The Sun.
London, England, 1864-07-13 00:00:00

The Price of Gold.

The quotation of gold at Par: is about 21 per mille pm., and
the short exchange on London is 25.20 per £1 sterling. On
comparing these rates with the English Mint price of £3
17s. 101 d. per ounce for standard gold, it appears that gold is
rather more than 1-10th per cent. dearer in Paris than in
London.
By advices from Hamburg the price of gold is 425 per mark
and the short exchange on London is 13.51 per £1 stErlin4.
Standard gold at the English Mirt price is, therefore, about
3-10ths per cent, dearer in London than in Hamburg.
The course of exchange at New York on London for bills at
60 days' sight is about 260 per cent., and the premium on
gold N 140 per cent. At these rates there is probably a
small profit on the importation of gold from the United
States.

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Sir J. SHELLEY complained of sharp practice on the
part of the railway company, the bill having been read in
a morning sitting, when parties interested had no opportu-
nity of opposibg•. He should move next session that no
private bill be taken at a morning sitting.
Mr S. ESTCOURT said the right hon, baronet might
have been present yesterday to oppose the bill. Even now
it was not too late, if ho felt so disposed, to arrest its pro-
gress. Ho thought the hon. member had nothing to com-
plain of.

Mr BOUVERIE urged that parties had not had suffi-
cient notice, In such cases he thought there should be one
clear day's notice of a motion to suspend standing orders,
After some farther discussion, it was agreed that the
standing order 226 should be suspended, and that the bill
should be read a third time to-morrow,
DUNDEE CHURCHES AND HOSPITAL BILL,
On the motion of Mr C. FORSTER, it was agreed that in the
case of this bill the examiner of petitions for private bills
should have leave to proceed forthwith.

BILLS WITHDRAWN.

The Superior Courts of Common Law (Ireland) Bill

the Court of Queen's Bench (Ireland) Bill, and the Mar-
ried Women's Acknowledgment Bill, were withdrawn on
the motion of Sir R Peel.
UNIFORMITY ACT AMENDMENT BILL.

Mr. BOUVERIE, in moving the second reading of this
bill, explained its nature and effect. It proposed to repeal
the seventh section of the Act of Uniformity of Charles
11., requiring from certain dignitaries of the Church, and

fellows and tutors of colleges, declarations of conformity to
the Prayer Book. At Oxford and Cambridge there was
some difference. At Cambridge there were no oaths or
declarations of any kind on admission, and there were none
on taking the ordinary degree in arts, but if an undergra-
duate obtained a scholarship who won a mark,of distinction
he had to take the oaths. He had to take an oath of obe-
dience to the college statutes. Ho did not intend to interfere
with that oath where the statutes required it, but he objected
to the Parliament or a mere taking the oath of coaformity
to the Church of England, whether the statutes required
it or not. Secondly, he had to take the oath of allegiance,
supremacy, and abjuration; and, thirdly, under the Act of
Uniformity, he had to make a declaration that he would
conform to the Liturgy of the Church of England. It was
this he asked the house to assist him in repealing. The
universities were not merely seminaries for the education of
priests ; on the contrary, they were essentially lay corpo-
rations, and the fellowships wero the prizes for literary and
scientific energy. The system was injurious to the Church,
to the men who were excluded, and to the universities
theme elves.

Mr. 'WALPOLE said the bill was not of the little im-
portance the hon member seemed to admit. He saw no
reason why it should be pressed upon the house when there
was so much opposition to it out doors. The introduction
of the principle laid down in the bill would lead to religious
confusion to the promoters, and it would draw many from
secular education, the foundation of religion on which the
education stood, and on which the country was determined
it should stand, whatever may be the nature of the educa-
tion determined upon. He denied the proposition of the
hon gentleman that the present system was unjust to the
Dissenters, and injurious to the Universities and the
Church. A University had been established in London, in
which all who did not conform to the Church of England
might receive a university education, and by the establish-
ment of the college the grievances of the Dissenters was
almost entirely removed. He moved as an amendment that
the bill be read a second time that day threw months.
Mr MONSELL complained that Mr Bouverie, by his
bill, would inflict a serious injury on Roman Catholics. In
a matter of civil rights it would put Roman Catholics on a
pinnacle where they might be pelted at by all who differed
from them. The right hon. gentleman (Mr Bouverie) had
come down with professions of liberality on his lips
while perpetrating this monstrous injustice. (Hear,
hear.) Ho contended that in the National Univer-
sities education and religion should not be depreciated,
but he should advise the person who differed from the Esta-
blished Church might be at liberty to 'Guild colleges in the
University, where their peculiar system of religion might
be taught, while the students might have all the advan-
tages with regard to examinations and degrees which the
University had to bestow. The right bon. gentleman
wished to affirm that religion ought not to be the founda-
tion of education, and if he succeeded he would go on to
something else. He (Mr Mensal]) advised the house to
resist the introduction of the bill, and to maintain the great
p:inciples on which the universities were founded.
WHA.LLEY said, the object of the Church was to
make its boundaries as wide as possible, and supported the
second readu2g of this bill,

Mr NE Ai.B was sorry to differ from thobe with whom
he usually acted, aztd opposed the bill, which he thought
unwise after they had ifjected the larger measure of throw-
ing open the universities,

The house divided—
For the second reading.. lOl t
Against it.. 157
ri ajorby ........................ —56

The bill was therefore lost.
COSTS SECURITY BILL.
The order for going into committee on this bill was post-
poned until to-morrow. •
GY DISABILITIES
SCOTTISH EPISCOPAL CLER
REMOVAL BILL.
Sir W, HEATHCOTE moved the second reading of this
bill, and explained the position in which the clergy of the
Scottish Episcopalian Church were placed.
He stated
that Tillotson and Burnet, two distinguished prelates
of the Church of England, were clergymen of Scottish
of Raphoe. At present a clergyman
b
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eboetftoi
sr ; the present restrictions were op-
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prelate was translated to the
Irish
bis
Scottish bishop, a bishop of a church in corn-
dunion with our own, could not be licensed to a curacy or
ordainedl2;P a ri
instituted to a living in England. He might be the best
man for the place, but still a bishop would be bound to
a dissenter, but ho
clergy-

reject him. A bishop
could not ordain a Scottish Episcopatiaie
man, because he recognised his orders t 9 p`