The Sun.
London, England, 1860-06-08 00:00:00

CUP COURSE PLATE.

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Desmond
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GRAND STAND PLATE.

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Courier 3
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MPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LDRDS—(Tnis EVENING.)
The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack
at•flve o'clock.
PRIVATE BUSINESS.
Beauchamp Almshouses Estate, Leeds Township, Egles-
ton Roads, Building Improvement Company, Upper Mer-
sey Dues, ,and North British, Peebles, and Jedburgh
Railway bills were read a second time.
The following bills were read a third time and passed :
Bucks County Rate, Coln River Water, and London and
South-Western Railway (new line to BristA and Exeter
Railway at Exeter).
CHURCH RATES.

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A number of petitions were presented against the aboli-
tion of church rates.
Lord LYVEDEN presented a great many petitions in
favour of the abolition.
THE BOMBARDMENT OF PALERMO.
Lord BROUGHAM asked the noble earl opposite
whether there was any truth in the renewal of the bom-
bardment of Palermo. He hoped there was none, asit would
have been a deed of unexampled atrocity. Even the most
execrable tyrant of ancient times was only accused of
standing by while Rome was burning, and he was never
accused of any such atrocious barbarity.
Earl GRANVILLE said he was sorry to say that the
Government had received such intelligence as that which
the noble and learned lord had alluded to. The noble lord
ought to have given notice of his intention to put the ques-
tion to the noble earl the Under Secretary of State for
Foreign Affairs. It was impossible to give complete an-
swers unless such rules were complied with.
Lord BROUGHAM said he was perfectly well aware of
that, and he properly abstained from touching upon the
political aspect of the question,
OUR RELATIONS WITH ROME.
Earl STANHOPE, moved for a copy, or extract of a
despatch from the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs to
regulate the diplomatic relations with the Court
of Rome since the cessation of her Majesty's
legation at Florence. The noble earl went at some
length into the circumstances connected with the act
pasted some years ago with respect to receiving a
Minister from the Court of Rome which up to the present
time had remained a dead letter in consequence of a clause
which had been introduced into it, laying down
that such minister should not be a person in holy orders,
Jesuit, or a member of any religious society. He next
alluded to the circumstances that had lately taken
place at Florence, which had broken up the
legation there, and said some new plan might surely be
now adopted, with a view to direct communication with
Rome. It would be extremely inconvenient to send
an attache from Naples, as he would either have to com-
municate with the Home Government without consultation
with his chief, an arrangement which would be very objec-
tionable, or else he would have to send his despatches via
Naples, a place 36 hours further from this country than
Rome. Under all the circumstances, he thought a very
favourable time had now arrived for adopting some more
simple and direct plan of communication, It was
impossible for a young man, an attache, who must live as
attaches generally do, up three pairs of stairs, to conduct
such weighty matters as the relations existing at the pre-
sent time with. two such important countries, and such
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being the case, he was decidedly in faveur of having a direct
residing at Rome, although those was not a minister from
Rome residing in either of there countries, which was at-
tributable entirely to the circumstance that Rome refused
to send any but ecclesiastics as its representative to foreign
countries. If it was important that those countries should
have direct communication, surely it was of equal import-
ance that England should have the same facilities of com-
munication.