The Sun.
London, England, 1864-06-04 00:00:00

HAY ➢iARK2TS.

SMITIIFIELTI.—Meadow hay, £2los to £4 lOs Od ; clover,
£4 Os to £5 10s Od; and straw, £1 4s to £1 lOs per load,
Trade dull.
CIIMBERLAND.—MesiIow hay, £2 10s to £4 108 ; clover,
£4 Os to £5 10s Od ; and straw, £1 4s to £1 lOs per load.
A slow sale.
WHITECHAFEL.—Meadow hay, £2los to £4 105 ; clover,
£4 Os to £5 lOs Od; and straw, £1 4s to £1 10s per load,
Demand inactive.

COAL MARKET.
Films of Coal per Ton at the close of the market.
s. d.
Cowpen Hartley 15 9 Walls End.
Hastings Hartley l5 9 Braddylre Hetton 16 3
Tar.field Moor ........ 14 0 Haswell ...17 0
Eden Main...... l6 0 Hetton
Holywell ............16 6 i South Hetton 17 0
West Hartley 15 91 Stewart's 16 6
Wylam 16 6 i Russel Hetton 16 3
West Wylam l5 6 r
Ships at market

;t, 30 ; sold, 26.

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE,

8. d.

TRAFFIC RECEIPTS FOR THE WEEK.
Miles Opened. Receipts.

Bail Ways. .•
1864. 1863. 1864. 1863.
£ L
Belfast and N, Counties 136 136 2,018 2.C66
Belfast and County Down 49 49 738 675
Blyth and Tyne . 28 '2B 1,944 1,139
Bristol and Exeter l2l* 121 k 6,910 6,579
Caledonian
Cockermouth& Workington B* 8* 383 237
Cork and Bandon 2O 20 402 415
Cork, Blackrock, &Passage Cri 61 2 4 233
Cork and Yougha.l .. 32* 32* 533
1. 462
Cornwall 651 631 LOOS 619
Deeside l7 17 390 368
Dublin & Belfast Junction 63 63 1,180 1,173
Dublin and Drogheda 75 63 1,598 1,707
Dublin and Meath , - ... .
Dub. & Wicklow and Wextd 9l* 48* 2,763 2,508
Edinburgh and Glasgow
Furness, &o ... .., .. ,
Glasgow & South-Western
Gt.Eastern,Nrk.,&E.Union 663 683 282963.10:8:9:56:6i 322140,2:8:02:1i
Great Northern ... .. .. .
Great North of Scotland .. .
Gt. Northn. & Westn. (Irel.) 7ll 711 882 633
'3 t.Southn. & Westn.arind.) 373* 329 8,789 8,144
Great Western . - ... .
Inverness &Abirdeen.Junc 864 861 1,356 1,2 t 8
Inverness & Perth Junction 119* - 1,476 -
Irish North-Western 145 145 1,597 1,851
Lancashire & Yorkshire 402 895 39,303 44,416
Limerick and Ennis.
Limerick and Foynes
Llanelly 461 161 737 722
London & North-Western
London and Blackwall 5, ot 1,950 2,161
London & South-Western • 45026281 424528:
T.ond. Brighton, & B.
i,„,„.ndon, Chatham, & Dover 72* 129 6,669 5 230
too. Metropolitan Extension 10* Ci 1.1 9 665
gam.,sheffield,&Lincolneh .. 2.39* 23* 1,172 17 8 1
manch.,,s.Jun.&Altrincham.. 9* 9* 1,369
t "nd Carlisle
blaryp •••
MetropolitX94, •T.-Western) 641 2,211 2+379
Midland (inci.. L.. . °mind: • 6's(l 35099
Midland Urt.Wesuu: • • 262 254 5,225 43'317
Monkland . .
blonrnouthsh. ...... & 11.:,7A1 • • 14 ,648 .95
North British, Edin., I.,:rtb, it 2,951 2,105
Nt.iEndasDteurnndee
NorthNoos
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lido London
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t0..n.&....D..::;:;:i...: 2240;",
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Scottish
and Dorset ..
Ss
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11
ii Devon
-Eastern . .......... :.•.. .. .. 3 4
Taff Vale
Ulster
57
Waterford and Kilkenny'. 3l
••.
Vale
Vale of Clwyd. los*
WaterfordandiNeath43l
Limerick lO
77
West Cornwall 27*
W. H aztlepool Harbr.&Rall 62
W'haNen,Cleator,& E rmnt lO
Whitehaven Junction g
Whitehaven & Furness Jun 35
FOREIGN AND COLONIAL.
Antwerp and Rotterdam
Austrian ........... .
Bahia and San -Francisco
Belgian Eastern J unction.. • 26
Bombay, Baroda, & Cen. India 185
Buffalo and Lake Huron161
Detroit and Milwaukie lB9
Dutch Rhenish
Eastern Bengal
Eastern of France ......• 1135
East Indian . . . ... ~
Great of ....... lO9O
Indian Peninsula 5 3
Great Luxembourg 331
Great Southeen of India
Great Western of Canada
41345
Madras
Madrid, Saragossa &A licant 65?
Northern of Canada ...
Northern of France...... .. • • ~
Norwegian Trunk
Ottoman.. ............ ..
Paris, Lyons, & Mediterrn.. ..• • J..
Paris and Orleans .....
SPRameoruy
abairmeDba
nauncdios
mil. ..e..us.. •
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southern
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..... I.:. .i i . 1571207:5
Victorian ....
Welland .......
West Flanders 75
-"" and N.W. of France

410 13,269 12,173
1079 t 56,862 53,539
9 3,122 3,568
254 7,582 8.951
42 1,111 1,068
191 1,027 764
61; 2,286 1,856
89 5,817 4,956
5,236 5,214
138 t 4 401
394 • 87 5
676
75¢
2g:359136 Oh ?4: :
:, 002
28
1051 2,393 2.14%
185 205
30 r-5
10
36 3,030 2.019
31 471 323
77 1,235 1,209
271 1,026 754
52 4,089 3,b22
7 767 6!,0
13 1,178 819
35 1,116 857

52 1,376 1,260
826 30,796 30,108

39J -
2fii 3.9310
185 2,40 2,806
161* 1,907 1.871
ISt) 4,789 4,133
1081
110 1,606 1,308
1302 60,438 54,394
8831 29,9 0 20,295
1090 18,476 15,315
495 12,748 9.535
134 4,403 4.981
79 653 6 ,6
3+5 11,225 6,693
44
4907
20,224 18 36
4

-91 2,3q3
697

44 974 956
48} 452 433
1713 135,841 121,296
104 06,123 00,372
77 914 1,035
69 - -

AR 1,765 1,420
1474 64,102 48,047
105 2,377 2,181
680 2N802 23,559
196 9,568 11.076
25 - -
75 on 976
813 51,350 40,723

It is said that a new volume of poems by Mr
Tenvyaon may be expected this year.

P. 11.11. ••••11111.

CALCUTTA, CHINA, AND AUSTUALIAN

MAILS.

The following telegrams have been received at
Mr. Reutet's office from the Peninsular and Orien•
tal Steem Navigation Company:—

SUEZ, JUNE 3.
The Simla with the above mails reached Suez at
6 a.m. this day.
BOMBAY AND MAURITIUS MAILS.
MARSEILLES, JUNE 3.
The Baroda with the above mails arrived here at
6.30 a.m. this day.
The mail leaves for London at 11.30 a.m.

LONDON GAZE T TE. —Las t Evening.

