The Sun.
London, England, 1860-05-02 00:00:00

THIS DArs SHIPPING.

Low Dow, May 2.—Wind this day at noon, N.E. ;
strong breeze and very fine.
e May I.—Arrived—lllinois, from Havre, and left
For
No lEe‘lrvork.

-6FI PORTLAND, May l.—Arrived—Wings of the Wind.
NEWPORT, May I.—Arrived—Cecilie, from Nantes, for
May I.—Sailed—Star of Peace, for Melbourne.
Cexlon. Sailed—Dundalk, for St. John's.
ILL,
CARDIFF, April 30.—Arrived—New Great Britain, from
Colombo; Tamer, from Kurrachee ; Arno, from New
Orleans. Sailed—Anne Margaretha, for Rio Janeiro.
SWANSEA, May I.—Sailed—Mermaid, for Calder; Wil-
liams, for Gibraltar.
LlSBON.—Arrived—Bahiana, steamer, from Bombay,
for Liverpool, with machinery disabled.

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(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
SOUTHAMPTON, Wednesday Morning.
Wind E.
Arrived, May I.—Pera, steamrr, from Alexandria ; Lady
Eglinton, steamer, from Dublin ; L'Etoile, from Carentan ;
La Poule, from Cherbourg ; Isabella Croll, steamer, from
Cardiff.
Sailed.—Georges, for Cherbourg; Lady Eglineon, stea-
mer, for London ; Dispatch, steamer, for Jersey.

(BY SUBMARINE AND BRITISH TELEGRAPH.)
GRAVESEND, Wednesday Morning,.
Wind E., ; tide, four hour's flood; weather very fine.
Arrived, Nay I.—Catherina, from Groningen ; America,
from Frederickstadt ; Helechino Wilkins from Dantsic ;
Sovereign, from Helsinborg ; Thor, from Uddevvalla ; Czar,
from Revel; Copeida, from Stralsund, Ocean Queen from
Lanscrona ; Bien, from Christiana.
Arrived, May 2.—Dr. Knipe, from Wismar; Margaretta,
from Stralsund.

DEAL, Wednesday Morning.

Wind, N.B. ; strong.

VOLUNTEER BALL—Yesterday evening a grand
ball of the various members of the metropolitan Volunteer '
Corps took place at the Whittington Club, under the patron-
age of Lord Ranelagh ; members of the various Surrey Re-
giments, the West and South 'Middlesex, Central London,.
Queen's, Scottish, and Civil Service attended, and, as a
matter of course, nearly all were in. uniform. The large
room at the club was well lit and decorated, and dancilll;
was prolonged with considerable spirit till a late hour.

Mr. WARNER approved of the principle of the bill as
to the necessity for the amendment of the law, and con-
demned the extent of sentiment favourable to criminals
which at present prevailed in this country. He agreed with
the hon. member who last addressed the house as to the
advisability of referring the bill to a committee.
Mr. DILL\VYN supported the proposition for going
into committee, and strongly advocated the retontbn of
corporal punishment.
Mr. S. ESTCO URT opposed the bill as being imprac •
ticable, and entrusting too great a power into the hands of
magistrates.
Sir G. C. LEWIS said there was no increase in
the offences in question, though no doubt cases
of this kind were reported more fully in the
newspapers, which arose from the increased interest with
which they were read by the public. He did not believe
that any increase in the severity of punishment would di-
minish offences, and would have the effect of increasing
the reluctance of wives to prosecute their husbands.
After a few remarks from Mr. Brady, Mr. Coningham,
Col. North, Mr. Walter, Col. Dickson, and Mr. Bonham-
Carter,
Mr. CLAY said he would agree to a motion for an in-
quiry into the present law with a view to its amendment,
but he could not agree to this bill. Hon, members seemed
to assume that there were none but good women in the
world, but unfortunately there were many very bad ones.
(Hear.) He was informed by a police magistrate in a dis-
trictthat conferred on him great knowledge of the habits of
the lower classes, and he stated that since the frequency of
punishment for wife beating drunkenness had increased
among wives in the district, with whom it was a common
threat to their husbands to give them " a suer."
Sir B. BryroN and Alderman CorELAND supported the
bill.

