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

Here obviously, therefore, is another opportunity!
Nothing could well be easier than at once to

PARLIAMENTA RY DIVISION.

avail ourselves of it.

Buy up the remaining

HOUSE OF COMMONS—JUNE 7.
REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL.
Order read for resuming adjourned debate on amendment
proposed to question [4th June], "That Mr. Speaker do
new leave the chair :" and which amendment was, to
leave out from the word " That" to the end of the ques-
tion, in order to add the words " in order to obtain a safe
and effective reform, it would be inexpedient and unjust
to proceed further with the proposed legislative measure
for the representation of the people until the house has
before it the results of the census authorised by the bill
now under its consideration," instead thereof :—Question
again proposed, " That the words proposed to be left out
stand part of the tuestion." Lebate resumed. Motion
made, and question put, " That the debate be now ad-
journed." The house divided—Ayes, 248 ; Noes, 269.

eleven years of the lease ; raze the house
now standing there to the ground—sweep down
the garden wall at the back—and there is at once
a direct thoroughfare, a carriage road, with pave-
ments on each side of it, sweeping from Trafalgar-
square (between DENT'S and FARRANCE'S) into St.
James's-park, right up the whole broad avenue
of the Mall to Buckingham Palace. Here it was,
at this favoured spot in Spring-gardens, that might
so well have been placed the Marble Arch, as before
observed, and, as we well remember, we ourselves
at the time energetically insisted. That opportu-
tunity has unhappily been lost; but at any rate
now we may (if we will) secure to the capital the
advantages that must inevitably accrue from the
opening of this suggested thoroughfare between St.
James's-park and "the finest site in Europe." The
" ease" such a road as this would ensure to the
traffic along Pall-mall, particularly in the eastern
portions of Pall-mall, at the extremities of Water-
' 100-place and the Haymarket, scarcely requires a
syllable to be written in the way of demonstration.
It is objected to this that it would be to St. James's-
park itself an absolute disadvantage. If the propo-
sition were for the opening of a road for traffic across
the centre of the Park, we could certainly more
easily understand the force of any such objection.
A notion was mooted very recently for the open-
ing of just such a road as this across Hyde-park
from Bayswater to Kensington—and in regard to
that proposal we certainly can ^ll appreciate the
force of the arguments used against the adoption of
the intended design—desirable as such a channel of
direct communication would unquestionably be be-
tween Bayswater and Kensington. But with refe-
rence to the proposed line of communication by way
of The Mall, the position is wholly and entirely
different. The carriage road, already there,
is immediately under the walls of the gardens
of Carlton-terrace—it runs along the extreme
northern edge of St. James's-park—it interferes
not in any way with the Park itself. Besides this,
The Mall, even as it is, is so -wide already as to
admit easily of subdivision, of any moderate sub-
division that might be deemed desirable. There
are three or four distinct avenues along its whole
length. The outer one might remain as it is—
namely, as the carriage way—the one adjoining it
might be set apart, as Rotten-row is, for the use of
equestrians—the remaining width being reserved
as at present, up to the very railings of the Park,
for foot-passengers. Whatever is done in this
matter, however, •supposing the traffic to remain
rigidly restricted, even as it is now in its present
sweep round through the Horse Guards into Par-
liament••street, or supposing it again to be opened
as at Buckingham-gate to cabs as well as to pri-
vate carriages—the road itself ought certainly to
be continued right on into Trafalgar-scluaro through
that corner of Spring-gardens. The house we
have intimated ought to have the eleven remaining
years of its lease bought up, and ought then to be
destroyed. Let Mr. COWPER reconsider the case
before setting it aside altogether. It would enable
him effectually to further yet more what he has
already so well commenced in the instance of the
Serpentine—namely, at one and the same time the
improvement of the metropolis, and his reputation
as Chief Commissioner:,

:ions.

PAPER DUTY.

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY ESTENIN'O, JUNE 8, iS6O

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N E S.

Thy: following telegrams have been received at
Mr. Reuter's office :

VIENNA, JUNE 7.

The Austrian Government, with a view of reor-
ganising the representative system of the provinces,
is about to extend. the authority of the Central Con-
gregation in Venetia.
A decree will shortly be published granting to
the same a deliberative instead of a mere consulta-
tive vote on a large number of administrative ques-

The decisions of this congregation will become
law on being signed by its President.
As regards the judicial affairs on which the con-
gregation can now only decide in a subordinate
capacity, it will in future fulfil its functions with-
out any further appeal.
The only reservation made in favour of the Cen-
tral Administration is the approbation of the pro-
posed expenditure, and the revision of the provin-
cial treasury accounts.
In order to re-establish the national character of
the municipal system in Venetia, all the franchises
and immunities granted by the patent of April 26,
1815, are to be confirmed.