The Sun.
London, England, 1864-06-10 00:00:00

THE ARMISTICE,

In answer to Mr D. GRINTITH,
Lord PALMERSTON said that at the meeting of the
Conference to-day the armistice had been prolonged for a
fortnight. (Hear, hear.)
THE PENSION OF THE COUNTESS OF ELGIN.
The house went into committee.
Lord PALMERSTON said there was no occasion on
which the house had a more grateful duty to perform than
to acknowledge the services of those who had sacrificed
their time and probably their lives to the service of their
country. Having narrated the services of Lord Elgin, the
noble lord proposed that a pension of £l,OOO a year should
be granted to the Countess of Elgin, adding that the
East Indian Department have granted her a sum of equal
amount.

Lord STANLEY, in seconding tbe motion, expressed
the entire and cordial concurrence of the Conserva!ive side
of the house is the estimate which Lord Palmerston had
made of Lord Elgin's services.
fa answer to Sir W. WlLLoratz-v,
Sir C. WOOD said the £l,OOO a-year to be granted by
the Indian Department would not require confirmation frail
the House of Commons.

The vote was then agreed to.
COLLECTION OF TAXES BILL.
The house then went into committee on this bill.
Sir H. WILLOUGHBY stated some ohjt ctions to the

WRITS REGISTRATION (SCOTLAND) BILL.
The debate on the Writs Registration (Scotland) Bill,
adjourned from the 30th ult., was resumed, and conducted
with much animation by the Scotch members, who were
all but unanimous in opposing this measure.
Sir J. FERGUSSON moved, as an amendment, that
the bill be read a second time that day three months; and
the proposal was seconded by Mr Baxter.
The LORD ADVOCATE defended the bill, which, he
said, proposed to carry out the recommendations of the
procurators of Glasgow in the first instance ; but in the
absence of a more general support he was bound to defer to
the opinions which had been so strongly expressed against
the measure, and reluctantly consented to the discharge of
the order.
The amendment was then withdrawn, and the order
discharged accordingly.
CHURCH BUILDING AND NEW PARISHES
ACTS AMENDMENT BILL.
On the order for the second reading of this bill,
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL stated that the measure
had been prepared in accordance with a resolution of the
house in favour of a consolidation of the various acts re-
lating to these subjects, and in framing the bill his object
had been so to consolidate and simplify the law as not to
touch upon any controversial subject, more especially upon
Church rates, and in that view the committee to which the
bill was last year referred had also coincided. The measure
had been constructed in scrupulous good faith by the
Government, and he had hoped it would have been enter-
tained in the same spirit by the house. As, however, it
had been misinterpreted, and, if pressed, was likely to excite
a good deal of opposition, he deemed it more desirable to
move that the order be discharged.
Mr. HUNT regretted that the Government should have
yielded to the pressure that had been brought to bear upon
them by a small section of their own supporters, who en-
tertained extreme views on ecclesiastical questions. The
concession was alike weak, unworthy, and dishonourable.
Mr. 11. SEYMOUR regretted that this attempt at legis-
lation had turned out a failure, and inquired what was to
be the future course of the Government respecting it. He
suggested that next session, if the present Attorney-
General were then in office, the hon. and learned gentle-
man should introduce a simple consolidation bill.
Lord J. MANNERS gave all credit to the Attorney..
General for the efforts he had made to settle the matter;
but the conclusion to which he came was that it was im-
possible to conciliate the political dissenter on any subject
that was connected with the Church. If the Government
really desired to legislate usefully upon the question they
must proceed to do so upon the broad and bold basis of con-
solidation, in defiance of the Liberation Society. He hoped
it was reserved for happier times and a united Cabinet to
carry out the great work of Church Building Acts consoli-
dation.

After some remarks from Mr F. POWELL and Mr R.
MILLS, the order was discharged.
In committee on Greek Loan (Consolidated Fund), a re-
solution was agreed to, on the motion of the CHANCEL-
LOR of the EXCHEQUER, authorising the Queen to
relinquish in favour of the King of the He!lanes, during
Ws reign, the sum of £4,000 a year, and to that extent to
release the Greek Treasury from the obligation of the
arrangement concluded at Athens in June, 1860, in refe-
rence to the Greek Loan. Leave was then given to bring
in a bill.

The Railway Construction Facilities Bill was recom-
mitted, bat very little progress was made when the house
resumed.

On the order for the second reading of the Street Music
Bill,

Mr HANKEY moved as an amendment that the bill be
read a second time on that day three months. He con-
sidered that street music was a mere question of demand
and supply, and such legislation as this was, in his opinion,
of a most paltry description.
Some discussion of an amusing character ensued, in the
course of which the bill was supported by Sir G. Grey, Mr
Hunt, and Sir R. Peel, and opposed by the Chancellor of
the Exchequer.

Mr BUTT moved the adjournment of the debate, but the
motion was negatived by 56 to 19, and the bill was read a
second time.

The remaining business on the paper was also disposed
of, and the house adjourned.

