The Sun.
London, England, 1858-06-02 00:00:00

BANKRUPTS.

Thomas Bull, grocer, Hambledon, Southamptonshire, to
surrender June 14, at one, and July 19, at eleven, at the
Court of Bankruptcy.
Thomas Flynn, cheesemonger, Farringdon-street, City,
June 11, at half-past twelve, and July 13, at eleven, at
the Court of Bankruptcy.
George Cheetham Bayley and James Bayley, cotton
spinners, Staleybridge, Cheshire, Juno 17 and July 2, at
twelve, at the Manchester District Court.
Thomas Robinson, juo., jeweller, Sheffield, June 19,
and July 10, at ten, at the Council-hall, Sheffield.
John. Jones, beerhouse-keeper, Aberavon, Glqmorgan-
shire, June 14, and July 13, at eleven, at the Bristol Dis-
trict Court.

Benjamin Berresford, stonemason, Belper, Derbyshire,
June 17, and July 6, at eleven, at the Birmingham Dis-
trict Court.

Thomas Thornicraft, coal merchant, Leicester, June 22,
and July 13, at half-past ten, at the-Birmingham District
Court.
James Way, grocer, Oxrord-street, June 11 and July 15,
at half-past eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
William Cotton, beer retailer, Bear-street, Leicester-
square, June 15 at half-past one, and July 13, at twelve, at
the Court of Bankruptcy.
Edward Msrtin, fustian merchant, Manchester, June 12
sad July 2, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court.

SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.
David Kay, writer, Kilmarnock, Ayrshire.
Andrew Spence, jun., shipowner, Broughty Ferry, near
Dundee.

COURSE OF EXCHANGE.---YESTERDAY.
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NEW STEAMSHIP FOR THE PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL
COMPANY.--This powerful company have added another
fine ship to their fleet, named the Salsette, which ar-
rived at Southampton yesterday from the Clyde, under
the command of Captain Brown, having accom-
plished the passage in forty-aix hours. She is a sis-
ter ship to the Benares, of the same size, tonnage,
and power. There are now lying in the Southampton
Docks three new ships belonging to this company, viz.,
the Benares, Northam, and Salsette. The former ship
has been a voyage to Alexandria, and has proved herself
a good sea boat of first-class speed. She willshortly leave
for India. The Northam, which was built by Messrs.
Summers and Day, of Northam, near Southampton, is
just being finished, and will take her trial trip on Mon-
day
next. Sbe is a beautiful model of a ship, and it is
expected will attain a high rate of speed. The Salsette
will go a voyage or two to Alexandria previous to
and
departure for India. She was built by. Messrs.
M'Gregor, of Glasgow.

MILITARY DEPARTMEANTS,

(From the Times )

If the best institutions are not made, but grow,
then is England certainly a f ,rtuoate c,.:untry. The
British Constitution is founded on the negation of
abstract rights. It has been decided many a time
that, apart from custom or positive enactment, no
principle or doctrine has a claim on the acquiescence
of the country. People seem determined. to resist
the intolerable domination of logic. We have a
Chancellor of the Exchequer who is in some way
connected with the Court of that namo, who
is sworn in, takei his seat, and calls on- cciunsel,
to move,. but whose real duties would cause
him to be styled in any other c untry the
Minister of Pinang. We have the leading states-
men of the Cabinet merely invested with the
dignity of one of the Commissioners for executing
tie diAuFed office of Lord High Treasurer, and fir
lower in nominal rank then many of his own sub-
ordinates. The office of Lord High Admiral, hke
that of Treasurer, is always in c )rumision. In
fact, as the power of tie Crown has become inert,
and that of the Lords spasmodic, while the
Common., with their humble addressee, are the
strong, steady, and resolute governors of the coun-
try, so the administrative world has been revo!u
tionised and authority has gradually fallen away
from ancient and lordly officers to men who in for-
mer days exercised functions little more important
than those of a clerk or accountant.

