The Sun.
London, England, 1861-07-25 00:00:00

BILL.

On the motion for going into committee on this bill,
The Earl of ELLENBOROUGH said he would take
this opportunity to state his objections to this bill.
Its principle seemed to him to be the amalgamation
of the supreme court and the Suddar court. He did not
think this amalgamation desirable, the two courts had no
affinity for each other. We ought to have a bill of
a tentative and not of an ambitious character.
He would propose to alter the bill so as to give
powers for the appointment of two additional judges
to the court at Calcutta, one for each of the courts of
Madras and Bombay, and one for the North-west provinces.
This arrangement would render it possible to detach judges,
when necessary, for duty in the provinces. One principle
involved in this bill he strongly deprecated. By its
provisions any person, whether native or European,
who was brought up to the law, might be appointed to the
new court. He thought this absolutely opposed
to the principles on which India was governed.
He also spoke warmly against the great expense
which would be thrown on India by the appointment of
the 35 judges who would be created under this bill. He
deplored, in conclusion, the deaths of Lord Dalhousie and
Lord Elphinstone, whose counsel on this subject would
have been so very valuable.
Earl DE GREY and RIPON paid a compliment to the
manner in which Lord Ellertborough had expressed his
views, but defended the provisions of the bill, It was
the opinion of her Majesty's Government that it was
not desirable to get up a court having judges deriving their
authority from two different sources. It was not, he also
said, the intention of the Governmentlto appoint any new
judges if the bill was passed, but simply to incorporate the
two courts.

Lord KINGSDOWN rose to address the house, and was
[LEFT SPEAKING.]

HOUSE OF COMMONS.—(Tnis DAY.)
The SPtAKER took the chair at twelve o'clock.
PRIVATE BUSINESS.

The following bills were read a third time and passed :
Atkinson's Trust Estate; Cornwall Railway; and Vic-
toria Docks Gas.
THE MINISTERIAL CHANGES.

On the motion of Mr. MitaND a new writ was m dered
for the borough of Morpeth, vacant by Sir George Grey,
having accepted the office of one of her Majesty's principal
Secretaries of State, and for the City of Oxford, vacant by
the Right Hon. Edward Cardwell, having accepted the
office of Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster.

SUPPLY.
The report of supply was brought up and received.
On the motion for going into committee of supply,

General PEEL drew attention to the estimates for mili-
tary expenditure, which, he contended, did not really con-
tain the amount that would be reqnired. He did not com-
plain so much of the military expenditure which the
Government had made last year, but he did strongly object
to provision being made for the same by the votes of the
house, and the amount that was necessary having been con-
cealed by the Chancellor of the Exchequer. He considered
at the same time that retrenchments ought to be judiciously
made, without impairing the effioiency of the provision for
the defence of the country. The hon. and gallant member then
entered into different details to illustrate his opinion. He com-
plained that these army estimates were not made until
fifteen months after the financial year. On five votes for
1859-60-61 there would be found an excess of expenditure
over estimates of nearly a quarter of a million.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER sail that
the term for making up the army accounts was fixed by law,
and the delay that might take place was not chargeable to
any person. From the time when the accounts were made
up the estimates were necessarily founded on insufficient
data. He denied that the Treasury had any perfect control
over the number of men that were to be employed, and
they were not necessarily cognisant of the increase in the
number of men, nor the amount provided for by Parlia-
ment. He adverted to India to show how impossible it
would have been for the Secretary of War or the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer to have made a correct estimate of
the number of the men that were required, in consequence
of the events that had occurred in that country. He con-
tended that it was quite impossible that the Government
could foresee the claims that might arise in any prospective
year. If there were anything defective in the existing
system it could not be remedied by a discussion in that
house, but by a minute investigation of details, which
could not possibly be carried on at a sitting of the whole
house. The right. hon. gentleman then proceeded to de-
fend the expenditure that had been incurred in respect to
China. As regarded the appropriation of the surplus
arising from savings in certain military to other votes, it
was the absolute duty of the Secretary of the Treasury to
make a transfer of these surpluses before asking for a vote
of credit. With respect to any alleged misappropriation of
the funds voted for China if there was anything wrong in
respect to that vote, heshowdo the responsibility was with
the War Department. He considered, however, that no
benefit would arise from the general question raised by the
gallant member being discussed at so late a period of the
Session.

LEFT SITTING.

BANE OFTENGLATTV.

An Account, pursuant to t]
cap. 32, for the week ending
of July, 1861:

Ile Act 7th and Bth Victoria
on Wednesday, the 24th day

ISSUE DEE
Notes ie55edi.......X25,517,450

,ARTMENT.

Government Debt £11,015,100
Other Securities .. 3.634,900
Gold Coin & Bullion 10,867,480
Silver Bullion ....

£25,517,480;

£25,517,480

EPARTIKINT.
Government Secu-
rities_ (including
Dead Weight A-
nnuity)
Other Securities 18,851,783
Notes
Gold and Silver
Coin 852,610

BANKING D
Proprietors' Capi-
tal £14.553,000
Rest
Public Deposits (in-
cluding Exche-
quer, Savings'
Banks, Commis-
missioners of Na-
tional Debt, and
Dividend Ac-
counts) 1,123,460
Other Deposits 11,984,227
Seven Day and
other Bills 626,526

£34,688,387
M.
_

£34,888, 38'
.RSHALL, Chief Cashier.

Dated July 25, 1861.

THIS DAY'S SHIPPING.

LONDON, July 25.—Wind this day at noon, South-
Westerly; fresh breeze, and cloudy weather, with some
rain,

DEAL, July 24.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Lady Mel-
vine, from Calcutta ; George Marshall, from Rangoon ;
Matchless, from Antigua.
COWES, July 24.—Wind W.S.W.—Sailed—Fulton,
steamer, for New York.

Queen Marie Amelie sent an order from Claeraer-
mont a week or two ago to the Sevres manufactory
near
Paris for a certain number of articles to compalett:a service:instruo
of porcelain. The answer said to
tions had been received from
Queen or for
Minister of State to execute no order for the
of
tbheegiDveenparwstment of the
to the Imperial dy-
nasty State is M. Walewski. What danger
any other member of the Orleans family 1 The Minister
greater dramatist dreaded in
allowing hal - - _
f a dozAn cups and saucers to be manufacture
d
this great statesman and
for an illustrious lady—illustrious in every respect—the said
M. Walewski only knows. " After the July Revolution,"
says a biographer of this Minister, " M. Walewski, hon-
oured by the notice of the Duke of Orleans, had reason to
hope rapid advancement in the army, in which he was a
Captain in the 4th Regiment of Hussars, but ho grow tired
of garrison life and resigned. He was destined to arrive at
public life by journalism and literature. The same year
(1840) M. Walewski entered the diplomatic career. M.
niers, then President of the Council of Ministers, bought
up the llfessager (Walewski's paper), and gave a post to its
editor—a mission to Egypt. Under the Ministry of M.
Guizot M. Walewski got various missions, and was at last
attached to the Legation at Buenos Ayres, when the Revo-
lution of 1848 broke out." Queen Marie Amelie, you need
not be told, is the mother of M. Walewski's early patron
and it must be admitted that the little affair about the
Sevres cups and saucers, if correctly reported, is quite
worthy of the ex protege.