The Sun.
London, England, 1850-06-12 00:00:00

PRUSSIA.

The latest accounts from Berlin announced the ar-
rival in that city of Horace Vernet, the celebrated
French painter, on his way to St. Petersburgh.
By order of the Minister of Justice all the employis
of that department are forbidden to wear the German
cockade.

DENMARK.
A summary of the proposals made by the Schleswig
deputies is given in the Kieler Correspondenzblatt of
the 7th inst., and runs a, follows :
"1. Schleswig and Holstein are to have a common
Stadtholder, but each of the two provinces will have
separate provincial b:ards.
'• 2. The King of Denmark, acting in concert with the
present Stadtholders, appoints the new Stadtholder and
the chiefs of the provincial boards.
3. The King and the Stadtholder will publish an
electionary law, and two Diets, for Schleswig and f, .r
Holstein, will be elected accordicg to the provisions of
this law. The Diet will have legislative power.
" 4 The Schleswig-Holstein army is to be reduced to
the number of its federal contingent. It is to be main-
tained by the joint contribution, of the two Duchies.
" 5. The whole of Schleswig is to be occupied by Prus-
sian troops until the affairs of that duchy shall have come
to a definitive 6ettlement.

" 6. This provisional state of things will continue until
a definitive arrangement shall have berm come to respect-
ing • 11 the questions now pending between Denmark and
the Duchies."

IMPERIAL PAR LIAME NT
(THIS DAY.)

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
The SPEAKER took the Chair, in the New Chamber,
at Twelve o'clock.
GLASGOW, AIRDRIE, AND MONKLANDS
RAILWAY, &c.
Mr. J. B. SMITH moved that leave be given to the
Committee on the Glasgow, Airdrie, and Monklands
Junction Railway, and Glasgow College Lands Bill, to
proceed with the Bill on two clear days' notice being
given in the Private Bill-office, under standing order
No. 100, notwithstanding that seven clear drys' notice
of the first meeting of the Committee this day, as re-
quired by standing order No. 194, has not been given
in the Private Bill-office.—Agreed to.
EARL OF LINCOLN'S DIVORCE BILL.

