The Sun.
London, England, 1856-07-11 00:00:00

CIIhRENCY OF INDIA..

Mr. CHEETHAM asked the President of the Board
of Control if his attention had been called to the great
inconvenience at present sustained by the co umereal
classes in India fr.m the scarcity of a metallic specie in
that country ; and whether it was the intention of the
Indian G:werninent to ta,k. any measures to remedy the
same by the creation of a gold coinage as a legal tender,
in addition to the silver coinage now current there ? And
if he was able to lay upon the table of the house a report
of the extent of railway communication now in operation
anCi in course of construction in India ?

Mr. V. SMITH said no such complaint. had been
made since be had been at the 800 r 1 of Control ; but the
question of extending gold e,dna4e to India was well wor
thy of consideration, and had not been lost sight of.
(Hear.) With regard to the second question,, i here was no
such detailed report in the posiession of the Board of
Control, but sows c(irrespoodence bad taken place upon
the subject; and if it were mowed for there would be no
objection to produce it.
SITE OF THE NATIONAL GALLERY.

• Mr. VERNON said since her Majesty had undertaken
to issue a royal commission to inquire into the site of the
National Gallery, he wished to put a question upon the
subject to the noble lord at the head of the Government.
The committee which sat in 1863 Orr the same subject
felt itself impeded from recommending any sites which
it really considered to be the best from a delicacy with
regard to the nature of the tenure of those sites. Now
he did not wish to trouble the noble lord to state spoof•

CONSOLIDATION OF THE LAW.
Mr. L. KING, seeing the hon. and learned member
for Suffolk, he wished to ask him whether he intended
this se-Jsion to bring in the Consolidatk‘n of the Criminal
Law Bill, which he obtained leave to introduce on the
14th of February last ?
Sir F. KELLY—After what has passed in this house
on the subject to which this que.4tion refers, I think the
question should rather have been addressed to the Go-
vernment. Still, I have no hesitation in answering the
question, and I can a,sure the bon, gentleman that some
of the roost eminent members of the Statute Law C .m-
-mission have been incessantly engaged in the prepara-
tion not only of the bias of which I have given notice,
hut also of bills relating to other branches of the law. I
have therefore great i.atistaction in announcing that
the whole of these bills are at this moment ready to he
laid on the table, and they will to-morrow or Monday
be proposed to the House of Lords by the Lord Chan-
cellor. (Hear.) It was thought to be only right ?hat •
these important bills should be brought in by some mem-
ber of the Government. (Hear, hear.)
COUNTY COURTS BILL.
Mr. GLADSTONE gave notice that on the motion
for the second reading of this hill be should move a re
solution to tie effect, that, in the present state of the
national exchequer, it was inexpedient to add 170,0001
to the expenditure ofthe country in connection with the
maintenance of county courts.
STATE OF ITALY.

Mr. DISRAELI— Seeing the noble lord the member
or the City of London in his place, I wish to ask him
whether he intends to-morrow to bring forward that
motion of which he has given notice with respect to the
affairs of the Italian States ?
Lord J. RUSSELL—I am in the hand:: of the Go-
verentent on that question. I had proposed to bring
the subject forward on Friday, and if my noble friend at
the head of the Government will allow my motion to take
precedence of the orders of the day, I shalt bring it on.
Mr. DISRAELI—I shall be 'glad to hear what the
noble lord wishes to say on the subject, and as it is an
important question, may I ask the noble lord the First
Minister whether he is disposed to assent to the propo-
sal which has ju-t been made to him ?
Len I PALMERSTON—I thought my noble friend
I intended to move his resolution on the motion for ad-
' journment. There are several bills on the paper which
it is important to get through a stage to-morrow, and if
my noble friend means to bring the question forward in
the shape of a substantive motion, it would be more con-
renient if my noble friend would take Monday instead
of Friday.
Lord J. RUSSELL—I could not bring the subject for:
ward on the motion for adjournment, as I do not myself
approve of the practice of speaking on the motion for ad•
journment. Therefore if my noble friend has no objection
to the question being taken on Monday, I will definitively
postpone the motion till-then, when of course it will be
allowed to take precedence of the orders of the day.
The subject then dropped.
WILLS AND ADNIINISTRATION BILL.
In answer to Mr. MALINS,
The SOLICITOR•GENERAL said he must resit_n
this bill to" its inevitable fare, and submit to " seeit
quietly inurned." (Laughter.) When they arrived at
the order of the day for going into committee ho should
move that the order be discharged.
CONSOLIDATED FUND (APPROPRIATION)
BILL.
After a short discussion this bill passed through corn
mittee.

