The Sun.
London, England, 1855-05-18 00:00:00

MEMBER RETURNED TO SERVE IN THE PRESENT PABLIA,

MENT.
County of Renfrew.—Sir Michael Robert Shaw Stewart,
of Greenock and Blackhall, Bart., in the room of Colonel
William Mute, who has accepted the office of Steward of
her Majesty's Chiltern Hundreds.
WAR-OFFICE, MAT 18.
Ist Regiment of DragDons—Lieutenant St. John Wil-
liam Cbiverton Charlton to be Captain, by purchase, vice
Sykes, who retires ; Cornet John Glas Sandeman to be
Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Charlton.
13th Light Dragoons—Charles Talbot Goff, Gent., to be
Cornet, by purchase, vice Blunt, promoted.
Grenadier Regiment of Foot Guards—Lieutenant and
Captain and Brevet-Lieutenant-Colonel his Serene High-
ness Prince William Augustus Edward of Saxe Weimar to
be Captain and Lieutenant-Colonel, by purchase, vice
Reeve, who retires ; Ensign and Lieutenant the Hon.
Wm Francis Forbes to be Lieutenant and Captain, by
purchase, vice Prince William A. E. of SaxeWeiinar.

let Regiment of Foot—Ensignj.-J: Fley wood to be
Lieutenaut, without purchase ; Anthony Gardner, Gent.,
to be Ensign, by purchase, in EIIICCOBBiOI2. to Lieutenant
Smith, promoted.
6th Foot—John Thomson Bowers, Gent., to be Ensign,
without purchase.
Bth Foot—Frederic Anderson Stebbing, Gent., to be
Ensign, without purchase, vice Lillicrap, promoted.
23d Foot—Lieutenant W. H. Poole to be Captain, by
purchase, vice Vane, whose promotion by purchase has
been cancelled • Frederick Woollaston Hutton to be En-
sign, by purchase, in succession to Lieutenant Poole,
promoted.

24th Foot—The Christian names of Ensign Troup are
Robert Henry Williamson.
30th Foot—To be Lieutenants, without purchase—
Ensign William Kerr, vice Walker, promoted to the 3d
Foot; Ensign C. J. I'. Clarkson. To be Ensign, without
purchase—Lieutenant Henry F. Morewood, from the Duke
of Lancaster's Own Rifle Regiment of Militia.
34th Foot—Richard Lewes Dashwood, Gent., to be
Ensign, without purchase.
49th Foot—Lieut. Thomas P. St. G. Armstrong to be
Captain, without purchase, vice Corbet, deceased; Ensign
J. T. Cooke to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice
Armstrong; Edmund Douglas Crossman, Gent., to be En-
sign, by purchase, in succession to Lieut. Fitzgerald, whose
promotion by purchase on the 10th Nov., 1654, has been
cancelled.

51st Foot—Serjeant William Clements, from the Scots
Fusilier Guards, to be Ensign, without purchase, and Ad-
jutant, vice Sheaffe, promoted.
56th Foot—The surname of the Ensign appointed on the
Ist May, is Hampton, and not Hampton, as previously
stated.

68th Foot—Samuel Black Noble, Gent., to be Ensign,
without purchase, vice Cave, whose appointment has been
cancelled.

89th Foot—The first Christian name of Ensign Mac-
kenzie, appointed on the ilth May, 1855, is Waller, and
not Walter as previously stated.
93d Foot—Ensign Waller Scott Mackenzie, from the
89th Foot, to be Ensign, without purchase.
98th Foot—Lieutenant Molyneux Batt to be Captain,
without purchase, vice Smyth, deceased.
Ride Brigade—To be Ensigns, without purchase—The
Hon. Alan Joseph Pennington and Hugh Lawton, Gent.
Ceylon Rifles—Constantine Hayward Read to be En-
sign, without purchase, vice Hobbs, promoted in the 99th
Foot.

UNATTACHED.
Captain Wrn. Webster, from the Ist Foot, to be Major,
withuut purchase.

BREVET.
The following promotions to take place consequent on
the death of the undermentioned officers:—
General S. Huskissou, died Dec. 30, 1854 ' •
General Viscount O'Neill, died Feb. 12, 1855 ;
General Samuel Brown, died March 1, 1855 :
Lieutenmt-General Thomas Evans, G.E., 81st Foot, to
ha General.

The following promotions to take place consequent upon
the decease of the undermentioned officers :

Lieut.-General A. Maclachlan, died Dec. 29, 1854;
Lieut.-General Sir T. H. Browne, died March 11, 1815;
Lieut.-General John Duffy, C. 8., died Mareh 17, 1855;
Major-General James Lindsay to be Lieut.-General.
The following promotions to take place consequent upon
the decease of the undermentioned officers :

General Samuel Brown, died Ist March, 1855.
General Pinson Bonham, died April, 1 5.
➢lajor-General J. G. Baumgardt, died 7th May, 1855:
Colonel Ambrose Lane, half-pay 44th Foot, to be Major-
General.

