -11130, of Guernsey, which was wrecked k The men having, with * ll' ° off the Isle of Wight. effect . eunett's rocket apparatus, su t c r c a e n e d d e e d d 111 g a c ommunication with the crew Were, by means of a hawser, s hauled on v s i h ens o s r e e b . her On timoeunevt e o r f t t h h e e trreeetenednouwshsieeha the e at w e a n s w ru e n r n e in st g an a d t in th g e , t heir lives were placed in great peril, perished, as it and it seemed that had it not been for prompt and persev e ering exertions every soul on board the vessel must have Ras sihrnipp,osshsiebalte h fo a i v •z i i n n g o b rd ee in n ar p y re b v o i a en t to live d iv a e sh in ed su t c e h p a ie s e e e a s ,. It appeared that this institution had granted e i 3 rewards from tune to ti me : or sav i ng the l i ves o f a b ou t wins persons with the useful apparatus f th shp e late Mr. Dennett. The amount of 2/. 10s. was also voted to five poor Irish fishermen, who had in the most creditable manner saved two out of five persons from [a capsized fishing boat i n Courtmascherry bay, on the coast of Cork. Tll accident happened a b out h alf a mile from the shore, and, the E a running high at the time, three persons were un forturkately drowned before assistance could reach them. New li fe - boats, on M r . P ea k e ' s d es i gn, were ordered to he built, and to be stationed at Dungeness, Kent, I..ewcastle Dundrum bay, and Crandfield point, on the coast of Down. The lif e b oat on the same plan, belonging to the insti havetution at Cullercoats, Northumberland, w as re p or t e d to saved, during th e l ate tempestuous weather, is number of poor fi s h ermen, who whilst engaged lu their hazardous occupation, were overtaken soon after sunrise by a heavy galeachin g from the N.N.E. sea bec ame so fearful! Ma ny of them succeeded i.i re the shore b e f ore th e y high, which it afte rwar d s d id, so as to prevent them entering the haven. The life boat, having been sent to their assistance, suc ceeded in bringing ten boats over the bar, some of which Would with their crews inevitably have been lost hadnot the life boat gone off to their rescue, the wind and sea hay . ng rise n to such a height as to leave no place of safety for them to run to. A. communication was read from the Lincolnshire Life boat Association, requesting the institution to accept 0 ., in grateful acknowledgment of the original gift, in 1 825, of their first life boat by the institution. The boat, which istationed at Skegness, was said to be in an ethcient state, and to have saved about 100 lives of ship. wrecked persons. The proceedings then closed. _. _,~ __`` SHARE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.) BRITISH RAILWAYS. Paid.l RAILWAYS. Cbsing Prices Yesterday. 10 Business done 20 this day. 1 1100 I Xberdeen .. Ambg. Nottng. Bost.l and. FA -stn. Junct... all Birming. Wolverh. & 28 1 Stour Valley Birkenhd. Lanesh. & Cheshire Junet ' all I Do. Chesh. & Birk., £5O and £25 Cons. 18i Do., ....... 100 Bristol and Exeter.., 1100 Ca1ed0nian........ .... all 'Chester & Holyhead, all I Cork and Bandon all (Cork, Black, & Pass. 45 Dublin&BelfastJunc. all Dundee Perth&Aber deen Junction, all Do. New all (Gast Anglian.... all I Do., (Xl - 8 E dr.l-1). all Fastern Counties.. all Eastern Union, A Stock 100 Do., B. Stock 8i Do., New A, 100 East Lancashire East & West Ind. Dk all & Birming. June..• 100 Edinburgb& Glasgow 1?, Edinb. and Peebles 100 Edin. Prth. &Dundee 100 Glasgow &S. Western 100 Great Northern Stk. 100 Do., A. Stock 100 Do., B. Stock ...... . 100 Gt. Sth. &West.(lre.) 100 Great Western 11 Irish South-Eastern all Lancaster & Carlisle 11-I Do., Thirds 100 Lancash.andYorksh 16 Do., Fifths 114 Dl., Wst. Riding Un all Leeds Northern all Liv.Crsby.&Southpt, all London & Blackwall 7 Lond. Tilb. & Sthend. 100 Lond. Bright & S.Cst. 100 Loud, and N. Westn. 12 Do. Fifths 1 Do.lo/.5h.,31&8...0 100 London andS. Westn. 42.4 Do., £5O 34 Do., £4O all Lndndrry& Coleraine all Lndndrry. & Ennisk. 100 Manch.Shef. & Linde Do., Man. & Lin. Un 100 Midland 100 Do. Birmng. &Derby 47 Midi& G. West. (Ire.) 174 Do. Half Shares all Newcastle & 100 Newmarket 4i Do., Bury Extension 174 Nwpt.Aberg.&llrfd 7; Newry &Enniskillen all l i Newry Warrenpoint and hostrevor 100 Norfolk ..... 3i Northn.Counties Un 100 North British . 16 North Devon, No. 1 114 Do., No A . 2 all Do., Deferred 8 Do., A B Guaranteed 17i North: Staffordshire all North Western 10 N. &S. Westrn,. June 100 Oxford, Worcester,& Wolverhampton 100 Scottish Central 100 Scottish Midland 100 Shrewsbury &Bi ling. 100 Do. L. &N. Western Guaranteed St &bk 8 Shrcwsby. & Berefd. all Shrewsby. & Chester (N. W. Min ; all Do. Halves,) all Do. Oswestry 6i Shropshire Union all South Devon 100 South Eastern all South Wales 15 S. Yrksh. & Riv. Dun 5 Do 16i Stockton & Hartlepl. 20 Thames Haven Dock and Railway 17 Vale of Neath all Waterfd. & Kilkenny all Waterford&Limerick 14 West Cornwall 21s. Wimbledn & Croydon . 100 YorkNewctL&Berw. 20 Do. Extensions 5 111 Do. G.N.E. Purchase >t. 100 York &N. Midland... PR EFEREN 1100 Ilberdeen.. 100 Do. No. 2, 7 p. C. 100 Bris. & Ex. 4p. c. Si. 5 Do. 4 p. c. Shares 100 Caledonian £lO all Chester & Holyhead Guar. 52 per cent... 61 Cork &Bandonsip.c. all Dundee Perth &Aber- deen Junction all EastAnglian (I:310s) 6 per cent all Do. (.£5) 7 per cent 2 Do. (X 7 17s) 7 p. c all Eastern Counties Ex tension, 5 p. c. No. 1 all Do. No. 2 all Do. New 6 p. c. St. all Eastern Union, Scrip Guar. 6 per cent 100 East Lancash.6 p. cts all EdinbPrth.&Dundee s t i per cent. 100 Glasgow &S.Western Guar. 5 per cent 100 Great Northn. sp. c 100 Do. 5 p. c. Redeem , at 10 p. c. 5 Do. 4 fp. e. Scrip . all Gt, Southn. &Westm (Ireland) Eighths).. 6 Gt. Westn. (Berks & Hants Ex. 5 p. c)... 100 Do. cov. red. 46 p.c. : 100 Do. con. red. 4p. c. 100 Do. irred. 4p. c : 6 Lan. &York. F. £2O 100 Do. 6 p. c. Stock 100 London and Brighton Guaranteed 5 p. c 1100 Do. Pref., 5 p. c. St all Do. Convertible, 5 p c., 1852 1100 Do. New Guar.6 p. c 5 London &S. Western Con. Thirds ; I 10 Londonderry& Color Shares all Loudy. & Ennis. 6 Sh • all Kan., Shef., & Liu., i Shares, No. 1. all Do. New, £lO 3 Do. £6 6 all Mary pt .&Carl.4 p.c. 6, all Do. 4A per cent 81, Do _ 100 Mid. Consol.6 p.c.St. 100 Do. Consol. Bristol & Birm. 6 per cent 5 Do. Pref. V i per cent 6 Norfolk Extension 100 Do. 5 p. c. Eat 100 Do. Guar. 5 per et._ 100 Do. Way. Val. sp. c 100 North British all North Staffordshire 100 Oxford, Worcester, St, Wolverh.Xls,6 p.c. 5 12 Do 8 all Shrews. &Birm.N.G O all Shrewsby. R.; Chester (Nor.W.Min), 8 p.c. O 10 Do. 5 per cent 5 all S o uth Devon O Jill/0. New ).6 all S. Eastern (Reading Ann.) of £1 Os. 6d. t. 100 Do. 4 t i per cent. Pre. !O all I S.Yorksh.4p.c.Guar. 5 3 ;Watcrfd.Sikilk.6p.c. It. 100 York, Newcastle,and Berwick,4 p.c. Pref. L 7 5 Do 10 York&N. MidlandH. and S. Purch FOR: 26 - 27 5a 58 9a 104 9 7 disl 20 - 22 3A -- 102 -- 104 67 -67 A 21i -- 224 19A -20 A - 4ip 8- 9 51 - 3 - 12g - 43 - 45 31 - 33 72 = 74 53 - 56 72 - 74 29 - 81 53 54 ,133 - 135 'llO - 111 - 7 - 8 74 102 - 105 16 - 17 7 4 -76 i - 3,-; - 3 14t - 154 8i -- Bil 1$ --lipid' 103 --104xd 114 t -- 1151 2 -24 p 1 88 -- 8 9 p 6 -- 5d 5 -- 4d 11 -- 13 18 -- 20 28i 29 701 -70 i 40 -- 42 1 4 = a - 3 8 9' 51 53 323 33 dl ... - 4i - 401 9 1 4 - - 9 • ~. - 50 3 / 4 - 51 3 / 4 1 93 - 95 61 - 63 60 - 62 69 71 li id 18 20 9 10 13A I , q 31 3gcl 19 70 70i 36 36 13 14 25 - 27 2R -- 2i 14 -- 15 9 31 -- 32 - 10 64 -- oil 8 _ 70 20 2sd 584 -59 i DE SHARES. Liii - 105 LOG 108 19i _o 2, 6a 4 41 lf -- 2 p ip -- lip 14i -- 15 201 -20 i 1129 - 130 113 - 114 $- 1 1) 8a -- 8i 6i -- 7i 104 -- 104 99 -- 101 101 -- 103 id— P 150 -152 d 3i - 4 10 - 11 13 -14 8 - - 11 - 6 P . ... - ••• 1 149 - 151 114 - 116 118 - 122 ~ -- .. 115 - 117 2 , q - 25 2 - *pi 101. -10 i 171 18 P 14 154 par p 25 26,1 112 114 I19„-2 0 ~ r a d 102 - 104 58 - 5$ ;par i PI :IGN. iii 4 Antwrp & Rotterdam' 5 3 IBelgian East. Junct.' !O all 'Charleroi & Erquelin !O 10 Dijon and Besnon !O 8 Dutch Rhenish !O i all 'East Indian ?,0 1 Do. Extension 5 all .Gt. Indian Peninsula! 