The Sun.
London, England, 1861-07-19 00:00:00

[LEFT SPEAKING.]

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

The Lords' amendments to the following bills were
considered and agreed to :—Aberystwith and Welsh Coast
Railways; Bishop Stortford, Dunmow, and Braintree Rail-
way; Cleveland Railway; Forest of Dean Central Rail-
way; Hatfield Chase Warping and Improvement; Inver-
ness and Perth Junction Railway; Ludlow and Clee Hill
Railway; Mersey Docks and Harbour Board; Much Wen-
lock, &c., Railway; Salisbury and Dorset Junction Rail-
way ; South Eastern Railway (Folkestone Harbour, &c.) ;
Vale of Clwyd Railway; and Ware, Hadllam, and Bun-
tingford Railway,
The following bills were read a third time and passed :
Caledonian and Symington, Biggar, and Broughton Rail-
way Companies; Caledonian Railway (Rutherglen and
Coatbridge Branches) (Queen's consent, on behalf of the
Crown, to be signified.)

NEW WRIT.
On the mction of Mr. H. BAILLIE a new writ was
ordered for the county of Selkirk, in the room of Mr. A. E.
Lockhart, who has accepted the Chiltern Hundreds.

INLAND REVENUE BILL.
On the motion for going into committee on this bill,

Mr. W. MARTIN moved that it be an instruction to the
committee that they should have power to divide the bill
into two or more bills.

Mr. NEWDEGATE supported the motion, and said he
considered the bill as a sequel to the Consolidated Supply
Bill of the Chancellor of the Exchequer. He contended
that the latter measure should have been divided into three
bills, in conformity with the spirit and practice of Parlia-
mentary proceedings. The Chancellor of the Exchequer
had shown great dexterity in regard to this bill now before
the house. In the Consolidated Supply Bill he forced
through the principles of the charges proposed in taxation,
and he had reserved for this bill the details that were neces-
sary to give effect to the carrying out of the alterations
introduced. Direct taxation was odious, but it was when
it came to be enforced that its objectionable character became
apparent. He believed some of the provisions of this bill were
unnecessary, and he called on the house to show that they
would not assent to the innovation of the Chancellor of the
Exchequer in requiring them to legislate in the dog days on
important financial questions.
Mr. GLADSTONE said the hon. memberdid notunder-
stand, and misrepresented the nature of this bill. How-
ever, he had considered the motion of the hon. member
(Mr. Martin), and he would assent to it.
Mr. HADFIELD contended that by one of the clauses of
this bill relating to beer-houses, flood-gates of vice and
immorality would be opened for the purpose of replenish-
ing her Majesty's exchequer.
Mr. HENLEY supported the proposal for a division.
After some remarks from Sir J. FERGUSON the motion
was agreed to.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER entered
into some explanations, in the course of which he stated
that he proposed merely by this bill to obtain administrative
powers, and denied that he had introduced any fiscal novel•
ties by this measure. What he proposed was only to ex-

tend principles that were already in operation. In illustra-
tion of this he referred to the clause relating to the income-

tax, and contended that the only object proposed was to
effect a more equal distribution of that impost. With regard
to the 43d clause, to which there had been considerable ob-
jection, though he did not concur in the views
expressed by some hon. members, yet he would aban-
don it, considering the late period of the session. Under

the circumstances he trusted the hon. member (Mr.
Hennessy) would not press his motion.
Mr. HENNESSY said that he did not think the ex-
planation of the right hon. gentleman satisfactory. He
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(the Chancellor of the Exchequer) had disclaimed having
introduced any novelty, but he contended that it was a
novelty to be required on tho 19th of July to discuss im-
portant financial changes which should have been submitted
to their consideration in February last. He concluded by
moving " That this house will, upon this day three months,
resolve itself into the said committee."
The CHANCELLOR of theEXCHEQUER said the hon.

had member not made himself acquainted with the real
nature of the bill, and he trusted the house would not
accede to the motion, which would have the effect of in-
juring seriously the interests which he was desirous to
protect.
Sir S. NORTHCOTE defended the course adopted by
the Chancellor of the Exchequer, but he thought the
clauses relating to succession duty should be postponed,
and, if that course were adopted, he trusted the hon. mem-
ber (Mr. Hennessy) would not press his motion.
Mr. PHILLIPS agreed with the last speaker, and ex-
pressed 3 hope tint the succession duty would not be

