The Sun.
London, England, 1855-08-13 00:00:00

WOOL.

The public sales were concluded on Thursday. The
total quantity disposed of was 83,000 bales, and prices
ruled id to 14 per lb. in favour of the importers. During
their progress, Sydney wools ranged from 9d to 2s 6d ;
Port Philip and Portland Bay, 81.,d to 2s 10d ; Van
Diemen's Land, 9d to 2s 6d ; Adelaide, 8d to 2s 2id ; Cape,
7d to 3s 6d ; New Zealand, lld to Is 104 ; and Swan
River, 11d to is 84 per lb. The private market is heavy,
and prices ars barely supported. Last week's imports
amounted to 518 bales from Geelong, 732 from New
Zealand, 1,435 from Adelaide, 2.079 from Sydney, 397
from Gibraltar, 1,035 from Port Philip, 450 from Algoa
Bay, and 700 from various other quarters.
The following are the current rates of English wool :
South Down flocks, is OAd to is lid ; mixed togs and ewes,
is OA to is 2d. ; half-bred hoggets, is Old to is lid ; do.
ewes and wethers, is Oid to is 14 ; Kent fleeces, mixed,
ls Oid to is lid; Leicester fleeces, is o,ld to is ld ; long
heavy wool fleeces, Hid to is ld ; combing skins, llid to
is ; flannel wool, is ld to is *1; blanket wool, 8:1d
to is Old per lb.

SEEDS.
A.few samples of new seeds have appeared on sale, in
very middling condition. The business doing is but mode-
rate, on former terms.
Turnip, White, per bush. 22s to 25F1

_ .
Swede • • • • ..'„ —s —s
,lusts B rown • . 12s 14s
/hite, new • • 8s 10s
rares,Wlnter, n0w.... 11s 12s
Old• . • . • • • • .. .• 9s lOs
Canary, per quarter .. 464 50s
Rye grass.. • .. • • . 24s 303
Clover, Red E ng. (cwt.) —s —a
White • • • • ..• • —s —s
Foreign Red— • —s
White.... —a —s
Trefoil, new.. • • ...... —a •—sl

Carraway (new) 42s 44s
Coriander.. • • . 20s 24s
Hempseed, per quarter 48s 52s
Linseed, Eng.-lowing.. 69s 72s
Crushing .. 65s 68s
Baltic .. •• .. •• .. 64s 67s
Odessa ..........61s 67s
LingeedCako, pr. ton—
English •• —l2l Os 12 108

Foreign, per ton 11! Os 12/ 5s
Rape Cakes, pr ton 615. 6, 10c+
Rapeseed, New, pr cart, 401 421

TALLOW.

Since our last report, only a moderate business has been
transacted in our market, and prices have somewhat
fluctuated. To-day P.Y.C., on the spot, is quoted at 55s
to 5s 3d, and for forward delivery 565. per cwt. Town
tsllow. 545. nott cash. Rough fat, 3s. per 81bs.

1851 . 1852 I 1863. j 1855.
stock this day 32,618 40,10 R 18.230 33.571 54,2;T
Price of Y. C 3731i‘? :Odd 51
ssaof:l° TA3kr,t'o_. Od
Delivery last week .. 1,292 9.027 1,644 1.760 2.mJ9
Ditto from June 1.... 14,344 11.372 15,561 11,392 17,9 6
Arrivals last week.. 799 852 1606 1,284 781
Ditto from Junel.„. 9,859 10,952 10,466 8,993 12,473
Price of Town 394 6a ! 40134 521 94 685 64 565 64

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS.-(THIS DAY.)

The LORD CHANCELLOR. took his beat on tLe wool-
sack at 12 o'clock.

HOUSE OF LORDS' COURT OF APPEAL.

Lord Si'. LEGNA.RDS moved for a return of the
number of appeal,; hea4 and disposed of b' their iord-
sliips during the past. five years, clisting,ui-hinv.
those from England, Ireland, and Scotland, with
the decisions in ouch case. His lordship pro-
ceeded to state that he was induced to do so in
consequence of, remarks that had been made by the
Solicitor-General, tending to lower this Court of Appeal
in the estimation of the public, frOm justice not beim,
properly administered, and defended at some length the
jurisdiction of this house and those who took part in it.
He had alviays paid the utmost attention to appeals
brought before their lordship 4, and felt satisfied other
noble lords had done the same.

