The Sun.
London, England, 1853-04-29 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, APRIL 29, 185 3.

unacquainted with the details of African life, will
find in them an instructive and entertaining record
of the inhabitants, the colonists, the customs, the
climate, and the national and European laws of the
Gold Coast of Africa.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS—(YESTERDAY.)
The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack
at five o'clock.
The Earl of DERBY presented 19 petitions against
the Jew Bill ; petitions against the Maynooth grant,
against the opening of the Crystal Palace on the Sab-
bath, and against the Canada Clergy Reserves Bill. The
noble earl intimated that after the division of the other
evening he should not persevere in his opposition to this
last bill.
Earl BEAUCHAMP presented petitions against the
Canada Clergy Reserves Bill.
The LORD STEWARD (the Duke of Norfolk)
brought up her Majesty's gracious reply to the loyal
address presented by their lordships' house to her Ma-
jesty, on the occasion of the recent birth of a prince.
The Bishop of OXFORD presented a petition from
the Dean and the Chapter of Westminster, against the
Jew Bill.
The Bishop of SALISBURY presented similar peti-
tions from places in his own diocese, and the diocese of
Bath and Wells.

in which it was originally settled that the counties of
Scotland should be surveyed; -

MR. HALE'S ROCKETS.

' On the motion of Mr. T. DUNCOMBE, a return was
ordered of copies of any correspondence or documents
addressed to, or existing in the custody of the Board of
Ordnance, relative to Mr. Wm. Hale's inventions and
improvements in war rockets.
PROBATE DUTY.

On the motion of Mr. ALCOCK a return was moved
for of the number of stamps sold'since 1815 for grants of
probate chargeable with the highest amount of probate
duty.
BERWICK-UPON-TWEED ELECTION.
Mr. PHINN gave notice of his intention to move that
the writ for Berwick-upon-Tweed be suspended until the
.f; d June.

THE BUDGET.
Sir J. GRAHAM presented a petition, signed in one
da,Y, from 2,000 persons in Carlisle, in favour of the
financial measures of the Government. (Cheers.)

ECCLESIASTICAL COMMISSION.
In reply to Mr. G. DENISON,
Mr. G'OULBURN said the reports presented by the
Ecclesiastical Commissioners contained all the informa-
tion which they were required by act of Parliament to
furnish to the house.

TOBACCO AND TEA LICENSES.
Mr. LABOUCHERE said he wished to ask the
Chancellor of the Exchequer a question with regard to
his prepositions concerning tobacco -and tea duties,
which had occasioned much disquietude in the country.
The question was, whether lie was prepared to modify
in any manner the system of excise regulations which
he proposed to apply for the granting of licenses for
the sale of tobacco and tea. It was generally con-
sidered that they would aet very unequally and
unjustly on the trade, and operate, in fact, as an
increased house tax. (Hear.) He also wished to
know whether, in the event of his reconsideration of
his reguiations, he would give publicity to his alterations
in order that they might be fairly considered by the

trade ?
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said he
was much obliged to the right hon. gentleman for put-
ting the question. In answer to it he could only state
what he had already announced throughout the country,
that he was sensible that the scale of licences proposed,
though he thought the principle on which they were
founded would be approved of by the house, would ope-
rate with a degree of severity which was not at all in-
tended by the Government. He would now freely give
a pledge that the scale should be reconsidered, and he
would take care to give notice of the amended resolutions
ri time to enable all. the parties concerned to take them
into consideration before they were brought' before the

house.
Sir F. KELLY inquired whether the reply of the
right hon. gentleman applied to the case of maltsters,
among whom a great deal of misapprehension and alarm
existed. (Hear.)
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said the
reconsideration of which he spoke applied to the entire
scale of licenses, though perhaps not with the same
equality in all cases.
INCOME TAX IN SCOTLAND.

In reply to Mr. VANSITTART,
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said it
was not intended by the Government to propose to
assimilate the assessments of house property is Scotland,
for the purposes of the income tax, to the assessment for ,
the purposes of the poor rate ; but it was intended to ,
propose to assess the profits of occupiers of land in
Scotland at the same rate in proportion to
the rent, as they had hitherto been assessed tinder pre-
vious acts.
Mr. VANSITTART observed that the answer of the
right hon. gentleman did not quite meet his views.
(Laughter.)
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said he
might add, as the hon. gentleman required some further
explanation, that it was intended to continue the same
rates of assessment with respect to the occupation of
land in Scotland and England as had been enacted by
former acts of Parliament.
ST. CLEMENT DANE'S BURIAL GROUND.
In reply to Lord D. STUART,
Lord PALMERSTON said he could assure his noble
friend that he had taken all the steps which the Act of
Parliament enabled him to do for the purpose of closing
the graveyard of the St. Clement Dane's perma-
nently and for ever. The statute in question
provided that there should be gone through a certain
number of forms, which involved considerable delay be-
tween the order for closing and the actual closing. He
presumed that the interval was required by Parliiment for
the purpose of enabling the parties concerned to take mea-
sures for providing other places for interment. His answer
to the question was, that everything the Secretary of State
for the Home Departent could do had been done, and
that in a very short time all the forms would be com-
pleted, and the graveyard closed.
SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN.
Lord D. STUART said he had to put another ques-
tion about the Danes, not St. Clement Danes—(oh and
a laugh)—he wished to ask the noble lord the mem-
ber for the City of London, whether he was now pre-
pared to lay on the table of the house the protest of
the Prince of Schleswig Holstein against the treaty re-
gulating the succession to the Crown of Denmark, and
' any correspondence relating to that subject ; and whe-
' ther the above document had been laid before the law
officers of the Crown.
Lord J. RUSSELL said it would be a great public
inconvenience to lay on the table at the present time
the protest of the Prince of Schleswig Holstein against
the treaty regulating the succession to the Crown of .1130,;n-.
mark ; and that being so he was not prepared to lay
that protest, or any correspondence relating to the sub-
' ject, before the house. As to theother question, he had
to state that no case had been laid before the law officers
of the Crown for their opinion.