The Sun.
London, England, 1864-03-18 00:00:00

AMERICA

The Marquis of CLANRICARDE referred to the case
of the men round on board the Kereage, and recalled to
their lordships' recollection the circumstances under which
six men had enlisted on board of her to servo in the
United States navy, and their recant trial for
having committed the offence. He contrasted the
decision come to by the learned judge who disposed of the
case, when the prisoners had pleaded guilty, with the course
parsued by a judge in United States courts in disposing of
an analogous case when he sentenced the man to two years'
imprisonment and a fine of 100 dole. He concluded by asking
for copies of the information laid against the men, and
whether the noble earl had any further explanation on the
subject.
Earl RUSSELL said he had nothing further to state
on the subject. The papers relative to the matter had been
submitted to Parliament ; the men had been prosecuted and
Government had done everything they could to prevent a
recurrence of the matter. Her. Majesty's proclamation on
the subject of enlisting in a foreign service had been made
as pubic as possible.
Lord CHELMSFORD suggested that copies of the de-
positions should be produced as well as the informations.
This was agreed to, and
Their Lordships adjourned until Tuesday, the 6th of
April,

HOUSE OF COMMONS—This Evening.
The SPEAKER took the chair at 4 o'clock.
ROYAL ASSENT.

Colonel CLIFFORD, the Yeoman Ueher of the Black Rod,
summoned the Speaker and the hon. members to the bar of
the Housa of Lords, to hear the Royal assent given by
commission to different bills. The right hon. gentleman,
accompanied by moat of the members, then proceeded to
the House of Lords, and on his return announced that the
Royal assent had been given to saveral bills, for which see
Lords' report.
PRIVATE BUSINESS.

The following bills were read a third time and. passed :
Aberbrothwick Harbour, Chichester and Midhurst Rail-
way (No. 3), and Dublin and Belfast Junction Railway.
TN& following bills were considered and ordered for third
reading :—East and West Junction Railway, Lancaster
Looal Board of ll‘altb, Market Harborough and Etta
Norton Railway, Okehampton Railway, and Stockport
District Water.

SCUTCH MILLS.
Mr. BENTINCK asked the Secretary for the Home
Department, whether Scutch mills came within the defini-
tion of a " factory;" whether the lap officers of the
Crown have given any opinion on that point; and, if so,
whether that opinion supports the conclusion at which the
factory inspectors have arrived on that point?
Sir G. GREY said that the opinion of the law officers
was that these mills did not come within the definition of a
factory.
BRITISH COLUMBIA.
Sir E. GROGAN asked the Under Secretary of State
for the Colonies whether the Hudson's Bay Company had
any ownership in the soil or any right,
except that of taking
wild animals to the district of country lying between Lake
Superior and British Columbia, comprising the only prairie
and some of the most fertile land in British America; and,
if the company had no right, whether the said district
should not be opened fors Warne:it under the Crown, and
thus invite the emigrants who now leave this country for
the United States to settle in our own colony ?
Mr. C. FORTESCUE said that the Hudson Company
claimed territorial right over the district alluded to, which
had been twice assented to by the law officers under two
Governments. As these claims were considered valid 200
years, under these circumstances it was not right to
raise an issue on them. He denied that the tide of
emigration was checked by the Hudson Company, but by
other obstacles which he true ted would eventually be re-
moved.
THE SUEZ CANAL.
Mr. D. GRIFFI I'll asked the First Lord of the Trea-
sury whether the Sultan had authorised the Pacha of
et
shte i
oEmperorn
sconsidered
Qdrench
be at ;endsu
e,
Eg) pt to submit the questions at issue relative to the Suez
(venal
among
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waheutbl to theer,amg such
the requirement of the supply of forced labour for the exe-
cution of the works of the 1 cana war presumed to be in-
cluded ?

---Lord PALMERSTON said that all ho knew on the
subject was derived from the Montteur, which announced
that the Emperor, with the consent of the Pa.cha of Egypt,
had agreed to arbitrate on the matter.
HOLSTEIN AND SCHLESWIG.
Mr. OSBORNE ailed the First Lord of the Treasury,
whether her Majesty's Government had grounds for be-
having that the order of succession in Holstein and
Scbleewig, Which was copteroplated by the treaty of lon..

The following are the only bankrupts of commercial im-
portance in the tiazette :
Edward Prime, carpenter, Notting-hill
Francis Searth, solicitor, Pimlico
Patric Mackennal, commercial traveller, Lambeth
James Vill, grocer, Worcester
John Horton, Lamer, Chester
Joseph Sclomon, tailor, Birmingham
Altred Lucas, tailor, Hanley, Staffordshire
Edward D. Cotton; cooper, Wolverhampton
Charles Holmes, plumber and glazier, Pimlico
Peter Kenway, commission agent, Camden-town
John Buggins, artist's colourman, Oxtord
Thomas Heath, linendraper, Birmingham
Wm. G,indall, ironmonger, Egremont, Cumberland
John Martin, baker, Swanley, Kent
Robert G. Kent, metal dialer, Effra-parade, Brixton
James Holcroft, bootmaker, Hatton-garden
Thomas Ramedale, cooper, Gainsborough
William Marshall, shoemaker, -Newcastle-upon- Tyne
William Gray Rea, commission agent, Fulham
James Milton, butcher, Gravesend
Edmund Norris, farmer, Hutton, Lancashire
James S. Groves, gasfitter, Bristol
Edwin Hamilton Helford, colour merchant, Liverpool
John Palmer' corn dealer, Bridgewater, Somersetahire
John Leech, builder, Whitehaven, Cumberland
Edward Pearson, miner, Hetton-le-Hole, Durham

BANKRUPTCY ANNULLED.
Stephen Robert Eyre, surveyor, Liverpool

SCOTCH BANKRUPTS.
Patel Hamilton, joiner, Glasgow
John Sibbald, plumber, Glasgow
Alexander M'Laren, spirit dealer, Glasgow

Course of the Exchange...-This Day.

