The Sun. — London, England, 1857-03-04 00:00:00

w- . ;- , . '-'' btrii-Mbition SUN OFFICE, Seven o'Clock. THE MINISTERIAL CRISIS. The division of last night in the House of Com 'slas has caused considerable excitement in Govern ment circles. At an early hour this morning Earl Gran arrived at Cambridge House, and had a 4erlgthened interview with Lord Palmerston. At one o'clock this afternoon a Cabinet Council lt as held at the official residence of the First Lord of the Trea sury i n D own i n g-street. The whole of the Members of the Ministry were present. At half-past three, after a sitting of two hours an d a half, the council broke up. On quitting his official residence, the noble Pre 'ler proceeded to Cambridge House, Piccadilly, and after remaining there a short time, his lordship ,4-entered his carriage and drove to the Wa'erloo 'ridge station of the South-Western Railway, from t hence, at a quarter to five, he proceeded to Wind t*, in order to have an interview with her Majesty. LIVERPOOL RACES.—(This Day). (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) £5O. PLATE. 1 2 Six ran. gir lar u SEFTON HANDICAP. — nlPhre 13 Peel it' Y I License 11°111 Thumb L ady trerenles Admiral Lyons 3 Six ran. Emigrant L IVERPOOL STEEPLECHASE. we atherco c k 1 2 T reache ry 3 Twenty-eight ran. villa ge Cook I'. 11 - Cooke SELLING STAKES. V 2 Three ran. LATEST BELTING. LIVERPOOL STEEPLECHASE. 11 to 2 agat Escape (taken) 9to 1 agst Hopeless Star (taken in force) 12 to 1 agst Teddesley (taken) NPXR,IAL PARLIAMENT. YOUSE OF COMMONS—(This Day.) Th e sr _ Tiler AMIER took the chair at 12 o'clock. 00 us en waB nct excitement in the house orl o b bies, in one ofL e . l ice of . the result of last night's debate. Only coal Cabinet minister, Mr. Baines, was pregent at the 1 oZecnirinent of the sitting, but he left before half-past Th e PRIVATE BUSINESS. It - • following private bills were rea d a s e co n d ti me , (ill Ordered. to be committ e d : C a l e d on i an R a il wa y lintlllllll4lg Power), and the DExthorpe Turnpike Trust On the INDUSTRIAL SCHOOLS. 1 , 1 -e motion for the second reading of this bill, th at d r- 41 -COOK moved that it be read a second time C 4 3• Bi/C months. He did so on the ground that the a% 'unnecessary. 1;11% TIADFIELD seconded the motion. eop r,I3AINES, on the part of the Government, 1, 0 4 1 1 ° , 1 4 ed the principle of the bill, and stated that he detail' give his assistance in committee to improve its s, kr and • B AXTER supported the principles of the bill, du t . a some interesting details of the working of in to rud schools in Scotland. bsi,, r :z l STANLEY supported the principle of the bill, 3i vr - " •4 rig it was thoroughly sound in principle. t r l % GORDON also supported the bill. _ot NEWDEGATE opposed the bill. He objected is e f - ‘tiddren whe were guilty of no crime but destitution s, -1) e sent to a reformatory school. He thought the °llrhouse schools might be improved so as to meet the evil complained of. r• BOWYER objected t o th e p r i nc i p l es and details i t tile bill. There was no protection for the religious teach 11q of destitute Romax Catholic children. An expiring ih7liatnent could not consider this bill as it ought, and tn t Bu gZested that this bill should be withdrawn for ma lconsideration and re-introduced another session. u sho u l d divide the house upon it. 1, 4 7 1 t. A.DDERLEY said it was th e d uty o f this Pasha lat. to complete the work it h a d b egun, and defended to Principles Principles of the bill. It was rendered necessary th Ill eet the wants of o uro criminal population. He denied t his bill was of proelytising character, and that trt.reat care bad been taken to avoid it. A. BLACK sopported the bill. -r, supported the bill. Industrial schools yeeu tried in Birmingham and found successful. H e t er, tle d that th e measure was o f a prose l yt i s i ng charac eahi 13 -A-LK was of opinion that this bill, whilst appli i e ' l4l ricts to large towns, would not answer for the rural ksi e G• bat fr G. STRICKLAND opposed the principle of the Rer °to a feeling that the house was introdu c i n g a (WI- N: 3 Principle by the adoption of an educational rate. Zeal th a Principle w ou ld swamp the excellent voluntary cif ad' at now existed in favour of ed uca ti on . I nstead if c art u'a. twing would catch ation they would re t ar d i t. Th e bill , o aboneir child. kir P A.KINGTON parents to said tbey a mnd b 0 t ust I deal with ren the jeel,as it stood w i t h reference to destitute children, atd dotreed with o th er h on. members that there were ob tho ' 8 to the details of the measure, but as he ught ". should m i g ht b e got over in committee support the principle of the bill. There ap tied . 41 be a desire of separating education into three s o ass es• One was national schools, which he hoped soon s v . 6 ee general ; the second, reformatories for dealing ith b our criminal classes, which, to a certain extent, had Ind established, and which he hoped to see inoreased - t cl the third, industrial schools to be intermediate be- national schools and reformatories. This bill ap- L""red in its details to entrench on the national schools - Lid th e functions of the guardians, but he thought them Z A Dable of amendment. What his hon. friend proposed e 7, u nderstood was to provide for the childre n o f th e in termediate class between the honest poor and criminals, 4 : 13 134 who were, as Miss Carpenter had described them, " perishing and dangerous class." After d kill ding to the progress made in the establishment of ins atrial schools in Scotland, the right hon. baronet said hill, h ad much pl easure i n support i ng the principles of this Xr. BALL supported the bill, and said that if they 'were to spend as much money on the education of the children in the rural districts as they did on their horses and dogs, the children would be in a rtiore advanced large statto wns.e, as regarded morals and religion, ban those in said Id.r. HENLEY supported, the bill, w hi ch ought, he , to be used as supplementary to the Reformatories (Government) Bill. Mr. BARROW opposed the bill. Sir S. NORTHCOTE replied to the various objections that had been urged against the bill. It was intended for the intermediate class referred to, and thereby save the heavy expense of 7s. per week per head, which their children cost the country in reformatories. The Prin c i p l e of the bill was to give education gratuit ou sly, but that the parent should pay for the experure of his child's Maintenanee, and where that was impossible that 3s. Per week per head should be taken from the poor rates, Which was the maximum cost of maintenance of children in workhouses. To a certain extent this was a bill founded on the voluntary principle. He had no wish to proselytise, .:and he did not consider that the bill gave Militias fir it, Mr. DUNLOP expressed his gratification at the in troduction of this bill. After some remarks from Mr. Liddell, Mr. C. For teem°, Mr. Sergeant Shee, and Mr. Warner, Mr. A.LCOCIC. withdrew his amendment, and The bill WAG read a second time without a division, and ordered to be committed. EDUCATION On the motion (CITIES AND BOROUGHS) BILL. for the second reading of tbis bill, Mr. HADFIELD against the bill, viz. -4r presented the following petitions other buildings in the city?Or owners of land, houses . , and the Town-hall, m ariehe 11 ir elan on their behalf ; of Manchester, assembled at inha. and signed by their c Ir an at ouodants and ratepayers, M. : cheater, assembled Morley, Esq., and the Rev. ac meeting ; and, Samuel secretary of the Committee • Erd F riends•liitito, ocfhavirmolaunntaanryd Education in Lond on . a n The petitions were r ea d Other Clerk at the table. uragainst the bill. Other petitions were In reply to a quf,stion from ted postpon.ed°Tlllle)Esisecond reading Sir J. PAICINGTON of this bill till this day week. postponed. The second reading was accordingly (TITLES COURT