The Sun.
London, England, 1858-05-22 00:00:00

£31,634,730
£31,631,7,2,0
MIRSIIILL, Chief Cash ar.
Dated the 2 )th day of May, 1858.

BANKING DEPAUTMENT.

Proprietors' capital .. 5
14,53,000
Rest . • .. • 3,210,32
Public deposits (in-
cluding Eechequer,
Commlssio .ers of
National Debt, Sav-
ings' Banks, and
Dividaid Accounts) 4,735,910
Other deposits • 13,972,353
seven I)ay and other
Bills • • • • • •• . • 850,425

Government securities
(i nelud,r.DeadWeight
Annuity).. ••
Other Securities ....•• 14,6%."7
Notes ..... 11,351,770
Gold aril silver Coin 767,280

£37,322,320

£37,322,320
Dated the 20th day of May, 1858.
DIARSILS.LL, Chief Cashier.
AVERAGE PRICE OF SUGAR.
The Average Price of Brown or. Muscovado
sugar,
com-
puted from the returns made in the week ending May
18, 1838, exclusive of the Duties - of Customs paid or
payable thereon, on the importation thereof into Great
Britain : s. d.
From the British Possessions in America 26 61,
Muscovado, the produce of the Mauritius l9 0
Average of the above descriptions.
.... .

About 52,000/ of
goal by toe tteu J.icket was sent
into the Bank yesterday. A large portion of the re-
mainder has been taken for the Continent, as well as all
that was left of the recent arrivals from Australia and
the West Indie'. The 23,000 sov-Teigns aro believed
to have been taken to the Liverpool Blanch of the Bank
of England.
Arrangements have been concluded by the.Brazdian
Minister in London with Mews. Rothschild for a
Brazilian 41 per cent. kin of 1,500,000/., the precise
conditions of which will be corninuni,ated to the Sock
Exchange on Monday. Tne amount is to be appro-
priated to the completion of the Dom Pedro Railway,
on the shares of which the Government has guaranteed
an interest of 7 per cent. The difference between this
7 per cent. and the 41 per cent. to be paid on the loan,
is intended to be apPiied as a sinking fund.
THE SUSPECTED MURDER IN THE REGENT'S CANAL
Yesterday afternoon the adjourned investigation in this
case was resumed and concluded. The jury, after a
short consultation, returned the following verdict :
"That the deceased was found dead in the Regent's-
canal, with extensive marks of violence on the body and
limbs, but how or by what means the injuries were
caused, or the manner in which the deceased came into
the water,.they had no legal evidence to prove ; but the
jury are deeply impressed with the opinion that the
wounds were inflicted before immersion in the water."

WITIIDRAW.AL OF MR. CARDWELL'S

RESOLUTION.

(From the _Daily News.)

The Howie of Commons has rarely presented a more singw•
lar and exciting scene than it.exhibited last evening. Every
seat was occupied, the bar Was 'crowded with members,
the galleries were thronged with an eager and excited au-
ditory. 'All announced the eve of one of those decisive en-
counters the issue-of which is to determine not only the
fortunes of a party but the policy of an empire. The num-
bers, the hush of expectation, the electric sensitiveness,
ready at the slightest spark to discharge itself in bursts of.
- applause or roars of laughter—combined to indicate the
imminence of a close and desperate struggle which neither
party courted, but from which neither shrunk. Still- an
impression was prevalent amongst those accustomed to
watch closely the symptoms of Parliamentary strife, that
a battle " a l'ontrance " might even yet be evaded. A
few moments sufficed to show that this impression- was
w4ll founded. Lord Palmerston rose to ask the Chancellor
of the. Exchequer two questions; first, whether any cover-
ing despatch had accompanied the papers just laid on the
table of the house ; secondly, whether it was clearly un-
derstood that the debate on Mr. Cardwell's Resolution
should finish that night, or stand over till after the Whit--
suntide recess. Ur. Disraeli, pale, calm, and concentrated ;
the great speech evidently all prepared, and with no di's.-
inclinalion to try the chances of war, gave a guarded and
dubious answer to the first question, and with regard. to
' the other quietly remarked that, as far as he was concerned
he intended to address the house ; the other members, no
doubt, would do so too ; and that though he assumed the
gelgral unierstanding was that the debate should conclude
that eight, it was impossible to give any absolute pledge
on the subject. After a few more questions and answers,
the adjournment of the hottie was moved, and then broke
out a complete mutiny in the ranks of Lord Palmerston's
supporters. One Liberal member after-another rose, with
every va iety of tone, from entreaty to menace,
to urge the withdrawal of .hir. Cardwell' s Resoliition.

