The Sun.
London, England, 1859-02-14 00:00:00

RIGHT OF SEARCH.

Lord WODEHOUSE asked the Secretary of State for
Foreign Affairs whether the would lay on the table of the
house, copies of the recent correspondence between her
Majesty's Government and the Government of the United
States respecting the right of search ? The noble lord hav-
ing alluded to the unpleasant feeling that arose last year
between this country and the United States relative to the
right of search exercised by British cruisers over vessels on
the high seas, said, from a correspondence that had
ensued, the question had been left in a very unsatisfactory
condition, notwithstanding that the noble earl at the head
of the Foreign-office had adopted the principles laid down
by General Cass. He thought it was of the highest im-
portance that the correspondence between this country and
the United States should be laid on the table, in order that
the true state of affairs might be known.
The Earl of MALMESBYRY said he had not the least
objection to lay the whole of the correspondence on the
table. He thought that his noble friend had postponed his
remarks until after the papers had been produced he
would have exercised a wise discretion. The noble earl
appeared to think that he had surrendered some very im-
portant British right, but he assured them that was not
the case. The position of affairs differed very much from
those that existed five and forty years ago, for at that pe-
riod the British navy had only emerged from a lengthened
war, and was the only police of the world. During this
period a variety of customs grew up to which the country
had no positive right, and the only point on which the
complained was simply the relinquishments of one of those
unjust claims. In the note he had received from General
Cass he believed the true interpretation of the international
law he had given. The whole question would be fully con-
sidered, and the Government having submitted their views
to the French Government, the two Governments had
agreed to a coda which had been submitted to the Ameri-
can Government for their co-operation, and he had
no reason to be dissatisfied with the course he had adopted.
If it appeared that he had surrendered a right, and a very
exaggerated one it was, because he thought the time was
come when the fullest confidence should be placed upon the
American Government, and the best proof that he had
not been mistaken in the course he had adopted as to the
spirit in which the American Government had acted up to
the present time in their endeavours to put an end to the
slave trade. All that was wanted to bring the subject to
a consummation was peace, and if such should happily pre-
vail for a few years the slave trade would be utterly ex-
tinguished.
After a few remarks from several noble lords,
The Earl of DERBY said it was not contended for a
single moment that this or any other country had a right
to board the ship of another country, but no one denied the
right of any country in a case of well-founded suspicion to
ascertain the nationality of the vessel. The great difficulty
was to avoid the complication which might be occasioned
by a zealous naval officer in endeavouring to ascertain
the nationality of a ship, and all that the Government had
done had been to frame a code of laws calculated to pre-
vent a difficulty in future.
After a few words from Lord BROUGHAM, the subject
dropped.
LAW OF PROPERTY AND TRUSTEES' RELIEF

AMENDMENT BILL.
The report of the amendments on this bill was received.
[LEFT SITTING.)
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HOUSE OF COMMONS—(Tms EVENING).
The SPEAKER took the chair at four o'clock.

PRIVATE BUSINESS.