Well ! High Treasurer and High Admiral are
gone ; Lord Chancellor has been sadly pared of Lis
dignity ; their Graces the Archbishops have been
made stipendiaries. Why should not Commander-
in-Chief undergo the common fate ? Captain
Vivian's resolution, that, t 3 promote greater effi-
ctency in the military departments, " the Horse
Guards and War-office sh .uld be placed under
the control of one responsible Minister," has been
carried against the Government, and, indeed,
against Principalities and Powers, and the rulers
of this world generally, by a majority of two.
Independent Liberalism gave the aristocratic
and military circles a heavy blow in the matter
of the admission to Woolwich, but that was
noViieg to the portentous decision of last night.
It has been affirmed by the House of Commons
that it is desirable the administration of any miliet
-tarty affairs by a great officer responsible to' the
Crown alone, and not immediately amenable to
Parliament, shall cease. It is impossible to over-
rate the importance of this decision. It strikes at
the heart of usages which havegrown upend become
so entwined with our military system as to seem to
most men absolutely inseparable from it. In the
array, and perhapsin higher qu utters, we shall hear of
no little alarm, indignation, and complaint. The
diatribes against popular clamour, civilian inter f -
ranee, and Parliamentary usurpation, will echo in
clubs and drawing-rooms as loudly as when the
break down at Sebastopol was asserted to be the
invention of " a ribald press." Surprise, vexation,
and offended pride will be the feeling excited in a
still higher and narrower circle. That every at
tempt will be made to neutralise the resolution of
the house and defeat its consequences need not
be said. such a fabric as the irresponsible
and extra-Parliamentary direction of 130,000
men, and the disposal of the most valued and
coveted social distinctions, will not be over-
thrown without a struggle. The House of Cora
mons, if it wishes to gain any solid advantage,
must follow up its hard-won victory.
Our own opinions on thin important question
may be easily anticipated. Bath the service we
have criticised, and the !Albite in whose name we
have spoken, will, we presume, do us the jus ice to
say that in these matters we have uttered no un-
certain sound. Long since, and not once, but re-
peatedly,
we have urged the House of Commons to
assume to itself that authority over the defences of
the country which it has a mor d right to exercise.
From no short or cursory observation we have
been confirmed in the belief that only by such a
course can the evils which still infest the system
be driven out, and that unity, strengtl9, and
activity induced which the critical state of Europe
demands. Now, what at present is the relation of
the house to the two servicss ? The House of
Commons is asked yearly to vote a sum exceeding
30,009,000/. sterling for the maintenance of the
army and navy. Over both these great divisions of
the national force it is needless to sty that a proper
control should be exeicised. To support them taxes
all the energies of this indomitable people, and there
are not wanting those who assert, and with no little
show of truth, that already the pressure is more
than can be safely borne. But an efficient army
and navy the country w,ll have, at any sacrifice,
and it is the duty of those who are intrusted wi .11
power to promote that efficiency by every means.
But what authority is there in the country fit to
take the matter in hand ? The services belong
nominally to the Crown, but. we know that the
Crown is but another name for the irresponsible
action of a few professional chiefs, and Will be
used to cover every delinquency of the barrack
and every intrigue of the Palace. The House of
Lords is, from its want of sympathy with re-
form, and its general unearnestness and Mat-
tention to business, unfitted for the exercise of a
beneficial control. There remains but the House
of Commons, which must evidently le-come more
and more the practical supervisor of the nati anal
forces. Now, at present one branch—the Navy
—is administered by a Cabinet Minister who is
generally a member of the House of Commons.
Tee advantages to the service from this arrange-
ment have been great and numerous. The control
of the Cabinet has been more complete, and, as a
Government is for the most part composed of
independent and high-spirited wen, the navy has
been rescued from improper interferences, which a
more courtier-like rule, without the fear of Parlia-
ment before its eyes, might have alloweA to op-
' rate. On the other hand, the navy has always ob-
tained its full share of financial support from
having for its chief a colleague of the Chancellor of
the Exchequer, and from being losked on with a
more favourable eye by the economisn of Parlia-
ment. What has been done for the navy it is but
fair to demand for the army. At present the
Secretary for War is only partially iu authority.
No one can define his power or his responsibility.
The former may be arrogated when there is a point
to carry ; the letter may be denied when there is
a blunder to escape from. Indeed, the sys em has
all the disadvantages without any of the ben fits
of a double government. Ech department may
hind r the other, or quarrel with the other, or
shift responsibility on the other; but there is
hardly a point where it can operate as an
efficient check. General Peel stated that be
knew his duties, and where they ended ; and then
he went on to say that "the coo mind, discipline,
avid patronage of the army were controlled by
the Crown through the Commauder-in-Ch'ef."
So that with regard to the command, discipline,
and patronage of the vast fore.) which we are
creating in these islands, we are told on authority
that tl ey are totally withdrawn from the c )ntrol
of Parliament or of her Majesty's Ministers ; that
they are vested in an officer whom the Court may
appoint and continue at his post through all changes
of Administration, and who is not bound to recog-
nize the authority of the Secretary for War at
all. Is Parliament, are the public, prepa.ed
to accept this doctrine ? Every other depart-
ment of the State has been subordinated to
those advisers whom the Queen selects as represent-
ing
most closely the opinions of Parliameat. The
Premier recommends Bishops and Deans for
appointment ; the Chancellor advises the Crown
as to who shall have a vacant seat in Westminster-
ball ; the Colonial Secretary is intrusted with
the selection of Governors for our dependencies,
and so on. Furthermore, in analogy wi h this rule,
the First Lord of the Admiralty dispen. es the
patronage and watches over the discipline of the
Navy. All these personages are memhers of the
Cabinet, and directly responsible to the Parliament
in which they have seats. They may be called on
at any time to defend an act of questionable pro-
priety. But if the theory of General Peel be
accepted,—if it be true that the Crown may
appoint a Prince of the Blosd, and give him the
" command, patronage, and discipline of the Army,
with complete immunity from all Parliamentary
interference, it is difficult to say in what respect
this country differs from the military monarchies
of the Continent. In old times, when there wasp()
standing army, or a very small one, the bounds of
prerogative might be less strictly defined, arid the
Crown be intrusted with the power which is now
arrogated. But now that the British army is a
very large and powerful force, it seems to us the
duty of the Legislature to determine more accu-
rately the position of its Chief, and to bring him
under that constitutional control to whichte
_every
other functionary has
in
his thrnsubmit
tdo lt
may be thought that we are °
alluding
statesmen have to
im-
probable eventualities, but still
provide for improbable eventualities. The ques-
tion whether the army shall be sll a force constitu-
tionally governed is one
lindi ependnot withent of indithe
vi-
duals, and we ought. to egslate,
character of any particular personage before our
eyes, but with a view to the permanent settlement
of a great question. True, then, to our principle,
I that the House of Commmins should assert a more
immediate and active control over the national
I forces, we cannot but rejoice that the resolution
of Capt. Vivian last night met with its approval.

