The Sun.
London, England, 1855-03-15 00:00:00

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SUN OFFICE, Seven o'Clock.

TATTERSALL'S.

(THIS EVENING.)

GREAT METROPOLITAN.
.5 to 1 agst Pharsalns
10 to 1 agst Fandango (taken)
100 to 8 apt Redlands (taken)
100 to 8 agst Vandyke (taken)

' CHESTER CUP.
25 to 1 agst Marc Antony (taken)
25 to 1 apt Andover (taken)
40 to 1 agst Dr. O'Toole (taken)
TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS.
12 to 1 agst Polydore (taken)

DERBY.
11 to 1 agst Rifleman (taken)
11 to 1 agst Grteculus Esuriens (taken)
12 to 1 agst Lord of the Isles (taken)

THIRSK RACES.

(THIS DAY.)

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
MOWBRAY STAKES.

G Amster
Aberdeen
Merlin

Eight ran. Won easy.
BOItO' HANDICAP.

Cardsharper
Hamby

Ammonia has arrived.

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IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT,

HOUSE OF LORDS.-(THIS EVENING.)

The Loan CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack
at five o'clock.
Lord I3ROUGHAM presented petitions from Lan-
cashire and Warwick in favour of summary jurisdiction
being given to magistrates to dispose of cases of petty lar-
ceny. The noble lord, in presenting the petition', related
remal eases of great injustice in consequence of the
magistrates not baying the power prayed for. Ile also
cited some cases tried by Baron Alderson at the late
assizes, in which persons charged with offences of which
they were subsequently declared innocent by a jury had
been confined in prison several months previous to the
trial. The noble and learned lord moved for certain re-
turns showing the period for which they were c‘mfined
during the last year previous to their trial.—Agreed to.

MARINE MUTINY BILL.
This bill was read a third time and passed.

The Earl of ELLENBOROUGH moved for riturns
showing the various stations of the militia regiments,
also the number of men who have volunteered into
the line, and also the number of the militia regiments
who have not yet furnished their quota.

MUTINY BILL.

On the motioa that this bill be now read a third time;

Earl. GREY rose to inquire on what principles first
commissions in the army were granted. The noble earl
said that he would be one of the last to wholly abolish
the practice of granting commissions by purchase ; but,
on the other hand, he was also certain that such a sys-
tem could not be maintained unless that in the public
mind there was perfect confidence that it would be im-
partially and,fairly carried out.
Lord PANMURE said he found it bad been the prac-
tice to grant commissions without purchase to those
cadets who had distinguished themselves at the
Military College at Sandhurst. It had also been the
practice to grant commissions to the sons of those officers
in her Majesty's service who had distinguished them-
selves, and who, he thought, their lordships would con-
sider had a right to those first commissions without
purchase ; and, in the third place, be was informed
by the Commander-in-chief that the next class of persons
whose claims to commissions were recognised were the
sena of poor deserving clergymen. When the claims of
all these classes were exhausted, commissions were given
to those gentlemen whose names had been placed on the
list of applicants for commissions, and many of those
commissions bad been recently distributed amongst
the last class in order to meet the demand of the army
The age to qualify for those commissions was now ex-
tended to 32 years. He had failed to find out any ground
for the supposition that those commissions had ever
been given away without due considerations.
After a few words from Maxi Gamr,
Viscount HARDINGE said the noble earl Must be

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aware that in case of commisssions granted withou

purchase, consideration bad always been givon to the
propriety of reducing the half-pay list, and there was an
injunction upon the Commander-in-Chief that a certain
proportion of money received for commissions was
handed over to the Secretary of War, to be applied to
the reduction of the half-pay list.
After some observations from the Earl of ELLEN-
BOROUGH,

The bill was read a third time and passed.
TEA DUTIES DECLINE SUSPENSION BILL
The bill was read a second time and passed.
SECRETARIES OF STATE BILL.

On the motion of the Earl of GRAN VILLE this bil'
was read a third time and passed.
ECCLESIASTICAL COURTS BILL.
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On the motion of Lord BROUGHAM this bill was
read a second time.

THE MILITIA.

Earl MALMSBURY rose to put a question to her
Majesty's Government respecting the militia ; as to fur-
lough to be given to married men ; and also as to the
maintenance of their wives and families. The
r oble earl in asking this 'question took occasion to
enter at great length into the hardships inflicted upon
the men who had entered the militia, in failing to get
their free discharges, and also to the dissatisfaction ex-
pressed by those men who bad entered only for a short
period, at finding that the militia was to be permanently
einboiied.