The Sun.
London, England, 1863-05-07 00:00:00

THIRD EDITION

SUN OFFICE, SEVEN O'CLOCK

RUSSIA.
(REUTER'S TELEGRAM.)

ST. PETERSBURG, MAY 2

Bank of England Return.--This Day,

An Account, pursuant to 1
cap. 32, for the week ending
of May, 1863:

ISSUE
Notes issued ......X26,94 DET
0,785 i

£28,940,765'

BANKING D
Proprietors' Capi-
tal £14,553,000
Rest
Public Deposits (in-
cluding Exche-
quer, Savings'
Banks, Commis-
missioners of Na-
tional Debt, and
Dividend Ac-

counts) __
7,241,739
Other Deposits 13,122,087
Seven Day and
other Bills 603,014

£38,639,377 I
W.

£38,649,377
MILLER, Deputy Cashier.

May 7, 1863.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT

HOUSE OF LORDS—Last Evening.

The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack
the usual hour.

PRIVATE BUSINESS.

The North Eastern Railway (Newcastle and Starbeck),
Cockermouth and Worthington Railway, Staines and
Woking Junction Railway, and Sowerby Bridge Local
Board bills were read a second time.
THIRD READINGS.
The Great Eastern Railway (Steamboats) and North
British Railway bills were read a third time and passed.
THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS OF WALES.
Their Royal Highnesses entered the house this evening
shortly after five o'clock. The Princess of Wales occupied
a seat in the gallery over the throne, and his Royal High-
ness took his usual seat on the front cross bench.
The Earl of DERBY thought the whole bill would prove
totally useless without a clause similar to the suggestion of
the noble earl (Grey) opposite respecting bribery was in-
serted. He objected to the clause which gave the House of
Commons the power of suspending the issuing of a writ for
five years, as that was virtually disfranchising the place.
Lord REDESDALE also objected to that clause, and
hoped it would be expunged.
After a short discussion the house went into committee
on Ihe bill.

Clause 1 was agreed to.
CORRUPT PRACTICES AT ELECTIONS :BILL.
Earl RUSSELL moved the committal of this bill, and
in doing so entered into an explanation of its provisions,
which provided that in the event of boroughs being found
guilty of extensive bribery the writ might be suspended for
five years, and also gave very stringent powers where in-
dividual cases were to be dealt with.

Lord LYVEDEN moved the insertion of a clause which
disqualified all persons from voting who had been engaged
at a salary as agent, messenger, or any other capacity for
one month previous to such alteration.
Their lordships divided, when there appeared—
Contents
Not contents 66
Majority against
Clauses up to 9 were agreed to.
A division took place on the 10th clause, giving Parlia-
ment the power to suspend the writ of a borough guilty of
corrupt practices for 5 years. The numbers were—
For the clause
Against it
Majority against the clause —66
(LEFT SITTING.)

HOUSE OF COMMONS.---This Evening.
The SPEAKER took the chair at 4 o'clock,
PRIVATE BUSINESS.
The consideration of the Lords' amendments to the fol••
lowing bills and amendments were considered and agreed
to :—Cleveland Railway, Inverness and Aberdeen Junction
Railway, Rugby Wat r, and Whittle Dean Water.
THIRD READINGS.

The following bills were read a third time :—Birkenhead
Improvement, Formartine and Buchan Railway, Gravesend
and Milton Gas, Great Grimsby Water, lichen Bridge,
Letterkenny Railway, London and South Westerr and
Andover and Redbridge Railways, Mid Kent Railway,
Rotherham and Kimberworth Local Board of Health,
Stourbridge Railway, Tranmere Docks.
The Newcastle-upon-Tyne and Gateshead Equitable Gas
Bill was considered, and ordered to lie upon the table.
PETITIONS.
_ _

Several petitions were presented against the imposition
of income tax on charities, and against the amalgamation
of the Metropolitan with the City pollee. A large number
were part in favour of the Prisons Ministers bill by Mr.
HENNESS F.Y.
EXPERIMENTS AT SHOEBURYNESS.
In reply to Mr. MAGUIRE,
Lord C. PAGET said it was true that experiments were
made at Shoeburyness on the 27th of April last on
"Chalmers' Target," but whether they were made on a
target which was a piracy of ono patented by Mr. John
Clare, jun., the Board of Admiralty could not venture to
express an opinion.
uONVOCA.TIONS OF ARMAGH AND DUBLIN.
Mr. H. SEYM OUR asked the Secretary of State for the
Home Departmet t whether it was the intention of her
Majesty's Government to summon the Convocations of
Armagh and Dublin, in the same manner as the Convoca-
tions of Canterbury and York were summoned ?
Sir G. GREY replied that two memorials had been pre-
sented to her Majesty, but the Government had not deemed
it well to advise her Majesty to accede to their prayer.
ORDNANCE SURVEY.
Mr. WARNER asked the Under Secretary of State for
War when the military survey of the environs of London,
stated in the Ordnance Survey Report to be in progress of
publication at the end of last year, was likely to be issued ?
Lord HARTINGTON replied that some portions of the
survey had been published, and that the rest would be com-
pleted and be ready for issue before the end of the year.
PURCHASE OF THE INTERNATIONAL EXHI-
BITION BUILDING.
Lord It. CECIL asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer
whether the report was true that the Government had
offered or intended to become purchasers of the building in
which the Exhibition of 1862 was contained, and, if so,
what sum they prLposed to pay for it, and at what period
of the session they intended to bring forward the estimate.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER had
nothing to add to the reply which he had given to
oarL:e
lar question a short time ago. dew-
any fresh statement. But should the Governmentuie
d b quickly
He was not ablet
mine to purchase the building, the matter w .v en tor the
communicated to the house, and "le nelegdifor its pur-
discussion of any estimate that might be as
chase.
GOODS P—georetary of State for
ed the under
BRITISH KAFFRARIA ANIIII THE
Mr. A. MILLS ask CAPE OF
respectinp the proposed
the Colonies whether anry_rpcles,y Government by the in-
morials or petitions had been
habitantsrece
p ovinoe to the Colony of
.. that r
annexation of Good Hope ; and, if 809 whether
the Cape of any objection to lay Buell
ntiyadodfreßssreidtistho liital•Tria,
matter the fullest considera-
dom.
there would he
ments upon ILE said petitions had
Mr. FORTESu been presented
table of
giving
hge
the house
amalgamation of the colony with the
Cape of
Good IloPa. the tfat:br
the Government had ioadetermined that t
should be proceeded with, he annexation
CARLTO-N-TERRA.CE
In reply to Sir J. SHELLEY, .
siteir. F. PEEL tated that
was prepared in the usualthe valuation of the vacant
the highest bidders—Messrs. Pweay, and it had been let to a-year. He had no objection
to to a
papers. nd Trollope—at £1 400
produce the'
Mr. HENNESSY POLAND.
should movesngave notice that on an early day he
Poland. address to the Crown on the subject of
COMMUTATION
OF CHURCH RATES.
Mr. NE WDIGATE
he should introduce gv e notice that early next session
rates, a bill for the commutation of church

