The Sun.
London, England, 1854-06-20 00:00:00

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SUN OFFICE, Seven o'Clock.

IMPERIAL PARLIAVIENT,

HOUSE OF COMMONS—(THIS DAY.)
The SPEAKER took the chair at 12 o'clock.
NEW MEMBER.
Sir G. GREY to the oaths and his seat, on his re-
election for the borough of Morpeth.
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PRIVATE BUSINESS.
Dockers,
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Crystal Palace Company, Stroud, Painewick, and Glou-
cester Road, and the Surrey Gas..
The following bills were read a third time and passed :
—Chapel en le Frith Road, Londonderry Port, and the
Patent Solid Sewerage Manure (No. 2).
The following bills were considered, and ordered to be
read a third time :—Ambergate, Nottingham, and Bos-
ton and Eastern Junction (Amendments of Acts) ; Bor-
der Counties Railway ; and the Methwold Drainage.
PETITIONS.
Petitions were presented by Mr. MACGREGOR, Mr.
BAINES, and other honourable members against the
Police Bill ; Mr. FOSTER, from places in Staffordshire,
against the Friendly Societies Bill ; Mr. BROOK, from
places in the manufacturing districts, in favour of a Ten
Hours' Bill ; Lord BERNARD, from 129 clergymen of the
united dioceses of Cork, Cloyne, and Ross, against the
national system of education in Ireland.
WRECK AND SALVAGE BILL.
On the motion for going into committee,
Mr. JAMES MACGREGOR wished to know if it
was proposed to make any change in the existing ap-
pointments of pilots to the Cinque Ports.
Mr. CARDWELL said the object of this bill was to
render the laws affecting wrecks and salvage uniform
throughout the three kingdoms. The intention was to
abolish the office of Receiver-General of Droits of Ad-
miralty, and the general business of the department
would bo transferred from the Admiralty to the Board
of Trade. The duties hitherto discharged by the Re-
ceiver-General would be hereafter performed by the
revenue officers, which would be a saving of public ex-
denditure.
Mr. M'CARTNEY expressed his approval of the bill
if properly carried out ; but he disapproved of giving
the coast-guards the powers contemplated by this bill,°
as he contended they ought not to have any interest in
wrecks and salvage.
Sir G. PECHELL thought it would be a very great
satisfaction to know that the Admiralty should no longer
have the appointment of receivers of droits of the Ad-
miralty, and that the whole department should he under
the Control of the Board of Trade.
Mr. M'CANN thought persons totally independent
of the Customs would be the proper persons to entrust
with the duties of receivers.
Mr. BENTINCK hoped that this bill would have the
effect of preventing the recurrence of those disgraceful
and barbarous ZSCelle3 which occurred at wrecks in this
country.
Mr. CARDWELL said that was one of the principal
objects he had in view in framing the bill. (Hear.)
Mr. HILDYARD also thought steps ought to be
taken to prevent the depredations of wreckers. He
mentioned an instance where a • French ship laden
with wine got ashore on the coast, and the people, in-
stead of trying to assist her off, endangered their own
lives by getting drunk upon the wine, and otherwise
plundering the vessel. The captain of the ship, who
was also part owner during these disgraceful proceed-
ings, went up and doivn the deck tearing his hair and
exclaiming "Is this England" ? ,
Mr. V. SCULLY concurred with the hon. member
for Drogheda (Mr. M'Cann) that persons unconnected
with the Customs would be preferable for Performing
the duties of receivers.
Mr. LINDSAY differed with the last hon. member,
and thought the bill would effect a most desirable change,
by transferring the duties of receivers to officers of the
Customs and of the Revenue. At the same time, he
thought it would not be just to take their offices from
the present holders of them, who had hitherto discharged
their duties well. He would offer no opposition what-
ever to the bill going into committee.
Sir J. TYRELL said, from the Situation of his
estates, on the east coast, where he was the lord of the
manor he was interested in having the largest possible
amount of wreckage washed ashore, but at the same
time he was fully alive to the existing abuses,. and he
hoped the tribunal to be established under this bill
would be so constituted as to secure a vigilant super-
vision over all wreckage.
Mr. CARDWELL said it would.
Mr. HORSFALL thought the bill was a great im
provement on the existing law.

