The Sun.
London, England, 1867-05-27 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAWIENT

HOUSE OF LORDS--Tilts EVENING.
The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack at
five o'clock.

PRIVATE BUSINESS.
The Plymouth Corporation Water and Weymyouth Con-
sumers Gas Bills were read a second time; the Salford
Borough and Herno Bay Water Bills were read a third
time.

THE CONVICT BURKE.
Lord CLARENDON said he hoped that in asking a
question in relation to the convict Burke, the most strin-
gent investigation had been made in the matter possible;
and after the announcement that had been made on
day
-
day last by the Noble Earl opposite, that, through a depu-
tation which had waited upon his Lordship, that the
Council would reconsider their decision, he (the
Noble Earl trusted that the greatest consiuer-
ation had again been exercised to ascertain if possible
whether his life could be spared or not.
Lord DERBY said that no one could conceive the deep
responsibility which rested upon those who had the duty
of advising her. Majesty to exercise her preroga-
tive of mercy or not than he did. It was the
responsibility that should decide the life an s
on d death of
nes-
a
fellow-creature, and deeply had they felt thi Wed
day last on looking into all the circumno standcoe otherwise
s, and were
deeply grieved that they couldt
than advise her Majesty that the sentence of death
should be carried out against the convict Burke.
But since that period they had baen convinced by repre-
sentations from the highest quarters,which representations
deserved the highest respect, that the feeling of the whole
country was that mercy should be extended, and
therefore they had advised her Majesty to exercise her
royal prerogative of mercy, and her Majesty had
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fore, be spared. But he (the noble earl) must ask their
lordships to remember that this was no rebellion in which
the feelings of party might be concerned, but an attempt
by misguided people to upset the peace and order of a
whole people, and to retard in all probabilty the pr press
of Irland for a long period. Under those circumstances
the offences of Burke were of the highest class,
and deserved most fully the punishment awarded
to them. However, they (the Government) had
concluded to exercise mercy, and if they hid erred it was
on the side of leniency. Ho trusted that the warm-
hearted feeling of the Irish nation would appreciate the
concession. (Hear, hear.)

A NOBLE LORD said That would be the crowning act
of vengeance against the'inisguided Fenians.
THE ADMIRALTY, PROBATE, AND DIVORCE

COURTS.

On the motion of the Lord Chancellor for the third
reading of this bill,
Lord CRAN WORTH moved, according to notice, that it
be read this day six mouths. He considered that, although
he had the greatest respect for hin► as a judge, that
he had very light duties, inasmuch as he only sat eighteen
weeks in one year, and if this was contrasted with
the sittings of the Judges of the Common Law Courts
would be found that they sat twenty-four weeks in one
year besides circuits. He considered that under the circum-
stances, and looking at the facts dispassionately, there was
no case at all made for any in the Divorce Court. There
was therefore no reason for the creation of new judges,
and in his (the noble lord's) opinion such creation was a
positive evil. He proposed to show their lordships that
the present staff of judges was quite safficient. The
sittings in term occupied 13 weeks, and during that time
four judges sat iu each Court—now he having been in one
of those Courts himself was prepared to say that the
fourth judge was an injury. There were two judges sit-
ting on each side of the chief,. and the fourth judge was
quite outside, and therefore what good could he do ? By
some arrangements which might be made by the circuits
beginning earlier and other concurrent arrangements
judges might always be at disposal. Although it was the
duty of the country to provide adequate judicial strength,
still unrequired increase of strength should not beallowed.
He thought that the latter evil might be avoided if
they would consolidate the whole of the three
courts under discussion , into one equivalent to the
other common law courts. The Divorce and Probate wore
conducted on the same principles, and there was only a
slight difference in the Admiralty. His grounds for op-
posing the bill, therefore, was, that there was no cause
to make a new court, and that there was a sufficient
number of judges if further judicial assistance was re-

quired.
The LORD CHANCELLOR said that ho must say ho
thought that his learned and noble friend had taken a very
narrow view of all tho advantages that were to be ob-
tained by the scheme, and if ho had exercised his
candid mind upon the subject he would have thought
differently. The noblq lord then reviewed the whole of
tho circumstances which had led to the construction of
the Divorce and Probate Courts.
(LEFT SPEAKING.)

lIOUSE OF COMMONS.-THIS EVENING.

The SPEAXER took the chair at four o'clock.
THE TORNADO. _

Mr. GREGORY gave notice of his intention after Whit-
suntide to call the attention of the house to the affair of
the Tornado and Victoria.
SITTINGS OF THE HOUSE.
In reply to Mr. B. COCHRANE,
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said the
privileges of private members would not be interfered with
in the event of the motion which he intended to make
with respect to the alteration of the time of morning sit-
co
tins. The discussion of the noces of motion would
commence on Tuesday and Fridayti at nine, instead of six
o'clock in the evening.
BOUNDARIES OF BOROUGHS.

In reply to Mr. BUTLER,
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said the
formal arrangements of boroughs would entirely depend
upon the decision of the Boundary Commissioners.
SCURVY IN THE MERCANTILE NAVY. 1
In reply to Mr. Alderman SALODIONS,
Mr. CAVE said scurvy bad disappeared from the navy
in consequence of the use of lime juice and vegetables;
and as there were certain defects in the law with respect
to the carrying mid storing of lime juice, steps would be
taken to remedy that evil.
THE FENIAN CONVICT BURKE.