FOREIGN-OFFICE, MAY 18.
The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint Joseph
Hume Burnley, Esq., n'ow Secretary to her Majesty's Lega-
tion at Berne, to be Secretary to her Majesty's Legation at
Copenhagen.
The Queen has also been graciously pleased to appoint
Horace liutnbold, Esq., now Secretary to her Majesty's
Legation at Athens, to be Secretary to her Majesty's Lega-
tion at Berne.
The Queen has also been graciously pleased to appoint
Edwarde gat
io n a
t R.
Copenhagen, Lytton, E s Esq., tno o
bew Secretary
Secretary
to her Majesti's to her Majesty's
LLegation at Athens.
WAR OFFICE, PALL MALL, JUNE 3.
sth Regiment of Dragoon Guards—Sergeant-Major Wil-
liam Denis Lemmon to be Quartermaster, vice George
William Bewley, who retires, upon half-pay.
6th Dragoons—Staff Assistant-Surgeon Charles Moore
,
Jessop to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice V. M. M'Master,
M.D., appointed to 18th Hussars.
13th Hussars—Surgeon Henry March Webb, M.B„ from
the 18th Hussars, to be Surgeon, vice C. C. Rutherford,
who exchanges.
18th Hussars—Surgeon Cornelius Clark Rutherford, from
the 13th Hussars, to be Surgeon, vice Henry M. Webb,
M. 8., who exchanges—Assistant-Surgeon Valentine
Mumbee M'Master, M.D., from the 6th Dragoons, to be
Assistant. Surgeon.
19th Hussars—Staff Assistant-Surgeon David Woods to be
Assistant-Surgeon—Assistaut-Surgeon Samuel Fuller,
from 17th Lancers, to be Assistant-Surgeon.
20th Hussars—Staff Assistant-Surgeon Nicholas Ffolliott,
to be Assistant-Surgeon—Staff Assistant-Sargeon Charl:a
Mackinnon to be Assistant-Surgeon.
21st Hussars—Staff Assistant. Surgeon Wallace Haward to
be Assistant-Surgeon—Assistant-Surgeon John Mun-
day, from 20th Foot, to be Assistant-Surgeon.
Royal Artillery—Gentleman Cadet Henry Torkington,
from the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, to La
Lieutenant, vice Henry Featherstenhaugh, who resigns.
To be Assistant-Surgeons—Staff Assistant-Surgeons
William Menzies Calder, William Henry Yates; James
Jardine, M.D., William Cathcart Boyd. and Walter Bas-
nett Ramsbotham, M.D.—Assistant-Surgeons John Wild
Hulseberg, Alexander Robert Kilroy, William Collis,
William O'Halloran, Frederick Ffolliott, Alexander
Stevenson Russell, M.D., George Bouchier, William Sly,
Thomas Michael O'Brien, George Alexander Moorhead,
John Kinahan, M.D , Francis Edward McFarland, and
Arthur Charles Gaye. To be Veterinary Surgeon—
A.cting Veterinary Surgeon Francis Walker, vice Wil-
liam Barry Lord, placed upon half-pay.
Grenadier Guards—Lieutenant and Captain Edward G. H.
Viscount Hichingbrook to be Adjutant, vice Lieutenan
and Captain the Hon. F. A. Stanley, who resigns the,
appointment.
2d Regiment of Foot—The appointment of Lieutenant R.
Thoresby Gwyn as Adjutant has been antedated to 4th
May, 1861.
6th Foot—James Lewis, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase,
vice Braidley, promoted.
10th Foot—Staff Assistant-Surgeon John Mackenzie, M.D.,
to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Baynes Reed, appointed to
the 12th Foot.

.lth Foot—Staff Assistant-Surgeon Edmond Hoile, 1\1.D.1
to be Assistant-Surgeon.
.2th Foot—Assistant-Surgeon Baynes Reed, from 110th
Foot, to be Assistant-Surgeon.
.sth Foot—Ensign Charles Alexander Moore to bs Lieu-
tenant, by purchase, vice Henry John Lancaster, who
retires—George Bolden, Gent., to be Ensign, by pur-
chase, vice Moore.

.Bth Foot—Lieutenant Thomas Change Wray to be Adju-
tant,
vice Lieutenant Dawson promoted.

21st Foot—Ensign Henry Harcourt Horn, from Bth Foot,
to be Ensign, vice Francis Wollaston Hutton, deceased.
23d Foot—Ensign Alexander Spink Beaumont to be Lieu-
tenant, by purchase, vice Thom as Nepean Edward Kenny,
who retires—Alexander Cosby Jackson, Gent., to be
Ensign, by purchase, vice Beaumont.
33d Foot—Lieutenant George Malcolm Douglas to be In-
structor of Musketry, vice Lieutenant Marcus Lynch,
who resigned the appointment.
45th Foot—Captain and Brevet-Major Henty Woodbine
Parish to be Major. without purchase, vice Brevet-Colonel
George Anthony Leaton Blenkinsopp, who retires upon
half-pay—Lieutenant Edward O'Neill to be Captain, by
purchase,
vice Brevet-Major Parish—Ensign Edmund
Lombard Hallam Kyle to be Lieutenant, by purchase,
vice O'Neill—Walter Bridge, Gent., to be Ensign, by
purchase, vice Kyle—Staff Assistant-Surgeon William
Thomas Martin, M.D., to be Assistant-Surgeon.
57th Foot—Moutray Vance Hornidge, Gent., to be Ensigns
by purchase, vice R. Lawrence, transferred to 90th.
Foot.
58th Foot—Lieutenant Henry Nizzoli Reeve Storks to be
Captain by purchase, vice Edward Daubeny, who retires
—Ensign Charles Bowling to be Lieutenant, by pur-
chase, vice Storks—James Lewis Joseph Gordon, Gent.,
to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Bowling—Staff Assistant-
Surgeon John Carlaw to be Assistant-Surgeon.
_ _ _

725 Foot—Ensign James Foord Hilton. to be Lieutenant,
by purchase, vice Hercules Edwin Brown, who retires—
Nathaniel James Spens, Gent., to be Ensign, by pur-
chase, vice Hilton.
77th Foot—Staff Assistant-Surgeon Henry Frank Hens-
man to be ..48,istant-Surgeon, vice F, E. M'Farland,
appointed to the Royal Artillery.
89th Foot—Ensign Thomas Parnell Green-
to be Lieuten-
ant, by purchase, vice William Atthill, who retires--.
Henry Caddell, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice
Green—Surgeon John Thomas Watson Bacot, having
completed 20 years full• pay service, to be Surgeon-Major,
under the Royal Warrant of Ist October, 1858.
90th Foot—Lieutenant Colonel and Brevet Colonel Henry
Edward M'Gee, from half-pay late 3d NN est India Regi-
ment, to be Lieutenant Colonel, vice Brevet John C,
Guise, who retires upon temporary half pay—Major Jas.
Clerk Rattray to be Lieutenant Colonel, by purchase,
vice Brevet Colonel Henry Edward M'Gee, who retires—
Captain Leonard H. Lloyd Irby, to be Major, by pur-
chase, vice Rattray—Lieutenant Edward Carter to be
Captain, by purchase, vice Irby—Ensign Despreaux J.
Boileau to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Carter—En-
sign Robert Lawrence, from 57th Foot, to be Ensigr,
vice Boileau.
99th Foot--Lieutenant Philip Homan ffolliott to be Adju.
taut, vice Lieutenant Day, promoted.
105th Foot—Gentleman Cadet Herbert Charles Symons,
from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, vice B.
Freud, transferred to the 60th Foot.
2d West India Regiment—Ensign William Phelps to be
Lieutenant, by purchase, vice William Villett Rolleston,
who retires.
DEPOT BATTALIONS.—Major and Brevet Lieut.-Col.
Wm. Rickman to be Lieut.-Col., without purchase, vice
Brevet Colonel Henry Jervis, promoted to be Major-Gen.—
Capt. and Adjutant Francis Padfield to be Major, without
purchase, vice Brevet Lieut.-Col. Rickman.
MEDICAL DEPARTMENT.—Assistant-Surgeon Edward
Malcolm Sinclair, M.D., from the 97th Foot, to be Staff
Assistant-Surgeon, vice C. M. Jesson, appointed to the 6th
Dragoons—Assistant-Surgeon Jotua'Stuart, from 13th Foot,
to be Staff Assistant-Surgeon, vice John Mackenzie, M,D.,
appointed to the 10th Foot—Staffhioi
teai
rao nsß honorary Assistant-Surgeonteowlteaykr,aenhkpalloaft-cpceaaDyptalava. David
Shorter Skinner has been permitted to resign his commission.
BREVET.
conse-
quents thTC
hpuearra
Dragoon
EiersGmtdeueernacrieGidaoseleetrodgo George William
parNv:emiti
Major-General Sir Alex. Murray
May, 1864:
Henry Jervis,
T uLI oe cuht
e, Ct
0.,1
oonne 6at hM n
da
Brevet-Colonelfrom a Depot Battalion, to be Major-General. rY
Major John Dwyer, 14th Foot, to be Lieutenant-Colonel.
Captain George Begot, 69th Foot, to be Major.

