The Sun.
London, England, 1851-06-09 00:00:00

liod, J. IV.

Duncan, George
Duneuft, ,John
Dundas, George
Dunne, Colonel
Edwards, Henry
Fagan, James

Farrer, James

Fergus, John

Ferguson, Sir R.
Fox, Richard M.

Mr. Trelawny paired wi,h General Kerriaon on Lord
Naas's motion on Home-made Spirits in Bond.

PARLIAMENTARY BUSINESS.

From the Votes and Proceedings of the House of Commons.)

STANDING ORDERS COMMITTEE.
The following Resolutions were reported from the above
Committee :-
1. That in:the case of the St. Andrew's and Quebec Rail-
way, petition for leave to deposit a petition for a Bill, the
standing orders ought to be dispensed with :—That the
parties be permitted to deposit their petition accordingly.
2. That in the case of the Cameron's Coalbrook Steam
Coal and Swansea and Loughor Railway (So. 2) petition,
the standing orders ought to be dispensed with: —That the
parties be permitted to proceed with their Bill, provided the
same be presented not later than three clear sitting days
after the presentation of this report.
Resolutions agreed to.

TO THE SECRETARY OF THE BRADFORD
REFORM ASSOCIATION.
(EVERY MONDAY AND WEDNESDAY.)
Sir,—On Wednesday the 4th, the anti educational
spirit obtained an unexpected victory on the ques-
tion of the second reading of a School Establishment
(Scotland) Bill, which was carried in the negative by
137 votes against 124. The remarkable circumstance
was, that the victorious side bad never read the Bill ;
for it passed all bounds of probability, that under any
other supposition venturous men could have been found
to hazard such entire misstatements of their case. If
their statement were to be received, the Bill might
have been expected to declare, that inasmuch as it is
desirable to prohibit by law the teaching of any reli-
gion, be it enacted &c., that from the passing of this
Act it shall be lawful only .to give instruction on
secular matters throughout the portion of the
Queen's dominions called Scotland. Instead of
v‘hich, there was not a word in the Bill touching
instruction being either secular or the contrary, hut
simply a proposal to take the direction of schools in
Scotland out of the hands of the clergy of one of the
three sects into which the country is pretty equally
divided, and give it into the hands of all the sects and
of the ratepayers in general.
The principle maintained therefore amounts to this :
That there shall be no education in any country where
it can be hindered, except what is administered by
the priesthood, and by the priesthood of that peculiar
sect or segment which from one cause or other has got
possession of the public property assigned for religi-
ous purposes. It may be the religion of one-third,
as in the actual case in Scotland ; but education
must be theirs and nobody else's, or at ell events
nobody else must share in the fund assigned. The
locality signifies little, so the principle be maintained;
and the House had consequently lamentations over
the degree in which the success of revolutionary
principles had taken the education of France out of
the hands of the Gallican Church. A most Catholic
spirit clearly exists upon the question; and so that
there is an established priesthood, and the youth of a
country are educated by it, it matters little what
priesthood, all establishments being equally good for
the common purpose.
As it fortunately happens that the suffrage in
Scotland is not limited to one sect of three, there
are indications of the way in which remedy will
come. And in the mean time the debate which has
taken place cannot fail to work its effects.
On Thursday was a debate on what some of
the newspapers call the great Chicory question ;
consisting in desiring to know, whether the public
has a right to mix chicory with its coffee, provided
it likes it better. The Chancellor of the Exchequer
is counsel for the defence, and maintains stoutly that
the public shall take its choice. But the far-seeing
gentlemen who have plantations in Ceylon, perceive a
right they have to control both the Chancellor of the
Exchequer and the public. They were not far from
having their way on Thursday ; the liberty of the
coffee-pot being only maintained by 94 against 89.
The world has always been governed by sounding
words. " Adulteration" is one of these ; though
nothing be adulterated but by the purchaser's parti-
cular desire. A goodly portrait that was presented to
the House, of your West Riding operatives going to
the shop for ground coffee at two•thirds of the price
at which coffee is sold there in the bean, and coming
away with a suspicion in their minds that it was not
all coffee they chose to ask for)
On Friday were further evidences of the design to
get rid of the Committee on the Income-tax; and the
appointment of it was postponed till after Whitsuntide.
Much ludicrous matter was uttered about the import.
ance of forming a Committee whose decision should
be satisfactory to the public. As if the decision of
any Committee would be satisfactory to anybody, ex-
cept as it was the means of bringing out the various
opinions and interests concerned. Of one interest,
be sure that no representation will be found; and
that is, the interest of the Working Classes. But how
shouldknow they
it be otherwise, when they hardly
have an interest, and of course nobody elseeis bound
to recognize it?
On the same night the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill in
Committee dragged itself through two or threenega
nega-
tived Amendments. Sir Henry Wille
mo-
tion for extending the provisions of the Bill
by the
insertion of the words, "or if any person after the
passing of this Act shall obtain or cause to be pro-
cured from the said Bishop or See of Rome, or shall
publish or put in use within any part of the United
Kingdom, any Bull, Brief, Rescript, Letters Aposto-
lical, or any other instrument or writing for the pur-
pose of creating any Archbishop or Bishop named from
any r-:ovince or See, or with Titles derived from
places within the United Kingdom," eras only nega-
tived by 133 against 129. Whereupon the opinion
seems to be that the Lords will insert it.
The House at its rising stood adjourned till Thurs.
day the 12th.
I am, Sir, yours very sincerely,
AN OLD EEFORMER.
'l, London, June 9, 1851.

