The Sun.
London, England, 1863-05-29 00:00:00

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(Private Entrance, 44. A, Maddox-street, Regent-street\
containing upwards of 1,200 Models, Natural Preparations,
Monstrosities,Frame &c., illustrating every part of the Human
; also the Moving Anatomical Dying Zouavc, Julia
sntt:ana, and other We-size figures. Admission, One
ecturg Or Gentlemen only), from 11 till 10. Lelture at

In Supply, resolution reported—" That a sum not exceed-
ing £250,000 be granted to her Majesty, on account,
towards defraying the charge of the Post-office packet
service, which will come in course of payment during the
year ending on the 31st day of March, 1864, which sum
includes provision for payments to Mr. Joseph George
Churchward, for the conveyance of mails between Dover
and Calais and Dover and Ostend, from the first day of
April, 1863, to the 20th day of June, 1863, but no part of
which sum is to be applicable or applied in or towards
making any payment in respect of the period subsequent
to the 20th day of June, 1863, to the said Mr. Joseph
George Churchward, or to any person claiming through
or under him by virtue of a certain contract, bearing date
the 26th day of April, 1859, made between the Lords
Commissioners of her Majesty's Admiralty (for and on
behalf of her Majesty) of the first part, and the said
Joseph George Churchward of the second part, or in or
towards the satisfaction of any claim whatsoever of the
said Joseph George Churchward, by virtue of that con-
tract, so far as relates to any period subsequent to the
20th day of June, 1863." Resolution read a second time.
Amendment proposed, to leave out from the words
" March, 1864," to the end of the resolution. Question
put, "That the words proposed to be left out stand part
of the resolution." The house divided—Ayes, 205 ;
Noes, 191.

AYES-205.
Acton, Sir J. Foley, Hon. H. W. Packe, Col.
Adeane, H. J. Forster, Charles D. Padmore, R.
Agnew, Sir A. Forster, W. E. Paget, C.
Alcock, T. Fortescue, Hon. F. Paget, Lord A.
Antrobus, E. Fortescue, C. 5, Paget, Lord C. E.
Atherton, Sir W. Gibson. T. M. Palmer, Sir R.
Aytoun, It. S. Gilpin, C. Paxton, Sir J.
Bagwell, J. Gladstone, W. E. Pease,, H.
Baring, 11. B. Glyn, G. C. Peel, Sir R.
Baring, Sir F. Glyn, G.S. Peel, F.
Barnes, T. Gowei, G. W. L. Pigott, Sergeant
Bass, M. T. Greene, J. Pinney, Col.
Baxter, W. E. Greenwood, J. Potter, E.
Bazley, Thomas Gregson, S. Pryse, Capt. E. L.
Beale, Samuel Grenfell, H. R. Pritchard, John
Beaumont,Somerset Gurdon, B. Proby, Lord G. L.
Bellew, It. M. Gurney, John IL Pugh, D.
Biddulph, Col. R.M. Handley, John Puller, C. W.
Black, Adam Hanmer, Sir J. Raynham, Viscount
Blencowe, J. G. Hardcastle, Jos. A. Ricardo, 0.
Bouverie, P. P. Hartington,Marquis Robartes, T. J. A.
Brady, Dr Hayter, Sir Win. Robertson, D.
Briscoe, J. I. Headlam, Thos. E. Rothschild,Baron L.
Bruce, Lord E. A. Heathoote, G. H. Rothschild,Baron M
Hon. C.
Bruce, H. A. Henley, Lord Russell, Hastings
Bury, Viscount
JlBllne Jackson,uirgbvthb etoa, Howard,m W.
1 tl
vsjuii: or.
Buchanan, W. Herbert, H. A. Russell, A. J. E.
Buckley, Maj.-Gen, Hervey, Lord A. Russell, Sir Wm.
sSeth. Aoluefibeyind,. J.
W.
Butler, C. S.
CCceitairrnirtdhdewo'gierpjleal,e7H,Rlent's:ii.n..
E. bcott, Sir W.
Seely, C.
J. SSheyartoo,urlLDDan. bY
Castlerosse, Viet. King, Hon. P. Smith, J. A.
Cavendish, Hon. W. Kinglake, A. W. Somerville, Si
Churchill, Lord A. .Kinglake, Serj. J. Stacpoole, IV! Mr.