Lieut.-Colonel Henry Bates, 98th Foot, to be Colonel.
Major William Fenwick, 10th Foot, to be Lieut.-Colonel.
Captain Edmund John Cruice, Unattached Staff Officer
of Pensioners, to be Major.
MigIiORANDUM.—The Christian names of Major White,
Madras Infantry, who obtained his promotion by brevet,
in the Gazette of the 6th Feb., 1835, are Henry Puget, and
not Henry Paget.
COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY THE QUEEN.
North York Rifle Regiment of Militia—Dugald Stewart
Miller, Eq., late Captain in the Royal Fusiliers, to be Ad-
jutant.

2d Regiment of the Royal Surrey Militia—Henry Legge,
the younger, Esq., to be Paymaster.
Oxfordshire Regiment of Militia—William Nicol Ralph,
Gent., (lately Captain in the 2d Queen's Royal Regiment),
to be Quartermaster, vice Holloway, resigned.
Royal North Lincoln Militia—Michael Moriarty, Gent.,
to be Quartermaster. .
COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY LORDS LIEUTENANT.
Royal North Lincoln Militia—James Sisson Cooper,
Gent., to be Ensign ; Lovick Einilius Cooper, Gent., to be
Ensign.
Royal South Lincoln Militia—Robert Frudd, Gent., to
be Ensign.
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Captain and Brevet-Major James Hunter, of the 53d
Bengal Native Infantry, to be Captain, vice Aikman, re-
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Royal Glamorgan Light Infantry Militia— Kenneth
Kerner] Tynte Maher, Gent., to be Ensign ; Francis John
Shortie, Gent., to be Ensign.
Oxfordshire Regiment of Militia—Frederick Walter
Aston, Gent., to be Ensign, vice Brinckman, resigned.
Ist or Western Regiment of Norfolk Militia—Robert
Welsh Coates, Gent., to be Ensign.
The Northumberland Light Infantry Regiment of
Militia—Lieutenant Francis Blake to be Captain, vice
Captain William her Grey, resigned.
Prince Regent's Royal Regiment of Ayrshire Militia
Rifles—Wm. Henry Ralston, Gent., to be Ensign.
Ist Regiment of the Duke of Lancaster's Own Militia—
Ensign George Parker, from the sth Regiment of Royal
Lancashire Militia, to be Lieutenant, vice Vize, resigned.
[The following appointment is substituted for that which
appeared in the Gazette of the Bth May instant.]
let Regiment of the Duke of Lancaster's Own Militia—
William Philip Allingtou Jones, Gent., to be Ensign.
[This article is substituted for that which appeared in the
Gazette of let May instant.]
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BA NKRUPTS.
Elizabeth Whitaker, plumber, Ronalord, -Essex, to aur-
render June 3, at three, and June 223, at twelve, at the

Court of Bankruptcy. Edwards, official assignee, Sam-
brook-court, Basinghall-street ; Leigh, George street, Nan-
sion-house!

James Tomlinson, "timber merchant, Nottingham, May
29, and July 10, at ten, at the Birmingham District Court.
Harris, official' assignee, Nottingham; Freeth, Rawson,
and Browne, Nottingham.
Harriet Townsend, poulterer, Chandos-street, St.
James's, May 26 and June 30, at two, at the Court of
Bankruptcy. Pennell, official assignee, Guildhall-cham-
bers ; Shaw, Furnivars-inn.
William Tomkys, plumber, Wolverhampton, May 3 and
July 4, at half-past ten, at the Birmingham District Court.
Whitmore, official assignee, Birmingham ; Price and Stuart,
Wolverhampton.
William Peter Grant, bookseller, Cambridge, May 26,
at half-past two, and June 30, at one, at the Court of
Bankruptcy. Nicholson, official assignee, Basinghall-street ;
Wheeler, Furnival's-inn.
John Walker Cash, faiacy stationer, Manchester, May
28, at eleven, and June 2i, at one, at the Court of &irk-
ruptcy. Jobnson, official assignee, Basinghall-street;
Catlin, Ely-place.
John Biddle, glove manufacturer, Leicester, May,
29 and July 10, at ten in the forenoon, at the Birming-
ham District Court. Harris, official assignee, Notting-
ham ; Spooner, Leicester ; Motteram and Knight, Bir-
mingham.
John Lowe, fishmonger, Northampton-place, Holloway-
road, May 23, at half-past twelve, and Juno 29, at twelve,
at the Court of Bankruptcy. Stansfeld, official assigaee ;
Sto pher, Cheapside.
Thomas Hitt, currier and leather cutter, Exeter, May
25, and June 20, at one, at the Exeter Dish ict Court.
Hirtzel, official assignee, Exeter; Stogdon, Exeter.
Thomas John, Aberdare, Glamorgan, butcher, grocer,
and draper, June 1, and July 3, at eleven, at the Bristol
District Court. Miller, official assignee, Bristol ; Bevan
and Girling, Bristol.
George Campion Postans, grocer, Newmarket, May 30
at two, and June 29 at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Graham. official assignee; Aldridge and Bromley, Gray's-
inn ; Kitchener, Newmarket.
Sarah Frampton, butcher, Wimborne Minster, Dorset-
shire, May 26, at half-past one, and June 30, at half-past
twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Nicholson, official
assignee, Basinghall-street ; Bishop and Son, New Bridge-
street, Blackfriars ; Moore, Witnborne.
Thomas Evans Partridge and 2anmel Partridge, screw
bolt manufacturers, D.trleston Stafford, May 30, and July
4, at half-past ten, at the Birmingham District Court.
Bittleston, official assignee, Birmingham ; Motteram and
Knight, Birmingham.