THE COAL TRADE AT BUM. ENHEAp..---We Are
glad to find that this trade is increasing rapidly. It appears
that Mr. T. S. Hancock, the persevering agent 01 the
Brymbo Company,
has at the present toirm2,
tPhrei loading
otour large ships, viz , the Moliat, t
Char-
lotte, and California, with full cargoes, amounting to 3,800
tons of his fine steam coal, on account of the East India Com-
pany and the Government cmtracts.— Liverpool Journal.
ST. JOHN DEL REY MINING COMPANY.—A divi-
dend of 11. 10s. per share was declared yesterday at the
meeting of the St. John del Rey Mining Company,
report and accounts were tuaanimously adoprPaDY, and the
adopted.

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NAVAL INTELLIGI4MC;4I, -;;s;te'essess
Assistant-Surgeon Joseph Browne (Fehrtiesy,s-11114gYeas
hae been promoted to the rank of eurget
APPO:NTMENTS.
LieUtenants J. R. Harward (1846), to
steera- sleep, fit Spithead. John Franklin IS
command thr coast-guard station, No. 1 battery, Denge-
nesse
Mates—St'. George Rathborne (1849), of the Ajax,
60; T. B. L 3. Selivan (1849), from the-Bellerophon, 7S;
and A. F. 0. Young (1850), have. been appointed to the
Victoria and Alhert royal yacht.
Second Master—Widiam Brodie (1843), of the Fie-
gard, to bo acting master; and IL D. Speer (184 e), to
the Birkenhead rateam troop-ship.
Master's Assistant—W. C. Bicknell, to the Impregna-
ble flag-ship, Devonport.
Mn. GRANT'S COOKING AND DISTILLING GALLEY.—
We are most happy to say that our former opinions
and encomiums respecting this most useful and clever
invention are most tulle corroborated by the very satis-
fatery reports that continue to he received from the
dill-rent vesseli iu which it bas been placed on board.
Float the Dauntless steam frigate, we hear that the
tpantiy of fresh waster ehteined by distillation has
everagsd about 400 gallons daily, aitb,at utter F.); pen-
of coals than those used for thil acttr,l verpose of
coo!,itete the dully rations. From the Be keehead steam-
trdop-ship- recently employed in taking out the
retievieg coatprtnien of the loyal Artillery, and bring-
ing home the relieved from Ilahfsex and gaebtse whicti
occupied this steamer about forty-Eight days, the quan-
tity of fresh water she ebtaire d from the ;sane). was
16,000 pallenß. .The water wae highly :Approved of, not
only far drinking, hot more eyeetelly for the purpose
of malting te,,, and poa-soup, for which, from the perfect
absence of all caleereous matter, it is said to be pre •
ferable to the tank water. in a troop-ship, where,
from the large number of persona they have on board,
they are frequently obliged' toe-put-the -troops on a very
limited allowance cf fresh water ; this galley is a grand
desideratum. We are glad to hear that preparations are
now being made for the manufacture of these most ne-
cessary articles on a large scale, at bah Portsmouth
and Woolwich, for the purpose of their being suppliel
Ito all men-of-war.—Herald.
Captain Johnson, of the Compass Department at the
Admiralty, has been ordered to select a compass as
Weolwieh for the purpose of placing it among other
nautical instruments at the Great Exhibition.
Mr. John Bull, an old Falmouth Post-office packet
commander, died on the 2d instant, near Falmouth, aged
80. Captain Bull was repeatedly distinguished for skill
and gallantry in action, boating off enemy's vessels of
superior force; and particularly on one painful occasion,
when being attacked in the night by his Majesty's brig
Primrose, of 16 guns (32-pounders), he, in his little brig
with ten 12-pounders, beat her off with severe loss.