Clay, James Kinnaird, Hon. A. Staniland, M.
Clifford, C. C. Knatchbull-Hugess Stansfeld, J.
Clifford, Col. Layard, A. H. Stuart, Col.
Cobden, R. Langton, W. 11. G. Sykes, Col. W. 11.
Coke, Col. Lawson, W. Talbot, C. R. N.
Colebrooke, Sir T.E. Leatham, E. Taylor, P. A.
Collier, R. P. Lee, W. Thompson, 11. S.
Cowper, Hon. W.F. Legh, G. C. Thornhill, W. P.
Craufurd, E. H. J. Locke, John Tollemache, J. H.
Crawford, R. W. Lowe, Rt. Hon. R. Train, G.
Crossley, Sir F. Lysley, W. Trelawny, Sir J. S.
Dalglish, Robert Mackinnon, w.(Ly.)Turner, J. A.
Davey, R. Mackinnon,W. A. Vane, Lord 11. G.
Martin, Y. W.
Davie,Davi e
CSiorl.H}.... Marshall, W. Villiers, Rt. Hon. C.
R. F. Marsh, M. H. Vernon, H.
Denman, G. Vyner, Reginald
W. N. Wemyss, J.
Dent, John Dent Weguelin, T.
Divett, Edward
Dodson, John G.tern, S.
Douglas, Sir C. Matheson, Sir J. Westhead, J.
Doulton, F. Merry, James
Matheson,MM Massey,aa
tr Itilens jn* , A .
Whalley, G. H.
Duff, M. E. Mildmay, H. Whitbread, S.
Duff, R. Miller, William White, Jas.
Dundas, Frederick Mills, J. R. White, L.
Dundas, Sir David Moffatt, George Williams, W.
Enfield
Ennis, John Morris, D. Wood, Itt II n. Sir C.
Woods, Henry
Enfield, Viscount Monsell, Rt. 13n. W. Winnington, Sir T.
Evans, T. W. Norris, J. T.
Ewart, William North, F. Wrightson, W.
Ewing, li. E. C. O'Brien, Sir P. Wyvill, M.
Fenwick, Henry O'Conor Don, The TELLERS,
Finlay, A. S. Ocrilvy, Sir J. Brand, H. B.
Eitzroy, Lord F. 0 Hagan, T. Dunbar, Sir Win.

NOES —l9l.
Arbuthnott, Gen.ll. Hamilton, I. T. Packe, C.
Archdall, Capt.M,E. Hardy, Gathorne Pakenham, Col.
Astell, J. 11. Hardy, J. Pakington, Sir J. S.
Baillie, H. J. Hay, Sir J. Palk, Sir L.
Bar ttelot, Col. Heathcote, Sir W. Palmer, R. W.
Bathurst, A. A. Hennessy, J. P. Papillon, P. 0.
Beecroft, G. S. Henniker, Lord Parker, Major W.
Bentinck, G. C. Holford, R. S. Patten, Col. W.
Benyon, R. Ilolmesdale, Lord Paull, H.
BerestOrd, W. Hope, G. W. Peacocke, G. M.
Beresford, Denis Hopwood, J. T. Peel, Gen.
Bernard, Col. Hornby, W. H. Pevensey, Viscount
Bernard, Thos. T. Hotham, Gen. Lord Phillips, G. L.
Booth, Sir R. G. Howes, E. Potts, George
Bramston, T. W, Humberstone, P. S. Powell, I'. S.
Bridges, Sir B. Hume, W. Powell, J.
Bruce, Sir H. Hunt, G. W. Powys-Lybbe, P. L.
Bruen, Henry Ingestre, Viscount Redmond, J. E.
ButlerJohnstone,ll, Jermyn, Earl Itepton, G. W. J.
Cairns, Sir H. Jervis, Captain Ridley, Sir M. W.
Cartwright, Col. Jolliffe, Sir W. bolt, J.
Cecil, Lord R. Kekewich, S. Rowley, Hon. R. T.
Chapman, J. Kelly, Sir F. Salt, T.
Close, M. C. Kerrison, Sir E. Scott, Lord H.
Cobbold, John C. Knight, F. Selwyn, C. J.
Cochrane, A. D. Kennard, R. Shirley, E. P.
