The Sun. — London, England, 1853-07-15 00:00:00

LATEST FOREIGN NEWS. FRANCE. We find nothing worth extracting in the original columns of the Paris journals either on the East ern question or on any other subject. Some of the Journals have no leading article. The ConsN,Zution net has a notice by its chief editor of the circular of Count Nesselrode, but M. Granier de Cassagnac had left nothing to do for another commentator. !: 11 .3 Assemble Nationale continues to assert that the note has a pacific tendency, and has full confi "nee that the efforts which are making to prevent War will be successful. The Council of State sat yesterday for the dis- Patch of general business. Amongst the subjects Which came before it for consideration was the draft (3 .„,fa decree according to the Lyons to St. Etie nne Railway Company, and the coal company of Cha zotte and Sorbier the concession of a branch line to connect the coal-pits IC.th the St. Etienne Rail- Way; also, a decree authoris;ng certain modifica tions in the statutes of the religious associations of t he ladies of Ste. Marie de la Providence, esta blished at Saintes ; also another, to authorise the association of the Faithful Sisters of the Society of Jesus, established at Paris, to fou nd branch socie ties at Nantes and Amiens ; and, lastly, the draft of a decree sanctioning certain modifications in the St. Germain Railway Company. Count Eugene de Germag,nano, Lieutenant- General in the service of the King of Sardinia, has received the cross of officer of the Legion of honour from the hands of the Emperor. The Moniteur announces various changes in the magistrature - and also the presentation of the military medal and nomination to the Legion of honour of numerous officers and private soldiers. A telegraphic d'spatch has been received, an nouncing the arrival of the Minister of Marine Lorient, where he debarked amidst cries of " Vive l'Empereur." He afterwards reviewed the troops stationed there. The members of the Spanish Embassy in Paris, with M. de Quinones, Marquis de San Carlos, Charge d'Affaires, at their head, proceeded on Wednesday to Malmaison to pay an official visit to the Queen-Mother, Maria Christina. Marshal Narvaez had, previous to the reception of the Spanish diplomatic staff, a very long and. Private conference with the Queen-Mother. On. leaving the Royal presence it was remarked. that the Marshal appeared very well satisfied with the result of his interview, so far as we may judge by physigonomy, and this with Narvaez is not dcult, as his features easily betray his thoughts, Whether those thoughts be pleasing or otherwise, It is, therefore, taken for granted that the recon ciliation is now complete between those personages, for Which the Duke of Rianzares had very adroitly prepared the way. A considerable advance was made yesterday at the Bourse towards recovering from the late de pression, and at the close of business an improve- Ilent of about 1 per cent. had taken place. Final quotations :—For Money, 3 per Cents., 77f. 20c. ; ditto, 1021. For the end of the month-3 per %its., 77f. 35c. ; 4 ditto, 102 f. Bank Stock, 2 ,660 f. Shares of the Mortgage Bank are still quoted at 660 f. ; those of the Societe Mobilere im- Proved 20f., being last quoted at 7601. A general a dvance occurred in the prices of Railway Shares, b usiness also being more active than has been the lase lately. Closing prices :—Northern, 855.25 f. ; and Orleans, 1,085 f. ; Paris aid Strasbourg, Rouen ; Paris and. Lyons, 907 f. ; Paris and 1,050 f. ; Lyons to the Mediterranean, 4 17.50 f. TURKEY AND RUSSIA. Accounts from Constantinople of the 4th July s tate that the situation remains unaltered. TL• French Colonel, Magnan, who is now in the Sul- VI'S service, has left the capital for Shumla. The 43 -ungarian, Kossta, has provisionally been handed over to the Austrian consul at Smyrna. The combined fleets are still at Besika Bay, where they had received a visit from the principal inhabitants of Constantinople. The necescaly Steam power for towing the 38 vessels being at Be sika, it was calculated that the whole could arrive at Constantinople in 29 hours. The armaments are still being actively continued. An army of 80,030 men has been concentrated at Erzeroum. A strong garrison has been placed at Batun. A letter from Constantinople of the 30th ult., in the Independance of Brussels, says 64 Rather serious disturbances have broken out at Adrianople and in some parts of the province of Ismidt, near Constantinople. At Kaboussel, Adabazar, and Arash the Christians have been molested, and the Go vernor has been compelled to adopt strong measures to prevent popular effervescence. The events at Smyrna have caused great sensation. Ali Pacha, the Governor, has been dismissed. Tne Porte at first inerely displaced hi m , and appointed him Gover nor of Rhodes ; but M. Bruck insisted .on his dis missal, and the Pore gave way. It appears that the conduct of Ali Pacha was not free from blame. The Austrians say that for two months their Consul had demanded the extradition of M. Kossta, whole name is on the list of refugees, who according to the convention with Count Leiningen are not to reside in the Ottoman ...Empire. Ali Pacha is replaced at Smyrna by Ismail 4-actia. M. de Bruck has presented to the Porte a note demanding the expulsion of all refugees in Turkey, who are subjects of Austria." The Debats corrects in these terms a mistake it made with respect to the date of the last Russian circular, in stating that it was the 20th of June Ilew style : "We hasten to make an important correction. The eirculrr bears the date of the 20th June, according to t he Russian calendar, that is to say, the 2d July for Western Europe. What led us into error was that we believed that this dispatch was known to the En g lish Cabinet before the sitting of the House of Commons of t he Bth July, on which day the motion of Mr. Layard Was to have been discussed, but of which Lord Palmer ton obtained the postponement. At bottom , that was 'ee important point in the discussion of dates ; and, 'whilst admitting that we were mistaken as to the date, We think we can maintain that the English Ca binet knew the substance and the principal argument of the dispatch before the sitting of the Bth July. The appearance of the combined French and tnglish squadrons at Besika Bay is, says the Con stautionnel, most imposing. This bay, situated on the coast of Asia, at the entrance of the. Darda nelle.s, is large and deep, and it is not improbable that it contained the thousand vessels which bore the Greeks before the walls of Troy. Our modern vessels, less numerous, but more formidable, form a long line opposite the plain along which the petu lant Achilles dragged the body o: Hector at the tail of his chariot. The French vessels are at the head of the line, the headmost ship being the tiayard of 90 guns. Between the ships of the line and the shore are ranged the smaller sailing vessels and the steamers. At first the French squadron, Ithough s u p er i or t o the English in ships of the line and guns, was inferior in steamers, b ut the force in that particular has been since equalised by the arrival of the Gomer and four other large steamers. The New Prussia n Bth July, % GazeZte under date of Vienna, s ays :—" All th e ' difficulty which the Turco-Russia n finding the solution which difference presents, consists in rch can serve as the term between th e note of Count de Nesselrode middle of the 19th May, and t Reschid. Pacha. It will be r t eply made to it by this point, however, as the the more easy to solve sues the same object, a n d „ the language cabinet pur ciliation has been listened to haw of con oeuenr England and France. General Count Giulai, tor at St. Petersburgh, will recom me n Z Em peror of Russia to conclude such an ar ___ the ra,Yement Em- Austria has not armed, notwithstanthri, the th rea t en ing appearance of things, becautz, she wished to prove how much confidence she had in her ally of the North, but she has reserved to -ler sel fto act according to her ideas in case her good offices should be rejected." The Wanderer of Vienna contains a letter from Constantinople of the 27th ult., wh ich says :—" A corps of observation has been dispatched to Bat turn, whence it can in ten hours be in Circassia for military operations. A part of the English fleet is to proceed to Battum to support its operations." A letter from Vienna, of the 10th, in the Ger man Journal of Frankfort, says :—" A great num ber of Russians, who were residing here, have set off for St. Petersburgh, in consequence of the impe rial ukase, which enjoins all Russian subjects to return to their country every two years, and pass three months there, under pain of having their pro perty confiscated. The presence of Count de Reich -1 erg in this city has for object, it is said, the or ganisation of Lombardy, and to have a decision come to concerning the property which has been sequestrated. The investigation im.stituted relative to the insurrection of Milan, is terminated. It has been proved that the insurgents were almost all of a low rank in life, and had received from the agents of Mazzini and Kossuth proclamations, money, and poniards. In addition, they were given to understand that in case of their succeeding, de posits of arms were ready for them. The muskets taken were almost all of American manufacture." A letter from Odessa, of the 2d, in the New Gazette of Prussia, says :—" I hasten to announce to you that a proposition for a mediation of Austria, supported by France, appears likely to be approved of by the Emperor Nicholas. Reschid Pacha will sign the ultimatum as the Emperor desires, and the just demands of Russia will thereby be satisfied. On the other hand, the Emperor, on the proposition of France, which is really en deavouring to maintain peace, will transmit to the Porte, in reply, a note, declaring that Russia has no intention to make the document signed by Reschid RAcha, nerve for any intervention whatever 1 & b onus Y.) ;fish wh esl le incre ss- . ,, ' tip 1,0 - hl of both r . ies were ) 1 0 ut low a' nary prices. DO qrs ., .te y i n setlYet hade lower. ast week' foreign W neverthe. off stem Ler advalles I. I Flo llr. 0 2,560 0 1 -- 0 1,42 0. 