THE LATE CAPT. SIR W. PEEL.-012 Monday muffled
peals were rung at the parish church of Bury, on the
tidings reaching that town of the death of Capt. Sir W.
Peel, who died on the 27th April at CawLpore, of small-

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS.—(YESTERDAY.)
The LORD CHANCELLOR took Lis seat on the woolsack
at 5 o'clock.

LORD CANNING.
Earl GRANVILLE said it would no doubt be in
recollection that in the debate on the Oude pro-
clamation, the noble earl at the head of her Ma-
jesty's Government expressed with great warmth his
respect for Lord Canning. Their lordships were doubtless
aware that, at the end of a protracted debate in another
place, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, amidst loud
cheers, made the announcement that a telegraphic de-
spate!: had been sent to L rrd Conning expres ing that,
in the present state of difficulties, he would receive the
support of the Government. Language bad also been
used during the debate by other members of the Govern-
ment, though not members tot the dabrnet, which created
the impression that Lord Canning would not receive
much support. He might corn) lain of the language cf the
Chancellor of the Exchequer in apost-prandial speech,
which would form the subject of discussion that evening;
but he congratulated the noble earl on the choice he had
wade in the successor to the noble earl who had lately
retired horn the Board of Control. (Hear, hear.)
He (Earl Grauvlih) thought it but air, if such
promise of support to Lord Canning bad been despatched
it should at least be made public. It would be of the
greatest importance that such an intimation was made
known in India. The question which he wished to ark
way, whether there woulrilhe any objection to produce
the communication alluded to by the Chancellor of the
Exchequer, and also whether there would be any °Ejec-
tion to produce at the same tulle copies of the votes of
c infidence agreed to by the Court cf Directors of the
East Tndia CompAnv on the policy of Lord Canning ?
The Earl of DERBY said, with regard to the tendered
support of the Government to Lord Canning, it had not
been offered for the first time on the occasion spoken to
by the noble earl. It the noble earl would refer to the
despatch sent to India on the 24th March, he would find
it laid down distinctly that in the event of Lord Can-
ning pursuing the course of policy then entered upon,
he should receive the support of her Majesty's Govern-
m• ht. (hear, hear, hear.) The proclamation of Lord
Canning was disapproved of Eby the Government
because it was thought to be in opposition
to his f ironer pot cy. The only communication which
had taken place with r, ference to the promised support
of the Gover ment was contained in a telegraphic mes-
sage which be (Lord Derby) had- despatched as a per-
sonal communication, on the resignation cf the
noble earl (E trl of Eilenborough), which was
sent off on the 12th, to overtake the mail of the
' 10th of last month.. As the—communication wax
of a privat- charactei., he did not think it would be pos-
sible to lay it before their lordships, but with respect to
the production of the votes of confidence of the Court
of Directors to Lord Canning he had not the slightest
objictiot', and that document had been laid on the table
of the other house last night.
SECOND READINGS.
On the moti in of Lord REDESDALE the following
bills were read a second time :—Stearnes Charities,
Hailstone Gas ; E irl of Fife's Estate Manchester,
Hyde, and Motteraw Roads; Metropolitan Board of
Works; Liverpool Approache-, ; Besselsleigh Road, and
Ware, Hadham, and Buntii ,rd Railway.
THIRD READINGS.

