The Sun.
London, England, 1854-06-15 00:00:00

ECCLESIASTICIL COURTS BILL.

The house then went into committee.
Mr. WHITESIDE asked if it was intended to extend
this bill to Ireland.

Mr. J. S. PHILLIMORE replied in the negative, as
it had been found impossible to frame a clause that
would be satisfactory to Ireland.
The bill was then passed through committee.
PUBLIC REVENUE AND CONSOLIDATED
FUND CHARGES BILL.

This bill was passed through committee on under-
taking being given by the Government that before the
third reading amendments should be made for exempting
the high judicial officers of Ireland from the operation
of the bill.
Oa the consideration of the schedules,

Mr. CRAUFURD moved that the salaries of sheriffs
and sheriffs substitutes of Scotland should be transferred
•from Schedule Ato Schedule B. The former placed the
charges for offices on the consolidated fund, while the
latter placed the charges under the control of Parlia-
ment.

After a brief discussion the committee divided, when
there appeared—

For the amendment
Against it
The schedule A. was then agreed to.
Schedule B gave rise to .a good deal of desultory dis-
cussion, and ❑ltimately, _

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Mr. GROGAN moved that the Chairman do report
progress.
The committee divided on this motion, when there
appeared—

For the motion.
Against it
The motion was accordingly neg tived.
The schedule was then agreed to.
WAYS AND MEANS.

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The house then went into a committee of ways and
means, and agreed to a resolution for restricting the use
of sugar in breweries. The use of sugar in breweries
and distilleries is not to be prohibited in breweries on
payment of the increased duty, but the brewers wishing
to use sugar will be required to take out an annual
license for that purpose at a cost of I/. a-year.
The other orders were then disposed of, and the house
adjourned at half-past 5 o'clock.

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

SHREWSBURY AND BIRMINGHAM.

A special meeting of this company was het(' at Shrews-
bury on Monday, under the Wharncliffe standing orders,
to consider a for the consolidation into one under-
taking of the Great Western, Shrewsbury and Birming-
ham, and Shrewsbury and Chester Railways, and the
Union into one company of the three several companies.
Mr. Badger occupied the chair.
Mr. Peele, the solicitor to the company, read the heads
of the bill.

The CHAIRMAN said, the object of the bill was to
amalgamme their railway with the Great Western and
Shrewsbury companies, by which, if the bill passed, the
shareholders would receive 3 per cent. upon the
capital paid up, and a division of surplus profits, after
the working expenses of the line were paid. The re-
ceipt of the dividend, if Parliament sanctioned the bill,
of which there was little doubt, would commence from
the Ist of January last. It had already passed the
House of Commons, and only awaited the approbation
of the shareholders before it was introduced into the
House of Lords. The chairman concluded by moving a
formal resolution approving of the bill.
Mr. IL SCOTT seconded the motion, and in so doing
said he was happy to think that in all probabilty the pre-
sent was the last time he should have to intrude upon the
attention of the shareholders. He felt the greatest con-
fidence in the belief that the measure of amalgamation
would pass the Legislature, and that thus their property
would obtain that permanent position which, under the
former circumstances of the company, could not po-,-
.sibly be expected. Their connection with the Great
_ Western Company would be advantageous to all par-
. ties. He wished to know how the voting by proxies i❑
support of the measure of amalgamation stood.
The CLIAIRMA.N.—There are proxies in favour of the
bill representing half the capital of the company, and
none against it. (Loud cheers.)
The motion was then carried amid cheering, and the
meeting separated.

STATE OF TRADE.

(From, the Manchester Guardian of yesterday.)

MANCHESTER, June 13.—The statements so confident]
made, and apparently so completelyofconfirmed, up to confidently
recent date, about the destruction the young cotton
plant by frost, are now unreservedly admitted by the
• same authorities to have had throri in in imagination
rather than in fact. At New York the market was conse-
quently dull, and i
at New Orleans. per. b. lower. But there was no change
ness at Liverpool, These advices have checked busi-
ness without producing any quotable
effect upon
In the Manchester market they
have somewhat strengthened that caution which last
week held backpt
producers.
edueueyreers from operating at the advance
demanded by
in
getting. The former have therefore
found no difficulty
what they night want to-
this at rates which were commonly (lay week ; making a. difference
declined by the latter
in yarns ; in some kinds the deftfiecreeneefe eisaya Ldtlepemrolrbe.
moderate aggregate
than this. The sales have been i
_of
,amount. By the Greeks Rome business has been
sale n done ;
of to
and the German houses, receiving advices
a fair extent, have come into the market
them. For India we have had a limited inquiry,
with an unwillingness to pay the prices required.
As the India letters received to-day, by
Trieste, while reporting large sales of cotton goods,aisuootef
rather lower pricem, the merchants have shown a di-
minished disposition to operate on any higher terms than
those that were current a fortnight ago. The depressed
value of light 7.Bth printing- cloths is inducing some de-
mand for them. The Greek houses are brought more
into the market, both for goods and yarns, by improved
accounts both from Persia and Constantinople.
ROCHDALE, June 12.—We have bad a duller market
a.- to-day than we have had for some weeks past. The
...,.s.merchants show no disposition to purchase at the pre-
, . sent time. The wool market has been heavy, with a
• . very limited amount of business doing, and the tendency
.of prices rather in favour of the buyer. At the la ter
. part of the week the mills stopped, and many of the.
. cotton factories stood all the week.
HUDDERSFIELD, Jur.e 13.—There has been little dif-
ference in the state of the market to-day from that of
the last week. Dullness has pervaded both the cloth
hall and warehouses, and the sales have been trifling
in
compared with this time last year. Goods are brought
comparatively small parcels, and those made to order
are very limited in extent. The wool merchants have
little to do, and complain of slackness for several weeks
past.

- EXTENSIVE CONFLAGRATION.—The immense foundry
• belonging to Messrs. Bolckow and Vaughan, at Middles-
' borough, was accil•ntally burnt to the ground on Sun-
-1 day morning last. The pipes fur the extension of the
Southwark and Vauxhall, the Grand Junction, and the
West Middlesex Water Companies were being made at
these works. This foundry was previously blown down,
when not quite finished, on Christmas-day, 1852.