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

( ASCOT ILIC_E,F.--(This Day.)

[BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.]
CORONATION STAKES.

Allington . , .

Seclusion
Contadina
Five ran.
SECOND BIENNIAL STAKES.

Rupee
Rap
Six ran.

LATEST BETTING,
ROYAL HUNT CUP.
10 to 1 agst Optimist (taken)
10 to 1 agst General Hess (taken)
11 to 1 agst Cock-a-Hoop (taken)
20 to 1 agst Woodburn (offered)

RACING FIXTURES FOR 1860.

JUNE.
Ascot 5 Bibury Club 2O
Hampton
Newton 13. Winchester 22
Odiham 19 I Chelmsford 26
Beverley 2O Newcastle 26
JULY.

Newmarket J.
3 Nottingham ..
Carlisle 3 Stamford - 19
Worcester
Liverpool
Abingdon • 12

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.—(.This DAY.)

The SPEAKER took the chair shcrtly after twelve o'clock.

PRIVATE BUSINESS,

The Macclesfield Gas Bill was considered and ordered for
third reading.
The second reading of the Smithfield Market, Streets,
and Improvement Bill was postponed until to-morrow.'

COUNTY CLARE EtECTION COMMITTEE.
The members appointed to serve on this committee were
sworn, and will meet to-morrow at eleven o'clock.
THE REFORM BILL.
Sir JAMES FERGUSSON gave notice that on the
order for resuming the adjourned debate on tho Represen-
tation of the People's Bill te-morrow, he would move that
the committee on the bill should be postponed until the
Irish and Scotch Reform Bills were read a second time.

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LONDONDERRY ELECTION.
The members appointed to serve on the Londonderry
election committee were sworn.
FISHERIES (IRELAND) IML.'
On the motion of Mr. M‘MAIION, the second reading
of the bill was postponed for six weeks.
Mr. CARD WELL observed that there was no chance
of the bill being passed this session.
ECCLESIASTICAL COMMISSION, &c., BILL.
On the order for the second reading of this bill,
Mr. SELWYN moved that the bill be read a second
time this day six months. He considered that a measure
of this kind should, on the motion for its second reading, be
introduced with some preliminary remarks. He regarded
the bill as a measure which had for its object the vesting of
the whole landed property of the Church in the hands of
the Ecclesiastical Commission, and in his opinion there
were three great objections to it, namely that it was a mea-
sure which comprised centralisation, compensation, and
confiscation. The centralising element of the bill would
have the effect of severing to a considerable extent, in some
cases, the important ties that at present existed between
the Church and landlord and tenant. Having stated the
opinions expressed by the Committee of the House of Lords,
of which Lords Brougham and St. Leonardo, and the Duke
of Buccleuch, and other competent authorities, were mem-
bers, on this subject, in support of his views, he- adverted
to the last report of the Ecclesiastical Commission in No-
vember, 1859. That report stated, that the property en-
trusted to its care already was situated in different counties,
which rendered its collection very difficult; and that the
annual income amounted to no less than £173,560. It was
now proposed to vest the cathedral property, as well as the
property belonging to the deans and canons, in the same
commission. In his objection to the functions exercised by
the Commission he wished it to be under.,too', that he did
not object to the constitution of that body, as'he believed it
was composed of gentlemen the best qualified to discharge
the duties entrusted to them ; but practically they merely
carried out the instructions of a subordinate official body.
He referred to the mode in which the accounts were au-
dited, which he described as most imperfect, and illustra-
tive of the defective principles on which the bill was
founded. There was another defect arising out of the sys-
tem of centralisation, one of the main elements of the bill,
namely, the expense incurred in collection and manage-
ment, which in one year amounted to £13,583 15s. 10d.
With regard to the application of the money collected, it
appeared that the magnificent sum of £lO4 was ap-
plied to schools; to new schools necessitous livings
£52,000, to new districts £36,ooo—making a total in
round numbers of £89,000 appropriated to meet the spiritual
destitution that prevailed in the country, and that out of
an income of £173,000, being about double the amount ex-
pended in the expenses of mere management. With
respect to his second objection, that of compensation, the
other principle of the bill. At present the whole
management of the cathedral estates was in the hands
of chapter clerks, whose duties were proposed to be
transferred to other officials. These chapter clerks
would have to be cowensated for the loss of
their office, and their successors would have to learn
their duties.. The hon. and learned member then proceeded
to argue that the bill would lead to extensive litigation, the
expenses of which would have to be defrayed out of the
income that would b voted in the hands of the Commission.
With reference to the third objection, confiscation, he would
ask whether, looking at the question practically, it could
be expected to work satisfactorily or equitably ? How was
any one to know the time when confiscation sib ould take place,
and on its operation it would lead to litigation that would be
unavoidable and expensive. He should be happy to see
alterations that would remove any defects in the Church,
but he strongly deprecated any attempt to deprive it of the
property to which it was as well entitled as any lay corpo-
ration. The Emperor of the French had set the country
an example in dealing with Church property, but his con-
duct had been described as spoliation and confiscation,
terms which applied with equal propriety to the attempt in
this bill to infringe the vested rights of the State Church
in this country. What he would suggest was that the
Crown should exercise its right in remodelling the estates,
and that the commission should have only that fair propor-
tion of the property to which they were justly entitled. If
they desired to create a new body let them forni a board of
a diocesan character and possessed of local knowledge. To
a proposition of the kind the members of the chapter were
ready to acceh, and nothing of a fairer character could be
submitted for the adoption of the house.
Mr. Alderman COPELAND seconded the amendment,
and went into figures to show that the commission incurred
an extravagant expenditure, and before conferring on them
additional powers, Lie thought it right that there should be
some inquiry into the mode in which they had managed
their business. He dwelt particularly on the item in the
account of the commission of £8,675 annually for clerks,
which, as a man acquainted with commerce, he was satis-
fied was a sum that should not be appropriated to such a
purpose, considering the duties these clerks were called on
to discharge.
Mr. FRE ELAND said this bill was only a step in a
a certain direction, and not a settlement of the question.
He considered the bill might have been divided into two
bills, the one that would deal with capitular estates
and the other with lessee's claims. It was opposed to the
principles of centralisation, but he was of opinion that, in
the present case, what he would call intermediate cen-
tralisation would operate beneficially.
(LEFT SPEAKING.)