0 i t 740 I) was seas° ll ; inquiry, a off free'?: e was i 0„" at the in inquiry, ties of cF :dingly 111 . each, ilr (1.. 0. 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The Emperor will with difficulty consent to the above-mentioned measure so lonp , as the fleets shall remain there." A later from Srayrna, of the 29th inst., in the New Prussian Gar Jae, says :—" Much agitation has been caused by the Amer can corvette having placed herself close to the Austrian brig of war, and armed her boats, in order to prevent M. Kossta being taken away and conveyed to Trieste. M. Kossta has protested against the treatment adopted towards him, as he had placed himself under the protection of the United States. His American passport has been found. It is stated that the Austrian Government have discovered the assassin of the Baron de Hackelberg, but the intervention of the American Consul has prevented his arrest, as the Consul pretends 'that he is placed under the protection of his Government. He is a Hungarian, named Pasitz, who basbeen a Hussar. He deserted, but never went to America ; it has been proved that before this assassination he never enjoyed American protection. It was remarked that at the moment of the funeral of Baron de Hackelberg all the Consuls, with the exception of those of the United States and England, hoisted their colours half-mast high. The Prussian Consul was present in person at the ceremony, the others sent some one to represent them." SPAIN. The Madrid journals of the 9th have arrived. The junta, or commission nominated by royal decree for inquiring into the question respecting the holy places at Jerusalem, in which, it is said, Spain has an interest, has been duly installed. The Clamor Public() mentions a report that Gene ral Narvaez, as a proof of his submission to the Queen, will, before returning to Spain, apply for a passport for Vienna. The Diarw announces that M. Salamanca has commenced a prosecu tion against it for libel. The Duke and Duchess of Montpensier have presented an additional sum of 4,000 reals (1000 francs) to the fund raising for the relief of the sufferers from the famine in Galicia.—A Cabinet Council had been held at La Granja, under the presidency of the Queen ; but no decision was come to on any of the great political questions which have been so long in suspense. The Queen, however, is said to be particularly anxious that those relative to the return of General Narvaez and the Northern Rail way shall be settled as quickly as possible. A new Ministerial crisis is accordingly not considered un likely. The Minister of the Interior has drawn up a new plan for the organisation of his department. It is believed that the Council of Ministers cannot deliberate on the reports of the Royal Council re lative to railways before the 20th of this month. The Three per Cents. were done at 42/. SWITZERLAND. BERNE, JULY 11.—The committee.has submitted the following proposition to the National Council : " Resolved,—That the Federal Council shall be re quested to abstain for the future from ordering the judi cial and police authorities to expel persons who have not been proved to have violated the right of asylum, and whose conduct does not threaten to endanger the internal or external security of the Confederation." After a long discussion, the proposition was adopted by a majority of 58 against 20. THE ADVERTISEMENT DUTY. (Front the Morning Herald.)_ We write in ignorance of what Mr. Gladstone may, in another hour or two, announce to be his intention with reference to the newspaper controversy. First in order comes the dispute about the sixpence. Three:bus has the House of Commons decided that advertisements shall in - future be free from duty. Once did Mr. Gladstone obtain a majority in favour of a sixpenny duty. Still, as he must be the mover in a case of this sort, the whole state of the question is something like a drawn battle ; and it has been said that Mr. G. will refuse to move in the matter, except he can have his own way, and be allowed to levy the i pe;ice. But really this is miserable work. One day exulting in a rapidly-increasing revenue, and showing an augmen tation on the last quarter of no less than 1,146,0001. The next pleading poverty, and declaring the Exchequer unable to sacrifice a petty tax of 80,000/. a-year. Is this either dignified or consistEint ? We doubt, too, the correctness of Mr. Gladstone's arithmetic. We do not believe that the loss to the re venue would be even this poor 80,0001. per annum. For Mr. G. ought to remember that a large increase of advertisements, in all parts of the country, would as suredly produce both additional stamp duties, and a con sumption of much more paper, and hence an increased excise duty on that commodity. Let us observe the working of these two circumstances. Turning from the London papers, that we may not ap pear to be merely advocating our own cause, let us take the case of a leading provincial journal—such as the Manche-f.:er Guardian, or the Leeds Me;•curt'. Each of these papers now publishes a supplement, and Mr. Gladstone proposes to let this supplement pass without a stamp. But if there be a double supplement, then there is to be an additional half-penny stamp duty. Now it is a matter of absolute certainty, that if the advertisement duty be wholly taken off, so that the provincial journals can take advertisements at 3s. or 25., or possibly even lower, the increase of ad vertising will be so great as to make it inevitable that each of these papers must publish a double supplement every week. The circulation of each is about 10,000 copies. The use of a double sup plement would therefore bring into the Exchequer, each week, these payments— 20 reams of paper, gross weight 8001 b., duty £5 0 0 10,000 stamps, at Id 2O 16 8 £25 16 8 On the other side there is to be reckoned the loss of the sixpence which Mr. Gladstone is so anxious to levy. What would this amount/to ? We counted just now a page of advertisements in the Manchester Guardian, and found it to contain 98 advertisements ; or, not quite 400 for the whole four pages. Now, we would concede the probability that small advertisements would increase in number proportionately, if the duty were wholly repealed, and we will therefore suppose that the second supplement might contain 600. Well, the levy of sixpence on these 600 advertisements would produce 151. Clearly, therefore, if, by remitting the whole duty, instead of only two-Wrds of it, Mr. Gladstone can so far encoirta2 - e advertising as to force the Man ekes' Guardian and the Leeds Merci , :v to publish double supplements weekly, he would lose 151. by the surrendered advertisement duty, and gain 251. 16s. Bd. by the supplement stamps and by the duty on paper. It seems, therefore, qrite clear that by this remission the Exchequer would gain conade..ably. The only ex ception to be taken to thiEl argument is that the remis sion mig:l not produce the result we have supposed, i.e., a large increase of the number of advertisements. On this point, however, we believe that any man of ex perience could satisfy the Chancellor of the Exchequer. No one who is at all acquainted with the wants of the commercial world can enter:,ain the least doubt that per fectly "free trade" in adver:ising would produce this result—would lead to such an increase of business as would oblige all the leading papers to publish double supplements frequently. If this view be correct— and we have no doubt that it will bear a close scrutiny—when the Chancellor of the Exchequer is showing great pertinacity in defending the Treasury from Mr. Milner Gibson's attacks, when, in truth, he would probably gain more than he would lose by entirely conceding all that is asked of him. BRITISH ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.—The preamble of this company's bill has been declared proved in the Lords. NEW MEXICAN TARIFF.—The synopsis published of the New Mexican tariff, which is to go into operation, as regards European vessels, on the Ist of October next, seems to confirm the doubts already existing as to any broad views on the subject being entertained by Santa Anna. The details, however, being loosely given, and unaccompanied by any comment, it is impossible at pre sent to form any precise view with regard to them. THE ESCAPE OF PATRICK 0 TONOHOE.