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

'-w' MARI~.II I I 7 r - AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE CITY, Two O'CLOCK. The Cotton Market at Liverpool yesterday ex hibited a very firm appearance, and last week's prices were fully maintained. The sales were esti mated at 5,000 bales ; 500 of which were taken by the exporters, and 1,000 by the speculators. The Railway Share Market closed steadily, with out any material 'alteration in prices. War The rep ort s Conap,, ny jrast issu e d b y th e E is t A ng li an Rail balf year shows th a t th e t r affic durin g th e 260 'ending the 31st o f D e cember last yi e ld e d is -- s i. 16s. Bd. The directors state that "the "-eav'Sr expenditure consequent on the d e c ay an d 4P Aapidatio ns of preceding years still augments the 'working expenses of the Eastern Counties Railway Company, and has caused them considerably to exceed 50 per cent. on their total receipts ; conse quently our revenue has again been subjected to the maximum charge under this head ; the result is a net amount of 13,9551. ls. ld., which after providing for the interest on the Bond Debt, and on the A and B shares, leaves sufficient to pay 41. .15'3. per cent. per annum on the C Stock. A considerable degree of firmness is apparent in the tea market, the letters just received from China laving stimulated speculative purchases. Com /non. Congou is now ls. lkd. to Is. 11d., and the tendency is still upwards. The continental exchanges yesterday afternoon Were very firm, and on Hamb urg th e quotation Was a shade higher. aural l y being the " fourth" of the month, there is a very active demand in the money mar t, for although most persons have no doubt pre- 6 capital th e i r D. few, as usual, have postponed 16 Null, lr 'preparations till the last moment. st; 111 rates are, therefore, currant, and tempo- 16 i'2.!3l* the pressure is rather more severe but 3 1.4, th e course of two or three days some . relief . may 20 t l 7:_it In d eed there is a general impression that Il i st. and t he rates will speedily become more abundant, , 36 . in 'Lie rates slightly decline, although no measure 20 i t hat direction Oil the part of the Bank authorities 10 8 Yet contemplated. The large arrivals of gold .:if . l ,"ticipated from Australia will tend to produce this, 2 ; .", Awithstanding the diversion of those remittances 25 to the continent in payment of silver. It is feared st, ~that the efflux of this metal to China and India 10 , v in continue, an d no sooner i s the shipment to- 10 ear r completed than arrangements are commenced IR. be en th e next ma i l, a sum of 25,0001. in gold having fit' ! withdrawn f rom the Bank yesterday for tram- 50 I mission t o th e continent. There is a small supply of 25 4 2 1 1 ilrerbytheM e.xicansteamer,vi z . , s972 , 9 ss,orabout 1( 19 4,5911., b ut this is a very unimportant addition 0 ~.,,r1 the Stock of that metal available for exportation. 20 The t • :rali, ex onsive remittances now en route from Am- Cra will Prevent these specie operations causing St. ~toaierial diminution in the Bank's stock of a ) c4'lo/1, although a small amount may occasionally 'il,‘.: 2 sent away, and with a knowledge of this fact " any Movement of the kind will not create uneasi- St. nea ss St. value ° f. d2feat has naturally affected the 25tt. p e ; ti e of the Engli"ili Funds, and a decline of f to i o,, tii z l has taken place. There has not been much 5 6 itz, however, as the settlement of the account st 'us ziny r ~., ti le — .44 Progress, but the jobbers have availed st. 1,4;1 -Leaves of the opportunityafforded by the majo- 10 for ag i , t ai nmt Ministers to depress the market. Consols 20 ....A.prif"°37 have been 938 1, and 931 -,31, while the 20 '-vhe zrprioets have been 94i ', and 94 to 94i. 10 Vat Red 3 Per Cents. are marked Mto 941, and St. Tri c ii 4 d' -need 931 to 94. Bank Stock is 220, and to 28 s ' itt° ' 233 . Exchequer Bills were 2s. discount zu 10 p • P r eMium. Orel St. Ttiosis,ell Securities are generally very dull. st. 9 7 t, "`„ 6 Per Cents, have declined to 97+ i and St. Ittexi "- Russian 5 per Cents. are 1071, and 1.c.) ite ,..,, cat have risen to 221 i, as the advises from a' . a/7. 43 ';° state that a loan of 13,000,000 dollars 10 b e IDr,,in g negotiated, one half of which would st. Isla alinlied to the liquidation of English Bond- E re c l a i ms: Th 20 ° cuatorian Commission of Agency have th i s „ aay • r eceived a further remittance of 2,6831. 9s. 3d. v o t , The of Ecuador dividends. 25 , J:he following are the nominal prices of Foreign . isn'ocks :---Grenada Deferred Bonds, 6' 7 ; Meat- St. 0 - 7 4 , 22i I T; Peruvian, 41 per Cents., 79 81 ; St. 25 dit t o Three per Cents., 55 57 ; Portuguese 3 per 20 11, Its., 44 46 ; Russian 5 per Cents., 107 109 ; do. 20 . per Cents., 97 99 ; Spanish 3 per Cents., 401 I; 50 61 ttto New Passive,'Deferred 24 Ditto Certificates, 20 ' i ; Ditto 5i 6. 10 There has t he e been an active business transacted in OB a l , ll .ailw 5 ay Share M ar k et, but p 5 rites have in 004`a:: • ins tances shown a decided downward ten- 20 Great Northern, Brighton, North- ao P.oli o ,n) . 'and - York, declined ss. ; Caledonian, 20 We; s 4 . -° lrgh, Perth, and Dundee, 10s. ; Great 11_ 0 . F,a,i'ln, North Western, Midland, North te Bte e rli) and Berwick, 15s. ; and Oxford, Wor- iiii 1/, I ' l , , and Wolverhampton, and South Eastern, 18 F ran ce -last ern of France declined 15s. ; Central of T x ., Os. ' Northern of France, 1/, ;and Grand 18 tirk 0 ,., 20i, 1% 41 4 kanada, 1/. 100 t ecin g Shares have been inactive, at rather /0 , 0 ed. rates.int-s decif 4 took Bank Shares have shown a slight 100 Ott oTh e ' L ~London and Westminster receded 10s., 20 -- ` .1.1 45 klO Union of Australia, 10s. In v, an s., and b een 'e Miscellaneous undertakings there has 20 20 20 N 'erY and 0 , little business transacted. Peninsular 17 i ttea riental Steam improved 10s. In d • , and Royal Mail 20 eellned 108. St. Eta (1,13E1 ktr --------- IsTDs THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. (From the o.olacti List.) t 4llk St i , nginesbdono ; per tjeo_ek. ! 220 a p er , 41,• Reduced Annuities 931 4 l i *Ze- w 3"1It• Consols Annaitiov 931 b y,,,,, .., Per Cent. Annuities 94 f 1 ,0 4 - - , uo ut. A . . nunities. 1134 In 'k g A ruluit. _ ci ci i 3 84 ._ , les, expire sth Jan. 1860 2 _l_s-16 olit,oe4s .......... .................... .. , tide. tinder 1000 ......... '..... ' .. 3 d ~...s for A _ r Aeh" no csotint .................... X5OO ............ .... ....... . ............... T i „ .... bi—tt"tolAdvertis'e"ci 1)14° Boucls 2 d 6 I , tt i o, 1859 , 18 58, 3i p er Cont 984 . 98:c kexiee4B3Ope-Pr iki it .. E . TG ..: l4 .. F . ............ FUNDS AT 021 E O'CLOCK b_bitto A.eco Cent ~,ltisia l, unt ctirkk h ',ands, 1822, I: St., 5 per Cent lo7i -D itto -B ° e n,lB , 6 per cent 9 -4 01114 ....... . ..". .. . .. Dividends on the shov e . pa;able in . Lemur,. TWO O'CLOCK. Consols. done 93 i i 1 )i tt o A eeZu n t - ...................... • : Ditto April A.ee.0.;u1..t........................ 3''' ... .711- ILITARY RESOURCES OF PERSIA. i'lln, the military strength of Persia does not consist in the aber or efficiency of the regular army, and when it ... 4 said that the King, when he takes the field, makes nl a force of a hundred thousand fighttng men, it must ue understood that this is only done by taxing all his re sources, regular and irregular. If we except the Rus i alaB serving in the Persian army, and who have been eheouraged by the Russian authorities to desert for that 4t e th Pctpos e , the mo s t efficient troops at th e Sh ah ' s disposal f ur levies of th e t r ib es , w hi c h t h ey are bound to •etlrnish wh en ca ll e d upon. These consist almost entirely "t t•becavalry. The military tribes o f P ers i a , i n many marked a Peets, differ mat er i a lly f rom t h e other inhabitants of 4--ersia, a n d are di s ti ngu i s h e d f or their hardy, generous, liOd h courageous natures. From the vice o f th e rest of the Population—their inveterate habit of lying— tb 3' are comparatively free. But, on the other h an d, 413 1 ) 5' are excessively proud, and not a little ungovern e. Under the influence of passion they will not even spa re the monarch himself ; and so well is their cha racter understood that the utmost intemperance of lan gil,ralioe isahhaahr,dly ever punished... 8 . army is divided into different bodies, of perms Whinh the principle are—his persona guards, . lieutly embodied C orps not exceeding, sometimes not amounting to, 5 ,000 rnen the troops of Adjerbijan and lif Erivan which number ; from 30,000 to 40,000 ; the levies of the tribes ; a militia of foot soldiers, badly equip- 0 1 5 Y1 and not to be depended upon. The titles of some t the battalions are expressive of their supposed good gualities, such as the Surbaz (the Resolute), and the Jon_baz (Despisers of Life). It may in a great measure ''' owing to the corruption in the Government, and to the mal administratio n of affairs, that the Persian troops are not efficient in the la of th e P ersian generally display eld. F or the character s many Which co ns ti tute the soldier. They are active, robust, of the virtues and quick of apprehension. They are brave, too • and have, when well leJ, displayed a high degre e of va'laur. but this has depended always ou the character of their leaders and the nature of the objects for which the have fought. The influence of their clties is excessively de praving from its indolence and luxuriousness ; and it has been remarked that when the chief s of the military tribes have been for any length of time exposed to it they have exchanged their estimable characteristics for the lying and insidiousness which are the prominent features of the citizen. It is a curious circumstance, as showing how absurd is the idea that virtu e is inherent in race, that the ancient Persians taught their children the most scrupulous reverence for truth, whereas their descendants adopt the very opposite rule, and the most dexterous prevaricator is the best man. —Morning Ad. Vertiser. MSTATE or TRADE.—MANCHESTER, Tuesday....—There is s carcely any p ercept ibl e c h ange i n this market. Prices remain firm, and whatever business may be don e is at hill rates- Nothwithstanding this, the bias of the market is rather against sellers. There is more inquiry for light cloths, and manufacturers ask to obtain a slight advance, SHARE MARKETS—(This Day.) RAILWAYS. RAtmers. Closing Prices 7ester4ay. Business dons this day. .4titibg. Nottng. Bost. 4 FAstn. June —. Belfast & Ballymena Birmng. Wolverh. & Stour Va11ey........ I Birkenhd. Lancsh. .dr Cheshire Junet..... Blackburn Blyth & Tyne original £25 (iss. at £43).... 100 Bristol di Ereter...... 100 Ca1ed0nian............. 1 00 Chester & Holyhead all Cork and Bandon.... all Cork, Black. & Pass.l 20 all Cornwall LO all Do. A 1.0 8 Do. B . ... .. SO 45 Dublindißelfas.tJune ,0,5 all Dun. P. diAber.Junc t. 10 East Anglian ... ',O all Eastern Counties , ft. 100 EasternUnion,A.stk It. 100 Do., do. E..... 25 82 Do. New A ?5 171 Ea s t Kent ... ..... it. 100 East Laveashir; !O all East Suffolk 0 4 Do. it . 100 Edinburgh & Glasgow 10 all Edinb. and Peebles St. 100 Edinb.Prth.dtDundee 10 all Forth and Clyde June. it. 100 Furness .... . ... ... . it. 100 CRasgow &S. Western .0 all Great N. of Scotlan d it. 100 Great Northern ..... it. 100 Do., A. Stock ..... It. 100 Do., B. Stock ..... t. 100 Gt. Sth.&West.(lre. t. 100 Llrea tWestern. ..... it. 100 D o. St r. V . R. gua. Si 2 all Irish South-Eastern i , all Lancaster &Carlisl e . [ 141 Do., Third 5............ 12 Do. New Thirds .. 100 Laneash. &Yorkshire 6 Do., do. F. £l6 ... i Do., Wst. Riding Un. all Do. Southport.... all London & Blackwall 100 Loud. Becht. &Ft ("of 100 London &N. Western all Do. Fifths all D0.,16/.5h..M&8...0 24 Do. Eighths 100 London &S. Western all Lndndrry.&Colerainc all Lndndrry. & Ennisk. IGO Manch.Shef.&Lincln. 1 Metropolitan 1 Do. J. L. rreardo's arrangement flOO Midland . 100 Do. Birming. & Derby all Midland G. West. (Ir.; all Do. i Shares .. . . . ... all Newcastle &Carlisle all Newpt•Aberg.&Hrfd 9 Newry & Enniskillen all Newry, Warrenpoint & Rostrevor 1100 Norfolk. . 32 Northn. Counties Un 'lOO North British 11 004 North Devon, Rail. & Dock 5t0ck......,,,,, 100 Do., A Stock 100 Do., B Stock ........ 100 N. Ea stern - Berwick 23:7 Do. do. Extension ... 14 Do do. G.N.E.Purch. all Do. Leeds 100 Do. York 100 North London . . ... 131.1 N. &S. Wstn., Hamp stead, and City Jn 1 171 North Staffordshire all North Western all N. &S. Westrn. unc 100 Oxford Worcester & Wolverhampton.... 16 Portsmouth 10 Rhymney 100 Scottish Central 100 Scot. N.E.Abrdn. St 100 Shropshire Union 4 f Sitingbourne &Sheer all !South Devon ..... 100 'South Eastern all Do. 43 per c. Shares NO South Wales 17 S. Yorksh. River Dun 7 D 0..........-. ...... all Staines,Wok.,&Wok all Stockton & Darlin- 15 Do. do.. 1854 3 Do. do.. 1 855 16/ Stockton & Hartlepl 'lOO Taff Vale 100 Do. Pref., No. 1 22 Thames Hay. D. i _I ill Vale & Neath. .... all Waterfd. & Kilkenny all Waterford&Limerick all West Comwall all West End of London ;t. iwo l 5 all 5 all ••• - n - ••• ..". ••• ..... • 108 110 27A 281 50 52 2h lAd 18,t 19A1 77 85 - 4; - 4 iol i and Crystal Palace., all Do. A all Do. all West Lordon nil Do. First Class all Do. S3cond all ,Vnibledon&Croydon) 7 - 9 2 - 3 - 6 7i ` BRITISH PI all Atlan. and St. Law. 9 Bombay, Baroda, and Ceu.lrd,gusr. 5 p.c. all Do. 10i Buffalo do Lake liar 100 Buff., Brnt.dx G Ach, 100 6 p.e.bds., 1 Aug. '72 Do. do., 1 July, '73 LOO Do. co_ 1 Jure, '74 2s. Ca'cutta and S. Ea3t. Oude (Lim.) 1 01 C2y'ou A shun 1 Do. B. do. all Demerara 2 - . Eastern Bengal 1.00 east Ind , an 15 Do. C Sl-ares all D 0.4 p.c.Bnds.,'s7 all Do. do. cio. '5O, do. ell Gzelong ieloourne guar. i per cent lC Cd. Trunk. of Canada all Do. 6p. c. Deben all In. Pen. g. 5 per c 4 Do. New, guar. 5 p.c all Ct. Wo6l - .n. of Canada 8 Do. New all Do. 111 , ... payable '57 r ll Do. eo., '76, p. '6O ali Do. do., '73, do. all Do. do., '73, without o,)t'on all Madras, gam.. 44 P.C all Do. do., 5 per c..