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London, England, 1860-02-15 00:00:00

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SUN OFFICE, Seven o' Clock,

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT

HOUSE OF COMMONS.--(THIS DAY.)
The SPBAKER took the chair at twelve o'clock.
PETITIONS.
Several petitions were presented against the abolition of
church rates, the Highways Bill, and legalising marriage
with a deceased wife's sister.

PRIVATE BUSINESS.
On the motion of Mr. C. FORSTER, the Brighton Im-
provement Bill was withdrawn.
The following Bills were read a second time :—Border
Counties and North British Railway Companies, Caithness
Roads ; Caledonian, Edinburgh and Glasgow, and Scottish
Central Railway Companies ; Consett District Water,
Dublin Corporation Water, Epsom and Leatherhead Rail-
way, Great Northern and Metropolitan Junction Railway,
Horsham and Steyning and Beeding Roads, Leeds Town-
ship, Leicester Cemetery, London and North-Western
Railway (No. 3) ; London and North-Western, Great
Northern, Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway
Companies; Mersey Dock and Harbour Board, Mirfield
Gas, North and South Lanarkshire Roads, Pontefract and
Castleford Railway, Portsmouth New Railways, &c.,
Rugeley and Abbots Bromley Railway, and West Hartle-
pool Harbour and Railway.
THE INDIA HOUSE.
Col. SYKES gave notice that, on the motion for the ad-
journment of the house on Friday, he would ask if there
was any truth in the report of the removal of the business
of the East India House to the Victoria Hotel; that seine
of the manuscripts of the East India House wore to be
destroyed, and if so, what steps will be adopted to provide
premises for the East India Company ?
CORRUPT PRACTICES PREVENTION ACT
(1854) AMENDMENT BILL,.