After some further discussion the house went into
committee.

Mr. CARDWELL said he was happy now to be able
to reply to the observations of several hon. members as
to the objects of the bill. He could state that one of
the most particular objects of the bill was to prevent the
recurrence of those scenes at wrecks which were a scandal
to so great a commercial country as this. With respect
to the persons who now held the offices of receivers of
droits, those persons were appointed solely at the plea-
sure of the First Lord of the Admiralty, and he could
state that while it was not his intention rudely to dis-
place any of those persons who now held those offices,
he had, in an interview which he had with those
persons, he was most careful to impress upon
them that they had no vested right in those
offices.

The various clauses were agreed to after some dis-
cussion, and the bill passed through committee, after
which the house resumed.

TOWNS IMPROVEMENT (IRELAND) BILL.
Th house again went into committee on this bill.
Mr. BOWYER moved an amendment on clause 7 to
limit the rent of persons rateable under the bill to 51.
[nstead of 81., as proposed by the bill.
A division took place, when the numbers were—
For the amendment 22

Against it 9l-69
So the amendment was lost, and the clause was agreed

Clauses up to 22 were agreed to, when the Chairman
reported progress, and the house resumed.
CONVICT PRISONS (IRELAND) BILL.

Sir J. YOUNG moved the second reading of this bill.
Mr. M`CARTNEY thought the bill ought not to be
read a second time till its provisions were more fully
explained.
The further consideration of the bill was adjourned to
Thursday next.
Mr. BOUVERIE then brought up the report of the
committee of supply, •which was agreed to.
The sitting was suspended at 4 o'clock.

The house resumed at six o'clock, and was
[LEFT SITTING.]

THE LONDON GAZETTE.

(THIS EVENING.)

LORD CHAMBERLAIN'S-OFFICE, JUNR 17.

Notice is hereby given, that the State Apartments at
Windsor will be re-opened on and after Thursday next,
th,i 22d instant.
FOREIGN-OFFICE, JUNE 17.

'The Queen has boen pleased to approve of Mr. Benja-
mi n B. Greene as Consul-General in London for the Re-
pu blie of Paraguay.
DOWNING-STREET, JUNE 12.
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The Queen has been graciously pleased to give orders
for the appointment of Peter Smith, Esquire, Chief Clerk
of the Office of Secretary of State for the Colonies, and of
Mftjor George Balfour, of the East India Company's
Se rvico, to be Ordinary Members of the Civil Division of
th. t Third Class, or Companions of the Most Hon. Order of
tlbt Bath.

DOWNING-STREET, JUNE 19.
Ile Queen has been pleased to appoint the Rev. Philip
Pi.nnington, Master of Arts, to be Chaplain, and C. Francis
Beaens Dawkins, Esq., to be Superintendent of Police for
th s island of Mauritius.
Her Majesty has also been pleased to appoint W. Young,
Lewis M. Wilkins, Alex. Campbell, and Stephen Fulton,
Esqs., to be Members of the Ex-cutive Council, and Lewis
M. Wilkins to be Clerk of the Executive Council, for the
province of Nova Scotia.
Her Majesty has also been pleased to appoint George
Montague, Esquire, to 'be Surveyor-General for the Dis-
trict of Natal, Cape of Good Hope.
Her Majesty has also been pleased to appoint William.
Henry Doyle, Esquire, to. bo a Member of tho Executive
.Council for the Bahama Islands.
Her Majesty has also b ;en pleased to appoint 31a1C01PO

