The Sun.
London, England, 1856-07-01 00:00:00

IYIPERIAL PARLIAMENT,

}SOUSE OF LORDS—(YESTERDAY.)
The LORD CHANCELLOR took his beat on the woolsack
at 5 o'cl..ck.

ROYAL COMMISSION.

The Royal assent was given by com.nission to the foi-
l() viog bills :—Exciss ; Insurance on Lives (Abatement
of Income Tax) ; Continuance of West India
Loans ; Trsnsfer of Works (Ireland) ; Facto-
ries ; Si,rdinian Loan ; Rutherham and Bromley-
moor-Road ; Glasgow Paving ; Wolverhampton Water ;
Blackburn ; Coke Valley and Halstead Rail.
way ; Wandsworth and Putney Gas ; lloniton and
Sidmouth Road ; West Han Gas ; North British Rail-
way ; Penrith and Cockermouth Road, ; Carmarthen
and Car. igan Railway ; Deeping Fen Diainage ; Stock-
port an : Warrington Ruad ; and Elgin and Lossie-
month Harbour.
The Royal Commissioners wire the Lord Chancellor,
Lord Monteagle, and he Marquis of Breadalbane.
AFFAIRS OF ITALY.

Lord LYNDHURST called the attention of the
house and the Geverionent to the affairs of Italy, and
asked the noble earl at the head of the Foreign Depart
ment whether he was prepared to lay on the table the
correspondence which had taken place between the prin-
cipal European Governments in respect 'o the affairs of
Italy. As far as regarded Naples, he feared the corres-
pondence ha I ended in no very satisfactory result. He
was induced to come to that opinion by what had passed
recently in that part of Ear tpe. He found that the
most drea^ful restrictions were kept isp--that even
priests and other members of religion were exposed t
great persecution, and even threatened with the it:dile.
tion of tie lash if they did not consent to give evidence
in certain political trials. It appeared to him that this
system of persecution was but a duplicate of proceedings
that had taken place in the trial of Paerio, of which the
right hon gentleman the member for the University of
Oxford (Mr. Gladstone) had given so graphic a descrip-
tion. It appeared to him that the whole of the Govern-
ment of Naples was in the bands of her police agents,
spies, and informers, and that the situation of affairs in
that part of Italy was truly deplorable. He wished then
to know whether the noble earl was prepared to lay on
the table copies of the communications which had taken
place between her Majesty's Government and the Nea-
politan Government, or the other European Govern-
ments, in respect to the affairs of Italy I
The Earl of CLA.RENDON said he was not then
prepared to lay upon the table the correspondence
which had taken place between her Majesty's Govern-
ment and the European governments in respect to
the affairs of Italy. The correspondence was net yet
concluded. No answer had as yet been received to
the deer atch which had been communicated by her
Majesty's Government in conjunction with that of the
French Emperor to the Neapolitan Government. It
appeared that at the time the despatch had arrived the
King of Naples was absent from his city. He, how-
ever, retuned iu a few date, and he had reason to believe
that that answer would be received very soon. Until
that reply had been received, the noble and learned lord
would ueder,tand the: it would be altogether premature
to lay the correspondence upon the table of the house.
In re-pest to the correspondence that had taken place
be .ween her M tjestyis Government and the other Euro-
pean Governments in regard to the affiirs of Ita'y, it
was true her Majesty's Government had off-red opinions
and advice to th tae go,ernmente whose armies occupied
a portion of the Papal States. (Hear, heir ) But he
di .I nit think that the cause which they ha-I at heart
vvs.uld be at all .erved by the producrion of the cirres
oondence. He believed that the only result of so doing
would be to ch.ck that friendly and conti lential tone of
corr e-p mdence that was now going on. Tae noble and
learned lord might, however, accept th answer that
everything would be done by her Mjesty's Go-
vernment to bring about the desired result in Italy.
He believed tha. he might add that both France and
Austria had declared their willingness to withdraw their
troops from the Papal States as soon as certain condi
lions were riereeil to.

