The Sun.
London, England, 1850-08-02 00:00:00

ACTIONS AT LAW BY THE OFFICE OF

WOODS AND FORESTS.
Mr. R. TREVOR alluded to certain unsuccessful ac•
tion. which had been instituted by the office of Woods
and Forests with reference, as we understood, to
harbours of refuge, and wished to ask the
Chief Commissioner of Woods and "Forests whether
it was his intention to proceed with certain other
actions which had been commenced under similar cir-
cumstances?

Lord SEYMOUR denied the accuracy of the state-
ment of the Hon. Gentleman. With respect to the ac-
tions which had been alluded to, the only answer he
could give was that he should take legal advice, and
proceed according to such advice.
VICTORIA-STREET.

In reply to Sir DE LACY EVANS,
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCaEQUER said
it was desirable that this street should be finishi d
as speedily as pozsiblc, and the subject was
under his consideration, but whether the Go-
vernment would advance any money for the purpose
would depend upon arrangements that did nut rest with
himself.

SALARIES COMMITTEE.
Mr. DISRAELI wished to ask the Chairman of this
Committee why its report had ❑ot been printed yet ?
Mr. W. PATTEN said the report had been Lid on the
tabie, but Ail( he could not answer the question.
THE NATIONAL BALANCE-SHEET.

Mr. CARDWELL wished to know if theChcncellcr
of the Exchequer hal any objection to lay his balance-
sheet on the table.

The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER had
none whatever.

THE NATIONAL LAND SCHEME.

Mr. F. O'CONNOR wished to ask the Secretary of the
Treasury an important question. A man named Somer-
ville, who called himself " A Whistler at the Plough,"
and who had been discharged from the army for mis-
conduct, had recently published a circular, addressed to
the Manchester School, with reference to the land
scheme, in which ho stated the enormous expense he had
been put to for the purpose of putting it down. The
only remuneration, however,- he had received for all his
trouble was a sum of money which he received from the
Hon. Secretary to the Treasury for preparing a history
of the Land Scheme and the bads, fur the pri-
vate use of the chairman of the Committee
appointed to investigate the nature and origin
of the company. Now he wished to ask the Right lion.
Gentleman whether the money came from his own pocket
or from the secret service fund.
Sir G. HAY rEa said, although the Hon. and Learned
Gentleman hai given him no notice of the question, he I
had a sufficient recollection of the eireurnitances to
enable him to answer. The Hon. and Learned Gentle-
man had attempted to throw discredit upon the person
to whom he referred, and whom he believed to be quite as
respectable as the Hon. and Laarnei Gentleman himself.
—(Cheers.) The ,man was never discharged from the
army, and, although this had nothing to do with the
question, he maintained that Mr. Somerville purchased
his discharge from the army. It was true that he sup-
plied him with some information on the subject of the
Land Scheme, the c(illection of which cccupied more
time thun he could afford to devote to the matter with-
out remuneration, and he certainly did remunerate him
for his trouble, not, however, us the Hon. and Learned
Gentleman had insinuated, out of the secret service fund,
but out of his own nurse.—(Cheers.)
Mr. HUME bore his testimony to Mr. Somerville's
good character, and that his conduct since he left the
army had been highly to his credit.—(Hear, hear.)
BRITISH MERCHANTS AND THE GOVERN-
MENT OF TUSCANY.

Mr. HUME adtcd Vi-,:count Palmerston to state the
amount and nature of the disputed claims made upon the
Government cf Tuscany- for injuries sustained by
Briti,h merchants at Leghorn.
Lord I'ALMERSTON said th© claims made on the
Government, of Tuscany arose out of those circumstance.!.
When there was a rovoli at Leghorn the town was
tiken by storm by an Austrian corps acting as
as auxilliary to the Grand Duke of Tuscany.
After the town had Lean taken resistance was
offered, and some of those Austrian troops entered