Captain Bull brought over to England from America the
late King of the French, Louis Philippe.
THE SOVEREIGN FREIGHT SHIP MISSING.—Great
are entertained for the safety
of the Sovereign
freight-ship, which left Halifax on 4th March for Liver-
pool, since which no intelligence has been received of
her. Lieutenant Taylor, of her Majesty's ship Welles-
ley, and Mr. Henry Fisher, 38th liegimerst, son of Com-
mander John Fisher, R.N., are passengers.
Brisk, newly launched :crow-sloop, is one of four of
her class, which consist of the Archer and Wasp in com-
mission, Miranda having her engines fitted in the Clyde,
and Brisk. Her armament will bo 14 guns—namely,
two 68-pounders, 87 cwt., 9 ft. 6 in. long, on pivot slides
and carriages, andewelve32-pounders,32 own, 6 ft. 6 in.
long, on Sir T. Hardy's slides and carriages. Her
complement will be 150 officers and men. The nominal
power of her engines will be 250 horses. We are now
getting as great a confusion of classes of screw as of
paddle-wheel sloops.
Devastation steam-sloop, Commander C. Y. Cam-
pbell, was paid advances at Spithead on Friday, under
the superintendence of the acting superintendent, end
was to have sailed on Saturday for Plymouth, en route to
the West Indies, but tho strong westerly winds pre-
vented her. She remained at Spithead last night,
waiting for a lull to get away.
Herald surveying•ship, Captain Kellett, C. 8., passed
through the Downs on Saturday, from Portsmouth, on
her way to Chatham, to be paid off. She is doubtless
at Sheernees to-day, and Will be irespeced there.
Nautilus, Lieut.-Commander Dotting, returned to her
anchorage between the island and the main on Friday
afternoon, from a cruise in the Channel for the exercise
of the naval apprentices.
PORTSMOUTH, SUNDAT.—Ships at Spithead:—The
Vengeance, 84, Captain Lord C. Russell; Ajax, 60,
screw-ship, Captain Quin; Hogue, 60, screw-ship, Cap-
tain M'Dougall; Devastation steam-sloop, Commander
Campbell; and Hecate steam-sloop, Commander Hand;
Turkish frigate and brig, end Nile, East Indiaman.
The Nile, a splendid frigate-built ship, for Madras
and Calcutta, which arrived at Spithead on Thursday, is
awaiting moderate weather to proceed on her voyage.
A ship, laden with teak-wood from Moulmein for the
dockyard, arrived at Spithead this morning.
DEVONPORT, FRIDAY.—The Merapi, Dutch steamer.
having completed coaling, hauled off from the pier at
Millbey this morning, and will sail on the return of her
officers on leave on Sunday.
DEVONPORT DOCKYARD AND THE GREAT
TION.—The artisans and others employed in this eats-
blistanent have memorialised the Lords Commissioners
of the Admiralty for an additional ton days' leave of ab-
sence at their own cost, to enable them to visit the
Great Exhibition. Of:the four days granted by Admi-
ralty order to the men employed in all the naval arsenals
two would be expended by those from Devenpert in the
journey to and from London. The request is, therefore,
so reasonable that there can be no deem of their Lord-
concession, if the requirements of the public ser-
vice will permit it.
Poerrsetoterie, SUNDAY.--The Porcupine stean2-vefrael,
Lieutenant-Commander Bacon, tallied yesterday from
tile Mediterranean, and came into harbour_ Lady Kerr,
wife of Lord FrederiekKerr, of the Scourge steam-sloop,
carne home passenger in her.
The Hogue, 60, Captain M‘Doue,,al, and AjtaX, 60,
Cup:ain Quin, will be "paid down" at Spithead to-
morrow, and sail soon after for .ca.
We have much pleasure in announcing the munifi-
cent donation of 1001. from Mrs. Sheddon in aid of the
funds of the Portsmouth Sailors' Home.