The Sun.
London, England, 1853-08-15 00:00:00

THE SUN'
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aspect, all these diversities of climate, in . IMPERIAL PARLIANI EN T.
an empire inhabited by one race, having one 1
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history, speaking one language : a race, howbeit,
HOUSE OF COM.MON THIS DAY.)
no longer owning allegiance to one man, or a 1 cknow- , The ..,PEAKEII took the c'aair at 1 o'clock.
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ledging belief in one religion. For, on this side, . NEW WRITS.
the northern moiety of China is under the autho- On the motion of Mr. WRITS., T, Irvi a newA writ was issued
rity of the Emperor, while on that the southern fill'irs9::
ijl
election, had i n
acceptedt he room of
the Chiltern iliuirnearweildse, since
acknowledges obedience to the 01100 TAE-PING- On the motion of Mr. E. BERKELEY, a new writ
WANG. Here the believers in Buddhism—there \ was issued for Stamford, in the room of the right hon.
Mrlienifiens,ndwrhood,s since, in
•election, had accepted the
the Asiatic neophytes of Christianity. Yonder the
Idolater, and yonder again the Iconoclasts. Per- Chiltern PRIVATE BUSINESS.
haps a yet more startling indication of the size The Lords' amendments to the following bills were
considered and agreed to :—Bdnbridge, Dublin, Newry,
of China Proper may be discovered in a separate
consideration of the extent of its various pro- \ `and.tßDelofaoshtsJaunndctpiii)enrßaLilowady ; Galway Harbour ; Har-
vinces. Let it be considered, for instance, that i London and
Margaret
harWt easntedrnsa!idt
i with Railways ;
the single province of Chih-li, or Pe-chele, John the Evangelist, Westminster, Vestries;ge Severnkn
or ' as it was anciently called Yu and Valley Railway ; South Wales Railway (Deviation) ;
Yeu, is as large as Michigan, or Arkansas .
RailwaySouthW awleoswßoraitlway (hPembroke, &c.) ; South Wales
in the United States, or (to bring the matter
Estate bills were read a third time and passed.
Rushbrooke's opvivuorrcooase,an&dc.
) the Baron Vi i '
nearer home) about the size of England van s
and Wales together ! This, recollect, a single PETITIONS.
province. Shantung, again (another province),
o.M..sr..nßf;Wour ALfL presented a petition from the metro-
has been correctly described as about the size of p 11 '
i Lord D. STeUAepßeaniinrgetsohnetCedryastalt.Ptailoacef ono Sundays.i
_Georgia in America, or of Wales in Great Britain. bone, praying the house to interfere in benhalrf l'oef arYr
Edwarde-
Neang - s e o and Gan-hwuy—formerly united in the . Murray.
province of Keang-nan—are estimated as
one'
about half as large as Spain ! Kiang-si, another
provincj, is described as comparable in extent to
TT.S., or as twice the size of Portugal !
Virginia,
Through ano!her province, that of Shan-se, the '
yellow river, or Hwang-ho, runs for 180
miles 1 And sc on with the rest of the
divisions of °hind, A territory so vast
and so populous, and
.yet one half of which has
already been subdued i!ly the foes of Buddhism,
the assailants of the Tartar dynasty, the extermi-
nators of the Mantchoes, the followers of TAE-
PING-WANG, the newly-enroll€ xl believers in Chris-
tianity! Bearing facts like those in our remem-
brance, we cannot be regarded as extravagant in
estimating the Chinese Revolutbnists as the
pioneers of Oriental civilisation.

[LEFT SITTING.]

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.
(THIS DAY.)

The Government of India Bill was, on Aiday
night, read the third time in the Upper Haase,
and to-day the Lords' amendments will probably
be taken into consideration by the House of Com-
mons. The most important of these alterations,
indeed the only one of any consequence, or calcu-
lated to excite a discussion, is the omission of the
44th clause, which had been introduced on the
motion of the Right Hon. Baronet the Member
for Droitwich, but which was negatived without
a division, with scarcely the expression of an opi-
nion in its favour by their Lordships. It now
remains to be seen whether the popular branch of
the Legislature will yield on such a question to a
body not one-fifth of which could, or would, be
brought together in•the month of August on even
the most important question of the session. Whe-
ther those who, by an overwhelming majority,

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had affirmed the principle of " unrestricted comps-

tition," will stultify themselves by submitting to
the maintenance of the most grinding and vexa-

tious monopoly ever enforced upon a suffering
people. A monopoly under which the price of an
article of primary necessity to more than one hun-
dred millions of human beings, is increased in a
tenfold ratio, by which salt, the only condiment
with which the miserable Ryot is enabled to fla-
vour the coarse and tasteless rice which consti-
tutes his food, and which is no less essential to
his health than to his comfort, costs in the inte-
rior of India 201. to 25/. per ton, although in
England it can be sold at 75., and landed free in
Calcutta at 40s.•per ton. Astonished and grieved
as we have been, at the subservience exhibited by
the chosen representatives of the people, in relation to
this very measure, we cannot suppose that they
will be indifferent to their own dignity, their own
independence, and their most cherished privilege.
Yes ; we repeat " their most cherished privilege,"
for we contend that the Lords have no right to
interfere in any measure relating to the taxation
of any body of her Majesty's subjects, whether
resident in Hindostan or in the United Kingdom ;
and that such interference should be promptly
and vigorously resented, and unless clearly ex-
plained and fully retracted, should insure the re-
jection of the entire bill.