The Sun.
London, England, 1863-06-12 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT

HOUSE OF LORDS---This Evening.
The Lord Chancellor took his seat at the usual hour.
PRIVATE BUSINESS.

The Sea'on and Beer Railway, Horsey Island Reclama-
tion, Baun Navit.r ,tion Improvement, Hemel Hempstead
and London and Nu-th-Western Railway, Wrexham, Mold
and Connah's Quay Railway ; Oswestry, Ellesmere and
Whitchurch Railway ; Drayton Junction and Ogrnore
Valley Railways bills were read a second time.
THIRD REA'INGS.
The Pembroke Township—Dublin, Wicklow, and Wex-
ford Railway (Amendments)—Wa:e, Hadham, and Bunt-
ingtord Railway (Amendments)—and Stockport District
Water bill. were read a third time, and passed.
THE CASE OF MR. BISHOP.
The Marquis of NORMANBY said ho would on Mon-
day ask the noble lord the :-.ecretary of State for Foreign
Affairs if he would lay on the table of the house a copy
of the despatch relative to the pardon of Mr. Bishop by the
King of Italy.
Earl RUSSELL, immediately on the noble marquis
taking his seat, said he should not have the slightest ob-
jection to:produce the document referred to.
THE STATUTE LAWS.
The LORD CHANCELLOR rose to call the atten-
tion of the house to the present state of the statute law in the
courts of law and equity, and for the purpose of introduc-
ing a bill for the revision of the statute law. The noble
and learned lord said he proposed to do little if anything
more than revise the proposition of that great man, Lord
Bacon, which appeared in a production of his entitled the
amendment of the laws of England, the wisdon and excel-
lency of which, although it had been admitted from age
to age. yet, from that singular inertia which characterized
Knglish legislature nothing had been done. The object of
the measure would be to insure a greater certainty in legal
decisions ttat a case might be recorded according to the
statue rather than by precedent. The noble lord, in assert-
ing the necessity for such a measure, quoted statmnents
made by Lord Eldon, Lord Ellenborough, and other learned
lords, in various cases that had come before them,
(LEFT SPEAKING.)

HOUSE OF COMMONS.--This Day.
The SPEAKER took the chair at twenty minutes after
,welve.

NEW MEMBER,-KINSALE.

Sir George Coulthurst took the oaths and his seat. The
hon. member was introduced by Mr. Herbert and Mr.
Beamish.

THIRD READINGS.

The following bills were read a third time .—Elginshire
and Nairnshire Roads, Bridges, &c. ; Hadlow Railway ;
Waterford and Passage. Railway and Ferry.
FISHERIES (IRELAND) BILL.

Col. VANDELEUR said he understood that the right
hon. baronet intended on the second reading to make a
statement with respect to the purpose of the bill. It would
be doubtless exceedingly satisfactory to the Irish members
if he would do so on the present occasion.
Sir R. PEEL said he was quite prepared to do so ; but
he considered that the discussion that would to-day be
entered upon would fully answer the purpose of an expla-
natory statement. (Hear, hear.)
Col. ,VANDELEUR expressed his satisfaction at the
statement of the right hon. gentleman.
Sir R. PEEL moved that the house shculd go into
committee on this bill.

Mr. SCULLY raid if they were legislating for a new
country 'like New Zealand they would probably not permit
wiers and bag nets in the rivers, but it was impossible that
they could take away the rights of proprietors without
compensation. He did not altogether approve of the bill of
the hon. and learned member for Wexford (Mr. M'Mahon),
but at the same time he did not like to see its chief features
plagiarised by the bill of the Government. He proposed in
regard to compensation that the value of the fishing rights
of the various parties interested should be estimated and
capitalised, and paid by annuity or in some other way.
The bill did not appear to him to make proper pro-
vision for compensation. No time ought to be lost in
placing the law on a better footing. Anglers ought to
be taxed about 4d. per lb. for each "individual" salmon
they caught because they materially contributed to lessen
the breeding of the fish. (Hear, hear.)
Sir H. BRUCE said there was no doubt that the bill of
the hon. and learned member for Wexford was one for the
confiscation of ancient rights, confirmed and secured under
the Act of 1842, and that the bill of the right hon. baronet
was simply a compromise. He denied that the sea fisheries
were so injurious as had been stated; it was the sweep nets
in the rivers that created the great damage. _ _

Mr. BRUCE said any sea fisheries within miles of the
mouth of rivers would be interfered with.
After a few words from Mr. Cox and Sir R. PEEL in ex-
planation, the house went into committee, and the various
amendments, occupying no less than 10 closely printed
pages, and chiefly of a technical nature, were proceeded
with.
The discussion occupied the remainder of the sitting.

