The Sun. — London, England, 1853-07-29 00:00:00

ONEY AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, TWO O'CLOCK, IHIS DA Y. The sales of cotton at Liverpool yesterday were estimated at 12,000 bales, of which 2,000 Ameri -2) and 1 ,000 Brazil w ere t a k en f or ex p or t an d ,000 American on speculation. The market was tsaie, but firm. The sales comprised 9,000 Awe -1,500 P ernam and Maranham at 61-d. to 1. 4 ` 1 -3 5 00 Bahia 61d., 600 Egyptian at 6d. to 11d., 5 2 00 Sur a t at 31d. to 41d., and Sea Island at 1s• ad. to 2 s . 6d per lb. Railway Shares were artier. T he produce m ar k e t s h ave b een ra th er b r i s k thi s Week, ,, but th e supply being adequate prices have improved generally. Sugar has been firmer, hel(' Plantation Ceylon coffee in more request. Ye goods have been wanted both for consumption tt re, and shipment to foreign markets. In cotton eol e A r e has been a slight advance. Jute has been 851 "- at extreme rates. Rum has had a ready 1441.1.,t- por • R e ice has improved 3d. to 6d. per cwt., and has been wanted. Tallow has been quiet, for tea the importers are asking rather higher rates, since the news of the partition of China. the The traffic returns of the 65 principal railways in l ia l f t llited Kingdom and France are, for the first ef this year, particularly encouraging, because r"e Mileage has, in most instances not been pro tiouably increased with the receip , ts. How great co er eafter may be the efiect of a further and even i vo l:l3 Paratively sli g ht i m p rovemen t in the earnings, v ided the disbursements are kept down, it is un .eee . 4c ssary to remark. The Aberdeen Railway has r e t aaed its takings about 3,0001., the Bristol and an - A e `er 7,000/., the Caledonian 33,0001., the Chester 6 Ltlidlyhead 24.000/., the Dublin and Drogheda d e 7,,.°/*, the East Anglian 3,0001., the Eastern 38 - a, t ies, with an additional six miles open, o: ‘ ,`" - ru i b• the Edinburgh and Glasgow 9,0001., the A, -Northern 87,0001., with 60 miles more open, e Great Western 57,0001., with 42 miles addi -25°11,,,,a1 the Brighton 29,000/., the South-Western 42=u/a with seven miles more ; the Midland t en )l ..,, the Northern of France, with 77 miles a z a , 93 ,000/. ; the London and North-Western, at; 13 miles additional, 99,0001. • the Paris and the en 18 ,0001., the Rouen and ' Havre 10,0001., 36"n n S outh-Ra.stern 39,0001., the South Wales of ) F 9 / a with an additional 31 miles ; the Western t o 18,0001., and the York, Newcastle, and "ek, and othr amalgamated lines, with 32 more open, 49,0001. om'e Windermere, from Geelong, brings dates of oule.,March 23, ora Geelong, but has 9,000 A ' s of gold on board. th e — Pod deal of discussion has been indulged in th e A t eek Exchange circles as to 'the course which r ef ‘dhancellor of the Exchequer is pursuing in k i r nee to the conversion of South Sea Stock, Vh„i th e means of paying off dissentients. The ta rn - e , affair is simple enough in itself, although ati t "„ ll „ged a little in technical language. The con t;"en of the South Sea CoMpany is such that ti eti , had no voice in the acceptance or rejec arict'', the Chancellor's offer, and now the Money diti e „ e ; is in such an altered position that some ad tolie„t Power is necessary to enable Government, sati`,. the time of payment arrives, to offer a more ceill'aetory alternative than Consols or 21 per Pe4' With this view, therefore, the 3k tw eh , e nts., which are guaranteed 3 per cent. for Pt id ""Y Years, may probably be offered, but all de- At B on the value of money at the time. N et the meeting of the East India House pro atteh°,re this morning, there was not a sufficient aare'tuance legally to vote a resolution, but it was to that no further opposition should be offered 1,,,e Government bill. la il ;" Australian Direct Steam Navigation Com the).) via Panama, has placed its prospectus before of tl / liblic, having obtained a c h ar t e r. The capital iled at a million sterling, and the advantages ` e Panama route, hav e been - too generally ad ref,ed to require enforcement at this day. As A xis the parties who are to control the enter % e, and especially the marine superintendents, 4 , l „ e Yeffer a fair guarantee t o th e p u bli c f o r th e t s : tqance of the errors committed in other under -o,4gs, and presuming the requisite capital is ob i ii;rd to give th e en t erpr i se a goo d s t ar t, there s " doubt, under efficient management, of an c luate return. 4 1 4., he English Stocks have been very heavy, and e decline in prices which occurred yesterday has been cov reered. The unsettled state of the eather, and the absence of any definite political telli g ence, quite as much as the proposed con ,ersion of South Sea Stock into New per 'eats. have indisposed buyers to operate. Consols e been 98i to -2 for Transfer, and 98i to for cunt. The New 3,1 per Cents. have been 1011 0, and the 3 per Cents. 98i to 99k. Exchequer e pain % i le have been at 43. discount to Is. premium, Bonds at 21s. premium. There have no transactions in Bank Stock. k\lj t 'lga stocks have been exceedingly quiet, and 14k. lent of the account has excited no inte- T O r t,,,uguese 4 per Cents. are firm, at 431 to ,7 1 !, I ,e S panish Committee's Certificate has been 17 4 11 veruvian Bonds are at 83i- to 84. Bra ' Stack has been marked 1011. -a. Dutch tri g Cents. are worth 981. a+ -6 h ." lO W I '' Railway Shares have been much quieter, also i „, e rates. The French and Belgian lines have ,c ed , Co kaad Mine Shares have been nominal, and Land 4(5 4ik h s heavy. Banks are steady, and the Co ave risen 11. 131141 / 1 FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. 3, (From, the Official List.) . Bustness done. Per e, ~" Per r , ". Reduced Anaudies.... ....... .. 98 , 4,,,t,,i11t. consols Annuities . Lel i " A ? Per Cent. Annuities lOl 14 niliities, Expire sth Jan., 1860 %/1 0 .° 0 14 . 18 , £lOOO tx ..for Account 11th August 9Ba I eli Nti r Bills , ld. ],0( 1 ,, e , .P.5056' Ip4dpar reall .................................... : 1/11 41 19 . 0 . P .... F .. 0 " R — E .. 1 . ....... .. FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK. b it ia4 11311 d8 5 per Cent 99 x d l'e l'llit l ' i eW, 1852, 44 per Cent..., nt. , 834 tstti;,--,;,,1eil Bonds, 4i per er Ceu n t.. 41 3i til Z lB.4 Zltir d s s,4 er p Cent eie . t - P l 4' t h ° , 4 A Per Cent. " e lornittee Cert. of Coup. not fun 6i A, P 1:1 0 t,h biv idents on the above payable in London. biti - 1e114 { ,c , 0 2,1- per Cent. ...... ° 1 Per Cell ' t. Certificates - ? 4 Kol s HA LF-P A S 9B Trwo. -ultt o August Account 40 rHs SHIPPING.--($1115 DAY.) l' l4 °tit 4to 'At To °II , July 29.—Wind this day at Noon, S.W. to W. ; Fl 6 . e ' , Fiallt, breeze, and fine weather. . P a , ~ ka R eds' -lily 29 (9.29 a.m.)—Wind, N., light and fine. 11, Challe n ger,ta„ from London, for Cardiffi Jo li t' i l ' 4l l'4 /1 0 ' 4 1 . r0m . 1 . .,0nd0n, for Cardiff; Taviera, London, Brenham, London, for Quebec , (&,I,:st'll.„ `Ve tch, b lVlll l, o la u m o , for Denia ; Alfred, London, for • , ta tli e l° 6 - •Z ;,. Condor, St. London, John's, for London ; Sappho, Oporto, for London ; Sul -44, I N ' e 'or Trieste ; Agnes, Rose of Sunderland, for ( Peer t ,' York, for Antwerp;__ I\„ 4 "pi , t;i , • Sailed—The whole of the outward bound. Wind, S.W. Arrived—Concord, . l'clill'cld.e Cuba; E. B. Barney, Charleston, m.,s ..t . 4~.,, Pt 111 4 "111 JOY the Gefion, do.: H. 3 . s v. zou Norfolk, II .S. ; do., • 1) . iii., 2 • ' 4 lt` 4l :l, Q ue b ec ; Margaret Evan s s . , S L . o w nd al on e , s. for sa N il e e w d '-1,11,' Athenian. Southampton, for 1.-bl?gothland, St. Andrew's, N B. =ko- 0 ii11i1'5,,,,,,e41.TA,11, July2B.—Win, S.W. of Yarborough, Austra• Off Port—Winder• it % ; ' 4 471' Sailed—Countess 1 hi , (11' _Lara (s), Rio Janeiro; John, Quebec Princess al l , „S'• Hope—left June2 l . e%1t`0.,14490(4 am.)—Arrived Queen of the South, Cel li,. AL I/0 °Pe of Good ope -'V4:, n irra, J u l y 28.—Wind, W.S.W. Sailed—Bur ttt-titviii‘•4lcutta. Wind, s . w., mode ktf, t l ;, ° °L, July 29 (10.30 a.m.)— gliad i' . ' slight showers. Arrived—Carol Afrloems. 44 nd Phia • V t New York • Helen, Quebec;. Mary Ei. to, ibr a i; es 3'St. John's, N. 8 ." ' t rl blitabeth - , 9. ~Forest Queen,Christina, St. Pe ° ot lgh ; al Riebbunto ; Hendrika a„teat a ''.11,133, Maria, densee. Sailed—Granada, for New 2,16, ',,,.,-,rauantless, te a sb gh ; Emily, Africa ; 4 4 4 terC_Z o n eoi ; .ge J . ov fro en ui ß i t p t uise r s l ic a e y lof A a. ri ; T adn yr e o, b L ar is q b u on e; I,zu,suliabarton Youth at. ,1147,L1W00D, July 28.—Arrived—Richibucto, Q_ueb s e . c._ I l lebe,. -I° L, july 2 8.—Wind, N.W. Arrived —.Fero Ica, '11,14-0'• Sail ed — Eliza, Melbourne ; Fry, Quebec ; John C -itn tn i, 3 ' do• ; Commerce, do. Il e -"WISTEn 28 S iled—Marquis of Ely, Syd ii N . ... , ,,,. , July ----, a Vic4it.TLEPooL, July 28.—Wind, W. Sailed—Queen BALL , rfavannah. hneto•tt' 4.1113' 28 . — Wind, N. Arrived—Rambler, Richi -Atbh QuE t , BB4 -11, July 27 . —Arrived—Springhill, Quebec. Bueu a. vest, ~,,\.sTowN, July 2 7.—Wind, S.W. Arrived— ' 4uararnichi. •••••••••••••••••••••............