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

LOAN BILL.

On the motion of Lord STANLEY at ALDERLEY
the Loan 16,000,0001. bill was read a third time.
In reply to Lord MONTE A.GLE,
Lord STANLEY of ALDERLEY said it was felt,
in deciding upon this loan, that it would not he profit-
able to raise so large a sum as the 16,000,0001. by ter-
minable annuities. between_ terminable annuities
and the establishment of a sinking fund there was in
effect little or no difference. In the else of the Kinking
fund, the present generation would be callel upon to
pay a larger sum each year in order t. reduce the prin-
cipal of the debt, and terminable annuities required th'-
action of the same principle. In order to give effect as
far as possible to the principle of terminable annuities,
it was decided, after mature and careful deliberation on

the part of her Majesty's Government, that a portion of
the loan should be raised by terminable annuities, and
that the remainder should be reduced by annual pay-
ments of 1,000,0901., commencing with the close of the
present war. There could be no doubt whatever brit
that at the close of the war this sum of 1,000,0001
could be very eaily,raised, and if any season of reverse
should occur it would be perfectly competent for Parlia-
ment to repeal this clause.
The house shortly afterwards adjourned.

HOUSE OF COMMONS-YESTERDAY.

The SPEAKER took the chair at four o'clock.

The following bills were real a third time and passel :
—Ashton-under. Lyne Gas and Water ; Kilmarnock
Gas; Regent's Canal (Hertford Union Canal); Salisbury
and Yeovil Railway.
The following bills were considered and ordered io be
read a third time :—Kelso Bridge ; South Wales Rail-
way (Consolidation) ; Waterford and Limerick Railway.
The following bills were read a second time :—Derby-
shire Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Railway (N,P. 2) ;
Grand Surrey Canal (No. 2) ; Southampton Paving
Trust, Saint Pandras.

PETITIONS.
Petitions were presented by Mr. Strutt from Notting-
harp, for the repeal of the Sunday Beer Bill ; by Mr.
Spooner from Birmingham, it, favour of closing public-
houses on Sundays ; by Mr. Horsfall from various Di--
senting bodies in Lancashire, against the Maynooth
grant ; by Mr. Bentiock from- a -parish in 'Norfolk, for
the closing of all public-houses on Sundays ; by Sir J.
Walrnsley 16 petitions from various Dissenting congre-
gations, against church rates, and one from the inhabi-
tants of Leicester, in favour of local rating, and one
aqainet the Maynooth grant ; by Mr. Band from the
Queen's County, in favour of the Tenants Improvement
Bill; by Mr. J. G. Phillimore from various magistrates'
clerks in Cheshire, in favour of aptoointing a pubic pro-
secutor; by Sergeant Shee a large number of petitions
from different parts of the King's County, and Kilkenny
and Down, in favour of the Tenants' Improvement Corn
pensation Bill by Colonel Lindsay, from Fife, in favour
of the Scotch Education Bill.
EAST INDIA COMPANY STOCK.
Sir E. PERRY moved for a return of the amount of
4 per cent. East India Company's Stock, accepted by
holders of the various 5 per cent. stocks convert -d by
the East India Company during the years 1853 and
1854 ; distinguishing the various stocks, and stating the
-number of holders who a,c3epted the ter us of the East
India Company.—Ordered.
PORT WINE ADULTERATION.
On the motion of Mr. MACARTNEY the following
documents were ordered :—Address fo: copies or ex-
tracts of any despatches from her Majesty's Mintstsr at
Lisbon, or het Majesty's Consul General or Consuls in
Portugal, between the years
_lB4B and 1853, recom-
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 of the
Treasury and the Commissioners of Customs, within the
same period, relative to the refusal of the latter to per-
mit jerupiga to be entered as wine and mixed with port
wine in bond : and, of any minute, or minutes, or any
correspondence or instructions issued by the Lords of
her Majesty's Treasury and the Commissioners of Cus-
toms, within the same period, authorising the mixing of
jerupiga with port wine in bond, under the superintend-
ence of the officers of Customs, in the same proportion
as brandy, viz., thirty-three gallons of the compound to
one hundred gallons of pure port wine. Return of the
number of tons of logwood exported from Great Britain
to Oporto in the years 1552, 1853, 1854, and 1855.
KINGSTOWN HARBOUR,
Mr, H. HERBERT asked the Secretary to the Trea-
-1017 whether any immediate prospect existed of the
works of the new Steam Packet Jetty in Kingstown
rbour being proceeded with ; and whether he had any
objection to lay on the table of die house, the corre-
spondence that had taken place between the Government
and the Board of Public Works relative to the said
jetty, and also the reports of Mr Rendal in connection
with that correspondence : also o
. ask, whether any plan had been submitted to the Government for connecting
the new steam-packet landing place with the Kingstown. and Dublin Railway ?
Mr. WILSON said whatever plan should he adopted,
there should be a communication between the railway
and the steam-boats, and the plaPi was now under the
e.ensideration of the proper author ties.