pressed.
After some further discussion, in the course of which
strong objections were made to the 44th clause,
which imposed pains and penalties of a novel character,
Mr. HENNESSY said he would withdraw his motion if
the Chancellor of the Exchequer would omit from the bill
this clause.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said he
was sorry he could not comply with the proposition of the
hon. member.
The house then divided—
For the motion 49
Against it B2
Majority ......
Sir J. PAKINGTON asked the Chancellor of the
Exchequer to afford the house some information relative to
certain clauses before the house went into committee.
' The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that
he could not conveniently adept that course, and must re-
serve his explanations until the house went into committee.
After some irregular discussion the house went into com-
mittee.
In reply to Mr. HENNESSEY,
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER explained
that the object of the clause was to enable mithylated spirits
to be sold without license, which would confer considerable
benefit on the public, there being at present a 10 guinea
license imposed on this article, the use of which was ex-
tending daily,
Clauses 1 to 8 inclusive were agreed to.
Clause 9, with some modification, was also agreed to.
Clauses 10 to 14 were agreed to.
Clause 15 was postponed.
On clause 16,
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQ UER said it
renewed the duty on race horses, and did not, as had been
feared, affect Ireland.
The clause was agreed to.
Clause 17 was also passed.
Clause 18 equalised the penalty for selling game without
an excise license, and was agreed to.
On clause 19,
Mr. HENNESSY moved an amendment, which had the
effect of restricting the power of dealing with cases of illicit
distillation to courts of petty session, consisting of tw or
more magistrates, instead of one only, as proposed by the
bill.
The amendment was agreed to, and the clause, as
amended, passed.
The following clauses to No. 37 were agree& to.
Clauses 33 to 40 Were postponed, and clauses 41 to 44
were negAtiTecl• •

Clauses 48 to 53 were passed, 44 and 55'were struck out,
and clause 56 agreed to.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said he
should proceed with the postponed clauses on Tuesdaynext.
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LA ' E FACTORIES BILL.
The house went into committee on this bill pro forma,
and its further consideration 'was postponed till Tuesday
next.
The house resumed, and the sitting was suspended at four
o'clock.
The house met at six, and was
[LEFT SITTING.)

VICTORIA CROSS.

(Front the Gazette of this evening.)

WAR-OFFICE, JULY 17.

The Queen has been graciously pleased to signify her
intention to confer the decoration of the Victoria Cross on
the undermentioned Non-commissioned Officer, whose
claim to the same has been submitted for her Majesty's
approval, in consideration of an act of bravery which he has
performed in New Zealand, as recorded against his name,
viz. :
Colour-Sergeant John Lucas, 40th Regiment—On the
18th of March, 1861, Colour-Sergeant Lucas acted as Ser-
geant of a party of the 40th Regiment, employed as skir-
mishers to the right of No. 7 Redoubt, and close to the
Huirangi Bush, facing the left of the position occupied by
the natives. At about four o'clock p.m., a very heavy and
well-directed fire was suddenly opened upon them from
the Bush, and the high ground on the left. Three
men being wounded simultaneously, two of them mor-
tally, assistance was called for in order to have them
carried to the rear : a file was immediately sent,
but had scarcely arrived, when one of them fell, and
Lieutenant Rees was wounded at the same time. Colour-
Serjeant Lucas, under a very heavy fire from the rebels,
who were not more than thirty yards distant, immediately
ran up to the assistance of this officer, and seat one man
with him to the rear. He then took charge of the arms be-
longing to the killed and wounded men, and maintained
his position until the arrival of supports under Lieutenants
Gibson and Wheelan.

LONDON GAZETTE-(ISIS EVENING).

FOREIGN OFFICE, JULY 12.
The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint Thomas
Joseph Hutchinson, Esq., late her Majesty's Consul at
Fernando Po, to be her Majesty's Consul at Rosario.
ST. JAMES'S PALACE, JULY 16.
The Queen has been pleased, on the nomination of the
Right Hon. Lord Foley, to appoint Major Griffin Nicholas,
retired full pay sth Fusiliers, and Captain 4th Royal South
Middlesex Militia, one of her Majest) 's Hon. Corps of
Gentlemen-at-Arms, vice Moore, resigned.
The Queen has been pleased, on the nomination of the
Right Hon. Lord Foley, to appoint Captain James Edward
Boggis one of her Majesty's Hon. Corps of Gentlemen-at-
Arms, vice Helyar, resigned.
JULY 18.

The Queen has been pleased, on the nomination of the
Right lon. Lord Foley, to appoint Lieut.-Colonel Henry
Frederick Saunders one of her Majesty's Hon. Corps of
Gentlemen-at-Arms, vice Bentley, resigned.
INDIA OFFICE, JULY 18. _

It is hereby notified that, in compliance with the enact-
ment contained in the ninth clause of the Act of Parlia-
ment "For the better Government of India," passed in the
session holden in the 21st and 22d year of Her Majesty's
reign, chapter 106, a meetinz was held this day of the
Council of India, for the purpose of electing a Member, in
the room of Colonel Henry Marion Durand, C. 8., resigned;
and that at such meeting Colonel William ErEkine Baker,
of the Bengal Engineers, was duly elected to be a Member
of the said Council.
BANKRUPTCY ANNULLED.
Loran De Wolf Cochran, shipowner, late of the South
Sea House, Threadneedle-street, City.