• BANKRUPTS.
poTrthaenfeoellionwhne u te
garaezetthe:_only bankrupt,: of commercial im-

William Roberts, bricklayer Bedford
Wm. Harris, butcher, Southampton
Joseph Nutt, painter, Cowley, Oxfordshire
Jabez B. Jackson, druggiat, Leicester
William Harris, jun., shoemaker, Bristol
Charles Davage, shoemaker, Sheffield
Henry W. Loof, photographer, Tonbridge-Nella
Thomas Bourne, innkeeper, Hollyf Bush, Salop
John Griffiths, coal miner, Dudley
James Hill, grocer, Twickenham
Henry Riehards, brewer, Bir-mingham
\yin. Thompson, watchmaker, Coventry
Marks Kalisher, clothier, City-road
George E. Warner, crinoline manufacturer, Holborn
John Harris, envelope maker, Cheapside
Thomas Proctor, currier, St. Helen's
Roger W. Jones, grocer, Lloe, near Holell, Flintshire
yw
David Shaw, gentleman, Oxton Cheshire
Ipswich
Isaac Isaacs, licensed victualler,' 801-court, Fleet-street
et'
Eastbourne-
Samnel Mann, commission agent, Southwark
George R. Ellis, house decorator, Holborn
John Cross, butcher, Wymondham, Norfolk
- registrar,stre
Herber t Rushton, horse breaker, Uttoxeter
William Foulds, shoemaker. Leicester
erracc, Hyde-park
cer,
Frederick Munch, ro r Kingston-anon-Thames
IJOhilnlialTenSrtyanl9Varridglbta, akCaLl°tau:tt
Wm. it, jenkin., plumber, Hornsey
SCOTCH BANKRUPTS,
John M`Nicol, spirit merchant, Glasgow
Robert MsCracken, messenger-at-arms, Glasgow

Course of the Exchange.---Yesterday.

knigterdarn
11 171
Ditto
Rotterdam — 12 Oi 12 i
Atwer ..
25 621 25 67}
Brnussolsp — 25 621 25 67}
flamburgh — 13 8i 13 8f
Faris
Frankfort on Maine Short. 25 25
MaDristetiolles
25 30
25 62i 25 671
120 f
Vienna
Trieste -25114 k
65
11 80 11 90
Petersburgh
Berlin —
Madrid
Cadiz
Leghorn
Milan
Genoa
Naples _
2548 481
25 '67i 25 75
..... 72i 25 771
25 75
•wp a o
Palernio - `is,. 7,5,
Lisbon
Oporto..•^ •
51a51; Messina -
25
7°
T 6 75
25 80
25 80
25 80
51f
511
Foreign Gold in Bars (Standard), per 0z.... £3 17 9
Mexican Dollars
Silver in Bars (Standard) Q O5 21
0 5 lti

SIR EDWIN LANDSEER'S picture, "A Piper and
a Pair of Nut-crackers," has been bought by Ms,
for £1,700.

