The Sun. — London, England, 1857-07-22 00:00:00

ZSDAY: for two for 600/ $ 2 yrs, Honer) 1 101 b wards} 2 rdale's adieu) 3 2 y rs, Daley) 4 t 121 b) 3peare) 5 ;st Polly between ,he third Le winner ft, with Du rido . ro; rtor. 13 , 4 yrs, Little). 1 at 91b rnpeon) 2 et 71b irrison) 3 11.13 ex.) ashore)* 4 Prince of enay and tter by a iird ; Ca• ler of any ghts, 51b oilman, tarlton) 1 Get 110 owden) 2 xlloner) 3 mer, Set. own, and a by si% gird ; and ban, Who ay in the ►ob, 10 ft, ed. The and the tra, Too declared• ,rdham) 1 sat 81b): (Bray) 5 aborne) 3 s, Young to 1 aget to 1 net n). tcond and ;h, and: • Teti was 1 .. . ...... 5 .......... 'lrbit aro mford. eat to-dal vples wao . ye t most reduction me in this ively sup' i all kind s ng cargogg ior foreign a ples W° Flout 72 850 10 250 ato St AS f° l ; )1; a 4 to 4s Oti; tyourabP , ;es ahoy° )ay.) )OD, lir'; ebec ; O A ' outh a" ton, frog' isia, west. Sailed' or 31`D°' rem en f°l' ...- A.rriveu xebec ao" i—United Peruvi so, Ayofl I ed—D tor red— 010. orninS• lrothaS9o Planter, g ; A")'” Odeso . ming• ISI3Pd ; on, 54, 1( Bon, Quebec MIMI fLY 20. Margare, ~ k, CO" Quebe c. ily 1`0• 1 1y 21• .) . irnink PU°. O P . so e KEier olo, err Ityreo espea' re ' ingot' • Levis° a.V 3. rY rcr ; ihebia o; ado' r Liv e ""0, Shic ffind°:3f , b yhor- ,. - ; 1110 01 be f ilv 1 113 ' " s tat e gooclA e.; MONEY MARKET AND COM i'JERCYJAL INTELLIGENCE , CITY, Two O'CLOCK. Letters from Liverpool state that the Cotton Market yesterday closed with a very animated ap pearance, and prices were quoted at a slight ad vance. The sales were estimated at 8,000 bales. In the Railway Share Market there were only a few transactions, and prices were without alteration. The advices from Paris received this morning contain the official returns relative to the Trade and Navigation of France for the month of June. These show that the revenue derived from the im port duties was 17,201,325 francs against 16,357,148 francs in the same month of 1856, and 1 7,816,982 francs in 1855. The imports of gold and silver were 76,266,610 francs, while the ex ports were 62,238,940 franc;, so that the stock of the precious metals had been augmented 4,027,700 fr ancs. During the past six months the naviga tion has greatly increased. The entries were 12,461 shins of 2,051,280 tons against 11,552 ships Of 1 ,803,339 tons in 1856. The clearances were 8 ,205 ships of 1,338,547 tons against 6,991 ships and 1,114,266 tons in 1856. At the meeting of the Cobra Copper Mining Company a dividend of 1/. per share was declared. A report has been issued this morning by the Directors of the National Discount Company, Which is viewed with much dissatisfaction. The rates of exchange for bills drawn on the Continent were rather steady yesterday afternoon. There is still a moderate demand for discounts in Lombard -street, but as accommodation can be ob tained on first class biils at a fraction under 51 per cent., the applications at the Bank are understood to be very limited. At the same time the resources of that establishment are believed to be improving, although .during the last two or three days there have been fewer sales of gold to the authorities, and hence an impresSiOn exists that the official rate will soon be lowered to 5 per cent., provided no adverse movement occurs to render such a measure itqrudent. At the Stock-Exchange loans are still obtained on compar itively• easy terms. The directors of the Crystal Palace Company have issued a report in which they intimate that at the forthcoming meeting a resolution will be sub- Mated to enable them to create Debenture Stock to the amount of 250,0001., to carry a perpetual preference interest of 6 per cent. The ' pro ceeds are to be applied to the following pur poses, viz. —lst, in paying off the balance of 64,2181. ls. due on the original purchase of land ; 2d, in discharging the sum of 68,7991. 7s. Bd. due to capital account ; 3d, in paying off the existing debentures in the hands of the public as they fall due, viz., 114,7381. 10e. At the half-yearly meeting of the London Life Association held this day, the accounts were pre sented and showed the following results :—Receipts 185,0801. 19s. 5d., and the payments 171,2491. 17s. 1.0 d., leaving a balance of 13,8301. ls. 7d. The claims were 68, amounting to 75,3001. The funded Property and other assets were 328,7661. lie. 11d. The in come of the Society was 112,2351. Some discussion took place when the accounts were passed. A decline of to / per cent. has taken place in t he market &I. Public Securities to-day, in conse quence of speculative sales. The operators are evi dentlygetting nervous, as the ti eae approaches for the announcement of the overland mail. The transactions have not been numerous, but they are mostly of an adverse character. Consols for transfer were 91 1 1 i and for account 91/ 92. They are 911 / and 91/ te s pectivaly. The New Threes have been 911 92, the Reduced 911 and the New 2i per Cents. hi. India Stock is 2161. Exchequer Bills are heavy, at 6s. discount, and the Bonds are 981: Foreign Stocks have attracted very little -atten t2.,". Turkish 6 per cents. were 95 to 951 but . ..ey have since receded to 941, 95. Spanish 3 Per cents. have been dealt in at 40i, Portuguese Per cents. at 45i, and French 3 per cents. 67, 45 ) with the exchange at 25f. 25c. i t Tho foll ow i ng are the nominal prices of Foreign 22 16k8 r "Grenad a D e f erre d B on d s , 6 61 ; Mexi c an, 6 ; 5 1: : I Peruvian, 80 82 ; ditto 3 per Cents., 54 per a °rtuguese. 3 per Cents., 441 5i ; Russian 5 m , 109 11 ; ditto 41 per Cents., 96 8 ; .31Zaish Per Cents., 40 ; ditto Deferred, 25/. . Th© Railway Share Market has been rather ac tive and the:d ea li ngs i n t h e pr i nc i pa l li nes h ave been numerous, generally at a slight decline on tisar'envina°llarskceutr h re a n y t ing rates, the flatness of the Eng influenced values. Eastern °°l ltieg, Great Western, North Western, and Midland,N receded ss. Great Northern, 10s., and o r% Eastern, Berwick, 10s. North Stafford and " a th Devon advanced 55., and North Eastern, York, • and S ou th W a l es, 1 0s. The F ore i gn and Colonial lines are flat. Paris and Lyons declined 4 . 1 North ern of France and Eastern of France " 4 . to 10s. Lombardo Venetian, ss. Grand Trunk of Canada receded 10s., and East Indian improved about 15s. Mining Shares are very quiet. ' Joint Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares are dull, and show very little variation in values. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCII. (.From the Offinal List:) 3 per Cent. Redu ce d A nnu i t i es Business done. 914 1 3 per Cont. Consols Anunities 914 $ A New :3 per Cent. Annuities 92 112 .Row 23 per Con% Annuities 7st „„. 14,1, 1. Annuities expire sth .ian. 1860.. . 2 746 1 6Ditto 30 Years, expire 10th Oct., 1 859 2* Ditto 30 Years, expire sth Jan., 1865 2 3-16 Ditto 30 Years, expire sth April, 1885 lB 146 India Stock WI. ht , ti for Account .. .Exchequor Bills, 24d £l000 Ditto Bonds, 1858, 3i per Cent. Ditto, 1859 b a lms OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK. p alms Bonds 5 per Cont., Con. 1841 _ D itto 1853 3 per Cent 452 Ta rnish ' t_tieuds, 6 per Cent. igabh Rondo 6 p er cent 95 Ditto Accoun't 95 i 4i Dividends on the above payable in Londcn: ireuch Rentes, 44 per Cent. — Ditto 3 per Cent 67f. 75c. ex 25f. 25c. TWO O'C I.° Ch.. Consols, money CO/18013 for Account COURSE OF EXCHANGE.--YESTERDAY. A•PlSiertutni..... ...... 11 18 Gibraltar .... .. •• •• •• • • • hi"- Leghorn .... • • ........ 29 95 .4 — • , ), three months .. 12 yotterdarn ......•..... 12 111 Genoa ... 23 8214 25 45 , Milan ...... • • ...... B russels.. ~ • ........ 25 45 ; Venice.....• •••• •• ' - . rlnlburgh .::......... 13 8% !Naples ................ 42}4 4 ... 1 t0na .. ••••.• •• •..... .. Palermo •••• •••••• •• •• 128 rari5..............• .... 25 30 ;Messina .. • . . 128% IdDitto, three months .. 25 65 'Lisbon .. Soarsew e s .........• •... 25 67% C , iporto .......• • • ...••• 52% urdeaux .. •••••• •• •. ;Rio Janeiro ..... .••• • .. BFrankfort -on-Maine • ... 119% 'Buenos A.yre5.........„ vierlin ..•....-- —•• •• • • IbTew York 60 days' sight en t ia.,... ~, ,„ .. •• • ... 10 32 t Philadelphia .......... _ Trie5te......... • • • .... 10 32 t ?RACES OP SELL lON, PER OE: Petersburg .......... 36% 'Foreign Gold In Bars..f3 17 9 48% Portugal Gold Coin .. o 0 Madrid •.. •• e• •• •,, t• • • Cadiz ................. 