20 10 Gd. Junct. of France 2(4' 20 Gt. Westn. of Canada I Shares 5 3 - Lucca and Pistoja, 5 i, per cent. pref. 20 15 ILuexembourg 10 10 IDo. (Railway) 5 2',D) 5 3 Do. (Canal) 1 I Do. 6 p. cent. p ref 20 i 9 ILyons ,S,r, Mecliterra , n. 20 1 7..l:Madras ................. 34 29 'Maria Antonia 10 1 10 too. New ... 20 all Namur & Liege (with interest .. 20 all Do. (ex interest) 16 all Northern of France 20 all Do. 201. 3p. c. Bds [fmy.B.&Ams.Shs lI 10 all NorwegianTriik Pref 20 10 'Paris and Lyons 20 all :Paris and Orleans 20 all Paris and Roueu 20 all ;Paris and Strasbourg 20 4 IParis Caen& Cherbrg. 104 104:Quebec & Richmond 20 all IRouen and Havre .... 20 all ',Sambre and Meuse... 10 4 po. 5i per cent. pref. 20 6 'Southern of France.. 20 2s. Upper India Scrip ... Bi' all 'West Flanders 10 10 Do. 5.., per c. Pref 20 10 Western of France 10 2 West. of Switzerland 20 9 New Zealand,„,, ita 14 15 A .lo 21 sip 1 I.sp 1 2hp 11 lip par i d 7 71 4 4,1 1 1 . 4 par I l i i- 2,-i p 71 ••• ••• 341 34 t 4 -14 - 9 i 16,1 45 46 43 44 361 361 4 - 6 id 19 20 81 81 5 6 $ 4i 9 3 n—_ 2 d St. St. 12 50 50 20 20 25 St. 20 St. 15 THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, AUGUST 5, 1853. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS—(YESTERDAY.) Their Lordships met shortly after three o'clock. ROYAL ASSENT. The Royal assent was given by commission to the fol ,owing bills : Succession Duty. Common Lodging Houses. Convicted Prisoners Removal and Confinement. Savings Banks Annuities. Coinage Offences (Colonies). Colonial Bishops Act Extension. Patronage Exchange. Taxing Officer, Common Law Business (Ireland). Bankruptcy (Scotland). Land Revenues. Copyholds. Customs Duties. Dublin Parliamentary Registration. Stamp Duties. Stamp Duties (No. 2). Resident Magistrates (Ireland). Turnpike Trusts Arrangements. Sheep, &c., Contagious Diseases Prevention. Battersea Park. Westminster Bridge. Spitalfields to Shoreditch Improvement. Pimlico Improvement. Whittlebury Forest. Barnsley Waterworks (No. 2). London Docks Midland Railway (Leicester and Hitchin). Burford, Leachlade, and Swindon Roads. Shipley and Bramley Road. Wildinore Fen and East and West Fens Highways. South Eastern Railway (North Kent Railway to the Thames, &c.) York and North Midland Railway (Re-issue of Hull and Selby Purchase Shares). London and North Western and London and Blackwall Railways. Leeds, Bradford, and Halifax Junction Railway. Alston Roads. Roscrea and Parsonstown Junction Railway. Limerick, Ennis, and Killaloe Junction Railway. South Eastern Railway (Reading Extension, &c.) Warrington and Altrincham. Railway (Stockport). Eastern Counties Railway (North Woolwich, &c.) Burton-upon-Trent Improvement (No. 2). Carlisle Canal and Port Carlisle Railway. Electric Telegraph Company of Ireland. Norwich and Spalding Railway. Copper Miners in Engand Company. South Eastern Railway (Strood. to Maidstone). Victoria (London) Docks. East Kent Railway. South Staffordshire Waterworki. Forth and Clyde Junction Railway. Upton St. Leonard's, Birdlip, and Brimpsfield Road. Dewsbury, Heckmondwike, and Batley Water. Wakefield and Sheffield Road. St. Ives (Cornwall) Harbour. St. Helen's Canal and Railway. Pendleton, Swinton, &c., Road. Leeds Northern Railway. Bedale and Leyburn Railway. Holme Reservoirs (No. 2). Spalding Improvement. Bideford Extension Railway. Whitechapel Improvement. Great Southern and Western Railway (Ireland). Llanidloes and Newton Railway. Waveney Valley Railway. Manchester, Sh e ffield, and Lincolnshire Railway (Barnsley). Llynvi Valley Railway. Nantwich and Woore Road. Ayrshire and Galloway (Smithstown and Dalmellington) Railway. Caledonian Railway (Connecting Branch with Edin burgh and Glasgow, &e Furness Furness Railway. Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway. Edinburgh, Perth, and Dundee Railway. Great Western Railway (Henley). Lands Improvement Company (No. 2). St. Ives and West Cornwall Junction Railway. South Eastern Railway (Canterbury and Whitstable, &c.) London and North Western Railway (Oldham Branch.) New Ross (Free) Bridge. British Electric Telegraph Company. London and North Western Railway (Northampton, &c.) London and North Western Railway (St. Alban's, &c. West Harptry Road. Newry and Enniskollen Railway. Westminster Improvements. East Lancashire Railway (No. 2) (Southport, &c.) London and South Western Railway (Basingstoke and Salisbury Branch). Birkenhead Dock Trustees. East London Waterworks. Halifax Waterworks and Improvement. Limerick and Foynes Railway. Llanelly Railway and Dock (No. 2). Ribble Navigation. Whitehaven and Furness Junction Railway. Blyth and Tyne Railway. Milford Haven Docks. Londonderry, Enniskillen, and Sligo Railway (No. 2). Birmingham and Oxford Junction, and Birmingham, Wolverhampton, and Dudley and Great Western Railways. Newcastle-upon-Tyne Improvement. Birkenhead Dock Company. Newport, Abergavenny, and Hereford Railway (Here ford, &c.) Newport, Abergavenny, and Hereford Railway (Taff Vale). West London and Crystal Palace Railway). Chorley Improvement. Cotham's Estate. Crowe's Disabilities Removal. Hall Dare's Estate. Moore's (Brown's Trustees) Estate. Pemberton Leigh's Estate. Earl of Egremont's Estate. Archbishop of Canterbury's Estate. Sneed Park Estate. The Lords Commissioners were—the Duke of Argyll, the Marquis, of Breadalbane and Lord Colchester. Their lordships then adjourned during pleasure. The house resumed at five o'clock. Lord WYNFORD presented a petition from the General Court of Proprietors of the East India Com pany, praying for a modification of the Government of India Bill. The noble lord said he deemed the prayer of this petition to be most important, and thought it was well worthy of attention at their lordships' hands. All that the petitioners wanted was that the best possible government should be extended to India, and inasmuch, as from their position, they must be well acquainted with the wants of India, he felt that any suggestions from them ought to demand the most serious consideration. They took exception to the system of Government nominees, and objected to the proposed reduction of the Court f Directors. Earl GRANVILLE said the Government would re ceive these suggestions with the respect that they de served, but at the same time it was only right that he should state that the Government did not concur in the views contained in the petition. THIRD READINGS. The Parish Vestries (No. 2) Bill, the Municipal Corporation Act Amendment Bill, the Burgh Harbours (Scotland) Bill, the Summary Jurisdiction (Ireland) Bill, and the Petty Sessions (Ire land) Bill, were severally read a third time and passed. The Marquis of CLA NRICARDE exp c ility for pass that the Government would g ive every stages ing the two last bills throug h the different • aes in the fa House of Commons, in order that they might become law this session. The Duke of NEWCASTLE gave an a ssurance Gevere that the Government every facility would b e afforded by but at this late period of the session it did not res m t tirely with them to say that the billstco.navitaining so y clauses as these should be passed in o . 1 • The Brecon Collegiate Church Bill went through committee. ENTRY OF SEAMEN BILL. On the motion for going into committee upon-.this - 33 ~ ---. •• • 64 :: 67 .. ••• it - - 1 p -- p •• i • d --- ••• par s g Pi I - 1 4 P ... - ... 