On the motion of the tame noble lord, the following
Lolls were read a third time and passed :—Vamthall-
bridge Road, Staffard,hire Potteries Gas, Sufferance
Wharves, St,ke Fenton and L'tngton Gas.
THE EARLDONI OF SHREWSBURY.
Lord REDESDALE brought up the report of the
Committee of Privileges, who had come to the conclu-
sion :that Henry John Chetwill, Earl of Talbot, had
trade out his title to the Earldom of Shrewsbury.
(Hear, hear.)
Lord CAMPBELL said he eneirely agreed with the
result the committee had arrived at. (Hear, hear.)
The report was ordered to be laid up n the table.
MR. DISR,AELI'S SPEECH.

The Earl of CLA.RENDON than rose, to call the at-
tenticn f their lordships to t! e speech recently delivered
by the Chancellor of the Exchequer at Slough. He
should not have felt cor.e rained to take notice of this
speech if it merely c ,ntained the opinions of the right
hon. gentleman, expressed at a meeting for the amuse-
ment of some holiday friends ; but grave charges were
contained in that speech, which ought to receive duoi-
dati n, and there were observations in it which ought to
ho cleared up. He should confine himself to Mr.
Disrae i's observations upon our foreign policy. The first
remark of the right hon. gentleman had reference to the
imminence of war when the late Government
_went out
o? office. Mire was not a particle of truth in the state-
tercet, and he (Lord Clarendon) in his place in Parlia-
ment gave it a flat contradiction. (Hear.) The right
bon. gentleman was in possession of official documents
wh.oh must have made him cognisant of the real facts
of the case. It was due to his late colleague to deny the
allegation of Mr. Disraeli ; it was equally duo to the
Ernie:or cf the French to rebut them. (Hear, hear.)
Up tr the moment when the late Government left office
our relation., with France were of the most intimate and
confidential kind. (Hear.) Oa le ,eing office, he:(Lord
Clarendon) had placed every paper.itt his possession in
the hand, of the Earl cf Malweebury. He was careless
wnat the right Lon. gentleman might say in London,
but bad certainly been curious to know what effect his
observations in the country might have on the public
mind. It appeared, however, that after his Speech at
:_,lough neither had prices risen, nor had there been a
panic. (oe, and a laugh.)
The Eirl of DERBY...You mean that prices had not
fell n. (Hear, hear )
Tne Berl efaCLARENDON—Yes. (Hear, hear, and
laughter.) Oe Friday night Mr. Disraeli renewed his in-
siutratiou with regard to the imputed imminence of war,
when be said that if Lord J. Russell had consulted Lord
Palmerston and not Lord Clarendon, he would have had
light thrown apoe the sulject. (Hear) Mr. Dirsaeli also
asserted that shortly before the late Government went
out the French ambassador bad ominously left this coun-
try. (Hear) The fact was that M. Persigny had for some
rinse had lesve of absence, but hart not availed himself of
the covye until the last moment. But he (Lord Claren-
don) was not quite sure that when Count Persiguy did
leave be Lad not receive 1 assurances from the new Gc-
vernment, which bad not subsequently been fulfilled.
These statements of Mr. Disraeli were made in the ab-
sence of Lord Palmerston. Last night Lord Palmerston
attendee in his place, when Mr. Disraeli admitted that
when the late Government went out, war was not immi-
nent. (Hear, and a laugh.) The Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer spoke of the " base and truckling policy " of
tne la .e Government with regard to France, audalthough
he (Lerd Clarendot) was desirous to let bygones be by-
genes, he could not allow this aepersioia to go forth un-
coetraelieted. But be would first emphatically deny
tha the Conspiracy Bid had been brought in in obedience
to foreign dictation. (Hear ) On the very first night of
the se. Ilion the Far: of Derby bad alluded to the neces-
sity of eume measure for checking the hatching of con-
spiracies to assassination. The bill brought in by the
Government fell sh.,rt rather than exceeded the stria-
geriey of the measure suggested by the noble earl. (Hear.)
It curbed no liberties, and in no way trenched upon the
rigLts of asylum. Moreover, it receive) the support of
Mr. Disraeli. Besides, the Emperor of the French had
distiectly stated that no a ffsuce Was intended by Count
‘V ale w ski 's deep& te b,an
and i t could
Countnot cv
thereforeauur who lee said.had
hat 'We acted under dictation.
been ref, rred to by genie newspapers in this country sup-
porting th present
Government, as a more liberal Minis-
ter that himself (Lord Clarencion`,`ook precisely the earns
view r f the necessity of replying to the despatch as the
late Government, and had made a verbal reply to the
circular sent to the Sardinian Government. (Hear.) The
vote which had turned out the late Government might
really have been charged upon a " cabal," but it was ac-
cepted by the late Government as the decision of the
House of Commons. Mr. Disraeli had spoken in terms
of exultation for the premptitude with which the present
Government had procured the release of the two engi-
neers, Watt and Park. He (Lord Clarendou) did not
wish at all to detract from the merits of the present Ad-
ministrat en in thee re lea, but it should t e remembered
that the new Government had a status from which to
remonstrate, which the late Administration had not,
owing to the true facts of the case not having transpired
before the change of Government. He entirely denied,
however, that these men,. although not released, bad
een neglected. (Hear.) Had the matter been so ate
ranged that we could go with impunity into the Nesse
p waters ?

