The Sun.
London, England, 1865-07-04 00:00:00

COLONIAL.

TEL—Business during the last few days has been very
inactive, the trade having deferred their operations until
to-day, when about 40,518 packages of China will be
offered, only a few of which are at reserved prices.
SUGAR.—The market has remained dull, although prices
generally aro steadily maintained. In the refined depart-
ment there is no material alteration to report as regards
prices.

COFFEE.—The demand for superior descriptions of colo-
nial has been steady, while full rates have been current.
RICE.—A moderate amount of business has been done,
and late prices are generally well maintained.
TALLOW.—The market has continued moderately active,
and quotations for both present and forward delivery are
well supported, P.Y.C. on the spot being 41s. 9d., and last
three months, 425. 9d. to 435: per cwt.

Letters from Lorient give an account of an ac-
cident which has just taken place at Gavres, while
proving a breech-loading cannon. An explosion
took place, by which General Frebault, Director of
Artillery at the Ministry of Marine ; Colonel Del-
saux ; an inferior officer ; and some artillerymen
were wounded. The General, fortunately, was but
slightly injured, the Colonel more severely, and the
others merely receiving some burns from the gun-
powder.
M. Krautz, formerly chief engineer of the Grand
Central Railway, and now engineer in chief of the
department of the Ardeche, has been appointed
director of the works of the Universal Exhibition of
8 67.

Qrs. ending Shares in Shares Total Receipts.
progress. Complete. Shares.
£ s. d.
Dec. 24, 1864 262 15 277 19,229 9 8
March 25, 1865 2s7 60 357 16,z49 5 0
June 24, i 865 216 64 493 1e,b52 18 8
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Three quarters *
ending 10 id-
summer,lB6s .. 988 139 1,!27 53,831 13 4
Totals to Sept
30,1864 16,723 4,505 21,228 782,389 13 10
Grand totals to
Midsummer, 1E 65 17,711 4,644 22,'55 836,221 7 2

The receipts for the first three quarters of the present
financial year, compared with the coirosponding period of
the past year, as also the receipts for the present over the
last quarter, show an increase.
The total sale of land to Midsummer, 1865,
is ••• ••• ••• £399,005 310
The total withdrawals since the formation
of the society (Sept., 1852) to Midsum-
mer, 1865, are ... £251,564 17 8
The returns of the register of rights are as follows:
Completed. Drawn. Seniority. Total.
5,667 3,305 1,758 10,730
Deduct rights unexercised on estates, &c.... 8,154

Unexercised rights ... 2,576
The last share number on the register of seniority (date
of membership) is No. 15,875.
The last share issued up to Midsummer, 1865, is No.
22,355.

The sale of the Sunnyside estate, Sandown, Isle of
Wight, which was allotted on the 6th of April, and the
allotment of the Roehampton and Tottenham (Seven Sis-
ters) estates on the same day, have been quite successful.
There now remain but few plots on the Sandown and
Tottenham properties to be disposed of. The Wood Green
estate (No. 2) is also progressing satisfactorily. Tenders
for the roads and drainage on the Sandown and Wood
Green estates have been accepted, and the works will be
completed as soon as possible. The new road on the
Roehampton estate will be ready in the autumn, by which
time it is expected that the remaining works on the Bat-
tersea will bo finished. The
e
l of the materials on the late Government naval yard
removal
estate, No. 2 (Plough-lane),
at Deal having been sufficiently advanced, the committee
have commenced the allotment of the land by offering a
portion in 96 building plots, with frontages to the sea (the
Prince of Wales's-terrace) and to the Walmer-road, and
with frontages also to the projected streets to be called
Sondes, Stanley, and Clanwilliam Roads. In laying out
this first portion of the estates, special attention has been
paid to secure a good sea view in the cross streets. The
Preliminary allotment began at Deal on Wednesday, June
7, after a public meeting in the Town Hall, at which
Viscount Ranelagh, the chairman, Col. Brownlow Knox,
M.P., and Col. A. Meyrick, were present as a deputation
from the board, to explain the society's system of selling
land. The executive committee have entered into a satis-
factory arrangement with the town commissioners of Deal,
whereby a complete system of drainage will be secured,
and the town itself, when the entire works of the town
are completed, will be materially improved by fine openings
to the sea, and by the extension of the approaches to the
main streets of the town. Of the development of Deal no
doubt can bo entertained. A more splendid esplanade
frontage, commanding, as it does, a view of the shipping in
the Downs and of the French coasts, is not to be found,
independently of Deal being one of the most salubrious of
sea-side localities. The formation of new docks, the recent
opening of that magnificent work—the iron pier—the rail-
way to be constructed between Dover and Deal, and the
proposal for a more direct railway communication with the
metropolis, are all undertakings indicative of the future

