The Sun.
London, England, 1853-07-02 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, JULY 2, 185 3,

SHARE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.)

HER MAJESTY'S STATE BALL.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

BRITISH RAILWAYS.

The Queen gave last evening a State Ball at Bucking-
ham Palace. Their Majesties the King of Hanover,
their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of
Prussia, her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester,
her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, their Royal
Highness the Duchess of Cambridge, and the Princess
Mary, his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge,
their Royal Highnesses the Hereditary Grand Duke and
Grand Duchess and the Duchess Caroline of Mecklen-
burg Strelitz, their Royal Highness the Duke and
Duchess of Saxe Coburg Gotha, his Serene Highness
Prince Edward of Saxe Wemar, their Serene Highnesses
the Prince of Hohenlohe Langenburg and the Princess
Adelaide, and his Highness Prince Louis Lucien Bona-
parte were invited to the reception. Lite total number
of guests honoured with invitations amounted to two
thousand.
The Duchess of Cambridge and the Princess Mary
arrived at twenty minutes past nine o'clock, attended by
Lady Suffield and Baron Knesebeck.
The Hereditary Grand Duke and Grand Duchess
and the Duchess Caroline of Mecklenburg Strelitz were
attended by Lady Caroline Cust, Baroness Wenchstern,
and Baron Luhe.

HOUSE OF LORDS-(YESTERDAY.)
INDIA.

The Earl of A LBEMARlEPresented a petition from
the mayor, town councillors, merchants, and other in-
habitants of the borough of Birmingham, praying that
the house, in any measure for the future government of
India, will abolish the existing system of double govern-
ment, and establish a home administration appointed by
the Crown, and directly responsible to the Imperial
Parliament. He wished, at the same time, to present a
petition from the Manchester Commercial Association,
praying their lordships not to assent to any measure
with regard to India which did not make substantial im-
provements in the tenure of land in that country. His
lordship concluded by moving that both the petitions
which he had presented should be referred to the select
committee on India.
Earl GRANVILLE said that her Majesty's Govern-
ment had not, during the present session, shown any
desire to discourage discussions on the subject of Indian
administration, but he thought it was going a little too
far, when his noble friend took the opportunity, on pre-
senting a petition, to enter into an elaborate answer to
a statement made by a Minister in another place, and
to an article in the Calcutta Review. He should not
oppose the reference of the petitions to the select com-
mittee.

The Duchess of Kent was accompanied by the Prin-
cess Adelaide of Hohenlohe, and attended by Lady
Anna Moria Dawson and Lord J. Murray.
The Duke of Cambrridge was attended by Lord W.
Paulet.
The King and Queen of Hanover arrived at ten
minutes before ten o'clock, attended by Lord Elphin-
stone, Major-General Buckley, and the ladies and gen-'
tlemen of their suite. Their Majesties were received
by the Countess of Mount Edgcum be, lady in waiting;
the Hon. Eleanor Stanley and the Hon. Beatrice Byng,
maids of honour in waiting ; the Marquis of Breadalbane,
lord chamberlain ; the Marquis of Abercorn, groom of
the stole to Prince Albert ; Lord Ernest Bruce, vice-
chamberlain ; the Marquis of Ormonde, lord in waiting ;
Viscount Torrington, lord in waiting to his Royal
Highness ; Major-General Berkeley Drummond, groom
in waiting ; Lieut.-Colonel Francis Seymour, groom in
waiting to his Royal Highness ; Lord Alfred Paget,
equerry in waiting ; Captain the Hon. Dudley de Ros,
equerry in waiting to his Royal Highness ; and the
Master of the Household.
Their Majesties were conducted to the Yellow Draw-
ing-room, in which the Queen received her royal guests.
The Foreign Ministers, Cabinet Ministers, Privy Coun-
cillors, the ladies and officers of the royal household, and
the Queen's aides-de-camp, alighted at the garden en-
trance, and passed into the Statue Gallery, which was
brilliantly illuminated by a number of gilt candelabra
projecting from the walls.