1111PERIA.14 PARLIAMENT would be an infirmary for the sick and a receptacle for those
whose out-pensions were insufficient for their subsistence.
It was also proposed to add to the out-pensions of men
who had reached a certain age; to abolish the double
government, :and appoint a chief officer to preside over the
affairs of the hospital, and to do away w L tie residential
civil and military appointments of the ins -n on at the end
of five years, but not to do so without giviaz fair compene
!ration. The hon. gentleman shadowed out the probable
effect of these changes in a financial point of view, and
intimated that the plan would be matured in the recess and
a measure brought before the house early in the neat session
of Parliament.
Sir J. PAKINGTON was glad the Government had
arrived at a conclusion upon this important question, and
so far as it appeared to him the principle on which the Ad-
miralty proposed to act was a sound one. With respect to
the double government of the hospital, the house, he was
sure, would be gratified at hearing that the system was tq
be put an end to ; but he could no regard the pro-
posal to reduce the military appoinments to a period of five
years without feelings of doubt and jealousy.
In answer to Mr. CORRY,
Lord C. PAGET said that among the appointments that
were to terminate at the end of five years were the offices
of go vernor and lieutenant-governor of the hospital. He
acloed that he should shortly lay upon the table the memo,
randum of the First Lord containing the details of the
scheme ; and that hereafter Greenwich Hospital would be
placed on the same footing as Hasler and other hospitals,
with a superintendent and sufficient officers to maintain
discipline in the establishment.
Sir J. HAY expressed his satisfaction at the statement
made by Mr. Childers, and his motion was then withdrawn.
SCOTCH PARLIAMENTARY BUSINESS.
Sir J. FERGUSSON moved for a select committee to
inquire how far the number of the members of the ad-
ministration charged with the conduct of the affairs of
Scotland, and having seats in Parliament, is commensu-
rate with the reoreirements of that part of the United
Kingdom. The hon, baronet argued that the Lord
Advocate, the member of the Government to whom the
conduct of the Scotch business was entrusted, being a
practising lawyer, and having other avocations elsewhere,
had not time to introduce measures of the magnitude and
impnrtance that were necessary ; that the mode in which
Scntch bills were prepared, considered, and passed was not
esaisfactory; and that the political functions of the Lord
Advocate ought not to be exercised by a practising lawyer,
The motion having been seconded by Mr CAIRD,
Mr E. P. BO UVERIE contended that the management
of Scotch business under the present system was satisfac-
tory to the members from Scotland, and that there was no
necessity for any change.
The LORD ADVOCATE, in opposing the motion and
answering the objections of Sir J. Fergusson, said that
although it was true the holder of his office was a practising
lawyer, it was also certain that during the session of Par-
liament he must, to a great extent, throw his private prac •
tice to the winds, and with few and rare exceptions he him-
self had acted upon that principle. The right hon. gentle-
man then enumerat: d the many important measures affect-
ing Scotland that had become law in recent years, in order
to show that the interests of the country had not been
neglected by the executive, Further, if he compared those
measures with others of the same magnitude and impor-
tance for England, the proof that Scotch legislation was
not crude or defective was to be seen in the fact that there
were so few instances in which it had been questioned in
the courts of law. The Inactions of the Lord Advocate
were no doubt numerous and responsible, but he considered
that they were not beyond the powers of ono man with
reasonable diligence and assiduity to perform.
Mr SMOLLE TT urged that large reforms were necessary
in the Court of Session, the Sheriffs' Courts, ar d in the laws
relating to marriage, succession, and domicile in Scotland;
but complained that, when on a previous occasion he drew
attention to these subjects, the Lard Advocate told him that
he had better take them in hand himself. In his opinion,
Scotchmen required that the law on these points should be
assimilated to that of England. If a Secretary of State were
appointed for Scotland they might hope to see him deal
with questions of that sort, but as long as the whole con-
duct of the Scotch business in Parliament was entrusted to
the Lord Advocate they would never have any large legal
reforms such as the country demanded.
After some observations from Mr. CARNEGIE and Mr.
ROBERTSON,
Mr. MURE believed that the appointment of a select
committee would bring cut no new facts or be of any good
whatever. He suggested, therefore, that the motion should
be withdrawn.
Sir W, DUNBAR remarked that long experience had
convinced him that no change could be beneficially intro-
duced in the mode of conducting Scotch business in that
house. In his opinion it was managed very satisfactorily,
and he attributed that circumstance to the friendly inter.
coutse which was maintained between the Lord Advocate
and the Scotch members.
The motion was then withdrawn.
THE DAY OF PAYMENT OF THE OCTOBER
DIVIDENDS.
Mr, R. MILLS asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer
whether for the convenience of the public he would make
an arrangement by which the dividends on the Government
annuities, payable at the Bank of England in the month of
October, should be paid on the Sth day of that month, the
same as in the ease of the months of January, April, and
July. The hon. member based his application on the ground
that many infirm persons, forgetting hat the October divi-
dends are not paid until the 13th, came as usual on the Sth
of the month, and had their labour for their pains.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that
the 13th of October had been the dividend day ever since
the Bank of England had been established, and he was not
aware that any very large number of persons were disap-
peinted by making the mistake referred to. He should have
pleasure in acceding to the wish of the hon. member, but
for one matter of considerable importance. The helm was
was aware that the September quarter was one of extremely
weak receipt. The September quarter would always be a
weak quarter. The great mass of cur payments were con-
centrated upon four periods of the year, which are partially
connected wit la the four quarter-days of the Exchequer, and
partly with the four days for the payment of dividends at
the Bank of England, which were very near them. Conse-
quently the public funds accumulated, there came a heavy
pressure, and the whole or nearly the whole of the balances
were exhausted. Therefore, if we were to increase that
pressure at any of those quarter-days, we should compel the
public either to increase its demands on the Bank of Eng-
land for deficiency bills, or else to have a large amount of
money in hands at that particular time. His hon. friend
might perhaps think the difference very small, but that
would not be so, for the proposed change would have the
effect of diminishing the quarter's revenue by nearly a
million. Under the circumstances, therefore, he could not
give a pledge to alter the law with regard to dividends.
EPPING FOREST.
Mr TORRENS asked the Secretary to the Treasury
whether her Majesty's Government intended to take any
steps to carry out, completely or partially, the recommenda-
tions contained in the report of the select committee on
Royal forests in Essex of last session; whether any en-
croachments or enclosures had been reported to have been
made within the forests since the date of that report; and,
if so, whether they had taken place on portions of the
forest wherein the rights of the Crown had been sold or not,
He would also move for copy of any orders or correspond-
ence regarding inclosures in the Royal forest in Essex
since, or in consequence of, the report of the select com-
mittee of last session.
Mr F. PEEL said it was desirable that the rights of
the Crown over Epping Forest should be clearly under-
stood. The forestal right of the Crown was simply a
right to feed deer; and as there were no deer in the forest,
the right of the Crown merely amounted to a right of
preventing fences being put up and keeping the forest an
unenclosed waste. The select committee on forests had re-
ported in favour of the Crown disposing of this right, which
was accordingly done, and at present there only remained
3,000 acres over which the Crown exercised any control.
The committee of last year had also recommended that por-
tions of the forest should be set apart for public recreation
grounds, but they did not state how the cost of making a
public park was to be maintained. If that difficulty were
overcome, the recommendation might he carried out. Ile
believed there had been no encroachments or inclosures
since the committee made their report, nor had any report
been made respecting the forest since that time, with the
exception of one from the Commissioners of Woods, which
was at present under consideration.
Mr. PEACOCKE thought the right hon, gentleman had
underrated the importance of the forestal rights of the
Crown, for upon their preservation depended the power of
keeping open spaces for the recreation of the inhabitants of
this crowded metropolis. When the hon. gentleman the
Secretary of the Treasury stated that no enclosures had
taken place in the forest since the committee had reported,
he could only say that the Government were badly informed
on the subject. He had himself gone down to Epping
Forest a fortnight ago, and he found that a portion of it
near Woodford Wells was inclosed, the place which used
to be the greatest resort of the public for the purposes of
recr.ation. He thought it would be well to send down a
commission to the spot to eee what portion should be set
apart for recreation, and, if necessary, that the freeholds
should be purchased.
Mr. WATLINGTON dwelt upon the importance of pre-
serving portions of the forest for the enjoyment of the popu•
lation of the eastern parts of the metropolis, who went there
in crowds on Saturdays and Mondays, and on other days
during the summer season. He thought that the rights of
the people had been very much interfered with by t'-e
and sometimes illegal, encio:ures which were constantly
taking place.
Mr. COX complained that, since the report of the com-
mittee, enclosures had taken place and were taking place,
and he thought it was the duty of the Government to pro-
tect both the rights of the Crown and the rights of the
People.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said there
eves one preposition upon which they were all agreed—
tnat this question Waii in a state which was very unsatis-
factory. The • •
taom(bosegsatbotathineerdituhfailje:" gse,actlhoastintghepsoarnticotaioan
of
ff Parliamenttheforest,
and
of the committee recommended,
that, where the rights of parties wore interested provision
should be made for purehasirg those rights. But who was

HOUSE OF LORDS—Last Evening,
The Loan CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack
at five o'clock.

COUNTY COURTS.

Lord CHELMSFORD presented a petition from certain
credit drapers called tallymen, against the County Courts
Amendment Bill.

The LORD CHANCELLOR presented petitions in
favour of the bill, from i.he Board of Guardians of
Blackburn.

PRIVATE BUSINESS.

The following bills were read a second time :—Bolton
Gas—Great Eastern Railway (Ilighbeach Branch)—Bolton
Improvement—Sevenoaks, Maidston, and Tunbridge Rail-
way—Crystal Palace and South London Junction Railway,
Trent Coast Railway—Midland Railway (St. Pancras
Branch)—Liverpool Improvement—Liverpool Sanitary.
The following bills were read a third time and passed :
Scots Episcopal Fund and Bedford and Cambridge
Railway.
THE RIOT AT ST. BERNARD'S REFORMATORY.
Lord BERNE RS called attention to the riot which had
taken place amongst the boys at the St. Bernard's Refor-
matory, and eaid he should put a question to her Majesty's
Government in reference to the motion this day fortnight.