1 37 - 39 j6i :: is: bill, The Earl of HARDWICSE entered into a statement of the objections which he entertained to the bill.a short The house then went i nt o committee, and after discussion the clauses were agreed to. NATIO NAL EDUCATION IN IRELAND. The Earl of CLANCARTY asked for some papers connected with national education in Ireland, and wished to know when the report of the commissioners would be produced. The Earl of ABERDEEN explained that the delay had been caused purely by mechanical difficulties. The report would, he hoped, be ready by the end of the ses sion, but the other papers were of such a voluminous character that the noble lord must be content to wait for them. The Earl LANCARTY thought that the whole conduct of the Government in the affair showed a dis position to evade investigation. The Earl of ABERDEEN intimated that it was not the wish of the Government to treat the motion of the the noble lord with any disrespect, and that it was not in his power to make officials perform impossibilities. Lord GRANVILLE added a few remarks deprecat in.. unreasonable demands upon the Government. Lord DONOUGLIMORE also made some observa tions, and the subject dropped. Their lordships then adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS-(YESTERDAY.) EDUCATION BILL. In reply to Mr. HADFIELD, Lord J. RUSSELL said he was told that if the Edu cation Bill was not proceeded with, hon. members would put off the motions which they had on the paper for Wednesday ; and though he had withdeawn the bill, he must say he had not seen.any corresponding concession on the part of hon. members. (Hear, hear.) He must appeal to the hon. member for North Warwickshire not to press a discussion on the motion of the hon. and learned member for Bath. He was sure he would not wish that the house should be occupied from twelve until six next Wednesday to no purpose whatever. (Hear.) , He begged to say, in answer to the hon. member's ques tion, that it was not his intention to propose the second reading of the Education Bill. Mr. NEW DEG said he and other hon. members were determined not to be defeated in giving expression to their opinions. KILINIAINHAM HOSPITAL. In reply to Mr. VANCE, Mr. S. HERBERT said lie had seen the report of the Commissioners of Kilmainham Hospital, but he thought it would be better not to lay it on the table until he pro duced the warrant which was the root of the report. CHARITABLE TRUSTS BILL. Several amendments and new clauses were brought up and added to this bill. Lord J. RUSSELL moved an amendment to exempt 1 Roman Catholic charities from the operation of the bill. 4 Sir F. TEIESIGER viewed with great regret and con ' siderable alarm the course now adopted by the noble I lord, because tho u g h the words were few they were preg -1 ;ant with mighty consequences, and involved a most important question. He certainly had a right to com plain of the period the noble lord had chosen for intro ducing so formidable a proposition. (Hear, hear.) The bill without the exemption had received not only the sanction of the House of Lords, but had passed through a committee of this house, and had been read a first and a second time without opposition, and it was not u ntil just before going into committee that the noble lord in timated that it was his intention to propose an amend ment of this description, and if it had not been for the intervention of the right honourable member for Oxfordshire, it was possible that it would have been carried at a time when, without using an im proper metaphor, he might say the greater part of the life blood of the house had been withdrawn, and when the house was not in a very active period of existence. (Hear, hear.) The reason given by the noble lord for the amendment, was the apprehension by Roman Catho lics, that if the investigation under the bill was extended to them, it would be found that certain of their trusts were illegal, under the law against superstitious uses. But the bill had been long before the house and the public, and it was somewhat strange that the expression of their fears should have been delayed until now. (Hear, hear.) The noble lord, however, might have allayed those fears, instead of adoptin g and encouraging them. (Hear, hear.) It w as a b sur d to suppose that any body of commissioners could, consistently with the spirit of the present day, endeavour to abolish or defeat trusts of this nature, merely because they came within the law against superstitious uses. Hear, hear.) He contended that the amendment would be mischievous towards the Roman Catholics, and would give them no benefit or advantage whatever, for it would leave them in a helpless and crippled state, and would de prive them of any opportunity of complain ing of any abuses or mal-administration of their trusts. It was true the noble lord had said it was his intention in a future session to bring Roman Catho lic charities under the machinery of the bill by some special enactment; but what security had they that he would be able to fulfil his pledge ? The noble lord was not at the head of the Government. Strictly speaking, he was not even a member of the Govern ment. They knew perfectly well the opinions enter tained by the majority of his colleagues in the cabinet with regard to Roman Catholics, and how could they be secure that they might not consider the exemption of these trusts as a part of the natural development which ought to be given to that class of the community ? Looking, therefore, at the state of the house, and be lieving that the bill would not affect Roman Catholic charities prejudicially, he did think the best and most prudent course to pursue was to allow the bill to re main as it now stood. (Hear, hear.) Lord J. RUSSELL did not think the hon. and learned gentleman was justified in opposing the amendment that he had moved. It was true that there were defects in the Roman Catholic charities, but the house having ad mitted that it would be unjust to punish the Roman Catholics for these defects, seeing that it was from no fault of their own that these defects had arisen. Acts of Parliament bad passed since the establishment of these charities which related to their organisation, but the nature of which the Roman Catholics themselves were ignorant of until it was too late to obtain an ex emption in their favour. An eminent barrister of the the Roman Catholic persuation had told him that many of the existing Roman Catholic charities were illegal— at least they were opposed to many of the provisions of the existing law. For instance, the many large sums that had been left for the performance of masses for the souls of the dead, and it had been laid down that such charitable bequests were at variance with the law which related to superstitious uses. Now, many of the Roman Catholic charities which were established for educa tional purposes were open to the same objection, and as this was a question of confidence on the one hand, and suspicion on the other, he thought the house ought to pause before they rejected this exemption. It might be all very well to argue that no one would ever attempt to prosecute a Roman Catholic charity under the Super stitious Uses Act, but looking at the history of the past, he thought the Roman Catholics might naturally enter tain great suspicion as to the future if this bill included their charities, and he had therefore proposed that they should be exempt from the operation of this measure. He could not remove these apprehensions, nor satisfy the scruples of the Protestant feeling of the coun try by proposing any clause now for including Roman Catholic charities in this bill which would not lead to great discussion, and since there was not time for such discussion now, he thought it was better to exempt these charities for the present from the operation of this bill. The hon. and learned gen tleman seemed to complain that there was no guarantee that these charities would not be permanently excluded from the operation of this bill ; but upon that point, he thought, the house need be under no apprehension, for he believed it would be for the benefit of the Roman Catholics themselves that these charities should be placed under some such law as this, and eventually, he believed, they would be induced to accept a similar measure, when the law respecting superstitious uses should have been altered or amended in their favour. (Hear, hear.) He trusted, therefore, the house would not object to admit this clause into the bill, and leave the question of Roman Catholic charities to be dis posed of in a future measure, to be brought forward within the next two years, to which period this exclu sion would be limited. (Hear, hear.) Mr. NEW DEG ATE opposed the exemption, as he did not believe the opinion of any Roman Catholic barrister was sufficient to justify the exclusion. He obiected to allowing Roman Catholic charities to remain under the arbitrary control of Cardinal Wiseman and the