the houses
tit, toust, c.f. a 'Mr. Llill,
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of certain perscns. Arnong others, Were ,
Cuthe
It't-,!Litter and a party of Austrian troops, who reraatucu:_a,
e fors .:.veral hours, and when wines were brotqeu;
into
the house f,,r the soldiers, the house was brolg ,
which was forcibly s l' eraa,u,/
intotni. . and plundered of everything from cellar to garirdearr
losses,cnmg
i_al. the furniture was carried away in blf
Gauge,
It), '
,13, That was done at the houses,
et'aae",', ani.l the houses of a
be
lady end td 0
those houses being vi&ibly marke .0 _
being of
a
resith noes of British sutjects. Ic was. for 113c1
_ acting under proper legal' advce,
_°os;
a Pit,n had been & rounded: The onr_u4
compensation originally claimed had been very mu',
reduced by ~., „lac.
communication which hael taken r...ts,
and between her Alajesty's Govvrtunent and the claanu.
the totd. amount now claimed was about 1,530/.
31 REPORT ON PUBLIC SALARIES. 1, re,
r. DISRAELI suo.gested, inasmuch gs t.e
forth vvi
post. on ruhr 1 • "
of the H. ic sa.aries could not be laid on the
.ta_b„ler
yet be House without the evidence, which hadinte'd
s iv,
Ei d
epnrei printed, t :lid
0,
that thethe
been
and laid on the table, with the undersian
tbsi
The AKER dtd to say that .
course could was un ers oo Ob.
uldthhaat
fotrhae.con3rei:;.rt be pr
dog
not be adopted, exce t b • an order 0
p )
House.