49% , Mexican Dollars .... 00 0 . 1 New Dollars - 00 0 111, rcelona .......... ' Silver in bars ...• • • 0 0 0 Seville.... .... tAIINUM SURPASSED.—At the Shoreditch County Court yesterday, a person professing to be a plaintiff brought an action against Mr. Anderson, the " Wizard of the North," for having damaged a new hat lent to the conjuror to make a hot currant pudding in. The, i - I° 4l inal plaintiff ex hibit e d th e d amage d b a t, which he . "r1 handed t o M r . A n d erson , w h o covere d it w ith a :"k h andkerchief, and restored it to the man in a per ;_ot state. The trick havi thus been successful, and ' ti e hat made new again, the plaintiff had nothing to Piain of, and was of course nons u it e d, a n d Mr. An rs derson ingeniously puffed. a .tisrate Ifstcoma AND EXPENDITURE.—The gross total o r i onnnt of the public income of the united kingdom for 4 ,, e ,,Year ended the 30th of June last was 72,067,8211.; ;„"" the total concurrent expenditure 71,756,7101., leav i"g an excess of income over expenditure, or a balance in ‘1 4 3 ",, d of 3 11,111/. The Customs yielded the sum of ta xes "K 46B /. ; Excise, 17,667,000/. ; stamps, 7,364.616/. ; t. 7 ( land and ass ess ed), 3.097,020/. ; the income ' it'; 16,168 722/..; the Post-office, 2,845,0001. • Crown I A dP, 2 84,875/. ; an d m i sce ll aneous sources of income, 2 8 1 4 ,136/. As regards the expenditure, the sum of ir12°5.020/. was appropriated to the interest and ma -1?,-ment of the public debt, permanent and floating ; . e i' . , 98 ,705/. to the charges on the consolidated fund (in -4:l4'ing the Civil List, Annuities and pensions, salaries to' Itilowances, pourts of justice, and diplomatic txpen )39.262,2851; to the supply services (includin g 6,;.104 6 56/. for the army, 12,370,000/. for the navy. 471,240/. fur miscellaneous civil services, and ar k :i 7 c ; l A B 7/. for th e sa l ar i es, & c., o f revenue d epar t men t s ) ; Th, Z'',; ( : 10 ,000/, t o th e r ed empt i on o f Exchequer Bonds. att balance in the Fxchequer on the said 30th of June atiaouuted altogether to 6,611,5631. B E SUN, LONDON WEDNESDAY Closing Pricey Business done yesterday this day. Business this day HARE Tr AR Day.) RAILWAYS. IR.AximAYs. 10 kmhg. Nottng. Bost. da Eastn. Belfast & Ballymena Sirmng. Wolverh di Stour Valley ... Birkenhd. Lanesh ct Cheshire Janet- Blackburn Blyth & Tyne original £25 (iss. at £45) Bristol k Exeter Caledonian Chester do Holyhead Cork and Bandon Cork, Black. .& Pass Cornwall D A Do. B ........ Dublin4l3elfast Julie Dun. P. &Aber. June, last Anctlian Eastern Counties Eastern TJnion,A. stk Do., do. Do. New A ... Past Kent East Lancashire ... East Suffolk 4 1)0. glinburgh dz Ghtsgow Erlinb. and Peebles Edinb. Prth. &Dundee Forth and ClydeJunc. !Furness ... _._ ... !.. (Glasgow ex S. Western 'Great N. of Scotland Great Northern Do., A. Stock Do., B. Stock Gt. Sth.&West.(lre.) Great Western. Do. Str.V.R. gua.St Irish South-Eastern Lancaster & Carlisle. Do., Thirds Do. New Thirds Lancash. &Yorkshire Do., do. F £l6 Do., Wet. Riding Un Do. Southport.... London & Blackwall Lond.Bright.& S.Cst. ' London &N. Western Do. Fifths Do. ,161.5h.,M&8...0 Do. Eighths • London & S. Western Lndndrry.&Coleraine Lndndrry. & Mani*. Manch.Shet&Lincln. Metropolitan ......... Do. J. L. Ricardo's arrangement ...... Midland ................ Do. Birming. & Derby Midland G.West.(lr.) Do.. Shares ......... Newcastle & Carlisle.. Newpt.Aberg.&Hrfd Newry & Enniskillen Newry, Warrenpoint & Itostrevor Norfolk.. .... ..... . Northn.Counties Un North British North Devon, Rail. & Dock Stock ...... Do., A Stock Do., B Stock N. Eastern Berwick Do. do. Extension .., Do do. G.N.E.Parch. Do. Leeds Do. York North London . . ... N. & S. Wstn., Hamp stead, and City Jn 1.7 North Staffordshire: all North Western.. all N. &S. Westrn. Juno. 100 Oxford Worcester & Wolverhampton 16 Portsmouth 10 Rhymney 100 'Scottish Central ... 100 Scot. N.E.Abrdn. St 103 Shropshire Union ... 6 Sitingbourno &Sheer. all South Devon.... ..... . 1.00 South Eastern all Do. 43 per:. Shares 100 South Wales.-- ..... all S. Yorksh. River Dun 10 Do.. all Stainos,Wok.,&Wok. all Stockton & Darling.. 15 Do. do., 1854 5 Do. do., 1855 165 Stockton & Hartlepl 100 Taff Vale 100 Do. Pref., No. 1 22 Thames Hay. D. &R all Vale of Neath . all Waterfd. & Kilkenny all Waterford&Limerick , all West Cornwall.. 'West End of London and Crystal Palace.. Do. A Do. B West London Do. First Class Do. Seeond Class Wmbledon &Croydon 5i - 5A 8i - 9 69 - 71 71 - 91 - 93 76 -76 i 36i - 371 i -- -6 ...d 9 10 20'.— 21_, lli 114 52 54 35 36 8 - 741 97 - 98 - 622 -- 6:4 341. - 35,, 99 -- 101 8 -- 9 99 - 100 91 -- 96 121 -- 123 104 - 105 63 , 4 63; 63 -- 65 j 70 - 74 6 Bpl 6 .- 8 nf 1001 1.011 i k 110 - 6 - 111 103 k - 104 ad A 1104 1611 43.', - 44 84 —84 a 543 54 ... -- .•. 14 - 15 61 - 66 3 - 31 45 - 46 92 - 93 224 - 23 21 - 1I a 41 - 45 7'3 - 74 97 - 99 48 - 7 2 ". 8 10 - 10 35 36 6 td 104 106 254 26 43 50 3 2 d 17 18 74i 756 51 44:4 5i 4Ad 9 11 41 43 ••• ••• 21i - 224 7 - 9 3 -3) 5# - BRITISH POSSESSIONS. Atlan. and St. Law. Bombay, Baroda, and Cen.lnd,gnar. 5 p. c. Do. Buffalo & Lake Hur. Buff. ' Brnt. & God ch. 6 p.c.bds. , 1 Aug. ,'72 Do. do., 1 July, '73 Do. do., 1 June, '74 Calcutta and S. East. Central Oude (Lim.) Ceylon A abares Do. B. do. Demerara . Eastern Bengal East Indian Do. C Shares Do.4i p.c.Bnds.,'s7 Do. do. do., '59, do. Geelong & Melbourne guar. 5 per cent Gd. Trunk. of Canada Do. 6 p. c. Deben Gt. In. Pen. g. 5 per c Do. New. guar. 5 p.c (it. Wcstn. of Canada Do. New Do. Bds., payable '57 Do. do., '76, p. '60.;. Do. do., '73, do. Do. do., '73, without option Madras, guar. 4. P.C. Do. do., 5 per c. Do. 44 p. c. Exten. Do. 3d Ex., g. sp.c. Do. 4th Ex., do Oude (Limited) Scinde, guar. 5 per c Do i d 5 4d }BB 92 85 90 85 90 •.• - ••• - r 1003 1013 par 20 —20 a 56 5 7 87a 88 20 201 ; ad Par 22 —22 i lip 99 101 109 113 109 113 107 103 18 ; 1 ; 194 20 21 1 d - Ap Ad I par lp ••• ... LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. Lensing companies ClAna Prices yesterday RAILWAYS. Paid 100 54 Buckghamsh. OlydefeuleJc. Col.Stour Vy. E.Lin. g. 6 p.e E. Un. 11. Sh. Glas. Barr. & Neils. Direct. Do. New Glstr.&Dn.Fr Hull & Selby. Do. i¢ Shares. Do. i Shares. Lon.&Greenw Do. Preference Lon. Til., &S. Do. Bark. Sh. Maneli.Bxton. and Matlock Mdld. Bradfd. Newmarket BuryE.G.spc. N.&Est.s p.c. Do. 6 per ct ' IDo.Fixed sp.e 25 all Prest: & Wyrel 12 all Do. S Shrs. St. 109 IRoys - tn. Ilit. I 10 j all I Shrews & Her 12 i arl ;S. Staffordsh 50 all 'WearVal.g6pe 25 I all Do.. Do.. St. 100 !WiltsdrSomrstj Myth and Tyne 10 p. c. pref. (isid. at 501.) Bris. &Ex. 4 p.c. St. Do. 4 per c. Shares.. Caledn. £lO p. c. Ches. d; Ho. 5i p.c. Do. do. 5 per cent... Cork &Bandonsip.c. Dun.Porth.&Aber.J. E. Anglian Cls. A Sh. Do. do. Cls. B 6p. c. Do. do. Cls. C 7 p. c. Eas Co Ex 5p cNo 1 Do. No. 2 - Do. New 6 pr. c. St. East Un., G. 6 p. c. Do. 51., 10 per cent. Do. 10/. Debentr.Sh. Do. do. 4 per cent East Lancash .6 p. cts E.&W. York. J. sths Ediu. & Gl. sp. e.. Sh Ed. Prth . &Dun. 4p.c . Furness, 5 p. c Glas. & 5.W.G.5 p.c Great Northn. 5 p.c Do. 5 p. c. Redeem at 10 p. c. Do. 4i per cent Do. 5 p.c., Red. at 5 p. c. prem. Gt.N . of Scot.lst Pro Gt. S & W. (Ireland) Do. 4 per c. Pref. St. Gt.W.(B.&ll.Ex.spe Do. con. red. 4a p. c. Do. con. red. 4 p. c. Do. irred. 4 per tent. Do 5 p. c. red. pref. Do. Birm. Pref. Sh Do. Chester Bp. c. P. S Do. do. 5 p. c. do Do. Birm. Gua. Stk, Do. Chesh. Gna. Sh. Do. do. do Do. do. do Lan. & York. 6 pc. St. Lon. &B.G. 5 pc. No. 1 Do. ,P., 5 p.c. St. No. 2 Do. New Guar. 6p. c. Do. do. 5 p. c., No. 4 Lon. & N.W., Coy. & Nuneaton 5 p. Lon. & S.W. 7 perct. late 3d Shares ... Londy.& Color. Sh. Londy. &Ennis. Sh. M., S., &L. 6 p. Cent. Do. do. do. .R 6 'Do. do. 34 per cent. Marypt. it Carl. 4 p.c. Do. 4 a per cent Do. do. Consol. 6 p.c. St. Do. Con. Br. Bir. 6 P.C. Do. 4i p. c. Pref. St. Do. L. &H. Pref. St. New.,Aber.. &c., pr. 5 p. c. red. 5 p.c.pm. Do. Perpet. 