FROM TILE GAZETTE OF LAST EVENING.

BUCKINGHAM _ PALACE, JUNE 1.

This day had audience of her Majesty :
The Sovereign Prince of Lichtenstein. His Serene
Highness was accompanied by the Count Apponyi, Envoy
Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary from his Ma-
jesty the Emperor of Austria;
Also, the Prince Louis and the Prince Henry otHessc
Darmstadt. Their Grand Ducal Highnesses were accom-
panied by the Count de Bernstorff, Envoy Extraordinary
and Minister Plenipotentiary from his Majesty the King
of Prussia;

To which audiences they were respectively introduced by
the Right Honourable Lord John Russell, her Majesty's
Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and con•
ducted by Lieutenant-General the Honourable Sir Edward
Cust, K.C.H., her Majesty's Master of the Ceremonies.
WHITEHALL, JUNE 2.
The Queen has been pleased to give and grant unto
Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Henry Morris, 0.13., late of
the Royal Artillery, her Majesty's Royal licence and per-
mission that he may accept and wear the Insignia of the
Imperial Order of the Legion of Honour of the Fifth Class,
which his Majesty the Emperor of the French bath been
pleased to confer upon him, as a mark of his Imperial Ma-
jesty's approbation of his distinguished services before the
enemy during the late war with Russia.
DOWNING-STREET, JUNE 4.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint Charles Farquhar
Shand, Esq., to be Chief Judge of the Supreme Court of
the Island of Mauritius:

Her Majesty has also been pleased to appoint Eliseo
Nolan, Esq., to be Crown Solicitor for the Island of Mau-
ritius.

WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, JUNE 5.
COMMISSARIAT DEPARTMRNL—Assistant Commissary-
General John William Bovell to be Deputy-Commissary-
General.

CHAPLAIN'S DEPARTMENT.—ChapIain to the Forces the
Rev. Hugh Muleatt to be Chaplain of the Second Class.
Her Majesty has been pleased to accept the resignation of
the Commission of Chaplain to the Forces the Reverend
William Walrond Jackson, on his being appointed Bishop
of Antigua.

BANKRUPTS.
Thomas Toynbee, hotel keeper, 4, Southwick-street,
llyde-park, to surrender June 15, at twelve, and July 13,
at eleven, atthe Court of Bankruptcy.
George James Heald, money scrivener, Manchester, June
22 and July 13, at twelve, at the Manchester District
Court.

"William Herring, confectioner, Liverpool, June 16 and
July 10, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court.
John Addinell, confectioner, Stockton-upon-Tees, June
14 and July 18, at half-past twelve, at the Newcastle-
upon-Tyne District Court.
Robert Carruthers and George Carruthers, drapers,
Liverpool, June 13, and July 6, at eleven, at the Liverpool
District Court. _ _ _

William Bayley, jun., and Richard Bowden Newsom,
gold beaters, Pentonville, Middlesex, June 19, at half-past
twelve, and July 17, at vo, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Charles Lush King, tailor, Ryde, Isle of Wight, June
20 and July 18, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
John Yates, grocer, Oldbury, Wnrcestershire, June 20
and July 9, at eleven, at the Birmingham District Court.
William Grinling Goodwin, draper, Upper Marylebone-
street, June 13, at half-past one, and July 16, at two, at
the Court of Bankruptcy.

Job Goodman Sheppard, brewer, Toweester, Northamp-
tonshire, June 20 and July 18, at one, at the Court of
Bankruptcy.

SCOTCH BANKRUPTS.

James Guthrie, wright, Glasgow.
William Milne, grocer, Aberdeen.
William Laing, innkeeper, Milnathort, Kinross-shire.
John Clark, ham curer, Glasgow.
John Ferguson, ship carpenter, Glasgow.