OF CH ANCERY (IRELAN OF PURCHASERS) BILL Mr.. WEnreSIDE moved the second r In. of thi s bill, the object of which were to secure etah i liil es to h estat e obtained th roug h the Court of Chan° oe.). the principle was a ll owed in the Encery (Ire. c R'..tates Court, and it oug h t to be granted to t cum bered he C ourt 4 0 Chancery. Mr. G. BUTT seconded the motion. ) Mr. FITZGERALD (the Irish Atto:no.,.G. opposed the motion. His main obie•L' c i on to it wa en s it was dealing in a fragmentary manner with that great subject., and in a. way to undermine onea of the "moot beneficial reforms that had ever b ferred on I reland He wo u ld ,viz , th e E ncum b ered Estateseenn" Court. co which ha l 1 b e en consent to the u n d erm i ning of that en F3O beneficial to Ireland. Ile considered it hater not to atchwork legislation, bu t adopt this p wait and see how the Court o f Ch ancery worked out i t s own. reformation, i n accordance with the act of last se Con. Re did Dot i utezd to divide_ the bowie, but allow " TBI SUN, LoNnoN WEDNESDAY EVENING, MA:RCH 4, iBs7 the bill to be read a r .00nd time, and take his objections to it at a further stage. After some remarks from Mr. MACARTNEY, Sir E. PERRY moved the second reading of the bill this day two months. After some discussion the amendment was with drawn, and the bill was read a second time and ordered to be committed on Monday next . COURT OF CHANCERY (IRELAND) BILL. The second reading of this bill was postponed t Monday. The home adjourned at half-past five o'clock. MONEY MARKETI2 AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. I 85t(; 20 CITY, Two o'CLocK. 20 The Cotton Market at Liverpool yesterday ex- ig hibited a very firm appearance, and last week's 50 prices were fully maintained. The sales were esti- 25 mated at 5,000 bales; 500 of which were taken 7 0 ' by the exporters, and 1,000 by the speculators. St. The Railway Share Market closed steadily, with out any material alteration in prices. 25 The report just issued by the East Anglian Rail- st. way's Company shows that the traffic during the 18 half year ending the 31st of December last yielded st. 20,1551. 16s. Bd. The directors state that " the e ioi . heavy expenditure consequent on the decay and 10 dilapidations of preceding years still augments the st working expenses of the Eastern Counties Railway 10 Company, and has caused them considerably to st. exceed 50 per cent. on their total receipts ; conse- St. quently our revenue has again been subjected to :tt. the maximum charge under this head ; the result st' is a net amount of 13,9551. Is. ld., which after providing for the interest on the Bond Debt, and 12 on the A and B shares, leaves sufficient to pay 41. 50 15s. per cent. per annum on the C Stock. 165 A considerable degree of firmness is apparent in NI the tea market, the letters just received from China 16 having stimulated speculative purchases. Com- 3 mon Congou is now ls. 11d. to Is. 14d., and the 20 tendency is still upwards. 11i The continental exchanges ywiterday• afternoon g t t. were very firm, and on• Hamburg the quotation 20. was a shade higher. 10 1 %This being the "fourth" of the month, there is 12ir naturally a very active demand in the money mar- St. ket, for although most persons have no doubt pre viously provided themselves with the necessary 4.lst. capital, a few, as usual, have postponed 10 their preparations till the last moment. 10 Full rates are, therefore, cerrent, and tempo rarily the pressure is rather more severe, but in the course of two or three days some relief may be felt. Indeed there is a general impression that the supply will speedily become more abundant, and the rates slightly decline, although no measure in that direction on the part of the Bank authorities is yet contemplated. The large arrivals of gold anticipated from Australia will tend to produce this, notwithstanding the diversion of those remittances to the continent in payment of silver. It is feared that the efflux of this metal to China and India will continue, and no sooner is the shipment to day comple'ed than arrangements are commenced for the next mail, a sum of 25,0001. in gold having been withdrawn from the Bank yesterday for trans mission to the continent. There is a small supply of s river bythe Mexican steamer, viz., $972,955,0r about 194,5911., but this is a very unimportant addition to the stock of that metal available for exportation. The extensive remittances now en route from Aus tralia will prevent these specie operations causing any material diminution in the Bank's stock of bullion, although a small amount may occasionally be sent away, and with a knowledge of this fact any movement of the kind will not create uneasi ness. The Ministerial defeat has naturally affected the value of the English Funds, and a decline of to # per cent. has taken place. There has not been much activity, however, as the settlement of the account is now in progress, but the jobbers have availed themselves of the opportuniTafferded by the majo rity against Ministers to depress the market. Consols for money have been 93i I, and 931 while the April prices have been 94k and .94 to 94k. The Now 3 per Cents. are marked 94 to 94f, and the Reduced 931 to 94. Bank Stock is 220, and India ditto 233. Exchequer Bills were 2s. discount to 2s. premium. Foreign Securities are generally very dull. Turkish 6 per Cents. have declined to 971 and 97 to 97k. Russian 5 per Cents, are 1071, and Mexican have risen to 221 8, as the advices from Mexico state that a loan of 13,000,000 dollars was being negotiated, one half of which would 140 applied to the liquidation of English Bond holders' claims. The Ecuatorian Commiftion of Agency have the day received a further remi , tance of 2,6831. Os. 3d. on account of Ecuador dividends. 20 20 10 St. 20 20 20 25 St. St. 25 20 The following are the nominal prices of Foreign Stocks :—Grenada Deferred Bonds, 61 7 ; zan, 22# ; Peruvian, 41 per Cents., 79 81 ; ditto Three per Cents., 55 57 ; Portuguese 3 per t 0 Cents., 44 46 ; Russian 5 per Cents., 107 109 ; do. 18 4i per Cents., 97 99; Spanish 3 per Cents. 401 ; 18 ditto New Deferred, ` , .!0 ; Ditto Certificates, 20i 61 ; Ditto Passive, 5/ 6. 100 - - , There has been an active business transacted in 100 the Railway Share Market, but prices have in most instances shown a decided downward ten- 100 2 dency. Great Northern, Brighton, North- 20 Eastern, and York, deslined ss. ; Caledonian, 20 Edinburgh, Perth, and Dundee, 10s. ; Great 20, Western, North West-rn, Midland, North 17 E3st?rn, and Berwick, 15s. ; and Oxford, Wor cester, and Wolverhampton, and South Eastern, 20 1/. Eastern of France declined 15s. ; Central of 100 France, ss. ; Northern of France, 1/. ; and Grand 100 Trunk of Canada, 1/. 20 Mining Shares have been inactive, at rather st. reduced rates. 100 Joint-Stock Bank Shares have shown a slight 20 decline. London and Westminster receded 10s., 20 Ottoman Bank 10s., and Union of Australia, 10s. 20 In the Miscellaneous undertakings there has , 2 0 T been very littl e b us i ness transacted. Peninsular A and Oriental Seam improved 10s., and Royal Mail 100 leo Steam declined 10s. 100 BRITISH FUNDS.—CLOSING PRICES—THIS DAY. (From the Offietal Bank Stook 220 3 per cont. Reduced Annuiti es 9q 4 3i 3 per Cent. Console An nu iti es 93 i 8 A New 3 per Cent. Annuities 94 i 5 per Cent. Annuities 11.34 lioag Annuities, expire sth Jan. 1860 2 15-16 I ndia Stock India Bonds £lOOO ............... Ditto, under £lOOO 3 d Consols for Account Ftehequer 13111 s, 24d. £lOOO C5OO . . 2 p Ditto Advertised _ _ Ditto Bonds, 1858, 3 3 / 4 per Cent.. 93A Ditto, 1359 PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS—THIS Day. Buenos Ayres Bonds, 6 per Cent. Egi ilexican 3 per Cent — Ditto Account 22ABlii Peruvian Bonds 4i per Cent ttussian Bonds, 1822, £ St., 5 per Cent lO7l Spanish Bonds, 3 per Cent. Ditto Account Spanish Committee Cert. of Coup. not fun 6 i Turkish Bonds, 6 per cent 97 Ditto Account Ditto Guaranteed, 4 per Cent. Dividends on the above payable in Loom n. HIREE O'CLOCK. Consols, money 93A fi Ditto, Account (March 5) TH :E COLLIERY EXPLOSION NEAR BARNSLEY.