The Sun.
London, England, 1866-06-16 00:00:00

BANS DISCOUNT.

Mr. GRANT asked the Chancellor of Exchequer
whether, if the Bank of England were to reduced their
rate of discount below 10 per cent, per annum, the power
granted to them by tho Government letter of issuing a
larger amount of notes than was fixed upon law would
cease ?

The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said no new
power was granted by the letter. It was merely an en-
gagement on the part of the Government in a certain case
to make application to Parliament. With respect to that
pert of the question as to whether the contract would re-
main in force, supposing the rate was under 10 per cent.,
he had to say that the latter only applied to matters while
the bank continued to charge 10 per cent. for advances.
As to the effect of the letter in the event of the rate rising
above 10 per cent., that would be considered as a new
event, which must be dealt with on its own merits.
SITTINGS IN THE HOUSE.
Sir G. BOWYER asked the First Commissioner of
Works whether her Majesty's Government were prepared
to cause an inquiry to be made with a view to affording
adequate accommodation to members in the house, and
prevent thereby the serious inconvenience which members
sufficient number especially during this session, for want of a
ber of seats. The reason why ho put the
question was due to the crowding that had been witnessed
during the last few evenings, which showed tho inade-
quacy of the accommodation provided for members in the
present limited condition of the sittings in that house.
The house consisted of 658 members, and the sitting acco-
modation was put down by some persons as only 300,
although he must say he had heard it as he thought
more correctly stated at 400. It appeared to him ridicu-
lous that a body of gentlemen amounting to the number
he had stated should be so inadequately provided for. If
at present a gentleman wished to ensure a seat in that
house on any evening when important business was to be
transacted, he had to come down to the house at about
3 o'clock in the afternoon, and then perchance he might
succeed in his desire. (Hear, hear.) He was sure the
pushing and squeezing that took place on a recent occa-
sion was most disgraceful, as it, arose solely on account of
the limited capacity of the house. If the Chinese had
constructed a house just st4Cielit to accommodate 400

the ability of the house would be able to judge any case
that arose according to its circumstances, and therefore,
though by no means as a matter of course, but after care-
ful consideration, he, for one, and he might say the Go-
vernment also, cheerfully assented to the motion. (Hear,
hear.) He had listened with great pleasure to; the
speeches of his hon. friends. If any particular stamp of
character was to be estimated according to the rarity of
its appearance that of Mr. Ilume must stand very high.
The long series of public men of great influence in Par-
liament had never failed. Mr. Hume was down to this
hour without a successor. (Hear, hear.) It was, perhaps,
the highest tribute that could b 3 offered to him to record
that fact. That was in itself ample justification of the
motion, and it might servo to allay the apprehensions of
those who wore afraid of the precedent. He would not
refer to another name different in many respects frcm
that of Mr. Bruin°. Both wore illnstrious, but each
had his own province and his own work, and each so
did that work that they who remained behind
might wish nothing better than to do likewise.
(Hear, hear.) He had rarely known, if he had ever
known, a character more remarkable than that of Mr.
Hume. Involved as he was for nearly forty years in the
wear and tear of political strife, and in the most worrying
and irritating details, he never departed from a cheerful
and genial spirit. Ho was an economist, but he never lost
sight of the necessity for maintaining the efficiency of the
establishments. In all that related to colonial government,
navigation, and the corn laws, he saw the truth at a mo-
ment when it had hardly dawned on the horizon, and yet
he was content to forego notoriety, and the applause which
was the reward of public men, and to give the labours of
his long life to the working out of laborious details. His
sense of public duty enabled him, when he had little else
to reward him, to reduce public expenditure by a few
hundreds or a few thousands, labours not seen when per-
formed; but time, which was the test of all characters, had
ensured his permanent fame. Although ho had not the
satisfaction of agreeing with Mr. Hume, he had felt his in-
fluence in the financial affairs of the country, and never
did he give an assent with greater gratification in that
house than when he assented to this proposal.

' Mr. HATFIELD regretted that the great merits of Mr.
Hume had not been earlier discovered.

Mr. WHITE also regretted that more of this respect
was not paid to Mr. Hume while ho was alive.

The motion was agreed to.
Mr. SYNAN called attention to the treatment of pri-
soners in the county gaol of Limerick under the Habeas
Corpus Suspension (Ireland) Act, and he moved that in
the opinion of the house such treatment had been unneces-
sarily severe and unconstitutional, and that it was the duty
of the Government to prevent the continuance of the same.
Dr. BLAKE seconded the motion.

Mr. C. FORTESCUE explained the system adopted by
the Government, and asserted that prisoners under the
Habeas Corpus Suspension Act wore no worse treated than
other criminals.

Mr. MAGUIRE urged that there had been unnecessary
severity in the treatment of Fenian prisoners iu Ireland.
lie condemned the practice of solitary confinement pre-
vious to their conviction, and he moved for certain infor-
mation relative to prisoners confined in Belfast gaol.
This was promised by the ATTORNEY-GENERAL
for IRELAND, and
Mr. SYNAN withdrew his motion.

