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ENCUMBERED ESTATES (IRELAND) CON TINUANCE ACT BILL. The LORD CHANCELLOR, in moving the second reading of this bill, entered into a brief explanation of the nature and extent of its provisions. After a few words from Lord MONTEAGLE and the Earl of CLANCARTY, the bill was read a second time, and or dered to be committed. BURGH HARBOURS (SCOTLAND) BILL. This bill was road a second time, and ordered to be com mitted. Their lordships then adjourned at twenty minutes to nine o'clock. HOUSE OF COMMONS—(YESTERDAY. ) EPISCOPAL AND CAPITTJLAR PROPERTY. The Marquis of BLANDFORD presented a petition from 800 incumbents of district parishes, stating that there were many church endowments which did not exceed 131. a-year, the remainder of the clergyman's income being pro vided out of pew rents, and that there were upwards of 4,000 incumbents whose incomes did not exceed 1501. a-year, and praying that the house would provide a remedy. The noble lord then said, in rising to move for leave to in troduce a bill to make better provision for the management of episcopal and capitular property, he must ask the indul gence of the house while he entered upon a subject wide in its range and almost incalculable in its results. He wished first to allude to what had been previously done as re garded Church legislation, tending as it had done to place the Church in its present position. The first great public act was the 58th and 59th Geo. lII. ' commonly called the Church Building Act, under which 1,300,0001. was raised for building purposes. Then came the important act of 1840, the 3d and 4th of Victoria, constituting the ecclesias tical commission. Then they had the 6th and 7th of Vie- toria, commonly called Sir Robert Peel's Act, in which was first adopted the principle of providing, in the sub division of parishes, for the creation of a permanent en dowment. Then there was an act passed in 1850, recon stituting the Ecclesiastical Commission, and appointing a most important body, called the estates commissioners ; and, laitly, there was an act passed in 1851, permitting the voluntary enfranchisement of the property of the Church— an act which had gone far to set at rest the long vexed question between the Church and its lessees. To all these acts the bill which he now proposed had more or less im mediate reference. There were, however, other acts which had a very important bearing on the present position of the Estr.blished Church. One of these was the act for the commutation of tithes ; another was the act for preventing plurality and non-residence ; and then, again, there was the important order in council of 1851, limiting the income of bishops and fixing their future amount. In addition to all this, efforts had been which it would not be right for him to pass in over. In made by private 1847 Mr- Horsman dr in ew the attention of the house to the subject of episcop a l the same question, ad:pin:ll In 1848 he again broached ved an address for an quiry with regard to in with the view of ascertain' collegiate revenues, agrtolvanhether they might not be rendered more conducivine Baratehe spiritual instruc to the full Year tion of the people. In the Mr. Ilorsman sarn v e alu e of all Church moved for an, inquiry in praying too that property undei lease. In the Majesty iri t nal house voted an address to her Majesty, to take into her most gracious consideraUgPher destitution of England and Wales, with the view o e f B l 3 means for its remedy; and her Majesty returned an "'sing of compliance. In the following year, he (the Marquis Blandfori) was able to introduce a bill, having for its ob ject the remedy of some of the abuses existing in chapt er , , t o gether with the increase, where necessary, of th e episco pateother provisions somewhat simi lar to, and also containing those of the bill which he had now the honour to propose. The result was that the measure was withdrawn, but a commission was appointed to inquire with regard to .'tho two first branches—the chapters a nd the e p iscopate, and namely, that connected with the property of the Church, that he now proposed to deal. All theo.things had their oeparate value ; all had a bearing on (as we understood). At the same time, if this is to be a he neral and permanent tax, I cannot object to the landed property of Ireland bearing its share. It seems that there is to be a remission of 4,000,0001. out of the consolidated annuities. Now that is one of the oddest compensations that has ever been made. There are districts in Ireland subject to burdens which it is impossible they can over bear, and the Chancellor of the Exchequer says, " I will relieve you from these burdens which you cannot bear,and that is to be a compensation for the new burdens which I am about to impose on new districts and individuals never before subject to them." The right hon. gentleman com pensates one person by taking something out of another person's pocket. The noble earl has taken great credit for the system introduced by Sir R. Peel, the constant reduc tion of duties, the revision of taxation, and the inestimable advantages to be derived from it ; but he does not observe that he thereby destroys his whole case. If in the course of seven years you go on reducing taxation, although at the expiration of seven years the country may have recovered the revenue which she now sacrifices, yet if you go on making further reductions, and taking off other taxes, and using your surplus in carrying out the principles of f ree trade as fast as you make it—and in the present feeling s o Parliament there seems to be an intention of pursuing th at course—it is quite clear that, instead of having 5i millions, the noble earl will not have one shilling more in the exche quer, which he calculates upon for the purpose at the end of seven years of getting rid of the income tax—(hear)—and I do not believe that Parliament will submit for the next 7 years to see accumulated a surplus which will amount in 5 or 6 years to an annual surplus of 5,000,0001., without be ing disposed to avail itself of that surplus as it arises, and, consequently, revenue and expenditure will be brought nearer together, and the object you profess to have in view will be defeated. I submit to this income tax—l believe it to be inevitable, and I am not prepared t o as k your lord ships to refuse that which is necessary for the credit of the country. But lam not deluded by the suggestion on the part of the Government that this is intended to be a merely temporary tax, nor by the credit which theyhave taken to themselves for the sincerity of their intentions to get rid of it within a limited period. I believe that there will be continual renewals of this tax, and that in submitting to it, with all its injustice and all its inequalities, we are sub mitting to a tax—nominally indeed for 7 years—but of which neither the noble earl nor I will ever see the end. Lord PORTMAN wished to say a few words on this subject, as he felt that he should not be doing his duty to their lordships, who had entrusted him with the chair of the committee appointed by the house to consider the question of the income tax, if he did not inform their lord ships that there was a clause in this bill directly opposed to the unanimous recommendation of that committee, and which, as it seemed to him, inserted the narrow end of the wedge, and would cause, at no distant time, a larger fis sure. He alluded to the clause which, for the first time in legislation, provided that the fees and emoluments of the clergy were to be deemed as fair subjects for remission of taxation, so far as such charges were necessary to the per formance of their duties as clergymen. This was a subject which the committee had inquired into with the greatest possible attention, and the Bishop of O x f or d h a d t a k en every pains to induce the committee to come to a resolution that, in all assessments of charges for th e c l erg y, a cer t a i n remission should be made in their favour. This remission was now for the first time admitted into the bill, and if he were to allow the matter to pass in silence, he felt that he should be neglecting his duty to the committee and totheir lordships. He must say that, when all the charities of the country were about to be taxed, he did not think it quite a wise antagonism on the part of the clergy to come before Parliament in this fashion. With respect to the general merits of the measure, he would observe that, in his opinio n they were ext en di ng too widely direct taxation. Direct taxation was constraint, but indirect taxation was consent. The income tax and the succession tax were alike con straint--the money must be paid on a given day. But the tax on beer and on tobacco was not felt, because it was paid only when parties chose to have the commodities. Direct taxation was very expensive to individuals, and it Was equally true that indirect taxation was very expensive to the country ' • but he did not see why both one and the other species of taxation might not be made less expensive than they were. But they were told that some of the in equalities of the income tax would be removed by another direct tax. Now, with respect to that tax—the succes sion duty—he believed it would be a considerable boon to those who held land in fee, but it would confer no benefit whatever upon those who possessed only a life interest in land. (Hear, hear.) For these reasons he objected to the continuance of the income tax in its present shape indistinctly . Lord BERNERS (who w as very heard) was understood to object to the income tax generally as un just and inquisitorial, and complained especially of this bill, by which nominally a tax of 71 in the pound was imposed on land, when in fact it amounted to 9d. ; and he denied that any one could defend the incidents of a tax of this description. Lord BROUGHAM agreed with the noble lord who had just sat down with regard to the great evils of the tax which he had pointed out ; but there were also many others besid es those which the noble lord h a d noticed. For example, money invested in improvements or in trade, with a view to its being replaced by profits