The Sun.
London, England, 1864-06-23 00:00:00

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HOUSE OF LORDS —This Evening,
. ROYAL ASSENT.

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The Royal Assent was given by Commission to the fol-
lowing bills :
Under Secretary Indemnity—Registration of Voters
(Ireland) —Local Government Supplemental—Naval
Agency and Distribution—Naval Preze Acts Repeal—
Chain Cables and Anchors—Common Law Procedure (Ire-
land) Act, 1863, Amendment—lneene Persons Act Amend-
ment— Court of Justiciary (Sootland) —Pontypridd Water
--Bradford Gas—Clifden and I.lampeen Bridge—Stroud
Gas—Swansea Harbour Trust —Wellington (Salop)
Market—Andover and Chilton Pond Road—Thorn-
set Road—Deal and Walrner Gas--Drogheda Water
—Ashton - under • Lyne and Staleyb:idge Water—
Llynvi Valley and Agmore Valley Railway
ChichesterHarbourEstablishment—North Easternßailway
(York and Doncaster Branch)—Pucklechurch Roads—
Greenwich and South Eastern Docks—Hedon and Porter -
lington Road—Morpeth Turnpike Trust—London Necro-
polis and National Mausoleum Company—Hartford Gae—
North Eastern, Lancashire and Yorkshire, and West York-
shire Railway Companies—Cowes and Newport Railway—
Brough Ferry Road—Caledonian Railway (Bridesholm
Branch)—Holborn Valley Improvement—Bedford and
Cambridge Road—Stirling Water—Salop Fire Office—
Trent, Ancholm, and Grimsby Railway • West-
minster Palace Hotel—North Eastern Railway (ad-
ditional powere)—Scarborough Valley Bridge—Rock
Life Assurance—Belfast and Northern Counties Rail-
way Chesterfield and Hernston Road Christ-
church and Midhurst Railway (No. 3)—Moira and
Gressley Road—North Western Railway—Eastern and
Weston Railway—South Yorkshire Railway and River
Dun Co.—Liverpool Improvement—Liverpool Sanatory—
Workington Harbour—Manchester, Sheffield, Lincolnshire
Railway—Tendring Hundreds Railway—Edinburgh and
Glasgow and Alloa Railway—Ulverston Gas—Wrexham
Water—Ely, Haddenham, and Sutton Railway—London
and South Western (Chertsey Extension)—Salisbury and
Yeovil Railway—South Staffjrdshire Water—West Nor-
folk Junction Railway—West Riding and Grimsby Road
Scottish North Eastern and Myth Railway Company--
Scottish and North Eastern, and Perth and Almond Val-
ley, and Melhaven Railways—North British Railway
(Abbey Holm and Segate Branch)—Kent Coast Railway—
Crystal Palace and South London J tenet ion Railway—Great
Eastern Railway (Highbeach Branch)—London, Chatham,
and Dover Railway (No. 3)—Oswestry, Elleemere, and
Whitchurcb. Railway—South Eastern Railway (No. 1)—
South Eastern Bailway (No. 2)—Witney Railway—North
British Railway (Perth Branch)—North Cheshire Water
Newcastle-upon-Tyne and North Shields Roads:
Mytholm Royal Bridge and Blackstone Edgeware Road
Denham Valley Railway--Dundee, Wicklow, and Wexford
Railway—Lancashire Local Board of Health—North and
South Western Junction Railway—Nottingham Gas—
Dwnoacsktsl—e.
Okehampton Railway—Scottish North Eastern amd. Scot-
andnd aLiiddles-
t'sh Central Railway Company—Stocktonborogh Water—Liverpool and London Fire aLife In-
Lyminaton Harbour—White
surace Compony—Ribblesdalehaßv
dh' R
aenitwalYV;teprtiNnBe
' Wallesey Embankment—Warewshury
under-Lyne Canal and North Staffor s ire at way Com-
panies— •
Bridges—
East Norfolk Railway—London Brighton and South Coast
Railway—and Passengers Assurance Company.
The Royal CJmmiesioners were the Lord Chancellor,
the Duke of Argyle, and Lord Wensleydale.
Their lordships adjourned during pleasure.
The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack
at five o'clock.
THE DANO-GERMAN QUESTION.
Earl RUSSELL said that a few evenings ago he had
stated that in a few days either preliminaries for peace
would be arranged between Germany and Denmark, or war
would be recommenced. lie was sorry to say that the
latter alternative was likely to be the result, and that hos-
tilities would probably be resumed on Sanday. On Mon-
day next he proposed to lay on the table the protocol of the
Conference, and in so doing to state the general course of
the negotiations.

