The Sun.
London, England, 1851-06-07 00:00:00

IMPERI,

FRUIT.—The market for Raisins has a dull aspect;
and there are sellers of Valencia at 32s to 355; Denis
21s to 253; Red Smyrna 30s to 325; Eleme 33s to
365; Sultanas 50s to 525; and Muscatels 36s to 60s.
Currants are, however, in good demand, and the
market is firmer for better sorts. The value is
from 32s to 42s ; and for upper Gulph and new
growth 27s to 30s. Figs are dealt in with caution at
403 to 50s for Turkey; Greek 26s to 28s, and Prunes 25s
to 295. French Plums are still scarce, and wanted at 5/
to 10/. The value of Jordan Almonds is 71 105 to 101;
Valencia 87s to 90s; Barbary sweet 535, bitter 425.
TALLOW.—This afternoon the public sales of 278
pkgs South American Tallow went at 34s to 36s 6d;
520 cks Sydney 34s 3d to 36s 6d; 238 casks wrecked
P.Y. Candle 33s 9d to 36s 6d.
OlLS.—This afternoon, at public sale, 58 tuns Polar
Whale Oil in part sold at 29/ to 301; and 40 cases refined
Spermaceti at is lid to Is 11d.

SEABORNE MAILS.
[N &lollies that the mails are sent front the General Post-olllei
by the night—and li by the morning—Cspateh.)

i When made up in 1 From *hat
Wh PLACES. IGeneralPost-oftice port dig-
en
1 London: patched. due.
America (by Brit. pkt.)Nl June 6 .. .. Liverpool.. Juno 9
America (by U.S. pkt.) N June 10 .. .. Liverpool ..
America (by U.S. pkt.) M June 18
.. ..,'Southampt. June 12
Africa (West coast)" N 14th of the month Plyniouth June 3
Alexandria. .... •... N 19th & 30th of mo.'Dover .. June 18
Belgium • • .. • • N Daily • • • •
.. !Dover .. Daily - Brazil .. .. M 9th of the month ,Southampt. June 12
Buenos Ayres .. .. 31 9th of the month (Southampt.
June 12
California(viaChagres) M 17th of month ISoutha.mpt. June 5
Cape of Good Hope N 14th of month iPlymouth.. June 3
Constantinople. .. •• N 7th 17th 27th of mo Dover .. June 10
Central America .. 31 2,1 & 17th of mon. 'Southampt. June 5
Channel Isles .. .. N Mon., Wed., & Fri.lSouthampt. Tn. Th.S a
Chili .. .. • • M 17th of the month ISouthampt. June 20 France •
.. .. Al & N Twice daily .. .. Dover
••Twlcedaily
Greece* .. .. • . N 7th 17th 27th af mo Dover •
• June 10
Hamburgh .. .. N Tuesday & Friday London .. Tiles. Sat.
Holland .. •• .. M Wednes. & Satur. London .. Mon.Thyr
Honduras .. .. . N 17th of the month Southampt. June 20
Ireland .. .. III& N Twice daily .. .. Holyhead .• Twicedaily
India (via Southamp.) 31 20th of the naonth,Southanapt. June 23
India (via Marseilles) N 7th& 24th ofmonth Dover . • June 18
Mediterranean (via
Southampton) •• 3I 20th of the month !Southampt. June 23
Mediterranean (via
Marseilles) .. .. N 7th& 24th ofmonth Dever • • !June 18
Mexico .. .. .. 31 2(1 of the month.. I Southampt. 'June 4
Madeira .. • • .. 31 9th of the month Southampt. (Juno 12
Malta'.. .. Isf I 7th,l7th,l9th,27th }
& 30th of month Dover :June 10

Jane 10
Dover • . 'June 12
!Dover .. June 12
Southampt. /June 16
Southampt.lJune 20
Dover •• June 12
Southampt. !June 20
Southampt. /June 5
ted (*) are conveyed by

. mon._
Naples* . N sth 15th 25 th of mo
Papal States* ;51,11 15th 25th of mo
Feninsular .. • • .. M 7th 17th 27th of mo
Peru .. •• 31117th of the month
Tuscany*
.. N .sth 15th 25th ofmo
West Indies .. 117th of the month
West Indies (except
Havanna & Nassau) M 2d of the month ..
* The mails to those c ountries thus mark
French packet via Marseilles.
CALIFORNIA.—MaiIs to and from Califon&
are now despatched and due by every Amer,

la, via the United State
lean packet.