clergy of the Roman Catholic Church. Suppose the operation of this bill, if it was extended to Roman Catholic charities, did disclose a state of things which showed that there were some of them opposed to the existing law, what difficulty was there in the way of introducing a few simple words providing for such a case, and thus pre vent the confiscation or alienation of Roman Catholic trust property. Under these circumstances he protested against this exclusion, as it would open the door still further to the machinations of the Roman Catholic Church, and enable Cardinal Wiseman and others of her emissaries who came to this country charged with penary powers to divert Roman Catholic Trusts from their original purposes to the use of the Church of' Rome itself. (Hear, hear.) Mr. HEADLAM was glad to hear the concluding re mark of the noble lord the member for the City of Lon don, for until that announcement was made he had been under the impression that this exclusion was to be per manent. It was now clear, however, so far at least as the noble lord was concerned, that this exemption was only to be temporary ; and he could have no difficulty, therefore, in adopting the proposal of the Government, upon the understanding that they would incorporate with it the amendment which he himself had suggested, namely, that the exemption should only extend to two years. He would therefore conclude by moving an addition to the clause to that effect. Mr. BOWYER said it was a mistake to suppose that the creation of the Roman Catholic hierarchy gave the Ro man Catholic bishops more control over Roman Catholic charities than they possessed before. He accepted this clause as amended ; and in doing so he had no objection to declare, on behalf of the Roman Catholics, that if it was found hereafter that this measure would fect their charities only to the same extent that it affected other charities, there would be no objection to a mea sure being passed to bring them under its provisions. Sir F. THESIGER was determined to divide upon the clause, because it involved a matter of principle. It went, in fact, the length of declaring that Roman Ca tholics ought to be put upon a different footing to those of other religious bodies, and to that principle he could never assent. (Hear.) The house then divided, when there appeared For the clause Against it Majority —ll The clause was accordingly added to the bill. ROYAL ASSENT. Mr. Pulman, the Yeoman Usher of the Black Rod, here appeared at the table, and commanded the house to attend at the bar of the Peers, to hear the royal assent given by commission to several public and private bills, for which see Lords' report. CHARITABLE TRUSTS BILL. The discussion on this bill was then resumed. On the motion of Mr. PHINN, a proviso was added to the bill bringing all schools with charitable foundations under the act. Mr. KINNAIRD moved an amendment with the view of excluding such societies as the Christian Know ledge, or the Bible Society, or the Religious Tract Society, from the operation of the bill. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL said there was no necessity to add this amendment to the bill, as such societies which it contemplated were already excluded. The amendment was therefore withdrawn. The bill as amended was then considered, and ordered to be read a third time on Monday. ASSESSED TAXES BILL. This bill was considered as amended, and ordered to be read a third time to-morrow. The other twelve o'clock orders were disposed of, and the house rose at 4 o'clock. The house resumed at six o'clock. PETITIONS. ostage o P e titions were presented by Mr. 31. Gibson, from an Q d u f e r b o e m and Halifax, in favour of ocean penny p , c enin the a public meeting in Manchester,bryotec fa n o p n n v :n o 1 o r p inmates o , f from o c e f g rt e a o i n . i Crystal a P n t a Fi l a of ce G o nl as S g u o n w d , a y f o s 1 ! ven tual institutions ; by Sir J. Walmsley, from the pintimer chants and other inhabitants of the city of London, prayin g the house to legislate on tho existing law of debtor and creditor, that unfortunate debtors may be protected agai ns t vindictive creditors, and that honest creditors be shielded from the irresponsibility and unjust dealings of fraudulent debtors ; by Mr. Grenfell, from the Local Board of Health for the borough of New Windsor, in favour of the bill for providing burial grounds ; by Mr. F. Scully, from grand th the prisone rs salarie s in e f g a ol anl juries of the North Ridin g count y of Tipperary at last assizes, prosecutingpraying prisoners, o t o h e a r t s t , the together w maintaining i school masters and mistresses, and half the expenses incurred by the Medical Charities Act, also the salaries of all the officers in the District Lunatic Asylum who are app o i n t e d by the Crown, may be paid out of the Consolidated Fund. and his hope that it would be re-introduced at an early period of next ,session. The order,for the second reading was the discharged. TRANSPORTATION BILL. Lord PALM ERSTON intimated that he would take the committee on this bill on Tuesday next, at 12 o'clock. NEW BILLS. Mr. HUME said he was astonished to observe on the paper notice of six bills to be introduced that evening by the Secretary of the Board of Control, one o f them re lating to the important subject of transportation. The house ought to have explained why those measures had been delayed till so late a period of the session ? Lord PALMERSTON said that one of the bills referred to was intended to remedy a defect which existed in regard to marriages in the church of the Holy Trinity at Hulme. He did not imagine it would meet with any opposition. The bill which had been particularly adverted to by the hon. member for Montrose was for the purpose of empower ing her Majesty's Attorney-General to transfer female con victs to the House of Correction at Brixton. THE OFFICE OF SPEAKER. Sir R. H. INGLIS, in rising to call the attention of the house to the report of the select committee on the office of Speaker, said that, adopting the suggestion of his right hon. friend and colleague the Chancellor of the Exchequer, he would not trouble the house with a long speech. lie was the more induced to follow that course because, having repeatedly brought the subject incidentally before the house—having introduced it somewhat more formally on the 17th of November last, on which occasion he re ceived considerable encouragement from the right hon gen tleman who then led the house, as well as from the noble lord the member for the city of London —having, in conse quence of such encouragement, obtained in'February last the appointment of a select committee without a divi sion—and that committee having unanimously adopted the report which had already been presented to the house —he was in a condition to call attention to subject upon which as yet there had been little or no difference of opinion. Nor had he heard of any ob jection to the report of the committee, except one, in which individually he concurred—namely, that it did not go far enough in providing a remedy which all admitted to needed. When he found, however, that the committee could not unanimously and cordially concur in that larger measure, which alone would have completely satisfied him, but were still willing to adopt a plan which would meet a great proportion of existing evils, he was not disposed to ask the house to do more than sanction the report of the committee. His own opinion was that the best plan would be to place in the chair, in the event of their being at any time unhappily deprived of the services of the Speaker, some one to discharge all the legal functions of that office ; but the committee had judged otherwise, and had agreed to recommend the house to place in the chair a gen tleman who might discharge all its duties within the house, but not exercise any of the other functions belonging to the office of Speaker. When he considered, on the one hand, how thankful they ought to be for the long-con tinned presence among them of the right hon. gentleman who now so worthily filled that office—(cheers)—and