6 pr. ct. Norf Ir. D eb. 4 p.c. Sb. Do. 5 p. c. Ext. 1846 Do. 5i p.c. pf , 1847 Do.Wv.V.sp. ~1847 North British .. all 100 100 100 100 3i 100 Do. 71. Preference „, N. E. Berw. 4 p.c.Prf. Do. do. do 121 , 25 20 St. Do. Leeds 6 pc. No. 1 Do. do. Qrs., 1848 Do. York H. &S. Par North Staffordshire Ox., Wor. dz Wolv.'6 p.c., Ist guar Do. 6 p. c. 2d guar Scot. Cent. New Pref Sc.N. E. Aber. g. 6p .c Do. do. 7 p.c. pf. St Do. r10.3i p.c. pf. St South Devon 25 10 1.0.6 Do. fixed 4i pr cent. S. Eastern (Reading Ann.) of £1 Os, 6d. Do. 44 per cent Do. Fixed 4a p.c. SL S. Wales Gua. 4 p. c Do. do. 44 p. c S.Yorksh.4 p.c.Guar Stock. &Dar., 5 p. c Do. do. do. 100 100 100 100 all all Stock. dr Hartl. g. 5. p.c. till July 1, '56 Waterfd&Kilk. 6 pc. Ln. &N .W . Caledon E.U4E.O Gt.Northn E. Count. Caldonian. Gt. Wcstn Y. fct N.M Do S. Eastern Do Pato &Co Do Ln. &N. W & Midld. Midland_ E. Count Do Do Do L. & N . W Do G t. Northn T. Brassey M. MCI ean Stk. &Dar Do GLWe.stn • • • "'"' it - 13 132 - 135 3 - 41 1'66 = 16 12 124 224 234 100 102 id —,A P 90 92 A - P 55 57 131 - 133 8 - 8A 9 - 32 - 33 89 91 PREFERENCE SHIRES. 89 - 91 95 - 37. ...: 5i - 6i 111 -- 113 112 -- 116 4 a 121 -- i2i TO - 72 114 - 116 105 - 107 100 - 102 60 =- 62 10k -10 A bi -- 92 --94 9 81 83 83 -- 85 99 -- 101 9i -10 i 17 -- 174 9} -- 101 73 -- 75 19i -- 204 98 -10 A 14t -- 14 138 - 141 115 - 117 .56 - 158 - iP 66 - 68 - 134 - 89 11 -11 i - 104 93 95 14 ld 1 - 224 - 224, 15 -117 - 116 - 110 i• - .1 i 4 22i - 23 98 - 100 95 - 100 1171 - 28 - 3p .2i_ 2 BRITISH !Alfred Cons. (Philk., !British Iron Condurow (Cambrn. , Dev. Gt. ensls. (Tay., Great South Tolgus G rt. W. Alfrd. (Philk. Grt.W. Vor (llelstn., Lady Bertha N. Frances (Illogan) N. W. Basset (Illogan) North Wheal Crony Par. Cons. (St. Blaxy) Porkellis U. (Wend.) Sort. Cons. Min. Co S. Caradon (St. Cleer) S. Cam Brea (Illogn. S.W. Frances(lllogn. Tam. S. & L. Min. Co Tin Croft Us. Mines (Gwennap N. of Towey (Camar. W. Basset (Illogan) W. Caradon (Liskrd.) Wh. Basset (Illogan). Wh. Buller (Rdruth). Wh. Edward(Calstck) Wh. Kitty (U. Llant) Wh Ma. Ann (Menh t. ) Wh. Trelawney (Lis.) FOREIGN lAustralian Brazilianlmp.(issued at £5 pm) Do. Cocaes do Cuiada Do. St. John Del Rey Clarendon Con. Min. Co. of Jamaica Cobre Copper Copiapo Fortuna General Linares Lusitanian Mariquita New Granada No veau Monde Pont. Sil.LdM.d; Sralt Port Philip Santiago de Cuba south Australian Do. Scrip Do. 10 p. c. Pref United Mexican MISCEL. Australian Agrieult; Australn. Royal Mail Berlin Water Works Brit. American Land Canada Do. Go. 6pc.Jan&July Do, 6 p. c.Feb.&Aug. D 0.6 p.c. Msr.&Sept. Copper Min. of Eng. Do. Pref. 7§ p. cent Crystal Palace Do. Preference Crystal Pal, of France Dalton Iron Ore Eastern Steam Electric Telegraph Electric Tel. of En. &Aust. Cop .SmCo , Eur. & Ind.J e t n. T el. l Gen. Ir. Se. Gen. Steam Navigat.l London Discount Loud. Gen. Omnibus Magdalena St. Navig, Mediteran. Elec. Tel, Mexican & S.Americn l 'Nat. Discount Co 1 Do. New Netherlands Land Do. Do. Do. 8 p c.Pf.iss.at Do. Do. New R. &N. S. Land N. S. W. Gov. 5 p. c. D. N. B. Australasian... Nrth .of Europe Steam Oriental Gas Do New Shares Peat-tr. Ld. & Minrl Peninsular & Oriental _ Do. New Rhymney Iron Do. New Royal Mail Steam Scot. Austral. Invest Do. New S. Aus, Gov. 6 p. c. bds South Austral. Land Submarine Tel. Scrip Do. Registered Trus. Ln. Co. Up. Can. Vau Dienion'p Land,., MINES. -16 i -- 1 7 7, 6 130 -140 335 -- 315 15 -17 - 81 2 - 4t 10 - 12 13 - 14 3 - 4 19 - 21 5 - 6 21 - 26 315 - 325 4 - 5 275 285 11 - 1 3/ - 26 - 28 120 - 130 220 - 239 280 - 300 5 3 / 4 - 6 194 20 46 - 48 24 - 26 MINES. 1- 2 10 - 12 $ id 46 48 10 12 i id 16 18 _7j 7* Id. p I —• i s s '' 6 27 f .2 ••• ''.. ••• 3$ - 3$ NEOUS. 21 - 24 4 - 5 138 142 1114 - 1144 30 - 35 25 27 - 5i 5i ii -100 'la = ii IA 3 1 3 3i 2 1$ - • 4 ••• 3 i .1 4 d pr 18 22 97 . 9) 8 9 2t i 4A 8 — 22 24 6 8 58 60 1$ ... 104 -- fica 33 - 35 1 - 1 ••• ••• 11 -- 12 91i 704* 203 t llf St. 50 St. St. 20 20 10 St. 1051 1 56A 88 - 20i 4 22i 2 FOREIGN. 10 all Antwrp &Rotterdam 6i 61 - 20 18 Ardennes. 5 all Belgian East. Junct. 1i yi 20 16 Beziers to Graissessac ... ... 6 all Carmeaux&Toulonse Coal Mines and Ry. 4 51 I 20 12 Dutch Rhenish - . 3 21 i 20 all Eastern of France .. 27 284 27i 20 all Do. New 20 2s. Euphrates Valley 20 18 Gt. Central of France 231 24 20 all Great Luxembourg Bg ' . 7 8 i Si 1G 4 Italian Junction .. ••• 20 all Lake Const. & Bale ••• — ,I 20 all Lierre and Turnhout . ...• 20 6 Lombardo-Venetian " 4i —43 p 5 all Lucca do Pist.sp.c.l✓. ... -- 20 all Lyons and Geneva .•. 263 273 20 all Lyons & Mediterran. ... ... 33A all Maria Ante.Qla 10 all Do. New • ••• 20 all Namur & Liege 20 all Do. do. 6p. e. Pref l9/ 201 16 all Northern of France 33 344 34 10 all NorwegianTrnk.Pref 8. 94 20 all Paris and Lyons 551 —56 53 g 20 all Paris and Orleans-- 56 53 20 7 Reeife & San Fran., (Pernam.) g. 7p. c• i d par 81 10 74 Rome and Frascati ... . • 20 all Royal Danish l6 18 5 all- Royal Swedish i . I '. 20 all Sambre and Meuse '73 8 10 all )o. 53 per cent. pref. 8 —8/ 7Z 20 i all Southern of France.. 27 281 271 8i all West Flanders 4 5 I w W i . e dz sbad N.W en .of France 2 .. 8 . i --_. 7 . 3 10 all Do. 54 per c. Pref . 8f 9i 20 20 6 i'Western of Austria .•. DO.B p cent. pref. ... 20 all I West. of Switzerla n d — ... ... allaa l I 1 20 all Zealand . . ...... ..• - —. JOINT.STOCK BANKS. _ 40 all ;Australasia 25 181 Bank of Egy . pq . 100 50 Bank of London .... 40 all Bri. Col. Bk. & Ln. Co 50 all IBritisb N. American 7: .I 20 8 ,C.Bk.of Ind.Au.dtCh 14 _ • .:; 4 I, 100 50 City 64 66 100 25 Colonial ... 100 20 Commercial of Lund .., _ • . 22 20 all Eng.Scot.4zAus.Cht lB 18),. 18i 20 all Lon. Ch. Bk.of Aust l7i 18 20 all Ditto New — ... 2(, 29 London and County .. ... 50 50 Lnd.tE.Bnkng.Corp ... ••• 50 10 London Joint Stock ... ... 100 20 LontLandWestminst ... ... 100 35 National Pro. of Eng ... ... 20 10 Do. New ..... 50 223 National Bank - •• • 20 all New South Wales 46 43 25 all Oriental Bank Corp 36 87 20 15 Ottoman Bank 100 15 Provinc al of Ireland ••• -- ••• 10 all Do. New ••• ••• 5 1 R.Aus.B.&G.Im.Co ... ... 25 ' all South Australia 32 31 1 25 all Union of Australia— 54 -- 55 23 Do. New 6 7 i5O 10 Union of London II \ ••• .. 'k • W 50 Unity Mutual_ .. .. ... .it t f 100 ISO ,Weatr ak ofLoncl„ 13 __-_ ... 11. d 1 'lOO 100 100 all all all all 100 100' 100 3 100 100 all all all all all all 99i i 63# i 1008 f 61 loq i 100.3, 44 73# i . 121 13i 33 A 0934 2i 2 Pm 553 EV/44NIG, JULY 22, 185 7; IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUS7I OF COMMON2—(Tis Day.) The EPZAKER took the chair at twelve o'clock. CLARE (COUNTY) ELECTION.. The SPEAKER, announced that the petition against the return for Clare CUtinty.had been withdrawn. IPSWICH ELECTION CONIMITTEE. The Committee appointed to try the validity of the rettirn fur the borough of Ipswich was sworn at the table of the bowie. The Committee were directed to sit to morrow at eleven o'clock. GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY (CAPITAL) POLICE INTELLIGENCE. (This Day.) KARLBOR9UG El-STREET. CAUTION TO DRUNKEN CABMEN.—William Philips, a cabman, was charged before Mr. Bing ham with being intoxicated while in carp of his cab and with being un abls to take care of it. Police-constable C 165, stated that about one o'clock that morning he was oo duty in Leicester-square when he saw the prisoner in the acl:, of trying to get on the box of his cab. Ho was in a state of intoxication, and wit ness endeavoured to persuade him not to get up but to let some one else take the cab to his stable. He insisted upon driving, lie got on the b, x and drove off, at a short distance witness raw him fall off the box. The horse then ran away and the cab came in contact a lib a lamp-post from the effects of which it was smashed to pieces. The prisoner got up. Witness ran after the cab and stopped the horse. He then took the prisoner into custody. He was seriously injured about the face. (His face exhibited the effect of the fall from hie box.) The prisoner produced his license, and said it gas the first time he was in trouble. Mr. Bingham observed that his license showed he bad not been fined before as it was rot endorsed. It was fortunate for him be hal not been previously fined, for had he been he (the magistrate) would have sent him to pri•,ou fur a mouth. The prisoner woe sent for 14 days to the House of Correction with hard labour. lIVIP-ii_;RIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS.—(YESTERDAY.) The LORD C3INCELLOR took his seat on the wouhack at five o'clock. NEW SOUTH WALES. The Duke of NEWCASTLE presented a petition from the Legi,lative Council of New South Wales, in Parliament assembled, against the dismemberment of the colony, said to be in contemplation. lle also wished to know if the Government had arrived at any decision as to the separation of a portion of the northern territory of New South Wales, and also, if such separation took place, what measures had been taken to prevent convicts being sent out to the colony. Earl GRAJNTVILLE was understood to say that the separation of the col my bad been resolved upon, but he could assure the noble duke there was not the slightest intention of sending a simile convict to the new colony. I BILL. On the consideration of the . Lords' Amendments to this bill, which was introduced in reference to the Red path frauds, Mr. SPOONER objected to the Lords' Amendments which would put the preference shareholders on an equa lity u ith ordinary shareholders, and completely abrogate the title under which the preference shareholders held shares. Tae preference shareholders had a right to be paid 5 p-r cent. per annum out of the profits before any other dividends were paid, but if the Lords' Amend ments were agreed to, the 260 , 0001. Rodpath's frauds woul Ibe paid fir: The preference shareholders would by these wnendnients only receive this year half a year instead of a year's dividend, having to take their chance with the ordinary shareholders in what remained for the payment, of a dividend. Tee I?gislation now proposed would shake the confidence of the public in preference suck. He moved the omission of the Lords' amend mEots, Mr. A. TURNER seconded the motion. He consi dered a great principle of commercial honour was . in volved in this question. England's commercial honour had hitherto stood very high, and he called on the house to be cautious how they adopted such repudiatory prin cip'eg as those involved in the amendments under consi deration. Mr. NEWDEGATE said that the point involved was a very nice and important one. It ought to be decided by a court of 1 - iw. He should, however, support the motion. Mr. BAILLIE, chairman of the committee before whom the preference shareholders' claims were sent, said that the question before the committee was confined to the payment of the current half-year's dividend, and they reported that the preference shareholders were en titled to their guaranteed dividend if a surplus remained after the payment of the Redpath fraud. The case had been somewhat altered since the commitee reported, because the directors had now a second half-year's divi• dend in hand. The effect of the lords' amendments was to give the preference shareholders a dividend, if any re mained after the payment of the Redpath frauds out of he profits of the year. In that respect they would be placed on an equality with the ordinary shareholders. After some remarks from Mr. HEADLAM, Mr. J. EWART, and Mr. W. BROWN, Mr. J. DENISON (chairman of the Great. Northern Railway) said that the question was investigated by a committee of the Hodse of Commons, and also by a com mittee of the House of Lords, berore whom the preference shareholders appeared by counsel, and after full conside• ration the Lords confirmed the decision of the Commons. The amendments objected to were introduced by the House of Lords with a view of equitably settling the question and to prevent litigation. The directors at first proposed to capitalise the Redpath frauds, and throw the loss over a series of •years, but Lord Redesdale, the chairman of the House of Lords' Committees, insisted on the frauds being paid out of revenue. There was a great difference between preference and guaranteed stock. The meaning of the former was, that if there was a profit they should after the payment of the expenses of the line be first paid their dividend out of the surplus earnings of the line. The legal points at issue between the directors and the preference shareholders was whether the latter, having only received part of their usual dividend in 1856, in cmsequence of these frauds, were entitled to claim the payment of the difference out of the earnings of 1857. If they had that power, preference share- holders would be, in fact, guarauteedshareholders. It was with the view of settling the question, and to prevent litigation, as he had already said, the Lords' amend ments had been introduced into the bill. No dividend could be paid until the question was settled. Mr. LOWE said that the house was not bound by the decision of either of the committees, and that it was competent for the house to reconsider the question. It appeared to him that the committees committed an error in entering into the question of what was or was not the rights of the preference and ordinary share holders. (Hear, hear.) The question ought not to have been decided by the committees, but by a court of law. (Hear, hear.) By disagreeing with the Lords' amend. ments the house would leave the question in that posi tion without prejuding the: rights of either class of shareholders. (Hear, hear.) Mr. FITZROY differed from the hon. member for Kidderminster in reference to the powers of the com mittees relative to this question, and he said that the preference shareholders went before the committees un der the knowledge that they were to be treated in the manner proposed by the Lords amendmente.. After a few words from Mr. BRISCOE, and Mr. P. W. MARTIN, The Lords amendments were negatived without a division, Mr. E. DENISON, chairman of the Great Northern Railway, declining to go to a division on the motion, the feeling of the house being against the adoption of the Lords Amendments. - [LEFT BITTING.), ELECTION COMMITTEES.—(This Day.) WEYMOUTH. The committee met this morning at 1 o'clock, when evidence was taken on the part - of the sitting member. The first witness called was the Rev. Mr. Russell, Con gregational minister at Weymouth, who deposed that he was present when Mr. Campbell (sitting member) spoke to his butler about the la cheque given to him, and which the witness Viall said hai been given to him to get changed, out of which he received 3/. for three pairs of elippere, when Mr. Campbell asked his butler what become of the cheque he became much con fused, and on Mr. Campbell becoming angry he took out of his pocket 8/. and some silver as the change. SLIGO. The select committee on the question of privileo, relative to the (lsetion of Mr. P. Somers,-met this morning for the first time with closed doors. The pro ceedings will be conducted io private. _----_ THE ROBBERY BY MANS OF OHLOROFORM.—Yes terday Abel Smalley, who stands charged with having administered chloroform to a sailor named William Young at Chatham, and robbing him of five sovereigns, underwent a lengthened Examination before the mayor and magistrates at Rochester, when the facts as already stated in The Sun, having been proved, he was com mitted to take his trial at the ensuing assizes. OCCUPATION GONE.—A professional thief, who was recently apprehended in a midland county on a charge of robbery, had in his pocket a letter, o f which the fol lowing is a copy :—" Bakewell, Derbys hire, June 15, c l eiv 1857.--Dear . D any ear ni w on if e e y ,— fr Y om ou nse, wilblubtelsuarsisaurirse you there ised at not re not a chance of doing anything on account of the new police which is put on in this county, but I expect to be in Sheffield to-morrow, and if all be well I will send to you from Sheffield. lam very well, hoping you and Tom is the same, from your most loving and;affectionate husband, W. H." MADELEINE SMITH.—A tradesman in this town (says the Berwick Advertiser) having a correspondent in Glas gow, wrote there to inquire whether the report he had heard here was true, to the effect that it was proposed to raise by subscription the 'suns of 2,0001., to be pre sented to this unfortunate girl, as an expression of informa publion c sympathy. He has received, in reply, that a subscription is intended to b e made, but that it is not limited to any sum, and is as li kel y to be 10,000/. as the ti less. That an address is about being presented to her father, wherein the tradesmen of Glasgow will express their esteem for him as a neighbour, and sympathy for his family under their present affliction, and a hope that he will forego the intention of expatriating himself on account of an occurrence which reflects no discredit on him. DESPERATE CASE OF STABBING , - - At the Guildhall payee -court, yesterday, George Cox, a man about forty five years of age, described as a commission agent, of No. 1, Harvey-street, Sexton, was placed at the bar before Alderman Carter, charged with attempting to murder Caroline Cox, his wife, with and a man named Ed mund Forty, by stabbing them a dagger, in a fit of jealousy. From the evidence it appeared that the pri soner pursued the parties from the neighbourhood of Angel-street to the Generai Post Office, when he stabbed Tbou the exhibitior pro them both with a dagg er. The woun ded parties were conveyed to hospital, and until they are sufficiently . covered to give evidence th e p rison er remains in custoti 1 of the police. ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY h OF ENGLAND.—SALIS BURY, Tuesday Evening. — g perly so called, only opened to-day, the trial of imple ments has been proceedi n g since Fri day last. The trials with the reaping mach ines h ave b een declared to be satisfactory • and the first pr i ze was adjuged to Messrs. Burgess and Key, for Mr. M'Cormick's improved ma chine. The first prize for mowing was obtained by Mr. Clayton, of the Atlas Works. The show yard, so far as the implements are concerned, was thrown open to the public at 10 o'clock this morning. Messrs. Griffiths and Co , of Birmingham, Exhibit a very ingeni ous cheese-making apparatus, invented by Richard Rea vil, of Laycock. By this machine a much finer and more uniform quality of cheese is insured, and an in- UnitedThSeta s t h e o s, w a o n f d cattle in creased weight of at least 10 per cent produced. The i v t other most noticable invention in the exhibition this year is an American pl atfor m b eehive, the h b . ee Mr. S. Davies, of Cl Tremont, public , i i c invented o .to-morrow. or r o by bh exhi bitedeep2 and horsesbyMe Messrs. , wilt b Burgesseand openedK A WOMAN'S STORY : By Mrs. S. C. Hall. 3 Vols.-- cc c A . Woman's Story' is a title very truly indicative of the manner and matter of this book. To trace the effects of early training on the character of woman, to exhibit her in her innermost emotions of pride, and love, and affection—to portray her relations to those domestic ties which form so important a portion of woman's existence —this, especially, falls within a woman's province, and the task is accomplishe d b y a very high effort f the novelist's art, in Mrs. Hall's pleasant work. The work is a tale of powerful pathos and domestic tragedy, and demand. In a lewd, t here is in ' A Woman's Story" the moral is as high a o ne as th e most rigid censor could that which will attract the hearts of women and of men too—which will carry their interest undiminished 1 to the close, and leave them with something worth pon . Bering upon when the tale is finished."—lottn Bull. SOUTEIWARK. ROBBERY BY A SERVANT. —Sarah Woodmansee, a young girl, was charged with robbing her master. The prisoner, when place.d at the bar, sobbed piteously, Mr. John Hills, a merliant's clerk, of County terrace, Old Kent-road, said the prisoner had beea in his service for about a month, and then left. Soon after she had gone he missed several things, amongst other.; a sheet, a silver pencil case, a golf ditto, and two necklaces. The prisoner had also taken away a bunch of keys, which prevented him finding out the fall extent of his loss. When she left his house she bad not gone home to her parents, but had gone to lodge in County-terrace street. On her box being searched at that place, an old purse was found, containing some of the beads off the necklaces stolen. He bad given information to the police and she was taken into custody. He believed her parents to be very respectable persons, and thought she was led to commit the robbery by being leagued with some young man. She had been very unkind to her parents, and that was his principal reason in giving her into custody. The magistrate said he should remand the case for a few days in order to find what had become of the pro perty. A respectable man came forward and offered himself as bail for her reappearance. The magistrate said he had no objection, and accep ted the bail. THAMES. EXTRAORDINARY CONDUCT.— George Farrell, 28; an Irishman, whose fare was in a terribly disfigured state and his nose smashed, was brought before Mr. Yardley, charged with being drunk and disorderly, and assaulting Thomas Tarlton, a tailor, of No 26, Lower Chapma,- street, and tearing his coat. He was also charged with assaulting Joseph Walker, a police constable, No. 213 H, in the exicution of his duty, and tearing his uniform coat to pieces. The prisoner, who was without a coat, hat, or necker chief, had only a few dirty rags and his blue shirt on. The complainant said the prisoner came to his house drunk last night, and made a disturbance, and when be told him to leave the place he made use of the most vituperative language, attacked him like a madman, and after striking him tore his coat from his back. He seized the prisoner, ar.d after a great struggle with him, gave him into custody. Mr. Yardley-110w came the prisoner's face in that condition ? Witness—l don't know, indeed, sir. . _ Mr. Livingston, chief usher of the cone, said the pri toner was at this court yest - Irday (Tuesday) afternoon, before Mr. Selfe, and charged an American seamen with assaulting him. The party charged was all)wed to com pensate the prisoner, who said he had formerly be longed to the Land Transport Corps. He saw the prisoner in the morning hanging about a public-house near the court quite drunk, and very noisy. Mr. Yardley—Was the prisoner's face and dress in that state yesterdiy evening Mr. Livingston—Yes, sir ; he was bleeding when he came here. Walker, a police constable, 213 11, said when be took the prisoner into custody, he threw him and tore his coat to pieces. The man acted like a lunatic. The prisoner said be was intoxicated, and knew no thing about the matter. Mr. Griffin, inspector of the K division, said the police man's coat was a new one, worth 30s. Mr. Yardley—The prisoner has no money to pay for it. He is committed to 14 days Imprisonment. Tarlton asked for compensation for his torn coat. Mr. Yardley—Do you wish me to pay it from my own pocket, or from the poor-box ? Tarlton —I am a poor working man, sir. Mr. Yardley—l will do neither one or the other. You must put up with the loss of your coat. PARLIAMENT.ARY OATHS BILL. [The following appeared in the third edition of The Sun of last night.] The adjourned meeting of the liberal members of the House of Commons was held at three o'clock yesterday at the King's Arms, Palace Yard, to receive the report of the deputation appointed to wait on Lord Palmerston in reference to the Parliementary Oaths Bil', and to deliberate on the course to be adopted. Mr. E. Horsman in the chair. There was a tolerab l y full at. tendatice. Baron Rothschild was present. The CHAIRMAN having stated the object of the meet ing, which was to ask the Government to give its sup port in the first instance to Lord J. Russell's bill, and to postpone the consideration of Mr. Dill wyn's resolution till that bill was disposed of one way or another, said that the deputation appointed at the previous meeting bad that morning waited upon Lord Palmei sten, and had received from him an assurance that her Majesty's Go vernment would support the introduction of Lord John Russell's bill that night. (Hear, hear.) His lordship also stated that at present the Government were ignorant of the exact provisions of Lord J. Russell's bill, and it was impossible for hire then to form an opinion as to the pro bability of its ultimately passing both Houses of Parlia ment. In a case like the present the Chairman urged upon the meeting the necessity of their proceeding cau tiously, and step by step. The only question now for the consideration of the meeting wag, what reception and support it should give to Lord J. Russell's bill. Should it not meet with their views, or should it be rejected, it would then be their duty to consider what further course they should pi e sue. (Hear, hear.) The deputation had received from Lord Palmerston an assurance, which no one could doubt, of the desire of the Government to see the question settled—(hear, hear)—and, in re ference to the want of unanimity on the question in the Cabinet as displayed in the recent discussion in the House of Lords, his lordship explained that it did not arise from any change of opinion in the members of the Cabinet, but that the views of the noble lord alluded to on this subject were known to the Cabinet on its original formation. It was impossible for any one to doubt Lord Palmerston's sincerity in his