The Sun.
London, England, 1868-05-29 00:00:00

TILE METROPOLITAN POLICE.

Mr. HARVEY LEWIS asked the Secretary of State
for the Rome Department, whether, ilefore in wing the se-
cond reading of the Metropolitan Police Funds Bill, whereby
the local taxation of the metroplis for pollee purposes
is sought to be augmented, he would lay before the house
copy of the evidence taken by, and the Report of the Home-
office committee on, the Metropolitan Police ; and whether
he would also, before the second reading of the bill, pro-
duce an estimate of the increased expenditure to be in-
curred thereunder ?

Mr. HARDY said the police had been augmented not
with a view to increased local taxation, but for other pur-
poses. With respect to the expenditure, he proposed to
lay on the table of the house papers connected with the
matter which ho hoped would prove satisfactory.
BOKIIARA.

Sir H. RAWLINSON asked the Secretary of State for
Foreign Affairs if he had auy information of a proposed
renewal of Russian hostilities against Bokhara ; and, if so,
whether he could state the aim and object of such hos-
tilities ?

Lord STANLEY said an account in the journals of St.
Petersburgh had appeared of the return of an armed party
from Bokhara, but ho was not aware that any other expe-
dition had been despatched.
CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY FOR IRELAND.

Mr. MURPHY asked the Chief Secretary for Ireland
whether her Majesty's Government intended to take any
further stops with regard to the proposed Catholic Uni-
versity for Ireland ?

The Earl of MAYO said a copy of the correspondence
on this subject would soon be laid on the table ; but he
might say that, as the right rev. prelates who had been
appointed to represent the Roman Catholic Hierarchy of
Ireland had declined the condition the Government pro-
posed, the matter was considered to be entirely at an end.

THE SCOTCH REFORM BILL.
The house then went into oommittee on the Scotch
Reform Bill.

On clause 9,

Mr. GRAHAM moved an amendment, the effect of
which was to divide Glasgow int, three divisions, eac
returning one inombor in opposition to the proposition of
the Government, which also dividod Glasgow into three
parts, but allow the electors only to vote for two per-
sons.

Mr. DISRAELI said before the discussion proceeded
further ho wished it to be clearly understood that the
effect of carrying the amendment would be to rescind the
proposition that had been already adopted by Parliament
with respect to triangular representation.
Mr. SMOLLETT said he should give his support to
the amendment of the hon. member opposite. He
believed that the triangular system was bad, and he felt
for the future that the representation of Glasgow would in
the next session be found very much to have deteriorated.
He thought thothird of the three-cornered members would
be the worst one of the lot---(laughter)—as he more than
likely would be the mouthpiece of some trades' union.
Mr. GLADSTONE thought it would b 3 very unwise
to revive the question of the representation of minorities,
which occupied so much time last year on the English
bill. He thought the system would get a fair trial under
the English bill, and therefore he hoped the house would
accept the proposal of the hon. member for Glasgow.
Mr. LOWTHER hoped the committee would reject the
amendment.

Mr. NEWDEGATE said if G'asgow was divided into
three ward; each ward returning one member, there would
be no representation of the minority at all. As the opinion
of the minority was to be respected, he hoped the horse
would reject the amendment.
Mr. MILL argued in favour of the representation of
minorities as an act of justice entirely apart from party
considerations, but . _

Mr. BRIGHT, on the other hand, warmly condemned
it, characterising it as an odious innovation, eminently dis-
tasteful to the English constituencies to which it had been
applied, and certain to produce chaos in all electioneering
organisations. He denied that the principle had been de-
liberately adopted by the house last year. Originally it
was rejected by a majority of 140, Mr. Disraeli (as well as
Lord Derby) being among its most earnest opponents.
But when the bill came down from the Lords with this
and other amendments (all of which the Commons struck
out), the Government persuaded the House to accept it
rather than offend the Lords and provoke them to post-
pone the bill.

Colonel L. LINDSAY claimed that if groat towns were
to be exempted from this principle it ought not to bj ap-
plied to counties.
_ . _

Mr. Liddel, in opposing the amendment, attributed to
Mr. Bright a " devoted adherence" to American institu-
tions, which Mr. Bright contradicted so tartly as to bring
down on himself the condemnation of the chairman, and
Mr. Liddell retorted that, at any rate, Mr. Bright seemed
an admirer of American manners.