Mr. T. CHAMBERS was moving an address to her
Majesty concerning the mismanagement of the Cape Rail-
way, when the house was counted, and there being only
thirty members present the house adjourned.

GALLANT ACT.—We take the following from an
East Canada paper, the St. Hyacinthe Courrier:—
"As a train of the Grand Trunk was passing through St
Liboire in the night, a young gentleman, Mr. Bachand,
noticed that a house was on fire while the people seemed
to be asleep. He urged the conductor to stop the train,
or at least to slacken it, but met with a refusal. The cou-
rageous young man leaped, however, from the cars, broke
his leg, and yet crept to the burning house, which was
that of Mr. Urgelc Desmarais, merchant. The family were
all asleep, as Mr. Bachand had supposed, and he roused
them just in time to save their lives, with one exception,
of a young lady, 22 years old, a niece of Mr. Desmarais.
She has perished in the flames. Mr. Bachand deserves a
medal."

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Hotel,Lieu ----..---
FaloriVntfivel;leSazthtedhiasedsaptenntoteh'es
summer there. On his 'arrival on the 10th ult. he
remarked to a friend, as he came fromtheboat,
that he bad come to the old academy to die. He
was then very feeble, and had to pause upon every
step at the entrance of the hotel. But he after-
wards rallied considerably, and was out on the 26th
in the viaage and at the
orary- He appeared .to
,
strength. He retained
have no specific ailment only a general decline of
shi consciousness to the
last, and repeatedly bowed his head and pressed
the hand of the episcopal
chaplain as the latter re-
citoldiered a prayer when death was upon the great
s. His body, dressed in
civilian's suit of
black, was placed in a shelll' ma
partially filled with ice ; and ed with zinc, and
a guard of honour in
full dress was posted round th
native of Virginia, born in Petersburg,
corpse. He was a
ersburg, on the 13th
descent.
June, 1786, and of Scottish
His ances-
tors were ardent supporters of the Stuarts and took
refuge in Virginia after the battle of Culloden. He
was called to the bar at the age of 20, and com-
menced practice in Charleston in 180 T; but he was
not so successful as he desired, and his mind was
natarally adapted to a different life. Accordingly
he entered the army. His first experience of mili-
tary life was rather discouraging. It appears that
in 1800 the conduct of his superior officer; General
Wilkinson, led him te,intlalge in—starre expression
which, though just, betrayed a want of discretion,
and, after a trial by court-martial, sentence of sus-•
pension from pay and service for 12 months was
pronounced upon the offender. The 12 months
was devoted to unremittingstudy of military science,
so that on the proclamation of war in 1812 between
the United States and Great Britain there was none
better qualified to lead his countrymen against the
enemy. He was at that time promoted to the
position of lieutenant-colonel of artillery, and he
acquired the reputation of being one of the best
officers in that important department of the army.
At the battle of Queenstown Heights his intre-
pidity and skill as a commanding officer were for
the first time brought out in a most conspicuous
and creditable manner. The engagement was one
of the most desperate recorded in the annals of
American warfare, and although it ended in the
defeat of the American forces, the victory of the
enemy was dearly purchased. Scott, with his sur-
viving comrades was captured and sent to Quebec ;
but he was soon afterwards liberated by an exchange
of prisoners. In this battle his personal daring
and lofty stature rendered him a prominent mark
for the Indian sharpshooters, who, as in the in-
stance recorded in the life of Washington, exerted
their skill to the utmost, but without success, to
bring him down. Failing in open, manly conflict
to destroy their fearless and intrepid foe, they had
recourse to their Indian cunning and treachery to
carry out their foul design. Gaining access to his
prison, two of them rushed upon him, but were
foiled by the superior agility and strength of Scott,
as well as by the fortunate interposition of Captain
Coffin, of the British army, to whose timely pre-
sence in the hour of danger his escape from his
savage enemies was partly attributable. The bravery
of Scott wus recognised in a substantial manner.
after his release by his promotion to the position
of Adjutant-General and Chief of the Staff under
General Dearborn, who at that time was command-
ing on the northern frontier. The justice of this
promotion was made manifest by his conduct on the
capture of Fort George, and at the battle of
Chippewa. At this last, as the two armies ap-
proached to close quarters, Scott called out to
M'Neill's battalion, " The enemy say that we are
good at long shot, but cannot stand the cold iron.
I call upon the 11th instantly to give the lie to that
slander. Charge I " Sweeping upon the enemy
with the force of a mountain torrent swollen by
autumn floods they drove them from the field, and
that, too, with their own favourite weapon, before
which it had been the boast of the British no foe
was ever able to stand. At Niagara, sometimes
called Lundy's Lane, where he was twice wounded,
he even surpassed himself. He was the first man
to enter the fort. When peace came he continued
to serve his country, and was successful on various
important missions of a diplomatic character. But
his crowning distinction was the brilliant campaign
in Mexico in 1847, where he reduced Vera Cruz,
stormed the castle of San Juan d'Ulloa in four
days, and after several victories marched his army
of scarcely 6,000 men into the halls of the Monte-
zumas, and broke the Spanish dominion in America.
In 1852 he was nominated by the Whigs for the
Presidency, but beaten by Franklin Pierce. On
the 28th of February, 1855, the brevet rank of
lieutenant-general was revived in order that it might
be conferred on the hero of Mexico. George
Washington, Winfield Scott, and Ulysses S. Grant
have been the only recipients of this great military
honour since the foundation of our Government.
In 1859 serious differences as to the boundary line
of the United States and British North America
through the Straits of Fuca having arisen, and a
disputed military possession occurring, General
Scott was ordered to that distant locality, where he
happily established a satisfactory state of affairs and
settled the difficulty. The commencement of the
rebellion found General Scott still in command of
the army, and every inducement was offered him
by the rebels to join their cause, but his firm loyalty
and love for his country's flag were proof against
them, and he unhesitatingly threw the weight of
his great and solid reputation on the side of the
Union and the Government. In reply to a commis-
sioner from Virginia, who tendered him, in behalf
of that commonwealth, command of her forces in
the coming struggle, he said :—" I have served
my country under the flag of the Union for more
than 50 years, and so long as God permits me
to live 1 will defend that flag with my sword,
even if my own native state assails it." While Pre-
sident Buchanan remained in office the command-
ing general urged the wisest precautions to prevent
the armed withdrawal of the 11 seceded States
from the Union ; but his counsels were either un-
heeded or disregarded by the Cabinet at that time.
After the capture of Fort Sumter he silently, but
swiftly, strengthened Washington city and Fort
Pickens, he secured the safe inauguration of Pre-
sident Lincoln, strengthening the
Potomac
line of
defence, and organised our
rapidly increasing army.
But the work was too great for his physical strength,
and at the end of October, 1861, he felt obliged
to relinquish his post. The resignation could not
be declined. President Lincoln and Cabinet waited
on the General at his residence, when the President
read the order relieving him, conveying to him the
expressions of sadness and deep emotion of the
President and a unanimous Cabinet at his with-
drawal from the active control of the army, the
nation's sympathy in his physical infirmities, and
the profound sense of the important public services
rendered by him to his country during his long
and brilliant career. During the years of war which
followed the General was a close observer of the
life, nation's struggle for and no one viewed it
with more solicitude than he.
His advice and
counsel were frequentlysought by those at the
helm
in
Washington, and Mr Lincoln once went
alone to West Point to consult with him. During
his retirement he prepared and published a portion
of his autobiography, but aside from this commu-
nion with the public he has kept very secluded,
either at West Point, his summer home, or in this
city. Another volume of the autobiography will
shortly be forthcoming, it is understood, which
will contain much of interest which could not ap-
propriately be published during his life.—New York
Herald.