Emigration of 1863,

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The report of the Emigration Commissioners, just issued,
shows that the great emigration which began with the
Irish famine of 1847, but declieeed rapidly at the comtuence-
ment of the Russian wae in 1854, when a demand for re-
cruits arose, and revived again early in 1857, until the In-
dian mutiny caused another demand for the army, never
since attained any large proportions until 1863. In that
year 223,758 emigrants left the United Kingdom, 27 per
cent, of them English, 7 per cent. Scotch, 52 per cent. Irish,
4 per cent. foreigners, and 10 per cent. not distinguished.
146,813 of them, went to the United States, 53,054 to Aus-
tralia and Neese Zealand, 13,033 to British North America.
On the ques don whether Irish emigration has been feeding
the Federeel army the Commissioners remark that the Irish
emigration of last year fell far short of that of the years
immediately following the famine, and amounted to only 2
per e,ent. of the population of Ireland ; that of the Irish
eredgration to the United States the proportion which con-
Bested of single men was almost precisely the same in 1863
as in 1860, the year before the war began, and that in the
first three months of the present year the proportion has
bell en les sd
than in the first quarter of 1860. Boys above 12
prreoclas,e as single meet in emigration returns, and a large
portion of the reenainder emigrated as sons or brothers
in families •
be more than, `25,
ea, the
Oommissioners think that there would not
of obtainine•whomte
000 out of the Fed I would
anedertahaatrmity is not
have a chane,e
to be assumed that evenba mrecruits,jority of these took eer-
vice. The larg.ol3oBl of the emigration from Ireland is
and the liberality of preceding
attributed to distress,
emigrants almost provided the entire expense of the
escape from it, for it was know that more than!) £412 000 was
North America to their
, remitted in 1863 by settlers in .
friends in the United Kingdom. 46 per cent, of the emi-
grants who went to the United States took passage in
British steemers. The establishment of these steam liners
has effected a great and advantageous
change in the carriage
wrecked off the
of emgrants, and the mortality in 1863 was very small—
only 0.10 per cent. in steamships and o.26vh:rysarailionlagnschhioplsy.
ttionsuhaaiptipeislya,t hsoeaw.ee eTrh,
ethAe
Angle
-Salon
coast of Newfoundland, and 237 hveslost ; the Lord Raglan
sailed from Liverpool for Melbourne in February, 1863, with
289 passengers and 65 crew, and has not since been heard
of--it is supposed she was burnt. Of the emigrants to
Australia and New Zealand 41,354 went out on their own
resources, and 11,700 obtained passage certificates or war,
rants through their friends in the colonies, or were otherwise
assisted out of the public funds. The increase in the num-
ber of passenger warrants is a satisfactory feature of the
emigration, and will probably furnish a sufficient supply of
male labourers, but the demand for female domestic ser-
vants continues as great as ever. The Commissioners sent
last year 4,131 single women to Australia, but the position
of respectable women servants in this country is so favour-
able that it is impossible to procure the number the Austra-
iian colonies would wish to receive. New Zealand vote'
and sent to the Commissioners £lO,OOO to be expended in
aesis!ing emieration thither from the manufacturing dis-
tricts, and the Board sent out accordingly 643 passengers.
The colonial dernend is for men accustomed to outdoor
labour. Of the general statistics of emigration it may
sufc© to mention that in the eight years 1847-1554,
1,321,725 of the Irish emigrated to America, attracted by
the great extent of its labour market.

ARIBALDI.—Au address from the people of
Palermo, thanking the English nation for the reception
given to General Garibaldi, has been sent to tho Speaker
of the HOUBO of Ccmroons, with a request that he would
make known the gratitude felt by the people of Palet

I measure, and moved that it was not expedient that the
land, assessed, and income tax should be collected by offi-
cers of the Inland Revenue.
The motion was seconded by Mr PACE and supported
by Mr RUNT, the latter gentleman protesting against throw-
ing upon the commissioners of taxes the °atom task of de-
ciding whether the bill should be put in operation in their
several districts or not.
After some further discussion,
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that
if the bill were not agreeable to the views of the community
and its representatives in Parliament it ought not to pass;
but the system it proposed was in operation in Scotland,
where it worked economically and to the general satisfac-
tion. Constant complaints were now made of the exist-
ing system, the incivility, officiousness, defalcations, and
irregularities of collectors ; but over these officers the
Executive Government had no control whatever, inasmuch
as they were appointed by ',independent parties, to whom
alone recourse for a remedy could be had. The right hon.
gentleman then explained that the reason for omitting the
metropolis from the provisions of the bill was that there
were no stamp distributors employed there, the cot) se-
quence of which would be that, as it was meant to com-
bine the duties of collectors of taxes with those of stamp
distributors, the appointment of a new and expensive staff
of officers for this special purpose would become necessary.
With regard to the objection founded on the permissive
character of the bill, he considered that the permissive
principle was absolutely essential, and that no ether was
likely to receive the assent of the house. Birmingham,
Liverpool, and other large communities, had petitioned in
favour of the measure, and he thought that those dis-
tricts which desired to avail themselves of it should be
allowed to do so, whilst those with which it was unpo-
pular might be at liberty to decline. That was the only
question at issue.:
Mr HENLEY said it was difficult to separate the assess-
ment and collection. The former was a very burdensome
duty, and would be continued by the local assessors ; the
collection, too, should therefore be local. Not seeing that
the bill would work well, or do any good, he should vote
for the motion of Sir H. Willoughby.
Lord J. MANNERS also supported the motion.
On a division the motion was negatived by 137 to 103,
and the house went into committee on the bill; and the bill
passed through committee, after considerable discussion on
the clauses.