—The adjourned inquest on Monday on the body of Abraham Turner, one of the . men who was got out of this pit alive, but aft erwards died, was further adjourned until Monday next. The most careful inquiries have been made as to the sacrifice of life by the txp!osicn, and the exact number of deaths has now been ascertained to be 186. We understand that ju a st cle h P a n d tation on the part of toan interview with the English capitalists has Emperor of the French relativeproposed Inter national Bank. It is stated tha d t e t o l t l i h d e e b d asis of this e e d upon, and that im portant undertaking is already n re t ti o at f r , iso a c n i d otios the institution will be entirely i n d, un connected with, the various Continental C and the existing financial establishments in SUDDEN DEATH.—For several years past the . house No. 8, Nursery - ro w, Brando n - street, Walworth, bas been occupied by M iss Sarah Ell iott , a maiden lady advanced in years, and of most e ccentric habits. She was supposed by her neighbours to be highly oon nected, though none of her friends were observed to visit her. On Sunday, about half-past 12 o'clock, she came down stairs and entered the parlour, and f it s was the last time she was seen alive. Her servant at about 3 o'clock, finding that the had , kt : vkn no orders for dinner, knocked repeat';;ty at the parlour-door, and receiving no P....":iswer she became alarmed ; and called in Aorrli, of the neighbours, who fettled the deof c(iPe:, 3 l3, wtee she was found lying d'n three chairs quite --, and cold. The medical gentleman who had been attending h e r was called in, and it Was his opinion that e died from natural causes, Sergeant Coppin went t h ° the house and found in a small dirty bag , unde r th e h ead 1 gether whit B ank were ins, deceased, 40 sovereigns and sit st. 'tee- The house had bei is at one time richly furnished, but from neglect it is at present in a deplor able The deceased was clothed in rags, held to. It is the olinion of the officer that ploy e d for /2 , 0_ , t less than from 2,000 or 3,000 pins em clqtll,B of 4 " c “ 8 purpsaid she bou _ostly chatacter in her bowe. The servant ose, though she had plenty of day n i ot AV the deceased a bottle of wine on Satur f°und a 154 t ie I T Ole Vnished, and by ber bed-eide was held ezi the , gia partly empty. An inquest will be ;Jody. SHARE MARKETS—(This Dap•) RAILWAYS. .!ral I RAILWAYS. 0 Ambg. Nottng. Bost. & Eastn. June. all Belfast & Ballymena all Btrmng. Wolverh. & Stour Valley 100 Birkenhd. Lancsh. & Cheshire Juliet all Blackburn all Blyth & Tyne original £25 (iss. at £45) 100 3ristol & Exeter 100 Caledonian 100 Chester & olyhea all Cork and Bandon all Cork, Black. & Pass. all Cornwall all D A 8 Do. B 45 Dublin&BelfastJune. all Dun. P. &Aber.Junc. 00 East Anglian all Eastern Gout 100 EasternUnion,A.sti 100 Do., do. B 8i Do. New 1 East Kent ...,....... 100 East Lancashire all East Suffolk ....... 4 Do. 100 Edinburgh & Glasgow all Edinb. and Peebles 100 Edinb.Prth. &Dundec all Forth and ClydeJunc. .00 Furness . .... .. ... . .00 Glasgow &S. Western all Great N. of Scotland 00 Great Northern 100 Do., A. Stock ...... 100 Do., B. Stock 100 Gt. Sth.&West.ared 100 Great Western. 100 Do. Str.V.R. gua. St all Irish South-Eastern all Lancaster & Carlisle. 14iD0., Thirds.. 12 Do. New Thirds 100 Lancash. &Yorkshirc 6 Do., do. F. £l6 ... Do., Wst. Riding Un. all Do. Southport....... all London & Blackwall 100 Lond.Bright.& S.Cst. 100 London &N. Western all Do. Fifths all Do. ,16/.5h.,1it&8...0 2e, Do. Eighths 100 London &S. Western all Lndndrry.diColeraine, all Linduarry. di Ennisk. 100 Vlanch.Shef.diLincln. 1 Metropolitan 1 Do. J. L. Ricardo's arrangement 100 \lidland 100 Do. Binning. di Derby all \lidland G. Wes;;. (Ir.) all Do. Shares ......... all Newcastle & Carlisle all Newpt.Aberg.dillrfd 9 Newry di Enniskillen all Newry, Warrenpoint QC ROstrevor... 1100 Norfolk. 1 3? Nortlin. Counties Un !100' North British .. . ..... jlOO North Devon, Rail. dr Dock Stock 100 Do., A Stock 100 Do., B Stock 100 N. Eastern - Berwick 23 Do. do. Extension 16i Do do. G.N.E Purch all Do Leeds [OO Do. York tOO North London 31.1 N. &S. Wstn., Hamp- stead, and City Jn 17 North Staffordshire all North Western all N. &S. Westrn. June 100 Oxford Worcester & Wolverhampton..... 16 Portsmouth 10 .Rhymney 100 Scottish Central 100 Scot. N.E.Abrdo. St 103 Shropshire Union 4 Sitingbourne &Sheer all South Devon 100 South Ea5tern......... all' Do. 43 per c. Shares 100 South Wales 17 S. Yorksh. River Dun 7 Do.. all Staines,Wok.,&Wok. all Stockton & 15 Do. do., 1854 3 Do. do., 1855 16i Stockton & Hartlepl 100 Taff Vale 100 Do. Pref., No. 22 Thames Hay. D. &R. all IVale of all Wa,terfd. & Kilkenny all i Waterford&Limeriek all [ West Cornwall all I West End of London and Crystal Palace.. all Do. A all Do. B all West London all Do. First Class all Do. Second Class all WmbledonkCroydoti BRITISH Pi all Atlan, and St. Law. 9 Bombay, Baroda, and Cen,lnd,guar. 5 p. c. all Do. 104 Buffalo do Lake Hur. LOO Buff. , Brut& Gocich. LOO 6 p.c.hds., 1 Aug.,'72 Do. do., 1 July, '73 LOO Do. do., 1 June, '74 2s. Calcutta and S. East. ?aid Ce Vaal Oude (Lim.) lOs Ceylon A shares 1 Do. B. do all Demerara 2s. Eastern Bengal .00 East Indian 15 Do. C Shares all D 0.4 p.c.Buds.,'s7 all Do. do. do. '59, do. all Geelong & Melbourne guar. 5 per cent. 100 Gd. Trunk, of Canada all Do. 6p. c. Deben all Gt. In. Pen. g. 5 port 4 Do. Now. guar. 5 p.c all Ct. Westn. of Canada 8 Do. New all Do. Bds. payable '57 all Do. do., : 76, p. '6O all Do. do., '73, do. all Do. do., '73, without option all Madras, guar. 4i P.C all Do. do., 5 per C. 10 Do. 4i p. c. Exten. 5 Do. 3cl Ex., g. sp.c. 5 Do. 4th Ex., do ' ss. Oude (Limited) 5 Scinde, guar. 5 per c, all Do all Antwrp St Rotterdam 14 Ardennes. all Belgian East. Janet 16 Beziers to Graissessac all Carmeaux&ToulonsP Coal Mines and 12 Dutch Rhenish all Eastern of France all Do. New 2s. Euphrates Valley 18 Gt, Central of France 17 Great Luxembourg 4 Italian Junction all Lake Const. & Bale all Lierre and Turnhout 6 Lombardo-Venetian all Lucca dr Pist.sp. c. p all Lyons and Geneva all Lyons & Mediterran all Maria Anteula all Do. New . 0 all Namur & Liege 0 all Do. do. 6p. 0. Pref 6 all Northern of France 0 all NorwegianTrnk. Prof 0 all Paris and Lyons 0 all Paris and Orleans 0 7 Recife & San Fran., (Perham,) g. 7 P. 0 7i Rome and Frascati O all Royal Danish 5 all Royal Swedish O all Sambre and Meuse 0 all Do. 5i per cent. pref. 9 all Southern of France 8i all West Flanders .0 all Do. 54 per c. Pref . 9 all W. &N.W. of France !O 6 'Western of Austria 9 all IWest. of Switzerland 6 all Wiesbaden 6 all Do.B p. cent. pref. !O all ,Zealand . .. JOINT-STOI 10 all!Australasia 25 18i Bank of Egypt 00 50 ,Bauk of L on d on 10 all Bri. Col. Bk , L n. C o , 50 all British N, Atiiekican .rt s , 4 ,d.a. of lucleAu,4Ch 00 50 ,City 00 25 IColonial 00 20 Commercial of Lond 20 all ,Eng. goat. dtAus.Cht. 21) all Lon. Ch. Bk.of Aust 20 all 'D;tto New 50 20 London and County Q t.ind,ikE,Bakng.Corp 5 N 010 iLondon : c . t . 1 ..'. 1 0 1 . • 00 20 Lond.andWestrainst.l 00 35 National Pro. of Eng.' 20 10 !Po. New 50 22 National Bank .... O all New South Wales 5 all Oriental Bank Corp O 15 ,Ottoman Bank 10 25 (Provincial of Ireland .0 all Do. New 5 1 R.Aus.B.kG.lm.co n all South Australia ?,5 all Union of Australia 2A Do. New 50 10 Union of London )0 50 Unity Mutual 00 N \Wtotrn Closing Prices this lay. 41 -4; 81 - 9 69 -71 8 - 91. - 38 .- 10f -- 19i -- 10 i -- 50 - 34 -- 74 - 6 95 - 100 .•• ''' ai = ii 3611 - 3 .. - • •• ""'' • 7i - 8 961 - 97 85 - 87 124 - 126 111 - 113 68i - 69 62 - 61 74 -- 78 8 -- 9p 8 -- 9r 1.011 -102 i, d -- par • ..... •• 6i - 64 [O9 - 110 L 05.2. - 106 , id parl .05i 106 ''''''' e • I 3i 82i - 83 55 - 56 LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. Leasing Companies Closing Prices this day. 95 - 97 98 - 102 it - 13 .34 - 137 31 _ 4i ... 