The Sun.
London, England, 1860-06-01 00:00:00

THIN D EDITION.

SUN OFFICE, Seven o'clock.

A_AIERICA.

SOUTHAMPTON, FRIDAY.
The United States mail steamer Illinois has arrived.

She brings 211 passengers, and specie value 543,817 doll.,
of which 116,277 are for England; the remainde r for France.
Off the New York light ship she passed the British barque
Chance, Goole.

On the 20th passel Breman ship, showing third distin-
guishing pendant, number 1,865. The news brought by
the Illinois is anticipated.

INIPE RIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.—(Tnis EVENING-)

The SPEAKER took the chair at four o'clock.
The Lords' amendments to the London and North
Western Railway and Saint Helen's Canal and Railway
Companies Bill were considered and agreed to, and the
bills were ordered for third reading.
The following bills were considered and ordered for
third reading :—London, Brighton, and South Ccast Rail-
way (Deviations and New Lines, &c.), Watchet Harbour,
and Waveney Valley Railway Bills.
The Everton, &c., Drainage Bill, and North British
Insurance Company Bill, were read a second time.
PETITIONS.

Several petitions were presented, praying the house to
pass the Reform Bill without delay ; against that part of
the Bankruptcy Bill which prohibits solicitors pleading in
Bankruptcy Courts ; for a modification of the law relating
to Friendly Societies; for the repeal of the differential
duty cn foreign paper • against any increase in taxation
without the consent of this house ; and against any change
in the marriage law, &c.
NAVY (ROMAN CATHOLIC) SAILORS.
Mr. BELLEW moved for copy of any correspondence
that had taken place with the Admiralty in the months of
March and April last, relative to the treatment of Roman
Catholic sailors in the Royal Navy.—Ordered.
OPENING FROM ST. JAMES'S PARK TO TRA •
FALGAR- SQUARE._ _

On the motion for the adjournment of the house at its
rising until Monday,
Mr. KINNAIItD asked the First Commissioner of
Works, whether the recommendation of the committee
which reported in 1856 in favour of opening a carriage
way from Saint James's Park to Trafalgar-square would
be carried out; and, if not, what are the reasons for
such decision on the part of the Board of Works.
An opening such as he proposed might be very easily:effected
at the present time. The objection to the alteration pre-
viously was, that the expense would be very large, which
was now removed by the recent improvements that had
been effected. There was only one house with a lease of
nearly 11 years to be removed, to enable the open-
ing in question to be made. The greatest difficulties
were caused to traffic in the neighbourhood of St.
James's-square when her Majesty held a Drawing-
room. He trusted the Govetnment would throw no obstacle
in the way of effecting this most desirable improvement.
Mr. D. GRIFFITHS considered that Storey'sgate should
not be closed so early as 10 o'clock.

Sir J. SHELLEY hoped the improvement in question
would be speedily effected. _ .

Mr. COWPER, said that the committee who had in-
quired int* the subject, amongst others, recommended
that the improvement in question should be carried out in
future, but did not recommend its immediate adoption.
That committee, however, had not recommended any
plan for carrying out the improvement, and had not en-
tered into the financial part of the question. He consi-
dered that the subject as to the merits or demerits
of the improvement was not to be considered
at present, as the house was called on to deal
with the mere preliminary question of the expense.
That expense could not be charged on the fund for the im-
provement of the park, and though there was only one
house to be removed, and that house was on Crown land,
still money would have to be provided to purchase it from
the public department to which it belonged. With
regard to the other question it was most undeniable
that Storey's-gate should be kept open permanently during
the night.

THE PAPER 'DUTIES.
Lord FERMOY asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer
'whether he intended, in consequence of the Bill for the
abolition of the Duties on Paper having been re-
jected by the House of Lords, to remit some other
tax equivalent to the amount of the paper duties.
He said that there were two questions involved in the pre-
sent state of this matter, one constitutlbnal, the other finan-
cial. With regard to the former, he was quite prepared,
when the proper time arrived, to vindicate the dignity of the
house. He trusted also that the Government would be
prepared to take a proper course in respect to the privileges
of the house. He thought the Government should imme-
diately introduce another bill to do away with the paper
dutiep, to which they should have appended resolu-
tions to the effect that the house would maintain
its rights and privileges. (Hear, hear.) As regarded the
financial part of the question, it would be seen that
the house was placed in a false position ; for the
people of England, in consequence of the rejec-
tion of the repeal of the duty, more called on to
pay £1,500,000 for a tax which their representatives
had condemned. He believed that the Chancellor of the
Exchequer was sine:re in his desire to repeal this
duty, but a different opinion prevailed in cer-
tain parts of the country, and therefore he had
done some service in affording him an opportunity of ex-
planation. The noble lord strongly condemned the course
pursued by Government in appointing a committee to in-
quire into precedents, instead of adopting some more ener-
getic and prompt course of proceedings.

