The Sun.
London, England, 1860-06-29 00:00:00

THE PAPER DUTY REPEAL.

The public are prepared for the intelligence that
the Privilege Committee have resolved to report only
precedents and facts, and to abstain from adverse
comments and recommendations. These they leave
to such politicians as may think it wise to make
theni on the floor of the House. That House, ho w-
ever, has shown no anxiety for any such exhibition.
When it took particular care that the Privilege Com-
mittee should represent both political parties, of
course it thereby prevented a political, or one-sided,
report. Any such report that was possible under
the circumstances would only have represented the
opinion of the casting vote. But this careful selection
of the Committee was something more than choice ;
it was necessity, and the only proper way to meet
the case. The fact we have to deal with is an actual
equipoise of opinion and feeling. To say that the
House of Commons was almost equally divided on
the original measure which has led to the question
of privilege is below the truth, for it is notorious
that, had all members voted as they thought and
desired, the Bill for the Repeal of the Paper Duties
would have been lost by a large majority. It would
be equally below the truth to say that the Cabinet
itself was almost equally divided, for it is noto-
rious that a majority of the Cabinet avowed
their objection to the measure in the present state
of our finances. The feeling of the public has
been tested and sounded by the promoters of the
late Bill, and they have made it certain that the
public is indifferent to both questions in hand. It is
not impatient for the repeal of the paper duties, and
it does not want to deprive the Lords of the power
to throw out any bill, if it pleases. Here, then,
we have no preponderating voice any where. All
is balance or indifference. It is impossible to dis-
cover or to elicit any decided leaning in the national
mind at this moment; and when we dive below this
stagnation of feeling, and endeavour to find a cur-
rent in bygone days, we only find a list of prece-
dents which don't help us one way or the other.
It is quite clear that, if the Commons made a gene-
ral rule of monopolising all questions of taxation,
they showed no jealousy of the Lords so long as
the Lords said only " Yea" or "Nay." When not
even the past could be invoked to disturb the
balance or indifference of the preient, it was only
fair that the committee should represent and em-
body that fact. An indifferent committee, the off-
spring of indifferent opinion, has produced an
indifferent report. What, then, is to be done with
all this indifference? No amount of stirring and
splashing and pumping will turn a horsepond into
a trout-stream. Mr. BAlkt wants to set the stream
of opinion strongly against the Lords, but his
labour is that of a bargeman who should think to
fill a canal by pumping up the bilgewater of his
own boat.

Mr. Bright has himself a very strong leaning,
Had he but the requisite fulcrum, he would move
the earth fast enough. But then he has let out
very plainly that he would move the earth for
objects which the British world does not want. His
system is his own ' • his motives his own ; his esti-
mate of bodies and classes his own. He wants not
only to keep the House of Lords in order, but to
shut it up altogether. According to him, it is
anomalous, inasmuch as it represents property, not
people; and superfluous, inasmuch as property as
well as people is sufficiently represented in the
House of Commons. It would be difficult, indeed,
to collect from this gentleman's speech what precise
form of constitution would hit his taste; but one
principle presents itself everywhere with a grand
simplicity, and that is the right of the people to tax
property to any amount. Here, then, we are sup-
plied with an excellent and most comprehensive
reason for not permitting the Lords to say " Nay"
to any bill for either the imposition or abrogation
of taxes. As order must be maintained, as the
enemy must be kept out, and as faith must and will
be kept with the public creditor, there must be a
large taxation, and, should the House of Commons
let indirect taxes sink below a certain amount, there
will be a run upon property, When a householder
does not pay his tradesmen in the ordinary way,
they come down on himself and his goods and
chattels. No doubt, too, property is the material
guarantee on which the fundhilder thinks to come
as a last resort. This is the speculation of these
gentlemen who wish to abolish indirect taxation,
and to keep the House of Lords out of the business
altogether. But the House of Commons has too ex-
tensive affinities and too deep sympathies with the
House ofLords to go along with these views. Grant-
ing that the Lords represent the landed interest, the
Lower House will not think them on that account
the less worthy of consideration or the less entitled
to stand out for the whole of! their prescriptive
position.
But there is no occasion whatever to disturb the
existing state of things. If Mr. Gladstone's cal-
culations hold good, the balance will be restored in
a few years; the income tax will have settled to a
bearable rate, the war duties on tea and sugar will
be removed, and then will come an opportunity for
considering the paper duty on its own merits. The
imposition of this fresh trouble upon Mr. Glad-
stone's Budget was an afterthought, and a very
ill-advised one. The Hercules of Finance had
undertaken his twelve labours, and might have
got thi ough them with all ease and credit, when
Eurystheus came in the form of Mr. Milner Gibson
and imposed a thirteenth, which should beat all the
rest. It was too much. Fate itself protested against
such an excess of achievement. Something must be
thrown overboard to save the burdened ship, and
that was the measure last piled on its deck. The
Commons could not, or would not, do this ; pride
forbade, and they knew others would do it for
them. ever was a task so cut out for the men to do

