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

rbtrb 32bttion GOODWOOD RACES (THIS DAY.) (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) CHESTERFIELD CIIP. Nabob eats P.. : ... avf Twelve ran. NASSAU STAKES Mayfair Nicotine l'ixen ..... L rdy B4d: Seven ran. NURSERY STAKES. Twenty ran. QUEEN'S PLATE. Torme n t ................... Ponr ran. Won by half a length 14 6NEY AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, TWO O'CLOCK, MIS DA Y. The sales o f co tt on a t Li ver p oo l yesterday were ea t , ' l lnated a t 12,000 b a l es , o f w hi c h 2,000 Ameri -2 04 0 an cl 1 ,000 Brazil were taken for export and American. on speculation. The market was tak e , but firm. The sales comprised 9,000 Ame- Z , 1,500 Pernam and Maranham at 6id. to f",a 5 00 Bahia 6/1, 600 Egyptian at 6d. to 11d., i i ,' - ' o ,Surat at 34-d. to 441. and Sea Island at fi -. ) ;_im. to 2s. 6d. per lb. Railway Shares were produce markets have been rather brisk this n ot ' e is) but the supply being adequate prices have 4441Inproved generally. Sugar has been firmer, D ~. Plantation Ceylon coffee in more request. 11' 1 ' goods have been wanted both for consumption er e h e ; and shipment to foreign markets. In cotton 5 0 1,i e has been a slight advance. Jute has been N ' at extreme rates. Rum has had a ready ,841 t • Ri want ce has imoved 3d. to 6d. per cwt., and r tti tetre has been ed. Tallow has been quiet, tit ler tea the impo r te rs are asking rather higher Z since the news of the partition of China. th / 4 .„ .. e traffic returns of the 65 prmcipal railways in half e pkillited Ki ng d om and F r a n ce are, for the first the of this y ear , p ar ti cu l ar ly enco uraging, because mileage has, in most instances, not been pro he'woriably increased with the receipts. How great tea fter pia may be the effect of a fther and even Paratively slight improvement u in the earnings, 4 , v ided. the disbursements are kept down, it is un -,ese i tler ary to remark. Th e Aberdeen Railway has t z eased it s t a ki ngs a b ou t 3,0001., the Bristol and e ter 7 000/" the Caledonian 33,0001., the Chester 5"„, 0 yhead 24,0001., the Dublin and Drogheda the East Anglian 3,0001., the Eastern 3,87-Lties, with an additional six miles open, qvuut., the Edinburgh and Glasgow 9,0001., the th e at North ern 87,0001., with 60 miles more open, t i e Great W es t ern 57,0001., with 42 miles addi -29n,„al the Brighton 29,0001., the South-Western 14'00t., with seven miles more ; the Midland 0 00 0/., th e N or th ern o f F rance , w ith 77 miles ~ ry 93,000/. ; the London and North-Western, 11: 0 ‘ 4 1 3 miles additional, 99,0001. ; the Paris and tb 18,0001., the Rouen and Havre 10,0001., South-Eastern 39,0001., the South Wales et , 'W o /., with an additional 31 miles ; the Western t France 18,000/. and the York, Newcastle, and tia e .rivick, and other amalgamated lines, with 32 files more open, 49,0001. ilhe Windermere, from Geelong, brings dates of 41 1 March 23, from Geelong, but has 9,000 ellnees of gold on board. A good d e al o f di scuss i on h as b ee n indulged in thet he Stock E xc h ange c i rc l es as t o the course which "Lie Chancellor of the Exchequer is pursuing in reference to the conversion of South Sea Stock, an d the means of paying off dissentients. The Whole affair is simple enough in itself, although sorouded a little in technical language. The con stitution of the South Sea Company is such that trustees had no voice in the acceptance or rejec tion of the Chancellor's offer, and now the Money . ,larket is in such an altered position that some ad `itional power is necessary to enable Government, When the time of payment arrives, to offer a more sa tisfactory alternative than Consols or 21 per el ite• With this view, therefore, the 31 pßeents., which are guaranteed 3 per cent. for `N l , r ,' a t , Years, may probably be offered, but all de q4o,_ll the value of money at the time. meeting of the East India House pro • sem,,,this morning, there was not a sufficient st 'gree c i'„ee legally to vote a resolution, but it was n 'Fiat no further opposition should be offered `overnment bill. • Pao - . l lstralian Direct Steam Navigation Con:i -t/lei,' Zta Panama, has placed its prospectus before is tftulie, having obtained a charter. The capital Of tl - „ e ` t i ,at a million sterling, and the advantages baitt„ l i - canama route, have been too generally ad rega,Z to require enforcement at this day. As prise dg the parties who are to control the enter the;' 4 „Ild especially the marine superintendents, 4141 1 _ 43„ "r a fair guarantee to the public for the tal t i,7 4o e of the errors committed in other under thiCrigs, and presuming the requisite capital is ob lltu,'"to g ive the enterprise a good start, there is ad e QOt, under efficient management, of an T e l i l i late return. the ]En g lish Stocks have been very heavy, and not ' b e eline in prices which occurred yesterday has We elb e ell recovered. The unsettled state of the iat e l i; ' e r, and the absence of any definite political Ver e i",,gellee, quite as much as the proposed con erii:"fl. of South Sea Stock into New 3± per havNlave indisposed buyers to operate. Consols Ace, - „_ u een 98* toe for Transfer, and 98± to for to 4 — ' 4 . The New 3k per Cents. have been 1011 an d, the 3 per Cents. 987 to 99k. Exchequer be d I ndia been at 4s. discount to is. premium, e tt ' l lclia Bonds at 21s. premium. There have 11 0 transactions in Bank Stock. the p °re ign stocks have been exceedingly quiet, and reat—• 'l,elnent of the account has excited no ante , Portuguese 4 per Cents. are firm, at 43± to r at G L e Spanish Committee's Certificate has been Zil• i a f• ; Peruvian Bonds are at 831 to 84. Bra .ro Stock has been marked 10± 14. 1 Dutch En per Cents. are worth 98±. at iush Railway Shares have been much quieter, 440 wet rates. The French and Belgian lines have Qleocled. %r e , -4 Mine Shares have been nominal, and Land 4 0/4 4 , 4 ies heavy. Banks are steady, and the Co 'lave risen 11. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY. 3 et ( From the Official List.) Business done. v r, ,„Pt i . ~elat. Reduced Annuities 99 i 8i 9i 4At v - ..,‘-e, lA. Consols Annuities ,(% 3l per Cent. Annuities IOI.A i :1 i ~q(ll,Viin_truities, Empire sth Jan., 1860 21 ` -t otim ' l4 B, 41000 elis 98a I i. 1.00 for A ccount 11th A ugus t cin. o er Bills, id. 1 p 4 d Par ***** 4 d ar 1 P P giz,,„ phi'4l ....................... . ........ • T HIS DAY. i ll'a • e OF FOREIGN • FUNDS. - H .i, 2 )j! li a4 Bowl t %et i a .,, tt ° /slew, %I P, e li c p e e n r c;ii - i. ktai,,—touds, Ex. Dec , 1849, Coupon 2l l'et t , 4 . ll 3 Per Cent. * 26k ort: l alli Bonds, 4i per Cent. ............... 8 3 4 , 11.4„,xire.„80 Bonds, 4per Cent. b'tt i o l '''ids 5 per Cent. 0414 Co w Cent. A P 4 ttee Cert. of Coup. not fun. 61 =. b ti t eh Dividends on the above payable in London. x d Ditt:4eban Der C g en e, t 2 er Cent. ... ....... 8$ 964 a 1 . C e rtificates 8 i c onsols . ......... TBREE.... 98 O'CLOCK. Ditt o August Account .. ....... 98ii 100 18 1100 100 5 all 25 all 18 ' all 20 all 25 1 all 25 8i 25 all St. 100 50 all St. 100 1 10, li St. 