LAND-TAX. ilot
Mr. WODEHOUSE rut
a u stion to the Clones
Dfs'
of the Exchequer whether it wags the intention of her
the
adverted to
J tY's Government to introduce any roeasure Ter 01
unredeemed
purposea of remedying the inequalities 0f ttie,
Poich
regards
(andtliat port ts1:1 o:
ett•lelePegir4cinToerlid
iverted to by the Chairman of Ate Board of en,,„ 0
Revenue,_L Mr. John Wood, in his evidence before
amending
Committee of the House of Lords in 1846)Vt or,
the present state of the law with regsreight 01
peals from the Comuiissioners, by giving a :"
appeal to one of the superior courts. etelB rePliel
t The CHANCELLOR of the EXCIIEQL,-- a Vas
laid
dt when the land-tax was first
of
,1.A003,
ef the hll2-00.
equally on all the property
bute by lapse of time it had necessarily operated Ye,rioo.
,qually, It was not at present the intention, of stir"
•ernment to bring in any measure to remedy thelleg
_ THE RANELAGH SEWER. Per
Mr. B. OSBORNE said he had the other dsf.no,
seated a petition from the inhabitants understoodCelsee Tor
, plainingrat of this open sewer; and as be of i;
' laity
I cases of cholera had taken place in the ele ,e, flr
6 he begged
month
to ask the Noble whether Member le
yieliere
mof
Sewers
h(Vicount Ebrington) the CoMmis
intended toit ?
close up ipastions
Viscount E ' BRINGTON replied that the a'Paeetet
in the • petition respecting this sewer, presented.. etliao
.Hon. and Gallant Member, disclosed a state or
orescq
by no means new, as the sew' er had been in '- ner. ()'
iniasio-nt 00
steate for nearly a century past. The Cora
this sewer,
did intend to take off the matter tbo lej, bat
wer, by diverting it into another chri.ii,ioeel.
theyeould not adopt the suggestions of the pet:;) 13,010
SIPARLIAMENTARY VOTERS (Hari° r et tile
House.r W.
SOMERVILLE appeared at the bare re's'
to request a conference cn the part or tP
on the s • übject of this Bill, in the Royal asilerl'ee thee
A .considerable number of Hon. Members Ive e sod
ofereue I
appointed to meet their Lordships in co
retired for that Diely
purpose. the
Alter an absence i,
of about twenty Minute t
hers of the conference returned, when go e tbs
as 0
Sir W.
SOMERVILLE re td to the aea fre
por e
they head declared their h diesr- 00
reasons why t se less
the amendments made in the Bill, and of those
with their Lordships for their consideration.
HARBOUR DUES. It stated
G peche'" d to
Mr. MACKINNON, in reply to Sir G. e decide ;00
that the Committee on harbour dues ha", floe fere!:e
abolish ell such charges both on Engliou ",- 0
vessels entering P had Doe
taken that
of eamegate, but they
Dover into • .
consideration. , alit
BARON. L. ROTEISCIIII)v• i VI
Mr. ANSTEY begged-• Sob 0 . a Ise
leave to ask the, ,euace IP
tbe
the head of the Government whether he I''' eetisg i
on the table of
the House, the resolutions lop _too o
eplaaol
case of Baron L• Rothschild, and give an e for
their 'L.
meanie.. was a 5 € s
Lord '.
JOHN
RUSSELL • replied net he e t ''•
replie the Die° shalteli
a similar question by the Hon. Baronet thou.
Nita.) 'chem., remised blow
that m • orning, and be pro- g .(I
be laid on the table at five ' 1 1 $o that ~,eire ,
hers oeOe L, They r- -.opret
should have time to consider then].
webs
not, theeoo.o
ho wever,
fully prepared 1
to the , great consideration, and ,v,e„ee no geese ger.
as yet,
ature o but there could ee e, e the ~
csi.r 011
f them, and he could fa-, to 04
Member th '
ey would be sufficiently clear gee
tags
no explanation Id ti
t. Woo.. lel
Mr. ANSTEY then gave notice that ei.e. AO
the.
0 _ sense of the • House to•morrow on „,":o,oosetie.
f B roe Rothschild to take his seat io,t,-70, ifilef
The CHANCELLOR of the E):COVemeegotiat;-0.
plywer to the same Hon. Gentleman, said 01,50 -o'o
e now going on with the French telis eooare,
spectingr the reduction of postage hetweeaorestllsber
and
doted the rate The French Government In oda of it
rate to Paris, from 10d. to Sie ea of b 9
reductions, though not, to itch as
Perhaps, s Iretibl
was desirable.
Mr. GO ' tic° gi OW
ULB JRN, in reference to theno- reo IP .6
the no e 0111
Eon. Member for Youghal, reopeti?,4;soedai'lloa
child, suggested its postponernent OW _:.,,p011.,if
wouldemharrassl.l.allo-#
place the House in a very
embers
to-night or to-
left town. morrow, so many Members foe
to '
beer AS
Lord J. RUSSELL ; i -., the fa '''
ac 1,.. „tape er
made by the Right
lion. Gentleman Os J!' would be
University of Cambridgeand b heed 'la ,iiii
ceedingly unfair to brr e l Wrju-1. A Pile;
After a few og it on until ts.r j, _ ... 0 ,
and Sir B. words from Mr. iltmie,r„;ffieg toe bet
Hail, to the same effect, ado •••'" • P-e
Gentleman 100.
consenedt to postpone his motion, the
o postpone it until Moncial•feal e(011se
BREACH OF PRIVILL'"' r tbe'' the
Mr
•H. BERKELEY called tt ntion eati, Wee
to a subject which personally thecarneed bials-tee ellblir of
report of his speech a few eveeelliiiiiegs ageilaoos-agiebot
thethWeeyeomanry, he was made to speak u`srh bell"- the
mentionedst Somersetshire Yeomanry, altboug coke cll,OO
North one word of that corps. Ile sf. the trie
Somersetshire Yeomanry, and not 0 Ito 00,000
but the adjutant of the latter published a leotoedlsedel
dieting hisl statement. lie (Mr. Berke
