The Sun.
London, England, 1861-06-10 00:00:00

CIIINA-MR. PARKE'S REPORT.

Col. SYKES asked the Secretary of State for Foreign
Affairs, whether the report from Mr. Parkes of his four
interviews with the Taeping authorities at Nankin, to
which reference was made in Commander Aplin's letter,
dated the 2d of April, 1861, in the China correspondence,
respecting the opening of the Yang-tze-Kiang river, would
be laid upon the table of the house ?
_ _ _

Lord J. RUSSELL said that whatever 'papers had been
received on the subject had been already on the table.
DEPORTATION OF MR. MOSS FROM JAPAN.
Mr. Alderman SALOMONS asked the Secretary of
State for Foreign Affairs, if any decision had been come to
in the case of Mr. Moss, sentenceg by Mr. Alcock to fine,
deportation from Japan, and imprisonment at Hong Kong ;
and if he is prepared to lay any papers on that subject
upon the table of the house ?

Lord J. RUSSELL said that it would not be proper to
lay such papers before the house, considering that there
were law proceedings pending at Hong Kong in reference
to the subject.

APPROPRIATION OF SEATS (SUDBURY AND

ST. ALBANS) BILL.

On the motion for going into committee on this bill,
Earl JERMYN moved that the house resolve itself into
such committee this day six months. The noble lord,
was very imperfectly heard, was understood to say tliat
Sudbury was not deserving of the sweeping condemnation
to other
have
which had been passed on it by depriving it of Parliamen-
tary
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the Government had
this borough. He complained that
been guilty of offences quite as bad as those committed by
not dealt explicitly with himregard question he
had put shortly before the Easter vacation, as to whether
in to the
it was intended to deal with the other delinquent boroughs
with the same severity- as St. Albans and Sudbury had bun
treated, and he was left uninformed on this subject,
He said the question in regard to this borough was not one
of abstract political morality or immorality, but one
of reja..
tire or comparative merit ; and applying this
ro
the present case, he thought it most unjustproposition to
borough of Sudbury with the heavy penult to visit the
inflicted on it. lie said that it was y which had been
not
oppose this bill further than to elicit a hisintention
to
should be the practice in future with regarddiscussion to constituencies
corruption.
convicted of gross and systematic co
Sir G. C. LEWIS said that he
thoughtron.
casion on which the subject of dealing the proper oc-
casion
con-
victed of corruption would be when the with boroughs
Elections Bill was brought forward,The object of the
Corrupt Practice at
noble lord was in fact to resuscitate a
defunct borough, and
a borough remarkable for its
corruption. In the work of

Mr. May, who sat at that table, it had been shown that
Sudbury had been famous in the annals of political abase-
ment. He referred also to the overwhelming mass of evi-
dence before the select committee confirmatory of the bad
reputation which that borough had acquired. With regard
to the boroughs of Gloucester and Wakefield, it was not
necessarily the function of Government to bring in a bill
to disfranchise these boroughs, but it was competent for
any private member to do so, and if that were adopted,
Government would give the bill every due consideration.
He trusted, under these circumstances, the noble lord (Earl
Jernyn) would not press his motion.

Major PARKER, who had seconded the amendment,
trusted that the house would reject the bill.
Mr. SCULLY also opposed the bill, which he denounced
as a miserable substitute on the part of the Government for
the Reform Bill which they had promisecithe country, and
on the faith of which they had been placed in power.
hlr. STIRLING supported the bill as being a step in
the right direction. He thought that on the distribution
of the seats, it was a fallacy to regard them as being only
English seats, and that one of them should be given to
Scotland and another to Ireland. When they went into
committee he would move that one of the vacant seats should
be given to the Scotch University.
Co) D UNNE gave notice that in committee he would
move that two of the vacant seats should be given to Ire-
land. His hon. and learned friend the member for Dun-
garvan had a motion to the same effect, but he specified
Cork and Dublin as being the parts of Ireland to whom the
additional members should be appropriated, and to that mo-
tion he had no objection. lie contended that Ireland was
not adequately represented in that house, and that the
present was a fitting opportunity for the Parlia-
ment to do justice, though in a very small
degree. lie would move that Cork should be substituted
for Lancashire in the bill, or if it was more agreeable to
Scotch members to make a similar motion in relation to
the Scotch University, he would move that Cork be sub-
stituted for Chelsea.

Sir H. WILLOUGHBY deprecated the introduction of
the subject of the boroughs of St. Albans and Sudbury into
the introduction of the bill. He thonght that Governmen
should be allowed to make the selection of the boroughs
who were to get the additional members.
[LEFT SPEAKING.]