'lOO St. 100 St. 100 St. 100 St. 100 St. 1100 St. 100 all 111 100 16 114 100 42), 34 100 all 3 100 17i all 10 100 100 100 100 100 21s. 14 100 10 20 20 20 LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.) 50 16i St. 19i 14 St. St. St. St. 261 131 20 20 50 St. St. St. 20 St. 124 124 124 St. 10 25 10 1.0.6 _ 14,1,11130 N; July 29 .—Wind this day at Noon, S.W.to w . ; °.l)4‘ Pleasant breeze, and. fine weather. N., lig ht and fine. a:L , jllly 29 (9.20 a.m.)—Wind, -ff . Kate SNra..„---Challenger from London, for C!tr 1 , London, fo r . .° 11 ; from a o d on f or cardiif; Taviera, Iv Eilboa ; William B' ham, London, for Quebe_c or ; Q„ttlz' Watch, London .for Denis ; Alfred, London, f Sappho, I . l T e t i'llg ; Condor, St. , 'John's, for Londr o London Sul tail., T, for Trieste ; Agnes, Oporto, for .4 . 4' -N ew York, for Antwerp ; Rose of Sunderland_ , for lerP. Sailed —The whole of the outward bourd. _ Tri -.."' JillY 28 . —Wind, S.W. Arrived—Concord, ,nidad de Cuba ;E. B. Barney, Charleston. Ty...f.'s %t:A°llTB3ionTii, July 28.—Wind, W. Airived- - . 1 3 1 - st. —lnazon, Norfolk, lI.S. ; do. the Gefion, do.: am- . v. __V ulc an , Quebec ; Margaret ' Evans, London, for Ne w,...`q ; Athenian, Southampton. for N. S. Wales. Sailed -;-,, angothland, St. Andrew's, N.B. rl'e,rLYltolpii, July 28 . —Wind, S.W. O ff Port—Winder -1Z; Geelong. S ailed—Countess of Yarborough, Austra y; at, dsot.erdam (s), Rio Janeiro ; John, Quebec ; Princess crittaL 2 d 9 C ( o l p :an.)—Arriv e d. Queen of the South, Cal of Good Hope—left June 21. ~ /I.I.IIOIJTH, July 28.—Wind, W.S.W. Sailed—Bur "lltoo; Calcutta. Sailed—Bur lpterate, July 29 (10.30 a.m.)—Wind, S.W., mode _, with slight show Arrived—Caroline Reed, from hiladelphia. ; Vesta, e New York; Helen, Quebec ; Ales '34:tdro; Ibraila ; Forest Queen St. John's, N. 13. ; Mary. Elizabeth, Richibucto ; Hendrika Christina, St. Peters blir,gll ; Jenny Maria , Odense. Sailed—Granada, for New O rlean s ; Dauntless, St. Petersburgh ; Emily, Afiica ; 4 ,-;tne, Smyrn a ; Joven. Rosita, Barcelona ; Tyro, Lisbon. "fr Pot —George. from Repulse Bay ; Ariadne barque, and Dumbarton Youth at. FLEETWOOD, July 28. Arrived—Richibucto, Quebec. 1 lIRITOL, July 28 . —Wind, N.W. Arrived—Ferosica, Quebec. Sailed—Eliza, Melbourne ; Fry, Quebec ; John Willi miu, do. ; Commerce, do. ItARKEI'S.-(TTITS DAY.) AILWAY S. Closing Prices this day. 26a 5 - 9 - 3A 102 68 22f 2O 51 - 3i 124- - .- 27 33 - 35 73 - 74 - 32 ?36i . 55 134 - - 874 111 901 7 102 78 4i 3t 15t 136 - 113 90if 105 17 p 784 4id 3 d 151 8i 98 IBP 103 A —l64xd 416 -- 116 2i -- 2ip -- 10 894 -- 904 54 -- , 4ct 1 4 1 -13 d 18 -- 20 29 -2 9 i 72 -7 2 t 41 -- 43 55 - 57 - 3 t - 3 .0 P 2t - 3 8 - 9 52 - 54 38 - 2g (II 334 - 313 ••• '''''' •• 4a 4id! 84 81 52 - 53. 93 - 95 61 - 63 59 - 61 69 71 11 idisl 18 20 9 13 14 :31 3id 19 21 72 72, 36 37 13 -- 14 25 - 27 2a 2 - 15} - - 32 9 - 10 69i - 70 - 2,1 -24 u 60 - 61 JE SHARES - 96 - 92 - 105 . 1081 id, 6i- - 6g 5 5i -- lip -- 2i p 14i --2 -- 201 -- 214 - 130 1112 - 114 8,1 - 9 a - , , -DI *d - *pm 149 - 151 & -- 3i - 4 10 - 11 13 - 14 81 - 84 lot 11 I - 1 1149 - 151 - PI 114 - 11tx 116 - 118 Isis . ------ us 21 - 2i 10i - 10111 Business done this dap. 17h 18 144 Par 26 26i l 19i —20 i i id, 103 - 105 5 i - 51 Par ,I~►. if t ruse G. Frederi 4 gh, J. F• E. ViscoUnt lon. G. s. Sir D. J. , R. T. :ton, JELVP W.P. D, 0. 1;F. C. 8, George , Francis r, H. K. r, H. V. John Abel John B. pc, James' r, rd Lord D. n, R. son, Georg e Sir G. , J. 11 tart, Geerr 'apt. Adm. ley, Sir J. e , spencer, y, George ns, WOO L. E. T. rELLEBS• gton, sir J• ore, J. e, Ralph R. stun, Vis c°l •ederick Apsley , Wllllaln, l-UrquliArw Id, C. , Lord Jo" , F. W • , J. , Johu C. B. 6. F. Lord M. TudEP R. V r, R. ly. T. . )end, Can ",,ord 1 1601 , Rt. 11 11 . 1 " . 1, Sir It., Edvatr u fi. Lm, _ 1. L. T. is, M. , J. Sir C. 0 4 Jas. Ste Sir John MLLES. , W. G. Sir J. oar hall be f , 'torso rivio nbeff ,e fay to 1' k the N''oo en year- of V T.ra s t estl' ; comityrn Urquhart , c. F. Jame 3 , G.. . B. Grano $ ,;aptAiu V. v . sir J. •. Richar d D• !:divard ord D ad : ;, Thora— x Georg e Adm., y, Slr " 'a. a. Tarnei.l_ :tr -- J - 0 1111 1LL88 8 • • Gren llll6 e, Earl mr,lse , ~11. :ES. 01 1 , fester o a cor e st° nd 1 01/1 0 Burne ,„,lit 11, ....... * iiiir i ....... ••• 19 ....... son, • D .....• •• u 5 LSOO, 3 ••'' 9 w 30 ..... 131 tal, 10 4 d , ... 5 .••• •• ' • rt 3tero b Ste'" 3 :::••••'' 14 ;tesc3l' 0 r..-*". 1 0 . 0 1 clel' ura bor 0 .1 9 •••"*. 1 9 •••"▪ *. (2).. 2 2 ••• - ":2 9 ••••"" 2 9 ••••''' 3 0 • ••". , •••••:il in . 9, • •-• 9 ( 13 )•" . 15 •••".. ol‘ st svt' BRITISH R RAILWA YB. v 44•64.6 -. MINES. 1 ' all Agna rria .... ........ l3 —1 3 r 10s. all a j Ali& Californian * 3 p 10 2 Australasian ld par 20 5 Australian 26 -- 3 1 1 Australian, Cordillera 3 _ 1 d .., -1- all Australian Freehold. 6 - 3 d 1 all Ave Maria g - 3dl all Baden (Gd• Duchy of) 3 tp 1 all British Austria. Gold 3 - i d 20 13.5 British Iron 7 9 35 243 Brazilianlmp.(issued at £5 pm 3 33 33 30 all Do. Cocaes & Cuiada 3 33 20 15 Do. St. John Delßey 32 —34 1 A Carsons's Creek 6d— 3ps 3 40 all Cobre Copper 473 483 5 1 Colonial Gold 1 —lf p 14 Copiapo . lO3 113 Si. all Copper Min. of Eng. 65 75 25 all Do. Pref. 73 p. cent. 73 —83 p 5 all English and Austin. Copper Smeltg. Co. 2 —ll d 20 all General l4 —l6 2 all Great Nugget Vein $ Ip, 3 all Great Polgooth 1 all Lake Bathurst 3 3 d 1 all Liberty 3d— 3 p 1 all Load. &Californ. Gold Quartz Crush. Co 3 3 1 all Mariquita 3 d-- par 10 9 Meximu&S.Americn G$ 71 1 all New Granada par— 3 p 1 all Nouveau Monde — ... 1 13 5 1 Port Philip — —I i 1 all Quartz Rock 3d i I 1 P 1 50 all Ithymney 'rot] 23 ---25 -- 15 Do. New 6l 73 30 10$ Santiago de Cuba 4 5 1 all South Australian 3d— par 10 7 Tin Croft ...... 283 all United Mexican 3s 43 1 all Waller - - 1 all West Granada $ - 3 / 4 d 1 all West Mariposa $ 3 d 1 alll Yuba $ * d JOINT-STOCK BANKS. 40 all Australasia B2 —B3 813 2$ 40 all British Colonial Bank ... ... and Loan Company 50 all British N. American ... ... 20 2 Chrtd. Bnk.of India, Austral., and China 1 13 25 5 Chrtd. Bk. of Asia. 3d par 33 100 25 Colonial 100 20 Commercial of Load ... ... 20 10 English Scottish and Australian Chrtd 3 5 1 20 123 London Chrtd. Bnk of Australia - - 3,ip 18 50 20 London and County ... ..• 50 10 London Joint Stock ... ... 26 100 20 Lond.andWestminst ... ... 100 35 National Provincial of England 20 10 Do. New — ••• 50 223 National of Ireland ... ... 25 all Oriental Bank Cor poration 100 25 Provincial of Ireland ... ... - 51 - 10 all Do. New — ... 5 1 RoyalAustraln. Bkg and Gold Imp. Co 3 d— par 25 25 South Australia 45 47 25 all Union of Australia 74 75xd 75 41 xd 21 Do. New B3 8$ 83 50 10 - Union of London 40 all Union of Madrid Aberdeen Ambg. Nottng.Bost.l d; Eastn. June. Birmng. Wolverh & Stour Valley Birkenhd. Lanesh & Cheshire Junct...... Do. Chesh. & Birk., £5O & £25 Cons.. .. I Do., X 20........ ..... Bristol & Exeter...... Caledonian. Chester & Holyhead Cork and Bandon.... Cork, Black. & Pass. Dublin&BelfastJunc. Dundee Perth &Aber deen Junction ...... Do. New East Anglian (£25 L. & E. &L. &D.)..... Do., (LlB E. &11.)