Mr. MELLOR, in moving the second reading of this
bill, said that, since the introduction of the measure, he
had received letters from different parts of the country, not
only sympathising with the principle of the bill, but ap-
proving of its provisions. He had already explained the
nature of the bill, and he would not detain the attention of
the house at any considerable length. In the first place, he
would state that he proposed to give a certain amount of dis-
cretionary power to judges in dealing with parties convicted
of having received bribes or offered bribes, by which the
maximum punishment to be inflicted for such offences should
be six months' imprisonment with hard labour. Some con-
sidered that his bill did not go far enough in dealing with
these offences, and that it should have been rendered more
stringent in regard to those who were proved to have been
guilty of bribery; but the fact was that in many cases a
trap was laid for those who were induced to offer bribes,
and therefore in some instances the party receiving the
bribe was the more criminal party, and consequently should
suffer the severest punishment. The judge would
be able, from the complexion of the case, to
decide between the respective degrees of the criminality
of parties charged with those offences, and therefore to
inflict the proper punishment. He then alluded to the re-
cent case of attempted bribery at Norwich, in which a town
councillor was offered a sum of £5OO to induce him to vote
for an alderman of the borough. To show that an altera-
tion in the existing law was requisite, when an inquiry
into the circumstances was ordered, one of .the persons
called on to give evidence refused to do so because it
would tend to criminate himself. He believed he
was correct in stating that there was a feeling on both
sides of the house that something should be done by Par-
liament in order to remedy what was an apparent and
serious evil. He did not propose his bill as a final mea-
sure, but merely as a provisional one, which would have the
effect of repressing the evil. (Hear, hear.) He referred
to the committee appointed to inquire into the elections at
Gloucester and Wakefield, in the latter of which boroughs
a large amount of money was proved to have boon ex-
pended in direct bribing, in hiring bands of ruffians to
intimidate the electors, and in beer and spirits to corrupt
the voters. He proposed by his bill that no candidate
should be allowed to pay election expenses, other than
those excepted by the existing Act of Parliament, and that
any money expended for election purposes should be paid
through the medium of an election agent and election audi-
tor. He did sot approve of the latter official, as ho con-
sidered him at present little more than a useless machine;
but he did not intend to deprive him of his func-
tions. Finally, he proposed to do away with paid
canvassers altogether, and he called on the house to accept
his bill, which, if it was not final in its operation, would
have the effect of diminishing the evil which was a degra-
dation to the country. (Hear, hear.)
Mr. HUNT approved of some of the provisions of the
bill, though he did not consider it an efficient measure as a
whole. He contended that the evil which the bill proposed
to remedy would not be effectually suppressed unless mem-
bers of that house and candidates for election were prepared
to carry out the spirit and letter of the laws passed by the
Legislature in reference to this subject.
Sir H. GOLDSMID opposed several of the provisions of
the bill, and the principle it proposed of repressing bribery
by severe penal enactments, which experience had
shown to be fallacious. He referred to the history
of crimes in this country, to which severe nunishinents
were applied to support his proposition. For instance,
capital punishment had failed to prevent the commission of
forgery, which was diminished by doing away with the cir-
culation of notes of small amount, which removed the
temptation to commit the offence. Again, in the case of
smuggling, the severest punishment had been found
inoperative as a repressing agency; but when there
was an alteration in the excise Lhe offence was re-
duced, because its commission ceased-to be profitable. The
hon. member then proceeded to argue in detail in support of
his proposition, that bribery, like other offences, was to be
prevented or repressed by removing the temptation to its
commission, rather than punishing it severely.
Mr. A. STEWART approved of the bill generally, but
considered that it would be desirable it should be referred
to a select committee. He disapproved of the provision
with respect to paid canvassers or messengers, as being
open to practical abjection.
Mr. COLLIER defended the provision of the bill which
gave judges who tried cases of bribery a discretionary power
as to the amount of punishment to be inflicted. Hon. mem-
bers in the house denounced bribers as a degrading of-
fence, but their sincerity would be doubted so long
as they did not invest the judges of the land with power to
inflict on those committing it a degrading punishment.
(Hear, hear.) He approved also of the provision by which
an
moneelectiy for election expenses should be paid oily throuh
on auditor, and Ike proposed to add that any person
infringing that provision should lose his seat. Having
expressed his approbation of other clauses of
the bill, he contended it would be desirable to
appoint a public prosecutor in cases of bribery.
He had introduced a bill last session by which a public pro-
secutor was proposed to be appointed in the case of offences
generally, by which prosecutions would be entrusted to a
public officer, and not left to the carelessness or malice if
private individuals. Some practical difficult), had been
encountered in the details of the bill, but he thought
on several grounds that the proposal might be adopted
in the present instance, in which public morlity
was concerned. He would support the second reading,a but
thought the bill should be referred to a select eoramittee of
the house.
Sir G. GREY said that he thought before legislating
on this subject there should be a most searching inquiry
into the operation of the Corrupt Practices Prevention Act.
(Hear, hear.) He objected to the provision by which
severe punishment was to be inflicted on persons convicted
of bribery, because he believed the effect would
be to prevent juries convicting such offenders.
He approved of the indemnity to witnesses who gave
evidence, and it was owing to this indemnity they had ob-
tained such full disclosures in regard to Gloucester and
Wakefield. He was opposed to some of the other provi-
sions of the bill, and suggested that the inquiry he proposed
should precede the second reading. (Hear, hear.)
Mr. MACAULAY also objected to the provision inflict-
ing severe punishment in cases of bribery, which he
believed would prove inoperative. lie defended the ap-
pointment of election auditors, which had been designated
as nugatory, and believed that no case had been made out
against its continuance.
After a few words from Mr. M. Anuses in favour of re-
ferring the bill to a select committee,
Mr. MELLOR said he would defer to the wish of the
house, and withdraw the motion for the second reading of
the bill.
The motion was then finally withdrawn.
Mr. E. JAMES moved that it be an instruction to the
committee to consider and report on the operation and effect
of the Corrupt Practices Prevention Act (1854), and the
Acts continuing the same, and also upon the operation
and effect of the Election Petitions Act (1848),
and whether any further measures are necessary
for the prevention of corrupt practices at elections.
He contended that the office of election auditor, as at pre-
sent constituted, was utterly illusive and nugatory. He
called on the house to deal promptly and effectively with
the subject of corrupt practices at elections. In his opinion '
the Government ought to take the matter into their own
hands, and bring forward some fitting measure, instead of
allowing the subject to be taken up by a private member.
Mr. KINGLAKE seconded the motion, and contended
the office of election auditor, which he considered had been
properly designated by the report of one of the late election
commissions as a mere screen,was not to protect, but to de-
ceive the public.
After some further discussion, in which Mr. Philips, Mr.
Pullen, Mr. W. P. Martin, Mr. Denby Griffiths, and other
hon, members took part,
The motion was agreed to.
ELECTION PETITIONS ACT (1848) AMENDMENT
BILL.
The second reading of this bill was post
day next. Ported till Tues-
ADULTERATION OF FOOD OR DRINK BILL.
On the motion of Mr. SCIIOLEFIELD, this bill was read a
second time.