Codrington, Sir W Knox, Col. Sidney, Thomas
Cole, Hon. H. Knox, Major W. S. Smith, Sir F.
Cole, J. L. Lacon, Sir E. Smith, M.
Collins, T. Lanoton, W. G. smonett, P.
Corry, H. L. Leader, N. Somerset, Col. E.
Cox, W. Leeke, Sir IL Somes, Joseph
cubitt, George Lefroy, A. Spooner, H.
Cubitt, Ald. Lennox, Lord G. G. Btrtiiiiope, Lord
Curzon, Viscount Lennox, Lord H. G. Stirling, Wm.
Dalkeith, Earl of Leslie, C. P. Stewart, Sir M. R.
Dickson, Col. Lever, John 0. Stuart, Col. W.
Disraeli, Benjamin Liddell, Hon. H. G. Strace y, Sir 11.
Duke, Sir James Lindsay, W. S. Sturt, 11. G.
Duncombe, W. E. Longlield, Robert Sturt, Col.
Edwards, Col. Lyall, G. Sullivan, M.
Egerton, A. F. Lygon, Hon. F. Talbot, lion. W. C.
Egerton, W. Lytton, Sir E. B. Tempest, Lord A.V.
Elmley, Viscount Macaulay, K. Thynne, Lord E.
Elphinstone Sir J. INl`Corunek, W. Thynne, Lord H.
Farquhar, Sir M. Malcolm, J. W. Torrens, R.
Fellowes, Edward Mains, R. Trollope, Sir John
Fergusson, Sir J. Manners, Lord J. Turner, C.
Ferrand, W. Maxwell, Col. Vance, John
Filmer, Sir E. Miles, Sir W. Vansittart, Wm.
Fitzgerald, W. S. Miller, T. Verner, Sir Wm,
Franklyn, G. W. Mitford, W. T. Walpole, S. H.
Galway, Viscount Montagu, Lord R. Walsh, Sir J. B.
George, John Montgomery, Sir G. Way, Arthur E.
Getty, S. G. Morgan, Major Whiteside, J.
Gordon, C. W. Morritt, W. Williams, Col.
Gore, J. R. 0. Mowbray, Rt. lln. J. Willoughby, Sir H.
Gore, W. R. 0. Murray, William Woodd, B.
T.
Graham, Lord Wm. Newport, Visct. Wynn, C. W. W.
Gray, Capt. Nicol, William Wynne, W. W. E.
Grogan, Sir E. Noel, G.. 1. Yorke, Hon. E.
Haliburton, T. C. North, Col.
Hamilton, Lord C. Northcote, Sir S. H. TELLERS.
Hamilton, Major O'Donoghue, The Taylor, Colonel
Hamilton, Viscount O'Neill, E. Whitmore, H.
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THE ESCAPE OF A CONVICT FROM DARTMOOR
PRISON, AND HIS RE-CAPTURE.—On Tuesday one
of the convicts escaped from this prison. It is supposed
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into
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the
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.He himself bally
events, missed during the school hours. On settich being
made it was discovered that he had escaped. He appears
to have got over the prism wall by means of a rope and a
sauthbag, and the feat is the more remarkable as he had
only ono hand. There was a great hue and cry after him
all day, but nothing was heard of him till IV( dnesday morn-
ing, when the news arrived that he had been captured by
the
in
nTthhee prisoner--f
thaeLmivoerrninpoogl
and given up to the authorities.
ELECTION EXPENSES.--The charges incurred at
the recent election for West Somerset, at which
Mr. w. H. P. Gore Langton was returned unopposed,
have just been published by the auditor. The total sum
amounted to j 684 25.; £lO4 4s. 10d. was spent in printing
andas advertising,elrenesi
T The
e33blal aansefeeesis to lawyers,
uer ps, besides CO 14s.
of miscellaneous

Mr. OSBORNE said he thought he discovered in the
Mayor, who had spoken of him as the "truant member,"
the author of a facetious paragraph in Punch., offering a re-
ward for their missing representative. (Laughter.) He (the
hon. member) was, however, now before them, and was
prepared to review the events of the past session. Ho was
reminded of an anecdote told of the great Queen Bess, 'who
was reported to have asked her Minister, the famous Lord
Burleigh, " What have you passed in Parliament ?" To
which he replied, " Six weeks." (Laughter.) He (Mr.
