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

BOROUGH HOP.

The accounts from the Plantations continue very unfa-
vourable and the market for all kinds of hops is somewhat
active at fully the late advance in the quotations. The
duty has declined to £BO,OOO.
Mid and East Kent pockets.... 100 s to 155 s per cwt.
Weald of Kent
Sussex

BOROUGH AND SPITALFIELDS.
Since Monday last fair average supplies of potatoes have
come to hand in good saleable condition. Most kinds are
in steady request, and prices range from 80s to 145 s per ton.
Last week's imports were only 21 tons from St. Male.

SEEDS.
Linseed is only in moderate request, yet prices rule toler-
ably firm. Rapeseed still shews a tendency to advance ;
but all other seeds are a slow inquiry, on former terms.
Cakes continue in good demand, at fully the late advance
in their value.

furnip,White,p.bus.3os to 3Ssl
Swede —s —s
Mustard, Brown —s —s
White, new s —s
Tares,Winter, new.. 7sod 8s
Old —s —s
Canary, per quarter 52s 64
Rye grass, Rew 26s 28s
Clover, Red Eng., ct. 42s 48s
White
Foreign Red 42s 48s
White 688 72s
Trefoil, new. lBs 22s

Carraway
Coriander lss 164
Henapseed, per qr 408 41s
Linseed,Eng.sowing 66s 68s
Crushing
Baltic ..
Odessa sos Od
Linseed Cake, p. ton—
English .... £9 10s £lO Os
Foreign, p ton £9 5s £lO 15s
Rape Cakes,p.ton£sOs£s 158
Rapeseed, p. qr. 70s 766

WOOL MARKET.

The public salesoi;olonral;;;1 continue to be well at-
tended by buyers, and the biddings for all kinds rule steady,
at very full prices. Australian—Clean sheeps has realised
le 9d to 2s 71sl ; scoured, 2s Id to 2s 111 d; lambs', is 8d
to 2s 3d ; pieces, is 2d to is 114 d ; grease, is lid. Port
Philip :—Clean sheep's, is 9d to 2s sd; scoured, 2s Od to
2s 111 d ; lambs', is Gld to 2s 21d ; do. scoured, 2s 4d to
2s Cqd ; pieces, is 3d to is 10d; grease, is to is 7161