TRAMWAYS (IRELAND) BILL.
Sir R. FERGUSON (on the reading of the order of the
day for going into committee) moved that it be referred
to a select committee, to consist of the following 15 mem-
bers :—Mr. Cardwell Sir R. Ferguson, Lord Naas, Sir E.
Grrgan, Col. Fr 044, Mr. H. Herbert, Lord C. Hamilton,
Col. Greville, oc4. Dunne Mr. F. Russell, Lord J. Browne,
Mr, 11, Hamilton, Mr. Butt, Mr. Davison, and Mr. Has-
sard.—Agreed to.
CHARITABLE USES BILL.
On the motion of Mr, HADFIELD, this bill was read a
second time, and ordered to be committed next Wednesday.
WAYS AND MEANS.
The house then went into committee of Ways and Means.
Mr. LAING moved that, towards making good the
supply granted to her Majesty for the deficiency in the
grants for the service of the year ended the 31st day of
March, 1859, the sum of £407,649 be granted, out of the
Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom of Great Bri-
tain and Ireland.
The CIiAIIIJIAIsr was ordered to report the resolution,
and the house resumed.
VALUATION OF RATEABLE PROPERTY
IRELAND.
Tho report on this su(bject was bro)ught up, and leave was
given to bring in a bill founded on it.
MR. BA.LFE, THE IRISH MAGISTRATE.
Col. DUNNE moved for a copy of the commission for an
inquiry into the conduct of Mr. Balfe, a magistrate of the
county of Roscommon, accused of having committed a cri-
minal offence—together with the report of the commis.•
sionera appointed to make the inquiry, and correspondence
connected therewith.
Mr. WHITIISIDE seconded the motion.
Mr. CARIVWELL entered into some explanations, after
wicla, » discussion ensued.
the motion was agreed to.
ST. GEORGE'S-IN-THE-EAST.
Mr. BUTLER moved an address for a copy of all
correspondence that had taken place between the Rev.
Bryrin Ring, the vestry of St. George's-in-the-East, and
the Bishop of London, relative to the disturbances in the
parish church.—Ordered.
The house adjourned shortly after five o'clock.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

POSTPONEMENT OF LINCOLN RACES.
These races are postponed, on account of the frost, unti
to-morrow or Friday. It is fully expected that they wil;
take place to-morrow.