Jehn'Etheridge and George Monck Berkley Michell, in-
surance brokers, Liverpool, May 30, at twelve, and June
20 at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court. Morgan,
official assignee, Liverpool ; Littledale and Bardswell, Li-
verpool.
John Noble, shipwright, Liverpool, May 30 and June
20, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court. Cazenove,
official assignee, Liverpool ; Fenwicke r.nd Aspinall, Li-
verpool.

George Healey, timber merchant, Preston, June 8, and
22, at twelve, at the Manchester Dist ict Court. Herna-
mann, official assignee, Ma , Chapman and Roberts,
Manche,ter.

BANKRUPTCA ANNULLED.
Spencer Perce►al Tinnier, merchant, New City Chain.
bers, city.

SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.

James H. Johnson, merchant, Lerwick—Creditors meet
in the Sheriff Court Room there, 28th May, twelve o'clock.
David Macdonald, farmer, cattle dealer and grazier,
Lassintulloch, Rannoch, Perthshire—Creditors meet iu the
Salutation Hotel, Perth, 26th May, one o'clock.
Andrew Galloway, cabinetmaker anti upholsterer, Glas-
gow—Creditors meet in the Globe Hotel, George square,
Glasgow, 28th May, twelve o'clock.

BANK OF
An Account otttstaht to the Act
the weekending on Saturd,
' ISSUE DEP,
.£
Notes issued 29,336,510

Z 29,336,510

ENGLA.ND.
7th and Bth Victoria, cap 32, for
fay the 12th day of May, 1855.:
'ARTMENT.

Dated the 17th day of May, 185;

BANNING DE
Proprietors' capital .. 14,553,000
Rest .. 3,165,785
Public deposits (in-
chiding Exchequer,
Commissioners of
National Debt, Say-

ing's Banks, and
Dividend Accounts) 2,733,904
Other deposits ...... 12,205,267
Seven Day and other
Bills ........ . 1,0214140

£33,686,040

Government debt.... 11,015,100
Other securities...... 2,984,900
Gold coin and bullion 13,335,510
Silver bu11i0n........ -

Dated the 17th day of May. 1&

£29,336,510
[. MARSHALL, Chief Cashier.

;PAJLTMENT.

Government securities

(includg.Dead Weight

Annuity) 11,016,374
Other securities...... 12,5.13 800
Notes .. .......... 9,417,175
Gold and silver coin .. 708,691

£33,686,040
[. MARSHALL, Chief Cashier.

AVERAGE PRICE OF SUGAR.
The Average Puke of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, com-
puted from the returns made in the week ending May 15,
1853, exclusive of the Duties of Customs paid or payable
thereon, on the importation thereof into Great Britain :
From the British Possessions in America 2ls. 2.1.
ti
Mauritius
gt
East Indies 2ls. 11id.
The average price of the three foregoing descriptions of
Sugar, computed as above, is 225. 84d. per cwt.

COURSE OF EXCHANGE.—THIS DAY.
Am5terdam............ 11 18 Gibraltar ..............
Ditto, three months .. 12 04 Leghorn •••• • • .•• 30 20
Rotterdam ............ 12 % Genoa ...... ..•• ...... 25 55
Antwerp .............. 25 42% Milan ...... • • .......•
Brussels ....•......... 25 42% Venice ...„
lambrogh ........... 13 8 Naples •• • • .... ...... .. 4.y
Alton& ..•• ............ Palermo .. .
Pari5........ .. • . .... 25 20 Messina ..
Ditto, three months .. 25 45 Lisbon .•• 53%
MarseiLes ............. 25 45 Oporto .......... • ... ••
Rourdeaux . ........ Rio Janeiro ..... .• • ....
Fr ankfort•on Maine .... 119 Buenos Ayre5......„
Rerlin ................ New York,6o days' eight
Vienna ...........• .... 12 50 Philadelphia •
Neste., t• •• •• •• 12 5.0,i PRICES OF BULI icN, PER oz•
Petersburg ............ 351,4 Foreign Gold in Bars £3 17 9
Madrid ............... 49.4 Portugal Gold Coin
Cadiz ........ ••
Barcelona ~.. •••• •. • — New 1)ollars ..... • 0 0 0
Seville. • ......... Silver in bars .. -. 0 5 Ito

POST-OFFICE AT THE PARIS
EXHIBITION.

