The Sun.
London, England, 1854-08-07 00:00:00

ARRIVALS AT READING.

Calot, Pastrycook, Cleveland, lanthe, Brother to Grey
Tommy, Cranbourne, Vingt-un, Naomi, Hermitage,
Ilerculea, Saucebox, Lady Rachel, f by Cowl, William
Rufus, Narcissus, Bright Phcebus, Clotilde, Handy,
Orphrey.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS.—(THIS EVENING.)
ROYAL COMMISSION.
The Royal assent was given by commission to the
following public bills :—A,cknowledgment of Deeds of
Married Women, Convict Prisons (Ireland), Indian
Appointments, &c., Admiralty Courts, Registration of
Births, &c. (Scotland), Sale of Beer, Reformatory Schools
(Scotland), Court of Chancery, County Palatine of Lan-
caster, and Oxford University Bills.
The Royal assent was also given by commission to a
number of railway and other private bills.
The Lords Commissioners were the Lord Chancellor,
Earl Granville, and the Duke of Argyle.
BILLS OF EXCHANGE BILL.
Lord BROUGHAM presented a petition from the
committee of associated merchants for the assimilation
of the commercial law of the United Kingdom, in favour
of the consideration of Bills of Exchange Bill next ses-
sion, and took that occasion of entering into a defence
of himself, in answer to an attack by Mr. Mentz, in
the House of Commons, on Friday evening last.
[LEFT SPEAKING.]

HOUSE OF COMMONS—(THIS DAY).
The SPEAKER took the chair at two o'clock.
Mr. WALPOLE presented a petition from a great
number of clergymen (5,500) of the Established Church
of England against the national system of education in
Ireland. The right hon. gentleman gave notice that
early in the next session of Parliament he should call
attention to and move resolutions on the subject.
CONSOLIDATED FUND BILL.
On the motion for going into committee on this bill,
Sir H. WILLOUGHBY took the opportunity of
asking the Secretary of the Treasury what was the total
amount of money which the house had voted on esti-
mates. At the same time he begged to give notice that
on the third reading of this bill he should ask the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer whether he intended to adhere
to the principle which he laid down in the early part of
the session, of meeting the expenditure out of the taxes
to be raised within the year ; and he should also ask
the right honourable gentleman whether he intended
to increase the funded debt through the medium of
the savings banks. With regard to the question
which he had put to the Secretary of the Treasury, he
made the total amount of the estimates already voted
for the year reach to between 63,000,000/. and
64,000,0001.

Mr. WILSON said it was impossible for him to give
an answer off hand, but there were papers on the table
which would furnish the exact information required.
The bill then passed through committee, and was
ordered to be reported to-morrow.
ENCUMBERED ESTATES (WEST INDIES)
BILL.