at a future time, but not immediately, and from which the must provident man never expected any real income for two or three years, was dealt with at the very instant it yielded any return, and was pounced upon and made subject to this tax. This was in fact making it a tax not on income but on capital. That was one of many objections to the tax, but it was liable to one observation, namely that it was unequal, and not modification of the tax could ever remove that inequality. Therefore, when his noble friend complained of the peculiar position in which the house was placed in consequence of what he (Lord Brougham) would call the conflict between the two houses, on a point of privilege, which he did not admit to belong solely to the other hou se , b u t w hi ch their lordships yielded, and by reason of which taxes were received from the other house as they came, he would say that there was no means of getting rid of that inequality by altering the bill in their lordships' house. Again, income derived from land in fee simple was dealt with in the same way as that derived from settled property, and the tenant for life treated in the same manner as the possessor in fee. But there was great difficulty in snaking any difference between the two. Income derived from land or personalty was also dealt with in the same way as that derived from labour. Never theless, the difficulty of adjusting those inequalities had been found insuperable, and that caused his late lamented friend Lord Melbourne to say of this tax, that "he was aware of the hardship and pressure it brought on every class, and in his view that was its great recommendation, for no p roperty escaped, and every one was com p e ll e d t o pay it. " That was true, but it was asked, could it not be so smiled, as that while every one paid it, the inequality could - be lessened. But every one who had had to deal with it had found, when it was examined, that partly from the difficulty of adjusting a scale, and partly from the danger of evasion, it was impossible so to construct the tax. Those were not all the objections to the tax. He had stated in 1842 and 1851 other objections. There was no doubt that one of those objections could not be removed by any modification, and that was the inquisitorial nature of the tax. That objection did not apply so much to in comes derived from land, which were generally tolerably notorious, but the system pressed heavily on traders, and operated injuriously on the most pradent and justifiable speculation, by the disclosures which were necessary and might be not merely prejudicial but fatal to a man's credit. The inquisitorial part of the tax might not be so prejudi cial to professional persons as to traders, but still it was galling, annoy i ng, and distressing. Th at,e however, was one of the evils inherent in the income tax, and which no modification could remove. For these reasons he had great dislike to the tax, and had tried to repeal it when it ex isted, and to discontinue it when it was about to expire. It was now 37 years ago since he had the satisfaction, in the other house, of putting an end to the income tax which then existed, and during the six weeks which the debates lasted, he was sure that no argument was brought for ward in its favour that was not instantly disposed of. Afterwards, in 1842, he opposed the imposition of the tax in their lordships' house, and he stated then that it ought not to be imposed, except as a great resource—a resource which should be wedded to war, and only to be used in case of serious pressure in the finances of the country, which could not be removed by any other means. The bill was then read a second time, and ordered to be committed. I THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, - JUNE 22, 1855. the position of the Church and her ability to impart those blessings for the diffusion of which she was divinely insti tuted. Now, what was the position of affairs at the pre sent moment ? From the year 1818 a variety of acts had been passed relating to the building of churches, the sub division of parishes, non-residence, and plurality, and the obtaining, in various ways, funds to supply the spiritual wants of the country, in all of which one point had been kept prominently in view, the maintaining the great ma chinery, so important in reference to the national religion, of the parochial system. He did not wish to ignore those two other great branches of the Establishment, the episco pate and the chapters ; but he believed that by laying spe cial stress on the parochial system, and by endeavouring to supply what was deficient in it, he was at the same time doing what would conduce to the efficiency of the other branches of the Church. (Hear, hear.) He proposed by this bill to transfer the entire management of episcopal and capitular property to the Estates Commissioners. Up to a recent period there might have been some question as to whether the constitution of the Eoclesiastical Commis sion was such as to have warranted such a step ; but a short time ago a committee was formed to inquire into the management of this kind of property, and the result had seen the appointment of the Estates Commissioners. The advantages that would accrue from his proposition would be great and manifold. In the first place, it would strength and improve that ,great parochial system, the full effects derived from which were rarely attributed to it. He believed, however, that it had contributed largely to the formation of the temper and moderation of the people of this country, besides bestowing upon them those spiritual bless ings which it had been enabled to convey The subdivision of parishes into smaller ones was a process that ought to go on concurrently with the increase of the population. (Cheers.) This house had been forward to promote the building of churches and the formation of district parishes, each one of which had tended to repress crime, and to form a nucleus round which charitable societies of all kinds— schools, district visiting societies, provident societies, lite rary societies, and other benevolent institutions, the object of which was to benefit the people and to ameliorate their social, mental, and moral condition might cluster. (Cheers.) Nay, more ; the poor had been enabled to find by this means that which no civil institutions could pro vide for them, the care of a Christian pastor, and the sym pathy of a common friend. (Hear, hear.) That was his (the noble lord's) view of the parochial system. (Cheers.) Between the years 1845 and 1850 the sum granted from the public purse to promote education in Church of Eng land schools, was 327,2301.; and the sum raised by private subscriptions to meet that amount had been no less than 399,8171. (Cheers.) There could, therefore, be no doubt that the offer of endowment would operate as a powerful incentive to church building. (Hear, hear.) The number of churches erected under the Church Building Acts was 857 ; the number of districts formed under Peel's Act was 233 ; and the number of churches, shown by recent in quiries to be necessary, was 580, making a total of 1,670 — to endow which with 1501. a year each would require 250,5001. To this must be added 100,4671. required for the fulfilment of the virtual premise which had been held out by the commissioners in 1836, and the gross annual charge would then be 350,9671. Now, the returns of 1836 showed that the sums received for fines and renewals, calculated on an average of three years, was about 25 per cent, of the real value of the estates. The entire annual value of the episcopal capitular property was 661,4351. Adding the value of the episcopal property, the total value of the church leases was 961,6971. per annum. It appeared from the results of the enfranchisement of leases, which had of late been gradually going on, the church parted with half the value of its estates, and that the other half remained in hand. That would give about 180,0001., and, adding the sums that would accrue from other sources there would be a total of 700,7751., a year. Of course it would be rather difficult to calculate the precise income of church dignitaries; but remembering that the incomes of the bishops had already been settled— commuting the incomes of deans and chapters at the rate recommended by this house, at 1,0001, and 6001. respec tively, and reckoning the average yearly cost of the cathe dral establishments at 1,00/. a-year each, the result they would arrive at would bo that the total charge on the fund. for all the dignitaries of the church would be 363,7501. a year. Deducting that from the sum with which they had to deal, it left a surplus of 337,0261.; while the sum required was 351,0001. Upon a calculation, the value of the episcopal leasehold property was 299,000/. ; and taking that of the chapters at one-fifth, instead of one-sixth, the value of capitular leasehold property was 826,729/. ; giving a total of 1,125,8421. Adding the property derived from other sources, 809,718/., the available surplus, after providing for the incom es o f th e di gnitaries, was 445,9681., whereas the sum required immediately was 351,0001. He might fairly conclude that, under a wise and efficient administra tion, there would be not only sufficient to meet the imme diate wants of the Church, but that as the population increased a further appeal might be made, and not in vain, to the resources of the Establishment. He proposed by this measure simply to transfer the entire management of the episcop a l an d cap i tular property into the hands of the Estates Commissioners, and to invest them with legal con trol over the property for the purposes of management only, making them the lawful receivers of the rents and profits, with some exceptions. He wished this great step to be taken with as little alteration as possible; and the bill did not in any way take the property out of those corporations in which it was now vested. The bill further provided that s separate account should be kept of the properties of each individual corporation, to which they should have at all times access, either by themselves or by their agents, and that a seal should be used, having a distinctive the