it. But whose rashness, whose folly was it, that
gave the Lords so unexceptionable an opportunity
for asserting a privilege and proving their con-
stitutional value ? This was just one of those
acts which might be wrong as a rule, but was right
as an exception. Grant that there are dormant
powers, and powers that should lie dormant for
ages; yet why do they exist at ail, and why do
they sleep and not die ? It must be that they may
some day wake and do their work. Ave do not see
how the Lords can possibly make more of this than
they ought to do, for the simple effect is a wanting
to the Commons to look better after the credit of the
country, and'not be in a hurry to revolutionize our
taxation. The case for the Lords has improved
every day since this bill left the Lower House. All

our expenses are increasing. The China War still
assumes larger proportions • but in India and at
home expenditure is the order of the day. All diffi-
culties are to be surmounted by the force of money.
Twenty projects press for adoption and execution.,
and, though the first step is to charge the expense
on some local or separate fund, the next is to throw
it on the Consolidated Fund,—that is,, on the British
taxpayer. But we cannot admit all these appeals
to our generosity unless we consent to pay taxes,
and there is no form of taxation which is not both
mischievous and disagreeable. The Lords have a
good case, and for this, and for the opportunity of
asserting, perhaps stretching their right, they are
indebted to Mr. M. Gibson and Mr. Bright, and
their too compliant friend the Chancellor of the
Exchequer.—Times.

EXPOSURE OF A FRAUDULENT BENE

FIT SOCIETY.

At the public office, Dudley, yesterday, Mr. Bur-
ton, superintendent of police, made an application
to the bench under the following circumstances :
Some time ago a benefit society was started in the
Wellington-road, called " The People's Family Life
Assurance and General. Sick Benefit Society." This
society guaranteed for a payment of 9d. per week, a
sum of,„tB at death, and a weekly allowance in time
of sickness, and a great number of working men
invested their money in it. About six months ago
another society, called " The Royal Provident In-
stitution," was opened in King-street, and the busi-
ness of the first office was transferred to " The
Royal" without the consent of the parties invest-
ing. The rules of " The Royal Society," were cer-
tified by Tidd Pratt, Esq., and bore the iipatures
of three directors. The first of these directors is a
youth about 18 years of age ; the second is a young
man ; and the third is a boy about 16 or 17 years
of age, who is an apprentice to a surgeon at Dud-
ley. Those young men have been in the habit of
signing blank policies as directors. Upon the re-
moval of" The Peoples" business, the surgeon re-
moved the books to the King-street society, and
is stated to have received, money as a director,
a secretary, and an agent, also receiving money
at different periods. Upon some of the investors
applying for sick pay recently, they found_
"no effects." 'Tie therefore applied
for aid to the police authorities, and
aman
d
named Moore, living at Princess End,
produced
his policy, &c., yesterday, and stated that he had
paid 245. into the societies,
and
plying
fa
foo rr sick he was
rs. The application
surgeon,
to obtain
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applied secretary,He
warrantP against
and agent, and the three direc
From inquiries made
for warrants was
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granted.bubbleo
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two appearste
that upwards of £4,000 ors,
various
two societies, the
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appointed
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lett'esodu, policy
Leicester, being
4,011. Agents have
towns, including Scarborough,
Birmingham, and from t hoseagents Mr. Burton
has received letters stating that they have paid
money into the society, addressed to Mr.Kean,thase
secretary. It is understood that the secretary has
absconded. The other parties against whom
warrants have been issued will probably be brought
before the bench on Monday next.-111anchester
Examiner.

FRIGHTFUL MURDER 1N OXFORD-

STREET.