Osborne's) answer must be a similar one, for, looking back
to the last two sessions, he was not aware that they had
passed anything but their time, and thatnot in a very bene-
ficial manner. (Laughter.) There was one question in the
last session in which he had taken considerable interest,
viz., the Revised Code. He thought the Government de-
served great credit for attempting to reform the educational
system in this country ; for when they considered that the
grants for education had risen from £30,000 in 1839 to
£140,000 in 1862, they would be of opinion that it was high
time to grapple with the question. (Hear, hear.) He had
come to the conclusion that we were going too far with
these education grants—(hear)—and that the attempt to
get the whole of the education of the country into the
hands of a Government officer was a great and glaring mis-
take. He held that the Government was not bound to
furnish more than the mere elementary parts of education
—reading, writing, and arithmetic ; the rest should be
done by voluntary efforts. He pointed to Prussia as an
example of the results of State interference in educa-
tion. They saw there a King defying his people, a Minis-
try sneering at the Parliament, and a people so patient
that we held up our hands in wonder, and were induced to
look upon a Prussian as a long suffering animal; and yet
Prussia was said to be the boat educated country in the globe.
Our Government, after a bold stand on this question, had
succumbed, and s compromise was effected, but it would
result in little good. It might check the votes, but we
should still be called upon to vote hundreds of thousands
for State education. Another question which had excited
England in an enormous manner was the great Thames
Embankment question. That was the great question of the
session of 1862, and it was carried. There was another
question which he did not look upon with satisfaction—that
was the Night Poaching Bill, which he had voted against
in all its stages. He did not wish to encourage poaching;
but he thought the whole system of the Game Laws was
based upon wrong and bad principles. (Hear.) Poaching
had considerably increased since 1857, and this he supposed
was the motive for the introduction of the bill ; but he ob-
jected to the country being taxed for the maintenance of
policemen who were to serve as gamekeepers. Coming to
the session of 1863, the hon. gentleman said he felt much
in the situation of the famous knife-grinder in Canning's
poem,—“Story I God bless you, I've none to tell." The
House of Commons was now an Agapemone—an Abode of
Love. (Laughter.) There were scarcely any differences
of opinion, and party spirit seemed almost to have died out
except when a debate was got up on foreign politics, in
which respect the policy of the Government seemed to
resemble that of the well-known Mrs. Jellaby in Dickens's
story. They were drawing Reform Bills for Italy, but were
neglecting the reform that was so much needed at home.
He would like to see a little of the same " advice" given to
Prussia. (Hear, hear.) We were putting a finger in every
foreign pie, to the neglect of the roast beef of Old England
(laughter) ; but his idea was that reform, like charity,
should begin at home. (Applause.) He would have liked
to hear of some domestic measures in contemplation, but he
was sure there were none ; for a paragraph in The Times,
which ;was,. the organ of everything and governed this
country, stated that the ensuing session is not likely to be
very busy or eventful, and the Honie-office could not un-
dertake a more useful, or popular task than reform in the
standard of bottles. (Loud laughter.) He had been look-
ing in vain for this great measure ; but if there had been no
reform in the standard of bottles, there had been a great at.
tempt to have reform in pots of porter. (Laughter.) He had
been waited on that day by a deputation in reference to Mr.
Somes's Sunday Closing bill, on which measure he would
candidly tell them his opinion. (Hear.) The question was
a much larger one than might at first appear. He did every
justice to the conscientious and good men who thought that
by closing the publichouses they would make men moral
and good ; but, although the measure might be good for
the rural districts, in large towns it would be totally im-
possible to carry it out. The mechanics and industrial por-
tions of the community were supplied by those publichouses
in their every-day wants ; they had their pint of porter as
regularly as their dinner, and he could not see why they
should be debarred from this erjo3ment any more than the
rich man who could get refreshment at his club. If there
was to be legislation on this subject, let it be impartial, and
apply to the rich as well as the poor. (Great applause.) It
was utterly impossible that we could legislate for one class
and not for the other. We could not expect that men would
be made moral by act of Parliament. We might make
hypocrites but fail to reach the heart, and he could not vote
for Mr. Somes's bill without serious consideration. This
was probably the only domestic question we should have
during this session that was likely to excite the public mind,
People were much more fond, it seemed, nowadays of call-
ing public meetings about the affairs of foreign countries;
accordingly there was great excitement about Poland, but
in holding these meetings we should consider whether we
were not doing our best to foment a gallant but useless
struggle. He thought a great responsibility rested upon us
in this respect. (Hear.) We were holding meetings to syna_
pathise with the Poles in their struggle for freedom, but
were we prepared to render them any material assistance ?