ARRIVALS FOR THE NORTHUMBERLAND PLATE,—Eva,
Kingston, Hunca Munca, Little Jack, Grapeshot, The
Skinner, Colsterdale, Candlewick, Doublethong, Early
Bird, Braxey, Augusta, Axwell, St. Clair, Sir James
Graham, General Breezo, Arribas, Bianca, Erycina,
Julius. Agricola, Amalgamation, Jetty Treffz, and
Baal bee.
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ARRIVALS FOR OTHER nacEs.---.--Freddy, Rose, Maid
of Team Valley, filly by Chantiblier, Sir Peter, Sister
of Mercy, Catherine Pair, Diligent, Nelly Hill, Punch-
box, Middlesboro, Goldfinch, Lindrick, Saguenay, Tom
Rintoul, Flashman, and Fairthorn.

fourtt Mbition

Glassford, John Young, and James Welsh, Esquires, to be
Members of the Executive Council for the Settlement of
Honduras.

Her Majesty has also been pleased to appoint Robert
Gordon, Esquire, M.D., to be a Member of the Legislative
Council for the Province of New Brunswick.
Her Majesty has been further pleased to appoint
Charles Douglas Stewart, Esquire, to be a Member of the
Council for the Island of St. Vincent.
CROWN-OFFICE, JUNE 19.
MEMBER RETURNED TO SERVE IN THE PRESENT
PARLWIENT.

Borough of MorpethJTheEliiiillon. Sir George Grey,
Bart., of Falloden, in the county of Northumberland, one
of her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State.
ADMIRALTY, JUNE 19.
With reference to the despatches from Rear-Admiral
Sir James Stirling, which appeared in the London Gazette
of the 16th inst., Lieutenant Roderick Dew, of her Ma-
jesty's steam-ship Encounter, has been promoted to the
rank of Commander, by a commission dated that day.
WAR-OFFICE, JUNE 20.
19th Regiment of Foot—Major-General William Rowan,
C. 8., to be Colonel, vice Lieutenant-General Charles Tur-
ner, deceased, June 15.
. .

84th Reoiment of Foot—Major-General George Augustus
Wetherall, C. 8., to be Colonel, vice General Sir Loftus
William Otway, C. 8., deceased, June 15.

WAR-OFFICE, JUNE 20.
35th Regiment of Foot—Major Edward Hely Hutchin-
son to be Lieutenant-Colonel, without purchase; Brevet-
Major Charles Bearnish to be Major, without purchase,
vice Hutchinson, June 20.
T.) 133 Captains without purchase—Lieutenahts Henry
Samuel Bowman, vice Beamish; Matthew Villiers Sankey
Morton, James Bickerstaff, Ensigns William F. Godolphin
Forster to be Lieutenant and Adjutant, vice Bowman
JohU Ormsby Vandeleur to be Lieutenant, without pur-
chase, vice Morton ; John Davis to be Lieutenant, with-
out purchase, vice Bickerstaff; Lieutenants John Henry
Blake, from 25th Foot, to be Lieutenant; John lienrl
Nott, from the 25th Foot, to be Lieutenant ; Alfred John
Ford, from 96th Foot, to be Lieutenant ; Norris Goddard,
from 98th Foot, to be Lieutenant ; Donald William Dun-
das, from the 96th Foot, to be Lieutenant, June 20.
To be Assistant-Surgeons—Edward Thiselton, Gent. ;
Leslie Ogilby Patterson, June 20.
CONSOLIDATED DEPOT OF CAVALRY.- Quartermaster
William Betson, from half-pay 15th Light Dragoons, to
be Paymaster, June 20.
BREVET.—ajor-General the Honourable George Anson,
on the Staff as a Major-General, to have the local rank of
Lieutenant-General in the East Indies, June 20.
MEMORANDUM.—The Commission of Ensign George
Frank, upon half-pay of the 2d Light Infantry Battalion of
the King's German Legion, has teen cancelled, from the
20th June, 1854, inclusive, he having been permitted to
receive a commuted allowance in lieu of his half-pay.
Erratum in the Gazette of the 9th June, 1854.
HOSPITAL STAFF.—For, Thomas Houghton Walker,
Gent., to be Assistant-Surgeon to the Forces, read Thomas
Houghton Walker, Gent., to be Assistant-Surgeon to the
Forces.