—The Free- of the L a i n e Jo' c l i irnn, publishes letters from Sydney and Me in a storm , bourne, detailing escape of Patrick O'Donohoe, one escapedsh convicts. On Sunday, the 19th of Decem ber, h e the 22d. from his district, crossed Bass's Straits of his , p a re nd . arrived 'on the Australian continent on vious to starling he wrote out a vindica tionthe most escape,distinn cll. After his arr u i i v e l l 1 j ond sent it by a sure hand to one of on boardi members of the Legislative Conn athin Australia, on the 22d, he tra versed 300 miles of a the bench and indentions of Hob son's Bay, seeking bound for America. Once p a a. v d essel bound for a Span be was received the captain 1901. pas sageptalaheNvwent off his bargain. in Robso:' ellna.,y, nish settlement, and had money, but the ca without . sleep or For many days and nights rest, and one day he travelled niner miles . through without a the bush, subsisting on brackish Y- nw . ° a l l yt e l:e par acle of food. On New . Year's dis guised, alongside the Great Britain, to ascei Laln if he could get off by her : lie could. ac complish this, and he entered the city at night, clothed in -bet He walked into a house which was kept by an Irishman, in a sou'wester and blue shit t, tar-like, and storm where he received the tenderest welcome. Four Pri e d Irishman mounted guard at his door, and on the f o ll ow . ing day he held a levee, at which it is stated the prin c ip a l men of the town attended, armed for his defence. Fi ve hundred pot ceinen and the Government sympathisers r•re said to have known of the meeting. On the follow ing day he placed himself in communication with a few trustworthy friends, and these few gentlemen had O'Donohoe immediately removed to the country for srfety. They then entered into a subscription amongst themselves for the purpose of chartering a small vessel to take him to California. Three of the five gentlemen who constituted the Committee of Safety subscribed 751. each, and the remaining two (poor men, comparatively speaking), subscribed 501. each, making the handsome snm of 3251. A'l things having been airanged, O'Do nohoe was placed on board a small cutter that was osten sibly cleared out at the Sydney Customs for the South Sea Islands, but, in reality, for San Francisco. THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, JULY 15, 1853. " DASHING" -WEDDING, BY ELIZA COOK. (From Elizx Cook's Journal.) " Well, if ever we sh3u/cl get manied, we shall cer tainly adopt the sensible advice of Prneh,, and make the affair runaway match with the consent of our friends.' " This was our fervent mental declaration some fourteen months since, when, much against our inclination, we were staying at the house of a young neighbour during the preparations for her marriage with a good-looking clerk in the Bank. This young neighbour was Emily Mason, the eldest daughter of a retired commercial traveller, who managed to keep up a very respectable appearance, with a wife and five children, on three hundred a year. We had always given the Masons credit for being people of good common sense, and used to quote them as an example of prudence ; but, alas! the folly they exhibited at the union of Emily' with George Burleigh quite sawed our veneration for ' their mental superiority, and caused us to imagine that weddings, like cards, were invented to amuse mad people. We knew that George Burleigh had scarcely two hundred a-year, and that "comfortable aim]: •6ments" near Islington, with a "small domestic," would form the extent of his establishment ; we knew that Mr. Mason had nothing to spare for extraneous luxuries ; and of course were con siderably startled when we heard of six bridesmaids, a grand breakfast for forty people, four dashing carriages, with grey horses and white favours ; that Emily was to wear a splendid lace veil instead of a bonnet, and that the whole paraphernalia was to be in imitation of the style in which the daughter of a duke is married. Every member of the family seemed bewildered by the approaching event, and the simple legal contract of mar riage was evidently about to be performed in much such a temporary galaxy of spangles, foil, white tulle, and blue fire, as one expects to witness in the last scene of a Lyceum Christmas-piece. The confusion and profusion of dressmakers, tailors, white gloves, orange-blossoms, milliners' boxes, confectioners' trays, wine - baskets , and silver-decked cards, completely destroyed the natural state of household propriety, and every room and every person seemed bitten by a matrimonial tarantula. The staid and stout mamma grew so "puce" in the face amid the perplexing anxieties and duties crowding on her, that she rushed about l'ke an animated pickling-cabbage. No sooner bad she tried on a very tight-fitting dove-satin dress, under the scrutiny of Miss Flouncem, which added a deeper suffusion to her cheeks, than the cook, hired for the occasion, begged her most earnestly to look out the jelly-glasses : no sooner were the jelly-glasses produced, than her presence was demanded in the passage touching the arrival of " the cake" from Purssell's ; then, where was the blonde lace she had promised Julia in her private drawer upstairs ; then, where was the parcel of almonds for blanching ? in the store-closet down-stairs : Emily begged her to go directly to Regent-street to match some pink silk, and Maria requested her to be sure to call in Covent-garden to insure the bouquets. Poor Mrs. Mason (she might with justice have been taken for the long-sought realisation of " perpetual motion") ! but she wanted to "do the thing hand somely," and to show her friends that she knew " what is proper on such occasions," so she endured bravely, like a maternal heroine as she was, and felt as im portant amid her embarrassing duties as a parish beadle at the head of a charity-school. It so happened that we wished to indite some business correspondence, and few would believe how vainly we tried to get a quiet hour and a foot or two of covenient space to ourselves. We sought the front parlour—there was a white silk skirt with seven flounces, three gauze scarfs, and "a love of a cap" on the large table, and a pink jacket, with numerous pairs of ethereal sleeves, on the "Pembroke." We retreated immediately, and tried the back parlour—there we encountered Mrs. Lovelace, in close conjunction with Julia and Maria, amid heaps of delicate materials, sprinkled with ribbons, flowers, and marabouts, to such a dazzling extent, that one might have fancied Oberon and Titania, with their elfin crew, had left their clothes behind while they went to take a bath. Not an inch -of mahogany, not a glimpse of a chair-seat was visible, and we felt that our epistolary intentions in that quarter were completely "bonneted." We sought our own bedroom—there was Emily packing up for her " tour" to Brighton, and everything was everywhere ; we peeped into the brother's dormitory—surely a chance existed there—but, lo and behold ! the toilet-table was covered with glass and tumblers,, and the very floor oc cupied by plates and dishes. W e cast a sort of longing look on the landing-place, and when we found that in vaded by four bandboxes. Mr. Mason's new blue coat, and three palrs of dress boots, we gave up our purpose in despair, and resigned ourselves to helping Mrs. Mason to cut out some paper ornaments for the breakfast. Where George Burle;gh was during his visits on the two last evenings o 7 preparation we could not quite make out. We fancied we caught a fading shadow of him at the str-et-door once or twice as Emily gave rather an abrupt sTlin to the said door, but certain it is that he was not admiaed into either of the receiving-rooms, and it is our be';ef that he was positively ordered out of the house. The night before the eventful miming the excitement and confusion ;ncreased to an alarming extent ; some of the most important essentials were found defec ,ive at the last moment. Mr. Mason had discovered that the sherry was not drinkable, and then doubted if there were cham pagne enough. A journey from Bayswater to Fenchurch street after 8 p.m. was indispensable, and off he went, poor man, looking very like an escaped lunatic. Frank, the youngest son, declared his vest was too short for the fashion, and flung himself into a severe hysteric of bad words about the tailor's masculine want of attention. Tom, the eldest, had not been able to get grey horses to ail the carriages, without extra charge. Maria was in an agony to find that one of the bridesmaids intended to wear a far more splendid dress than her own. Julia was loquaciously bitter against a pair of tight shoes just come from the makers's ; and Emily, the bride, was on the very precipice of fainting, from the effect of general flurry. M. Mason, long after midnight, was busied among the " things for breakfast," and was so lost to reason that when Mr. Mason asked where his new black trowsers were, she replied, " They .will be brought up with the custards, my dear." Dresses had to be altered, trades men had to be sent to, servants had to be schooled, and everything had to be looked for that should have been found a week before. We suspect that not a member of the family got one hour's sleep, and for our part we own to having entertained desperate notions that the mere " broomstick" system of marrying was preferable to such a dreadful disturbance in a quiet family. We can never describe the wedding morning. We seemed in a sort of mist, and can only distinctly recol lect that Emily was dosed with neat brandy, and that George Burleigh had to go back for the ring ; that the guests made long speeches while the bride was gasping ; that the bridegroom looked as happy as a duckling in a furze-bush ; and that Mr. Mason, between French champagne, Italian cream, and English sentiment, was compelled to retire from the public breakfast-table to the private bed-room. We were never more glad than when, after an un limited amount of tears, and hugs, and distresses, Emily and her husband left for the London Bridge station ; and so sickened were we by the foolish wedding display of the Masons, that we resolutely made up our minds to abjure any chance of a like infliction in future. About a month since we paid a visit to Mrs. George Burleigh under very different, and what most ladies con sider very interesting, circumstances ; that is, she was sitting up in a close bedroom in a dingy-white dressing robe, with two dirty basins and ditto wine-glasses on the mantlepiece, a mysterious looking small panikin on the hob, a vast amount of untidy all-sorts scattered about, and something in her lap which might have been mistaken for a large wax doll, had it not exhibited a degree of crimson in the face which no wax doll of the slightest lady-like pretensions ever displayed. A rather subdued but very expressive vocal sound issuin g from this small pipe in the grand Haarlem orgy n of life brought us to a full conviction of its being a real identity ; and after congratulating its mamma on her new possession, we instantly discovered an intense general likeness to its papa ; within a few minutes we saw a strong trace of both grandpapas in the nose, with a dash of a maternal uncle about the chin ; while in the hands we detected the thumb of the whole Mason family. We nursed the cabbage-rosebud for some five minutes with such ner vous care and