-1 Eastern Counties..... Eastern Union, Class A. late E. U. Do., do. Do., B. dr ........ East Lancashire East &West Ind. Dk & Birming. June Edinburgh & Glasgow Edinb. and Peebles Edinb•Prth.&Dunde , Glasgow & S. Western Great Northern Stk Do., A. Stock Do., B. Stock , Gt. Stb.&West.(lre.) Great Western Irlsh South-Eastern. Lancaster &Carlisle Do., Thirds Lancash. &Yorkshire Do., Fifths Do., Wst. Riding Un. Leeds Northern Liv. Crsby. dr So utb pt London & Blackwell Lond. Tilb. & Sthend. L on d.Bright.&S.Cst., London &N. Western' Do. Fifths Do. JO/. Sh ,M&8... C London & S.Western Do., £50........- Do., £40.... ..... Lnndrry. &Coleraine Lndndrry. & Ennisk. Manch •Shef. &Lincln. Do., Man. &Lin. Un. Midland . Do. Birming. & Derby Midland G.West.(lr.) Do. Shares Newcastle & Carlisle Newmarket Do. Bury Extensions Newpt.Aberg.&Htfd Newry & Enniskillen Newry Warrenpoint & Rostrevor Norfolk.. ....... Do., New Northn. Counties Uu North British North Devon, N 0.1.. Do., No. Dc., a A Deferred... Do., B Guaranteed' North Staffordshire. 'North Western........ 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 im ports of foreign wheat have exceeded 22,000 quarters, chiefly from the westward. Good red Baltic parcels so] d at full prices. In other kinds only a limited business wris doing. There w as a moderate inquiry for floating cargoes of wheat and beans, at previous rates. No English barley was brought forward, but the supply of foreign wtts 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. N. & S. Westrn. June. Oxford Worcester & Wolverhampton Scottish Central Scottish Midland Shrewsbury & Birmg Do., L. & N. Westn Guaranteed Stock Shrewsby. & Herefd Shrowsby. & Chester (Nor. W. Do. Halves, do Do. Oswestry Shropshire Union South Devon South Eastern . South Wales..... S. Yorksh. River Dun 'Stockton & Hartlepl. Thames Haven Dock and Railway .. Vale of Neath........., English .. Irish •. • • Foreign .. ARRIVALS THIS WEEK. Wheat. Barley. I Malt. Oats. Flour. 1,840 2,810 4,680 560 14,910 — 2,770 22 ,13016,620 4,010 sks 8,800 brl Waterfd. dr Kilkenny Waterford&Limerick West C0rnwa11........ Wmbled on &Croydoi. Woodford.. ..... ....... York Newctl. &Berw. Do. Extensions....... Do. G.N.E. Purchase York & N. Midland.. VMITHFIELD. 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 Dol vrt sheep were scarce, and quite as dear ; otherwise, the mutton trade was in a sluggish state, at barely stationary p rices. 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 Sibs. 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 191. each, in cluding their small calf. s. d. s. d. Prime Southdown 410 5 0 Large crse. calves 3 6 4 2 Prime small d 0... 4 4 410 Large hogs 3 0 3 6 Small porkers 3 8 4 0 Suckling calves ..20 0 26 0 Quarter old pigs 20 0 25 0 10d to 5s 10d. Per 81bs to sink the offals. s. d. s. d. l Inferior Beasts.... 3 210 3 6 Second quality.... 3 8 310 Prime large oxen 4 0 4 2 Prime Scots, &c. 4 4 4 6 Inferior Sheep ...3 4 3 8 Second quality ...3 10 4 4 Prime erse.-wiled.4 6 4 8 Lambs ,4s TOTAL SUPPLY. Beasts .......... ..... •• . 1,191 Sheep and Lambs ...... _13,000 Ca1ve5......•...•.••••.. 542 Pigs 4 50 IGN. 1 14 1 4 1 p —1.2 d 5 la 2p id p 7 7i 4 1 1 1 2 2p 7} I 9i 8i MI 7 - 8i 135 -35 14 141 8 9* 17i —17 i 14 —46 13 - 45 - 37i -- 37a 4 37a 4 41 -- id 19 204 id 9 91 IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. 9 i it 5 6 pi 41) 4i dis -- 69 3 -- I 'pm THE SUN, LONDON, riIiDAYnVENING, JETTAY Isms, 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 HOUSE OF LORDS—(YESTERDAY.) heard of in this country had been caused through letting unauthorised persons get hold of title-deeds. Lord The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack Kenyon once told an attorney who had been summoned at five o'clock. to produce title-deeds, and appeared in court with a Lord BEAUMONT presented a petition from the box containing them to sit down on the box, and not Leeds Chamber of Commerce, praying for the establish- to stir for anybody. (Laughter.) In section 52, he went of tribunals of commerce. proposed to omit the words " of which he shall not have Lord BERNERS presented petitions from several had notice at the time of the purchase." Heliad never seen places against the sale of spirits on Sundays. any bill more calculated than this to embarrass the trans- Lord BROUGHAM presented petitions from Bangor fer of property, by making the duties under the act a and other places in favour of the County Courts Exten- first charge upon all property. The effect would be to sion Bill. - make every man a crown debtor so long as the period COUNTY COURTS FURTHER EXTENSION ' for the payment of the duties continued. Nothing BILL. could be more dangerous than to transfer this liability Lord BROUGHAM moved the second reading of to a bona fide purchaser. In section 54, he proposed to this bill, and in doing so, the noble lord dwelt at some add words to make it consistent with the preamble as length upon the great benefit which the establishment amended, confining the operation of the act to the 19th of county courts had conferred upon society at large. of May, 1858. It would then be A very fair subject of The experience of these courts during the last six years consideration whether the act should be renewed or proved that they might be judiciously extended, and the amended. He would also propose to omit some words object of this bill was to increase their jurisdiction, and in the schedule respecting the mode of valuing long an render them still more efficient in many other respects, so nuities, which had no meaning as they stood. In con that their usefulness might be made equal to that of the elusion he would remark that the severe liabilities and superior courts of law and equity. All, however, that he penalties imposed by this bill on trustees would cause wanted their lordships to do was to affirm the principle of every prudent man to pause before accepting such a the bill, and leave it to be passed in a future session. The trust. Nothing could be more dangerous to a man ; he noble lord at the same time announced his intention to lay would become himself a crown debtor ; and if be paid in upon the table another bill for amending and improving ignorance, he would have no remedy, His object lead the law of arbitration, which lie should also ask their been to amend the bill, if it were possible ; but seeing lordships to read a second time with a view to its being the spirit which prevailed in the house on Monday, he taken up again at the commencement of next session. had abstained from taking part in the discussion in coin- The LORD CHANCELLOR said as his noble and mittee, and he now only proposed his amendments that learned friend had not informed him beforehand of the the public might see the grounds on which the opposi course which he intended to take, he could not then tion had acted. promise anything beyond an assent to the first reading. Lord BEAUMONT said lie cordially approved of one With respect to the county court jurisdiction, he should of the amendments—that which made the settlor the have little to say until their lordships were placed in predecessor in all cases, and not the party immediately