Several private bills were read a first time, and ordered '
for second reading. The following bills were read a second
time, and ordered to be committed :
Banff, Macduff, and Turriff Junction Railway ; Becken-
ham and Sydenham Junction Railway ; Bedford, Potton,
and Cambridge Railway; Birkenhead, Lancashire, and
Cheshire Junction Railway; Birmingham, Erdington, and
Sutton Coldfield Railway; Birmingham, Erdington, and
Sutton Coldfield Railway (Western Line) ; Blackburn and
Preston Road and Bridge ; Border Counties Railway ;
Border Union (North British) Railways ; Bradford, Wake-
field, and Leeds Railway; Breconshire Railway and Canal
(Nos. 1 and 2) ; Bridport Railway ; Burton-upon-Trent
Bridge Caledonian Railway ; Carlisle and Penrith,
&c., Roads ; Carlisle, Langholm, and Hawick
Railway ; Carmarthen and Cardigan Railway ;
Castle Douglas and Dumfries Railway; Caterham Railway;
Central Wales Railway; Charleston Railway and Harbour;
Chichester Harbour Embankment ; City of London Union;
Cleveland Railway ; Colne Valley and Halstead Railway ;
Cork Butter Market ; Cork Harbour Reclamation ; Dart-
mouth and Torbay Railway ; Droitwich Roads • Dundee
and Newtyle Railway; Eastbourne Water; East Kent
Railway Company; East Suffolk Railway; Epping Rail-
ways ; Falmouth Docks and Harbour ; Findhorx Railway ;
Formartine and Buchan Railway ; Forth and Clyde Navi-
gation ; Gateshead Quay; Glasgow Corporation Water ;
Glasgow Public Parks and Galleries of Art; Great
Northern Railway ; Great North of Scotland Railway ;
Great Western and Brentford Railway; Great Western
Railway; Hampstead Junction Railway; Herne Bay and
Faversham Railway (Margate Extension) ; Hertford,
Luton, and Dunstable Railway ; Hinckley and Melbourne
Roads ; Isle of Wight Ferry ; Kensington Station and
North and South London Junction Railway ; Kingsbridge
and South Devon Railway ; King's Lynn Borough and
Port and Harbour Improvement • Kingston-upon-
Hull Docks ; Kingstown Water ; K irkwall Harbour;
Lancashire and Yorkshire and East Lancashire Railway
Companies ; Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway (Ossett and .
Dewsbury Branches)l;lLancashire and Yorkshire Railway
(Rochdale and Rovton Branches) ; Lancaster and Carlisle
Railway ; Lands provement Company ; Lawton, Burs-
lem and Newcastle-under-Lyme Roads ; Leatherhead end
Dorking Railway (Nos. 1 and 2) ; Leeds and Hunslet
Road ; Leeds, Bradford, and Halifax Junction Railway ;
Llanidloes and Newtown Railway ; Llanrwst and Abergele
Roads; London and North Western and other Railway
Companies (Working and Traffic Arrangements) ; London
and North Western Railway (Batley to Adwalton) ; Lon-
don 'and North Western Railway (Denton to Staley-
bridge) ; London and North Western Railway (Extension
to Ossett, &c.) ; London and South Western Railway;
London Bridge and Charing-cross Railway ; London,
Brighton, and South Coast Railway; Londonderry Bridge;
Ludlow Roads ; Malltraeth and Corsddaugau Marsh ;
Manchester, Liverpool, Swansea, and Milford Haven
Junction Railway ; Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire
Railway (Sale or Lease) ; Manchester, Sheffield, and
Lincolnshire Railway (Station at Manchester) ; Maybole
and Girvan Railway ; Mersey Docks and Harbour ; Mer-
thyr, Tredegar, and.Abergavenny Railway; Metropolitan
Railway (Deviations, &c.)-; Midland Railway; Mid-
Sussex and Midhurst .‘Junetion Railway ; Mountsorrel
Railway; Much Wenlocicand-Sevem Junction Railway;
North and South London Junction Railway; Nord' Bri-
tish and Selkirk and Galashiels Railway Companies ; North
Eastern Railway (Harrowgate Branches) • North Eastern
Railway (Nidd Valley Branch) ; North -Western Railway;
Norwich and Spalding Railway; Norwich (City) Water;
Norwood and Streatham Railway; Oldham, Ashton-under-
Lyne, and Guide Bridge Junction Railway (Contribution of
Funds, &c.) ; Oldham, Ashton-under-Lyne, and Guido
Bridge Junction Railway (Working of Line, . &c.);
Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Railway;
Perth, Kinross, and Fife Roads ; Poole and Bourne-
mouth Water; Portsmouth and London and South-
Western Railway Companies; Portsmouth New Docks;
and Railway ; Portsmouth Railway ; Reading and Hat-
field-road ; Richmond Improvement ; Salford Borough ;
Scottish Central Railway ; Shepton Mallet Water ; Silver-
dale and Newcastle-under-Lyme Railway; Sittingbourae
and Sheerness Railway (Additional Capital, &c.) ; Somer-
set Central Railway ; South Durham and Lancashire Union
Railway; South Staffordshire Railway; South Wales,
Pembroke, and Tenby Junctign Railway; South York-
shire and River Dun Company ; Stokes Bay Railway and
Pier : Sunderland and South Shields Water ; Swan-
age Railway and Pier ; Swansea- Vale Railway;
Tavistock Markets, Streets, and Improvement; Tenbury
Railway; Tendring Hundred Railway; Tweed FisheiLes
Vale of Llangollen Railway ; Vale of Neath Roirirrnrd
Victoria Station and Pimlico Railway' y 8
Putney Railway ; Warrington and Stetlkapnord wßailway
Wavency Valley Railway ; Wear NaTiga ion and Sunder-
land Docks ; Wells and Fakenham Railway West London
Railway ; Weston-super-Mare Improvement and Market;
Westminster Improvements ; Weymouth and Melcombe
Town;
Regis Markets and Pier ; Whitehaven Harbour and
Whitehaven Port, Harbour, and Town; Wimbledon and
Dorking and Epsom and Leatherhead
and Hereford
ead Railways ; Wirral
Water; Woolwich Exemption; Worcester
Railway ; and York Improvement.
INSURANCE AMALGAMATION BILL.
Mr. C. FORSTER moved that the order for the second
reading of the Travellers and Marine Insurance and Acci-
dental Death Insurance Companies Amalgamation Bill be
read a.iddischarged ; and also that leave be given to bring
in billa to " dissolve the Accidental Death Insurance Com-
p any, and to amalgamate the business of that company with
the Travellers and Marine Insurance Company, to be here-
after called The Accidental Death Insurance Company
to regulate the payment of stamp duties by the latter com-
pany, and for other purposes :"—That Capt. Lowther and
Mr. Steuart do prepare and bring in the bill.—Agreed to.
PETITIONS.