„ 10 Do. 47, p. c. Eaten. 5 Do.:(i Ex., g. sp.c. 5 Do. 4th Ex., do. ss. Oude (Limited) 5 ,Scinde, guar. 5 per C all Do - 8 97 - 98 86 - 87 124 - 126 111 - 113 691 - 70 62 - 64 74 78 8 9 p 8 9 1021 lon d par 109 1 - - 311 !ON - 107 id 1,11 1034 f 38 - 5 - , 55 - 56 144 - 14 58 - 6 36 - 34,i 466 - 476, 87 gi 3i 3 di 4g -- il 63 64 96 100 4,} 47d 111 31 32 ISSESSIONS ••• ....... ••• I 1 p 1 —l6 196 99 95 97 95 97 par i p ii - li PI 11.3 -- 115 !I -- Zip 1 21. E 21; 51 53 81 83 214 —21 a 1* 25t —26 k, - 3 i7 99 100 120 125 120 125 107 - 109 19 - 201 21 -224 i I - - P ••• ..... •• 2 - 2 p c~ 4 - i 3 - 44pj - IPi 33 - 10 11 par 5 5 p Ga , ••• ••• .?,' .. 6115 29; : 301 9 - 21 - 213 - 3 9 9,1 - 40, 94 58 - 583 5G - 58 id— i PI 18 - 20 1 - 11 9 - 9i - 9 pm' 4 i —4/ 9 A 10 :321 —33 i, par-- 1 j), BANKS. 99 -- - - 1 101 4 - I p 59 - 61 - - 63 - 70 18 -- 18{ 18i -- 19 18 -- 19 47 - 49 39 - 40 i- i P 61 7 - 11 9d 10 8d .0 I all Antwrp & Rotterdam 14 Ardennes all Belgian East. Juuct. 16 Beziers to Graissessac all Carmear l'oulousrl Coal Mires and Ry 1 12 Dutch Rhenish ailZast2rn of France O. Do. New 2s. Eup'ira . .;es Valley ••• :I 3 I Gt Central o" 2ancc. 17 Great Laxer;murg 4 Italian Ju fiction all Lake Const. & Dale all Lierre and Turnbor 6 Lombareo-Venetian all Lucca dz Pist.6p.c.p. all Lyons and Geneva all Lyons & Mediterran all Maria Anteula all Do. New all Namur & Liege all Do. do. 6 p. c. Pref 2,1 Northern of France all NorwegianTrnk. Pre - ; all Paris and Lyons all Paris and Orleans 7 Reoi re 4 San Fran (fernam.) g 7 p. c 74 Rome and Frascati,., all Royal Danish .. all Royal Swedish. ******* all 'e , amb re and Me;;;(*) *** alt Do. 54 per cent. prof. all Southern of Fran.ce all West Flanders * *** all Do. 54 per c . Prof * : !CI all W.&N.W. of France 0 6 Western ofAustria, 9 all West. of Switzerland 6 all Wiesbaden 6 all Do. p. cent. prof. !() all Zealand JOINT-S' all ?Australasia 184 Bank of Egypt 50 Bank of London all Bri. Col. Bk.& La. Co all British N. American 6 C.Bk.of 50 City 25 Colonial 20 Commercial of Loud. all Eng. Scot. &Aus.Cht. all Lou. Ch. Bk. of Aust. all D;tto New ............ 20 London and County 50 Lud.&E.Bukug.Corp 10 London Joint Stock.. 20 Lond.andWestminst. 35 National Pro. of Eng. 10 Do. New 22i ;National Bank a a a2l u l 1 11551 spl)to N oito c .. uot iv . South nr iscal Wales all Oriental Bank Corp Bankn cial N w t o Gi f . lrelan dm all 11.Tnion of Australia IViUlto l if of L o don • N ew 50 Unity Mutuani 50 Nestm Bk. cLf ...... 4 - 4 ii - 9 6 9 - 71 8i - 9 911 -9" j, 69 - 69 38 - 39 IDI -10 i 19 - 204 10 - 111 50 - 52 a - 36 7 4 - 00 - 101 j 20 11 i 101 11 •611 . 56 - 20 20 20 20 10 20 20 20 100 100 f 3 3:3.1 3 C 14 43 1711113 k 14 51f 82 li 25 I A 1 i 11 20 i 21i 9 8f 211 39 i i 1.C3 991 39i 15i a 15 SUN, ND 'N WEDNESDA EVENING, MA. IR nt 4 1857 LIVERPOOL RACES.--(This Day). IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT, Mr.: Paidl Leasing Companies °losing Prices Bas yesterday. thLs (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. HOUSE OF LORDS.-(YESTERDAY £5O. PLATE. The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack at 5 o'clock. THE CAPTURE OF THE PERU. The Earl of HARDWICKE presented a petition from a gentleman named Dillon, praying for compen sation, which he claimed under the following circum stances :—ln 1822 the petitioner was an officer in the Coastguard, stationed on the coast of Ireland. One night, when it was blowing hard, he observed a large vessel sailing under cover of the cliffs. Suspecting the character of the craft he took the necessary means to go on board. The crew of the vessel observing his move ments endeavoured to escape, but Mr. Dillon and his party opened fire upon her. He was unable to board her, but pursued her into Kinsale, where she was boarded by the Custom-house officers, and she proved to be a large American brig, called the Peru, a notorious smuggler, Her cargo was seized and sold, and realised nearly 60,000/. The petitioner claimed his share of the proceeds of the sale, but from the time of the capture until the present day his claim was repudiated on several grounds, the principal of which was that he had never boarded the ship. The noble earl concluded by moving for certain papers con nected with the transaction. The LORD CHANCELLOR was understood to say that there would be great difficulty in producing the papers, owing to the length of time that had elapsed since the affair of which the petitioner complained. The motion was not pressed, but the petition was ordered to lay on the table. DIVORCE AND MATRIMONIAL CAUSES BILL. The LORD CHANCELLOR, in moving the second reading of this bill, said that with one or two variation s it was substantially the same bill as that which had passed their lordships' house last session. It would be in the recollection 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 view to an inquiry on the subject of divorce, and in order to see whether they could make any sugeestiens which would enable the Legislature to get rid of the anomaly of private acts of Parliament for dissolving mar riages in cases of adultery. The commissioners made an elaborate report, and recommended that the no.tor. of ~64..;.;..6- F . iv.Le acts ot 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 lordship? house, were proved before that tribunal, it should have power to grant a divorce a vinculo matrimonii. In pursuance of the recommendations of that report he prepared the bill which was introduced into their lordship? house, and which bavicg been read a second time was referred to a select committee. The select committee had the assist acce 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, strictly speaking, a law re form. A noble and learned friend of his made a mo tion in the select committee extending the relief of the bill to married women diverced 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 clause 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 wouli be called the ordinary judge, and would sit for the ordinary purposes of the court; that is, that he should have power to deal with all matters, except divorces a vinculo matrimonii, 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 Dean of the Arches 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 th e powers now exercised by the judge of the Ecolesiastical 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 of divorce, a vinculo matrimonii, though the parties should be at liberty to marry again, yet that the adul terer should not be able to marry the adulteress. Their lordships carried that proviso almost by