GENERAL POST-OFFICE, May. —The Postmaster-
General has received the following notice from the
Director-General of the French Post-office.
Translation.—The public is informed that a Post-office
will be established in the building of the Universal Ex-
hibition in Paris for the time during which the Exhibi-
tion lasts.

Natives of France and foreigners residing in the
neighbourhood of the building, or obliged to spend the
greater part of their time there, and persons who, at the
time of their leaving home do not know where theyshall
fix their abode in Paris, may have their letters addressed
to them at the Post-office at the Exhibition.
These letters will be kept at the office, and will
be delivered to tbe—persons to whom they are ad-
dressed, on the presentation of their passports, or of any
other documents which may be sufficient to establish
their identity.

The letters should be directed as follows,--
"A Monsieur
Bureau de Poste du Palais de
l'Exposition Universelle,
k Paris."
Letters addressed to exhibitors will be delivered in the
same way; or, if the particular part of the building in
which the exhibitor may be found is stated in the address
of the letter, it will be carried to that place by the letter
carrier.

Further, the public will find at the Post-office of the
Exhibition all the facilities afforded in other French
post-offices, for the purchase of postage stamps, the pay-
ment of postage, the transmission of money, &c., &c.
ROWLAND HILL, Secretary.

Accounts from Venice speak highly of the performance
of .Riyoletto, at the Apollo, by the following arti,tes,
whose names, en passant, meet our eye for the first
time :—Mme. Crewout, M. Bartolucci, M. Saccomano,
and Mme, Lollio.

Yacht seamen's wages have advanced this year from
4/. to 51 a month, notwithstanding the fccv yachts which
are fitting out this season. There are about 50 yachts
belonging to the Isle of Wight, not halt of which will be
fitted out this year. Yacht seamen are a peculiar class.
They are the smartest and best conducted of seamen.
Scores of them reside in the Isle of Wight. They get
almost enough in the summer to last them during the
winter, for, besides their wages, they get a suit and
sometimes two suits of clothes a year, and perquisites
i from friends of the owners of yachts who visit them when
afloat. The crews of yachts vary. from 30 or 35 to 5 or
6 men each ; few of them are kept on throughout the
year. In the winter they navigate for short voyages
ships which put into Cowes short-handed, or they rig
out ships which put into that port damaged.
[Auvsartssimird--Amongthe numerous extraordinary cures
without Medicine effected by Du Barry's delicious health-
restoring Revalenta Arabica Food, the following is not the
least remarkable :—" 59, Union-street, Third District, New
Orleans, March 13, 1555.--. Dear Sir,—Since 183.3 I had been
afflicted with a complaint that neither I nor my physician
could qualify- It first began by an excessive thirst, so that
I was fain to drink daily from 30 to 40 tumblers of water,
the greatest 'thirst being during the digestive process. A
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strange feeliiig above the fundament follow d that unusual
thirst. It ,tame on with intolerable itchings, and next as if
an edged tool was cutting into it. These symptoms were
followed by colic, and finally by a diarrhoea. Originally these
ParoxYsinA came on yearly ; after a while, several times in the
ccurse of the year ; and for some ears back almost every
month, until at last every week ; so that for seventeen years
I have bong labouring under an insufferable affliction, deprived
of sleep, and so dizzy at times that I could not help myself ;
my stomach would fail me, and I thus became a helpless ener-
vated invalid. At last, on the 15th of June, 1854, I was
taken d own with an alvine flux and killing pains in the bowels,
Often a s I went to bed at night I thought I should never see
morning. My medical attendant and friend, in whom was all
my trust, could do nothing to alleviate my suffer figs, and
sent me to one of his colleagues, whose attendance proved as
uns'accessful ; all the remedies prescribed failing to afford me
any relief. It was at this stage of my disease that, on the sth
of September last, I luckily met one of my friends, who told
me that Mr. J. B. Monier had passed through the same
ord sal, and had been radically cured by Du Barry's Re-
vat mta Arabica. Thereupon I immediately began to make
use, of it, and soon after felt relieved ; and the extra r-
. 121b.ER
2R9 —.
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d'.uary change for the better I have gradually experienced
t,ince, owing to that excellent farina, induces me to
believelnis teantehrsat,
lifb. 2s.
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a m completely9.;b. 4s. d.
21 e cured. F
Commercial Abstract Clerk in the Collector's Office. '1
5-11.).1.ls B.
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The 121 b., carriage free, on receipt of Post-office order. Barry
Dti Barry & Co., 77, Regent-street, Loudon ; also at 182,
Piccadilly; 60, Gracechurch-street; 330, and 451, Strand;
4, Cheapside ; 6u and CS, Cornhill; 49, Bis:lolsg-t
"e t •
55, Charing-cross; 54, Upper Baker-street; 63 ; 63 .reet s
and 150
04-ford-street ; 89, High street, Camden-to w 0 18,'
mall ; 7, Pall-mall-East ; 132, Now Boncl-street-ene; 24, 3.lodh-
comb-,strect ; 13, King William street, City; J; 30, Conduit
street; 21, Co(:1-spur-6troot; 95, Farrin-ci = '
,6 on•street • 67, St.
Panes Cli urayard ;6, Eirard-greet l'ortinii ' '
) -guar% - - - -