•••••••••••=OMINM I) I ErPs theEDriEcowmo Yesterday a 11 : e i: 1'f i it l'iltn t: e e Ses /i tinri o g yn No e f :m mE it i l ' e s e of ll ° th M i E scstitution was re 811 a, 15, Carburton-street, Fitzroy - square , I was numerously attended. The Lady Li s t er _ a Ye hav re sult irig taken the chair, the secretary reported th o e ,. the of the concert, which, considering the shortnes s is t . fact or 'eto tice and the lateness of the season, was very . sat . alAecttable Y, the room being nearly filled with a highly-re co mpany, including several members of the a.ft "e 'acY, who are the patronesses of the institution ; hest er which it was unanimouply resolved—" That the kr).,t, thanks of this institution are due, and are hereby k, to Miss Ransford Miss L. Baxter, the Misses i:' . i‘ l nhali Clara Frazer, Madame Weiss, Miss Messent, Q. - 16. 1 4 " °1 4, Mdlle. St. Marc, Mr. G. Perren, Mr. W. lai Ransford, Mr. Alfred Pierre, Mr. Ransford, Mr. R. th, a ,g l Te, Mr. F. Chatterton, and Mr. C. Blagrove, for d i r, Kindness in taking part in the concert on Satur :Y last ; and that the secretary be requested to corn. n 4 4 the same to them." After a little other bud -44 the meeting adjmted. louse of 'before Fir shall with Drib 183 4, ale of all home and ras now . ,enements, - or , signal =meat of o theta nn fairs, an a sa me shalt ta i n foul acident to o the eon rein before be (Ar o , mo ment. have COr le of salt, time, area it is tbsolutely mid after for the nufacture ) provin ce ibsolutely Jompaql the ni?' of salt 21 1 • to su ch e to time , Motion n ow yes e 111 Frederi ck J. P. iscoUilt T. , JOAO eorge U. Abel rr. B• lames .1" I 11. Geoll. Geoff rg'. sir J. )(nicer eorge I L Yillial Vises ick tliaM luhartt E. John , Capt. Harry Ha. e• r R. ward lenry s. Stuart John be con' ) oaf a of t_.. °l the f'"" ) Act , A 16 e p ars e s o 0 , 'hat tb ntnit4aa b ,tt, I' Graved iiu rd Dud CS ;r w°, stood nningt 2ey ur- 4 ".: 19 3 ".. • 9 , str J. J. SHARE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.) BRITISH RAILWAYS. RAILWAYS. 'lOO 8i ibordeen A.mbg. Nottng. Boat and. Eastn. Junct.. 3inning. Wolverh. & Stour Valley 18i 100 too all 3irkenhd. Litnesh. Cheshire Joliet Jo. Chesh. & Birk., £5O and £25 Cons. I Do., ...... 3ristol and Exeter.. :ialedonian Jhester & Holyhea,d, Jork and Bandon,. work, Black, & Pass, Dubl in &BelfastJ , Dundee Perth&Aber dean Junction all I )0. New ...... ...... mast Anglian Do. , (XlB E & 7 Jastern Connties I , lastern Union, A Stock . Do., B. Stock Do., New A. all 111 !1.00 100 421 100 -1 100 474 174 all 100 4i 17i 7 all 100 3i 100 17i all 10 100 jlOO ioo all 100 all 21s. 100 20 110 100 East Lancashire East & West Ind. Dk & Birming. June Edinburgh & Glasgow Edinb. and Peebles Edin. Prth. &Dundee Glasgow & S. Western Great Northern Stk. Do., A. Stock Do., B. 5t0ck...... . Gt. Sth. &West•(lre-) Great Western Irish South-Eastern Lancaster & Carlisle Do., Thirds Laucash.andYorksh. Do., Fifths D a., Wst. Riding Un Leeds Northern Liv. Crsby. & Southpt London & Blackwall Lond. Tilb. & Sthend. Lond. Bright & S.Cst. Lond. and N. Westn. Do. Fifths Do.lo/. Sh. ,M&8,..0 London and S. We'stn. Do., X5O Do., £4O Lnndrry& Col eraine Lndndrry. & Ennisk. Manch.Shef.& Lineln Do., Man. & Lin. Un Midland Do. Birmng. & Derby Midld, G. West. (Ire.) Do. Half Shares Newcastle & Carlisle Newmarket Do., Bury Extension. Nwpt.Aberg. & Hrfd Newry & Enniskillen Newry Warrenpoint I and Rostrevor I Norfolk Northn.Counties Un North British North Devon, No. 1. Do., No. 2 Do., a A Deferred Do., B Guaranteed North - Staffordshire North Western N. & S. Westrn. June Oxford, Worcester, & Wolverhampton Scottish Central , Scottish Midland Shrewsbury &Biimg. Do. L. & N. Western Guaranteed Si cek Shrewsby. & Herefd Shrewsby. & Chester (N. W. Min ; Do. Halves, t e . Do. Oswestry Shropshire Union ,South Devon South Eastern South Wales S. Yrksh. & Itiv. Dun Do.. .......... - Stockton & Hartlepl Thames Haven Dock and Railway Vale of Ncath ' Watcrfd. & Kilkenny Waterford&Limerick West Cornwall Wimbledn & Croydon York Newctl. &Berw. Do. Extensions Do. G.N.E. Purchase York & N. Midland PREFEREN , Aberdeen.. !Do. No. 2, 7 p. c & Ex. 4 p. c. St. Do. 4 p. c. Shares Calcdonian £lO Chester Sz; Holyhead Guar. 53 . per cent ) Cork dtßandous4p.c Dundee Perth daberH deen Juhetion 11 EastAnglian (I:310s) 6 per cent 11 Do. (£5) 7 per cent 2 Do. (£7 17s) 7p. e 11 Eastern Counties Ex tension, 5 p. c. No. 1 11 Do. No. 2 11 Do. New 6 p. c. St 11 Eastern Union, Scrip Guar. 6 per cent O East Lancash. 6p. cts 11 EdinbPrth.&Dundee 5 . 4 per cent. O Glasgow &S. Western Guar. 5 per cent O Great Northn. sp. c O Do. 5 p. c. Redeem., at 10 p. c. preen 5 Do. 4i p.c. Scrip 11 Gt, Southn.&Westm (Ireland) Eighths) 6 Gt. Wcstn. (Berks & Hants Ex. 5 p. c) O Do. cov. red. 4i p.c O Do. con. red. 4p. c O Do. irred. 4p. e 6 Lan. & York. F. £2O O Do. 6 p. e. Stock 10 London and Brighton Guaranteed 5 p. c O Do. Pref., sp. c. St. 11 Do. Convertible, sp. c., 1852 O Do. New Guar.6 p. c 5 London &S. Western Con. Thirds 0 Londonderry& Coler Shares 11 Loudy. & Ennis. Sh 11 Man., Sher., & Lin , Shares, No. 1. 11 Do. New, £lO . 3 Do. £6 Haupt .& Carl. 4 p.c. Do. 4A per cent all 8 100 100 Do.. 100 100 100 100 all 100 Mid. Consol.6 p.c.St. Do. Consol. Bristol & Birm. 6 per cent Do. Pref. 4.4 per cent Norfolk Extension Do. 5 p. c. Eat Do. Guar. N per et._ Do. Way. Val. 5 p. c North British North Staffordshire Oxford, Worcester, & Wolyerh..£ls, 6 p.c Do Shrews. &Birm.N.G. Shrewsby. & Chester (Nor.W.Min), 8 p.c. Do. 5 per cent South Devon Do. New S. Eastern (Reading Ann.) of XJ. Os. 6d. .Do. 4i per cent. Pre. S.Yorksh.4p.c.Guar. Waterfd. &Kilk . 6p. c. York, Newcastle ,and Berwick,4 p.c. Pref Do York&N. Midland H and S. Purch FOR' 4 Antwrp & Rotterdam 3 Belgian East. Junct. all ; Charleroi & Erquelin 10 ;Dijon and Besnon 8 ;Dutch Rhenish all !East Indian 1 Do. Extension all I Gt. Indian Peninsula 10 Gd. Junct. of France 20. Gt. Westn. of Canada Shares Lucca and Pistoja, 5 per cent. pref. Luexembourg Do. (Railway) IDo. (Canal) Do. 6 p. cent. pref. ILyons & Me dite rra.n Madras .... Maria Antonia Do. New Namur & Liege (with interest Do. (ex interest) Northern of France Do. 201. 3 p. c. Bds [fmy.B.&Ams.Shs.] NorwegianTrnk Pref Paris and Lyons Paris and Orleans Paris and Rouen Paris and Strasbourg Paris Caen& Cherbrg. Quebec & Richmond Rouen and Havre Sambre and Meuse Do. sou t t i p n e r cent. e F a r a . n p c r e e f Upper India Scrip West Flanders Do. 54 per c. Pref, Western of France West. of Switzerland Ptiow &and. mono Closing Prices Yesterday. 26A -- 27 5 51 - 9 7 died 20 -- 22 3i 2d 102 • 104 684 -- 69 221 -22 i 20A -- 214 31,- 44,1 8- 9 44 - .46 33 - 35 73 - 74 52 - 55 72 - 74 io :-. 32 87 98 56 58 134 -- 136 110 -- 112 90A --91 7' -- 711 101 -- 104 16 -17 p 78 -- 7841 4! —7 4icil 3 -- 3 d 15 -- 15i1 8 11 9 4 1041 —l3pacl 104 116 —116 t i r l , 4(1 89 -- 9 6 3 5 1 4 301 11 13 18 20 29 24 72 41. 4341 55 57 " d - 3 8 9 52 54 38 —24 d 33 ... 34 4i 4Ad 8i 52 - 53 93 - 95 61 - 63 59 - 61 69 71 17 19 9 10 13i 141 3 id 19 1 72A 73 36 37 13 14 25 27 2i 14 15 8 at 30 32 10 69 d 70i1 7 ri 2 —21 d 60 -- 61 JE SHARES, 92 96 88 - 92 103 - . 105 , te; :: ios 19. -20 i # id 6# -- 6# 4 - - 4 5 5 2 - 1L 14 -- 2ip lt -- 2 p 14 -15 i 20i.-- 211 • ••• ' i t s = Iso 112 - 114 8i -- 61 4 7 1 103 -- 104 9 101 102 103 A 1) . 14 lold, 1154 - 157 34 - 4 10 - 11 13 - 14 84- 8 10i -- 11 1 - pi 1151 i -- 154 111 It 6 118 -- 122. ii 7 2/ -- 2i, 101 -10 i 17 -- 18 - l4 P -- Pte- A P 26 26; l 112 114 194 d 103 105 5i - 51 par P :IGN. 14 - 1 - 11 14 -15 I - 1 2 - 1 5 - 5 - 1.4 - 24 par 71 - - 1 t - 1/ - 1 - 21 2 -- 21 F. ... --- • 8 si 35 -35 i 14 - 141 8 i 9 17 17 p 44 46 43 45 37 374 4i S id 94 19! 206 9t 5 - 6 ill 4 91 - 91 = a 4 Business done this day. St. 1100 1 St. 100 St. 100 20 5 St. 100 15 all 29 10 sfi - 3..#- 124 - MINES. IMPERIAL PARL EA ME NT. 1 all `A.gua. Fria 1 all Anglo Austrin. Gold Id par 10s. all Anglo Californian 4 Ipm 10 2 Australasian 1(1 par 20 5 Australian - 1 all Australian Cordillera 4d par 1 all Australian Freehold 1 all Ave Maria A 1 all Ba,den (Gd. Duchy of) 4d p 1 all British Austrin. Gold gd 20 13.5 British Iron 35 24 Brazilianlmp.(issued at .£5 pm 34 - 44 30 all Do. Cocaos & Cuiada 3 4 20 15 Do. St. John Del Rey 32 34 1 1 Carson's Creek 40 all Cobre Copper 474 —4B 5 1 Colonial 15 Copiapo St. all Copper Mill. of Eng 65 -- 75 25 all Do. Pref. 7.1 p. cent 7l 5 all English and Austrin Copper Smeltg. Co 2 lid 20 all General 2 all Great Nugget Vein... a - 1 p 2 all Do. Registered 3 all Great Folgooth I all Lake Bathurst I all . Liberty 3 all Linares I all Lend .&Californ.Gold Quartz Crush. Co. !! 1 all llariquita, 10 9 11exican&S.Ammien 6 ,1 - 74 1 all New Granada, 1 all Nouveau Monde 10 5 Nova Scotia Mining and Copper Smeltg 5 1 Port Philip id par 1 1 all Quartz Rock 50 all Blymney Iron - 23 —25 15 15 Do. New 64 74 30 104 Santiago de Cuba 4 1 all South Australian id par 10 7 Tin Croft 281 all United Mexican 3' if 1 all Waller — d 1 all West Granada d 1 all West Mariposa 1 all Yuba JOINT-STOCK BANKS. 40 all Australasia 'Bl 82 811 21 50 all British N. American ... i2O 2 Chrtd. Bnk. of India, Australia, & China —11 p 100 25 Colonial — 181 19 100 20 Commercial of Lond. 20 10 English Scottish and • Australian — p 10i 20 15 Lond. Chart. Bk. of Australia 3 —34 p 50 20 London and County 50 10 London Joint Stock — 26 100 20 Lond. & Westminster ... 20 2 London Bank of Aus tralia and India 50 22A National of Ireland ... 25 all Oriental Bank of Corporation 4Bl 491 48i 25 5 Do. New — 100 25 Provincial of Ireland 10 all Do. New — 5 1 Royal Australn.Bkg & Gold Imp Co 1 dig— par 25 all South Australia 45 47 25 all Union of Australia 74 75xd ... 