Mr. CARDWELL explained thet having last year voted
in favour of the representation of minorities, he now sup-
ported the " voting by wards," on the same ground as Mr.
Gladstone, that it was an experiment which deserved try-
ing.

Mr. DISRAELI reminded the committee that th© cou-
troyomy lay act IntiTM tho inia9rity priaciple aid On

present system of voting, bat between the minority prin-
ciple and a new plan, totally unknown to the Constitution,
which had never been proposed before.
kr. HORSMAN replied that the metropolis was divided
into wards in 1832, and Sir G. GREY added that the bill of
last year divided the Tower Hamlets.
On a division Mr. GRAIIAM'S amendment was rejected
by a majority of 59-244 to 185.

A second division was then taken on an amendment
proposed by Mr. Bouverie a 3 to the boundaries of Glas-
gow, which resulted in a tie of 112 on each side. The
Chairman, taking into consideration that a second oppor-
tunity would be afforded of debating the point on the
schedules, decided with the Ayes, thus leaving the bill
unaltered. Clause 9 was then agreed to, the actual appli-
cation of the minority principle to Glasgow being post-
poned till the new clauses are brought up.
On Clause 10, the proposition of the Government to
combine the counties of Peebles and Selkirk was agreed
to, after a short conversation, Mr. Moucreiff being the only
dissentient.

Mr. ORAUFURD proposed that the member thus ob-
tained should be given to Aberdeen, but his motion meet-
ing with but small support, he withdrew it, and tho Go-
vernment plan of conferring the member on a group of
Border boroughs, consisting of Hawick, Galashiels, and
Selkirk, was agreed to.
The next discussion was on a motion by Mr. LAING to
combine the counties of Iloss and Sutherland.

..,Lord R. LEVESON-UOWER made a spirited and effec-
tive speech in defence of Sutherlandshire, which, though
its electors were only obout 120, had a population (25,000)
larger than that of some counties and many boroughs re-
presented by two members.

Sutherlandshire also found powerful alvocates in Mr.
BOUVERIE and Mr. lionsmAx, who urged the committee, if
it desired to get through the bill before Whitsuntide, to
accept the Government plan as a whole, and to discounte-
nance the amendments of private members, which now
spread over 20 pages.

Mr. DISRAELI resisted aay further disturbance of the
electoral arrangements of Scotland, and opposed also ou
its merits the proposal to disfranchise a constituency ex-
tending over a large tract of country and representing IL
considerable population.

Mr. GLADSTONE also protested against the disfran-
chisement of Sutherlandshire. Population, and not the
number of electors, ho maintained, had always been the
teat hitherto, and he hinted that to depart from the Go-
vernment plan might lead to the reopening of the English
scheme.

Ou the suggestion of Mr. C. Bruce, Caithness was sub-
stituted for itoss, and the proposal, as then amended, was
supported by Mr. H.llie, Sir W. Stirling-Maxwell, Mr.
Sergeant Gaselee, Mr. M'Lareu, Lord Eleho, and Lord H.
Scott, but on a division it was rejected by 195 to 92.
Clause 10 was then agreed to; and on Clause 11,

Mr. H. BAILLIE proposed to join the .Wigton Burghs
to Dumfries, in order to give a third member to Edin-
burgh, but it was negatived almost without discussion.
Sir E. COLEBROOKE divided the committee on Muse
12, which provides for the division of the counties of Ayr,
Lanark, and Aberdeen. His object was that the two mem-
bers should be elected by the whole county ; but the com-
mittee agreed to the clause as it stood by a majority of U 3
—206 to 141.

Clause 13 was agreed to, completing the Redistribution
part of the bill. _ _

The remaining clauses in the bill, which relate to mis-
cellaneous matters, were rapidly run through and dis-
posed of with a few verbal amendments, and the consi-
deration of the postponed and now clauses was adjourned
until Monday week.
In Committee of Supply a vote of £1,400,000 was taken
on account of the Civil Estimates.

Some other business was disposed of, sand the house
adjourned at half-past one o'clock.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.-THIS DAl'.

WESTMINSTER.

BRUTAL OUTRAGE BY A DAUGHTER UPON A
MOTHER.—Rosina Carroll and Mary Canes, two
young women, were charged with violently assault-
ing the mother of the latter.