practical dexterity that its dear little head came in contact with the powder-box, and its robe of innumerable tucks got intimately acquainted with the cinders. We resigned it to an elderly woman, who smelt so strongly of "something," that our vivid imagination immediately saw written under her mouth the inscrip tion often observed on the doors of various taverns, "Bottle and jug department." At last "the lovely in fant fell into an Elysian slumber of beatific serenity," as we read in a new novel the other day, and the lady of the immortal " Gamp" fraternity left us, no doubt, to fall into the Elysium of "Barclay's best." " Well, Emily," said we, "isn't George delighted with his daughter I" "Oh dear, yes," she replied ; "but do you know it has been a dreadfully expensive time, and do you know, he says, that as soon as ever we can get rid of the nurse, we must go into smaller apartments. I wish we had now what was spent on our wedding. Do you know," continued she with a confidential, long faced whisper, "that what with the carriages and break fast, and all those fine dresses which you said I didn't want, the presents to the bridesmaids, the three weeks at those uncomfortable lodgings at Brighton, and one thing and another, that upwards of one hundred and twenty pounds went ; and where was the good of it ? but Ma and Pa would have a "dashing" wedding, and I was very foolish myself in the matter. I only wish we had the money now. George often gets cross about it when he thinks of it. Ibis outpouring of Emily's did not at all astonish us, for we knew that she possessed some common sense, although the matrimonial eai thquake had shaken it for a time. She then paid us the compliment of wishing that she had taken our advice, and got married more quietly. " Do you know," continued she, "that I think people in our station of life are very foolish to waste so much money on their weddings; and when Julia and Maria get married, I shall do all in my power to prevent such a stupid set out. Not a soul cares for you a bit the more, after all the bother and expense, and I'm sure it's no pleasure to the parties. What do you think ? Mrs. Harley told Mrs. Mitfield the other day, that she thought Mr. Mason had much better have put by the money for WeCaineemi his girls th an h ave cu t s uch a dash for a few hours • and Mr. Harris, I hear, has made some rude remarks ;bout l e t d o at the Emily'sbrak a st " the ch ampagne not b e i ng pa id f or ye t,— an d yet t h ey botli honesty, and a long expatiation ensued on the co nven it' onal absurdity of "grand weddings" in the middling ranks of society. We summed up, that the general results are embarrassment, discomfort, and undue expense. That most brides in such a position are pain fully distressed ; that most bridegrooms are either ridicu lously " spooney," or unbecomingly excited ; that the immediate connections are awkwardly anxious ; that the guests are seldom perfectly comfortable, and often censo rious and ungrateful ; and that the whole affair, instead of Wog a rational, solemn, and quiet ceremony, becomes a sort.pf,Bedlamite holiday,, in which flurry and fainting carriage and confusion, fine drdises . and - fooliih speeches, a gold ring and silver, card, are the prominent features ; and that they are by far the wisest who practise the ad vice quoted at the commencement of these pages. At this moment the She Dr2gon appointed by pre cedent to guard the golden nonpareil in the connubial gardens of Hesperides re-entered, and we left our young friend with the highest appreciation of her sensi ble repentance, and fancying, as we closed the door, that we still heard her saying something to this effect, and which, we believe has been echoed by many a thought less young couple—" I wish we had the money now that was thrown away at our wedding." IMPERIAL VARLIAII24NT. HOUSE OF LORDS--(YESTERDAY.) The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack at five o'clock. COLONIAL CHURCH. The Archbishop of CANTERBURY laid upon the table a bill providing for the better regulation of the Church in the colonies, which was read a first time. The Duke of ARGYLL presented a petition from the Chamber of Commerce at Leith, in favour of the bill for the amendment of the law of bankruptcy in Scotland. Lord CAMPBELL presented a petition from mer chants and others on the same subject. Lord BROUGHAM presented a petition from the Corporation of Glasgow, praying for an amendment of the law affecting the arrestmeneof wages in Scotland. Lord KINNAIRD presented a petition from mer chants and traders of Ed'nburgh against any alteration in the law. Lord STANLEY (of Alderley) presented a petition from a place in Worcestershre, praying for the repeal of the duty imposed on the importation of salt into India. THE CRIMINAL CODE. A conversation took place between Lord ST. LEON ARD'S and the LORD CHANCELLOR, on the subject of the codification of the criminal law. The LORD CHANCELLOR was understood to say that he was giving his best attention to the subject, and he hoped, before next session, matters would have been put in such a train as to enable Parliament to pass a measure for effecting a simple and comprehensive digest if the law. Lord CAMPBELL and Lord BROUGHAM said the house and the country ought to be much indebted to the noble and learned lord for the pains and trouble he had devoted to this important subject, and hoped the learned judges would render him every assistance in the preparation of this measure. The subject then dropped. SOUTH-EASTERN RAILWAY (CANTERBURY AND WHITSTABLE, &c.) BILL. The Earl of VERULADI moved the third reading of this bill. Lord MONTEAGLE said the petitions against the bill presented an enormous amount of national inte rests—one being from persons interested in 100,000 tons of shipping, and working with 4,000,0001. of capital, and the others being from large steam navigation companies, and they were, therefore, entitled to their lordships' at tention. The first ground of opposition taken by the petitioners was, that if they gave this railway company possession of the port at which the terminus was for steam-boat purposes, they gave them in effect the com mand of the steam navigation of the place ; next, that Parliament proposed to give this particular company limited liability, which they had for many years invari ably refused to other steam-boat companies. There was at this moment pend ing a commission of inquiry into the law of partnership, expressly including the principle of limited liability which they were thus going to anticipate —in a case, too, which was full of danger. They had often objected to the grasping monopoly of railway com panies, but they were now going not only to confer on one of them the control of the steam-boats at the termi nus, but the possession of the harbour of Folkestone. In the case of the Brighton Company the house refused the powers which they now were asked to give, and the Duke of Wellington, whose interest in the Channel communi cation they all knew, in 1848 drew a distinction between a railway bill to enable a company to make a railway and a bill to enable them to build steamers, with the construction of which he conceived a railway company had nothing to do. But if it ever could be desirable to grant such powers at any time, it must be to a company which came before them with clean hands. Now, in the present case the company admitted they had been guilty for years past of a violation of the law, and of mis applying the funds of the railway shareholders to the establishment of steam-boats. Let their lordships not be led away by the argument that by giving those powers they enabled the company to give them good boats across the Channel. The case of the petitioners was, that they had provided those good steamboats already. He did not propose to reject the bill, but he certainly would propose amendments of the clauses conferring those powers. Lord BROUGHAM said, this case went before a select committee as an opposed bill. Different opposing com panies were heard against it by counsel, agents, and wit nesses, and the committee after all came to a resolution in favour of the bill ; and it now appeared before their lordships for a third reading. He strongly recommended their lordships to pause long before they departed from the principle of giving their confidence to the reports of their committees acting impartially, and he would say judicially, on the questions referred to them. , After a few words from the Earl of BANDON and Lord COLCHESTER, The Earl of HARROWBY said, that the principle was not to give persons the advantages of limited liabi lity except in cases of such magnitude as should make the risk too great to be undertaken on individual respon sibility. In the present case no such amount of re sponsibility had been shown ; he therefore hoped their lordships would not pass the bill. The present was merely an attempt on the part of a steamboat company to obtain an advantage over a competitor by acquiring cer tain privileges under the cover of being connected with and forming part of a railway company. He saw no reason why their lordships should depart from the prin ciple which they had usually followed in reference to such cases, which was, not to give an advantage over their competitors, which advantage was not at all requisite to the carrying out of their undertaking. Lord STANLEY (of Alderley) did not think it was quite fair to apply the same principles which regulated the steam navigation of this country with foreign nations to such a description of steam navigation as that which was contemplated by this bill. There was a great difference between the steam navigation which carried on the trade between all parts of the world and that which conducted trade between local ports. So far from its being the fact that there was no instance of Parlia ment having given its consent to a similar undertaking, he believed there was hardly any case in which a similar application was refused. The