possession of the result of an inquiry which was about to before in possession. Were the bill otherwise, it would be instituted. It was designed to ascertain, by means of be a tax not merely on succession, but on settlement a commission, not merely whether the county courts generally. Were this amendment adopted, there would adequately discharged the duties ertrusted to them, but be no ground for charging the bill with a retrospective whether any additional duties could usefully be devolved operation, as it would merely tax existing settlements upon them. He had no doubt the commission would after they became the subjects of succession. The pro pursue its labours with a determination to ascertain what vision as it stood had been justified by reference to as was the actual state of the county courts—whether or not they adequately discharged their duties, how far the analagous provision in the legacy acts ; but the cases were not at all parallel, as money left in trust, and pass mode of transacting business was susceptible of improve- ing from one person to another, only paid the legacy went, and whether any additional functions might be duty once. The imposition of the succession duty in usefully exercised. In short, he believed the report of the case referred to involved an entirely new principle. the commission would enable their lordships to legislate The LORD CHANCELLOR—It is exactly the same much better on the subject than they could do before it as it is under the legacy duty. was presented. Lord BEAUMONT doubted this ; but there was one After a few words from Lord BROUGHAM, the bill was advantage in the clause—it cut both ways ; a man suc read a first time. ceeding his brother in property left by their father would SUCCESSION DUTY BILL. only pay duty as a son. Still, as it was contrary to the The Earl of ABERDEEN moved the third reading principle of the bill, and had a retrospective operation, of this bill, he thought it would have been better in all cases to The Earl of CLANCARTY said, before this bill was regulate the duty by the relationship of the immediate finally disposed of he wished to say a few words. En- predecessor. It would also have had the effect of obvi tertaining as he did a strong objection to its principle, ating the necessity of looking into deeds. No evil could it was with very great disappointment that he observed result from the adoption of the amendment, except some how precipitately it was being hurried through the little delay in the passing of the bill. He entertained house. He did not think the second reading ought to some other objections to the measure, but did not think be regarded as an approval of the measure generally ; them of sufficient weight to dwell upon. He was glad , nor did he consider that even the carrying of the amend- to see real and personal property placed on the same meat would have been a condemnation of the principle. footing in reference to succession ; but he should have His principal objection to the bill was that it was op- preferred a much more sweeping measure. He would posed to the fundamental principle that property had its have repealed the present legacy duties, done away with duties as well as its rights. It entirely ignored that the graduated scale, and have made all property pay principle ; landlords had other expenses to bear besides alike-2 or 24 per cent. on succession. Where a stranger poor rates, and charges of that kind ; there was the succeeded to property, and had to pay 10 per cent., the management and improvement of the land with which burden was most grievous, and he probably might be they had been entrusted by Providence, the employ - less prepared to meet it ham a son succeeding to his merit of the population, the improvement of' agriculture, father. the maintenance of hospitals, schools, and so on. This Lord BERNERS referred to the evidence given before would have the effect of creating encumbered estates ; their lordships' committee On the burdens on land, and it would sever that tie between landlord and tenant, contended that real property was already unjustly bur which had exercised such a favourable influence on the dened. He instanced the stamp duties and the land social condition of the country. What was to be the tax ; the latter of which was most unequal in different compensation for such a bill as this? Relief from the parts of the country. Originally, by the statute of Wil soap duty and the advertisement duty. As regarded the Liam and Mary, it was 4s. in the pound on all land ; in former, he was perfectly satisfied there would not be a those cases where it had not been redeemed, the burden single hairy chin the less in consequence of the remis- was now very unequal. The noble lord enumerated sion of the duty- -(laughter)—neither would their lord- some other "special burdens" on land, which by a pecu ships find any reduction of their washing-bills, unless liar mode of calculation he made to amount to 19 mil they drove a hard bargain with their laundresses. As lions sterling per annum. to advertisements they were already lost in a labyrinth Earl GRANVILLE said the subject of burdens on of announcements about hats, truths, medicines, &c. land was too large a question to be discussed on that He protested against the steps taken by the Govern- occasion. It had been assumed all along by the opposi ment to carry this bill, which he thought affected the tion that this bill would impose as large a duty on land privileges of their lordships' house, and calculated to as on personalty ; but it appeared that the amount de compromise its utility. rived from land would only be about 50 per cent. of that The bill was then read a third time. from personal property. He did not think that the pro- On the motion that the bill do pass, posal of Lord Beaumont for a uniform rate of 2 per cent. Lord St. LEONARDS said that before the bill passed would be very favourably received by those who cons he wished to show, in the shape of amendments, the plained of the special burdens on land. It was a fair objections that existed against it, so that hereafter the estimate that two-thirds of the lan led property would country would be able to judge between the bill as it only pay 1 per cent, under this bill. On the other points stood and the bill as it would be if these amendments the noble lord had answered his own objections. (Hear.) were adopted by Parliament. Having once ascertained In framing a measure of this kind it was necessary to that the feeling of the house was in favour of the prin- adopt one of two principles—either to make each suc ciple of the measure, his sincere wish was to make the cessor pay according to the relationship of his immediate bill as good as it could be made. , As it was not his in- predecessor, or of the person from whom he derived the tention to divide the house, he would not ask the property by deed. Whatever may be the merits of the opinion of their lordships on each amendment, but two principles, it was certain that more money would would move them altogether at the close of his obser- have been derived had the Government adopted the for vations. In the preamble of