Public attention having again been directed to
the claims of the Baron de Bode against the British
Government, by the re-publication, by order of the
House of Commons, of the report thereon of a
select committee of the House of Lords in 1852, a
brief statement of them may not be uninteresting.
At the conclusion of the war with France, in 1814,
commissioners were appointed to examine the claims
of British subjects against the French Government
in respect of property unduly confiscated during the
Revolution ; and, by a convention concluded in
1815, it was declared that, in order to determine
the capital due on immovable property, the claim-
ants should be required to produce the deed of pur-
chase, and proofs of the confiscation against them-
selves, their ancestors or assigners, and that, in de•
fault of written proof, the commissioners should
admit each other as they might deem sufficient.
Clement de Bode was the son of Charles de Bode, a
German by birth, and commander of a German regi-
ment in the French service. who married a daugh-
ter of Mr. Kynnersley, of Loxley Park, in Staf-
fordshire, in 1775. Clement was born there in
1777, was baptised at Uttexeter, and was a Bri-
tish subject within the mewing of the treaty, and
entitled to claim compensation for the confisca-
tion of his property. Although this point seems
to have been at first disputed it was afterwards
admitted, and no further objection was made on
that ground. In 1788 Charles de Bode obtained
from the Archbishop :and Chapter of Cologne a
grant of the lordship and lands of Sultz, in Lower
Alsace, the investiture giving him the usufruct for
life, and absolute remainder to his son. In 1791
he made a legal and valid cession of his interest to
Clement, and the property was administered in the
latter's name until 1793, then father and son left
France, and the property was confiscated by the
National Convention. Charles de Bode died in
1797. The son made his claim in due form, under
the Convention of 1815, but before it had been
heard another Convention was entered into, by
which France was released from all claims on pay-
ment of 60,000,000 of francs, besides 70,000,000
already paid. In 1819 at act of Parliament was
passed for Carrying this arrangement into effect,
and in 1821 the Baron mils informed, for the first
time, that he would be required to prove that the
estates were confiscated by virtue of the decree of
1793 against British subjects. This he was unable
to do, and in 1822 his claim was rejected; although
it has been repeatedly derided that such proof was
unnecessary, and in almost every instance in which
compensation was granteC the confiscation had been
on account of emigration, and not under the decree
against British subjects. The Baron appealed to
the Privy Council who aemed the award of the com-
missioners, on the sole ground of there not being
sufficient proof of the cession of the interest of the
claimant's father, Which proof the Baron was on
the Continent endeavouring to obtain when the com-
missioners rejected his shim. Various applications
to the House of Commons were made by the Baron,
at different times, but without any result, until
1834, when Mr. Hill, then member for Hull, ob-
tained a select committee to inquire into the Baron's
claims ; but Parliament was prorogued before the
inquiry was concluded, e dissolution followed, and.
Mr. Hill was not re-elected. Mr. Warburton sub-
sequently took up the case, but his motion for in-
quiry was opposed and defeated by the Govern-
ment. The Baron then applied for a mandamus,
to be directed to the Lords of the Treasury. ; but
this was refused on the
ground that their lordships
held the money merely
as the servants of the
Crown; He then petitioned the Queen, and a
royal commission was appointed to investigate his
claims, which were pronounced good, and taken
into the Queen's Bench, where a jury returned averdict confirming the decision of the commission.
Ultimately the case came before the House of Lords,
who decided that, as the act passed in 1819 di-
rected that the money should be applied in dis-
charge of the claims of those persons in whose
favour adjudications should have been made by the
commissioners, and that the balance should be ap-
plied to such purpose as the Lords of the Treasury
should direct; and as AO such adjudication had been
made in favour of the claimant, he had no power
to obtain redress from any legal tribunal, however
clear his case might be upon its merits. In 1852
a select committee was appointed of the House of
Lords to investigate the matter, and it reported
that it had been fully established that the Baron
was a British subject within the meaning of the
Treaty of 1814, that he was the bona fide owner of
property unduly confiscated by the French Go-
vernment, and that the rejection of the claims was
owing principally to a mistake of the commis-
sioners, which caused
a ground the
the inquiry,um prematurely to close
upon nd altogether invalid,
whereby they excluded the full proof of the
claimant's case, the subsequent production of which
proof before
ore the Royal Commission and the Court
of Queen's Bench led to the verdict in the claimant's
favour.
The committee reported also that the
handed by the commissioners to the Trea-
surybalance £4B9 " -
mounted to .94,12, and that the value of
amounted
lost by the Baron, with interest thei e-
the
provisions of the Con-
on to according to the,
266 They added that the case
Con-
vention, was £364,266.
hardship injustice,
and and con-
was one of
1819,
great
recommending it to the favourable con-
siderationcludeds £364,
by
d until the recent motion in the
of the house. There, however, the
matter has rested
House of Commons for the publication of the Lords'
report.

SURREY GARDENS.--A concert is to be given in
these attractive gardens this evening, when the principal
feature will be a selection of popular Irish melodies. In
order to give full effect to this novel idea, there will be a
chorus of 200 voices, in addition to the following vocalists :
Miss Parepa, Miss Pcole, Mr. Wilbye Cooper, Mr. Santley,
and Mr. Sims Reeves—it being the last appearance of the
latter gentleman at these gardens.