The house resumed at six o'clock, and was
(LEFT SITTING.)

LONDON GAZETTE—This Evening.

At the Court at Windsor, the 11th day of June, 1863,
Present—the Clueetes Most Excellent Majesty in Council.
Her Majesty in Council was this day pleased, on a repre-
sentation of the Right Hon. the Lords of the Committee
of Council on Education, to appoint Joshua Girding Fitch,
Esq., M.A., of London, one of her Majesty's Inspectors of
Schools.
WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, JUNE 12.
Royal Regiment of Artillery—Lieutenant-General Alex.
Maclachlan to be Colonel-Commandant, vice Lieutenant-
General Richard Jones, deceesed.
FOREIGN OFFICE, JUNE 10.
The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. James
Smith as Consul at Dundee for the United States o"
America.

CROWN-OFFICE, JUNE 10.
MEMBERS RETURNED TO SERVE IN THE PRESENT
PARLIAMENT.

Borough of Kinsale—Sir George Conway Colthurst, of
Ardrum, Bart., in the room of Sir John Arnott, Knt., who
has accepted the office of Steward of her Majesty's Manor ,
of Hempsholme.
Borough of New Ross—Lieut. Col. Charles George Tot-
tenham, in the room of Charles Tottenham, Esq., who has
accepted the office of Steward of her Majesty's Chiltern
Hundreds.
2,d Regiment of Life Guards—Lieutenant Georg
Curzon to bo Captain by urchase, vice Hamilton
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derick Arthur Lord Sandp, from 9gtohrzor, ; •
Cecil Alfred
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purchase, vice Frederick Trenchto be Cornet and Sub-
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purchase, vice
Nas "George Charles, Marquis of Bland-
Gent.,- tormnoteCOrnet and Sub-Lieutenant, by
Royal Horse Guards—tby p
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Scrope, w
Guards—Captain Henry Alexander to be
Ist Dragoon
urchase, vice Thomas Nisbet, who retires ;
ford, to be Cornet,
major, by tired. .
Alexander; Cornet Edward Hoare Reeves
Lieutenat PLeonard Wilson, Atkinson, to be Captain, by
purchase, vice
to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Atkinson.
10th Hussars—Cornet Cambre Brabazon Ponsonby to be
Lieutenant, by purchase, vice William Morgan Maunder,
who retires; Cornet John Charles Stephen Fremantle to
be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Wilfrid Brougham, who
retires ; Edward Spencer Watson, Gent., to be Cornet,
by purchase, vice Ponsonby ; The Hon. Henry George
Louis Crichton to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Fremantle.
Royal Regiment of Artillery—Captain Andrew Aytoun to
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Campbell Jones, cashiered by sentence y sentence of a General Court
Martial ; Second Captain and Brevet Major Richard Pitt-
man to be Captain, vice Aytoun ; Lieutenant John
Robert Dyce to be Second Captain, vice Brevet Major
Goodenough ; Lieutenant James Cecil Grove Price to be
Second Captain, vice Frederick Ely Smalpage, deceased;
Lieutenant Arthur Carey to be Second Captain, vice
Brevet Major Pi; titian.
Military Train—Lieut. Edmund Weston, from half-pay,late
Osmanli Horse Artillery, to be Lieutenant, vice Isaac
Cummin, who retires upon temporary half-pay; Ensign
Thomas Gerard Lockyer to be Lieutenant by purchase,
vice Weston, who retires ; Franklin Ludovic Berthon,
Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Loekyer ; Lieut.
Jameir Milne to be Adjutant, vice Lieut. Cummin.
Coldstream Guards—Ensign and Lieutenant Henry Robert