24 Do. New B4 8i 84 50 10 Union of London 191 a d 40 all Union of — HOUSE OF LORDS-(YESTERDAY.) The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack at five o'clock. Lord BEAUMONT presented a petition from the Leeds Chamber of Commerce, praying for the establish ment of tribunals of commerce. Lord BERNERS presented petitions from several places against the sale of spirits on Sundays. Lord BROUGHAM presented petitions from Bangor and other places in favour of the County Courts Exten sion Bill. COUNTY COURTS FURTHER EXTENSION BILL. Lord BROUGHAM moved the second reading of this bill, and in doing so, the noble lord dwelt at some length upon the great benefit which the establishment of county courts had conferred upon society at large. The 'experience of these courts during the last six years proved that they might be judiciously extended, and the object of this bill was to increase their jurisdiction, and render them still more efficient in many other respects, so that their usefulness might be made equal to that of the superior courts of law and equity: A 11, however, that ho wanted their lordships to do was to affirm the principle of the bill, and leave it to be passed in a future session. The noble lord at the same time announced his intention to lay upon the table another bill for amending and improving the law of arbitration, which he should also ask their lordships to read a second time with a view to its being taken up again at the continent:elm:tit of next session. The LORD CHANCELLOR said as his no7 - •le and learned friend had not informed him beforehand of the course which he intended to take, he could not then promise anything beyond an assent to the first reading. With respect to the county court jurisdiction, he should have little .to - - say until their lordships were placed in possession of the result of an inquiry which was about to be instituted. It was designed to ascertain, by means of a commission, not merely whether the county courts adequately discharged the duties entrusted to them, but whether any additional duties could usefully be devolved upon them. He had no doubt the commission would pursue its labours with a determination to ascertain what was the actual state of the county courts—whether or not they adequately discharged their duties, how far the mode of transacting business was susceptible of improve ment, and whether any additional functions might be usefully exercised. In short, he believed the report of the commission would enable their lordships to legislate much better on the subject than they could do before it was presented. After a few words from Lord BROUGHAM, the bill was . read a first time. THE SUN, LONDON, 'F:RIDrAY-EVEMING I 'J,Ur:LY 29, 1853. proposed to omit . the words, "the title deeds relating to land." A more dangerous power could not be given to the commissioners. Some of the greatest losses ever heard of in this country had been caused through letting unauthorised persons get hold of title-deeds. Lord .Kenyon once told an attorney who had been summoned to produce title-deeds, and appeared in court with a box containing them to sit down on the box, and not to stir for anybody. (Laughter.) In section 52, he proposed to omit the words " of which he shall not have had notice at the time of the purchase." He had never seen any bill more calculated than this to embarrass the trans fer of property, by making the duties under the act a first charge upon all property. The effect would be to make every man a crown debtor so long as the period for the payment of the duties continued. Nothing . could be more dangerous than to transfer this liability to a bona fide purchaser. In section 54, lie proposed to add words to make it consistent with the preamble as amended, confining the operation of the act to the 19th of May, 1858. It would then be a very fair subject of consideration whether the act should be renewed or amended. He would also propose to omit some words in the schedule respecting the mode of valuing long an nuities, which had no meaning as they stood. In con clusion he would remark that the severe liabilities and penalties imposed by this bill on trustees would cause every prudent man to pause before accepting such a trust. Nothing could be more dangerous to a matt ; he would become himself a crown debtor ; and if he paid in ig-norance, lie would have no remedy. His object had been to amend the bill, if it were possible ; but seeing the spirit which prevailed in the Innise on Monday, . he had abstained from taking part in the discussion in com mittee, and he now only proposed his amendments that the public might see the grounds on which the opposi tion had acted. _ _ Lord BEAUMONT said he cordially approved of one of the amendments—that which made the sett'or the predecessor in all cases, and not the party immediately before in possession. Were the bill otherwise, it would be a tax not merely on succession, but on settlement generally. Were this amendment adopted, there would be no ground for charging the bill with a retrospective operation, as it would merely tax existing settlements after they became the subjects of succession. The pro vision as it stood had been justified by reference to as analagous provision in the legacy acts ; but the cases were not at all parallel, as money left intrust, and pass ing from one person to another, only paid the legacy duty once. The imposition of the succession duty in the case referred to involved an entirely new principle. The LORD CHANCELLOR—It is exactly the same as it is under the legacy duty. Lord BEAUMONT doubted this ; but there was one advantage in the clause—it cut both ways ; a man suc ceeding his brother in property left by their father would only pay duty as a son. Still, as it was contrary to the principle of the bill, and had a retrospective operation, he thought it would have been better in all cases to regulate the duty by the relationship of the immediate predecessor. It would also have had the effect of obvi ating the necessity of looking into deeds. No evil could result from the adoption of the amendment, except some little delay in the passing of the bill. He entertained some other objections to the measure, but did not think them of sufficient weight to dwell upon. He was glad to see real and personal property placed on the same footing in reference to succession ; but he should hay. preferred a much more sweeping measure. He would have repealed the present legacy duties, done away with the graduated scale, and have made all property pay alike-2 or 2/ per cent. on succession. Where a stranger succeeded to property, and had to pay 10 per cent., the burden was most grievous, and he probably might be less prepared to meet it than a son succeeding to his father. Lord BERNERS referred to the evidence given before their lordships' committee on the burdens on land, and contended that real property was already unjustly bur dened. He instanced the stamp duties and the land tax ; the latter of which was most unequal in different parts of the country. Originally, by the statute of Wil liam and Mary, it was 4s. in the pound on all land ; in those cases where it had not been redeemed, the burden was now very unequal. The noble lord enumerated some other "special burdens" on land, which by a pecu liar mode of calculation he made to amount to 19 mil lions sterling per annum. Earl GRANVILLE said the subject of burdens on land was too large a question to be discussed on that occasion. It had been assumed all along by the opposi tion that this bill would impose as large a duty on land as on personalty ; but it appeared that the amount de rived from land would only be about 50 per cent. of that from personal property. He did not think that the pro posal of Lord Beaumont for a uniform rate of 2 per cent. would be very favourably received by those who com plained of the special burdens on land. It was a fair estimate that two-thirds of the lan led property would only pay 1 per cent. under this bill. On the other points the noble lord had answered his own objections. (Hear.) In framing a measure of this kind it was necessary to adopt one of two principles—either to make each suc cessor pay according to the relationship of his immediate predecessor, or of the person from whom he derived the property by deed. Whatever nay be the merits of the two principles, it was certain that more money would have been derived had the Government adopted the for mer one ; and though the principle adhered to in the bill might in one or two cases act hardly upon indivi duals, it was most favourable to the great majority of persons possessing land. Instead of paying 2 per cent. as succeeding to one another, brothers would only pay 1 per cent. as deriving from their father ; and that was an immense advantage to the landed interest. (Hear.) Whatever hardships might occur under this bill, the same existed, but to a much more severe extent, under the Legacy Duty Acts. The Earl of WICKLOW said it was quite clear that the object of the noble lord opposite had been to defeat the bill altogether, or many of these amendments would have been proposed in committee at the proper time. He admitted that this was a most complicated measure, full of contradictory and oppressive provisions, and he was satisfied that iu