The Sun.
London, England, 1864-05-13 00:00:00

BANK OF ENGLAND ISSUE.

Mr. HEYGATE asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer
whether, taking into account the vast increase of the trade
and commerce of England in the last thirty years, he was
of opinion that the arrangement of 1844, limiting the Bask
of England to an issue of fourteen millions of bank notes
without a corresponding amount of gold, was now com•
mensurate with the daily monetary requirements of the
country P

The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that
he found this question would not admit of an intelligent
answer without going into a general statement. He agreed
with the principles of the Act of 1844, but he considered
there were secondary and subsidary provisions to which
the attention of Parliament might be called with benefit.
DEGREES OF MEDICINCE CONFERRED BY
THE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY.
Col. FRENCH asked the Secretary of State for the Home
Department if it was the fact that the Archbishop of Can-
terbury had the power to confer the title of Doctor of Medi-
cine on persons who had not undergone an examination
before the College of Physicians, and said that the Arch-
bishop received £7O for every such title he conferred.
Sir G. GREY said that he was not able to obtain all the
information he required on this subject, but that he could
state that there was an old act under which he could confer
the degree of doctor of medicine.
THE ALLEGED IMPRISONMENT FOR SLEEP-

ING UNDER A TENT. ---
Sir G. GREY read a communication from a magistrate
at Cornwall, stating that the parties whose case had been
brought before Parliament, as having been unjustly im-
prisoned, were sent to gaol not for sleeping under a tent,
but for vagrancy under circumstances that fully justified
their committal.
THE LATE VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL
OF EDUCATION.
Mr. LOWE entered into a personal explanation in refe-
rence to what had taken place in the house last night, when
a document was produced which he had no oppor-
tunity of consulting.. He said that there were two
descriptions of reports to the committee, one of
which was intended for publication, and the other merely
special, and intended entirely for a department, and his
observations on a previous occasion had reference solely to
the former. With regard to Mr. Murrill he had been dis-
missed for misconduct, and he deprecated the practice of
hon. members taking up the statements of discarded
officials.

After a few words from Col, FRENCH and Lord R, CEciLs
the subject dropped.
ADJOURNMENT OF THE HOUSE,
Sir G. GREY, in the absence of Lord Palmerston, moved
that the house at its rising should adjourn till Thursday
next, which was agreed to.
ALLEGED INFRACTION OF NEUTRALITY.
Mr. T. BARING called the attention of the house to the
fact that an armed steamer is now in the port of Liverpool
which, having been originally manned and equipped from
British ports, has preyed upon the commerce of a friendly na-
tion, and has never been in any port of the belligerent under
whose flag she sails ; and asked the First Lord of the Trea-
sury whether he thought the admissions of such vessels to
British harbours consistent with our 'international obliga-
tions, our professions of neutrality, and the preservation of
British interests.

[LEFT SPEAKING.]

LONDON GAZE T TE— This Evening.

OSBORNE, MAY 4.
This day had an audience of her Majesty, the Baron de
Benet, President of the Council of Ministers and Minister
for Foreign Affairs of his Majesty the King of Saxony,
Plenipotentiary of the Germanic Confederation to the Con-.
ferences now being held in London with a view to the re.,
storation of peace in the north of Europe ; to which audience
he was introduced by Earl Granville, K,G., President of
her Majesty's Privy Council.
BUCKINGHAM PALACE, MAY 11.
This day had an audience of her Majesty—Monsieur de
Biegeleben, Privy Councillor of the Emperor of Austria,
one of his Imperial Majesty's Plenipotentiaries to the Con-
ferences now being held in London with a view to the
restoration of peace in the north of Europe; and Monsieur
de Balan, Privy Councillor of the King of Prussia, one of
his Majesty's Plenipotentiaries to the same Conferences :
To which audiences they were respectively introduced by
Earl Russell, K.G., her Majesty's Principal Secretary of
State for Foreign Affairs, and conducted by Lieutenant-
General the Hon. Sir E award Cust, K.C.H., her Majesty's
Master of the Ceremonies.

FOREIGN OFFICE, MAY 7.
The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint the
Hon. Edward Morris Erskine, now Secretary to her Ma-
jesty's Embassy at Constantinople, to be her Majesty's
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the
King of the Hellenes.

BANKRUPTS.
The following are the only bankrupts of comme:oial im
portance in the Gazette :

Course of the Exchange.—This Day.

Amsterdam
Ditto
.e, 2 12
Rotterdam .. 12 12 t
Antwerp .. 25 70 25 80
Brussels 25 70 25 80
Ham burgh
Paris
Ditto
Marseilles
Frankfort on Maine - 120} 121
Vienna
Trieste
Fetert.bargh
Berlin
Madrid .
Cadiz
Leghorn
Milan
Genoa
Naples
Palermo ..
Messina
Lisbon

471 4S
47$ 48
25 82i 25 95
25 85 25 90
25 85 26 90
25 85 25 90
25 90 26 95
25 90 26 95
511 611

0p0rt0..., . 5l
Forsign Gold in Bars (Standard), per 0z.... £3 17
Silver Mexican
BDaorllsa(rsstz war. d ...... .
.........................0 el
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