The Sun.
London, England, 1856-05-06 00:00:00

COUNTY COURTS.

Lord RA.VENSWORTH presented two petitions
from certain trade associations in the vicinity of Liver-
pool, suggesting certain alterations in the bill for the
amendment of the County C.,urts Act, which stood upon
the paper for this evening.
Lord BROUGHANI sail that while he was most
anxious that the bill should be as efficient as possible, he
objected to the introduction into the bill of any provisions
which could have the effect of interfering with the local
courts already in existenoe.
Tile LORD CHANCELLOR then ruse t move the
second rea+ng of the County Courts Acts Amendments
bill. One of the objects of the bill wasto throw the burden
of the cost of an appeal to those courts as far as it was
possible upon the person against whom judgment was
given. The bill would have the effect of reducing the
amount of fees levied in those courts, which in many
cases was wholly disproportionate to the amount sought
to be recc-ered. The average amount of the fee's ex-
acted by these courts during the last two years
tmounted to 278,0001., out of which were paid
the salaries of the judges and the Court ex-
penses. He proposed to reduce the fees nearly by
one-half—that the Government should pay out of the
consolidated fund the salaries of the judges
and the expenses of the court-houses. He con-
iclered the arrangement as to the salaries of
the judges at present highly objectionable.
That arrangement was that the salaries of the
County Court judges should not be less than 1,2001.,
nor more than 1,500/., which fealaris were paid
out of the fees of the court. This bill proposed
to retain the salaries at 1,2001., excepting in
the twenty cases where that atn,,unt had been increased
by the additional 3001., in consideration of the great
amount of business in the courts of those judges. He pro-
posed that their lordships now read the bill a second time,
and on Thursday he would move the committee of the
hill pro forma in order that certain amendments might
he presented, and immediately after the holidays he in-
tended to proceed with the consideration of the bill.

Lord CAMPBELL cordially seconded the second
reading of the bill;
[LEFT SPEAKING,]

HOUSE OF COMMONS—(This Evening.)
The SPEAKER took the chair at the usual

PRIVATE BUSINESS.
The following bilk were read a third time and passed :
—Aberdeen and Scottish Midland Junction Railway
Company Amalgamation (new title), Coventry (City)
Gai, E linburgn Water, Gravesend Improvement, and
Leicester and Watford Read. -
The following bills were considered, and ordered to be
read a third time :—Antrim and Coleraine Roads; Elgin
and Lossiemouth Harbour Improvement (changed from
" Stotfield and Lossiemouth Harbour Improvement") ;
Middlesbrough Extension and Improvement ; and Scot-
tish Drainage and Improvement Company Bill (changed
from "Lands Improvement Company of Scotland");
The order of the day for the second reading of the
Dublin (City) Steam Packet Company was discharged,
the bill having been withdrawn.
Lord H. VANE presented a petition from the Stock-
ton and Darlington Railway Company, and moved that
it be referred to the Select Committee on Local Charges
Upon Shipping.—Agreed to.
Sir. P. EGERTON moved for an account of the quan-
'sities of cheese imported into the several ports of Great
Britain in each man% of the year 1855, distinguishing
the European, United States, and colonial produce ;
d of all European cheese, exclusive of British cheese,
exported from England in the year 1855 (in continua-
tion of Parliamentary Paper, 239, of Session 1855).—
Agreed to.

THE IRISH MILITIA.
Mr. DAVIDSON asked the Under-Secretary for
War, whether the Government were disposed to recon-
sider their decision with respect to an immediate dis-
embodiment of the Irish Militia, with the view of post-
poning such disembodyment until the approaching har-
vest, m order that the soldiers might thereby earn a
temporary subsistence, and be induced to return to
their ordinary avocations ?

in the same manner as the militia of this
...Mr. F. PEEL said the Irish militia would be dealt
proposed first t 3 disernbuly the corpi,,
icwnoiutbinliltplreyrte.sc,isalentlydwaa'fter that those in barracks would be
dealt with. He thought that, by the time the men
reached their homes employment would be as abundant
as at any other period of the year.
steps had been taken to forward the
g
TEIE IRISH NIGHT MAIL.
Mr. L. MON TGONTERY asked the Secretary to the
Treasury
present carried : and also, whether he
w
upon the table of the house any correspond-
ence that had passed on the subject between the Post-
office authorities and the Midland Great Western Rail-
way Company lm a ayi il t
frao
of iby coach, a nmy a t
Mullinger to Longford by rail, instead
s
way Cornoany ?
Mr. WILSON said the Post-office authorities bad
been in communication with those of the railway com-
panies, but the demand of the companies was so large,
and the advantage so small, that the Post-office autho.
rities thought they would not be justified in acceding to
the demand of the railway companies. There had been
some correspondence on the subject, to the production
of which there was not the slightest objection. It was
the intention of the Government during the present ses-
sion to bring in a bill to give
,the Government more
power than they possessed a;; the present time over the
Irish railways.
DULWICH COLLEGE.

