The Sun.
London, England, 1866-04-13 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT

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

PETITIONS.
Several petitions on different subjects were presented
by Lords Chelmsford, Houghton, and Earl Grey.
PRIVATE BUSINESS.
The following bills were read a second time : —Afton
Valley Railway, Bodmin Water, Neath and Brecon Rail-
way (Capital), and New Milford Docks.
The Montrose Harbour Bill and the Dublin Connecting
Railway Bill were severally read a third time and passed.
CAPITAL PUNISHMENT BILL.
The LORD CHANCELLOR said that he would post-
pone the second reading of this bill, which was appointed
for Tuesday next, for a week.

THE OATHS BILL.
The Marquis of Westmeath presented a largo number of
petitions from different parts of the United Kingdom, and
from Jersey, from different sects of dissenter; against the
abolition of the Oaths Bill. The enumeration of the names
of the places from which the petitions emanated occupied
the noble marquis more than a quarter of an hour.
He said that although some members of the Church esta-
blishment had shown a great indifference to the interests
of Protestantism in this country. the Dissenters proved
that they did not partake of that feeling. The noble mar-
quis then read extracts ,from one of the petitions from
Hastings and Beat, signed by 2,000, strongly denouncing
what they designated the tendency of Protestants in
high places to promote Roman Catholic ascendancy.
The noble marquis then moved for copies of the declara-
tion against transubstantiation and the sacrifice of the
mass by certain Protestants holding office under the Crown,
and of any oaths bearing on religion to be taken by per-
sons in any civil office. He then proceeded to comment on
the Abolition of Oaths Bill.
Earl GRANVILLE called the noble lord to order on the
ground that it was not usual to deal with a bill not before
their lordships' house.
The Marquis of WESTMEATH, in continuation, said
that the progress of Roman Catholic practices in the
Church Establishment had filled Protestants generally
with alarm, and there was a strong feeling amongst the
people of England against that innovation. He would
warn the Roman Catholics to restrain their clergy from
the aggressions they were making on the Protestant
Church, as was shown by the petitions for the disendow-
ment of the Church, which, he contended, was dictated
by the Roman Catholic 'clergy. He called on her Ma-
jesty's Government in that house to declare the nature of
the bill th y paoposed to introduce.
Lord RUSSELL said he had no obfection to the returns
moved for by the noble marquis.

The return was accordingly ordered.
The house then adjourned.

HOUSE OF COMMONS-THIS EVENING.
The SPEAKER took the chair at four o'clock.
PRIVATE BUSINESS.

The followinoills were read a third time and passed :
Brontsgrove and Droitwich Water; North-Eastern Rail-
way (Durham Now Lines, &c.) ; North Eastern Railway
(Yorkshire New Lines, &c.) ; Manchester Improvement;
and Thames Tunnel Company.
THE REFORM BILL.