IMPERIAL PARLIANIENT:

HOUSE OF COMMONS—YESTERDAY.
PARISH CONSTABLES BILL.
Mr. DEEDES moved the second reading of this bill.
The great object of the bill was to improve the provi-
sions of the Rural Police Act, and to make them
more extensive. The measure he now proposed to
read a second time had been referred to a select com-
mittee.
Mr. RICE opposed the bill on the ground of the
heavy local taxation it would impose. The hon. mem-
ber was understood to prefer the extension of the rural
police to the whole of the country. He moved as an
amendment that the bill be read a second time that day
six months.
Sir J. TROLLOPE opposed the bill as expensive and
unnecessary, and stated that in consequence of the im•
proved condition of the people crime had so decrea:ed
that the gaols were half empty. In his county the gaol
was constructed to accommodate 76 prisoners : it had
now only 30 inmates. Under such circu net-tufts be
should be extremely unwilling to entail the expense of
the rural police on the counties, even in the modified
form proposed by his hon friend.
Mr, CO%VPER would support the second reading,
deeming the bill a great improvement on the existing
system.
Mr. W. MILES thought that Government, having
let a flood of crime loose on the country by the establish-
ment of the ticket-of-leave system, should of itself pro-
pound a police system, and give the counties material as-
sistance in bearing the expense. He thanked his hon.
friend for bringing in the bill, which was a step in the
right direction, but thought that the responsibility of
providing for a state of things which had been created by
themselves rested with the Government.
Lord PALMERSTON said toe hon. member had
brought two unfounded charges against him. In the first
place, he said it was owing to the Government that
transportation bad ceased, and, as a consequence, crime
had increased ; in the next place, he said Government
had not originated any measure upon this question of
rural police. Now, in the first place, it was perfectly
well known that the cessation of transportation was not
at all the decision of the Government—the British Go-
vernment reluctantly submitted to it as a necessity im-
posed upon them by the decisions of the colories. It was
because those prosperous and improving cum munities, feel-
ing that their civilisation and character were injured by
the perpetual influx of crime from this country, had re-
solved that they would not have any further increase of
transported criminals that the system of transportation
was abandoned. Therefore, as far as the first charge
was c•mcerned, the Government were perfectly guiltless.
RA! ter a f w word . from several ion. mernb rs, the
bit.' was real a second time, and ordered to be read a
tidrd tine on Tuesday, the 22d May.
PLACES OF RELIGIOUS WORSHIP REGIS-
TRATION BILL.
On the motion of Mr. A. PELLATT, this bill was
read a second time, and was ordered to be committed to-
morrow.

