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

PORT WINE ADULTERATION.

On the motion of Mr. MACARTNEY the follow ing
documents were ordered :—Address fo: copies or ex-
tracts of any despatches from her Majesty's Minister at
Lisbon, or her Majesty's Consul General or Consuls in
Portugal, between the years 1848 and 1853, re co m-
mending the prohibition or discouragement of the. im-
portation of a compound called jerupiga, made with
elderberries, brown sugar, grape juice, and brandy, and
used for the adulteration of port wine. Copies of any
correspondence between her Majesty's Lords or the
Treasury and the Commissioners of Customs, with. -I. the
same period, relative to the refusal of the latter to per-
mit jerupiga to be entered as wine and mixed with i)ort
wine in bond : and, of any minute or minutes, or z Jay
correspondence or instructions issued by the Lads of
her Majesty's Treasury and the Commissioners of Cus -
toms, within the same period, authorising the mi:: ng o f
jerupiga with port wine in bond, under the superin rend-
slice of the officers of Customs, in the same propc ;-tion
as brandy, ♦iz., thirty-three gallons of the compoun. t to
one hundred gallons of pure port wine. Return the
number of tons of logwood exported from Great Britain
to Oporto in the years 1852, 1853, 1354, and 1855.

KINGSTOWN HARBOUR.
Mr. H. HERBERT asked the Secretary to the Tres:-
Bury whether any immediate prospect existed of tb e
works of the new Steam Packet Jetty in Kings town
Harbour being proceeded with ; and whether he haul any
objection to lay on the table of the house, the con-re-
spondence that had taken place between the G-overmnent
and the Board of Public Works relative to the said
jetty, and also the report 3 of Mr. Rendal in connection
with that correspondence : also to ask, whether any Ilan
bad been submitted to the Government for cor,,cting
the new steam-packet landing place with the Kingetown.
and Dublin Railway ?
Mr. WILSON said whatever plan should be Mop :ed,
there should be a communication between the rp.il,vay
and the steam-boats, and the plan was now under the
censideration of the proper authorities.
STATE APARTMENTS AT WINDSOR.

In reply to Mr. PELLATT,
Sir W. MOLESWORTH said the apartments lately
occupied by the Emperor and Empress of the Fren,lh
at
Windsor Castle were not under the control of the l 3 ►ard
of Works, but of the Lord Chamberlain, who he hnd no
doubt would afford every opportunity to the hon. naem
ber to'visit them. (Hear, and a laugh.)

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THE VIENNA CONFERENCE.
fitrpl,AE Ll •-'ir, I wish to have some explanation
ha, tankareiajesty's Government of the unusual delay which
Stat„ ~, Place in laying on the table of the hot; se the
for ),71'" relating to the late unsuccessful negotiations
era'olt of the
be the The Rouse •
will be aware that, whatever nightJ
the reven,whettmee negotiations, whether successfil or
or whether the resuripreliminaries of peace had been si ;tied
been the case--ti,
pat
ehad been such as appears to 1 lave
preitresdconneeted with the negotiab ons
might have been
negotiations terminated thf" the House; so that when .the
tocol or two or th,,, 1 "6 would only have
papers might have been aplt etlaaanatch to D nt
been a pro
an'd tlic•
on the same night that athee-isilletth.e4alAtiiiot-fh
'the 1:ouso
returned and took his seat
that this is the usual course this hi,?ilac e Ool,,nies
from her Majesty's Government Iten;;:inthk I mt.; I find
has not been followed on the present - -.7,e; 115maly ask
course
there has not been that willingness occasion, the a
why
Majesty's Government to place Parliament in- 'n'rt Of lakr,
the information which it has cc,rtainly a rig-iTtnstr3Rieo ~f
grave subjects to pess3ss as soon as it is in the powl'enr° such
Government to produce it. (Hear.) I have search' the
subject, and, ~,t,,hei
journals which should guide us on this
wish to confine myself at present strictly within the ~,,h_
nicallimits of a Parliamentary question, I will state to the
11„?ase, if you, Sir, will permit me, exactly what I fit.' on
re journals to guide us in this momentous crisis ; and then
vZill ask her Majesty's Government to explain to the house
whireZ,Fais occasion they have not followed preccienta
I=4l. _..re always governed the conduct of Mim sters
to similar circumstances. The precedent which I cake
because it one d°oB not vary from others ; but I selcct it
import-
ance, and in-niet:4 modern date, of the highest import-
conjuncture. 1 taireurnstances apposite to the pre sent
eof rie9t6t./te precedent of the rupture of the
negotiationse 14th of October,
house will rec,llect f at,
formed that his majeist 1796, the country was in-
formed
as his plenipotentiary- sent the Ear: of
a peace. That was on the
had
to France to pogo :late 1
14th of October, and ou the 1