On the motion for going into committee on this bill,
Sir J. PAKINGTON made an appeal to the gene-
rosity of the Government to deal leniently with the
West India estate holders whose property was mortgaged
to the State. If the Government proceeded upon the
Treasury letter just issued, which professed a willing-
ness to accept the existing value of the estates in dis-
charge of the loans, it would be tantamount to confis-
cation, because the legislation of the Imperial Parlia-
ment had so depreciated the value of the property since
the loans were made, that in the case of twenty-
three estates in the island of St. Vincent's, the
present value was something like 31,0001. below
what it was when they were mortgaged. He
objected to the Sbylock principle which the Govern.
ment had laid down, and hoped, upon a reconsideration
of the case, they would be induced to deal more liberally
with these unfortunate estate-holders. (Hear.)
Mr. WILSON thought the right hon. baronet was
ill-advised in bringing this question forward at this mo-
ment, because his doing so was calculated to raise hopes
in the West Indies which could never be realized. The
case which had excited the advocacy of the right hon.
baronet was nothing more nor less than this :
—A man, with an, estate worth 5,0001., hav-
ing received an
r,adtoance upon it, was entitled to
say to his credt•tof., r" My estate was once worth 10,000/.,
and therefore you--accept a compromise of the 3,0001."
The Exchequer Avituld acceed to no such proposal,
though they welraviitts,ready to deal liberally with these
West India die, • but they would-never consent to
surrender claisg, for "the sake of benefiting speculators
who had purchased the estate in the hope that Govern-
ment would be induced to demand the repayment of the
loans. (Hear, hear.)
Mr. H. ELLICE characterised the proceedings of the
Government with regard to these poor "West Indians as
petty, oppressive, and vexatious, and argued that they
were entitled to some compensation for the consequences
which the Imperial Legislature had brought upon them.
e_ submitted that the case of these poor people ought
to 13e made the subject of a Parliamentary enquiry.
Sir G. GREY said the responsibility of this case now
rested with the Exchequer Loan Commissioners, and all
that the Colonial-ofEce could do was to collect informa-
tion in the West Indie
rence to particular
essetesstifying exemptions in refe-
Treasury, who, he must sa
position to meet individual' h
aadn de v
isnucbemd i ta o
nt og
dtihse.
cases of hardship with the
utmost liberality.
Mr. T. HANKEY insisted that the West Indies had
a strong claim to the forbearance and indulgence of the
Treasury.
Mr. V. SCULLY wanted to see this bill so framed
that the owner of an estate should secure the full value
of his land, and not be sacrificed,
wasdone in the
case of many estates taken into the Encumbered Estates
Court in Ireland, through glutting the market with
estates requiring to be unencumbered.
The bill was then passed through committee.
ROYAL COMMISSION.
Mr. PUWIAN, the Yeoman Usher of the Black Rod,
appeared at the table, and summoned the house to attend
at the bar of the Ho us, of Lords to hear the Royal
Assent given by commission to several acts (for which,
see Lords' report).
LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL (CANADA) BILL.
This bill passed through committee.
CUSTOMS' BILL.
This bill passed through committee.
PUBLIC HEALTH
eandised.
BILL.)as
This bill was read a third time
BANKRUPTCY BILL.
This bill was considered, and ordered to be read a
third time to-morrow.
CUSTOMS TARIFF ACTS CONSOLIDATION
BLL.
This bill was read a sec I
ond time and ordered to be
committed to-morrow.
MA-Y 0 COUNTY ADVANCES BILL.
This bill was read a third time and pissed.
LORDS AMENDMENTS.
The Lords amendments to the foitowing bill 3
were
considered, and, agreed to, viz.:—Parochial School-
masters (Scotland) Bill,
Inclosure of Lands Bill, and
the Standard of Gold and Silver Wares Bill.
The Lords amendments
Acts Continuance Bill were ntoot agreedtbeFriteo.
Friendly Societies
RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES BILL.
This bill was read a third time.
On the question that the bill do pa ss,
Sir F. KELLY said he dissented from the hill alto-
gether. He considered, as the bill now
stood, ti lea
was 1

nothing in it to prevent: any one from subscribing to a
Russian loan. The hon. and learned gentleman moved
to leave out clause 1, and substitute the following :—Be
it enacted, that, during the continuance of hostilities be-
tween her Majesty and. Emperor ofßussia, anyperson who
shall wilfully or knowingly subscribe to or for, or purchase
or take in exchange, anyloan, stocks, funds, scrip, bonds,
debentures, or securities for money, which, since the
39th day of March, 1854, have or have been, or which,
during the continuance of hostilities as aforesaid, shall
be, negotiated, created, entered into, or secured by or in
the name of the Government of Russia, or any person or
persons on its behalf. shall be guilty of a misdemeanour,
and in Scotland of an offence punishable with fine
and imprisonment : Provided always, that this act
shall not extend to any subscription or purchase
effected or made in any foreign country by any com-
mercial house or firm trading and having a place
of business in any foreign country, and whereas
one or more British subjects, and one or more aliens,
are partners, or jointly interested. To add proviso to
Clause 1 :—Provided always, that this act shall not ex-
:ead to anything done in any foreign country, by any
commercial house or firm trading and having a place of
business in any foreign country, and wherein one or
mete British subjects, and one or more aliens are part-
ners, or jointly interested, nor to the taking by any
person of any such stocks, funds, scrip, debentures, or
se?.uritiee, or any interest therein, in satisfaction of, or as
security for, any debt bona fide and lawfully due to such
person, nor to the taking of any such stocks, funds,
scrip, bcnds, debentures, or securities, or any interest
1 therein, as parcel of the estate or effects of any deceased
person, or of any debtor -in execution, or of any debtor
having in any country become bankrupt, insolvent, or
whose estate, or any part thereof, shall have become
tranEferable, or shall be transferred in any way what-
ever for the benefit of bond fide creditors.
The SOLICITOR-GENERAL said he had endea-
voured on the second reading to give some explanation
of the bill. But he must repeat that the law already
extended to loans made to a country with which we are
at war. With regard to the clause itself, he thought
the effect of it would be to dilute the original proposition
down to a mere milk-and-water measure. He would
not advise the house to interfere at all with the law
4of high treason, but leave that law as it was,
zi.nd consequently he should oppose the amendment.
ge, HUME asked whether it would not be better to
drop the bill at present, which, though its intention was
good, wtruld cripple the interests of our own country-
men
abroad and at home in commercial transactions, and
would not answer any purpose for which it was intended.
Lord D. STUART said he was not at all convinced
by any arguments he had heard against the bill
that it would not be an efficient bill. The war itself
was against the interests of commerce, and this bill
was essentially a war bill. He maintained that
s if people were to make money whenever or wherever
' they could get it, why then repeal the law of high
treason at once.

