The Sun.
London, England, 1866-04-25 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT

HO USE OF COMMONS—THIs DAY.
The Deputy Speaker (Mr. DopsoN) took the chair al
12 o'clock.

HANAUL T FOREST.
Mr. MILL asked the Secretary of State for the Home
Department whether the Inclosuro Commissioners had
finally signed and sealed their award for the inclosure of
the newly created common set out for the ratepayers of
the parish of Chigwell ? If he was aware that the timber
on the fifty acres of recreation ground, granted by Parlia-
ment in 1862 for the use of the Metropolitan public, was
being cut down, thereby destroying the forestal appear-
ance of the spot, which the intention of the Legislature
was to keep unenclosed and preserved in its natural wild-
ness. And, if the destruction of the timber had been
sanctioned by.the Inclosuro Commissioners?
Sir G. GREY said the award had not been yet finally
scaled and settled, and that of the timber (other than th
which belonged to the manor) was being cut down, it
was without their knowledge and

FELLOWS OF COLLEGES DECLARATION BILL.
On the motion for the house going into committee on
this bill,
Mr..BOUVERIE said, in proceedin; with this bill, it
was not his intention to occupy the house for any
length of time, as he had fully dee ared the object of the
bill, which was to allow those who were not mem-
bers of the Church of England to become fellows
of Cambridge and Oxford. He plainly said his
object was to allow Nonconformists to become fellows of
colleges ; and the great difficulty that he had to contend
with was the position of matters at Cambridge, because
there wore some colleges there which, by their statutes,
required that all candidates should be called upon to de-
clare they were members of the Church of England. There
were, however, six colleges in Cambridge which did
not demand such a rigid declaration, and in
that position of matters ho had determined to
ask Parliament whether they were willing to repeal the
prohibitory statutes, and to declare that conformity to the
Liturgy of the Church of England was no longer necessary.
He had great hope that, in the event of the house agreeing
to his bill, the measure would receive the sanction of the
other branch of the Legislature.

Mr. 'WALPOLE moved as an amendment that the
house go into committee this day six months.
[LEFT SITTING.]

CAMBRIDGE ELECTION.--Yesterday.

CLOSE OF POLL—Four o'CLocK.
Gorst 776

Torrens 752
Majority -24
Great excitement in the town.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.—This Day,

LONDON, April 25.—Wind this day at noon—North.
Easterly; blowing a rather strong breeze, and fine
weather.

LIVERPOOL, April 24.—Wind S.E.—Arrived—Jason,
from New York; Sofia, screw steamer, from Barcelona.
Sailed—Queen:of England, for Shanghai; M'Gregor, for
Africa. April 25.—Arrived—City of Paris, steamer, from
New York.

BRISTOL, April 24.—Wind S.W.—Sailed—The Deme,
rara.

SOUTHAMPTON, April 25.—Wind S.W.—Arrived--Syria,
steamer, from Alexandria.
CLYDE, April 23.—Wind S.S.E.—Arrived—Priseilla,
from Callao.

CARDIFF, April 24.—Wind N.W.—Arrived—Urgent,
from Buenos Ayres; Anna, from Havannah ; Mary Ann,
for Barcelona.

SUNDERLAND, April 23.—Wind S.E.—Sailed—Nor-
ham, for Shanghai; Porten, for Now York; Freedom, for
Malta.

IRY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.'
GRAVESEND, Wednesday Morning.
Arrived, April 25—Bethseda, from Landserona ; Lord
Rollo, from Dantzic.

DEAL, Wednesday Morning.
Passod, April 24—Armstrong, from London for Boston.
Passed, April 25—Cambrian, from London for Jamaica.

Liverpool Cotton Market. —This Day.

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The Market opens with a fair inquiry, and prices
favour purchasers. Sales probably 15,000 bales.

A meeting was held to-day of the Commercial
Bank Corporation of India and the East. The re-
port stated that the losses on sterling dishonoured
bills falling due during the past year have been
duly estimated at £123,000, and the directors
have written off that sum accordingly. Dur-
ing the share mania in Bombay last year, the
agent, Mr. De Quadros, having involved the bank
by imprudent advances to speculators, the chief
manager went out in June last to inspect the con-
dition of that agency. He has only just returned,
and estimates losses thus incurred at £89,000. The
directors hare written off that sum. In October
last intelligence reached the directors that Mr.
Newby, who had been appointed by the late Com-
mercial Bank of India as their agent in San Fran-
cisco, for the purchase of bullion for remittance to
China, had advanced moneys on the security of cer-
tain shares. On investigation it appeared that a
sum of £196,782 10s. 6d. had been lent by him on
mining shares, none of which could at present be
realised except at a ruinous depreciation. The
directors have written off a sum of £118,233, which,
in the present uncertain value of these securities, is
as much as they think they are warranted in writing
off as actually lost. The agents at Bombay
and San Francisco have of course been dismissed.
In November last the directors received intelli-
gence of the death of Mr. Wiggins, the bank's
manager in the East, and agent at Shanghai. Their
new manager reports, upon taking charge of that
agency, certain irregular transactions on the part of
Mr. Wiggins, partly by purchases of laud, partly by
other speculations undertaken, as it is alleged on
behalf of the bank, which have resulted in losses
amounting to about £53,000. The directors do
not of course recognise the liability of the bank to
bear those losses ; and they have given directions
to recover the amount from Mr. Wiggins' estate,
and from the parties who assisted him in these
transactions, which they hope to be able to do.
The losses from bad debts at that agency have been
great, and the directors have written off £38,267,
being the amount as estimated. The remainder of
the sum written off consists of £5,000 for a bad
debt at Hong Kong, and £1,500 for bad debts at
Calcutta.

The Illoniteur publishes an Imperial decree pro-
mulgating the Convention relative to the navigation
of the Danube, signed at Galatz on the 3d Novem-
ber, 1865.
The Commercio of Oporto announces that the
Archiepiscopal Palace at Braga was last week en-
tirely destroyed by fire. Of its contents scarcely
anything was saved, except a few important papers
amd the library, which contained above 5,000
volumes.

The Abbe Liszt has left Paris for Amsterdam,
where he goes to superintend the eighth perform-
ance of the mass lately given at the Church of
Saint-Eustache.

The municipal council of Paris has voted a sum
of 100,000 fr. as a subscription to the Central Life-
boat Society, being equal to the cost of a single
boat and its appurtenances.
The Paris journals some days since announced
the sudden death of an old miser in the Avenue
du Bel-Air, in whose lodgings securities amounting
to many thousands of francs were found. As the
name of the deceased was only indicated by the
letter the commissary of police of the quar-
ter and the juge de pair of the 12th arrondisement
have been inundated with letters from all parts of
France, written by persons whose names have the
same initial, all anxious to have a share in the pro-
perty. To put an end to these applications, the
Broil now states that the man's name was Leclere,
and his property has been given up to his brother
and sister, the only rightful heirs.

The examination of the case of the man named
Phillipe accused of murdering a woman in the
Rue Ville-l'Eveque, and of an attempt of
the same nature upon a lady artist in the Rue
d'Erfurth, has been brought to a close, and he
has been committed for trial, but the case is
not expected to come on before the end of May.
The journals spoke of 18 or 20 murders which he
had committed, but that number appears gieatly
exaggerated, as the evidence brought against him
tends to the belief of only four and two unsuccess-
ful attempts.
A Lyndhurst correspondent writes to say that
the cuckoo was hoard and the blackthorn was seen in
blossom at Loperwood, near Lyndhurst, on the 7th inst.
White, in his natural history of Svlborne, says that the
7th April is the earliest period the cuckoo's note is heard
in Hampshire.