THE TEA DUTY.
Mr. A. STEUAR 1' asked the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer, whether, having declared in case of a similar con-
tingency with regard to the bill for the repeal of the Paper
Duty to what now has occurred, that he would
take the earliest opportunity, probably within a
few days, of inviting the house to repeal the
war tea and sugar duty, he still adhered to that intention;
or what contingencies, then unforeseen, prevented such a
course. Also, whether he was still of opinion, from the
quantities of wine entered since the lowering of the duty,
that consumntion would increase to the extent of 35
per cent:, and entail on the revenue a loss compared with
last year of only £515,000 ?
Mr. CAVE strongly advocated the repeal of the duty
on tea.
The CHANCELLOR of the EX CHEQUER said thai;
he did not complain of the criticism that had been passed
on the Government. It must be understood, however, that
he would make no admissions and offer no replies.
(Laughter.) The noble lord (Fernley) asked him what
were his feelings with respect to the vote of
the House of Lords. Chancellors of the Exche-
quer were not supposed to have any feelings—(laugh-
ter)—but if he had any feeling on this question he did not
think the time had arrived for him to declare them.
(Laughter.) He thought the opinion of the house was that
Government had not taken an unbecoming course in sub •
mitting to a committee the duty of enquiring into prece-
dents on this matter, which would place the house in
possession of information which it had not previously
possessed. With respect to the other question, he was not
prepared to repeal the duty on tea, for he was placed in
a different position at the present time to that in which
he stood when he made the conditional promise he had
done in making his financial statement. It would be im-
possible, until the wine license duty came into opera-
tion, to answer the latter part of the question, as
to the increase in consumption and loss in
revenue, but as far as the experience of Government ex-
tended it was in favour of the statement he had made in
reference to these matters.
Mr. BRIGHT said that the ground taken by the
House of Lords for rejecting :the paper bill 'vas not
whether it was a good or bad measure, but merely that the
Chancellor of the Exchequer had not, by proposing to re-
mit that tax, provided for the ways and means. It was,
therefore, clearly unfair to ask the right honourable
gentleman to remove another tax, because, according
to a new theory, the Upper House could decide on the
matter, and reject any such proposed measure. With
reference to some observations as to popular agitation on
the question of this vote, he considered that the people were
only exercising their legitimate and constitutional right by
exercising their opinion on thissubject. The gentlemen on
the opposite side of the house had at timos attempted
to get up agitations, but they failed because their
objects did not p-ssess popular sympathy. He ap-
proved of the course which Government had taken in
moving the appointment of a committee to inquire into
- precedents, and he thought the people of England would
have a just contempt for the Parliament of 1860 if they did
- not obtain all the information on the subject it was in their
power to acquire. (Hear, hear.)
The subject then dropped.
SIR HENRY RAWLINSON.

Mr. H. SEYMOUR called the attention of the house to
the state of affairs with• Persia ; and asked the Secretary of
State for Foreign Affairs to lay upon the table of the house
papers relating to Sir Henry Rawlinson's recal or resig-
nation.
SUPREME COURT OF HONG KONG.
Mr. WYLD asked the Secretary of State for Foreign
Affairs, it the Government had been informed by the Go-
vernor of Hong Kong of the trial, at the Supreme
Court, of Captain Saunders, of the British barque Chin-
Chin, for the murder of one of the crew of the Custom
House Boats in the Port of Swatow ; and, if there be any
objection to lay the despatch upon the table of the house ?
Mr. D. FORTESCUE asked the ,ecretary of State for
Foreign Affairs, whether he was in possession of any in-
formation confirmatory of certain statements made in a
pamphlet recently published in Paris, quoted in the " Eco-
nomist" newpaper of Saturday last, relative to the proceed-
ings of the police authorities hi Sicily; and, if so, whether
he had any objection to lay such informaticn upon the
table of the house.

(LEFT SPEAKING.)

LONDON GAZETTE-( THIS EVENING)

WHITEHALL, JUNE 1.

The Queen has been pleased to order a conge d'elire to
pass the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Bri-
tain and Ireland, empowering the Dean and Chapter of the
Cathedral and Metropolitical church of York to elect an
Archbishop of that See, the same being void by the death
of Doctor Thomas Musgrave, late Archbishop thereof; and
her Majesty has also been pleased to recommend tc.
the said Dean and Chapter, the Right Rev. Father in God
Doctor Charles Thomas Longley, now Bishop of Durham,
to be by them elected Archbishop of the said See of York.
WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, JUNE 1.
3d Regiment of Light Dragoons—Cornet George Shipper)
Wiles to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice St. George,
who retires. - • .

6th Dramcons—Cornet Robert Davies to be Lieutenant, by
purchase, vice O'Neill, who retires,

7th Light Dragoons—Captain Edward Pict= 13aumgarteni