progress of Deal, and the Conservative Land Society has
supplied the great want of the town—that of freehold
building land in plots for the erection of villas and houses,
as also hotels and boarding and lodging houses, the limited
number of which has hitherto prevented that amount of
accommodation that the yearly increasing popularity of the
place required. In the Lady-day report, the executive
committee refereed to two properties in Cheshire and
Cornwall which had been secured for the society, and they
have now the pleasure to announce to the shareholders
that the allotment thereof will be prpceeded with as early
as possible.
The land in Cheshire is at the new ferry just °paned,
opposite to Liverpool, and close to the projected tuntzel
under the Mersey, with a frontage in the Chester-roa4,
and very near the Bebbington station on the Birlceacatci
and Chester Railway. To those familiar with Liverpool,
it is scarcely necessary to add that a large proportion of the
inhabitants migrate after business hours to the suburbs to
their private residences, and that the Cheshire side of the
Mersey is particularly sought after by all classes of the
community for villas and houses.
The estate in Cornwall is placed at the thriving town of
St. Austell, close to the port of Charleston, St. Anstell Bay,
which may be deemed the Isle of Wight of the Cornish
coast.

A fourth acquisition of land has been made at Putney,
near the Cedars-terrace, one of the earliest purchases for the
society. The present property is close to Wandsworth-
lane, with frontages to the Upper Richmond-road, leading
to the Putney station. The vicinity of the estate to
Wimbledom- common, Putney-heath, Roehampton, and
Richmond4Ark, will render the plots valuable for building,
and no time will be lost in preparing for the allotment.
The executive committee have fixed Wednesday, the
19th of July next, for the final allotment of the'Woodhouse
estate, Wanstead, owing to the recent demand for the por-
tion originally offered, of which but few plots now remain
on hand.

The executive committee have, in conclusion, to congra-
tulate the shareholders that the general sale of land and
the financial returns have been so satisfactory.

