The Sun.
London, England, 1855-03-05 00:00:00

LIVERPOOL RACES.

The following horses have left Middlebam for Liver.
pool :—Prince Plausible, St. Arnaud, and Lady Tatton,
Left Cheltenham for Liverpool.—Little Charlie, Pim•
Fero% Bastion, and Maurice Daley.

Left Cheltenham for Coventry.—Cardiff Lass and
Lamieune.

Left Newmarket for Nettingham.—Adamant and
Black Swan.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT,

HOUSE OF LORDS.—(THIS EVENING.)
ROYAL ASSENT.
The Royal assent was given this evening to the Con-
•olidated Fund (3,000,0001.) Bill, and the Consolidated
Fund (20,000,0001.) Bill.
The Royal commissioners were the Lord Chancellor,
the Duke of Argyll,.and Lord Stanley of Alderley.
HILL'S ESTATE BILL.
On the motion of Lord REDESDALE, Hill's Estate
Bill was read a second time.
PETITIONS.

The Duke of ARGYLL presented several petitions
from Scotland against the distillation of spirits from
grain.
. Earl FITZWILLIAM presented a petition from the
Willi Riding of Yorkshire, praying for a searching in-
quiry into the mismanagement of the war, by which '
•isuch'a"disastrous loss of life was sustained.
, ROMAN CATHOLIC PROCESSIONS.
The Bishop of EXETER gave notice of his intention
to-morrow to move for copies of the opinion given by her
Majesty's law officers in Ireland, in 1852, relative to the
construction of the statute prohibiting religious proces-
sions of Roman Catholic ecclesiastics; also for a copy of
the opinions given by her Majesty's Irish law officers re-
cently in respect to their construction of the said act ;
also for a copy of the proclamation of her Majesty's,
published on the 15th of June, 1852, warning Ronan
Catholic ecclesiastics taking part in such processions.
Lord BROUGHAM presented a petition from the
Leeds Chambers on the subject of the law relative to
accommodation bills.
The Earl of CARLISLE presented six petitions from
places in Lancashire and Yorkshire, praying for the
rapes' of the law authorising the sale of spirituous
Equine.

The Earl of ALBEMARLE presented petitions from
Bristol against the sale of spirits on the Lord's-day.
THE EAST INDIA COMPANY'S SERVICE.
Lord MONTEAGLE rose to call the attention of the
house to the copies of the report of the 13th of January,
1855, as to the examination of candidates for the ap-
pointment of assistant-surgeons in the service of the
East India, Company ; also to the report of November,
1854, on the examination of candidates for the civil ser-
vice of the East India Company ; and also to the letter
as to the company's college at Haileybury, and the re-
gulations framed for the examination of candidates for
appointments to the civil service of the East India Corn

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promised at the time of his accession to office, be contem-
plated one for relieving the Secretary at War from sub-
ordination to the Horse Guards ?
Lord PALMERSTON replied that the Secretary at
War never stood in such a relation to the Horse Guards.
Mr. HUTT explained that he meant the Minister for
War, not the Secretary at War.
Lord PALMERSTON said that if the Secretary at
War were not subordinate to the Horse Guards, a for-
tiori the Secretary of State would not be.
EDUCATION OF OFFICERS IN THE ARMY.
Mr. EWART wished to inquire of the Under• Secr-
etary of State for War whether there could be laid before
the house any statement of the measures now adopted
for further promoting the education and professional
competency of officers in the army ; also of any mea-
sures adopted for giving useful and practical instruction
to non-commissioned officers and privates?
Mr. F. PEFL said he should have no objection to
lay on the table a statement showing the condition of
the regimental schoo:s, and the examination of (lacers
previous to obtaining their first commission; but the
larger measure contemplated la-t year, and which hall
been in abeyance, was intended to be taken up by the
Government.

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DIVISIONAL ORDERS TO THE MEDICAL
DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY.
Mr. LAYARD wished to ask the Under Secretary of
State for War whether any brigade and divisional orders
had been issued in the army before Sebastopol, to the
effect " that no questions must be answered by medical
men attached to the forces, without permission from
head-quarters ;" whereby medical men attached to the
army were precluded from giving complete evidence to
the commission sent out to the East to inquire into the
state of the medical department ; also, whether it was
true that Dr. Lawsot. had been appointed to the super-
intendence of, or to any other high employment in, the
hospitals of Scutari, Smyrna, or Rhodes, and if so, by
whose authority such appointment was made, and
whether it had been sanctioned by the authorities at
home 'I
Lord PALMERSTON said be would reply to the
first part of the question. No information of any such
orders as those referred to by his hon. friend had been
received by the Government ; but they had been in-
formed by private correspondence that such orders were
issued. Ho (Lord Palmerston) could only conceive that
the meaning of such orders must have been that the

medical officers were not to place themselves in commu-
nication with the commission without authority to do
so. He could not eonceive that the orders bad been
given CO as to in any way interfere with the functions of
the commission.
Mr. F. PEEL, in reply to the second part of the
question, said Lord Raglan had appointed Dr. Lawson
to proceed to Scutari, where he was placed in a sub-
ordinate capacity under Dr. Cumming. This was after
he bad been censured in the general order of Lord
Raglan.