Some particulars of a determined suicide in
Hyde-park having appeared in this journal of yes-
terday, in which a Frenchman, whose name was
unknown, had committed self-destruction by dis-
charging, first two pistols at his head, but failing
in his object had afterwards cut his throat, we are
now ehabled to lay before our readers further par-
ticulars relative to the affair, and from which it
will be seen that there is scarcely a doubt that the
man, in addition to having committed suicide, had
also perpetrated one of the most horrible murders
that for many years have taken place in this coun-
try, the murder being attended with circumstances
of peouliar atrocity,
It appears that about ten days ago the man,
whose name is Anto%io Dherand, and who was
about 35 years of age, and a tailor by trade, accom-
panied by his wife, a young woman named Caro-
line, aged 24, an nglish woman, and very good
looking, took a top floor at the house of Mr. Bolla,
ice-house and confectioner, Oxford-street, the rent
being ss. a week. Nothing particular occurred till
Saturday last, on which afternoon the man went
out, it is believed, to see the volunteer review, and.
-while he was absent the murdered woman was seen
cleaning the stairs by Mr. Bolla. About 9 o'clock
at night the man returned, and having asked for a
bottle of ginger-beer, drank it, and wishing the
persons in the shop "good night," went up stairs,
nothing more being seen or heard of him. It may
be here stated that Mr. Bolla occupies the lower
part of the house, the two intervening floors being

Wednesday morning, nothing having been
seen of the female or her husband, Mr. Bona became
rather uneasy regarding them, and was about trying
to open the door of the room occupied by them, when
at that moment a constable and a park-keeper ar-
rived, bringing news that the man had committed
suicide as above stated, a letter found on him lead-
ing to his identification. The room door was then
burst open by the constable, and a most frightful
spectacle presented itself, for on the floor, on her
stomach, was the body of the wife, stark naked and
headless. A search about the room, which was be-
strewn with blood, led to the discovery of the head
of the murdered woman, it having been thrown in
a coal cupboard, previously having been wrapped in
a towel evidently for the purpose of being conveyed
away. On an examination, it was found attempts
had been made to sever the legs and arms of the
murdered woman from her body. There were seve-
ral knives found about the room, and the place
seemed in the greatest disorder, some work of the
man's being strewn about in an unfinished state.
There seems to be very little doubt that the mo-
tive of the man for destroying his victim was jea-
lousy, as it is stated that he had told a brother a
short time since that he could stand it no longer,
and on an examination of his body, on his breast
was found pricked in ink, " Death to an unfaithful
woman ;" also on his arm a portrait of the Emperor
Napoleon, which is stated to be a good likeness.
The body of the man was taken to Mount street
Workhouse, and that of the female to St. James's
Workhouse, Poland-street, where they await the
inquests.

THE COMPETING RAILWAY FROM LONDON
TO CANTERBURY AND DOVER.

-
The new line of the East-Kent Railway will be
opened, on the 9th of July, as far as Canterbury, in
time for the meeting of the Royal Agricultural
Society, which is to be held this year in that city.
At present the railway is not completed beyond
Faversham. In the nine miles between that town
and Canterbury the works are some of the heaviest
on the whole line ; but, notwithstanding the great
difficulties which have interposed, the pledge given
by Lord Sondes and the directors, that the railway -
should be opened in time for the agricultural show,
will be fulfilled. The opening throughout of the
line to Dover will take place by the end of the pre-
sent year. The saving of distance by the East
Kent line to Canterbury and to Ramsgate, Mar-
gate, and Herne Bay will be as much as '4l miles on
the existing route by the South-Eastern Railway,
bui when the London terminus is complete there
will be a still further shortening of the distance
between the metropolis and these places. The .
London stations of the East Kent Railway will be,
for the present, London-bridge, and the Victoria
station at Westminster. From the latter terminus
the East Kent trains will run over the West-end
and Crystal Palace lines, and from the latter they
will pass over the North Kent Railway, as far as
Streod, where the new lines will commence at the
bridge over the Medway. Immediately upon the
opening of the section between Canterbury and
Faversham, the public will have the full benefit of
competition between the rival South-Eastern and.
East Kent Railways.

Temporary arrangements are being made for the
accommodation of the traffic between Canterbury
and Dover, by means of omnibuses, and the fares,
so far as the lines will compete with one another,
will show an immense reduction upon the present
tariff of charges.

TIIIS _DAY'S SHIPPING.

LONDON, June 29. —Wind this day at noon W. ;
moderate breeze and fine.

FALMOUTH, June 26.—Arrived=Mary Ann Peters, .from
Belize.

WATERFORD, June 26.—Arrived—Balaklava, from St.
John's, Newfoundland.

BELFAST, June 27.—Arrived—Flora, from Miramichi.
Sailed—Summerhill, for Kichfifacto.

PETERHEAD, June 27 —Wind S.W.—Arrived—Elena,
from Greenland, with 15 tons of oil.

BERWICK, June27,—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Anna, from
Rio Grande.

