The Sun.
London, England, 1860-01-27 00:00:00

LANDLORD AND TENANT IN IRELAND,

Mr. MAGUIRE asked the Attorney-General for Ire*
land if he could state when it was the intention of the Go-
vernment to introduce their promised measure for a more
equitable adjustment of the relations between landlord and
tenant in Ireland.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL for Ireland said he was
not able to specify the day the measure in question would
be brought forward, but it had been considered during the
recess, and the Government were entirely agreed as to its
provisions. He trusted the bill would be introduced before
the approaching assizes.
PRIZE MONEY TO ENGLISH TROOPS IN
INDIA.

Mr. TURNER asked the Secretary of State for India
whether any and what steps had been taken towards effect-
ing the payment of the prize money due to the troops en-
gaged at Delhi, and when it was probable the money will be
forthcoming. He also asked a similar question with
reference to the troops that had been engaged at Lucknow.
Sir C. WOOD said, with respect to the first question,
the necessary information had not been received in this
country to enable the Government to take the steps sug-
gested. Respecting the troops at Lucknow, the prize-
money had been received, and proper steps would be
adopted.

- FRENCH TROOPS AT LEGHORN.
Mr. GRIFFITH asked the Secretary of State for Foreign
Affairs whether it was true, as stated in a French papor,
that 30,000 French troops were expected at Leghorn; and
whether he had reason to believe that the French Govern-
ment had any intention of taking any such step for the
purpose of preventing the annexation of the Provinces of
Central Italy to Sardinia, which their Constitutional
Representatives had voted as their final determination ?
The hon. member glanced at the events in Italy, and the
policy adopted by the Emperor of the French. He strongly
urged on the Government to adhere to the principle of non-
intervention in respect to the affairs of Italy.
DR. SMETHURST.
Mr. EDWIN JAMES drew the attention of the Secre-
tary of State for the Home Department to the case of
Thomas Smethurst, convicted of the crime of murder on the
16th day of August last, and recently pardoned by her
Majesty, and asked him, whether the Government con-
templated the introduction of any measure to give the rig.ht
of appeal to persons convicted of capital and other crimes.
He said he thought the importance of the subject would be
sufficient to justify his introducing it to the attention of
the house. It was most essential to the administra-
tion of justice that juries should be acquainted
with the grounds on which their verdict was reversed.°
Unless courts of criminal appeal were estab-
lished, or other means adopted to give such infor-
mation, the practical result would be to render
juries indifferent to their verdicts if they could
be set aside in the way that had been done in respect to the
verdict in Dr. Smethurst's case. The hon. and learned
member adverted to the trial and subsequent matters in
connection with the subject under consideration. He did
not impute any blame to the Home Secretary, but he con-
sidered the power he was called on to exercise was too im-
important to be entrusted to an individual.
CRUELTIES ON BOARD AMERICAN SHIPS.
Mr. M. MILNES asked the Secretary of State for Forego
Affairs what measures have been adopted with regard to the
address presented to her Majesty on the 2d Aug. 1859, by
this house, praying her Majesty to enter into nego-
tiations with the United States of America for the purpose
of preventing the assaults and cruelties committed on mer-
chant seamen in American vessels ; and called the atten-
tion of the house to some recent occurrences of that nature.
He drew attention to the outrages perpetrated on board
certain American vessels, and as it did not appear the Go-
vernment of this country could interfere in such
cases. According to the state of international law,
onethesecaptan outragesof a vessel
said he regretted he did not live under American instead of proved
he trusted some moans would be devised to abolish the
dperarcitmicee:
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to question.
our o
w n Thesservice,
effec,
ftor of
English law, as he could then do as he pleased.
Lord J. RUSSELL said, in reply to the question
of the hon. member (Mr. D. Griffiths), he did
not believe that 30,000 French troops would be sent to
Leghorn, and he had every reason to believe that the Em-
peror of the French entertained no such intentions with
regard to annexation as the hon. member alluded to in his
motion. Hs regarded the remarks of the last hon. member
who had addressed the house, he begged to inform him that I
Lord Lyons had been communicated with, and it was

BANKRUPTCY ANNULLED.
Chzrles Morey, builder, Somers-road, Southsea.
BANKRUPTS.

