The Sun.
London, England, 1855-04-26 00:00:00

EXPORTATION OF HORSES.

The Earl of MALMESBURY said he had reason to
believe that there had been an unusual exportation of
horses from this country, particularly within the last t- ix
months. He was lately at Folkestone, where he was
informed that there was as many as 1,000 horses ex-
ported from that place to France within the last three
weeks. He wished to ask the Government whether
they were prepared to take any steps to prevent such
exportation.
Lord STANLEY said heitelieved that the attenti,,n
of the Government had not "Xen called to the subject,
and he did not think that they had any intention wilat-
ever to limit the. exportation of horses.
Lord CAMPBELL said, when he was Attorney-
General some year's ago, his attention bad been called to
the exportation of horses that was then going on. He
then examined the law on the subject, and he found tl
though there were' some ancient statutes which lirnled
the exportation of horses, those statutes had u.l;se-
quently been repealed. The Government therefor-) hal
no,power to prevent this trade being carried on.
The Earl of MALMESBURY then moved for a re-
turn of the- Rl:ribber of horses that had been exported
from this cnuntejtsiece the let January, 1854.
After a few words from the Duke of NEWCASTLE,
Earl GREY said ha was glad to hear that there was
no intention to prevent the exportation of horses from
this country.

[LEFT SITTING.]

HOUSE OF COMMONS.-(THIS EVENING.)

The SPEAKER took the chair at 4 o'clock.
The Birmingham Water Bill was read a third time and
passed.
Colonel FREESTUN presented a petition from the
Protestant Dissenters of Weymouth, praying for the
entire abolition of church rates.
SOUTH-EASTERN AND LONDON AND SOUTH-
WESTERN RAILWAYS.
Mr. PORTAL moved that standing order No. 177 be
suspended as regards a petition deposited in the Pri; ate
Bill-office on the 23d of March, relating to the South-
Eat-tern and London and South-Western Railway Com-
panies ; aid that the said petition do stand referred to
the committee now sitting on the London and South-
Western Railway Bill.
MESSAGE FROM. THE LORDS.
The Usher of the Black Rod here appeared at the
table to summon the Speaker' to the House of Pe€:rs to
hear her Majesty's assent to several bills (for which see
our report of the House of Lords).
The SPEAKER baying returned from the House of
Lords,
Mr. PORTAL proceeded to enforce the arguments in
favour of kis motion.
Mr. DRUMMOND seconded the motion.
Mr. W. PATTEN opposed the motion, as he believed
the railway would not be in any way prejudiced
_if
this petition was referred to the committee.
Mr. FREWEN supported the motion.
After some remarks from Mr. BOUVERIE,
The motition was agreed. to. •
PETITIONS.
Petitions were presented by Mr. Hcrsfall, from the
West India Association, against the proposed increased
duty on sugar ; by Mr. Muntz, from Birmingham, signed
by 12,000 people, including the Mayor and ex-Mayor of
that town, against the Sunday Beer Bill ; by General
Peel, from Huntingdon, against the bill for closing pub-
lic-houses on Sundays ; by Mr. Roebuck, from Sheffield,
with a similar prayer ; by Mr. Packe, from Melt.)u-
Mowbray, with the same prayer ; by Mr. Bright, seve-
ral petitions from Manchester iwith the same prayer ; by
Mr. C. Druce, several petitions from places in Scotland
against the Lord Advocate's Education Bill ; by Mr.
E. Ball, from the Islo cf Ely, for the abolition of church
rates ; by Mr. Biggq' from friendly societies in Leicester,,
against the Beer Bill of last session ; by Mr. Cowan,
from Edinburgh, against the Maynooth grant. A num-
ber of other petitions were presented by hon. members,
the purport of which we could not catch.
DECIMAL COINAGE.

Mr. B. SMITH gave notice that when the hon. mem.
ber for South Lanctshire brought forward his motion
relative to decimal coinage he should move an humble
address to her Majesty, praying for a congress of all
nations, at some convenient place, with a view to the
adoption of a common standard of money, weights, and
measures.

MILITIA.
On the motion of Lord LOVAINE returns were or-
dered, " showing, in columns, the number of vo!un-
teers actually serving in each regiment of militia, em-
bodied or under training in the United Kingdom on the
Tilt day of March, 1855'; the number of volunteers
actually serving in each such regiment on the 15th day of
April, 1858 ;'the number of volunteers enrolled previous
to the 12th day of May, 1854, who left each such regi-
ment after publication of a circular from the War-office,
dated the 27th day of March, .1855 ; the number of
volunteers so enrolled who took the bounty of it.,
offered in the same circular, to complete their term of
service, and the amount of such bounty paid in each
regiment ; and the total number of all ranks (di Ca=
guishing the same) effective in each such regiment of
Militia on the 15th day of April, 1855.
-LETTERS PATENT.
On the motions of Sir J. SHELLEY a return was
ordered of the names and addresses of all persons who
have petitioned the Lord Chancellor to extend the time
for sealing letters patent, or filing specifications, under
the Act 16 and 17 Vie. c. 115, steting whether no orcla r,
or any, and what order, was made, in each case.
RAILWAY AMALGAMATION.
Mr. ALCOCK asked the Vice President of the Board
Of Trade, if he will consider it consistent with his duty
Prot to oppose any bills promoted by the South-Eastern,
South-Western, or Great Western Railway Companies,
tinless they guaranteed that the junction railway fr ,m
Reigate to Reading(which w
granted by Parliament
for the purpose of uniting by railway
the ports of Dover,
Southampton, and Bristol), should be in fact, as well as
In name, a Jeection Railway," by causing junction
stations to be male at the points of junction at Farn-
borough and Reading.
Mr. BOUVERIE replied that he was not prepared to
go the length implied by the hun. gentleman's question.
INCOME TAX IN SCOTLAND.
Mr. W. LOCKHART asked the Chancellor of the
Exchequer if it was his intention, in dealing with tiie
r
income-tax, to remove the injustice to which the p o p
tors of lands and houses in Scotland are subjectedin re-
-
spect that no deductions are allowed to them for rates or
taxes, in accordance with the practice in England an I
Ireland. •
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER Bali
his hon. friend seemed to be under the inrpression tl at
there was a difference in respect to Scotland with rega d
to deductions. Such was not the case, though in some
respects tie Scotei landlords laboured under disadeai.
Lege compared with those of England and Ireland. The
question bad, once before been under consideration, and
it was not his intention to propose any general alttr .-
tion in the income tax relative to Seel' end.
THE CAMP AT ALDERSHOT.