DISSENTERS' MARRIAGES BILL.
Mr. CLIEE IMAM moved that the house resolve it-
self into committee on this bill.
Mr. HENLEY objected to the bill, which, in his
opinion, would have an injurious effect on Dissenters
and Churchmen.
Mr. COWPER said the main objection to the bill was,
that it would diminish the amount of publicity now re-
quired by the law to rather too great an extent. The bill
repealed the publicity now required before the board of
guardianS, but it did not provide any sufficient security
that the intention of the parties should be made known
so as to give an opportunity for the interference of
those who might be able to detect the impropriety or
illegality of the marriage. Then, again, the amount of
time between notice to the registrar and the celebration
of the marriage was not sufficient. He thought the bill
required more consideration, and trusted that the hon.
gentleman would not press it at the present moment.
Mr. CHEETHAM offered some observations in ex-
planation of the provisions of the bill, but they did not
reach the gallery.
Mr. WALPOLE believed that the bill, as it now
stood, would tend to encourage clandestine marriages ;
and as there were serious objections to many of
clauses, he would suggest to the hon. gentlema❑ the
propriety of reconsidering them, and submitting the bill
in an amended shape on a future day. (Hear.)
Lord J. RUSSELL thought it very natural that Dis-
senters should feel an objection with respect to the pre-
sent mode of proceeding before boards of guardians ; but
when the hon. gentleman proposed au alteration in that
respect, he ought to provide some sufficient mode of
publicity. (Hear.) Pie should be glad to forward the ob-
ject of the hon. member so far as it tended to the relief
of Dissenters, but be thought the bill required more care-
ful consideration. (Hear.)
Mr. T. CHAMBERS said the bill contained some
provisions which were quite unnecessary to attain the
object of the hon. member, and which might injuriously
affect all classes, Churchmen as well as Dissenters.
Mr. CFIEEFHANI then withdrew his motion, and
said he proposed going into committee pro forma on
Monday next, for the purpose of introducing certain
amendments to meet the objections which had been made
to the bill as it now stood.
PERSONAL ESTATES OF INTESTATES BILL.
On the motion of Mr. L. KING, the house resolved
itself into committee on this bill.
On clause 1 being proposed,
Mr. HENLEY expressed a doubt whether it would be
safe to proceed with the bill in the absence of the law
officers of the Crown, seeing that the change proposed
would alter the whole law for the distribution of perso-
nal property in the kingdom.
Mr. COLLIER sail the bill proposed a serious alter-
ation i❑ the rights of the heir-at-law, and he considered
that alteration most objectionable. The other portions
of the bill he thought would have a beneficial operation.
Mr MA LINS thought the time had arrived when
customs which intsriered with the general rights of pro-
perty should be abolished, and the law of intestacy
should be made uniform, and he therefore gave his sup- .
port to that portion of the bill which proposed to abolish
the customs of London and York. He also approved
of that part of the bill which proposed to assimilate the
law with regard to advances by the father aril the mo-
ther, but he objected to the proposed alteration with re-
gard to the rights of the heir at-law. He would recom-
mend the hon. member to confine his bill to the two
first objects. (Hear, hear.)
Mr. LOCKE KING consented to withdraw the part
of the bill which was objected to by the bon. and learned
member (Mr. Makes).
Sir F. THESIGER suggested that the operation of
the act should not commence immediately upon its re-
cei sing the royal assent, but that an iuterval of three or
six months should be allowed.
Mr. MONTAGU CHAMBERS commended the man-
ner in which this bill was drawn, as being a model for
all acts, because it contained the whole law upon the
subject with which it dealt.
The clause was agreed to, as were clauses down to
clause 9 inclusive.
Clause 10 was postponed, it order that words might
be inserted to extend the operation of the act to Ireland.
The remaining clauses were agreed to, and a clause
was added providing that the act shall not come into
effect until the Ist November, 1855.
The house then resumed, and the bill was reported.
The other orders were postponed.
GRAND JURIES.
Mr. BOWYER obtained leave to introduce a bill to
facilitate the despatch of business before grand juries in
England and Wales, by providing for the swearing of
witnesses before the grand jury instead of, as at present,
in court.
RAILWAYS (IRELAND).
Mr. I. BUTT asked leave to introduce a bill to con-
tinue the Railway Act (Ireland) Bill, 1851.
NEW SOUTH WALES GOVERNMENT—WASTE
LANDS (AUSTRALIA).
Lord J RUSSELL moved for leave to introduce two
bills, one "to enable her Majesty to assent to a bill as
amended of the Legislature of New South Wales, to con-
fer a constitution on New South Wales, and to grant a
civil list to her Majesty ;" the other, "to repeal the acts
of Parliament now in force respecting the disposal of the
waste lands of the Crown in her Majesty's Austratian
colonies, and to make other provision in lieu thereof."
His lordship said that the bill referring to the constitu-
tion of New South Wales was sub-tantially similar in its
provisions to that in regard to the colony of Victoria,
which a few nights since he obtained leave to introduce.
Mr. LOWE objected to the form of the measure in re-
gard to New South Wales, because, though intended to
confer a constitution upon the colony, it would, he be-
lieved, have no such effect. Its effect, on the contrary,
would be to render nugatory the votes of the house, and to
leave the matter just where it now stood. The noble bold
proposed to omit some of tha sections to which the colo-
nists attached the greatest importance, and then pro-
posed, not that her Majesty should give her consent to
the bill, but to enable the Colonial Legislature to pass
the billy they thought proper. He believed that if the
bill were to be passed in its present shape it would be a
perfect nullity, and would not have the slightest effect.
He maintained that if Parliament did legislate for the
colonies, and take the matter in its own hand, it shoUlds
do so upon grounds,of its own, an .I not at the dictation
of the Legislative Assembly of the colony. The preSent
act, unlike the act for Victoria, was directly opposed to
the feelings of the people of the colony. He objected to
the bill, because it perpetuated a most unjust division of
the electoral system in the colony, and proposed to create
a nominated instead of an elective Upper Chamber.
Another ground of objection to the bill was the enormous
civil list proposed to be conferred by the bill, and which
had been calculated upon the greatly increased salaries
which had been given in consequence of the derange-
ment attending the discovery of gold in the colony, and
not upon the normal and natural state of thing. He
trusted, after what he had stated with respect to the
irregular mode in which the bill had been introduced
and his objections to the principle of the bill itself, that
the house would not consider it becoming with its posi-
tion to give its consent to proceeding further with this
odious measure. He would suggest to the noble lord,
who had, no doubt, come somewhat newly to the sub-
ject, whether it would not be better to send this b.ll,
as well as that for South Australia, for consideration to
a select committee for the purpose of considering whe-
ther they might not be able to devise some uniform and
satisfactory law adapted to the whole of the Australian
colonies.
Lord J. RUSSELL denied that he had come newly to
the subject, for in 1850 he had paid considerable atten-
tion to tie matter, and it was in consequence of the
decision to which he had then arrived, and which was
supported by the House of Commons, that he now asked
the house to consent at least to the introduction of the
present bill. What the hon. member proposed was,
iu
effect, that sfin haying had a legialatka laVitiP# sad