principle laid down in the report of the committee of 1848 was, that it was not politic to grant a charter of limited liability to any persons undertaking a private enterprise, and that such charter should only be granted when the undertaking was of sufficient magnitude to make it of national im portance. But the report drew a distinction which appeared to be applicable to this case. They thought that under circumstances similar to those which here . . existed a limited power might be granted. If a mini mum of fares were established, and if certain regulations were adopted, it was their opinion that the powers now asked for might be granted. He did think that, such having been the recommendation of the committee under the peculiar circumstances of the case, their lordships ought to grant the powers now asked for. The course pursued by their lordships' house, and by the other house of Parliament, was, when such matters were referred to a committee, and that committee reported that it was desirable that the power asked for should be granted, to concur with the recommendation of the committee, and he thought that much stronger reasons should be adduced than had been advanced by the noble lord (Monteagle) before their lordships should depart from that principle by refusing to pass the third reading of this bill. The Earl of WICKLOW thought their lordships ought to have better evidence before them previously to their coming to a decision upon the bill. He would, therefore, recommend that the third reading should be I postponed until the report of the committee was printed and laid before their lordships. The Earl of GALLOWAY opposed the bill. The object of it could not be carried out without a great outlay, which outlay could not be met without granting preferential shares ; and he knew that many of those who were now interested in the company were opposed to granting any preferential shares. After a few words from Lord KINNAIRD, The Earl of POWIS expressed a fear, if this power were given to the South-Eastern Company, that Parlia ment would be called upon by other railway comparies for timilar privileges, and he instanced the case of a railway company at Great Grimsby, which was partly projected for the purpose of engrossing the trade with the north of Europe. Lord MONTEAGLE explained that all he wished was, that their lordships, when discussing the bill, should have the evidence taken before the select com mittee on the table, and he was quite ready to withdraw his amendment. The Earl of WICKLOW then moved, as an amend ment, that the third reading should be postponed for the production of the evidence. The house divided— For the third reading ' 34 For the amendment . 10 Majority —24 The bill was then read a third time and passed. The Taxing Officer, Common Law Business (Ireland), Bill passed through committee, and was ordered to be reported to-morrow (this day). The Battersea-park and Westminster-bi:dge Bills were read a second time. CHURCH BUILDING ACTS AMENDMENTBILL. On the motion for bringing up the report of the amendment made in this bill in committee, The Earl of HARROWBY asked leave to withdraw the bill for the present session for the purpose of pro curing further information on the subject. The bill was accordingly withdrawn. The Metropolitan Building Acts Further Amend ment Bill passed through committee. J UVENILE MENDICANCY (No. 2) BILL. On the order of the day for considering the report of amendments on this bill being read, The Earl of SHAFTESBURY was underst oo d t o say that he propos ed to limit the operation of the bill to children under the age of 10 years. H e regretted to fi n d that some r emarks he had made on a former occa sion with reference to the President of the Poor Law Board had been misunderstood. He was most anxious that no m isconception should exist as to his intentions, for he would be sorry to say a word that could be con sidered disparaging of a gentleman of such amiable dis position, and who had so satisfactorily discharged the duties of a most important office. Lord CAMPBELL observed, that there were in this metropolis a number of children, both boys and girls, most of them under the age of 10 years, who were em ployed ostensibly in sweeping the street-crossings, and who then asked remuneration for what they had done, but who were, in fact, beggars. Some of the female children employed in this manner were certainly not more than seven or eight years of age, and there could be no doubt that if they continued such a course of life they would become prostitutes, and that the boys who followed a similar calling would become thieves. IHe would suggest to the noble earl whether a clause might not be introduced into this bill to meet the case of children placed in such a position. The Earl of SHAFTES.BURY was understood to say that he would endeavour to carry out the ti :ews of his noble and learned friend. The report was then agreed to. The Convicted Prisoners Removal and Confinement Bill and the Chancery Suitors Further Relief Bill were read a third time and passed. MANNING THE NAVY. Lord COLCHESTER begged to ask, in consequence of measures which had been brought forward in the other house by the First Lord of the Admiralty with reference to the manning of the navy and the formation of a =body of naval volunteers, whether her Majesty's Government would object to lay upon the table of the house such portions of the evidence taken by the com mittee of naval officers appointed by the Board of Ad miralty on the 6th of July, 1852, to inquire into the present system of manning the navy, or of their repoi as related to a system for the establishment of a coast militia, and to the training and subsequent employment of the boys educated in the schools of Greenwich Hos pital ? He thought it was very desirable that these por tions of the evidence should be laid before the house, but if it would be inconvenient to the Government to pro duce them, he would not press the matter. The Earl of ABERDEEN believed that the report of the ;mnaittee to which the noble lord referred was con sidered to be of a confidential na'Are, but he would com municate on the subject with the First Lord of Admiralty, and, i: there should be no objection, the doconents asked for by the noble lord should be laid on the table. He must say, however, that he inclined to the opinion that the papers ought not to be produced. The house adjourned at a quarter to 8 o'clock. LITERATURE. The Zoist : a Journal of Cerebral Physiology and Mesmerism. This periodical increases in interest every quarter. The present number gives us much characteristic information, and several articles on subjects of general entertainment. Among others, a letter to Dr. Elliotson on "Table Moving," and " Sensi tiVes." The introductory notice by W. Gregory, M.D., speaks for itself as to the nature of the sub ject far better than any criticism. We here sub join it at length ; it is well worthy of attentive consideration, from the importance of the theme and the able manner in which it is expounded : " The medical profession has, within the last two or three years, found it necessary to admit a very large part of the long and obstinately rejected phenomena of mes merism ; viz., all those phenomena which depend on sugg estion. These, so long as they were described by mesmerists as occurring in the mesmeric sleep, were scornfully rejected, and it is only since they have been publicly exhibited as occurring in the waking state, and absurdly called electro-biological, thal they have been admitted. Yet they were just as true, and as fully de monstrated by the mesmerists before, had the evidence but met with a fair reception. " But those who now admit the suggestive phenomena forget the past and, still neglecting or despising investi gation, ascribe, without hesitation, all mesmeric pheno mena whatever, so far as they admit these, to the in fluence of suggestion ; and either deny or disregard all the evidence which tends to prove the existence of a transferable influence, capable of acting at a distance, and otpassing through various media—opaque or other wise. The writers now alluded to still reject, precisely as they once did the phenomena of suggestion, all the al leged facts of action at a distance, of sympathy without suggestion, of vision at a distance, or lucid vision gene rally ; and rather than admit such facts, which imply such a transferable influence as I have above alluded to, ascribe all the alleged facts to imposture and collusion, exactly as they did a few years ago in reference to the phenomena of suggestion. They pronounce the very idea of such a force or influence to be unphysiological, unphilosophical and absurd, and begin their researches (!) with assuming, a priori, the principle that no such in fluence or force exists or can exist. "Now against this mode of reasoning, a pr iori in op position to alleged facts, observed by competent persons of good character, I protest, in the name of logic and science as altogether inadmissible. I maintain that we know little or nothing of the laws of nature in such matters, and certainly nothing to justify such an assump tion. Nor can we ever learn anything of the laws of nature save by observation and deduction from observed facts • in no case by a priori assertions. " I maintain further that there exists a mass of evi dence in favour of the existence of a force or influence, in all probability imponderable but quite distinct from all the known imponderables—such as heat, light, electricity, magnetism &c. ; and that the facts observed by mesmerists, in which suggestion has no share, can only be accounted for by the supposition of some such force. But I hold, that even if we could not account for them at all in this or any other way, these facts exist as truly as do those of suggestion, and to deny them does not annihilate them. They remain, and will ulti mately compel recognition. "I will go further, and say that we have no more nor better evidence of the