THE CATERPILLAR,•••GOOSEDERRY BUSHES.--A,
lady correspondent at Dunoon says--" It may not be gene-
rally known, that at this season of the year, when the cater-
pillar is making its appearance on the gooseberry bushes, a
Piece of whin in full flower, placed in the middle of the bush,
will effectually destroy them. This is the second year it has
been tried by the writer with the same beneficial result."
DIFFICULTIES ATTENDING A MATRIMONIAL AL-
LIANCE.—,The daughter of the judge of the County Court of
Lincolnshire, Miss Harriett Smith, has just been conducted
to the hymeneal altar by Gedney, EV(I ,of B'g The
by the Rev. J. Clark
marriage was intended solemnised, -.
ng.
accordingßasen to be in the first instance,
Clarke, Roman Catholic priest, of Market
amitoththene formst of
itmhbeiEbesdtablished Church, at H ooly-
ton. Miss Smithohbaeyiauggain
Catholic Church, was desirou of t
performed on the following da
nmicthreated
trothed by a priest of that Church. he tenets of the Roman
beingh united to her be-
bidden by her parent, on account of hiss' ()weer, was for-
unisra. Matters haying been fullobjections to Ro-
m
fully arranged
la
dy
,for
etshi
ree,c et
hr ei s-
some difficulty. Mr.
newly to take plac_e according to the
apiatetedrnuaplonsarc.tise
the subject, but the latter
gentleman proving impregnable there was no alternative
Greefudnsaelyowf
the arrangements; this ~,
but to reverse
as done, and Mr.
was united to the lair object ef hischoice at Hoolton
Gainey
morning week. Immediately the ceremony
on Thursday
idai part ceremony by special
ceremony
was over the
bridal party hastened by SPecial °gine to
where the of mariblg:n ffianse to
Market Rasen,
she
chapel, in the presence of a large
re-
peated in the 1,,
congregation, who remained present to witness
number of the
ridal
party, after reaching Lincoln, and
the event. The b
partaking of breakfast, le
ft for the metropolis, en route to the
Continent.
t BBER—WINCIIESTER, JUNG
THE GOLD DU3T 1 Y.
0 .—The formal taking
of William Plamplin,
pro-
duced at the various examinations
stealing 7,0001. worth
who stands committed on a charge of
of specie from Cali-
fornia,
of gold dust, a portion of a consignment
was commenced this
fornia, brought by the Great Western,
morning in the magistrates' private room at the Town-hall,
there being present Mr. Charles Seagrim, the mayor, Mr.
Bulpitt, Mr. Faithfull, and Mr. knight
. The prisoner
the chief
was
brought from the county gasl by Mr. Sheppard,
with
officer of the City police, and listened to the proceedings apparent unconcern. The Mayor bound over Bent, an officer
of the Metropolitan Police, to prosecute, and the witnesses
who had attended, in a recognizance of 201. each, to appear
at the next General Quarter Sessions, the prisoner being re-
manded back to the county gaol, where the absent witnesses
could attend on Monday. On the application of Mr. en:ire-
bic a summons wan granted for the witness Jennings-

HOUSE OF LORDS, June 6.
The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat upon tho Wool-
sack at Five o'clock.