Lord CAMPBELL said he had seen with indignation
the attack said to have been made on their lordships by
her Majesty'e Solic;tor-Genera,l, which had a direct ten-
dency of bringing the jurisdiction of that house into dis-
repute. Re considered the attack, which was an attack
more especially on the Lord Chancellor, entirely un-
founded— (hear, hear)—and if the words reported to
have been said by the learned Solicitor-General
were true, the learned gentleman supposed justice was
not satisfactorily dealt out by their lordships. Nothing
could be more unfounded than such an assertion, and be
gave it a positive denial from the experience he had had
in that house. He (Lord Campbell) gave as much at-
tention to the cases brought before their lordships'
house as he did the cases brought before him when sitting
in the Court of Queen's Bench. (sear, hear.)
The LORD CHANCELLOR said he concurred in
all that had been said by their lordships on the necessity
of their retaining the judicial functions of that house
unimpaired. The judicial business of their lordships'
house—of which he spoke with diffidence, from being at
its head—but putting that aside, it had been very satis-
factory and well conducted. (Hear.) The attack was
divided into two heads, one arising from the nature of
the tribunal, and the other the manner in which their
lordships performed their functions. With regard to
the latter charge, as he understood it, the Solicitor-Ge-
neral had stated in another place that the proceed-
ings, were .conducted by persons performing the
function of judges who some times heard but part
of a case, yet decided it as if they had heard
the whole ; which, he summed up by stating, was
more discreditable than any thing done by the
judges of the inferior courts of justice. He (the Lord
Chancellor) denied that noble lords took part in judicial
decisions without having first heard the causes. The
charge, if well-founded, was one of the utmost impor-
tance, and deserved immediate remedy ; but, happily, it
did not require it from being unfounded. (Hear,
hear.) It was essentially important this tribunal
should be kept in its present form, for practically
their were no deficiencies in it. As to the constitution
of the tribunal, he could say that politics had no influ-
ence with the noble lords in their decision.
The motion was agreed to.

The Consolidated Fund Appropriation bill, the Ex-
chequer Bills (7,000,0001.) bill, and the Militia Pay bill
were read a third time and passed. _

The Commons' amendments to the School Grants) (se-
curity for application) bill were considered and agreed to.

OXFORD UNIVERSITY.

Lord moNrEA.GLE presented a petition from
Sir Culling Eardley on the subject of a new regulation
made at Oxford, with respect to the admission to th,
degree of master of arts, whereby the petititioner had
beer prever ted from being admitted to the degree.
The LORD CHANCELLOR regretted that such a
regulation should have been made, as that complainer
of by the petitioner, and which, if carried out stringently,
would have the effect of wakina he last enactment, with
reference to this university, a dead letter and inoperative
The Earl of HARROWBY expressed himself op-
posed to the' regulations complained of, which were
adopted by the heads of the University in too narrow a
point.
The subject then dropped.
On the motion of Lord MONTEAGLE, copies of the
address from the Convocation of the province of Canter-
bury, and her Majesty's reply were ordered to be laid
on the table. _ .

The house adjourned at 20 minutes past 1 o'clock, till
,o-inorrow at half-past 1.

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.-(THIS DAY.)

HOME CIRCUIT.—CROYDON.
(Before Mr. Justice Wightman.)

BOYLE V. CARDINAL WISEMAN.

This important case, the question in which has been
tried twice—once at Kingston, and again at Guildford—
was specially appointed for trial to-day, and the greatest
interest and excitement prevailed among the ladies,
clergy, and gentry of the neighbourhood to be present.
The learned judge did not take his seat on the bench
till nearly eleven o'clock, at which hour the court was
crowded to excess by well-dressed ladies, and almost all
the clergy of the neighbourhood. On the learned judge
taking his seat, disappointment was depicted on the
countenance of all present'on the next case being called
on, an arrangement having been made between the
counsel and solicitors, and plaintiff and defen-
dant, which rendered it unnecessary to bring the
matter before the court. The arrangement entered into
did not transpire, but it is generally understood to be
satisfactory to all parties ; und that it is much to be
regretted that an amicable course had not been adopted
at an earlier stage of the proceedings.
(Before Mr. Justice Creswell.)

