The Sun.
London, England, 1868-07-27 00:00:00

LATEST INTELL IGEN CE.

FRANCE.

Bo URSE„JuIy 25.—T1:
closed as follows :

Lree o'clock.—The market

4i per Cont.
lin,l of month —
3 per Cent

Bank Shares 3150
Ital'an Loan —
End of month —
Mexican Loan
Do. Bonds
Spanish Threes 37
Home Debt —
Deferred —

End of month... 70 97
Credit Mobilier ... 271 25
End of month... 271 25
Credit Foncier
End of month...

RAILWAYS.

Cash.
Orleans ... 882
Northern 1155
Lyons and Mediterranean
Southern..... 572
Western
Eastern • • 557
Sardinian
Austrian
Lombard 405
North of Spain 6O
Saragossa
Roman 42

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT

HOUSE OF COMMONS-SATURDAY.

The SPEAKER took the chair at 12 o'clock.
'rho first business was the formal withdrawal of the
Metropolitan Foreign Oattle Market Bill, of which notice
had been given a few hours before. The discharge of the
order led to a short conversation, in which the natural re-
gret was expressed on one side and exultation on the
other.

Mr. AYRTON'S self-congratulation took tho ironical
tone of an eulogy on the forms of the house, which bad
enabled a minority to assert the cause of justice and reason
against a majority.

Mr. Cowan, Mr. Norwood, and Mr. J. S. Mill, who also
rejoiced at the withdrawal of the bill, agreed that a ju-
dicious code of Privy Council Orders would meet the evil.

Mr. READ, who took occosion to disclaim the honour
so often attributed to him in the debates, of being the
father of the bill, admitted that the Government, under
the circumstances, bad little option but to withdraw it.
Mr. KENDALL protested against the Protectionist
theories imputed to the supporters of the bill ; their sole
desire was to keep out disease. Mr. Newdegate, Colonel
North, and Mr. Lowther and other supporters of the bill,
also spoke in the same sense ; but its Irish supporters, by
their strong language, scorned to take its failure much
more to heart.

General DUNNE broadly maintained that the Govern-
ment could have passed it had they been in earnest, and
Mr. Blake asserted that he knew of capitalists in the city
who would gladly have taken on themselves the financial
respon sibi lity.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER defended
the decision of the Government, who, he maintained, bad
done all in their power to pass t 1 e bill, and had only
yielded to pertinacious opposition and insuperable difficul-
ties. The capitalists of whom Mr. Blake had spoken were
not willing to undertake the compensations.
After some remarks from Colonel SYKES and Lord B•
MONTAGU the bill was withdrawn.

The Regulation of Railways Bill was read a third time
and passed, but before attaining this final stage several
new clauses were considered and disposed of. The only
one of general importance, which obtained the assent of
the house, was a clause moved by Mr. H. B. Sheridan,
compelling railway companies to provide in every train
smoking compartments for each class of passengers. n
was opposed by Mr. Laing, Mr. Leeman, and others of the
"railway director." interest. The Government, repre-
sented by Colonel W. Patten, the Attorney-General, and
Mr. S. Cave, did not give it much support, recommending
that it should be left to the Companies gradually to tidal' t
themselves to public convenience ; and Mr. Cave promised
that if this time next year they had not profited by the re-
spite, he would support compulsion.
This compromise was not satisfactory to members who
either confessed to be breakers of the law themselves, or
who bad suffered inconvenience from its infraction bY
others. Mr. Neste, Lord C. Hamilton, Captain Stack-
poolo, Mr. D. Griffith, and Mr. Alderman Lusk supported
the clause, and its only opponent among the independent
members was Mr. Leveson-Gower, whose singular expe-
rience (confined to first-class travelling) was that no 101
or non-smoker experienced annoyance from the presetj
system. Ou a divison the clause was carried by 38 to a
•
It was afterwards modified, on the suggestion of Mr. 1%:;
Beaumont and Sir C. O'Loghlen, to meet the case of sro3"
cross-country lines by giving the Board of Trade a power
of exemption.
A very elaborate set of clauses was proposed bY fir.
Leeman to limit the liability of railway companies 0(0;
Lord Campbell's Act. They proposed that .£4OO shoal'
be the maximum compensation recoverable by a first-class'
£3OO by a second-class, and £2OO by a third-class I°-
senger, and the scheme included a complete scale of fir
surances to be effected by passengers wfth the railivol
companies. Meeting, however, with but little encourage-
ment, he did nut press them.
Some other bills were fcrwarded a stage, and the 110115 e
adjourned at a quarter to three o'clock.