The Sun.
London, England, 1855-08-07 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENIrt4O, AUGUST 7 1855

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LINES LASED AT FIXED RENTALS.

PEE EA L PAULI AME NT.

(THIS LAY.)

LeAcing
Cotnpan,

loam° Prices
yester lay.

Hardness
this day.

RAILWAY:3.

HOUSE OF COMMONS—(TITIS DAY.)
The SPEAKEIt took the chair at 12 o'clock.
Sumners' Divorce Bill was read a third time and
passed.
EXCHEQUER BILLS (7,000,0001)
On the order of the day for the third reading of this
bill, .
Sir WILLOUGHBY expressed his opinion that
it was impolitic to add such a large sum as this to t!),
unfunded debt, for it was only postponing the funded
debt ; for instance, 2,000,0001. of the3years '57, '5B, and
'59 were already forestalled, which he thought a solid
reason for objecting to this bill. If the house had
done nothing else, as some people said, it had certainly
voted money i❑ the most liberal manner. The house
have this year voted no less than 92,000,0001., or very
nearly so, of which 69,000,0001. are taxation ; a loan of
16,009,0001., and this additional 7,000,0001. He be-
lieved that all our expenditure, enormous as it was,
could not amount to this enormous sum. He had
great doubts if we know what we were about in voting
all those vast war supplies.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said
with regard to the increase of the unfunded debt it was
not considerable as compared with the late war and
later periods, though it was larger than any one could
wish if there was any option. The house ought also to
hear in mind there was a considerable amount of navy
bills, ordnance hills, and other bills afloat in former
times, whereas now the whole of the unfunded debt
was represented by the Exchequer Bonds now out-
standing. In order tl defray large demands upea
the finances of the country, a Ways and Means Bill was
necessary at the very commencement of the year; and
ho thought there was no ground for supposing that
there was any error in his calculations. No advance
had been made from the Savings Banks money for those
purposes, and it was not his intention to touch that
money. (Hear.)
The bill was then read a third time, and passed.
CONSOLIDATED FUND (APPROPRIATION)

1010eing Men
yesterday

Basins's dons
this day.

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45

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74 •- 76
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9 -9;
19 - 20

70 - 72
80,1 -
67 - 68.
126 - 1:8
101 - 103
63i E•t

BILL.

On the crder of the day for the third reading of this

bill,

Lord J. RUSSELL rose and said he wished to offer
a few remarks to the house on this subject. He be-
lieved, whether we considered the amount of money
voted this year by the house, or whether we looked at
the prospect before us, it was a matter of deep
importance. Taking these matters into considera-
tion, if we look to the prosperity of the war, and,
looking to our navy, great as it was, it was
evident the enemy did not mean to meet us in that way.
We were now is the month of August, and the.prospects
were not more favourable. With respect to our prospect
in the Black Sea, there was danger to Turkey on the
Asiatic frontier. He was in hopes there would
be some strength afforded by a foreign enlistment
bill, but in that hope he was disappointed. Still
no such force had been sent to the scene of action, and
therefore, with regard to the Asiatio frontier, we had no
decisive prospect of safety there. The force now in the
Crimea would be met by a large Russian army, increased
by large forces from Poland and other places. Those
were matters of very great importance, and such as re-
quired the utmost consideration. It would be the business
of the Government to consider the means for the next cam-
paign ; but on that he wished to say nothing, for already
too much publicity had been given to those measures.
It was not his intention to revive the discussion of the
other evening with regard to a particular proposition of
limitation or counterpoise, or any other scheme by
which the preponderance of Russia should be put an
end to in the Black Sea, but to refer partly to what had
occurred, and partly to the future. With regard to
himself, although he entirely acquiesced in the
decision of his noble friend, that it was advan-
tageous for the public service that his despatches
containing an account of his proceedings at Vienna
could not be produced, he hoped the time would come
when they might be given entire, .without garbling or
omissions—when Parliament and the country would be
enabled to form a correct estimate of his motives and
conduct. It would have been observed that the
Turkish Ambassador at Vienna, who was a man as
conversant with European affairs as any person he had
met with, and knew the interests of his own country,
had not stated his dissatisfaction of the terms proposed
by the Austrian Government, nor had they heard whe-
ther the proposition was received in a similar manner at
Constantinople as it was at London and Paris; and if not
the Turkish Government must have been of opinion that
the terms proposed by Austria was sufficient for the
security of Turkey. If, therefore, the course of the war
had been changed, and they were called on to continue
it for the maintenance of the military and naval reputa-
tion of England and France, and not for the security
of Turkey, no doubt Turkey, as they had been the
means of eaving,her would contribute to their assistance ;
but, in that case, there must be no more Turkish loans
and guarantees, but they must give her downright plain
subsidies. Such, he thought, must be the inevitable re-
sult, if the Turkish Government be of opinion at any
time that sufficient terms of peace had been proposed.
He was disposed to pay the utmost attention to any
opinion their ally, France, might give with reference to
negotiations for peace should such arise, and it would be
the duty of the English Government to consider the
whole of the circumstances, who, he hoped, on the one
band, would not consent to any terms they did not think
honourable and safe, and, on the other, not continue
the war when such terms could be obtained. With re-
spect, then, to the three questions—that of carrying
on the war at present, the preparations for the
future campaign, and any negotiations for peace
that might arise, he could only say that there
never could be greater confidence placed in a Go-
vernment than that reposed in them by the bill
they were about to read a third time, and the house
would have a right to call on them at the commence-
ment of the next session to show their confidence had
not been misplaced. He next adverted to the sum of
money granted for the conveyance of the Sardinian
army.