for each. With regard to the transfer of property, the bill did not interfere with the enfranchisement pro vided for in 1847. It provided that estates might be assigned to each see sufficient to yield its annual in come, instead of the plan now adopted, whereby the richer sees paid over their surplus to the com missioners, while the poorer sees received an annual sum from them. The payment was to be a first rent charge upon the property ; and in the event of the payments not being regularly made, or delayed after a certain time, immediate powers for re-entry would be con ferred. Some of the sees were already in tho receipt of fixed incomes, including those appoint e d s i n ce 1848, a l so some others ho had agreed to take them. He proposed, with regard to those and all capitular estates, that they should immediately came under the operation of the bill ; as to those appointed prior to 1848, it was proposed that the operation of the bill should be delayed till after the next appointment to the see. With regard to incomes, the bill provided that half-yearly returns should be made to the commissioners of all sums derived from accepted sources of income, which were not under the control of the commissioners; and it was necessary that the income of the dignitaries should be made a first rent charge upon the property. Those dignitaries who were not in possession of a fixed income were to have such a sum paid to them as should make up what they were in any case entitled to re ceive. The provisions were very simple. The step he now proposed was the necessary consequence of all the previous legislation, and appeared ;necessary to render it complete. He had shown that the commissioners were already in possession of property to a considerable amount, over which they exercised little or no control. The position of the bishops was exceedingly unsatisfactory. (Hear, hear.) He proposed th a t it s h ou ld b e i n every case their own property that should yield them their lawful amount of income ; that they should have constant access to the accounts of those properties ; that an account should be kept in every case distinct; that the fee should remain in themselves, the commissioners be ing only their agents ; and that the strongest caution should be adopted of which the law was capable to secure prompt and immediate payment. The population was increasing, and as thousands of forms of vice and danger were threatening the state, a heavy resposibility lay on the legislature, not only of framing enactments whose terrors should repress crime, and of providing for the temporal comforts of the people, but of regarding them as beings entrusted to their care, with understandings given them from above, and with spirits framed in the m ou ld o f ti me , but destined for eternity. He would urge the house to assert its indisputable rights over all matters, ecclesiastical as well as civil, and so to discharge its inalienable duty as to prove the necessity and the advantage of the union between Church and State. Events were now daily pro claiming that it was not only to human law, but to Divine assistance that we must look for the inviolability of our empire. The noble lord concluded by quoting some words of Archbishop Tillotson, in reference to Queen Anne's bounty to the church, and expressing a hope that they might prove applicable to the present time. He then moved for leave to bring in a bill to make better provision for the management of episcopal and capitular property. LIVERPOOL ELECTION COMMITTEE. The consideration of the noble marquis's motion was suspended for a little by the appearance at the bar of Mr. Ingham, the chairman of the Liverpool Election Commit tee, with the report of th e comm i ttee, w hi c h h e read as follows That Charles Turner and William Forbes Mackenzie, Esqs., were not duly elected burgesses to serve in this present Parliament for the borough of Liverpool. " That the last election for the said borough is a void election " That the last election for the said borough, so far as regards the return of the said Charles Turner and William Forbes Mackenzie, Esqs., is a void election. " The committee have also agreed to the following reso lutions " That Charles Turner and William Forbes Mackenzie, Esqs., were by their agents guilty of bribery and treating. That it was proved to the committee that Wm. Dodd, Felix M'Leary, J. Underwood, William Harris, Owen Jones, John Foulds, Simon Croft, Charles Maxwell, Thos. Walthew, Robert Cook (of Clive-street), Joseph Parkinson, Robert Cook (of Walker's-court), Joseph Ovens, William Coward, Peter Rice, William James Hamilton, John Brecken, Thomas Wils o n, Ri c hard Joynson, Robert Sar geant, and William Whitby, were bribed by the payment of ss. each. (Laughter.) " That John Westmore, Robert Talbot, and John Brown were bribed by the payment of 4s. each, and Thos. Cannell by the payment of 10s. ; but it was not proved that such bribery was committed by the knowledge and consent of the sittirg members. _ _ _ " Thatrefreshments were provided on the polling day for voters in the interest of the sitting members, at numer ous public-houses, where such voters had been directed to assemble for the purpose of being conducted to the poll; but that it did not appear on the evidence that the treat ing which took place at such houses was of an extravagant character. " That the several sums of ss. and 45., by which the above-named eleOtors were reported to have been bribed, were given to them on account of having voted for the sitting members under the name of the day's pay,' and in compensation for time alleged to have been lost by attend ance at the election. " That these payments were not of an amount beyond the average daily earnings of the voters who received them, but from the disposition of the polling places in the several wards of the borough, every voter might have polled with out any such interruption of his ordinary employment, so as not to occasion the loss of wages, and without any neces sity for refreshments. `-` That so far as the conduct of the election, on the part of the other candidates, came incidentally before the com mittee, there was no evidence, and the committee had no reason to believe, that any illegal practices took place with regard to the voters in the interest of such candidates, and in the majority of the cases where bribery has been reported it did not appear to the committee that the illegal pay ments received by the voters had been the primary motive in deciding their votes. " The committee therefore do not think it right to re commend that the issue of a new writ for the said borough should be suspended, or that any further inquiry should take place into the proceedings at the late election." The report was ordered to lie upon the table. \lr. FRESHFIELD gave notice that he would on that clay week move that a new writ issue for the election of twe members to serve in Parliament for the borough of Liverpool. e Lord D. STU ART gave notice that when the hon. mem br(Xtr. Freshfield) brought forward that motion he should move an amendmentwarryhoefsbpaßliot.fo,r t t h h e at e b ff o e r c o t u o g f h w thehi c v h o t w e s o u b l e d t a b k e e n t that at the nest election Ex (A ironical laugh.) of Blandford, having p u t th e mot i on of the Marquis Lord J. RUSSELL -said the noble lord had devoted a, great deal of labour to this subject, and he believed that the noble lord was animated by a very great regard for the good of the Church and the spiritual welfare of her people. (Hear, hear.) With respect to the particular purpose of the noble lord, and the details of his bill, he (Lord J. Russell) thought it was far better that the house should assent to the bill being brought in, and that they should thus have a full opportunity of considering its details, than that they should then enter into any dis cussion of the statement which the noble lord had made. It was evident that many of the propositions of the bill were of great importance, and that there were some to which objections might be made. He quite agreed with the noble lord that the house should not consider the acts which had been passed from 1836 to the present time as forming a complete system, but that they should from time to time remove the objections. and extend the bene fits of those acts. With those few words he (Lord J. Russell) heartily concurred in the motion for leave to in troduce the bill ; and he trusted the noble lord would not unduly press a measure of such importance at a period of the session when Parliament might not be able to give to it that attention which it deserved. (Hear, hear.) Leave was then given to bring in the bill. SEPTENNIAL ACT. The SPEAKER having called on Lord Dudley Stuart, whose motion for the repeal of the Septennial Act and of shortening the duration of parliaments, stood next on the notice paper, Mr. FIUME submitted to his noble friend whether, con sidering that the government had promised to introduce a reform bill next session ; considering also the great im portance of the subject, the state of the house (which was very thin), and the prospect of the debate being inter rupted, it would be better for his noble friend not to sub mit his motion under these circumstances. (Hear, hear.) Lord D. STUART said he was most unwilling to post pone a question of so much importance as the shortening of the duration of parliaments, but at the same time he was desirous of giving every weight to the opinion of so old, so tried, and so steady a reformer as his hon. friend. He was quite aware also that he rose to bring forward his motion at the most critical hour of the day. (Laughter.) Under these circumstances ho would bow to the better judgment of his hon. friend. But he should decline to give any pledge as to the course he should pursue in reference to the sub ject in the present session, or any future session of Parlia ment. (Hear, hear.) The motion was then withdrawn. SEIZURE OF WATCHES. Mr. M. CHAMBERS rose to move for a select com mittee to inquire into the circumstances connected with the unlawful seizure by two officers of the customs, on the 10th day of February, 1852, of foreign and English watches of the value of upwards of 5,0001., and of books, letters, papers, and bills of exchange, the property of Lucien Marchand, and to ascertain what steps have been taken by the commissioners of customs to investigate the conduct of the officers, and to make restitution of such property. The hon. and learned gentleman, after a few introductory observations, and characterising the seizure as unlawful, was proceeding to state the circumstances under which it was made, when An HON. MEMBER moved that the house be counted. And there being but 35 members present, the house adjourned at a quarter to eight o'clock. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. PORTSMOUTH, JUNE 21. ARRIVAL OF REAR-ADMIRAL CORRY'S SQUADRON AT SPITIIEAD. Rear-Admiral Corry's squadron, consisting of the Prince Regent, 90 (flag) ; London, 90 ; Imperieuse, 60 ; Amphion, 34 ; Highfly er , 21 ; an d Leopard, 12, hove in sight off this port this day at half-past 12, and came up to Spithead in the following order :—The Prince Regent, towed by the Leopard ; London, towed by the Impe rieuse ; Amphion, towed (!) by the Highflyer. The Prince Regent anchored at 1 55 p.m. ; London, at 2 ; Leopard, at 2 4 Imperieuse, at 216 ; Amphion, at 220 ; and Highflyer, at 2 34. There is now assembled at this port the most powerful fleet of steamers of war the world can produce, among them nine sail of the line (sailers and steamers), and eight first-class frigates, as the following enumeration of their character s ill show : Horse- Name. Guns. power. Class. Duke of Wellington 131 780 Screw three-decker. Neptune 120 Sailing three-decker Agamemnon Prince Regent ......... London Imperieuse 6O 360 Screw frigate. Blenheim o-decker. .... Ajax Hogue 6O 450 Screw two-decker. Edinburgh 5B 450 Screw two-decker, Arrogant Amphion 34 300 Screw frigate. Sidon MEE Mxttton BIBURY RACES, (THIS DAY.) Letus Golden Plover Orinoco Three ran. ANDOVER STAKES. Azael . C out of Counsellor's Dam Hirsuta Heriot, CHAMPAGNE STAKES. Rosaline Bay Celia Sofa Ten ran, BIBURy STAKES. Lamartine Hirsuta .. Azael ... . (BY ELECTRIC TELE(!RAPII.) 50 SOVS. SWEEPSTAKES. an engine of abuse against the Roman Catholics. He considered that the bill was wholly unnecessary. Were Roman Catholics so dead to all sense of decency, such blind zealots, and so trodden down by their priests that, if they had a sister or a cousin immured in a convent against their will, they would not go to a judge and avail themselves of the remedy which the law afforded ? To say so would be an imposition on the common sense of the house. Under the bill any gabbling old woman might go before a commissioner, who, it should be recollected, was appointed by a political officer, and tell him that persons were confined in cer tain convents against their will, and he might thereupon have the establishment inspected. If such a practice was generally adopted, it would raise a feeling of animosity and hostility against the Government which it might take years to allay. He admitted the right of Parliament to legislate on this subject, if there was any grievance connected with conventual establishments— (hear)—and with the view of ascertaining whether legis lation was necessary, it was his intention to move as an amendment that the bill should be referred to a select committee, to ascertain what arrangem en t s were neces sary for the protection of the inmates of convents, and for the prevention of any undue influence in procuring the alienation of their property. The provisions which ho thought might be wisely enacted were, first, that per sons should be prohibited taking vows under 21 years of age ; that there should be a restriction with regard to the alienation of property belonging to inmates ; and that every one who took vows should name two persons of their own family who should be allowed access to them at stated periods. (Hear.) The hon. member concluded by moving his amendment. Mr. I. Burr seconded the amendment, believing that the bill was an outrageous violation of civil and re ligious liberty. (Hear.) He looked on the measure as an unmanly and cowardly mode of legislation, because while it professed to require the inspection of nunneries, it in reality sought to abolish conventual establishments. The bill established a Protestant inquisition of the most offensive and dangerous character, for it gave an officer of the Crown the power of entering any man's house, and dragging any female inmate from her bed. lf this was a constitutional question perhaps it would be ad visable to consult the feelings of Protestants ; but when it was one that only affected Roman Catholics, he con sidered they ought to pay some deference to the feelings and views of the Roman Catholic laity. (Hear.) It was because he was as opposed as any man to the ascen dency of Roman Catholicism that he was anxious that Protestantism should be entirely in the right, and he therefore thought no legislation as to the inspection of convents should take place until after full inquiry. If they passed the bill, they would place in the hands of the Government a power which they had never possessed since the first days of English freedom. Whether he regarded the measure as exclusively directed to the in spection of convents, or as a general measure, it was, in his opinion, equally objectionable. Mr. FAG-AN was astonished that, in a country like this, containing seven millions of Roman Catholics, who enjoyed all, or nearly all, the rights and privileges of the constitution, two propositions so offensive to that body as those made by Sir R. H. Inglis and Mr. Phinn should have been submitted to Parliament. He could only at tribute such a circumstance to that morbid feeling of the people of England against the Roman Catholic reli gion, which had been excited by the doctrine lately promulgated and adopted by high authority in that house, that that religion was a mere political system. He objected to the amendment as well as to the second reading of the bill. There could be no doubt that the real object of the bill was to put the Roman Catho lic convents on the same footing as lunatic asylums, workhouses, andlodginghouses. He believed that neither this bill would have been brought in, nor that the Eccle- siastical Titles Bill would have passed into law, if it had not been for the divisions existing in the Protestant Church. He hoped that Irish members would give their united support in favour of the rejection of the bill, which, he said, was looked on by Roman Catholics as a species of persecution. [Mr. BAGSHAW, the member for Harwich, here took the oaths and his seat.] Mr. NAPIER should support the amendment of the hon. member, but could not agree that the bill was cowardly and unmanly. His chief objection to it was, that it was inadequate to meet the evils it intended to remedy, but he had also serious objections to its details. He did not consider that the writ of habeas corpus was a sufficient protection to inmates in convents. As to their disposition of property, these inmates could not avail themselves of that protection which all British sub jects had a right to receive from the constitution. There fore the present was not a question of invading religious liberty, but a question of invading civil freedom. If these institutions came in contact with the constitution, he would, using the words of Lord John Russell on the Ecclesias tical Titles Bill, say they must choose between them, because they could not both exist. He could not recon cile the vows of poverty and obedience with the liberty of the person. It was a principal of the constitution that no person in this country could be a slave, or assent to his own imprisonment ; but in convents the female inmates were bound to surrender their liberty and pro perty, and yet there was no redress. His Roman Ca tholic constituents, though opposed to inspection, were of opinion that it was absolutely necessary that some thing should be done in regard to disposition of property. He thought they were bound to supply a remedy, but one with every regard to the feelings of Roman Catho lics. He considered, however, that the inspection of nunneries would not secure personal liberty. It would, in his opinion, produce a degree of irritation which would not compensate for any possible advantages that it might secure. Lord J. RUSSELL entirely agreed with the argument used against the bill by the hon. members who moved and seconded the amendment. He denied what had been asserted by Sir R. H. Inglis that the habeas corpus act, which had been a security for personal liberty for 170 years, was totally inefficient for that purpose, and that there would be no liberty of the subject unless the present bill was passed. The preamble of the bill was wholly destitute of truth ; and as to the remedy which was proposed, he should be much astonished if it re ceived the assent of the house. A commissioner, named by the Lord-Chancellor was empowered and required to enter and even break into any house he chose— not on affidavits or on testimony on oath, but on his own belief that some female was detained in it against her own will. If such a bill passed, where would be the safety of their houses. (Hear, hear.) He had no doubt there were some private establishments where persons were confined against their will ; but at no time had the Legislature set aside that general rule of law—that sacred part of the constitution—that every Englishman's house was his castle. (Hear.) He had no hesitation in voting against the second reading of the bill. (Hear.) He was satisfied that the habeas corpus act, which was framed by the skill of one of the truest men that ever took part in the admi nistration of the law or in the legislation of the country, and sanctioned by the Parliament of Charles IL, was an effectual protection of the liberty of the subject.. He was also opposed to the amendment, because it raised the whole question in the bill. He could not agree to the appointment of a select committee to inquire into the matters suggested by the honourable and learned mem ber for Bath, unless some stronger case was made out than had yet been shown to the house. (Hear, hear.) There could be no doubt that conventual establishments were recognised