the bill he proposed to mer one ; and though the principle adhered to in the strike out the declaration which declared the permanency bill might in one or two cases act hardly upon indiyi of the measure. In section 2,' he would move a proviso duals, it was most favourable to the great majority of against the retrospective opeiation of the measure. persons possessing land. Instead of paying 2 per cent. This addition would not in any degree impair the gene- as succeeding to one another, brothers would only pay 1 ral operation of the act, but it provided that where a per cent. as deriving from their father ; and that was an person sold or mortgaged his reversion, or where a immense advantage to the landed interest. (Hear.) person advanced money on its security, it might be 20 Whatever hardships might, occur under this bill, the years ago, and without any idea that such an act would same existed, but to a much more severe extent, under be passed, such person would be liable to pay 10 per the Legacy Duty Acts. - - ' cent. on such by-gone transactions. The next amend- The Earl of WICKLOW said it was quite clear that snent had reference to the case of joint lives. The clause the object of the noble lord opposite had been to defeat Laving reference to joint tenancy would create great the bill altogether, or many of these amendments would hardship as worded. In the case of- two sisters, they have been proposed in committee at the proper time. paid the duty as the successors of their father, but in He admitted that this was a most complicated measure, the case of the death of one, the other would have to full of contradictory and oppressive provisions, and he pay the duty, not as the daughter, but as the sister, was satisfied that in a subsequent session a bill would which was a great hardship. He should therefore pro- have to be brought in to remove its defects and render it pose words, the effects of which would be, that the party more palatable to the community. should only have to pay according to the original crea- The Marquis of SALISBURY denied that the object tion of the gift, that was to say, shat she would pay as o f the opponents of the measure had been to defeat it. a daughter and not as a sister. In section 4, page 3, All that they wanted was to remove many of its glaring it was provided that where a person had general powers inconsistencies, and their lordships were decidedly to of appointment, he should i n that case be himself blame for not entertaining many of the reasonable amend considered in the same light as the successor. Now, ac- merits that had been proposed to them. cording to the clause, if a tenant for life who had po wer The b i ll was then passed. - to leave the property after his death, and who might BILLS ADVANCED A STAGE. please to exercise that power, and leave the property to The Registrar of Meetings Bill and the Stamp Duties some stranger - , he would be obliged to pay a double suc- Bill were read a second time, and ordered to be corn cession duty. What he proposed in lieu of these words mitted, was that where any such persons should already be The Spitalfields and Shoreditch Improvement Bill and charged with the duty, no further duty should be pay the Missionary Bishops Bill were read a third time, and able by him on succeeding as tenant for life to the same passed. property. The next amendment was in section 9, page The Parish Vestries (No. 2) Bill, the Entails (Scot 4, which placed the duties under the care of the con- land) Bill, the Custom Duties Bill, and the Dublin Par missioners of inland duty. The end of the clause de liamentary Registration Bill, were passed through corn dared that " they shall have all other powers and au- . mittee. thorities requisite for carrying this act into execution." NATIONAL EDUCATION (IRELAND). No man ever saw such words as these in an net of Par- Lord CLACARTY called the attention of her Ma liament before. He therefore proposed to leave out i os t 's Government to the fact, that on the 7th March t h ese words. The next amendm en t had reference to JY . se ction 10, page 5 , which declared what rate of dutywas and on the 18th of April last, respectively, addresses t o be paid by different classes. This bill was founded were agreed to by this house for the production of cer on the legacy duty, but every legacy from 1797 to the tam returns relative to the operation of the national sys tem of education in Ireland, and that no returns have present time declared that no duty was to be paid in Yet been furnished, and asked for whatreason they the case of property passing from the husband to the -Wife, or from the wife to the husband, or in the case of been delayed. property left to the Royal Family. This clause w a s The Earl of ABERDEEN said there certainly had been omitted from the present bill, and he proposed to restore an undue delay, for which he could not account, unless it it. At the end of the same section, 10, which provided were that the returns were so voluminous that there might that " where the successor shall be in any other -degree have been a physical difficulty in the course of their pro of collateral consanguinity to the predecessor than those duction, considering that the resources at the command of before described, or shall be a stranger in blood to him, the board were small. However, his noble friend (Lord St. a duty of 1 0 per cent. upon the value should be levied." Germans) the Lord Lieutenant, who was at present in lie thought it a great hardship that where a man was a this country, would be able to answer any inquiry on stranger, and had property given him for life on which subject. Certainly, the Government had no desire to he paid 10 per cent. duty as a stranger, that his children withhold the information , believing a s the y did that the s h o uld also pay the same amount. "Vhat he proposed, national system of education had been the greatest bless therefore, was that in such case'the children should only ing c onf e rred u p on Ireland. pay as if they were the children of the predecessor After a few s words from several noble lords, the sub (Hear.) He also proposed another addition to the jest then dropped. same section 10 of this nature :—Suppose a man made ECCLESIASTICAL COMMISSION.