The Sun.
London, England, 1853-06-30 00:00:00

DEBATE

. Earl GREY explained that the contract was entered
into by the Colonial-office in 1848, when the greatest
distress prevailed in the West India colonies, and
when it was desirable to import free labourers into
them from the coast of Africa. He bore testimony
to the integrity with which Messrs. Hythe and Hodges
had carried out the contract, and stated the precautions
which he had taken when in office, to prevent the emi-
gration of these labourers becoming a means of trafficing
in the slave trade.
The subject then dropped.
Rushbrook's Divorce Bill, the Colonial Bishops' Act
Extension Bill, and the Patronage Exchange Bill, were
severally read a second time.
The Excise Duties on Spirits, and the Juvenile Men-
dicancy bills went through committee.
STATE OF JAMAICA.
The Duke of NEWCASTLE presented certain papers
connected with the island of Jamaica, and called the
attention of the house to the subject.
[LEFT SPEAKING.]

HOUSE OF COMMONS--(THIS EVENING.)
The SPEAKER took the chair at four o'clock.
NEW MEMBER.
Mr. HonsuArr took the oaths and his seat for Stroud,
iu the room of Lord Moreton, who has succeeded to the
earldom of Ducie.
PRIVATE BUSINESS.
The Bayswater, Paddington, and Holborn-bridge
Railway ; Birkenhead Dock Company ; Birkenhead
Dock Trustees ; Llynvi3Valley Railway; London and
Noreh.Western and Buckinghamshire Railways, London
and North-Western Railway (Tring and Oxford) ; New-
castle-upon-Tyne Improvement ; Pendleton, Swinton:
&c. Road ; Swansea Valley Railway ; and Pimlico Im-
provement Bills were read a third time and passed.
The Boston and Midland Counties Railway and Docks,
South Staffordshire Railway, Battersea Park, and Har-
wich Docks and Pier Bills were read a third time.
Mr. GREENE presented a petition from the attornies
of Lancaster against the Registration of Assurance Bill.
Mr. HADFIELD presented a petition from Sheffield
against the Education Bill.
Mr. SPOONER presented a petition from Birmingham
against the Registration of Assurances Bill.
Mr. AGLIONBY presented a petition from Cocker-
mouth in favour of the establishment of ocean penny
postage.
Mr. MILLIGAN presented a petition from the
trustees of the East Morley Savings Bank, against cer-
tain parts of the Savings Bank Bill,
Mr. BRIGHT presented a petition from the electors
of the city of Peterborough, complaining of the inter-
ference of Earl Fitzwilliam in the two last elections for
that city, for the purpose of controlling the voters by
intimidation, persuasion, treating, and bribery. The
petitioners also alleged that the late petition presented
against the return of Mr. Whalley was in fact instigated
and sustained at the expense of the said Earl Fitzwilliam.
The petition prayed in conclusion for the appointment
of a select committee to inquire into these circumstances;
and the hon. member gave notice that on a future even-
ing he should move for a select committee for the pur-
pose of inquiring into the allegations of the petition.
Mr. T. DUNCOMBE presented a petition from
Lewisham, complaining of the unjust treatment of the
poor in the union workhouse of that place.
Mr. CHEETHAM presented petitions from various
dissenting congregations against the Education Bill.
Mr. ALEX. HASTIE presented a petition from Glas-
gow
in favour of the India Bill.
Mr. R. CURRIE presented petitions from Northamp-
ton and other places in favour of marriage with a de-
ceased wife's sister.

HIGHGATE ARCHWAY.
In answer to Mr. FREWEN,
Mr. FITZROY said that there was no intention
on the part of the Government, and, in fact, the Go-
vernment had no right to demand, that the Trustees of
the Highgate Archway Road should apply for a new
act.

