The Sun.
London, England, 1852-06-25 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

The Queen and Prince Albert, accompanied by the
Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, Prince Alfred,
and the Princess Alice, and attended by Msjor-General
Buckley and Colonel Bouverie, went yesterday morning
to Westminster Hell, and afterwards inspected different
parts of the New Palace of Westminster.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited her
Majesty yesterday at Buckingham Palace. Her Royal
Highness also paid a visit to her Royal Highness the
Duchess of Gloucester, at Gloucester House.
Her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert,
accompanied by the Princess Helena and the Princess
Lunisa, took a drive in an open carriage and four
yesterday afternoon. The Equerries in Waiting, Major-
General Buckley and Colonel Bouverie, attended on
horseback.

The Queen and Prince Albert, accompanied by the
Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, and the Princess
Alice, and attended by the Duchess of Atholl, the
Honourable Caroline Cavendish, Lord Byron, Major-
General Buckley and Colonel Bouverie, honoured the
Royal Italian Opera with their presence last evening.
Viscountess Canning has relieved the Countess of De-
sert in her duties as Lady in Waiting to the Queen, and
the Hon. Caroline Cavendish and the Hon. Flora Mac-
donald have relieved the Hon. Amelia Murray and the
Hon. Lucy in their duties as Maids of Honour in
Waiting to her Majesty.
Her Majesty's private band attended after dinner in
Buckingham Palace on Wednesday.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, attended
by Lady Fanny Howard and Lcrd James Murray, ho-
noured the Haymarket Theatre with her presence last
evening.

The Marquis of Westminster had an interview with
the Earl of Derby, yesterday, at his official residence,
in Downing-street. Viscount Torrington had also an
interview with the Noble Earl.

A Deputation on behalf of the London and North-
Western Railway Company, consisting of Captain HUiitil,
Lir. Carter, and Mr. Stewart; and a Deputation, on be-
half of the Shrewsbury and Birmingham Railway Com-
pany, consisting of the Hon. R. H. Olive, Mr. W. G.
Ray, Mr. Knox, and Mr. Walker, had an interview with
the Right HOB. J. W. Henley, yesterday, at the Board
of Trade.

The Marquis Camden had an interview with Mr.
Secretary Walpole, yesterday, at the Home-office.
Mr. Hildyard, M.P., had an irate: view with the Right
Hon. J. W. Henley yesterday, to present a memorial
from Whitehaven, against compulsory pilotage in the
Mersey;

The Knight of Kerry, and Mr. Herbert, M.P., had an
interview with the Earl of Derby yesterday, at his official
residence in Downing-street.

Mr. Sinillie, Advocate-General, South Australia, had
an interview with Sir Juhn Pakington yesterday, at the
Colonial office.

A deputation from the British Beet-root Sugar Com.
pany, headed by Mr. Robert Oxland and Mr. Henry
\ridlance, had an interview with the Right Hon. J. Vv.
Henley yesterday, at the Board of Trade.
Dispatches were sent from the Colonial-office yesterday
to the Lord High CommisLioner of the lonian islands,
the Governor of Malta, and the Governors of Ilona_
Kong and Ce3l..n.
A deputation from St. Anne's, Westminster, On the
subject of the Metropolitan Burial Bill, hail an interview
with Lord John Manners on Wednesday, at the Office of
Public Works and Buildings, Whitehall-place. The de-
putation consisted of Mr. Joseph George (churchwarden);
Messrs. David Lerigo, Richard Ilayletr, Jtimes Chatfield,
and H. Reeves (overseers); and Mr. Joseph
Rogers, ogers,
surgeon.

CREIVIottNE GARDENS.
The fine weather has given the Crc.rcorne Gardens a.
fresh
of the season—that of ViTeineaday—
Lie grounds were densely crowded—the
there was
ing hnigsthatrt; and on what may be Called the second open
quite a gals.
In
tneatre, the tents, and the dancing arena at °nk ioa„,
the course of the evening a balloon ascent toboallet, in
Mr. Coxwell being the adventurer;
and a new
wich is very
which the Custni3 L,iiters appear, and highly`v appre-
gracefully and Picturesquely got up, ".05 aope of eques-
elated. We understand that a regular "Monday. Other
elieede—the
trians commence their peri,rmances net attractions, too, are announced, and in a brilliant
Simpson requires Only blue sky to proceed
summer Campaign on the whole Mr.