His Lordship did not take his seat in court till half-
past eleven o'clock. He was occupied the whole day
with. Common Jury cases of no interest whatever except
to the parties concerned.

VIE ROYAL vim, TO PARIS.

Four hundred and twenty-five years have passed
since a crowned English sovereign was seen in the
city of Paris. And it was then no visit of friend-
ship,
but a barren grasp at empire, That a -
sovereign of England should visit the sovereign
of France in his capital is now to occur' for the
first time in the annals of the two nations. Nor
can wo feel surprise that an event requiring for its
fulfilment such rare coincident " circumstances
should_have been delayed so long. - -
Before the European system, no king could, with
perfect safety, trust himself to the keeping of his
brother, and English policy since has unhappily
oftener leagued us with Austria against France
Om with Franco against
Austria. The atilt
has not been confined to either side, and the' best
that can now be said for the errors committed
on both is that the people of the two: countries
have remained always friendly to
ach other.
The enmity has been between the governing and
not the governed races. Nor is it to be denied
e
that the angry tone given to French and English re-
lations after our own revolution proceeded less
from the English than the French Government.
The Bourbon race had a too natural affinity to the
weak and vicious Stuart race. The final expulsion
of the latter from the English throne was bitterly
resented, and during the century that followed
1688 no George could have visited a Louis.
A great change has now come over Europe. It
is neither Austria nor France we have any I"gar
cause to dread, but a new power more formidable
in its character and designs than that which either
Charles the Fifth or Louis the Fourteenth repre-
sented. Not so much, however, from the extent of
her internal and intrinsic resources, as from, the
character of her barbarism and her unscrupulous
ambition, is Russia become formidable to civilised
Europe. Twenty years before the first French revo-:
lution these dangers from the nature of her Govern-
ment were foretold, even by those who ridiculed the
pretences she was already setting up to a restora-
tion of the Empire of Constantine. We all know
the persevering encroachments she has dine) been
able to make in spite of protests as untiring.
There has hardly been a Government of any in-
fluence in Europe during the last fifty years -which
has not admitted, in countless despatches and
protocols, the necessity of resisting the advance
of Russia, of putting a limit to her extonding
frontier, and some check to her overweeninig am-
bition ; nor was this duty ever more manifest; than
in 1815, when Europe, exhausted /with war,„ pre-
ferred to surrender Poland rather than re-emtbark
in it. Every year since that time, however, has
shown more clearly the blunder therl commit ted.
Every year has added to the necessity for the , re-
pression which it was felt must sooner or 1 a,ter
come. Selfishness, cowardice, dulness in the co nti-
uental powers and dynasties have alone delayer 1 it.
But England and Fance have at last step ped
forward, not simply to declare the necessity,
but to act upon it, and another seal will be set
to their resolve in next Week's meeting of the
rulers of the two nations amid the crowds and. fes-

ivities of Paris. It will be another pledge for t heir
unaided and unshrinking performance of the v 'ork
which to none appealed so strongly, or shou d 'nave
-eemed so necessary, as to the German sovereigns
and princes. That even Prussia as well as Austria
felt this, no one acquainted with the recent n ego-
- iations can doubt ; but what they had sense eat )ugh
to see they have not had the courage enough ti a do.
tf Germany had but seized the great opports tuity
dered, Russia would at once have been the eked
on the side of Poland as well as in .her pro: ;tress
seaward. Such another opportunity may not pre-
sent itself for centuries ; aud.history will have to
record hereafter, not that Germans wanted discern-
ment to know the yoke under which they were pass-
ing,. but that they utterly wanted unity and col irage
to throw it off. Meanwhile, it is possible, the fie )1d of
warlike operation may be narrowed to Franc 3 and
England; but their task will not have been per-
formed inefficiently, if it establish finally an im-
passable barrier to Russian conquest and acquisi-
tion in the Baltic and the Euxine. This they can
certainly accomplish, and they would deserve the
shame and discredit which has fallen on A.lustria
and Prussia if they were content with less.

