The Sun.
London, England, 1855-05-08 00:00:00

NEWMARKET RACES.

(THIS DAY.)

(B Y ELECTRIC TELEGRAPEI. )
£5O FOR THREE-YR-OLDS & UPWARDS.

Testy
High Priest

£5O PLATE
Gelding by Weatherbit
Affghan

B.M.

All ran but Frederick.
SUFFOLK STAKES.

Tumbler

Venison

Seven ran.
SWEEPSTAKES.

Merry Monk
Cortes
Bobby

HANDICAP SWEEPSTAKES.-Off.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS.—(THIS EVENING.)
The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the Wool-
sack shortly after five o'clock.

SECOND READINGS.

On the motion of Lord REDESDALE the following
bills were read a second. time :

The Plymouth and Stonehouse Gas, the Bangor
Markets, and Public Institutions.
THIRD READINGS.

The following bills were read a third time :
Belfast and County Down Railway ; Colchester, Stour
Valley, Sudbury, and Halsted Railway ; Grand Junc-
tion Waterworks ; Heywood Waterworks ; South
Wales Mineral Railway ; Southwark and Vauxhall
Waterworks ; and several other. ,
Lord EGLINTON presented a petition from the
town of Ayr against the Maynooth grant.
Lord BERNERS presented several petitions against
the sale of spirituous liquors on Sundays.

INCOME-TAX BILL.
This bill passed through committee.
VIENNA CONFERENCE.

The Earl of CLARENDON laid upon the table the
papers and protocols connected with the Vienna confer-
erence, which were ordered to be printed.
The house adjourned at 20 minutes past 5 o'clock.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.-(THIS EVENING.)

The SPEAKER took the chair at 4 o'clock ; but there
being only nine members present the house was imme-
diately adjourned.
Almost directly the SPEAKER declared the house ad-
journed a considerable rush of members took place from
the lobbies and library, but of course too late, and the
Speaker then at once retired.

ARMY BEFORE SEBASTOPOL COM-

MITTEE-(THIS DAY.)

(Continued from our first edition. )

Mr. Monsell--Never knew of an instance where the
guns were not ready before the ships to take them. The
Baltic and Black Sea fleets were fitted out in a very
short space of time, which was attributable to the ad-
mirable working of the department at Woolwich.
By the Chairman—Was• it not insinuated that you
applied to Lord Panrnure to deprive Sir 11. Ross of the
appointment of clerks, because he was disinclined to pro-
mote a person on your recommendation ?—lt was so in-
s'nuated, but I distinctly deny ever having done so.
The Secretary at War issued an order for 300 huts for
the troops on the 17th Nov., and the Secretary for War
sent it to the Ordnance on the 13th. Within 25 days
the contracts for the huts were entered into, the huts
constructed, and 757 despatched to the Crimea. The
contractors had contracted for the huts the very day on
which the Board of Ordnance received the order from
the War-office. Messrs. Price's contract was to supp,y
the huts at 271., delivered at Glocester, and Mr. Chand-
ler's 341., delivered on board at Southampton.
Sir Frederick Smith, commanding engineer of the
south-wester❑ district, gave evidence to show there was
no delay on the part of the Board of Ordnance, nor any
of the officers of the department in procuring and send-
ing huts to the Crimea ; double canvassed tents would
have answered the purpose quite as well as the huts,
and would have been more easily and rapidly trans-
mitted and put up.
By Mr. Layard—The first huts left the 3d December 1
As a military man, he would not have sent out huts.
The contract was taken for vertical roofs at 271., and it
wasnot until the 7th December after many had been made
that the question of roof was finally settled, and then
Messrs. Potter and Price bad 1/. 10s. per hut more for
the horizontal roof. Tools, nails, and a plan of the huts
went out with each cargo. A sapper also went out,
capable of properly erecting them. All the huts from
England went out perfect.
The Committee adjourned at half-past three o'clock.

THE LONDON GAZETTE.

(THIS EVENING.)

[Extract from the Dublin Gazette of the 4th of May, 1855.]
CROWN AND HANAPER OFFICE, DUBLIN.
In pursuance of an Act passed in the fortieth year of the
reign of his Majesty King George the Third, intituled
" An Act to regulate the mode by which the Lords
Spiritual and Temporal and the Commons to serve in
the Parliament of the United Kingdom, on the part of
Ireland, shall be summoned and returned to the said Par-
liament," I do hereby give notice, that the Right Honour-
able Hayes, Viscount Doneraile, has been chosen by a
majority of votes to be the Peer to sit in the House of
Lords of the United Kingdom, in the room of John Bruce,
Viscount O'Neill, deceased.
Dated the 2d day of May, 1855.
C. FITZ-SIMON,
Clerk of the Crown and Hanaper.
OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, MAY 7.
Cows of Royal Engineers.—Lieutenant Charles Her-
bert Sedley to be Second Captain, vice Crofton, died of
wounds before Sebastopol, April 16.
ADMIRALTY, MAY 5.
The following promotions, dated the 2d inst., have this
day taken place consequent on the decease, on the Ist inst.,
of Rear-Admiral of the White Armar Lowry Corry :
Rear-Admiral of the Blue, the Hon. Richard Saunders
Dundas, C. 8., to be Rear-Admiral of the White.
Captain Follett Walrond Pennell, Captain William
Alexander Baillie Hamilton Captain Edward Purcell,
Captain Charles Elliot, to be Rear-Admirals en the re-
served half-pay list.
Captain Thomas Bennett to be Rear-Admiral of the Blue.
The following captains on the retired list have also
been promoted to be retired Rear-Admirals on the terms
proposed in the London Gazette of Sept. 1, 1846, without
increase of pay :