STATE APARTMENTS AT WINDSOR.
In reply to Mr. PELLATT.
Sir W. MOLESWORTH eai-1 the apartments lately
occupied by the Emperor and Empres4 of the French a'
Windsor Caste were not under the control of the Board
of Works, but of the Lord Chamberlain, who he had no
doubt would afford every opportunity to the hon. mem-
ber to visit them. (Hear, and a laugh.)
THE VIENNA CONFERENCE.

Mr. DISRAELI—Sir, I wish to have some explanation
from her Majesty's Government of the unusual delay which
has taken place in laying on the table of the house the
State papers relating to the late unsuccessful negotiations
for peace. The House will be aware that, whatever might
Llea the result of these negotiations, whether successful or
the
whether
of peace had been signed
,6e,nht7ther the result had been such as appears to have
tuightt,evase--the papers connected with the negotiations
tiatiote,been prepared fOr the House; so that when the
ti)ool. or twteorrninateci there would only have been a pro-
oia'lliulit,t 4 or the last despatch' to print, and the
returnea alce 0It5”;la placed on the table of the house
t,,,,,i, 1,,1!,,,t, the Secretary for the Colonies
tfromhat thheirs
1441. , the
e tuzilaiseat in this house. As I find
~,,i course, I think I !pay ask
has not been i ltr'' 0 lowed ern merit why the usual course
there hat noternbmeeennttbi'ant t,,blppesent occa-ion, and why
kra.li'atY's Goy
„i iing,,,,,
the information which ti3t —""ct"tralii_a!nent in possession of
on the part of her
grave subjects to poss,en .hea:o,,i,i, a, ii's:,
ian Vght upon such
Government to produce it.
gupidree(zer
,n.ttyi, nanb, searched the
journals which shoal I ,
anve. Power of the
wish to confine myself at
nical limits of a Parliarnentary quest"io".l7 w 11717: the . as
r
boss°, if you, Sir, will permit me, exZtl will state ttech. 1
the
the journals to guide us in this momentousYr7hat 1 ,(-:(1oTi
I will 11,4 her ale jesty's Government to expl4:4t ; "(1
then
why on this occasion they have not followed °the 6n" 1
which have always governed the conduct ofp- P-I"ts
under similar circumstances. The precedent whichrn. gnids now does not vary from others ; but I select 704
to ertt
tilt
because it is one of modern date, of the highest import,
4uce, and in its circumstances apposite to the present
enae oZiirectnre. I take the precedent of the rupture of the
on ti4ti°tis of 1796. The house will recollect that,
forme; 14th of October, 1796, the country was in-
zaaame,erlhaMajesty had sent the Ewl of
a Peace ?i,,,.a' his plenipotentiary to France to negotiate
" was on the 14th of October, and on the