by the Emancipation Act ; but nuns could leave them if they Eked, and go back into the world, and there was no power or authority in the country which could require them to return or bind them to the vows which they had taken. He was sorry the hon. and learned member for Bath had mixed up the question as to the disposition of property with the inspection of nunneries to which the bill alone referr ed, because it was a totally different question, and involved considerations of a legal and complicated character. In several of the cases that had been mentioned, where un due influence had been used in obtaining the conveyance of property for a nun, that conveyance had been set aside ; and if the present law was not sufficient in that respect, it was unnecessary to disturb it ; but if any further restriction was required, let a specific bill be brought in on the subject, and let the whole question be fairly discussed. (Hear, hear.) He therefore came to the conclusion that it would be fairest and most wise on the part of the house to decide the question on the second reading of the bill. He should cheerfully vote in favour of the second reading being postponed for six months, considering that while the bill intended and pretended to suit the particular case of nuns, it was not founded on any crude cir cumstances—that it began with a preamble which was not justified by facts, and that so far from being favour able to the Roman Catholic religion it was hostile to it— that while it was also hostile to the liberty of Protestants as well as Roman Catholics, it would, in its effect, be most offensive to the latter—and that while it would give no sufficient remedy for existing evils, if evils there be, it woul I be found to exasperate the feelings of those who were in these religious houses, and who devoted themselves to a life of seclusion from motives of religion and piety. (Cheers.) Mr. G. H. MOORE, in addressing himself to the subject before the house, took exception to the sincerity , of those who proposed the bill, for its title was a pre varication, while its first reading was carried by a petti fogging rnanceuvre. A clamour had been got up out of doors in favour of the bill, but no faith could be placed in religious priests, nor could any weight be attached to anything which fell from Englishmen against the Roman Catholic Church, because they were ever ready to say anything and everything against that Church without inquiring into the truth of what they asserted. This feeling did not confineitself to out of doors : hon. members while acting under a species of Protestant madness, also gave vent to assertions which were as de void of truth as they were recklessly made, and they had seen in one instance a jury return a verdict at variance with the evidence for the sake of upholding the supremacy of Protestantism. The blackest spots in our history were attributable to these periodical outbursts of Protes tant infatuation and intolerance, and he regretted to find in this, the 19th century, they were called upon to legis late towards the Roman Catholics, in a spirit which would have done no discredit to the age in which Queen Mary fell. So objectionable and tyrannical were the pro visions ofthis bill, that he did not believe that any man could be found who would be willing to carry them out ; cer tainly none would be found in Ireland, not even amongst the most rampant Orangemen, for even an Orangeman was not so great a coward as to be ever found raising his hand against d e f ence l ess women. The bill, in fact, might be characterised as the Jack Retch of bigotry, and the house would best cons u lt it s own dignity and the interest of the country by throwing it out. As for the assertion that ladies were confined in nunneries against their will, he believed that l a di es i n convents were much freer than many hon, members, who were subject to the whims of whips and angry constituents ; and it would be better to pass a bill for their relief than that of the nuns, who did not want it. (Hear.) Mr. WARNER would much rather vo t a he su o f ef all conventual eetablielunente than bill of inspection, but there was tl its great merit in the bill, that it discountenanced prie. 3tly interference in the tem poral matters of domestic lift ), and on that account he should support it as a step in the right direction. Mr. HENCHY, in rising i o protest against the pass ing of this bill, would not follcn•w the example of the hon. member for Mayo in attackin ; g Protestants, because he remembered that it was to Pr otestants that they were mainly indebted for Catholic emancipation. (Hear.) With regard to the supposed,. necessity for this bill, all he could say was, that eve ry female member of his family had been brought up i n convents, but he had not heard of that improper restraint being exercised over them such as that which. had been asserted by the promoters of this bill. - Mr. ROUNDEL PALMER was of opinion —an opinion which he had expr . essed in a former Par liament—that a measure of thin sort, if wanted, must be right in principle, which this bill certainly was not. He should, therefore, vote for fee amendment, though, at the same time, he was bound to protest in the name of religious liberty,. against the argument which asserted that convent ua,l establishments should be free from the supervision I ►f the state when free from sectarian or polemical influences. (Hear.) Mr. CONOLLY denounced the bill as being odious and tyrannical, and said it had been conceived in a Spirit of pitiable intolerance. Mr. T. CHAMBERS contended that no one of the arguments upon which he groi 1 - tided thein troduction of the bill had been answered, much less overruled. It was grounded upon facts to be found in history. Nuns had been in former times confined a gainst their will, so much, indeed, that the Council of Trnnt bad to pass ordinances against such tyranny, while, at a still later period, Continen tal States had to make laws to p revent similar abuses, and now that conventual institutions were rapidly on the increase in England, it was the duty of the Legislature to provide a law to meet similar evils at home, It was not necessary that it should be proved to demonstration that these evils already existed, it was enough for him to show that they were possible, which he had done, and therefore he had a right to call upon the house to pass the second reading of his bill. But he would not go that length, as he was quite willing to accept the amendment, and with that confession he would resume his seat. (Hear.) After a few words from Sir G. GREY and Sir J. PaxINaToN, the house divided, when there appeared— For the second reading l7B Against... Majority 29 The bill was accordingly thrown out. It being now 6 o'clock, them' was no time to put the amendment, and the house adjourned. STATE OF TRADE. (From the Manchester Guardian of this day.) MANCHESTER, June 21.—1 n the American accounts, received this week, a good deal of stress is laid upon the injurious effect of drought upon the cotton plant ; but such statements are contradicted by others. The markets are reported as very firm, with the important exception of that of New Orleans ; and the cause of the slight giving way there (ic. per lb.) it: said to be disappoint ment at the quiet advices from Liverpool to the 21st ult. This is hardly a sufficient cause, however, supposing that in New Orleans much reliance was placed upon the allegations about drought. In Liverpool, up to Friday evening, the cotton market rather hardened in anything but rubbish, notwithstanding the Turkish question, and the diminution of consumption through the stoppage of mills, and since Friday prices have continued quite firm. Our own market has been singularly perplexed .by conflicting influences, more so to-day than before. An increased apprehension of war has rendered the feeling of caution predominant among buyers of all classes, who, therefore, have very decidedly held back from business ; but the difficulty of believing that Russia will push mat ters to the last extremity is strongly and generally felt, and tends to prevent sellers from yielding to fear, whilst they mostly anticipate that if the threatened storm should pass away, the bearing of prices will be rather upward. By the turn-out at Stockport, the weekly consumption of cotton is lessened about 3,500 bales ; and the effect of the expected stoppage at Blackburn will be about equal. In general, buyers are unable to make any im pression whatever upon the quotations of last week. If there is any exception to this firmness, it is in articles suitable for the east, particularly yarns ; but there is scarcely a quotable change even in them. At Blackburn, some of the subsidiary hands connected with weaving having ceased to work, in a few establish ments, because their demand for an advance of wages was refused, and having thus put a stop to the working of the looms, the associated masters, both spinners and manufacturers, have given a fortnight's notice that they will entirely stop the whole of the machinery, if the re cusants persist in the claim they have set up. At Stock port, there is no appearance of any general giving way on either side. ROCHDALE, June 20.—We have had a very fair de mand, considering the time of the year, for pieces at former prices. The wool market has been quiet, and the manufacturers purchase very sparingly just what is wanted for immediate use. Prices may be fully quoted a shade lower. HALIFAx, Juno 18.—The aspect of trade in our piece hall is not improved, and there is a very general unwil lingness to purchase any sort of worsted goods. except at prices much below the cost of production. The con dition of the yarn market is also unsatisfactory; and the uncertainty that hangs over the price of wool, causes the consumers to be chary in giving out orders. The transactions in wool are but limited, and the turn of the market is in favour of the buyer. HUDDERSFIELD, June 21.