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In reply to Colonel BOLDER°,
Lord PALMERSTON said arrangements had been
made f,, erecting huts for 10,000 men at Aldershot,
which would be very soon ready. There would then be
n: 11(te141,er twenty regiments of militia, three battali.ns
ot i artillerY, and two troops of cavalry ; but it was
theren,elettd for obvious reasons to have any yeomanry
duty beyelir would not be embodied for permanent
tight tt L .
YS. (Laughter )
Mr. MILEs ....);_ltllY REFORM.
when the uoitZuKeed the Fir6t Lord of the Treasury
country t,h,i aitem,... nt would be prepared to state to the
which it was proposed
in the different il' 'lts
~,,,,,, 3 conneeteel
Lord PALM alaZa enti,i ,e to make
a.iteri had
pies of 'this ituporttint`Z t'ai.,l that the t. the army ..
details Nt ere under the been generaltl prinr:
friend at the head 011,1s'wderatinn of
ht settled, but t....
right ho n.
his right hon. friend had 4-eci"cia,,r I4Partni:ent. Wl:c n
time v.-onld,be lint in brin.,i,-,;'„llP°Tl the
notice of the hduse. (rlcar'-; ' "" subject matter, n,
, near.) tinder toe
THE SEBASTOPOL Co-\i
in. a' ;ply to Mr. ConDEN, -MITTEE.
I
Mr. ROEBUCK, as chairman of this t
the committee had not tAken it into theiroratnittee, ~,,I1 1
, consider t* 1
, when they should bring .up their report. With -r?-1
to the propriety of reporting from d •y to day, oretnor-
week to week, be would consult the other ti. embern 1
the committee. For his own part, he saw no objecti .0 ,
to reporting from week to week. (Hear, hear.)
THE BLACK SEA SUBMARINE TELEGRAPIr; RETII Enclosure 1:
" OP c
In reply to Mr. LATARD, -"IE 1.2. r '
I.STJALTIES FROM THE gra TO
Lord PALMERSTON said his right hon. friend the 18thiterimmtu APRIL, 1855, INCLUSIVE.
19th Foot-1 of Foot--1 rank and file, wounded.
Fir't Lord of the Admiraltyl: ad received a message 4,1.'4 woundel. d.„, from tit
12 .a . rank and file, killed; 2 rank and file,
simply that the submarn e- 23th 1' East to the effect
tefegra,ph head oot-1 rank and ni.
bayend that fact had
opened, but no news of importar.co 30th Poot-1 rank n --"' killel.
had been communicated to the Go_veri.- wounded. 1.1 file, k•
went. (Rear.) idea ; 2 rank and file,
~ Sir C. WOOD 811.1 h 33d Foot-1 rank and file pm,
mos _
___, 39th Foot----2 rank and fil ' wound
ii one yesterday and one i e had received two sag‘i , 41st Foot-1 rank and filee' wvin'lded.
'Which th. 6. gallant Admiral said
from Admiral Lyons, ni ,
49th Foot-1 rank aiad, --nwieti•
municate. (Laughter.) al said he had no news to con:- wounded. • tile, killed ; 2 rank and file,
In reply to Mr. Itcluwe, I 55th Foot-1 rank and file, wounded.
Sir C. WOOD ea .1 this d _ i 57th Foot-1 rank and file, wounded.
We,• -
c,rathic communication. .621 Eqot-71 rank and fil,l,.woundeed:

Our batteries and parapets continue to stand remarkably
well, notwithstanding the very unfavourable state of the
weather.

The enemy's fire has been comparatively slack, but the
practice good, and owing to their having ascertained the
range of our batteries with great nicety, several guns have
been disabled in both the right and left attacks.
Towards the Tchernaya nothing important has been ob-
served, but small bodies of men, from 150 to 500, ha e
been seen, ith a heavy gun and some ordnance carriage,,
moving along the Inkerman heights towards Mackenzie's
Farm-road, near which,it has been placed in position.
Although the duties have been unusually severe and
rduotia both by day and night duringthe week, they have
been carried out with the utmost cheerfulness and zeal,
reflecting much credit both on officers and men.
The submarine telegraph has been safely brought to the
aorlastery frost' Cape Kelegra, and as soon as it is estab-
lished at the former place, the engineers will proceed to
convey it from the latter to tho immediate neighbourhood
cf Varna, where I hope it may be in a state to act in a
week or ten days from this time.
~,,,rll::::fitrosrtadpiiinsinionue,roef, tLh.c,e. 10ths,e, 111387 s arrived this day at
have, &c., RAGLAN.