(LEFT SPEAKING.)

BRIT,TBII TELEGRAPH COMPANY.

Some important changes in the prospects of this com-
pany have recently taken place in which the public are
interested. The British Company have now extended
their wires to London by t. 0.."
purchase of the wires, in-
struments, works, patents, a:eements,o hctonetrEauctrso,paeannd
r,
property of every description alons'ing t
Telegraph Company. These are as fonms, viz,,
Ist, An underground system of telegratnh wires from
Liverpool and Manchester, through Warring on. Stock-
port, Macclesfield, Stafford, Wolverhampton, 13;:taing-
ham, and Northampton, to London, and thence by
Deptford, Greenwich, Woolwich, and Gravesend to
Dover and Deal, where a junction is formed with the
wires of the two Continental Submarine Companies, viz.,
with the one from Dover to Calais, and with the other
from Dover to Ostend.

The Submarine Company (Dover to Calais) has, by a
concession from the French Government, granted them
for ten years, the exclusive right to connect England
and France by telegraph.
The other Submarine Company (Dover to Ostend) has
precisely the same kind of agreement with the Belgian
Government.

2J, The British Company acquire the benefit of agree-
ments entered into by the European Company with the
two above-mentioned Submarine Companies—whereby
they are constituted the sole and exclusive carriers for
ten years of all continental messages, both inwards and
outwards, passing through the submarine wires of the
two above-mentioned companies.
3d, The British Company obtains the benefit of a 14
years' agreement with the English Government, for
telegraphic communication with the Dockyards between
Somerset-house and Deal.

4th. The British Company acquires the right to use
the letter printing telegraph, which is just being success-
fully introduced into America, and which turns out the
messages printed in duplicate in Roman capital letters.
sth. A Company, which would have been a powerful
rival, is converted into a deeply interested friend and
ally, and, its own identity being completely merged,
there will now only be three telegraph companies.
The cost of the above property is the exact sum of
130,0001., of which 100,0001. is to be paid in the
shares of the British Compaby and 30,0001. .in cash.
Both the companies have power to sell and purchase
telegraphs, therefore there is no legal difficulty in
effecting it.
The united capital when all works are completed will
not exceed 250,0001. Out of the 300,0001.—the capital
of the company under the charter-235,000/.: has been
provided for ; of the remainder a portion is reserved fir
Belfast, whe:e the company has influence ; and the
rest will be allotted to other parties interested in tele-
graphing. Their present share list is composed of such
parties to the number of about 200, of whom nearly 70
of the leading merchants in Glasgow form part.
Already-, since the line to London was opened, the
work is pouring in faster than the British Company can
accomplish it ; but their officers are vigorously engaged
in erecting more wires, and in two or three months or
so they will have ample accommodation for any amount
of business. The submarine cable has been successfully
laid down between Portpatrick and Carrickfergus, and
the testing is perfect. The land wires to connect Dublin
and Belfast with Glasgow, Liverpool, and London, are
in progress.
We understand the agreement between the British
and the European Companies has been actually sealed,
so that the companies will become one forthwith.
We learn that some late remarks on the incon-
sistency of the Old Company in demanding of Par-
liament what they had resisted when sought by the
British Company, is thought to convey by inference the
impression that the latter did not succeed ultimately in
getting limited liability. Such was not the intention,
as it was known that the British Telegraph Company
obtained by charter the limited liability, which at first
they sought through means of an act of Parliament.
Immediately on opening the Loudon line the com-
pany reduced materially their tariff ; for instance, the
price before they opened was ss. from Liverpool to Lon-
don, and ss. from Liverpool to Glasgow. These prices
are now 2s. 6d. ,between each of those places. It used
to he ss. from London to Glasgow ; it is now 4s.
The British Company have abolished all charge; for
porterage, and make no demand for the words sent as
names and addresses.