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

TIMES.—The debate of last night will be memo-
rable in Parliamentary history. Not often has it
fallen to the lot of the House of Commons to sit in
judgment on the conduct and character of one so
highly placed, and to deliver a decision carrying
with it such momentous consequences. The charges
against Lord Melville at the begiuing of this century,
and those relating to the administration of the army
by the Duke of York, are the only similar inquiries
in which the Legislature of this country has• been
engaged during the memory of living men. No
wonder, then, that the last hours of an expiring
Parliament should be filled with a kind of spasmodic
vitality. The candle has for a moment flared up in
the socket before it is extinguished. The excite-
ment of yesterday was as great as if the fate of the
Government or the Parliament depended on the
issue of the debate, as if resignation or dissolution
was the alternative that must follow the vote of the
house. Members, recalled from the country or de-
tained in town by the urgent remonstrances of their
party, attended the house last night to witness or
take part in one of the most important debates of the
Parliament. On whichever side they might be,
whatever vote their conscience or their party ties
might induce them to give, there could, we presume,
be only one feeling in their minds—that of regret
that they should be called upon to decide in such
a cause. The discredit of a Lord Chancellor is a
reproach to the nation at large. The office repre-
sents, to the popular intelligence, all that is most
elevated in dignity and power. The First Officer
of State, the President of the House of Lords, the
Keeper of the Queen's Conscience, the head of the
judicial system of the country, the nominator of
Judges, great and small, the largest dispenser of
Church patronage, is a man raised so incomparably
above his fello s-s that no failing of his can be un-
important, and to prove him a delinquent is to
brand the country through one of its most con-
spicuous representatives. The result of the debate
is that a grave vote of censure has been passed on
the Lord Chancellor. The amendment of Mr. Bou-
verie, which, except on one point, hardly differed
from that of Mr. Hunt, was carried without a divi-
sion, and the most exalted person in the Govern-
ment is reproved by a vote originating with one of
its own supporters. The debate which preceded
this grave decision was not in any way remarkable.
The Lord Chancellor was feebly attacked, and very
weakly defended. Mr. Hunt's speech was by n'o
means impressive. He is entitled to the credit of
comparative fairness, for though he showed no
inclination to spare the Chancellor, he did not in-
dulge in the vituperation which marred the
effect of Mr. Longfield's harangue the other
night. But, on the .other hand, he failed to
give his hearers an adequate impression of
the case. Fortunately for those members who
sought only to pronounce an impartial judg-
ment the materials were abundant in the report of
the evidence which had been placed in their hands.
Even the copious quotations of Mr. Hunt do not
give a fair notion of this extraordinary volume,
which may be perused with interest in future times
as a disclosure of official life in England in 1865.
But it would be difficult for the most unskilful ad-
vocate to fail of success with so overpowering a case.
The history of the events in which the Lord Chan-
cellor is the central figure, while Messrs. Bethell
and Welch and Harding and Wilde and Miller stand
conspicuous in their several ways, came out again
last night with undiminished freshness. We see Mr.
Welch and Mr. Bethell as old acquaintances, and
their friendship thickening as the former sees a
chance of obtaining a place in his country's service.
We find Mr. Bothell pressing his friend's claims on
the Chancellor, and it becomes the clearer the more
we consider it that Mr. Welch was chosen_ out of
the long list of applicants because he was-the friend
of the son of him who disposed of the place, and for
no other cause. Then we follow Mr. Welch during
the autumn of last year and the early spring of the
present, continuing his loans or gifts to Mr. Bethell,
and the result is an impression that each benevolence
was timed with regard to the probability of obtaining
this or that appointrrent. But why should we follow
out the miserable history? Mr. Wilde and his certifi-
cate, on which the gentleman who obtained it made
jocular remarks, the officiousness of Mr. Miller and his
virtuous rebukes to the Chancellor for too great
severity towards a prodigal son, the intrigues of the
whole party to get Mr. R. Bethell back again into
the public service, disclose a state of things that we
should hardly have believed to exist in the lowest
walks of official life. It has been the misfortune of
the Chancellor to be surrounded personally and offi-
cially by a set of people who are among the least
favourable specimens of English society the public
has for many years had the opportunity of contem-
plating. It is strange that Lord Wesbury, with that
zeal for the public service which he assumed, did not
think it necessary to look more closely into the mo-
tives of these people. It is the defence made for him
by his friends—but the only defence which, after
much consideration, they have thought tenable—
that he was imposed upon by his relatives and subor-
dinates. This is, no doubt, true, but that such an
imposition could obtain credence argues a want of
energy and public spirit which is of itself culpable
in a public man. This is the view taken by the
House of Commons. In a house extremely large,
considering that it was within three days of a dis-
solution, the Government was beaten on the motion
for an adjournment, and was obliged to accept
Mr. Bouverie's resolution. That of the Lord
Advocate was very properly rejected. That learned
person would have had the house abstain from
censuring Lord Westbury by name, but pass a re-
solution which would be a stigma not only on this
particular Chancellor, but on the office itself. By
making the grant of a pension by a Lord Chancel-
lor incomplete without the confirmation of the Trea-
sury the house would have affirmed that, as a rule,
the men who rise to the highest lay dignity in the
country are unfit to perform the duties which have
been for generations intrusted to them. Surely, if
a man is not competent to pension a registrar he is
not competent to make judges and to appoint cler-
gymen to livings ? The abuse of minor patronage
was serious in the case of Lord IN estbury chiefly
because it threw doubt on the way in which the
more important trusts would be
.admunstered, and
to take away the small opportunities for misconduct
and leave the greater was a proposal as little con-
sistent with good sense as can well be conceived.
Mr. Bouverie's resolution was much more in accord-
ance with the feelings of the house. It is notorious
that the Liberal members displayed no alacrity for
this debate. The prospect of going to the hustings
as the defenders or apologists of such transactions as
have been revealed within the last few days had no
attractions for the supporters of the Government.
It is, indeed, rather surprising that so large a num-
ber should have been found at their posts at all. At
any rate, when Mr. Bouverie proposed his amend-
ment, which, while acquitting the Chancellor• of any
knowledge of the corrupt practices connected with
Mr. Welch's appointment, adopt the language of Mr.
Hunt's resolution with respect to pensioning of Messrs
Edmunds and Wilde, it was of no avail for the
Government to attempt to change the current of
feeling. Mr. Bouverie's amendment was put as a
substantive resolution, and carried without a divi-
sion. Whoever may have considered that we have
been unduly severe on the Lord Chancellor will do
well to consider the terms of the resolution which
has thus been adopted by a full House, and say if
it does not justify any strictures that we may have
made. No task could be more distasteful to any
person of ordinary feeling than that of pointing out
the demerits of a man of the highest ability and
who had rendered great public services, to which we
have been always prompt to render justice, •but the
circumstances of this case left us no alternative.