felt, on the other, that the tax upon his time and strength might be carried to an injurious extent, he was sure the house would agree in the opinion that something should now be done to prevent so great a calamity. (Hear, hear.) In the course of the last month the house had sat twenty two days, and had been 228 hours in session, giving an average of more than ten hours to each day of public ser vice. On sixteen of these days the Speaker had taken the chair at twelve o'clock, as well as at the evening meeting of the house, and he had sat upon several occasions for more than fourteen hours at a time. In short, it might be safely stated that the attendance given by the Speaker to his public duty was such as very few other human beings, and certainly very few members of the house, could give. (Hear, hear.) He moved " That whenever the house shall informed of the unavoidable absence of Mr. Speaker, the Chairman of Ways and Means do take the chair for that day only ; and, in the event of Mr. Speaker's absence con tinuing for more than one day, do, if the house shall think fit and shall so order it, take the chair in like manner on any subsequent day during such absence." Lord J. RUSSELL, in seconding the motion, said he would not make this a personal question, becaused he be lieved there was only one opinion in the house as to the value of the services of the Speaker (cheers); but con sidering it as a general question affecting the performance of the functions of the house, he thought they would be blind to the consequences of the very great labour imposed upon the occupant of the chair if they did not adopt the recommendation contained in the report of the select com mittee. It was of the utmost importance that, in case of the absence of the Speaker, supposing the business of the house to be of great and urgent interest, they should be able to proceed without delay, and should not have merely to address the clerks, but some person who should be able to preside over their deliberations. The opinion of the select committee, in which he entirely concurred, was that they should only carry the remedy as far - as it was absolutely necessary, and should avoid any measure which would at all fetter the discretion and choice of the house in case of a vacancy in the office of Speaker. They were anxious that the house should not, by any previous resolu tion or decision, be at all committed to any particular can didate for the office, but should choose that person who, at the time, should appear best qualified to fulfil the im portant functions which belonged to the Speaker of that house. He thought the committee had been successful in their proposal. They proposed that only for one day should any person assume the chair in the absence of the Speaker—that afterwards it should be entirely in the choice of the house whom they should place there—and that the person whom they should appoint to supply this temporary vacancy, should be one who, as Chairman of Ways and Means ' had already an official and recognised position in the house, and who, upon the return of the Speaker, or upon the election of a new Speaker, would fall back upon his former situation. (Hear, hear.) He had great pleasure in seconding the , motion of the hon. baronet, and trusted it would meet with the concurrence of the house. (Hear, hear.) Mr. BRIGHT agreed with the noble lord that it was not desirable to carry the remedy further than was necessary ; but he was not sure that the committee in the present instance were not doing so ; at least, although he had been in the house about ten years, he had not known any occa sion—certainly not more than one—in which the house had not been able to sit in consequence of the absence of the Speaker. That might have been a hardship to the right hon. gentleman, however, and so far might be cited as nn argument in favour of a change. But his object in rising was for the purpose of saying that, if the Chairman of Ways and Means was to have a new dignity, it would be desirable to have him appointed in a different manner from that which had hitherto prevailed. When Mr. Bouverie was appointed to the office, very few members of the house knew anything about him, and he was nominated by the noble lord the member for the city of London with out previous notice, and in an inaudible tone of voice. He spoke thus freely, not out of any discourtesy towards the hon. member for Kilmarnock, whose intimate acquain tance with the forms of the house they all knew, and who , Id have his cordial TRUCK. ACT AMENDMENT BILL. Lord PALMERSTON said that many representations had been made to him with respect to this bill, by masters and workmen, and although they had not shaken his opinion that some measure of the sort was required, still he thought they were justly entitled to be heard before Parliament legislated on the subject. It was therefore his intention to move that the bill be read a second time this day three months, with a view early next session of bring ing it forward in a modified form, and refering it to a select committee, where both masters and men would have an opportunity of stating their respective views as to the effect of the measure upon their interests. (Hear.) Mr. C. FORSTER expressed his regret that the noble lord had been compelled, for the reasons stated, to Polls this bill) which was intended to remedy a crying evil MINES. all lAgua Fria .......... all 'Anglo Austrin. Gold all Anglo Californian 2 Australasian 5 Australian all Australian Cordillera all Australian Freehold all Ave Maria all Baden (Gd. Duchy of) all British Austrin. Gold 13.5 British Iron 24 Brazilianlmp.(issued at £5 pm all Do. Cocaes & Cuiada 15 Do. St. John Del Rey Carson's Creek all Cobre Copper 1 Colonial 15 Copiapo all Copper MM. of Eng. all Do. Pref. 7A p. cont. all English and Austrin. Copper Smeltg. 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Ld. & Minrl. all Peninsular & Oriental 25 Do. do. all Portland Iron Co 60 Royal Mail Steam all Scot. Austral. Invest. Do. New Scrip 25 South Austral. Land all Submarine Telegraph 28 Van Diemen's Land 32i 3 Vii- 1 6, 1 3 6 SPURTING INTELLIGENCE. BRIGHTON RACES—THuRSDAY. The GRAND STAND PLATE of 100 soy., added to a Handi cap Sweepstakes of 10 soya. each; certain winners extra. One mile and a quarter. Baron Rothschild's Hungerford, by John o' Gaunt, 5 yrs, 9st 51b (Charlton) 1 Mr. Magennis's Sandhurst, 3 yrs, 6st 131 b (Oliver) 2 Capt. Barnet's Mayfly, 3 yrs, sst 91b (Wells) 3 The following also ran : Pharos, Herbert, William Rufus, Convulsion, Allington, and Mrs. Nutting. The Duke of Richmond declared to win with William Rufus. Betting-7 to 4 agst Mayfly, 4to 1 agst Sandhurst, sto 1 agat Mrs. Nutting, 6 to 1 agat Hungerford, and 7 to 1 agat Convulsion. At the second attempt a good start was effected. Mayfly led off, followed by Allington, Mrs. Nut ting, William Rufus, and Sandhurst, in the order named, Pharos and Hungerford bringing up the rear. At the dis tance Sandhurst went up and deprived Mayfly of the lead ; Hungerford meanwhile drew near, and challenging Sand hurst when just below the Stand, the sot-to ended in his favour by his neck; a length between the second and third; Allington was fourth, and Convulsion fifth; William Rufus and Pharos were the last two. ----- The LICENSED VICTUALLERS' STAKES (Handicap) of 5 sovs. each, with 100 added ; winners extra. The New Course. Mr. Tilbury's Tomboy, by The Nob, 6 yrs, 6st 81b (Crouch) 1 Mr. Goodwin's Musician, 6 yrs, Bst 21b (G. Sharp) 0 Duke of Richmond's Antigone, 5 yrs, 7st 81b (Ashmall) 0 The following also ran :—Hirsuta, ady Isabel, and Cole raine. Betting-7 to 4 agst Tomboy, sto 2 agst Coleraine, 4to 1 agst Musician, and sto 1 agst Antigone. Tomboy went away with the lead, Musician and Antigone lying second and third. At the Stand, the three closed, and a very ex citing race ensued, Tomboy winning by a short head only, and Musician and Antigone making a dead heat for second place. Lady Isabel was beaten off several lengths, and Hirsukt was last. The BRIGHTON Cur of 100 sovs. in specie, added to a Sweepstakes of 10 sovs. each ; for three-yr-olds and up wards ' • penalties and allowances. Optional selling weights ; the second horse to receive 201. out of the stakes. The Old Course. Mr. Mare's Ariosto, by Orlando, 5 yrs, llst 31b, 5001. (S. Rogers) 1 Duke of Richmond's Harbinger, 4 yrs, Bst 81b, 400/. (Flatman) 2 Mr. Armstrong's Sweetness, 3 yrs, Est 71b, 3001.