COLONIAL SUGAR.
Mr. BAILLIE asked the Chancellor of the Exche-
quer whether it was true that the Government had re-
fused to allow British Plantation Sugars to be refined
in bond ; and whether the Government intends, when
the duties upon all sugars were equalised, that the pri-
vilege of refining in bond, which was considered a bonus
equal to 2s. per cwt., should be continued in favour of
foreign slave grown sugar, and refused to the produce of
the British colonies ?
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said
that the hcn. gentleman must be mistaken as to the
facts, as the Government had given no decided or final
refusal of the sort. With regard to the second part of
the question, that was a matter for future consideration.
GOVERNMENT OF INDIA.
Mr. WARNER asked the President of the Board of
Control, whether, in the event of the house consenting
to the second reading of the India Bill, her Majesty's
Government would be willing, in compliance with the
expressed opinion of many members of this house to
insert a clause limiting the duration of the intended act
to some certain short term of years ?
Lord J. RUSSELL said the Government would not
introduce any such clause into the bill.
ADMISSION OF JEWS INTO PARLIAMENT.
In answer to Mr. DUNCOMBE,
Lord J. RUSSILLL said he had no intention of
bringing any measure before Parliament this session of
that description.

THE CAMP AT CHOEHAM.
Sir G. GOODMAN asked if there would be any ob-
jection to inform the public beforehand of the days on
which reviews were to take place at Chobham?
Lord PALMERSTON said the main object of assem-
bling the troops at Chobham was to prepare them by
previous instruction for all the exigencies of war. One
essential point was, that they should never know before-
hand what they were to do the next day, whether they
would be awakened in the middle of the night or at day-
break. If the public were let into the secret, it would
be difficult to keep the troops in the dark ; but those
who were anxious to witness those interesting evolutions,
might be certain that every day when it did not rain,
those who visited 'the scene were perfectly certain of
seeing things worthy of the trouble of going there.
THE NAVY.

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Sir J. GRAHAM gave notice that, on Tuesday ne:xt,
he -should move for leave to bring in two bills, one to
Wake better provision for the entry and services of sea-
men in the navy, and the other for the purpose of esta-
blishing a volunteer coast guard, to be transferred to the
navy in cases of need.
PERFORATED STAMPS.
Mr. WILSON stated, in reply to a question, that the
perforated stamps would be ready for delivery to the
public in a few days.

STA_MP UTIES.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said per-
haps it would be for the convenience of the house that
he should state that if, as the Government anticipated,
the debate on the second reading of the India, Bill ter-
minated in the course of to-night, he should take the
resolutions relating to the Stamp Duties the first thing
to-morrow evening, and after them to resume the com-
mittee on the Succession Duties Bill.

On the order of the day for resuming the djourned
debate on the Government of India Bill,
Mr. RICH rose and urged upon the hous3 the neces-
sity of delay. The house had been sitting so long that it
was now in a jaded state, and looking at the advanced
period of the session it was hardly to be expected that
the house would give this question that attention which
its importance demanded. Resides it would seem the
Government had been undecided about bringing this bill
in this session, while a larger meaning had been put upon
the advice which Lord Dalhousie was said to have given on
the subject than the noble lord himself intended. No harm
could follow delaying this question until a future session.
He thought, under these circumstances, it was mani-
festly the duty of the house to pass a short continuation
bill of the existing charter, in order that it might wait
for the report of the India Committee before it proceeded
to legislate permanently on the subject. No party
triumph could result from the postponement of this mea-
sure, nor could it give rise to the inconvenience of un-
necessary agitation in India or at home, and lie hoped
in the end the Government would be induced to
give way. The complaints alleged against the
present Government of India were these first,
it was said the natives were unjustly excluded from the
high offices of State, and that the law was badly admi-
nistered. Then it was said the anomalous form of the
double government was objectionable, because it gave
rise to a divided responsibility. All these complaints,
be believed, were well founded, and something ought
to be done to remove the cause of them, which this bill
certainly did not do. It contained some points of use-
ful reform, but unfortunately it left the constitution of
the Court of Directors and the distribution of the patron-
age untouched, while its duration was not limited to any
filed period, which was a strong reason in favour of de-
lay. At all events, however, if they were to have this
bill, its operation should be limited to five years ;
but on the whole he thought it would be much better
to defer legislation altogether for the present, and he for
one should vote for the amendment.
(LEFT SPEAKING.)