BETTING AT MANCHESTER—TUZSDAY.
The present state of the weather quite upsets all calcula-
tions in racing matters. Horses are stopped ii their work,
and speculation, under the circumstances, becomes ridicu-
lous and altogether unlooked for. The Lincolnshire Han-
dicap is quite shelved at present as a betting. race, and so
general is the opinion that the frost has set in in earnest,
that as much as 5 to 2 was laid that the Lincoln Handicap
would not be run during the present week.
Owing to a general meeting of the members of the sub-
scription rooms having been fixed for to-day, the appoint-
ment of a committee of management, and transacting other
important business for the better regulation of the betting-
rooms, took precedence of other business. In other respects
the following quotations will suffice :
CLOSING PRICES.
LIVERPOOL STEEPLECHASE.
12 to 1 agst Anatis (taken)
14 to 1 agst Xanthus (taken)
100 to 6 agst Brunette (taken)
100 to 5 agst Emigrant (taken)
CITY AND SUBURBAN.
100 to 6 aget Chere Arnie (taken)
20 to 1 aget cby Andover (taken)
20 to 1 aget Nucleus (taken)
40 to 1 agst Hal o'Kirklees (taken)
TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS.
sto 1 agst Wizard (offered)
sto 1 agst Lupullus (take 11 to 2)
7to 1 agst Buccaneer (offered)
CHESTER CUP.
22 to 1 agst Satellite (offered)
22 to 1 agst Birmingham (offered)
22 to 1 agst Longrange (offered)
25 to 1 aget Vietka (take 200 to 7)
30 to 1 agst Squire (taken)
100 to 3 agst Tame Deer (take 40 to 4)
100 to 3 aget Promised Land (offered)
i 0 to 1 agst Sir William (taken)
1000 to 10 aget El Hakim (offered)
DERBY.
9to 1 agst Umpire (take 10 to 1)

10 to 1 agst Mainstone (offered)
11 to 1 agst Thormanby (offered)
12 to 1 agst Buccaneer (offered)
100 to 8 agst The Wizard (offered)

ARRIVALS AT LINCOLN.

Nucleus, Rattlebone, Zodiac, Madrid, White Rose,
Jenny Longlegs, Tormentor, Stapleton, Fernleaf, Desmond,
Apollyon, Contention, Julie, Minster, The Present, Greta,
Rupert, Cantab, The Gentle, Glautius, Reverie, and Ap-
pendix.

The weather very severe, and the ground covered with
snow.

The following telegraphic message was received from the
clerk of the course last night :
" There is very little chance of running to-morrow
(Wednesday), but hops to do so on Thursday. The snow
is fast disappearing."

FROM THE GAZETTE OF LAST NIGHT

DEPOT BATTALION.
Major Andrew Pitcairn, from the 25th Foot, to be Major,
vice Robertson, who exchanges.
Paymaster George Pott Erskine, from the 11th Light
Dragoons, to be Paymaster, vice Young, who retires upon
half pay.
Quartermaster John Conner, from the 82d Foot, to be
Quartermaster, vice Crooks, who exchanges.
COMMISSION SIGNED BY THE QUEEN.
Monmouthshire Militia—John Finnerty to be Quarter-
master.
COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY THE LORD WAR-

