The Sun.
London, England, 1852-04-29 00:00:00

MILITIA BILL.

Mr. COBDEN gave notice, that for the better con-
sideration of the Militia Bill, he would on Monday move
that certain returns connected with the army, ordnance,
and navy be laid before the House, and that the Bill be
not further proceeded with until Members are furnished
with these returns.
JOTEE PERSHAUD.

In reply to Sir DE LACY EVANS,
Mr. BERRIES said a return of the correspondence
with reference to the trial of Jotee Pershaud had been
moved for in the House of Lords, and probably by the
present time it: had been laid before their Lordships.
He had no objection to a return of the correspondence
being made to this House.
RAILWAY FROM HALIFAX TO QUEBEC.

Mr. COBDEN gave notice that to-morrow he would
put a question to the Secretary of State for the Colonies
respecting the negotiations entered into by the Govern-
ment as to the construction of the railway from Halifax
to Quebcc.
ECCLESIASTICAL REFORM.

Tho Marquis of BLANDFORD moved for leave to
bring in a Bill to enable her Majesty further to regulate
the duty of ecclesiastical personages, and to make bet-
ter provision for the management and distribution of
episcopal and capitular revenues. He believed that the
Church, with all its faults, was one of the best
bulwarks of the country's freedom, and was asso-
ciated in the hearts and minds of the people
with all that was dear to them. His reason for propos•

; his Bill was twofold—first, the necessity which all
acknowledge, of enabling the Established Church to ex-
tend its ramifications through all the masses of the
rapidly increasing population; and, secondly, that he
considered be had discovered some practical remedies
for those abuses which he admitted existed in the
Establishment, but which were far less than he antici-
pated, considering the complicated nature of our social
relations. The evils received the reluctant avowal of
the friends of the Church, and presented a fair mark for
the sneers and sarcasm of her enemies. Much of what
was to be deplored in the Church, arose from a want
of sufficiently active legislation in matters concerning
her management and control. That some reform for the
more equal distribution of ecclesiastical revenues, and the
more efficient discharge of the duties by clergymen, was
required, no one who wished the prosperity of the Church
could venture to contradict. It was, be contended,
unconstitutional to allow the Established Church
of the kingdom to remain under any unjust reproach,
when a judicious remedy might be applied. To ac-
complish his object he intended to :postpone cer-
tain modifications which would be attended by great
and important benefit. They were first, the al
teration of the constitution of chapters, next the
formation of new sees and chapters; and, lastly, certain
modifications connected with the management of pro-
perty. There was no direct precedent for this last course,
hut he hoped the House would not hesitate to create one.
An entire sum of 60,000/. would be saved by his plan of
reform for extending the usefulness of the Churvh. He
proposed to create two new sees, one atWestminster and the
other at Bristol. The Bill, however, was purely per-
missive, as it was left to the Ecclesiastical Commis-
sioners or the Queen in Council to consider the pro-
, priety of altering any diocese. He proposed to fix tht
salary of the new deans to be appointed at 1,0001, and
that of the new bishops at 4,2001. He contemplated tfitu
ultimate formation of 16 or 17 new sees. The total
annual cost of them would be 40,0001, and the sum of
41 0001. would he provided to meet that additional ontlaj
by means of the reforms he suggested. He intended to
fix the salary of the Archbishop of Canterbury at
10,000/, the Archbishop of York at 8,0001, and the
Bishop of London at 6,000/. He proposed that all capi-
tular property shr,uld be vested in the Ecclesiastical
Commissioners. He was confident the measure he was
proposing would conduce alike to the interest of the
church and the community, and he trusted for the
sake of promoting Christianity the House would allow
him to bring in this Bill. Many of our Dissenting
bodieshadbeen working in a similar direction, and with
them he asked the House to assist him in era-
dicating abuses from the Church and placing its
ministry upon the venerable and elevated posi-
tion of former epochs. In bringing forward this
measure he was actuated by no party motives, but by is
sincere desire to increase the usefulness of the Church.
Lord ROBERT GROSVENOR rose to second the
motion, and was

(LEFT SPEAK.ING.)