existence of the forces or influences which we assume to be the cause of heat, light, &c. (but of the true nature of which we no nothing, except that they appear to be imponderable), than we do of the supposed mesmeric force or influence. When we are able to answer the question, "What is light, or heat, or electricity ?" but not till then, we shall be able to say what is the true nature of the mesmeric in fluence. At present, of all these forces and many more we know only the effects, but not the essence. We have ascertained by observation some of the laws which regulate them, but still not their essence. And there is no reason whatever to suppose that the admitted list of imponderable natural forces is incapable of additions being made to it, from the same source, namely, ob servation. "Be this as it may, it is on this point at present that the mesmeric controversy hinges. Those who assume that we know all the forces and laws of nature refuse to admit a new influence or imponderable ; as if electricity itself did not date, at the very earliest, from the 17th century only ; and as if magnetism as a science, and above all, electro-magnetism, were not of still more re cent origin. Those, again, who appeal to observation, maintain that the facts observed demonstrate the exist ence of a new imponderable, or force, or influence as plainly as do other facts the existence of the causes of heat, light, electricity, magnetism (ordinary), chemical attraction, gravitation, cohesion, and any other forces which may belong to this category. And if it be un philosophical to talk of the mesmeric fluid, be it remem bered that this is done only in the same sense in which we speak of the electric fluid or the magnetic fluid, a mode of expression which arose from the resemblance of some of the phenomena to the motion of currents of , fluid matter. _ _ " Up to a recent period, all the evidence in favour of the existence of a mesmeric force or influence was derived from experiments made on persons in the state of mes meric sleep or somnambulism. But in 1842, Reichen bach adduced a vast body of facts, altogether indepen dent of the mesmeric state or processes. He studied the phenomena precisely as those of all the other depart ments of physical science are studied ; and, precisely as is done in all other cases, he gave a name to the new force, because he found it to differ from all known forces. " The letters which follow contain a brief and popular account of his researches, and are, in my opinion, ad mirably calculated to show the utter futility of the a priori argument against the existence of this force. It is for this reason that I think they will be useful at the present time, when so much misapprehension prevails as to the extent and bearing of his researches. None of the writers who have opposed his views have given proof of having even carefully read his work. Their argu ments are addressed to superficial and erroneous notions of it ; and I have no hesitation in stating my conviction, after a very careful study of his writings, and many ex periments on the subject of them, that no scientific work whatever, known to me, deserves to rank higher in all the qualities which belong to an investigation conducted on the true Baconian principles. I have met with no argument which even touches his conclusions. But in conclusion I would remind the reader that while Baron Reichenbach speaks of a force or influence as the cause of the phenomena he has observed, he is not to be under stood as using these terms in any other sense than that in which we daily use them in reference to the known and admitted imponderables. As we speak of a mag netic or electric influence or force, so, and not otherwise, does he speak of the od force or the odic force—meaning by this the unknown cause of certain observed pheno mena, which is precisely what we mean when we speak of the electric force. "Evidently, then, the important point is the pheno mena, and not the name given to the supposed cause of them. And the reader will find in these letters:abundant proof of the existence of peculiar phenomena, and also, if he considers the subject f a i r ly, equally abundant proof that suggestion has nothing whatever to do with them. The precautions taken to exclude suggestion, however, cm only be fully understood by studying Baron Reichen bach's great work, of which the first volume has been translated both by Dr. Ashburner and by myself. "Even the present letters, however, contain suffi cient proof to satisfy such as can judge of scientific evi dence, that suggestion cannot explain the facts ; and this is the conclusion to which all have come, who have in vestigated these phenomena, and which agrees perfectly IN:th the conclusion arrived at by the independent re searches of mesmerits on persons in the mesmeric state, it being borne in mind that all the observations of Reichenbach were made on persons in the ordinary or waking condition. " WILLIAM GREGORY.' THE PENINSULAR MAILS. SOUTHAMPTON, JULY 14. By the Peninsular and Oriental Company's ship Iberia, Captain John Bowen, we have dates from Gibraltar to the 6th ; Cadiz, the 7th ; Lisbon, 9th ; Oporto, 10th ; and Vigo, the 11th inst. The Iberia brought on freight 5 packages specie, value 2,8151. steiing ; 64 boxes eggs, 58 boxes 241 half and 35 quaff ter boxes raisins, 24 packages onions, 6 bags potatoes, and 20 packages general merchandise. Among the passengers by this steamare—theer D m ut , Duke oßfarFoonliGi ,utcb, heMthaerqßuaisroonf aCndarß Baroness acacrioonhEscharege, Mr. , Sir M . C. Smith, Campbell, her Majesty's Consul at Port St. Mary's, &c. On the 7th the Iberia passed the screw steamer Alba tross steering to the southward ; on the Bth, the barque Bullfinch ; on the 10th, the steamer Madrid ; and on the 12th, the steam-ship Great Western. The news from Portugal brought by this packet has been anticipated by the arrival of the Tay. From Gibraltar our accounts are to the 7th inst. The screw-steamer Teneriffe, ten days from Alexandria, five and a-half from Malta, touched at Gibraltar on the Ist inst., on her way to Liverpool. The screw-steamer Arno, three days from Marseilles, arrived on the 3d, and cleared for Liverpool. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's screw-steamer Cadiz, seven and a-half days from Southampton, arrived on the Bth, and proceeded for Constantinople. This steamer, after leaving South ampton, had to anchor in Yarmouth-roads for 30 hours, in consequence of a tremendous gale of wind from the south-west. The screw-steamer Livorno, three and a half days from Marseilles, arrived on the sth, and left on the 6th for Liverpool. At Gibraltar, exchanges on London are 90 days' date, as quoted, 511 to 5111 ; Spa nish Pillared Dollars, 31 to 4 per cent. premium. PREPARING FOR NEXT CENSIIB.—In the Wick Free Church, on Sabbath last, no fewer than eleven children were baptised by the Rev. Charles Thomson. The ma jority of them were boys, and, judging from the strength of their tiny lungs, some of them were evidently very fine children. HOUSE OF COMMONS-(YESTERDAY.) UNIVERSITIES (SCOTLAND) BILL. Lord ELCHO moved the second reading of this bill. Sir R. H. INGLIS contended that the measure was neither more nor less than one to dissolve a solemn con tract entered into between England and Scotland at the time of the union. He denied the truth of the alle gation in the preamble that the present law was unsuited to existing circumstances in Scotland, and said he could only attribute the bringing forward of the bill to those who believed that whatever is is wrong ; be lieving that, if it passed, it would be hazardous to the existence of the Established Church of Scotland, he concluded by moving as an amendment that it be read a second time this day six months. Col. BLAIR seconded the amendment. Lord ELCHO opposed the amendment, believing that the bill was reasonable and just, and the opposition to it unreasonable and unjust. He looked upon the main tenance of university tests as a snare and a danger, rather than a bulwark to the Church—a snare because it would induce the Church to rely more upon legislative enact ments for its security than on its hold on the feelings and affections of the people, and a danger because it would embitter sectarian differences, and unite those who were not in communion with the Church in oppo sition to it. He considered not only that the majority of the people of Scotland, but also the majority of Churchmen in that country, were in favour of the pro posed change. In his opinion, the bill was conceived in the spirit of the age, for its object was to extend the benefits of education, and to remove religious disqualifi cations. He felt quite confident that the measure would receive the sanction of Parliament. Mr. FORBES intimated that he and his friends would not oppose the second reading, lest the Government should in that case force the bill through the house in its present shape and without any alteration. They did not intend to vote at all ; but they would reserve to themselves the right to propose certain amendments in committee. Viscount DRUMLA NRIG supported the bill, the principle of which he considered had long been recog nised by the house. Sir A. CAMPBELL supported the amendment. Mr. NEWDEGATE opposed the bill, and expressed his fear that it was intended to apply its pro% isions to the universities of England. In Germany the same system had been in operation which it was now pro posed to introduce into Scotland, of separating religious from secular education, and it had proved a miserable failure. If the bill passed the effect of it would be t 9 make Papists and infidels to hold the chairs of pro fessors in the Scotch Universities. Sir G. GREY expressed his gratification that the principle of the bill had received the general assent of the representatives of Scotland, on both sides of the house, and denounced the attempt of the hon. member to impute to them an act, the effect of which would be to