11 07 - - _ lO9 12i -- 19 23 -- 24 107 -- 109 P 2i -- 2 '9O -- 9 2 - IP 55 -- 7 1 . 34 131 - 9 , 9 - 9§ h 33 as 90 1071 BAILWATS. Paldl 100 100 all 100 all 100 50 50 50 25 12i St. 100 Bnekghamsh. Clydesdale Jc.; Col.Stour Vy. E. Lin. g. 6 p.e E. Un. H. Sh. Glas. Barr. & Neils.Direet. Do. New Glstr.&Dn.Fr Hull & Selby Do. Shares Do. i Shares Lon. & Greenw Do. Preference Lon. Til., &S. 'Do. Birk. Sh. lianch.Baton. and Matlock Mdld. Bradfd. INewmarket BuryE.G.spc. N.&Est.s p.c. Do. 6 per et.. Do.Fixedsp.c Prest. & Wyrt Do. A Shrs. Aj 100 Roysln.& Hit. all Shrews.& Her' all S. Staffordsh all WoarVal.g6pc all ,Do 100 !Wilts&Sorurst Do. 11 Blyth and Tyne 10 p e.pref. (issd.at 501.: 10 Bris. & Ex. 4 p.c. St, 5 Do. 4 per c. Shares., )0 Caledn. £lO 44 p. c. 10 Ches. & Ho. 5i p.c. 10 Do. do. 5 per cent ill Cork &Bandons4p.c. ill Dun.Perth.&Aber.J. 2 E. Anglian Cls. A Sh. 10 Do. do. Cls. B 6p. c. 10 Do. do. Cls. C7p. c. al Eas.Co.Ex,sp.c No.l .11 Do. No. 2 10 11 Do. New 6 pr. c. St 20 all East Un., G. 6p. c. 5 all Do. 51., 10 per cent. 10 all Do. 101. Debentr.Sh. St. all Do. do. 4 per cent St. :00 East Lancash.6p.cts 5 all E.&W. York. J. sths 10 5 Edin.& Gl. sp. c. Sb. St. 100 Ed.Prth.&Dun.4p.c. St 100 Furness, sp. c St. 100 Glas. & 5.W.G.5 p.c St. 100 Great Northn. 5 p.c St. 1' Do. sp. c. Redeem at 10 p. c. prem J Do. 44 per cent .....• i 0 Do. 5 p.c., Red. at 5 p. c. prem. 10 all G t.N .of Scot.lst Pre St. 100 Gt. S &W. (Ireland) 20 15 Do. 4 per c. Pref. St. 50 6 Gt.W.(B.&H.Ex.spc St. 100 Do. con. red. 4. p.c. St. 100 Do. con. red. 4p. c St. .100 Do. irred. 4 percent. St. 100 Do sp. c. rod. pref. 8 all Do. Birm. Pref. Sh 10 all Do. Chester Bp. c. P. S 10 all Do. do. sp. c. d 0.... St. 100 Do. Birm. Gua. Stk. 265 all Do. Chesh. Gua. Sh . 13 all Do. do. do 20 all Do. do. do St. 100 Lan. & York. 6 pc. St St. 100 Lon. &B. G. 5 pc.No.l St. 100 D0.,P., 5 p.c.St.No. 2 St. 100 Do. New Guar. 6p.c. St. 100 Do. do. sp. c., N 0.4 St.lloo Lon. dr N.W., Cov. & Nuneaton 5 p. ct 0 Lou. & S.W. 7 per et late 3d Shares Il Londy.& Color. li Loudy. &Ennis. A Sh. )0 H., S.,&L. 6p. Cent. 4., Do. do. do. £6 )0 Do. do. 34 per cent. ,11 Harypt. x Carl. 4 p.c. ill Do. 44 per cont .0: Do. do. /0 Wid.Consol.6p.c. St )0 Do. Con.Br.Bir.6 p.c )0 Do. 44 p. c. Pref. St )0 Do. L. &H. Pref. St ill New., Aber. , &c., pr 5 p.c. red. 5 p.c. pm 8 Do. Perpet. 6 pr. ct dl Norfk.Deb.4 p.c. S h )0 Do. sp. c. 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Westn I PREFERENCE SHARES. - 94 ---- 100 -6; 110 = 1-15 A - iP Ai -1113 i ••• ..... • • o• '.."-. •' 75 - 76 ••• ..'. • 1115 - 117 111 - 113 103 - 105 62 - 64 10 - 10, ,5i- 6, 95 - 96 84 - 86 10 - 102 10 - 10. 1 - 17' 10 - 10. 74 - 76 . 191 - 20 9. - 10 14 - 15 134 - 136 137 m - 140 115 - 118 .57 - 159 - - 65 - 68il .34 - 136 97 - 99 87 - 89 - i-i -: iiP 05 io7 gp 92 ji id riages in cases of adultery. The commissioners made an elaborate report, and recommended that the custom of obtaining private acts of Parliament in cases of divorce a vinculo matrimonii should be abolished, and a court constituted, in which when the circumstances which were now required to be proved in order to obtain a bill of divorce, in their I)rsiships' house, were proved before that tribunal, it should have power to grant a divorce a viuculo matrimonii. In pursuance of the recommendations of that report he prepared the bill which was introduced into their lordships house, and which having been read a second time was referred to a select committee. The select committee had the assist ance of several right rev. prelates, and all the law lords, and several other noble lords, the subject being one not more for lawyers than laymen, inasmuch as it dealt more with a social question than, strictlyspeaking. a law re - form. •• 1 • id •• 1 110 - 111 110 i 11 95 114 -- 118 105 --- , 7110 65 -- _7O -10 i 23} -24 i 100 - 102 91 - 10 A noble and learned friend of his made a mo- 27 - 28 21 -- 2iP tion in the st-lect committee extending the relief of the bill to married women divorced only a mensa et thoro, and not a vinculo matrimonii ; so that they should be enabled to have the duties and benefits of single persons ; and a clause was introduced to enable mar ried women separated from their husbands by a decree of the Ecclesiastical Court, but not divorced a vinculo matrimonii, to have the privilege of single persons ; so that they might trade, preventing their husbands from returning to them and taking possession of any property they might acquire. That thus° was much discussed, but eventually adopted by the committee and by the house. The bill enacted that a court should be constituted, consisting of the Lord Chancellor, the two Chief Justices, the Chief Baron, and the Dean of the Arches, an ecclesiastical judge, who would be called the ordinary judge, and would sit for the ordinary purposee of the court; that is, that he should have power to deal with all matters, except divorces a vinculo matrimonii, 21 - 31 just as the Ecclesiastical Court did now ;but in all cases of divorces a vinculo matrimonii, and where it was sought to enable the parties to marry again, three of the judges of the court, of whom the D e a n o f th e A rc h e s was to be one, would be necessary to constitute the tribunal. The course of proceeding' would be, that the witnesses would be examined orally, and the court would have power to send issues to be tried by juries. The judge ordinary, therefore, would have all the powers now exercised by the judge of the Ecclesiastical Court, and he, with other members of the court now to be constituted, would have the power now exercised by their lord ships of granting a divorce a vinculo matrimonii, and enabling the parties to marry again. That was the bill as he now proposed to introduce it, except with a diffe rence which he would proceed to state. When the bill was before their lordships, after it had returned from the select committee, a right rev, prelate, the Bishop of Ox ford, moved a proviso, which was carried, that in cases ( f divorce, a vinculo matrimonii, though the parties should be at liberty to marry again, yet that the adul terer hold not be able to marry the adulteress. Their lordships cal:ted that proviso almost by acclamation, but as he (the Lord Chancellor) was now introducing a bill in which be was res - eonsible for what the Government thought best to be dons, he had left out that priviso, leaving it to their lordships to insert it if they thought fit. He objected to it because it infiMted agreat injury on the woman, and in ordinary cases would be a great boon to the adulterer ; and in those cases in which a man of hon our might be desirous of making all the reparation in his power to a woman he had injured, that clause entirely re lieved, or rather prevented, him from doing so. There was another reason why it was not convenient that this proviso siasuld be inserted in the bill. In the private acts in their lordships' house for the dissolution of marriages such a proviso was always introduced, although it was well known that it was universally and invariably struck out in the other house. What reason, then, was there to suppose that such a provision would be allowed to re main in a general bill, when it was regularly struck out by the other house in all particular pr ivate bills Tout was one of the changes he proposed to make in the bill as it passed their lordships last year. There was another clause which he had introduced into the present bill, which he could not but think most desirable, although he bad met with no encouragement from their lordships on the subject when he introduced it a fortnight ago; be meant that which legalised by enactment deeds of separa tion between husband and wife. Such deeds had been heia to be valid by the courts, and Lord Cottenham on one occ:ssion interfered, by injunction, to restrain a per ,party to a deed of this kind from taking son who wh'g a ecclesiastical court. He was aware that proceedings in he the deeds in questean did not state that the persons who w ere parties to theme w ere separated ; and his noble and learned friend, the Cis. of J ustice, had said that their pro visions were carried out . 