The Sun.
London, England, 1845-06-09 00:00:00

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LONDON, MONDAY, JUNE 9, 1845.

We observe that, after a session of exempelairnyceri
forbear-
ance,s certain of the Peers are beginning to v
displeasure with the architect of the New Houses oef
Par-
liament, Mr. BARRY, on account of the apparently inter-
minable delay in providing any better accommodatien
for the Lords than that which they have been so long
compelled to put up with. It must be confessed that the
Chamber in which they meet is absolutely disgraceful—
even as a " make shift" for the purposes of so dignified
an Assembly. Its wretched lighting, its miserable di-
mensions, its ventilation which, like the Satyr in the
Greek fable, blows hot and cold at one and the same
time, and the manner in which the galleries are
projected into the area of the chamber, render it at once
the most paltry and the most inconvenient saloon in
which a great legislative body was ever assembled, nnt•
withstanding the be-crimsoned hangings and cushions
and coverings which every where obtrude the contrast
of splendid drapery to the most homely carpetry. Here

and there a small window piercing the walls, at two-
thirds of their height from the floor, has an effect of
Cyclopean awkwardness and insufficiency in relation to
the huge blank which they reveal rather than give light
or air to the interior. Mr. BARRY has promised fairly
enough, over and over again, that, at all events, the ac-
commodation for the Lords would be ready ere this ;
and as it seems that, in October next, eleven years will
have passed since the old Parliament Houses were
burnt down, it does not seem unreasonable in Lord
BROUGHAM to complain of his utter faithlessness.
About a year and a half ago we directed attention to
the report of a Select Committee of the House of Lords,
on the progress of the edifice generally, but specially
on the extraordinary departures which Mr. BARRY had
made from the designs approved and settled by former
Lords' Committees appointed for the purpose, and which
departures, involving a huge additional gallery super-
added, in very bad taste, to the designs so settled, ap-
proved, reported upon, and adopted, was severely cen-
sured by the Lords as utterly unauthorised. The new
gallery and other features, which Mr. BARRY
affected to consider himself at liberty to add, under
the general discretion reserved to an architect, will
cost the country, it is understood, at least 150,0001.,
in addition to the enormous sums already expended
on this immense pile ; and when Mr. BARRY
was pressed in his examination by the Peers, on the
occasion we refer to, he acknowledged that the altera-
tions had not originated with himself, but were the crude
suggestion of some unauthorised party, by acquiescing
in whose ristions of " effect," and the necessity for a
greater surface applicable to the display of decorative
art, &c. &c., Mr. BARRY must, ere this, have had the
satisfaction of discovering that he has marvellously com-
promised the unity and character of his own design, and
given much offence—not to say disgust—to the truly
constituted authorities, to whom he was bound to have
referred the question of these additions, or excrescences
rather, before one stone was squared for their construction.
Lord BROUGHAM affirmed, and his remark appeared
to be acquiesced in, that Mr. BARRY'S assurances were
net worth the paper they were written on ; but if the
Learned Lord would be at the trouble of ascertaining
how much labour and time, as well as money, have been
devoted to the excrescent new gallery, designed and
built upon the unwritten "suggestions" in question, he
would little marvel at the delay which has constantly
intervened in the progress of the New Chamber for the
Lords. From the first exposure of this affair by a
Noble Peer, whose own distinguished taste and ability
as an architect gave great value to the state-
ments, we were quite satisfied that the other portioLs
of the work would always be liable to what we
must term the same "liberties" which Mr. BARRY was
guilty of, in disfiguring the settled designs by an addi-
tion so utterly unwarrantable, and in itself so objec-