William Roberts, builder, Coventry, to surrender, Feb. 13
and March 5, at eleven, at the Birmingham District Court.
John Jones, ironmonger, Tunstall, Staffordshire, Feb.
10, and March 3, at eleven, at the Birmingham District
Court.
Edward Ellis Hill, merchant, Liverpool,. Feb. 7, at
twelve, and March 25, at eleven, at the District Court of
Bankruptcy.
William Brame and John Brame, jun., printers, Bir-
mingham, Feb. 13 and March 5, at eleven, at the Birming-
ham District Court.

James Street, confectioner, Bristol, Feb. 7, and March 5,
at eleven, at the Bristol District Court.
SCOTCH BANKRUPTS.
J. and J. M'Arthur, merchants, Oban, Argyllshire.
Magnus Laing Hofman, teacher of music,_Rdinbuizh.
Am wrrgLu, r erry-Yort-on-Craig, Fireshire.

BANK OF ENGLAND.
An Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth Victoria,
cap. 32, for tho week ending on Wednesday, the 25th day
of January, 1860 :

IREUE DEPARTMENT.
Notes issued £29,343,( 2 ) Government Debt X 11,015,104
Other Securities .. 3,459,900
Gold Coin & Bullion 14,867,620
Silver Bullion .... -

£29,342,620;

BANKING D
Proprietors' Capi-
tal £14,553,000
Rest
Public Deposits (in-
cluding Exche-
quer, Savings'
Banks, Comms-
missioncrs of Na-
tional Debt, and
Dividend Ac-

counts) 5,529,728
Other Deposits 14,079,747
Seven Day and
other Bills .

860,766

£38,315.376
M.l

f 29,342,620

EPARTAINNT.
Government Secu-
ri ties (including
Dead Weigh tA n-
unity) 510,411,403
Other Securities 19,499,757
Notes
Gold and Silver
Coin .

691,476

Dated Jan. 26, 1860.

£38,318,376
.lISHALL, Chief Cashier.

AVERAGE PRICE OF SUGAR.

The Average Price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, eons.
puted from Returns made in the week ending the 24th day
of Jan., 1860, exclusive of the duties of Customs paid or
payable thereon, on the importation thereof into Great
Britain:—

Per .
From the British possessions in America .. 28s cwt
90
Muscovado, the produce of the East Indies 29s 7d
Average price of the foregoing

COURSE OF E X.CHANZE.—Tnis DAY.
Amsterdam
Ditto
Rotterdam .. 11 15 11 151
Antwerp
Brussels — 25 10 25 15
Hamburgh
Paris
Ditto
Marseilles — 25 271 25 35
Frankfort on Maine — 117- 117}
Vienna
Trieste
Petersburgh — sq. 35
Madrid
Cadiz —49 f
Leghorn — 30 35 30 40
Genoa — 25 37} 25 421
Naples
Palermo - 121 1214-
Messina — 121} 121
Lisbon
Oporto
Rio Janeiro — • • • •
New York — • • . •
Foreign Gold in Bars (Standard),...per oz. £3 17 9
Mexican Dollars .... ~ 0 0 0
Silver in Bars (Standard) „ 0 5 21
South American Doublons

SUDDEN DEATH OF A NAVAL OFFIoRR.--
SOUTHAMPTON, Thursday.--William Valentine, third
officer of the Sultan, Peninsular and Oriental CompanY,
was found dead in his cabin this morning. An inquest was
held on board, and no cause was assigned for his death.
The inquest was adjourned for a post mortem examination.
He leaves a widow and four children.
GOVERNMENT EMIGRATION.— Tier Majesty's
Emigration Commissioners chartered yesterday afternoon,
the 26th inst., the Chance, 972 tons, belonging to Mr.
Joseph Coltart, of Liverpool, to sail front Southampton, for
Sydney, New South Wales, at £l5 19s. sd. per statultset
adult; to be ready for the reception of passengers on such
andd day a3slatthnef Commissioners may appoint bs et.ween,tlie 2
THE CLEVELAND IRON TRADE.—At a meeting
of the firms engaged in this trade, held at Middlesborough
sioltiofgetkaisiteoxinihd were reported to be
hand
amounted to 167,700
trade will in future hold a
ei
nleasborough every Tuea-
weekly
da--
t6ao9nf:e9sw6. CliTtaeoYxhnccesh7 bmteherseet while the orders received