4 . 1 . v means of trustees. But if here was no dcult persons agreed to live s e p a ri : ly, t om such a deed difficulty in finding trustees by means of sv.l' an agreement be entered into • and it was substants: ll Y ovenanted on b e t we en husband and wife : for some one the deed. behalf of each of them to abide by th e ter ms o : He proposed that, without this complicated macu.: ner YA it should be lawful for persons to make such a deed, as.:' registering it would make it valid in any of our courts. It was an old proverb that if you could not get people to conform to the law the law must conform to usage ; these deeds were now a practice, and he did not see why that should not be done directly which was already done indirectly. These were the only two differences between this bill and that of last year • and, having stated so much, he should content himself with moving the second reading of this bill. Lord LYNDHURST was satisfied of the justice of this bill. The law, as it stood now, was only available to the wealthy. Who but a rich husband could sustain an action for divorce ? Was not this a crying injustice ? In Scotland the law extended a remedy to the poor as well as the rich. Why should not an Englishman enjoy the same privileges He wished an alteration in the measure, that a woman when abandoned by her husband for some years should be ipso facto entitled to a divorce a meusa et thoro. He bad heard pitiable details of the position of many miserable women under such circum stances. Would their lordships refuse them both mercy and justice 1 The principle of voluntary separation was 4j x d 1 q I a 141 5 II ' 68 7i 8 one he objected to. It ought not to be facilitated. The law bad never recognised it. True that the Court of Chancery had enforced agreements for maintenance, but that practice had been brought , about by error and de pended on custom. The courts regarded such contracts as contrary to the policy of the law, which was to pro tect men in the discharge of their duties, not assist them in avoiding them. Let theirlordships then refuse to make law what the law refused to sanction—what was, in fact, in direct opposition to the law of marriage. . The Bishop of EXETER said a bill such as that before their lordships ought to carry justice to all classes. Such was not the case. Its jurisdiction was exclusive. The court sat in Westminster. How could a poor Cornish husband come there for redress ! If it was not to be a mockery the court must be carried down into the coun try. The rights of the people were interfered with. The ecclesiastical law was to be administered by this West minster court, but only one of the judges was an ecclesi astical judge. All the others were to be of the common law and equity bar. The rd gion as well as the rights of the people were attacked. The law of divorce was the law of the Chinch of Rome—the unreformed Church of Rome. The question was surrounded by difficulties. Constantine first gave to the husband a power of di vorce from an adulterous wi'e, but he refused it to the wife for adultery by the husband, unless accom panied by greatly aggravat-d circumstances. This state of things Tested for 120 years. It was the depraved Church of Rome that a ided the divorce a mensa et th.oro. It was now proposed to infl.ct this cor rupt system on the Church of Englsnd. He was sorry to see that the Lord Chancell it had no;, abolished the action for trim. con., but be would be satisfied with a separate act fo r th a t p ur p ose , and the making adultery a misdemeanour, the c r imi na l being also amerced i n the costs of the prosecution. The bid ought not to pass in the present shape. They must have a committee of learned men to te'l them what was the divine law, and what had been the law of the Church in the best ages on this subject. Meanwhile, he should move that the bill be read that day three months. Lord ST. LEONARDS supported the bill. The pro posed court would be open to rich and poor. But the very evidence and necessities of a divorce case precluded the cheapness of divorce. Did the Bishop of Exeter desire a roving commission of divorce, travelling through the country, and inviting people to be divorced He denied that the House of Lords was open to the rich and not to the poor. He appealed to the manner in . . which divorce cases were conducted. He did n think throwing open the courts would lead to a greater num ber of applications for divorce. He was glad the bill contained no clause impeding the marriage of adulterous parties. It would have protected the mean and base minded in avoiding the only reparation in their power to the women they bad injured. He hoped erica. con. actions would be abolished by this bill, and that the course of proceeding would be by indictment and penalty. The wife and the adulterer should be brought before the judge, and both should be heard. At present the wife had no place before the court, though; the verdict affected her honour and the happiness of her future life. With regard to absence or desertion being a plea for se paration, he should oppose the clause, with the pro viso that the wife should be protected from the claims of the returning husband on the property she might have got together in his absence. The clause which allowed persons to separate by deed, and a woman t deal with her person as she would with an acre of land, he would oppose. As regarded the Court of Chancery, he trusted that if the bill were read a second time, the Lord Chancellor would strike out everything that pertained to that court, which all Englishmen re garded with a wholesome horror. The Bishop of OXFORD opposed the bill, and would vote against it in a case of a division. Hitherto the law had sought to surround marriage with a solemn protec tion. This bill went to facilitate its dissolution. For merly divorce proceeded from sin—now it was to be from sufferance. Now parties who had been separated were re garded as holding a doubtful position—now they were invited to separate by a court, which affirmed their posi tion by its solemn sanction. There was now to be alaw to unmarry innocently as before, to marry. He should vote that this law, which if passed would be onlya delusion, should be read that day three months. There were to be proceedings in forma pauperis To what would this tenu ? Actions for crini. con. were not abolished by this act. It might be said that a clause to this effect would be afterwards added, but the principle of the bill ought to appear on the face of it. Then, too, what would fo reigners think of this law ? In Prussia, France, Austria, and other countries, voluntaly separation was prohibited, He contemned the opinion of ecclesiastical lawyers on these points ; they coutemplated marriagP, professioo- ally, only as leading to adulrery. The bull, in hii opi nion, had a tendency to lower the 'anctity of the mar riage obligation, and therefore he begged their lordships to vote aiainst it. Lord WENSLEYDALE supported the bill. He could not see why, if necessary, even the county courts should not grant divorces to the poorer classes. Lord DERBY said Lord Wensleydale's speech told against the bill he intended to support. He had come down to the house to vote for the second reading, but what had been said somewhat perplexdd his mind. In the first place be found the only two bishops present protesting against the principle of the bill. He anim adverted on the non-attendance of the spiritual peers, whose advice and assistance were certainly due to the house on a question fraught with such interest