tionable. What Lord BaouGlleat can mean by de-
claring that Mr. BARRY fancies he has beyond the
House protection so powerful that he is regardless
of any displeasure within it, we do not stop to inquire;
but if Mr. BARRY do indulge in any such fancies, we
quite concur with the Noble and Learned Lord that he
will find himself egregiously mistaken. It is really high
time that some progress more rapid and decided towards
the completion of the interior works, necessary for the
accommodation and business of the Legislature, were
made, instead of Mr. BARRY'S occupying so large a
portion of the means and the staff which he has at
his disposal (to an extent, we believe, unprecedented in
the annals of public works executed in England), on the
multiplication of those heraldic monsters which com-
pose the multitudinous menageries in stone that are to
attest to future ages what were considered the appro-
priate effigies and decorations of the palace of the Bri-
tish Legislature. I'l/ hether the appropriation of. these
quadruped supporters to the arms of all our Kings,
from WILLIAM the Norman, down to RICHARD IL, the
latter of whom fiat assumed them, is another of the
gratuitous caprices which enter into Mr. BARRY'S
definition of the " discretion " of an architect, we
know not. But it is very clear that the time be-
stowed on chiselling these works of superogatory
heraldry- on stone, supporters for two 'Williams, three
Henries, one Stephen, one Richard, one John, and three
Edwards, who never carried them (according to a
writer in the Art Union, from whom we derive the fact
and the authority), might be more properly bestowed in
advancing the accommodation of Parliament. However,
Mr. BARRY is in Lord BROUGHAM'S hands, and if he
cannot plead satisfactorily to the charges that Learned
Lord may prefer against him, we wish him, rather than
hope for him, " a good deliverance."

The annual general meeting of the proprietors of the
New Zealand Company, was productive of some ex-
traordinary disclosures touching the want of good faith
displayed by the Colonial Department in particular, and
by both the Home and the Colonial Secretaries per
sonally, in their recent correspondence, or rather nego-
tiations with the Company. We have, on many for
mer occasions, expressed a not very favourable opinion o f
the good faith evinced by the Directors of this very
Company, in their dealings with settlers and emigrants,
whose purchases of lands, for any benefit they brought
o them, or any equivalent which they yielded for their
own good money, might just as well have
been made for land in Abyssinia or the Khyber
mountains. We are by no means prepared to say, that
the New Zealand Company have ever expurgated :heir
character from the imputations which have been cast
upon it by so many luckless victims of the peculiar me-
thod, in times past, of selling lands which they had nut
the means of delivering, because they never were in
their authentioated and established possession. We can-
not see that any sort of reparation has yet been made
to those martyrs to their own credulity and the puffery
of the WAKEFIELD principle of making colonies pay
their own expenses, who voyaged 12,000 miles out to a
land of promise, and—if they did not die there—tra-
velled 12,000 miles home again, only to record, in their
own experience, that they had been sold, if the
lands had not been delivered. But when we
iesi a meeting of so many gentlemen of mark and credit
assembling to hear, and voting unanimously to confirm
a report," in which they not only accuse the Govern-
ment of positive duplicity, but make out a case to show
that, in these transactions with it, at least, they had to
choose the alternative of profit with dishonour, by
closing with the views of the Colonial Minister, or
honour without profit, by persisting in vindicating their
:awn claims, and the rights and the protection of the
colonists. We must suppose that the present Directors
of the New Zealand Company feel themselves strong
in the moral justice as well as legal bearings of the case
they have so well developed in the report which was
read at the proprietary meeting in question. We might
have been better pleased, to be sure, had Mr. SOA.MES,
the Governor of the Company, been at his post, seeing
that he was not exempted, among other influen-
tial authorities, from the bitter denunciations of
deceived and defrauded purchasers)—instead of being
" detained by a particular engagement." But there were
Among other Members of Parliament, Lord INGESTRE,
Mr. H. A. AGLIONBT, Mr. CHARLES BULLER, Mr. J.
A. SMITH, Mr. S. MAJORIBANES, Mr. B. D. MANGLES
besides Sir Jour/ PIRIE, Baronet, General BRIGGS:
Captain NAIRN, Dr. EVANS, &c., present on this occa-
sion ; and the report of the Committee which was read
undoubtedly must be taken as pledging all those parties
to the same views as it announced of the deportment of
Lord STANLEY and Sir JAMES GRAHAM—and of the in-
capacity, misconduct, and absurdities of the late Go-
vernor FITZROY. It appears that the cause of Mr. C.
BULLER'S deferring his motion relative to New Zealand,
which would have brought the whole conduct of the
Colonial Minister to the Company and to the colonists
under the review of Parliament, was a suggestion con-
fidentially given by Sir JAMES GRAHAM, in an