The Earl of M...ALMESBURY—With perfect safety.
(Hear )
The Earl of CLARENDON—But the song of triumph
of Mr. Disrat li ought to have b3en postponed, however,.
nail it had been ascertained that the liing of Naples
consented to the arbitration proposed. He had been
uuable to find, from any source, who were those dark
intriguers referred to in the:speech of the right hon. gen-
t:eman at Slough, and if that statement were not a
romance like the rest of his speech, he (Lord Clarendon)
exiled upon the noble lord opposite to state who those
intril 'tiers were that her Majesty's late Government had
been and still were in league with to inconvenience her
Majesty's present Government. (dear ) The most re-
pugnant to every Englishman aid that generous and
gt ntlemaoly spirit that should animate every servaat of
tht, Quern, was the manner in which therighthon.dge
dn-
onee had spoken of Lord Canning's policy in loia_
(„3,-)—as one always of massacre and confiscation, in
opposition to discriminate amnesty, awl in which the
right boo. gentleman led the people of England to sup-
pose that it was left to her Majesty's present Govern-
ment to propose and enforce a discriminating amnesty
with reference to the people of and that within
Commons.
instanceca Clarendon)
nd the
four days after the receipt of Lord Canning's explana-
tory despatch, the right honourable gentleman expressed
confidence in him in the House of
owohmopleareanwniatlhs
it. (Hear,
(haisetoarry,
hheaer.k)neHweof(Lioiord
considered there was nothing more mischievous the
pearsconstant 11-publication a
tnos
re-publications,
peace of India than theft'
front going
of •
variouseor e
t despatch,edi tions and
which,in as
ow ofraere the unfortunate
sas a message of peace and conaciltiatifon
000
could
dut
onlyto Indiahave
the contrary effect in, every India. The noble
lord then referred to thatpartofr
verntnent had met with statedthe
hon. gentleman whichthe speechofthe
right
that
approvalthe policyof
tho ofp people
eG
oo
f
England and the admiration of Europe ; and, in the
course of his remarks, took occasion to dissent from
the statement, and passed on to that part of the speech
which stated that for the first time since the days of
Cha lee I. there exised a c3.Eal which hadnootherobject
but to upset her Majesty's Government, and to obtain
their ends in a manner the most reckless and deter-
mined. (Hear, hear.) He (the Earl of Clarendon) con-
sidered it a most astounding statement, and lest it might
be supposed to refer to him, he stated to the house that
he had obtained his information by the most constitu-
tional means, and whenever he had received any letter*