The Sun.
London, England, 1857-07-22 00:00:00

LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JULY 22, 1867.

The difgculty respecting the Parliamentary
Oaths Bill received three discussions yesterday.
First, by the deputation of Liberal members who
waited on the Premier, and subsequently consi-
dered the proceedings at that interview. Secondly,
by the Rouse of Commons on Lord JOHN
RUSSELI:B motion, •for leave to bring in a bill as
to the state of the exibtiug law. And, thirdly, in
the House of Lords, where the Lord Chief Justice
of England, rather irregularly, introduced
a debate, under the avowed object of in-.
quiring ibto the condition of the judicial busi-
ness Of the H )use, more particuhrly as to the
state of the appeal case of " SAnoatnNs v. Mu_
" The results in every case confirm the opi
nion ti at it is utterly useless to hope that Lord
Jonzir itussELL's Bill can be passed during the
present session, and that the representative branch
of the L-gislature must decide either on passing
Mr. Diumpat's, or some analogous, resolutions,
for the purpose of admitting Baron ROTHSCHILD
to his seat en taking the oath " in the form most
binding on his conscience," or of humbly submit-
ting to the decision of the Lords, and permitting
another body to become the judges of their own
peculiar rights and privileges.
Oa the first point, we regret to be obliged to
,say that we can place no confidence in Lord

PALMERSTON. He, of course, received the depu-
tation very courteously, and listened with respect-
ful deference to their views. No Minister could
do otherwise t.,wards so influential a body of his
supporters. He could not afford to say, as he
recently did of some other Members, that " he
cared nothing for their opinions." That would
Ise too daring an experiment for the wary tacti-
cian. But he carefully avoided committing him-
self in any way. H© stated "that it was impos-
sible for the Government to promise support to a
bill which they had not seen, and of the provi-
sions of which they were ignorant. That they
would give all their support to the introduction
of the bill, but could promise nothing as to the
future stages." We do not profess to give
the ipsissima verbs of the Premier, but
such was their tenor and effect. Not very
encouraging for those who were contented to keep
their own views in abeyance, waiting for what
the Government and the House of Lords might
do.

But this was not all ! Ho justified the
schism in the Cabinet on the question—would
hold out no hope of the acquiescence of the Go
vernment to seating Baron ROTHSCHILD by reso-
lution, and, "as a matter of tactics, doubted
if the bill of Lord JOHN RUSSELL, if it
passed through the House of Commons, would
not lose much of its effect by being carried
up by a smaller majority than supported
the Government Bill I" The best that could be
gathered from his statement was that "he did not
despair of the feeling in the Upper House under-
going a change." As if that was not sufficient to
damp the feelings of the applicants, he took ad-
vantage of the subsequent discussion in the House
"to speak frankly," reserving his opinion until
better informed of its provisions, but intimating
that, "in the present state of the session, with many
important bills pending, he could not undertake to
postpone Government business for the purpose of
pressing the measure forward." This was the
application of cold water with a vengeance. It
was similar to the treatment of the poor lunatic,
who first received a shower bath of six hundred
gallons, and then a considerable dose of the
" lowering" mixture. Certainly, there must be
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great vitality in the principle if it can resist such
depressing treatment !
In the House the motion was carried by a ma-
jority of 92, the numbers being for the bill 246, and
against it, 154. Judging, however, from the
tone and manner of the Opposition, the agreeable
treat which they provided on Saturday, and the
tacit encouragement'which they received from the
lukewarmness of the Premier, we are confirmed in
the belief that there is no hope of the measure
passing this session. In order to do so, and to
induce the Lords to re-consider their determina-
tion, it should be pressed forward with the ut-
most zeal and enthusiasm. It should be regarded
as of paramount importance, to which everything
else should give place. But when the Lords per-
ceive that not even a government day would
be given up for its discussion, and that Ministers
cannot be in earnest, they will display similar per-
versity to that which has induced them to reject the
principle, although assuming so many Protean forms
during four successive Parliaments. I.f, therefore,
the Commons desire to vindicate their own privileges
they must act for themselves, and not expect to
avoid the collision through any concession on the
part of the co-ordinate branch of the Legislature.
It seems to us that there is but one way to bring
Lord PALMERSTON to his senses, and to vindicate
the honour and character of the popular represen-
tatives. Let the newbill be affixed as a rider to some
of the money bills. We wish it could be to that
for the dowry of the Princess Royal, but it has
already received the Royal Assent. This, or the
bolder and more decisive method, which we have
advocated, of admitting Baron ROTHSCHILD by
a resolution of the House, would enlighten
the mind of the political chameleon, and sum-
marily dispel the German fog, which at pre-
sent obscures his vision and clouds
his judgment.. Let him be honest and straight-
forward, and he will have nothing to fear ; but
any paltry evasion or thimble-rigging quibbles will
deprive him of the independent support he has
hitherto received, and leave him in a hopeless
minority, deprived of the confidence and good-
will of the House, which he has abandoned in the
hour of emergency.
Indeed they have already received an ominous
warning. Lord CAMPBELL has stepped forward
as the schoolmaster, and administered a sound
castigation to those who presumed to assert their
own opinions. Ho ventured to impeach a resolu-
tion of which an Hon. Member of the other
House had given notice, and, as we believe, in
total violation of order, ho spoke of a matter
still pending in the Commons as a " flagrant
usurpation," " a coup d'etat, such as is sometimes
resorted to in a neighbouring country bbring about a
revolution I" Nay more, he distinctly and unequi-
vocally indicated what his conduct would be
if the question should be brought before him in
his judicial capacity, and hoped that "if the
House of Commons should order him to be taken
to Newgate or the Tower, the people would rise
in his defence." This is certainly not what we
should have anticipated from the head of the
Superior Courts of Common Law, and we shall
feel both grieved and astonished if the unseemly
threats have not a directly contrary effect to that
intended, and if the chosen representatives of the
people be not thereby influenced to assert their
own inherent and inalienable privileges in an une-
quivocal and decisive manner. The time has
indeed arrived when they must make up their
minds to act vigorously, or to sink into insignifi-
cance—to " awake, arise, or be for ever fallen."