admit Papists and infidels into the Scotch professorial chairs. He considered that the bill would remove a reproach which now rested on the Universities in Scotland, and he hoped the house would now affirm its principle, and settle once for all the question o 7 tests. Mr HENLEY said that as an English member h e did not feel himself at liberty to assent to a measure which he had good grounds for believing was against the wishes of some of the most eminent authorities in the Church of Scotland. He could not conceal from himself that it was a step towards separating religion altogether from education. Mr. LOCKHART supported the amendment. The house then divided, when there appeared — For the amendment l7 Against it lO6 Majority --89 The bill was then read a second time. The house adjourned shortly after .st three ami six o clock. The house resumed at six o'clock. CONSOLIDATED ANNUM2S. In reply to Mr. F. SCULLY, The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER ra'.d that he would to-morrow move for leave to bring fa a bill' for the remission of the ConsOdatzd Annuities, SAVINGS BANKS. Mr. OLIVEIRA wished to know from the Chancellor of the Exchequer when it is intended to proceed with the Savings Bank Bill; if the Governme tt intend to cat..y that measure as now amendel, or whether ply alieraKons will be made in those clauses which relate to the liability of trustees, rate of interest to be allow.'7d to depositors, end some other points to which ho (Mr. Oliveira) had callea the attention of the right hon. gentleman. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said. that he proposed to proceed with the committee on saivings banks on Thursday next, at twelve o'clock. With regard to the rest of the question, it was the intention of the Go vernment to proceed with the measure, but whether it passed depended not ent'-..ely on the Government, b at on the house also. The Government had now brought the measure into that form which they thought it deli table that it should assume. He did not, of course, wish t o ex clude any comments or discussion on the bill, but. the alterations made in it represent:d the present views of the Government. INVALID SOLDIERS. Col. KNOX wished to know from the right hon. g ratle man the Secretary at War whether it was true that 4'o sol diers, 30 of whom were invalids, had been embarkodi on board the Oberon at Malta without sufficient proaision being made for their health and accommodation. It ap peared that the space allotted to these soldiers was mn uch too small, that they were exposed on deck for 24 bo era, that the wet penetrated the vessel, which was obligesi I to call at Gibraltar in order to have the desk caulked; 'that only ten hammocks had been provided, of which six 'only could be hung in the space allotted for these 40 soldier! s. If these facts wore correct, he felt qu'te confident that; the right hon. gentleman would not allow them to °Fevre Mr. S. HERBERT said that the usual pracLice w:9.3 to send home invalids in transports. But as the Oberon. was returning home for the purpose of being repai-od,, the Admiral thought that it offered an oppor'arnity for sefsilieg home invalids, and he offered a portion of the space ha the vessel for that purpcse to the offi"er in corr - nand at Malta, which he thought would afford additioral comforts t o the invalids, and especialy to women and children. Ho be lieved it was correct that in consequence of the st.3to of the vessel the wet had penetrated. With regard I the hammocks he had received no irformation, and he cos assure the hon. and gallant gentleman that every thi would be done to prevent the recu - ranee of such ire An re nience in. future. (Hear.) SALT MONOPOLY IN INDIA. In reply to a question by Sir J. PAKINGTON, Sir C. WOOD said that he would have no objcction ter lay on the table of the house a letter from the jr-Yior sm]v tary in the province of Bengal, a - d some other papers le lative to the salt monopoly. CHOBHAM CAMP. Lord X. RUSSELL said he had stated in a 'saver to , the hon. member for Montrose, that a" the expenses had bt ,eu. voted on. the motion of the Secretr• 1 - 3 t-War. He ad since foumd that there were some expenses connected vr.ith the Ordnance Department wb 4 ch were not included in. t be expenses mentioned, but if the hon. gentleman wish ed there would be no objection to the production' 0.. the abdi di tional e:cpanses. Mr. H. IVME said that it would be better for the Govern ment to bring forward an estimate in the ord'urry way_ PUBLIC BUSINESS. In reply to Lord H. VANE, Lord J. RUSSELL said that he proposed to prod rad. with tho Charitable Trusts Bill on Thursday. Mr. WILLIAMS said they were now in t- "e e:'l ith month of the session, and he saw by the paper that six x sew bills wee to be introduced that night, he presumed at I,wo or three o'clock in the morning. He should like to km ow from the noble lord how many more bi - % world be him ely to be introduced in this surreptitious manner ? (Laughter.) Lord J. RUSSELL said that if the hon. gentlemen ?had given htm notice of the question he wou'd be able to *;iv© him a r more precise answer. But most of the bi"s on the paper were bills for the continuance of Acts of Parliam cot which would expire. (Hear, hear.) Mr. GIBSON - said that some of the bills were not Icon tinuanc e bills, but altogether new measures. (Herr, he •ar.) At ace main period of the session a process was usr&ly re sorted to with regard to bills which was commorly lour nvn as the "massacre of the innocents." (Hear, hear.) It would be greatly for the convenience of members if the Govern ment would have recourse to this process as Bean as passible, ti - 'd iroim the house what bills they intends d to proceed. with, and what bills they meant to withdraw - - Lord J. RUSSELL said it was spite true that ;about this period of the year a number of bi'ls were usuall':,* on the pap er which it was found impossible to carry through before the end of the session. But he trusted there were very few bills of that nature in the list at the present ime. (Hear, hear.) If the right hon. gentleman would ask him with regpad to any particular measure, he would rst.te what course the Government intended o pursue with re gard to it. At a future day he would state what meat iures the Government intended to give up, but he hope]. ('Jere were very few of that description. (Hear, hear.) EDUCATION BILL. Lord cr.. MANNERS said that the noble lord, arAfergh he signified his intention of not proceeding with :he :Edu cation Bill this session, declared that he would stfill ask the house to assent to the pl':nciple of the bir by me viug the seem tci reading. (Hear.) He believed that al: most every mclmber of the house would agree with lom th at it would bet most inconvenient to ask the house to enter•upon what mi: Ott be a troublesome and annoying cliscussie rt of the principle of a NY_ which it was not intended to pass into a la , fo in the pre ent session. (near.). Lord J. RUSSELL said that his obje ct in proposing the second z.vs 'ding of the bill was to ascertain the nat tire of the objectiions that might be urged against it so tl tat he might be al')le to introduce the bill next session after a full considera ;Lion of those objections. (Hear.) He shou 'd still reserve t o himself the right of considering whether he should pi 'owed with the second reading, but if he br,aught it forward it would be only for the purpose ho had men. tioned. 4 I REGISTRATION OF ASSURANCES. Mr. HUME wished to k - tow whether the Covernment intended to proceed with this bill, with regard to which members were every day receiving a great many-letters ? Lord J. RUSSELL said that the bill had been referred to a select committee, and without some corrmunication with that committee it was not for him to say what would be done with respect to the bill. Sir G. GREY said it would greatlyfacilitate the public business if hon. members, who had ell's for Wednesday, would give up the sitting on that day to the Government. (Hear.) The Factory Fill had been fixed for a late (thy in July—(laughter)—and he wished to know irom the noble lord opposite whether it was fltended to proceed with that bill. Lord J. MANNERS said that the right hon. gentleman had better put the question to the hon, member for Old ham (Mr. CobbeW, who was mono intimately concerned with the bill than he wo.s. RUSSIA AND TURKEY. Mr. DlSRAELl—Referring to the question I addressed to the: noble lord (Lord J. Fussell) on Monday, v, ith re spect to the circular dispatch signed " Ne3=elrode," which reached the met -orolis that day, I then mentioned it ap peared in the d= patch that the occupation of the Turkish ports by the combined English'and French fleet; was coesi . _ _ tiered by Russia as a naval occupation analogous in cha- 1 meter to the military occupat'on of the Turkish princlF.a• lities by the Russian army. I also mentioned the dispatch stated,when that complete satisfaction wasgiven by Turkey to Russia which was its due, and when the pressure which the attitude of the two maritime powers in the ports alluded to had ceased,. then the Emperor of Rush:a would withdraw his forces IA :thin their own limits. The tioble lord on that occasion, wh•'e he j us tl y f e lt it t o b e hi s d u t y to question the propriety of the first allegation I alluded tc—namely, that the I resence of the combined fleets was a ntvrl cecupation of the doreriors of Ihe Sultan, said, with reference to the second si atement, his impression was, t'sat I was not authorised i i the interpretation I put on the circular dispatch. It has three been mentioned in another place that the observation of the noble was inadver•t ently made—a pardorable inadventure, ce - ..tainly, as the document bad on'y jrst arrived, and the noble lord's Mien; tion bad only been just called to it. But, s'r, it is not for that purpose I r'-:a to address a question to the noble lord. The Secretary of Stat 3, in anothez place, took the oppor 7 tunity of declaring the determination