The house went into committee on thie bill.
Lord SHAFTESBURY explained the objects of the bill
he had introduced for the amendment of the present law
regulating the mode of sweeping chimneys. The practice
of employing children of tender age in this occupation had
of late years much increased in some places in consequence
of the difficulties of procuring convictions under the existing
act. All he wished to do was to introduce such amendments
as should render it easier to put the law in force against
those who persisted in employing children in this trade. To
prove the necessity of some interference he read numerous
extracts from recent evidence of the revolting cruelty the
masters were forced to employ in training children to the
work. All this suffering, he asserted, was totally unneces-
sary, as chimney sweeping by the machine, when properly
done, was in all respects efficient. The employment of
children had been abolished in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Leices-
ter, and other large places. In no place was it necessary,
as the machine was adapted to flues of every kind of con-
struction. Nor were the master sweeps, as a body, opposed
to the prohibition of children's labour. They stated that
they are frequently compelled to employ it by the prejudices
of householders, often of the wealthier classes, who will not
allow a machine to be used in their chimneys. Having
further described the manner in which infants are bought
and sold for the trade, and reduced to a condition of slavery,
he implored the house not to reject the bill, by which he
had attempted to attack a cruel practice unknown to any
other civilised nation.

Lord BROUGHAM expressed his hearty approval of the
measure,

The house went into committee on the bill, and agreed to
the clauses with some amendments.

Their lordships then adjourned.

HOUSE OF COMMONS—Last Evening.
The SPEAKER, took the chair at 4 o'clock.
PRIVATE BUSINESS.

The following bills were read a third time and passed :
Argyllshire Roads—London, Chatham, and Dover Rail-
way (No. 2) (New Lines, &c.)—Metropolitan and Saint
John' Woodßailway—Midland Railway (Bath and Thorn-
bury)—Rock Life Assurance Company—Salop Fire Office
—Severn Valley Railway—Thames Embankment (South
Side)—Trent, Ancholme, and Grimsby Railway—West-
minster Palace Hotel Company.
RAILWAY COMPANIES.

Lord STANLEY moved that so much of the standing
order 142 as prohibited railway companies owning or using
steam vessels, harbours, and docks be repealed. He pro •
posed that these questions should be referred to a committee
up.t.irs, and he believed that the order as it now
stood would not be beneficial to the public interests. That
order was made under circumstances totally different to the

present, and he denied that the effect of the alteration which

he proposed would give, as was contended, a monopoly to
the railway companies. He could not see how it concerned
Parliament or the public whether vessels or dock thould be
held by railway companies or any other bodies so long as
traffic was facilitated.

Mr. BARROW asked the house to pause before consent-
ing to this alteration. He was very anxious for this stand-
ing order being agreed to some years ago, in order to
prevent a monopoly on the part of railway companies,
which ho thought was a subject in which the house should
justly interfere. He strongly objected also to railway
companies having such extensive powers as this order was
intended to limit, without any reference to Parliament.

Mr. CLAY objected to the motion of the noble lord, and
denied that this order prohibited railway proprietors be-
coming shipowners, but merely imposed on them the onus
of showing the necessity of what they desired as a matter
of public convenience. He considered that the repeal
of this order would go further than it proposed, as it would
convoy an intimation to railway companies that the powers
which they sought would be gtanted wherever they
were required, instead of throwing on them the
necessity of showing that such powers would
be exercised for the public interest. He defied any one who
had read the evidence before the committee to come logically
to the conclusion that by giving railway companies these
extensive powers the interests of the public would be pro-
moted.

Mr. HODSON said that if he thought the repeal of this
order would have the effect of injuring the shipping inte-
rest, he would not advocate it, but he contended that
such would not be the result. He considered, however,
that in regard to the purchase of shipping, or any other
property, the shareholders of railways should have the
right of restricting their directors in making purchases of
such property. Under all the circumstances he felt bound
to support the motion of the noble lord.
Sir H. CAIRNS was oppoeed to the alteration proposed,
and cited the evidence adduced before the committee to show
that the effect of the standing order being repealed would
be to drive steamship owners out of the field altogether, and,
therefore, virtually create a monopoly which would not
conduce to the benefit of the public.

Mr. M. GIBSON said the case was simply that cam_
Plaints had been made to Parliament which
led to
the appointment of a committer',
which, after delibera-
tion, recommended the adoption of the course
which the noble lord (Stanley) now advocated. It
was asserted by the complainants that the declared policy
of the house was different to its practice. Since 1848 the
practice of Parliament had been to grant powers to public
companies--

An HON. MESlBER—Somethnes to refuse them.
Mr. M. GlBSON—Sometimes to refuse them. (A
laugh>) What the noble lord (Stanley) asked was merely
to repeal an order that was calculated to mislead the coun-
try.

After some discussion, the motion was negatived without
a division.

ILLTREATMENT OF MISSIONARIES IN
ABYSSINIA.

Mr. H. SEYMOUR asked the Under Secretary of State
for Foreign Affairs what information her Majesty's Govern•
mcnt had received relating to the ill-treatment of missionaries
in Abyssinia, and the imprisonment of her Majesty's con-
sul there by King Theodorus ; and what steps her Majesty's
Government had taken in consequence.
Mr. LAYARD said, that efforts were being made to
effect the liberation of the Consul, and the other matter had
received the attention of the Government.

GREENWICH HOSPITAL.
On the order for going into committee of supply,
Sir J. RAY moved a resolution to the effect that it was
desirable that the Admiralty should adopt the recommen-
dations of the Royal Commission of 1860, confirmed by the
report of Sir Richard Bromley, one of the present commis-
sioners, and by the letter of Admiral Sir James Gordon, the
governor of Greenwich Rospital, that the present system of
donb!o government be abolished, as a remedy for the abuses
which had arisen under that system.
The motion was seconded by Mr LIDDELL, who com-
plained of the Government for neglecting to carry cut the
recommendations of the commissioners. He could never
understand how it was that the hospital had not been go-
verned at Greenwich, and he believed the abolition of the
double government would bring the affairs of the institution
into harmonious working, and effect a considerable saving
of expenditure.

Mr ADAM supported the motion, and urged that to make
Greenwich Hospital what it ought to be, it was ncceseary
not only that the double government should cease, but that
tbo institution should assume the character of an infirmary
as well as an asylum.

Mr CHILDERS, whilst can ioniug tho house not to act
with precipitation, admitted that a stringent measure of
reform *as necessary, as the expense of management was
far too high, but every attention was paid to the comfort of
the pensioners. It was now intended by the Government to
prspose to limit admissions to the hospital to thoee who
were incapable, in consequence of age or infirmity, of main-
taining thomselves outside its walls. Thus the institution

to find the purchase money? The holm should remember
the estates of the Crout were only vested in the public as
tenants for life ; and that the duty of the Commissionc7s
of Woods and Forests was to administer that estate as other
landlords administered their estates. The address of last
year, however, was calculated to inflict considerable injury
upon the corpus of the Crown estate. Moreover, the public
were not the people of London—the public were the people
of the three kingdoms ; and were the people of all the other
towns in the country entitled to make similar claims upon
the Consolidated Fund ? Don't let them look ist a narrow
corner of the question. Let them look to
done for the people of London. ins "what the State had
sole effect of the ad-
dress of last year had beel
selling those forest 'prevent the Government from
"..1 rights; and the consequence was those
rights were el.,'
oyed without the permission of Government.
Govern anentwas not
justified in appointing commissioners
ke the purpose of getting rid of responsibility. Unless they
were prepared to entrust a definite object to a commission,
they ought not to be appointed. But. independently of that,
the house had entrusted to the Metropolitan Board of Works
the business of providing for such wants on the part of the
metropolis, and therefore the Government would not be
justified in taking upon itself functions which had been
conferred upon another body.
Sir J, SHELLEY thought the right hon. gentleman was
mistaken with respect to the powers of the Metropolitan
Board of Works—they had no power of taking any lands
beyond their jurisdiction. All that was now asked for was
that Government should prevent any encroachments upon
these forests.