to the Church. On a recent political question 23 of the right reverend prelates had managed to be present, yet this question, one that emphatically demanded their care, was to be argued in their absence. So much for the Church. As regarded the Law, he found Lord Wensley dale throwing his vote into one side and his atgument into another. He could not agree with the reverend prelate, that marrriairo was indissoluble by law. The Bishop of OXFORD denied having made any , such assertion. The Bishop of EXETER said that his proposition was that in certain cases a marriage could be dissolved by 14w. The Earl of DERBY said that, such being tha case (the bishops not assenting), the Legislature was bound to lay down explicitly what were the justi fi able causes and circumstances for divorce, and to refer them to the highest possible tribunal for judgment. He agreed, then, with the bill so far as it laid down that the marriage tie should be dissolved on proved adultery, and provided a higher tribunal for the purpose. He wanted provision made against crim. con. actions, and a penalty under criminal prosecutions inflicted on the adulterer. He would have the bill made equally to apply to rich and poor. We were very severe, and justly so, in punish ing crimes of violence and robbery. Let their lordships beware lest the people should say that they shrunk from severely punishing crimes they were themselves exposed to the temptation of committing. Looking to the intro duction of these clauses, he should vote for the second reading of the bill. Earl GREY' would vote against the bill, not because he did not think the present system disgraceful, but because the bill did not remedy it sufficiently. The law was to be equal to the poor as to the rich, and yet they began with a tribunal consisting of a Lord Chancel'or, a Dean of Arches, and three Chief Justices ! Could such a court deal with the cases of poor people ? What fees, and forms, and processes did these names shadow forth ? What a machinery was this to hold out to the poor! The experiment would be useless—the system would not hold. _ _ Lord REDESDALE deprecated all motions on the subject. The bill would bring desolation and misery to many an English hearth. The LORD CHANCELLOR replied. He trusted that actions for trim. con. being no longer necessary as preliminary processes to divorce, would of themselves cease. If the adulterer were tried fur misdemeanour, were they to try the woman also I What was the punishment to be ? A fine would be disregarded by those who could pay—and in the case of those who could not—the punishment would raise up an inequalay between rich and poor. As to the Bishop of Oxford's proviso, it went to take away a great punishment on the man, be being morally compelled to marry the woman, and so become banished from society. He hoped for a second reading of the bill that it might be considered and improved, and an end be thereby put to the anoma lous state of the law as at present existing. The House divided — Contents Non-contents Majority - _ The bill was read a - second time, and the house, after passing the Chief Constables Bill and the Public Health Bill through committee, and a resolution that no private bill should be read a second time after the 3d of July, adjourned at ten o'clock. HOUSE OF COMMONS.-(YESTERDAY.) INCOME TAX. Mr. WILLIAMS presented 21 petitions praying for the abolition of the income tax on incomes of 1501. and under. GRAND JURIES (IRELAND) BILL. This bill was brought in and read a first time. EMIGRATION. On the motion of Viscount GODERICII, the follow ing returns were ordered :—Returns showing the amount of money at the disposal of the Emigratiou Commission ers, for emigration to the Australian Colonies, in each of the last ten years, the amount expended, and the num ber of emigrants sent out in each year ; and the average cost per statute adult ; of the number of applications for passages now in the Commission-office, the amount of unappropriated balance in their bands, and the probable number of statute adults for whom that balance will pro vide; of the number of persons connected with the building trades sent out during the last six months, and the pro portion which they bear to other emigrants during the same period ; and, of the regulations and conditions under which passages are granted. EDUCATION. Mr. W. EWART gave notice that he should, on an early day, move to bring in a bill makin g it compulsory ` , r children under a certain age employed in factories to be mowed a certain number of hours each day for edu cation. PERSIA. Mr. GLA.nsTONE asked the President of the Board of Control whether .- :lie financial year," in his letter of the 9th day of December lase, had the same meaning as "the ensuing financial year," in Charles Trevelyan's letter of the 2d day of December last ; and if not, by whose authority the change was made'? Whether any estimate of the charge of the Persian war for the ensu ing financial year had been presented by the East 1:::Zia Company to her Majesty's Government ; and, if B 'l at what date it- was thus presented, and when 1 would be laid on the table of this house, and whether any supplies or munitions of czar the Pr" - perty of her M a j es ty, h ave b een despatched from t t h h is e country, or from any B r iti s h possession, 1u aid 1 expedition ;:gainst Persia ? g d to the first 1 Mr. V. SMITH said that C, T el 14 1 question the financial year in the lv exactly the same as that of Sir C. r lt h letter erye_yarranefe,rredi3ytocizass. ing it, one word, by a clerical error, was omitted, but the letter, on the face of it, showed it Ito be so. With regard to the second question he had to state that such an estimate had been received and reached the Board of Control on the 7th February, and that it was transmitted to the Treasury on the 9th. It bad not yet been examined or acknow ledged, and it was not his intention to present the esti mate to the house, because it was not desirable cr ex pedient to do so in its present state, the estimate being formed on rough calculations. The calculations were formed on what he hoped would be found to be an erroneous basis, namely, that the Persian War would last till December, 1857, but even were it likely to be so protracted, be Should object to the produc tion of the estimates, because there were items and things mentioned in it that ought not to he made known to an enemy. He hoped, therefore, that the house Iwould not enforce its production. His answer to the third question was, that no Ruoplies or munitions of war, belonging to her Majesty, bad been de ;patched from this country or from any Britian possession, in aid of the ex pedition against Persia. LAND TRANSPORT CORPS. Mr. T. DUNCO MBE asked the Under Secretary , for War whe4 tie revised c , py of the army regulatioos and orders would he ready fa' liQtrioution i or sale ; also what was the date of to mita or eut' - ioritv, a: ,d o wholh it was se n t an d t ,dd re , fe n ch th.• disb.tnri rut nt •f the La-o 1 Transp r.. C rls took rit,ce, as stated ley him on Friday las:, and wlo:tll..r t.t , ere was any otkction to lay mom the tabe a c.,, , y of such ,rier or authority! Mr. PEEL said that , t was intenled to apply the new regulations to artillery and engineering corps, as welt as the other portions of the service. The leguiawins were ready, except that referring to the einharkati , di ol troops. He expected they would soon be ready. With regard to the Land Transp-rt Corps, the rigiit hon. gentleman gave a similar answer to that he gave in artenio last week. BRITISH MINES. 2/ 12'Alfred Cons. (Philk. 14 British Iron 20 Condurow (Cambrn.) 1 !Day. Gt. Cnsls. (Tay.) Is jGreat South Tolgus 113 G rt. W. Alfrd. 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IS; July 20 I 100 21 Ot. 101 MINES. i le 3 3t 19 21 Id 60 12 14 h - id Si ld p g - 10 i = ii ... -- ••• 4b — 5 :ous . 23 - 25 ..• - •.