PLYMOUTH, June 28.—Wind S.W.—Virgin de Langada,
from Havana.

FowEY, June 27.—Wind W.—Arrived—Kate and
Annie, from Monte Video.
SWANSEA, June 28.—Wind W.—Arrived—Nourmahal,
from Caldera ; Duke of Northumberland, from Cuba.

(Br ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
SOUTHAMPTON, Friday Morning.
Wind W. ; heavy rain showers.
Arrived, June 28—Tonning, steamer, from Oporto ;
Dane, steamer, from the Cape of Good Hope; Ernest, and
Le Coq, from Cherbourg; Alliance, steamer, from Havre;
Wonder, steamer, from Jersey; Temora, steamer, from
London.

Sailed—Amalila, for Elsinore ; Alma, for Hartlepool;
Temora, steamer, for Dublin; Dispatch, steamer, for
Jersdy; William Skinner, for Sunderland.

(BY SUBMARINE AND BRITISH TELEGRAPH.)
, Fri Morning.
Wind W. ; tide highGRAVESEND water; weatherday very heavy%
thunderstorm, and rain.
Arrived, June 28—Hamilla Mitchell, from Bombay;
Colonist, from Skien ; Roseau, from Trinidad ; Stral6ll-
- from Sydney; Ziska, from the Cape of Good Hcpe ;
Corunbia, from. Eshanghan ; Surpass, from Jamaica;
Koh-i-Noor, from Demerara.
Arrived, June 29.—Rosalli, from Savanilla ; Sylph, from
Lines; Crocodile, from St. Kitt's ;_ Matheviadge, from
Whydah ; Oceana, from .Carthagena ; Cceur de Lion, from
Colmobo ; Stephens, from Konigsberg ; Jane Ewing, from
Madres ; L'lmperatrice Eugenie, from Port Natal; Levmer-
gier, from Calient ; Gebroders, from Valparaiso; Fifeebire,
from Memel; Coyetdale, from Cochin; Johnßobinson,
from Shanghai.
Sailed—Vesta, steamer, for Odessa; Arthur Bardew, , for
the Cape of Good Hope.

Wind N.W., moderate. DEAL, Friday Morning.
Passed, June 28.—Emerald, from Antigua ; Tar, from
Swansea; Old Honesty, from Sydney; Elizabeth, from
Antigua; Dorissiana, from Demerara—all for London,
Anchored.—Excelsior, from London, for Bermuda;
Palermo, from Shields, for Naples • Sir Wm. Cheter, from
Shields for ' Havre ; Empress, tromSunderland, for Mad vast
and landed Mr. Frederick, pilot. _ _ .

DOVER, Friday Morning!.
Speedy, brig, passed up Channel at 8 a.m. ; Helen Feaiird,
of Alloa, H I C K, passed up Channel at 8.15.

• According to a letter from Palermo, Garibaldi
lost upwards of 900 men in the conflicts of the 27th and
28th ult.

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FAILURE IN BIRMINGHAM.---We regret to .an-
the failure of an old established house in Birming-
ham--that of Messrs. John Lord and Co., merchants. 'The
,an-
nounce
liabilities are about £21,000, and the assets under £3,4000.
A petition for adjudication in bankruptcy was yesterday
filed b 7 Messrs. Beale and Marigold and Messrs. Hodgson.
and Allen. Mr. Lord is confined to his bsd by illness, con-
sequentlyhis
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Ra aNdMpEr
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. Her Majesty's
N does not surrender, but the same will be taken a
Emigration Commissioners chartered two vessels yesterday
afternoon, the 28th inst., viz., the Schah Jehan, 767 tons,
belonging to Messrs. Denny and Co., to sail from Ply-
mouth for Adelaide, South Australia, at £l5 16s. per
statute adult; and the Escort, 671 tons, belonging to Mr.
John Simpson, to sail from the same port for Perth, W es-
tern Australia, at £l4 13s. sd. per statute adult ; the former
vessel to be ready for the reception of her passengers on
such day as the commissioners may appoint between the
13th and 20th of August, and the latter between the 21st
and 31st of August.
LITERARY INTELLIGENCE.—Messrs. Hurst and
Blaekett announce in their List of Publications for July :
Mr. Atkinson's new work entitled " Travels in the :Regions .
of the Upper and Lower Amoor and the Russian Acquisi-
tions on the Confines of India and China, with adventures
among the Mountain Kirghis and the Hunting and Pas •
toral Tribes North of Japan," in 1 vol. with a map and 80
illustrations, uniform with the author's " Travels in Ori-
ental and Western 'Siberia"—" The Name' ive of a Resi•
dente at the Court of Meer Ali Moorad, with Wild Sports
in the Valley of the Indus," by Captain Langley, 2 vols.
with illustrations—" Bond and Free," a new novel by the
author of " Caste," 3 vols. ; and another novel entitled
" High Church," in 2 vols. The new volume for July of
Hurst and Blacketes " Standard Library of Cheap Edi-
tions," comprises "Margaret and her )3ridesniaids,

MONEY MARKET AND CITY NEWS.