—We have had about an average amount of business done for the season. Still the market is comparatively quiet, but manufacturers continue to be well employed. New patterns•are chiefly looked after, and, in any class of goods, meet with pur chasers. FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE of YESTERDA Y. nBANKRITPTCY ANNULLED. Augustine Bolletti; mahogany merchant, West India Dock-road, Limehouse. DIVIDENDS. At the Court, Basinghall-street. W. Orchard, West Smithfield, and Hornsey, rick, tent, and marquee manufacturer, July 12, at eleven. In the Country. W. Royston, Manchester, builder, July 14, at twelve, at the Court, Manchester—E. Hudson, Ramsden Wood, and Gale, Lancashire, cotton-lpinner and grocer, July 15, at twelve, at the Court, Manchester—D. J. Field and B. Molineux, jun., Manchester, coil-dealers, July 12, at twelve, at the Coma,Manchester—S.lo.•Harrison, Sunder land-by-the-Sea, linendraper, JOT 15, at twel ve , a t th e Court, Newcastle-upon-Tyne —C. B. Reid, Newcastle upon-Tyne, common brewer, July 15, at eleven, at the Court, Newcastle -upon-Tyne—J. Wilkinson, Bry mbo, Denbighshire, ironmaster, July 15, at eleven, at the Court, Liverpool—J. Sherwin, Liverpool, baker and flour dealer, July 13, at eleven, at the Court, Liverpool— A. Brown, Liverpool, pros:sion mer c h an t, J u l y 13 , at eleven, at the Court, Li ver pool-,-S. Clough an d W . T. Clough, St. Helen's Lancashire, alkali manufac turers, July 13, at eleven, at the Court, Liverpool—T. Evans, Denbigh, scrivener, July 12, at eleven, at the Court, Liverpool—T. Fid gen , Li verpoo l , b oot and hoe manufac turer, July 12, at eleven, at the Court, Liverpool—J. Mul holland k W. Mulholland, Liverpl., merchants, Julyl2, at eleven, at the Court, Liverpool—E. Meredith, Liverpool, linendraper, July 13, at eleven, at the Court, Liverpool— W. G. Taylor and Elizabeth Guy, Liverpool, hosiers, July 13, at eleven, at the Court, Liverpool—C. T. Dunlevie, Liverpool, merchant, cornfactor, July 12, at eleven, at the Court, Liverpool. PAYMFSTS OF DIVIDENDS. R. Lee, R. J. Brassey, F. Farr, and G. Lee, Lombard street, City, bankers, id., on Thursday, the 23d inst., and three following Thursdays, between eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Stansfeld, Basinghall-street. J. Worrell, Sussex-street, Tottenham-court -road, vic tualler, sid., on Thursday next, and three following Thurs days, between eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Graham, Coleman-street. G. Creed, Hemel Hemstead, Hertfordshire, commission agent, 114 d., on Thursday next, and three following Thursdays, between eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Graham, Coleman-street. T. Sn'eezum, Rupert-street, Coventry-street, builder, 3d., on Thursday next, between eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Graham, Coleman -street. C. Driffield, Beverley, Yorkshire, draper, 3s. lid., on Thursday next, and three following Thursdays, between eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Graham, Coleman street. C. J. Wragge, Stourbridge, banker, 25., any Thursday, between eleven and three, at the office of Mr. Whitmore, Birmingham. _ M. Ryan, Bury, Lancashire, surgeon, 2s. 2id., on Tues day, June 28, or any subsequent Tuesday, between eleven and one, at the office of Mr. Fraser, Manchester. T. Caunt, Newark-upon-Trent, coal-merchant and car rier, 4s. 4d., on Saturday, June 25, and three following Saturdays, between eleven and three, at the office of Mr. Harris, Nottingham. INSOLVENT PETITIONERS. Arthur Edwin Smith, Portsmouth, dyer and scourer. Thomas Leach, Chesterfield, Derbyshire, dealer in fruit. George Benjamin W ee k s, E ast Mailing, Kent, carpenter. Thomas Bentley, Manchester, mechanic. James John Holmes, Manchester, clerk. Thomas Martin, New Lenton, Nottinghamshire. John Everitt, Kingston -upon-Hull. Leopold Hopfenhans, Great Grimsby, Lincolnshire, clerk. Thomas Webster, Ashby-cum-Fenby, Lincolnshire, sur geon. Edward Eaton, Newent, Gloucester, carpenter. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS. J. S. Aked, Glasgow, goods finisher, to meet June 27 and July 19 , at one, within the Globe Hotel, Glasgow. J. Whamond, Invergowrie, near Dundee, mer c h an t, t o meet June 27 an d J uly 18, at one, within Coupar's Tavern, Kingoodie. W. D. Reid, Dundee, baker, to meet June 27 and July 18, at one, within the Roy a l H o t e l, D un d ee. J. Sinclair, Portobello, commis s i on agen t , t o meet June 29 and July 27, at two, within Paxton's Royal Exchange Coffee-house, Edinburgh. NEWSVENDERS' BENEVOLENT AND PROVIDENT INSTI TIITION.-At a special meeting of the committee, con vened in the News Exchange, Fleet-street, on 16th June, in consequence of th e d ea th o f t h e i r late worthy and highly esteemed president, James Harmer, Esq., it was unanimously resolved to record on their minutes : "That the committee most deeply deplore the loss the institution has sustained by this event, recollecting as they do, most gratefully, that throughout the whole period of the society's existence, Mr. Harmer had not only been its patron in name, but had most liberally , contributed to its funds—had always been willing, per sonally, to countenance and encourage its members—and by his efforts had been the means, in a great measure, of enabling the institution to attain its in public esteem." prese nt position Highflyer Odin Encounter .14 360 Screw corvette, Vesuvius . Banshee 6 280 Paddle sloop. 2 360 Paddle express boat, A most appalling accident occurred on board the London. The Imperieuse had her in tow. By some unaccountable means the chain at the end of the towing hawser snapped, and in an instant killed First Lieu tenant Wellesley P. Chapman and five men, besides severely wounding five others, one of whom died shortly afterwards. On the same day a marine jumped over board from the London, and was picked up by High flyer's boat, which was instantly manned and lowered in time to pick up the man and save his life. The above accident happened when the Lizard bore N.E. by E. 730 miles. Barring accidents, the squadron is healthy. It appears, that on coming out of Lisbon, the Am phion broke her slide-valve, which placed her, as a cripple in regard to steam. The squadron exchanged signals with the French merchant barque Brilliant, in lat. 41 55 N., and long. 14 15 W. ; they also, in leaving Lisbon on the 12th, passed the William M'Gower, of Dumfries. The evolutions of the squadron consisted of bending and reefing sails, beating to quarters, night attacks, boarding, &c. The Neptune, 120, Captain Scott, came out of the basin to-day, and took up moorings off Gosport. She is fitting for sea with all expedition. The Odin, 16, Captain F. Scott, came into harbour to day to have her bottom examined. The Oberon steam-vessel, Lieut. Wise, came into har bour to-day to be paid off. The Banshee dispatch steam-vessel, Lieut. Hosken, came into harbour this afternoon to coal. The Royal yacht Victoria and Albert, Capt. Crispin, received her crew to-day, and is now ready for her Ma jesty's service. The Vernon Indiaman passed this port for London this morning, from Bombay. She sent in, by the Deal lugger, Axton, master, the following passengers : Lieut. T. J. Francis, of the 9th Lancers; Ensign Wm. Sheehy, 64th Regt. ; and Mrs. Abbott and family. SHEERNESS, JUNE 20. The Cyclops paddlewheel steam frigate transpor:;, in charge pro tem. of Mr. Charles Pope, R.N., left here to dayat 10.30 a.m. for Woolwich. The Comns, 14 guns, sloop, Commander William E. Fellowes, has this day had her compasses adjusted by Mr. John C. Barlow, master of the Waterloo. She will go to the Nore to-morrow, and will be inspected by th e port officers and sail on Wednesday next. The Horatio, 24 guns, Commander Robert Jenner.— Several landsmen have offered themselves for entry in the navy under the new regulations for 10 years, and all have passed the surgeon's examination and been entered. The Horatio will take her usual trip for trial of her ma chinery on Wednesday next. WOOLWICH, JUNE 21. APPOINTMENTS. Lieutenant Marcus E. Smithett (1852) from the Duke of Wellington, 131, screw steam-ship at Portsmouth, to the Tribune, 30, screw steam-frigate at Sheerness. Midshipman W. A. Cambier, to the Ajax, 58, screw steam-ship at Portsmouth. Sailed from the Downs for the Cape station, on the 20th inst., her Majesty's brig of war Nerbuddha. She will call at Spithead, and all letters for her are to be forwarded to Spithead. [ADVERTISEMENT.]—Summer dresses.--Bankruptcy of Mr. E. Blakeley, Silk Mercer and Shawl Manufacturer to her Majesty.--In addition to the rich silks arid shawls in Mr. Blakeley's stock, recently purchased and now selling off by Messrs. Atkinson and Co., of 69 to 75, Westminster-bridge-road, there are about 2,000 pieces of beautiful French Muslins, Bareges, and Norwich Lus tres, all quite new, first-class goods, worth from 21d. to 4s. per yard. These are now being sold by Messrs. At kinson and Co. at less than a quarter of their value ; that is, from 64d. to is. id. Ladies are respectfully recom mended to inspect these goods, in order that their extent, quality, and cheapness may be duly appreciated. LADVERTISEMENT.]—THE CAMP AT CHOBHAM.- 39, Albemarle-street, Piccadilly.—Observe, opposite th e York Hotel. The Royal Exhibition. A valuable, newly-invented, very small powerful waistcoat-pocket glass, the size of a walnut, by which a person can be seen and known one mile and a half distant ; they answer every purpose on the race-course, at the opera-houses, country scenery, and ships are clearly seen at 12 to 14 miles. They are invaluable for shooting, deer stalking, yachting, to sportsmen, gentl emen , game k eepers, and tourists. Telescopes—A new and most important invention in telescopes, possessing such extraordinary powers that some, 31 inches, with an extra eye-piece, will show distinctly Jupiter's moons, Saturn's ring, and the double stars ; with the same telescope, weighing only 3 ounces, can be seen a person's countenance three miles and a half distant, and an object from 16 to 20 miles. They supersede every other kind for the waistcoat-pocket, and are of larger and all sizes, with increasing powers accordingly. Opera and race-course glasses, with wonderful power; au object can be clearly seen, from 14 to 16 miles distant. Messrs. S. and B. Solomons, opticians, have in vented invaluable preserving spectacle lenses. Immediately they are placed before imperfect vision, every object appears clear and distinct; the most aged, defective sight becomes bright and brilliant, is brought to its youthful, natural, and original state. Deafness—New Discovery-- The Organic Vibrator, an extraordinary powerful and newly-invented instrument, for Deafness, entirely different from all others, to surpass anything of the kind that has been, or probably ever can be, prodaced. Being of the same colour as the skin, it is not perceptible ; it enables deaf persons to hear distinctly at church and at public as semblies ; the unpleasant sensation of siaging noises in the ears is entirely removed ; and it affords all the assist ance that possibly could be desired.