5.P013 TING INTELLIGENCE—This Day,

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Fire at Marlborough House—This Day.

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About 4 o'clock this afternoon much alarm was
created by the outbreaking of a fire in Marlborough
House, the residence of his Royal Highness the
Prince of Wales. The disaster commenced in one
of the rooms in the upper floor of the mansion,
and threatened to be of very serious consequences. For-
tunately the assistance of the fire brigade was soon at
hand, and, with a plentiful supply of water, the
firo was extinguished, but not before very extensive
damage was done to the roof of the building. The Duke
of Sutherland, whose mansion is in close proximity to that
of his Royal Highness, was soon on the spot, and rendered
essential assistance in subduing the fire. The effects of
the fire are plainly visible on the mansion in St. James's
Park, the roof showing unmistakably the serious character
of the fire, which, had it occurred during the night, most
probably would have resulted in the total destruction of
the building. However, all alarm seemed to have subsided
by 6 o'clock, as at that hour her Royal Highness the Prin-
cess and her infant son drove out for an evening airing in
the park.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT

HOUSE OF LORDS—Tins EVENING.

The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack
at the usual hour.
THE CASE OF MR. WINSLOW.

Lord CHELMSFORD said he felt bound to make a
statement of a persoual character, in consequence of what
had appeared in the public prints in reference to Mr.
Winslow and himself. The noble and learned lord then
referred to the details which had appeared in the papers.
He had heard complaints against that gentleman to the effect
that he had absented himself from duties, which, upon
inquiry, he found to bo correct. Mr. Winslow subse-
quently applied to him for a recommendation for a retiring
pension, which, under the circumstances, he felt bound to
rofuso.

RESIGNATION OF THE LORD CHANCELLOR.
Earl GRANVILLE said that it became his duty to inform
the house that the noble and learned lord who had presided
over their discussions for some time had felt himself called
on to resign the distinguished position he had occupied. In
consequence of what had taken place in reference to the
noble and learned lord, the latter had felt it his duty to
tender the resignation of his. office to Lord Palmerston,
but the noble Lord (Palmerston) did not feel himself justi-
fied in accepting that resignation. However, under exist-
ing circumstances, and in compliance with the wishes of
the noble and learned lord, Lord Palmerston had accepted
the resignation of the Lord Chancellor.
PENALTIES LAW AMENDMENT BILL.
Lord DENMAN, on the order for the third reading of
this bill, moved as an amendment that it should be read a
third time that day three months.
The house then divided.
For the third reading
Against
—8
Majority
The bill was accordingly read a third time and passed.
IMPRISONMENT OF BRITISH SUBJECTS IN

FOURTH EDITION