Mr. W. PATTE v moved that the petition of Mr.
Parkinson (presented 11:h June) to dispense with ser
• vice of copy of the Earl of Lincoln's Divorce Bill on
Lady Lincoln, be taken into consideration.
Mr. Charles Hunt, solicitor to the Countess of Lincoln,
was called to the bar of the House, and examined by.
Mr. W. Patten. lie was understood to say that he had
the authority of the Countess of Lincoln to act as her
agent in all matters relating to the present Bill.
In answer to a question from Mr. BOUVERIE, he
said that he had several instructions not to impede the
progress of the divorce.
The motion was then agreed to.
SURREY AND SUSSEX ROADS BILL.
Sir W. JOLLIFFE moved that instruction be given
to the Committee on Group 24 of Private Bills, that they
have power to amend the Surrey and Sussex Roads
Bill, by inserting (if they shall think fir) a provision that
mortgage creditors should not be entitled to enter into
possession of the tolls, except in default of payment of
interest.—Agreed to.
THIRD READINGS.
The following Bills were then read a third time :
Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners' Benevolent
Society.
Great Central Gas Consumers' Company (No. 2).
The Cethrow'e Estate Bill was then read a second
time, and ordered to be con•mitted.
PE TITIONS.
Mr. CHRISTOPHER presented a petition against
the Highway Bill; also against the Savings Banks Bill.
Mr. S. HERBERT presented a petition against the
admission of Jews into Parliament, and also a petition
praying that the Savings Benk Bill be referred to a
Select Committee.
Yr, L. HEY WORTH presented a retition against the
further extension of licences to beer houses ; also a
petition in fAvour of this Marriage Bill.
LANDLORD AND TENANTS BILL.
On the motion for going into Committee on this Bill,
• C ,lonel SIB MORE' said he should take the acme
course with respect to this Bill on the present occasion
that he always had done. Ho had not found a single
person among the tsnant-farmers of his acquaintance
who expressed any desire to have this Bill; and he should
move that the House should resolve itself into a Com-
mittee on it this day six months.
Mr. S. CRAWFORD supported the Bill. He was
much surprises at the determined opposition mani-
fested towards it by the Hon. and Gallant Member. It
was necessary that encouraeement should be given to
the tenant-farmers, especially at this juncture, when
they had been deprived of the protection previously
given to their produce. He thought the Bill was called
for; his only objection to it was that it did not go far
enough, it being only of an enabling character.
Mr. CHRISTOKIER would vote or the Bill, but he
did not think it would benefit the agricultural interest
much.
Sir GEORGE STRICKLAND felt himself bound to
support the motion of the lion. and Gallant Member
(Colonel Sibthorp). He thought the two Hon. Members
who had charge of the Bill, with the beat intentions,
were yet mistaken in their views in introducing it. He
thought all tenant right Bills fur Ireland were wrong
in principle, and that it would be much better fur England as well as Ireland to omit all that kind of
e
Hume then divided, when there appeared—
For the amendment ........Again5t.................. 22
Against it . .....................
......... ............................ 624 a
Majority
The House then went into Committee.
On Clause 1 being proposed,
Sir J. V. BULLED proposed the omission of the I
words which gave compe
nsation to tenant farmers for
any money they may
have expended in the purchase
cf food for cattle, sheep, or pigs. Surelywhetn, the
farmer sold his stock, he would gidethim.
compensation inn
the
improved price that would be pa
Mr. PUSSY said just the conversewas
tlr h
the
ee
purposerule.--
(Beare hear.) A farmer who fed
of menuring his land never expected get This
ohtsclause bad
more for
the rattle theft what he paid for it.
been agreed to by two distinct Committees, while the
words proposed to be left out, which certainly formed
the most vital Dart of the measure, had been introduced
upon the recommendation of Sir Robert Peel.—(hear.)
Mr. AGLIONBY should certainly support the clause
as it stood, for he knew of his own knowledge that in
many parts of the country farmers kept and fed their
cattle on the most expensive food for the purpose of the
manure.—(Hear, hear.)
Mr. H. DRUMMOND said, that undoubtedly that
was the most expensive, but it did not follow that it was
the best mode of obtaining manure. Indeed Mr. Lord
bad proved that duiighill manure was far preferable,
and he for one should resist this proposed compensation.
Sir JAMES GRA EIAM said that he had had great
difficulty in hearing the arguments ; the peculiarity of
the house wls that Members could hear the Spe'ker the other side of :he House, but of what was said on this
side of the House they could not hear otie sin le word.
With respect to the words which were now
proposed to be left out, he thought there was
some likelihood of the House resolving itself
into a farmer.' club. Ile was bound to say that he had
some experience on the subj. ct, and he could not think
that artificial manures were to be put upon the same foot-
ing as food purchased for animals. A large portion of
4 yielded greet returns to the purchaser; but the doe.,
of his Hon. Friend was to make cattle mere
machines for the productioreof manure.. Ile did not wish
19 so Into details on the subject, but he was decidedly
*weed to thin chum, which he thought ought not

to hp eoninder,d separate from the ti!li chum; and if he
wero driven to vote he should certainly vote fur the
omission of th• words. _ _

Mr. SIDNEY HERBERT was disposed to agree with
the Right Honourable Baronet in some of his remtrks,
but he certainly should not go to the length which he
had gone.
At ter a few words from Mr. AGLIONBY,

Mr. FLOYEB had many objections to the Bill, and
he should oppose the present clause.
Mr. NEWDEGATE said if the House passed a Bill
like this, which enabled a party having a life interest in
an estate to charge his successor to an unlimited extent,
they would absolutely invalidate the whole law of entail,
and empower the person in possession so to charge his
estate as absolutely to ruin his successor.
Mr. PUSEY said the principle of tenant-right in-
volved in those clauses was that which had been adopted
by the Lincolnshire tenantry, and recommended by two
successive Committees. Lord Yarborough had just in-
troduced those specific clauses into the management of
his property in the Isle of Wight, and he was no mean
authority on such a subject. Ho trusted the House
would not strike out of the Bill the only clauses which
made it valuable.