—S. and B. Solomons, Aurists and Opticians, 39, Albemarle-street, Piccadilly. Observe, opposite the York Hotel. _ [ADVEETTSEMENT.]—HoIIoway's Ointment and Pills have successfully cured Ulcers, Wounds, and dreadfully Swollen Limbs.—Extract of a letter addressed to Messrs. Barnett, Brothers, wholesale agents for Holloway's Pills and Ointment, Surinam :—" Gentlemen, I beg to inform you that I considered my son lost to society in consequence of swollen limbs and ulcerous sores with which he was severely afflicted. I have sacrificed large sums of money to doctors, who have afterwards told me that it was a hopeless case ; but at last I tried Hollo way's Pills, and the result has been so favourable that it has astonished all who had seen the deplorable state my son was in.—(Signed) Joseph Machielse."—Sold by all druggists, and at Professor Holloway's Establish- ' went, 244, Strand, London. Three ran. X5O PLATE FOR TWO AND THREE YEARS, Clio Mirabeau C by Emperor out of Coral Eight ran FIFTY POUND PLATE Provost Marshal Psaltery Appleton Three ran. Pelion not arrived. .... 2 3 3 rourti932bitton SUN OFFICE, Seven, o'clock. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF COMMONS—(THIS DAY.) The SPEAKER took the chair at twel're o'clock. EPISCOPAL AND CAPITULAR ESTATES BILL. The Marquis of BLANDFORD brought in this bill, which was read a first time, and ordered to be read a second time on Wednesday the 6th of July. PRIVATE BUSINESS. The Lords' amendments to the Leeds and Whiteha. Roads Bill, and the Limerick Corporation Bill were con. sidered and agreed to. The following bills were considered and ordered to be read a third time :---Crieff Junction Railway ; Galway Harbour ; Galway Improvement ; Limerick Improve ment; North and South-Western (Hampstead and City Junction) Railway ; South Devon and Tavistock Rail way ; United Guarantee and Life Assurance Company ; Wakefield and Sheffield Road ; Westport Port and Harbour ; Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport Railway. PETITIONS. Petitions were presented against the Nunneries In. spection Bill, by Mr. Miall, from Oldham ; Mr. D. Sey mour, from Sunderland; Mr. Thicknesse ; Sir George Strickland, from Preston ; Mr. O'Flaherty, from a place in Irela:nd ; Mr. M'Cann, from Drogheda ; Mr. Swift, from Wandsworth, in Surrey ; Mr. John Fitzgerald, from places in the county of Clare ; Mr. P. O'Brien, from a place in King's County ; Mr. Blackett, from Newcastle-upon-Tyne ; Mr. Duncombe, from Islington ; Mr. Bowyer, from various places both in England and Ireland ; Mr. F. Scully, from various parishes in the county of Tipperary ; Mr. G. H. Moore, from the Catholic married women of Great Britain and Ire land ; Mr. Ingram, from Teignmouth ; Mr. Bass, from Derby ; Mr. Sullivan, from a place in Ireland ; Mr. M`Mahon, from places in the county of' Wexford ; Mr. Monsell, from different places in Eng land, Ireland, and the Channel Islands ; Sir James Graham, from Carlisle and several other places,- includ ing one from 22,000 Roman Catholics in London ; Mr. Sergeant Shee, from places in the c oun t y o f Ki lkenny ; Mr. P. Urquhart, from Westmeath • Mr. Bright, from Manchester ; Mr. V. Brown, from places in the county of Kerry ; Mr. Cobden, from various places in York shire ; Lord J. Russell, from Newhall, in Essex ; Lord Edward Howard, from places in Wales and the south of England, and 400 ladies who are at present the inmates of convents, or who ; had been educated in convents. Amongst the signatures to the latter were one lady who had three sisters, two aunts, and fourteen cousins professed nuns ; another, who has two sisters and seven teen cousins nuns ; and a third, who had three daughters two sisters, and 14 cousins nuns, who all highly approved of the monastic life • Mr. H. G. Berkeley, from Bristol and Clifton ; Mr. Fagan, from an aggregate meeting of the Roman Catholics of Ireland, assembled at the Ro tunda in Dublin, and signed on behalf of the meeting by Sir Thomas Esmonde, Bart., as chairman, and by James O'Ferrall, Esq., Richard Davey, Q.C., and Jas. Burke, Esq., as hon. secretaries ; and further, to move that it be read by the Clerk at the table of the house. On the motion of the hon. member, this petition was read by the Clerk at the table. Mr. Cardwell, from 50,000 of the Catholic inhabitants of Liverpool ; Sir J.Walmsley, from 7,000 of the Catholic inhabitants of Leicester; Mr. Berkeley, from pl aces i n W orcestershire ; Mr. Lucas, from places in the county of Down, and a number of Roman Catholic bodies in England--in all,loo petitions; Mr. V. Scully, from places in the county of Cork ; and Mr. C. G. Duffy, from Londonderry, and one from Bel fast, bearing 12,000 signatures. Petitions in favour of the bill were presented by Mr. J. Hastie, from Paisley ; M r . F rewen, from places in Sussex ; Mr. Muntz, from Birmingham ; Mr. Gore Langton, from Bristol ; Mr. Warner, from Norwich ; Mr. Millie, from Inverness ; Mr. Bouverie, from Kil marnock; Mr. Spooner, from places in Warwickshire and Worcestershire ; Mr. Walter, from Nottingham ; Mr. Forbes, from a place in Scotland ; Mr. Cowan, from Edingburgh and Glasgow ; Mr. A. Hastie, from parishes in Glasgow ; Mr. J. Berkeley, from Cheltenham Mr. W. Kinnaird, from Perth ; Mr. T. Chambers, from Wolverhampton and several places in Scotland and the north ; Colonel Blair, from Kilmarnock. Sir E. FILMER presented a petition from the inha bitants of Blackheath, in favour of ocean penny postage. Mr. T. DUNCOMBE presented a petition from Fins bury, against the employment of the police as spies. I'lr. HADFIELD presented a petition from 16 build ing societies in Manchester, against the Registration of Assurances Bill, and also a petition from Tunbridge Wells against the Education Bill. Mr. A. PELLATT presented petitions from North amptonshire and other counties, against the Education Bill. Sir J. PAKINGTON presented a petition from Droitwich, complaining of the restrictions placed upon the import of salt into India, and praying the house to take steps to remove those restrictions, as they were in jurious to trade and commerce. DROPPED ORDERS. The dropped orders were re-appointed. RECOVERY OF PERSONAL LIBERTY BILL, - - --- On the order of the day for the second reading of this !I Sir R. H. INGLIS rose to move that the bill be read a second time, and in doing so the hon. baronet directed the attention of the house to the fact that scarcely any of the petitions which had been presented to-day contained the name of the bill. This was a bill for the recovery of personal liberty in certain cases, and in no way applied to nunneries in par ticular. It was intended, of course, that it should apply to the abuses of such institutions, but it contained nothing that could be in any way offensive to the pro fessors of the Roman Catholic religion. No one would deny the possibility of the existence of abuse, nor would any one shrink from the per formance of his duty in the event of such abuses being established. Well, then, hecontended th a t a pr i or i —the existc ice of m onas ti c institutions, where persons of tender years were taken in, for the purpose of. religious training, proved that abuses prevailed, and since the Council of Trent had decided that no one should be forced or kept in a convent against his or her will, ho was at a loss to understand why the bill shouid be resisted by Roman Catholics. A similar law prevailed in many Roman Catholic countries on the Con tinent, and all that the promoters of this bill asked was, simply, that the same protection of the law should be extended to England. There were 300 nunneries or monastic institutions in this country, and who knew but what there were many persons confined in them who were sighing for their personal liberty. But though that was admitted, it was said the law as it now stood was quite sufficient to meet such isolated cases, and there was no necessity whatever for any special legislation. The bill was not to extend only to Roman Cath o li c i nst i tut i ons b u t t o a ll religious houses where persons wer e d eta i ne d aga i ns t their will, and he contended that th e ex i st i ng law wasinsufficient the abuses th a t suc h i nst i tut i ons were liable to. to meet Mr. PHINN was bound to say that the bill, irre spective of religious questions, was as unconstitutional as any that had ever been submitted to the house. (Hear.) He felt it humiliating that any lawyer should have proposed a, measure which began with a false recital, and terminated in a provision which was destructive of the first principle of English law—that every man's house was his castle. He challenged the hon. mover, as well as any lawyer in the house, to point to one sip gle instance in which the courts of law had been baffled in the way in which the hon. member had suggested. He (llr. Phinn) contended that the writ of habeas corpus was still issued in a manner to facilitate the liberty of the subject. (Hear.) It was impossible to shut one's eyes to the fact that religious houses, not only of Roman Catholics, but of Protestants who played at Roman Catholicity, under the control of persons of eminence in the Church of Fngland, and receiving part of its emoluments, had very much increased of late years. The irritation and angry feeling in the country against them; however, was to be attributed to the practices at the Protestant Institution at Plymouth, which was under the patronage of an English bishop ; and the Agapemone, or Abode of Love, at Taunton, which also belonged to the Established Church. (Hear, hear.) The existence of then societies had been dexterously used as _ 3 1 r~,"~ 4 fl,~ ` 1 t SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE• • CUSTOM-HOUSE, JUNE 21. ENTERED INWARDS.