gentleman died
DEATH of w- --,-----1—?0x.6 , ESQ.—The above
iturem iieri
near Naples, on the 13th
inst. lie was at La Para,
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to
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enabled to confirm
Bramham- arlineatlY cifloxof,
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_er'Nv , rorkshitreo, anthe Hon. William Temple's mis-
sion at the Coaisirt ottfafiei3g Ferdinand of Naples.
THE -h
-&-,ISsoLETTIoN OF PARLIAMENT.—We are
the statement we made on Monday, in
well-informed Sunday paper, relative
related
oPPosition to a usually
to the ( )ueen's dissolving Parliament in person. The day of
the dissolution' is not, however, yet fixed.T The prorogation,
it is will take place on
.hursday next, the Ist
~ expected, d the dissolution will be deferred
till
d ulv but it is suppose
.., , ,y The Lord Chamberlain has issued
the following Tuesd'On. to the House of Lords
his tickets of admission on the day of
the dissolution,blank or f leaves athe day. Her Majesty
but
and Prinee
Albert yesterday visited.the new Houses of
Parliament, and spent a long time in ;
going .over them.—
ildrertiser.
BRITISH ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH COMPANY.—The
«rioters of the Bill haverested a petition to the House
p TO— wing that they
maybe allowed to proceed with
of Lords, praying
Bill, and that the standing orders may be dispensed
their
with.
THE SHERIFFS DINNER TO THE JUDGES.—On
Wednesday the Sheriffs of London and Middlesex gave a very
elegant dinner to the Judges, at the Albion Tavern, Alders-
gate-street. The chair, as usual upon these occasions, was
jointly occupied by the Sheriffs Cotterell and Swift, who, in
the course of the evening, alternately proposed the different
toasts. Among the guests we observed—Lord John Russell,
M.P., Vice-Chancellor Turner, Mr. Justice Erle, Mr. Justice
Talfourd, Mr. Justice Crompton, Baron Martin, Alderman
Sir W. Magnav, Alderman Sir G. Carroll, Alderman Hooper,
Alderman Sir J. Musgrove, Alderman Moon, Alderman Fin-
nis, Alderman Sir R. W. Carden, Alderman Carter, Mr. Ser-
geant Manning. Mr. Sergeant Herbert Jones, Mr. Sergeant
Bellasis, Mr. Sergeant Wallenger, Colonel Phillips, Captain
Erskine, Captain Hire, R.N., Captain Gordon' Sir G. E.
Hodgkinson, D. Nicoll, Esq., Hon. J. Dormer, Mr. Ryland,
Mr. Locke, Rev. Dr. Rice, Mr. Secondary Potter, Mr. Deputy
Harrison, Mr. Norris, Mr. Barber, Mr. James Thomson, .
John Wood, Mr. Bunning, Mr. Stoner, Mr. T. I oA,nelye
,
Rev. Mr. Calvert, Mr. Piumley. Mr. Catty, M
r. Under-
Sheriff Millard, Mr. Under-Sheriff Hopwood, and about b 0
other gentlemen.

GLASGOW, JUNE 19.—Cotton—There has been
very little demand for cotton this Week, and sales have been
made only to a small extent. The better qual ties of Ame-
rican, however, continue steadv, but a decline in the mid-
dling and lower classes of lid:
per pound has taken place.
For goods and yarns the demand is less active, and manu-
facturers and spinners are disposed to meet buyers on more
accommodating terms. The liner counts of yarns are still,
however, very high. Iron—Pig iron market steady, a fair
demand existing.
Holders require 40s. cash for m.n. war-
rants, and 41s. open. The advance has, however, checked
business, there being few transactions at these quotations.
Mcnufactured iron is in good demand. Bars, from 54 10s. to
61. per ton ; rails, 6/. net.
Four boatmen were drowned at Lymington
.on
Saturday, by attempting to reach a venal in Me Creek *inlet
in a state of intoxication.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

ROUSE OF LORDS, June 24.
BENNET'S DIVORCE.