acclamation, but as he (the Lord Chancellor) was now introducing a bill in which he was responsible for what the Government thought best to be done, he had left out that priviso, leaving it to their lordships to insert it if they thought fit. He objected to it because it inflicted agreat injuryon the woman, and in ordinary cases would be a great boon to the adulterer; and in those cases in which a elan of hon our might be desirous of making all the reparation in his I power to a woman he bad injured, that clause entirely re. [ Bared, or rather prevented, him from doing so. There was another reason why it was not convenient that this proviso should be inserted in the bill. In the private acts in their lordship? house for the dissolution of marriages such a proviso was always introduced, although it wes 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 private bide ? That 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 had 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 held to be valid by the courts, and Lord Cottenhane on one occasion interfered, by injunction, to restrain a per son who was a party to a deed of this kind from taking proceedings in the ecclesiastical court. Ile was aware that the deeds in question did not state that the persons who were parties to them were separated ; and his noble and learned friend, the Chief Justice, had said that their pro visions were carried out by means of trustees. But if persons agreed to live separately, there was no difficulty in finding trustees by means of whom such a deed could be entered into ; and it was substantially an agreement between husband and wife : for some one covenanted on behalf of each of them to abide by the terms of the deed. He proposed that, without this complicated machinery, it should be lawful for persons to make such a deed, and 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 divoree a mensa et thoro. He had heard pitiable details of the position of many miserable women under such circum stances. Would their lordships refuse them both mercy and justice ? The principle of voluntary separation was 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 religion as well as the rights of the people were attacked. The law of divorce was the law of the Church 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 wife, but he refused it to the wife for adultery by the husband, unless accom panied by greatly aggravated circumstances. This state of things lasted for 120 years. It was the depraved Church of Rome that added the divorce a mama et thoro. It was now proposed to inflict this cor rupt system on the Church of England. He was sorry to see that the Lord Chancellor had not a b o li s h e d the action for cries. con., but he would be satisfied with a separate act for that purpose, and the making adultery a misdemeanour, the criminal being also amerced in the costs of the prosecution. The bill ought not to pass in the present ohape. They mast have a committee of learned men to tell 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 not thick 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 t h e women they bad injured, He hoped cam. con, Lady Hercules Admiral Lyons Seven ran. LATEST BETTING. LIVERPOOL STEEPLECHASE. 11 to 2 agst Escape (taken) 9to 1 agst Hopeless Star (taken in force; 12 to 1 agst Teddesley (taken) 5 e —.....--,—.---......................—........" abolished by this bill, and that the : it one word, by a clerical error, was omitted, actions would be li be by indictment andpenalty, "bu t ' the face of it, showed it conrse of proceeding woos, . i , d be brought before 'he The wife and the adulterer sho,: to be 60. With regare l to the secoed queation resent the wife judge, and both should he heard. &It' he had to state that Web an estimate had been had no place befor e th e court, though the :Prelent affected received and reached the i loard of Control ou the 7th her honour and the happiness of her ftiture lite. With _Februa r y, an d that it was te. ansraitted to the Tr easury regard to absence or d eser tion being a plea for es• on the Dtb. I t had not yep been examined or a c k now . paration, he should o pp o s e th e clause, with tile I pro- i ledged, and it was net hi s i n t snt eoe to present the esti viso that the w if e s h ou ld b e p ro t ec t e d from the ' mate to the house, because it was.' rot desirab'e cr ex claims of the returning hu s b an d on the property pedient to do so in its present state, the e7timete being she might have got togeth e r i n his absence. The formed on rough calculataons. The calculations were clause which allowed pers ons to se p ara t e by deed, and a formed on what he hoped would he blind to be an W land an t he e deal with her p erson as she would w i t h an acre erroneous basis, namely, that the Persian War of , would oppose. A s regar d e d th e Court of would I.st till December, 1 857, b ut, even were it Chancer the y, herse rusted th a t if th e bill were u read a second ' likely to he so proAucted, he sh ou ld o b jsect to the product. time, Ld Chancellor would strike overything , tion of the estimates, because there a were items and that pertained to that court, which all Englishmen re- things mentioned ie it that ought not to bus made known garded with a wholesome horror. Ito an enemy. He hoped, therefore, that the house The Bishop of OXFORD opposed the bill, and would w ou ld no enforce its productioo. His aos wer to the vote against it in a case of a division. Hitherto the law third question was, that no supplies or wapiti:nes of war, had sought to surround marriage with a solemn protec- belonging to her Majesty, had been despatched from thi s tion. This bill went to facilitate its dissolution. For- country or from any British possession, in aid of the ex. merly divorce proceeded from sin—now it was to be from pedition against Persia. sufferance. Now parties who had been separated were re- LAND TRANSPORT CORPS. garded as holding a doubtful position —now they were Mr. T. DUNCOMBE asked the Under Secretary for invited to separate by a court, which affirmed thei r p o si- War when the revised copy of the army regulations and tion by its solemn sanction. There was now to be slaw to orders would be ready for distribution or sale ; also what ' unmarry innocently as before, to marry. He should vote was the date of the order or authority, and to whom it that this law, which if passed would be onlya delusion, was sent and addressed, upon which the disbandment of should be read that day three months. There were to be the Land Transport Corps took place, as stated by proceedings in forma pauperis ! To what would this him on Friday last, and whether there was aiey objection tend ? Actions for crim. con, were net abolished by this to lay upon the table a cosy of such order or authority I act. It might be said that a clause to this effect would Mr. PEEL said