• 5 - 5i 40 - 45 145 - 150 •• 35 40 26 28 20 5a 92 i -93 i •••1 --- 1.33 ---• „„. 1 .•• 4 -- 4i . - pi •.• .. 1 ii 3 4 4 44 p ar iP :i = i d i l l = IP 2i 2i 23 25 • P 6 - 8 ii - 2. iti • - 35 - --- I ••• - ... 14 -- 16 ... = . i! Do.. THE WAR IN CBINA. The following extract from a private letter dated "Hong Kong, January 14," shows that apprehen sion existed lest the British should be overpowered by the Chinese " Matters here are growing worse and worse, and I fear, continue to do so until we have a force to give the Chinamen such a thrashing as tl‘ey have never yet had. I fear we must do something that will sadly shock the propriety of people at home before we can bring them to reason. You will judge from my Singapore letter that I am opposed to any harsh measure so long as there is a chance of gaining our point in any other way ; but I fear it is now too plain that nothing else but the most extreme of harsh measures will bring Yeh to reason. The position at present is this—he, and he alone of all the great Governors- General in the empi re , h as e ff ec t ua ll y put d own th e re bellion in his province. He and many of the people look on us in a similar light to what they do the rebels ; he has exterminated one, and he has said he will extermi nate the other, and thus far, if you put aside the taking of the forts, which were mostly undefended, be has gained the advantage in every instance, arid at the pre sent moment our forces are utterly parsly ed and acting only on the defensive, while the Chi , :ece take the offensive, and that with some considerable success, in the light in which th e y v i ew such affairs: They have burnt down the factories, and driven us to within fifty feet of the river. Toey are making Wlyampoa so unsafe that the Admiral is abandon ing it. They have taken one river steamer (the Thistle), murdered all the foreigners on board, and burnt her. They have attacked another, and nearly taken her. They came down in force on one of their forte held by as, and attacked at the same time her Mi-jesty's ships Comus and Hornet, stationed at the barriers, some two miles below the fort, and were with great difficulty and some loss of life driven back. They nearly took a large river steamer, the Fie Ma, she escaping only by her speed. They have taken an American cutter on her way to Hong Kong, and while I am now writing fears are entertained for the safety of the three river steamers that left this place five days ago for Whampoa, one of them with 40 Yankee marines on board, t,) tow down a lot of chops (or hulks), and have not yet arrived here. If they are safe they are at Whampoa, and dare not attempt to move till they get the convoy of some men-of-war. This is a pretty state of things for foreigners, and no wonder the Chinese think they are gaining the advantage over us. Ido trust the Admiral will be able to bold his own at Canton. He has two large steamers off the town a steamer and a brig and sloop at the Barrier, and two frigates at ,the Bogue. There is no fear of any regular attack proving successful, but what we have to apprehend is the Chinese burning the ships, and also—and this is the great one—blocking up the river, and thus preventing us bending provisions or ammunition. It will be an awful cahmity if they do this, and they are making the attempt. When the gun boats arrive I hope we may be able to take the offensive, and chase and destroy every junk we find in the river. " I am very sorry this of ,lir was begun, but now that we have begun we must go through with it. We have no choice. We .must either thrash the Chinese so severely that they will never forget the lesson, and teach them to respect treaties and to behave to Western nations in a civil way, or make up our minds to aban don the entire empire, and with it lose a good cus tomer of Manchester and a trade that brings into the Exchequers of England and India altogether an amount but little short of 10,000,0001. sterling. So I fear you have to choose between a war and the loss of 10,000,000/. per annum. So long as we hold our own at Canton I don't think there is a chance of the troubles extending to the northern ports ; but, rely on it, if we are driven away from Canton, or attempt to cone late them (I say at tempt, for it is certain if we try to do that it wut w hna ' .cla il ee l era m ns:u a i, k carhe e r ca t i hm gr e aciunms ten t a ut extermination,i c m fi s e , s t a h s ey insolent ),willa e drivei w am ussh satisfied l have w ay fr from that, m o empire. Remember, I don't apprehend this—not in the least—but I am anxious you should understand that we have no choice. We have either to conquer them en- tirely and dictate our own ternis, or be driven away. Tix6re cannot be any half-way house." IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS.-(YESTERDAY.) DIVORCE AND MATRIMONIAL CAUSES BILL The LORD CHANCELLOR, in moving the second reading of this bill, said that with one or two variations it was substantially the same bill as that which ha , l passed their lordships' house last session. It would be in the reccllection of their lordships that some years ago a royal commission was issued directed to the Lord Chief Justice, to Dr. Lushington, Mr. Walpole, the noble lord at the table (Lord Redesdale), and several other persons, with a yiew to an inquiry on the subject of divorce, and in order to see whether they coul'l make any E.tig;estions which would enable the Legislature to get rid of the anomaly of privateacts of Parliament for dissolving mar- Business done this do.Y. 89 4 i 38i 20 11 1 10i 11 35 I 99 100 56i 7 i 37 6i 96i 7 85 4 64 9 13i 9} 9 1.02 i 2 R 591 06i 21 losi 6 5i if 38 47i 8} 834 21 f 594 8f 47 61 . 1 7 6i 87 7 63i 40 4#039! 313 1 303 18i 76 3 5i Business this day. 20 20 20 20 ISSESSIONS /- 1 p 1 lip 196 98 95 97 95 97 par i p ••• - ••• 1i - li p .13 - 115 2i - 2ip 21:f - 21/ 51 - 52 81 - 83 21i - 21 lh - l ip 25i - 261, - 99 - 100 120 - 125 120 - 125 107 - 109 19 - 20 21 - 221 - - P .• ••. 2 -- 2ip Gi - 7 li li I 3i 4 0 5i 5i i P 33 i i 34 10 11 par ip 44 5 p 6§ 6.2 ...d 6 - 29a —30 a • - 21 394 40 9 94 584 59 56 58 id— iP ..• ••• 18 20 1 1i 9 9 4 gi 9 44 94 10 33 31 par— 1 P BANKS. 99 --1011 4 - 4 p' 69 - 61 68 la -- igi l 18}- 10 18A -- 19 , IWO • • • In ii -- ii 39 40 par 4 p 61 62 7 - 6 11 --I 9 d 10 - 8d 113} 14i 17D 51i 2i 82 II 5i ilk 1 6i 2191 81 f 39 1 i i i 581 9 100 99,E 100 19 25i 5 15: l5 14i 2$ 91i x d 1001 1} COURT OF EXCEIEQUER (IRELAND) Mr. P. O'BRIEN asked tue Attorney Geueral for Ireland whether his attention bad been directed to the present c institution of the Court of Exchequer Chamber in Ireland, as regarded the delays and difficulties expe rienced by suitors in that court, and whether it was the intention of the Government to apply any remedy. Mr. FITZGERALD said that during the Easter re cess he intended to put himself into communication with the learned judges of this court, and if they adopted his views, to introduce a bill for the purpose of assimilating the practice of this court to that of the Court of Exche quer in this country. WEIGHTS AND MEA SURES (IRELAND). Sir WILLIAM VERNER asked the Chief Secretary for Ireland if be could inform the house when the Bill for tae Assimilation of Weights and Measures in Ire land was likely t 3 be laid on the table of the house Mr. HORSMAN said that the Government intended to introduce a bill for the regulation of the Irish fairs and markets, of which weights and measures would form a portion of that measure. The bill had been prepared, and was now under revision, and he hoped soon to be able to introduce it to the house. SIR J. 'NEIL AND COL. TIILLOCH. Mr. LAYARD asked, as the services of Sir J. M'Neil and Col. Tull , )ch were again to be brought be fore the house, if the Under-Secretary for War had any objection to lay on the table of the house a copy of the correspondence between the Government and these gentlemen relative to the offer of 1,0001. made to each of those gentlemen ? Mr. F. PEEL said there was no objection to produce the correspondence referred to.. BUSENESS OF THE HOUSE. On the nioti;EOfl;rdP AMERSTON, the notices of motions were postponed till after the order of the day for resuming the adjourned debate on China. CHINA.