of her Majesty's Ministers that they would not listen to the conditions pressed in that dispatch in so peremptory a manne7, and that tdey would not for a moment—in the management of this important affair—ad-Tit as a primary condition that the combined fleets shorld leave the Turkish ports alluded Assuming, FS I do, that now negotiations are only formally, not . vi - :tually pursued—and that they are au'lved at what is called a dead-lock—and believing that advantage to the public service will arise from a d'scussion of the question in both Houses of Parliament—l wish to know if the noble lord hr's any objection to fix a day on which the hon. member for Aylesbury can being on the discussion ha th's house? Lord J. RUSSELL—In answer to the right hon. gentle man, I must refer to the circumstances of the answer given by me on a former day. The right hon. gentleman asked me a question with regard to the circular dispatch which only reached this country that day—and as I only had an opportu-ity of reading it in the newspaper in a cui-sory manner, and had not made myse7f completely master of its contents, I therefore answered the i'ght hon. gentleman with respect to my impression of the interpreta tion to be put upon tl'at pa - of the document which said the Russian troops would be removed from the principali- ties 'f the preF!sure from the combined fleets in the Turkish poi's were taken off. I alleged I could not bei"eve it NNas intended by the Itussirn gover_iment to make that a condi tion of the evacuation of the piincipalities. I d;d so, not only because it did not appear to me that that position was quite distinctly laid down, but also because I could not con ceive that no account of two things so totallyun'ike the Rus sian government wou'd think itself justified in demand'ng that the English and French fleets should leave the Tork ish waters befcie the Russian troops evacuated the princi palities. Because, in the one case, the English and French fleets were only in the waters of an allied power, and only there for the purpose, .not of putt 'ag a pressure on that power, or urging that power in eny way, but to be ready in case that power should call for the assistance of its allies, in the event of actual invasion of its tea:Am:es. The other case was that of an actual occupation of the prin cipalities belonging to Turkey by Mission troops. I could see no similarity or comparison between the cases, and I could not think that a person of the experience and raga city of Count Nesselrc de could have affixed his signature to a document which declared to all the world that such was the opinion and determination of the Russian Government. At the same time, admitting that the words bei^r on the face of them the interpretation the right hon. gentleman gave, with respect to the question asked by the right bon. gentleman I have to state he is mistaken in supposing tho negotiations have come to a dead-lock; on the contrary, both the English and French Governments have considered whether there are not propositions wl icy might be accett d to both by the Russian and Turkish Goverrment3, would afford the means of obtaining a i acific termination of these unfortonate disputes. Whether or no these hoi. 39 will be justified we cannot know immed'ately. It must take some time before we learn what is the view taken by the Count of St. Peteriburgh of the mode in wh'ch Eng- Land, Fi.nce, or Austr'n may have ente.cl upon the:e subjects. AO whie such is the stag of the negcl lion, I think it is not desi7able to have it a mattsr of discrssion in this how.e. SUCCESSION DU f Y BILL. On the motion for considering the amendments on tb's bill, Mr. BARROW mcved in clause 1 the insertion of the words, "except money secured on heritable property in Scotland," after Ireland. He saw no reason why money secured by heritable bonds in Scotland should not be placed in the same condition as money s:cn-ed on lend in Fng ) and and Ireland. (Hear.) Mr. BASS said that there could be no raasen for exempt ing the money secured on land in Scotland which was not equally valid in re ipect to E ';'and cud Leland. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that the only reason for the exc::ption merle in favour of Scot l: id was, that by the law of Scotland heritable bonds were regarded as real proper y, and were liable to be charged for the purpose of rating to the poor. But he must admit that this liability to rating or'y Pfected heritable bonds, in common with other desc - _:ptio )s of property. (Cheers.) He admitted that there was a great deal to be said in fa your of the view of the hon. gentleman, and he would therefore accept the cniendurent he propo;,:,l. The amendment was then agreed to. Mr. FRESHFIELD proposed the followi-ss addition at the end of clause 2 :—" And for the pal•poce o: gover&ng and defining the several provisions in this act contained, it is hereby declared and provided that the object and inten tion of the legislature is to assess the tax hereby imposed upon property to which any person shall succeed without recvniary consideration under eny settlement or other dis position, or by operation of law, in such and the like man ner as if the same property or interest had been acquired by will or by way of distribution 'n case of intestacy." His object in proposing the amendment was to reader the interpretation of the act snore clear. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER opposed the amendment; first, on the general ground that it would be an unsafe course to enunciate large definitions of which it was impossible to foresee the effect in the construing of the statute ; and, secondly, because in part - viler cases the amendment would cut, across decisions which the house bad already frequently come to during the progress of the bill in committee. The amendment was negatived. On clause 7, Mr. MILLINGS proposed to insert the workls "in such property"a w ft o er ul te d h a w gi o .e r e d b t e o n e t hfit.e amendment, hoped nciraeat te , h be lg a h u t hon. gentleman because ethe e au r d igVt m h u on ci . l gnenatcleemoraan principle tw obviously r b e a hci t iicli h hr e cdt c h Ould not but thick they wjrds were wh so en w ri l la o ll m it i h t d t o e f d through mistake or inadvertence. He wantod to know if it was the meaning of the clause, that without there being in favour of a grantor any interest in the pro- Tier 4, but merely some mere matter of personal security hewas to be taxed on the succession s because if so it would be contrary to wh a t h e understood to be the spirit of the act. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL objected that if the words proposed by the hoe. gentleman were 'userted in the clause, it would open a door for the extensive evasion of the tax. If a man, sold his estate for an annuity, or any other bene fit, being a bona fide exchange, it would rot fall withfn the operation of the claus=e ; but if i here were a re ervation of a co-equal interest, the duty would be chargeable on the suc cession to that interest. The clause was worded for the purpose of taking in those cases in wh:ch en in;;erest was reserved to the grantor, and to prevent evasion. The amendment was then put and negatived. Several verbal amendments on the paper, in the name of the Chan cellor of the Exchequer, were put end coveied. Mr. HE &DLAM moved an amendment in clause 20 to omit the words " or of any lease with' a the opera tion of the 24th section of this act." The obj - ct of the clause was to exempt leases o,:ginally held on a rack rant on their falling in, but it was necessary to take e. re that the exemption should not apply to other lear.es, which it would if the words were retained. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER was dis posed to acquiesce in the amendment on the geeund that the words which had been introduced on the ~aggestiou of the hon. and learned gentleman opposite wou n d exel , ll from the tax any increase of value on the fal lin g leases generally. The amendment was put and agreed to, and Mr. MULLINGS moved an amendment in clause 21, with the view of making the scale of d uties estabijshed under the Legacy Act (the 36th a George III.) appl cable a ts ine u n n d d m er eu th t, s if ac c t a . iel H ed e , to o m l: f i e tt a o n d d t o t t a h t er th te e r e m ff i e n c a t bl o o f in t t h e i r s es h w e ou h l a d a be th ‘r Iseidsseraarbplyre- thoerrseitlnuceonthtehscalaeccoofudnztiez; a b u u se t when the Chancellor o f the Exchequer brought forward this measere he estimated the . produce of the t ax a t a b ou t two millions only, whereas, -irom die best information he had been able to collect, ho believed it would amount to at least 2,:'00,000.l. or 2,400,0001. Under these circumstances he thought there was no 4 C oa to put on a greater p r essure than t he ado p tion of th e tables of the Legacy Act louid i m pose ; tha more a ) that ono effect of the bill word bo to do what was never contemplated, viz., to in crease the legacy duty as well as to impose en additional charge upon real property. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, with re gard to the amount which the tax would produce, observed that there were vely many elements of uncertainty. He admitted a nett benefit of two it lions ; but in doing so, he proce ;led on the assumption that when the state of the revenue world permit the house would reform the probate duties, which could not be done without a sacrifice of re venue. (Hear.) It might be that in taking 30 years as the average of successions, he had taken too long a term; but in the successions in the peerage, where they had some thing like a test, he found the rate of successions was much nearer his calculation than that of the hon. and learned gentleman. Ent the question was not as to the demonstra tiveness of the one estimate or the other, nor would he say that the tax might not yield something more than he calcu- - :-_' fir A.f~~, -~ M ahr kt-, :I. 1V k