)1,. 00011:01
wrotea etter in reply, stating that he
thatacie'day srie Of
the corps at all; but in the Times of and ,c4r.lottO
abusive
" Order, and
blackguard letter—(Lougbrer' iodi"j to°
The Houorder t
",—appeared from the saraehed 01.- •
strong, when he not. think the term
be oge
he read the publication. eh 101401,1'
Lord JOHN MANNERS said tbat °het the
was offensive and unparliamentary, and iP fey
Gentleman of
Mr. wasout of order. ri tbe let
sion
as
,BERKELEY said he would withdrs he tort „go
it was considered an offensive one, but Who lerp.
the lettermo, gave him the lie direct, and used eilinto the. the
the
t offensive terms, as would appear 'f-caoroeßeeel
lowing:—",eoiii Lately there appeared in 1 our e,e jie net
to Mr. official. Now I must as Plainly give tiled
ecew ko
Berkeley's statement respecting the b elolArliteel
of the West Somerset regiment k'of beeeeotosnr'. c 0
..; bis
any case where the mei thereof be,ce r ts'isti Ve
upon to aid the civil power. Had lie taget°,:l e.e' o°l'o'l
to refer to the statement of the Lord-during
-thrie ti,7001
sae ,?
ratnd Sir George Grey, in 1847, dari°ba, e/00P•ere,
eti ad riots in this county, ll'l ace 0'4,0
lette the unblushine
. imp acede so t) ejaesd.'.4,
preeseeted facts. one thing fsneertsiciy estaw;(eofl'ore
1.,a. in the
powers of the Hon: Geager°3,l"troth2o te
o"f'
tirmt recent debate, a total disregara 10.0; re 00
orcler which generally tends in the 10. 0
ry toloi
bring odium on the originator, rather than inithe Orni t
partieshito whom he referred. With regard OregiioB"ioo
riots, statement of the conduct of tots "oc I)
pure fiction,stbo eels
. as not asingle m ber on. flere V
de
received marching ern - tJr
had only orders." Now he e- e'olere,,6er
tinned eir aP7lie to state that he t P''' be
setAire yee,,tl-v or indirectly the II; ogh 0
minim.- d sU et all f
Y at all, an deo 01
was advised that the letter
two e nriliine
breach of
debate— hprivilege, and deepl affecting the el per os
as such, tthelic'h he felt assureyd, did he bring i1e0,1;94,111%
declined ? House would vindicate its withpriec rtee
doing, so, and contented hit:well os ff
that explanation, because he believed that 2,„t the 1911
editor of
and not thepaper who would he brought iIP -s big if of
the writer of the letter. It woe, °Soollid.fite;
that that
course should be adopted. and be "bot.',lloo
mantherefore,wrh press the matter in that direetioo, _t to-. 00
Of corre;prossos
he will
boewroto the letter be a wan
but
for the violent and improPer ee<
he used;
best way tett if
he
be a low ruffian--(l.loeer., on
Mr.
corps of Eir, as one who held a eOfelliissl,ooo
their yeoma ore
Y for many e bore test
year.,
efficient and
The ood conduct.
subject :thendropped. fe
Pe"
HUDSON
BAY COMPANY.' tbe 17,e e
Mr. GLA
laid on the DS' TONE called attention te so elaw,hof
the Hudson table
of
the House, reapeOting i'"ltori ' s 0
B ,
a Company to the immense tort sorer r,
now possessed, be 21 21 frs
tad •
which purported $0
~ _woo e tee
an address
haulm, to the Crown voted in the last seeabeee of Do
He believed the Noble Lord at the be serer
Govern. t most grossly neglected his 1- a °cos.
would take
the
earliest opportunity next ses_sSie selfiee
call the attention of the Ilouse Wee jai
Lord J. RU,SSELL said that hew ould loam
of his Noble sopii.„l//
Friend on the subject.
On the motiewe for oin Committee °f _ottop4o
g g into
Colonel VE: 4 RNEIe made the following, "'d pol 7 e
.. vials esdles
" That as
No. the statements contained in tile r- e reg.- of,
the 297,We and
in the petitions before the floos 'coralliet,
terford, Wexford, and Dublin Bailvral 110110 id
and the procee 34 of fr- 11
, -nes of the Commissioners owe 0
I A 10 f
concern the revileb
pges of Ibis House SO thcbe eoae- 0.
its hierube 0
rs and officers, that an inquiry a the fro',°o
the said printed papers and petitions, and
„octet' oil
documentsos , imp ertant to the shareholders, oh!' 00aset ace
the2.inee 3 of this House, and ordered by fib° to &dd
theed of Maroh last, to be produced. A's° olio be
measures for the batter protection of theil) 0010
shareholders,
and and the carrying out of pah.silti rove
saidresolutions sanctioned by this House; and ' bore
for thelet a
loss."
Mr. LA im u-cIIERE dmetioe. ,„oet,;,
oppose the ef pie tei
were no other reason, that • the tatell .
this Wasref cry
coo
would be s ffi •
hog
upon u claret to induce the House to s odd 05e
an investigation which roust tabe t a
lbs P If
siderable
ought no time.
enter besides that, he said
enter into an examination 0' me ihe °jolt
tween thet to
directors and the shereholders need sof 0
,a ei tbe ,
PanY.—(Cries of " Bear, bear.") If leeifefeee 001
the
would . Committee would have laid ~ "stoteleroo 0
be the statements
the - • and the countet_, w001u1e,,,,,
parties at issue, and that in his coo the 01 ref
mere waste of time.—(Hear,' Aa to nt6
lions
with respect to the abstraction of ttis be
sof 00 ,
the officers of that Howe, he had only o,_ Der et
whole Po itti
affair had been investigated report thr°l3oese.'
House of Lords, who had in their f tot e itej
the e h
olg test oer 0 op y
unputation upon any offi adi ttio
For h• dist., 0 0
Is own a • •
rt he indignantly roP bat o 0
putat'
dear,lcine•—( bear.) Vlore wall