PLYMOUTH SAILORS' HOME.—The Admiralty have
liberally forwarded to the Plymouth Sailors' Home a
valuable and interesting library for the use of the in-
mates, consisting of 315 volumes, the estimated cost of
which is 791. 13s. sd. The selection comprises works
of standard literature, in addition to Scott's Bible, the
Pictorial Bible, and many other books of a religious
tendency. The list includes the Society's Atlas, valued
at six guineas, a standard dictionary, Knight's Pictorial
History of England, with most of Dickens' productions.
" The Home" is in excellent order, and we recommend
an inspection to all who feel interested in the sailor's
welfare.—Plymouth Jouiiiai.
IRON SOVEREIGNS.—The notice-caution against electro-
plated iron shillings, published last Monday in this pa-
per, has led to the detection and apprehension of several
members of the gang engaged in circulating these coun-
terfeits. A correspondent now writes :—" That a quan-
tity of sovereigns manufactured in a similar way, and
five-shilling pieces and half-crown., are in circulation,
so skilfully executed as to defy every test, but that of
weighing. It has been ascertained that some of these
spurious sovereigns are covered with as much gold as
would cost 3s, Amongst others who have been victim-
ised are the metropohtan clergy : the utterers, under
pretence of paying the fee for putting up the banns,'
having obtained a considerable amount in change for
their imitation."
POSTAL ANOMALIES.. THE PENNY POSTAGE.—The
postage on a letter exceeding an ounce in weight by the
smallest scruple, transmitted to India, via Marseilles, is
7s. 9d. This is probably the most expensive route in the
world. Still it is not the weight or bulk of the mails
conveyed in this direction that makes this exorbitant
charge for letter postage necessary, for a copy
of the London Times, weighing three ounces, is
transmitted to India via Marseilles, for 3d., or for only
ld. per ounce. Thus manuscript mail matter is charged
at the rate of more thik 12,0001. per ton in this direction,
whilst printed matter pays only at the rate of 1501. per
ton. The postal anomalies in other directions are more
striking still. From the Channel Islands to the remotest of
the Shetland group; changing from steamer to railway and
from railway to steamer for nearly 1,000 miles, the
charge on a letter weighing half an ounce is ld. From
Dover to Calais, two ports almost within sight of each
other, the charge on a letter of the same weight is ls.
3d ! From the western boundary of Texas to the north-
eastern boundary of the American Union, a distance of
3,000 miles, lid. From Dover to San Francisco, in Cali-
fornia,vid the United States' involving three ocean transits
each averaging 2,000 miles, besides three inland services,
18.2 d. From Dover to Calais, a distance of less than 30
miles,oneshilling and threepence fora letter weighing i oz.!
The charge on a single letter from London to New York
is ls.; but from LonclejLto San Francisco via New York
ls. 2d., leaving only 2d. for the cost of its transmission
from New York to Chagres, thence across the Isthmus to
Panama, thence by ocean steamer to San Francisco, a
voyage of about 15 days ! These are some of the postal
anomalies which would be removed by the establishment
of a universal ocean penny postage.
AGED AND INFIRM BISHOPS.—Mr. Phinn has given
notice of his intention, on a supply night, to call the
attention of the Government and of the house to the
present state of the diocese of Bath and Wells, and to
inquire whether it be the intention of the Government
to propose any Mcmcnirn with s viftw to the better regu-
lation of the dioceses in which the bishops, from age or
infirmity, are unable to exercise their functions.
WHY IS THERE SO MUCH DISEASE Most of us do
not get any walk, or a very short one, which is scarcely
ofany use. Man is formed to take simple, plain, wholesome
food. He eats all sorts of things, which not only do him
no good, but do him harm ; and he drinks large quanti-
ties of beer, spirits, and wine, which hurt his stomach, and
take away the proper use of his brain. Man ought to wash
himself all over with water every day, so as to cleanse the
pores of the skin, else they get stopped up ; he cannot
perspire rightly, and his skin cannot breathe. The majo-
rity of people only wash their hands and faces every day.
Man should wear clean clothes next to his skin, because the
body gives off bad fluids. At present many people wear the
same things, day after day, for weeks together. Man
was intended to live in the light. Many, very many,
have scarcely any light in the room. Man in this cli-
mate must wear warm clothing. Many have no flannel,
and are clad with heavy and useless things.—Hogg's
Instructor.
NATIONAL CHARACTERISTICS OF WOMEN.—The Eng-
lish woman is respectful and proud ; the French woman
is gay and agreeable ; the Italian is ardent and passion-
