The Sun.
London, England, 1853-08-13 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF COMMONS----(THIS DAY.)

The SPEAKER took the chair at a few minutes after 12
o'clock.

The report upon Baron Vivian's Estate Bill was con-
sidered, and agreed to, and the bill was ordered to be
read a third time.

SETTLERS IN CANADA.

On the motion for the third reading of the Consoli-
dated Fund (Appropriation) Bill,
Lord D. STUART presented a petition from certain
settlers in Canada, complaining of having been ejected
from their land 3 and praying for enquiry, and called the
attention of the house to the grievances of the petitioners.
He expressed a hope that the Government would deem
it right to institute some investigation into the matter,
and asked whether they would have any objection to lay
the correspondence between tee Colonial-office and the
Governor-General of Canada ,And Mr. Cheshire relating
to the complaints of these persons on the table.
Mr. F. PEEL said the views entertained by the noble
lord were not borne out by the merits of the case. It
was one in which neither the Colonial-office nor the
House of Commons could be properly called upon to
interfere. The case belonged entirely to the local autho-
rities of Canada, and had been dealt with and disposed
of by them. The lands in question were granted to the
Indians as a reward for their fidelity during the Ameri-
can war. They were of considerable value, and became
a natural object of desire to new comers, and many emi-
grants settled upon them ; but various acts were passed
by the Colonial Legislature asserting the right of the
Indians, and therefore it was impossible for these squat-
ters to justly claim their possession. He had no objec-
tion to produce the correspondence, but he did not think
any thing could be gained by reopening the question.
Mr. BROTHERTON said as many of tbese persons
had expended a considerable sim of money in improve-
ments on the land, he hopeit the Government would
endeavour to redress their grievances.
Mr. M. CHAMBERS was glad the Government en-
tertained a right feeling tovards the Indians. He
thought the house would usurp the province which
belonged to it, if it allowed ;he Government to inter-
fere in this case, except to givs compensation to all par-
ties, to which he had no objection. It was quite clear
that the petitioners had no right to the lands.
The subject then dropped.'
CONSOLIDATED FUND (APPROPRIATION)

BILL.
This bill was then read a bird time and passed.
MILITIA PIY BILL.

After a few words froinNiji HERBERT, this bill was
read a third time and passed.
VACCINATION EXTENSION BILL.
This bill was read a third time and passed.
REGISTRAR OF THE PRIVY COUNCIL BILL.

This bill went through ommittee, and was ordered
to be read a third time on Monday next.
LIBERATED AFRICANS (SIERRA LEONE)

BI A.
This bill passed through committee, and was ordered
to be ready a third time on Anday.
PASSENGERS' ACT AMENDMENT BILL.

The house went into committee upon this bill.
In reply to Sir H. WILLOUIHBY,
Mr. F. PEEL said the obect of the bill was to cor-
rect certain anomalies in the present law, and to facili-
tate the emigration of Chinew labourers to the West
Indies.

The house then resumed, and the bill was ordered to
be read a third time on Monlay.
REDEMPTION OF ME LAND TAX.

The CHANCELLOR of he EXCHEQUER asked
for leave to bring in a bill furher to amend the law with
respect to the redemption of land tax ; and moved the
said bill through its several ttages. The right hon. gen-
tleman explained that the okect of it was to supply some
deficiences in the bill whicl had already passed both
houses. It enacted that th: redemption under the for-
mer bill should, in the first iistance, be confined to par-
ties having an interest in thcla,nd, and not only so, but
that when effected by them the tax should merge and
cease, as if, in fact, it had hal no existence at all.
The motion was agreed .o, and the bill was then
brought in and passed throigh its several stages, and
was passed.
DRAINAGE WORKS 3N THE SHANNON.

On the motion of Col, DIINTNE a return was ordered
of a copy of a memorial preented by the inhabitants of
the town of Banagher, in Ireland, and its vicinity, to
the Lord Lieutenant, comilaining of the injury they
sustained from the effects of the drainage works on the
Shannon at Meelick,
HIGHWAYS N IRELAND.

Leave was given to Mr. IVMAHON to bring in a bill
to consolidate and amend tle laws relating to highways
in Ireland.

The bill was subsequently brought in and read a first
time.

Lord PALMERSTON (resented a petition from
Sheffield in favour of the opming of the Crystal Palace
on Sundays.
ADJOURNMENT OF THE HOUSE.

Mr. WILSON moved tha; the house do adjourn until
one o'clock on Monday, and that the sitting be continued
during the day, and without adjournment at four
o'clock.—Agreed to.

VACANCY FOR DUNGARVON.
In reply to Mr. F. FRENCH,
Mr. BERKELEY said be believed that Mr. Maguire
had not yet accepted the Chiltren Hundreds, in order to
create a vacancy for Duugarvon, and until he did a new
writ could not be issued.