-ADJOURNED DEBATE. The adjourned debate on this question was resumed. Mr. ROUNDELL PALMER addressed the house at considerable length on the legal and tech nical portion of the question, in the course of which he replied to the reasoning of the learned Attorney-General, and said that erless the Go vernment could show that this lorcha was an Erglish merchant ship their case failed entirely, for without that no ship in China was under the protection of this country. (Hear, hear.) They must also prove that there had been a direct violation of the Treaty of 1842. He contended there was nothing connected with this lorcha or her cre cv that gave aclaiw to British nationality. The hon. and learned gentleman then Memel to the general arguments that had been relied on by the sup porters of the Government, and concluded by stating that be should support the resolution of the hon. member for the West Cal. HERBERT supported the resolution. Mr. KENDALL could not follow his party in voting for this resolution, as he thought nothing could be more unjust, ungenerous, and dangerous than hastily to con demn public servants at a distance. He did not say he approved of everything S►r John Bowring had said or donp ; but where there was matter of d .übt, ho thought our ow❑ servants ought to be supported, other wise he was sure no Englishman's life in China would be safe for a moment. He oLject.ed to the resolution on other grounds. A man must be blind indeed if he did tilt see that this lorcha question was made a mere dis guise for new political combinations. If the present Government were removed, their a ccessors most be composed, among others, of Lord Y. Russell, Sir James Graham, Mr. Gladstone, Mr. S. Herbert. Now, he would not say anything againt those parties except this —that he could not forget who brought us into the last war, and who mismanaged it for us when they brought us into it. Nor could he forget either that the noble lord at the head of the Government brought us out of the difficulty, and that in spite of a pressure which few but himself could have resisted. Turning to his own side of the house, he scolded them for cheer ing Mr. Cobden ; and still more for cheering Sir James Graham when he boasted of having spared Odessa—the very thing which the Conservatives blamed him for at the time. There was another matter. He feared that the Peelites were working heaven and earth to thrust the Church inta extremes. For his part, he would rather sacrifice his Conservative principles than see those men in power. Mr. M. GIBSON could not understand how the car rying of Mr. Cobden's resolution would endanger Bri tish life in China. Did the Government mean to say that if they were beaten they would at once withdraw the protection to life and property they had hitherto af forded. It was said, too, that the merchants connected with the China trade were all opposed to the resolu tion. But he could not find that the merchants of England generally opposed the resolution—certainly the merchants of Manchester did not—and as for those in the tea trade, be hinted that a desire to dispose of their stocks of Chinese produce at high prices might be at the bottom of their eagerness for hos tilities. Then it was said that the Liberals ought not to vote for the motion, because the Cinservatives supported it. But the noble lord hal no such scruples in accepting Conservative support to put down liberal resolutions ; and the fact that the Conservaqves, who were usually in favour of the Crown on all questions of war, were in favour of this resolution, was a strong proof that the resolution itself was right. He complained of the strong and disagreeable pressure that was put upon the Liberal members to change their votes on this question, and vote for the Goverbment. They were begged and entreated, as if they were electors in some small provin cial town before a contested election. Mr. OSBORNE complained of the manner in which this question had been mystified and obfuscated by lawyers until plain men so far lost sight of the real question that one took refege in the character of Lord Raglan, and another in Lord Palmerston's episcopal appointments. He agreed in all that fart been said in praise of Sir Michael Seymour, but he reminded the House that Admiral Seymour was jointly reaponeible with Sir John Bowring fir all that nad been done. He denied that Canton had been bombarded ; all that was done was to shell a particular part of the city where the Chinese were assembling to burn down the factories. It was impossinle to discuss the question from an English or European point of view. What was i the nee of discussing this pedantry of international law with reiiect to a nation who neither regarded European law nor justice? He was surprised that Mr. Cobden shou d have male a violent attack on the character of the British merchants. It hardly became the hon. mem winhiesnte ortwhehro had r p. ties forsook their posts—the Minist er w h o ber to do so after havieg receive d from the body of British merchants the most ma g nificent testimonial that had ever been given to a member of Parliament. He defended the character and acts of Sir John Bowring, a t through John the Bowring, war time Minister same time that he knew well the real object o f attack on wa rr s ie n t th S e i m r never forsook a friend, and never had a personal enemy. from the noble lord, especially on the la t e Hequ esti on differed of re form, and he only abstained from voting against hint be cause he had not given him warning. house was determin e d to upset the no ble lf, however, the he would ask in whose lorcha lord's lorcha, were they to be put ! He supposed in one whose for e i gn com mo d ore was M r . Cob den, and whos e reg i s tered owner was Russell and Co. He believed th e coalition about to be formed would not be o ul p p ar, and he was sure the country would not tole rate a conspiracy to upset the nobly lord. Mr. HENLEY entertained strong doubts of the lega lity of the reg i s t er, b ut he bad no doubt at all that if it were legal the reparation demanded for the wrong. was excessive. He contrasted the oondect of the Americans for the i nsu l t o ff ere d to t h e ir flag weUflilietn o the f feroc it y Sir r h i,j o L a dis played by ou r own countrymen. T he names had been 1 Bowring w ere i n dignant that suchremarkable that no one of them attempted to dispro ve applied to him, but it w as the charges. It appeared to him that Sir 3. Boring bad been guilty of deliberate falsehood ; and, i n j ustice t o Admiral Seymour, he mu s t 0 n the face of these papers, the sha g dow of an impute say there WAS n -ot ' C on that when he concurred in th e of Canton he was aware of the shameful de -3 caption whi ; punishment had been practised upon the Chi nese . Th e Chinese had be d'l d den i ate upon, an barbarities o A d • but let nut the house forget who began conuernne , We had bombarded the town ; how could we . them. wonder that the Chinese resorted to the only retaliation intheir power and used the knife and the poison of the - sin ? He wan for supporting our servants abroad, but asseg that support must have a limit, and be could not support them when they were guilty of wilful deception and slaughtering innocent non-combatants. Sir E. C. EGERTON could not support the resolu tion, because he believed that its affirmation by this House would endanger the whole of the British inte rests and British life now in China. But he hoped Lord . ralmeratou would recall Sir J. Bowring, feud pond out a FOR . 4i 7 10i 301 108 274 50 2i 184 75i IGN. 874 3 t 4 2} 404 64 100 110 28i 52 1931 7611 86 3il 3d 14 43 4i i 108 27i 8 51 86 5 20i f 4 20 i 21f 5j 33i 23 6 1 I 26 1 11. 98i 8