Several petitions were presented, praying for the repeal
of the duty on paper, and the discontinuance of the trade
11l opium.

DANUBIAN PRINCIPALITIES.

Mr. STAPLETON gave notice that he would put a
question to the Government on the subject of the state of
the Danubian Principalities.
PARLIAMENTARY REFORM.

The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER gave
notice that, on Monday, the 28th inst., he would
ask leave to bring in a bill to amend the laws re-
lating to the election of Members of Parliament for
England and Wales, and also for facilitating the
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elections.
PURCHASE AND SALE OF COMMISSIONS.
Sir DE L. EVANS asked the Secretary of State for War
with reference to the letter from Sir C. Trevelyan to Gen.
Peel, a copy of which was laid before Parliament in July,
1858, whether the statement therein proposed to be made, of
Sir Chas. Trevelyan's reasons for differing in some import-
ant respects from the report of the committee appointed by
Lord Paumure to examine the proposals submitted by him
to the Royal Commission on the purchase and sale a com-
missions in the army, had been received by the Secretary
of State for War, and, if so, when it will be laid before the
house ?
General PEEL said ho had received a communication
from Lord Paumure on the subject, which he would be
happy to lay on the table if it were moved for. With re-
the
to the second question, the Government considered
the report in question as private and confidential.
MILITARY HONOURS TO THE HOST AT MALTA.
Mr,
for the GRIFFITII asked the Secretary a state

' Colonies, whether any order emanating from any authority
at home or at Malta was in existence, requiring the troops
of the garrison to salute the Host , or whether there was
any such order to salute the Archbishop of Malta, or any
other Roman Catholic dignitary, by the operation of which
such salute was rendered to him while carrying or accom-
panying the Host in public procession ?
Sir E. B. LYTTON said that there was no such order
as that referred to in existence emanating from this coun-
try. There certainly was an order from Lord Hill ; but
there was nothing whatever in practice further than what
was calculated to afford that protection to the Roman Ca-
tholic religion which was stipulated for by the treaty under
the capitulation of Malta.
REPRESENTATION OF SCOTLAND.

Sir J. OGILVY asked the Lord Advocate whether he
was prepared to bring in a bill for amending the represen-
tation of the people of Scotland, and, if so, when ; and if he
was prepared to bring in a bill this session for sheriff court
accommodation in Scotland.

The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that
a bill on the subject was under the consideration of the
Government. (Hear, hear.)