—EPISCOPAL a marriage settlement—say of ten thousand pounds—on INCOMES. his daughter—that was to say on the husband, for life, The Bishop of SALISBURY said he rose to move on the daughter for life in case the husband died, and for certain papers relative to his see, and in so doing to then on the children. That man might see in his life- make a short statement which it was painful to him to time the husband die before kin, and on the property have to make, as it might appear of purely personal going over to the daughter that man would see the legacy concern. He had hoped that when he had stated some duty paid during- his own lifetime on the property from time since that he had accepted a fixed income of 5,000/. which he excluded himself in favour of his own child, as year in place of the episcopal income, which had The right hon. gentleman the Chancellor of the Exche- averaged for seven years previously 6,709/. he had said quer said he was wrong in that view, but he (Lord St. a ll that was necessary on the subject. But it appeared Leonards) believed he was right, according to the con- that an impression had gone abroad, and had been in struction of sections 2 and 18, an d be therefore proposed du s triously propagated, that he had made a good bar nol succession duty should be payable in such a case as gain with the commissioners, having retained the full that adduced during the lifetime of the settlor. In section income of his see during a series of years when the_ re -11, which provided that brothers-in-law and sisters-in- ceints were large, and having relinquished it only %yh o e f .n . law should be put in the same position as brothers and he had forseen that the receipts would necessarily fall directly sisters,'the clause as it stood would not meet ninety-nine It was his object to show that this statement was rev. cases in a hundred of those which it was intended to em- contrary to the fact. He had spoken to righthiss om that brace. He, therefore, proposed to add words at the end brother (the Bishop of Oxford), and had said to hi the offer of the section which would carry out what seemed to be he should not have been disposed to makethat for the 14 the object of its framers. In section 14, page 6, he pro- to the commissioners had it not beer! n of the see the posed to omit the words which declared that in the case years that had elapsed since his possessio nd that it was of transmitted successions the highest duty which would surplus of its income had been large, e a time to come have been paid by any one of them should be paid. This almost sure to be equally large , e f a o r r . t d )—an that, appeared to him the most unjust clause he ever saw. (The Bishop of Oxford— Hear ' i subject the Church to the —the there- Supposing the case of three persons becoming successors fore, he was not disposed to —the first of them a strang er, the second a son, and the injury she might sustain through the imputation which third a grandson—why shou ld the latter, if he ca me into would be cast up on him if he adopted a different co urse. of possession, pay the highest d ut y ? The next a mendment He spoke in t he presence(Earl of was in section 21, which was a clause he coul d not well Chichester) wh o was a member the noble earl of the commission, and understand. In the end of that clause it was provided noble also in the presence of another lord who had a seat that if the successor should die before the instalments a t the board, and with both of whom he had gone over were paid, then any ins • talments not due at his decease the figures, and to both of whom he could appeal to con should cease to be payable, except in the case of a succes- firm his statements. Indeed, he Wft9 able to read the • sor who should be competent to dis p ose b y will of a c on- follow in g letter ho had received from the noble earl : tinning interest in such property, in which case the in- " Whitehall-place, July 26, 1853. stalments unpaid Bishop of Salishur ,—You should be a c ontinuing charge on such "Dear Yrosy probably wish interest. He apprehended, therefore, that in the case of eto state in writing what I said to you in a recent con !ln ' on the subject of your children they would be compelled b pay the instalments , v.o rs.Lti a r commissionersin 1851. agreement with the eccle a contrary the intentions of the framers of the bill. He i ast I st That arrangement was at the time • proposed, therefore, to leave out the end of the clause, considered by us to I be an advantageous one for the common after the words " except in g, the cases of a successorecdorato quently could scarcely be, as had been fund, and copse petent to dispose by will," &c. He also prepos . gain to yourself. stated, a pecuniary leave out the clause relating to timber, which, if re- aAn inspection of the septennial ' landlord to keep an account existing leases returns, and of the tamed, would require every state upon lives, clearly shows that there of the ear and of every tree he sold in the cotirse . was reasonable ground for expecting that the seven years n this y countr greatly tend to discourage planting i .y. co mmen c i ng with 1851 would yield an aggregate income at ndruent referred to section the least equal to that of the preceding • (Hear, hear.) His next amendment . g period. 44, which empowered " trust , ees guardians, committees, " Ind ee d, I have no hesitation sayingin n that you were any duty, and to qu ite justified in ti 1 tutors, &c., to compound or commute such the ' 1851, that the • d then to duty i perm retain out of the property subject commencing would be more amount,and the ex- productive than the former one. penses thereof, or to raise such " It was with those * penses incident thereto, at interest on the security of theearliest opportunity which the expectations, l l? on the osed to property." He proposed to omit the words which gave , put yourself under the new act, mid to re y eervir :fixed in this power, because in his opinion no more dangerous come of 5,0001. a-year, and 'no more.' p o wer could be given to trustees than this p o wer of "I am sincerely yours, commutation ; that was to say, the paying of the sup- (Signed) " CHICHESTER." posed value of the expectancy before it dropped in. In "The Lord Bishop of Salisbury." section 49, relating to the production of documents, he , This letter must be so satisfactory that it would be use. 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 sioners, 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 see of Salisbury, distinguishing the years in which the same will be re newable respectively, and the amount of the tine 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 fair-minded man that the insinuations thrown out against the right rev. prelate had been unfounded. At the time of the arrangement alluded to he the Earl of Chichester) had been fully satisfied that it would be for the benefit, not of the bishop, but of the board ; and he was also convinced that the right rev. prelate must have anticipated that such would be the case, and that a larger income would be received from the see durinr ' the present septe nn i a l p er i o d th an th e p rece ding 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 payingthe 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. 7i r a l w upon sygnifying their assent within - rin r e. time 4§ r 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 reetnirel 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 eight to be constructed with some simplicity, they would be found - on examination to involve important contidera tions. (Hear, hear.) The propositions of the Govern ment, with regard to the greater portion of the fuxis, had entirely failed, and he objected to their submitti l ng • new plans to the committee which would have the effe et of extending the commutation of stocks to parties no t contemplated when the original measure was passed. The simplest and wisest course would be to conclude the arrangement which had proved to be wholly unsuccess ful. In the first place, he object 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, bemuse the antecedents of the Go% - ernment. with respect to this question, were not such as is induce the committee to make an exception in their favour. (Hear, hear.) it was most unwise at the end of the session to attempt tre 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 wore 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 aie intended commutation. 