a subsequent session a bill would have to be brought in to remove its defects and render it more palatable to the community. The Marquis of SALISBURY denied that the object of the opponents of the measure had been to defeat it. All that they wanted was to remove many of its glaring inconsistencies, and their lordships were decidedly to blame for not entertaining many of the reasonable amend ments that had been proposed to them; The bill was then passed. BILLS ADVANCED A STAGE. The Registrar of Meetings Bill and the Stamp Duties Bill were read a second time, and ordered to be com mitted. The Spitalfields and Shoreditch Improvement Bill and the Missionary Bishops Bill were read a third time, and passed. The Parish Vestries (No. 2) Bill, the Entails (Scot land) Bill, the Custom Duties Bill, and the Dublin Par liamentary Registration Bill, were passed through com mittee. MARKET NEWS-(THIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE. The quantity of English wheat received up to our market this week, coastwise, has been somewhat on the increase. Fresh up, to day, the receipts of that grain were very moderate ; hence, the show of samples was by no means extensive. For all kinds we had a very inactive demand, and Monday's improvement in the quotations was barely supported. The imports of foreign wheat have exceeded 22,000 quarters, chiefly from the westward. Good red Baltic parcels sold at full prices. In other kinds only a limited business was doing. There was a moderate inquiry for floating cargoes of wheat and beans, at previous rates. No English barley was brought forward, but the supply of foreign was large. The trade ruled dull, and prices had a downward tendency. Malt was in fair average supply, and moderate inquiry, at late rates. The show of oats being on the increase, the oat trade was dull, and prices gave way from 6d. to ls. per quarter. Beans, peas, and flour, sold at last week's currency. Wheat. 1,850 ARRIVALS THIS WEER. I Barley. I Malt. 1 2,810 Oats. 4,680 2,770 i 16,620 I 4,0t0 aka 8,800 brl English .. Irish •. • • Flour. 560 Foreign .. 22,130 1 14,910 SMITHFIELD. The supply of beasts in to-day's market was seasonably good as to number, but very deficient in quality. All breeds moved off slowly, at Monday's decline in the quota tions. Prime Down sheep were scarce, and quite as dear ; otherwise, the mutton trade was in a sluggish state, at barely stationary prices. We had a dull sale for lambs— the supply of which was rather extensive—at a further de cline in the currencies of 2d per 81bs. Calves moved off heavily, and, in some instances, prices had a downward tendency. In pigs, very little business was transacted. Mulch cows were heavy, at from 151. to 1,9/. each, in cluding their small calf. Per Blbs to sink the offals. s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d. Inferior Beasts.... 3 2to 3 6 Prime Southdown 410 5 0 Second quality.... 3 8 310 Large crse. calves 3 6 4 2 Prime large oxen 4 0 4 2 Prime small d 0... 4 4 410 Prime Scots, &c. 4 4 4 6 Large hogs 3 0 3 6 Inferior Sheep ...3 4 3 8 Small porkers 3 8 4 0 Second quality ...3 10 4 4 Suckling calves ..20 0 26 0 Prime crse.-wlled.4 6 4 8 Quarter old pigs 20 0 25 0 Lambs ,4s lid to 5s 10-d: TOTAL SUPPLY. 1,091 FOREIGN SUPPLY. Beasts .............. Sheep and Lambs .. •• • —13,000 Calves Pigs ........ • • •• • • •••• 450 Beasts ..... ..• . • 450 Sheep ....................2,9®0 Calves.... •• .............. 480 NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL. Each kind of meat moved off slowly, at barely station ary prices. Per Slbs by the carcase. s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d. Beef, inferior 2 10 3 2 Mutton, Inferior 3 2 3 6 Do., middling 3 4 3 6 Do., middling 3 8 4 4 Do., prime large .3 8 3 10 Do., prime 4 6 4 10 Do., do. small ....4 0 4 2 Veal 3 8 4 8 Pork, large 3 0 3 6 Fork, small 3 8 4 2 Lambs 4s 6d to 5s 10d. BOROUGH HOP. The accounts from the plantations are by no means favourable, yet the inquiry for all kinds of hops is very inactive, at last week's prices. The duty is called 110,000/. Mid and East Kent pockets, 130 s to 180 s ; Weald of Kent ditto, 128 s to 145 s ; and • Sussex ditto, 115 s to 130 s per cwt. COLONIAL. SUGAR.—There has been a moderate demand for British plantation, and prices have been supported. Publicly Barbadoes went, however, for some descriptions at a slight decline; mid to fine realising 34s to 37s 6d. East India— Mauritius has been steady at full rates, good and fine yellow realising 36s Eal and 37s 6d, low and mid 33s to 34s 6d, and mid to fine brown 31s to 32s 6d. Bengal sold at 35s to 36s 6d for low to good white, 38s 6d to 39s 6d for good and fine white of clean quality, 38s to 38s 6d for low damp white, and 35s 6d to 38s 6d for mid yellow to low white. Madras brought 34s to 39s for low mid to good damaged. Foreign— Publicly, yellow Havannah has been sold at '3ss 6d to 38s for low to good pale yellow. Porto Rico went at 41s to 418,6 d for fine, and at 34s 6d to 39s for low to good. Paraiba was taken in at 33s Gd for low brown. Cuba brought 31s to 34s for the same descriptions. Refined is firm at 46s to 48s for grocery lumps. COFFEE.—Plantation Ceylon has been in good request, at full prices. Mid and good coloury bold was last sold at 58s to 655, low mid at 56s to 57s 6d, fine and fine ord coloury at 54s to 565, peaberry at 69s to 70s. and triage at 38s to 51s 6d. Native has boon held at 45s 6d to 475, according to quality. Mocha was taken in at 675. Ja maica brought 53s to 53s 6d for low mid, 45s to 46s for triage, and 36s for blacks. COCOA.—Grenada sold at 29s for grey, to 31s for good red. RlCE.—There has been an improvement this week of 3d to 6d per lb., Bengal having been sold at 12s for good, and Madras at lOs to lOs 6d for mid and good. SPlCES.—Pepper has been at full rates; mid and good Batavia, 3id to 4d per lb. ; Penang, fine, 4id to lid ; sound brown, 3d. Fair Singapore was taken in at 4d. Penang mace sold at 3s 2d for good. Nutmegs brought 1s 10,1 to 2s 9d for small to fair bold brown. RUM.—There has been a good demand. COTTON.—The market has been firm. SALTPETRE.—There have been free buyers at former rates. Bengal has been sold at 25s 6d to 26s 6d for 7 per cent. refraction, low mid. quality. TEA.—The holders asked rather higher rates, but there is not much doing. TALLOW.—P.Y.C. is quiet at 51s 6d per cwt. on the spot. GREEN FRUIT.—The cold and wet weather has had its effect upon the markets, some parcels of lemons per steamer from Lisbon, sold by Reeling and Hunt, went at a reduction of 2s to 3s per chest. Barcelona nuts havo further advanced 2s per bag. The sale of pine apples con tinues good. Cent—The market continues very firm at full prices of last month. The public sales have offered 4,000 pieces Ceylon junk, which were taken in at 121., but 3,012 pieces good Cochin sold at 191. 10s to 191 . 15 s. 343 coils Bombay rope, 3to 3 inch fetched 201. About 100 tons yarn have also been offered, which sold readily at high rates. Ceylon, fine small bright 421. 15s to 451., very common course to fair small 171. to 231. Ms, and middlingfair Cochin 271.105. 7 tons fibre realised 181. 15s to 201. 15s per ton. IVORY.—The public sales have again offered about 25 tons of various descriptions ; good and fine teeth, as well as ball pieces, sold well at extreme rates, whilst the defec tive and cracked teeth, of which the greater portion of the above consisted, went off flatly at a decline of 10s to 20s 281.0 t Last vtoe lndi as2o. average 9C4t bhso2llB s : B w. to st 6 14 4 t l b o; s pa ls nerd lb ed s we , le. ; cracked iphise,ceasl,.lsT to to 27/., and cut solid points, to 4.4 inch, 191. to 241. 10s 'b l 3sl 2 al i l . 15s per cwt. About 1 ton sea horse also were sold, good sound 31 to 43, lbs, 8s 3d to 93 3d, and defective 2i to 5i lbs, 2s 8n to lls 9d per lb. STOPPAGE OF THE GREAT CLOCK AT ST. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL.—Yesterday afternoon the great clock at St. Paul's Cathedral came to a dead standstill, at forty minutes past three o'clock in the afternoon. During the day the clock was " too fast," showing, at 2.30 p.ni. by Greenwich mean time, that the works were out of order, as at that hour the hands indicated the time to be ten minutes before four o'clock. It is generally supposed that the awful flashes of lightning in the earlier part of the morning had the injurious effect of stopping the cathedral clock. SUCCESSION DUTY BILL. The Earl of ABERDEEN moved the third reading of this bill. The Earl of CLANCARTY said, before this bill was finally disposed of he wished to say a few words. En tertaining as he did a strong objection to its principle, it was with very great disappointment that he observed how precipitately it was being hurried through the house. He did not think the second reading ought to be regarded as an approval of the measure generally ; nor did he consider that even the carrying of the amend ment would have been a condemnation of the principle. His principal objection to the bill was that it was op posed to the fundamental principle that property had its duties as well as its rights. It entirely ignored that principle ; landlords had other expenses to bear besides poor rates, and charges of that kind ; there was the management and improvement of the land with which they had been entrusted by Providence, the employ ment of the population, the improvement