If not, we were misleading that gallant people by mere un-
meaning resolutions of sympathy. What they required was
aid, but was England prepared to go to war on behalf of
the Poles—(No !)—or to incur an addition to the pre-
sent taxes to aid the war ? (No.) If not, it was wrong
to encourage false hopes of assistance ; and for this reason
he had refused to attend meetings of this kind, although he
had promised readily to subscribe. How much wiser had
been our conduct in relation to the war in America. The
Government had acted, he thought, with commendable
prudence in this matter- -(hear)—and he gave Lord Pal-
merston credit for the manner in which he had steered clear
of the difficulties which beset him and avoided any partici-
pation on either side. (Hear.) The hon. member next re-
ferred to the distress in Lancashire, and applauded the pa-
tient endurance displayed by the operatives under their
sufferings, and he thought the day would come when Par-
liament would best show its sense of that endurance by re-
membering that many of these men were not endowed with
the suffrage. He did not think that the whole of the para-
lysis of industry in the Lancashire districts
e
able to the war in America; he believed the great cause of
distress was the system of over-production. A number of
small mills had been built, and in the year
alssBisna9gt theattribut-
able
ut -t
number of bales of cotton imported from America was one
millicu in excess of the number imported in 1818, all of
which had been manufactured in one year, u
in the markets from which distress must sooner or later
have arisen, independent of the war. But be this as it might,
we had seen in our time the breaking up of one of the
greatest empires the world had over seen. No man could
read the details of this war, which came home by every
mail, without shuddering at the spectacle of a nation ar-
rayed in arms against each other. Whatever a man's feel-
ings might be in regard to North or South, he could not
look upon the gallon' stand Lunde by the South in defence
of their liberties without wishing them success. (Cheers,)
Englishmen, too, would also regret the loss of that brave
and noble hero, " Stonewall" Jackson, over whose tomb a
nation's tears would fall—(applause)—and whose memory
would be consecrated for ages to come. It was impos-
sible to say at present what would be the result of this
war. It would seem to him that there must soon be ex-
haustion of credit on the one side, and exhaustion of men
on the other; for, after all, the resources of both North and
South in respoct to men was limited, although he knew that
the North was at this moment recruiting in the sister
country. But take it as we might, a struggle of mercenary
soldiers against a gallant band, however small, who were
' fighting for a good cause, could not succeed, and he did not
believe that the Union would ever be restored. Any inter-
ference on our part would, he believed, only provoke resent-
ment and tend to involve this country in a probable war ;
u
and as an independent member he could not but admire the
consistent course which had been followed by her Majesty's
Government in respect to this all-absorbing question—a
course in which he trusted they would persist.
g(liitesard,ighneaitry.),
hadi t
lie could have wished that the same consistent course had
b-
been persued in respect to the
reednimTspheue ntteq,
withest i
oßrazil,
had
beeni n
which
sub-
mitted eae
der
t,
te hod thought,etthhee
King
partinga b
of the
of
the Belgians--one of the most states-
manlike and able men in Europe—for arbitration, and he
hoped that it would be amicably settled ; but he thought
that great discontent would be excited by our ungracious
conduct. With regard to Italy, he wished to see liberty
prevail all over the world, but he was not so Quixotic in his
notions as to wish to involve this country in additional
taxation in order to aid in the achievement of Italian inde-
pendence. Referring to the defeat of the Metropolitan Police
Bill, the hon. member said he did not wish to see the police
concentrated in the hands of the Home Minister—(applause)
—and he desired to see municipal rights preserved. (Hear,
hear.) He next spoke of the outlay on fortifications, and
condemned strongly the waste of money on the land de-
fences, but said he would vote any amount of money that
might be necessary to preserve the navy in a state of
thorough efficiency, believing that to be the most reliable
means of protection against foreign invasion, In the last
12 years there had been £293,000,000 spent on our military
and naval defences, and now the Government was proposing
to spend nine railliew wore ; but he believed that at leak, 25