CITY, Two O'CLOCK.
There has not been much activity in-the markets
for foreign and colonial produce during the last few
days. At the public sales of tea prices opened at
an advance of about 2d. per lb., but a decline of
id. to ld. per lb. has since taken place. Sugars
have been 'dealt in to a fair extent, at about former
quotations. Coffee has remained inactive, and in

rice and spices the operations have been on a very
moderate scale. There have been moderate inquiries
for saltpetre, but no sales of importance have been
effected. In tallow the dealings have been limited,
and prices continue firm for both present and for-
ward delivery.

In the Liverpool cotton market yesterday a fair
amount of business was transacted, but American
descriptions were rather lower. The sales were
estimated at about 10,000 bales.
About £40,000 in gold, being a portion of the
late Australian arrivals, was sent into the Bank of
England yesterday.
Notice has been given of the meetings of the
London and Westminster Bank, and of the Bank of
London, for the purpose of declaring a dividend, &c.
The Tyne has arrived at Lisbon from the Brazils
en route to this country with £27,000 in specie.
There is an active demand for money at full rates.
The inquiries at the Bank are numerous, and an
extensive business is reported in the general
market.

At the meeting of the Australian Royal Mail Steam
Navigation Company a division ofthe assets amount-
ing to ss. 9d. per share, after reserving a small sum
for probable contingencies, was agreed to, a dissolu-
tion of the company having been determined upon
by the shareholders.
The market for Public Securities closed yester-
day with a very heavy appearance, but a few
purchases having been effected the tendency of
prices is rather more favourable. Consols are
now quoted 931 1, but very little business, real
or speculative, has been negotiated. The New
Three per Cents, and the Reduced are steady at
931; India Debentures at 961; and the Bonds at
12s. to 7s. dis. ; and Exchequer Bills at par 4s.
prem., but Bank Stock has improved to 229
and 2301.
Business in the Foreign Stock Market is mode-
rately active, and prices are steady. Turkish 6
per Cents. are 761 to 771; ditto New, 591 to 60;
Dutch 4 per Cents, remain at 1011; Mexican at
201 ; Brazilian 41 per Cents., 1858, at 88; and
Peruvian at 921; Portuguese are flat at 451 ; but
Spanish Deferred have improved to 391. The New
Russian Loan is nominal.

The Ocean Marine Insurance Shares are 11
prem. ; the Thames and Mersey, 11 I prem. ; and
the Universal, 1 prem.
The following are the prices of the American
Stocks:—

Redeemable. Prices.
United States 6 per Cents 1867-1868
Do. 5 per Cent Bonds
Maryland 5 per Ct. Str. Bonds 952 961
Massachusetts 5 per Cent. Str
Bonds — 1011 1021
Pennsylvania i per Ct. Stock — 82 84
Alabama 6 per Cent. Bonds — 75 77
Kentucky 6 per Cent. Bonds 18681,72 90 92
Ohio 6 per Cent. Stock lBB6 97 98
Pennsylvania 5 per Ct. Bonds 1877 86 87
Tennessee 6 per Cent. Bonds. Divers 79 81
Virginia 6 per Cent. Bonds
Virginia 5 per Cent. St. Bonds 1888 82 81
Boston 6 per Cent. St. Bonds
Itlinois Central 7 per Cent.
Illinois Central 6 per Cent.
Illinois Central 7 per Cent
(Freelands)
Do. shares, 60 dole. paid
Michigan Central 8 per Cent 1869 82 83
Do. do. shares
New York,Central 6 per Ct.,
not convertible...
New York Central 7 per Ct ,
convertible, from June 15,
r 1857-59 1864 92 93
Do. do. shares 7O 72
New York and Erie, 7 per Ct ,
3d mortgage
Do. do. shares ll 12
New York and Erie 7 per Ct.,
convertible
New York and Erie, 7 per Ct ,
sinking fund 1875
Panama 7 per Ct., lst mort •
gage Str. Bonds, not cony.. 1865 99 101
Do. do., 2d do.