i'HE SLAVE TRADE.—Two large Blue-books
,marked A and B), contain a voluminous correspondence
with the British Commissioners at Sierra. Leone, Havan-
nab, the Cape of Good Hope, and Loiruda ; and reports
from British Vice-AdiAiralty Courts, and from British
naval officers, relating to the slave trade, from April 1,
1858, to March 31, 1859, presented to both. Houses of Par-
liament by command of her Majesty.
IRE GIFT OF LANGUAGES.—My friend was in
England from 1848 to 18.51, and how he can have been
there so long and know so little of the laic a and every-
thing English would be unaccountable if we not en-
deuce of how completely men can shut eyes al id ears when
determined not to use them. Instances are kr .own in which
emigres of the first Revolution returned to 7..erance, on the
restoration of the Bourbons, without being able to speak a
single word of English. Young France is learning English
with a French accent, which gives our lam; nags a peculiar
cadence ; but the generation just beginnit 3.g to pass away
thought French enough to pass a man thrc.ugh the whole
world. It may ba taken as a rule that a i Ilan never learns
the language of a nation that learns his, end vice veras—
man never works when another will work for him Every-
body learns French, and a Frenchman seldom, if ever,
speaks any language but his own. Nob idy learns Russ,
and the Russians are the best linguists in t Ate wor;cl. Hence
it is that a Frenchman is so much disco ntented .when out
of his own country. He cannot learn als nguage he tries,
and he is literally deprived. of speech t ill he gq is home
again.—Once a Week.

sidered by both Governments that the best course that could
be adopted would be to refer the matter to the hands of the
respected representative of America in this country,
Mr. Dallas. An interview had taken place with that hon.
gentleman, and no doubt existed that men in both coun-
tries were in favour of a settlement of the question on the
ground of humanity, and to redress the grievances occurring
under the present system. A convention was preparing for
that purpose. When the terms of that convention had
bern agreed on and ratified, no time would be lost to bring
in a bill that would meet the views of his hon. friend.

COURT OF PROBATE AND DIVORCE.
Mr. BOVILL asked the Secretary of State for the
Home Departthent, whether it is the intention of her
Majesty's Government to propose any alteration in
the constitution of the Courts of Probate and Divorce.
He drew attention to the arrears of business that had ac-
cumulated in these courts in consequence of insufficient
constitution, and strongly advocated an amendment in these
important courts.

Mr. BOWYEit objected to this court ; but if it were per-
mitted to exist, they should be rendered as efficient as pos-
sible. He considered it, as at present constituted, a sort of
encumbered estates' court for the transfer of women.
Sir C. WOOD made some observations in reference to
the case of Smethurst, and was
(LEFT SPEAKING.)

LONDON GAZETTE-(THIS EVENING.)

FOREIGN-OFFICE, JAN. 23.
The Queen has been graciously pleased b appoint Charles
Lennox Wyke, Esq., C. 8., now her Majesty's Charge
d'Affaires and Consul-General to the Republics of Guate-
mala, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Honduras and Salvador, and
her Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Pleni-
potentiary on a Special Mission to those Republics, to be
her Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Pleni-
poteritiary to the Republic of Mexico.

THE PRINCE OF WALES'S COUNCIL CHAMBER,
JANUARY 24.

Humphry Willyams, of Carnanton, in the county of
Cornwall, Esq., has been appointed Sheriff of the County
of Cornwall.
BOARD OF TRADE IVIIITEHALL, JANUARY 26.
The Right Honourable the Lords of the Com-
mites of Privy Council for Trade and Plantations have
received, from the Secretary of State for Foreign
Affairs, a copy of a Despatch from her Majesty's
Minister at Madrid, enclosing a copy of a Spanish Royal
Decree, permitting the free importation into the port of
Ceuta, of all goods and merchandise, except tobacco, salt,
and gunpowder; the same decree provides that vessels
bringing goods to that port shall pay harbour and health
dues only; the privileges conferred by this decree are not
to be abrogated without six months' notice being given in
the " Madrid Gazette."

COMMISSIONS BY LORDS-LIEUTENANT.
4th Company of Cornwall Artillery Volunteers—Baker
Banks, Esq., to be Captain ; William Tonkin Banks, Gent.,
to be First Lieutenant.