interview which he had with Mr. BULLER about
a week prior to the day for which this
notice stood—that if it were, as a preliminary condi-
tion, withdrawn, the Government would be disposed to
settle the disputes between it and the Company amicably
—which it could not do, if it appeared to act under any
stress or pressure—such as that of a pending motion for
such a Committee of Inquiry. Mr. BULLER consented,
had some personal conferences with Sir J. GRAHAM,
and by that Minister was induced to submit the specific
proposition he had tendered for the consideration of
Government in writing, for the opinion of Lord STAN-
LEY. That proposition went on the basis of obviating
all necessity for any fresh adjudication upon the mat-
ters immediately at issue, by constituting a new pro-
vince in New Zealand, which formed a part of the middle
and a part of the more northern districts of the island,
and vesting this in a new Company, in which the New
Zealand Company should merge, under arrangements
for the security of its present interests and property.
thotiornia:rt, objections
The proposition was discussed largely between Sir J.
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instructed Sir JAMES afterwards to inform Mr. BULLER.
that he did not look upon those objections as in •
superable.
This produced a second •
written letter from Mr. CRARLES
BULLER to Lord STANLEY, who—after the motion had
been withdrawn, and the time for urging such matters
with effect on the House of Commons was fast waning
away—intimated to Mr. BULLER that Government now
found its objections to his propositions were insuperable
This cavalier treatment is as much characteristic of Lord
STANLEY (who never imagines that all the world should
not stand still when the Colonial office is of opinion that
it ought not to move), as the extraordinary account

given by Dr. EvANS of Go►ernor Prznov's extra►a-
gancies in New Zealand is of Downing-street patronage-
pets. For all these matters we must refer the reader to
our report. At parting we cannot help saying that the
law of poetical justice has been well observed in this affair.
If the New Zealand Company, at its outset, victimised
emigrant yeomen with some little money and much
less sagacity, the New Zealand Company (i. e., its
Directors) has been absurdly victimised in its turn, by
Ministers of some little sagacity, and no scruples.
That Mr. CHARLES BULLER (" good, easy man 1")
should have been deluded into postponing his motion by
so notorious a political hocusser as Sir J. GRAHAM,
is, however, marvellous to us, who held a very high
opinion of the Hon. and Learned Gentleman's general
shrewdness, as well as singular talent and ability.

Another conflict is anticipated in Switzerland. It
appears that the Ultra-montane party in Lucerne, under
the influence of the Jesuits, meditates an attack on
Argau, a neighbouring canton, which refuses to accede
to their terms. Their object is to assist the insurgents
at Freiamt, and overturn the existing Government of
Argau. The Zurich Gdzate says 2,000 volunteers
from Lucerne are ready to move upon the expediton.
This movement has caused great excitement in some of
the Protestant cantons, but up to the 31st ult. no col-
lision had taken place.

According to intelligence from Madrid of the 30th
ult. the excitement caused by the illegal proceedings
against the press continued unabated, but the public
peace bad not been disturbed. The Gazette publishes
the treaty concluded between Spain and Morocco,
signed by the Plenipotentiaries of the two countries and
the British Consul, Mr. DRUMMOND HAY, as mediator.
By this treaty the frontier of Ceuta, shall be re-esta-
blished such as it was conformably to the 15th article
of the treaty of peace. The EMPEROR engages to pre-
vent the Moors on the frontier of Melilla, Penon, and
Alhucema from molesting either the inhabitants of those
places or the vessels approaching the coast.
The QUERN arrived at Almunza on the 28th. and was
to enter Valentia next day.