Visit of the Prince and Princess of Wales
tr.
-,.
vambridge.

After leaving PeteHiohee hursday evening
the Prince and Princess of Wales honoured with
theix pl-esence a performance of the Amateur Dra-
matic Company, better known as the A.D.C., at
their bijou theatre. With performances of this
nature there can be no mediocre standard ; they are
either insufferably dull, or else yield more pleasure
and attain a success more brilliant than it is in the
power of professional actors to achieve. The acting
of the A.D.C. was decidedly of the latter class.
From the time the curtain rose till it fell ultimately,
a few minutes before 11 o'clack, the audience were
kept in uninterrupted good humour, and not only
the Prince, but nearly every member of the Royal
party, testified by frequent applause how much they
appreciated the efforts of the company for their en-
tertainment. The performance began with the farce
of " Whitebait at Greenwich," but the principal
feature in the programme was the burlesque extra•
vaganza of " Aladdin ; or the Wonderful Scamp."
The Cambridge amateurs are not content, like many
of their fellows, to avail themselves of external aid
in any of the parts intended to move the tender pas•
sions ; they stand or fall by their own resources
exclusively, and they represent and put upon the
stage female as well as male characters, which sing
and dance and look almost as captivating as the
fair originals whom they seek to counterfeit. Where
all distinguished themselves so highly it is invidi•
ous to make selections, but a recognition of the
eminent services of Mr. Burnand, to whom the
foundation of the company is due, ought not to be
overlooked.

Mr, TORRENS then withdrew his motion.
PROMOTION IN THE NAVY.
__ _ _

• _
Sir L. PALK moved that the house resolve itself into a
committee to consider of an humble address to be presented
to her Majesty, praying that she would be graciously pleased
to give directions for putting the staff captains, commanders,
and masters of the Royal navy upon an equality in pay,
rank, and eligibility for receiving marks of distinction, with
any other class of officers in that service.

Sir J. PAKINGTON said it was not his intention to
make any observations respecting the case of the masters,
but he wished to submit to the Admiralty whether the
question of his hon. friend did not open a question of a far
wider character. (Hear, hear.) A supplementary estimate
had been brought forward, in which provision was made for
captains and flag officers, but the plan was not satisfactory
to the officers affected by it, It was also a serious defect
that there were several classes of officers which were not
touched by it at all. He submitted that the time was
come when the subject should be dealt with in a more ex-
tensive manner than it had been in the supplementary esti-
mates, and he hoped his noble friend (Lord C. Paget)
would inform the house whether there would be any ob-
jection to refer the matter to a Royal commission. (Hear,
hear.)

From the theatre their Royal Highnesses drove
at once to the Fitz william Museum, where a ball
was given in their honour, and on their way the
electric light, which had been flashing for some
hours previously from the summit of Great St.
Mary's Church, was thrown full upon the Royal
carriages, and afforded to the multitudes of specta-
tors thronging the streets an admirable opportunity
of seeing the Prince and Princess as they passed.
Among the leading members of the University there
had been considerable division of opinion as to the
propriety of devoting their grand Museum to such
purposes as a ball, and a very clever paper apropos
of the discussion had been put forward, it is said,
by Prolessor Selwyn. In this the point was humor•
ously canvassed whether it was intended that the
Prince should take his degree per saltum ; and in
reply to the doubtings and questionings of an ima-
ginary M.A. the Procancellarius was represented
as saying,--

Colonel EDWARDS supported the motion.
Mr. C. BERKELEY thought, as the committee last year
had no power to inquire into question of pay, and consider-
ing the state of the lists, the suggestion of the right hon.
baronet was well worthy of consideration.
Sir W. MILES hoped the Secretary of the Admiralty
would make this concession. He thought there was no class
in the navy that required more consideration than that of
the masters. He trusted that the claims of these meritorious
officers might be taken into consideration by a Royal com-
mission.

Saltabimus °tunes ;
Orbis et uxor amans ardet hairs choros.

Mr. AYRTON said he hoped that the house would
not too hastily adopt the suggestion that had bPen
made. The real question was, whether the inducements at
present ke.d out by the Royal Navy were sufficient to
secure an efficient class of officers for her Majesty's set-
vice. He believed that they were ; and, therefore, could
not see the necessity for these constant applications on the
part of the officers for an increase of pay. Ha hoped the
country would be satisfied with what had been done by the
committee of last year.
Mr. Alderman ROSE thought the masters had a real
grievance, which ought to be considered by the house.
Mr. T. HANKEY was of opinion that if the House of
Commons were to be made a court of appeal for grievances
which ought to be remedied by the officers of the Crown,
great inconvenience would ensue. So long as the services
of the country were efficiently discharged, it was the duty
of the house to watch the expenliture of the Government.
Mr. FERRAND vindicated the right of the masters to
appeal to the house if they had a grievance. Were they to
strike, as had been recommended the other night by the
Chancellor of the Exchequer ?
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER called
upon the hon. gentleman to prove his statement.

Mr. FERRAND apologised if he had misrepresented
the right hon. gentleman. At any rate, the right hon.
gentleman had justified strikes.

The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER expressed
his dissent.

Lord C. PAGET was hardly prepared to say whether
the Gevernment would recommend the appointment of a
Royal Commission. The masters had been invited to state
their grievances, and he was prepared to repeat what he
stated a few nights ago. that it was not the question of pay
so much as their social rank and position that they com-
plained of. The committee recommended that some higher
rank should be given to them, and thip the Admiralty had
carried out. There were still some grievances about com-
parative rank; but the House of Commons was not the
place for the discussion of these subjects, and he would
implore the house to leave all these matters in the hands of
the Admiralty, who were responsible for them. The noble
lord compared the pay received by masters with the pay
received by lieutenants and commanders, and contended
that there could be no grievance on the part of the mas-
ters as regarded their pay. Of all classes of officers in
the navy, his sympathy was, perhaps, most with the mas •
ters, who were, in his opinion, the most useful class of men ;
but he was sorry they should come before the house with
this grievance.

Sir J. ELPHINS TONE defended the claims of the
masters, who were well deserving of the consideration of
the house, end said it was absurd to suppoEe that the offi-
cers of the navy should be silent on the subject of their
grievances, while the Chancellor of the Exchequer pointed
out to the artisan that the way to obtain an increase of
wages was by a " strike." The right hon. gentleman might
rely upon it that the matter would not be allowed to drop
until justice was done.

The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER repudiated
the practice of transferring to commissioners the duties, and
declared that the administration of public patronage would
become foul and corrupt if it were exercised upon the loose
and arbitrary principles contended for that evening.
After some observations from Mr. Corry, Sir J, Hay, and
Mr. Hennessy, the amendment was withdrawn, and the
house went into committee of supply pro forma.
The Banking for Co-partnership and the College of Phy-
sicians Bills were read a third time and passed.
The Burials Registration Bill was read a second time.
Mr. FERRAND obtained leave to introduce a bill to
amend the Act compensating the families of persons killed
by accident.

The house adjourned at fivo minutes to two o'clock.

THE SOUTH SEA ISLANDS.—The commerce of the
Society Islands is growing. They now export fish,
mother-of-pearl, pearls, sea snails, cocoa nut oil, fibres, and
fecula of pia, vanilla, sugar, coffee, alcohol made of kawa,
and rat-ear mushrooms. The rat-ear mushrooms are sold
for 200 dols. a tun. These and the sea snail are shipped to
China.--ranama AS!ar.

