The Sun.
London, England, 1857-08-19 00:00:00

HUDSON'S BA:k COMPANY,

Mr. ROEBUCK also gave notice that early next ses-
sion he should call the attention of the house to the
relations existing between this country and the Hudson's
Bay Company.
BISHOP HINDS, LATE BISHOP OF NORWICH.
Mr. D. GRIFFITHS gave notice that on Friday
next he should ask the first Lord of the Treasury whe-
ther, now that Bishop Bloomfield's pension had fallen
in, he was disposed to grant a pension to Dr. Hinds, late
Bishop of Norwich.
SALE OF OB3CENE BOOK, &0., PREVENTION

BILL.
The house went into committee on this bill.

Sir E. PERRY, who had charge of the bill, in reply
to observations from hon. members, said that he pro-
posed to adopt the suggestion of the commi.tee that
two justices should be entrusted with carrying out the
provision of the bill, instead of one 29 provided by the
bill. He would also adopt the suggestion that the act
of sale should be sworn to in the information before a
summons issued ; as well as an appeal to quarter sessions
from the decision of the justices.
On clause 1,
Mr. AYRTON proposed an amendment to insert
the words " for gain," to make the exhibition of offen-
sive prints, &c., an offence against the law.
Mr. ROEBUCK supported the amendment, and in
doing so read a letter he had received from Lord
Brougham, in confirmation of his (Mr. Roebuck's)
statement on a former occasion, that there
might be found in the body of justices men who
would be found to pervert the provision of an
act. The letter referred to the petition of four poor men
presented in 1841, to the House of Lords, by Lord
Lyndhurst, wherein it was stated that they had been
fined Queen Elizabeth's shilling by certain justices for
non-attendance at church. Tilley were brought be-
fore the justices on a charge of poaching, but
that charge failing, the justices interrogated them
relative to their attendance at church, and asked if they
attended the parish church on the previous Sunday.
Receiving an answer in the negative they pursued their
inquiries, and ascertained that the men bad not attended
church for the four previous Sundays, on which they
fined them accordingly.
Sir GEORGE GREY assented to the amendment.
After some discussion the amendment was agreed to.
The bill after some amendments passed through corn-
' mitteee.
I DIVORCE AND MATRIMONIAL CAUSES

BILL.

The committee on this bill was resumed for the pur-
pose of adding some new clauses.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL brought up a clause
in lieu of clause 8, providing for the constitution of the
court to be established under the bill.
The clause was read a second time, discussion on it
being postponed till the bringing up of the report.
[LEFT SITTING.]

THE CONDEMNED CONVICTS AT MAIDSTONE.--On
Friday a special warrant was issued to the sheriff of
Kent for the execution of the culprits, Fox and
Edwards, now lying under sentence of death in Maid-
stone r d
igaolegly for
be theex e
ecrime ot
there
e re murderte .
ea 0; r
raenwd,
theth e y
instant.
THE SOUND DUES —Within the last ten days the
whole of the 1,135,0001. due for the redemption of the
Sound Dues has been paid to Messrs. Hambro and Son,
the London agents of the Danish Government. It is
understood that this amount is to bo retained in England
to pay off certain portions of the Danish foreign debt,
and the circumstance of its being temporarily employed
in the money market has been one of the causes of the
increased ease lately manifested.
SEA RlSlES.—Complaints have lately been made that
the steamers trading to and from the northern ports of
England and the Baltic are accustomed to take deck
loads, to the manifest prejudice of the underwriters and
the danger of both passengers and vessel. In many
instances this practice is most dangerous, in the event of
severe weather taking place during the passage, and it
is therefore necessary that both shippers and passengers
should be acquainted with the practice and its dangers.
TENTILATION BY THE STEAM JET.—A somewhat
novel application of the steam jet fur the purpose of
ventilating a coal mine has just been made by Mr.
F. H. Pearce, of the Bowling Iron works, near Brad-
ford. The Leeds Mercury gives the following :—" The
application is at- present in operation in a pumping-
shaft, 120 yards iu depth, the ventilation of which had
been stopped by the water rising at the bottom of the
pit during the time some alterations were being made
in the pumps. The water having stopped the air-
eoarses, the pit, to within a few yards of the top,
became full of the gas known to miners as black
choke damp, which appears to have been discharged
freely from some old workings, and thus it was ren-
dered an impossibility for the workmen to descend
until the removal of the gas bad been effected and a
constant current of pure air produced in the pit.
Mr. Pearce has succeededsteainm mtoaiinstsauienini goto so
the perfectt a
. ventilation of the above-mentioned pit, simply by
aplhloerweinagt aa fsemw falel jet of
et from the top of the pipes through
aosm
which the water is forced up when the pumps are at
work, and the pit can be worked with perfect safety.
The workmen were enabled to descend 30 minutes
after the steam had been turned into the pipes. The
principle is exceedingly simple. The jet of steam issuing
from the top of the pipes produces in them a partial
vacuum, which draws the foul air up these pipes, and
thence out of the pit with very great velocity. The cost
of applying the steam jet in the above manner is very
trifling ; and this method of ventilation will doubtless be
found a very safeand useful one in many instances, particu-
larly in sinking deep shafts. In addition to other advan-
ta;es, wood or any other kind of pipes may be used. It re-
quires little or no attention, no machinery to get out of
repair, produces a powerful current of air, and can be
regulated at pleasure. As the steam is discharged into
the atmosphere above the top of the pit, it does not in-
terfere with the men working in the shaft,"