The Sun.
London, England, 1860-02-08 00:00:00

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Leased at 6 per cent I
IBom.,Baroda& Cent.lnd 1,
gu. 5 percent
Do. Addit. Capital Al
Do. De. B 1:
'Buffalo and Lake Huron al
Do. New a'
Do. Preference
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6 p. ct. bda. 1 Aug., 1872
Do. do. 1 July, 1873 101
Do. do. 1 June, 1874 101
Clcutta.&S.Eastrn.Lim. 1. 3
Cape, E a stn . Prov. (Lim. )
Cape Town & Dock Scrip 3s.
Central Oude (Limited) 32. Od.
Ceylon Guaranteed 6p.c 7 I
Demerara
Eastern Fiengal.gu.sp.c
East Indian, gu. sp. c lO
Do. F Shares Ext
Do. Jubbulpore
Do. 4# p. c. Debentre al
Do. 5 p.c. Deb., 1864 lO
G eelong& Melbourne al
Geelong Corporation 6
per cent. Bonds
Grand Trunk of Canada 100 36 36#
Do. 6 per cent. Fret all 94 96
Do. 6 percent. Debentr all 74 76
Do. 7 per cent. 1862
Do. do. 1867 all 76 78
Do. do. 1872 all 76 77
Gt.lndiaPenin.gua.sp.c lOO 98 984
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Gt.W. of Canada Shares all 12# I 2& I
Do. New
Do. Bonds pay. '76,with 1 all 98 102
opt. till 'GO
Do. do. '73 till '6O
Do. do. '73 without opt all 98 102
Do. 5# p. c. do. '77 do
'Madras, guar., 4# p. c lOO 87 90
Do. do. 5 per cent lOO 96#
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Newßrunswick&Canda.
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HOUSE OF COMMONS.—(Tms DAY.)
The SPNAnnn. took the chair at twelve o'clock.
PRIVATE BUSINESS.
The standing orders were declared to have been complied
with in the case of several bills.
The following bills were read a second time :—Aylesbury
and Buckingham Railway ; Calie Railway ; Cardiff
Water; Land Loan and Improvement Company; London
and Blackwell Railway; London and North-Western (No.
1) ; Oxford, 'Worcester, and Wolverhampton, Newport,
Abergavenny, and Hereford, and Worcester and Hereford
Railways ; St. Helen's Canal and Railway and London
and North-Western Railway Companies ; Sudbury, Mel-
ford and Clare, and Bury St. Edmund's Railway.
PETITIONS.
Several petitions were presented from various parts of the
country against the unconditional abolition of church rates;
which proceeding occupied the house 40 minutes.

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INCOME TAX.
Mr. FORSTER moved for a return showing the number
of persons charged to the income tax for the year ending
the sth day of April, 1859, under Schedule D, distinguish-
ing the number charged in each of the following classes,
viz., under £lOO a year, £lOO and under £l5O a year, £l5O
and under £2OO a year, and other incomes to £50,000 and
upwards; also a similar return under Schedule E, showing.
the net amount of property and income tax for the same
year, classed under the several Schedules (in continuation
of the Parliamentary Paper of Session 11859). And
similar return for Ireland.
Ordered.
PRISON ASSESSMENTS (SCOTLAND).
Mr. CAIRD moved for an address for a return for the
year 1859 of the apportionment of prison assessments be-
tween burghs and the landward parts of counties in Scot-
land, showing the rate per pound levied for such assess-
ment on property situated in each such burgh, and the rate
per pound levied for the same assessment in which such
burghs are respectively situated.
Ordered.

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SUGAR.
Mr. C. FORSTER moved the following returns, which
were ordered :—Tabular return showing the quantities of
sugar of the several sorts imported into the United King •
dom, and the quantities retained for home consumption ;
together with the rates of duty charged thereon, and the net
revenue accruing therefrom in each year, from 1800 to 1859
inclusive ; followed by a comparative statement of the ave-
rage prices of British plantation and foreign sugar (ordinary
yellow Havannah) for the same series of years : Account
•f the imports into the United Kingdom of sugar, molasses,
rum, coffee, cocoa, and cotton, from the West Indies, Bri-
tish Guiana, the Mauritius, and British possessions in India,
for the years 1831 to 1859 inclusive ; distinguishing thequan-
titles from each colony and each possession in each year :
Smiler account of the quantities of foreign sugar imported,
stating from whence, and the quantities from each place or
country : And account of the quantity of refined sugar and
sugar candy imported into the United Kingdom in the years
1848, 1849, 1850, 1851, 1852, 1803, 1854, 1855, 1866, 1857.
1868, and 1859 respectively, stating the quantity retained
for home consumption, the rates of duty paid, and the
quantity exported : Return of the quantity of foreign sugar
entered for home consumption during each year, from 1831
to 1869 inclusive, distinguishing refined from unrefined ;
and also the several places from whence such sugar was
imported.

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MILITARY ORGANISATION COMMITTEE.
In reply to Colonel DuNNE,
Mr. S. HERBERT said he would give notice of the
intention of Government with regard to the reappointment
of this committee.

