The Sun.
London, England, 1855-05-08 00:00:00

Charles Frederick Gibson, Esq., late Brevet-Major 24th
Regiment, to be Captain.
BANKRUPTS.
Henry Joseph Pratt, trunk-maker, New Bond-street,
Middlesex, to surrender, May 22, at eleven, and June 19,
at half-past twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Stans-
feld, official assignee ; Smith and Sons, Barnard's-inn,
Hol born.

John Bradbury, joiner, Sheffield, May 19 and June 30,
at ten, at the Leeds District Court. Brewin, official assig-
nee, Sheffield ; Unwin, Sheffield.
Thomas Purdy, wine merchant, Great Yarmouth, May
18 and June 19, at half-past one, at the Court of Bank-
ruptcy. Graham, official assignee ;Jay and Pilgrim, Nor-
wich ; Jay, Bucklersbury.
Thomas Thompson, bookseller, Sunderland, May 23 at
half-past eleven, and June 26 at eleven, at the Newcastle
District Court. Baker, official assignee, Newcastle-upon -
Tyne ; Hoyle, Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
Frederick Newell, linen draper, Bradford, Yorkshire,
May 18 and June 22, at eleven, at the Leeds District
Court. Young, official assignee, Leeds ; Carriss and Cud-
worth, Leeds.
Erasmus Symonds, merchant, 15, Great Bell-alley,
Moorgate-street, May 17, at half-past one, and June 21, at
twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Bell, official assig-
nee, Coleman-street-buildings ; Ashurst, Son, and Morris,
Old Jewry.
John Horrocks, grocer, Salford, May 18 and June 8, at
twelve, at the Manchester District Court. Hernaman,
official assignee, Manchester ; Lamb, Manchester.
Thomas Southward, corn and flour merchant, Bolton
le-Moors, Lancashire, May 22 and June 19, at twelve,
at the anchester District Court. Pott, official assignee,
Manchester • , Richardson, Bolton-le-Moors.

Thomas Spurrier, maltster, Walsall, Staffordshire, May
19 and June 15, at eleven, at the Birmingham District
Court. Christie, official assignee, Birmingham ; Jackson,
Westbromwich ; Hodgson, Birmingham.
David Foster, gunsmith, Goole, Yorkshire, June 4, at
half-past eleven, and July 2, at eleven, at the Leeds Dis-
trict Court. Hope, official assignee, Leeds; Wilson,
Goole ; Naylor, Leeds.
Joseph Whiteley Broadhead, woollen manufacturer,
Green Owlers, near Holmbridge, York, May 24, and June
22, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court. Young, official
assignee, Leeds ; Kidd and Jessop, Holmfirth ; Bond and
Barwick, Leeds.
SCOTCH SEQUESTRATION.

Robert Leckie, wright, Pollokshavvs, Renfrewshire ;
Saracen's Head Inn, Paisley, May 16.
George Robson, interim factor, Glasgow.

COURSE OF EXCI
Amsterdam ............ 11 18%
Ditto, three months .. 12 0%
Rotterdam ............ 12 0%
Antwerp .............. 25 45%
Brussels .... • • ........ 25 42%
13 7%

:ANGE.-THIS DAY.

Gibraltar ...... • .....
Leghorn .. • 30 25
Genoa ........••...... 25 57%

Venice • • ......
Naples
Palermo 131%
Messina ... 132
Lisbon
Oporto . ....•••••• •• •• 53%
Rio Janeiro ..... .•• ....
Buenos Ayres.. •. • .....
New York, 60 days' sight
Philadelphia ..

Altona
Paris... ..... ........ 25 22%
Ditto, three months .. 25 47%
Marseilles ............. 25 47%
Bourdeaux . ........
Fr ankfort-on; Maine .... 119%
Berlin ................
Vienna..........•• .... 12 50
Trieste•••••••••••••••• 12 52
Petersburg..... .. 35
Madrid ............... 49 ai(
49%
Barcelona

PRICES OF BIILLICN, PER OZ.
Foreign Gold in Bars £3 17 9
Portugal Gold Coin .. 0 0 0
Mexican Dollars .... 0 0 0
New Dollars ....•. 0 0 0
Silver in bars . .... 0 0 0

MPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF COMMONS—YESTERDAY.
THE COMMISSARIAT OF THE SARDINIAN
CONTINGENT.
In reply to Lord W. GRAHAM,
Lord PALMERSTON said that the answer he had
previously given on this subject was virtually correct.
Whilst he was on his legs he would take the opportu-
nity, with the permission of the house, of replying to a
question which he believed had been put by the hon.
gentleman opposite (Mr. Disraeli) in his absence. The
protocols relative to the Vienna negotiations would be
ready to-morrow, the only hindrance which had taken
place having been ca,u,ed by the temporary indisposition
of a gentleman in the Foreign-office. He wou!d also
take the opportunity of stating that his right hon. friend
the Minister for War would, this day week, Ftate in
his place in the other house the arrangements which he
intended to make with a view to the concentration of
several military departments. (Hear, hear.)