that t w.zs intended to apply the new be afterwards added, but the principle of the bill ought regulations to artillery and englneering corps, as swell as to appear on the face of it. Then, too, what would foe the other portions of 4 he service. The regulations ,were reigners think of this law ?In Prussia, France, Austria, ready, except t'-at referring to the embarkation of troops. and other countries, voluntary separation was prohibited. He expected they would' soon be ready. With regard He contemned the opi n i on o f ecc l es i as ti ca l lawyers on to the Land Transport Corps, the right bon. gentleman these points; they contemplated marriage, profession- gave a similar answer to that he gave ie extenso last; ally, only as leading to adultery. The bill, in his opi- week. nion, had a tendency to lower the sanctity of the mar- COURT OF EXCHEQUER (IRELAND). riage obligation, and therefore he begged their lordships Mr. P. O'BRIEN naked tee Attorney General for to vote against it. Lord WENSLEYDAL E supported the bill. He could Ireland whether his attention bad been di rec t e d to the present constitution of the Court; of Exchequer Chamber not see why, if necessary, even the count courts should in Ireland,regarded the delays and difficulties expe as re, not grant divorces to the poorer classes. rienced by suitors in that court, and whether it was the Lord DERBY said Lord Wensleydale's speech told intention of the Government to apply any remedy. against the bill he intended to support. He had come Mr. FITZGERALD said that duriog the Easter re down to the house to vote for the second reading, case he intended to put himself into coennenieation with but what had been said somewhat perplexed his mind the learned judeee of this court, and if they a e 'opted his protesting ag a i ns t t h e pr i nciple of the bill. He In the first pl ace h e f ound the only two bishops present views, to introduce a bill for the purpose of aessmilating anim- practice of adverted on the n on - a tt en d ance of the spiritual peers, qthe goer in this co this court to that of the Court of .Exche untry. • whose advice a n d ass i stance were certainly due to the house on a qu es ti on f raug h t with such interest to the WEIGHTS AND MEA. SURES (IRELAND). Church. On a rece n t p o li t i ca l quest i on 23 of the right Sir NVILLIAM VERNER as k e d th e Cain S e.cre t err reverend prelates had manage d t o b e present, yet this for Ireland i f h e cou ld i n f orm the heuee when the Bill for - Cite Assimilation of Weights and Measures in Ire question, one that em ph at i ca ll y d eman d e d their care, laud was lik e ly to b e l a id on tee table of the house ? was to be argu e d i n th e i r a b sence. So much for the I Church. As regard e d th e L aw, h e f oun d L ord Weneley- Mr. HORS MAN sa id th a t th e G overnment in t ee d e dale throwing hi s vo t e i nto one s i de and his argument to introduce a bill for the r e gul a ti on o f th e I r i s h f a i re g into another. H e cou ld not agree w i th the reverend and markets, The of which weighty and measures would form T. bill a portion of that measure. e 1 had been prepared, prelate, that marrria ee was i n di sso l u bl e b y l aw, The Bishop o f OXFORD d en i ed hav i ng made any and was now under revision, and he hoped soon t o b e such assertion, able to introduce it to the house. The Bishop of EXETER sa id that his proposition SIR J. .111`NEIL AND COL. TULLOCH. was that in cert a i n cases a marr i age could be dissolved the services of Sir .T by law. M'N eil and Col. Tullech were again to be brought be- The Earl of DERBY said that, such being the case fere the house, if the Under-Secretary fur War had any (the bishops not assent i ng), the Legislature was bound objection to lay on th e t a bl e of the house a copy of the to lay down explicitly what were the justifiable causes correspondence between the Government and these and circumstances f or di vorce, an d to refer them to the gent l emen relative to the offer of 1,0001. made to each highest possible tribunal for judgment. He agreed, then, of those gentlemen ? with the bill so far as it laid down that the marriage tie Mr. F. PEEL said there was no objection to produce • should be dissolved on proved adultery, and provided a the correspondence referred to. higher tribunal for the purpose. He wanted provision BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE. made against crim. con. actions, and a p ena lt y un d er O n the motion of Lord PALMERSTON, the notices criminal prosecutions inflicted on the adulterer. He of motions were postpo ne d tilt after the order. f the day would have the bill made equally to apply to rich and for resuming the adjourned debate on China. poor. We were very severe, and justly so, in punish ing crimes of violence a n d ro bb ery . L et the i r lordsh i ps CHINA.— ADJOURNED DEBATE . The a dj ournsd debate o n t h is question was resumed. beware lest the pe o ple s h eu ld say t h at they shrunk from Th severely punishing crim es th ey were t h emse l ves exposed Mr. ROUNDEL L P AL ME R, addressed the to the temptation of committing. Looking to the intro- house at considerable length ou the legal and tech duction of these clauses, he should vote for the second nical portion of the question, in the course of reading of the bill. which he replied to the reasoning of the Earl GREY would vote against the bill, not because learned Attorney -General and said that unless the Go he did not thi n k th e , present system disgraceful, but - ' because the bill did not remedy it sufficiently. The law vernment could show that this lorcha was an English was to be equal to the poor as to the rich, and y e t t h e y merchant ship their case failed entirely, for • without began with a tribunal consisting of a Lord Chancel:or, a that no ship in China was under the protection of this Dean of Arches, and three Chief Justices ! Could such country. (Hear, hear.) They must also prove that a court deal with the cases of poor people ? What fees, of 1842. b badthereeen a direct violation of the Treaty and forms, and p rocesses did t h ese names shadow forth ?