The Sun.
London, England, 1853-03-15 00:00:00

SCOTCH PROFESSORSHIPS.

The LORD ADVOCATE gave notice that in committee
of the whole house to-morrow he should move a resolution
to introduce a bill to regulate the admission of professors
to the lay chairs in the universities of Scotland. The bill
which he proposed to introduce would abolish entirely the
subscription of tests required by the statutes as tilt, now
stood ; but this would only extend to the lay chairs, and
not to the chairs of theological colle:;:—. Every profes, Dr,
under its provisions, would be r-it*. ed. instead to sub-
scribe a declaration almost in terms the same as that in-
troduced in the Test and Corporation Act of 1822, namely,
that he should not exercise the functions of his office to
the subversion or prejudice of the Established Church.
RETURNS.

On the motion of Sir C4-:_PECITELL: the following re.

turns were agreed to :—" Return of all the towns or bo-
roughs which have petitioned to be incomorated according
to the provisions of the act 5 and 6 Will. IV:, c. 76;
stating the date of such petition, whether such petition
was opposed or not, the resrlt, and whether. in case of the
chat per being granted, the district comprised in such
charter was either larger or smaller than the nrecinct of
the petitioning town or borough (in continuation of Par-
liamentary Paper, No. 610, session 1840) ; and copy of the
report made bylN'"illi am Forsyth, Esq., to Her Majesty in
Council, in or about the month of November last, on the
subject of a petition of the inhabitant householders of the
town of Brighton, praying for a municipal charter.
On the motion of Mr. KIRK, a return was agreed to of
the number of vessels, distinguishing British from foreign,
wrecked or lost off the coast of Ireland during the five
years ending the sth day of Januazy, 1853 ; stating the
names of the places where such wrecks took place, the
number of lives lost, and the amount of tonnage and value
of the cargo of the ships lost.
The house then adjourned at eight o'clock.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

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ENTERED INWARDS.—The Superior, from Cadiz; Briton,
Singapore ; Rochester, South Whale Fishery ; City of
Paris, Boulogne ; Phoebe Dunbar, Madras ; Susan C.
Howell, Baltimore ; Amaranth, Madras ; Aurora, New
Orleans ; Monarchy, Calcutta ; Castor, Malta ; Marchio-
ness of Londonderry, Calcutta ; Johnson Guernsey ; Ad-
miral Grenfell, Rio Janeiro ; Columbine, Mauritius ;
Orixa, Manilla ; Julia, Callao ; Affghan, Shanghai ; Mo-
selle, Antwerp ; Lady Sarah, Cuba ; Edward Little, Ro-
chester ; Cassandra, Terceira ; Active, Dieppe ; Dovre,
Laurvig ; Egbei t Mauritius ; Fortuna' Lokken ; Emma
and Mary, Dunkirk ; St. Andrew's, Rouen ; Infanta,
Rouen ; Tay, Marans ' • Lance, Rosen ; Breeze, Ibrail ;
John St. Barbe, Santander ;• Unity, Jersey ; Margaret,
Guernsey ; Echo, Rouen; Emma, Palermo ; Murray,
Ghent ; Merlin, Terceira ; Aliwal, Guernsey ; Susan, St.
Michael's ; Concordia, Rotterdam ; City of London, Dun-
kirk ; Magnet, Harlingen ' • Menai, Calais ; Ceres, Rotter-
dam ; Lion, Harlingen ; Dublin Lass, Havre ' • Giraffe,
Rotterdam ; Water Lily, St. Michael's ; Claud, Callao.
ENTERED OUTWARDS FOR LOADING.—The City of Lon-
don, for Dunkirk ; Menai, Calais ; Notre Dame, Havre ;
Albert Louise, Abbeville ; Ceres, Rotterdam ; Triumph,
Rouen ; Pearl, Montreal ; Asia, Port Philip ; Valleyfield,
Sierra Leone ; Concordia, Rotterdam ; Mitiagascar, Havre ;
Mentor, Elsinore ; Patrina, Naples ; Mehemet Ali, Ceylon
CLEARED OUTWARDS WITH CARGO.—The Notre Dame,
for Havre ; Sovereign, San Francisco ; Breeze, Dunkirk ;
Euphemia, Geelong ; Triumph, Rouen ; Regina Hellechina,
Hamburgh ; Elise Johanna, Amsterdam ; Cameron, Port
Philip ; City of Boulogne, Boulogne ; Ocean, Havre ; Tri-
dent, Hamburgh.