of agriculture, the maintenance of hospitals, schools, and so on. This would have the effect of creating encumbered estates ; it would sever that tie between landlord and tenant, which had exercised such a favourable influence on the social condition of the country. What was to be the compensation for such a bill as this ? Relief from the soap duty and the advertisement duty. As regarded the former, he was perfectly satisfied there would not be a single hairy chin the less in consequence of the remis sion of the duty- -(laughter)—neither would their lord ships find any reduction of their washing-bills, unless they drove a hard bargain with their laundresses. As to advertisements they were already lost in a labyrinth of announcements about hats, trunks, medicines, &c. He protested against the steps taken by the Govern inent to carry this bill, which he thought affected the privileges of their lordships' house, and calculated to compromise its utility. The bill was then read a third time. On the motion that the bill do pass, Lord St. LEONARDS said that before the bill passed he wished to show, in the shape of amendments, the objections that existed against it, so that hereafter the country would be able to judge between the bill as it stood and the bill as it would be if these amendments were adopted by Parliament. Having once ascertained that the feeling of the house was in favour of the prin ciple of the measure, his sincere wish was to make the bill as good as it could be made. As it was not his in tention to divide the house, he would not ask the opinion of their lordships on each amendment, but would move them altogether at the close of his obser vations. n the preamble of the bill he proposed to strike out the declaration which declared the permanency of the measure. In section 2, he would move a proviso against the retrospective operation of the measure. This addition would not in any degree impair the gene ral operation of the act, but it provided that where a person sold or mortgaged his reversion, or where a person advanced money on its security, it might be 26 years ago, and without any idea that such an act would be passed, such person would be liable to pay 10 per cent. on such by-gone transactions. The next amend ment had.reference to the case of joint lives. The clause having reference to joint tenancy would create great hardship as worded. In the case of two sisters, they paid the duty as the successors of their father, but in the case of the death of one, the other would have to pay the duty, not as the daughter, but as the sister, which was a great hardship. He should therefore pro pose words, the effects of which would be, that the party should only have to pay according to the original crea tion of the gift, that was to say, that she would pay as a daughter and not as a sister. In section 4, page 3, it was provided that where a person had general powers of appointment, he should in that case be himself considered in the same light as the successor. Now, ac cording to the clause, if a tenant for life who had power to leave the property after his death, and who might please to exercise that power, and leave the property to some stranger, be would be obliged to pay a double suc cession duty. What he proposed in lieu of these words was that where any such persons should already be charged with the duty, no further duty should be pay able by him on succeeding as tenant for life to the same property. The next amendment was in section 9, page 4, which placed the duties under the care of the com missioners of inland duty. The end of the clause de clared that " they shall have all other powers and au thorities requisite for carrying this act into execution." No man ever saw such words as these in an act of Par liament before. He therefore proposed to leave out these words. The next amendment had reference to section 10, page 5, which declared what ratepof dutywas to be paid by different classes. This bill was founded on the legacy duty, but every legacy from 1797 to the present time declared that no duty was to be paid in the case of property passing from the husband to the wife, or from the wife to the husband, or in the case of property left to the Royal Family. This clause was omitted from the present bill, and he proposed to restore it. At the end of the same section, 10, which provided that " where the successor shall be in any other degree of collateral consanguinity to the predecessor +han those before described, or shall be a stranger in blood to him, a duty of 10 per cent. upon the value should be levied." He thought it a great hardship that where a man was a stranger, and had property given him for life on which he paid 10 per cent. duty as a stranger, that his children should also pay the same amount. What he proposed, therefore, was that in such case the children should only pay as if they were the children of the predecessor (Hear.) He also proposed another addition to the same section 10 of this nature :---suppose a man made a marriage settlement—say of ten thousand pounds—on his daughter—that was to say on the husband, for life, on the daughter for life in case the husband died, and then on the children. That man might see in his life time the husband die before him, and on the property going over to the daughter that man would see the legacy duty paid during, his own lifetime on the property from which be excluded himself in favo ur o f hi s own child. The right hon. gentleman the Chancellor of the Exche quer said lie was wrong in that view, but he (Lord St. Leopards) believed he was light, according to the con struction of sections 2 and 18, and he therefore proposed no succession duty should be payable in such a case as that adduced during the lifetime of the settlor. In section 11, which provided that brothers-in-law and sisters-in law should be put in the same position as brothers and sisters; the clause as it stood would not meet ninety-nine cases in a hundred of those which it was intended to em brace. He, therefore, proposed to add words at the end of the section which would carry out what seemed to be the object of its framers. In section 14, page 6, he pro posed to omit the words which declared that in the case of transmitted successions the highest duty which would have been paid by any one of them should be paid. This appeared to him the most unjust clause he ever saw. Supposing the case of three persons becoming successors —the first of them a stranger, the second a son, and the third a grandson—why should the latter, if he came into possession, pay the highest duty? The next amendment was in section 21, which was a clause he could not well understand. In the end of that clause it was provided that if the successor should die before the instalments were paid, then any instalments not due at his decease should cease to be payable, except in the case of a succes sor who should be competent to dispose by will of a con tinuing interest in such property, in which case the in stalments unpaid should be a continuing charge on such interest. He apprehended, therefore, that in the case of children they would be compelled to pay the instalments contrary the intentions of the framers of the bill. He proposed, therefore, to leave out the end of the clause, after the words "except in the case of a successor com petent to dispose by will," &c. He also proposed to leave out the clause relating to timber, which, if re tained, would require every landlord to keep an account of every tree he sold in the course of the year, and greatly tend to discourage planting in this country. (Hear, hear.) His next amendment referred to section 44, which empowered " trustees, guardians, committees, tutors, &c., to compound or commut e an y dut y , and retain out of the property subject to t such duty te to the amount thereof, or to raise such amount, and h ex penses incident thereto, at interest on he security of the property." He proposed to omit the words which gave this power, because in his opinion no more . dangerous power could be given to trustees than this power of commutation ; that was to say, the pa . ying ofthe sup posed value of the expectancy befor e it dropped in. In t section 49, relating to the production of documents, he NATIONAL EDUCATION (IRELAND). Lord CLACARTY called the attention of her Ma jesty's Government to the fact, that on the 7th March and on the 18th of April last, respectively, addresses were agreed to by this house for the production of cer tain returns relative to the operation of the national sys tem of education in Ireland, and that no returns have yet been furnished, and asked for what reason they had been delayed. The Earl of ABERDEEN said there certainly had teen an undue delay, for which he could not account, unless it were that the returns were so voluminous that there might have been a physical difficulty in the course of their pro duction, considering that the resources at the command of the board were small. However, his noble friend (Lord St. Germans) the Lord Lieutenant, who was at present in this country, would be able to answer any inquiry on subject. Certainly, the Government had no desire to withhold the information, believing as they did that the national system of education had been the greatest bless ing conferred upon Ireland. After a few words from several noble lords, the sub ject then dropped. ECCLESIASTICAL COMMISSION.