Lord BEAUMONT presented a petition from certain
surgeons, praying that they might be ex-
evelerptienda
frryom serving on juries.
THE INDIAN FIVE PER CENT. LOAN.
The Earl of ELLENBOROUGH asked if the closure
of the five per cent. loan in Indic had been by orders
from the local authorities or from the Home Govern-
ment?
Lord BROUGHTON said that the Government 'of
India had represented that it would be desirable that the
loan should be closed, and thereupon the Home Govern-
ment had issued a notice that the loan should be closed,
and it had been closed on the sth April.
The Earl of ELLENBOROUGH would have been
better pleased had it been closed by order of the local
authorities.

JUTTEE PERSAUD.
The Earl of ELLENBOROUGH gave notice that he
should, on the 19th inst., draw the attention of the House
to the case of Juttee Persaud.
Lord BROUGTON had as yet received no official
information on the subject, but hoped he should receive
such information before the 19th.
COMMON LAW COMMISSION.
Lord BROUGHAM asked when it would be probable
that the report of the Commissioners would be presented
on practice and pleading in the common law?
Lord CAMPBELL was sorry to say that he could
not answer the question. When he was appointed to
the office which he now held himself and his colleagues
had drawn up certain rules in practice and in plead-
ing, but they had thought it better to defer promulgat-
ing those rules until the report should have been
presented, and he hoped it would be presented speedily.
Lord BROUGHAM urged the necessity for the im-
mediate presentation of that report.
COURTS OF RECONCILEMENT.
Lord BROUGHAM moved a resolution relating to
the proceedings of courts of reconcilement in Denmark.
Lord REDESDALE objected upon a point of order.
A resolution was a resolution of the whole House, and
the House could not agree to such a resolution as it
could not know what passed in Denmark.
Lord CAMPBELL said a Peer had a right to com-
municate any information which he thought might be
useful to his brother Peers.
The motion, as we understood, was then withdrawn.
LAW OF MARRIAGES.
The Duke of ARGYLL presented a petition from
Australia, praying for the introduction of a Bill extend-
ing to the colonies the Act rendering legal marriages
celebrated in Ireland by a Presbyterian clergyman. As
the law at present stood marriages celebrated by Pres-
byterian clergymen in the colonies were, under certain
circumstances, illegal. Such marriages so celebrated in
Ireland were legal, and the colonists prayed the ex-
tension of that Act to the colonies. The Court of
Sydney had decided that Presbyterian marriages
in the colony were invalid, and therefore the Presbyte-
rians were placed in a most painful condition. There
had been a remedial Act passed in the colony, but that
only referred to Presbyterians of the Established Church
of Scotland. Thus the law was left in a most uncertain
state. In giving their judgment the judges expressed a
hope that the question would be settled by legislation.
In the Colonial Assembly a law had been passed
rendering legal all marriages which had been thus
contracted, but enacting nothing as to the future.
He was sorry to say that this question had become mixed
up with religious matters. The Attorney-General of
the colony was a Roman Catholic, and the people of the
colony had taken up the idea that he was doing all he
could to invalidate Presbyterian marriages, and the
Governor of the colony had declared that he
would not like to afford any aid to those
who did not observe the requirements of the law.
Now the law was in such an uncertain state, that it
was almost impossible to comply with it, and compliance
with it depended not upon the parties married, but
upon the ministers celebrating the marriage.
Earl GREY observed that the law in their several
colonies was that which existed in England at the time
those colonies were founded. Here a difficulty had
arisen in consequence of the Presbyterian clergyman
having neglected, in accordance with the regulations of
the Act, to ask of the parties, or one of them, it' they
were Presbyterians; and to remedy the evil consequences
that had arisen the Attorney-General introduced a Bill,
which was similar to that proposed a few years ago by
the Noble and Learned Lord opposite (Lord Lyndhurst).
Tho Attorney-General for the colony, however, stated
that the whole marriage law of the colony was extremely
unsatisfactory, and required revision, and that in another
session it would be brought under the consideration of
the Legislative Council. The Governor, in a speech
at the close of the session, did undoubtedly say that he
would ba most reluctant to give his assent to any pro-
visional measure of the kind. He (Earl Grey) thought
that he was fully justified in making that
statement, for nothing could be more unsatis-
factory than to allow these marriages to be contracted in
an irregular and illegal manner, and then to pass a Bill
for the purpose of legalising them. The law should be
put upon a permanent footing as to marriages contracted
in a proper and legitimate manner. He telt very little
doubt but that in another year the subject would he con-
sidered by the Legislative Council, and the law of mar-
riage would be placed upon a sound and proper footing.
He held it, then, to bo most irregular for the Imperial
Parliament to interfere at all in the matter. There was
not one of their colonies in which the form of marriage
was not defined by a colonial Act. This was the case in
New South Wales. Parliament had dealt with the sub-
ject in this country in a manner generally thought satis-
factory. But on passing the Act of is3s they most
properly excluded any reference to the colonies, for the
