The Sun.
London, England, 1868-06-16 00:00:00

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Mr. LAWSON endeavoured to amend the clause so as
.3 fix the franchise at £1 instead of th 3 rateable annual
value of "more than £4" as proposed by the bill.
Lord MAYO strenuously opposed the shange on the
ground that it would disturb the whole rating system of
Ireland for the incommensurate result of adding hardly
2,000 to the constituencies.

Mr. C. Fortascue, Mr. Murphy, and Air. O'B3irne sup-
ported the amendment, while Ganeral DQUIL3 and the
Attorney-Genaral for Irel Ind spoke for the bill. Mr.
Lawson offered to limit his a.n3ndrnent to boroughs ; but
on a division the committee rojected it altogether by 188
to 177.

On arriving at the Rodistribution portion of the bill,
Mr. Disraeli postponed for further consideration clauses
10, 11, and 12, which contain all the principal provisions.
Clause 13, which provides for the revision of boundaries
and the appointment of a Boundary Commission, was
negatived on the understanding that a clause should be
substitut4d for it (suggested by Mr. Lawson), making a
general arrangement that, whore the municipal exceed
the Parliamentary boundaries, the two shall be canter-

.nous.

On Clause 18, which prohibits piyments for conveying
voters to the poll in boroughs, there was a long discus-
sion, turning chiefly on the exceptions to be admitted, and
u'timately it was agreed to with four only—Carrickfergus ,
Cork, Limerick, and Galway.

In the other clauses a few verbal amendments ware
made, and on arriving at the schedules the Chairman was
ordered to report progress, Mr. Disraeli promising that the
bill should bo resumsd the first thing on Thursday.

Sir S. NORTfICOT'S Indianl3ins.(Governor of India.
Act Amendment and Goveraor-General of India Bills)
were read a second time.

Oa the report of Supply beiug brought up,

Mr. C HILDE 3S, reverting to the, discussion which he
raised last week on the propriety of taking the supplies
for nine months only, entered his protest, in the interests
of constitutional pracelonA, a.gtinst the dectrine the
Chancellor of the Exeheiner had then lai•l down, that
the course to be taken depend id on the CAlli3 of the
dissolution. Referring &pin to the precedents of 1830
and 1811, Mr. Childers m.tin,aine I that, whenever it had
been notified to a Parliament that it was to be dissolved,

it WAS the rule only to take supplies sufficient to last over
until the new Parliament could bs got together. But he
admitted that in asking for a whole year supplies the
Government had taken the most practical and convenient
courso.

The CHANCELLOR of the EaCHEQ,ITEIt reiterated
his opinion that the precedent of 1811 was inapplicable,
and Mr. Gladstone confirmed and enforced Mr. Childers's
view of the constitutional practice.
Oa the second reading of the Registration Bill,
Mr. BAINES, seconded by Mr. Mill and Mr. Melly,
called attention to deLects in tho process of registering
lo lgers, particularly to the want of provision for giving
him notice of objections ; and the Solicitor-General re -
plied that it was unnocessary, as the lodger would have to
attend to make his claim.

Mr. PUGH gravely warned the house of the danger of
precipitation, illustrating his paint with his usual fertility
of apt Virgilian quotations ; and

Sir G. BOWYER in the sama vein, deprecated need-
:to abbreviation of the processes of registration. It was
peculiarly ituportant that the new Parliament should be
duly elected, and that the constituent bady should be
formed with the uttnost care and deliberation, otherwise
the new house would be discredited before it met, and a
second general election would be necessary within a
twelvemonth.

Mr. KENDAL mentioned that at a recent meeting of the
clerks of the peace a resolution had been passed declaring
that there was great danger of excluding large classes
from tLe register by shortening those processes. But
Mr. LEEMAN, on the other hand, as a clerk of the peace
of 23 years' standing, asserted that the bill was perfectly
workable, and gave the Government great credit for the
skill with which they had selected the processes to be
shortened.

Mr. W. P. MARTIN also predicted that the bill would
be found effectual.

Mr. DODSON, holding that if there was to be an
autumn session it ought to be held earlier than the bill
proposed, explaining how by shortening the time all Owed
to the clerks of the peace and the town clerks for making
out the lists, and by assimilating the time in town and
country for exhibiting the lists of objections and omitted
claims, the revising barrister might be got t2.Nrark by the
7th of September, the writs might b 3 issued bithe 12th of
October, and the new Parliament assembled by Novem-
ber 9tb.

Mr. Hibbert, Mr. Libouchere, and Mr. Denman pointed
out defects in the bill, to which

Mr. HARDY replied that all these objections had been
carefully considered by the Government, and would b 3
inquired into by the Select Committee.
The bill was then read a second time and ordered to
be referred to a Select Committee, with power to take
evidence.

The Petroleum Act Amendment Bill passod through
committee, and some other bills having been forwarded a
stage, the house adjourned at five minutes to 2 o'clock.

DEPARTURE OF LEONARD W. JEROME.—On the
morning of the issue of this numb3r, Mr. Leonard W.
Jerome takes his departure for Europe. It is the inten-
tion of Mr. Jerome to be absent for about a year, but it is
the common hope of his friends and of our citizens gene-
rally that he will return after the lapse of a few months.
There aro few men who would be so much missed from
this community as will Mr. Jerome ; few who have con-
tributed so much to the ornamentation and advancement
of our city. The whole enterprise of the es:ablishment
cf Jerome Park, with its graceful, civilizing, high-toned
summer and winter festivals, was a boon given to New
York from out of the palm of his broad, generous hand ;
and he has, in other ways, - imparted a spirit and polish
to our metropolitan life, which have vastly popularized it
with all liberal strangers. Compared with such persons
as the Astors, who live within themselves, who neither
keep yachts not horses, nor encourage art, head charities
put up good buildings, nor represent anything but selfish-
, ness and cold accumulation, Mr. Jerome figures to an
advantage beyond all measurement. Besides all these
social and personal distinctions, Mr. Jerome is a man of
intellectual breadth and fine business fatuity, and we
cheerfully commend him to his friends abroad, as a
wholesome American who will creditably represent his
Icountry. We take this opportunity to wish him a
pheasant voyage and a safe return.—lVilks's Spirit of the
pities. • .