(Wells) 3 Mr. Owen's Stamford, 5 yrs, 7st 101 b, 3001.(G. E. Sharp) 4 Sir J. V. Shelley's c by Cotherstone, out of Lucy Banks, 3 yrs, 3001. (Charlton) 5 Betting—Even on Ariosto, 4 to 1 agst Harbinger, 4 to 1 agst Lucy Banks colt, and 6to 1 agst Sweetness. Ariosto took the lead, with Harbinger second, and the others well laid up. At the road, Lucy Banks colt dropped off, and was several lengths behind. Harbinger made a vigorous effort to catch Ariosto, but was beaten cleverly by a length; a length and a half between the second and third ; the others cantered in at wide intervals. The winner was claimed. FIRST YEAR OF THE SECOND BRIGHTON BIENNIAL STAKES of 10 sovs. each, with 100 added ; for two-yr co olds—lts, Bst 71b, and fillies, Bst 41b ; certain winners extra ; the second horse to receive 501. out of the stakes. T.Y.C. Mr. Thelluson's King Tom, by H ar kaway, Bst 71b (W. Day) 1 Duke of Bedford's Student, Bst 71b (S. Rogers) 2 Lord Dorchester's Bracken, Bst 71b (A. Day) 3 Betting-2 to lon King Tom, sto 1 agstStudent, and 7to 1 agst Star of S urre y . King Tom, with Empress Catherine second, made play, and these positions were held until they were just within the distance, when the Em press dropped off, and Student took her place ; he imme diately went resolutely to work to reach the King, but was eventually beaten very easily by three-quarters of a length. Empress Catherine was fourth, St. Spiro and The Star of Surrey were the next two ; Oxus was last through out. Hornsby weighed for Brutus, but the horse did not arrive in time to start. PAVILION PLATE of 50 sovs. Bristol mile. Delamere's Madame Landeau, by The Libel, 3 yrs, 6st 71b (J. Bailey) 1 Count Batthyany's Hambletonian, 4 yrs, Est 101 b (C. Brodley) 2 Betting-6 to 4on Hambletonian. The favourite led to the turn into the stright, where he was joined by Madame Landeau, who deprived him of the lead at the Stand, and gallopped home an easy winner by two lengths. Only two horses being about to start for the Pavilion Plate of 100 sovs., originally advertised for this day, the race became void, the condition being that three horses should start or the public money would not be given. In order, how ever, to produce a race, Mr. Dorling determined to give half the money, and the result was as above stated. THE SUSSEX PLATE of 50 sovs., added to a Sweepstakes of 5 sovs. each ; for two-year-olds and upwards ; penalties and allowances ; optional selling weights. Half a mile. Lord A. G. Lennox's Nightshade, by Irish Birdcatcher, 3, yrs, 7st 11b, 401. Mr. Jordan's Jessamine, 2 yrs, 6st 41b, 2001 (Wells) 2 Mr. Magennis's Janina 4 yrs, 7st 11b, 401. (Oliver) 3 The following also ran—Cable, Himalaya, Young Cecilia, Woodyeates, Dear Me, Odessus, b c by Touchstone out of Epilogue, Flounce, Shipwreck, Lady Isabel, The Siege, Glenavon, Alecta, Sabra. Betting-2 to 1 agst Nightshade, 4to 1 agst Himalaya, and 6to 1 each agst Jessamine and Odessus. The favourite led throughout, and won by half a length ; six lengths between the second and third. The winner was sold by auction to Mr. Stephenson, for 210 guineas, and Jessamine who ran second from end to end, was claimed under the Newmarket rule by Mr. Payne. SERIOUS MUTINY.-On the morning of the 18th of May, a serious mutiny occurred on board the ship Rock land, bound from New York to Australia with 200 emi grants. The disturbance commenced amongst some English and Irish sailors, who answered the captain in solently. A man named Bolt refused to do duty, and, when the captain ordered him in irons, the rest of the crew went forward and armed themselves with belaying pins. A Colt's revolver brought them to their senses, and six of the ringleaders, all English and Irish, were put in irons until the vessel arrived at Rio Janeiro, when they were delivered over to the authorities. The object of the mutineers was to induce the captain to discharge them at Australia. 121 13 1 10 1 1 10 74 29i 84i 5 53 1101 89 st 1031 x d 20 114 i 13k 100 100 AA 20 70i i portant colonies of British Guiana, Trinidad, and Janiaii Guiana and Trinidad have listened to the advice of the Government at home, and much of the evils which they suffered has been redressed, so far as the expor t of sugar and the state of industry are concerned. This fact is shown by official statements of the export of sugar from British Guiana and Trinidad in the years 1840 and 1852. From Guiana in 1840 were exported 579,000 cwt. of sugar, and in 1852, 838,000 cwt. There were ex ported from Trinidad, in 1840, 245,000 cwt., send in 1852, 483,000 cwt. • the exports from these two colonies together being, in 184 0, 824,000 cwt., and in 1852, 1,321,000 cw t., being an increase of 497,0 0 cwt., or considerably more than 50 percent. on the whole exports in 1840. (Hear.) But in looking to Jamaica a very different result is found. The exports of sugar from Jamaica in 1840 were 517,000 cwt., and in 1852 they were 511,000 cwt. (Hear, hear.) There is a similar difference with regard to immigrants. It has been the policy of this country in compliance with the desire of its colonies, that there should be a number of immigrants imported, in order to supply the want of labour occasioned by the abolition of differential duties. Now there,l w fi e n re d 4 t 9 11:1 000 t in im ß re ri i t gr ish ae G ts u 7 iana, from 18 40 to 1852 , h and in Trinidad 24 ,000, making 73,000 i mm i grants in those two colonies, while in v 1 b. 4 i0 ,0 11 0 8 0 difference ( H (rlie e t is a pe r re , ech h ot e e ic nt a ewa r . letv ) ei oea H s tuteh e . e e rs , a s ai i ent r , ea , rr t ,oe h ft e aet r rah e dr f e. o s) r toe e colonies,, Jamaica the w h o l e f or t h e twe l ve years h as b een o nly e h Itf i h s el a a v v i me e r yr there ehwr a o s b ra 30 - 1 le e g i i n s g l a t r io% abolished in Jamaica, so likewise it was in Guiana and Tri nidad. If foreign sugar was admitted in competition with colonial sugar in the case of Jamaica, so likewise was it in the case of Guiana and Trinidad. But there are some cir cumstancesaconnected timesw i t b h e e t n h ea sourceconstitution o f difficulty,o which have f Jamaicab u t which, in these later years, have been a source of very gr eat embarrassment, finally ending i n th a t t otalst of the legislature to which I have called the already attentioncapagge the house. I have stated that do not m enter into the progress of that dispute, or to sa y thatnthe Council was right or that the Assembly was wrong , question the particular acts that were done by the go vernor on the one side or by the Assembly o n th e other. But there are certain—l may not call them laws or provisions of the constitution of Jamaica, so much as established practices in the constitution of that island which have operated very injuriously to the colony. Now we have had to consider in respect to various colonies the want of any representative institutions, such as we think, and very justly think, will benefit our colonies, as well as benefit the mother country. But in Jamaica, what we have had to complain of is, not the absence of represen tative institutions so much as the perversion of those insti tutions to purposes which are not consistent with the wel fare of our colonial empire. We all know that in this country, according to the practice of this house, no vote of money is made unless upon the proposal of some Minister of the Crown, and that the Crown has in fact the initiative in all grants of money, and all grants of money are made to the Crown. An officer is appointed by the Crown to super intend the expenditure of this grant, subject to the control, and, if necessary to the censure, of this house. But in Ja maica these wholesome rules havebeen departed from. Not only have the House of Assembly the power of raising the supplies and the appropriation of those supplies, but they have for