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 bills 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, he 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 delved 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 and discuss the question of attendance, with a view to its better distribution among 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 ur g ed. After a few words from Lord STANLEY of Alderley, Earl L'ow's, and the Earl of WICKLOW, 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. i After a short discussion, the first resolution wag 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. 1 Lord REDESDALE said, with regard to several of the bills he hoped he should be 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 Mr. JOHN M'GREGOR saw nothing dangerous or impracticable in thepropoeition 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 convience 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 ? 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? . Mr. WILSON said, that in reference to this very im portant bill, he was glad to have the opportunity of stating 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 forind that night, with the view of inserting a great many altera tions which had been agreed on, after which the bill would he reprinted, and he hoped early next week to obtain a morning sitting for its discussion. 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, he 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 bim 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 hon. friend had not made a judiciou s distribution of the force at his command for the different emergencies of the service, and for the protection of British interest s i n every quar ter of the world. (Hear.) The Bishop of OXFORD expressed his great satisfac tion at the answer of the noble earl, and was glad, with man y 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 Admiralty. Their lordships then adjourned. Mr. ifORSFALL 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 according to con tract. Sir J. GRAHAM had not heard at the Board of Admi 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 to the Admiralty that the last African mail steamer had not touched at all the proper places. MAYNOOTH. Mr. SPOONER asked whether any commission had yet been issued to inquire into the system pursued at Maynooth College ; and, if so, ho 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 the 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? Loid 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 c m es u — el in n the Middlesex passe d these as being stated to have been pronoun na j m am ely es , t o h f a l t O c y on ea c r e r l t w a of 15 Lord PALMERSTON replied, that he was afraid it Assistant-Judge's Court on the 22d day of June, 1852 . ? wou ld occupy too much of the time of the house if he we r e toead the report he h ad 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 soner after conviction, being in the dock, took out a stone of sufficient size to be a formidable missile, and, uttering words of revenge against the judge, threw it with all his 'sight, and with a considerably dexterous aim, at the judge. It just 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 be sentenced. He (Lord Palmerston) thought the course pursued by the Court on that occasion was perfectly right. (Hear.) If he were appealed to as an adviser of the Crown whether any part of that sentence should be remitted, he should feel it his 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 perform their duties under fear of personal danger— if they were threatened with death in consequence 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 dogs. 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 Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom 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 trailing or capital stock, payable in respect of shares in such stock standing in the names of the Accountant-General of the Courts of Chaucer.) , 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 ono or more of the stocks and securities authorised to be created and issued by the act of the present session , chap. 23, and the 3P. ss. per Centurn Annuities, and New 3/. per Cent= Annuities, created under the acts of the seventh year of her islajestey, chapters 4 and t, commonly called and known as 3/. ss. per Centum Annuities (1844), such coin mutation into or for the said stocks and securities autho rised to be created and issued by the said act of the present session, to be upon the terms and subj ect to the conditions upon and subject to which the li ke commutation was authorised under the said act, and such commutation into or for the said 3/. us. per Centum Annuities (1844), to b e upon such terms and subject to such conditions as the Com missioners of her Majesty's Treasury may see fit to offer, provided that the assent of the said company to any suc h commu t a tion 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, GOVERNMENT OF INDIA BILL. On the consideration of the Government of India Bill , as amended, Sir J. PAKINGTO/1 moved the insertion of a clause is the bill, enacting that the salt monopoly should cello, "" that the manufacture and sale of salt in India shall be ab solutely free, subject only to excise or other duty : T he case he undertook to prove was that in all countriesatioa.;B was one of the first necessaries of life ; that 1 ! especially so in India, where it is an indispe ss r . theless, it ment, as the food was rice ; that in India, neve gait was was scarce, and the price exorbitantly high. Ashitss demand asked, cheap and abundant in England, that the commercial law of supplywahnyl did not En land might operate in this case, so that the plenty i relieve the penury of India ? East India Company, which the monopoly of theHe answered, that it was 400 per cent.. upon the ex acted a duty of from 300 to abroad. He described the mode in which the bad article, whether manufactured in India or imported from Indian salt was manufactured, and the condition of the producers, and he insisted upon the injury which the monopoly inflicted upon the health of the people of India and upon the trade of both countries, the Company's Governm ent, so far from rela xing their mono poly, was even now struggling to increase its stringency, al .in s ca oms se ca to 'es' they manuft n ured alt at a loss. which he as k e d l'arlia,meut, in the nTtlailimoinsegs,b.s thethe people of India, to apply a remedy, and he could hardly believe, he said, that he was appealing to tile advocates of commercial freedom to put an end to'a moue poly which was fatal to the welfare, the health, nay, thy lives of