A policeman proved that he was called last night
to a public house in York-street, 'W estminster,
where he found the defendant engaged in a quarrel
with an old woman, the mother of Canes. He
separated them, but soon after he found both the
defendants kicking the old woman.
Elizabeth Canes, whose face was dreadfully dis-
figured and head tied up, said that she had been
most cruelly beaten by her daughter and the other
girl last evening. They had, besides the injuries
she bore, inflicted others which were not visible.
One of them had kicked her on the jaw and knocked
two of her teeth out.

Canes—Then you shouldn't have taken nine
pence and my apron. I hadn't got a halfpenny left
to go to market with.
Carroll—l tried to part them.

The policeman said that that was true in the
first instance, but after that she helped in the
attack.

Defendants both said they had all been drinking
together before they fell out.

The policeman said they were all affected by
drink.

Mrs. Canes again complained how cruelly she
had been treated.

Mr. Selfe committed the defendant Canes for six
weeks to hard labour, and Carroll for seven days.

T fIA NIES.

CRUELTY TO A
WlFE.—George Curtis, a painter
and writer, was brought before Mr. Paget, charged
with violently assaulting his wife.
A police-constable stated that the wife of the
prisoner was severely beat and wounded, and that
she could not attend. He put into the witness-box
Georgiana Curtis, the daughter of the prisoner, who
said the night before last her father took hold of
her mother roughly, and said " I mean to have busi-
ness with you." He knocked her down, and when
she got up he knocked her down again. lie got upon
her and beat her, and draggel her along the floor by
the hair of her head. Her mother got away from him,
and her father slept for an hour and a half, and then
began to ill-use her mother again, and she became
insensible. Her father was drunk.
_ _ _

Mr. Paget remanded the prisoner for a week.
Mr. H. Allen, prosecuting officer of the Associate
Institution for Improving and Enforcing the Laws
for the Protection of Women, attended, and said
the society had directed him to watch the case,
and to prosecute the prisoner, if the magistrate
should think it necessary to commit him for trial.
CRUELTY TO A 11011 SE.—Joseph Goodway was
charged at the instance of the Royal Society for
the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals with working
a horse and torturing it.
The horse was in the yard behind the court. It
was iu a weakly condition and suffering. The belly
of the animal was chapped and sore. Police-sergeant
Harvey said the horse was plunging and kicking
frightfully, and the people who saw the state of the
animal were very indignant. The prisoner, who
said he was a greengrocer, had another horse in a
very bad state.

The prisoner said he only had possession of the
horse in the yard for a fortnight, and if it was
taken from him it would be a very great loss to
him.

Mr. Paget—l certainly will not consent to your
working the horse I have just seen in its present
condition.

The prisoner said he would send the horse to
grass. _

_
Mr. Paget said the horse had been sadly tor-
tured. lie directed the prisoner to bring the horse
before him again in a month's time, and he would
then determine what he should do with the pri-
soner.

Mr. Colam, the secretary of the Royal Society,
said the officers had received particular directions
to look after overworked and diseased horses.

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screw, built by Messrs. Laird and Co., of Greenock, for the
Royal Mail Steam Packet Company, has left the Clyde for
Southampton. She was originally built for the North Ger-
man Lloyd, but has been transferred to the Royal Steam
Packet Company. She cost about £llO,OOO, and her di-
mensions are as follows : length,. 310 ft.; breadth of beam,
40ft. ; depth of hold, 27ft. ; burden, 3,000 tons. She is
propelled by direct acting inverted cylinder engines of 600
horse power nominal. Messrs. Randolph, Elder, and Co.
have launched a twin screw of 464 tons, builders'measure-
ment, and 120 horse-power nominal, of the following
dimensions : —Length over all, 160 ft. ; breadth, 20ft.; and
depth moulded, lift. 4in. She has been named the Midge,
andtas been built to the order of the British Government,
which supplies the engines. The Peninsular and Oriental
Steam Navigation Company has purchased from Messrs.
W. Denny and Brothers an iron screw of 3,000 tons' bur-
den, now being built by them. The dimensions of the
vessel are 316 ft. by 42ft., and 31ift., and she will be fitted
with engines of 600-hprse power nominal.
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