BRIBERY AND CORRUPTION.
Lord BROUGHAM laid upon the table a bill to prevent
bribery and corruption in returning members to the Rouse
of Commons.

The bill was mad a first time.
PRIVATE BUSINESS.
The following bil►s were read a second time :—London,
Chathem, and Dover Railway—Mid Wales Railway—
North Devon and Somerset Railway—and Mistley Thorp
and Walton Railway.
The following bills were read a third time and passel :
Holywell Railway—West Shropshire Mineral—Sevenoaks,
Maidstone, and Tunbridge Railway—Weston-super-Mare
Pier—London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway—Bod-
min Railway, Solway Junction Railway—and Edinburgh
and Leeth Sewerage.
FACILITIES FOR DIVINE SERVICE IN COL-
LEGIATE SCHOOLS BILL.
The Bishop of OXFORD moved the second reading of
this bill. The whole of the clergy who had expressed an
opinion upon it seemed highly to approve of its provisions,
and thought it wound aid in the education of the people.
The Earl of SHAFTESB URY entirely disapproved of
the provisions of the bill, and moved that it be read this
day three months.
The Archbishop of CANTERBURY said the bill only
legalised existing practices.
Lord POB,TMAN thought if the bill did act upon any
other than chartered schools there could be no objection
to it.
The LORD CHANCELLOR thought there was some
danger in the bill, and therefore he should be compelled to
vote against the second reading if it was pressed to a divi-
sion.
The Bishop of LONDON advised the postponement of
the bill.

[LEPT SITTING

HOUSE OF COMMONS.--This Evening.
The E'PEAKER took the chair at 4 o'clock.
PRIVATE BUSINESS.

The following-Clifs‘veiereadaqiiitiiiine and passed :
Pneumatic Despitch Company—lralee Canal—Gloucester

and Ledbnry Railway—Worcester, Lean Forest, and
Monmouth Railway.

ROYAL ASSENT.
Sir AUGUSTUS CLIFFORD, Usher the Black Rod, sp.
peared at the bar and summoned hon.:members to the other
house, to hear the Royal Assent given by Commission to
several bills, for which see Lords' report.
THE CROWDED THOROUGHFARES AT THE
WEST END.
Sir J. SHELLEY gave notice that on Monday next
he would ask whether adequate arrangements had been
made by the Metropolitan Board of Works for relieving the
public thoroughfares from the pressure of tituffic at Park-
lane.

ENGINEER OFFICERS EMPLOYED AT SOUTH
KEGTON.
in reply to Lord J. NANNT.2ZS.
The Marquis of HARTINGTON said the duties of the
officers and men of the Engineer corps employed at South
Kensington was not of a regi.tnental character, and was
entirelylitnitf_'cl to the local duties.
RIFLE PRACTICE AT CROYDON.
Sir S. NORTHCOTE asked the Under Secretary of
State for War whether his attention had been called to the
situation of the butt which hue been erected for rifle practice
near the New C.'mydon raiiwey, between the.. Streatham-
caramon and the 71.'horat.n-heath stat ions, and whether the
War-effice is satiLlini that the range can be used without
danger to the public?
The Marquis of EARTINGTON said that the arrange-
ments were under the control or au experienced officer,
and that he had made a very satisfactory report on the
subject.

THE ROYAL FORESTS.
Mr COX asked the Secretary to the Treasury, Whether
any steps had been taken to carry into afect the
recommendation of the select committee on Royal Forests
(Essex), presented on the 9th day of June, 1863, which
recommendation was as follows :—" Your committee
report that a considerable extent of ground has been en-
closed without any consideration being paid for the forestal
right of the Crown over them, which do not appear to
have been either purchast d or redeemed ; and your com-
mittee recommend that immediate steps be taken by the
Crown to assert its right, and to abate such inclosures.
.Nlr F. PEEL explained that the rights of the Crown in
reference to this subject were of no pecuniary value, and it
had been advised by the law officers of the Crown to dis-
pose of them.