Several hon. members having postponed motions that
stood before the order of the day for resuming the ad-
journed debate on the Reform Bill, the CHANCELLOR of the
EXCHEQUER presented petitions in favour of the bill, one
of which was from Calne—(hear, hear, and laughter)—
signed by the chairman (Mr. Bishop) - (loud laughter)—
on behalf of the meeting.
The order of the day having been read,
Mr. BAXTER rose and said in the observations he
should make to the house ho should abstain from person-
alties, wirh which he thought all were tired, and that the
debate would proceed without making further allusions to
the hon. member for Calne, because such things were not
worthy the dignity of Parliament. He did not stand there
as the apologist of the hon. gentleman, as his observations
would apply not to the merits of the actors, but to the bill
itself. The speech delivered last night by the hon. mem-
bers for Huntingdon and North Lincoln were still ringing
in his ears, but if any one present believed in the terrible
dangers prophesied to the House of Lords and to the
Throne of their beloved Queen itself, they would
not have slept soundly in their beds. (Hear, hear.)
In his opinion those observations were levelled at the Re-
form Bill of 1832, and how the hon. memuer for Hunting-
don could come to the conclusion that the addition of
400,000' persons to the privilege would be frought with
consequences so outrageous surpassed his comprehension.
(Hear, hear.) Moderate measures never brought about
revolution, but that which did so was a fixed determina-
tion to refuse the slightest boon that was calculated to bene-
fit the middle and working classes. (Hear, hear.) What
he complained of was that the Opposition did not clearlydefine what they mean. He could only say that he be-
lieved the Opposition were in favour of a Reform
bill so large and so comprehensive that the house was not
at all likely to agree to it. (Hear, hear.) If the course
was taken that the opposition seemed to recommend, the
bill certainly could not have passed during the present
session, and perhaps that was what was required. A
great point had been made of the non-introduction of the
bill for the redistribntion of seats, but if such a measure
had. been laid before Parliament previous to the
Reform Bill, he should have opposed it, because
it would occasion a dissolution before the ques-
tion of the franchise was settled. (Hear, hoar.) If the
Government had adopted that course, he for one should
have doubted the sincerity of her Majesty's Government
altogether on the subject of reform. The present bill, he
believed, was looked upon by the country as an evidence
of the honesty of the Government, and their desire to suc-
ceed. (Hear, hear.) He must say, however, that the bill
did not come up to his expectations. (Hear, hear.) He
meant that it did not go far enough ; and in his
opinion, if the scope of the measure had
been largely extended, not the slightest danger
was to be apprehended. The house had been told that the
working class did not care about reform, that it was a
much ado about nothing, but those who knew the best
knew things were very different. They knew that the
working classes had a dependence on the promises of
Parliament, and they felt that they would receive their
enfranchisement without violence and without agitation.
(Hear, hear) If they were of opinion that Parliament was
not sincere in the desire to admit them to the exercise
of the franchise they would hear a sound of a very dif-
ferent description. (Hear, hear.) He did, however, hope
the Government would reconsider the savings bank
clause, as it would enfranchise but an infinitesimal nmn-
bzx of voters, while it was a temptation to fraud and other
things much to be deplored. Why was a working man to
be tempted to buy a vote by keeping his money in the
savings bannh in preference to investing it. to better ad-
vantage ? He hoped the Government would reconsider
the matter, and that the bill would at no very distant day
become the law of the land,because its rejection would be
attended with danger and disappointment.
Sir B. LYT TON said the proposed bill of the Govern-
ment, in his opinion, went far beyond the extension of the
franchise and redistribution of seats—it went to the extent
of affecting the character and constitution of Parliament,
and therpfore it was a measure .which demanded the
grertest and most careful consideration.
[LEFT SPEAKING.]

Box AND COX IN THE VESTRY.--The row which
took place in the vestry-hall on this occasion beggars
description. I can liken it to nothing but an Irish faction
fight for the occupation of a drinking-tent at Donnybrook
fair. At five o'clock some members of the finance com-
mittee entered the ball and found their place of meeting
occupied by the sanitary committee. "Now then," says a
financial gentleman, "we want this room." "you shall
have it when we're done with it, but not before,"
brusquely returns the sanitary chairman
" Get out
of this," says the first speaker; we want to
d o our business." " And we want to do ours,"
retorts the other. The two rival chairmen now
call upon their respective clerks to read the minutes
and the two clerks commence reading together; one, thO
minutes of finance; the other, a letter from the committee
of works. The clerk of the financial department seems in-
clined t o
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give way, when his chairman roars out "Go on,
can't you Louder,
louder !" Both clerks go, gabbling
on again, when a gentleman of the vestry, who has
just entered the room, exclaims,. " Holoo, what caper do
you call this 2" The rival chair men hasten to explain, both
speaking at once, and a scene ensues something like the
one in Box and Cu; where the printer and the hatter
appealed to Mrs. Bouncer to declare whose room it is. But
it is useless for Mrs. Bouncer to explain that Mr. Box is
entitled to the room by day, and Mr. Cox by night. Mr
Box won't stir, neither will Mr. Cox. They will not even
accommodate each other by tossing for it. During the al-
tercation between the two chairmen, which lasted for fully
half an hour, their partisans kept up a choilis of wrangling„
jeering, and laughing, which left nothing to be desired
but a general engagement with fists, inkstands, and rulers.
Scarcely a week passes without a row in the vestry, er
some case of scandalous mismanagement in the workhouse.
—Dickens's All the Year Rowed.

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LONDON GAZETTE—This Evening.