simple reason that the machinery for carrying out the
principles of that Act did not exist in the colonies—
he referred principally to the poor-law unions. It
W 23 the established maxim in this country that all
marriages celebrated in a foreign country, according to
the law of that country, was held gool all over the
world. Therefore, if the colonial legislature took the
subject into their consideration, which he had no doubt
they would do, the marriages so contracted under the
colonial law would be held as valid here, and therefore
the interference of the Imperial Parliament was not
required.
Lord CAMPBELL said, notwithstanding what he had
heard from his Noble Friend, he must say he thought
that the petition presented by the Noble Duke was a
most reasonable one, and he hoped it would be complied
with. The Presbyterians in the colonies were now
placed in a situation of great embarrassment, and were
subject to great grievances. What the Noble Earl had
stated as to the law in the newly-established colonies
was quite correct with one exception. The Noble Earl
supposed that ail statutes in force in this country at the
time of the establishment of a colony were imported
into the newly-established colony. Not so; it was only
such statutes as were supposed to be applicable to an
infant community. No inconvenience was felt respect-
ing the marriage law until the recent decision come to in,
the colony. It was supposed before the introduction of
Lord Hardwick's Act that the canon law of Englund was
recognised all over the world, and that there was no need
of any mass priest or other person to be present at those
marriages, except the contracting parties themselves and
the,necessary witnesses, He hoped, with some modifica-
tions, that such would remain as the law. Since the decision
of his Lordship in the case of "The Queen v. Mills," the
intervention of a priest episcopally ordained was con-
sidered absolutely necessary to give validity to the mar-
riage. He supposed that a priest of the Roman Catho-
lic or of the Greek Church would be held to be quite
sufficient; while the Presbyterian minister—even the
Moderator of tho Church of Scotland—would be consi-
dered as a mere layman. There ought to be one mar-
riage law for the whole of the colonies, restoring the old
canon law, whereby the consent of the contracting par-
ties would bo deemed the only thing necessary.
Tho Duke of ARGYLL then presented a petition
from the Synod of the United Presbyterian Church in
Edinburgh, containing a similar prayer as in the former
petition, and in favour of a declaratory Act being
passed, whereby the decision come to in the case of
t• The Queen v. Millis" could not be extended to the
colonies.
Earl GREY repeated his opinion that the subject
could not be satisfactorily handled by the Imperial Par-
liament. It seemed to him far better to leave the mat-
ter with th• colonies, who had shown such a desire to
follow the example set them in the Act of 1835.
CONVICTS IN NEW SOUTH WALES.
Lord MONTEAGLE then rose, pursuant to notice,
to present a petition from Now South Wales on the sub-
ject of transportation. Ho said that it was of the first
importance that tho interests of these petitioners should
be immediately attended to by Parliament. The peti-
tion with which he had been entrusted realised many of
the alarms which he had ventured to state on a former
occasion existed upon this subject. It prayed their
Lordships to put an end to the present system of trans-
portation. He believed, that unless some remedy was
soon applied to the grievances complained of, they were
likelyeo be engaged in a struggle of force rather than
of reason with these colonists. Whilst he denied the
colonists any right to reject altogether the power of
this country in carrying out the ancient law of the land
in respect to transportation as a secondary punishment,
he also stated that it was their duty so to exercise that
power as to produce the least possible evil, if any, to
the colonists; and, if possible, to convert the measure of
transportation itself to one for their ultimate benefit.
The petition was that of a committee of an association
in New South Wales for preventing the revival
of transportation. There were appended to that
petition a great number of names of importance and
wealth. They stated, in the first place, the resolution
they have entered into to abide by the judgment which
the legislators of the colony would pronounce; that the
council had adopted as a final conclusion that no more
convicts should be brought over there, and they claimed
the full performance of the promise which had been
given to them by the Government of this country; they
stated that it was most unjust, and a violation of the
promise entered into with them, that even any of the
new provinces should be made available for the reception
: was
aas
n2i convicts.nodsiis
indispensable
irseoaawbs
loetn,hsaihtfl he eldhe(eroLy oawrndid.
wished
eHodne
,ttehotiogrwel e) considered
of Australia for the reception of their convicts,
tahtnahyto taphgaehrytt
should put an end to the abuses whichetnavoienwr, existed.
He wistied to call their attention to the character of the
place, with a melatoly
complaints made by
li these petitioners. In the first
commission of a breach and sad uniformity they all
highest
of faith
in this country the
attributed to the
this languagesubject
strong,
andthe Crown upon
his Noble Friend in terms of whic
he thought he
was
sy addressedhll
hysomnoetwhaaettinmgenriptedto
the
w thatoy
tun-
deserving.le But at the same time
his dispatches and in
Rightharge Honourable Gentleman Goefntlfeamithan,
jahliengepueaegcehhese. baßdutustehdeP wbootnht in
nfurther thaa the com-