desire to give effect to the principles of his own bill, and it should be remembered that the Government in a question of this kind bad a somewhat difficult card to play. The Government could not be expected to pledge itself to the particular course it should pursue before events had arisen to justify it. He considered it was the duty of the meeting to plaoe every confidence in their political leaders, and to act earnestly and unanimously with them, the effect of which might be to lead to a successful result. (Hear, hear.) It was obvious that the future course of the Government and the Liberal members of the House of Ceinmons must greatly depend on what occurred that night in the house. (Hear.) They had very formidable opponents, and the cause was not altogether free from difficulties, and he thought the only thing that would peril their success would be want of unanimity among themselves. (Hear, hear.) He hoped the meeting would confine itself to the immediate course to be now taken, and not discuss the advisability of Baron Rothschild, in the event of the failure of the present bill, appearing at the table of the house and demanding to be sworn in the manner most binding on his conscience. To precipitate that course now would only produce the most lamentable re sults. It would subject the Baron to great personal mortification, and the Liberal party to a great defeat. (Hear.) The right hon. gentleman said that Lord Pal merston, having consented to give the support of the Government to the introduction of Lord John Russell's bill, and, in the event of that failing, to give Mr. Dill wyn's resolution his consideration, he urged upon the meeting the necessity of confining themselves to the consideration of the course they should pursue in refe rence to Lord Palmerston's announcement. Mr. AYRTON asked if a shorthand writer was present that morning when the deputation waited on Lord Pal merston. It was most important that the meeting should know bow the case was represented to his lord ship, and his exact reply. The CHAIRMAN said that reporters were not present. It was not usual for them to be present at deputations at the noble lord's private residence. His lordship com municated freely with the members of the deputation, and gave them permission to communicate what had transpired to their friends and the public. A discussion ensued, in the course of which it was urged that it was the duty of the House of Commons to assert its privileges, the same as the House of Lords on the life peerage question, and also that, by a little more pressure from without, the House of Lords would be obliged to give way to the popular feeling. The following resolution 'was agreed to unanimously . " That Lord Palmerston having announced the in tention of the Government to support the i n troduction of Lord J. Russell's bill this evening , it is inexpedientiaisbad to consider our future course until th e meeting an opportunity of knowing the co ntents of thebill, and the probability of its being allowed to pass this session. The meeting was adjourned sine die. A vote of thanks to the chairman terminated the Toceedings. EFFECTS OF LOAD CAMPBELL'S BILL.--In the win dow of a certain publisher's shop is be seen the following significant announcement :—Selling off, sixty five per cent. under cost price, in consequence o f L or d Campbell's bill ; aseiz , urc hourly expected. G o i ng i n to the ham and beef line. INDIA. The Ea-1 of CARNARVON begged to ask the noble ea►l opposite when the papers relative to the Indian mutiny would be laid on the table Elrl GRAN VILLE B,4id before the house adjourned the papers would be ;aid on the table. SECOND READINGS. On the motion of L ird REDESDALE the following bills were read a second time :—British and Irish Grand Junction Railway ; Newry and Enniskillen Railway ; North-Western lta•lway ; Mayors Court of the City of London. THIRD READINGS. The following bill., on the motion of Lord REDES DALE, were read a third time and pas-ed : Londo❑ Gas Liht Company (capital) ; Milford Improvement; Orkney Rocks; East Kent Railway (Eaten-ion to Diver) ; Midland Great Western of Ire land (Sligo Extensi.m) , Monklands Railway, and Mid Great Western Railway of Ireland (Streamstown and Cara Junction). PRISONERS REMOVAL BILL. This bill passed through committee. REGISTRATION OF LONG LEASES (SCOrLAND), The rep in of amendments on this bill was brought up and agreed to. CROWDED DWELLINGS PREVENTION BILL. This bill was read a third time and passed. INCLOSURE ACTS AMENDMENT BILL. On the motion of Lord GRANVILLE this bill passed through committee. TURNPIKE TRUSTS (IRELAND) BILL. This bill was read a tbird time arid passed. TRANSFER OF LAND. Lord St. LEONARDS called the attention of the house to the measures proposed for facilitating the trans fer of land, and laid on the table of the house a bill for simplifying titles to land. The learned lord then said that in no other country could a man settle his land upon himself and his children, and remain in the full enjoy ment of it himself after makinc , that settlement. It had been said th at a titl e t o l an d should be as portable and negotiable as a bank note, but he hoped never to see the day when a man could put his title deeds in his cigar case, and deal with his land in that summary manner. His lordship then gave the house a conci.e history of the system of conveyancing, showing the different modes of transfer in operation from the teudal times down to the reign of Henry VIII. He then described the devices adopted by the priests to get lands into the possession of the. Church improperly by means of the creation of trusts, and how those devices, which were contrary to the Statue of Mortmain had been sought to be frustrated by the 27th Henry VIII., entitled the Statute of Uses. Since that time various changes had taken place, arising from the exigencies of the times and the alterations in the customs of the country. It had been occasionally proposed that land should pass by a simple entry of the transfer in a public register, but that had always been opposed by landowners, who objected to their mortgages and sales being made public. One of the great objections to tbe present system was that a purchaser of land was always liable to what were termed equitable rights, pro vided he had notice of toe rights being in existence at the time of purchase. The effect of this was that if a purchaser had a dishonest attorney, the latter might receive the notice and conceal it from his client, and the client immediately afterwards be deprived of the land for which he might possibly have given his whole fortune. It was now time that such a system was prevented, and property in land placed upon a more sure basis. All attempts to establish a general registration of property for the whole country bad up to the present time been failures. His opinion was, that a general registry would lead to more expense, and be productive of less real advantages than the present system of conveyancing. Any attempt to establish a system of complete registration would, he felt convinced, be a mere sham, attended, however, with a sad reality to both vendor and purchaser. The real object of this proposal was to make the transfer and sale of landed property as easy and as simple an affair as the sale or transfer of a railway share, or a few hundred pounds of stock: But if this were accomplished, it would be at the expense of the loss of the power to landed pro prietors of making settlements on their property. It had been stated that a bill had been printed for carrying into effect the recommendations of the commission, but there appeared to be great difficulties in the way of giving effect to its provisions. The noble and learned lord was roceeding to explain the provisions of the bill, when it Was suggested by Lords CAMPBELL and BROUGHAM, that it would be more convenient if the noble and learned lord would reserve his observations on the bill until it had been explained by its author to the house. Lord ST. LEONARDS, after some further observa tion., concluded by introducing a bill, the object of which was to remove existing obstacles, and afford in creasing facilities for the sale and purchase of landed property. The LORD CHANCELLOR said that their lordships were greatly indebted to the noble lord for introducing the bill, and in moving that it should be read a firbt time, guarded himself from the