The Three per Cents. closed at 321 for cash, and 33k
at 60 days ; the Five per Cents. at 22 13-16 for cash,
and 23} at 60 days ; and the Debt without Interest at
8 at 60 days.

The Paris papers contain long comments on the new
treaty for the suppression of the slave trade ; but, with
the exception of the Messager and Journal des Debats,
they are of little importance. The former journal points
out an error in the translation which relates to the
right of search ; and states that, by the 10th article, it is
abolished, and not suspended, as inferred from the text
published by the London journals. " The conventions
of 1831 and 1833," says that journal, "cannot be re-
established but by the previous concert and common
consent of the two Governments; and in default of
this common consent, they are, at the end of ten
years definitively abrogated. This is what results
from the very text of that article. As to Article 8,
when the instructions annexed tq it shall have
been published, it will be evident that they only
go to regulate the execution of a principle of the right
of nations, conformably to the constant practice of the
French navy, to the precedents of our laws, and esta-
blished in the same form, in the same terms, by the
official documents of the Government of the United
States."

The Chamber of Deputies had passed the Colonial
Bill by a majority of 193 to 52, and also a second Bill
for the introduction of free labourers into the Colonies
by a still greater majority-215 to 20. The sum of
18,140,000 f. was vuttd for extraordinary works at Dun-
kirk, Grenoble, Lyons, and for the sea-ports of Brest,
L'Orient, Rochfort, and Toulon.

On Wednesday the KING and Royal Family left Neuilly,
by the Rouen Railway, for the Chateau of Bizy, in Nor-
mandy.
The Three per Cents. closed at 851. 70c. ; the Five per
Cents.at 1221. ; Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,230 f. ; Rouen,
1,1101. ; Vierzon, 825 T. ; Havre, 887 f. 10c.; Avignon, 1,020 f.
50c. ; Basle, 272 f. 50c.; Spanish Three per Cents, 421/ ;
Spanish Passives, 73/.

The following are the quotations for the new lines:—

Orleans and Bordeaux, 225 f. premium ; Boulogne, 140 f.
ditto ; Troyes and Montereau, 60f. ; Paris and Lyons
(Laffitte), 21f. 25c.; ditto (Calon), If. 52c.; ditto (Gan-
neron), 7f. 75c.; Northern line (Laffitte), 311. 25c.; ditto
(Rosamel), Bf. 50c. ; Tours and Nantes (Mackenzie), Bf.
50c; ditto (Drouillard), par; ditto (O'Neill), 71. 50; ditto
(Jacques Lefevre), par; Lyons and Avignon (Lecointe),
171. 50c. ; ditto ( falabot), 40f. ; ditto (Compagnie Meridio-
nale), 12f. 50c. • Bordeaux and Toulouse (Mackenzie), if.
50c. ; ditto andCette (Espeleta), 15f.; Creil and St. Quentin,
If. 25c. ; Paris and Strasburg (Ganneron), 111. 25c ; Dijon
and Mulhausen, If. 50c. _ _

LYONS, JUNE 2.—Avignon and Marseilles, 1,040 f., end of
June; Paris and Orleans, 1,230 f. ditto; Paris and Rouen,
1,1101. ditto ; Orleans and Vierzon, 822 f., ditto; Orleans and
Bordeaux, 725 f, for the 15th of June ; Boulogne, 611 f., ditto ;
Montereau, 560 f., ditto.

BRIGHTON AND CHICHESTER

RAILWAY..

A special general meeting of the Proprietors of this Company
took place on Saturday at the London terminus, for the purpose of con.
sidering, in accordance with the standing orders of the House of
Lords, the draft of a Bill fer making a railway from the Brighton
and Chichester Railway to Portsmouth, with a branch to Fareham.
The Hun. Captain Hotbam took the chair at one o'clock. The
advertisement calling the meeting having been read, and the
Chairman having stated the, object for which it was called, the fol.
lowing resolutions were unanimously agreed to :
Resolved,—" That the Bill now read entituled ' a Bill for
making a railway from the Brighton and Chichester Railway to
Portsmouth, with a branch to Fareham,' be, and the same is, hereby
approved."
Resolved,—" That the Directors be, and they are hereby em-
powered, to make such alterations and amendments in the said Bill
as they may think fit, or be advised, or as Parliament may require,
and to affix the common seal of the Company thereto if necessary."
The meeting then broke up.