DEN OF THE CINQUE PORTS.
3d Company of Cinque Ports Artillery Volunteers-
Henry Wise Harvey to be Captain ; Major William Prime
Jones to be First Lieutenant ; Morris Bowles Thompson
to be Second Lieutenant ; Charles Roberts, M.D., to be
Honorary Surgeon.
COMMISSIONS BY LORDS LIEUTENANT.
2d Monmouthshire, or lst Newport Rifle Volunteers—
The Hon. Frederick Courtenay Morgan, late Rifle Brigade,
to be Captain ; Sir George Ferdinand Radzivil Walker,
Bart., to be Lieutenant; George Barclay Gething, Gent., to
be Ensign.
6th Monmouthshire, or Hanbury Corps of Rifle Volun-
teers.—Major Henry Charles Bird, to be Captain; Richard
James Pye Steele, to be Lieutenant; Charles Conway,
Gent., to bo Ensign.
Royal Denbigh Rifle Regiment of Militia—George
Henry Rose Briscoe to be Lieutenant; Ensign Jacob
William Geoghegan to be Lieutenant; Ensign Hugh
Robert Hughes to be Lieutenant.
Northamptonshire Volunteer Rifle Corps, 2d Company
—John Wardlaw, Esq., late Captain in King's Own Light
Infantry Militia, to be Lieutenant.
21st Lancashire Rifle Volunteers—Captain Nathaniel
'Eckersley to be Captain Commandant. 6th Lancashire
Rifle Volunteers—John Isaac Mawson, Gent., to be Super-
numerary Lieutenant.
Ist Cornwall Artillery Volunteers—Henry Marley to be
Honorary Surgeon. 2d Cornwall Artillery Volunteers--
William Thomas Alexander Pattison to be Honorary Sur-
geon. 2d Section of the Cornwall Artillery Volunteers—
Edward Dunstan to be Lieutenant.
Bth Cornwall Rifle Volunteers—William Herbert Man-
sell, Esq., to be Captain; Francis Gilbert Enys, Esq., to
be Lieutenant; William Francis Phillpotts, Esq., to be
Ensign. 9th Cornwall Rifle Volunteers—Henry Hawkins
Tr3rnaynetobe Captain ; Edmund Carlyon to be Lieutenant;
John Coode to be Ensign.
sth Surrey Rifle Volunteers—Captain Thomas Eman to be
Captain Commandant; Lieutenant Edward Griffiths Syms
to be Captain. 11th Company of Survey Rifle Volunteers—
James Oliphant, late Colonel Honourable East India Com-
pany, to be captain; Timothy Richardson, Esq., to be
Lieutenant; John Stewart Oliphant, Esq., to be Ensign.
Warwickshire Rifle Volunteers, 6th Company—Thomas
Aurelius Attwood, late Lieutenant of the 3d Company, to
be Captain. 7th Company—Henry Perrot, late Lieutenant
59th Regiment of Foot, to be Captain.
Forfar and Kincardine Regiment of Militia Artillery—
George Frederick Webster, gent., to be Second Lieutenant,
vice Thomas Augustus Forbes Leith. resigned.
Ist Ferfarshire Rifle Volunteers—David Greig, Esq., to be
surgeon. 2d Forfarehire Artillery Volunteers—Robert Wal-
ker, Esq., to be First Lieutenant, vice Francis Balfour
Paton, Esq., resigned.
Lanarkshire Rifle Volunteers.-4th Corps (Glasgow
Northern Battalion).—Alexander Mien, Esq., to be Captain
of the 13th Company; Peter Hamilton, jun., to be Ensign
in the 13th Company ; James Morton, Esq., M.D., to be
surgeon. 19th Corps (Glasgow 2d Northern Battalion).—
Lieutenant Daniel Reid, late 28th Company, to be Major;
Ensign James Boyd Thompson to be Captain of the 28th
Company, vice Latham, resigned; Peter Wilson, gent., to
be lieutenant in the 28th Company ; Stanley Latham, gent.,
to be Ensign, vice Thompson, promoted. 3?..d Company
(Summerlev).—John Neilson, Esq., to be Captain ; James
Lang., gent., to be Lieutenant; James Muir, gent., to be
Ensign. 37th Company (Lesmahagow).—James Thomas
Brown, Esq., to be Captain ; Hugh Mossman, jun., gent., to
be Lieutenant; John Blackwood Greenshields, gent., to be
Ensign. 50th Company.—William Walker Scott., gent., to
be Lieutenant. 51st Company.—Robert Buchanan, Esq.,
to be Captain ; John Crawford, gent., to be Lieutenant ;
Frederick John Christian Dietrichsen, gent., to be ensign.
2d Royal Lanarkshire Militia—Lieutenant James Car-
michael Robertson to be captain, vice Park, promoted ;
Captain Walter Brisbane Park to be major, vice Harrington,
resigned.