THE iiEARSAGE AND THE ALABAMA.
Sir J. HAY asked the Secretary to the Admiralty
whether the attention of her Majesty's. Government had
been drawn to the report of an action which took place last
Sunday between the United States frigate Kearsage, and
the Confederate ship Alabama ; and whether they had con-
sidered the report of the Commander-in-Chief at Dt:vonport
on the preparation for battle other Majesty's ship Research.
Whether, as the last-named report shows that this
class of ship cannot fight her guns with advantage,
and the first-named report shows that she will easily
be destroyed is action, her Majesty's Government will
continue to build ships which cannot be expected either to
fight or swim. And further to ask, as the advantage of
guns of large calibre has been so clearly shown in the
above named action, whether her Majesty's Government
will at once obtain a proper supply of large rifled guns for
the service of the navy?
Lord C. PAGET said that what the hon. member men-
tioned in the first pa:t of his question had nothing whatever
to do with the Research, and the other matters were merely
of detail. The commanding officer of the Research, who
was a young and intelligent man, had informed him that he
was satisfied as to her fighting qualities. The Alabama was
a wooden ship originally, but the Research was an iron-
plated vessel,

THE CONFERENCE. -MINISTERIAL EXPLL-

NATION.

Mr DISRAELI said—l feel called upon to ask from the
noble lord the first minister of the Crown an explanation
in respect to the rumours as to the Conference, and I wish
to know if the noble lord has any communication to make
with regard to the proceedings of the Conference the pre-
vious day.
Lord PALMERSTON—This question was a very natu-
ral one, and of a nature that required an explicit answer;
and all the information which her Majesty's Government
could communicate. The Conference met yesterday after
the levee, and adjourned until Saturday next, when I un-
derstand it will meet early, and it will be proposed
that this shall be the last meeting of the mem-
bers. It will be my duty to lay all the papers
in connection with the Conference on the table of
tho house on Monday—(hear, hear)—and both myself and
my noble colleague, the Secretary for Foreign Affaira in the
other house, shall feel it our linty also to accompany the
production of these documents with statements in reference
to the transactions connected with the proceedings of the
Conference. (Hear, hear.)

Mr HUNT wished to know if the Conference were to
meet for business, or merely as a formal matter to break
up their sittings.
Lord PALMERSTON—I have already stated that the
Conference will meet on Saturday next for the last time,
but I cannot say what they will do on that occasion.
Mr. DISRAELI—I hope the papers will be in the
hands of hon. members on Tuesday next.
Lord lIALMERSTON said that he trusted such would
be the case.

[APPEARANCE OF THE Horrsn,—The importance at.
taching to this subject had the effect of crowding the house
from an early hour, and almost every available space was
filled.]
WEIGHING OF GRAIN (PORT OF LONDON)
BILL.
On the cyder for the second reading of this bill,
llr AYRTON moved that, inasmuch as the bill seeks
to enlarge and alter the powers of the corporation of the
City of Londcn to levy a 'rate or duty, and to alter
existing rates and duties, on grain and seeds
imported into the port of London for the use
and benefit of the Corporation, this house was of opinion
that the bill ought not to be proceeded with until the stand-
ing orders relating to private bills be duly complied with.
(LEFT SPEAKING.)

Bank of England Return, —This Even7.ng.

An Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth Victoria,
cap. 32. for the week ending on Wednesday, the 22d day
of June, 1864 :

TIME DEPARTMENT.

Notes issued

Government Debt £11,015,1C0
Other Securities .. 3,634,900
Gold Coin & Bullion 13,630,385
Silver Bullion ....

.£28,280,385

£*28,230,35

:PA.RTMENT.
Government Sew-

rities (including
Dead Weight A-
nnuity) £11.122,267
Other Securities 20,729,.9
Notes
Gold and Silver 6:8,076
Coin

.C 40,644,187
:AItSJIALL, Chief Ca hter