The Sun.
London, England, 1870-05-06 00:00:00

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HANDICAP SWEEPSTAKES OF 10 SOVS
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At the Central Criminal Court this morning,
Demetrio Pappa, who was manager of the Oriental Com-
mercial Bank, and was yesterday convicted of stealing a
cheque for £BOO, was sentenced to penal servitude for five
years.

AUSSIAN TRADE AND THE SUEZ CANAL.—The
Russians are much troubled just now as to the effect the
opening of the Suez Canal may have on their commercial
relations with China. A writer named Melnikoff asks
in the Moscow News what will happen when the Chinese
merchants, avoiding the long voyage round Africa and
Europe, send their tea by the nearest sea route,
through the Suez Canal from Shanghai to Odessa, and
Sebastopol, The overland trade through Kiachta
was already sorely tried by the trade round the
Cape, and Gospodin Melnikoff groans as he thinks
what will become of it now that the Suez Canal is
open. Will the Chinese take Russian velveteens and
cloths by way of Kiachta, when they can get English
velveteens and cloth through the Suez Canal? No.
They will send their tea to Odessa, and from Odessa will
take back British, French, or German, but not Russian
goods, so that the manufacturers of Moscow and Tcherni-
goff who have hitherto counted on an outlet in China
will simply be ruined. While their velveteens and
cfoths are being dragged through Siberia, along
that tedious route, to Kiachta, the cloths and
velveteens of fortunate England will already
have arrived at Shanghai. Thus says Gospodin
Melnikoff, who, however, is confuted in his own
journal by a correspondent, who tells him that even now
the Russian manufacturers send their velveteens and
cloths, not through the Siberian desert to Kiachta, but
through England to Shanghai and Hankow ; and that the
Russian goods so sent can be sold at lower rates than
English goods. The opening of the Suez Canal, then,
will not injure Russian commerce. On the contrary, it
will benefit it. The tea crop of the same year will now
reach the Nijni-Novgorod fair in the autumn. A saving
in the original outlay, in freight and in time, will be
effected. Tea will become cheaper in Russia, a greater
quantity will be imported, and in proportion to the im.4
ports will be the exports.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS.—THURSDAY.
The Lord Chancellor took his seat on the woolsack at
five o'clock.

PRIVATE BILLS.

Lord REDESDALE moved that no private bill brought
from the House of Commons shall be read a second time
after Thursday, the 16th of June next ; that no bill
aushorising any inclosure of lands under special
report of the Inclosure Commissioners for Eng.
land and Wales, or confirming any scheme of
the Charity Commissioners for England and Wales, shall
be read a second time after Tuesday, the 21st day of June
next ; that no bill confirming any provisional order shall
be read a second time after Tuesday, the 21st day of June
next ; that when a bill shall have passed this House with
amendments, these orders shall not apply to any new
bill sent up from the House of Commons which the Chair-
man of Committees shall report to the House is sub.
stantially the same as the bill so amended.
The motion was agreed to.
THE RED RIVER SETTLEMENT.

Lord LYVEDEN put a question to the Government as to
the progress of matters in the Red River.
Earl GRANVILLE said it had been assented to allow Im-
perial troops to form part of the expedition, which, he
believed, would terminate peacefully. Every means to
arrive at a peaceful settlement of the matter in dispute
had been taken, and he had every hope that the result
would be successful.
THE OYSTER AND MUSSEL FISHERIES.

The supplemental bill on this subject passed through
committee.

MEDICAL ACT (1858) AMENDMENT BILL.
The Marquis of CLANRICARDE presented a petition
against the bill from the College of Physicians, in Ireland.
Earl DE GREY then moved the second reading
of the bill, and explained the various alteration,'
that it proposed, and also the qualifications candidates
would be required to possess. The noble earl then ex-
plained that there were now nineteen bodies which givp
admission to the medical profession, but by the present
bill it was proposed to substitute for them one
general examining body, and that there should be
one uniform system of examination. He was quite
aware that there were objections to some of the enact-
ments of the bill, but yet they did not touch the principlp
of the bill. He should have no objection to consider anl►
proposal that might lead to an amicable understanding in
the matter.

After a short discussion the bill was read a second
time, but the committee, it was arranged, should not
be fixed for some time longer than was originally in-
tended in order that certain objections that had been
raised against the bill should be considered.
COUNTY COURTS (BUILDINGS) BILL.

The report of amendments to this bill was brought up
and received.

Their lordships adjourned at twenty-five minutes past
seven.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.—THIIRSDAY.
The Speaker took the chair at five minutes to four.
WOMEN'S DISABILITIES BILL.

Mr. BOUVERIE gave notice that on the motion for going
Into committee on this bill he should move, as an amend-
ment, that the House go into committee that day six

months.

Mr. C. RAIBES also gave notice that in the event of the
Act passing he should move that the vote be given by
means of voting papers.

HABITUAL CRIMINALS.

Mr. STAPLETON asked the Secretary of State for the
Home Department, whether he could give the House any
information as to the working of the Habitual Criminals
Act ; and whether he would before the close of thesession,
lay any papers upon the table to illustrate working of
that Act.

Mr. BRUCE said the information he had was far from
conclusive ; but he had reports from Manchester, Liver-
pool, and Leeds to the effect that the Act had worked
with the best effect. The report he had received from
Birmingham was so satisfactory that it had been
found unnecessary to put the whole of its pro-
-visions into active operation. He should have
great pleasure before the termination of the session, in
laying papers connected with the subject, on the table of
the House.