Amsterdam
Ditto
Rotterdam — 11 191 12 0
Autwerp . 25 62i 25 67k
Brussels

Hamburgh — 13 71 13 Si
-Paris
Ditto
Marseilles
Frankfort on Maine —... 119 i 119 k
Vienna - 12 15 12 25
Trieste
Petersburgh

Berlin -
Madrid
Cadiz
Leghorn
M ilan
Genoa

Naples
Palermo

Messina

48
47f 48,}
25 75 4.25 80
25 75 25 BC►
25 75 825 80

Lisbon.

25 7i 25 82
25 7 77k 25 82kk

25_773 25_84

0p0rt0....

Foreign Gold in Bars (Standard), per 0z.... £3 17 5
Mexican Dollars
Silver in Bars (Standard)

AQUATICS—(This Day,)

THE OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE EIGHT.
OARED MATCH.
PUTNEY, Friday Morning.

The railway brought down a number of people this
morning, anxious to learn the full influence of the
Oxonians' rowing against the watermon yesterday over
the money market, and to pick up any other scrap of in -
formation that might lead their conclusions to a successful
issue. The t ff,et of the Oxonians' pulling yesterday was
marked and unmistakeable this morning, the betting being
6 and 7t04 on Oxford. The public were justifieJ more
than they might have expected to be, for they mit both
crews under weigh again this morning, sometimes
rowing fast and sometimes rowing. slow. The Can-
tabs particularly gave a full opportunity for seeing what
they could do as they came from Symond's-yard down to
the acqeduct-bridge, and then round up to Hammersmith.
bridge, and severally pulling very smartly, and keeping nice
time. The Oxonians went ahead towards liammersraith-
bridge at once, and seen swung into their usual style of
rowing, keeping as 4niform motion in the boat fore and aft.
Jugging from close observation of their going off through-
out the-week, we should think it probable that whatever
may be the result the Cantabs will take the lead at start-
ing to-morrow, when the result of the hard labours of both
parties will appear in their rowing.

MR. LAYARD'S EXPLANATION (by means of a
letter from Colonel St. John Neale, containing the
following passage) as to the Burning of Kagosima :7, I
deem it desirable to add that the population of Kagosima
at no period exceeded 40,000 inhabitants, far from 180,000,
as has been strangely imagined, to serve as a more striking
text for comments ; and further, that those 40,000 souls—
men, women, and children—withdrew, while their huts end
paper houses increased the risks attendant upon stray shot
and shell from a British squadron, audaciously fired upon
by numerous batteries because it had signalled its inten-
tion to obtain redress for a barbarous murder and outrage
committed upon British subjects for which all redress hbd
been evaded. Subsequent events, the voluntary payment of
the indemnity demanded, the formal obligation entered into
to execute the murderers of Mr. Richardson when arrested,
the professions of friendship cheerfully expressed by Sat •
suma's envoys on behalf of their chief, their desire to culti-
vate friendly and social intercourse with the British nation,
and their good humour and graceful offerings (of fruit) to
the crew of the flagship of the British admiral after the facts
of Kagosima, would all imply that the agents of her Ma-
jesty displayed a degree of caution and moderation duly
appreciated by those most deeply interested." And for the
English, according to the Queen :—" From this," says our
contemporary, "it is clear : First, that although it might
be wrong to knock a city with 180,000 inhabitants to pieces,
no one ought to object to a city possessing only 40,000 being
treated so. Secondly, that as the houses in Japan are all
made of paper, it serves them right if they are burnt.
Thirdly, that the polite conduct of the Japanese subse-
quently to the bombardment of Kagosima should be taksn
as proof that they were rather pleased at having been bum.
herded than otherwise."

SUSPENSION OF CONTRACT PACKET SERVICE
BETWEEN GALWAY &ND AMERICA.—The mail service
between Galway and America has, until further notice,
been suspended.—By command of the Postmaster-General,
J. TILLEY, Secretary.
,—Of all the
thousand children, babies,
THE FOUNDLING AT MOSCOW
nurse?, matrons, and
governesses I beheld from the tin.e I first ascended the
steps of the Vospitatelnoi Dom, to the time Schnaps
ordered me away and put me into the carriage, I never saw
a sour, crass, or in any way unhappy face; all was radiant
with content, innocent gaiety, and quiot cheerfulness ; and
this fact told me more of how the vast charity was carried
on than all the statistics in all the blue• books of the world
would have done.—O' a ;Pia.
DUAL, THE NAME OF THACKERAy's L sT
STORY, was apparently a great favourite with the author.
in his articles in Ft ma., a Duval is frequently mentioned,
and in his better known Christmas story about " Dr. Binh
and his Young Friends," Duval, it may be remembered, is
the pirate of the school, who never has a chilling but what
he levies from the other boys,