- -- --- -
SINKING OF A. SAILING VESSEL AT BLACKFRIARS-
BRIDGE.—On Saturday night, at a late hour, a sailing
vessel, the property of Mr. Limpus, of Whitefriars,
containing about 65 tons weight of builders' sand, and
manned by five persons, came into collision with one of
the wooden piles near Blackfriars-bridge, driven into the
river to prevent vessels passing under the bridge from
striking against the timber supports placed some time
ago under three of the centre arches. The Vessel having
struck violently against the pile, soon became a wreck,
but the men on board were fortunately rescued by a boat
which was despatched to their aid from the adjoining
passenger pier.
DULWICH COLLEGE INQUIRY.—On Saturday morning
Mr. Thomas Hare, inspector to the Charity Commis.
sioners, resumed the inquiry into the state and adminis-
tration of the College of Dulwich. After Mr. Farmer,
representing the Dulwich School Association, and Mr.
G. Allen, master of the college, had been examined,
the inspector said no further -public inquiry would be
held, but thb members of the college could take to the
Ist of September to make their report, and the parishes
could take to the Ist of October to consider what they
agreed to or dissented from, after which, he would make
his report to the Charity Commissioners. The proceed-
ings then terminated.
ACCIDENT ON THE MIDLAND RAILWAY.—OR Friday
the down mail train from London due at Derby at 1.40
a.m. did riot arrive until 2.45 a.m., in consequence of
having met with an accident at Barrow. Whilst the
train was going at its ordinary speed two of the wheels
of a first-class carriage snapped asunder, and, becoming
released from the body of the carriage, ran under the
mail van, which was next attached. The driver imme-
diately perceived the " jerking" of the train, and suc-
ceeded in stopping it before any serious mischief was
done. On examination it was ascertained that the
wheels of the first-class carriage had blocked the wheels
of the mail van, and it was found necessary to leave the
latter and the guard's break behind, the letters and par-
cels being removed to another part of the train. Mr.
Sanders, secretary to the Midland Railway, and family
were in the carriage at the time of the accident, and
were of course greatly alarmed. At Derby a fresh mail
vwayanhwouast whichdelay.a A
attached, and the letters proceeded northwards
second accidentisflie. occurred on the same
morning, on the same line, near to the Clay Cross tunnel,
b
platelayerlost his
Tamil SPIRIT TRADE.—The following received from the Treasur b letter has been
Having laid before thea
torevan :—" Treasury Ch
1
Majesty's Treasury your Chambers, July 21, 1854. Si-
-3'
by Mr. Cassidy, of Monas-
ln4nd
memorial
r iCa
lo
prayingmrn is si on etros obfe heral
lowed to remove British spirits
from any •
warehouses
in excise duty-free
one part of the m kinodo to '
house in the same, or another part
a like ware-
other part of the k. 1 under a general bond, lam directed to mg' oul,
that the Commissioners of the Inland;tt.recvqnaint you
enue have
taken the necessary steps for accepting a general
for the removal of British spirits from an
ngeexcise
duty-
freel)o n d
warehouse in one part of the United Kingdom toa.
like warehouse in the same or another mit, under such
regulations as may appear to them requisite for the se-
curity of.the revenue. My lords are not prepared, how-
ever, to extend the same indulgence to spirits transferred,
exported, or shipped as stores.—l am, sir, your obedt.
servant, JAMES WILSON. Mr. Robert Cassidy, 64,
Pall-mall, London."

RAILWAY IN PORTUGAL.—The project for a railway to
Cintra, along the banks of the Tagus, has been submit-
ted to the Cortes by the Minister of Public Works. It
is estimated that it will cost 800,0001., and the projec-
tors calculate chiefly upon the dock and other buildings
on the water-side from the Quay do Sodrt to Belem to
Obtain the uterest of the capital.