MOUNTCASHELL mevect the second reading of
13d1, the consideration et which, it will be remem-
be • 1, was postponed eine die. The Noble Lord entered
• insiderable length thee the circumstances of this case,
which were reported in our columns at the time they
were given at the bar of their Lordships' House.
The LORD CHANCELLOR opposed the motion.
The Noble Lord had introduced matters not upon the
evidence taken at the bar, and he bad been guilty of the
greet irregularity of referring to a speech asserted to be
deitetersd by him (the Lord Chancellor) at the conclu-
sion of the case. In vindication of the justice of their
Lenelahip's house, he (the Lord Chancellor), as wholly
responsible for the circumstance of the second reading
not having taken place, then entered into a detail of the
whole case. He moved the Bill should be read a second
time that day three months.
Lord 'BROUGHAM had entire confidence in the
judgmerat of his Noble and Learned Friend; but he
called upon the House to reflect upon the most anaoma-
lous course taken in respect to D.vorce Bilis in Parha-
m-en t, not one of their Lordships having heard a single
word of the evidence, though they were called upon to
ureie a decision upon it.
Afrer a few words from the Earl of MOUNT-
CASHELL,
The amendment was agreed to, and the Bill was or-
dered to be read a second time that day three mouths.
STANDING ORDERS.
The Marquis Of CLANRICAIIDE then proceeded tor
call the'attentien of the House to the standing
No. 185, with a vies to the modification of theprovi-
sions thereof in respect of Bills to be brought into
Par-
liament in any future session. The order
it imp
impossible
ouestion
was the " Wharncliffe" order, and rendered
nt
of
railways
to effect any change in the m
without the expense of an Act of
enies. The effect
Parliament.""g"ne This was
a great hardship upon the railway companies.
of the order was to enable large companies
to prevent
scheme of competition
to the Orders.
Parliament from considering any
He proposed to refer the order .
propriety of
Committee, with a view of considering the Standing
reducing the majority of shareholders now required to
Parliament from four-fifths to
sanction an application to
three-fifths.
said the object of the order was
Lord REDESD ALE
to protect the sharoholdera from the directors of com-
panies, and if it had been found to act oppressively,
there would have been more than the single case of the
Shrewsbuey and Chester and Shrewsbury and Birming-
ham Companies to cite. He knew in-tances in which
the proportion of four-fifths had prevented injury being
done. As to the suggestion that the shareholders betore
voting should have had their shares fur a certain and
definite time, he thought it a valuable one; and with re-
spect to the proposition of the N able Mirquis he thought
it better to refer the order to the consideration of a less
numerous Committee than the Committee on Standing
Orders, andany if alterations
were made in the present
regulations, it should be done on the fullest and most
impartial inquiry.
leird HA: MERTON observed that the proportion of
four.fifths appeared to have been adopted by the Com-
mittee without any grounds being stated for that course,
and he was surprised that he had heard no grounds
stated by the Noble Lord (Redesdale) for its adoption.
With reference to the specific ease which had given rise
to the discussion of the matter on a late occasion, be
thought it hard that the ironmasters of Staffordshire had
no means of direct communication with the coast by
railway. It was only by competition between the
various railway companies that that could be effected,
and if this order operated to prevent the establishment
of that competition, he thought a modification of it,
upon that and upon general grounds ought to be adopted.
Ho had no objection to three-fifths being the majority
instead of four-fifths.
The Earl of STRADBROKE thought that three-
fourths would be a fair majority.
The Earl of HARRO WRY thought it advisable that
the standing order should be maintained, for the pur-
pose of preventing the interests of the great body of the
shareholders from being sacrificed to the jobbing of
directors.
The Marquis of LANSDOWNE urged upon the House
the necessity of protecting the interest of the public.
Upon the subject of amalgamation, that was a question
upon which it was most important that their Lordships
should be able to pronounce an unfettered opinion, re-
gard being had to the merits of the case. It was not to
be determined by the particular interests of small com-
panies, liable to be influenced in the various ways their
Lordships had heard described. But when the question
arose between two great and powerful companies, he
though they should look at it on public principle, and
see which of these companies was the most likely, with
reference to all the local circumstances, to become an
amalgamated body the most useful in providing for the
wants of the public. Now, he thought that if minori-
ties were allowed to settle these questions—and minori-
ties might be tyrants as well as majorities—their Lord-
ships might find themselves in this position, that with
the strongest possible public case in favour of certain
companies to provide for a great line of communication,
they would be debarred from entering into its considera-
tion by small companies stepping in and availed them-
selves of the order of the House, and saying to their
Lordships that they could not and should not consent to
the amalgamation.
Earl GRANVILLE was of opinion that the House
was quite prepared to entertain the question without
referring it.
Lord BROUGHAM said that the question ought to