Ist Company of Derbyshire Volunteer Rifles—Francis
Johnson Jessopp, Esq., to be Ensign, vice Cox, resigned.
Hampshire Regiment of Militia—Lieutenant Edward
Charles Forward to be Captain, vice Best, resigned.
Ist Company of Buteshire Rifle Volunteers—Archibali
McKirdy, Esq., to be Captain; Daniel Macbeth, Esq., to
be Lieutenant; Charles Fellowes Maelachlan, Esq., to be
Ensign.
Ist Division of Lancashire Artiliery Volunteers—Hugh
Neill, Esq. (late Surgeon of the 2d Regiment of the Duke
of Lancaster's Own Militia), to be Surgeon.-sth Division
of Lancashire Rifle Volunteers—Richard George Bushby,
Gent., to be Ensign, vice Charles Edward Crosbie, pro-
mote.-17th Company of Lancashire Rifle Volunteers—.
John Dugdule, jun., Esq., to be Captain; Henry Moore,
Gent., to be Lieutenant; George Slater, jun., Gent., to
be Ensign.
Renfrewshire Artillery Volunteers.--2d Company—
Robert Blair, Gent.' •to be Captain; James Ramsay Hill,
Gent., to be First Lieutenant; Hugh Cuthbert, Gent., to
be Second Lieutenant. 3d Company—John Duff, Gent.,
to be Captain; Duncan McCallum, Gent., to be First Lieu-
tenant - Simon Arbuckle, Gent., to be Second Lieutenant.
Renfrewshire Volunteer Rifles—lst Company—Ensign
Robert Burrell to be Lieutenant, vice Dempster, resigned ;
John Clapperton, Gent., to be Ensign, vice Burrell, pro-
tnoted. 2d Company—Patrick Vacnaughton Black, Gent.,
to be Ensign, vice Ross, resigned. 13th Company—Lieu-
tenant Duncan Ferguson Dempster, of the Ist Company,
to be Captain; Ensign William Ross, of the 2d Company,
to be Lieutenant; Hugh Spiers, ent., to be Ensign ;
15th Company—Charles Cairns, Gent., to be Captain;
Alexander Kirkland, Gent., to be Lieutenant. John S even-
son, Gent., to be Ensign. 17th Company—Henry Lee
Harvey, sq., to be Captain ; John Harvey, Gent., to
be Lieutenant ; John M'Nab, Gent., to be Ensign.
16th Middlesex Rifle Volunteers—William Farnell Wat-
son, Gent., to be Ensign.
20th Middlesex Rifle Volunteers —William Houghton,
Gent., to be Lieutenant; Frederick John Barrow, Gent.,
to be Lieutenant; Charles Edward thair, Gent., to be
Ensign ; Thomas Henry Tims, Gent., to be Ensign.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS—(YESTERDAY.)
The LORD CliA-NCELLOR took his seat on the Woolsack
at five o'clock.

CAPTURED TREASURE IN INDIA.
The Earl of ELLENBOROUGH gave notice that he
would, to-morrow, ask a question whether any arrange-
ments had been made for distributing the property cap-
tured daring thTHE e war in india.
ARMY IN INDIA.
The LORD CHANCELLOR informed the house that
he had received letters from the Governor-General of India,
and the whole of the officers expressed their thanks for the
distinguished honour that had been conferred upon them
by their lordships.
GLEBE HOUSES.
The Earl of DUNGANNON gave notice that he would,
on Monday, ask whether any measure was in preparation
with respect to glebe houses.
SLAVERY.
Lord BROUGHAM moved for certain returns connected
with slavery, and also for returns relative to the importa-
tion of cotton.
RUMOURED ANNEXATION OF SAVOY.
Lord NORMANBY gave notice that he would, on an
early day, ask of her Majesty's Government whether they
had any knowledge of papers, said to exist at Paris, relative to
the rumoured negotiations between Sardinia and France, for
the annexation of Savoy to the latter kingdom. He
did not intend to raise any discussion on the subject, but
simply to put the question for the purpose of
receiving information. The noble lord then made some
explanation relative to what he said during the debate on
Tuesday night.
Lord BROUGHAM said the best thing that could hap-
pen to Italy was that all the minor states should unite
themselves under Sardinia, and form a compact kingdom.