THE RANK RATE OF DISCOUNT.—A parliamen-
tary return shows the several changes in the Bank rate of
discount from the beginning of the year 1846 to the present
time. In the earlier years of the series the changes were
very few; there was but one in the year 1846, one in 1849,
one in 1850, none in 1851. Since 1854 the fluctuations have
been much more frequent. The rate of discount was altered
seven times in 1855, eight times in 1856, nine times in 1857,
six times in 1858, five times in 1859, eleven times in 1860,
eleven times in 1861, five times in 1862, twelve times in
1863, and six times in little more than a third of 1864
namely, up to the 6th of May. The highest rate in the list
was 10 per cent., which prevailed in 1857, from Lord
Mayor's-day to the day before Christmas. The lowest rate
was 2 per cent., which prevailed during the greater part of
the year 1852, and for three months of the summer and
autumn of 1862.

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I Royal" and the "baby Prince" were all most loyally
T ^ill Palmerston was

Royal Highnesses, and as the names of the success-
ful candidates were read out by Mr. Emery they filed
past the Princess, and received their prizes from
then came to
her banob.
Their Royal Highnesses
the f7,ott “,?. and at the request of the
Prince, Sir C. Eantlak9 addreabs.l4 to the pupils a
few appropriate words, and thanked Royal
Highnesses for the encouragement afforded to t,
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The Royal party at dinner at Trinity Lodge in.
eluded the Prince and Princess of Wales, the Duke
of Cambridge, Duke of Devonshire, Lady Louisa
Cavendish, Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston,
Earl Spencer, Earl of Morton and Lady Morton,
Lord Harris, Lord A. Hervey, General Knollys,
Colonel Keppel, Lady Emma Osborne, Hon. and
Rev. L. Neville, Master of Magdalen, and Mrs.
Neville, the President of Queen's, Colonel Macdnn-
ald, her. W, C. Matheson, and the Vicce-Chancellor
and Mrs. Cookson.

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

TIMES.— A less attractive subject for a debate
than Irish Chancery procedure can hardly be ima-
gined, and yet it proved capable of sustaining a
somewhat lively discussion on Thursday night. Our
readers will easily guess the reason. The reform of
most institutions, and especially of Law Courts,
entails the creation of new offices and the superan-
nuation of many "valuable public servants." This
is always a painful process, and though the scale of
compensation is generally excessive as compared
with the working salary, the struggles of the victims
about to be laid on the shelf are often distressing to
witness. Masters in Chancery notoriously die hard,
and that in more senses than one, for, after exhibit-
ing the greatest tenacity of official life, they gene-
rally manage, as Mr Whiteside says, to punish the
public by prolongir.g their natural lives, on comfort-
able pensions, for an unconscionable time. Now, it
happened that the Government bill for reorganising
the Irish Court of Chancery threatened to displace
several of these formidable functionaries. It is pro-
posed to retain one only out of four, and to substitute
for the remaining three a Vice-Chancellor with two
chief clerks. The object of this change is to intro-
duce " the Vice-Chancellor system ;" in other words,
to assimilate the constitution of the Irish to that of
the English Court. Having said this much, we have
already suggested to persons conversant with such
matters the arguments proper to be used on the Con-
servative. What have these masters done to deserve
such treatment ? Did not Master Litton hear some
6,000 causes and nearly 40,000 motions in thirteen
years and a half ? Were not similar prodigies of
industry performed in the offices of Master Brooke,
Master Murphy, and Master Lyle, and is it not
well-known that not above a fraction of their decisions
was ever reversed on appeal? Would their successors
or rather their substitutes, the Vice-Chancellor and
his clerks, be equally efficient ; and would it not be
as well to know the names of the gentlemen to be
appointed before passing the bill ? Has any com-
plaint been made againto the present system by the
bar? Will not the alteration be more expensive
than it looks on paper ; will it not give much scope
for jobbery; is it not, at leas!, " premature Iv' No
one expects objections of this class to be answered
seriously. They are duly paraded, because they
have a sort of prescriptive right to be employed on
such occasions, just as ushers and pages are always
in attendance at Court ceremonials, though their
presence is not nonced. There is, however, a real
principle involved in this measure, though it is
rather difficult to disentangle it from these acces-
sories. That principle is the expediency of a cause
being prosecuted through all its stages under the
direction of the same Judge or judicial officer. It
was the impossibility of csrrying out this improve.,
went by any addition to the steff of Masters under
one Chancery Judge that led to tne appointment of
our own Vice-Chancellors and 'she abolition of
Masterships in Chancery. The opponents of the
bill now before the House contend that while the
English Chief Clerks are Masters in disguise, the
Irish Masters are not Masters at all, but Vice-
Chancellors in all but the neme. The obvious
answer is that, if so, there are too many of them,
and that the name of the officer who is hereafter to
act as Vice-Chancellor had better be made to cor-
respond with his duties. "What is wanted," how-
ever, replies Mr. Longfield, is "men not above
their business, and accessible to the practitioners
with whom they are daily brought in contact."
A Vice-Chancellor is a man of " unapproachable
dignity," and might be tempted to job—a thing
which no Master has ever been known to do. In
short. " what is wanted," is the retention of theta.
situation by the individuals now called " Masters,"
and herein consists the chief difference between the
Government scheme and that formerly advocated by
Mr. Whiteside himself. In the year 1856 he brought
in h bill of his own, the preamble of which fully
recognise the "delay, expense, and other incon-
venience" aria; ng from the practice of references
to Masters, and th,"
enacting clauses of which pro-
vided for the substituth? n of three Vice-Chancellors,
with a Chief Clerk and i7o Junior Clerks apiece.
But then he proposed that the rst Vice-Chancellor
should be selected from the body. of Masters, and
otherwise "utilized the existing staff, es Mr. Long-
field calls it, thereby admitting the plea "il fact
que j existe" and propitiating vested interests. It
was perfectly competent, therefore, for Mr. White-
side to oppose Mr. 0. Hagan's Bill on personal
grounds, but it was scarcely consistent to oppose it
on grounds of principle. There is nothing less credi-
table to our legislative wisdom than the difficulty
experienced in maturing and carrying reform in
the administration of the law, and the worst is
that our Constitution provides no alternative or
remedy. Take the history of this very question.
A Royal Commission issued in 1854 to inquire into
the working of the Landed Estates Court in Ireland
reports in favour of changes in substance the same as
those now contemplated. Mr. Longfield himself
gave evidence in support of them, but now recants
his opinion. Various attempts were made to em-
body the recommendations of the Report in a
formal Amendment Bill—Mr. Whiteside's among
the rest—and the result was that a Select Commit-
tee was nominated, took evidence on their compara-
tive merits, and elaborated thecompromise now in
operation, which Mr. Longfield considers perfect.
Then came a motion of Loid Cianricarde on the
abuses of Chanceryin Ireland, and the House of
Lords, too readily b*,:lieving that " nothing Irish
could be "right," mamfe,:ed a desire for a new
Commission. The new Commissie'n being composed
of most eminent lawyers, both Enselieh and Irish,
and of both political parties, unanimously" confirmed
the practical conclusions of the former one. It is
not, we believe, denied that the bill under colm-
sideration faithfully represents these conclusions,
which are, in fact, those of Mr. Whiteside him-
self. We cannot help thinking that the pub.ic
would have been quite content to take it on trust.
The spirit, however, of Parliamentary govern-
ment will not suffer this ; the whole contra.
versy must be re-opened, the private opinions of
Irish Judges and English lawyers must be quoted
against the authority of the Commissioners, and the
bill, if allowed to be read a second time, must be
made, if possible, to run the gauntlet of a select
committee. There it is pretty sure to be so muti-
lated as to be robbed of some essential feature, and
so the way is paved for further legislation. How is
all this waste of power to be avoided The House
of Commons is perfectly incapable of examining in
detail the 192 clauses of such a bill as this. Yet
how can the house delegate its duties to any other
tribunal ; and what other tribunal would be satis-
factory ? Mr. George, inveighing against the course
taken by the Government, thinks " a mixed Com-
mission of English and Irish barristers" might be
able to produce something superior between them;
Mr. S. Fitzgerald, following on the same side,
thinks the last Commission " lost much of its value
by the fact that it was composed of professional
men." At all events, Parliament cannot part with
its ultimate responsibility, and if this constitutional
safeguard is worth preserving it seems that we must
be content to pay for it in this way.
HERALD.—The Yelverton case, which is again
occupying public attention, presents in the midst of
its romance some strange anomalies. We have the
wild Irish trial. We have the sober Scotch inquiry.
The former was a boisterous Hibernian ovation for
the lady. The whole fact was summarily prejudged, '
on the instinct of a people, that the man who takes
a woman for his wife at the foot of the alter, and
lives with her, is to all intents and purposes, by the
law of God and man, her husband. Major Yelver-
ton himself and his counsel felt the strong force of
such a prejudice, so to call it, in Ireland. The
object, therefore, was to show, not only that the
marriage in Scotland by consent was illegal,
and the more formal ceremony by the priest in
Ireland, but that the sole cause for both pre-
tences was the strong affection the gentleman had
entertained for the lady. He was resolved to
have her. But as, on account of family reasons,
he could not do so in the usual public manner, he
determined on risking such a union as would
constitute a marriage in Scotland, and such a
ceremonial matrimony as was binding in the
Catholic Church, and therefore on him at least
in honour, and on the lady strictly in religion
and conscience. This may be the conduct of a
weak and unprincipled man, but it certainly is that
of an ardent lover. But, when we come to the
Scotch case or cases—for there was a judgment
in one court and an appeal from it in another,
the latter decision setting aside the former; and
when we examine the arguments urged by Major
Yelverton's counsel in Scotland, we find his ground
of defence strangely shifted. He is no longer the