Captain Theobald Jones.
Captain George Lloyd.
ARMY AND ORDNANCE MEDICAL DEPART-
MENT, MAY 5.
The office of the Army and Ordnance Medical Depar_
ment has been removed from No. 13, St. James's-place
St. James's, to No. 6, Whitehall-yard, Westminster.
[This Article is substituted for that which appeared in
the Gazette of 6th April last.]
COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY THE QUEEN.
Royal Cumberland Regiment of Militia—Lieutenant
William John Robinson, of the Royal Cumberland
Militia, to be Acting Quartermaster, vice Lumb, who
retires, April 3.
COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY LORD LIEUTENANTS.
County of Berks—The Honourable Jacob Pleydell Bon-
velie' commonly called Viscount Folkestone, to be De-
puty Lieutenant ' • the Right Honourable William Good-
enough Hayter to be Deputy Lieutenant ; John Walter
Esq., M.P., to be Deputy Lieutenant; Robert Allfrey'
Est., to be Deputy Lieutenant, May 2.
Royal Berks Militia—Ward Soane Braham, Gent., to be
Ensign, vice Williams, resigned, May 2.
King's Own Light Infantry Regiment of Militia—Ensign
Peter Wells to be Lieutenant, vice Kell ; John Robert
Conway Hickson, Gent., to be Ensign, vice White ; Alex.
Milford Sutherland, Gent., to be Ensign; Willis Peat,
'Gent., to be Ensign.
Queen's Own Light Infantry Regiment of Tower Ham-
lets Militia—William Maitland Chiffuey, Esq., to be Lieu-
tenant, vice Ridge, who retires.
Light Infantry Battalion of the Royal Sussex Militi,i—
James John Pickford, Gent., to be Ensign ; Charles Wal.
linger, Gent., to be Ensign, May 1.
2d Regiment (Light Infantry) of West York Militia—
Captain Charles Augustus Cobbe to be Lieutenant-Colonel,
vice Brandling, retired ; Lieutenant Robert Greaves
Walker to be Captain, April 26 ; George Williams, Gent.,
to be Lieutenant ; Ensign Francis Morley to be Lieutenant;
Henry Charles Chaumer, Gent., to be Ensign, May 1.
6th Regiment of West York Militia—John Bradley
Swann, Gent., to be Lieutenant ; James St. Clair Glasson,
Gent., to be Lieutenant, April 25.
Ist Regiment of the Duke of Lancaster's Own Militia—
William Philip Allington Jones, Gent 'to be Lieutenant,
April 25.
6th Regiment of Royal Lancashire Militia—John Ireland
Blackburne, Esq., late Paymaster of the 4th, or Duke of
Lancaster's Own (Light Infantry)Royal Lancashire Militia,
to be Captain ; Edward Francis Roche, Gent., to be Lieu-
tenant ; Joseph Banks Sladen, Gent., to be Lieutenant ;
William Edward Whelan, Gent., to be Ensign. May 5.
West Kent Light Infantry Regiment of Militia—Lieu-
tenant Alexander Henry Ross to be Captain, vice Go dden
resigned, May 1.
3d or Royal Westminster Light Infantry Regiment
Ewen
to
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Lieutenant,
of
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Middlesex Militia—Ensign James Henry Henry
Lieutenant, vice Halawell, resigned ; Ensign
ley to be Lieutenant, vice Lea, resignemdiEFwreend:n;ckomAßoluftelrked
Stone, Gent., to be Ensign, vice
May 4.
sth or Royal Elthorne Light Infanty
Middlesex Militia—Major Lodge Murray Prior,r
tenant-Colonel f-
tenant-Colonel Comtmavniedeenßtfakev,icreesigirnieltlii,erms,ayr4es.igned ;
Charles.Seaton, Gent., vice.
Regiment--Wm. Henry
ReWenaertwt!r sqh.ire, late3fltolfbleth.Leie3uOttehnFanoto,t,Atoprbile2C7a.ptain ; Geo.
Woodyatt, Gent.,
2d Regiment of thoo Royal Surrey Militia—Seaton Ralph
Foster, Gent., to be Ensign, n Jan. 27.
[The following appointmentg is substituted for that which
appeared in the Gazette of Jan. ": 3.]
Royal Cumberland Regiment of Militia—Stafford Chas.
Mathews, Gent., to be Ensign, Jan. 9.
[The following appointment is substituted for that which
appeared in the Gazette of the Ist May inst.)
Forfar and Kincardine Regiment of Militia Artillery—