THE SHOP SUN-BLIND NUISANCE.

Ever and anon complaints are forwarded to us as to
the dangerous and intolerable nature of this nuisance. We
have just had two such complaints, one from a district
surveyor, who points attention to the rather unaccount-
able circumstance that the Metropolitan Buildings Act
appears to ignore the existence of sun-blinds as com-
pletely as it it had been passed in those antiquated times
when leafy branches were the cnly sun-blinds used by
our savage ancestors by way of parasol or palanquin.
The surveyor, however, is not quite sure but that these
nuisances might be brought under the head of projections
extending over the public way, and so be swept off alto-
gether as an irregularity. Formal complaints have been
made to him in his official capacity, by personal sufferers,
as he himself has been, and ho could not do a more
grateful service to the public than to bring them ❑nder
the power of the Act; for the clause of 10 and 11 Vict.
(July 22nd, 1847) for regulating the police of towns,
namely, clause 28, appears to be a dead letter, having
probably been altogether overlooked by the police au-
thorities. Let us once more draw their special attention
to that clause. It enacts " that every person who, to
the obstruction, annoyance, or danger of passengers,
places any blind, shade, covering, awning, or other pro-
jection over or along any footway (unless at least eight
feet in height in every part thereof from the ground),
shall be liable to a penalty of forty shillings for each
offence." Here is a plentiful field of profit for some of
that not much esteemed class of men, the informers, at
least if a share of the " forty shillings" be legally theirs;
and, at all events, surely the police ought to see to it
without loss of time. Instead of being 8 feet clear of
the pavements, most of them are not much more than 5
feet. We fear that some hurried passenger must be
felled like an ox, however, ero this increasing nuisance
be effectually put down.—Builder.

The committee of the Liverpool Stock Exchange
intend removing from their present room in Royal Bank-
buildings to a portion of Exchange-buildings, which has
been leased to them (under the sanction of the Exchange
proprietors at a special meeting yesterday) for twenty-one
years.

MONEY MARKET.—The quotation of gold at Paris
is about 4 per mille prem. (according to the new tariff ), which,
at the English Mint price of 3/.175. lOid. per ounce for
standard gold, gives an exchange cf 25.27 ; and the ex-
change at Paris on London at short being 25..1211, it follows
that gold is about 0.61 per cent. dearer in London than
in Paris. By advices from Hamburgh the price of gold
is 430 per mark, which, at the English Mint price of
3/. 17s. 10d. per ounce for standard gold, gives an exchange
of 13.7 i ; and the exchange at Hamburgh on London at
short being 13.8 i-, it follows that gold is u. 58 per cent.
dearer in London than in Hamburgh. The course of ex-
change at New York on London for bills at 60 days' sight is
per cent., and the par of exchange between England
and America being 109 23-40 per cent., it follows that the
exchange is nominally 0.05 per cent. in favour of England;
but, after making allowance for difference of interest and
charges of transport, the present rate leaves no profit on
the importation of gold from the United States.

A LARGE OTTER TAKEN NEAR WINDSOR-
BRIDGE.—On Friday week Mr. C. Tatner, of the Eagle
Brewery, Slough, and a frimd, were out on a fishing excur-
sion near the Windsor weir, aril had sat down to their noon-
tide repast on Romney Island, just below Windsor-bridge,
when to their astonishment, an otter crept from the ground
close to where they were sitting. As the creature bounded
past them, one of the party gave it a kick on the head, which
rath‘r stunned it, and retarded its mctions ; it succeeded,
however, in reaching the liver, instantly diving, and rising
to the surface on the opposite shore, near Mr. Cleave's garden.
The chase was kept up for about ten minutes in the most
spirited manner, and eventually the " fish-destroyer" was
taken alive in a large landing net. The animal was a remark-
ably. large one, and has been sent alive to a London naturalist.
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