Igay Lothario, the infatuated lover, or even the wily'
and reckless seducer. The hero of the story be'
comes suddenly a victim. Tnere he is—a hand
soma Irishman, an honourable, and the heir to a a
gallant
noble title, officer withal, and one too in
the roll of breve and clever artilleriete. Here is
this valiant soldier p•drstied by a pertinacious lady's
who is resolved to captnre' him at any hazard. If
Major Yelverton, the soldier, by the advice of his
counsel, thought fit to ane",
nt this droll line
of defee,ce, his friends and he are alen6 answe,r,-
able for and must accept the consequenaes.d 1/:
are only concerned for the public morality,
must say that we do ndt like to find any EL:gltsh
.
lady, and one in particular who holds a good p
tion in society, described as pursuing a man at
d
determined to make him her own even at the cost
of all that a woman holds most precious and s,,cred--
for even this last of imputations is freely charged.
Unfortunately for the inventors here, we have the
previous account in the Irish conrt of justice,
corroborating in many a strong outline the
rere! dispositions of the wronged woman
depth of affection—her respect for appearances---*
her firm resolution under all trials to deflend her
honour—end her thorough confidingness
truth of her lover. We do not say that it was the
wish or the direct aim of Major Yelverton, "It
the Irish trial, to brig into relief these genuine'
traits of character; but unquestionably there was
much in his testimony throughout to prove the re..
solution of Miss Longworth to become nothing
ferior to a lawful wife. If this ledy was resolved to
be married to the suitor of her choice, she certainly
succeeded in obtaining from him who professed t°
be so ardently ettacned to her as bold a confirma-
tion of wedlock, both in Scotland and Ireland, as be
could make under existing circumstances. The lady
was formally married, and there the matter would,
have ended had not Major Yelverton. according t°
his own showing, chosen to pursue a course of
fl'grant betrayal. The breach of good taste and
judgment of which we complain did not occur iu
Ireland. Major Yelverton was in his own country ;
he had Irishmen for his counset!, for his judge, for
his jury, for his audience, and he' dared not libel
the whole of the sex in the person of the lady who
was his lawful wife in the sight of the nation.
The lesson, however, ought not to be lost on our
countrywomen. They cannot be too cautious and
circumspect with men who have pretensions above
their own condition. It were far better that the
charge of prudishness should remain than that any'
now Major Yelverton should be enabled to get up
a sham defence on the strength of a free outpouring
of simple and sincere affection in a woman. No,one
can doubt that the lady in this instance was fatally
attracted to her suitor by a warm return of a,'
tachment and by professions of mutual regard'
This is the common sense view of the case. It iet
borne out by the evidence of Major Yelverton him
self on the Irish trial, it is confirmed by the entire
tenor and language of his correspondence, and b 9
much of the coneuct he formerly pursued towards
this truly uufoennate lady. It is utterly incredible
that the persistent pursuit of Miss Longworth was
to become the mistress of Major Yelverton if she
could nor be Lis wife. Border marriages and other
facile contrivances and substitutes for matrimonY
may nabituate our northern neighbours t 9 an aspect
of the sex so strange in itself and so unusual in the
world. There must have been some strong ire'
pelling motive to urge counsel to proffer this pie'
of the woman's reckless pursuit and the man's
constant avoidance and escape. To represent a
gallant officer worried to death by the attentions of
a lady determined to have him " will he, nil be,
might be a truly original picture, or one with some
foundation in the marriage customs of Scotland.
The common beaten track of defence proved a failure
in Ireland, so new ground had to be taken. But, 65
if ill-luck haunted the gentleman, we find him mote
unpopular in Scotland than even in his own coup'
rry. The universal public voice is decidedly against
him, as, indeed, it ought to be; for at best INlPjor
Yelverton can only plead an iniquitous law against
his lawful marriage in Ireland, and his consent to
this union is of a character to constitute wedlock t°
Scotland. The pretext that be was the victim of
cunning Englishwoman's designs may have been
sought as a last refuge in the Scotch trial and appeal'
but it will never do to persist in an assertion 50
flimsy, involving the unreasonable supposition that
this accomplished lady pursued Mejor Yelverton--
not, be it remembered, to make him her husband,
but her paramour. This is the immoral and absurd
conclusion, urged against his own former evidence
in open court, against his published letters, agairlq
toe testimony of most respectable witnesses, and
against the known and recognised usages of Bogus
society. The whole plea is, as we have said, a gross
libel on the sex, and will, we trust, for the honour
of the country, be completely abandoned in the
appeal to the House of Lorde.

COUNTRY MARKETS.

LIVERPOOL-FRIDAY.

There was a pretty fair attendance today of the tows
and country trade, and both wheat and flour met with
good consumptive inquiry at a further trifling advance,
say 3d per cental and 6d per barrel and sack on the week.
Indian corn mostly held for an advance of 6d per qr, but is
not saleable over 3d. Oats and oatmeal steady, but dull.
Beans advanced 6d per qr. Barley and peas unchanged.

STAMFORD—FRIDAY.
• White wheat, 4cs to 428; red, 38s to 40s per 36 stone•
Barley, malting, 30s to 338:; grinding, 27s to 308 per qr*
Oats, 178 to 228 per 24 stone. Beans, old, 388 to 418 per
qr. ; new, 36s to —s.