It seems more than probable that the Tipperary
Joint-Stock and Royal British Banks will not be
suffered to stand alone in their glory ! The
London and Eastern Banking Corporation, so far
at least as the Directors and Managers are con-
cerned, boldly claims admission into the triad.
They appear to have as completely made away
with the asset., to have applied the entire
paid-up capital, and all that their credit
could obtain, for their own private and peculiar
benefit, as either of the rival boards. As in the
Irish case, a single dictator appears to have eb..
rained the lion's share of the plunder. Cul Mei
PETRIE WAUGH has contrived to absorb something
more than the entire capital, leaving to his fl-
- to pluck at the credit of the concern.
Ele seems to have dazzled, by his reckless expen-

liture, those who must either have been his weak-
winded dupes, or his criminal associates. A fabu-
lous value was placed on a property which he had
purchased for less thin the one-twentieth
part of what he obtained on its security ! And
while he was borrowing so largely, and at 12 per
cent, interest, from the funds entrusted to his care,
ne was living ea prince, as if he were, indeed,
the millionaire which he professed to be. The
public journals contained daily accounts of his
lavish entertainments. The glories of Campdon
House and of Branksea Castle were repeated
usque ad, protseam, and confiding, shareholders
were dazzled with the seemingly boundless
wealth of the man, who, altiaough appa_
p, or roRTu•
really p:ssessed of ALADDIN'S lam