expression of any opinion as to the merits of its details. Lord BROUGHAM stated that he bad himself pre pared a bill on the same subject, which had been laid on the table for some time past. . . • Lord CAMPBELL protested against the statement made by the noble and learned lord, that a system of registra i m of landed property would be unattended with any benefits or advantages to owners of landed pro perty; THE OATH OF ABJURATION. Lord CAMPBELL, in pursuance of the notice which he had given, rose to ask his noble and learned friend on the woolsack a question respecting the state of an ap peal of very great importance which had been for some years pending in their lordships' house—that of "Sale. mons v. Miller." No blame was attributable to his noble and learned friend in the matter, but the decision of the question was one of great importance, because on that decision depended the important question whether according to the existing state of the law of England Jews could lawfully sit in Parliament. In the year 1851 Mr. Salomons, a gentleman whom he was proud to call his friend, was returned to Parliament for the bo rough of Greenwich, but being of the Jewish persuasion he objected in the House of Commons to take the oath of abjuration according to the form prescribed by the statute, and would only subscribe it by omitting the words, "on the true faith of a Christ an." The Speaker of the house very properly intimated to him that under those circumstances he was not entitled to sit and vote f in the house, but Mr. Salomons, taking a different view of the law, chef sit and vote without taking the oath in the manner prescribed by the law. After a time an action Ass commenced against him for penalties, the Legislature having enacted that any member of Parlia ment who shall presume to sit or vete without having taken the oath in the manner prescribed should incur the penalty of 5001. That action wag brought in the Court of Exchequer, and a special verdict was given by which the jury found the simple fact of his having taken the oath in the manner described, leaving it to the court to say whether he had incurred the penalties ornot. The special verdict was solemnly argued before the Court of Exchequer, and three of the judges were of opinion that he had incurred the penalties, the fourth judge di• iant. ing, the great question being whether the words " on the true faith of a Christian" was the mode of taking the oath or a part of the oath. Judgment was pronounced against Mr. Salomon'', who then appealed to the Court of Exelrequt r Chamber ; the court for the purpose of such appeal consisting of the judges of the Court of Queen's Bench and the judges of the Court of Common Pleas. That appeal was heard in 1853, and after hearing an ela borate argument, the court, over which he, as Chief Jus tice' had the honour to preside, affirmed the judgment of the Court of Exchequer. Now, in both houses of parlia ment he (Lord Campbell) had voted for the admission of the Jews to parliament, believing the law to be oppres sive, end wishing them to be admitted in a manner con stitutional and leveful ; but sitting as a judge, where it was his duty to declare the law and not to make it, it appeared to him that the arguments of the three Barone of the Exchequer were unanswerable—that it clearly was the intention of parliament, when the act was fairly read and construed, that no person should be allowed to of takea r. oaths except iu the manner prescribed by the !lament. In coming to that conclusion bewasacparptalyrpnain fluenced by the consideration that both bongos of me n e t a li d a y d iraeptheaetreedilgyapouft Georgethesam e l! oanas act rue was onth passee dact, for favourar relieving i o e f v the Jews, og them f r w o i m t h t respect e necessity t p y a o r ft. swearingcu particular purposes, o n the true faith of a Christian . He himself had proposed a bill under which Mr. Salomons became sheriff of a county, which bill would have been wholly unnecessary if the words objected to had not formed part of the oath. His noble and learned Qpassing a measure o enablingpposit Jewsto hold a (Lord Lyndhurst) l succeeded in municipal p e e..... e offices whatever. Now these bills would havebeen wholly unnecessary if the Jews could legally have taken the oath of abjuration without the words, and the legislature de clared their opinion that as the law stood whenever the oath of abjuration had to be administered it must be taken in the manner prescribed. Ail the learned judges of the Courts of Queen's Bench and Common Pleas con curred in the view which he had stated, and so far were thr-17 from entertaining any doubt on the subject, that after hearing the arguments in support of the appeal, without calling on the other side they affirmed the deci sion of the Barons of the Ex ihequer. Mr. Salomons appealed to their lordships' house in 1854 against the de cision of the Court of Exchequer Chamber. That appeal might have been decided in 1855. It was not decided in that year, nor in the year 1856. It had not yet been decided. Now he considered it of great importance that it should be decided, or dismissed ; then the adjudication of the Exchequer Chamber would be final. But, so far as he knew, no step had been taken to bring the writ of error to a conclusion. In the meantime, both houses of parliament had acted as if the judgment given in the Exchequer Chamber were right, for they..llad not ad mitted the Jews without taking the oath ,prez.cribed by the statute, and bills had been sent up from-the 'other house for the purpose of altering the law. Un'fortunately those bills had not met with their lordships' approbation. He did not know that their lordships had been much to blame in that respect, because,- until the present session of parliament there was reason to believe that the public opinion was with the decision of the judges. R e confessed he bad been in hopes that the manifesta tion of public opinion during the present Oesaion would have induced their lordships to come to a dif ferent conclusion. The measure recently introduced had been carried by an overwhelming majority, and amongst those gentlemen who formerly comcientionily voted against the admission of the Jews to Parlia- meet, but who now supported the motion, he found S'r J. Pakington and some other members connected with the party of the noble earl opposite. The noble earl and his friends in their lordehips' house, however, still re sisted th e proposed change, and he expected the matter would have been allowed to steed over to some other time. But, to his great surprise, on looking at the votes of the other house, he found a notice of motion, that as Baron Rothschild declares that the words " on the true faith of a Christian" are itot binding upon him, the House of Commons should resolve that the clerk be'in teructed t a omit those words in toaninisterin; the oath to Baron R othschild, and that be show(' be permitted to take his seat in the House of Commons by a resolution of that house in defiance of what had been (Mee by their lordships, and without the c .assert of the Crown. If such a motion should be carried it would Lever come before the lordships for discussion, but woul I instantly be treated by the other house as law. Instead of con sidering it the law, he should consider it a flagrant vioht tion—Cie would use the gentlest term he could, and say it would be a coup d'etzt such as that whicl, bad been resorted to in a neighbouring country to bring about a revolution (hear, hear)—instead of being the law, it would be contrary to law, because it would be an at tsmpt, by a resolution of ono house, to repeal an'act of Parliament, and make laws without the consent of the other, and without the consent of the Crown. (Hear.) This course of proceeding was justified by the precedent of Mr. Pease. who in the year 1833 was elec:ed for the county of Durham. He (Lord Campbell) was then a member of the House of Commons ; and one of the Jaw officers of the Crown, and took an active part in the in ves•igation, and he could take upon hinusslf to say that what was then done had not the smallest application to the case now under consideration. Mr. Pease was a Quaker. There was no question as to the manner in w hich the oath should be taken. Ile had to take no oath. The question war, whether acts of Parliament had not passed by which Quakers were absolved from taking the