ate; the American Is sincere and affectionate. With an
English woman love is principle ; with a French woman
it is a caprice ; with an Italian it is passion ; with an
American it is a sentiment. A man is married to an Eng-
lish lady ; united to a French woman ; cohabits with an
Italian; and is wedded to an American. An English
woman is anxious to secure a lord ; a French
woman a companion ; an Italian, a lover ; an Ameri-
can, a husband. The Englishman respects his lady ; the
Frenchman esteems his companion ; the Italian adores
his mistress ; the American loves his wife. At night
the Englishman returns to his house ; the French-
man to his establishment ; the Italian to his retreat ;
the American to his home. When an Englishman
is sick, his lady visits him; when a Frenchman is sick,
his companion pities him ; when an Italian is sick, his mis-
tress sighs over him ; when an American is sick, his wife
nurses him. When an Englishman dies his lady is bereaved;
when a Frenchman dies, his companion grieves; when an
Italian dies, his mistress laments ; when an American
dies, his wife mourns. An English woman instructs her
offspring ; a French woman teaches her progeny ; an
Italian rears her young; an American educates her child.
—A merican Paper.
SUMMER DRESSES.—Bankruptcy of Mr. E. Blake-
ley, Silk Mercer and Shawl Manufacturer to her
Majesty. —ln addition to the rich silks and shawls
in Mr. Blakeley's stock, recently purchased and now
selling off by Messrs. Atkinson and Co., of 69 to 75,
.Westminster-bridge-road, there are about 2,000 pieces of
beautiful French Muslins, Bareges, and Norwich Lus-
tres, all quite new, first-class goods, worth from 21d. to
4s. per yard. These are now being sold by Messrs. At-
kinson and Co. at less than a quarter of their value ; tWat
is, from 61d. to ls. Old. Ladies are respectfully recom-
mended to inspect these goods, in order that their extent,
quality, and cheapness may be duly appreciated. N.B.—
Messrs. Atkinson and Co., having recently enlarged
their premises, have now a very extensive assortment of
superior Cabinet Furniture, Carpets and Upholstery.—
Weekly Timrs.
[AnvEartsE3rtivT.l—Holloway's Ointment and Pills,
have effectually Cured an awful Bad Leg, of a person 75
years old.—Extract of a letter from Mr. Illsop, druggist,
Lincoln, dated April 4, 1853 :—To Professor Holloway.
Dear Sir,—Among the numerous cures effected by your
valuable medicines, permit me to inform you of the fol-
lowing : Mrs. Mary Jackson, residing in this town77s
years of age, had a dreadful bad leg for upwards of five
months ; there were three sores on it, and it was swollen
to an immense size. Every person that saw it thought
that she would not recover : however your ointment and
pills alone have perfectly cured it.—Sold by all Drug-
gists, and at Professor Holloway's Establishment, 244,
Strand. London.
LADVERTISEMENT.j—THE CAMP AT CHOBHAM.-
39, Albemarle-street, Piccadilly.—Observe, opposite the
York Hotel. The Royal Exhib:t2o-i. A valuable,
newly-invented, very small powerful waistcoat-pocket
glass, the size of a walnut, by which a person
can be seen and known one mile and a half distant ;
they answer every purpose on the race-course, at the
opera-houses, country scenery, and ships are clearly seen
at 12 to 14 iles. They are invaluable for shooting, deer-
stalking, yachting, to spor:,smen, gentlemen, gamekeepers,
and tourists. Telescopes—A new and most important
inven:lon in telescopes, possessing such extraordinary
powers that some, 33 inches, with an extra eye-piece, will
show distinctly Jupiter's moons, Satarn's ring, and the
double stars ; with the same telescope, weighing only 3
ounces, can be seen a person's countenance three miles
and a half distant, and an object from 16 to 20 miles.
They supersede every other kind for the waistcoat-pocket,
and are of larger and all sizes, with increasing powers
accordingly. Opera and race-course glasses, with wonderful
power; an object can be clearly seen, from 14 to 16 miles
distant. Messrs. S. and B. Solomoas, opticians, have in-
vented invaluable preserving spectacle lenses. Immediately,
they are placed before imperfect vision, every object
appears clear and distinct; the most aged, defective sight
becomes bright and brilliant, is brought to its youthful,
natural, and original state. Deafness—New Discovery—
The Organic Vibrator, an extraordinary powerful and
newly-invented instrumer for Deafness, entirely different
from all others, to surpass anything of the kind that has
been, or probably ever can be, p:oduced. Being of the
same colour as tbe skin, it is not perceptible ; it enables
deaf persons to hear distinctly at church and at public as-
semblies ; the unpleasant sensation of singing noises in
the ears is entirely removed ; and it affords all the assist-
ance that possibly could be desired.—S. and B. Solomons,
Aurif.,Ls and Opticians, 39, Albemarle-street, Piccadilly.
Observe, opposite the York Hotel.