MESSINA, March 3.--The Alexander, Troon to Rhodes,
has put in, making water, and the vessel much strained.
HOLYHEAD, March 13.—The Pelham Clinton, Liverpool
to Aberystwith, put in here yesterday, half full of water,
having struck on the Harry Furlong on the previous night;
she sailed again this morning.
REDCA3, March 13.—The Leonidas, from Sunderland to
London, which ran on the rock on the 11th, has been
assisted off, and taken into West Hartlepool ; part of her
cargo had been thrown overboard.
YOUGHAL, March 12.—The Telcida, from Marianople,
which went ashore in Whiting Bay on the 9th, went to
pieces yesterday ; cargo washed out, part of tho materials
saved.

Sir B. HALL represented a large constituency, who
formed part of the metropolis. The place he represented
numbered 400,000 inhabitants, who were assessed at more
than 2,000,0001. sterling ; and, speaking to some extent
their opinions, he must appeal to the noble lord not to
think for one moment of postponing this measure. This
was no new topic. It was the most unprofitable discus-
sion the house could have ; and surely when it had been
so long debated on both sides, it was much better to ar-
rive at a conclusion at once, for he was sure that, what-
ever eloquence might be displayed, not one single vote
would be turned by it.
Mr. WHITESIDE said the request for a postponement
was most reasonable, and it was a mistake to say that the
principle involved was not new. The fact was the bill in-
troduced a novel principle into the whole system of the
laws of England. It might be right politically to admit
Jews into Parliament, but it was certainly opposed to the
ancient laws of the country, of which Christianity was a
pate. Under such circumstances, he contended that it was
only reasonable that some delay should be accorded.
Lord D. STUART contended that ample time had been
devoted to the consideration of the subject, and said that
the petitions in favour of admitting Jews to Parliament
hadincreased in the proportion of six to one.
Mr. NEWDEGATE said that in 1847 he had stated
that many of the petitions were spurious—that the parties
procuring the signatures were paid for them at the rate of
3s. per hundred, which remuneration was afterwards
changed to ss. per day. He had offered to prove this be-
fore a committee of the house, if the noble lord (Lord D.
Stuart) would move for one. The noble lord had never
moved for that committee ; and he had no doubt that the
signatures to the petitions were paid for now as they were
in 1847. But as to the petitions on the other side, he
could answer for it that the signatures were not only
unpurchased but, unsolicited.
Mr. NAPIER believed the noble lord would be pro- , THE MARCH or gPEED.—The announcement of the
ceeding with undue precipitancy if, under existing CirCUM" division on the second reading of the Jews Bill, which
stances, he pressed the third reading on Friday. Many was taken at midnight on Friday last, was published in
members were already leaving town for the recess, and it the Galway papers of Saturday, in little over 12 hours
gentleman
nta RUSSELL reminded min
that the bill had h
was unusual for a question of such importance to be enter-
,
after the transmission of the intelligence from London.
travelled is nearl
tamed on the day of the adjournment. The distance
thus
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ded thehonourableaaanndolpepoarnsed hours were consumedy
ed in the passage between Holyhead
upon its introduction, and also upon its second reading. - and Dublin.

ANTWEEP.---The Leoni, from Pernambuco and Maran-
ham to Havre, put into St. Thomas, Feb. 15, leaky, and
would discharge. The Euchails, from Charleston to Bor-
deaux' Put in there very leaky,_ with damage, and had nearly
discharged. The Adolphe (French brig), Port-au-Prince
to Marseilles' was wrecked on Great Inagua, Jan. 6 ; crew
saved. The Comete, of Bordeaux, was lost about the same
time as the Adolphe. Mem.—The Comete sailed from
Martinique for Hayti Jan. 8.
TERCEIRA, Feb. 26.—During the S.E. gale of the 17th
the Lady Elizabeth, the Ringsbridge, and the Rival (Port
brig), drove on shore here, and became total wrecks ;
crews saved.

long.