MONEY and CO-UMERCIAL NEWS.

(From The Sun of Saturday Evening.)
The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were
5,000 bales. The market was dull. - Shares were
lower, and there was less doing. Barnsley Junc-
tion, 6% %; Birkenhead and Cheshire Junction, 10
; Blackburn, Darwen, and Bolton, 514 ; Belfast
and Ballymena, 834 ; Belfast and County Down, 335. ; Bolton,
Wigan, and Liverpool, 1334 13; Caledonian, 11% % ; Cam-
bridge and Lincoln, 814 1 ; Cambridge and Oxford, 3s. ;
Chester and Birkenhead, New Shares, 4914 ; Ditto, Half
Shares, 2734 1,4 ; Clitheroe Junction, 2% 4 ; Clydesdale
Junction, 9%; Cork and Bandon, 9 ; Cork and?, Waterford
21% %; Coventry and Nuneaton, 4% ; Dublin and Galway,
4; Dundalk and Enniskillen, 5; Eastern Counties, 21; New
Shares, 10% ; Ditto, Perpetual No. 2, 245. ; Edinburgh and
Glasgow, 67 ; Glasgow and Dumfries, 19s. 20s. ; Glasgow,
Paisley, and Greenock, 16% ; Great Grimsby and Sheffield,
; Ditto, Quarter Shares, ; 20s. 6d. Great Western, 203
205 ; Ditto, Half Shares, 115
110 ; Goole and Doncaster,
134 ; Huddersfield Canal and Railway, 734 % ; Kilkenny
Junction, 19s. 6d. ; Lancaster and Carlisle, 48%; Leicester
and Birmingham, 1% % ; Limerick and Waterford, 9 ;
Liverpool and Manchester, Quarter Shares, 54; New Shares,
40; Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston, 2% 58s. 9d. ; London
and Birmingham, 237%; Ditto, 32/. Shares, 45% 46 ; Ditto,
Quarter Shares, 35; Londonderry and Coleraine, 51/s ; Lon-
donderry and Enniskillen, 4% 94s ; London and York, 314
14 ; Direct Northern, 31,4 0 ; Leeds and Dewsbury, 8% ;
Leeds and Thirsk, ; Leeds and West Riding Junction,
7% ; Lynn and Dereham, 34 ; Manchester and Birming-
ham, 61; Ditto, Quarter Shares, 1014 ; Ditto, New Sharess,
7% ; Manchester, Sheffield, and Midland, 7% 1 ; Man-
chester and Leeds, Half Shares, 75; Ditto, Quarter Shares,
25; Matlock and Midland, 5% 4% ; Midland Railway, 185
383 ; Ditto, 401. Shares, 261/ 3/ ; Newark and Sheffield, 44 ;
Newcastle and Berwick, 17% ; Newry and Enniskillen,
5 1/2 ; North British, 21% 221/2 ; North Kent, 5% ; North
Union ( A), 161 ; North Wales Mineral, 151/ ; Ditto, New
Shares, 5%; North Western, 44 4; Oxford and Birming-
ham Junction, 5 414 ; Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhamp,
ton, 53/4 % ; Preston and Wyre, New Preference Shares, 3
2% ; Preston and Wyre Extension, 2% ; Runcorn Gap, New
Shares (80 dis.), 141/2 ; Sheffield and Manchester, 130 129 ;
Ditto, Quarter Shares, 164 ; Sheffield and Lincoln, 345. ;
Shrewsbury and Herefordshire, 16s. 6d. %; Shrewsbury,
Wolverhampton, and Birmingham, 5%; Shrewsbury, Os-
westry, and Cheshire, 88s. 6d. 4%; Shrewsbury and Trent
Union, 335. 6d. ; South-Eastern and Dover, 451,4 3/4 ; Ditto,
New Shares, No. 3, 734 % ls. 2d. ; Scottish Central, 634 ;