The publication of the recent despatches, it was
represented, had completely _altered the aspect of the
question, the nature of the issue was entirely changed ; it
was no longer possible either to waive the discussion of
Lord Canning's confiscation policy, or to arrive at a just
and satisfactory conclusion upon it. To vote for the motion
as it now stood would be to place the Liberal party* in a;
false pesition with the country. Mr. C.rdwell was in-
exorable ; refused to withdraw his motion, and declared,
with metallic inflexibility, that the debate must go on.
Then the store!, broke out afresh, and the mutiny waxed
fiercer and fiercer. The more independent supporters,of
Lord Palmerston openly declared their intention to desert.
" If the motion is persisted in," exclaimed Mr. Thomas
Dunconabe, "I shall not vote against it, but put on m 7
hat, and wish the' right hon. gentleman good night. '
Colonel Sykes, amid the inextinguishable laughter of the
house, endeavoured, by quoting the Hindee equivalent, to
prove that the word "confiscation" was to be interpreted
in a non-natural sense. As a "linguist," he contended
that it meant nothing more than " sequestration and
appropriation." He might as well have told his hear,rs
at once, in the vernacular of Ancient Pistol, that " convey
the wise it call." Then came the more plaintive remon-
strances of the gentlemen who were fast bound by pledges
to Sir William Hayter. They felt they could not escape ;
if the motion was persisted in, they must march on sub
flagello victims towards the altar of party. But they could
and they did protest against the cruelty involved in thus
exacting the utmost rights of the " torturing scourge."
While these affecting remonstrances were being made and
these indiscreet revelations indulged in; while the
pasty charaeter of. the motion was thus admitted,
and the mysteries of the ex-Treasury whip revealed,
the serried ranks of the Ministerialists sat quietly
watching the progress 'of the insurrection. It
was time for the superior powers to intervene ; the
knot had acquired that degree of complexity which
traditionally demands the interposition of a God,
and Lord Palmerston once more descended on the
scene. The ex-ministerial Jupitergave the signal, and his I
sedate satellite, no longer inflexible, put himself and his
motion in the hands of the house.

••
Mr. Gladstone, amid some expressions of impatience,
which even his inimitable elocution could not allay, urged
on the Government the adoption of Mr. Dillwyn's amend-
ment, and took occasion to pass an eloquent eurogium,
which was generally felt to be not then called for, on the
personal character and general policy of Lord Canning.
Then Mr. Disraelirose. He accepted the withdrawal of
the motion, not asreleasing the Ministry from the peril of
a conflict which they did not fear, but as relievin; the
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Ministerial leader endeavoured, and not without success,
to show that he and those with whom he acted had
throughout advocated in India a policyof " discriminative
amnesty" as opposed to wholesale confiscation; he pointed
Out that in so far as Lord Canning proceeded on thispolicy
he would naturally command their support, and that the
Proclamation was condemned solely because it involved a
departure from it. Loud cheers from all parts of the house
accompanied the assurance, with which Mr. Disraeli con-
cluded, that, since the transmission to India of Lord El-

.
lenborough's Despatch, a telegraphic message been
forwarded to Lord Canning assuring him of the confidence
and support of the home authorities. Lord John Russell,
with reference especially to a motion of which Sir Da Lacy
Evans had given notice, explicitly condemning the confis-
cation policy of Lord Canning, expressed his earnest de-

sire that Parliament should not, in the present crisis of
our Indian affairs, and in the necessary absence of adequate
materials and conspetent knowledge, be aske I again to pro-
nounce a j trip:want on the public conduct of Lord Canning
as Governor-General. In this recommendation all reason-
able men will be strongly disposed to concur; it is impossi-
ble, however, nut to remark on the singularity of its being
urged by a statesman who is generally regarded as an un-
rinpro.nising assertor of the competency and right of
Parliament to take into its own hands the governmfrit of
India. Mr. John Bright closed the discussion by declaring
that he entertained no feeling of animosity against the old
party leaders, and only trusted that what lead just taken
place might prove to them the necessity of a more free and
genial communication with those gentlemen who had
hitherto been expected to support their measures without
being admitted into their counsels.
Thus, like so many other political affairs in this free and
constitutional country, the great "faction fight" has ended
in a compromise. No one who really has at heart the
dignity of the house, the welfare of the country, and the
safety of India, can regret the result. The question had
long transcended the narrow limits within which the
literal terms of Mr. Cardwell's motion would have con-
fined it. • It had become a question, as Sir James Graham
put it in his admirable speech, between a policy of confis-
cation for India and a policy of amnesty. After the re-
ceipt of Sir James Outram's remonstrance, it had become
utterly impossible for any honest supporter of Loud
Palmerston to vote the substantial approval of the policy
which that remonstrance condemned. Hence the protest
before which the noble lord, however reluctantly, was

compelled to give way. No doubt there may have. been
other and lower feelings at work : their influence, indeed,
was more than sufficiently betrayed by one or two of the
Palmerstonian revolters. But, on the whole, it is only
fair to admit that the house was_ mainly actuated by
higher and more dignified impulses. The country, whose
instinctive good sense and just feeling revolted from the
notion of making the destinies of India turn on the con-
flicts of party, will rejoice at the result. The Liberal
party must feel well satisfied at having escaped the neces-
sity of going to the hustings on a false issue. The leaders
of the. Liberal party ought to learn wisdom from the event.
The great need of the party is harmony and re•censolida-
tion. These ends are better to be se,:ured by extending the
basis of confidence and the scope of logislaiive effort, than
by devising dexterous motions which involve either ❑o
principle at all, or none which honest and intelligent
Liberals can consistently support.