PETITIONS.
The Bishop of OXFORD presented a petition from
Bath against the admission of the Jews to Parliament.
The Duke of RICHMOND presented a petition from
Aberdeen against Papal aggression; also a petition from
the proprietors of salmon fisheries on the Dee and the
Don against the Salmon Fisheries Bill, and expressed a
hope that his Noble Friend (the Duke of Argyll) would
vrithdraw his Bill during the present session, and bring
it on at the beginning of the next, and hear what parties
had to say against it in the meantime.
The Duke of ARGYLL said ho had introduced this
Bill last session, with the exception of one clause, which
was new, and he had given notice that he would endea-
vour to press it forward. Ho had now gone too far to
withdraw the Bill, on which it was certainly his inten-
tion to take the opinion of the House. In the present
state of the House, however, it would be impossible to do
so. Ho proposed to postpone the Committee till the
Monday after the Whitsun recess. The opposition to
the Bill he believed to proceed from the proprietors of
one or two fisheries, while the majority approved of it.
INTRAMURAL INTERMENTS.
Lord MONTEAGLE asked how it happened that,
notwithstanding tho Act of last year, intramural inter-
ment still continued, as though no legislation had taken
place?
The Earl of CARLISLE said he was not aware that
his Noble Friend intended to put the question; but he
might state that th© Board of Health, under the direc-
tion of the Treasury, were in communication with seve-
ral cemetery companies with respect to the terms on
which they might take possession of their cemeteries,
but he was unable to state the result. The transaction
involved financial operations of considerable magnitude.
He could assure his Noble Friend that he quite shared
with him in the desire to bring th© law into operation
with the least possible delay.
On the motion of Earl GREY,
Their Lordships adjourned till Monday, the lath o
June.

HOUSE OF COMMONS, June 6.
The SPEAKER took the Chair a few minutes before
Four o'clock.

PRIVATE BUSINESS.
The following Bills were considered and agreed to:—
Cameron's Coalbrook Steam Coal and Swansea and
Lovhor Railway,
East Stonehouse Waterworks.
Great Malvern Improvement, Police, Sewers, Water-
works, Gas, and Markets.
Kensington Improvement.
National Land Company Dissolving.
Wexfcrd Free Bridge,
The St. Bartholomew's Hospital Estate Bill was read a
second time.

