The Sun.
London, England, 1857-08-25 00:00:00

COLONIAL.

TEA.—The market is very quiet at former quotations
Common Congou, 14i to 14i per lb.
SUGAIL—There is an improved enquiry for both home
and foreign consumption, and prices have maintained fully
Friday's improvement. In the refined market an advance
of ls, to ls. ticl. per cwt. has been exhibited,. with an in-
creasing demand for home consumption. Greed grocery
lumps value 60s. to 61s. 6d. per cwt.
COFFEE —There is a good enquiry for Plantation and
Native Ceylon, and improved prices are current. Stocks
continuing light higher prices are expected to rule.
RICE.—The market is very dull, and prices have given
way. White Bengal sold at 10s 9d to lls per cwt.
RUM.—There is an active inquiry for good qualities,
and rates rule firm. Good Leewards realise 2s 5s to 2s 6d
par proof gallon.
has been exhibited in the
market,
are in all
current for P.Y.C. all
TAL
aWri.d--- advanced
dd valuesactivity
positions ; on the spot 62s 6d 635, and last three months
59s 9d per cwt. Home market rules firm, at 62s per cwt.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS--(YEsTERDAy.)

The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolack
at five o'clock.
TRADE IN OPIUM.
The LORD CHANCELLOR laid on the table the
opinion of the law officers of the Crown, with respect to
the legality of the manufacture and sale of opium.
NEWS FROM INDIA.

The Earl of ELLENBOROUGHsaid seeing the noble
lord, the Secretary of War, in his place, he begged to
ask him whether any further telegraphic intelligencehad
been received from India.
Lord PANMURE said nothing further than the de-
spatch which had appeared in the newspapers had been
received.
The Earl of ELLENBOROUGH hoped he would be
allowed to suggest that it would be exceedingly conve-
nient if the Government of Calcutta, Madras, and
Bombay would endeavour to enlist the service
of some gentlemen who would be competent
to put upon paper short facts in an intelligible form.
If such a course was adopted such ambiguity would be
avoided as appeared in the last telegraphic dispatch.
Nothing was more unsatisfactory than the terms of the
despatch last received. He wished now to call the atten-
tion of the noble lord the Secretary at War to a subject
mentioned a few days ago on the subject of the number
of militia the Government proposed to embody. He under-
stood the noble lord to say that the Government had
taken a vote for 200,0001. for that purpose, and that this
sum was:to be applied to the embodiment of 10,000 men.
He begged to remind the noble lord that 30 battalions had
now been transferred to the service of the East India
Company. The expenses and pay of that force would
amount for six months to 410,0001. There were like-
wise four additional regiments of cavalry transferred to
the charge of the East India Company, whose pay
for the same period would be 29,0001. There were
also 2,000 or 3,000 whose expense for a like
time would be 32,0001., there were likewise some sappers
and miners to be sent out whose pay might be set down
at 8,0001. Therefore, including the 450,0001., the
revenues of the country would be charged to
a less amount than usual by (about 559,0001.
He calculated that the cost of the militia
proposed to be embodied would not amount to mot@ than
300,000/., leaving a sum of 259,0001. surplus. He toped
the Government would see the propriety of employing
the whole of the surplus in the embodiment of a mili-
tia force beyond the number of 10,000 as proposed.
Lord PANMURE said the whole of the balance al-
luded to would be applied to the establishment of such a
force as would meet the exigencies of the case. The
noble earl should recollect that, independently of the
permanent charge of the militia, there were no less
than 550 recruiting parties for the line dispersed through-
out the country. During the last three weeks no less
than 16,000 recruits had been received.
Earl POWIS said it would be very convenient if the
noble lord would specify the regiments of militia he
proposed to be embodied.
Lord PANMURE said as soon as the order in coun-
cil, which was a necessary preliminary step was issued,
every information on the subject would be given.
The subject then dropped.
THE DIVORCE BILL.

Lord REDESDALE called the attention of their
lordships to what took place on Friday, relative to what
took place on the subject of the consideration of the
Commons amendments to this bill. Having explained
his conduct on the occasion, with a view of showing
that his motion to postpone the consideration of the
Commons' amendments for six months was perfectly regu-
lar, and founded upon precedent, he complained of the
language used toward him by Use noble and learned lord
on the Woolsack, as well as the noble earl the Lord
President of the Council. His course of proceeding was
termed a trick, although he had given notice of his motion,
and although he had sufficient support on that occasion
to defeat the bill altogether, he ye,: consented, in defer-
ence to the appeals made to him, to withdraw
his motion. He hoped that under the circumstance some
apology would be rendered hiaa for the unjustifiable lan-
guage' with which he had been assailed.
EARL GRANVILLE said he believed he was the
last person to address their lordships on the motion of
the noble lord, and if be remembered accura'ely, what
be he bad said was, that from his knowledge of the cha-
racter of the noble lord he was quite ready to believe his
assertion that he had not intended a surprise. On his
own part and on that of his colleagues, he had stated in