Mr. PELLATT asked the Sacratary of State for
the Home Denartment when the bill for the reformatior,
of Dulwich o:illege, founded upon the report of the
Charity Commissioners, would be laid before the house.
Sir G. GREY said the subject was still under consi-
deration: He could not tell the hon. gentleman at what
ueriod the bill, relative to the reformation of Dulwich
College, would be brought in.
ME ANY OF PEACE.—ADJOURNED DEBATE.
Mr. LINDSAY resumed the debate. He said he felt
both joy and satisfaction at the peace that had been con•
eluded, because it had accomplished the great objects for
which we went to war. The treaty certainly contained
more than he had expected, and he confessed he had ha,
for some time a misgiving that we should not have al,
honourable pease. He was, however, agreeably sur
prised.on reading it, and it afforded him great pleasure
in expressing his satisfaction of it. (Hear.) He was Ow,
to find that the right of search was to be abolished and
that neutral ships carrying contratand of war was not

I may add, althou4h the question was not put to me by
your Lordship, that in thoso ancaorages called the Lam-
erao and SJ tneahao,, vessels of any draft of water can load
and unload with facility.

God preserve your Lordship.
Pernambuco, March 12, 1856.

JOSE FAUSTINO POSTO,
Chief Pilot. •
The Most Illustrious TI. Augustus
Cowper, Consul of Ezra,laud.

(Signed)

BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, MAY 5.
The Right Honourable the Lords of. the Committee of
Privy Council for Trade and Plantations have received,
through the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy
of a despatch from her Majesty's Consul at Stockholm, re-
porting that the following articles of fool will be admitted
into Sweden, free of import duty, until the end of the pre-
sent year :
Grain of all kinds, 'brawl of all kinds, grits and rice of all
kinds, maiz3, potatoes and potato meal, uutter and cheese,
meat of all kinds. Anitnals—Oxen, cows, and young
cattle, calves, and swine. Fish, salted—Of all kinds, ex-
cep', anchovies, sardines, and thorndsh. Fish, dry or
smoked —3ll sorts, except Rain:lrv,' and eels. Tallow,.-011
and fat of ail kinds. Candles—tallow, stearines and
mazari u.

BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL,
The Right Honourable the L irds of the Committee of
Privy Council for Trade and Plantations have received,
through the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs; a copy
of a despatch from her Majesty's Consul at Naples; report-
ing that the Neapolitan Board of Health has established an
absolute quarantine of ton days on all vessels arriving
from Malta.

WHIII BSI° NS SIGNED BY LORDS-LIEUTENANT.
Hampshire Ite,,,,itueut of Militia.—Easign Edward Chas.
Forward to be Lieut,maut, vice Brown, appoiuted to the
59th Fant.

lgt Regiment of the 'Royal Surrey Militia.—Major Geo.
Palmer Evelyn to be Lieutonant-Colouel, vice Campbell,
resigned.

2a Regiment of the Royal Surrey Mi!itia.—To be Lieu-
tenants—Ensign Louis Torre GJodchap, vice Cerjat, pro-
moted ; Ensign James Elyard, vice Sharpe, Promoted ;
Ensign William Douglas L ,gge, vice Chaplin, appointed
to the Turkish Contiugent,
Ross, Caithness, Sutherland, and Cromarty Regiment of
Rifle nilitia.—Eusign William Sinclair Sutherland to be
Lieutenant, vice Godfrey Wentworth Davidson, pro-
moted.

Ross, Caithness, Sutherland, awl Cromarty Regiment of
Ride Militia—Robert Douglas, Gent., to be Ensign.
MEIWRANDu3t.- Aberdeenshire loyal Regiment of
resignation of Ensign William Grant's commis-
sion has been accepted by the Lord-Lieutenant, from 18th
April, 1851