The approaching Royal visit will call forth many
historical allusions and associations, but its highest
value, we repeat, is in the additional pledge it gives
for identity of policy and feeling between the Go-
vernments and of esteem and good-will between
the countries. We have said that no such visit
has been possible for the last century and a half,
and for the existence of anything like the same
causes of sympathy and agreement we should have to
travel back nearly to double that distance of
time. We set up no individual comparisons
when we say that the same kind of courtesy
could not have been so freely interchanged
between two sovereigns of the West since
the days of Henri Quatro and Queen Elizabeth.
In the latter half of the sixteenth century, the
House of Austria was the swallower up of small
states, the bugbear of civilisation, the standing
menace to civil and religious freedom, aiming at
universal empire, and sparing neither craft, ty-
ranny, nor treasure to accomplish it. Against
such designs, and the power promoting them, the
sovereigns of England, and France then found it
their interest to unite, and it was not the fault of
the English sovereign if the league was broken.
No one will attempt to compare the third Napo-
leon to the fourth Henry of France—the chival-
rous and gallant prince who fought his way
through a score of campaigns, and after many
hard-contested battles, to his throne. Yet Henry,
against many disadvantages and from a heritage of
small means, floated upwards amid the civil dissen-
sions of his country ; and having gained power by
siding with one party, it was siding with the other
he retained it. He was a prudent administrator,
too ; and though no friend of liberty, he could not
bring himself tamely to see the independence of
Europe endangered. In the midst of his projects
he was cut off by the hand of au assassin, and the
policy of the great English Queen was abandoned
by her impotent and . pusillanimous successors.
But the spirit of the great lives after .them ; and
out of those noble objects for which Henry and
Eliz,abeth contended, the establishment of religi-
ous freedom and the balance of European empire,
prang powers and princes unheard of till then,
old the house of Austria was effectually humbled
by Prussia and by Sweden.
There is but one moral taught by this, as by the
whole current of human history, it is that nations,
not less than individuals, should follow out un-
flinchingly the dictates of justice and honour,
should prefer these to mere expediences or pruden-
ces of the hour, and should have courage not to
shrink from whatever temporary sacrifices they
entail. To rush into war one day because there
seemed good chances of success, and to sneak out of
it the next because the knocks proved harder than
was looked for, and the victory more distant, has
been a policy fraught with danger and disgrace
from time immemorial. Such was the policy of
James the Birst and of Mazarin. Such was not the
policy of Elizabeth, of Richelieu, of Cromwell, or
of any great ruler of a great country.—Examiner.

EXPERIMENTS WITH A NEWLY-

INVENTED POWDER.

On-Friday last a large number of persons as-
sembled on Pemhey Sands, Carmarthenshire, to
witness some experiments with Mr. Parks new
explosive material ; and, if we may judge from the
exhibition, Mr. Parks has certainly used his inven-

tive powers to some purpose. was
with a 21-inch
The first experiment, tried
in it wore six ball 9-r:baissih.e
inches th*, and inserted
s
shell, weighing 11 cwt.,
of Mr. Parks' powder..
et. The object was to
of, the shots 1,000 to
show the strength oefnyit,
a.c•nd scattering the shell in all
in about six seconds the
Piece, weighing 3 cwt., was shot
clilBno:yards. Such was the force
Thes
hel l fuseexploded, having
iudtifrpnet
129,230
paratively all quantity of powder,
directions.
41.n0
f this
of:
the fragments were imbedded from three to
four feet' m the,s.and. The shell was pretty nearly
into fo • '
equally divided four pieces ; these must have
weighed nearly 3 cwt. each, and were thrown from
yards,yardsQ.:
180 to 400 yards. The only ball or shot found
before we left was at the distance named, but
others, it is supposed, have gone much farther.
The next experiment was with the 13-inch Go-
vernment shells, and proved beyond a doubt the
superiority of Mr. Parks' explosive material. They
were charged respectively with an equal quantity
of powder as used by the Government, and Mr.
Parks' powder. The former carried 650 yards ;
but scarcely a vestige of the latter could be found.
All we know is, the pieces passed over our heads,
hissing loud enough to alarm the boldest of the
party.
It appears Mr. Parks hat been to London to lay
his invention before the authorities ; but, like many
others, was driven from post to pillar till he left
town in disgust. He is, we believe, about to pro-
ceed to Paris, where possibly he will be enabled to
bring his invention to practical utility.