DUTY ON FIRE INSURANCE, &c.
Mr. HADFIELD asked the Chancellor whether he In-
tended to propose measures this session for the reduction of
the duty on fire insurances, and for the revision and
amendment of the stamp acts, and the duties payable under
the same.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER begged
the hon. member to postpone his question until he had made
his financial statement. (A laugh.)
GOVERNMENT ADVERTISEMENTS.—THE NEW

COMMISSIONER IN LUNACY.
lir. G. CLIVE asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer
whether it was the rule to insert the Government advertise-
ments in those newspapers which enjoyed the most exten-
sive circulation, or, if not, what other rule was adopted.
He also wished for some information with reference to the
recent appointment by the Lord Chancellor of his relative
to the important office of Commissioner in Lunacy.
Sir W. JOLLIFFE suggested that it was irregular
to address the house on a question of which due notice had
not been given.
Mr. CLIVE said that, with a view to being in order, he
should move that the house at it rising do adjourn until
Thursday next. The duties of the office in question were
most important, and it was most essential that the party
selected to fill it should be duly qualified. The commis-
sioner received £2,000 a-year salary, and had a retiring
pension of £1,200. The gentleman who was appointed to
it had spent the greater part of his life as junior clerk in
the Colonial-office ; and though he was a member of the
bar, he had not practised his profession, and his appoint-
ment had given offence both to the bar and to the public,
who considered that his only qualification for the situation
was his relationship to the Lord Chancellor.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said, with
regard to the first question, that he knew very little
about the matter, but it was his opinion that too much of
the public money of the country was expended in these ad-
vertisements. With reference to the other question, the
hon. member had given no notice of it whatever, and,
though he might not have been able to place the question on
the paper, he might still have conveyed some notice to him
(the Chancellor of the Exchequer) or to some friend of the
Lord Chancellor, for whose ears it was no doubt intended,
and who would have been able to give an answer. That
was what he understood was the invariable practice of gen-
tlemen of that house. He knew nothing of the office alluded
to, and could not supply the hon. member with any infor-
mation on the subject at present.
Sir W. JOLIFFE said he would take that opportunity
of replying to the first question of the hon. member. It
was the practice to give the Government advertisements to
those papers which had the most extensive circulation.
The Treasury had to take into consideration what had
taken place in the newspaper stamp duty, but in the
selection which they made they were not influenced
by the political principles of the journals; and in the choice
they made they did not exclude the cheap press.

HIGHWAYS BILL.
This bill was read a second time, and ordered to be com-
mitted.

SALE OF POISONS BILL.
The second reading of this bill was postponed till Friday.
[LEFT SITTING.]

TATTERSALLS'-(THIS EVENING.)

For the Liverpool Steeplechase 10 to 1 was offered on the
field, and Weathercock and Tho Brewer were supported at
12 to 1 each. Drogheda was backed for nearly £3OO, at 1
to 1, odds that were not obtainable at the close. Electric
was in some demand at 100 to 6 and 16 to 1 for the Derby,
and Viking returned to 40 to 1. Closing prices :

LIVERPOOL STEEPLECHASE.
10 to 1 agst Jealousy (offered)
12 to 1 agst Weathercock (taken)
12 to 1 agst The Brewer (taken)
15 to 1 agst Little Charley (taken and offered
100 to 6 agst Jean du Quesne (taken)
33 to 1 agst Glautias (taken)
33 to 1 agst Claudius (taken)
CIIESTER CUP.
100 to 7 agst Drogheda (15 to 1 taken freely
25 to 1 agst Herne (taken and offered)
33 to 1 agst Satinstono (taken)
33 to 1 agst Polestar (taken)
40 to 1 agst Harraton (taken)
1000 to 15 agst Broadbrim (taken) •
NORTHAMPTONSHIRE STAKES.
100 to 8 agst Agnes (offered)
20 to 1 agst Blackthorn (taken)
TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS.
4to 1 agst Promised Land (taken and offere
DERBY.
16 to 1 agst Electric (taken)
30 to 1 agst Balnamoon (taken)
40 to 1 agst Viking (taken)
50 to 1 agst Enfield (taken)
1000 to 15 agst Marske (taken)
1000 to 10 agst Logic (taken)

NATURAL AND ARTIFICAL POLITICS

(From the Spectator.)