Sir WILLIAM JOLLIFFE deprecated the litiga-
tion in which those clauses would involve the whole
tenantry and landlords of England. He would cordially
vote for the omission of the proposed words.
Mr. SEYMOUR said as the Bill was entirely of a
permissive nature, no landlord or tenant would avail
themselves of it unless to their" mutual interest. He was
in favour of retaining the words in the clause.
Colonel SIBTHORP said, as every clause came under
consideration, he became more convinced of the danger-
ous, delusive, and destructive charactar of the measure.

Sir J. GRAHAM pointed .out the great advantages
which would result from the application of artificial ma-
t u. es to Lind. and the profit derived from feeding cattle
for the benEfit of their manure; •
Sir J. Y. BULLER was quite ready to join with his
tenants in improving his estates, but he entertained
strong objections to the plan proposed by this Bill. It
gave him no check over, the extravagances of his tenant,
nor did it fix the limit to which an expenditure under
this Bill could be carried.
After a few words from Mr. TRELAWNY, the
Committee divided, when there appeared—
For the amendment ...

... 84

Against it . ... 65
Majority ... ... —l9
The amendment was consequently carried.
Clauses 4,5, 6, 7 and S Ware then agreed to without

On clause 9,
Mr. GREENE moved an amendment to the clause,
laying certain restrictions cm glebe lands.
Mr. NEWDEGATE also proposed to introduce cer-
tain amendments with regard to charges on glebe lands.
Mr. PUSEY thought they were mixing up two or
three different subjects together, and he would rather
settle the point which had been raised by the Hon.
Member for Lancaster first.
Afters few words from Mr. PACKE,

Colonel SIBTLI011.1), in consequence of the promo-
ters of the Bill having asserted that this clause was
grounded on the practice of Lincolnshire, rose to dis-
claim on the part of Lincolnshire any sympathy with
the Bill.

Sir JAMES GRAHAM-aeggested that the amend-
ment should be postponed fo#The present, until the Hon.
Member for Warwickshire had had time to frame his
proviso.
Mr. GREENE was perftctly ready to do so if it was
thought more desirable.
The amendment was consequently withdrawn.
After a few words from Mr. LABOUCHERE,
Mr. WALPOLE moved the omission of certain
words in the clause, which he contended would enable a
mortgagee to impreve a mortgagor out of his property.
Atter a short discussion, iu which Sir James Graham,
Mr. l'useL., and the Solicitor-General tuck part, strangers
were ordered to withdraw.
The House then divided, when there appeared—
For the amendment ... 46
Against it ... ... 117
Majority ... —7l
The amendment was consequently lost.
The clause was then agreed to.
The remaining claasea of the Bill were then agreed to
without discussion.