Waterford and Kilkenny, 4% ; Welsh Midland, 4% 795. ;
Worcester and Tring, 2543 X ; York and Carlisle, 11/2. 295. ;
Boulogne and Amiens, 93/4 ; Central of Spain, 6s. 6d. ;
Jamaica, 363 ; Jamaica Junction, 4; Northern of France,
(Laffitte's), 5%; Ditto (Rosamel's), 465. 3d. • Paris and
Lyons (Laffitte's), 595. 3d. ; Paris and Lyons (Colon's), ;
Paris and Rouen, 423/4 ; Sambre and Meuse, 11%.
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, JUNE 6.-The sales are
-Barnsley Junction, Half Shars, 314 • Birkenhead, Man-
chester, and Chester, 10 ex new; Blackburn, Burnley, and
Accrington, 8; Blackburn, Clitheroe, and North Western
Junction, 11/2 prem. ; Blackburn, Darwen, and Bolton' 54 ;
Bolton, Wigan, and Liverpool, 13 13% ; Caledonian, 114. ;
Ditto, Extension, 3%; Cambridge and Lincoln, 7% ; Churnet
Valley, 5%; Clitheroe Junction, 3% 5/4; Eastern Counties,
21 ex new ; Erewash Valley, 27 ; Exeter, Yeovil, and Dor-
chester, 15s. ; Glasgow and Dumfries, 21s. ; Goole, Doncas-
ter, Sheffield, and Manchester, 1% ; Huddersfield and Man-
chester Railway and Canal, 7%; Huddersfield and Sheffield
Junction, 7%; Kendal and Windermere, 4%; Leeds and
Thirsk, 71% ; Leeds and West Riding Junction, 814 ; Leices-
ter and Birmingham, 435. 48s. ; London and Birmingham,
Quarter Shares, 35; London and Windsor, 14 ' • London,
Worcester, Oxford, and Rugby, 2 % • London and York, 3%
Manchester, Bury, and Rossendale, 16%; Manchester,
Buxton, Matlock, and Midland 51% 5-16; Manchester and
Birmingham, Quarter Shares, 9% ; Manchester and Birming-
ham Continuation and Welsh Junction, 21,4 ; Manchester
and Leeds, Quarter Shares, 244 24; Ditto, Sixteenth
Shares, 8%; Midland Railway, 401. Shares, 27 26 ; North
British, New Shares,:6 ; North Eastern, 1% % prem. ; North
Western, 44 ; Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton,
6 514 ; Preston and Wyre, 321/2 3/4 ex new ; Ditto. Half
Shares, 3%; Sheffield and Lincolnshire Junction, 114 1A ex
new ; Sheffield and Manchester, Quart er Shares, 164 ; Shrews -
bury and Trent Valley Union, 2% 9••16; Shrewsbury, Wol-
verhampton, Dudley, &c., 55; South-Eastern and Dever, 46;
Ditto, No. 3,7% 13-16; Trent Valley, 19%; Do., Continua-
tion and Holyhead Junction, 2 9-16; Wakefield, Ponte-
fract, and Goole, 13% 14; Welsh Midland, 4% ;
Yorkshire,WanieTsvhtaelrsetios-n 2% 2; Whitehaven and Furness, 2 15-16;
York and Carlisle, 114 prem..
There are no late ship letters, although we have plenty of
daayincrease shown in the Bank of England's issue
of notes last week to the amount of 223,1901., while its stock
of gold and silver was 15,635,735/. in the Issue Department,
and 776,243/. in the Banking Department, an in-
crease of 139,227 E The Rest is leas by 10,216 E The e

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