a long period of time taken under their own man agement all these money and regular disbursements. This practice has led to very great abuses. It has led, I think, to very lavish expenditure at particular times, to grants of money which were far in excess of the means of the co lony, and at other times to a desire of economy not con sistent with justice, after the expectations that had been held out to various parties. An this leads me to another error which has been committed, and that is, that while there has been laws in Jamaica providing for the perma nence of certain offices, these offices have only been main tained by votes from year to year. The consequence hasbeen that persons have accepted high judicial and other offices on e io x g pe s c h t o a rt tio o n f s tho have se just the faith of th ose ac t s o f t h e legislature of Jama i ca, an d th e i r been ust d e isa xp p e p e o tei intteoodsbyanvdotensootfgimvionngeysfeaellh salaries as have been p rom i se d by those permanent acts. I do not wish to enter into the merits of these votes. It is natural for the Assembly having the control of these matters to claim a right of action in regard to them, but no servants of the Crown can be expected to accept these things, and afterwards submit to have their salaries either taken away or reduced very considerably. Latterly a point upon which great dispute has arisen was a proposal of taking away 25 per cent. from the salaries of these officers. Such being the state of affairs it was, of course, a question what should be the course taken by her M ajesty's Go vernment with respect to this condition of the island of Jamaica, and in so considering it I must beg to ask the attention of the house to an extract from a message of the late Governor of Jamaica, Sir Charles Grey, which points out the evil, and suggests the remedies which he at the time thought would tend to remove them. Sir Charles Grey says, " With the prospects which are before us, it is, perhaps, f little present use to say what might be done by a single-minded effort for the peace and welfare of the island ; but as all this ruinous distraction, by the frequent recurrence of which Jamaica has been, throughout its an nals, so unhappily distinguished, appears to me to be the direct and unavoidable result of some perversions of the model institutions of England, so I believe that the main and immediate mischief would be remedied at once, by re verting in those few particulars to English rules, and by the Hon. House of Assembly being contented with a power as perfectly analagous to that of the British House of Com mons as it might be possible. to make it, which, after all, perhaps, would be found to be as great a power for every good purpose as that which it possesses at present, or even supposes itself to possess. Therefore, whensoever ' and in whatsoever manner opportunity and leisure maybe found or created, 'recommend that your attention should be given —first, to a regulation of the civil and ecclesiastical estab lishments, by reductions which shall either be prospective, or shall be made upon the basis of a fair and moderate compensation for existing interests ; secondly, to the pro vision of a permanent fund for the payment of the reduced establishments ; thirdly to the enabling of the Gover nor, for the time being, to employ ministerial officers, holding seats in the Assembly, to bring forward Go vernment measures in that house." Thse are the re commendations of the late Governor of Jamaica. (Hear hear) Some years ago there was a question in Ja ataica, which I think was brought before the Assem bly, whether or not the institutions of that colony should not be assimilated to those of Canada. The Secretary of State for the Colonies declared hie readiness to adopt that proposal, and at the same time pointed out the difference between the institutions of Canada and those of Jamaica ; for in Canada there is a permanent provision by means of .e civil list, passed into an act of the provincial Parliament, by which certain officers are permanently provided for ; and there is also the rule that grants to the Crown are to be in'tiated and proposed by officers of the Crown. That change, however, was not adopted. Her Majesty's Go vernment now propose to act generally upon the basis of this proposal. They do not propose what has been con teenplated by some persons—to suspend the representative constitution of Jamaica. It is urged, I know, that the Assembly being elected by only 3,000 persons out of 400,000, the population of Jamaica, is a very incomplete representation, and ought not to be considered as consti nresentation of _ the people of the island of if he were to be again appointed, w - oulL. .ave Ll. ..-- ~ tuting a repx support, but because he desired to call attention to the Jamaica. But, setting aside that consideration, at least subject now, in connection with the report of the select for the present time, Chat the Government wish to do is, committee upon the office of Speaker. if possible, to induce the Assembly and the Council to Mr. DISRAELI was convinced, having been a member agree to terms which may serve as a basis for harmonious of the select committee, that the propositions no w before action for the future. (Hear, hear.) What we propose, the house were the best they could have been adopted, and therefore, is, in the first place, that there should be a per he thought he might say that almost every combination of manent act containing grants for those offices for which it circumstances which could occur respecting the subject of is fit that a permanent salary should be given ; I mean, of them were considered by the committee before they arrived course, judicial offices, which should be of a permanent at their adoption. The resolutions provided for a contin- character ; and, in the next place, it is proposed that in gency which they all sincerely , hoped w ould not happen in the Assembly of Jamaica, as in the House of Commons, their own experience. (Hear, hear.) It did not seem to no grant should be made except upon the proposal of some him that the objection of the ion. member for Manchester person representing the Crown, and that the Crown was a valid one. He was not aware that it was at all should have p ersons s p eaking the sense of the Crown, and unknown to any party or any gentleman in the house representing it in that Assembly, as the house is well that Mr. Bouverie would be proposed as Chairman of aware is the case in Canada, by means of what is called Ways and Means. It had always been the p ractice, when responsible Government, namely, by confiding the offices that office was vacant, to propose to fill it up on the of the Crown to persons having the confidence of the ma occasion of the first committee of supply. When he bad jority in the Assembly. It may not be possible or the honour of a seat on the Treasury benches it was his wise to adopt precisely similar provisions in Jamaica, duty to propose a gentleman as Chairmam of Ways and Means, and on that occasion he followed the usual rule, but at the same time we are of opinion that there The noble lord was perfectly acquainted with his intention. should be some persons under the Crown who should make proposals of grants of money to the Assembly, and and, indeed, approved of the name he brought forward, as that the officers of the Crown should be the persons re he, in turn, had the happiness to do when the noble lord, at a se sponsible for the expenditure of that mone y . It is a source Kilmar sub nock.quent period, nominated the hon. member for of the greatest abuse that member s of the House of Assem bly should themselves expend the money, and this system Mr. HUME approved of the resolutions, and hoped the produces evils. (Hear, hear.) These are the three th ings house would seriously consider what improvement could be that we propose, namely, that there should be a perma made in the mode of conducting public business. He could nen t reven ue for those offices which are placed on a per not think it was decent that members of that house should manent footing, that the initiative grants