an assurance from the Secretary of Sta‘c for the Colonies,
thst the Crows' would 0. ily receive Iron then
any tiicn-
sure by which t'ley proposed to create a e ii.stitutior. fur
themselves, the House of Commons should now turn rourn'i
and say that it would completely ignore the whole of
their conduct, and throw altogether aside the plan of the
constitution which they bad adopted. (Hear.) With re-
spect to the 'labours of a select committee in searching
for a constitution for the colony, he thought it would
give rise to very great disappointment if legislation on
the subject were to be po,tponed, as •it most certainly
wculd by this step, for another year. The hon. me .Iher
had taken a technical objection to the form in which the
bill had been introduced, but which he admitted might
be easily remedied by the insertion of a few words in the
clause. Upon this point, however, he thoulht the hon.
member etas in error, because he (Lord John Russell)
understood from the legal authority usually employed
in framing the bills in the Colonial office, that the bill
would be perfectly efficient for its object. He considered
it a groundless a-sertion on the part of the hon, mem-
ber, that the bill had been framed by a legislative coun-
cil elected by an imperfect and unequal system of elec-
tion ; because if they were to refuse to receive any mea-
sures from the colony until its representative system was
reformed by an act of that house, it would be to delay
legislatio❑ tor an indefinite period, and to render nuga-
tory a large proportion of the measures wh ch had been
already passed by the legislature of that colony. Ob-
.

jections had also been taken to the act of the Colonial
Legislature, on the ground that one of its chambers con-
sisted of a nominee council ; but there was nothing in the
principle of a. nominated council abhorrent to the theories
an. I feelings of this country. and it was only until very
re entry that any other than councils of that sort existed
in any of our colones. Elected and nominated cham-
bers hid both their advantages ; but even if elected
councils were coesidered the best, he could not
beiLve that a nominated chamber was so entirely vicious
and bad as to justify the house in refusing to receive
with the attention which it might deserve every !ilea-
measA-e which might be passed by such a council. (Hear.)
The hon. and learned gentleman had admitted that he
hid himself considerable difficulty in determining what
would be the proper course to adopt. But where was the
use of taking hold of trivial obj -etions and of throwing
impediments in the way of a sett'ement of this question?
There were two ways in which the hon. and learned
gentleman did n.it. think it would be sati-factory ; and
then he proposed an entirely new nio le, which was to
say to the colonists who wished a constitution that they
should not have it until all the colonial constitutions
were thrown into hotchpot b. fore a committee of the
House ef Commons, and until that committee should de-
termine what was the best theoretical constitution which
would most suit their own views. That is, that
the celonists should wait for another year, and tin it they,
they might have the satisfaction of gett lig as good a con-
stitution a the select c initnittee of the House of Com-
mons could frame. He (Lard J. Russell) c iuld not see
how the c.airse proposed by the hon. and learned gen-
tleman could solve tine difficulty, and lie certlitily thought
it was better to take the Legislature of N,-w South Wales
for a guide thwi to adopt any such proposition.
Mr. DUFFY concurred in all the objections stated
by the lion. and learned member for Kidderminster.
This country had offered A boon to tie colonists, and
now it was proposed t) make a dishonest attempt to
render null and void the offer made to New South
Wales. He contended that the Legislative Chamber
would be nominated by the very class which the colo
nists wanted to get rid of, and he complained greatly
that the constitution of the council could not be changed
without the consent of two-thirds of its members-

Lord J. RUSSELL begged to set the, hon. member
right on that point. It was proposed to give power by
the act to effect that change by the usual majority of
the inemhir4 of 'council.