PETIONS.
Mr. POWER presentedl aT petition from Cork against
he Ecclesiastical Titles Bill.
Mr. HAMILTON presented a petition from Dublin
in favour of the Church system of education in Ireland.
Colonel THOMPSON presented a petition from Sun-
derland against the inerease of beer houses.
Mr. CO WAN presented a petiticn from Argyllshire
against Papal aggression; also a petition from the same
county in favour of Lord Melgund's Educational Bill for
Scotland.
Lord MELGUNI) presented a petition from Edin-
burgh, praying for theabolition of university tests.
Mr. C. LUSIIINGTON presented a petition from
Independents in the county or Somerset, praying for the
abolition of the Regiunt Donlon.
Mr. W. WILLIAMS presented a petition from labour-
ers employed in the London Docks Company, complaining
of gross injustice and opposition on the part of the Com-
missioners of Customs. The Hon. Member gavo notice
that, on Thursday next, he would move that the re-
port bo printed with the votes. He also presented pe-
titions from Bethnal-green, Marylebone, and Ken-
nington and Lambeth, in favour of the Bill for the
suppre,ision of Sunday trading.
Mr. PORTAL presented a petition from the Farmers'
Club at Winchester in favour of a national settlement
and national poor-rate.
PRIVATE LUNATIC ASYLUMS.
Mr. LUSIIINGTON asked the Secretary of State
for the Home Department whether it was his intention
to introduce a Bill thin session for the better regulation
of private lunatic asylums?
Sir G. GREY said the subject had been under his con-
sideration, but he did not think it would be possible to
introduce a Bill for the better regulation and inspection
of these asylums during the present session.
COMMON LAW COURTS.
Mr. JOHN EVANS wished to know when the report
of the Commissioners appointed to inquire into the prac-
tice of the common law courts would be ready?
Sir G. GREY said he had been in communication
lately with the Commissioners, and he hoped to be able
very shortly to lay their report on the table.

LON
CEir.
Lord HOTHAM wished to ask the Under-Secretary
for the Colonies when the report of the Finance Com-
mittee of the Executive Council of Ceylon would be laid
on the table?
Mr. HAWES said he was unable to give a reply, as
the Governor of Ceylon's report had not yet been re-
ceived, but as soon as it was the report in question, as
well as other papers, would no doubt be laid before the
House.

EMIGRANTS.
Colonel CHATTERTON asked the Secretary of State
for the Homo Department if he had had any correspon-
denco with Major Bcaunil, as chairman of a bench of
magistrates assembled in the city of Cork, respecting
the treatmc'nt of paupers sent from London to Cork on
board the Preussisehen Adler steamship; and whether
he intended to make any inquiry into the subject of such
correqondene, ?

Sir G. GREY was understood to say that tho Poor-
aw were instituting an inquiry into the subject.

ADJOURNMENT FOR THE HOLIDAYS.

Lord JOHN RUSSELL, iu rising to move that the
House at its rising do adjourn till Thursday next, took
the opportunity of stating the courso which Government
proposed to take with regard to public business. lie
proposed that on Thursday next the Committee of Sup-
ply should stand first on the orders of the day.
He proposed then to go into Committee and
consider the remaining part of the navy estimates, when
his Right llonourable Friend the First Lord of the Ad-
miralty would make a statement with regard to the re.