OFFICE OF ORDNANCE; JUNE 19.
Royal Regiment of Artillery—First Lieutenant George
Ramsay Craik Young to be Second Captain, vice Philips,
retired upon half-pay ; Second Lieutenant Peter Edward
Hill to be First Lieutenant, vice Young, June 17.
COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY LORD LIEUTENANTS.
North Devon Regiment of Mounted Rifles—Adderley
Wren to be Captain, vice Binford, resigned; Lawrence
Desborough to be Lieutenant, vice Wren, promoted ; John
Wreford to be Cornet, vice Desborough, promoted, May
24.

Royal Ist Devon Regiment of Yeomanry Cavalry—
Thomas Cann to be surgeon, vice Hodge, deceased, May 25.
Ist Devon Regiment of Militia—Robert Peel Floyd to
be Captain, June 7.
2nd Devon Regiment of Militia—Henry Studdy to be
Captain, vice Walrond, resigned, May 22 ; John Tucker
to be surgeon, vice Butler, retired ; Edward Marsham
Russel Rendle to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Tucker, pro-
moted Henry Godfrey to be Ensign ; Frank Hodgkinson
to be Ensign, May 28; Richard Hallilay Archer to be En-
sign, June 6.

nth
Regiment of Royal Lancashire Militia—Lieutenant
Anthony Buck Creek to be Captain, vice ilametton, re.
signed, Juno 16; Joseph Roskell, Esq., to be Captain,
June 17.

Royal North Lincoln Militia—Lieutenant Robert John
Taylor to be Captain, June 1:3.
Royal South Lincoln Militia—Lieutenant Samuel Brails-
ford to 13,3 Captain, vice Ibbotson, resigned; Lieutenant
Frederick Bowman to be Captain, vice Sibthorp, pro-
moted ; Lieutenant William Henry Peacock to be Captain,
vice Cust, resigned, Juno 13; Ensign William Henry
Adams to be Lieutenant, April 10 ; Edward Jackson
Fitzsimmons to be Lieutenant, vice Bowman, promoted,
Juno 13.

BANKRUPTCIES ANNULLED.
Edwin Alfred Theobald, stationer, Bath.
Joseph Green and Michael Green, shoe manufacturers,
Liverpool.

