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

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT

HOUSE OF LORDS—This Evening,
ROYAL COMMISSION.
The royal assent was given this afternoon to the follow-
ing bills:—Customs and Inland Revenue—Charitable Assu-
rance Enrolments—Land Drainage Provisional Orders—
High Courts at Bombay—Vestry Cess Abolition (Ireland)
—Court of Chancery (Despatch of Business)—Promissory
Notes and Bills of Exchange (Ireland)—Joint Stock Com-
panies (Foreign Countries)—Huntingdon and Godman-
chester Gas—Dublin and Neath Railway—South Yorkshire
Railway—Great Northern of Scotland Railway (No. 1)—
North Eastern Railway (Muckleford Branch)—Salisbury
Railway and Market House—Llandiloes and Newtown
Railway—Clayton, Allerton, and Thornton Gas—Commer-
cial and Grand Surrey Docks and Canal—Aberbrothwick
Harbour—Salisbury Gas—Sudden Bridge and Bury Roads
Halingdon and Rawtenstalt Water—Edgeware, Highgate,
and London Railway—Anglesey Central Railway—Lon-
don, Brighton, and South Coast Railway (Kemp Town
Station)—Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway (additional
powers).
Their lordships adjourned during pleasure.
The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack
at five o'clock.

COUNTY COURTS.
Lord @HELMSFORD said with regard to the bill intro-
duced by his noble and learned friend on the woolsack, the
second reading of which was given notice of on the paper
this evening, he had placed into his hands some important
returns made by county court judges in reference to the
imprisonment for debt. He thought they should have been
laid upon the table before the bill was introduced, and he
hoped the second reading would be postponed.
The LORD CHANCELLOR said he had already stated
that he would, in deference to the opinion of any noble
lord, postpone the second reading. He would have much
pleasure in postponing the motion for the second reading
until the first day on which the house would sit after
Whitsuntide.

THE DANO-GERMAN WAR.
The Earl of ELLENBO ROUGH drew attention to this
question, and after commenting strongly on the conduct of
the allied armies, characterising the war as a war
against freedom carried on by despotic Powers, he
said he hoped the Conference would look into the
doings of the Germans, and when they considered the
subject of the contributions that had been imposed by the
Prussians, they should be informed that whilst war has its
rights humanity has rights also. (Hear, hear.) He con-
cluded by asking whether it was understood by
the Conference that war contibutiona imposed
before the armistice was known in Jutland could
be collected during the suspension of arms ; also,
whether any war contribution were to be imposed after the
armistice had become known, but, before the suspension of
arms commenced on the 12th; and, also, whether any new
war contributions were to be imposed during the suspension
of arms ?

Earl RUSSELL replied that the Conference had agreed
that during the suspension of hostilities there should not
be levied by the allied troops in Jutland or elsewhere, any
contributions of war, and, on the contrary, they will pay
for the articles they require for the troops. (Hear, hear.)
The Conference did not lay down any rules with regard to
the contributions previously imposed, but he believed the
spirit of the article was that the allied troops should cease to
levy contributions of war. That appeared to him to be the
fair spirit of the meaning of the Conference, which was
anxious to stop the effusion of blood, but was also anxious
to stop those contributions of ear ; but having decided on
the main point, they have left it to the naval and military
commanders and others interested to settle the details
between each other. He was not authorised to say more.
The Earl of EL LENBOROUGH was sorry that nothing
more definite had been decided upon. There was nothing
he thought to prevent a seal understanding that no new
contributions were to be levied during the armistice.
Earl RUSSELL—Not levy any contributions of war,
not that they would not levy any new contributions.
The Earl of ELLENBOROUGH regretted that the
Conference had not used the most decisive language to pre-
vent the levying of any contributions imposed before the
armistice. They seemed to have imposed the last contribu-
tion on the very last day on which the Conference met, in
fraud of the Conference in fact.
THE REGIUS PROFESSORSHIP OF GREEK
X FORDBILL.
On the order of the day for going into committee on this
bill,
Lord LYTTLE TON presented a petition from the Arch-
deaconry of Bristol against the bill.