NEW WRITS.
On the motion of Mr. LAING writs were ordered for
Hereford in the room of Mr. Cowper, vacant by his accept-
ance of the office of Chief Commissioner of the Board of
Works ; and for Gateshead, vacant by the appointment of
Mr. Butt as Vice President of the Board of Trade.
CHURCH-RATES ABOLITION BILL.
On the order of the day for the second reading of this
bill,

Mr. HENLEY. presented a petition signed by seventy
archdeacons of the United kingdom against the abolition
of church-rates, which he moved should be read before pro-
ceeding with the orders of the day.
This motion was agreed to, and the petition was accord-
ingly read at the table of the house.

SLOUGH F B.—(7hisDay)

THE StrN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY

Majority
The announcement was received with loud cheers by the
Opposition, as it exhibited a considerable reduction on the
majority of last year.
PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS BILL.
On the motion of Mr. SLINEY, this bill was read a se-
cond time and ordered to be committed.
ATTORNEYS AND SOLICITORS BILL.
Mr. J. LOCKE moved the second reading of this bill.
He stated that the object of the measure was to afford
facilities to articled clerks to enter the profession, and to en-
able clerks who have served for ten years without
being articled to have the same privileges, on condition of
their serving three years as articled clerks. The learned
gentleman explained some of the provisions of the bill,
which he had done at its previous stage.
Mr. BOVILL asked the house to postpone the measure,
in order that the profession generally might have time to
consider its details.

The discassion was interrupted at a quarter to 6 o'clock.
WAKEFIELD AND GLOUCESTER ELECTION.
Mr. T. DUNCOMBE postponed his motion on the sub-
ject till to-morrow night.
The house adjourned at 10 minutes to six o'clock.

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
MILITARY HUNT STEEPLECHASE.
Gannamede .
Heads and Tails 2
Johnny Raw 3
AMATEUR STEEPLECHASE.

Old Man 1
Piccadilly

for in the event of the abolition of the impost, which he
traced to a spurious sentiment, the right hon. gentleman
then contended that there was no point of analogy inregard
to the question of church rates, in which compensation
had been granted for the abolition of certain
offices, or sources of emolument. In regard
to such compensations the house proceeded on the principle
that they were dealing with vested rights as in the case of
the ecclesiastical court, where the proctors were entitled to
compensation, because they possessed certain professional
emoluments, of which they were deprived by the altera-
tions that it had been deemed expedient to make in the con-
stitution of that court. There was no analogy in the pre-
sent case ; but although he did not consider that compensa-
tion should be given for the abolition of church rates, he had
no objection to the substitution of some equivalent which
would be less objectionable in principle and more just in its
incidents than the present impost. In his opinion the sub-
stitution of a pew rent would meet the circumstances of the
case, as in rural districts, and be entirely free from the ob-
jections that existed to the present rate. He concluded by
calling on the house to settle this long-agitated question,
and adopting the bill now submitted to thm. (Hear.)
Mr. K. SEYMER supported the amendment, and com-
plained of the course adopted by successive governments since
Sir R. Peel's Administration to the present time, in not
bringing fsrward a statesmanlike measure, instead of leav-
ing it to private individuals to deal with this question,
who were animated by a desire to abolish church rates alto-
gether. He believed such a sweeping and one-sided bill
would not satisfactorily effect the object contended for by
the hon. member who had supported it on the present oc-
casion, and previously when the question was debated in
that house. He contended that it was clear this bill origi-
nated, as had been stated by a preceding speaker,
with those who had a desire to do away with
the Church Establishment. Those pe, sons, he
thought, should, through their representatives in this
house, have openly declared their views. However, that
party preferred to proceed by sapping. and mining until
they succeeded in blowing up the Established Curch,
which was exactly what he wanted them not to accomplish.
(Laughter.) He hoped that all who were favourable to the
connection between Church and State would vote against
the bill.
Mr. BRISTOWE supported the motion as a Churchman,
and said that a large number of his co-religionists were
opposed to a compulsory rate, while the number of those
in favour of their continuance had been diminishing con-
siderably of late years.
Mr. DISRAELI opposed the bill in consequence of its
1 centralising character, which would interfere with the pa
rochial constitution olthis country, which was not less im-
portant than even its political constitution. They were
called on to sanction a measure which proposed to alter a
system which, for centuries, had worked beneficially,
which was approved by the majority, and not complaffied
of by the minority. (Hear, hear, from the Opposition.)
It was to be regretted, no doubt, that the custom which
prevailed in one part of this country for the preservation
of the fabric of the Church should have fallen into
disuetude in another. However, that was not ground
sufficient to justify their adopting the plan proposed by this
bill, which was founded on a mere speculative theory, and
not calculated to effect a satisfactory settlement of the
question. It should be remembered that when the subject
on former occasions was discussed the argument was chiefly
that the existing system was felt to be a grievance
to Dissenters, but there was no such argument in the
Present instance. There was no agitation forcing this
question on their consideration, and if they adopted the
bill they would be introducing a principle vrhich would
probably extend to further alterations in reference to the
State establishment of a character which they never
contemplated. The effect of the bill would be to revolu •
tionise the parochial constitution of the country, and he
called on the house to reject a measure so uncalled for and
so dangerous. (Opposition cheers.)
Lord FERMOY supported the bill, and alluded to the
beneficial results that had attended the abolition of a simi-
lar rate in Ireland.
After a few words from Mr. Packe and Mr. Hubbard
against, and Mr. Thompson in favour of the bill,
Sir J. TR ELAWNLY replied briefly.
The house then divided, and the numbers were—
For the econd reading 2d3
Against