the most explicit manner that they believed entinly
what fell from the noble lord, and even went so far as to
thank him for the handsome manner in which he had
withdrawn his motion. It was quite true, as the noble
lord now said, that in strict regularity no previous notice
of an amendment was required, and in that way the Go-
vernment might, the moment the Commons' amendments
came up to that house, have moved at once that they be
agreed to. But the overnment were anxious that the
house should have some little time to consider the
amendments, and with that view put off the considera-
tion for three days. His noble and learned friend on the
woolsack waa going to give notice for Monday, when, to
their infinite surprise—it might be a foolish surprise, but
it was felt by the independent as well as the Government
members on that side of the house—they were told that
Lord Redesdale was about to move that the amendments
should be considered that day three months. He (Lord
Granville) replied that it was impossible, but on asking
the noble lord as to his intentions, the latter replied that
the rumour was correct. At that time there were hardly
any peers in attendance on the Ministerial aide of the
house, while, by a singular coincidence— of course purely
accidental—there was a large attendance of the opp:..si-
tion. (Hear.) In that way, whatever might have been
the noble lord's intentions, the effect was a complete
surprise, and the only course left for the Government
was not to take any step at all with respect to the bill.
Now, supposing the noble lord to have succeeded in
negativing the [notion for acljonrnment, he was at a loss
to know whether the noble lord would have taken the
bill out of the bands of his noble and learned friend on
the woolsack, and moved at once that it should be con-
sidered that day three months. As he had said be-
fore, he bad not the slightest hesitation in expressing Ilia
belief in the tenth of what the noble lord said, but at the
same time he must positively declare that his notice had
quite the effect of a surprise. There was something very
indefinite in the word " when," but heating such a notice
casually given' he should at once have concluded that it
meant the ordinary time when the amendments were
brought under the consideration of the house by the Go-
vernment.

Lord St LEONARDS said that the only omiazion in
the noble earl's speech was the absence of any expression
of regret for words that might have been used in the heat
of debate.

The Duke of ARGYLL observed that if the noble lord
had persisted in his motion the effect would have been a
complete surprise.
The LORD CEIANCELLOR said his noble and learned
friend (Lord St. Leonards) wished for some expression of
regret for any wa)rda that might haTe been personally
offensive, but he (the Lord Chancellor) contended that
none such had been used. lie wai perfectly satisfied on
Friday evening that his noble friend did not intend any
trick, but what he said was, that if the whole question
were " burked" by the noble lord's motion, the feeling
out of doors would both/0 a tr:ck had been played. The
noble lord had cited two precedent', but let him ask the
noble lord whether the notices were made by the promo-
ters of the bill or the opponents, because that made all
the difference. He must say that he (the Lord Chan-
cellor) took the motion when he first heard it in the
sense described by his noble friend.
Lord REDESDALE explained that he was bound by
time to make his motion when he did, and still thought
that nothing in his proceeding bad justified the tone in
which he was addressed.
Lord CAMPBELL said that previous to the noble
lord making his motion he s,as solemnly warned that the
amendments could not be considered until Monday, but
still he persisted.
Lord REDESDALE—I never made the motion.
Lord CAMPBELL—True, the motion was not made
technically, but still he (Lord Campbell) must say that
the noble lord had surprised him much by his persist-
ence. He could only say that if the noble lord had suc-
ceeded it would have been equivalent to what was known
at law as snapping a judgment.
The Marquis of BATH certainly must say that the
language used on the other side was such as he had never
heard in that house before.

Viscount DUNGANNON had never seen such a scone
in their lordships' house as that which occurred the other
night; the conduct of noble lords on the other side was
rather worthy of 'another place "—(lau3hter)—than of
that house.

The subject then dropped.
The Commons' Amendments to theßurial Acts Amend-
ment Bill were considered and agreed to.
The Commons' Amendments to the Militia Bill were
considered and agreed to.
The Commons' Amendments to the Sale of Obscene
Books Prevention Bill were considered and agreei to.
DIVORCE AND MATRIMONIAL CLAUSES
BILL.
The LORD CHANCELLOR moved that the em-
u', e' Amendments be considered.
Lord UDESDALE moved that the Commons'
Amendments
months. Be
yeaetaken into consideration that day six
induced to take this course upon three
grounds—First, by
comruteaosuon, of the character and import.
such magnitude that
ance of the
they alterations, which were of
discussed or hastil
y decided htunot to be hurriedly
In the next
place he considered that What her enc'urred during the
of the oje
present session showed the advantage h
would ac-
crue from a further consideration
and, in
he thought that the biliSpeLe„td;.
the third place,
matters which were within the scope of its object many
therefore it was imperfect, and as an imperfect re,'„
Ure
it ought not to be further proceeded with. In consider-
ingquestion, ho would at once
the first branch of the
admit that some of the amendments made in the other
house were decided improvements upon Vier bill as it
left that house ; other amendments, again, were of little
moment either one way or another, whilst others were
grave in their character, and objectionable in their effect.
The first alteration in the measure which fell within thi-,
last category was that which had reference to a local
jurisdiction in owes of judicial separation. The clause,
as amended, gave this jurisdiction to the judges of as-
sEeizve,:nd to the chairmen of courts of quarter session.
as regarded the judges of assize, there were reascns
rendering that course not entirely free from objection,
but as regarded the court of quarter sessions the provi-
NiOLIS of the bill were most objectionable. Thera were
no rules existing by which the practice before such a
tribunal as "the chairman of quarter sessions" could be
regulated ; there was no bar accustomed to the conside-
ration of the peculiar cases which, upon such questions,