the population of India, and highly injurious te the shipping interest of this country. Sir C. \\ in resisting the motion, observed that Sir John had got hold of the word " monopoly," of which he had made rep)ate I use ; but he had not understood the word in its ordinary sense. By monopoly was . meant th 3 enhancing by artificial regulations the price of an arti cle to the consumer; yet, when the Governor-General of India endeavoured to re luce the price of native salt to the consumer, from 80 rupees per 100 maunds to 65 rUrews,„_ Sir John termed this monopoly." What he vranW . Charles observed) was to estalslish a Ail monOpoli,,, lll favour of the exporters of salt from this country T h e • people of India paid but a single tax, and that was the duty on salt, from which article a large revenue wax collected in the cheapest and most convenient form, imposing a charge upon the labouring class in. India, L according to the best authorities, of no. mo: re than Bd. or 9d. per head per annum, every othei article , of consumption being duty free. In spite of the highly' _.; I PREFERENI Aberdeen Do., No. 2, 7 p. c Brig. & Es. 4 p. C. St Do. 4 p. c. Shares Caledonian £lO Chester & Holyhead Guar. 5i per cent Cork &Bandon 5 p. c Dundee Perth&Aber deen Junction East.. 4 nglian (£3los) 6 per cent. Do: ( 25) 7 per cent.. IDo. (E,7 17s) 7 p ct.. lEastern Counties Ex tension, 5 p. c. No.l Do., No. 2 Do., New 6 p. c St.. Eastern Union, Scrip Guar. 6 per cent.... EastLancash. 6 p.cts. Edinb.Prth.&Dundee 5i per cent........... Glasgow & S.Western guar. 5 per cent.... Great North , - 5 p.c. Do. 5 p. c., Redeem., at 10 p. c. prem.... Gt. Southn. &Westn. (Ireland) Eighths... Gt. Westn. (Berks & Rants Ex. 5 p. c.).. G. West. fixed4i p c. Lan. & York. F. £2O, Do., 6 p. c., Stock._ London and Brighton Guaranteed 5 p. c... Do. Pref., 5 p. c. St. Do. Convertible, sp. c., 1852 .............. Do. New Guar. 6 p.c. London & S.Western, Con. Thirds 100 6 100 100 12? all all all I all I 101 100 100 'Londonderry& Coler. Shares . Londy. & Ennis. Sh Manch. Shef. & Lin., 1 Shares, No. 1...... Do. Now, £10......... Do., £6. Marypt.&Carl. 4 p. c. Do. 42 per cent....... D 0..... Mid. Consol. 6 p.c. St. Do. Consol. Bristol & Birm. 6 per cent.... Do. Pref. 4i per cent. Norfolk Extension... Do. Pref. Si per ct... Do. Way. Val. 5 p c North British ..... North Staffordshire.. Oxford Worcester & Wolverh. £15,6p. c. 100 100 100 100 all 100 Do Shrews& Birm. N. G Shrewsby. & Chester (Nor.W.Min),B p. c. Do. 5 per cent South Devon Do. New S. Eastern (Reading Ann.,) of RI. 05.6 d. S. Yorksh .4p. c. Guar. Waterfd. &Kilk. 6p. c. York Newcastle and Berwick,4 p.c.Pref Do York& N. Midland H. & S. Purch FORE Antwerp&Rotterdam Belgian Eastn. June. Beziers to Graissessac Charleroi & Erquelin. Dijon and Besancon Dutch Rhenish East Indian Do. Extension Gt. Indian Peninsula Gd. Junct. of France Gt :Western of Canada Shares Lucca & Pistoj a 5 p.c pref Luxembourg Do. (Railway) Do. Do. (Canal) Do. 6 p. et. pref Lyons & Mediterran Nladras Namur & Liege (with! ' interest) I Do. (ex interest) Northern of Frince Do. 201. 3 p. c Bds (fmy.B.&Ams.Shs.) NorwegianTrunkPref Paris and Lyons Paris and Orleans Paris and Rouen Paris and Strasbourg PaxisCaen & Cherbrg Quebec & Richmond Rouen and Havre Royal Swedish Sambre and Meuse Sth-Eastrn. of France Southern of France Upper India Scrip ! West Flanders Do. 5i per c. Pref I Western cf France West. of Switzerland Zealand 22 2A d lu4 681 22i `2IA 68W 786 66 7 135 91 90f i pm 78a 1041 4 116 i i i i 721 a a 2 56i 7 531 3 i 61 i 73 2 37 6i 70 128 A 15 14i 1291 149 i s:t 17A i FOREIGN SUPPLY. Beasts .• ....... ........ . 450 Sheep .. • ..... ........2,900 Ca1ve5,............. ...... 480 NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL. Each kind of meat moved off slowly, at barely station ary prices. Per Sibs by the carcase. s. d. s. d. - Beef, inferior 210 3 2 Do., middling 3 4 3 6 Do., prime large 3 8 3 10 Do., do. small 4 0 4 2 Pork, largo 3 0 3 6 Lambs s. d. s. d. Mutton, Inferior 3 2 3 6 Do., middling 3 8 4 4 Do., prime 4 6 4 10 Veal 3 8 4 8 Pork, small 3 8 4 2 ...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 140,0001. Mid and E ast 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.—T here has been a moderate demand for British plantation, 3nd prices have been supported. Publicly Barbadoes w( Int, however, for some descriptions at a slight decline ; mid to fine realising 34s to 37s 6d. East India — Mauritius by a been steady at full rates, good and fine yellow realisi. ag 35s Gd 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, al 2d 35s 6d to 38s 6d for mid yellow to low white. Madra s brought 34s to 39s for low mid to good damaged. Fur( riga— Publicly, yellow Havannah has been sold at 35s 6d t( ) 38s for low to good pale yellow. Porto Rico went at 41's to 41s 6d for fine, and at 348 6d to 39s for low to good. Paraiba was taken in at 33s 6(1 for low brown. Cuba b: rought 31s to 34s for the same descriptions. Refined is firms A 46s to 48s for grocery lumps. COFFEE.—PIa nation Ceylon has been in good request, at full prices. 1 rid and good coloury bold was last sold at 58s to 655, lo' w 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 6cL Native has been held at 45s 6d to 475, according to quality. Mocha was taken in at 675. Ja maica brought 53s to 53s Gd for low mid, 45s to 46s for triage, and 365. for blacks. CocoA.—Grena( la sold at 29s for grey, to 31s for good red. RlCE.—There h.ss been an improvement this week of 3d to Gd per lb., Beugal having been sold at 12s for good, and Madras at 10s to 103 6d for mid and good. SPlCES.—P'epper has been at full rates ; mid and good Batavia, 31( I to 4d per lb. ; Penang, fine, 48d to 4icl ; sound browr 1, 30. Fair Singapore was taken in at 4d. Penang mac e sold at 3s 2d for good. Nutmegs brought is 10d to 2s 91 i for small to fair bold brown. Run.—T there has been a good demand. COTTOX. —The market has been firm. S/.I.TPEURE.—There have been free buyers at former rate s. "Bengal has been sold at 25s 6d to 26s 6d for 7 per cer .t. 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 pot. GREEN FRIIIT.—The cold and wet weather has had its .affect upon the markets, some parcels of lemons per 1 ;steamer from Lisbon, sold by Keeling and Hunt, went at .a reduction of 2s to 38 per 3 chest. Barcelona nuts have '.further advanced 2s per bag. The sale of pine apples con tinues good. COIR.—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. 103 to 191. 15s. 343 coils Bombay rope, 3to 31 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. 10s, and middlingfair Cochin 27/.los. 7 tons fibro 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 lOs to 20s per ewt. East India average 58 to 84 lbs, 35/. 15s ; cracked and defective 52 to 94 lbs, 281. to 37/. ; ball pieces, 104 to 15 lbs, 281. to 291. Cut hollows, 6i to 121 lbs, 211. 5s to and cut solid points, 13 to 4 inch, 191. to 241. lOs per cwt. About 1 ton sea horse also were sold, good sound 33. to 4a lbs, 8s 3d to Os 3d, and defective 2i to 53 lbs, 2s (f 512 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.n. 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. -;