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20 21
3 - 4
20 - 22
5 - 7

lELEPT SPEAKING. ]

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.—(TErs DAY.)

HOME CIRCUIT-CROYDON.

The commission for the county was opened yesterday
by Mr. Justice Cresswell, with all the usual formalities.
The learned judge met with such a reception as has not
been witnessed in this town for many years. Their
lordships commenced basiuess this morning, Mr. Justice
Cresswell presiding in the Crown, and Mr. Justice
Wightman in the Civil Court.

The calendar contains the names of only 11 prisoners
for trial. One for child murder, one for concealment of
birth, one for perjury, one for an unnatural offence, one
for stabbing, one for bigamy, and the rest for burglaries
and larcenies.

On the civil side there are no less than nearly 200
causes for trial, among which is the important case of
"Boyle v. Wiseman."

CRIMINAL COURT,

Mr. Justice Cresswell sat in this Court, and the grand
jury having been empanelled and sworn, Sir W. G.
Hylton Jolliffe was appointed foreman.
The learned judge proceeded to deliver his charge
to them, congratulating them and the county upon the
short list of criminals for trial. His lordship, after
carefully looking over the depositions in all the cases
in the calendar, said that it was very probable the
grand jury would reject them. There was one charge
of child murder which was remanded from the last as-
sizes, which was the case of a young woman named
Beldham, who was charged upon the coroner's inquisi-
tion with the wilful murder of her new-born male child
at Farnham. The case was certainly one of strong
suspicion, but whether or not it would form a subject
for conviction his lordship thought the grand jury
would do well to put it into a course for further
investigation. His lordship, however, considered,
after looking at the evidence, that the charge
was one of murder or nothing. As to the case
of the felonious committal of an unnatural offence the
whole rested upon the evidence of one individual, and
probably the grand jury would consider it right to
reject the bill. The case of feloniously and maliciously
stabbing was the case of two brothers, and was one
showing the mischief that arose from intemperance. It
appeared that the prisoner and his brother had been
drinking at Barnes, that a quarrel arose between them,
and that on falling on the ground together, a knife, with
which the prisoner had been eating bread and cheese,
wounded his brother. The only question was, whether
that wound had been inflicted by accident or on pur-
pose?
His lordship, after referring to the other cases in the
Calendar, referred the grand jury to their duties.

A sentence recently passed in Switzerland upon a
man found guilty of sacrilege shows considerable inge-
nuity in the art of punishment. The criminal is to be ea-
posed for a quarter of an hour in the iron collar used at
executions, and under the surveillance of the execu-
tioner ; to receive publicly sixty strokes of the rod from
the hand of the same dread officer ; five years of hard
labour ; to remain ten years within the boundary of his
native commune ; never to be able to marry, and to lose
all civil and political rights ; to pass through certain
religious exercises ; and, finally, to confess his crime in.
the church—a rod in his hand and a cord round hifi
neck ! The tribunal from which this sentence proceeds
is that of Obwald.

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