The House then resumed, and the Chairman having
reported progress, the report was ordered to be brought
up on Monday next.
COURT OF CHANCERY BILL.
Mr. TURNER moved the second reading of
this Bill. He said it was with great diffidence and
reluctance that he had undertaken the task of at-
tempting some improvement in the practice of the Court
of Chancery. The House would be aware that no less
than 50,000,0004 of funded property was at the present
time in the bands of the Court of Chancery. He must
say that in the execution of this task he had
been encouraged by the remembrance of many
great men who had gone before him—coadjutors in
this great work. He had seen so much poverty, so much
distress, so much extravagance and waste caused by the
present mode of proceeding in the Court of Chancery,
that he considered some reform in this branch of the
law imperative. He was bound to say that the
Learned Judges of these Courts had, as far as they were
able, introduced beneficial reforms into their Courts. The
Bill which he gal introduced dealt with the subject on
an entire new principle ; it would, to a great extent,
simplify and assimilate the proceedings in all kinds of
cases, and do away with the delay and expense which at
present brought such opprobrium upon the Court of Chan-
dery. There was another great difficulty to provide for in
the Bill. An executor, atter paying all the debts of the
testator, and handing over the remainder of the property
to the legatees and other parties interested in the will,
might after the lapse of forty years be called upon to pay
some claim due by the testator of which no notice was
given at the time the will was carried out. It sometimes
happened that the testators were put to enormous ex-
penses in consequence of proceedings being instituted
against them iu respect of such claims. Many of the
provisions of the Bill bad been inserted at the suggestions
of persons holding eminent positions in the Court of
Chancery, and who were well acquainted with its practice.
That, as well as many other difficulties, the Bill endea-
voured to obviate. The Hon. Member delivered a warm
eulogium on the Lord Chancellor and Vice-Chancellor
Knight Bruce for the assiduity and learning which they
had displayed in their different capacities, and was un-
derstood to say that many parts of the Bill were either
suggested or approved of by those eminent legal autho-
rities. The Hon. Member, who was very indistinctly
heard throughout, concluded by moving the second read-
ing of the Bill.
The SOLICITOR GENERAL said he did not intend
to offer the slightest opposition to the measure.—(Hear.)
He not only entirely concurred in the object which the
Honourable Member sought to attain, but he had himself
brought in a Bill to remedy certain detects in the
law, which bad already received the sanctidn
of the House, and was now in its progress .through the
House of Lords. In that Bill he enabled parties, by
means of a special ca•e, to take the opinion of the
Curt as to the construction to be put on certain
words in any will,, deed, or other instrument, and
thus to avoid much prolonged and expensive litigation.
He approved of that part of the Bill which related to
the accounts of executors. Executors could not obtain
an exemption from liabilities till their accounts had been
passed, but at present the mode of obtaining the passing
was dilatory and expensive, and this Bill proposed to
substitute a more simple mode of procedings. Now, in
his own Bill he had attempted to do the same thing, and
ultimately he hoped it would turn out that the attempt
had not been made in vain.. With regard to the part of
the Bill which related to scandal, contempt, libels,
and such like offences, if he spoke according to his own
private opinion, he was strongly inclined to support
the plan of transferring some of the functions exercised
by the Masters to the Court itself. There could be no
doubt that the Masters were terribly overburdened with
business, greatly to the inconvenience of the public, and
any plan which could reduce the arrear must of necessity
prove of great advantage to the country. Thanking, there-
fore, his Hon. and Learned Friend for the attention and
ability he had brought to bear upon this important sub-
ject, it only remained for him to entreat the House to
read this Bill a second time, and let them go into Com-
mittee, and see it some of its provisions could not be
made law.—(Hear.)
Mr. P. WOOD said the delays of the Masters' office
could net be made too familiar to the public, and to show
the immensity cf the evil of the Court of Chancery, he
need. only explain the technical machinery of that office.
At present there were 1,944 causes under consideration
of the Masters' office, or an average of 200 causes
for each Master. Now, before any stage could be
taken in each case, what was called a warrant bad
to be obtained, which entitled the party applying
for it to the right:to be heard by counsel before the
apace of an hour. It'very often happened, howerer,
that it required three or four of these warrants to issue
before the Master could be made familiar with the cir-
cumstances of the case, while the same proceed-
, ing .had to be. gene
,through by , the other side,
la order that
:en:bre.): toh:e4sej.oan they :.-might be heard :in answer
clear therefore that the real cause d delay the -
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The Bill was r„„d
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moved S S
the LISTS s e second d ljreading
committed on Monday.
of this Bill.
Mr. HODGESBU
The existing law, he said, bas
abused. The mayor of a borough, assistedliable by tvvoasse
was required annually to revise the burgess' 'sore,
it not urifrequently happened that the nt;sots. Now
candidate for the suffrages of these very buigerssewsa-ea
that circumstance sometimes influenced his decision, in
d
cases where he thought the burgess was likely to vote
against himself. Indeed, in the borough of Rochester
that contingency had absolutely arisen, and as he be_
lieved that was by no means an isolated instance, he had
introduced this Bill to amend the law, and prevent a
recurrence of such an anomalous state of things.
Colonel SIBTIIORP opposed this Bill on the ground,
among others, that it was intended to remedy a state of
things which existed in the borough
of Rochester alone.
He reminded the House that there had been no petitions
presented in favour of this Bill, and that there !ere
several petitions presented against it, including spore
which he himself had presented from the city he had
the honour to represent. He understood there never
had been a complaint made against the proceecEngs
on the revision of the burgess lists by the great number
()f. Cities and boroughs which sent Members ,to ,that
House, with .respect to any improper conduct Oni, the
part of the.mayOr and assessors. On the contr ar the
people were Perfectly satisfied with the conduct of those
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