The house adjourned shortly after two o'clock until
Monday.

AUSTRALIA.

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)

PLYMOUTH, SATURDAY,
The ship Washington g, Captain John Jones, is
off the port, and has landed passengers. She has a
complete cargo of wool, tallow, and hides, from Moreton
Bay, and 15,000 ounces of gold from Sydney, which she
left on the 27th April, five days after the Woolloomoo-
loo.

The Tamar, with some goA, left Sydney on the 22d
of April ; the Cambodia, without gold, on the 24th ;
the Regina was to sail in three days ; the Alberton in a
fortnight; and the Oriental in three weeks. The steam-
ship Cleopatra was at Sydney. Her proprietors then
proposed to send her one more trip to Port Philip, pre-
paratory to her final departure from Sydney on the
28th July for England, by Cape Horn, touching at New
Zealand and the South-Sea Islands.
The last news of the Adelaide steamer was when she
was at the Cape of Good Hope, outward. The Agricola
was loading at Moreton Bay on the 12th of April. The
Washington Irving, excepCng three, retains all her
original crew, who get double pay home. The extra
hands have 61. per month. She ran from Sydney to
Cape Horn in 331 days, hadng rounded the Cape on
the 30th May; spoke, the (th August, the ship Kent,
130 days from Bombay, for Liverpool ; 6th August, the
Yankee Blade, 14 days from Liverpool, and the barque
Essex, nine days from Plymouth ; and on the 9th, the
barque Abigail, outward bound.

SOUTH AMERICAN MAILS.

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
SOUTHAMPTON, AUG. 13.
The Royal Mail steam-ship Severn, Captain Strutt,
arrived off this port at midnight, with the Brazil and Rio
la Plata mails. The mails were immediately landed and
dispatched to London, but some delay in the files of
journals and papers took place, arising from the refusal
to permit any personal communication with the vessel
till pratique was granted. The dates brought by the
Severn are Buenos Ayres, July 2d ; Monte Video, sth ;
Rio de Janeiro, 15th ; Bahia, 19th ; Pernambuco, 22d ;
St. Vincent, 29th ; Teneriffe, Aug. 3d ; Madeira, sth ;
Lisbon, Bth.
The Severn brings 93 passengers, and on freight,
diamonds value 35,0001. sterling.
Accounts from Buenos Ayres announce the raising of
the blockade of that city on the 20th of June, by the
squadron of vessels employed by Urquisa going over to
the Provisional Government.

The pro-speeta of the Government were considered to
be much improved, and it vas not thought likely that
Urquisa could much longer carry on the war.
General Pints, President of the Chamber of Repre-
sentatives and Provisional Government of Buenos Ayres,
died on the 28th of June, and would be succeeded by
Don Nicolas Ancharena.

Doubloons had declined tc 330. Buenos Ayres was
very dull.

The money market at Rio de Janeiro was very much
relieved of its late pressure, and capital was appearing
more abundantly.
The Government had proposed to the Banks to incor-
porate both establishments in the proposed National
Bank, 'and the shareholders of the Brazil Bank had
already empowered their directors to treat with the Go-
vernment about the conditiots of the amalgamation.

Exchange had gradually declined to 28k. The tran-
sactions were estimated at 310,000 on London.
Coffee had declined. The arrivals of the new crop
continue to be uncommonly small. The estimated yield
was 1,200,000 bags.
Freights had declined, in consequence of the high price
and limited quantity of produce.
In Pernambuco business was very quiet, the money
market being light. The market for imports was limited.
The sugar crop had been brought to a conclusion, the
yield being 63,200 tons. The next crop will not be a
large one in cotton ; there had been some animation.
Exchange on London was quoted at 28k, business
having been done at 281. Discounts, one per cent. per
month. Freights nominal, with little doing.
From Lisbon we learn that the grape and olive disease
continues to spread in Portugal.
The Cortes were to close on the 13th inst.

FATAL OCCURRENCE AT PORTSMOUTH.:—.OII Thursday
night an accident occurred at the George Hotel, Ports-
mouth, shortly before the return of the Lords of the
Admiralty from witnessing the great national demonstra-
tion at Spithead. The head waiter of the hotel, William
White, who has held that situation. for 25 years, was
standing in the passage when a loud report of fire arms
was heard, and the poor fellow fell dead to the ground.
On being picked up it was discovered that he had re-
ceived the contents of a loaded gun in his belly, and the
same discharge had also wounded in the face a servant
of Sir Fitzroy Kelly, who was passing the lobby at the
time. The accident was occasioned by a gentleman car-
rying a gun case, containing a double-barrelled gun, one
of the barrels being loaded and capped, and by striking
the case against the coffee-room door-post, it had caused
the discharge of the gun.