.NCOME AND PROPERTY-TAX COMMITTEE.
ADJOURNED DEBATE.
On the motion for resuming the adjourned debate on
this question,
Mr. HUME wished to draw the attention of the
House to disposing of this matter as speedily as
possible. From the manner in which the motion
was met, he was confident that some new mode must
be adopted for the appointment of Committees on public
business. In the United States, the Speaker of the
Assembly selected the Members who should servo on
such Committees, and he thought that plan might be
safely practised here. It would then take the nomination
of the Committee out of the hands of the party moving
for it. A similar practice almost prevailed in that House
with regard to private business, for in the case of a pri-
vate Bill the Committee was not 'lewd by the mover of
the Bill but by the Committee of Selection. Most of the
Member,: whom he had selected to serve on the Commit-
tee had declined to serve. He had endeavoured to select
them from every point of the House, so that all shades
of opinion should be represented, but the Members them-
selves had refused to serve, and he therefore thought
the sooner they adopted the C:Tarnittee of Selection
principle the better. He could not understand why
the Noho Lord had been induced to withdraw
the name of the Chancellor of the Exchequer.
Surely it was only right that tno
public
creditor should be represented on this Committee, and
ho would propose that the Chancellor of the Exchequer
should be one of the members of the Committee.
The CHANCELLOR of EXCHEQUER said the
present was en exceptional case, because the two sides
of the House who had carried the motion for the appoint-
ment of the Committee did so from different motives, and
hence the difficulties that stood in the way of its nomi-
nation. For his own part he had no objection to serve
on the Committee, provided he should be supported by
the nomination of a greater number of its members who
concurred with him, which was the more necessary as he
would not be able from the avocations of his office to at-
tend the Committee regularly. He (the Chancellor of
the Exchequer) found about eight persons on the Conn
mittee representing towns and boroughs, while three
only represented agricultural constituencies. This was
an unfair proportion as against the landed interest.
When the original question was before the House there
were two to one against any modification of the tax.
If the constitution of the Committee was such as to re-
verse that decision, could it be said that the House was
fairly represented? Yet such would be the case if the
Committee as named was appointed. He (the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer) requested his Hon. Friend to
withdraw his name from tho list. He was ready to
serve on a Committee fairly constituted, but he objected
to one not so formed. Ho, therefore, proposed to his
Hon. Friend to adjourn the debate, seeing that at pre-
sent it was clearly impossible to constitute a satisfactory
Committee.
Mr. DEEDES said the' observation of the Right Hon.
Gentleman justified the course he (Mr. Deedes) had
taken on a former occasion in this matter. He had
voted against the amendment of the Hon. Member for
Boston because he thought a Committee ought to be
appointed, and what had since passed only tended to
confirm that opinion. The difficulties of the case were,
ho admitted, enormous, but that was only a stronger
reason, not why the Committee should not be appointed,
but why it should be such as to deserve the confidence
of the House and the country. The report of a Com-
mittee on the subject ought to have the greatest possible
weight, or its decision would be a delusion. The re-
port of a Committee such as that named by the Hon.
Member for Montrose would not, however, have that de-
gree of weight. Therefore he asked the Hon. Member to
defer its nomination until after Whitsuntide. Besides,
the Committee proposed was different in many respects
from that of which notice had been given, which was
another reason for its postponement. All he (Mr.
Deedes) asked for the agricultural interest was that it
should be fairly represented in the Committee. The
public were hostile to the tax principally because there
had been no inquiry into its inequalities, and he believed if the report of the Committee was favourable to its
continuance the tax would be readily acquiesced in.
But then the Committee should have the confirlence of
the House and the country. Under these circnmeetc.abnaetees
he (Mr. Deecles) moved the adjournment of the
the
.
Mr. W. WILLIAMS said the Chancellor of
Ex-
chequer was ready to serve on the CoremibtterefoifrthoKeiinatd,
a majority.—(No. no.) The Hon..
.thee landed in-
terest. House
agreed f. ouse
tteorne,s: would i
roe satisfiedtha n withamon th
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pty:'elfedom;
agreed to the motion to appoint a Committee;
hMecui p-
pointment was further postponed, how could n. n.
hers hope to obtain a better class of men than those
already named for the Committee?
Mr, W. MILES said the question war, would the
Committee so named inspire confidence in the mind of
the public. At present only one Hon. Gentleman
ac-
quainted with the mysteries of finance was on it. Names
had been abstracted and others substituted in the original
list. Looking at the magnitude of the subject, he had a