- What a machin er y was thi s to h o ld out to the poor ! He contended there was not hi ng connected with this The experiment would be useless—the system would not lorcha or her crew that gave aclaim to British nationality. hold. The hon. and learned gentleman then referred to the Lord REDESDALE deprecated all motions on the general argaments th a t h a d b een re li e d on b y the sup many an Engli s h hearth. subject. The bill wo uld b r i ng d eso l at i on and misery to porters of the Go vernmen t, an d concluded by stating The LORD CHANCELLOR replied. He trusted that he should support the resolution of the hon. member that actions for crim. con, being no longer necessary as for the West Riding. preliminary processes to divorce, would of themselves Col. HERBERT supported the resolution. cease. If the adulterer were tried for misdemeanour, Mr. KENDALL could not follow his party in voting were they to try the woman also ? What was the far thisresolution,he thought nothi ng cou ld b e more as punishment to b e ? A fi ne wou ld b e disregarded by those who could pay— an d i n t h e case of those who unjust, ungenerous, and dangerous than hastily to con could not—the punishment would raise up an inequality demn public servants at a distance. He did not say he between rich and poor. As to the Bishop of Oxford's approved of everything Sir John Bowring had said proviso, it went to take away a great punishment on the or done ; but where there was matter of dsubt. he man, he being morally compelled to marry the woman, thought our own servants ought to be supported, other and so become banished from society. He hoped for a second reading of the bill that it might be considered wise he was sure no Englishman's life in China would be and improved, and an end be thereby put to the anoma- safe for a moment. He objected to the resolution on' sous state of the law as at present existing, other grounds. A man must be blind indeed if he did The House divided— not see that this lorcha question was made a mere die. Contents Non-contents Majority . —l5 Government were removed, their s ccessors must be The bill was read a second time, and the house, after composed, among others, of Lord T. Russell, Sir James passing the Chief Constables Bill and the Public Health Graham, Mr. Gladstone, Mr. S. Herbert. Now, he Bill through committee, and a resolution that no private would not say anything against those parties except this bill should be read a second time after the 3d of Jul —that he could not forget who brought us into th e l ast adjourned at te n o' c l oc k. 3 7, war, and who mismanaged it f or us w h en they brought us ieto it. Nor could be 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, be scolded them for cheer ing Mr. Cobden, and still more for cheering Sir James Graham when be boasted of having spared Odesa—the very thing which the Conservatives blamed him fur at the time. ,There was another matter. He ' feared that the Peelites were working heaven and earth to thrust the Church into 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 I with the China trade were all opposed to the resole 'ion. But he could not Sod that the merchants of England generally opposea the resolution—certainly the merchants of Manchester did not—and as for those . in the tea trade, he hinted that a desire to dispose F of their stacks of Chinese produce at high prices might be at the bottom of their eagerness for hos ttlities. Then it was said that the Liberals ought net to vote for the motion because the Cons erva ti ves supported it. Bet th e noble lord ha I no such scruples in accepting Conservative support to put down liberal resolutions ; and the fact that the Conseria ives, wha were usually in favour of the Cro en on all questions of war, were in favour of this reFolutio , :, w is a s rang pro f that the resolution itself was right. H., c mpla.reed of the wrong and disagreeable pressure that was put upri the Liberal membere to chaug, their votes ott this question, and vote for the Giver ment. Teey were begged anti entreated, as if they were electors in some s nail provin cial town before a contested election. Mr. OSBORNE complained of the manner in which this question bad been mystified and obfuscated by lawyers until plain men so far lost sight r f the real question th at one took refege in the character of of Lord R ag l an, and another in Lord Pslm erston's episcopal appointments. He agreed in all that had. been said in praise of Sir Michael Seymour, but he reminded the House that Admiral Seymour was jointly responsible with Sir John Bowring f a all that bad been done. He denied that Canton has 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 impossible to discuss the question from an English or European point of view. Wuat was the use of discussing this pedantry of international law with respect to a nation who neither regarded European law nor justice? He was surprised that Mr. Cobden shou d have made a violent attack on the character ct the British merchants. It hardly became the hon. mem ber to do so after having received from the body of British merchants the most magnificent testimonial that had ever been gives to a member of Parliament. He defended the character and acts of Sir Jiihn Bowring, at the same time that he knew we ll t h e real object of attack was not Sir John Bowring, but the Minister carried them through th e war at a time when 6erwho had ties forsook their p os t s — t h e Minister wh Other par a friend, and n ever h a d a personal enemy, o never forso o k e ta from the noble lo r d , especially on the n l y. ile diff ere d form, and he on l y a b stained from ate questi on o f re voting cause he had not given Wel war n i ng, a gainst him be -1 house was determined to if, however, the he would ask in whose lorcha the noble lord's lorcha, supposed in one whose f •la were they to be put ? lie den, and whose foreign commodore was Mr. Cob- He believed the registeredcoalition owner was Russell and Co alai° be popular, and ti about to be firmed would not . r, he was sure rate a con•ipirac Y to upset th e no bl e l or d . Mr. HEN LEY entertained ü bts of the lega lity of the • strong uo register, but he had eo doubt et all trus t i f it were legal the reparation demanded for the wrong was excessiv e. He corit.ra•sted the conduct of the Americans for the insult offered to their flag with the ferocity eis played by our own countrymen. The friends of Sir John Bo wring were indignant that such hard names had been applied to him, but it was remarkable that no oue of them attempted to disprove the charges. It appeared to him that Sir J. Bowring had been guilt y , of deliberate • stice to Admiral Seymour lie falsehood ; and, in in the face of these papers, the sha eay there was not, on tion that when he coneurr d • dory of an imputation he e in the was ishmtut of Cant on . aware 0 the shameful de ceptionpan e • h had been practised upon the Chinese. The were barbarities condemned , theno wonder of the Chinese had been dilated upon, and d • but let not the house forget who began We had bombarded the town ; bow could we that the Chinese resorted to ihe etily retaliation in t h e ir power and mei the knife and the poison of the a.sassin ? He was for supporting our servants abroad, tint that support must have a limit, and he could not support them when they were guilty of wilful deception and slaughtering innoceet eon-combatant ,14. Sir E. C. EGERTON could not support the resolu tion, because lie believed Oa' its atlirmat)on by this House would endanger the whole of tiie British inte rests and British life now in China. But he hoped Lord Palnierdtou would recall Sit J. Boning, aud send out a HOUSE OF COMMONS.