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

(LEFT SITTING.)

HOUSE OF COMMONS--This Evening.
The SPEAKER took the chair at 4 o'clock.
PRIVATE BUSINESS.
The 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,
Myth°lin Royd Bridge and Blackstone Edge Road, Scot-
tish North Eastern and Scottish Central Railway Compa.•
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.

_
ROYAL COMMISSION.
Colonel CLIFFORD, the Yeoman Usher of the Black
Rod, appeared at the bar and summoned the members to
the Upper House to hear the Royal assent given by com
mission to several bills, for which see Lords' report.
THE HERRING FISHERY LAWS (SCOTLAND).
Iu reply to Mr. CAIRD,
The LORD ADVOCATE said that the subject was
attended with some difficulty, but he hoped to be able to
about
t intendedl,oooa
introduce a bill in regard to it after the recess.
SMALL ARMS.
Lord ELCHO asked for some information as to the in-
tention of the War Department in regard to the money
for the manufacture of small arms. .
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THE OYSTER FISHERIES.
Mr DU CANEasked the President of the Board of
Trade whether the commission appointed
last year to inquire
into the presence
tate of the oyster fisheries of this country
h ,
had made any rt and poWhether it was the intention of
this Government to ask the Government of France to agree
to an international commission with a view to alter and
amend the fishery convention tetween France and this
country,
Mr. NI, GIBSON said that the commission had not yet
made their report, but he hoped it would be presented at

the close of the session. With regard to the second ques
tion a communication had passed between the English and
the French Governments on the subject, but it was consi.
dared advisable not to come to any decision until the re.
port had been. presented.
THE CONFERENCE,
Mr. R. LONG asked the First Lord of the Treasury,
whether the Minister for Foreign Affairs will continue to
preside at the Conference, notwithstanding the exactions
and oppressions alleged to have been perpetrated in Jutland
by the orders of Marshal Wrangel; and, whether her Ma-
jesty's Government have protested and will protest against
the commission of such outrages on non-combatants during
the sittings of the Conference.
Sir G. GREY said that what had occurred in Jutland
was an additional reason for stopping the war, and, with a
view to that object, the noble lord at the head of Foreign
Affairs could not retire from his position. One of the ob-
jects proposed by the Conference was to make the Prussian
troops pay for what they required instead of making levies
on ucutral ground.
EX-GOVERNORS OF COLONIES.
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respe?cting the granting pensions to ex-Governors of Colo-
nies

Mr. CARDWELL said the Government had not come to
any decision on the subject.
ALLEGED GRIEVANCES OF EXCISE
OFFICERS-

Mr. W. E. FORSTER asked the Treasury, when an
answer would be given to the petition of the gaugers of her
Majesty's Customs, London, praying for redress of grie-
vances ?
Mr, PEEL said the conclusion which had been arrived
at on this subject would shortly ba communicated to the
house.

PURIFICATION OF THE THAMES.
Mr. CLIFFORD asked the Secretary of State for the
Home Department, whether his attention had been called
to the large discharge of gas tar refuse into the river
Thames; and, whether he would set the law in motion to
abate a nuisance so prejudicial to the health of the metro-
polis.
Mr HUTT admitted the importance of the question, and
said that a bill in reference to it was under consideration.
POLICY TOWARDS CHINA.
Colonel SYKES asked the Under Secretary of State for
Foreign Affairs whether he would lay upon the table of the
house copy of a despatch from Sir Frederick Bruce to Earl
Russell, respecting the joint policy the Ministers of Russia,
France, and America had agreed to pursue in China; and,
copy of which he had furnished to Mr. Burlinghame, the
American Minister, for communication to the American
Government, and to which Mrßurlirghame referred in his
despatch to Mr. Seward, dated Pekin, 20th June, 1863, and
marked A of the enclosures ?
Mr LAYARD said he did not consider it would be ad-
visable to lay the despatCh in question on the table at pre-
sent, as it related to the policy both of France and Russia,
BANK OF ENGLAND ISSUE.
Mr. HEYGA 1E 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 Bank
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 ?
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.

Sic 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. CECIL,
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 he 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 profess!ons 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 Edward 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.