Lord LYNDIIURST asked whether it was possible
before the ertnination of the session that the correspon-
dence would b, produc-d
Eirl ,if CLARENDON could not sly ; but the
noble and learned lord would have plenty of opportuni
ties of rotwatii,g his
TFIE OATH OF ABJURATION BILL.

The Earl of Derby paid it. was noc hi, intention, in
consequel.ce of the couree taken by the noble and learned
lord at that late period of the session, of proceeding far-
ther with his bill.

After some conversation the or ler of the day was read
and digch a r4.ed

THE E N.ST INDIA COMPANY'S SUBSCRIPTION

TO TOE FRENCH INUNDATION FUND

The Marquis of CLANRICARDE asked whether the
sum of 500/. lately subscribed by the chairman of three.
tors of the Ea. t India Company in aid of the fund for
the sufr-revs by inundations in France had Leen supplied
by proprietors of East India Stock, or had been taken
from the public revenues of her Majesty's possessions in
India ; and, in the latter case, whether subscriptions,
grants, or gratuities not exceeding 6001., taken from
Indian revenues, were subjsct to the control of Farlia.-
went or of her Majesty's Government, or were limited
by any fixed regula,ion ? His lordship, while appr viug
warmly of the object to which the East India Company
had devoted the money; denied their right to appropriate
that or any other sum out of the revenues of India. Her
Majssty had subscribed to the Inundation Fund, but r
was out of her own private resources and it was open to
the directors of the East India Company to do the same,
but they had no more right to dispose of the revenues of
India than any of their lordships.
The Duke of ARGYLL said that the vote of money
had receive d the sa3etion of the President of the Board
,t Control, to a horn it bad, as a matter 4.f course, been
submitted. With respect to the latter part of his noble
friend's question, he believed that there was no abstract
rule resirtcting the East India Company from voting

s•iiall ',urns orminiey for charitable purp .ees.
The Earl of ELL ENBOROUGH said that this grant
could not be legal, as the court of directors had had no
!evil con.rol over the revenues of India since the year

1833. By the act passed in that year the c Inpany sold
all their territorial rights for an annuity, and bad ever
silica been nothing but trustees for the Government.
The nobie earl also complained of the amount expended
by the company in dinners and gr.tud eutcrtaininen
which bad no parallel in the Govertanent departments.
Even when the Government sought to inaugurate the late

war by a grand dinner at the Reform Club to a reform
ii.g adtuiral—(oppsition cheer)—they di I not venture
to put the arn,unt in the estimates. bhoulA they give a
imilar dinner to Sir E. Codrington on his return, it
could not take place at the pubic expense.
The Bankruptcy (Scotland) But was read a third time
and pasried.
Toe Joint-stock Companies Bit was, after a short
converation, read a third time a,,d passed.
The third reading of the Annuitiei Redemption 1311
was postponed.
The ',Austria' and Provident Societies Bill, the Sea-
men's Savings Bank Bill, and the Survey of Great Bri-
ain were real a third time.
Their lordships then adjourned.

HOUSE OF COMMONS...-;YESTERDAY.
The SPEAKER tlok the chair at 4 o'clock.
PRIVATE BUSINESS•
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The Lord's amendments t the Eastern Union Rail-
way ; London, Tilbury, and Sauthe-41 Railway (Exten-
sion and Branches) ; Middlesnrough Improvement ;
Torm,harn Water ; and Yarmouth and Haddiscoe Rail,
way Bills were elnsidered and agreed to.
The North Weitern Railway 8.11 Ribi read a third
time and passed.
Tne 80-ton. Sleaford, and Midland Counties Railway
Amendment 8,1 l was real a second ime.

THE PEACE FIREWORKS.
Mr. M. CHAMBERS mowed for a return, in de'ail,
of the total amount of the expenses incurred in the
Royal Arsenal at Woolwich, in the preparation of the
fireworks for the celebrAtion of the pea incluiing the
cost of materials, workmen's wages, and all experiments
connected therewith.—Ordered.