Mr. DUFFY could not see why an upper nominated
chamb-r, having been repudiated in the Cape of Good
Hope, in New &alan I, and elsewhere, should be in-
flicted on that colony. The whole of the colonists were
oppose i t) the nominated upper chamber, and they had
expressed their opposition to it in the most vehement
terms in their petitions. An examination of the peti-
tions shoved the remarkable result that there were
12,152 signatures against the act, whereas there were
only 228 signatures to the petitions in favour of the act
and 48 for some modifications in it. It was plain, then,
that the wishes of the colonists were utterly opposed to
the bill, which would be a perpetual source of irritation
if passed as it then stood. Toe c ilonists of New South
Wales woul I look to New Z.taland, to -Victoria, and to
Van Diemen's Land, and they would never be content
without an elective chamber. He should oppose the
measure in all its stages.
Mr. W. WILLIAMS entreated the noble lord not to
pursue any course in opposition to the wishes of the colo-
n:sts. He hoped he would nut press the bill, but that he
would be convinced from the information be had received
that such a measure was directly the reverse of what the
people of New South Wales desired. He thought,it
would be better to send back the bill to the colony, and
let the people elect another assembly.

Mr. J. BALL said the inconvenience of discussing a
bill before it was laid on the table of the house was ma-
nifested during this debate, fur hon. members had not
had an opportunity of reading the bill, and therefore
their objections were in some instances groundless. This
was the case in regard to one important point. It was
proposed to give a power by the bill to put the constitu-
tion on the same f citing as the other laws, and, instead
of requiring a majority of two-thirds fur its alteration, to
require only an ordinary majority. (Hear.) With re-
spect to the petitions on which the hon. member laid
such stress, it was well known that the sign Mures to the
petitions laid on the table of that house were nut always
a safe guide in detertnicing the opinion of the people on
the merits of a measure, and in the case of these colonial
petitions he was satisfied that those signatures did nut
'ably represent the s.ntiments of the people of New
South %Vales upon this measure.

Leave was then given to bring in the bill.
Leave was also given to Lord Joh' Russell to bring
in a bill to repeal the act• of Parliament now in force
respecting the disposal of the waste lands of the Crown
in her Majesty's Australian colonies, and to make other
provisions in lieu thereof.
The New South Wales Government Bill and the
Waste Lands Australia Bill were brought in by Lord J.
Russell,. and road a first tine.
Mr I. BUTT brought in his Railways Ireland Bill,
which was read a first time.
Tne house adjourned at a quarter past ten.

LOSS OF THE SHIP JOHN:

FALMOUTH, MAY 15.

The bench sat yesterday, when further evidence was
taken. On assembling again to-day the bench did not
consider it necessary to call any further witnesses in the
case, and, after the attorney for the owners had made
some comments on the evidence, the magistrates, assisted
by Capt. Rooertson, unanimou.ly agreed to make the
following report to the Board of Trade :
" That the ship was provided with four boats—three of
which were efficient, the other doubtful; that the lifeboat
was neither stowed in the proper place, nor prepared for
immediate service, as directed by the act; and to these
circumstances probably the staving and loss of the lifeboat,
and the delay in endeavouring to get out the longboat, are
to be attributed.

" That, with the exception of one signal lantern, there
were no means on board the ship of making a signal of dis-
tress by night. We think that, had there been adequate
means of making such signals, and had they been shown
when the ship first got ou shore, while the weather was
moderate, the boats would have come off at an earlier
period, and thus have rescued a much larger portion of
passengers. •
" That, with respect to the above deviations from the
provisions of the Passengers' Act, we consider that the
Government emigration officer and owners of the ship are
culpable.
" That, either from the ignorance or gross and culpable
negligence of the captain, the course steered by his ordeal
were the direct cause of bringing the vessel on the Manacle
Rocks.

" That after the vessel struck the conduct of the captain
was most reprehensible in every r spect ; ho appears to
have aken no active means to save the lives of the passen-
gers, diet not assist them to leave the ship, quitted her
himself while many passengers were still in the rigging,
and he and the mate were the only two persons who se-
cured anything for themselves, the captain saving his
cloak and the mate his quadrant.
"That the chief mate appears to be ignorant of his du-
ties and responsibilities, and is culpable in not having per-
sonally rendered assistance to the passengers.
" That the conduct of the crew, with the exception of
Andrews, Elder, and one or two others, appears to have
been very bad, but would possibly have been different had
a better example been set them by their officers.
•" Tiaat the conduct of the chief boatman of the Coast-
guard and his men, and of a fisherman, named Jas. Hill,
and others associated with them, in going to avid taking
the passengers and crew off the wreck, was highly com-
mendable.
"The circumstances of this case render it our duty to
suggest to your lordships that in all passenger ships the
first mate should be required to have a certificate of com-
petency, instead of. one of ...services only ; and that the
number and nature of the night signals required to be pro-
tided by the owners of passenger ships should be specified."

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