The Sun.
London, England, 1864-05-14 00:00:00

BANKRUPTS.

The following are the only bankrupts of commercial im,
portance in the Gazette :
John Morran, tailor, Plumstead
Edwin F. Gatley, mill sawyer, Islington
Richard Randall, grocer, Norwich
William Hill, publican, Lancaster
John Hutchinson, printer, Liverpool
Luke Madden, butcher, Liverpool
Josep Williams, tobacco pipe maker, Borough.
James Le Pla, tailor, Wisbeach
George Ward, fishmonger, Hackney
William R. Barnes, cabinet maker, Norwich
Thomas Middleton, warehouseman, Leeds
James Allen, confectioner, Southampton
Ambrose Hill, gunmaker, Birmingham
Henry Adcock, butcher, Corby
Benjamin Long, cutler, Guildford
William Davies, timber dealer, Hereford
Eall Bird, gasfitter, Kingsland-road
William, Easy, stationer, Brompton-road

BANKRUPT,JIES ANNULLED.
John a Sams, licensed victualler, Leigh-street, Rea
Lion-square
William H. Connold, watchmaker, York
William Braithwaite, brickmaker, Stockton-on-the 4
Forest, Yorkshire
John N. Dumbrill, jun, baker, Eastbourne
SCOTCH BANKRUPTS.
James Shanks, wright, Coatbridge
Alexander Ramage, victual dealer, Leith
George C. Swanson, watchmaker, Thurso
Walker, Johnson, and Co., power loom weavers, Glasgow
Allan ameron, sheep farmer, near Beauly
James David Jones, tavern keeper, Glasgow
William Henderson, baker, Pollokahaws
James Denoon M'Alister, farmer, Ardnacross, Island of
Mull
Donald Fraser, farmer, Lower Culerme, near Inverness

INITERIAL PARLIAMENT

HOUSE OF LORDS—Last Evening,
ROYAL COMMISSION.

The royal assent was given this afternoon to the follov T-
ing bills:—Customs and Inland Revenue—Charitable Ass a-
rance Enrolments—Land Drainage Provisional Orders
High Courts at Bombay—Vestry Cess Abolition (Irela' id)
—Court of Chancery (Despatch of Business)—Promise ory
Notes and Bills of Exchange (Ireland)—Joint Stock Com-
panies (Foreign Countries)—Huntingdon and Godman-
chaster 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—Aberbrothwic
Harbour—Salisbury Gas—Sudden Bridge and Bury Roads
Halingdon and Rawtenstall 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 CHELMSFORD 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 ELLENBOROVGH 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 contibutions 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 teal 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

(OXFORD) BILL.

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 tho bill, and intimated that,
though he did not approve of the principle of the measure,
he would not oppose it at its then stage.

Lord CHELMSFORD suggested that the patronage of
the professorship should bo transferred to the University,
which would then be willing to endow it from its own
funds.

Lord TAUNTON felt that Professor Jowett had been
treated very unjustly by the University; but he had great
objections to the bill, inasmuch as it excluded laymen from
the chair, and proposed to remedy a temporary evil by a
permanent one.

The Earl of DERBY observed that the University did
not object to endow the professorship because it was in the
patronage of the Crown, but because they conscientiously
objected to the opinions and doctrines of the rerson who
now held it. The noble earl also suggested that the mea-
sure should be postponed to give more time for its 'ft/W.
deration.

Tho LORD CHANCELLOR admitted that his proposal
was not the best method of endowing the professorship. but
it was the only one left open to him for remedying the in-
justice of the University. Under the circumstances he felt
that the Crown was bound to endow the professorship, as
it was in its patronage.

Some further discussion followed, when the previous
question was moved by Lord REDESDALE, and carried upon
a division by 55 to 25.

Their lordships then adjourned until Monday week, the
23d inst.

HOUSE OF COMMONS—Last Evening.
The SPEAR 1t took the chair at 4 o'clock.
PRIVATE BUSINESS.
Tho following bills were read a third time and passed :
Alford and Mablethorpe Railway, Clifton Hampden Bridge,
Corris Railway or Tramroad, Deal and Walmer Gas, Edin-
burgh and Glasgow and Alva Railway Companies,
Mytholm Royd Bridge and Blackstone Edge Road, Scot-
tish North Eastern an'a Scottish Central Railway Comp..
nies, Scottish North. Eastern Railway (Dundee and Forfar
Line), South Eastern Railway (No. 1), South Eastern
Railway (No. 3), Wallingford and Watlington Railway,
and Wellington (Salop) Markets. _