oath. It was his sincere and firm conviction than under4wo acts of Parliament passed in favour of the Quakers ; they were allowed to affirm with regard to the oath of abjura tion without swearing at all. The language of the ac's was so strong as to admit of no other construction ; and because the Quakers were absolved from taking any oath they were allowed to affirm. The same arguments were now used against the admission of the Jews. It was said their admission would uochristianise the Legisla ture. Petitions were presented, stating that Quakers were not Christians ; and protests were to be found on their lordships' journals against the bills in favoUr of the Quakers, upon the very grounds that they were not Chris tians, because they objected to all the sacraments, even the sacraments of baptism and the Lord's Supper. The bide, huwever, were passed in favour of the Quakers. They were not called upon to swear at all, and on that ground, and that ground alone, Mr. Pease was allowed to affirm, and he took his seat with the unanimous ap probation of every member of the House of Commons. No one said it was contrary to law. They were doing what they believed the law required them to do. It was not made a matter of privilege. It was not an alteration of the law by resolution of the House of Commons. It was simply a declaration of the intention of the Legisla ture. There was no pretence for saying that the case of Mr. Pease had any application to the present case, be cause the passing of such a resolution would be a viola tion of the law as it had been solemnly adjudged, and would be contrary to the intentions of one house of the Legislature, and without the consent of the Crown. Ano ther precedent had been referred to in a recent case in their lordships' house. Whether their lordehips were right or wrong in their decision, it had not the slightest application to the present case, because they were exercis ing a jurisdiction analogous to that exercised by tbeHouse of Commons when it decided whether a person taking his seat bad been lawfully returned or not. (Hear.) Their lordships did not alter the law on that occasion. They were the only tribunal by which the question could be decided. Well, then, what woult be the consequence of the course of proceeding now suggested They could not stop a resolution of the House of Commons. That house contemplated the bringing of actions to recover penalties for sitting and voting without the oath of abju ration baying been taken in the manner directed by law. If such an action should be brought, he, a t a judge of the land, would be bound to lay down the law as it had been laid down by the Exchequer Chamber, and to say that the penalties had been incurred, and to direct the jury to find a verdict. Would there be any difficulty in proving the fact ? None whatever ; for he must in justice say, that in the case of Mr, Salotnons the House of Commons afforded every facility to prove the facts. They would now vote it a breach of privilege for any one to bring an action against a member of the House of Com mons who had been allowed to take his seat without swearing in the manner required by the law. Is the course of his Parliamentary career he had been a strong supporter of privilege, and did not in the slightest de gree regret tae lengths to which he went in the contro versy between the house of Commons and the Court of Queen's Bench when he was a member of the House of Commons. But that was in a clear case of privilege. If the course now proposed should be persisted in, it seemed to him that it would be something like the commencement of a revolution in this country. In any strife which might be stirred up between the courts of law and the House of Commons he should not be afraid of consequences personal to himself. He hoped, if an order should be made for sent ing him to Newgate or to the Tower of London, the peop!e would rise in his defence. (Laughter.) The House of Commons must not suppose that the people would see the judges of the land treated in such an arbitrary manner, and with se much indignity. But he was perfectly prepared for his fate if any such attempt should be made. . however, had so much confidence in the leaders of the House of Commons that be should be very much mis taken if they took any such step. He bad read in the newspapers accounts pointing out the way in which the Prime Minister was to be treated, and pressed, and urged, and compelled to agree to such a resolution, but he had great confidence in the firmness of the noble lord, and believed that he would give them a very courteous but very decisive refusal, telling them that such a pro ceeding is contrary to the law and the constitution of this country. (Hear, hear.) He had thought it his duty to inquire into the state of the appeal to which be bad referred. If the judgment of the Exchequer Chamber could be reversed he should greatly rejoice, for he should be glad to see the Jews constitutionally and lawfully in troduced into Parliament. He believed that no danger would arise from their admission, and hoped the time was not far distant when the reproach of their exclusion would be removed, but till then they ought to submit to the deprivation under which they were labouring. (Hear, hear.) The LORD CHANCELLOR had a very short reply to make to the question of his noble and learned friend. The writ of error in the case of Salomons and Miller was set down for hearing in May, 1855. Nothing was done in that session. In the last session an applica tion was made by both the plaintiff and the defendant that the case might stand over till this session, and it was directed to stand over accordingly. Their lordships were aware that an application of_ that kind was granted as a matter of course. In Jane this year another appli cation was made to adjourn the case for two months, which would postpone it till the 15th of Angtist, and thus throw it over the session. (Hear, hear.) Lord BROUGHAM hoped that no such indiscreet act would be either done or attempted elsewhere as that to which his noble and learned friend had adverted. He l o ar map ed ptet F lr. always thought his noble and learned friend had carried his doctrine of privilege a great deal too far, but there appeared to be others who were disposed to go much farther. In one case they actually went so far—it would have been scarcely credible did it not apps ar on the journals of the house—as to try, by way of privilege, u . a gallant admiral, complained t bat a per r se o i f g c ht o o m f m fi o s o h s e , ry a .(Laughter.) A member of the I , • to the Court of Queen's Bench, he made it a ofpevoo w sh it ir h e, a w fis e h re e u ry po zhi j o n h at h e e w c, • log son Choaads interfered s ummoned the man, • that it was a judicial ma tter, s who was taken into cus tody by the Sergeant-at-Arms, of privilege, and the House of Commons, ntive n dr a am. of an d competentpromised would not say a admiral thereby obtained—he gallant v erdict and judgmen t a o n and repeatha ving i t cwkanso dischargedwl on payment of fees. Th e e t d r e o d m ls s a o c ff o e u n r c t e, diction, but the benefit of the sentence of the House of Commons, proceeding by way of privilege. He hoped and trusted the House of Commons would not attempt to carry their privilege to the extent now contem plated, from which they could not, escape without such violent conflicts as disgraced our ancestors 150 sears ago. Lord CAMPBELL said tbat with reference to the explanation of his noble and learned friend, as to the cause of the delay in bringing the case for decision before the house, it appeared that though it was fairly and honestly argued, the plaintiff and defendant appeared to have a close understanding on the mat ter, and whatever one suggested the other agreed to. With all respect for his friend Mr. Alderman Salo mons, he must say that he thought it desirable that the case should be brought to a conclusion, and a fi nal opinion given on the judgment of the Court of Ex. chequer. The subject then dropped, and the house adjourned at 5 minutes past eight. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—(YrsTR ILDAY.) The SPEAKER took the chair at 12 o'clock. The LordsP RI Amendments to the Keith and Du ff town Railway (No. 2) Bill, and Manchester Cor p oration Bil l were considered. PATE. BUSINESS. SCINDE RAILWA.Y, Mr. C. 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