NEWSPAPER STAMP BILL.
On the motion for the third reading of this hill,
Mr. HA_DFIELD wishe I to c al the attention of the
Chancellor of the Exchequer to the extremely hard pro-
vision of the 15 clays' clause, and to express a hope that
some more extended provision would be made.
He thought 15 days was but a short period during
which stamps on newspapars were to be effectual.
(Hear, hear.) All newspapers were obliged to publish
a greater number of stamped copies than they had an
immediate demand for. He considered that an allowance
for spoiled stamps ought to be made on all such copies
returned to the stamp-office within a certain time. He
would also suggest that a newspaper should be allowed
to pass at any time after publication if a penny stamp
was affixed.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said
that the reason of his proposing the present clause was
the fear of abuses ; but, if it was considered that fifteen
days was too short a period, he should have no objection
to extend it to thirty days. (Hear, hear.) With
respect to the suggestion of the honourable
member of a postage stamp, he would inquire into
the subject, and see what could be done with respect to
to the transmission of papers through the post. As soon
as this bill passed it was the intention of the Government
to issue a new and reduced scale of charges for the con-
veyance through the post of " other printed matter,"
not newspapers or periodical publications.
Mr. BRIGHT said that the principle of retransmis-
sion was bad from beginning to end, and he looked for-
ward to the entire abolition of the Newspaper Stamp.
The question had been brought forward chiefly by the
newspaper proprietors, who had made it a matter ap-
parently of great advantage to attack this matter it-
self. He was of opinion that the newspaper proprie-
tors would gain nothing by the system of retransmis-
sion, because the public, he considered, would rather by
and by buy a separatA paper than have one second, third,
or fourth hand. He suggested it as desirable at
an early period to abolish the stamping of newspapers
on account of its excessive injustice to the manufacturers
of paper in the different parts of the kingdom. There
were at present only four places where the compulsory
stamp was attached to the paper, and the manufacturers
in the neighbourhood of those places had a great advan-
tage over the manufacturers of paper in other neigh-
bourhoods. He was told a short time since by a Bristol
paper maker that the system prevented his supply-
ing the newspapers with paper published in the
game city, , because he bad to send his paper up
,o London to be stamped, and had the expense

of carriage both ways, whereas the paper manufacturer
in the neighbourhood of London had only to send his
paper one way, and consequently had only half the ex-
pense of carriage to pay the Bristol paper manufacturer
was subject to. That he (Mr. Bright) considered a great
injustice, because it gave a monopoly to the manufac-
turers of paper carrying on business in the neigh-
bourhood of London, Manchester, Edinburgh, and
Dublin, where the paper was stamped. It was
highly desirable the whole system of the compulsory
stamping should be abolished, and with it the
monopoly to which he had referred, and the expenses of
the stamping office. He was ready to vote for the
abolishing of the retransmission of newspapers, which
would have the effect of making every man pay for the
postage of his paper, if he availed himself of the post-
office the same as he now did when he posted a letter.
The sooner the house came to the simple question of
postage, the better it would be for the newspapers and
the revenue.
Mr. CAYLEY considered the honourable member for
Manchester should have been the last person to oppose
the retransmission of newspapers. He often told them
the people in the country were less enlightened than
those in the cities, but how were they to be enlightened
if the re-transmission of newspapers was abolished ? By
the use of reading rooms in cities one paper served for
20 or 30 persons, whereas in the country a paper was
taken in by two, three, or four persons living several
miles from each other, and to abolish the re-
transmission of the paper would be an injury to
'them. He opposed the second reading of the
bill, considering many of its provisions unj. st to existing
interests, and such as he did not believe the committee
would have sanctioned. He was unwilling to purchase
a blessing or advantage at the expense of justice. He
did not believe it was a just bill, and was in hopes before
it was printed the Chancellor of the Exchequer would
have remedied the injustice to which he had alluded.
It was his intention, if the proposition that six ounces
should be transmitted by post, instead of four ounceF,
it was his determination, indeed, to take the sense of
the house upon the question. However great might be
the advantages which were anticipated by this measure,
and of which he was somewhat doubtful, though no one
was more desirous than he could be to promote the
spread of information, he could not consent to
secure that by doing injustice to existing interests,
whilst, however true it might be that three bad dinners
were better than one good one, ho could not believe that
three bad newspapers were better than one good one.
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Mr. DITFFY called the attention of the Chancellor
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of the Exchequer to the clause
in the bill restricting the
time in which newspapers should be posted for re-trans-
mission to 15 days, and remarked that it would affect
all papers intended for colonial postage. (Hear. hear.)
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER replied
that the clause was never intended to apply to ep
coloniald
postage, and if the hon. gentleman chose he would insert
Kingdom. it was
ai clause distinctly specifying that •
al ply only to the. United
Mr. VANSITTART said itintended to
was his intention to move
tt tat the bill be read a second
justified
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place, because at the time this and he thought he was
the Chancellor of the so doing ; in the first
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been imposed upon the country—especially of the large
'lncrease in the income tax, which, as they were
all aware, pressed most heavily on the majority
lof the community. (Hear, hear, and cheers.) Of all the