(Prom the Anglo-American Times.)
Lieutenant-General Winfield Scott, the hero
of Lundy's Lane, and the, man Who first planted

On Sunday, May 27th, he began to fail fast,
and, though perfectly conscious at the moment of
his death, for two hours he had lost his voice. He
recognised the chaplain of the Fort ten minutes
before he died, and expired at five minutes past
,"
eleven o'clock on Tuesday morning, May 29th.
President Johnson records this event in a despatch
darotefodun May
laysor2r9otw announces to the people of the
29th,
18GG The President with
p
On the day
United States the death of Winfield Scott, late
Lieutenant-General namnat-yGbeneeraapl
appointed
fintt
fAorrmhi3r.s
funeral, the
several Executive Departments of the Govern-
ment will be closed. The heads of the War and
Navy Departments will respectively give orders
for the payment of appropriate honours to the
memory of the deceased. " ANDREW JollicsoN."
The General was buried at ten o'clock, Friday,
June 1, in the West Point Cemetery.
A speaking likeness of the great American soldier
whose death we have just recorded was sent to our
office by the American agent, Mr. Robert Gun, 6,
Prince of Wales'-road, London, N.W. It is taken
from a photograph by Anson, and engraved by
Dudensing.

HANGMAN'S DAY.--The Philadelphia Inquirer
discusses " Hangman's Day," and shows why
Friday was selected for the day of
public exe-
cution. It declares that it is a concession to
the weak-minded
unlucky. It prejudice that Fridays are
is only in late years that this day
was selected for executions in the State of
Pennsylvania. Before the Revolution, and up to
the execution of Richard Smyth, Tuesdays were
generally appropriated to executions, and Smyth
was executed on a Saturday. A correspondent
objects to Friday, which he states to be the
bhyoliweass
put
late
day next to Sunday, as that on which our Redeemer
suffered for us. He asks, "Is it not a glaring ab-
surdityto dtoeatshe,leasct
oneth the t veryput clity
criminalsoe
been
whichnc h too
chosen
ne death just
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In
New Jersey oSaturday has
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Governors, and there was an execution in that State
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