-EPISCOPAL INCOMES. The Bishop of SALISBURY said he rose to move for certain papers relative to his see, and in so doing to make a short statement which it was painful to him to have to make, as it might appear of purely personal concern. He had hoped that when he had stated some time since that lie had accepted a fixed income of 5,000/. a year in place of the episcopal income, which bad averaged for seven years previously 6,7091. he had said all that was necessary on the subject. But it appeared that an impression had gone abroad, and had been in dustriously propagated, that he had made a good bar gain with the commissioners, having retained the full income of his see during a series of years when the re ceipts were large, and having relinquished it only when he had forseen that the receipts would necessarily fall off. It was his object to show that this statement was directly contrary to the fact. He had spoken to his right rev. brother (the Bishop of Oxford), and had said to him that he should not have been disposed to make the offer to the commissioners had it not been that for the hl4e years that had elapsed since his possession of the it was ' surplus of its income had been large, and t t h e at eeme_ almost sure to be equally large for the time that, there (The Bishop of Oxford—Hear, hear.) -- a nd fore, he was not disposed to subject then C hu rch to the injury she might sustain through the imp which would be cast upon him if he adopted a different course. He spoke in the presence of the noble earl (Earl of Chichester) who was a member of the_ commission, and also in the presence of another noble lord who had a seat at the board, and with bot h of whom he had gone over the figures, and to both of whom he could ap to peal to con firm his statements. Indeed, h was able read tl following letter he had received f e rom the noble ea r l 2 Whitehall-place, July 26, 1853. "Dear Bishop of Salisbury,—You may probably wish me to state in writing what I said to you in a recent con versation on the subject of your agreement with the eccle siastical commissioners in 1851. " That arrangement was at the time considered by us to be an advantageous one for the common fund, and conse quently could scarcely be, as had been stated, a pecuniary gain to yourself. "An inspection of the septennial returns, and of the state existing leases upon lives, clearly shows that there was reasonable ground for expecting that the seven years comm encing with 1851 would yield an a ggregate in •'m the least equal to that of the preceding peri o d. income at " Indeed, I have no hesitation in saying that you were quite justified in the expectation en t ertained by youne l r n e 1851, that the period then com menc i ng would be productive than the former one. "It was with those expectations, and on the earliest opportunity which the law afforded, that you proposed to put yourself under the new act, and to receive a fixed in come of 5,0001. a-year, and ' no more.' " I am sincerely yours, , (Signed) CHICHESTER!' " The Lord Bishop of Salisbury." ; This letter must be SO satisfactory that it would be use. 78a I pm 104 i d 1161 72f I f 1024 3 i pm less to go into details. (Hear, hear.) The right rev. prelate concluded by moving for the papers he referred to :—" A return of the gross and net amount of the annual income received by the Bishop of Salisbury in respect of his see, for the years 1851 and 1852 ; and of all payments made by him to the ecclesiastical commis sioaers, or received from them, during that time ; also a return of all sums received in the way of fines upon renewal of leases for lives during the incumbency of the present bishop, distinguishing the years in which such fines were received ; also a return of the average amount of fines or renewals of leases for lives, from 1837 to 1850 inclusive ; also a like average from 1844 to 1850 inclusive ; also a return of leases for lives on which, lives are now vacant, the age of the lives in such leases respectively, and of the amount of fines received on the last occasion of the renewal of the same ; and also a return of the leases for years of the gee of Salisbury, distinguishing the years in which the same will be re newable respectively, and the amount of the fine re ceived on the last occasion when each lease was re- newed." The Earl of CHICHESTER said, as a member of the ecclesiastical commission, he had not only no objection to the production of those returns, but should rejoice at their production, being persuaded that they would con vince any ftir-minded man that the insinuations thrown out .against the right rev. prelate had bei-li unfounded. At the time of the arrangement alluded t he tithe Earl of Chichester) had been fully , atistied that it would be fur the benefit, not of the bishop, but. of the board ; and he was also convinced that the right rev. prelate irimt have anticipated that such would be the case, and that a. larger income would be received from the see during the present septennial period than the preceding period. The LORD CHANCELLOR said he felt it his duty to declare, in justice to the right rev. prelate, that the law on the subject had been very much misunderstood and misrepresented. It was formerly proposed that the bishops should take the sees with the option of paying the ecclesiastical commissioners a certain fixed sum out of the income of the same. But that arrangement was made to operate during the whole incumbency of the bishop ; and whether it was for his benefit or not, he had no power to alter it once it was accepted. What impressed this fact the more strongly on his (the Lord Chancellor's) mind was the appointment of Dr. Allen to the see of Ely, which for the first and second year yielded him nothing, and which he remonstrated about, but which he was told could not be remedied. He (the Lord Chancellor) thought that was a most unsatisfactory footing on which to place the revenue of the hierarchy ; but, on the other hand, he was bound to say that the prelates had no choice in the matter, the ecclesiastical commissioners fixing the sum to be paid—honestly no doubt—and the bishop had nothing to do but to receive the income. Two years since, however, the law had been altered, and things, he was happy to say, were now placed on a better footing. If any facts, however, were necessary to prove the unsatisfactory nature of the former arrangement, they were furnished by the state ment of the right rev. prelate. The returns were then ordered. PRIVATE BILLS. Lord BEAUMONT then rose to call attention to the state of private business then before the house. Several bills had reached that house at so late a period that they would be lost if the sessional order, which decreed that no private bill should be read a second time after 12th July, was enforced. Many of those bills were de layed by the regulations respecting railways in the other house, more by the difficulty of obtaining mem bers for select committees, in consequence of the great number of election petitions this session. These were circumstances over which the parties interested in these bills had no control ; and he thought it only reasonable therefore that the present sessional order should be re laxed in their instance. He therefore appealed to the house to afford them the opportunity of being read a second time, as to throw them over to the next session would entail great loss upon the promoters. Lord REDESDALE said. he would willingly receive the directions of the house on the subject ; but he re minded their lordships that the maintenance of the ses sional order in question as a general rule was of the greatest importance to the dispatch of business in Par liament ; inasmuch as agents would, once they knew it was relaxed, abate in their exertions. At the same time he admitted that there were many bills before the house which had been delayed by no fault of the promoters ; but as far as he was concerned he was bound to be ex tremely cautions in recommending bills for relaxation of the sessional order, if he would avoid the imputation of partiality. Some hills he had strongly recommended ; others he would be happy to receive the directions of the house upon. But as regarded railway and other bills of that nature, lie should be slow to act unless where it could be shown that extreme diligence had been used by the promoters. The Duke of NEWCASTLE agreed that the sessional order should not be slightly relaxed, but he also be lieved that there were many bills which afforded decided reasons for giving relief to the parties, seeing that they had been delayed by circumstances over which they had no control. With respect to the future he had seen with pain and annoyance his noble friend the chairman of the committee compelled to go about from bench to bench begging to get members for select committees ; it was a position in which his noble friend should not be placed, and which was not honourable to the house. He thought, therefore, that before the clese of the session, or early in the next, those noble lords who were in the habit of attending committees should meet aid discuss the question of attendance, with a view to its better distribution amon g their lordships. As regarded the subject before the house, he suggested that the Standing orders should be generously and liberally interpreted in the case of bills