The motion was then agreed to.
ENCUMBERED ESTATES (IRELAND) ACT
CONTINUANCE BILL.
The LORD CHANCELLOR moved that the report
of this bill, with amendments, be agreed to.
Lord ST. LEONARDS moved an amendment, limit-
ing the duration of the bill to one year.
The Marquis of LANSDOWNE thought their lord-
ships could not hesitate to admit that, by the operation
of the Encumbered Estates Act, great results, which
were long fruitlessly desired, had been accomplished in
Ireland. A new division of property had taken place,
which would be of the greatest advantage to that coun-
try, and a new class of landed proprietors had been
created. From year to year, as its working had pro-
ceeded, the mass of English and Scottish capital invested
in Ireland had increased, and not only had a new class
of proprietors been introduced, but new descriptions of
improved industry. On these grounds he must resist
the proposal now made to their lordships.
The Earl of DERBY said it appeared to be the inten-
tion of the noble marquis to continue this extraordinary
system, not for one year or two, but as part of the per-
manent legislation of Ireland. He was not prepared to
deny that great advantages, such as the noble marquis
pointed out, had been secured ; but, on the other hand,
there were many and serious objections to which the
operation of the system established by the Encumbered
Estates Act was liable. There were many persons pos-
sessed of property perfectly able to meet all their liabili-
ties, but being driven to come into court by the opera-
tion of this act, and being subjected to forced sales, the
effect had been that grievous and utter ruin had been
inificted on these proprietors. The noble marquis
wished to continue for an indefinite period an excep-
tional measure introduced to meet an exceptional state
of things. He (the Earl of Derby) wished to record his
desire to discontinue the system at the earliest possible
period, and consequently he should have no hesitation
in voting in favour of his noble and learned friend's
amendment.

- The ceiling of the gallery has been decorated in a style
similar to that of the Grand Hall in colours, the several
compartments being enriched with arabesques. The same
brilliant frieze of vermillion, white, and gold runs round
both apartments. The walls are pannelled in Sienna
marble and Irish marble ; the roof being supported by
white Carrara columns, with gilded capitals, the same as
those in the Grand Hall.

The company passed up the grand staircase to the
suite of state saloons, which were all opened on this
occasion.

A great variety of beautiful and fragrant plants and
shrubs were tastefully arranged on each side of the grand
staircase. The Green Drawing-room, Picture Gallery,
Grand Saloon, and the ball-rooms had also a most bril-
liant display of the choicest flowering plants. The cano-
pied haat pas for the use of her Majesty and her august
circle in both ball-rooms were hung with draperies cor-
responding to the furniture of each apartment, lined with
white silk, and were also filled at the back with the most
beautiful flowers.

The Marquis of CLANRICARDE thought it a matter
of comparatively little moment what period was named
for the duration of the measure, inasmuch as he under-
stood Government to have given a pledge that there
should be such a considerable alteration of the law of
real property in Ireland as would continue to that
country some of the advantages which she had received
under the present bill. If he thought that such an
amendment of the law would be secured by the amend-
ment of the noble and learned lord, he should have no
hesitation in voting for it. What they should keep in
mind was the operation of the present state of things on
the whole landed property of Ireland, which was now
placed at immense disadvantage, because the Encum-
bered Estates Court was engrossing the whole business
of sales, and putting a stop to all the business of raising
money by way of mortgage or otherwise. He thought,
therefore, that this state of things should, by all means,
be brought to a conclusion.
Lord BEAUMONT wished to see the Encumbered
Estates Court at an end, but he would rather continue
the act for two years than for one, because the effect of
prolonging-it for the shorter period would be to glut the
market by forcing the sales of a large quantity of land.
The time of sale, however, must also be extended for two
years.
After a few words in reply from Lord Si'. LEONARDS,
their lordships divided. The numbers were—
For the amendment
Against it

The ball-room and the throne-room, in both which
quadrille bands were-stationed, were most brilliantly lit
by a number of large crystal lustres, together with gold
candelabra.

The Yeomen of the Guard lined the Grand Hall, under
the command of Captain Parker Richford, the exon in
waiting. Lieutenant-Colonel Fitzmaurice, adjutant of
the corps, attended.
A guard of honour of the Coldstream Guards, with
the band of the regiment, was on duty in front of the
palace.

- The general company began to arrive soon after nine
o'clock, and were ushered into the Picture Gallery.
The Prince and Princess of Prussia, the Duke and
Duchess of Saxe Coburg Gotha, and the Prince of Ho-
henlohe Langenburg, having joined her Majesty in the
Yellow Drawing-room, the Queen and Prince Albert,
accompanied by their august visitors, were conducted
by the Lord Chamberlain and the Vice-Chamberlain to
the Ball-room, where the full orchestra of M. Laurent's
quadrille band were stationed, conducted by M. Lau-
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His Royal Highness the Duke of Saxe Coburg Gotha,
his Royal Highness the Hereditary Grand Duke of
Mecklenburg Strelitz, and other members of the royal
circle dancing in the same quadrille.
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Majority against
The amendment was therefore lost.
The Earl of DERBY wished to throw out a sugges-
tion. As the law at present stood the commissioners
had power to order the sale of an encumbered estate,
but they had no power to include in that sale the arrears
of rent due upon the property ; and it often happened
that great inconvenience was occasioned where the rents
were a year or a year and a half in arrear (as was com-
monly the case in Ireland), for, after an estate had been
sold, the former proprietor of the property had to collect
his outstanding rents, which gave rise to a conflict of
interests which it was desirable to prevent. The simple
remedy, therefore, would be to give power to the com-
missioners, at the same time that they sold an estate, to
transfer along with the property, for an additional con-
sideration to be allowed by the purchaser, all interest in
the arrears of rent. He had not ventured to prepare a
clause to effect this object, but he submitted to the con-
sideration of their lordships, and particularly of her
Majesty's Government, whether it would not be desi-
rable to introduce some such provision as ho had indi-
cated into this bill.