—(YESTERDAY.) The SPEAKER took the chair at four o'clock. NEW MEMBER,. Lord J. MANNERS took the oaths and his seat for Leicestershire. CRYSTAL PALACE RAILWAY BILL. The committee reported that the standing orders had not been complied with in respect to this bill. PRIVATE BILLS. The following private bills were read a second time and ordered to be committed :—Deeside Extension Rail way ; Manchester Corporation ; Mid-Sus-+e= Railway ; Richmond and Kew Extension Railway ; Rhyuthey Railway. 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. RAILWAYS (INDIA). On the motion of Mr. HADFIELD, on behalf of Mr. Cheetham, the following returns were ordered : Returns showing the whole outlay sanctioned by the East India Company for the purposes of railways in India, independently of the cost of land ; specifying the amount for each several railway, and the rates of interest at which the different sums have been guaranteed ; showing the whole amount which has been paid into the East India Company's treasury on account of Indian railways, and the whole amount which has been paid out of the Eastlndia Company's treasury on account of Indian railways, down to the latest period for which accounts have been received in England ; show ing the direction of lines of railway sanctioned in India, sketched on a skeleton map of that country, marking the principal stations, with their distance from the principal terminus on eaeh of the said lines ; dis tinguishing the portions of the said lines completed or to be completed within a given time, or already open for traffic, from those portions not yet com pleted or commenced upon ; and specifying the number of miles of railway open for traffic in each presidency, with the date at which the construction of each several Indian railway was begun. so far as the above particu lars are already known in England. And, showing the number of miles of new roads or navigable canals opened for traffic in each several presidency of India since the year 1843, and the total amount of money expended on their construction ; specifying the localities of the above lines of communication, and, distinguishing the number of miles, and the direction of such of the said new roads as are continuously stoned and bridged and of the first class throughout, and the number of miles and direction of ruch of the said canals as are available for steam navigation E MIGRATION. On the motion of Viscouut GODERICII, the follow ing returns were ordered :—Returns showing the amount of money at the disposal of the Emigration 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 whieh they bear to other emigrants during the same period ; and, of the regulations and conditions under which passages are granted. DESTITUTION AT COLCHESTER. Sir J. TYRRELL inquired if there would be any objection to ills moving for the production of General Gascoigne's report, relative to the destitution of the soldiers' wives and families at Colchester ? Mr. F. PEEL—No. EDUCATION. Mr. W. EWART gave notice that be should, on an early day, move to bring in a bill making it co mpu l -ory for children under a certa in age employed in factories to be allowed a certain number of hours etch day for edu cation. PERSIA. Mr. GLADSTONE asked the President of the Board of Control whether " the financial year," in his letter of the 9th day of December last, 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 India Company to her Majesty's Government ; and, if so, at what date it was thus presented, and when it would be laid on the table of this house : and whether any supplies or munitions of war the pro perty perty of her Majesty, have been despatched frinn the i n aid of 1 country, or from any British possession, expedition against Persia ? to wa s Mr. V. SMITH said that with regard to iquestion the financial year in the referred letter .an,o, .., 3, _ vs. . exactly the Bann as that of Sir 0, TrevelY P c the first 1 RAILWAYS. Buckghamsh. Clydesdale Jc. Col. Stour Vy.' E.Lin. g. 6 ps I E. Un. H. Sh. Glas. Barr. dt Neils. Direct. Do. N0w...., Glstr.&Dn.Fr. Hull & Selby. Do. Shares. Do. 4 Shares. Lon. &Greenw Do. Prefere nc e! Lou. Til., dg S. I Do. Bark. Sh. Manch.Bxton. and Matlock Mdld. Bradfd. Newmarket BuryE.G.spc. i N. ikEst.s p.c. Do. 6 per ct.. Do. 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Pm The SPEAKER took the chair at 12 o'clock. There was no excitement its the house or lobbies, in consequence of the result of last night's debate. Only one Cabinet minister, Mr. Baines, was present at the commencement of the sitting, but he left before half•past 1 o'clock. PRIVATE BUSINESS. The following private bills were read a second time, and ordered to be committed : Caledonian Railway (Running Power), and the Dexthorpe Turnpike Trust Bill. INDUSTRIAL SCHOOLS. On the motion for the second reading of this bill, Mr. ALCOCK moved that it be read a second time that day six months. He did so on the ground that the bill was unnecessary. Mr. HADFIELD seconded the motion. Mr. BAINES, on the part of the Government, supported the principle of the bill, and stated that he would give his assistance in committee to improve its . details. Mr. BAXTER supported the principles of the bill, and gave some interesting details of the working of in dustrial schools in Scotland. Lord STANLEY supported the principle of the bill, believing it was thoroughly sound in principle. Mr. GORDON also supported the bill. Mr. NEWDEGATE opposed the bill. He objected to children who were guilty of no crime but destitution being sent to a reformatory school. He thought the workhouse schools might be improved so as to meet the evil complained of. Mr. BOWYER objected to the principles and details of the bill. There was no protection for the religions teach ing of destitute Romaa Catholic children. An expiring Parliament could not consider this bill as it ought, and he suggested that this bill should be withdrawn for ma ture consideration and re-introduced another session. He should divide the house upon it. Mr. ADDERLEY said it was the duty of this Parlia ment to complete the work it had begun, and defended the principles of the bill. It was rendered necessary to meet the wants of our criminal population. He denied that this bill was of a proselytising character, and that great care had been taken to avoid it. Mr. A. BLACK supported the bill. • Mr. SPOONER supported the bill. Industrial schools had been tried in Birmingham and found successful. (LEFT SITTING.) THE WAR IN CEIINA. The following extract from a private letter dated. "Hong Kong, January 14," shows tba:; apprehen bsiyontheexicshintedelseest:lhe British should be overpowered "Matters here are growing worse and worse, and will. I fear, continue to do so until we have a force to give the Chinamen such a thrashing as they 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 effectually