HOUSE OF LORDS—(rms EVENING.)
ROYAL COMMISSION.
The Royal assent was given by commission to the follow-
ing bills, viz. :
Court of Queen's Bench Amendment.
Inclosure (No. 2).
University and College Estates.
Friendly Societies Act Amendment.
Isle of Man Harbour.
Dominica Hurrica Loan.
Local Board of Health.
Jews Act Amendment.
Census (Ireland).
Census (England).
Adulteration of Food.
Queen's Prison.
Highways (South Wales.)
Manchester Cathedral Church.
Postage (Army and Navy).
Medical Act (1858) Amendment.
Highway Rates Act Amendment.
Burial Grounds (Ireland).
Criminal Lunatic's Asylum.
Nuisances Removal Act Amendment.
Heritable Securities (Scotland).
Turnpike Acts Continuance.
Bank of Ireland.
Sheriffs Court Houses (Scotland).
Common Law Procedure Act Amendment.
Copyhold Inclosure Commissioners.
Turnpike Acts Amendment.
Municipal Corporation Act (Ireland) Amendment.
Augmentation of Small Livings.
Infant Marriage Act Amendment.
Bleaching and Dyeing Works.
Registration of Births (Scotland).
lonian Islands Marriages.
Aylesbury and Buckingham Railway.
Hay Railway.
Horsham and Guildford Direct Railway.
Macclesfield Gas.
Athenry and Tuam Railway.
Bedford and Cambridge Railway.
London South Western Railway (Kingston Extension).
Wigan Water.
Lincoln's-inn.
Monklands Railway.
London, Chatham, and Dever Railway.
Fergus River Navigation Improvement.
Llangollen and Corwen Railway.
Highbridge Markets and Gas.
Burnham Tidal Harbour and Railway.
London, Chatham, and Dover Metropolitan Extension.
Boschette's Estates.
Daniel Stewart's Hospital Estates.
The Royal Commissioners were the Lord Chancellor,
Viscount Sydney, and Lord Monteagle.
LAND LOAN AND ENFRANCHISEMENT ACT.
The standing orders were suspended in order to enable
this bill to be proceeded with.
INDUSTRIAL MUSEUMS (SCOTLAND) BILL.
This bill passed through committee.
TENURE, AND IMPROVEMENT OF LAND
(IRELAND.)
On the motion that the report of the committee on this
bill be received,
Earl GRANVILLE moved an amendment relating to
one of the money clauses of the bill.
The Marquis of WESTMEATH denounced the bill as a
most unjust one, and said he should give it all the opposi-
tion in his power. He should oppose the insertion of the
clause.
After a short discussion their lordships divided, when
there appeared—
For the clause (contents)
Against it (non-contents)
Majority —3o
The clause was then agreed to.
LANDED PROPERTY IMPROVEMENT
(IRELAND) BILL.
Lord MONTEAGLE moved that the house go into
committee on this bill.
Viscount DUNGANNON thought there was too much
being attempted at the present moment with regard to the
improvement, as it was called, of land in Ireland.
[LEFT SITTING.]

HOUSE OF COMMONS—Crms EVENING.)
The SPEAKER took the chair at four o'clock.
NEW MEMBER.

Mr. ALDERMAN SIDNEY took the oath and his seat for
the borough of Stafford.

PRIVATE BUSINESS.
The Lords' amendments to the following bills were con-
sidered and agreed to :—Border Counties and North Bri-
tish Railway Companies, Farringdon Railway, and Lon-
don Railway Depot and Storehouses.
The Brandon Estate Bill and the Caithness Roads Bill
were read a third time and passed.
ROYAL COMMISSION.

Sir A. CLIFFORD, Usher of the Black Rod, summoned
the members to the Upper House to hear the royal assent
given by commission to several Bills, for which see Lords'
report.

PAPER DUTY.

Mr. Vance presented petitions from paper manufacturers,
and Mr. Black from Edinburgh, against the repeal of the
duty on paper. Petitions in favour of the repeal of the
duty were presented by Mr. Bright from the Messrs. Cassell
and other printers and publishers in London ; by
the Chancellor of the Exchequer from the silk
hat manufacturers of Benton, near Manchester ; and
by Mr. Gibson several other petitions, pro and con, were
also presented.