The Sun.
London, England, 1863-06-15 00:00:00

OPERATIVES.

Mr. FERRAND gave notice that he should to-morrow
ask the First Lord of the Treasury whether, looking at the
distress now suffered by the artizans, he did not deem it
expedient to devote a morning sitting to the subject.
NEW TELEGRAPHIC LINE TO NORTH
AME RICA.
Mr, CAVE asked the Under-Secretary for Foreign
Affairs whether her Majesty's Government had received
information respecting an international conference. which,
according to the Monzteur, had been opened in Paris, for
the purpose of examining into the project of a telegraphic
line from Europe to North America, via Brazil, and the
West Indies, and whether any steps had been taken for the
representation of this country at such conference ?
Mr. LAYARD replied it was quite true that there had
the
British such a conference. Proposals had been made to
British Government to take part in it; but the Treasury,
looking at the engagements into whieh it had entered had
not deemed it advisable to accede to the proposal.
JAPAN.
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Mr. LIDDELL asked the Under Secretaeryt
the
Foreign Affairs what was the precise natures
11 made by her Majesty's Government
es committed
demands
Foreign
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on
British u
Japan,in tehe eshapeeei
no f reparationthat e for
try
and, whether there
; outrag
what instructions had been
would be any objection toal teh
coma steps
pi
to be taken in t
sent to the .
flBttintee y
with those demands. tThecsotaont'isonreafsus
that some months ago a mur-
subject
a British riding on a
derous attack was b
treaty to British residents. A Mr.
Mr. LAYARD
Lure
two other gentlemen were seriously
Richardson was killed,
and a lady narrowly escaped, almost by a
wounded,
public road, open by two
do
n
with her life. An apology had been
miracle, with
„„a d. and the payment of LlOO,OOO as a penalty
rfie—ar, hear, hear.) It appeared that the parties who
committed the outrage consisted of a band of persons with
whom were associated a native prince and his father. A
demand had been made that the guilty parties should be
tried, and if found guilty, executed. (Hear.) £25,00 had
also been demanded for the family of the victims of this
murdered,outrageo outrageous
washseaulwt.erelnguJaurdnienglast
the
Britishyeartwo m,aries were
had been demanded for their families.
families legation,lie did 1141 i,
know whether the Government. of Japan had power
to carry out the proposals, but probably the next mail would
bring definite intelligence.
NEW WRIT—LISBURN.
On the motion of Colonel TAYLOR, a new writ was ordered
to be issued.
THE PURCHASE OF THE GREAT INTERNA-

TIONAL EXIIIBITION.
Lord PALMERSTON appealed to the hon. member for
Tipperary to postpone his motion, so that the discussion
on the proposed vote might not be delayed. The hon. and
learned member lot-Ring's county had put off his motion to
that day week.
The O'DONOGHUE said, after the way the noble lord
had treated the question of the Irish Church, he really did
not feel disposed to give war if he had his motion on the
paper for this evening, which was a mistake of the noble
lords.
Mr, HENNESSY stated that he had giVell Way on

the express understanding that he should have an oppt
tunity of bringing on the subject of Poland this day weel4,
Mr. OSBORNE said he was a miserable dupe with re-
spect to his motion—(lat:ghter) —for he had put it off under
the impression that he should have Friday week, which it
appeared had been devoted to Another hon. member.

- The subject then dropped.
In reply to Sir H. WILLOUGHBY,
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER replied
that the commissioners held the 12 acres of land free and
intact at South Kensington. The land cost £l7l '.soo.When the partnership between the commissioners ann' the
Government ceased, this money advanced by the Govern-
ment was repaid—Xl2o,ooo in cash and £61,000 in land.
On the motion of Lord PALMERSTON, the house th,
went into committee.

Lord PALMERSTON then brougßt forward the pro-
posed estimate for the purchase of the land and building,
and for additions and alterations. He thought London.
might most justly be styled the commercio.l capital
of the
world, and hence ranked high among the
commercial centres of the world, its great size'
and the crowding of its buildings tended greatly to impair
its architectural beauties. The streets were narrow and its
open places few and small. Its public buildings wen., not
many, and differences of opinion prevailed as to tileir
architectural claims to admiration. They had but few of
those palaces belonging to individuals who were to be found
in many of the small towns of the continent. There were,
it was true, N ,rthumberland ar d Landsdowne houses, and.
the beautiful club houses in Pall-mall. The noble lord
cited the cost of land in Lonaon and in each of the large
towns, and contended that the land would be sold to the
country at a great bargain—namely, £6,000 per acre,
whereas, if sold at this moment for building purposes, it
would realise not less than £15,000 per acre. (Hear,
hear) The noble lord codtrasted the great cost of buy
ing the land in town for the proposed extension of
the British Museum, with the small price of the
much larger quantity at Kensington. It was proposed to
take the Patent Museum and the National Portrait Gallery
to this Exhibition. The 17 acres would ,f-..fost
£120,000, the building £BO,OOO, and the entire alte.ra-
don £284,0000,
making a total of .£1,841,0C 0,
but it was only proposed to ask for £172,000 in 1863 !incl.
1864, namely, £67,000 for land,- £BO,OOO for the building,
and £2,000 for the repairs and extensions. A dome was a
very handsome thing. (Laughter) Every one admired
the domes of St. Paul's and St. Peter's. The present
domes would he constructed more solidly after the
style of the generally admired dome of the British Mu-
seum. The Government did not propose to remove the
National Gallery; that, as yet, was a moot question.
The noble lord calculated that the nation would be greatly
advantaged by the purchase and concluded by placing the
first resolution in the han'cls of Mr. Massey—namely,
£67,000 for the purchase.of the land in the present and nest
year.
Mr. GREGORY rose to oppose the bill.
(LEFT SITTING.)