NATIIS'S purse, was still willing to devote his time
and labour for their benefit. At length the
bubble burst, and veterans who had retired to
enjoy the °Gum cum digititate, and widows who
hoped to spend the remainder of their days in com-
fort, thanks to the, providence of their deceased hus-
bands, found themselves reduced to destitution,
and compelled to endure all the ills of pinching
poverty, through the reckless and wanton extrava-
gance of a single man, and the culpable folly, or
something far worse, of his coadjutors.
Such a case should be fully developed in all its
details. Every portion of the management should
be exposed in the clearest light. The delinquents
—whoever they may be—should not be secured
from public censure. Fortunately for the
creditors, it appears that the share-
holders are able, by impoverishing them-
selves, to provide for the liquidation of the
liabilities of the concern. The public will not
suffer very materially, but surely innocent
shareholders also require protection ; and
it is deplorable to see gallant veterans, help-
less widows, and innocent children reduced
to pauperism or deprived of the comforts,
to which they are entitled, and all their future
prospects blighted by such iniquitous conduct on
the part of those who may be regarded as their
trustees, bound to act to the best and utmost of
their ability for their interest.
It appears that the resolution adopted at a
former meeting, that the shareholders should give
promissory notes for a sum equal to 250,0001.
(being 50/. on each 1001. share, in addition to the
501. already paid), has been already acted on, to
the extent of 206,1501., and two calls of 151.
each per share have been made on the
shareholders, who refused to accede to the
proposed arrangements. Under these circum-
stances, the debts and liabilities are to
be privately liquidated, and the matter
will not come so prominently under the public
notice, as if more stringent measures were adopted.
Sufficient has, however, transpired, to show that
the whole of the original capital has been squan-
dered, and that the shareholders must. not
only submit to that loss, but must pay
further heavy sums to save themselves from ex-
pensive and ruinous litigation. We may, then,
hope that, notwithstanding the private liquidation,
the parties guilty of such vile and heartless frauds
may not escape with impunity, but that justice
may be fully vindicated, and that they may be all
dealt with strictly, according to their respective
deserts.

THE QUEEN OF THE NETHERLANDS.—The Countess
Van Buren (Queen of the Netherlands) honoured Earl
Cadegan wfth her presence at dinner, at his mansion in
Piccadilly, and afterwards went to a ball given by the
Countess de Persigny at Albemarle House.
The Duke and Duchess of Bucc)euch and the Ladies
Scott have left Montagu House, Whitehall, for Beaulieu,
in the New Forest.
The Duke of Sutherland, after a cruise of several
weeks in his yacht, has landed at Liverpool, and gone
to Trentham, where the Duchess and Lords Ronald and
Albert Leveson Gower are staying.
The Marchioness (Anne) of Londonderry has left
Holdernesse House for Wynyard Park, near Stockton-
on-Tees.

The Countess of We=tmo►eland and Lady Rose Fane
have gone on a tour in Switzerland. The noble earl re•
mains in town.

The Earl and Countess Ho we and Lady Mary Curzon
have left town for Gopsall Mill, Leicestershire.
The Countess Vane and her infant daughter are going
on favourably.
Viscount Gage, accompanied by the Hon. Miss Gage
and Mr. and Hon. Mrs. Towline, leaves town to-day for
the Continent.
Yesterday the marriage of the Hon. Ashley Ponson-
by, second son of the late Lord de Manley, to the Hon.
Louisa Gordon, daughter of Lord and Lady Henry Gor•
don, and Maid of Honour to her Majesty, was celebrated
at All Saints' Church, Knightsbridge, in the presence of
a brilliant circle of friends of both families.
The minutes of evidence taken before the Mayo County
Election Committee were issued yesterday in a huge Mue
book of 644 pages. The evidence taken before the Gal•
way Committee is also published.
STATE OF TRADE.—MANCHESTER, Tuesday.—Prices
of yarn are somewhat higher last week, with an exceed-

ingly firm market, and a fair amount of business doing.
There is a demand for all kinds of cloth, at hardening
prices excepting such as are for India—these remain

firm, at list week's rates.

THE LAST WAR IN CHINA.—The estimate of the
sum required to be voted in the year 1857, ending
March, 1858. for the adjustment of the account with
the Hon. East India Company, for the expedition
in connex;on with the last war in China (from 1840 to
1843), is fixed at 590,693/.
KENT SUMMER ASSIZES.—The commission for these

assizes will be opened at Maidstone on Thursday next,
and business commenced in bo'.h courts on the following
mornirg. There are no less than five indictments for
wilful murder. The judges are Chief Baroa Pol'ock and
Mr. Justice Willes.