of money should be returning to their houses at two or three o'clock iu the always be with the representatives of the Crown, and that morning, after an absence of twelve or fourteen hours; and certain members of the House of Assembly, or persons he trusted that, whoever might have the arrangement of properly entitled, should be the persons responsible for the business next session, they would not have midnight sittings expenditure of the public money. On the other hand, entailed upon them. If he were spared till next session, however, we propose to endeavour to place the finances of he should certainly, though he stood alone, set his face Jamaic Jamaica o T n h a ere m i o s, r eforsoiunnstdaufnoeo,tianyguthhliaenatehhteyina jreamiem on at against proceeding with business after twelve o'clock. present. Sir J. PAKINGTON said he d id not rise to oppose the besides the debt due to this, amounting to no less than, resolutions, in which he heartily concurred, but to submit 500,0001. and for which an interest otfsifperrial peli cent. is r o a n . to the noble lord opposite whet her it would not be desirable, an average paid. We propose that herape at the commencement of next session, to renew that corn- ment, on the proposition of the Government, should give mittee upon the forms of the house which sat three or a gmaran hi te l e e f a o t r theeesamepayment te of a th a e in i ki nt n e g rest due for that f o ur years ago, and some of whose re commendations were debt, w fund should be adopted with great advantage t o the business of the house? p rovided. These two provisions, the one of a guarantee and He could not help thinking that the house had out g rown the oth e r of a sinking fund, would enable the Assembly very its forms, and that the time h ad come when the y ou ght to greatly to reduce the interest of that debt, and probably endeavour to find a remedy for the present state of things, at 3. 2 1 per cent. they would secure that 500,0001. But in which important business was brought forward at a time r h a a n y t e ee v . e when a large proportion of the most influential and able there remains another sum which it is proposed to gua ryThmendeihffiacriuleteinesemf - l h a i te ch y h e a a v re e o o n ccu t members of the house had left town, and when those who remained, whether in or out of office, were dischar •rrheedsubijaecjtaomfaicecar duty at a great sacrifice of personal inconvenience,ging their twin salaries of official persons. It is contended that the some risk to their health. It was of the and at Assembly, as the tax bills cease every year, are entitled in that the business of the house should be highest importance proposing and carryingthose taxbills, to make any arrange that to deter competent men from seeking so conducted as meat they may think fit for the reduction of salaries. It is constituencies. He did not wish to the confidence of contended, on the other hand, by the Council, that it would particular scheme of improvement ledP. ge himself to any be a breach of faith to the persons accepting permanent house, or to go along within the forms of the offices, in the belief that permanent salaries would be all the observations he made theth hon. member for Surrey in allowed to them to make very large reductions. Now e other night,or it to that the lmight be settled by in recom- appears us quarre mi mending a morning sitting, but house shouldnot • mg, he saw no reason why the a proposition that in the case of those officers meet in the stead of the first second week of January, in- which it is proposed to reduce the holders should week of February. receive a guarantee amounting to half a year's salary, The motion was then agreed to. so that those persons might not be deprived. of the presPeV,' THE ISLAND OF JAMAICA. which bad been held out to them. In order to do this n b Lord J. RUSSELL : I said that I would this evening would be necessary that the Assembl - . sum for that purpose, and we do not think . should Brat that certai t at that sum roposed, state the intentions of the Government with regard to the should be calculated at less than 50,0001.0 ..Itlp making colony of Jamaica. lam not going to enter into a history.refore, that a loan to a further amountedf 1) '-;,""' - ' this house. of the progress of that dissension which has occurred be ooo/ altogether, should be g e u t sante with this whole sub of the Assembly and the Council of Jamaica. All that There e i.siO3.lniostheaern:,teTannesneinssacorynigi , 4 ,,, or ae r ~o,p-iiiri liefuasive 7,shanwz I wish to refer to is the fact that the Assembly have passed jest success to the proposed expe - ea.dye,ntw.hen the right hon. bills for the provision of the revenue, and that those bills aware that Sir C. Grey kad r a ,, i i r cingto .) was i„ffiss, dis . which were absolutely necessary for carrying on the public entleman functionsopposite (S '' i o r f Govemor of Jamaica during the service, appeared to the Council to be so objectionable that gear. iuli g pe e r d io t for which these offices are l h e el e d. Ho has dis hasbeea the Council refused their concurrence. The Governor ia charged those duties wtitletaara: y g r i m s p i re n irent tho s % a fa c illts and Council was obliged to suspend the meetings of the Assent- able, up to the i. I brei i hip, and the whole state of legislatio n in the island of 1 err9rs h 1 ';`; ., , , , i i c i i be i ng pr sal` existn the constitution of Ja oductive of the manifest conmequences - Jamaica remains in suspense. Now, in considering any 1 I . J . Tl e c i l i . we see they have now resulted in. My noble friend question with respect to the We st Indian colonies, we " the Duke of Newcastle, now Secretary of State for the Co must no doubt always bear in mind that within the last lonies, in e:oithd i.o .nig l. among the persons holding official place— situations in et. hil les who there was who might be best twenty years two very great changes have taken d with from his knowledge, and experience,lnd talent, changes which were designed to be permanent in their :la , - with the greatest success to bring the different parts . of the racter, and which were enforced by the Imperial Leg L eg islature Legislature of Jamaica into harmony, and restore the con ture . The first of these was the abolition of slavery, a . ll , a titutio r u)f the i island to a sound state, has been of opinion the other was the admission into this country of foree„n that Si arkly, who has for several years been Gover colonial suga 1 • nor of the colony of British Guiana, and who certainly had sugar on an equal footing with our own ec tion and corn- great difficulties to deal with when he first went there , V Th e se two great ch an g es led to so much o j i ew likse to so would be the be s t p erson to be appointed as Governor of plaint on the p art of the colonies, they led Jamaica. He has accordingly recommended to her Majesty think they were much loss to the colonies, that although I the Legislature to appoint Sir H. Barkly to this important office, and the founded upon sound principles, and that is advisable, in Government is of opinion that there e co i u e ld be no person did well to adopt them, Ido not think it better qualified for the purpose. Aqu st n naall - Ya lcr b: of the Assemblies • 1 with respect to the salary of the governor, and it would case where discontent prevails in any any to any extreme the most unfortunate if the salary of the goverrior should fur of the West Indian islands, to push .., nigh cause for dispute immediately on the occasion of the area:, hoar ' ) w Pith respect rights of the Government. , appointment of a new governor. On the other hand,it would beg leave to ' to this last change, however, I point out be a very great misfortune if the office of Governor of Joe the difference that then? is between the three most ire- males were by a reduction a salary made of less has ~1 )ast' ore L g to large It of were ters, Boa but ,oes D rat° gush were 50 st S 30 bri ead', 5 ' - 0 4 0 , 4 ' 3 6 4 26 u 25 0 41 4 • 43g ' , 0. 3 6 4 4 4 10 5 4 4 / bv in ! Tenet o, o ° o 30 3 per St. St. 16 St. St. 67A i 591 9 36a { I