APPELLATE JURISDICTION BILL.
Oa the motion for going into committee on this bill,
Mr. It. CURRIE, in moving that the bill be referred
to a select committee, said that the noble lord a'; the
head of the Government, in defending the bill, observed
that compromises were sometimes expedient, necessary.
and justifiable. As a general proposition, he did not be
lieve any one would deny that ; but, on the other hand,
every compromise must be judged on its own pecaliar
merits. Agreement was no doubt a good thing, but where
principle and honour were concerned he believed con-
viction was better. The liberal supporters of the noble
lord advocated vote by ballot, an extension of the suf-
frage, and the entire abolition of Church rates. But the
noble lord held none of these opinions, and he manfully
and consistentlymaintained his own. ' They supported the
foreign policy of the noble lord when it was vigorously
and continuously assailed. They also fought with thenoble
lord the battle of free trade. The noble lord, at a tine
when the reputation of statesmen fell scattered like leave,
•
in autumn, nailed his coleursr te the mast ; he three:
energy into the councils of the Qoeen, and thereby re-
stored peace with Europe. For these things he was
thankful to the noble lord, and was happy to call him
',is leader ; but the duties of allegiance and leadership
were correlative. The noble lord could not have a Liberal
majority oiie night and a Tory one the next, composed of
those who were bound to the Government by the agree-
able associations of quarter-day and the band of Lord
Derby on the opposite benches. (Hear.) When the noble
lord, after the last division on this subject, walked over
the field of battle, accompanied by his hon. friend the
member for Wells as his aide-de-camp, to examine the
number and bodies of the slain, be must have exclaimed
with Pyrrhus, "One such victory more will be my ruin."
(Laughter.) He hoped the noble lord was not going to
repeat the same thing that night. (Hear, hear.) The
noble lord had 'ability and dexterity for almost any-
thing ;'but he did not think he could serve two masters
at once. (Hear.) He must cleave to one or the other
He must not receive the edicts of the House of Lords
and Lord Derby and a,k his supporters in the House of
Commons to ratify them. He spoke thus frankly and re-
epectfully, because he was a,sineere friend and admirer
of the noble lord. He had been described by an hon. gen
tleman opposite as a desultory and independent member
of the house. But be could sincerely say that be yielded
to no man in the wish that the house should hold a high
high place in the estimation of the public, because he
thought the greatest danger to free government consisted
in the popular branch of the Legislature losing the cop&
deuce of the people. And how could the House of Com-
mons retain -ucla confidence if they refused a select com-
mittee on such a subject as this, and contented themselves
ith registering ~he edicts of te House of Lords ? He
roped the house would support his motion 'which he had
placed on the paper without consulting a human being. It
so happened that he had studied the question of life peer-
ages arid appellate jurisdiction, and since he had given
notice of this motion, he was astonished at the com-
munications made to him respecting it. If a committee
were appointed, he could promise that it would be attended
hy men of the highest eminence—judges of the common law
and judges of the equity courts, who would show that the
nill on the table contained as much mischief and as little
.400 d as could be put into the same space of paper.
(Cheers.) Would the House of Commons refuse to inquire
into this important question, which infringed on a right
which he believe& to be inherent in the Caown, that of
creating life peerages, with the right to sit in the House
of Lards. He was of opinion that her Majesty had the
right to call upon any human being who was a subject to
assist her, and this bill be considered to be a limitation

of her prerogative. (Hear) The subject was large and
important enough not only for a select committee, but
for a protracted discussion in that house. What the
eoris.'truction of a final court of appeal which would have
to decide in the last resort on the fortunes and reputa-
tion of men and women should he was surely a
que.tion which deserved the maturest consideration.
(Hear, hear.) He might have a monomania on this
subject, but upon his honour- he could not understand
the course which hal been taken. The noble lord, like
the knight in the old ballad, seemed to have entered
into a frightful compact with somebody, and in such
cases they knew who had the worst of the bargain.
(Laughter.) A great many words had been used ,the
other night on this subject, but the noble lord the mein-
,ter for London and the right hon. gentleman (Sir Jas.
Grabam) alone cane to deice quarters. But the lawyers
who spoke tried to lead the house away from the ques-
tion. They acted like the condottieri of the middle ages,
who fought all day and left no killed or wounded. They
reminded him of the hen partridges which he lately saw
in the country, fluttetiog their wings to lead persons
sway from their nests. (Laughter.) He hoped they were
',hat tight going to take the buttons from the foils,
464 hive a statni-up fight. He heard it publicly sta.e I
ia one of the rooms attached to the house that Lord
Derby declared the bill might go where it liked
if the clause of his hon. friend the member for
lllaldon, which saved the prerogative of the Crown,

I Really what instructions r-au?d he Saattati to 014 t,tittot,
Mon, but perhaps the noble lord would be so good as to
say whether the commission would have full power to
propose such a site as they might consider the best
adapted to the purpose.
Lord PALMERSTON—I- cannot tell my hon. friend
what the instructions will be, because the corninissien
has dot yet been appointed, but of course it will be open
to them to make such suggestions as mayappear to them
to be the best.to make with regard to the site. I can
only repeat, however, what I stated in the discussion of
this question, that there are places, such as the Royal
Palaces at Sc. James's. and Kensington.g,ore, and Marl-
borough House, which nn Government would agree to
have converted into the National Gallery, even though
they should be recommended by the commission, and for
this obvious r,ason, that such places are the private pro-
perty
of the Cr•iwn. (Hear.)
MILITIA MUTINY IN IRELAND.
Mr. F. FRENCH wished to put a question to the hon.
Under-Secretary for War, relative to a statement which
had been published with regard to the disbanding of the
Tipperary Militia. It was stated that the men bad re-
fused to deliver up their arms on certain conditions, and
that they had taken possession of the town of Nenagh,
where they used their bayonets and fire-arms, and the
troops of the line bad to be called in to quell teem. By
a telegraphic message since received, it was stated that
the mutiny had been quelled, and the question he wished
to put to the !hon. Under-Secretary was, whether it
really was the fact that the mutiny had been suppressed,
but only with severe losses on both sides?
Mr. F. PEEL—I have seen a telegraphic despatch from
General Chatterton, which states that everything was
quiet in the quarters where the mutiny had taken place.
It added that one man had been killed and some 10 or 12
wounded belonging to the line, but it does not allude to
the losses on the side of the militia.
Colonel DUNNE—Does the hon. gentleman intend
to go on with the Militia Pay Bill twilight ?—because,
if he does, I shall call attention to the important cause
of this unfortunate occurrence.
Mr. F. PEEL—I hope to pass it through committee
to-night.