BANKRUPTS.
Josiah Chapman Meen, shoemaker, Hastings, to surren-
der, June 27, at half-past eleven, and July 27, at one, at
the Court of Bankruptcy. Bell, official assignee, Coleman-
street-buildings ; Norton and Son, New-street, Bishopsgate.
William Banfield, hop merchant, Wolverhampton, July
6 and 20, at ten, at the Birmingham District Court.
Christie, official assignee, Birmingham; Wilmott, London;
Hodgson, Birmingham.
George Imperial Sharp, draper, Oswestry, July 7, at
twelve, and July 20, at ten, at the Birmingham District
Court. Christie, official assignee, Birmingham ; Croxon,
Oswestry; Reece, Birmingham.
George Boss, livery-stable keeper, Brighton, June 30, at
twelve, and July 26, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Bell, official assignee, Coleman-street-buildings; A'Beckett,
Simpson, and Warner, Golden-square.
John Larkin How, builder, City-road, June 27, at half-
past one, and July 27, at two, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Johnson, official assignee, Basinghall-street ; Groom, Son,
and Fesenmeyer, Bedford-row.
Henry Rogers, pianoforte manufacturer, Fitzroy-square,
June 30, and August 4, at eleven, at the Court of Bank-
ruptcy. Carman, official assignee, Aldermanbury; West,
Mansion-house.
Charles Thomas Laycock, perfumer, Brighton, June 30,
and August 4, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Whit-
more, official assignee, Basiughall-street ; So wton Bed-
ford-row ; Kennett, Brighton. ,
William Milton, miller and farmer, Southborough, Kent,
Juno 27, at two, and August 1, at twelve, at the Court of
Bankruptcy. Lee, official assignee, Moorgate-street ;
Smith, Stunning, and Croft, Basinghall-street ; Stenning
and Carnell, Tunbridge.
Auguste Silvain Besson, fancy repository, New Bond-
street, June 30, at twelve, and August 1, at two, at the
Court of Bankruptcy. Watkins, official assignee, Basing-
hall-street ; Hodgson and Burton, Strand.
William Hearn, carrier and dust contractor, Lambeth,
June 30, at two, and August 1, at one, at the Court of
Bankruptcy. Lee, official assignee, Moorgate-street ;
Jones, Chancery-lane.
Richard Gulston Wollaston (not Guleton, as advertized
in the Gazette of Friday last), surgeon, Bishop's Castle,
June 27 and July at ten, at the Birmingham District
Court. Whitmore, official assignee, Birmingham ; ,
Griffiths
Bishop's Castle ; Slaney, Birmingham.
Thomas Carey 'Willard Pierce, merchant, Manchester,
July 1 and 21, at eleven, at the anchester District Court.
Hernaznan, official assignee, Manchester; Sale, Worthing-
ton, and Shipman, Manchester.
Thomas Cummins, painter and glazier, Gateshead, June
28, at eleven, and August 8., at twAve, at the Newcastle-
upon-Tyne District Court. Wakley, official assignee, New
castle-upon-Tyne ; Stable and Dees, Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
Algimiro Duroni, merchant, Fenchurch-street July 1
and 29, at half-past one, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Pennell, official assignee Guildhall-chambers; Oliverson,
Lavie, and Peachey, Old Jewry. -
Isaac Cooper, corn dealer, Luddington, Northampton-
shire, July 4 at two, and August 1, at twelve, at the Court
of Bankruptchy. Edwards, official assignee, Sambrook-
court; Eland, Trafalgar-square.
William Henry Turner, innkeeper, Brecon, July 3 and
31, at eleven, at the Bristol District Court. Acraman,
official assignee, Bristol ; Watkins, Brecon ; Bevan and
Girling, Bristol.
John Blakeholgh and Valentine Barran, brickmakers,
Bradford, June 30, and July 28, at eleven, at the Leeds
District Court. Young, official assignee, Leeds; Taylor,
Bradford ; Blackburn, Leeds.

SCOTCH SEQUESTRATION.
D. Clark and Company, commission agents, Glasgow.

COURSE OF EXCHANGE—This Der.
Amsterdam ............ 11 15% Gibraltar ..............
Ditto, three months .. 11 1714 L.eghorn .. 30 50
Rotterdam ...... • • .... 11 17% Genoa ................ 25 42%
Antwerp .............. 25 25 Milan ................
Brussels •• ••••.•.• • • • • 25 25 Venice .• ••••••• • • • • • .•
Bamburgh 13 514 Naples ................ 4214
Altona ............ •• • • -- ,Palermo .......... 127
Paris • • ........ • • .... 25 2% 'Aiessina ..............
Ditto, three months .. 25 27% Lisbon .... .. 52%
Mar5ei11e5..•........... 25 27% Oporto ................ 534
Bourdeaux Rio Janeiro .
Frankfort-on-Maine .... 118% 'Buenos Ayres.... ••• •
Berlin ...............• New York, 60 days".sigiit
Vienna .. • • ............ 13 50 Philadelphia
Trieste ................ 13 55 PRICES OF BULLION, PER oz,
Peter5burg:............. Foreign Gold in Bars £3 17 9
Madrid ................ 49% Portugal Gold Coin .. 0 0 0
50 Mexican Dollars .... 00 0 Bareelona• ••• •• -.-• •••• New Dollars
Seville ••••.•••• • • • .• • • - iilver in Lars •• •• •fil 0 0 0