In reply to The O'DoxoGauE,-
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said her
Majesty's Ministers had, after the most anxious inquiry,
come to the conclusion that it would not be their duty to
interfere with the sentence of the law with respect to the
convict Burke, who was found guilty of high trea-
son. But within the last few days a divided opinion
had become apparent, and the Government felt
that the deterring effect of carrying that sentence
into effect could not be attained in the face of that divided
opinion. Her Majesty had been most graciously pleased,
on the recommendation of her Ministers, to express her
will that the capital sentence on the convict Burke should
be remitted. (Loud cries of " Hear, hear.") He hoped
her Majesty would never have to repent that most gra-
cious act of clemency, and that it might be looked back to
with perfect and complete satisfaction.
MORNING SITTINGS.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER moved the
suspension of the standing orders with the view of moving
that the house for the future would commence its sittings
on Tuesdays and Fridays at two o'clock in the c
business
afternoon
and continuo until seven o'clock. That publi
would at that hour be suspended, and resumed again at
nine o'clock.
Mr. BOUVERIE moved, as an a.mendment, that the
morning sittings, as proposed by the Chancellor of the
Exchequer, should, by way of experiment, be confined to
the ensuing month of June.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said lie had
no desire to oppose the amendment of the
permissive and
might be altered in a week, he did nut think it was neces-
sary to alter it.
The amendment of Mr. Bouverie, however, was ulti-
mately agreed to.
THE REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL.
The house went iuto committee on this bill.
Tho CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said he
would make a few observations with respect to a subject
on which there appeared some misunderstanding. In
laying the resolution he had done on the table with
respect to the compound householder, he thought the
Government were in that resolution embodying the
proposition of the hon. member for Newar whi
bech
stated that no person other than the occupier should
rated, and also that they had embraced in the rider which
the hon. member for Pomfret had thought it was desirable
to make to the proposition of the hon. member for Newark.
The direction given to the person who drew up the clause
was to embody such a clause as would fulfil to the
very letter and spirit the proposal of the hon. member
for Newark. He was surprised that it should have been
said that the Government had in what they had done
sought to deceive and entrap the house into a step which
it was most desirable should not be taken. The clause
that had been brought forward by the Government with
the view of fulfilling an engagement made with the House
Of Commons originating with the proposition of the hon.
member for Newark. The policy before tho house was the
policy of the House of Commons, and not that of her Ma-
jesty's Governmont. If the house did not app
rovo of the
propositions of the hon. minibers fiir Newark, Pomfret, and
South Lancashire, the house objected to their policy, and
not the policy of her Majesty's Government. With re-
spoct to the county franchise, tho Government could
not adopt the proposition of the bonourabio mem-
ber for Bridgewater ; and in the adoption of £l5 as the
qualification for the county franchise, the Government only
adopted that figure because they thought it gave a real
and substantial basis for resting such qualification. With
respect to the proposition of the hon. member for Kent, a
£l2 county qualification, the Government feeling that it
was desirable that mutual concession would only enable
them to make a good and efficient measure would if it was
consistent with the general feeling offer it no opposition.
(Hoar, hear.)
Mr. HODGKINSON and Mr. CHILDERS each de-
fended the propositions they had brought forward.
Mr. GLADSTONE said he did not think any charge
of breach of faith could be brought against the right hon.
gentleman. He understood that the provision accepted by the
Government was the proposal of the hon. member for New-
ark without any regard to the rider, as it had been called by
the hon. member for Pomfret. He hoped that some pro -
posal would be made which would relieve them from the
difficult question of the compound householder—(hear,
hear); and that, he thought, could only be effected by
separating the matter of compounding altogether from the
franchise.
The Committee then proceeded to the consideration of
clause 4.

[LYST SITTING. I

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

(By Electric Tplegraph.)
GRAVESEND, Monday Morning.
Arrived, May 26.—Emerald, from Savannah; John
Snell, from Rotterdam; William Penn, steamer, from
New York; Kent, from Melbourne; Petrel, steamer, from
Boulogne ; Thebucto, from Jamaica ; Druid, steamer
from Gothenburg.
Arrived, May 27.—Princess Royal, steamer, from Ham-
burg; North Star, steamer, from Christiania; FultoE,
steamer, from Dunkirk; Dolphin, steamer, from Antwerp;
Napoleon, from Gravelines ; Yorkshire, steamer, from
Lisbon.
Sailed, May 27.—Concordia, steamer, for Boulogne.
DEAL, Monday Morning.
Pased, May 26.—Hippolyte, for Ascension; Mary, for
Tobago ; James Holmes, for Barbados—all of London.
Anchored.—Dundee, from London, for Jamaica.
Passed— Esk, steamer, from Guernsey, for London.

Tho Earl of Wilton entertained the following guests at
his mansion in Grosvenor-square—viz., Marquis of Hast-
ings, Earl of Westmoreland, Earl of Winchilsea, Earl of
Coventry, Earl of Glasgow, Earl of Strafford, Earl
Annesley, Earl of Bradford, Viscount Canterliury, Vis-
count Exmouth, Viscount Andover, Lord Bateman, Baron
Meyer do Rothschild, Hon. Admiral Roes, Right Hon.
General Pee), Sir Frederick Johnstone, Sir Joseph Hawley,
Sir Henry des Vceux, Hon. Frederick Calthorpe, Hon.
hungh m
iHenry Forester, Mr. H. Savile, Mr. Crawford, Mr. 11.
Chaplin, Mr. W. G. Craven, and Mr. Cl. Payne.
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Society was held at Cooper's Institute, at New h
Monday afternoon; May 6. The receipts of the last year
were s2seven
58,000, and for the first .
year $145,000. Larger average months of this fiscal
monthly receipts•
needed for the • • will be
remaining five
the association among ~, months. The teachers of
the freedmen number 170, and the
appropriations scholars over 38,000, and the
and clothing for the past year in money
were more than one-third of
a million dollars. The whole number of teachers in day
schools for the freedmen is 4
scholars in the day schools is '28,909. The number of
scholars in the
95, and the number of
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38,000
scholars. Tho average attendance
049914 is 18)010.