ESCAPE FROM AN AUSTRIAN FORTRESS. —The Augs-
burg Gazete announces that three political offenders, Dr.
Senutte'and two military officers, who were not included
in the recent amnesty of the Emperor of Austria,
effected their escape about a fortnight ago from the for-
tress of Josephstadt, in Bohemia.
RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—As a short passenger train was
running from Lincoln to Rettord, on the Manchester,
Seffield, and Lincolnshire Railway, on the 15th inst ,
the engine jumped off the metals just after the train had
crossed the Trent-bridge, between Cot tam and Torksey,
and all the carriages were thrown off the line. The
guard was severely injured.
A. letter from Algiers of the 13th inst. gives full
details relative to the harvest throughout the French
possessions in Algeria. In the province of the east the
crops have fully realized the promises of the spring.
Wheat and barloy have &ready appeared in large qaanti-
ties on the market of Bona, and a considerable fall in
price has followed. The farms in the distr.ct of Guilma
are well cultivated, and the harvest most abundant.
DISTRESSING ACCIDENT DT FlRE,—Yesterday, be-
tween twelve and one o'clook, an accident of a most dis-
tressing nature occurred at No. 16, Wellington-street,
Victoria-park. A young woman who was washing in the
back part of the premixes had her dress drawn into the
copper fire ; the flames were not exhausted before she
was severely burnt. The sufferer, who is not expected
to survive, had only been married a fortnight-.
NAVIGATION SCHOOL MEETING,—A. public meeting
was held yesterday, at the Sailors' Institute, Mercer.
street, Shadwell, to inaugurate the opening of a Navi.
gation School in connexion with the Board of Trade.
Lord Stanley of Alderley took the chair ; and amongst
those present were Mr. A. Ayrton, Dr. Lyon Playfair,
Mr. L. L-vi, %Ir. Somes, Mr. ScruttOn, Mr. J. Payne,
and several others. Resolut onB having bees adopted in
support of the school, the pr,esedings closed with the
usual compliment to the noble ctiairra,an.

THE SALE AT ALTON TOWERS.—The s da of the mag-
nificent collection at Alton Towers still proceeds. The
total amount of last Friday's sale was 2,500/. Saturday's
gall produced 1,0001. The amount realised on Monday
was 7501. Among the articles sold were a pair of mag-
nificent Dresden vales, which rea iced 180/. A pair of
very handsome statuary warble candelabra were told for
1931. A set of six groups of rustio figures, by Percy,
realised 1061. Tyro ivory carvings of the glorification
and asc,nsion of the Virgin, in high relief, by naming°,
were sold for 1291.

THE CONDEMNED CRIMINALS AT CHELMSFORD.—
There has been a very natural desire on the part of the
Sheriff and other authorities that the two shoul I be
executed on the same day, so as to avoid a repetition of
the sad scene. Communications were accordingly opens 1
with the Secretary of State, who, after maturely con-
sidering the subject, was of opinion that the regulation
in such cases was imperative, and could not be relaxed.
The tx.cution of Crawley for the murder of his wife at
Stratford wag therefore fixed for Thursday next, the 23i
inst., and of Finch for Wednesday, the 29th.
SEWAGH OF TOWNS.—Yesterday the report on the
means of deodorising and utilising the sewage of towns,
ac'd- esaed to toe Board of Health by Mr. Henry Austin,
C.E., chief superintending inspector of the board, and
preunted to parliament, was issued as a publication.
The report treats of the present position of the question,
the contituents of sewage, and several chemical and
mechanical processes for separating the solid matter, the
systems of ope❑ irrigation and underground pipes AS
means of utilising sewage, agricultural results from the
use of sewage manure, and concludes with a chapter of
practical recommendations,

SIR JOHN VILLIERS SHELLEY M.P.—We regret to
state that Sir John Villiers Shelley has been preventt d
by serious indisposition from attendance on his pariia•
mentary duti_s during the past week. The hon. baronet
was attacked on Monday, the 13th, by erisypelas in the
face, which tbreltened to extend to the head, and caused
s were suffering. Stringent measures were at once
reiorted to, and the disorder was fortunately got under
by the end of the week, The attack, however, has, we
regret to learn, left the hoe, baronet in a very weak
condition, and wholly unable to leave his room or at-
tend to business matters.—Sussex Advertiser.

MADRAS RAILWAY.—The report of the directors of
this company states that the opening of the further sec-
tion cf the railway between Arcot and Vellore has been
effected. A r2girnent of infantry was carried through
from MacTras to Velloro is April, and on tho 7th of May
the line was opened for general traffic between these
points, a Meta ice of about 81 miles. The further open.
ing t 3 Gor attin willl be accomplished before the end of
the year, making altogether nearly 100 wiles of railway.
Throughout tie remainitir, portions of the South-Vilest
line the works aro iroceediog actively.