FOREIGN OFFICE, APRIL 11.
The Queen has been pleased to approve of Don Mariano
Ricardo do Asensi as Consul at Southampton for her Ma-
jesty the Queen of Spain.
The Queen has also been pleased to approve of Mr. F.
G. Prange as Vice-Consul at Liverpool for his Roy al
Highness the. Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin.
ADMIRALTY, APRIL 7.
Royal Marine Light Infantry—First Lieutenant and
Quartermaster John Delves Broughton to be Captain, vice
Seymour, deceased ; second Lieutenant Harry Mont-
gomerie Clements to be First Lieutenant, vice Broughton.
APRIL 11. a •
Royal Marine Light Infantry—First Lieutenant Win
Godfrey Hale op
be Fitest r Licuteant and Quartermaster,
vroughton,mod.
APRIL 10.
The undermentioned Captains and Commanders have
been placed on the Retired List of their rank from the
31st March, 1866, under the provisions of her Majesty's
Orders in Council of Ist August, 1860, 9th July, 1864, and
24th March, 1866 :—Captains —HenryJohn Douglas, Thos.
Edward Laws Moore, Richard Robert Quin, Edmund Gar-
diner Fishbourne, C.B , T. Chaloner, the Right Hon. Lord
W. Compton, Henry R. Foote, W.,A. Fellowes, H. Coryton.
Commanders—John Gustavus Harrison, George Kenyon
Philip de Sausmarez, John Abelard Shears, John Hay
Crang, Edmund Mortimer Leycester, Henry Laird Cox,
William Henry Broad.
The undermentioned Lieutenants have been placed on
the Retired List of their rank from the 31st March, 1866,
under the provisions of her Majesty's Orders in Council of
Ist August, 1860, 9th July, 1864, and 24th March, 1866 :
Lieutenants St. Leger Aldwortb, Charles Edward Powys,
James Hector M'Kenzie Robertson, Charles James Fox
Campbell, Arthur Kennedy, Richard Hoops, Thomas Sib-
bald, Charles Bissett Bayly, Daniel Butler Dawes, Herbert
Thomas Ryves, Robert Ellis, James Byon Kinsman, and
William Tomlinson Standbridge.
ADMIRALTY, APRIL 11.
The undermentioned Commanders have been this day
promoted to the rank of Captain in her Majesty's Fleet :
George William Towsey, William Brabazon Urmst3n,
' William Kynaston Jolliffe, William Henry Feuwick,
Thomas James Young, Hon. Maurice Horatio Nelson,
Ralph Peter Cator, Geo. John Malcolm, The Hon. Walter
Cecil Talbot, W. Cox Chapman, Hon. Amar Lowry Corry,
Theodore Morton Jones, Warren Hastings Anderson,
William Robert Hobson, Charles Fenton Fletcher Bo ughey,
George Henry Parkin. James Andrew Robert Dunlop,
D'Arcy Spocer Preston, Henry Bedford Woollcombe,
Robert Gordon Douglas, Philip Saumarez, Stapleton John
Greville, Charles Matthew Buckle, Cortland Herbert
Simpson, Edward Hood Lingard Ray, Charles Trelawny
Jago, Francis Reginald Purvis, Charles Richard Fox
Boxer, William Samuel Brown, George Tyron, and 'Alex-
ander Philips.
The undermentioned Lieutenants have been this day
promoted to the rank of Commander in her Majesty's
Fleet :—Edward Thornborough Parsons, John Buchan
Telfer, William Tocker Wheare Hambly, Louis Geneste,
Robert Elliot, Wm. George England, Charles William
Matithorp.

COURSE OP EXCHANGE--This Evening.

Amsterdam Short. 11 16f
Ditto 3 Months. 12 0
Rotterdam
Antwerp — 25 421
Brussels
Hamburg
Paris Short 25 121
Ditto 3 Months. 25 371
Marseilles

Frankfort on the Maine

Vienne,.
...

119 k

11 0

Trieste
Petersbluza
Berlin

11 5
28/
6 28

11 17i
12
12
25 50
25 50
13 9i
25 20
25 45
25 45

120}
11 50
11 10

281
6 284
47i
47f
25 70
25 724
25 75
25 724

Madrid::
Cadiz ..
Leghorn
Milan ..
Genoa
Naples

46i
47i
25 65
25 67
25 67
25 67k

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—This lay.