be referred, and that that should have been done three
years ago.
Lord LYNDHURST said there could be no doubt
that legislation upon this subject was in a most unsatis-
factory state, The railway which had given rise to the
question was one of the utmost importance to the inte-
rests of the country, and it was altogether monstrous
that those interests should be defeated by combinations
amongst snaellr companies. He admitted that the re-
cent decision of the Standing Orders Committee was
correct, and that th,_Te was no sufficient evidence to es-
tablish the charge which had been alleged against the
company on that occasion; but it did certainly appear in
the evidence before the Standing Orders Committee
that on a previous occasion shares were ostensibly pur-
chased by, and registered in the names of, the servants
of the company, for the accomplishment of a particular
object, and he did not know what reason there was to
suppose that the same contrivance had not been resorted
to in the present instance. To prevent the recurrence of
such a circumstance, he was convinced that the best step
would be for their Lordships to reduce the proportion
of the majority of votes from four-fifths to three-fifths.
The Earl of DERBY preferred sending the question
. to the Standing Orders Committee to taking any hasty
Step with regard to it at the present moment. He was
not at ail satisfied that the best or most eff'ctual mode of
fifths with it woull be to fix the majority at three-
Znrtt or four-fifths.- But he thought it would be a point
iir)%`tnV consideration by the Committee whether the
shares -etuel step would not be to require that the
• of all
certain sty. persona who voted should be held for a
thought aid before their votes were given. That he
,woguldthee an etr-ctual guard against any corn-
piny Main
tog an irditiateeares in future for the purpose of exercis-
meetings. over the decision of the proprietors'
The motion for referring. the question to the Com-
mittee was ultite,w
onsolidatejvagreed to.
Tne C
a second time. uad Appropriation Bill was read
The Militia Ballet, s
%Tension Bill was read a second
time.
The Militia Pay Bill was
The Navy Pay Bill wet elte,d a second time.
The Pharmacy Bill see,;"%satt,:t third time.
ti through Committee.
The Sunk Is land Roads
was read a third time.
SUITORS IN CHANozIty RELIEF BILL.
The Eloise having gone tato Qom
Lord LYNDHURST moved thme ittee on this Bill,
clause 45, of a clause which had e restoration, after
eels struck
House of Commons relating to cetes out by the
's office "nsation to the of-
Theficers in the Taxing Master .
Earl of DERBY said it struck hita
on that if they
increased the amount of comp easaHtie
--8 other Ho
would scarcely acquiesce in it. . would
a_
tuse
the Noble and Learned Lord opposite to toaraes to
"1 he hid Pone the
consideration of this question .
I k °Pilortunit
in a day or two of seeing how it "3 likely yr...t"l3e vieteei
by the other House. Thou the Noble and e!Ltue_,
a Lrd
would be better able to determine the course it e,
°nltio be
advisable for him to pursue. At all events he ho_
that the Noble and Learned Lord would not plee„tieso
much value upon his proposition as to risk the Peelle,
of the measure by ' his proposition pressingp • at that
moment
Lord LYNDHURST said that there were four of the
senior clerks to reive compensation for the loss of the
fees which they had been hitherto authorised to receive.
Ho thought it would be most unjust if compensation
were not awarded to the junior clerks also, in respect to
such fees, inasmuch as under the existing sybteill they
would be entitled to occupy the offices of the senior
clerks, and of course to receive such fees in the event of
vacancies occurring. He had therefore prepared a pro-
viso to effecr that object.
The Le;RD CHANCELLOR, having made some ob-
jection no such a proviso being added to the clause, at a
)striod of the session when it would be impossible to pass
11 e B'',ll if the other House of Parliament should dissent
frond the amendment.
Lord LYNDHURST said that he, for one, could
fever assent to what he considered was injustice, in de-
fierenca to the will of the House of Commons.
• The LORD CHANCELLOR said that the Bill was
not theirs, bat that of the late Government.. The House
that Rouse,
had kept it so late before it came up to
tionse, that, it was impossible to make such an al-
teration in it as was proposed, without risking its
tet,safety
present session. Now, he thought the Bill, in its
main featurea,a most excellent measure, and he would
be very sorry
LYNDHURST
to risk it by making any alterations in it.
facts connected ilavytßST said there were some curious
report of o,,iuultintt this Bill. Is was founded upon the
principal recommend House, one
recommendations
the other of the
of certain offices ns of which was, the aboli-
tionßill
was
f.:..med
under connectedth with. the courts. The
Master of the Rolls in thee aunlisLeuodfeueCnonaofnotnhe
It dealt in an uits
sparing manner with the office;s.
connected with the Lord Chancellor's Court; b t ••
had not toutthed the offices of the Master of the Rolls'
Cour" except in rendering them more advantageous than
they werre heretofore. The clerk to the -
secretary of tb..
Court of Chancery was not to exceed 2001. a y ear
whererwhere,.the two or three clerks of the secretaryof the,
Masten of the Rolls were to have a salary of aOOl. a
each.—(Hear.) He would not agree to pass a mea-
nt:a into a law which in his opinion involved • -
a principle
c,f injustice.
The question was then put, and (as we understood)
the
proviso was negatived without a division.
The Bill then passed through Committee.