—The Caledonia, from Lokkrair Hannah Codner Leghorn • Chapmans Mauritius ; Gonaives ; T oni Cringle, 'St. Übes • 'New Orleans, IN E 7 York ; Sist ers , D an t z i c ; P au li n a, Marseilles ; Princ e ward, River Gambia ; Yandew, Oporto ; Ilindostsn, g a l" re ; Sr. Fort, Seville ; Louise August, liallandborg• no r, for ENTERED OUTWARDS FOR LOADING.—The Yi r —" — Hamburgh ;. Hannah Maria, do. ; Marys, Rouen; All a ' Konigsberg; James and Emma, Antwerp. fOr CLEARED OUTWARDS WITH CARGO.—TheF f Melbourne ,• Ruby, Elsinore 'and St. Petersb ur g l ? ; ran A ' d , Gebruder, Altona ; Annsbro, Demerara ; Vict" lB ' laide ; angalore, Singapore ; Albatross, 11ambarg„: Argo, Elsinore and Riga ; Ursula, Oporto S l ' af f i sri P o rt Port Philip ; Charles Brooke, St. Vincent ; - Philip. VESSELS SPOKEN WITH. , 12 , The Berhampore, from Liverpool to China, hisr c m lat. 38 S. 'ono. 83 E. ril 10 Is t i The Patriot Queen, Calcutta to Liverpool, AP-- ' 6 N., long. 89 E. la • 24 S: 'The Louisa, Callao to London, out 37 days , • long. 28 W. Ist* The Oceanica, V a lp ara i so t o L on don, out 39 days,' 20 S., long. 26 if. . The Adelaide, Buenos Ayres to : 20t ng h l a nd a , y 1 ,a ' t 4 . : . ),110i50. The Carnatic, Sydney, N.S.W., to London, out i 9 Jap e The Maria Sophia, Shields to Hong Kong, 6th Ma is . t. 8 The Theresia, Liverpool to Adelaide, 11th Drab • - N., long 24 W. 2 s lc The Dunrobin Castle, Ist March, lat. 26 S., 10 * 1 n g. The Sophia, London to Quebec, 4th May, lat. 48, ° 19. The .Ta u m l e .b s er N , as H s u m ll it f h o , r N Qu e e w be o c, rleans to Liverr ° ' 40 Isl. , 36 ,: r. hlong.The Denmark, New Orleans to the Clyde, Bth Jan e ' The Orien E tal ng , I :7 35, long. 74. t. 30*: lor T ig h . e B N l Be. ew lat. 41, long. 5C The Factory, London to Australia, May ill , .1-- - long. 38 W. I to New York, I. 2 B i th: Littavet:p:ston, 6th April, la. The Theesir, May 11, lat. 8 N., long. 243 W , 4 9 N., The Friends, London to Quebec, May,fl9, 'e''' long. 11 W. long ~S The Amazon, bound W es t, May 30,11 at. 46 - tsr W. B.AI The Virginia (Bre-nen barque), for Adelaide , AprilN., lish long. 21 W. ° I The Sydney (Eng barque), May 1, lat. 5 21 W. t 24 So The Ridby, L on d on t o B om b ay, March 1-1, long. 56 E. The Gil Blas, C a p e o f G oo d H ope to AkYa- b , 25th lat. 38 8., long. 32 E. The Doctor, of Stornoway, Liverpool to I `Talit ik : /4 June, lat. 51 N., long. 15 W. AUSTRALIAN SHIPPING. .. sre d eg The Carnatic, from New South Wales, has sr° Falmouth ; sailed from Sydney Feb. 28. o 4 Ili° fr MELBOURNE.—Arrived th e Vi rg i n i a , M a rch • ' a ide; Janeiro ; Typhoon, Glasgow; Amiens, sth, Adeirarr, Royal George, Newcastle 'Europe, 6th, Newcastle; Lifer' Leith and Cape ; Louisa, Adelaide ; Athlone, 7th, ow; pool and Cape ; Torrent, New York ; Malabar, Gl asg Sumatra, Bth, C a p e ; I r i s , C ape ; Hope, Adelaide ; braski, New York. ADELAIDE. —Arrived the Candahar, Atalanta, --- .R°134 1, Clive, Sylph, Lioness, Anna Dixon, and Phoenix (ste 3 n ., sl r), previous to March 14, f rom M e lb ourne ; Chusan Lste3w—eelit, March 11, Sing a p ore , an d procee d ed to Sydney; Der doe. March 12, Lond on . S a il e d t h e Brooks b y, f or J- 4 ° li c a l• Cleared the Charles Carter, for Sydney; 3f a cedon, cutta. fr° l3l HOBART TOWN.—Arrived the Quito and for London. Sailed the Australasia and Southern Cr ° ,, s '}33- London ; Pacific, March 4, South S eas ; Union, s t''' tavia ; Pryde,,llth, Melbourne. a {rola LAIINCESTON.—Arrived the Sphynx, Feb. 2 8/ a ol; China. Sailed the Martin Luther, March 2, for Liverr Duke of Roxburgh, London. COUNTRY MARKETS. LIVERPOOL —JUNE 21. At the Corn-exchange this morning holders ge ne the required last week's prices for wheat and flour, but in t t he business done on th e m iddli ng d escr i ptions o f wheager, reduction was ld t o 2d per bushel. Oats rather de r Oatmeal did not m ove so f ree l y. I n di an corn barely iTeld ported late rate s . B eans, peas, and barley we re firmly for late prices. IPSWICH —JUNE 21. 0 With a fair supply of w h ea t, th e trade rule d s t ead, r last week's rates. Th e growers d o not show any aureir o tion to hurry sa l es , re d uce th e i r prices, or forc e „ t if stocks to market. O n ly on w h ea t out of condition diu.'" decline in price occur. - RIO' PER QUARTER. PER (ItTi - 0 0 Wheat, red (old) 4ss to 48e Barley, grinding ... 00s t° a ss Ditto (new) Ditto, white (new) 48s to 56s Peas Ditto (old) Barley, malting ... 30s to 00s,Flour, per sack AVERAGES FOR TILE WEEK ENDING JUNE 18, 1853. Wheat Barley Oats Beans Peas 7 „ 33s Od HULL—..Turu 21. To-day's market was well attended by farmers and f A : tors : the former brought a very small supply of and were very firm in their demands for fully last we';i• prices, to which the latt er h a d ultimately to yield c 4031 ;e. ante. Not much forei gn w h eat, and prices without chant Barley scarce and en qu i re d f or. Beans (German) o ° ' good to sell, b u t E g y p ti an f ully as dear. No good Pea the market. O a t s scarce and the turn dearer.' The Ting e d market must be written ls. dearer all round : the lato." 0 vance in English ca k es i s we ll supported. No transactl 0 0 ,11 in rapeseed. Cak es fi rm . B ones were exceedingly du'the last week, but some large parcels being ordered to, de . yard, and rain having fallen, we have an improved mand. s s i Wheat, English, red 52 to 54 Ditto white 54 to 56 Dantzic and Konigs berg 52 to 55 Pomeranian and Ham- 11 4 [Peas, gray and black 34 to i 3 Linseed, Black Sea... 47 t° s o Ditto Petersbargh 41 to Ditto Riga and Arch- burgh Danish, Holstein, and Friesland 46 to 48 Russian and Odessa 42 to 45 Oats, English Ditto Danish Ditto Friesland Ditto Russian lB to 19 Barley, malting Ditto grinding 27 to 28 Beans Ditto foreign Peas, white and yel 3B to 40 48 to 521 angel Ditto Konigsberg and Memel 3B 4° Per 110„Au' Lins. c., Hull 8/ s s od to 0100 IP Ditto fine for. 7117 s 6d 01 n il, Ditto inf. for 6112s 6d to OIL Rapeseed 261 lOs to 0 1 ,1 Rape cakes Tares, English 36s to 0" Ditto foreign 27s W 0 Guano 4l 91 to 12 1 . Bones 97s 6d to 005 tut Rye Meal .-- W' IDUBLIN—JuNE 17. 09; White wheat, 26s Od t o 30 s Od ; red ditto, 25s Od t o barley, 13s Od to 16s 6d ; oats, lOs Od to 13s Od; 21s Od to 23s per hrl ; oatmeal lls Od to 13s Od ; 1 ; 1 ;64 flour, 14s Od to 18 s Od per cwt ; Indian corn, 29s Od •'" per 480 lbs. CORK-JuNE 20. Bea. Curren* oe. White wheat 00s Od to 00s Od Os Od-20 sto Redwheat OOs Oct to OOs Od Ditto OOs (k 1 to OOs Oct OOs od-20 do' Ditto 00s Od to 00s Od Barley l2s 6d to 13s Od Ditto OGs Od to OOs Od} OOs ocl-1 6 d o. Ditto 00s Od to OOs Od Bore Oos Oct to OOs Od Os Oil Oats Ditto Oos Od to 00 8 Od Its 6d -- do. Ditto oos Od to OOs Od Pigs . oos Od (,0 OOs Od oOs Od par ort . Quantity sold at the highest prices : b e te; 00 barrels whit e w h ea t ; 00 red ; 1 barley; 00 4 oats; 0 pigs. Quantity of grain and number of pigs sold last week :- - oe. Wheat, 58. Barley, 6. Bere, 00. Oat s , 400 P l g B ' Return of cattle sold for week ending June 18 :-- Pigs, 245. Sheep, 402. C o w s , 70. RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS. LIVERPOOL, JUNE 21. 134 STOCK EXCHANGE.—The market closes tame ly, " • firmly. There is no change in prices. Caledonian , ' r Edinburgh and Glasgow, 36 ; Lancashire and Yorkt; 77,1 ; London and North-Western, 1141; Midland, ' North British, 8 3-16. MANCHESTR, JUNE 21. 1, • ego o a STOCK EXCHANGE.—There E was not muc h l ire , prices were lower. Eastern Counties, 13 ; East Lanoa s . 18 ; Lancashi re an d Yorkshire, ; London and No rth rib Western, 1142 ; Oldham Alliance, 1 dis. ; South - Ea fit ' e 212. BIRMINGHAM, JUNE 21. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The railw a y share rnarkot wa s e° . tremely dull an d i nac ti ve to-day. There was little filte. tion in prices, and neither buyers nor sellers were A nil°ns to deal with s t oc k at present quotations. The only °Z oo 00 . actions reported on 'Change were London and North - I' tern Eighths, 6s. 3d. and 7s. 6cl. p. BRISTOL, JUNE 21.1 STOCK EXCHANGE.—The market continued throng i l°llv to-day very dull, and closed without any business b eing transacted. BIRTILS. OF A SON. On the 10th January, at Omata New Zealand, the wif e of the Rev. G. B ay l ey, formerly of Maidstone. OF A DAUGHTER. Ta On the 20th i ns t., a t L e yt on , E ssex , the wife of Edict' Masterman, Esq. MARRIED. 'sh On Tuesday, the 21st inst., at Exmouth, in the Etr i A church of Littleham, by the Rev. Ralph Barnes , of the Rev. Sudlow Garratt, son of John Garratt, EgF, - Bishop's-court, Devon, and of Clevemont near Chelten ham, to Anna Maria, third daughter of the Venerable George Barnes, D.D., Archdeacon of Barnstaple. On the 18th inst., at Manchester, Henry Thomas Berl: Esq., of Tysoe-stroet, Wilmington-square, to Hann''' widow of the late William Haycraft, Esq. DIED. On the 20th inst., at 49, Eaton- square , Malcolm , the infant son of the Earl and Countess o f Galloway. On the 18th inst., at Gibraltar-pl ace , Ch a tham, Edwardßrock, Esq., aged 79. (1 of On the 19th inst., Ann, wife of M r. Benjamin vaV r ' the Inland Revenge-office, Somerset-house, and of Char ° street, Stoke Newington. LONDON : Printed and Published by MIIRDO YO Crl 46 ' of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun Office, No. Al Strand, in the Precinct o f the Savoy, iu the comity ° Iditidltaus Wednesday, sTwie 22, lligh 1 1 E% Cou r We ,INIA. co b ct4t:loprietors of yore 8T an g; ,, of 1 qu b ee , :-:•+ent sie, b4 sue 4 by • La G4z-tte ' t : eore G ov e rn men t , tl b m e e t 11 1 Los Iye, will be (11' I,llerest thereon WI t' t4l,?°l)rlotors or t,..otes tu~ry or Ist vo n uar IQ th e Vtl le Powle.dg;, ° , l , h en ,'" Pe al ~1 , t 'on h, t ,,;'ln - "oreils rtoDto,r, • in r 'a I , or 15 ; I(eh e rouro•tor (14-Treas nn• e ,ed to . al It W to l : ie hetet ' : ec r ei c ' k eji 'aY tlesirejrt: to . th op e l , lii t h sa y k i . ..e7 inay Mt Q 6 !_ti to the Pro eau al to the l'tos,: . 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