The followsing quadrilles, waltzes, and galops were
performed in this room :

QUADRILLES.

Les Flours du Printemps .....
The Cameronians
Les Mysteres d'Udolphe....— ......
Le Pere Gaillard

Strauss.
D'Albort.
Musard.
Lamotte.

Lord ST. LEONARDS thought that nothing could
be more inconvenient than the evil which his noble
friend (the Earl of Derby) had pointed out with regard
to these arrears of rent, and he hoped that the Govern-
ment would accede to his noble friend's suggestion.
The LORD CHANCELLOR said that the Encum-
bered Estates Commissioners themselves had urged upon
him the propriety of introducing some such clause as
the noble earl had recommended, and lie had thought it
a sufficient answer to say that his only object in bring-
ing in this bill was to continue the Encumbered Estates
Court in its present form, merely removing some of the
existing anomalies, and lie had supposed that the intro-
duction of such a clause as this would be objected to by
those who thought the powers of this court such as
ought not to be continued ; but he must confess that
there appeared to him to be considerable difficulty in
establishing such a provision in the case of the encum-
bered estates sold by the commissioners as that the
arrears of rent upon an estate should be treated and
sold as part and parcel of the property. If it was de-
sirable that the purchasers of estates should be the par-
ties to receive the arrears of rent, that seemed to him to
be a state of thing's that called for a general alteration
of the law in Ireland, for he did not see why an excep-
tional rule should be laid down with respect to arrears
of rent upon estates sold by the agency of the ER-
cumbered Estates Court, which should not equally apply
to arrears of rent upon other estates which might be
brought under ordinary circumstances into the market.
However, he would take the suggestion of the noble earl
for the introduction of a clause on the subject into his
consideration, and if the object in view could be attained
he was sure it would be quite as satisfactory to the com-
missioners as it could be to the noble earl.
After a few words from the Earl of DONOUGH-
MORE, approving of -the adoption of the suggested
clause,

The report was then agreed to.
SOAP DUTIES BILL.
On the motion of Lord STANLEY (of Alderley) this
bill was read a second time.

The Malicious Injuries (Ireland) Bill and the Public
Works Loan Bill were also severally read a second time.

HOUSE OF COMMONS—(YESTERDAY.)
CUSTOMS, &c., ACTS.
The house then went into committee on the Customs,
&c., Acts.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, in
rising to bring forward his resolutions, said the first re-
solution he had to move was one that was not adverted
to during their financial discussions. He did not anti-
cipate may objection being made to it. It related to feu
and ground annual rights in Scotland. The tax in rela-
tion to this subject he thought was oppressive, and
ought to be redressed. He therefore proposed-
1. That from and after a time to be specified, in lieu
of the stamp duties now payable on the following deeds or
instruments, there shall be charged and payable thereon
the stamp duties hereinafter set forth (that is tip say)
Conveyance of any kind or description whatso-
ever, in England or Ireland, and charter dis-
position or contract, containing the first or
original constitution of feu and ground annual
rights in Scotland (not being a lease or tack
for years), in consideration only of any annual
sum, payable in perpetuity, or for any inde-
finite period, whether fee farm or other rent,
feu duty, ground annual, or otherwise,
Where the annual sum thereby reserved, 50"
cured, or made payable, shall not exceed 20s. £0 2 6
And whore the same shall exceed 205., and shall
not exceed 121., then for every 20s. or any
fractional part of 20s. of such annual sum 0 2 6
And where the same shall exceed 121. and shall
not exceed 241., then for every 40s. and for any
fractional part of 40s. of such annual sum 0 5 0
And where the same shall exceed 241., then for
every 41., and for and for any fractional part
of 41. of such annual sum 0 10 0
The CHAIRMAN having put the question,
Mr. DUNLOP and Mr. KINNAIRD severally re-
turned thanks to the Chancellor of the Exchequer for
this proposition, which they thought would prove of
great benefit to the labouring classes in Scotland.
The resolution was then agreed to.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER then
proposed the following resolution, which was also agreed
to, viz. :

2. That from and after a day to be named, the following
stamp duty shall be charged and paid (that is to say) :
On any scrip certificate, that is to say, any docu-
ment denoting, or intended to denote the right
or title of the holder thereof, or any person, to
any share or shares in any joint stock or other
company, or proposed or intended company, or
any certificate declaring or entitling tho holder
thereof, or any person, to be or become the
proprietor of any share or shares of or in any
such company,
Where such certificate, or the right or title to
such share or shares shall be or be intended to
be transferable by the delivery of such certifi-
cate, or otherwise than by deed or instrument
in writing 0 0 1