ITALY.—The obviously revolting element in this
Napoleonic policy is the affectation on the part of
the French Emperor of acting a beneficent Provi-
dence to Italy. England and most of Europe world
heartily approve a determined effort on the part of
France to redeem the false step taken by the Re-
public in sending troops to Rome ; and to prevent
any attempt of Austria's to take advantage of that
step. But there is nothing which justly disgusts
us more than the attempt to build up a far•reaching
speculative system of theoretic policy on the foun-
dation of one obvious and clearly defined duty ; and
this, too, quite apart from the consideration whether
the large and theoretic policy is honest or dis-
honest, sincere or ambitious. -We may truly say, that
even had Sardinia had the rower and the will to
initiate the scheme of policy now sketched by the
Emperor, quite alone, and without French aid, it
would not have met with general approval in
Europe, simply because it would be a theoretic and
speculative scheme, and not one naturally flowing
from obvious political duties. The sympathy felt
by England with Italy in 1848 was so strong
exactly because the course of events was natural—
embodying the real issues of popular conviction and
feeling. The present crisis is artificial, long
and cautiously elaborated—a medicated poli-
tical draught prepared for Italy by the
intellectual " forethought" of the Emperor. As
such, even if honest—even if Sardinia were the
only agent, we should reject it ; and we know that
with France it cannot be honest. Let England,
then, make her national opinion clearly known and
strongly felt, that so far as France has a clear duty
to perform towards any Italian state, so far she
shall have English sanction and approval in per-
forming it properly, and in taking guarantees
against the risk of Austrian interference. But be-
yond this we will not go. We will express our
hearty abhorrence of the meddling Napoleonic pro-
pensity to play Providence to European nations.
We will believe that the natural course of society
itself is far more trustworthy than any European
politician's efforts to realise his own ambitious
dreams.

MOLDO-WALLCHIA.—No one can envy Colonel
Couza his double character—the Janus of the
Danube sitting at Fockshani ; his Moldavian coun-
tenance beaming upon Jassy, his Walachian visage
smiling on Bucharest. He may argue that man is
made up of duplicates—two brains,two ears,two eyes,
two arms, two legs; the oneness of his mouth being
the appropriate symbol of the two civil lists which
unite in his individual exchequer. He will be surew
to have enough to do with his two houses, hie t
_°
principalities, his two budgets, and that ominous
may
not the central commission. But aftetr all,
for the
not this chance solution be the
Roumain countries, though it
doubleln
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best for the happiness of the
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it has come
This election is a natural proeien:ll
ental marriage of
unexpectedly ; it is an
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the Principalities ; it is
and would it not exPelroximate federation ;
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works? Moreover,
it lead to the growt is ea
fact self-created; and if
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of
solution of the Eastern question.

SALARIES TO RECORDERS.—A return has been
paid
These o
handed in to the House of Lords ogfhstheinsakigeians ndow.
canh,dbeboinrgouin
some
cases as low as
£4 4s. ( d • th •
Durham), an la o ers as high as £3,000 (City of
tshaleartieecsovradreyrs,o.efrycitmieus
London). £4O and £5O is a co high
salary, and some
£5OO a year. The recorders
recorders receive from £lOO to
of Clitheroe, Aldborough, Orford, and Wells receive no
salary at all. The source of these salaries are chiefly the
borough funds. At Wareham the mayor kindly pays the
recorder, " out of his ownpocket," the munificent salary of
two guineas a-year. The Recor ,r of London receives his
£3,000 a year from "the city's cash."
ROYAL COLLEGE OF -SUM EONS.—The following
for
nttlheemdeim
npiohaav,ing undergone the necessary examinations
were admitted members of the college at a
meeting of the Court of Examiners on the 11th inst—viz.,
Messrs. William Coward, South Shields; John We3tbrook
Maltby, Durham ; Oglethorpe Wakelin Barratt, Birming-
ham ; Septimus Strong, Upper Tooting ; Thomas Joseph
Bramah, London; Thomas Orlando Mayor, Bristol ; Georfi!
Frederick Thomas, Philadelphia; John Watts, Haverfoills,
west; Alfred John Powell, Southwark; William Chenha
Land's-end, Cornwall; Richard Westcott Martyrs,
tock, Somerset; Walter Henry Ra,msdenleolayrkenrry
Oldham; John Thornhill, Gateshead ; and "%
'Binns, Covington, Kimbolton, Hunts.