Ayrshire Artillery Volunteers-2d Company—William
Baynham Cuthbortson, gent., to be lrst lieutenant ; Wil-
liam Bell M'Kessoch, gent., to be second lieutenant.
Forres Rifle Volunteer Corps, being No. 1 Company in
the County of Elgin--Sir Alexander Penrose Gordon Cum-
ming, Bart., to be captain ; Felix Calvert M'Kenzie, gent.,
to be lieutenant; Robert Davidson Mayfield, gent., to be
ensign.

let Company of the Banff Volunteer Artillery Corp—
William James Whyte, M.D., to be captain.

BANKRUPTS.
Ellen Susannah West, lodging•house keeper, Holton.
William Watts, builder, Southern, Warwickshire.
Thomas Streeter, hotel keeper, Portsmouth.
Eleazer Slader, grocer. Bridport, Dorsetshire.
Henry Quarteruaan, builder, thfcrd.
William Worrell, grocer, West Melton, Yorkshire.
Richard Heys, provision dealer, Heywood, Lancashire.
Joel Durham, contractor, Wingland, Norfolk.
John Jones, maatle manufacturer, Lambeth-square.
John Whittaker Bush, colour manufacturer, Wands.
worth.

SCOTCH BANKRUPTS.
Henry Campbell Thorburn, clerk, Glasgow.
James Finlay, gasfitter, Glasgow.
Alexander Cameron, sewed muslin warehouseman, Glair
gow.

PLYMOUTH, Tuesday.—The Vimiera, Captain
Swanson, belonging to Messrs. Dunbar, 89 days from Syd-
ney, all well, put into the Sound to-day. She has three
cabin and two steerage passengers, and a cargo including
1,100 bales of wool, 50 tons of gum, 100 logs of iron bark
and cedar, 1,000 hides, and 1,000 horns. Signalled Jan. sth,
in hat. 23 44 S., long. 28 W., the Lord Burloigh, 49 days
London for Auckland ; 11th, the Hamburg ship Etrope,
bound to the Cape ; 25th, passed a large water-logged ship,
some timo abandoned. The Vimiora made long. 20 W.,
Jan. 21st, since which strong north-oast gales have pre-
vailed. The Lizard was sighted in 86 days.

An influential meeting of the wholesale tea trade
was held this morning in Mincing-lane, and a committee
was appointed for the purpose of representing to the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer that the proposed charges on the
rebov ding and warehousing of tea are considered exorbi-
tant. The feeling on the subject was unanimous, and it
was thought desirable that the committee should at once
put themselves into communication with the leading mem-
bers of the trade at the various bonding places throughout
the country, so as to obtain a general assent to their pra-
ceedings. The question of the heavy charges proposed to
be placed upon warrants was also warmly discussed.
A HUNDICED YEARS AGO.—The number of sea-
men and marines voted for the service of the Royal ,Navy
in 1760 was 73,000, and the sum of £3,640,000 was granted
for their maintenance. The navy at this time consisted of
120 ships-of-the-line, besides frigates, fireships, and smaller
vessels. The French navy had become so weakened by the
war that few ships remained to be employed, and conse-
quently only six were taken during the year. In North
America the appearance of the British squadron compelled
the French to raise the siege of Quebec, and the whole of
Canada came into the possession of this country.
BOY ACCIDENTALLY POISONED.—A case of ac-
cidental poisoning occurred at Little Clacton last week, a
boy named George Jeffries, aged eight years, the on of a
rat-catcher of that place, having drunk in a mistake for
beer from a bottle containing a solution of arsenic used for
destroying rats, which his father had incautiously placed
within reach in the house. The child was immediately
seized with the usual symptoms of poisoning, from the
effects of which he died on Saturday, notwithstanding the
exertions of Messrs. Manthorp, surgeons, to save his life.
On the 6th inst., an inquest was held by W. Codd, Esq.,
coroner, when the jury returned a verdict of "Died from
incautiously drinking solution of arsenic."—.Essex.lierald