After some further discussion to the same purport,
the deputation withdrew, apparently intending to adopt
the latter suggestion of his worship.
The adjourned hearing of the summons against the
churchwardens and overseers of St. Ann's, Soho, for
arrears of rates due to the board of guardians was ixed
for yesterday afternoon ; but the amount demanded
(4001.) having been paid in the morning, the summons
was withdrawn. One or two of the defendants ex-

pressed a strong opinion upon "ihe indignity of being
dragged into a criminal court," and another demanded
compensation for loss of time; but Mr. Henry could not
admit that there were any just grounds for either the
one or the other.

In the course of the summons cases against cab-
drivers, an illustration was given of the inconvenience
occasioned by railway companies in causing a different
set of numbers to be painted upon cabs which ply for
hire at their stations. A gentleman who had been over-
charged took the railway number instead of the license
number, and consequently the wrong man was served
with the summons.
William .Henry Woodhouse was charged with assault-
ing John Cochrane, a mechanic.
The complainant (whose face was sadly digfigured)
said, that about three months ago he had occasion to
give defendant's brother into custody for assaulting him
in the street, and knocking three of his teeth out. At
that time the defendant accompanied his brother to the
police station, and swore that he would take an early
opportunity f knocking out the remainder of witness's
teeth. They met accidentally last evening, When the ,

defendant pounced upon him, struck him repeatedly in
the face, cut open his mouth, and would have no doubt
completely carried out his threat, but for the, inter-
ference of a constable.

The complainant's statement having been confirmed
by the policeman,
Mr. Henry ordered the defendant to pay a fine of 51.;
and, in default, committed him for two months.

SOUTIIWARK.—John Griffith, a young fellow about
18 years of age, was brought before Mr. A'Beckett,
charged with uttering a counterfeit shilling to Rosina
Langly, barmaid to Mr. Beeston, landlord of the Wind-
sor Castle Tavern, Suffolk-street, Southwark.
The complainant said the prisoner tendered her a
shilling in payment for some liquor ; and having seen a
notice in the papers, about " iron shillings,". she care-
fully exam;ned it, and found it to be counterfeit. She
called in a constable and gave him into custody.
Mr. A'Beckett remanded him until Saturday, for the
attendance of the Solicitor of the Mint.