pet down the 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, he has gained the advantage in every instance, and at the pre sent moment our forces are utterly paralysed and acting only on the defensive, while the Chinese take the offensive, and that with some considerable success, in the light in which they view such affairs. They have burnt down the factories, and driven us to within fifty feet of the river. They are making Whampoa 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 forts held by tts, and attacked at the same time her Majesty's ships Comas 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, to tow down I 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 hold 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 th us p revent i ng us send i ng prov i s i ons or ammunition. It w ill b e an awful calamity 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 affair 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 altog ether an amount but little short of 10,000,000/. sterling. So I fear you have to choose between a war and the Ines of 10,000,000/. per annum. So long es we bold out; 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 conciliate them (I say at tempt, for it is certain if we try to do that it will make them ten times as insolent), we s h all have to wage a war against exterminatio n , as I am satisfied that, under such circamstaeces, they will d r i ve us away from the entire empire. Remember, I don't apprehend this—not in the least—but lam anxious you Should understand that we have no choice. We have either to conquer them en tirely and dictate our own terms, or be driven away. There cannot be any half-way house." W e understand that a deputation on the part of English capitalists has just had an interview with the Emperor of the French relative to the proposed Inter. national Bank. It is staved that the basis of this im portant undertaking is already decided upon, and that the institution will be entirely independent of, and un connected with, the various Continental Credit societies, and the existing financial establishments in Paris. SUDDEN DEATH.—For several years past the house No. 8, Nursery-row, Brandon -street, Walworth, has been occupied by Miss Sarah Elliott, a maiden lady advanced in years, and of most eccentric habits. She was supposed by her neighbours to be highly con 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 this was the last time she was seen alive. Her servant at about 3 o'clock, finding that she had given no orders for dinner, knocked repeatedly at the parlour door, and receiving no answer she became alarmed, and called in some of the neighbours, who forced the door open, when she was found lying on three c h a i rs quite dead, and cold, The medical gentleman w h o h ad been attending her was called in, and it was his opinio n t e h n a t t to he t diedhe house, irom a natural nd foucauses.a small Sergeant di dirty ec) b ag , under p the head of the deceased, 40 sovereigns an d six 51. Bank notes. The house had been at one time richly furnished, but from neglect it is at present in a deplor able state. The deceased was clothed in rags, held to• gather with pins. It is the opinion of the officer that there were not less than from 2,000 or 3,000 pins em ployed for this purpose, though sbo had plenty of clothes of a costly character in her house. The servant said she bought the deceased a bottle of wine on Satur day night, which she finished, and by her bed.side was found a bottle of gin partly empty. An in quest will be held on the body. MR. SMITH O'BRIEN ON IRI SH TRANQUILL ITY. M r. Smith O'Brien, who is serving on the comity of Lime rick grand jury at the Spring Assizes, t ook occasion the other day to call the attention of his brother jurors to the folly of maintaining the poli ce f orce of the dis trict at its present establishment. .The p opu l ation had decreased, and the general tranquillity of the country no longer rendered necessary a n expenditure for a surplus force wbich had formerly beenuton or agrarian a t n h e outrage. exigencies meet the exigencies of extraordinary COflvUisj "As there was no likelihood of the occurrence of either casualty, speaking as he certainly thought the expensuegogfofersatusi,oillinaeanfdorbcreinugntnhee cessary. Although . for reasons personal to himself he was reluctant to bring forward a motion on the matter, member of he did he didthhe matterthgr notua underng w dh i t s h i t jury to cast ton c ou a s s add t atrb consideration . advisable u oo r nn upon .lls n 6 the constabulary, which he considered to be well-arranged, and a sort of Irish standing army that was a credit to the country so far as its administration was concerned. B ut as an indi vidual he entertained very great doubt, which amounted almost to certainty, that it was not ne cessary to main tain so large a force, entailing on the ratepayers the payment of a sum of 4 ,50 01 . a - year. In passing a few days ago through Adare be saw a whol e reg i ment of po lice, which, considering whatit cost, was twice too large." 661 7 37 963 7 85 4 19i 9 1021 2 1001 1064 4 2i 105 i 6 k 83i 21 47 6 f 87i 7 634 401 40 3.1 i 1 108 27i 8 51 761 5, 25 10 L 0.6 20 25 25 12! BRITISH !I 12 Alfred Cons. 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Co. of Jamaica all Cobre Copper 16 Copiapo all Fortuna all !General all !Linares 1 iLusitanian all IMariquita all New Granada all INoveau Monde all Port.Sil.l4dM.dt Snit 1 Port Philip lEi Santiago do Caba all A'outh Australian all Do. Scrip all Do. 10 p. c. Prof... all United Mexican.... MISCE 19 Australian Agricult. all Australn. Royal Mail all Berlin Water Works , 40 Brit. American :,and 32i,Canada 100 . Do.C).6pc.Jaular l Y 100 Do. 6 p.c.Feb.S.:Au7. 100 D 0.6 p.c. MarAS:.pt. all Copper Min. of Eng. all Do. Pref. 71 p. cent all Crystal Palace all Do. Preference all 'Crystal Pal, of Franco) Duston Iron Ore 18 Eastern Steam 100 Electric Telegraph all Electric Tel. of Irel all En. &Aust.Cop.SmCo 10s. Eur. & Ind.Jctn. Tel. all Gen. Ir. Sc. Col.(lhn.) 14 Gen. Steam Navigat. 5 London Discount all Lond. Geu. Omnibus 10 Magdalena St. Navig. all Mediteran. Elec. Tel. all Mexican &S. Amerien 5 Nat. Discount C 0.... 5 Do. New ............ 5 Netherlands Laud.... all Do. Do. . ............. all Do. 8 p c.Pf. iss. at Id. I 1 Do. Do. ............... 80 New B. &N. S. Land 100 N. S. W. Gov. sp.c. D. all N. B. Australasian...l 173 Nrth.ofEuropeSte am' all Oriental Gas ss. Do. New Shares all Peel Er. Ld. & Minrl all 'Peninsular & Oriental 10 Do. New all Rhymney Iron all Do. New 60 Royal Mail Steam all Scot. Austral. Invest all Do. New 100 S. Ans. Go v. 6p. c. bds al )South Austral. Land all Submarine Tel. Scrip all Do. Registered 5 Trust&Ln.Co.U.Can 283 Van Diemon's Land [OO 'V, Go, 6p. cJan, &July I'l 10 10 50 100 St. 98j 8 100 i 110 i 95 4j x d 1 4i i 144 5 noi 2i i 53 FOR :IGN. 5a 331 i 23 6 a i