unavoidably delayed, and that the noble lord should be relieved from responsibility in the matter. He proposed, therefore, that those bills should be allowed to proceed against which no broad grounds of objection on the score of delay should be urged. After a few words from Lord STANLEY of Alderley, Earl Powts, and the Earl of WicKLow, Lord REDESDALE said, with regard to several of the bills he hoped he should he able to express an opi nion to-morrow. It was a more difficult matter to com pel the attendance of peers on committees than it was members of the other house; but, at the same time, he had great doubts whether any general compulsion of peers would be satisfactory. He confessed he did not see his way clearly in the matter ; and if noble lords would turn their attention to the subject during the re cess, he should be glad to give them every assistance. The conversation then dropped. Earl WALDEGRAVE wished to ask the noble lord the Secretary for Foreign Affairs the question of which he had given notice—namely, whether the reduction of the naval forces on the African coast was temporary or not ? The Earl of CLARENDON said that the inquiry made by the noble earl was a legitimate one after the information which he had received. If any impression existed abroad that the Government were less anxious than formerly about the suppression of the slave trade, or that the number of the fleet had been reduced, lie could only say that he was exceedingly obliged to the noble earl for making the inquiry, because it gave him an opportunity of saying that there was not the least intention on the part of Government to reduce the num ber of the fleet, or to render it less efficient. In con sequence of the notice given by the noble earl, he had had some communication with his right honourable friend at the head of the Admiralty, and he had in formed him that no ships whatever had been withdrawn from the fleet of Admiral Bruce, except those which re quired repair or were not fit for active service. But since his right hon. friend had been at the head of the Admiralty only one ship of war had been withdrawn from the African coast, and he had commissioned two in their place, and a third, and perhaps a fourth, would be sent out in the course of a week or ten days. He thought, therefore that the noble earl would admit that his right hon. friend was fully alive to the importance of the subject. The noble earl would recollect that his right hon. friend had only a naval peace establishment at his disposal, and if the noble earl would also recollect, the fleet at Spithead—the fleet at the Dardanelles—the forces necessary to guard the fisheries in America—to watch the coast of Cuba and Brazil, and also the ships of war at Rangoon and China—he thought he might appeal to the professional knowledge and ex perience of the noble earl, whether his right lion. friend had not made a, judicious distribution of the force at his command for the different emergencies o f the service, and for the protection of British interests in every quarter of the world. (lean) The Bishop of OXFORD expressed his great satisfac tion at the answer of the noble earl, and was glad, with many others, that the work which the country had undertaken to do was being done with the vigour and efficiency which so eminently characterised his right hon. friend at the head of the Board of Ad m i ra l ty. Their lordships then adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS—(YESTERDAY.) SOUTH SEA ANNUITIES DISSENTIENTS. The house then went into committee upon this bill. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER proposed the following resolutions : " 1. That provision be made out of the Con s olid a t e d Fund of the Unit e d K ingdom of Great Britain and Ire land, for paying off the proprietors of the capital stocks of Old South Sea Annuities, New South Sea Annuities, Bank Annuities (1726), and 31. per Centum Annuities (1751), mentioned in an act of the present session, chapter 23, in respect of which assents to commute shall not have been signified according to the said act, and also for paying to the South Sea Company a principal sum equal to the amount of the trading or capital stock of the said company, or the part thereof the interest or annuity on which shall not have been commuted or exchanged, according to the said act, or any act to be passed in the present session of Parliament. "2. That the South Sea Company shall be permitted to commute, within a time to be limited, all or any part of the annuity or interest on their trading or capital stock, payable in respect of shares in such stock standing in the names of the Accountant-General of the Courts of Chancery of England and Ireland, respectively, and of the Account ant in Bankruptcy in England, and in the names of trus tees and others disabled. from voting in the General Court of Proprietors of the said company, into or for any one or more of the stocks and securities authorised to be created and issued by the act of the present session, chap. 23, and the 3 1 . ss. per Centum Annuities, and New 3/. per Centum Annuities, created under the acts of the seventh year of her Majestey, chapters 4 and 5, commonly called and known as 31. 55. per Centum Annuities (1814), such com• mutation into or for the said stocks and securities autho rised to be created and issued by the said act of the pres 3 nt session, to be upon the terms and subject to the conditions upon and subject to which the like commutation was authorised under the said act, and such commutation into or for the said 3/. ss. per Centum Annuities (1844), to be upon such terms and subject to such conditions a the Com missioners of her Majesty's Treasury may see fit to offer, provided that the assent of the said company to any such commutation shall be signified to the said Commissioners of the Treasury within such time as may be limited by such commissioners for that purpose. "3. That the South Sea CompanY shall also be Permitted, --.~ upon sygnifying their assent within such time as may be limited by the Commissioners of the Treasury for this pur pose, to commute, upon the same terms, and subject to the same conditions, all or any part of the annuity or interest payable in respect of such further amount of their said capital or trading stock as may be authorised or requirel by Parliament to be invested as a guarantee fund for their administration of private trusts, in case they should be authorised to undertake such administration by any act to be passed in the present session of Parliament. Mr. DISRAELI said these resolutions had come rather suddenly before the house, and though they ap. peared to be limited in their scope, and at first sight to be constructed with some simplicity, they Would be found on examination to involve important considera tions. (Hear, hear.) The propositions of the Govern ment, with regard to the greater portion of the funds, had entirely failed, and he objected to their submitting new plans to the committee which would have the effect of extending the commutation of stocks to parties not contemplated when the original measure was passed. The simplest and wisest course would be to conclude the arrangement which had proved to: lie n lolly unsuccess- In% In the first place, lie ()hied( to these resolutions, because they would entrust, to the ministers a power which was at least unusual,. if not unprecedented, to enter into bargains 'at their own discretion for the commutation of stock ; and secondly, because the antecedents of the Gevernment, with respect to this question, were not such as is induce the committee to make an exception in their favour. (Hear, hear.) It w;O4 most unwise at the end of the session to attempt to patch up a scheme in order to enable the Government to enter into new speculations, which were founded on calculations as imperfect as those on which their first proposals rested. They were now asked to grant to the Government an unlimited discretionary power for settling the terms in which future commutation should take place, which would leave our finances in a state of uncertainty and doubt. The Government were fairly warned what would be the effect of the proposals ; and he thought it would be impolitic to accede to the present resolutions unless the committee were informed more clearly what their intentions were in regard to the intended commutation. In reply to Sir H. WILLOUGHBY, The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said he would venture to state, that instead of there being any loss, there would be a considerable gain to the Consoli dated Fund by the proposed arrangement. Mr. W. WILLIAMS expressed his intention to sup port the Chancellor of the Exchequer, believing that his proposal would effect no material reduction in the Con solidated Fund. After a short discussion, the first resolution was agreed to,_ — On the 2d resolution.being put by the CHAIRMAN, Mr. J. B. SMITH objected to it, on the ground that parties who had received one offer and refused to accept it, should not have another made to them. If the reso lution passed, it would place future chancellors of the exchequer in considerable difficulty, for holders of stock would not be disposed to avail themselves of the first proposals of the Government, because they would look forward to some other opportunity being afforded them to make a better bargain. The only right course to adopt was to pay off the parties in money, which the Chancellor of the Exchequer must raise in the best way he could. Mr. JOHN M`GREGOR saw nothing dangerous or impracticable in the proposition of the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Unless the Government had a discretion ary power they would not be in a position to do the best they could for the public. Sir F. KELLY should feel it his duty to oppose the resolution in every possible way. The real question was whether Parliament ought to confer upon a body corporate who stood in the position of trustees for those who had no power to act, or even to speak for them selves, the power to meet the views of the present Go vernment, although their doing so might largely sacrifice the interests of those for whom they acted as trustees. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER rose to reply, but had not proceeded beyond a few sentences when four o'clock arrived, and the house then stood adjourned until six this evening. The house resumed at 6 o'clock. Mr. V. BROWN put a question to the Secretary to the Treasury with reference to the conveyance of mails be tween Mallow and Killarney, observing that it would be a great couvience to have them by the railway, which was now opened. Mr. WILSON said, that previous to the opening of the railway the Post-office authorities had entered into a con tract to have the mails conveyed for one year by cart. When the contract expired the Post-office would avail itself of the facilities offered by the railway. Mr. HORSFALL said that there existed some appre hension that at that period of the session Government would withdraw that excellent measure, the Customs Bill, and he should be glad to hear whether or not they had any such intention ? Mr. WILSON said, that in reference to this very im portant bill, he was glad to have th e o pp or t un ity o f s t a ti ng that the Government had no intention of withdrawing it, and it was almost impossible from the state of the arrange ments made at the Custom-house with reference to the bill that it could be postponed till another year. He had gone over the bill very carefully out of doors with those who were most interested in its provisions, and such a close accordance of views had been attained that he thought the bill would be passed with comparatively little discussion or loss of time. He proposed to commit the bill pro forma that night, with the view of inserting a great many altera tions which had been agreed on, after which the bill would be reprinted, and he hoped early next week to obtain a morning sitting for its discussion. Mr. HORSFALL next inquired, whether the First Lord of the Admiralty had received any communication com plaining of great irregularity in the delivery of letters by the African mail contract steamers, and whether any measures were being taken to prevent a recurrence of the same ? Probably, the right hon. gentleman was aware that the last steamer neglected to call at two principal trading ports, as it should have done scum - ding to con tract. Sir GRAHAM had not heard at the Board of Mmi; ralty of any special complaint of failure in respect to time on the part of these particular steamers, but the Board of Admiralty had given general notice to all parties under contract that they would enforce the special contract in regard to the observance of time, with more rigour than hitherto. No representation had been forwarded tv the Admiralty that the last African mail steamer had nut touched at all the proper places. MA YNOO TH. Mr. SPOONER asked whether any commission had yet been i,sued to inquire into the system pursued at Maynooth College ; and, if so, he wished to know whether the noble lord the member for London would state the names of the commissioners ? Lord J. RUSSELL had to state that no commission had yet been issued, but a correspondence was taking place with certain gentlemen intended to be placed on th com mission, and until that had concluded the commission would not be issued. He trusted no very long time would elapse before the arrangements were concluded. POOR-RATE ON ROYALTIES. Mr. KENDALL inquired if it was the intention of her Majesty's Ministers to bring in a bill, at no distant period, to place all mines on an equal footing as regarded the pay ment of poor-rate on royalties ; it being at present in the power, and in many cases the practice of persons possess ing such royalties so to word their leases as to entirely avoid the poor rate Y_ _ Lord PALMERSTON replied that the subject had not been brought under his consideration in the present session of Parliament. THE CASE OF SAMUEL JAMES. Sir D. L. EVANS inquired which of the two sentences passed on Samuel James that convict was undergoing ; these sentences—namely, of 10 years, and of 15 years, being stated to have been pronounced in the Middlesex Assistant-Judge's Court on the 22d day of June, 1852 ? Lord PALMERSTON replied, that he was afraid it would occupy too much of the time of the house if he were to read the report he had received on the case ; but he should shortly state what was the effect of it. In the first place, the culprit was undergoing the more extended sen tence—the reason for pronouncing which was, that the pri ,s,ofuseurilaiefteieurtcsolzweicwtiobiei,,,bftig,ii,rililliiee t m lo i c s k s , il to e, o a k nd ou , t u a tt s e t r o in n g e words of revenge against the judge, threw it with all his Might, and with a considerably dexterous aim, at the judge. It ju4 missed his eye ; and even in its rebound there Wall danger. The consequence of hitting the judge would have been most serious. The decision of the judge was not given on the spot, but on cool deliberation, that the pri soner should be adjudged to a longer term of transporta tion, being one to which he might by law he sentenced. Re (Lord Palmerston) thought the course pursued by the Court on that occasion was perfectly right. (Hear.) If he were appealed to as an a d v i ser of the Crown whether any part of that sentence should be remitted, he should feel it leis duty to recommend that not a single day should be re mitted. If judges in the courts of law, and if judges at the assizes were to p er f orm th e i r duties under fear of personal danger-- if they wer e th rea t ened with death in consquence of discharging their duties—we might as well repeal our laws, dissolve our courts, let every man go armed, and let every one shoot down ruffians of that kindjas they would mad dugs. GOVERNMENT OF INDIA BILL. On the consideration of the Government of India Bill, as amended, • Sir J. PAKINGTON moved the insertion of a clause in the bill, enacting that the salt monopoly should cease, and that the manufacture and sale of salt in India shall be ab solutely free, subject only to excise or other duty. The case he undertook to prove was that iu all countries salt was one of the first necessaries of life ; that it was more especially so in India, where it is an indispensable condi ment, as the food was rice ; that in India, nevertheless, it was scarce, and the price exorbitantly high. As salt was cheap and abundant in England, why was it, he asked , that the commercial law of supply and demand did n ot ,_ operate in this case, so that the plenty in England mig h t relieve the penury of India ? He answered, that it I ' s the monopoly of the East India Company, which the ex acted a duty of from 300 to 400 per cent. upo n article, whether manufactured in India or abroad. He described the mode in imrttehdnefrhoexim Indian salt was manufactured, and thwehicotehdeitiionnjwo; the producers, and he insisted two ! upon of b th ot e h l h c e o al un th tri o e f s, the e peo whi ri ch le o t f h l e nd in ia cin a o n i :l ol u y po i l ti t i relaxing their mono - h ct e ed tratie Company's Government, so far from.crea se its stringen • , 1 poly, was even now struggling though, iu some cases, they in th anu il teeted ,. _Al..t at ac't:lotashse. This wes the case to which lie asked l arhanient, in the name of the people of India, to apply a remedy, and he could hardly believe, he said, that ho was appealing advocates of commercial freedom to put au end to a MM. poly which was fatal to the welfare, the health, nay , th e lives of the pop ulation of India, and highly injurious to the g interest of this count r y. SrhiPrCP.iWn 00D, in resisting the motion, observed that Sir John had got hold of the word" monopoly," of which re o p r r in te m l y i s i e se ns ; e. bu ß t y h m e h on a o d p tn iy t u w n a d e er: ite tl u od t, its by artificial regulations the price of an orti tth the ee had word enhancing madei n cle to the consumer; yet, when the Governor-General of India endeavoured to reluce the price of native salt to the consumer, from 80 rupees per 100 inaunds to 65 rupees, Sir John te rme d thi s "monopoly" What he wanted (Sir Charles observed) was to establish a real monopoly iu favour of the exporters of salt from this country. The people of India paid but a single tax, and that was the duty on salt, from which article a large revenue was collected in the cheapest and most convenient form, imposing a charge upon the labouring class in India, according to the best authorities, of no more than - Bd. or 9d. per head per annum, every - other article of consumption being duty rm. 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