BRAZIL —MR CIIRISTIE.
Mr. M. MILN ES r * o *put a question to the First
Lord of the Treasury reosatpteef3trtianz7lthihe conduct of Mr. Christie,
her Majesty's Minister
Prince of Wales and the erne' ers of qhueerst/ili)anjeoeftyth'se ship
Forte ; and asked whether a letter addressed to Earl
Russell by the Minister of the United States at the
Court of Brazil, and subsequently published, had re
ceived any notice front her Majesty's Government. He
thought it was only due to Mr. Christie that the hon. mem-
ber for Lincoln (Mr. Bramley-Moore) would retract the
very unjustifiable language he had used towards that gen •
tleman.
Mr. BRAMLEY-MOORE, in order to explain, moved
the adjournment of the house. The merchants and prin-
cipal inhabitants of Rio Janeiro, who were better able to
pronounce an opinion than people at a distance, ywere
exceedingly dissatisfied with the conduct of Mr. Christie,
on account of the irritability of his position and the actual
falsehoods in which he had dealt with the wreck of the
Prime of Wales. It appeared, too, that he had quarreled

The chances of a naval war are now the topic of
warm discussion. The Governor-General of Fin-
land in his report speaks of a growing restlessness
of the people and of their Scandinavian tendencies,
and urges the Government to increase the
Russian forces in the Grand Duchy. In the mean-
time 12 vessels of war, mostly steamers, are being
armed. Three vessels are already cruising, and
six more will shortly leave Cronstadt.
In a note to the Governor-General of Moscow,
the Emperor thanks the capital, which he calls the
"dearly beloved city of his birth," for the address
conveying the expression of their loyal sentiments.
In his reply to the deputation by whom the ad-
dress was presented, the Emperor said—" I still
have hope that we may avoid a general war. If,
however, war should be our destiny, I am convinced
we shall know how to dotend the boundaries of
the empire and the countries which are inseparably
connected with it."

The order of St. Vladimir of the first class has
been conferred upon the promoters of the address.

A special reward has been instituted and confer-
red upon all high officials who co-operated in the
emancipation of the serfs.

he Act 7th and Bth Victoria
on Wednesday, the Gth day

.ARTMENT.
Government Debt .£11,015,1C0
Other Securities .. 3.634,900
Gold Coin & Bullion 14,290,765
Silver Bullion ...

£28,940,765

.:PARTDIENT.
Government Secu-
rities (including
Dead Weight A-
nnuity) £12,151,3"5
Other Securities 17,470.20
Notes
Gold and Silver 850,995
Coin

—..........,...............
with the other Ministers, and generally ereatA by I-Cs eon
duct an ill-feeling tif4ainst this country. lie .j.o.b.tified
the language of Gen. ‘Vebbe wiqa respect t. Mr. Christie., Lord i ALMERSTON defended M,. tllmstit.. He bad
for sometime been a member of that house, and many hone
members could hardly tail to recollect the meritorious way
in which he performed his duty. (Hear.) Mr. Christie
was a gentleman and a man of honour, and he WaS sat•stled
that no man could justly question his verdict. (Hear.)
He knew nothing of Mr. Webbe—(laughter)—and with re-
gard to his letter, it was no doubt treated by Earl Russell with the disregard it merited. (Hear.) Had such a letter
been written by a British diplcmatist he was sure his noble
friend would have dismissed him as a person unfit to hold
such a responsible post. Mr. Christie simply car: ied out
the orders sent him by the Government, and he had reason
to believe that the informati n supplied to the hon. member
for Lincoln with respect to the allvgcd ill feeling against
Mr. Christie was grossly incorrect. (Hear, he ,r.) It
was not the province of a body of trade, a to decide upon the
conduct of the representative of a Government, but that of
the Government who sent him there. (Hear, hear.)
After a short discussion the motion was negatived with-
out a division.

PRISON MINISTERS BILL.
On the motion for going into committee,
Mr. R. LONG rose to move that the hcuse resolve itself
into a committee this day six months.

(LEFT SITTING.)

FOURTH EDITION.

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