Lord RAY.NH AM replied briefly, and the house divided.
The numbers were—
For th 9 second reading
Against
Majority —s4
The announcement was received with loud cheers by a
large house.
The bill was accordingly read a second time. _

Some discussion arose as to whether the bill should be re-
ferred to a select committee, or debated clause by clause by
a committee of the whole house. It was ultimately ar-
ranged that the bill should be committed pro forma to-
morrow.
Sir M. PETO, one of the tellers, stated that there was
an error in the numbers, which should have been for the
second reading 109, instead of IS9, which reduced the ma-
jority to 24.
The Malicious Injuries to Property Act Amendment Bill
was read a second time, and ordered to be committed on
Wednesday next.
The house went into committee on the Fisheries (Scot-
land) Bill.
Mr. BUCHANAN moved an omission in the first clause
abolisbing the right of proprietors to fish in preserved m ater.
Some discussion ensued, in the course of which
The LORD ADVOCATE said that some hon. members
did not understand the object of the clause, which was
merely to prevent persons adopting improper means, or
more properly poaching, to catch fish. It was most desir-
able to prevent fisheries being injured with lime, and he
proposed to introduce a clause at the end of the bill to pro-
tect the rights of proprietors.
With this understanding the amendment was not pressed.
Clauses 2 and 3 were agreed to.
On clause 4, which conferred power of arresting persons
suspected of intention to commit poaching, a short discus-
sion ensued, some hon. members considering that the
clause was too stringent.

The clause, with some amendments, was agreed to.
On clause 5,

Mr. BUCHANAN moved the omission of the words " or
any justice of peace," the object of which amendment was
to deprive justices of the peace of jurisdiction in cases of
poaching.
The house divided, and the numbers were—

For the clause l2B
Against it
Majority -87
The clause was accordingly agreed to.
On clause 6, an amendment was moved making two wit •
nesses necessary in securing a summary conviction against
a person accused of poaching.
The remaining clauses were agreed to, and the bill was
reported.
The house then resumed.

TENURE AND IMPROVEMENT OF LAND
(IRELAND) BILL.

On the motion 'sfor postponement of the second reading
of this bill,
Mr. MAGUIRE appealed to the Government to appoint
a day sitting for this bill, for which Irish members were
waiting most anxiously.
Mr. CARDWELL said that he had every desire to pro-
ceed with this bill without delay, but could not name an
earlier day than Tuesday the 15th, nor could he pledge
himself to bring it on that day.
LANDLORD AND TENANT (IRELAND) BILL.
Mr. HENNESSY moved the second reading of this bill.
The hon. member entered into a brief review of the state
of Ireland, and said that his bill contained a clause giving
retrospective compensation for 20 years, which was the
neriod recommended by the present Lord Chancellor of
Ireland. _

It being a quarter to s:x o'clock, by the rules of the house
the hon. member was interrapted in his address, and
The house adjourned.

THE VICTORIA CROSS.

(From the Gazette of tact evening.)
WAR-OFFICE, APRIL 28.

The Queen has been graciously pleased.
i to signify her in-
tention to confer the decoration of the Victoria Cross on the
under-mentioned Soldier, whose claim to the same has been
submitted for her Majesty's approval, on account of an Act
of Bravery performed by him in India, as recorded against
his name, viz :
Private James Pearson, 86th Regiment (now of the 56th
Regiment), for having gallantly attacked a number of
armed rebels, on the occasion of the storming of Jhansi, on
the 3d April, 1858, ore of whom he killed, and bayonetted
two others. He was himself wounded in the attack. Also,
for haviig brought in, at Calpee, under a heavy fire, Pri-
vate Niel:mei Burns, who afterwatds died of his wounds.

" Whereas the late Hugh Edwin Strickland,
Esq., M.A., F.G.S., &c., sometime Deputy
Reader in Geology in the University of Oxford,
eminent for his knowledge of ornithology, had col-
lected before his lamented death a large and
valuable series of birds, of authentic value
in questions of nomenclature and classifi-
cation, as it contains the typical specimens
from which the figures and descriptions in various
ornithological works, and in his own papers, are
taken, and had arranged and partly named them
with great care and skill ; and whereas his repre-
sentatives, Mrs. Hugh Strickland and Henry Eus-
tatius Strickland, Esq., of Apperley-court, Glouces-
tershire, now possessing the same, are desirous of
preserving the collection entire and in complete
order in a public institution, so that it may be here-
after always useful to the student in ornithology; and
for this purpose are desirous of presenting the same
as a free gift to the chancellor, masters, and scholars
of the University of Oxford, eubject to the condi-
tions that the collection shall becalled the Strickland
Collection, that it shall at no time be mounted, that
it shall be kept separate and in its present arrange-
ment, in a dry and well-aired room, and shall be
carefully attended to and frequently inspected, as
to state of conservation, by competent persons, and
shall be always accessible on proper recommends•
tion and under suitable precautions to students in
ornithology :
" In a convocation to be holden on Thursday the
10th of May, at 2 o'clock, it will be proposed :
" 1. To accept the munificent offer of Mrs. Hugh
Strickland and Henry Eustatius Strickland, Esq.,
under the conditions above stated.

" 2. To affix the seal of the University to a let-
ter of thanks to the donors for this valuable gift to
the University.
" 3. To authorise the Vice-Chancellor to defray
the cost of providing for the construction of suitable
cases with glazed drawers for the reception and
conservation of the collection in a room on the north
side of the Museum.'

" F. SEUNE, Vice-Chancellor.
" Delegates'-room, April 30."